skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the original sources cited in this article has much more detail: https://www.hoax-slayer.net/true-water-bottle-car-fire-warni...

As a reminder, HN Guidelines state: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it's very democratic if it's only hosted on Amazon S3. Effectively, this gives Amazon control over the data.
The college-admissions scandal clearly delineates the difference between people with connections (alumni and wealthy donors) and people with none. People with influence would never get caught cheating in this manner. They would take advantage of their old-boy network or bribe the school with the promise of a large gift. The rest of us don't have this kind of influence. A few parents decided to try to game the system by doing business with a slimeball like Rick Singer.
Red and Rebol already came up, which is what I answered with, to a question on Quora a couple years ago:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-using-a-GUI-in-most-of-all-prog...

In that answer I link to the 7 GUIs project from Eugen Kiss: https://github.com/eugenkiss/7guis which I think tried to answer your question from an evaluative, example-based approach. What I like about it was that it kept the requirements simple, but moved beyond Hello World, so it's a bit more fair to systems that have a higher lower bound for minimal GUIs.

For the last part of your question, think in terms of generality vs a DSL-based approach. A GUI system that is completely general, and can't make any assumptions, is naturally going to require more information for a given output. Once you narrow down the possibilities, and include defaults and the ability to configure things for re-use (e.g. widget styles and themes), you can dramatically reduce the effort needed. Constraint based systems (e.g. Cassowary) are another way to go.
Why the US Government Just Made Its Own Font, Open Sans
>> Most of the world's knowledge is not public

Where is it found ?
Osiris Team Releases Nearly 70k Images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
I likely would, with caveats.

There could be an even cheaper scheme for climate change mitigation that we haven't thought of (like stimulating plankton growth with iron, for instance).

And it's actually possible that the total cost of allowing climate change to progress unmitigated may actually be cheaper than 50 cents per ton of CO2; creating more fertilizer for farmland and building seawalls may become cheaper 100 years from now than the future growth-adjusted value of the proposed carbon-based tax credits.
I wonder if arsenic in rice is even a true concern. Billions of people across Asia eat it as staple food and the incidence of cancer is usually lower (could be due to low reported cases though).
I intentionally left out talking about stress, but I think it's also trivially true at the big picture level, too much stress can kill you. X is true, Y is true, X and Y is also true... But stress is a much more vague and hazy notion than sleep when you get down to specifics, we have few rules of action to agree on even in principle like "get your ~8 hours of sleep (even if that involves napping) before you look at other potential boosters" and we have contradictory notions about certain types or levels of stress actually being better for you in the long run whereas chronic sleep deprivation seems to have no long term benefits.
I used to be in technology consultancy and I built relationships and kept in touch. I sent out a newsletter, some reached back and asked for more information, others made introductions and got me connected. Most of the business I get is through referrals / word of mouth.

My base of operations is in Tokyo right now and there's a lot of demand for these services once people hear about it. Often people approach it for curiosity and then I work my leads to turn them into clients.

Not all companies were forward thinking but they have a common traits: empathy, more concerned on providing value to their customers, and emphasize long-term problem solving over quick fixes.
Launched yesterday, links can be found to the source of the first package (email notifier) for free at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/showhn-emailnotifierpakg/PAKGSoft-1... and https://s3.amazonaws.com/showhn-emailnotifierpakg/PAKGSoft-2...

all feedback is welcome and appreciated.
> But Python is not designed to be fast, and it is not designed to be safe.

When decisions made by an algorithm can result in real monetary costs, one must always err on the side of caution. Only an irresponsible person would choose Python or other unsafe, dynamically typed language when implementing a crucial piece of business logic.
Ok, so, if I understand correctly, the main issues are that:

1. The company didn't take the incident seriously enough, and

2. The company tried to cheat (put: noindex) in their response.

In order to agree (or disagree) with the first item it would be good to know was the incident serious enough to be taken seriously.

The second item probably deserves some slapping on the wrist. Boycotting the company though? Not sure.
> Who tricked you into taking on debt?

Nobody tricked me, I'm debt-free. But most of the people I grew up with went to college, and most of them are riddled with debt now.

Was it their personal responsibility not to go into debt? Technically, yes! Did they have all the information available to them about what this debt would mean for their lives? No. Would they have made this decision if we didn't live in a society that repeatedly told them "go to college or you will fail?" Likely not, or maybe they would have waited until they understood the world better.

