skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some experienced devs might say the same thing if they've also found a language that just clicks with them as I have.

Clojure is a locus of things I really, really like and I have no reason to change despite the recent FUD around it. Namely: Lispiness, dynamic typing, functional programing, immutability, lean pragmatic design, and it runs on the JVM. I haven't seen anything that compares to it in these regards that also has the community support that Clojure has (great projects like Leiningen, Lacinia, and so on).

I've tried Haskell but felt I was fighting the compiler due to the static typing (I hate static typing). It also felt like it was designed for eggheads and not people like me just doing a job. Scala feels like it doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up. Elixir and Erlang are neat but I haven't had a chance to really try them out, but Elixir's choice to emulate Ruby-like syntax is unfortunate.

That said, I do have a high degree of proficiency with Python, which shares dynamic typing and kinda-functional programming with Clojure. Python was my language of choice for years before I finally gave Clojure a try, and I haven't really looked back. The poor handling of the Python 3 switch really soured me to Python.

I also did a good chunk of Go, but the static typing and syntax weirdness just killed it for me. Amusingly, Go seems to have a similar "ivory tower" approach to language design to Clojure - which indicates that type of management isn't really a problem for me.
DoorDash has a mandatory arbitration clause (that I opted out of but most people don’t) so I fear the best we can hope for is a light tap from a state AG and a flimsy promise to “review our internal procedures” with no big change. It isn’t as though large numbers of people will stop using these services that deliberately abuse their “independent contractor” workers.
I can only guess that the marketing department wanted to put the biggest numbers forward against what was plausible calculations for the early LED lifetimes.

I know for a fact that some of the testing houses have done extended on/off cycle testing for some of the big box retailers looking to keep the lamp vendors honest on real lifetime performance of A19 class bulbs. I've been in such a test chamber.
Maybe I should give it another try. What turned me off was one episode about health care where they talked about free markets, the evils of regulation and socialized health care but couldn’t acknowledge how f...ed up the US systems is versus other developed countries. They seemed more interested in the purity of their ideology vs actually making life better for real people.
I commented further down, but this is already the case.

The U.S. has this, many high schools have trade programs. You're still "technically" in school you spend your junior and senior year at a trade school and often working / making money (some as early as sophomore year)

Unfortunately, this is only true for places with trade schools nearby. I grew up outside of Chicago and every school had this option.
Largest data dump: 2.2B records with emails and passwords leaked
The actions that most companies took after the corporate tax cuts were passed proved that taxing a business does not in fact take money away from payroll. When you give that money back to businesses, they either bank it, do share buybacks, increase their dividends, and occasionally re-invest in capital expenditures or give some employees a pitiful one-time bonus that in no way reflects the magnitude of the tax break they've been given.
That's a bleed resistor to discharge the capacitor when turning off, else it could keep dangerous charge for a long time.

ESR limits current inrush into the capacitor, with ceramic caps you would need some additional current limiting.

Voltage should not be that much of a problem, but there may be other issues with ceramic caps (like cracking due to thermal stress, voltage dependent capacity, microphoning, ...)
At least in the case of DoorDash, they have an arbitration clause in their TOS that effectively quashes any attempts at a class action.

Hopefully one day the US justice system will wake up to the fact that allowing companies to opt-out of the main mechanism preventing them from engaging in this sort of petty-crime-at-scale is not a good idea, but until then it's what we're stuck with.
But never forget that malice does exist, and the clever malicious will often conceal their malice behind a veil of plausible stupidity.

For instance, "Oops I accidentally forgot my briefcase full of classified documents on the bus" is as old as spycraft itself.
Yes Please for DC power. Especially if it can remove all the power adapters. I think I have more adapters than wall sockets in my house now. Phones, Tablets, electric toothbrushes, shaver, router & switch, wifi access point, rasp pi, cameras, Laptop, Monitor, streaming device, reading light, electric piano, toy train. good grief
No, not in the slightest.

https://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-so...
> What blockchain does is shift some of the trust in people and institutions to trust in technology. You need to trust the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network. And you need to trust them absolutely, because they’re often single points of failure.

This is wrong. You do not need to trust them, because you can verify their correctness yourself. You cannot similarly inspect the rectitude of your local bank manager's moral compass.

