skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can the people who donated money complain without NJS posting as he did?
For a second I thought this was going to be HN's darling "Eigenvectors AND Eigenvalues" explained visually http://setosa.io/ev/eigenvectors-and-eigenvalues/
Maybe just stop making advertising a tax-deductible business expense. Advertising in the US is negative-sum - the population is mostly spent out, so it doesn't create demand, it just moves it around a bit. But it adds to the price of products. In many cases, more than the price of producing the product. Tax policy should not encourage that.
That’s not related to profiling.
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And why does Facebook need such high annual revenue? $2b/year should be more than plenty to sustain the social network
Thanks a lot! I will take a look at Irdis Effects. It sounds very interesting.
I've actually thought about doing this. There are some "applets" that are just so complex or have so many gotos that I really don't want to touch the rust code any more than I want to touch the C code, so it may make sense to take this route with them in the future.
Well, PEP 394 suggested it be this way, so Python is also a bit complicit.
For clarity's sake, I was not talking about HN in this remark:

> If one person’s presence is derailing the conversation for some reason, don’t automatically decide they must be the bad guy. The absolute worst thing you can do is to tell that person to shut up and leave the discussion while allowing other people to keep attacking them in some way. This includes everyone rebutting their comments that they are no longer allowed to defend because they were asked to stop posting.

I belonged to a different forum for a time where that was official mod policy. Being rate limited, having a comment flagged to death by other users or even being shadow banned on HN where other users can still vouch for your comments is not the same as being publicly told to stop participating in X discussion by a mod and then punished if you dare to defend yourself as others talk all kinds of trash about you while the mods do nothing about it because they are fine with some in-crowd group being awful to some out-crowd group and actively encourage that as a matter of more-or-less official policy.
Don't think so, but it won't stop some people using it as an opportunity to claim Vice Media has a conflict of interest.
Yay! I really like Vault a lot after using it all over the place. It solves a huge amount of problems in a really elegant way.

For anyone heavily using long-lived ACL tokens you will absolutely want to upgrade; there's a really, really nasty bug that was fixed in this release.
So much better without advertisements. That would be ideal.
> Actually that's the behavior of python 2, it works fine, until you send invalid characters then it blows up.

Not that I've seen.

Example of where Python 3 has rained shit on my parade: I wrote a program that backs up files for Linux. It works fine in python 2, but in python 3 you rapidly learn you must treat filenames as bytes otherwise your backup program blows up on valid Linux filenames. It's not just decoding errors, it's worse. Because Unicode doesn't have a unique encoding for each string, so the round trip (binary -> string -> binary) is not guaranteed to get you the same binary. If you make the mistake of using that route (which Python3 does by default) then one day Python3 will tell you can't open a file you os.listdir() microseconds ago and can clearly see is still there.

Later, you get some sort of error when handling one of those filenames, so you sys.stderr.write('%s: this file has an error' % (filename,)). That worked in python2 just fine, but in python3 generates crappy looking error messages even for good filenames. You can't try to decode the filename to a string because it might generate a coding error.
This works: sys.write('b%b: this file has an error' % (filename,)), but then you find you've inserted other strings into error messages and soon the only "sane" thing to do is to to convert every string in your program to bytes. Other solutions like sys.write('%s: this file has an error' % (filename.decode(errors='ignore'),)) but corrupt the filename the user sees, are verbose, and worst of all if you forget it isn't caught by unit tests but still will cause your program to blow up in rare instances.

I realise that for people who live in a land of clearly delineated text and binary, such as the django user posting here, these issues never arise and the clear delineation between text and bytes is a bonus. But people who use python2 as a better bash scripting language than bash don't live in that world. For them python2 was a better scripting language than bash, but is being being depreciated in favour of python3 that's actually more fragile than bash for their use case. (That's a pretty impressive "accomplishment".) Perhaps they will go to back to Perl or something, because it stands Python3 isn't a good replacement.
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You might have a sulfite allergy that’s triggering an immune response. Do you have any other skin conditions triggered by consuming food or drink preserved with sulphites or sulfides, e.g. red wine, dried fruits?
Disney's genius, more than anything else, has always been an oscillation between kid-comprehensible and parent-intriguing. In the same work.

You can see it in the details of their animated films, presumably where the workers were given a bit more artistic license.
For those who, like me, don't visit the domain called facebook dot com: https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1195123215657508867...
Mining != trashing the planet. Also, given that there is literally no alternative to mining, how do your morals allow you to support mining companies by using their products?
I still find that these are not easy concepts to explain to people outside of software development. Yes, they start to get it after 1 or 2 projects, but I can't help but wonder that there is something more fundamental here.

