skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything I've seen so far points in one direction. I don't have a crystal ball, the future is unknowable, but I wouldn't be surprised if that pattern continues.

AI is kinda like a fake plant. They look pretty good, almost identical to the real thing, until you start feeling the leaves, looking for roots, you know, deeper inspection. Then you see it's all just plastic.

It's practical, useful, and makes life easier, great. It'll replace a lot of jobs, indeed. But in the same way you won't be able to harvest from a fake plant, there's no real insights in any of this generated material.

The fake plants of ai could unexpectedly start to grow fruit, sure. I wouldn't place any bets on it though.
Fails in what sense? Effective in what sense?

The most recent election went from a hung parliament in coalition to delivering a huge majority to the new leader. The two party system had failed, but it fixed itself.

Also the UK isn't actually a two party system. There's the Conservatives and Labour, but also the SNP which is important, and the Lib Dems who used to be more important than they are now, and of course UKIP/Brexit Party who never won seats but proved highly effective at getting their desired political outcome by posing a credible threat as a third party.
What is the war you talk about? I was always interested in cool technology, not war. Often, the military had cool technology. I remember reading a book, how things work and it explained lots of things to me, like how airplanes fly, so I wanted to look up the fastest one and the blackbird was really cool. I love machines and used to take apart clocks to (try to) fix them too. I wasn't interested in guns despite them being in every military game, they just exploded a bullet from a shell in various ways.

Some things had a horrible magnificence like when the US bombed Los Alamo's US soldiers and the men in a documentary talked about how beautiful it was, or the terrifying effect of white phosphorus.

After writing this, I think I liked the idea of the power and leanness of the military ( wanted their gear because milspec means hardy), but also thought they had the coolest toys to play with.
Didn't google remove "do no evil" after they started investing in killer robots?
You’re absolutely right. I’d go. Coffee shop as event places would be great to have. On a general note, I feel retail space usage has not been reinvented frequently. Apple being a big exception.
I'll add that someone who might be (self-)destructively bipolar in one environment, might be able to 'manage' in another, even without medication.

I've had multiple friends with diagnosed bipolar disorder, and harrowing and heartbreaking stories of how this affected their lives well into their twenties or even early thirties.

All of them have found ways to 'manage' their condition, without medication, through a combination of lifestyle changes, (odd) environments, and, perhaps most importantly, a group of friends who can deal with it or provide support in various ways. Some of them have been on medication for periods, and much prefer their current, imperfect situation.

By no means would I advocate avoiding medication, and I'm absolutely not saying that this can work for everyone. I'm also not arguing that their lives are just peachy now. It's a serious disorder.

And I do agree that people making statements like "we're all a little bipolar/autistic/borderline/etc." are often not helping and often actively harming those who are any of that more than 'a little'.

I've been diagnosed with autism and it's maddening how often, when I open up about it, people will say stuff like "well isn't that 'just' <x>" or "everyone has that". At this point I usually don't even bother trying to explain that there's a difference between, say, being punctual and curmudgeonly about it, and having a borderline-meltdown when plans change.
> Your online education product can be 10X better than a college course. It can costs 10X less.

Or 1,000x less in cost is probably more accurate.

I don't know what the current rates are (I never went to college) but Google says it's about $50,000 to get a CS degree if you live in the US.

But an online course might be $50 or $100.

I've had lots of folks who took my build a SAAS App with Flask course say they learned more about web development in my 10 hour course than their 4 year degree. Of course you learn different things during a CS degree, but it's interesting at how big of a gap there is in time vs money. 4 years and $50k vs a few days or weeks and $50.
The difference is that desktops get updates, while on Android is more of wishful thinking targeting latest versions, unless one just targets Pixel and Samsung flagship devices.

Win32 sandboxing is orthogonal to the store.

UWP is not about the store, people keep mixing this up, as it unfortunely refers to multiple things across the Windows stack.

UWP is also known as WinRT, UAP, or just modern COM. And sandboxing UWP applications doesn't necessarly require delivery via the store. Any MSIX package will do.

What Microsoft is now doing (officially as of Reunion) is detaching all this tech from the kernel and have them as userspace APIs, across multiple Windows versions, and merging the UWP and Win32 stacks into one, hence Project Reunion.

Sandboxed Win32 applications don't need to be store only.
Ok but that doesn't change GP's point. Just substitute land for house in their post.
That's a very good point, especially in view of https://bitfieldconsulting.com/blog/container-security

I'll make that change, thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah cmake is pretty crappy, and it's a shame that nothing better popped up in the last, say, 20 years.

