skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right to explore something else and I'm not aware of anything better than Elixir/Phoenix in the Web Framework world currently. It's incredibly well thought out and an absolute joy to use once you get through the initial learning curve.

I spent many years doing Python before getting talked into learning Clojure and it was incredibly eye-opening and made me a much better developer, so there is no bigger partisan than me for trying something completely different to your current skill-set. Give it a go!
Storage is already at a premium since the US-China trade war. Not enough storage facilities. Maybe the US should cut from the productiob subsidies and subsidize short term storage?
Seems like the Googler just expressed their own experience. You might be implicitly falling for the point you are trying to make?
I think this is not rigorous enough to draw any real conclusions.

If he had done a proper job of reproducing he would have created a write-up of his work explaining his reproduction methodology. The next step would be to get his work peer reviewed.

I think only then you have come close to the amount of analysis and rigour necessary to discredit so many authors of (possibly peer reviewed scientific articles) academic research.

The fact that he mentions that he doesn't know what a meta analysis is in the comments suggests that possibly _his_ results might not be what he purports them to be.
HTTP these days (via WebSockets) allows for the creation of stateful connections. My idea is that HTTP will just expand to encompass any remaining non-HTTP use cases. HTTP isn't even coupled to TCO anymore!
Can we start publicly shaming the people who are standing in the way of preserving the species? It is a matter of the long term survival of civilization. Their feelings do not matter anymore.
Yes, because corn grows in 3 days when you realize there's a shortage, there won't also be a seed shortage, or a labor shortage, when you want that furloughed land to start producing.

And panic buying also isn't a thing.

It sounds like you're just about qualified to go write a little red book with your deep insights into something you don't understand and get millions of people killed from famine, have history repeat itself. Maybe we should cull all the sparrows too? Real pests I hear.
Elixir compiles down to the same Erlang Abstract Format as Erlang itself, so performance should be the same.
https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/A-Cent...
Oh jesus, TIL. Thanks for sharing.
There are many ways. You can look up by radicals, 4-corner code or simply draw the kanji on the screen.

Better to have instant dictionary lookup if you're on the phone or laptop than a regular paper dictionary.
The biosphere only cares about absolute numbers.
Between Elixir and Erlang, there's no difference because it's all BEAM bytecode when it runs.

Between arbitrary individual functions you might encounter, there can be differences, but only in the sense that it could happen between Erlang and Erlang if the functions had different implementations or degrees of optimization or optimization choices.

Worth noting for prospective adopters is that you can seamlessly call Erlang functions from Elixir by adding a : prefix, such as :random.uniform(), and there's no weird overhead or surprises involved.
Go further east and it's the same. There's also no sun and the gas is expensive or from Russia. Pro west countries don't want to depend on Russian gas. The whole world is complex and energy sector just mirrors it. Hence the change is difficult to overcome and many people don't see or understand why. Everyone would love to be green and carbon free, that's not the question.
The point was about their territories proper, not overseas colonies.
Disclaimer: native Chinese speaker, knows some Japanese, English sufferer

Putting aside the argument of whether removing all Hanzi from Japanese text would actually be more efficient or not, the question to me is: why stop at Hanzi? Why not romanizating all the Japanese literature? Surely almost all the reasoning in favor of getting rid of Hanzi can also apply here?

edit: grammar
In one of Hannu Rajaniemi's dystopian futures, people sell "API access" to their brains. And ultimately, after uploading, are sold as digital slaves. Used as components of Kubernetes-like clusters.
Can you give an example of a piece of software of reasonable complexity (network/file handling, etc) that has solidified like this?
The "alphabetical" order is based on the sound of the word. If you are trying to look up a kanji you don't know in a traditional dictionary, you generally look it up by the radicals (parts) of the kanji or the number of strokes of the character, but most people these days use an electronic dictionary where you draw the kanji to look it up.
you need this 1% efficiency boost? one percent
Wondering if it could be your isp prioritization being lower because of the not http(s) port.
The majority of the excess psych grads did so because it was an "easy" degree. Few are qualified for work in the field. This is accounted for by the hard to enter graduate programs.
I've read through the linked paper and I can't understand where they get the assertion of 777 characters give 90% coverage. The original paper isn't even about that topic, but rather comparing and contrasting a corpus created in 1994 with a corpus created in 1962 and 1976.
I started with Node and Backbone (then React) and then really got into Rails for a side project and then went to Elixir in 2016.

Especially if you've used ImmutableJS, I don't think you'll have a hard time with Elixir.

One thing I don't miss about Node is that there are a lot of choices different teams make differently. In Rails or Phoenix (and I'd assume Django), it's a lot more likely that you can jump into an existing project and mostly know where everything is.
>Only way to make it stop is to overall stop funding the system. Vote for lower taxes etc.

