skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If literally no one in the world cares enough about a website to dedicate some of their resources to it, does it really matter that much?
God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.
> has never attacked minorities, equal rights

> Brendan Eich

You might try an example that's not directly a demonstration of exactly what the comment you are replying to was pointing out.

Unless by "a single example of how the parent comment is a gross misrepresentation" you interpreted it as a request for a similar misinterpretation.
Thank you very much, I'll think of your points.
Your PC is consuming 600W?
I'm not sure what you mean by “summarily”? Users flagged the post. We've turned them off since the discussion hasn't entered flamewar territory yet.
Incorrect. In that case, the company was the government for the town, thus they were held accountable to the first amendment.
Yes, I do this, on Debian stable, using the browser download from the Firefox website. You need a recent Firefox (I think the latest ESR is fine but not before that) and for stupid reasons you need to register the security key with Chrome, but once it's associated with your account you can log in via Firefox.
As a PhD in mathematics who converted to development, please, go into the details of what you mean.

I know tensor products. I know SQL joins. I see superficial similarities between the two, but no unifying underlying principle.

The world has had quite enough of nonsense thrown around because it's "obvious". Put your money where your runaway mouth is.
gab.ai and voat are filled with literal actual white supremacists
> Assume you have a two-sided markets of interacting agents who each only interact once, like buyers and sellers.

Don’t we already have this? Street markets and retail shops and one off websites and millions of other agents making up modern markets? It seems to work fine.
Right that was exactly what i was thinking
The Fed is probably concerned that, if the idea catches on, trillions in deposits could be vacuumed out of the fractional reserve banking system, leaving less available for lending.

If that were to happen, the Fed would lose considerable influence over liquidity. Its only lever on narrow banks would be to adjust the deposit rate encouraging savers to go elsewhere.
I have been frequently and respectfully conversing with a relative who's a full-on Breitbart-parotting die-hard Trump supporter for the past year or so. He was throwing around a leaked TGIF video (of Sergey Brin explaining that he finds the election offensive) and saying that this confirms that Google is part a Democratic Party front that's indoctrinating children and teachers against conservative viewpoints.

He then went on to spend the next 2 weeks parrotting Breitbart's article after article about how they use foreign workers and that they're building a Chinese government spy system and that the government needs to step in and stop them and on and on. It was fascinating.

We discussed the government's role in regulating private companies and it was clear that the philosophy is totally tribal. Break up companies run by liberals, even if there's no demonstrable liberal bias of the service, by any means necessary. Political philosophy be damned. It's quite a time indeed, though I wonder if it's ever really been any different.
Ah yes, you are correct!
Perhaps companies like Twitter, Google, and Facebook are actively trying to incite regulation.
Social media companies have become beholden to a relatively small group of very loud activists who have frightened the companies into compliance with their political goals. They're afraid of standing up to these noise makers and have a legitimate difficulty in deciding how to best moderate the content on their platforms in a way that alienates the fewest users. Government regulation would tie their hands, allowing the companies to claim they're powerless to manipulate content in the way that activists demand it be manipulated. In such an environment where all companies are legally obliged to treat content the same way, boycott threats would be meaningless. Likely tools would arise to allow individual users to have better control over what content they do and do not see instead of insisting on the platform censoring content for them and imposing those standards on everyone else.
This type of opinion seems correlated with the idea that we also shouldn't reproduce, because people do too much damage to the environment. I'm always a bit baffled by it. Not only does it seem extremely self-loathing, but it also seems like a auto-extinguishing philosophy, because the people who hold it are much less likely to have children to spread it to, and will essentially be outcompeted by those who don't share it. It seems much better to have children but educate them on having a lighter footprint, and attempt to improve things out of proportion with their own impact.
I did too :-)
The main selling point of MySQL at the earlier 2000's was that it used an in-memory storage with only opportunistic disk writes. That made for an incredibly fast database, with obvious downsides that many people refused to notice.
This is amazing. What's the risk that the probe would be thrown out into space when jumping over a bump due to extremely feeble gravity of Ryugu.
Previous HN post of this article and discussion from February 2017 with a wealth of advice and comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622684
This is a job posting for a special agent position.

37 is the cut-off limit for special agents for the FBI (except for a veteran waiver). https://www.fbiagentedu.org/careers/fbi-special-agent/become...

Special agents is a 6c position, with a mandatory requirement age of 57 with 20 years. https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/special-notices/#cov... .