Something along the lines of, "I know what the finished product is supposed to be, why does it have to be broken down into incremental deliveries?" I think that non-tech people often see it as a kind of watering down of their vision.
Seems like unit tests are only really valuable for library code. Application/glue code... not so much, especially if it is something being actively developed and you are constantly throwing away tons of unit tests.
But how do you get your product out without advertising? Money money money. Gotta have that advertising to have that money.
Above the illustration in the text, the paper references work from 2001-2006 for motivating that geometry:

[19] J. Khachan and S. Collis, Phys. Plasmas8, 1299 (2001).
[20] J. Khachan, D. Moore, and S. Bosi, Phys. Plasmas10, 596 (2003).
[21] O. Shrier, J. Khachan, S. Bosi, M. Fitzgerald, and N.Evans, Phys. Plasmas13, 012703 (2006)

In particular all three citations refer to Joseph Khachan's work:

https://sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staf...

And Bosi seems to have been at Sydney at the time as well:

https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/science-and-technology...
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Conservative talking points flow pretty directly from the facts when it comes to Illinois, and public pensions in general.

It's widely acknowledged that most states' assessments of their own unfunded liabilities are borderline fabrications, because they assume unrealistic rates of return. Illinois assumes 6.75-7.25% rates of return on pension investments. The average discount rate for corporate pension plans is under 4% (and even with that low discount rate, they're 90% funded on average): https://www.pionline.com/article/20180430/PRINT/180439976/20....
Yeah, governments setting a market bottom is definitely similar to unpaid, forced labour.
You've been misled...

Edit: Here is an example of a lightning network enabled wallet that works as a lightning node itself. No payment processor needed: https://lightning-wallet.com
.NET Core is open-source and free, with an offline SDK installer. [1] There are plenty of large open C# code bases, like the ASP.NET web framework [2], that you can use to compile and get a good performance score.

And like the other comment said, you can probably get complimentary copies of the IDEs from Jetbrains to run benchmarks with. They're also scriptable which helps.

1 .https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/visual-studio-sdks

2. https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore

3. https://www.jetbrains.com/
Agreed. And I think a large fraction of men (the ones who naturally suck at seducing women to begin with), if given the means to both reproduce and achieve sexual gratification WITHOUT women, would leap at the opportunity. Women recognize this, which is why they so heavily resist things like sex robots or even male contraception.

Jango Fett from Star Wars Episode 2 was an archetypal MGTOW and ahead of his time: cloning himself and investing all of his resources in transferring his accumulated life experience and knowledge to his "son"....no resource-sharing woman involved.

Personally I consider that a very dystopian potential future....
I'm surprised that people suddenly think that banks aren't greedy enough to profit from the porn industry!

Maybe the reason PayPal and so many other companies won't service adult industries is that there are laws that put them within arms reach of criminal liability?

On a related note, this reminds me of Operation Choke Point (2013-2017), where the DOJ harassed banks that did business with customers in legal, but "undesirable", industries [1].

[1] https://cei.org/blog/operation-choke-point-targets-porn-and-...

[2] https://reason.com/2014/04/28/doj-operation-chokepoint-and-p...
Until they find out they’ve been banking for a prostitute and KYC kicks in.
(not a tay tay fan. not actually listening to much music these days, I can't quite get Bach and Beefheart out of my head)

Normally I'm a "the contract sets the limits" person but in artist's rights, an given the extent to which artists are both young, and exploited, and wind up in legally dubious relationships which then magify out and up, I think the intent should be "what's the right thing here, no matter what the contract says"

And I think unless she received heinous amounts of fuck you money, and sold her rights for their current worth, unless she did that, if this is just normal A&R nickel-and-diming, then they should be told to go away, and she should get to perform her songs.

"you can't perform your songs" is a very sad place to wind up. it does nobody any good.

She very possibly did receive heinous amounts of A&R support but I would also believe a lot of leeching has been going on. The industry is a giant machine to suck revenue out of art and put it into tax efficient structures for other people.

They learned from masters: the movie industry. Who did those masters learn from? The Sheet music industry.

Pop will eat itself.
Japan has a completely different pension system which is extremely conservative.

It's a two tier system, the first government funded, and of course the Japanese government is in enormous debt, but not because of pensions. The government funded pension is like welfare, it's very small, is fixed in amount for everyone, and funded by contributions. It would be what social security is if the amount was tiny -- say $200 per month -- and fixed for everyone regardless of how much they pay in, even though everyone pays in a bit less than 1% of their salary. It is a system not dependent on positive rates of return.

