skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had such feeling, but yes, I agree that for most people that's probably the case. Work is just work for me, in spite of I like it a lot. I realize myself through different activities.
> Central and South America, a comparison to the third-world, even if limited to work/life balance, is highly inaccurate.

of course it is. calling the US as a whole, a third world country is absurd to anyone who has actually been to one.

that's not even taking into account that the US is what literally defines what a first-world country is, warts and all.
Two major US technology firms 'tricked out of $100m'
Intel employee leaks Management Engine backdoor
> The CIA is almost certainly ignoring all of that data

Citation needed.

Do you suggest that the data is destroyed after it is deemed unimportant?

If not, that suggests a far more terrifying scenario in which the data is collected and stored in the event that it would need to be brought up at a later date.
Day after day the people at these companies are working tirelessly to produce a system with as close to zero defects as possible. That's the only solution that cares about both riders and drivers in a two-sided market. Every conflict between those two sides can really only have solutions where one side wins and the other side loses.

Compare the number of defects per 100,000 rides in their solution to the one they replaced, and you'll quickly see that they care very much about both riders and drivers, because there isn't any revenue without both sides of the market.
Montreal?
> why they needed to implement it themselves and not let the OS handle the blinking cursor.

Probably because they are using electron.
That really is a bash bug IMHO
I've discussed this with upstream bash at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-02/msg00052....

I've some general notes on SIGPIPE mishandling at http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/sigpipe_handling.html
Top talent includes good, too. Leaving only mediocre to bad for everyone else.

We're on the smaller side in SF, and I'm having a terrible time finding good ops people.
Would be better to compare it to transfer a state/screen over the wire/internet on 486 vs. doing the same nowadays ;)
VS Code IS a viable option. I use it daily basis and works great.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
I haven't tried detecting whether link prefetching is supported by a browser yet. Not that I think it should even be detected, because those are hints to the browser. If you need to depend on them there is something else wrong with the way you design your apps.

But if you still insist you need it, I don't think detection should be that difficult. When user comes to the page for the first time you put a hidden link somewhere with prefetch turned on. Then you ask server if the page has been accessed. And because you only make this check once (for instance on login page while the user is typing) it is performant enough.

Is it easier to whitelist? Sure. But we have seen here how reliable whitelisting is.
I switched to vscode from webstorm, for performance reasons. Building a native editor / ide is a great idea. But since a lot of options in this area had already chosen some cross-platform toolkit for development, why not build it as an electron app?
Code faster in cloud environment
Nix is more than an attempt. It is a success. It has demonstrated that POLA is worthwhile for package management.
> I am aware of it, but it's not worth the risk to let any of them in.

You'd rather see 10's or 100's of thousands dead than risk a few incidents?

> That's supposing law enforcement can stop 100% of terror attacks before they have happened.

There are so few of them that even with broken LE the dangers from terrorism are smaller than from smoking.

> Isn't it better to just remove the root of the issue?

Yes, but it is too late for that as you already wrote.

> No, not millions of them, but just a few ones are enough to wreak havoc.

Nah, only when viewed through the magnifying lens of the media. Traffic and obesity kill vastly more people than terrorists ever can.

> And yes, they are going to attack us, first because they are bitter we made them lose everything, and second because there's definitely not enough butter for all of them (in my own country, there isn't even enough butter for us natives!).

Where do you live then?

> Turkey will covertly support ISIS as long as ISIS keeps killing Kurds, and they will because, let's be honest, all Muslims hate Kurds.

Do you realize the majority of Kurds are Muslims? Are you suggesting they hate themselves?

> And yes, ISIS lone fighters will keep terrorising us. It just happened yesterday.

You let it happen to you, yesterday. Statistically speaking I feel no less safe than I did on Thursday last week, and if I see something that hints at an attack in progress I'll act. Until then life goes on.

> I don't believe for a second two cultures that are fundamentally so different will ever manage to work together for one specific goal, let alone create something viable in the long term.

It's already working. What do you suggest?

Isolationism? Close all borders to refugees? Barbed wire borders and soldiers with orders to shoot if the refugees should approach the border?

Are you willing to go and stand there to pull the trigger?
It's kind of ridiculous that Nest has designed a thermostat that can freeze your house solid without access to the internet.
"Maybe we just have too much of that protestant work ethic?"

Actually, that's testable, to a degree ...

The largest and most potent concentration of "the protestant work ethic" produced switzerland, which is the nicest and best place on earth.

I don't think too much PWE is our problem.
The Dallas area had several universities before UTD was founded: the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at Arlington (though UNT had a different name at that time). These existing universities were not STEM schools.

