skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, if you Google them, you'll find the ONET page for the job descriptions that includes the activity and has more information about the task, e.g. https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/51-8011.00 (tasks are the 'startup ideas')
Maye someone should interface this to the patent applications system.

The idea is that if a bot can generate patent applications they aren't very novel.

From this we should backtrack and look at existing patents and throw a large percentage of them out : )
The same thing has happened in Afghanistan 3 times. Superpowers seem to fare poorly there.
Looking at still ongoing insurgencies where both sides are heavily armed you'd be hard pressed to find one where the dictator gave up even when the insurgents were backed by strong armies like the US.

So yeah, the assumption is great but too simplistic. It's the same when people say "if we have guns we can stop mass shooters". Very few (if any) shootings were ever really prevented by a citizen and their gun even when the shootings happened (repeatedly) inside military bases where the shooter was literally surrounded by trained and armed military personnel.
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I'm going to ignore the implied insults in your response and clarify my position, which I don't think is controversial or held only by citizens of nations that you believe "generally support police violence at scale": Any person (or other living being for that matter) that is being hit with a pipe by an attacker has the right to defend themselves from that person.
You really can't protect yourself from a government in a stable State, because the State needs a monopoly on violence to exist. Even in America, the argument from 2nd amendment advocates, that guns help protect American citizens from their government is absolutely ludicrous.

There is no realistic way for Americans to stand up to the entire US State with violence. Not without some very wide spread belief in the failure of the state, believe that would probably be easier to get with non-violent protest (and it still wouldn't be easy).
There's nothing a single individual can do to stop global warming. We need radical technological innovation to get out of this mess. Everyone needs to be encouraged to participate. Dividing ourselves into good and bad group over diets and lifestyles is waste of everyone's time.

One incorrect purchase or vacation by a vegan washes away a life time of good choices. It's not enough to matter and you'll never get the entire world on board without an inquisition force.
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There's a reason all these stories stay so vague - as soon as the details come out, it turns out to be lies, exaggerations or really really minor stuff.

By keeping the narrative at the level of "fouled up his room", "made women feel uncomfortable", "drove people out of open source" the people who attack him can make sure that no one can prove them "wrong". Of course, they also ensure that they can't prove anything themselves, but it's not really about that.
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My friend asked me this. I don't think I answered him fairly. I told him to learn RESTful architecture and then jump on a sample project. He knows JS and Python, I think.

The truth is, whilst I can build one, I really don't know what resource to point other people to. I started off with SOAP APIs so our resources back then were prett different from those of today for websockets, RESTful APIs and all that jazz. Hell, I haven't even worked with GraphQL myself. So I thought I'd ask the community.

What is the typical journey today to build a production grade API with authentications and throttling etc?

Books, videos, courses, blogs, forums, communities etc.
Dragonegg was never a particularly well-maintained project. You're building a bridge between GCC's and LLVM's IR, which means you're highly susceptible to changes in one or the other, and the conversion tends to drop annotations (such as debugging info!). Most people only really cared about Dragonegg as a way to get Fortran code compiled to LLVM IR. Now that Flang exists, the Fortran motivation isn't there.

Essentially, Dragonegg was only ever a last-resort way to get LLVM IR. If you're trying to build a LLVM backend, you might as well emit LLVM IR directly from your frontend rather than trying to deal with a GIMPLE backend and then a GIMPLE-to-LLVM converter.
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Apparently, rational HN readers don't require any actual evidence before going with the assertion that "Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews". Crazy times.
There was a brief fad of trepanning in the 70s. People thought it might be a cure for depression, or might have wanted to experience the divine. It was mostly self-trepanning, with awls or electric drills. [1]

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I have some comments on this. I will write in some time.
And then everybody clapped.
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There have been inquests into what would happen in event of US civil war. Some projections see >40% of people immediately defecting from the government, many with high level clearances. At least in the case of the US the nation ceases to exist the moment it is in civil war.

But that is kind of besides the point. A lot of people are arguing "they may have overwhelming force, so roll over and give them what they want." No thanks?
I didn't say either of those things.
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To be fair it generally costs money to send a page. It's the expectation of free messaging that creates the need for advertising - unless people are willing to go back to the days of paying per message.
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Alas when society feels fit to label things one way or another , they overlook the actual action and detail and with that, if it is something good (like this) they are sceptical and focus upon bad aspects and ignore the whole.

But when politics drives and runs with left/right mentality, they end up disenfranchising common sense more often than not and you end up politically with a seesaw effect - you get a controlling party that is one way, then after a while you end up with a party the other way to restore balance.

This is one of those wonderful moments in which the result is common sense on so many levels that we should (sure many do) see it for what it is - something wonderful.

But everybody has a bad day, political things of any form can bring out the worst in all of us, but decorum upon this forum, does a better job than most in regulating those aspects. For that, let us be thankful as I can only imagine the Twitter flavours of this very subject being played out and shudder.

But credit when it is due - thank you EU for this.
I think that one very important factor, at least in Italy which is where I lived for a long time, is the culture about processes and organisation.

In Italy there are lots of very talented people, but very often they work best in a self organised/ad hoc way. "Just following the rules" is mostly thought of as something stupid people do.

