skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the semantics of {}.update({}) and { * {}, * * {}}, it is clear what is the preferred behavior,*

Sorry, I honestly don't understand what's the meaning of that (I know a little bit of Python, C/C++, ASP.Net, etc...).

Concerning adding dicts: thinking over it I am more or less neutral as I think that somebody that would dare doing it would feel the pressure of reading the docs to know what the operator would do (e.g. merge distinct keys & overwrite-left/concatenate/ignore-right values of duplicate keys?).

On the other hand in Python I keep trying from time to time to e.g. cast "integer"s into "bytes" using "bytes(my_integer)", which results in a "my_integer"-bytes variable initialized to zeroes (ha-ha), so whatever would be implemented to add dicts using an op might be good for a large part of users but at the same time bad for the other part (that are inexperienced, have a different ways of thinking, etc...) => this might in turn weaken the language's acceptance.
This reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad[1], in which an "electronic bard" is challenged to come up with "a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."[2]

The bard does so brilliantly (though, of course, it's really Lem himself who wrote it).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberiad

[2] - https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/cyberiad.html
Parsing as in reading and comprehending.
Absolutely. Long term I think it's going to open up in many states.
almost every rung of the recycling ladder is beset by small cheating like this.. second note is, many, many honest recyclers simply die economically after some amount of hardship, depending on the setup
Pay more to keep ’em? Debate over nuclear power hits home in rural Pennsylvania
They're specifically private insofar as they were posted publicly. Perhaps some people think that what they post is somehow private but people share email/posts/etc. all the time.
Isn't burning the trash also hurts the environment?
Princeton math (and other?) department specifically advertise that their research-only PhD program is unusual or unique.

https://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate

Generals/Quals require 1-2years of graduate level study, not remedial undergrad, if you look at the material covered and the syllabus and levels assigned to courses at various colleges. It just so happens that at a school like Princeton, 1st year PhD students have already taken graduate level classes in their field, or equivalent self study.
Facebook board member met Cambridge Analytica whistleblower in 2016
beautiful project.

how does one obtain a z80 if it's not manufactured anymore?
It varies. There is certainly a lot of single-use throwaway stuff. A lot of things that used to be made out of wood or metal are now plastic, and are so inexpensive that it is cheaper to throw away and buy new than to repair stuff. Most furniture now is composites, because they are way cheaper than real wood. You aren't going to hand any of this stuff down to your grandkids.

Other things are much better, though. Automobiles and Electronics are much better than they were 20 years ago.
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My understanding was that since China decided to stop taking in the world's plastic and toxic recycling, it's now virtually impossible to get rid of this stuff. Allegedly some of it is now dumped at sea.
Yes, let’s continue to let athletes and legacies distort the application pool!
Yeah, same here. What's especially sweet is the focus on ~clueless tween memories. And how it evokes that protective isolation from the "real world" that some children enjoyed. Mainly privileged children, but that's forgivable in a New Yorker article.

That's gone now. I totally can't imagine how it is for kids now. I mean, I would be in such deep shit by my mid 20s.
The magic here is that this is baked into an otherwise useful, relatively cheap non-medical device. That device (and this test) are also entirely self-service, and the cost for both is borne by the consumer, effectively elective.

Also: The heart beat monitoring features account for some portion of the Apple Watch's price, surely, but I suspect for most people this feels like a "free" benefit.
I honestly liked the website more than the extension.
And disliked the promotion of having productuhunt before the brand.
For the same purpose, I already use kill sticky headers.
No, you don't need a Windows license to develop for Windows. That's the whole point here. You can code and compile binaries for Windows, Linux, Android, etc. from many IDEs and virtually any platform under the sun. You can code and compile binaries for Apple products from exactly one IDE and exactly one platform: Apple's.
Cool! It sounds fun. Back then she used to sing at the so-called Nameless Coffeehouse in Harvard. Unfortunately I was 7 years old in 1968, so I missed all this.
That is an interesting idea, sort of like how Gmail has the "Social" and "Promotions" tab.
Yeah that is weird. China was growing like gangbusters when they were saving 50% of their income.
I can't tell either. :-)

The grammar seems to prevent recursive typedefs, but I've never seen it spelled out that you can't have them. This has caused me trouble on occasion.

I can't even seem to solve this with gcc's non-standard __typeof__ extension. I was halfway expecting to crash or hang the compiler.
Since you know a bit, can you clarify something not clear from the article? My aortic valve was replaced due to "ectasia", meaning the valve root stretched so the leaflets, which were otherwise fine, no longer met properly. Given the type of reconstruction to fit a porcine tissue replacement then, does this make TAVR more, or less, indicated for the replacement?
C# compiler can generate a huge amount of code from simple and small programs:
https://mattwarren.org/2017/11/08/A-DoS-Attack-against-the-C...

