skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their Twitter is strange:

It says

Likes: 1023

But when you click on it, it says

@mixnode hasn't liked any Tweets yet

What happened?
Hah, you're right, I never thought of that!
If your dentist does not have the option of using local anesthesia, to pick just one of a great many things not available to a medieval tooth-puller, you might want to consider switching to another practitioner.
Here's some valid json that might be useful:

{"signup/username": "John",
"signup/password": "pg4pres"}

Then, because you can pass in a function to get called on the keys, just check for a regex like (.+)/(.+) and turn it into a keyword. Here I'll write a function like that real quick using a repl with a nice ux: https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/photoblobs/Screen_Recordi...
No one needs libraries any more? What rubbish (2017)
I think its fruitful to view philosophy as something that evolves rather than progresses.

At its core, philosophy is nothing more than a disciplined approach to acquire knowledge about anything that the human mind is curious. The approach is usually through systematic questioning and applying logic* to the received answers, and iterating till satisfied.

What happened was things changed. When "philosophy" first burst onto the scene, everything that man was curious about was ripe for exploration - life, universe, creation, numbers, sexuality, morals, shapes, thoughts, politics - everything. A cursory look at the kinds of topics that were discussed by ancient philosophers (not just the Greeks) should show the same. In time, all these pieces of knowledge got specialized and got separated into their own fields. Now, physics deals with the universe, maths deals with numbers and so on. Knowledge is not a Pangea anymore.

All the low hanging fruits have been picked, eaten, digested and turned into manure. That is how the specialization happened. The deep and meaningful questions in each of these fields can only be asked if one is well versed in them. Human knowledge has outgrown the human capacity to be Renaissance men. Thus, we can't expect an outsider like Berkeley take down calculus anymore (but I guess they still do), and such tasks must be left to the experts with a philosophical bent.

This leaves "philosophy" with very little to tackle. To me it seems only the question of existence and the meta question about nature of knowledge are left untouched by other fields, but I suppose theology often trespasses. I think this is why most people feel philosophy is boring and useless - the questions are either too abstract or they produce nothing but never ending debates and flamewars with no results that improve the knowledge.

Philosophy has evolved. Philosophers must evolve too. I honestly have no idea what philosophers do (probably graduate and teach, and the cycle continues?) but they are left with two things to do to make themselves relevant again (not sure if they feel irrelevant) - pick a field of interest, learn it deeply and ponder over it, or infuse philosophical outlook to the students of various fields who would be better equipped to do the pondering.

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* For sake on convenience, I consider logic as a tool that already exists. To me logic is philosophy in its own right, and it bootstraps philosophy.
You see these migrations as companies grow past certain engineer counts if they start out with dynamic languages. Sometimes they might even modify the language itself to bolt on types on it.

Ex: Facebook and adding types with Hack & Flow. Dropbox's work to add types to python. Uber used to be a python and nodejs shop, and now new stuff is done in golang and java. Many nodejs shops go from pure js to typescript or flow.

Gradual typing is useful for companies that don't want to immediately migrate everything at once. If you have the right policy of 'type everything you touch', enforced with a linter, a codebase gets migrated relatively quickly.
It looks like there is a "headers" column, so my guess is that you can do that.
> Well for one, you have a choice of where you want to work.

No you don't , it's entirely dependent on your birth and the luck of the draw in what class you were born into, your opportunities etc.

> If you can convince someone to hire you, the government isn't going to come in and say "actually, we need more factory workers. So you don't work there any more. You instead are working here."

There was no forced allotment of work in the soviet union, that's a nonsense claim coming from McCarthyist myths

> I'd also like to point out that there are numerous places in the US where people are perfectly capable of living on minimum wage, working 40 hours a week.

Not without exorbitant debt or unfavourable conditions compared to those who work above the minimum wage. A society that does not require you to work, and allows a livable wage for all work is a preferable one.

> Most homeless people are homeless not because it is impossible for someone to live off of these wages, in the right areas. They are instead homeless because they have some sort of mental or physical disability that makes them incapable of work.

That's not true at all, here in Ireland for example, mostly it's because of real estate speculation and treating houses as investments rather than places were people live. Mental and physical disability should not mean you live out on the streets

> The idea though, that able bodied adults are unable to provide for themselves, is ridiculous. There are numerous living conditions and places where it is cheap enough to live off of.

I've never seen a country where most of the homeless were unemployable, and in many cases the homeless have jobs, at least here. It is absurd to argue that people should move into the rural equivalent of a ghetto , devoid of job opportunities or development, or live cold.
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All the smartest people come to America though by and large. The brain drain is real, and I don’t think that will change anytime soon.

