skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not that this information cannot be expressed alternatively

So we agree then.

>but it's very efficient to simply use the right "I" to convey the right meaning.

How do you quantify efficiency here? Having more generic words can arguably be more efficient in situations where you don't actually care about which "I" you want to communicate: "I want an ice cream Sunday please". Besides some languages (and I believe Japanese to be one of them) are pro-drop and let you drop the pronouns in most cases, isn't that even more efficienter?

My native language is French, which unlike English kept the T/V (thou/you) nuance. You have familiar you and polite you. Do you consider that more efficient? Because as somebody who's usually pretty shy I've often found myself in awkward social situations where I simply want to say "how are you?" and "vous" feels too formal but at the same time I worry that "tu" might be a bit too brash and quite frankly I'd gladly trade them for a generic, neutral English-style "you" in situations like these.

Some other romance languages, like Brazilian Portuguese for instance, almost completely dropped the T/V distinction. Are they becoming less efficient or more?
Generally it seems people prefer to keep symbolic and numerical computation separate. Perhaps it's due to the cultural schism between pure and applied mathematics, or perhaps it's something else.

Having said that, I think people tend to prefer to work out their final equations using symbolic software before transcribing the functions into a numerical system. Maybe it's too hard to reason about what's going on if your machine is both deriving the equations and computing the numerical result in one go?
> 30K views from random people who won't buy what you're selling is vanity.

Not sure how far you would get in the world of advertising sales with that observation!

30K views from the nit-picking HN crowd could be very useful if you want to refine your product for a wider audience. Things like whether the page loads without errors or spelling mistakes will be useful to correct with the HN audience. You might not get sales but you will get your sales pitch debugged.
JavaScript Developers Uprising
I have noticed most Tech companies tend to be hiring more of javascript developers, Companies like Andela are Javascript freaks!
Why should someone spent his time learning JAVA then, since there is more demand for Javascript Developers
Show HN: Armacmp – compile R linear algebra code to C++
Insulin pumps (and their cannula; not a "needle") are installed 24/7. They can be "suspended" and the insulin delivery hose unhooked, but they are generally there, and active, at all times. Likewise, a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) will provide, as the name says, continuous monitoring. Both use adhesives to keep them attached and generally remain so, even while sleeping.

Hypoglycemia also may not lead to "waking". After all, a diabetic coma may result from low blood glucose, depending on how quickly it crashes.

Source: my girlfriend is Type 1.
I'm going to speculate wildly and suggest that most math-oriented code nowadays is not analytical, but numerical, where the advantage of having a symbolic system is limited.
I thought that it's not official and that it was largely criticized due the lack of test cases, and other problems.
What I produce in my business is an expression of myself that I may or may not exchange with another. I have the right to or not to associate with whomever I choose to.
Hi! Try out Sparrow6 - https://github.com/melezhik/Sparrow6
to glue various cli scripts, automation and configuration management.
Here's a more uplifting pun. https://imgur.com/a/DtTIzU7
A Haskell Implementation of Conway's Game of Life, Viewable on the Console
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Advances Its Data Platform with Acquisition of MapR
GSuite Phishing
It's no secret that many news articles these days are simply paid advertisements. Generally, I avoid the Big N mainstream "news providers" and stick to some combo of HN, twitter and reddit just to name a few.
How the creator of SimCity helped save Psychonauts (2018)
I don't have access to iOS devices, but this happened on 3 different Android phones. It wasn't on setup though.
Do you remember the anime studio attack less than a month ago that killed more people than these last two killers put together? That was done with only a gas tank and lighter
What about payment with a refund option? Obviously this could be abused (and likely would be), but I'd think most people would only use the refund option if the article was truly terrible / clickbait.
Actually yes, it has been shown effective:

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

>We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage—by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate andr/CoonTown “migrants,” those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage. In other words,other subreddits did not inherit the problem. We conclude by reflecting on the apparent success of the ban,discussing implications for online moderation, Reddit and internet communities more broadly
The people you know from China are a highly biased sample, most Chinese are very happy with the way China is run.
I hear its a shitty place to work.
I stand corrected. The percentage in 1920 was about 30%. However, another large slice, probably over 20%, lived in rural small towns and villages where life wasn't much different.

