skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...

The UK is the only place in Europe where "billion" means 10^9; in Eastern European languages, there simply isn't an equivalent word, and everywhere else it means 10^12.
Felten Confirmed as Member of U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
I've been writing a lot of Haskell recently. I had to switch to embedded C and the difference between the two was striking. The C program I was editing compiled, but failed to do anything useful. To fix that, I had to reorder the stateful functions and #define the right things without much help from the compiler.

Had I been using Haskell and a reasonably well designed library, these mistakes could've been caught at compile time, with the compiler telling me exactly what I did wrong. The kind system described in the article is how you would implement such a library, or something even more advanced.

Sure, comparing embedded C to Haskell is disingenuous, but it does show how far programming languages have come. And I think my experience could definitely happen in many other mainstream languages.
thanks for this comment, saved me alot of time, and gave me a nice chuckle. this form of article is becoming way to common lately
Fleio billing 1.1 adds OpenStack Rocky support and domain name registration
Now add support for Unicode. :)
I have only heard second hand, but internally Uber has always had a large litter of tools. There is always a little bit chaos edited out from what is presented to the outside world. They run several container schedulers (YARN, Mesos, Myriad), they used to run several separate workflow orchestrators.

The proliferation of tools allows to test out different ideas in production conditions which is not bad per se. But the duplication of efforts or variability has to come with some advantage to continue doing it. Infrastructure engineers wanting to reinvent the wheel can create a lot of technical debt fast, and leveraged one at that.

This takes nothing away from the great work Uber has been doing in the area. They have definitely set a great direction for their platform.
Amature here; Aircraft engines aren't just rated by hours-ran but also cycles. That being start-Takeoff/landing-stop. Maintenance and part life is specified X hours or Y Cycles.

I would think there's no reason to apply any of that to an electric power plant. So can anyone familiar with the topic enlighten if this might have much impact to the cost/benefit going on?
And if your daughter was murdered, you want them dead.

That is not how we made our legislation work.
Is this consistent?

You could correct your perception using this knowledge then. Just add the half step. As long as the measurement device is still working, you can always re-calibrate (in this case cognitively) the base.
Yeah - I guess the early acquisition might be what influences the way these kids develop different cognitive strategies for music early on. It's obvious when teaching kids: the median student seems to operate on the first order derivative of the pitch curve, while the perfect pitch kids operate with the absolute values. A gross simplification. Interestingly, many of them require a different strategy for transposing melodies: go note by note, while median learners apply melodic intervals incrementally. Similar differences can be seen in solfege and dictation.
Well, if there is libssh2, most likely there is libssh.
I don't see that those enrollment rates are of use for the discussion, that they show anything useful. Especially given the difference in cost and the high number of (paying) international students supporting the US system.

Not to mention that Germany has an extensive professional education system ("Facharbeiter" to "Meister") that he US does not have, so what's the point of only looking at one part of the education system?

I would not even be sure if we are actually counting the same thing on both sides. When the US means "higher education", not all institutions are MIT and Harvard grade. Is all that you counted in your number actually comparable to what Germans mean when we count higher (university) education? See my 2nd paragraph, is some of that kind of education possibly counted in your US number, while in German it is a whole extra branch?
Would the outcome of these negotiations at-least end up creating a path to coin a universally accepted definitions of 'Developing Country' & 'Developed Country'? Is it HDI, industry or by Military Strength Index?

If MSI is taken into account, then India & China are among the most developed nations!
Such a cool project!

I’m going to be doing a similar exercise in an upcoming Generative Art workshop that I’m giving.[1]

I love how LeWitt’s work seems so simple on paper, but can look so impressive on a larger scale and in a natural environment.

[1] https://twitter.com/mattdesl/status/1052687485715836928?s=21
The missing transparancy disclaimer: "The Cumex files" is headed by "Correctiv", a german based "journalist network" which receives large parts of its funding by german goverment organizations and/or organizations which have close gov connections. But: the german goverment itself was aware of this scheme since at least 2002.

Also: this is a drop in the ocean compared to EU-internal tax loop holes and tax havens such as Luxembourg.
Very good read! I often get amazed when CEOs shutdown products left and right to "improve the focus". This was in fact classic Jobs advice all the time that has gone bad in many instances. It's even more mind boggling when CEOs decide to sell their businesses. IBM selling entire PC lineup to Lenovo is classic example.
Amazon is in it for the money. Appearing to be socially just is part of the marketing plan. Corporations are as much the problem as governments. But of course most the people here work for corporations.
I use Jira at work, and also at home for my side projects. At home it's little more than a self-hosted Trello instance. At work, it's more complex. Both do their jobs well enough.

