skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a decade ago I worked for a very senior and highly respected guy who was near the end of his career. After working closely with him for over a year he decided it was finally time to retire and he left.

Recently, many years later, I'm reading an interesting history of Xerox Parc during that "golden era" where a small group created all the stuff that rocked Steve Jobs world during the legendary 70s demo that led to those concepts ending up in the Lisa and Mac (ie GUI, mouse, etc), and I see that my former boss was on that team and wrote key parts of that stuff early in his career. I look on YouTube and he's one of the people demoing on stage at that big event where the original team got all that code working again on restored original hardware to recreate 'the mother of all demos' so it could be recorded for posterity.

I reached out to him and said, "Dude, I worked with you all that time and you never thought to even mention in all those conversations we had about interface design that you were one of the people who invented a lot of what became computer interaction as we know it?"

He replied, "Oh, that. I didn't think it was important."

It just says a lot about the character and class of these guys, especially in an era where I see too many people who go out of their way to ensure everyone they work with knows they were "one of the first 50 employees at..." (some recent unicorn startup).
I was perfectly capable, but my parents weren't willing to let me transport myself anywhere until I was 18, then I was allowed to take the bus and I got a car.

I'm determined to let my toddler be independent as he grows, but when I talk to other parents about this, most are convinced that if I let them out of my sight they'll be raped and murdered immediately.
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What the hell. Obviously I know that many things are maybe not bad. That's why I picked an example where people would not argue about whether it was bad in order to demonstrate the logical point.

It is clear that I not only didn't get my point across but that people don't even believe that the point existed, and I miscommunicated so badly that you're not even willing to believe that I was ever arguing in good faith. Fuck this.
Markoff's obituary [1] in the New York Times says, "The cause was not known, his wife, Colleen Barton, said, but in recent years he had suffered the effects of an earlier bicycle accident."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesle...
it does actually. I'm also very eager to get off the #%@#%ing blood thinners and get back to my normal life.
My point was that 63% is still very bad, and if it’s supposed to be an improvement, then the existing system is abysmal from an incentive perspective.
> They would also suck hard for those of us who have already been up for hours before school even starts.

Why? If you are up early, you can use the morning to do whatever you want to.
You should care about opensourceness of personal medical devices like pacemakers and insuline pumps though. Precisely for safety concerns.
If the system incentivizes capable people not to work and just live off taxes, that should be corrected.
Somewhat related, I read the book "Factory Man" [1] probably five years ago now. It's a story of a guy who came from a big furniture producing family that had several factory towns in Virginia I believe.

Anyway, talks about how they got started out in the late 1800s and how starting in the 1980s things started getting cheaper and cheaper and then started getting moved to China for manufacture.

Then it gets into how this guy worked to actually keep the company he inherited up and running in the US.

Was pre-2016, but the book definitely had undertones of all the big "culture" stories that went around that election.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774017-factory-man
You're talking like everyone abhorred Javascript before, and since it has gotten a few "modern" features, everyone (including many Clojuristas) rushed back to it. "Niceties of Clojure" you're talking about have slowly started appearing in other languages as well, not only JS. However, those languages are still missing key ingredients that make Clojure such a nice tool.

Javascript is still a very difficult language to work with. Arguably, it is even hard to rate the language as a production-ready PL. The hidden cost associated with building, maintaining, and scaling JS applications is immense. There are so many inconsistencies and oddities in the language - it is not even cute or funny anymore to talk about WATs or "bad parts" of it. It gives you a false sense of simplicity, it feels like an easy language to start writing apps with, but God, very soon, you realize how awful things are (in comparison).

Clojure(script), on the other hand, is so much more practical. It only looks more difficult, but given enough patience, it brings you stability, consistency, predictability, and, most important - the incredible joy of building working software.

