skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a decade ago I read a paper, which I have lost and would really like to find again. They took a group of mentally retarded children, ran each one past a panel of judges to evaluate them, then took all the children and put them in an acting class, not Shakespearean acting, but teaching them to "act normal", and then ran each one past the panel again. The increase in scores of every one of those children was impressive (I don't use words like skyrocketing, etc.)

I believe that is exactly the kind of class that is not included in schools for kids today, retarded or not, and that is exactly the kind of evaluation that others will do to them every day for the rest of their lives.

Now apply this to the post above. Imagine taking some or most of the children off in the direction of autism in schools and giving them two new required classes, one in decision making/theory in the world they will live in and the other in acting/interpersonal skills (really interpersonal warfare) that will let them carry out the decisions they have made. Both those are the things that those kids (and all of us) will face on a daily basis every day for the rest of our lives.

I think that has the potential of changing the lives of people in the next generation in that category more than teaching them history or algebra, despite how much it pains me to say that.

How can we test that idea to see if I am wrong or not? And if it works then how can we get that to spread faster and further than Covid and dramatically help 5-15% of kids today? And if it works for them we might even consider teaching it to more than the low hanging autistic fruit. Do you know normal people around who could have benefitted from being taught to make better decisions and learn better interpersonal skills?

If anyone knows of anything related to this idea, in support of or opposition to this, I would dearly like to see it. Thank you
I think the difference between a king and a dictator is that a king is the top feudal lord and a dictator is the top guy in a nation state.

I think the options for becoming a monarch are:

1) the birth heir of a current hereditary monarch

2) the designated heir of the current monarch (e.g. some Roman emperors were appointed by their predecessor. Although the August didn't call himself "king" because of the historical political animosity to a king, he did intend for the position to be hereditary, but the first few emperors had trouble having sons. Whether the emperors were monarchs is arguably semantic, although Rome was more of an empire [extracting resources from the periphery] than a feudal state, which would argue that they are not monarchs by my definition above. On the other hand, Roman administration of provinces wasn't as strong as a nation-state.)

3) get elected as monarch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy]

4) conqueror somewhere and establish a feudal state. It might be necessary for you to have a successful succession in order for history to call you king, though.
Robbery is a violent crime: It’s the use (or threat) of force in taking someone else’s property.

If someone picks your pocket, that’s theft. If someone steals something from your house while you’re at work, that’s burglary.
The prime minister goes to meet the queen once a week. Do people think they just talk about the weather, kiss the ring, and leave? Or the PM just says what laws they wish to pass while the queen silently listens?
I wasn't speaking of the trademark, you don't need a trademark to publish and promote a public definition of a term. Misusing that term doesn't have legal consequences but it won't stop people from getting upset at you for misleading them, e.g. your customers getting miffed when they learn the "open source" option you provide actually means they can't do anything with the source at all that they would expect to be able to do with the popular Apache/MIT/GPL/BSD options. (Correct me if I'm mistaken, but just those 4 licenses seem to be used for the vast majority of open source now)
I’m surprised. I worked at a medium sized software company and a few weeks after I left had emails from Google and FB. Never announced publicly I had left my job. Made me think that there is a black market where an HR employee sells info of recently departed devs.
Oftentimes I'm at the point of questioning my motive. Whether it's fightng to obtain work visas for my team, or raising capital, or just being frustrated with the lack of progress in developing our technology, or identifying the best possible next candidate to hire. But then I talk to a potential user/customer and hear his enthusiasm about what our technology can deliver and the impact it may have and asking when he can get his hands on it. And this reminds me why I started it all in the first place and tells me I almost have no right to give up.
I assume you also have negative views of veterans, anyone who has worked in most agricultural situations, sold bottled water, carbonated drinks, food supply chain, loans, etc.
From an article in Time [1]:

The first publicly funded, organized police force with officers on duty full-time was created in Boston in 1838. Boston was a large shipping commercial center, and businesses had been hiring people to protect their property and safeguard the transport of goods from the port of Boston to other places, says Potter. These merchants came up with a way to save money by transferring to the cost of maintaining a police force to citizens by arguing that it was for the “collective good.”

In the South, however, the economics that drove the creation of police forces were centered not on the protection of shipping interests but on the preservation of the slavery system. Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts, Potter says; the first formal slave patrol had been created in the Carolina colonies in 1704. During the Civil War, the military became the primary form of law enforcement in the South, but during Reconstruction, many local sheriffs functioned in a way analogous to the earlier slave patrols, enforcing segregation and the disenfranchisement of freed slaves.

