skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend Zulip. Free, open-source alt to Slack but with good threaded conversations: https://zulipchat.com

If you don't want to create a full chat I'm happy to host on a Zulip chat for hackers I'm part of, just let me know.

I'll open an issue, thanks!
He's not saying it's a good or bad idea, he's pointing out it isn't an illegal restraint in trade.
PHP was always one of the top ecosystem for web development (probably the top one in the early 2000s), with strong platforms and userbases centered around them: LAMP, wordpress, discussion boards and other.

Perl never had anything like that. It allowed to do CGI in the early 1990s then nothing major I can think of.
Perl 5 isn't going anywhere. It will be in "maintenance mode", which let's face facts, Perl 5 has been in for years. Once it's not supported by the developers anymore, I'm sure some third party will patch it, and some commercial ones (ActiveState) will likely be happy to provide more professional assurances.

> Way better than stabbing it's user base in the back, and still not attracting any new users.

I'm one of those users, and I'm very happy about this. I see it sort of as a family member opting for chemo rather than just waiting out the end. Sure, it might not work, and might be a painful, and might quicken the end slightly, but maybe it actually given them many more years at a better quality of life than they currently have.

Also, I don't really think it's stabbing them in the back that much. It's not like anyone using Perl 5 that doesn't want to change won't be able to keep doing what they're doing with close to or better support than they've had, if it plays out as I suspect (for professionals, there's a business opportunity to provide support to Perl 5 long-term, so someone will do so).
William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91
I don’t think US has killed millions of civilians in living memory. Further, I think there’s a vast moral difference between civilians dying over the course of war (especially when enemy combatants deliberately hide among civilians and the difficulty of perfectly controlling an enormous army of soldiers) and waging an ideological campaign on one’s own citizens. Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was awful, but I can appreciate that it brought a swift end to the war at very least—I see no such advantage to Mao’s cultural revolution.

School shootings and dearth of health insurance don’t remotely make up the moral gap between the US and China. As awful as those things are, they are but a drop in the bucket.

Further still, many of the other things you posit as uniquely American such as coups in foreign countries l, police brutality, dearth of healthcare, etc are not only present in China, but exist to a much more severe degree. The US has police brutality (lack of proper regulation of its police forces), China’s police will disappear people for political speech (actual institutional oppression).

I agree that the US is imperfect, but your attempts at drawing parallels between Chinese offenses and American offenses seems highly disingenuous. You seem to be flagrantly ignoring the different contexts when convenient (e.g., the difference between “civilians killed during war” and “killing one’s own civilians en masse as part of a political purge”) and listing offenses that are more egregious in China as uniquely American. I don’t really want to continue this conversation if you aren’t here in good faith.
One way to avoid cannibalism among products is have the revenue and profits align so you don’t care what people choose. In that sense, the MacBook at 800 is less than a comparable iPad Pro plus magic keyboard-but you’re also locked in to a keyboard and trackpad.

Personally, I always liked the MacBook Air and MacBook form factors but never purchased them. I went for iPads instead and left power use to a MBP or Mac mini. I could see the MacBook being more compelling if it’s the only way to develop, but they’re moving Xcode to the iPad I think down the road...

Or maybe they think of the MBA and MB as legacy formats. That could make them not directly competitive at all and potentially complimentary.
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It still seems useful to consider how security and compatibility add complexity to our software stacks, even if the causal chain of networking -> security -> compatibility isn't right.
You will regret having the government choosing your apps and websites.

I agree, but this isn't far off from the GDPR and similar laws that take the view that individuals aren't competent to decide for themselves what privacy policies are acceptable.
Holy shit.

The tweet thread under the link is well worth seeing.

Taken from the company in question's site (https://fama.io/product/):

> What Fama finds...

> Our machine learning technology has flagged hundreds of thousands of
instances of misogyny, bigotry, racism, violence and criminal behavior in
publicly available online content.

If you go and compare what the product actually seems to do - tracking down your Twitter account and grepping every Tweet you interacted with against a list of "thoughtcrime" words (like "hell" or "ass") - you can almost feel the next AI winter coming. How many more bullshit companies calling their fake, broken and trivial technology "AI" or "Machine Learning" will it take until the whole field of ML gets derailed by bad reputation? At least, (as much as I know history), the last AI winter involved companies trying but failing at AI. This time around, they're not even trying.
No, we were just asked to imagine the effects of this poor implementation on emergency services.
> when they can pull the rug out from under them at any time

Are you talking about the US or China governement?
but is there a non-US version of TikTok then too? i don’t understand how the two versions interact is what i’m saying.
I'm sorry for your pain. Unfortunately, as it's said: "The future is already here, but it's unevenly distributed."

Healthcare isn't designed or trained to be cutting edge. Leave the beaten path and you'll end up in court.

