skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus you are de facto asking me to abandon something I've spent years getting good at in order to start over from scratch with something else. The subtext there is "Of course writing doesn't pay! It never will! Just quit

There was no “subtext” or intent to suggest anything beyond the words that I wrote. I would suggest what I know to be two better platforms for writers instead of HN but you’re obviously not interested in another paragraph of advice from a stranger, so instead I wish you the best of luck.
I find it interesting in developing countries the motobike is far more used than the bicycle.

It hasn't won, even amongst the real poor a motorbike is far more common.

Bikes are simply not much use.

Either you walk or you need motorised bike or in the other situations were a bike is of use you can also afford a motobike.
Am I reading too much into the picture? the thing has a "Red" head... just a coincidental color or yet another bit of Chinese propaganda?
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Regulating Tech
I use DDG as my default everywhere, and when I don't find something, I'll !g it as a bit of a last resort.

I'd estimate I'm doing that maybe 5% of the time. It seems to be even odds that I find a satisfying match, though, obviously those are all the hard queries.

The hardest queries are trying to dig up details about stories in the news.
From the paper linked to in the README, this is:

"a new approach for building source-to-source transformations that can run on multiple programming languages, based on a new way of representing programs called incremental parametric syntax. We implement this approach in Haskell in our Cubix system, and construct incremental parametric syntaxes for C, Java, JavaScript, Lua, and Python."

http://www.jameskoppel.com/files/papers/oopsla18main-p221-p....

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A couple of (somewhat) related projects I came across recently:

AST Explorer https://github.com/fkling/astexplorer/blob/master/README.md

Sparser the Universal Parser https://github.com/Unibeautify/sparser#readme

What these have in common is that they include a collection of parsers, which represent programs in a language-agnostic data structure.
LeBron James' School Is Crushing Expectations
Can you explain this again in more detail? Not being versed in SEO ways, I want to understand it but don't.
Related topic - any idea why every single time I disable telemetry in Windows, it gets re-enabled in the next update no matter how many times I make it clear I don't want it?

Also, does VS Code ever do the same thing?
Can't games by default send an sms/email to their parents asking for confirmation?

This could just be something you enable/disable in game with a PIN. I don't know, anything would be nice. With no protection, you get the idea this is exactly what publishers want to happen.
The Last Vietnam POW's Fate Remains a Mystery
Since we're in the middle of the Who is Hiring cycle, what's the best way to post a couple of jobs?
How the Seabin - the ocean’s first trash collector - works
They only just started paying $15/hour recently, after the whole STOP-BEZOS Act back-and-forth with Bernie Sanders[1]. You appear to be implying they paid a $15/hour minimum wage before October of last year (you can't be a leader in something if you only started doing it 9 months ago because of overwhelming public pressure by politicians) -- they didn't.

My point is that low-wage workers are usually not in a position to quit one of their multiple jobs because they might become homeless or lose their health insurance. In fact, Amazon having higher wages means that low-wage workers are more likely to continue working there despite the conditions, because they have nowhere else they could go. But instead of discussing the point I was making, you are cherry-picking one particular phrase I used -- which applies to almost all other low-wage jobs but no longer (as of Oct 2018) applies to Amazon.

But also, the working conditions are the thing that most people have issue with (now that Amazon finally pays its workers a minimum wage that is reasonable). Not being able to take bathroom breaks without risking the loss of your job is not a humane way to treat people, even if you're paid $15/hour.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.nl/bernie-sanders-amazon-fight-m...
I don't think I would ever regularly use a recumbent bicycle, since you don't seem to have as much control over the bike than with a traditional one. You can't jump a curb or swerve around parked cars very easily on a recumbent. Also it's nice to be over top of the bike so you can easily jump off or redistribute your weight whenever you have to.
I've seen a lot of recent analysis related to baumol effect. The analysis usually looks into productivity gains, finds none then that declares baumol cost disease. But I feel like this is incomplete. We need to know why we don't see productivity gains. For instance the nature of live music is that it's unscalable (excluding larger venues) but pharmacists can't be scaled due to regulations. And a lot of the broad statistical measures that that I've seen used to find baumol cost disease can't necessarily differentiate the two.
What's the core transformation technology running the SQL transforms? Are you relying on the cloud data warehouse itself (i.e. BigQuery, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake) to run the SQL transforms? Asking because the transform workload usually dominates the query workload if they're not properly separated.
Tech part of the interview starts about 27 minutes in. In the transcript it’s the question starting with “All right, talk a little bit about your relationship to tech.”
$11 billion divided by 650,000 workers isn’t $5,000.

