skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think China and Japan are alike in that regard. At least that wasn't my experience in China. I personally know they bought licenses for things like Matlab and TouchDesigner and whatnot. There are no local equivalents and local brands are not very highly respected. In my very short interning experience in Japan - thing were much more insular and they like their own Japanese brands
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Ask HN: Open sourcing infrastructure as code repo
I'm considering open sourcing our private infrastructure as code repository so others can learn from it and make contributions. We're a small nonprofit focusing on the education area.

Would you do it? Any security concerns? Advice?
You are taking a loan assuming:

- You will graduate
- Your diploma will get you a high paying job

If either of these assumptions fail, you are back to square one, poorer than someone who own nothing.
In the above stack LiveView doesn’t play that well with web components that render their own children, as it will remove those children when it rerenders. So you do kind of need shadow DOM.
Watch any EU parliament video and count how many people speak English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8aRZUFCxE

Even the speaker of the house doesn't.
President of the EU commission starts off in her language, briefly reads some English off a piece of paper and then switches back. Maybe 1 in 3 or 4 MEPs speak some English. It's very hard to watch. And mind you, in most EU countries regular people would have trouble following the English translation too, they'd need to find one in their language.

I'm not questioning what you said about those working in EU institutions, I'm sure that's true. But that's irrelevant, that's not what drives politics.
Stimulus Reflex already have a Django counterpart that uses the Stimulus Relex js and conventions. The package is django-sockpuppet.
Odd. I've been using F# for a UWP app since 2018.
NeoLife paid it...
I bet you don't need to evaluate the NLP model when you have direct access to the end result, Google Search.
Until recently I used them like that for collaborative projects with other people, but not for personal projects where I was the only participant.
Do you blog any of this or do any sort of writing on the topic. I think I could learn a lot from the way you are doing things.
Your application crashes. DOS does not.
Excel Imports and Exports in Laravel
This mindset of prohibiting chemical escapism from a society is not a valid strategy. All it does is move the problem, out of sight, to different substances. In the end the use of this strategy is in itself Meta. A attempt to escape, the real, uncomfortable discussions.
In this case the end of american, western, exceptionalism due to the constraints of resources and the transformation of the economic landscape by tech. Yes, those addicts are produced by the company's that stripped these people of a purpose and a place. I find it quite fitting that the Tech HQ city has a addict problem.
Making the world a better place, for us, making the world a labor camp with no escape for them.
Let's hope there is dharma.
There is a flag in your profile called "showdead" that you can turn on to see the comments that have been deleted. There might be some minimum karma requirement for this, I'm not sure.

But I've had it on for a while now and I usually read a few of the dead comments. I see a lot of incivility, inanity, very little in the way of a politely expressed, well-thought out but unpopular opinion.
It seems like some of the interpretations of quantum mechanics can be falsifiable with this method. Very Cool! In fact it looks like it would be possible to probe my favorite solution to the measurement problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-collapse_theory
Leary would be proud
Shhh we don't talk about that! The car industry brings lots of jobs and is nothing but good.
Well, she did Research while Google expected a PR piece. And it's obvious she couldn't fulfill Google's expectations, as the whole point of an ethics committee is to be critical, not just doing rubber-stamping.
Can I postulate that the problem with these kind of positions goes even deeper? Let's say we had a wonderful company which would create an unimpeachable ethics board and which enthusiastically endorsed the findings of said board. This is good for today but what about tomorrow? What about when the company comes up with a promising product which violates one of those ethics? What happens when the companies stock stagnates? What happens when the company is in financial trouble? What happens when the company is coming up with promising new products every day for years that could get it out of that financial trouble? What happens when ethnically minded managers have to argue day in and day out that we should let the company fail rather than dain to implement one of these profitable products which violates just a few of these ethics? Eventually, some combination of desperation and profit motive will break the damn.

And often it is a damn that need only break once. Corporate ethics as a whole seems contradictory. The only ethical rules which a company may obey in perpetuity are those that do not for long conflict with profit and those which are backed by effective laws.

Even when done with a positive intent, I fear creating positions such as this is begging for eventual corruption.
The overhead is really slim. I'm basically using issue comments as personal notes - the time consuming part is figuring out what to do, while turning that into a sentence of text and maybe a link or pasted example is a fraction of that effort. And the productivity boost I get from having useful notes is enormous.