The Rural Electrification Act was signed in 1936. Before then, in 1930, only 3% of farms had electricity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

Electric motors are needed for inexpensive running water systems in order to drive pumps able to pressurize the system. There were gas engines used to drive pump jacks a couple decades before. There were also "Delco Plants" and batteries for local generation and DC electricity distribution on farms, but I don't think they were widespread. Mom's Maytag washing machine originally had a Briggs & Stratton gas engine that was replaced by an electric motor after REA was implemented.

https://www.farmcollector.com/farm-shows/delco-light-plant-z...
Age isn’t the most accurate proxy for experience. You can meet 30 year olds learning programming for the first time or 20 somethings with a decade of experience.
Opposite for me! In my experience, being payed a fixed sum for a project requires a very detailed spec up front and still may lead to bickering about whether any issue is a bug or a feature request. Being paid by hour makes it possible to continuously adjust the project without either party getting screwed.
That’s not how reserves work. In the US they can only be deposited at the Federal Reserve (the corresponding regional branch, in fact).
> Those communities will just be driven underground

So what? Those communities existed underground for decades and have only recently been pushed back into the mainstream. Being underground means it has less visibility to the mainstream and is thus less likely to influence people.
> Note that it’s scoped to Amazon—not just AWS.

Well, it’s also scoped to products that the employee worked on or received Confidential Information about. Not just all of Amazon, full stop. IMO, that’s far more reasonable.

Work only on AWS and get no Confidential Info about other aspects of Amazon and it’s scoped to just AWS for you.
I've used both Clojure and Scheme (lazy racket) and find them both interesting. The part about Kawa that's novel is that it can be used to make other languages that run on the JVM.
Kleiner Perkins – Investments – Index
UK Has Enough Grass to Power Every Home, Claims Green Energy Magnate
Except that people have admitted to gaming the upvote system here many times in the past so its not all organics-based. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of top articles had been shilled to N 'friends' / 'associates' / 'colleagues' etc before they had reached number 1.

If you look at all the new submissions there are many interesting articles and most of them only get like 1 or 2 upvotes. So either its all random luck or people are coordinating it like they do on Reddit. But ofc: I will trust this totally legit website about marketing that everything is hard work, organics, yada-yada-yada, here's my email bro and ill be sure to click your referral links too ;>)
I might be missing something, but why not just use line comments. It will help you and the person you share it with.
You can then show the comments in the separate view if needed.
Repository: https://github.com/inoks/django-s3-like-storage
How does refusing to sign a non-compete clause typically play out? I imagine it goes back and forth, and I'm trying to imagine a tactful way to do it that doesn't burn the relationship.
It's a very difficult market. I have the feeling that journalists need support and more money to provide quality content but the current price-point of subscription is too high for the majority of people. On the other hand, free content financed by ads generally does not deliver on quality.
Business models for online media are still immature, I hope they will find the right formula.
If you focus on yourself as individual, your are limiting yourself to your lifespan, and sure everything seems meaningless in perspective.

Think of yourself as a part of humankind - you can contribute big or small to the goal of continuing the existence of humankind and its further expansion - with your work, raising children, other.

Ultimately, there is no meaning given to us from any source (given that you are not religious), and you search and choose your own.
I was thinking about this the other day. How can I expose my Common Lisp code to Julia.

1. You could take the Clasp path by exposing CL to C++. https://youtu.be/8X69_42Mj-g

This means taking / writing a CL in Julia.

2. Julia has an AST representation written in femtolisp. So it would be in interesting target for CL or some glue middle language like Shen. http://www.shenlanguage.org/
https://youtu.be/lMcRBdSdO_U
Alexa allows users to disable human review of voice recordings
I really would hope any sane encryption standard aims to satisfy this requirement. Otherwise why have encryption? Supercomputers are at any tom dick and harry's beck and call these days for a paltry fee.
In this case, "property rights", as you put it are at odds with free speech. I don't think it would be ideologically inconsistent to believe that free speech trumps property rights in cases where the two principles conflict.

I also think there's a lot more nuance to this situation than you seem to be implying. I very much doubt there are a significant number of people ("right wingers" or otherwise) who believe property rights are the most important concern in all situations, nor are there many who believe in an absolute right to Free Speech at any cost. (The constitution itself allows for narrow exceptions for both of those rights.)
Show HN: Distilled – An unopinionated, drop-dead simple JS testing framework
Also,not sure you'd overblow or bend a chromatic harmonica (I only have diatonics, so, not sure if it's done for colour)
Agreed! If a conscious decision is being made to value the ability for people to own guns in expense of frequent killings then go for it.

But it's usually phrased as "there's nothing we can do" and gun control wouldn't help, which is dishonest.
I've also turned down countless Amazon interview offers. In fact, I don't get how I'm still on their recruitment lists after asking several times to be removed.

