skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone created a RESTful framework for excel yet? Maybe a package management tool as well?
a small one! In japanese mountains I have come across specimens that are at least 25 cm long. Bigger than one s hand. Truly terrifying!
Yes, but it quickly cuts to the meat :-) (I mean C-T/D/L, that’s the book I was talking about in a sibling comment)
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Talks About His Best and Worst Bets
I am thinking they are moving to a new target after having helped in the destruction of SF, or is too harsh?
I do the same on OSX using Karabiner. I cannot live without it.
Sorry it's sad you can't recognize your unconscious bias. The good news is that people like you are shunned in the modern work place. Good luck
I don't know. Salesforce Classic seems just fine to me, but I wouldn't pay money for it.

I generally like a retro and semi-cluttered UI if it is quick and static.

I can't stand animations and anytjing "sleek" and bloated and I also can't stand anything cartoony.

But maybe I'm just stuck in 2005.
Scientists Determine Why 7'6 Shawn Bradley Is So Tall
Those figures do not show massive inter-regional financing. All but 2 countries have net EU expenditures of +/- 250 Euro per person. Per capita spending by the EU is 215 Euro per person compared to federal government spending of $9,961 per person in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_...

The EU budget is 1% of GDP while the US federal budget is 20% GDP, 60% of which goes on social security / medicare / safety net programs. US federal spending acts as a huge inter-regional stabilizer.

Regional transfers must significantly increase within the Eurozone if the Euro is to avoid breaking up or immiserating huge numbers of citizens.
VR or bitcoin mining?
Incomes pay for housing. Therefore housing prices must always track incomes in the long long term because you can't pay more than 100% of your income to housing: it's impossible. Incomes tend to go up at roughly equivalent to inflation.
> I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko).

I admire the determination, but why not just use Firefox instead?
Thanks for the tip! I’ll give that a shot
Do images of the brain make us more likely to believe what we read?
I guess it depends how far in the future we're looking.

Seems like, long term, the formation of a global government is inevitable if we take in consideration global resource management, climate change and environmental degradation.
>There is usually less than 10 meta builds at any given competitive nerf/post patch balance. Dota II is hundreds if not thousands, per hero, per team composition, etc.

There are hundreds if not thousands of builds for each hero?
Kamehameha lol, Sian race is storng with this one
I feel like the proper measure would be return on investments experienced by venture capitalists. Though it's great to get bought out, that shouldn't be the end in itself, the end should be creating successful companies...
Then let me spell it out more explicitly. Some company pays their employees $10 an hour. This isn't enough to get by on, so the government give each of them an extra $2 an hour to spend on necessities (I know, most welfare systems don't pay out hourly just bear with this example). Who is helped by this extra money? Not the company. If you cut the welfare, the company's profits (or losses) remain exactly the same. Their workers will lead worse lives and experience greater hardship. The workers don't find other jobs. If better paying jobs existed they would have taken them already. Thus, it's not a subsidy for the company. It's a subsidy for the worker. Eliminating welfare has zero impact on the company's profits.

This is why making companies pay tax penalties if their workers are on food stamps is a terrible ides. It'd make employers more wary of recipients of welfare, thus making it even harder for poorer minorities, single mothers, etc. to find jobs. And not to mention, it'd create further incentive to outsource or automate these jobs.
Concerning nr.1:

Maybe find areas where people use excel sheets/ or word/pdf forms that they email around to each other. Always seemed like an idea to me.

Disclaimer: just a wantrepreneur.
Isn't the specification the actual language, and Google's compiler just one implementation? (That's true for C/C++.)

Is the specification underspecified or something? We're not talking about a syntactically huge language...
More and more hackers are using Facebook, Chrome and Google.

If even hackers don't care about privacy anymore, how can we expect it from the general population?
> Source: I know someone who does this for loving

What if the customer is unattractive or otherwise not their type? Or the wrong gender?
On the other hand the Soviets, who could be safely assumed to have all sorts of conspiracies to hide, deployed this tactic successfully. The culture was supposedly so drowned in conspiracy theories that no one could be bothered to figure out which ones were true or worth caring about.
Yeah, but fundamentally Celery is a task queue. You don't build a distributed system around that.
It is pretty damning of the software though.
Only if you miss what the purpose of the F35 is. If you are silly enough to think that it is about creating an aircraft then it looks monumentally stupid. If you see it for what it really is (a massive heist of the tax payers) then it is a work of genius.
I didn't realise that there might've been a pattern! A lot of the Uber drivers I talk to in Australia also claim to do accounting on the side.
When I was growing up the Westlands and NAG apprenticeships and full-time jobs went to relatives of those who already worked there. Seems like the irregular book-keeping also persists

I only ever got temping jobs as a data entry clerk and I quit Yeovil to get a PhD and to work outside Europe

There are many truths
In my opinion, the most reasonable path to a productive CRM for most businesses is to build your own. This is the central tool that non-programmer users need in your organization, and there's no reasonable way to make a one-size-fits-all one that makes sense to use-off-the-shelf except perhaps in certain verticals with well-defined business models (barber shops, dentist offices, etc.) or with extensive per-business customization (Salesforce).

