skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad that your political system is working well, not full of corruption, and that you have bright leaders who have a deep understanding of matters of education.
Not to say you are wrong, but they do need to sell more TVs...
> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born?

"We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We were colonizing china up until 1949.

People truly do not understand how much "we" ( as in the US and imperial europe ) screwed over china. I bet not 1 in a 1000 americans knows that the US were imperial colonizers in china even after ww2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol
How much does Altium cost per seat?
I don't think the NRO puts much effort into finding illegal fishing, or other kinds of activity that don't impact US national security.
Mine has 570 PPI and I can easily see that text is pixelated although I cannot see individual pixels.
I narrated my experience, cited two links, and you go "that doesn't make reality, statistics say...". So I ask for said stats. What is amusing about that?

You then come back with an article titled "Estimates of the Unauthorized
Immigrant Population Residing in the
United States: January 2014", when the discussion here is about students gaming legal immigration. What relevance does that have to the topic, again?
The  Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring an Application Architect
Nothing I stated is a "religious" belief unless you think that technology predictions such as cloud computing taking over corporate data centers or the internet disrupting mail-order catalogs are also religious beliefs. I stated that Bitcoin drove the cost of SHA2 hashing to near-zero and similar mechanisms can be used for other more-useful problems. It seems from your post history that you have a knee-jerk hatred of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies and nothing anyone says will change it.
The norm is to link to external content but I doubt the norm is to click on it. Most people vote based on the title so absolute garbage articles make it to the top that aren't worth clicking and then the new reddit UI makes it much harder to get to the external link and very easy to just jump to the comments.

Arguably the external content is next to worthless to reddit because they could just make the website text and image posts only and nothing would be lost.
This isn't even close to proving intent.

Edit:
From the link below: "To prove someone guilty of any crime, the prosecution generally must prove, 1. That the person physically committed the act in question, and 2. That the person intended to commit the crime. Intent in criminal law is complicated. It refers to a person's state of mind. Criminal intent can be either general intent or specific intent. Most crimes are classified under one of the those two categories. Specific intent crimes, require that the person actually intend to commit the crime. General intent crimes only require proof that the person intended to commit the act, not the crime. For example, theft requires specific intent of not only taking the item but also intending to permanently keep it - depriving the owner of possession permanently. With general intent crimes, the fact that the act was committed is enough to prove intent. "

https://videos.lawinfo.com/litigation-and-appeals/how-can-a-...
Whataboutism is a rhetorical technique and not a context dependent determination. If I say “X is bad”, you following up with “but Y is also bad!” is not a logical argument. It carries no persuasive weight in rational discourse.
I'll put in a word for iTalki as well. I just tried a teacher out and started scheduling lessons. One year later my Spanish is miles ahead.

I'm not motivated enough to do any homework or studying, but as long as I schedule those lessons and attend I'm on track to B2 proficiency by the end of next year or sooner.
Every large old piece of code is "bad engineering" to the next generation that looks at it.

I'm pretty sure this is only true to undergrads in the dorms (and people who still think like them). Computer Science has its own form of Medical Students Disease[1]. NIH Syndrome[2] is also more prevalent than it might appear.

it seems like a real stretch to say that Google secretly has a bunch of unskilled hacks working there

it's even weirder to suggest that if Google is secretly a den of incompetence

Nobody said these things, but to address the hypotheticals, a) there is a difference between unskilled and ignorant ("prone to ignore the existence of useful concepts," let's say); b) are there any other forms of competence that might address the ability to launch something impressive that does not fly? Couldn't they be partly incompetent? After all, pobody's nerfect.

We talk about Louis Bleriot much more than Percy Pilcher, and to continue the analogy I'd say Google has gotten very very good at making Gee Bees[3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_R
And this too shall pass.
Oh, is the word “kvetching” off limits to us lowly goyim? Good to know.
This reminds me that I need to share my static site generator written with rilkef.
I found this discussion a bit incomplete as it didn't really discuss the consequences or costs or benefits of modelling things one way or another.

Suppose we didn't use REST or HTTP for our API. What would be a good way to model this kind of thing?
Target tried to expand into Canada but failed pretty miserably. I got the honor? Of visiting one while they were open and it was a total mess. None of the products Canadians actually wanted from Target, super buggy POS and just higher prices than competitors.
Show HN: Anyway – A live feed of stuff going on around you
It would be much better if the post was linked to the creators actual page so they can get ad views.
The nitrate of 8k is high enough for them to only broadcast it via satellite.

