skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happened to me as well. Saved at least two guys from losing a tire because of loose nuts, and one from losing the engine because it was sounding 'dry' or 'treble-y' because it was losing the oil.

Of course, this could be the "swimmer's fallacy", perhaps I hear better than average (I certainly have poorer eyesight than average), but then again, if one gets a swimmer body but does not have access to a pool, won't become a swimmer.
The same firearm can be user to assault an innocent person and to protect an innocent person (in the hands of said person or law enforcement / army).

There are certain devices, like napalm bombs, that have a narrow and specific purpose of destruction. But the technologies used to make the bomb shells or the napalm are not specific, and have all kinds of peaceful and constructive uses.

Equally, there can be bad, evil-pursuing programs in a particular general purpose language, but this does not taint that language.
It should be 'position: fixed;'
I wish there was a chrome extension that would highlight cultural references on a page and link to source. Nothing more frustrating then having that feeling of unknown familiarity.
Maestro or VPay they expected, the european old-school debit brands.
https://twitter.com/EllenLWeintraub/status/12888332482825175...

No, Mr. President. No. You don't have the power to move the election. Nor should it be moved. States and localities are asking you and Congress for funds so they can properly run the safe and secure elections all Americans want. Why don't you work on that?
Great concept and nice implementation! Feels a bit like Justin.tv meets Github. Very cool.
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> How can you schedule `foo()` and `bar()` in parallel, when they have an explicit data dependency?

You can't, but that's a fundamentally different scenario than what's being discussed.
> Painfully, some of the very founding contributors to Haskell itself are the ones deepest involved in this ring

The author's point is the opposite. He's calling out prominent members of the Haskell community for running cryptocurrency schemes.
> I think this view is colored by SV salaries

I’ve never worked in SV

> Are you saying books are easier to pirate than software? If so, I have news for you.

Have you worked in software in the past decade? Everything is run as a service, either entirely online or backed by online services... good luck pirating that.

> Quite a few don't or the process is super convoluted, proprietary, requires plugins, mobile apps, Windows only etc.

As of 2015 90% of libraries had a digital lending program - you have no idea what you are talking about.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/09/15/who-uses-lib...

> The backslash is the same

Except that again >90% of libraries do it legally without lawsuit because they follow the rules that respect artists and authors.
My Gold is definitely not chip-and-pin. Chip, yes. Pin, no.
Oh, the pain is real. Cross threading is one of my nemeses. My eye still twitches when I see people cut a bolt on Youtube without threading the nut on first to work as a die (as in 'tap and die'). You're gonna cross-thread that thing! AAH.

I worked as a bicycle mechanic for a bit (lots of bolt cutting, more cross threading than I wanted), but also spent a cold winter working with my dad on a vintage car and I discovered that I don't have as much nostalgia for car work as I thought I might. For the same reason my boss pays for licenses (because you can yell at them and make them pay for the repairs) I pay others to do some of my handiwork.

Despite still being able to turn a bolt the right way while upside down and with the bolt facing away from me, I figure I'm almost as likely to get a rude surprise due to my own stupidity as theirs. If, and this is a big If, I've developed a relationship with the vendor, instead of just driving down to the Jiffy Lube where I'm nobody.
no, generally `await` is the fulfilment of a promise already created. `foo()` returns a promise, and then the await triggers the ceding of control to the event loop and allows the promise to progress.

In the example you've shown, it is absolutely correct that the two promises must be sequentially awaited like that. The OP is talking about a situation where there is no dependency between x and y.
We only track changes made through BaseDash, so we don't have full snapshots of your database to revert to. We'll definitely add a feature to rollback individual edits though.
Tools are not inherently morally neutral, and I wish that people would stop repeating this lie.

Slot machines are expressly designed to feed on a person's gambling addiction and to take their money.
Dirty bombs are designed to murder thousands or millions of innocent civilians.
The Nazi gas chambers were designed to slaughter millions of innocent civilians.

Using a programming language benefits that programming language. This is pretty transparently obvious - a larger community means more skilled professionals, more support on stack overflow, more funding for development, and more open-source contributions.

If you strongly believe that the crypto-currency people are doing evil, it makes sense not to aid them. Whether "using Haskell" is worth worrying about is something for individuals to decide on their own. But it's absurd to say that there is no ethical dilemma in incentivizing the development of a tool that is used for evil.
Yes.