Notably, the majority of Clojurists are seasoned, experienced, tired, grumpy software developers. After trying different options they've finally found something that more or less makes sense. People mistakenly characterize that as a "Stockholm syndrome." Which I assure you is not. I personally use Clojure because it simply makes sense. Once it stops making sense, I will move onto something else. Who knows, maybe Javascript will evolve into something better then. But I can honestly say: "Javascript today does not make more sense." It is not a mere opinion of someone with a cursory knowledge of JS, I've used it (and many other languages that transpile/compile into it) for many, many years.
Israel shills. Got it.
We made basically a futon mattress out of wool several years ago. Has been holding up great. If you're not afraid to get creative, there's not really all that much to a bed. Especially if you get away from the coil spring kind.
Company valuation only depends on future cash flows. If an asset is able to produce future cash flows, or can be sold to create cash flows, then this can be accounted for in valuation. In this article their mention of assets is actually assets under management (Link at end of comment). Assets under management still only factor in valuation based on their ability to generate future cash flows, as E-Trade have no claim to those assets. These cash flows have been taken into account, and then used to evaluate a $13 billion price tag. Elsewhere in the thread you can see how money is made from assets under management.

(https://www.brokerage-review.com/investing-firm/assets-under...)
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but, if renters insurance is only $100/year, what makes you think that a lower price matters at that point? Is the market that price sensitive, and doesn't psychology drive people away from deviantly low offerings for insurance?
It's actually the seizure clause. The government can't seize your duck without a warrant, and that means if somebody's speech about you weighs as much as a duck, they've seized a duck's weight in information about you (measuring as if it's written on constitution-grade parchment), which violates your right to privacy as implied by the 4th amendment.
In addition he didn’t address slavery until relatively late in the war; when he did it was as a (failed) tactic to flip rebelling states and excepted slave states like Maryland and Delaware that remained in the union.
Thanks, this was a fantastic read. Will give this a try.
You should also listen to Marc Maron's WTF Podcast. He interviews Brooks and that leads to a 2nd episode with Reiner. As Mel pushes for it and then ask Marc about Reiner afterwards.
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I’ve found a couple of patterns with IKEA. They’ll often have two virtually identical products, with overall quality and material being the only difference (particleboard vs. real wood, usually). Also, the main drawback is often the loose tolerances that lead to a given piece not always fitting together as well as it should.
You're not a morning person, are you?

I sure wouldn't have been getting a part-time job or been out playing with my friends at 06:00 in the morning, so, no, I couldn't "use the morning to do whatever [I] want to".

Especially if "what I want to do" is get my classes done and out of the way.
I'm not sure I agree with that. I'm saying that even if euthanasia was accessible, many of the people the article is talking about wouldn't be able to legally consent to it anyway.
While I like the spirit of this thread of work-around suggestions, I can't help but think that using $RandomService to verify access to someone's bank account is a terrible idea.

It's bad enough having banks rely on a phone system where most carriers are perfectly happy to let anyone who knows your Address, DOB and Mother's Maiden name to port your phone number to a new SIM.

It probably requires less effort (and certainly less risk of discovery) to take over a Skype, Google Voice or other VOIP/SMS service.
Recording outputs of analytical runs or deep learning models; the ability to say ‘this is the output of program X v <git hash> run on the output of program Y <git hash> whose source data was Z <data-git hash>” for all the reasons of repeatability and audit ability needed for actual science.
It's really unfortunate how HN culture (awesome in most respects) forces you to use defensive phrases like "shameless plug" for sharing work that you are really proud of and the community is proud of as well
You might have been more hungry, but death by starvation in the USA is nearly unheard of. I personally have never heard of anyone - homeless or otherwise - dying of starvation in the USA. The only people I've heard of dying of starvation were stranded on a mountain or on the ocean or something.
Plenty of adolescents are not "biologically driven to stay up late and wake up late". I woke up at 05:00 or so nearly every morning when I was a teenager—per my internal clock—and I'm not alone.
Great! Will check that out.
Max Brooks went in the opposite direction with World War Z. Also Albert Brooks was "always" at the Reiner's home and Carl talks about him always trying out new material on them.
EDIT: Albert Brooks is not related to Mel or Max. In fact his last name is Einstein. I believe it was Carl who said "Yeah guess which one got all the brains"
> For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.

