skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to see Deno get some financial backing!

I've been building my new multiplayer games website [1] with Deno over the last 4 months and apart from some minor growing pains, it's been a joy to use.

The lack of unnecessary package management, and the TypeScript-by-default approach makes Web dev much nicer. We're also using TypeScript on the client-side, relying on VSCode for error reporting. We use sucrase to strip the types just as we're serving the script files, so that there is no extra build time, it feels like TypeScript is Web-native and we can share typed code with the server.

[1] Not yet launched but we ran a preview past weekend with hundreds of players over WebSockets: https://twitter.com/MasterOfTheGrid/status/13757583007179735... - https://sparks.land
Boston Dynamics do not use machine learning, but good old control algorithms (ZMP probably)
This reminds me of the idea of physical risk for someone with a lifespan of a 1,000 years. If you're 60 with an average lifespan of 70, your actions are risking 10 years of life. If you're 60 with a potential lifespan of 1,000 years, you're effectively risking everything and might be inclined to be more risk averse.

When public discourse magnifies the risk of your comments, you'll tend to be risk averse also. Once upon a time, your opinion would be spoken almost all the time, and perhaps put in a letter rarely. The effort for anyone to raise hell over a minor quibble would involve spreading the word, and doing so enough to find the rare people with a tendency to join you. Go back decades and that is infinitely less likely.

Now, chances are your comment is in writing or recorded, and even if it isn't, the quibbler can broadcast their version of events to increasingly wider circles in seconds, at no cost and with virtually no effort.

I delete half of the comments I start writing online, thinking "What's the point? At best, one person appreciates it. At worst, thousands want to argue."
Excited to see a commercial company centered around the TypeScript ecosystem (both server and client) and betting on WebAssembly. Any successful Open Source must provide commercial value to become sustainable. Funnily enough that assures its longevity long term.

Keep up the great work Ryan, Bert & team.
Exciting times!
Ironically, while they gave their name to the French language, the Franks themselves spoke a Germanic language, not French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_language
Sure, none of them native though.
Apparently has been missing throughout the court cases for the last year. It was a default judgement. Kind of annoying trying to dig up that info the internet; there's a million websites out there all in line to clog up search engines with the same limited facts. They need to cluster them by content or something.

Even in the days before crypto, scammers could hide money in other ways. They need to catch him.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

Can't we have a chuckle? No? OK.
There will be increased scrutiny on this repo anyway. It's not necessarily the safest, but probably a low-risk and easy way to migrate committers.
This is the sort of reply I expect from the more popular subreddits on Reddit, and not HN. I recommend you check out the community guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It makes a bunch of people feel uncomfortable. Those who've had children, those who want children, and those hoping for grandchildren. That and government, and most of the economic order, is interested in increasing GDP, available productivity, and consumer spending. I've seen more principled environmentalists raise the issue, only to be shot down by their peers for their 'abhorrent' views.

Edit: Oh, and there's a conspiracy theory that floats around white supremacy groups:

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

I hardly think white people will go extinct, but that might be a concern for some people in the western world.

The best way I've encountered to reduce population growth is actually to empower women, particularly in the developing world or for poorer populations. Having better education and employment opportunities for women strongly correlates with fewer children (and of course those children will be vastly better off, as will national GDP with a better skilled labour pool)... but even this idea could be seen as 'imperialist' or 'colonialist' if such an agenda is driven by the western world, even if it's feminist and environmentalist at heart.
Judging by the usual debates on consciousness, whatever the state of the AI there will be a big split on which definition of conscious it does or does not meet.
That's not really relevant to whether it's a good essay or not.
Exactly, outrage is bad but we can't just ignore the outside world.

For me, it's environmentalism that gets me. I do believe I have a reason to be outraged by this topic and our inactions, although so does everyone who is outraged. My thoughts basically hit all the checkboxes in the article, but does that make them excessively outraged, or is just that the situation itself is truly outraging?
> It is still true that the individual was accused but after being found innocent the information of them being accused isn't particularly relevant to anybody typing their name in a search engine.

"Isn't particularly relevant" according to whom? Relevance in the eye of the beholder.
> The problem is that people still need something to do that gives some meaning to their existence and provides accomplishment, intrinsically and within their peer group.

Parenting.

> There's art, but if ever fifth person is an artist, who is supposed to consume all of it?

Don't forget charity work, nursing, education - i don't think any of these will replaced by machines soon.

> Many are also not wired to be scientists.

See above. How about explorers? Sports enthusiasts.

> With machine learning steadily becoming helpful in more domains and slow but steady improvements in robotics, we could be just 50-100 years away from a future where most manual labor of today becomes redundant.

