skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically the XOR function has been the simple example that many ML algorithms can't handle. Just imagine a higher dimensional XOR with outliers, and you have a pretty good use case for DL with limited predictors.
Interestingly, in California it seems that “speed traps” are regulated and illegal. I get the impression, that is not the case in most other states. http://archive.redding.com/news/cop-talk-speed-traps-are-ill...

There are some incredibly forward thinking laws here. Non-compete being illegal, lane splitting for motorcycles is explicitly legal, etc. Of course, tons of stupidity too.
If you know C you 'know' Pascal. What the best thing about Pascal (and its successor Delphi) was the blazing fast compilation time and I am not sure that freePascal has that.

Also what I really hate about Pascal is it is dishonest. It tells you it is very structured and your code will be better because of limited expressiveness. But then the 'writeln' 'function' needs to be intruduced at the compiler level - you cannot write such a function in the Pascal grammar. (maybe with freepascal you can nowadays)

What I liked though is that it didnt have the empty statement ';' so you really had to understand the semantics. Sometimes you were not allowed to end you statements with ';' (since they were ended by the block, so this would require the emptystatement). I think freepascal does not have this feature anymore (which is the thinking changing).

And just one more thing: Personally I would try to learn ADA before diving into Pascal.
That is going away
> I also recall reading a paper that got into implementing a GC on silicon for a graph rewriting based architecture

Not that, but still interesting: the Intel iAPX 432[0] was a (failed) processor from 1981 designed with high level languages in mind (specifically Ada). It supported bit-level aligned, variable length instruction, but also a built in GC and type tagging system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
I keep a separate phone next to home PC and enroll that for 2FA as well. That’s as secure as a sticky note on monitor, that is to say it’s airgapped.
I'm a physician in a hospital that has literally entire floor units - plural - occupied by nothing but dyspnea, a respiratory step-down unit that has become an expansion of the ICU, residents pulled off of every non-internal medicine training program to supplement the internal medicine teams, fellows pulled out of their training programs to supplement the hospitalists, and an ICU so packed that it looks like a bathroom at football stadium.

Eh, I probably would've noticed something's up.
I would want to rephrase that. Amazon acquired Goodreads because it was cheaper to do so than to allow a good service to continue, and prevents those referrals from going to any site other than Amazon. To me, this sounds like textbook anti-competitive behavior, and grounds for Goodreads to be split off from Amazon.
> Anything involving fines needs to be absolutely 100% infallible.

No it doesn't: not even criminal trials, with the possibility of the death sentence, are done to that standard.

It can be done to the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" or even "balance of probabilities" / "preponderance of the evidence" which the civil trials tends to be. Given that it's 'only' fines involved, then the latter is often used for traffic violations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=access_VERB would seem to support the claim.
Can not resist. The tension between 'basic feature set' and an admittedly superficial reading of the docs is very funny. The manifesto links to https://github.com/commercialhaskell/rio#readme and urges us to use the rio library to get started. Upon opening the rio link and scanning for a list of the 'basic feature set', I stumble upon the first block of quoted code. After removing 39 eoln characters in respect for the HN audience, it reads:

"Our recommended [language extensions] defaults are: AutoDeriveTypeable BangPatterns BinaryLiterals ConstraintKinds DataKinds DefaultSignatures DeriveDataTypeable DeriveFoldable DeriveFunctor DeriveGeneric DeriveTraversable DoAndIfThenElse EmptyDataDecls ExistentialQuantification FlexibleContexts FlexibleInstances FunctionalDependencies GADTs GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving InstanceSigs KindSignatures LambdaCase MonadFailDesugaring MultiParamTypeClasses MultiWayIf NamedFieldPuns NoImplicitPrelude OverloadedStrings PartialTypeSignatures PatternGuards PolyKinds RankNTypes RecordWildCards ScopedTypeVariables StandaloneDeriving TupleSections TypeFamilies TypeSynonymInstances ViewPatterns"

39 language extensions just to get started. This screams 'incredibly complicated', even if perhaps reality is rather more mundane. Consider the 40th language extension: GradualTyping, so perhaps those that would rather write code about data than about types using a half baked and evolving type language (which taken to its logical conclusion will have to become a full fledged theorem prover in the Coq / Idris / Agda / Lean lineage anyways) could get their jobs done.

Wish you guys all the best!
I LOVED this story when I first came accros it whilst studying human behaviour- many years ago.

It shows how (the vast majority of) people can be so easily manipulated if only you cater to their self interest and greed.
Thanks! I still don’t really get it, but telling me I need the Lagrangian formalism is helpful, and tells me what I need to study in order to really understand Noether's theorems.

