skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effect of these ERA (European Research Agency) initiatives is zero.
EU likes to throw money at problems without following up; for an enlightening example one can look at the Marie Curie fellowship. Money thrown at researcher for 2 or 3 years of research in EU or outside of EU institutions with zero follow up at the end of the fellowship. As far as I know, the vast majority of MC fellows leave academia and research at the end of the fellowship.
Turkey has now a great exodus ever in its history. Most of the educated Turks are now trying to abandon their beloved country. Recent stats indicate that top 4 countries they are going are UK, Germany, France, Netherlands [1]. If you see any of these precious guys, just say hi to them. They will speak to you.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42433668
Embedded development.
It was a troll comment: high inflammation and low (no?) information. If you continue we'll ban the account.

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While we're at it, let's dispel the notion that we need tiny domain specific languages to accomplish daily tasks. One that covers HTML, Makefiles, SQL, and Awk is all anyone will need.
>"Placing a freeze should be fast and relatively easy, although you will have to sign up for separate ones at each of the three credit bureaus."

This is so broken. Freezing your credit at one should automatically freeze your credit at all of them. This functionality already exists for providing a 90 day lock on your profile. Making people jump through 3 sets of hoops to freeze and unfreeze their credit is a joke. I'm guessing this was law makers capitulating to the will of the industry instead of the consumer. Sadly no surprise there.

>"If the credit bureaus cannot sufficiently verify your identity based on the information you've provided, you may need to mail in copies of your driver's license, utility bills or other supporting documentation to validate your identity and execute a freeze."

What constitutes "sufficiently" can be arbitrarily obscure. Examples of this include. The number of a landline you had 20 years ago, the zip code of a company that bought a now defunct company you used to work for. Your only recourse is snail male and making photocopies of sensitive documents and mailing them to a P.O box somewhere. These same "verification" systems also randomly report failure during the process leaving the consumer with no choice but to snail male.

"We want to make it is as simple as possible to access that freeze, but we want to protect you at the same time," Experian's Griffin said. "We need to strike that balance."

This is nonsense and nobody believes this for a minute. This shady industry finally got called to account albeit in a quite limited way and they will do everything possible to make this as inefficient as possible. There may be a law on the books now that they can't charge but there is no law that says these systems need to be maintained, verified to be working or efficient.
With that line of logic no business would ever work. Shoe shop? No way that would work, if every shop on earth sold shoes no one would be making food and we would all starve!

This is one bank that wants to not make loans, I’m sure that will work fine and we’ll still have people selling shoes, making food, and making loans.
Sad that actual writers are being dismissed in place of buzz feed 30 second nonsense.
Oracles break decentralization. I can only imagine a relative secure oracle, for example a weather sensor, as a set of devices/robots left on a remote place and hiding from people/animals while signing data transactions. A lot of thinking should be added to this to remain undetected and sending signals from a remote place. This is the relative equivalent of having the most secure computer in the world in a closed placed and unconnected.

Beyond this, before smart contracts change the world we need to cryptocurrencies be useful and change the world. That is the simplest smart contract case.
that's whats fucked up about it. I am not religious at all. Yet, what I experienced was on a spiritual level with real changes.

it's crazy how common the themes are. did you hear extra-terrestrials? Like I literally heard a thought broadcasted from somewhere not on earth with the message "we aren't from earth but we are gonna help you out. clean your fucking room. move your computer to living room. get your shit together"

.... needless to say that was a big turning point

I haven't done mushrooms since and I'm kinda scared to experience the whole thing again.
A fun incremental game that I always think of when I think about this story is http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
If you don't want it to do that, don't program it that way. Code it to assume some and to estimate the degree of mismeasurement.
SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle
"I do not think all this language fragmentation is a good thing."

I both agree and disagree with this.

I love the creativity and imagination that goes into a language like nim. But at one time I thought the same about python! Sometime obscure little languages become important.

On the other hand, the tooling statement is dead on. At the point I find out it doesn't have a step-through debugger I'm just reading the docs for fun and then moving on.
That's a very interesting project. Still, if you're aiming at real-world usage, please seriously consider postponing your own language+implementation (or keep it as a side project) and writing a library for Chez Scheme instead. That would be awesome.

Chez is very mature and probably the fastest Scheme available. It's so good that the Racket team is currently converting Racket to Chez as the backend language and compiler.
This.
But also "Javascript" is a way overloaded term. The JS community is quite fragmented. Same could really be said of all of them. "Just use those" may come with a caveat of "also be conservative about what tooling you adopt around the language you choose."
Goodbye cars, hello colour: the great reinvention of city intersections
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I wonder how many trial and error and generations of humans it took to realize which mushrooms were safe to eat. It's fascinating stuff.
They recommend (in another article on congressional campaigns) using Google Drive over Evernote or Dropbox.

