skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice ideal, but ultimately very naive. Your idea would work great until a neo nazi group or a terrorist organization executed an attack killing a large number of people. Then everyone would be screaming at the government demanding to know why they weren't monitoring more so they could prevent just such an occurrence.
But kids pass information around when there's motivation. When I was in high school, I didn't have a computer or access to BBS sites, but I had friends who did and that's how, for example, I ended up with an 800 number I could use to make free long distance calls and a binder full of Apple ][ software.
Does it really matter if you use Tor as the first hop, and pay for it anonymously with crypto?
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Timeseries: Thrift and Protocol Buffers Support in WarpScript
That link looks like a good read. Long so I bookmarked for later.
Hades really did a fantastic job at doing narrative in a Roguelite game. I loved how you get bits and pieces of story along the way.

That being said, I don't really see Valve making a game like that for some reason.
The explanation is simple. Tests are not reliable. This is what is happening now in Central Asia.
>> So I am not sure I will ever trust an ML algorithm trained on inputs/outputs only (which is what I think "neural program induction" means).

According to the authors, the proposed approach is notable for training not only on input/output pairs but also on program traces. In addition, reinforcement learning is used to train e.g. sorting agents on the behaviour of "teacher agents" that comprise hand-crafted implementations of well-known sorting algorithms (bubble- insertion- and quick-sort).
SQL driver works just fine, and "down for maintenance" takes seconds to put in IIS, no PHP needed. Not perfect, but working.
People work side jobs all the time where they're considered employees. Nothing is preventing them from doing the same with Uber.
Criminalize the purchasing of prostitution services while decriminalizing (but still not legalizing) their sale. Its basically the compromise and leave everyone unhappy approach.

The main issue the the gp was alluding to is that because prostitution is still illegal prostitutes can't get any help from the government as they still face fines. Which for the very poor are only slightly better than criminal penalties.

Also since prostitution is illegal there can't be any government oversight or regulation of the prostitution industry which is a primary benefit touted by legalization proponents.
Haven’t you answered your own question?
The road to current wealth inequality has been paved by encouraging USD savings. Inflation is an infectious disease to society’s moral fabric. The real virus, if you will.
If you unintentionally buy stolen property, should you be obligated to return it to the original owner (with adequate proof of such) when requested? If you are forced to return it, are you being held responsible for your heritage?
> Enabling 2FA is an acknowledgement that you expect to be responsible for maintaining access to your second factor.

On the other hand, articles all over the place increasingly recommend it to everyone.
I’m not going to say whether this is good or bad for security, but it did save me a few years ago when I accidentally dropped my phone and broke it.
It's unfunny and inaccurate for you; other people might have a different opinion.
Or by using a U2F device, which is designed to prevent spoofing.
You mean, did the thing they were assumed to be have value all that time? Yes. But then it was discovered that they were not that thing.
The conversion rate isn't the biggest problem. The big problem is their launch got so little momentum/ uptake to begin with and their platform has no presence. In spite of their high dollar Super Bowl commercial, nobody outside tech seems to know what they are or why they would subscribe to them.

Having an unknown service is bad enough, but they have no base to grow from. Disney+ is Disney. Apple TV+ has Apple behind them and is able to offer a free year with every iPhone. HBO, CBS, MLB, and even Hulu have big, well known brands with known content. Everyone in streaming started with a base or with at least free content.

It's not the 8% that's the issue here, it's the fact that they have fewer than a hundred thousand users and no momentum.
>it seems Pulsar needs to be an order of magnitude more performant to capture developer mindshare.

Just to add to this, ease of use/setup is also a huge factor. There are technologies I can just spin up with zero knowledge and learn as I go. These are huge factors in adoption especially with Golang and nodejs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
Sounds like you have it backwards. They use other people's apps to test whether their changes break Facebook.
No, but finding where are you unsubscribe an iOS is not the most intuitive thing.

Luckily they send those emails to you that remind you that you’re about to start getting charged.
Can someone
No, that is the training agent implemented as an instance of quicksort. I don't know why the OP reports that it's "a few percent faster than quicksort" because I can't find where that is claimed in the paper.

In fact, as far as I understand it the paper claims that the learned model (i.e. the student agent) has learned to reproduce the behaviour of this teacher agent after training for a smaller number of steps on average than what the teacher needs to sort a list. That is what the entire claim about superior efficiency rests on (there is no example of a learned model and no asymptotic analysis of the program such a model represents).
> Physicists already understand quantum mechanics.

