skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use VS Code too, but dynamic typing means I have to deal with this sort of thing every day: https://mobile.twitter.com/weberc2/status/118275131245637632...

Compared with, say, Go where I just hover the cursor.

As for pip, you also need virtual environments to protect you from side effects, and even then, if you’re doing C interop you probably still have dynamic links to so files outside of your virtualenv. Our team spends so much time dealing with environment issues that we’re exploring Docker solutions. And then packaging and distribution of Python artifacts is pretty awful. We’re using pantsbuild.org to build PEX files which works pretty well when it works, but pants itself has been buggy and not well documented.

> I never claimed that

I couldn’t tell since the context of the thread made it sound like you were either implying that Python is suitably performant because the majority of programming is glue code or you were going somewhat off topic to talk about glue code. I now understand it was the latter.

> Depends what you need to do.
My entire comment was about that details matter and you can't just blindly pick a language because of out of the box performance.

I agree, but in practice you rarely know the full extent of what you will need, so you should avoid painting yourself into a corner. It really doesn’t make sense to choose Python any more if you are anything less than certain about the performance requirements for your project for all time—we now have languages that are as easy to use as Python (I would argue even easier, despite my deep familiarity with Python) and which don’t paint you into performance corners. Go is probably the best in class here, but there are probably others too.
This is awesome! To the people that made this happen: Thank you so much!

I've been wanting something to demonstrate how the gap between hardware and software is fairly easy to bridge at this point- thank you for sharing something that demonstrates this well!
Who the hell is this idiot and why is this horseshit being posted here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet

Literally everything in that article is unsubstantiated. I can't find one true fact in there.
I like propublica's reporting on this but geez, this needs an award for one of the top HN obsessions. Within the past 7 months:

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free; 211 points -- 54 minutes ago

TurboTax to charge more lower-income customers; 144 points -- 3 months ago

Congress Scraps Provision to Restrict IRS from Competing with TurboTax; 82 points -- 4 months ago

Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers; 171 points -- 5 months ago

TurboTax Uses a “Military Discount” to Trick Troops into Paying to File Taxes; 170 points -- 5 months ago

TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat; 355 points -- 6 months ago

TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines; 881 points -- 6 months ago

TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes; 608 points -- 6 months ago

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013); 462 points -- 7 months ago

edit: if you _still_ haven't gotten enough TurboTax reporting, there's a great Reply All episode that covers propublica's reporting as well https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol
But saying "beyond what smartphones are already capable of" diminishes the fact that they are also always listening, and are also generally near where you are. Siri, by default, is always listening. Most people don't understand or know this. People are then amazed when they put their phone on a table and say "Hey Siri" from across the room.
From what I understand it's not that, it's fingerprint recorded as authorized while the flawed protection is on, that won't work.

If you record a new fingerprint without any protection, or one that doesn't confuse the sensor, you can't then put the flawed protection on top and have it bypass security.
As far as I know there are no rocks that changed due to the gradualism v. catastrophism debate.
My (subjective) experience with my Pixel 3 has been fantastic. I find excellent recognition with all configured fingers.
TinyGo v0.9.0 Released
I remember Stallman's obsession with "TiVoization," and I remember wondering if that was really the most pressing thing on the horizon at the time. I also find the claim that the goal of the FSF became "completing GNU for Stallman’s laptop" credible.

But I kept wondering what the future of the GPL could be under new leadership? Would a GPLv4 be even less congenial to a company like Apple (that is systematically trying to remove any trace of the GPL from its entire stack)? Or would it try to make some concessions toward the Linux kernel and the LLVM/clang project (for example)?

edit: missing word
I'm skeptical. I think more likely its an intentional diversion to create and protect sophisticated loopholes for high income earners and companies. Its a reasonable strategy that obviously works and clearly explains their otherwise contradictory position.
Sometimes the reason is stupidity
I was under the impression - perhaps falsely - that taxes in Brazil were nightmarishly complex?
The Bullet Cluster observations are commonly misunderstood. There is indeed a missing baryonic mass problem for MOND but this is also a problem for ΛCDM too.
The number of reviews can also depend heavily on whether and how often the app asks a user to review it.
Maybe we could specifically target voice actors who convincingly voice children in animated stuff

Edit:

- There are already paid child actors, you could somewhat-manually collect their speech from e.g. movies and TV shows to have _something_

- Even if there's some copyright issue with distributing their audio directly, it's not clear (uncertain but dubious?) that a model trained on their audio would have any copyright concerns as long as it can't be used to reproduce the original audio

- What is Mozilla going to do if <1% of their dataset is already children who didn't put an age in? Is that a COPPA violation? There's even the defense of "an adult can sound like a child and we also don't know who this child is so how is it personal information" (I have no idea the usefulness of any of that)
I had a programming languages survey class in college. The thrust of the course was different languages for different applications. It's not startling that the person, whose comment you quoted, doesn't find the functional paradigm helpful in graphics programming. Functional programming helps with expressiveness and reasoning, i.e. variables don't suddenly change on you when you're not expecting it.

