skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old enough to remember RIP but still thought it was going to be about graphics being dead. :(
A list of characters (a string) and a list of tokens are drastically different to work with. If you haven't worked with both and want to write programming languages, I would recommend filling the gap of the one you haven't to see/feel the difference.

Beyond the code being a list, Racket's macro system and syntax parse / creation tools are incredibly powerful and come built in where you could spend years in another language just getting the tooling to write a language, let alone writing it.
Tesla didn't break this any more than any other car manufacturer. The model year hasn't been tied to the manufacture year for a long time. See https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/why-doesnt-cars-model-ye... for instance.
This snippet comes across maybe overblown, and surely it’s not scientifically accurate, but it serves to elevate and venerate what stories are; it’s literary. It makes its point with imagery rather than accuracy.
The statistics on that are pretty interesting: https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/aaa_fig...

There is an uptick in crashes as you get older than 69. But, they aren't the most crash prone age group, or even close.

Narrowed to fatality crashes, they do stand out. I'm guessing, though, because they are less likely to survive because of age.

Full article: https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...
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I don’t think the Democrat party will be going anywhere but to the extreme left of socialist ideals for the next few election cycles. Conversely, the Republicans will continue moving further to the right with extreme capitalist ideals.

I’ve pondered if Newton’s laws of physics applies to our 2 party political system. There seems to be an equal yet opposite reaction (see Trump and AOC).

I think we need a 3rd party in our country. Maybe it could be coined “the middle party”?
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What the parent likely means is that Lisps, structurally, are akin to the AST many other languages generate as an intermediate step to compilation.
In that case, taxes and rent only would account for about a $50k difference at those numbers - not enough to make up the gap between Austin and SF if we're talking $200k and $300k, and I'd imagine $200k isn't as easy to hit in Austin as $300k+ in the Bay Area.
Multiple dispatch and meta programming are both wonderful, irrespective of speed benefits.

For example, compare linear algebra syntax in Julia with those in R and Python.

Plus, the flexibility of multiple dispatch applying equally well to any of your own types really makes it feel like you can do anything in Julia.

Metaprogramming, writing code that writes code, can take a while to get used to. But is extremely powerful.

A final point I will make is comparability of Julia code. If you want to for a Bayesian model or solve a differential equation in Julia, you can mix your own types and code and any generically written library code at will, and it will often just work.
In R, you're not likely to find that; your Stan code can't call R functions you've written or those from your favorite libraries.
As the comment below points out the author did not create Racket. However there is an author (Donald Knuth or DEK as he is known) who did just that: create a new language (two of them: TeX and METAFONT) for typesetting and making fonts, created new fonts (Computer Modern), published a series of books about the languages and the fonts, AND the programs that implement these languages. Then he used his creations to typeset his 'The Art of Computer Programming' (or TAOCP) books.
Is there a risk that the gene drive mechanism could be transferred to other species?
I refused a job interview with them for ethical reasons, but I'm not blamming people accepting. Morality is an abitrary line. My phone is probably made by slaves, my clothes by children and my bank account probably invest in arms companies.

It's good if one can take the opportunity to take a stand. But let's not pretend we are parangon because we do.
> I think it just boils down to the fact that humans sort of instinctively (or maybe culturally?) like the idea of royalty.

Until they don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
Understood. To add one more point, I'm noticing the reason the above works the way it does is because most forecast algorithms output an expected value instead of a random variable, hence the results are E[g(log(Y)] instead of just g(log(Y)).

It strikes me that if you package the entire thing as a random variable:

Z = exp(G(log(Y)))

and use a different kind of forecast function G : Y -> Y' where Y, Y' ~ Normal, then we don't need the multiplicative factor -- which can be difficult to calculate for an arbitrary transformation. We can just get the expected value of Z, ie. E[Z] = E[exp(G(log(Y)))]. This is not done in the article, but in theory it could be.
I think the ability to conjure up things out of nothing, that have no constraints derived from the physical world, is a lot of the appeal of computer-based activites such as programming or 3d graphics in the first place.
You can accomplish the same thing with a handheld mixer pretty much.
Speaking of knee-jerk, you should note social conservatives tend to be the bedrock of organisations for a reason. While I love a good ol bashing of yesterdays politics, placing blame on people who think differently to you is the exact thing you are complaining about.
Just left Austin for this exact reason. All the companies, except a few startups and exceptions are not in downtown. They are out in the boonies. Live downtown and you are looking at 2-3 hours of commute every day and traffic is gloriously terrible. The transportation system in Austin is none to speak of. The other thing that bugs me is none of these companies are actually in Austin. It's more like Round Rock. So, when people say Austin is a tech hub, it seems like play on marketing.