> the first `await`, when executed, immediately pauses execution

Also true, but in my code, the first `await` happens after the second `fetch()` has already begun.
The real power of such kind of tools is determined by its ability to derive (infer) new data from multiple tables, particularly, by linking tables and aggregating data (using these links). Airtable had an interesting approach to this problem (yet, not perfect imho). Here I do not see how can I derive new tables or columns from already existing ones except for using SQL. If BaseDash relies on SQL then the question is what are its USPs which are directly related to data?
As a side note, in my experience Paypal does keep their transaction fees even when processing a refund. How does this behavior differ from what people were incorrectly accusing Apple of doing?
There's algorithms for sure, but the sophisticated part is the scale at which they run. And by sophisticated I mean it was sophisticated five years ago.
Scott Alexander himself is a borderline crook, together with people like Peter Thiel, tainting people's perception of Silicon Valley and computer tech as a whole. So crooks do harm technology.
Funny story about the K-cup thing, the DRM could be defeated with some tape. Shortly after that discovery, someone (wish I could remember their name) proceeded to manufacture little clip-on plastic parts and send them to people for free. They were real, injection-molded plastic parts, too. Not 3D printed ones, though you could 3D print one for yourself. I've still got one of the original ones somewhere around here.

There's no way the story wasn't posted on HN, but I don't think I'd be able to find it easily.

E: Turns out my search fu is better than I realized. It was called the Freedom Clip. Even Walmart sells them these days.

https://www.cnet.com/news/freedom-clip-busts-your-keurigs-dr...
Haha, do it, it's going to be fun!
I think part of it is that LATERAL JOINs were (are, for folks still on <12, which is probably a lot of them) able to be run when needed rather than having to be completely materialized upstream. Now that CTEs don't have to be materialized, this is less interesting.

Beyond that, LATERAL JOINs are really nice way to write out a subquery without a ton of nesting, as shown at https://ddrscott.github.io/blog/2017/what-the-sql-lateral/. (LATERAL can be applied to things in FROM! Especially useful given some set-returning functions can only be used in FROM.)

I think even though you can do most of these things using subqueries or CTEs, LATERAL makes it ergonomic to do them.

I'm hoping someone a little more knowledgable than I replies to this comment with some more details, as I know my knowledge on this particular subject is spotty.
> benefits for the team, as opposed to the benefits for the individuals.

As if it was a zero-sum game.
Yes! MongoDB and Firestore are first on the roadmap.
Hi pearce! Thanks for the great feedback. The editor does allow exporting to both Markdown and Word, and I'm slightly embarrassed that we forgot to mention it on the front page. I'll fix that. (The last section near the bottom does mention that we do daily backups -- perhaps I should move that up. We also keep hourly revisions of each novel.)

Your suggestions for the copy and additional CTAs sound like a perfect A/B test to run, which I'll get on ASAP. Still trying to figure out all of this marketing stuff, and all suggestions are _very_ welcome.

It's still a young product, so we have a long way to go, and we're still learning. Thank you for taking the time to look at it! Can't wait to hear what you think of the actual product.
>If you get off to sexually abusing a child, that is pedophilia, so essentially all CSA crimes are committed by pedophiles.

The data seems to contradict this. "Estimates of preferential attraction for children among those who offend are often in the ballpark of 25% to 50%"[0]. Granted, this is talking about preferential attraction, but estimates on the percentage of men with non-preferential attraction factor in at a much higher percentage of the population than pedophiles (and others we assume are preferentially attracted). Other than this, it still seems to leave a segment of child abusers who do not enjoy their actions sexually, but for other reasons (say, power).

>This hasn't been shown to be true.

To some degree (and I suspect, to a similar degree to pedophiles) it has, see my comment here[1]. Exposure to pornography is usually shown to trigger or at least intensify feelings of sexual agression, either physical or verbal, even in non-experimental studies.

> the consumption of CP has been shown to create the urge to engage in pedophilic acts in pedophiles.

Is this true of all pedophiles generally based on a sample of the pedophile population, or those recruited to take part in such a study after being convicted of child abuse (contact or non-contact) offences? I can very easily see the fact they've been convicted as being a huge confounder here.

Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that CP should be legal; I just think that on the basis of the available evidence, I can't see any reason to illegalize fictional representations. I think the alcohol and regular porn comparison holds quite well. The longitudinal study data which contradicts the theory that increased availability of porn does not lead to higher rates of rape is simply unavailable for child porn, perhaps with one exception, though[2]. The link between inebriation and likelihood of sex crimes is to my knowledge undisputed, though.

[0] References here: https://www.b4uact.org/know-the-facts/behavior/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789827

[2] http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2010-p...
This one is actually quite interesting: on a long running server with kernel livepatching, you might not even notice it if it gets fixed before you reboot the next time.
Nope. At best you'd spend a lot of time fiddling with it to get an unreliable result that'd still behave as if printing discrete pages.

