skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify: I am by no means "anti-science"—exactly the opposite! Obviously, science is an unspeakably valuable epistemological tool and process (and, as I see it, the inarguable best way to reach correct conclusions about the world). I'm no crackpot or conspiracy theorist who thinks vaccines don't work or the earth is flat or climate change isn't real.

All I'm saying is that, as I see it, society's idea of "science" often conflates it with scientists and/or institutions themselves (hence the "argument to authority" part of my comment above). This is, of course, the opposite of what science means, which is why it bothers me enough to have written these comments :-P
Ah? In the Dutch version she drinks it:
"Then she drank several big gulps. Anika, who knew that some bottles had written on them "External", was getting anxious. 'But Pippi' she said, 'how do you know that there is nothing toxic?' 'Oh I'll find out tomorrow', Pippi said cheerfully. 'If I'm not dead by then, it's not toxic and any small child can drink it'."

Which version are you talking about? The French?
Whose positions are unpopular? Last I checked most of the elections are pretty evenly split at the national level (+/- 10%).
Wow, didn't know the word "ghostwriting" until now. You write some technical materials that way? I guess there is not much way to have an recurring income from that.
Are you allowed to publish/reuse any of such creation under your real name later?
For recipes, I've had good luck with looking on yummly.
I would say that you probably do not know what you did wrong having done it in Excel. Stuff gets complicated really fast in Excel thus it’s much easier to do something that you can’t possibly debug and thus live in blissful ignorance.
Open borders isn't their policy either. A census that just counts people isn't their policy either. Source: censuses I've taken under Democratic exrcutives asked me plenty of other questions.

And even if those things were their policy, if the bureaucracy is still the same, what difference does it really make? The article concerns itself with links between how a bureaucracy is run and policies. This thread of conversation deals with people's faith in a "system".
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Sure. But point is saying “both sides” right now is a harmful thing to say. The current Republican party is doing far more damage to democracy than any other in recent memory.
> You are quoting someone, but I want to add on that "legislate from the bench" is a phrase that is invoked when the speaker doesn't agree with an outcome but never when they agree with an outcome. It means nothing.

I like the outcome of Roe v. Wade but see it as an example of legislating from the bench.
In that case, the Senate can always just refuse to confirm a new justice whenever the majority isn't the same party as the president.
Well, since everyone is claiming that with Barrett's nomination that it will turn into a Conservative majority, what does that tell you about what it looks like before that?
Nobody is gerrymandering to give minorities districts. People are either splitting minorities between several districts in order to keep them from having a say, or packing them all into one district to keep surrounding districts from having Democratic majorities (and to attack people having a problem with the shape of the district as attackers of the only district representing that minority.)

> Should people in DC maintain the right to vote? IMO they should, but it’s become a political issue not a democracy issue.

Only in the 21st century do voting issues only become political when they can be looked at in terms of race.

"Political" means about the process of governance, not "when minorities or women have a complaint."
Take a look at the national defense budget or each city’s police budget if you think collective safety is below individual freedoms. We clearly put more resources towards collective safety than individual freedoms.
It uses the term "free Persons" but the context is "their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons".

So "all other Persons", i.e. slaves, were counted.
Modern C++ can be a joy to write, and is fine for a lot of tasks. It's hard to beat the combination of performance characteristics and higher-level constructs.

The issue with C++ is that it's unsafe by default. Foot-guns abound. The right way is to make everything safe by default and provide an escape hatch when needed, e.g. Rust's unsafe or C#'s unmanaged.

Unfortunately, there's no way to "fix" C++ to be safe-by-default. Too much legacy code out in the world and no appetite in the standards committee for backwards-incompatible changes in future versions of the standard.

It seems obvious to me that e.g. C++2X should entirely drop some older, broken, unsafe concepts, e.g. auto_ptr is the first thing that comes to mind, but there's all kinds of gnarly bits that need to go, and just allow older code to continue compiling under previous versions of the standard.

That does leave libraries in a tough place - if your project wants to move to the (never going to exist) backwards-incompatible C++2X, they would need to update or remove all libraries not compatible with the new version.

But this seems like a way to eventually move the entire ecosystem to a better place. Possibly the only way.
Publisher, distributor, and platform are legal definitions that have been worked out through case law over a long period of time. Blocking content on a political basis as a non-internet content provider would be more than enough to get you treated as a publisher.

In pre-section 230 law, even blocking content for vulgarity was enough to get you treated as a publisher, that decision was Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co.

