skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should those of us who are non-suicidal have to give up our ability to defend ourselves

That's a rather hyperbolic statement. You are literally saying a gun is the only way you can defend yourself.
This doesn’t tell us anything about whether having a gun or not is a good idea for self defense.

Someone with a >3x greater than average likelyhood of getting shot might bring it down to 3x by having a gun themselves.
> On the other hand, nobody argues electricity is an essential human right because you need it to fight electrocution.

Sorry, I didn't know you required an absolutely perfect analogy to understand the point.
Are you confusing the implementation of these operator overloads with their signature? The spaceship returns {neg, 0, pos} and that's why the implementations are like that.
Everyone knows someone who was killed in a car accident, and many of us know someone who died of an opioid overdose, but do you know anyone who died of a gunshot? It feels like we do because of the way the news sensationalizes it. Imagine if the news did little vignettes about every person killed in a car accident the same way they do for mass shootings? I think the news "stands up" to the gun lobby not because they are strong but because they are weak. Standing up to the auto industry or big pharma might actually face serious pushback, possibly even from another branch of their own corporate structure.
>Why did FileMaker Pro die?

Did it, really? I still find it amazing. I did wonders with the lightweight version of it that came with Claris/Apple Works
True this, and their idea of stimulation isn't necessarily like other dogs. We live on 7 acres and our old dog (who was part collie, but not full) could amuse herself for a long time just sniffing and exploring, even by herself. And we had to get a electrified collar system to keep her on the property.

Our BC on the other hand has no desire to be outside without us, does not want to leave the property, and will follow you around constantly hoping you pick up a ball or frisbee. No interest in other dogs, just people. And she'll ignore food and treats completely if there's an object to chase or a puzzle to solve.
This is the problem - how to disincentivise that behaviour?
https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1091186386634326017

See also Lattner jumping into this thread referring to the tweet above:

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1129528261254377474
The city has to pay the money back at some point. This either requires higher tax rates, reduced services, or a larger pool of money to tax. The first two are quite unpopular.
That's what we thought in the 70ies. Now we know better.
> I don't think there is an ML which could extract the take aways from each section

There's plenty of abstractive and extractive methods for text summarization. In fact, that's what I'm working on right now, is to develop a news article summarization system for longer articles.

If you're interested in learning more, there's an excellent survey paper on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02303
“With negative utility on average” - perhaps, but not based on anything stated here.

If you have a source, it would help.
Vendoring as practice isn’t common in some ecosystems (ruby, JavaScript, python, Clojure), but I do see more people using caching proxies and services like JFrog’s to ensure they always have access to particular versions of a dependency.

Sadly, this still doesn’t fix non-repudiation problems we see in ecosystems that don’t enforce things like package signing.
For the same reason that people should be required to get vaccinations. An individual incurs a small risk (complications due to vaccine) to provide the community a larger benefit as a whole (herd immunity).

The presence of a gun in a home make it several times more likely that a resident of that home is killed by gun violence. The presence of a gun in a community at all increases the likelihood of gun violence.
dang, can you explain why my sibling comment is flagged, other than user activity? It makes no sense.
So long as we’re using plastics (hence the sorting and “recycling”), the better alternative in terms of what to do with post-usage (non-usage is moot given it’s in the stream already), is to bury it and sequester carbon. Actually recycling it doesn’t sequester carbon and it’s energy negative.
I think a robust charging network is a third dependency. You need to have a garage, or commute to someplace with or near a charger. Down here in San Diego (East County), I don't see a lot of the latter.
Yes I was wondering if it could be connected to the Facebook News Feed changes, and it is also worth pointing out that, conversely, many news sources use Google News actively and at least part of their traffic depends on it.

PS regarding Mozilla: as you correctly noted, their focus on privacy and their deal with Google are at odds. I guess the deal is good in terms of money but it doesn't look good in terms of PR and could be damaging in the long term, I think they should do something about it.
I exercise a lot. But I do it mostly for the intrinsic fun part.

I doubt it has a big impact on our health and longevity. Once a research says regular medium intensity exercise could potentially prolong our lives by 3 to 5 years. But that is it. If you exercise for 50 years, 3 times a week, and 1 hour per session plus 30 minutes preparation, that is actually 12150 hours in total and translates into about 2 years of productive life.

So its ROI from a longevity perspective is really not as high as some of us think.
It's government so that budget is paying for n levels of subcontractors subcontracting subcontractors, unions, oversight comittees to make sure the proper unions were involved, layers of beurocrats who do some things but nobody is really sure,regulators to make sure the beurocrats were following governmental standards, and regulators to to regulate the beurocrat regulators.

