skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I understand (though I suspect the distinction between psychological & textual/ideological exegesis might be more ambiguous than you suggest). Nonetheless, it's just weaving stories and comparing interpretations, and there's no objective way to do this (or, put more psychologically, there's no route to generating agreement on the best story). Cf science, which attempts (step by step) to find methodological/algorithmic ways to expunge subjectivities (ask nature, rather than ask yourself).

My (undercooked) suggestion is that an Abrams-like analysis may do a better job of showing what is lacking in the science tributary of the Enlightenment. It's not a methodological issue (rooting out ideology), it's a representational one (symbol systems yanked out of their living backdrop miss too much of the real world).
see "Comparison With Other Scripting Languages"
My experience contradicts the article's claims. I don't remember ever turning this on, and when I first learned about Location History (years ago), it was already populated with a significant amount of my location history data. Maybe I did technically agree to it in some piece of fine print or other text I didn't notice, but I contest the idea that legitimate, unambiguous user consent was obtained in all cases.
You mean 2015.

Specifically December 25th 2015.
You seem like you're more aware of the outcomes of the purchase so I will acquiesce to you, but $1 billion for Tumblr doesn't strike me as particularly egregious. Maybe that's because culturally Tumblr punches above its weight? I don't know.
It would be quite a feat to actually read Nietszche and come to that conclusion. I haven't read enough Freud or Marx to be so confident of their cases.
Firefox 67 beta exposes some of these settings (like blocking cryptominers and fingerprinters) in the UI:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...
Being confined to a single building for 7 years is imprisonment. You don't need police or judicial systems to be imprisoned.
Coming from a procedural dynamically typed language like PHP and then learning rust, clojure, and node JS. All have huge benefits.

Rust ownership and types system teach you about the freedom it affords you when reasoning about values in a system.

Clojure teaches you about separating state from logic and the benefit of keeping it at the edges of a system.

Nodejs teaches you about async and programming which is imo, as different as functional is to OO. The way you need to reason about things is very different. The non blocking needs teach you about what types of things are blocking and which are not.

I took all these lessons back to PHP and my systems are massively improved as a result.

Most of the PHP hate comes from people dealing with PHP code written by people who simply don't know how to program.

That is not a defense of PHP, it has many faults, but it's a language like any other. I have problems, big ones, with every language and ecosystem I've ever been exposed to. That doesn't detract from their benefits or the concepts they can teach you.

Also, it takes like 20-30 hours to get mediocre with a new standard library and syntax. You won't "learn the language" but you'll get a good feel for it.

Arguing time cost as a reason to avoid learning new languages is pretty weak when you're spending a career programming.
You must have had something misconfigured. Loading less stuff won't slow down browsing.
> McCarthyism

You say that like there isn't overwhelming evidence of Russian influence operations in western democracies and widespread cyber warfare going on as we speak.

It's one thing to make the counter argument that the US conducts influence ops and engages in cyber warfare too and you don't care one way or another about either nation, but it's not "McCarthyism" to call out aggression when Russia is clearly acting aggressive in multiple theaters.

I can't speak for all of the people involved in WikiLeaks but Assange clearly has a bias against the west, particularly the Democrat party and western intelligence agencies. He also seems happy doing intel business with Russia and auctioning off classified data to the highest bidder in addition to the leaks.
Configuration is nice, but good defaults are better, and this looks like an invitation to make super complex configurations.
Perception assumes a perceiver.
You are missing the argument. It is the same one that RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF194.html gave when commissioned by congress to determine whether their was a “STEM shortage.” If there was a STEM shortage, wages would rise. Since rising wages aren’t observed, the situation is that the employers complaining of a shortage don’t want to pay the market rate. Instead they want extra-market forces (political programs to push workers into STEM training) to lower the market rate for them.
I think the main developer took a break for a bit and he's back with a new project (in beta) called GrapheneOS.

I don't have a supported device so I can't comment.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/

https://seamlessupdate.app/ (website)
That doesn't follow.

The human mind could be meta-rational so it can generate new consistent axioms that cannot be derived from the existing known axioms. The history of mathematical progress seems to be pretty good evidence our minds can do this.
Are you suggesting that engineering students have no choice about which areas to study, just because they have labels? Many study more than one, and take multiple degrees. I knew one who got seven bachelor's degrees in various engineering and science fields.
Open Source Social Dating Builder
Or maybe they'll drive up the rent and piss off every single senate staffer, judicial clerk, and lower level regulatory agency worker in the district.

DC has a relatively low cost of living compared to NYC or SF, due to the high number of GS payscale[1] workers.

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
I also forgot to mention in my original comment that Jumia DOES actually have African founders.

