skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I need to write a tiny script that tests the bounds of what is easily done with just awk and Bourne shell, the tool that I next reach for nowadays is TXR or TXR Lisp.

I made it myself.

One of the conscious goals of TXR is to have a scripting language in the POSIX environment (without forgetting about MS Windows too) that is acceptable for people who would rather be coding in Lisp. (Speaking of awk: TXR has it: it's a Lisp macro.)

TXR saves coders from Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Lua and whatever else.

TXR has no ecosystem or libraries; everything comes with the program. If it's not described in the manual, it doesn't exist; stop looking and write it yourself.

This kind of thing is forbidden in the TXR project: https://xkcd.com/1987/
I'm pretty sure the people getting tear gassed over globalization at the G8 were against capital leveraging international workers to destroy domestic labor power and the ones getting tear gassed recently are fighting against policies targeting immigrant and refugee communities. It seems pretty consistent to want to protect workers and also fight xenophobia.
If world will end next week, we should just stop global growth, stop all the unnecessary human events, stop all the unnecessary producing, go home with families, only do the most necessary things. For earth, for human beings, for ourself, it will be enough and worth.
Sure and while you're at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. Or better yet, why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can't speed?

The reality is that very few people want to live in that world and even if we do fully adopt technologies like this, it doesn't necessarily make us any safer. A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that. And I'm much more likely to be killed by a random traffic accident (only time I've been hit on my bike was by a white women driving a Ford) or domestic terrorist/psychopath than an immigrant.

So you're pitching huge lifestyle and diplomatic costs without any obvious benefit... Please count me as a no.
"quantum state transfer"?
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I post this now and then when this topic comes up. I work for a public university, and all salaries are public record. There's even a web app where you can look things up.

The negative impact of this has been nearly zero, as far as I can tell. Just hasn't done any harm at all. Now, state run universities are different from private companies - compensation tends to be flatter, more predictable, and has a heavier emphasis on seniority. Those traits might put a university at a big disadvantage if it were a private company.

Though now that I think of it, top law firms tend to post salaries for first year, second year, nth year associates. Again, it's all pretty predictable. Is tech much less predictable than law firm associates?

I do think far too much in tech is done in secret. It's not just salaries - I've interviewed at google, and supposedly there are scores in a database about me somewhere, along with notes, but I'm not allowed to see them. In a field plagued by accusations of bias, double secret interview tests seem like a bad idea, as do double secret salary negotiations. Or maybe they're doing exactly what they're meant to. Did Google discriminate against "over 40" applicants, as claimed by a large class action lawsuit? How would I know, the process is far too opaque for me to have any idea at all.

I have an idea - any company that uses the H1B visa must make all compensation information public (not just the H1B applications, but name, title, and compensation for all employees, the way state institutions are required to). I think this is reasonable to ask of companies making decisions bout who is and isn't allowed to work and live in the US, especially if they're claiming that they can't recruit and retain adequate talent from the existing workforce in spite of high salaries and excellent benefits.
What I loved about Paul Allen (by Bill Gates)
Wow, that's an interesting point. The UK will still allow commonwealth and EU citizens to vote in some elections but the Turdy's (Tory's) are trying to get the laws changed to prevent that for precisely the same reason you state.
If not Amazon, another company will do business with gov.
Face recognition is mature enough, there is no very high barrier.
Even if US gov doesnt adopt such technology, another gov will do and already done.
It is just business.
Boo hoo, you make $233k a year, don't pay for healthcare, and most likely get free lunches and the gender pay gap! My advice get out of the bay area and fantasy land. You are in the top 1% wage earner.
https://www.xkcd.com/547/
> However we use our tech only to deliver souvenir photography to event attendees. We will not sell it to government.

Do you have a warrant canary or similar in place?

How hard is it to defeat the "live face" thing and get your system to search for someone else using a photo or something? Could I use a video of someone I want to track?

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. Your service and tech looks awesome if you continue to provide it ethically, it just seems like there are a bunch of ways that services of this kind could be exploited.
I can't speak for how it affects the data, but note that Kyoto city (京都市, the administrative area to which this data seems to apply) is about two-thirds mountains and small rural towns.

See the satellite image here (there should be a red border around Kyoto city): https://goo.gl/maps/FZZbj7UFi4m
Yes, that's strictly more information. You still better collect it quickly, as you are compiling your functions each time they run.

Besides, people rally don't like that warming-up period. But it's not the current bottleneck.

