skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no - war and politics are always going to be intermingled. The issue is that people (especially in today's climate) are polarized, emotionally blaming one 'side' or 'the other' when both are equally culpable.

My point is that this could have been a great article. The 'morality of war' is always something that should be talked about and debated, etc... but when one 'side' brings up 'such-and-such-party', that party's 'true followers' feel the need to defend them, and reply in kind and nothing is resolved, everyone else (who wanted an actual discussion) rolls their eyes and leaves with their shoulders slouched in defeat/despair/apathy.
Hidden Switch game is a tribute to former Nintendo president
International Gibberish Day - they still haven't even made an effort to identify those in Canada and the UK who were affected. It's a whole world of nonsense.
Any suggestion for this kind of product, I'm interested to hooking one to a Pi.
In my opinion, installing bicycle lanes and sidewalk is part of the job of building a new municipal street, in the same way that all modern limited-access highways need to have a breakdown lane on the shoulder and a crossover barrier in the median.

If you can only afford to do it half-assed, maybe instead try harder on fewer linear miles of road.
I currently use serverhub.com I doesn't have a S3 like service but they offer a VPS with 500GB and 1TB of transfer for $5. I have an orphaned plan of 125Gb of storage for $15/year. Super recommended.
Thanks for the pleasant pchem memories.

So, to get back to the original point, your position is that a single particle in isolation can't have a temperature because its entropy (or rather the change thereof) is 0, so the equation breaks.
>I don't know how they'd get the price and quality without benefiting from industrial espionage.

It’s OK to not know how, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a legit path to that knowledge for them. Having a theory doesn’t mean the theory is the only explanation.

Definitely industrial espionage happens all the time but another thing that also happens is that western companies hook up with Chinese partners and give over their know-how in exchange for dubious benefits like limited access to the Chinese market.
> Just be sure to run your enqueueing process as a singleton, or each worker would be redundantly enqueueing lots of jobs. This can be guarded with a session advisory lock or a redis lock.

Yeah, I'd forgotten to mention that in the article, but yep, something should be guaranteeing that only one enqueuer is running at a time.

> Knowing that this easy transition exists makes me even more confident in just using Que and not adding another service dependency (like Redis) until it’s really needed.

Yeah, so many stacks have a Redis for something these days anyway that you can probably start with it in a lot of cases, but if you're running really lean that seems like a good strategy.
That is a common Makefile design pattern. It allows you to call "make GOCMD=path/to/custom/prerelease/go" to run with an alternative go version, for instance. (But I agree, the other variables seem overkill.)
Modern day robbery
The Sourcegraph Editor is a fork of vscode? Is it not possible to implement it with an extension? Happily would install an extension but i'm not sure whether i would switch the editor
Also if you search "library genesis" it will include library genesis in the results.
Teleport 2.3 Released
Nest announces the $499 Nest Secure, its new alarm system
Looks pretty slick! Requested early access to the editor.

I'm still not a fan of Electron apps. I'd rather they at the very least be offline Chrome apps, so then I'd at least be using the latest Blink/V8 combo. Not to mention it seems that anything Chromium-based likes to make a ton of little writes to disk for just about everything (even when I'm just moving my mouse across the page), so to have multiple apps doing that with their own respective config/cache directories is annoying.

That said, VS Code is the least bad editor running on top of Electron that I've used, so I'm glad this one is based on it. :)
When most people refer to Europe as an example of well functioning, progressive social policies, they are most always referring to the small, wealthy, socially homogeneous Scandinavian countries.
Everything appears to be functioning at this point
Consider homeschooling.

If you're religious, you'll have no trouble finding other homeschoolers for your kids to socialize with. If you're not religious, move near one of the liberal coastal cities (I'm in Portland) and you'll have lots of secular homeschoolers for your kids to socialize with.

Seems a lot easier than having to deal with immigrating to another country and learning a different language.
It seems like the simple solution is to not worry about what employees do after work.
Launching Pipewire
> Where we differ with leftists is how to view the transgender phenomenon.

To be fair: There ain't unified views on this on any side, I consider myself a pretty "leftist", never voted conservative in my life, yet I take great issue to the way the political left has picked up identity politics like it did.

At times it feels like they are demanding an unlimited right to "self define", spawning cultural oddities like "headmates" in the social media sphere, which basically normalize mental illness as something that shouldn't be treated but merely seen as being "different".

People identify as a pansexual muffin collectives and society is supposed to accept that "identity" with all seriousness, complete with "feeling" insulted when people don't use the "proper" made up pronouns to address them.

