skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here: Thanks for making the coffee at least :) I also wish iOS wouldn't be limiting and Apple would allows us to develop locally. I think we're getting there slowly and I'm looking forward to that day.
They're based on the idea that if you're made to tell a lie, your body will react in some way (sweating, faster heartbeat etc) compared to a baseline measurement. There is a whole field of psychology around lying and additionally agents are ostensibly trained to detect visual cues that someone is telling a lie.

The premise isn't exactly junk - hardware lie detectors are basically trying to identify a fight or flight reaction, which some people will exhibit when lying. Have you ever been confronted with a fact (did you eat that cookie?), lied, and felt a rush or a feeling of panic? That's what lie detectors try to detect.

The problem is it's possible to fool a polygraph and it's prone to bias. For example some people get nervous when asked a question, even if innocent. It's theatre in some sense, and it shouldn't be assumed as 100% accurate, but there are plenty of people who will break out into a cold sweat when you ask them a question they don't want to answer truthfully.
People are worried of a "war on general purpose computing" scenario if even development work can be moved to locked down devices, I think
Σ is sum in Python and many other languages, and it's generalized across all binary operators via reduce.
Also, I'd argue that a valid purpose of art is something akin to 'play', in which it explores ideas intellectually that are not suitable for the formalities of philosophy or science. However, this seems frivolous or useless to many folks, from the outside.
> Would you, or 'smallnamespace,' like to provide counter-examples where high inflation and printing money led to prosperity?

Define high inflation. Generally people like you think anything over 2% wage and price inflation[1] will result in utter doom. However the post war period up to the neoliberal revolution had inflation around 5% with peaks over 10%. And yet total growth and prosperity was higher then today. Even the maligned 1970's had significantly faster growth and shared prosperity than post 2000.

[1] I say wage and price inflation because that's all people like you care about. Vs assets inflation which is running at 5-10% for the last ten years. Which is something people who don't believe in cargo cult economics do care about.
Please excuse my sibling post. I realize I put not enough effort into actually reading your comment all the way through. I agree with what you say and want to add as an aside that I think LLVM has the inline-function feature that you mention.
I hope you don't mind if I add to your list -- I like the 5 R's:

1. Refuse
2. Reduce
3. Reuse
4. Repurpose
5. Recycle

Arguably Refuse and Repurpose are derivative, but I still like calling them out.
It's complicated... Not all instances of cancer are harmful, more men die with prostate cancer then die because of of it and thyroid cancer is found as an incidental in ~30% of autopsies. More detection can cause more harm than good, as what happened in South Korea with thyroid cancer screening, a huge increase in detection and treatment without any decrease in survival rates.

Here's a good overview:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...

Info about thyroid cancer over diagnosis:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/5275692...
I disagree. Compare

int num_entries = ..
float div = ..
float result = num_entries // div

vs

num_entries: int = ..
div: float = ..
result: float = num_entries // div

And that's an extremely simple example. I tried out Nim but dropped it because while writing some code with list of lists of different types etc it became completely impossible to parse it quickly.
No they won’t.

The market for luxury watches is growing every year and despite the arrival of different technologies e.g. Quartz, Digital they are still around. I actually think this will be an emerging market as people start to revolt against technology being everywhere.

And for me smart watches are on whole detrimental to a person’s health since they raise stress levels through constant notifications.
Mind expanding on how you use it as a supplementary machine? Any specific workflow you can share?
though they have serious privacy issues and mine is completely open sourced.
that's actually an awesome way of handling this.
My Cat Died
For the first time in 16.5yrs hid in the washing machine. I closed the door whilst running to the loo. End of times for me - heart broken.
Functional generates tons of garbage and requires a very good concurrent generational tracing GC, more so than OOP languages.

Only thanks to researchers like Simon Peyton Jones[1], did functional language compilers improved their code quality.

[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...
Interesting, never heard this story before, thank you for mentioning it.
The original poster specifically mentioned plastic bottles, which, I imagine, are hard to make from paper.

Refillable glass allows for exactly the kind of cross contamination that makes otherwise safe products inedible.
That's what happened in Ontario Canada. We had a deposit system for glass bottles, but it was lost when 'recycling' and plastic bottles came. Both recycle and plastic bottles where an industry reaction to not wanting to have a deposit system.
Yes! Even if the gun to your head was never fired.
Only when proper use of memory isn't part of performance.
There's no zero-cost way to have food, and it seems important to look at the total, not just packaging.

If (as I seem to remember for cucumbers) the un-wrapped version means significantly higher waste, then the film (which is completely single-use petrochemical) has to be balanced agains the farming and transport (also lots of single-use petro-products!) of the wasted ones.
Maybe I’m too old, but I’d never use a chat popup. I’m also the person who, when calling tech support, mashes on the 0 button right away and repeatedly until a human answers. I simply don’t want to waste time communicating with a machine unless I’m programming. Nothing about the usual chat pop up interfaces assures me that I’d be chatting with an actual human.