Why stay in China where you face pollution, a salary depressed job market, and increasing authoritarianism when you can come to the Bay Area and make 10 times the salary you could otherwise? Of course not everyone can make it with the bar set so high, but the people who do end up coming are the ones you really don’t want to be losing.
From what I understand this is not trying to solve the typical e-commerce problem of closely watching your competitors selling something, but rather trying to provide a database to people interested in content on the web.

It probably won't solve the problems you're working on, but I could imagine quite a lot of interesting text analysis cases.
Apostrophe?
yes. I block iframes globally and the web never been better.

it will show a checkered pattern with a link to open the frame in another window. so you don't even have to whitelist sites or anything. if you care about the frame, like for a embedded video, just open it on its own tab with a single click
That hasn't been my experience at all (major bay area tech co). PMs and execs who I work with are generally totally okay with "I'll get back to you by [date] with scoping and ETA for that request." We even have a name for it: we call it an "ETA for an ETA". It's much better to give an ETA-for-an-ETA and then come back with a real ETA once you know the scope, rather than just guessing an ETA that turns out to be totally wrong. Sorry if that hasn't been your experience; being asked to pull ETAs out of your ass without doing due diligence sounds like it would be demoralizing.
> Since he was gone I made up new orders for his fleets.

How does that work?
Western Propaganda? Are you serious?
>I felt like Neville Longbottom when he drew the sword of Gryffindor and advanced on Lord Voldemort.

Oh gosh please no, what an utter embarassment to read.
>I think the narrative of "product visionary" has been spun a bit too hard by the tech media and it likely has gotten to his head.

It has, and not only for this guy. Like the GP says, success in these things is more luck than anything else, like "vision".
Don't forget about the endemic racism and genocide that has existed in America since it's founding, and still exists to a lesser extent now.
The title above originally said "is shutting down" but we've since received an email saying that was reversed, so I changed the title to reflect that.
I wouldn't blame you for it, either. Just stating the facts as we have them
It was philosophy which set up the standards of 'solid reasoning' and 'evidence' so that we can now distinguish between Chemistry and Alchemy.

It seems that you apply the 'natural sciences' pattern of knowledge generation to philosophy, and conclude that philosophy doesn't produce knowledge. But this stance needs justification. And as soon as you write down arguments that this is the right way to judge philosophy, you are actually doing philosophy yourself.
Show HN: Garie – Open Source Web Performance Monitoring
The incredulity lays here:

> tells me I'm being deceptive and obviously support jihadi terrorism. This as I'm getting ready to leave on my 12th deployment.
It's not mandated in the US.
> they need to recognize the role that luck played into their original product and design.

That's a strong lesson I've learned in life. Successful people _rarely_ know the precise reasons that they are successful, almost exactly for this reason.

You may be aware of many of the components of your success, but you won't be aware of all of them and it will be impossible for you to rank their importance correctly.

Keep this in mind when successful people talk about their success and offer suggestions on how to replicate it.
What was insane was me being prescribed Paxil as a teenager by a family practice doc with no psychiatric experience or consult, without any therapy, and with only a 20-question questionnaire. What was even crazier was what happened when I quit it cold turkey several months later. The whole experience makes me very skeptical of anyone telling me medication can help me because of how awful my life became.
Go read an actual scholarly look at the soviet prison and forced labour system, rather than essentially fiction.
The entire United States is founded on illegal activity. Many unicorns currently got to their state by illegal activity (ex.AirBnB,Uber). The police constantly break the law. There are so many laws that the government has failed to be able to count them, and it is estimated that everyone breaks several laws a day.

Why are you surprised that anyone would break the law? Especially when it's in their interest at the expense of an entity that harms them through it's own illegal actions

Edit:the illegal activity that the united states is founded on that I referenced would be the Revolutionary War and the activities leading up to it like the Boston Tea Party. It was not legal from the British government's laws which they we're bound to until achieving independence
Given that there are dominating ATS products like Lever, Greenhouse, etc, this will likely just quietly shut-down in a few years.
Any time I see something like this I'm reminded of Yahoo Pipes and how ahead of its time it was. Is there anything like it that's designed for enterprise ETL these? It occurs to me it's a much better way of thinking about data flow problems than code.
Maybe if you stopped posting from ObviousThrowawayAccount47 you'd get more engagement?
No it doesn't , DotP necessarily means factionalism and such, democratic centralism simply necessitates an agreement to be abided to by all constituents of said group
MDMA easily proves on it's own that there is "something special" about serotonin.
Static type systems have scopes in how much they type. Some newer ones add nullable annotations, like kotlin or swift, others don't have it yet.

