skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way to ensure that it is printed, because the environment can prevent you from doing so - stdout/err can be a pipe and it can be closed, for example.

So, suppose warn() fails. What can you do about it - try to print a warning that you can't print warnings?
So does a life sentence.
Yes, I'm the one who brought up race first. Got me there.

I feel like you're borrowing trouble, though. Populations with more resources are less fertile, for now. But unless and until global population falls below two billion humans, it's not really our problem to solve. Any number of things could change socially by that time. In the meantime though, dropping below replacement rate increases our odds of survival as a species, as we can avoid the potential Malthusian catastrophe.

Our current falling birthrate has to be socially constructed. Having children used to an economic advantage, but this is no longer the case. Anything that changes that equation can reverse the trend, be it a social safety net, more technology, cheaper education, or more housing availability.
QBism is an idealist interpretation of QM. (Which is to say, non-scientific.)
The Price Performance Efficiency Math for Inference Engines
Long term growth processes should still be charted in log scale even if you start from zero.
That may have been true in the past, it is definitely not true at this point in time. The current understanding of the law is that executions must result in death with the least possible pain for the subject.

The battles in the courts over the past 5 years have been around challenges to various execution protocols based on their cruelty and pain - and those have been largely successful.
It's Asian consumers. People throw their trash in the river then it floats out to sea.
US Government spending as a % of GDP: 37.6%

Switzerland government spending as a % of GDP: 34%

https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

Strip out the military (where the US spends quite a bit maintaining global hegemony), and the Swiss have a bigger government than the US.
The electric chair was originally adopted as a "humane" execution method as well.
That just doesn’t align with modern legal thinking.
There's a long history and many tools for that.
You can search for UI generator, UI Builder, CRUD or RAD (rapid application development).

For React: Structor, React Studio, Pagedraw.
I upvoted this only because of the discussion that it could spark in the HN comments, the article itself is actually very poor. It compares only disk space, memory and CPU usage and of those another user pointed out that the disk space calculation for snaps is not even correct.

Furthermore these metrics are amongst the least important when discussing "next gen" package managers. I am more interested in hearing about developer tools, sand-boxing capabilities, the update mechanism, OS support, private distribution, enterprise pricing. I don't care if one packaging system uses slightly more memory or whatever because of how it handles shared libraries, and if I do care I would still be interested in hearing what the trade off for that increased memory usage is.
I think that is a regional thing period - they exist everywhere but the concentration seems extra high. Look at the people living near the Hollywood sign who complain about tourists, complain of problems other areas would kill for and more. There unfortunately isn't a shortage of bad attitudes from everyone - rich or poor.
I used to do this trick to get facebook accounts back when they required a .edu email address. I'd just find some abandoned mailing list under the .edu of my choice, join the mailing list, then use the list's address to create a facebook account. After that I could change the primary email address to whatever I wanted and still view profiles for anyone at the target school.
I believe that's exactly what's under contention, some people think corporations should not have as large windfalls in the name of spreading that wealth more generally.
Have to be careful with this line of thought. Are costs high because workers are paid too much, or because margins are too high on necessities that workers need?
That's only one of the possible takes on death penalty. Another one is that it permanently removes a threat from society (life sentence doesn't, because the prisoner can still escape).

In practice, though, it seems that most people who support death penalty do see it as a punishment intended mainly for deterrence, and what they refer to as "justice" (i.e. cathartic vengeance - "torturing someone who made me feel bad makes me feel good").
In this case, we have been running a trade deficit since the 1970s.
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Use messenger. I use it exclusively unless I need to look up who lives where I'm visiting.

Recently i was traveling in some part of the world and remembered that an old friend might be living there. I then found out he erased his facebook account. And so I ended up not being able to reach out to him. It's really hard nowadays to keep in touch with international friends without Facebook.
I just wish these awful link shortener/trackers were faster, on lower end network connections you have to sit there and stare at the waiting for t.co for two or three seconds before you actually get the link you want.
That's kinda my point. If stdout or stderr fails, what are you going to do about it? The normally correct solution is to panic/terminate the program. Having a simple "print" function that does that is an obvious nicety.

If you want something different, use a library or some other parts of the stdlib. Making that super common use case painful is not obviously a good decision.
This seems to be mostly about random startup topics e.g. "how do I sell my product?", a little bit about hardware startups and not a lot about "hard tech". Which they also seem to define as essentially "traditional engineering".
> You really have a TV on each machine at your gym? This is peak America

Some of the gyms in Melbourne Australia have TVs on all the treadmill machines. I am talking about normal gyms not some high end fancy gyms.
> Not sure why you claim anarchist libertarian society is not possible, seems that has little to do with your post.