As for the societal level, if you're talking about the USA, we're shit in general. Look at opioids and obesity. Those two alone consume significant resources. Limited resources. Resources that can be used by people in your shoes.
Ask HN: Is possible to find the noise-less life with a headphone or similar?
For some reason I have never make the connection with insomnia and lack of focus with the ambient noise, until the neighbors move and left my house alone. Suddenly, I sleep way better, can weak up in the morning and all the bliss.

UNTIL

the pandemic have bring everybody in the block.

Too much noise now.

The main thing will be confort. I don't hope to be able to wear something all day but if can mute out 2-4 hours I will be very happy.

My budget is tight now, so hopefully not more than US200.

Is ok if is just making silence, not for listening music (I only blast hard rock for half hour daily, tops).
Wait, do you support raising equity or borrowing from banks, at today's rate? I'm not sure what you consider being cheaper, and for who.
The TikTok app is served by the US data center operated by a team in the US. If they violate any US law, federal regulators can find out and punish TikTok based on evidence like how they fined Facebook. Being owned by the CCP doesn't mean that they cannot obey US law.
And it is really hard to imagine how CCP can harm the interests of the US people with those short fun videos. Does Trump believe virus spreads via these short videos?
I suppose the day before, because the price would jump in the first few seconds of trading.
Watch Forrest Gump.
The evidence for Glucosamine alone to do much about arthritis is poor. Glucosamine + Chondrotin + MSM is a different matter entirely and is not the same as what the author is speaking about.
Is this a loan word from the west?
As someone who's been hanging out in freenode python channels for years helping noobs, I recommend strongly against any kind of conda setup for new programmers. It often has strange issues that noobs have difficulty even understanding how to ask for help with, nevermind actually solve.

Learning how to use a simple barebones venv is extremely easy, saves a ton of time both in the short and long run, and generalises better.

pip install virtualenv
cd your/project/location
which python
virtualenv -p result_of_which_python env
source env/bin/activate
pip install anything_you_like

and do whatever you want from there. Those commands get 100% of the basics out of the way for noobs, and cover like 90% of the stuff you use to do more serious stuff.

> but I use a "base" folder where I have already downloaded all the packages I use by default [...etc...]

Your setup sounds outrageously complex, and I don't understand why you would do any of that.
> One way to address this would be to tell Apple and Google to use a "kill switch" facility they both have, which lets them remotely wipe or prevent blacklisted apps from launching.

I wonder if this would lead to some sort of cat-and-mouse game where ByteDance keep making the app available under different names and encouraging Android users to side-load it.

Presumably there would have to be some sort of judicial process before each new version of the app could be added to the blacklist, with evidence proving that it really was created or controlled by ByteDance, or there would be First Amendment implications.
See the “War on Drugs” and the “War on Crime” as counterpoints.
Millennials just keep getting screwed - the generation that was born just in time to post every thought and action to the online public but also born to early to realize what a bad idea that was.
There has to be something seriously wrong with the tech industry if engineers are rewarded for spending more than 1/6 of the year learning a skill that is generally regarded to be unrelated to actual job performance. It cannot be completely bad in itself, but there must be some better way of organizing engineering labor.
Thanks! If you've wanted to make something similar, would you perhaps join me in making this? I'm looking for contributors.

Yes, enumerate is better, but I want to teach concepts one at a time and I want students to understand what's going on in code. Before teaching `for a, b in c` I want to teach `a, b = c`. And to motivate doing that I want to teach `return a, b`. At this point in the course they're only just starting to learn about lists - they haven't seen tuples and they've never defined a function. So it's not time yet.

Besides, it's important that students are intimately familiar with how to index a list a which indices are valid.
Your comment comes off as xenophobic. I know it's acceptable in tech circle to talk this way, but not cool.
There's this weird social energy surrounding index funds that's very aggressive about preaching that they're the only viable option and that everything else is ridiculous. To be honest, this energy is another input that increases my skepticism of the whole thing. These days, whenever you see an argument downvoted instead of rebutted, there's likely something to it.
QQQ all the way.
1: buy BTC
2: HODL
3: ???
4: Moon Lambos, bro.
difference between AMD and nvidia:

AMD: some open source drivers, but many things are inop

Nvidia: all closed source, but everything works

Source: I have a Vega 56 and I am gonna give it the sledgehammer when 3000 series arrives. Fuck that shit to high heavens my dude. ROCm is buggy as fuck. Only the bare basics work on Linux. Drivers are buggy, and crash all the time. Even the most basic bullshit is not implemented right. Like there is no fan control. That's how bad it is.
> They can do whatever the hell they want, why would american companies spend any time conforming to their demands when they can pull the rug out from under them at any time.

I think you just described the US
Wow, it's a bit surprising that they use C# under the hood. I wonder what was the cause for that decision; back when I started learning Java, C# was said to be the slower of the two.

