skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bad populism.

It's understandable people fear Google/FB etc., but an entity contracted by the state to do digital ID services is not going to be selling your phone number if doing so would put them out of business and land them in jail.

Sadly, the notion of basic digital ID would be very useful for so many things and maybe even help with privacy if content providers switched to this kind id vs. social logins.

Ironically, these 'government IDs' may be a vanguard in the fight for privacy because they establish a privacy-based alternative that doesn't currently exist.

(Edit) There are already private institutions that manage ID data (Finance, Health) no our behalf and generally we are not concerned. (Although VISA is owned by banks and that's a concern). In Canada, they have temporarily allocated ID literally to the banking system - you can login to the gov. tax portal using your banking login. So, de-facto, the banks provide ID services to gov. already.

It's irrational populism. ID services are sensitive obviously, but governments already deal in such types of sensitive information and there's no reason 3rd parties can't manage those services with the right kind of oversight.
What should I call my app?
I'm finishing building a (free) app that checks on you automatically, by email, and when you are not doing well it lets your closest friends know you can use a phone call. I have a name for it, but I might want a better one. What would you call it?
> EUT only gives the right result when you set U = log (Wealth)

If it does give the right result why do you say elsewhere that "they aren't quite identical and it does make a difference" and you coded and ran a simulation that proves it?
A interesting quote from your link:

> OCaml has had more than one macro system, and it appears that they are not done evolving in incompatible ways.

Looks like Rust is following the path of its ancestor here, unfortunately.
Ask HN: Startup Investing is a Fool's Errand, am I wrong?
I would argue that investing into startups, including top VC funds is a fool's errand.

Excluding of course hobbyist investors.

Why?

1. VC deals are very hard to come by and anything promising (potential unicorns) get picked off fast by Tier 1 investors. This basically limits the average Joe to syndication investing.

Even then... It's a fool's errand. Why?

2. The best VCs return around 20% per year and if you invest direct you still need to pay you 2/20 fee which knocks you down to 15-16%.

If you invest direct a lot of deals can net you 22 - 40x your return but let's look at these statistics:

Of YCombinator companies (usually top shelf startups) founded from 2005 to 2015, a whopping 32% have failed and 41% are 'operational', meaning yet to exit and only a mere 26% have exited since 2020.

Failure rates aside, let's say it takes on average 10 years for a startup that does succeed to net you a 22x return or around 22% per year.

3. Most VCs and startup investors show you unrealized IRR, which is that their company investment valuations are going up and up, but where you lose is when you look at their exit potential and see unless you can find someone else to buy your shares, the growth rate tends to slow down at some point into maturity and your IRR shrinks to around 20% with a STDEV of maybe 5% given this illiquidity.

4. With public markets these days, there's plenty of companies with the same appreciation potential, especially with SPACs and BioTech companies pending FDA approval that are liquid, more transparent, and more easily accessible.

5. There is always the potential you will get lucky and find the next Coinbase or Uber, but the weighted probability of that is very small and is really more akin to speculative gambling than strategic investing.

So, prove me wrong HN.
> It feels like arguing about colors from the whole spectrum of the rainbow without saying which color we're arguing about.

Arguing about a rainbow or arguing about a color in the rainbow doesn't effect the validity of an argument, I'm not sure your analogy makes any fundamental sense here.

>The whole point it to use common vocabulary where you can drop this "pattern" suffix when discussing things.

Isn't this the purpose of the English language? The "Design Pattern" concept is a redundant concept existing recursively in English. English already provides a "common vocabulary" for "discussing things."

What does design patterns provide on top of that? Only additional complexity and redundancy.

That's why basically all fields outside of programming don't really use the word "design pattern" because it's not necessary. It's a bit of snobbish for a pilot to call a flight technique a "design pattern."

>It can be anything,

And that's why it's pointless. There are even design patterns in poetry if you follow this line of logic. The English language is pretty much the "language" designed to be "anything." For a concept within "English" to be useful it must focus on a smaller subset of "anything."
None of the above actually require recursion.

Some of the above problems have very neat recursive solution but the recursion is bad idea as it tends to various edge cases.

For example, "write a parser for a file format that contains arbitarily nested data strucutres", is exactly a problem where you DO NOT want to use recursion, and the reason is that "arbitarily" part. What if there is 1000 levels? What if there is 100 thousand levels?