86m on a government project breaks down to about 1-5m in development budget.
Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)
A quick review of the wikipedia pages puts those two figures in the mid 30,000s per year. Perhaps the methodology is off but it doesn't seem like the gun figure could be off by an order of magnitude or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
LayoutVAE: Stochastic Scene Layout Generation from a Label Set
They have, its just optional.
>Hypercard seems rather reminiscent of VisualBasic…

Hypercard predates VisualBasic by many years
So do I. I was just clarifying what I believed the original comments intention to be.
I’m referring to this bit of the article:

The values of these comparison categories can be compared against the literal 0 (not any int, not an int whose value is 0... just the literal) using any of the six comparison operators...
This sounds very similar to Etsy or Amazon Handmade.

https://www.amazon.com/Handmade/

I imagine companies like Shopify could easily compete in this market too by curating stores that use their service.
I think it's a decent argument that gun owners should be allowed to kill themselves. I think it's more difficult to argue that gun owners should be allowed to kill a family member, which is a much increased risk, or that gun owners should be allowed to let their kids kill themselves (the teenage children in a house with guns are far more likely to kill themselves than their friends with no guns in the house).
Countdown to the domain being seized. You'd think there would be some alternative to DNS by now for the pirate crowd.
Only counting the mass shootings does not sound like a good argument to me.
I mean it's not like academia is some closed off circle or anything. Especially so within the field of computer science, from the very beginning, everything has always been publicly released and open source on arXiv.

Other fields are quickly improving as well, not to disparage anyone here, with many switching to arXiv in recent years too.
Similarly, why should people who wish to rationally commit suicide have their free will violated because other people are irrational? Shouldn't we respect those who are rational by not infringing on their freedom?
This was my gut reaction, but on further thought, this whole thing seems so needlessly petty that it could have easily been the author attempting to make the other person look bad.
>I don't know why landfills are so controversial.

Well, when corporations and governments say "it's properly lined and safe" and then years later the groundwater gets contaminated, people start creating controversy.
Are there any papers benchmarking a transformer NN architecture in comparison to something like a pointer-generator network? I'm doing a bit of work in this area (i.e. reimplementing papers), and I'm curious if GPT2-like models can derive greater semantic meaning.
Or even from their own lifestyle. Standing up against guns is easy because almost nobody needs to own a gun, and none of them work in the media.
is this out? No Starch still shows "early access" and "be ready in September", amazon showed it will be released on September 10, 2019. The TOC looks good to me. I hope it has a sample chapter.
Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019
> I know it's not a 100% fair comparison, since I am biased.

It might also have something to do with you apparently unironically comparing a framework to a programming language.
The United State has average traffic deaths compared to other countries but much higher number of firearm-related deaths than comparable countries. Something is out of wack in the US so it makes sense to put political energy into it.

I think I would agree liberals may overly focus on mass shootings because handguns are killing most of the people but gun violence is a real problem.
>>How would the police who pulled your spouse from a car wreck know your PIN?

You need to let organizations know a PIN. Later on, automated channels and PINs can be created that each user opts into--like whitelists for public services (police, government etc.). Those could work with automatic notifications/updates for those organizations. You could also opt in to whitelist certain numbers on signup (like public services) once SHAKEN/STIR is ready (so that commonly whitelisted numbers aren't spoofed). I understand I'm describing a long term solution and I'm being very idealistic here.

>>How would someone store your PIN in a contacts list that didn't include a field for a PIN?

PINs are for organizations and groups to store. Contacts are to be used more in scenarios with whitelisting. You may be able to store contacts with PINs that you can dial, but I haven't had time to play around with the pause functionality in Apple contacts yet. I think organizations will easily store PIN info.

>>This system places obstacles in the way of someone who may need to reach you urgently. Is that a good tradeoff to make for not receiving spam calls?

More than half of all calls are spam calls. In my mind it is. I used to get 5-10 spam calls every day. But, that's part of the reason I'm running this test :)
Nobody argues owning a gun is an essential human right. They argue it's a constitutional right.
Of course EVs are booming in relative terms. Things boom all the time in relative terms. That's not remarkable.

The pure EV market will eventually dominate vehicle sales in most segments, and most of the rest will be PHEV. Have EVs even hit 1% of worldwide vehicle sales yet? Call me back when it passes 10% and we'll talk about an EV boom.
Am I wrong for saying that the Clojure community has not yet achieved consensus for things as simple as a build system? In some ways that seems like there would be more up-and-going friction than the JS build world.
Yeah, you only need to be better than past you. Really removes a lot of stress.
I think your comment is a little off target with border collies to some degree. Of all the pure breds (and I also have problems with 'pure breeding' to some degree) they are probably the least like what you are calling out here.

