skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you feel about Switzerland? Would you refer to Swiss patriotism as toxic? I wouldn't!

Switzerland, the country that made it possible for Nazis to store their wealth in numbered accounts, and still holds the largest reserve of illegal wealth of other nation's dictators and despots, that actively chooses to enable money laundering and refuses to take political sides because of danger of losing illegally stored wealth in numbered accounts to other tax havens!

Despite this seemingly evil characterization, if I were Swiss, I'd take GREAT pride in all the positives of Switzerland! Patriotism, in itself, isn't toxic! Also, reducing complex issues to single punch-line friendly lies, like America Defense == Evil, is futile. Watch how Switzerland can be reduced to Switzerland===Safe Haven For Nazi Gold! Which is false.
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Stop using Chrome.
citation please?
>When you spend half the year surrounded by snow and freezing temps, even the idea of going outside is numbing

I've seen you make this comment twice in this thread and while you say you've lived in Michigan I think you drastically underestimate the resiliency of the majority of Michiganders. It was negative wind chill recently and now that it's back up to the mid 20s I see tons of people walking around without a coat on. The cold doesn't bother us that much.
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Author here -- I'm very keen to ensure I haven't missed any important functions. Any feedback is very welcome!
I agree with your sentiment but I find the location of it almost ironic. One thing I hate is when I go into a language and it's full of, "oh don't use the built-in, use this thing over here...".

If we want a clear winner to everyone's benefit, wouldn't we want Yarn to go away and for npm to gain whatever it's missing that makes Yarn relevant?

To be fair, I haven't touched Yarn in years. I switched to it, loved it, and then npm got the package-lock and some performance fixes and I suddenly didn't understand why I'd want to use Yarn.

I'm conflicted because on one hand I strongly believe that we're all better off using the same tools so we can help each other more easily. But that suggests that alternatives shouldn't exist, which stymies innovation.
I must be missing something here - How would this impact SEO? Blackhat SEO is primarily about generating false backlinks to your site, often through blog and comment spam. Search queries to Google will have little if any impact, especially using fancier operators.
> That is incorrect, in the US if my workplace decides to unionize I'm forced to pay union dues. I am fully in my right to criticize unions as they can be foisted upon me without my consent.

Why all the hostility? If there are changes at your employer that you don't agree with, like unionization, just quit and take a different job. There's approximately zero unionization in the software development field right now, so you'll have tons of choices. No one's going to force you to stay in a union job if you don't want to.
Also, there were 18 mentions in the article about "success". Just 1 mention about "failure".

Survivorship bias at its best:
https://xkcd.com/1827/
> 20 minutes later, I gave up and drove to the library (!).

Assuming it's traditional Google search from your ISP, there other alternatives such as using startpage.com or Tor.
The New Yorker interview said his mother was a dermatologist, so I would tentatively assume his background is upper-middle-class. That's obviously an advantage, but then, most children of such families don't become rich and famous either.
Typescript doesn't try to be a different language. It tries to be an exact superset of JS: JS with annotations. And you can absolutely implement what you linked, it exists and it's called tsc: the "compiler" you're somehow upset Typescript has (this + checking types is all it does!). Babel does it natively.

Enums are a fair point, those aren't in the ES specs (though I suspect at some point they will be). However, they're an incredible addition and they really are just syntactic sugar for a more complex type of object.

BTW, typescript supports jsdoc-style annotations, and --allowjs even lets it typecheck javascript code. It also supports more, because nobody actually only wants those things; they're not that great on their own.
No, "bing" by itself does not mean sick. The sound "bing" maps to at least 59 possible characters across the 4 tones[0] of Mandarin. Only one particular character that maps to "bing4" means sick and it's one out of at least 21 possibilities[1], though I'll grant that it's the one that people are most likely to think of first.

Moreover, as it's normally pronounced by westerners, Bing would most likely map to "bing1" anyway.

[0] https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=chardict&cdqman...

[1] https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=chardict&cdqman...
This seems totally reasonable. Google is primarily focused on building Chrome -- a product, with business oriented product goals. Anyone using Chromium has already agreed to be a tag-along. That was always part of the deal.

In general I find the category of folks who -- won't use Firefox, but want to pretend they're not basically just using Google Chrome -- to be very strange indeed.
Agree with this point, it really makes things so much easier. Imagine having student debt, struggling to get a job out of college, and then

>Once you’ve gotten yourself to a point where you have your basic obligations covered you should try to make it easy to take risks

that could easily take 10+ years?
Its APM maxed out at 1500apm which is far more than any normal human.
A real union would not work as a club, if you are employee you have the option to chose an union, but actors are different.