In any case, the point is that they can pay more. You can quibble over the amount. You can argue about whether or not they should. But they can, in the same way that I can buy an entire truck full of peaches if I decided that would be a good idea.
If D manages to implement sound borrowing checking this will be huge! Brings it a step closer to matching Rust's feature list.

- Zero-cost abstractions: Yes!

- Move semantics: Yes!

- Guaranteed memory safety: Yes! (in code marked with the appropriate annotations)

- Threads without data races: Yes!

- Trait-based generics: No!

- Pattern matching: No! (Although like C++, in can be done as a library: https://code.dlang.org/packages/sumtype)

- Type inference: Yes! (Plus unlike Rust, you can also mark function return types auto, and let them be inferred too).

- Minimal runtime: Yes! (the GC could be disabled if using exclusively borrow-checked code)

- Efficient C bindings: Yes!

D also brings some features of its own to the table that Rust doesn't yet match.

- Higher-kinded types (template template params): it's possible to implement Haskell-style monads etc. in D, if for some reason you felt the need.

- Pure functions: these allow you to statically guarantee that a piece of code doesn't perform any IO and is a completely deterministic function of its inputs. This makes reasoning about a large codebase much easier, compared to Rust where there's no way to statically guarantee a function isn't doing any IO.

- Fast compile times: the reference DMD compiler is almost as fast as the Go compiler, at least for code that doesn't do a bunch of compile-time calculation.

- Compile-time compute: Rust now has constfn, but that still only supports a limited subset of the language. D allows almost the entire language to be used at compile time.

- Variadic templates: Something C++ users might miss when coming to Rust, they allow for the creation of things like tensors of arbitrary dimension (myTensor<6, 3, 2, 5, 6, 20>) on which operations are checked at compile time to ensure sizes are compatible (so it's a compiler error if you try to multiply two tensors of the wrong size or wrong number of dimensions).
Vanilla GPT2 actually does a half decent job of emulating the style of programming.

Try entering "public static int main() {" into https://talktotransformer.com/
I remember oxen being more practical and cheaper but not as high status as horses from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books.
Did you even read that link?

> artificial long word

> coined by the president of the National Puzzlers' League as a synonym for the disease known as silicosis

Nonsensical.
For that specifically, use !dhub or !dockerhub to search the site directly. Really, the magic of DDG is bang queries.

(Search for bang queries with, not surprisingly, "!bang".)
Seriously? Worst company in the world? Come on. They’re responding to demand. If Cargill doesn’t buy the palm oil, another importer/distributor will. Sure, educate customers regarding the impacts of their purchases, but “worst company in the world” is just trolling. It’s this kind of partisan over-the-top hyperbole that turns people off and, IMHO, gets dudes like Trump elected.
Very interesting!

One of the key points here:

> This means that [Ownership/Borrowing] can be added to D code incrementally, as needed, and as time and resources permit. It becomes possible to add OB while, and this is critical, keeping your project in a fully functioning, tested, and releasable state. It’s mechanically auditable how much of the project is memory safe in this manner.
I'm not sure what you mean by your second question, but even though the set of postulates required for natural selection is compact, each concept that supports it is quite rich.

