skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Static Typing reduces bugs.

Imagine calling this “hype”. Good grief.
If like the army, companies were forced by need to develop pipelines, things would improve. But, if you can hire from abroad and short circuit the hard work necessary, what choice do you think companies are going to make?

This is not particular to companies either. People most affected by offshoring will support offshoring by buying cheap goods produced by offshored work ensuring a positive feedback loop that will come and get them.

If companies were forced to develop local talent because they cannot short circuit the labor market, they would.
I wish I could fork and vim it on some sort of HN interface, but the home internet is down and I'm on my tiny, ancient iPhone 6s just trying to hit the right letters and not make misspelling like I'm drunk texting a translated novel from somewhere in Belarus.
I appreciate this. Watching the news cycle feels like being in an abusive relationship. You watch and wait for the next eruption, anticipating if it will be violent or joyful. It leaves you feeling depleted and helpless.
Why a cloud based service failure should be a barrier to transferring files by Bluetooth or wifi between two devices in the same room is absolutely ridiculous.
Thank you - I was about to ask if this sort of information was available through other cloud providers.
Freedom's just another word
For nothing left to lose

Kris Kristofferson
And sometimes automatic updates break and then the site may be down until you find the problem which may require much reading and therefore a longer time if you don't deal with sysadmin stuff often.

With PaaS it's someone else's job who does this every day.
This petition [any petition] is more likely to gain support if you give people a reason WHY you're calling for whatever it is.
I can't stand algorithmic timelines, obsessively keep Twitter on latest mode even when it automatically tries to trick you back with the "You're back home" nonsense.

Never thought I'd be one of those people but I'm ashamed to say YouTube had got me now, think it's a combination that it just seems to really know what you'd enjoy watching and the fact the default logged out versions content is so painfully bad that I'd never want to engage with that version of YouTube anyway.
It's entirely possible that due to the modularity of Risc-V some kind of common ground will be found in terms of common extensions( a de facto standard, i.e. a standard that people actually follow). Then you might have companies licensing designs for bits of the SoC so the total cost of developing a full SoC drops. This is happening to an extend already seeing as you can buy gpu or hardware accelerator tech from various companies.
I don’t quite see it, because at least in the part of the world I was raised, I can tell you that someone talking about this on the news would have sounded ridiculous.

I do agree that America has never been a perfect bastion of freedom, and there are large struggles today. It definitely saddens me to see that.

Yet, this is the whole point of the idea that our ties to freedom are fundamental — that some group in the U.S _will_ disagree with authorities, that even if a suit is dropped, they may continue the fight. It’s not ideal that we have to fight, but the fact that we can is a freedom that is very rare.
I can sympathize with this point, but let's not pretend that this "freedom" represents democracy any better. What we've seen in the past decade regarding the impact modern advertisement has on elections and public privacy to me is a testament to social media in the current state being anything but benefitial to democracy.

That said, I don't have a solution.
Since this is claimed to come down to personality types, it would make sense to look at research on personality types. There is a model of personality types that seems relate-able where people are characterized as upholder, rebel, questioner, or obliger [1]. The aggressive ones line up at least:

upholder = tattletales,
rebel = naughty ones

I don't think that equating the passive category to personality types in this model works, but it would be:

questioner = dreamy ones,
obliger = sheep

The reason being that obliger is characterized more by relationships with others (aggressive/passive) than by being conventional or independent minded.

[1] https://psychcentral.com/blog/4-personality-types-the-uphold...
That could be extended to all publicly traded companies using that logic.
Great project! A screenshot in the README would be awesome, though.
You say Karens are always white or Asian. Would it be ok if we came up with a name for Black jerks, or Hispanic jerks?
But most people ie. not 'everyone' as the post talked about, is doing that. Most just want web browsing + LibreOffice stuff. Oh, and games I suppose.
But I bet ForeFlight sales just spiked
While social media seem to be the problem, I find myself internally conflicted. On the one hand I see myself as a supporter of democracy, freedom of speech and liberty of expression, but I'm dismayed by the self harm these ideals are causing at the moment. It's the feeling of being unable to defend against painfully obvious (to me) propaganda but also the worry that I don't close doors to the freedom these platforms allow.

Why do information campaigns seem to be failing against the propoganda mills?

Living in underdeveloped part of the world I believed for the most of my life that it was lack of education but having in the US for the past few years I had to firmly discard that notion. I currently believe that it is the inherited values that society imparts on us, and that serves as a lens to view facts that is being manipulated.