The company was originally founded as Kasuwa by Tunde Kehinde(Nigeria) and Raphael Afaedor(Ghana) but for legal reasons had to change its name to Jumia. It is shortly after that that they received funding from Rocket Internet who brought on financing and two other German co-founders for the new entity that was Jumia.

The two African founders have since left the company, though.
I'm more into self-driving, which I used to work on, than Tesla. I'm also critical of Uber, Cruise, and some of the minor players. Basically, all the guys who think you just tie machine learning to some cameras and train.

Self-driving is fundamentally unsafe unless you do a height profile of the road ahead. That's step one. Right now, LIDAR-based systems can do that reliably, while camera-based systems cannot.

If you have to recognize obstacles to avoid them, sometimes you'll miss one. Once you know where you physically can drive, you get to work on where you should drive. And what the other road users are doing. The proper role of machine learning here is to help classify other road users and predict their behavior.

"Big rise or drop in road ahead" plus "classifier has no idea what this is" has to mean "Stop".
Data Model Resource book by Len Silverstone. Would advise to read and understand all three volumes though.
The idea that you should define a code of conduct first just sounds awful. The best small gatherings are organic and informal. This just (I'll use a word from somebody else in the thread) politicizes the whole thing. In other words, if I am looking to join a group of 3-4 people and they have a code of conduct already defined - I am just not going to come, simple as that.

In general the author seems to be into formalizing things. Organizing events is a wonderful skill, but if you look like you are overthinking you'd be a excluding a broad swath of people to whom formality is the opposite of friendly warm relationships they are looking for.

For example: Every Wednesday I attend a board game night at somebody's house. I know everybody there, but we are not necessarily all friends. Both sexes and a range of ages are represented. If one day the hosts came up with a formal set of rules I think Wednesday game night would be over.
Could you please elaborate on how it changed your life? I am interested in learning Elixir and wondering if you can give some words of encouragement, assuming it changed your life positively :)
You can observe the same phenomenon with "data science" nowadays. Visit any online DS community and the two most common questions are:

1. "How do I become a data scientist?" (AKA, what the hell do they do?)

2. "Why can't I find a job?" (Because no one is qualified for a role with no defined qualifications.)
But you havent explained the crime yet.
Well, left-pad[0] has over 1000 stars and 17 contributors.

0. https://github.com/stevemao/left-pad
I'm not suggesting anything, only correcting a misunderstanding.
> It seems to work pretty well on HN or Reddit

Perhaps it is because of the downvotes?

>Facebook didn't have likes in the beginning and it didn't prevent them from growing.

Yes I agree, they have been growing steadily after introducing 'Like', guess we'll never know how much impact 'Like' would have made if Facebook didn't introduce them and if other social networks social networks had them.
Deal with It
This is great. I've been looking for something like this and have been considering nix, Starlark and Dhall. This seems to hit a sweet spot between power and familiarity.
Show HN: Spritz clone in 33 lines of TypeScript. Long words are displayed longer
https://typescript-spritz.stackblitz.io

License is Public Domain/CC0 and the code is here: https://stackblitz.com/edit/typescript-spritz

PS: This is a really quick hack because my Spritzlet license ran out and I hated that Spritz doesn't show long words longer than short words for a long time.

Spritz Homepage for reference: https://www.spritz.com/
Jsonnet is much easier to make secure than JS. Untrusted JS needs to be run in a sandbox, can be insecure and contain side effects (e.g. read from the file system). Jsonnet can be statically guaranteed to not just be safe, but side-effect-free.
Open source implementation: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify/blob/master/README.md
>So what ruined Facebook?

The need for growth. When facebook has roughly maxed out its user base, how does it proceed to grow? 1. Infiltrate comment sections on major websites and require commenters to log in via facebook. 2. Optimize facebook content to increase user engagement and keep their eyeballs moving across advertisements.

Facebook could have remained a simple and fun social network app for much longer, but the need for growth is destructive.
Thank you, that's a good description of how it plays out. I hadn't heard that term for it before.
Thinking military spending is wasteful and better spent elsewhere is your own opinion. Claiming that it is out of control, however, is a claim of fact and one that does not hold up to scrutiny. Military spending is very much in control. We have reduced it by a factor of 3-4x. Measuring against inflation adjusted dollars is not effective, since economic output is variable and inflation comparison is subjective. Measuring against the % of GDP answers the questions "what portion of a society's economic output is being directed towards defense?" And in the United States this figure has gone down considerably.
That hasn’t been my experience with Medicare or Medicaid and I haven’t ever spoken with a healthcare provider that agrees with that statement. I also have family that has used Medicaid and the health care is abysmal.
The name might come from a 'sonnet', but all I can see is a 'JSON parsing library written for Microsoft .NET'.
This is essentially a better-managed, centralised equivalent to the long-standing practice of using the HOSTS file to block unwanted sites at the DNS level.

