skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but that's another point: maybe hierarchies could just be "refactored", e.g. letting Releases be a top tab item
>If a ROM like that already exists, I'd love to hear about it.

If you have a pixel device, this works quite well: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack.
Even more so because you won't read only one paper on a topic. Doing even superficial research gets expensive quickly at those prices.
This is not click fraud because it's users clicking, not publishers.
I've been using the JSON1 extension for some time now (in production projects) and it's truly remarkable.
I usually just dump the JSON-response data from an API to a "raw_data" table (typically one "updated_at" column and a second "json_data" one).

At that point you can somehow normalize your schema, but only if you really have to!
That is because you can get away with a NoSQL-like denormalized schema performance wise, by carefully defining index on expressions.
You can somehow normalize it with views (SQLite doesn't support materialized views).

And of course it's almost always faster to query data where it exists (via SQL) instead of fetching it from disk and querying it say Python. You pay too much IO cost. (Yes, my dear aspring data scientist, do not load everything in a huge DataFrame, go learn yourself some SQL :-) )

The json dump is not stored in binary, but in text format, but honestly I haven't seen this to be a problem, plus you can easily run queries at the CLI and pipe the output to jq, sed etc.

If your application is data warehouse-like and read-heavy (for example an internal reporting dashboard) I can't see any reason why you should pay the cost of setting up a Postgres or MongoDB instance (although I do love both.)

It is true that SQLite does not support concurrent-writes, but (and that's a big BUT) if you carefully open connections only when you need them and use prepared statements, I can't see how you could run into problems with modern SSD hardware (unless you're Google-scale of coure).
Vulnerability exposes location of thousands of malware C&C servers
I doubt sound dampening has to be that much of an expense or added weight. It’s just not batteries, which is Tesla’s core tech concern.
There was an interesting/amusing post here the other day about learning German and how it relates to programming concepts. They suggested that gendered words work as a kind of parity bit for error correction.
WhatsApp was built using Erlang I believe.

WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook.

Are you saying they changed the tech stack for WhatsApp?
Japanese is usually written without spaces. Words and sentences just run into each other. When writing in hiragana (syllabic characters), word boundaries are often ambiguous.

Englishwouldbemuchhardertoparseifwrittenlikethis.
"gendered" verbs are a thing in Italian too: "I fell" becomes "sono caduto" or "sono caduta" depending on the gender of the speaker. Transitive verbs reflect the gender of the objects when using clitics, e.g. "I ate the apple, I ate it really" -> "Ho mangiato la mela, l'ho mangiata davvero".

What's odd in Croatian is that the all the verbs behave as intransitive Italian verbs, reflecting the gender of the speaker: "I fell" -> "pao sam" or "pala sam" but also "pojeo sam jabuku" vs "pojela sam jabuku" if the speaker is a woman.

I'm not a linguist, but as a native speaker of both, I always thought it had something to do with the fact that in Croatian the verb "to be" is the only auxiliary verb used to built past tenses while in Italian transitive verbs use the verb "to have".

The past participles in many languages behave very similarly to adjectives and thus I thought it might not be surprising that you'd decline them according to number and gender as you'd do with any adjective.

So if when you fall you "are fallen", you decline the "fallen" participle/adjective according to the subject, namely you in this case.

Thus instead of "have eaten" Croatian says "am eaten" (not meaning the passive voice but just using the verb to be as axillary instead of have) as a consequence you notice the "gendered verbs" more often than in other languages.

As to why Italian declines participles when clitics are involved, I assume it adds some redundancy so you can more easily guess what the clitic refers to.
Maseratis have a signature sound, that's one of their core selling points. If you remove that, you are left with a mediocre quality car with insane depreciation.
Europe where?
Maybe the UK.

Here in Italy insurance isn't particularly cheap, but there is normally no limitation whatever about "insured driver(s)", as long as the driver has a valid driving license the insurance covers accidents. (and yes you can lend your car to a friend without calling the insurance) and though I have no direct experience (as car owner), France and Spain afaik work the same.
This is an interesting application. I wonder how it deals with abuse (e.g., libellous content that needs to be removed), a DELETE operation added to the blockchain? (I guess the content still exists in the blockchain but not in the database)
> Hardly anyone comes to the first world to live off public assistance. It's either a matter of survival/safety or a search for opportunity.

This is objectively wrong though. If they were to use the actual law for refugees, they have to seek asylum in the first country they arrive in, yet they all travel onwards to the EU, to the 4th or so European country, and they do get on welfare and live off public assistance.

If they were seeking safety, they would stay in the first country, Turkey. But obviously, Turkey does not have generous free packages, so they - as you said -, search for opportunity to receive free stuff, i.e. move to far away countries where they would be eligible for welfare (public assistance).