OWS movement peaked about 8 years ago, wasn't anywhere close to half the size of the Democratic Party, and mostly consisted of people not in the mainstream of either major party.

But, in any case, Bloomberg is free to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to allow the other candidates to preview how they’ll go after a candidate like Trump, though it's weird to see someone volunteer to be a tackling dummy, much less pay for the privilege.
I wounder what would need to be done in order for a computer to still work that far out?

Even removing every single point of failure, statistically the other components would still fail over time.

I think whichever system you build, it would somehow need to be self-repairing.
Most users can't be trusted to moderate content because they will censor content they don't like, even if the content is legal and compliant with the terms of service.
And parts of it are written in React Native which positively adds to the recent RN conversation.
Great landing page, I have no questions how the product works.

Pricing seems on high end, consider lower pricing plans and a free tier.
Sci Fi: The rise and fall of AI-based governments
Slack's official pricing starts at $6.67 per seat per month, and Clojurians is a very big Slack. Sometimes they comp slacks, but Clojurians is apparently not important enough for that and/or Slack is big enough now they don't have to care :)
I'm pretty sure it's futile.

If selve driving vehicles become popular. The exploiter would have been recorded somewhere, identified and put to trial.

Story would go viral and the cat and mouse game continues.

No one is going to risk jail for letting cars drive 80 miles per hour, until the next road sign.

This is a stupid exploit.
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I suggested this below, and within minutes was mercilessly downvoted. Apparently statistical averages are to be employed as Procrustes Beds against these deviants who don't conform to the statistical average.
Great idea to be compatible with Mixpanel libraries! Makes switching over really easy
Great tip! I would recomend this as well
> no ecosystem

Today it is possible to run Clojure on:

JVM, JS, BEAM, .NET CLR, Common Lisp runtimes;

Have interop with Python and R. There are Clojure-like Lisp dialects that can compile to Lua and C.

> you don't need the Clojure repl

If you never have experienced the joy of using "true" REPL, you will never understand the immense value of it. Non-lispy languages, sadly have no "true" REPLs.
How to fix undetected OG tags on Facebook – my story
20 years ago the last Tu-160 operated by Ukrainian Air Force was cut
Pie Menus in SDI by Mark Weiser

Demonstration of Mark Weiser's Pie Menus implementation for his classic game SDI for SunView, written while snowed in at home in 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTtEPbIE10I

(You can configure which icon to use for the cities, so I used icons of linear menus, that get nuked!)
Should communities have the right to collectively ban users for being Jewish, or female, or Marxist, or older than 40?
This might be different in various countries, but in general companies cannot play games with depreciation.
The financial audit is done according to certain rules and common practices.
In reality some of these investments might be hard to properly calculate and audit, but simply reporting them as zero is malicious.
EBITDA numbers should provide the insight into profitability without hiding anything.
How exactly does Fuchsia solve anything? It doesn't expose an Android ABI compliant user space, so none of the Android apps work out of the box
Are there databases for embedded applications, such as ARM microcontrollers?
Did Huawei Bring Down Nortel?
There shouldn't be any self-selection if these people don't exist. We're being told that "adolescents" all require sleeping late, thus school should start later for all students.
I'm fine with my commit flow and commenting, which perhaps helps. I do use orphaned dirty branches. It helps that fossil's tags are reusable, unlike git's.

For me, there've been cases where I've worked on an angle, only to discard it for another approach .. and much later wanting to revisit that angle because it was a good idea. If I discard history to "clean it up", such a resurrection becomes impossible.
Seems to be the space on the southeast corner of 8th & Congress, next door to the Stateside Theater.