Unfortunately it seems there's now a desire for browsers (and soon, maybe other applications/systems will follow) to make DNS requests inside HTTPS tunnels (DoH), but maybe that'll just encourage more the use of MITM proxies which have almost become a taboo amongst the force of "HTTPS everything" security-authoritarianism. Web security these days may be just as much focused on securing the profits of the advertising and tracking companies as it is against malware and actual user hostilities...
I'm not joking, and you seem to have missed the entire reason people think of self driving cars + ride-sharing services as being a game changer.

Today people drive others around for money. Tomorrow people let their cars drive people around for money. No one thinks Lyft and Uber are going to be buying the cars, people just won't need to be physically in them to make money from Uber and Lyft any more.
>Since rising wages aren’t observed

The crazy wages that tech companies pay aren't a data point? One of my co-op student got offered a position in the States with starting salary north of $120k - straight out of university and not even by one of the big 5 or even a Fortune 500 company. The guy was good and he'd have done well in the market, but not that good.

>Since rising wages aren’t observed, the situation is that the employers complaining of a shortage don’t want to pay the market rate.

Again, I'm having a hard time parsing this. Employers would always like to hire more people for less money. Employees would like to work less and make more money. You're correct in that technically there are never any shortages of anything ever, because you could always pay more money as supply dwindles. Even Venezuela, if you're willing to pay exorbitant prices with hard currency, I'm sure you could get anything you want. That's not what is meant by a 'shortage' though.

>Instead they want extra-market forces (political programs to push workers into STEM training)

That is such a weird way to phrase it. Every industry always tries to market itself to kids and students as a great career option. I'm not worried about the fact that companies in IT want more kids to go into IT.

I'm getting a 'rent seeking' vibe in this thread. It seems like people here want to kick out the ladder after they climbed it into their career choice so as to reduce the supply of future professionals so that they can be the beneficiary of that reduced supply.
Think bigger! I'd love to see a built from scratch planned city as the capital with proper spaces for all the national museums and departments and a strong public transit setup.

Of course the idea is far better than any attempt at it would be and I have no idea how we'd move everything that's been packed into DC to a new location. Given the amount of sea level rise we're probably going to see though there's going to have to be some pretty intense engineering to keep DC as it is.
As a rough estimate, Wikipedia says the SF area's population is roughly 8-9 million, depending on how you count. If you assume that each new unit would house 2 people, that's enough to house about 2% of the current population. (I have no idea how to estimate the effect of that on prices.)
OMG, what a bunch of conjecture and bullshit, starting with the ridiculous title.
Amazon (or any corporation) doesn't need to be located in D.C to lobby the shit out of whatever they want. That's a complete no-sense.

Being in D.C might make some difference in hiring people that have special experience/skills/clearances working with the government, and of course, Amazon being Amazon wants to sell stuff to the government. It would be stupid of them not to. I'm pretty sure that's the extent of it.

This person thinks that we are still living like in the days of the Founders where people used horses and shit. Newsflash: We live in 2019, and we have airplanes and the internet. The geographic boundaries between government and corporate America stopped mattering a long time ago.
I'm surprised. Out of all of the STEM degrees, I'd have thought CS was the most useful for guaranteeing a highly secure, well-paid job out of college.
The ONLY thing I agree with is the comments. However comments in _anything_ would have to be thought of by the developers.

See a tag or section you don't use / parse? Copy that through to the output; or only over-write the parts of the structure that the parser understands... Something to help comments and other unsupported items in the config to the output file.

"XML" expressed configs have this problem too. Way too many projects that claim to process XML stuff will also just eat the config, remember what they understand as options, and throw away everything else, comments included.
And today Perl is declining but still in serious use.

It's percentage has dropped by a significant amount, but I would bet the amount of new code has not dropped nearly as much.

Also I'm fairly certain that Go is close to a 10 year reaction to Python. (If not it's implementation.) The only difference is that it wasn't done in public. It's so much easier to ignore the years of development when you can hide it.
In some sense, the whole purpose of Alexa is to record what you're saying; I think it would be hard to argue that it's recording without consent if you set it up in your own home, or interacted with it in somebody else's home, or in public (where you wouldn't have an expectation of privacy anyhow).

It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded, and for that recording to be accessible to Amazon employees and contractors under some reasonable non-disclosure terms.
The only solution is to not use your smartphone as a telephone. Directly, anyway. Have a smartphone with no cellular account. Better yet, use a small tablet with no cellular modem. Then do VoIP via WiFi hotspots. And for anonymity, do it through nested VPN chains.

