skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Go is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum - not flexible at all,

You must be kidding. Go is the flexible one (not one of) in static popular languages. It is even more flexible than many dynamic languages. It supports function types as first-class citizen, closures, value methods as functions, type methods as functions, type deduction, .... IMHO, the main sell point of Go is not simplicity, but overall balance and flexibility: https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/The-main-sell-point-of-G...

> there’s very poor functional programming support,

This is true currently, but this is not caused by lack of flexibility, it is caused by lack of custom generics instead.
But how do you make the entire developer community conform to your idiosyncratic preferences if you don’t create a poorly designed DSL mixing multiple abstractions in a soup of future technical debt?
> the easy way of detecting a lie

The problem is that is not easy. Lies can be generated easily. Disproving them requires probably 20x the time.
Sounds like the typical westernized narrow view of China.

Whenever there's a rising power that threatens the current number #1, you'll see such events happening. It has happened time and again and the only difference now is that there is far less blood being spilled.

On the flip side, the rest of the world remembers what dirty things the US did during it's hold on global power. WMDs in iraq, double ethical standards in conflicts around the world. In this case many chinese think this whole debacle is a based off lies fabricated by dubious western sources (which has some basis behind it) and they're reacting accordingly.

As was shown when China helped the US during the UN security meeting to not declare the iraq war illegal, big powers will abuse whatever they have and can get in their own interests. The problem is whether you western folks will be played by your institutions into doing things that destroy your own credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Judging by partlysean’s response, “our industrial design team would use Rhino and then hand it off to the mechanical engineers to rebuild it in Solidworks.” I would think Rhino lacks the entire Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) capabilities that Solidworks has.

The Wikipedia page for Rhino says it’s a CAD tool, but Solidworks says CAD and CAE. So Rhino has a subset of Solidworks’ capabilities.

Engineers use CAE to help with determining how the materials, dimensions, and other engineering choices will be have under loads. So these have some similarities in that Solidworks can also do 3D modeling, which is used as an input to performing CAE.

Different audiences and different use cases.
Being President for life is not automatically a dictatorship. The Republic of Venice elected its Doge for life, as does the modern day state of Vatican City. Certainly it would be easier for the Pope to steer the barque of St. Peter if it were. And yet if you pay attention to the church there’s plenty of infighting and politics, enough that the Pope has to take years to gather enough political capital to act. Both of these countries are functionally oligarchies, I’d say.

That said the way in which Pooh Bear uses the anticorruption law to silence and jail political rivals is definitely evidence of dictatorship.
Ahh I was wondering about the heading. Makes complete sense
It sounds like, unless someone is an owner or maintainer of a critical open-source project, the blog post isn't necessarily calling for that person's deanonymization. For projects that are both critical and owned/maintained by anonymous entities, I think it's reasonable for an organization to think twice before taking a dependency on such projects, given the sort of anonymous attacks mentioned in the article.

Disclaimer: opinions are my own, not my employer's (Google)
This got me wondering about the concept of a custom designed language focused on functionality, unambiguity, ease to learn.

My understanding is that all commonly used spoken languages are basically organically evolved and not designed?
I know this is well meaning, but it will almost certainly backfire. Senior leaders (public and private) need to be able to have confidential discussions where they acknowledge trade offs and negotiate deals: if everything was open and broadcast, you'd get a combination of constant nonstop grandstanding and highly aggressive opposition research that would look for snippets that look bad out of context.
Aha! So the reason he didn't file a police report was: "He never actually claimed to be me, he just stole all my moves"
https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1350379466313396224
That your post has been downvoted is disheartening. Your reply was factually correct, cited, and reasonably polite.

Perhaps instead of saying "at best" they are con artists, it would have been more polite to say at worst, they are con artists. Probably many earnestly believe in what they are doing, and are just wrong.
You're on one right now.
That's moving the goal posts. The important thing is that macro invocations can be found "statically" (with out knowing the implementations of macros at all let alone evaluating).

One way to look at this is that partial evaluation of Rust or Scheme macros is very tractable, because there are very few side effects / side channels. But if you have a lack of hygiene or the C preprocessor, it's very difficult and almost everything becomes a "stuck term" whose evaluation is contingent on earlier evaluation.
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Start by finding someone who does "giclée printing". aka High end inkjet printers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giclée

We just tried all the local ones we could find. Then did repeat business with the one who was easiest to work with, did the best job.
Much better image, https://images.app.goo.gl/pjkfvsMYL9hCeHUv6

Snail goats appear to be a thing, I guess it's the similarity between the spiral horns and spiral shell: https://redditblog.com/2015/11/25/the-marginalized-art-of-sn....
Though PAIP is essentially all symbolic "good old-fashioned AI" (and focuses on programming rather than AI theory), AIMA never was -- that's why they emphasized "a modern approach" in the title. I guess it's reasonable though to expect AIMA's coverage of computer vision would be good background for understanding this pastry AI.
That's the whole concept of esperanto afaik. Google it, it's a language designed to be easy to learn.
The Navy.[0]

> By 2003 the U.S. Navy had accumulated over 5,400 "reactor years" of accident-free experience, and operated more than 80 nuclear-powered ships.

