skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is trite. Stop learning frameworks with your personal time, let someone pay you to learn them on the job. Then wonder why you are underpaid.

The more you know, the more valuable you are. That includes frameworks and libraries. Using your personal time to become more valuable is a great way to earn a lot more at your next job.
> Wish I could find some SpaceX shares on the secondary markets

Unless you’re willing and able to commit at least $5 million (at the very least, $1 to 2 million) it’s not worth exploring. You’re better off buying some merchandise [1] and sticking what you were going to invest in some bonds or a broad-market index.

[1] https://shop.spacex.com/accessories.html
So does Taleb propose a better betting strategy? I'd like to see him put his money where is mouth is, rather than just his reputation.
Stanford Programming Abstractions
This is basically why studying CS is a better idea than going to a bootcamp yo learn javascript. If you know the abstraction, you can learn the concrete.
Currently the goal is to 1) alert (via prometheus), 2) visualise to quickly troubleshoot a cluster.

There is no action built into goldpinger - but feel free to suggest what you had in mind via issues on github !
> It can be as simple as providing a speaker system to a protest and deciding who gets to use it.

That isn't a problem. Private individuals are not required to abide by a fairness standard when it comes to speech. Taken a step further talk radio stations are often extremely right wing are not required to fairly convey an alternate position. I am fine with that because as a consume I am not forced to consume it.
>Insights aren't some scientifically testable hypothesis, they are utilitarian.

"Utilitatian" in the sense of demonstrating value, which requires the utility of said insight to be communicated. I didn't imply any rigidity. I'm saying that the only way to know if your psychedelic ruminations are insightful is to communicate something of value to someone else... a feat which requires other people to see the value -- using their own capacity for insight. There's no point in being a brain-in-a-vat whose every thought is a brilliant revelation who nobody else shares. There's no reason for anyone else to call that insight or value.

>You asked me to look it up.

I asked you to look it up because you kept conflating insight with value. They are not the same thing, but you kept asking questions which presume they are. Gold is valuable. Gold is not value.
> it seems oddly ironic that a proportionately harmless response to a thief (caught in the act) would be more likely to see prosecution than the act of theft itself.

In certain jurisdictions the ideological pendulum (closely followed by official public policy) has swung a little too far toward idea that criminals have no agency and are victims of an unfair system that forces them to commit crime to get by and that prosecuting minor crimes is a path to further criminality.

The idea is that by not prosecuting certain crimes we can prevent people from becoming criminals at the ground floor which will prevent them getting stuck in a loop where they can't get a real job and have to commit crime to survive and become a career criminal. While this is not totally baseless and is something I generally agree with there's a categorical difference between applying this thinking to victimless crimes and crimes with a victim (a trap which pretty much all real world implementations fall into).

In the case of petty victimless crimes where there's disagreement over whether or not the crime should be a crime at all (e.g. weed possession) having a don't prosecute by default policy is fine IMO. For petty crime with a victim that pretty much everyone agrees should be a crime (like petty theft) having a don't prosecute by default is stupid because it increases crime in order to score political virtue points for the people who implement it at the expense of the community as a whole (I'm looking at your SF and your failure to prosecute minor property crimes, yes I'm fully aware this will not be a popular opinion circa 9am and 12pm West Coast time).
Yes - not worth their time to investigate and try to track down that information. In this instance - the police spend 0 time investigating, and 2 hours arresting, booking, and forwarding criminal charges.
Workers not Robots
GDPR will still apply, at least for a while - https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/31772/gdpr-and-br...

Plus it'll still apply to European citizens, won't it? And I'm reasonably sure there's more than a non-zero number of those in Central London on any given day.
Curious: which language?
That bike most likely is also stolen.
Try explaining this to my peers who just don't appreciate why JavaScript is such a mess.

Is this problem found anywhere else in the programming world at this scale?
I'm amused by how outraged they are: how could they do this to me? seems to be a common reaction, when of course they did it to themselves.
I strongly object to the language that's commonly used around fusion research. Much of it unfairly frames the discussion around what would be a world-changing technology if realized.

For example, in this article: "the controversial ITER project, a hugely expensive fusion reactor..." There is no doubt this is an expensive project, estimated at ~$20B total cost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Funding) However, in terms of possible upsides or even compared to other projects it's _cheap_. Boston's "Big Dig" was $24B for example: https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/... Which would you rather have? A 1.5m tunnel, or an energy source that would change the future of human civilization?

