skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with a Schrebergarten in Switzerland, let me tell you... its great for mental balance but its a crazy amount of work to keep it even somewhat tidy.

But over here its also shifting from old retirees to young people, at the moment its qquite a good mix.
I'm pretty sure the claim isn't that "big tech advances" bear the sole responsibility for teen suicide rates, but rather that they contribute to them in a substantial way.

The atrophy of real-world relationships he mentions is not something he made up, but rather a real problem. And I would be surprised if someone could prove that this problem doesn't contribute to teen suicide rates at all.
>...a serious problem

Well the plane literally overriding the pilots physical commands of the controls and crashing into the ground killing ~300 people, IMHO is a “serious problem”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
i was looking around to find lore regarding sandboxing android apps, so far i found this interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/5n7ak9/any_app...

And this too:

https://www.gtricks.com/android/how-to-sandbox-android-apps-...
> There's plenty of ways to make use of this data. That's why it's so valuable.

That's what I keep hearing. Never heard what are those ways, specifically, and where the value worth the money comes from.

> Or consumer profiling. (It seems our product is enjoyed by men in their mid 40s who like sci-fi)

OK, let's say you learned that. Let's say now you know there's more demand for beard trimmers among mid-40 males with interest in sci-fi than among teenage females with interest in Rihanna. Now what? I still fail to see what a bunch of random (and possibly entirely spurious) correlations costs in money.

> Or marketing research (it seems our product sells the most in winter).

You don't need to track me for that. You need to track your inventory. That's basic stuff every merchant having a functioning brain is already doing.
The happy-path syntax is pretty straightforward. I wonder if you're under the impression like some that you need to use the arrow syntax or prefixing dollar for every reference, and not just the first? That's not the case. e.g.

my @a = (
{ first=>1, second=>"b", another_ref=>["y"] },
{ first=>1, second=>"b", another_ref=>["z"] },
);

say $a[0]{first}; # Outputs 1
say $a[1]{another_ref}[0]; # Outputs z

my $a2 = \@a; # top level is a reference too now
say $a2->[1]{another_ref}[0]; # Outputs 1, arrow only needed at top level

# The following are alternate syntax that I find unnecessary and better left alone (and most do)
say $a2->[1]->{another_ref}->[0]; # Outputs 1, explicit, entirely unneeded because it's unambiguous without extra arrows
say $$a2[1]{another_ref}[0]; # Outputs 1, extra prefixing $ dereferences first level ref

Personally, I'm happy with a single arrow that lets me know if I have a reference or not. References are important, because they denote that this data may be accessed elsewhere as well, so I'm happy to have a small reminder. Inner level references needing a bit of care if they are copied is somewhat normal though, most non-toy languages have some concept of deep or shallow copying.
What's novel about that ?
If everyone agrees with each other, then yeah, a large population is better. But when you've got a ton of people it's harder to find a solution that everyone likes. It's like the difference between two people trying to decide where to get lunch, and 30 people trying to decide. It also doesn't help that the West and East coast are culturally different, even among people of the same political party.
> And as far as I understand there won't be any, because money is power and they create money.

They create money because Congress chooses to have them create money. That's not a power they holdmover Congress, which can simply reclaim the power (which is Congress’s under the Constitution) at a whim.
I don't think Hawley's position or presentation are perfect, but if you can separate the wheat from the chaff this is a really good start.

And even if you don't like it at all, let this just be another indicator that the general population is starting to wise up to the fact the "tech" business model has been getting more and more exploitative. You can continue rationalizing the systems you build at your dayjob here on Hacker News, but in the real world dang isn't around to hush the people who want to tell you to go get fucked.
Not sure what you're getting at. Rust can't catch all bugs, so it's not worth having it to catch the ones it can?
> If even I – with my fortunate position – can’t make a comfortable living working on open source, then how is anyone else supposed to make it work?

If living comfortably is Feross's goal, why not get a job? This is a high profile programmer in one of the highest demand, highest-programmer-wage places in the world. What am I missing?
If the new version bundles crapware...
Given the Wild West nature of Android, there may be no other possible way to get that version of that system library to debug something.
Well, you have to pay your other life expenses during that period.

If you don't work and spend 30k on rent, food, utilities, etc., then you get 30k deeper into debt every year. Even if there's no tuition.
In other words, don't do what Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, or Yahoo did.

