skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that very fundamentally different from like... eating food?

‘The administration of beef to the stomach delivers genetic materials which are used to create energy to power the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood.’
>> To take another example: support groups for women coming out of abusive relationships. Very good reasons to not allow men to attend, no?

So women cannot be in abusive relationships with other women?

Are all men abusers?

Edit: Downvotes? So allies are not possible? Is everyone in a given group summarily guilty because of their identity?
> people hold private meetings with a specific list of invitees all the time

They're not private meetings, they're public policy meetings. And yes, in Europe, you couldn't even do this on a commercial level (which is more "private" than a political meeting). You can't go "sorry, only people with this skin color are allowed to enter".
I believe Jon Orwant's mug was largely responsible for Perl 6.
funny... as nothing is ever really free with Oracle.

APEX was created to replace Forms, which really proved itself as stable technology with some apps having a 30 years lifespan now (code quality and performance aside). but APEX has not even neared Forms in terms of speed of dev. fortunately or not - Forms is so-90-ies and quite discontinued.

...should you mention APEX, then perhaps you should also note MS Access as is pretty much the same.
I am wondering if this concentration of capacity in Taiwan with China looming over it is really such a great idea.
All the backend projects I work on were originally written in Java. I'll admit that Streams and Lombok make it a somewhat pleasant experience to work with, at least compared to when I used it in college (I think Java 8 was newest?).

But that said, I once tried writing a new feature in Kotlin, and now all our code is Kotlin. I don't really see how Java can compete with the non-nullable types, data classes, and type-inferencing Kotlin gives you, with easy interoperability, to boot! (Although you might start regretting your use of Lombok at that point...)
This is correct, but imo it is far more likely for the US (the largest military power in the world) to start something. No need to be hyper nationalistic about this.
i once had a vc, during a pitch, who asked if i could sell to her mom. As it was database infrastructure, it seemed kinda wrong, but it turns out her mom owned a small business and was the primary tech buyer, and the mom was in the lobby because they were supposed to go to lunch. I didn't get interest from the firm but it was a heck of an experience.
I said this just a couple of days ago re: a data breach:

The US needs to just scorch the earth re: social security numbers. Set a date when all liability for fraud enabled by improper use of SSN's for "authentication" is the responsibility of the party misusing SSNs and publish the entire list.

The list has, arguably, already been published (thanks, Equifax!). We just need to close the loop.
I didn't suggest it was a good place to put it, just that people do.
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Ah I remember when it came out, it was very impressive.
It needed a very hefty 486 if I remember well, so I couldn't play it.

Years later, when I got a more powerful box, I tried playing it again, but the game speed was proportional to cpu speed I think so it was unplayable...

I should give it another go in dosbox!
I'm quite happy at Cirrus doing tools, but I'm aware that they are an outlier who put effort into staff happiness.

In many other places software is an afterthought to the hardware, and it shows.
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Companies can still invest in R&D even if they aren't a monopoly.

Note that this announcement comes right on the heels of TSMC announcing that they aren't reducing their prices this year.
> the US but is effectively blocking Cuba from a good portion of the world market except for a few small allies.

It is not. Every country is free to decide if it wants to trade with Cuba or not.

> Just don't use these internal problems to minimize the injustice of the blockade against Cuba

There is no injustice. Cuban people can end it whenever they want. Their government too.
Most ‘expensive basic’ innovation is state funded.

Most short-term <10 year innovation is industry funded.
People who use gmail/gsuite get html emails, the images are proxied by google. People using gmail are a huge chunk of the market.
Even more useful will be a Mandatory<T> type. Maybe with “T!” and implicit conversion to T as syntactic sugar.

Edit: Unfortunately it would have the drawback of nonoverloadability due to type erasure.
I mean you realize all those things you mentioned are happening right? Waters are polluted, global warming is real, oil/gold extraction destroys the environment.

If anything, this problem is not limited to Bitcoin, we should put a carbon tax on everything with externalities. Why just focus on crypto when there are far bigger polluters?
Java 8 was in 2014. Go was barely 2 years old. Many of the features presented here were considered common in other languages at the time, so if anything Java is late to the party.
I totally agree it's a ridiculous burden.

Americans have a big burden of FATCA, specialist accountants and just a lot of stress in general.

And to what end, when most of them end up paying no taxes to the US whatsoever? (this was the point I was trying to make - that after all this BS they are put through, the US is still not getting any extra tax revenue from these people)

It seems like it's mostly so that US politicians can say they've done something about high-profile rich people who have moved to tax havens, rather than actually increase tax income measurably.
That's obviously a stupid move by those banks. And if you think so too, you should point it out to them. Your bank is unlikely to read HN (hah!), but they are commercial institutions and some of them might even listen to their customers.
I don't understand how a blog post like this can garner, at time of writing, a hundred upvotes. Normally these types of strong statements "Don't do X/Don't use Y" are attention seeking titles with inversely proportional interestingness of its content. That's the first red flag. The second red flag is that the article is not proof-read: from just the first few minutes of skimming, I found two errors that make the text jarring to read (Persistance->Persistence & [you] can not now -> [you] can not know).

