skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access to the internet(information) should be regarded as a human right.
Man, why does a simple blog need so much JavaScript? (Sorry, I know this is not the most productive of comments, but I am genuinely curious to know. Also, if not me, someone else is inevitably going to say it, I suspect).
> The field of economics, and pretty much all monetary transactions, are about demonstrating that sales (and thus wealth) are not a zero-sum game.

Yes, a good chunk of them are really negative-sum games, once you include all secondary stakeholders in the calculations.
Not exactly, but it takes tech savviness to put together a nice UI that is easy to use.
Forgetting things is more like a lost pointer.
And it has stagnated again.
I hope the act of not murdering or not stealing isn't slowly wearing you down.
I loved the talk that Michael Bernstein gave at the Deconstruct Conference relating "Ways of Seeing" to "Ways of Selling", related to software specifically: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/michael-bernstein-ways-...
He's saying that personal assertions are not a good basis for believing that a person is concious. He's saying it in a sarcastic way.
Unfortunately, they can't distribute their improvements, due to not having the time or YCombinator not wanting to give up some of their "special sauce" for dealing with spammers and vote rigging, etc.

And for what it's worth (which is likely very little) as a contributor to Anarki, support for > is on my list of things to add to sometime in the (mumble) future. Not that it will do HN much good.
It could also be Bring Your Own Breastmilk, or Breastfeed Your Own Baby. The hospital seems quite flexible in that regard.
I got out of it a bit of elder-slang -- "NORC". Apparently an acronym pronounced just as one might guess:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturally_occurring_retireme...
Toronto transit is... robust? SF must be brutal.
> The nationalism on the homepage is a little odd.

Especially seeing as how Europe is not a nation.

> A future in which we all have sovereign control over our data and our digital lives. ... And this is exactly why we at Cliqz are developing digital key technologies made in Germany.

Ahhh, that makes more sense, "sovereign" == "made in Germany."
Gene Usp9X mutations, increased in autism, decrease synapses in developing brain
Actually, the point is that being faster is better.

Ideally, a message sent to an Actor is never stored in persistent memory. A runtime system should never accept a unbounded backlog of communications for an Actor. Instead worst case, it should generate exceptions for further requests.

Here are references that you requested:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566
> Vehicle launches are generally prepared starting 5 years out with defined components.

FWIW, if they have a defined form factor and connector, they can sort of assume one of these chemistries and supply chains will come through.
I almost believe that, except the part where an intelligent person believes they can convince a number of macOS users to switch to GNU. Surely empirically they've realized this kind of FUD doesn't work if you're not powerful like Microsoft?
But how does google find those domains? Link juice still matters, and those links work via... domains.
By definition human rights are intrinsic and universal. Everyone has them and everyone is responsible for not violating others'. Right off the bat we can see that claiming high-speed internet as a human right is asinine, because high-speed internet didn't even exist a couple of decades ago, thus access to it can't be claimed as an intrinsic right of the human soul.

It also fails universality. If even one person lacks broadband internet, then we would all be obligated to provide it or we are failing to uphold their rights. So if a person in Montana doesn't have broadband, everyone in e.g. Uganda and Malaysia is complicit in a human rights violation. It really is this silly, because human rights are not limited to any government or institution. They are a universal responsibility and mutual obligation between individuals as well, so defining them positively implies absurd moral conclusions.

Venturing into meta-level ideological territory, I can't help but perceive the theory of positive rights as a cynical tool for expanding government powers. It mandates utopian promises, it sucks the air away from reality-based alternatives that look anemic or even cruel by comparison, it requires nuance to argue against, and it functionally cements the government as the source and provider of human rights. It could not be better propaganda for the state.
A Planet of Weeds: Tallying the losses of earth's plants and animals (1998)
It's ridiculous because you're claiming that HTML is "the web", but that somehow the content that HTML marks up is "not the web."

I can guarantee that no one was looking at a Java applet or a Flash site in the 1990s and thinking "I don't know what this is, but it definitely isn't part of the World Wide Web."

>Yes, one could say that the Web has "jumped the shark" sometimes after 1997 (took some years), remember the mess when Flash and Java applets were everywhere ?

On the other hand, Flash allowed animators and game developers an outlet for creative expression and distribution and led to an explosion of content, and launch more than a few professional careers. And Java applets... existed.

At the very least, I think it's controversial to say the web jumped the shark at that point.

>you might have noticed that you hardly see search engines pulling up results for supposedly "Web"Sites like Facebook or Discord or Twitter ?

