skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the web as a medium it would be especially tragic since SGML (on what HTML is based) is explicitly designed for long-term archival of digital text and other media (gave a tutorial about preserving HTML sites using SGML just last year [1]).

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgml-html-tutorial.html
>Has anyone said we needed unbounded stimulus?

Somebody dismissed the very idea of there being limitations to our ability to pay for stimulus, yes, which was why I originally entered the thread to address this excessive dismissal:

>>or assuming that our government has enough money lying around to pay everyone this much all of the time

>Federal spending doesn't come from money laying around, in the first place, it comes from money the government decides to have because it wants to spend it.

I said so at the time, and all the other times I referred back to that claim when you asked. Sorry, but I think I'm past the point of diminishing marginal returns here.
1. It's a bit easier for us if you submit your resume directly to: jobs@login.gov

2. Every application is reviewed by a real human against the job qualifications, and the highest qualified applicants are shared with the hiring team for consideration.

More information on USAJOBS' process is available here: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/application/process/
I can definitely see that happening more often. If you're not required to be in a certain office location, that opens up a lot of options for other cities.

I was disagreeing more with the extreme opinion that some have that remote work would cause these cities to become desolate. Would some tech workers leave? Definitely! Would they all leave? I doubt it.
Funny read, why did nobody stop him?
What a waste of a perfectly good Situationist quote on a bunch of pointless rambling. I feel like the kids in the streets in May ‘68 would never stop vomiting seeing their words applied to this small-time business soap opera
I learned today that not all Microsoft programs for the Macintosh are in the App Store. Outlook? Yep. Teams? Nope. I wonder why.

(I also note that Teams would only install for all users of the computer, not for the person currently logged in, which I thought was strange, but it's my company's computer, so I don't care that much.)
"Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain."

It's never felt to me like South Park was trying to be right about anything. I think of them more as a court jester, they play a role where they mock everything, all the time. The mocking is the point. Getting it right is irrelevant (my take, anyway).

When you mock everything, though, you will naturally convince a lot of people that everything is equally worth mocking (which may necessitate, say, readdressing climate change).
That would be amazing to watch.
Completely agree. I hate that companies do not give back to this -- but it is changing and that's a positive.

Stripe & Segment have their open source grants, WhatsApp Co-Founder (Jan Koum) donated $1MM USD to FreeBSD, DuckDuckGo donates to companies since 2011 (https://duckduckgo.com/donations) etc.

At the company I have founded, I am putting my money where my mouth is -- we have a budget to allocate up to $25,000 per year to open source products that we find value in. As we hit certain revenue milestones, I have every intention of donating an even larger % to funding open source initiatives as part of our "giving back" corporate social responsibility.

It is a shame most companies do not do the same. I cannot change them, but I can control change within what I do. So, thank you to all the makers and builders out there, I will make it my personal mission to figure out a way to give back to you!
> if it hadn't worked out they would've moved on to the next thing without batting an eye.

As would Mr Bezos; that's the point of a limited-liability corporation, he's only liable for the amount of money that he invested.
100% agree.

I've worked in maybe a half-dozen projects where flexibility was a critical concern and, as the result, the end product became harder to understand and maintain. Besides, the vast majority of the flexibilities built into the product haven't came to be exercised along the years those products remained in production.

I don't think it's fair for me to criticize those architects, since I have now the privilege of hindsight and might well have taken the same wrong decisions in their place. But I learned some lessons and, with all due respect to the author's credentials, I don't feel convinced.

Different kinds of applications are certainly more or less prone to certain sorts of changes, but it doesn't seem to me that engineering most aspects for change should be the default approach.
Except the favicon thing applies not just to searches on DDG, but every page you visit if you use this browser
It isn't worth any government doing anything about so long as they don't do the types of things that a pirate would want to do. Thus it isn't interesting for pirates as it doesn't really give them anything more and a fixed location is a liability.
And perhaps that's entirely the wrong thing to be optimized. Google "happiness vs satisfaction". Happiness is a short term emotion, satisfaction is a long term one.

A good example is having kids; kids decreases happiness but increases satisfaction.
>> Also I wonder how helpful Prolog infrastructure could be since they provided some useful frameworks [3][4] for that.

That's a good point, because looking at the working paper on the proposed architecture of the project [1], the example of a "constructor" in Figure 1 is basically a set of frames and it has a straightforward translation in Prolog and the example of a "renderer" in English is basically a pattern with holes that also has a very straightforward Prolog implementation via Definite Clause Grammars. In fact the whole architecture reminds me a lot of IBM's Watson - the good bits (i.e. the Prolog stuff they used to store the knowledgebase).

