skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me open data feels a lot like global warming: individual action is great and needed, but what we really need is to enshrine it in law and make it the default. Make public data usable, while protecting private data or like they say in Germany: Öffentliche Daten nützen, private Daten schützen.

Same should be true for publicly funded code: should be open source and accessible by default and anything else should require special reasoning.
Great that it's here. I tried Nim around 8-9 months ago, and left it because I didn't want to work with a language that wasn't stable yet. Guess I'll give it a visit again.
Europe is in a post-christianity phase, it's going to be interesting.

I'm guessing they would have no choice but to sell off property and land to pay their clergy?

In the UK lots of churches have either been converted to housing or commercial venues. It's really weird going to a kid's play center in an impressive old church but it happens:

https://twitter.com/RainbowFunTqy
>I really wish people would start viewing Racism as a willingness to let that primitive part of the mind be in command

It this were the case, babies would be racist by default, but they are not. Racism is taught.
Their business model is actually described in the article:

> “Our business model is the exact opposite of TI’s,” says Luberoff: “Their model has always been to give [tech] away for free to textbook companies and force families to buy it at a premium price; our model is to give [tech] away for free to students, and charge textbook companies to integrate it.”

It must have been a challenge to convince textbook companies to pay for something they always got free with TI, but I suppose the network effect had a big role there, and also printing a QR code to an already-prepared graph on desmos must be easier than writing a complete set of instructions to get the same graph on your calculator, even if you limit yourself to one model.
From a book linked in another comment: https://livebook.manning.com/book/nim-in-action/chapter-1/34
If the military is paying for it then it's already in stage 3. Just because something isn't readily available to the public doesn't mean it's a failure - I can't buy a rocket but the various space programs still do lots of cool things and they have money to pay for it.
> There is always some reason that gets people to deal with a problem and that reason is often objectively kinda shitty

The problem is that that reason is the one people think is the reason the problem got dealt with.

It has a nasty chilling effect.
Better link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49770369

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017914
The point of the thought experiment was to highlight the measurement problem in QM interpretations and the difficulty in defining the observer.
The military what? Comparing again to computing engines, even when computers were not at all like they are now, there were always lots of people queueing around them with workloads they want them to do now - and which computers could help them with as they are, not 200 years in the future. For QC, I do not see many users with workloads that can be served right now. I don't say it shouldn't be developed because of that - lots of things took time to bring to maturity - but we should be ready for it taking a long time to get to real usefullness.
Because while 99.9% of highway driving is simple, you don't want to turn something like another car being parked on the highway[1] into a mass-casualty incident because it was too complex for the lead car to handle, and the following 200 vehicles were all filled with equally stupid AIs driving with their owners sleeping or on their phones.

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/feds-autopilot-was-acti...
Kiwi TCMS v7.0 released today
Serious question - why? Car related deaths are at the lowest they’ve been per capita in 80 years [1]. Seems to me like we don’t really need to do anything. Hardly seems justified to bring in draconian AI.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...
Military pays for a lot of stuff that then is not going anywhere. Just as other venture funds do. You can't win without taking some risks. But that doesn't mean everything the army pays for automatically is a great thing.
> I can simply not distribute it

Of course, you haven't infringed on anyone's freedom yet, there are no users. I guess the thing is if you massively overcharge without providing any corresponding service of value the first person that purchases it has the option to throw the source code up on the internet and it can be forked.

I guess you also have to find a buyer that is willing to pay you the large sum while also knowing they can't charge others for it without also handing over the source code, so it's doubtful anyone would do so.

There are other options though, if a single person or entity owns the copyright for the entire code base, with no outside contributors, they can dual license it. GPL for the public and then commercial proprietary license for businesses. That way the business can build on it if they wish without redistributing the source.
Can you describe your emotional state?

Do you think it differed at all to the paramedics and policewoman?
I will note that exciting part for me is that the code generation is triggered by having single line in project file:

<ItemGroup><Protobuf Include="Protos\greet.proto" /></ItemGroup>

Also the code generated goes to obj directory so it's not versioned. I think this is nice way to do code generation, and sidesteps some of the need for type providers in the future for C#.
Maybe. I’m pretty sure this FAQ is as much about quantum computing skepticism as it is disbelief that a giant corporation is really as totally responsible for some invention as its brand management would lead headlines to believe.
cycling competitions (as all sport competitions) are about the sport not the technical innovations behind it.

