skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heavily invest myself in two aspects.

1. Improving documentation of open source projects.

2. Reviewing and flagging/improving questions on Stackoverflow.
Does it have a latent personality? How would it answer the questions on a 5-factor personality test? Would its results on the test be consistent with its behavior (generated text) in other situations?
THANK YOU for taking the time to update this. I really appreciate it.
I’ve seen an actively-developed b2b product written in PHP as recently as two years ago, among the leaders in its niche. Fairly boring HTML with a light dusting of JS. Know what? It was refreshingly responsive and snappy and didn’t do any weird shit. Felt like, if not the 90s, the early 2000s.
Is this similar to how the phone company operates? As long as they just transmit your voice to the other party they can't be prosecuted for anything you say. But, as soon as they start listening in and commenting on your words they have to listen to everyone's conversations and comment on all the words. Obviously phone companies don't want to be responsible for everyone's words so they don't comment on anyone's words.

The parallel would be Twitter commenting on a tweet. As long as they just pass the tweet on to other people, without commenting on it, then they aren't responsible for it's content. But as soon as they say "hey, this might be false information" about a specific tweet then they are responsible for the content of all tweets.
Well I don't disagree, but given the devastation in Europe, I'm not sure America had much of a chance to be spared.

That is to say -- if there is a problem with not having prepared, it seems that the entire Western world was susceptible, not uniquely america
Indeed, had it not been for Oracle's work and Java would have been stuck at version 6, Maxime would never been made into GraalVM, all AOT compilers for Java would still be only available via commercial JDK, (almost) zero pause GC with support for TB heaps, JNI replacement, support for SIMD/AVX512, incoming support for value types and rewrite of C++ stuff into Java would never have happened.

People like to talk and bash Oracle, but no one else, including Google bothered with Sun assets, and the community on their own would never made the improvements that Oracle has made in the last 15 years, if the way of Python and Ruby are any indication of how runtime improvements get made.
I deleted that part when I realized the author might have meant altered minor chords (like the minor iv in a major key), not just a generic I–V–vi–IV.
Cubicles were developed in the 1960s as a way to give workers a bit more personal space than an open plan (or bullpen) office. Compared to having your own office, cubicles are crummy. Compared to having no dividers at all, though, cubicles are nice.
...yeah so long story short, I have had the "How do you LEARN that?" thought before, which led me to some very niche companies that sell some (very awesome) educational kit.

Like this:
https://www.turbinetechnologies.com/educational-lab-products...

Maybe I could rig up an industrial-style control panel to an RPI and actually run a simulation on that. Why go virtual when you can build some cool boxes? I guess accuracy.
I'd say performance in this benchmark is inversely related with how nice it is to express business logic in the respective language/framework, and that's a pretty big deal.

For example, https://github.com/an-tao/drogon (benchmark winner) or https://oci-pronghorn.gitbook.io/greenlightning/ just aren't pleasant to work with. For example, compare Green Lightning with http://sparkjava.com/ and look at how much slower Spark is while clearly being nicer to use.

I worked with Netty at work for two years and it was a dream to use something like Express or Flask on the side, not having to worry sharing/disposing ByteBufs, not dealing with the weird in-channel/out-channel abstraction (vs simple middleware), not investigating how async-/thread-safe a given library was, etc.

It just all goes back to trade-offs. You're going to have different considerations if you're building a Caddy competitor vs a complex game server. Another consideration is how horizontally scalable you can be which is going to be different for a forum vs a websocket server.
So, one of the key things that I see is that the constructed abstract syntax tree must have the raw tokens within it so all other layers have full awareness.

I feel the criticism is valid because most parsers in production are done via hand without tooling or fancy techniques.
Might be, then again, they would have done better that choosing a JVM based language for that.

It isn't even as if they don't have their own languages.

C++, Dart, Go, just pick one and provide a migration path.

Don't sell Java compatibility and promise that even with #KotlinFirst, Java and C++ are still relevant for Android. As they did at Google IO 2019.
The democratization of music. Seems like this is what you get when the marketing departments don't determine what's listened to.
Because you can't selectively act as a publisher when it suits you while enjoying the legal protections afforded to a platform, you have to pick one.

> This was clearly for the benefit of correcting mis-information

To be clear, they provided "additional context" to somebody's opinion - by linking to someone else's opinion. No statistics provided, no attempt at addressing the troubling events going on with NJ mail-in ballots...

