skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'll admit I didn't know that. This still seems like going an awfully long way out of your way to find something to be offended about.

This would be like British people removing French-derived words from their language, because they were the result of Norman conquest and subjugation. At some point, history is just in the past and language moves on.

What is actually in the repository? Is the code correct? Is it efficient? Is there sufficient test coverage? Well, who knows. We spent all our person-hours fiddling with terminology. This will last for a few years until someone finds something to be offended about with the new terms.
100%. Nobody makes that kind of asset purchase without lifecycle analysis.
I just looked at the salaries for MS compared to the other Big Tech companies. How does MS get away with paying so much less?
Checkout Calcite.
It's a library that transforms SQL into relational algebra that can be used with many backends including git.
Author here!

We analysed the entire app store and narrowed down on 5 ideas. We got lucky that we picked WhatsApp, that's the honest truth.

Here's our Shopify App Ideas research sheet, if it helps - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hnpcl1VAlPC9MuFvvsl2...
Handcalcs: Write calculations in Python, rendered automatically as Latex
This is a library that I use daily in my work as a design engineer for quickly writing and printing calculations. My company has agreed that I may publish it as free and open source.

In the engineering world, often times Excel is king. However, it is not transparent: you type a formula in a cell and 1) the formula only contains cell references (unless you define cell names) and 2) the formula is hidden. For accountability, you have to separately type the formula in an adjacent cell so you can print your sheet out as a report or calc sheet. However, the formula you typed is just text: the resulting value has no relationship with the formatted formula you typed out and you have to change both to update. This makes maintenance cumbersome.

I wanted the formula I typed to be the same as the formatted representation of the formula I typed -- change the representation and the result changes. SMathStudio and MathCAD do this but you still have to layout formulas on the sheet and, most importantly, none of these software packages show the numerical substitution, critical for quickly checking correctness of calculations. I wrote handcalcs to address this problem.

To use: run Jupyter and use the cell magic, %%render, then just type in your calculations. Run the cell to see them all rendered out in Mathjax or Katex.

While it is designed to work in Jupyter, it also has a decorator interface for use in other environments that render Latex (e.g. Streamlit).

The intended audience for handcalcs is engineers, estimators, teachers, students, or anyone else that tends to need to perform documented calculations. However, I am guessing that this may be useful to many others in ways I do not know.

Open to feedback and suggestions for enhancement!
One would think with automation on the horizon the government would aggressively curb immigration. The people already here responsibly having children are having a hard enough of a time with the cost of everything.
Twitter

to talk quickly and nervously in a high voice, saying very little of importance or interest

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/twitter

Twit

a stupid person

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/twit
Jack Dorsey's a weird dude. He's taken on the role of would be saint and arbiter of right and wrong after playing best friend and confident to Noah Glass, while tossing him out of the company he helped build. That guy has a dichotomous moral compass, to say the least.
I've experienced this problem in small companies/side projects I've started. This a great perspective and great take on the problem. I'd love to help out in development/anything you'd need help with, email is in my profile.
It cost 22% in 1991, which obviously wasn't a good year for Belarusian budget. Despite management so bad that even security services turned against it, by 2002 Belarus spent 6% of its budget on Chernobyl - like Ukraine, majority of it was benefits paid as compensation for around 7 million people.
The wikipedia page points to the exact opposite conclusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Deat...
I miss the rise (and fall) of desktop.com (which is coming back under a new owner; some ideas never go away). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com for more. Katie Mitic and the Drebes had a vision for client-computing that was really fun, but browsers and the market just weren't there.

It's kind of funny: the iPhone was lauded for being skeumorphic and then that faded away. Desktop guis also went through this, at one end becoming Microsoft Home, and the other end being, well, pick your favorite Linux desktop ( 8-) ).

Is this a new wave, only instead of reflecting the physical world (why is the save button still a 3.5" floppy?), now it reflects a desktop gui?
> more protective of users' privacy

are ISPs going to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP though? because with a roaming ipv6 address you will have a device identifier that you may not be able to change even when roaming. advertisers couldn't have wished for something better.
This should really be a tradition that all natural born Americans should have when they turn 18 also. I'm not necessarily about nationalism, that road can go down some dark paths, but it is really comforting to know you are a part of something bigger
I think that's roughly the point where CSS was supported well enough to be useful. 2001 was when ie6 was released, so the first browser war was wrapping up at this point and browser features became a bit more fixed.
> American immigration really is the ultimate test of loyalty.

Frankly, more and more people are starting to wake up to the fact that it's a bullshit test. Partly because immigration really doesn't have to be all that, and partly because of the global...decline of the United States' image since the turn of the century.