Honestly, I never wanted to get into C# as much because typically, it also means getting into Windows (from personal experience, companies using C# are heavily invested in Windows, and I love using Linux for everything).

Do companies nowadays develop and deploy C# on Linux boxes?

Edit: Just a reaction to a number of responses, I know C# is now fully open source. That doesn't mean companies using C# develop using Linux and deploy on Linux. C# being open source means very little to me when all deployments are on a proprietary platform.
I was invested heavily in Instagram as my active social media fix for two years. This was spurred by a comment on HN and similar to what is mentioned here - it was deemed to be a fun, positive and happy virtual party.

And it was. For a while. Soon enough, the advertisements and the activism took over. People only posted in Stories, and the inevitable race-to-the-bottom to have the highest followers/likes took over. A friend, who ran fitness gigs on the side, told me how a top branded sports marketer were willing to sponsor his shoes for a certain number of follows and likes on his post, with their brand mentions. Somehow all these appears to be a perverted, caricature of an idealistic life.

I got sick of it and i haven’t used it since the beginning of this year. I understand that as I grow older, part of this is feeded by cynicism of having seen similar patterns in the past, starting with IRC chat rooms to whatever is the trend this year. But, the in-your-face commercialisation and incentives for users to keep generating content forever all appears very dystopian to me.
I know. China having different policies internationally, and domestically, sucks.
Just listened to this episode in [The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish] podcast.

#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
Adopting broadband from Amazon or the other tech giants like google seems like a bad idea for society. They have too much power to begin with, and given allegations of how amazon may have abused seller data, I wouldn’t want them to have access to even more data. Not to mention issues around centralized control over information and the digital town square.
I bet skeptics would say that if you steer people away from index funds, then they may put it in high fee active index funds that generate about the same return as the passive index funds.

Personally, I think that as more people put their money into index funds, active funds may look more attractive as they can potentially exploit market misprices quicker than passive funds can, but that's just me.
That's awesome let me know how it goes. The border can be removed by pressing the "undo" button (perhaps the ui/ux for this could be a bit clearer - i'll see what I can do).

Currently no title/subtitle support yet (outside of the intro scene), but it's something i'll start working on asap as it's been requested by quite a few users already.
While this sort of quashing of free markets may be permissible for sovereign nations, it comes with a heavy cost. Trump, and by proxy the U.S., moves to force the hand of ByteDance to divest itself of all interest in TikTok at fire sale prices through threat of shutting them down. The U.S. establishes its reputation for stifling competition whenever a strong enough sovereign interest is in play. China, and other countries, will respond in kind to protect their own interests - Tesla, Apple, Intel and whatever other company has a juicy stake in China are held hostage until they concede their interests of to a China state-run company. Imagine trying to do business in another country when the fear of takeover looms overhead if you ever become too successful? This behavior only serves to encourage more protectionist and isolationist markets.
How about those 30 films Hollywood exports to China every year?
"kiss" is there for Arabic.... What other words can you think of
Investment managers always ask this question and I never know what to answer. I feel like everyone's answer must be the same: maximize return, minimize risk.

What are possible answers to this question you're looking for?
(a) Bosporus

(b) the nukes (İncirlik)

As to who needs whom more, I have no opinion.
I’m not really sure what you’re asking. By definition, FHE cannot be Turing complete. A Turing machine must be capable of performing operations that cannot be handled in constant time, and for which the timing reveals information about the input. That is a fundamental feature of Turing machines; it’s the whole basis for how they came about.
The /en/ws/under-construction link is to http://www.chess.ca/en/ws/old-chess-ca/ which is a page on the new website that explains the dangers before you click a button to actually go to the old site. The link on the explanation page is what I removed.
> Vega-based chips work quite well

LOL what a fucking joke. Not even close.

Also that one VFIO bug makes one of the great advantages of Radeon disappear and there is no fix in sight.

Fuck AMD. Bunch of marketing hype and they ship garbage half baked crap to the market.
I moved my cash from Wealthfront to Marcus, I think their rate is 1.05% right now?
The interesting thing is that these platforms come and go. One year it’s Vine, another year it’s Snap, now it’s TikTok. ByteDance bought musically for $1B in 2017 and turned it into Tok.

3 years later, it’s grown like crazy because it’s the latest fad and would be smart for them to cash out before the next new thing hits

The whole divestment thing is probably a godsend for ByteDance, “forcing” them to liquidate their stake, but in reality let’s them cash out on an overhyped app that’s easy to copy

Must be laughing all the way to the bank
I'm not sure I understand. The situation for X = Javascript is very different to, say, X = SNOBOL.
Jeff Bezos himself is owner of a rocket company called "Blue Origin". This company is developing a heavy-lift rocket awhich hasn't flown yet though. They already have some experience with booster return, as they have a small(er) vehicle serving as (future) science and tourism platform that can shoot the capsule with passengers and/or payload straight up over the Kármán line and have the booster return to the launch site.