Anyway, JIT has a great potential. Just not for desktop software, or network services, or your trading app. It can be great for scientific computing, for example. But that's potential; currently it's not any good on practice.
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If it's not already on your radar, you should have a look at the Shelly library on Hackage.
If you don't want to click 13 times:

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It means they lack a metaobject protocol.
So I'm not sure 100% where I stand morally on the "if not us then someone else" argument as whole but I'm pretty sure it's better to just not let that person/entity be you (in this case Amazon), and figuring it out from there.

Even if the world is lacking in your brand of ethics/morals doesn't mean you need to stoop to the same level as someone who doesn't hold the same brand of ethics/morals.
This is mapping data, not driving data. You need both.
With a basic income you could make it variable and raise or lower the nominal basic income payment to vary the rate of money supply growth. This could run alongside the regular interest rate system. If inflation got too high you could raise the interest rate to vacuum up excess currency.
The Geometry of Classical and Quantum Fields [pdf]
If most countries decide to use basic regulation but, say, Russia, does not, then the other countries could use active removal to offset the Russian emissions. Not likely a world body is forcing Russia to do anything (although if Europe stopped using their gas, they would have a lot less power).
what does mio mean in this context? i googled and it says it means millions in some financial markets but what is the io for?
> If not Amazon, another company will do business with gov. Face recognition is mature enough, there is no very high barrier. Even if US gov doesnt adopt such technology, another gov will do.

> It is just business.

Guns are a mature technology, and pretty easy to use. If I don't do the hit for Vinny, some other hitman will, so I might as well make some cash. It is just business.

The fact that someone else may perform a morally dubious action if you don't does not provide any justification for you to perform that action.
A non-article if there ever was one.
I agree with you on the monitoring bit. That is a bigger question, more important question is who could the state monitor without a warrant. I guess the nuance is that this tech is not about surveillance/monitoring but it is about identification. Of course, that implies that one had to get the picture in the first place, which brings up that question about who could the state monitor, but I guess that's separate question from whether this tech is good or bad.

As for the mask deal, I agree with you, that someone has a right to obscure their identity if they want to.
Your first two factors are straightforward to concede, but then you add a question-begging (c) that is (1) much more difficult to agree with and (2) happens to be heavily tied up with the same racist rhetoric† the comment upthread is cautioning about. (You also conflate heritability with genetic determinism).

My issue isn't with the claim that there is likely some genetic connection to crime. Clearly, in some extreme cases, there is. My issue is with the extrapolation from extreme cases and from very un-settled science to broad claims about genetic determinism (and supposed unwillingness of others to entertain those claims).

† I'm not saying you're using racist rhetoric, I'm saying you're using rhetoric that is also leaned on by racists; for instance, "black people have a genetic predisposition to high time preference".
The poison is in the dose.
Amazon needs a manifesto
That's what mandatory insurance is for. Everyone pays what they can, and gets what they need. Doesn't work perfectly, but allows me to go to a hospital anytime without being broke after.

There's benefit for everybody, which is risk reduction. You actually blame poor people for going to the ER in case of emergency.
I've found that Vue included as a script tag and used without any build steps excels in this scenario.
I'm no expert, but I think one issue is the lack of a GC in WASM. So each language have to roll their own custom GC on top of it.

Another reason is JS already has many high level features. Which might make it easier to implement similar ones in your language if you target JS directly.

The last reason I can think of is interop with existing JS code and the DOM.
Parents were US based so Bankruptcy was an option. In the US to the best of my knowledge the only thing not discharged in a Ch. 7 is student loans and debt obtained fraudulently.
> Sure and while you're at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit.

This actually exists in many cities around the world like Dubai. Probably not every roadway, but almost all major ones.
Having eval is a part of the language, and without it you aren't transpiling perl, just perl-- or whatever you want to call it.
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I weirdly love reading about other people's workflow. This is really cool thanks for sharing.

One issue I have with literate programming is that its difficult enough to write code, now you have to worry about writing code in the middle of writing prose. For that reason I prefer to just have all my code output a bunch of latex files so I can separate the code-writing from the paper-writing. Which I guess is against the philosophy of literate programming as a whole...

How did you get around this? Do you share the same frustration that you are constantly being distracted by one or the other?
I think you'd use Django REST framework wouldn't you?
Makes sense.

Jeff Bezos wants to provide the tech that lets Washington form the first pre-crime unit.

What they didn’t tell us in the movie was that the precogs were AI.
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> Does your home have a thermostat? Does your car have an engine control system, automatic heating and cooling system? Does your lawn-mower have a mechanical throttle governor?

