skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That mentality seems to mostly come from people who were born into wealth and had parents who gave them everything. They project that perspective onto the world. That was their reality after all, and probably their surrounding community.

They're too far removed from how that wealth was achieved and don't understand it. See also: clogs to clogs in three generations.
A New Privacy Testing Library in TensorFlow
The origin of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
After a previous discussion here it seems people confuse classes with modules. At the risk of repeating myself.

Class based inheritance - Bad

Traits, roles, mixins - You are still thinking in terms of inheritance so its Meh.

Combining Data and Code - Slow.

Closures, Functors - Cool ... classes with single methods are as "single responsibility" you can get.

Interface Inheritance - Go / protocols from clojure - Better

Interfaces without inheritance - Modules - Best ... the way software is meant to be written. This is the reason why APIs, libraries are so reusable. Modules are like contracts for the function call interface. Because of this you also get the ability to load plugins as opposed to the whole dependency injection.
Intel released Haswell in 2013. Big Sur probably requires features introduced with it, such as AVX2, new low power states, increased GPU execution units, etc.
Perhaps I'm in a time warp -- wasn't Inbox basically integrated with gmail last year?
For Japanese Deepl leaves GT in the dust and I've found myself using it more over the last few months.

I've often seen GT get the basics dead wrong - for example formal greetings Japanese people have been using in formal correspondence for hundreds of years. When it gets things right it's often fleeting, a week later it gives you something different.
Imagine America but it spent more on end of life care
What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
This is simply not true, read the other comments on how much wealth is retained per generation.

As for the your last sentiment, I'd also remind people that wealthy inequality is not a very big problem if the standards of living are also improving.

Most "poor" people have plasma televisions, iPhones, fridges, their own living quarters and more choice of food than a king 300 years ago would have.
Right, I agree with that
Ask HN: What are the tech stocks would invest in?
What are the companies do you expect to grow and you feel excited about?
We've all been shown recently how law enforcement only protects certain segments of society. This will only get worse with draconian surveillance.
Even early on we had reports of some states seeing 10k+ more deaths due to pneumonia or other seasonal illness compared to prior years. Maybe the figures aren't accurate given current data, but it is worrisome:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
If you like the look of this and want it as a phone case (...with reduced functionality), you can get it...for a steep price (when they're not sold out!)

https://www.moeco.jp.net/search?q=london
Just to be clear to everyone: this doesn't break anything. If you continue to use Perl version 5, you're fine. If you want to upgrade your major version of Perl, then of course you need to know what that means.
Beautiful, but $400 is steep for a monotasker. I'd gladly let students use these in a class, though, as an alternative to notepads.

Which probably says something about the rise of keyboards and the fall of handwriting; I get that ASCII is more useful than paper, but $400 buys a lot of luxurious pens and paper.
It can be chained forever.
The median earner in the USA makes ~60K USD per year

Federal income taxes on 60K is ~6K USD per year.

The F-35 costs ~30K per hour to fly.

It takes 5 median workers to fly an F-35 for an hour. And that’s doesn’t account for firing a 1000K missile.
What you wrote is insightful as to the underlying thinking, but I’m not sure I buy the premise. If luck is the dominating factor, how is the outcome of any election legitimate? Aren’t the winners merely the luckiest? Where’s the safety net for the unfortunate also-rans? Who are the rightful representatives to do the organizing? The questions are interesting because the ancient Athenians would reject what we call democracy due to our reliance on popular elections, which they viewed with suspicion as a tool of oligarchy. Although some posts were elected, they largely preferred sortition or luck of the draw.

Current and former gifted students are likely overrepresented on HN. Underachievement (whether real or perceived) is a source of stress or depression for this population[0], and defense mechanisms[1] are a common coping strategy. In [1], the authors define quadrants based on high or low success orientation and fear of failure.

1. Optimists - high success orientation, low fear of failure: low sense of helplessness

2. Overstrivers - high success orientation, high fear of failure: risk of burnout, tend to have high “defensive pessimism”

3. Acceptors - low success orientation, low fear of failure: tend to have low self esteem and high helplessness

4. Self-protectors - low success orientation, high fear of failure: tend to have high defensive pessimism and self-handicapping

They define defensive pessimism as “artificially lowering expectations of performance when a performance will be evaluated in order to lessen the hurt of failure and turn success into an unexpected surprise” and self-handicapping as “generating conditions that will produce an excuse for failure through actions such as procrastination, task avoidance, withholding effort, and other strategies.” They label both harmful.[0]

To this optimist, assigning everything to luck looks like all of helplessness, defensive pessimism, and self-handicapping: “I’m smarter than that bum, so his success must be due to dumb luck.”