I am being somewhat unfair here since the Big Dig was a case study of mismanagement and cost overruns, but as a society we should be willing to spend significant resources on world changing research instead of say $22.5B on three new boats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer

All that being said, the way forward is probably to figure out ways to make fusion related projects smaller in scale and cost. Then multiple attempts can proceed in parallel without all the organizational and governmental overhead. More on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
You should probably watch the video before commenting.
Watch the video. The phones are hidden, and the fart spray is designed to make the thief get rid of the package as quickly as possible rather than taking it apart to see what might be inside.
Booby traps are illegal and this feels like a booby trap.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/
I would like people to stop doing this childish nonsense. There is a guy who does "Operation Krampus" every year and brags about putting gifts out filled with cat shit. And people think he's so funny and cool. Thing is, he could be spending his time doing something uplifting and productive instead of being a low-life asshole himself.

It's not funny, first of all. It's childish. It isn't in keeping with the spirit of the holidays. The holidays are about giving, not being assholes to the less fortunate. Thieves deserve what they get, but seriously, if you were looking at how to spend your time over the holidays, why not volunteer or donate and forget about the lowlifes? They are punished enough just by living, and no childish bullshit is going to deter them from their behavior. Set a good example for others this holiday season and don't give in to childish pranks that just further tear down our society.
A deep ocean fish would disagree about how dark it is out there.
New Release of Collabora Online Development Edition 4.0
Oh, well, carry on then.
It really must be. Because for some reason all big companies are hell bent on tricking even the 0.001% power users that actually care by constantly overriding options and nagging people until they accidentally click the wrong thing that one time.

I have no idea what they expect to gain by infuriating that group.
homeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the failure of anonymization [pdf]
There's room for both, though. While some functions can't be integrated, others can. You can save yourself a lot of effort and get a more correct answer by taking a symbolic definite integral and then computing a result, compared with numerical integration.
Which brings another questions: are payment processors responsible for their inability to take off (maybe because of bias?), or is it the actual market that sees no interest in them?
Personally, if I could legally, morally and practically, I'd probably use chemical deterrents like cadaverine or butter acid (though the later is possibly dangerous).

Dump 100mg of cadaverine in the thiefs car and they'll never use that car again. And possibly the clothes they wore at the time.

Or other chemicals.

It would be most exciting to find chemicals that yield strongest short-term effects without any damaging long term effects.
I think every cohort of software engineers learns this in their own way. I wrote this three years ago.

Chasing the Shiny and New in Software

https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html

“I worry that some programmers (and their employers) have this attitude, namely a focus on transitioning stacks to the newest. They pick companies primarily based on the framework, aiming for the latest instead of the best tool for the job. They spend their time playing with new libraries and frameworks, instead of improving their core technical skills. Let's call them stack chasers - those pushing for new technologies (or their own favorite technologies) in a startup's stack, with limited advantages for key outputs (software capabilities that users value, development team productivity).”

I find three key underlying factors:

1. Using marketing (including Hacker News posts), to make tech choices

2. Not having the historical context to realize how ephemeral so many current tools are

3. Software training programs stress DSLs and frameworks because they help you get jobs the fastest (same with job posts)

For practical advice, I always loved Dan McKinley’s concept of a fixed budget of innovation tokens:

Choose Boring Technology
http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
You are still missing the critical piece.

The reason a file is different than a human is that everything in the file is known in advance, whereas the human reacts to the program. It’s not just about unpredictability, it’s also about the dependency.

The human input is not decided until the program displays it’s intermediate state, and when the human does send input to the program, the input is based on what the human sees, which is the program’s intermediate state. So, the human input depends on the intermediate state.

A file input does not depend on the program’s intermediate state. The file input is a static queue of data that doesn’t change. If you change the program, the file won’t change, but the human input will. A queue of commands in a file is fixed, and showing the program’s output doesn’t affect which command comes next from the file.

The human input is a function of time and also of the program’s intermediate state, and lastly of the human’s whims. These things force the program’s evaluation loop with human input into a specific order that cannot be evaluated or re-ordered or simplified in advance, unlike the file.

