skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice article! It got me thinking about an issue I've noticed in dynamically typed languages (namely JavaScript) where it's very easy to end up doing lots of (potentially redundant) validation all over the place because it's much more difficult / unwieldy to pass that information along.
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It's not "rare". Only prosecution is rare, and conviction rates are high.

It's so blatant in CA that almost 20% of counties have more registered voters than people even eligible to vote at all.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-...
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Is probably a more accurate metaphor
exasperated sigh Taxes are legal... Nothing unconstitutional about a tax on wealth. The bit about "uniformity" is already severely out-of-whack; so, arguing like it isn't doesn't make sense. Uniformity could also be implemented by tax bracket, et voila, problem mostly solved, but not like it ever was a problem.
Often when topics of genetic modification and screening like this come up comparisons get made to eugenics which I kind of get but ultimately the big moral distinction between the two for me comes down to the distinction between eugenics which seeks improvements by forcing people not to have kids and the newer techniques that just modify particular embryos. I do think we need to be supremely careful on things that go beyond screening since there people are making decisions that will stick with someone the rest of their life.
> They might have monopoly on social networking as such but given they're not the only thing a person will see in a day by a long-shot, I can't see how they're being more anti-competitive than a TV network

Almost no-one bellow the age of 40 cares about TV anymore (apart from sports events), you're pretty off on this one.
Yes, however people who are not willing to do the test, simply call sour grapes.

For e.g., suppose you make a claim "strawberry tastes sweet", and I have never eaten strawberry before, I'll say "can you prove it?". You'll say "Sure, here just take a bite, and you'll know for yourself". And I respond "Nah, I don't want to do that. Can you still prove it? The burden of proof is on you".

No, the burden of proof doesn't always rest on the person making the claim. Once he outlines the method to verify it, his job is done. The burden of verifying the proof now rests on the skeptic.
Why would a wealth tax be a bad thing?
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As a brand + marketing guy, sure, but I search the roles for relatable keywords, or check hiring pages I see on companies that are in that area / remote.
Load forecasting is a reasonable thing. There are already enough vendors for that to where I wouldn't focus in that area personally, but if it is working for you, then that is good.

I read your linked paper last night and I'm not 100% sure what to make of it. If I understood it (big assumption :)) it seems like the intent is to use heuristics (Ex: particle swarm optimization) to seed a warm start for a nonlinear solver for the ACOPF problem? Is that right? Although the nonlinear ACOPF problem is academically interesting, the industry is using every last ounce of performance from the best MIP solvers (CPLEX & GUROBI) for the DCOPF unit commitment problem.

The 5-minute economic dispatch problem only takes a few seconds as it is formulated as a LP problem, however, the unit commitment process is a MIP problem though and I don't think the nonlinear solvers will have anywhere near the performance we need even with a warm start.

There is some interesting work being done on ACOPF (ARPA-E competition project that ASU is heading up).
You are using a too strict definition of on-topic. The site is not only about programing.

From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I’m not American so sorry if I am being naive but can the constitution not be changed?
Acoustic delay lines were also used in calculators.

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/friden_ec-130_-_ec-13...
What I find the most amazing, is that you do not get more desperate vengeance cases. I mean ; you worked your whole life, you tried to do the right thing, you basically have nothing to lose and yet you do not go out and hurt the people that screwed up your life out of nowhere. That always gives me new confidence in humanity as it feels like that could so easily happen, every time when someone (or a loved one) is screwed over by something they or you cannot, legally, get justice for.

Not only governments; big companies that just 'do things' because, like you say, no-one seems to have given any consideration to the edge cases. When you put that to them (Google, MS etc), the answer is always (possibly with some rancid dress-up) 'we cannot account for every case; that would not be commercial'. Governments probably have the same reasons but they cannot say that out loud (usually) because re-election (of their political party).

A friend changed her last name two months ago; she got a letter that it succeeded and it would take 3-6 months to take effect. So today, while she was traveling, she got a letter from the gov that it was finished and that all her papers are per direct expired. Passport, ID, driver's license etc. This was an edge case in that: 0) it rarely happens (first name happens more often, last name is rare here) 1) it usually takes much longer 2) they usually send a letter with enough room to request new papers 3) most people don't travel much.

But the end result was; those docs expired and 'we are sorry not warning you on time, but sorry we cannot do anything, you have to come to NL to request new ones'. No valid documents to travel, so how does that work? Anyway; not quite the same thing as the article, but it happens weekly at least. No-one thinks things through, ever.
Looks are subjective. There isn't and will never be a SNP for "attractive". Tall yes, but not hot.

