skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Laymen aren't going to be reading from these journals, they are really too technical to be informative.

This is probably the single most offensive thing I've read on this site.

I am a college dropout layperson who got a 0.0 GPA in my last semester enrolled in a liberal arts college who went on to replicate complicated experiments in sports science from these so-called "too technical to be informative" journals. A decade or so later, and now I run a fairly successful (30+ people employed) small business primarily because of the fact that I based my work on early publications I was lucky enough to get access through from students at the local public university.

With Sci-Hub, many terrible steps have been cut out of the process, and Elbakyan deserves Nobel Prize consideration for her work.

Meanwhile, your gatekeeping comments are elitist and only serve to increase inequality in all forms in this country (and the developing world, where academic freedom is truly useful to break paradigms).

Open source software need not be 100% understandable for it to be useful. We do business with as many vendors as possible that open source their code and work not because I am interested in validating their work, but because of the signal it sends that they feel comfortable and open enough to share their core products.

I hope you rethink your positions on these matters, because they're pretty offensive.
> Reading things on a screen feels like having a straight jacket on

I feel the same, but at some point I started to do everything work-related digitally because people would often comment on this. The craziest one was someone pointing out this would lead to ideas that are too complicated.
> She appears to be about as dangerously ignorant (and perhaps callous) of facts of situations

Citation needed.

AOC is not eligible to run for president until she is 35. These facts might calm your fears.
Messing with the power/gas hookups. Failing inspections on petty grounds. Mandating certain expensive repairs or maintenance. There are ways.
That's President Moron to you.
This is very very interesting!
> Five dollars a month for the rest of my life is not "cheap".

It's not five dollars a month for the rest of your life though. It's five dollars a month for as long as you want to listen to music on Spotify without ads...

> Frugal people look at the total cost of a loan, not just the monthly payment.

It's not a loan.
What we learned A/B testing job listing text and why you should do it too
I think the parent comment is calling Advertising a net negative for humanity.
There is - it's called not using Spotify.
That would be the best thing that could ever happen.

Refusal of service?

I don't know anything that would make people run to another service faster.
Russia got their day in court and lost so I am not sure the equivalence.
It's not that hard to assess land value objectively. You can just base it on neighboring properties.
The original RPi SoC was intended for DVRs and set-top-boxes and maybe as application CPU in midrange TVs. The design with huge-ish video accelerator and highly battery unfriendly power requirements is totally unappropriate for anything mobile, even less for anything designed by Nokia with their full-custom PMICs with internal ARM cores and so o on...
The article didn't mention that the development board costs 1000 USD and the expansion board costs another 2000 USD, and it's only a barebone system, a full system comparable to a high-performance PC would require another 500 USD. At this price level (~3000+USD), one can almost purchase an OpenPOWER-based workstation (as we already have seen, the crowdfund campaign for Talos Secure Workstation failed due to its price, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wo...). So no, I still don't think RISC-V is as usable as a PC for an average user at its current shape as a prototype for developers.
An AirBnb IPO may tip it back towards the US.

Or Pinterest, Palantir, Uber, Lyft, Slack, Postmates, Asana, Casper.

Not really sure it should all be cast as a competition, but the wealth creation engine of the US is alive and well.
> I'm very disappointed that NYC gave one of the largest companies in the world by valuation 3bn in tax breaks while the subway crumbles, although I don't think it was particularly a bad deal, but it's hard to accurately calculate when that will pay off by.

Giving the New York subway more funding is as bad as lighting it on fire: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Watch out for self-driving cars: They're watching you
Wow, Amazon has literally created a panopticon worse than Nextdoor & Facebook. This satirical article is quite accurate: http://theneedling.com/2019/01/02/nice-easy-fill-in-the-blan...
That’s why undermining US foreign policy is a big BRIC priority.

The era of stupid we are in now will have dramatic impact on the rest of this century.
Ask HN: What would be the ideal tech job board you would use?
I always thought job boards were broken. I feel this way because a) the job descriptions are often lacking important information around the actual technology and b) there's no real way to communicate with the company without having a long drawn out conversation.

What are your thoughts?
His ability to get away with murder does not at all seem connected to his ability to execute said murder.

