skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Node's main problem is that the only real dominant framework is express, a Sinatra like framework. Other than that there's so many redundant libraries and frameworks, that it's hard not to suffer from the paradox of choice, which eats up a lot of time. It's a bit easier though if you limit yourself to using Typescript based frameworks; less choices.
Oh man that's awesome! Didn't even know that this video was out there! Could you get in touch please (via Twitter - @theatarigamer)
Had someone do this at a job I used to work with. Bosses never caught on and as far as I know he's still doing it. It's a big company where 80% of the things we made wouldn't ever see the light of day, which is perfect for something like that.
DeFi Needs Privacy for Mass Adoption
caffeine does not work for me, it gives me the jitters, anxiety and does not clear my mind at all. amphetamines, nicotine and cocaine (to a lesser extent), seem to clear my mind without causing the jitteryness that caffeine and phentermine cause me to have.
So with careful planning and proper documentation you can rob a bank ?

Intent is a serious factor in crime.
I'm pretty sure it's not abridged because it's 3 books, each a few hundred pages.
Anyone know how people are making homebrew Lynx carts? (The actual physical plastic and electronics part)
Windows default products have also been improving in quality, like the mail and calender client. The calendar one is quite good actually. Typescript is also a pleasurable experience (as a new web dev, great timing!) vscode is nice to use too.
> Satisfying and chunky,

Which model did you have? I had the short fat one.

> Warbirds which was a flight sim with with a polygonal world and pseudo-3D sprites.

Both my brother, I and two of our friends had the Lynx. It was pretty magical setting up that token ring network cable and playing games like Todd's Slimeworld 4 way.
Yes I can, but why would I spend the time adapting my trading engine to process someone else's data? Seems like I'd be providing free R&D.

Also, kind of funny that C/C++ are not listed in the application form.
I think #1 is its primary job, search: They rip off everyone's and their mother's content yet don't allow scraping google result pages.

and their moneymaker, ads: preventing advertisers from reaching any kind of adult content publishers by imposing arbitrary filters for what is "acceptable", and using advertising revenue as a weapon to deplatform opinions they dont like

Their acquisition of AI competitors is a huge one imho. They are the only companies which seriously threaten their search engine. In another time, the UK would have blocked the purchase of Deepmind for national security reasons alone.
In fact, there's a tool that claims to scan the internet in 6 minutes: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
I’m in favor of higher taxes for more public services. Then again I’m a high income professional living in a blue state, so my taxes are already at European levels. (Maybe not France but probably Germany or the Netherlands.)

At the same time, the left is trying to pull a fast one on the American public. They are acting like universal healthcare will be this win-win situation. But lots of people will lose. Our neighbors, who have solidly middle class jobs but good health insurance benefits, will end up paying more in taxes than they will save in out of pocket health expenses. (Back when I had an entry-level engineering job in Atlanta, I made about $60k per year with full benefits and no premium contribution. Circa 2008 me would be worse off under universal healthcare.)

Even at the aggregate level, the idea that savings on premium contributions will offset the increased taxes is a fantasy. It assumes our costs will go down to European country levels. I have zero reason to believe that will be true. The US public sector is fantastically inefficient. The New York MTA spends twice as much to move a passenger one mile as compared to London, and building a mile of subway costs seven times as much. The US spends more on social welfare than Canada per person already, and that doesn’t even include universal healthcare. It is pure fantasy to assume we can get universal healthcare without European level taxes—20% payroll tax, 20% VAT, the works—on the middle class.

I think it’s worth it, because I think providing for the most vulnerable trumps having more TVs per capita. But it’s dishonest to pretend like it won’t require a major hit to material standard of living.

The CBO estimates it will cost $3 trillion a year to provide universal healthcare. You will notice that no Democratic candidate has proposed raising taxes sufficiently to come anywhere near raising the required revenue. That is very telling.
It it possible to play the Lynx games on original hardware?
And I get nervous sending small amounts still. I cannot imagine the anxiety from sending one billion no matter how automated.
I have a serious question, hoping someone can answer thoughtfully.

Why are populism and democracy - in this article and elsewhere - treated as opposites, or at least incompatible?

For me, I understand the definitions as follows:

Populism: "a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups"

Democracy: "a system of government held accountable to the wishes, needs, priorities, interests and voices of ordinary people - typically through representation"

If the populist thesis is that powerful elites, wealthy magnates and corporatists running their country disregard the concerns of ordinary people - couldn't that be true and also democratic at the same time?
> Would I be a bad person for saying I'm sad about this because I want to work at Google and I don't like seeing their future threatened?

That doesn't make you a bad person, but it IS a bad reason.
For your template code in angular, there won't be any significant benefit to using typescript. It could be worse than not having typescript at all, since you can add type annotations to your 'login'-function that don't match up with reality.