The last company I worked for our executives, all highly educated and good natured, for most parts, held political opinions that I thought were only held by the 'idiots' captured by someone on cell phone videos. They had built a successful company on highly educated immigrant workforce, with major workforce still outside the US, headquarter located in a deep 'blue' state with the founder and chairman of the company an immigrant and PhD holder a first generation immigrant but everyone still a vehement, vocal supporter of current anti-immigrants, anti-science, anti-obama/hillary, anti-medicine propaganda.

I don't think it's simply dismissable as biased by financial profit. Is it because everyone near them believes in such and these opinions are manifestation of values they grew up with? Is social media just giving it a loud-speaker. We need to address that somehow I feel.
If you're on the autism spectrum.. your brain is hardwired to be 'obsessed' w/ certain topics it seems (just learning I'm on spectrum at 40).

you hate to talk, but get you going on a subject you read about yesterday and nobody can shut you up...

For those of us lower on the spectrum we're not super focused on one area but multiples, for me that's tech/programming/politics/science and lately viruses for obvious reasons.
If risc-v ends up fragmented then it will eventually evolve to a couple main vendors having a good level of compatibility between them and then the market will just agree to include those. Whatever the majority uses.
I'm guessing they mean USSR- or CCP-style totalitarianism.
Possibly, but it doesn't have to be only that, or without any merit. Cold baths and even winter swimming [1] (in icy water) are a thing in many parts of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_swimming
No it's definitely individual failure. If I get fat by eating burgers and sweets everyday. It's my fault.
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Sorry, I meant the decoder of what you feel he's really trying to say through some obfuscated means. I suppose you've attributed some ideas to him, otherwise why the talk about the "smackdown from LGBT activists", but you just alluded to it instead of writing "he says this, this, and that, but he's using the following code: ..."

That's hardly useful, because it's more mysticism, and there's no testing your opinion, and so it also can't be rejected .
> no longer reading the papers and watching television

This is what I do, in addition to no social media except for certain personal alerts.

I ask my partner to relay any significant news/events to me.

I do support my local media group The Colorado Sun with a membership and sometimes read through their articles, which don't have advertisements so they are not incentivised to produce click-bait headlines and sponsored/addictive/entertainment content.
Actually, that's how lots of graduate recruitment is moving to, looking at those contextual elements now (such as value add, and performing better compared to relative median).

Sometimes this means that someone graduating from a university with a decent degree when the average intake grades were comparatively low shows they are and are capable of outperforming to a greater extent. They don't have to evidence themselves as legitimate geniuses, just that they have the capacity to develop faster.

Obviously it then comes down to bias about whether the university is just scoring people higher, but that's a whole different ballgame.

Brand name universities still get the preferential treatment though, often because they have more developed alumni links with the hiring companies.
The cops are nominally after evidence on arson and gun theft. It could be legit, it could be just an excuse. The fact that we can't trust them not to use the data for other purposes once they have it is very much part of the reason these protests exist.
playing D&D one night, running D&D another
The copyright laws in the US are actually Mickey-Mouse laws.
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It's insulting via the "Karens are bad people" route because I meant it to be insulting. Karens are terrible, even when they're teenage Vietnamese males.
Another data point (about Italy).

Almost any "home" contract is around 30-35 Euro/month, no matter the technology, ADSL or "fiber" (or radio) doesn't change much.

What is called "fiber" is NOT (with some exceptions in some parts of some cities) actual "fiber", but rather "fiber+copper", i.e. if you are within 100-400 meters from the telephone cabin/actual end of the fiber you are mostly fine, if you are more than 500 meters away, speed is far from the advertised one, if you are 1,200 meters or more there is no practical difference from "traditional" ADSL.

Everyone is trying to make people get their land line migrate to VOIP over the "fiber" with an actual reliability (and quality) of communication that is often more than terrible, unbearable.

And noone tells you that in case of a blackout (which can often happen in emergencies) a normal landline will still work 99.99% of times, whilst (obviously) the VOIP won't, unless maybe if you have your own power supply for the router.

The mentioned in the article operator (Fastweb) is only one among the several providers, from experience it is one of those that you cannot count on, in the sense that if you are lucky and their (your) connection works, it works, if for whatever reason it doesn't you won't ever be able to have them solve the problem.
You can certainly be gay and raise children, but they’re at best half you and your partners’ biological offspring.
Later designs moved the engine outside to reduce noise. I'm not aware of any operational difficulties but I'd rather cope with noise than service a V12 diesel in -60C wind.
I wonder if there’s some self-fulfilling prophesy with the recruiters.