No, they don't in fact. Most of them even admit that they don't understand it at all, yet it works for them so far, except when it comes to the precise origin of gravity. Some say that the reason why quantum mechanics and gravity couldn't be reconciled until today, because nobody on earth truly knows how exactly quantum mechanics works yet.
The fluffy soft skills thing - sometimes we're just trying to get past the ATS. If those words are in the job description, they're gonna have to be shoehorned in somewhere if the company uses one of those god awful ATS suites
There's lots of things that aren't illegal, that you should nonetheless should not do or promote, if you are a decent human being.
Most of that is on me, I haven't given it the love it deserves, but I'm currently rewriting it and will be modernizing it, making it responsive, and adding new features.
Was this article run through Google Translate? It's horribly written.
A good interface should not need to be learned. Everyday new people are born that have never used a bad interface before. There is no justification for keeping bad interfaces around just because you can learn them.

Interfaces that are hard to learn are also hard to recall. These lead to mistakes.
> why don't people just bother to read the source code and contribute the feature they want?

It is a bit far fetched to expect non programmer users to read the source code, much less contribute the feature (i.e. from requirements gathering to feasibility analysis, to design, implementation, testing, and release) isn't it?

That is the kind of work that only a compensated team would do, especially and something as complex as an office productivity suite. In other nonprofit areas, your organizations doing work rely on charitable contributions from donors who share the same interests. Until such a time that such donors exist, it's hard to see how the development model is funded.

> A substantial amount of software developers struggle w/ interpersonal communication skills, and so often what may have been intended as a polite feature suggestion came across as entitlement

They might have interpersonal issues, but it seems like the deeper issue here is more with the incentive model, not with the developers' personality traits.
Yeah, I lost my phone for the first time last year, and was very very glad for this default, because I was able to remove 2FA on my now lost phone from my computer that remained logged into google services, and log into google on the replacement phone, and reset 2FA to that new device.
I'll just disagree because I think your statement is highly inaccurate.

Regarding who gets on the ballot - yes there are a special interests that fund their candidate. We generally get whomever has a larger budget, not who the best candidate might be. Special interests also drive the ballot measures too.

> In the US the parties don't really exist, there are just people.

This makes no sense. Just recently (2016) the Dems showed clear bias against Bernie in the leaks. The Chair resigned. The party always has a platform, a brand, an agenda and big budgets. Also third parties have almost zero shot because the 2 major parties conspire to keep them out. It's not just "people". The Ds have their consistent supporters and the Rs have theirs. That includes corporations, special interest groups and more.

You have non-citizens driving these politicians. Big donors, some unions (like police), special interest groups. Health care, gun lobbyists, etc.

"Analyst James A. Thurber estimated that the actual number of working lobbyists was close to 100,000 and that the industry brings in $9 billion annually.[6] Wall Street spent a record $2 billion trying to influence the 2016 United States presidential election." [1]

"Who got special deals in the stimulus and why they got them. In the $2 trillion package, senators took care of their home state industries and pet projects." [2]

Casinos and airlines, among others, flexed their clout in that stimulus.

From the homepage today: "AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B" [4]

Even more damning:

"We looked for legislation that was written by special interests. We found it in all 50 states. When legislators propose new laws, they don’t always write the bills themselves. Corporations, interest groups or their lobbyists often write fill-in-the-blank documents then shop them to state lawmakers."

"These copy-and-paste bills are commonly known as model legislation. More than 2,100 of these bills have been signed into law in the last eight years." [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/26/stimulus-coronaviru...

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/asbestos-sharia-...

[4] https://apnews.com/dab8261c68c93f24c0bfc1876518b3f6
Perhaps I can, but can twitter?
even assuming the preprint is near accurate (which I do not) the numbers were based on infection fatality rate, defined in the preprint as probability of death if infected, not overall.

The overall odds that you have died from corvid-19 this season so far in the US are 1 in 2433 (based on 411 deaths per Million population at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ ).

Often the "not horrible odds" argument is made by someone being dismissive of folks who are following health orders -- I still look both ways if I cross the street.
What's NBC? I think that's something my grandmother used to talk about sometimes.

I'm being semi-facetious here. I think "legacy media", particularly network broadcasters, are coasting off brand recognition earned in a bygone era that younger generations never experienced and never will. That's obviously not sustainable in the long run.
>almost noone believes in absolutist freedom of speech when it comes to directed harrassment

Not a true statement at all. 30 seconds over at r/the_donald (yes, I'm aware it's gone) makes it pretty clear there's a large swath of trolls that believe directed harassment and racism is perfectly acceptable.

>It's not a monarchy if someone has the freedom to speak, that doesn't make them a king just a citizen.

