skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe our local coop does that. I don't recall seeing it, but I'll ask.

One of the things that I liked about Mexico was the survival, at least in the sleepy little city I lived in, of old-school commerce. Market places, of course. But also stores where customers were expected to supply their own "packaging". A milk store, where you got milk in a 1L plastic bag, if you didn't bring your own container.
I didn’t lactate and therefore I’m not as psyched to be a dad? I’ve never seen (nor felt) any such phenomenon.
https://www.codeshelter.co/

"Code Shelter is a collective of volunteer software developers that aims to help with maintaining popular open source projects whose authors need a hand or don't have the time to maintain them any more."
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It’s the opposite. Low wage workers leave much more often than get fired. Consider Uber where drivers earn a very low net wage. Only 4% remain after a year. Maybe some are fired but I suspect he overwhelming majority just move on.

Amazon has the highest turnover of any Fortune 500 company in 2013. That’s because their workers quit. They have options even at a low wage. That’s why they recently raised wages.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/only-4-percent-of-uber-drive...

https://www.ibtimes.com/amazoncom-has-second-highest-employe...
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Probably one of the goals of the article. All of your ancestors to this point seemed to do just fine.
It is illogical to believe that races were "constructed" by somehow varying the number of laps or terrain to make sure men win. It is far more likely that races were "constructed" to mimic the types of terrain people already ran.
The fact that they can serve their entire user base with so little hardware.
> Having said all that, I've never had the opportunity to work with physical labor so my views are likely biased.

Very strong opinion to end up saying everything could be just false because it is a mere gut feeling.

Everyone has worries and problems, if it is not the weather which is about to damage the harvest it will be the expensive providers or the fruits imported from cheaper countries or the workers who try to do as less as possible with the maintenance of their tools. And after work everyone stressed because they are afraid that this year benefits might end up not covering expenses and not knowing what to do if the price of milk drops again and your 11 year daughter does not understand why all family can't go to Disneyland during the tourist season like her friends do.

You were right about being biased.
Pre-industrial workers worked, they didn't sit on their butts at a keyboard in air conditioning.
Not so sure. These are all 'made' objects, which were pretty rare and probably valuable. Not trinkets and toys, which were made of clay and lead and not carefully hand-carved minerals and natural materials.

Sorcerers were much closer to the public consciousness back in the day. They didn't have National Geographic and the History Channel then, to help the whole world understand one another. They worked hard at interpreting the world, and generally got it wrong and came up with strange notions about life and the universe. Calling that 'just Dungeons and Dragons' is probably pretty far off the mark.
>I see this as an abandonment of the poor in favor of the rich and powerful.

Trump represents the rich and powerful, though, arguably more so than Hillary Clinton, who's rich and elite but not even in the same league as Trump, or as entrenched with multinational business interests (although as far as the common voter is concerned, the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire may be irrelevant.)

And realistically, electing any President based on a laundry list of partisan grievances is going to disenfranchise the rest of the country. The Electoral College is no more or less fair than a popular vote in that regard.
Because it's not backward compatible.
Human intelligence is a tool evolved to interact with our environment. Not having an environment to interact with is, imho, a serious problem when trying to define/identify intelligence.

On the other hand, I'm not sure the environment necessarily needs to be physical. Ages ago, I worked on reinforcement learning in a simulated environment, which can provide lots of advantages.
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Now that you mention that, it is kind of odd that AWS continues to not have nested virt considering both Azure and GCP both have it.
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I hope this post helps someone looking to start with ML.

When I started my journey, I thought I should do what this article mentions.

>>First, you should learn the fundamentals:

>> Learn mathematics

My problem is that "learn mathematics" can take years. To me, it would be very frustrating.

So I started down that path... and got completely overwhelmed.

When everything took off and I went from 2 mph to 60 mph was when I did the fast.ai course. The fast.ai course is strongly recommended by me. You'll start seeing results and "actionable" work very quickly. If you so desire, then you can keep on with the more fundamental stuff like mathematics. Also have to give a shout-out to their forums. The people are super nice.
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The only thing that got me to quit smoking is the Juul. I tried everything else, but with the Juul, I just quit without having to consciously discipline myself 20 times a day. The gum was close though, but it took too long to kill the craving, so I'd end up chewing it constantly for it to work.

I've been smoking for a little over 20 years (since a teenager). Good luck.
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> save early, save often.

I got the same advice from my grandfather, who grew up in the Great Depression. I think it was PTSD on his part, too.
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I have a six month old, so I’m still kind of transitioning. I wouldn’t have wanted to be pressured into this, but I’m also very in love with my son. My life is better with him in it even if I get bummed out about the loss of autonomy and free time.
Yes. We should have high-quality videos for the entire STEM and med school curriculm.

