skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, it's just poor professional discretion. I work on a cross-browser multimedia sequencer, no fucking way you're hand writing all necessary DOM management code. You absolutely need React for that to prevent that kind of shit show. This custom video player project the team got assigned? Probably can write those on our own. To be fair though, framework and library marketing tends to be fairly disinterested in talking about suitable and unsuitable problem cases. I don't think that's completely intentional, but front-end tends to have more engineers with non-CS and other untraditional software education backgrounds in situations where they feel pressure to "get shit done"
And we're heavily subsidizing wind and solar - it's just as much of a black swan event. The market will always pick the most cost effective power generation: fossil fuels. And for what it's worth, ~70 billion Euros of debt in order to bring a country like France up to ~70-80% nuclear electricity generation is dirt cheap compared to this $16 trillion dollar plan.

If the government is going to pick our power source, then there's little justification not to choose the source that is more cost effective and does not require complex energy storage.

The main reason I see why democrats stay away from nuclear power is twofold. One, nuclear plant operators are typically traditional power companies and thus Republican donors. Democrats don't want to give contracts to the people that fund their political opponents. Second, the cost efficiency of nuclear power in the long term mens that it won't result in as many jobs. The reality the emphasis on the phrase "Green New Deal" is on the latter two words. These plans are promising 10-20 million jobs. These are federal jobs programs with the word "green" prepended to them.
I’ve never used the PIN, that is awesome that it shifts around!

Does the order of the digits shuffle, or does the whole UI element move, or both?
“Europe Could Power The Entire World With Onshore Wind Farms Alone” (2019)

https://www.sciencealert.com/europe-could-power-the-entire-w...

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id...

I’ve also seen a proposal to transmit electricity from Northern Africa solar generation to Europe, but nothing has come of it.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161129-the-colossal-africa... (2016)
Sounds like an optional variable.

function fn(arg?: SomeObject)

Or worst still, an or undefined, often found in class variables.

this.foo: Thing | undefined = undefined;

Easy way to sidestep this error is > if (!arg) return;, but it’s really a code smell of a larger, design issue. As in, the function shouldn’t really be depending on an optional value.
Just because change is possible, doesn’t mean my awareness has any part to play in it.
It’s called metaphor and analogy. See not all humans operate on the language used in economics.

They have parallel meaning. The king wanted to shore up supply of subjects, subjects their supply of goods.

But you’re forgetting the threat of death and suffering.

The king didn’t offer things for free. It offered things in return for fealty, maybe.

There was no rigid “if you work you eat” rule. It WAS NOT simply “supply the king and he’ll feed you.” Decisions on who was fed could often come down to how the king felt that week.

There was no rigid framework that ensured “do work for king, get what you need.”

Kings didn’t give a fuck about fair trade. Neither do we now.
It's common in the advertising world for a company to be paid to produce a design document, that specifies stuff like writing style, colours, photograph guidelines, and so on. The idea is to create a guide for making media that fits the brand. Doesn't need to be complicated - from what I saw of his games, it would be a night-and-day improvement if he just had a decent palette.
Ask HN: Which is better for tech – London or Berlin
For a well funded startup which is a better city to open an engineering office. Which city has access to a larger pool of software engineers.
The simple solution is to have 1/100 the level of swat. Just reforming police practices would reduce these mess ups where swat shoots someone they shouldn’t.

This list would only work if everyone was automatically added to it. Basically, police should handle anonymous tips from burner phones appropriately. If every person had a note in the registry saying “swat notice might be false, proceed with caution.” That might help.
Whoaaa. Scroll and look at China!!!
Unfortunately, the Y Combinator does not work for Actor programs, which can implement non-deterministic procedures that cannot be implemented in the non-deterministic lambda calculus. For further information, see the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003
But... Y?
Well, the important thing is to be caring and empathetic about her feelings. That’s why I don’t feel comfortable sleeping with a woman unless I have a strong sense of where she is emotionally, and am sure she isn’t using sex to cover up some emotional struggle she may have. If I sense a potential sexual partner has some negative stuff going on in her life, I would rather help her feel better than have her cover up her feelings by sleeping with me.

It may be worthwhile to still keep in touch with her on social media (If in a long term relationship, maybe not).
I think the key words here are "New Coke".

When you change your focus from a loyal customer base and change key aspects of your product they prefer in order to chase a competitor's customers you risk losing your own base and still not picking up a substantial portion of the rest of the market.
The attack uses a directional antenna and a signal booster / relay, so it works against short-range fobs.
No, it doesn't. That's just jealousy. The 1m followers do not themselves have 1m followers and yet they still follow the influencer. You could make some argument that this is analogous to a religion and if the influencer pushes an agenda that could lead to polarization but is also probably bad business. I don't see social media influencers pushing anything controversial, they're marketers, they want to appeal to everyone.