Does your nearly-new thermostat suddenly stop working when Nest cancels the product line? Does your 5-year-old car suddenly become scrap because the manufacturer pushes a bad OTA update? Does your lawn-mower brick itself because someone let a DNS lease lapse? Does your smartwatch stop working one day because the manufacturer was acquired by another company?

There's a ridiculous amount of stuff these days which is deeply coupled with ephemeral online services when it has no need or right to be.
> As it stands, if I wanted to rent my own apartment, 50% of my monthly income would be gone right there. That's not including utilities, internet, or food, and that's not a "nice" place - it's just what you can find. With those other expenses factored in, I'd be looking at roughly another 15% gone on top of that.

Then you're looking in the wrong town or at the wrong job-offers. Conventional wisdom has it that you should spend at most 25% of monthly net income on housing.
At one time, rock stars were essentially anonymous and could have relatively normal lives when not on tour. The audience was huge and they were essentially faceless.

Then TV, music videos and the practice of having huge screens broadcasting the faces of the band to the audience ruined that.

KISS used face paint and that helped protect their identity, but when they got too big, you saw Gene Simmons wearing a mask on dates to try to preserve his privacy, yet everyone knew the masked guy was Gene Simmons.
That may be true in CL, but there is a scripting dialect of Lisp called TXR Lisp. It's documented in one big manual page (just like GNU Awk, Bash, and other classic programs). If you can't find what you're looking for there, either it doesn't exist, or you need help from StackOverflow or the TXR Mailing list.

TXR has decent capabilities for text processing, plenty of POSIX functions built right in, and such.

There is a decent port of TXR to Windows, which uses a fork of the Cygwin DLL called Cygnal. Cygnal provides more Windows-like behaviors in areas where stock Cygwin is too assertive with POSIX conventions in ways that make Cygwin programs confusing to Windows users.
It sounds like you are suggesting objective based bonuses. I suspect that most engineers would completely balk at the notion of losing a bonus if they don't meet a deadline. Most engineers today feel entitled to all the bonuses for less work, not bonuses for meeting or beating deadlines.
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immediately started watching mayfair set. i love documentaries like this.
If you're writing code in C/C++/Rust/... then your code will benefit from understanding hash function performance because the choice of function can be another parameter to tune.
I'm not a battery engineer, nor a battery tester, so I cannot comment on what a proper test would be, and if that would include testing the battery for extended period of time prior to releasing them to market.
You can already compensate your Co2 online and it's not that expensive. Generally the companies are replacing very inefficient processes in developing countries.
Guess what this is happening every time you walk into a big store , casino or mall. Americans live in a fantasy where they allow large corporations unlimited power but want to keep law enforcement stuck in the 90s because of this administration. Enjoy your fantasy
That's arguable. Even the RTX 2080Ti, the most powerful consumer graphics card on the planet at $800, barely breaches 60fps for many games at 4K (with a 7820x and 32gb of memory)

[1] Battlefield 1 - 97fps
[2] Far Cry 5 - 70fps
[3] Grand Theft Auto 5 - 62fps
[4] Total War: Warhammer 2 - 55fps

And the 99th percentile of many of those titles drops below 60fps. The FE can push a little bit harder.

Its true that at 4k you can pretty safely turn off the more powerful forms of AA and gain a lot of performance back; the resolution is so high that it doesn't tend to matter. How else would the X1X be capable of so consistently reaching 4k30 for titles like FH4 with a substantially less powerful graphics card?

But that's not really how we observe what these cards are capable of. You can play CS:GO at 4k120 on a much less powerful card, but that's not really that interesting.

Also, I consider the "affordable" mark to be ~$300, which is GTX 1060 territory. So when you consider that most gamers [5] are barely running 1080p144/1440p60 right now, that jump to 4k60 is actually pretty far.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

[3] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

[4] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

[5] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... (Far more than 40% of gamers on Steam are running a card less powerful than the GTX 1070).
I believe churches also explicitly teach people that atheism is dangerous.
urgh. stick to emacs and the gpl, please.
I'm extremely bullish about Rust riding wasm the same way Go rode the container space. This kind of work is exactly why I feel that way. It's uniquely positioned to take advantage of the benefits of wasm; building faster, safer applications on the browser.

