skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused by the conference this is submitted to: "42nd Conference on Very Important Topics (CVIT 2016)." I couldn't find any such conference with such an odd name.

Eventually I worked it out. I think they are planning to submit this as a conference paper, but at the time of creating the preprint weren't sure which conference. So "Conference on Very Important Topics" is just a placeholder for where the actual conference/proceedings info would go on the article first page.
You can live frugal with kids as well, but your partner needs to be on board.

For example, we moved in with my parents for some time when our first kid was born to save money on rent. Obviously that specific solution won't work for everyone, but I think that most times there's a way to make it work if you really want too.
I think there is a difference between "house ads" for other content, versus Nike trying to sell me sneakers.

However, I think that difference is smaller than most in house placement marketers think -- those I have talked to are genuinely surprised that I'd object to their own "programming."

For me, anything that tries to force me to take an action or spend (waste) my time or attention is an "ad" and is inherently bad.
Isn't how cable networks started and people made that exact same argument on why it was ok?
One missing step is to completely block all Facebook IPs (their entire ASN actually) at the network level to make sure none of their toxic sludge reaches your network, and spyware embedded in other apps (like FB’s “free” analytics products) can’t continue to stalk you either.

I wish ISPs provided a “pest control” button that automatically blocks this kind of vermin at the network level.
Another way to say it: If you can delegate to HTTPS, filesystem encryption, or another higher-level construct, you probably don't need this.

If you're on your own (custom wire protocol, custom file format, oddball use case), maybe you want something like this (or libsodium).
> Why do I still see ads?

Because you haven't installed an ad blocker yet. Get uBlock Origin, enable all the filters and don't look back.
I think it’s hard to argue the wealthy obtain more benefits overall, but I think it’s fair to point out that there are some ways in which they (we, I’m in the top 2% in the UK but only just) do benefit more but are not charged for it.
The intent was for it to be hidden! That's why it didn't activate! And for the person that would activate it, it was desirable.

They made a mistake in deployment that turned it into a scary mysterious blob. That's bad, but doesn't change the underlying nature of the code.

We can agree that the exact same code in C, not showing up in any lists or menus, not triggering without a magic about:config phrase, would be a clear easter egg, right?

(Also easter eggs don't inherently have to be fun, sometimes they're just someone's initials.)
You should definitely check out https://pixelfed.org/ (with https://pixelfed.social/ being a good example instance)
Complex contracts? Pretty sure the rich pay for their own lawyers for those.

And you’re also not looking beyond first order beneficiaries. The factory worker also benefits from the court system that allows for complex contracts as it allows his employer to operate and him to have a job.
I used to work for a US bank. It’s not.
This sounds more comparable to NaCl/Sodium to me. Tink:

> Tink provides secure APIs that are easy to use correctly and hard(er) to misuse. It reduces common crypto pitfalls with user-centered design, careful implementation and code reviews, and extensive testing.

NaCl:

> NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc. NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. Of course, other libraries already exist for these core operations. NaCl advances the state of the art by improving security, by improving usability, and by improving speed.

One big difference is first-class Java support. NaCl/Sodium is in C, which makes it a pain to use with Java.
I can confirm that this worked for me. Thanks a lot!
Bingo. This is what annoys me about mainstream pundits always parroting the claim that "those tax cuts were only for the rich".
::, & (pass by ref?), ! (macros), {:?}, _ => (), whatever is happening in this example with <T> and [T]:
fn largest<T>(list: &[T]) -> T {

To be fair, some of these are in Zig too, such as &.
Most dealers in the US do this via the license plate frame or stickers on the back. I think most people don't realize that you can remove them (and should). There should be some kind of rent payment for having it on your car.
The problem with your comment is that it assumes that because someone benefits more from something they represent the bulk of the cost of that thing. That's just not true.

Or that taxation should be made pro rata of the utility someone derives from something which is an odd idea.

Once you give up that calculus you will be hard-pressed to defend these levels of taxation without consciously conceding that this is in fact organized racket. You can dress it with a skirt and call it necessary, moral, or utilitarian, it's still the same beast underneath.
Maybe, but there's so much cloak and dagger stuff, I have a hard time trusting anything except what I can actually see.
Perl5 is not too meaningful for such performance comparisons, because on one hand it's regex implementation is very optimized while on other hand performance of Perl5 on "normal" procedural code is horrible (eg. Perl5 is about an order of magnitude slower on Gabriel's Takeuchi function benchmark than CPython).
Oh, my sweet, summer child...
It's not - it's getting harder to build worthwhile ones.

The barrier to entry is higher, the expectations on the size of the standard library are higher, the expected quality of tools is higher.
I'm sure Google+ is a dumpster fire, but reading this my only takeaway was... fuck, I hope I never work with anyone this toxic.