I’ve heard of the Lagrangian before, but my knowledge of physics is probably somewhere around the level of someone who has only just finished the first year of their degree, at least judging by the modules my alma mater lists for their physics degree (I got Software Engineering from them 14 years ago, all my physics knowledge since then is personal geekery).
There is a bit of survivorship bias there, I've seen a lot of Java projects fail, but the blame is only partly on the language, really its the fact that there are so many developers, and the pareto distribution of good to bad java programmers. That and business do not know what the f*ck they are doing. I've seen really good java devs at work, the software they produce is amazing, but the code and structure is incomprehensible, they are masters and I am a mere mortal. Clojure on the other-hand is simpler, higher level, more expressive, but you can still shoot your foot, just like java.
US Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
How did talk radio solve this problem?
You'd think so, but people have been prosecuted for warning other drivers about them.
Fortunately, it’s coming to Steam and GOG as well.

https://cyan.com/games/myst/
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Thanks for this! To be clear, I said that "I probably wouldn't code".

1. This is a personal preference because of the benefits.
2. I also think the expansiveness of no-code tools now has expanded drastically (e.g. check out the type of platforms and marketplaces being recreated via platforms like Bubble).
3. I said "probably" because I think the need for bespoke code will increasingly decline - at least for earlier iterations. However, there are clear exceptions.

Overall, I think we agree but I'm probably more optimistic over the long term prospects lol.
Because of this post I went looking at a backup of my LibraryThing data as well (it's "more fresh", been trying to convert) and it seems just as messy; community threads going back years.

The LT JSON export looks well-formed however, the book records I see are quite vast in content/data/metadata and would probably be a nice python fit. I'm not sure if I could import this with the LT webUI, but it's a nice looking JSON backup nonetheless.
A lot of e-commerce sites will take PayPal these days. I like to use that vs giving my credit card information. Granted, I prefer to use things like Apple Pay but there are circumstances where PayPal is the only indirect payment form I have in common with a site
It's a metaphor or analogy, which is a perfectly commonplace and legitimate form of argumentation.

> I think it's not just new users. It's also new content/files. Existing users uploading more pictures can also generate revenue, right?

Well, no; if it's an unlimited usage plan, then there's no more revenue from existing users, but they become more costly to support as time goes on, making the system ever more unsustainable and destined for collapse.
The Open Book and the E-Book FeatherWing
Welp..If you just need the make a book list features, i made an alternative a while back.

https://bookshulf.com/
> I can’t hire compiler people with right skills.

You can hire bright, motivated and mature people and teach them the skills they need. Academia doesn't exist to provide profit-maximizing, ready inputs to business. They produce people who have the skills to (hopefully) be able to grow into any position.
If Preston edited like Quackity
Android apps are usually written in Java, and more recently in Kotlin. These kind of apps are quite easily reverse engineered, because java binaries are not machine code binaries, rather java byte code. Today's IDEs will decompile the java byte code in no time, giving you access to the source code.

The only line of defense the developers have is to obfuscate the code, but that only means that you will get access to a version of the source code where the original name of the variables, functions, classes was changed to abstract names so that code is harder to read. Even so, you are in much better state that going through disassembling an ELF binary.
They don't have processes. Only threads.
It's actually not clear to me (even from the will itself, which is just about legible in the image) that he intended it to be announced as a competition.

One could read it as a donation to the largest single Toronto family, i.e. a PR(family)G for a likely quite destitute household.

Although, I suppose, there would not really be a reason to delay for ten years in that case. (It could be 'most in the ten years leading up to my death'.)
It "isn't seen as a credible thread" because it's immoral.

Sequencing plays a major role here. And while that may seem somewhat arbitrary, it is significant.

(Similar case, that, for some reason tech people have entirely too much trouble understanding: Announce "I'm going to shoot this gun at that target". Person, having heard you, walks and stands in front of the target. Are you still allowed/morally right to shoot?)
Is a like -> is like a?

Like never appears in the original article.
Wanting something, and it being practical, are entirely different things. That's the trouble with slogans. They don't get us anywhere.
As a blogger this is one major problem I have been facing.Youtube eating my traffic and providing lower cpm
No, sets. Sets are amazing. I still miss them to this day. Pascal also had sub ranges long before C# and the type system was very good. Delphi dereferenced its object model be default, so you could use dots rather than the awkward ^. Of pascal (-> in c++ and C)
I think every state has a “lost money” system, but some do have a time limit for the obvious reason that people die after never claiming it.
What source do you use for books and cover images? I’m building a project around book covers and currently looking at open library API. Google’s is good but the terms don’t allow charging for anything. Goodreads is deprecating theirs.
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If your password manager is compromised you are screwed.