Super-big businesses can pencil the budget out to make Salesforce and a team of salesforce admins work (and probably more cost-effectively than the dev/ops spend necessary to do it in-house). One-man shops can make do with manually querying databases and using one-off scripts. Everybody else probably needs a small Rails/Django (or similar) app developed in-house, and some commitment of dev resources to maintain it.

You mileage may of course vary, but the level of integration a custom CRM app, no matter how basic, allows, will allow you to do a lot more with a lot less elsewhere. Support, if you have that, will be massively streamlined. Sales, if you have that, will probably be massively more productive with a single tool that pulls in billing information, internal metrics, and all previous communication in a single place, doubly so if your sales staff is empowered with some kind of report-builder that they can use without waiting for dev work to complete.
There is an economically efficient solution. Instead of taxing things we want, like job creation, tax things we don't want, like pollution.
The argument against more monitoring is one of false positives. Suppose the Apple Watch has a 5% false positive rate, and detects problems with 1% of 100 million users.* That's 50k extra patients going to their doctors, thinking there might be something wrong with them. The next test may have a 1% false positive rate. That would put 500 extra patients on anti-coagulants.

That may not materially change the public health calculation, or it may. But that's the calculus -- not that a GP would blindly prescribe, just that increasing the top of the funnel is not necessarily a good thing. (Plus, extra cost.)

Positives and negative impact of additional testing must be measured for optimal decisions.

* numbers to make the math easy
This is fine for podcasts, lectures and books where the purpose is to take in information. Timing in movies and TV shows is important; silences and slow pans are placed there for a reason. I can't imagine why one would watch a movie or TV show at 1.5x when the purpose isn't to take in information, but to enjoy artwork.
For MAC you are responsible for curating the decisions about what's inside each container.

That's a bunch of work. The more complicated or fast changing the sites in a container, the more work.

Facebook Container comes with the curation done by its maintainers. This is probably less trouble than it might be because it's not as though developers who use Facebook are unheard of.
Why is Rails not a stack for long-lived apps? Or "JAM", MEAN, LAMP, .NET or any of the other popular technologies people have chosen over the past quarter century? Sure, it might be harder to find someone willing to write PHP now than it was in 1998, but that's how things work when new technologies are constantly being invented.

With few exceptions, browsers and servers support the same things they did when the web began. Your old server-rendered Perl app might look a bit long in the tooth in 2018, but there's no reason you can't run it exactly the way you describe.
Can you describe more what you meant by seeing eye of providence? What was the context around it? What exactly did you see, where, and what was happening? I’m just curious... did you search for the meaning after the fact? I take it you didn’t know it was called the eye of providence prior to that?
That probably just means observed by a scientist. If I report seeing a praying mantis eat a fish, that's not as reliable as if I have a video or if a trained scientist makes the same report.
Amazon seems like a pretty bad place these days....
> “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.”

Again, as I’ve been saying, that is a super one-sided way to look at it. Type annotations and the use of appropriate patterns required for most modern “good” static typing are costly things. Organizing things with type class patterns and algebraic data types costs you by making you write more code and more boilerplate, and have trickier things to reason about. Some languages are worse (Scala) about how bad this boilerplate affects you than others (Haskell), but the restrictions it places to facilitate the type-based proofs of safety are real. It’s not free.

Using static typing for these things is only better when (a) the overhead of adding static typing and associated pattern code (and associated maintenance of that extra code and restrictions of how you can write ad hoc code) is not too large and (b) the type-based safety proofs couldn’t have been gotten in some cheaper way.

In a case like a big model training program (a) and (b) just don’t hold. The extra boilerplate and maintenance is very meaningful. Just look at the difference between this blog post’s OCaml code and the equivalent stuff in Keras. The restrictions on ad hoc code also matter. If I can get back a dynamically typed container of settings, like a Python dict for passing into a GPUOptions setup in TensorFlow, and not bother needing to conform to certain types before being allowed to write code that just makes direct assumptions about what attributes I can access, or what dict values will be strings that can serve as args to functions expecting strings, ..., that just saves me lots of time and lets me write way shorter code, relatively speaking, because in this use case it is extremely easy to verify that the only types of data passed in will conform to the assumptions, something that can be checked with an integration test very quickly without requiring any compromise on the handling of arbitrary attributes from config dict values.

Not every case is like this. Some times going to the trouble of setting things up with static typing to prove complicated assumptions are valid within the code is better and ends up reducing code through disciplined use. Static typing can be cost-effective.

