skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also say that the desk lamp in front of me is an illusion because if I take it into parts then there's no single atomic center that is truly the essence of the lamp.

That's how some Buddhist texts approach the question, typically with a horse cart or a wheel as the object they demonstrate lacks a fixed essence.

To which I say, sure, fine, there is no essence. There's still a table, a cart, a self! We don't need such essences. We don't need to be able to pinpoint the exact location or center of every entity we take to exist.

It is indeed interesting to look at edge cases and borders, like what happens to the self during states of deep meditative absorption, for example. Well, let's say it temporarily dissolves, like when you heat up a piece of wax. Maybe that's accurate, maybe not.

Buddhists do talk about the self like this, that it comes and goes, that settling into samadhi makes it calm down and fade into a more diffuse state, and so on. They also say that the self is ultimately an "illusion", but in the same sense that everything is an illusion: it is temporary, compounded, dependent, etc, while we sometimes are deluded to think otherwise, e.g. that our soul is eternal which is of course a common belief (that I do not hold).

Buddhists also always add that the teachings about "not self" are not to be taken as metaphysical claims, but as useful instructions for teaching a practice, the practice of meditation leading to liberation. Or in a lighter sense, you can practice having a less limiting self-definition, or to accept that your self is dynamic and expansive.

Still, people exist, and "self" is basically just a word I use to denote myself as a person. In my solitary flow states I am in a different state than in ordinary social situations; maybe I am a bit like a chameleon, too.

People are extremely complex and marvelous, so they exist in many different ways, within many different kinds of relations and environments, and they are constantly changing and adapting, but they are also constantly maintaining and preserving.

That's all a bit of a ramble, I didn't have time to organize these thoughts properly!
It’s great to see smart new inventions being made when programmers switch to a, seemingly, extremely low-tech business. Are there more examples of programmers who made a similar leap?
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I'm not aware of any, no. EQ is still a somewhat fuzzy concept. It needs to be more well-defined before it can become a fruitful research topic.
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We call ourselves trapped.
Based on the description of how it works, all of the business logic is baked right into the database. With this design, it should be straight forward to build a front end in something like Flask or Rails since all of the hard business logic is already done. And this would not break his current emacs workflow at all.
I don't like Article 13, but I don't believe there are many people whose only or even top priority is Article 13. There are many issues to vote on.
Humans _are_ extra-logical.

The world is what is the case.

We humans are often interested in something else.
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Yes, it's pretty clear he was set up in order to get him off the Vatican bank reform effort.

I'm a Catholic and my stomach turns at the level of corruption in the Vatican.
I don't know man?

Just Devil's Advocate here, but it I think if Trump did that, and then tried to say he was just trying to encourage a "nuanced" view, we'd all yell, "See! Politicians are always lying!"
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Thank you for this. Everyone I've met who does research in social topics like this is endlessly frustrated by "well duh" reactions, especially on topics like social ills or discrimination.

Beyond the simple fact of empiricism, having a study show this is valuable on a lot of practical levels:

- Common knowledge is often wrong, so it's worth validating.

- Common knowledge says "worse", but this starts to quantify the difference. (Maybe 10 crummy friendships are worse than 2 good friendships, but are they worse than 1? How much worse? Where does zero friendships fall?)

- "Everybody knows" isn't and shouldn't be a basis for law or policy, so studies like this are citable evidence for the problem's existence and severity; "bad friendships are depressing" doesn't help us evaluate loneliness as a public health risk. (Similarly, replacing "those districts look stupid and have biased results" with a statistical measure of gerrymandering has been quite important in some recent court cases.)

- Simple studies provide standard methodology and reference data for analyses and future work. There's a long history of people testing complex hypotheses like "can we fight loneliness using this intervention to help people make more friends?" which fall apart because they skipped foundational work like "is number of friends even a predictor of loneliness?"

Honestly, I feel a bit relieved to see studies like this at the moment. With the replication crisis taking "well understood" results down like dominos, there's a lot to be said for going out and checking the really fundamental stuff.
I'm down with the points you made in the first three sections but your last point ("That's who we humans are and it's foolish to think we can change that.") is needlessly cynical. Attitudes toward work have changed immeasurably in the last 500 years and they will continue to change––if you haven't read it you should check out Weber (or just read the wiki page on the Protestest Ethic lol).
Occam’s Egyptian razor: the equinox and the alignment of the pyramids
You type far more code (which in JS matters A LOT) for a less flexible solution and for such a simple task.

I completely disagree.
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I don't want it to change by much. Yes we need more programmers, but we also need more doctors. It is not practical to become a great doctor and a great programmer.

