skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't to defend how it's done, but the tradition has been that the "laboratory technician" skills are learned on the job. This is true of lab tech work as well. I've taught a number of summer interns how to solder, but it's not written up in any research paper. Of course that makes it hard if one isn't preparing to do it as a job.
In various countries there are inheritance and estate taxes that ensure that part of a dead person's property is acquired by society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_tax And many people believe that such taxes should be raised.
Taxation, taxation, taxation. Tax the polluter, pay the one who filter that polution. The Amazon should be a source of wealth to Brazil. When this will happen, everything will work on it’s own.
Your wife married a foreigner, and you are touting her bias as some overarching trend? Japanese men bad; foreigner good. Come on...

I respect that you admit it's anecdotal, but this goes well into data gleaned from self selection bias.
So you'd also be okay with trade sanctions on the US over their CO2 output? Or does this only go one way, where poor countries have to do the best for the world while your country can do whatever they want?
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/uber-fires-400-people-market...

At least they seem to have had a lot of marketing folk that were laid off shortly after the IPO
Uber eats is their golden egg. I think it was Stripe's Collison who said that their cohort of businesses - stripe, lift, uber et al - need to first build out their ecosystems then once done, a plethora of other business opportunities will emerge and that's where the profits will emerge from. For instance what uber eats is to uber, atlas and radar are to stripe.
Well, Go seems to have enabled a new wave of software renaissance - Kubernetes, Docker, you name it - Go seems to have filled the space that Java was too fat for, JavaScript too light for, and C/C++ too difficult/fun-less to use for (which is everything).

After 20 years of coding, and having just recently discovered LISP and learned Clojure, I believe the perfect language will be a Clojure compiled to native with the ease of Go (e.g. w/ similar import system).

One such direction seems to be Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp), but I haven't tried it yet.
That’s the thing that bothers me with the whole sharing economy.
Uber’s mission wasn’t even a bad one. Let’s do something about the cruft in the (San Franciscan) taxi industry and offer a better service.
Unfortunately they had to grow exponentionally. So, offering a better product wasn’t enough. It had to be cheaper too. Though even paying drivers no salary and not needing taxi medallions there still was no good way to undercut them on prices unless they poured investor billions like a Ponzi scheme into the fold. More and more money was needed as more and more rides were subsidised as the company grew.

It will be interesting to see what happens now that investor money won’t flow freely post-IPO and how much prices can be raised until passengers jump onto the next subsidise scheme.
Grab in Singapore is the exact same story. More and more billions put into a market that already has a solid taxi industry.
> The rest of the world hasn’t even figured out how to force themselves to save their own equivalents, with few exceptions.

It may be politically easier to impose sanctions or tariffs on foreign countries than to ban or tax their own electorate. I'm in favour of forcing other countries to clean up especially if those countries in turn force my country to do the same.
International funding for extensive policing would go a long way.
Woah thats a standard even in tesla cars. Everyday it becomes more apparent that Boeing is a disaster engineering project.
It's a mixed bag. Taxis are mostly not so great, regulated or not.

Personally I'm fine with Uber/Lyft costing about what taxis do. I admit I don't use them much though and almost exclusively for business.

Maybe it was inevitable that this had to become about competing on price, but these services would have been attractive to many even if they hadn't undercut cabs because cabs are so often horrible.
>My personal belief is that all of this is happening due to a lack of a proper father figure for boys growing up

Can't upvote this enough.
It's fascinating to watch how a company without any high margin business, insane losses and zero assets to their name balloons to a 80 billion evaluation, all on the promise of some vague future business model that does not exist at all. It's genuinely mad.
I recently wanted to use something JSON-RPC'ish for communication between host PC and my microcontroller. I looked into CBOR/MessagePack as well as UBJSON.

I didn't find a CBOR/MessagePack nor UBJSON implementation that was microcontroller-friendly and easy to use.

In the end I ended up just using plain JSON. Easy to debug as you can easily see what's on the wire, easy to implement, relatively small code size.
Thanks for the praise on ruby/spec :)

OTOH, I'm sure there are such bugs where the specs don't cover every corner-case behavior. Specs are added when finding bugs in alternative implementations and following MRI's NEWS for new features, but there is no guarantee specs are complete.
>When I was young and actually had time or will to take part if imageboards, I did it at home and secret. No one wanted to admit or mention it in public. Everything has changed now.

Because newfags ruined everything. 4chan used to be amazing, especially /b/ and their memes (I'm talking 2008is)
There is a YC company that is trying to do this:

https://triplebyte.com/

Search for stories about it on HN to see how it's going.
>Essentially, you're saying, "Everyone should look after their own messes and let us do what we want,"

Yes, because that's exactly how western fibrous became rich. Now that you're rich you want to bar this path for other countries.

