skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is probably a good thing that Asimov, Clarke, Feynman, Sagan, and Tesla don't have to see who inherited their legacies of thought, ambition, and deed.

Imagine explaining to any one of them that the imagination and impetus of the future man, imbued with technology and options, is completely given over to spam email, ICOs, and dressing up 90s code as "innovation" so they can cash out early.

I've been feeling this place degrade over time, and this thread is a red flag.

SlackerNews: we know better; we won't change.
So the usual arms race between people and advertisers?
> Nothing wrong with GPL3.

Wrong

> I'd rather use an OS that's willing to ship essential software.

Ok, there's Linux in that case.

> The OS is there to serve the user, not make their lives more difficult because of petty licensing concerns.

"Petty licensing concerns" are an issue for big companies.
> People wouldn't expecting calling a function may return from the caller.

Why? This is essentially the same as the reset/shift pattern in e.g. Scheme - when you call shift from within a reset call, that might cause you to return directly from that. And that is a rather well-behaved pattern which composes quite well, it's nothing like the inherent weirdness of, e.g. call/cc.
I hope the custom handler part is reconsidered. It is fine to 4 panic if the handler is nil or it returns nil.
If there were, would you (all) expect your comments and submitted links to be deleted, or should they stay but attributed only to a "deleted user"?
It's kind of like the invisible man. Here's how everything works. Might be a great way to see that webpages aren't magic interfaces, but built on relatively simple rules.
Because very often English is the language of business, and the highly-skilled migrant visa makes no demands of you to learn Dutch. Practically speaking, Netherlands is (enough of) an English speaking place.
I would rather every developer takes a second while writing out “if err != nil” to decide how to add context or maybe return a new error with useful metadata.
Considering that around 20% of the world's immigrants live in the US, saying that US immigration is "designed to keep immigrants out" is grossly misleading.
>need to be away from populated areas but near water

There should be no problems with such sites in the UK. There are a lot of sparcely populated coastal areas in the north or even in Wales.

>If we started planning a new power station now it wouldn't be online until about 2030.

What's with this desire for instant gratification? The world won't end in 2030. Even if you get a single plant running by then, it would be a great help. Not starting now is just an excuse.
Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
You may be correct, but rent-seeking is neither just nor fair. Some might argue that gold and BTC are easier to hide from scavenging authoritarian authorities - don't worry, they will all be authoritarian and scavenging soon.

The US has confiscated gold within living memory. The US taxes everything earned by its citizens, and forces then to FATCA(T) and F(U)BAR their wealth, ready for the day. Watch out for capital controls. One could say that the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror" are actually fake initiatives designed to track individual activities and assets - a "War on Cash" for the purpose of NIRP.

In many countries the benefit of property is only true because of the tax treatment, such as tax-exempt mortgage interest relief, including interest-only mortgages which take interest as a business expense (i.e. speculative BTL landlords), and exempting capital gains tax on residential property. It is highly likely that the only tax-exempt capital asset sees speculative demand.

The US still has a tax deduction on debts, for private individuals and companies. Obviously debt should not be subsidized! In the UK, the mortgage interest tax relief (MIRAS) was abolished 30 years ago, but only now are they tightening the rules for BTL landlords. However, they have introduced various other subsidies (e.g. Help To Buy) and even an exemption of Inheritance Tax just for property - this is corruption of democracy on behalf of the rent-seekers.

It also depends on the planning laws and the demographics. Planning laws are always and everywhere corrupt in favor of existing NIMBY property owners (often including a select group of mafiosi & oligarchs).

Many western populations are declining as indigenous fertility rates plunge and the Boomers die off (e.g. Italy, Japan). Only some accommodate immigrants to make up for the loss, and only some of those actually have public acceptance for that immigration (let me guess - globalists, employers and ... property owners).
What's the simpler pattern?
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Hatie Haun had a pretty good writeup about this case a while ago. https://a16z.com/2019/05/15/kik-and-the-sec-whats-going-on-a.... She'll be doing a follow up soon. I think projects who got some flak for selling only to accredited investors will be very happy right now.
Good luck replacing those military vehicles that all runs on diesel though.
> There is a risk that simply including or using bash4+ could infect the system with GPLv3 compliance requirements, forcing Apple to publish their proprietary source code.

