skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This headline could have been taken directly from Sputnik News or RT. It suggests that not only is America's democratically critical Fifth Estate now entirely disreputable, but it has essentially fallen at the hands of Russia.

The content of the article is pure propaganda that deliberately conflates news and opinion and conflates sources and information with reporting on sources and information.

Again, pure propaganda. Shame on Taibbi.
Loved the link to https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
> He knows she is operated by workers around the world who are watching, listening and typing out her responses, which sound slow and robotic

Emotional labour is labour. That means it can be alienated, commoditised, intermediated by an internet platform, globalised, and provided by the lowest bidder.

The sharing economy sucks this out still further. Why spend your time being nice to an old person uncompensated when a VC-funded platform will pay you a few cents to perform niceness to a stranger across the world? "Sharing economy" replaces "belonging economy".

I'm not sure there's a way out of this without society as a whole moving away from money as the value of all things.

And let's not overlook the role of culture wars in all this, where old/young has become a particularly strong axis.

(Of course, if we look back in history at who used to be performing all this emotional labour uncompensated, we tend to find that it was women. And they were socially coerced into doing so...)
A search on the Chromium issues page shows this: crbug.com/750452
Carbon payments could be more profitable than mining or logging for some nations
That's unusual - as in never seen one that's not black. Wonder why - aesthetics perhaps.
There have been many attempts for interventions that increase IQ with little to no evidence that it's at all possible.
In all three cases, Python, Go and Rust, the language and ecosystem may be in the hands of an organization, but you can probably produce code productively in it for years even if the organization went under or chose unacceptable paths.

Go is quite unique in that it produces very independent binaries. This might make software written in it quite future-proof.

Personally I like Python's philosophy and the way the community is run. I like the trajectory. I understand the trade-offs. And I am sure as hell not going to teach Go or Rust as a first programming language to people who aren't computer science students. And even then...
The planes crashed, there is nothing partisan about that.
> What will earn him more money in later life, though - stacking bricks, or using a computer?

I'm pretty sure we recently saw a study that showed a lot of kids being tech illiterate despite growing with and regularly using a bunch of gadgets.

Turns out playing with a screen doesn't teach you computers.
Only checked two examples, and it read like pure nonsense output by a markov chain.

Example text:

>Linghalus is a company that operates in the idea to Marks and internationally in the field of experience to a company.

>Completed 3 company in the first 3 months of internal stations
Doctest – “The Lightest C++ Testing Framework” – version 2.3 released
I kid you not. The latest Google TTS, the woman one I use it to listen to audiobooks, workout timers (tell me exercise etc) and yes. I actually do really like it and don't want to switch to anything else.
And we have the orphans and widows properties in CSS that provide some control across fragments, though they're not supported in Firefox (or EdgeHTML, for however much longer that matters).
Most people have not lived in cities until the past decade, globally, or past few decades in selected industrialised countries.

Globally, the figure is about 55%, passing the midpoint in the 2010s. The US became 50% urban in the 1920s. For England and Wales, the 1890s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization#/media/File%3AHis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
Technically, you'd use a C/C++ library with a Python wrapper.
Yes. At 150kloc a novice Rust/Go programmer will surely have less trouble maintaining his code base!
do they need a legal entity to profit off your data if you are willingly giving it up to them, unaware of what they'll do with it?
Then this gene edited children will again use gene editing to produce children with genes similar to theirs that are already known to not produce too many autistic conditions.

> We dont know enough about it to allow it open slather in the community at large.

Who are those "guardians of the community" that are allowed to decide what technology community at large can have access to and what can't? You can argue for regulation preventing fraud: doctors hiding possible complications, editing different genes than what was advertised, etc. but you can't disallow people to decide with what genetic code they create their own children.
I'd chose Python 3 migration and updating/removing/exchanging dependencies over rewriting in a different language I know less well any time.

And good look finding replacements for Python/Django packages in Go or Rust.

Don't get me wrong. You'll find a lot of libraries for those languages. But probably not everything...
I wasn't sure of the utility of this until I came across this sentence:

> I am passionate about problems that do the norm.

How can something so nonsensical contain so much meaning...
I think the word is "parasocial", although that usually implies one-way. There's a big rise in "not quite one way" relationships with streamers, youtubers, camgirls etc.
Anecdotally, there does seem to be a lot of elevators for which the "close doors" button doesn't work, which I can only assume is deliberate.

Haven't noticed any other buttons not working though.
> Seriously, people on synth message boards are like, "what would this sound like if we did it with FPGA?"