The hate, the vitorial, the attacks, the arrogance, the lack of accountability, paranoid, passive aggressive, complaining intensely about event trivial things...

This is the type of person I would leave a project over, no matter how exciting the work.
What lang ecosystem with an interactive REPL do you see as the best fit for pairing with and driving Pony?

I've been dreaming of ways to help bootstrap the Pony lang/lib interop story and build toward a numerical interactive programming environment, being able to combine Pony's native async Actor model and runtime safety guarantees, while also safely being able to hook into to an external ecosystems existing numerical computing, data structure, and GPU/TPU accelerator libs.

I seem to remember someone giving a lang talk a while back where in the Q&A the speaker said integrating with Pony might be a good fit. I was looking into dependent types at the time...it may have been Idris or OCaml, and hooking into the Julia ecosystem would be most interesting, with maybe even Zig acting like low-level LLVM glue code binding all the external C libs together.

In my dream I have it all and the Pony too! All the lang libs are hooked together in a typed-provable way, and when fully connected they combine to form a high-performance, interactive parallel distributed programming environment, and it runs in the browser too. What do you think, is that too much of a DeepDream?
> Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are. With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.

This is one of the problems I have with the modern progressive movement. All of the most privileged people I know are also the only people I know who constantly complain about privilege.

It definitely comes off as upper middle class in-group signaling and more than a little grating. Especially when the unrelenting target of said complaining are practitioners of STEM.
To use an example from another field - nothing would have seemed more specialized and inconsequential than clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats in bacterial DNA. But then, that turned into CRISPR. Working on obscure, niche stuff is how you actually contribute to science.
Is Reddit profitable now?
> ...non-technical cofounder [...] had a great idea for a product and was looking for a technical co-founder

As an aside, maybe I just don't 'get it' or maybe I've just met bad examples but this scenario always reads to me like "guy wants someone to do the work for him so he can be the boss".

Good ideas are cheap. Execution is the hard bit.
There is a big difference between cherry picked examples and what happens on average.

We’ve all heard of millionaires paying no taxes, yet the top 0.1% pay an effective rate of 36% on average (too lazy to look up source again).
and you're proposing to use the government (expanding it's survaillance, btw) to hold back these private corporate surveillances ?

No. Re-read what I wrote.
I have never read a corporate butthurt story with this kind of flow--not on Medium anyway.

@morganknutson, your writing style is on point.
Are you saying that you are in beta or Canary channel? I'm on Canary Channel to get access to crostini, but there are definitely some bugs I've hit over the last few months because of being on Canary.
I was surprised that it took so long, those ads are not very valuable.

My beef with Hulu wasn’t that there were ads, it was that there was one ad. I think it was Tampax Pearls when I was watching.

I’m at the same point with MLB.tv. I get nauseous every time I hear about Pudge Rodriguez’s journey to Cooperstown thanks to Bank of America visa or the all new Chevy Traverse and its collection of JD Power awards.
We used to have plastic rings, but now I think about it they did seem to disappear a few years ago.
Asset depreciation is at best a temporary game - for example I racked up depreciation on a rental property, and during the years I did so, I paid less in taxes. When I sold the property I had to account for that depreciation and pay taxes on all of it.
This article uses the word "hacker" solely to mean activities like breaking into computer systems and conducting illegal business online. This is perhaps appropriate because in Chinese, the word is always translated as the soundalike "heike" (黑客) which literally means "dark guest", thus alluding to that same meaning. If you talk about, or are seen using, Hacker News in China, they will initially only think of you as being a criminal or wannabe criminal, despite the other definition of hacker as being anyone interested in tech and programming (according to Wikipedia and Paul Graham).
Networking TS implementation for libstdc++
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism
I read this yesterday and I read this today and I honestly don't understand how you could get that from my comment. Or the grandparent comment. I spent like 80% of my words talking about due process, and you say I was unaware of the facts in this case?

I'll give you one more try, please put your open-minded hat on:

You're aware how the "due process" justice system works in the US in many cases, right? Plea bargain for 1 year or they'll throw the book at you for 10. You've got 15 minutes with an obviously overworked public defender to think about it. Easy call, you take the year. No trial, no jury, no judge involved.

There's more to justice than a binary "due process or not". It's a big wide world out there. Injustice can happen with due process, and justice can happen with no process.
That you've summarily dismissed the efficacy of planning for which you know precisely zero of is baffling.

That you presume to parade your decision making as superior to the dozens of career field officers and senior enlisted members with real skin in the game--let alone the hundreds preceeding them who have earned their keep--is even more baffling.