Forcing society to accept your speech is absolutely a monarchy, sorry. Your right to speech stops at my front door, up to and including terminating your employment at my company. Why is it the racists always devolve to high-school level semantics and claim freedom of speech means they're free from any consequences for their speech?
There's more than 1 free online multiplayer, and RTCW had keys and anti-cheat when it became free for better or worse.

I think you're conflating issues, if you give allow the community to run servers, you don't have on-going costs for multi-player (besides the discovery service, but you can make that free too).
I'm finding it harder and harder to even read C++. On the one hand I haven't used it in some years, but on the other hand it seems to be getting a lot more complex.
Really? how exactly would people go to hospital if they are already overwhelmed& Like, have their cancer surgery in hospital cafeteria?
Oh, it's clearly bad for security! Lots of things that are bad for security. For the best security, Google would require all users to sign in with dedicated hardware authentication tokens every time, and also present themselves for in-person interviews in Mountain View where Google employees would personally confirm each user's identity before letting them log in. That would be really good security!

It would also be really bad for usability. Just like it would be bad for usability if you lost access to your Google account forever because you broke your phone.
Insane. Good to know what made my Spotify app crash upon startup though.
The fix is not to demand everybody to trash their boots.
That leads to what's "underemployment", and to people working multiple side income jobs as their sole source of income with benefits from none of them.

It's already present at 30 hours a week/130 hours a month in the US.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the market for side income jobs is closed, it just closes those jobs and businesses which are nonviable if they're required to pay their employees a reasonable wage.
>Freedom of speech as used idiomatically in speech generally means a certain level of freedom of reprisals from employers and society.

"a certain level" implies the existence of an acceptable level of consequence, unless by that you mean "absolute." If so, why not simply state that?

>Directed racial slurs is a straw man, almost noone believes in absolutist freedom of speech when it comes to directed harrassment, they normally believe in freedom to discuss topics in the abstract.

You're just moving the goalposts around the definition of "speech" so that it conveniently doesn't include the contradictions to your premise. Racial slurs and directed harassment are obviously speech. If you believe there should be consequences for that, then you believe freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Creating Brand Guidelines to Improve Your Company's Identity
How about you read the actual JAMA paper, and stop spreading your uninformed wishful thinking.
>>I always wonder why repl driven development is not as popular as it (in my opinion) deserves to be?

It's not mainstream, so one knows how to. Basically somebody needs to show people how repl driven development works, and will be useful.

May be YouTube tutorials or gifs as to how to do this.
Eric Norman at PurelyFunctional.tv has the best video courses on Clojure that I've seen. I found it super helpful to pick up techniques on how to get things done. Some of clojure's concepts feel debilitating at first (immutable data structures and pure functions), so watching a seasoned programmer/trainer at the REPL building is necessary. He also goes through setting up Emacs and other environments, along with using Reagent (React for Clojurescript), etc.
>This would seem security 101, but apparently in order to make it easier for users, and to avoid them having to type their 2FA token in frequently, it is sufficent to have logged in recently to a machine to satisfy to Google that you can make security level changes, if you know the password. In other words, it's 2FA, unless you're logged on, in which case it's 1FA.

The author is wrong. It is still 2 Factor. The two factors are the password (something you know) and something you have (the session token on the machine).

If your logged-in machine is compromised as was the case here, you are already in a world of hurt. Your bookmarks are visible. You could likely get the passwords by going to a bookmark site, allowing the password manager to autofill, and looking at the password fields using the browser developer tools.

There are security vs ease of use tradeoffs. Making everything harder by assuming that even a trusted machine is compromised would result in much more of a painful user experience and would lead people to abandon password managers and 2 Factor. See for example UAC and Windows Vista.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23714875
It's not necessarily a choice of "Pinboard" vs. "Microsoft" vs. "create your own bookmarking website."

For me, it's "Pinboard" vs. "text file". At $11/year, I would choose Pinboard any time. I've been a subscriber for years and I don't expect anything for free. But at $22/year, I'll go with the text file.
Of course there's an issue with change. That's the whole point. If you were a pro Emacs/Vi user that used shortcuts to do pretty much everything and it made you fast and productive, what do you think would happen if suddenly you had to use new shortcuts for all the ones you had already commited to memory?
This made me think of early civilizations that always sprouted on river valleys. Indus Valley, Nile valley, Danube, Yangtze ..when nomads became pastoralists and then agriculturalists, they must have relied upon water that came down from glaciers or flowed across other lands. River bed silt always has the best soil minerals for growing.

The river bed is full of minerals that it had carried with it..perhaps flowing over different rocks, it brings some with it? Contrast that today..where we have a 45 billion dollar Ag industry in California ..legit Desert.
Looks promising. Are you active on Reddit? Because the screenshots looked familiar, and I think I've seen screenshots of your app posted there before.