“Hi, how can I help?” Pop up at every random time I might be browsing? No way these guys are staffed 24/7. Probably not human.

Stock photo showing pretty telephone operator? Definitely not human.

If I want to type something for help, I’d honestly prefer a good, working search box.
Yeah I experienced this with Crystal and really disliked it.
If Facebook/Google wanted to programm you
... how would they do that, if they wanted you to engage in behaviour that is beneficial to you, while preserving that addiction that keeps you sticking with them?

Example: They want to help you be less fanatic about race, gender, etc....
right now the algorythm suggests more and more extreme views to keep you hooked, but it's not doing something beneficial to you apart from providing the links
Would you be willing to try:

a) some IOS-native IDE, i.e. http://continuous.codes/ ?

b) how would android fare in comparison? I.e. I really like termux project, it seems to have much more installable packages than i.e. blink, and it could alleviate the need to run separate session in a separate box over the internet. Similarly, because android is based on linux, there are projects for running linux distros alongside (mostly in chroot?).

I am currently trying to learn Ocaml on my android phone on my way to work with Termux :)
+1 thanks for the writeup, I have a similar setup and reading the previous posts on blink et al was super helpful as well
And then rue in the fact your individual, or even the individual contributions of the personal lives of all citizens, are a sliver of a pie dominated by agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction. Almost all of which have much less impactful changes to make that aren't lifestyle shifting but who are not incentivized to without the regulatory initiative to force them to.

Make whatever changes in your life you want, "every little bit helps", but remember that individual willpower and grit is taking a cup of water out of an ocean. You don't change the tide that way, you need to recognize the importance of political action to see the situation improve.

For everyone who goes vegetarian instead of attending town halls or petitioning their representatives or staying home from protesting business waste they are missing the forest for the trees on what matters in environmentalism.
Perhaps these widgets should be integrated into the browser (and web specs), so users have a consistent chat experience between websites and an easy and consistent way to block these widgets through browser settings.
When has Apple ever sold or leaked data to third parties ?
> A dumb terminal isn't a development machine. That's like saying "Using my DEC VT100 terminal to develop in Go", let me just hook it up to an actual compute

And to be clear: The iPad Pro does not even achieve the level of "dumb terminal": It does not pass control sequences intelligently, so even running remote emacs is not possible without major remappings (and the remappings are so major as to reduce functionality.)

That said, the iPadPro is good for what it's good for. I love having a portable library, and note taking with the pen is kinda nice. It just doesn't achieve the level of development machine for any intelligent definition of the word "development".
What? An ounce of prevention and a pound of cure and all that. Early detection is key in a lot of situations, so how could earlier not be better? Why wait unnecessarily?
Wouldn’t the locked-down filesystem be a problem?
Or perhaps it's HN working as always and people disagreeing?

A heavily downvoted post is not exactly a "mob" (any more than a heavily upvoted one would be).

People threatening or calling you names, or demanding your job, etc, would be a mob.

I also get lots of downvotes when my opinion is not popular (which is easy, I'm not very fond of what I consider the fads of the era, or mainstream opinions on most things). But I wouldn't call it a "mob" in ordinary HN cases.
I don't live in SV, but I've been on HN for a few years.

One thing that is certain is that few if any participants in the "art world" (technical term for the active professional business of mediating art via museums, galleries, magazines, etc.) would find the way art is discussed here to be impressive or relevant. It's a specialized field, but Swisher is right that tech folks tend both to be fairly uninformed about the humanities, and also to overestimate their ability to discern what is going on in other people's areas of specialization.

I've got a postgraduate degree in contemporary art and I follow it pretty closely. It's not cynical to dismiss much of the art world as vacuous. At the same time, successful art speaks to current human concerns in a way that's undeniable.

Unfortunately, the art scene reflects the anti-intellectual character of contemporary life. There are critics and art intellectuals, but their role is somewhat trivialized, because nobody really takes the intellectual side of art that seriously (because the artists don't). So, in an anti-intellectual milieu, "intellectuals" are stuck playing a bit of a two-dimensional, token performance of seriousness.

Art on HN, I would say, plays a role that is similarly circumscribed and trivialized. It's present, but it's not taken seriously—it performs a stereotyped function in the discourse. There's discussion of art, but it's not integrated with the actual critical canon. It's almost like a 19th C blackface minstrel performance rather than the involvement of an actual black person (if that's an OK analogy to use).
Great ideas. Article bookmarked. I already do some of Nick's suggestions, like lay out clothes at night and organize food. Setting priorities of night life vs. productive mornings is easy for me except for about once a week when we go out at night for entertainment.
didnt know that
Recycling is completely unrelated to most of the actually serious environmental issues. (E.g., climate change)
I have work. I have family. But where is the "me" time: Well for me, it is when everyone else is in bed ( 10PM-> ).
This video from 2013 references to possible methods: imperceptible changes in skin color and imperceptible movement of the head. https://youtu.be/EhZXDgG9oSk
It really depends on if you sleep with your watch or not.