Since they already had achieved this, Bezos tweeted "Welcome to the club" when Elon Musk's SpaceX had their first successful rocket landing. If that's appropriate is subject for debate, as the conditions experienced are not comparable.

Blue Origin also tried to patent landing a rocket booster on a boat while SpaceX was planning to exactly do that which lead to some bad blood.
Only for their own hardware (RAPIDS, all the cuda libraries, etc.), which other companies like AMD have just forked and modified to work on their hardware keeping the algorithms intact.

NVIDIA contributes mostly to existing open source projects (LLVM, Linux kernel, Spark, etc.), see https://developer.nvidia.com/open-source
When the course reaches the point that students are ready to learn about enumerate (see my reply above) the course will definitely cover it and emphatically point out that it is the better way.
This is uncommon, because it's not really necessary except for “foundational” libraries that are used “publicly” (i.e., not just internally) by hundreds of other libraries.

If only three or four of my dependencies use the Foo crate, then I can just wait for all of them to upgrade to Foo 2.0, or I can do it myself and submit pull requests. In this case, I don't really care whether Foo's maintainer uses the semver trick.

However, if I'm developing a really big project like Servo or rustc, and Foo is a foundational crate that is used by dozens of my (transitive) dependencies, then waiting for all of them to upgrade (or doing the work to upgrade all of them myself) starts to become prohibitive. Now a bit of work by Foo's maintainer can save a lot of time for large downstream consumers.

An example of a “foundational” crate that has used the semver trick is `num-traits`, which has over a thousand reverse dependencies: https://crates.io/crates/num-traits/0.1.43
Ask HN: Is the Who's Hiring Thread Postponed to Monday?
It was reasonable at the time it was put into place. It's now so much easier to deal with information, reform is needed but it's not going to happen unless the Democrats are in control.

What I would like to see is a rule that if a company collects data for more than in-house use (so it doesn't apply to a company who simply has records of it's customers) they must make a reasonable effort to notify you and allow you to examine the data and challenge anything you believe to be incorrect.
Yup, this is what "structural" social prejudice and discrimination are all about, once you strip away all the pointless and meaningless rhetoric that's somehow supposed to be "about" these issues. It's a self-perpetuating equilibrium of basic social conditions and superstructure (viz. discourse, supporting ideas, commonly-held worldviews etc.) that create a nearly unescapable "trap" of invisible oppression.
Future startup biz strategy:

Chinese company makes huge viral app for the US market, and lets everyone stoke rumors that it's a spying platform. US gov't tosses a huge subsidy at whatever domestic company can acquire it at any cost - in the interest of national defense - resulting in massive overvalued purchase. China pockets the profits. Rinse, repeat.
Yep. I didn't meant that Apple created LLVM, only that Apple contributes _a lot_ to the open source LLVM project.
They’re funny videos because you’re like “man I can’t stand this guy’s cheesy jokes” cut to 12 videos later “I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT HE DOES NEXT!!!”
China hasn't competed on labor cost for a while. They now have the largest concentration of manufacturing and tooling skill in one place.

Cheap labor seekers are going to cheaper parts of India (but that won't stay cheap for long), Africa, Indonesia, etc. Africa is establishing some kind of union to reduce concerns about stability, and if that works we will see the 80s-90s in China repeated there.

Someday there won't be any large pools of cheap labor left. Unless automation is much cheaper by then, we will see massive inflation in manufactured goods.

Also: if Africa industrializes and we don't have cheap fossil fuel alternatives, we should just start moving Miami and building the New York Sea Wall. Another half billion to billion people will be joining the new global middle class, and after centuries of colonialism Africa is not going to listen to Westerners asking them nicely to stay poor so we can meet a CO2 target.
This exact scenario is what makes Tokyo so exciting.
You've just made a bunch of broad sweeping statements, and they are based on feelings not evidence.
Not really. India really has very little clout in today’s digital economy. There’s a ton of users, but very little money to be made there since it’s a relatively poor country
If I learned one thing from fighting a (not cancer) disease, it's that you have to be the one responsible for your own recovery. Don't just sit there and say "please save me doc!" You better start reading about the latest research 6 hours a day, make massive comparison charts about treatment options, find the best doctors you can and get opinions from all of them, network with people going through what you are for support and advice, reach out to friends and family for help.

The best thing I did for my treatment was to expand my options beyond modern medicine to naturopathic medicine and East Indian medicine. Let me tell you, I was eating clay, shoving weed up my ass, shooting myself with infrared lasers, literally so many off-the-wall treatments it was like a full time job. And I do not care if 90% of them were useless, because by the end of the next year I was in full remission.