skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've almost put your finger on it, but I think you've missed the reason a remark like this is unacceptable.

When an individual says to another individual, personally, "you know, coal mining is dead - you should learn to code" - then that is nothing but a helpful suggestion; it's not insensitive or rude. Whatever social problems led to that situation are not your concern, or theirs.

It is supposed to be the concern of a politician, however. When a politician 'advises' an entire class of people that way, it implies that they view the problem that affects that entire class as fundamentally not their responsibility to solve. As a person (aspiring to be) in charge, you need to take responsibility for social problems, and that means providing class-based solutions to class-based problems. Suggest individual action as a solution is effectively victim-blaming. An acceptable thing for Biden to have said would be to have mooted the idea of government subsidized retraining initiatives.

Other examples include: women need to wear less slutty clothing to avoid rape; poor people need to work harder; racial minorities should avoid mostly-white areas to avoid abuse; etc....
> "And the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car."

I'm interpreting this as (maybe unintentionally) creating new forms of debt - next time you want to visit the zoo, you may need to resolve some favors to the zookeeper that let you into the yak exhibit.
>Also why are we suspending 1st through 5th graders?

Not saying I agree with it but in practice it's a backhanded way of punishing parents for having disruptive kids.
That'd fall under trademark law, no?
Ahhh, yes, it's probably hard to track down a random
subprocess somewhere that's checking and then passing that info back to the original process. (I think the subprocess could even just try to PTRACE_ATTACH the original process and see if it works.)
You should start by talking to an employment practices attorney, and likely send a demand for payment, then a violation for failing to pay minium wage.

If you had no equity, while the new company seems fraudulent, you have little recourse beyond salary owed.
People in the know double check every deal, period.
"three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital" (WSJ). Is "ton of questionable" more or less than 75% ? Or what other metric?
If an effective carbon tax is introduced (see #1) then the price of meat will rise astronomically, which will make reduced consumption inevitable.

In many places, climate change will make existing agriculture unsustainable, so there'll be massive upheaval in the industry at the same time.

If that's combined with a cultural movement similar to flugskam, I think drastically reduced meat consumption is possible.

Of course, there'll be counter forces -- likely primarily cultural. "Only libtards don't eat meat" etc. So it goes.
The boring answer is that the initial origin of life depends on a sequence of extremely improbable chemical reactions (even given the prior existence of the most favourable possible “organic soup”), and there is no other life of any kind in the observable universe.
Respecting your elders was much more prevalent.
You couldn't have come up with a sufficient punishment to teach him the same lesson? You could even voluntarily pull him out and home school him for a week if you wanted.
The Swinging 1660s
What unholy reason does a fifth grader or God forbid a first grader have to be suspended for?
It used to be, but someone automated it now its the first business day, so people don't lose it if the 1st happens on a Saturday and they don't check it.
It appears to me that much of your complaint is based on the flawed assumption that the software "industry" is filled with engineers.
("Industry" because in software what appears to be production of something new, is really just a re-invention or re-creation of what's been done before - and unfortunately rarely an improvement)

For example, how many authors on medium proclaim themselves "Senior Software Engineers" but when you dig find they've got maybe 5 years experience doing web development, with no CS or engineering education. Maybe stuff like a 36hr "Web Development Bootcamp". Do people really not understand the definition of an engineer anymore?

From there they progress into the deeper parts of software.
And create the atrocities to be found in the npm registry, which become dependencies of dependencies of dependencies that results in nightmares everytime one needs to navigate to a website.

If it would've been possible to see the background and education of the numerous critics here, what may we find?
If I (the developer as described by the OP) am surrounded by people like me, and the world filled with people who think like me, and create things at a similar cognitive level as my peers, would I not misjudge the collective level of quality that I perceive to be acceptable? Smells like confirmation bias to me? Maybe a few others.
Dunning-Kruger anyone?

In their defense, the marketing campaigns created by large corporations to turn the supply-demand (cost of employment) of employees in their favor, has I think been a big part of the problem.
First the programmers, then the "Data Scientists", etc - the amount of disappointment and student debt being created as these people eventually realise they've been sold something that they're not suited for!

If we cannot critically look at our industry and admit our flaws, we cannot move forward as a collective.
I'd long since forgotten I created a gist for speaking resources, but I've added this and a few other links, and cleaned up some older broken (sigh) links:

https://gist.github.com/macintux/5354837
List of 3D Game Engines
You’re assuming a rational world, which we do not live in.