It happened before : see farming. We found other things to do :)

> Of course that assumes continued progress, and as history shows that is not at all a given. All we'd need is a serious global conflict with nuclear weapons and progress could be stalled for a long time.

Massive progress is made during times of need. WW1 and WW2 basically created aircraft, rockets and computers. The current pandemic is pushing medicine forward at a rate not seen in years.
I always liked this quote from Alan Kay - "Reinventing the flat tire"
>Looks like crime does pay – pays around $713 Million

It only pays because BTCUSD shot up since the crime was committed.

It could have gone the other way and the scammer would owe way more than he stole at the time.

At any rate, I doubt this guy's asset are within reach of either government (UK or US) unless the throw him in a cage until he regurgitates his private keys.
You could just click the "try the demo" button without filling in any information.
>Install
>$ pip install deep-daze
>Examples
>$ imagine "a house in the forest"
>That's it.

if only! just spent an hour on fresh installs of debian 10 and ubuntu 20.04 with python 2.7 and 3.6 alternatively - not having it

I understand it has a lot of required packages but please, write a bloody install guide
Contrary to your initial comment, it really seems like you have a problem with unions (also, respectfully, you may want to look up what “non sequitur” means).

This discussion clearly isn’t going anywhere, so I’m ducking out. Have a nice day!
L. Dachary take on it seems really good to me: https://blog.dachary.org/2020/02/10/how-the-cancel-culture-w...

Details:
https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html

About the "cancel" approach: https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture...
>“It’s just another incident which shows that no matter which contingency plan you design, tragedies may occur over and over as long as we don’t replace the export of live animals with the export of refrigerated and frozen meat,” Paun said.

Wow, so instead of saying "well, everything points to consuming less meat & having less livestock on the World" Paun blames the animals aren't dead when transporting them.
This essay seems to have been published 20 years ago. In the modern version, the experimentalists use terms like "deep learning" and "neural nets" and the theorists use terms like "fuck all this deep learning bullshit"
So words "have consequences", and you asscociate Stallman's gaffes with:

- Dangers of LSD.

- Words of actual cult leaders, who are universally charismatic and manipulative. Stallman is the exact opposite and has zero influence outside the free software topic. Stallman is incapable of being manipulative.

- Mass murderers.

- Charismatic DJs in the Rwandan genocide.

I'm speechless that in this supposedly rational forum people employ the same dirty tactics as on Twitter.
He parked that big mac truck right in his little garage.
I've experienced this from the opposite side (positive feedback) and wanted to share that the tone and structure of the rOpenSci community seem to foster positive feedback and community interactions.

I maintain an R package, an API wrapper for a popular electronic data capture framework, which was peer-reviewed by rOpenSci (https://ropensci.org/). They put extreme care into making software as accessible and inclusive as possible, which I like a lot. Especially the rOpenSci community (see their CoC (https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/)) is full of considerate, caring human beings. One could call them the Anti-SO.

Through the peer review process, community requests and GH issues, there's probably a year's worth of spit-polishing added on top of the "works for me" level. This is my first publicly used software package, so I'm taking this as a learning curve and I'm bending over backwards to making this package as inviting and usable as possible. I get away with this as I'm a public servant and paid to deliver value to the general public. And I must say, every improvement over my initial "good enough" version has paid off against the main project I'm using this package for.

So my experience with this tiny, niche, package is overwhelmingly positive. I blame the audience - R programmers, rOpenSci members, and members of the community of the software I'm API-wrapping, which all are stressed out researchers grateful for help. These communities have also a good code of conduct. Maybe also issue templates with friendly guidance to give me very precise feedback (and the advice to take common sense over my guidance) help. Maybe they also repel low effort "could you please do my homework for me" queries.
That beginner-level Rust code made Coq barf. Rewrite your POC in Haskell before reverting back.
Courier Mail Server
Designed to move empty boxes via suction, as far as I can see in the video. How does it handle boxes that actually contain heavy objects?
I'm not saying other licenses aren't. In fact, I'll repeat, I respect AGPL used for ideological reasons. But I find it rarer than cases where it's used as part of bait-and-switch tactic by startups preying on other startups (a bit of simplification, but that's non-trivial component of it).
>I fail to understand why they didn't/don't use the tugboats to wash the water away. Even small boats can cause a lot of scour with their bow thrusters

If the following video explanation is accurate, a tugboat's turbulence can't scour down to ~50 ft depth of sand:
https://youtu.be/zBvFuq7Mkzs?t=1m00s

I think the confusion we have with all these news reports is that we really don't have a definitive visualization or geometry of how its actually stuck in the sand that's accurate/authoritative. A bunch of overhead drone shots don't really reveal to us the true extent of the problem that's hidden underneath the waterline.

We just see words about tugboats arriving and water spraying so our instinct is to simplify the problem to "I don't understand why they can't just do <X>?!?"

