skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, so it's a less good way of accessing record fields than the one present in 99% of other programming languages. Your own description makes this plain. Let's compare to Javascript:

* I don't need to import a module to make available the syntax for getting and setting fields of an object.

* I can use the same syntax for any object, and don't have to worry about doing a bunch of code generation via a badly-designed metaprogramming hack.

* I don't have to worry about adding prefixes to all my field names.

* The syntax uses familiar operators that I won't have to look up again on hackage if I stop writing Javascript for a few months.

* No-one modifying my code can get "clever" and use one of ~50 obscure and unnecessary operators to save a couple of lines of code.

What bugs me is when Haskell advocates try to use all the additional esoteric features of the lens library as an excuse for this fundamental baseline crappiness.

Haskell really just needs proper support for record types. Then people could use lenses when they actually need lenses (never?). At the moment, they're using lenses because they want something that looks almost like a sane syntax for record updates.
Cut out carbs and you’ll get to noon without feeling hungry at all.
My model is that as median labour power decreases capital and superstars should capture a larger percentage of future productivity increases. And automation should provide huge productivity increases. This seems compatible with index funds being a good bet.

Perhaps I am wrong, but could you provide details as to why?
Granted, I'm no mathematician, but...

If we have a limit of 2^64 for $x, can't we set $y = representive of multiples of $x's upper limit?

$y = 5 = 5x2^64

What's the reason for not being able to sub-divide numbers and operations into smaller, more manageable forms?
https://leo-project.net/leofs/
Australia used to have a very good record on individual rights, but in the past 20 years has headed towards authoritarianism. I guess PC/Statist/Collectivist culture has infested Australia too.
Pacman is, subjectively, the fastest package manager I’ve ever used. Not sure if it’s C vs python though, apt is also much slower on many tasks.
Well, it's wired, which excels at infotainment. You could have read the link domain and not bothered to even click! I'm not sure if that would have saved you the frustration though?
Companies are harnessing the software behind hit videogame “Fortnite” to do everything from designing cars to discovering drugs, tapping into its realistic imaging and its ability to manipulate 3-D designs.

Epic Games Inc. licenses its Unreal Engine, which powers “Fortnite,” to other game makers and companies in various sectors. Unity Technologies, whose technology helps power “Pokémon Go,” also makes its software available. Gaming-engine makers derive a significant share of revenue from licensing.
You just moved goalposts.
It seems like the vision is to turn IST into a Dubai-style mega hub for flights between APAC and EMEA & the North American East Coast. Whether Turkish Airlines actually has the operational chops to compete with Emirates, Qatar, Etihad, etc. without massive ongoing subsidies is an open question.

The move is definitely way worse for people actually traveling into Istanbul. The metro expansions to the airport can’t come soon enough, but even on a metro the trip will be pretty long.
Ask HN: Encryption and 5TB+ Backups
HN, how do you deal with large (5TB+) backups that requires encryption to a remote location? We want to use S3 glacier given the reasonable pricing but we need to encrypt the data with a private key in house. Any solutions?
The value of everything approaching zero is a signal of a post-scarcity world, which seems like a good thing, even if it requires some adjustment.
Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die
Building a Single System Image Cluter with GNU/Hurd [pdf]
I'll repeat the claim from the NTPsec project page:

> GPSD has billions of deployments in Android smartphones world wide and is a mission-critical component in most of the world’s drones and driverless cars and robot submarines.

And tools, to support for example the development of tools like Emacs and GCC, indirectly support "core networking or services".

You can narrowly define "core networking or service contributions" to exclude everyone by Linus Torvalds and Vint Cerf, but that's boring.
With today's technology I don't think you need to talk without a lawyer to better case your alibi.

You have to remember that it is legal (USA) for the police to lie to you but not the other way around.
I think what everyone is getting at is that you should refuse any questioning at all, full stop.
But if you do mention it and make any kind of error, that seems likely to be used against you as well.
The snippets aren't coming (directly) from Genius, though.

> In a statement, Google said the lyrics on its site, which pop up in little search-result squares called “information panels,” are licensed from partners, not created by Google.

> In 2016, Google partnered with LyricFind Inc., a Canadian company that secures deals with music publishers allowing companies such as Google to publish lyrics online.

The meta tag would have no effect. One of Google's vendors is stealing from Genius, not Google directly.
Or it gives the cops time to poke holes in your alibi or otherwise intimidate your alibi if the cops are dead set on you being the guilty person. Better to tell a lawyer your alibi so he can collect the information first so that he’s not blindsided later.

