skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestions would be helpful. Some fonts are really hard to type.
The NAFTA rollback never actually happened. In the end, it’s still here and just slightly tweaked[0], and arguably should have been tweaked after 24 years.

WRT the cabinet, honestly, the people in it are not really any different from any other Republican administration. I may vehemently disagree with John Bolton, Jeff Sessions, and Scott Pruitt, but are these any different from GWB’s administration?

The real damage Trump has done, is the radical pronouncements and the destruction of perceptions. From a policy perspective, he hasn’t done really anything out of the normal, except implementing a white nationalist immigration policy. Well, that and personal grift.

[0] http://www.marketplace.org/2018/11/30/economy/whats-new-abou...
> So, Futures are moving into the standard library; there’s been a last minute procedural issue over one name, and then they’ll be in.

That's just the open issue around pinning.

There are however a few open discussions around the futures/task/waker parts, from the other RFC. I just wrote down a list of the open points here: https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/pull/15#issuecomment-44549238...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18634941
I feel much the same way. But let me start off by saying that I think being able to get into "flow" or "fluid coding" is actually a rarity, something I need to plan for. It means things like working from home for a few days in a row to really get into things, and I can make huge progress (velocity at least double for those days).

The office environment just isn't a place for good flow. Too many distractions, emails, slack, meetings, people, commuting, etc. This isn't to say that I don't get some work done at work, but it's certainly not efficient. Sadly most people I have worked with don't care that I'm not being efficient, they care that I'm working on whatever they want me to work on (which may or may not be the right thing).

My suggestions on this are to try to automate your tools, like writing scripts, and writing notes about your development procedure, even if they are only for you. I have a alias for a file that has all sorts of commandlines that can run anywhere and really helps me remember what it is I needed to run.

Many times, these notes have eventually gotten pushed to something like confluence, and are useful for other people, so they love them. They aren't copious, or descriptive, but the bare minimum to help me remember what I need to do.

Context switching can also make you associate your work environment with being distracted. Then even when you aren't being interrupted every 15 minutes you worry you might be, which becomes a problem of itself.

Despite what every growth hacker / struggle porn story tells you, you don't need to have side projects or after work projects to be successful. They are supposed to grow out of interesting things you care and have passion for, not be another job on the side. Don't worry about that at all. Spend that time to de-stress and enjoy life.
China won't be subsuming Taiwan anytime soon. If China did subsume Taiwan, TSMC would lose some of their process engineers, and this is apt to have disastrous consequences for their sub-14nm nodes as they are so finicky to get & keep working reliably.
Yep, that's why I think Light Phone 2 is the sweet spot: phone texting contacts maps ride-hail. Nothing else. I really hope they're able to ship.
> Kind of a tangent, but the way you phrased it, while much more technically correct, is totally roundabout and unnatural to a native English speaker.

As a native English speaker, I disagree; it is a perfectly natural way for the intended message to be communicated in English.

> I've often postulated that the necessity of a Subject in English sentences causes us to inadvertently project agency in our descriptions of events / phenomena that in reality don't have an "actor" in a meaningful sense.

A subject need not be an (semantic, much less also self-willed) agent (and, when it is, it can , and misleading anthropomorphization is in no way a peculiarity of English speakers.

“Evolution favored variants which enhance host sociability” has a subject, which is a semantic (but not self-willed) agent.

“Variants which enhanced host sociability are favored by evolution” has a subject, which is the patient rather than the agent.

Both are quite natural English expressions, and (unlike attributing will to the virus) accurate (or, at least, describe a plausible phenomenon.)
I didn’t want to be the one mentioning it ;)
FYI: This is Rocket, a web framework for Rust, not Racket, the programming language.
autoplaying video, check. Pop up ad slow loading to make sure it pops up after i start reading, check. Empty, contentless "article", check.

Yup, shit site, don't go folks.
The inputs and outputs here are well known. These tests have been done before: [0] is a good example. It shows that babies born through c-sections are more likely to be autistic, but not more likely to be autistic than their siblings, implying "that this association is due to familial confounding by genetic and/or environmental factors."

[0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
The ideas of free will, consequences and deterrence; morality, punishment and justice; mental illness and life choice determinism; all exist in different planes, different parallel reasoning systems about the world - rational, moral, biological/sociological. You can make linkages between the different metaphors of explication, but mixing and matching is a recipe for inconsistency. Worse, if you think mostly in a different plane to someone else, you'll forever talk past one another.
I adopted a one year old stray cat and after a few indoor attempts he seeemed to be okay wearing a harness but trying to get him to go outside was impossible. He REALLY prefers to be inside.