People will believe all sorts of stupidity, and if anything, as poor countries get richer and more communicative, they’ll invent conspiracies and other reasons to avoid vaccination.
> We're decades away from anything that will resemble an AI system

I use my Google Home Mini every day and it's just like the computer in Star Trek. If you could show it to someone from the early 90s they would certainly say it resembles an AI system.
I think this just disallows suspensions for disobeying a teacher's arbitrary commands. Other laws define what you may suspend students for, such as bullying.
Others have answered, but in case it's not clear, for software there are two steps.

If you have the notes in a machine-readable format, a midi program can produce an audio recording of it. If you are willing to pay, you can get very good samples and the quality will be more than passable IMO.

Getting to a machine-readable format from a scan of sheet music is separate issue. You can either manually enter the notes into a computer (or pay someone on Fiverr), or there may be an ML program that will turn sheet music into something a computer can understand.
For a point of comparison, when I was using graphql-js around 3 years ago, I was benchmarking things pretty carefully and the main bottleneck wasn't graphql-js -- I had comparable (or faster) response times to equivalent existing hand-crafted JSON endpoints.

But if you're fetching a lot more data than you need for a typical UI, you might run into bottlenecks.
I kind of agree with you. I went to school with latchkey kids and some were disruptive and distracted the class (some threatened pupils as well as got into fights off-campus). Some kids would get suspended and some expelled.

I think suspensions and expulsions should remain options but last resort and before we get there opt for other kinds of activities which could change their behavior. It'd be interesting to see if those tactics work or if they become "badges of honor" rather than disincentives.
There is also ndb for a very similar effect. What I really like about ndb is it works in front of just about anything, for example `ndb yarn test`

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ndb
Gershwin's original version, or the version everyone knows that was arranged by Grofe?

If it's only the original version, it'd be kind of fun to see AA start using that instead. IIRC it's got an extra piano in the rhythm section and a banjo chugging away, too.
The angular resolution of a telescope scales as the size of the diameter of the telescope, essentially [0]. Meaning that if you want to image the roadster in visible light, you need a telescope lens about the size of Washington DC (currently). To just see it at all you need a lens about the size of a McMansion.

To image something like the roadster on a Planet orbiting Vega (~26 LY away, furthest star anyone on Earth could visit and then return from in a lifetime) you're looking at lenses greater than the orbit of Pluto, ish.

Optics/Physics is a bitch here. To really see/prove there are aliens running about, they have to screaming at the top of their lungs for a very very long time, hoping against hope that anyone will hear. It's just really really hard to build equipment that can passively listen for accidental broadcasts and spy on alien cars. At least under our current understanding of physics.

[0] http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/...
Doesn't it only work in a browser? And so does that count as "native Linux support"?
>In what objective way was society better off when teachers could hit kids with a ruler

We weren't but given the choice (false dichotomy, obviously) of teachers hitting kids with rulers for being out of line or having someone who is trained to see everything through the lens of "what charges can we toss at this, what law is being violated" patrolling every school I would choose the former in a heartbeat. Kids hit with rulers is a diffuse bad thing. Kids catching criminal charges is a concentrated bad thing.
You're missing the wordplay in the post you're replying to.
This is what I thought too.

It is possible in France to have several passeports of there are reasons for that (for instance what you have in one passport forbids you to enter another country, or could put you in danger...)

Ghosn may have had convinced the authorities to deliver him more passports.
There are plenty of religious observances from various traditions where an historical literal act has been replaced by a symbolic representation.

I don't think it's a problem, if the economics are in place.
Just out of curiousity... what are some opinions as to the best open-source 3D game engines as of Jan 1st, 2020 (the date of this post) ?
Install the Battery Saver
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919988
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
If the only way for the old to gain "respect" (read: fear) is by hitting children barely old enough to be in school, maybe they don't deserve it.
Sure, but if it can't work in that society, how would it ever work in a more just society?
Do you have data to back that up? Has the crime rate against the elderly increased?