More general statements about evolution (the kind that I'm guessing Universal Darwinists endorse) would be uninteresting to me because they begin to eliminate details about the system which would render the claims less trivial to talk about... although, I know that there are serious theorists of self-organization that might be better equipped to understand how to talk about fundamental truths of this kind (like Stuart Kauffman).

I'd be less combative in this thread if there were discussions about the ways in which Turing-Completeness come about in the different realizations of the machine, or if comparisons were made between these machines. But so far there hasn't been a lot to prove.
What's your definition of an "off the shelf" front end dev? And if you want to pigeon hole just front end developers (I meant industry wide), what is it you think can possibly be so special about the UIs of over half of everything that someone with many years of experience (possibly from a variety of industries) can't come in and quickly be effective? Isn't there value of someone who can handle new challenges over someone siloed into a single area?

I would say your comment come across as elitist and the evidence I have is also my personal experience. I've done it many times and rarely has anyone not been happy with the results thus far. Obviously there are industry specific areas of expertise that can be deep, and I can see where there are times you might have to hold out for the right candidate. But I think the figures you give reflect stem much more from personal bias than reality. Sadly, a lot of HR agrees with you which is why it's it's become needlessly hard to hire/find a job these days.
This entire post sounds like it was written by an alien trying to compress a full theoretical understanding of the bicycle into an essay without ever having ridden one. super-weird tone to the whole thing; they discount many researched aspects of bicycles and present the information like it's brand new.
FTA: “...instead of a mechanical check valve (simple but still not 100% passive), the barrier between pressurant and oxidizer (as well as fuel, most likely) will be replaced with something known as a burst disk.”

A burst disk comes from a different concept than a check valve. With a check valve, one presumably desires a fluid flowing in one direction—in this case the pressurant for the oxidizer vessel—and no back flow. In the rocket engine industry this setup tends to be used to maintain cleanliness. A burst disk, however, embodies the same concept as a relief valve—it prevents the pressurization of a system above its rated capacity. I fail to see how replacing a check valve with a burst disk fixes the problem and maintains the same system capability.
There is, without doubt, a lot of garbage out there in these games for purchase. There are also a lot of issues with the way they get people to spend money.

That said, if your kid steals your credit card and spends a bunch of money on it, the issue isn't the game, it's that your kid is stealing from you. If he/she stole your credit card and bought clothes at the mall, you wouldn't blame the clothing store...
Using Visual Studio for Crash Dump Debugging
Now that I have access to the book, I'll try.

Stark says, "Eventually, Mandarins at the imperial court had noticed that some commoners were getting rich by manufacturing and were hiring peasant laborers at high wages. They deemed such activities to be threats to Confucian values and social tranquillity[sic]. Commoners must know their place; only the elite should be wealthy. So, they declared a state monopoly on iron and seized everything. As Winwood Reade summed up, the reason for China's many centuries of economic and social stagnation is plain: 'Property is insecure. In this one phrase, the whole history of Asia is contained.'"

Footnotes for sources list "Hartwell 1966, 1967, 1971, McNeill 1982" for the info on the iron industry, and "Reade 1925: 108" for the quote.

"Hartwell 1971" resolves to 'Hartwell, Robert, 1971. "Historical Analogism, Public Policy, and Social Science in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century China." The American Historical Review 76:690-727.'

Hartwell 1966 is "Markets, Technology, and the Structure of Enterprise in the Development of the Eleventh-Century Chinese Iron and Steel Industry." The Journal of Economic History 26:29-58.'

(No Hartwell 1967 is listed in the bibliography.)

McNeill 1982 resolves to 'McNeill, William H. 1982. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press'

Finally, Reade resolves to 'Reade, Winwood. 1925. The Martyrdom of Man. London: Watts.'

I'm not sure that Reade is important for more than the quote. I suspect that Hartwell and McNeill are the source of the actual info on what happened in China.