Anarchist libertarianism solves the moral quandry of statist libertarianism, which is imposing a state on people but restricting the ability of people to use their vote to create a big government. I just don’t think it’s possible and would inevitably degenerate into feudalism. Central to anarchist libertarianism is the idea that coercion through violence is wrongful. True or not, violence is one of the most basic interactions that exists between oeganisms. You can’t wish it away, just control it by e.g. consolidating it into a State that has greater power to exercise violence than any group of individuals.
>No operator overloading means, among other things, no custom numeric-like types – including wrapper types for units (e.g. Feet) unless the language provides separate support for those (e.g. Go does, Zig seemingly doesn't).

Most languages survived without that.
Cigarettes are legal and people still smuggle and sell them on the black market to avoid paying taxes. Your scheme would be mostly indistinguishable from the current prohibition and would still be dominated by cartels and SWAT teams.
Email and text messages. Just a text every once in a while is a good way to keep in touch, and is more personal and real than anything Facebook has to offer.
Sometimes. I have three children, the oldest two in high school and Jr. High. It's a different proposition to move a large family in with someone else.

I think it's hard to make sure your kids have a good environment conducive to doing well in school, or preparing for college, if they are also forced to make large living arrangement changes which may also change or eliminate good times and locations to study. I think there's a large difference between attempting that so the kids go from poverty to non-poverty (parents doing night school, etc) and parents wanting to go from middle class to upper/upper middle class by running their own business.

Putting your children in what is effectively poverty for a few years to gamble for wealth is what's happening. Sometimes. That's worth it, but sometimes it isn't.
>and be profitable at the same time.

It seems unlikely that it will be.
> The Frequentist believes

The frequentists do not "believe," they measure.
This is great advice. I did basically the same thing to get the UK version of this visa - the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa. I'll write about it sometime.
Here are some more recent numbers [1]:

Quarter 1 2018:

$414m total revenue

$260m subscription revenue (62% of total)

$154m non-subscription revenue (38% of total)

$46.7m digital advertising revenue (37% of total advertising revenue)

$126.2m total advertising revenue

If you cut digital advertising completely, not just for subscribers, you could make it up by increasing subscription price by around 10%, assuming 100% of subscribers would bear the new price.

The interesting statistic that we don't have is how much digital advertising revenue comes from paid vs unpaid readers.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/business/media/new-york-t...
They’ve also used taxpayer giveaways to fund stock buybacks which really don’t have any effect on products they’re pushing to market. I don’t think anyone is really arguing that corporations don’t provide value, but there is a very valid to what effects tax policy have had (especially when govt makes these deals with certain envisioned effects, and without retrospecting to see if they did, we are bound to get into a place where money is poorly spent)
cars are not entirely without ads for a few decades already: taxis in the US must show ads if they want to have the credit card terminal. visa keeps all of the ad revenue.
That was actually the DoD, but no surprise you don't know that.
Right. And that’s going to turn based on how published cases (aka citeable) on publication and defamation have been decided and are argued by the attorneys.

It probably all hinges on the potential damage to the plaintiff, and how the subpoena would help the plaintiff pursue their case.

If there’s an audit trail that can pin down who typed which line in the spreadsheet, the subpoena would likely be limited to the persons saying things that allegedly defame the plaintiff. But if not, I can see the argument that everyone who participated needs to be deposed to discover who made the statements about the plaintiff. There is some nuance to how the doc was shared (link vs. invitation vs. login required).

It’s likely the discovery will be filed under seal to protect those disclosing truthful statements. It may also turn out a special master is appointed to decide who gets to see what portions of the discovery.

Or the subpoena could be quashed.
> FWIW this response is an appeal to authority.

The bit I quoted is, and it's not trying to hide the fact. It's saying these prominent researchers disagree with the paper. I don't see any problem with that.

But that's just one part of his response, and the rest isn't just an appeal to authority.
I’ve been following Numenta’s work since 2010 and today I’m happy to see this at the top of HN. Hopefully the deep learning community longing for AGI, will finally take a look at Numenta’s work. I also would like to shout out to Matt who’s been involved in the open source work as well as the amazing HTMSchool YouTube videos which I highly recommend for anyone interested to learn about the underlying concepts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3yXMgtrZmDqhsFQzwUC9...
Engineered nanoparticles bind elapid snake venom toxin and inhibit dermonecrosis
Exceptions are like cancer. You never know when you're going to get one, you have no idea how to handle them or if you should handle them, and they produce fatal bugs at unexpected places.
Amazon Prime includes “ads” for their own shows. I call them ads because they are on before the show I’m watching and I don’t want to watch them. Luckily, for now, I can still skip them.
C++ now has constexpr, so that pro is now shared by both C++ and D, somewhat (ignoring templates, D is still more versatile).

