skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there was once a yogi or guru-type that criticized the denuclearization effort saying why get rid of nukes if we still have the mindset that can justify using them?

I can't help but think the same is true of AI or any technology that could be used for good or bad.

We spend a lot of time trying to control the tools, but less time trying to improve culture and ethics of the operator.
How do you train validate and market test an ml model without access to production data? Please teach us all, this is literally a billion dollar industry question.
They are specifically about Ireland, but they apply in a generic way to ALL tax systems.
Make hammers inaccessible to the disarmed? A hammer is a tool for a function. It's not the materialization of privilege for the armed.
In year 40 a coffee is no longer $5.
Combining the two is the new hotness (justifiably so). Are you familiar with Yoshua Bengio's factored representation ideas?

EDIT> checked your profile. Nevermind, lol.
Many of my blog posts started out as HN comments. I find it stimulates me to write things in a way that staring at an empty Emacs buffer doesn't.
Crony Capitalism is failing America. Capitalism is succeeding the Globe.

It is responsible for the most prosperity, the lifting up of poverty, and improvement in living conditions and life expectancy in the history of literal history.

I hate how capitalism has become a political boogeyman now. Fortunately, it has actually served to unite some of the left-wing and right-wing thinkers and forge some unlikely alliances.

Probably completely off-topic, but having listened to many of his interviews, it's also one of the main reasons why Howard Schultz chose to run as an independent instead of a democrat.
Additionally, in many European countries, union agreements affect the whole company, regardless from whom is actually an union member.

Which means IT also benefits from the work hours agreements that affect everyone, just to give a basic example.
here's a good link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/05/dog-owner...
Simply Install: PostgreSQL
Does anyone else see adjacent "f" and "i" as mushued together on their main website: https://aeplay.org/citybound
There's a lot more overlap than I'd have predicted 30 years ago.

There are very good open source databases, content management systems, web servers, full text corpus search systems, operating systems, and 100s of other "kind of boring" things that a 20 year old version of me would assume people would need to be paid to create. (Some of those are a crossover where a substantial portion of the development was originally paid, of course, but many others are not.)
Media queries can leak info to the server easily without JavaScript: https://matt.traudt.xyz/p/YF4ciVY6.html
I don't drink fancy takeaway coffee, so I'd agree with you there.

I do have a daily entertainment budget which is more than $5, though, so I've just shuffled that into other things.
Obligatory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfCUsBpR-I
Administration Spending Enormous Sums to Strip Citizenship from Fla Truck Driver
Possible yes. Many things are possible.
It worked at least partially so far. I didn't hear about this until the rejection failed.
Does kombucha change my microbiome?
But you still need to write your app deployment scripts, integrate logs and monitoring.
An aging population means cheap skilled remote labor. Imagine all the older programmers who will use retirement as an opportunity to just work on projects they enjoy exclusively.
Queuing and retry works most of the time. Only time I truly get "database is locked" is when I open the shell while other processes are accessing the DB
Exactly. And a huge shift in freedom and privacy moves back to the public. And, while it may or may not be significant (I'm not really sure), as an added bonus those with illicit or under the table income are suddenly paying taxes.
More like teenagers now.
They already have a majority of people who are both willing and able to spend money. Why would they want to spend resources on people buying $50-$200 on Android phones?
People would not want to build banking software for a specific company; however, if banks were to describe their problems in a sufficiently well defined way, people would cheerfully build various 'bank frameworks' for free. Some college student would happily have it on their resume.

This of course would have to have banks be more open about how they operate, so it probably won't happen.

This is to say, it's not really the type of software that is the issue, but rather lack of openness about the problem domain.
> The latte scare is a great way to make sure people who are apprehensive about investing never even consider it.

It's like fad dieting, but for your wallet.
Don't forget about the 'ATTACH DATABASE' option as well. It is great for linking up individual SQLite databases when you need to do a broad-based query across multiple
sources.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_attach.html

If you use a GUI front-end like SQLiteStudio (https://sqlitestudio.pl/), attaching databases is ridiculously easy to do. Just add the database name from the left column in front of the table or table.column label for the database you want to reference. Most SQLite GUI's will do the attach command for you internally.

I add the database name to my queries instinctively now in SQLiteStudio, so that no matter which DB is currently in focus/opened the query runs on the one I intended it to run on.
https://youtu.be/2S0e-i117vY
Teen Vogue video
I'm Joining CloudFlare
Pretty cool. In the Denver Art Scene I seemed to have been so entrenched in one of my lifetimes ago, there was an artist who made puzzle boxes. One day, he got an email from none other than Darren Aronofsky, asking him to make a "puzzle desk". After verifying that, yeah: it's him, he set to task to make this desk.

And it's just what you may be imagining - (except maybe you didn't expect it ALSO to be organ): there's a specific order in which you need to open and close certain drawers and such, to open a secret compartment. It took him years.