As such, "The law also allows federal agencies to establish maximum entry age of 36 or 37, which allows the employee to attain the 20 years of service before the mandatory retirement age" http://www.federalretirement.net/eligibility20years.htm#Maxi...
It's ironic and tragically funny that all the comments in support of this article's premise and of the successes of the current administration are being grayed out.
Since we've asked time and time again to please stop using this site for ideological or partisan battle we've banned the account. If you'd like to be unbanned please email hn@ycombinator.com.

(We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046824.)
I’m rather indifferent about it, but it seems to be one of those controversial topics in programming. Could you elaborate why you wouldn’t want it on all branches? That’s how most people do it if they do this sort of thing in the first place. And have the build server kick off its own sequence.
> Are we sure those studies have been disproven?

No, they were just never proven in the first place. The studies were awful and the statistical analysis was even worse.

These studies contributed nothing to answering the questions posed.
I would like to vote against having text rendered into an image in a readme. Screenshots in a readme are one thing, but describing the features and the roadmap of the project in a jpeg(!!!) is ... questionable.
Java is just as fast or faster than C++ most of the time. No one who writes high performance code for a living makes that claim.

It's true though. https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1....
I would add
1) Starts with `strict: true`
2) Favor interface over class
3) Functional first, OO as needed
4) Avoid Java way of coding, DI, Class for everything.
Like Stefan said, static compilation has been possible for years, just not very user friendly. We've been working on making compilation easier here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

And we have a package for building complete, standalone, desktop applications out of the compiled code, here:
https://github.com/NHDaly/ApplicationBuilder.jl

> does this involve bundling all of Julia w/llvm and all?

Yeah, more or less. It involves bundling the julia runtime shared library (no different than a C++ program needs access to the C++ runtime library, except that usually comes pre-installed), and all its dependencies, which yes, includes llvm and all.

A far-off goal is to be able to shave off the pieces of the runtime you don't need, such as LLVM if everything is precompiled, FFTW if your program isn't doing heavy linear algebra, etc.
This is sketchy and unfair to students that actually do the work. But apparently it is a cultural accepted thing to cheat blatantly in china. And Universities are more than likely going to do nothing to stop it because the tuition rate for international students has a much better profit margin than in-state students. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/101323...
or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers

Payroll analysts
It’s tricky, because the kinds of natural laws that are necessary for the existence of an afterlife are the same kinds of natural laws that invalidate the principle of physicalism or materialism, which is the consensus view of the scientific establishment today. So if you decide to investigate something easier to test for than “the afterlife” which could also plausibly exist with these expanded natural laws—like remote viewing, or the effects that consciousness has on physical systems—your research will be generally dismissed as quackery. Not many folks will try to replicate your results, or even spend the effort to examine them deeply for flaws, because the assumption is “we already know that cannot happen, so you’ve done something wrong in your setup or you’re lying.”

There is plenty of evidence out there that points to something odd going on; the challenge lies in getting more skeptics to seriously evaluate it. Some HNer years ago turned me onto the book Irreducible Mind, whose last hundred pages or so is a bibliography of evidence for this kind of thing provided by people who say “I don’t believe it, but I can’t explain it.” But a lot of that evidence comes from skeptics testing exceptional individuals, and James Randi did a good job of showing how fakers can fool scientists, so I can’t really say how reliable it is other than as a jumping-off point for further study.

I came across an interesting and more rigorous set of studies done recently on how consciousness can influence quantum effects. They had observers try to influence the amount of interference generated by the double-slit experiment, and have repeatedly under various conditions gotten a significant effect. Perhaps most interesting is that while all humans had an effect, the meditators reliably outperformed the non-meditators. The setup is simple enough that it’s just begging for replication.

Here’s the video link for any curious folks. Skip the first 5 minutes which is just a refresher on what the double slit experiment is:

https://youtu.be/nRSBaq3vAeY
They are never, ever wrong. Never.

They shoot the messenger. Any bad news is the fault of the person reporting the news. Result is no one tells him of any problems. Manager: "Will the software ship on time?", Programmer: "Yes, of course". Any other answer will result in yelling, screaming, and abuse.

Managers with huge bonuses tied to software ship dates, not software quality.
Hrm. That's a valid possibility I hadn't considered.
I don't know if it's typical but I hear it a lot from other programmers my age.
Cant wait someone to put Simpsons through this
The Fed started paying interest on bank deposits as a way of pushing liquidity into the market when the banks themselves were unwilling to do enough lending to restart the economy.

With the deposit rate at 1.95%, a bank has to decide whether they can earn more lending to clients than just parking the cash at the Fed. Obviously at 1.95% there is still an incentive to engage in lending, otherwise the fed would drop the deposit rate to encourage that behavior.
Inside Apple's iPhone XS camera technology
The American paradox is that you often have very good governments, but trust them very little. Where as you often have very evil companies, but trust them very much.