It's particularly valuable for multi-tasking: I can have a lot more projects on the go at once if I don't have to remember details of what I was working on or where I had got to for each one.
She didn’t “refuse to fix it when asked”. She agreed with the proviso that she could have a meeting to figure out what she was and was not permitted to publish.

The response was to decline to meet and fire her.

It’s entirely plausible that the paper is bunk; however, when someone is willing to come down that hard to prevent an idea being published, I tend to err on the side of “worth finding out what”.
Looking at the latin or greek roots of the word is fine from a historical context, but I cant find any definition of democracy that doesnt sound somewhat like this one: "Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives". Its going to take a real stretch to not have the US fit that definition, whether or not you like how the Senate works, or find it fair.
Most communities are. HN included.
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It's funny, I only have used the program on Linux via wine.
Is the GNOME tool any better?
Right. This tension between developing Enlightenment values, which were becoming more liberal among Enlightenment cognoscenti, Beaumarchais, Goethe, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, and traditional values is quite evident at that time in writings and plays of the period. Ideas coming forth from these Enlightenment intellectuals spread like wildfire across Europe and elsewhere despite what today we'd consider a primitive and slow communications network.

For instance, Pierre Beaumarchais' 1784 play, 'La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro', was not only considered frivolous, almost salacious, by much of Viennese society at the time but also controversial by the fact that in 1786 only two years after Beaumarchais' play was first performed in France, one of their own, Mozart, had not only adopted the play into an operatic version, 'Le nozze di Figaro' (The marriage of Figaro) but also managed to have it staged.

Even today, we wouldn't expect readoption of a work to happen with such great speed. In an age when things and ideas usually moved at a much slower pace, it's little wonder Mozart was at the center of controversy.

(In my opinion, it's not only Enlightenment ideas and values that are interesting but also the enormous speed that they spread across both countries and languages. This makes the 20 or so years before and after the French Revolution so interesting from an historical perspective.)
America provides food and housing assistance for people living under extreme poverty.

Once you have a stable base it’s a matter of hard work.
Looking at the raw death counts 2020 is a clear outlier against all other years.
This comment chain is well said. There are more likely to be various random events that screw you over or suddenly put extra pressure on you at smaller companies, not to mention the lack of perks and compensation. Recently an analogy that I've come up with is index fund investing: Sure one can attempt all sorts of creative investment combinations/maneuvers, and sometimes they do make it big, but in the end, the most reliable and care-free way to grow your wealth is simply to follow the mainstream advice and go for the index funds, even though they "sound" boring af. They are recommended by the mainstream for a reason just like how people flock to big tech companies for a reason (at least this still applies in our current day and age). I've had some alternative ideas about my career with various excuses (e.g. I'd only work with a functional language), but increasingly I realize that I should probably just quit all the tossing around and go for such a path instead. It's similar with my investments: Had I not performed various stupid active trades here and there and just put my money into the index funds, or even just parked my money in cryptocurrency and held on to them, I would have got amazing, carefree returns.
And it doesn’t try to trick me into downloading the Reddit app on every single page load! Worth it just for that.
I tried to read this article, I really did. I tried to read the comments and to be emphatic. I really tried. I just do not feel pitty or any empathy towards anyone in the comments, or the author. I think I am emphatic towards the people I love because I actually deeply love my partner of many years, and my parents. But somehow the idea of homelessness disgusts me: I do not feel any positive emotion towards people who have experienced it, or are experiencing it. Maybe it is my upbringing: I did not grow up in a developed Western country (although I live in one one) but a developing country, where everyone is struggling to some degree, so the homeless there to me always seemed like they are homeless due to their own bad choices. The ones that beg are truly repulsive and I have my own experience of why I will never give them money: when I was a little kid I saw a drug addict begging and I stopped to give him cash out of pity. When I took out my wallet he became aggressive and wanted not only to take what I gave him but all my money. I was very scared, it was dark and late, and people around pretended nothing was happening and would have let him do it if I didnt board a randomly arriving bus! This lesson taught me that no one will help you in bad situations, bad people want to hurt you, and people who stop you for money want to scam you and exploit your naive pity. I was also mugged, twice, arround the same time by teenage boys who threatened my life both times. So I really cannot understand how people can feel empathy towards the not-well-off, especially as I myself was poor as my parents were struggling at the time and yet they didnt steal or beg or do dodgy things while the drug addict and those teenagers did. So either I am a psychopath, or everyone here truly is a Western naive person who has no idea how the world works even if they were homeless (to me being homeless in a Western country is something my brain cannot understand given that most such countries in Europe have wellfare states). Can someone help me understand? I am not trying to start a flamewar, I just want to know how can my opinion be so vastly different? Am I missing something here?
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After running the native ios reddit app through pihole I was shocked about how _little_ information was leaked to third parties or even reddit itself. Did I miss anything?
Gut-wrenching footage documents Arecibo telescope’s collapse
Odd indeed, given that .NET Native doesn't support it without a couple of hacks.

