skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't do instagram. I perused his twitter and didn't see anything alarming.

Again, calling out white people on their shit is not racist. Show me posts where he's issuing judgments of people solely on their skin color.
If there is one thing I would suggest for all large open source projects, it's separating the functionality, data model etc. from UI as much as possible.

It should be possible to have two separate open source projects. One is just extensive framework library with good API and the another is user interface. This would allow multiple separate UI's, web interface, command line, mobile, tablet, etc.
> This was my primary concern: what's the p99 duration of the Lambda function execution.

Bundling the dependencies would very likely solve the init issue, but I wonder if it would help with the execution of the lambda function?

That seems to be what the author is mainly concerned with.
We all can get caught up in to some degree. Some of the change is great, but the snowballing effect of social media leads to some mistakes that get easily out of hand. Education hasn't been able to adapt fast enough to technology and has left people unprepared for this sort of thing. It's not that it's a driving issue but it hasn't been of help when ideally it would have.
I think you're making a false dichotomy. You can avoid ostracising and deplatforming people without welcoming and broadcasting them.
You have correctly pointed out a few scenarios where Cleese's "control their own emotions" argument would not be valid. Are you also able to think of any scenarios where his point would be valid, or do you believe that in all instances of human behavior on the planet across time, emotional reactions are accurate, and the subsequent actions taken justified? "I do not" implies you do not, but I feel I may be misinterpreting that phrase.
What do you mean? They should be judged on whether or not they have something that they should not necessarily be judged for NOT having? That doesn't make any sense. But yes I'm in favor of take home challenges as well. I know a lot of people hate them but it's the best way to get an idea of how someone will work under normal constraints (i.e. not during a timed hackerrank exercise).
Related: I just watched "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" starring Melissa McCarthy which was entertaining and informative: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4595882/
No abort here, the crash is coming from the runtime, which you’re not opting out of if you want your app to work.
It goes to his definition of "political correctness." It seems that what he feels needs to be culturally protected is his right to make unfunny, inaccurate claims about the nature of London without criticism. While (to my knowledge) nobody says he shouldn't have the right to make such claims, the notion that he's heading towards an "Orwellian nightmare" because people have less tolerance for such inaccurate and unfunny claims and will call him to task for such nonsense is a bit silly.
The problem with means testing is that you eventually have to draw a line and some people who "deserve" help don't get it. I'd rather pour water on every house than accidentally let a few burn down, especially since theres plenty of water for everybody. Nobody questions printing a few 100 billion dollars for the military or a wall street bailout, but when it comes to protecting citizens suddenly we have a country full of accountants.

Do you feel the same about other social services? Should the library only lend books to people under a certain income? Maybe if people make over 20k we can charge them to use the playground
Living Clojure is my favourite learning book on Clojure

Also I recommend making friends with someone who can show you their structural editing and REPL setup, preferably more than one friend because it's like trying on clothes
And by and large people learn the bare minimum needed in order to do those things. Certainly most of us have a pretty vague notion of what all exactly happens behind the scenes when we dial a phone. If the call doesn't go through as planned we might have some idea that the cell reception is bad or something like that. But we're probably not in a position to debug what's wrong in any significant way.
Wimbledon and the Art of Risk Management
I use Pinboard in combination with a Raspberry Pi (running Calibre + Mozilla Readability) as my Read Later service. Once per day the Raspberry Pi fetches unread bookmarks from Pinboard and compiles an eBook that is then sent wirelessly to my Kindle. This has replaced Instapaper/Pocket for me. Thanks to Mozilla Readability the text/image extraction works in most cases better than other Read Later services + I like having all my bookmarks in one place (and one service less to pay money for!). I've written a blog post about it and open-sourced all my work: https://christianhans.info/12791/running-your-own-read-later...
The goal is to ensure people have a minimum. Taxing money back is perfectly fine if you need to. People can move to less expensive areas which the UBI facilitates. This makes expensive areas less expensive as well.

In terms of how much to give, the idea is to eliminate poverty. Children should not grow up hungry and fearful nor in shame of their parents. That is the fundamental goal. Our current welfare programs do not address this (see Tyranny of Kindness from 1993 for an in-depth personal account of the system then -- it has not improved though it has changed).

So go with the poverty threshhold numbers and see how it goes. I think $1000 a month sounds perfectly reasonable.

Also, various programs are income related and so without changing them at all, they can become less needed.