UCI regulations are there to make a clear separation between sport and tech. given the latest advancements in engineering it's possible to render the athletic abilities of a person irrelevant. power to weight ratio is an important stat in cycling and there is serious physical preparation involved in the process of dropping a few hundred grams in weight before a competition. now imagine that instead of that you get the latest innovation in carbon frame design and drop that weight from the bike. tech wins. and that's not the purpose of sport competitions. F1 has similar regulations for the exact same reason.

also, these regulations address health and safety. some aero positions can affect a rider's stability and, in turn, can affect the security of other riders.
I am an Indian, in India. To be honest I think our current situation is not just a slowdown. I feel the country has become largely divided when it comes to day-to-day economics.

I am sitting in a co-working space in Bangalore, I do that in Kolkata often and will head to Mumbai soon. I hardly see people talking about slowdown in these spaces. The cities seemingly are powered more by funds from outside and are alienated to the issues in agriculture or manufacturing.

Not just the government, but the well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole - that is my feeling and I am guilty of the same.
I expect that it uses Pipelines ( * ) which is a new high-performance design using Span<T> and related classes inside, and these are new, are not in netstandard2.0.

Moving data onto and off the network efficiently is (one of) the things that Span<T> was created for.

*) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/system-io-pipelines-hi...
> For 99% of cyclists, though, it doesn't matter.

What matters is clean look. Chains are dirty and look dangerous. Good bikes (like Dutch omafiets) cover the chain, but if scaled manufacturing cost of this system is $30 extra, people would pick this one.
They can put up the signs if they want. I'll beat them in court because City of Lafayette vs Contra Costa County makes such selective prevention except for temporary construction work not enforceable.

Simply put: California has recognized our fair and even freedoms. You want to take them away? Molon labe.
I wonder if that is a mistake. All other pages have a decent text size and for some reason when you click in on individual blog pages they are set with a font-size of 0.6 rem.
But will the membership decline continue in the long-run?

Within the Catholic church, there is a traditionalist/conservative minority, who are growing basically through having a high birth rate – rejecting contraception and pre-marital sex, they tend to marry young and have lots of kids. Not all of those kids will follow in their parents' footsteps, but the majority of them probably will. Though these conservatives/traditionalists are a minority now, as the decades pass by their numbers will grow and grow, and may eventually grow to the point of no longer being a minority within Catholicism[1], but instead becoming the new majority. At that point, the decline may rebound into a new period of growth.

[1] a minority in wealthy countries like Germany. Leaving Catholicism in places like Africa out of the discussion, because the situation there is very different
Nim is a thing of beauty. It has a well-thought syntax (some consider it to be similar to Python, but it removes many Python idiosyncrasies), state of the art type system with generics, beyond state of the art macro system, excellent performance (comparable to Rust or C), and it can work as a low-level or a high-level language. It is pragmatic: you can write functional or imperative code, neither is imposed on you. There are so many beautiful hacks I enjoy (e.g. unit tests are supposed to be included in each file, all files are compiled as executables, and you can run them to run the tests).

Here is a taste of what's possible: https://hookrace.net/blog/what-is-special-about-nim/
Well, a lot of people do read - or at least skim - TOCs. For a typical service, the front page tells us all the author wants us to believe, but the TOC hints at all the shenanigans they're willing to pull.

If you're not planning to do any shenanigans, it might be worth it to make the TOS reflect that.
Funny to see how the nytimes manages to shoe horn in blaming Trump for this somehow. Hard to find anything bad these days without trump to blame.
Except nothing is "without strings attached" in life. To me "making the world a better place" is precisely about recognizing that everything is interdependent and setting up the right "strings", not about pretending we can live without them.
maybe in China (where they would arguably be at fault themselves...) but everywhere else? how is housing and food becoming less available suddenly without a war?
Gravity is the weakest known force, orders of magnitued weaker than the other forces. Dark matter has never been measured on earth due to gravitational interactions. This is probably related to the fact that the particle responsable for the dark matter are spread out rather uniformly and not 'clumbed' together as ordinary matter. That normal matter clums together is caused by all the other forces, not by gravitation.

I doubt if dark matter can be used to make things lighter, possibly dark energy could be used for that (which is even more elusive than dark matter). It could only make thing heavier if there is a method to confine it. But because it seems that dark matter does not interact with normal matter (at least not often), I do not see how it can be confined to ordinary matter. Take notices that neutrinos also cannot used for this purpose, because the simply zap through us by the millions everyday, without us noticing anything. We have not found methods that to confine neutrinos yet. They seem to fly at speeds close to the light speed.
KeelyNet
So China is bad because they invested in eastern EU countries?
yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok.

i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
Another strike for Xilinx tooling then.
Open source tooling can't come soon enough.
Fun fact: Traditional Chinese Medicine is mostly a bunch of useless horseshit.

