skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pikchr author here

It is difficult to find the right balance between a simple language that requires "toil" and a less toilsome language that is also more complex and requires more effort to learn and master. I'm very open to new ideas of how to make the Pikchr language less toilsome without a corresponding increase in complexity. Expect improvements to occur. Your suggestions are welcomed

I envision Pikchr operating in the same nitch as Markdown. (Indeed, Pikchr was originally designed to augment Markdown-based documentation.) An artificial language like PIC/Pikchr is always going to have a steeper learning curve than a GUI diagram drawing tool, just as Markdown documents are always going to be a barrier to entry for pointy-clicky people who prefer MS-Word or Google-Docs. And yet, Markdown persists and even flourishes. Why is that? If point-and-click really is so much better, why are there so many Markdown technical documents out there?

A key advantage of Markdown, which helps it thrive in a point-and-click world, is that it is very simple to learn and requires no proprietary tools. Pikchr is not as simple, though it is simpler (I think) than any other artificial language for graphics that I have encountered, and I've tried to make the Pikchr code as accessible and as easy to integrate as I know how. I'm on a mission to make Pikchr simpler still. Your feedback on how to do that is appreciated.
What's the point of your post? Are you really citing an ML paper as supporting the idea that the US justice system should not seek fairness? That's some weak FUD if you ask me.
This is definitely true. There was an econtalk episode with economist Mark Warshawsky. He had looked at Bureau of Labor statistics and identified that most gains in compensation for low income jobs has been absorbed by rising health care costs: http://www.econtalk.org/mark-warshawsky-on-compensation-heal...
> We came very close to the world being completely dominated by Orwell style authoritarian one party states.

It seems like not only we came close, but it is the very reality we currently live in, we just don't like admitting it. Although instead of one party, we have one class.
Military leadership also expresses views that go against conservative orthodoxy.

- they believe climate change is a real threat.

- they are constantly trying to get rid of weapons and military bases they don’t need to save money. But the civilian leadership won’t allow them because of loss jobs.

- they are constantly warning that the deficits caused in part by military spending put the US at risk. While this may seem counterintuitive, but most wasteful military spending isn’t done for the benefit of the military or the enlisted. It’s done to support the private military industrial complex.
I've been using RpnCalc by Edward Falk on Android for many years without complaint. Last updated 2017.11.
> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time.

The black unemployment rate - 13%
according to the Federal Reserve - is higher than it was a half century ago.
Cloudflare is a ycombinator success story. You have this build-in bias from that. Otherwise cloudflare always looked shady.
All the major Rust IDEs (VS Code, IntelliJ, and probably Vim + others) show the variable type inline when you don't provide it explicitly: https://i.imgur.com/96Wfukl.png

The white text on a gray background is provided by my IDE.
He could take the route that some people take with telemarketers. Take them to small claims court[0].

I remember reading about someone who went a step further. When they got a default judgement against a company and the company didn't pay, they put a lien on the owner's home so he couldn't ever sell it until he paid up. I don't know what that takes to do, but it sounds fun!

[0]http://www.killthecalls.com/suing-telemarketers.php
Discussion of uses of POPCOUNT instruction.

https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
I don’t understand what you mean by “good sales people will close before anything is signed” any good sales person will tell you that before you have money in the bank the client can still not pay they can even sign something and back out.
Everyone deserves decent housing and community.

But community can grow, even from indecent housing, and then turn around and make the housing decent.

It seems to me this is a social issue, not an architectural, or even a directly economic one. I'll guess these are mostly immigrants, corralled far from the rest of society by short-sighted and rather mean government policy.
For sure, but I don't believe it's the majority.
Wonder what the chokepoint is for blockchain. And who will find it?
> If I were a betting person, I’d wager that those who shower often get laid less.

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious. Shower reasonably soon before a date, people.
Obviously not the real solution, but at that point it's time to just mark their emails as spam as they would squarely fit the definition by then.
But the pros you give for video are orthogonal to the actual video-ness of them.

Your pro-video points seem to be largely "More up to date and more content is available"

So - maybe authoring/hosting/promoting/monetizing video is easier than with web pages? These are issues that could potentially be fixed and they have nothing to do with the intrinsic nature of video - linear, constant time usually with a spoken audio track. These are the qualities that I find problemmatic. I actually don't mind slides - they are linear but they aren't constant time and they work independently of the voiceover (most times there's a talk I'm interested in I'll find the slides and skip the actual talk - even if I miss some content it's worth it to be able to skim through quickly and not be tortured by someone's vocal quirks).