> I believe that is a reasonably good thing to protect regardless of where on the political spectrum one sits

How about we stick with the law. This has been a long time coming, not just for twitter - but Google and Mastercard... the debanking has been going on for a while.
The future is electric, man. Think about all the coal saved by just burning scooters.
Apple macOS 10.15.5 release battery security update
I worked in Germany and now Austria and in both countries most locals would already be at the office and coding at 7:30 while I would still be in bed.

It might have something to do with short schedules of Austrian businesses which meant that if you go with 9:00-5:30 work schedule by the time you finished work the shops would be almost closed so you learn to optimize for early in the office, early out the office.
If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem
This death count is way better than initially estimated, even with lockdowns. So this is good news.

> If anything, the economic consequences are the trade-off of not getting an even larger death count, which is already quite high.

Right, which is why it's a good thing the economy was as good as it was. It's not like we could have chosen a worse economy and preparedness. The US has had money allocated to stockpile PPE for the past decade, and failed to do so every year since 2009, when we spent our PPE reserves. This wasn't a money problem.
> am don't know where there problem is supposed to be

The problem is that Twitter is supposed to be a platform. But by appending to user-generated content, regardless of their good intentions, they've crossed the line from platform to reviewer-editor.

Furthermore if you read the "fact check" statements in this instance, they too are primarily subjective opinions. Only one statement contained any statistical data and it was irrelevant. So Twitter was further editorialising by implying that some other users' opinions were more significant.
Is there any specific reasoning behind equating 1 synapse to 1 NN parameter? Seems a bit simplistic. Seems to me like a synapse probably has more computational ability than a single parameter.
hab ich auch weilse sonst zu viel abgeben teilen ornen und wiedergutmachen müsseb denke ich. linke menschen muss man aufs Brot haben!
The New York Times Front Page and an Old Master Drawing
The executive order is not touching the protections of the first amendment. The courts are still to protect them for that as always.

The order regards the additional protections of section 230 which even protect twitter for content that is not protected by the first amendment. Trump is essentially trying to say if Twitter takes sides by fact-checking some tweets, then they are also responsible for all the other "facts" they allow to be posted on their platform without fact-checking. And by the way the courts are still perfectly capable of deciding in favor of twitter regarding blame for all those other posts too. Twitter just won't be shielded by a special law from such decisions.
Ash HN: Suggestions for Good Resources for Investing
I would love to understand economics and build knowledge around investing. Please suggest some good resources around economics and investing (stocks, companies etc.)
Context is bias now? Are we supposed to pretend this document appeared out of thin air, and can only be interpreted in an ultra-literal fashion, regardless of the goals it represents and the way it will be interpreted in the real world?
I thought it was an interesting question and found this page[1] . It is a survey of 50k devs on Stack overflow. 3.8% percent of those surveyed were over 50. Cenensus data here[1] gives ~20% over 50

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/2-out-of-3-developers-are-...

https://datausa.io/profile/soc/15113X/#about
For remote links, you should add rel=noopener as well, to prevent reverse tabnapping.

Combined with rel=noreferrer, that’ll be rel="noopener noreferrer".

Update: sorry, this is not necessary. noreferrer implies noopener (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-...). But while a Referrer-Policy of no-referrer renders rel=noreferrer unnecessary, you still want rel=noopener, so you might as well go with rel=noreferrer. referrerpolicy=no-referrer is superfluous in this location.
> They 100% vote for whatever candidate they are bound to.

You haven't been following the news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...

Colin Powell finished third in the election, and Mike Pence got more votes for VP than Trump got for president.
To add some more context, he's listening to Scarface, one of the members of the Geto Boys. Geto Boys also had two other tracks on the Office Space soundtrack, Still (from that scene where they beat the hell out of the printer) and Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta.

Not on that soundtrack, but Mind Playing Tricks On Me is another a really good song by them and not at all formulaic, misogynistic, etc. Not saying that anyone attacked the Geto Boys.
You can do it if you really want to in 3.8 :p :

def begin(*args):
return args[-1]

begin(
func := lambda x, y: begin(
z := int(input()),
x + y + z
),
func(1, 2)
)
So just use Arial like everybody else has for over 20 years.

I recently ripped the webfonts out of one web site and the page load time halved. I was like, "You have to be kidding!"
I don't see any way those wasps got over to WA state naturally. They didn't float over on some driftwood.

That being said, the reaction has been, naturally, hyperbolic. It wouldn't be that horrible if we ended up with permanent colonies of them over here. Finding them is pretty easy, given their size.
NSA: Russian agents have been hacking major email program
ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)
> You have to be pretty far removed from reality to not know Twitter execs have a left lean to their bias.