Is that making more sense now? All of this is exactly what the author of the article was talking about when he discussed weak vs strong composition. Do you understand what he meant by functional composition being stronger than Von Neumann composition, and why?
That is the impression I had too (that it was overstated), until I visited and experienced it firsthand, from Birmingham to Oxford to London. Perhaps the countryside is different. Of course it's true the same can be found in the US, but my experience with that is that the rich in the US only care if you are rich, whereas in the UK it seems much less than about just the money.
To me this has possible network effects and provides a social benefit. Does it make sense as a non-profit?
They don't disallow `this["#foo"]`. It's a completely different thing than `this.#foo` though. Think of it like this:

this["#foo"] = "Value A"
this.#foo = "Value B"

console.log(this["#foo"]) //=> "Value A"
console.log(this.#foo) //=> "Value B"

That's why people are saying that `this.#foo` is not an object property. You can think of it like one if you want, but it's not really the same thing.
I wonder how this compares to Esper
> The shuttle isn't really designed to put basic stuff in space

The shuttle was absolutely designed to "put basic stuff in space". By being partially reusable it was meant to be cheaper than all other "expendable" US rockets and replace them all even even for simple satellite launches.

The fact that the original goals couldn't be met was only made clear after the Challenger disaster.
It's talking about credit score, which at the moment is limited to guage the risk the lender takes when the person is borrowing money - loans, mortages, credit cards.
It's not universal and each lender has their own system in place but are held secret, from their mouths anyway, they don't have to legally tell you why you've been rejected.

Very different to China, but I wouldn't put it past politicians to extend this to other areas of society.
> All practical languages (even Rust and Haskell) fail for "division by zero"

Well, they don't have dependent types. In something like Idris you can do safe natural division.

> most (all?) (again even Rust and Haskell) offer escape hatches for their otherwise rather strong static checks.

The difference is that those escape hatches are explicit, and used rarely enough that you can give them special attention in testing/code review - in those languages it's not 95% typechecked but more like 99.9%. (Indeed in Haskell you can use a flag to disallow bypassing the typesystem entirely, and people do).
I agree. I think Silver laid it out clearly in a piece that people called him a troll for writing: Election Update: Yes, Donald Trump Has A Path To Victory, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-yes-don.... Another political writer at 538, Harry Enten, had a similar story a few days later, Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-...

I also listen to their politics podcast, and they constantly talk about how to prevent people from rounding up an 80% chance to a 100% chance. One change they made this cycle was to try say 4 out-of 5 chance (which is mathematically the same) to convey both the lack of precision and to make it more intuitive. I think it helps. Personally, when I talked to people about election outcomes, I phrased it as "Based on what I know, I will be surprised-but-not-shocked if x happens, and shocked if y happens" to differentiate between, say, a 20% chance and a 1% chance.
> that's the statement he made

More fundamentally, valuations are a metric on stock price and shares outstanding. The latter, too, is a metric on a company’s charter, outstanding (and anticipated) warrant and option and conversion obligations, et cetera.

The concrete quantum is the trade. Everything else is educated conjecture.
Geoff Hinton Profile
> "processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person"

ICO says "The processing must be necessary. If you can reasonably protect the person’s vital interests in another less intrusive way, this basis will not apply." which cuts out that excuse because, since I'm not dead and the majority of Londoners are also not dead, the police seem to be "reasonably protect[ing]" our "vital interests in another less intrusive way".

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
What's Mobile AR's Fate in 2019?
The C++ standard library is (mostly) an exemplary work, but that is despite the language's complexity, with pointers and lvalue, rvalue and forwarding references, just to get started...
This only a surprising thing because a human would parse the waveform as two words and then back into a single concept. A computer could parse it as a single concept directly or in syllable lengthed chunks to be reconfigured however.
The term was coined by this NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark...
How is this the same thing?

- polymorphic lambda calculus: Lambda calculus with generics

- lazy evaluation: Well, lazy evaluation. Not sure how else to describe this

- algebraic data types: Again, how else to describe this? Put in a full description of what algebraic data types are?

- type classes: Haskell has type classes.

I really don't see what the problem is. If you're coming in to an article about dependent types, and you don't know what these things are, I think don't think the reasonable response is for the author to explain all of it to the reader. This isn't a beginner's introduction to Haskell.
I think it's pretty clear from this thread. In the context of programming, it's someone who can do what a "mere user" can do, but who can push the thing to extreme limits, modify it to do something completely new, or fix it if it's somehow broken or has holes in its design.

Its not clear at all because you can simply move the goal post. Someone with 20 years of programming in client side apps struggles with programming a website and can't figure things out on X situation without help. Does that mean they are automatically not professional?

In the case of racecar drivers: They need an intuitive understanding of what their engine is capable of, and how far they can push it based on what it's been doing. They need an understanding of driving physics. They need a good feeling of driving physics, and they need to understand how the wear they've put into their tires could affect performance...

