skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Also, the use of"AI" is overstated. Much generative art is a combination of algorithms and randomness.
I see what you are saying, but I largely disagree with the premise.

We have had, and continue to have, enormous growth through technical and organizational achievements.

Growth is relative, but life mostly remain constant. The requirements to house, cloth and transport people remain largely the same.

The idea that we can't have retirement becomes absurd viewed over a lifetime of spending on housing, insurance and other fees. The average city dweller today gives away hundreds of thousands if not millions in rents, interest rates and other inflated costs.
Currently, the public issues are tracked via
https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php

And I have a private Trello board (which I'm going to make public).

Here are two Reddit posts!
https://www.reddit.com/r/inbox/comments/beaek8/how_come_nobo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/inbox/comments/bfa6f3/i_built_darwi...

Personally, I think this Hacker News thread is the best thing that ever happened to DarwinMail :)
FastoRedis 2.2.0 Release
Happy Easter – But Why Do We Call It Easter
Sounds like the name of a Culture ship
I don't recognise your characterisation of the country. I agree with your broader point.
You know what, that's a fair point, but it's also just not how it works...

The reason for the 72 rule is that minimum terminal columns (since the beginning of time) is 80. git-log will pad the message with a 4 space margin, so to keep it centred you want it to be 72... alternatively to keep it from sprawling to illegible lengths you want to hard wrap it at about that width anyway.

So you will find one of 2 undesirable things happen if you don't hard wrap to this length:

1. Your terminal or pager _will_ wrap the text, but knows nothing of the formatting, so it will wrap onto the next lines without indentation (this does reduce legibility, making it harder to see where one commit ends and another begins in the full log).

2. Your terminal or pager _wont_ wrap, in which case have fun scrolling to the right - a lot.

You could rightly argue that if the terminal + cli + pager and git were one monolithic UI, then it would have a more holistic view of whats going on and smarter decisions could be made - but then we lose all the benefits of those separations (the unix way). There is no win win, but it is at least pretty trivial to hard wrap text automatically in your editor.
It is 'cozy' and 'underdog' in a way that fits the memetic zeitgeist essentially - not something sensible in itself. Like 'buy local', food miles, and other fallacies that disregard production efficiency entirely.
> You're not fooling employers, they likely know you and your friends are lying, and discount the offer accordingly.

It's worked out pretty damn well for me and my friends, actually. I've gotten multiple 25% raises, each time by doing that. (Along with a healthy dose of job hopping)

> were discovered to have lied on their resume

I've never lied on my resume. Only about salaries, while talking to someone in negotiations.

That's just how the negotiation games goes. The employer makes blatant lies all the time in negotiations, also.

For the record, I've gone from a starting salary of 100k, when I just got out of college 6 years ago, to where I am today, which is 270k total comp, at a big 5 tech company.

I am pretty happy with those results. Especially so, because I've only ever considered myself to be an average engineer.

Or are you going to try and flatter me by saying that I could have been doing even better than going from 100k to 270k in 6 years? Perhaps. But I'd hardly say that I haven't done alright for myself.
Yes, I read a little about Turkey's tea production after I made that comment. Knew that it had a big tea drinking culture but didn't know before today that the country also grew tea. Now I learn that it is one of the world's major producers (but almost all for domestic consumption, not export).

I can imagine that those mountains that rise sharply behind the Black Sea coast could produce a good tea growing micro-climate.
> Yet if everyone who wants a job eventually gets one, this number will eventually go to zero. And if it goes to zero, that would be a good thing. Yet everyone panics if the number of jobs created that month goes down.

Unless there's a labor shortage?
With writing like this, I think trying to "get the point" is... missing the point for lack of a better expression.

For me the question is simply does this piece make you feel something or not? A piece like this invites the reader to make their own connection to what the narrator is experiencing, and if a reader doesn't make that connection then that is okay, and it certainly does not mean that the reader is in any way less "advanced."
The software did guide the rocket off the intended path and it would have crashed if range safety hadn't stepped in at that point.
> but there's nothing morally wrong with restricting someone with reduced mental capacity, below some basic level of competence, according to their mental capacity.

