skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really really wish these things were errors. Data loss should require an explicit opt-in. It's easy to point to the spec and say that people should obviously know it back-and-forward but it's extremely surprising that JSON decoding is a lossy operation and you have reach not for an option flag but a whole 3rd party library to not get that behavior.

JSON's arbitrary precision decimals is the silliest footgun. When every implementation implicitly defines its own valid format by way of what native types it maps it makes for a really awkward way to pass messages between two black-box systems.
It has no bearing on anything as far as I can tell. For decades I've been open about my drug use, lack of care for people less fortunate than me, anti-organ-donation, anti-first-lady, illegal importation of pharma, and a hundred other things.

I have no problem accessing a $1.5 million mortgage at 2.875%, getting prescribed drugs, or immigration beyond whatever is inherently hard about the system.

The best way is still the real information. The hard stuff in the real world. What you do online does nothing.

Except maybe the Tinder thing. Most dating apps align your attractiveness with the attractiveness of potential targets. That's to be expected.

The way I see it is "Information wants to be free".
DeGENErate
Samba is GPL so it is certainly not used by Apple.
Increasingly that expectation appears to be built on some very shaky assumptions regarding lifetime income.

This is anecdotal, but a blue-collar acquaintance who studied for a 3-year power plant safety program purchased a detached home a full 7-10 years before his peers who went to university for four-year degrees. There wasn't much parental assistance involved in the home purchase.

Being able to make enough to cover a mortgage and sock some money away in an investment account can give you a financial boost that compounds over time. If you live in an expensive housing area, that boost could end up exceeding what white-collar grads net out to, 15-20 years later.
> a lot liberals no longer feel welcome on the left

"the left" isn't a discrete thinkspace. There is a political spectrum, which isn't linear. The individuals mentioned are still relatively leftist, regardless of whoever is critical or engaging in other disparaging acts. Implying there is 1 left-wing or 1 right-wing is tribal behavior.
> Comcast's cable box.

Isn't Comcast also a paid service? You (US) get ads in tv broadcast you pay for?

I haven't seen any TV broadcast for over 10 years now, my TV has only chromecast and it only plays what I stream to it.
The state always has power over you, it wouldn't be much of a state otherwise. If it doesn't respect your rights, you're screwed anyway. Capital doesn't help you when the state refuses to enforce your property rights, skills don't help you when you've been disappeared out of a helicopter.
> Free speech doesn't mean I have to respect you.

Nobody seriously cares about respect as much as about their freedom.

> I can say "Guys, this dude is a flat Earther. Let's make fun of the moron"

The sad fact is that you seem to only support freedom of express progressive ideas.

Consider someone saying "Guys, this dude is gay. Let's make fun of the moron". I guess you won't support freedom of speech for that person.
All Technologies Eventually Disappear
Simple slution: don't buy "Smart" TVs, And the day all TVs will be "Smart" just don't connect them to the Internet (and don't leave open hotspots nearby or they'll do by themselves).
They're becoming business platforms rather than devices the user can control, just like "Smart" phones and computers with non free operating systems.

Anyone remembers that TV screen in the wonderful Idiocracy docu... er.. movie?
That is going to happen, soon or later.

https://i2.wp.com/scifiinterfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
I feel sad that so many posters here (and people I know in real life) seem to have such a myopic obsession with the idea that (homeless) people might use literally _any_ amount of money on Alcohol or other substances.

What is the deal with this? Do you judge your peers for using any of their money on alcohol/drugs? Why do you think that you are fit to judge how someone living a terribly hard life should spend their money on relief? Why does it matter? If I'm homeless and struggling and you give me $500, and I use $12 for a six pack of beer to celebrate... am I bad person suddenly? And where's the line? Two six packs? What about if I buy something else frivolous say a t-shirt for $30 when I could have gotten it at Target for $15, would you like to be the moral police on that purchase as well?
Hey, that's mine! But yeah, it includes an alternate approach to the same problem: use http chunked encoding and continually append html to the web page (which never quite finishes loading).

Funnily enough, it also uses another evil trick with css background images, which TFA mentions as well: https://underjord.io/is-this-evil.html
This would be nice if it were actually true. My credentials are pretty top-notch (including writing one book, and editing another) but I still get asked to invert binary trees.

I love writing (and I’m working on another book), but other than maybe getting you in the door, you’ll still have to deal with typical tech interview nonsense.
Thankfully, hence why I was already running RDP sessions over WAN about 15 years ago, while X was chocking on similar connections.
It's a sign your boss doesn't have enough actual stuff to do, and so is managing your time like you are a child.

