skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah interesting, thanks for clarifying. I'm way out of my depth here, but this could become possible if a future version of wasm provided the option to dynamically load code? After some googling, that's what this [1] seems to be talking about.

[1] https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/#platform-indep...
Some Context:

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

NYT on the controversial twitter ban https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-wengui-chi...
Isn’t there a Grid polyfill somewhere too?
My guess that it's the Facebook employees, advertisers and marketing people who like this.

There's a flawed belief that it's necessary. UX on the other hand suggests otherwise. AdTech is not concerned with UX though and tries to wrap targeting in some kind of pseudo user benefit—spin.

Good products and services sell even without tracking. Advertising is an economic powerhouse though and will always push for anti-UX trends because it fundamentally runs polar opposite to the user experience.
Oh that's a cool thought thank you!
That was a pretty inspirational tale about the startup the guy founded in terms of purpose and possibility and application of technology. For me it's better than anything I've heard about recently in America, though I am not an expert in this.
Briefly: verboseness, self-indulgence, a scattershot approach.

It really shows that the notes not the battle-tested product of several years of teaching a course to undergrads, like Walters or Awodey's books are.

(Admittedly, Walters' book is a bit eccentric by current standards of what should be on the syllabus, but it is well written.)
Kragen seems to be suggesting a parallel, not an alternative. If you are strongly attuned to something, the same mechanism that would amplify these thoughts when they occur spontaneously would also presumably extend to reading spurious "deeper meanings" into the actions of others.
The visualizations in this article are excellent!
The first of the "increasingly frequent financial crises", I should think, is what's intended. Not the first one period. Not to defend that point—my background is little help here—but I think yours is a misreading.
they will evolve/pivot to a "big data notebook" and monetize on this.
PBS did a documentary I happened to watch last month. It reveals that mailmen were a serious vector of transmission, even when quarantines were put in place. Medicine's main disadvantage was not understanding that it was viral and airborne, so that quarantines could be more effective. Doctors were looking for a bacterial cause up to the end of the pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0juBE-ra3A
Sure, this might allow family farms to expand but it could also monoculture operations to diversify and become efficient through decreased pesticide and water use.
Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.
Marx described the problem, communism tried, and failed to solve it. He didn't create the problem of capital vs labour inequality, though.

(Meanwhile, many of the rights workers have gained over the twentieth century were given to them because of the fear that they will turn to communism.)
I’m co-founder of the “space bots with lasers” company.

Happy to answer any questions.
> Secondly (and ironically), experienced users of these libraries eventually find inline documentation to be more of a distraction than a help, cluttering code with comments they no longer read.

Do they? In 20+ years of professional software development I have not once heard this. I heard lots of criticism about bad documentation of the style

// Increment i by 1
i++;

but never ever fundamental criticism of inline comments except from the literal programming community (I think they have a point there, but their baseline is considerably higher).

Edit: Using clang is a very good choice, imho. If I was coding in c++, I'd probably use the tool just for that alone.
the RJ-45 is 8 wires, 4 pairs, and is designed to be easy to connect up by field personnel, and be cheap.
Meteor is a framework for building web applications on top of Node. repl.it is more like an editor/IDE.
And this can happen surprisingly quickly.

As a cautionary example, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5021456/how-does-mongodb.... The question was why MongoDB was by default able to avoid the equivalent of SQL injection attacks. My answer took what was in their FAQ at the time, and expanded upon it based on advice from D.J. Bernstein - who is famous for his ability to write secure by default code.

Then it was discovered that PHP volunteered to create security holes in MongoDB. Then it was discovered that multiple other languages and libraries likewise volunteered to do so. Had they followed the good advice that I was quoting, the problem wouldn't have happened. Despite the other faults of MongoDB itself, in this case it was truly innocent. The security problem wasn't in it, but in the libraries that were written around it. It made it easy to write secure code and they didn't.

But the result? From the point of view of a naive programmer, not long after my answer appeared it was revealed as misleading for PHP programmers. A few years later, it was actively misleading for other languages. And while the advice remained technically correct - which is why I left it - it has been criticized on reasonable grounds by several other people since.
Building a blueprint for a new model of higher education
Ah, I now see the disconnect. 5 posts or so up, someone suggested strong, targeted, heavy-handed regulation as a cure/control for an unethical company.

