skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation needed. A human's physical sex correlates with differences in almost every measurable characteristic. For some we know about the causal mechanism, for others the details remain an open research question. But it would be crazy to assume that just because we don't know what causes a correlation, that causal link must not exist. And it would be even more crazy to assume that software engineering is somehow magically unrelated to every measurable characteristic of people, or that the characteristics we haven't been able to measure are somehow radically different from the ones we have been able to.
I'd revise that to the far more irritating segment of users who think they're more technical than they really are. Actual non technical users are fine, because they generally know when they don't understand a thing. The thinks-their-technical users will bravely throw in whatever phrases they've heard mentioned in relation to a completely unrelated problem.
Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
Nobody wants that throne. Theresa was no better. Jeremy is doing his best to stay away from the shitshow. A no-deal brexit seems like the sane thing to do.

The economist M.Blyth has said that best: Jeremy doesnt want an election , he wants to watch the tories tear down themselves to pieces.
Yes this was an important part of the ruling, that the prorogation was considered to be an act imposed from outside upon parliament and not of parliament itself.
There's a thing called "server side ad injection" (more like cancer injection) that inserts arbitrary ads directly in the audio stream so the ad is independent from the original producer. Presumably they do some rudimentary tracking based on IPs, user-agent and whether your podcast client downloaded the file past the point where the ad is injected.
Europe’s Top Court Limits ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Privacy Rule
I think that blaming Russians for everything is doing more harm than good. Sometimes it's not Russia, sometimes it's just ideological opponents, conspiracy theorists or 4channers who like to watch the world burn, sometimes all of them at the same time (think Pizzagate).
What BoJo was trying to do was get no deal Brexit through a back door. Before an election the prime minister of the UK needs to request an extension to the deadline to allow the election to take place and a new party to take control and deal with the exit (or not) from the EU.
> What is the philosophy driving its design?

I think that the [nim github tagline](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim) expresses well the philosphy: "Nim is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language with a design that focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority)."

also Araq's blog post on 1.0 explains well how the guiding principles remained the same over time:

"When I started Nim's development I had a small simple language in mind that compiles to C; its implementation should not be more than 20,000 lines of code. The core guideline has always been that Nim should be a small language with a macro system, which should be capable of extending Nim with all the features that the small core is missing.

The current compiler plus the parts of the standard library it uses has roughly 140,000 lines of code, runs on a plethora of operating systems and CPU architectures, can also compile Nim code to C++ and JavaScript, and Nim's meta programming capabilities are top of the class. While the language is not nearly as small as I would like it to be, it turned out that meta programming cannot replace all the building blocks that a modern language needs to have.

For example, while Nim manages to implement async via its macro system, the macro system needs to be able to compile code into a state machine. And these state machines need some form of goto and a way to capture their environment. So Nim's core needed to grow so called "closure iterators" to enable this.

Furthermore, we don't really know yet how to leverage a macro system in order to give us extensibility on the type system level, so Nim's core needed generics and constraints for generics."
> they do not spread their views unlike the Western world.

I'm not sure if with "unlike" you imply that they [China] doesn't do it at all, or not as much as others [US].

In the first case, the argument is wrong. China is using economical leverage to impose its political agenda. See, for example: https://sentinel.tw/norway-one-china-policy.
>>That's flase. This Government didn't "plan" NRC.

They are now: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/countrywide-national-...

This is recipe for disaster. Keep in mind, India has millions of people who lose homes, and documents during floods, or have to migrate because they are daily wage workers and can't find jobs, or have to escape pogroms, or lose documents due to other reasons.

In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to.
Because the currently legitimately elected parliament would like to be able to pass laws about an eminent major change to the UK’s status. If they have an election, there will be no parliament in session to act until there is a hard brexit.
Important technical question: is Bercow still the Speaker? If not, who is? I thought he resigned at the end of the last term, which may or may not be reverted by this result.
Do you mean insane?
I'm reminded of a psychologist's description of sociopaths, that they "leave a trail of destruction in life".

BJ seems to have the hallmarks of sociopathy, having known a few myself, and he's made a total mess here. And elsewhere - talk to anyone who's worked in TFL and they all (that I've met) will tell you about stupid plans that have come across their desk, done without any traffic analysis but pushed through nonetheless.