I imagine some of the downvoters are mad that the person used an indirect means instead of a direct one, but people like this don't respond to saying "no, this is a dumb idea" very well.
At FriendFeed, when we first introduced real-time comments and likes (pretty sure we were the first social network to do this), we did it with long-polling via an iFrame because web sockets did not exist. It actually worked pretty well!

https://www.ft.com/content/87b8107e-9c6d-3d3f-a60d-3e4f6315d...
Daryl Davis is a really interesting guy. His episode on the JRE is really good and his stories keep you engaged. Even if you don't like Joe Rogan, you should still be able to enjoy his episode because Davis does the majority of the talking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTQ0Wj6yIg
Ah but universal cynicism and nihilism is also a form of control. When the very idea of objective truth has been destroyed, this makes the job of authoritarians easier, not harder.
If the engineer passed their PE exam, the doctor passed their boards, the accountant passed their CPA exams, and the lawyer passed the bar, I'd have no qualms about hiring any of them.
The problem with this comparison against "Europe" is that a lot of countries with far lower prevalence are compared against the US.

Spain has a similar prevalence, but far higher mortality. UK, France, Italy have comparable mortality, but also significantly lower mortality.

However you pick the numbers, there are ways to make the US look better or worse.
This is true in theory but not in practice. Most implementations don’t want to pay the cost of converting everything to bignums (or the convenience (and possibly speed) cost of leaving the numbers as strings). Generally the json-parsing is separate from the rest of the deserialisation so there’s no great way for the parser to know when it sees a number if it should convert to float or int or do something clever.

As soon as you have something in your pipeline that converts to floats, it is poisoned. Lots of implementations you may use do this conversation though (e.g. basically anything JavaScript, jq) so it is pretty easy to get float poisoning.

The actual solution to representing big bums in practice is to wrap them in double quotes. It only costs two bytes (and if you care about those bytes then you should probably not be using json.
Buy whatever makes you feel happy. I agree with gambiting that anything you choose won’t limit you
What about all the instances where state dependence increased suffering though? What baffles me is that we continue to fall into the trap that there are only 2 ways to approach every problem.
Cool, let's rephrase. If you want respect don't admit to being prejudiced against the way people are born. Being prejudiced against choices people make is completely fine.
This doesn't read as "empathetic" to me:

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313?s=...

And no, simply saying "I'm empathetic!" in a tweet doesn't make it true

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269406094595588096

Defending an avowed transphobe doesn't come off as very empathetic:

https://twitter.com/Carter_AndrewJ/status/127078794525190553...

Nor does calling the person who said the following (Magdalen), "immensely brave:"

> You are fucking blackface actors. You aren't women. You are men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women. fuck you and your dirty fucking perversions. our oppression isn't a fetish you pathetic, sick, fuck.

Typically when I try to empathize with people, I don't turn around and compliment someone calling those people "pathetic" and "sick."

EDIT: I guess I got downvoted enough to be rate limited. I only allow small windows of HN time so I'm going to post my reply to the below comment as an edit. Sorry that's annoying but, eh.

Why are you talking about sides? Why are you talking about "trans people" being absolutely right, claiming moral highground, or dismissing viewpoints?

I'm discussing an individual whose words I can point to. JK Rowling. Who are you talking about?

You're engaging in a method of rhetoric that is wide open for abuse by fallacies such as strawman.

If JK Rowling had mad a serious attempt to understand transgenderism, she wouldn't give credence to the idea that it's a fetish.
Ask HN: Translation Services for Technical Documents?
What translation / localization services do you use for technical and scientific literature? Preferably human and non-ML but if there are decent SaaS options I am open
Inflation is not "normal" to me. It is theft by dilution to encourage "velocity". As long as it's a reality I have to constantly search for ways not to grow my wealth but to even simply maintain what I've worked for. It encourages unrealistic economic growth which is not environmentally sustainable in the long term. And IMO it's immoral.
Nim https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2zbk
Honestly, there are plenty of complaints about LG around, and I wouldn't trust Sony on about anything...

I have a Philips smart TV, so far it has no ads and just mildly annoying bugs, nothing really disruptive. But mine is an old model, it looks like the new ones aren't like that anymore.

A few years ago I brought some TVs to use as monitors because they were much better fit than the actual thing. Now it looks like the trends reversed, and I'll have to start buying monitors to use as TVs. Is there a good TV receptor that I can plug in a Raspberry Pi?
That’s not a fair comparison, at least on Android where you do have a choice to just google apps and install them from the open web.

App stores are more like Zapier, where your customers can find you, but you have to follow Zapier’s rules because you’re using Zapier’s platform.
Free to Choose with Milton Friedman
Let me sell it to you.