However, to be fair cmake's main problem is it's appalingly poor documentation and user experience. It's very telling that since the release of cmake 3 the main source of info on how to do cmake the right way is not anythig churned out by cmake, whose docs are pretty much unintelligible, but random blog posts that manage to put together basic idiomatic code snippets.

This poor state of affairs is reflected in collaborative sources of info such as stack overflow, where well-meaning users reiterate poor or straight-out wrong ways of doing things mainly because they don't and can't know better.
Why is it ridiculous to you that people want and need both shelter and access to a way of sustaining themselves?
The comparison between a Porsche (essentially a status symbol that you buy so that people around you see that you have money - given traffic regulations it isn't really a way of making your daily commute shorter) and housing (which is a necessity) shows that you don't have a good grip on reality. And you don't want all bus drivers, garbage men, supermarket cashiers etc. to move to Texas and bring your garbage to the landfill by yourself.
The new kind can be more targeted for specific purposes. They could be excellent tools for trolling a forum, inciting flame wars and such.
The incident was investigated in detail, with several journals, testimony in court of ten mutineers (of whom only three were hung), as well as the captain's own logs, and more. Much of it is fascinating reading. Bligh's own post-mutiny voyage was nothing short of heroic and he was hailed upon his return.

The interesting human study, I think, is the image of Bligh as the earnest, "enlightened captain," but a failure at that: paternalistic, overbearing, out of touch, naïve about the motives and feelings of those serving under him, prone to causing jealousy and resentment, dangerously mixing business and friendship with things like a personal loan to his first mate... and just not self-aware, oblivious to his own anger management issues and the impact of verbal abuse on his officers.

You could take real management lessons from that.
What are reasonable timeframe expectations for nameserver changes now?
> But yes. I believe the plan should be not to squeeze more people into already overpopulated areas, but how to attract people to other places.

It's far cheaper to live in places with low demand, so why do low income people not live there?

Conversely if it's so much more expensive for a low income person to live and work in SF, why is there so much supply that wages can be low?
Ask HN: Criticism for Backbone.js and Alternatives to Collections?
Hello,

I've recently taken more interest in Backbone.js. Backbone is proven but not as trendy as it once was. I intend to learn more about it, but I don't want to become enamored by features and ways of approaching things that were later found to be anti-patterns. Would someone with more experience help me identify things in Backbone that have not aged well? Its method of classing? Things used from Underscore that are now provided in ES2015/2019?

Would appreciate any fair criticism so I know what kool aid to avoid :-)

Specifically, I'm wondering if Backbone is the only solution out there for its "Collections". Are there alternatives to track/signal on changes to a collection of models? Seemed like at one time all the rage was on Observable data structures, but now that has changed. Why?
Because there’s sooo many counter-examples. People see the word ‘law’ and they think it’s like physics but it isn’t like that.
Lol cops are literally grabbing unarmed protesters off the street in Portland right now. Americans are living in a failed capitalist state.
I have tried this 'perfect switch over' for a major domain after many months of planning. Everything worked fine for a month and then the traffic dropped to 30%. The traffic went back to normal level after few months.

As usual there was no response from Google/ Forums etc. All I could speculate is the loss of backlinks. It takes months to reach the original level.

Keep improving the site and you should be back and kicking in 6 months.
>> The key observation to me was that the traditional Datalog/Prolog way of
unifying is through syntactic equality, which is a bit too simple to express
the kind of equality needed in Rust and elsewhere.

I was surprised by this comment because Horn logic, although syntactically
restricted, has Universal Turing Machine expressivity and it's difficult to
see what Rust needs to do that needs more expressive power than a UTM(!).

Reading the post I understand that the author is speaking about unification in
particular, not Horn clauses and resolution, where unification is typically
used, however there is still a subtle error, which is the identificatin of
unification as "syntactic equality". While unification can be used to decide
whether two terms are syntacticall equal, in the sense that if they are, they
will unify, unification on its own is not syntactic equality.

First of all, say that T₁ = f(χ) and T₂ = f(α) are two terms. Note that χ is a
variable and α is a constant. Clearly T₁ ≠ T₂ and that is true for "syntactic"
equality, because χ ≠ α.