It wouldn't cost that much as a % of public education costs.

Khan Academy claims to be doing this, but their videos are not particularly high quality.
Agreed. And fully half of them were farmers, who worked like nobody's business.
Set expansion rules so the number of reps is always equal to the cubed root of the population rounded down. They would provide adequate scaling rules imo.

If the UK can stomach well over 600 MPs the so can we.
>I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours.

I'm not sure they did, but your work day was effectively limited to when the sun was up. Candles were quite expensive well through the middle ages as they were mostly made from beeswax, lower class persons would use fires or candles made from soaking things like rushes in animal fat - neither of which provided light conducive to any sort of work.
Must be another one of those pesky self-citing researchers.
Why is that sad? He seems to be perfectly content, maybe except for about the fact that some people criticize him.

You don't have to always strive to be among the world elite at everything. Often, mediocrity in some areas of life (professional or otherwise) is a perfectly valid choice that will lead to greater happiness in the end.
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I've got a script that monitors the disk for changes and then automagically commits to git. :-)
I tried gitlab but I hated the web interface. It was lacking in so many departments. Any other alternatives to github to try?
Modern apps are designed to deal with part of them being down - it is the core upgrade strategy.

VMS clusters were (and modern equivalents are) awesome, but they have a different speed of innovation / development.

It is a trade off - perfect uptime, but that new feature could take a year, or 99.9% uptime, but it can be written and deployed tomorrow.
This also exists for voice. It’s called “Siri”.
The reason why they failed is because they were the dog that caught the car - they had no plans that were remotely workable.

They pounded it with demagoguery to get elected but they didn't have anything behind the policy and knew it. They also knew that going forward with their disasters would hurt them even more.
It’s been interesting as my commute changed from 7km to 18km to 22km in the last year.

The 7km commute was a no brainer by bike. It took a leisurely 20 minutes where as the car would be much the same with lots of tedious traffic. Bus wasn’t an option on this route.

When I changed job my commute was 18km across the city. The car route involved a toll on a congested motorway or through stop start city congestion. The bus route required two buses with various degrees of waiting time made worse on the way home because of the one specific bus I needed that always appears unreliable. The car would take at least one hour bus would take up to two hours and the bike about 50 minutes.

Now that we’ve moved home I’m even further away but there’s a direct express bus that takes just 70 minutes. The car route is better, no toll and better connected, but is still an hour in traffic and the bike is about an hour.

Cycling is great because you arrive to work energised, but it’s tough to do everyday and still have energy for the kids at the weekend, so I’ll buy an ebike and cheat.
I am Russian, and Russia is a total mess, full stop.
To address positive rights - societies don't just "run out" of money. As has been repeated a million times, a country with a sovereign currency is not run like a household budget.
And the "right to clean water" is rather useful in making sure we don't have outbreaks of the plague and other fun stuff
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Whether or not he lives in the US, he is right to express some level of interest in our government (and how it is elected). We're the worlds largest economy (or close to it), the world's largest democracy, and generally what happens here has a massive impact on the rest of the world.

And in this case, he's right. We spend an absurd amount of money on political campaigning, but then get lost in the weeds, and/or hand-wavey, when somebody wants to discuss election security. There are legitimate criticisms of how we process elections.
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I’ve heard it in at least one other context: to mean “inheritor” or anointed successor. Here is a quote from Gore Vidal:

‘I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9443914/How-Christ...

I’ve seen other examples in this style. Maybe folks in comments can point out more.
I found the author's thoughts on the coexistence of machine- vs human-readability interesting, and hadn't encountered a case like that Firefox page before.
Thank you for this! Looks like a good starting point, and a nice community.
I disagree. I want my phone to be an appliance, just like my router and TV, even though under the hood all 3 have almost the same hardware (all 3 are ARM Linux machines). I want them to be as simple as possible, and achieve that by minimizing the control surface I have on it. My computer (that has a huge control surface) has that because I'm ready to pay the added overhead to complexity/security - but I don't want that on my phone.

"It's not a computer" by that I mean "I don't want it to be a computer" in the sense that if it had the complexity/risk of a PC I wouldn't buy it in the first place.
There's huge conferences for enthusiasts for Cosplay, Science Fiction, Comic Books and on and on. They take one another seriously.

So maybe in the main that's true, but there are many subcultures that don't pity one another?
As expected, a lot of people in this thread are giving "valuable" advice about his art style. Jeff's self-ironic way of saying the game looks like crap and calling his art style inconsistent seems to have set the tone of the conversation.

