skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also made a closure converting pass to my compiler (in racket also!)

Here's mine: https://github.com/sinistersnare/SinScheme/blob/master/src/r...
The minimum wage dominates so much of our discourse considering it is such a small ~1% of total US labor with the bulk of actual minimum wage earners being people who are likely in college or still living with their parents.

Sorry, but even high income earners in expensive cities generally go the route of having roommates. Those are the breaks until we can build more housing stock, and even then it wouldn't likely be wise even if you could squeeze by.

Articles like this are pointless, the fact of the matter is that a 1BR is not some kind of entitlement and most people earning minimum wage don't tend to stay there all that long.
The post you are replying to merely makes a statement, not the ethical argument that you have interpreted it as (though your distinction between hard choices and villainy is important.)

I happen to think that it is an incorrect statement, and that, while leaders of millions will make mistakes, they need not necessarily be villainous.

To be clear, I am not claiming that Churchill's actions in Ireland, Iraq and India were merely mistakes - the worst of them, together with the attitudes that allegedly justified them, belong in the annals of infamy.
(Days later)

"7 Best Community-Built Value Investing Algorithms Using Fundamentals" https://blog.quantopian.com/fundamentals-contest-winners/

(The Zipline backtesting library also builds upon Pandas)

How can we factor ESG/sustainability reporting into these fundamentals-driven algorithms in order to save the world?
Things like this is why it is so important for the web to have multiple browsers available to choose from.
The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet
My suggestion followed on in the same sarcastic tone. The implication is still that there are hardly enough desktop Linux users to be relevant to this project - which I think is misleading here, since Aether is the sort of thing that Linux users are much more likely to try out than Mac or Windows users. And, my original point is still that a combination of relying on snaps and a snippy tone towards Linux isn't likely to be productive for Aether.
How does Dgraph compare in performance, features to something like Neo4j?
Why does this title significantly differ from the article? The article presents no evidence nor claims that anyone lied.
> Does a job have to physically difficult to be considered real?

Sitting for 40-50 hours a week and staring at a monitor is physically difficult, ask anyone with 20+ years of that under their belt.
I don’t understand how nobody else sees this. We need a new app layer protocol that has common features of the web baked in. Distributing apps over JS is insanity and it needs to stop. Having each webpage be it’s own app needs to stop. JS causes so many problems it makes me want to scream.

If baked in simple text rendering, forum page rendering, video, image, sound and etc, you would cover what 99 percent of the internet is used for. Instead of each. Fucking. Website. Implementing all of these things independently in horrible, horrible JS, just bake it into the browser. No more JS nonsense, hacking, tracking, etc. this is such a simple and correct concept I don’t understand why it meets such massive resistance
Absolutely, if you are unwilling to take the helm and steer yourself to happiness you might as well grab a shovel and start digging your grave. Happiness is not granted by existing. Happiness is created through deliberate effort.
Out of curiosity, what is stopping screen makers from making the entirety of the colour space as defined by the CIE chromaticity diagram its gamut?

Is there some fundamental limitation of liquid crystals? I understand for example, CRTs require red phosphor made of yttrium and europium, which somewhat limits the emitted freq. What about LEDs and LCDs? What are the limitations for making a wider gamut?

Do note my knowledge in this side of things is close to nil (the specific examples of yttrium and europium as red phosphor was a story told to me by a physicist friend, and it stuck)
To avoid the risk of seeming to be prescriptive, I'll just say that I had a reasonably sound resume with mostly middle management experience in litigation, insurance, telephone technology, and operations. (Those fields seem unrelated even to me when summarized, but there was a logical progression.)

I am now working my dream job, which is solidly blue collar. It pays well enough, I still use my mind, and it is mostly not dull or repetitive. (I've worked a few of those, too, both white and blue collar.)

There are a lot more of those kinds of blue collar jobs than many middle management types realize. Most of my old coworkers are long gone from my social circle, but in retrospect, that always happened when I went from one company to the next anyway.
>how do you prevent "tracking pixels" that can monitor what content is viewed per IP address?

No third party connections allowed. As for the originating server, they already know you requested the page, no?
The one party that seems to go unscathed or are even in power positions are the princes that chose to ally with the British to retain their kingdoms. The Last Nizam went to become an MP for a long time. His violent Razakar militia morphed into Political party and wins every Parliamentary election in Hyderabad. The Scindias of Gwalior are power players in both the INC and BJP. There are numerous other royal descendants that have FAT fortunes and local name recognition and political cache.