The theater was all for nothing, as real world consequences show they could have murdered the jouralist in cold blood and broad daylight.
Damn, high-speed paper-tape! I used an early DNA sequencer controlled by paper tape, and it's touchy to keep the tape from breaking. I think that they migrated the mechanism from looms. The belt drives also remind me of the water- and steam-powered eras.
Feature request: Any chance for `--follow` to track the history of files that have moved?
No one has the moral right to monopolize land. Land is not the product of human labor, it should not be possible to hoard so much natural value. If people want to own land, they should have to pay a steep tax for the privilege.
for consumers maybe, but if you don't have access to your data its problematic. for business and government departments it could be crippling
I did a few migration projects when I worked at the Discovery Channel and they took months of planning to ensure continuation of services.
Henchmen of National Enquirer Revealed
"There are no nations. There are no peoples... There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars... It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And [France] has meddled with the primal forces of nature, and [France] will atone!"

This is the dystopia we have built. We have allowed corporations to have to much leverage and control.
I suspect the pun was intentional, given some of the other names that the DoD has come up with...
Trump has publicly been known to be negative net worth in a not too distant past. It is also public knowledge that no bank in America would do business with him.

It is not a leap to suspect Russian banks (that are on record as loaning him money) have financial leverage over him.

I wonder what happens to the supporters of the president once the walls come crashing in. The man is a criminal many times over, proven in court many times over. Why is it a surprise that his current endeavor is just another grift?
Paper tape is indeed a descendant of the Jacquard Loom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#Mechanical_Jacqu...
Is this a contest where we should be rooting for a side or something? What's the significance of this? Is this some kind of national pride thing where I should be rooting for my home country to win? I'm happy for people that found success for what they've accomplished regardless of where they live. Good for them.
Is Threatening to Publish Nude/Lewd Photos of Jeff Bezos Criminal Blackmail?
Leading Traffic Management Teams Evolve Their Application Infrastructure
Thank goodness it's the DOD, because it will take 10 years to get this approved, but sadly they'll approve technology that is 6 years old.
A interesting person's claim on the Internet's old frontier
This isn't a serious comment, and is a gross misrepresentation of WWII history. It's deeply concerning to me that WWII history is being rewritten as just another example of the evil United State Empire being racist again (you're not the only one who thinks this wrongly about WWII).

We're probably less than a decade away from revisionist history bleeding over into 9/11, and people will actively teach my children that the United States deserved it as some kind of cosmic karma.
The aviation community is also quite acronym-ful. I wonder if it's because of military influence, or the other way around.
> the Japanese and traditional look almost identical

They have different radicals on the lower right. Unless there's some reason to consider the two radicals equivalent (there isn't in JP, I wouldn't know about CN) they're different characters.
That's the upside of regulation, yes. The downside of regulation is that it makes everything terrible in different ways. FRA regulations is why the U.S. can't buy ready-made trainsets from Europe for a fraction of the cost. Housing regulations increase prices and become a vehicle for propping up property values. A lot of the things hipster millennials care about (e.g. walkable cities dense neighborhoods, fiber internet, affordable housing, public transit) are directly prohibited by regulations.
This [1] happened in 2016. Google can change its privacy policy, but your data is still on their servers. The problem is not just a matter of what Google says about privacy, but a matter of trust, and Google has broken that many times already.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...
Apparently there's a problem with the Guardian transmitter that causes the multiple calibration requests. Minimed is taking orders for free replacements: https://info.medtronicdiabetes.com/bgcheck

I switched to the Dexcom G6 though. It's amazing. I'm using it with open source closed loop pump software for iOS called Loop. There's also a Linux based solution called OpenAPS.
Woody Allen Sues Amazon Studios Claiming Breach of Contract
I think the naming of private/public keys is already pretty clear ...
No New Yorker was happy about the subsidies, especially since it was x4 the amount of the one Amazon got in D.C. Subway is running at full capacity, and real estate prices are already high.

It was seen as a bad deal, and new yorkers just don't have a positive view of amazon. When your restaurant is already almost at full capacity, there is no need to lose money on a groupon campaign.

I don't think anybody would have complained if these subsidies were done somewhere upstate, where the jobs are truly needed.
This is great - we've been talking here recently about the early web and here is a perfect example of it. Except this is all current: someone's portfolio of businesses with old-school web stores. And with that domain, you know they've had it for a really long time.

It's also all wicked fast and every link works and is up to date.

And most of it is about amateur rocketry.
HDD/SDD disk with a 'k'
Floppy/Compact disc with a 'c'
>...well, there was also the fact that Germany had already surrendered by the time the first atom bomb was built.

That did probably make the calculus a lot simpler.
The consortium always expected implementations to use higher level markup to specify language specific variants.
Indeed. The linked article actually explains that he put it together from an unfinished novel and adding his own bits. While obviously not all his own work, it is more complicated than the traditional story that he just found a completed novel and put his name on it.
For a range that small you could even build a lookup table. Or is this a case where cheap computation beats memory access?
> Is this a contest where we should be rooting for a side or something?