Yes, that's an example from the rather extreme end of this issue, but they do exist and to me they exemplify where this kind of "everything is made up, I am whatever I wish I am" thinking will ultimately lead.
Schools suck everywhere until you go to a good university. Consider it mostly thrown away time to keep kids busy. Too bad all of us have to go through this.
First autonomous drone delivery network will fly above Switzerland next month
Apple Falls After Analyst Report Indicates Weak iPhone 8 Demand
One thing to consider about European education: Here in America, if you don't like the state run system, you are free to remove your kids and educate them at home. In most of Europe, homeschool is illegal. A German family was recently threatened with deportation for homeschooling their kids. Disclaimer: My wife homeschools our kids.
I would imagine they would be infertile in any case, and probably not have periods or significant breast development; there'd be no ovaries to produce estrogen in the required quantities, and the anti-mullerian hormone they have would prevent development of the normal female reproductive system
The map doesn't guarantee that at all. Two items on the map can appear next to each other and take a very long time to get between -- perhaps they're separated by a freeway that you can't cross, for example.
The purpose of the growth, from a governance perspective, is to keep the population satisfied through a rising standard of living, and to continue to develop the country through sane budget allocations. They can continue to do that using debt, because the only risk from doing so is inflation, which they can keep low with taxes on the present debt holders.

The housing market may crash: I was talking about the claim that economy in general crashing. But I think the PRC might see a housing market crash as desirable, as it would raise the standard of living for most citizens. They certainly seem bent on slowing it down. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-property-in...

China does have economic problems, but they are more problems of political will, not intractable from a strictly economic perspective. The solution involves the country's elite taking a haircut.
Do you think security and federation are mutually exclusive ?
Also interested in your recommendation. I've tried many, all have their shortcomings.
Yeah. These are some seriously unflattering pictures.
> And getting back to the hardware aspect, having a single thread and a badass SIMD instruction is usually faster and easier to reason about than multiple threads and general-purpose instructions where your performance gets fetch-execute-cache-hierarchy-memory-bandwidthed to death.

ripgrep benefits from both having multiple threads and badass SIMD instructions.
SMS admin in 8 lines of code
Probably because they wanted to farm it out to some agency with zero dependencies on their known-incompetent internal IT team?

You're right of course, but I'm betting that was the motivation.
What kind of thinking is this - Let them steal now so we can steal from them later? WTF. Also keep the 50% of the tire cost you "saved" to get a new set of tires after 6 months.
It's just the biggest issue he can virtue-signal on at the moment.
You might contact them directly via the address listed on their About Us page.
The World's First Publicly Traded Human Goes NSFW
"Vorne hui, hinten pfui" is the correct term (which means "nice from the front, but disgusting from the rear" or something like talking the talk, but not walking the walk).
I would like to be a believer in a "C replacement" which is safer, but I see people struggling to do simple things in Rust and am skeptical.
Do you think the other two are any better?
>> support for creating, using and managing substrings

Can I finally extract a substring from the middle of a string using integer offsets, in one line? Something like string.utf8.substr(3, 5)?

Or does it still take an absolutely insane and unacceptable 4 lines of code with throwaway temp variables to track the start and end indexes? The inability to do basic string manipulations is a major turnoff, to the point it makes the entire language look like a bad joke.
I guess I would have to completely disagree with the idea that it's a "complete waste". And I don't consider accessibility a bad thing.
It's hard to develop a coherent picture when operations are shrouded in secrecy and, in some cases, covered by multiple outright deceptions. Sometimes all you're left with is speculation, and I don't begrudge anyone who tries to makes sense of it. The trend towards leaking in the information age is turning many conspiracy theories into facts.
The day after August made a product launch too, interesting
Storage, computation and bandwidth costs have never been cheaper. The problem is that Google has an extremely high market share which makes it really difficult to get users.

Google climbed to the top because they focused on what matters: the right results, quickly, no fuss. Their competitors gave you unrelated spam for most queries and were slow and focusing on useless things.

Googles results are getting worse, there's more fuss than ever and it's getting slower all the time. So there definitely is an opportunity (which DuckDuckGo is taking).
Neat service, thanks for posting. For others like my self unfamiliar, it seems to be a site for reading paid articles a la carte.

Onboarding was super easy (just an email address) and they give you a gift balance good for a couple articles ($2.50 in my case). Articles themselves seem a little on the high side (this one was $0.49, which seems to be the norm), but I'll probably continue to use this over other tricks to read WSJ content that crops up here, at least until my credits get used up.
> my point is obviously that people imagined we'd have a lot of things now that we still don't have the technology for today. So the fact that we've done amazing things in certain areas doesn't really say anything regarding this particular issue.

And there's plenty of things that people said were impossible that were achieved.

That doesn't tell us anything regarding quantum computing, either.