When looking at the actual attack vectors though it is vastly improved:

Mitigated - Online attacks on your account at any service

Mitigated - In person attacks on your account due to post-it notes

Mitigated - Losing your phone which was the only way you could generate a one time password

All this drama is mitigated, turning a disaster into a 5 second recovery.
I think that the traditional card/banking companies who handle transactions are probable stopping any innovation in this area. They have a working model and no reason for innovation if it works. The newspapers and traditional banking are slowly bleeding/dying here in DK so perhaps they need to die off before something new can take their place.
Well, ok, sorry about that then. I'm much more into the "musical" part of ethnomusicology than into the philosophical/ cultural/political aspects, which I find completely uninteresting. But good for you if you find interest in it. I thought you were trolling due to the 3rd book, whose title sounds like a joke to me. As in "is dog barking literature?"; of course it isn't, literature and music are, pretty much by definition, things that humans do.
There’s also “low balance” fees. You have less than $300 (or whatever) in your account? That’s $5/month.
Implementations sucked. They were bit vectors, limited to one machine word in length. So they were 16, 32 or 64 limited depending on where your program ran.
Looks cool. Will check it out.
Ah that may be related to an expired CSRF token. Could you try refreshing? Hope that works!
Workers riot at Wistron iPhone plant in India over shorted pay
Is it illegal? I’m 100% certain their TOS say they can change them at any time for any reason.

Not to mention that almost every bank has fees too. Overdraft fees are charging you because you didn’t have money!
It's also mostly reading, which is hard to do over again compared to passive cutscenes
>"I launched MediaFire as an unlimited storage provider in 2006."

Oh hello there. Best wishes and hope life is wonderful for you.

The company that saved me big bucks on Amazon S3 fees that were absolutely insane. Yet the same company that completely ignores requests to fix disappearing files that remain in disappeared state despite re-upload.
Goodreads also has something similar : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43056033-harry-potter

There is an explanation under "About the author" section :

This "author" was created to segregate those items which have ISBNs but are not actually books. For more information, see the manual and/or start a thread in the Librarians Group.

When an item which is not a book is imported via ISBN into Goodreads, it does no good to delete it: the item will only be re-imported as long as it remains on the feeder site. (Often these are book-related items which are assigned ISBNs by book publishers so that they can be tracked through their book systems.)
Front-end? JavaScript.

Back-end? Python or Go, or maybe JavaScript
Since the past few months I have been searching for a Goodreads alternative. Something that only keeps my books. I don't care about the social features that much. And I think this is it. I am going to donate a tiny bit right away!

Although, I just tried importing my Goodreads export into Open Library and I get the following "Internal Error":

> Hmm...
> Sorry. There seems to be a problem with what you were just looking at.
> We've noted the error xxxx-xx-xx/yyyyyy and will look into it as soon as possible. Head for home?

Anyone else facing this issue?
Yes (same in Ontario, Canada generally). The owner gets the civil fine, but there are no demerit points put on anyone's license.

If one is pulled over for speeding (or anything else), then the officer can identify the driver and they get points as well.

I think points are used as an (dis)incentive for people who would be otherwise be willing to just cut a cheque. Too many points and you start getting insurance problems.

* https://www.ontario.ca/page/understanding-demerit-points

Seems to be somewhat common in a few jurisdictions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)
Physical Pain Preferred to Hard Thought
Zodiac Killer's cipher that has stumped law enforcement has been solved
We have lots of that already, but it's more "protect the rich" than "protect our IT workers"
It’s even more bizarre because things like Patreon and SMS text authentication weren’t around in 2002 and hardly even in 2012.

Might as well criticise Tim Bernes-Lee for not developing the HTTPS spec in the 80s
It's something I'd really like to do yes, though was not sure where to source the synopsis from. I wasn't sure on the copyright ramifications of scraping from the likes of Amazon/Goodreads, and only very few books are listed on public domain sites like wikipedia :/ But I am going to explore this more. Thank you for trying it out -- and glad you liked it!
TypeScript and React - these jobs expect more junior people, are fastest to find, the firm will educate you, and it pays the most.

And IMHO it's the best language and ecosystem you can get into today.
Except that they did not pay for their fair share of a limited resource but for an unlimited amount of it.
How do I get access to free trial
80% of global transactions clear in dollars

A nation can either earn dollars or get a credit line from the US. Credit lines come with strings attached. Bolinsaro changed his policy on regime change in Venezuela on approximately the same day a credit line was approved.
UPDATE: it looks like m.facebook.com now shows the same as mbasic.facebook.com. They are probably reorganizing their websites.
Would like to try it!! Great going!!
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That's true. I should add /r/Sino to that list. I also subscribe to ChinaTalk, but I'm not sure how valuable a it is for really gauging what goes on in that part of the net. Unfortunately, I can't read Chinese, so I have to trust someone to translate and aggregate that content in the end.