Too bad the great leap didn't totally destroy it.
2y ago I was reading selfhacked.com a lot, and photobiomodulation/LLLT kept popping up. The founder also interviewed Prof Hamblin, and I found that one _very_ interesting [1] and wanted to give it a try. I started searching around, and found lots of promising studies. Even 2 small studies with LED helmets that vastly improved Alzheimer's symptoms (at least for ~2 weeks, so patients need to keep up the routine; they actually produced some for the study alumni so they would not relapse). I anxiously put that cheap CCTV light on my forehead for 3 minutes, and after ~30m noticed that my sense of smell improved greatly (probably because the root of my nose was also irradiated). I smelled slight scents that others didn't - so that was what tipped me off that this thing could really work. I also noticed a few hours later that I could think more clearly and with more endurance, for about 24h. So I just kept it up. Over time, the positive effects kept lasting longer, and then there were times where I didn't use it for weeks on end. Currently I use it a lot because I have a deadline to meet. It's a real life changer - I don't ever worry anymore that I can't finish a project because I'm brain dead after a few days of intensive work. Being able to fully rely on your ability to make money is huge if you previously were not. I also know that I'll be able to learn and apply new concepts if needed, no matter how tired I am (I have little kids).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAW8Fvg-TJQ&t=662s
For some reason, a lot of fortran programmers insist on screaming, even though it’s been optional for 3 decades. I mostly program in python these days...
Fortran had nearly everything before nearly all languages.

And I'm sure Fortran was cool back in the day, I'm sure it's due a comeback any day now.
I don't think it's a non-event even if you're only interested in factoring.

This proves the underlying principle of a quantum speedup is a physical reality. It might be something people already take for granted if they're interested in factoring, but it's a crucial prerequisite that was not yet irrefutable.
Lol at the image where before microservices, it was a single monolithic application.

FaaS has its use cases but this “serverless for every solution” or 100% serverless marketing is annoying and NOT customer centric (Amazon said they were earths most customer centric company).
> Western nations have plenty of authoritarianism already. It's just more insidious and under the surface. For example, here in the UK there are CCTV cameras everywhere[1].

True

> They're all linked up so the police can remotely follow citizens around towns, along roads, down motorways, etc.

Not true. The police need to ask individually every time they want CCTV footage from private businesses or get a warrant. They do not have convenient access to all CCTV.

> Every bus and train has CCTV on it. Every shop has cameras. People are encouraged to have them in their houses. Whenever there are police documentaries on television they always have CCTV footage of crimes.

And police documentaries don’t show the ones where they don’t have footage or where the criminals got away. If the UK was truly a panopticon there’s be far less crime. I’m not sure what their clearance rate is but people get away with murder in London so I doubt the average mugger has too much to fear from CCTV.
Given the current grim plans of the government, I feel an economic slowdown is a necessary evil to wash out the government and force people to figure out what is important for the whole country.
'not uncommon' seems a bit of a stretch, but I'm not surprised to learn (because they are uncommon enough that I've never seen or heard of them) that a Mashable post claiming something Is About To Revolutionize is nothing new, or at least what's new is more nuanced.
I am talking about Colored (RGB) coins
<subjective>

Well: Nim is similar to Python in many respects, it's just not "C-flavored Python".

It has significant whitespace like Python. But since it has a lot of language constructs that are different from Python, it's a bit tedious to try to otherwise compare the syntax a great deal, and it has many elements to its syntax that are quite unique.

Saying that Nim is statically typed whereas Python is dynamically typed is exactly a feature that's a slightly unfortunate pick for trying to contrast the two, because type inference is trying to bridge the gap and give you something that's a bit in-between in terms of how it feels to the programmer.

Nim is similar to Python in that (a) It's very cleaned-up and allows you to do a lot of stuff and complex stuff with little code, without sacrificing clarity and readability. (b) It puts the programmer in a cognitive mode where he can think first and foremost about the problem at hand and not have to concentrate on the programming language so much. (c) It gently guides the programmer towards good programming practice without being patronizing. (d) It has a fast learning curve,...

Essentially all the things that make Python great are found here as well. But nim gets there on its own, not by replicating elements found in Python a lot. It's very unique in a way that makes nim a great choice of language in situations where Python isn't (like systems programming or writing code for the Browser ecosystem).

</subjective>
With regards to you thinking I am wrong, this is a matter of simple accounting: costs go up (enforced tax in this case) therefore prices MUST/WILL go up.

Customers will pay the tax bill.