Is that why they only remove nazis if you set your location to germany? That's bias to the... left?
> I'd love to hear more on "some reason."

Modern science has no idea! I've researched a fair bit. We don't know how the brain intreprets frequency combinations or why different ones sound good or bad together or evoke certain moods. Math can explain harmonics and the circle of fifths and how to assemble keys and modes, sure, but no one knows the Why or How of the internals between the ears. It is just cultural bias and repetition that we intrepret some note and chord combinations a certain way or is there something more fundamental going on with the hardware? Good question! Nobody knows.

All we have is anecdotal evidence and the trial and error of the musicians and composers who make it. Music is still a mystery.
I love stuff like this.

I've always wanted to find a community that collaborates to determine as much as possible the rough range of the total cost, either in man hours, dollar amount or other metrics, of things we see, know, and interact with every day. I think it is even more interesting if you try to estimate the cost of the research the thing depends on (which greatly scales up the complexity but also the fun of the exercise).

For instance, what is the manhour cost of google.com historically? You can approach it in so many different ways - revenue analysis, # of employees in google search team over the years, or just guess at how much you would need to build google.com yourself today.

Subreddit suggestions for different styles of this kind of activity:

===

/r/resetPrice

Imagine that the infrastructure of the world has reset to the stone ages but we still retain all modern knowledge. What's the price, in man hours, of rebuilding things that we use every day and take for granted?

What is the reset price of google.com?

What is the reset price of Seattle?

What is the reset price of a mechanical pencil?

===

/r/CTMH

Cost in Total Man Hours

What's the CTMH of the NY philharmonic orchestra playing for one evening?

What's the CTMH of developing the entire iPhone phone line series, from original to current model?

Also similar - /r/ETEB - Estimated total effort to build
Sounds like it worked:

> Subsequently, three months after "The Breeders" announced the medfly release, the state ended its decade-long Malathion program and sought alternate ways to handle destructive insects.
Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres of music, so the number one song is barely relevant in determining this generation's taste in music. Consider this idea: if 99.9% of the population is listening to classical music, but are all listening to different pieces it's possible that none of the songs they are listening to would show up as number one, since there are many thousands of classical pieces. The number one song is determined by a small percentage of people (maybe even a fraction of a percent) that care about listening to whatever is most popular at the moment. The rest of the population just listens to music from any generation they like.
You want to go back to the network television gatekeeping model? I don't think that will go over too well, which is especially bad since they'd have to pare down the user base to a manageable size for their board of editors. The reverberations generated by that echo chamber will be amazing.
It's also not evaluated. There is no discarding, so there would be no problem.
Is the quality of music determined by the skill of the performer? Or how much it pleases the listener?

Also:

> But what you're missing is that 2020 pop music doesn't require any skill, at all.

I think it's much harder to write a hit pop song than you are making it sound. I don't think that I could do it. Do you think that you could?
Although my company is doing right by IT workers and actually requiring everyone to work from home I'm skeptical this will result in any real change when we do return to the office. Honestly WeWork is staring to look appealing if I want a lockable office instead of a cube.
I would love to explore someone else's library of notes. I really don't know how to take effective notes. When I start reading a new book I try to take notes but always end up just reading. The problem is that months after I can't remember much.
true, but the written language is exactly the same.

taiwan has national health care, really good public transportation system, really liberal government (gay marriage recently) despite the low gdp. I would move there if they legalized weed which is sadly unlikely

now that hong kong is a part of the PRC, maybe they'll be forced to use the national language (mandarin) lol
U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China
I don't think much changes for most people in technology. We've always had cross hairs on our back when working at companies without values.
The opposite could also happen. You are not a pedophile. The mob says you are a pedophile. The mob runs the fact-checker, which now says that you are a pedophile.

Any “fact-checker” is going to have the problem of needing to arbitrate truth, depending on your arbiter you can have lots of different truths. You include facts that help your case, and ignore or downplay facts that do not help your opinion.
There are some writings by people from Stackoverflow on how much they saved going with native COMPILING NET stack.
The waste is really just in manufacturing-hours, and even that’s not too bad because, hey, the workers got paid.

Metal is quite recyclable and the paths for doing so are extremely well-trod.

They’ll melt the scrap, fear not.
Load Testing Web Servers with Siege Benchmarking Tool
Interesting! Tiddlywiki with all of it's plugins, tags, search amd markdown support is still preferable to me. It is even more crossplatform as it works locally in my Quest as well (termux webdav rb script)
Yep.

I’ve asked people to not give me dimensions for a work request over the phone because it leads to potential for transcription errors and mis-hearing...

