skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goldman Sachs's policy opponents don't spend much, so Goldman Sachs itself doesn't need to spend much on lobbying to achieve its policy objectives. Opponents of Net Neutrality were heavy spenders in 2014. http://amp.timeinc.net/time/3677301/google-lobbying-comcast
For some reason I read it as "single method interface nonsense" :-D
Show me a few practical reasons you’d ever need a smart contract for this, instead of just some code and an actual agreement between parties to place nicely together?
In that case Nim should make the cut since it transpiles to C, C++, Obj-C, and JavaScript. :)
Bear cam: Grizzlies put on regular show in Mission Mountains
I'm not sure I find those statistics compelling. I'd like to see the numerical method used to compute the first derivative. Was it just a finite difference? The Nobel prizes are lumpy and so they smoothed the function as well.

I'd be much more interested in a comparison between the European union and the USA, which are similar in GDP and population.

Would be very interesting to see the aggregate and slope of China and India as well. Are they gaining? My perception has been that they are not, but the data is so lumpy, and the nobel such a lagging indicator, that I'm not sure it has meaning.
Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”
Yes, and it is noted in the article: Praying mantises have occasionally been observed to feed on vertebrates, including small birds, lizards, frogs, newts, mice, snakes and turtles.

But many of these cases have either not been scientifically validated or have occurred under human-manipulated circumstances. And there is no previous scientific data of mantises preying on fish.
Thanks, I'm using it (and a restoration project too). But some animations are still slow and annoying as hell, e.g. combat mode change or {un,}drawing a rifle when opening boxes and doors. I usually put one gun back into the inventory when in firendly location.
Tax rates on middle income earners (15k to 30k euros annually) are higher in Italy, at least based on my limited research. If you have data to back up your claim that they are higher in Germany I'd love to see it. Either way that's not actually the core of the issue.

In Germany, you get decent public transportation, great education and healthcare for your tax money. In Italy these things range from tolerable but inefficient to outright useless depending on where you are.

I've also lived in Germany, and while they do love their paperwork and forms you are more or less guaranteed a specific result if you comply with the process, and it happens within a determined time frame. In Italy you can do the same exact process 5 times and get 5 different responses, or simply no response at all as they will happily lose your paperwork over and over. In many cases officials ask for random documents that don't exist and are not listed anywhere as required, simply to make you leave and bother someone else.

I've become convinced however that all of these issues above are actually caused at their core by nepotism, cronyism and corruption. The most incompetent and corrupt get promoted to the top, and the rest are trampled until they give up or leave. There's no future and no opportunity for bright young Italian people.

Where I live businesses still pay protection money to the mafia, openly. Why would any young person want a part of that? This is going to get worse for Italy as young people, who would normally be the catalyst for progress and change, simply leave.
This larger narrative is disingenuous, as it's still rooted in this tired mischaracterization of using an "alternate name" as "anonymity". Presumably because anonymity == scary and non-birth-given non-state-registered name also == scary.

From a technical perspective, using an additional long-standing nym isn't much different from just using a single one! The people they're profiling (!) are essentially microcelebrities - notable in their circles, presenting in meatspace, being photographed, etc. I'm sure their [stated] nyms are still serving many purposes, but preserving privacy they aren't!

Meanwhile (and this is why I take issue) there most certainly is a type of "working" anonymity that all kinds of people rely on, which is in the process of being involuntarily destroyed. It's almost inherently impossible to report on without resorting to indirect narratives, primarily based on some kind of disempowerment. But I think what they all really boil down to is our individual self-determination over the scope of our own relationships.

It's a parallel je ne sais quoi to dragnet surveillance. I personally don't have anything to hide, and if a government agent wanted to get up in every aspect my life I would be powerless to prevent it. BUT we all benefit from keeping the unnotable generally unnoted, rather than cataloged, characterized, and used to presume to know us removed from our personal context.

(I know I haven't done a great job describing this - it's awfully tough to describe the indescribable/unenumerable. But someone is going to have to, in some very persuasive universally-appealing words, if we're to retain any of it).
> as socialism fails

You mean "as communism failed". I wasn't talking about the Soviet bloc as it is today but the former "USSR-aligned" countries like those referenced in this article (countries like Bulgaria or Romania) during communist times. They were and still are in that region of prosperity where they could never afford to have a single income earner in the family so pragmatism led to a more uniform development path for both men and women alike. So in those communist times they pumped out tens of thousands of qualified engineers with no regard to their gender. And while some of the opportunities they had in their home countries may have dried out over the past few decades that "legacy" of not caring about gender means today's Europe is full of such "eastern" male and female engineers doing everything from writing software for your bank to designing the suspension of your car. There may be countries that "import" more skilled female engineers than they bother to produce internally.