How about iCloud Drive? Trustworthy/secure as Google Drive?
The software never felt right for me from the beginning and I jumped ship as soon OneNote became available for Mac (I moved later to org-mode). I remember a few years ago a talented friend who was accepted by Twitter, Google etc. for internship was rejected for an internship by them for some reason and he was really upset. Clearly the management has some serious problems with their engineering team. No surprise at all to see them struggle.
I just took a snapshot of one of my hard drives (2TB) from iDefrag:

https://imgur.com/bdGcXXC

The red slivers towards the lower middle are where the reported fragmented files are located, and the lower right is the fragmented files listed by number of fragments descending.

The anonymised .mkv files are training videos with multiple language and subtitle streams. They're exported to a scratch drive and then copied to the the drive they currently reside on.

After a full, offline defrag (including a b-tree rebuild) the legend for defragmentation is a neatly arranged list of that blue/grey colour, no red to be seen.
Pardon my being a contrarian, but consider if it were Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison or Thomas Edison asking this question.

Societal progress sometimes benefits from arrogance. Perhaps it even depends on it on rare occasions.

Maybe you should consider owning and leveraging the arrogance you have by focusing on an entrepreneurial career track, where you can get people to put up with the arrogance.
it sounds awesome
Although there is no scientific evidence, many have reversed dementia. I suggest to go to brokenbrain.com and drperlmutter.com to get yourself informed.
Gratuitous animation like the ones showed in this article are not "proper".

Animation can serve a communication (and hence UX) purpose, but when everything is animated it defeats its purpose.

It also has to be noted that the more animations there are, the better GPU you need, which can create a false need of a new device.
Are you talking about the comment, or the article? Your description does not sound anything like what the comment says.
The Deep Learning Revolution – Terrence Sejnowski [video]
"Can use" is different from "can use productively." Technically if it's compiled to C/C++ you can use gdb/lldb etc, BUT the compiled version may be so drastically different from the input that it's effectively useless to track down logic errors in the original.
const hand*
^^ is that a pointer? Are we moving backwards?
So if the air quality is bad, you'll drive. I see, very useful.
Trite, and seems to ignore evolution. Most of the complexity in these utilities came from emergent behaviour.
>Given that macOS automatically defragments sub-20MB files on the fly (which covers 99% of the files which affect perceived system performance) I'd wager money that your experience is 100% placebo.

Perhaps. I can certainly tell the difference performance when an overnight defrag run has finished, and I have no beef with you to prove or disprove a point.

If you're ever in North Cornwall, UK: drop me a line and I'll show you a before and after over a mug of coffee/tea/etc.
Watson is also people. Granted, those people are data scientists who can actually build an AI solution for you, but it's still a stretch from the marketing.
I would be happy for anonymity to stay an option at least. It's not as important as it was, sure, but it's still very useful.

Anonymity is great for side projects that amount to practice, that you don't expect them to turn out well, or things you might be embarrassed of in the future, like comments on Reddit and hackernews.
Its sad that one has to be 100% compatible with Chrome. Is this something that someone at Microsoft really said? one should have to be compatible with the standards. If that statement is true, then it supports the claim of Google's dominance- which is unhealthy for the browser market, and users.
I don't believe the arrogance, per se, of any of these individuals benefited societal progress. In the case of Thomas Edison, his arrogance arguably held societal progress back.
Even if there were perfect, reliable oracles, ‘smart’ contracts still are terrible. When something unexpected happens, the contract is guaranteed to screw up, with no chance for human compromise.
The title of this submission is a bit misleading. This script parses the .vue file and extracts the three sections into x-template script, Vue.component script and a style. These are not standalone in the sense that they cannot exist without vue and vue-template on the page (the later is large and unnecessary when compiling with webpack). Essentially this does what the vue webpack plugin does naïvely and without many of the features like support for different template / JS / style language compilation (e.g. Babel and sass).
Depends, in aerospace employees in Germany are paid way better on average then in France. At least that was the case a couple of years ago. Unless, of course,vthe really high echalons which tended to be the contrary.

Hard to compare with costs of living.
The ASIC Mining Race and Where It Is Going – Zk Capital Publications – Medium
Lose Weight Fast Practical Strategies Boost Metabolism
Samsung Slows Memory Chip Production to Keep Prices Stable
Wrong, most of the complexity was designed in. Have you ever read the source code for GNU coreutils? And maybe compared it to the POSIX specification for those tools?
Useless mobile site
Plus you get a tax benefit by buying Treasuries.
Is there a data on the average salary? Do employees forced to work as contractors like in Ukraine?
MSSQL runs on Linux now. There's even a docker image. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...
UNICEF France Officially Accepts Cryptocurrency Donations
Conference Codes of Conduct: Is 'Ladies Lingerie' a Harmless Joke or Harassment?
I think it's great that a lot of these minor languages get some play in companies. If they're good enough to overcome the problems you mention, it improves things for everyone. If they're not, then the company dies and so does an evangelist for that language. It's a little like programming language Darwinism; a few companies need to die in the process, but ultimately it's better for programmers worldwide.
Of course, my point is that neilwilson’s statement (emphasis mine): “When lloyds creates another loan it automatically creates the matching deposit. (..) Deposits have no quantity control function on lending.” is at best misleading.