I do see those results in search engines. Visibility in a search engine is a result of SEO and those sites' indexing rules, it has nothing to do with whether or not a site is part of the web - if I can reach it in a browser, it's part of the web by definition.
The situation I'm thinking of (and I think janpot is) is where your stored procedure or function isn't intended to be a shared interface, but a part of what is notionally your client's code that you happen to want to run server-side.

DO can be good for this, but it doesn't cover all cases: sometimes you want a named function to use in an expression, and sometimes you want multiple procedures which can call each other.

Just having CREATE [OR REPLACE] TEMPORARY FUNCTION would be pleasant.
I completely agree, especially having seen what the lack of policing of minor property crime has done to Seattle in the past few years. (In Seattle today, at least in my neighborhood, theft and vandalism are essentially legal. The police will not show up, will not investigate, and will not prosecute. Criminals knows this and act accordingly.)

A social system can rely on the goodwill of its participants for quite some time. But as that system grows and becomes more well known, it inevitably becomes a honeypot for bad actors to exploit. Once those bad actors take advantage of it and experience the lack of consequences, that behavior is reinforced and shared with other bad actors.

The system will either need to change to flush them out, or it will cease to function even for good actors.
Even though your brain thought it wasn't, you were still embodied, unless you are telling us you were in fact medically dead and still self aware.

Unless you can actually tell someone what's in the next room without ever physically being there or observing it, you're just imagining things. It would be incredibly easy to test in a double blind manner, so if it was a power that someone could actually manifest it'd be reliably demonstrated by now.
They want a semipermeable membrane that money can cross, but uncontrolled information can't.
I am 20 years out of college with a CS degree, working in your typical business rules development kind of job. Exactly the kind of job that doesn't need a CS degree, but I'm perfectly decent at programming business rules, so there's that.

Last year, I've been on a learning binge myself, due to the fact that I want to understand the underlying workings of the technologies that are shaping our near future. In this interest, I have taken what little time I have (with a job and two children) to relearn the baseline college mathematics that I've lost from my apathy towards serious continuing education. I first completed the course "Learning How to Learn" and applied the practices within to courses in Calculus and Physics. I'm close to completing Single Variable Calculus on the OCW website on MIT.

I was never a great student, and it could be just because, as I think I've discovered, I'm just a slow learner. My early educational talents and successes were due to a lot of early reading that I did, but it's clear to me that it takes a lot of repetition before I start to understand a subject, and I often have to go back over lectures, then read the associated notes, and run through a ton of practice problems (which I then put into anki) before I grasp a subject. Due to this my learning has been slow (along with the two kid situation), but I'm certain now that I have a much better grasp of the subject matter than I did when I was twenty. I'm not suggesting I'm smarter with age, what I am suggesting is that I didn't have study habits that allowed me to flourish.

Clearly, the current educational models that we are using in our schools are failing students like me who get a good head start due to early reading, but can't learn fast enough to keep up in a classroom environment. It is clear from what I've learned about the learning process from Barbara Oakley and others that the actual processes that we put in place are further suboptimal for the learning process, but the ways that we set up our education system are not the result of experimentation. If I were to surmise their source, I would say that they are explicitly designed to fail, so that we can excuse reduced spending in public education systems.

Still, these self-study courses are great for people like me, as long as you are permitted to study at your own rate. This is important as I'm going to guess that perserverance is as important as intelligence when it comes to advancing to the point where you can aid research teams. I predict that nations that automate educational models (as well as hiring a broad staff of educators, lecturers, and tutors) that are successful will have a much larger impact on the future of the information age than they did in previous eras.
I agree with that as someone with a mechanical engineering degree. I've never been a professional software developer but I've mostly self-taught myself over time and even ran a small software business as a sideline at one point.

I've never had a particular desire to go into development full-time. (I was out of working as an engineer by then anyway.) But, had I wanted to, I have very little doubt I could have slid into a dev job fairly easily with my background if I spent some time focusing on the area I wanted to work in.
A hash of individual characters would be susceptible to a rainbow attack.
Yes, I definitely profit from basic skills that I acquired in studying mechanical engineering, as you mentioned. However, when applying for jobs I didn’t have the impression that my prospective employers valued that too much, at least as far as my CV is concerned.

Not sure what you mean by “boredom”? I don’t have a clear “definition of done” or a deadline for my sabbatical, that’s also why I try to diversify the topics I’m looking at rather than going through them one after the other. I’ll definitely need/will start working again in a couple of months, but my hope is that working freelance and continuing self-studying is not mutually exclusive. But I’ll need to see next year how this works out then in practice.
In Sweden since at least ten years, and Austria in recent years, most big markets support self checkout. Theft costs are apparently less than salaries for manual checkouts...
Happy to share some thoughts. Too much to type. Email me at Lefstathiou @ Gmail and we can coordinate a call.
Poll: How good is your company's incident management process?
Most high-level employees at companies believe their DevOps IM process is top-class. So, it's time to ask the ones doing the work — what's the real answer?
What's an IM process?
Immature
Industry-leading
Ah, so temporary stored procedures that are created and cached at the connection level and lifetime. Makes sense, might be worth a feature request to the PG team.
> And I know people who stick to their spouses.