Indians can hate Winston Churchill all they want, and they can beg the liberal leaning administrations of Oxford and other British academia to throw away busts of Churchill. All the while naming colleges and universities after people who allied with British and treated their population worse than British have treated Indians.

Winston Churchill is a villian but the Indian allies of British are the worst scoundrels.
The ironic thing is that US Radar stations picked up the incoming Japanese aircraft while they were still miles offshore - but believed they were a flight of B-17's that were arriving from the mainland.
Mitchell Gravity Set Fractals
I really liked these, but they're particular to my interests:
http://www.brianneltner.com/machine-learning
In remember a story from my fikmmaking class 20 years ago.... Rodrigo Garcia (the son of Gabriel Garcia Marquez) wanted to be a filmmaker.

The industry is quite closed. Everybody knew almost everybody and it was quite hard to break into the industry.

This guy did something unusual.

Instead of trying to be a director from the first time, he bought a piece of equipment for moving the camera up/downwards, leartn how to use it perfectly, and rented the device with an operator... which was him, of course.

This way he was able to get in touch with the industry, make contacts, etc.

My advice is to do something similar.

Get a copy if the American Cinematographer Manual from the ASC, use it to learn the language of the industry, and do like Rodrigo Garcia (he was director of photography): use your current skills to find a contractor niche where you can get to know people in the industry.
To be fair, there are plenty of state universities in the US that are considerably cheaper than private schools. Students entering college are generally making two bad decisions:

1. Selecting a very expensive, non-prestigious private school.

2. Selecting a major that has no ROI for the cost of tuition.

To give concrete examples:

Option 1.

4 years at U of Texas at Austin.

Tuition = $40k.

Option 2.

2 Years at Tarrant County College.

2 years at U of Texas at Austin.

Tuition = $24k.

Option 3.

4 years at Southern Methodist University.

Tuition = $250k.

So a student could spend $24k versus $250k, and I would imagine most would consider the UT Austin degree more valuable, as well, though these two schools are ranked similarly for undergraduate.

And, while I would support further taxes to support state schools, I have no desire to support students who are personally selecting to attend a school that will cost 10x just because they want to. And I have no desire to forgive their loans, either.
Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
Why were you talking about this terrible sounding product?

You're part of a cohort that the brand thinks would buy it. Or at least talk about.
There are quite a few legitimate entry points. There's a huge body of artists who had no idea about the physiology of human vision but absolutely understood hue, chroma, brightness.

They clearly understood the real world was HDR even if they didn't use that term. They understood the massive loss of dynamic range of their artwork, and yet they developed the concept of rendering in order to compress shadow and highlight detail to preserve some sense of the real world when important and to clip it when it wasn't important. And you don't even have to go back 600 years for such examples, even today's amateur photographer learns about these problems and work arounds, without the benefit of learning any physiology.

We can't all dedicate the time to read Wyszecki and Stiles as the entry point into color and imaging, albeit of course it's quite useful for those who need to understand such origin stories and the math for all of it.
It's kinda obvious why its down-voted. Most people in on this site are western and are biased against this sort of information.
Another year in Indie game development: Iron Tower studio yearly business review
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New Multi-Task Deep Neural Network for Natural Language Understanding
A lot of power has been taken away from the City and given to the city (from the square mile to the mayor/Assembly). Now it’s vestigial and liked.
Hadn't seen this until now. This project looks great.

As someone who has mostly used the MSVC environment on Windows, can you comment on how often Cygwin allows for a Linux port to compile and run with no source changes? I read a while back that the fork "emulation" is a performance hit. I wonder if Cygwin benefited from the WSL fork implementation [0]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391797
This is true, but...

One of my hobbies is baking bread. I've seen professional bakers bake 100% whole wheat loaves with an open crumb. It's semi-magic and not practical. They literally spend years failing at it, learning every variable, sourcing different artisanal flours and setting up a professional workspace.

I do try it sometimes, and I always fail. It's interesting, but...

Sometimes I actually want to eat some nice bread. There are times when I say, just do a 33% whole wheat loaf Erik, it's fine. It is practical and it's still fun and it's a nice day doing my hobby. There's still plenty of sport in it and plenty to learn.
So might the risk of harpooning one big thing have a net negative effect by creating more tiny objects?
The Opana Radar Site on the north corner of the island detected the Japanese aircraft approaching, and the radar operators there reported it to their command. However this report was confused for a formation of B-17s that was scheduled to arrive from that general direction. The size of the detected formation, which might have revealed the confusion, was not properly communicated.

