skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... It's so weird to read "we were all very sad when it was time to butcher it." I've raised three pigs. One of them passed, due to a fatal illness that was likely a genetic defect. All of them have personalities and their interpersonal engagements are fascinating. I had to put down an aggressive rooster and it had me in tears. I can't imagine how disturbing it would be to put down a pig (I still feel sad about the one who passed. she was incredible). Do you still eat pork?
Is it that you disagree on the topic? There is nothing subtle about the fact that most of the API tools development goes towards fixing something that does not even have to be there.
I think understanding how neural networks work is easiest if you think of them as networks. Reasoning about why they work is a lot easier thinking about them as transformations. It's not like you're actually picturing all the parameters of a nontrivial network one way or the other.
We didn't give up on having kids b/c of climate change; we voluntarily decided not to have them because we don't want them!
That designer has to get in line. I went to a meeting of a black nationalist group in the 1990s that had their own flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_flag

One of them commented "There is no white on this flag".
Anyone got a good video on how these drugs work?
I’m actually writing a book about this in the context of MMORPGs and the generation of “real” story and narrative. Can I reproduce this comment, it’s just too on the money to ignore.

I know this is a weird question, but I’ve been having fun playing around with the idea of exposing the workflow and research behind the book as opposed to restating context from others (and limiting my area of generation to the novel arguments.)
It’s not intentionally built to fail

It’s intentionally built to empower people who die, and the baton gets fumbled around once they do

Frankly it’s working peoples fault. Aristocrats financial hegemony would vanish tomorrow if workers became independent agents rather than work for them.

Only 5% of the US hunts anymore. Everyone is dependent on industrialized economic distribution.

Let the bankers in NY and London try to collect mortgages across the world when we stop paying. Let the 800,000 sworn officers in the US police 300 million+ for no pay.

The system is too small to handle the reality. It’s not designed to fail, it’s not designed to scale. We see similar planning effort in the logistics pipeline problems; no slack. Militant efficiency.

Just like with religion, it’s the belief of the masses that enable the co-opting of our agency for their profit. Our belief enables them.

Unions need to stop collecting dues from members and start charging employers subscription fees, or similar changes to social norms. But that’s all politically babysat and everyone is happy to look away from the lack of disruption in that context, while disrupting the shit out of lives dependent on business that is now extracted from the community.

My fellow Americans ended up being a bunch of Daniel Plainviews… I drink your milkshake. But the financial wealth is all a mirage, made up to serve the old ways. Good luck when the masses realize very smart people took away their American dream.
> (most western, and many other, countries embraced a floating currency as a response to this Nixon-change).

Most countries floated their currencies eventually during the Great Depression, and the sooner a country floated the sooner they started recovering.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#/media/File:Grap...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Depression_and_W...

A quick summary of the main points of why the gold standard isn't as useful as a lot of people think:

* https://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5900297/case-against-gold-stan...

For economic cycles, see point 5: Gold recessions could last for years.

The gold standard made the Great Depression worse; see Bernanke† and James (1991):

> However, Temin (1989) argues that, once these destabilizing policy measures had been taken, little could be done to avert deflation and depression, given the commitment of central banks to maintenance of the gold standard. Once the deflationary process had begun, central banks engaged in competitive deflation and a scramble for gold, hoping by raising cover ratios to protect their currencies against speculative attack. Attempts by any individual central bank to reflate were met by immediate gold outflows, which forced the central bank to raise its discount rate and deflate once again. According to Temin, even the United States, with its large gold reserves, faced this constraint. Thus Temin disagrees with the suggestion of Friedman and Schwartz (1963) that the Federal Reserve's failure to protect the U.S. money supply was due to misunderstanding of the problem or a lack of leadership; instead, he claims, given the commitment to the gold standard (and, presumably, the absence of effective central bank cooperation), the Fed had little choice but to let the banks fail and the money supply fall.

> For our purposes here it does not matter much to what extent central bank choices could have been other than what they were. For the positive question of what caused the Depression, we need only note that a monetary contraction began in the United States and France, and was propagated throughout the world by the international monetary standard.

* http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11482

† Yes, that Bernanke.

I recommend Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, which goes over some situations where various countries have switched to and from 'fiat regimes' over the course of history before the modern age.

As for economic cycles, in the GS/pre-BW regime US economic growth was 2.81% with a variation of 4.46%, while in the non-GS/post-BW world the numbers are 2.75 ±2.06%:

* https://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2016/12/14/why-a-...

