skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think so much of the negative bias towards India (from the US at least) comes from some unfortunate American practices. A lot of our customer service organizations here in the states have a really bad habit of outsourcing the labor to the cheapest bidder, and due to economic differences, the cheapest bidder is often Indian. This means that a large portion of Americans are being exposed almost exclusively to one tiny segment of the Indian population, and usually those that are the poorest (cheapest bidder is cheapest for a reason) and not actually representative of the culture at large. It colors our expectations, and the bias is hard to throw off sometimes, even when we're aware of it.

There's some real technical talent within India, and I've had the pleasure of working with some of that talent during my day job. Even though this mission was ultimately a failure, that it got as far as it did is a testament to their accomplishments. Space is hard.

Bravo team, continue learning as much as you can about where things went wrong, and may your future endeavors be even more successful!
The biggest push is from the US prison system. If you want to sell to US prisons, a massive customer, you need to be halal. Being all-halal simplifies things for prisons that have to cater to Muslim prisoners.
Please remember that work, by definition, has a negative utility. We only do work for its side effects.

And the merit here is producing great music; working hard is not a merit. It can command respect, though, and indicate a future growth potential.

A child is never wealthy; the child's family may be. Being born into a wealthy family is a privilege. I child who doesn't waste that privilege, and makes the best of the somehow elevated starting position, deserves as much respect as a hard-working child that achieves impressive results starting from a worse position. It's pretty easy to just coast and achieve nothing if your parents already give you everything.
Short thread commentary on the paper by Ric Fulop (co-founder of A123 battery co. and current CEO/founder of Desktop Metal):
https://twitter.com/ricfulop/status/1170527207657263104
Is this somehow worse with MS accounts than with Google or Apple accounts?
Anyone who has had to work on a single system for many years may be interested (even entertained) by this talk.

One thing I appreciated about the video was how one of the biggest complaints against PHP isn't quite accurate: Inconsistencies of needle/haystack parameter order in functions. (there is a consistency there, but I didn't know it)

And the fact that PHP was developed over time and in dramatically different eras of the internet that heavily influenced it's features. He admits where mistakes were made, but also where people misunderstood the source/reasoning behind some of the decisions in PHP. (though he seems to sidestep some of them completely)

Magic quotes, globals, register globals, etc... he has really good reasons for why and how these things came about. I found this talk fascinating, especially since I build a system that has morphed over time as well.
And according to this graph, the situation in Canada is even more complex: https://twitter.com/Peeardee/status/1169314278840528896
When someone keeps breaking the site guidelines and won't stop, and keeps creating new accounts to do that with, we eventually start shadowbanning, i.e. banning their new accounts without telling them. Most serial trolls, of course, are perfectly aware of this. Sometimes they even post to HN to make it look like we've treated them unfairly.
Which all conveniently line up with one major political platform. "If you frightened by the coming climate cataclysm, then you should also agree with me on everything."

It's very well-written, but it's not rational. The content is more political than scientific.
Colorful language, when applied tactfully, can communicate more completely than plain language. Most aren't very good at using it, though.
It's a matter of priorities, obviously.
The survival of our technological civilization is very much uncertain. It has been since the nuclear age.
If someone wanted to take meaningful action, they would be sinking container ships. In aggregate, they contribute to more pollution (of all kinds), than most singular countries. Nobody is going to war over this, so it's inevitable. If it's inevitable, it's not healthy to pretend otherwise. The earth will survive, humans will survive, and maybe technological action will allow us to terraform the earth in a different or unexpected way (eg Snowpiercer).

This "debate" about what to do is always toothless and desperate and pointless until the death toll starts to mount. Even then, the wealthy will make the same old arguments about irresponsibility and willful ignorance of those with nothing, blaming the victims, which seems to work generation after generation...until finally we get multinational instability and with smaller populations, some semblance of change too late (eg states of the USSR) to recover from the devastation. What's the mini-state of lower california going to do about 150 degree weather and no water? Nothing.
Well _I_ don't need a new term lol. The term was popularized by folks at the New School who brought people together under the name platform.coop. I actually think it is a bit problematic, because it creates a false narrative around the utility of a service. My biggest fear is people saying we should just make a "co-op version of X company". I think that doesn't really work in real life. Cooperatives are businesses first and foremost. They exist in the market and are not immune to market factors including competition. I would much rather people think about the value they are bringing to people first then build a structure around it that matches the value. IE basic stakeholder theory but baked into every facet of a business (including it's equity structure).
Collective suicide by climate change? At least you won't feel left out.
> at least one of the FANG companies (Google) owns all the code you write while employed by them

this is absolutely insane and shouldn't be legal.
I don't care about physically experiencing musical media. I grew out of that in the 80s when I moved around a lot and had to keep moving multiple boxes of vinyl up and down multiple flights of stairs.