Pieced this together via:

1) "[...] named the Avenue Hotel but locally known as the Stringer’s Hotel" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swante_M._Swenson)

and

2) "The Jan. 18 announcement indicates that The Avenue’s name is an homage to the original structure built on the site in 1880, the Avenue Hotel." (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2019/01/18/31-story-...)
63% is not necessarily so bad. Income tax rates for the well off went as high as 95% at some points in UK history, and those do not seem to have been disastrous (indeed they seem to be some of the country's finest years).

And beyond that you're letting perfect be the enemy of good here. Eliminating the cliffs and capping the marginal tax rate of the poor at 63% is valuable progress. If you want things to get better you should celebrate the small victories, not treat them as an opportunity to complain more.
I'm going to have to disagree, not because you're wrong but because you've gone full Sith(Never state an absolute). Alcohol is probably required for some vital chemical pathways in the body. Just because something is dangerous doesn't mean our body doesn't need it and has ways to mitigate the damage similar to how our bodies handle reactive oxygen species.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3530279
Oops, it must be a private repo. That was a link to The NeWS Toolkit 1.0 soures, which shipped with OpenWindows 1.0, and was a lot different than TNT 2.0, which shipped with OpenWindows 2.0, and whose motto was "Twice the speed at half the size". TNT 1.0 was terribly over-engineered, which TNT 2.0 addressed.
I'm pretty sure you don't have a big business.

Receiving a temporarily update on a situation that has to be checked, is better than no update.
(Render founder) Glad to hear it, and I hope you've posted your feature requests on https://feedback.render.com. We're investing heavily in growing the team and putting a strong engineering foundation in place so we can keep adding new features quickly and reliably.
JavaScript could have one: see the indium plugin for emacs/chrome. The issue in js is that webpack and related build tooling does a really good job of making a repl impossible.
As Andrew Yang rightly said "nobody has ever wondered if shareholders would screw up, make bad choices, when receiving their dividends".
That's up to the auditor to decide, not the auditee.
Is there some reason to believe it didn't happen (mostly) for the reasons stated by the respective parties at the time? 'federated' is often brought up as an unalloyed good so casually but as you point out yourself, there's a huge overhead, conceptually, operationally, etc.
Engineering the Future of Maps at Uber
> It's a fair critique when he went from 4% to 19% in two weeks after spending 400 million on TV ads

It's a testament to the power of completely controlling messaging people have about you because you are buying so much airtime to send your message and most of the country is at best vaguely aware of you otherwise, but I suspect as post-debate polling rolls in we're going to see Bloomberg, as many others have before, is going to realize the sharp limitations that often runs into in campaigns (Trump's 2016 performance notwithstanding.)

> I mean we all know the DNC will choose whomever they want because of their superdelegates.

Superdelegates have no first-ballot voting rights[0], as a result of reforms pushed successfully by the Sanders faction after the 2016 election.

> but don't act like democrats aren't starting to view him as their best option

Sanders is the one with a wide and widening lead, so, no, your description isn't accurate (and despite claims that this is just because there are more centrist candidates, in the few primary head to head polls he clears an absolute majority head-to-head against each of the other major candidates.) Sanders is who the Democrats are increasingly seeing as their best choice.

[0] well, unless the outcome is certain because of a pledged-delegatr majority, in which case they can vote though it won't change the outcome.
You mean gmail?
They do. It's just easier to add extra CPU cores to a ML pipeline than another person.
Microsoft 365’s new solution uses machine learning to stop data leaks
How to Become Super Saiyan with Code?
Apparently if you're on Windows you don't deserve performance:

#[cfg(windows)]
const MAX_THREADS: usize = 16;

#[cfg(not(windows))]
const MAX_THREADS: usize = 128;

From: https://github.com/spacejam/sled/blob/bf37bd120fbf62f78408e0...
Conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook
Much better curves for editing are k-curves (see http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/schaefer/research/kcurves.pdf) which are starting to pop up in all new Adobe tools also.
Thanks! This work is really inspiring! Are these OLED screens, matrices of separate LEDs of the usual InGaAs and GaN type, or LCDs backlit with LEDs? The 2.84 mm pixel pitch makes it sound like it's separate inorganic LEDs.

