skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think is really interesting is that the Virtual DOM was touted as the better abstraction when React came out (in comparison to Angular 1's dirty checking).

I think Svelte is doing a lot of things right (simple code, computing CSS animations, accessibility built in, focusing on a compiler versus a full on framework) and I can't wait until Sapper is updated to dig in.
"marker for possible ..." != "clear evidence"
> prions in an infected deer's feces could bind to soil taken up by plants, spread to its leaves, then infect another deer that eats the leaves

How persistent are these things in nature? If there is selection pressure, they could be subject—unlike e.g. cancer—to evolution.
I once went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Baltimore.

The exhibits were both amazing and ridiculous.

They had paintings of Bill and Hillary Clinton drawn in Hamburger grease. They had a giant picutre of Bill Gates, but when you got close, the "pixels" were different colored keyboard keys.

Was it "high art"? I think not. Was I entertained? yes.

and I have to say the whole article reminded me a little of this onion "article":

https://www.theonion.com/european-men-are-so-much-more-roman...

(sorry)
Middle class is a very politically charged term, but the way I see it, "median" ought to describe middle class fairly well. I don't know what qualifies as official numbers, but what I've read recently is the median American hits retirement age with a net worth less than $200K. Probably mostly in their house. They probably spent their whole lives getting that thing paid off so they may plausibly survive on what social security pays them, if they're careful.

I suspect most of us on HN are a bit optimistic about the definition of middle class. Maybe we identify socially as middle class. But unless the numbers are lying, a huge chunk of America is in a much tighter financial situation.
Settled cultures and nomadic cultures have a long history of friction. Settled peoples tend to vilify nomads for various reasons.

But, really, being settled came second. Humans began as wanderers.
A public protest is not advocating change from within.

Companies like Google encouraged a continuation of a college like atmosphere, but it is not college. It's a job. If you're not there to work and add value to the company, the what are you doing?

In college it may be ok to demonstrate against the EVIL THING, but work is not college. In college you're paying to be there. At work, you're getting paid to add value.
Sri Lanka blocking social media shows global discontent with Silicon Valley
Elon Musk’s wildest predictions about Tesla’s self-driving cars
Make golden images with packer, or something similar, and then roll your fleet over.

You should not be running package managers on production servers. Or any of the other things salt, ansible, chef, puppet can do.
Huawei P30 Pro alleged to be querying China servers
> "Deep Learning", no matter how big your dataset, fundamentally cannot possess this capability.

Why not? I’d agree that current models can’t, but what’s the fundamental shortcoming of deep learning?
Ah, okay; so it's not the agent that's the problem, but the agent with forwarding. That is a fair point, and probably needs saner defaults or messaging. That said, since I don't use forwarding that should be fine for me.
Core Memory Shield for Arduino
The MIT license appears to be on their client-side SDK. They are accusing Otonomo of cloning their API, not their SDK.
I've caught, killed, and eaten fish before. It was certainly an interesting experience and teaches you a lot about yourself and the world to experience killing the animal you're willing to eat. I haven't done it with any bird or mammal, but do want to some day; mostly to prove to myself I'm not a hypocrite for being willing to eat meat but not kill it.
I question how much of our driving is logic and analytics based as opposed to instinct and reaction based.
Oh this year wasn't the first time I saw it. They basically tempt you with possibility and then make you redo all your work when you realize they were lying. Stopped using them this year, fuckers.
Why? This has nothing to do with microservices.
Looks great. I'm looking forwars to experiment with it. I enjoy that you have taken some of the "it's just js" approach from React, some of the reactivity from Vue/Mobx and the good parts of AngularJS (bindings where it makes sense). I am very curious!
I think a lot of it is the extremes and secondary views adopted at either end. I also think part of the problem is not recognizing the Statist/Individualist part of the political spectrum. It isn't a slide rule, it's a map.

In the end, you have some very statist identitarian communists on the far "left" and you have some statis nationalist racists on the far "right" ... Most of the republicans are just right of center, 92% of democrats the same (excluding the fringe 8%). The fringe right is a fraction of a percent. Anyone who is outside of the left-most 20-30% is often called alt-right adjacent... it's no wonder Trump is in office, and even more left leaning people think they're right wing now.
Astronomers just found a 2nd galaxy containing no dark matter
"amount" is not the right metric. It's the compulsive aspect.
The marginal factory has an expected net present value of zero - if it were positive, market forces would already be adding them. Maybe you can find some examples of over-regulated long-lived infrastructure (nuclear power comes to mind), or non-excludable goods (roads and bridges), but there's a remaining problem that these things don't typically live long enough for a 30 year old to build and then enjoy the fruits thereof in their 80s.
A Guide to Understanding Procrastination
> There is enormous pent-up demand to live in SF

While that's true, you do need to be careful with that argument. You get people arguing that eeeeeveryone wants to live in San Francisco. And others arguing that everyone wants to live in Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, and even right here in Bend, Oregon (really!) because they're all convinced that their town is the bestest place on the planet.
used it only because i had crypto losses to claim
I was going to say the same, but it looks like the documentation mentioned is for the client indeed. If the client is MIT licensed, are you infringing on anything by writing a compatible API?
Git curate: a tool to help tidy local Git branches
If you're using Safari, you can read the article in reader mode even with the paywall message
> Tokyo

Do you have a source on that? Tokyo is famously known for having largely flat housing prices over the last 20 years[1]. In fact, in Japan, most houses are considered depreciating assets [2].