This all might force a written constitution, which is long overdue in the UK. Something good may come of this at least.
Or choose a shortcut that works with either.
Oh, they did the usual thing of finding a quote from the other side to put in the article. That quote was of course wrong, but they probably felt the need to put it in for balance.
Labour are resistant to an election as they know they won't win.
When white people are labeled for their other qualities, and non-white people are labeled for their (perceived) ethnicity, that’s racist. Which is to say, unfair. Not nice.
Because they wanted BoJo to get the extension first, an election without the extension has the same effect as prorogation,that is no-one at the helm on the 31st October so default is no deal Brexit.
That was never in doubt, surely? It's a "royal prerogative" power. Technically the prerogative is unreviewable but "Minister's advice" is.
sane. The individual deals can be negotiated over time. Repeatedly delaying it and expecting different outcome is the definition of insanity.
Ask HN: Employees of Facebook, what's it like to work there?
Former or current. Use a new username if you have to. I've learned about the suicide of Qin Chen and it's made me wonder what life is like inside Facebook.

Thanks for taking the time to answer and discuss this.
They had a chance of an election on Oct 15 but threw it away.
When you have secured new employment.
Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe – ETH Zurich
I worry that if the "keep them talking" -heuristic becomes widespread enough, we'll experience a cultural evolution where people flat out refuse to talk.

If you know the main strategy of your opponent it to get you talking, your most obvious strategy is to not talk.
Yup, we're getting done of our generics from Slovenian Krka Group and locally made in Poland too.
Some more expensive things mostly from Merck. A few but common from separate Polish manufacturers - sadly a few bigger ones were bought up by Valeant or Teva with concomitant price increase.

They're pretty good, compared to random trash from India or China.
They cannot match the volume, not even close, to be more than regional EU players.
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Ask HN: What Are Your Google Scholar Email Alerts?
Hi,
if you haven't heard of it.
You can subscribe to certain keywords and get a weekly summary via Mail from Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.de/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts)

Here is my current Keyword list:

- anomaly detection github

- Bitcoin Anomaly github

- poker github

- tail hedging github

- arbitrage github

- momentum github

- option trading github

- convex optimization github finance

So far there has been around three really interesting publications. Many of it are Master thesis.

I always add the keyword GitHub, because I'm more interested in technical implementations.

What are your interests? Any subscriptions? Alerts?
Pipelines can also be used with much older frameworks: https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.IO.Pipelines/
I'm not sure what types of wars USA military is good at winning, because they haven't won a war in my parents' lifetimes, but these definitely don't include "impose unpopular policies on broadly dispersed heavily armed rural population".

Never winning wars is no obstacle to blazing through those trillions of dollars you reference, but I imagine that killing voters and their families might constitute such... they'd need to kill these "flyover" voters in some fashion that would appeal to coastal voters enough to inspire deeper political commitment to the continued prosperity of the military-industrial complex. Frankly the whole idea seems too risky for these chickenhawk cowards.
Yes, and if you're interested in his view he is quoted in his capacity of Commons Speaker in the OP.
What is there to elaborate on? The whole situation is a massive joke, a complete and utter farce to all involved
Also the fact that airports are still a big time sink even with all the priority passes in the world.

No amount of money makes getting from your front door to the airport not be a massive pain potentially taking over an hour if you have some bad luck
Shouldn't everyone just be labeled for everything? Seems like we should just add "white" to the tags of white people.
He put in his notice that he would finish no later than Oct 31.
This is so, so wrong.
> The previous parliamentary session was the longest since the civil war

Yes, that in itself was exceptional for no good reason - I think the intent there was to avoid having another Queen's Speech before the deadline, back when the deadline was in May.

The negotiations have been carried out on a delusional basis. The EU is not going to cave at the last minute and there's never even been consistency on the UK side about what we want.
I understand that, I'm just highlighting that perhaps a HN commenter (and I include myself) doesn't trump a high court on what's 'obvious' when it comes to the law.
Technically, they've upheld the Scottish court's ruling. I'm sort of seeing the Scottish courts focused on it being illegal for Parliament not to be able to do its job. Two sides of a 2-dimensional object.
Either that or the Prime Minister could simply be trying to implement the result of the referendum, as voters were told the government would.
Well there was some doubt. The High Court ruled it not judiciable because it considered it was an action of parliament.
Progressively Growing U-Nets: A New Perspective for Medical Image Segmentation
A short and easy to read book teaches lessons somehow relevant to the situation, especially chapter 3 "do not make assumptions".