This is the artist:

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

Details of the desk:

http://www.kagenschaefer.com/pipeorgandesk.html

In action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tenq55VPA
I bet there already is a way to detect that.
I never said it was fair, just that that was a benefit of it.

Also, an alternative is a higher tax rate but use a UBI so poor people always have an effective negative tax rate. Constant offset, multiplicative tax rate. Ensures a floor of income such that people can always survive and that there are always consumers.
I don't think time and mental energy effort is comparable here. To decide not to drink expensive coffee for a year is a 5 min effort tops.
Wasn't there already "SVG Tiny" for this purpose? I recall it being used on mobile a long time ago, like circa 2005.
ssh user@server
sqlite file://$PWD/db.sqlite?mode=ro
This might be a lot to ask of a random internet comment, but is there anything common you tend to see in apps that make them look/feel overtuned to v8?

I'll freely admit that i'm guilty of the "develop for chrome, test in firefox" kind of workflow, and I really want to improve on that. I feel like I have built up a kind of "intuition" about what works well and what doesn't over the years in chrome, and i'd like to start building that up for other browsers.
Say you make the US average $56k, you're spending 3.2% of your income on coffee.

3.2% on bean water.

But who with a latte addiction just buys the latte? Kick in one of AOCs $7 croissants a day (extreme for the sake of example) and you're up to $12/day => $4380 a year, or 7.8% of your annual income on one meal a day.

So maybe consider buying a latte machine instead.
I like to think of capitalism we have today like a football game where you can deflate the ball, punch the opponent, have 20 men on the field, etc. with a ref that turns a blind eye.

It's odd that we as a society get so riled up over the smallest allegation of cheating in a sports game or get upset when a ref does not see the smallest thing that should be flagged, thus potentially changing the outcome of the game, but we live in a society where cheating, gaming, deflating, etc. happens all day every day and we don't bat an eye.
Yeah you have to measure the utility (maybe the wrong word) of happiness you get.

If every day $5 means you start your day with something you really enjoy, maybe even brightens your whole day or someone else's day ....... do it.

If you want to save $5, find a place to do it where you might find a better outcome.

Even "saving" that $5... someone might spend it elsewhere anyhow and that's the real issue.
Agreed. And I'd even remove the "capitalism" from "crony capitalism". It's simply cronyism.
I use Reminiscence [0], self-hosted bookmark and archive manager. I chose this software because it's open source, easy to install, and self-hosted. It works like other bookmarking software, but it has automatic tagging and summarization which is plus.

When I bookmark a link from the internet, I just submit the link. Reminiscence will crawl the link later (asynchronous communication). You can also use browser to bookmark. Currently, browser extension is available for Firefox (experimental not official).

This software has been discussed on HN [1] a few months ago.

[0]: https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942032
that's the wrong question. People choose different tools for all kinds of reasons. And many of these reasons are totally valid. A tool, Looker or otherwise, is no panacea.
Because nobody is entitled to a job. Nobody should be forced to give you money. If they don't need your services, why should they?

I guess game development is more like wanting to be an artist.

What if I want to make a living making paintings? Should people/society be forced to buy my paintings? I don't think so. It's my job to convince people to buy my paintings, and if I fail, too bad. Back to selling fries.
Yup (OSX, Safari)
I always find these articles kind of amusing.

In the UK we have Pret. 99p ($1.30) for a coffee. I'd get it in the middle of a day if I were far from home.

Buying fancy coffee in the morning for breakfast strikes me as an extremely odd use of money. You've just left your house?
See also Propublica on what regions are subjected to the most audits. Hint is in the URL.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/eitc-audit
Amy pointers to documentation that's approachable by beginners?
It should also be noted that the elimination of corporate taxation would further reduce the overall regressivity.
tldr; inflation-adjusted, a $5 daily latte might put about $80-$100k dent in your retirement coffer. An opinion is presented that this is a good tradeoff if you like latte.
$5 latte + $6 + 1 hour ($50 in opportunity cost?) for a round trip. It adds up if you do the latte thing every day.

How many people in this country spend $3k/year in lattes but don't invest $3k/year for their retirement. Wasn't there an app that did just that - rounded up your spending to put the remainder in an investment account?
Counterpoint:

The debate is framed as "$5 a day is a waste--put it into your piggy bank every day and drink office sludge instead".

I instead say that yes, the office coffee still tastes like fertilizer, but I still think $5 a day for a latte is waste because I can make some excellent coffee at my desk for about a dollar a day using an inexpensive French Press, a hand-grinder (or grinding the beans that morning at home), and some whole beans from your favorite hipster coffee shop. And the 5 minutes it takes start-to-finish (1 minute for prep, 4 minutes for steeping) is probably less time than it will take to slip by the coffee shop, stand in line, and get your order.