And the later years are also including inflation from the Vietnam War and the oil shock: hardly regular events. Take those out and the variation would probably be even lower. Once Volcker tamed the oil shock, the Fed has managed to run a pretty tight ship when it comes to inflation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation
The question was "at all." .Net has been available on Linux for ~18 years.
Show HN: Redact.photo – Webapp to censor information in images
I'm not having any due to the amount of responsibility and commitment needed to raising a child for 18 years. You also never know what you're going to get in the end.
It's my understanding that the Corporation administers local government in the City, and it is itself plutocratic rather than democratic, but otherwise Parliament's laws for England apply just as well within the City as without. Banking regulations and so forth that govern business in the City come from FCA, which came into existence by an act of the UK Parliament.

I mean, Manchester has its own police force, Merseyside has its own police, and so forth. Each borough in the England has its own elections. What's peculiar about the City is that the electorate of the City's elections includes businesses as well as residents. But it's not some kind of extraterritorial oddity as some conspiracy theorists think.
Semi related: As an adopted person, I was dumbfounded upon meeting my biological parents as an adult to discover how much of ME was genetic. I'm best case scenario adoption. I was 4 days old, no fetal alcohol syndrome, well nourished in the womb etc, placed with a stable educated family. Even with all that going for us, my parents had a rough time with me because of how different I was from them.

Now tweak any of those variables, and the situation just gets more difficult. Adoption is really hard.
the previous generation was always scared for the next generation; I think that's just a way of life
We also have fairly big income transfers in many countries, making this a somewhat orthogonal question.
Hey, I believe there are multiple things you could have meant. From the top of my head one thing that might be interesting would be an application that allows conductors to conduct a virtual orchestra. But there are other possibilities in this space too I'm sure! If you had something else in mind feel free to share.

I have not explored this space much so far as my focus is rather to build the infrastructure that enables such applications rather than building the applications myself.
you can argue whether they maybe should tone down the noise a little but the health benefits, both physical and social as well as even the capital benefits, from the article:

"China is home to an estimated 100 million dancing grannies. Square dancing allows older women, many of whom live alone or with younger family members who they accompanied on a move to the cities, to socialise. They form strong bonds, often shopping or doing other activities, including group investments, together, the South China Morning Post reported"

are most likely very, very high and almost certainly underestimated. The kind of social security that comes out of having these kinds of relations well into old age probably saves society an incalculable amount of resources compared to the risk of social and financial isolation if these women could not meet.

Maybe find a way to make the grannies a little less militant but you would be straight up foolish to not encourage the elderly to socialize.
Anyone interested in declining birth rates, just take a look at the statistics in South Korea. 42% of the women in their 30s are unmarried (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pxotg9/over_42_o...). That's almost half! Our infinite growth systems will collapse, unless countries make it easier for women to raise a family.
This seemed at the start to be a "9 crazy ways to increase employee engagement!" type article. At the end, it absolutely was. There is nothing of substance or worth here, or at least I cannot find it. Am I missing something?
Washington D.C.’s special status exist to guarantee the independence of the central government from particular pressure of the host state, as opposed to the City of London’s privileges which are historically to protect well-to-do local merchants and craftsmen from the intrusive power of the nobility.
TypeScript Is the Only Programming Language You Need: TypeScript Everywhere
> You could technically interpret it as you did, but only a contrarian would do that.

Or you could have been more clearer.

I didn't intend any animosity, but you clearly do.

> If you want more people to support rust

I don't care whether more people support Rust or not. I am just fighting the spectacular amount of disinformation in this thread by malicious actors that have never used Rust.

> Putting B after A is not swapping them, it is putting the element B so it is right after A.

Then you should have written that instead. Take the pointer in the vector right after A, and swap it with B. That way, A is now right before B, and B is now right after A.
It is at the top of the story. It isn't the very first sentence, but just eyeballing my scrollbar it's about 5% of the way in and before the meat of the reporting.

I'm not a journalist, by my understanding is that journalism uses an inverted pyramid rhetorical structure. You put the gist of the article first so people can quickly judge if they want to continue reading. Then you have the details. The disclaimer is after the condensed intro and immediately before this sentence, which begins their detailed reporting: "This account is based on interviews with more than 20 current and former Blue Origin employees and industry officials with close ties to the firm, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal."
But C++ programmers have ergonomic vectors in the standard library. There is no reason to implement data structures there unless you need them for performance reasons.