I find it very odd that someone like Schneier wouldn't recognize this obvious truth. Is there "no reason to trust AES" because you have to trust the implementation? What kind of silly argument is that?
Well said. I've read some of Nature, but not the essay. Thanks I'll check it out!
Trump's H1B work visa plan cuts employers' costs, not criticism
Sure, the "magic" bit of hooks that people are talking about doesn't really affect their type signature

See eg, setState: `function useState<S>(initialState: S | (() => S)): [S, Dispatch<SetStateAction<S>>];`

from: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/ab08...
Much better to have the elite of a generation working on new ways to invade their fellow citizen's privacy to sell that data to advertisers, which is basically the business model of half of the Silicon Valley...
Somewhat lacking... Wish this article talked more about "why" the like button was the beginning of the end.
My cousin does the same thing, also a millennial. She carries all her money though.
I'm not revising the numbers. I'm saying that it's working out, with the worse case scenario being that it takes some more hardware.

Reddit raised hundreds of millions of dollars, whereas stack overflow didn't, they have the means to buy a rack more if that's what is missing. There is no excuse to be slow or broken all the time.

The amount of traffic is not significant. It's perfectly scalable and shardable, it's only text over HTTP and most of it is cachable by a CDN.
I beg to differ. Read here: "Its pronunciation is based on the Beijing dialect, its vocabulary on the Mandarin dialects, and its grammar is based on written vernacular Chinese."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese
Employees? What are those?
https://www4.kellogg.northwestern.edu/coursecatalogschedule/...

Speaking for myself, though, that wasn't a course I felt I needed to take. But every professor certainly expects you to approach problems from an ethical perspective, just like in any other degree...
Once a public intellectual reaches a certain level of public visibility/celebrity, they spend most of their time having softballs lobbed at them by worshipful audiences at venues like TED and Davos. It's not hard to imagine how that sort of treatment would atrophy their muscles for engaging with criticism.
That's sort of my point. I actually don't care about the technology underneath. I care about the monetary system and its adherence (and recourse) to the rules of law that humans have generally agreed upon. Like, if you steal, the societal system will correct the wrong as much as they can.

It's an open question as to whether public blockchains can provide for this trust and requirement.
During low-inflation years - no.

The lenient rates were introduced during high-inflation years. If somebody was pursuing a long-term project spanning over several years (let's say, building a new apartment complex), high punitive tax rates at liquidity time (let's say, 5 years down the road) combined with decreased buying would obliterate any real profitability.

The 12-month cut-off window, though, seems completely arbitrary.

The argument is kinda moot anyways, as capital gains are completely voluntary - one sells when they want to sell. If they don't want to sell, but need liquidity, they can access a bunch of asset-backed loans (HELOCs, PALs, cashout refinance, etc.) Ken Fisher in his book "Debunkery" (and I'm sure the data exists elsewhere) shows how total revenue figures collected by US government do not change over decades, regardless of the actual capital gains rates.
A huge amount of tax code complications and unfairness is due to the fact that companies get taxed on profit while people are taxed on income. People then try and have their spending done by their companies instead of personally. Mostly this is only possible for wealthy people.

We should really tax companies on income to eliminate this unfixable situation. Fiddling with the tax code will not work. Personally, I would like this problem solved by a national land tax and the permanent elimination of the income tax by constitutional amendment. People trading with each other is a win/win situation. We should encourage that, not tax it.
So basically everyone from where you came from is held back by poverty and lack of education, and you believe the world is a meritocracy?
I'm making an activityPub reddit clone: https://moontreeproject.org/

The code is open source and on github: https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject
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A Florist provides personal service to me, and you aren't expected to tip them, as does a cake decorator, or mechanic. This reads like a reverse justification for tipping, that is innately irrational.
I'm not saying that Blockchain technology doesn't have it's fair share of issues, but this article completely disregards any of the progress and real benefits that it offers outside of what we all know are the issues with Bitcoin.
Instacart CEO apologizes for tipping debacle
On the one hand, if I could turn back time, I would like to have done that myself from a money perspective. On the other hand, that would mean that I never would have met my wife, which is something I wouldn't give up for anything.
I get a lot of updates on the kids (not my kids) from one specific person (I've responded to them, they keep doing it), and an occasional W2 (not my W2).
> Looking down the road what it was encoded in dna would it be illegal for someone to read another person's dna?

Speaking of DNA, hypotheticals, and really crazy possibilities: let's assume some troll encodes an illegal image as DNA and implants it (CRISPR is all hype and rage these days, right?) in some sperm; An embryo is generated from this sperm so the image will always exists in this new person and their descendants for a good number of generations.

Nobody with a sound mind will think anybody apart from the initial CRISPR-troll has any guilt here, but the image will exist and once its presence is revealed, the victims will be knowingly generating more copies by just staying alive and passing the "guilt" along by reproducing. And no government could declare a person's life illegal.
Agreed. They give it a sentence and then move on.
Imagine balancing a checkbook with 10,000 transactions where if you’re off by a penny the account shuts down and becomes inaccessible.
If you're ever tempted to take a job that will require using Perforce, you'd be well advised to look carefully at the docs (or books) for this product. Word to the wise.
Good spot here, h#$@ is a 4 letter word, starts with 'h' and you used it in a discussion in the context of the term 'hate'.