Ah, the blockchain of digital music.
Ask HN: Resources for a 5yo interested in robotics/coding?
My 5yo is fascinated by robots, computers and how they talk to each other. Are there any resources you’d recommend to help her explore
Nah, they rather implement a file sharing website.
Saving to disk is probably one of the simplest ways of sharing data between processes, but it's far from the only one (e.g. named pipes)
I think that example shows that Python's type system isn't the weakest out there, but it's still pretty weak.

For example, it doesn't have a built-in way to make a dictionary-whose-keys-must-be-integers (so with your example above if you wrote thedictionary.get(b) rather than thedictionary.get(a) you'd get an error rather than None).

I've often seen learners have trouble with this sort of thing (you read a number from a file, neglect to call int(), and get mysterious lookup failures).
Please cite that evidence.

To me it sounds like circular reasoning, because in my subjective perception, dynamically typed code is a lot easier to understand to begin with. Also, tooling has become a lot better, with and without typecheckers/annotations.
Yes don't. Reminds me of this SATIRE article. But please don't : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0nnU71ggro

Edit; Hahaha it's true
Type hints throughout the code give you exactly the same understanding.
That's interesting... does it behave much differently to private windows?
why is this not available as static webpage? it's difficult to read as slides
Here's my pet conspiracy theory: cigarette companies in the US colluded to get themselves banned from marketing, thereby saving themselves tons of money. Some research suggests marketing mostly just shifts spending from one brand to another rather than from one product category to another, so the whole industry is better off not marketing but without a government enforcing that, any individual company could defect from the pact. And marketing was a way for cigarette companies to subsidize things like public transportation and was arguably their only positive contribution to society apart from taxes.

In reality, I don't think this adds up (why haven't they done the same in the EU and other jurisdictions? didn't they also have to pay massive fines? etc.).
Multiplicative Persistence 11?
I am reading a different Bloomberg article right now on this subject https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-22/apple-...

I am 100% sure (infinitely sure!) that I will sign up for Apple’s service to try it out and I am ‘almost sure’ that Apple will face a lot of regulatory and legal challenges.

By personal preference I would like to see more open platforms and, off topic for this conversation, a more distributed web.

I don’t think we will get there though. Years ago author William Gibson probably ‘got it right’ in predicting what the future will be like: corporations become all-powerful, governments become a joke if they exist at all, and talented people align themself with a corporation as we self identify now as the citizen of a country.
The ability to manipulate objects is great to foster understanding of our world and development of spacial visualization. Apparently there are some people who don't understand how to properly put an air filter cover back on in their car because they don't understand it just needed to be rotated 90 degrees, which is honestly incredibly sad.
The benefits come from brain development and understanding how things work together which, if you want to think about it in monetary terms, helps in any industry. Everything is an interacting system.
2$ for a bag is expensive (in Zurich)?
Python is ideally suited for data science and machine learning because 80% of the work tends to be data exploration, transformations and feature engineering and 19% of the work is iterative development of models. In such workflows the lack of type checking & simple REPL is a huge feature. Most of the underlying code for ML is anyway written in Fortran or C and Python becomes a very convenient front end glue

For the 1% work that is actually engineering the model's deployment in production, it's not uncommon to use faster languages with the exported model.

If what you're doing is writing a vanilla CRUD server that gets thousands or hundreds of thousands of hits a second, Python is probably a bad choice.
> seems to me that the the act of compiling knowledge into probabilistic models is still more art than science

Because there’s no modularity: writing probability models is still like using unstructured assembly.
Architectural design of smart ventilation and drainage systems in termite nests
Side note idea:

Can you also use transcript (YouTube probably has transcript on most of his video) so you can search through the podcast to find a part like a question e.g: (Joe ask Penrose about what is consciousness) and basically give the timestamp.
Hello
I use clojure and clojurescript at work
I have no fear about clojure be small because clojure is hosted. There is no problem to use any lib on npm or maven.
Clojure don't need to be huge.
>Anyone else agree with this view ? Programming languages should be choosen based on technical merits, rather than who is behind it.

Absolutely not. Technical merits are only part of the considerations.

Big companies, for example, where the stakes are higher, never chose languages on their technical merits alone. The also look at the owner/stewardship of the language, and in many case, roll their own languages, to avoid being at their mercy.
This reads like watered down incel talking points, complete with referring to women as "females."
I like that all of these people are interested in minority languages. I don't think many people in the real world speak Hawaiian and Catalan and Turkmen and still have time to work as Community Business Manager.
What reason MITM solutions have to support more client protocols that terminate on a local network?
Or just a pdf.
> Saying we should wait until we get data from North Korea to judge whether or not it's a global problem isn't restraint. It's being intentionally obtuse.