You state this like it's obvious, but it really isn't that obvious and there are severe problems with detention of people who don't pose a risk of hamr to themselves or others. And there's even problems if they only pose a risk of harm to themselves. The UK sees people banged up for years becuase they pose a risk of harm to themselves, when what they really need is better community treatment.
Can you tell me when people have been able to control their own money supply at any point in history and have it be worth anything? It has always been in the hands of a mint of some sort of shackled to the base metal if done by weight.
Right, a lack of regulations is why things are expensive. Deregulating has worked so well as a cap on prices for internet, mobile, finance, etc. If only we'd let the free market Porcupine fairy handle everything it would be better. You completely left out that Republican Congress specifically denied Medicare the ability to bring in cheaper drugs from other countries and isn't allowed to negotiate drug prices, oh and they've underfunded every single regulatory agency for ages to be able to claim government doesn't work. Why is it that other countries can somehow pay more for the same or better care of their public options and we don't. I can promise you it's not that they are less regulated in Europe. You're never going to have a cheaper private option with a profit motive on anything versus an option that doesn't require a profit motive.
I can suggest https://blog.ploeh.dk

Focused on OOP design and some FP design.
The Grass Roots Approach to Solve Climate Change
In the black market of reddit accounts, age and karma are the two main selling points.
Arizona State U professor alleges students had to pay to turn in homework
Yes!! Thank you! I’ve been fumbling with trying to put that thought into a form as succinct as that.
Your arguments are based on various false dichotomies and false analogies.

I have given a reason why incarcerating adults who have not committed a crime against their will is obviously immoral, namely because freedom is one of the most fundamental human rights. Of course, there can be reasons that might outweigh this right, for example when someone has committed a serious crime and there was a fair trial. Another reason would be the medical assessment that the person would likely severely harm himself or others. For the latter, the hurdles are extremely high. You can ask your lawmakers why they think they should be high. They will probably tell you that's because freedom is one of the most fundamental human rights.

"Caring" for someone is traditionally not considered a sufficient reason. And that includes parents, who are definitely not allowed to lock away their children indefinitely (as a reply to the other poster, who seems to be even more confused than you).

> you're arguing they shouldn't be held to the same responsibilities as other citizens because they can't help their situation.

I have never argued for such an absurd claim at all, in any form whatsoever.
Why Programming Is Difficult
Exactly, people are making choices, and then complaining about it, which make sense as a coping strategy, but not if you really want to own your own labor.
Something doesn't add up to me.

The structures here basically exploit moments in order to move them. But there's nothing giving them stability once they are 'static'. Surely the end piece of the bridge could just fall over if you stood on the edge of it?
Another classic mismatched match-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4N0Ap2rkdI

...but I was more impressed by the Atari 2600 chess game which had castling and en passant. Having 256 bytes seems like a good excuse to leave out such nonsense.
In China, the most luxurious tea is grown from 6 very trees named Da Hong Pao[0].

> Da Hong Pao can sell for up to US$1,025,000 per kilogram

And those 6 trees were bought insurance by the local government for 100 million RMB (~=15 million USD).

The name of Da Hong Pao means the emperor's red robe. In the most productive year, those trees only grow hundreds of o grams of tea.

There's also an interesting section in the Chinese version Wikipedia:
When Nixon visited China in the 1970s, Mao gave him 200g Da Hong Pao as present. Actually, that's half of the annual production.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Hong_Pao
Its really great! The graphics and menus look uncohesive though.

Does it run on Android?
So for the convenience of having less spam, I give a third party access to all my email, arguably the most important point where my security can be compromised, other than my password manager? Or am I missing something?
> Not anywhere close. Your cache invalidation takes forever. Ability to assign tag objects does not exist. Engaging "professional services" to make a config change like it is 2002?

Akamai also has a fast purge these days, sub 5 seconds as well I believe. Works nicely.
Ok but how did they get the smaller "keystones" in? Can't tell from the video
I'm updating the situation to match the case of an improvement to land being rented (to wit, a house). I agree that a chain across a natural waterway is rent-seeking. A chain across a man-made canal is not (as the creator of that canal is seeking to increase their own wealth while creating additional wealth in total).
Never met
@joeerl
, but Joe Armstrong made a huge influence on me as a software developer. Erlang/OTP/The Beam changed everything for me. THANK YOU JOE for your contributions, amazing talks and being Joe. We will keep "Letting it Crash"
Most people go with the flow. I'd imagine that this was true also when it came to the torturing of prisoners by America post 9/11. How many refused to go along with that I wonder?
Nazi Germany, like the USA, seems to have been a country where the courts were able to operate with a degree of independence and due process consequently existed to some extent. By contrast I remember solzhenitsyn writing how he would much prefer to end up in the clutches of the Gestapo than the NKVD. You had a chance of the Gestapo releasing you if you managed to persuade them off your innocence whereas your fate was already sealed with the NKVD from the moment they decided to arrest you.
To quote the wise boxer Tyson: "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face". The same applies to any type of system/proceeds. Someone above correctly mentioned '1st line of defence'. I will add to the 'cloud does everything' comment that 'cloud is a computer somewhere else'. And THAT computer (somewhere else) needs sysadmins, netadmins, DBAs, and a bunch of other xyzadmins to get shit done and fix the many small cracks before they become big cracks. A company can automate all the way to 11, but you simply cannot remove the sysadmins completely for the equation (one does not simply walk into Mordor!). Machines don't do things by themselves. Skynet is not imminent.
SFTP, although you might be limited by the encryption’s performance. If authentication & confidentiality aren’t needed you can downgrade to a quicker (& less secure) cipher such as arcfour.
We aren't because of the property management fees, but we could. We bought at absolute rock bottom in 2010.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679890
You say this like the free market people aren't already doing this. Despite how many bridges collapse they seem to think things are going just fine because the bridges haven't collapsed on the roads they use yet.
After the death of a student on one of its flights –. Uber
Check out who funded the project ;)
There's a line from Bezo's annual shareholder letter a few weeks ago that this brings to mind:

"As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn't growing, you're not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/jeff-bezos-annual-shareholde...
>SuperTuxKart is one of the best examples of how open source software can be on par and even superior to commercial software.

Care to expand on how SuperTuxKart is superior to commercial racing games?
If you look closely, you’ll find that this data has exactly the same problems. Japan has 0.0% homelessness, because they are only counting people sleeping on the street. The millions of people living in trailer parks would likely be counted as homeless in a lot of the countries on that list. Some of these figures are official, some come from advocacy groups. It is not possible to use this data for international comparisons.
American cans of 'grated parmesan cheese' often contain up to 4% sawdust, presumably to prevent clumping. They sometimes don't contain parmesan cheese either. Its a big scandal.
I played it when it was PLIB based. It is amazing how how it looks now compared to how it looked back then.
> The question then becomes what are we (or what are the elites, really) going to do with these people.

Will give them money, drugs and computer games and some other distractions. Because we need their votes to sustain illusion of the republic.

It did already happen in Roman Republic. When conquests delivered unlimited amounts of free labor force small artisans and farmers could not compete but they had been able to vote.

As the autocracy had been anathema to Romans the state provided panem et circa [1]. And the republic survived another few hundred years. We are calling it Roman Empire but formally it had been the republic with voting going on every year on Fields of Mars and SPQR[2] on its banners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

[2] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senatus_Populusque_Romanus
No cavities since I found this toothpaste. Also, greatly reduced tooth sensitivity. I go to the dentist every 6 months.
The Rivian Electric Pickup Truck Is Full of Fun Surprises
Devs, Can we get this on the Amazon App Store? I’d love to play it on my kindle fire.
Spike could be your next Google Inbox substitute
On HN people often like to see the math. It's very understandable that you would keep the secret ingredient, well, secret. But readers are just looking at a opaque magic number now.
With AWS, in an emergency you can always use the console to provision access of some sort: SSH bastion with a public IP, second VPN, etc. This definitely implies that explicit 2FA is needed for console access, but I’m pretty comfortable with using smartphones for that.
Janet Airlines
Yes, I've been playing it a minute ago!
Windows 10 Start Menu Getting Build 1903 Own Process
> This is ignorant of the difference

This is not ignorant of anything, it was just not the subject of the discussion.

> Basques want their own state

Don't generalize to everybody the desire of some people.
Any decent grad department will give the grad students a tuition waiver and stipend so it's actually the opposite of a pyramid scheme. In a pyramid scheme, you pay to join the pyramid. In academia, the pyramid pays you. I spent two years in a grad department in Boston that paid me to hang out and read books and occasionally grade papers. It probably wasn't the best life decision but there wasn't any exploitation.
problems happen as soon as the elements you want to display aren't known at compile time and can't be stored in a nice, data-oriented approach, but instead come from various plug-ins that the user can download and put as DLLs in the app's folder.
It’s a known phenomenon in economy. The modern name is “make-work bias”.
no you couldn't. I think you've been deluded by fancy sounding ideas.

you could just as well say that people are rent seeking with their labor, using the capital of their bodies.

if you deny personal ownership of property and land and the ability to extract wealth for rent from that ownership you may as well also deny personal ownership of one's own body and personal space and the ability earn income for renting out one's time, or professional service or the capital of one's body. that gets you to slavery in one step, well done.

so the simplistic argument that labor capacity of people is fundamentally different to other capital is false. consider that you invested your time and your money in your education to better your skills increasing your ability to rent on your own capital. if you want to deny people extracting money from their investments and property why not also deny them extracting money from their investments in their own education?

so again I think on the premature path to compassion and equality in your mind you have actually found a shortcut which disempowers people and limits their freedoms. I don't think you did this intentionally, you just haven't thought it through.

I understand the temporary appeal but it does not actually provide a workable solution to the problems you are trying to address.

the next step is consider what the second-order effects of policies inspired by your theories would be. the ultimate goal of this is to create a dependent slave class to do the bidding of the elites. these theories have been designed for mass appeal.
Gosu Programming Language
I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

Just seeing the word "tux" reminds me of a lot of really sub-par quality games and applications of ~2003 that people would talk about as if they were just as good as the commercial offerings.