Those are but two of that millions of different jobs that are required for modern society to function.
Is that obvious that's what they meant? I understood it to mean that immigrants tend to earn less (I don't have this data myself), and could drag the average down. In that case the overall average real wage could stagnate while the average real wage of every cohort increased.
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It's not wrong though, isn't it? Amount of confidence allowing someone not to avoid confrontation essentially makes some people feel unsafe, perceive it as unpleasant and causes hate response.
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Where do you live? There's plenty of jobs in my area and my company is also hiring. I would be happy to help you land something.
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In Italy that would mean vote for Salvini's Lega

An anti Euro party, anti EU, anti migration, pro Italian Exit, racist, omophobic, whose leader, who's also interior minister of Italy, has been wearing neo-fascist brands in public, hugging a drug dealer hooligan or recently visited a man who shot in the back an unarmed alleged thief romanian and killed him, declaring him a martyr who deserves pardon.

Or their allies, the 5 star movement, who are just incompetent jackasses.

Thanks, but NO thanks.

BTW they are only opposing to article 13 because Putin asked them to do so.

Italian original article: http://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2019/02/21/news/...

In english: https://euobserver.com/foreign/144253
Nothing in HIPAA would prevent that behavior. It does prevent hospital management from unauthorized access to your medical records for purposes unrelated to care delivery or billing. However it doesn't mention anything about access to public financial records.
I always go through "exersize", no, wait, "exercize", no, wait, "exercise."

I always get there, but it always takes me there tries.
I was more surprised with how archaic the word "webmaster" sounds today.
Honestly, it's more amusing for the ambiguity :)
Europe is far worse than the US. France, Germany and Italy are full of ghettos. In the US at least, money buys you a modicum of respect. A black man can’t catch a break in France, regardless of how wealthy he is. That’s real classism.
The article seems to have been taken from the main Bloomberg site: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-top...

The "click here" link is for terminal subscribers only so I guess Quint might not have been able to resolve it properly.
Also this release introduces ABI versioning, it should be a first step to introduce register based calling convention and deliver a 5% performance boost.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18597
This project has been known to copy code from other projects without respecting licenses. The founder of ethereum pointed this out a few weeks ago.

https://twitter.com/gavofyork/status/1094597005333151745
https://twitter.com/Sunfishcode/status/1075486397824327681

The extent to which the people in this project took "inspiration" from wasmjit has been questioned as well https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/commit/a81500e047fdd321b3...
Stories like these are the ones that inspire me the most. People using technology in a way that helps them in their everyday lives, or in a hobbyist fashion. I feel like many of the things I pick-up at work are out of career necessity: the latest framework, bits of an up and coming language that is going to be "the future", semi fluency in a stack so I can aid in a project,I enjoy it, but I don't enjoy it like in the same way I once did.

Probably my favorite programming memory was teaching myself Java as a teenager and building games for my friends and I to play. No responsibility, if they worked...great, if not oh well. It was exhilarating. I do not think programming will ever become a lingua franca, as stated in other places here. I think hobbyist programmers may pop up more and more,or people who know enough to build small tools for themselves (not to scale) and I don't think that's a bad thing.
Maybe, maybe not, in this specific scenario.

But it's not the only scenario. Imagine, for a moment, that you're not distributing your own binaries; you're in the business of running them, possibly from untrusted sources. And that's just one other scenario.
> The only way to keep rents this low in the face of rising demand is public housing that is rented out below market rates to low income tenants, or via a lottery.

Except for the fact that poor people aren't the ones driving up demand or prices for decent housing...
> The odds of the next baker you higher knowing SQL and emacs?

Maybe he'll be looking to hire another person like himself, moving from tech - I'm sure many (most?) of us have toyed with the idea of becoming a baker, cook, farmer, cabinetmaker, wainwright, shipwright, etc. Blog posts like this certainly don't help!
The Firefox Vimium port is also pretty decent.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
Hi.

I actually don't get it, portfolio data can be saved to your local filesystem and is deleted when ending session.
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We Indian's are fed up of Pakistan's nuclear deterrence. Paki's don't let us live in peace, they harbor the most dangerous of terrorists (Don't forget Osama bin Laden so soon), and they don't wanna give up the thought of terrorizing India.

It's high time these air strikes were conducted. They had it coming. We made sure no civilians were killed. Only those terrorists.
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I think a lot of places are finding that for them, a ChromeOS experience is all they need.

