skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, I think you should've just posted the blog post you wrote to HN instead of an Ask HN with a link to in the text. The blog post covers the whole scenario well enough, imo.

On your main point, though. I think it's a bit disingenuous for you to say you were just reviewing open source code when your blog post is written more in the style of exploring alternatives and pitching your own solution, but I genuinely do not think you were anywhere close to disrespectful in that post. To be honest, this seems to me like a freak incident way outside the norm. Lots of major companies post about how they explored alternatives or decided to roll their own thing; almost nobody thinks that that's equivalent to panning the alternatives they didn't choose. You've just got to take it on the chin and move on.

As another aside, regardless of how emotional you were, the last paragraph of your new post is rude and unprofessional.
1 late check guarantees immediate job searching for me.
Looks like it was placed in a normal agricultural field in the Netherlands. It is mostly long patches with "moats" at the sides (irrigation) like all the other ones around that location. And they made sure cows could not get on it by making it surrounded by a bigger patch of water as the observational stuff is placed in a circle, I guess. But this is a non-educated opinion based on observation only.
They have been a reasonable source of alpha some of the time. But not a constant source all the time: trend following can badly go wrong.

And, of course, because so many people do trend following these days, trend following itself will work less well in future.
There are many cases where binaries compiled on older systems will not work on newer, despite no differences in APIs - this is due to Glibc going for "versioned symbols" instead of versioning ABI.

And of course there are cases, especially if you have C++ somewhere, where you have to bring not just glibc but also ld.so from the ancient system... (There's a big chunk of such libs packaged together to run Loki games ports on recent distros)
Can we use just in time principles with knowledge?
Very, very smart, but very disturbed man. If you are interested in reading manifestos from murderers, which might not be the best leisure time pursuit, this one is actually good compared to the common nazi stuff.
I'm not so sure. People wouldn't be so afraid to share it and admit that they agree.
If you’re not familiar with Rust, one of the core features is that you can “pass” or “borrow” that stack-like scoping in a safe way. IE, if you create a file handle, it gets automatically cleaned up when the current scope ends… unless you transfer ownership to other code, and then it is cleaned when THAT scope ends. It also prevents references from dangling after the resource has been cleaned, even in other classes or functions.

This lets you model ownership rather than memory, and the compiler will translate that (for the most part) to memory management for you. What I was trying to say is that I think managing ownership as a first-class language feature is more generally useful than trying to abstract away the concern with something like GC.
another great author for understanding the dangers of reductive "Systems Thinking" and how state & power takes away freedom (via Technology) is James C. Scott.

I prefer quoting Ellul in this context though because he was instrumental in forming Kaczinsky's views.
> Second, can someone suggest alternative readings for those of us who don't want to give attention to work that was publicized via terrorism and murder?

Anarcho-primitivism is a fairly well-established critique of large-scale social organization powered by "industrial" technology. Maybe read about neo-tribalism and small-scale living in eco-villages/eco-towns, if you don't want to go deep into anarchist thought.
What are these signals? Which ones are not ambiguous, toxic, or uncivilized?
Drones for Every Budget
Hmm...

I think you are getting an _extremely_ distorted view of what the other side actually believes, only being exposed to the most zany extremes.

I also very much doubt "your" side believes in science as much as you think. Politically inconvenient facts are ignored by all politically motivated groups and attempting to do studies that could contradict bedrock dogma is a good way to be out a career (as Stephen Hsu just found out after he got fired recently for funding a study investigating race and police brutality several years ago that ended up returning the "wrong" answer).
Good topic. Have you seen this high-performance Reed-Solomon implementation (1) or Wirehair (2)? Thoughts?

1) https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon

2) https://github.com/catid/wirehair
It seems like their energy is better spent educating themselves on the controversial material so that they can explain to people why they think the conclusions in it are wrong.

FWIW, I'm actually made more curious when people discourage me from reading something, so they may want to rethink the actual impact of that strategy.
Part of betting is about the payout. Had Bing bested Google, that would have had a significant impact on Microsoft stock price.

Horse racing is a better place to make the point. Risking your bets on likely winners has a low payout overall — underdogs have a reward that batter aligns with risk.
I think most people seeing such images are watching documentaries of the Holocaust, news reports of violent crimes etc. Looking away from the screen is a very common reaction, but these shots also tend to avoid closeups because most people don’t want to see it. For a more direct example people turn down gore settings in games because more detail is not always better.

A Luddite argument would suggest all media was better at lower resolution, but that’s not what I am saying. Rather specific media for specific people is. Clearly some people want all the gory details even if I don’t.