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/la...

[2] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
Can I ask- why are you relaying these anecdotes? What is the point you are trying to make? Can you state it without recourse to examples?
Next time you use them it will be worse. That's how these things seem to operate.
I can imagine that lawyers in general would prefer to use a contract template that has withstood the test of time (and was held up in court) rather than try to write one up from scratch.

I'm not talking about your case though.
I think that the nation states.net 3-axis model is sufficient for plotting and exploring political ideas for now [0]. It’s still better than the one-dimensional left-right spectrum or the two-dimensional Nolan chart [1]. However, given the rate at which language changes, it seems completely feasible that people might on day need a more granular political coordinate system.

[0] https://www.nationstates.net/page=create_nation

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
Social Security won't go away. That would be political suicide. If we are smart we will adjust the financial support for it so there aren't any big hiccups, but ideologically there is a big chunk of the political class hoping to convince all of us voters that SS is doomed no matter what. My guess is we'll just switch over to funding it with more debt, like everything else.
The question was reverse global warming, not slow it down. So here's the reversal options:

•Plant and bury. Grow plantlife where it hasn't been growing before (oceans are one example, but tundras and deserts can also be used), and bury or otherwise control the output.

•Weathering. The planet already has a system for removing CO2 from the air, it's just slow. Olivine rocks, along with limestone, trona, and pretty much anything with carbonates capable of becoming bicarbonates, will absorb CO2.

•Injection. Assuming you can get CO2 in pure concentrated form, just need to pump it down to briny deposits that will absorb it. The bad news is almost nobody burning fossil fuels makes CO2 in pure concentrated form. The leading use of injected CO2 a) mines it already in concentrated form and b) uses it like fracking to push out more oil and gas, making its efficacy questionable.
Yes, and it's also reinforced by the Bay Area's geography and climate.

The history of the Bay Area has been one of successive migrations, each of which comes seeking wealth & fortune and each of which is ultimately displaced by the next as it taps out the economic boom that started it. It started with the gold rush (1848-1855). Just as that was winding down, the railroads (1863-1890) took off, leading to widespread immigration first of white Americans fleeing the Civil War and devastation there and then of Chinese and other Asians. The 1890s and 1900s were a rough couple decades for San Francisco, between endemic corruption, a bubonic plague outbreak, and the 1906 earthquake and fire, but from 1910-1930 you had a large migration of poor white farmers ("Okies") fleeing economic consolidation and environmental destruction in the plains. From 1930-1945 you had the huge U.S. military buildup and a large migration of largely black workers; SF was both an important port and shipbuilding center. After the war Fred Terman made sure that Stanford and associated companies got a large share of the Cold War DARPA dollars; this funded HP, Shockley, Fairchild, Varian, Lockheed, Hendy Ironworks (now Northrop Grumman), Moffett Field, and most of the first-gen Silicon Valley companies. This branched off into consumer semiconductor & electronics manufacturing in the 60s & 70s, with Intel, National Semiconductor, TI, Seagate, Apple, etc. While this was going on, you had the countercultural revolution up in SF. Then you had the PC revolution in the 80s, then the dot-com boom in the 90s, and then the Internet, mobile, and sharing-economy booms of the 2000s & 2010s. Now you have a significant blockchain & AI presence up in SF. All of these are fueled by a mass migration of young people from more disadvantaged areas of U.S. like the Midwest & South, as well as a large influx of Chinese & Indian immigrants.

It's always been a place where people come from far away to capitalize on the zeitgeist, and if you're not capitalizing on the zeitgeist (or supplying shovels to those who are), you're marginalized. When the zeitgeist turns, everybody who made their money in the previous iteration looks to invest in the next one. If you call the next one wrong, you fade away into obscurity.
> In the U.S. there's a term called "party" for whoever's suing or being sued. It can be a person or a combination of parties.

A party is a person who is a litigant in a lawsuit, to be a party, one must first be a legal person.

