skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure to understand are you basically saying " it's okay to do human testing because we can save million of others " ?

The whole point of "civilized" countries is to guarantee some basic individual rights by not fall into this pure utilitarian vision. Otherwise you can justify all the most dystopian-dictatorish-nazish horrors you want.

If you or your children were dying because some scientists did non-consenting & non-needed test on them to make sure "we build the technology to save million others" you wouldn't find this fair.
Probably not a full scale invasion, just to scare the crap out of Ukraine and Russia can bill the gasoline spent to a training exercise.

Amazing that in 2018 no one can stop an invasion (well, by a Russian sized military).
Espressobin is really bad, they didn't implement pcie drivers properly. I would stay away, and use an intel atom board from the 2010's.
I have lived in three states: Washington, North Carolina, and Tennessee. I have no idea what state you are in to have all of these restrictions. The only thing I can think of is you are conflating many laws from many states across a large time period.

Birth control? An annual (3 years in Washington) cancer screening and check up for your birth control prescription. Possibly covered by insurance but not REQUIRED. Which is different from OUTLAWED. Not that it matters, my wife's birth control costs $85 every three months and we can pay for it with our HSA. That's hardly emptying anyone's bank account especially when you compare it to the ACA which requires every citizen spend >$100/mo on insurance that does mostly nothing!

Bathroom laws? Oh yeah? Which one! There are none currently in existence. There were certainly more than a few that were considered but only one passed and it was repealed!

LGBTQ restrictions on adoption? Adoption by same-sex couples is legal in all 50 states!

LGBTQ workplace protections? There are certainly protections at the federal level. But yes, you're right. Places like North Carolina do not have any laws on the books which expressly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. But ask yourself, what is the practical effect on LGBTQ people? I would argue there is no effect. You might as well be in California. I have worked at many companies with many LGBTQ people and all of them were safer in their employment than I was! No company wants the backlash that comes from being perceived as anti-LGBTQ. Society has adequately regulated the protection of LGBTQ people where governments have not.

As for the apparent racism of rural areas. Having grown up with a great many black friends I've:

* Never met a black person who could not get a driver's license.

* Never been exposed to a dress code that prohibited black people.

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Look I have my own gripes about rural living (the South specifically). But I won't lie or live in some bizarre universe where the South is hell on earth.
Drunk (but v angry still)
APL is actually kind of bad at math, or well the kind of math people tend to think of when they talk about matlab or Fortran being good at math.

What APL does well is filter/select/transform more spreadsheet style work than linear algebra stuff. It's a language to describe computation as meant by the sort of computer scientists that were born when computer was a job description.
> Perfect occasion to ask something that I didn't know who to ask: does anyone here knows if it has ever been tried to "simplify" the visual aspect of Esperanto, by getting rid of all accents? (ĉ, ĝ, ŭ, etc.)

This is highly subjective view. Of course some people hate diacritics and prefer to write sx instead of ŝ but many have the opposite opinion. As for me sx looks plain disgusting. I would even love to see sh being replaced with ŝ or š or ș in English and the same to happen with sch in German, sz in Polish, ch in French etc. And there have in fact been projects to replace the English alphabet with something that makes more sense and doesn't use combinations of letters to represent a single sound (e.g. the Shavian alphabet). Obviously both ways have their pros and cons, their proponents and opponents so it probably just should be left as it already is in whatever a language.
Did you read TFA? Stay the hell out of other people's arguments ;)
Saying many words without really saying anything.
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> How would syntax highlighting catch that? Those are valid identifiers!

Author here, you're absolutely right. When I wrote this, I was thinking of some of the more obvious tricks like the alternate semicolon, parens or curlies. I'm gonna edit the article to qualify that, and add a note about maybe using a SwiftLint exclusion rule containing all these unicode characters.

Thanks for the discussion! :)
How the United States created Vladimir Putin
Interesting article. It has often seemed to me that efforts such as Urbit (urbit.org) deserve our attention, precisely because they might actually deliver on the 'serverless' premise to a far greater extent than current solutions.
The article focuses on the question of a "good death".

Nope. No. No such thing. There is no "good death". The self-sacrificing death? Nope. Might be noble, altruistic, but it's not good. Death in general? Awful. Truly tragic that it's necessary at all. That a person might acquire a lifetime of knowledge, experience, memories, and then it's gone.