Eugene Volokh has a good summary of this at https://reason.com/2020/05/28/47-u-s-c-%C2%A7-230-and-the-pu.... You might want to read it so you don't make completely uninformed statements on the internet. You should stop doing that.
What's being cut short isn't waste but the number of times that a non-responsive house can be visited. It's not some grand excise of waste, it's saying that the administration doesn't want to follow the procedures layout out by the census department to get an accurate count given previous data.
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Yeah, but the number of people who actually need to use those units do know how to name them.
The author seems to enjoy his structure, but organizing my day into 30-minute chunks would drive me insane. I have a hard time getting anything done if I have a meeting on my calendar that I know is going to stop me in 2 hours.
Of all the early internet, I do miss Usenet the most. So much of it worked because it was really managed by sysadmins - if someone was a problem, spamming or griefing - was to simply email the sysadmin where they were posting and the admin would usually block them from Usenet. As public internet as a utility became a thing, the bigger isps couldn't manage at that scale. There's more to it, but as the sysadmins lost control, usenet was overwhelmed by spam.
The dependency manager for C and C++ is called apt-get.
The goalposts are over here.
The original question asked

> Is it more to do with poverty than race
While also striking the 3/5 compromise, so I don't think it changes the reading.
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Plenty of talk about CO2 and green energy etc. Didn't see anything about the actual fuel costs saved.

According to the article, the equivalent ship would use 40 tons of fuel per day and cross the Atlantic in 7 days. Assuming this is bunker fuel at approximately $340/ton, the total savings would be $11200 USD.

With an added delay of 5 days, I can appreciate why this hasn't been attempted for purely economic reasons. Who knows what the actual costs and maintenance will add up to in the end?
Crypto enthusiasts have been trying to create alternative to fiat currencies. Search for “digital gold”. But they all suffer from having to trust an entity which eventually leads them to be shutdown by the governments .
Building a decentralised trust mechanism which can be used over the internet has been a hard problem till POW.
Republican presidents have been notoriously bad at nominating justices that interpret the law as written, instead of projecting their own personal views and agenda onto them. Anthony Kennedy and David Souter both being particular bad appointees, John Roberts is also pretty bad.

Merrick Garland did not have the votes to be confirmed.

Let's not pretend that the democrats would not ram through a justice to replace RBG in the exact same scenario where they have the White House and the Senate.
No they shouldn't, it's not rest of the world's fault that you use the imperial system and don't learn decimal prefixes.
It would have been nice and simple if Swift had used Smalltalk syntax from the start. It's quite another thing to reject it at first, and then also bolt it on later alongside the non-Smalltalk syntax.
Do you remember ‘Spectre’?

http://macintoshgarden.org/games/spectre
Well, the 3/5 compromise has been removed, but even still are you arguing that immigrants aren't people or aren't free, i.e. not slaves.
> The goal should be to outlaw gerrymandering

Precisely one party is proposing laws and suits that push in this direction.
I also use a digitalocean droplet for my development, but I'm programming in Python, bash, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL. I wouldn't do this if I were using Java, Java without an IDE is painful.
Hey there, I had a look at your website and if I could provide some small feedback? Add an image here or there in your blog posts! You could start with free (but nice) photos from unplash or similar. You clearly have a lot of great content, but there's no initial visual "hook" to get me interested. Hope this helps and keep it up!
Modern JavaScript is amazing. Modern JavaScript is trash
I was quoting the parent - entirely agree and it’s an obviously facetious point.

Frankly the amount of misinformation circulating about GDPR of in particular from US techbros is astonishing. Nobody should be having a serious issue complying.
I know! I never thought I’d see unmarked government agents roaming American cities disappearing people [1]. Maybe the uproar over a private company enforcing their TOS is actually meant to distract from the true authoritarian threat?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
Shock Result? Rust faster than Python in a single test of file parsing
Some good food for thought in this. The article's final suggestion is interesting -- that a Green New Deal must embrace a form of Fordism to achieve its aims. It seems counter-intuitive that an industrial ideology which got us into these climate-shifting levels of mass production and over-consumption in the first place, could be the same one to get us out. But there seems little room in the mainstream discourse for any more radical approach so they might unfortunately be more correct than I'd hope.
I used Excel professionally for 20+ years as a quant in major banks. Mostly as a front end to mathematical models in C++. Always been amazed how a 40 years old UX paradigm is still being used virtually unchanged in modern systems.

Spreadsheets are truly ubiquitous in the financial industry, and for 20 years I've been struggling with exactly the same issues mentioned in the article and in other comments here.

The problem is that neither Excel, nor most alternatives treat a spreadsheet as code that it essentially is. And being code, it needs to
- be source control friendly
- be testable
- have business logic (formulas) decoupled from presentation

Only then one can seriously consider using a spreadsheet as part of any production grade system.

For the past couple of years I've been working on https://ellx.io - a platform for visual reactive programming and a new generation spreadsheet/notebook designed to solve exactly this pain point.