When I was a kid moving to the US was the goal, now only a handful of people I know have it at the top of their relocation list (and some have lost interest in even visiting). Canada and the EU are much more popular destinations for people looking to move to a western country.
All you need to perform unethical human experiments is a psychologist to say it is okay.
Yes very much so. The workers are producing the value (CEO is also a worker). Is the CEO producing x times the value of their average worker? If not then that compensation doesn't make sense and in effect is stealing from others who are producing that value.

Any other view is justifying stealing from people just because they're "well compensated."
Regarding Arthurian England, Bede wrote his history of England less than 200 years after Arthur supposedly ruled, and before Arthur appears in written stories. We know about Athelstan and Cnut, because people did write things down. Britain still had Roman cities at the supposed time of Arthur. There may be something to the Arthur story but it’s not accepted as history. We do know a lot about the period just before from Roman documents, and have documentation of other rulers from the period.

Written and printed records do not guarantee historical accuracy. The Lord of the Rings is just as long as the Arthur stories, and just as vivid, but not real.
> where web looked like from the 80’s

You're aware right that the world wide web was invented in 1991?
His point was obviously not that the consequences were forgotten but the original meaning of the phrase was forgotten, and I'm pretty sure you know it. What are you trying to accomplish with this? How did you get from "I never knew what grandfathered originally meant" to "maybe you forgot about jim crow, but I haven't".

I feel like racists are far more empowered by things like this than simply allowing the etymology of the word to be forgotten, like it basically had been. And now, it's just another line in the sand for people to argue about on social media. I think if I were a racist activist, I'd be finding things like this to start arguing about under a false flag.
It reminds me of these two CSS libraries

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/
Yeah, and so many people of color came to the US with a suite case and less than $1000 dollars, and then became a successful person in a few years. I certainly did. My wife certainly did. My team, my gardener, and my contractor certainly did. Some people who are from the same school as I went to have even become CEOs of big companies, and some have become famous professors or head of prestigious universities. If anything, I got help from people of all colors, and particularly from a great system that generations of people in the US have built.

Is the US perfect? Of course not! But everything in the US is worth hating? You gotta be out of your mind. Is the history of the US perfect? Of course not! That's why it's history! Human learn. Human improve. Human societies evolve from centuries of violence, prejudice, or pure cruelty. If we cancel them, we won't have a history.

In the meantime, the poorest 20% of the US population is probably better than 80% of the population in the world, and this is not great? The protestors can afford protesting full time for weeks, and this is not great? We have NBA who have more than 70% of black athletes. We idolize them. They make millions of a year. And this is not great? A long list of Hollywood stars are black and we love them and LinkedIn is full of Will Smith's inspirational interview, and this is not great? We have a black president in a white-majority country, and this is not great? We have black mayors, council members, senators, congressman and congress woman, and this is not great?

If we look at the US history, we have Charles Drew, we have Rebecca Lee Crumpler, we have Daniel Hale Williams, we have Marie M. Daly, we have Alice Augusta Ball, we have Katherine Johnson, we ave Dorothy Vaughaun, we have Christine Darden. The list can go on. Are they not great?

And if we follow the logic of cancel culture, we should cancel Rome, cancel Greece, cancel renaissance, cancel all religions, cancel Europe, cancel China, cancel India, cancel Africa. They all had their share of slavery, for centuries. They all had their share of atrocity, again for centuries. Then what's left? What's the point? And should we cancel our childhood? Should we cancel ourselves? Most of us, after all, did something stupid or horrible when we were young. Should our parents cancel us?

Some people are just sick.
Huh?

A black person appropriating a term of abuse for themselves is very different than a white person using it against them. Their username is not offensive.
Most red zones in Chile are national parks/private ecological reserves
Not so humble opinion, I'd encourage you to aim for ergonomics and let people read about the project if they want to know about the backend.
It's little remarked upon that the BBC is an instrument of government propaganda; about as trustworthy as Soviet Izvestia was in such matters.
I think for ALB you'll see pooled connections (http or http2) so I would expect the number of TCP connections to stay pretty low. In http2 it could theoretically be as low as one.
Forgotten by who?
Where does this ever end is my thought as well.
It's a feature.