Might still be cheaper than a dot-matrix machine and a box of tractor-feed fanfold would run you in 2020, though.
I don't think the concern is that the language is going to get worse, but that funding will be concentrated on the few niches that benefit crypto applications, and that people might start saying "I don't really want to work with these people, I'm gonna go do something else."

Recently a casino was built near me, and they repaved a lot of roads and added bike lanes and stuff as part of the construction. The roads are objectively better now, but I don't want to live next to a casino no matter how good the roads are, and I would have preferred if the city government had funded that work instead, since I trust them more and I have some say in how they spend their money. If you were looking for a neighborhood to move into, the first thing you noticed wouldn't be the smooth bike lanes, it would be the huge casino you can see from anywhere in a 3 mile radius.
As a new grad (bachelors swe), is it worth it to jump on the ML hype train ?
I see modelling is almost always only open to phds/masters.

So is studying all that stuff just for being a MLE/ data engineer worth it, if you are already a software developer (full stack)?
One of the arguments for thorium-based nuclear power is that we're already digging up tons of thorium as a byproduct of rare earth mining. This is radioactive material that currently we're just dumping.
A GPT-2 model that generates Matt Levine columns
It seems true to say that wealthy people stay wealthy because of their mindset and lifestyle choices.
Company trust doesn't mean all that much given conflict of interest. Technically you can translate any antitrust claim regardless of merit as "Competitors say 'main rival's success unfair, should be punished'".

Realpolitik of sorts often matters far more than any trust at the company level - does going on your own or letting someone else take a cut pay off better? Would they get massively punished if they failed to carry through and burned your company?
Which makes IQ a talking point for racists, and "general intelligence" an almost unfalsifiable defence against it.
No. Absolutely no. UBI is Socialism under a different name. Why do people keep bringing up this topic? Why do people want the government to do everything for them? They are spectacularly sucky at everything.
Take from others to give to "poor." We aren't doing anyone service by giving them something for nothing.
I can see it now:
"Whelp, $40k isn't enough now that rent is higher. Now I need $80k"...and on and on.
Nobody is stopping proponents from giving someone else "their" entitled UBI. Use your own money though, not mine.
Better to teach independence & self reliance. Grow a garden, hold a job, work hard, love your family, respect others.
"Nothing has done more to lift humanity out of poverty than the market economy" https://fee.org/articles/capitalism-is-good-for-the-poor/
For those curious, there was never an 'Amiga ST'. The headline is just a play on the competition between Amiga and the Atari ST.
> Unless your firmware doesn't have UEFI support (I'm looking at you, Gen8 Proliants...), you should use UEFI.

Why is that? It's a serious question. I use BIOS boot on all my systems after failing to install Linux (Qubes, Arch, Fedora) on several machines until I switched to BIOS boot.

Is there anything I'm missing out on by using BIOS?
I'm personally surprised that people find this misleading? I mean, in so far as any programming construct is confusing until you understand it I can see it, but fundamentally if a promise could not progress until you waited on it, it would basically become impossible to write parallel code at all -- including implementing Promise.all().
Contract work would work similarly for engineers. Do it on your own time if you have a job.

They can ask the current team questions via chat. Get some real code into PRs and prove that they have skills.

Personally I don't even apply to jobs anymore. I am tired of 6+ hour code reviews that I don't get paid for, and no explanation when I get passed up.

I would much rather be a contract worker and get paid at least something while doing actual work, over building a search engine for star wars characters.

I'm exactly like what you describe. When I leave the office, I want to camp, rock climb, and prep for marathons. I don't want to spend more time coding. That's exactly what makes me absolutely disgusted with applying for new opportunities. Eight interviews with various people, just to get ghosted. Time I could have been improving at other passions. Instead I'm left with no time, no indication of what I can improve on, and no job.
There is nothing impossible about it. We barely scratched the surface of data storage mechanisms. All it takes is another few breakthroughs and we likely can store all of Youtube of all times in a block the size of an ice cube.
It sounds like what you're suggesting would be functionally equivalent to PI-led replications, which I would agree is a good idea. There are still some practical problems though.

1. Studies can be much more expensive than most people think. In my field, a moderately sized study can easily cost $100,000+ if you're only accounting for up front cost (e.g. use of equipment, compensating participants). Someone would have to foot the costs of this.

2. Studies can be incredibly labor-intensive. PI's can get away with running studies that require thousands of man-hours because they have a captive market of PHD students, Post-docs, and research assistants all willing to work for low wages or for free. PHD students usually don't have the same amount of man-power.

3. For obvious reasons, studies that require high cost, high man-power work tend to get replicated naturally less. In other words, the least practical studies to replicate happen to also be the most necessary to replicate.