They've been sailing nuclear subs since the 1950s without major safety incident. The big carriers supply grid power when they're docked in Hawaii.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy
What I’ve always wondered about this is if there’s a better way to present this: pronunciation in English is sort of path-dependent and I wonder if a two-phase approach of recognizing the etymological groups (Germanic-origin, French-origin, Spanish-origin, etc.) and then applying the rules for that group would make the pronunciation appear more regular.
Fixed wing pilot here. Handheld radio checklist item before I head out for flight. Even though my plane has redundant comms. Comms don’t work in a failed power scenario!
Don't you find the pedantry a bit tiresome? I was curious to see where you were going with your earlier positions, but it now seems that you were just being a contrarian for the sake of some intellectual jousting and that you're now attempting to play on technicalities, but I can't see to what end.
Tidbit: the term for this is "sortition."
This is super cool but my first thought was that human skin already changes color to detect infection. Or gets swollen, or leaks pus, etc.
Larry McMurtry has died
What if the feed was delayed by 6 to 18 months or so?
English is relatively easy to learn, but not to main.
One interesting detail in this post is the comment they made about pulling down the PR branch themselves, setting up the test harness, running it, etc. That is remarkably time consuming. Given the complexity of many of the systems I've had the privilege of working on, that would easily take an hour for a single PR before I could even begin reviewing, to say nothing of the potential disruption to my own work in the same code base.

In my experience, this is where a better CI/CD pipe with automated precommit checks shines. Does the code at hand do what the author said it would? Do the tests they added to exercise it cover the right cases? Is anything amiss? Can we improve code quality? Let your automated tests handle the rest. If there's one thing I agree with the author on, trust has to start somewhere.

Time a problem? Setup a small PR meeting. Let the author brief folks on what it does, encourage honest feedback, and if possible approve it in the same timeframe. Works great also for large PRs that tend to scare folks away (i.e. mass refactorings, etc.).
Anchored ship drifting in the winds and currents. Note the direction of the bow.
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We could heat the streets in winter, keep all lights on, mine bitcoin, drive around like crazy due to almost free "fuel".

All possible thanks to Nuclear!
So just more of what they do already, and a bit more transparently?
Some argue china has been underreporting it's GDP. It kinda aligns with my own experience, when I visited countries of similar per capita GDP like Mexico and Brazil, I definitely find that china has a much higher standard if living. I'm not just talking about first tier chinese cities, but tier 2-4 compared to places like Cancun and Sao Paolo
> go and collect some evidence then compare it to what the person is saying

It's so much easier said than done though. Think about an example that might come up in daily life. Say, someone says they're busy/absent/whatever at X time, but then you spot them at that time, very clearly to the contrary. Did they lie to you? Sure looks that way. But it could also be that their schedule just changed. How can you possibly tell? Either you have to do it repeatedly and look at it statistically, or go prying around or asking other people to vouch for their story, or you have to ask them directly. Are you willing to do that? Especially if it happens multiple times? What if they in fact didn't lie, but also feel it's an invasion of their privacy to have to give a compelling explanation of what happened? Or what if they did lie, but only due to circumstances beyond your imagination where you might have lied, too? Are you willing to risk your relationship with that person to make a determination?
Just because it's energy dense after enrichment, doesn't mean it has high concentrations within mined ore. Most mines operate with only a fraction of a percentage of the ore being uranium, and only a fraction of a percentage of that is U-235, and viable for a nuclear reactor.

Some mines use ISL techniques which is similar to fracking. Canada does have Cigar Lake, the highest grade uranium mine in the world (15%), but due to the dangers of high uranium concentrations and the challenging geology, it has not been the easiest to extract.

This is to say, you don't just dig up some ore and stuff it in a reactor(it takes a lot of ore to power a reactor), nor is uranium mining a clean process.
I agree. Very cool. Having a more dramatic color change would be a must to take it to market and reduce/eliminate false positives. I bet there are specialized chemists that they could work with on a second iteration.
> Go has a ton of potential in the data science space.

I don't think that a language where you can't write generic map/fold/reduce and typed DataFrames (such as Spark's DataSet) has "a ton of potential".