As for healthcare, while I am dubious about government run healthcare, from what I've read, the government pays for over half of the healthcare costs in this country already. The US also spends twice as much in terms of GDP on healthcare as most other countries. So if we were to reduce the healthcare costs to the level of other countries, then our government could cover universal healthcare without paying more for that. And since premiums would disappear, it could even tax a lot more without changing the ultimate take home pay after taxes + premiums.

In theory, that is how it could go. I don't believe it would turn out well, but that's because I don't believe the government would handle healthcare well. It is not because of the cost of it. And given our current system, I could probably be persuaded to try it.
The other comment did a great job of explaining HL:A specifically, but I'll answer a few other parts of your comment.

> Do you find HL:A to be a good Half-Life game first and foremost

Absolutely, it's raw HL. The game itself is in the 12 hour range, which is very much in the HL1/HL2 range. It does feel a bit shorter (narratively), but it still is full of content switching between puzzles, combat and story telling.

> Do you feel it has the top-notch environmental storytelling and attention to detail that the series is known for?

Absolutely. It is a bit different, since this is a VR game, but if anything I would say it's even stronger here. The focus is different to fit the controls, but there are truly "WOW" moments. I still remember having my mind blown in HL2 when the huge tower falls as you ride the boat. This game similarly amazes, but in an even more immersive way.

> The last time I tried VR was with the Oculus Rift in 2016, and it felt underwhelming to me

As someone who has had the original Oculus prototype, then the HTC Vive, then the Valve Index. I will say that each iteration made an order of magnitude difference in almost every metric: immersion, comfort, motion sickness, etc. With the latest setup, I would easily spend 3-4 hours straight in Alyx, until the point where my legs started hurting (before my face/stomach, which was the case before).

> I regard as perfect

Unfortunately, I think this is why it ultimately took them so long. It was truly hard to follow up all those great games, and they wanted something they could really be happy with. HL:A does mostly deliver that, though partly sidestep the issue by switching to a different medium, where the standards of a perfect game have not yet been created.

At the end of the day, it does very much feel like a HL game, to a veteran who has played their games over and over.
I agree with everything you're saying about the value of reduced/smoothed out latencies and I suspect the parent agrees with that as well, but the parent was mostly teasing about the choice of "business insights" in lieu of all you've mentioned.
My company is blocking your site as a gambling site! Isn’t that a big red-flag?
From a past update:

"I launched the site in July 9, 2009 from a small kitchen in Botoșani, Romania."

https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

I suspect that's the kitchen :)
My own kitchen table during this confinement period isn't too dissimilar...
Governments taking the role of parents.
Please, calm down, and keep the personal insults in check.

I have eaten food that was not cooked in my home no more than six times since February. All but one of those times were takeout. I'm well aware of how both kitchens and takeout work. I'm very privileged in that sense.

However, I was practicing empathy. Many people do not have the options I do, and I'm not sure mockery is the best way to think about them.

You mentioned both delivery and ride hailing in your initial comment, so I made the starting assumption that you were talking about someone who doesn't have a car. If you don't live within walking distance of a restaurant offering takeout, and you don't have a car, how do you get takeout?

In the suburbs where more than half of Americans live, access to restaurants within walking distance isn't ubiquitous. Many restaurants in my state remain closed, including in my case, both of the restaurants within walking distance.

So, much of America cannot eat out, and some percentage don't have cars or can't drive due to injury or fear of the pandemic. That leaves cooking at home, yes, from groceries they've had delivered or taken public transit (quite the disease vector) or via ride hailing. And it leaves food delivery.

GrubHub reported 22.6 million "active diners" in Q4 2019. That's a small number compared to everybody in America who eats, but it's not a tiny number. And GrubHub isn't the only food delivery company.

My bottom line is that it may be easy for you or I to avoid food delivery or ride hailing services, but that is simply not true for everyone, and it's not even a value shared by everyone.

If you want food delivery, and many people clearly do, it can be very hard to avoid GrubHub and Doordash due to their slimy and unethical practices. If you don't want food delivery, then clearly this issue has nothing whatsoever to do with you.
Too much attachment to UNIX CLI programming models by some developers.

Here is a nice example of REPL driven development with Smalltalk.

https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minute...
Bright engineers sometimes do some very stupid, arrogant things.
> Calling them coronavirus deaths and then turning around and using the size of that number as an reason to continue lockdown would be foolhardy at best.

Sure, but I don't think anybody serious is doing that. Obviously people are considering things like this in their models.