Here are some examples of what you can do with it:

[1] https://ellx.io/dmaevsky/monte-carlo

[2] https://ellx.io/matyunya/tensorflowjs-simple-demo

[3] https://ellx.io/ellx-hub/plot
Building software for new Google platforms is like farming on the river delta. Yeah, soil is good ... but any day the river will change its path and wash all your work into the fucking ocean.

I'll never do it.
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Okay, let's take Roblox as an example since they're about to IPO. They've clearly made an incredible product and built a developer ecosystem around it.

When they were starting several years ago, how would have tested "the idea"?
> Is it more to do with poverty than race?

I believe they were specifically addressing this part of the parent comment. A benevolent reading of the reply would not point towards this rather blatantly racist interpretation of its meaning.
What amazes and delights this non scientist, is the relatively small magnifications required to examine life in such radically revealing ways.

So many of the images that are captivating me have been taken at between 50 and 100 times magnification.

This makes me think about how close human perception is to the ability to gain access to a vastly expanded understanding of our world, and yet we seem to have been made to live in a different scale of existence, one that maybe makes us the ideal scale for shaping the world around us with physics, but I am prompted by these images to wonder how much more sympathetic with our environment we might have been, had we ability to see even a little way into the micro scale.

As a former photographer and in advertising, but as a child you wouldn't have bet against me pursuing a career in the sciences and particularly biology and botany, I must particularly rue the relatively poor availability of photographic tools for micro photography. Macro and micro lenses almost disappeared from catalogues about the time when autofocus was introduced. Minolta sold the only 1-3 times magnification autofocus lens and I've never seen one. Only last month, Sony started selling the adapter that can enable Sony Alpha cameras to attach and correctly use old A mount lenses.

It's not quickly easy to find information about photomicography, but in case it's missed the Small World website links to this very good resource:

https://www.microscopyu.com/
I'm assuming by right to vote you mean congressional representation. Since certainly residents of DC do vote for president, among other leaders.

Of course congressional representation for DC is a political issue. Framing this as an issue of democracy doesn't tell the whole story. DC is a federal district and by design has no representation in Congress. This was a political decision.

Congressional action to grant DC statehood outright has no precedent and seemingly goes against the constitution. If residents of DC want the same congressional representation as states, then retrocession to return parts of DC to Maryland or Virginia is the main constitutionally viable option - this has been done before. Congress granting DC statehood outright would be a misuse of their power. This whole thing is rife with politics.
Rust is pretty widely used and in my (biased fanboy) opinion, strictly better than C++ in almost every way.

(Not quite _every_ way: lack of per-container allocators, and less advanced generic/metaprogramming facilities are two particular pain points)
maybe I got the date wrong but web 2.0 is ajax/myspace/fb

I was talking about the phpbb era
I think I read about it in Eric Ries 'Lean Startup' or so. He narrated his experience of building a product, making a signup page for that product. Nobody pressed the sign-up button. In this case the signup page with the button (and then transfering to 'get notified when it is ready') would have been enough.
Our PC lab was networked like this, with a row of about 10 computers.

I distinctly remember moving the PC desktop forward, which pulled the coax from the t-connector, and all the remaining PCs down the line would lose connectivity.

Lots of angry DOOM players losing their network connection.
It does feel fun to bust out a few Project Euler challenges with OCaml; and as a reasonable experience programmer you should be able to do that after those 2-3 casual evening sessions.

It's been a few years since I last did OCaml. At that point, the ecosystem was a bit more mature for Haskell. More libraries, better editor support, etc.

In some platonic sense I like small languages, but I had come to appreciated all the extra comfort Haskell provides. OCaml was just too much in the uncanny valley of being almost Haskell, but then missing some nice-to-haves. I might grumble, but OCaml is a pure pleasure compared to C++.

Btw, they finally added (optional) stacktraces to Haskell a few years ago.

About all the language extensions in Haskell: I like them, but they can be overwhelming. Luckily, the language extensions your libraries use has almost never any bearing on what language extensions your client code uses.

So you can ignore the extensions, and still use your favourite libraries.
Coral is powered by an Edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), which wipes the floor with GPUs like the Jetson Nano when it comes to running Tensorflow:

https://blog.usejournal.com/google-coral-edge-tpu-vs-nvidia-...

...and Google is pretty invested in TPUs, since it uses lots of them in house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
> Most of the sites were developed using an HTML pre-processor or on an Apple IIe.

IIe? Sure you don't mean the iMac G3?
> AV companies specifically ...

AV/security specific reasons:

First serious customer was Symantec with their Norton Antivirus. Norton AV 2007 was their first version that used Sciter (named HTMLayout then). And Norton AV was market leader at that time.

Symantec did first security audit of Sciter source code.

