skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we don't have "AI", we just have advertising propaganda telling us we have AI
September 2020 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 26.9%:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well
Reputation scores risk turning the rooms into an echo chamber due to karma mining. It's good for forming consensus, but bad for debates. This can be bad for some communities like FOSS groups where new users and people with fresh ideas frequent.
Exactly. What is currently touted as an Unemployment number should be renamed: "% of those who are seeking full-time employment but not currently full-time employed". Perhaps "Unfulfilled Job Seekers" might be a better term than "Unemployed".

The other measure should be "% of working age Households where household income is not at or above average living wage adjusted by region". Then that is a measure of income and poverty and not a measure of "who has a full time job"
>a 25yr old website

Yeah, that's a feature. I like that. No bloated JS framework taking 10 seconds to load, no obnoxious whitespace, minimal changes to the desktop experience when they implemented mobile. I admit they're a little slow to implement quality-of-life things (the hover-over preview being one of them). I also think link rot is a real problem too. Even though it's not necessarily their domain, I think Wikipedia should attempt to do something.
Europe has a population density twice that of the 48 lower US states. In addition, roughly a third of all people in the US live in a mere 500 cities (if you account for metro areas, that number increases). Even if those cities had great public transit, it would leave the remaining areas far less populated in reality. Less than 30 people per square mile is very common outside cities with a lot of midwest states having something like 5-7 people per square mile (or less).

It may be hard for people in many places to grasp, but even in eastern states there are many, many areas where you could pick a direction and walk many miles without seeing anyone.

Below a certain population density (likely in the hundreds to low thousands per square mile), public transportation simply is not feasible.
Good teacher can help to overcome barrier. Unfortunately there are not many good teachers. As other pointed out maybe one or two in public school.

I'm with you that practice is a king but blind struggle ruins passion. I've took salsa lessons for several years, drummed it wrong, have to unlearn bad practices. I've took guitar recently, overcome in a few months what could not in school (good enough instrument and youtube videos).
So you don't make bad performance choices in C?
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Neo4j advances machine learning compatibility for its graph database
Where you'd assume clearing Cookies to be as simple as cookieStore.clear() - I can imagine it's due to some legacy remainder of times when they did do everything to track without consent.
Even outside of the IT sector, I think the majority of the communication in Berlin is done in English. But in IT, English is definitely the lingua franca worldwide.
A couple of other attempts at rendering the Moana scene with something other than Hyperion:

- Matt Pharr (author of pbrt) -- 6 part series: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/08/moana-island-pbrt-1.h...

- Joe Schutte (WDAS): https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneybsdf/
I live in a major US city for $2k/mo. It's not that hard. And if I lived in a cheaper area or city I could be much more comfortable.

I think living on about this income is common for grad students, who mostly live in areas with "opportunity to advance upward".
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HN reputation does not have any implications or monetary value - at least from a very early point.

Amazon review scores have obvious monetary value.
So is it like a WebFlow competitor ?

I would love a website builder that has Drag Drop CMS capability for non technical users (kinda like page builders in WordPress) but allows clean static HTML export finally (kinda like static site generators). The problem is we either have the WordPress or static site gens.
No, you should make more money, and act accordingly.
> What makes pybind a "flagship library"?

NumPy, SciPy, and friends are, individually and collectively flagship libraries, and depend on pibind11.

> If it was very widely used this bug probably would've been caught by people testing the alpha/beta/rc versions of 3.9.

They are very widely used, but “probably” means “do enough releases and you will find exceptions”. Welcome to an exception.
the parent was probably talking about NumPy/SciPy/Tensorflow/PyTorch, which I would also label as flagship libraries...
Thanks for reporting these issues.

Emojis are using the native emoji list from your machine. I should check the emoji-picker documentation to see why this happening. I'll see if I can find an emoji picker that returns SVG. That would solve this issue definitely.

Regards sizing, yeah, the text size is fixed at 80px. I'll add a control to change the font-size in upcoming updates.

Glad you like it so far. Will try to improve the tool soon.
Could you elaborate on what's wronf with signal
Congrats to the Pitch Team. Looks like a beautiful product.

I wonder if it’s really 10 times better than Google Slides, because that’s what it’s competing against. 2x or 3x better is not enough.
> the Rust community tries really hard to combat

How? My impression is that they are not trying to do the language easier at every release. Contrarily, I see more new features added all the time (which is a good thing if Rust is your thing).