Thirdly, the entire central point makes no sense. The author presents this argument to illustrate why environment variables are confusing:

> The environment is now different. What should the program do? Use the old configuration that had the env var set or the new one where it is not set? Error out? Try to silently merge the different options into one? Something else?

The answer is obvious to anyone that knows what environment variables are and how they work: if the variable is set, it should use it, and if it's not, it shouldn't.

The author goes on (again, spelling error) to state that:

> For comparison using JSON configuration files this entire class os (sic) problems would not exist.

What is the practical difference between using a JSON formatted text file containing settings, and a text file containing environment variables and their definitions? For the situation we're discussing here, the answer is frustratingly simple: there is none. This post is a waste of time.
If someone wants to listen to some of these stories, the Myths and Legends podcast does a nice exploration and breakdown of a lot of these and other stories.
What will the major ML research trends be in the 2020s?
The best introduction to Ashbery is his long (but still readable in one sitting) poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which deals with a subject most of us here can relate to: being profoundly moved, stirred up, heartwrenched by a work of art – in this case Parmigianino's painting of the same title – and unable to stop coming back to it again and again.

Later Ashbery is more hermetic and often downright inane, but Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror justly won a trifecta of American literary prizes in the year it was published.
The combobox drop down menu feels wrong. The non-expanded control is true to the style, but the dropdown itself looks like it doesn't implement the Win98/Winforms style. Maybe it's the border?
where are the cheats for rust lang now?
These threads long predate Bonsai: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... So does the practice of linking to related YC startups from 'official' HN pages. For example, the Feb/March Who Is Hiring pages had links to Manara at the top (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304051), and https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs has had many links to YC startups doing recruiting-type things over the years (Triplebyte, KeyValues, and many others). The Bonsai thing is just another example, though I suppose it's been up there for quite a while now.

There have been many other cases not related to recruiting. HN Search is an example, since it started as a link to Octopart (YC W07) and now points to Algolia (YC W14). I remember other one-off things like an OAuth-related startup and a carbon-credit startup which used to be linked from the HN footer.

Eventually we change the links.
I'm not sure if they've updated the light (or the post), but it feels like a [2019] tag might be warranted just in case.
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Do you mean healthy profit margins?...because I'd rather prefer a combination of big profits, state subsidies and healthy competition than a monopolised/oligopolised market
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Good for you. I am a bootstrapped founder and I still haven't seen the need for a seed round yet. Of course, we are growing slowly and organically but that's ok with me.
> It's one thing to say you don't understand it...

Okay, I'll bite. Why is 'fiat' the root of all the world's problems rather than corrupt institutions and human nature? I don't even know what that means blame fiat. Something about moving off the gold standard? Didn't we have wars and corruption before that too?
Centralized exchanges, lightning network, other blockchains (ethereum), other layer 2s on ethereum, etc. A settlement on the blockchain most likely corresponds to many other transactions elsewhere.
x10, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)
In the US, non-obvious environmental or code concerns are discovered during home inspections which are typically performed after a home is already under contract. I found a couple similar issues with my current home after I made an offer on it; they were fixed at the owners expense and didn’t affect the selling price.

Obvious deficiencies, like old mechanicals, are what I’m referring to by a home being “maintained”.

Mobile homes, on the other hand, are often exempt from many building codes and are notorious for their use of proprietary or non-standard parts. They’re throwaway construction.
If governments are looking at Chinese-Taiwan relations, and gaming the result of an occupied Taiwan, those supply chains become profitable pretty damn quickly.
I've been looking for something like this for a very long time.

Can it be integrated with systems such as SendGrid? or will it be integrated in the future?
Starting with OpenJDK 11 (and I think available in OpenJDK8 with an optional flag), the JVM will use the memory constraints of the container, so no more -Xmx flags and so on if you are running the JVM in a container environment.
You can’t know just from looking at the bits.

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Who’s “we”?

Depending on your politics, you could say the same about the 1980s.
> I would say, specifically in the US where this type of question is asked, it is negligible compared to a dev's yearly salary. What one should consider is the time spent interviewing all candidates versus the cost of making a bad hire and doing it all over again. The only thing you're limiting when interviewing fewer people is the short-term cost of "hours spent doing interviews". That's a myopic metric.

You are right, most of the cost is in the bad hire.

> For one, noise is subjective. And in filtering out the noise, you're filtering out outliers - both good and bad. Even assuming you're right, that would only mainly apply to juniors.