The book is "the four agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz.
If you hate democracy, perhaps.
He is due to retire October 31st, or at the calling of a general election and dissolution of parliament, whichever comes sooner.
> the next question was Police, Fire or Ambulance?

In the Netherlands I hade the same experience with my only call. I still get angry I had to make that decision. In fact I am pretty sure I got it wrong. In the end no one came and 4 hours later I got a call asking whether I still needed help.

Thank god things had calmed down at that point, but that was pretty much luck. Had I made the right choice between police, ambulance or firefighters, a lot less luck would have been needed.
This is a bit like saying you wouldn't use LLVM languages because of the semantics of IR, or that you have to understand the guarantees IR provides, isn't it?

Ultimately if you're really interested in performance, regardless of the stages of compilation, the juice is the machine code output at the end.

In terms of guarantees, those should be satisfied higher up in the language itself, with C generation being output according to Nim's CGen spec. The compiler is fully open source though and easy to dig into.

Having said that, the CGen output is fairly readable if you're familiar with C and I must say I've investigated it when I wasn't sure how something was generated.
Current members of parliament were elected by the people in 2017 for a five year term. They should stay until 2022.
Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened?
The funny thing is, prorogation was a democratically elected government trying to prevent a democratically elected parliament from democratically (by members of parliament) stopping a democratic (by the populace) decision to exit the EU.
Should be, apparently the whole thing was reverted so as long as this parliamentary session lasts he is still speaker.
I think that since this is the English case the Scottish case now evaporates and doesn't get appealed separately, so we don't get to find out how that would have worked out.
Actually Shazam is tech for acoustic fingerprinting, which is quite far away from machine learning.
In your example SERP and Google name almost the same thing.
>>Why are you so sure that such data exists if you have never seen it?

Because when you ring up an insurance company and ask why
(as a 20-year old) your insurance is higher than that of a 25 year old(with also zero driving experience) you will be told that it's because of your age. Unless they are lying to you of course, which is hard to prove or disprove.

>> however, if you want to start discriminating based on race

Wait, what? That took a weird turn?
Or you know, we have another referendum, with some clear choices.

Stay or Leave

If (Leave ==true)

With deal or With no deal

That way we get to make a proper decision,with what we have now and didn't have before the referendum, a much more informed electorate.
How can the re-instating of parliament against the desire of the executive be against democracy?
The data the parent is claiming to exist is discrimination based on age, which is indeed rather simple to confirm.

>however, if you want to start discriminating based on race, you have to be ready to bear a massive burden of proof when you make racist claims. Would you be so blindly accepting if I threatened your life, liberty or property for no reason other than the color of your skin? Wouldn't you want conclusive evidence, quality controlled and beyond a reasonable doubt?

Would you not say the same about age?
We did not vote for BRINO, which is what all these 'deals' are about - keep us tightly enough tied to the EU so that we can be forced back in in 5-10 years. Don't try and pretend this isn't the case, we all know it.
I think the parent's comment ("It's written in Rust! Give it an upvote") is tongue-in-cheek.
Reminded me of this[https://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3448140.htm], where China continues to label Tibetan self-immolators, as Terrorists.
i say it like that because what 'good' is is subjective. you are right though, the more good there are, whatever that is ^^...., the easier it will be. but to get to that point, people need to personally take that stance, not wait for others to do it.
There needs to be another vote.
Pizzagate was so dumb. Just imagine, the possibility that lots of powerful elite dudes would be implicated in a carefully organized long-running practice of pedophilia. So conspiratorial! Definitely not realistic...
How can the refusal to agree to a general election be pro-democracy?
competitive pressure is why i noted you won't earn billions.
> yet there is resistance from Labour.

Because Labour may not do well at all. Certainly it is very doubtful that they would get an outright majority.

They are split on Brexit (London very pro-Remain, most Northern traditional Labour seats pro-Brexit) and they have been hijacked by effectively communists. This means is has been very hard for them to gather broad support.

This is very visible in the polls where they only get lukewarm numbers.
I was thinking, perhaps it helps to make the edit-compile-run cycle as long as possible.