Or does it just feel like it was better? My parents think it's much more dangerous for kids to play outside now than back when I was a kid in the 80s. Despite the fact that the crime rate is much lower.
You don’t get to choose whether to care about athleticism, appearance, social graces, etc. They aren’t decorative garnishes. They’re fundamental to being accepted and desired by the people around you. You may not think that’s important, but your lizard brain does, and the hellscape it’ll build for you when you cross it is unimaginable. A little nausea or shortness of breath is nothing. Play a damn sport.
I think it works better for every day life things, because in the context of work it amounts to making bad decisions. Building a new feature vs. fixing or refactoring old code.
There are number of differences: China doesn’t have a natural resource only China has, China’s human rights violations are on a larger scale, China is trying to pressure western companies (e.g. the nba) and is copying intellectual property which will backfire on them.

I also believe that people will be more aware of these things in the future than in the past.
Really, really expensive solution.
These lib names, lmao
Sucks that it's openscad that doesn't support real CAD files like step. It only can output mesh data. If you haven't seen it yet I find cadquery[1] superior in every way.

[1] https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery
> Kids catching criminal charges is a concentrated bad thing.

That is something that's definitely worse today for white kids. If you were a black kid 60 years ago, it was much worse than it is today.
So this article started as a good intro and overview of the Fermi Paradox (which is somewhat of a misnomer because as far as Fermi was concerned it wasn't a paradox at all) but it faltered at the end when it talked about habitable worlds.

This is a topic Isaac Arthur [1] has gone into great depth about. If you haven't found his YouTube channel yet prepare to lose several days of your life. I find his arguments here compelling.

Basically planets only matter as a source of raw materials. Planets are highly inefficient ways of creating living area. The most likely outcome for a spacefaring civilization is actually a Dyson Swsrm. 1% of Mercury's mass used this way could create orbiting habitats that support a quadrillion people and fully utilize the sun's power output (a so called Kardashev-2 or K2 [2] civilization).

And these are simply O'Neil Cylinders [3], which don't require any materials that don't already exist.

The beauty of this is it doesn't require much more technology than we already have. Better yet, it doesn't even require commercial nuclear fusion (personally I'm not yet convinced this is even viable).

Take this further and a K2 civilization is not subtle and is highly detectable. For it not to be violates thermodynamics. We've seen no evidence of any K2 civilizations within millions of light years, which suggests their existence is highly unlikely (within the cone of spacetime we can observe).

Given this seems to be such a natural evolution you can extrapolate and say that we are pretty much alone.

Remember it's not about what most civilizations do because it only takes one to go this road. The argument that no civilizations become K2 civilizations use much harder to swallow than a few do. This notion gets more absurd the more civilizations there are.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
the article pretty much ignores 80% of the world. its more like what will happen in america and china as my newsfeed only shows that all the time.
First, I think what we're searching for isn't intelligence so much as consciousness. So I'm going to treat general AI and consciousness as pretty much the same thing.

Considering we don't exactly know what consciousness is or what it means to "be intelligent", I have absolutely no clue how long it will take. But unless there is something I'm unaware of, I do think that we're approaching the problem from a wrong direction.

Think about it like this, we know that intelligence/consciousness is an emergent property of a lot of life on this planet. Including some life that we previously didn't consider aware in the traditional sense. Plant life may have some sort of intelligence/awareness.

When an artificial intelligence can express a genuine desire to avoid termination, we'll know we've gotten it.

Then again, do we even express genuine desires? Or are we simply inefficient meat computers responding in predictable ways to external stimuli?

So the question is whether or not general AI is even possible for us to make.

And then the assumption is that this general AI will be able to plan on the cosmic scale. But why? First, what's the life span for most electronics at this point? That factors into desire. What happens beyond our death is only of academic concern to us. To assume it won't factor into their decision making process is just speculation.

And if you presume we'd have programmed this general AI with the desire, well, it's not really a general AI, is it? We've robbed it of a decision. We've taken an entire forest of decision trees from it. It can't not choose to colonize the stars.

Then you're also making the assumption that general AI won't come to the conclusion that colonizing the stars is an inefficient use of resources. General AI doesn't really change the problems with the Fermi paradox, it only seems to add new problems.
It's not just the problem with large and slow today. There are also these dark patterns everywhere special in Android. Even local thing do not work, if there is a network connection, but connections for ex. to Google are not allowed. For ex. the standard Android "Photos" App does not always show you the newest pictures, if the network blocks Google. Also you can't share something to another App if you have a network connection, but Google is blocked. If you switch off the network complete on the phone, everything is working again.
And if you did live in California, your 3rd grader could still be suspended from school.