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/non-citizens-u...

https://cis.org/Report/63-NonCitizen-Households-Access-Welfa...

63% non-citizen households are on welfare. This is not hardly anyone.

Note: I realize that the statistics above are concerned with the US and not the EU, but it refutes the quoted statement.

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This does not necessarily apply to immigrants from other European countries migrating to the UK, for example. They are the ones searching for opportunities alone[1], and not safety. There are many definitions of safety, and in this case I was referring to safety in terms of fleeing from war zones, and as far as I am concerned, those European countries these people (from this example) are migrating from are not a war zone.

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7...

[1] Of course one could migrate to another country simply because they offer more free stuff. I do not deny that.

On the other hand, in Germany:

> In April 2018 more than half, at 55%, of the recipients of unemployment benefits had a migration background. According to the Federal Employment Agency (German: Bundesagentur für Arbeit) this was due to the migrants lacking either employable skills or knowledge of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany

http://www.dnn.de/Nachrichten/Politik/Jeder-zweite-Hartz-IV-...

Note that they may take into account people from other European countries, too, i.e. not refugees.

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> I mean, immigrants have costs too

Do immigrants who work have a cost? I could migrate to the US from a non-warzone and I believe it would not cost the US anything, but would make money off of me.
Show HN: KubeVault – Tools for Running HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes
Key Features:
https://twitter.com/kubevault/status/1101442704221724673
This is trivial to implement, but it will never be accepted by Rust upstream. There will be a fork if someone really wants this.
I find scheme’s hygienic macro system or racket’s insanely powerful macro system to be more advanced and easier to use correctly. None of the gensym and hygiene problems you have with CL.
2008 financial crisis forced drastic cost-cutting.

The question is what the lag on health effects of that was. We know from things like smoking prevention and childhood diseases that the lag can be huge, anything up to half a century.
Well, it looks to me like everyone is falling over themselves to learn about machine learning at the moment- I often see posts on HN that ask questions about how one gets started with it without first learning statistics, calculus and linear algebra and so on.

I find it strange that there should be so much interest from programmers for a field that is completely alien to their background. It's a bit like if neurologists suddendly started asking "how does one get started on quantum entanglement, without first learning about general relativity and quantum mechanics?".

And I find it strange in particular when compared to the lack of any such interest in logic programming, for which programmers, like I say, already have the necessary background.

So, my conclusion is, the fact that most programmers are not interested in prolog has nothing to do with how hard or easy it is to learn the language and much more with practical considerations, like what happens to be popular in the industry right now.
I don't know what you mean exactly, but genders can be something intrinsic to a language and I don't think they have been introduced as such. If you wanted to call a table in Italian, you could choose the masculine or feminine noun for it (tavolo - tavola), no neuter form though. Ask the table first.
> "he works at X, is featured in X type of photo, shares X type of content, has close relations with X people [...]

There's nothing preventing anyone to scrape that kind of info from public sources either. Some of this may be available here on HN (shares that kind of content, works at X), others on competitor's social networks (Twitter, Mastodon, Reddit, GitHub, forums). In fact, this is part of Google's core business model, and you can most likely see this in their database already: "google" yourself.

Admittedly, no one will be able to scrape click rates, but that's relatively insignificant compared to the amount of info we already publicly share.
Ban him from being a designer through the courts. It's awful af.
It will only take one hour (Why programmers suck at estimating, perils of dev)
Is that even true? Is there a definition of "free market healthcare" that only the US meets?
Why do so many incompetent men win at work?
> Does the average American have a better standard of living than the Average European, and is it so much better that it accounts for the much higher carbon footprint?

Yes. The only countries with higher average individual consumption than the US are Norway and Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...

The only country with bigger houses than the US is Australia.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/average-h...

Jimmy Carter wasn’t re-elected.
> YouTube content creators are now in the unenviable position where they need to actively moderate the comments section

Why is that so wrong?

I understand that it's often hard work. I understand that they might want to be making videos, or product-placing, or whatever it is any given creator wants to be doing, but they're the people at the hub of their own communities.

They should have some responsibility over the conduct displayed there. And if they don't want that, they can host it themselves somewhere else, or disable comments.

Honestly, I feel YouTube would be a lot nicer place if the standards required weren't just the channel owner's. Plenty of niches are way too happy to foster the the next /b/.
But a spell checker is just a tiny part of the NLP domain.

When people talk about NLP, they are usually referring to understanding the meaning of the entire text being analyzed, rather than just providing meanings for individual words. A spell checker can't tell you the intent or subtleties of what is being conveyed.
I wonder if it’s the audible equivalent of the afterimages you see when you stare at a certain color for a while.
> It works in Portugal.