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/5780

https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/1096
>I also still can't believe the iPhone launched without 3G support!

The original iPhone also shipped without CDMA support. (no 1X, was GSM-only)
Synology NAS has a lot of good things to mention. But there are two down sides:

* it’s closed source, a security concern

* the encryption is bad. There is even apparently a universal key (unless you opt for not using its key management system)

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/11/synology-nas-encryption-f...
> I understand the concern over Timnit’s resignation from Google - Jeff Dean

That's just outright false. She was terminated, effective immediately.

Does anyone else find themselves losing a lot of respect for Jeff Dean in all this?
I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think it's actually as gloomy as that. Those kinds of articles help keep science in the news, which in turn keeps people interested in science, which hopefully leads to people considering careers in science.

Maybe these things bear fruit, maybe they don't, but at least now we know about them, and maybe it'll inspire someone somewhere.
IDK, a handful. The point I was trying to make is less about the selection of apps and more about the actual operating system.
I guess you never wrote DOS applications, nor used it on its prime days.
Here is the direct link to the footage. https://youtu.be/b3AASKr_iHc
Yes - F# provides its own async model via an `async` computation expression. But you can also use the TPL in .NET BCL. F# 6 will have native support for TPL via a `task` computation expression.

But honestly, its own async model is great - arguably better than TPL for business systems. It sacrifices a little top-end performance/power and in return you get a supremely clean abstraction.
There are a bunch of out-of-the-way gas stations in the US South that would benefit greatly from adding electric "pumps". They are generally located on vacation friendly roadways and are frequented mostly by travellers on their way to the beach.

Adding several electric recharge slots would be a great way to bring people and keep them there for 10-20 minutes. Restroom and snacks (or even meals) for 4-5 people plus you get to clean the bugs off of your windscreen. I personally make this trip every year (sometimes twice a year) and would love to see more electric refueling stops.
I think the rationale for ignoring per-capita is that you're talking about the wealth of a "single entity", the US. And, well, yeah... ok, I guess (ignoring the fact that, as you point out, GDP is more like income than money in the bank).

I agree that looking at it that way is meaningless for the purposes of figuring out whose populace is the financially healthiest, but... that's what people do, for some reason.
You can declare bankruptcy on the car loan. You can't on the student loan. Because of this, before you take out a car loan, the bank actually checks on how likely you are to pay it back. They don't loan you a $30k to buy a new Camry if you're 17 years old making minimum wage. They will happily loan you that much and more to go college even if you are, because they know you'll just be in debt forever no matter what.

We could fix the college loan problem practically overnight by making the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. Lenders would be on the hook for the risk they're assuming, as they should be. Universities would have to lower tuition because there wouldn't be an endless firehouse of money pointed at them to pay whatever they want. It would fix a lot.
Homelessness breaks my heart. If there's a more poignant indicator of how bad inequality has got, I don't know what it is. In London as in any big city you see homelessness existing next to massive, opulent, hugely flaunted wealth. It's an appalling indicator of how capitalism doesn't "trickle down" but sticks exactly where it is.
Peak McKinsey? “When do you need a chief restructuring officer?”
The Road to PWA – Part I
Everyday Israelis Express Support for Genocide to Abby Martin
On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.

Israeli-born human rights activist and anti-Zionist, Ronnie Barkan, explains why these attitudes dominate Israeli society.
I haven't seen Metafilter get described as 'toxic' before. Although I guess toxic things can happen anywhere if moderation systems fail or don't engage in time.
Arguably you should be testing behaviour rather than getters and setters. If a codepath requires a name formatted correctly, then that forms the basis of a test and an assertion. Otherwise you're introducing fragility by coupling your 'under the hood' stuff with your 'API' (so to speak).
The student debt crisis is suffered mainly by people who majored in non-technical fields from liberal arts colleges. There is a lack of jobs for people who have training in the humanities. That is unfortunate but that is not what I am suggesting.