Trump cut taxes last year. How's that working out?
Famines are closely correlated with weather and solar output disruption. I pretty much doubt subsidies can counter something like the Dalton minimum.
Russian government needed to use it's leverage on a telco to break into political activist's Telegrams[2] about the same time some script kiddies easily broke into dozen of celebs' iClouds.

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/74d5ce00-12dd-11e6-839f-292294709...
I mean, JMAP is Fastmail's project, and this is a post on Fastmail's site. Still a little off topic though
I agree with you. I was in high school a couple years ago, and lucky enough to take cs classes. What I experienced was not good. Most of the kids just showed up, did the projects, passed tests, and got A's. But they were not good programmers. They were just going through the motions, if you gave them something slightly outside their knowledge, they would likely just give up.

I think there's something fundamentally wrong with the way cs is taught, but its hard to teach computers in a class setting. You really need to inspire that deep interest that so many of us have in computers, and it's very tough to get at that in the modern day. Because of the overload of information and media that kids are getting thrown at them these days. It's very easy to sit down 20 kids and make a game in scratch, and call it computer science.

We should have kids use technologies that professionals use in their work. Setup a flask web server, write a scraper, use apis, etc. Stop dumbing down things, expect more from the younger generation. Those coding bootcamps sure as heck don't teach scratch right?
1% drivetrain efficiency using fancy expensive fragile materials ... or $100 300W hub motor for effortless commute? choices choices
Has anybody seen the "upgrade" that AM/PM (at least in California) to their pump terminals in the past 12 months or so. It is a breathtakingly poor UX and use of hardware.

I am pretty sure that the approximately 10 inch screens are color and reasonable resolution but the UI is entirely character-based and often manages to obscure what little text is presented by placing it close enough to the border that the outer frame easily hides it (at my height) leaving about 90% of the screen unused -- the easily visible part.

Not sure what happened on this project. I figured they would roll out v2 of the firmware/software shortly after I first saw it. Nothing so far.
Political incorrectness will follow.

Being a loser with no money and/or friends, possessions, status, whatever, will affect your ability to influence greatly.

I find a lot of activist types are afraid of wealth or status, which usually translates to them having none. Unwashed, bearded folks are an anti-example. We need well-adjusted, respectable, active, socially able members of society setting an example.

Once the cool kids go green, everyone will. Make it cool, make it have status, make it hip. Think Tesla.
> Fighting against surveillance

So all they would need to do is run an object detection API to put the box on the car, and only then apply OCR. Car detection is probably 99% accurate. They can do it with off the shelf implementations of Faster R-CNN or other architectures. Not to mention that they wouldn't be looking for plate numbers on the sidewalk, they would point surveillance to the street.
But what's the rationale behind keeping meat price low.

We know meat can be easily substituted with plant based diet, so no one will starve.

Meat processing is also resource intensive (for example, it needs large amount of water).

We need to price in externalities, even the methane gas released by cattles should be calculated and put on the prices of meat as a tax.
Oh trust me, "Big Water" is very much a thing. I've met a guy who runs a coke bottling plant; he could hardly believe his luck. They literally just run the existing stuff dry, and it's got massive margins.
Honest question: Has anyone not used FTP in PASV mode in the last 20 years over the internet?

I think it's pretty much a given since most clients change to PASV mode as a first step. And it's rare that people have a port open to them (behind all firewalls, etc)
Some definite inflation to mean slipping value relative to a benchmark basket of goods, in which case I think gold has historically been deflationary.
User space threads and corouting is pretty much the right abstraction for application code.

Async can be useful when more control over the details of execution is needed.
I'm sorry that this comment got downvoted because I actually think this is a valid point even if I'm about to offer my perspective on why it shouldn't be a concern. We shouldn't be so thin-skinned.

Nothing you weren't expecting, but: like many libraries which shipped with Rails, you can easily turn it off with a single comment character and never have to think about it again. In this sense, it's a tempest in a teapot. I never got excited about CoffeeScript, so I just commented it out.

Big picture, Rails is often mistaken for a product but it is quite literally just a set of useful abstractions from Basecamp that hit critical mass when Basecamp launched. If other people find it useful, great - but that's never been the MO.

Now, obviously Rails also has a life of its' own, and that's where the idea of convention over configuation kicks in. Basically, DHH has strongly-held opinions about the way things should be done to maximize the experience of building. The new multi-db support is another example of something that people have been building their own versions of since forever; by offering an opinionated generalized take on how the experts would do it, we all benefit from not having to reinvent the wheel.