I appreciate the sentiment (and it's what I do with my own hilariously unsuccessful software), but you can't walk into a room full of data-driven aspiring entrepreneurs and tell them to do exactly what the market has shown it doesn't want, even though that would be better for all of us.
I'm wondering about this too. The GDPR requires a public notification. Why the hell is this coming from flippin' Google?! Why don't we have numbers on how many users were affected? Why isn't there a way to see if you're the one affected?
There's a really significant caveat on page 5, regarding the factors used to adjust for purchasing power:

> Using the PPPs from the OECD instead, between 25 and 32 per cent of Canadian households would be better off
than their American counterparts. The Appendix provides the full estimates using PPPs from the OECD.

Leaving that aside, Canada is broadly comparable to the US in terms of policy so we would expect it to have similar outcomes. Over the past few decades, Canada has been pushing a massive policy of economic liberalization: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/great-right-nor.... Their government spending as a percentage of GDP dropped from almost 50% in 1990 to under 40% (comparable to the US) in 2008. They've done a better job controlling the deficit than we have, so they have lower debt as a percentage of GDP. They've cut individual taxes to around U.S. levels, and have cut corporate taxes to below U.S. levels. Canada's social spending as a percentage of GDP is slightly less than the US's as of 2014: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/11/27/2053392/welfare-spend.... Canada has also aggressively deregulated: Canada ranks #8 in the Heritage Foundation's economic freedom index, versus #12 for the US.

Canada, Australia, and the United States are more similar than they are different, both culturally and economically. Unsurprisingly, outcomes in those countries are also very similar.
Yes, and heroin too, or fentanyl.

So they're not exactly illegal.

Some other classes of drugs are totally illegal for use in humans. (Limited to research only with extra hoops.) Not opiates.

Examples include: LSD, MDMA (changing), PCP, Psylocybin, Psilocin, Muscarine, a bunch of chemically similar drugs and a few other hallucinogens.
THC and CBD were in this class and are now legal in some countries and states of USA.
I would argue that learning through games, TV shows, movies, and the internet is very much like living in an environment of that language. It might not teach you the ability to speak in the same manner, but it will teach you writing.
I wouldn't say it's that precarious. Interest rates are near all-time lows and banks here are risk-averse, meaning they don't give out risky loans.

Edit - also secured loans are less risky than unsecured loans. Your article includes housing in 'debt'.
> You have people working mostly for free, developing open-source, FREE code that provides incredible value to the for-profit companies that use the open source code to generate (sometimes) massive amounts of revenue.

But these open source contributions are being done by people with free will. They are not forced to release the code they write to the internet for free. They choose to do it because that's what they want to do.

Instead of associating writing code with money, try to relate it to a hobby. I have 40 something repos on GitHub and posted 200+ blog posts on my site for free but I don't expect payment. I do it because it's fun and it helps me learn.

I'm not sure where I stand with banning terminal ads.

On one hand if someone wants to try and make money by spamming people with ads, I say let them do it because if it gets really obnoxious then ad blocking tools will remove them. On the other hand, if it becomes expected to have ads on every tool, I could get see that getting out of hand. And at the same time I don't think there's a clear enough line to constitute what an ad is. If I link back to my site without asking for anything (as a signature of some sort), is that an ad?
That's interesting. I've seen you make these statements, but have never been able to confirm even though I've meant to. How many actual users do you have btw?
I guess that could be an issue after all the non-subtle ways to fingerprint are fixed.
4 university degrees is likely cheaper than one year at a higher end private school in the US!
From what I can gather - and this is mere speculation on my part - the new Ranger is merely a version of the 1990s F150 dressed up.

Compare the size of an early 90s F150 with that of today's new Ranger, and you'll see what I mean (while you're at it, compare the sizes of an early 90s F250 with today's F150).

I honestly think (I have no proof) that what Ford did was kill off the Ranger (ie - stop rebadging them from Mazda), because of CAFE rule changes, but then they found that even the F150 was too small, too. So they moved the F250 down a notch (it became the 150), and maybe the 350 too (it became the 250). I'm not sure about higher numbers; most people never bought anything bigger than the 350, at least on the consumer end (I have seen some "consumer" 450s and 750s on the road - but they are very rare).

Then people clamor for the Ranger (have you ever tried to find an original Ford Ranger that is in normal condition, in good repair, and hasn't been "pre-runnered"? Not easy - and when you do, it ain't cheap, either - wish I never gave up my 94) - so they dig out the old F150 - which is smaller than today's F150, dress it up and tada: "new Ranger!"

Again - this is just my impression; I'm not sure of the truth or facts or anything.

I'll tell you where Ford also made a mistake: They announced a "mini-Raptor" - but afaik, it was only released in Australia (and I think it had a diesel engine option to boot!). Gah!
Thanks. Much as I'd suspected.