A bank with an empty balance sheet cannot give a loan.

Lending money is transforming one asset (reserves) into another (loan). The fact that the loan is created as a new deposit in the name of the borrower, keeping the reserves constant, muddles the issue a bit but the simplest description of the process is something like:

1) D makes a $1mn cash deposit at the bank. The bank has liabilities: $1mn owed to D and assets: $1mn in cash.

2) The bank lends $1mn in cash to B. The bank has liabilities: $1mn owed to D and assets: $1mn lent to B.

We can add an intermediate step where the loan is still a deposit at the bank (liabilities: $1mn owed to D. + $1mn owed to B., assets: $1mn in cash + $1mn lent to B.) but it is just a distraction. Not many people borrows money to keep it in a deposit at the same bank.
This is our future.
If anything, now that the internet has effectively become mankind's long-term memory, anonymity feels more important than ever. If you got into a regrettable flame war on some mailing list back in 2001, it's still out there, waiting to be used against you, out of context and in a different era.

People need to be able to make mistakes - or voice uncomfortable truths, blow whistles etc - without having to worry about repurcussions in some unknown future.
School Buses and Starts: Computers can solve your problem but you won't like it
This is how their model was trained, but I think what you've said may not quite be the case.

Because the discriminator (D) and generator (G) usually compete in a minimax game, the equilibrium probability of D correctly classifying an image as fake tends to 1/2 (ignoring distributional factors). If the competing networks have enough capacity and can be stably trained, then in theory they will reach equilibrium as the data distribution from G converges to the actual data distribution. If this is the case, then the discriminator correctly identifies fake videos with a probability of 1/2.

They may not reach equilibrium (making D > 0.5), but it's not clear that the discriminator itself is a panacea for identifying fake videos/images.
Does it have arbitrary length integers? I've not been able to find any reference to such.

Edit: OK, there's a library called "bigints" - it's not clear how "natural" the resulting code will be, but I might experiment.
>Do employees forced to work as contractors like in Ukraine?

Or like American IT industry?
... The central bank may worry that narrow banks, which lend to neither companies nor individuals, could hamper the effectiveness of monetary policy. Their business model may also risk unsettling incumbent banks, which could have large economic consequences. ...

This is almost certainly a big reason for the opposition. The Federal reserve wants to keep people from "hoarding" (saving) money at all costs. Driving down interest rates and causing inflation is one tactic. Preventing the emergence of banks who can out-compete the rest of the market on interest rates is another.
Depends what you mean by post-scarcity. For example, if supermarkets weren't as interested in profit, they might choose a lower price point which would allow them to sell "ugly" produce. I've seen many different estimates of how much produce is discarded for ugliness, but all indicate a large portion.

The knock-on effects of profit-seeking are large. And not all bad, of course.
exactly, they're just better ;)
I think there are two factors causing developers to choose too-long animations:

1. Pride. We worked hard to build this animation, and the user is damn well going to watch it! Because they'll definitely like it as much as we do. (This is an example of not putting the user first.)

2. Inaccurate conclusions from user testing. I think users go through two phases. Early on, they don't know their way around the UI and can't navigate quickly. Plus the animations are novel and they're still enjoying them as eye candy. So for two reasons, they don't mind slower animations. As they use the UI for days or weeks, both these factors flip. You start navigating the UI by muscle memory, and novelty is gone. Thus you can only find the optimal animation speed by testing how a user feels about it after weeks of usage, which isn't how user testing is usually done.
Being wrong about tech probably has no ill consequences. But the quintessential example of journalists being wrong as a moral failure that I always think of is the lead-up to the Iraq War. Even that had historical precedents too, eg. the Spanish-American War ~100 years prior was also ill served by journalism.
A blockchain is actually a reasonable part of the solution here (just not nessesarily creating a new one). What a blockchain really does is decentralized timestamping. Usually you use it to combine it with a bit of cryptography to process flows of money, but in the same blockchain you can just write "I know hash XXXX", and if later you produce a work with that hash you can prove that it already existed at the point your message was written in the blockchain.

