skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the cite. Here is the pdf simson.net/ref/1963/God_And_Golem_Inc.pdf

I suspect (not having yet read the above beyond the preface) the root issue is, as usual, the nature of consciousness. My own views on that subject are fringe per du jour orthodoxy which states that 'mind arises from structure'. Weiner seems to take it for granted that an algorithm "learned" something. Does an algorithm even have a "self" that would "learn"? I personally think we're being careless with word usage.

Once you contest the implicit equivalence made between 'form' and 'meaning' which occurs when one asserts that a mechanical/causal device has "learned" something -- all we have observed is form in -> form out -- then the 2 remaining "points in cybernetics" are "[machine] self-reproduction", and, "man-machine coordination".

These last two are difficult topics -only- if generously attribute "consciousness" to machines that auto-extend their state transition map. Otherwise, they are interesting but not cosmic questions. And further, one can still entertain a 'Universal Mind' and speculations such as Leibniz's monadology, happily coexiting with a science of cybernetics.
In a broad, habitability of life standpoint, with human settlement being a subset of that.
In a survival of the fittest this makes perfect sense
According to a file mpl.org in the repo linked, JACAL uses SLIB. Not sure if MPL does not, but I would assume that.

Not sure what difference it makes, but probably some.
A brick and mortar business normally sees more than 5% loss so if that is a real number it is great.
I personally can't think of any at all that would work.

This rhetorical technique is called 'poisoning the well,' preemptively injecting doubt into whatever follows. The GP gave several examples of regulatory mechanisms that already work to some degree, and an argument for why, but you chose to ignore that completely for some reason.
I would just consider it a perk of having started at the company earlier, like having more vested stock.

What sucks though is if you started at the same time as another employee in SF, but you are in the SLC office and are stuck on a lower relative pay band for 4 years.
Show HN: Trex v1.2.2 – package manager for deno
Very cool 7 years is a damn loong time. Interesting seeing how the experiment with the RPi will go
What does WebAssembly as a target mean?

You can run Qt in a browser?
Yes, for sure :)
Can’t wait to try this out sometime soon. I’ve worked with all the founders and they’re awesome.
Likewise.

A decade or two of 'unrelated' experience dealing with people, solving problems, or hell, even just dealing with administrative and bureaucratic bullshit? And the same amount of 'related' experience? For the same price? All other things being equal, give me the older person any day.
There's some hardware fixes that are becoming available.

Variable refresh rate (VRR / G-Sync / FreeSync / Adaptive Sync) and high-refresh rate hardware is now starting to gain traction on the high-end, usually with both technologies combined. Apple's ProMotion is often touted as a "120Hz" feature, but it's also a variable refresh in that it can support much lower framerates. Without a static v-sync interval, you can display the frames as they become available, for both perfect tear-free visuals and lower latency. It's quite likely we'll have that on Mac's as well.

I recently got a 144Hz FreeSync (G-Sync compatible) "business" monitor, so this tech is starting to filter down from the gamer side. It works great with a compositor on Linux! Ultra smooth mouse and input response at 144Hz, and completely tear-free. I would highly recommend it for developers as well.
Yes I know, and for clarity I appreciate your work and insight, and frequently enjoy your comments here.

My point was that people were mistaking the comment for an attack on you, which I don't think was necessarily intended or needs to be without it being a valid point about a different set of critics.
Instead of focusing on a goal for three years, try to focus on a goal that you can achieve in two weeks (or whatever your default attention span is)

Design each two week goal so that you get a dopamine rush from doing it, get some value out of it, and it also helps your long term goal.

I share my attempt at doing just that here:
https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/do-more-by-doing-less/
ViacomCBS sells Metacritic, CNET, GameSpot, others in $500M deal
Hamas frogmen retrieve shells from sunken British WW1 ships to produce rockets
SwiftUI has been a godsend for me, particularly in a surprising application that no one has mentioned: Games.

https://twitter.com/InvadingOctopus/status/12792872846265794...

It's amazing just how little effort and code is required to build complex scalable layouts that Just Work.

Yes, it does require you to Think Different and you will have to change how you approach UI design if you're coming from legacy frameworks.

That's where the most frustrating aspect of SwiftUI lies, apart from the early bugs and lack of consensus, and this is where some people give up: having to change how you think. Just like Swift itself.
Welp, their trucks are going to get hacked easily.
During the design were they careful not to create any derivative works of arm IP and/or not to infringe on any of arm's patents?
Using Emby actively right now and it’s working like a charm!
Nextcloud will probably be my next experiment
Why not put them in... space?

Lots of energy (direct sun) and cold temperatures up there. I guess space debris could be an issue.
Software, unlike restaurants, has trivial economies of scale, and colossal start-up costs.