EDIT to add informative deep link of how the ship got stuck mentioned by another thread: https://youtu.be/5iyn2q6s1Sk?t=4m28s
Yes, and they've been rewarded with profits and a soaring stock price. Why shouldn't they pay taxes for that? It's undoubtable that they used federal and public infrastructure in the process of making and growing the company.
Well it's still vulnerable. At least in Gitlab you can use fancy features like requiring 2FA for members of a group. But you still need to secure its infrastructure.

I think the most common attacks on Github repos and groups have been on individual accounts. Which 2FA would mitigate.
Actually this is an example of ambiguity, not context sensitivity (in the formal languages sense). Context sensitivity means context is needed to construct a grammatical sentence, not merely to parse one. It's actually pretty hard to find examples of this in natural language.
And there are canal tunnels already - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_tunnel
> the bottom would fall out of the 'market'.

That is a valueless statement.

You have no idea of what the actual supply/demand and liquidity for BTC actually is.

Even if you were to aggregate all the order books of all the existing exchanges, you'd still have no idea because of the number of deals that happen OTC.
StarOffice is back!
As is pointed out, Collabra hasn’t had a new support client since 2018, but other companies have had support clients. These companies sell libreoffice clients under the name libreoffice, unlike Collabra, and don’t actually contribute back to the project, but basically just open support tickets relying on upstream devs to provide support for free, while they undercut the companies providing support for the project.
Because corporations are taxed on profit but you as an individual are taxed on income.
I was curious of that too. Or for Ukraine.

The best soil in Europe is located west-north of the Black sea, Ukraine/Romania.

I can tell for Romania: except the mountains, Romania s soil is extremely fertile, the black soil Chernozem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
Have you never heard the phrase ‘from stem to stern?’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_(ship)
I think that's a good point. Apparently they had the ability to make commits as any user, which was a huge opportunity. Then they waste it on such an obvious backdoor? It does seem possible that this was a diversion tactic.

Edit: Elsewhere someone mentioned, this could have been "marketing" - to demonstrate their ability to take over accounts.
"Criterion/criteria"
This reminds me of that bit from the BBC's "Yes Minister", where Sir Humphrey tries to dissuade Minister Hacker from actually leaving his office and talking to other people in the building himself - rather than allowing all information to be mediated by his permanent and personal secretaries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-iC1FLqFQ
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I'm incredibly slow, and only just realized that Deno is an anagram of Node.
> and the rest of us just busy speculating about NFTs, stocks, bitcoins, real-estate and posting on HN and social networks.

It's sad when someone's idea of creative free time consists of gambling and addiction.
“Often” - I’d be curious to see stats. Not that I don’t believe you, I do; I’m just thinking this is such an edge case of an edge case, that the trade-offs involved in accommodating it might not be worth for society at large. After all, the Holy Inquisition made ultracatholics very happy too.
You might be surprised at the size of the community of Latin speakers (outside the Vatican). It gets some attention from time to time on HN. For this community a shared pronunciation is crucial to being mutually intelligible. And I suppose it makes sense to use the one with the most support from the experts, even if it will always remain somewhat speculative. I take your point - it is possible to study and ready Latin without much regard for pronunciation. But I also feel that if you approach it this way you miss out on the fun of trying to recreate the speech of an ancient culture.
Yes, but Facebook said it will not monetize WhatsApp, and something similar when they bought WhatsApp Instagram.

We all know how that turned out to be

History repeats itself, the above two are the recent incidents that comes to my mind
No, the first note of Am is definitely still A. What makes the difference between major or minor etc are the notes that come after.

For example, the A major scale goes A, B, C#, ..., while A minor uses the minor third, so you get A, B, C, ... etc.
I agree with everything except for the last point. The last point is a completely separate issue, and isn't relevant enough in this context!
I have a hard time believing there’s any one or more than a literal Hand full who are so diligent as to actually do this for every site that is good enough. It’s a common talking point though as if it’s actually a practice that would could be common
I couldn't agree more. If I ever decided to make any of my work public, it would be under "Good luck with that" license (https://github.com/me-shaon/GLWTPL)
FFT is pretty bad at doing the lower pitches. Way too many notes will find their way into the same bin. And if you want more resolution you'll need an impractical FFT size.
Significant portion of the text on Wikipedia is now dual licensed Creative Commons and GFDL (specifically unversioned), something that was made possible by change introduced in later version of GFDL (1.3, afaik) that didn't exist in earlier one.