This seems dubious, since the FSF themselves make the statement that aggregates of differently licensed software are fine, as long as you comply with GPL for the GPL-licensed parts: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#MereAggregation
How reliable are techniques for fixing single-locus mutations in mammal zygotes? I heard that CRISPR is not all that reliable and the risk of introducing unwanted changes is fairly high. Does anybody have numbers about how many embryos you would have to go through on average until you get one with exactly the alteration that you wanted?
The potential losses of a plane crash are orders of magnitude greater than a few lost bags, so obviously much more effort and resources have been put into solving that problem. No system is perfect, and these two issues aren't even comparable.
pymc3 version here: https://github.com/pymc-devs/resources/tree/master/Rethinkin...
Well, try! is dead quite literally. Rust still has the macro, but it is superseded by the ? operator.
Interesting. One piece of information is missing: When are we expected to stop getting older on average?
But then the existence of the internet means you have more choices now than ever before.
The vast majority of the population has chosen that lifestyle. mrmoneymustache.com lives a modest lifestyle and is able to afford it - he is also clear about all the luxuries he has to skip to do it.
This is a wrapper for a pretrained model. Probably a better github link would be https://github.com/naver/sqlova/
No, it's fairly inherent; the OSD is very well aligned with the considerations that would support whitelisting licenses that adhere to it.
The only time my luggage had a problem like that, LH called me over the PA pretty quickly. Didn't have to wait at the belt, and the process was overall pretty painless. Luckily it happened on the return trip, so it was easy to deal with.
True, but typically they do.
Baggage claim in most airports around the world is behind some kind of one way exit point so you need to have been a traveller on a flight to get access to the baggage carousel.

It is also not uncommon in places where petty theft is high for you to have to show your baggage receipt matches the baggage tag before you can take it from the baggage handling area.
Or. Use the existing population more effectively? Educate everybody instead of just the rich few. Subsidize technology again. Understand that basic research is the foundation of later development.

But we have to hope for a rational society for all that! I will be far easier I agree, to just grow population instead.
It's more about future developments, and GF seems to have given up on that front: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17854065
Have you seen any data to support this? I'm not convinced it's true, based on my own experience. It seems to me like what's changed is the range of possibilities for women, who can now more easily pursue educational and professional ambitions rather than settling down right away. There has also been a striking decrease in the social stigma of being a single "older" woman, which used to be seen as reflecting a woman's desirability.

In my subjective opinion, things have gotten better in this sense, rather than worse. But it's kind of pointless to say so without any kind of study, because my own experience is limited and distorted by my unique perspective.
I'm a teaching assistant for an intro to programming class, and I do feel that solving an endless train of toy problems is problematic for students. From my experience, the best way to learn is to understand a real problem, determine it's requirements, then design a solution. However the professor and I struggle to find real problems that are approachable for novices with varied backgrounds.

I saw an open source class called nand to tetris where students had a semester to create a machine that could play tetris, starting with only nand gates. I thought that seemed like a much more fun progression for computer hardware than the undergrad courses I took. I would love to discover something similar for programming but so far I haven't found it.
Where else would Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD (don't forget Broadcom too) go for their cutting edge silicon? Samsung couldn't handle that demand. I think they can pretty much do what they want when it comes to maintaining their business with China.
I don't write shell scripts for nontrivial things and it's rare that I see a good reason to, so I'm not sure that moves the needle much. It's 2019, we have other scripting tools, etc.
It's not an isolated example. There is a perfectionist streak in Japanese culture, which you can observe if you study any of their traditional arts (karate, tea ceremony, etc.) This shows up in the quality of some of their consumer goods.

As another example, there was a Japanese chalk company (Hagoromo) which has unfortunately gone out of business, but which built up a fanatical following among mathematicians. I am a mathematician myself, and I found their chalk to be noticeably superior to anything which I'd previously tried.
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The electricity company/ISP can still deny service.
should be attributed as a "deleted user".
N.B. My understanding of this stuff is pretty vague, but here's a quick summary of the arguments I've heard on the matter:

I think the grievances might be to do with the amount of money paid into a pension pot versus the size of that pot. At least in the UK, many companies offered generous final-salary pensions, which (as the name suggests) are based on your income and index-linked. These have been basically phased out now, since they're too expensive (i.e. I think they generally cost more to fund than the person originally paid in + any accumulated investment returns). However, for those people who paid into such a scheme, there's no recourse for the scheme providers but to subsidise these expensive pensions with the rest of the communal pot. This means that they necessarily must offer less generous pensions to those who are currently paying in and will draw a pension in future.

I think there are also some arguments in the UK that oil wealth was used for short-term subsidies (e.g. tax cuts), rather than put into a long-term investment fund, like Norway. The people who benefited from that are the people who were alive at the time, and the eventual beneficiaries of their wills.

I don't know how accurate this all is, so would welcome a more informed perspective too.
That's not quite true. Automation has expanded at an explosive rate for 20 years. For many products, it takes nobody at all to produce them. How does that figure into 'productivity'?
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If they are predictable then many people have done an extraordinarily bad job at projections. Because there are a lot of real howlers out there then if you look at proven wrong population projections of the past both from Malthusian demagogues and official sources trying to do extrapolations.