There's a few maths YouTubers I can bear - mainly because they speak extremely quickly and there's no fluff. I'd still prefer to be reading the same material however.
And I'm sure the ethnic groups targeted by such systems are just thrilled to have their freedom determined by them for the sake of "research".
No, I meant: Explain why pixels on smart phones are not physical pixels, as I would expect them to be. Why does a phone need to act differently, kind of dishonest about its pixels?
The U.S. Air Force Dropped an Atomic Bomb on South Carolina in 1958
What are you talking about? Your statement has no connection to reality:
- foreign tourists can currently not enter the country.
- the defendant is NOT a tourist but works in the country.
- the police station is not on other side of the planet but just 3h away from his place of work.
- I’m not local but in most countries I have lived the local law matters, applies and has to be observed. Nothing difficult about that
We can't simply do many order of magnitudes easier task now (reduce carbon emissions). How exactly do you suggest we do this task you suggest later?
Definitely on the radar, though the DO API makes things much easier on my end! If you use a local kubeconfig file to manage your EKS cluster(s), Clusterverse can switch your active context and namespace.
What I don’t like about Sandler is I feel if their coaches are so good at sales then they really shouldn’t work on Sandler. Essentially Sandler shouldn’t be a sales company, but something else instead, if they’re so good they should for instance be a car dealership.
If humanity continues like this with no new discoveries then in ten million years we would have 200 million per year * 10 million years = 2 quadrillion people. Getting a human who lived at the start of that peak is very improbable.

But you are right, civilization lasting another few thousand years isn't that improbable. Just that it is strange that it would last a thousand years but not a million, seems like humanity should have figured out how to stabilize things if civlization lasts that long.

Edit: Or maybe our ultimate downfall will just be lack of evolutionary pressure so at some point nobody can sustain civlization. That wouldn't happen in a thousand years but a million years is definitely enough.

Edit2: Or we solve our lifespan issue very soon and people no longer die, so people also no longer can procreate or they would exhaust available resources.
Thanks for reminding me that someone else remembers this. It seems like it took no more than 5-6 years for everyone to simply adopt the term as a replacement for sysadmin with no change in operational practices. Coincident with that it seems most infra engineers started calling themselves SREs to distance themselves from the diluted concept.
What is average compensation at top tech companies if average compensation at normal companies is $120k-$160k/yr?

https://www.levels.fyi/ you can't scroll 15 seconds there without running into a $250k+ compensation package.
I think my org is insulated more from others. In my 8 years, I see hardly anyone being hired from outside orgs and few people leaving for other orgs. I don't think I've heard any stories about people not being hired for how they quit. We've even had people just not show up.
I'm not particularly interested in this one but I have to say that my DM42 is brilliant in basically every respect and I really hope they continue innovating and making these.
I would caution that "economic mobility" is a term of art that does not mean what most people intuit it to mean, usually conflating it with the ease of improving absolute financial position. You can easily improve your absolute financial position and still have "low mobility", and you can have "high mobility" while having minimal opportunity to improve your financial position. A limitation of economic mobility is that it is only comparable between countries with similar geographic/population size and with similar levels of wage compression. The US is an outlier in all three terms.

Average people want the opportunity to significantly improve their financial position, and economic mobility doesn't measure that. As a country, the US outperforms most other industrialized countries at the former.
> Its often a human mistake to think that right now is the most important time ever because it is literally the moment we are in. With the perspective of history and with the imagination for the future you can start to see how what we think is the most urgent things maybe not so, and you can see how small changes elsewhere might be the best thing for the future.

I agree. Another form of cognition error is our tendency to conceptualize things in Boolean terms, such as whether:

- now is the "most important time ever" (and therefore we should seriously consider doing something about it), or it isn't (and therefore no action is required)

or

- now is plausibly an extremely important time (and therefore we should should seriously consider doing something about it)

On its face, this distinction may seem excessively pedantic and trivial, and it very well may be, but it also very well may not be.

I believe that if one can manage to practice this sort of thinking skilfully, that it can help inoculate one from confusing heuristic predictions about reality, with objective reality itself (which seems to be an extremely common behavior regardless of internet forum).
They are even opposed, in some sense. The more inequality, the more potential for mobility there is.. at least if you are measuring mobility in absolute terms.

Since much of China's wealthy (idk about Brazil and SA) are newly wealthy, any billionaires are likely to be 1st generation wealthy. Before the 80s, being wealthy was basically banned.
Somewhat tangentially, one piece that has baffled me (though perhaps less so now thanks to this article) is the relative absence of support (or even dialogue) between "librarianship" as it is used here, and online efforts such as LibGen and SciHub.

I understand that the latter is legally questionable -- but not only is there not an open partnership -- it feels as if the possibility of dialogue or comparison never even comes up, despite having similar, if not identical, stated goals.
> The reality that science shows...