If you take out a loan for professional training for a skill that is in high demand you will have little trouble paying it back. Software engineering is an example, but really any type of hard engineering training will relatively easily result in a relatively high paying job. There is such a high demand for those jobs in the US that we currently import many of those workers from China and India via H1B.
> Sounds like they're looking for assembly line programmers

Feels to me there are a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions about FAANG floating around in this thread, which I guess is not exactly surprising given the type of post this is (criticism of the "broken" interview process).

In your case it's more understandable if you wouldn't like working a conventional job, since you mentioned you're not neurotypical (though I guess you would most likely find work at most smaller software shops even more suffocating).

However, for the majority of commentators, it almost feels like some people find excuses to not even try, or have some sort of sour grape mentality/avert their eyes from the issue, if they feel themselves unlikely to pass the interview, even though they haven't spent the time required to master the algorithms questions at all. (Of course, there might also be people who simply find it quite hard to find such time, as mentioned in the article, which is understandable.)

My understanding is that those companies themselves also freely acknowledge that interviewing is hard. Due to the sheer volume of applicants, fast algorithms questions is the most reasonable compromise they can find at the moment. If you were in the position of the interviewer, it would also be hard for you to come up with an alternative that works for all sides involved. So instead of complaining about this reality, one needs to face up to the challenge.

I would conjecture that most lower-paying "programming" jobs, e.g. writing enterprise Java, are much much more "assembly line" and "soul-sucking" than jobs at top-notch tech companies, which should offer a decent amount of creativity and freedom for one as an ordinary employee.

It is actually a paradox: You seem to be unfree and doing something pointless when you were grinding interview questions. But after you've made it, it would suddenly be very easy for you to have a lot of freedom and security in your life with all the capital you have accumulated. In a sense it's like how college entrance exams work. It's unfortunate but again, if no better practical solution could be found at the moment, one just has to face the reality and do it. It could even be fun. Talking about "ideals" wouldn't get you anywhere in the real world.

The one valid thing I think you may get by not working for FAANG is complete freedom in shaping what you're working on. However this is hard anywhere unless you're the founder/executive of the company yourself. If that's what you're after and you have the safety to pursue it, sure. However, in terms of working as an ordinary employee, there are very few possible reasons why a place could be better than big tech.
Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it
Ok, so basically she is a bullshit social engineer, masquerading as an 'AI ethics researcher'

"Gebru’s draft paper points out that the sheer resources required to build and sustain such large AI models means they tend to benefit wealthy organizations, while climate change hits marginalized communities hardest. “It is past time for researchers to prioritize energy efficiency and cost to reduce negative environmental impact and inequitable access to resources,” they write."

-- Has she calculated the opposite alternatives? What were the costs of the previous models? How about the alternative of not-having ai-backed search at all. Would worse results be actually worse energy wise? If you are not including the substitues/alternative costs it is just sloppy research, or just done purposely on bad faith.

"One is that shifts in language play an important role in social change; the MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, for example, have tried to establish a new anti-sexist and anti-racist vocabulary. An AI model trained on vast swaths of the internet won’t be attuned to the nuances of this vocabulary and won’t produce or interpret language in line with these new cultural norms."

-- Ok, basically she is pissed as AI is picking normal language, that people use, and not using the vocabulary that is in vogue on certain political circles. Basically censure, and forced speech.

Why does google even bother at this point? It seems that certain circles just don't want to have positive constructive way, but it is becoming: "my way, or you are X", with "X" being whatever prerogative they will through at you.

I think social engineering b.s. should be kept as far away as possible from science. This is turning true ai research into a masquerade to push certain political agendas.
I've learned since to use |& instead (on bash):

command --help |& less

Less characters to type.
We’ve started adopting ReasonML on the server side (using nodejs as the end runtime). Anybody have ides on why ReScript/ReasonML on the server side isn’t more popular or targeted? Initially I considered F# and Fable but decided I wanted to adopt the same stack for the client side as well.
One potential implementation: at the top of each thread, after the metadata for the thread itself and before the comment box, are a list of ‘Related discussions’ with a bulletpoint list of related HN threads.
Alcoholism was extremely common in the past from where I come from. High society acceptance as long as the person didn't wreak too much havoc. It has been idolized in folklore songs, books and stories for children. Just part of the life. Kids drank sometimes too.

Fast forward today - access to alcohol is even better (apart from minors). Yet society doesn't spiral into alcoholic madness apart form few fringe individuals. Maybe education about the inevitable addiction is better? Or people are smarter than peasants 200 years ago? Or whole cultural mindset about getting wasted as part of being social in nearest pub shifted.