That's not really a typescript issue though, and it works great with libraries that don't use string templates. From what I've seen the angular community hasn't really prioritized a typecheck-able templating language.
I agree that ignorance of other peoples’ experiences isn’t a blameworthy thing. But it does demonstrate one reason diversity is important. A smart person acting in good faith can miss things that are completely obvious to people with different life experiences. We all only know what it’s like to be us.
I think it’s important to distinguish types of barriers to entry. Some are “real” while others are “artificial”. For example, a real barrier to entry would be institutional knowledge about an industry while an artificial one would be an arbitrary TOS clause.
And making that universally available (geographically, economically and for all ages) as "free with ads" is and making it as anonymous as that (because while people complain a lot about Google's privacy invasion, last time I checked they don't require login to do a search, you can use private browsers, tor, etc but good luck making a universal payment system not traceable, don't think governments would ever allow it).
Of course they can. The question is whether they can do so legally and, if not, based on what laws.
There are fee guidelines. The govt sets caps for the folks who get medicare / public aid.

Insurance companies negotiate rates for everyone else. So much so that when my wife was going to get an Iron infusion the doctor couldnt let us pay for it out of pocket ( we were in a hurry to go somewhere and couldnt wait for insurance) we were told we couldnt pay out of pocket unless the insurance company allowed it

Let that sink in... you cant pay for healthcare out of pocket unless your insurance allows it.
> Do you think in all the thousands of boards meetings he has sat on that he ever recommended getting cashflow positive?

Yes.
Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?
Sometimes you hear someone saying "He was really ahead of his time", and you think: "Damn, wish I had a chance to talk to this person".

Among living people, who is in your opinion are ahead of their time?
Besides just timing it (excellent!) did you take a look at what it compiles to?

https://godbolt.org/z/C0ZeE5

It's faster because both GCC and Clang now optimize loops with n&(n-1) to use AVX2 SIMD! I haven't looked closely to confirm, but I think they may in fact even do Harley-Seal for "naive popcount" loops.

C is no longer portable assembly. If you want to test whether a particular algorithm is faster than another, you probably need to write assembly --- or at least confirm that the compiler did what you thought it did.
I like Vinyl - CD's not so much.
Stellar giving away crypto on Keybase but you have to signup before 9/9
The first problem here is that there is no link between the identities across the two currencies. You don't know that X lost some BTC and gained some altcoin. You just know that some BTC was transferred from X to Y and some altcoins were transferred from Z to W—completely different addresses. You also don't know precisely what exchange rate was used, and a privacy-minded service would round to a small number of significant digits (5.4BTC for 3.8ALT) rather than using exact, traceable figures. A proper mixer would probably also use fixed denominations and send each piece to a different address over a randomized timespan.

It's still not immune to tracing, obviously, but it's a much harder problem than just looking for symmetric transactions.

The simplest system, though, is probably just to spend some BTC renting time on a mining rig. It doesn't have to be profitable, just break even. Newly mined bitcoins have no official history to show who paid for the mining.
Its better than helping Google label its object recognition data sets for self driving cars.
Vasistha’s Yoga - highly useful for understanding and transcending psychological conditioning, using mind to master mind.

Early books: Arrow to the Sun and Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen and The Hobbit - all very stimulating to imagination.
Ah I see, my apologies.
> You didn't "ask my server". You used a tool to extract data from my server.

The tool asked the server. The server replied.

> It's more akin to you standing just outside my property border and using a fishing pole to pull fish

Bullshit. Using HTTP to access public information is akin to standing outside your business and writing down the phone number in the banner. Or even reading the "No trespassing" sign.

As long as you're not violating copyright, NDAs or EULAs (and that's debatable) there should be nothing wrong with reading information that you were authorized to view.
Not sure why NPS is being used everywhere these days. Basically it makes all levels of "bad" just as bad as each other. What's so hard about using distributions?
Can quantum Darwinism be used in the blockchain as a engagement service?
Assuming the govt took the money under the auspices of a criminal forfeiture (which I assume because the company was supposedly for money laundering), you would basically need to prove a paper trail to show what specific part of the money they seized was yours, and even then who knows if there isn't a loophole that allows them to basically not respond if the forfeiture was of a foreign company on foreign soil. They took it from a non-US entity, so they may not have any responsibility to give any of it back, because it was not being held by someone in the US [with rights in the US].

(note: IANAL)
It had never occurred to me to try to avoid Luxottica, because until about three years ago I had never even heard of them. Yet I seem to have avoided them by accident.

My current frames are Zyloware frames from Walmart.

Before that, my frames were made by Safilo. I had those for something like a decade.