That you continually insist $1bil in F-22 assets was lost to this hurricane is quite telling of both blatant ignorance and inexperience in matters relating to military aircraft maintenance operations.

Admittedly, I'm rather insulted by the magnitude of sheer narcissism and narrow-minded hubris in your remarks.
"growler" in the UK means something very different these days!
One thing I find annoying about x86 virtualisation is that it already has a mode called V86, introduced in the 386, but instead of extending that with more functionality, they introduced yet another set of instructions, and of course AMD also has its own completely incompatible way to do virtualisation. The nice thing about V86 is it integrates well with the existing task-segment model.
The field of climate science is entirely underpinned by models...
~50% of the top 10 companies in the world by market cap (Facebook, Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) were all started by founders aged 30 or younger. The rest are companies that are over 100 years old (or merged from ones that were) and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. I'm by no means saying you can't do it when you're older, but when you're a VC in the business of hitting home runs, it is just hard to ignore that fact.

It's also hard to ignore the fact that the 'sexiest' companies in that list are the aforementioned 5 started by young founders.
Any bad engineer in a position of architect or similar can easily destroy the efficiency of a full team. Hell, of the whole company.
They are not overlooked, they are better handled further up the call stack. And not having the option to forward them implicitly is a step back, not forward. There's no way to make a programming language better by forcing users to do anything, in many cases the user will have more experience than the person implementing the language. A programming language is a tool, predicting and dictating how the tool is to be used is missing the point.
One of the things i associate IRC with is all the dead husks of former communities. Once highly active places you would check into daily there are at best 10 idlers who never chat anymore, like statues in a mausoleum.
The drd doesn't effect his personal tax rate, it only affects Berthshire Hatheways tax rate.
I finally read the story after reading this comment and some of the other ones, and this undersells how nuts it is.

> Anyhow, my wholesale redesign of all of Jim’s work was obviously making him feel bad.

> One day, he came up to me totally flustered in one of the micro-kitchens. He said “People aren’t liking these icons.” I said, “Oh, ok, let me know who and I’ll collect their feedback and we can make them better.”

...

> Me: “OK, no worries man. Would it make you feel better if I put something together that explains my decision making and then you and whomever else can punch holes in it, and give me direct feedback?”

> Jim: “Yeah, ok, sounds good. I’ll put something on the calendar.”

> 9am the next morning. A dick move.

> I went home and got to work.

> In the early evening I got a call from my dad. My grandmother’s health took a turn for the worst. They weren’t sure she’d make it past the evening.

> I couldn’t grieve. I needed to make this happen. These two designers were beloved by Greg. I had to win them over or they’d screw everything up for me. Everything I’d worked for could come crashing down due to their pettiness.

Like, holy hell. Jim is a _peer_. Nobody asked Morgan to do this work, Morgan volunteered to do it. And he decided to work through a major life event in the off hours for something that didn't come from anyone above him in the hierarchy? And then to blow the other guy up when he reschedules the meeting? Wow.
Google can't magic its trackers into a site. Facebook login doesn't integrate itself into your HTML the moment you upload it to the WWW.

Don't use sites that use them then.
Actually it doesn’t look that different.

Yes, the top incomes earners might pay 60% of income, but they still pay 50% of all taxes.
Printed ads aren't malware vectors.
looks to me like he found a google now type facility that triggers actions based on locations?
> The science of climate change doesn't only depend on computer models.

The predictions of doom that are driving the public policy changes being demanded by climate change alarmists do. And the models are wrong.
It's not "grossly misleading." Payroll taxes are a form of forced saving--in theory, you get that money back when you draw from Social Security/Medicare when you retire. (In reality, most people will get out more than they put in.) In that way, they're qualitatively different than the income tax.

Looking at tax rates in isolation is pretty academic in any event. The real question, I think, is: what are our competitors (France, Germany, the U.K., etc.) doing? Those countries tend to lean even more heavily on regressive taxes like mandatory insurance and retirement contributions, VAT, etc.
I really hate it when websites use shortened links instead of real ones. Twitter’s not the only website that does this; everything from Google to Discourse seems to be doing this these days. Not only is this horrible for privacy, it also makes copying links really annoying.
The US is the same. 12 packs of cans come in boxes.
Sundar Pichai's response to Senate questions regarding China
This is so wild, I'm thinking back to 2005-2007 when people were doing everything possible to get on Facebook. Waiting for Facebook to open up to their school or network so they could sign up and start updating their profile. Now there are so many attacks on the company politically, technically, and socially that I wonder if Facebook will be able to recover its trust with the community?
Why does the page take sooooooo long to load its content..
True, but at least in theory, the FICA (payroll) taxes fund programs that directly benefit the employee: medicare, social security, and unemployment benefits. The reason these appear more regressive than income taxes is due to how Social Security pays out an amount proportional to your contributions, while also having a cap on the max you can receive and be taxed for.
Judge did not give sworn testimony. He gave a written statement. He was not cross-examined by investigators. There was no followup effort made to understand his involvement in the allegation.
Sweden cancels traditional Christmas concert but promotes Islamic events
Your numbers are overly simplistic and do not reflect reality even closely - we don’t have a flat tax, and the article clearly shows that the top 3% earn about 25% of the income and pay about half of the income tax.