If you type it out and send it to me, or write it down and send a photo / scan, and it’s wrong... that’s your fault.

And they seem genuinely put out by me not wanting to be responsible for a mistake.
So the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct headquarters was just overrun, weapons seized, and burned down by hundreds of citizens. National Guard and SWAT are en route.

Are you still so sure about the idea of internal civil strife being "unsubstantiated fear mongering"?

And by the way, race-based civil conflict is only a small part of the structural problems I'm worried about. There are multiple deeper, more dangerous threats on the horizon.

For example, are you sure that Trump will peacefully vacate the office if he loses the election? If not, what exactly do you think will happen then?

Finally, not that this matters a whole lot to me, but to provide you with "substantiation" that you may accept, many mainstream media outlets have covered this in detail in the past year or two. Here are just a couple, Google keywords such as "US civil war 2" (just "civil war" turns up Avengers stuff) and "boogaloo" for more mainstream media coverage:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-america-talk-turn...

https://www.macleans.ca/society/america-is-deeply-divided-an...
field application engineer (usually a customer facing engineer from semiconductor companies)
Fair point, I suppose on balance their outcome was indeed successful. Thanks for pointing that out :)
Also what many keep forgeting is that Oracle was with Sun on Java since the early days, they were even the first RDMS to support Java for stored procedures and designed the Network Computer with JavaOS together with Sun.

From my point of view, Google chose not to buy Sun because they hoped that Sun would just burn to the ground and as such, they would get away with the way they approached the whole situation.

On the other hand if Google had bought Sun, we would still most likely be stuck with Java 6 and just runtime improvements, if at all. If Go and Dart are any examples to go for.
I never had that issue. But I had issues with native extensions often, a few years ago it occurred often enough that I would favor JS only if I could find an alternative. But I also avoid webpack because that always did break with updates, maybe now is more stable? Regardless, dependency management is hard.
Every time I would do some c++ I would waste a lot of time just trying to get things to compile. Worst experience for me has been with iOS apps, I would make an app, wouldn’t need to touch it for a while and then I would have to update iOS version, which required a new Xcode version, which required a new Mac version, and then Swift’s API would have changed and things wouldn’t work. Dreadful.
I guess my takeaway is that software rots fast
I still use this directory structure and it doesn't really bother me honestly. Makes it very easy to work with multiple local repositories without having to worry about any linking or installing bullshit you have to do with other systems.
Write your notes on the margins and once you finish the book, transfer the marginalia and relevant quotes to your note taking system of choice.
I imagine the problem isn’t so much volume of crap comments as much as the tailoring of crap comments. Imagine if every tweet-into-the-void from a human with 50 followers reliably got engaging replies. Bots taunting your grammar mistakes, bots selectively quoting your prior tweets to point out contradictions, bots cleverly insinuating that your tweets reveal problematic sympathies.

So much of our noise-filtering is ignoring comments that are too generic to be human. What happens when every spam comment seems to understand the OP, even when the OP’s true audience is negligible?
tiddlywiki has an anki plugin
> I feel embarrassed to have to ask this
> which one is the real trend and which one is the fake trend

As is usual with these kinds of YC posts, a lot of clarifying detail is handwaved away in the name of expediency and clarity of expression. "used a lot by a small number of people, or used a little by a lot of people." -- what a great heuristic! And certainly not useless.

But it doesn't help you figure out that learning how to figure out that difference when the entities are not at rest but in motion is the whole challenge and art in the first place. Sadly, I guess this is a good way for you to answer your question. Nobody outside of an early adopter ever had a practical usage for a Dapp, which is how you know the idea is a solution in search of a problem.
Nope! And a look through the local timeline, as well as the one public admin account, doesn’t show anything I’d block, either. I think this may be the first time I’ve looked at a Pleroma run by moe girls and not been smacked in the face by hate propaganda or admins encouraging trolling behavior.

(I also don’t go looking at any fediverse site besides my own unless I am investigating reports of bad behavior, tbh. So if there is a vast constellation of chill moe Pleromae I’m missing it. And quite possibly forming invalid stereotypes due to this bias in my sampling.)
Actually, my use case is clicking on other people's GitHub links from time to time and not wanting 5 MB of download for 100 KB of data.
Huawei Should IPO
Online HTTP Client that can send requests from different geographical locations
What about the estimated 62,000 dead bodies from the current flu season, why doesn't he need to "distract" from them?

Answer: because they haven't been editorialised by the likes of the NYT to promote an agenda. Which brings us neatly back on topic.