What I see is top-quality documentation. No doubt about it. Perhaps they focus on quality learning material, but the truth is the more I read, the more I scratch my head thinking "what is this construct and when and why do I need to use this?". Then overchoice[1] anxiety kicks in and I go back to zero, that is, my good old C.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
On HN, more comments will de-rank the post to make space for newer less discussed content. This bumping is spam and opposite of what you intended to do.
That can fall down a little when it comes to debugging. You end up having to break everything back down to component parts more than if you could keep larger parts in your head at once.

I probably could do it, understanding all the parts implies that. Eventually. Just not in a reasonable amount of time, and perhaps not as neatly.
> Because you wrote it in Python.

Sure, so if I want to shave startup/a slow action from 200ms to 100ms in a non-performance-critical tool, I shouldn't use a profiler, I should rewrite the whole damn thing in Go?

Can we stop these low information, canned responses already.
Agreed, IMHO Google's antitrust threat in the browser space is more harmful than the search space.
It’s interesting that the old parser had the same problem. Although it did the parsing using an LL(1) algorithm, it never actually verified that the grammar was LL(1) before doing so.

[https://discuss.python.org/t/should-there-be-a-check-whether...]
Heh ;)
I'd say some markteplace behaviour is potentially problematic. Amazon knows all sales data on every product on every seller, if Amazon is then selling the same items, Private brand or OEM, it can benefit from a lot of data the individual sellers dont have. Plus the possibilitis Amazon has by owning the marketplace.

From personal experience so, once Amazon loses the buy box, the measures to gain it back are more or less what other seller could do as well. No idea how much seller data they use in selecting private brand products so.
I care because I'm supporting them to my job. I have sympathy for those who can't work (or can but only minimal levels) - and I know a number of them. However I also know some who could work but are milking the system (less than the number who can't work).

Every penny taken out of my income to support someone else is a penny I can't apply to my own dreams. My dreams are (in no order - in fact the order changes day to day): retire early, buy more toys, pay for my kids' education, take more exotic vacations. I have enough to live on, and even by US standards I'm doing very well, but there is always more, and the money going to someone else is money I work for that I can't enjoy.
This is a good observation. Some of the best codebases I’ve worked with are the ones whose authors insisted on keeping things easy to modify or remove (not by introducing unnecessary abstraction, but by simplifying things as much as possible). Some of the worst codebases are those where the author assumed that their elegant solution is ultimate and will never be read in circumstances other than to be admired.
It's annoys me that both sides lie/are wrong in this.

The statement' signatories [1] agree that having default E2EE (end to end encryption) on Facebook Messenger will stop around 12 million reports of child pornography per year. This is a lie/incorrect because recipients of such material can manually report it [2] and/or it's possible to make the detection tool work on end points, it's a fancy hash comparison algorithm [3].

The Matrix people respond to what they think "lawful access" is by saying that "lawful access " is a EE2E backdoor so they it's impossible to have "lawful access" and "E2EE". It's an assumption that "lawful access" is a third decryption key and it's possible to have E2EE and third party access to it as Facebook Messenger proves [2].

If all parties were honest the governments would say "we want regular police work to have a way to lawful access E2EE messages and while you're a it a backdoor for the intelligence agencies". The other side would have positions between "no to both" but most would say "no backdoor, OK to past encrypted messages for police investigations and intelligence agencies with transparency reports and oversight".

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-sta...
[2] https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/android/49882866...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
this reads like a really well researched post
> theory that Cambridge Analytica threw the Brexit referendum via Facebook has essentially completely collapsed over the last month or so.

You have to have a pretty warped view on proceedings for this to be the case.
Governments are still (largely) accountable to the people, in contrast to corporations, which are not accountable whatsoever (except through gov regulation). Your comment is just detraction
Defund welfare. Perverse incentives yield terrible results, what a surprise
background: I worked in edtech for about 5 years

Start w/ smart kids w/ relatively affluent parents and any educational strategy succeeds. The kids will do well no matter what. Start w/ less innately intelligent kids w/ uneducated, poor parents and that is where you see what really works. Virtually all studies/articles about unschooling/less schooling approaches and they don't control for this variable.

Show me homeschooling/unschooling/Waldorf/Montessori/Reggio works for poor kids w/ uneducated parents. Until then, I don't give a shit.