There is no good death. The only judgements here are between adjectives like bad, worse, tragic, awful, etc. Never good.
I love stories like this, even though my Meyers Parrot has a limited vocabulary and could never pull this off. For me the best part is Marion Wischnewski giving Rocco a good home. After having cats, monkeys, and dogs as pets, I have to say that my parrot is my favorite pet, but most people shouldn’t have parrots unless they can devote many hours a day to their care and playing with them.
Season 3 of sci-fi gem Travelers is out on Netflix
That's not voice fingerprinting though. It's requiring a PIN for purchases.
...or a US one for that matter...
Cultural fit is now my primary hiring consideration, and this is why. Good advice, quick read, 9/10. Needs more dog
I'm afraid your "translation" does a disservice to all the potential readers of the paper, to those who want to decide whether to use serverless computing at present and to the authors.

Quoting from the conclusion of the paper:

"Taken together, these challenges seem both interesting and surmountable.
The FaaS platforms from cloud providers are not fully
open source, but the systems issues delineated above can be explored
in new systems by third parties using cloud features like
container orchestration. The program analysis and scheduling issues
are likely to open up significant opportunities for more formal
research, especially for data-centric programs. Finally, language
design issues remain a fascinating challenge, bridging program
analysis power to programmer productivity and design tastes. In
sum, we are optimistic that research can open the cloud’s full potential
to programmers. Whether we call the new results “serverless
computing” or something else, the future is fluid."
Running functions in a VPC cause them to have cold starts of ~5 seconds. Connection pools need to be centralized to be of any use, since lambdas scale automatically.
Then you find out the growth was all pet parrots and the change gets overruled for financial reasons.
The Definitive Guide to Protecting Your Eyes for Developers
How hard is it to just touch the freaking thing to confirm? I mean, how much time is saved, 1.283 seconds?
From memory as a western kid on vacation in 1980's Hungary: transportation use of horses existed, but as a bit of an outlier. But photogenic outliers tend to be wildly overrepresented in travel photpgraphy, I know what I would have aimed my camera at, had I had one.
Building something that works in a short period of time when a team has failed to do that over several quarters demonstrates little more than the fact that your organization has hired people less competent and productive than you.

Unless you want to work where you're the least competent person, this isn't necessarily bad.

Hiring highly competent people to build software does not scale as well as hiring (many) more less competent people. It is simply cheaper after the company grows to a certain size.

Process is more repeatable and predictable when programmers are more or less interchangeable mercenary byte plumbers who care about their own career growth compared to when everyone is deeply passionate about quality and competent about technical excellence.
> What makes it absolutely necessary for users to sign up before they can try your app?

Offer some kind of reward, like cashapp, paypal, etc...

> Why do I have to give my email even for apps that should be able to work perfectly fine without an internet connection?

Number of users lead to monetization ad a way to reach them a channel to do it.

> Do you track how many potential users are disgusted by this, i.e. by comparing the number of total downloads versus signups?

You should definitely do this. These numbers are vital to create strategies for growth
Is Fertilizing the Ocean the Key to Solving Climate Change?
My grandparents and I were talking about technology, and how back in the 80's she'd written manuals for the staff at the University of California's Lick Observatory on how to write and print documents using vi. Reading through this was an interesting look back in time.
I've always been curious how people get into this. I've been interested in KDB ever since I read http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320, but it's not exactly a language they teach in college or you'd pick up in independent study. Do people just apply to fintech places with relevant experience and then get training for kdb?
Sorry to hear of what you've been through

> Now it's just a platform that reminds me of the past by forcing these "connections"

It doesn't force those things.
Firefox 64 – GCC vs. Clang
If the argument to the original function is too large, the function runs out of stack space for the recursion. The function at the end of the post handles much larger arguments.

The presentation is very complicated, though.
Error, taco salad in a corn tortilla bowl is !not sandwich.
CAPCHA? What is this supposed to mean? Completly automated parrot test to tell computers and humans apart? Doesn't make sense.

CAPAHA? Completly automated parrot test to tell animals and humans apart? Closer, but i doubt that's what you meant?
Your description of Hacker News makes it sound like it's a single person with a uniformly consistent opinion. It isn't.
Not saying that time and money is unimportant, but sometimes time and money are the soft(er) constraints. Extreme example: the toolchain is lost and the original application can not be built anymore, but the business currently swims in money.
The benefit from Facebook that isn't really offered by anything other than Google+ is the "Christmas Card" news - you find out when your old friends and distant relatives have important things happening in their lives, like moving, getting married, having kids, etc. Also people like to live vicariously through their friends, which they can do through photos of their lives, especially kids and trips.
Depending on how much free time you have, you could always homeschool him! The educational/extracurricular activities part is hard though -- I was homeschooled and got a lot of my 'socialization' through team sports, which can be harder in a rural area.
What's the next window into our universe?
Repackage business models that exist in developing nations as a result of extreme income disparity or poverty and call it the new gig/sharing economy. Make sure the app captures as much data from the user's phone as possible; it's worth something.
Something I noticed: nobody seems to have acne
Maybe "force" is too strong a word. However, it strongly pushes them by generating lists of people you may know even if you haven't talked to them in over a decade. It also makes it easier for someone to just click "Friend this person" rather than having to find someone's number and pick up the phone.