And, presuming that Stark summarized adequately, the problem may have been hiring peasants for high wages. That may in fact have been somewhat disruptive to the existing social order...
Not really. Krita and Gimp are raster authoring tools that compete with Photoshop, though all 3 support vectors. Illustrator is a vector authoring tool that Inkscape competes with.
Voting for a racist that puts babies in concentration camps is a fairly extreme overreaction to someone criticizing the environmental impact of a company to say the least.
What are you going to use to convert titanium into a powder?
So, this may sound awkward but I'm going to say it anyway: this is what globalization enables. The very fact of sourcing things as elemental as the food you eat, from the other side of the planet (whichever side has the laxest environmental, health, and safety rules), makes this easier. It is easier to live far away from the things your company does, and the people it does them to, if they're on a different continent than you. Moreover, by its very nature globalization enables regulatory arbitrage, so you can live in a country with relatively good EHS rules, and produce in a country with bad or no EHS rules.

There is a tradeoff between producing wealth, and trashing your environment, and I don't judge too harshly the people who want to worry about carcinogens later, once they've got enough to eat that they won't starve to death. But that tradeoff used to happen within each country. When it was poor, the production was low, and as their ability to wreck their environment scaled up, so did their wealth to afford not to.

Only globalization allows companies like this to descend with 1st World money on places with 3rd world EHS rules. Cargill and its ilk exist, because we changed the rules to make it easier for them to do this.
So. Instead of giving any arguments you prefer to claim a higher ground based only on some intrinsic quality miraculously shared only by people who agree with you, but some terrible people don't and deserve pity. Nice try, but nope.

I get it, really. World's change quick, people don't. They have life, it hurts, they're sad. We're empathetic, we're sad too. We don't want to be sad, so we don't want them to be sad. See? Easy. Except the fact that it doesn't help anybody other than mild therapeutic effect. And is completely irrelevant to this thread.

If anybody cares to explain and expand what is that moral issue I'm missing here or how is it relevant, I'm all ears.

I feel like I've put much more effort in making that social interaction fruitful and got only lazy "I'm sorry for you" in return. Ouch.
You are reading too much into the picture.
Reading through these comments I find myself rather dazed at all of the complaints regarding $15 an hour salaries, I'm a software engineer with 6 years of experience in a first world country and I make less than that before taxes.
That is extremely cool and they look extremely grumpy from that photo.
Comparing the two does not make sense. If airliners are your standard of safety for space travel, you might as well take a shortcut and just say “don’t launch humans into space.”

It most certainly makes sense. A lot of sense.

The Dragon capsule spectacularly blew itself to smithereens. Now is not the time to bring out some duct tape and baling wire to slap the thing back together so that it can attempt to fly astronauts into space before the end of the year.

Now is the time for careful and considered testing. Not rushing. This thing needs to be safe.

I can guarantee you one thing. If American astronauts die this year because of inadequate testing, that will be the last time you see American astronauts being launched into space on a NASA sponsored platform.

If Americans die because this was rushed, you can kiss NASA's manned space efforts goodbye. We'll pay the Russians what it takes to keep going to ISS. And when ISS ends, NASA will be out of the manned space flight business. The operative word going forward will be "robotics".
Your points are all literally stated in the article's first bullet point.
Yea, it was a ballpark estimate not really a major study.

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&...

Shows several other HP estimates for horses at up to 1.5 HP per hours and even one at 125lb * 3mph over 6 hours = 1 hp. Also includes a peak from a contest at 14.88 HP.
You can probably get 80% of the stress reduction from 20% circularity.
They aren't asking for a wage increase, they're asking for better working conditions -- this is explicitly talked about at length in TFA. Also, Amazon only started paying a minimum wage of $15/hour in Oct 2018 (9 months ago) -- in large part thanks to Bernie Sanders[1].

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.nl/bernie-sanders-amazon-fight-m...
>Doesn’t matter if your claim is actually correct or not? That’s a hell of an argument.