PS: > you can always go back to a lower resolution

Having a preference is not the same as having a willingness to edit every YouTube video etc I see.
Why New York Buses Are on the Rise in a Subway City
PSA: Please Just Close Your Files
The Sourtoe Cocktail (Dawson, Yukon Territory)
Can the pandemic help us fix our technology problem?
Believe it or not most server-side developers find javascript ecosystem an awful experience so I doubt they care about Webpack or any of the JS "innovations". The speed is not really an issue given that most of the client apps just call DOM/Web API functions.
PyTorch for Beginners – Mini Series
How to Win on Shark Tank According to Kevin O'Leary
Presumably because the ads are already hyper targeted, because the site is written in Dutch!

Presumably the site was also written in Dutch before they stopped tracking users?
I'd really need to see actual numbers for this, especially as this is kind of contrary to the yearly report Ster released two weeks ago. In this they stated that while the first couple months of 2020 were more or less in line with their budget, they dropped to below budget after corona. I have some trouble believing they made a budget based on a 60% increase from the preceding year.

https://www.ster.nl/media/2ssmp5p5/ster-jaarverslag_2019.pdf
Zen Guardian
I don't think it's being in nature that causes you to get into the non-pleasure-seeking mindset. Rather, if you develop a non-pleasure-seeking mindset, then nature will be where you feel most at ease.
How to Build a MVP REST API in low-code [a step-by-step guide]
Interesting!

But I'm not sure that that history is really relevant. Every religious figure or ritual that exists comes from somewhere - most "modern" religions have pagan ancestors. That fact alone doesn't make something a religious figure or not, or we'd basically have to say that almost no figure is a religious.

What matters is the symbol as seen and interacted with today. Just look at the first line of Wikipedia describing Santa Claus (aka Father Christmas in some places):

> Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary character originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve (24 December) or during the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December).

You can't really say that that isn't tied to Christianity, at least in the US and England.
Delta is a similar tool with syntax highlighting for most programming languages and customizable themes:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

It doesn't have side-by-side diffs, but it's still well worth having around.

It's a Unix filter, so it works on any unified diff you can come up with.

Its default output isn't a unified diff, but that's easy to fix with its configuration / CLI options (I'm too used to reading unified diffs to like delta's simplified default format).
Because it's not always appropriate to separate the ideas from the person. When reading the book it is quite evident that it's not only some sort of abstract philosophical work, but more of a personal feud between Ted Kaczynski and society, which is of course also reflected in his actions.

It's not closed-mindedness to treat the word of a terrorist critically, that is to say keep in mind what the author of the book intents to accomplish with his work, rather than just taking text off the pages at face value.
Not to argue that it's valid to mail bombs as a result of ideology but this part is disingenuous.

> instead of just letting them exist apart from himself

From his vantage point they weren't letting him exist apart from themselves.

"The best place, to me, was the largest remnant of this plateau that dates from the tertiary age. It's kind of rolling country, not flat, and when you get to the edge of it you find these ravines that cut very steeply in to cliff-like drop-offs and there was even a waterfall there. It was about a two days hike from my cabin. That was the best spot until the summer of 1983. That summer there were too many people around my cabin so I decided I needed some peace. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it" His voice trails off; he pauses, then continues, "You just can't imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge. " (https://web.archive.org/web/20090318135703/http://www.insurg...)
Firstly, this looks fantastic. And the GUI not taking over the main loop is a wonderful feature. This is something that has really irritated me using most other GUI libraries (including Qt).

> The GUI should be declared in C++ code.

While I love the declarative aspect of the above, would the authors consider using a different DDL for layouts rather than C++?

The reason I ask is: this now enables creation of wrappers around this library for other languages like Golang and Python.

Also, having the layouts described as plain data rather than C++ code would allow not having to compile for minor UI/layout changes. Which will in turn permit faster prototyping during UI development.
Everyone in the USA will get C19.

So what's the argument here?

They will overload the hospital system?

The very few (at a university) who might die, might get a extra year of life by the university lockdown for longer?

Where they wait for the non existent vaccine or treatment (many years away at best)?

Do they have an actual exact reason other than a wishy washy fear?

What mathematical model do they hope for by delaying?
100+ points for this waste of time and piece of crap and dont even get me started on their game engine
Is it fair to _ever_ say that clearing the history completely removes all traces of visited sites? I have always operated under the assumption that some trace will remain pretty much forever.
> "Arrow functions" are just sugar

This statement is incorrect. There are important differences between arrow functions and regular function.