DoS guys love these kinds of implementations. Just send very small, very well compressed payload and look how it all crashes and burns.
I don't know the sites in question, but maybe the language?
does no one in that place use the internet?
AI Marketing review: Scam or Legit way to make money in 2021?
But nothing prevents the channel owner from sharing the audience data with the sponsors, no?
What is the route somebody takes to join forums like this?
I’ve always found it fascinating. Even when I was a teenager.
any more suggestions would be most welcome
How to know if you’re interviewing at a product-led company
Are you insane, what happens when my grandma forgets her password?
Much of the former USSR is the domain of superstitious and religious. Antivaxx is also mainstream there.
Tax declaration are the cantons (state) responsibility . Some are further than others. I filled out my first declaration some 14 years ago via a web platform.

Most everything being decentralized maybe makes nationwide digitalization slower, but that is crucial aspect of the political system.
> My Twitter timeline, HN comments, IRC channels, obscure invite-only forums, or nerd/rationalists blogs have demonstrably better information on everything from the pandemic and nutrition to investment and programming than any well-compensated journalists I've ever read. Not to mention humour. They manage to be more accurate, informative, and funnier at the same time.

I refuse to believe you. What are your "Twitter timeline, HN comments, IRC channels, obscure invite-only forums, or nerd/rationalists blogs"'s sources? How the f can they provide better information on the pandemic unless you have actual virologists and public health experts actually working on it there? If you don't ( and having them would be pure chance since you can't possibly follow multiple experts from every single domain on the planet )?

> It should be difficult, nigh impossible, but isn't because paid media is terrible. Pandering to their audience, just the fact that everyone have a book in them but not necessarily four, groupthink in the MSM, adverse selection... I don't know the reason but I'm hardly the only one to see it.

Bullshit. The mere fact that you use the bullsit "MSM" "term" is indicative of your lack of knowledge on the matter. Not only that, the blatant disregard for any traditional media is dangerous on a few fronts - you live in your bubble, you're overly reliant on what information trickles down to you via said bubble, and even if your bubble is magnificent, has all sorts of actual experts in it, and you're actually knowledgeable and intelligent enough to be able to filter and prioritize, your wrong opinion might convince some people that do not have all of the above to follow your example, and that is how you get Q lunatics living in an alternate reality. Furthermore, have you actually recently used any media of good reputation and standing, paid or not? Personally i'm subscribed to the FT, and i have seen tons of stories not readily available through HN, Twitter, etc., and more to the point, in much more depth, usually. There's the occasional not really well written article, which gets compensated by the availability of other sources, but the analysis of professional journalists, with associated graphs, images, direct sources, etc. is IMHO priceless. FT and Fox couldn't be farther apart, yet your ridiculous label "MSM" groups them together. On what grounds?

> Funny since I have half a dozen Windows licenses and use a free Linux distro to respond to you. It was largely written by professionals, sure, but there's still something to your take as well, even if it's a little GPT-like.

Linux is maintained by professionals, indeed. If the initial amateurs never got any funding to do it full time, it wouldn't have come as far. So exactly counter to your argument?
Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
Deliveroo is one of prime examples what's wrong with gig economy and why it should be heavily regulated. Same as Doordash, they're disastrous for local food business'
> And focusing on standardized test scores almost always hurts poor students because it rewards families who can afford private test preparation.

All the other measures (extra-curricula, projects, presentations, reports, etc.) benefit richer family much more. Standardized test is the only thing poor students can work hard on without needing much help / resource from parents. The solution in the article [2] you cited is giving money to kids.
Notably the US has no right to privacy, except a very vague implied right which as far as I know has only been invoked in the context of abortion.
Asymmetric Numeral Systems
> “You can brag about owning such-and-such an image, but only as long as enough other people desire images from that particular set.”

I think that’s the whole point. An enduring aspect of human culture is that we praise and confer social status on owners or stewards of rare curiosities. You aren’t buying NFTs for tangible value, you’re buying a speculative investment in social status. And people feel very confident that the market cap and liquidity for buying and trading this type of social status will go way up, and that unique, verifiable digital ownership allows the pay-for-status desires to take place untethered to physical goods.
I'm 40, I vaguely remember my parents had one at some stage, and I'm reasonably sure it had the 16k RAM pack, but the first I really remember is the ZX Spectrum with the 48K ram, and rubber keys. First thing I ever programmed, though mostly I wanted to play Chucky Egg, Manic Miner, Granny's Garden etc.
There could be sunset provisions (e.g. if a loan is deferred for 10 consecutive years, it is cancelled), this would encourage continued giving rather than massive one-off donations.
Are they? Or is it sitting there in an account labelled "children named Tom who live in a town of between 10,000 and 11,000 people and got a C in math in 2003"?
> EE has it's own set of functions that take place of U in EUT

If EE is just a way to choose the U in EUT how does that mean that EUT is incorrect?