The licensing move was done in 2009.
Java...
So while I agree that microstates/citystates will become much more prevalent in the mid-long term I disagree about the rationale and whether it'll just be for the wealthy. I think we would have seen much more of that in the U.S. already between high and low tax jurisdictions (e.g. California and Nevada) if it was as simple as tax optimization. I think for the ultra-wealthy there are other considerations than just taxes including visa agreements between nations and stability/rule of law (I know Henley & Partners does a brisk business selling citizenship to Chinese/Russians because they want to have citizenship in a place that won't throw them in prison or take all their money if they say the wrong thing). All that said, I do think that we'll end up with something like what Malka Older posited in her books with rather small Singapore style jurisdictions all over the world but probably catering to a range of people (e.g. the talent city in Nigeria currently in planning, manufacturing hubs, tourism/remote work hubs, etc.)
HN sometimes gets annoyed at pirates of software when it involves their software. Like Mac apps. Some can’t believe people pay for Mac apps.
Not sure how you got off track, but my point was that building cloud cities on Venus seems no more unrealistic than terraforming Mars. Both are really fucking hard, but Mars probably sounds easier to the poster I was replying to because it is more similar to what we've seen in the past.
This is super cool to see! Deno is really refreshing coming from node fulltime.
It feels like the world is in a weird place at this point in history. We've left a world of city-states (mostly) where laws, wealth and society were hyper-localised and conflict was probably more frequent, but we're not quite at a point where the whole planet is represented by a single government. I imagine this will happen when we are properly multi-planetary and our ability to defer governmental roles to machines is sufficient, given the already visible cracks in the cultural seams that larger sovereignties create (I'm thinking situations like Catalonia, Hong Kong, Scotland etc.).

Until then we're at a point where governments are too small for us to have free movement across continents and truly beneficial globalisation, and too large to represent minority cultures adequately. I think this reversion to city-states will continue to grow across the world as governments struggle with their size and powerful individuals who are not politically linked chafe at the legal bit. Can't really tell whether it's a good or bad thing yet.
> Hiring women because "we need at least one woman on the team because of the quota". Would you like to know you have been hired because the team is forced to have a women and everybody knows it?

Interestingly this. We are in the process of hiring a woman because of the quota. Well, we are trying because for every 20 male applicants we probably don't even get 1 female. And we are a team of 7 males. Odds are we have a female employee in a team of 8 are less likely than norm considering the applicants. But here we are.

Like it is insane, we had a female applicant which was rejected in the home assignment process. My manager told me that he felt that he needed to ask the reviewer a second time that if he is sure. Because we desperately need a token female.

And there are times that I wonder if I am part of the quota because I am an expat in this country and I come from a less developed country. I am confident in my skills that I am a good fit even if my nationality helped me at the beginning even if I got here because I am a token but I can see that it would be demotivating if I was unsure
This article had the most volunteer translations I've ever seen (26). I wonder why.
This sounds extremely reasonable?
Tx!
I think you're talking about different things.

For a fixed range, the probability of being outside that range decays like 1/k^n.

But for a fixed probability, the width of the range with that probability decays like 1/sqrt(n).
Well here's an example for you: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/dear-prudence-abort...
I'd argue that's more a problem with rule of law than anything freedom of speech related.
If that happens, “regular” democratic countries will take countermeasures. The market will remain where the masses are, after all. Someone has to buy those iPhones.
Previous submissions over the last few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/ryancdoto...
This reminds me of both the non-fiction The Sovereign Individual, people moving to lower tax rate jurisdictions, and also, William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels where mega corporations set up archologies where people live and work and governments are irrelevant.

My wife and I considered several years ago moving to a low cost tropical area and decided not to because the US government makes it very difficult to do banking while living elsewhere, and we decided to not be so far away from family and friends.
If I understood correctly this is how they intend to make money:

> Not every use-case of server-side JavaScript needs to access the file system; our infrastructure makes it possible to compile out unnecessary bindings. This allows us to create custom runtimes for different applications: Electron-style GUIs, Cloudflare Worker-style Serverless Functions, embedded scripting for databases, etc.

So it's basically more of a Redhat approach to making money from open source? They intend to build tailored services on top of Deno for companies that request them?
It'll take time until it their "prototype" becomes useful. It took some time for Spot to find a niche and its not clear how viable it is, and what the costs are (contact us?).

Paradoxically, raising the minimum wage and giving minimally-skilled workers more rights could play in favor of companies like Boston Dynamics.
Except that these 10 people never materialize if someone who has made 10 "wrong" statements in a decade is canceled.

Which is why cancel tactics are employed only in mature code bases, and the 10 people who do materialize are power hungry bureaucrats who associate themselves with the work of others for financial gain.
You're basically saying you're doing business in Europe without agreeing with most of EU policies, standards and core values.

It's like you're saying you'd be better doing business in other region.
> This is a lie.

Source?
Well now I feel rather foolish. Thank you for enlightening me about this. :-)
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