This is only going to be for sports bars.
This. I believe this is the most straightforward and robust way to handle this scenario.
January accounting rule change will be painful for tech companies
I was perfectly fine with my 24in CRT TV set (and a DVD player that produced the amazing picture on it) until they came out with the 32in flat screens... I think it’s all in the head.
If they had picked even slightly less obviously silly names than flopnax and ropjar, I might well have taken it seriously.
I've been wanting to peek into mathematics and an "introduction" is exactly what I need.

Thank you for sharing this.
Only for news articles. Almost all images and videos are rehosted
Here is a full playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxjHjFXvwM
RDR2 does an impressive job of making the stuff seem to organically happen. Smoke signals from random camp sites, animal movements, strangers, other riders on the roads. I’m sure future games will make it even smoother and more integrated, but it’s already impressive in RDR2.

You can also completely ignore these interactions, but you risk missing out on things that will be much harder to do if you wait and come back later, or which might not reappear as options, like helping a stranger or looting a specific enemy camp.
Deep links:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
Decentralizing social interactions with ActivityPub
> Host only original content of which you or your registered users are the declared copyright holders.

And what magic spell do you expect publishers to cast to distinguish the two when you allow users to post content? Do you have the faintest idea how absurd what you're saying is?
Bring Your Epsagon Layer to AWS Lambda
phylogenetically[0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mod...
It's a different game, same name. The Activision game is a hybrid text adventure following after Infocom Zork-likes. This one is the puzzler by Valve.
I used to be skeptical of very hires video but two weeks ago I got a System76 laptop with a 4K display - I love it.

I think that people are missing the value of 8K which in my opinion is home (or business) video walls as seen in the 1990 sf movie Total Recall. When walking up to part of the wall, you still get hires anywhere you look. And oh, I want that to be touch screen.
While I tend to agree with the authors view, I'm also disappointed by the tone. The author seems to double down on the "I told you so", saying:

"I stand by that — which as far as I know (and I could be wrong) is the first place where anybody said that deep learning per se wouldn’t be a panacea, and would instead need to work in a larger context to solve a certain class of problems. Bengio was pretty much saying the same thing."

which stakes out a priority claim (that deep learning is not a panacea) that appears somewhat superficial given the huge literature on causal modeling and shortcomings of the alternatives.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The article is obviously pretty low-quality and technically incompenent; I'd expect better from HN's front page.

Even with the left-wing spin, arguing that CA (or even Bannon) built the alt-right is just laugh-out-loud wrong.
Are concrete cubicles beautiful?
> Fentanyl only exists on the dark web because of the Chinese labs pumping it out. Wake up!

The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it. If it isn't china producing it, it would be produce elsewhere ( even in the US ). Stop with your scapegoating rhetoric.

> They see this as just revenge for the British selling opium in China.

It wasn't just the british. A huge part of the US industrial and political power derived from colonizing china.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-s...

And we were a colonial power in china until 1949. Well after ww2 ended.

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

Though I disagree with your fearmongering and your erroneous equating of the US with britain, I do agree that we have to come to terms with china one day over our historical transgressions and their future ambitions. It's inevitable at the very least that china will want the US our of east asia and possibly want retribution for a century of brutal colonization/humiliation/rape of china. How these issues get resolved will determine the future of the US, China and the world in the 21st century.
This wasn't downvoted because of a lack of political alignment; it was downvoted because there's absolutely no link.

The post implies a causal link, but there isn't even a correlational one; Google has been shuttering its own projects only a couple of years after launch for years, long before the current round of employee protests.
Maybe if you're comparing piracy to stealing of personal goods, but if you steel a few gallons of milk from your local supermarket then you're not depriving them of selling that particular brand of milk either.

Digital products are easy to replicate, so they're obviously different, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with them. Well you can, because it's extremely hard to regulate, but that frankly doesn't make it any better from a moral point of view.
This is also a serious problem in the UK. I still use Amazon a lot for things like books, video games, music, and (certain) electronics items, but you're definitely taking a chance if you branch out from there. I'd be very wary about buying premium brand clothing from them, for example.
What were you buying and where are you buying from now. I almost always compare items on atleast three sites before I buy. Amazon often times comes ahead of or is the same as Jet, target, costco and walmart. Combined with camelcamelcamel and the few truly bad deals are easily spotted.
Anecdotally, many users report that it is less euphoric than heroin:

> The subjective effects of fentanyl are similar to those of heroin, with the exception that many users report a noticeably less euphoric "high"

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Fentanyl (also of note is that heroin fentanyl has a shorter duration of action)

>Ocfentanil shows typical opiate-like effects like euphoria and relaxation. Users reported that it is less “cool” and euphoric than heroin, but it is more stimulant and has a very quick onset, after 3 min. The users also reported that it has shorter duration of action (3 h) than heroin