That's probably why no-one is saying that. Try to resist the temptation to set up exaggerated caricatures of your opponents' arguments as straw men: this does not lead to anything positive.
Why Consensus Is Difficult
Nah. The reason it's 1percent is the median home price is over .5million. not the same in Texas.
Some people enjoy might enjoy it. Even in suburban areas cycling can be faster than waiting for the bus.
Wrestling with borrow checker is enough punishment already. /s
It was the default behavior on my install, documented recommendation is half the system memory and the logs don’t provide useful info when the heap allocation fails.

Perhaps the upstream default is 1 GB but this was not the default, and there is much confusion on setting these correctly

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40333263

Not everyone has time to dig into it; of course if you did that’s good for you
And Robyn Miller also scored the beautifully atmospheric music for Riven. Austin Wintory's work on the three parts of the Banner Saga is quite an achievement.
That is just sad. Even if you weren’t dyslexic everyone messes up by misspelling a word and spending much more time than they should debugging. As a manager I would spend my time trying to figure out how we can help you reduce the likelihood of this happening again and not make fun of you for a mistake that everyone makes.

As an example, my first hire was an immigrant from Africa. He can speak English, but his spelling is not ideal - and because English is not his first language his naming structure for things like variable and classes needs improvement. To help with this I implemented specific standards for how naming should work and gave him a ton of concrete examples of how I would name something in a number of scenarios. Now that he’s been working for me for a while, I only actually have to give feedback on naming conventions maybe once a week.

Edit: spelling.
I'd say, all things being equal, yes, choose languages on tech merit or suitability to task. But look at what's happening with Java and Oracle's handling of it. I think the Google vs Oracle lawsuit is still going through appeal. Ask Google if they wish in hindsight they'd built Android on something else.
This article presents no evidence that human contact is a luxury good, and by conflating the fact that some wealthy folks take “analog vacations” with an overall trend to try and improve quality of care in medicine / productivity / education via screens, the author muddies the issue and does people a disservice. In general right now, I’d say the trend is much worse in-person care and not screen-based care at lower prices. That said, those interactions are only a small piece of “human interaction.”

Stay close to family. Say hi to your neighbors. Play with blocks. Go outside. It’s dirt cheap. Your phone can even ride along with you in your pocket!

Education trending toward screens is troubling but at the same time it allows for totally custom learning paths for kids that scale better than a teacher. Blend it with playtime and interaction with other kids and that’s not always bad! Most of my education was learning in books, after all. Headline: “books are taking over human contact for the non-wealthy!!!”

I would also suggest that for most people the issue is not “cost” but “difficulty.” Screens are easy. You control them, and they’re not as difficult as people. Interacting with others carries risk. Take the risk!
If you're already going around forcefully sterilising people then I don't think you're going to be convinced to skip someone because they don't self-define as disabled.
Yeah I think they could have benefited from reading for example this: https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE#text
>China is built on thievery and finally after decades of escalating theft US is looking like we’re being more aggressive, maybe.

Yeah, more proving my point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2013-02-01/piracy...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/

Not to mention that the same exact argument was once leveled at the "subpar" "copycat" "ripoffs" of Taiwan and Japan (regarding cars, electronics, etc) back in the 60s and 70s. Funny how that turned out...
“Why spend your time being nice to an old person uncompensated“

Sometimes I wish that Black mirror episode where you got reputation points for doing good deeds became real.
It’s not great, but I’ve certainly received less nonsensical CVs from actual humans in my time.
> assert(isinstance(arg, type))

The most irritating thing I've found is trying to write a function that accepts either a path or the raw contents of a file.

Python 3 makes this easy, you can check against string. Python 2 of course treats everything as a byte string.

In the end I just check the length of the input if the interpret identifies as python 2. If it's a short byte string, I assume it's a file name. Otherwise the minimum expected file size is almost certainly larger than the maximum path length.
This talk called "Emacs for writers" is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU
People who disagree with you aren't always trolls or bots.

There are people out there with differing views. Red states have internet too.

And not like it justifies the Russians, but MediaMatters bots Reddit for the DNC.

I don't think HackerNews is a big enough target for anyone tbh.
I agree. I hope this ML meme becomes more popular if only for their entertainment factor.
Ah, that finally makes sense. Thanks for that.
East siders (police and residents) are wicked famous for not putting up with what they call quality life abuses. They are the exact opposite of Seattle in this regard.
Pennycook et al. (2015) On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/journal/15/15923a/jdm15923a...
I grew up in the burbs and found it absolutely "dreadful" as far as being able to do things outside without a car. Now that I live in a city, I often think about how much happier and freer I would've felt as a child growing up in one. (I had similar feelings when I actually was a kid and watched cartoons like "Hey Arnold!" set in cities. I was so jealous of those kids.)