Not sure if this setup was to easy, or you taking your bet too serious scanning the interwebs for such opportunities :-)
As if the huge gutters to the left and right on a 16:9 display weren't bad enough, nearly 3/4 of my browser window is consumed by the header and a giant unscrollable blue rectangle with a menu surrounded by large amounts of padding in it, leaving the article in just the bottom 1/4.

Putting my hand up against the screen to cover the entire visible part of the article reveals that I am reading from an area the size of my hand ... on a desktop PC with a widescreen monitor and a fully maximized browser window.
You're correct but GED is definitely not an advertised option for current hs students. There's a lot of 'tricks' which can be unlocked just by being in the know. Unfortunately, that predominantly favors middle class +
Yes. I have six failed ones I need to send back. Power supply failures on every one of them within a year of installation.
Also, there is a big difference between manipulating the apparent value of a currency by using real funds to temporarily generate artificial spikes in supply or demand versus manipulating supply by creating new funds out of thin air. The former entails risk, the latter does not.
You should google "hindley milner"
The "knowledge graph" and "personal knowledge base" community is working on it! Although in a lot of little projects; nothing unified that I know of. Here's a project I worked on for a while, which lets you maintain a Neo4j database via an Emacs frontend:

https://github.com/synchrony/smsn

Here's something I'm working on now -- extremely expressive, but no app yet:

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/b...
Looking back at my education,

Precalc and English were me 2 most useful classes.

"Science" "engineering" and "history" were actually useless. If you were going to get further education, college science eclipses HS science in 1 semester. My Engineering class was the most absurd, it wasn't engineering. History was basically propaganda.

High school needs to end sooner. AP classes are the sign of this.
In China, there is no difference between international espionage and corporate espionage. Their Ministry of State Security has proved this again and again.

Stealing intellectual property from companies advances their military goals.
That's more of a policy thing than a temperature thing. Nature will care about the current year (yes - perhaps even further on longer term trends like aquifer depletion and ice cap melting), not the trailing 30 year average.

To highlight the distinction, we could have a 10 deg C increase next year. That would end life as we know it, but would only move the trailing 30 year average .3 deg C.

Also from the article

"The recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on warming of 1.5C, highlighted the calamitous difference even a fraction of a degree above could make to coral reefs, Arctic ecosystems and hundreds of millions of lives. Starting now, the report said emissions would have to be cut by 45% by 2030 to have any chance of holding to that level."

tl;dr - the headline is 100% accurate and appropriate.
I believe it was discussed early on when the article states McNamee believed that's when FB started to receive emotional cues from users. But I can see why readers might want a more thorough dissection of that point.
The reason it is like that is because the United States wants to encourage business activity in this country, so they make businesses have preferential tax systems.

but I agree with your overall statements - the rates and tax system for personal individuals is ridiculous and it gets worse the more income you make. For me personally, I intentionally took a demotion (and pay cut) because it isn't worth the sacrifices you have to do to get the higher salary. More stress, more responsibility, more extra unpaid overtime you have to work, more headaches etc. SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. Then what is the reward for all this extra headaches....you get 50% of the pay raise. So I said forget about it. The extra money isn't worth it if you only keep 50%.
I'm willling to bet real money that Mark Zuckerberg's and Bill Gates' parents also went to great schools...
This is awesome!. LOTR is the key to my sons glimpse into fantasy and imagination. Guy was diagnosed with ASD when he was 5. Always shirked at anything that was "un-real", until he was mesmerized by the magic of LOTR. He even uses this app"Walk to Mordor" which is a pedometer app to track his journey from Shire to Mordor. Done with 21 miles. 3,500 more miles to go before he reaches Mordor!
> On the other hand, fiat money is constantly being secretly manipulated.

Let's assume for a moment that this is both true and relevant.

Why should reinventing the wheel be the correct response?

I feel like this is simply yet another example of the rather common bias of tech folks (not excluding myself here) where we too easily believe that a social problem can be fixed with technology. You see this kind of logic all the time when it comes to surveillance and censorship overreach as well. We know technology, and believe we can control it, and so think that all these social issues can somehow be fixed with clever anti-censorship or surveillance-proof technology. More often than not, these attempts fail entirely or become last-resort fallbacks at best.