Again, another arbitrary definition. I bet you can go to most professional drivers and they won't understand the physics at all, they have an understanding from experience and consultation of the experts, but I would bet that 90% of drivers aren't going to pull out calculus or kinematic equations to analyze a race track. They either hire someone to do that or use a computer (most likely) to simulate the race. And even then, the simulations are inaccurate due to driver emotional state. My guess is they have, at most, a surface level understanding of driving physics.

Not necessarily. This would vary a lot depending on the language and the particular task.

So does everything, but we know that Y/0 is a programmed failure state based on the library being used. So the solution is either, catch the exception (and by catch, I mean control in a broader sense since you can condition the input), use a different library, or write your own library. I would hope, in a business setting and in most settings, you would choose to catch the exception or control for it in some way.

It's that last few percent where things can get really dicey and expensive. (Also the basis of a lot of the money for "consultants.") If someone wants to run a shop where someone isn't prepared with the know-how to deal with that, I guess it's their business. That's not what I'd consider a very a high level of "professional."

So you base your decision on the few percent of people that can do X vs. the 95% of people that can't, but can solve all other problems without knowing the details? Seems like a very irrational outlook considering the following:
a) Some of these top 5% of people may not even exist
b) If they do exist, they are most likely consulting
c) They are being paid more than most businesses can afford
d) They work for companies you probably don't work at
e) They are doing research work and publishing papers you probably never read
f) They probably can't solve X problem outside their expertise without assistance

But the point is that even if abstractions leak, they rarely do. And that's the whole point of engineering and technological advancement in general, is so that you don't need to know the details.
If it can't be shut down it is doomed to fail.
A site that claims to be "...the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices" arguably shouldn't itself do data mining. Or should at least be clear about what it is doing with the data that it collects about you.
The "intellectual dark web" is a term that I believe Eric Weinstein coined to refer to themselves, so it is not meant to be critical or to refer to secrecy. Rather I understand it as a reference to a relatively diverse circle of intellectuals (Harris and Peterson for instance are on the opposite side of the political spectrum on many topics), that have a large direct audience (through youtube, conferences and podcasts), but that are persona non grata on mainstream medias (other than the occasional hit piece).
Because the difference between `object.count` and `object.#count` is NOT purely syntactical. Information is needed at the call site to determine if it is a private field access compared to an object property access. This is because a private field, as defined in the spec, must not interfere with object properties.
Solar households expected to give away power to energy firms
If being on your phone is bad, opening a package in a moving vehicle is probably worse
Absolutely. Then we can hope people would push for 100% recycling when they make this exact realization for themselves.

Starting with 100% recycling feels like a non-starter, but getting a foothold with something like 30%, or enough to sustain that industry I mentioned, could be a beginning.
What's wrong with OpenVPN?
Classism exists but it's definitely much worse at oxbridge than elsewhere.
There is a reason why I included the monopoly part. Amazon pretty much has the monopoly on next-day deliveries on goods in the US.

People also dont usually buy goods off of felons because they are felond. They pay for it because they want the good. These creators got paid for their opinions and views.

Amazon is also well in their right to deny goods they deem harmful from beeing sold on their website
This is just one of many great losses for the Chinese people brought on by the Chinese government. Their government enjoys the benefits of permanent UN Security Council membership but don't respect the very human rights this organization works to uphold. This makes China a less attractive place to do business in.

So, if the Chinese people are so concerned about attracting Google, they could maybe understand that they need to change their government into something that respects human rights.
Doesn't sound like they were devs at all. Flash's AS3 (and to a lesser extent AS2) were pretty good languages and after learning them it should be pretty easy to transition to JS. AS3 was, imho, a better ECMAScript implementation than JS was, especially because it was typed. As someone who worked in both AS3 and JS I still miss it a bit but it wasn't that much of a leap to work in other environments.
You could take them out of the fridge in batches....
Why would that comparison be helpful?
They couldn't do anything with the footage of them taking it from the front porch. But with close up footage of their face and GPS coordinates of some of their houses it seems like a different story.
> So do we have any proof that these sites actually honor the opt-out requests and don't simply add the information we had to provide to them to their dossier?

I don't know, especially for scummy people search websites.

However, I've requested a lot of disclosure reports and opted out of a lot of stuff, and I don't think I've volunteered anything the dataminer probably didn't already know. The real big names like Lexis Nexus and the credit bureaus have their tentacles in everything, so it'd be very difficult to hide your address, telephone number, and property information from them.

The requests that require emails or phone numbers have never rejected throwaway accounts or non-personal phones numbers I have access to. I think they mostly ask for them to impede bulk opt outs.