But the total number of coronavirus deaths is still useful when trying to measure the effect of a failure to contain the virus. So for example when you want to compare countries/states that locked down early and effectively to countries/states that waited too long, saw a massive spike in deaths and then had to lock down even harder. In that case you don't really care what caused the deaths, you just care about the fact that it appears that you could have avoided them with better policy.
Great job! Just bought it too. At $1.99 it's a steal considering how much I am on HN on a hourly basis. :-)

I've been using the "Hacker News (YC)" app on iOS written by Dharmesh Patel, and it works good, but it hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and unfortunately it has occasional display formatting issues on the iPhone 11 Max Pro.
Voice: Twitter for EOS, with a Real Names policy and KYC to get an account
I'll copypaste my comment that I've left at the HN discussion of that blogpost, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23333853:

This is a PEBKAC, not a problem with REPL-driven development. He had all the test bodies written as input in the REPL, he had all the test results printed as output in the REPL. Why didn't he turn these into unit tests as he programmed?

That's a simple lack of foresight on the programmer's side that is then blamed on the tools that were used.
Do you get a lot of value from them?
Can we have Go support for Lambda@Edge please? :)
Doubtlessly the programmers who work on those products use computers with dozens of gigabytes of ram and half a dozen cores or more. They're out of touch with the sort of computers a TON of casual computer owners are using daily.
Even though this is still an ongoing legal battle, laws in each country are very different and might cause Uber business to be viable in some and not others. In Brazil labour laws are extreemly harsh and many say an employee costs between 50% and 150% more as compared to employment costs in other countries[1].

Also the social impact is different in different countries. Brazil is the only developing country in the list above. I live in São Paulo, and I can say before Uber, taxi cabs were a thing for rich people. Uber and it's competitors drove costs so low, poor people can now aford rides. I didn't find Sao Paulo stats, but in Rio, app drivers are 3x the number of cab drivers[2].

Uber estimates 1.9mi users might not be able to afford anymore if the law passes, amongst many other claims [3].

[1]: I won't pick specific sources, search 'custo brazil' if you are interested
[2]: https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/pesquisa-mostra-que-aplicativos...
[3]: https://www.uol.com.br/tilt/noticias/redacao/2020/03/09/nova...
I have not done much research, but I believe Mullvad allows you to pay for a VPN anonymously using cash.
Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech. What planet do you live on that you think everyone else should have to both listen to what you say, and then not "punish" you for it? If you tell your wife she looks fat, she's probably not having sex with you that evening. If you call someone a racial slur, they're probably both going to tell everyone they know about what you said, and refuse to interact with you unless forced to.

What you're talking about isn't freedom of speech, it's freedom FROM responsibility. I don't think you're going to find very many people that want to sign up for: HNThrowaway262 can do whatever he wants and you just have to take it. That's a dictatorship or a monarchy, you might want to live in that society but I don't.

Your words and actions have consequences and SHOULD.
Tons and tons of people support youtubers with donations or on patron, which is in effect paying for content. I recognize the difference but I don’t think you can really make your claim so confidently.
Not that I'm an expert but I guess he was doing it the wrong way. I just use (comment...) blocks to preserve what I entered into the repl. These blocks are also easily turned into test cases. It feels kinda similar to tdd.
You’re focused just on those looking to circumvent these blocks knowingly. Where there’s a will, there is a way, no doubt. I recently had an elementary-grade child stumble upon pornhub through a google search. I am ultimately responsible for this, and we now have more than one content filtering service in place, including one we pay for.

I don’t think it is too much to ask to have those who want to view this content to be the ones who have to jump through hoops.

I’m not that old, and the ease of access to adult content is much greater than when I was my childrens’ ages. The fact that it is so easy now and that technology is so ingrained in their everyday lives makes it that much more important to creat safe spaces for them.
If you assume some kind of error correction the question stops being “would it work” and instead becomes “how slow/fast would it be”
AFAIK this is still a no no for transonic wings at Airbus and Boeing. I am interested in knowing what they are using as well.
No this is just a mis-categorization of our site. We are not a gambling site.

We've been trying to fix this issue. I think because of some of the language on our site ("win prizes" etc.) we have been improperly categorized as a gambling site by automated scrapers, and some corporate internet providers block gambling sites. That's all that is.
Which Country went to early lockdown and had hospitals overrun? Like, none at all, the countries with overrun hospitals were locking down when situations was already almost there.
Not to counter the main argument but CPU loves it some predictable patterns as well.

pattern like the one below will execute up to 10 times faster if array is sorted due to data locality and branch prediction

sum: float
a: float array[some_huge_number]
fill_array(a, random(1))

for f in a
if a[i]>0.5
sum=sum+f
Block you from where?
Crucially we can show it's there by examining how it affects the light from bright background sources passing through it: there is a spectral shift without the imposition of new emission or absorption lines, and there is Einstein lensing [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens ]. We can see this in the large by observing the http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/Lyman-alpha-forest.html on lines of sight through and near galaxy clusters. For example, [presentation abstract] https://depts.washington.edu/astron/event/tba-liang-dai/ [related paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03149v2 ] or https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07870