I hope you understand that when you suggest intentional pressure to divide a country you're essentially asking for war.
No, the results have been consistently great.

Whenever I see someone using DDG as a default they always turn to Google for more complex queries.

It might be that Google hat lost focus of a few search niches where results used to be better.
I've been thinking about this, and I believe with what we know today about neuroplasticity, if you take a multiple-year approach to "uploading" at the end of your biological life, assuming one is able to couple digital and biological neurons transparently enough, there is no reason to believe that the brain wouldn't shift all parts over to the digital as the biological went down.

This would definitely be "you". I think the main question is whether we will achieve a sufficiently transparent digital neuron anytime in the next few centuries, and whether your personality would change during the "upload".

A more scary thought is, what if we develop human-to-human transfer capabilities long before we develop digital neurons? Then I think it os inevitable that people in power will purchase young humans and transfer to those at the end of their life. Maybe this will be some dystopian nightmare. Or maybe it will turn out to be the ultimate version of marriage, if the two "selves" remain distinct in the merged brain.
They do occur on a regular basis

https://www.dayssincethelastmassshooting.com/history/
An overwhelming majority of "useful" copyrighted works is owned by Big Media. By useful I mean works that provide large value to society, compared to say this comment, which is technically copyrighted, but fairly low value to society. Big Media are the ones who have been influencing lawmakers to extend copyright terms. They are never going to voluntarily give up their own copyrights.
I always thought that electrons and photons could be of the same energy in a way
Sounds very interesting! Anyone here who uses (or tried) Hy? I'm curious how easy it is to use some arbitrary thing in Python (library, code snippet, etc) in particular.
I'm currently reviewing every submission very carefully. If the project would get more submissions and traction, I have to think about how to scale it. I could imagine some "moderators" who are helping me with the review process.
What's more likely to happen is trade wars and maybe even real wars, because you're essentially wishing for destabilization of countries.
How is Airbnb doing, profit-wise? It seems as if they could make money since they are paying a property owner, not a person driving around.
The engines are fundamentally unfit for the airframe.
For every attempt at censorship there will be those that bristle at authoritarianism and react. Then there will be those that devolve into accusing free speech supporters as supporters of specific disagreeable speech.
The first item is an opinion piece from the very credible Xennial-in-Chief writing for brokeassstuart.com with no relevant facts.

The second is about one person who is literally the only connection IdentifyEvropa found between the two groups. And what was that connection? He tweeted a few tweets about it.

https://identifyevropa.org/tag/gamergate/

The lack of substantial links only provides evidence that there is no real connection.
The version of Google they had in 2010?
Because it is unfair and hypocritical. That's how western countries became rich, but now all the poor countries are being barred from this path.

People in poor countries suffer. You're basically saying that they should have fewer opportunities than others.
Good thing I've got banned on 4chan for a whole year
The only way to have any negotiating power is to present yourself as a single, unified entity. A union. Single workers or small groups have no power against a corporation. Just like individuals have no power against a government. It's only when they come together that they can effect change.

So fighting against unions is the same as fighting against people's right to associate since any group can have the same shortcomings unions do.
I don't really understand how a REPL would help with coding Go. I think I use tests to do what I think people use REPLs for, and I don't get why I'd change that to a REPL if I could - having those tests permanent is a good thing.

What would a REPL bring to the party?
A previous employer had had that rampant feedback inflation for years, and reset it one year. The Big Boss - quite reasonably in my mind - said “our expectations are high and you should feel proud of meeting them”. But the company culture was still set up around “strong exceeds” being the norm and “meets expectations” being code for “massively underperforming” so that was an uphill battle. And many of those who had gotten used to “strong exceeds” really were massive underperformers. Really to make this work they should have deleted the entire history from the HR database.
Hy makes it trivial to use Python stuff. Like Django [0].

Most things are just a (import x) away.

[0] https://github.com/paultag/djlisp/tree/master/djlisp
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This. I must admit that I had similar thoughts to u/boyadjian about the world's population. A few months ago I read the book Factfulness, which turned my world view upside down.

Particularly on the point of fertility, the best we can do is help the final billion people that currently live in extreme poverty. This causes the transition from large families and high mortality rate to 2-child families with low mortality, independent of religion or anything else. We are almost there, except for that last 13%.

The population explosion we have seen in the last century is due to the transition, where people got large families and suddenly none of the children died before they could get children of their own. The projection from the UN is that the population increase will stop around the year 2100 and top off at about 12 billion. That's a lot of people, but there is no reasonable alternative: nobody will stand for killing even one billion people, let alone the multiple billions that would make a significant difference in humanity's footprint. For perspective, to kill one billion, you would have to kill everyone currently alive in both north and south America. We can't let Africa starve to death (most of them aren't starving to death anymore anyway), so withholding vaccines or development aid won't prevent those four extra billion people from coming into the world, either.