Adding a market participant with the motive and means to buy when the price is low and sell when the price is high reduces the price volatility.
Noteworthy considering that both BBC and Wikipedia are treated as relatively reliable sources of information. If even they can't agree, then it is a measurement of either our own ignorance, or those source being less reliable than we thought. For example, I wouldn't recommend going to Wikipedia for everything (applied) math related. A lot of pages on the advanced stuff are sparse and obscure, and there are also plenty of cases where equations or explanations have been wrong.
This doesn't work because humans are the consumer. Humans purchase things based on their own person values. Capitalism has the instrumental goal of maximizing human values. In addition, humans engage in every stage of the process. Some of the biggest failures of capitalism are actually the results of human values: racism, sexism, nepotism. I can think of some issues with unregulated capitalism, but none of them seem to be a paperclip maximizer unless you're taking the phrase to be so non-specific that it essentially just means "unwanted side-effect."
It’s interesting to consider how many corporations will weather this pandemic and how many small businesses will not.
Well written article

> DON'T BE AFRAID TO DISMANTLE THE WRONG ABSTRACTION

Couldn't agree more with the statement, though I don't completely agree with the author's suggestion to copy paste. Duplicating code _is debt_. It may help us go faster now, but it'll almost inevitably come back to bite. It is manageable if 1/2 people do it 1/2 times - definitely not manageable if 5/6 people do it 5/6 times.

I believe the general hesitation of not touching a piece of code (or, getting by with that optional param) is due to the fear of fucking things up. Having your code test covered gives an amazing amount of confidence to rip apart old abstractions to yield newer ones that serve the purpose of the _current code_. To me, this route is more preferable to duplicating code.

Even with the best of intentions, Hacking an abstraction with that one optional parameter is inevitable. Tests help in our ability to repay that debt faster - on time & in full.

Basically they make all abstractions a lot cheaper - easier to write and easier to throw away. Thereby solving the problem of having a 'wrong abstraction' too early.
As a non native speaker, I do not quite understand why "dummy value" and "sanity check" are in the list. Is there a hidden meaning behind those words?
Well the most nasty conflicts on social media are not about facts which once settled all parties can happily go home. If people were arguing who is tallest person in town it may be possible to make mistake, apologize and rectify. However most acrimonious conflicts are something like who is most evil person in town, I don't know how one can be objectively right or wrong about it or de-escalate during disagreement.
Can you elaborate on this? Why do you think that biotech is missing abstractions and feedback loops that tech benefited from?
But those energy providers ("utilities") have the necessary political and budget power to pull off something like Autobidder. In many countries they are controlling local governments. Buying such a logistical solution is peanuts for them, automation is everything.

They are already doing better things than just dumb ML, they have proper models and constraint and planning software.
Author here!

You're completely right, it's an eventuality that we are aware of and figuring out the best way to deal with it.
WebAssembly implies a model with no syscalls. WASI provides a basic set of POSIX like syscalls which is used by the various standard libraries when the compilation target is wasm32-wasi.

So C, C++, Rust code using their respective standard libraries compiled to wasm32-wasi can run on Deno out of the box.
I imagine it's possible, but "no reason" is definitely a stretch. The parts of DC that are federal land are hardly contiguous, and trying to force a clean split between DC and Maryland looks like it would be a nightmare: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/dc-marijuana-m...
Many of the early mathematicians were mystics. So in a way the incomprehensibility is a feature and not a bug but for those that are well versed in the language it is a rich source of analogies and metaphors.

> "Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies."

To see analogies between analogies requires compressing concepts into symbols that at first glance are not as comprehensible as regular words and sentences but math is really just another language and people can learn it and apply it fruitfully.

--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach#Quotes#:~:text=G....
What about the phrases black magic, darknet and black market?
Yup. My mom and dad came to this country with nothing. My mom had $30 and a husband, who, she didn't even know, was 'employed' by her brother-in-law but not paid wages. They managed to escape virtual slavery at age 30, have two kids, and achieve the American dream. Mom even went to school again while putting both her kids in private school (didn't live in a great school district).

America's been pretty great to us. Both my brother and I married outside our race. My brother and
I are all American. My daughter and my nieces and nephews are literally the most american story you can make. Their existence is only made possible by a place such as America. The melting pot still exists, and it's amazing.

Cancel culture seeks to destroy that which makes America great. Is it perfect, no... of course not. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. For all their failures, the various figure in American history often also have views and attitudes worth remembering, and that's what they're idolized for. And good for them... their ideals are better than the alternative. Without these imperfect individuals holding on to their -- sometimes even hypocritical -- ideals, stories like my parent's, my wife's parents, and my sister-in-law's parents would never happen.

Happy Independence Day!
Nicely put! Most best practice articles end up reading like dogma because they only ever show clear-cut cases where the best practice applies. Augmenting the plain good/bad examples with good/bad depending on the situation examples seems like a great way to avoid that.
The presumption is that it's a bad law, because laws that affect a large percentage of the population are often unenforceable.
> Nobody knows who the kings of England were in those days.