I honestly believe that this is why Rails is both successful and enduring. I love seeing all of the comments from people who were seduced by SPAs and are finding their way back to SSR Rails. The productivity and ease of hiring is just unparalleled, and commenting out ActiveText or whatever else you don't need takes away none of that.
No, it's not. In fact, bills which actually want to be bipartisan often go out of their way to make around half of the original, top-line sponsors from each party.
Good question. Republicans in particular need to worry about primary challenges in their science-illiterate districts, and many may be wary of attaching their name to this directly. But there are a good handful of deep red congresspeople who are happy to discuss policy details around carbon pricing, even if they can't politically afford cosponsorship [0]. I imagine that several of those may be willing to vote for such a bill. This is why it's particularly important to write to conservative lawmakers – most of them understand that this makes economic sense, but citizens have to demonstrate to them that they won't lose votes over this kind of legislation.

Also, consider that if Democrats gain control of the Senate in 2020, they can pass this easily, and once such a fee-and-dividend scheme is around for a few years, it will likely become very popular with citizens (because of the dividends [1]) and big business (because of the predictability, compared to regulations/bans/subsidies/political favoritism [2]), so it won't be easy to get rid of it again. Instead, the battleground will shift, as we currently see in Canada, to "how fast do we increase the price per ton?" and "which industries get special treatment?".

[0] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/

[1] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/household-impact-study/

[2] https://www.clcouncil.org/
Third paragraph:

"The findings are in line with those of European scientists at the Copernicus Climate Change Service, who said earlier this month that July was 0.07 degree Fahrenheit higher than three years ago. Copernicus, NOAA and other agencies around the world use different sets of temperature data in their calculations. NOAA’s dates to 1880."
Montreal Protocol was a success. We already have a legislative framework, starting with Kyoto Protocol. What is needed is technical alternatives that made Montreal Protocol a success, i.e. innovation.
Afterthought: Kawaii (cute) is actually 可愛い, also containing "可", which literally may mean something like "a thing that can be easily loved", or simpler, cute. But you wouldn't be able to guess that if you just know the Kanji.
Or follow Mumbai and ban eating cows (or make it really expensive). Seriously, pivoting to chicken at scale is more straightforward and has more predictable outcomes.
Validation of UIDs is thankfully something I don't have to worry about. It looks like a total nightmare.
Maybe, but then this debate would have been happening in media.

I guess some of them thought it wouldn't be good for the stock price and others just believed the outrage without reading for themselves?
Try asking someone close to you if they notice a difference. I went through a long stint of daily meditation a few years ago but I eventually lost the habit. A while afterwards my wife randomly said, "I wish you still meditated. You were nicer when you did." I was taken aback.
I encourage you to spend some time getting to know the linux command line. I had a similar path and I gained the most enlightenment (and productivity) when a got some help from a good mentor and learned how to find my way around. Menial digital tasks that most people suffer through all day turn into small puzzles with big rewards: you get your day back. Sure, maybe half of it went to figuring out a syntax error, but then the rest of the days get to benefit from that work. Moreover, you learn the most when trying to fix that little bug, and you're better for it the next time.

Stuff like renaming 200 files, or converting 200 images to a different size, or normalizing 200 audio files you recorded yesterday, or finding the right few words in 200 files all can be done with minutes of effort once you unlock those powers. I use 200 because that's about how many times people are willing to sit there and bang out something manually. Tasks larger than that people tend to give up on, or buy a tool to help. The neat thing is, the same solution for 200 items could be applied to 200 million items without changes.

I would love for the full power of the CLI to be available to everybody without training. Until that gift comes from on high, we use the tools we have, GUI or text or SMS or whatever. Today you can pick your path.

The internet does unlock all of those doors to those who want to learn. There are incredible resources for learning new things and fixing problems that others have ran into. Reading man pages and printed manuals may be fun for some, but I'd rather search for answers, and chip in some when I can.
> A worst-case scenario for the US is higher interest rates [wiping out current bond investors] combined with lower equities [wiping out current stock investors]. This yields inflation and removes the levers of economic control from the federal reserve -- it could be devastating.

I think "wiping out" is grossly overstated, but setting that aside... why do you think this yields inflation and removes the levers of economic control from the federal reserve?

I have the opposite conclusion, but I'm not sure.