That being said, C++ template metaprogramming can be pretty elegant[1] (there was a video where she describes the template functional style, but it seems to have been deleted).

[1]: https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressio...
What I like about Zig is that its comptime facility makes the compiler a mixed evaluator in Andrei Ershov's sense: the compiler works by, for comptime structures, evaluating them, and for non-comptime structures, emitting a residual program that will evaluate them at run-time. It offers an accessible form of partial evaluation.
with Defamation the victim is the only one that has recourse. I would support a blanket law punishing someone is spreading information that know is false. People who say Vaccines can cause autism can't be sued for defamation, but they could get in trouble for knowingly spreading false information.
I hope that the ease of competition on the Internet will make it so I can continue watching ad free TV. I expect Netflix to start increasing prices and adding advertising, it seems like it's just a matter of time. But I hope that new smaller competitors will pop up and I'll switch to those and watch their second rate programming; at least some of the time.
Last I looked, it required the primary/signup device to be a smartphone and a phone number to be used for (at least initial) authentication.

If that's still the case, it's understandably a hard sell for users who prefer a laptop/desktop-based interface.

It's also unclear how well something like Signal would replicate the social network aspects of FB/IG. Are group chat facilities good enough?
Don't remember reading this in the IPCC report...

I thought climate science was settled science?
Every direct mail list provider on the planet has just as much info on you as FB, and they have garbage security. This is an overblown risk comparably.

Source: Have bought DM lists of millions of people with full addresses, estimated salaries, employers, etc.
This result generalises to most interpreted languages though. PHP, python, javascript, etc all have highly optimised regex engines, and regexs can consequently be a good optimisation technique when using those languages.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18195827
Augusto, Milton, and Me: Reflections on a Trip to Chile
yes but in EU add 20% of VAT and a dozen of different taxes.
I tried this and it stopped the pump and required me to get the cashier to re-enable it. I had to pump the rest of my gas in a second transaction.
> It is a fact that an increasingly large number of people have poor impulse control

Got a link to this data?
Happens when you are not just purely thinking about the USA.
I have GNU/Linux desktops on armv7 and aarch64, and i686 laptop. So with this attitude, flatpak is mostly worthless to me.
The process & execution detailed here is further evidence backing the EB-1 application of the author. Many engineers of popular open source projects neither monetize their work, nor do they work their way towards ancillary benefits, like the author. Fully deserved. Congrats!
A very important aspect of snap that should have been noted in the article is the lack of user control over the a snap's updating process; Users are not allowed to control when updates are applied, leading to a windows 10-like user experience: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...

From what I could understand, placing the update process under the control of snap app developers - rather that device owners - is deliberate design decision.
My car was from a dealer that went bust "Ward Subaru", after a service at a non-dealer service centre it came back with "Doncaster Subaru" frames on it!
Can you please cite a source that confirms what you are saying about like buttons being used for tracking?

I am asking because while I am aware that Facebook could in theory use these buttons to track you, I am not aware that they actually do! We need to be careful when criticizing (and demonizing) these companies that we stay with the facts!

I am all for calling them out for their shit...but let’s keep it real please!
I hate to be "that guy" but why don't you build it? there's nothing about the protocol that prevents you. And if you want it baked in (cipher negotiation) why not talk to the IRCv3 people?
Firing squads are for show. States that do use bullets to execute people, do it with a single bullet to the head.

In China, where this is still occasionally practiced, and was standard until a few years ago, they actually use an AK round fired with the barrel aimed at the back of the head very close up, with the condemned held restrained and unable to move. This is very messy (it basically blows the top of the skull off), but there's basically zero possibility of mangling it.
After his “Naughty by Nature” and “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” tweets, do you believe that his twitter behavior has been curbed effectively?

I guess, neither of those are blatant securities fraud or libel against a person, so maybe it has, but...
You've already characterized any disagreement as "bloodlust".
I had Austar around that time, and it was kind of ad free. They advertised other shows on that channel, and sometimes other channels, but there wasn't any ads for products. But I remember around the early 2000's that started to change.
I think once it's shown that people are generally willing to pay for the services they use to be ad-free the onus goes back to you to prove why news is a special case to which that trend does not apply. Otherwise we get into an argument black hole where you could infinitely claim the things in question were different than the counter-examples given.
An interesting exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
It is a world reserve currency as well making a deficit pretty much inevitable as long as it holds. Getting goods in exchange for spreading your currency's reach sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Effectively it gives a "virtual economy size" from worldwide dollar users over just producing for the local economy - not doing so in response would be deflationary. They need some sort of goods or services in exchange so the economic backing is provided for any outflowing currency.
Having used Zig a bit, and C++ for years, I personally believe that this sort of scenario is pretty rare. You can always add a no-op dealloc method to your type if you want a generic function to handle it correctly. Moreover, Zig has awesome metaprogramming support so you can probably think of a way to check the type parameter for a dealloc method and only generate the dealloc call for those types.
Why would anyone, trying to preserve their privacy and limit PII collection, send a passport page to a company like Facebook? It feels like a variation on the Nigerian prince scam where they keep asking for more info to see how far you will go.
I really like this description[0]. It's broadly about designing programs, and handling robustness and state, so I imagine it would apply to other languages, although it does mention some erlang specific things.