And correct use of linked lists is not uncommon at all. Binary trees are linked lists for example, would you implement binary trees as a vector pointing to vectors rather than a linked list containing pointers to similar linked lists?
India, China, and Africa are doing just fine.
Even if it was, it was a "bluff". I would have imagined someone like Steve Jobs has bluffed numerous times over his career too.
> Distributed systems are usually more robust against disruption that centralized ones

Distributed systems can also be more complex to re-converge after a major disruption.

I'd imagine it's non-trivial to re-plan a network, given equipment and crew limitations.

And as context, we're talking about 24 hours later, now?
The main problem with Blue Origin is that it isn't SpaceX. And I think Bezos clearly knows that he has a very small window of chance to make it work. So I bet the top-down pressure is insane. Perfect condtions for a toxic culture.

So if you get a job at Blue Origin with the expectations that is going to feel like working for a cozy, cultural-heavy, trendy startup, you probably should re-caliber the way you set your expectations.
> Another top executive was coached by human resources on appropriate workplace behavior after he repeatedly referred to a group of female employees as “mean girls,” which continued even after they complained about it to management

What's a logical reason why "mean girls" is egregious enough to require reeducation, but "bro culture" doesn't bat an eye?
Hehe. I’m not sure someone’s epitaph is the appropriate place to report a bug. On the other hand, after thinking about it, I hope someone reports a bug in one of my tools in my obituary thread :)
Thank you for the feedback. Such an integration would be nice indeed.
The intention is to contrast the term with alternatives that men often find far more upsetting like "rape culture" or calling the culture openly misogynistic or sexist. Men often find these terms upsetting, as they feel it makes them out to be victimizers or predators. It's difficult to land on any language describing a misogynist, sexist work environment without needing to consider the emotions of those who's participation is most important in confronting the issue.

To my knowledge, the right language hasn't been found that men generally find palatable for describing a sexist work environment.
It just doesn't seem like a good "investment" to me: basically spending 18 years and a HUGE amount of money and freedom to get something which should not even be viewed as an investment in the first place...I just clearly do not have the correct emotional mindset to actually have children
Cross-compiling Elixir releases with ASDF and Docker
Well it looks like cdrtools is in need of a new maintainer now, if the outcome is that you carry on the legacy and let the tool live on, that would be great!
This is very impressive, especially the video with 3d effect.
Can we check the repos?

Did you use libraries or did you create a library for this?

I would love to see a slider as well, maybe with similar effects like transitions in PowerPoint.

Is this all Js rendered or does it use html and css?
I think that short-lifetime certificates are still the best, but I do see a value with CT, namely dealing with a newly-acquired domain (especially a domain with a history). Without CT, you're in mercy of other holders being honest unless you contact every single CA to revoke any theoretical certificates that they might or might not issue. With CT, you just need to contact specific CAs that there has been a change in ownership and to revoke any previous certificates issued.
This guy's a fascist, full-stop: his biggest problem with the US is that we aren't sufficiently subservient to the military. Good riddance.

He attacked Google for not working on AI with the US
Defense Department, while Chinese companies are obliged
to work with Beijing.

The US is also wasting time debating the ethics of AI
while China makes “massive investment” and eschews such
concerns
Somewhat OT, but funny to see Ali P. on HN this AM. I went to high school with Ali and his twin brother. They were salutatorian and valedictorian (don't remember in which order). I think they (or one of the two) went on to do very well co-founding a company with the late Tony Hsieh.
From what I remember from back when I first read up on this project: The goal is for as much of the construction to be done with simple tools and materials that can be stored long-term.

If you need to, hypothetically, bury your society-bootstrapping supplies, your wrenches and hole bar will probably survive. But a welder may not.
> the much beloved XML

I can't quite resolve "beloved" and "XML" in the same sentence...

That said, I have used XML a lot, pretty much because of XML Schema.

I don't like it. No sir. Not one bit. Uh-uh...

But there's really no viable substitute.

When I design an API, I generally start with an object model, and use native converters to create XML and JSON from it.

I will provide an XML Schema with the XML variant. I often have to do this by hand, which sucks. There are tools to create Schema from dumps, but these are pretty limited. I may use them to "get me in the ballpark," but there's always lots of elbow grease.