This incident was a subplot in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, which may be where you heard it.
Which policy, specifically?

The only policy I know of was mobilizing the military to transport food and aid to the famine stricken regions during wartime.

I suppose you're suggesting that more food and resources should have been diverted, regardless of the consequences elsewhere, and without concern for any other event unfolding at the time in the region.

Genocidal? I don't think so.
But there's a very rational reason to not support nuclear: it's too expensive.

I used to support nuclear, but this argument against it has become too strong.
Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty before he took over from Chamberlain.

He was very much responsible for the Norwegian Campaign, which was widely considered a fiasco that handed Hitler a decisive victory and gave the latter enough political momentum to continue with his war plans.

https://www.historynet.com/scandinavian-twist-churchills-194...
Unsolicited advice usually makes me feel worse about a given discomfort in my life. Do others really think I haven't considered these simple remedies? Most people assume that, if someone is in a bad way and sharing their experience, they possess the armchair wisdom to save them.
Autonomous car vision system watches not just where pedestrians walk, but how
If the OP's post resonates with you and you are a software engineer, consider hiring a part-time personal / virtual assistant.

I haven't heard of software engineers in VC startup land or corporate world hiring personal assistants but in the freelance / consulting world it's very common and an amazing way to "level up" yourself as a professional. It's ok to need help and it's ok to hire someone who enjoys helping with personal or professional admin tasks.

You can start out with a virtual assistant for a few hundred bucks a month and can find one on Craigslist or a branded service like Zirtual.

I have a VA help with routine marketing / admin tasks in my business and then impromptu one-off personal tasks like booking flights, hiring task rabbits, booking doctors' appointments, etc.

I know not everyone is in a place to afford this but I think most engineers are if they are thoughtful about their finances. I'd highly recommend trying it out.
Honestly I've never worked in an environment and with stack mature and scalable enough, with roles within the team so clearly divided, for chaos monkey to be of any use. Hectic deployments, "it's not my job" attitude, feature creep, and a litany of minor errors and misconfigurations were taking its place.
Ask HN: How you find content you are interested in?
Few questions to figure out how you guys/girls find the content which you are interested to read online. Is it specific websites or scour google or something else? please help by filling out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/GSu7YGL50Rvjizm02
> There seems to be some confusion between Tax-breaks and subsidies.

A tax break and a subsidy is exactly the same thing. Amazon is a large and profitable company. The idea that tax payer money should go to subsidies to Amazon is just very insane.
You're missing the point, that's not how 99% of normal people think it works, consciously or subconsciously, it's regardless of how it actually does.

People expect Facebook and Twitter to be local, and forget, because that's how human society works, but not computers.

Whether it's a couple of friends joking about defacing Marilyn Monroe's grave (with no real intention) or someone moaning about their internet, they don't expect to be watched by tens of thousands of corporations and hundreds of governments.
It’s not a problem of content creators. Assuming people are using ff/chrome, html mode only supports basic functions. If you had a new protocol/browser then you could have lots of style and functionally baked in. How are you going to do html only forums? Html isn’t enoug. And html sucks anyway. Expecting people to make html only content and view html only content is rediculous.
> In 2017, Tharoor put the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the same category as some of "the worst genocidal dictators" of the 20th century, saying that Churchill is "one of the more evil rulers of the 20th century only fit to stand in the company of the likes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin. Churchill has as much blood on his hands as Hitler does. Particularly the decisions that he personally signed off during the Bengal Famine when 4.3 million people died because of the decisions he took or endorsed.

The author has toned down his message in this piece whilst still banging the same drum. And I'm not sure why. The guy was flawed, sure. He was both a renowned wit and a racist, who had to make some unbelievably hard decisions during wartime. One of those decisions unfortunately exacerbated a famine already well into the making[1], a thing Tharoor seems to ignore each time he brings it up. Instead he imagines that Churchill himself pushed a button saying "no shipping grain there because I'm racist" rather than than as a result of the nearly 1 million tonnes of ships lost in the Indian Ocean in a single year, stretching already stretched supplies to breaking point as the Allies continued fighting a war on 6 fronts across 3 continents.

I guess it's easy, you can repeatedly bring this up and tap into some anti-english sentiment within your countrymen. But why? The man can be both a hero and a villain in different parts of his life. You can appreciate the man of the hour whilst understanding that his views and actions in other parts of his life where outdated and by modern standards pretty disgusting.