EUT is incorrect only when there is no U that can describe the preferences of the agent.
Take a look at Seattle too. Lots of tech jobs, reasonably high pay that is slightly lower then the Bay Area but cost of living is lower and we don't have the state taxes of California. I've found it to be the best tradeoff. Only issue is the weather, but if you're coming from London, it's basically the same
I guess you knew what was coming but still:

The realistic alternative (coal power) is way worse. So many more deaths. Just with ongoing operations, no accidents.
Whats the legal purpose of a letter of intent? If the letter isn't binding then surely it has no real legal power.
Lots of places would like to have public restrooms but the people passing out in them leaving needles all over and wrecking them ruin it for everyone else.
They are also incredibly xenophobic (i.e. Japanese levels).
Yes, and that's a good thing. Balkanizing ID info between a gazillion government databases as we do in the US just creates inefficiency, and raises the thirst for more intensive surveillance to counter the inefficiency with which the data is used. (Consider the talk after 9/11 on the FBI and CIA not sharing info, and then we get the Patriot Act.)
> Diversity of opinion is about much more than ethnic background.

Agreed, though restricting your interactions (even unintentionally) to people of the same background as you does have a big limiting effect on the kind of opinions you'll have. It's a physical echo chamber for some attitudes.

But you can make the same parallels for other attributes: how many openly LGBTQ people live in heavily conservative areas vs. liberal? Definitely fewer. In many conservative areas, LGBTQ folks literally fear for their lives. As a consequence, conservative people have less experience and understanding of these folks, and that (among other things) leads to fear or even hate.

> Also, just to be clear, I haven't said anything about Trump in my three other comments in this thread. CTRL+F me.

Never claimed you did; no need to be so defensive about this. You suggested that people in the bay area / US tech circles don't try to consider other people's perspectives. Given that most tech people in the bay area are left-leaning, it stands to reason they're not Trump supporters. Regardless, I was merely talking about my own personal experience as someone trying to understand people with (a particular type of) different values from mine, and mostly failing.
Most people let companies donate with their money... i.e.: Mcdonald boxes at the cash register...
Also, a mason jar with about a half inch of sugar water as bait and a sheet of letter size paper rolled into a cone with the small aperture in the jar works pretty well.
That can also be read on the scale of "privatize anything because the state should just make 'laws'"/"have a public sector to offer basic services to citizens", that is a debate in Europe
Hi StreamBright - just published the development version of the dataset also to Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/simiotic/github-code-snippets-develop...

Compressed, it's 471 MB. Uncompressed, just a little more than 3 GB.

If you want to get in touch with me in a better way than HN comments two good options:

1. My email is in my profile

2. You can direct message me (@zomglings) on the Bugout community Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/bugout-dev/shared_invite/zt-fhepyt8...

Looking forward to collaborating with you. :)
Or are they peddling their overvalued shares to unsophisticated investors?
But you need to actually follow and really like the content creator. I spend ~$50/month on it, but i wouldn't do it for plenty of smaller-scale stuff that i occasionally enjoy. Giving them something is still better in my eyes.
The other side of the story is interesting as well: https://medium.com/swlh/saas-7th-time-lucky-b971dae7d36

Essentially, the former owner had no interest into maintaining the business (serial entrepreneur) and just likes to launch new ideas
List of video games considered the best
NFTs and Crypto Art: The Sky Is Not Falling
WARN: You'll teach your kid by example. If you are stressed and unhappy because of those unsatisfactory squeezed 30 minutes they will notice. And you'll realize a year later that they were noticing.

I didn't understand what a kid was until she (4yo) corrected the flawed logic of something I just said. Then I realized that all those sacrifices (career included) were worth it.

It gets better once you can use kindergartens... BTW, old parents are not an easy solution in covid times. They are population at risk.

I hope some of this is useful to you. Now I have to prepare some milk to the kid that is dancing around my desk.
It was the US that pushed for and did (is doing?) most of the bombing, and Europe that got hit with refugees.

But even if it were the same country, it's not the same people - the wars were pushed from the top [1], the resistance to immigrants from the bottom ("populism").

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/bush-a...
It's common practice to change procedures instead of certification.

I flew an airplane that was getting ready to be retired after it's been in service for ~30 years and we had a lot of emergency procedures and memory items (items that pilots have to memorize) that were add over the years after various incidents.

The 737 MAX wasn't necessarily an unsafe airplane, it's pilots were not made aware of how everything worked, which led to the two crashes.
Target “shooting” with a canister vacuum provides a decent fun:efficiency ratio.
Headless CMSes have always totally mystified me. I tried to get into them once to try them out and was unable to understand how this was better than either a conventional CMS or just writing fucking HTML.
No one is saying you can't see your neighbor if you don't have errands to run.
Hence, the difference in ad-free movies (e.g. Netflix) and ad-infested websites (just about any).

The pull attraction of Netflix has been demonstrated for its end-users.

