skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flooded by migrants, eh? Did they come in a wave? A tsunami? Did their little beady rat-like eyes and their smell offend you?

Dress it up all you like, but you’ve just broadcast “I’m a xenophobe” loud and proud.
The Commission cannot create law alone and undemocratically.

The European Commission drafts legislation and then the European Parliament decides whether or not to amend or pass the legislation.
All this is definitely true, but in my opinion not ideal. LuaTeX adds a significant layer of complexity to an already way-too-complex system.

At this point we might want to step back and wonder why this has become so hard.

TeX is a poor foundation to build upon, so I don't think LuaTeX, despite being the best solution currently, is the right direction to explore.
I'm coming from a python/javascript background and absolutely love TS (and flow).
Tutorial for object detection in browsers with ONNX.js
> it's a poor worksman who blames his tools

This is such a ridiculous common myth, and I've been hearing it repeated my entire life.

While not everything, tooling does matter an awful lot.
Also, Apple sells the default search provider space on their OS to Google for ~9B/year.

So, does it really matter if Apple doesn't directly operate their advertising business and instead outsources it?
Any statement like "in Europe" is a fundamental disservice to how diverse Europe is in terms of taste. For example, I don't think I've ever met anyone in my life that likes to drink americano. I know a lot of people that smoke and drink coffee though.
Snowcrash is probably the best example of a near future anarcho-capitalist society. Particulary showing it in a light which is far from utopian, perhaps more of a realistic devolution.
On a personal device, it's reasonable to use LTE.
Point taken, but hotel will almost always have a paid security person as opposed to a home which will not.
Maybe we should all be getting off HN and doing our jobs like Sam hopefully is?
Hotels feel more safe to me because there is a clear chain of responsibility and accountability. AirBnB is a thousand miles away and can only guess what actually happens at their properties.
You didn't look, maybe?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/18/imf-says-br...

The entire global establishment of "experts" united together and made a series of predictions that weren't just wrong by a percentage, they were wrong in the wrong direction. There are NO organisations that I remember who predicted the outcome correctly. There were though, quite a lot of vox pops with the man on the street who said words to the effect of, "it'll be fine, we'll manage".

The brutal reality is that people who put their faith in the notion of expert understanding of politics or economics have been made to look very foolish, and worse, many of them don't seem to have accepted the uselessness or bias levels of the people the media present as experts. They are still being upheld not only as important, but actually as people who should be given vast new powers to run government! It's quite concerning.
What you describe is said talent doing it wrong.

But if it floats your boat — awesome!

Take care.
Challenging your assumptions:
1. Does China only care about Chinese?
2. If the Chinese government was first, who will be second?
I think this.

I had a friend who formerly worked for military intelligence in the UK who asked once (to a group) if we thought we were on the GCHQ database. I said yes, I would likely be in there and when he asked why I gave my reason, which is that I once did something that relatively, very few people have done and thus I have marked myself as ahead of the crowd in some way since it is probable that the government became aware of that. My friend did not confirm or deny but acknowledged my contribution. I presume he would be forbidden from revealing operational details like this but these days I think that yes I am in the database because we are all in it.

Its going to be a relational database and there is no single 'rank' as such but certainly accomplishments and connections are noted. If you speak <language> and they hear about that, they will note that. They might need a <language> speaker at short notice one day and you just happen to be there. They might need a person with a particular type and colour of car. They might need a pilot. All of these people are already available within the military but they might want somebody else. It is their job to keep tabs and I think they probably do it well.
I agree entirely about Lisp in Small Pieces. It's one of those books that I've attempted to read many times and never get more than half way through.
The Chinese doesn't even care about the Chinese. Their care about the Communist Party. Everything else comes second.
Building link strategy
Yesterday's post about migrating to typescript [1] explains it well.

tldr: This release meant that adopting TypeScript no longer meant buying into the entire TypeScript ecosystem and that we could keep using Babel to emit JavaScript. More importantly, this meant that we could actually use TypeScript as a type checker, and not so much as a "language" per se.

