skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it was. I can remember desperate attempts to look for specific documents that I forgot to bookmark on Altavista or Yahoo . It usually ended with going through all the indexed documents and finding nothing relevant. With Google, I usually find such documents within an hour.
>Most people on any platform are consumers,

Yes but one post can eat many user-hours. A minority of people can be making content and you would still have a supply glut.
If I signed up, I'll unsubscribe (that's on me -- I asked for it, it's not unsolicited). Otherwise, it's marked as spam.
I understand what you are saying. However, I believe your conclusion is absurd. Considering most of the US does not require licensing for a "shampoo technician", it would appear you are arguing for something that is currently a fringe practice to become mainstream. Is that correct?

Also, a cosmetologist and a shampoo technician are two distinct positions.
Using an AI as a 4th dimensional filter to look for things like "birds flying at highly un-natural speeds" or to at least filter out the ones plausibly flying at natural speeds seems likely to be a current topic of current or already completed defense technology. It seems obvious enough that I feel like every competent military has already considered it.
Yes, my logic is flawed -- just not as flawed as yours.
Como+conviver+com+a+morte+de+entes+queridos?+(Vídeo)
Then they're going to need to go with an electrical sensor of some sort. Some kind of EBG that could at least plausibly detect it.
> On a Raspberry Pi, you have access to POSIX, system libraries, filesystems, package managers, etc

All things you basically don't need for a little project like this.
It's more complicated than that.

The fact that we grow more than enough food for the world and most people on it go hungry is a political problem, not one related to food going to livestock instead of starving children in Africa.

Places with water shortages don't grow animal fodder like corn (for beef) or soy. (for pork) The Central Valley spends much more of its limited water budget on almonds, walnuts, and pistachios than it does on cattle. There is some corn grown in the central valley, but it's almost all sweet corn for human consumption. Most animal fodder is grown in the Midwest and great planes where they have plenty of water.

Sure, it takes a lot of animal fodder to get a relatively small amount of beef, but you get significantly more animal fodder from one acre of land than you do human food. Remember cattle eat the entire corn plant, stem and all; they can digest cellulose, we can't. Humans either eat very small plants, (lettuce, celery, asparagus) or they eat a tiny portion of the plant. (Fruit or vegetables) Corn plants grow twelve feet tall and are densely packed together.

There are numerous things we can and should do to improve the ranching industry. Banning antibiotics for growth is step zero, antibiotic resident disease is terrifying, and it trumps any and all concerns about food. Stopping agricultural subsidies for corn is the next. Prices should reflect the true cost, not the cost once you've subsidized the externalities. But these are political problems, not intrinsic problems with meat.
Cloudflare Said to Pursue September IPO, We Say Heck Yes
It makes code unreadable.

void lol<A, <B, C<D>>, E>()
A great many potential escape room customers are not looking specifically for escape rooms, they're looking for something fun to do in the area. So, again, no ability to advertise would be a gigantic advantage to established incumbents in the "something fun to do with friends" category of businesses.
It 100 percent is still this way. But generally your queued list can be set up 1-2 days beforehand, so that's why it's often 48-72 hours, because you're already in that list that's been cleaned at the provider for drop.
Show HN: Powerful n simple ssh2 library
The link is currently overloaded. It’s been archived here though: https://web.archive.org/web/20190731210156/https://iam.mt/bu...
Fair point, however I think that you're mistaking language design discussion in a closed group of PLT invested people, and a blog post targeted at general audience.

Visiting https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/ I don't see any mentions of neither C# nor JS. The key difference here is the audience.
Your comment sent me down a Google search asking the question, "Is cat poop good fertilizer?" Most advice seemed to agree with you, but I found a few interesting (if tangential to your point) stories.

The most interesting was this guy in China who made a custom composting system to process cat poop into fertilizer in order to fund his cat sanctuary.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/04/WS5bb503fba310eff30...
Why is the Continuum Hypothesis (not) true?
>Context is not a requirement of the actual act of composition, though; that's what I'm trying to help you understand. Context might be why you might compose two things in a specific way, or why you might restrict composition between given things, but the act of composition itself is not tied to those specific requirements. In the functional realm: passing a function and list into a map function should work for any function and any list; map needn't care whether or not that function actually is applicable to that list (if it ain't, then that's the function's problem, not map's). Same deal for the "composeObject" function (if Foo and Bar shouldn't be composed, then don't try to compose Foo and Bar), and same deal for the compose procedure (if step1 and step6 shouldn't be composed, then don't try to compose step1 and step6).

Context matters. This is what the type system is for, the type system makes it so the computer will also know what can compose with what. You claimed the computer doesn't care, the type system proves you wrong.

>but the computer is still fully capable of composing things regardless of whether or not you think they should be composed.