I look forward to the day when the web is Rust, although I guess if you're using Firefox, that's already partly true. :)
If you're running code all day long and profiling it dynamically the whole time, then you're going to pay for it. There is overhead to JIT, and there is overhead to profiling. There is no overhead for a statically compiled program, no matter how you profile it.
It would be perfect at a Commodore computer user group, though. (A small handful still exist, incredibly.)
Ask HN: Did you run a hardware Kickstarter? How did it go, what did you learn?
(Kickstarter or any similar crowdfunding platform)
I support legalizing — or at least decriminalizing — most drugs and treating it as a public health issue rather than a crime. But after talking with some police officers I can also understand their perspective on keeping drug laws in place. They often know who the local gang members and other violent criminals are, but don't necessarily have enough evidence to convict in court. Most of those serious criminals also use and/or deal drugs. So when the police catch them holding it's easy to get a conviction and take a bad guy off the street for a while.
The left was the major source of anti immigration law until they replaced xenophobic labor laws with today's political reality
It's worth noting that you can, and in general do, create your own stack in the wasm memory space. WebAssembly's native stack can only handle 32 and 64 bit integers and floats, so local variables are more like registers
Not everybody agrees on the best way to draw text (some people like it blurry, others like it higher contrast), so I think the target users may matter to some level. It also varies by OS, and the OS even have options to let users influence it in some way.

Have you also noticed how even color rendering varies by browser? This is less intuitive...
Thanks, nice writeup.

I spent two evenings experimenting with Hy last month. I liked what I saw but was concerned by the niche-ness of the language. After reading this article I am going to try it again.
You will be downvoted for speaking your mind, but well said. Hn doesn't claim to be free speech forum which is quite unfortunate, as most of the discussion here is usually academic.
This whole way of thinking about things seems like dangerous advice that reeks of lack of trust and transparency between individuals.

I'll pass on this one.
Agreed. I worked at Sears in college (~15 years ago) loading dock/warehouse. It was a great job at the time. Good pay, plenty of hours, and generally good managers. The downfall of Sears had very little to do with wages, but Amazon crushing all brick and mortar stores.
We were dependent on foot traffic, and sales flyers in the Sunday paper - things that don't do much today.
Smoke is in play in this discussion. Not just smoke, but smoke of products that are chosen for their bioactive nature. Tobacco smoke in particular is all kinds of problematic, but cannabis is not harmless and even wood smoke is hazardous. This is not merely a discussion about scent-related experiences, it's a discussion of exporting health hazards into other's environments on top of exporting a smell that's widely considered unpleasant.

But even assuming health issues weren't in play, there might well be a case that being an acceptable neighbor involves keeping many forms of sensory exports to a minimum. Loud music can be rude. Loud music or construction projects after 9pm are rude. Storing your asafoetida on the balcony would be pretty rude too, even if it can be used to make some super tasty food. Fish in the microwave will make you unpopular at some offices. So... yeah, we can go "by this logic" if you like, it's just not where the case stops.
Yeah, I never got that particular argument. Speeding isn't like, my favorite hobby or anything, and it's accounted for when setting the speeding limits, so if the police suddenly became extreme sticklers, they'd also likely raise the limits.

Even if they didn't, it'd probably save lives. Fatalities are so much more common at higher speeds, we could all stand to slow down a bit on the road.
The wikipedia article[1] explains more clearly what I've been trying (unsuccessfully?) to describe without spoilers.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
> most of the goals of the original cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin

Satoshi's main reason for developing Bitcoin is the economic model, the other stuff just facilitates this model.

This is one of the reasons why Bitcoin has the value that it does, because the supply emission curve is known and cannot be altered.

Mistaking the things that you list as core to Bitcoin's purpose is missing the bigger picture about why Bitcoin exists.

The supply emission curve is key to understanding Bitcoin and the reason people hold it.
Please name a crime where you are allowed to take your children with you when you're arrested.
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Also this is not meddling. Part of being a super power is out politics is world polifics . Keep asking questions
That's a fundamental debate that is worth having!

On the other side of the argument: US economic growth has decoupled from CO2 output in the last few years — industrial output & productivity has risen steadily while CO2 emissions have remained basically flat.

Scenarios I can see:

1. Reduce our economy by a factor of 10-100 — probably our population as well. Only way that can happen quickly is a catastrophe unparalleled in history.

2. Improve our technology to be carbon-neutral, retain the same population, maybe even improve our standard of living in the process.

The question is: is 2. possible? If it is, I prefer it. If it isn't, that really sucks, and there's merit to the anti-natalist strategy. I happen to think it is possible though — technology and policy and effort can get us to a sustainable energy economy.