I do have a small 15x15ft balcony with some plants and overlooks some trees. When it’s warm I keep a window open for him to go out and he definitely likes watching the birds and the bees that come by, but apart from that he seems to prefer being inside.
So, instead of rebuild, legislate to ensure forward planning and ongoing redevelopment is progressive and sustainable ( let's leave the definition of that alone for this conversation).

Tearing down and rebuilding is not the only option. And as another commenter notes, the cost of dealing directly with climate change could be orders of magnitude higher. So let's try to have a more open and honest debate rather than covering our ears and shouting :)
Not sure what your anger is aimed at. In the US as a foreigner you can not work without a work visa. Employment opportunities are reserved for US residents first. To start a business you need a business visa https://business-law.freeadvice.com/business-law/starting_a_... requiring you to have substantial resources in the first place. I believe these all to be reasonable and it is great that US treat those who are allowed to legally work and invest here mostly equitably. But it does not mean any foreigner in the US can just demand a level playing field, say one who comes on a tourist visa or a student visa or who doesn't have legal status at all. Not to mention those who want to come but are blocked at the border. In general it is much harder for someone from China to get a visa to the US in the first place than the other way around. It is also not unreasonable: traditionally the immigration is one way from China to the US and to gain a non-immigration visa one needs to first convince the consular officer of no intention to immigrate.

I am not complaining about any of this just pointing out that foreigners always need to play by the hosts' rules if they want to be welcome.
aaandre@gmail.com

I’m about to start on v.2, would love to talk.
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.5

Awesome before yahoo bought it and added their drm like stuff to it and it disappeared later.
They still choose to continue down that path, or to not seek healing. Maybe it would be difficult to make another choice, but impossible? I find that pretty hard to believe.
>I had to greatly limit harsh foods (acidic stuff like vinegar, or very salty foods) or else I'd get gastritis extremely quickly (confirmed on endoscopy). My scalp started to itch and lots of hair fell out in my crown area. I am better with dairy nowadays but still can't have sugar, and vinegar just destroys me (I guess because it is corrosive AND high in histamines). I also can barely eat acidic foods and have to avoid most of them.

This is interesting, considering that acidic and salty environments are the ones which naturally harbor beneficial bacteria and yeasts. Quite the paradox you have!
Visual FoxPro.
If any of you read these, which one is your favorite?
Of course there is free will: it is a key ingredient in the decision to not be responsible for anything because 'the universe did it'.
Another trick is to append a typeface- before the font name when searching NPM, e.g. here: https://npms.io

The creator of the Gatsby static site generator has a "typeface.js" repo where he uploads and prepares free Google and Fontsquirrel fonts for NPM, including the css. It makes the self hosting of fonts really easy if you use webpack.

https://github.com/KyleAMathews/typefaces
Evolution,+The+Shift:+Social+Networks+Are+Now+Becoming+Market+Networks
Assuming you're in the US, you won't get extradited for anything unless your conduct was actually illegal in the US.
Textmate. It was such a great native OS X editor, I don't know what happened to it, but although VS Code is very nice and what I use now, it's not a native mac editor and I miss that.
This will show my (lack of age). I organically taught myself digital logic as Minecraft slowly added redstone and its features. When it came time to pick a major computer engineering was an obvious choice and I never looked back! Minecraft will always have a special place in my heart for this reason.
https://fonts.google.com/ lets you search fonts, see a preview and then download a zip file (or get a link if you don't want/need to host the font).
Gumroad's numbers in November
>The reason why food is grown by large industrial farming companies is because they can grow it ~100 times cheaper than you could.

No, it is because people don't want to grow food. My tomatoes cost me 2 minutes of time. I don't know how much you want to value my time at, but lets say I am pretty awesome and deserve $100/hour. That's $3.33 cents for all the tomatoes I can eat. Where are the industrial farming companies producing tomatoes for 3.3 cents per 100 pounds?

>If everyone had to grow their own food, then everyone would starve to death.

If that were true, we wouldn't exist. People did grow their own food for thousands of years. If everyone had to grow their own food, we'd be fine. All mechanization did was free up people from agricultural labor to do other jobs, humans predate tractors.

>The idea of locally grown food in everyone's backyard is a fairy tale that just sounds nice, but would actually be horrible.

It is a reality for lots of people, and we're pretty happy about it.
TLDR - The creativity nowadays goes in much faster cycles than before, and less life. "Our creations used to live the life of trees, then turtles, and lately flies..." (unknown rand() thought)
I agree about random news articles / startup landing pages where the term is thrown around imprecisely. Just seemed odd to see the original comment saying it about this linked Bayesian stats article, which doesn’t suffer this problem.
I agree, men should go to the doctor more often. It would improve their life spans.
Tried it on the most recent font I've needed, DilleniaUPC (the font used by youtuber SovietWomble, if anyone's familiar). Not only did it not recognize my initial misspelling (DilenniaUPC), it doesn't find anything for .ttf of that font.