A couple of things I would dispute:

> it seems unlikely that replication studies would be devalued merely because they're done by students

I think academics value work in a particularly skewed way. There is "grant work" and there is "grunt work". Grant work is anything that actively contributes to getting grants for one's institution. Grunt work is everything else. PHD's can do grunt work, but that doesn't mean it will be valued on the job market. For example, software development is actively sought after in (biology) grad students, because it's a very useful skill. However, I've also seen it count against applications as professors because it shows they spent too much time on "grunt work". Software development skills don't win grants.

> Few students want to stay in academia

In some fields there aren't any options except to stay in academia or academia adjacent fields.
> they don't contribute anything of value to society.

They appear to be funding Haskell development.
Yeah mostly it took too long for me my crappy bike ha, 1.5hrs each way sucked. Although it could be nice/ideal with regard to being healthy.
Maybe it doesn't make children smart, but it certainly makes them look smart.
Well, to show the video to the person who uploaded it you don't need to reencode it or push it to the edge or any of that. And I see no reason to believe that most videos are even watched by their creators.
What would be the parts though?

There is one profitable part (ads). The other parts are supported by that part or at least require deep integration with that part.

Maybe you could split of Google Cloud, but I bet it would just become a digital REIT.
Awesome! It's not easy to put yourself out there like this, but it will make a difference for somebody who will either take value from your videos or be inspired by them (or both!). Kudos!
Apple has had the ability to remotely remove apps from iPhones since the iPhone 1.

https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/07/apple-can-remotely-remove-...
Housing is supply and demand. More demand for housing without an increase in supply will increase cost. That said, a guaranteed income may allow many people to safely choose to move out of an area that was hard to accomplish previously. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, how do you move far enough away from a high-cost area to actually reduce your housing cost while still allowing you to reach your job, since you can't quit it and still afford to pay rent? All you can usually do is trade commute time for rent cost, and then you pay in time and vehicle wear and gas.

UBI would allow an unprecedented level of freedom for people to relocate with little risk, and that would itself have a massive influence on city make-up and the housing market. If a lot of the unskilled labor in the bay area actually chose to move somewhere else, wages for those people would either have to increase greatly to meet demand, or the area would finally have to allow much more cheap housing.

I imagine other shifts like that would play out large in small in almost all aspects of the economy. UBI entirely changes everything.
https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/top
> the content is all user generated

The answers - totally. The questions on the other hand, I'm not entirely convinced. The thought that Q&A has become the de-facto new generation of spam has crossed my mind many times while browsing the web.
I'm in the US and have never heard of it.
Matt cited this paragraph as one he particularly liked:

> If you are a sophisticated financial adviser with some work to do, you want to get paid a lot of money to do a lot of work. If you are a novice adviser, you want to get paid a little money not to do much work. The thing is, the work is boring and repetitive and boring. It is not what you would call fun, or fun-y if you were objectively beautiful. And the pay is not that great. So you might just decide to automate it.
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Because the data strongly suggests that racial differences in general intelligence exist and exist due to genetic differences between populations. This idea makes certain people almost foam at the mouth (I've witnessed this personally and I'm only barely exaggerating).

Stephen Hsu, former VP of research at MSU for example was recently "canceled" from his job because he stated - in a very milquetoast and reasonable way - that even though he's aware that this kind of thing has been used to oppress people in the past, studies (specifically genome wide association studies) suggest that racial differences in intelligence are real and largely due to underlying genetic differences and not just socio-economic factors.
That's actually how addresses are written in Chinese -- most general to most specific. Super disorienting when you're learning it as an English native speaker.
The technique I've usually seen succeed is when the author begins by posting an informative write-up about their project to developer focused websites (kinda like the one we're one right now). You'd ideally want to highlight the future roadmap of the project (eg. things that you want to incorporate into it) and ask people with relevant skills to contribute and/or spread the word. All the best!
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> Just like today, it doesn't matter how many government subsidies you get, the poor's standard of living will scale to their income until every penny is gone. Someone needs to teach the poorest how to live below means so you can save, invest, avoid expensive addictions and health problems, etc. and an unconditional check in the mail won't automatically bestow that knowledge.

This is misleading. Psychologically speaking, those who are poor are more likely to spend money immediately, because this is the rational thing to do if your life is unstable. Money has a way of disappearing (loan interest, people who come after you because you owe them money, etc.) if you hold on to it, so the rational thing to do is to convert dollars to goods that help you immediately[0].

This obviously prevents any form of long term investment. The solution is to provide stability. Reasonable (non-means-tested) welfare programs do that. The problem isn't that the poor are dumb or uneducated or something, it's that the incentive structures literally push them away from long-term investments, so rational action is to not save for the future. Provide stability and the incentive structures change.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...