skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worry about climate change all the time but I don't know how to affect change at an impact level.

I would encourage you to donate to Trees For the Future, as I have done for the last several years. Here's a blog post I wrote about it: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2019/03/solving-climate-chang...
Another "Sherlocked" software package
PhD in Multimedia Art here. I transitioned during the degree into web dev. While I don't regret getting the PhD I wouldn't recommend the process to anyone. Funding is lean so you'll be taking a vow of poverty for 4-6 years. On top of that, even with your assistantships, you'll be constantly pestered to do additional, uncompensated work. In addition to this, something about the scarcity of funding, and uncertain future of academia in general seems to bring out the worst in people. I noticed an unusually high concentration of narcissists in my own department (maybe varies by degree).

Paradoxically it made the job hunt hard, even though I had a good deal of part time web dev job experience going into my full-time hunt, those three letters after my name seemed to turn people off so much that I had much better luck leaving the PhD off of my resume and mentioning it later on in the interview process once I had gotten my foot in the door.

My first job after leaving, I am making a higher salary than 4/5 of my committee members made last year (public university/public salaries). No regrets but wouldn't recommend to anyone. It's a severe amount of stress.
It's literally not possible for one economic system to simultaneously "take over" the entire planet, so if a socialist or communist revolution ever took place there would absolutely be a first single country or group of countries to "go socialist." The USSR and its allies were, at the time of their existence and the height of their influence, recognized as being fundamentally communist in nature by communist scholars. Whatever deviations from that ideal caused them to fail are no greater in magnitude (or relevance) than the deviations current nation-states have from capitalism that libertarians use to No-True-Scottsman actually-existing-capitalism.

If communism 2.0 is a better system and wouldn't fail for the same reasons that the USSR did, then talk about those differences. When talking about communism 1.0 (and the many, many socialists/communists living today who basically have not deviated from the mindsets of the revolutionaries of the past), drop the special pleading and take the L.
There are some papers (which postdate this blog post) that add simple extensions to context-free grammars that are capable of expressing the grammars of indentation-based languages in a principled way: Principled Parsing for Indentation-Sensitive Languages (Michael Adams, 2013)[1] and Indentation-Sensitve Parsing for Parsec (Michael Adams, 2014)[2], which add support for indentation-based parsing to bottom-up parsers (specifically GLR and LR(k)) and top-down parsers (parser combinator-like systems and PEGs) respectively.

These techniques do not "make Python context-free", so the blog's content stands. However, they do help address the final point of this blog post: they provide principled and limited tools which can express this kind of non-context-free grammar in a declarative way. Tools like these allow us to use simple lexers (i.e. without state hacks like Python's) while expressing indentation-based grammars using easy-to-understand-and-analyze BNF-like formalisms.

[1]: https://michaeldadams.org/papers/layout_parsing/
[2]: https://michaeldadams.org/papers/layout_parsing_2/
I think that they got rid of the rubber ruler, and many of the other asymmetrical bargaining issues that consumers of space faced against large landlords.

They do have some scale, and there's always the idea that you can move to a different office or reconfigure your space quickly. This has real value. Just not $50 billion worth.
How much to they actually cost on a per unit basis? Roughly?
Nine nuclear submarines have sunk so far. They did not release significant amounts of radiation. Sinking a reactor generally does not lead to compromise of the containment, singe pressures are higher in the reactor as compared to its surroundings. Sinking reduces the pressure gradient. One would probably have to puncture the reactor to experience a catastrophic event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...
Agreed. In my previous job I was one of the most trustworthy support engineers not just because I was knowledgeable and competent, but because I was totally honest about my mistakes, and owned them. And yes, mistakes being plural, you will make them, just accept it. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful, just know you're not perfect.

Integrity is important, and trust in some people had been eroded forever after some high profile outages were caused and made worse when they lied and covered up their mistakes. In one sad case, the covering up of a mistake had a human cost, as it affected the ambulance emergency service dispatch system. It was compounded by not being reported or fixed until more senior staff arrived in the morning.

Moral of the story: your ego is not the most important thing. Think of the consequences of your actions and inactions. Do the right thing, and be transparent about it. People will trust and respect you, and if your employer can't handle a couple of honest mistakes, you can find a better employer.
You can dispute Zig, but in practice there is FORTRAN that is faster for many math procedures.
Wow this is terrible!
So that law clearly isn't relevant. How about this? http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/cons...
Made my day. Late by 15 minutes considered normal with British train system. Average is ~30mins and "apologies for slight delay" is >30mins. Considering that you're paying ~40GBP for peak return ticket to London Euston - that's bad. Especially when you have to stand during peak time or sit on a non-seatable seats, which were not renevew for >10 years.
Holy crap: You're right.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/24/20882133/wework-adam-ne...