This is if you can afford a lawyer who can work with you quickly. If you’re poor and you think your alibi is strong enough to let you go immediately then it might be better.
IANAL, but in the USA, even if the charge is jaywalking and you are arrested ASK FOR AN ATTORNEY. DO NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS without an attorney present. They may try and delay you from retaining an attorney, but when asked a question the only response should be "I want an attorney".

Anecdotally, I am someone who is prone to feeling claustrophobic when I'm in an enclosed space or feeling pressured by people. I could see how 8-12 hours of intense questioning and not knowing my rights could easily turn into "I will say whatever you want, just get me out of this space."
The open memtest86+ doesn't boot from EFI, which is a significant drawback.
>The WSJ also comments that rap genius does not have rights here

Citing a former Google lawyer, not exactly the most unbiased source.
I agree. VB6 was limited (in some parts in pretty idiotic ways), but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else. While I do think modern IDEs do have more powerful debugging features it was really good for its time, and the IDE was super snappy. Even on some slow P133 you'd type an object's name and as soon as you hit '.' you got the list of methods, no perceivable delay.

The move to .NET made the language more involved, imo to a point where there was no reason not to just use C#.
Put the dog registrations on a blockleash!
i'm holding out for post scarcity, no more 40 hour work week
To be fair, you are quoting an UK site where the at least a semblance of justice actually exists, unlike the US where “justice” is just a business.
Ask HN: Graph Database with Visual Editor for personal use
(a) I want to use a Graph Database as a personal todo list, organizer, knowledge repo.
Example: say I'm looking for new houses to rent, I want to create nodes and relationships around this. Some nodes could be the available houses themselves (along with their properties/traits). Some nodes could be the criteria for the houses themselves. I want a single place visualize all my activity, todos, knowledge base, to-read links, all interconnected.

(b) Optionally, I want to be able to create dashboards that show some specific part of the graph in a very readable way (such as 2D tables, flowcharts, etc.)
What I have tried: Neo4J - Cypher covers (b) but inputting nodes and relationships is not a user friendly task.
I recently did a project involving the "Mint BASIC" embedded in the NextMove ESB-2 motion controllers from ABB. The BASIC was used to communicate between the embedded motion controller library and a Linux system over an RS-232 serial port. Linux was running ROS with code in C++ and Python.

The ESB-2 also had a USB port, but only worked with an Active-X control in Windows. So by using Mint BASIC we avoiding having to use Windows.

Mint BASIC is a clone of VB and I thought the syntax was pretty nice. It had some weird things like a.2=3 is the same as a[2]=3. Also a[2,3,4]=7 is the same as a[2]=7, a[3]=7, a[4]=7.
These guys are notorious for having stolen lyrics from other sites for many years and only licensing them after legal threats. Funny to see it all come full circle.
What about farming?
Can you talk about how superstars would capture future productivity increases, in practice?
There's a great documentary by Russell Brand (From Addiction to Recovery, it's on Netflix) where he visits a neurological research facility in Britain where they've seen pretty clear evidence that a percentage of the population are more prone to become addicted; to anything that is.

They are the kinds of people who could get addicted to Instagram due to the dopamine hit.
Yes I know - but the problem with that is that when you get to court and try to defend yourself, your defence will be weaker because you didn't answer questions at the time. It's bad advice.
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Pretty weird situation, and it's election day here in Santa Fe province. Luckily cell towers stood online all the time. Now slowly coming back. Follow energy demand live from here: http://portalweb.cammesa.com/Pages/ADemandas.aspx
Unless you are an expert in the field, I'm not sure why I should believe you. Of course companies are going to publish only results that look good. But a lot of scientists are going the pre-registered route, and claiming that hundreds of studies are wrong seems like it would require extrordinary evidence.

I just talked to my wife about this, she was doing some research tdcs research as part of her PhD 3-4 years ago. She say's that extremely precise electrode placement is necessary for P < 0.05 effects, so that might support your position that retail tdcs devices are largely bullshit. But the research isn't about commercial devices (largely), it's on lab subjects who have properly placed electrodes.
I thought it was the *BSD folks who were known for insisting on that. Does, e.g. the NetBSD kernel build cleanly with clang?
I suspect it's a bit like recipes.

Taking someone else's list of ingredients and steps and putting them in your own words is legal. Taking the recipe verbatim isn't.
Both of these guys suck.

These lyrics are the intellectual property of the people who actually wrote them.
GnuPG. But you knew that, didn't you? So you probably have a reason not to use it.