E.g. coding until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and only then running code and testing.
Seems unlikely. His best chance of doing that - of leaving the EU - is to get a majority of parliament to vote for whatever deal he presents. Proroguing parliament would appear to antagonise parliament and make that less likely.
By illegal means is not ok.
I can't find this anywhere, but does Pi-Hole have any sort of client side 'reload without blocking' functionality? If I were to implement this in my network and a user has issues with a page not loading/functioning correctly, I feel like they'd need my help to add the site to a white list, which would be pretty inconvenient.
You say that while psychopaths are pushing the UK beyond the brink of legitimacy through the invalidation of Democratic self-governance in the hopes that people don’t realize the fraud and snap.… and you have the audacity to claim others are sociopaths (a term that has been retired btw, because it’s just a focus of psychopathy)

The only psychopaths, and even beyond that, they are the dark triad of personality disorders (narcissistic, psychopathic, and Machiavellian) are the “remainer” fools, who are cutting off their nose to spite their face.

What credibility does any vote of democratic principle have anymore when the oppressive ruling class simply negates the will of the people through trickery and manipulation of process. There is no legitimacy left after that; zero, and you’re only left with might makes right, which I can assure everyone you don’t want to happen. Spoiled brats can’t get what they want and therefore are going to burn down the house, pretty much sums up Brexit remainders.
Two reasons:

One is as others have said. Election now would make a no-deal crashout more likely.

The other is that it was also deliberately timed to reduce participation in a largely non-tory demographic.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/general-election-date-aim...
It's the fixed-term Parliament Act that got us into this mess. Under normal circumstances May's deal would have been put to a confidence vote then either accepted or yet another GE called in order to replace the government with a functioning one.

The government has a minority of something like -40. This cannot function for long.
> Do you believe he has alienated more women from FOSS than he has inspired people to contribute to it?

Almost certainly not, but at this stage it is not unlikely that he'll put off more than he'll encourage going forward. So by the same "net effect" argument you make for accepting his behaviour up to a point in the recent past, he should go. Live by the sword, get asked to resign because of the sword.

> Considering the frankly extremely low percentage of female contributors

That low number of female contributors is at least in part due to the impression people have of working in these areas. Allowing him to continue to alienate people works against efforts to rectify that impression (and where it is true rather than just an impression, work to fix the behaviours that are causing the problem).

> all of the anecdotes of actual bad behaviour that seem to come up are from about two decades ago

Perhaps most, but not all. I've definitely seen some more recent claims, and they were mentioned before this particular episode. They weren't as egregious as the earlier behaviour so he was at least controlling/curbing/changing the creepy behaviour for which I suppose there should be some credit, and there is definitely some curious timing wrt MIT and the Epstein contributions so there is presumably a bit of "throw him under the bus as a distraction" going on, meaning this is a case with significant grey areas, but I think painting him as an entirely innocent victim is a step too far.

Let's be fair handed: if we wouldn't accept it from a politician or other celebrity, we shouldn't accept it from someone whose other ideas we agree with either.
Yes. For example, I like Twitter for following some fellow engineers I value for their professional work or work in the community, but many of them inject a lot of leftist politics there, so my timeline is not what I want it to be.
Beautifully explained, thank you!
I haven't played with gRPC much but just trying to get my head around pros and cons and use cases...

I was under the impression that you can't specify fields as null. Instead they just get assigned whatever the default value is for that type.

That seems like a significant drawback for me if it is indeed the case. Especially in the case of a public facing API.

I like the idea of a lot of client libraries able to generate easily, I'm just not sure on this one point how to deal with it nicely...
Formallization of economy does come at a price
Plus there is growing consensus that God cannot exist.
We need to eat in the meantime. Or are you just going to dismiss Yellowhammer as propaganda?
He bought a falling company from himself and his cousins for almost 3 billion, plus the company had 3 billion in debt. The deal resulted in him getting half a billion more in tsla stock.

Tesla's market cap in June 2016 was 35 billion. It's 43 billion now. That's not that much value created. The S&P went up almost 50 percent in that time.

It's all besides the point anyway, since many shareholders sold their shares because of this fraud. They don't care what he's doing now, they just want their money back.

It's in everyone's best interest to have checks on self dealing CEOs. If people can't trust public companies to behave, the whole system breaks down.
The Johnson government isn't democratically elected by any usual definition.

The government doesn't have a parliamentary majority, and Boris hasn't stood as a PM candidate in a general election.
As the situation has worsened with the latest release of Safari I'm really interested to globally setup Pi-Hole on a VPS via docker and use it in combination with VPN (Strongswan) for all of my devices (also mobile). Has anybody had success with such a setup yet?
In 10-20 years of negotiation and continuous governmental changes rejoining may be possible in yet another referendum. :|
Never understood why tmux had to be different and use ctrl+b when ctrl+a is already standard and much, much better.