The frames before that say "Frame Japan". I can't find anything useful about "Frame Japan" on Google, so don't know if those are made by Luxottica or not.
If you believe that the coordination problem required to prevent global climate change is intractable (how are we going to make Russia stop burning oil? Nigeria? Pakistan?), then taking steps to ensure that your country comes out of that alive makes sense. Or at least makes sense if you value people in the relatively standard human order (self ~ close family > far family > community > region > country > everyone else) - some people might have different steps in there, but it's almost always going to end with members of some in group being worth more than people not in that group.

And if you say "but I'm not like that! I care about everyone equally!", then that's nice, but I don't believe you. (unless you're the kind of person who gives a large portion of their income to 3rd world charities - and I mean 50%+ there. Otherwise, aren't you demonstrating that you care about yourself more than random 3rd world children you've never met?)
More like only letting humans into it, and only one type of robot, the googlebot. Then this company is ignoring the posted rules and sending armies of robots into the store to photograph every square inch of the business.
Really poor people simply go to the doctor because they know the doctor has to treat them and they know no one will come after them since they have nothing.
I work at Splunk - we're in the process of upgrading to Python 3 support. It's about as much of a nightmare as you would expect with a 15 year old codebase with [essentially] plugin support (by way of external Python code in Apps). The good news is, we've entered Beta!
You dramatically underestimate how many people have decent employer paid healthcare. The average out of pocket healthcare expenses in the US are less than a couple of hundred dollars a month higher than in most European countries, far smaller than the difference in taxes. See: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2018-12... (page 3; $1,100 per year out of pocket in USA, versus $690 for Germany.)

Also, you appear to have a very warped view of what single payer healthcare is like. The UK NHS for example, is extremely aggressive in “saying no to treatment.” They reduce it to a calculation of cost per quality adjusted life year. Service rationing is an intrinsic part of any healthcare system.
You don't really need to only break on punctuation. There is no convention to do so and so long as you so not break any logograms in half, the resulting text reads perfectly fine. In fact, the convention is to have left and right justified text with equal numbers of monospaced logograms, including punctuation, on each line (on the equivalent for vertical text).
Classical Chinese before the 20 th century was seldom punctuated.
The Cost of Not Adapting to Climate Change
I'm curious, is this an open-source component? I like the way they visualize the maturity of their products.
Cool sounds great .
I was looking into https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge. I believe he was a maintainer of NATS streaming and wanted to make something lightweight and Kafka-esque.
Here's how some people are doing it:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/120824-lynx-eprom-cart/
SoftBank believes 1T devices will create $11T in value by 2025
While I'm a novice - Looking at this, it doesn't appear to require any porting.
Given that goods typically moved by water (far less energy than overland), possibilities of longer voyages are somewhat more credible.

I don't know the actual history / archaeology, or quantities involved.

Europe does have a remarkably good inland navigable river network.

There's mention here that Scandinavians raided Mediterranian coastal towns and villages:

https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/05/17/cypriot-copper-axe...

This map suggests a possible eastern route (the accompanying web page makes no mention of Sweden, scandinavia, or the Baltics):

http://theancientneareast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tra...

(from: http://theancientneareast.com/the-bronze-age-world-system/)

Travel along the Donau, Dneiper, or Don rivers could have reached the Black Sea:

https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/euriv.gif

This article and map suggest sea routes, through the Straits of Gibraltar:

https://www.speroforum.com/a/ROURBRXIJL49/77965-Ancient-trad...
Beware the company that replies with "there haven't really been any" - they are lying or every day is stressful.
Yes! Typedefs are definitely worth the time spent learning them.
In the case of an RxJS pipeline, as one example, you often have a huge variety of lambda functions that may indeed be called many times, but often exist themselves as "one off" pieces in a pipeline. Leaving the types to be inferred and/or generic, is sometimes even necessary for the most code-reuse of functions between pipelines. It's also rare for such functions to feel like they are a part of a public API definition, because they feel so huge a part of internal and boring plumbing.

As someone that has done a lot of RxJS (and kindred libraries) programming over the last few years, I have a lot of sympathy for anyone hurt by type inference changes in the middle of those pipelines. Some of my ugliest rats nests of explicit any types and/or worse have been buried in RxJS pipelines next to // TODO and // HACK marker warnings to future spelunkers (myself included) about how much I was fighting the inferencing engine and losing in that particular combo of Typescript version and available typings. It's usually great when I can fix those later, and so far Typescript continues to move in that direction where those rats nests only get cleaner when I get a chance to revisit them. (But again, I sympathize with that existential fear that Typescript inferencing magic can sometimes take an unexpected step back until you understand why the change was made and how it benefits you elsewhere and/or once you figure out the root cause.)
Their current engine is written in Java so you could just wait until their engine gets to 100m and port it to C++ to win
I once showed someone how to use dev tools to see an API request a web app makes and how to recreate it with your own code. He’s since done all sorts of “life hack” automations. Love teaching people this stuff!
Not to get too bleak, but I could imagine a future where people upload their consciences to some server to continue work indefinitely. Your conscience could move from code base to code base ad infinitum.
Marchetti’s Constant: The curious principle that shapes our cities
> I've never really seen the need to cater to those who aren't willing to learn how to use the tools they have

For tools that depends on network effects to provide value (such as P2P), the on-boarding process and learning curve are quite important to reaching the required levels of adoption.