GP already said that? not quite sure what point ur trying to make

> plenty of disabled men in functional relatioships
Care to expand on your one sentence dismissal of modern economics? Maybe a second sentence describing the means by which this happens, or an example, or even - gasp - a source?
This doesn't jibe with my personal experience at all. Do you have any evidence for this phenomenon existing?

I've heard of willpower being an expendable resource, but not conscience. I don't feel like it places a burden on my conscience to do the right thing, in fact, the opposite is true - doing things against my conscience causes a mental burden or strain, maybe explainable by cognitive dissonance (I am a moral person // I just did something I consider immoral).
If you want to read it online - https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1912.01703/
Murdering people has a totally different risk/reward situation than petty theft. Additionally, situations where murdering someone confers a benefit on the murderer are much rarer than situations where petty theft confers some benefit to the thief.
Let's keep going, though... there IS a non-zero chance that your kid can die from a vaccine. It is very very rare, and more kids will die from not getting a vaccine than from getting one, but there will exist a parent who can say truthfully that vaccines killed their kid.

Can they then argue that a pro-vaccine person killed their kid? Can they sue their doctor?

If we allow this line of reasoning, where does it stop? If I tell people they should let their kids play in the dirt, can they sue me if their kid gets sick from a dirt born disease?

Everything has risk, and we can't make a law saying that anytime a risk event occurs you can sue someone who said to do the thing.
renaming is the point. I want it to be tightly coupled to the specific version of my application.
Check the previous discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I find these introductory articles ultimately misleading. Monad is never hard, just like group is never hard, vector space is never hard, lattice is never hard, manifold is never hard, and on and on. What's hard is to understand not just one single concept but layers of webs of abstract concepts, along with all the theorems and ingenious ways of applying them. What turns people away is not the difficulty of monad or functional programming in general, but lack of incentives. Why don't we just be upfront and tell people: XXX is hard, but you know what? If you master it, here is what you will get out of it.
In the United States, you can't discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability, so this would be illegal.
And TSB.
But in this case, is it mastery?

To me, mastery would be if you can use mathematics to trivialise an implimentation in a counter intuitive way. I understand that this is a different kind of mastery. But does the essay write code that is a sign of mastery, or does it just use the byte code as a talisman? I don't follow the code so I wouldn't know.
Which I just learned is the inspiration for this children's book: https://smile.amazon.com/Little-Sid-Prince-Became-Buddha/dp/...
Looks like they still have staff manning the store. That is just an alternate form of self-checkout. In fact the article states that they will retain the same level of staff.
Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
Scammy and spammy harassers are chasing veteran pros off Keybase
This was, roughly, the design of the University of Washington NICU about 3 years ago.

We really liked it. We did not consider the nursing to be understaffed at this point in time - we consider the NICU staff and facilities to be some of, if not the best, medical care we've ever seen.
On Firefox, one thing that really bothers me still is that it's impossible to remove a root domain entry from the omnibox.

Like if I type "re" it completes to reddit.com even though I've deleted that entry. Chrome will respect the deletion and complete to reddit.com/r/all.
Ah, but in what way is the under-bidding contractor the problem?

Who gave the contract to the contractor?

The problem is the process of going for the lowest bidder, or one of the lowest.

Moreover, in this case, incredibly, going for the same low bidder with the knowledge of all the history of the bids from that contractor being unrealistic lowballs and requiring costly change requests.

Don't blame the contractor. They get the job and make their money. From their angle, they are successful. They know that the city is aiming for the bottom and so they adjust their bidding accordingly. If they didn't submit a low bid, the job would go to someone else.

True story: some decades ago. My father was bidding on a contract with the GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District). Something in the tens of thousands of dollars, probably. He was out-bid by $5. That was all they cared about. So he pulled out a $5 bill and plonked it on the table.

If you ever drive in Vancouver, Canada and wonder how the roads can be so shitty, remember that story.
But with the strong advantages of access to the Internet that a website brings (which is itself a whole bag of hard problems to solve), the appeal of building things accessible via browser user-agent (regardless of what the thing is) is huge.