Europe is the opposite.

The EU is working hard to secure citizen rights though, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t working for ways that you can share your data. The EU just wants transparency and ownership to remain with its citizens.
I think you are mistaking Sorenson's opinion of the situation with the facts of the matter. Studies have shown consistently that disparities in the prison population are due to disparities in offending.

I know you did not explicitly argue against this idea but I do think you inferred that his position was correct and decried others for "conspiratorial" thinking.

It's good to remember that we are all vulnerable to this sort of half-baked thinking. Even though most people think they're the only rational person in the room.

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> The problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality in imprisonment appears to be less about criminal justice practitioner racism but rather societal inequities that foster higher rates of serious, especially violent, crime among blacks and to a lesser extent, Hispanics. These inequities include racial segregation and isolation and the resulting concentration of disadvantage in black and Hispanic communities. Such structural disadvantage, in turn, has long been linked to higher rates of violent crime.[1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4111266/
> the cost of producing music is less than it was in 1999

Or maybe not. The structure of the cost might be different though. Take K-Pop for example

> Among the hundreds of entertainment companies producing KPOP groups, each year around 300 debuts are planned, only 50 of which actually get to debut and 1 or 2 whom become successful during their rookie years.

> Debuting a group (including making albums and things like that) costs an average of $1.8 million with a minimal cost of $1.3 million.

> the bear minimum for KPOP MVs is an average of one million dollars. MVs coming out of the big three agencies (SM, JYP and YG) would probably be heaps more expensive.

https://www.allkpop.com/forum/threads/how-much-does-kpop-cos...
>"gab.ai and voat are filled with literal actual white supremacists"

Is that because they were the first to be kicked off reddit/twitter? So, reddit/twitter used to be "filled with" them?

Just think of it as part of a lifecycle then. If normal people start moving to voat, the bad people will make up a smaller and smaller percentage. Then they move to the next site, and voat becomes taken over by political forces, repeat.

Also, I'm thinking if you don't like one of the alternatives for whatever reason, is it really that hard to create one of those sites? I heard somewhere Voat was created by one guy as a hobby. A good search engine seems like it would be the most difficult one.
If ads have to come from the primary domain being served, then the website has greater incentive to vet those ads. If they let malware through, it's their reputation that goes in the trash. No more letting adtech do the dirty work.
Maybe I’ve lucked out, but my 18 years of working in this industry has mostly been: “Here’s a problem. Go solve it, please.” And almost as often, it’s been, “We don’t know the exact problem, come help us find it and solve it.”
Excel w/o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.
I know that typescript doesn't have advanced types, but can a book like this be adapted to use typescript ?
In addition, Eich was never "silenced by a tech company". He was not fired, he resigned.
Out of curiosity, what does a Canadian work in Bulgaria?
For examples of labor of love software projects with rather quixotic goals and long development timelines, GNU Hurd and Project Xanadu come to mind. Other examples? (Bonus points if it’s a project you were personally involved in)
> and will essentially be outcompeted by those who don't share it.

Only if you assume that this sentiment is genetic and not learned.
I don't feel like you're arguing in good faith here.

The issue wasn't what they were purchasing but rather the reason they were refused service - their sexuality. If Alex Jones had been deplatformed because he was gay then you can bet you're ass we'd be mad. If the couple was denied service because they were known to say controversial things in public and the bakery didn't want to be associated with that I'd have no issue with that either.

By 'free speech' I assume you mean the universal idea that we should be able to express ourselves rather than protection from the government. I'm going to presume (and correct me if I'm wrong) that you also believe businesses 'are people too' and should have analogous rights. What about the business' "freedom of speech"?
This. Thank you. I'm being rate limited, so this is the only post I'll be making on this thread. My question was genuine. I want to learn both the positives and the pitfalls of dependent types. I mimicked the book's description because it amused me from a linguistic perspective. Looking back, I probably should have phrased it differently.
Facebbok is testing its dating service
fluxbox, awesome or any other tiling windows manager plus conky can be very near to this interface. Of course, that's just the windowing system and not the GUI itself.
I assume he means bad in comparison to other DBs.
All programming languages are fads, except for C.
Original title on HN was "A mathematical pattern that fails after about 10^43 examples".

An even more impressive example:

10^1000 - x > 0 where x ∈ ℕ.