Go is worse than nearly any dynamic or static language I know in that regards. Even Java has way more potential than Go.
The “Decentralized TikTok”
It's always been weird to me how the Bay Area has to deal with the same monopoly internet providers as everyone else in the country. Surely we have enough talent and capital here to provide free, high-speed internet for the entire area. I guess this is one explanation for why it hasn't happened yet.
Yes, Indian english is another dialect of english that is just as "correct" as any other dialect of english.
Runge-kutta works when you’re given an initial condition and the derivative is with respect to just one variable (so you’re given f(t) just at t=0). What do you do when you’re given a boundary condition and the derivative is with respect to many variables? This.
The article has some interesting notes about English, but I don’t really understand the connection to the post title?
Nothing that the US or any other country has done justifies China’s actions. This isn’t a contest to see who’s worse. Your entire argument here is tangential to the fact that China’s actions have been ridiculously abusive.

Has my own country done some despicable things? Yes. Is it still doing despicable things? Yes. That doesn’t mean I have no right to point out abuse elsewhere. Abuse is abuse; to the victim, it makes very little difference whether it’s one government or another. If abusive actions come to my attention, the absolute least I can do is condemn them.
Are those reputable sources?

The heritage foundation at the very least is a conservative think tank, and American conservatives are every bit as ambitious and bad faith as the CPC when it comes to power.
A dictatorship is a country that is ruled by a single individual (or perhaps a very small clique of people, as in a military junta) where no one else has any effective power to countermand a decree. Monarchies can be dictatorships: there's no effective difference between an absolute monarchy and a dictatorship. In somewhat more informal terms, dictatorships are a form of government where suppression of dissension is a key goal of the regime, in addition to the emphasis on autocratic rule.

Xi Jinping's centralization efforts during his term do strengthen the case for China becoming a dictatorship. The ending of term limits (as it does elsewhere) also likely signals a desire to vest power in the personal authority of the leader and not in a broader political party.
From your posting history, it seems you're ethnically mainland Chinese. I'm sorry to hurt the fragile feelings.
So what did they need supervisor approval for?
This seems like a very US-centric response. As I wrote

> China sanctioned US/Canadian/UK/EU individuals and entities

> erased H&M (swedish company) in all major Chinese platforms
I'm not surprised. As far as I can tell, the only thing the San Francisco government wants is for poor people to leave so they can stop reducing property values. This is the same city council that deliberately plans to have half the housing units they actually need, after all. The entire city is one big real estate scam being foisted on tech companies, and people living in it just get in the way.
Well that's a bit cheaty, I think. California's an agricultural powerhouse for good reason: lots of sunshine, temperate climate, rich soil, decent amount of water (droughts notwithstanding).

Having an orchard at home, at neighbors'/friends' homes, etc. is one of the few things I miss about growing up in the Central Valley.
I’m from a country which US did its dirty things in it but don’t even compare China to US. China is another league, a big threat to the rest of the world and China has a lot less credibility than US.
Links? I’ve found psilocybin to be useful after the depressive period. I have never taken mushrooms during that time, and watching others in a bad mental state has cemented the avoidance.

I’m also not taking therapeutic doses but rather recreational so that may have a part to play
There are only about a quarter million native Indian English speakers, according to Wikipedia. Certainly, a native Indian English speaker does not make errors (though they may make mistakes) in Indian English. That doesn't necessarily mean that a native Indian English speaker and a native Standard American English will have perfect mutual intelligibility.
One thing to add:

> And inadmissible in court in many places:

I'm not aware of any place that accepts polygraphs in a court.
In practice, usually yes. I suppose there are a few counterexamples like Aristotle, though he was disliked for anti-democratic views. But even in the feudal era, kings couldn’t just go murder lords who opposed them. Not without an army.
The only problem to get there is the lack of "I".

Right now, AI is mostly "fugazzi".
Historical post-WWII housing stock in Japan was for the most part pretty... bad. Not the kind of thing you’d want to keep around.

Also construction standards for earthquake resistance changed (iirc in the late 90’s) so values even for rentals fall off a bit of a cliff for older houses. Modern housing is a lot better though so habits may change.

Not sure what you mean about land tax though. If anything being taxed annually on land holdings should drive the value of land down. I’ve even heard of people trying to give away land in rural areas to escape land taxes.
Although not mentioned in either the article, or the essay it links to [0], Sam Altman is also a big proponent of Universal Basic Income[1]. My understanding is that part of his rationale for UBI is that certain types of jobs will disappear, partially due to AI.

[0] https://moores.samaltman.com/

[1] https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/basic-income/
As of writing, it looks like the answer is probably “no.”
Two ways to lie, say something false or only give 1/2 of the story.
There is clearly a trade-off here, but I don't see as clearly weighted in the same direction as you do.

What value is there in allowing politicians to keep their own statements of blatant self interest out of the public record?