This is especially true when you are competing uphill against alternate tools with established networks that provide more network effect value.
So do you trust the state government more? We have to pick one, or you just end up with the current situation:
Some people perceive Rails as being in decline. That makes a lot of people in the Rails community act defensively.

I think it boils down to people only being experts in Rails and fearful of having to change to other tech.

I used to get the same kind of answer when comparing Rails to other tech such as Node or Sinatra.
Would the vibration sensors be sensitive enough to detect vibrations from a walking person
I agree. I'm just questioning the management logic of being "expected to be busy at all times even without much to do". I remember some papers linking boredom and leisure activity with creativity. Creativity is important for programming.
i would also love to scrape google s search queries and results pages and make a website showing them. i m sure my users would love it.
In what way is "we are no longer going to provide any of our volunteer time to support Python2" even _vaguely_ able to be characterised as "grabbing it out of the hands of people still using it"???

Here: https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/2.7

Join the other 11.5k people who've forked it on Github, and an unknown number of people who've cloned it without playing Github's high-school popularity contest...

Nobody is ever going to take anything Python2 related away from you.

There's a lot of talk here about "arrogance", all from people upset that some other people have decided not to do any _more_ free volunteer work on a thing they've been trying to get people to upgrade from for 3/6/12 years depending on how you count it. Those people complaining about "arrogance" are putting words into the mouths of the people who've done so much free work for them over th=e last 20 years, accusing them of saying "fuck you" and of "grabbing things out of the hands of people" and of "cannibalising" the code they wrote 15-20 years ago while providing newer better code (which happens to not suit some people who're not prepared for whatever reason to update their own code).

GvR is _not_ the one seeming arrogant in this thread...

(And didn't the last line in my comment you replied to make it abundantly clear I knew exactly what arrogance the OP was incorrectly claiming, and what the actual arrogance on display was?)
>here should be nothing wrong with reading information that you were authorized to view.

You aren't authorized to view it. That's the entire point.

And the lack of access control does not implicitly give you authorization to view it.
I am currently working in NYC (living in NJ), with a total comp that is more than 3X what I was making when I left Dallas. Based on the market there, I would still probably be making 40% of what I do now had I stayed, and the company would not have been as good.

For the record, I have been using a JVM language as my primary work language since early 2012.
The cart was a plastic card with a PCB inlay and a sticker over top.

Seems like you could 3rd print the card part pretty easily. The hard part would be the PCB.
Ok, so I solve this very monetizable problem for you, and what do i get? Bragging rights?
>A website or server is property, just like land is. Accessing it is no different than accessing any other piece of property

What if I placed a sign on my lawn which said "Please, step on the grass!"? Would it still be trespassing?

You laid out a lot of opinions there as if they were facts. They are not. These issues are complex and are still being debated at levels higher than the HN comment section.
Yeah, I am extremely excited about this - small sample size but I've worked on a handful of rails apps and I seem to always need a WYSIWYG editor and could never find one I really liked - glad to see it better incorporated!
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Fonts?
I'd like to use a nice web font on my personal website, but I don't want to involve Google. I could of course download and serve the fonts myself, which I may end up doing, but a CDN would still be nice. Are there any good alternatives to Google Fonts?
> But we also got here by people and systems preying on other bad qualities like complacency, laziness, helplessness, and blindness to shifting baselines.

This is not how I would characterize the last 300 years of our efforts as a species.
Unless you are going to the ER, your doctor isn't obligated to treat you...

And if the ER thinks you're a deadbeat, they will give you the minimal treatment necessary to make sure that you won't die on the hospital grounds - and discharge you.
I've applied before but, looking back, my idea likely wasn't a $1B idea. For those of us with ideas in the $10m-$100m's range: What is our best avenue? I think those of us that have business ideas in that range, you know, we still have something valuable to offer society, even if it doesn't get an investor a very big return.
There are many searches that have so much SEO optimized crap content in the results that it is impossible to find any actually useful content.
I just recently did an upgrade from 4.2 to 5.2 and was expecting a lot of pain - turned out it was incredibly simple and pretty much painless. Awesome to hear others are having the same experience!