Good points about software metrics. I'm not a big believer in them, either. I think the most useful metric I've ever needed or been able to use was in one case where I needed to see a developer's contribution activity. Looking at a specific developer, aggregated across a Github organization, it was clear they were just not doing much work!

Hoping you'll post a "Show HN" when you release.
And who shall be the judge of what is right and what is wrong? An internet mob? If an unknown woman issues a public twitter statement that she's been abused, is it OK to get the alleged offender cancelled before a court trial? What if they are innocent? How do you un-cancel somebody?

You don't. That's why the cancel culture is ridiculous and needs to end.
America is finally coming around to Starship Troopers
This is totally QED, including the fact that this is the topmost comment now, and the article has been flagged.
Thanks for reassuring these message board Aristotles that my business is solvent!

A couple of data points to help you calculate:

* active users is not the same as paying users, it's people who did something in the last month

* costs in 2020 will be something like $17,000 for hosting plus $8,000 for hardware and a few thousand bucks in travel/hotel costs to the colo. So say $30K.

* the reason hardware costs are high in 2020 is... massive expansion, so maybe people in this thread are missing something
Then why isn't this the policy across all territories? Weaseling out sounds correct if they are only doing it to get around local laws.
It doesn't matter if being offended is a protected class. Offending someone isn't. And I. Our society we give individuals and groups broad powers to associate with only the people they choose to.

You can offend whomever you want, your right is protected! But if people don't like you, they're under no obligation to deal with you.
This is definitely a position that is easier to hold in a position of privilege/popularity.

Shaming has rather drastic negative consequences, especially in communities that shame intelligence, education, gender, race, neurotype, etc.
Presumably because companies will be much less willing to hire on contractors because of the extra costs for benefits etc.
Well, no, because we see what happens when we try and go over the crossover point here in Austin. COVID-19 rates go up, hospitals become overwhelmed again and then people avoid hospitals or the people that need to go can't.

Which then means you have to go into lockdown again while people yell at you for going into lockdown not understanding that the alternative was made nonviable due to them not taking basic precautions.
> If something gets defined as hate speech, it's not a private matter, it's a criminal matter.

Wait, what? Hate speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. Nobody's being criminally prosecuted for being anti-trans.

> A somewhat recent example for that was the introduction of FB's anti-hate-speech rules that suddenly outlawed "men are trash", much to the outrage of those who asked for the rules.

Which is not a criminal matter, it's a private community deciding who they want to allow into their own space. Facebook is doing exactly what you want below:

> I'd love it if they were honest about it and said "I don't want to see that opinion, you must leave"

The reason they're saying that is because the anti-trans arguments are generally pretty poorly thought out and unhelpful, but it doesn't really matter why they're saying it. They have the right to say it.

Legally, 1st Amendment protections today are extremely strong, arguably stronger than they have ever been. Culturally, people want control over their own communities and they want the freedom to choose who they associate with. I think that's completely consistent with free speech.

Again, if you think that Facebook is too big and it's a defacto public square, then the solution is to break Facebook up and remove regulations around content scraping and adversarial interoperability that get in the way of competition.

You can't protect free speech by telling people who they are and aren't allowed to criticize and associate with. It's cutting off your own nose to spite your face. I'm not old, but I'm old enough to remember when free speech advocates were against the Fairness Doctrine. What happened to those people?
Most people never get to experience developing in lisp family languages and just miss out on the whole REPL experience.

They have to write reams of unit testing code , mocking and faking the world just to see some code executed.
You might want to look into “automated speed enforcement.” AFAICT, it’s primarily used in construction or school zones right now.
I'm an emacs user. You have made me feel warm inside.
While it's a good time to borrow, you still need accessible cash saved up for an emergency no matter what.
The government does these sorts of things to people all the time without falling foul of the first amendment. They can't take away your right to say something but they absolutely do limit where you can say them. Trump has fired tons of people for saying stuff he doesn't like. Democratic adminstrations have too.
Yes, many times this. The gig economy right now is just a ruse to circumvent labor laws in many countries, incredible bad how it took this long for countries to regulate this.
> Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into?

Are you talking about opinion pieces? Because, if something is well-cited objective+factual content that doesn't bother to express any opinions, I wouldn't care about (or even look for) authorship.
Okay, the government could say if landlords increase their rent, then we'll increase their property tax by 5-10x the amount. If they want to play that game, we'll do the same, but much worse. Let's see what they do then.
For those who don't remember, here's what happened last time:
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/rackspace-ipo-starts-ou...

Wish them luck this time!