This is why I left for Minneapolis, I actually bought a condo in central downtown. I can walk and bike everywhere. I can take a train or bus at any given moment to everything I would ever need and there is something to be said when you are easily and casually attend any of the major 6 sporting leagues at a drop.

As for the tech and pay. I find it pays the same or actually more in my experience. Finding a job is easy. Most companies don't play that Leetcode game, some do, but most don't it seems. Tons of huge fortune companies that use modern tech and have interesting problems, including places like Target, big banks and tons of healthcare. There are hidden startups, if you look, hard, but many haven't even take VC are only 2-5 people right now and are bootstrapped and highly profitable.

If I ever decide to take that job at a big tech in SF I'll rent out my condo in central downtown, pack up my backup and take the light rail to the airport with my one way ticket.
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Collaboration is so much harder remote. Slack and video can help! But you still lose some. I have been on both sides of the remote equation, and I think it’s not optimal.
Ask HN: Alternative” News Source That Counters Major Attitudes?
Hi friends,

Could someone recommend to me an "alternative" news source?
A news source that focuses on similar topics as the big names, CNN, CNBC, NPR, etc., but tries its best to counter the idea often promoted by those major sources?

Such as: Assuming CNN and NPR are going very pro-Trump one day (assuming), the "alternative view" news should sound very anti-Trump in the mean time.
I think an alternative view into news helps one forming a critical thinking mindset.

Just shower idea.

Apologize if it's already a thing -- Don't know how to phrase that into a search term.
The desktop experience is great. I gave up on the app due to freezes/crashes on iOS 12. In a hunt for alternatives, found this app, which is more than comparable.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/hacker-buzz/id1292825792?mt=8
Not equal apparently : https://youtu.be/mICxKmCjF-4
That would be liable for helping to distribute illegal content, much like Pirate Bay is.
Why do you think you would receive a ban for that? I don't think you would.
That is interesting. At the same time I wonder about the data source. I’d imagine these are pulled from insurance/police data.

Anecdotally, I’ve been hit by senior citizens 3 times. All were very minor fender benders in parking lots or at traffic lights. In each case, I didn’t have the nerve to put them through insurance. We settled it personally and never reported to anyone.

Is it possible there are a lot of people like me that take pity on these older drivers and don’t report accidents?

Another common theme I see around me is when you’re in a corridor where most drivers are speeding by 5-10mph and there’s the one person in the left lane going 10mph under the limit. They’re usually a senior citizen. That creates bottlenecks and potentially dangerous situations behind the slow driver. They could be a contributing factor to accidents and wouldn’t be included in these statistics.

I suppose you could argue that those speeding are causing the accident because they’ve broken the law. It’s a fair argument.
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> maximum precision

Sometimes maximum precision means having a first-class typechecker & type inference. (You could build some of that too in Racket if you really need to. Of course, that code itself will not be verified or typechecked.)

> Why aren’t these lan­guages DSLs?

They aren't DSL's because they need statically-linked binaries, and good error messages, and then your task is not as easy as desugaring to a LISP/dynlang.
I recently began learning Julia and initially everything was amazing, except for 1 based indexing but with everything else I could overlook that. Then I attempted building something medium sized and it all fell apart. I feel like it needs some serious work on tooling, the module system, packages, etc.

Has anyone built something medium-large sized in Julia? Maybe I'm missing something. When I was trying to use modules to organize my code the response I got was that modules are more trouble than they are worth so just don't use them. So why do they even exist? That really put me off from Julia despite really liking it otherwise.

I would want to build things with it not just play in a REPL and notebooks.
So... The answer is fundamentally "statically typed", right?
Sounds cool. Too bad it doesn't appear to work on Macs? (Or at least mine -- MacBook late 2016, macOS 10.14.3, Chrome 72.0.3626.109.)

Tried opening in Safari too, and the page is just white -- doesn't even load the menu interface or anything.
I had to replace snapped dough hooks three times with my KitchenAid and eventually the hinge started to go. Ended up going back to Kenwood and haven’t had any problems since. Anecdata though.
Already answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19231986
It is a catch 22. think all I want as a technologist, indirectly the reason to measure to see that I am going in the right direction, hoping the products I build help people create more of above type of interactions between us. Years ago when I was reading about this, I have come to conclusion that these places are what Hakim Bey called "temporary autonomous zones" and I accept them as just experiences to be lived rather than quantified.
Yes, long term capital gains tax is lower than corporate tax. But you limited it to salary not compensation.

When we talk about compensation we need to start talking about things like golden handcuffs or parachute. Things linked to performance etc.