I have worked w/ a lot of autodidacts, including a couple better known ones in the software world. They all had professor parents and comfortable upbringings.
>> Zig manages to provide many of the same features with a single mechanism - compile-time execution of regular zig code.

> This is a huge one for me, and I really don't understand why Rust didn't jump on this earlier.

I believe this outcome was mostly defined by the history. Here is my reasoning:

Rust, at least since 0.5, was undoubtly designed as a replacement for C++ (of course that doesn't necessarily mean that it only appeals to C++ programmers), and C++ was notable for its unexpected sophiscation and problems with its primary compile-time mechanism, templates in the other words.

Rust replaced templates with two other features: traits and reimagined syntactic macros. The former formalizes C++'s long-waited concepts feature and avoids issues with C++'s "ad hoc" polymorphism, while the latter deals with code generation, the remaining use of templates.

Traits (and lifetimes) required a complex type system, which takes time to compute and ideally the result for some file should be intact when other files have been changed. This constraint makes most additional compile-time mechanisms undesirable for addition because they can create unexpected dependencies between files, so recompiling one can trigger others. Note that the compile-time code is still a code, with states and everything attached, so this is far from trivial. (What if your compile-time code needs an external input?)

Zig and Nim show what the different starting point might result in: they didn't have to solve problems with C++ templates (among others), and could retain ad hoc polymorphism. This limits an ability to incrementally compile, and what's common with those languages? Much simpler type system, which compiles fast and makes the incremental compilation less concern for them. Rust needed a complex type system for its goals, which unfortunately limited its options for compile-time mechanisms.
Indeed. And it is even more amazing that "staunch free market advocates" among this leadership cadre mostly do not see the parallels between evolution and capitalism. And they blithely praise the innovative superiority of capitalism in one meeting, then create elaborate narratives how selling off "non-core" capabilities shrinking their innovation Petri dish agar surface area increases innovation in the next meeting.

Somehow the innovation spurred by capitalism from the freewheeling, chaotic free market is suddenly amenable when it crosses the corporate threshold to sprints, top-down grand corporate architectural visions, and five-year plans. I wish as much as anyone innovation wasn't such a massively, messily, wasteful, organic process. But after decades of experience bashing my head against the wall with everyone else trying the top-down, bottle-it-up-and-sell-it hopeium, I've been pleasantly surprised with "letting go" and letting the "floor" mix it up, take input from it, feed back into it, and create a constantly-boiling stew of ideas. The finance management part in me has to be locked away in the padded cell here and there for their own good, but they and I can't argue with the results.
You could use their APIs to pull your product catalog out, but IIRC their terms of service says that's not allowed if you're migrating to another system.

l.o.l.
No need to worry, all internal communications are in English.
I think there is clear precedent for this sort of thing. When I read Fatal Risk (about AIG's financial division from 1980's to the financial crisis in which it collapsed), there was if I remember correctly Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general for New York, with a bunch of cases on which he built a career and a ton of political support that subsequently failed in the courtroom. The result was a complete waste of money and resources on shoddy cases, some people got fired in disgrace and some people got popular. (In Google's case it would be like the CEOs resigning while admitting no wrongdoing and the case itself languishing in court before being settled with no positive outcome for the society.) Let's hope the Google case is not going to turn out that way.
PEP 622 has been superseded by 634, 635 and 636.
Good point, although Shopify does solve a very specific problem that's beyond the realm of basic front-end HTML sites.

Although Shopify does allow you to export your webite too - it just won't be able to do very much used elsewhere, without the Liquid-supporting back-end! :)
Related: Ira Glass on "The Gap": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI

> Nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish somebody had told this to me — is that all of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, OK? It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste — the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you, you know what I mean?

> A lot of people never get past that phase. A lot of people at that point, they quit. And the thing I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be — they knew it fell short, it didn’t have the special thing that we wanted it to have.

> And the thing I would say to you is everybody goes through that. And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase — you gotta know it’s totally normal.

> And the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions. It takes a while, it’s gonna take you a while — it’s normal to take a while. And you just have to fight your way through that, okay?
Yeah, but that information is captured under an different measure.

The reported U-3 unemployment rate is measuring the rate of full-time job loss in the economy. That makes a good barometer of the economy as it can describe if job losses are accelerating or not.