Also, the understanding isn't there yet to detect casual SNPs. We know roughly where these SNPs are, but not which ones they are. We can tell that if you have this region of the genome you may be taller, but along with it might come linked diseases.

So no, no designer babies yet, but some kinds of selection are possible in theory.
When was the last time GPS had issues like this? I can imagine that during the early years this happened there as well? Or maybe not, as military quality engineering requirements were stricter.
While you're not wrong, if I explicitly tell the framework to only accept GET and POST, I consider it a bug if any other method "gets through", particularly since the docs don't say that can happen.
Every time someone talks about ways to squeeze me more, I start looking for places that will squeeze me less. This statement will rub particular folks the wrong way and I stand by my words. The government does not and has not ever deserved one penny of the taxes I have paid. In fact, I plan to get 400% of it back from them.
It appears you have outdated information on this topic. Here a reference:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
Yes, I had actually put a "(CG)" in the title, but apparently that got edited and I don't seem to be able to put it back.
Healthcare, education, infrastructure... all of which badly need funding.
That's a great point...working on your own (e.g. as a freelance engineer) you will spend a nontrivial amount of time on advertising, billing, etc., that cuts into billable time.
Only for those legally eligible to vote... which is the whole point.
Fundamentally no, but it's a more difficult thing to do in practice at least. Unless you want to give up other optimizations like loop unrolling and other things like that since you end up losing the fact that the loop exists after some optimization passes.
Do you have a screenshot by any chance? Looks like it’s been deleted.
Could you explain that further.

Why would you avoid a serious statement in an else?

Would this be more acceptable? The negative on the if

if !request.get?
try Somalia.
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> To do what precisely? Separate the advertisment unit from the socialnetwork aspects of the bussiness?

We can start by separating FB into at least two (preferably three) different social networks. I'd be pleased to see IG becoming an independent, separate company, and at some point after that maybe the same thing could happen for Whatsapp. If there is the political will this thing is doable, but this is a pretty big "if", I agree.
It would not be. It'd mean the rich are finally paying what they owe for all the externalities they currently get for "free," the rich in America get a free ride by not paying what they owe for what they get access to...

As my econ professors used to say, in America for a long while now, we're in fact a socialist country already... it just happens to be "socialism for the rich."
> Why would a wealth tax be a bad thing?

Valuing assets is complicated; for some assets, it's impossible. Furthermore, selling assets is complicated; for some assets, it's impossible.

That is the logic behind taxing transactions. The only time we know what something is worth is at the instant it transacts. About the only time we know how liquid something is, is at the instant it transacts.

For a facile example, consider the founder of a private company. They now have to sell 2% of their position each year, every year. That's a lot of work! And it gets worse if one considers a bootstrapped business, where there aren't lots of shareholders to sell to and there isn't a 409A valuation.
Secure communication on top of telegram/whatsapp/slack
Back in colonial times, a common part of two people getting married was the bride's father paying to have all her teeth pulled and replaced with a set of false teeth -- because the state of dental hygiene was so bad then that it was just assumed that she would lose all her teeth eventually, and that way the husband wouldn't have to bear the expense of dealing with it. It was a kind of dowry.

I look at those photos and wonder if something similar wouldn't be a nice benefit for newly minted pro hockey players.
You're in the minority. Most people don't want to deal with assholes berating and mistreating them.

Are you seriously saying you can't deal with people being courteous, professional, clear, and inclusive?
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The monopoly on social networks in the Western world, don't you think that's a pretty (I'd say huge) market?
There are pundits in remote villages in India, who can predict the exact timing of eclipses based just on a old almanac written thousands of years ago, with absolutely no modern scientific equipment (telescope) or knowledge (Galileo/Newton/Keppler). Indians have been doing astronomy and astrology (Yes, planetary positions do both indicate and affect your personality) for millenia. They still do it when matching horoscopes for marriage.

What you hear about 'astrology' in Western world, is just a half-baked misunderstood version. It's like CSI doing a science episode saying 'enhance', and hoping things work out.
But they do spend the money on vacations and houses and such, why does that not count as return of profit?
Crowdfunding please! I'll have a few.
In the UK these pension schemes, known as 'defined benefit', legally have to be inflation adjusted.