But corporate taxes also need to be kept in context. If I'm not "allowed" to pay my CEO a lot (which means he/she may leave) then I'll spend the money otherwise to reinvest etc. (A la Amazon). Is that "wrong" as well?
Yikes,
thats pretty bad.

In a single brush he dismisses those small business horror stories as “fairy tails”. Not to get to political, but the with the current us political environment it’s not entirely surprising.

Also using last century examples ( IBM and 3com ) is a little strange.
If you lived in North Korea, do you think your North Korean friends who like the job their government is doing would outweight those who don't?

Would you dare to criticize the government if you were in their position? This video does a great job at illustrating the situation your Chinese friends face: https://vimeo.com/44078865
On the first page is a nice table with the yearly performance data of Berkshire versus the S&P 500.

I wanted to see it as a graph. So I cleaned it up in VIM and then made this chart from it:

https://www.productchart.com/blog/2019-02-23-berkshire
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Company performance reviews, apart from their asymmetry (managers rate employees but employees can't rate their managers), assume you can sum an entire person up with a set of say 6 5-star ratings in a little table.

Think of all the characteristics of a person that aren't captured in that little 6x5 table.
A title of “Admit it. The Republicans have broken politics” and being published by Vox fills me with confidence that this will be an unbiased report based solely in fact. Definitely.

This is clearly an opinion and not news nor fact.

The real fact is that Republicans are American, just like Democrats. We are all responsible for breaking our country. Every. Single. One. Of. Us.
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I think he meant to say don’t lead by setting an unrealistic example.
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And mine as well, and anecdotal for sure. But, if there's something to it, I'm not sure how to account for it. Though one thing comes to mind.

Some time ago, a study was performed in my home country to look into possible correlations between academic performance and work performance among doctors. As it turned out, the best performing doctors were not those with top grades, at least not before entering medical school.

Those who did best had left high school with adequate grades, but not good enough to get into medical school. Rather, they had spent time and effort with supplementary studies to get their grades up to the level where they could apply for medical school.

The possible explanation that was presented was that some of those who had great grades straight out of school simply chose to become doctors because of the promise of prestige and remuneration. Those who didn't, but still fought their way into medical school, however, had a calling beyond money and status.
Multiple dispach and meta programming are available in python as well. Although duck typing is usually a better solution and it's not really a killer feature to data analysts anyway.

Compared to python, i'd say julia has the reputation for being generally faster for things you can't use numpy with, and you can more easily scale multiple cpu or machines.
I think some charts with SSIM measurements at various bitrates and resolutions etc. would be way more informative than a youtube video.
I don't recall HotOrNot using people comparison, but a 1-10 hotness scale.

FaceMash compared people (at least according to the movie)
This isn't how it works in the UK (or elsewhere AFAIK), so do you consider it's only the USPTO that's broken?

If it were differently administered would you be fine with it?

If the UKIPO is granting invalid patents the checks are that anyone can petition the comptroller to check the validity of a patent, anyone can submit prior art for the examiner's consideration. Then, a patent that's invalid should be useless in court and just accrue the holder their own, and the defendants costs.

In practice companies go for invalid patents because they can lawyer their way out, but that's the court system that's broken then.
An interesting tangent I think about sometimes:

I think when people think about "programmers/developers" vs "computer scientists", this is where the difference could really show up in the future. A developer who knows how to code and hack may not have the skill/design knowledge to properly create a language/DSL, perhaps making a monster in the process. A well trained computer scientist (academic, self taught, doesn't matter) should have those tools and more importantly the design know how. A lot of teaching (again in both academia and not) really lacks on teaching good design for programming generally.

I think we're already starting to see this difference show up with libraries and frameworks (somewhat already DSL's themselves), and if we keep moving towards the direction of DSL's I think you will find many of the bright programmers of tomorrow going away from writing code to make things but instead code to make languages to make things. The final step of code to thing (from a technical perspective) seems to become increasingly boilerplate more than ever before as tooling keeps expanding. You still need to know the deep internals for large scale things, but it's never been easier to spin up a quick project that "just works" and does quite a lot. If library/framework/language creators do their job, this should only get easier.

At a certain point I wonder if the actual programming ever becomes a "lower tier" of the software world.
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The board approves the plan and I usually let my friends have what they want.
So is mass transit. This sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
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I've seen the same thing at several places on Germany. Managers pulling people off a product that was growing rapidly and just needed a bit more time to gain industry credibility, to put them on contracting rolls to Tier 1 suppliers to the automotive industry. There were also silly things like hampering future growth through exclusive/paid feature development in order to make today's profits look better.