Composition as a concept itself doesn't exist as a command on the instruction set level. It's a higher level concept. Another higher level concept is teaching the computer about the domain by feeding it into the type system.

Why are you talking about the low level inability of a computer to comprehend the domain when on that same level the computer is unable to compose things as well. The topic of conversation is about a higher level of logic. Types and composition allow your computer to know about domain and compose.

>To humor your argument, though:

Remember way back when i defined composition as a universal function? Meaning that the compose function should be able to compose ANYTHING. Not just a Foo and Bar and your arbitrary composition rule. For example it should be able to compose a ONE and a TWO into a THREE as well. That's my arbitrary composition rule for addition.

Your example fails to prove anything nor humor anyone.
An Elegant Puzzle book review: an overdue read for software engineering leads
I agree that competition against incumbents might get more difficult, though if the offering was truly superior, it would become known through word of mouth alone. As for not having access, why would that happen? When people have problems, at least a fraction of them is actively looking for a solution, and those people would introduce everyone else to a new category of products.

What would definitely suffer is products that exist only to fulfill a manufactured demand, but that would be a good thing.
The most insane thing is that they are asking you to take the bet that Equifax and companies like them will screw this up again by calling it a better deal.
I think you need to opt in for your article to be behind paywall and if you do that you get some share from that. So it is basically people wanting to make money from what they write.
Canola oil looks good on paper, but there is something very unhealthful about it if my experience is any indication. (I have to eat well or my chronic illness gets worse almost right away.)

I avoid most seed oils, e.g., safflower, sunflower (regardless of how the seed oil is grown or refined) but canola is the single oil I take the most care to avoid. I use olive oil almost exclusively.

I don't have a decent theory about why it is particularly bad for me. Sorry I can't be more informative.
Touchpad, Interrupted
Why are you writing with such a superior, antagonistic tone?
Try to read code that abuses generics you’ll see what GP means.
Yeah, what he said. :-)

In addition one side effect of moving to and fro is that, as a trainer, you have to know _everything_ about your subject (not on the first day but you will eventually). Most people learn just enough about a topic to get by. As a trainer, you're expected to know _everything_ about a subject so you do learn everything[0], which means when you transition back to engineering, you have a _lot_ of deep knowledge about your technical field(s). With that deep knowledge, I've been able to walk into problem situations that people have been poring over for hours and go "Here's how you fix that problem" and suddenly everything is working again.

Also, it's a great way to learn how to present knowledge. More often than not, technical presentations I make within my current company elicit applause.

[0] In a class I had been teaching for years, a student ask me a question about the some command. I didn't know the answer, so I spent several hours that night figuring it out, coming up with examples, and a small presentation so I could explain it to them the next day.
I didn't think you were trying to argue in bad faith, and you are correct that I had assumed you presented your full position in your initial post - my apologies.

And I agree, "incalculable" makes it quite a strong statement, and I probably wouldn't have chosen that word myself.

I think it's important to consider that Google is not the sole inventor, proponent, or user of advertisement. You probably aren't claiming that either, but the way your statement reads("problems of the ad-supported economy and the ills [...] against the value of Google") leads one to believe that you put those two things on equal footing. Google certainly evolved advertising, and is certainly a major player, but they aren't solely responsible. So, to weigh "Googles Good" vs. "Advertisements Ills" is hard to reconcile.

"haigiographies" is a new word for me, cheers!
Looks like it got HN'd. Here's the cached copy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bzu7No...
The difference between having a coding team manager that expects everyone should work 60+ hours and a non-coder who is against it, can be huge. I prefer the latter.
Ask HN: Any examples of successfully applying Pareto principle in life?
Personal or professional. That is also known as the 80/20 rule by the way.
the article talks about pre-commit hook, but nobody stops you from running these checks as pre-push hook. and nobody says you need to run the all the checks that you'd normally run on CI, but just enough checks to get past the silly errors.

for small repos, running linters and such on pre-push is great because you definitely don't have unlimited CI agents, so a lag of 10 seconds for a "git push" might mean you actually gain 30 minutes and not wait for an agent to be available and you also save your team some good minutes with a silly CI job failing with "missing whitespace".

PS: if you want to skip the pre-push hook once in a while, just run "git push --no-verify"
I came across this if you are using Gmail, pretty efficient:
https://ctrlq.org/code/19959-gmail-unsubscribe
Ya sorry, it's a relatively new concept:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319593.php

My feeling is that it's similar to how allergies/cancer/etc often have 2 or more triggers that must coincide to set off the condition.

So for example, maybe people who wouldn't typically have gluten sensitivity (a lectin), ended up with it because they distrupted their gut flora by eating, say, the glyphosate in oats (especially processed oats like Cheerios). It could also happen if they eat compounds not typically encountered in nature, like those present in GMO foods.