Polarization is when one politician says we should tax rich people but another says we shouldn't. It's a fundamental disagreement on a personal belief. Not a statement of fact. The belief may be informed by facts but polarization comes from a disagreement on a course of action.
Very few problems are solved by simply ignoring them.

General awareness of a problem is needed to mobilize political action. If the solution to the problem is political, awareness of the issue might inspire direct action, or at least voting for policy that effects change.
Webdev here that just started ML a couple of weeks ago. I tried reviewing all the math and concepts and it didn't help much. What really helped was signing up for Kaggle and working through example problems.

Here's what I think I understand so far, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:

* Most ML solutions come from published papers, and even ones that are years old are still effective and relevant. You're going to be tweaking other people's designs and that's fine.

* Effectiveness of ML seems to come from two things: Network design improvements (some combination of brute forcing, guessing, understanding math, and implementing papers) and from better data (if you have access to more data sets, you can do better things).

* Before you start with the ML part, you need to first be able to do "Exploratory Data Analysis". Which really just means to learn matplotlib, which means you'll need to know how to use pandas, which means you'll need to learn how to use numpy. You want to be able to understand your data, find outliers, graph some examples, etc.

* There's a few different types of ML, but the ones that seem to solve problems are "reinforcement learning", "supervised learning", and "unsupervised learning". The supervised learning is the most common one to get started with, and it seems to work well if you have a big set of "X should produce Y" type of data. Unsupervised learning is similar but you don't have Y and you're looking to find groupings of your data instead of matching to specific labels. Reinforcement learning seems most useful for things like game AI, where you have some state and you have various moves you can do to try and increase your score (OpenAI Gym is really fun for this).

* It is actually unreasonably effective. There are "pre-trained models" that offer a starting point for networks that have already seen huge data sets. You can "transfer" that learning and then train on top of it. It's amazing how little effort is required to start classifying images.

* Keras backed by TensorFlow seems to have the best support all around, and the code is pretty easy to read. TensorFlow is a little like OpenGL where it has its own rules and state, and you should do some examples to see how it works, but it's very low level. Keras is like any other high level python library and it does almost all of the TF interaction for you.

* If you're doing it on your machine, use conda, because it manages all the python stuff for you. If you want the fastest way to get started online without your own GPU, use Kaggle. It has a maximum runtime of about 9 hours but that's plenty to get started.
Id say that in Rust’s case, we’ve already seen several painful examples of Hyrum’s law.

http://www.hyrumslaw.com/
I did the same thing a few years ago, moving to a Mon-Thu working week, taking a 20% pay cut in the process - I'm so glad I did this, and I wouldn't want to go back to a 5-day week.

I get more time for family, side projects and me - and yet I honestly don't think my productivity dropped!
My Autographed Laptop
It's not much of a revolution if it hasn't put graphene electronics into practical use. Measure any metric you want, but if it's all in the research and development sphere, it's not a revolution.

Call it "intense interest" if you want to highlight an event, but "revolution" isn't the word.
Then why did they quote about "bad manners"?
The difference is in Pro Services. MS does not send employees from Redmond to help ICE use Excel.

Palantir does bundle software and services. Their software is so complex, it is typically Palantir employees building the models and analytics.
Could someone explain why this is flagged? Maybe someone from HN? Is this topic verboten?
This article is showcasing how far even the most bleeding edge technology from recreating the functionality of basic human organs. Heart doesn't seem exactly the most complex organ structurally wise, especially compared to things like lungs, liver, or kidneys. But we can't even make a sustainable replacement for it that wouldn't require 4 kilograms of external batteries that you'd need to recharge multiple times a day.

I can't wait for the future where artificial organs and limbs not only match the usability and functionality of the normal ones, but actually exceed it.
I really do not want to view the link. What happened?
The criminal division of the IRS is most certainly armed, as well as equipped with AR-15s, and are trained by Army Special Forces contractors.
I get why TypeScript is quickly becoming the standard, but the problem with it is that it's still JavaScript, and contains all the warts thereof. If at some point your attention turns to the very real benefits of static typing, why not choose an objectively better language?

That's why after ~10 years of being a JS/Node developer, I switched to Dart, not TypeScript.
It is sad how Propaganda (repeated here in multiples comments) blames Bolsonaro, instead of finding out how the fires started and spread.
You are free to talk about Kent state, it is covered in a lot of documentaries. There is even a monument at Kent State about it (as opposed to the “nothing happened here 6/4/89” plaque at Tiananmen Square). It isn’t taught in HS history class for the sake reason that Vietnam war is not taught (there is simply too much history and not enough time to cover it all).