[0]: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

[1]: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-14500-001
It makes me wonder how often things like this might be happening in cases that typically get written off as somebody having paranoid persecution delusions about being "gangstalked." If this couple had told me their story, I have little doubt that I wouldn't have believed them.
Case in point, my father's grandfather was quite rich for the time. He owned 20+ properties and some other things. When he died, his widow went on a spending binge, gradually selling away all the property. My father grew up poor and has set the stage for my generation to become as successful as HEAD~3
I really hope there is organized and research help on the over the top unfounded neuroses that will develop due to this pandemic and the media's utter inability comment on it reliably or helpfully. The media is so used to operating off a fear based model to drive clicks that that is all they can do right now. I fear my sister won't leave her apartment for the next three years.

Like, agoraphobia must be developing at an insane rate right now.
Out of interest do you dis/like Tolkien's work?
I thought you were talking about the article.
PyTorch and GANs: A Micro Tutorial
Interesting proposal, but I'm cringing at yet another overload for the * symbol.

a * b == "a times b"

a * * b == "a to the power of b"

f(* a) == "call f by flattening the sequence a into args of f"

f(* * a) == "call f by flattening the map a into key value args for f"

[* a] == "match a sequence with 0 or more elements, call them a"

Am I missing something? I know these all occur in different contexts, still the general rule seems to be "* either means something multiplication-y, or means 'having something to do with a sequence' -- depends on the context". It's getting to be a bit much, no?

Note: HN is making me put spaces between * to avoid interpretation as italics.
Not at all surprising, but a key point is the job security. It’s not ethics but livelihood that anyone pushing for full legalization has to fight against.

One potential answer is enforcement of legal medicine. Sadly underfunded.

Tangential, but I liked that a Senator in the 1930s found “ginger colored nigger” offensive enough to push for a firing.
Less about cute, and more about being able to understand the complexity that underpins seemingly simple problems.

Solving problems that people have that they're willing to solve badly enough to pay for is a great spot for first time entrepreneurs to begin.

That early on, the idea doesn't matter as much as the frameworks and skills you learn about how to support any idea to reality.
GNC files for bankruptcy, with plans to close up to 1,200 stores
I've started ignoring P/E because , among other reasons, it doesn't account for cash reserves. If you have two similar companies, but one is sitting on more cash, it should be worth more, but its P/E makes it look overpriced relative to the other.
AFAIK House Democrats were delaying the bill not because of the stimulus payments, they were opposed to the lack of teeth to Congressional oversight in the CARES Act bailouts, along with the tax code change that cost $90 billion and benefits almost entirely millionaires+.
Windows isn't allowed to run on any of my networks, and visitors who bring their own laptops are not allowed to connect if they're running Windows. I give them a bootable USB stick with Linux to use until they leave. Anyone knowledgable about tech (i.e. everyone on HN) is a fool to do otherwise.
You lose major OS updates after 2 years and security updates after 3. You really shouldn't be using a phone that's no longer getting security updates even if the apps themselves are getting updates.

Even at those prices, the iPhone is still a bit less expensive per supported year.
>You're not really a power player in national politics until you are a billionaire (i.e. the top 1%)

the 1% of wealth starts at $10MM. wealth inequality creates important power inequality way before you start dropping $100MM on a presidential campaign.
At my job we have a Google Drive clone that only works in Internet Explorer, which is a whole different rant, but half the times I open the Start menu, type in "Internet Explorer", and click on the IE logo, it changes to Edge after I click and opens that instead. It's very frustrating and I can't believe Microsoft thinks this is the way they're going to get people to use it.
That is not true. The capital gains have not been taxed and won't be taxed on death. It is a giant tax free gift upon death.

If your parent dies and they had bought a house for $100,00 and now it is worth $1,100,000. So a capital gain of $1,000,000. If they had sold the house they would have had to pay capital gains on the house, minus an exemption amount ($250,000 for single and $500,000 for married).

But you as the beneficiary get to take that house and immediately sell and pay $0 in capital gains on it. So that tax is actually forgiven on death.
High inheritance taxes tend to single out individual proprietorship businesses for punishment. I remember when I was young, watching newly-widowed farm wives lose everything to inheritance taxes. It was heartbreaking. The tax code changed so that stopped happening -- too late for some.

In the end, frequent tweaks to the inheritance tax code is just a full employment act for trust & estate lawyers.

What we need instead of our current convoluted taxation scheme is a progressive consumption tax -- but that is a rant for another day. (No, I don't mean a sales tax or a VAT. The government already gets all the data on your income and your total savings/investments. consumption = income - net_savings. Apply progressive table. Done.)
The vast majority of the super wealthy right now did not inherit the bulk of their wealth.