Admittedly, DillenniaUPC is a Microsoft font included on windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8, not legally available for download elsewhere. Practically, there are many locations offering this font for download.

In either case, recognizing the font name and reporting the unavailability of free download for this font would be far superior to the "Nothing found, sorry!" result.

As is, it's unclear why I should ever choose this tool over typing the name of the font and the desired extension into google.
Please don't do tedious tit-for-tats on HN, and please don't post uncivil comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, this is hugely important for a child and our laws in the U.S. do not give families adequate support to allow most women to be able to provide this crucial care for this children.[1] It's difficult for many women working white collar jobs and almost impossible for women who work minimum wage jobs.[2] This systemic problem is going to have long-term public health effects that we have yet to even comprehend.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020209/

[2] https://qz.com/1034016/the-class-dynamics-of-breastfeeding-i...
So... I feel like this point doesn't get made enough. And I've always been confused about that.

Maybe I'm just reading the wrong articles, but the only place I can ever find someone pointing out that this only serves to increase user fingerprints is in communal discussions like HN, and rarely, and somewhere down the list. I can't ever seem to find it in articles.

Here's an article actively criticizing the DNT flag: https://gizmodo.com/do-not-track-the-privacy-tool-used-by-mi... and it doesn't mention the fact that DNT enhances your fingerprint.

But look: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ even the EFF's own fingerprinting analysis tool recognizes that the DNT enhances your fingerprint. And yet they themselves proposed another DNT standard! https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy
Yes: good for American oil producers; indifferent for American oil consumers.
A 2016 study of about 3,000 people, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, suggested that working even one more year beyond retirement age was associated with a 9% to 11% lower risk of dying during the 18-year study period, regardless of health.
You don't see the difference between you trying to find a new place to live, and you plus 100 million other people trying to find a new place to live all at the same time? I'm starting to think you're just trolling.
There was a text adventure for the BBC Model B called Philosopher's Quest (Acornsoft 1983). The back of the box mentioned, among other things 'Nothing in the game is a red herring so read all the text carefully for clues to other puzzles.'

At one point in the game you see the word 'Blanche' written on a wall. If you type the word, distant bells ring, but nothing else seems to happen.

Right at the end of the game, you need one more point to win. If you say Blanche at the very end, then you get the final points; no red herrings.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For me it always depended on the language. LISPs help me a lot because it's easy to iterate on real code in the repl. I'm not too great at just writing out a large program before running it. I have this need to test out every little bit of code. With verbose OO languages sometimes it's faster to google than to actually run the relevant code so that kills my fluidity.
I'd pay for a copy of Macsyma. Not the open source Maxima version, which is based on its development stage in 1982. The latter is all right, but Macsyma was extremely good.

I can still buy a copy ... for WinXP...
http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Macsyma-1.htm

For a while you couldn't even get that. Macsyma was one of those things where proprietary software can end tragically.

Otherwise, I'd pay for a J compiler that could make fast tree structures, but that never existed, and the market is probably 1.
That sounds like a problem with outdoor cats. Why call out indoor/outdoor cats?

The only part of the complaint specific to indoor/outdoor cats is that they hunt even though a human will feed them. That's a complaint about the cats' morality, not a complaint about their effects.

It also assumes without justification that humans don't feed their outdoor cats.
The comment I was replying said that the functionality might be useful. This does not acknowledge any particular use case for the functionality, and leaves open the possibility that it might not be useful. Someone who isn't sure whether this functionality has legitimate uses or not probably isn't aware of what the legitimate uses are.
> and get full editor support with that

Pretty sure that if you want anything more than syntax highlighting, you'll need way more than just grammar.
Isn't 5 years for a homeless cat? I doubt that a cat that has a home and food would live so little.
>> Generalization in this context is usually a very specific technical term that means after training on a training set, the fitted model continues to perform well when used on previously unseen examples (a test set) that came from the same distribution (data generating process) that Nature used to produce the training set.

To be more precise, that a dataset came from the "real" distribution of data in the real world is an assumption, and one that is impossible to verify, at that. In practice, all we can know for sure is the distribution of data in a dataset. There is such a thing as sampling error, after all, and it's a big pain in every field that uses sampling to collect evidence.

So -in practice, again- when we say that a model "generalises well" we mean that it performs well in cross-validation, where it's trained and tested on different partitions of the entire dataset, in successive steps. Unfortunately, that's a very poor measure of generalisation. More to the point- it's an estimate of the model's real-world generalisation. But how good an estimate it is, is very hard to know.
Crunchyroll episode/show scraper written in Go
After scanning the answer here I have to wonder, would we have been that much worse off if all of the closed-source, proprietary software suggested here had never existed?
Mediachance Multi Media Builder 4.9.7 : Its an IDE meant to build dvd menus and simple programs in, but I actualy made my first (distributed) software with it. (Was a quiz program for school, served on a floppy)
Would you please review the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?
Yes, they ported it to C++ due to game consoles and mobiles support.