A reasonable comparison might be Black Wall Street, but even then discussion about the event isn’t suppressed, just at the time the event was covered up by the local government of the area. But the CCP doesn’t remember the Siege of Changchun either.
You’re reading about the issue, aren’t you?
I found a picture of that tree while going through my father's slides of his time in the Army. This was a few years before the axe incident.

https://imgur.com/YRXYQ

Edit: Actually, it was over a decade before. He was there in the early 60's. Here's some more pictures of that time: https://imgur.com/a/5mgrp
Can't edit anymore, so two very minor corrections: "LGC" should have been "LGN" (had "RGC" and "LGN" both on my mind), and "disclaimer" should really have been "disclosure."
The difference between something like Rust->ASM and TS->JS is that the former actually emits runtime machine code to deal with e.g. an Option, whereas in TS, the compiler is happy to emit the exact same runtime code for both `const o: Foo = JSON.parse('null')` and `const o: Foo | null = JSON.parse('null')` without throwing a compile error.

Rust makes it exceptionally "hard" to write unsafe code, by making it blindingly obvious when you're doing it, whereas in TS it can be very challenging to spot unsoundness, especially considering that the audience of the language is not type system scholars.
1. It was just an example.

2. You definitely don't want your std to be designed with a simple API to a fast, secure, and popular crypto primitive? Pretend I named your favorite one, to avoid bikeshedding issues.
They could have partnered with Nestle and used Quik, similar to their partnering with Hershey for Kitkat
There is substantial wage stagnation in tech. I'm pretty sure average compensation hasn't really risen much in 20 years (50k-75k entry, 125k after 5 years, average dev peaks around 200k). This is while many of these developers are making the companies they work for millions in value. Of course there are outliers, and a lot of big blowout top-of-HN companies qualify, but the number of developers has grown substantially and thus diluted the income pool to largely maintain the status quo.

And it feels like there is an active campaign by tech companies to obfuscate that fact. That they can guilt trip developers into saying "well we are still getting paid better than most people being exploited by corporations for huge profits per worker!" as if that means they shouldn't argue for their fair share of the value they create.

Some developers should be paid millions because they are making millions for the company. Some should also therefor not even be employed because they aren't actually doing anything valuable - there are a lot of "developers" that snake their way into teams where they don't contribute functional or productive code and just manage to exist as a fixture of bureaucracy where the dozen layers of management over them don't understand what programming is or how to evaluate their performance so they just collect their 6 figure check as a trick of good fortune.

So there is a faction of developers who don't want to see greater pegging of their salaries to their value, the executives usually don't want to do it because underpaying your top talent is hugely profitable, and the productive devs that should be arguing to be paid according to the value they create are guilt tripped by everyone that they shouldn't. But that absolutely produces tremendous wage stagnation. Just because developers are fortunate to be in short enough supply to demand a higher base salary doesn't change the fact the only reason there is so much demand is because there is so much money to be made.
Plenty of them are still at Blizzard, though OSRS did a good enough job of having new staff and still sticking to the original game's design philosophy. It's really not an issue, it's easy to see the bounds of how the game could expand within the original design philosophy.

For example, no LFG, keep the level cap, no transmog, no multi-server sharding, no removing RPG elements like hunter ammo, things of that sort.
Au contraire, the proposed schemes increasingly hand the control over to browser vendors (Chrome) and BigTech (hint). It also does nothing to prevent user control and propaganda machine that has been built on top the mass privacy grave.

The news papers have the right model (in terms of privacy): I'd rather online businesses who's revenue model is dependent on ads, do that instead.

Like they did with AMP, Google could offer to peanlise websites in their search results that excessively fingerprint users? Show a red bad banner on Chrome? Not these workaround that warrant new mitigations techniques 'cause third-party cookie blocking won't be enough now.
I wonder who decided to start spreading the news and this narrative...
It is the crisis of our time. Bolsonaro is shameless, grossly lying. People are too afraid to say otherwise, and there is a critical mass of people who are willing to be party to the lying that creates social pressure against speaking to truth. Obviously not just limited to Brazil.
Why then would people "want to spend" money and effort on handling the waste created by batteries? Let's be fair about the stick we're using to measure people's environmental altruism - it cuts both ways.
There is always a middle solution, the problem is that many people aren't willing to do it. All US electricity generation could be replaced with nuclear power for 1/5th to 1/10th the cost of this plan. Realistically, probably ~70-80% since we might not want to build plants in earthquake prone zones. How's that for a middle ground?
I think the expectation is that Palantir should make lots of money selling software to other people, and then a portion of their profits and employee's salaries is required by law to go to funding ICE anyway. That seems to be what everyone else is okay with.
(nit)

Gosh the images and text on this page is so small. I know I can make it bigger in my browser, but consider bringing the font size (and image size) up a bit on the page too.
I'd prefer September the 11th. I can never tell from dates if the day isn't over 12 whether it's in american or everywhere else date format.
What 10 years of reforestation can do
That might be a good statement for a motivational book but it isn’t true. A massive amount of problems have been solved throughout my life without me even being aware of them. The key is that the people aware of those problems were exactly in the right position to do something effective about them.
Most enterprise software sales aren’t as low touch as an Excel license, and Palantir is very much on the high touch side of the spectrum. When Palantir sells software to a large government agency, that means squads of Palantir employees go to the government agency and help them run it, and that consulting effort is a huge component of what the customer is paying for.

