skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a more meta question related to Python, and only remotely related to this post. With the huge use case of machine learning and deep learning that Python is loved for; I am wondering if other traditional use cases that Python was used for could suffer. What about future developments for the language itself, is ML big enough to influence the direction and priorities of the language? This is far fetched but, if a critical mass of companies and people start using Python for ML exclusively, could it hurt Python as a "general purpose language"?
This "expansion in perspective" leads me to an intersting speculation: If we could quantify the relative complexity of living organisms, we might find that the difference in complexity between the simplest ancient proto-bacteria and something modern like the leucocyte in the video, or a modern single-cellular eucaryote, is greater than the difference in complexity between the simplest animals with a nervous system and us.

On the face of it this might seem absurd (although watching a video like "Inner life of a cell" gives us a hint at how that might be true), but after all evolution has worked on cells for billions of years, and whereas the evolution of multicellular organisms with nervous systems has only been going on for about 600 million years!

Just some food for thought...
The name implies how these organisations do their work - they watch. And the only way to watch is to read articles, watch TV news, etc.

Civil unrest shows that people are unhappy and government is not doing anything, is this democracy? The difference between France and poor countries is if you live in a poor country you fight to survive and have got no energy to protest, in Europe, basic rights (food, vote, etc) are provided and people can protest and then go to supermarkets to get food. So again is French government truly democratic? Should we use the same measures in France, Australia and Kongo?
This is exactly the problem. In general the society expects us to pass on our genes by default. And those unfortunate feel that if they can’t pass on their genes there is something wrong with them.
‘Member long term capital management?

I ‘member.
And why is that bad ? If users can learn with least effort then isn’t that better:)
Sure, but as a whole they have had a few rough years.

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crash...
exactly my thoughts! and if we could construct it too and pass it to the new Function(ast) that would make life easier a lot for tool developers
There is truth to this. It reflects the shift of mentality in tech entrepreneurs since the 2000s (experimentally entrepreneurial, introverted hackers, libertarian) to the 2010s (work for FANG or make a feature that FANG wants to buy, well-curated github and social media, social justice).

I could dare say that this mentality flowed from academia to the greater economy. Academic funding has been generally formalistic and test-driven for decades.
As I was reading, I was about to pipe up with "oh, prosecuting whistleblowers and intimidating journalists? I hope the US and the UK are in the same boat" but yup, they are, according to the CIVICUS map. I see no reason to disagree.

I do have to say I'm surprised that Canada is considered 'open'. I don't know much about their politics, are things really good there on all those points? Also, highly amused by Russia only being 'Repressed', the past few years of news from that place seem anything but democratic.
Penalty clauses are not always enforceable. Early payment discounts are...

I mentioned it in my post, but the number one reason a reasonably sized company doesn't pay is that your invoice is not on their ledger. Call their accounts payable dept up after a few days, check they have the invoice, ask them when it will be paid. Don't be shy, this is what they expect!
If you're having trouble reading it: https://outline.com/pGLZ6U
I saw this used to give JS some new tricks: https://github.com/arrizalamin/js-function-reflector
Very good point, journalists, politicians being murdered but it is repressed...
I'm not sure what's the mainstream way right now, but I don't think it's commonly done by echoing stuff to the end of the .vimrc file.

My plugin manager is Vundle, where you basically just add a line in the .vimrc with the repository name, and then run :PluginInstall. Quick and easy.
One difference that comes to mind is that while in advertising / marketing you'd need to get what your clients offer, what they'd like to be offering, and how to work with them, in tech you'd also need to understand how it is currently done. The fact is, it's often a mess, with lost, fragmented and conflicting knowledge.

And while both need to deal with unclear goals, figuring out what it is the client and truly needs, in one case you're selling what they have, or what they are, in the other you have to make something they want and will be able to use, support and sell.

That's very often a tremendous amount of uncertainty to work through.

Edit: also what this comment says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729677

Edit 2: And this one, featured some time ago on HN https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
> Nuclear power plant capacity factor on average is around 90%.

Those 10 % are because of maintenance though. A reactor that is online is normally run at ~100 % load.
The index it's based on attempts to rank "civic spaces" - not levels of democracy.
A lot of successful people, especially in sports, say that because they’re humble. They’ve spent years putting in more work and dedication than others.
That is absolutely not the only way to watch. These organisations talk to local activists, assess the court processes in countries, etc.
The program you're referring to was about swapping out North Korea's breeder reactor program, designed to generate enriched weapons grade fissile material, for LWR reactors not usable for generating weapons grade fissiles.