Creating a couple of Java AOT compilers from scratch wasn't properly part of their idea how to best make use of resources.
The "posix" needs to be on the other side. Things like v8 use a posix interface for interacting with the OS. However they don't provide a posix interface the code which is running inside the VM.

I think what was needed was that someone implemented posix APIs inside webassembly, by delegating to the javascript APIs that e.g. node.js provides, or by building a native module that proxies those calls.
Do games count? I would love to bring an old OS 9 game called Barrack to modern machines.
> The feedback loop is phenomenal and is something you simply do not get with other forms of learning.

Coming off of a BA in the Humanities and studying programming for economic necessity (i.e. getting skills that would help me get a job), this is what hooked me. It felt refreshing to enter a world where my creation worked or didn’t (runtime bugs aside) and I knew it right away.

This isn’t to degrade my Humanities studies. I’ve gotten a lot of value out of them, too.
Basically: lots of people create things now, and the creations are more short lived than in the past, when there were less creators and less creations. It was one of the least rewarding videos I've watched recently.
studies show that kids today have less sex.
In Slovakia and Czech republic it is common to select dorm and room in an online registration process (click war as we call it). If you want to live with your friends, you all select the same room. If not, you leave blank space and some stranger registers to your room. There are well known party dorms, quiet dorms, close-to-school dorms etc, but students decide where to live and who to share room with.
52 of the World’s Most Out-There Myths About Food
I suspect actually there is some connection between optimal batch size and the proofs of this paper regarding how deep NN will provably converge to zero training loss with gradient descent (not stochastic gradient descent).

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03804
The i485 depends on i140 being approved and requires more lawyer fees and prep. If you concurrently file and i140 gets denied, the employers have to swallow the cost. By having me pay for premium processing for i140, they minimize their cost without significantly affecting waiting time.
As greenyoda suggested, I'd start with source and documentation of uBlock. From what I know, the major blockers share the format for their blocklists. There's two types of blocks: visual blocks, which contain a CSS selector to hide, and network blocks. Since the latter commonly block scripts that load ad elements, you'd probably need to load the page twice, to observe what elements are not created when the ad-scripts are blocked.
Chaos theory
I suspect your outdoor average also covers feral cats
The Catholic Church uses unleavened bread for the Host.

It's symbolic, but somewhat of an interest in this thread.
FrameMaker is still a thing, but it's very targeted now (and no longer cross-platform).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511923
Loved this presentation from Ben Evans at the a16z conference. Talks about the same thing in more detail.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-o...
They appear to possibly be using a nonstandard transliteration for English-language publications; possibly Nihon-shiki? And you’re right; these words appear to be nonsense.
I wonder if you just nailed being a prog
I'm an Australian software developer, living in Europe and working for a European company (Austria) which has an Australian partner developing software for use in both the Australian and European markets.

Can the Australian government compel me to sabotage the Australian software for their uses within Australia, and if so, can the Austrian government charge me with a crime for having done it while living in Austria?

The fact that I even have to ask this kind of question enrages me. I'm considering giving up my Australian citizenship over this, it is that infuriating.
You're painting with some broad strokes of black and white there.
Einstein used the best tool he had at hands - math. Now we have mach better tools: computer models, knowledge databases, AI. Math is good because math formulas are very compact, so they are easy to play with, but computer models are much better, because computer can visualize them directly, calculate values correctly, and verify result automatically. Think about Computer Aided Science.
> High-performance lightweight desktop email clients

https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/features.php

"Continuously improving since 1998"
Oracle effectively started to close source Solaris with 10, I think and then completely closed sourced it with 11. Illumos is definitely a fork, but given that Oracle effectively doesn't work on Solaris anymore it's more or less picked up where Solaris left off, it's probably superior to the commercial Oracle version at this point.
$300 for a dumbed down phone running Android that does not appear to be easily repairable seems like a bit too much.
I think TextMate is a little bit alive: it had 3 releases in 2018 ("rc" for v2.0), but it indeed is not as amazing as it was and could be.
I don't think that seventh day Adventist church is necessarily an example of being we'll adjusted
DiagnosticPADD, Tafl, HexChess, SolChess, Spirits, C64 Paint, Quill, Fractile Plus, Toontastic, Jukebox, Etude, Soundbrush, Organ+, Harmonizer, SSquares, the microTone, and about as many again that I've forgotten.
Is Bigotry a Mental Illness? (2007)