Fails after (10^1000)+1
In USA, the average time spent on voice calls is something like 20 minutes per day. 60 minutes is unusual, but not that unusual.

https://abcnews.go.com/WN/cell-phones-demography-nielsen-dat...

https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...
This is an underappreciated point. In a sense, it's only empathy for the "bad" guys that matters. Everyone treats the "good" guys well, regardless of empathy. Empathy is exactly what allows you to treat the bad guys like the good guys, in the sense of according them basic decency and good faith.

If you only give empathy to those who "deserve" it, you're basically doing the same thing as people who have no empathy and just treat people well or badly based on arbitrary tribal markers.
That mid-hop picture looks so cool!
I just looked at flow briefly, but for what I can see, TS is a much more advanced typing system, the tool support is amazing (VSCode for example), and most libs today are TypeScript typed one way or another. The later is probably the one as it add for most node libs, intellisense, hover / option-click to drill on the method signatures, and most of the time it will get you to the full lib API description. Productivity is through the roof with those alone.
Just an article blowing smoke up XRP ripple's skirt.
I personally practice code review on my own stuff - even just me, I'd go through and pick it apart as if it were another person's code.

In some cases I have colleagues / friends who'd be able to help out too
I've seen similar chilling arguments be made that Alex Jones of all people is a proper conservative voice and deserves to be heard. All of these attacks on google, facebook etc are not attempts to actually fix the huge monopolies they control but a clear partisan attack because they believe they're being persecuted or censored by these tech companies.

These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government, yet this is one of the more obvious examples of overreach yet.
There is a race going on for the first language not being javascript being compiled to javascript/webassembly and actually worth using.

No, coffee-script, typescript and the like don't really count, they are relatively thin layers. Several options are in the works. Implementations of Python and .Net (Blazor). Languages like Rust or Nim.

The crucial point is that it needs to have a compelling framework like vuejs or react. Then the toolchain needs to be superb and result in small enough webassembly packages.

No project is currently achieving this, to my knowledge. But the race is heating up!
Thanks for your response.

> When not all call sites can be found (for example in compilation of separate files), it is still possible to create two versions of (ADDER x), one that uses lambda lifting and one that does not.

I'm starting to suspect we interpreted the original comment ("getting rid of closures") differently. I understood that as completely eliminating all closures from a source program via lambda lifting, such that an implementation needs no alternative method of implementing closures. It sounds like maybe you understood that as getting rid of a specific occurrence of a closure in certain special cases, more like an optimization. Does that sound accurate?

I can imagine several scenarios when it seems like you could have have a closure that could not be eliminated via lambda lifting (like maybe if the identity of the returned function is nondeterministic, or where the closure includes some mutable state called from multiple sites).

Put another way, does your implementation have lambda lifting in addition to a runtime implementation of closures, or instead of one. Can lambda lifting completely obviate the need for passing around an environment in all cases, or just optimize it away in certain cases?
+1 for x230.

I can't really comment on how I was handling mine vs what the OP does to their laptops.. but mine held up fine for ~4.5 years in near-daily use (work machine, incl. some personal and travel use) with just a little crack at the side. After 4.5 years I had to replace the screen though. And I'm on the third battery now, so overall "replacement parts" cost was like 80 (screen) + 1x 70 (big battery) + 1x 40 (small battery).
Google is one of these large companies who controls one of the major ways of reaching a wide audience(search). They also control a spam blacklist which controls who you can reach through email, and they've implemented a feature in Android to just blacklist phone numbers as spam in one click when a new number calls you
Probably because that would send a very strong signal that there is something going on in their organization that they don't want leaked. If their objective is "Do not get investigated by journalists," then drowning those journalists in noise is probably a net negative. They could instead start blasting out rumors about everyone else in their industry, but then their competitors have incentive and cause to sue them for defamation.
I think Julia was well designed to stay fast for a long time, for many tasks. But anything that isn’t universally optimally addressable by a Lispish front end to LLVM JIT is going grow multiple approaches that aren’t fully compatible, in the same way that Python, not built for speed of execution, grew multiple approaches to fast code ( just realized I forgot about PyPy in my list above). So I expect there to be multiple eventually incompatible approaches to AOT compilation, web frameworks, GUIs etc. Julia’s youth restricts divergence in the short run but long run I think divergence is a healthy part of any ecosystem, and not to be disparaged as in the post I originally replied to.
>In the circumstances you've described, I feel as though anonymity is just a work-around for a larger flaw of mankind. The underlying issue is that humans tend to lack empathy, are too judgemental and just generally overly critical of others.

Yes, but evolutionary flaws of mankind can't be wished away (and even if they could, they might have other side-benefits that we'd loose, as they co-evolved in very complex mechanisms. Perhaps having too much empathy can make you easy to be wiped out).

Anonymity, however, can be achieved with technical means.
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