Looking at what people said about past things is completely irrelevant to the prospects for some particular potential technology. The only way you can try to judge the prospects for that technology is by actually getting into the details of that technology and how it relates to our current understanding of the world.
Hi guys. MindWeb is the project of a friend and me. I just wanted to apologize for the loading time. We just launched our beta and we were not prepared for this much traffic!
Looks like an awesome service!

One question, is there a simply way to navigate to the Blendle copy of an article that's paywalled? Do you have to just go to Blendle and search the article title, or is there an easier way?
They are using the Monaco editor component of VSCode, not forking it
Well spoken. I made it to Sergeant - I was actually promoted my last week, which was a surprise to everyone. Apparently I was the only person in the company to complete all the prerequisites for promotion that quarter. A nice "fuck you" on my way out the door.
https://i.imgur.com/2kChYIe.png

Image backup/mirror of the tweet for when they eventually (?) delete it. As of this comment, it's still up, nearly 20 hours later.
Perhaps the worst part of this breach is I have had people tell me "that's okay, I've never been an Equifax customer." The lack of understanding is almost as saddening as the breach itself. If you have credit, you're impacted.

The constant bungling on Equifax's part would be hilarious if the potential impacts weren't so sad.
No, it's a persuasive statement. It's how people talk. We are not cold, unfeeling automatons. We are people.

And, quite frankly, yes, if you had empathy, you'd be all for making sure that these people could get around and participate in society.
can't someone just rip this off your door? yoink!
Backblaze B2 claims to be the cheapest. I don't know if they are, but they're really cheap and it looks like a great service.
Congrats on the launch! Love using DO for VMs and this really rounds out the offering.

Since Google started offering strong consistency that's been a really tempting feature. We often want to upload something for another user to immediately access, and having that extra delay or potential 404 with other services sucks. But Google's pricing is nowhere near B2 or now DO's Spaces.

Any thoughts on eventually adding strong consistency to Spaces?
Well, confidence and looking like you fit in. I know some perfectly confident black people who have gotten the third degree from people at tech companies. At the same sort of places where I can stroll in unshaven and in a tattered biker bar hoodie.
I would think that having to learn a little about iOS/Android would be a small price to pay for decent performance and accessibility. The idea that those are only sometimes important rather than a necessity is alien to me as a software developer and as a user.
> there is an exception if fb sues you first.

So if fb just uses something patented by my company in one of their products, just uses it without my company's permission, but doesn't sue, what is my company's recourse?

What is my company's leverage or incentive to get them to pay my company for a license?

You assume an intent but the intent is unclear here. React is an incredibly attractive technical product. As a web dev at my company I really want to use it, but had I not realized its strange underhanded bidirectional patent grant and evangelized it I could have boxed my company into a corner, forcing it to decide to sacrifice our React web infrastructure or defend our patents.

Spreading misinformation about the danger only serves to undermine the OSS community's response.
Should we really be posting the linkedin of someone we guess to be the guy? Doesn't seem right to me, that could be the wrong Dong and even if it's the right one, he's presumed innocent.
Google doesn't have a great reputation for long-term support of projects that are outside of the company core business.
"Remember Citizen, your worth as a human being begins and ends at how much more measurable value you provide than average. If you can't do better than average, your existence was a mistake!"

This article kind of reminds me of the super-high-pressure environment of Japanese education, where test scores are the be-all-end-all until you (hopefully) become the appendage of some state-supported hypercorp.

I've heard somewhere (I can't remember and my search-fu is weak) that "People need bread, but they need roses too", where bread is what makes life possible, and roses are what makes life worth living (like art and such). We hyper-optimize for bread, and burn the roses to save on fuel.

This shit makes my blood run cold.
The most important thing my kids got out of preschool is mature immune systems.
I used it for a while in a project. Just about everybody was fine with it except for Google. I got several emails from Google employees over the years saying that they could not use it unless I changed the license.
Does it run aarch64 Crouton yet? (So far, Samsung Chromebook 2 + Crouton is the best setup I’ve found for 32-bit ARM development. Unlike phones and RPi form factor computers, it run at a stable clock speed under load, so it’s actually useful for comparing the performance of alternative implementations of a function. I’m wondering if Pro could be the aarch64 analog.)
Fta:

The FBI confiscated “an unusual amount of computer equipment” that Mr. Liu had brought with him, including the laptops and tablet and also two smartphones, a smartwatch, a computer thumb drive, two digital video cameras, several SIM cards and high-capacity storage drives, according to the affidavit.

If the guy pleads not-guilty, I wonder how he'd explain why he had that much equipment with him for a business meeting.
Open Source Use Policy Questions
I just have a few questions.