All the other breeds you mentioned are bred for looks. Border collies are bred for behaviour. The definition of a collie is fundamentally personality and behaviour traits, not a look.

There is a wide variation in the physical profile of border collies. Size, colouring, physical comportment, etc. Ours is completely black, others are black and white, or grey, etc. Ours is under 30lbs, some get to be 40 or 50.

I've always preferred mutts, but our dog before our BC was a mutt, a rescue, some sort of a collie cross. Her health problems were numerous: hip dysplasia, pancreatitis, and she died at 6 from lymphoma. She got dealt a bad set of cards. Poor lovely soul.

But our BC in contrast is the measure of health. Extremely vital. But I still miss the old dog :-(
> Why did FileMaker die?

IDK, but 80% of web apps were during the 2000s so so interfaces on top of a relational database...

And FileMaker was so superior...

Seems that in computer we try end to think that "worst is better".
FileMaker Pro is still around.
Thank you, your points about social context are spot on in my opinion, I have those problems in my own circle of friends and acquaintances as well. I feel that those mostly apply to Facebook itself and not to the other services that Facebook owns, like Whatsapp and Instagram. It is interesting that much of the negative press coverage also ignores IG and Whatsapp and instead focuses on "Facebook proper" so you may be onto something. I remember Danah Boyd from reading a paper about the social differences between Fb and Myspace users, that must have been a few years ago :-)
Clojure means running the JVM, and if you are serious about performance and monitoring in production then it definitely means getting into the JVM world. And let's be honest, most of the performance and monitoring tools are written in Java.

Writing the code is really the first stage of commitment to a language or platform. You are going to spend way more time running code than you spend writing it. The choice of platform is therefore more important than the choice of language in a lot of ways, and Clojure runs on the JVM (or some JVM-like solution like Graal) so you better have some JVM experts around.
Oh boy! Wait till you read about the statistics on car accidents and injuries being much more likely for those that own a car...
Multiple Victims Reported in Shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival
I was shocked to find out P.T. Barnum didn't even get into the circus business until he was in his 60s.
Well it's either that or build middleman platforms like Upwork that force workers into bidding wars and fight over scraps to survive. You can either make the world a better place for many, or just enrich yourself.
Anselm's argument was about "greater," not "more powerful." Specifically, was about the existence of "a being than which nothing greater can be conceived." Since you just conceived of a potential being with omnipotence, it follows that Anselm's being must have omnipotence, at least if we assume having omnipotence is greater than not having it.

More practically, Anselm was thinking within the Christian tradition, which also attributes omniscience, omnipotence, and fearworthiness to God. Had Anselm understood his argument to refer to a "greater" entity that potentially lacked these characteristics, he would not have called that being "God." I do generally agree that the argument is not particularly useful because it doesn't describe interesting properties of God and God's relationship with / desires for humanity, but at least for understanding the argument as Anselm understood it, we can fairly easily conclude that Anselm saw nothing in the being of the argument that was inconsistent with the God of his religion.
> Packages being months behind the latest version is a feature, not a bug — it means things will only be randomly changing under your feet rarely, with the exception of security fixes.

If things are "randomly changing" by updates, that means the upstream package isn't following semantic versioning practices, and more importantly, isn't preserving backwards compatibility with their releases. That's a mark of bad software development practices, and it also isn't solved by an arbitrary wait period: that just means months after the breaking change is done, you finally notice and complain, but most maintainers are going to (rightfully) ignore you by that point.

I'd make the same argument in general software quality: with new features, often come new bugs, so by delaying, you can delay introduction of those bugs. However, bugs are easier to fix the sooner they're found, so again, quick turn-around improves things, even if it sometimes causes short-term pain.

This is one thing where NPM is definitely miles ahead of APT. With APT, you get a single version of each package, so it's all or nothing. With NPM, you can specify `1.1.x` so even if a version 1.2 or 2.0 comes out, you're on the stable old one. The closest thing that seems to happen with linux packaging is on a major version (with backwards-incompatible changes) a new package name is created with a "2" on the end, to signal this incompatibility -- how is that anything but a hacky workaround to not having proper versioning support?
Swift is absolutely targeted as an introductory programming language. The same audience that was scripting in Hypercard could grab Apple's Swift Playgrounds iPad app and start learning Swift using neat interactive tutorials today and graduate to writing full-fledged programs. Not only that, but Xcode Playgrounds on the desktop are also a great interactive environment for playing with code, just without the awesome interactive tutorials that Swift Playgrounds on the iPad has.
If you try and time the market at horizons greater than five years when that’s your startup time from planning to production sometimes you’ll win big and sometimes you’ll discover you’ve made a genuinely awful investment. With a ten year turnaround time you could easily have the technical, social or economic environment just destroy the viability of your investment. Imagine you’re investing in a new city somewhere in Malaysia or Pakistan and the government falls or there’s a war. Imagine you’re going to build a new auto manufacturing hub in Nigeria and the entire West African economy tanks because Ebola goes pandemic. Timing the marker is fantastic if your bet pays off but nothing is guaranteed.
Can you explain why this comment is flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545221