Amazon has arguably the worst culture out of any large tech company, and generally treats its workers like dirt. Given all my friends that worked for them, almost all have quit within 5 years. Given their abysmal warehouse management, it's no surprise they have the second highest employee turnover out of all Fortune 500 companies[1]. This scummy way of enforcing a "never enforced" NDA is just Amazon doing Amazon things. I mean, just think about the stress and money that must go into fighting a multi-billion dollar corporation in court. Keep away.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/amazoncom-has-second-highest-employe...
> Citi Double Cash is 2% flat cash back with no annual fee

Citi Double Cash is 1 percent when you swipe, and 1 percent when you pay it off. It's 2 percent, but the delay is like 1-2 months on the second half. As for BoA's assets under management deal, I largely view that as a hidden annual fee. They'll get their pound of flesh somehow.

If these cards are all largely comparable, is it worth switching? For rewards optimizers and churners, likely not. But it's also definitely not worth switching to Double Cash if already have the Apple card and tap to pay regularly, and that's likely what AAPL/GS are banking on. Walk into an Apple store, buy a thousand dollar iPhone on credit, and the sales Genius helps you set up tap to pay with that new card right there.

And daily credit is a double edged sword. 30 bucks a month or whatever you might just apply to the balance, but with a daily trickle it's likely some folks will just dump it into iTunes / the App Store. It's certainly a way to reduce the friction of spending on Apple services. Plus, someone is free to profit from the float of all that cash back money sitting idle. Could be Goldman, could be Apple, could be Green Dot Bank.
> So if the manager asks that for a late project, they are probably incompetent.

Not necessarily. I've seen/heard engineers who take great glee in pointing this out, but they don't understand the real dynamic. The managers have probably read the mythical man month too.

If as a manager you report a problem to your boss, you're likely to get "help", even if you already have a plan. Sometimes the least costly "help" is to accept additional "resources" and fence them off someplace they don't do damage so that the rest of your team can execute its real plan. Turning down help can damage your credibility/relationships which is what you depend on to be "allowed to be successful". It's emotions, not logic.

Or, if you really really want to, you can tell your boss they're an idiot and need to learn about Brook's law.
When I was a teenager I realized a good puzzle that’s a metaphor for this trade-off. Can someone solve it and generalize it?

1. Suppose you want to draw a line N pixels long. It costs X to draw a pixel, Y to copy and Z to paste. What is the cheapest (fastest) way to build the line as a function of N?

2. So I think in general, you may start slow, but them exponentially speed up, overtaking the spaghetti architecture guy.
Good, I'd like to buy property in the next 3-5 years, along with a bunch of other people who have been priced out due to cheap money.

Asset valuations are not in line with reality.
I would be very surprised if anyone in my household did more than 15 hours/week of housework. We did a lot more with babies and toddlers around, but they can clean up their own messes now, and have been trained to poop, pee, and vomit into the approved receptacles.

A lot of the stuff people do as routine housework simply doesn't need to be done more often than quarterly.

Perhaps those people doing 60 hours/week in 2019 don't have the temperament to just sit on ass and enjoy all the machine-assisted, low-maintenance living?

Throw the clothes in the washing machine, and push the start button. Push the start button on the carpet-cleaning robot. Push the start button on the floor-mopping robot. Move clothes from washer to dryer and push start button. Put ingredients in bread machine and press start. Put entire meal in microwave and push start button. Put dishes in dishwasher and push start button. Hop on motorized treadmill and push start. Flop in massage chair and push start. Have problem; push button; no problem.

People have more time now, and they invent new things to do to fill it. If you only want to do 10 hours a week in housework, all you need do is lower your standards to whatever the machines do for you without supervision. Toss out some ant/roach bait and buy some spray-can air freshener. Avoid filth-producing pets or babies in your home. Substitute chemical engineering or electrical engineering for elbow grease. If you do almost any revenue-producing activity in lieu of housework, you will be able to pay for a pill-swallow, spray-on, or button-press solution to any routine housework problem.
How can you be interested in RN if Flutter is too abstract?
Those same arguments were used against freedom of religion. English Catholics were popish spies who would try to blow up parliament and overthrow the government, etc. Therefore, they needed to be persecuted as heretics to protect the common good.

Roman Christians refused to worship the emperor, destabilizing the social order, and therefore needed to be thrown to the lions to protect society.

Atheists couldn’t be trusted because they didn’t believe in hell, and therefore would act immorally, and so should be banned from positions of power (this is actually in a couple of US state constitutions!)

(And of course, the same arguments were used in reverse later on as different groups got power)

I won’t shed any tears for 8chan who are a bunch of immoral scum, but I know these same arguments will be deployed to censor religious minorities and others in the future. Hopefully they are less appealing targets.
You'll need to attract attention to it in some way. HN, when done right, can be a way to do that.
"Low latency" is still like 10-20ms, which is very noticeable for a professional musician.
Agree, everyone thought the "grab her by the..." soundbite was going to sink Trump, but it didn't really do anything.