If my FLAC collection was on vinyl I'd have to buy it a house of its own. Moving would require a military budget and a series of strategic planning meetings.

That would rather more physical experience than I care for.
It's not green-washing, IMO it's mostly fleecing the more naive and anti-science parts of the population. Not much different than the related area of "natural" dietary supplements - it doesn't have to work or be any different than regular products, but if it's made entirely from some plant that is "known" to "remove ""toxins""", you can sell it at a premium and a lot of people will buy it.
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Do you really want to live in a country where DNA evidence is used years after the fact to prosecute people for trespass? Bear in mind that DNA only establishes the accused's presence at the scene, and not the nature of any actions taken there beyond the smoking of the cigarette the DNA was obtained from.
> The LP format encourages you to listen to an uninterrupted, un-shuffled 23 or 46 minutes of music

You can do this on a CD with superior audio quality.

> Album artwork and lyrics are presented at a scale where it doesn't hurt the eyes to look at them.

There's nothing stopping someone from celling a CD in a vinyl-sized case.

> Maybe when it comes to something like music, that's not the most important thing. In fact, most music listeners would say it's not really important at all.

I'm pretty sure almost every single fan of vinyl will tell you it 'sounds better.' What they really mean is they like the typical mix of a vinyl recording, but CDs can be mixed to sound exactly like vinyl. If you want the same sound as live music, vinyl cannot compete.
Doesn't government come with its own hurdles? I have friends who have to deal with securing grant money (it's own game of flexing how important your project is with decision makers).
I am not the author. Found it via reddit. The same link you posted.
> At G, it already exists

quality of the tool has also significant impact on the end result.
Looking at the number of unsuccessful external projects, I bet they also have enough mess inside.
This sounds rad! Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about it joseph at tribeworks.io
We are sophisticated monkeys after all.
I upvoted you, because as cynical as your comment may be, I believe yours is the most rational approach.

I believe that in our lifetime we will see the western countries effectively barricade their borders. When an unannounced ship approaches with desperate human beings on board, fleeing the wars, we won't be even allowed to think about accepting them. The ships will be, not stopped and turned around, but torpedoed and sunk on sight. The corpses will be harvested for feed and fertiliser.

From that point onwards, in another couple of generations, there won't be any sanctuaries left. Not even for the richest. They will all have been overrun, pillaged and plundered.

My only consolation is that I am old enough to not necessarily witness all of it.
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Yes, it is easier in the US compared to the UK, where its border patrol agents can ask for papers at any bus stop or tube station. Even one has to seek permission from the home department in order to marry a UK citizen.

After E-Verify in the states, things are not as easy as used to be. Large employers attract I-9 audits if they don't participate in E-Verify. So, illegal labor has shifted to small employers: restaurants, general contractors (in construction), janitorial services, etc.
This is a really excellent breakdown and added several details (like smurfing) that I was previously unaware of, not having had any involvement in these protests. Thanks.
Sorry, I misread. Indeed, actually tokenizing text is accomplished with regular expressions (although some parsers don’t need a tokenization pass, but details :).
Mean World Syndrome
Possibly. The assets even in their poorly maintained are worth $1T. In that context it’s about .02% of value a year.

A quick Google search suggests that homeowners are recommended to budget 1% of home value for maintenance.
- Shared to do lists (e.g. with your partner/spouse)

- Very good platform coverage of clients

- Good UX

I don't think the set of features is too impressive by todays standards, but at the time it was pretty appealing compared to the competition.
> Why does the USA pursue the space program when they still haven't solved cancer and there are a lot of creationists there, and a large amount of gun violence. It should not pursue the space program until it solves these things by your logic.

No, that really doesn't follow from my argument; as I said, it's all relative, and the extent and scale of poverty in India goes far beyond that I've seen anywhere.

Anyway my initial reactive to this article was disgust, because of the terrible things I've seen first hand across India - a level of poverty, squalor and abuse that you truely cannot begin to comprehend unless you see it for yourself in India.

It's difficult to separate my emotions here from logical reasoning, but I've rethought my position on this; perhaps it's not such a bad thing after all. It is a relatively small sum of money, and could be a source of hope and aspiration for many.
I agree with you mostly, but to add my own take:

I've seen the cutoff for more desirable engineering jobs being 3.5, which is also basically the cutoff for competitive grad schools. The real distinguishing factor at that point is what kind of lab work / extracurricular projects you've produced, and it's a lot harder to hide behind a group then.
1) All big companies inevitably devolve into Dilbert, no matter how cool they seem from the outside

2) Humans are easily fooled by signaling and vanity metrics, exploit this quirk

3) Depends on the team, but in general working at a big company is 10X easier and more relaxing than working at a startup. You’ll probably never go back to working at a small company after realizing this.