You can also appreciate that without him WW2 may have gone very, very differently for both Europe and India. And maybe there is something to be thankful for in that. Personally I would think the Nazis would have done a lot worse things, and held even worse views.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#February...
So far only one amateur team has done this: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10803/is-it-possib...
Sure, but Churchill's point above is, "... he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived."

The more out of step taxation is with wealth creation, more accurate that point becomes. Whether or not that's a bad thing can be reasonably debated, I think.
What? Surely it's bap?
Is there any open-source -physically realistic- rocket flight simulation software that one can build/test landing algorithms on?
He Was Both Hero And Villain

Why on earth do people find this so hard to comprehend?
Probably depends on the age, but with a 7 month old I have approximately 5:30-6:30am and 8:30-9:30pm.
My point was more about the assumption about who owns somesite.com. Assuming two domains are owned by the same company is a somewhat secondary concern to authenticating the owner of either; both of which are larger issues in their own right.

As commented by someone else, see e.g. whitehouse.com. The fact of whitehouse.gov being a different owner is much less of concern than that of whitehouse.com not having the expected owner in the first place (from the perspective of most visitors).
Precisely this.

It is absurd indeed to try and cast a man either as a saint or a villain in this kind of manner - there are many things it is well acknowledged Churchill did extremely badly indeed. His time as PM /at/ the right time in history /with/ the personality and values he held happened to be good and useful, and worked towards a good and useful end. Like all such cases, that pragmatic good has some bad consequences of its own, and does not negate the rest of his life's actions.

Tell all, and consider what may have been good and what may have been ill. To accept all or reject all based on some actions is not only unwise, it is proactively damaging.
> Please, show me where they say it is clearly causative.

You are either being intentionally obtuse or you misunderstand the purpose of a study. This is a published study, not a Fox News article.
But of course you'd put metal on a metal working video!

Artist's choice tho. I think it goes pretty well with the video fwiw.
> Very cool that it was defined in 1931 and has held up more-or-less unchanged to today

I wonder if the color mixing experiments have been recreated since the 30s, and if there has been any observable shifts in the curves
Depends on how you define concern.

For killing a spacecraft? Small debris.
For creating more debris? Big debris.
You fail to account for student loan interest, which does not transfer to your academic boogeymen.
It really depends on the product. E.g. if you buy Google Wifi, you can call them or chat with customer support, etc. If you need help with constructing a web search query, not so much.

So, please do not over generalize or compare apples to oranges.
We've banned this account for trolling. Would you please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> involved with virtually no scientific or mathematical content

You can't say that about this list, on the account of "What is Mathematics" alone.

That's the book that really got me into math (ended up with a PhD in it), and it covers a very wide range of topics from number theory to geometry and topology (and has the best exposition of Calculus I've ever seen).

Also, a lot of branches of math do not require a very long preparation to get into. To get deeply into - yes.

So, perhaps you should narrow your statement to specific books.
Really? What about heavily contributing to the devaluation of the money paid to keep said services running?
What about the benefit of actual living quarters for the tenants? Who besides a landlord is going to rent 4 walls and a roof to someone who needs it?

Seems similar to saying that hotel owners 'contribute nothing to the general welfare'.
I will spend a couple of months exploring some idea. Then will test something in the market and iterate/change based on market feedback.
There was enough evidence.

But every single one of your comments defends Google and is spreading doubt. Even causing people to flag legitimate articles like this one.
> I needed historical context and motivations to plow through those topics and to enjoy math.

Everyone really does! It's a travesty that most books just throw dry definition - theorem - proof at you, when in real world, the concepts were developed in the opposite order, and for a good reason.
They also removed support for mandatory features of HTTPS [0], as defined in RFC 2818. Not that I'm against the change /per se/, but there correct way to go about it is to change the standard.

They also claimed Firefox was doing the same thing, which is false and not really sufficient justification for not supporting things that MUST be supported.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=700354
Defaulting to AND means that you aren't just searching for the most common term in your query that drowns out the rest. Also, adding terms narrows the query down rather than making it more general. This behavior strikes me as far more natural for "normal" people.
Sure, but it still negates the argument that landlords don't contribute towards shared services at all.
It's in the subtitle.
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How often does an integer occur as a binomial coefficient?
The right place at the right time – lessons from the military and project mgmt