Now suppose that θ = {χ/α} is a substitution of the variables in {T₁,T₂}.
Now, θT₁ = Τ₂. Read θT₁ as "T₁ with θ applied". In other words, T₁ is equal to
T₂ _if_ χ is substituted with α. A unification algorithm (normally, Robinson's
unification algorithm) is used to establish that two terms are equal given a
substitution of their variables. In particular, a substitution of variables
that allows two terms to unify is a "unifier". Note that unifiers can be
composed, so for example, if T₃ = f(χ,υ), T₄ = f(α,β), φ = {χ/α} and ψ = {υ/β}
then φT₃ ≠ T₄ but φψT₃ = T₄.

I noticed in the examples of Rust-in-Prolog given in the link above that the
author subtly fudges the syntax of Prolog, for example Bar, which is normally
a variable in Prolog, is used as a constant, whereas ?A and ?B which would be
not-variables in Prolog (but partially ground terms) are used as variables. I
wonder if this is part of a now-divide-by-zero step in the author's reasoning,
that I can't figure out exactly because I don't know any Rust. For example,
what is "?A" and what is "Bar" in the context of Rust?

In any case, the author is of course correct that unification is not type
equality- but then, nothing is except for type equality. As far as I
understand these things anyway- I'm not a type nerd. Bottom line, you can't
implement "type equality" as any other kind of "equality" and you'll have to
jump through hoops -the hoops of defining your higher-level notion of
equality- in what ever language you choose.
Digia goes where paying customers are.
Making my relationship with Google healthy again
I used to infuriate one development manager by going on a streak of productivity where I'd generate a mass of code over a matter of days, and then go quiet while I was thinking, trialing and tinkering with the next project - this was in a role where I had some latitude to do that. I'm not sure if other's thought I was slacking off at those times and complained, or it just messed with him because his burn-down charts would always look like a cliff face.
Golang maps tutorial: declaring and initializing
Barium Meal Test
If anyone wants to know, it also literally means "hill culture". ("Culture" in the biological sense I believe, like the cultures from your organic yoghurt)
Find the Longest Common Prefix Using Python
Ah! Sorry I missed it.
It occurred to me as they were taking down the cantilever (eastern) section of the Bay Bridge that lots of it would have been low-background, based on its construction in the 1930s.
>If you believe that states occupy foreign land out of anything but need to control land and resources, I believe you've been force-fed a tad too much propaganda.

The US occupied Japan and it became a powerhouse. What was the real reason?

>When you claim NATO has been good for the world aren't you forgetting about the political meddling, money showering and laundering, secret illegal perations, and puppet government instantiated throughout the subjugated countries in order to steal control from Russian control during cold war?

No. I never said NATO was perfect. I said it's good because it caused lasting peace and prevented WW3.

It would be stupid for me to say America doesn't meddle. But what was the other outcome? If NATO didn't exist what would the world be like?
OverOps Partners with Gitlab to Analyze Code Earlier
How lables is helping us to deploy same resource by different user in same namespace?
-XStrict is almost never optimal in Haskell as a lot of the optimizations ultimately rely on lazy evaluation. I think more appropriate would be to try out -XStrictData instead.
>desktop environments

Well it's a smartphone screen not a desktop, but here you go:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PinePhone-Convergence-Package-...

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/User-Interfaces
1/3 of London burned down in 1666. It was right at the end of the great plague of London. Wren and Hooke were put in charge of rebuilding the city.

Hooke was the "techie" who could actually engineer and build many of the experiments in the Royal Society. As founding member, he was made "chief curator", responsible for producing the empirical demonstrations.
> And you don't want all bus drivers, garbage men, supermarket cashiers etc. to move to Texas and bring your garbage to the landfill by yourself.

Correct.

I want a supermarket to pay cashier a decent salary, so that he could afford a shelter at market price. Otherwise it looks like I'm subsidizing the aforementioned business from my taxes.
Rust community has been very vocal placing Rust as C replacement and based on your statement it is not. So it’s better for systems programmer to first focus on C/C++ to be closer to hardware and when needs some higher level work look at Rust for writing higher level libraries not dealing directly with hardware.
You are confusing pattern matching with reasoning. If your brain was replaced by GPT-3 model and you were cast away on a distant island, I highly doubt you will be able to perceive, plan and prosper during your survival against all the calamity nature would through at you.
Yes. From page 20 of the DSM,

> Definition of mental disorder

> A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are not mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual, as described above.
Mature companies can become vehicles for protecting management/investor wealth. This forces them to act far too conservative. Management starts to see it like we might see our mortgage or savings.