Throwing out completely made up figures when the correct ones are available doesn’t help much.
This is the Elizabeth Warren argument. It fails to point out that those trillions of dollars of infrastructure was paid for already with taxes (which the top 10% mostly account for). So when she spouts the “they’re only successful because of the roads, the schools, blah blah” you can rephrase that as “they’re only successful because of the taxes they’ve already paid into the system”.
It sounds like we are in violent agreement about better tax laws, and where we differ it’s only on the cost of auditing small businesses. Someone should do a study :)
> If the curvature were slightly less than 1, the topology would be "closed", meaning it would be finite, and traveling in a straight line ends back where you started.

Doesn't this require the assumption that the spacetime is embedded in a higher dimensional spacetime?

It's been a while, but IIRC there are perfectly valid topologically open cosmologies that have locally sphere-like curvatures (in other words, there's no necessary connection between curvature and topology without adding an embeddability constraint), right?
Python bindings "coming soon" -- from comment on issue 101 from July 2018.
This is extremely obvious and it's surprising how long it took for this to be noticed. If you clear a section of a forest, the area becomes as hot as a desert because of the lack of shade. This is a "microclimate". The more area you clear, the larger this hot microclimate becomes. This is the reason why there is desertification all over the globe.

Whether you believe it or not, it is just as easy to create a desert from a forest as it is to do the reverse [1], it can even be a passive process [2]. Deserts rain occasionally, and when they do, it becomes a flash flood. If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts. There are projects that do this and have proven its effectiveness, while also being able to solve the water crisis in arid lands in Africa [6].

Trees are incredibly important not necessarily for their reduction of carbon dioxide, but because of the microclimate each tree creates. They filter harsh light for the undergrowth, they cool the general area, and they transpire around 99% of the water they get, leading to more clouds and then more precipitation in other areas [4].

The reason why projects like this aren't so popular and aren't subsidized is not because they aren't effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.

[1] https://youtu.be/3RqsUD6fyGk
[2]https://youtu.be/ZSPkcpGmflE
[3] https://youtu.be/zqKaRg3GTqg
[4] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/trees-amazon-make-th...
[5] https://youtu.be/_4oKKs8FfI0
[6] https://thewaterproject.org/sand-dams
The power of machine learning for automated hieroglyphics translation
“Americans strongly dislike [term which is demonized constantly]”

... you don’t say.

Ask them if they like people using words like fa---- and ni---- and b---- in the workplace.

If the majority of people say they wish they could use those words then by all means write an article to tell us about it.

All this “study” tells us is that people react as trained to a highly manipulated term.

It’s like all the people who say they’re not a feminist but they think women should be paid the same for the same work and rapists should be prosecuted.

“I’m for those things, but I’m against the banner under which they would be naturally advocated for, because I associate that banner with shitty people for some reason.”

All you have to do to hobble a movement is associate its name
with some garbage.
As far as I'm concerned they're exactly the same. I pay netflix so I can watch shows of my choice, if you interrupt the show of my choice with something that is not the show of my choice I don't really care what the interruption was exactly, it's just bad.
Not satire - if you can provide more concrete examples of how the rich receive more benefits from the government, I’m open for learning.
I pay for nyt. They still played annoying video ads. So I removed their app; I access it via Firefox.
- Re: exceptions and implicity?

I'm not sure how you define "implicitly"

You have to declare that your function can propagate an error but otherwise do not have to handle in the function for example

primitive Foo
fun propagates_an_error(x: U32, y: U32): U32 ? =>
x/?y

Will propagate the error you can get from y being 0.
The ? in the return signature is required to indicate that an error can happen.

- Re: assertions. We'll you can certainly do what you want when you know that haveing None from T or None is a bug. There is no "crash the actor" and start over in Pony. But it would be interesting to see what people came up with for patterns to "reset actor state"
Derp, i was confusing it with nest. Thanks for pointing that out (doesn't really change the sentiment at all)
As language geek I love playing around with new languages.

For production code I have learned to choose programming languages that are first class citzen in the platform or libraries that are required for a given project.

While it might seem boring or outdated, it is much more productive and future proof than picking the language and then sort out how to integrate them.