skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc. with probably-incorrect information about the layoffs. So PR wants to be out ahead of that. The real world doesn't have atomic transactions, so you have to pick between that scenario and one where some people are worried about their job for a few hours.
"differential" and "differentiable" are different words. Both are being used correctly. Is the problem only that the two words look kind of similar? That seems like an impractical requirement.
Donald Trumps Contract with American Voters (2016) [pdf]
Isn't the Fed buying at market prices? What makes you think they are overpaying?
Coming from a complicated background (pascal, c++, ruby, typescript, delphi, kotlin) I'm pretty new to python myself. Python is dead in water for trivial things like parsing datetimes and floats, or writing complex algorithms. C++ pretty easily beats it by orders of magnitude. However, it is pretty good at other things such as (off the top of my mind) running a regex over a bunch of text to find subgroups, serializing/deserializing data, scipy's curve fitting, etc. So as long as you are using some module that calls natively compiled code, you are pretty much golden.
I can accomplish X so there's no excuse for you not to accomplish Y.

Ok man, whatever you say.
yes - it's called history and not being blind to the forest over the trees. you can literally look back to the beginning of this country and see policies that were double speak. the revolutionary war itself was essentially theater for distracting poor people from the lucre of the wealthy[1]. we know this because that is the work of historians - to unearth the truth in retrospect. there are direct quotes from "founding fathers" about the intent of the war. it's also why, for example, native americans and slaves fought on the side of the british (both were promised freedom).

[1] howard zinn's people's history of the united states
They did the same thing in 09 and made money.
Any profit the video makes is shared equally between myself, Weird Al, and Sony. So far that hasn't added up to $50k, sadly.
Hi HN,

I built pixelfed.club to reduce friction between people finding out about pixelfed (and other fediverses) and being able to see whats happening on those Fediverses.

Any feedback is welcome.

I've also built a similar aggregator for Mastodon, you can check it out here:

https://mastodonia.club

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Cool! Love to see new tools for old hardware.
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Yeah, actually I think that’s what was so weird

It’s like high-effort clickbait, which is an oxymoron of sorts
The source of this article has better info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/0...
I don't agree that Windows support affects Swift being general purpose or not.

If a Windows dev can target other platforms using Linux subsystem or containers, the only downside becomes an inability to target Windows desktops and servers, which are not hugely important targets outside of enterprise IT.
The best answer I've seen is the Lisp Curse. It's basically the idea that Lisp is so flexible that every project becomes its own DSL / idiomatic version of Lisp. Imagine what's being discussed here, except that every programmer actually has the power to just make the change rather than have to submit it to the central Rust team for consideration and eventual implementation.

http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Neural Voice Puppetry: Audio-Driven Facial Reenactment
How is Julia flawed?

I like Kotlin, but the garbage collector isn't really meant for numerical computing I'd guess, and I doubt having to think about LLVM and JVM and JS at the same time is going to work out well for it when it needs such a heavy, heavy focus on performance.
SyncChain: Synchronized Sidechains for Improved Security and Usability
Not sure what you mean by "moving the goalposts" here.

I'm trying to make a few specific points:

- Redux is not "dead" in the sense that it is still widely used and is continuing to be adopted

- There are definitely many other tools in the React ecosystem that overlap with how you'd use Redux, but the Venn diagrams for the use cases don't entirely match up, and the other solutions don't necessarily have all the capabilities of Redux

- Redux _has_ been over-used and put in apps where it didn't fit well, and I want people to only use it when it makes sense to do so

- Our Redux Toolkit library and React-Redux hooks API make it a lot easier to use Redux
> What if the police were wrong here though?

File a lawsuit against them and see how far you get. I'm sure they are acting lawfully.
Stack Overflow had a great thing for a long, long time. Once upon a time, the Stack Overflow karma score actually reflected one's domain knowledge and community spirit. But, as with anything that becomes successful and measures success comparatively, it attracted the attentions of people who are competitive, smart and a little ruthless. The score itself became the goal for these people, not the actual content.

Unfortunately, via the powers granted through its reputation system, it also rewarded these smart, competitive, a little ruthless people with tools to restrict and control content that others produce. So smart, competitive, a bit ruthless people control content for the rest of us, who just want to ask and answer questions about tech.

So, a sincere good luck with techno-solutions to a deep-seated, cultural problem over there. I sincerely hope it works. It would be nice to have the old Stack Overflow back.
Moving back to Japan is particularly not appealing anyway, Japan is having a severe labor shortage due to rabidly aging population.

And 2.2B is surely not enough to persuade firms anyway on national scale, might work on targeted industry however.
Going directly to people does not maintain jobs for people to return to.

You know that saying about teaching a man how to fish.