But that's just me. If they're one of those people who uses the coffee/espresso/latte as a caffeine-delivery mechanism and rely on being a frozen whipped-cream confection with chocolate and a little coffee in it to make it palatable, then my self-brew method won't help them.
Oomd 0.1.0 released (A userspace out-of-memory killer)
Let's be really clear here. It doesn't just make ML solutions a challenge. It makes them impossible.

Even with all the compute power and automation of google, you can't blindly create an ML model and say yes it works without a data scientist actually looking at the guts with row-wise access to the training/validation data.

You can't do analytics without giving engineers access to prod data. Not at even at Google.
Can you get out of your republicans are evil bubble and look at what they really stand for?
"The report said worry about an economic slowdown was the main driver of companies' layoff intentions."

I sometimes wonder if these sorts of economic projections end up being self-fulfilling prophecies. If everyone tightens up spending because they expect a recession, that essentially guarantees there will be one.
Pretty good piece that brings to my mind software craftsmanship principles.
They are storing your login and password inside a private database. What else should I know ?
> Even with a standard COLLATE NOCASE b-tree index, searching out a word in the middle of a tuple takes a ridiculously long time (although finding that word at the beginning of the tuple is amazingly quick).

> A solution like Elastisearch, while indeed heavier, is designed to deal with that kind of issue so, in my humble opinion, makes sense when you actually need a broad search capability.

Hmm... at a high level, how do Elasisearch a) consist huge amounts of data to disk and b) making searching 80gb and way way up of logs fast?
* being hired ruins everything

as with every other craft, doing it on your terms is quite different and between kickstarters and the others there's plenty opportunities for the enterprising developers.
These are in real dollars, not nominal dollars. Inflation has already been accounted for, for both investment returns and savings.

I make no claim as to whether the price of coffee will grow faster than the consumer price index, or slower, so I assume it matches it.
Those that do not conflict with the browser still works. e.g. 'Ctrl + `' to open terminal, 'Ctrl + p' quick open. I'm using Firefox and 'Ctrl + Shift + p' will open a new private browsing page instead of the command palette.
I'm curious what your alternative to land ownership would be
> These chips are targeted for the heavy virtualization platforms (see: "The Cloud").

They're very nice for big fast storage: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/poweredge-r7415

> Front Drive Bays: Up to 24 x 2.5” […] NVMe

That's 96 PCIe lanes right there., and drives are bandwidth-limited by 3x4.

Especially if you want to plug that into a fast network, you need 3x16 per 100Gb port, or half a 4x16.
> the only practical solution is for people to stop taking on terrible jobs because of some sense of 'passion', and to go where their skills are appreciated/where they're treated better/fairly compensated.

I worked a couple years in game industry (shipping an auto racing game for Playstation and contributing to a few other titles; I did sleep under my desk a few nights during crunch time so we'd have a demo ready for E3).

My overall experience was amazing. I have a passion for motorsports and loved gaming as a kid. Part of the overall enjoyment (read: value proposition) I derived from that position was that it was in motorsports and gaming. I loved going into a computer store and seeing "my" game on the shelf. I look forward to showing my kids the game [that will look like crap now by comparison]. (I also, without any hard feelings, left the industry because it was clear that it wasn't going to get me where I wanted to be financially.)

I don't think that people should be prevented (or even shamed) for taking on work that they are passionate about. I'm glad I did it; I had some great experiences [spending Speedweek in the hot pits as a business trip is great], worked with some amazingly talented and passionate people, and took away some great memories before moving on(/selling out? :) ).
Same here. Chromium 73.0.3683.86 on Arch Linux.
Typescript gives real benefits with type checking vs CoffeeScript which just looks sort of like Ruby. It’s hard for me to imagine why someone would prefer endless “Cannot read property foo of undefined” runtime errors in normal Javascript over Typescript’s in-line linting of those errors.
Can you buy anything with Russian Roubles outside Russia and maybe former USSR member states? If you can't, the state propaganda is just that: mostly BS.

I'm currently reading books by Russian authors (Vladimir Sorokin, Andrei Kurkov) and there's constant talk about dollars and also roubles when the characters talk about money. It's like both are used to pay for stuff, dollars for black market goods, hitchhike rides, ransom etc. and roubles for regular stuff like alcohol, a taxi ride, a dinner at the Prague restaurant.
Yes. I was trying to imagine some of the behaviors that would create as producers try to move themselves down-luxury.
>So maybe consider buying a latte machine instead.

I changed careers and my workplace went from big corporate office to small company small office.