I don't think this would even rank in my top 5 list of causes of social decay.
Maintaining wealth 100 years ago was different from today. Today, you can passively own index funds, and property rights are respected in the US. I would expect the 70% and 90% figures to decrease for future generations.
Wealthy people could also leave America
Inheritance is a transfer of wealth, also known as income. Why should the people receiving that income get it tax free just because it came from a family member or close friend?
Me too! It was very serious. Years later I'm still tired. Do you have any links or suggestions? I'm down for anything that may help.
Or they realize they can't set up their grandkids anyway and retire to snowbird life 5-10 years earlier.
You cannot think of anything that was not controversial, say, 40 years ago that is highly controversial now?
>absolutely absurd.

>disdain of wealthy people

>advocate theft.

>none of your business

>vilifying people for wanting to pass down their hard-earned money

In the context of the comment you're replying to, none of this is reasonable, and some of it isn't even relevant. You should consider that you're forming an emotional, hostile argument.
You pay taxes on the gains. (Unless you purchases them through a Roth 401K/IRA where you don't, but those have tight limits on it.)
Wow, that's way cooler than the PEP! "You can write a Lisp calculator in 5 lines" Oh my!
“Proof of Shadow Bans and Link Hijacks by YouTube” [video]
I think the premise is that the culture/behaviors/tactics that allowed Google to capture new territory early on are hanging on past their usefulness, not the actual capturing of territory itself. Growing existing products wasn't the important thing before, so _now_ the incentive structure at Google is mis-aligned with capturing territory in that way.
Ohio city’s plan to get more people to buy electric cars worked
If I pay for my identity to be masked, would I not be entitle to a refund if my identity was revealed by the same vendor?
I have an iPhone 7 I bought for $110 recently on Swappa to mess around with iOS development. It runs the current iOS 13 version quite well.

I'd suggest checking your battery health and maybe doing a reset.
UK police are great health councillors. When it comes to crime, they are toothless. They deliberately ignored massive sex crimes and sex trafficking due to fear of being accused as racist. When your life is in danger from criminals, don't trust the UK police - they will probably shake their hands.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did...
Because you can't work to leave money for your children, if you want to do that you are basically Hitler.

I hope everyone is able to get the sarcasm
This sounds dodgy as hell. Surely incompatible with GDPR: processing personal information despite an explicit rejection by the user.
I think you can learn most/all of Perl 5.32 with http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/ , and it appears this is, initially, going to be 5.32 with some saner defaults. So you could really start now, given that.

> This beloved guide is now completely updated for Perl 5.22.

I've been working with Perl since about 5.20 and am on 5.31 or 5.32 and haven't noticed many breaking changes FWIW.
> I know the first million, as illustrated in the scenario this article presents, is exempted. I'm using myself as an example. The point still stands - extreme wealth would be hidden, and the rest of us would have to pay.

Except, the point doesn't really stand, does it? Those with "extreme wealth" will indeed be taxed, because those sums would be much greater than 150-200k. Some percentage will find ways to avoid it, but that is true with any law, and those that do will have to make some tradeoffs to do so. "The rest of us", which in this case includes you (and me), will not at all be affected by this. We would only be affected by this as we get closer to having that kind of extreme wealth ourselves. And that's the whole point of only taxing the larger amounts -- that it does not impact the rest of us, and in fact you are precisely not someone this will "bite in the ass".

To go a bit further, you yourself say that you consider 150-200k to be a large sum of money, maybe even life-changing. All of these estate taxes, with their minimums in the millions, would absolutely still let you receive life-changing amounts of money as inheritance -- much larger than what you already consider to be life changing -- and only start taxing the portion of it that is more "excessive".
Silencing Hackernews
> This feels like the sort of thing people buy to kid themselves that the problem with their writing lies outside their own brains.

I posted elsewhere in this thread about this, so to summarize: I've been at a cabin using LTE tethering, and am consciously turning my Internet connection off and on.

I fully realize that the problem is in my brain, but putting up just that tiny of a barrier is enough of an effective "hack" to change the way I work in a positive way. Because there's no connection most of the time I'm working, there's no HN, there's no email popping up, there's no Slack notifications, and there's no "falling down a rabbit hole searching for a solution". I'm spending way more time writing down/rubber ducking the problem I'm trying to solve and coming up with the solution myself (which generally results in a much better understanding of the problem)
And how many steps is your reasoning removed from "Taxation is thievery"?
> But when you die, you die. None of that money is yours anymore, because you no longer exist. We, as a society, are free to decide with what's left of you and your belongings.

Most governments enforce a person’s will after they die. People generally elect to distribute their property to particular people, specifically to avoid it ending up in the hands of “we, as a society”.
I wouldn't. People are irresponsible and like spending money. Even those who 'invest', they're probably going to attempt more dangerous investments at some point and lose significant portions of wealth.
The problem is that the aforementioned advances tend to often be 1) Patent encumbered, 2) Difficult to scale and put into production i.e. works only under very specific conditions in the lab with very exact set of dependencies required. 3) FDA the ultimate gatekeeper. There are multiple ways to improve upon (2) but the first and last can only be changed through legislation and the biotechnology establishment is perfectly happy with the status quo (yay for regulatory capture and rentseeking). Credentialism is also a major problem, good luck raising funding without a graduate degree (or several).
Apple Has Acquired Fleetsmith
What specifically doesn't work?
> You notice that all of these were more than a decade ago before their IPO.