I hope java gets native support for @nullable, but for now we have stuff like error prone and @nullable annotations.
Why wouldnt we want to manufacture everything for less?
> Browser do it based on name="" on anchor tags not ID

Fragment identifiers can refer to elements by ID; this has been supported by browsers for over a decade and is the preferred way to specify a target: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2.3

In fact, `<a name="">` is now considered obsolete: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#obsolete
https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
has 350 lines of Common Lisp.
Proof? My empirical evidence suggests the opposite, multiple engineers with Chinese origins I personally know moved back to China because it already provides compensation rewarding enough to compete with SV lifestyle. Plus really SV is a village comparing to Shangai, Shenzhen, etc
The issue here is one of rights. Who owns the rights of the generated data? Especially if it was the "crowdsourced" product of n people. Does the data make any sense outside the context of Umbra's software? Is it exportable? Or do Umbra retain the rights to take their ball away at any time?

These are all questions anyone should be asking before putting any sort of time & effort into "contributing" to some sort of "crowdsourced" project. Or even putting a significant amount of work into a cloud-based tool.

Mapillary's answer was a compromise - contributed image data is published under a creative commons license, but Mapillary retain copyright over the metadata (most importantly positioning information). This is a bit of a fudge which would prevent users reclaiming the entire dataset and taking it elsewhere, but it seems to work for the community ... mostly.
What is an international package forwarding service that is trustworthy?
Ask HN: How do you automate your server provisioning?
My goal is to fully automate spinning up servers/environments, with, for example, a MySQL installation with users/data. I would like to automate this provisioning via a script or some sort.

I know docker can do this, but I need to be able to run this on bare metal. Is saltstack the way to go, or Chef, or Puppet?

I would prefer not to run a daemon on the target machine.
I would guess that the bending and twisting pressures of swelling and crashing water, rather dwarfs the potential forces the cylinders can drag through air in a storm, especially while they are not spinning. And I'd guess they would be engineered to break off, before harming the hull if that could be a threat.
works on mobile?
Yes if all you think about is yourself then that works well.
I read it last night as an unsubstantive rant. On rereading, it doesn't seem quite so bad.

It's still pretty bad though; consider what sort of replies a comment like that is likely to get. They will either be further in the rant direction by someone who agrees with you, or an ideological battle reply by someone who disagrees.

If you think of HN comments as bets on what sort of discussion will grow out of them, one like that is a bad bet.
From what I've seen, your expertise and network in the field are what will allow you to raise funds for a capital intensive business.

If you don't already know people and/or have deep expertise in the field, why would someone give you the money?
Converting “lisp” to JavaScript in the sense of this article is basically trivial (but then it was done in only 350 lines of Haskell).

Compiling, say, Common Lisp to JavaScript is hard. There are “easy” steps (in the sense that they can be ignored or done a stupid way at first) like dealing with numbers, namespaces, packages, (I.e. the symbol foo can name a function and a variable, amongst other things, and the symbols #:foo and #:foo are not equal).

There are the “boring” steps like doing argument parsing (and harder is working out how to make it efficient)

There are the hard steps like working out how to compile lexical goto and return-from, eval-when

There are the very hard steps necessary for macros like having to reimplement a macroexpander (for macrolet and friends) and then realising that this is insufficient as one also needs to implement environment and such (but this can be done by a macro to slightly modify macros, assuming that this compiler is also implemented in Common Lisp). But this still is insufficient. Consider the following legal Common Lisp:

(defun make-adder (number)
(lambda (x) (+ x number))
(defmacro macro-+ (a b)
`(funcall ,(make-adder a) ,b))
(defun foo (y) (macro-+ 3 y))

So the body of foo expands into:

(funcall #<lambda ...> y)

And one has no way to compile this host-system function to JavaScript and hence to expand macros one needs to be able to interpret Common Lisp and be able to convert any object into JavaScript source code (and keep in mind that the source code needs to ensure that what we’re identical in the CL are identical when the JS is compiled, and that closed-over variables are also properly dealt with in the sense that if two different functions close over the same variable in CL then they need to be compiled into JS functions that close over the same variable, or at least behave the same as the CL functions.

Having to interpret does at least solve problems like having numbers behave the same way in macros as at runtime.

And then there is CLOS which is a bit of a pain to bootstrap (and must be bootstrapped twice of course).