Saving the businesses is the same as grabbing the fishing rod so the fish don't pull it into the ocean and the man has no rod to return to.

Giving it directly is giving the man a fish so he feeds himself for a day (something we are also doing with $1200 checks).

If we don't grab the rod and save it, we're stuck feeding the man for many days, until there is another rod available to use.

You may ask "Why not just buy the man a fishing rod?"

Well because there is no rod and rods don't scale to support a population of 330 million people. We're past the point in our economy where everyone can sustain themselves solo. It's more like fishing nets (companies) that each require dozens to thousands of people to operate to pull in a catch.

We're saving the fishing nets.

We lose enough fishing nets and soon enough there won't be enough fish to collect as tax and redistribute to those we need to feed for a day. The ability to hand out anything at all is backed by the fishing nets and the people operating them. You need to save both.
That would be the "Style Guide" docs page:

https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide
The coronavirus's domino effect on startup layoffs
If they are buying bonds on the open market then it's not helping the companies that issued them, its helping investors. If they are buying newly issued bonds then you can argue its helping the companies.
Just because there's possibly some survivorship bias in their viewpoint doesn't mean their statement is automatically false.
My problem with it is that Teams fails to do what Skype/Lync did do well, while trying to mimic slack and not achieving that very well either.

For instance you can't break out individual chat windows to take up less space. Dial-in numbers for meetings aren't there by default either, you need individual licenses - which is probably why it's 'free'.
If you feel the same way about the Elm project as the author of the article does, you won't be happy with Clojure[script] either. Its community already went through this drama and all the top community contributors(or that at least tried to contribute) left.
it's more of a workaround against WTO rabid crusade against tariffs. can't retaliate for tariffs if they are incentives.
i propose updating the title to include something about this being (revised 04-2020) or [updated]

i’ve been wondering the state of things as im jumping back into react projects after a couple years off.
website: https://mishalaskin.github.io/curl/
code: https://github.com/MishaLaskin/curl
This is exactly my experience. I have never known what type the error I was talking about was...

Imagine calling (for instance) type I groups those which are abelian and type II those which are not... And then not being a professional mathematician. So is xy=yx here? Mmmmhhh type I says yes or was it no?
How we fake 3D in 2D and save your RAM
My grandparents were dating at the time of the Spanish flu. They lived in a little town in the middle of Iowa and practiced social distancing by having their dates at my Grandmother's home, doing quilting, instead of socializing with others.
This way for brain tingles: ASMR gets a shiver-inducing exhibition
It seems that the website was updated a few minutes ago with data for week 14. Italy is looking much worse than 2017. England is also very scary.

The data is still lagging by a few days, but it seems that the numbers are starting to trend down.
Trump has a limitless number of flaws (I didn't vote for him) but goddamn has he been prescient about Chinese trade, their never-ending shenanigans (hacking, spying, stealing, anti-competitive actions), and bringing back manufacturing and supply chain jobs back. I'm glad to see other countries wake up to this, even if it's without the fanfare of Trump. Let China make plastic toys and other nonessentials, the rest I'd be happy to see come home even if it meant higher prices - think of it as the cost of an embedded insurance policy.
States use serving a “nation” as a retroactive justification for doing what they have always done.

In a global crisis, selfish actions help nobody.
I was about to ask what kind of stakeholder gives a damn about sitting down with you and going through an action trace to see why a certain screen rendered, but I’m glad you added the note at the bottom.

Regardless, yourself or another developer as the “stakeholder” in this scenario is a bit of a cop out. In the real world stakeholders aren’t technically inclined and even if they are they don’t care about this minutiae.
> 2) China trying to use soft power, but the whole drama feels fake. It is good that they are sending supplies (often faulty and not up to the quality, see dutch story around this) but it doesn't feel genuine.

Allow me to disagree with this one. I see people questioning China's motives on helping other countries, but in my opinion this is a baseless and overly cynical view of things, not truth. People want to buy into the "China has motives" story so much, that they jump on every incident that may imply that.

The Dutch situation is typical. FYI: I am Dutch. Research has shown that mistakes were made on the Dutch side: because of haste and pressure (because supplies are low), and because the buyers didn't fully understand Chinese mask standards, they ordered the wrong thing. China did not intentionally send bad masks, nor was it a manufacturing quality problem.
>If we don't grab the rod and save it, we're stuck feeding the man for many days, until there is another rod available to use.

the man doesn't have food now. not 6 months from now when your fishing line untangles. what do you do?
Found it! https://zurb.com/playground/twentytwenty
i'm not scared that hungary might use covid-19 as a justification to abandon democracy in exchange for dictatorship. i see they did. an observation is a terrible thing.
I'm the op so if you have any in-depth (or not) questions about our tech or anything else I will gladly try to answer!
Re: Source 3 --
Here is a better view of one of the images in their article.