It seems to me that if rates are higher and stocks are lower, that should make both of those more appealing investments, which would cause more dollars to flow into financial assets. Which would continue the existing trend whereby the financial world soaks up the excess dollars and very little of it gets into the "real economy" where it would increase wages of workers and cause inflation.
My son and all his friends just use discord. they are a mix of android and ios, discord or another third party app meets their needs.
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The most popular websites in the U.S. where users share content are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram (Facebook's subsidiary), Reddit, Twitch, then arguably Imgur which is more a hosting site of images for other services, and maybe even iTunes for podcasts. You can monetize your content on most of these sites but if you get banned from say YouTube, your audience just dropped from the whole country to say half of the country. To compare to the real world, imagine if you were banned from speaking where half of the country lives. Besides the fact you can't get your message out even to those who want to hear it, but that your income is earned from speaking and now you can't reach your audience. These are real concerns for most content creators now that their voice and livelihood relies on these services. There is a point where we can decide these companies have too much control. Whether it be by site visits, % of total internet audience, or number of accounts/reach... YouTube has more accounts than the entire population of the U.S. Maybe that could be the threshold where we consider a company should be a 'public forum' or subject to meet certain free speech standards/regulations with their policies.
Thought I'd go find out if I was being particularly insensitive or if people were clutching their pearls a bit tightly. Couldn't find many examples, but here they are in the wild and not causing any noticable problems.

Firstly, twatproof, from reply #14 in the Festool owner's group to a question about dovetails:

>"I just had a go with the Festool jig and it's the most twatproof solution I've ever seen."

https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/hand-tools/advice-sought-...

and secondly, cuntproof, on twitter, with someone called Wiryjack describing the term to the award winning writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald:

>"A mechanic I used to know described things as 'cuntproof', which I took to mean foolproof but extra robust to deter the malicious as well as the stupid."

https://twitter.com/Wiryjack/status/938755264815271938

I may note that Helen Macdonald apparently considers cuntproof to be an excellent term, well worth adding to her vocabulary.
Thanks for the feedback for my site launch on Hacker News
Without trying to be inflammatory, and I truly mean that... One interpretation of what you're saying is that poor blacks are regressive. But, I assume what you really meant is that poor whites are regressive?

I've also lived in Georgia, and not in Atlanta, but in Augusta and Macon with a sprinkling of Savannah, as a relatively poor person (average white male) during their early 20s, if you want some context behind what I'm saying...
I’m not a member either, just lurking.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched servers die and witnessed friends misconfiguring firewalls.
especially since it's the highest entropy words that are missing, by definition... so you always get hit the hardest
Shame is an unpredictable and often counterproductive motivator. Much more reliable in shaping human behavior are greed and terror. Make of that what you will.
I do all my work in vim ;)

I'm not saying the command line isn't useful, it's insanely useful to me, but I and presumably you are the 0.5% of people that do things like batch organising thousands of files. Most people will just have a basic folder structure on a cloud service somewhere and they're fine with that.

My point is that the general population doesn't need to be exposed to the command line to be able to go deeper into learning computers. Those who need it will hopefully find it.
the point is to tell a story, so unless you have a budget that can accommodate analog don't waste your time with analog. tell your story the easiest way possible, don't complicate things unless you can afford it or, or you lessen your chances of success significantly.
I moved to LA for work, but I've stayed for the weather.
I don't disagree with your point in general but the irony is that your first sentence is an excellent demonstration of the parent comments point.

I have no clue what a "N2" is and I'm not entirely sure what you meant by "Kanji/readings". There are only six other sentences of context and they didn't really help to understand the first one.
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Ask HN: How to Write a Product Spec?
I've heard Michael Seibel say this multiple times. Write down your product spec when making an MVP and when iterating on it with a team too.
Can anyone here help with some examples please? Thanks!
32 bit only cpus mostly died out in 2006 and even most and later all crappy intel atom cpus were 64 bit by about a decade ago. Unless you are running a computer museum I'm not sure what the point of this. New Firefox is actually faster than old firefox on hardware that people actually use.

If you want to really blow your mind either buy a $50 SSD or stop your antivirus "real time shields" from slowing down all filesystem access.

If you are force rebooting when you start it my best guess is that your intel atom with 2GB of ram is starving and thrashing.

The more them able ui is an artifact of sticking with older tech not specific work by Palemoon devs.

We are left with a front end for select settings in about:config and even less interesting extensions.

Underwhelming.
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Could there be an easier way to learn Rust programming... By dragging and dropping blocks in Visual Studio Code? I invite you to try it out... This could be the future for Rust Learners! Don't miss the "Advanced Topics" article!
The Tibetan Texts on "Mind Training" (called Lojong) maybe helpful for people looking for instructional techniques;

* Mind Training: The Great Collection - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Training-Collection-Library-Clas...

* Essential Mind Training (subset from the above book) - https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Mind-Training-Tibetan-Class...
He directed Shin Godzilla at least, and was the voice actor for the main character in Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises.
> with its crippling memorization burden for students

I always wonder about something that might sound anecdotal: why isn't there any equivalence of "spelling bee" in Hanzi? Or maybe there is?

> malign impediment to progress in science and industry

What? Do we have any evidence for this?