To compile CL to JS one essentially needs three CL compiler (backends), one for macros in the first compile, one for compiling to JS and one for compiling and linking in the code that is compiled at runtime in the JS VM.
A different but interesting concept: https://www.skysails.info/skysails-marine/skysails-antrieb-f...
And yet they are open on Saturday. So I suspect it's more to do with the Christian religion than with preserving weekends.

Can a store in Germany choose to close on Saturday and open on Sunday?
Can't read washington post. Here's a different source:

https://www.government.nl/government/members-of-cabinet/ank-...
Mine uses a scanning array and a 3D milling machine to manufacture implants and fillings in office. Not all that medieval.

You may just need a new dentist.
I haven't tried Mixnode yet, but the way I understand it, it lets you query websites and retrieve their HTML content that you can then parse - without you having to crawl the site. Looking at their Github, they seem to utilize WARC, so they may also allow you to request the website for certain timestamps?

That being said, I find this highly interesting, if it works like that. We are working on a peer-to-peer database that lets you query a semantic database, popularized mostly by public web data, but with strong guarantees of accurate and timely data, and this could be a great way to write more robust linked-data converters.
> The instruction pointer is the IP register. It is zero.

it is 0xfff0, at least according to Intel Software Developer's Manual Volume 3, section 9.1.4
"First Instruction Executed". regarding 12 address lines being asserted, that is just a way of thinking about it. actual implementation might be different but what happens on reset is akin to 12 most significant bits being set. CS is 0xf000.

indeed a debugger would give the right answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovska...
How many Navy veterans have that sensitivity? You would think serving next to a radar some of them would.
Wow, that's actually a great deal. The top marginal tax rate in the state of California this year is roughly 65% (and that's excluding employer contributions).

13.3% of all income (State) +

39.6% of all income (Federal) +

5.3% of all income (Federal double tax on State Tax - thanks, Donny) +

6.2% of all income (Social Security - Individual)

=====

64.4%

Then of course your employer pays another 6.2% of gross earnings on your behalf for social security too. And of course, in tech, your employer has to pay for your healthcare too, an average of $19,616, which also actually comes out of your paycheck. [1] Feel free to work out what percentage of your gross earnings that amounts to and tack that on top also. Good thing we've got the freedom to save the remaining ~33% while people go without basic health cover and social services.

In years I earn a lot, I'd actually be better off in Canada.

[1] https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2018-employer-health...
If I'd apply somewhere, my go to would be Doist, Basecamp, or Automattic. Subject to change, though.
The most difficult part about VPN as a business is dealing with the people that use the VPN for illegal activity.

The authorities will come after you first. Most large providers are located in some small country like Panama so they can't be sued or jailed.
Scheduling is hard but in a factory you have a wider range of workers in different life circumstances, add small factor to the pay on unpopular days and it could work. Here in Germany hairdressers are closed on Mondays because they are open on Saturdays. If we can finally move on to the four-workday-week we can also think about rescheduling work more flexible with the help of computers.
HN users can do better.
Bad mosquitoes spread disease. Good mosquitoes can stop them
There are lots of companies where this is done today. I worked in a casino and it was 4 on and 3 off with everyone having different days off.

As real estate prices go up and up how long before white collar businesses try working in shifts so they can have offices that are half as big with people sharing desks?
Thank you. That is good to know. I really appreciate this info and the links. I'll file it under "things I learned 20 years ago that are now obsolete :("
I wish I had the link ready but this is actually not a brain drain, it’s a brain fill. China has government sponsored programs to actively send Han Chinese abroad but keep them loyal to the ‘motherland’ through local meetups.

They shape the way the public perceives them in foreign countries in ways that sometimes read like a spy novel.

Google “sharp power” for some insights into these tactics.
It was a terrible change. People (most heavily: kids) like to consider celebrities their friends. People loved the close, barely filtered connection Snapchat gave them.
Im confused.

Do they do the scraping crawling and we just search their database?

Do we have to do the scraping/crawling and we dump the results into a mixnode server running locally?
There are tons of places in the first world that are both cheap, and definitely not a ghetto.

Not everyone should live in the Bay area, or New York, or even downtown in some major city!

There are lots and lots of places that are even within commuting distance of a major city (that isnt SF or New York...), That are inexpensive.

The world is bigger than a couple coastal cities, and there are lots of opportunities if you are willing to expand your horizons beyond 1% of the land.

> here in Ireland for example, mostly it's because of real estate speculation and treating houses as investments rather than places were people live

Then maybe people shouldn't live in this very small percentage of the world, or expand your horizons beyond demanding that you be able to live in the most expensive parts of it?