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills of late. I understand you all may be dealing with unprecedented volume, but I hope you can address egregious ridiculousness when it occurs. I'm willing to acknowledge my shortcomings (I have many), but I would like to understand the fundamental errors of my ways.
From my perspective, HyperCard lives on in 2 distinct branches: webapps and PowerPoint.
So you're saying 90% of invocations of Sturgeon's Law are crap?

Of course, to follow Sturgeon's own line of thought, that doesn't mean the other 10% aren't worth taking note of.
Compared to other countries in the region US gun violence doesn't seem much higher. Gun violence is high in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, etc. I'm not sure it's fair to compare the United States to some nordic country on another continent rather than its own neighbors.
We are well past that 1%.

Global EV Sales In May 2019: Over 179,000 At 2.3% Market Share https://insideevs.com/news/357198/global-ev-sales-in-may-201...

The current trend is under 4 years until EV’s are 10% of global car sales. It’s likely adoption will slow down at some point, but 50% of all new car sales being EV could happen within 10 years. Though it would take much longer for EV’s to represent 1/2 of all cars on the road.
I think in the US, yes, a similar number of people will know someone who has died of a gunshot, whether from suicide, homicide, or accidental death. When you reflect on it, you probably did know someone who was killed by a spouse or child, or who took their own life with a gun. In fact, it's so commonplace that, like with car deaths, you only hear about it when it is a particularly sensational story. A big difference is people are conditioned to think "gun deaths" means a criminal activity they or their neighbors don't partake in (until a suicide or an intra-family murder occurs).
Invest that money into eco-friendly companies? Or donate it to eco-friendly causes.
Would it be ethical to subject someone to a virtual suicide they thought was real...in order to convince them to not attempt in the future? The technology seems to be getting to a place we could create such an experience, terrifying though it may be.
> I will note that although I have never met an asshole who was a top performer, I have met many who were convinced that they were.

I thought I was an asshole, but then when I read descriptions of assholes vs descriptions of not-assholes I think I fall under the latter
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I’m trying to come to terms with this inconvenient truth as a pretty good developer in my 30s. At some point you just can’t compete with the 20 year old recent grad drinking Jolt cola and working till midnight. You have experience on them, but also a lot of other things that hold you down: family, mortgage, etc.
The future looks very confusing.
On the other hand my toy dog ate through a timber door. (And tried on every door subsequently until we trained him out of it).

The anxiety is enough, it certainly doesn't take (much) brains.
There is a lot of text commented out in the original files [1]. I reckon they were concerned about the length of the paper. Unfortunately, the original images are still quite small.

> do yourself a favor and make the major conclusions graphically large!

Or add the data and the script to plot them in the gzip file you submit to arxiv.

[1] https://arxiv.org/format/1907.10701
It's a dependency for dominating the entire vehicle market, but it's not a dependency for the substantial slice of the market with access to off-street parking at home. That's probably at least 10–20% of the market right there.

Add to that the slice of the market with access to off-street parking at work which can be retrofitted for charging. As EV sales grow, car parking will adapt and recharging will be bundled into the cost of parking. That's another 10–20%.

Once you've sold to those markets, the "robust charging network" will solve itself.
I wish there was a way to "bless" packages when they were reviewed.

I want a network of trust, such that a Google reviewed package is worth 10 points, a package fuzzed by foobar is worth 2 points, something skimmed by a dependant user is worth 1 point etc.

I can then chose a compromise between a highly rated/reviewed dependencies and functionality/risk/cost-to-review.

My own blessing of a package I have reviewed might become a very small signal in a web of trust.
I guess DreamWeaver might be the modern equivalent (though definitely not as easy to use as Hypercard). Can DreamWeaver set up client-side storage easily? With Hypercard it was dead simple to save stuff to local storage.
Our rate is 10x higher than Canada though.
Daemontools-encore is a fork with minor feature updates, and there's also a whole ecosystem of choices like Runit, S6, and nosh to look at if you're really interested.