Unfortunately, you gave no parameters, constraints or other ways to evaluate potential solutions.
This seems like a similar phenomenon to the anti vax movement. I currently only pay glancing attention to the anti vaxers. I believe they're crazy and write it off because it has very little to do with my life. I imagine I would've done the same thing during this satanic cult scare. Mass hysteria coupled with conspiracy beliefs are a thing in America.
What you're saying and what's in the link seems to be consistent with the advice of refusing to talk to the police at all, and not to talk partially or to answer some questions and not answer other questions, or answering but changing the statement later.
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One thing that the IT world (being a field which is only a few decades old) is going to have to come to grips with is the fact that, in general, infrastructure doesn't necessarily get thrown out just because it has grown a bit long in the tooth. In the US we have physical infrastructure which is many decades to centuries old, and elsewhere in the world there's still infrastructure in active use which dates back to at least Roman times. Now that old stuff certainly may not be ideal by modern standards, of course, but to the extent that it gets replaced this is usually done relatively slowly, and some of it may yet end up sticking around indefinitely.
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The surprising thing here is that after all of those videos showing astounding robotic feats after all of these years, this is the first product release from the company.

From the article:

> Spot is currently being tested in a number of “proof-of-concept” environments, Boston Dynamics’ CEO Marc Raibert told The Verge, including package delivery and surveying work. And although there’s no firm launch date for the commercial version of Spot, it should be available within months, said Raibert, and certainly before the end of the year.

BD seems less like a standalone company and more like the R&D arm of a giant advertising monopoly. Cool gizmos but nothing that's going to find product-market-fit because that's not part of the plan. There's really no focus on a customer here at all.

This would seem to present an opportunity to a small, nimble competitor focused on a specific customer group.
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>Getting a button to trigger such a strong response would mean a certain division in society, those who seek pleasure the new way or those who want to keep with the traditional way.

Isn't this already happening to a certain extent--and progressively getting worse? I think there's an ever-increasing chasm between people who occupy their leisure time with digital entertainment engineered to be an easy--and highly addictive--dopamine fix, and people who try to enjoy more mindful activities. The latter option is, of course, incomparably harder.
Get a dog from a shelter you selfish ass. The AKC is an association of animal abusers.
If we can use GANs to produce believable images of a subject and we can identify whether a video frame can exist between two others, it seems like we can produce infinitely high framerate videos that look like they were captured that way. This also means we can make slow motion video when we didn't record at a high framerate. I think with that, colorization, and possibly similar tools for audio, we might see some amazing recreations of classic performances.
Now I'm wondering if there's been a racehorse called "FBI Surveillance Van".
Bd is no longer part of google.
Real-time just means that they’re doing it faster. NVidia has their own implementation. But ray tracing isn’t an NVidia technology, and NVidia implementing it in silicon is no reason for everyone else to sit around and say “well I guess we have to do it NVidia’s way now”.
It's unclear from your comment whether you mean weights while running or separate weight training. Adding weights while running tends to lead to injury and isn't a good idea. Adding more running, adding more intense running (sprinting, intervals, or fartleks), or adding non-running weight training (squats, deadlifts) can all improve your running and are good ideas.
“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase (2016)
Sure, but it's also really expensive to live in Switzerland. Not factoring in the cost of living over there is pretty disingenuous. And it's going to be a serious project to get residency there if you're not a Swiss citizen.

Edit: This is not an opinion, cost of living in Switzerland is highest in the world, twice as high as in the US. Even if you make twice as much money, you're basically making the same amount. And if food cost that much where I live, you're damn right I'm bringing a sandwich to the office.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js...
He's an old-style libertarian, obsessed with "freedom". You might have noticed that "freedom" in most of its old-style manifestations is not in vogue because hate, e.g. freedom of speech is out of fashion because it's merely a platform for haters to spew hate. That's why he's horrible.
Every defense attorney I've talked to says they've had a hundreds of cases where they wished their client hadn't talked to the cops. And they've never mentioned one where they wished their client had talked to the cops.

Oh Chris you're from the UK. I think most people on this thread are assuming you're talking about the u.s. where you should absolutely not talk to the cops until a lawyer is present.

It must work differently in the UK where either the cops and prosecutors are less aggressively trying to convict you no matter your innocence or guilt. Or not speaking to the cops is held against you far more.
It really depends. A lot of old equipment around the world is kept running by finding and buying used parts or getting something custom made.

Sure, at a given company or plant, some equipment might be costing more to keep running than it's worth and/or maintenance is just being deferred. But pretty much any industrial location is keeping things running with a lot of used parts.
I really love Nicky Case's work. Evolution of Trust [1] is one of my favorites. You can also support their work on Patreon [2].