I'm not talking about any singular person, here. But I think it's unfair to classify our generation as having a victim compex when:

- wages are stagnating

- cost of living is rising

- most jobs require college degrees

- kids who are barely of-age are being pushed to make enormous financial decisions

- the federal government not forgiving student loans via bankruptcy is ballooning costs of schools everywhere and creating an entire predatory market for profiting off of people becoming productive members of society

Are millenials dumb with money? Honestly, the ones I know might go out one too many times here or there, but they aren't idiots, and the amount extra they could be saving is a drop in the bucket compared to their monthly expenses. Some are silly, yeah, but the majority are trying really hard and still struggling.

The last few generations just had it way easier, with less commodification of all of the aspects of their lives, with a less hostile education system, a better job market, etc. Not only this, but as the boomers start dying off, who's going to pick up the bill? The people who are right now in their 20s and 30s. So things are about to get a whole lot worse.

The solution isn't just to "save more." We need deep-seated systemic changes.
I hardly think that twitter is the right medium for this, so for your reading pleasure, here is the dump of the tweets:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b6Ulqo8Ja33x_bqvPtuOfzie...
> liberals trying to assasinate congressmen at a baseball game.

One deranged man not liberals in general. There have been numerous right wingers shooting up churches and mosques and planned parenthood buildings.
Well, there's a frog in the west that can also get you in trouble...
> The Chinese government has shown remarkable staying power

They are huge, filled with uneducated hungry people. Isn't too remarkable when the government's tactic boils down to "kill dissenters & feed the rest".
Not sure if this is what they meant but email is thought to be larger in aggregate than the web.
Google doesn’t crawl all of the internet very often either. Only sites that have proven to change a lot. So you could presumably supplement commoncrawl with your own more regular crawls.
That seems petty.
Of course it is. Do you really think that they wanted to pay eighteen thousand dollars for someone to rapidly transfer money back and forth?
Ask HN: How does your company handle document management?
For documents that aren't a nice plaintext thats easily put into version control.

Things like spreadsheets, word documents, GIS files etc.

Just interested in what approaches are out there.
Carrd- “Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything”
Eclipse MicroProfile
OK so China will forget about the opium wars then
I'm a long-term reader and listener, and DI is a fantastic source of interesting stories.
I've just been trying to get back into elixir recently, myself. I'd done some basic crud 'helloworld' stuff when I first tried about a year into professional development.

I've since had the Fortune to spend time learning about cloud native apps, distributed service patterns, and supporting infrastructure (spring cloud, pcf, vanilla k8s, gcp) and now returning to elixir having at least better understanding of what erlang and OTP offers.

I'm super excited to see I'm not alone in finding this sort of stack is worth fiddling with(although, I tend to pick Vue when not using angular for work).

Thanks for posting this!!

For those interested in what resources I'm leaning on:
The Manning 'Elixir in Action' and the Pragmatic Programmer's graphql texts along with exercism.

Anybody else have any preferred resources for these technologies?
I am not sure what you are trying to say. I brought up perfectly reasonable alternatives.

Regardless, both parties are made better off by the trade. Employers are the ones helping those unfortunate people avoid the thing that is even worse than having a job, such as: suffering and dying in the gutter. :)
brew install coreutils findutils gnu-sed gnu-awk curl ...

And add coreutils to your path:

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
This is somewhat apples and oranges when you go that far back. It's not that they weren't working for most of the day, it's that everything was more laborious. You would work several straight days for your "employer" and then need several for yourself, not to sit on your butt and have a beer but because there was no such thing as a washing machine or a refrigerator and all repairs and maintenance on your dwelling were things you were expected to do for yourself rather than hire out.

It's tempting to think of a "feast" as a party, but even now, and especially back then, it was laborious. Everyone travels to gather in the same location (without cars), butcher the animals, clean them, prepare vegetables that started off as whole plants, chop wood to build a fire to cook with etc. A feast is not a vacation, it's just more working.

Post-industrialization brought specialization, so that instead of working a day for the local land owner and then a day for yourself, you would work both days for the factory and then use your wages to buy appliances and hire a roofer and eat in a restaurant. And then, as automation got better, you got to work for eight hours rather than sixteen and then come home and watch TV and argue with people on the internet instead of needing that time to carry your clothes to the river and then ride a horse several miles to the general store to buy lamp oil and gunpowder.
True, and I did consider that. The list of reasons why it won't work are too long for a single post. Nevertheless, it might be "best" even though "the best we can do" in this chaotic world is no where near "ideal".
The foreign bank generally had to do a fairly manual process to get a U.S. cheque cleared. This can take weeks. 7 weeks is a bit excessive, probably they are giving worst case scenario.
> Fortunately, the GSA is releasing Public Sans under the SIL Open Font License, so designers working on projects outside of the federal government will be able to freely utilize the new typeface.