Your problem is that you don't currently have any tools to track what your devs are doing. Your proof that you are "orders of magnitude superior" is nothing if you don't have the metrics to back it up.

If you accept that the larger company is going to want metrics on what your devs are doing (and that's an inevitability) then unless you have an alternative in mind and a compelling reason to use it instead of Jira, your best bet is to get on board, and do so with enthusiasm. If you're earnestly trying to use it, people will listen to the problems you run into and workflow changes you ask for. If you're complaining because you just don't want big brother watching you, you'll be ignored.
I don't think it's tempering, since I did most of my ear training on piano.

Yet, most purples are really close to blue to me, unless they're basically pink.
> Not quite, that would imply time and effort. I'm talking about reinventing the toothpick (2-3 lines of code), which is much different than reinventing a complex library for the sake of reinventing it.

Re-inventing 1000 versions of a tooth pick is reinventing the wheel.

> That's nice, but you're addressing a straw man.

You keep using that term and I'm not sure you understand what it means.

> It was said that no one is suggesting you recreate a non-trivial dependency for the sake of reducing your dependency count.

And my argument is that dependency count is one of the dumbest metrics to be interested in. Size, sure as that impacts bundle size, which in-turn, effects latency. But "count" is meaningless.

> Humor me -- the next time you use classNames for a small project

I use styled-components exclusively for React projects now.

> For example I've seen things similar to "classNames({myClass: true})" in code before.

So? Bad code is bad, that's not a library failure. Now that is a straw man.

> Can you see what is wrong with this line?

Of course I can, because I'm actually good at my job. I also wouldn't do that. Using your toaster in a bathtub is also REALLY stupid, but that doesn't mean we should ban toasters.

> When people get comfortable with abstractions, they completely forget how to write the simplest code.

No that's called laziness and it has nothing to do with dependencies. You have twice in this thread accused me of straw men inaccurately, and now wrote a paragraph dedicated to a huge straw man.
Better ban people from installing anything in their cars. Who knows if that cell phone holder will kill. (Here's where I show you the absurdity of what you're asking for.)

Preferably also prevent mechanics from taking apart cars, they make mistakes and install unapproved parts.

It is far more dangerous than an actual test drive with an actual safety driver.
It's overvalued because a bunch of people bought stuff when it wasn't overvalued and charge as much as they can for rent. High rents mean high resale value. You're probably paying 2% or more of the original purchase price every month.

The prices will go up until it is not economical to buy anymore.
Corporations are overseen by the government. The government is in the unique position of having the monopoly of force. If a company turns bad, the government protects us. If the government turns bad, things get very bad.
Great journalism by FollowTheMoney.( with 12 other countries) Journalism the way it should be. Independent journalism payed by sponsors. https://www.ftm.nl/ , if you are dutch, you should sponsor them to.
The space in an instruction is very limited. (If the representation of an instruction needs more bits you need more bandwidth, more cache space etc.)
So it can be beneficial to only address 8 registers but then have a detection for spilling of spilling to RAM etc. (It can even be beneficial to specify only 2 registers (a = a + b instead of a = b + c) and replace a copy of registers with a rename.
Knowledge as Code: Creation of Decentralized Services Directly from Ideas
Why do we get the same ads over and over again?
I think HN understands better than most that any digital data is fragile and ephemeral. Theres entire fields around just preventing tampering with it.
Nobody buys physical media for PC games anymore. Hell most new computers don't have DVD drives.

And I'd be pretty amazed if any physical apps still sell PC games on disc. Do publishers even make boxes and CDs now?

It's not 2005. GameStop et al just sell console games.
Most people want justice, thus the police to find the murderer, arrest them, and bring them in front of a judge or jury for their due punishment.

Limiting the polices technology and resources is an argument that doesn't make sense to me. Especially coming from open source advocates. Smells of hypocrisy.
Because I can have decently reliable voice calls with people around the world from my mobile app on a UK 4G connection, when bloody Skype for Business, GoToMeeting and the like shit the bed on a daily basis when trying to have a call from a business line?
No idea about East Germany, but it was top end hardware in Poland around 1989, cheaper and more popular than PCs, and easily obtainable even before the fall of Iron curtain as long as you had the cash. The cost was ~5-10 salaries, C64 was 1-3. PCs were rare and crazy expensive, XT cost almost twice as much as A500. 1989 salary was ~100 DM using black market exchange rate. 1990 was the year Russian occupation of Poland officially ended, salary jumped to 170 DM, owning western money stopped being illegal dissolving currency black market. 1991 salary went up to 300 DM, and so on..