Just waiting for the ad-free websites to develop a similar following via same pull attraction (hello, Amazon) instead of a push.
It's similar to an engagement proposal for marriage. You aren't legally requiredto get married if you get engaged --- but having an engagement first gets all parties more committed, makes it clear that there will be a next step.

He mentions in the article, it serves to provide some sort of verifiable agreement on the important numbers, and security that the buyer is serious
Thanks again for pointing this issue out. It's fixed now. Would sincerely appreciate it if you can confirm that it works for you.
"picked off fast" is perhaps a bit generous - there are lots of great companies that got to series A without seeing a single "top VC" term sheet. I see angel investing as a way to connect with new founders that have a lot of potential, and help them accelerate their path to a billion dollar valuation.

For an interesting middle ground, I'd recommend one of our investors, https://fundersclub.com - they let you get in early on YC deals as an individual, and stay connected / give advice to companies you end up being an LP in
Shouldn’t the title of the submission match the title of the article? Anatomically correct suggests something very different.
How am I supposed to know the author is non-English speaker?

Unfortunately it is true with at least academic articles typos and grammatical errors are it will be perceived as low quality article.
Anyone here stationed at Ft. Drum want to share stories? I recall jokes of coughing up blood after morning PT runs in sub zero temps.
Switzerland has an awesome electoral system [1]. Instead of being ruled by a president or a prime minister who can be polarising, divisive, or selective, Switzerland has an Executive Council.

The 7 member Executive Council is composed of the top 7 candidates from each election. The chairperson of the executive council rotates each year, so that the top 4 vote winners each get a turn at being chairperson.

This means that different social and political priorities get implemented in turn. It also means the way the government works is more cooperative, because each council member, including the chairperson, knows there will be a new chairperson next year.

So, if a pro-business candidate places 1st, and an environment candidate 2nd, and a social welfare candidate 3rd, and a libertarian candidate 4th, it is in all their interests to cooperate and create legislation that serves all of their interests as much as possible. Instead of disregarding the environment, the pro-business council member is encouraged to develop green business initiatives that will be supported for the full 4 year term under the different chairs.

The system creates a leadership team that looks for win-win, rather than a sole victor who can abuse majority rule.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)
I think it's a reasonable critique of the concept of Pattern Language as adopted by IT. The interlocking nature of the patterns at various scales, the way that normal folk are expected to use the PL in situ to evoke and evolve design organically from an intrinsic understanding of their own needs and an informed intuition of the potentialities of the space, these are wholly omitted from GoF PL. Not, I think, because of any fault of them themselves, but because the very idea of applying Pattern Language thinking to computer system design was so novel at the time they proposed it.

Certainly CA is a genius and I think we would all benefit from at least skimming the original "Pattern Language". (His latter work, "Nature of Order", is sublime.)

It's worth reading CA's "A City Is Not a Tree" as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_is_Not_a_Tree

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html

I feel like Jef Raskin's work ("Humane Interface", the Canon Cat) are closer in spirit to a PL for computers than the GoF pattern catalog.
Hacker news has a really hard time valuing simplicity. I think it’s an egotistical thing: I’m smart so I don’t need a simple language.

What people miss is that a simple a language allows you to apply your smarts to solving the actual problems in front of you instead of puzzling over language features. You can only handle so much cognitive load at once, and ideally the vast majority of that should be devoted to whatever problem you’re solving, not to the language itself.

Ironically, this fact is the same fact that makes complex languages more fun for hobbyists. There’s simply more to explore, and to try, and to solve, when your object isn’t building a product but instead playing with a language. It’s a different purpose, but people very rarely acknowledge this fact, likely because they’d rather pretend their purposes are clearly mechanical and business oriented. It’s ok to just want to have fun sometimes.
How long and how often have the announce the transition yet?
Each design pattern documents a weakness in the language or omission from the library, such that the pattern cannot be or has not been pulled into the library.

Weaker languages usually get a new feature when the pattern is recognized. Stronger languages get a new library component, if it can be expressed well enough, or sometimes a new feature.

Some languages have ossified, accepting neither new core features nor library components, and code in them is all-over patterns.
False positive? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26372767
Ah, I get it, thanks.
Yes, the nose has its own process to moisten and warm the air. The point is, if you bypass either orifices the dryness will mess you up.
I share your distaste for cargo cult programming, but ... iterating over a list can be done in multiple ways, and doesn't necessarily mean one is using the iterator pattern. Using the jargon "iterator" to refer to an object or closure that tracks the state of iteration has benefit in making conversation more concise.
The good things you found in there have nothing to do with race. Also they are well known in math education. It's not like the authors discovered / created those pedagogical insights. They are using those pedagogical insights to push their political agenda.