How I learn about them was from actors that were put in unhealthy conditions and they appealed to the unions to fix the working conditions.
This would make a great Ansible role too!
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Each civ (race) has about 2 different bonuses (e.g. Indian villagers work faster) and in addition a unique unit. Competitive players now play with about 20 civs. Each civ also has a "team bonus" (e.g. Teams with a Spanish player get 33% more gold per trade trip, teams with a Persian player get upgraded buildings ). In addition to that, each civ has a different tech tree, as well as starting resources or -- in rare cases -- starting units.
Forgot where I read this but the article said that you'd better pick the options that have the most probability of high returns. A way to save energy. I'm naturally drawn to hard and long and get stuck and exhausted.
Oh great, now I'm a Nazi sympathizer, and you're still using the wrong definition of "isolationist". I guess we're done here...
I see your point, and I remember seeing trash scattered in the spring time.
Surely that cost isn't anywhere near $24B, which is the market cap for Twitter.
Lucky beats smart :)
Ask HN: How to consistently get higher paying clients?
First a little background; I've been freelancing as a React dev for the last two years. My clients love working with me, but I'm having some trouble getting them to pay higher rates - I've set a goal of charging 2000/week but I've often had to settle for less.

I don't have much of an online presence and got most of my current clientele through word of mouth (ironic since I work exclusively remote).

What do you suggest I focus on to get the best ROI? Should I start a blog? Do some open source projects? Just visit meetups and network?
This post embodies everything I dislike about success fluff. I look up to people I admire - Tesla, Nick Drake, Mingus, My highschool Chemistry teacher - they meet maybe 0-3 of the list. Creation of value is such a delicate thing, we should not flatten it that way.

As a side effect, if we widen our view of success, there will be more place up in the 99.9%...
> Life is not so easy. We're all struggling. We should be working to back each other up so that individual people are not being exploited and then have to fight by themselves against an entire corporation.

Exactly this.

This is why I work the requested 40ish* hours per week that my employer purchases in bulk from me, and rarely more. It's not because I'm lazy or unmotivated. I work very hard while I am working and I do more than the baseline my employer requests of me. My management thinks highly of me and I am well-compensated for my efforts, so clearly my employer values the contributions I make.

I do the work hours I do and how I do them, pushing back on unreasonable on-calls and repeatedly staying late, because I am senior so I have the voice to be able to discourage management not staffing our group appropriately and not setting unreasonable deadlines. I make sure my juniors know, too, that the way to your personal success is a healthy work-life balance that works both for you and for the group of people in which we are ensconced. I also make sure I mentor my juniors and I do what I can to help others be more efficient and effective.

No one should have to burn the candle at both ends just to be able to be seen as doing a good job.

* There are exceptions, of course. I am not inflexible, because that's unreasonable, but my employer pays for approximately 40 hours per week of my valuable single life in this universe and 40 hours, roughly, is what it shall receive.
Randall put it pretty well https://xkcd.com/1827/
The million (10 million? 100 Million) dollar question that I haven't seen addressed yet (but I'm sure will be, if it hasn't already) - is what % cut Apple is getting from the subscription revenue.
Did you compensate your people for the extra work? Because otherwise it had certainly best not be intruding on life outside of work.
Is this the mobile version of the apps, a wrapper around the web version of the apps, or actual full-fledged desktop Office?
I think Babel does excatly that if only enable the typescript-preset.
When did HN become Slashdot?

Why was the post downvoted? It's 100% correct. The various MOV instructions feature addition, multiplication, conditional copies, and various register/memory address modes.
The biggest reason I'm excited about basic income is the amount of human potential it will unleash by freeing more people to take risks.

Until then, if you aren't born lucky, you have to claw your way up for awhile before you can take big swings. If you are born in extreme poverty, then this is super difficult :(

It is obviously an incredible shame and waste that opportunity is so unevenly distributed. But I've witnessed enough people be born with the deck stacked badly against them and go on to incredible success to know it's possible.

I am deeply aware of the fact that I personally would not be where I am if I weren't born incredibly lucky.
This is the worst case scenario for consumers.

An "open and documented protocol" is what led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal; most people are not informed enough to properly manage permissions and even if they were, the personal data of friends would necessarily be available via this protocol. Posting something on this new platform-ized Facebook would be akin to sharing with every app each of your friends has authorized.
I don't think being a shareholder gives you such rights. Even so, the guy in question probably had more shares than you thus trumps your desire to be a busy body.