Even pre 1989 CoCom embargo was not enforced on the west crossing for ordinary border traffic. Anyone on business trip could just stuff a computer into his car trunk, or a couple with appropriate bribes ready for east border guards.
But plumbers and electricians aren’t going anywhere whereas radiologists and accountants seem like they’re poised to be next On the automation chopping block.
> Finally, it’s a bit unfair for me to compare Rust’s facilities here against Haskell. Haskell’s handling of lambdas, closures, first class and higher-order functions is best-in-class, since it’s explicitly the goal of the language. If you compare Rust to most other languages out there, like Javascript, Ruby, or Python, Rust compares even more favorably.

And yet creating a closure in those languages is natural and trivial. None of the higher-order examples he provided in Rust were closures.

Closures are at best clunky in a language without automatic GC and heap allocation (auto-boxing?). But if you can't readily create and use closures (i.e. functions that use their lexically bound environment outside their original execution scope, such as invoking it after returning it from the defining function) then how could you claim strong support for first-class functions? You don't have first-class functions; you have closures and non-closures, each with different treatment by the language. Otherwise we could just as well claim that GCC's flavor of C is a strongly functional language because it supports nested functions.

The defining characteristic, IMO, of functional style programming is using closures to encapsulate and reify state; not the ability to anonymously define functions or functions which can access their lexical environment from within the same execution scope. If the language doesn't make that natural then it can't be fairly described as friendly to a functional style. In languages like Javascript people intuitively do this without even realizing it, which is about as natural as you can get.
Is it a tax on the person, collected by the airline, or a tax on the airline, charged at a per person rate?
Interstate commerce is though, right?
Accorsing to wikipedia, GF is former AMD, which then later aquired IBM's fab business. TSMC has always been independent.
Until they don't and you plow into them. Never trust another driver. Ever.

It is better to cause a slight confusion but be prepared. This is why people are slowing down when they see a car merging. To brake and to maneuver.
in romanian it's like in French: million = milion, billion = miliard
Yeah, not a word about "people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees". It mentions that the sender in China will be charged more over time.

Quite a difference.
It is more appropriate to say that the Camry driver who was at fault would have caused a fatal accident.
> They didn't even check that the people owned the shares they claimed to own

Yes. But people hates bureaucracy.

A common answer is'why do I need to present another document in the tax office?'

At least now Danish citizens have an answer. 'to avoid losing 1.7B'

bureaucracy is a remedy to a problem. It can be done right or wrong, but it's not bad by itself.
Another route for the U.S. is to try and get a scholarship. If you're a high school student and you test well, a high SAT or ACT score should get you a full ride to a school some where.
2FA prevents people who successfully phished you (e.g., they managed to send you an email that opened a fake Google login page that you put your password into) from logging in with your username and password without being in your physical vicinity.

2FA popping up on your personal device that you authorized, even when that's the same device you're trying to log in on, doesn't reduce the security of that.
Specifically, the -ay, -ey, -øy suffixes that evoke Pig Latin mean "island" in places that had Norse presence. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ey#English and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ey#Old_Norse
I don't mind the style. Works for those who have some downtime at work. But you should definitely include a summary for the rest of us.
Yes, it kind of does. See, you want tech in place that can easily turn into mass-surveillance to catch a criminal you have been a victim of. And you want him punished. So, for both things are laws i. place, exactly to get these emotions out of the picture.
"The other side of the coin"? I think you have presented a strawman opposition.

Few argue there should be no security, but rather that a few simple changes, like hardening cockpit doors for the cockpit and a change to the hijacking policy (based as it was on the assumption that the hijackers wanted to live and, for example, go to Cuba), were enough "physical security to prevent people from hijacking what are essentially missiles."

How does yet more biometrics help? Is the cost justifiable?

We could have 5 security guards on every plane. That would surely help prevent people from 'hijacking what are essentially missiles', yes? But the costs aren't worth it. Eg:

"An assessment of the Federal Air Marshal Service suggests that the annual cost is $180 million per life saved. This is greatly in excess of the regulatory safety goal of $1-$10 million per life saved. As such, the air marshal program would seem to fail a cost-benefit analysis" - https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repositor...

The "illusion of safety" comes from putting policies into place which aren't justified by a reasonable cost-benefit analysis, but exist mostly for cover-your-ass reasoning.
His kids are probably adults by now and the reasons his wife won't move away is because of grandkids that are already there or expected soon.
This was the clearest introduction into types vs kinds in Haskell that I have ever read. Definitely going to recommend to my friends. Are there other good articles by the author?
The author may well have found a real pattern, but it may only apply to a subset of planetary systems. Kepler is biased towards detecting large planets with short orbital periods. Perhaps tightly packed systems have similar sized planets because this is a more stable arrangement. However, more widely spaced systems - which we have far less data on - may not show this pattern.