Probably for the same reason prosperous countries like Switzerland, Germany, UK, or Austria pay their women ~20% less than the men.

If you work in IT and have any kind of contact with teams outsourced in Eastern Europe you probably already noticed that you're just as likely to deal with qualified women as with qualified men.

As for coal mining every single piece of literature I've come across about that period mentions low wages, no paid overtime, 7 day work week, pay cuts for not meeting production quotas, poor living conditions, "shortened" lifespan, etc. That's a far cry from the engineers working to build cars like Bulgarrenault, Bulgaralpine, Pirin-FIAT, Chavdar, and whatever else they were manufacturing at the time.

Full disclosure: I am not Bulgarian and never lived there.
From your link:

>"Today, in the quantum information age,"

In what sense do we live in a "quantum information age"?

Edit:

Also, is there an example of a physical theory "running on the quantum mechanics OS"? That phrase doesnt make much sense to me.

Edit2:

Actually there is tons of stuff in here that seems off:

>"More often than not, the only reason we need experiments is that we're not smart enough."

I don't trust this guy to be explaining things to me correctly at all.
What a great story. Thank you Tomte for posting this.
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>“You can’t test for everything” seems like a really bad counter argument in this case because you’ll still need to write the integration tests anyway

Types are nothing more than a proof that some property holds for your code (Curry-Howard correspondence). Tests are nothing but a proof that the property holds for the exact conditions. Types are always better then tests, the only question is how powerful your type system is and how much properties you could express as types. In F* or Idris you don't need tests, in OCaml and Haskell you need tests sometimes, when type system is not powerful enough, in python you have to write tests all the time.
I got on the 710 once heading south and it was a whole different world in which it felt like there was an unbreakable chain of trucks. It also felt extremely dangerous since they really didn't care about breaking that chain to let you into a lane if you needed to exit.

Once was enough.
Maybe psudoanonymity - using a single handle for years and years and building up an identity is dying off... but anonymity certainly isn't.

I registered this handle via Tor. I don't use it on any other sites. I'll probably ditch it after a year or two, since on a long enough timeline little bits of info slip out when making substantive comments. An astute observer can suss out what times I post, what topics I comment on, and make educated guesses about my identity.

I have a "real" identity - a public persona. It has a cutesy nickname, a twitter handle, and all the other online presence. But it's all incredibly carefully curated, since as the article points out, one slip up and you're done. The feeling when posting with it is so suffocating I rarely do.
In Maryland, did they actually take away any guns particularly?
The point of a tracing JIT is that it runs code in an interpreter, then generates machine code for loops and hot spots. By doing this at runtime you can take advantage of knowledge that a C compiler doesn't have. This is why LuaJIT is often faster than C.
True but I think a room that cheap in London will negatively affect your quality of life, as it’ll likely be in a bad area. Better to go to Belgrade, Lviv, Wroclaw, Cluj, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Leipzig etc.
It's still a political piece, in that it tracks the disillusionment of Republican politician in ways which Democrats would appreciate. That fits with my own political sensibilities, but I can easily imagine why others might not appreciate it. Would an article about a disillusioned Democratic politician embracing Republican ideas feel the same?
I also considered hiring people here. After looking into the regulations and dealing with the government in other areas I realized I'd need a full time lawyer just to deal with the bureaucracy while I ran the business. There's just absolutely no reason to participate in the economy here, it's too deeply dysfunctional.
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On iPhone the animation speed was/is there to help give apps time to launch, for example, so while the app is launching you see the animation and it hides the fact of the app launch time. If you disable the animation / speed it up, sometimes you run into apps that you notice are unresponsive until they have finished launching. You can’t disable the animation completely, but you can reduce the animation time to as low as it can go. This was a while ago as I haven’t been jailbroken for a few years now. What I describe above is my experience with “disabling” the animations.
I think the concept works for certain startup ideas - ones that don’t require a lot of up front engineering or capital expenditure on equipment. If that is your startup, then yes go do this.
Omega Point
I’m not the parent commenter, but I think I can help clear up this confusion.
Seems like you may have missed:
> Or at least half a proportionality.
I think their idea is that in the proportion A = B, where A = w/x and B = y/z,
A and B must be “of the same type.” Applied to your example, I think PC might say that in a proportionality of pressures, A and B must be of the same type—-it is not the case that w and x must be of the same type.
Looks very nice, although having some trouble with it on Linux Chrome browser. Space bar brings up menu but menu moves along with mouse pointer so you cannot select submenus. Saw this behavior running the visualizer on local Linux box and connecting to the live Demo. Running "Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)" on Ubuntu 16.04. Chrome from Windows 10 to live site works nicely.
Compile with `--threads:on` and everything in the threadpool module are available. You can also use `CreateThread` for long-lived threads.