Is number of drug uses reduced? Nope. It risen.

Is criminal drug activity reduced? Nope. It risen.

So, what exactly "works" in Portugal?

> Public healthcare works in almost every country on Earth, and in most of developed countries it works really well. At least better than that in USA (looking at the life expectancy).

If you are not a drug user, your life expectancy is at same level as in Europe.

I have personal experience with public health care. Public healthcare is interested in popping you out of clinic as fast as possible.

For example, I received no treatment for my little pain in the back until I was unable to move. In result, I spent more than year in bed. Private clinic identified my problem _decade_ before, but their results were ignored by government clinic. I was stupid enough to trust government clinic. And so on. I can tell a lot if you want to listen.

> That's what taxes are for.

I want to be homeless then.
Wonder what this chart would like if you plot quality of care/life. It would also be interesting to see how health spending in the US (particularly drug spend) influence health related metrics in RoW.
> http://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/60_icons-removed.png

Why should a user without any background in coding / git, care about the branches when opening an issue? Or individual commits? Not the mention that the number of commits may change depending on the selected branch, but the issues and releases stay the same, which is something the author does not talk about.

> If you are a programmer, you might be surprised but other people normally don’t like hierarchies.

Citation needed.

One of the big benefits of a hierarchy (be it in UI design or on a political / social / corporate level) is that on any level, you really don't have to think about the levels above or next to you that much, and thus even individuals with a very limited skill set can be productive members of this hierarchy. The anarchic approach of "everything is accessible to anyone everywhere" taken here just excludes specialists from using a GUI productively.
Perhaps this will be the second big disruption of the car industry and market by Tesla. Volvo/Polestar has already switched to this sales concept for their electric cars, Porsche/Audi/Mercedes are taking online pre-orders like Tesla years ago. Will all traditional car makers soon use the "Amazon model" extensively to bolster their margins?
Cute, Confirms my experience though.
Conditional Formatting in Excel is a nightmare, they got me excited at first, but I wasted so much time and got so frustrated with them - I gave up and have never used them since.
As the article says performance is abysmal in large spreadsheets, also they do not play well with Excel tables, (which I use a lot) you end up with thousands of CF formulas in tables, they keep breeding and mutating and you cant stop them!
>> if you use logic as a knowledge representation scheme it always leads to a combinatorial explosion, doesn’t it?

The real question of course is- what doesn't? What is a knowledge representation that has expressive power equivalent to the first-order predicate calculus, but doesn't cause combinatorial explosion? The answer is- no representation that we know of.

Indeed, much of the early AI work with Lisp also used first order logic-based representations and was also prone to combinatorial explosion. This was one important accusation levelled at the field by the author of the Lighthill report, that brought on the first AI winter, at the time of John McCarthy and Donald Michie.

Van Emden points out of course that combinatorial explosion was a concern in those very early days of logic-based AI and logic programming in particular, but not anymore.
Safety and opportunity, perhaps? I'm not entirely sure that Turkey will count as "safe" in the medium term either, especially not for non-Muslim refugees. There are several million Syrians there already.

> receive free stuff

I do with people who said things like this had to live on the actual level of public assistance for a month or so. It's really not a lot. £37.75 a week in the UK, just under £2k a year, not including housing.
Bill Gates: What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Innovation
I was always angry at people telling they don't like my/his/her new haircut, because I know they are just used to the previous one, and this is the only reason they dislike the new one.

About this redesign: I would welcome it with all my heart. For me, GitHub won on the social side. So let's put the social side in front. I find the current project and profile pages very poor and limited. I would welcome ghuser.io redesign as well.

If I really want to scan the code, I clone the repo and scan the code in my IDE. Or I use a browser extension that displays a folder tree in a toggleable-sidebar on the left.

The current "Files" is only useful to click on the files to get to see their contents. The last commit message for each file is something I look at when I'm bored and want to waste time. I also hate to see very old commit message on very old files like LICENSE.
> I think you'll find that the US is not alone in trying that

It's all over the map, there are even societies where the baby isn't considered a person until some time after birth.

It's certainly enough to question the relevance of the statistics.
Typically it's not free money.

You chose to forgo getting/negotiating a greater discount on the purchase price.

There's no way the lender could do business otherwise.
Don't deal with event-driven architecture when you're at MVP stage. Also, which language and framework do you use? Because if you'd go with PHP/Laravel for example, there is a neat SaaS solution called Spark: https://spark.laravel.com/
Great Essays and Essayists
>No future tense

Many European languages also lack a future tense. English, for example. (https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-English-has-no-future-...)
I would imagine that there is maybe a few small states that does well, but it's unlikely to be one outlier that draws the entire chart down.
Right? Way ahead of its time, in my opinion.
I've read that ears are pretty unique.