Just saying that means nothing without a reference to this alleged science.

Nothing!
Exactly right, almost all carbon tax proposals include a divident that is redistributed to people to offset the new charges.

The majority of people end up getting more back than they are taxed.

The problem is the perception problem at the gas pump or heating bill.
It's pretty simple to prevent neighborhoods from having to be "rebuilt" after a hurricane: require all construction to be concrete. Such laws are common in Florida and the Caribbean and probably need to be put in place along the Gulf Coast too.
It’s BusinessInsider. The article was probably written by a 25 year old intern and the author just edited it.

The BI model is to churn out as many articles on “business” as it can. Clicks are king so headlines are dramatic.
> "Is possible to do" isn't the same as "helps you to so"

The things that help you usually also limit you

See: training wheels or armbands

I've seen much code written in static typed languages (mostly JVM languages) that supposedly help the programmer to write better code or code with less errors just by playing tennis with the compiler

Thruth is that most of the code I've seen written "with type aids" is terrible from any other point of view

The types are correctly passed to each function, but what purpose those types serve it's a mistery

When you only have numbers, binaries, lists and tuples,you are forced to think about data structures in a simpler and more elegant way

IDE generated "type safe" code too often is simply "a class for everything" and bad abstractions

Most of the time when I review code my remarks is: it should be a 10 lines function, why did you write 10 classes with 10 getters and setters each?
Let me put more concrete, recent evidences that we value human life more, not less.

Black lives matter.

By any standard, it's clear racial discrimination has gotten better over the years (it's still nowhere near good enough, but better than in the past, even only by small relative amount), as there's no doubt police brutality has been worse in the past. But why are we outraging now ? Each single death now matters more now, because each injustice has much higher chance of getting broadcast and shared widely. What would have been ignored and silently covered up are now seeing the eyes of the world, and the direct consequence of that is the enormous movement.

New Tsunami Sea Wall in Japan.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/mar/09/after-...
https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-japan-seawalls/

Whether you agree that's a good idea or not, you can't deny the fact that now Japan is spending tremendous amount of money to protect the lives of relatively small number of people, and it had a popular support in Japan, meaning Japanese were more than happy to spend tons of money to protect their fellow citizens.
Your extension idea sounds similar to this that was posted yesterday:

Pikchr: Documentation
https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601971

I don't know if you're referring to Go or GraphViz as the extra dependency (or both). It looks like Pikchr doesn't have any external dependencies, it's just a C library.
Wages grow as demand for labor grows and increased economic activity should increase demand for labor. So far so good.

However, that's about as far as the relation goes. Technological improvement can both reduce the demand for labor and increase GDP. If there is no reason for demand for labor to increase, wages won't rise.

The narrative that a small percentage of people is earning so much and therefore everyone else must earn far less is popular, but mostly wrong. I gave you the source that says perfect income redistribution would cause only a wage increase of less than 20% to the current median. That's the real impact of income inequality, it's not more than 100% like this article would like you to believe.
> seems like this is cherry picking a market low

The point is to show that the system is rigged so badly that even during (inevitable) times of crisis, the wealth at the top keeps increasing. The idea being that any group completely insulated from disaster is being insulated unfairly by the suffering of the rest.
Yeah, for sure. That's certainly possible, but I rarely see people build for it, at least when it comes to value types like strings, ints, etc.

One other thing that I DO like about type-less, is the ability to introspect, for example, in PHP:

```
foreach ((array) $my_class as $property => $value):
```

vs. a bunch of boilerplate and making sure types match up in most strongly-typed languages.
Put another way... Inflation is a different rate for every person.

For a lot of lower-middle class people in cities, inflation has been much higher than the reported rate. Healthcare, tuition, rent...
Maybe. It is truly unknowable.
They aren't talking about sufficiently advanced technology (magic). They're talking about things we can already do, but have serious trade offs.

The most common suggestion is to add particles to the atmosphere that reflect sunlight. I think sulfur was first proposed, but I think study of calcium carbonate has been ongoing to avoid the ocean acidification issues that sulfur presents.
I'd rather ask you why and then clear out some misconceptions you may have.
Soap really irritates the anus. Sufficient daily fiber intake and a bidet can get the same results IME.
I take your point, "because...they can convince a customer they can reap $100 million in additional savings or revenue", this 'potential' revenue extends to the 'value' of the service, and the consulting agency should be allowed to take a proportionally larger share of this potential revenue as fee regardless if they are successful.

I'm coming at this from small businesses, who don't usually have resources (MBAs?) to forecast revenue in the way you're suggesting.