Although it is true we can only "add" at 0 for new humans if you want workforce ready new humans immigration from elsewhere is required.
I think anyone who uses sql would find this tool (and a lot of similar abstractions) too imprecise, verbose, and error prone.

What's the longest bridge in mariland - or was it merryland (or maybe state_code=MD), is it in bridges table or bridge, or maybe bridge_specs joined on bridges by some id...I'll just write my sql in my favorite sql autocomplete tool.
When my wife gave birth to our daughter we had a room to stay in. Every 1.5-2 hours the nurses came in to ask questions and run tests. It was maddening. My wife had to finally cry and beg them to stop. Afterward, we managed about a few hours of uninterrupted sleep.
Its a good response, clearly outlines causes and future effects. But I'd be very cautious to deal with a company which found such lazy detection mechanism to be adequate, considering the potential cost to real clients.
Automation is/has been happening at an explosive rate in the US for 20 years. The number of 'factory workers' has halved in that time. And the rate is increasing. So there's that.
Yes, I don’t know anything about how/what this is running, but I immediately can’t use it based on requirements. Too bad.
ABI stability is that way.

The article is clickbait, and has no real content.
> If you want to do cryptocurrency mining on DO that is actually okay with us

Do you disclose this anywhere? Are there any special steps one could take to avoid issues while doing legitimate mining?
It's using websockets so I don't think the speed of the router is of any importance :)
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit is an excellent start.
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Given that I'm a bit of a moron mathematically, I have, more times than I cared to admit, made serious progress on a problem by (a) writing a Python or C++ program to spew out a highly non-scalable count of some entity whose nature I'm trying to understand and (b) taking that count and sticking it in OEIS.

This has led to some pretty major insights, which one can carefully 'launder' casually as something you knew all along. "Oh, of course the number of subtrees can be found by half-Catalan numbers", you say, with aplomb, as if you hadn't learned about half-Catalan numbers approximately 10 minutes ago.
Although, natural selection does have a bias toward propagating and persisting information. Since the information is part of the universe I would say some of the universe exhibits intent. Bacteria is part of the life, inanimate matter became life, life is a vehicle of transmitting and persisting information.

To think about 'us' as something other than the universe is a folly. If we care, then part of the universe cares because we are part of the whole.
I have a couple of domains, one self-configured on Digital Ocean and one on Bluehost. Bluehost has an 5-inbox email as part of the plan. Is it likely that Bluehost can do the same kind of surveillance that Gmail can?
People choose it. Every time you take a uber you choose to spend money instead of walking. All those little decisions add up to less money in your pocket so you need to work more/longer hours to support your spending habits. You don't have to, your boss might demand 40 hours a week, but if you only spend 30 hours/week of that income and save the rest after some years you can retire early on your savings. (note I'm ignoring the risk that you die young!)

Most people want more luxury in life now. The result of that choice is they have to work 40 hours/week to afford it.
Mostly it's outdated.
Aren't the MMORPGs also at fault? By requiring a long, boring "grind", they are encouraging players to automate their gaming hours. After all, we play games to be entertained, not to repeat boring tasks.

That's a good reason why this activity (writing bots) is not seen in a negative light even if it may cause problems for the company running the game and/or other players and the game economy.
I mean that's the case for you, but not for everyone. I've made connections in games (friends, guildmates, clanmates), that have lasted for over a decade. I don't regret a moment of the thousands of hours I poured into online games.
I'm not justifying anything and probably agree with you and NeedMoreTea in general. That said, asbestos and lead are barely comparable. Virtually every aspect of modern life is currently dependent on oil. You live in houses built with oil, wash yourself in water cleaned and transported in no small part with oil, drive on roads built with oil, wear clothes created with oil in one way or another, and eat food grown with oil. To think that we can unwind the phenomenally deep and complex interweaving of oil into the global economy in short order without massive disruption is not realistic.

I'm no fan of oil either, but let's not get carried away.
Not even the link you provide supports your argument. Maybe at some times or for some time it was a motivating factor, but it is really stretching the narrative a lot to claim it is the determining factor.

Is that seriously your world view? I think then you are too eager to swallow simplistic explanations.

And even if "white flight" were the determining factor, it would be another step to claim the goal was "racial homogeneity". People might simply have wanted to move into nicer neighborhoods. (see checkerboard experiment, described in you linked Wikipedia article). White people might have been more likely to be wealthy enough to afford the "flight" (wasn't that what rich people always did throughout the centuries). Even if they were more wealthy because of racism (which would in itself be worthy of debate), it doesn't imply their flight was driven by desire for racial homogeneity.