If they put forth a half-assed effort at a “lesser” school I have a feeling the best and brightest at that school would feel that and be less than receptive about working there. Meaning they only get serious inquiries from less-than-stellar recruits leading hiring managers to feel that school isn’t worth more effort.

If I show up to dates in pajamas it seems odd to come to the conclusion that my dating pool doesn’t meet my standards
I like hitler's moustache. is that ok with you?
Most likely supporting other opponents of PRC.

India just had a bunch of its soldiers murdered by a PRC attack. That is one. Japan is the PRC boogeyman whenever they need to whip the mob up. Taiwan, Vietnam etc

PRC behaviour resulted in it being surrounded with enemies instead of friends.

Last year US coordinated a deal together with Japan to have MHI help build indigenous modern submarines for Taiwan. Prototype looks suspiciously like Soryu class. Taiwan get half a dozen of those and their ambitions with Taiwan are finished.

PRC has played hard ball for a long time. US finally starting to play by same rules, it’s about time.
I would love to see a book like Alex Reinhart's Statistics Done Wrong make these lists more often.

It's not focused on data science specifically. But it's short, sweet, and just might leave you better prepared to tell whether the emperor is wearing actual clothes, or if it's just an artfully arranged assemblage of TensorFlow operators.
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It's true. Sadly it takes strong familiarity with wide range of subjects to be able to point out the biases of omission, and a big name to point it out without attracting too much of dismissive shrugs.

In my opinion, the bias is primarily derived from the bias of the sources Wikipedia uses, with influence by the WP editors being only a secondary influence.
The US, and other large countries, may be the special case in this situation.

Having something shipped from Amazon, and other non-local webshops means waiting for a few days, or weeks. While ordering from any online store (even the mom and pop retailers) within the country will almost always be next day delivery, and you get to pick between at least two shipping companies.

For selection and availability, pick any local price comparison site, and just order from which ever is cheapest and have the item in stock.
Out of curiosity, do you know what happens to the decomissioned hardware? is it scrapped for useful parts like perhaps the PSUs? or is gold and other metals extracted from the chips and the metal sold for recycling?

Is there anything useful someone could do with it or it's just too much of a problem to set it up and repurpose it?
To me that's why the original promise of dtrace was so nice, the idea of being able to dynamically turn logging on and off from the outside at locations never intended to log anything without even touching the source code sounded wonderful.

Sadly $dayjob runs servers on linux and isn't going to merge the dtrace patches in there, and python's systemtap probes are… limited.

Apparently bcc can hook into USDT probes though, I should look into that: https://ish-ar.io/python_ebpf_tracing/
> I don’t see it as a defense of existing social structures, I see it as a defense of freedom.

Right, in the same sentence in which you identified "freedom", not as an abstract ideal that stands alone, but as one of "the fundamental ideas that America is built on". That tells me you're making a political point (or an identity one, I guess), not a principled one.

As far as your definition, I'd just go with this:

- Do you regularly find your ideas conflict in serious ways with people who hold actual power over your daily life.

- Do you do anything about it?

If you don't answer yes to BOTH of those questions, I think you can rule out the "independent thinker" label. If you do, well maybe I guess.

But I'd suggest toning down the identity stuff unless you're trying to signal to a particular tribe. It's conformist almost by definition.
I suspect mortgage deduction will be gone in a few years. With Trump's tax reforms very few people take it, and so they won't be for it. If they eliminated it entirely now too many people remember it as good, but give it a few years to sink in that only the rich (or those living in California, which is itself a point against it elsewhere) take it, not you can get rid of it.
In vino veritas, is there a consensus whether under the influence is fake and being sober is the not fake state of things?
> I used to do that too - with religion. Then I stopped because I believe that there are fundamental differences between rational and irrational people.

I'm an atheist so I sort of know what you're saying but I don't like to call religious people irrational. They have a certain POV and I know of religious people who are rational (most of them really).

> I am French and our news

ditto stupidity from out govt in the UK. But I do expect people to do a bit more research before making life-threatening decisions.

I've argued with brexiteers. It's a waste of time. "We're British!" seems reason enough for them (am a brit).
PG is living in England, with his wife and kids.
"everything you say is being stripped of meaning as it becomes more driven by emotions and less by reason"

Only if you believe emotions have no meaning.

An emotional response is a valid one, even if it does not help your startup. Not all human affairs are about profit maximisation.
Reason is not the best tool in your toolbox to use if you want to fall in love.
mdma probably is.
> This is what I do, in addition to no social media except for certain personal alerts. I ask my partner to relay any significant news/events to me.