They absolutely could be used to produce material for dirty bombs, but that's not a factor with North Korea, which has plenty of material to do that anyway.
Was there any high-profile case that made its way to at least Federal appeals level? Or maybe the Supreme Court?
My work has mainly been with small businesses on limited budgets, so while an hourly rate might be agreed, I'll also agree to be realistic about limiting costs. Here communication and trust are key, we'll discuss core essentials, nice to have and blue sky dreams, we agree to a fixed limit on costs, I start the project, then, once I'm 20% or so into the budget I'll go back with a clearer picture of the project and the client can decide to spend more, or cut back on non-essentials, at this point the level of trust is high, they know I am keen to deliver good quality work while respecting that the cost needs to reflect the benefits and the mutual understanding of what we our aiming to achieve has been reinforced.
Recently, I can't help but think this way everytime I see controversial comment/post in HN and reddit.

Maybe TikTok is not collecting data and operating ads in any way worse than Facebook or Google but we can expect companies from democratic countries to face some level of scrutiny from free press and government accountable to people. The thought of Chinese government having access to companies with reaches like Facebook/Google to global population worries me.
Same enemy in every nation of West and EU

Global Left Cabal
"Nobody" needs more than 300M/s IO bandwidth... It's the IOPS that matter..so this comparison is rubbish
Is pretending to be something that you're not really "modest"?
Well, an MP was murdered in the UK a few years ago, and the current PM is making light of the murder.
Try to release this tension a bit, stay with the team, adapt, work hard and observe. You have now perspective after only one month. Revalidate it after 3 and then after 6 mo. And don't forget to not stop improving and adjusting.

Your story reminds me a bit of mine. I joined at some point a very skilled, but small team of engineers working on a product from machine vision area. Those chaps were brilliant engineers, many with significant achievements in academic / coding championships. They were truly passionate on what they were doing and were really good at it. And I felt that I was 'just another regular dev' who cannot even compare with most of them, but who also liked coding and the problems domain.

After first month working there I was quite stressed, as was I constantly seeing the gap in my skillset, but I tried hard to manage. After 3 months, I was slowly 'getting there', working on the full stack, but still had the impression of vastly underperforming vs the rest of the team. After 6 months I finally got into the rhythm and started being given more senior and responsible tasks. It took me a while, but it was really worth it.

Although today I am working in another place (and country), but, really, working with that skilled team was one of the most productive and self-improving times in my career (and I still kind of miss these times and the team).
You've missed the entire point.

Fuck your 'downpayment'. That's exactly what people are rejecting - the idea that they should simply become a serf to some previous landowner for multiple decades because they happened to be born later.

A van may have maintenance, but it's not rent-seeking behaviour.
Seven managers in two years. I can’t accept that as some great thing which works and makes sense in any combination of letters and numbers.
Are you implying that Google will shell out for your ransom insurance if they are found to be hacked? I don't think so.

I was using wavenet as an example of the technology that's possible, I don't think you need to compete with google's proprietary software to make a 30second video clip with faked audio.
PJDL (Padded Jittering Data Link) – Open alternative to 1-Wire
While I believe that these organisation do more good than harm I do believe that they are biased in some cases.
The reactor would spend the vast majority of it's time running at much lower than peak capacity, which is a huge waste. An on-shore reactor can be put next to a rich CO2 / CH4 source such as a cement factory, and run at full capacity continuously feeding fuelstock to a whole fleet of vessels. It's tremendously more efficient.
I am sure Magento pays well but I don’t think it has to do with being more simple.

Ex: wordpress developer vs react / frontend dev, who makes more? React / frontend.

This being said, for really high paying consulting gigs, i think that its definetely not in tech but in sales / marketing/ strategy.
https://todaypkjobs.com/
I'm a Fucking Webmaster (2016)
Somewhat off-topic, but I found it funny that the logo dots animate differently (within the SVG) on each page view.
I think this objection can be countered by completing the quote “if your goal is to learn and grow as quickly as possible.”

Maybe the smartest person already did that, and is now more interested in cashing in / mentoring / a quiet life etc.
I was hoping that this article was going to be more of an in-depth critique of the poor state of regulatory capture and disruption of democratic institutions by bad actors in the private sector. My local state government ( NSW ) has been steadily growing more ostensibly corrupt over the last decade. I don't think there's many people denying the fact that wealthy business stakeholders get a disproportionate say in legislation and the allocation of public resources at the moment.
This CIVICUS rating has a lot less fidelity. But both seem to be based off surveying political scientists and other experts. I guess it is difficult to quantify something as complex as the "democraticness" of a government.

It's somewhat funny that Australia and the UK should be lumped in with the US. Australia's democracy has a ton of features that the US system completely lacks; independent electoral commission, preference voting, an ecosystem of parties that have real power outside the two major parties, parliamentary system instead of presidential, and many more.