Alternatively, you have an open-mp for loop that you can use with `||`:

for i in 0||1000:
doParallelSomething()
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Precisely. Value for your tax money is simply not there in Italy. You get either tolerable, or non-existent transport, healthcare and education depending on where you are.

In the south it's usually non-existent. The root of the issue is nepotism and cronyism, which gives very little hope to young people who would normally be the catalyst for change and improvement. Instead of participating in a rigged system they can just leave now, and most do.
I've never understood smart contracts as binding people to anything in particular. People can cash out of the cryptosystem and go do whatever. Smart contracts are binding against machine agents, who have no alternative economy to participate in.
Please stop posting drive-by dismissive snark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My “$10,000” was one of those 0% interest Visa card cheques, combined with renting out two rooms in my house to students to net my rent out to zero. And then eating cheap vegetarian food.

I don’t advise this as the optimal path. I think it is far wiser to spend your time researching a strategy that you can sell to rich investors, and using their actual money rather than your ramen noodles.
I’ll check it out on Monday , thanks for suggestion!
Very intersting. I wonder if that’s the kind of mathematical tricks that yaron herman’s teacher taught him. I’ve always wondered what those could have been.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Herman

Edit : so it seems that method was somethin called the Schillinger system, based on numbers.. but i couldn’t find anything more detailled online.
The Trump administration's critical stance on the tech giants is one of the very few things coming from them that I support, even though their actions here appears to be rooted in self-interest and self-preservation only (just like everything else they're doing).

I hope that this probe will lead to some antitrust action that will be continued by the next administration.
I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). It is much worse to be a software developer now. It used to be a very high autonomy job - where you were trusted to figure out your work process and usually given lots of freedom to dynamically define many of your deliverables (within reason). I remember when I first read about Agile - I looked at the practices and thought "I've done most of those." But when our nightly builds broke it was no big deal, we would just fix them when we got around to it (as opposed to managers now assigning blame and calling in people on weekends to "fix" it). And if things weren't going well then we might have daily brief meetings for a couple of weeks. But now there are managers who insist on daily standups irregardless of their actual business necessity. I could go on and on. There is a reason why I'm not a practicing programmer anymore - even though I love to code.
I can't trust my emergency fund to the whims of backroom deals between central bankers, Wall Street, and whatever administration is in power when the economy is grinding to a halt, most especially for almost no additional benefit (comparing interest rates, the spread is only single digit basis points) over an FDIC insured account.

I can see your point, but I really want to stress for others out there reading this thread that it isn't responsible to hope for insurance that doesn't exist when you need it the most.
Empathy, which is effectively modeling another person, requires effort which is proportional to how different they are from you. Furthermore, to be willing to expend that effort requires a belief of good faith. Empathy is not, and could never possibly be, "Internet scale".
I really like the concept, and think that visual programming is a great way to help understand data flows (I'm a big Node RED fan).

I wouldn't make the claim that this is usable by business managers; if one of the goals of this tool is to make it business-focused then you might want to add an abstraction and front-end it with BPMN as that's the general language understood by most folks familiar with process mapping. Check out Camunda's modeler for an example (https://camunda.com/products/modeler/). I have quite a bit of experience in this space as working with business-focused modeling tools and then building the full solution has been my career for the last 5+ years.
This sounds like they want the equal representation policies that the Republican Party got rolled back in the 80s (ruled unconstitutional iirc). It’s what allowed the rise of partisan “news”. It seems like any “equal exposure” policies would hit the same issues.

That said the primary “imbalanced exposure” seems to be due to evicting people who simply spend their time attacking minorities, attack equal rights, and promoting violence towards anyone that they dislike. For whatever reason the Republican Party seems to have decided that those people represent “conservative” views that private companies should have to support.
> Do you think an app like Photoshop or 3DSMax uses a react like framework on top of whatever C++ GUI they are using?

Yes I think so. Why else would they require 1GB of space to install them and specific hardware to run them efficiently? As a matter of fact, they require rendering libraries from graphics card companies. The difference is that they use their own proprietary frameworks instead of open sourcing them.