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[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04733.pdf
Will the Tech Workplace Ever Be the Same Again?
Job security, maybe? Can't think of anything else... This person would certainly never be fireable again after merging that monstrosity
How revolting is the status quo, i.e. nobody has to face such a choice because one of the options is illegal?
I do too; I've had this conversation a few times. Happiness isn't my highest priority, it's up there, but there's a lot of trade temporary happiness for, such as health or sanity.
It's not exactly blackout testing if the blackout testing itself is highly visible and gets positive earned media.
The first one was intentionally minimalist in order to see how little it took for racial bias to be reconstructed.

For the second, any mental ability test correlates with IQ, so you end up with a different set of difficulties. There have been attempts to, e.g. correct for cultural bias in the tests, but these actually made the problems worse.

I'm not presently aware of anything that makes that situation better.
Their information doesn't include that the EU is barring entry by Americans due to the US's inability to get the epidemic under control.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/06/30/eu-bars-american-trave...
The goal isn't to confer change, it's to increase platform interactions. The best way to do that is to give you content that inspires strong emotions whether it's uplifting positivity or partisan hate.

The entire reason to have reposts is for high-interaction content to get more traction while your Aunt Sally posting food pictures gets ignored. If Aunt Sally posts something divisive that gets lots of angry emoji faces and angry comments, then that will tend to spread more on the platform.
> processed food is selling convenience

Yes. I've noticed a tendency for people to buy 'meals' rather than ingredients. I have relatives who look in my well-stocked larder and say "But there's nothing to eat!". They buy wholly prepared meals that just need reheating, and their idea of a complex meal is to put some diced chicken in a casserole with a jar of curry sauce bought in a supermarket.
Is it really necessary to announce that you've taken a specific position. Should we all layout all of our related positions on every post about a company?

This doesn't belong here.
If you are going to be punished in any way for what you say, you don't have freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean that there's nobody physically preventing you from talking.
pure genius
I think a lot of the commenters are missing the point.

Golang is less expressive than other languages, like Rust or Haskell. You can't create fancy custom types and things like that. Of course there are drawbacks.

The benefit however, is that it's much harder to write "clever" code, which translates into being harder to write unmaintainable code. If you know Go, you can sit down at nearly any Go codebase and know what's going on pretty easily. That certainly isn't the case for C or C++, and probably others (other people have told me this is true of Rust, but I have not used it, so I will not claim that).

Golang is not the fastest, or the most expressive, or whatever else. But it's got enough expressiveness to not be painful for most use cases (slices, maps, and structs cover a lot of ground). It's fast enough for most use cases (faster than most scripting languages).

In my opinion, Golang has a very good ratio of (effort required to learn) / (utility of learning). I have no doubt that Haskell is extremely powerful... if you can learn how to use it.

I wouldn't be signing up to write a new OS kernel in Go, but for a userland program that doesn't have hard-RT requirements? I think Go strikes a better balance compared to C, C++, Java, Python, and others.
those aren't just any tombs.
Which is why e-commerce sites, especially travel sites, have been caught charging people using Macs more than people using Windows boxes.
They could be screwing over a local company that developed the malware and, it's just good journalistic practice in general to protect your source.
Well, to bad if you wann recriate your own version of The Dukes of Hazzard
I strongly approve of this sort of thing. Using dead-simple and human-readable formats is a big win for things like this, even if it isn't architecturally "correct". It sounds like your decision was a good one for the use case you were looking at.
Exactly! All it takes is a "demand letter" from any government with jurisdiction. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Boeing to pull the plug on its 747 jumbo jet
Sorry for the confusion, by "save as", I didn't mean export.

LokiJS has multiple persistence options, with JSON files in the filesystem being just one of them.

Alternatively, you could also just use it in-memory or with IndexedDB.
> Swastika is a sacred symbol in Hinduism. The original inspiration for Hitler was hooked cross.

No, the inspiration was the Indian swastika. Same reason he wanted to call himself "Aryan".

(The swastika is also a sacred symbol in Buddhism, for reference. One day someone will petition to have 卐 removed from the relevant Chinese Unicode block.)
But what color was it? Mauve?
Scalable? Citation needed.

It is well-known wikidata does not scale. Whether it is in terms of number of data contribution or number of queries. Not only that, but the current infrastructure is... not great. WBStack [0] try to tackle that but it is still much more difficult to enter the party, than it could be. Changes API? None. That means that it is not possible to keep track of changes in your own wikidata/wikibase instance improved with some domain specific knowledge. Change-request mechanic? Not even in the roadmap. Neither is it possible to query for history of changes over the triples.