4) Buddying up to the right people will dramatically alter your experience in a big company—meritocracy can never exist when human emotions are involved

5) the difficulty of the interview process is just plain bizarre given how simple the daily jobs of 95% of the engineers are

6) you will have the nagging feeling a high school kid could do most of the (non engineering) jobs in the company with a few months of on the job training

7) due to 5 and 6, unless you are a sociopath, you will feel guilty on a daily basis for building generational wealth while an immigrant contractor struggling to get by dishes out your free food

8) you will learn that at most big companies, the innovation is in the past

9) on the bright side, google does have really cool internal tools and perks

10) after leaving, people will grossly overestimate your intelligence and skill level due to the name google being on your resume (see #2)
I know. Unfortunately, that metaphor is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
An atypical use of the term as commonly understood, but I don't think it falls entirely outside of the definition since it is an automated test that is attempting to distinguish humans.
Because during forward flight the inlet of the duct leads to turbulence on and shadowing of the blades, drastically reducing their efficiency.
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https://sosml.org/

https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML

Nice to see a new SML project, even if it happens to be written in typescript.

Requires ; at the end of statements to evaluate. For example

fun gcd (x, y) =
if y = 0
then x
else gcd (y, x mod y);
gcd(56, 24);
I have also noticed HN mods engaged in blatantly political flagging, probably driven by deference to YC's tech industry pals. My link to the Bloomberg article about all the WeWork CEO's utterly scammy self-dealing shot to #1 on the front page, then was flagged by mods as "dupe" even though another link to the article was nowhere to be found. Totally killed off the discussion.
Very little lol. I actually submitted a talk to conference.coop titled "Platform Cooperativism AKA A Worker Co-op with a Website."

But like any cooperative you can expand your membership to include any stakeholder. Users, workers, customers, investors, etc. It is mainly about aligning ownership incentives and control/voice according to whatever the design goals are of the company.
I have heard meat-eating car-drivers push this line of thinking for at least two decades. You know the sort of person: willing to rag on the republicans or the Koch brothers for being bad, but ultimately unwilling to do anything except moan about how it is all too hard.
Ultimately, the EU (if it survives) will be something like the US. Where the substates have some sovereignty, but major decisions (such as military ones) are at the federal level.
Not dead simple for those who live in the third world or any country with huge population (India, China, any African, Asian country, Mexico).

Diversity visa benefits those countries with small population. 50,000 lucky people from these countries get a visa.
Obviously this has been met with a lot of pushback, even here in Sweden.

I think the "the scientist"... uh, a professor of marketing, is either trying to virally market himself, Greta style.. or there's something darker going on about him, at a very personal level... or both.
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I agree that there are cultural differences, but culture definitely varies from team to team in any large tech company. I think a job at any of the big tech companies is interchangeable. I hear stories about learning from code reviews, maintaining build systems, and building out new cross team products at all of the big tech firms, I don’t think the lessons learned at google are particularly special.
But would there be a difference between 5 and 6?
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What do you do when a colleague dies?
I'd expect "8======D" more often tbh, but it's not going to end well either way.
This is the source: https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML

Standard ML (SML) is a typed functional programming language from the ML family (the same family that OCaml is from). SML doesn't seem to receive the same spotlight that OCaml and Haskell do, so it's cool to see an SML project.

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d1es7v/try_sta...
Just a heads up, this thread is now full of accounts defending Epstein and his pedophilia full force. No idea who's behind it, but it's... Interesting.
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>I am still awe at how bad MS is at making Windows apps.

They've gotten better at being bad. Before, apps crashed but at least they were full featured, had two or three ways of doing the same thing - so you could get shit done.

Now, stuff from MS is generally slower, still crash prone, looks fancy but is bare-boned, updates remove the few useful stuff and replace em with half baked alternatives or nothing.
I would start using WL again if this happens. 100%.

EDIT: I can't believe how much positive press MS To-Do has gotten. It's a featureless rip-off of WL that could have been built in a month.
You could switch to cassettes, they are the new hipster format, and are at least 5 years away from Walmart.

> Discogs actually says cassettes are the fastest-growing format of the big three sold on its website — the others being CDs and vinyl.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/cassettes-and-cd...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/23/cassette-tape-...
Solar energy seems like a great way to decentralize energy infrastructure, making it more robust to attack.
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The problem with climate change is that it has now solidly left the realm of the scientific to enter politics.

Here’s the truth:

We cannot do a thing about it.

This is scientific fact, not my opinion. I invite everyone to reproduce my conclusion. Here’s how to do it:

Question:

How long would it take for a 100 ppm drop in atmospheric CO2 concentration if humanity, along with all of our technology, evaporated from this planet tomorrow?