Having played through the Avernum trilogy last year, I don't think the art style is inconsistent at all, especially considering how old some of the assets are. Please have a closer look at some actual screenshots from a recent Avernum game[1] before providing your invaluable input on how he should manage his game art.

[1] https://www.gog.com/game/avernum_escape_from_the_pit
If an employer were to expect a handwritten resume. I wouldn't even consider applying to them. If they had such a bad policy on that, I can just imagine how terrible it will be to work for them.
That palette swapping trick looks like a great idea for indie games!
I don’t think anybody seriously thinks Hong Kong has any meaningful level of autonomy. The impasse is that Hong Kongers want freedom and democracy, and China wants Hong Kong to be China. I can’t see what the Chief Executive could possibly do. Either the protestors will give up, or stage a revolution, which seems unlikely for a population armed with umbrellas.
It doesn't have to be 100% authentic to the period to be genuinely nostalgic. Retrowave still 'sounds like' the 80s even though the cyberpunk 80s it harks back to never quite existed.
I saw the banner and was equally confused - a 404 seems like the wrong abstraction layer for that content, just intuitively.
To the Chinese native speakers here on HN: how clear would the message have been to you, if you didn’t read the explanation on this website?
Years ago I had a problem serving downloads with PHP. IIRC it worked just fine on Opera (Presto-based) and was showing blank page on Firefox.

The problem was serving 404 Not Found status with `Content-Disposition: attachment` and actual contents of the file. Opera hadn't had a problem with that, Firefox was confused.

If you would like to test your browser behavior, here is replicated behaviour of what i've done in the past:
http://o7o.pl/down404.php

My results:

- Chromium-based browsers (tested on Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera Developer) shows generic Chromium error with `ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE` code.

- Firefox displays own page about resource not being found

- Edge (not Chromish) removes the url (if opened in new tab) and shows infinite loader in the tab favicon or just restores previous url (if going to the url from another page)

- Old Presto-based Opera (newest from 12.x) just downloads the file

- wget just returns 404 error

- Internet Explorer 11 shows own "page cannot be found" page

Can anyone test it on Safari on Mac?

I wonder which should be the correct behavior? Personally I am satisfied with just downloading the file ignoring 404 status.
For many simple systems a PID-style controller does well enough, but for more complex systems some kind of state-based model tends to work out better, whether the model is built on knowledge of the system or by observing its behavior.

For the latter, there's an entire field devoted to this problem called "system identification", one popular textbook seems to be online nowadays at http://user.it.uu.se/~ts/sysidbook.pdf
The dad-body is real! As hard as it is for men I still think it is much harder for moms.
Email me at info@whatforwork.com and we can see if there's some sort of collaboration that makes sense.
>The situation is pretty much dictated by supply/demand

Well that's not true. There are laws strictly regulating the supply and demand from the labor side of things.
I think everyone is missing the point. This was not a call for help. It was an explanation of why things are the way they are and why they will not change. Guy's found a way to make a living with the skillset he has and I say power to him.
If you choose to do this then using a small plate, anecdotally, can help; it still looks like you're having a plate full of food.
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Hell even during WWII, less than 100 years ago, people were smaller. The draft board rejected a tremendous number for stunted growth etc. That's why we have the 'free lunch program' at public schools today - to ensure a good supply of citizens with good nutrition for military service!
Why is the UK legal system relevant here? Well, it's really not, but I am just comparing it to a legal system that I am familiar with, which is a bit of a joke as well; I am happy to hear how the legal system works where you are from if you are willing to tell. Additionally, the Chinese legal system uses civil law, which is based on the Roman system that is used throughout Europe, I mean if I had a spin of it in the UK, can make it look like a horrible system, even though it works.

As for what's easier, let's look at it this way. For me to kidnap someone, I can just find where they are staying, break into said place and then take them away; if I am super careful, I will do it when there is no one around. For me to create a legal extradition route, then I would need to look into your history, financial dealings etc, find out somewhere that looks dodgy, and try to use that as evidence; sometimes I cannot even use that as evidence given it may not even be committed in China. Remember, Al Capone was sentenced not due to the other crimes he committed (due to lack of evidence) but rather due to his tax evasions, so proving something legally when you haven't done it is very hard. If given that you can just go around "kidnapping and disappearing people" as you have stated, why would you want to bother create the legal route right?
> First, societies don't just run out of money.

Social programs do. Price goes up due to natural reasons, budget goes down due to natural reasons, your government can't provide a service anymore.