It's very difficult to automate processes which were non standardised or haphazard in the first place.
Copying the same source as a comment above to whoever downvoted this: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...
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I'm not taking a side on this specific situation, but shooting at a limb in a high stress, crowded situation would not be a wise shot. You would likely miss--and hitting someone that was not your target would not be good.

Another comment mentions training for center of mass, and I would assume that's what they do.

Let's say 80% of your shots constitute a "tight grouping", 20% being somewhere other than where you were aiming. Aiming for the middle of the body would likely mean you have a very high success rate of hitting your target individual. Aiming for the shoulder/leg/arm (each one harder than the last to hit) you are looking at a very low success rate of hitting your target. If you choose to use your weapon, I would hope you are confident you will hit your target and only your target.
I still haven’t found alternate of discussing an issue with colleagues in person on the whiteboard and finalizing solution. It’s just faster and better than any remote collaboration tools.
While I would expect repercussions when swinging at police, I think being physically present in confrontation shows a level of commitment that a weaker protest movement might not show. Sure, if you die you aren't going to be protesting any longer, but that doesn't mean it has no strategic value as perhaps the only option a protester might see is violent escalation.
From another perspective: Whilst I am likely to spend far more time documenting than coding in my work, when I build something at home to fix a problem just for me I'm far less likely because it's for me.

In the case of this particular developer, it isn't just for themselves, but also in a different language, and they've done their best just to reflect an existing API. They've asked for pull requests.

I can understand not wanting to do the enormous amount of work of translating an API that is already pretty-much documented when I won't really see any return at all.
I always find this sentiment a little silly - if the US President went in to full dictator mode and had the support of the military, do you really think a militia of armed citizens would be anything but gnats against the windshield of the United States Armed Forces? And if s/he did not have the support of the Armed Forces, it would not be a very effective dictatorship and you would not even need guns for a rebellion. I truly do not get it.
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Abstractly speaking, this represents a sort of a mutually-assured-destruction dynamic between the government and the governed, forcing each to compromise with the other.

As an American, the thought of an actual armed uprising feels so outlandish in 2019 that I'm pretty certain that no one in government takes it seriously (c.f. the steady erosion of civil liberties)
What next? 2-way voice communication!? ;)
The US (with its standing army) has been at war in the Middle East for nearly 2 decades now with insurgents.

The argument is not that a rebellious citizenry will necessarily win a war, it's that it will draw out a bloody civil war so long and so expensive as to be a form of mutually assured destruction, the risk of which acts as a check in and of itself.
Assuming you ignore the constant. And if you're willing to ignore the constant, you can get O(c) access, O(N^(1/c)) insert and delete at arbitrary indices, and O(c) insert at head and tail, for any constant c. The trick is to make the array into a B-tree of width N^(1/c) and depth c. Note that the insert/delete time is amortized: the worst-case time is O(cN^(1/c)).
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Do you think him and his legal team would win/have a point?
Historically small arms win conflicts—not tanks, planes or bombs.

The U.S. failed in Vietnam and has struggled in Afghanistan since 2001 against insurgents with little more than rifles.
I'm confused. On one hand this is a massive development, possibly the biggest development since penicillin. Then the second part is an advert for Oracle!?

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This is a combined British & French development (with EU funding), I do fear the damage Brexit do to this type of collaboration in the future.
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The second amendment didn't stop Kent State from taking place.
This is also true for me, except that I still put in the hours reading books by authors that I like. So to a large degree what's been lost is the willingness to go ahead and read iffy books.

It makes a large difference, but I think focusing on the presence of "additional distractions" misses something about what's going on.

(I'm not claiming that I spend the freed-up time doing valuable things, or that reading mediocre books wouldn't be valuable - I'm just saying that the fall in reading doesn't apply to the activity itself so much as to the majority of content to which it would apply.)
Two issues with your statement

1) The claim was rubbish, that amount doesn't leave the treasury

2) The EU does fund NHS projects

However it was a powerful message that kept on being repeated by the incredulous remain side, doing the propaganda work for Leave, it's an interesting "hack" in many ways. 90% of people pay no attention to politics, when all they see is a single policy "vote X and get more money for NHS", that's all they'll remember.

It doesn't matter that it's a lie, repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. When your enemy is repeating your lie for you, you win.
The historical context is somewhat divorced from the modern interpretation (and in other respects, intimately connected).

The thing to keep in mind is that the U.S. Revolution was not what we would call today a grassroots movement. It was based in the pre-existing State-level representative governments. It wasn't a mob of people spontaneously deciding to take to the streets and push the bastards out, it was a functional system of government deciding to shave off the layer above.

When the States decided to switch from a looser confederation to form a more perfect Union, they wanted to keep that option open to repeat the process -- it was not originally about John Doe using his musket to chase off the local tax collector but about the State of Virginia using its own Army of Virginia to drive out anyone trying to interfere overly much in its business.

Incidentally, most States still have standing forces that report to the Governor.
The US (with its support of the military) has been at war in the Middle East for nearly 2 decades now with insurgents.

The argument is not that a rebellious citizenry will necessarily win a war, it's that it will draw out a bloody civil war so long and so expensive as to be a form of mutually assured destruction, the risk of which acts as a check in and of itself.
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