In other words, a Thanos moment. A snap of the fingers and humanity is gone in an instant.

Why this question?

Because that’s the baseline. This is important:

WE CANNOT DO BETTER THAN THIS RATE IF CHANGE.

Can we answer that question?

Yes!

We have 800,000 years of highly accurate atmospheric composition data from ice core sampling. In other words, we have a time machine that tells us exactly how the planet would behave if we were not here.

What does the data say? How does it answer my question?

50,000 to 75,000 years for a 100 ppm drop in atmospheric CO2 concentration if we evaporated from this planet.

THAT IS THE BASELINE

Any proposal for “saving the planet” has to be measured against that.

For example: Erase the US from the planet -> Save the planet in 50 years? Nope, ridiculous.

Ban all forms if internal combustion engines? Nope. Ridiculous.

Switch to 100% renewable energy at a world scale? Nope. Again, ridiculous.

All of these are ridiculous because the next question should be: How is this going to perform a THOUSAND TIMES BETTER than the Thanos scenario?

The answer, at that point, becomes beyond obvious: These ideas are ridiculous.

As for what would work, well, that’s a whole other conversation that starts with reforestation at a monumental scale.
A good case for the minority rule: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I'm curious about what you need to do to get your kids ready for school?

I'm not sure what age middle schoolers are (haven't heard of that term before), but shouldn't kids be capable of waking up, dressing, and going to school by themselves by they're hitting Gr.3 and up (and definitely by high school!).
If you want to prosecute people for trespass based on DNA alone, consider the fact that is a regular supply of DNA-keyed evidence available for free in the ashtrays of many bars, convenience-store trashcans, and so on. Indeed, if you get into a dispute with a vindictive neighbor it's probably not hard for them to get your DNA from your trash and use it to cause you a serious legal headache while you establish your alibi.
Uuuh. No. Did I imply that somehow?

Either I can't write (which is possible) or you can't read (which is also possible), but where did that come from?
The single reason to avoid this is a slippery slope: When do we start having human livestock?

While I am a liberal, this is the side of liberalism that I detest.
The billionaires choose the song, we only dance to it.

Unless you fancy a cardboard box under a viaduct.
Thank you. There's an experience of owning, holding and playing a vinyl record which is quite different from clicking on a stream. It ties you to a place, forces you to pay attention at least when changing sides, has quirks, crackles and pops, and beautiful artwork you can hold in your hand while listening.

The digital stream is certainly more convenient and quite obviously available in more places. I don't say this as someone who is in any way "opposed" to digital music - I own and play a lot of it myself. In units of "minutes listened" probably much more than vinyl.
From what I understand no - warming by 5 degrees will cause all phytoplankton to die off and as a result we'll run out of oxygen(not immediately of course, but we inevitably will).
Here is @cmrdporcupine GitHub [1] if anyone wants to hire him.

You’ll find his LinkedIn profile searching his name online.

[1] https://github.com/rdaum
What is remarkable for me is how much attention Bill Gates pays to the details. Details of lives, problems and solutions. He's truly a one-of-a-kind billionaire who doesn't just throw money at problems in the name of philanthropy.
> if you keep your all-up weight under 250g

Are there commercially available drones that light? My Mavic Air is tiny, and it's still over 400g. The only way I can imagine making it under 200g and still able to fly is to reduce the battery to something that can only fly for a few minutes.
This is bang on - to get up and running people want examples and some context. For me it's the first thing I look for.

On my most recent project I split the docs in two; a 'guide' with example code and output - it has more of an 'overview' feel. The other half is the technical (API) docs built from comments in the source code.

It's not the most exciting project in the world, but it's a Rails form builder that meets GOV.UK requirements. Here's a draft of the guide if anyone's interested.

https://govuk-form-builder.netlify.com/

It's generated via Nanoc which loads the form builder and uses it to generate the example input, rendered output and HTML - in theory it can't be out of date or broken.
This means that every citizen - including the 40% of the population who are aged 14 or younger - planted 3.5 trees each. To me it seems like a stretch to get even one in five citizens aboard a national project.
I decided to focus on power engineering instead of software in the mid 2000s since I thought a lot of software jobs would be offshored. Big mistake in terms of compensation!!
Yes and we still have a good chance to keept it well below 5. For most technologies emitting CO2, we now have emission free replacements, so if we strongly push for using them, we do have quite a fighting chance.
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Because if the drone pilot loses control and you get hit by a falling drone, you are guaranteed a trip to the hospital [1] [2]?

[1] https://robotics.stackexchange.com/a/2577
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34936...
Microsoft would get a fraction of their money back.

The former owners wouldn't pay more than 10-25% of what they previously sold Wunderlist for, at this point.