But you can very easily get the AST.
Obviously it may happen that you have to wait until the hell is frozen to get a result, but generally it doesn’t happen in code that you see day to day..
Sorry, also I didn’t mean impossible, the right word is probably unpractical...
> Inter-library loans existed long before the internet.

And used bookstores. I loved those. You could find anything.
Non-mobile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
Sinister/Dexter?
That'd be a really interesting experiment.

I think the sort that get accepted to these programs also tend to be the sort that would consider just sitting on the beach sipping martinis to be something that'd rapidly become hell. It's just boring. So you'd have a group of ultra highly driven people with 4 years of undirected self study, but also access to pretty much all the knowledge they could ever want in the era of the internet.

It's really impossible to predict, but I do think the results would be interesting and not necessarily what you're implying. In today's era of assumption of education = skill, we often forget things like the Wright Brothers were a highschool grad and a highschool dropout -- yet they effectively invented aeronautical engineering with some skills they picked up operating a bicycle repair shop. There's some major dissonance between what we, collectively, ought be doing today - and what we actually are doing. I think it's a mixture of exponential leaps in entertainment and a general worsening in the condition of entrepreneurship (imagine how laws you'd be breaking by trying to fly your own homemade airplane now a days!) Your idea would at least certainly help combat the latter simply because that's all there'd be to do!
In New Zealand this is illegal while they’re under 14.

Whereas, when I grew up, pretty much from 7+ you were expected to be able to go visit your friends, get to school, etc. without all the ceremony and scheduling required today.
Recycled plastic is the kind thrown in bins. If you remove recycling programs, it still gets thrown in a bin. Not polluted.
They forgot to renew their domain:

Domain name: cardiogr.am
Registrar: abcdomain (ABCDomain LLC)
Status: on hold
...
Registered: 2015-03-17
Last modified: 2019-03-17
Expires: 2019-03-17
Easier then that, join a church. No need to wait for the Government to provide for you.
Is this an example of the 'Most Vexing Parse' problem?
An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania
So your theory is, what, that Facebook spends tons of money designing multiple generations of hardware that they don't use? Why would that make any sense?
Mostly I didn't like the keyboard and key design. I am fine with the butterfly switches as I have them on my MBP but the rubber texture that introduces a slight wobble/tilt on the keys I found very hard to adapt too. Also lack of backlight option seems a missed opportunity considering it is powered from the iPad. Would be a nice addition.

Also as mentioned in this post the lack of Escape key is frustrating.

Finally the lack of angles for the iPad makes it feel old compared to the Surface Pro and ThinkPad X1 Tablet with their many angle kick stands.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 type cover is a far superior keyboard cover than Apple's Folio one. Probably the X1 Tablet one is as well although I have not used it enough to state that for sure.
>>Well, that’s if you consider free speech to be hate speech.

I (like the US Supreme Court) consider all speech that

1. is not a directly call to immediate violence to a specific date, time, place, and individual(s)

2. Is not defamation

To be Free Speech, this may include things you consider to be "Hate Speech" and/or offensive which is a subjective definition that is for ever changing, and changes based on the politics of an individual

"Racist Memes" is free speech and should be protected

"incitement to violence" would have to include a True Threat, which is a specific legal standard

>>Even today, a flood of racist caricatures of Andrew Yang are Flooding from 4chan onto YouTube, instagram, and twitter from maga trolls.

Of the 3 platforms you list, I only use YouTube, and I rarely look at the comments there.

I do not believe the solution to your perceived problems with memes on these platforms is for mass censorship. The platforms should provide tools for people to block, hide and ignore content they do not personally want to see but not resort to wide scale censorship.

Even if successful in this censorship what do you believe the victory will be? Will have eliminated any racist from the world, will have changed their minds, will have ended extremist? Do you think people that resort to violence are curbed because you can longer see their posts on twitter?

We know this is not the case, infact it often makes the extremism worse when it pushed underground.

>>on the open internet it is decidedly the alt-right and radicals that are endangering free speech.

That depends on your definition of alt-right, which is heavily over used and at this point has no meaning. When Left Libertarians like myself are being labeled "alt-right" because we support free speech (real free speech) the term has lost all meaning.

Authoritarian lefts believe that anyone that do not believe lock step in with their Authoritarian and Identitarian policies are some combination of racist, troll, alt-right or nazi. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest
My favorite intros to algebraic geometry are these:

Igor R. Shafarevich, Basic Algebraic Geometry, two volumes, third edition, Springer, 2013.

Phillip Griffiths and Joseph Harris, Principles of Algebraic Geometry, 1994. (Especially nice if you like complex analysis, differential geometry and de Rham theory.)

David Eisenbud and Joseph Harris, The Geometry of Schemes, Springer, 2010. Currently at https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/eisenbudharris.p...