Yes, lots of people do know who they were. There was no “England” in those days, but historians know the kings and queens of the kingdoms of Essex, Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, etc. that would coalesce into England later.

https://www.historyofengland.net/kings-and-queens/the-dark-a...
TFA does acknowledge that view, but the striking thing for me about it was that its discussion of "the rich" is overwhelmingly focussed on the urban mercantile classes and financiers, rather than the aristocratic landowners. A newly-empowered peasantry supports the former while weakening the latter.
I literally LOL'ed!
Do you think any of those are common in twitter’s codebase?
Inflow is partially bots and sockpuppets-- and their share probably goes up the more toxic the environment is.

Have you seen the truly awesome GPT3 authored navy seal copypasta?

Perhaps twitter will eventually be autonomous machines throwing vicious and brilliant insults at each other.
I recently read Gleick’s biography of Newton and highly recommend it. It’s pretty short, quotes part of this article by Keynes with a lot more context, and paints a portrait both fascinating and disturbing: to come from nothing, to start with nothing, not even having the concepts of velocity or force; to invent them, and calculus, and to develop such a deep understanding of nature to successfully compute the shape of the earth as an oblate spheroid, all from first principles, in the 1600s; to conceal nearly all of these discoveries; and then pursue things that “should all seem a crass and empty ambition once you have written a Principia.”
Vote Red. Don't mistake not being mentioned with being ignored. Took my parents (Indian) a while to make the switch, but they've never looked back.

> We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God. (Applause.)

> We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.

> We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.

> ...

> We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. (Applause.) We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen — (applause) — Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Jesse Owens, George Patton — General George Patton — the great Louie Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali. (Applause.) And only America could have produced them all. (Applause.) No other place.

-- Trump's address at Mt Rushmore

EDIT: you don't even need to vote for Trump, just look at your local elections.
Yes, I agree with your overall thesis. A feature like this can help normalize people publicly admitting that they made a mistake, and walking back that original Bad Tweet (or whatever).
> we are so sad how much the "native born" people of the US hate their own country

Not all of them do. I was born in the US and I love my country.
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that, the wiki states:
"On the other hand, in the quarter century after the Black Death, it is clear that in England many labourers, artisans, and craftsmen, those living from money-wages alone, did suffer a reduction in real incomes owing to rampant inflation."

So, nominal income might have gone up even while real income went down and either way wealth could have become more concentrated (which is what the BBC article is expounding on) even while laborers earned more.
I believe the thinking is they are insensitive to people with mental illnesses.
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726882
But the United States didn't enslave his ancestors. England did, and the US inherited it, but made several provisions to end the practice quickly (Congress passed a law as soon as it was able to end the slave trade, and then fought a war that cost many American lives to end it for good). For all of American history, most people did not own slaves.

And before someone says 'well they benefited from it'... well we benefit from cheap, abusive labor practices in China and other Asian countries so get off your high horse. Benefiting does not imply acceptance.
"This means that people with money have zero incentive to spend..."

Except for food, housing, healthcare, entertainment, and well, pretty much everything people spend money on. You can't be alive or enjoy that life without these things. People wouldn't refuse to spend their money and starve to death because then they wouldn't be around to use it.
The House and Senate are fighting to get it reauthorised.
MeiliSearch: Open-source and fast search-engine
Or maybe it is possible for an economic phenomena to have multiple valid interpretations, and sources aren’t inherently aligned to some idealistic idea of objectivity and reliability
You cannot be serious about your argument while still being supportive of these changes.
Can someone explain to me the "dummy" and "sanity" exceptions? I have never even considered that these words might be offensive. Perhaps not emotionally neutral, but then why not "poor" (performance) or "silly"? Is there some context that I'm not aware of?
Hi, Tailscale person here.

If you haven't seen it, an open source implementation of the server: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale.

The Linux & Android clients are fully open source. The Mac GUI is closed, but the "Linux" client runs on macOS, sans GUI. (Also runs on BSDs, and I believe Windows)

At that point, only the iOS and Windows GUI app is closed, but they're both super thin wrappers around the open source Go implementations.

But, yes, it's true that we're not entirely open. We'd planned to release a simple server implementation when we got it cleaned up, but then Headscale beat us. That seems like the most important missing bit.
Nah....they're just making it up as they go along!
As a native speaker, I can almost understand dummy value. But sanity check doesn't seem offensive at all. One definition of sanity is "reasonable and rational behavior."

so sanity check would be checking if the behavior is reasonable and rational.