My "loosely serves the public good" was meant to suggest that instead you could target carbon or sin taxes, but you couldn't (read: ought not) target a specific company, say Exxon-Mobil or Philip Morris.

IOW, broadly target the thing you want to reduce with policy, not the company that does the specific thing.

I can see based on my text how you reduced it to a vague "pass smart laws", but I was trying to make a specific recommendation on how to do that, but then further leaving the majority of control for ethics to the choice of the consumers in aggregate.
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Editing someone else's question or answer (comments can't be edited by others) is a very aggressive move and not something that anyone other than a handful of very experienced / high rep users are likely to do very often. And it is far from a perfect solution either.

Editing an answer substantially upsets the entire up/down vote system, as well as the comments. A better system would be something like question/answer versioning. In general it's a problem that has received far too little effort.
Or when they answer their own question simply with: "Nevermind, figured it out", and leaves it at that.

Virtually sadistic.
> I'm an atheist

Don't worry! You can still use SQLite as God is infinite in his grace.
"Amazon is going downhill quickly. Here's my anecdote of a niche product experience that doesn't even make up 0.0000000001% of their revenue."

Here's my anecdote: I can't stand Amazon Canada. It's complete and utter crap.

Actually everything in this country is a crappy watered-down version of the US: Amazon, Netflix, you name it.
Solutions to this problem have been suggested multiple times[1][2][3][4] by the community and, unfortunately, were mostly ignored.

[1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/326095/1157054

[2]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/283456/1157054

[3]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/272651/1157054

[4]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/253752/1157054
I'm not the parent, but "lisps" covers a very large part of the language design space, including languages which have almost nothing in common with each other (e.g. Dylan doesn't use s-expressions, Carp uses static types and manual memory management, etc.).

I would narrow this down to the "major" Lisp languages/standards, which pretty much means Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme and Racket.

Out of these Scheme has a history of use for teaching (e.g. SICP) and Racket has a history of use in research (Racket used to be called Programming Language Theory Scheme, AKA PLT Scheme). Personally I'd recommend those wanting to learn "a lisp" to try a Scheme implementation, and Racket is a particularly good Scheme implementation (with lots of other good stuff built on top too, like support for creating custom languages).
Wuh? I'm just a novice — figuring this all out (but enjoying the ride). Thank you though.
It worked perfectly.
Honestly, doing the right thing is pretty low on the list privileged people should be worrying about.

But yes, we should be careful passing judgement on people.
Source level modules sound awesome.
Would need a high level language though.
I have pretty terrible eyesight, so the IPS screen is okay by my standards. Probably not the case for most people, admittedly.
Ask HN: How to monetize my site after Amazon cancellation of affiliate account?
I built jeviz.com which is a Amazon Advanced Search Web Tool in 2016 and few months later Amazon canceled my affiliate account and I have closed the site because Amazon was only way that I was using to monetize my site. 2 weeks ago I have reopened the site with a new domain junglesearch.net and today I have commented on hackernews about fake Amazon reviews and recommended a way to find most reviewed products by using junglesearch.net and few hours later Amazon closed affiliate account again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18272128
How can I monetize the site beside Amazon? I don't like much Ads.Will donation work? Anyone interested or have an idea with the site can contact from the junglesearch.net contact menu.
Is this a new thing? I never seen it before in any of my submissions. If so, I think it's rad.
This truly isn't so horrible in some places. Build slightly outside a town of 3000 in the midwest and see where you get. So long as you aren't taking away farmland, you'll usually get your permission.
Correct but my dad worked his whole life and paid in to social security so I don't think it's fair she doesn't get his survivorship benefits.
Worse for creators would be the adpocalypse and puritan demonitization policies.
From the preface:

"The entire rule is good and wholesome, and yet we make no enforcement of the more introspective aspects."
>As such, correcting the biases, conscious or not, that have led to the poor diversity of our communities, must be part of our mission.

Free software can easily empower people that aren't part of the development community. There is no reason to think that you need a black developer to have a mail client that works for black people.

If your software has actual different implication for certain demographics (e.g. languages or skin color for image recognition) then it helps to have representatives, but that's not the case for most software (beyond providing UI translation files).

Your effort to "correct biases" creates a hostile environment both for those who want to help but are overrepresented and those who are underrepresented. The former because there is no enthusiasm when they say they are interested in helping and the latter because people end up assuming "diversity candidates" were brought on to fill a diversity quota, not because they were the most qualified.
Now for a bit of hubris: anyone else reading this feel that building a robot that could do pest/weed control and harvesting is almost a triviality compared to say, fixing enterprise software to maximize customer purchases and ad revenue?