Thanks for the tip! I didn't realize that.
> It was like 25k people in a single room iirc.

Build it, and they will come ... and do something you hadn't planned for.
The amount of benefits is miniscule relative to the value they are generating and their true market value. Further, the biggest benefit, free college, effectively doesn't count because no one in a competitive program has the time to major in anything that would plausibly provide a good job right after graduation. It is a big story whenever a football player graduates with a STEM degree given how hard it is from a time management perspective (or at least this used to be very rare iirc). Also if we are being real, a lot of these players don't belong in college academically. They would not be accepted on grades alone and would not survive without the hilariously enormous support system in place solely designed to keep them in compliance with the rules.

Most college students in STEM won't even work unpaid internships and yet these guys are expected to generate orders of magnitude more value while being unpaid or hilariously under compensated.
Speaking isn’t as scary as you think, eventually
The best paying doctor jobs are in rural areas that can afford it. I believe the top paying EM (emergency medicine) positions last year were in the Dakotas. Think drilling boom-towns.

And it can easily be a 5x multiplier, sometimes more.
There are some gaps in reasoning, but overall I think the point stands.

The biggest omission is the key advantage of "Pictures Under Glass": they can be defined purely in software. Because of that, I don't think they'll ever stop serving a role in our device interactions. No amount of space-age physical device design could've supported the smartphone's explosion of apps without pictures under glass or some equivalent.

With that said, we could definitely benefit from moving some of the more constant/widespread interactions back to physical controls. Buttons and switches on smartphones are always appreciated. And don't even get me started on cars, where there's little need for a vibrant developer ecosystem and a ton of need for non-visual interface comprehension. I also think the Apple Watch's "crown" is one of the more interesting recent examples of a tactile interface that doesn't sacrifice open-ended software development.
I know this guy in real life. He is full of ideas like this, where there is only a vague description of what it actually is or does, and no tech behind it. In other words, most ideas are worth very little, but his are worth the least.
> There's not one example of a regional sports league that has had any sort of success in recent memory.

Er, we're talking about them right now. College sports are extremely regional but still have significant national appeal. Many, many people tune into SEC conference games who have no connection to the SEC.

If you think people wouldn't watch an SEC-only league (I'm using the SEC here because it's the most obvious example), then I think that betrays your knowledge of college sports.
As is the answer with almost anything in the US, the answer is: "There are some who stand to make money from it at the expense of others."

US is fundamentally different from most other countries. In most countries, govt designs (or tries to design) laws and systems for the public good. Not so in the US.
A New Death Shakes a Campus Rattled by Student Suicides
Stallman is such an annoyance that if there were a credible harassment allegation against him, the MIT administration would have almost certainly made use of it before this.
I can easily imagine an author who rarely uses their own mobile page except to make sure that it works at all; or who knows it's not great, but doesn't realize just how annoying it is; or even who has never looked at their site on mobile, ever.
This is my default python design pattern for quick projects. Just treat everything like a dictionary, EVERYTHING.
A battery won't get better by providing energy to some device. It gets drained. Similarly, introverts get drained by human interaction, so they need to recharge by staying alone. Extroverts on the other hand get drained by being alone and recharge in company of other humans. Telling an extrovert to not socialize with anyone for a year to get better at it is as much nonsense as telling an introvert to go socialize more to get better at it. That's not how it works.

The more human interaction I can avoid, the better, so I'm recharged when I have to interact with people.
Councilman “mind-boggled” by Baltimore City IT department ineptitude
That just says that the algorithmic behavior is unchanged under this list of implementation choices, not that it converges faster. And I repeat the dumb question: these haven't been typical complaints about the kind of boring solvers we've been using for decades, so why do we care?
Good points, but it is only in this very briefest moment of human history that we're even rich enough to care about the lives of people one town over, let alone on the other side of the world.

But how would you propose to solve this? Say China implements a minimum wage that meets your standard of a fair wage. What happens to the people of Vietnam who would gladly take those jobs at half the pay? Will you tell them they can't have jobs they consider far better than what they have now, because you don't think they pay enough? Like it or not, we're not in some broken system, we're in the best system we've ever had with no clear competitor. And things are going up for everyone, the world has never been so well off, a truly incredible feet considering the incredible population.