As such, they want to build a “fortress” to protect the current business model. Innovation- even internal innovation - can upset the apple cart.

Making things worse, executives running a mature company are often very operations oriented. They’re not the same mentality of a founder (who are conversely often terrible at streamling operations!).
This is just a prototype to showcase ideas. In real life even parsing of C++ or Java is much harder to pull off than one anticipated.
Who did Isaac Newton credit with the discovery of the inverse square law of gravity? He specifically claimed it was Pythagoras, 6th century BC mathematician, who showed the inverse square relationship in the tension of a musical string and in the "harmony of the Spheres". The Pythagoreans are remembered for their belief that the world is made of math ("all is number") -- something that Newton did much to prove in his Principia.
The problem of imprecise searching for job offers
Money-oriented thinking is a road to economic misunderstanding. The economy is about stuff. In practice one often measures all the stuff using money, yes, because what else would one use? but as a proxy measure for its value; it's never actually about the money itself.

(stuff = "final goods and services" to be technical)
calfs don't drink milk? I'd think milk (and water obviously) would be a safe answer for all mammals
Metal roof. Line walls with metallic insulation. There might be something available for the windows too.
You can still be anonymous with this. You just need to be pseudonymous.
Strategy Letter V (2002)
> It's far cheaper to live in places with low demand

Not if you live in heavily subsidized housing.
"...since Bitcoin" - I hope not.

Bitcoin is still a speculative technology, with value based on speculation. It might become useful (or not).

NLP is being used right now for practical, commercial tasks. Advancement in NLP is going to serve practical purposes now, with potential for further expansion.
There’s a lot of research on this area. The fact that Semmle was acquired by Github/Microsoft is a testament to the maturity of the field.
Could you imagine doing this today? You'd probably get lawyers making you sign agreements saying your payment of the domain renewal is not a ownership interest in the domain and threatening to take you to court for renewing their domain.
> Highly creative people generally rank low on conscientiousness.

Are you sure about that? I would rather assume that highly creative people often rank low on "tolerating bullshit" instead of having a low conscientiousness.
> We're able to mask symptoms but have absolutely no proof about underlying reasons, and so we create names of things and put it in the same classification of a medical disease... but that's very different.

I remember talking to a doctor and saying pretty much the same thing.

He looked at me, chuckled, and told me that I have no idea how much there is about so many 'medical diseases' that doctors don't know the 'underlying reason' for, and how many of the typical treatments are really just a "hey it seems to work without (too many) negative side effects, but we don't know why. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯."
Pretty amazing how you were able to use the appropriate tooling to a great effect right off the bat!
Results of our User Acceptance Testing: https://imgur.com/Iwjwik2

Some errors in the testing framework were identified and will be rectified in subsequent test suite runs
It could also be a result of training data. If every page is weighted equally, you'd expect SEO spam and even autogenerated content to far surpass high quality content in volume.

I would like to see a GPT model where training data is weighted by credibility / authority (e.g. using Pagerank).
Or, to avoid the persistent state..

function dkube
env KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/config-dev $argv
end

function dkctl
dkube kubectl $argv
end
He was compiling a Windows program to decode his DVDs so that he could play them on Linux
The JS section isn't bad but I agree on most of the HTML and CSS sections.
What data is being lifted out to ArcGIS? Could you give some examples? Do you have GPS units on your racks or something? I've never used ArcGIS at a very small scale like a building. Are these static maps or dynamic webapps published to a GIS portal?
Things You Have to Do to Keep Your Business on Top
It's not the 2 years that caused the change. Feel free to read up on Frank's blog post about how datafrog came into existence: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2018...
I'm confused, how did he pay for someone else's domain? Was there no authentication?
It’s always nice to hear about people doing the right thing. Thanks for sharing the story.
You can't post medical fear inducing comments without good references. Reddit doesn't qualify (it doesn't even open in a browser).
On top of that, downplaying the severity of covid is critical to the arguments of those who want this to be over for political, economic, or any reasons.

The focus by many has been deaths. Mortality rate can be spun to make covid seem not so bad.

If we start talking about the percentage of people whose lives are significantly affected, we create a much bigger percentage. If you’re trying to paint the opposite picture, it’s not in your interest to acknowledge or increase awareness of that percentage.
Hardening Debian
Well, it earned me at least one downvote for standing up for him. Not really a big deal, but it is rather sad.
No google cache either.