It's much cheaper to open a restaurant, then build a word processor that someone can get value out of. It's much harder to build your restaurant chain to serve 100,000 people, then it is to scale your word processor, that can serve 100 people, to serve 100,000 people.
Can the ZeroTier client create a tunnel without root access? That's the biggest weakness of WireGuard IMO. One of the things I like about ngrok is it doesn't require root.
See orgzly for Android, and there are some web implementations too.
Sounds like they need to increase severance packages
Pdfplumber for Python
You should be careful relying on that. While many Direct Debit systems have some sort of quick refund guarantee, they don't guarantee that you get to keep the money.

The normal flow will be your bank reimburses you from their own pocket. Then goes after the merchant to recover the funds, however if the merchant can present evidence that the charge is valid then the your bank will attempt to claw the money back from you.

Now the important question is here is what is a "valid" payment. Normally the direct debit scheme will outline that that is, and it probably some very simple like there's evidence that you requested the funds are removed from your account. With something like PayPal they can probably claim that the request was valid, at least the bit between PayPal and the bank was, and that the onwards movement of money is a separate issue that doesn't fall under the direct debit guarantee.

It's worth really digging through the small print on these things, they're frequently a lot less helpful than you think, and PayPal has managed to exploit these little holes to their benefit.

Personally I avoid using PayPal where possible and stick to debit/credit card where you have a very simple relationship between you, your bank and the merchant. Which makes disputes much easier, and places the law very much on your side. All this comes from experience dealing with disputes from the banks perspective, and trying to get the right result for the customer, while dealing with payment schemes, and regulatory obligations.
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Having a tracking number doesn't matter if the scam buyer tells PayPal/eBay that you mailed them a brick and not the item you actually ordered.
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Is $50/ton really so expensive? At that price you could sequester average household emissions for $375/yr.

Can't help but note, flood or wildfire insurance (for people in risk areas) has climbed in cost a lot more than $375/yr.

$375/household/yr sounds downright cheap to me, if it gets us out of this hurricane/wildfire/drought/flood cycle.
>>It's impressive to see this simplistic "you get what you pay for, damn it" sort of argument appearing in a situation where clearly students don't get what they pay for at all.

I'm not saying you get what you pay for, I'm saying you get what you vote for. The government needs to get the heck out of the loan market.

>>It's easy to find example in the US past and in other countries where high general and specialized quality education is provided in a fairly low-cost fashion.

If you are talking about Europe, the catch is that they weed out those who shouldn't be there early. For example in Italy, everyone can go for the first year, but then you have to pass a continuation exam, that upwards of 50 to 70 % fail. Germany has a similar system with exams early in high school that separate what tier school you can go to (trade schools or universities). So sure, its "free/low cost" but and technically "universal", except for those who fail at the gate. Otherwise try your luck in the US where you can rack up massive debt to attend any for profit college with 90% acceptance rates and the peice of paper is accredited the same as any other college. Plus, most Europeans want to finish in an American school because late game quality is light year beyond what you can get in Europe save for a few schools like Cambridge or Oxford, and maybe the Max Planck institute.
> The only Google service I use regularly is YouTube.

NewPipe is a good FOSS frontend for YouTube.

/e/ might be a good solution, preinstalled on a Fairphone 3. Its a modular smartphone, and /e/ is based on LineageOS + microG. LineageOS for microG can use GMS (Play Store), that part of the point of microG.

There's also UBTouch.

postmarketOS is more a reference model.

One could use GrapheneOS on a Pixel. The Pixel 3a was a good bang for buck, generally Pixel phones are.

SailfishOS is the continuation of Nokia's Maemo/MeeGo. Its an OS with strong privacy options, a good UI (though very gesture-based therefore learning curve), it can run on some smartphones like certain Sony Xperia, and it has Android emulation (requires a license).

Other than that your OS list seems reasonably complete. GNOME, KDE, and Enlightenment all 3 have a DE pivoted for touchscreen.

> Get a basic phone for calls and texts and do everything else on a real computer, possibly an ultra compact like the GPD Pocket 2.

Terrible build quality, don't recommend. They also ship with some evaluation BIOS, and Windows 10 Starter Edition or something like that. Wouldn't trust, though you can run Linux on it as well (and on Windows, you can use Netflix plus offline storage (!!)). Redmi 7 and such have low build quality, and I wouldn't wanna use MIUI.

> Especially due to some things only being possible with a smartphone like ride sharing.

You may get away running that application in a web browser, or running Android in an emulator for such.

> Instagram

Doesn't make sense to me if you dislike Google, to use Facebook related applications. That being said, everyone here uses WhatsApp. I prefer Signal over WhatsApp.

I have no idea what people need all that horsepower for in their pocket. If you can't self service the device (replacing hardware, battery, etc) the lifetime of the device is just too limited regardless.
Says it runs Zork. That's my benchmark.
As I understand it, the temperature is cold in space, but it's still difficult to transfer heat from yourself to the environment (because there's nothing in the environment to absorb the energy).