Guilt is a strong motivator, as least for me, so granting someone that access makes it a lot more difficult to set appropriate boundaries.
The page doesn't mention mobile app testing.

"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
"But when my parents, my abusers, added me on Facebook I felt obligated to add them due to pressure from family members and friends who don't get how the abuse affected me..."

How did Facebook force them to add those people as friends?
sorry, i used the wrong term, i didn't mean 'political' in terms of political factions or streams, but in terms of nations. (like it is used in political map vs geographical map)

i edited my post to clarify.
> confidently edit DNA, and know that it won't causes a ton of unforeseen issues down the line.

That’s a question of code not file format. I may understand C, but that does not mean I can edit any C program safely.

> abort if there are serious issues.

That stance suggests there is no way to fail as death is the worst option. But even that fails as a significant number of women died due to pregnancy or birth before modern medicine. Even now pregnancy’s are higher risk than most things people do.
Who is doing all of the liquidation work if all founders and employees have moved on?
"...the recursive expression is self contained in the return call" is usually spelled "...is in tail position", or perhaps "...is a tail call."
There is insufficient demand for software warranties. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to ask for a warranty of at least two years, which means one would get two years plus how many additional years the product continues to be sold.

Could even encourage security by using read-only flash, only a reboot is needed to clear any viruses.
It is designed to make as many addicts as possible. If it didn't, they would continue development until it did.
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It's up to you to accept a friend suggestion or request. And the UI makes it easy to delete any friend request. If there's pressure it comes from outside FB itself.
Really? Isn’t urbit based on a computation model multiple orders of magnitude less efficient than KVM?
Robinhood revamping checking after SIPC chief disputes insurance coverage
If you’re calling from another file you edit the pragmas in the file you’re calling from. Seems easy enough.

I actually am not quite clear on the details: one source made it sound like a limited set of scripts was enabled by default. Perhaps someone who knows Perl better can clarify.
> The lesson we can learn from this story is the following: start with a generic database...SQL database are a good choice because they can do many tricks...The modern and successful architecture that is commonly used today is to have an SQL database that is sometimes surrounded by some one-trick ponies to take care of a few pain points.

Yup.

I like that we now have more of these one-trick ponies to choose from our toolbox when necessary, when a relational database just won't cut it.

But, my biggest complaint around the NoSQL movement is the marketing pseudo-hype it created. So many amateurs who don't understand database selection took it as gospel and evangelized it across the web (eg. Mongo w/ Node).

It's hard to correct people's understanding when they learn things wrong the first time, especially when there's a mountain of incorrect information they can point to on the web ("These people can't all be wrong, can they?" Well...).
Because the structure of Facebook encourages those kinds of pressures.

No, facebook the company did not force them at gunpoint to add their parents. That's correct. There are degrees of pressure, yes? If someone found them too much to put up with, is it unreasonable to accept the term 'forced' as apropos?
Hopefully soon, “moving in that direction” can be done by slowly porting to Checked C, while always retaining an executable artifact. https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
Yeah, I see how different kinds of people may genuinely benefit from Facebook. Maybe it is a personality thing, but I can't relate.
Although I tend to agree with you, I do think one has to keep in mind their audience. I typically don't expect to have to read programming blogs several times in order to catch the literary subtleties, whereas I might expect that reading literature or philosophy.
Typically, one would start off in a quant trading desk which uses kdb+ for their analytics or join First Derivatives [0] that trains graduates

[0] https://www.firstderivatives.com/
I think the prevalence of recursion might be attributable to mathematics. A lot of mathematical analysis of algorithms is more natural to express in terms of recursion (partially because of proof by induction), so you often see algorithms stated that way.

It's also worth noting that there are plenty of instances where (IMO), recursion is much more natural. For example, traversing trees recursively. I agree, though, there should definitely be more time spent teaching how to convert between the two.
somewhat related: https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
One size never fits all. The end.
Am I the only one that thinks severless is about creating a bunch of vendor locked-in technical debt?
Those who I consider A players don't foster insecurities about their coding abilities in their egos.
So knowing this what has Gitlab done to overcome it?