What made UTD different was that it was founded by the same people who founded the largest technology company in the area, and they specifically founded it in order to do something about the low number of STEM graduates in the Dallas area. The TI founders went out of their way to engineer a STEM culture in a city that didn't have one just to grow some more talent for their company.

From Wikipedia [0]:

> Qualified personnel required by TI were not readily available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area because the region's universities did not provide enough graduates with advanced training in engineering and physical sciences. TI was forced to recruit talent from other states during its expansion and the founders observed in 1959 that "To grow industrially, the region must grow academically; it must provide the intellectual atmosphere, which will allow it to compete in the new industries dependent on highly trained and creative minds".[12] To compensate for this shortage they established the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961. The institute initially was housed in the Fondren Science Library at Southern Methodist University. Land for the center was acquired by Jonsson, McDermott, and Green in Richardson in 1962 and the first facility, the Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Science (later named the Founders Building), opened on the grounds of the present-day UTD campus in 1964. The Graduate Research Center of the Southwest was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in 1967 and in 1969 the founders transferred the land and assets of SCAS to the State of Texas. On June 13, 1969 Governor Preston Smith signed the bill adding the institution to the University of Texas System and creating the University of Texas at Dallas.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas
> Access to artistic communities, robust public transit, diverse food and culture, and a fluid job market makes the value add for me a no brainer.

Other than the public transit, all of the above are available in any number of towns and cities in the U.S.

A half a century ago maybe you had to go to NYC to hear great live music and eat Cambodian food, find specialty ingredients, or get access to off-beat books. But that's not the case any longer. I just googled and apparently there are Cambodian restaurants in Des Moines, Iowa. The internet can get you all the ingredients, music, and books you'll want.

Honestly, I think the coastal cities just have better marketing and more hipster appeal.
Because it hasn't been mentioned yet, as far as I could see: Blinking cursors are horrible and should never exist, it resembles torture. http://www.jurta.org/en/prog/noblink is an extensive list with ways to deactivate it in various programs. Try it out, you will feel the difference.
You are mostly correct. But IMO you miss something very important -- "busting ass" has zero correlation to "we have money now".

I busted my ass as a obedient worker bee for 15 years and now (at 37 years old) all I have are 4 debts and a bit of tech. No own apartment/house, no savings, no security of any kind. If I lose my job tomorrow, I am as good as homeless. Oh, and I have health problems for which I can't pay (having teeth with holes in them isn't fixed by home remedies, before you try that).

I am glad it worked for you. You have to understand what you say is a confirmation bias however.

Will I ever stop trying? No. I am changing approach drastically as I am typing this, changing the way I work and communicate with people, focusing more on what the business needs are instead of negotiating for meager salaries that barely cover my huge monthly expenses and food. I'll succeed eventually, simply because people who don't give up + change their way of doing things are inevitably bound to succeed. But again, don't try to push the message of "work hard and it will work out". No it won't, otherwise now my mother would have had respectable pension and wouldn't rely on me for shelter and food.
I partly agree with you. I think that some of this technology is intrusive, and that there isn't nearly enough transparency around what the "intelligence" agencies do.

That said, I'd like to see a lot more attention to data brokers like Axciom, Transunion, and Equifax. While having an enemy like the NSA is sharp and simple to understand, having loan applications and other things mysteriously denied is far more menacing to me. That and the fact that unlike the intelligence agencies, there is almost no data privacy protection for people around data brokers.
shellcheck is also in the community repo: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/shellche...
> ZFS with DKMS is a disaster

It is more like Arch Linux is a disaster. Upgrading the kernel package replaces the current one! Come on, any distribution worth it's salt just installs new versions alongside and you can select any of them in the boot screen. This is a ridiculous packaging policy regardless of ZFS or any other DKMS modules.
>> cross platform support

> Yes.

WOW FINALLY SOMETHING that will run on my LINUX and FreeBSD!

ohh.. a lot of plugins don't support linux and it doesn't build on BSD?
You should get a better job if you spend all your waking hours working. "Better than 16 hours a day" isn't a high bar.
We have 'native' text editors. Sublime Text is very similar to VS Code in many ways. But with Sublime I haven't got up and running writing, running, debugging code in various languages like I have in VS Code.

The whole experience is important. For many, it's more important than the individual 'feature' of being light on resources.

I currently ignore the fact that VS Code is 'heavy' as text editors go, because it's so much lighter than e.g. Visual Studio, leaving me much more RAM free for some of the code I'm running to gobble up and use for its own ends.

I'd prefer lighter 'weight' - in terms of RAM and CPU usage - but I'm not tempted back to Sublime yet.