You don't want low temperatures for their own sake; you want them to facilitate heat loss.
>A half billion apps will be created. We need more software builders

I also could use a half billion units sold.
Is it possible to do audio processing using a GPU?

I don't have enough working knowledge or mathematics to fully comprehend the 3d pipeline but as I understand, it is a huge linear algebra/matrix manipulator and audio processing would fall into this. My reason for asking is that at least in the guitar world I've seen issues related to CPU processing and multiple VST plugins all wired together. Some guitarists use fairly complicated rigs to get their tone and when you have multiple amps, speaker cabinet simulation, and effects running you need a pretty powerful machine to do everything real-time without under-running buffers.

There are specific hardware solutions for this but I've always wondered if you could just create shaders or something and dump the audio stream to the GPU and get back the transformed audio stream with minimal CPU burden. Any insight here would be very helpful to me.
Repl is a great tool that I have used many times and have directed many friends to. However, it is a bit surprising that I cannot choose a Python version? It defaults to >3.8 when starting a new Python repl
picking up a girl on linkedin only works if you approach in a professional way anyway. The chances for a coffee meeting is 100x higher if you suggest discussing some mutual professional interests (fake it if you must) then just saying '' do you want to go on a date with me''. Then if you like each other you will notice the sparks flying. If not you now have networked professionaly. win win
The people here posting about how clever/careful they are, which is why they haven't been scammed, are the ones I see as most likely to get scammed (if they haven't been already without realizing). You're best protection against being tricked is realizing that you can be tricked.
Ask HN: How to use NLP for forum moderation?
Interested in using natural language processing for moderating user generated posts. Suggested places to start?
6 months by law in the EU.
Yes, it can do that now.
Done! Super simple install and configuration too!
> selling themselves as a tech company

They built a lot of the underlining infra for their Brex Cash product.

> use it to invest in high risk startups

Don't they require you to pay back the balance at the end of every month? And you're not aloud to go over a percentage of whats in your bank account. These restrictions limit the risk.
Connectivity is an important factor for Data Centres needless to say, how would that work in space?
Org mode is great because it does 2 things extremely well:

1. Document structure. Folding, tree structures, linking, etc. are done very well in org-mode. But that's not unique to org-mode, several other solutions do that well.

2. org-mode lets you use all of the other Emacs major and minor modes in your document - restricted to sections. This is amazing, as it basically gives you an entire application layer in your text documents.

Where by entire layer, I mean having your calendar, email, programming environments, etc. all within your notes. org-mode used this way is not merely a document editor. It is the best plain-text workflow enabler the world has ever seen.

And you can't do this outside of Emacs without essentially rewriting Emacs. Emacs _is_ the strength that org-mode leverages. org-mode is a unification of the many and varied Emacs major modes into a simple plain-text environment.

And the best part is, you only need to use the particular modes you want. Your org-mode experience is tailored around your use case. You bring in the mode you want in that section and you're done. It just works.
The post is presuming that limitations can not be placed on capitalism. As it is verbally used, capitalism is compatible with regulation. For example, slavery and child prostitution are illegal in essentially every capitalist economy.
We’d like a swift version of Core Data (a graph of objects), not a ORM. For async programming we have GCD and reactive libraries, async await is on master already, a design document is expected this month.
Wow, turns out I still have it on GitHub, including the results I ground out 8 years ago. The script probably doesn't work, but the results are still good:

https://github.com/johnfn/GoodReadsScraper

Particularly, load bigdata.js into nodejs and then run a command sort of like this to parse out the results, filtering out young adult/romance/religion stuff/comics:

bigdata.filter(f => f.ratings > 5000 && !f.genres.includes('Young Adult') && !f.genres.includes('Religion') && !f.genres.includes('Romance') && !f.genres.includes('Sequential Art')).map(f => f.title)

I get some pretty interesting stuff. First result is the Constitution... OK, fair enough... but the next 10 or so are:

'A Song of Ice and Fire',
'Collected Fictions', (by Borges)
'The Name of the Wind',
'Infinite Jest',
'The Complete Works',
'The Way of Kings',
'The Wise Man\'s Fear',
'Ficciones',
'A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold',
'The Complete Stories',
'Labyrinths',
'Don\'t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!',
'The Hiding Place',

Is it an amazing list? Eh. Is Name of the Wind better than Infinite Jest? Probably not. They're both fantastic books, though! And still, it's way better than Listopia. Also, this data is 8 years old. I bet it would be way better if I were to clean it up and run it in 2020.
I'd slot the documentary right next to others that cover things like the horrors of factory farms, slave labor due to consumerism, etc.: while they can be incredibly moving, the impact on your day-to-day is so intangible that it's quite easy to ignore while making no changes to your habits.