You can pick any of the alternate measures and they all say pretty much the same thing. But by overlooking those who have dropped out of the labor market, the U-3 focuses more on what is happening with the labor market now not several years ago.

You can try this for yourself by plotting the U-1 through U-6 rates on the same graph and picking the one you think is most useful as a snapshot of the labor force. You'll probably land on the U-3 as the U-1 doesn't show upticks in unemployment very well and the U-6 muddies the severity of upticks in unemployment. The broad strokes will be the same, but the nuance is missing.
Honest question: is just collecting and analyzing data not considered a use case for AI? I mean sure some businesses can be essentially run by a recommender system or something. But it also seems valuable if you can do something like use NLP to get better quantification of customer feedback, which is really just collecting and analyzing data for a human to use later.
Well maybe we should treat the source of the problem, which is electromagnetic pollution
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Apple has a monopoly on iPhone software, and while it's true that users who dislike the App Store can switch to Android, there is an enormous cost to switching phone ecosystems.

If you don't like Comcast, you could move to an area with a different ISP, and there's a certain point where you probably would move, if Comcast's service became egregious enough. But I don't usually see this argument when people refer to Comcast as a monopoly, because it's understood that the switching cost is unreasonably high.
I have a bug report, where should I send it?
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The article doesn’t mention we can already get rid of coronavirus in a few weeks, if we had 100% compliance to wearing masks. It also doesn’t mention that Quest Diagnostics currently sells an at-home test.
Would be good for technology if they would be forced to at least divest Androidola. Ideally their ad monopoly would be broken but it seems a long shot
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> I would hang out in the Malaysian or Singaporean areas.

Not if all the billionaires are in New Zealand.
There are a lot. A few (this list is unaudited; we did a big dump and as we add a new one we verify that it should be on the list):

Hunter.io

AnyMailFinder

Lusha

Datanyze Insider

Find That Email

Voila Norbert

Hiretual

Find That Lead

Findemails.com

Uplead

Rocketreach

ContactOut

Discoverly

GetEmail

Sellhack

Clearbit Connect

CEO Email

LeadFeeder

Prospect.io

MailTester

Skrapp

apollo.io

Lead Fuze

ZoomInfo

Prophet

Linkedin Sales Navigator

Ringleads DMS Capture

Data.com

NinjaOutreach

Crunchbase

Mattermark

Builtwithin

Detective

Mention

Mailshake

Snov.io

Propeller CRM

Aeroleads

Mail tester

Vainu

Owler

Demodesk

minelead
Not sure I agree that the ownership/control structure for an organisation (in this case a hospital) determines whether it is "means of production" or not?
A couple of decades ago, I set forth to create something every day. It could be as simple as a bit of prose, writing some code, or as involved as a birdhouse. I haven't succeeded in creating every day since, but I did successfully create a habit of behavior that I cannot break. I've built games, websites, apps, written blogs, filed patents, built siege engines, been published, painted, carved wooden toys, remodeled houses, and much more. I've also started a couple of companies, one of which went through YCS17 and is still growing.

It's sad that there exists any cynicism around creation at all. Our ability to create might be the most human of our qualities. We literally make the world we live in.

The creations that excite me most are those that enable people to create even more. I really appreciate what PG is saying here, what he believes, and the dream factory that is YC.
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> there is no feature in Rust to force a function to not be removed

Can we use `pub` to make it public and not to be removed ?
Lazard 2020 Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage
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Yeah, you can't do that right now. But we do have plans to support self-hosting. We believe it will be table stakes for various customers.

We're a small team of 5 right now, though, and decided to focus on the core experience right now.
I had the same experience except modding Motocross Madness and Carmageddon.

Carmageddon was especially easy to mod because it was all self-documented data files in .txt format [1] and you could mess with literally everything from graphics to physics.

The huge difference between this and now is that if I wanted to mess around with any kind of game I would need an IDE - which for a kid without a technical parent/mentor/friend would be a non-starter.

[1] https://carmageddon.fandom.com/wiki/Data_file
$2000k = $2,000,000. And sorry, even that isn't enough to live comfortably in SF.
Zig has very little focus on safety and has had several regressions related to security and correctness, most of which Andrew has said he doesn't care about as much. This concerns me greatly.

The discord community operates like a cult (sound familiar, Rust community?) and any criticisms or anything not exuberantly positive results in a flame war.

I saw all of that happen several times so far with the community and it's ultimately what drove me away from the project altogether.