Although if I were king for a day, I'd use the wealth of the industrialized countries to build out nuclear plants everywhere. Because at least with cheap unlimited power people would never have to worry about food, sleeping in the dirt, or clean water. Bonus points for ending the need for slash and burn, or more fossil fuels.
It isn't college's responsibility to serve as a farm league for professional sports. Particularly those with money to fund their own.
Ah! I can't believe I fell for that!
Thats quite the defense.
He is bullish on AirBnB[0] and Shopify[1].

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/26/18029008/pivot-kara-swisher-s...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58YkxEjzT4

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Linked to a better resource.
RMS has previously said that child sexual abuse is not harmful. He's said that the harms of incest can be avoided if people use condoms. He's called for the "end of censorship of child pornography".
Does this mean we have colonised moon? (in reference to The Martian movie)
Yeah, if you’re bragging about Nobel prizes in economics, you’re doing it wrong. They make the Peace Prize seem rigorous.
This just isn't right. It's not the cheapness, by far. The iPhone didn't revolutionize the world because it's cheaper - it did in spite of it.

It revolutionized the world because a big screen means:

- More content you can view at once

- More flexible and powerful apps that can have more, more intuitive controls and display more information

- Touching an app directly and interacting with it directly means you can manipulate apps far more intuitively, quickly, with direct feedback (remember scrolling webpages before touch with tiny ball wheels or up/down arrows? yea, it sucks)

Resistive touch screen sucked, but capacitive were more expensive and were the game changer. I think you have it backwards.
I did it with an exacto knife. Some of that 5.25 inch floppy material was a little tough.

In some magazines they advertised a special hole punch with some alignment guides to do this, but it seemed expensive.

Most boxes of disks included stickers to recover the existing notch to write protect your disks too...
Yeah, it doesn't de-risk the investment as far as bankruptcy, but SoftBank's exposure is $10.5 bln, according to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/business/softbank-wework.... so any valuation above $10 bln would be a break-even for them.
Ultimately, there are not enough doctors to meet demand. Raising wages will just move them around. The supply of doctors is inelastic due to limited residency slots.
So where's the planetary protection complaints on this one?
>In the extremely limited universe of a chessboard, there are still an infinite variety of games one can play.

No... the set of all possible games of chess is finite, somewhere around 10^120.

You might call that "practically infinite," but another term for practically infinite is "really big, but still finite."

>Just think of the "chessboard" of all the molecules that make up the earth.

Entropy and thermodynamics are a thing, and the amount of work one can do with the molecules that make up the earth is also finite. Trek-style replicators and nanotech that instantly converts anything to anything else only exist in fiction.
But what percentage of the time spent on computers is producing versus consuming? I spend a lot of time producing (writing code), but I only do that on a desktop computer. My wife, on the other hand, spends almost no time producing and pretty much only consumes. In my experience, the vast amount of people are more like my wife (consumers) than like me (producers). Even my coworkers who are business people spend a magnitude more time consuming than they do producing. In my opinion, computer devices should be optimized to the most usual use case - consuming.
Yeah, it's one thing to ship a canister to the lunar surface and then witness a tiny bit of growth, it's quite another to actually grow using the base aggregates available on the moon. While I appreciate their experiment, it's really a pretty small result. And perhaps the real headline would be something like "4 out of 5 expected growths failed to occur and scientists don't know why". The fruit flies didn't hatch, the yeast didn't colonize, and the other two seedlings failed to grow at all. The theory was that all of them would grow in the artificial biozone and maybe even provide a CO2/O2 cycle. But they didn't, and that's the real science.
Azure Usgov Texas Is Down
No official Azure Status updates or pages yet.

Azure Gov portal time outs occurring for any USGOV Texas resources.

https://twitter.com/getalab/status/1178770849983270914

https://twitter.com/bmsimp/status/1178768436673105921
You listed two jobs here.
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LLVM based GNAT compiler
This brings to mind the phone ringing in the middle of the night. You pick it up and add mumble into the receiver and the conversation begins. But no, now the phone rings in the middle of the night (assuming it isn't text / Slack / email / etc.) and you pick it up and then try to focus your eyes on the screen to figure out WHAT is happening and then HOW to answer. It seems the massive leap forward in the CAPABILITY of our phones has actually caused them to stumble backwards in PRACTICAL usability.
April 1st, 2019.
Lets presume that for some reason Softbank wants to play in this space. What are the plays that are at its disposal?