> How many apps can boast about being as complex on the web? most of these web apps are forms.

Not a lot, but quite significant nontheless. For example google docs, office 365, Facebook, Amazon, and many cloud solutions for enterprise. I agree most of web apps out there are just fancy forms and don't really need any frameworks, but there are legitimate use cases for them.

Edit for your updated comment:

Yes, I fully agree that web developers should start from basics, not frameworks and libraries. Cheers.
Most of the beauricracies I've dealt with in Italy have nothing to do with the Euro or the EU. And yet they are horribly mis-managed and run by corrupt nespotic maniacs.

It's a cultural problem, not a regulatory one. And thanks to brain drain the young people are leaving instead of affecting change.
Nim is my favorite language right now. If you look at the different metrics that we use when discussing programming languages, it might not be the best of any category, but its "good enough" in every category. It might not have as powerful a type system as Haskell, but it's safe enough. It might not be as fast as C, but its fast enough. It might not be as easy as Python or Ruby, but it's pretty easy to get started with. It might not be the best web server / embedded / native UI language, but it can do all of those things. Its primarily procedural, but supports a lite version of FP and OOP, so you can program in a comfortable paradigm. It's truly a jack of all trades languages, and I think with a little time it might start mastering some.
Looks like it was inspired by http://keyj.emphy.de/minimp3/ and https://keyj.emphy.de/kjmp2/ , always good to see more people trying to implement multimedia codecs. The theory behind it all is not easy to understand, but in practice it turns into a bunch of arithmetic and table lookups.

That said, this one being floating-point and requiring intrinsics makes it less portable.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/new-mexico...
Yes, the article does focus on #5.

I don't know the authorities who "have observed", my observation differs a lot: most businesses that still exist after 5 years have done exactly that. But that, of course, requires a "we have a solution to a problem we have, let's sell that"-mindset, not a focus on exit.
I’m not seeing the connection here between “antitrust” and the alleged discrimination against conservative views. How does alleged discrimination become an antitrust issue, other than as a cudgel/threat by the government to try to punish these companies?

While I do think there are probably some monopoly issues with these tech companies, this seems more like a government witch hunt against them because the current administration doesn’t like what they’re doing, not because they are truly concerned about the possible monopolies.
Scientific evidence matches your anecdotes. There is a very small percentage of people whose genes allow them to only need 4-5 hours of sleep each night. It's somewhere in the low single digit percentages.

For the rest of us, 7-9 hours are required for proper functioning. If we get by on less, we're functioning suboptimally whether we realize it or not.
Often though they tend to target the head or neck for their first bites, I think with the intent that biting there will make the meal stop struggling[1]. Not all the time though, sometimes they grab the prey and just start chowing down, butt first :P

[1] I had an African flower mantis as a pet ;)
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>1999 Revenue > USD40 Billion

Where's that number from? The RIAA's own numbers put 1999 at $14.6B: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/.
Not incinerated, why would you say that. From your link: "..tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth"
Buy a Pixel, set a secure passcode. There you go.
https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl/blob/mast...

except for those times it downloads a youtube-dl binary.

https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl/blob/mast...
The docs issue and devel being rough are both due to the pre-1.0 status and the smaller community. It's a little bit of a catch-22; you need adoption to gain contributors but people won't adopt until there's enough contributions to make it stable.
The typeface is pretty neat. For the curious, it's Nova Mono

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nova+Mono
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The honest truth is that it’s easier to be famous as a big dev in a small pond than a small dev in a big pond. As communities stagnate, it is harder to get your name known and becomes more political than technical.

It is a social problem, not a technical one.
The kind of gross misrepresentation you’re doing right now is part of the reason why Trump has found justification to do this kind of thing in the first place.
> As a matter of fact, they require rendering libraries from graphics card companies.

in order to render graphics. The DOM already gives you all that for free.

> For example google docs, office 365, Facebook, Amazon, and many cloud solutions for enterprise

Not even VSCode uses a specific framework, which demonstrate my point. Yes, they use Monaco editor for their text editor but this is a very specific library for a specific purpose, this isn't a generic view framework like react and co.
Ever tried dbeaver?
Contracts (smart or not) that aren’t ultimately binding some people to some behavior are pointless. Computers do not (yet) have their own independent desires and economy.
what does your company make money on at the end of the day, a legacy software product? or is "AI" actually something customers are buying from you?
I don't understand what they mean for it to be "scientifically observed".
I am surprised British “research” is seen as valuable anywhere else but Britain.