There is still loads of risk to the employer as they are on the hook for any future shortfall. Shortfalls are common as there is huge correlation of risk, such as actuaries systematically under estimating gains in life expectancy. That's why most such schemes are in deficit.
Go's is a little different. I can't run Go on something with 2k of RAM like an Arduino, but Rust's async structure is actually extra helpful there.
Astonishingly rare doesn't seem to be the case[1] There are examples all over the place, ignoring them doesn't make them any less real..

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voter+fraud&t=ffab&ia=news&iar=new...
Yes!

Rust is the first language that is both truly good as a low-level systems language and also truly good as a high-level modern labguage at the same time.

To me, it's amazing to finally have another option aside from just C/C++.

Technically, I might have had some other options before, but rust gets it right.
Hopefully this can be used to make babies with ghost-white skin which is considered attractive ("better looking") in Asia /s
What they won't tell you is they will also select ones that are signal greater civil obedience so you're easier to control

takes tin foil hat off
So, I've drilled up the threads a bit, and haven't found what he said, but have seen more than enough hysterics and bad faith communication on his accuser's part to lead me to suspect this is the same genera of cancelculture folks that got engaged over the Stallman's speaking out for calm and civility in regards to Minsky. In fact, Sarah Mei is a name I keep coming back too during deep dives into tech community character assassination.

All of it seems to stem from something John Sonmez did.

Here's his side of the story.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HvjQ3Mx-jWg

To be frank, this is becoming a bit of a predictable pattern.

=====BEGIN CONTEXT=====
Main thread from cmaxw weighing in. No issues with him):
https://mobile.twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1187108668606541824

Kim Crayton's oh so enlightened response (scroll to the top):
https://mobile.twitter.com/e_p82/status/1187175306010005504

So... Take from it what you will. Twitter interface is terrible.

=====End Context======

Just looks like another social media based mobbing to me.

John isn't a saint by his own admission, but who amongst us is? No reason to be trying to cancel a person's work just because you disagree with them.

This dive into social media drama brought to you by me. Trying to build context so you don't have to.
Nim dev here.

If you are talking about async/await:

- for concurrency it has been in the standard library for a couple of years. Also you can implement it as a library without compiler support.

- for parallelism, Rust is in advance. Nim has a simple threadpool with async/await (spawn/^), it works but it needs a revamp as there is no load balancing at all.

You can also fallback on the raw pthreads/windows fibers and/or OpenMp for your needs or even OpenCL and Cuda.

Regarding the revamp you can follow the very detailed Picasso RFC at https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/160 and the repo I'm currently building the runtime at https://github.com/mratsim/weave.

Obviously I am biaised as a Nim dev that uses Nim for both work and hobby so I'd rather have others that tried both comment on their experience.
I think that that makes it fairly similar to Rust's approach then... compiler support for suspension, and cooperative scheduling.
Since there has never been a wealth tax, the matter is up for legal debate.
This may seem like an unusual question, but why does it matter what the subject matter became if the community was accepting and safe?
infrastructure I agree, but we should just move funds to do that. healthcare and education are both already spending way too much on. healthcare is pretty obvious, but education as well we spend more than most other countries

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education...
In the UK at least, defined benefit pensions are almost always funded (unless you work for the government) meaning there is a pot of money big enough to meet actuarial estimates of the present value of the obligation.
It also removes the ability to target problematic messages to audiences which are more likely to receive those messages favorably. Which is good!

For example, if a candidate were to promise to "drive <group> out of the country", they should not be able to limit that message's visibility to audiences which exclude that group.
I'm really tired of all these paywalled articles taking up space on the front page.
You don't need await for data (CPU) parallelism. You'd typically use something like https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon or OpenMP instead.
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Nit: Singlethreaded executors also don't require "Send", since they don't move things between threads. That allows you too e.g. use non-atomically refcounted things (Rc<T>) on singlethreaded executors, which you can't use in the multithreaded versions.
That's super interesting. Life and art mix pretty well. This comes out right after an episode of SV making fun of entrepreneurs taking money from a dictatorship
Where do I sign up? Take my money please!
people are not born into this world, we are born out of (or from) it
So colleges and hospitals will finally have more administrators than students/patients? ([0], but you can google more). I think, the problem is not the lack of funding, but terrible inefficiency and lack of transparency.

[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-administrati...
What’s an icicle? Patent case could hinge on definition
AT&T switches customers to more expensive plans without asking them first
"Clang was always the worst”

Were you even looking at the same article? :-)

I thought the same as you, until I looked at the results for the "Mid-range laptop CPU with 4 physical cores and 8 hardware threads.”