It reminds me of when I was working at a grocery store in Texas (HEB) and they experimented with hanging the cow's corpse that was being butchered in plain view. I guess in an effort to look fresh.

Well, people complained about it. They said that it was gross, and the store went back to butchering before opening. Just looking at meat as pink saran-wrapped blobs that appear on shelves lets people ignore inconvenient truths. And I think we have this type of preference in all parts of our lives from social media to ignoring death itself.
Posted it elsewhere in the thread - go check it out.
Well, there is XPath 3.1 if you want standards[1] but my point was simply that it depends on whether your question is “I need compatibility with existing jq scripts”, “I need an embeddable library I can integrate in other programs”, or “I want to process JSON for my own usage”.

For example, someone who works with a lot of Python might prefer something like https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello to write comprehensions using the full capabilities of Python, especially since that would provide a direct path to using the final expressions in a Python program or even embedded in one of the environments where Python is used as a scripting language. Is that a viable alternative? The answer depends entirely on who's asking.

1. https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-introduction
It does! https://gunkies.org/wiki/Zork#CP.2FM_.288080.2F8086.29
I've worked at a couple of startups that have operated like this. They had vaporware products, and were focused more on getting money out of investors than they were brining a product to market. I arrive and realize that the code quality is absolutely terrible, and worse, the approach they've decided to take is simply never going to work. I report a list of problems to the CEO, tell them they won't be launching in six months, and that the fastest way for them to get a functional product would actually be to throw everything away and start again.

This makes the CEO angry, because they don't care if they have a working product. They only care about having a good story to tell investors. This makes the existing technical leadership angry, because they don't know how to do things properly, so having somebody say they're doing it wrong is obviously a big issue for them. In fact, the only reason they're in technical leadership positions to begin with is because the startup decided to cheap out and hire people with 2 years experience working in body shops as "tech leads". I realize the company can't be fixed so I leave, and the company folds once it reaches the end of it's runway.

Companies like this aren't terribly uncommon, and they exist primarily to defraud inexperienced investors. FWIW, I've seen this play out at every blockchain startup I've contracted at.
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My only gripe about Raspberry Pi, and only thing that prevents me from using it as a home server, is that the USB cannot power an external HD
For a remote company to adjust pay to employee's geography: so not cool.

Offering remote and paying people based on what they're worth to the company: Part of the solution! (The problem being: Structural deficits in certain regions yield lack of adequately-compensated employment opportunities for the highly-skilled. This makes the highly-skilled relocate. This makes it difficult to overcome structural difficulties).

Offering remote and paying people based on where they are: Part of the problem!
Daimler to Settle U.S. Emissions Charges for $2.2B
How do you model "postal address"?
Some postal addresses are PO Boxes, some are street addresses, etc. There are canonical representations of these different cases.
Do we just shove it all in a string, and let the application perform domain validation?
This sort of thing is (from my limited experience) incredibly common in the start up space.
That’s nice! Trying out n8n.io right now and it’s pretty sweet
The surface of this container won't get that hot.
This should surprise no one, but the article feels a little bit disingenuous. It's comparing Norway and Denmark to Sweden to make Sweden look a lot worse. But when comparing it to a bunch of other nearby countries Sweden is probably middle of the pack. In addition, it sounds like the spike is rather minor (Denmark sees a daily increase of 317 cases). It doesn't seem that bad yet, but I can't tell because the article leaves out information that's pertinent. How many cases was that before? What percentage of people are testing positive now? What group is testing positive (for example, is the increase in all age groups or in younger people who are less likely to have a bad outcome)?

In hindsight, it's probably likely that Sweden chose the best path (although faltering along the way not locking down older people as well as they should have).

Everyone was criticizing the US when the numbers started to go up, but a lot of other countries coming out of lock down are seeing the same thing. It's just not possible to come out of lock down without a vaccine and not see an increase in cases. But you really need to stop using that as your metric for success. Cases is a leading indicator, but you need to see who's getting sick, what's happening in the hospitals, and what percentage is testing positive.

The news can't help but pour fuel on the fire by highlighting every time the cases spike anywhere without actually doing real journalism and giving any other information. Just cases go up, time to panic.
The key there is proper credentials. I have German relatives and was suprised to learn about the exams that dictate essentially which tier of education you can pursue. Sure its free AFTER the fact. Italy has a similar system where you must take a continuation exam after year 1 which anywhere from 50 to 70% fail. Its true top American schools don't accept just anyone, but there typically IS a university out there that WILL accept you in America unless you are an absolute moron, and the degrees offered typically have the same accreditation as any other (if they are not accedited then it is a typically considered close to a scam degree that only the gullible fall for), just maybe not the prestige of the school. The catch in America is you go into massive debt.
So all these AI SAAS companies are fake?