We need to continue to support countries to make the transition as fast as possible. Even if it is a big risk to try and live with 12 billion people on this planet, that is the only way forward that people will support, and so it is our only option.

By the way, if anyone else would like a copy of Factfulness, I think the book is hugely important to read for everyone. If you think the price is too steep, I would be happy to pay 50% of your copy. (I would say 100%, but people abuse stuff that is free, and it's not expensive anyway.) I can also share a preview of the book to help you decide whether you should buy a copy or not.
> Essentially the entire experience of existence on a human scale is exclusively photons and electrons interacting.

What do you mean? On a human scale, experience is not about photons or electrons, it's about macroscopic objects, materials and a few forces (gravity and electromagnetism basically), and luminance
It seems a shame to waste a nice term like "sharing" on this. How about "gig economy" instead?
You know what else takes a lot of time and it’s a pain?

Doing the dumb tests and assignments.
A problem with Uber and Lyft as investments is that the barriers to entry aren't that high. In London recently I've been using Kapten and Bolt rather than Uber as they are both similar services with VC funded special offers. If Lyft/Uber raise prices the competitors will probably flood in. Some great deals on Kapten/Bolt by the way - 15 minute journeys for like £2.
The point is that the State Blinked.

It happens.

For numerous reasons. Social resistance: the Prohibition, Civil Rights, and AntiWar (Vietnam) movements in the US, India's liberation movement, pro-democracy protests in South Korea during the 1980s, anti-globalism and 99% resistance movements in the 1990s and 2000s, Black Lives Matter and (to a point) the Alt-Right and militia protests (the latter being very prominantly armed).

The state, and power generally, gives up nothing without a fight. But a sufficiently credible threat will make it at least blink, particularly if there isn't a single central point that can be identified to remove a threat. Or if the power balance as a whole shifts.

While most of my examples don't rise to the level of direct overthrow, they do very much represent an armed resistance to central government authority. And yes, that's gone quite poorly for the opposition in many, almost certainly most cases. But not all.

The exceptions might prove illuminating.
I'm British. Thanks to my passport and digital nomading I have spent the last 4 years travelling the world. In that time I have gone from thinking of Britain being a relatively normal country (did some bad things in history, but made significant contributions too), to seeing it in the same league as the countries we were taught to despise in school.

I am perhaps a good case study of the shift in thinking that so-called "Winners" need to take. The facts of Britain's (and the rest of the Western World's) history are plain to see. Say in Wikipedia for example, for sure there's bias, but African slavery, Native American decimation, the Opium Wars, the Bengali Famine, the theft of "Commonwealth", to name but a few, are all there. It's that there's simply no impetus to feel any of this, nobody has the power to force us to truly contemplate what we've done, because Britain and its ilk are at the top of the power pyramid.

But travelling suddenly makes all of this personal. "Made in China" takes such a more deeper meaning when you literally made friends with them in their own land. I just can't get so angry about Indian email scammers when I've probably met them or their family and learnt that our Queen wears their precious jewels in her crown like an evil, unfeeling, global bully.

I made these shifts relatively easily, because like most Western people, I have a heart and perhaps ironically I was taught in school to make judgements based on facts. But I needed to be unrooted from my native context, that is just not going to happen on a large enough scale. What if the actual more fundamental problem raised by the Climate Emergency is this large-scale switch in context? What if we put our energy into that instead of reducing C02? Of course that'll never happen, it's chicken and egg, the motivation doesn't come until you understand the bigger picture. What's more the climate serves as a convenient foil for avoiding the existential sea-change by giving us an all too logistical problem to face instead.

I'm glad to see this article on the front page. There is some progress. There are indeed significant seams of Western society which accept such self criticism. Even though most of us did not knowingly cause the damage, we are the only people that can meaningfully take responsibility. It's not fair, but that's the path ahead.
This lead to a dark rabbit hole and a lot of engineers leaving.

But, I bet, a large and well-resourced HR department, which was the real goal. Who invented the system, after all.
That's a delusional stance to take. You want the US and china to reduce GHG's? That's great! You want Brazil to stop deforestation? Also great! You insist on using the same kind of pressure to achieve both goals? Uhh... that's absurd, and just won't work.

Pressuring Brazil via trade might work; especially since it's simply not in Brazil's own (medium to long term) economic interests to deforest.