We're learning something here but we don't really have enough information to know how remarkable our solar system is.
They are unrelated. I think libssh2 is named that as it implements the v2 ssh protocol.
From observing this story in the danish media, there is a lot of fishiness about it.

The numbers are just too big for it to make sense. And I would not be surprised to see some of it coming down to the lack of math skills (or what you call it?) amongst journalists. How can anyone arrive at a result like that and not look one more time at their calculation?

Embarrassing really.

With all the fuzz about Sanjay (the alleged perpetrator) why hasn’t the danish police issued an international arrest order for him? Regardless if he is sitting in Dubai.
Reinforcement Learning Decoders for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
I feel weirdly (perhaps irrationally) about the effective altruism people including 80,000 hours. I just can't shake the cult-y vibes they give off. Am I alone in this?
Read: the government.
If im not mistaken, Ronald coase hated this, saw it as a misunderstanding of his work.

His premise was that _in the absence of transaction costs_ it doesn't really matter who gets (for example) spectrum rights. The market will get the rights to whoever can use them best through open market transactions. His conclusion is that transaction costs in reality are high, and therefore it does matter.

A practical issue in the US is that aggregating spectrum is almost impossible, which meant that allocation of spectrum to its current highest value use is dry difficult. The market (because of high transaction costs, in coasian terms) is rigid and inflexible.
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constitutional rights (and a culture that enshrines them as sacred) is just one layer of protection for civil liberties. The other, Often overlooked layer is the fact that running a dystopian state is uneconomical. For better or worse this is the logic used by gun advocates, but it should also apply to other areas.

technology can make it feasible to scale repression like never before. facial recognition, big data, centralized Electronic banking are all enormously powerful tools in the wrong hands. the guns of the 21st century are those made by the subversive cypherpunk. cryptocurrency and encrypted chat come to mind. In China the number one tool to oppose state censorship is not protest, its a vpn.

at the end of the day if amazon doesn't do this someone else will. so long as the tech is possible the gov will get their hands on it, and so far as the tech errodes civil liberties it eventually will be used to do so.

Amazon can only hold back the tide for so long.
DrRacket? (https://racket-lang.org)

That is what I gave my mom when she asked what she could try programming on. It features a simple whole window editor/repl where you can get straight into business.

What failed was the supporting literature. I thought Realm of Racket would have been ideal for self-study but it did assume more background than she had...

https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Racket-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15...
"airports .. are all private property"

SFO is owned by the City and County of San Francisco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Ai...

LAX is owned by the City of Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airp...

ORD is owned by the City of Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hare_International_Airport
It isn't time to give up on the USA. The USA got an extra 378000 manufacturing jobs in the past year and a half. That is jobs, not just automated production.
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What do you want to achieve with this comment? I honestly don't get it.
> It's regularly detecting exoplanets down to slightly less than Earth-sized now...

But at what distance from the host star can it detect planets of this size?
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> I can't imagine SICP using a language that doesn't feel a lot like Lisp.

SICP's main value proposition is not a language but developing thinking in terms of creating abstractions through compositions. LISP like language certainly helps but most modern languages does have this ability although verbose and possibly subjectively ugly in many cases.

SICP with Python:
https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/

SICP with JavaScript:
https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs1101s/sicp/
Statistics for Hackers by Jake Vanderplas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA

A really nice intuitive intro to resampling methods.
Well. I had to read the entire article to see if I was missing something, but my answer is no.

The answer to the question as presented in the headline is more or less obvious for everyone who spent significant time around horses and cows: it keeps insects away. (It might also tell you something about the mood of a horse, less so with cows IMO. Small calves and lambs however will wiggle their tail when drinking milk, either because of some kind of enthusiasm or I've also heard to make sure their mother can smell that they are hers. Sidenote: IIRC lambs who try to steal milk will typically position themselves with the tail away from the head of the eve they are stealing from while lambs that are with their own mother will typically stand parallel to their mother, possibly so she can verify them.)

Then there is the question about the pendulum speed, why do horses swing their tails so much faster.

Well a simpler explanation might be because: 1. Tails arent ideal pendulums and 2.) To get enough speed to cover the top of their backs.

I'm no lawyer or startup founder or cryptographer so often I cannot point out if an article is wrong but I did grow up an a farm and I've earned my first money as a farm hand until I was about 20 and I also have some months in farming school so today it feels like I had something to share :-P
> technology can make it feasible to scale repression like never before. facial recognition, big data, centralized Electronic banking are all enormously powerful tools in the wrong hands

What would be the "right" hands?