[1] https://davidgom.es/porting-30k-lines-of-code-from-flow-to-t...
I see, thanks. The term -stan just means -land, I used it to deliberately have a foreign-sounding place for "other". I now know to be more politically correct.

I'm sitting in a room with people from Uzbekistan and Kazahstan, they have absolutely no problem with the use of the term!
Great point. The real story here is regulatory capture and willing politicians. This is what makes money in politics the enemy of every voters on both sides.
The 86's chassis and suspension tuning? Absolutely Toyota.
The main thing is that Airbnb has a global economy of scale - having more hosts in Japan actually does benefit their guests who reside in New York year-round. Competitors to Airbnb similarly must achieve global scale in order to compete in a serious way. There are one or two meaningful exceptions (China, possibly the US domestic market), but essentially any Airbnb competitor must achieve global scale in order to be a serious threat.

By contrast, Uber has to fight to win each city, and most of its users will use Uber for the most part within that city. Adding more drivers to Tokyo does not have a meaningful impact on the resident of New York.
There is also a series of posts regarding the design of Aurora on the AWS blog, although about everything is described in the original paper:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-th...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-th...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-th...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-th...
There already was a People's Vote. The first time.
I had an issue where Aurora MySQL would refuse connections above 1000 even though Max Connections was configured several times higher.

Most of the connections were idle too.

Any pooling they are doing is not very effective.

The product is pretty disappointing.
> It's likely such a referendum will have two questions: Do you wish to leave or remain?; and, in the event of a vote towards leave, would you accept the backstop or would you prefer "No Deal"

That's interesting, as it also could have had one question, with three possible answers: What option do you prefer: Leave, No Deal Brexit, May's Deal Brexit?

I can very well imagine the presentation of these questions influencing the outcome (with Remain being more likely in my formulation), and I wonder how such things get considered when designing a referendum.
Is someone checking it twice?
> Where we rank is what matters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Enjoy. :)

Edit: Wow, I've a LONG way to go to get on this list :/
This reminded me of another guy who does graphics study on how frames are rendered in GTA V, DOOM, etc:

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphic...

Other games/discussions can be found at: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=adriancourreges.com
Google is the Internet's black hole, sucking everything in. So massive that it bends everything towards it. And imo that's all it takes to be evil, being so powerful that you will always get your way.
Stretch – A flexbox implementation in Rust
I ran MicroG recently and for many cases it works but there are still places where it's lacking. For example it doesn't play nice with taxi apps. Notifications and such work just fine though, as does Google's own Play Store.
Storage and network stability is much higher if you run it on top of Openstack. k8s on baremetal is a pain in the butt. Disadvantage is that you have even more layers of abstraction.
I'm not sure I agree that a no-deal Brexit is such a good idea - given the (now exposed) lies of the Leave campaign, a second referendum seeems pretty reasonable.

At any rate - the idea that there is an alternative deal that someone can deliver on persists even now, which is insane. My favorite quote on this came from Michael Gove:

> “It’s a bit like a load of people in their mid-fifties at a swingers’ party holding out for Scarlett Johansson to arrive,” Mr Gove said.

> Amber Rudd, work and pensions secretary, added: “Or Pierce Brosnan.”

> Meanwhile David Gauke, justice secretary, claimed Labour’s Brexit policy was so fanciful it was “like hoping Scarlett Johansson is going to turn up on a unicorn”.
I don't think that was important to Brexit voters. It's an emotional vote, a rejection of something, and they didn't care about the consequences. The favorable deals are only a way to keep the debate going.
The UK was always a special-case member of the EU, always demanding it's own uniqueness and pushing neoliberal garbage at every corner. The EU council should never have bent over so far backwards for the UK in the first place and it would have been absurd for them to bend even further. UK exceptionalism can go enjoy it's lonely island time.
yes, obvi
Going to miss their expertise.
スマホの背面に取り付けるゲームコントローラー「MUJA」、まもなくindiegogoでキャンペーン開始
> However, once you have (mostly) caught up, it becomes less obvious what the next thing to do is.