Wikidata GUI can be attractive and easy to use. Still, there is big gap between the GUI and the actual RDF dump, that is, making sense of the RDF dump is big endeavor. Who else wants to remember properties by number? It might be a problem of tooling. Question: how to add a new type of object to the GUI? PHP? Sorry.

I do not downplay the role of wikimedia.

[0] https://addshore.com/2020/01/wbstack-infrastructure/
Yet, even so, the advice they give can still be true. It may be that they just want to help others and also in the process help themselves.

The advices given in the article ring true to me, so it really felt like reading something I already "know" but just don't practice often enough. I find it useful to be reminded.
Annotation oriented programming.

Having the code execution paths radically change by adding an annotation to a method or a class makes it very difficult to reason about what it will do when deployed.

If that annotation you found through Google does what you want and expect, that's great. But if it doesn't, or fails in unexpected ways, debugging it can be a nightmare.
> Does Facebook want to call itself a publisher?

I'm quite sure it doesn't want to call itself one. But once it made an algorithmic feed it decided to have a hand in what users do and do not see. It's not unreasonable to ask for some accountability in what that algorithm does, and such accountability is definitely not a violation of the first amendment.

> Will it continue to edit/censor Presidents and Prime Ministers

Point of clarification here: Twitter censored and edited absolutely nothing. They attached a warning to Trump's tweet. It is still available for all to read in its entirety.
This could work.

I regularly see incubators (including yc, but the worst offenders are e.g. indie bio) pick ideas that are actually physically/scientifically/practically impossible, or socially difficult with no plan to solve it. And the proxy that is used to select them/reject other candidates is 'team'. PG even says that the most important criterion is team.

Of course, this is not necessarily a poor model for an incubator, as, if you're someone that can hoodwink an incubator into buying into snake oil with your personality, you're likely to be able to hoodwink the next round of investors, or better yet, all the way to an exit. Greater fools theory and all that.

I wouldn't be surprised if those running incubators know this and therefore don't bother with more than cursory due diligence as the next round will assume early due diligence was done/"the correct pivot was/would've been chosen due to mentor input", due to the power of social validation. The incentives are not correctly aligned, anyway.

I wonder if this harebrained idea might actually have a shot at breaking the diligence problem.
Pricing is the major reason that Delphi is not selling. The version of Delphi which can actually connect to a "client-server" database across the network costs $3,999 and the $999 for annual renewals..

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions

Otherwise Delphi is an excellent product.

However, since Delphi doesn't sell well we have the classic catch-22 situation - there aren't enough developers and the existing ones are retiring and hardly any new developers are using Delphi. So naturally companies are reluctant to commit to Delphi for new development.... further reducing the chance of bringing in more developers.
You're really going to say a professor at Harvard and a bucktoothed West Virginia hillbilly are of the same worth?

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/rednecks/t...
I know it's not the most important thing, but I feel that 747s are easily the prettiest passenger airplane in the sky right now.

Going to miss the variety they provided at the airport.
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I'm criticising two things.

1. People with so much money that they have enough to save thousands of people from starving to death, or dieing from prevantable diseases etc. etc. without ever noticing the difference to their wellbeing.

2. The fetishisation of people who give an irrelevant amount of their wealth away.

There are literally people alive today who won't be in a week or more because they don't have enough money, and these people could save them and they would never notice. All the difference to them would be the tiny change in a number on a balance sheet.
> America has a problem with the whole "call me daddy" fetish. I never understood what this is about. It's deeply pedophelic imho

I would challenge that. I would argue that it is a that there are a lot of people (regardless of country) that get a rise out of things that are taboo. One of those things is the step-parent/child thing (because parent/child is too far for many people).
I know people talk about finance classes in schools, but I think we urgently need marketing classes.

We had these in elementary school. Endless drills from the nuns about fact vs. opinion in things we read.

But that was back in the ignorant, backwards days when schools still taught geography, home economics, Latin, civics, theology, philosophy, and spelling.

/I can diagram a sentence in my mind as you speak it.
All of Apple's current desktop Macs have several USB-A ports as well.
Your rights end where my rights begin. You don’t have a right to go in public and risk my life simply because you don’t want to wear a mask. I don’t have a right to get on a plane without taking off my shoes simply because I don’t feel like it.