Lets see you walk on the google campus and demand to see who has been reprimanded recently to some random manager. As you are dragged off the campus yelling "but but but I am a shareholder....."

But beyond that it is more likely he had a exit plan under which he was guaranteed such money when he joined google, bringing his baby Android. And as I recall it it was not as cut and dry of a situation as everybody likes to make it out to be. It never is.

So you can be outraged all you want, and perpetuate phantom "rights" of being a share holder, but at the end of the day you are not helping the situation.
It's a little bit like Linux in the late 90s. Postgres is increasingly being used in financial services, for instance, because it's "good enough" -- many teams really don't need Oracle's or SQL Server's feature-set, and Postgres has enough 'interesting' features of its own.

It also lets teams own their DB infrastructure and play around with deployment patterns that'd make little sense on Oracle et al because of cost reasons.

It's not that Postgres is "killing" commercial databases, it's just that more and more people are, as you said, noticing that they don't need a commercial database for lots of use cases. And support and consultancy -- and even in-team skills -- for Postgres are often available.
I was confused too; it has a weird format that I think hurts comprehension rather than aids it by making you think you're not looking straight at the data.

Ignore the fact that the "Training Days" axis is drawn diagonally. The system is creating about 40 agents per day; by the end of day 14 it's made 610 or so. The graph shows, for any given time of training (vertical axis, going down), what is the distribution of trained agents that it's chosen in order to be unexploitable (you wouldn't want to choose rock all the time in rock-paper-scissors, for example). So, for example, at the end of day 14, it's using a selection of agents with numbers 595 through 610 or so, which means they've all been created within the last day.
Intel misses on revenue and gives weak guidance – stock falls
Does Apple let developers negotiate their fee? I thought it was a flat 30% for the first year and 15% after that?
It's also very successful if you were a stay home parent and your kids were able to succeed thanks to your efforts.
More specifically, I wonder if this is an intentional move to try to regain back some market share by showing that this is where software publishers are and should be selling.
I'll maintain it.
I can definitely agree with your rephrasing. Unions can be large organizations too, and are certainly not immune to bureaucracy and the pursuit of short-term wins over long-term gains for the people they represent.
I'm curious to hear about people that:

1. worked extremely "hard" for 20 years
2. sacrificed relationships/family/living life
3. found moderate/average success, but never caught a break
> Thus, the state's population needs to be liberal/blue/neoliberal enough on tax policy, have a strong bread basket with lots of farmers, and care for the environment.

How are farmers relevant to whether or not a bottle bill is enacted?
Okay, so you're down to $.0499 (aprox) per bottle. That's not taking into account the time needed to do this, or the time needed to collect the bottles, or the gas/equipment needed to haul the bottles.

This sounds like a dozens of dollars level scam, not millions.
I think large players have some room to negotiate even if Apple never states it publicly.
In 1999 we were 'upgrading' to Evergreen 586s in K12 for a lucky few boys and girls. Good times and a lot of nothing going on. PIO4 and PATA with PCI buses clocked at 33 MHZ.

Can you imagine really trying to run 20+ year old tech in
developer space? 8 - 10 MB/s throughput and 70 bogomips?
What basic income will most likely do is send vast swaths of average people to entertainment and drugs. It's already happening, as social nets get bigger and wider.
I agree with that, where I got a life chance someone else probably did not get a pay raise or got fired. Now the question is what is fairer, can it be more than zero-sum game, and is there a set of regulations that will make everyone benefit.
This is a very nice read.
Here's a more concrete and practical example: If you spend $50k on content marketing and SEO, and another $50k on ads, which is giving you the best bang for your buck?

In the current JS-based ad world you can go: my ROI on the first is X with reasonable confidence; and on the second I believe it is Y after discounting for [heaps of ad fraud-related reasons] -- which is not great, but still better than no idea.

In a text/image only ad world you'd go: my ROI on the first is X with reasonable confidence; on the second I've absolutely no idea except that the numbers are getting worst by the month because of [heap of ad fraud related reasons].

The main victim here, I should point out in passing, are the websites you're getting your news from.

And yes, you're somewhat correct, the company selling ads can't tell you how effective the ads ultimately are. But only they can tell you if the ad likely got served to an actual human rather than to a bot, among other schemes. And knowing that a bot is likely browsing your site can make a world of difference with your boss when you're reporting on whether you should spend more on content/SEO or online ads, or with your payment provider when someone is testing stolen CCs on your SaaS sign-up form.
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
The concept of privilege doesn't mean you're automatically successful, nor does it mean it's impossible to become successful without it.
>Is saturated fat bad for your health?

only if you are conducting or reading a study commissioned by the sugar lobby ;)
I'm inclined to agree with you, though I still think that RealDinosaur deserves a lot of credit. He or she was still honest and forthcoming about that. It's impossible to start teaching better practices if people aren't honest about what they do!
>> "How to Live a Successful Life"

This advice need not come from a rich person.