From Wikipedia [2]:

For approximately 150 years, union organizing efforts and strikes have been periodically opposed by police, security forces, National Guard units, special police forces such as the Coal and Iron Police, and/or use of the United States Army. Significant incidents have included the Haymarket Riot and the Ludlow massacre. The Homestead struggle of 1892, the Pullman walkout of 1894, and the Colorado Labor Wars of 1903 are examples of unions destroyed or significantly damaged by the deployment of military force. In all three examples, a strike became the triggering event.

These aren't the only influences on modern policing in the US, but it's hard to argue that the history of US policing isn't deeply intertwined with slave patrols, union busting efforts, and more generally protecting the interests of the ruling class.

[1] - https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
No, it's not. We're in the same team but on two different products. TablePlus is for a database, Proxyman is a Web Debugging Proxy.
Could this be used to, say, collect a "royalty" on a work of art or good sold in perpetuity? In other words I create a painting that sells at a garage sale for $5. Then it is picked up by a local art collective and sells for $5,000. Later it is sold at Christies for $5,000,000. All the while my portfolio has benefited from this work but if I can collect forthcoming royalty of the sale of my work it too would be a nuanced stream of income.

Likewise some other thoughts:
- Embedding an NFT in music so other platforms outside of Spotify can grow and each time your song is played you receive a small token?
- A generator I bought from The Home Depot and sold to someone, who then sells it do someone, who then sells it as scrap metal? (incorporating diminishing returns as well?)
You can’t use f-strings for that.
It's maybe a little snarky, but the most common issue is relatively straightforward to fix, just add the missing address.
Europe's 'lack of fiscal participation' in NATO only looks anemic when compared to the United States, which alone outspends the entire rest of the world, combined, on its military.

Europe's not going to afford to carry out a successful land invasion of Russia anytime soon, but if that's the level of defense spending Trump was looking for, I'm glad he was told to pound sand.
Yep, it through me off, I saw it somewhere years ago that the pronunciations were:

SQL = SEE-KWUHL
MySQL = MY-ES-KYU-EL

And it's now engrained in my mind and this title through me off ;)
"anyone can buy paint, but does that make you a painter? No." ~ I'm stealing this....
Not even: a machine could likely handle the entire interaction, pretty trivially. DMCA notices are pretty close to form letters. In the rare occasion it can't grok the notice, it could be flagged for human review.
Disband internal affairs, and hand all investigations over to the FBI.
If You Thought the 2020 Elections Were Chaotic, Just Wait
A large salary figure doesn't seem like a good reason to work what I personally consider an insane amount of hours. By all means, to each their own though.
Unfortunately, I agree 100%

Even using SendGrid, it will be a week or two and a few hundred emails to 'warm up' one of their mailserver's IP addresses and get reliable delivery. Like you, I found VZ to be the worst at trusting new servers.

The days of firing off an email from any ol' SMTP server are completely gone.
As a current AWS employee, doesn't the popularity of this site prove the customer's demand for an official version to exist?

And then since it doesn't exist, Isn't it safe to assume that AWS intentionally obscures pricing?
Policing obviously goes back ~350 years into the earliest history of the US. However, early policing in the US was privately funded and often employed individuals on a part-time basis. NYC for example setup a watch group all the way back in 1658.

Somewhat independently the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 created an income stream for groups to capture escaped slaves and return them to the south. Critically, southerners needed to fund these activities. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 swapped this by requiring northern states to actively capture escaped slaves. It essentially mandated large scale institutions of government backed policing.

The south had a separate but related system of slave patrols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol Interestingly at the same time the north was required to hunt for escaped slaves a trade patrol was actively suppressing the African slave trade going back to 1891.

Anyway, this stuff is may be relevant in terms of the history of specific institutions, but it’s arguable how relevant this is in a modern context.
Come on down to golang town. Though I worry when the introduce generics things will spiral out of control.
They also have a status on vendor lock on a few fronts.

Companies like VMware moved to per core licensing. And most have established infra in intel. Cycling that out is much easier said than done. Especially with the capex squeezes coming.
This sort of attitude dominates today.

All companies are evil.

All white people are guilty.

All men are guilty.

All black/gay/women are victims.

You just have to dig deep enough. If you don’t agree, it’s because you’re privileged or indoctrinated into self hated.
Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings
It depends. Facebook is a pretty good employer. It’s done some bad stuff. It also gets way more flak for doing the same stuff everyone does. For any problem with Facebook you hear about, there’s a team of people working on fixing that problem, and you can be on that team if you have the right skill set. On some of the issues Facebook gets criticized for, it’s already doing a better job than most (this is based on my experience working other places). Because Facebook is already cast as a villain in the media, it’s not going to get credit for that. How much will that bother you? Personally, I find it fulfilling to be helping to solve important problems, and I recognize that the bad press was earned by past conduct. It’s somewhat refreshing to work in a place where the risks of negative effects to society are openly confronted, instead of being afraid to bring them up (I don’t think I ever heard my coworkers ask those questions at my past jobs).