I live in a country where such race relations are not an issue, and people moved to the countryside here, too. It was also subsidized or used to be subsidized, for various reasons. Also simply mass availability of cars might have been a factor. Remember, cars were not available to everybody for most of human history.

Cities being inexpensive - a lot of factors play into it, probably. Pollution could have made them unattractive and therefore cheap, in the early days of industrialization. One example. Housing restrictions - OK, but also more people moving there. Better job availability. And so on. Your world view is too simplistic imo.
It was in combination with a lack of payment history. So if they had been paying it would not have triggered but they had been working off of credits instead. I think this point addresses your concern that paying customers should be allowed to mine.
https://draw.io/ is great
I don't get why they should "want to work" and why it should be anyones fault. I don't get your obsession with unneeded work.
This is the thing I don't get. Do you not understand that it's not sustainable? That this generation will quite probably be the only one to ever get away with it? That the following people who are 20 now will not have these luxuries when they are 65?

The sad fact is that expecting to be in a high-flying job your entire career and to only climb is no longer viable. Yes, older people will have to take lesser jobs, but that's what we're all going to have to do.

We can't afford to pay for people to have a second childhood when they can still do lots and lots of jobs.

It is also worth remembering that today's 65 year olds are nowhere near as run down as those 50 years ago. We've got better diets, better medicine, generally less demanding jobs, etc.

And I'm 40 and my 78 year old father only really started detiorating noticeably 3 or 4 years ago and would still be capable of many, many jobs.

I appreciate some older people won't be able to, but it's only fair that being unfit for work due to infirmity should be assessed as any other disability and paid for like any other welfare.
This is a good example of an uncomfortable aspect of human nature. Deep down we don't really want to follow the social contract so we respect and sometimes glorify people who don't, at a conscious or unconscious level, and even if they turn out to be monsters.

It's only when the person is framed to be in opposition to us that we stop doing this and start complaining.

That's why you can have people loving Iron Man as a character when they would hate him in real life. In fact the character's creator explicitly wrote him as a personal challenge: someone who went against the morality grain but whom audiences would learn to identity with regardless.

Of course the kid was hardly a monster for making bots but he did play a part in hurting the game and players who didn't cheat, and is cheered for it.
An Orion Drive spacecraft could easily carry an entire city block to orbit in one go, but the environmentalist killjoys don't want to hear about it.
It also helps to:

- Ditch the standard rollaboard designs (especially hard-sided), which give the impression of being efficient but usually waste a significant amount of space. A bag (as opposed to suitcase-style luggage with stiff walls) has major advantages in maneuverability and simply taking up less space with its own material.

- Learn some of the rolled/bundled packing techniques to minimize wasted space and wrinkling.
Couldn't put it better.
It's impossible to mention anarcho-capitalism in a non-ancap forum without more traditional anarchists coming in and screaming into the wind that anarcho-capitalism isn't real anarchism. In the end, the normies don't know enough about the debate to have an opinion, or care, or even realize it exists, and the ancaps don't care what the socialist anarchists think on the matter.

The whole debate feels like a fruitless exercise to reclaim territory that is long lost.
Those communications have more or less been replaced by IM. You still need an email address for things like job applications, legal/financial matters, bills, online shopping status updates, etc. None of those use hotmail or gmail.
Guile has a full implementation of parallel concurrent ML which is similar, but not quite the same as go. It is implemented as a library over pthreads and delimited continuations, and it is amazing. The largest difference is that channels are unbuffered.
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It's telling that it's just assumed that playing DotA is a sign of depression.
They have an episode on scissors too! https://youtu.be/Gd_ySi7mjeE
Is there a website or service that scores hospitals? Customer service, outcomes, incidents, and whatever other relevant data
what if we used just a little of Bezos wealth and automation to pay for it?
> ...you pay for

The major indicator here was the lack of payment history, so they hadn’t paid for it but were working off of credit. I think it’s a nuance that’s very important.
Sure, there are different ways of doing this. But the OP didn't say 'checked exceptions'.
Or simply customize it at no cost.

I've just put some large stickers at the bottom of my bag (normally invisible, but in plain sight when on the conveyor belt).

Honestly I didn't have any such problems in mind; did it mostly for my own convenience - to avoid the usual "erm, is it mine?" hesitation.
Well the show Narcos is exactly that, glorifying Escobar to some extent.
Just send to instapaper or use reader mode (although footnotes don't work so well). I've escaped a lot of egregious ads that way.
Presumably multiplying by two and adding one? That's the pattern that jumped out to me, unless they're talking about something more subtle.