What are we all doing? Seriously, why can't each of us take a year of our lives and automate all the most awful jobs in the world?

Asking for a friend :-P
But the state sized farm could straddle several states.
Pathetic. I am not a user of twitter precisely because I have no interest in reading those sort of reactions. But I am strangely fascinated by this continuous stream of 1st degree, knee jerk reactions, it's kind of like watching shit flowing out of a bull's ass...
Survival Foods Explorers, Native People and Our Pioneer Ancestors Depended On
> A stable, audited, and fully tested package for smart contract development
I am second generation Chinese from the same region as Chan, and I, too, did not enjoy most of the regional dishes my parents gave me and actually chose to eat soy sauce on plain rice when the dishes were unpalatable to me. I mean actual poverty meals but my bias/ignorance is showing because it's actually not clear from the article if that's what he meant or if he meant what you are describing.
I can quickly run some code on my daughter's Chrome book. I like having that option.
@dang Why was this flagged?
The consumer looking it up on Amazon isn't going to know which of those two scenarios it is. Thus, my point - blaming the consumer for purchasing it is unfair. There are legitimate reasons for a consumer to think the product is a) real and b) cheaper than usual.
By Goedel's incompleteness theorem.
I'm reminded a bit of Java's early days when Sun was able to create the illusion that it would take over the world. WebAssembly has had a lot of early success and its limits are hazy, but it seems like they must be out there somewhere? To speculate:

On the server side, it seems like docker format has already won. Maybe cpu architecture portability doesn't matter there and x86 is good enough? Although serverless and edge computing often use JavaScript.

On mobile this seems to depend on Apple and/or Google deciding to support WebAssembly for native apps, which seems unlikely.

Developers need laptops to run their development environment in. I'm wondering if this might just be Linux tools running in a container on your laptop. Chromebooks seem to be moving in that direction.

The revival of something like Sandstorm might be interesting, but that's pretty speculative.
Learn about B2B SAAS, sales, and customer development. As it stands, it is a failure. But it also seems like your approach has been totally, stereotypically, incorrect.
Hello! I'm currently working with my own startup full-time and it is a lot of work. I feel like I resonate with what you have written here and would love to get in contact with you if you want, if only for moral comfort or maybe work together with something in the future. If this sounds appealing to you please let me know and we can exchange details :) It is always nice having someone likeminded to speak with.

On the context of one of your ideas: I'm going to move to Denmark for a while and I was actually recommended checking this facebook page out: https://facebook.com/copenhagenjumpingdinner/ to get to know people in the city. I'm sure that this could be made into a popular app if it is executed correctly, might be interesting for you to check it out in case it contains some valuable information that you can use for inspiration.
Congratulations Amjad! It's inspiring to see repl.it grow, very happy to see them investing in growth
As an atheist, how could this possibly make someone mad?
I would. And others have tried to change this. It's very frustrating for me that she doesn't get what she should.

She also worked in private practice and I believe still had to pay into SS but at a reduced rate since wouldn't be able to draw.

I'm lee at lee trout dot com if you want to drop me a line.
They've talked about skipping it since 2012: https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4?t=3072
This comment breaks several of HN's guidelines, including the one against calling names in arguments, as well as this one:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when posting here.
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Good news, the CoC is inclusive for you, with the following:

"those who wish to participate" ... "are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that honors the overarching spirit of the rule, even if they disagree with specific details. Polite and professional discussion is always welcomed, from anyone."

In other words, calm down.
Whoa this is cool, I wonder if this is the inspiration for Looking Glass technology featured in Prey.

http://prey.wikia.com/wiki/Looking_Glass
You have a youtube level understanding of Keynes if thats what you think his explanation boils down to.
Code of conduct still requires enforcement.
Interesting indeed. Definitely weeds out applicants who are not familiar with the command line.
How has that strategy worked out for Cuba / Iran / North Korea?
> We have too much tech and not enough happiness.