It was really short term thinking that didn't understand the industry requirements and ended up throwing the product under a bus to get a tiny bit of upfront guaranteed income.
Note that “Democrat Party” is a slur created by Republicans. The name of the party is the Democratic Party.
> Of course, that code itself will not be verified or typechecked.

Easy, just used typed Racket :)
I think dynamodb lacks joins. Generally, good point. Though I suspect many traditional web app backends are vulnerable to this kind of "crafted high overhead api call" dos too. I guess you could throttle the calls based on duration using some kind of token bucket scheme...
It looks like one will have to write a whole lot of languages to be reasonably good at language oriented programming.

Remember the first couple of programs you wrote? I bet they were all quite similar.
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We've been targeted by a patent troll and as a small business (less than 5 employees) it absolutely shook us to our core. Thankfully a lawyer took us up pro bono and the trolls backed off. I'm saddened to think of all the businesses that weren't as lucky. This needs to be fixed.
I feel like this doesn’t lend itself well to that graph style, hard to interpret. Maybe some log scale needs to be applied to the y axis first to point out the differences.
> fantastic walk through of special relativity

Do you have a link? It's not obvious which treatment you mean (have done a simple search).
I agree. I meta-programmed (enormous) expressions from analytical expressions exported from Mathematica to Julia, because I found Julia to be ~3000 times faster than Mathematica when it comes to calculating eigenvalues. Using BigFloat for higher precision, my matrix function in Julia took ~20 minutes to compile on the first run and ~20 GB of RAM. Smooth once compiled, but I was the only one of my collaborators that had the capacity to run it.
> it will be seen by their families, friends, classmates, professors, coworkers, bosses, etc.

That's what visibility controls are for. You don't have to let everyone see what you post, and I have many friends who use that to post things critical of the Chinese government, mostly on topics like censorship or the relationship to Taiwan, especially when the referendum on gay marriage was in the news.
TFA: While the spread of the gene drive to other species is extremely unlikely, people can't rule it out entirely.
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I don't think v.12 (the linux version covered in the book) had sockets.
Never knew that. Wikipedia does confirm that Democratic Party members dislike the term.

Still though, a slur? Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me. Grow up.
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Oddly, getting it from the gas station was slightly cheaper per gallon. I assume the cost of delivering to my house exceeded the tax for vehicle fuel.
By the way I wrote an article about an English grammar. maybe it could be useful for you ..

https://www.tolongtangtugas.web.id/2019/02/master-present-pe...
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In many cases, the lion's share of C-level pay is not straight up cash, but equity. They might still make money if they destroy value, but the better they do for the company, the better they do for themselves. That's what you're looking for, right?

Better still, that stock compensation isn't really paid for by the company. The costs of paying with equity accrue to shareholders in the form of dilution.
> Technically that's not Delta. That's run by a third party because it's not cost effective for Delta to operate small jets.

Technically it depends, but it's still Delta branded with Delta setting the policies. Endeavor Air is, for instance, wholly owned by Delta.
Code: https://github.com/igemsoftware2018/Lambert_GA_CALM
Everyone should know three things:
1. You can measure anything
2. Measurements always have error
3. Measures aren't always aligned to what they are trying to measure, so even validated measures need critical thinking based on qualitative experience.
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Ok, so now you have Typed Racket (that last point was a relatively minor comment on the larger argument). Does implementing the above then correspond to the strengths as described in LOP?
Hi Hacker News! OP here. We are a few biohackers/synthetic biologists from MIT and UCSC. We are launching a Synthetic Biology course, where our goal is to prepare those who want to pursue synbio projects all the skills and tools necessary to realize their vision.

We are offering an early-bird discount for the online course. If you have any questions please reach out to contact@synbioschool.com

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This is an important comment. People might also be interested in the book Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life by Allen Frances (who was the chair of the DSM-4 committee)
Once again we see that government doesn’t have regard for doing the best for its citizens. It’s only regard is doing what is best to keep itself alive.
Language is an interesting thing to be discussed ..

The fact, there are many people here discuss it ..

In addition, I try to maintain my English by writing some articles, such as

1. https://www.tolongtangtugas.web.id/2019/02/master-present-pe...

2. https://www.tolongtangtugas.web.id/2019/02/belajar-asyik-sim...

See that, if you like .. thanks ..
Julia is not statically typed, at least not in the common sense of the term.
Another example of a kid going to irradiate himself with neutrons . . .

as wahern states: You don't really need to do the math or understand the physics to appreciate that Fusors are a dead-end.
Neat idea, but I get mostly certificate errors, bare Apache errors, timeouts, basic auth prompts, etc. Some kind of filter might make it more interesting.