A video game programmer would probably not be helped because a big part of their coding, as I understand it, is wringing out every clock cycle and byte of memory possible. However, the programmer writing the AR/AP system that allows tracking for in-game purchases would find OCaml, for instance, very beneficial.
Yes, exactly. Windows 10 is seriously creepy in a way that Windows wasn't before.
Every now and then my boss gives me an overly-friendly shoulder pat. It really annoys me, I guess I'm a victim of physical harassment. Should I leave the industry over that?
Sentinel Values in Python
So are aren't defending Intuit but, you are just saying that ProPublic must reference other material before focusing on Intuit? What about... This sounds like industry lobbying that will make it harder and more expensive for me to file my tax and increase the net worth of Sasan Goodarzi.
Nest/Google Home devices have a hardware mute button. They are off when they are off.
Let's keep in mind that beyond just his tireless efforts to advocate for Free Software Stallman also built almost all of the GNU toolset.

Let's put aside his politics and views on licensing and what we have is a genius developer who single handedly has done more to advance computing with the GNU tool set and the distribution thereof than anyone else in the past 30 years. Without Stallman for example there would be no Linux as we know it because you'll notice most of the actual tools that allow you to do things on Linux are GNU tools written by Stallman.

Regardless of his views on how society and software should interact he still is one of the most important figures in the history of computing and deserves some respect and appreciation for that.
Of course not, but phrasing it in this way (that phones are a separate exception) minimizes the legitimate critiques of always-listening cellphone privacy.
Based on recent history Warren certainly isn't a run of the mill middle of the pack Democrat. Her positions on banking, big business, healthcare and big tech companies is a leftward lean even when compared to Obama's tenure.

> The government needs to be reformed, electing one party or another President isn't going to change much

And pontificating about how "the system is broken" doesn't change anything. There are no actual concrete steps to reforming government that doesn't involve elections and gradual process, or revolution and sudden progress. If you think the latter is in any way likely then you're deluded.
Or, to coin a phrase: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a030751.pdf
While a simulation doesn't have to obey the rules, any given simulation is likely to resemble a system that does adhere to rules, since a simulation is indeed simulating something else.

Even if some external observer can pause, rewind, intervene and violate rules, the reason a simulation exists is to model something else.

This "something else" will have some kind of rules, and the goal of the simulation will be similarity to the actual realm external to the simulation.

Meanwhile, a lazy replication of a model by an unmotivated author would likely impose finite quantities upon scales of interaction, since a simulation won't be able to recreate a real time version of something larger than the external reality itself.

We wouldn't notice a lagged simulation that tries to consume its footprint, but it's probable that an artificial creation would impose caps on aspects of a system to prevent runaway reactions that produce useless simulations. To us, those sorts of limitations would resemble extra physical laws, and while incontrovertible to the simulated entity, such limits might confront intuition in strange ways.
No direct insight to the actual trades outlined here, but most of my mildly-informed WSJ/FT/Economist reading 3rd-tier software engineer 10% YTD gains have been from speculative forward/inverse trades when things appear calm or at maximum chaos.

The strategy has not been based on expecting the broader economic issues to actually be resolved, but instead: "things are too crazy in US-China/EU-UK/Middle East, good news coming soon, time to buy long" or "things are too calm/optimistic, someone is going to rattle saber soon, time to go short"

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to read the geopolitical mood and the level of bluffing going on, and I'm quite sure if I had more $$ to manage and more time to watch the ticker and newsfeeds, I would have made bigger bets.

that said, someone directly moving markets could do far better.
Without Richard Stallman, no linux as complete OS, no gcc, no emacs and hundreds of other libs/software.

Stefano Maffulli: make a list of what you brought to the world and compare with what he did and then ask this same question for yourself. I assure you, it'll be revelatory.
It isn't the hardware developers' job to make you design good infrastructure.
That's true a phone has 'smart' speaker features.

It seems 'smart' speakers wake more easily than Siri.

We hadn't been hearing news stories about FANG employees listening to/reviewing conversations intimate moments until the 'smart' speakers were deployed.

I expect this could have been going on with Siri as well though.

I'm open to using a 'smart' speaker in the future, there might not be any reason for concern.