On average a college graduate will have one million dollars more of lifetime earnings than a high school graduate. This one million dollars will be taxed at at least twelve percent federally. Twelve percent is a very conservative estimation on the federal tax rate of that money. This means the federal tax revenue of a college grad is at least one hundred and twenty thousand dollars more than a high school graduate. The average net price of a public college education with room, board, fees, and tuition is fifteen thousand four hundred dollars a year, or just under sixty two thousand dollars for four years.

In four years the federal government spends $62,000 to send someone to college.

Over their lifetime the federal government receives $120,000 back.

Today we create jobs for staff, professors, admins, etc at university. Tomorrow we have a more educated and skilled workforce.

Of course, what I really want is for my fellow citizens to be more well read, better critical thinkers, and better informed citizens. Sometimes the best way to sell someone on something isn’t to focus on what you want out of the deal.
The main thing Cloudflare lacks for this sort of thing is a proper member directory with delegated access to zone edits/analytics/security stats. You can get this, but it costs a lot of money through their Enterprise plan, which puts small/medium sized businesses/agencies out of it.
Some context: Amtrak was created as part of a federal bail-out that re-organized the railroads. (Other parts were: Allowing railroads to merge operations; abandon unneeded trackage; and an ongoing dose of de-regulation.) For Amtrak to get federal political support it needs to operate in many states, even though it makes no financial sense to do so. Hence trains that seem run in the middle of nowhere, and are often slower to get anywhere.
For a personal calculation it is a moot point. You're paying the taxes to maintain those roads even if you take the train or a plane.

A true market based solution would be to make all major roads toll roads and use the funds collected to maintain said roads. With EZ-Pass/SmartTag/etc... this could be practical. The problem with toll roads is that local governments tend to use them as a piggybank so you end up with poorly maintained expensive road.
Why should any Western government fund Critical Gender Studies, or any other wing of Critical Social Justice, which explicitly seeks an end to capitalism, liberalism, and all aspects of traditional Western culture, decried as sexist, racist, etc, through explicitly violent means?

These programs are explicitly revolutionary. It's one thing to allow them to exist. It's another to insist they should be funded by the tax payer.

Keep downvoting me, but Critical Social Justice is death. I'm voting for Trump this year because of it, and I know I'm not alone. Keep banging this drum, Leftists. You'll get your war.
YouTube recently tried a new way to display ads on its homepage?
Today 29/09/2020 I noticed that YouTube is showing videos marked as "ad" in yellow on the home page (almost indistinguishable from normal videos)
(I don't know if they already existed before).

It seems to me to be a much more effective way of displaying ads compared to their other methods (placing ads in search results, inside videos and next to videos)
Hacker News 10 year predictions, 10 years later
> > And so it's not clear to me whether universities as we recognize them will continue to exist if we continue to view them as a jobs programs.

> They could not. And that's a good thing. Humanities are a mess just for the reason that they take tuition and time from students and leave them hanging out to dray, after they graduate with no direct job prospects (i.e. a way to make a living).

Why is that a good thing? Just because the humanities don't funnel into jobs the way STEM does doesn't mean that they should cease to exist. Every book you've read, movie you've watched, song you've listened to, play you've seen, etc. has been a direct result of our journey through the humanities, and I'm positive nobody thinks those forms of entertainment should just "cease to exist". It's the same thing for countless other fields of study universities offer. The problem is not that these fields don't have the ROI of STEM, it's that the cost of education is way too fucking high.
My conversations with Sari: A seed stage investor, product strategist, and a mom
Have you written an article or blog post about your investigation. This deserves to be more widely known. You could even try contacting publications like the New York Times, or at least tech magazines. Get the message out, and maybe job offers in the process.
Well, Airbus had an event[0] last week about their hydrogen-hybrid passenger planes. And there the main power would come from adapted jet engines that combust hydrogen but the hybrid aspect would be fuel cell sourced electrical motor that would give some additional boost for some phases of the flight.

[0] - https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zer...
I don't know that "full of" is a fair estimate, but the mechanisms that allow oversight agencies to be limited by whomever is in office at the time (see: USA) should be eliminated. There also seems to be emerging transnational collusions where companies, auditors, finance industries, etc. work to enable crimes by those companies.
>Tell me more about the "long-running" reputation of Consumer Reports.

Compared to random people leaving reviews, they do have to be more careful.
AArch64 also has a larger number of registers, which can make a big difference for workloads.
What in tiny experiments like the article's? Inflation and even hyperinflation have occurred many times in many places in the last century. In Venezuela the inflation rate is something like 2000 percent. It's not just theory. Even the US had double digit inflation when I was in school. We were taught things about the time value of money (using numbers like 8 percent interest rates) that seem nuts now.