Aren't all works of the federal government copyright-free by law, regardless of whether they have an explicit license?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
Along with the airlines regarding Taiwan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/taiwan-american-...
US energy consumption hit a record high in 2018
I can't be the only person who uses Google Alerts.
Be sure to go to the 7-GUIs web site to link to other code examples. They aren't all in the main repo anymore it seems.
One last point of interest: it's not an open market right now. Medicaid pays for the poor, Medicare pays for the old and sick. In any other insurance system, the young and healthy pay for the old, sick and poor. However, literally all the worst customers in US healthcare have been socialized away. This is probably the biggest cash giveaway to private enterprise in history.

It's like offering government fire insurance only to buildings already on fire, in high-risk areas and below-code, leaving all the not-on-fire up-to-code buildings for the "free market." It's insane.
VATMOSS has a threshold before it kicks in now, as of 2019, so it should be a lot less of a hassle for the just-starting business.
Why is it inherently and obviously good to mix the polygons?
That last paragraph perfectly describes and encapsulates how to find a niche project.
Random forests produce the same kind of decision trees that used to be hand-crafted, but admittedly, the ones they generate look distinctly "non-human"
Teachers do a pretty good job enforcing the homeworks, unless actively obstructed by "you're unfair, he didn't do nothing wrong!" parents.
The first paragraph of the conclusion addresses that this is merely a proof of what is possible, not what is practical:

> The explanation for universality we've discussed is certainly not a practical prescription for how to compute using neural networks! In this, it's much like proofs of universality for NAND gates and the like. For this reason, I've focused mostly on trying to make the construction clear and easy to follow, and not on optimizing the details of the construction. However, you may find it a fun and instructive exercise to see if you can improve the construction.
This is very helpful! And thank you for the encouragement.
I actually had GIMP in mind writing this comment - the tool itself is a victim of too many cooks, but yet manages to be a solid piece of software, despite it being clunky.

Another example is Blender, it's a bit hard to grok, but overall does the job extremely well once you get over the warts.

Even in terms of fundamentals, this game is a little... lacking. Default controls, graphics settings, UI, animations are all very early-noughties (that's without commenting on the quality of the artwork, it's actually quite a nice style and some of the assets are cool), things have evolved hugely since then.
Leica distancing itself from the ad isn't a good look.

The company is not very relevant for actual "working" photographers today (I use one, but tellingly photography isn't a real job for me), but it once was and at the time they stood up to their own homegrown totalitarian regime by helping jews escape Germany disguised as transferring employees.
Python 3.6+ does have type annotations and multiple static analysis tools for type checking. Only an ignorant or biased person would yell at Python for flaws it doesn't have. For crucial business logic, one also writes unit tests.
The PDF near the end mentioned the EU as an example on who could fund it.
Heroin used to pass thru South Africa, now much stays, with devastating effects
I work at https://saaspass.com/ which offers setting up 2FA on SSH in a super easy way
You know full well that their post was discussing a more abstract point. Violent extremists exist among all ideologies and groups, and always will.
Disappointing to see that this is one of the first tools a government reaches for in a crisis. It's one of the worst possible responses because of how well censorship plays into the hands of skilled extremists.
What the sexist language used to describe Pinterest tells us about the company
I did not intend to come off snarky. I did read your comment as a little bit pro-capitalist (although not strongly). I think the thing that did it was "The grass is always greener on the other side" which I read as "why bother changing when another system will have just as many problems."

> am I misreading the, "But, gee, that's fine because those people earned that money...nevermind that's it's economically ineffective."

Honestly, it wasn't really directed at you at all, it was more of a general broadcast of how I feel about our current system. I've been talking to people about capitalism in general and many will fiercly defend the existence of billionaires while deriding poor people because they just aren't "leveraging opportunities" enough (as if anybody can leverage opportunities and become rich)! I think the problem comes from people being told that wealth is not zero-sum, when in reality, it actually is. "Wealth is not zero sum" is nothing more than capitalist propaganda.

I'm sorry if my comment read as attacking you.
I agree with your point on laissez-faire capitalism. Unfettered capitalism never works. However, pardon me for beating down the straw-man. You box things in by naming a select few "socialistic" systems that seem to work (only because they've been here with everything else) and selecting a few capitalistic industries that are obvious failure. If socialism was so successful, then why don't people go to OTHER socialist nations in higher rates?

But to answer why people come here, I'd say they come for freedom and the hope of a future - and many try to stay. The east coast is full of Indian doctors who come here for their degree and have no intention of ever going back to India.
The soviet response to Chernobyl was in many respects phenomenal. They mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to risk their lives to mitigate it.