Having said that, some people do think Microsoft should refuse to sell to ICE too.
No, bad example. Nokia failed because they were using windows mobile instead of Android.

In 2011 Nokia started using windows phone os which, at the time, no one knew if it was going to catch on. In 2014 Microsoft bought the phone division and kept the OS although at that point it was clear that it was not going to work out. Operation stopped in 2017.
So you think there is no difference in guilt between being a war criminal’s arm dealer and being a war criminal’s grocer?
Thanks! We've also updated the link to the original from https://sinapticas.com/2019/08/21/the-body-is-the-missing-li....
A great many expansions to the power of the state have been justified with the argument "this is to fight terror and child abuse"

Perhaps they signed up naively imagining they were working on a tool that would be used for that and nothing else?
https://about.gitlab.com/install/

So the UX point is moot. From there, it is just a matter of how much do you want to pay for availability (multizone replication, etc)
Well, could do your part by sourcing your allegation, instead of spreading FUD.

It seems like believing it requires that groups dedicated to preserving the Amazon's rain forests are burning it, and ignores Bolsonaro's long and well-documented track record on the issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Environmental_p...
Yes. Morally, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unjustified and evil. To say so is not to deny the evil of other bombing and destruction campaigns. The old claim that it was the only way to end the war is a utilitarian/consequentialist claim that misses the point which is that evil means cannot be used to accomplish good ends.
Why not go savory tho.
hope it takes me first
What to Do When They Say “No”
I second what the previous guy said - what could you possibly be spending 4 hours daily on?

Anyone who claims to be current and moving ahead in all 8 of those areas would immediately set off red flags and signal to me that they definitely aren't current in all those areas.
There is no casting in a sound type system.

No language actually gets there, but there are some where developers mostly don't even remember there is a cast operation.
I think both you and the parent comment are correct.

A billionaire has the greatest potential for relative change from the consequences of their actions. They have more chips they can put on the table and thus they can experience a change in fortune larger than others.

At the same time, the poor have the greatest potential for suffering. With fewer chips to put on the table, they are much closer to getting kicked out of the game entirely.
Not sure if Vogel realizes this, but his games look like crap. Someone should tell him.
I can highly recommend the world to adopt like in the Nordics at least 4-5 weeks of yearly vacation. Staff are more rested with more vacation so they are more productive plus you get a different perspective having time off. Also companies should allow remote work and flexible hours. Further due to increased automation we could actually work less hours keeping the same output. If we automate more work we could allow us selves more free time, still enjoying the same output.

I think tech companies will lead the way because of the competitive nature hunting for talent. Hopefully other industries will follow. Maybe California as state will lead the way in the US?

Annual leave by country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
Interestingly, the URL used to have a different caption: https://web.archive.org/web/20190822024248/http://www.nasa.g...

> Although it is not unusual to see fires in Brazil at this time of year due to high temperatures and low humidity it seems this year the number of fires may be record setting. According to Brazil’s space research center INPE almost 73,000 fires have been recorded so far this year. INPE is seeing an 83% increase over the same period in 2018.
Cool, but this seems to contain very few illustrations.
The focus of the complaints is the blemishes, which are worse on the magstripe.

Why they couldn’t cope with magstripe being a different colour to the titanium I don’t know.
Huh? That doesn't make them soldiers. Police are armed as well but they're not soldiers. Civilian contractors aren’t soldiers either.
It's hard to compare to anything else given the size of the community and history.
Yup. I hear about this awesome work-life balance in Europe and then I jump on a call with my Swiss colleagues who are in the office at 6pm working their asses off.
No newlines allowed. No semicolons, either.

In my head I read this in the voice of Harry Dean Stanton (Repo Man).
Yuan falls to 11-year low
Seems to me that a full CPU is overkill for this; a hybrid approach where you just have some arithmetic on vectors, with no program counter or branching really, could be effective without adding a bunch of complexity.

Also seems like concurrency and data consistency issues could arise pretty drastically when each memory unit is potentially making changes independent of the processor...

And what about CPU cache coherency?