True and true. A bad hire is extremely costly.
"Bitcoin will end wars" has got to be the weirdest take I've encountered, but this isn't the first time I've seen it. Does anybody really believe this?

Wars have been fought since the first time a human picked up a stick with a pointy end. They don't require fiat currency. They are often fought over hard resources like arable land, fuel, deposits of valuable minerals. They are also often fought just because people A hate people B. Bitcoin doesn't change the slightest thing about any of that.
Bankrupting? When has a Hollywood movie not been a massive success in viewership but a massive loss on the balance sheet? I wouldn't trust Hollywood accountants.
The main distinction is that saying genetic engineering doesn't convey a shared concept.

The point of language is to convey a shared concept and by saying genetic engineering nobody knows if you are a useful idiot for disinformation campaigns or just being unspecific in a way that nobody uses the term.
Well if it's arranged by a group, you need to formulate a rule for who gets to attend. If that rule is "no whites" that's certainly controversial.
True, that's because the system is designed to subsidize expensive research and let industry exploit cheap research. It makes no sense to think that state funding, having already done the heavy lifting, can't do the last mile.

Industry mainly provides access to the scalable means of production for tinkering, which can be owned by anyone, not just industrialists.
Sad tale. I went to a competitor of theirs, Holberton School, and also left with a bad taste in my mouth (whole other story). I would recommend others try Lambda, which in retrospect seemed like a better choice. It sounds like the quality has really degraded since then (this was 2018).

I can’t help but think this is related to chasing venture returns. College needs to be “disrupted”, but there’s not necessarily a way to do this that creates the type of leverage of a SaaS company. I recall seeing Austen on here once boasting about how he’d raised upwards of $70m, and my first thought was that I hope this doesn’t destroy them... now they’re at $122m
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> In the future, the Cleveland Clinic will also purchase a 1,000+ qubit IBM next-generation quantum system for installation at a data center in its home town.

LOL, they better actually hit some of their targets to get past 53 qubits if they want to live up to this bullshit hype.

For all IBM has been talking about their QC work, they still only have a measly handful of noisy useless qubits that can't do anything worth writing home about. It would be hard to believe that a medical company would want one, until we remember all the back-room deals and nepotism inherent to the American medical industry. Years' of people's insurance payments frittered away on a magical machine that won't do anything to help anyone's medical outcomes compared to spending the same amount of money telling Yanks to stop shoving fried sugar into every hole.
No it's not.

A patent can be enforced in court.

Who would have a legal base to hold an image of a site?

Indeed. The copyright owner if there is one and then probably the site holder.

There's no single lawful correlation between NFT's and the real world. And people are literally buying this, they don't even know what they are buying.

They just trust the description... Lol
Honestly for us (https://butterflylabs.gitlab.io/api-documentation) we just cold emailed a large number of folks we thought were our target demographic. Basically LinkedIn, look for product managers who are mid-level, and reach out. We got our first two customers from there on our MVP. The thing to keep in mind is if your MVP would solve a real problem, usually folks will be willing to try your solution because it's something they really need. Otherwise your product is just a nice to have and you're probably close to but not quite hitting the right problem spot.
Finally some hacker news and not political bullshit on my hacker news website.
I'm not sure I follow - if marketers proved that plain text emails are more profitable, they would use plain text emails.
hn is kind of notorious for having most of the people in a thread have pretty similar opinions, reddit is another one if you try criticizing anything about certain companies in the wrong channel there are going to be a bunch of people who will target your account with massive down votes so that the comment is removed
Not April fools judging by github history...
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If you can't think of a single pro of Bitcoin, you may not understand it very well; that's ok , it's complex and new paradigms can take a while to propagate.

To be clear, I want people to stop using Bitcoin. There are better cryptocurrencies which don't rely on energy burning to secure their networks, which have negligible fees, and which have near-instant confirmation times.
Python and Go are both like that. The language really encourages a single way of doing things, so when a new programmer sticks 20 lines of new logic in the middle of someone else’s file, it quite often aesthetically blends in. I like it, but sometimes there’s a trade off against power and flexibility.
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This bigoted, anti-religion, ad-hominem ranting would result in a stern chastisement, or even an outright ban by dang for "ideological flamewar" were it not posted by a user with 14k karma points. And it's far from the only such comment DonHopkins has made on HN (he even continues by quoting Wikipedia rants about "Christian colonialism": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26660365).

Yet HN mods have the gall to claim that "reflexive," combative commenting is not allowed, and "reflective," truth-seeking comments are what's required: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26548649

Clearly, certain users are allowed to say whatever they want on HN. If HN were honest, it would go ahead and give them orange checkmarks.

It would also not be allowed if it were against any religion other than Christianity.