BTW I'm a vi person, so I'm using vi keybindings in VS, VS Code, Sublime - and anywhere else I can do so. I love Vim's speed, but I can't Get Stuff Done in it like I can in more modern editors. I mastered the keys, not the inbuilt windowing system, scripting language, etc.
To your point, pretty much everyone who's ever been on SNL made their way there through The Second City.
> who clearly has a nack against Wikileaks.

Maybe not as clearly as you think.

The 'wikileaks is a threat' was part of the false narrative that the parent post says is being presented to the masses.
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674669
I encountered Hopfield networks in LLVM [0]. I still do not understand how you would model Spill Code Placement as a Hopfield network.

[0] https://github.com/alexjordan/LLVM-TMS320C64X/blob/master/li...
The real issue is cooling the universe and accelerating us to the inevitabile heat death :(
> but text editor that is used by developers who tend to customize it with plugins and whatnot...

There are a huge number of plugins for VS code. It's built to be plugin-centric - most functionality is a plugin.
I believe his post was awkwardly worded and that "Don't believe Wikileaks, they are a threat" is just a jab at how the media is portraying Assange and Wikileaks.
The logistics of breaking into a house undetected to set up tiny microphones suggests a lot of manpower, and to do that to each house in the United States would be near impossible without raising suspicion.

The reason to care now is because it likely wasn't happening then.

Also, whether the CIA "gives a shit" is irrelevant. It is still happening regardless, and you cannot know for certain what the CIA does and does not "give a shit" about.

If you have documents showing what this data is being used for, do the world a service and release them.
Sure, a 400 passenger supersonic jet that only used twice as much fuel per flight but operated twice as many flights per day with comparable annual capital and maintenance costs could sell tickets at similar prices to coach class in a subsonic jet (assuming no barriers to operation on the same range of routes)

But I'd imagine there's a reason that jet doesn't exist even in the realms of the most hyperbole-filled press releases of supersonic jet ventures...
"Externalities" cannot be deposited into a bank account and used to meet payroll and expenses. Throwing around high-minded economic-speak forward the argument for nor against this project. It's just a red herring, IMHO
Plumber comes to my house and fixes an issue in 20 minutes and charges me $100.

"Why so much," I ask. "It only took you 20 minutes."

"Well," replies the plumber, "It actually took me two decades to fix this, you just saw the last 20 minutes."

In other words, there's a lot of talent at work here even if it was the "last two years." Worse, how often do these people get a space mission. Its competitive. Just because your mission blew up doesn't mean you get favored status next time you work on a proposal or team trying to get into space. You spent the past few years working, not writing grants, playing politics, publishing papers, etc and all the stuff it takes to get a space mission. You're not just years behind, but perhaps a decade (or more) and most likely you'll never work on another space mission again.

Its a lot of pressure and heartbreaking. I don't think the tone here is overly dramatic. It think its pretty accurate. Luckily, this team got a chance to launch again. That's not always in the cards. Imagine if this was a planetary climate mission during this administration. It wouldn't launch again.
Are you serious? That's Students choose to attend "good schools" because of the networks and resources. Immigrants flock to the US because of our resources. Increasing your chances of prosperity is the reason why anyone moves anywhere (unless a family member is in need).
To summarize if you have a family with a mother and father who make a of money you will likely make a lot of money.
America does look normal compared to Japan though.
The Linux equivalent is any time you tell bash "*".
That looks like exactly the right solution to the author's problem.
The current state of Javascript is very much, "just because you can, doesn't mean you should"
We are looking at that right now. Thanks.
Well a x server on a 486 was probably also faster...
Bash one-liner testing example
Suddenly grinding microcontrollers off of Guardians macbook is not that silly anymore

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-rele...
This is awesome. It reminds me of stuff I learned in a class called system dynamics ages ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
Homes in Short Supply as Home Shopping Season Kicks Off
#!/bin/bash
set -eu
export SHELLOPTS
It's not all that complicated. People go to where resources are.

Sometimes resources are grasslands with plentiful wild animals that you can spear and eat. Sometimes it's gems or petroleum buried underneath the rocks. And yes, resources are things like museums or pretty views or available five star restaurant meals. But the dynamic throughout human history is reasonably understandable, you can observe the same basic concept in a Petri dish.

The biggest resource of all in modern society is financial wealth. So people go to places that have it. Unlike the grassland, where new arrivals quickly deplete the available resource, in this modern scenario the result tends to be the creation of more wealth, and the cycle reinforces itself.
Built this when I was looking for a rich-text pastebin and couldn't really find any around. This works instantly in seconds without any account and prioritizes just giving you a link to share.

Ended up being really useful whenever I wanted others to see what I had experienced on personalized websites (e.g. ranked feeds that would look different on different accounts, or change if reloaded e.g. https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAiPRWFg), interview feedback, or even paywalled content if I just wanted to share a little snippet for fair-use and keep the HTML styles, https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAACI6FQ. Scroll to the bottom of the page for these examples.