Currently it just seems like a bad idea to add recording devices you don't control around your home.
Citation needed. Checking the bitfinex order book:
https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book

A trade of $10M, or 1250 bitcoins, would move the market by 6%
Siri is always enabled on iPhones by default.
Edit: I was wrong and misunderstood the article
Sorry, I am not ready for philosophical discussion. We can take definition from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming Programming involves code execution on computer. There is no computer in FPGA.
'The decision would be based on a simple majority, rather than requiring a majority of both unionists and nationalists to support the rules in order for them to pass"

Would this mean that the DUP cannot effectively veto the whole deal, or just future decisions in NI?
You can can't you. You can license
Premiere Pro for 1 month for $31 or at least it appears you can. When I go here https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html and click Premiere Pro it gives me 3 options

1. Annual plan billed monthly $21 a month

2. Annual plan billed yearly $240 (So $12 cheaper)

3. Monthly plan $31 a month

$31 seems like an incredibly good deal to me since the software is amazing (IMO) and I probably only need it once every 2 years at the moment.
Looks quite interesting. I remember when the Leap Motion was first being released but I haven't seen a great deal in the wild that use it.

I signed up to get an early dev kit of their technology when I was working at an old job. We were a non-profit agency that helped educate individuals with disabilities - often having difficulty with their motor skills (using a typical mouse/keyboard was impossible for most of them). The idea was we'd use Unity3D or a similar game engine to create minigames that used the leap motion as the input device. The games would educate the individuals on many things from normal daily hygiene to cooking, etc.

In the end, our tiny team (of 3-4 people) bit off more than we could chew and nothing substantial was ever materialized. The leader of the team moved on to another company and the project dissolved. It was definitely one of the more interesting projects I worked on at that company.
Google also has relatively good tools for controlling your data with myactivity. I think they have always been ahead of facebook with stuff like this.
It's not exactly on point but this comment[1] from HN user UglyToad links to a Guardian article[2] that mentions several studies. The article is specific to Heroin, not Fentanyl, but (admittedly knowing nothing about street drugs) I think they're quite similar, chemically.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270553

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/14/drugsandalc...
From the korean video someone posted in this discussion, it seems you can use any fingerprint just by putting on a screen protector - no retraining necessary
Were you thinking of Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions[0]?

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
"Actually usable" seems to be going a bit too far for rhetorical purposes. I use Siri probably two dozen times a day-

-messaging people
-setting alarms
-setting reminders
-taking notes
-weather queries
-occasionally some informational thing like the time of a game (e.g. "When do the Lions play next")
-set timers
-query on the status of alarms and timers
-occasionally sunrise, sunset
-volume up/down / next / previous / skip
-phone people

It operates at close to perfect effectiveness for the real-world usage that I have. I don't expect it to ever be as good as Google as it operates on a tiny fraction of the data that Google has on the average user, but it's perfectly effective for that.
If you believe that your smartphone isn't always on, wouldn't it make sense that your smart speaker is also off until you give it a wake word?
I used to be very adamant about free software and I reached out to stallman a while ago, the interaction wasn’t great, I think this author crossed a line discussing his mental health, not cool. But my life has been a lot easier since giving up on digital purity
I object to calling them sovereign nations when they're clearly not.

If they were truly sovereign you wouldn't feel the need to throw in the adjective "functionally".

A perfect counter-example is that post 9/11 the US stopped accepting VISA's given by the tribes. And federal law enforcement ABSOLUTELY has jurisdiction over tribal land.

Those 2 things by themselves put the nail in the coffin of the idea of tribal sovereignty.
>It's obfuscation by volume.

I find it hilarious that you mention this and completely disregard what google is famous for: search. Volume means nothing and relying on volume to hide in a crowd is basically impossible in today's world. Even the absence of data sends a signal, so when you turn off Alexa, that's when your surveillance will increase.

>If Google wants to hear me and my roommate argue about Red Dead Redemption online or the new Bill Burr comedy special, good luck with that.

Google doesn't care about that. But you can bet that the contractors they hire are deeply interested in the 3am conversation you had with/about your significant other.
And yet the cost of implementing a government algorithm has not yet fallen to near-zero.

Furthermore, the government has surely implemented the algorithm itself in order to verify submitted tax returns, so the implementation cost of pre-computing everyone's tax should be comparatively small.
That does not seem to be the case here:

https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688
"identity politics" has very little to do with the left. It's a social diversion tactic from actual left-wing struggles, that is employed by pro-Capitalist political parties (with the US Democratic Party being a prominent example).
As I always do when this is suggested, I recommend using “!s” for Startpage instead of “!g” for Google.