> Also in the U.S., the controversy about corporations being persons has to do with selectively granting them constitutional rights,

That's actually a controversy about a different kind of personhood than is being discussed (that is whether they are within the scope of “person” in the sense used in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, which has been addressed not in terms of juridical personhood but in terms of the necessity of such to give effect to rights of natural persons acting through the corporation.)
The author, Yonah Freemark, wrote this article discussing the implications of his paper (https://urbanaffairsreview.com/2019/03/29/upzoning-chicago-i...). In short, he does not claim that upzoning “doesn’t work.” He says 5 years may have been too short a time to measure the changes in Chicago. He also highlights numerous possible reasons for the Chicago housing price increases that may differ from the California proposals (SB 827 last year, or SB 50 this year):

* “it targeted just areas around transit (rather than the city as a whole).” SB 827 and SB 50 are a much broader upzoning.

* “it was implemented in a city with relatively affordable housing (rather than very high rents, such as in San Francisco)”

* “they should take seriously the concerns of local residents who are worried that their housing costs will increase”. SB 50 exempts tenant-occupied housing and reserves a fraction of the units for low-income households.
I suppose that argument could be used to justify killing some hermit unbeknownst to them. Most people, however, are connected socially, and killing them would make others suffer.
What's weird is when people bemoan poor people getting forced out when it's happening due to the low-density policies they voted for.
> And many intelligent mammals have been seen grieving the dead or rescuing animals from danger.

Not only mammals - corvids are known to do that too.
As in, no human should run a package manager in prod? (But salt/ansible/etc. running it is fine) Same idea as "if you're SSHing to prod, something is wrong" (where provisioning tools make all changes, logs are all aggregated and delivered in their own tool, and even debugging is built into the app or logging system).
Seems likely, if you decided to dive into the various papers they are pulling from I'd be really interested to hear about which ones consider sociological problems like emotional effects of over crowding!
I canoed down the Whanganui over Christmas a couple of years ago. It's one of New Zealand's 'Great Walks' with huts to stay in along the way.

We were told that the Māori considered the river to be a person and as a sign of respect we should not wash ourselves in it. Aside from that, it did not effect our trip.

If anyone is interested, there's more information here - https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/ma...
Tomorrow Is D-Day at the Center for Humane Technology. Watch the Livestream
That's a good idea, but it won't work for a non-constructive proof.
The South Bay is probably closer to a "perfect climate" than SF itself which, after all, inspired the Mark Twain quote "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." That said, the overall Bay area climate doubtless contributes to the desire of many to live there to a degree that probably wouldn't exist if the equivalent job market were in Minneapolis.
I don't know what the sorrounding terrain looks like, but from person experience it is expensive to buy the longer range transmitters you'll likely need for this (~1000$+ transportation to there).

But since I don't think the flower holds much black market value, your only real motivation would be just to be a jerk. And you'd have to be really trying too.
I don’t know whether a walkout would or wouldn’t be a protected activity. It’s a tricky question with a lot of moving parts. I suspect you don’t know either. If that’s the case, you ought to be more careful about giving legal advice in confidant and unconditional terms where that advice, if taken, could lead to adverse consequences for readers.

If you are attorney specializing in labor law and you think the above posts comport with your ethical obligations, then carry on I guess.
> However, this same term is used politically to give corporations the right to free speech

No, it's a different term that is spelled and pronounced the same (that is, it's a different legal sense of “person”, which courts have found corporations to qualify for for completely different reasons.)
This is a meta-analysis. They reference many different papers. Many of them come to different conclusions. If you want more certainty you can get it by starting to read the papers the reference and deciding which ones you think are reasonable.
> Could you have a human driver in charge with an accident preventing robot, getting the best of both worlds?

We already have this and we've had it for years. What do you think automatic emergency braking is? Adaptive cruise control? Lane keeping assist?

> The question isn't if robot car is better than an average car being driven by a human. It's if the same robot car would be safer if the human was driving it, and the robot in accident prevention mode. And I don't think that is going to be true in any near future.

No clue what you're trying to say here. Driver assist features don't improve safety?
If only there was something else but web development...
Historically that's not what middle class meant (it usually referred to closer to the top 10% who had to work for a living but were well off) but I agree. To me living on $10-15k/year with enough money to sustainably supplement another $10k/year seems pretty poor, but maybe I'm just too privileged to understand. Close to half of all americans couldn't handle an unexpected $500 expense which seems pretty poor to me too
ReLu is useful, but the question as asked was more about other (also essential) functions for other steps in RNNs -- in particular, sigmoid "squash" functions, as well as MaxPooling.
"You might think _they’d_ be protesting outside my door. They are not. I teach a class here called Sex Differences in the Brain. It has a max of 60 people, and it’s enrolled about to the max. My students come out of the class going, “Wow, I had no idea about this stuff!” I point out to them that there are people on this campus in the Gender Studies Department who use books by one of these ideologues and literally have classes basically saying that what I’m saying is wrong."

It is blatantly obvious what he means by "ideologues".
> Disclaimer: I don't subscribe to any political labels.