As for interpreting trends unwisely, isn't that what you're doing by noting a lack of inflation and arguing therefore that fundamentals don't matter. Common sense says if you give out more cash, people can bid up prices higher. There are undoubtedly variables not accounted for in all economic models. As the statisticians say, "all models are wrong". But those unknown variables can turn on you too. Every bubble consists of people ignoring fundamentals because they don't fit the recent curve, then getting burned when it crashes.
The virtual keyboard is another one that is incredibly useful to everyone when that one key on your keyboard craps out and you have to hobble along until the new one comes in the mail.
If you have a great deal of trouble reading poor contrast, shouldn't you have a local solution for that in the browser instead of relying on every site to provide a high contrast theme?
Poll: Why are you still using Windows 7?
There's no such thing as long as you buy an actual mid to high tier GPU. Even an ancient GTX1070 would be more than enough - and for sufficiently large datasets even an RTX3090 will take hours to process whatever you're crunching.

Just buy a PC that you like for gaming(with an Nvidia gpu) and don't worry about ML yet - it's incredibly unlikely that you can pick something that would limit you in any way. Small datasets will run on anything, large datasets will take hours to process no matter what you run them on. It's not a "limit".
In USSR these opportunities didn't exist outside of the state. In the US, opportunities exist, some people are just too far down below the ladder that they can't even begin to climb. If you fear this type of situation in which people in the US are dependent on the state, isn't it an acknowledgment that the self reliance and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" ideas that are used to argue against state help are myths? Otherwise why would people allow themselves to be coerced by the state if there were other viable alternatives?
I'm not sure I see the connection you're trying to draw between your first two sentences. Airlines are regulated, but their price and service are much less regulated now than they were about 40 years ago. Their prices are much lower, as perhaps expected, and their service is much worse, as perhaps less expected than easily predicted if you're a realist rather than an optimist. The vast majority of airlines nickel-and-dime customers on domestic flights, making virtually everything they can from baggage to legroom to boarding time into for-pay options, because they learned that no matter what customers say, they shop on base price. Since deregulation, various airlines have tried to offer better seating, service, etc., as all-inclusive and more expensive tickets, and time after time, customers just click on the cheapest thing they find on Priceline.

tl;dr: when it comes to crappy airline service, the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our regulators, but ourselves.
GDPR killed read tracking, go EU! Keep flexing as a 27-30 nation bloc! You are built for the 21st century when no other union, regulatory body or country consensus system is!
> Now? Its all disposable

Part of me also thinks that this Nostalgia is related to maintenance ideology.

Ie, it's not that Washers, Dryers, TVs, Cars never went bad, but they had repairable parts and were worth the money to have repaired.

This is not unrelated to ongoing maintenance at a house; Derelict houses (and popular poverty highlight - hookworm related Septic maintenance) are maintenance items that still need to be done; having these maintained creates jobs; but are derelict.
> calling perfectly normal and valuable things "white supremacy"

[citation needed]
Actually not a bad analogy, thank you.
You seem to be asking your second question rhetorically, but its actually an interesting question. The reason we call anti-monopolistic activity "anti-trust" is because Standard Oil organized itself as a series of companies related only through a common trust. That trust controlled 40 different companies, and was the original target of the government's ire. When the trust was ordered dissolved, it eventually was replaced by a holding company.

The history is interesting and informative, and explains a lot about why the US government started to care about issues of corporate governance in the first place. When people talk today about the dangers of "monopoly," they often misunderstand the point entirely.

Size alone is not the issue. It never has been.
Thanks. Seeing this link, I see the original link is all about their Pro version.
There are more employers than govs. Imagine if the govt could cancel your benefits because it didn’t like your tweet. A few companies, ok, it sucks, but you have a chance to move on.
I don't think so. According to this, in Visual Basic, the '/' operator isn't defined for integer types.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...
It's also worth asking - is this obsession with nanny-ing the less fortunate worth the cost? Even if say some x% of folks do spend y% of a UBI on booze and hookers - is the cost of preventing them from doing so worth the added cost of setting up a bureaucracy to monitor and police and prevent them from doing so?
Absolutely. And as a next step, you distribute your OT per document so that no one of them has too much load. This is exactly how Google docs work and for the most part it works well.

The downside is that if a single document gets a spike of traffic because it goes viral, then that document won't scale.
This guy just asked how to get into them because he is interested in them.

You just replied don't. Have you considered he wants to this regardless of not applying them purely commercially and wants to perform research, or in a novel industrial capacity?