If you don’t then battery life is really irrelevant because you can rest your watch on a pad and have it charge just like if it were a normal watch.
>And then rue in the fact your individual, or even the individual contributions of the personal lives of all citizens, are a sliver of a pie dominated by agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction.

Agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction all exist to serve consumerism society.

Our personal individual contributions might be just a tiny slice of it, but aggregated individual contributions are 100% of the problem.

Society is us.
The very newest models seem to have quite a few issues with WiFi/BT and touchscreen support. This is not really acceptable for a development machine, or for that matter a tablet. A lesser issue is that most Surface devices do not support plain old ACPI standby in hardware; rather it's replaced by something called "Connected Standby" where the OS is tasked with minimizing power drain. Support for that is also lacking AIUI, but at least we can expect this to improve in the future.
thank you for the kind words, did you use the buymeacoffee link? (guessing from your username)
Warhol and Hirst's work were both commentaries on this. As were Christo and Jeanne-Claude's, though theirs focused a little more on the role the "self."
I thoroughly recommend installing NoScript. I've set it to only trust first-party-domain scripts and those from a few hand-picked sites.

This does occasionally mean I'm confronted by a broken site or feature, but all I have to do is look at the list and work out what's missing. It's usually an obvious CDN.
Duke vs. North Carolina Condensed Highlights – 2018-19 ACC Basketball
You just invented this situation in your head.

No one is handing over health data to insurance companies or employers.
F-Droid has no viruses because nobody uses it so nobody bothers to upload any malware to it.
Why book covers still use the phrase “A Novel”
Is there anyway to get transparency on what individual communities are actually doing? At our last county fair, the recycling department had a game set up to help people understand what should go into trash versus recycling. I was asking the manager about the specifics and he said that the recycling was taken to a local facility where local people were paid to sort through it on a conveyor belt to pull out stuff that should've gone into the trash. It sounded feasible at the time, but reading through these comments I wonder if the recycling was actually being shipped to China (this was before the whole thing about China refusing recyclables started). We are on the west coast by a large port, so I would think it would easier for us to have been shipping recyclable to China that people farther inland.
This reminds me of a previous job. The management—none of which were technical people—just loved the idea of investigating “the blockchain” and “IoT” and “machine learning” and “AI”, but had no clue what it meant. I left after a couple of months.

Has anyone else read this article and had the same experience as me? I genuinely second guess myself when reading it: have I lost the ability to read? Am I stupid? I read all these words on the page yet I have absolutely no comprehension of what was said. What on Earth was written on the “formalising humans on the blockchain” section for example? There sure are a lot of words, but nothing actually got said.

What, exactly do they want to do with a blockchain and why? It’s a simple question.

Oh, they have some cryptocurrency token they want to sell. Gotcha.
fun read -- the last sentence included ! plenty to say about that article..

I get the sense that many commenters here, YNews in 2019, very much fit the description of a "Blub" programmer.. with the added twist that it is -giant-cloud-thing- platform and/or exciting web trends are my thing, to deepen the "Blub" point of view..

.. can't help but chuckle at the repeated and fairly clever jabs at ASM, considering it took M$FT ten years to make a windowing GUI that performed well enough on a PC, after the Mac OS was written in a lot of ASM.
Standard shape glass bottles are, and those have the smallest deposit too: beer, soft drinks, water, I believe that's it? Non-standard glass bottles are recycled. PET and aluminum cans are obviously recycled, not reused, and have a steep 25¢ deposit.
High temperature burning is a bit better environmentally than people just burning garbage at home. The extremely high temp is the key.

There is a demand for aluminum and metal, many people make a bit of a living collecting these for money.

The problem with glass is that it has food residue on it. This causes leaching in the landfills.

Farmers need COMPOST! Soil around the world is nearly depleted. We need an efficient way of cleaning out the food particles from food containers, before disposing or recycle, and having those particles end up on farms.
Justin Sun Crashes Vitalik Buterin’s Keynote Speech at Token2049
Because they were convinced VCs it was a good idea? But a company losing billions of dollars a year is not exactly a great model for sound business practices....
I still read the whole thing. You know, after ranting on HN for a minute. Thanks for sharing! :)
I wish browsers would simply block everything that animates, with a per-site opt-in for sites like YouTube where I expect video or motion.