I haven't tried anything outside of US, China (these two being the two major geopolitical players), and Russia (because I am from there and understand the language). I would love to expand that list, but my time is limited.

Another factor is that reading American commentary is entertaining because I live here and am immersed in the culture. The same goes for Russia. I haven't been able to make this work with China: there is a mass of cultural material that I'm not "in" on, so it feels much more like work.
As a student, it always felt like a mixture of "better to have it and not need it" and bog standard corruption.

Most teachers didn't use the advanced featutes, disliked that students played games on them during class, and had to jump through hoops to tamp down on cheating during exams. Many parents also had difficulty finding an extra $130 per child to pay for them; the schools wouldn't provide returnable ones like they did with textbooks.

In contrast, when I went to college (also in the US), we got a simple one-line "+-*/^" calculator for the first few years of calculus, engineering maths, etc.

Personally, I learned much better with the simple calculator. Complex graphing calculators do seem more suited to professional use than education.
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I'd say they must. Managers are team members as much as anyone else.
A dude recently got kneeled to death by cops (not president authorized death squads or court authorized death squads, mind you, normal cops) for allegedly a fake $20 bill. I think there is plenty to worry about.
There is an exception to what the author is saying: make the cost of adding data for the user exponential (or at least non-linear). This is what Crashplan does with their unlimited backup model. It's unlimited, but at some point (number and size of files to keep track of), your computer will be limited by its processing capabilities in a manner that you can only solve by throwing more metal at the problem, which becomes uneconomical for the user. (Source: the internet, I can't remember where, but might find it when I'm back on my computer)
> Amazon doesn't want Goodreads data to be used to add value to their competitors'

This is it exactly. Goodreads was/is the best/largest source of information on books available online.
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Yeah I know :-/

I refactored it to Swift UI but Apple didn’t provide backwards comparability for old iOS, which I didn’t know until it’s too late. There’s nothing that special in Swift UI that forces it to be 13+, but that’s life
Why don't you try out and see what it is about? Any experience is just a plus.
If I may add: stopping the payment should be as easy as it is to start it. Not "call us at this number in this time frame and jump through multiple hoops that we've set up to try to convince you to keep paying".
> I’m not sure I can include a link in this message because when I submitted a URL just a few minutes ago it got flagged immediately.

Send a message to the mod hn@ycombinator.com , so he takes a look. Did you delete your [dead] submission? Don't do that.

About the idea about email, take a look at whatever has patio11 wrote about that. Probably https://training.kalzumeus.com/lifecycle-emails or https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/
In colloquial english we usually put an "or" in front of else. It really breaks down when you put it in boolean form because the "or" implies other actions when true rather than actions if false. Removing the "or" completely is unambiguous but is antiquated English.

Examples:
"Go to college or else work for your uncle"

Turn this into boolean form:
"If you go to college then <foo> or else you will work for your uncle"

But the "or" makes the meaning ambiguous:
"If it rains then I will work inside or else I will work outside."

It is not clear if this means you will work outside if and only if it is not raining? Maybe working outside is another option if it rains.

Otherwise is far more clear.
"If it rains then I will work inside otherwise I will work outside."

Removing the "or" completely makes the statements unambiguous archaic English:
"If you go to college then <foo> else you will work for your uncle"
"If it rains then I will work inside else I will work outside."

FWIW - I am very glad they chose else over otherwise...
I love it. We spent 30 years getting preemptive-multitasking working, and it is such a giant fragile pain in the a, that it is easier to just virtualize the whole damn computer rather than making different software play nice together (maybe run well together is more apropos).

We have now come full circle. People want DOS.

I have officially lived "long enough." Not too long, mind you, just long enough.
I'm a big fan of cgdb;

https://cgdb.github.io/

Works great for native and cross compiled apps
He gave a fun lecture in 2007.
https://youtu.be/SvJGwo1w0kI
I remember https://boltcms.io/ being a good alternative in some ways, but like SubGenius already mentioned, it does not have the same selection of plugins or themes as WordPress.
Have you tried Library Thing?

https://www.librarything.com/
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Not only are most of those apartment building not owned by a single person, but most apartment buildings are financed by huge amounts of debt - so the owner doesn't have the full worth of the building after debt, most of the money is with the banks [0]

[0]: https://www.census.gov/prod/1/statbrief/sb96_01.pdf
It's illegal for them to take it arbitrarily as abandoned; they can institute a new fee system to take it when they could otherwise not.
Would you use it?
Make sure you test the recovery system. I forgot how Paypal's works, but Google's for example, will simply bypass your 12288-bit strong password and give your account to anyone. Lost a Google account that way. 2FA would've saved it (in theory).