This only really gets rid of the "arrested for no reason but resisting arrest" style of suspension.
If you're like me, various things in the house are controlled by voice like lights and small appliances. Just yesterday the internet was out and I couldn't control the wifi plugs for the noise machine, lamp, and humidifier. Had to crawl down behind furniture to turn them off manually so everything would work the same once we regained access to the internet. Super useful for heavily integrated homes, or even in the car while driving through areas with no cell signal.
AWSCLI is amazingly flexible and powerful.

Bash-My-AWS thinly wraps AWSCLI commands that would otherwise be too long to type. So you're still using AWSCLI and can improve your skill with it by inspecting the source of Bash-My-AWS functions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21931298
Although it is possible this kind of insanity could be legally reversed, the personal strain and financial cost would be huge. Purely pragmatically and not because it's right, I would get on with my life in some other country and try to put this behind me.

What a stupid situation
Maybe you can run it in a web view and put some native chrome over it?
> YouTube is basically what "SecondLife" was supposed to be. People are exchanging all kinds of valuable information and entertainment on YouTube.

A keen observation!
Viaweb could have been Amazon
As someone who isn’t considering giving up my ways, red blooded meat eating American that I am, I actually appreciate vegans to some degree.

As long as there are an appreciable number of them, I will enjoy a greater variety of dishes and ingredients available to me, and oftentimes fresher ingredients too.

Insofar as they are making choices that benefit them, they also make choices that benefit me.

Where they lose me, and this isn’t all vegans, but the ones that lose me are the ones that try to convince me that I am a bad person for the dietary choices I make. Maybe I am, but I don’t think so. The ones that make me want to go out and eat two steaks just to stick it to them are the ones that want to take away my choices or introduce sin taxes onto meat. I’m cool with carbon/GHG taxes that make no exceptions, if the cost of my choices goes up because of a tax that applies to all levels of society in fair measure, I can live with that. I would argue such a fair tax is entirely theoretical, but in theory, it could work out. The ones that want to punish me specifically are the ones I can’t abide.

When someone introduces me to an entirely vegetarian dish or vegan dish that I like, I’ll probably add it to my menu and start making it myself, and I usually don’t modify it to add any additional protein. Good food is good food and I actually like tofu and some of those veggie patties on the market. I like them for that they are, not for what they pretend to be. It come down to making a different choice as to what to eat for dinner, rather than making a compromise.

Today, January 1st 2020, I’m not even thinking about lab grown meat. Maybe I’ll prefer it on January 1st, 2030, or maybe I’ll be paying a premium for my steak, or maybe the price of my premium cut steak will actually fall after checking against inflation and I’ll be eating even more steak. Maybe I’ll even lose my taste for meat, I mean I lost my taste for shrimp once upon a time, and I gained a taste for eggs in my early twenties. Vegans that practice veganism for dogmatic, ideological and religious reasons certainly aren’t going to win me over in ten or a hundred years by preaching to me though.

I make choices. Vegans make choices. Everyone makes choices. I think that’s a pretty good state of affairs.
Not necessarily. For one, relating this doesn't remove the ability for incremental development. Another thing, there's very little actual innovation in software being done. Almost anything we use existed in some version in the past two or three decades, and it was much more faster, even if rougher at the corners. Just think how many of the startups and SaaS projects we see featured on HN week after week are just reimplementing a feature or a small piece of workflow from Excel or Photoshop as a standalone web app?
Think of school as part of your childrens early socialization tests.
You can only instill the best into your child. When they leave the nest they need to be guided into the correct social path. Otherwise you end up with a society of sociopaths.
That is what school suspension does.
It is a small coarse correction for teaching children right from wrong.
Today GitHub shows you which other open source projects use your packages, so even if they did not like it explicitly you will know.
The Linux kernel is the best example of the success of such a strategy. The kernel's driver interfaces are unstable by design:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-...

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gcc_vs_kernel_stability.html

https://youtu.be/iiED1K98lnw

There are technical reasons for this but it also serves another purpose: maintaining leverage over companies that would take advantage. The Linux kernel receives tens of patches every hour. If companies refuse to upstream their drivers, they are left behind and must pay the maintenance costs or drop support. Their products are worse for it.

I wish every free software project had this power.
What if your app has literally any mutable state? Registering accounts, posting comments, etc.

Also I'll bet you that your neural net is > 100x slower than straight line code.
First impression: get_field_name and set_field_name seem quite verbose when one could simply get / set attributes directly