Yes lets root for the side that doesn't use prisoners parts for medical experiments and steals intellectual property to develop their cheap knockoffs.
Using an ad-blocker to listen to Spotify for free because you "don't believe in their malware serving practices!" is sort of like being vegan but eating meat anyway. If you really can't accept Spotify on some fundamental level you shouldn't be using Spotify.

All these people up in arms about ad-blockers on Spotify are just trying to justify being cheap.
CAIR Blocks Dissenters
The WSJ story doesn't appear to add much of anything new, but it does at least constitute some additional reporting from outside the complexifier.
I think the extent of that leverage is not well understood.

It's like AMI trying to blackmail Jeff Bezos, but having all of their sites hosted with AWS ....

What happens when it makes business sense for Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook to start charging nation states a license fee for offering their services into their country and all the government services rely on their cloud offerings?
Meta-circular composition forms a powerful design technique with more than just algorithms and code. The philosophy of affordances, fault prevention, fault recovery. Self similarity helps with sourcing, alignment, jigs, etc. Many design patterns in code have analogs in other forms of engineering.

Creating a language is in an orthogonal dimension to the plane that Sapir-Whorf lives on. The realization that you can create and utilize constructed languages, not just the given languages, to solve problems. A computer programming language is a meta-tool, one uses the language to shape and reify ideas. So a computer programmer is a meta-tool user. Someone who creates computer languages is a meta-tool creator. And they are designing an idea that is congruent mathematically, mechanically (can we compute it) and mentally for a human. Maybe my version of the Turing test is, "design me a computer language to represent and solve X"
Only if people are compete fairly. Otherwise like Soviet Union has been better America in space industry ...

And when is America can reach the chinese market or except a few one way only.

And it is not just about money but those people use the money for. Re-educate Muslim in or next time American in ... good luck.

But it is important to have competition.
volokh is arguing points of law; bezos is playing the game of public opinion, which are two different things. In public opinion, threatining to public nude photos is blackmail. Bezos didn't do this with the intent of filing a lawsuit, he's attacking president trump in this (as a response to trump attacking him through the NE).
Golang's interfaces are a half-baked feature, not so different from the rest of the language. What they basically were aiming for is called "structural typing". However, other languages that have that feature have a much better approach, without sacrificing readability, functionality, or discoverability, and ending up causing bugs in the standard library like golang did.
If HQ2 falls through, the history will remember the politicians who were opposed to this as it remembers the board of Yahoo after it rejected the $50BN offer from Microsoft: yes, high five all around right after you kill the deal, but then you are the loser of the century.

25000 jobs at an average of $150k/year. State income tax is 8.8%, city income tax 3.8%, state sales tax 4%, city sales tax 4%, property taxes, etc. You easily take back in taxes 30k/year from each employee. That's 3/4 billion per year. But then wage inflation in the whole tech sector, let's say 3% per year for a few years, for 100k employees, that's about $100MM/year. Then the real estate appreciation. We are talking millions of condos/coops going up in value. Not a lot, but a little bit everywhere adds up. In NYC every apartment sale over $1MM is subject to a 1% "mansion tax". You would see tens of thousands of apartments changing hands. That's hundreds of millions of additional tax revenue right there.

Well, I guess Boston is a nice city too...
I think people who don't need to inject don't realize how benign it really is: I'm not diabetic, but I did need to give myself 3/daily subcut injections (same style as insulin) for a month after an injury. It was absolute agony for the first week or so; often I'd need to psyche myself up for a good 15 minutes before injecting. But by the end of the process it was a 15 second endeavor that I didn't mind in the slightest.
So the best example of a free market here is from China...

Chinese companies made a bad product (in this case poisoned baby formula)... And so now there's a thriving market in buying formula in countries that have all the regulation and shipping it in at an even higher markup.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-11/abc-investigation-unc...
I would add "Teaching is nature's way of letting you know how incomplete your understanding is."
GitHub gains syntax highlighting support for Zig
Presumably that nation state puts someone in jail.
I live in Irvine, CA. Broadcom just built a multi-billion dollar campus (that's my crude understanding, maybe it's wrong; I work with what I hear). They are juxtaposed on 2 sides by agriculture fields. It's interesting to think about, as I drive by it frequently (it's on the way to my wife's office and the freeway).
>Houses are a million plus for 3 bed 2 bath ramblers

In the Bay Area, that's a heck of a deal.
First thing i think of. In fact the Ibm for quite a while can be considered as a punch paper card company (and their first antitrust is about their use of that to meter the computer use)
XP: open office, promiscuous pairing, very little remote work, 4-6 teammates, 2-3 30-minute breaks throughout the day to do whatever, regular lunch n learns, honest retrospectives, continuous deployment, powerful tools (Haskell, Elm, postgresql), daily company-wise “standup” with 70 people that averages 5-10 minutes, bi-monthly team get-togethers to play games and watch movies, regular lunches together, good code review practices, entire team constantly striving to improve.