I think a lot of alarm over recent scandals is just the ongoing tug of war between order and liberty. People who support more liberty or more order are always quick to argue that recent events extrapolate into infinite of whatever they think is bad. Very occasionally they are right, but mostly they are not.
Bring the client in to ask them what to do when something unforseen happens in a project.
Even if you know what should be done, having them make the decision with you means they can't come back 6 months down the line and complain about the project not being delivered on time.
Nothing touched by Oracle will be adopted, nor should it. It would be reckless and stupid. The risk to base your technology stack on such a plainly evil actor is just not worth it. Doesn't matter how many millions the investment was.
Because they call the rider and ask where they are going.
A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts
> It’s the curse of the optional arguments. Same thing with parsing numbers where the second argument magically specifies the base.

Stupid defaults is not "the curse of optional arguments", it's the curse of stupid defaults.

Most languages have defaults for these two operations yet have proper defaults rather than stupid ones. Python's list.sort() and int() certainly do, so do Java's Collections.sort() and Integer.parseInt().

Uniquely awful defaults is a historical (and defining) feature of javascript, not of having default values, or optional arguments.
I think the elephant in the room is the question of purpose. What is the purpose guiding your actions? Getting good grades is a mean that /can/ be necessary to achieve the purpose you have chosen in life. But it’s not sufficient for most purposes. On the other hand, once you have a purpose, you truly make the most of education.
On Canada, generally yes, it is.
How do you prefer the client from thinking your going to work 8 hours a day, 40 a week, etc? Or even worse, expect they get you for more time in the day or week? "I'm paying you x got today, here's 12 hours of work..." Or think they are v trading dollars for your labor and if you finish early on a day, go take out the trash and clean the bathroom. Obviously you define what work will be performed. Just wondering and looking for what language people use to address these issues. Thanks.
Underestimate time needed, and I didn't communicate often enough.
>do you want to reach the level of a five-year old or do you want to be able to handle any communication you could handle in your first language

In terms of grammar and vocabulary, five year olds have a much higher level than all but the best L2 speakers. I would regard the ability to speak as well as a 5 year old native speaker as an excellent outcome for five years of full time study of a language. Very few people achieve such a high level within that time.
From the "How it works" page

> We aim to share reliable, up-to-date data on the state of civil society freedoms in all countries.

I guess you can be more democratic than you are free? Also it's an index that's bound to be imprecise to some degree. And one is by a consortium of human rights orgs, the other by a company.
The title indeed sounds quite clickbaity.

I chose to use the exact translation of the original article's title as the title of the HN thread since "Süddeutsche Zeitung" usually is quite a reliable and transparent resource.

Original source without translation: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/urteil-facebook-whatsapp...
“I just want to make a neural net with something that doesn’t remind me of Microsoft Office. Is that too much to ask?“

PyTorch?
Having lived in Russia for 6 months in the past, it's is not as bad as western media makes it seem. Unlike China, their internet is still open. Also, internet access is much cheaper there than in the west. Politically, people are definitely afraid to speak out against top government figures but there is still some freedom of expression politically but of course not quite at the level of most of the western world.

Russia's government is relatively new and people are still getting used to capitalism and democracy. I think people are still in control because they know most of the facts. People are simply more tolerant of their politicians bending the rules. Russians like a strong leader; for most Russian people, this is more important than democracy itself.
Yes, that's the problem with reducing all these things to one number.
Are you implying that protests happening is less democracy?
AFAIK there are always a group of people that are not happy about something and they will protests. Teachers are not happy about salaries and they protests, X is not happy abut petrol tax and protest etc.

I don't think that the number of protests were used anyway and from what I seen a there are countries like US were people are at most protesting on social media but I never seen major teachers,students,truck drivers,farmers protests in US either so I don't think is correlated if you are a poor country you are too busy to protest.
That's so fucking true. Today, we have static site generators just to be able to use Markdown instead of HTML and a crazy docker construct to do a solution which any of-shelve frameset could do in the 90s. You are proud of your tech stack? We fucking had no tech stack in the 90s and it was great because we could fucking express ourselves without having to deal with reactive scripts, CDNs, sourcemaps, or whatever. And oh yes, we had IE4. We cared a lot about standards and browser compatibility without loading ridiculous megabytes of slow and bloated code.
Not ES directly, but you know what I need on an almost daily basis? A JSON date type. It’s obnoxious to have to pass a string back and forth and parse it on either end between server and browser.
Yeah the current government has been accelerating an authoritarian slide unencumbered by a bill of rights. Neither major party supports such a document and without it you get bullshit like this recent secret trial and imprisonment:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/canberra-prisoner-...
Encryption and Lawful Access
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I feel like he definitely has, he seems like he reads a lot and Gatto is not unpopular for people with thoughts on school
The artificiality (?) is what gets to me tbh
I still have no idea why people voted them in again, Everything they do can be found to benefit the developers (like selling waterfront property in Woy Woy for only $40k to a developer, selling the land the powerhouse museum is on to developers, rail corridors etc)

It's pretty depressing
> Anyone who tells you otherwise is either misinformed or lying.