In my experience, disclaimers like this usually mean the opposite.
> There was widespread protest from outside the bubble, too

It seems implausible that anyone not in a bubble cares what happens to Google's 8-person no-actual-power ethics team. It could be composed of witches and warlocks who spend their days researching pentagrams and nobody should care. There are a lot of small, questionable teams in large companies.

It is only remotely newsworthy as evidence that Google culturally purges conservative voices. Even with that frame; it could just be a beat up. I'd define the bubble as people who were getting worked up over it; they are obviously culturally synchronized because there isn't an obvious rational link.
Nice work :) SQLite documentation also has a fractal and sudoku solver in its examples using recursive CTEs: https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html
It's interesting — I have a couple competitors who have done the exact same thing to my API product (https://keygen.sh). Total copy of a feature subset, down to the API payloads, and verbatim copying my painstakingly written documentation. It bothered me (immensely) at first, but then I stopped thinking about it and instead turned my focus back onto my business. If they want to copy me, so be it. I'll still have the edge because I'm the leader, in a sense.
> Now that would be an interesting system, if corporations were deprived of the benefits of legal personhood.

Then they would just not exist: a corporation is exactly a grant of legal personhood.
> Or do we lack the ability to determine whether a given instance of 3SAT is hard?

Yes. At least in general. In fact, answering whether any SAT (or 3SAT) instances are hard equivalent to settling P vs. NP. Assuming easy = polynomial, the "easy subset" of SAT = SAT iff P = NP. Separating hard from easy instances -- in general -- is pretty much the secret to complexity theory.

We do know to recognize some easy cases. SAT is FPT -- i.e. fixed parameter tractable [1] -- because its worst-case solving time is exponential in the number of variables. There are more complex cases of easy instances.

A question that is easier than P vs. NP is separating SAT instances that are easy/hard for DPLL (+ improvements), the 1960s algorithm at the core of all SAT solvers. AFAIK, this, too, is an unanswered question in general (i.e., given a SAT instance, we don't know how to tractably determine whether or not DPLL will tractably solve it).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameterized_complexity#FPT
I switched to taxact a number of years back because of this shit. They aren’t perfect in the upselling either but at least you can start as many new returns on an account as you want.

I couldn’t import shit from many things anyway so last couple of years I’ve just used excel and the fillable PDFs.
"can you explain to me how Michael Bloomberg would be better at his day to day job of leading the largest city in the USA if he woke up one morning as a crack Java coder?"

Politicians especially could benefit from having a clearer idea of how computers work, for everything from patent law, to internet regulation, to encryption, to AI ethics. These topics are only increasing in their relevance to geopolitics, and most leaders are comically ignorant of them. Exhibit A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stXgn2iZAAY

Of course this isn't limited to those in politics; it applies to every decision-maker in society, from business executives to individual voters. Obviously all of these people aren't expected to write code in their daily lives. But having exposure to it and an understanding of the basic concepts is indispensable in today's world.
Awesome! If you see this comment, can you answer me this. I see you guys correct titles all the time. I never know if you guys are just incredibly active comment readers, grep for comments like mine, or rely on flags or something else? I didn't see anything in the FAQ but am just wondering what the best way to bring to admins' attention small title issues like this.
With real meat, it's pretty hard to mess up a burger; if it's anywhere from medium rare to medium well, it's still going to be a pretty tasty burger

I must have high burger standards. One of the reasons I don't cook them often is all the work it takes to make sure they turn out well. Right thickness, right meat, narrow temperature range, cast iron... most home made burgers, including backyard grilled, are so dry & bland you can't eat them without lots of ketchup/mustard/BBQ.
"Sucking carbon out of the air won’t solve climate change": https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/14/1744562...
> The gold rush is deeply embedded in the Bay Area psyche.

I think that's true for a demographic - the San Francisco 24-35 demographic (especially those in the tech sphere of influence), but I don't think it's generally true across the bay area. People who tend to think like this tend to be transplants that do not know very many people over 40, they don't know anybody from, say, Redwood City, Hayward, or Albany or even the Sunset district. I say this as a transplant under the age of 40, but the majority of my coworkers are much older despite most of them also being transplants.
Realistically, as each generation lives longer the retirement age will rise. Thus the productive time (and net life-time production) will increase.
If they find this compelling then I have some Doterra to heal their telomeres.
> On the other hand, is it any different than the legal fiction in the US that says that Google and Microsoft are "people" themselves rather than businesses that employ people?

It's no different from the legal fiction that says “the United State of America” is a person, either.
I don't think many people are seriously thinking that starving is the next problem. These days it seems like war comes before people start starving to death.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links...
Or the solution could be to do nothing. Do we all have to live in SF? If the people living there want to spend all their money on rent or mortgage interest it is fine by me.