There, clang does best in multi-core for v4 through v7. That made me think that, possibly, the default set of LLVM optimization transformation passes in clang is (better) optimised for Apple’s main audience: mobile.

Also: why are the fastest run on the “4.3 GHz Mid-range desktop CPU” slower than the equivalent ones on the “3.4 GHz Mid-range laptop CPU”?
OK, I think it's fine to avoid naming them. But the context of the original question was not clear enough.
Your question is quite valid and I agree. That said, at the time the subject matter; while safe and legal, was still a bit taboo. Not so much these days, but I may have been a bit ahead of the times.
The Boeing story is only getting started for real. It may take a new head of the FAA before the whole thing will be tackled frontally but eventually that will happen. The USA can't afford an FAA that is without respect.
You're comparing free-will to state policy. There's a huge difference. The state has the monopoly of force and can absolutely enforce any kind of selection, to the benefit of state heads.
There are so many different reasons, across the culture that this article is missing it.

The government has introduced forced savings for Israeli employees, returned to the employees every 7 years. This means that EVERYONE (well, nearly) receives a mass amount of money that is theirs, every 7 years. The number of people I know who start companies as a result is out of control.

The Tel Aviv-Haifa corridor has trains connecting several cities, and in general mass transit means that small towns, villages, etc are all (reasonably) well connected. it's valley-esque.

We have an entire country full of people who grew up with stories about their parents and grandparents' struggle establishing themselves when coming with nothing. It's a classic immigrant can-do attitude situation.

Folks who want to extend their army service by an extra 3+ years can have their first degree paid for. This has led to countless friends doing so, in order to get their "free" CS degree.

Simply put, our country is built to aim for growth. Now if only we could start to lower our taxes :(
Clear your local storage, sessions, cookies, etc. for that particular domain. Chrome "developer tools" -> "application tab" -> "Clear storage"
Replying to myself - there are way, way more reasons. This was the <1 minute version.
> Don't blame the industry for a dysfunctional government.

The Utilizes got exactly what they wanted from the government in this case. Complete externalization of the problem for a nominal fee. The government also capped their liability so they could buy insurance. No insurance, no financing.
Language-theoretic security was the first thing that came to mind when I read the title. Was pleasantly surprised to see it referenced at the end of the article.

http://langsec.org

The idea is to formally specify the structure of inputs and reject invalid data instead of trying to process it.
Software is more than CRUD applications for business automation, but even for those, I'm not sure how accurate the characterisation here is, particularly regarding external dependencies. SaaS/cloud/this-week's-buzzword has done well for a few very successful businesses, particularly the handful of giants providing the infrastructure it runs on, but outsourcing everything you can think of is hardly universal.
Yeah, the author mentions that too.

For me, the funny thing about this article is that I kind of had the core insight just yesterday while hacking together a cli framework, but like the author, I couldn't quite explain what I learned.
Two of these three things provably don't need even more money poured into them - money just needs to be spent more efficiently. In fact, they'd probably benefit from cutting some of the spending: many bloodsucking intermediaries will fall off and move to something else. Infrastructure could use a funding bump, I agree.
"We didn't want... Diseases, yes, but-"

"We were just wondering if it's good to leave a few things to chance?"

"We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply the best of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result."

-- Gattaca
It's usually not a waste of time, and the person can expand what the commented line does. A more specific question can be preferred sometimes, like my comment stated.
Also, we honestly don't understand what "smarter" or "better looking" mean in genetic terms... we don't really even agree on what they mean between individuals.

So, doing embryo culling works for specific, simple, detectable conditions, but the idea that it could be anything else without a lot of knowledge we as a species don't have is delusional at this point in time.
It can be but it is incredibly difficult to do so if there is not widespread support for the amendment. A partisan issue like this wouldn't have a real hope in the current political climate.
Law enforcement can plunder DNA profile database, judge rules
Sure, if Somalia just raised taxes, they'd become a 1st world country.
Why not to the military?
Great points being made. There are other considerations though too.

One example, that there are only so many engineers at that skill level and employee churn is high at FAANG companies - so paying a premium for talent makes sense since money isn't an issue and the engineers leave to go elsewhere after a brief stint getting FAANG on their resume. Higher salaries keep the recruiting funnels full, and allow FAANG companies to keep a high level of talent

Another important aspect is competition. Sometimes its not just important to get talent, but also important that your competition doesn't get talent.
There are usually ways around the paywall. Try the 'web' link or deleting cookies. What works varies a bit by location.