So many places are just running a webapp on a number of their computers, and that's it.... generally for many tasks ChromeOS is all they need.
The median wealth of a black person is $17,000, while the median wealth of a white person is $170,000 [0]. Defining what middle class is extremely difficult, but one of the numbers I’ve seen is the minimum cut off at $50,000. If this is true, it means more than half of African Americans are less than middle class.

0; http://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
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Appeals court upholds decision allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner
Small nit, the product is Cloudflare Workers. https://workers.dev/

Isolates are a V8 feature that is used to implement Workers: https://v8docs.nodesource.com/node-0.8/d5/dda/classv8_1_1_is...
Wasnt assuming anything as your position was unclear; I was just adding important context since your statistics weren’t worth very much without it (e.g., noting that whites commit more crime isn’t meaningful without the context that they are a larger part of the population, and very often it is used to mislead).

Regarding the rest of your post, I can’t relate to your characterization as you seem to have a very different, very negative experience with white people than I have had. Since we can’t do much more than trade anecdotes, I’ll be ducking out now.
>I'm sorry if it sounds provocative

It is and people have become so wedded to the subjective experience of having a self or of having free will that they can't accept reality. I think Free Will is easier to dismiss as simple thought experiments can demonstrate its nonexistence but the self is quite stubborn.
That one is actually true. Sugar highs are a thing.
What you're missing is https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...
I know what you're referring to, but I think you're talking about something different to the grandparent. They said "The first CD players let you stick the disk in with case and all. You would never get a scratch" which implies something where you never take the disc out of its case, because unless you never take it out of the case how does it avoid all scratches?
Yep! First class Typescript support makes it great for Javascript development too.
Economics do reflect reality but not in advance necessarily - granted in that case it is a reflection after reality comes knocking and it is clear that maybe mercantilism was a bad idea after all of their colonies revolted over a lack of representation and misrule bad enough they started doing /better/ economically after severing ties with their large home country. In hindsight that suggests majorly underutilizing the potential of the colony and colonists.
It's not as clear cut. Much of the non-European immigration took place fairly recently (post war time) and people migrated mainly to cities.

Urban areas tend to be wealthier (obvs not always, but it is a trend) and have more opportunities. SO whilst these immigrants were at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where they were, they were on a different ladder to those in rural areas.

So you get rural areas of poor people of largely European descent, and a more mixed (due to more economic mobility) city wealth demography.

This is not the whole story, but I think could be part of it.
Yeah well, next time travel to Pakistan and try explaining "responsibilities" and "world peace" to them. I would love to observe that conversation.
That's really cool, but as I described above, my experience was different. The phoneme matching is really impressive but the word selection functionality seems pretty weak.

I had better luck with "large" and "cat" which gave me "colossalot", as in "colossal ocelot", which is a real winner.

However, I don't want to dismiss the hard work that went into this tool, despite my criticisms. It's very, very cool.
This website does collect personal data. Google's FAQ on GA simply states that the first party should obtain consent before transferring data to a third party (and transfer of consent might not be GDPR compliant, but that's another issue).

Here, the first party (analytics-bypassing-adblockers.netlify.com) has to obtain consent before collecting personal data. And IP addresses are not the only personal data that GA can collect.
Has anyone else been experiencing horrendous data speeds with their iPhone XS? I only ask because this was the first model shipped with an Intel modem, amd compared to my 6S this is nowhere near as fast or reliable over 4G and LTE.
This is quite silly. Am I also supposed to compulsorily watch all the ads that come up on TV in the commercial break and not mute it or leave the room?
Honestly, I'm not so sure. Emacs isn't known to be user friendly, I can easily imagine many non-techies simply refusing (consciously or, more likely, unconsciously..) to learn it.
I wonder if Guardians of the Galaxy has anything to do with it.
This is a good point, and I totally agree.
Perhaps it's thinking in Ron Swanson terms:

"Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are useless."
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Probably to keep a file of all contributors' contact information to get your permission if they ever wanted to do a license change?
Gopher in 2019 sounds a bit strange.. Yes, but fun, and free from all the "value-added" crud that we usually have to put up with. My gopherhole is attracting around 1000 visitors monthly.
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This is exactly what I needed. However with great abstraction comes great responsibility: you are now the gatekeepers of keeping things efficient in the backend. If I write "require('moment')", will you blindly require, or will you require, tree-shake, minify, etc?

I guess my question is: can I trust Zero to always strive for optimum efficiency, or is it just convenience?
Turns out modeling a system as complex as the Earth is harder than a lot of folks would have you think. "Global warming" is about control, not saving the planet.
In general, POC are more likely to be arrested for committing a crime.