And EF is very QED in DJT.
I don't believe for a second that there is an endless supply of capable software engineers. The salaries available to folks of even modest experience simply don't support such an assertion.

This problem should be self-correcting. If it's as unproductive as it is unhealthy, then better companies will win by retaining talent for longer.
Does this include sites hosted on Google Drive, Google Spreadsheets (yes, you can host a site on Google Spreadsheets, by putting HTML in a cell), Google Docs, etc.?
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.r-bloggers.com/neural-networks-are-essentially-p....
This is not a leak from a company is a leak from your device. The only one that can know if something has leaked is you.

Consider a lock manufacturer that has a key copy of each client. If someone enters in the building and steals all the keys, clearly the manufacturer should inform all their clients. But, if a vulnerability has been found in a lock model, the manufacturer can tell you about the vulnerability, but definitely they can't tell you if your house has been robbed that way (or if it has been robbed at all).

Anyway, with this story alone and without knowing if you have visited these webpages that allegedly hacked your iPhone (why aren't they listed?) the only thing you can do is renewing passwords in your most critical accounts.
I have an on again off again relationship with LISP. I _loved_ scheme in college. I went to a college where java was predominately taught, but after my second year I rolled my dice with every professor to let me do assignments in scheme. A few went for it. It just clicked, and I felt like I could build anything.

After college, I didn't use any Lisps for a long time. I tried to get back to it. I tried installing common lisp. I remember the installation process being kind of insane. It felt like I was installing an operating system. The dev ergonomics were weird. I couldn't get it to click again like it did in college.

I messed with (fluxus) for a while. I LOVE live coding stuff, and it treating oGL as a first class standard library is so cool. It seemed like a single guy's passion project. It lacked some facilities that made it click as a daily driver. Also, installing it on my mac was a colossal pain in the ass due to pulse audio issues.

Not too long ago I installed racket. The installation process was painless, and I wrote enough with it that I started to feel that magic again... but then.. I .. wrote too much?

DrRacket was nice when I started, I like images appearing in the REPL. It quickly revealed itself to be hot steaming garbage. SCROLLING is so slow and flickery in a 225~ line source I wrote that it's beyond distracting.

I tried to play around with perlin noise, and generating an image of regular sizes required me to click this alert doubling Dr.Racket's ram allowance like 3 times. I'm sure that's my code's fault, but I'm probably not sticking with it long enough to find out..

I'll try again in a few years I guess.
You must have accidentally clicked the top-level comment instead of the link in the post itself.
Trump is living flame-bait.

It's impossible to take his racist, ass-backwards attitude seriously.

He is the butt of every political joke outside of the states. If you want to individually suss me out for saying that, go ahead - but all you'd need to do is Google him to see how lambasted he's been.

Trump has made a laughing stock of American politics, and it's a damn shame.

EDIT: Aha, wow, flagged. I think the phrase goes: 'Don't shoot the messenger'. Did you guys want stats on how pathetic Trump is as well? I think the Simpsons nailed that one years before he went into office.
I must be missing some core concepts here. How is it possible to get arbitrary objective-c code running on your iOS device simply by visiting a web site?
EDIT: found the discussion: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/jsc-exploits....
ANN's aren't that much different than polynomial regression, the issue is that there are upwards of millions of parameters. Totally intractable for the human mind.
Iran would just succeed in getting itself bombed back into the stone age.
Easy to do with Hammerspoon: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/349766
I was on vacation in Iceland. One evening we were having dinner in a tiny village in northern Iceland. Our server was a young man with absolutely perfect American English. I asked him if he had lived in America previously. He responded that he had never left his village in his entire life, but had learned all his English from watching American TV shows and movies. I was astounded.
What features of Telegram are more pleasant? I don't use Telegram much due to its makeshift encryption scheme and bad defaults (no E2E by default), but I've found Signal extremely usable in the last year or two.
Dismissing more interesting architectures, and ignoring the different approaches to fitting makes this seem very incomplete. I've long thought that neural networks are principally useful when the architecture can be chosen to exploit structural features of a problem - it hardly seems surprising that feed-forward neural networks with a given architecture have an alternate representation as polynomial regression. The focus on multicollinearity is also sort of odd here - I usually take it as a given that neural networks provide an over-complete basis which only works due to various kinds of regularization (and the use of optimization techniques like gradient-descent/back-propagation, which aren't really concerned with globally optimal parameter estimates, but rather in producing good fitted values/predictions).
Do new versions of npm bundle 'crapware'?
Canada is tremendously better than the USA if you're young (18 to 30 years old).