Software engineers somewhat involved with most relevant business decisions. We are empowered to respectfully question decisions.
We recently saw our price got from $375/mo to over $1000/mo for no new benefits. We are looking to consolidate users or find alternatives. We mainly just use it for support.
I think it's not good to frame wealth creation in terms of billionaires.
Walk part of your commute. Do something active with your kids.
You’re right. Thanks.
I'm afraid I've mostly worked in standard-cells rather than FPGAs, and that was a while back, I used to be the software guy in the hardware group (and the hardware guy in the software group).

These days I build embedded stuff, living on the hardware/software edge I still get to make the software/hardware tradeoffs that others often can't do
On what grounds? They would just be changing their business model
> I say this because Go forces you (minus just ignoring with _) to error check;

fmt.Println("foo")

Where did golang force you to error check?

How about (taken from here: (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ak305l/goodbye...):

r1, err := fn1()
r2, err = fn2()
if err != nil {
return err
}
Once you start talking 25k jobs, you can build a new city out of that.

If you're the sort of billionaire who wants to take a shot at developing a modern Utopia, by whatever metrics you personally care about, buy a few square miles somewhere, move your corporate headquarters and 25k jobs there, and go nuts playing sim city with real people.

Sure, not every potential employee is willing to uproot themselves and move to Bezosburg, but not every potential employer is willing to move to New York or Silicon Valley or Louisville. But between a good salary and the appealing amenities of Bezosburg, you should be able to attract plenty.
Just wanted to let you know that I opened your site in Firefox Focus on iOS and didn't see anything (it was a blank page after a second or two). Since Firefox Focus has ad and tracker blockers enabled, I presume there's something on your site that doesn't fit.
There’s a video about copyright and fair use made entirely of Disney’s movie clips, using dialogue from the movies
> But if you look at the discussions the Japanese war cabinet had behind the scenes these days, it's clear that they were worried about an imminent Soviet invasion just as much as the bombs.

Can you post a source for these? Google hasn't been any help.

English translations, obviously, would be preferred.
Absolutely - this seems to have been the biggest driver in this decision. If you're mere steps from the Department of Defense and the alphabet soup of agencies, you're well positioned to lobby them on your products and services. Crystal City is akin to MV and San Francisco 30 years ago.

It's about to blow up.
People who work in sweatshops do so because the alternatives are worse. The sweatshops tend to disappear as the surrounding economy gets more prosperous, and people have more choices.
You should look into getParamtersByPath instead of getParameters. You should be able to get past the rate limits for quite some time (we haven't hit the getParamtersByPath limits yet)
Here's slate.com's take on the specific legal jepardy AMI is in: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/jeff-bezos-ameri...
ha watch their total subscriber count drop
I agree with you that 4chan isn't the meme generator place it used to be. But I would say that the memes produced on reddit, Twitter or Facebook are different qualitatively. They have much broader appeal usually (normie) than 4chan. But yea..4chan is not the cool subversive place it used to be any more. People make a huge difference... Platforms are not enough on their own. And the people have moved on
We're not talking about a democracy, though. This handful of officers and the emperor were the decision makers.
Sure but China inflated its currency, that's a redistribution to asset holders. The acomplishments are admirable all the same, but the accelerated climb is probably boosted by inflation. I predict a correction in next year's list.
Its pretty much crystal clear that the entire HQ2 song and dance was designed from the outset to extract concessions from Washington D.C. and NYC (and also collect a shitload of data on leverage they might have in other locales for stuff like amazon warehouses).

Ask yourself if amazon needed this huge competition to build in the two default-choice locales. It is absolutely a total sham.

Good on NYC for opposing this, its likely that this is just Amazon trying to get even more out of the deal.
I don't mind principles or rules but I don't like what most websites have in place.

4chan was completely unpredictable and unorganized; no tension was trying to make something out of it except for the people there. Something there made me like that. I never really used it except for a few readings once a year.. and I always like this raw side. Somehow.. it's so raw it feels honest and trustable.
Regardless of the content (which is excellent as usual) I think this is the best layout of a presentation transcript I've seen.
I'm actually a fan of dense. If I have to reread a well written paragraph five times to understand that's fine by me. When I'm reading serious non-fiction (currently Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics by Dijkstra and Scholten) I consider it normal to just make it through a handful of pages per day.