Again, my thought of value-based has a customer with a fixed opinion of the 'value'. You can't really get them to spend more money, because they don't perceive more benefit proportional to increasing cost.

I'm asking, is my application of value-based consistent with the term as you use it? And if yes, on what _other concepts_ does the theory turn to distinguish your concept of fees proportional to the customer's potential revenue?

What flips the interpretation of 'value-pricing' from a 'commodity' service, to your 'gambling' argument? If it's the uncertainty burden, then wow, that is some forecasting and salesmanship!
Signature aggregation would be only on a transaction level, not on a block level as you require interaction between all signing parties, and any party can block the signature. You would also have to have some system of making a block, then everybody re-signing their transactions to make the block aggregated- it's just not happening.

In Bitcoin today we can do things like make a conditional signature in a multi signature. With three parties, one can pre-sign a transaction and lock it until a future date, then hand it to the other parties who can sign it at their leisure when that time is elapsed. This would not be possible with schnorr unless you also had the expectation that all parties would be online when the lock time expires.
I’m pretty sure there’s studies showing we could drop global temperatures by about 2°C right now with cloud seeding at a cost of a couple billion USD a year.
Duf seems close to `df` while dust seems closer to `du`.
I still have my HP-41CX that I got for high school graduation in the 80s. (I won't say exactly when during the 80s, so I can feel a few years more youthful.) It still works absolutely perfectly and is a true pleasure to use. The action of the buttons is still unmatched by any competitors and notably superior to all current TI calculators. Even the case is superior: durable but soft exterior, false bottom with extra padding, YKK zipper that will probably work for a century after I am dead. Even the rubber feet on the bottom are of superior quality: four really sizable feet that haven't worn at all after decades, and they obviously chose a good adhesive because they haven't fallen off, either. This calculator proves the famous Ben Franklin quote:

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."
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The goal is to reduce total use of carbon based fuel sources, not just redistribute wealth.

While I agree that redistributing wealth should also be a goal, any solution that doesn’t lower total consumption is useless, so the pain of less consumption would be felt by anyone consumer more than average (which is probably everyone in the developed world).
Black unemployment was 5% back in November. Lowest in 40 years.

Of course it went up when the gov’t said businesses have to shutdown.
Why would they be in the global namespace? They would be in imported namespaces (something\Http for instance). That's rather normal.

And yes, now you have to make sure you are passing the proper and valid types, which is obviously the goal here:

$body = Http::request(Method.GET, URL.Parse('https://example.com'))->body;

In other languages you can make it so that the static URL is validated at compile time even.
I'm curious where you live where "water is abundant". Water that comes out of your shower is the same stuff that comes out of your faucet. It's been carefully purified and disinfected, which costs a lot of energy. Even if you live somewhere (as I do) where water falls from the sky all the time, the water for showers is still not "abundant".
RPN is really useful for observing intermediate results and comparing with a mental model of what would be reasonable scales. I use Emacs M-x calc quite a bit for this reason, versus a Julia/Python session when variable names and functions become necessary.
Sure there might be challenges and opportunities on the bleeding edge. However, in this case, this opportunity was so orthogonal to their original mission statement it should not come as surprise t does more than raise eyebrows.
I rarely see that and never with a public company account. It is a little strange..
Show HN: Instant SVG icon search with over 50K+ icons indexed
My original side project was a logo search website [1], but I realized that it would work for other types of images besides logos. And I had a lot of bookmarks to SVG icons repositories. And I found a great domain name (seriously: are the domainers asleep?). So allow me to introduce IconSear.ch!

I wrote it in NodeJS/Koa with server-side full-text search using Lunr.js, running on Google CloudRun. Source and full list of credits: [2]

The index of icons is in a separate repo [3]. Contributions welcome! Right now, all the sources are on github or gitlab, but it could support any website that can publish in the index format and allows hotlinking.

I know there are a ton of almost identical icon search websites (my list: [4]), and while mine is infinitely superior and perfect, I'm still interested in what you think!

[1] https://logosear.ch/search.html

[2] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/logosearch#credits

[3] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/git-svg-icons

[4] https://iconsear.ch/alternatives/index.html
I wonder many miners have already been using this optimization for the advantage.
Cloudflare workers, with the kv store, are really easy to use, and work great for some use cases. I'm very interested in what they might roll out tomorrow to enhance it. A SQL layer on top of the kv store maybe? Or maybe something like S3 buckets?
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Thanks for the explanation, those are good points. Though wouldn't the interior concrete not harden if it wasn't able to absorb CO2, since my understanding is that's fundamental to the hardening process?

And agreed that surface area would effect the rate of absorption. I understand it can take hundreds of years for concrete to fully harden, which I could see being effected surface area and ability of the material to breath.