The tl;dr is that distant light sources (distance obtained by among other things comparing the angular diameter and brightness on the sky of spiral galaxies containing common bright sources within them such as supernovae or molecular clouds lit by quasars) are redshifted in a way that is very hard to explain without an accelerating expansion of space (which in the equations of the Standard Cosmology we represent as dark energy), and are lensed by luminous galaxy clusters in such a way that is very hard to explain without mass that doesn't emit or absorb light.

"Hard to explain" because (just as one example) the Lyman-alpha line and its relativistic behaviour is extremely well studied in controlled laboratory conditions in various places in our solar system (notably sensitive experiments carried in various spacecraft probing other bodies in our solar system). In a number of spacecraft, Lyman-alpha photometry testing is used to determine the Hydrogen-Deuterium ratio of planetary atmospheres, since cells of those two gasses form practically ideal narrow-band rejection filters, and over time a mixture of cells reveals the atomic ratio of those isotopes in the atmosphere. People who observe Mars have used this technique to study the rate at which Mars is outgassing water vapour, in particular. As it is useful to planetary scientists to look through varying depths of a given planetary atmosphere backlit by distant luminous objects, in practice the cosmological Lyman-alpha forest can be sampled by orbiting Ly-a photometers "for free". You can't really reject the resulting Ly-a data without also rejecting the Deuterium/Hydrogen ratio obtained from probes on the surface of Mars, which happen to match. And the data typically also encodes other spectral lines principally from the intergalactic medium, and those lines are similarly redshifted and amplified by relativistic -- including general relativistic -- effects. Both dark matter and dark energy induce matching general relativistic effects, and nobody has figured out how to produce the same spectral features without including dark matter and dark energy.
> If ... your VPN subscription is completely isolated from your true identity

One way to do this is to get a Mullvad subscription, and to pay for it with bitcoin.

They don't even require an email address.
> but they were fully committed (apparently having done ANY user testing)

It is a little hard to parse what you mean, but Microsoft did a quite substantial amount of research leading up to the ribbon. A quick search on the net will lead you to summaries of it.
How to Live a More Compassionate Life
No disagreement there. I shared the link to give context.
Rackspace Technology files IPO; to list under the ticker 'RXT' on Nasdaq
I knew his article would get misconstrued this way to clarify he almost certainly will be using a REPL in Clojure (even running tests happens through a REPL in Clojure) but I think what he's trying to convey there is that he's not designing in the REPL but rather with TTD

Which honestly is fine but most people reading the article won't be in a REPL based language like smalltalk or lisp so will just understand REPL bad TTD good
Apple is diluting their brand with this nonsense.
Morning show, For All Mankind and Beasties Story are worth the time IMO.
I believe it sheds light on Cleese's definition of both political correctness and intolerance of un-PC attitudes.
▶ To get enough job seekers looking for a specific job in a specific location with a specific skillset with a specific number of years of experience (companies are very specific with what they're looking for) requires a large number of job seekers on your platform.

While this is true if you want to build lots of these niches at once, I'm not sure if it holds for a specific niche. Rather than trying to fill a giant general-purpose funnel, you may find it easier focusing on a tighter niche to begin with.

For example: ML recruiting for data scientists in the Bay Area with 3+ years of experience

You can find them on LinkedIn
> there are "probably some mechanisms to speed this up".

Why would they publish before looking into this first? At best it's incomplete, at worst it's misinforming readers.
The fact that so many popular apps have to pull in a full-blown SDK from Facebook to get support for even a subset of its functionality is insane to me, too. That 'log in with Facebook' button on your app comes with an entire suite of stuff that Facebook can use to slurp up any data it wants.
You can’t argue consumer surplus as a benefit (“Everyone gets Uber now!” Versus taxis for just the rich) if you’re avoiding employment costs. Taxis were for rich people because they could afford the fully loaded costs.

If the financial model is unsustainable because of employment law and the costs required by the law, the business is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable.
Maybe don't include the Facebook SDK (Facebook Spyware Development Kit) in your tier-1 app?
Fuel costs accounted for 23.7% of airline operating expenses in 2019 [1], I think that's more than a minor part - especially if you triple it.

1: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/ebdba50e57194019930d72722...
> Consistency is worth so much more than fad-chasing.

Consider consistency across applications though. People like conformity.