But I imagine that mass surveillance based on ear profiles would be difficult just because ears are small so it's harder to isolate high resolution pictures of people's ears. Also because things like long hair exist that would thwart attempts automated ear-oriented identification.
I absolutely despise America’s car centric planning and do not plan to ever live there. I too would much prefer to live some place where you can bike all over the place.

Good luck convincing Midwesterners or Texans who think nothing of driving someplace for four hours that a massive gas tax is worth it. Good luck convincing everyone in the suburbs to abandon their homes to move into a city. Good luck convincing people used to taking two holidays to the suna year that they can have one every two years.

What I think or you think does not matter. What the median voter thinks matters and if you try to make them consume less outside of a war they will vote you out.
In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k
That's right. And before the government got massively involved in it, health care price increases pretty much matched inflation. The big ramp up in prices, that have never slowed down, started in 1968 with Medicare.
Stuff like this is why every once in a while a well-designed UI gets turned into unusable garbage.
Why would it be intrinsic? Somewhere in their evolution they must have been introduced for some reason I would guess. Also, they could be removed the same way if there is no benefit distinguishing between a masculine and feminine table.
Honestly, I was hoping for the prototype to demo suggested changes.
Meh. The whole thing seems weird to me.

We totally tried to write this twice then we switched to language x and everything is great.
Feels like something a language zealot would say. I would scoff if someone at my company rewrote a core section in a different language.
It is their language so maybe they just told them to do it that way ha.
I think it should probably support scikit as well as any other library, since it's only making suggestions of hyper-parameters based on recorded/historical observations or random evaluations.

At least that's the behaviour of the platform[1] I am working on.

[1]: https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon#hyperparameters-tuning
Oh that's clearly one factor.. ML is super shiny, prolog isn't.

That said, prolog is also very non procedural (unlike ML dsls which are layers on top of mainstream OO). It shifts your thinking into metalevel / denotational very quickly (since you don't think about one execution path but nested nearly pure enumerations). I think that's even more mind bending than tensors..
It's not a human right, but being denied or briefly inconvenienced of financial services certainly for most people considered a downgrade in their capability to operate in a modern society. One of the big things that separate haves from have nots is the availability of financial services.
Sleep expert Matthew Walker on the secret to a good night’s rest
Frankly I think /.s model of moderation is superior to most other sites, eclipsed to my knowledge only by stack exchange (no experience with discourse)
1) I basically was a "One Man Army" solving everything around the online business of that company. I was an "always 110% full stack project managaging customer service devopsmanager". Delivered _really_ solid work in no time, but it was hard: No backup, nothing at all, although my boss told me it would get better, we would look for additional people etc. after the next project. There were lots of "next projects" but nobody followed. Workload took me down to the point where I had my heart racing, sleeping less and less and feeling not well overall after working straight on for about one and a half years. I would say I did work for 3.

2.1) I went to a doctor, he asked me what my problem was, I started crying in front of him, told him that I can't handle the pressure anymore. That there's nobody to help, no signs of improvement of my situation and that I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. He wrote me off sick on point and I was out. That's how it works in Germany. Company struggled big time because they had no replacement, not even near, and promised they would help me. Took me five months to come down, had sessions with a psychotherapist to talk about how all of that happened and also took anti-depressants. Slowly got better, tried to improve my behavior and started working again.

2.2) One more year into the future and nothing had really changed. I was still basically alone, work started piling up again, pressure rose with no sign of support from the company or my boss. So I quit without a backup plan. I only knew I had to get out.

2.3) I have quite good connections, called a friend of mine who is in consulting. He had a client who was looking for somebody with e-business expertise, I gave them a call, two weeks later the new job was safe. Got a 50% raise, officially working 40 hours/week but I'm good at what I'm doing so it's more like 25 hours work and 15 hours HN/thinking about my own stuff.

Feel free to ask if you have further questions.
To make things 100x complicated in our "modern" world :)

For example you can select a gender pronoun in English to match your gender. https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/

In Hungarian we just say "Ő" to refer to someone, privacy is baked into the language :)
A healthy skeptic doesn't demand data for claims like "touch typing is faster than hunt-and-peck".
Wow, this same thing happened to me. I bought some 1U Sun machines on eBay and the Seller was going to be around my area (3 hours away) because his wife was attending a seminar. He personally delivered them to me and had several hours to kill so he helped me rack several of them and we went for some lunch.

Interesting enough, he had these servers to run his "craft pencil" business where him and his wife made fancy pencils and sold them. I'm not sure why he needed more than 1 server to handle this (and Sun no less)(or even shared hosting) but I got a great deal.