It shouldn't be necessary to toss out the cookie jar, the HTTP connection handler, the XSS protection just because one wants to do something a bit different with the final rendering stage.
Sorry, saw this late! :)

With the normal disclaimer that opinions, views, and hot-takes are obviously my own private ones and not those of my company,

I work at https://www.hioscar.com.
The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
Demand alone has not made many of these industries happen in China, DRAM being a great example of that at least. Unless they have some sort of new espionage, or a miraculous groundswell of native research, I won't believe the battery claims until they're on the market.
And the certainty / uncertainty of each individual's situation makes a big difference.

It is a real gut-punch when you know exactly when you're going to die, especially if that date is not far off.
That is in the UK, they don't have freedom of speech.
Goliath frogs heave rocks to build tadpole nests
Great! This means that I was right when I mentioned to a co-worker that Excel (and its filtering) would have an intersting implementation underneath (from my category theoretic perspective). In fact, I am quite interested to understand the formalisms behind it.

Do you know of any links or resources about this?
I agree with the similarity but as you're saying there was always the possibility of leaving town. It wasn't a convenient solution, and you might very well repeat the same actions wherever you go, but at least you could get a chance to start over elsewhere. IMO that's quite a bit different than the current situation, where I feel you'd have to go and change your legal name, move to another location and get new accounts online to manage to shake off what is now attached to your real name, and _even then_ the paper trail would probably be found at some point and it would all come back to you.

So small town rules, yes, but practically speaking there's only one town left. Whether it's a good thing or not is a matter of opinion - and depends on the specific context as far as I'm concerned - but overall I feel like something of value has been lost in the transition. It might have been possible to make amends and/or show that whatever you did was a temporary lapse in judgement before, but doing that one the scale of the whole internet audience we have nowadays doesn't feel practical, or even possible really. =/
If anything I'd prefer it if styles, logic and dom lived together in the same file.

I hate the sheer number of files people create in projects. The worst one I've seen is a ".types.ts" file. Everywhere.
Just hash the create statement and use that as the name? Have whatever code hashes these dump these hashes, or just use some last-used-timestamp to cull them every once in a while (though I doubt that's actually necessary, due to how i'd expect them to be stored. And when they accumulate, you cans till start to clean up by generating lists of all hashes used, waiting a week or so until all older versions have finished, and drop all stored procedures that are not in your list.
Is this a poorman's version of Amazon Go stores? lol
The sale of .org brings us one step closer to the web apocalypse where that URI is forced to change.
It's almost like the more you learn about th em and their predatory business models, the less you trust them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xfdsElVM8s
Maybe all the author cares about is writing and content?

I don't think this is an issue at all for the majority of people.

Remember that you (and people visit/comment on articles on this orange site) are the 0.01% of people in the world that care about JavaScript being an issue.
The article doesn’t really highlight this but anti biotic use on livestock isn’t just to keep them from being sick. It also causes growth, which means each animal is more profitable.
I have to say that I often have more problem with indentation and the like in Python or YAML, especially given the insistence that indentation means a specific amount of specific whitespace character.

The lower level of S-expression serialization kind of resulted in offloading this task to editor, where it should lie, instead of burdening the developer with it. That said, even I will admit that without experiencing the fact that the editor will handle parens for you, one's experience in other languages is going to suggest bad things. How many of us ended up having to manually count "end" keywords in Pascal and the like?

Still, with a proper editor (not just emacs), the experience is really, really different.
For those wanting something a bit less intense, the Recurse Center in NYC is a great place to practice a few months (or now even just a week) of self study with some of the brightest folks you'll ever meet.
I found your Twitter thread, and I don't think Ben's last comment was accurate!
Well and Septic are free, unless you include the maintenance and installation costs, which are substantial. 20k+ to drill a well in some places, electricity to run it, maintenance when the pump breaks, things like that. Septic has to be pumped sometimes, clogs sometimes, again probably 20k+ to install, etc.
Seems like that would also be subject to gaming.
Social Media Companies Are Failing to Combat Inauthentic Behaviour Online
>While it is true that the US is very sprawling, it is absolutely ridiculous that in 2019 internet giants haven't provided basic internet access to rural areas.

The contiguous United States is 3,119,884.69 square miles (the United States makes up a little less than 1/3 of North America). There are individual states larger than several European and Asian countries.

Sure, there's not someone living in every single square mile but they are spread out. The fastest I can get at home, in a city fo nearly 900k people, is 75mbps down without going to a business line. Even delivering that speed to 80% of the population would probably require several billion in just equipment (lines included).
Yes, but WebKit was, and "Safari" might be more widely known as a name.
Why kids don't trust Alexa
Until you go on holiday or buy online...