I'll use the XML for testing, but I will usually use the JSON format for the actual implementation.
Really? The guy just tried to equate particular wealth in the USA with Hitler's desire to establish the 3rd Reich. It's not on the same planet, let alone on base
The rate of technological growth has slowed down by any measure that historians and economists know how to use. The book does a much better job making this argument than I can in this short Hacker News comment, but here is a summary of the argument that I recently wrote:

Peter Drucker has argued that the 60 years leading up to 1914 were the most innovative years in human history. A person born in 1860 and dying in 1940 would live through the first lightbulb, the first power plant, the first power grid, the first electrified city, the first electric street cars, the first combustion engine, the first cars and trucks, the first telephones and then the growth of the telephone networks to include every household, the first great oil boom, the first submarines and the exploration of the underwater seas, the development of germ theory, the sterilization of the hospitals and so the first safe surgeries, combined with the first true anesthesias, the first airplanes, the first radio as telegram and then in 1920 the ability of radio to carry the human voice, the invention of the television, the first sulfa drugs followed by the invention of the first true antibiotics, the first plastics, the invention of textiles made of plastics (nylon), and so much more than I can list. A person born in 1860 and dying in 1940 was born during one epoch of the human race and died in a completely different one, much more so than any person born in any other year. The best and most recent book on this subject is "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War” by Robert J. Gordon.

[ Also, you write about "personal computer, the internet, and the mobile phone" as three separate inventions, but it's really just 2: computers and better multi-plexing, and even the multi-plexing is because computers got better. ]
I wonder if there is any research into the phenomenon (if it even exists!) where people skew attribution of their decisions towards a factor[1] that could be an influence, but actually is not relevant in their decision-making process?

I ask the above because, to me, this reads more like a "justification after the fact" kind of result. Certainly climate change could be a reasonable justification for not wanting children (it certainly sounds noble!), but I have a feeling that fears of responsibility, change, or economics are a FAR more likely list of reasons people don't want children.

Not only have the above factors existed forever, I highly doubt the people claiming climate change is such a severe stress to them that they won't have kids (when they otherwise would!) are the same people actively living their lives in a way to maximally mitigate their impact to the climate. That is, putting as much time, energy, and money into fighting climate change as it would take to raise a child.

If not... well... it kind of reads hollow to me. More like a convenient, plausible excuse that sounds nice. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope not. Not having kids isn't the solution. Having kids and teaching them about their responsibility to our climate will workout better in the long-run. Because while you, the environmentally conscious steward, are busy not raising the next generation, the people who don't give a shit are still procreating.

[1] Like climate change
Indeed. I still use the Windows port of CDRtools to burn CDs in Windows; CDs burned with Microsoft’s built in tools can have issues (such as, if I’m not careful, burning with a UDF filesystem which some CD players will not recognize; also the Windows CD burner can have issues burning a CD which is sector-by-sector the maximum size a given CD blank can fit) which are best fixed by using Schilling’s software instead.
>The best way I can engage with this is asking a question in return: is someone who crosses the street safely "smarter" than someone who wanders into traffic and dies?

Depends on the person's goals and risk tolerances.

Directly addressing what was previously being talked about, my thoughts are that there is nothing smart or not smart about wanting pieces of your DNA to continue existing or not wanting pieces of your DNA to continue existing. It is simply a preference, like liking a certain color.

However, if your goal is to maximize your power and/or ability to obtain resources/services, it may be smarter to have children, especially in certain parts of the world and especially for your old age. But that may not be the goal for everyone.
This immediately made me think of a cyberpunk dystopia where there are shiny, pre-packaged widgets for the elite and open-source medicine for the poor masses. But then I immediately remembered that there may just be no medicine for the masses instead.

Open source tools could be a boon to civilization though, especially in developing countries - one problem is materials though. Some optics projects are really clever, like that visual microscope malaria diagnostic kit with the glass ball lens. But then again, you think: hey, are real microscopes really that unaffordable? I really have to read up on how that was financed and why that road was taken.
Payments is..part of the original purpose. And I think for everyday transactions Bitcoin has failed, so far. Lightning is a step in the right direction though, but it's not there in terms of UX. And volatility is obviously an issue.

If you are actually unaware, and not just arguing in bad faith, most development right now is happening on Ethereum and DeFi apps running on Ethereum. You can get collateralized loans, there are decentralized prediction markets, stuff like that.
> “Man the Hunter”

I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of stuff that gets left out falls under the heading of "women's work". There's an enormous blind spot that underlies most discussions of work where working 'at home' is disregarded as though it is the natural state of women and not worth mentioning.

Women have always worked full time. Out of the home, in the home, with their partners, with their villages. Read frontier biographies from the US western expansion and notice the partnership and shared responsibilities. Notice who takes the deer carcass and processes the meet and hide. Notice who churns and cans and turns fabrics and leather into clothes and shoes and hats and bedding.

It rarely gets discussed, and feeds into a mythology which treats women 'working' as something that started in 1970 and is a sad byproduct of economic necessity.