I was surprised by how much I spend on coffee now that it isn't free at the office. Bought myself a keurig... not happy about the kcup waste, but way cheaper.
You're ignoring the fact that "Facebook dot com" isn't just used by those with a Facebook account; it is also used by Facebook-the-company and its customers (advertisers, propagandists, etc.) against those with a Facebook account (in order to extract revenue). This leads to things like "optimising for engagement", and outrage turns out to be highly engaging and easy to produce.
I love what this is trying to achieve; I'm a Cities Skylines fan. But why did he choose to do it in webgl in the browser of all things? At first I thought he chose Rust for performance reasons, but then it looks like he completely negated that by choosing to run it in a browser.
Given most Asian governments' preference for strict and harsh governance this is very concerning.
Might be starting to happen more than you think.

AMQP (messaging) came out of JPMC and other financial institutions

Financial institutions are also involved in blockchain projects

Another random example: https://developer.capitalone.com/open-source/
TeaVM also outputs WebAssembly, which can be faster than vanilla JS. I strongly disagree with you about that part. The HTML vs WebGL(/canvas) bit is more tricky. I do think there are valid uses of WebGL, but this project takes it too far. Their UI elements don't work great everywhere.
I think the author misses a point here. The issue isn’t that 5$ cup of coffee alone but rather a mindset of all these little purchases which can add up to say $50 a day which is both real money and don’t actually bring joy/value to your life. If the coffee actually makes you happy go for it. But if it’s just inertia/laziness then it is money flushed down a drain which yes adds up over the long term.
exactly, I feel the same way. OOP is often criticised from functional programming, but also from data-driven programming, for example. You never hear functional programming advocates criticise data-driven programming. The use cases are so different that it wouldn't make sense.

To use OOP properly is probably as complicated as doing functional programming or data-driven programming properly. The "problem" is that the learning curve is much less steep and the use-cases more extense, so obviously there's a lot more people misusing it.
I saw Alvy Ray Smith give a talk in which he mentioned how when he was writing code, he had to just keep flipping the signs and coordinates around in the equations until the math worked out right.

That made me feel a lot better about having to do the same thing all the time too! Nothing ever works right (or runs fast) the first time, and you have to just keep fiddling with it until it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith
> 1. OOP is a higher-level paradigm than FP, so people comparing them directly usually are missing the point to begin with. [emphasis added]

How so?
> people working at these low-wage jobs don't have opportunities to do anything that would be more valued by society.

And that same society made Travis Kalanick the 115th richest person in the world. There are two sides to this equation, and shrugging your shoulders and saying "supply and demand" is taking a side.
The UK is in the middle of a constitutional and social crisis that goes by the name of Brexit.
Lead in the air we breath. Coincides pretty much with muscle cars. Once they removed lead from gasoline, muscle cars withered for a few decades.

Indoor smoking.

Rampant discrimination, against ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ.

The "good ole days" generally aren't as good as we remember them.
>Plus people rarely back a candidate for single issues.

Tell that to all the black gun owners who vote R because they don't want wake up one day and find out they're felons or all the fiscal conservatives who vote D because they believe healthcare and the climate are bigger short term issues.

I generally agree with you that people back whoever pushes policy they like most but people also have deal-breakers that will cause them to back the other guy even if they don't like his platform.
And at what point did the evil lying media say those things? They said that "Jussie Smollett claims he was attacked by a group of racists late at night. He was relased from the hospital with minor injuries. Police are investigating it as a hate crime". Those are facts.

Here are some examples, quote the statements that were verifiably false at the time.

Police report offers chilling details on Jussie Smollett Attack - https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/newly-revealed-report-o...

Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime - https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/entertainment/jussie-smollett...

Jussie Smollett releases first statement about attack - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/arts/jussie-smollett-atta...

Police say Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689758253/police-say-empire-a...

Jussie Smollett hospitalized after attack, police are investigating as a hate crime - https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/empire-actor-jussie-sm...
One of the challenges we have with our current tax code is the fact that it's based on income (salary, capital gains, etc). One idea is to use a value-added tax (VAT) that allows all consumption to be taxed. This is a big part of Andrew Yang's campaign to fund UBI.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/

He also wants to increase the IRS's funding which would help go after those super rich people and their lawyers.
Except you're reversing the order of the chicken and egg.

Real-world JS was already in production when V8 was released, and it had orders of magnitude better performance at the time.
Sure, they are free to do that. I mostly take issue with the framing by the NYT, talking of "exploitation" and unionization as the only choice/way to fight back. Especially the "exploitation" bit - game developers are not slaves, by a long stretch. If work conditions are bad, it is because many people fancy their job over the alternatives.

You could also "fight" by creating your own game studio with better work conditions, for example.

In my personal view, unionization is just blackmailing. That's my personal opinion, though (guess that doesn't make me better than the NYT, but at least I state it as my opinion, not as absolute truth).

I am not sympathetic to unionization, because I think it probably harms the game developers who are currently unemployed, and it is not really fair play imo (it is banking on arbitrary laws that are not rooted in economic reality).