But whenever I want to learn some new field of math I start with Wikipedia. This is a pretty good overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry
There's something that's unsatisfying about most of these examples which is that a sane person wouldn't write code that multiplies two objects and throws away the result, so people might think that if you added extra constraints to prevent depending on silly side effects, the issue would go away. This is definitely false, but it's not exactly obvious if you don't think about it too hard... I wish people actually paid attention to it when constructing counterexamples.

So, for anyone else feeling similarly unsatisfied, here's another example that might be more satisfying in that respect:

y = f(g<T, U>(x));

In conjunction with the fact that templates are already Turing-complete, we can see that detecting whether this is a call to a templated g or two comparisons is a Turing-complete question.

Also notice a similar parsing issue arises in C# as well, but I don't think generics there can be used to perform Turing-complete computation... though not sure.
> If do add(1.0e30, 1.0, -1.0e30) is that the same (aka IEEE fp addition is noncommutative)

You might be thinking of associativity. Both addition and multiplication are commutative up to NaN.
Alcohol rarely improves work performance.

Caffeine's cognitive effects are mixed. It's mainly used as an inferior substitute for sleep.

The effects of lifelong Adderall use are not well studied.[1] The effects of untreated ADHD and narcolepsy are.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/mp200890
Not only is she alone (as in 'single' - not to equate 'single' with 'alone' or 'lonely'...), she adopted three special needs children, too (I got this from following the link to her blog and then the 'about' section). From reading between the lines, it also seems she moved from the British countryside to a big Canadian city, likely leaving behind most of her social support network.

Of course it's easy for me to 'judge' (I mean, I'm not really - to each their own) from my position as a software developer with a working spouse and a traditional family in a Western European country, but still - when you're already not in a very stable position, why take huge risks like adopting three special needs children?
Many many jobs today that require a college degree used to require a high school diploma. Yes those require intelligence and studiousness in varying degrees, but these skills can be assessed by interviews and hiring people in entry level positions for 4 years (or less!), not making them sit through irrelet college classes.

Half of a US college degree curriculum (the liberal arts distribution) isn't part of the curriculum at all in the UK for a science degree; are those UK degrees producing useless employees?
TLDR (quoting the article which I think buries the lede): "Obviously, there is no way to develop on an iPad Pro."
it's implicitly O(n log n) because you need to do O(log n) for an interesting operation on each request.
Purely anecdotal, but my Series 3 goes about two days on a full charge. I can usually get away with just charging it in the morning while I shower and get ready, and otherwise just wearing all the time. Workouts deplete the battery more, mostly because I’m usually using the GPS in addition to the more frequent heart rate monitoring.
Exactly the reason why we've started setting up remote (in-house) servers for devs - for the cost of the latest MBP you can buy a server machine with tons of ram that will run all you services super smooth with any old laptop that can run your editor.
What an enlightening conversation. Before it I actually considered Pale Moon a nice Mozilla-free Firefox fork.

The search continues.
Social expectations vary by social class. The low education religious people you describe are a different social class from educated business and technical professionals
I don't think these numbers are accurate. Every time I run the command, the number of GNU/Linux users doubles.

Edit: HN stripped out my "face with tears of joy" emoji.
SJW movement is movement such as trying to fire Brendan Eich over political donation.
Ah, right, I see where you were going with that.
Does anyone else feel like college is mostly about class gate-keeping? I am not saying education isn't important.

In these digital times is paying $100k+ really necessary to get the skills you need for a good career? or is it more about separating the haves from the have nots using a very expensive piece of paper?
We home school and all get to bed at 2am and get up around 10am :)
Only enough to make very poor people collect it. In most of the bigger German cities it is considered rude to put a deposit-system beverage container inside a public trash can, you are supposed to put them on top of below, or even in a special tray so that collectors don't need to use their little LED flashlights to search the inside. Some progressive beverage companies have even made it part of their brand identity to print instructions for easily accessible abandoning on their labels.
He/She's running actual vim in the VS Code terminal.
Learning to interpret base 16 numbers is easy. But the problem is that RGB values are only indirectly related to the perceptual attributes of a color. (Which is why knowing the HSL or HSV coordinates is also not very informative.)

Much easier and more useful (for a human reader) would be to first convert to Munsell coordinates, or even CIELAB LCh.
I'll say, I'm so used to seeing "log" denote either lg or ln (depending on whether the context is closer to maths or computing) that seeing the claim that log(16)=1.2 threw me for a loop.

This despite it being fundamentally meaningless because of course it needs to be multiplied by some time-dimensioned value anyway.
You got it—I renewed it 40 minutes ago. Bear with us as we get the renewal processed and DNS propagated.
I've just been reading through your methodology in the first part of your article (dealing with prose works like Twain, Austen, etc), where you mention you strip off the beginning of Project Gutenberg books, which contain boilerplate.