> An arrow function expression is a syntactically compact alternative to a regular function expression, although without its own bindings to the this, arguments, super, or new.target keywords

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I wonder what magic technology they use that makes Gemini servers more discoverable than a regular website. It certainly can't be a Gemini specific search engine because Gemini doesn't have a monopoly on search engines.
Qantas and Singapore Airlines Sends A380s to Deserts in California and Australia
Forgiveness gives most benefit for yourself. If I forgive you, I feel better and can move on.

If I don't forgive you until you do something I expect, then I will continue to feel worse and you will be the cause. It's better just to forgive.

If someone has done wrong and they know it, they may not want to forgive themselves, but it shouldn't stop others forgiving them
From Brython's homepage

>> Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web.
If this was not frowned upon on StackOverflow, the correct answer would recommend a commercial API.

That said, if I were to implement this from scratch, I would not start with a positive list of cities. Rather, I would implement a couple of patterns like: "from X to Y", "X to Y", ""to Y from X".

But invariably there are going to be ambiguities. How do you deal with a city called "from to" :-D? How to you parse "from from to to to from"? I'd probably tokenize it using place lists, like

"from (from to) to (to from)"
"from (from to) (to to) from"
"from from (to to) to from"
...

and then, maybe assigning probabilities to each parsing, decide that the first one is most likely.

A side comment, for someone like me who isn't an NLP expert, it seems strange that there are no libraries that let me parse a string accoring to some rules in all possible ways (like a tree) and pick the one that is most probable. I'm sure this exists, but it is hard to search for...
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708986 before deciding on which browser to switch to.

“Currently bloated Firefox” is a baseless claim in my opinion.
> science is pretty clear that lgbtq+ people are valid

Um.

That is not a testable phrasing, so I would be immensely surprised if "science" actually said that.

Pretty much all LGBTQ stuff is a question of ethics/morals not facts, so science has nothing to say om the matter. It could turn out that being gay is triggered by a pathogen that would still have no bearing on whether gay marriage should be allowed.
Another of the great melody writers is gone. He will be missed. His Cinema Paradiso theme is one of my all-time favorites -- not the love theme that's most commonly associated with the film, but the main theme, which plays during the opening. It's so infinitely tender and nostalgic.

https://youtu.be/BvD8EiibPVo
Unfortunately, it's not that easy.

The regulatory environment is not kind to short sellers.

Matt Levine's Money Stuff often has examples of how shorting can go wrong. Recently there was a company that was accused of fraud. An obvious target for shorting. But: once the fraud properly came to light, the authorities promptly halted trading in the company's stock. After trading was halted, the shortsellers could not cover their shorts.

And of course, in order to shortsell, you always need someone willing to lend you the stock in the first place.

In the case of Hertz, https://fintel.io/ss/us/htz does suggest that plenty of shortselling is going on. But https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-bankrupt-hertz-short-sque... suggests that finding Hertz stock to borrow became harder over time.
Timeline does matter, but this interview happened after he was arrested and convicted. This is him looking back with hindsight, and it's interesting to me that he can see the virtues of an isolated lifestyle without, apparently, noticing how that isolation left plenty of room for philosophical solipsism and, eventually, the conclusion that other people's lives didn't matter.
In what sense is Firefox bloated compared to brave?
That works for JavaScript, because functions are just functions.

But in Rust, closures are different from functions, though they all implement the Fn, FnMut or FnOnce traits. Functions don’t close over any state (so you can cast them to a 'static function pointer), while closures can. Using the fn keyword for closures would thus muddy the conceptual waters—though you could argue that the names of the Fn* traits has already done that—and potentially hinder future language design.

I feel a stronger argument is that it’s also markedly longer and more visually noisy; `x.map(|x| …)` is seven characters shorter than `x.map(fn x => …)` and eight than `x.map(fn(x) => …)`, and to some extent words are more distracting than symbols.

Pipes isn’t perfect, but given the consistent philosophies of the Rust language, I am not aware of any better option. But it’s definitely a fairly subjective matter.
Got popular in 2005 - 2006 in California
Oh sorry, then it's a-okay I guess. /s
Given that animal grieve and mourn their dead [0], cows have best friends [1], or many species of animals play [2], among many other things, assuming that cavemen lives is only "culinary" and "carnal" pleasure means humans not long ago ("cavemen") had internal lives far, far simpler than what many animal species experience.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-animals-exp...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/07/cows-b...

[2] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/games_animals_...
The manifesto is worth reading for what it was. But it should also be followed up by his further books. He would agree with you that it is not as solid as it should be and he has been writing since then to fill in the gaps and even refute some of his own arguments.
> So now we can write web apps in one of most inappropriate languages for frontend development.