This particular use case in the blog post, though, is not one of those cases at all.
This. I grew up in NY. My rent is under $2000, and growing up I didn't know anyone who made over $100k (median family income in NYC is 50k).
It can be hard to compare actual tax rates as you have to also account for all the payroll taxes. For instance in France for a Software Engineer you would expect about 40~45% payroll taxes [1], and you will still pay income taxes (somewhere between 20% and 40%) on what remains [2]. They go towards different budgets (Social Security and State), so it makes sense that they are collected separately. I don't know how it is in Germany or Italy.

[1] Payroll taxes go towards the Social Security budget, which covers health insurance, retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, etc.

[2] Income taxes (and VAT) go towards the state budget, which covers debt interests payments, education, justice, police, military, etc.
I don't know how it works in the US, but in the Australian public system you cannot organise a medical intervention without the right results from the proper tests. The Apple Watch in this scenario becomes a symptom for the doctor to assess in order to plan for diagnostic tests, not a diagnostic test in and of itself.
I totally get that. But in this specific case where someone is saying “contact me”, I don’t think you should make this’ll at harder.
Feel free to point out the irrationality of any part of my post.

You are resolving your cognitive dissonance by ignoring documented differences among cultures, which is fundamentally illogical. This seems to be an increasingly common pattern "in the modern workplace" and outside of it too.

What you should instead be doing is accepting that cultures are varied, but individuals must be given the benefit of the doubt in an ethical society.
Freemasons are interesting. There's a relationship between them and Shriners (every Shriner is also a Freemason), they contribute a tremendous amount of money for healthcare and other worthy purposes.

There's also a lot interesting trivia around Freemasonry. I took a cemetary tour once, the guide explained some of the symbolism in the Mason's markers. (i.e. many contain decorative columns. The height at which the column is broken off indicates how old the Mason was at time of death. There are many other interesting symbols.)
That is the broken window fallacy. You cannot support growth by destroying things and using that as a reason to buy more.
> BFR is absurd overkill for anything related to commercial LEO.

They thought the 747 was absurd overkill, too. Until it started making huge profits for Boeing for decades.
My culture is that of a progressive Bay Area liberal, who’s the child of immigrants. It’s under threat, but it’s also constantly changing, and shifting based on the global socioeconomic circumstances.

Admittedly, I’d be pretty unhappy if someone wanted to take my house away without compensation.

If someone got rid of a place a visited often, I’d be unhappy, but would I stop them? No.

I think from my childhood, the only two places that are still around that I visit are the Exploratorium, and Golden Gate Park — both dramatically changed over the past few decades.

If someone said, sorry, we’ve gotta pave over GGP to build an observatory to further US science, and we can build it here, China, or Russia — I would be unhappy, but understanding.

I guess, I understand why these people are unhappy, in a general sense, but I can’t reconcile that with the fact that they’re impeding scientific progress, and putting US science behind.
the comment I am responding to is talking about computer science
It's really that we should be using the OS compositor more than we are, particularly on macOS. I think I'm probably going to be working on this, or at least finding someone to work on it, soon. WebRender should make this easier, because we should be able to get away with using a smaller subset of the OS composition functionality than other browsers do.

Anyway, for now, if you're on macOS, set gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true in about:config for a large increase in energy efficiency at the cost of some visual effects.
try social media
This is such a shallow comment. Regardless of how long he's written articles sponsored by PC magazine, you don't know the details of his contract or the relationship he had with that sponsorship. Why bother creating a comment if you add no content?
Of course. It's common sense. As the rest of the world gets more industrialized, wealthier and better educated, it's inevitable the awards will be less concentrated in one place. It's keep spreading out as time goes on.

It's not just nobel prizes in science. It's billionaires list, chess rankings, supercomputers list, top polluters list, top colleges, everything.

China by itself has more people than US and Europe combined. India by itself has more people than the US and Europe combined. ASEAN has more people than europe. If they are able to continue to develop and contribute, it's inevitable that their share of the prizes will increases sooner or later.

What's tragic is that the opportunity costs for them being so underdeveloped. How many geniuses and entrepreneurs were wasted because of lack of development and opportunity? How much human progress have we left of the table as a result? It's sad to think about.
Found one: Uber
> intergalactic satellite

You might mean interplanetary.
Just start building free stuff until something sticks. Then figure out how you can make money from it or something similar.
The book by Ashlee Vance is the authorized biography which Musk helped write.
Oh come on, everybody can churn out papers and patent filings.

If you go by Nobel prizes, the ranking is different (leaving out non-US contestants):

Physics:

1. MIT

2. Harvard

3. Berkeley

4. Chicago

5. Columbia

Chemistry:

1. Harvard

2. Berkeley

3. Chicago

4. Caltech

5. MIT

Medicine:

1. Harvard

2. Rockefeller

3. Columbia

4. Caltech

5. WashU

Conclusion: Stanford is overrated.
Imagine having to prove a Coq theorem for every function call.

