skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the progress of our system has been to go from diverse to less diverse. Ever since 1776, we have become ever more centralized. We went from state rights to federal power. From many political parties to a persistent duopoly controlled by the same people.

Also, the masses have never usurped the few. No time in human history has the masses overthrown anything. The proles are never a threat to the powerful. The few have always been usurped by the other few.

The british in the US weren't overthrow by the masses. They were overthrown by the elite few. The same thing with the romanovs in russia. It was the well funded, highly educated and highly motivated portion of the elites who overthrew the romanovs.

The masses rising up is a romantic myth. It isn't real.

What makes the US so successful has nothing to do with democracy. It has everything to do with colonization, resource acquisition and centralized power. We conquered a continent and much of the world. We dominate the world's trade and currency. We are the greatest empire in human history. That's why we are successful.

The same thing with european democracies. They still manage a large remnant of their former colonies via business and political domination. Even military domination such as libya, mali, middle east, etc. Heck, a bunch of african countries' central banks are directly controlled by the french.
not _always_

There are ads on Youtube that cannot be skipped, and they can be much longer than 5-6 seconds.
I think containers have a lot to do with this in a big way. When you are making a container for every app, the OS base size really starts adding up. As a one time fee the disk space for an OS image is not a big deal, but when you have to pay that disk space for every app, then that really adds up.
I mean we could
> I was once served eviction papers by Louisville police over going a full winter without gas in my apartment. It wasn't that I neglected a bill, but that thanks to other obligations I knew I couldn't afford it, so I never opened an account. The landlords understood until the badges showed up, and then wouldn't return my deposit. So I was punished, half a week in jail followed by a couple of homeless months, for not being a customer. It absolutely happens.

You were not evicted for not being a customer. You were (probably, since I don't know any details of your case) evicted under §156.181 of Louisville's code[1] which requires the capability to heat a dwelling to exist in order for that dwelling to be occupiable. If you have gas heat, that means needing to maintain gas service. You can't waive this requirement by agreement with your landlord because slumlords would abuse that power imbalance to skirt their obligations to keep shit working.

[1] http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/Kentucky/loukymet...
I think there may be something wrong with them.

As far as I can tell, my AirPods are the best sounding voice conference headset I have. Well, a few things work well when I'm in my office with the door closed... but the AirPods are the only thing I use anywhere else. I work remotely and it comes up often.

If possible, I'd try to get them replaced. If the next pair has the same issues, then I guess it's something about your situation after all, but I think it's worth a try.
iPhone 8
bought it last year but still regret
Stroads and Strails
Is WSL actually ready for developers?
Volk is German for 'People'. It's like the English 'Folk'. That reddit link sounds like just a single dude trying to expand the reach, who isn't affiliated with volkfi, but I would say he is trolling using the name like "stormtroopers"...
It certainly makes it a lot easier to understand what it's for...
> Same for any "business major"

Dunno about that, many of my middle class friends with degrees in Finance, Marketing, MIS, etc, went on to secure well paying jobs right out of college, and now 5-6 years later are doing really well for themselves. Also I know people who went to big 4 consulting out of undergrad with liberal arts degrees.

I think it depends more on the school than the major. A shitty school with bad career coaching that doesn't teach you how to 'sell' yourself to prospective employers will have unemployed software engineers.
Optional static types, enums, data binding, reactive primitive, etc.

Yeah TS has many of those, but TS is not JS and it introduces new problems.
A few parents have always tried to use their kids as a means for more than attention (fame, money, power). Now that advertisers see the influence that a few parents have, they are rabid with dollars.

On the far left side of the power law curve of that, we have:

“Online and Making Thousands, at Age 4: Meet the Kidfluencers“

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/business/media/social-med...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19286701
This 1000x

They don't know computers any more then they know toasters.
They push a button and get a result. If not reboot it and push button again.
I agree with your stance -- in a vast majority of corporate setting trying to enforce security with code tends to cause more problems than it solves. It alienates users and makes them skip sanity checks and use loopholes (whatever is allowed by the security must be OK to use). Informing users of the policy and providing tools for them to voluntarily check compliance when needed works much better.

> This also helps with email retention policies. Sometimes you want ephemeral communications you don't want a record of.

This IMO is a lost battle. Once "Sent" gets pressed you should assume the message is out in the wild (any retention policies only complicate experience and can be ignored/countered by clients). If you want ephemeral communication, pick up the phone or talk face to face. My 2c.
Couldn't read due to paywall, but how many YC companies are NOT founded by people from elite colleges? Isn't that really the point of going to an elite college? That someone will give you money to start a company as soon as you finish, no matter how wacky your idea? It almost seems like the old "no one got fired for buying IBM", but updated to "no one got fired for funding Stanford grads". Of course, the defense will be that elite schools are a good "signal" of competency, but at the same time VCs shrug their shoulders and say a 90% failure rate is unavoidable. What a signal indeed!
I disagree. How many NC State grads become tech luminaries? Very few. How many Stanford, Harvard, UWash, UIUC, even Cornell or Yale CS (not as highly ranked) become tech luminaries? A lot more. (FWIW, it's so hard to get into CS at UIUC/UWash today it's equivalent to getting into an Ivy).