The most common example is social security, the pension system. Demography changed, age of retirement goes up, payments go down, and you can't do anything about it.

Sure, the governments try to deflate the price, but there are no miracles, and artificial price deflation causes deficit, for example a deficit of medical personnel or scarcity of a service.
https://github.com/search?q=looking+for+maintainer

Yields some interesting results
Good to know, I always wanted to visit it. Maybe I'll do...
When looking at political methods I like to look a first principals from all points of view.

Here is a conservative or traditionalist political point of view in favor of the Electoral College

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/danger-attacks-electoral-coll...

Here is a liberal or progressive point of view against the Electoral College

https://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/the-case-against-t...

These are but two opinions. Politics is ultimately creating policy on opinions from a large community.
If you liked eating only oatmeal all winter. Poach the lord's forest, get your hand cut off. Not all organic peaches and funtimes.
Eh no. Let me also be clear I say this and cannot remember the date of Pearl Harbor, Cherynobl, or a number of other major events.

9/11 is a bit of a weird case in that the name of the event is also the event itself... that usually does not happen.

Please label your dates folks (except 9/11 I guess...)
> In contrast, the Senate is thoroughly anti-democratic, unsalvagably so.

Why is that bad? The Senate represents the states, the other sovereign entities in our federal republic.

I think that a) we should amend the Constitution to eliminate the direct election of Senators and mandating that they be appointed by the state legislatures; b) amend the Constitution to apportion 1 representative per 40,000–60,000 people (yes, this would mean over 6,000 representatives); c) amend the Constitution to mandate a similar structure for the states, with each state legislature required to be bicameral, with senators appointed by the counties and independent cities and representatives elected by the people.

Note that greatly increasing the number of representatives would make the Electoral College much more democratic. I'm not terribly fond of that, but it's a price I'm willing to pay for an overall healthier republic.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that kids mis a lot of real-life playing outside in the dirt, and sitting behind a screen... on average 6 hours a day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32067158

Perhaps because it's the easy way, just blame some chemical instead of taking action. If you move to a friendly neighbourhood and have some rules about screentime kids play outside, I know from experience with my own kids.

I'm no expert, but I suspect a strong correlation in autism development and 'hours spend in front of a screen instead of playing outside with peers'.
A lot of places still have pretty slow/unreliable internet. Developing countries often end up being basically mobile-only because it requires less infrastructure, but mobile-only doesn't mean 4G in such places. Other times, relatively rich countries will have spotty internet access because of geography: New Zealand famously had very poor internet service for a while because of the complexity around getting cables there, and Australia has such a big difference in population density between urban and rural areas that wiring infrastructure in the sticks is tough. Even in the united states, a surprising number of people are still using dial-up internet because broadband is not available.

Another concern is embedded platforms. If rust can't produce meaningful code that's under a megabyte, then it can't be used to write elevator controllers or microwave oven displays or to program pacemakers -- and as regular computers get more RAM to try to make up for the end of Moore's law, a larger and larger percentage of cases where it makes sense to use a compiled systems language over a JITed scripting language will be embedded ones. To some people, if a compiler can't produce 1k binaries, it's worthless because it forces you to substitute in a beefier machine.

There's also general performance and security concerns: any unnecessary code adds to both vulnerability surface & footprint. If you work your system really hard & you're always a meg or two short of running out of RAM, then saving a meg or two of code size matters a whole lot. (This applies less to desktops & more to applications where you might process lots of data on off-the-shelf hardware: if you're clever & take advantage of parallelism, you can process many TB of data on a machine with less than a gig of ram in a relatively short time, and you can cut it down further if you can run more copies of your application, which you can do better if your memory footprint is smaller.)

Finally, I don't think it's safe to overestimate what percentage of machines are less than eleven years old. Ever since Moore's Law ended, the case for upgrading hardware has been a lot weaker, and even when it was running strong folks often went a decade without doing so.

Bloat doesn't necessarily translate into usability, and usability doesn't necessarily transfer between users. There are a lot of folks for whom a 5mb app is, necessarily, unusable.
The issue is that states aren't - really. There is no barrier so said division is arbitrary and unenforcable. Local has been pushing its siren song for a while when marketing but it is actually a reactionary countertrend to essentially everything else.
Sibling comment is correct - most states will auto-recount within a certain margin. If somebody hacks a difference larger than that, we have a larger problem (ie, not just a machine or two hacked, but the entire system has fallen apart).

And that also brings us back to an earlier comment about driving turnout (or lack thereof) is possibly a larger problem than tampering at the polls. If a party (or somebody acting on behalf of a party) can convince a significant block of voters to stay home, that's more likely to have an impact.