As a 12 year old in a city you can walk to a park or get on the metro/bus and visit some friends or go see a movie etc. In the burbs if your parents aren't home or are otherwise unwilling to drive you somewhere you're basically stuck at home counting the days until you turn 16.
"Programming languages should be choosen based on technical merits, rather than who is behind it."

Considering the motivations of the language owner is a valid concern. Many people, for example, jumped on to HHVM as a "faster PHP". Then it started branching away from PHP[1]. Predictable, if you considered Facebook's reasons for having it.

[1] https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-o...
To summarize: voters aren't dumb, they do do economics, and the economics clearly spell out that building luxury housing isn't in the majority interest, but building anything else isn't in the developers interest. Is this really rocket science?
China Mobile: Shenzhen Real Population – 25Ms
Curious how far the project roadmaps from a 1.x.x release.
I would read the article and the source it links to again. If you do, it answers most of your questions.

Yes, the performance of the German economy was considerable. But the point with Schacht for all economic historians is that the German economy was operating under immense constraints. And what impresses is the way Schacht created endless devices to keep production growing despite these challenges.

And yes, they did measure things the same way. The way of the world today is to look at historical statistics and assume that no-one had a clue about economic policy before the 1980s (Germany was actually one of the most earliest adopters of stats in policymaking). But if you actually look at the primary sources, it is apparent that there was actually a great deal of knowledge. And, in some ways, that understanding was far more deep than today (as it was often based on practice and experience). As the article says, Schacht is an example of this.

More broadly: the job of the economic historian is not to work out whether things were "good or bad ideas". Historians realised many decades ago that the answer to these questions is subjective. You have to look at these decisions within the conditions that existed at the time.
Well yes, that's what I was talking about with making your own luck.

My point was that any discussion of IP revolves around work put in, and skill demonstrated.
But a lot of the folklore is based on chance discovery.
You can use the `--user-data-dir` arg to specify a profile location when opening chrome. So, on a mac, something like:

open -Fna /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app \
--args --user-data-dir=/my_temp_profile_dir/my_tmp_profile

If you copy an existing profile to `my_tmp_profile` chrome will use that, otherwise it behaves like a new setup.
"Please use modern navigator" : I don't need to be insulted when visiting a website.
So far I've seen Person, Waifu, SO Questions, Startup and now Resume.

Pretty interesting how "This X Does Not Exist" is starting to become almost a trend, to display AI generated stuff.
Because your brain is really good at generating potential matches. That's where the magic happens, not in the Markov chain :-)
This is common (enough) vernacular.
> What will earn him more money in later life, though - stacking bricks, or using a computer?

What does using a computer here mean? Playing video games? Staring at YT videos? Or coding?
You’re probably trying to be flippant but you’ve actually made an interesting point.

Americans and Canadians, for example, usually find uncanny-valley differences between their nations that get washed out if you visit somewhere radically different instead. The small-magnitude “it could’ve been something else” realizations are just as important.
Well in China, we call it the social credit system
Thank you for arxiv-vanity! An amazingly clever and amazingly useful tool!
Nature’s Spoils (2010)
I think this incidentally also explains why we have as yet no human like AI: no computer has grown up as a toddler has, learning the same skills etc etc.

There’s a whole field of embodied cognition and linguistics that predicts this
C programmers should keep their skill at C and wait for a suitable job. While waiting, you can do the "cash-crop" programming.
What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Stayed in School?
I'm not sure this one was done with AI. It reads a lot like typical random text spinning.

This {company|corporation} {specializes|is a leader} in ...

Actually, maybe I'm wrong. A well done implementation of the above might have more convincing output.
Dimensions.Guide: A Database of Dimensioned Drawings
"The rich do not live like this. The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming."

In my experience, the rich are misguided. They do indeed believe the above. Every rich person I know is raising their child to be anti-tech, and they cite a lot of the same things as this article (unsurprisingly written in the NYT). This is a mistake though. They are venting their own frustration with the lack of power the internet and computers have brought to their world on their children. Technology has removed gatekeepers, destroyed old media, turned politics on its head, devalued classically valuable roles... By turning their children against tech the rich are drinking their own kool-aid if you will.

Make no mistake. The future will be designed, commanded and operated from and through screens. Technology is power and the best thing you can do for your child is have them embrace tech head on.