The second system is the main source of pensions for people and is employer/employee funded. It is also quite austere -- you pay in 18% of your income in year 1 and that amount increases by 0.25% each year. Of course only half is deducted from your paycheck, the rest from the employer, but it is effectively taken out of the worker's paycheck.

What you get when you retire is ~0.55% of your total lifetime wages each year. This amount is fixed in nominal terms -- there is no inflation, cost of living adjustment, etc. You get this fixed amount every year. That means that by design the system is solvent because even if nothing is invested and the money earns 0%, if you work for 30 years and never get a raise, you will have paid in an average of ~22% of your lifetime wages which will fund 32 years of retirement pension after 30 years of working. But a normal person will get raises, and as they get raises over time, they earn more later in life when their percentage contribution goes up, so pensions are well funded even for a population with long lifespans and low interest rates. Then of course people have private savings in addition to pensions.

Needless to say, Americans would riot if you told them they need to increase their social security contribution from 15% to 18%, with no cap, and that this amount goes up every year, and then what they get would be only 0.55% of their lifetime earnings with no COLA. That means someone earning the median per-capita income of about 31K for 40 years of work would get $570 per month in social security benefits after paying in an average of $594 per month over 40 years. But again, our system is designed for people who die younger and work in an economy with decent rates of return.

But if we adopted a Japanese style system, social security would be permanently in the black regardless of interest rates.
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>The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

>This is WRONG.

Is that the message? Is it not the case that this is the result of a legally binding contract?
> Pornography consumption generally does not represent "moderation" of sex

What about couples with different libido (and functioning well otherwise). What about people who can't find a couple. What about people from any LGBTQ minority (and especially in countries where it is way less liberal/legal than USA?). I hate myself for saying that, but I think that particular phrase above is a symptom of a privileged position, since following "investing time into building a relationship" sounds quite similar to "why you just don't stop doing crime/drugs/alcohol and go to college", "why you just don't stop eat and do some runs instead".
Neither of you seem to be members of social groups that announce their goings-on on Facebook, because if you were you'd realize that missing out or getting your info from elsewhere is pretty damn inconvenient
Can someone explain the background here? I only have a vague idea of how the music industry works. I don't understand what's going on here.
See also prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528425
Bitcoin transactions are instant. You get the 0-conf transaction instantly and are able to buy stuff. The 30 minutes for 3 confirmations are basically the 'chargeback' time, which is about 2 weeks with credit cards. In day-to-day business, people usually trust 0-conf transactions, or are able to handle the chargeback.
I'm a big fan of micromobility but I see scooters and the eletrics being better to own than to rent. They're much smaller than a bike, and can be carried on a bus to handle the last 1-5 miles between a bus stop and the destination in urban areas.
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Documentation, presentation, etc. - fundamentally, it is presenting sequential information to the user. And yes, I will say it again, this is NOT the way to do presentations. This is the programming presentation equivalent of designer things like this: https://www.ibm.com/plex/

Absolutely dreadful. But, thanks for the insight and advice about harping on something that I feel passionate about.
Right. Is this just celebrity with a huge audience privilege whereby they get to skirt contracts they signed by leveraging their fan base to exert pressure on the other party?
So it's been checks notes 9 years since I've had to deal with eigenvectors and eigenvalues. So the post went way over my head, but folks on twitter were making quite a big deal over the post last night when it went up on arXiv. Could someone explain this like I have a computer engineering bachelors degree? :)
What would you work on if you could? Would you say you deserve to be paid for 5 years of uninterrupted research? Do you think you have a decent chance to make a breakthrough in some field? These are the questions I ask myself.
The s stands for... Something else.

www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit
Ah, haven't experience such thing yet. But if such thing happens, indeed it becomes way more complicated.
May be I am being ignorant/arrogant, or have seen similar toy systems crash and burn in prod environments. And if you go through https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock... it clearly states:

> A queue implemented in the RDBMS will never match the performance of a fast dedicated queueing system, even one that makes the same atomicity and durability guarantees as PostgreSQL. Using SKIP LOCKED is better than existing in-database approaches, but you’ll still go faster using a dedicated and highly optimised external queueing engine.

People only realize these warnings when they have built a toy system that is rolled out to a production/product that takes off. By that time you will realize "ohhh I don't need all the ACID guarantees for every job in my system", and I want to run my workers as lambdas/elastic scaling workers (you need more connections). That is where companies will be spending efforts from their best engineers to move away from Postgres as queue. Which comes down to question; why do it in first place? What makes it cheaper (other than local dev) to deploy a system that is bound to fail in future? Don't get me wrong I love Postgres, I just don't believe that it's the right tool for doing this job.
>You can't tweet anywhere else but on twitter

Mastodon/GNU Social/any blog platform in existence coupled with syndication feeds.
I don't know why you're being downvoted for such a subjective comment. I also genuinely prefer the before images.
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I think everyone is saying that but presentation or documentation is essentially presenting sequential information to the user, whether it is a word document, a slide deck or a scrolling html page.