Some people respond negatively when they hear I work for FB, but their opinion turns when I give a bit more detail about what I do there. In that sense, I don’t think it’s harmed me socially.
> if you asked a random citizen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the UK to name a single supreme court judge they'd probably be unable to

Don't each of these countries feature sovereign Parliaments [1]?

Congress is not sovereign. It is one of three co-equal branches of government. This, the separation of powers, was a deliberate decision by America's founders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
The problem is that the only thing the claimant is saying under penalty of perjury as that they are actually the rightsholder (or are authorized to act on their behalf), and they have a good-faith belief that their takedown reasoning is correct. Since it's essentially impossible to prove lack of a "belief", no one ever gets in trouble for filing a false or weak claim.
But installable locally kinda defeats the whole point of this move? And as someone who manages a small gitlab instance, it's not always set it and forget it unfortunately.
Also, the domain was flagged as high risk because celticpapaya.com contains the keyword "pay". And, ironically, it did turn out to be high risk.
This is deeply concerning since my next startup was planning to use this leaf shape, the logo would present a banana with aforementioned leaf and the name we were planning to trademark is called "Going Bananas". Sad day that the biggest fruity company stifles innovation for everyone, when everyone and their dog knows that healthy intake of vitamins are important to strengthen you immune system and fight of nasty viruses. /s

On the serious note, they forced Prepear to make their logo worse just because, cheap publicity or what is it?
I'll point out while mostly working youtube has a tool to mute background music while keeping other sounds. If this happens to you not all is lost.

A next step could be for the artist to sue the police department for unliceased music. Create a story and it might become a national story.
Here's a short history (from a university professor whose "current research areas include transnational organized crime, human trafficking and the sex industry, and drug trafficking by teenagers in rural Kentucky") that supports the parent poster's description of the origins of policing in the US:

https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-...
Currency is currency, KYC should be required.
List comprehensions were changed in Python 3 to avoid this, so I don't think it's quite that simple.
shocking, i know, but not everyone shares the same morals as a few loud % of people on twitter.
Anecdotal but the reason I wanted a smaller phone was to be able to use it comfortable with one hand (I use an OG iPhone SE now), and the screen size of the iPhone 12 mini is on par with the 6/7/8 plus, which are very much not usable with one hand. The fact that my OG SE still runs perfectly fine on the latest iOS doesn't hurt either.
The fact you have to ask already shows a conflict. I believe it really boils down to 'are they offering enough compensation to be ok with being associated with them'. And that's a personal decision only you can make.
This is a total rip-off of Increment.me ...and even stole the tag line.
Harvard scientist create trilayer graphene superconductor
Ah, nuclear-powered "switch" statement. Good. Like it.

(Yes, I know it isn't "switch"...and yet...)

What remains to be seen is what the execution-time hit might be when compared to other approaches.
or with attracting a mate in the first place.

"Just be yourself" essentially means "Stop thinking... about how to look confident, how to impress her, etc." Such thinking usually yields the exact opposite effect.
Yes, f-strings are now the obvious way to format strings _if_ the template is fixed (not variable at runtime) _and_ variables are defined in the current scope. There are many many cases where this does not apply: hence str.format is still required.
Adversarial Interoperability (2019)
> I can collect forthcoming royalty of the sale of my work it too would be a nuanced stream of income

Physical artwork is supposed to work this way. And yes, there are smart contracts that operate this way today.
Possession is 9/10th of the law...

Every single now living monarch sits on their throne because an ancestor of theirs took it from someone else. In this case, might makes right.
Truth. Equipment is locked to the chassis SN and exchanging it throws a flag that requires a JD signoff to clear.
should someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?
It does not. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency, so you have to pay capital gains on any appreciation that you realize.

Active traders of Bitcoin have to track the bases of their lots so that they can pay taxes on each sale.
That’s more about provoking dangerous nutjobs than any concerns I might have.

(I moved on back in 2007, because moving fast and breaking things was not how I’m wired.)
Update - I spoke with New Zealand law enforcement and the address the developer is registered too is likely bogus. Have reported to Apple, Ripple, and authorities here stateside.

I believe there are some breadcrumbs to follow still as I see holes in their setup.