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754389/

Whether or not that it is true, it may contribute to users not using it (obvious safety issues aside).
I guess for some or generative structures it makes sense, but programming a CAD object sounds like something from the 1970's. Being able to click on a corner and say, "fillet, radius whatever" makes way more sense to me. I must not be "getting it" - could you explain how it is better? I get that it's FOSS, so besides that?
Another good example is Audi's E-Tron.In French, étron means turd.
An interactive visualization of the MESI protocol for cache coherence in CPUs
Statistics don't represent the whole story. How many indigenous groups are in Switzerland? How many language families are native to Switzerland? By my count, two, where in the United States it is over twenty. When's the last time Switzerland had a civil war (I mean, war between the cantons)? Is there a deeply ingrained bias against other Swiss depending only on how they look?

Even in the supposedly mainstream culture, I have almost nothing in common with "Red Tribe" Americans. Just because we share a language, ethnic identity, and religious category does not mean we are homogenous by any means. I often have much more in common with people of a different ethnicity and religion than those statistics would indicate.
They look kinda ugly.
I suppose one way of modeling a solution to this space is to look back at goold 'ol fashioned RPC's
No repo like LIME? Would love to test this.
Happened to us a few months ago. We got a pair of baby bath kits we didn't ask for. We looked afterward, and saw the ads mixed into our list with no way to remove them. Incredibly slimy practice.
That's why they called it Portal. Concept is portable to nearly any architecture / platform: iOS, Android, Apple II, NES, Atari 2600... Great work!

Portal Prelude for Texas Instruments Calculators

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...
I'm sitting about 1.8m away from a 720p television showing a standard definition UK terrestrial signal (which is 576p) and I'm honestly baffled how anyone could want any higher res. In fact the only issue I notice is the poorer picture quality on some of the lower bitrate channels, the major channels are as clear and sharp as I'd ever want.
‘People don’t go out’: the town where half the pubs have vanished
You provided 2 news articles about 2 specific incidents. None of the news stories that you link to provide any indication whatsoever that students game the legal immigration system whatsoever. The document I cited gives specific numbers of authorized v/s unauthorized immigrants giving an idea of the scales we're talking about.

Its pretty clear that you've made up your mind about what the state of the world is (from various anecdata) and don't really care what the statistics really say. I will leave this as my last comment about this issue.
Well, even a supposedly full HD movie on a BluRay disc will show a lot of grain which you do not care to see.
I've been wondering recently, (how) do identity protection or fraud protection software services actually work?

I feel like someone actually doing that right would be a big deal but haven't heard anything special about the market leaders.
Points 2 and 3 would seem to violate the essential anarcho-capitalist nature of Bitcoin, though. If it can be effectively regulated and stabilized in opposition to the volatility of the free market then it would seem to have failed at its purpose.
I use a comparator plugin and I never have this experience. I spend probably at least $1000 a month on Amazon between personal and business and the difference in savings is negligible at best from switching to various other sites from Amazon (most of the time Amazon is the cheapest price).

Prime shipping has been annoying to my residence because I live in Seattle and they use contractors which often just fuck things up for same-day delivery, but it's never longer than 2 days. Almost no other site can match that speed and convenience, which is the real reason any of use Prime.

If I saw the same 30% overcharging phenomenon people keep talking about on HN, I'd probably consider switching. But it is well under 5% and probably ~0%, honestly, and the value of my time and efficiency of shopping online is worth quite a bit to me.
"It has also removed the 5% service fee for its Express members, a charge that caused much controversy among customers in the past."

This was pretty much my only qualm. I'm heading back to Instacart. Pound-for-pound, it was a better product. More personal service, better shoppers and they were slowly getting better at keeping the inventory databases more up-to-date.

On that last point, they have a tough fight as Amazon integrates deeply with Whole Foods. It really breaks your product if a significant percentage of the groceries you order isn't actually in stock.

I have Amazon Prime and still paid for Instacart.
In theory it might be non-essential, but in practice it might mean that refactorings might be unfeasable or too costly in non-typed codebases.

The more I think about it, the less it makes sense to bother about refactoring when you did not bother about type level guarantees in the first place.
That sounds pretty good. Open source? I'd love to read it, and possibly contribute if its in my skill set.
Well, I can probably mine 10 tops books and come up with a good list of 100 abstractions. But i am sure someone has done a much better job than me on this..
Target's website is horseshit terrible and Walmart's isn't much better, and both offer inferior shipping options (though Walmart is close). It's not that tough. Also selection at Walmart for electronics is godawful, especially since AmazonBasics crushes their generic line.
I usually don't say '5 years' specifically. "In a couple of years" is closer to the phrasing I use. The candidate can pick whatever time period they're comfortable with answering. Most answer with equal fuzziness in their timeline. Every now and then we'll get a candidate who'll have a super rigid timeline, "raise in 6 months, promotion to in 12, second promotion at the 2 year mark, able to buy at house after 3 years, student loans paid off in 47months, after 401k/stocks vest I'll do something else". That's more information than I need and not the answer I'm looking for.