Chinese economy is not about catching up with the west anymore. If you ever lived in China in recent years, you'd see that the Chinese economy is advancing in lots of aspects, and many of those in ways vastly different from western societies. The government plays an important part in it, but private companies are just as important. For example, the tech industry in China (which comprised of mostly private companies) evolved into its own ecosystem, and is iterating faster than that of silicon valley.
To me it seems pretty clear that you said "probably" out of knee-jerk both-siderism.
Agreed. To add to your points, Putin’s grandfather was a cook for Lenin and Stalin.
Speculation: He grew up hearing about these ‘”heros”.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.rbth.com/document/5aa678c...
They haven't really been subjects since the UK became a constitutional monarchy (defined as when a monarch is "a sovereign who reigns but does not rule" -- Vernon Bogdanor, ref wikipedia). So, not for the last few hundreds of years at least.
Indeed, but the Taliban's rapid recruitment and easy access to heavy weapons was a direct consequence of the US support of the Mujahideen
This is not the voter’s fault. In a functioning democracy, there is a system to approve a text by popular vote instead of the usual parlement. So the question at such a vote should always be: “do you approve the proposed text?”, then the text becomes law.

By organizing an abstract opinion poll, the government just prepared a shit show, there no way to make any significant chunk of the population happy, everybody had a different view of brexit.
... and, most importantly, does this list contain itself?
600 days of postmarketOS
While I'm always happy to hear good news about coffee (although as an espresso aficionado, I'd be hard pressed to consume half a litre a day), given the obvious difference between coffee and water, I don't see how this can be a 'single-blind' study.
The non-sarcastic answer is either:

- you build a matrix math system as a service... or

- you build cloud rendering (as they have done several times)
What's the alternative on ARM?
Interesting description, thanks for the update
I stand corrected, gov.uk is so easy to use I've really no excuse for not looking this up earlier.

> TV Licensing People certainly can't drive off with your car.

It would make for a very interesting Top Gear replacement if they could though.
The only major issue I've experienced is if you need the latest Nvidia drivers and CUDA. The odds are, if you just go and follow the sanest-seeming instructions you can find to install the drivers needed, your OS will no longer boot to desktop. If you do manage to install, the next kernel update will break the drivers and you're left with a black screen and hazy memories of how to fix it.

There are ways to get it to work, of course, but for any distro I've used, before you've dealt with this a few times, it's not obvious which set of instructions will both result in usable drivers and not break upon kernel update. I now have a "how to install Centos 7" document that I'm still not sure is actually 100% correct.
> A Remain victory wouldn't have come with a 25% drop in the pound, rampant inflation, the worst growth rate of G8 countries

Why do people spout such provable nonsense?! Inflation is around the BoE target rate of 2% having just nudged down a touch (consensus forecast for Jan 2019 is 2.1%). Rampant inflation is what you see in Venezuela and Zimbabwe. A moment's thought should disabuse you of this opinion.

Back in late 2015, the UK's growth was around 2.9% based primarily on fundamentals that are largely unrelated to Brexit (IT and software). Those fundamentals haven't changed so there's a high likelihood that growth is dragging due to overall negative sentiment as a result of Brexit uncertainty.

Clear that fog, and growth should bounce back. The fastest way to clarity that honours the referendum result, though many don't want to hear it, is a no-deal departure with appropriate WTO exceptions based on national security assertions (de-risking essential supplies) during an FTA negotiation period coupled with the (already given) assertions on the EU citizens' right-to-remain in the UK.
Zones 1-4 is the cheapest day ticket available, that’s why I took it as an example. Feel free to look into the provided links if you think there’s a better example listed.
When reading the title I was thinking of a different concept, but I think that could be Toxic Optimism (or already has a different name): Being overly optimistic with regards to the problems/challenges humanity faces, in ways that can stifle realism and may lead others to inaction. Steven Pinker is my example of a person that emanates that.
That's not the reason that the EU has made the process so difficult.