1. It can buy Regus. Regus does not need money to survive, has poisoned pill and does not have a brand recognition. With 3B yearly revenue. Anything below 8x the revenue probably won't get a board's automatic stamp of approval and anything below 10x won't get a board's enthusiastic "Yes, please!". So that's 35B. Regus with Softbank money would definitely crush everyone. It will take a long time just to get the 35B back.

Pro: Definitely a solid play
Con: Really expensive.

2. They can create their own competitor - it will take 3-5 years or longer to assemble the entity comparable to WeWork with the same level of name recognition. It will also cost more than WeWork already burned. During that time Regus may restructure and become a real competitor ( they are in a different market now ) and whoever picks up a corpse of WeWork could become a competitor in the juciest markets.

Pro: cheapest
Con: longest, and most unclear -- Regus may pick up WeWork corpse making it the undisputed leader.

3. Basically do a hostile takeover of WeWork. If that was the play, it seems to have worked very well. It was as if a biker was taking candy from a baby: neither VCs nor C-suite, not ibankers seemed to have caught on.

Pro: No WeWork corpse for Regus to pick up cheap, no other competitors show up from it. Cheaper than buying Regus.
Con: ~10B spent already + 10B to buy the rest.

> what would be their exit strategy from that?

They may not be looking for an exit at all. At those sizes cash equivalents without good investment prospects aren't a good asset.
Ada to WASM Compilation Achieved
I'd be curious to hear what the proposed ToS changes were that lead to this, if anyone knows.
This is so true. The upper middle class in India would probably be lower middle class in the US.

However, let's not kid ourselves. Cost of living in India is equally or ever more cheap. $1-$2 for lunch a day? Rent is only $200/month? My god that's cheap for people earning $20,000/yr as opposed to someone even in Mississippi.

The real losers anywhere are the bottom quintile in a highly unequal society.
Fascinating story, and I love the implication that you were lifeguarding without glasses. I know from personal experience that bright sunlight improves visual acuity (bright images, pupil constriction, and squinting all help), so obviously you were able to do your job, but the mental image is pretty funny!
Where else do you get line numbers in stack traces by default?
Why is WeWork considered a tech company?

And what exactly is wrong with their business model? That's not clear to me from the article. It says they take long-term leases and sell short-term leases. That seems straightforward and potentially lucrative if they're adding value, making it easier to find suitable short-term office space, etc. Is it just that they're not making money doing this? Why not?
Even if the farm is corporate owned, you still need people to do the farming part, and those people can't telecommute.
It was down for 40 minutes, and the moment I posted this it came back up. Still no official word from Microsoft.
If computerizing a business makes it more expensive and labor intensive, someone's doing something wrong.
Absolutely, I was thinking about the Fast Folk from those books too (some readers here may like those more - or less - as they're more space-opera-esque, while Restoration Game is a sort of hybrid spy/SF novel).
Softbank's Vision Fund Is Just Too Damned Big
Misleading analogy. You don't need to murder people, so the alternative to murdering someone is not murdering anyone.

You need baseload power anyway, so you have to choose some way to generate power. Nuclear kills the least number of people per MWh. So not choosing nuclear kills people and choosing nuclear saves people.

Even if you decided to return to the pre-industrial era and not generate power at all - that would kill even more people, so going nuclear is still better.

You need to look at alternative costs when comparing your options, you cannot just look at bad sides of one option and good sides of the other.
Arrow functions coming soon to PHP 7.4
Read what RMS says.

1) "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

2) "Rick Falkvinge joins me in demanding an end to the censorship of "child pornography", and points out that if in the US you observe the rape of a child, making a video or photo to use as evidence would subject you to a greater penalty than the rapist."

3) "The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.

For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants)."

There are plenty of others.

> It speaks volumes about your reliability.

What speaks volumes is your inability to use a search engine. These quotes are trivially easy to find. Why haven't you bothered to look for them? Why have you assumed that RMS could not have possibly said the things he has?
Long lines are just annoying, wrap or no wrap.

I don't want to hit 'j' and drop down two 'lines' because what I thought was the next line was actually the end of this line.

I also don't want to hit '$' and go not to the end of the 'line' but somewhere below (and potentially left) because of the same.

But I also don't want to hit '$' and go out into space to the right and lose context from the surrounding reasonably-lengthed lines.

Just use the return key and nobody has to worry about whether to wrap or not to wrap.
Hardware for Deep Learning. Part 2: CPU
Office brokerage is super-inefficient. If you are looking for up to a few thousand square feet, the current search process is terrible and slow. WeWork commoditizes this aspect, and has a reputation for being an expensive, if fair landlord.