The main technical difficulty here was in trying to get all the CSS styles to be as accurate as possible, and the browser extension solves many of these, including proxying requests whenever necessary to bypass some restrictions. The browser extension doesn't request any permissions, and won't inject any content scripts on your page, so as someone who cares about security, is what I wouldn't mind installing personally.

One cool thing I've discovered after building it is that it's super useful for web developers to modify the DOM of pages and redo mockups and then use Context to re-share them with others for them to also modify: e.g. https://ctxt.io/2/AAAA0KGcFA

Everything is free for now (don't worry about the $ signs), mainly interested in feedback. Thanks in advance!
I love the irony of simulating an XOR gate from a piece of hardware (a serial terminal) with a billion gates in a processor which renders a square with an alpha blend function. Sort of like using a 787 to sit on the runway, and run its engines to blow a windmill to crank a butter churn :-).
>If you don't believe the numbers then use both side by side, open 250MB file in all of them and look at the screen.

Maybe I don't have any 250MB files to open?

If VSCode doesn't fit your use case, don't use it. There are innumerable alternatives. But what purpose does it serve to tell the rest of us (who like it) that it sucks?
GP: The market has voted with their downloads

You: But I prefer xyz! :(

You didn't respond to the argument. What you consider valuable doesn't align with the market.
Seriously, coming from Visual Studio VSCode is a breeze of fresh performant air.

Anecdotally I was able to create the cursor problem by minimizing/showing the VSCode window while viewing CPU usage DESC in task manager, but the effect was only ~2% usage for me (i7 processor).

If one invisible (from a UX perspective) bug is VSCode's big performance problem then I'll gladly let it eat away at 2% of my CPU until it's fixed.
zunzun uses this library for equation regression:

https://github.com/zunzun/pyeq2
I usually never deal with 250MB code files. The right tool for the right task. The Electron programs deal with code in a directory (and btw. VSCode is totally different beast than Atom) and I also would not edit a 250MB file with both of them. Never had a crushing VSCode here... but I always have a better Python and HTML and JS support than e.g. in Sublime+good plugins.
Yeah! We should go back to native editors, like Eclipse or IDEA!
I enjoy a mathematics textbook as much as the next person, but what annoys me is the lack of solutions to the problems in so many of the books I've skimmed outside of classes.
I've made clocks before, and tried to either have them woken up when it's (almost) time to update - or have them sleep long enough that it'll be (almost) time to update. Only seems polite.
raw performance doesn't matter for a text editor nearly as much as it used to. unless you are using a toaster oven to code. then I guess raw performance would become important.

but hey, at least you can write code on a toaster oven, eh?

All joking aside -- I use VS Code on a 7 year old laptop, and it doesn't lag, or stutter at all. Performance is just fine. There comes a point where the hardware greatly outstrips the requirements to the point where it doesn't matter if the resources being used seem 'too much' for what it does.
Uh, that second link isn't like the first.

Foreign PSYOPs exploiting local minority (or other) groups is a standard way to undermine a government. It's a tactic at least thousands of years old.

I would say it's literally the CIAs job to keep an eye on that kind of activity.

Circling back to your first link, which is an issue, Im still not 100% convinced they acted inappropriately. You notice how it says they compiled a database of people who might cause property damage using the opinions of independent people on the ground, and not thay they put bugs in random student's dorm rooms?

That, given its relation to the appropriate tracking of foreign influence, might've been okay.

In either case, neither of your links is anything like the allegation they're massively and indiscriminately spying on random students.

So... Citation needed.
Sure they can. That there is a natural bound relative to other fundamentals in no way means that the absolute price cannot unboundedly increase. Any in any case, the most thorough spatial equilibrium analysis suggests that there is natural agglomeration of high skill/wage (locally positive feedback). The reference is Diamond (AER 2016), but the working version of her job market paper is a bit more complete: http://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/jmp_final_all_files.pdf
Swing was at least meant to do UI. Web stack is not; webapps are essentially a pile of ugly hacks on top of a document rendering engine, and it really, really shows - especially when you have webapps pretending to be native (e.g. webview-based apps on mobile).

Also, for Java there's JavaFX (a de-facto standard UI toolkit for Java), which is very nice to work with.
Quick, produce more heat!
I've wanted to try it, but I've not had the time to read over the documentation. What would really help is if they had native repos for debian, ubuntu, etc with this prepackaged.
Boosting performance with shader binary caching in Qt 5.9
This might mark the first time in history that Emacs was trotted out as an example of a performant editor.

I say this as an Emacs user.