Implying that javascript was ever appropriate.

> White space significant, good luck minifying it.

Just gzip it. Minifying is highly overrated to begin with.

> No anonymous functions, yes you need to have name for that callback, even though it's simply disabling a button.

Lambdas are supported, what do you mean?

> Webpack does a great job of handling assets by simply importing/require them in the code. Python import system, can't support that kind of importing.

What does this even mean?
Why does the NPO, the Dutch equivalent to the PBS, even run commercial advertisements? Aren't they funded by the people's taxes?
I don't see it that way.

The reply chooses to understand the writing in the context of its writer's psychology, and presents reasons for doing so.

This does not mean that the replier cannot consider the writing independently of the writer.

You can build a closet in the woods, but usually it doesn't make much sense unless it's accompanied by a house. You can interpret ideas while willfully obscuring other facts about the ideator, but usually it doesn't make much sense unless it's accompanied by the antecedents and consequences found among those obscurable facts.

Kaczynski's life demonstrates that there was something really messed up about his thinking.
Small Strings in Rust
Yes. In general, you should only invest in individual stocks, if you know something that the market doesn't know.

Otherwise, just buy the most boring and low cost index fund you can find.
Great, we're replacing a slow, dynamic, interpreted (sometimes JIT'd) language with another even slower!

A VM inside a VM.

Eventually people are going to write C# in browser?
All NPM packages made available in Python and C#?
All PyPI packages in browser?

Active X plugins are back people!
This manifesto is just the expression of one man's fringe political views. There is a lot of rubbish in it. For example, he spends pages insinuating that leftism is rooted in masochistic, self-hating, chauvinistic tendencies. His argumentation, in the rare cases that there is any, is rather ridiculous. See, for example:

> Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.

Of course, this manner of peaceful protest is neither masochistic nor unique to the left, so I'm not sure how he thought that this made any sense. He even acknowledges that it is often effective, and yet he still claims that it is motivated by self-hatred!

If you can highlight anything of value in his manifesto, I'd very much appreciate it.
Exactly. It's not rocket science.

You don't need to chase the user, retarget them to death, etc. Cool, you're tracking your user and showing them shoe ads over a tech blog, a news website and a pet care website. Doesn't this sound weird to you?

Micro-targeting is good money for the ad brokers, not the advertisers nor the publishers
> This is wrong, misguided and naive.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't jump straight to insults.

> International trade when done with effective reciprocity and managing the trade deficit, can lead to competition on a larger scale, better outcome for consumers and specialization in particular aspect of manufacturing or services.

I didn't say international trade should be stopped entirely. "Free trade" isn't "all trade". I'd appreciate it if you didn't strawman me. A part of the myth is the idea that free trade means perfect competition. No, it means a massive existing company can easily buy up local competitors and ensure that competition ceases entirely.

> Even domestically, specialization is how human species became to me. If humans continued to be inwards looking and never engaged in barter-trade or any kind of bilateral exchange either with monetary instrument or goods/services; we would still be caves.

This ignores the many cases where countries have protected local industries despite these industries existing elsewhere producing far better products and being far more competitive, and been wildly successful because of it. And again, I never said "no trade ever at all allowed because all trade is bad".

> National to international trade is just one more step in the expansion of trade that we all benefit from. We have proof that it works when all parties are rational and cooperative. If we found aliens on another planet, it would only make sense to trade with them (just increasing the abstraction layer from national to international to interplanetary).

I never said otherwise. Trade is fine. Foreign companies crowding out local industries to the point that local jobs are primarily low quality and low paying is not (see the number of countries that are relegated to production of fabrics and other low-cost goods).
> JavaScript is the right tool for the job

Is it though? The fact that there are thousands of tools like this and whole web-assembly movement just might mean that Javascript really sucks at what it supposed to do.
Sure. It's reading. (happy to send you a reading list if you let me know your own aptitudes and interests as a point of entry ). It's learning that Western culture structures the normal as a white monyed male and any perspective that interrogates that is too 'political.' This space right here _is_ political, even when you disavow it as so. In this space my experience of working in tech as a woman - which shares many perhaps most of what you experience - but then there are the things you cannot imagine. Ask specific questions. When I post an article about a woman's experience on this site, a user flags it right away. ( see my last post here ). The good news is, all of this is becoming more and more normal. Otherwise I would not even bother here, as I have lurked for over a decade getting what I needed here and trying not to be to demoralized by the shape of content and the common fantasy that one can construct choose where, how and when the political intervenes.