No, it's not really that bad. But almost. I really suggest you play with Idris some; what you can do with it is brilliant, for simple tasks. For complicated tasks, like the fully general propositions you need for library functions, it can get much more complicated than the code itself.
Wow, that's a fantastic price. Turbotax Business is at least $170.
I'm hardly the first person to have this, well, insight is generous, but it remains true:

People wildly overestimate technical risk and wildly underestimate gtm risk.
OpenUSM – Server Management, Log Analytics and ML Using Docker and Redfish
meh my prior on british nationals writing about american decline is not very high...even if he did work for larry summers
I’ve known several soldiers over the years and all had struggles with depression and possibly PTSD. I obviously wouldn’t want to present these limited data points as conclusive evidence, but I’ve been struck by the extent to which combatants pay a high price for their jobs. I feel sorry for them, because no-one tells them about this when they’re recruited. It’s a real bait and switch: promises of comraderie, glory and a trade and what you actually get is a thumping case of depression and PTSD. I don’t believe in karma, but this looks a bit like it to me.
They're very difficult to use and they make code more complicated.
Ok, have 2 fields. Input and Standardized. Confirm with the user if their input is not being standardized to make sure it isn't an error (which is explicitly called out in this article as a problem).

No reason to go to one extreme or another and lose sight of the actual problem.
I am Bulgarian, but thanks for being offended on my behalf for what I said about myself.
Ask HN: Do you have experience converting a C library to Rust?
I'm curious what my options are for converting a C library to Rust if a) I want it to maintain the same external interface and b) I don't want to do all the work of converting upfront. Is there anything to be aware of for a codebase that's half Rust, half C? Is the only option for interop using C FFI in Rust?
Nobel prices come in lumps, as Feynman would say. Missing out on a just one lump can skew that graph significantly.

Going back in time, both the German and UK graphs have points where one could've come to the same conclusion, except they quickly recovered.
> users around the world will no longer think of Chrome as a browser, but simply as the interface to the (Google-)Web

The funny thing is the only country free from that (Google-)Web is China.
Fry: Hey, professor, what are you teaching this semester?
Prof. Farnsworth: Same thing I teach every semester, the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields. I made up the title so that no student would dare take it.
Fry: [writing] Mathematics of wonton burrito meals... I'll be there!
Prof. Farnsworth: Please Fry; I don't know how to teach. I'm a professor.
Can you describe some of your methodology for detecting the fakes? Presumably you have trained a detector on a large data set; did you generate this yourself using several popular deepfake tools?
> That's a broad brush to paint with; companies are just a group of people, not some inhuman construct.

Companies are a group of people hired to make money for shareholders. They owe loyalty to shareholders, not their workers. It's actually the fiduciary duty of the board and the execs.

> Not every company discards employees like garbage, and it's a lousy narrative to propagate.

Of course not. But the point is they will if they have to.

Companies exist to generate value for shareholders. Not to be nice to their workers. When times are good, you have nothing to worry about. But when things get tough, all bets are off.
Yesterday was my last day at work at a Silicon Valley tech giant. The 680-Mission-880-237 commute is no more. Instead, a startup in Manhattan, a subway ride away from a tiny apartment. New city, new challenges. We’ll see how much I don’t, or do miss the Bay Area. Hasta luego as well.
Neil Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money" (book and mini-series) is a good primer.
> The research team were surprised by the visual capability of the mantis, which could see its prey underneath the surface of the water.

According to this 2010 video[0] of a mantis catching a goldfish, the mantis has no problem doing this, however it was a human-manipulated situation during daylight.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZtzyHTX7g
If this is true, she doesn't have to know why she's doing it. If there's a genetic variation that causes this behavior and enough of an advantage to doing it, that's what natural selection will favor.
IME customer requirements change often, even if only because of fads. Interoperating with ever changing third parties is another complication.
Oh, so the racism isn't based on statistics, it is based on anecdote.
Yeah, you present a good point about all those unemployed Americans. I really don’t think that we need to stop all progress across everything to help them.

What do you propose we do to help them instead, and if it involves reallocation if government spending, where would you take it from?
A list of these would be hugely useful to a large portion of the HN community, and I bet you'd get to use some of those projects gratis (or at least see them brought to market).
Demonstrating the PlayStation Development System Debugger and Some MIPS Assembly
All these points are fair except for #3. Tokyo was already burnt to the ground during the firebombing campaign.
The one where you demonstrated that you don't know the difference between a client and a server? :-)
Migrating petabytes will always cost lots of money, no way around it.
Cinderella Tears
Source? The only item under validity on wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Validity) is a book, rather than a journal, and it's far from thoroughly discrediting.