The answer is to be surrounded with deep and valuable human relationships.
Tell them, not us!

Commenting on an HN thread about a 3-year-old closed bug is definitely not the way to make anything happen.
Desktop Office. Microsoft has been offering a "real office" on Mac for many, many years now. The news is not that Office is on Mac, it's that it is distributed through the App Store.
It sounds to me like, although it could see the whole map at once, the fog of war was still applied. So the bot really just got as much information as the minimap would normally give a human player.

> it could observe the attributes of its own and its opponent’s _visible units_ on the map directly
Still ChromeOS and Android are both based on Linux, thus both export the same API to the userspace that Chrome could use on GNU/Linux.

There is a point about the hardware being predictable, that applies much more to ChromeOS than to Android. But the Chrome code could be the same for all three.
Arbitrage == information asymmetry. It gets reduced over time (this post and comment will help).
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That's instantaneous APM, not general APM over the course of the game. The human player's instantaneous APM went well past 1000 at certain moments during the course of the matches, too. All that means is a few clicks as fast as possible.
He believed that, through clear and unambiguous writing, we could change how people think. A phrase such as "we support our troops" would, in Bliss, contain a built-in contradiction.

These symbols are very interesting but I'm not sure that we should be choosing writing systems based on the presence of comforting oxymorons. That doesn't seem like a valid form of reasoning at all.

I mean, I hate to bring up Orwell because it's so cliche, but that's really Orwellian.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
> They are planning on limiting the APM of the AI anyway.

They did that in these games. (Or at least, it didn't abuse absurdly high APM.)

It still had insane micro a) because it had a FoV which basically extended to the combined FoV of all if its units[1] rather than having to move a screen-size FoV, and b) when it micros it never really "misclicks" like a human would do under pressure.

(This was most obvious in how it could micro against MaNa's army on 3 fronts in game 4 and how it was able to basically perfectly drain the Immortal barriers in the game where MaNa actually should have been able to defend against a human mass stalker build ~100% of the time.)

One thing they weren't clear on was how it could tell how much health, etc. each enemy unit had -- did it have to spend an "action" (like a player would have to click) to do that? If so, then that's even more insane in terms of micro ability.

Anyway, disagree about BW. Perfect micro in BW is possibly even more devastating than in SC2, IMO, because there are all these weird glitches that you can do -- the best players can do them some of the time, but no players can do it perfectly all of the time.

[1] This was not the case for the final game which it lost.
How changed? Every few years, another journalist files a few dozen fake stories before he's caught.
How the justice system is allowed to proceed with a farce in the way it is blows my mind. Like nobody's driving the bus, it's just a bunch of self-serving entities trying to get as much as they can for themselves. Prosecuting and defending seems like two sides of the same coin. There's no reason the roles of prosecutor, defender, and juror couldn't be assigned cases randomly from the same pool of lawyers. At least the perverse behavioral economics of the personal incentive game would be turned on its head.
> Just wondering, why are union dues mandatory even if you do not want to join a union? This to me is the biggest reason to be anti-union.

It's a similar reason to why you still have to pay taxes even if you don't want to become a citizen.
Actually, I would say this might be the strength of AI from another perspective: the ability to observe and monitor global information without losing attention. Or in other words, attend to the whole picture from get go without being overwhelmed.

While it is an unfair advantage in competitive gaming, but in more realistic settings, there is no requirement that AI needs to have only 2 eyes. It can have as many as it could handle, while human can't scale the same way.
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There are four guys credited as the creators of Julia, but the guy who sort of had the initial idea, Jeff Bezanson, is definitely a lisp enthusiast. He created his own dialect of scheme (like every lisp enthusiast), femtolisp https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

This lisp is still used as part of the Julia parser.

Julia isn't really a lisp and it isn't trying to be, though it does have some things in common:

* AST macros

* everything is an expression and has a value

* while infix notation is supported for operators, they are just normal functions.

Still, the language is very much array-oriented and, as far as I know, there isn't even a linked list implementation in the standard library. It's a side-effect of trying to be fast. (pun strongly intended.)
Microsoft Says Bing Is Restored in China