Similar to DDG, Startpage provides results in a privacy respecting way, but it uses Google instead of Bing (and Oath), which DDG uses. There’s a common misconception amongst some that using !g on DDG is private, but it’s just a redirect, so Google can gather information from that search. Using !s as the fallback instead will keep your searches private.
"Facebook was one of our better-performing channels at the time that we made the decision"

Everyone likes to say they don't use Facebook, but they do. Or at least 10 people they know do.

Local businesses use Facebook relentlessly because, lots of times, it actually works to get people in the door or calling your number. Small businesses almost have to use its ad platform (in my opinion). I don't think local businesses can afford to look away from a top performer like this.

When I ran an escape room business, my fill-rate on weekends was typically dependent on whether or not I was spending money on Facebook. Google ads were second. Anything else barely had any ROI. Well - in the first few months of running the business, the local newspaper actually brought in some people, but nothing compared to my longer ad runs on Facebook.

I feel like this is a "you don't need Facebook" chant, but I feel that's not true for all industries, and I hope the take-away here is that maybe a huge online business with a giant ad budget can find other means, but if you are a small local business with $300 a month for marketing, I personally believe that you kind-of need Facebook.
Yeah I don't play well to the white moderate crowd.
Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
I think that's probably the 'easiest' solution. Could probably write a quick extension too just for NYT.
While sadism and stupidity may be two of the reasons for the US tax code, there are surely others. I also suggest extending special privileges to the rich without making that obvious to the poor, forging a weapon to use against political enemies, creating a huge number of bureaucratic jobs, benefiting a legislator's constituent state at the expense of the others, obfuscating the sources of government revenues, and as a means to launder dirty money into clean. There are almost certainly others.
I think we need to get past the point of believing in some FP revolution in which enlightenment happens and people suddenly switch to Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, etc. FP is happening in a more evolutionary way with newer languages like Kotlin, Scala, F#, etc. taking ideas from Haskell, SML, and Lisp.

I'm not pretending to be the first to state this observation but I feel like it needs reinforcement here.
Research Guide: Data Augmentation for Deep Learning
PDQ is useful open source software to model queues.

http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/PDQ.html
I think you misread what I wrote. Nothing in there was an opinion about a race or a national origin.
There are sites that show how to move your key to multiple Yubikeys. (Basically, backup your keyring before moving to Yubikey, then restore and repeat move to a new Yubikey).

This is the guide I followed: https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide
You seem to have a bunch of experience with Phoenix, could you suggest some tutorials that will be helpful for people who start from scratch learning elixr and this type of development.

Coming from a php / node.js background it seems very overwhelming
Yes, and the FSF does have something to say about facebook. Don't use it https://www.fsf.org/facebook. And afaik, they are working on writing more about this issue.

Also, RMS is just not paying attention to his own laptop:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebo...
A Guy on Reddit Turns $766 into $107,758 on Two Options Trades
Because private developers only build housing for a profit, which does not make it possible to satisfy everyone's needs and is therefore not in line with the supposed purpose of the council. If it truly cared about the needs of its constituents, the council could contract out to develop the land itself and provide housing at a cost accessible to everyone. Instead there is a lot of money sloshing around for the wealthy and powerful, and a lot of poor people with inadequate housing. This is why these people are considered "on par with criminals" and why your farming analogy is not really relevant.
See [0]:

> Audrey Dussutour and David Vogel had already trained slime molds to move past repellent but harmless substances (e.g. coffee, quinine, or salt) to reach their food. They now reveal that a slime mold that has learned to ignore salt can transmit this acquired behavior to another simply by fusing with it.

> To achieve this, the researchers taught more than 2,000 slime molds that salt posed no threat. In order to reach their food, these slime molds had to cross a bridge covered with salt. This experience made them habituated slime molds. Meanwhile, another 2,000 slime molds had to cross a bridge bare of any substance. They made up the group of naive slime molds.

> After this training period, the scientists grouped slime molds into habituated, naive, and mixed pairs. Paired slime molds fused together where they came into contact.

> The new, fused slime molds then had to cross salt-covered bridges.

> To the researchers' surprise, the mixed slime molds moved just as fast as habituated pairs, and much faster than naive ones, suggesting that knowledge of the harmless nature of salt had been shared.

> This held true for slime molds formed from 3 or 4 individuals. No matter how many fused, only 1 habituated slime mold was needed to transfer the information.

> To check that transfer had indeed taken place, the scientists separated the slime molds 1 hour and 3 hours after fusion and repeated the bridge experiment. Only naive slime molds that had been fused with habituated slime molds for 3 hours ignored the salt; all others were repulsed by it.

> This was proof of learning.

> When viewing the slime molds through a microscope, the scientists noticed that, after 3 hours, a vein formed at the point of fusion. This vein is undoubtedly the channel through which information is shared.

[0] http://www.cnrs.fr/en/blob-can-learn-and-teach