[1] https://ncase.me/trust/

[2] https://www.patreon.com/ncase
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Sorry, a bit wasted ATM and it bled through. I meant the exact opposite, that planes are likely a boatload more complex than nukes. A fission nuke is at heart 2 lumps of metal that get squeezed together. How would one explain a plane in such terms?

Sorry for the crappy mistake.
...What? That was 15 years ago, there have been hundreds and hundreds of very successful AAA first-person games since then.
Apart from compiler redundancy, it eliminates the usage of vendor (GCC or Clang) extensions and UB that the two compilers don't agree on.

Edit: last I checked (more than two years ago), GCC was faster on more micro-benchmarks.
In my experience cardio only suppresses appetite for the duration of the cardio. So even running two hours a day (a lot more than most runners, including myself, do), there's still ~14 hours of day to cram calories in my face.
Similar for me. I do a light (but legitimate) breakfast or I get physically ill. Lunch is my main meal. Little snack for dinner, if anything. I don't sleep well on a full stomach.
Ew! Do you only care about wealth. What if you took this oerofrative and tried to increase labor rights. Techies are the least imaginative people I have ever met.
Boston Dynamics was spun out of Google (sold to SoftBank) years ago. And before that was primarily a DoD contractor so they didn't need to productize anything.
A few discrete arguments. First, I don't think it's fair to 1. paint slippery slope paranoia in such a negative light, nor 2. paint all Americans who fear downward trends as being right wing gun nuts.

Let's look at a convenient example from history. The progression of america over the last 200 years is a progression of executive power, and the results have really been a mixed bag. Wilson and Lincoln's powers during wartime, the antiquities act, the 16th amendment, the new deal, wickard v filburn. There has _definitely_ been a slope there, and I feel like a lot of the debates surrounding our current situation as a country could have been preempted many decades ago with a closer eye to this trend. (Obvious examples: Our use of torture as decided by administration lawyers, bulk surveillance, military action exceeding constitutional limits)

Second, on the differences between national sentiment.

Even putting my fears about the future aside, I can say australia has long since crossed a threshold I'd consider unacceptable _in the moment_ in terms of govt. control and censorship, even as early in the 90's with the game censorship, which, to be evenhanded, they DID address to allow MA rating, although a _decade_ later, and still followed by heavy banning of individual games. So to my eyes it's less about slippery slopes and more just an acceptance of a higher level of govt. control. As with my examples of executive power above there are certainly factions in the US pushing for similar in the same way there are Australians opposed, so there's clearly not "some uniquely american bias towards paranoia". My gut feel as well with many of those defending the 2nd amendment is that it's become a tribal thing where the rote arguments that get paraded around are just the rallying cries at this point. (And I say this as someone who would broadly falls on the "less regulation" side of things)

To be precise, Your final point about compromise of a lawyer's role seems reasonable and I don't mean to speak on that as I don't have background to comment; this was entirely to address the characterization at the front and defend the position a little.
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It's not great news. GCC is basically better in every way.

People promote Clang because it has a permissive license and opens the door for Google and Apple to inject proprietary crap into Linux.
It's okay, you can sub most any country in Europe in, and still end up with a much more sane work culture than the US.
So lets say I know the lyrics to a song that I don't own and the song is new.

Do you reckon I can't write those lyrics down and teach them to someone because they "are" someone's intellectual property?
> The key idea: that he is an ILBP (or has been in 10 years) is absurd. He is not....

This attitude denies support to projects like NTPsec, for which he's the technical lead, your take on this concept only applies to current maintainers of existing projects.

Even then, he's converting GCC to git, the latter indirectly bears a great deal of "Internet Load".
Obligatory lecture on this topic (must watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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The point isn't that all of america should move to Switzerland but that America can take some Swiss ideas and implement them here.

In Switzerland, your neighborhood votes on whether you should become a citizen.
The cost of living in relative terms, compared to average salaries, is actually rather low. Rents, food is all really expensive judging from the numbers, but you get to keep a larger amount. Switzlerland is expensive for tourists - but for citizens not so much.
Potatoes are quite satiating and reasonably nutritious if you eat the skins.
If the useful open source software development work was not scarce these maintainers would certainly not be under immense pressure.

To boot, the entire idea of post scarcity is preposterous. Until the theorized heat death of the universe, there will always be uneven distribution of resources and some things that are better than others.
Given that the global poor gaining jobs are statistically much worse off than those losing them, I'd say it's inhumanely slow...
Saw this awesome project on Lobsters. I went ahead and ported these components to generalized, composable Styled Components. There's also an npm package at `every-layout`.

https://github.com/aarohmankad/every-layout