Western medicine has a blind spot when it comes to these holistic effects because it tends to mainly study single root causes and cures. We also don't yet have enough long term studies, because GMOs only went mainstream around the late 90s and we're only just today able to start tackling big data with machine learning. But many people were wary of herbacides, pesticides and GMOs because there were no long term studies yet. Unfortunately a lot of unscientific practices got rammed to market during the George W Bush years, and during the dot com boom years before that under Clinton where money trumped public health concerns. Ok and really all through the 80s as well...

For anyone who reads this, and especially vegetarians dealing with IBS, what really helped me was the glutamine powder you buy at any workout supplement shop. Then I laid off legumes and nightshades (especially peanuts and peppers) for 6 months to let my gut rebuild. Use a pressure cooker to break down the lectins in beans, and also try de-husked grains like white rice instead of brown rice, or say sourdough bread over whole wheat bread. Then be aware that the gut is always breaking down and rebuilding, so treat it maybe like red meat or alcohol and try limiting yourself to a day or two of beans/salsa in a row instead of eating them every day. Also the Gundry ProPlant protein powder (hemp, flax, spirulina) helped me. If you're under 40 and don't yet have IBS, you might be seeing other symptoms like puffyiness, weight gain and lethargy that feels kind of like chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. For me, that coincided with discovering I had sleep apnea. I had been chronically tired for as long as a decade.
I fail to see Thiel as the bad guy here. What Gawker does to people is pretty horrid, and they got what they had coming to them.
It’s not worth it because most people tend to abuse them.
Hey - I wrote the original code that was forked (exquisitely, I should add!) by Balena. The original code is just a Python script.

I haven’t written it up into a blog yet, but everything to get you started is on my GitHub at https://github.com/chrishutchinson/train-departure-screen. Very happy to help answer any questions too
> There is a wall that we will hit where lithography can take us no further

This is something being said every few years. There were times when people were telling of 1 micron being "the wall."
It can easily be a matter of timing/bootstrapping. Great idea, great service, not enough word of mouth initially, business burns through cash and fails. Who's better off? Established incumbents, of course. This would create a completely artificial disadvantage for new businesses.
You can buy the here: https://knowm.org/product/
Hope it helps you solve some very hard problems :)

The Zygote package for Julia (part of the Flux ML framework) is the state of the art, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477873

(This talk was given at JuliaCon last week.)

If you need any guidance or help getting started, you may want to join the Julia Slack: https://slackinvite.julialang.org/. There's a very active and helpful #machine-learning channel on there.
Netflix Testing 'Physical Activity' Tracking for Better Video Quality
Amazon reportedly acquires Israeli data center startup E8 Storage
That is site-specific behavior. It depends on a redirect from http://facebook.com/ to https://www.facebook.com/ which may not exist for all sites. If the user wants to end up at the proper page without risking an insecure redirect over HTTP then they do need to type the entire URL.

I would support making HTTPS the default when a URL fragment is entered without an explicit scheme, and site operators should just drop the obsolete www domain name prefix. However, the browser should not be masking the full name of the site you're visiting. At the very least it should verify that www.example.com and example.com resolve to the same IP address(es) and use the same TLS certificate before presenting them as equivalent, though that still doesn't guarantee that they have the same content.
Indonesia Plans Overhaul of Auto Rules to Form Electric-Car Hub
FTC says ‘you will be disappointed’ if you choose $125 for Equifax payout
> Some people were there for an adventure, some for money, and some to get away from their problems. It turns out, their problems followed them.

This sounds like a great tagline for a novel.
I've always assumed that the answer is that due to the way email works, mail can, in certain (rare) situations, end up stuck in a queue somewhere between mail servers and not delivered until a couple days later.

Saying that unsubscribing takes a few days means that in the off-chance that this happens, the sender has some coverage against annoyed users who have one of these mails delivered after unsubscribing.

But this is just my guess.
Sustaining the expansion is questionable but the Fed's more specific goal has been to maintain inflation at around 2%, which it has done surprisingly well over the last 20 years. Of course, we have no way of knowing if the Fed's actions were actually causal.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1ED0
Unless you think that only companies that produce 0 pollution are acceptable, all you have to do is provide the cost/benefit analysis of (no advertising, less employment) vs. (advertising, more employment).

I don't think it's a poor argument, because I don't think "advertising" is hurting "people at large." I think that's a fantasy.

Of course there's some shitty, lame advertising, and there's some "manipulative" crap, and there's shady practices like ad tracking. No one is arguing those are good. Ad people are constantly mocking shitty advertising themselves. But no one is offering better solutions.

I'm always baffled that on a website that's devoted to technology, hosted by the most ambitious startup accelerator in the world, that topic comes up almost monthly, and no one has had any idea how to kill all of those ad tech startups by offering a superior solution. That's a huge opportunity to make billions and make the world a better place that I would support 100%.