Are there times short of sunshine where you need more directionality to the lighting than the screens can provide? Because the screens can emit from any direction but not toward any direction, being quasi-Lambertian emitters.
I'm not sure that I understand your scenario. If you actually need to replace the equipment after 5 years, the accounting approach seems like the most valid approach.
> Golf has absolutely nothing to do with athleticism.

Golf has more than a little to do with athleticism, though, like many, especially individual, sports, it's possible for amateurs to play at (often, an approximation of) it without much athleticism.
«Military history of Ukraine» artist team[0] provide detailed infographic[1] with all Tu-160 operated Ukrainian Air Force until February 2nd, 2000.

> 20 years ago, on February 2nd, 2000 the last Tu-160 was cut at Pryluky airbase... High resolution infographic available here[1].

Actually the only Tu-160 (written off), survived from full scrapping in Ukraine, stored in Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation[2]. And, as for now, it is the only Tu-160 stored in aviation museum around the world.

[0] https://twitter.com/Istoriya_UA

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qaMzUwt5iHsPOJJ3X9AOv-WPqcm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltava_Museum_of_Long-Range_a...
You'll need a project. It's hard to learn to code without something concrete that you need or want to build -- something like, "I want to make a personal blog", etc. Just doing exercises is a bit disconnected from the full flow of things, IMO.
There is a 4th option - treat certain surfaces of social media companies, mainly the user specific pages (Donald Trump's twitter page, PewDiePie's YT channel etc) as a platform; treat other surfaces which are generated based on algorithms and not directly by individual users (FB feed, YT watch feed, reddit homepage etc) as a publisher.
That way, social media companies won't be responsible for what their users upload. But they will be responsible for what they present to their users to optimize clicks / engagement / revenue etc.
> Debuggers are not a replacement for REPLs.

Nothing is a replacement for a good, "true" REPL. Being able to evaluate any [sub]expression, without any kind of ceremony, anytime, from anywhere in your code is incredibly liberating. Who never used Lisp seriously, would never understand how amazing that workflow is.

I think REPL is the main reason why we still have Lisp dialects. After over six decades Lisp is still alive and thriving.
An application could easily create their own Tree<K,V> with serde or binencode or something else.

A key/value database doesn't really want to know about an application's types, because that complicates storage algorithms because sorting is now much more complex. In the same way, asm doesn't really have data types. All you have are bytes and addresses. A database needs to be able to use the encoding that it's given, rather than create another type system underneath it.
Well, one thing: shoes with cleats. :)
I can't think of the last time I saw a headline on the front page of HN about the importance of solving open defecation. I see headlines about creating new treatments for super bugs pretty regularly.

Open defecation costs $US260b globally

https://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/open-defecation-...

Price to pay: Antibiotic-resistant infections cost $2 billion a year

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/03/price-pay...

We basically know how to solve open defecation: build toilets and sewage systems.

I think we could largely solve open defecation in five years if we really wanted to. But we aren't throwing resources at it like crazy because it isn't a "sexy" issue and because first world wealthy people don't see it as directly relevant to their lives. They see it as "being nice to poor people in developing nations," not as an urgent global priority because it's fueling the creation of antibiotic resistant infections which can be exported within 24 hours to their country by someone jumping on a plane before they are symptomatic.

And I really can't recall ever seeing a headline explicitly linking the two things. But they are linked.

http://resistancecontrol.info/2017/prevention-first-tackling...
> Industries that want to be apolitical

Industries, pretty much without exception, don't want that.