They made it so difficult and so scary to warn the other states to not even try to think about an exit.

How is that democratic?

If the EU is so convinced that the only way is the EU way they should have made it easy for the UK to leave, then watch it as it burned to the ground and groveled to try to buy its way back into the EU then maybe the other states would have thought: Gee, it did not work for the EU but at least now we know and we won't try!

Instead, the EU is trying to make an example of the Uk as a show of force to the other states. The EU is ruling with fear and acting like a bully!

And that's forgetting the fact the EU leaders could have seen Brexit as a wake-up call and maybe changed the course of action and reform the EU from within to give people what they fucking promised when this thing was made in the first place: prosperity, safety, so on and so forth.

Instead, they march forward with more integration, more federalism, more Europe, as if the nations don't count anymore. Free trade is the new God in town and it doesn't take prisoners.

Lets forget the fact the economic growth for the EU is one of the weakest in the world for the last 15 years, that the youth unemployment rate is roughly 25% and that because the wages are so low due to the enormous amount of tax being paid by the companies and citizens, they have resorted to importing people from 3rd world countries in order to fill job vacancies that only exists because nobody can actually afford to work for such a low wage.

A new age of slavery built on top of migrant workers.

Ain't the EU pretty?

God forbid you are against them! 30 years ago if you showed any sign of reservation towards unregulated capitalism you were labeled a communist and shamed by the major political parties, nowadays if you are against the EU, you are labeled as backward, illiterate and racist/fascist/populist.

The words have changed, the technics are the same.
What bizarre comparisons! Apple has always sold sought-after physical products for profit. FB for all its crime makes incredible income through paid advertising. Snap is a dot-com gusher bleeding red ink.
what funny is i just started using fedora (and i have actually been really enjoying it).. but to help me remember its not apt or rpm or even yum i have been thinking to myself Do Not Follow - for no reason at all other than i first learned about it after installing a new machine and configuring firefox etc. :)
> I very rarely see TypeScript developers actually use `any` (usually to reflect something like something parsed from arbitrary JSON that needs to be interrogated rather than just type-asserted)

Even that example usage of `any` should be less common, now. I think `unknown` (which is fairly new) is better there.
The aspect of a second referendum would be the good faith balance that would plicate the EU. Though politically such avenues would be along the lines of leaking that option, then asking for extension and face saved on both sides.
Qwant Maps is OpenStreetMap data with custom styling that makes it look more like Google/Apple/Bing Maps.

It's very pastellish.
That x10 for the frontend component ecosystem.
I really hope this customer petition effort has some effect. It's been amazing that their parent company KPN (for context: a run-of-the-mill huge telco) effectively let them alone, do their own thing, for so long. XS4ALL truly has been a force for good in the Netherlands.

I wonder whether numbers are related - admittedly when faced with the choice for a new telco I ended up not choosing XS4ALL simply because they're more expensive than other offerings. Maybe they just gradually shrunk, year after year? That'd be an acceptable reason to shut down, despite how great the company is on other dimensions.
To the door, you mean.

To break into an apartment, walk up to the street door, ring any neighbour's doorbell and say the name of any company that delivers parcels, newspapers or advertising in that area.
See California and taxes. This assumption is certainly not a given.
What’s your reasoning?

From my experience, a memory limit, if hit, will cause periodic OOM and restart; and a CPU limit will cause slowing-down of the processes.

The tale already mentions restarting and slowing-down; it’s not clear to me that adding more would have improved anything.
IIRC, the writing was on the wall for flow these last two years. Aside from a few core users, it was never really as popular or as responsive as TypeScript was.