Of course, you could always say that this is a function of inherent talent and drive more than institution, which is possible, but even then it's just a vital social signal and leaves out the 99% who could never stand a chance of getting into elite institutions like me.
While it is true that 2 real numbers can determine both a complex number and a point in plane and it is also true that 1 real number can determine both a real number and a point in a straight line, these are different mathematical things.

The correct view is that the real numbers, also known as scalars, are quotients of 1-dimensional vectors, while the complex numbers are quotients of 2-dimensional vectors.

This means that given two 1-dimensional vectors, the second being non-null, there is always a real number by which you can multiply the second vector to obtain the first vector.

The same for two 2-dimensional vectors and a complex number. In this case the magnitude of the complex number changes the magnitude of the vector, while the phase rotates the vector.

When you understand this fact about complex numbers, than it becomes obvious that the imaginary unit is not imaginary but just a rotation with a right angle and it is trivial that its square, i.e. a rotation with 180 degrees is equivalent with a multiplication by -1.

The point are a third, different kind of mathematical entities, distinct from both real & complex numbers and from vectors.

In fact points (i.e. members of 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional and so on affine spaces) are the primitive objects.

From points you can define the vectors as differences of points (i,e, translations). Then from vectors you can define real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions and higher-dimensional matrices as quotients of vectors.

(Such definitions define e.g. a 2-dimensional vector as a class of equivalence of pairs of points in plane that are transformed into each other by a translation, and a complex number as a class of equivalence of pairs of 2-dimensional vectors which are transformed into each other by a proportional change in magnitude and a rotation with a fixed angle.)

Obviously, my explanation here is very simplified, but it is useful to be aware that e.g. a point in plane, a 2-dimensional vector and a complex number are 3 very different kinds of mathematical objects, even if all 3 are determined by a pair of real numbers.

They are very different because the set of operations that can be applied to each is different. For example only the complex numbers are members of a field. You can add 2-dimensional vectors (i.e. compose 2 translations), but you cannot add 2 points from a plane.
Big money runs the country, everything else is just noise.
It answers the following questions:

- What does the company do and why is it important, interesting or impactful?

- What do you want the new person to achieve? (Impact)

- What's the context of the role (team size and mix of roles, company size and mix of departments)

- What state is the existing stuff (e.g. for an engineering role, how mature is the tech stack, for a product role is the product released and how good is it)

- (If applicable) links to the product or screenshots or video

- Working environment and style (how often do you ship? What does a new hire do in their first few weeks, by the end of 3 months, by the end of 6 months)

- why hiring now?

- 2-4 minimum requirements for the role (e.g. if there are hard technical requirements like specific language, or if someone needs to be able to do financial modeling or whatever)
Seems like there are ways to avoid tax and ways to "recover" it back.
I thought I'd weigh in, as a casual Racket/Elisp user

> Lambdas/AF are used to delay evaluation but keep the default semantics.

You and lispm seem to agree that lambdas can be used to delay evaluation, e.g. `(lambda () (+ 1 2))`. They are also used to abstract/parameterise, e.g. `(lambda (x) (* x x))`.

These two ideas coincide in most languages, since it's often not clear how we would evaluate a parameterised expression (e.g. how might we evaluate the `(* x x)` above, whilst keeping `x` as a free parameter?). Hence most languages don't evaluate inside a parameterised expression (lambdas) until called, and hence we can use them to delay evaluation.

In fact, we can evaluate "under a lambda", which is what happens during inlining, constant folding, or more generally partial-evaluation and supercompilation. This shows that parameterising and delaying evaluation are two distinct ideas, but they're usually represented with one language construct (lambda). We could imagine a separate language construct, like `(delay foo)`, which prevents any form ofevaluation (including inlining, supercompilation, etc.) from being applied to its argument, until it's 'forced' (maybe with a 'force' construct, or maybe by overloading function call syntax).

As for whether Lisp code is a syntax tree I would say:

- If we're allowing the possibility of the reader being altered, then our code doesn't have to be a tree, but I personally wouldn't call it "Lisp code" if it differed that much from s-expressions, regardless of whether a Lisp implementation can read it or not. In that case it's more like we're repurposing a Lisp implementation to act on some non-Lisp language. For example, if we used reader macros to consume regular expressions, that doesn't mean that regular expressions are Lisp.