[0] http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-erlang-state-...
So, wit.ai got bought by Facebook. Any players left in this space that aren't data hoarding companies? Does the market still care for privacy and a close-to-open-source/hackable intelligent assistent?
I'm in the market for a new development machine, and wholly afraid of the new Macbooks. What do develop on the Pixelbook? Are you using Linux or Cloud IDEs?
It also serves as a form of expression about your values.
Can you add a description / about to the site, so there's less guessing on our part of what it is all about?! ;-)
I think you are conflating technology with science. Though they are related, they are quite different. Engineering is a practical application of various sorts that can but are not required to depend on any science or associated theories that may be prevalent.

It is easy enough to make the assumption that technological advancement comes out of the study of science. However, if one looks back at history, one sees that technological advancement was the driver for science and not the other way around.

When it boils down to it, the more we learn about the universe around us, the less we really know. There are more and more areas which we are finding that just don't fit into the existing models.

I believe that our current climate modelling efforts leave much to be desired. Planetary climate is an incredibly complex set of interactions and we have only just started to scratch the surface of those interactions. Let alone understanding what all the relationships are and how they affect all the various feedback circuits (both positive and negative feedback).
They apparently knew when they hired him that he'd be working on Google+ instead of Chrome, but didn't bother telling him until he showed up for orientation. That's a huge red flag to me.
Depends heavily on your channels. I frequent a few that average a few dozen users and thousands of lines per day.
Half-assed article with several mistakes.
No. because there are very few studies on actual effectiveness of recycling when it is not commercially sound.

most USA statistics are inflated by shipping garbage to be sorted elsewhere. And even then the number is very low.

Just assume no plastic is ever recycled.
These studies often ignore the power law. The vast majority of value generated in tech is powered by a tiny number of companies. Here are the five most valuable tech companies as of 2017 vs. the age of the founders:

1. Apple: $570.7B
explained

- Jobs: 21
- Woz: 26

2. Alphabet: $560B

- Larry/Sergey: 25ish

3. Microsoft: $434B

- Gates: 19
- Allen: 22

4. Amazon: $365B

- Bezos: 29

5. Facebook: $354B

- Zuckerberg: 19
>> there are 1.5 million refugees in Ukraine with no place to go - EU will not take them

Fortunately, Poland is issuing 200k job permits for Ukrainians per year, which helps a little. Not to mention that there're twice as many Ukrainians coming to Poland illegaly.
While I'm no longer a Facebook user myself, I do understand that deleting the two largest social networks from your life can seem daunting and detrimental.

If you find deleting those accounts too drastic, I highly recommend simply deleting the apps, and moving to browser-only consumption and browsing those sites in private mode.

It doesn't cut off your social networks, and if you want to check them, you'll have to login every time. Simply having to do that will naturally wean you off the networks, with the huge added benefit of not being tracked all the time!
You've already got a lot of replies, but here's my 2c from someone who moved away from his home country.

Facebook allowed me to be comfortable in not contacting the people who I cared about. All I had to do was "like" a post, or very rarely comment. Hell, I didn't even have to do that. I knew they were doing well.

However the truth of it was that I was not really engaging with them, I was mostly checking their pages sporadically and not actually talking to them. As it turned out they were not doing so well but were curating their social media persona so that extended family would not worry. The knock-on effect obviously being that I was unable to help them and because I was lulled into a false sense of connection I believed I felt that I didn't need to directly 1-to-1 engage with my friend.

This is anecdotal, sure, but after talking with others they also share the feeling of "connection" but lacking depth, and intimacy. It's just enough to make you numb to the desire to chase it.

I've deleted facebook now. I am a stoic and independent independent person but it has forced my hand more to reach out to family and friends. Now; I definitely have a better relationship with my Mother for example.
XM was an interesting note there at the end. I realize they are still subject to FCC regulation but they seem mostly add free and uncensored.
Income by Race: Why Is Asian Income So High?