If you eat out once in a lifetime or every day an effective wage can still be calculated. In NY or CA you are talking something like 30 - 50 dollars a meal[0], even more if you want to provide healthcare and all the rest. Its likely you aren't leaving $20 - $50 bills on the table for your morning coffee so why don't you think baristas deserve a living wage? It would be such a small percentage of your net worth.

[0]https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/rent-is-affordable-to...
nowhere in the article does it state "forced child labor"
Try again.

So you are against children having economic opportunity ? Congratulations, you just denied John Rockefeller his fortune
What's partisan about it?
“Drag a file thumbnail from Finder onto the program icon to open the file? Nope.”

Maybe it wasn’t always that way but it works fine in the current versions of Office. I’ll give you that clicking on the title bar does not let you rename or move the file though right-clicking does show the path to the file and let you open the folder in finder where I guess you could do those things.

Four years ago, Mac Office was more sluggish and lacked a lot of features. Now, the performance is fine for such a full featured app and many of the missing features have been implemented.

You can argue that you don’t like Office in general but the Mac port is no longer embarrassing.
BPF needs a better name. It’s not just for packet filtering anymore.
And I must say:

When you employ hundreds of thousands of people, it's not hard to use divide-and-conquer against them, to get them to act against their common interests.

Most of them are not in any position to push back on your demands, even if they'd all be better off from having the freedom to be able to step away from their 'highly important job' to have a piss in peace, without threat of termination.
One of those quirky HN posts. :)

I didn't understand what was meant at first. It's the part at the bottom of the back window that changes angle toward the front.

The link in the article to C-pillar was also interesting: "As an example, rescue teams employ pillar nomenclature to facilitate communication when cutting wrecked vehicles, as when using the jaws of life." (wondering if anyone can confirm)
There are problems with this article.

First googles competitive edge was never from its index. It was from its ability to give good matches to questions.

Second google being forced to share information like this might be considered a government taking of google property. Which would require a massive amount of compensation.

Third this has a condition that google isn’t allowed to remove anything from its index. However this flies in the face of the right to be forgotten, copyright law, child exploitation material law etc.

Fourth it says google must allow people to add to the index. Which is just inviting the index to be spammed with garbage.
I bought the game in steam sale for ₹180 ($2.6). It is probably the best purchase of my life.
It's for when the good search engine is the site's own page.

If I'm working on python and numpy and I want to look up `argsort`, I know I want to search the numpy page, so !numpy argsort takes me right there.

Any kind of web dev is !mdn whatever and I don't have to scroll through a dozen BS tutorials, I just get the specs.
Minecraft is a game about killing zombies and building forts. You just happen to also be able to compute with it.
You're right on the basic idea here, but may be wrong on the specific claim. Basically, trains and buses are also very safe, possibly even safer.

In the US (important qualifier), commercial air travel sees a fatality rate of 0.07 per billion passenger miles. Also (important qualifier), that number excludes acts of suicide and terrorism.

Buses see a fatality rate of 0.11 per billion passenger miles. Trains see a rate of 0.15 per billion passenger miles (not including fatalities of non-passengers).

Both of those modes of transportation compare favorably with air travel. If you consider a worldwide perspective (in which pilots are on average less well trained), and include the effects of hijacked planes, it's possible one of the two might even beat it.

(I'm not disagreeing with you that on a per-mile basis, air travel is very safe. I just think the specific numbers here are interesting. Also worth pointing out that for trips less than a few hundred miles, other modes are probably safer. If rail was used more for long distance travel, it would probably improve its safety record by this metric. And air travel is pretty terrible for the environment as well.)

Source: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/transpor...
Yea I dunno, all of these seem like pretty simple extensions of existing concepts, to the point that they existed in pretty-much fully-realized form in sci-fi (incl Internet and touchscreen analogues).

I should note that I wasn't trying to be pedantic, and the specific example used in the parent comment doesn't detract from its point. I just think that the social media economy is utterly novel and fascinating.