Grow up America. Not every public duty is a communist threat.
In 1987, the UK extended their territorial waters to 12 miles, which encompasses Sealand.
I think this touches on some of the points that GraalVM/Mandrel and Quarkus are trying to address. No one wants those large J2EE/Spring monoliths anymore especially if they're deploying to K8s. Being able to quickly spin up replicas is where that short startup time and smaller memory usage comes into play. Scaling out vs scaling up (horizontal vs. vertical) is what Java devs have needed and it's being addressed with these new technologies.
Open-ended talk therapy is like rubber duck debugging. Sometimes you need an expressive outlet that you can't, for various reasons, find elsewhere. And often a confidant (which a therapist can be) is what you need. Lacking a confidant in normal-life or having issues you feel you can't take to that person, a therapist is a decent alternative.
Software the doesn't suck – Building Subversion
haha that ending sentence "South Park is, if you'll excuse the expression...a "safe space.""
Personal opinion but TikTok's is great. I got sucked in in less than 1 min. I actually think the rest suck, including FB. Reddit has no AI.

Netflix's recommendation engine is usually spot on for me but I guess that is less difficult.
> But what you could do is take English...

Then it is not english but a subset of english. They are translation systems that work the way you describe already using restricted natural language grammars.
So they need to retrain for another job. Technological unemployment is here to stay. If people in another country can make food that is better and cheaper, well that's globalism.
Maybe because it was tempting: JSON is fairly easy to handle, very portable, and when you look at a JSON document, it's straightforward to think about querying it, and thus DB, although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational.
Ask HN: Why doesn't every host run its own caching DNS server?
Why would someone use this over https://github.com/typicode/lowdb ?
jq can do this. I had to do something similar recently with a firebase database I inherited. We had nowhere near 11k unique paths thhough.
Wow. Long video but it was worth every minute.
Here is the code if anyone is interested: https://github.com/bjourne/c-examples/blob/master/programs/s... With a few tweaks, g++ beats nim both in the multi-threaded and single-threaded setups.
Yes. This is also because money brings diminishing returns: Average person to Musk is a huge leap, probably the biggest leap there is, but Musk to Bezos probably makes no practical difference.
LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
700+ arrests in UK after encrypted phone network cracked
With larger nations, there's also the cost of searching for the fugitive and also of dealing with the foreign nation itself (vis a vis police, military, etc).

It's more than the cost of getting there.

Sealand can be "conquered" on a whim. It exists solely at the pleasure of the UK.
You have similarity measures like mutual information score and generally comparing correlations and distributions.

You can also A/B test for specific use cases, for example train a model on the real and the synthetic data and compare relevant metrics.

You can see some of these illustrated on eg: https://hazy.com/blog/2020/03/23/synthetic-scooter-journeys
This is what I thought about too. I recently played sf2turbo via the 25th anniversary collection on the switch.

Seeing the rising sun flag as a big part of the stage background did legitimately make me feel uncomfortable, knowing the atrocities committed under that flag.
Are you saying fb is tagging non tech people for jobs?
The point was that I mistakenly used a snippet of GPLv3 licensed code (which was explicitly licensed in the snippet), and then mistakenly licensed the whole thing as public domain. I think it may have been illegal for me to say that it's public domain if I used that snippet. That's why I quickly relicensed. However, git commit history is forever, and one git commit contains the GPL snippet + my public domain declaration.
> And what does this get you? Let's look at a face recognition dataset. What happens when you debias it? Is it still useful? No. Because the faces no longer resemble real faces.

Not to you. But you can remove the racial information without destroying all the information that a model can detect.
I've never reviewed such a change but I've fixed bugs where a test that would've caught the bug was ignored because it caused the build pipeline to fail. My guess the programmer was on a tight deadline and had to ship it so they cut a corner and forgot to get back to it. That's the reality of many if not most organizations, good software engineering is a afterthought compared to the concerns of keeping the lights on day to day. As such I have changed my personal operational model and include as many cheap safeguards as I can when I'm doing something important. This is just one of those things I have in my anti-footgun bag of tricks.
In haven't read Nietzsche, but any time I read a quote of his, it always seems to appeal to the most power hungry part of my ego.
To move forward as a country you need to care about and build public infrastructure - from roads, and science, to health all the way to city parks and internet.

Companies and private moguls wont create good infrastructure out of charity, and what little they will create, it will be created to be milked as much as possible, and milked as much as possible. Think cost-cutting and short/mid-term profit, not vision and future thinking.

And having the state "incentivizing" private companies to build such infrastructure (paying, cutting taxes, letting them reap the profits, create oligopoliges, etc), as opposed to build it itself or pay companies to do it (but design, control, and run it as a public infrastructure) is even worse... Kind of like why Korea or some such countries have the fastest internet on the world, and places like New York despite 10+ million densely packed citizens don't, after trillions given from the state to telcos...
No it's not, the business product had the exact same spyware-like behaviour issues acting up after you'd uninstall it on MacOS.
They had to push an entire mac security update just for that fix.