Most candidates get what we're trying to ask right away. Sure, sometimes we get a response like "well my current apartment doesn't have enough power outlets and smells like bread, so I would like to move and get a cat"; then we'll follow up with a surgically specific question.

It's a conversation, not an interrogation. The vagueness usually helps candidates open up and talk. Interviewing is stressful enough without the multi-part hyper specific word problem about something they probably haven't thought about.

We're interviewing people, and people are different with high variance. If we wanted consistency with bias removed, we can just craft a long multiple choice exam and have HR proctor it. Interviewing will always have noise, variance, and bias.
> if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it.

That wouldn't be theft, that would be making your own care. Theft necessarily involves depriving the person you stole something from of having it. It'd be theft if you downloaded the blueprint and then deleted it from their servers so you had the only remaining copy; that's theft. Copying is not theft.
Annoying that the site hijacks your back button history like a porn site. What’s up with that? Sure I want to give Typescript (or the equvilent) a try but this feels desperate if not an error.
"If you’re a programmer who wants to learn math, this book is written specifically for you!"

Singleton Book B is written specifically for Programmer P, for all values of P such that P wants to learn math?

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but this book is not written specifically for each individual programmer who wants to learn math. It is a one-size-fits-all solution, unlike in-person learning processes that are actually, you know, tailored to each student's strengths, weaknesses and interests. I'm sorry, but this kind of overselling is annoying and a very bad sign.
Yes. When someone dies of fyntanyl (especially if they have relatives in law enforcement) there is a good chance they open the victims laptop. The tor session might still be sitting there. There could be notes in text files on the desktop.

This is where it gets bad for a dealer. Because now law enforcement can pretend to be victim and trick dealers into unveiling their id. [drop site setups etc]
> More personal service, better shoppers

But will this survive with price slashes? Quality almost never stays the same (or improves) when you get into a price war.
I'm also in the UK, and I buy a lot of things on Amazon. Thousands of pounds worth every year.

Out of hundreds of items, I've never once received anything that seemed dodgy.

On the rare occasions where I've received a broken/defective product, I've had no reason to believe it wasn't a genuine product, and Amazon have been a joy to deal with to send it back. In fact, the ease of returns, and their excellent customer service, are the main reasons I buy so many items from Amazon and not elsewhere.
I’m finding it hard to get past the squeam. A bit of fermi estimation puts spider requirements in the megaton range.

Suppose you wanted to replace just milk drunk by humans in the U.S. Say 100 megalitres per day (roughly).

Suppose a spider produces say 2% of bodymass as milk per day. Under that assumption we need on the order of 5 * 10^9 kg or 5 megatons of spiders.

The following article estimates the current spider population of the world at just 25 megatons.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/the-amount-of-food-spider...

Now I’m slightly haunted by the idea of a megaton scale “spider farm”.

Also your comment is an excellent illustration of Poe’s law.
"Moreover, anyone who has sampled Chinese, or Persian, or Finnish, knows that a language can get along just fine with the same word for “he” and “she.”"

English (at least in en_GB) can coerce they into a gender neutral form of he or she. Sometimes it will need a bit of sentence re-arrangement and other tricks but will still be natural.

I was chatting to my aunt and they said: "Ooh, you are awful." My dad looked at me and said "crack on". In the first sentence they is substituted directly for she and in the second sentence he is dropped entirely from: "and he said".

I'm sure other languages have similar tricks. In this case I don't think it is even breaking the rules.
> but if you steel a few gallons of milk from your local supermarket then you're not depriving them of selling that particular brand of milk either.

You've deprived them from selling those specific gallons of milk to someone else and caused them a direct monetary loss. Conflating that with brand is intellectually dishonest.

> but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with them. Well you can, because it's extremely hard to regulate, but that frankly doesn't make it any better from a moral point of view.

Yes it does, it's hard to regulate because it's stupid precisely because you haven't actually deprived them of anything which makes it morally not wrong.
Past a certain size, I think I'd just go the projector route despite some of the disadvantages. I have a 78" TV and a projector shooting onto a wall roughly equivalent to a 110" television; so my threshold is somewhere between 78" and 110"... I'll also say that although I love TV and movies, there's something really nice about not having a television staring you in the face all the time.