I don't, and neither does wikipedia:

Gmail: April 1, 2004

IPO: Aug 19, 2004

Maps: February 8, 2005

Translate: April 28, 2006
Because power is money and unearned money is unearned power.
yes, i am aware of it.
on the other hand which PR-ides itself with one of the hardest hiring selection process on the market it might be a statement about this process.
Booking.com?
Hi — another co-creator here, thanks for the feedback.

With respect to your first question, I believe abdelhai answered it in another thread above.

We totally empathize with the experience of getting something to tinker and share rapidly up and running.

We actually started out our journey with our own cloud editor. It was essentially a worse repl.it or glitch but with a built in database and files. What we learned from our own talks with devs is that many of them really love their local development workflow and their own text editors. We decided or original approach was the wrong one for us but still want to provide the instant experience and rapid feedback that Glitch and repl.it do so well.

A couple USPs that might not be apparent in our marketing materials:

If you type 'deta watch' from the CLI, your locally saved changes will deploy in real time to your Micro(server). All you need to do is hit 'refresh' in the browser or make a new HTTP request.

We provide a real time 'Visor' which caches and logs incoming requests and responses. These can be replayed from within Deta against your latest code. Users have found this very useful for developing things like webhooks.
Alphasmart HN thread from 2017 here, with comments by co-founder Ketan Kothari and Freewrite's founder too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15836866
Covid-19 Gives AI a Reality Check
> Then you think about, what happens when parents die in a car wreck to the kids?

Assuming the parents had sufficient foresight, there would be a blind trust established for the children which will provide for them.

Or maybe not a blind trust. Maybe some other instrument or institution. Whatever it is, you can be assured it would be common to the point of being established using a standard form in the local library, much like how simple wills can be created today.
> And then what will the yacht company do with all of the money?

Employ people. Reinvest. Raise wages. Expand to new markets. Throw better Christmas parties. Buy the CEO another yacht. You know, run their business.

> That's not consistent with economic theory. Economies of scale don't work "forever". At some point, the per-unit price will start to rise with quantity again.

You mean we won't get $10 yacht?! ;-)

Anyways, that part of my original pose was supposed to be tounge-in-cheek. The point is, I don't think bidding up the prices of real estate in a few super-upper-class retirement snowbird communities is the end of the world. Yes, inflation will happen. But only in certain asset classes that I don't care much about.
The Osborne effect for languages. Now there's no risk in announcing version 7 since effectively everyone who was going to choose Perl already chose Python (or Javascript).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
I wish “abuse of trademark” was more commonly applied. The way the law is intended to work:

- I register facebooksucks.com, and explain why.

- Facebook sues me for trademark infringement, arguing there is a real risk my (non-existent) customers will think I am Facebook, and buy my services instead.

- The judge rules that this is a frivolous lawsuit whose only purpose is to silence free speech (not to avoid brand confusion).

- The judge invalidates the “Facebook” trademark.
I would personally have trouble naming all of the pieces in the flushing mechanism and being able to put y them together if I asked someone to buy them for me. That’s seems to be the same for many people I know.
Most machine learning in use today is “train once (and maybe finetune) and then deploy“, not online, continuous learning. I don’t think the frequency of model updates is generally a good indicator of whether or not something is considered machine learning.

More to the original point, nowadays when most people thick of machine learning they are thinking of deep neural networks, whereas Google‘s original pagerank was very simple and shallow by comparison. But they built an algorithm that allowed machines to learn what pages were high value and what pages were low value. If that seems simple by today’s standards, it’s evidence of the AI goal posts moving more than anything else.
I love perl, so I’ll definitely spend some time tonight trying to find out more about the plans. From just this article, it’s hard to see how this is different than just making ‘use v5.34;’ flip some switches. That’s just business as usual in modern perl, even if it changed more things than normal. Still, if bumping the major version gets people to take another look at it, it will be a good thing. And maybe there are bigger plans post-7.0 and this is just to ease the initial move.
In this case "sacrifice my lifestyle down a notch or two" means not paying rent and living on the street, or skipping dinner a few times a week.
This feels like a last ditch attempt to save a dying language. (https://i.imgflip.com/4676mf.jpg)
I wonder what exactly does Perl bring to the table as a language, why would one consider choosing it over other languages.
What do you mean by cheap? Also, perl is incredibly inefficient: it's even slower than Python.

Also, how is Perl any less stable than other languages? Are you saying the language doesn't change much or that it doesn't crash?