If they haven't, why not? Why is it hard or inconvenient?
I see how it's counter intuitive - almost seems as if the author is contradicting himself. But it did drive a point home, especially that last sentence. This is what I took away from it:

You may be able to come up with better ways to do things, but that often means replacing or voiding the efforts of coworkers or bosses. People have fragile egos, and may feel their job is being threatened since you are arranging things more efficiently. This could churn office politics, and cause problems that have little to do with the job itself (emotionally compromised workers and shifting hierarchy).

Likewise, it is our responsibility to embrace the skills of fellow workers in order to enhance workflow. There is no such thing as superiority if you're a member of a team. Kill the ego and think about constant improvement for the group
Yes, it is unreasonable to call "encouraging" (your term) "forcing" ("forced" - "obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power" - Google's definition).

[EDIT: to the people downvoting this, the subtleties of language matter. There is a big and specific difference between concepts like "encouraged", "presssured" and "forced"]
The problem is that a reproduction crisis, on its own, doesn't mean that a field is doing a bad job. With systems that involve lots of moving parts, the prior probability of finding a correct model is just dismally low. Bayes simply guarantees that the vast majority of our positives will be false in this case. We probably need to utilize more sophisticated statistics in this case in order to capture a more nuanced notion of a study's utility.

Worse, most of the time I hear people criticize psychology, the person is implicitly using this as an excuse to not critically examine their personal beliefs about how human minds work.

Paychology is hard, and we're feelinng around in tye dark, but chemistry had the same problem 300 years ago with ideas like phlogiston theory.
Could you elaborate on the business model repackaging? Did these models really come from developing nations?

Edit: typo
one of the most difficult things to relay about why facebook is a danger (probably more so in years gone then now) is they can not visualize the effects (both in the real world and mentally) . This was probably how drugs where viewed back in the 70s it was all seen as fun and games and mostly harmless.

If you say to someone dont speed, drink and drive as it may cause you to get into a car accident its clear to see the devastating impact speeding and drink driving can have, people can imagine it, they can see it and dont want to be involved in it, but when you tell friends and family facebook has the potential to brainwash, manipulate and control you its hard for people to understand how because it is related to understanding how data can predict and be used understand behavior, its a very new concept for many people just being understood in the last few years.

To the majority of users they control facebook, its not the other way around, they can delete images, comment on things, vote on things and and do what they need to on the platform from the saftey of their own home, to majority of people it gives them a voice when before no one cared about what they had to say, but as the ads that they are shown seep into their thoughts without them knowing, the articles and propaganda about the latest political events change their behavior and their emotions and mental well being are affected as they see their friends lives supposedly much better then theirs, they just get more and more sucked in.

As someone with a comp sci major from 15 years ago and understanding the power of data i have been having this conversation with people for years and even now with so much of these facebook powered problems occurring more and more in the media, many still dont see the effects, though at least now , the dangers are hitting the bigger more general audience. At least there is progress there and hopefully this will allow the public to make a more informed decision before they put up their whole lives and the lives of their kids on social media before their kids are even old enough to approve or accept that they want a social media account.
Latin isn't spoken much and we still call it a language: a dead language. Esperanto is still spoken, it's just a particularly uncommon (but not even the smallest) language.
By the way most people drive, your average driver likely opposes this too
yes, but all of these at one point had not many people use them. if that were a problem in itself, then they would never have become popular.
I second this. I've mentioned "Eloquent Ruby" several times to Rubyists as one of the best books I've read on Ruby. Russ Olsen makes difficult concepts digestible.

My only guess as to why it's relatively unknown in the Ruby world is that it's quite old. Perhaps a new edition could have fixed that?
The genome is spooky action at a distance. A lot of physical traits seem connected to personality which indicates studies are insufficiently rigorous.
Fair enough then
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Thanks (to both replies)
My girlfriend is a child and family therapist, a public school teacher in a special needs class before that. They didn't mention this in grad school, but she started figuring out kids had attachment disorders related to PTSD instead of their original autism diagnoses while she was still interning. It didn't sound like it was that big a revelation. It sounded like it's a pretty common misdiagnosis.
There is also a major advancement in disposal technology:

http://www.deepisolation.com
Your thesis is pretty circular. You're not making a statement about A players. You are merely defining them to be that way.
It would be more accurate to describe it as proprietary than it would be to describe it as free software or open source. Proprietary software is software which restricts your freedoms when it comes to the usage, modification, or distribution of said software. If you prefer, you can also use the term source-available to distinguish the degree of restrictions -- but the point is the same. There are restrictions on your freedom in the software and thus it is proprietary.

Not everything has a middle ground. Software is either proprietary (restricts your freedom) or it isn't -- and discussions about how proprietary it is (how many restrictions it imposes on users) are secondary.
Parrots these days!