- To me "Lisp code" is a syntax tree, but it is concrete not abstract (for the reasons lispm says, e.g. `+` is just an opaque symbol rather than an arithmetic operator; we can interpret it in any way we like, using macros).

- I wouldn't say that Lisp code is s-expressions, since there are alternative representations (e.g. I-expressions, sweet-expressions, etc.). Yet as long as they're equivalent to s-expressions (which, in particular, requires that they're trees and that we can impose our own semantics using macros!), then I'm happy calling them Lisp.
Hm... I might "lose" my AirPods case too. :)
There's never just one cause of an airline accident. That was one of the causes, but alone it wouldn't have been sufficient. Fixing the problems at all levels is how you achieve high reliability.
I've seen a bunch of online job applications where you had to specify your University degree and there was a combo with 10 elite options then other. I'm pretty sure they're sending a message.
This really puts things in to perspective. Subscription startups looking to get some percentage of the population to pay $10 a month can never reach the scale of google advertising when they are extracting nearly that much value on average from every single person.
Would filtering and/or boiling the water be enough against that kind of contamination?

(We learn from childhood that you should only drink filtered or boiled water; I wouldn't feel comfortable drinking water directly from the plumbing, precisely because you never know how clean the water tank and the pipes are.)
Me neither? As I said in my post I consider their contributions to open source to be what is good for the world - nothing to do with surveillance.
This is true. All of the YC founders I know of that went to my alma mater had cofounders that went to Stanford, Harvard etc.
No. Other brands have weird Bluetooth bugs, sketchy reliability (compared to generally rock solid Apple products), or don’t integrate nearly as tightly with my iPhone.

I didn’t buy them because they’re a “lifestyle”, I bought them because they’re the best on the market.
The Autocrypt team are doing some great work, and I really hope they prove that OpenPGP can provide the basis for a backwards compatible and secure email system, which works without requiring the user to necessarily understand the underlying cryptography (just as HTTPS has succeeded).

Making email more secure than it currently is seems like quite a low bar to reach, even if perfect security remains impossible to achieve.

https://autocrypt.org/
But it doesn't, it goes into the EU budget.
Presumably he means a noise-laden prospectus detailing the financial instruments in use for a particular fund. If you have a money manager, are you paying him/her to read that paper, and it's not millions of pages.

They look something like this...think of it as a set of rules for what the manager does with your money:

1) We invest you stocks/bonds rated <N> and above

2) We exit positions under <XYZ> circumstances

3) We enter positions under <ABC> circumstances

4) Past performance by following rules 1-3 is N%

No one failed to read these in the past, instead they focused on the potential profit, which blinded them to the potential downside. This is an investing 101 lesson, that continues to be taught to money managers each time their profit chasing occludes their risk management.

If you, a regular working class citizen, were burned by this(perhaps in your 401k), then it's worth reading the prospectus your fund manager sent you. When you see the list of funds included in your fund, you should have received a prospectus for each of those as well. Look for which funds make up the majority of your funds holdings, and read those prospectuses. If you find(and are uncomfortable with) one of those funds being a triple-leveraged ETF backed by 30-year mortgages, then you should talk to your fund manager about that.
There is also much more wing than is strictly needed to keep the plane aloft and stable. They're optimized for low fuel consumption at a design-specified cruising altitude and speed, with variable geometry, so they can still take off and land at lower speeds near ground level.

From a certain perspective, the flaps give the plane redundant wings. One pair for low and slow, and another pair for high and fast.
Because, as I understand it, Google was saying that if you used it search service, you were prohibited from showing non-Google ads anywhere else on the site.

You couldn't just use Google Search and accept ads in those search results a cost of use. This sounds rather like abuse of a dominant position in one area to squash competitors in another.
Keeping cables nicely coiled takes time. Perhaps not as much as untangling cables, but time.

Also there's a lot of time spent fiddling with the cables in use that I didn't realize I was doing until I used wireless and went back for a week.
In the Loop – March 20, 2019
The way I see it is the people that get into and go to elite universities are multiples smarter and more accomplished than I was at 18 - honestly, I think I'll defer to them about if something is worth it or not. I don't think they'll make the wrong decision.
I'm schizotypal and I do. For me, weed is how I get my brain to shut up long enough for me to get in the groove when I'm working on my artwork. My symptoms are primarily issues with thought disorganization and it's often a struggle for me to sit down and get to work because my behavior is often very disorganized as well. I've been treated for ADHD since I was little, but I see my ADHD and schizotypy as two sides of the same coin.

I don't smoke a lot, though. Just a hit every few hours, enough to give me a buzz. If I get too stoned to do anything, that defeats the purpose for me. Weed is a tool, weed is for work. If I want to just have fun, I'll drink.