I think that requiring politicians to make public their statements explaining their the decisions on behalf of their constituents would be and unalloyed public good.
Is there any government anywhere in the world, at any level down to an individual town, where this has ever been shown to work? If not, what expertise are you drawing from that has you making these assertions with such confidence?
NATO has spent decades expanding in Eastern Europe, which is the provocation I mentioned. This is easily fact checked.
Sorry, just to clarify. "The" Mona Lisa - or at least the picture presented as such - in the Louvre, in Paris, is not the actual picture but a later copy by a different artist?

There's nothing on Wikipedia suggesting that, based on a skim, it says:

>It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic itself, on permanent display at the Louvre, Paris since 1797.[10] //

I'm guessing I've misunderstood??
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
> I was puzzled by the one about the present continuous tense, which does exist in Spanish

According to Spanish grammar, what would be considered the Spanish analog of the English present continuous is formally classified not as a tense, but a periphrasis.
Then the bad actors have too much time to do the dirty. (See Senators stock trades)
Nothing gets done in San Francisco without the approval of six members of the board of supervisors. See, for example, the recent battle over (checks notes) whether to extend the contract of a ferris wheel in a park.
Whenever you see a post about “what did China do again today”, it has lots of up-votes but what a surprise it is not in the front page. Looks like dictatorship lovers are flagging these posts?
It really doesn't matter how earnest they are when polygraphs have been known to be garbage pseudoscience for decades, and especially when people's lives can be derailed by the fraudulent "results" obtained from a polygraph or even just the fiction that it can get results:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-doug-williams-war-on...

Calling them con artists is about as polite as I can be.
San Francisco government is corrupt and incompetent. They’ve ruined a great city with toxic politics. Chesa Boudin has made the city completely lawless and dangerous.
Oh jesus christ fuck no
Yes! a) great book and b) great concept. I would love to see this too. How to start? Small town mayor? Medium sized city council?
The beauty of bitcoin is we know exactly how much you have and where it goes.
That point about cognitive biases wasn't really relevant, though. Writing off someone's (clearly well-thought-out) opinion as some run-of-the-mill "back in my day" remark also happens to possess bountiful opportunities for improved conduct.

Happy to take part in undoing downvotes, though, while we're on the topic of HN metadiscussions. Or is defending one's own arguments/positions out of line on HN these days?
But Google got a whole bunch of way more niche products today. Just check the play store.
Sure it will. It'll just look more like the Russian or French Revolution than the New Deal.
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, is the argument is that providing the user with a choice of library to link to, effectively "induces" the user to violate the GPL?

I'm using the concept of inducement as a theory of contributory copyright liability, even though it wasn't a concept of law at the time that RMS and Bruno had this discussion. It feels like an inducement argument, though - the idea that telling your users to break the license is just the same thing as breaking the license.

However, I don't think Bruno's argument hinges entirely on telling the user to break the GPL on his behalf. There is an API boundary, and in the time following this argument, people have written actual readline replacement wrappers that use BSD-licensed line-editing libraries (e.g. editline). The way I interpreted Bruno's argument was with the implication that he would actually reimplement readline instead of just, say, writing a functionality-free shim to induce the user to replace it with a functional but GPL'd library.
The Christmas Bullet–world’s worst aircraft
Yes but ideally this will catch it before the infection advances to that level.
We can have the rounding errors from all the floating point calculations
How much BTC does @mlcrypto have then?
Funnily enough, https://americaexplained.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/running-jo..., claims to explain a joke based on the Asterix simulacrum of "Le radeau [...]" but it is an entirely different joke and no mention made of the inspiration for that image. Someone calls the situation out in a comment.

That just tickled me.
I'm not happy with Chesa either. For anyone in the same boat there's a recall campaign here: https://recallchesaboudin.org/.
Texas is next. Companies are moving out of SF for Texas.
Ask HN: Urgent the Great Suspender Again
Noticed that the Great Suspender has randomly reappeared on several of our machines.

Is this happening for anybody else? Is there a different way of removing this malware?
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/research-insights/economy/the-worl...
China GDP will be much larger than US by 2050

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-topples-us-as-eus-top-...
China topples US as EU Top trade partner

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2019/08/20/Report-Chinas-mi...
Report: China's military could overwhelm U.S. forces in Indo-Pacific region

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-01/From-nobody-to-somebod...
China has the worlds largest high speed rail network
Fyi Bitcoin can be manipulated and your wealth effectively redistributed if more than 51% of miner nodes act adversarially. (By some calculations it's only 1/3 required). If entities with billions want to hack bitcoin they theoretically could.

Surprising many don't know that Bitcoin has these takeover risks.
Except China is 4 United States's.