It shows data for SJW-related buzz words-- word frequency over time.

https://fee.org/media/34425/nyt.jpg
Show HN: Testing Private Functions in JavaScript
Buying at at all increases demand, therefore increases price. Buying at 2.3 T scale increases demand a lot.
And death by other means. Car accidents, heart attacks, liver/kidney failure, stroke. I'm betting that, all in all, the average death rate for all causes included will be unchanged.
Am I the only one who thinks the price of this is absurd? 9k for an 8x8 box?!
One explanation is that >50% of people have already caught it.
He wasn't prescient: he gets his ideas from Fox News and conservative ideologues, and if he made any prophecies, they were self-fulfilling, because his administration has intentionally created the current circus around China.
As it should be. A nation's government should ABSOLUTELY put its citizens over everything else. Not sure what you would have them do instead?

What is happening is unfair to some, but the individual governments are doing exactly what they should be doing, valuing their people above all else.
Or rather the old adege of:

“The luck favors the prepared”
I had the same thought. Lisp puts an end to the bikeshedding; everyone can build their own shed and paint it whatever they want, without having to break upstream.

It also applies to the recent "Why I'm Leaving Elm" article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447

Part of the struggle depicted in the article is between user defined language extensions "competing" with the upstream compiler.

That's exactly a social problem that becomes a technical problem in Lisp.
It's not a black swan, pandemics are predictable. @nntaleb, the author of 'The Black Swan' has been explaining this.

More crucially, the virus is affecting the real economy, and people's lives. Fixes for the financial economy that don't address that directly are band-aids to make balance sheets look good.
My first observation here is: the person is supposed to work independently of outside temperature? Apparently there is no AC/heating in this thing.
"What exactly do you think happens to the city of San Francisco when all the "essential workers" are forced to move away or are homeless?" It implodes!?
Nope, I'm on "Latest Tweets".

I follow over 2k accounts, so the odds of the most recent tweet being 45+ minutes old is low.

I also double-checked some of the people I am following, and indeed their most recent tweets are not showing up in my home timeline.

This is happening across all my devices (mobile & PC), so I assume it must be an issue with their infra that is limited to a subset of their users. Possible an issue with a cluster?
The Fed's balance sheet is now at $6T, which is too large for them to unwind. This only ends in one of two ways:

1. A massive asset bubble and a fundamental re-evaluation of risk/reward ratios for all investments. Historically, the average P/E ratio for S&P 500 companies is around 16. Roughly speaking, this means that investors are comfortable making their investment back in 16 years in static market conditions. Does this decision calculus change if you know that the Fed will bail you out as soon as times get tough? You bet it does. Similarly, corporations are much more incentivized to take on as much debt as possible in hopes of inflating their stock prices. When times are good, massive bonuses for execs all around. When times are bad...hey, bailout! I expect the "new normal" for P/E ratios to be in the 30-50 range. In the short term (next decade or so), this means the party continues, and we see massive growth in the stock market. But when the bubble pops, it'll pop harder than ever...

2. The second scenario is that debt-holders worldwide lose faith in the dollar and start dumping Treasuries, leading to hyperinflation. This doesn't seem to be happening as of today, in fact, the more money the Fed prints, the stronger the dollar. Central banks worldwide are printing money as well, so the dollar looks like the "least ugly" choice by comparison. The big unknown is how long the Fed can keep printing before debt-holders start second guessing the dollar's value.
Eh wrote it for a couple years my tldr; multiple dispatch is odd, types are too shallow, jit is really slow to boot, the tooling is poor.
Small amount compared to the trade volumes between Japan and China.

Also just last year in this weird universe, Trump's great Trade War with both Japan and China, actually got both to start looking for ways to increase those volumes as a counterbalance.

The world is just too complex.
Mailbox?

http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/BA554_900...

This is the main VMS interprocess communication mechanism.
>FWIW I still would love to see a highly fluid market for shares in small businesses and pre-IPO startups.

I would have loved to be able to buy shares for startups I believed would succeed (Tesla, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) way before they got to IPO.

I live in Algiers, Algeria. Even buying shares of classic public companies is a challenge: I had to email, and call a _lot_ of brokers on the phone and be passed from one extension to the other. I have been denied account creation due to "company policy" reasons. The only one that has accepted to open an account was TD Ameritrade. I'm talking like ten years ago or something.