I'd like to suggest that you also strip the ends of their books, as they also contain boilerplate. In addition, I'd suggest stripping out introductions. The early results you got from Shakespeare sounded like they may have been taken partly from the intructions, which weren't written by Shakespeare at all, but by much later authors.

I also noticed that you ran out of memory at one point and reduced the neuron count as a result. You might want to consider doing some quick runs on AWS (or one of their competitors), where you can get plenty of memory (and also faster machines). That way you won't have to compromise your NN architecture for lack of resources.

Something else to consider is using some other optimization techniques like GA or GP to optimize the NN architecture or NN parameters, and also to maybe have multiple NN's vote on the results. Such metaheuristic and ensemble techniques have shown promising results.

Yet another thing to consider is using something called Dynamic Subset Selection to effectively train on the most difficult portions of the training data. I have not used this technique with NN's, but it's worked well with GP, and saves a lot of time.
'Delete Facebook now': WhatsApp co-founder gives a talk at Stanford
I feel like if I got a watch that did this I'd want it to last at least 3 months on a charge, so I could stop having to remember to charge it... otherwise it's like having a second phone on my hand that I don't need.
A fitbit might be a good match, my girlfriend's Alta HR lasts a handful of days between charges.

I bought it for her primarily for the hypnograms.
Well I don't think C++ parsing is easier than C# parsing either.
It doesn't and that is what baffles me
In 2002, the first full year of sales, it managed to capture 11% of the market[1] with 475 thousand units and ranking 3rd in a market of only around 4.2 million[2]. That's not nothing.

The market tripped to 12.5 million units in 2003 and Apple's market share continued to grow. By 2009 they had almost 80% of the market.

[1] https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_iPod_Number_On...
[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/1053499/ipodtimeline.html
Someone is running command in a loop? My laptop battery died. Will fight the hackers when I get home in 30 min :)
What the fuck has the New Zealand shooting to do with SJWs in Mozilla?
Global dimming: Relationship to global warming
Yeah... Unfortunately or not, that type of person in the internet is so common that after years I learnt a little about it. Thanks for the support :) let's continue the good discussions on the thread o/
Call a spade a spade as I said above, I am done with people twisting words to cover hate, no more. "Over political donation"? Brendan Eich paid money to oppose the marriage of consenting adults just because they happen to be of the same gender. Several people didn't want to work with him after doing so. It's very hard to argue such a position would agree with the Mozilla Manifesto https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/about/manifesto/ .
The end is near? If that is what it takes not not have to read one more news story about anyone named Kardashian then let it end. Though flip side is people have been predicting the end of humanity of centuries and we’re still here. Just like the mice in my kitchen, I’ve been trapping them for thirteen years, no matter how many I kill, somehow they always make more.
It does (did?) Have a very serious bug with fsck though. If you have an image of a resierfs file system on a reisferfs filesystem the fsck would merge the two like a maniac leaving the whole thing broken. This meant that it isn't suitable for virtual machines, disk image backups, or other similar situations. I hit that one a few times and it made me switch to ext3 once it was stable.
We really need to resurrect Shumway: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway At this point I consider Shumway to be a retro console emulation project.
Interesting setup! Thanks for answering!
Exactly. I didn't pay 300€ for an ad delivery mechanism.
We all work with people with absurd beliefs. You can stand it. For example, I work with people who believe in God, which is ridiculous.
Biggest pet peeve is when they have a chat widget, it pops up, you figure, let me ask a question and then it says that nobody is available. No hours specified, no time zone listed, no email address where to send a request.

Chat widgets can be a good thing but its all about how you use them within the company... I'd say, definitely no popup, when nobody is available, just don't show the widget and redirect to a contact us form or email address. Make the support flow as dynamic as possible.
That survey was for employee provided coverage, so it would be 71% of the 67.2% Americans who get their coverage via employers. I couldn't find satisfaction rates for government provided coverage.
My son worked in a chip fab for a couple of years. The only devices allowed in there must be certified to have no cameras, including phones. They issue modified phones with out working cameras to employees. All devices must have a big certification sticker on the back. Just thought it was interesting.
An interesting example is C's pointer-integer addition. p + n == n + p, true, but this is a purely syntactic fact. The actual semantic question of commutativity, whether switching the order of the arguments leaves the value unchanged, cannot even be asked of pointer-integer addition since the arguments, having differing types, cannot be switched.
There's a difference between some individual who publishes something effectively for their extended group of friends, whereupon there happens to be a 'default public' setting ... and for example a wikipedia entry or new organization/periodical posting something for public consumption.

It's a 'social network'.
This is really amazing!

I wonder how many other things in our world are there right in front of our eyes but we can't see them because of our mental blocks.