The parent's point isn't about whether they are acquitted, it's that if you were to commit a crime as a POC, you are more likely to be arrested than if you had committed that same crime as a non-POC. In both scenarios you committed a crime, but in one of them the system never has a record of it. This is why arrest rates and crime rates are different: if a POC is more likely to get arrested for committing a crime, the arrest rates by race (POCs get arrested more) will not reflect the crime rates by race (differences are generally smaller).
Cheerp and emscripten are the only two choices for C++, as far as I know.

That said, the Rust team has been putting a ton of work into a real, simple toolchain for exactly these reasons: tools matter for adoption. We'll see if the pain of the toolchain is less or greater than the pain of a different language...
> more than half of African Americans are less than middle class

What is the reason of that?
“eventually finds their way into a role where they are paid proportionally to their productivity”

I don’t think that’s true. There are plenty of people who do great work but aren’t good at necessary self promotion. Or they just want to stay where they are. So they are very productive but are paid pretty much like everybody else.
You don't speak when you know nothing.

Before being techie's or engineer's, we are Indian's first, and we are very proud of these air strikes.

Paki's don't let us live in peace and it's high time the terrorists they harbored were blown off to pieces. Those cowards wage proxy war against us.

Would you call US a coward for raiding bin Laden's camp in Abbottabad and bringing him down? Would you condemn Israel when they target Hamas militants?

Shame and disgrace on you, sir! You have indirectly justified terrorism and Pakistan's cowardice.
It’s negative ions from oceans that are supposed to be good for you, they’re purported to help against depression and other mood disorders. Studies have not shown conclusive proof that it works.
This one?

https://i.imgur.com/E4EkEMf.png
Can't agree more. Your point is also applicable to people who delude themselves into believing an "off-grid" or "homestead" lifestyle is less burdensome to the environment or lends to a less consumerist way of life...
I recommend the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. I've been reading it recently, and I've enjoyed the lessons and advice so far.
Personally I loved seeing the veering path for M. Night Shyamalan: https://imgur.com/a/Es5Q0nQ. Everybody said "There's a Y here somewhere," and veered off at a different point.

But a detour-based viz would have also looked cool: just a bunch of Y's stacked above the name, each one a different attempted insertion point.
UTC isn't even a timezone.
Javascript exists because you can't run anything else in the browser. wasm allows you tonuse your fav language so I can't see why anyone would use JS once wasm gets DOM access
I see you’re proficient in a LAMP stack?

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My personal email is on my profile. Please feel free to reach out! I’ve helped find work for other devs down on their luck here on HN successfully.
Yeah I was excited by this concept until I realized the link was to a site where I had to give them my PDFs.

I want a simple library I can use to do this locally for security reasons and because it's a rarity when it happens, but a big problem when I do have it.
Those are points I hadn't considered, but what in the US, net exports are negative. Wouldn't that imply the converse effect to what you're describing?
What is your problem with the code base actually?
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Totally agree. There are a few exceptions but for most people their pay is not much correlated with productivity.
I think they’ll be faster with lower power consumption and Apple won’t be limited by Intel’s schedule updating Macs (Use whatever’s in the iPad pro).
Former CS major, current chef/owner checking in. Restaurants feel pretty ripe for voice assistants/AR but unfortunately lack the necessary technological and financial capital to make it happen, imo. Being able to record and retrieve important information without stopping your work (pulling up and scaling a recipe while chopping onions, for example) saves an immense amount of time in the kitchen. This is especially true during a busy service when circumstances and priorities can change quickly and without warning. The need is there, my question lies in whether an industry with tight profit margins can afford to pay for such a product.
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Steve Jobs killed Flash. I fully believe that Flash would still be around and kicking (horribly) if he didn't step in and do something about it.

Jobs isn't here to save us anymore.
Not everything is about those people.
Correct, VRBO has been around a while. They do not aggressively go after getting units in towns that do not allow short term rentals, like AirBnB does.
I both agree and disagree. I agree that the world is getting much better, very rapidly. I disagree that this is a consequence of neoliberal economic policies. Rather, it's a consequence of technological advances that have little to do with economics.

Vaccination isn't a neoliberal triumph.
No first-hand experience either way, but this is a good excuse to recommend Thomas Chatterton Williams, a black American guy who moved to France and likes it there, and has many interesting things to say:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/304246/losing-my-co...

Also lots of essays worth reading, NYTimes, LRB, etc.
EV's are still greener even if the battery is charged from a coal fired power station.
That seems manipulative.
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