Pressuring the US and china via trade will simply not work. Who is going to do that pressuring, exactly? The EU is busy trying to stave off collapse and infighting, most of africa has more pressing matters than picking fights with superpowers, Russia and other fossil fuel exporters have strong interests is keeping GHG emissions high at least for a while... so... india, maybe? Yeah, right.

Avoiding deforestation is a good idea regardless of what others do with respects to GHG emissions. Hurting yourself and others because life isn't fair enough is ridiculously short sighted. And you know, maybe you could think of other ways to coax china and the US to reduce GHG emissions. At least china isn't run by self-delusional maniacs, so maybe you can get them on board, and then maybe you can pressure the US with china. Or maybe the US miraculously cures its own partisan infighting and decides to be rational and less self destructive, and can help with china. But waiting for their leadership to do anything while whining that life is unfair sounds like a pretty bad idea right about now.
The 4-page manifesto posted yesterday: https://egbertowillies.com/2019/08/03/patrick-crusius-manife...
I actually like the idea, being a Rust illiterate i have way of reading it. I like the tone of it "No GIL". I hope it does come to fruition. But i would love ruby programs to eventually be able produce machine code, like tons of lisp and scheme implementations do. Even Smalltalk did. I hope with "No GIL" that should be somewhere in the pipeline.
Some of these deceptions are mentioned in Ken Follett's novel "Eye of the Needle", which was made into a movie in 1981.
Regulated taxis are quite solid in many European countries, so it can be done.
Definitely. It's just an HTML5 video tag with a 'position: fixed' CSS style (plus almost always some JavaScript logic).

Here's a very recent link that does it on both my phone and computer: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-dea...

Though I live in a rich country, I used to have "only" 500MB/month of mobile data. I could open many small text/image websites, but open one of those autoplaying videos (which sometimes serve even high definition on small screens) and my mobile data for multiple days is gone in seconds. I can only imagine how worse it must be for people in poor countries.
The jobs weren't decent before. Cabbies were underpayed independent contractors who had to pay to work, by renting medallions from people like Gene Freidman (NYC's "Taxi King", now under prosecution).

Many reports of the lives of cab drivers, much too old to be PR submarines for Uber, tell the story: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-d...

Uber is not a good company, and I'm hoping they go away now that we have competitors. But this idea that they ruined the working conditions of drivers is just propaganda.
... that happens to be a man-made curated garden of sorts [1].

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...
The ride hailing tech is not rocket science and it is commoditised. Self driving is the end game here but the ride hailing companies are not in this game. Here in Asia, Grab/Gojek etc has diversified into payments, food delivery, massage etc which brings some semblance of sustainability.
>It will be never outdated...

With today's variety of sexuality and values, that idea is also outdated.

>Children are not as expensive as one imagine...

Today's average Japanese young generations barely live with any savings. If they have savings, they are living with parents or very lucky. That means they can't even afford to double the food cost.

Children requires more than food. A private room for example. Children deserve a privacy so they deserve a private room. But the housing price is too high. You can't afford to have extra rooms. You can't afford to rent a house with a lot of rooms and you can't afford to have a real estate. If you can't have a money, your only option is to live in a rural less demanding area where the house price is cheaper. But it requires 1.5 hours between your house and office. You work 8 hours per day and waste 3 hours just inside the train.

Education cost is also steadily rising as well as tax. my parent used to say they pay their tuition by working themselves. Sure, when they were a student, school cost was like one week worth of work. Thanks to the lower school cost, higher wage, and most importantly, less tax! It's like straight out from the Old Economy Steve meme.
The article addresses this question.
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People in poor countries also stand to suffer disproportionately from climate change. So it's definitely a good thing in Brazilian self interest too.

Of course we should do our best towards fairness as well, but perfectionism amounts to giving up.

Edit: also, many rich countries have chopped away their forests and it's now plain that doing sustainable forestry would have been much better even for the time.
I think this isn’t contagion, this is a sustained, intentional campaign by right wing terrorists to radicalize young men and encourage them to commit violence against minorities.
Next one up: E-scooters
I played around with Hy and found it fun but I'm not sure anyone is using it for anything serious?
For anyone who is looking for further reading, the term often used with reference to this phenomenon is "Climate Justice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_justice

(Obviously Climate Justice would be if there WERE just distribution of the effects of climate change - the situation now is probably best termed Climate Injustice).
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Do you mean every thread would have its own place/isolate for executing C extensions?

I think one difficulty there is some global state in C extensions might expect to be truly process-global.

Also, how would you isolate global variables in the C extension? If the C extension is a dynamic library, it's typically only loaded once per process.
Maybe something like dlmopen() to load multiple copies of a native library would help, but it's not portable.
It's a mistake carried over from msgpack, which presumably chose BE for coolness reasons ("It's The Unix Way!").