Unfortunately, it seems like people are more interested in infantile hot takes and engineering vs. marketing culture war screeds. I'd rather we talked about the above.

Can someone who thinks advertising should disappear explain how they intend their new fangled startup to grow and reach its target market with no form of "advertising" or "marketing", bearing in mind things like opportunity cost and cash flow management? Feel free to include/exclude whatever you want from those labels and explain why.

Edit: double negative.
Good news - San Diego is well on its way to extending the trolley system from downtown to UTC.
That isn't even close to valid C++.
> tricks with patent priority.

It's not a trick because in order to assert priority based on a prior application, the invention claimed needs to be completely supported by the prior disclosure. In fact, an applicant will often claim less than what they can in a first application, for a variety of reasons.
If I don't want it, and I certainly don't want any more, then it's spam. Doesn't matter if it's showing up because I forgot to unclick a checkbox somewhere and so isn't technically "unsolicited". Ain't no-one got time to help marketers lie to them. Try not sending me stuff I don't want.
I've heard that the arrival of fungi on the scene was what ended this ancient coal formation process. But this article says it was bacteria living in insect guts. I wonder which -- the fungi or these bacteria -- is responsible for more wood decomposition.
> Advertising isn't free, its costs are just hidden.

I'm pretty sure its net effect is positive in the economy. The alternative - banning advertising would slow down the economy and make everyone poorer.
Was gonna say, 83 percent sounds better than humans.
> Me convincing my employer I'm the best person for the job

To do that I presume you would actually have to believe that you are the best person for the job. Otherwise you would fill emotional distress, as normal people do when they lie. Professional marketers on the other hand don't have to believe in what they sell.
Inheritance makes generics difficult.

For instance, if A < B (B extends A),
What is the relationship betwern Array[A] and Array[B]?

If you are just reading the array, you would want Array[A] < Array[B].
If you are writing to the array, you would want Array[B]<Array[A]. If you are doing both, you want Array[A] to have no relation to Array[B].

This problem doesn't come up in ML style languages because they do not make use of inheritence.
> Let's imagine you use 3 different marketing providers, plus an in-house one, because you're a big company and your teams all want to use whichever tool works best for them.

> A user unsubscribes. This creates an entry in one specific system. In order for that to be reflected across all systems, it needs to be copied somewhere central, then synced back out.

The idea that it takes any longer to unsubscribe just demonstrates the marketing companies being user-hostile. Let me demonstrate why what you're saying sounds ridiculous:

A user is subscribed to a marketing provider (probably against their knowledge or desire). Minutes later all three marketing providers have the user's information.

If the system is slow, the marketing company would solve that pretty quick. If it often breaks, the marketing company would solve that pretty quick. If you run bulk loads/unloads every few days... maybe I could see that. Maybe. But the marketing company is likely going to want to fix that too.

How many users do this database have? Thousands? Millions? Databases from twenty years ago handled that just fine and quite fast too. Are you trying to tell me that modern databases are slower? Or are there perhaps too many users in the database from, eg, a dragnet?

Is the Enterprise Infrastructure Platform as a Service product truly to blame? Are you trying to tell me that the service is incapable of handling the ingress of a data point (user subscribed, user unsubscribed) in a timely manner? If that's truly the case then I have to truly wonder what else that service doesn't handle well: user privacy and information security are two top points that I'd wonder about. Competence and susceptibility to spearphishing would be some others.

Oh, right. Marketing companies aren't "user-hostile". Users aren't their target audience; users aren't their "users". Businesses are.
Can't speak to the interaction with the Americans, but when it comes to Israel there is an agreement between Russia and Israel on spheres of influence in Syria; Israel doesn't interfere with Russian strikes on rebels in the north and east (which Israel doesn't care about), and Russia doesn't interfere with Israeli strikes on Hezbollah and Iranian forces in the south and west (which Russia doesn't care about).

The two countries just don't have a clear enough conflict of interest to want to get into a fight about it.
It all depends on the type of art.
I'm just looking now for my first full-time remote working job. I have worked remotely in the past as a contractor a few times in the workation tourist / digital backpacker category but never as a full-time employee. What I'd like now is to buy a home with super-fast internet in a small town and work from home.

I agree with the article that this category of work is likely to expand. Ideally I can get some remote-manager managing remote-employees experience under my belt. Then I would like to start my own business entirely with remote workers.

As a first timer one question I have is salary. Most recently I have been working in New York, and San Francisco before that. My perception of salary might be skewed by those bubbles. For that reason I'm not sure what my salary request should be. I have 15+ years development experience (most recently full-stack Java/Node.js/React) and 5+ years experience as team-lead/management.
The root problem is hyperinsulinemia. [1] The cholesterol narrative is far, far off from being correct.

[1] - https://www.dietdoctor.com/triglycerides-and-heart-disease