Duolingo's "Goal" settings:

> Basic 1XP | Casual 10XP | Regular 20XP | Serious 30XP | Insane 50XP per day

50XP requires no more than 25 minutes of work.

So, according to Duolingo, it is "Insane" to devote 25 minutes per day on learning a language. To learn a language typically requires 50,000 minutes. And that's just to reach a basic level.

I wonder if Duolingo's "Casual" learners realize that that setting implies a 30 year commitment.
Services that work with real money and not over a virtual currency.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gordian_Knot
TL; DR;
Einstein said sth along the lines of "Don't let your education get in the way of your knowledge."
Finish uni with high grades then spend the rest of your life learning.
My wife and I are contemplating unschooling our kids. The longer our son is in primary school, the more we see the deterioration of his willingness to learn anything school-related. He hates homework (as do most kids), and this is even more painful to see given that it has been shown that homework is essentially useless for learning performance. He still likes to write and do math, but as long as he is in school, we have to take care that his interest doesn’t go south.

During school holidays, he actually starts to do school exercises for fun; those are the very same exercises he would fight against doing for hours on a regular school day. Go figure.

Btw, Gates, Page, Brin - all were not in a conventional school. The capacity to just build things without fear of being judged is invaluable.
Creating a virtual currency sounds like a abstraction layer that has no real benefit to me.
There's plenty of good reasons one doesn't exist. JSON is not JS-specific. It is a standard interchange format used by thousands of languages, many of which have very different date implementations.

If you did have a JSON date, how would you decide what it was? Would it be a timestamp, or a civil date-time? Would it have timezones? Offsets? Locations? Would there be a database along with it required to understand it correctly?

Just stick with ISO8601 strings.
There are very few languages (two at most) used to write more new software now than Java.
NSW has always been corrupt. Look at the Rum Rebellion [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion
I don't think students are the blameless victim of this "system". I know of a continuous evaluation system adopted in a college, where the final tests had a less than 50% weightage for the grade. Thr students rebelled. It was far easier for a majority to burn the midnight oil for a few weeks than be diligent through the course. The test model has stuck because it's convenient for everyone, regardless of its clear weaknesses.
Brave created the currency.
Systemd Opened Security Hole in Linux, VPNs Could Be Compromised
It will not surprise you to learn that this organization lists such explicitly oppressive countries as Sweden as "open".

https://www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/innovate/civicu...

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

a 70-year-old woman was prosecuted for expressing a ‘disparaging view of refugees’ on Facebook where she commented public order disturbances allegedly committed by the migrants...The crime does not prohibit a pertinent and responsible debate...nor statements made in a completely private sphere

I like the qualifier at the end. In Sweden you can whisper truth under five layers of bed clothes, as long as you are sure the neighbors are thoroughly snowed-in. So, "open".

The posted link appears to be a "leftist journalists alone can control the narrative" pressure group.
If I remember correctly, AngularJS 1.x would use it for dependency injection.
A bill of rights does not protect you against secret trials. Assange's secret indictment is a famous example.
We thought the same way but it’s difficult to replace the social component. Still it’s hard to see how bad the school system is and force our kids to participate. It could be so much better.
After some people here said DL isn't good to learn a language, what are really useful alternatives?
It's perfectly possible to separate the language changes from the mindless API/platform/ecosystem churn.

.NET Core finally considers Linux, the server OS, which brings it to parity with the JVM. Will this be the final rewrite? Who knows.

Plus there is a lot of churn in Java land too (new libraries, rewrites of old libs, streams, libs becoming unmaintained, etc.), just big corps don't ever do any real maintenance.

I would probably opt to use Scala or Typescript instead of C# anyway. And Rust if there's some performance critical part.
i would not recommend to look for hosts there. Most (say 90%) of the hosts seen there are hosted on Colocrossing that actually owns both LowendBox and Lowendtalk (forum, thats mostly ran by volunteers)

just today it turns out many of the hosts (20 and still increasing) posted there just suddenly decide to close shop, all at once, with the same email from all of them. This isnt even the first time this has happened, but it is on a larger scale. (you can read more about this on lowendtalk if interested)