Define “animation” loosely enough and it could encompass chat pop ups, subscribe-to-newsletter pop ups, artsy “intros”, scrolljacking, and other unexpected distractions.
> I’m not their boss, but who says I can’t criticize it if it doesn’t meet my and others’ needs?

Yeah, because doing that is kinda toxic. It's the kind of behavior that makes open-source project maintainers burn out and quit their former labor-of-love, because they're sick being dragged down by all of the negativity from the internet peanut gallery.

This is especially true since it appears they may actually be addressing your iOS backup concerns, just not with the urgency you demand.

> As I said in another comment, Signal seems focused on investigative journalists, dissidents and activists. Nothing wrong with that at all, but it reflects poorly on people who comment on HN recommending that everybody should use Signal.

No, it doesn't reflect poorly on them at all.
Ok, serious question. What happens if there're days when you go out with people and get in bed at 2AM? Do you still get up at 5AM? Doesn't that mess up your body for days after?
Thanks. I read the paper now and I kind of get why you guys think they're similar.

I find them similar too in what they're trying to achieve [blast-radius minimization], but I think AWS' concept of cells [going by re:invent presentation] is more of an architectural pattern with strong inclination towards certain non-negotiable reqs ["thinnest possible routing layer", "workload migration among cells is a first-class citizen", "avoiding critical cross-cell tasks/dependencies other than migration", "creating/removing cells are zero-downtime events"] for different flavours of services [stateful vs stateless (dynamodb vs lambda?), zonal versus regional versus global (ebs vs kinesis vs route53), for example] than a concrete implementation like Borg.

I might be wrong on all accounts, though.
To think... all this could have been avoided by remapping capslock to escape =)

I kid... but it’s definitely changed my life.
"* New York Times: Your number of free articles is 0

* Wall Street Journal: Subscription needed

* Bloomberg: See this article for $1

* Fox News: Completely free

* Breitbart: Completely free"

But BBC, Huffpo, CNN, NBC/MSNBC et. al. are free, and they actually dominate the list, i.e. those entities and a few others add up to something considerably bigger than Fox. Or Fox + the Mail + Breitbart, for the most part.

I think the headline was unnecessarily biased to the extent it doesn't paint the picture we see presented in the actual data, which is actually interesting and not quite so black and white.
If you live rural in a rural area, use solar for electricity, work remotely, and grow your own food you are probably producing a lot less garbage than someone in a high density major metro.
Most programming languages do have some variant of `sum(seqence)`. Python certainly does. Or, like, loops, which do the same thing.

But they're optimized for different things. Using the same tool for infinite length sequences and fixed length sequences doesn't make a whole lot of sense. We often have different types for them (tuple/record vs. list/array) too.
how so? like commoditizing Oracle databases?
former :)
The reason they are less safe is because our infrastructure is setup for massive lumps of steel. I'm not suggesting driving lightweight vehicles on roads. I'm suggesting changing the roads so they are optimised for lightweight vehicles and big lumps of steel are second class citizens, either banned or only allowed to operate at certain times etc.

Get the big lumps of steel off the roads and you have far less issues at the ER.
So currently if you get sick, you "win" the sick lottery and get to pay for other people's illness as a result.

What's a fair rate for a cut that just needs skin glue and some antibiotics? $500? or is it more like $2600? Because it sounds like he's paying somewhere around a 5x multiplier just because 1) he got a cut and 2) he can pay it.

At some point that won't be sustainable, and emergency rooms will shut down from the cost. People will just stop going to emergency rooms if it means getting a bill for 5x for what it should cost.
I can't even find a way of properly recycling batteries. It would be nice if all the fire halls allowed you to drop-off batteries, and old fire-alarms (they contain radioactive material).
You'd have to snout it out, alarm AF.
I was a kid in Oregon in the early 70's when they implemented a bottle deposit. It was $.05 then which would be $.30 today. To bad they haven't increased the deposit amount.

You also could return older, non-deposit containers at the beginning. This spurred me and my friends to clean every roadside and field within reach of our bikes. For a month we made more money than we had known in our entire lives. Then it was over and a valuable lesson was learned.
I don't see much difference here. It's probably not a big deal when the type annotation is short but if it's something longer reading the short variable name first helps give some context first. When scanning code I think I read the variable name first as well.

Type inference should be able to deal with the simple cases anyway.
Indeed, Julia has the most well-thought-out commentary on strings in their docs I've seen from a non-toy language:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/strings/#man-concate...
Search for "solar panel usb", you can find 2W models for <$5, or 10W for ~$12. Add a powerbank and you're set.
Basically, and macbook air with touch screen...
I don't get the logic behind this?

How can the packaging industry force companies to order superfluous packaging?

And if it isn't superfluous, getting rid of it might be a net negative?