You (AV vendor) have UI engine that fits most of UI requirements (lightweight, supports i18n by nature, flexible to screen resolution, HTML/CSS is well known in UI) and, which is most valuable, secure. So decision is quite obvious.

Yet, psychological aspect.

AV product must look modern at any time. User may not trust AV app that looks outdated - that rises suspicion that it is not adequate to recent threats - so it must look modern. Therefore ability to modernize UI by CSS without touching anything else (happens at least once per year) is the key requirement. UI systems/frameworks that use designs nailed down to pixel grids are too expensive on the long run in such circumstances.
That wasn’t the stated reason given by the party at that time. The line sold to the public was ‘can’t confirm in an election year,’ which can be found in many public statements by Republicans at that time.

Going through with a nomination while voting has actually started and announcing it one hour after the death of a justice is pure hypocrisy, plain and simple.
Absolutely, and also program change/note on/note off those would already enable a whole pile of applications.

It's typical Mozilla. We won't do 'X' because 'Y' but when you drill down they could easily do 'X' but they won't and 'Y' is just whatever they can throw up to get away from it without having to dig in and get it over with in the best possible way. If users want something and you start throwing up technical reasons why you won't instead of can't then you've lost that user if alternatives are available.

This is how you kill your market share.

An interesting bit from one of my favorite IT related book, the Soul of a new machine revolves around the 'mode' bit. The engineers all want a 'mode' bit because it will make their life that much easier, and they keep throwing up flak why it has to be that way and the CEO keeps his foot down and says 'no mode bit, period'. 'I don't care how you get it done but that's the constraint and you will have to deal with that constraint'. And so in the end they find a way.

With all the smarts at Mozilla if they really wanted to get it done, I'm sure they'd find a way. The existence proof is Chrome, and I've yet to hear of a random website corrupting a synth's firmware using Chrome.
My experience of EY as a customer has been bad. Created a digital solution in the security sector and EY wouldn't be damned to use it themselves. Also there internal billing between entities is expensive and strange
The not needing to stay inside is true of almost all draggable controls on iOS btw. And you can combine that with multitouch. In a music application you might have 4 or 5 parameters under your fingers, nowhere near the original controls which are small and close together. Seems to work everywhere.
I assume that most militaries have satellites with radars that can penetrate most ceilings to see planes in hangars etc.

Most militaries also have access to some high orbit satellites that have 24x7 coverage of an area, and then some low orbit satellites which fly overhead every few hours and can grab high res shots. The combination makes it very hard to sneak a secret plane from one building to another between orbits, since the 24/7 coverage will see it (albeit at lower res).
How much tax did you have to pay on that?
Reading Qur'an in mobile phone, is it permissible? Reading Qur'an without wudu?
You are right, it is not necessary to be effective. I just feel like having ability to reason about tools you use is more important than any language you learn. New developers should care less about languages, care more about fundamental things(could be anything depending on their work, not necessarily ‘deep’ stuff but its not a programming language imho)
Sharepoint? <spits out glass of water>
I wonder would a compile time switch that enbales 'safe by default' be an option. At least then it means programs could transition to becoming fully able to compile in this safe mode and only let subsets (e.g. certain files in a project or old libraries) use the unsafe by default mode. It would be less of a sharp shock and could allow people time to transition, and know where to spend efforts to become safer.
OffTopic: How come HN did not print medium.com only and prints medium.com/the-developers-journey?
Not paying your electricity or cable bill may result in denial of service. Not responding to the census has no obvious consequences.
The Senate has traditionally accepted the president's nominee assuming s/he was qualified. Garland had previously been out forward by the GOP as an example of a qualified and respected judge. And let's not forget that had Clinton won, the GOP was determined to keep that seat on the court empty for 4 years. They said as much. And when they refused to even consider Garland they also said that their newly made-up rule would apply if the shoe was on the other foot. They clearly didn't mean that, and the rationale for confirming Barrett that you are parroting above is just that, a rationale. An excuse. Don't pretend the rest of us are stupid. We know exactly why your position on this has changed and it has everything to do with the fact that your side has the temporary power to do what it wants.
I'm curious to see the pitch video submitted for YC application. So if you can share it, that'd be awesome. Just want to see how you simplified the offering in your video.
Robert Santos works for the Urban Institute which the LA times has called 'leading liberal think tank'. [1]

It's impossible to read a comment about the census without looking at the political affiliation of who makes the comment.

It's also unfortunately that articles like this don't make these affiliations clear. Gives fuel to 'fake news' and 'liberal media' arguments.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-12/news/mn-7095_1_urban-...
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The right to repair is in my opinion a controversial topic.
It basically boils down to costs of labor in western societies. Essentially it is too expensive to store parts, manuals and trained labor to repair products.

It is way cheaper to just produce a new product from scratch.