I know, that's not a phone, really. But that's life, these days.
That is quiet an inference to make. You are just making an unsobstantiated ad hominem attack.
It didn't work for me. Took a long time then returned the same sentence. Next attempt on a different sentence seemed to just freeze up with no progress bar.
Jsonnet does not have JavaScript, though. It's JavaScript-like, but not nearly as complex (e.g. no prototypes, classes, etc.).
Have you personally dealt with Medicare? Efficient is not a word I would ever use to describe it.
Remember that it costs the US $2.5 billion per mile to build subway now in a city like SF. That’s $250,000 per person in capital costs alone to build that subway, not including the money-losing operation of it. SF has the land, money, and tech, but not the political and moral discipline to do it like the Japanese, Chinese, or Koreans.
If you were right, SF housing prices wouldn't be what they are, and Amazon could have put their HQ in Wyoming and gotten a great deal on real estate. Proximity matters. It affects not just who works together but who runs into each other, who you see walking around your city, and how you look at the world.
Yeah, I should have said "this is the mnemonic I use to remember what it is"
New Wikileaks File Dump
This isn't "industrial"...

"During a 7 unit fabrication run in-house, Bill of Materials
(BoM) cost for each arm was tracked at $3328 as shown in
Table II. Plastics were printed on Markforged Onyx One and
Monoprice MP Select Mini 3D printers. About 75% of our
prototype costs were motors and driver boards."
The problem is that people see the noncompete clause, and they're told about the non-compete clause, most people do not know/understand that it isn't enforceable.

I have had noncompete clauses in my employment contracts in CA, where they are not enforceable. I know that they're not, but I work in tech where must people are aware of bullshit like this being attempted.
Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis
Not Industrial...

"During a 7 unit fabrication run in-house, Bill of Materials
(BoM) cost for each arm was tracked at $3328 as shown in
Table II. Plastics were printed on Markforged Onyx One and
Monoprice MP Select Mini 3D printers. About 75% of our
prototype costs were motors and driver boards."
Does DeepL work better than Google Translate? For Spanish and Russian?
You're assuming that all code can be trusted. Jsonnet is much easier to make secure than JS, since it can be statically guaranteed to be safe and side-effect-free (e.g. can't access the file system). This permits evaluating arbitrary untrusted data, which can be a boon to systems like CI servers, databases, or even Kubernetes (think Helm charts).
What is Machine Learning? An insightful overview
This would be a good bill. Devices like Alexa should never transmit conversations back to Amazon's servers but all processing should be done locally. They should learn to train their system without real user data.
My favorite historical thing in York was seeing the Roman foundations under the cathedral (York Minster). You can see a similar thing next to the cathedral in Leon, Spain (whose name came from "legio" for Legion, since it was originally a Roman army camp, rather than "Leon" meaning "lion" as it's called now.)
Until you get a class action law suit on the grounds, also (in light of your comment - companies that are intentionally screwing people are going to continue to screw them hoping to be ahead on balance) I'd add significant penalties for delayed payments.
Article quotes someone making this claim:
> we discovered that even if commit histories are rewritten, secrets can still be recovered…. we discovered we could recover the full contents of deleted commits from GitHub with only the commit’s SHA-1 ID.

Do repo cleaning tools such as https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ leave the original commit's SHA-1 ID intact?
What's bad about it? This is one big field startups have to disrupt yet: colonization. Africa probably can't work on its own, we just have to really figure out colonization. Yes people largely gave up on it in 1960s because it didn't make money, but they just didn't have that Google moment there, web search also didn't make money in 1990s. Many places in the world would benefit from proper adult oversight.

Politicians can't say it because they need votes. But why businessmen should lie to themselves?
The default algorithm for most people is:

1. Get educated
2. Find a job

Step 1 currently does pretty much nothing to help you transition to step 2. Sure, there are career networking events for juniors and seniors in college, but they are very superficial. It seems like colleges are producing unfinished products -- students who know a lot about theoretical concepts and not that much about applications. Maybe more colleges should try and obtain a better product-market fit by requiring vocational training for at least a semester.
I still love iOS and macOS but I cringe when ever they add gimmicky features that do nothing but bloat the software.

I haven’t looked at the new MacBooks the same ever since I was FORCED to buy a MBP with a useless TouchBar if I want the updated hardware specs.
I think that's an accurate (enough) caption for the photo, which is a picture of a thing that says "Google" -- ie it's the headquarters in Manhattan; which is not the world headquarters.

> Google, which already employs about 7,000 in the city, has its New York headquarters at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the city’s largest buildings that it bought in 2010.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-new-york/...

> Google's current New York Headquarters is in the former Port Authority of New York building. It occupies an entire long city block between 8th and 9th Avenues and between 15th and 16th Streets.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/google-announces...
I have one. I needed to install linux kernel 4.4 for it to be recognized by my computer as a usb device. Kind of annoying that more recent kernels don't know what to do with it! Is that considered a "regression"?