It sounds like you've partly outsourced the problem to your partner then. What does your partner do?
Bloomberg has sponsored BuckleScript in the beginning, but now it is sponsored by Facebook. Other than that their influence on OCaml development is minimal (and technically BuckleScript is a fork of the OCaml compiler).
Paul Graham moved back to the UK years ago. He hasn't run Y Combinator since 2014. Of course he still has many social and professional connections to the bay area, but he doesn't have to worry about what some activists in SF will do.
Oh, yes, I was only saying that as far as the Python language is concerned the tuple packing is in the tail position.

Any specific implementation, and in this case cpython, could do arbitrary weird things after.

Thanks for looking up the code!
doing a geo based redirection was my first golang project that got deployed to prod.

Nginx + GeoIP2 module sets a HTTP request header and proxies the request to the golang app.

The go app does a lookup from redis, based a combination of country header and some url params and responds back with a redirect header.

Hosted it on a t2 medium in EC2 and I have seen it easily handle ~1500 requests / second without any issue.
> What about immigrants that arrived to the US with a suitcase and $100 in pocket?

What about them? You haven't given the reader anything in the way of argument yet; you've just pointed at another group.
Imo the party which makes the values of FB high is the problem. It isn't just some companies that want to put advertisements for their products. The companies want to dominate the market and shut down their competitions, even to the point that our privacy start to be intrused.

The best scenario is for FB to stay at early 2000 version, where our feeds full of friend's stories, games and some ads. Now it's full of media, arguably some pushes political agenda, intrusive advertising (tracking ads), and a few of friend's feed.

Then imo, not all regulations are good. Because fb is a political platform, the regulation for sosmed is more likely full with political agenda too.
I do not know how many people here have "Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders" but I am on disability for all three and it runs in my family on my mother's side.

So what is this article saying? Me and my family just do not have perseverance? That we lack the "will" not to be depressed and anxious? That I just need to "Aspir[e] toward personal and career goals"? HA!

No, it's not true. You see, they found we all have a genetic disorder (GCH1 Deficiency). After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply they finally found that it was not that I did not have goals, but that I needed a low protein diet and some medications that a psychiatrist could not give me, and now I am doing better. Now I can have goals.

So while this article might be true for some people with situational depression, I hate these studies because people always said crap like this to me. I was "lazy" and just needed a hobby, and on and on. They psychiatric association does not recognize, still, that mood disorders can be caused by metabolic issues. When they say I do not have enough serotonin and I ask them why they looked at me like they were in Psych 101. And these articles make psychiatrists lazy, putting all the effort on the patient while they sit back and collect check after check.
That's a straw man statement. Listening to something is not the same as sharing a quote from a horrible person.
I looked at most or all of the questions, before the test system went down. (Cue rant about modern software.)

Some of the questions are quite poorly worded, and I'm highly suspicious about one question with non-integral boundaries on a probability distribution defined over the integers. Since I didn't get to see results, I can't say whether they screwed up or not.

It seems like the question level was appropriate for students that took Calc I/II and some course like Discrete Structures.
A decade is any interval of ten years, so all years are the start of a decade, except for the nine years at the end of the universe.

Which explains why it is so difficult to make a reservation at Milliways.
This is all so static. Real life is more dynamic. An aggressive rule enforcer is an easygoing independent who got mugged and an easygoing independent is an aggressive rule enforcer who went to college.

Damage done in the world comes more from failing to understand how people get influenced in their choices than from picking the wrong quadrant.
China is not really expansionist.

Right...
Explains the whole North Natuna Sea debacle then. No real expansionism.

And Tibet is not part of China. Not when it's current dynasty was founded, anyway.
The watches are not useless, the only useless thing is the app and the Garmin dashboard. Before, when I had a watch only with USB/ANT client, I used to sync it once per week, the only thing you need to do now is to just get the .fit files and upload them on Strava or whatever platform you want or process the files yourself.

I can also still sync Spotify for my music and podcasts, so that works.
What's the definition of "cloud" then which excludes VPS from the umbrella of services offered in cloud? Not really sure how a VPS is any different from a Google Compute Engine
I honestly haven't looked into it. I have heard some people say the idea that it's vastly more polluting than farming (farming what exactly?) is not entirely accurate. So there is at least some amount of controversy.

I know that in my country (Belgium), cattle is often fed the excess and/or unused part of some local productions (beetroot, hay from the farm ...). So that actually sounds useful to prevent waste.
This post has been up for over 450 .beats, and seriously nobody has pointed out that Swatch Internet Time solves all these problems?
Canadian federal court rules asylum pact with US violates human rights
Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
The largest Hungarian news outlet is crushed to ground amid political pressure.

See background and previous events https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932073