Imagine a shareholders meeting: "the government have just enforced an additional 20% tax onto us which is going to cost X Billion a year. We're going to eat that cost. Is that ok?"

There's not a chance that the shareholders will accept that... prices WILL increase to cover it.

Sure, they will likely squeeze suppliers and look for savings elsewhere but that will only cover some of it as I would imagine suppliers are squeezed hard as it is.

So, yes, the government will likely get more tax in the short term but it won't be paid by the corporations.
Another useful source for learning Tmux that helped me a lot is the free videos from Upcase[1]

They even show how to use Tmux with Vim which is my favourite setup

[1] https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/tmux
When I had my final math exam in 2008, all calculators used in the exam were reset by the teachers before the exam started.
Reminds me of this thread about a memorable 911 distress call:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/257agn/911_opera...
Thankfully I am in the US because the EU is nuts. Isn’t it their fault all these websites have a stupid cookie warning? People should just accept the fact that using a web browser means cookies.
The Lattice ECP5 is supported by open source tooling, does it support your usecase otherwise?
The Enlightenment was something new under the sun. The Islamic Golden Age was intellectually impressive but nothing in it presages the ideas of individualism and freedom that are at the heart of the Enlightenment project.
Before google+ launched Facebook had over 750 million users. It was hardly a small fish.

In either case, though, using market supremecy to crush competition should not be rewarded.
RE: The government is planning a country wide citizenship register, on the same lines of Reich Citizenship Law, detention(concentration?) camps are already being built.

Can you expand on this? Why are these camps being built?
It's not true to say there is no evidence[0-9].

The Cochrane review[10] that includes the PACE trial has also been beset with complaints about its methodology[11].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21334061/

[1] https://huisartsvink.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/severely-af...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19521443/

[3] https://huisartsvink.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/bringsli-20...

[4] https://huisartsvink.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/de-kimpe-20...

[5] https://www.nivel.nl/sites/default/files/bestanden/Rapport-d...

[6] https://huisartsvink.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/eyssens-pem...

[7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28847166/

[8] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28805516/

[9] http://www.meassociation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/2...

[10] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

[11] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176540/
News sites could use this as a benchmark to ensure that the experience is worse with uBO.
Agree with everything as a Sydney dweller, and especially this...

> tap their horn at you to remind you the light has been green for 30 seconds now and you're still flicking through Facebook.

The number of times I've seen this happen then the idiot wakes up, goes, and the light is now red - and we're all still there. Better not even tell them next time.
It's definitely feasible. Old hardware + 2 network cards + pfsense makes a router that can do network-wide VPN. Even a lot of prosumer routers can do VPNs now, but I'm not sure how well it works.
Disagree that it proves zero intelligence. Intelligent humans also have bias.
Exactly! I am free to talk about it, boast about it, write papers about it, etc.

While, to go back to my first comment:

"If you have useful data, the free software principles say that you might as well charge a lot of money for it, which is not what most chemists and biologists think of in discussion of data openness."
If huge country enters recession and crisis then, with some exceptions, it usually goes to war with its neighbors. See Russia waging war for last 20 years constantly, see Iran expanding to nearby countries to shut internal crisis. China does the same - nine dash occupation of south china sea, cold war with Taiwan, conflicts with Japan and nearly all other neighbors. If big crisis will happen in China it will cause a big war in the region. All dictators do this without a fault.
Two things can be bad without being close to equal or even comparable.

The UK's pervasive mass surveillance is definitely bad, but you can, for example, campaign and vote against them, right? Do you feel like pervasive CCTV limits who you can vote for or what books you can read? That's not a strawman, that's literally what it's like in China right now.
Entroware (UK) company builds linux-supported laptops / PCs.
It is hard to explain everything, but it started when I was a teenager and talked to people at my school about abuse at home. My father hired a team of lawyers after that and they cut a deal with child services which had me shipped off into the Troubled Teen Industry. There I experienced the start of this pattern of abuse and a cult of personality of put downs to me started. It sounds crazy, but I had some authorities there just telling me put downs all the time, like it was a scene from a movie about certain math prodigy at Harvard.

When I was 18 I was taken out of there and then just homeless. By my mid-20s I had a lot of problems with extreme bullying again and unexplainable negativity towards me, but after a short stint with homelessness again I moved to a new city, applied for some jobs and got up to a about 80-90k compensation within a year there. Then I started having problems again with stalking and apparent intent to harm me.

This probably reads as unreal, unbelievable. If I didn't know better and read someone write this on the internet, I'd think it reads like the person has paranoid delusions, mental illness.