It does, however, contribute to psychotic episodes sometimes. But it's never the only contributing factor, it's usually in combination with too much isolation and/or not eating/sleeping properly. If I feel like my thoughts are starting to get more and more unorganized, I generally take that as a sign I need to get out of my apartment and go see my friends. My psychotic episodes are pretty benign, though, all that really happens is my thoughts get too rapid fire and disorganized for me to do anything but sit there in a stupor because I can't get it together enough to execute tasks. They're over when I wake up the next morning. (I will also say, they were pretty frightening before I realized what they were just because it's frightening to feel like you've lost control of your own brain like that.)
The Reddit archive is a glaring omission given its recent use in OpenAI's GPT-2 model. https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/65o7py/updated_re...
Anyone have a recommendation for Node.js? I've been extremely frustrated with commander [1].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander
Not leveraging dominance in one area to push a different area is the basis of our anti-monopoly laws.
So you did a wrapper around libjit and generated functions on-the-fly?

I am not sure it counts as a full bytecode jit. :-)

I did a very stupid jit for the PigletVM thing while working on the article and the difference was more like 1.2-1.5 compared to the first naive interpreter.
I remember years ago reading an article stating that a time will come when young adults will sue their parents for posting pictures of them younger or stories.

Of course it was a bit extreme, but when I read that I'm afraid it might happens.

To my big shame I'm also quoting my kids sometimes on FB. But there are no picture of them online.

And I use FB with a pseudo and quote the with aliases only family know, so I guess it's not as bad.
This game explains the paperclip maximizer: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Some Reasons Why You Sneeze for No Apparent Reason
Back in the mid 90's, before NAT was common, we had public IP's everywhere, even with IPv4! Even my home network was on a /24 class C.
It's not built in to the language, but JOOQ and QueryDSL come fairly close.

I do miss LINQ though. The Java options are all clunkier because the type system isn't nearly as flexible
I only own the original Airpods.

Compared to the Apple Earpods with either lightning or jack-cable I would describe the Airpods as having just slighty more bass in the sound and just slighty more volume. What they lack in audio quality compared to bulkier proper headphones they make up for with their amazing portability and convenience.

I don't know that they are worth $200, I thought $160 was pretty expensive when I got mine. But that seems to be the price range for premium bluetooth headphones.

Personally: I don't find any earbud-style headphone to be very good audio vise compared (my experience with them is also limited) as compared to headphones or speakers. I can wear them for a long time without feeling fatigued. In the first two weeks with the Airpods my ears became very sore after ~30min wearing them, despite being very accostumed to the Apple Earbuds, luckily that is not the case any more.
The All-New Blockstream Green Wallet
I'd bet that nearly 100% of people that buy AirPods already have an iPhone and a lightning cable. It would be pretty annoying to have to carry two cables to charge your stuff.
The only way is adding more servers closer to the users, which means Stadia will only offer really low latencies to users living close to the data centers. So probably only people in large cities.
The entire purpose, whether the author wants to admit it or not, is to create a negative association between Asperger's syndrome and Dr. Asperger.

No, that's not the point at all. The point is to question the validity of the concept.

It's apparently the Nazi version of so much race based BS in the US. The US has a long history of saying people of color are less intelligent, unfit to lead, are happier as servants and so forth. It justifies condemning them to a permanent underclass.

If autism is really what the Nazi regime chose to call people it found inadequately emotionally manipulable for its purposes, then you have to question the validity of the label at all.

Then you have to wonder if maybe they are just people and maybe people come in a wide variety of flavors and maybe the flavor we call "autism" isn't some inherent defect after all.
Yes I believe that's true, with the idea of a trace cache originating in the 90s to work around perceived I-cache limitations, "Trace Cache: a Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching" is the seminal paper on it.
Yeah, I guess being in poverty isn't so bad as long as you have an open mind and critical thinking skills.

Always with the intangible 'benefits' to people.

If what you're worried about is 'critical thinking skills' perhaps there should be a course modeled for that exact outcome.

How does learning about ancient history make you open minded? How does fictional literature make you open minded?

Maybe you should open your mind and consider that the lower class of people in society are really bad off financially and that our education system is doing exactly 0 to rectify that fact.
Aren't we helping britain, much of europe, australia, etc build orwellian states too? What about our firms, government and military helping build an orwellian state in saudi arabia and israel?

Everyday, all I see are articles about orwellian state in china. They've always had an orwellian state so why the sudden focus? Shouldm't we be more worried about the orwellian state that's slowly being created here at home or amongst our allies?
This is true. However, the build quality is abysmal. Plastic pieces have come unglued and buttons are faulty on both my fiancée's pair and mine. I don't think I can recommend the SoundSports as much as the QC35s.
Free Download: Foundations of Machine Learning, Second Edition
I tried to understand location tracking. It’s nearly impossible