One effort that stands out as "preventing something much worse" is that there was a risk of a potentially larger secondary explosion from steam buildup. They tunneled under the reactor and injected ~25 tons of liquid nitrogen a day (the tunnel started 6 days after the explosion, and was functional 8 days after the explosion). They had people risk/give their lives swimming in to close valves and pumping water out. Dates from here: http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline/

Also, you can absolutely get a nuclear explosion from a reactor, there is some suggestion that Chernobyl might have been a small one in fact (paper): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
I hate their tip-stealing practice but I wish there'd been more concrete details of methodology for this. Car expenses are all tax deductable and yes paying 15.3% off the top in SSE employment taxes is a hit but it seems like these estimates may underestimate by a few dollars an hour. Not that that's saying much of course, it's still low. I just like hard data in these narrative-driven pieces.
If you're interested in the Phoenix Framework you should check out "Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast".

It's written by the creator of Phoenix (Chris McCord) and the creator of Elixir (José Valim), and it's a fantastic intro to Phoenix.
Ok, for backend, I’m deciding between rust with actix, jvm (kotlin + akka/quasar) or elixir.

I kinda know the theoretical differences but I’m curious what hn thinks. Has someone actually deployed things in some of these.

I do have preference towards rust but maybe there’s something better.
C++ Experimental Contiguous Memory Container
That really depends on what you're building.
You're saying that if the house sold for $500,000, you should keep it if you can rent it for $5,000 / month or more?

I've heard of 5% of 1/12th of the projected sale price, which seems more realistic.
When would erlang,jvm be preferable over actix.
It's only a "private transaction" if you aren't doing it for the intention of making a profit. (depending on exact laws).

Unless the laws in their state are solely based on volume, they are almost certainly acting as a dealer, which requires a dealer license and a bunch more legal requirements. In most states once someone buys a car with the intention of reselling it rather than using it, they automatically become a dealer.
The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer
Sounds like you just accurately described the United States in 2019, as well. Any country undergoing political turmoil is in a similar boat, and sadly probably always will be. The technological means will just continue to evolve.
This from a UK perspective weird why is basically a collective investment scheme liable to pay any CGT at all - isn't that the individual investors liability.

And in this case why are not all other funds being targeted.
> Why should it be any different in the US than elsewhere?

I don't know why it should be, but I can tell you from personal experience that it is in fact different. To be sure, the U.S. is moving more towards the African model (to my great dismay) but it's not quite there yet.

> I think you'd agree world B is nicer.

Sure. And I'd like a pony too. But if you want to actually solve problems in the real world you have to deal with reality as it is, not as you would like it to be.
At present, the US has near record low unemployment, rising wages, and a very high stock market.

Yet we also have many thousands homeless.

Truly, capitalism is the worst form of government. Except for everything else, which share the downsides and lack the upside. It's why there are tens of thousands pouring over the border monthly-- to get to America and to capitalism. They want to work for their chance.
Only more transparent, liberal, open government systems can withstand criticism. The authoritarian models are always and without exception the most fragile, which is of course the exact opposite of how those systems try to project themselves to the rest of the world. You can easily tell how fragile they are, based on their tempers and thin skin when it comes to criticism.

It's unfortunate, China was on a better path. The regressive shift to Xi's authoritarian-heavy model was entirely unnecessary. It was solely done for his own glorification, and he openly pretends it was done for opposite reasons. If that were true of course, Xi wouldn't work so hard to bury Deng's legacy under his, he wouldn't be so susceptible to that intense need for vanity and idolization. Prior to Xi locking everything back down, China had slightly opened up further to internal dissent and criticism, there was far more quasi-free speech 10 and 15 years ago online in China for example than there is today. I agree with the common statement that China's culture may never choose to fully liberalize or adopt Western-style democracy, however I also think they could have easily pushed a lot further toward that direction from the stopping-point of progress where Xi began to deviate the system backwards.
I liked this "Elixir For Programmers" by Dave Thomas

https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...
Because segregation permits large organizations, like the state, to easily provide differing classes of services (or sets of rights) to the different, segregated groups, again with small biases having outsized systemic consequences.

Example: when I was growing up, the original 313 Detroit area code broke off the then-new 810 (and later 248 and 586) zone, leaving only the city of Detroit and the west side as 313. To a majority of the metro area, after that split, non-810 denoted non-white. It allowed people who might not otherwise be able to discriminate an easy tool to do so, and some businesses would implement bias against customer database records that had area codes that strongly correlated with race and socioeconomic status, furthering the historic divide. Prior to the area code split, this wasn’t as easily available to those who might do that.

It furthers systemic inequality, and some of the core tenets of our society are that we are all equal before the law and all deserve a level playing field in the market.

Separate isn’t equal.
Decentralized doesn't mean flat. You can trust to some actors only (and to some they trust to).