That's not all you would need for verification, but it is a big help.
It's just business. Obedience to authority can make people do terrible things, as shown in the Milgram experiment, and in business you have a whole chain of authorities.
So reading that ghacks article, it goes live to all EN-US users on the 25th Sept (my browser already has it), but we can't switch it off yet via: about:config?filter=extensions.fxmonitor.enabled

Pretty poor to roll it out without the option of disabling it, especially as I also ticked no tracking.
HR is there to maximize the value and minimize the risk from your humans. Everything in a company is designed to maximize (short term) shareholder value. This isn't evil; the company needs shareholder value to survive.
Intel Ramps Additional 14nm Manufacturing Facility to Address Shortage
Deep learning is beaten by genetic algorithms for molecule generation
I've tried to listen to NoAgenda twice and both times it was conspiracy theory borderline-racist garbage
Lambda lifting is an alternative to closure conversion, so it doesn't get rid of closures so much as obviate introducing them at all.

The two transformations are fairly closely related, actually. You can view lambda lifting as closure conversion plus flattening, in the case where the code pointer is unnecessary.
"While Bitcoin critics claim the cryptocurrency is too expensive to use for transactions"

The critics aren't talking about $90k wire transfers, they're talking about $30 gas purchases.
Not sure if this is helpful, but I asked family for code reviews for my birthday. (Requires that you know coders.) This might be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/codereview/
I mean, that’s just kind of argument against…computers?

Code is itself a compromise. Do this thing for me, and in exchange for not having to do the thing you lose flexibility.
Minimp3 – Minimalistic, single-header library for decoding MP3
Every "FP 101 for JavaScripters" tutorial on the web starts with this same example:

function adder (x) {
return function (y) {
return x + y;
}
}

Is this somehow a bad thing to do now, and how would I "lift" it? I don't quite understand.

Pretty much every modern KS library has tons of functions whose definitions look like `const foo = a => b => c => junk(a,b,c)`, and is that really better than just writing a normal foo method like it was 1996?
Can Businesses Participate in (And Profit From) Ocean Conservation?
That's right.

It's not about avoiding Google. Google does excellent security work. It's about using the most secure products in each category. An Android phone can be made asymptotically as secure as an iPhone, but only by an expert.
As it turns out, the only mention of the feature is in that link's introduction. The garbage collector (https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/mgc.go) makes many references to 4KB pages and 1MB arenas. This (the code and the user of the technique) would need some serious reconsideration for small devices.
It's probably safe to assume this is already being used on Americans and they're just trying to edit it to abide by Chinese laws & regulations for another massive tracking & censorship market.
Twenty years and time to retire
I almost left Javascript off the list because of it's peculiar (but interesting!), prismatic nature. Still, they all transpile to Javascript (I think?), so really it's all just javascript ;)
i still can't comprehend how can be all those noisy motorbikes legal, I am not really interested to hear your loud motorbike, use headphones with motorbike sound if you enjoy it so much, but don't bother rest of the people. pretty sure they could be silenced to car volumes
Space Force may come with a big price tag, no one can agree how to structure it
At work, I use Lua 5.3 embedded into a large-ish (a few hundred thousand LOC) cross-platform (runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android) C application as a way to extend it. We have bindings for a lot of the C functions and use Lua for prototyping. We keep the code in Lua in production if possible, or rewrite in C if performance issues force us to.

Personally, I use Lua for a lot of other things including Web development.
Money market funds aren’t FDIC insured.
I would prefer a ‘Result<ValueType, ErrorType>’ over stuffing weird ‘hasError’, ‘didTimeout’, etc flags everywhere.

It’s much safer to type-check at compile time that you have discriminated between result and error, than to hope that you are ‘if’-checking some flags at the right time at runtime.
1999 Revenue > USD40 Billion

If I'm understanding this article correctly, then the revenue for 2018 should be somewhere around USD9.2 Billion.

Wow. I had never seen actual numbers on what revenue digital actually brings in before. And these numbers are total revenue. Before expenses and such.

I can only hope that in this carnage it was the record labels that lost share size in the pie and the artists got a larger piece. But somehow I think what's more likely is that the record labels just started splitting the pie with the tech companies. Or the tech companies became the record labels in some instances. Probably very few of the artists started getting a larger share of the pie in this changeover.

It's sad to look at. I guess they make the music for the love of the art anyway, but it'd be nice to see them get rewarded for it.
OK, how does that gel with a report from S&P [1] that says:

“Banks lend by simultaneously creating a loan asset and a deposit liability on their balance sheet. That is why it is called credit “creation” – credit is created literally out of thin air (or with the stroke of a keyboard)”?

Also Prof Werner's analysis, he reaches the same conclusion.

[1] http://positivemoney.org/2013/08/repeat-after-me-banks-can-n...
Dav1d – a BSD AV1 decoder for the future of multimedia