People would seriously talk of it being "the year of the linux desktop" and "the year of linux gaming" while trying to claim that tux racer felt like a AAA game.

If the best thing the platform has to offer is ports and rip-offs of other games it's not a viable platform and it's insulting to people's intelligence to try to claim otherwise.

I'm not knocking the effort maintainers put in and I'm sure they learn from it and enjoy the process. That's not something to be dismissive of. But claiming it's superior to commercial games insults the genuine quality in games out there, and actually harms linux gaming because it reduces your credibility when talking about gaming.
In the US I saw engineering labs using PhDs from abroad as almost slave labor. A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but the students were not allowed to progress without the advisor's say so, and the advisors would not allow them to top-author papers they were basically sole contributing. On top of that, between their own work and lab work, they were expected to put in 60 to 80 hours a week.

The point is, the power dynamics were out of whack.
I tried unsuccessfully to get a usb Xbox controller to work with this game recently on ubuntu. Never found a workaround to get it to be recognized as a controller or keyboard. I do love this game though!
This is just such a nice language. It's Java but it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling (unlike Java).
Democrats know most Republicans are stupid. Democrats just don't realize most of them are stupid too. Democrats try to play like it's an even playing field where everyone is playing by the same rules and are too afraid to get their hand dirty or be seen as having had to overcome issues in the past. Republicans see character flaws as a bonus just to spite the libtards because Rush told them right. The smart ones in the political sphere are just two sides of the same coin with slightly different opinions on the same issues to anchor what they think should matter in people's minds. I'd politics were rational we'd have significantly different political systems than we have now.
The excuse is that receiving is allowed in airplane mode, as long as you’re not transmitting.
Yes, neural nets are successful is in large part because they are asymptotically more efficient than other models. Training time is O(n) with O(1) memory, and prediction time is O(1) with O(1) memory. Compare to e.g. kernel methods, which have nicer theory behind them, but kernel least squares is O(n^3) with O(n^2) memory to fit and O(n^2) with O(n^2) memory to predict. The coefficients are larger for neural nets, but if your data are big enough, the asymptotics win out.
Can any people who know the situation in Sri Lanka comment on what the causes of this are? Has there been a deteriorating security situation in Colombo for some time, or did this happen unexpectedly?

I remember a documentary on Kandy, it seems a beautiful and peaceful place. Such a tragedy.
Mod Minecraft with TypeScript/JavaScript
If you snore or have mild sleep apnea, you can greatly improve the quality of your sleep and life by doing something about it.

In my case I heard about Xylitol. Its a 5 carbon artificial sweetener that microbes will eat, but starve on. There are studies showing it can greatly help dental and sinus health. I tried the Xlear sinus spray to see what would happen and the quality of my sleep improved dramatically.
Only two data points in there: less than 5/24 hours is bad, more than 7/24 is good... Well duh!
It's been done: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228909002_Automated...
Highly recommend watching this 4 minute piece about Sir Nicholas Winton. Makes you feel good about humans.

https://youtu.be/PKkgO06bAZk
https://github.com/rupa/rvn is a similar exercise, from the author of https://github.com/rupa/z
I don't know a huge amount about the conflict but why churches? The country is majority Buddhist and the Tamil separatists were largely Hindu so how does Christianity fit in?
A red pill down the matrix lane it is then. https://youtu.be/VMU-YjVGiGs
why are there so many build systems?

it's understandable why programmers have opinions about aesthetics regarding their IDE, language, or framework of choice, but what is there to be opinionated about with a build system?
Maybe some people have the time to do creative and patient work, while other engineers crank out GUIs and iterative corrections. Presumably Andrew Ng isn’t being asked to demonstrate his loyalty or commitment.

Isn’t it the same in all professions?
Worth the Upgrade – Ubuntu 19.04 First Impressions
Rent-free.
>1700 demonstrators showed up this year.

Were they demonstrating against or in favor of the POW's and resistence fighters?
For people who are more into Wipeout I recommend Sanic Ballz
A mystery agent is doxing Iran’s hackers and dumping their code
This does not surprise me. In the book I reviewed there were a lot of simplistic explanations that lacked nuance. Even if that's the right level for their target market, I think it could have been done in a better way, giving the reader the push to go and research in more depth if they so wish, but to be honest I'm not sure the author was at that level.
US population is growing. So the steady state employment rate requires ~190,000 net jobs to be added every month. If the number is below that the a lower percentage of population is employed this month than last month.
I don’t know. If I’ve been paying taxes over my income all my life, and I’ve chosen to do nothing with what remains, what business is that of the government? It’s just another way of double taxation.
This hits close to home.
Indeed. The evolved antenna page has an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna (previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18449434).