Furthermore, this scammer has one of the richest XRP wallet addresses in the world. Sickens me.
In Python 3, list comprehensions use generators behind the scenes.
"Tacit knowledge" I think captures what you are talking about. Its the knowledge embedded in our bodies and automatic responses. Most commonly this can refer to mechanical tasks, like when you go on autopilot while driving.

It can also be used to describe mental tasks and ways of thinking. An engineer has tacit knowledge that shapes their natural way of thinking and intuition. A novelist, a nurse, or a tailor, in contrast, will have very different mental structures.
As a long time Haskell user (from 1998 - my career started at 1989) and professional Haskell programmer, I should say that Snoyman is quite responsible for what I do not like in Haskell infrastructure.

At 1998, Haskell was a joy to play. At 2008, it was still a joy to play - I really played through ghci (interpreter) implementing MIPS core. And, later, implementing a eDSL that can compile Haskell description of MIPS interpreter into VHDL.

I also ghci'd through VHDL compiler prototype.

At about 2009 or so there comes a cabal, a tool that "helps building large application", which took all the fun away.

I had to manually download and put into local version control all packages I needed for a project. I also mandated, being the team lead, that we do not use cabal packages, we use stable sources of packages downloaded into our version control for easy inspection and problem fixing.

That was my last attempt to bring fun (not "fun" as in "functional", but "fun" as "joy to play with") into my programming duties.

Then there was a stack by Snoyman. It was purported to bring easiness back into cabal-based Haskell world of building applications. The problem is that easiness does not equal joy. You can use Roomba with easiness yet Roomba mopping floor would give you any resemblance of joy first one or two times it works on your command.

That stack thing did not brought back the joy of use of Haskell. It did not provided you with ALL sources (only interface package authors intended) for you to consume, play and learn. It was all that boring cabal all over again.

He was able to fix that - he had the power. He just does not care about learning from other's code, I guess.

Me, on contrary, I do not have power there. But I have my goals set to bring the joy back into Haskell programming.

And now let me somewhat relate that with the article.

The "partiallness" of functions he referred there quite often, can be learned, through REPL interpreter and often quite useful. I used partiality quite fruitfully in development of the MIPS core I mentioned above - and yes, I was in full REPL control of all of my code.

For that fruitfullness, one need not only compiled and installed package(s), but sources. To see, to learn, to modify.

This is where stack by Snoyman fails as miserably as cabal it wanted to replace.

One would see that article as a critique of Haskell. I see a failure to see and acknowledge one's shortcomings.
Hey, thanks for the detailed comment. I should note I didn't intend to create the impression that GPUs and CPUs architectures were completely interchangeable. That's obviously not true, because of the fixed function hardware alone. The intent was more to give a rough idea of what "CUDA Core" actually means and roughly how those concepts map to what we know in CPUs.

> Yes, "CUDA Core" is (was?) analogous to "FP32 ALU" - (it may have transitioned to FP16 nowadays to double the count?)

It's still FP32 ALUs (NVidia disables FP16 in the driver for gaming cards). The doubling between Turing and Ampere is due to the combined int/fp units being counted as CUDA cores. This also means that for int instructions, the expexted performance is not actually increased, another reason the "core" term is unhelpful.

> But, single GPU "Compute Units" often have 2-4x that (up-to 64 FP32 ALU)

Yep, guess I should have left that AVX2048 joke in there for you. It just wasn't very important IMO.

> Also, for accuracy, vis-a-vis "independent parallel threads of execution like on CPUs", even the 64-core Threadripper has 128, not 64.

I did not consider SMT here because while relevant for keeping the ALUs fed with instructions, they don't increase the amount of raw peak compute possible. Those 128 threads can still only issue 64 avx instructions at any one time, which is what really matters here.
Apparently, having multiple A Records can cause problems with spf records. The founder of hanami.run, an email forwarding service, showed me how to fix mine.
Technically, it appears that a validation link to prove domain ownership was sent 10 (or 11) years prior, but wasn't clicked until recently. The issue isn't that ownership was proven ten years ago, the issue is that the link to do so was still valid for such a long period of time rather than being expired.
The alcohol definitely cuts out the overthinking, or any thinking at all. If you are a good soul at heart, the real you that comes out when inebriated can be quite charming, and the opposite if you the real you is a jerk.

But it isn't the always greatest thing for the actual sex.
I second this suggestion. Although I got strange looks on the bus when I was reading it...
> Also, every member of the royal family should be stripped of their wealth and exiled.

On what grounds exactly?
Are you maybe thinking of Boeing Starliner? That‘s the one that failed a test flight last year and had to skip a docking maneuver with space station.