I'd be far more terrified if there were an AI capable of generating genuinely catchy/hilarious/original meme images. The "original" part is the hardest part of the equation, because even if you managed the "catchy/hilarious" part (which is already almost impossible), the novelty of the results would wear off quickly if the machine isn't capable of true originality.
Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers
This is false, and perpetuating this falsehood without any direct knowledge ("I hear...") is shameful and unhelpful.
Hi, author here.

I wrote Distilled a little over 2 years ago because I was frustrated with the
complexity and quality of existing JS testing frameworks. It's primarily targeted at people who want to keep their codebases simple and who want to have highly customized testing setups for each of their projects.

I've been using Distilled on all
of my projects for 2 years now for both unit and integration testing. I'm obviously
biased, but I think it's pretty good.

The testing API for Distilled is only 1 method, and the full API is only 3
methods. This makes it pretty simple to set up and use -- on most of my new
projects I'm able to start writing unit tests less than a minute after running
`npm init`. Usually I won't even set up a testing harness until after I'm done
prototyping, I'll just run my tests in the same file as my implementation.

On the other hand, because the API is very composable, I've also been able to
build a lot of weird, project-specific testing setups. For example, all of the
documentation on the main site is generated from Distilled's own unit tests --
that way I always know it's correct. That would have been a pain to do with most
testing libraries, but with Distilled I was able to just build a couple of quick
wrappers and I was good to go.

Distilled also supports a couple of power-user features that I've found really
useful:

- Tests can be infinitely chained or nested, which allows me to have children
test which will get automatically skipped if their parents fail. This helps a
lot with organization, and speeds up execution because when one test fails you
don't have to wait for all of its dependent tests to also fail.

- Assertions are recursively resolved, which means you can have a function that
returns a function that returns a Promise, and Distilled will just handle it.
This is incredibly useful if you're trying to quickly build a high-level
framework on top of Distilled, or change a built-in behavior.

- All tests are async, because the majority of Javscript code is async, and it
doesn't make sense for a testing framework to resolve assertions synchronously
by default. I've also put a lot of effort into making sure that test
resolution follows native Promise resolution rules as closely as possible.

Let me know what you think!
Didn't the gun ban in Australia work pretty well? I know the US has a lot more guns (even per capita) than Australia did, but if we started the process couldn't we conceivably curtail the spread of guns?
The United States is not homogeneous, and the current government does not reflect the will of 100% of the people.

It is entirely possible for one fraction of the population to be concerned about spreading extremism while another fraction does as you describe.

If you assume that the people of a nation stand in line behind those in charge, you will be continually surprised.
Which green alternatives gives us:

A multitude of materials (ex plastic in multiple shapes forms and solidness & nylon),
energy (not just electricity),
pesticides (no matter what you think of them they still make sure we are fed)
lubricants.

I could go on. When we extract oil we don't just extract gasoline for our cars and houses we use it for so many things that simply doesn't have any alternatives.
I can strongly recommend Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot which has a chapter on the Broomway.

The book was recommended to me here on HN after I happened to mention that I live near an "Old North Road" (for possibly Agricola levels of "Old").
How’s the fidelity of modern earphones when shoved up your nose?
Number barely go up–has Litecoin’s halvening had the intended effect?
Some notes from myself (the author):

I strongly have to insist that when sharing credentials/passwords you should be using a service like a secrets manager or password manager, ideally you'll use my service https://pkhub.io :)

This quick share mechanism is made for that time when you are about to send a password over slack and delete it afterwards. You know its wrong but its just so convenient :/

With https://pkhub.io/securesend you can send it, have a optional passcode and the message expires either on read or after the expire time set.

The advantage is the message is not somewhere in a text transcript that can be harvested, and is deleted permanently after expire. Its also stored encrypted where only the link holder can decrypt the message.

The link will be available for harvest if you send it over email or slack but the temporality of the message solves this i.e the link becomes useless after the message expires.
I'd love to know if either of you follow through with this. Sounds interesting.
Mindframing: A Personal Growth Framework
It depends on the value you can deliver. If you are valuable enough, a negotiation takes place. If you're a cog, the job offer will be rescinded. Never give notice at your current gig until you've seen everything you'll be required to sign at your new gig.
I'd still like to hear from the planb guy.
Amazon is not the only company to sue over this, Microsoft successfully sued as well[0].

In fact, several large companies have pushed to keep these non-competes in place in Washington State[1].

I don't think it's fair to focus only on Amazon. The reality is that in Washington State, this benefits many large corporations ( while being harmful to employees ) so it is the company's incentive to try and keep the non-compete as broad and ambiguous as possible.

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2671108/microsoft-sues-goo...

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/tech-leaders-sound-off-washing...
[citation needed]

All of my experience as a user and developer points me the other way, so I'll need some proof to be convinced.