Probably worth reminding about it here:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

I think space exploration can create happiness.
Like what labor? Are they skilled appropriately to fill what's actually in demand?
yes, good rules, but as a CoC it’s a bit much, and very preachy. The phrase, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” springs readily to mind. I hope the author is a saint.
Sure, and bread is the most important food in western society, but if a French food critic's favorite dish was a baguette with jam, I'd question their judgement a little.
RISC OS is being relicensed under the Apache license
Major Challenges of Cloud Computing Technology
This game implies that Bezos' net worth is all liquid, which it's definitely not. Owning a large portion of a very large company is very different from having a fat checking account
> You are equating two different things. One, giving a politician money they can spend on personal luxuries for a political favor. Two, giving a strictly-regulated campaign money it can spend on advertising, political functions, et cetera, or less-regulated PACs.

You forgot to add "for political favor" on the end of the third sentence.

I don't care how they're spending it, they're being given it because the person doing the giving wants a decision made in their favor. That's the very definition of bribery and corruption.

i.e. High Mr. Politician. I will give you $600,000 in "campaign contributions" so long as you vote against this particular thing that would be very inconvenient to my profits.
i hear you

electricity should be treated with respect

but i made a point to emphasise that the majority of problems are blown capacitors

this is a prevalent problem(o) that is easy to diagnose and easy to fix

for the listed examples my only diagnostic tool was my eyes, when a capacitor blows you can tell.. that is it looks like it failed in some way

to replace it you have to desolder two connections and solder in a replacement

the capacitors usually give you all of the information you need right on them: capacitance, rated voltage, positive and negative lead; so without needing to know what those things are or why they are important finding a replacement is straight forward and replacing is plug and play, with a bit of solder, if you keep track of how the original was oriented

but like all things it takes time to get comfortable and you get better with more exposure, which is why i emphasised a desire for basic ee to be a part of early education

first time i worked on a car myself i was driving on the highway and my car just stopped, roadside said it'd take 2 hours to get to me, i was unfamiliar with car mechanics but i thought 'i'll just look at it and see if i can see what's wrong, maybe i can fix it', i popped the hood and looked at the engine, it a took a minute to suss it out but when i found the problem it was glaring, the air intake for the engine had popped off, the screw band had rusted and failed, i just pushed the tubing back on the intake pipe, used a dime to screw the rusted band on enough to get me to a hardware store to replace the screw band

i knew i'd be unable to disassemble the transmission on the side of the highway, the first time i opened a car hood, in less than 2 hours, but those expectations were too exaggerated, all i had to do was push a tube on a pipe

i think repair cafes are less about having an in house solution to all problems and more about having broad solutions to the problems that occur the most, and like a bike cafe it could be a hands on experience where there are people there who can help, showing you how to troubleshoot and repair

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Unlike what you would expect, small robots do more damage to the soil not less. Damage to soil is not linear with mass, A massive robot will do twice as much damage where it touches the ground (wheel tracks most likely, but there are other choices), but it will touch 10 times less ground to do the same work so the total averaged over all the land is much better.

For the same reason, tracks generally end up doing more damage than wheels: you get somewhat less damage while going through the row, but they touch/damage far more ground when turning and that adds up.
See the XKCD comic about pictures in parks and kinds of birds.
The concepts appear similar, but "blood money" has been in use for a long time:

> Blood money is from 1530s; originally money paid for causing the death of another[1].

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/blood

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_money_(restitution)
Wait, do you not think you have any biases?
What values are you referring to?
We've occasionally used it when discussing Python X vs Python Y behaviours across separate machines (I don't have 3.6 installed but 3.7, a coworker has 3.6 but no 3.7) and are the kind of questions you just want to quickly check, not create a new virtual environment (under Homebrew on Mac, good luck having 3.6 _and_ 3.7 if you regularly `brew cleanup`...) or spin a docker instance. The coworker also regularly tries Scala stuff there (he's had to code review some simple things to start getting familiar with the language), he seems to like it more than the normal Scala repl (which I use).

It's also handy for funny little languages you may not have (the APL version it has is decent enough, for instance, although I prefer GNU, as the free one)
Reminds me of the IMHO under-appreciated https://glitch.com, but for more languages.
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Any actual critique or are you just gonna scream at the moon?
I've used it unilaterally several times and it made things better than not using it.
> Swimmers (2%)

The low rate of black swimmers isn't just an interesting quirk, but the consequence of historical actions to keep blacks out. For instance, public pools in New York City used to be kept deliberately cold on the theory that this discouraged black participants (source: The Power Broker).

Lack of swimming skills has deadly consequences; black children drown in swimming pools at 5.5 times the rate of white children. Source: CDC https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6319a2.htm