Also, there is nothing interactive about it - I can't change code on the left side, nor can I do anything with the right side. It is just scrolling, I guess you can call that "interaction".
Proposition 13 is actually what causes this. The government has no choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
She’s too young and her music is too recent to invoke her right to terminate her copyright transfer, which would otherwise be a nice solution.
Who says this isn’t? Maybe someone should hack the Gibson and find out?
Give it some time. Hopefully, it will get better.
> You've probably heard about the 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle. Perhaps the title lead you to believe that this article was a misunderstanding. I admit that I went for an arresting title; perhaps a more proper name is the 80x24 rule.

You got me there.

The 24 lines convention is interesting. Made me realize that linting rules exist for function length:
javascript: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/max-lines-per-function
Can't find the equivalent for python though
there's >> and << for changing the indentation of a line.

And i'm not a good programmer, a good vim user at most
I wondered the same thing. Thank you for voicing the question.

One-off tangents like that are surprisingly fun, and informative.
From just last week, LAist did a retrospective interview with some of the creators.
https://laist.com/2019/11/05/blade-runner-november-2019-los-...
Anyone have book or article recommendations on how money works?
>For them python2 was a better scripting language than bash

This! IMO Python 2 has better usability for prototyping and thinking and doing things on the fly. Python 3 also often seems to have deprecated the functions I want to use in favor of those that are more cumbersome and take more keystrokes. More explicit sure, but less fluid.
Mister The Plague.
When you have tenure, you can work on whatever you want for as long as you want

Not quite. When you are a professor, you essentially become a manager for a group of researchers. You don't really do research yourself. Therefore, your main obligation becomes finding money to pay these researchers. So in reality you can only support the research someone is willing to pay for (via grants, scholarships, etc).
> For starters you aren't using probability.

I never met a measure space I didn't like!
> On Sunday, June 30 [2019], it was announced that Scooter Braun and his company, Ithaca Holdings LLC, acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group in a deal that’s reportedly worth over $300 million. Through buying Borchetta’s company, Braun now also has ownership of Taylor Swift’s master recordings made when she was with the label, including her first six albums.

https://www.bustle.com/p/why-doesnt-taylor-swift-own-the-rig...
Given how non-motor vehicle unfriendly most roads are in the U.S., I don’t see scooters take off in most places any time soon, even if managed as well as humanly possible.
Taylor Swift signed a deal with a record label instead of being an independent artist because it seemed (and possibly was) advantageous at the time and now that she is rich and famous and doesn't need the label, she no longer wants to hold up her side of the deal (giving the label certain rights to her earlier music for a certain period of time) and so now she is playing victim to get her fans to pressure the label into giving her more generous rights to the music she signed to them.

Basically when you sign with a record label you give them certain rights with respect to creative control, music ownership and licensing in exchange for them investing in helping you produce and market your music to a wide audience, network in the industry, tour, etc. In short, they help you make it big and take on early costs and risks and in exchange you make them rich if you do become extremely successful.
Another problem with python’s type annotations is that false negatives are common in partially type annotated code bases: i.e. an annotation which is untrue, but for which there are no supporting calls/usages causing the type checker to reject it. This is pretty pathological in my experience: it means that annotations have the semantic status of comments (i.e. might be true, might not, who knows) while being given the syntactic status of “real code”.
The coal mines in Australia are totally unnecessary. Australia is one of the best countries in the world for the ability to be powered on renewable energy. Which is now cheaper than coal. Literally the only purpose for coal in Australia is political reasons now.

Yes I know coal is used for the production of other materials but there is more than enough coal currently being mined for steel. We just need to stop senselessly burning it when there is limitless energy raining down on empty desert.
But but but... When I do one morning and one night period of very deliberate practice I wind up getting one hour LESS sleep

:(
Evidently, starting next year, Swift will have the legal right to do something harmful to the owners of Big Machine Records- rerecord her old songs. The owners of that company currently have the legal right to prevent her from playing her old songs. There are many artists who I think have been exploited by the executives of their industry, but Taylor Swift isn't one of them. I expect that she was generously compensated for giving up ownership of those songs. If she wants to change the terms of that deal, the other parties have offered to negotiate.