This has played out fairly well with Bitcoin as well. Over time, people realized that almost all the complex stuff that the fiat money system does is actually useful, and is damned hard or impossible to reproduce in a crypto currency pretty much by design. Meanwhile, the existing fiat money system could also be made transparent etc., if a political movement was formed to push for that. So now we're back where we started, with a social problem.
I've worked on multiple large Java codebases, and on semi-large Clojure code bases. The Java ones compiled great but were full of bugs obscured by 100s of useless classes with bespoke interfaces. I found the Clojure code bases to be far more tractable because the language leads to better opportunities for abstraction and more concise code with way less incidental complexity. I think spec can add another layer of description where it's useful (and is not required where it's not).
What's awesome here, is that he/she's created a solution to a problem that almost everyone has. It might need a little work, as shown by other comments. but the core idea is a good workaround for sites that force you to give a bad email address to get at the content.
Shaw also declared that Python 3 is not Turing complete so I would take his Python 2/3 opinions with a heft grain of sea salt
Blaming the like button for the end of the "soft cuddly" side of Facebook is spurious from someone who was an investor.

Facebook didn't have to build a surveillance machine, it didn't have to extract every possible penny out of it's user's data, Facebook didn't have to stop being "cuddly"...until it raised money at an outrageous valuation and had an outrageous IPO.

Blaming the Like button for actions necessitated by Facebook selling out their users for a higher valuation/money seems a bit rich coming from one of the investors.
They do seem to understand that the ad and the 7% statistic are about the military, and are performing an "alternate reading" based largely around the shared word "code." The alternate reading may be more "paradigmatic," but it's not particularly insightful or useful. Let's not even get into the analogy from the, well, binary nature of binary code to the current polarized political atmosphere.

There's plenty of room to criticize the tech giants, and their advertising, but this is disappointingly shallow even for such a short piece.
No. AWS Lambda allows up to 10s of processing before killing and returning a (killed, exceeded time) for the api call.

The Halting problem depends on a turing machine. As stated by Wikipedia, a turing machine is:

"a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine, which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, a Turing machine capable of simulating that algorithm's logic can be constructed."

The first description how to build one is, "The machine operates on an infinite memory tape divided into discrete cells."

Infinite memory? Well, that's already trivial to dismiss then.

And I also said that things that need to be proved should be using finite state machines. Using an FSM means a dimensionality reduction to a thing that doesn't suffer from the halting problem. One can make complicated graphs, yet still not introduce the same pitfalls as a turing machine has.

And, here's a paper arguing that FSM's dont suffer from halting problem. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/025b/97d66265dfbcb02d9dd1a2...
The value of Bitcoin is not something Bitcoin makes any promises about.

The technology is obviously not a scam. At most it could turn out that it has technical flaws, like the crypto algorithms could be broken or whatever.

People selling you Bitcoin or making you promises about Bitoin might well be scammers. But that's not the same thing.

Worthless fiat money: it seems to happen a lot, actually. I have a couple of Billion Reichsmarks I could show you. I don't think Zimbabwe $ are worth enough to support your argument.

Of course to use Bitcoin, you have to trust that it will have or keep some value. In that sense, yes, you are back to trust.
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I’ve made this realization lately as well, that all “upvote” based social media is inherently toxic and bad for society. What’s been lost from the days of actual internet forums is the ability to make a point, and ignore it if you don’t like it. It used to be that we were all equals under the admin, and discussion was long form. However the incentives now have shifted discourse to the rhetorical and pithy, rather than creating meaningful connections. The result is a monoculture of thought that is doing real damage.
The obvious reason to me is that people started posting not because they genuinely had something to share, but to garner more "likes."

Anything that is measured will influence behaviors.
It was when the emotional state of users started to be revealed at scale. That allows to leverage targeted messaging to change users behavior by catering their emotional needs.
Me too-- a lot of receipts from Home Depot, little league, real estate documents (many times), scans from signing up for gym membership (which had a lot of PII in it, I called the guy), emails from a church elders group.

Once I got an advanced copy of remarks the UK Prime Minister was going to make the next day at the 2008 Jeddah global energy summit.
What counts as very-left in the US? Serious question; by the standards of everywhere else, the US is skewed very right by default, so what counts as "very-left"?
It's not like space-travel knowledge-bases are rocket science ... oh, wait.
No, for individuals the limit on losses that you can deduct is the amount of your gains, plus $3k. If the entirety of your income comes from investments, you could certainly end up paying no tax if your capital losses cancel out your capital gains, regardless of the magnitude of each. The $3k you can deduct past that is a nice bonus.

And even for individuals, losses over that $3k can be carried forward indefinitely to future years.
Here I am thinking we went too far with data-driven product development. A/B testing and optimizing for bad metrics like "engagement" which creates products like facebook that look good from a metrics perspective.
https://fox28spokane.com/historians-irked-by-musical-hamilto...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/issue-table-hamilton-...