Payments: one virtual card provider after the other dropped support for this geographic location. One payment provider after the other did the same. The are others that pop up every few years that support this geographic location, but the policies change in ways that make it impractical for me. Fashion is more stable that payments support. It's hard to commit to markets without utility like payments.
Makes better sense to be CPR certified and have your friends and loved ones also be. A four hour class saves lives.
A quick search on the Swift forums brings you an announcement that the Swift team is going to support the Windows port which is already mostly finished and will be available in Swift 5.3 [0] and above [1].

[0] https://swift.org/blog/5-3-release-process

[1] https://forums.swift.org/t/on-the-road-to-swift-6/32862
Isn't it obvious this will lead to hyperinflation? I am BAFFLED why this isn't being reported on cnn or whatever. All I see is corona virus. The sad thing is is that there will probably be more lives lost to hyperinflation than covid-19.
I'm sure they know more about permitting than I do, but there's been a monetary factor to consider in the places I've lived. E.g., any home improvement greater than X dollars requires a permit, even indoors.
That's literally the point I'm making in the article.

There's a huge difference between all the chatter on social media, and the actual stats reflecting Redux's usage.

Two charts to illustrate this:

First, overall downloads for React, Redux, React-Redux, MobX, and Apollo Client over the last two years:

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=react&package=redux...

You can see that net Redux usage overall has continued to increase, and is holding fairly steady at about 50% of React downloads.

Second, for Redux Toolkit specifically, the growth rate from just before we released `redux-starter-kit@1.0`, then renamed it to `@reduxjs/toolkit@1.0.4`, through today:

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=%40reduxjs%2Ftoolki...

Obviously way fewer total downloads, but that's a steadily increasing growth rate for RTK.

This is not something that's "struggling". There's just a lot of FUD thrown around on social media that makes it sound that way.
Nice try - he's been saying this for literally decades. I used to think it was stupid too. Not so much anymore.

I expect a mountain of downvotes for simply saying Trump has been right...
It's nice to see you on Reddit and see you here again.

For now, I will focus on functions as a basic SR program for the time being. So the next big updates are:
The feature to manage contents through a tree structure, the feature to divide media such as images into multiple parts to make it questions, and of course mobile app.

And, actually, I have more ambitious goals than just the SR program. My goal for this is to build an integrated learning environment. In my opinion, the ability to hold personal knowledge can be small but right entry point for bigger things.

Specifically, the first is a ML-powered learning resource viewer.
If you can simply view multiple formats (pdf, video, etc) in one place and make it work with LO on the spot, that would be good.
But it can go further than that. Now, text readers are all bad, because I think they aren't taking full advantage of the digital interactivity. They are just putting paper books on the screen. I want to build a viewer that allows users to interact with texts using ML (like IDE for reading).

The second is a finder of learning resources. Now, the learning resources are quite scattered, and I think it would be nice to be able to manage various learning resources in one place. I think that way, I can build an app like Netflix for learning resources.

And like any other edtech software, I may be able to make it possible for users to collaborate with others in this app. But I don't have many ideas for this part yet.
Dev Bootcamp popularized rails bootcamps, and they weren't even founded until 2012. The bootcamp "scene" definitely wasn't around in 2008.
>> Going directly to people does not maintain jobs for people to return to.

Normally it's the best way to inject money into the economy. Right now the best thing to do would be to suspend rents and debt repayment obligations.
Give them the minimum number of fish for them to survive as a stopgap (two $1200 checks, some extra conditional $600 checks and unemployment).
And now we wait for the other shoe to drop: serosurveys showing that at least one-third of the US population has already caught COVID-19 and recovered.
One of my key takeaways from this story was just how "minor" the schism that produced this appears to me. I am a Christian and take doctrine very seriously but I find the issues that the Old Believers [0] were concerned about utterly baffling.

In the linked article, the table of the "main" differences are shockingly trivial from my perspective and include:

1) How "Jesus" is spelled
2) How to hold your fingers when making the sign of the cross
3) Procession direction (CW vs CCW)
4) etc.

That either side was willing to kill or die over these things is something I simply can't understand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers
Julia would have been the obvious choice, if Chris Latter wasn't leading the project, most likely.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Of course the effort to include the library in the project and keep it up to date has an impact on the decision whether I use it or whether I just roll my own. There is a reason that my Rust projects have dozens of dependencies whereas in C++ I basically restrict myself to boost or other header-only libraries.
Have you tried GoToMeeting? From the company that makes LastPass.

It's mostly equivalent to Zoom, from my experience. Grid view, screen sharing, recording, chat, file sharing, phone dial-in, calendar meetings, etc. If you follow a GTM invite link it downloads the app and run its for you, so nobody needs to have the app previously installed.

It's also rock stable. I've had hundreds of meetings with GTM, and never had any audio/video issues, whereas Google Hangouts/Meet has always been really flaky.
Programming Tools for Intelligent Systems [pdf]