I had the shittiest life in the USA, was born in Canada but parents moved to USA and when I was seven years old; parents were lower-middle class for context.

I've only managed to move back to Canada a few years ago and I wish I never would go to the USA ever again if I could live life over. Canada has free healthcare and I'm a transgender person; so that's awesome that people are taken care of medically. In USA I was denied healthcare by doctors based on their religious beliefs. I even suffered conversion therapy and multiple incidents of discrimination that would have easily ended with legal proceedings in my favour if it had occurred in Canada instead of the USA. The legal help for minorities in USA is a joke and they turn away people unless they feel like media will love the story.

Other benefits would be university cost in Canada is affordable compared to USA. In Canada tuition loans will not start collecting interest until after you have a degree and working (I believe). Also you can declare bankruptcy if you need to unlike in USA. Food here is way healthier than the USA. Social workers here care in helping people find jobs, get the resources they need and there is legal aid if you're jobless.
> your health care is in no way, shape, or form "free"

Are you nitpicking over the definition of the word "free" because it's taxpayer-funded? You should know that "free healthcare" is shorthand for "you are unlikely to be bankrupted by, or forced to do without, necessary treatment because your insurance is not up to snuff."
Yes, and my point is it's an entirely useless definition. If 40% of the population were billionaires and the remaining 60% were millionaires. The millionaires aren't in poverty.

"delusion: an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder."

It is quite delusional to create new metrics on poverty because ones based on income or consumption don't get you to the result you like.
This may sound crazy, but I'm OK with a request falling through the cracks if it was not important enough for the requester to follow up with me.

The most effective PMs I've worked under had a heavy filter on incoming requests, at least for established products, with "No" being the default answer. If multiple people started asking for the same thing multiple times, clearly it was important. But if you say yes to every little things that comes in via any channel, you end up with a complex, cluttered product.

I feel that a product like this is better applied to a customer services/support team, where you really do want to make sure every little complaint is addressed properly.
it would also create a weird incentive to avoid creating documents at all for ideas you believe a competitor might be able to execute better.
You nailed it. Google Home never hears me, I have to shout at Alexa, they frequently misunderstand me... I just want my lightbulbs to turn on. Light switches don't seem too inconvenient anymore. My TV takes longer to load than a CRT could warm up. My smart security system is cool... until any of the multiple SPoF crap out.

I miss the days when software would ship when it was done. Or as close to done as reasonable. Living in the days of constant updates means I don't know what my phone's UI is going to look like tomorrow.

Hopefully we can find a balance in the coming years.
I would have to hope that uploads are only triggered if the hash in the metadata wasn't found in their massive store of libraries.
Unconventional solutions can stump human teachers, also. One day on a chemistry test I was being stupid about how to define "stereoisomer". I knew what it was (two compounds that are mirror images of each other), I was just having trouble expressing it properly. Running out of time I put down "two molecules that are identical if and only if you permit rotation through the fourth dimension." This is extremely unconventional but it is correct--except not only did the teacher not understand it but I couldn't find any help in the mathematics department, either.
Oops, you're right. There is a typo. It should say "850,000/second"
Do what now? People have been executing out of flash for longer than patents are valid.
But that would apply even more to Canada then, no? Or did I misunderstand what you mean?
Canada's immigration rate (of legal immigrants) is higher than the US'. We take in nearly twice as many immigrants as the US, relative to our population.
Many people are surprised to learn that Linux (and I guess some of the BSDs?) have a virtual machine that runs in the kernel and executes its own specific bytecode. LLVM has a BPF backend, as mentioned in this article.
Would it be less creepy if facebook had a list of libraries they use, and uploaded a list of missing libraries instead of the total collection?
Things like this story, Word's auto-grader, and Grammerly's style preferences are all surreal to me. We are asking a computer to validate prose meant for human consumption.

Not a reflection of physical reality like sensor data or even accounting information, but the method of communication explicitly invented for production and consumption by humans.

Of course feedback from humans is more valuable than feedback computers, it would be irrational/miraculous if anything was better at giving feedback than a human.

It is a shame it isn't self evident to instructors how poor of a solution this is, and how much better the results are when using critique by peers and instructors -- the classic way of doing things.
Not with smaller population size :). Maybe colder climate makes people happy?
I doubt this is true for most people who can and might realistically need to be able to navigate with a paper map and analog compass.

In other words, the skill is about as rare or rarer than the equipment.