More a fad than the future, I suppose. But at least flow brought some valid ideas to the table, e.g., strictness.
> I lived in Belgium for a while, a country that still has data caps on landline connections, and moved to Germany last year. I have not been able to find an ISP even remotely equivalent across three countries.

I had the same issue when I moved to the UK; no equivalent ISP that I could find. Very disappointing :-(

The entire thing reminds me of the Laurus debacle[1]; KPN wants to be a "consistent" brand, but in doing so they are alienating a small yet sizeable and incredibly loyal customer base. I was an XS4ALL customer for almost 15 years: from the moment I got my first apartment until I left the country. I never considered switching.

[1]: https://www.npostart.nl/andere-tijden/26-05-2018/VPWON_12836... (Dutch)
> Also strict has been the default for quite a while!

That would prevent anyone to rename a .js file to .ts and compile successfully. Which I think is not the case today. Prove otherwise please.
>It would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 3-year-old kids.

I think, at worst, it would be like a normal adult trying to socialize with 9-year-old kids?

And this particular kid says he has lots of normal social interaction with kids his own age.
`"strict": true` is turned on by default when you run `tsc --init` and is recommended in every talk by everyone, including the TypeScript team... So I'm afraid the defaults are indeed sane and exactly what you want. I'm not sure much of what you've said in these threads really gels with reality so far.

For anyone confused: `"strict": true` in `tsconfig.json` just blanket enables all type checks, including future ones. You can then opt out of specific ones of your choosing if there's too much pain caused by the original authors, but none of those things are added by default. The TS team wants you to leave strict mode on.
I don’t know about Munich, maybe it’s the exception in the German-speaking countries.

From 8 years of living in Vienna and 5 of living in Berlin transit costs were never significant to me & I never lived in the center of either city.

The numbers quoted from the links above line up with my gut feeling when visiting London (my feeling was even more extreme actually, but a few years ago the GBP was worth a lot more € than today).
Not me, the devs that like strong typing in general (there are ones even better than me). See https://twitter.com/JulienTruffaut/status/107325836942585856...
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
I want to know if these champs can do like 20-back or higher(the n-back trainer) with three or more different types of inputs. If they can achieve 80% success rate, that will be super impressive.
Twitter bans NYTimes photo account for sharing images of dead terror victims
By that logic the US shouldn't have a single currency, either.

I get that a single currency is problematic. Arguably it is problematic even in the US, after all this time. But it doesn't necessarily follow that a single currency is fundamentally infeasible. The US isn't crippled because of it.

By contrast, the poster gave a very concrete explanation why adoption of the Euro by the UK was [then] infeasible.
> Endogenous growth theory, ... implies that long-term economic prosperity depends on the spread of knowledge and technological innovation

What if Moore's law wasn't really an exponential, but more of a step function over the past 50 years. What if it was a one-time fluke that greatly advanced society, but we're gearing up for a long haul of flat or linear growth?

It explains a lot, including why China is able to quickly catch up to the U.S. in tech. If U.S. tech was really growing exponentially, it would be impossible for China to gain ground even if it was growing at an equal exponential rate. It also explains why iPhone sales are down. It isn't because of lower consumer demand or market saturation, those are just symptoms of a larger problem. It's because the rate of innovation is slowing down.

We've relied on Moore's law of exponential growth for three generations, but it's sadly dying (if not dead). The ramifications will affect everything.
Tests don't cover everything and just on input and result. All the code in the middle can still have bugs that are uncaught because you don't have the right test for it.

Type systems provide a lot of safety with less work, meaning less bugs and more productivity. Just having the definitions available when writing makes you go faster.
I'm not at all knowledgeable about the situation in the UK so I searched for Nigel Farage and this came up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhPlyG96zk

It felt like he was trying to avoid the consequences of the actions of "Brexiteers" like himself.

But he is definitely not silent. There's that.