-Typically, do you find that most companies have an open source use policy?
-If so, how do developers usually find out about the policy?
-If open source usage requires approval, how long does approval take?
-Who usually approves open source at a company?
-How many open source libraries typically do companies use per month?
Thanks!
yeah, star walk was doing ar on iphones since 4s iirc, it stinks that arkit can't do it
Afghanistan actually made more sense than Iraq since the Taliban were harboring Al Qaeda. So when 9/11 happened, it made sense to go after them. Iraq never made sense on the other hand.
I disagree with him, but agree with you, healthcare is not a right. As you stated, the natural rights enumerated by our constitution make no demands on others - in fact, they are the opposite - they guarantee protection from coercion by others. Anyone who believes in healthcare as an entitlement believe, effectively, that they are entitled to demand that others serve them without compensation. While there are cases where this is necessary at the federal level, healthcare is not one of them, and it's why it's not specifically mentioned in the constitution. Generally things like healthcare are better handled at the state level (and indeed, states were beginning to try before the feds stepped in). Handling these issues at a federal level enables people in the midwest to force people on the coasts to do things they'd rather not do, and vice-versa. Eventually, this leads to the kind of strife we've been seeing lately in the form of protests regarding healthcare.
If you could get a "within the past year" search filter it would make me the happiest developer in the world. :)
I'm curious how DDG's affiliate revenue compares to search-based ads. The article glosses over affiliate programs, but they are an interesting revenue alternative to ads.
Is running out through your attic and eaves not an option? Assuming you would mount on the under eaves anyway.
Funny, it was definitely not paywalled when I submitted it.
I'm just getting into the world of surveillance cameras, but I think it's more important to decide what you want to get out of any given camera, than to be concerned with any particular brand of hardware. For example, if you are hoping to capture license plates you will likely want a camera with a narrower field of view so you can get the maximum pixels per inch of coverage area. If instead you want to monitor a large area to just see people coming and going, you might want a very wide field of view, but then don't expect to be able to read license plates or get a really clear face shot from that camera.
GlobalFoundries unveils 12nm finFET process
If all you're doing is rewriting the pipelines you'd have written in Bash using subprocess in Python, you're not making your code safer or more maintainable. Unless I'm missing something, subprocess.Popen requires you to explicitly wire up the inputs and outputs, whereas Bash has clear and readable syntax for the most common idioms.

For a program that mostly just calls other programs with the right parameters, Python only obfuscates the important bits with details that a shell abstracts away. For a program that has to do some non-trivial processing, pure Bash+coreutils definitely loses to a general-purpose programming language with good standard library. But that doesn't mean that you have to completely switch over.

You can leave the parts in Bash that are just pipelines of other programs (again, Python can't improve anything there) and do your further processing in Python. Whether that's implemented as a Bash script calling Python in a pipeline or Python delegating part of it's processing to a Bash script just depends on the most natural entry point.

It might feel "impure" to mix two different languages in a program, but I think using each language in the domain where it's strengths shine is a much better idea than attempting to emulate the core features of one language in the other.
Hey, doctors have a lot of shitty real estate investments they need to cover.
Show HN: SUPERCLASS – The business plan for Target Audience
>installing hard power lines (even if it's 12v PoE) for cameras is really a deal-breaker for DIY residential installations

Why?

>with brick and mortar construction techniques

Are there countries where houses are built using paper?
Some might be less useful tho, try:

!ddg google

Or if you are feeling lucky:

!!ddg google

:)

edit: typo
Where do you draw the line between play-only and learning? My kids go to a preschool where they learn stuff. Writing their name and whatnot. They always have something to work on, but it's fun for them. I suppose if it ever ceases being fun or becomes stressful for them, I would pull them out.
No offense inferred!

It is not intended that users will download this baseimage (although it is a supported configuration, you can use FROM phusion/baseimage) but, that this will be an image definition that users can easily rebuild and build off of it.

Step one in Docker competency is "do you know exactly where your image comes from, and can you rebuild it from scratch without trusting that some rando on the internet didn't put bad stuff in there?"

Step two is "ok, do you really actually build them, though"

This image has traditionally been based on LTS ubuntu, and if you look at the CentOS derived version that hasn't been updated since 2014 (pokle/centos-baseimage), they chose not to include ca-certificates or hardly anything else.

(I'm assuming that tianon/centos:6.5 does not install ca-certificates by default...)

I'm sure many people use FROM phusion/baseimage but personally, even as a maintainer, I don't. I'd change the image source to whatever upstream of Ubuntu I'm preferring today, and probably build that from scratch too. The value in this image is not that it comes pre-built, it's that the build is tested and supported. /side tangent
How many people of the anti-DRM side were willing to pass it anyway? Because judging by all of the HN commentary I've seen in the past there are plenty of people who are hard-line no DRM under any circumstances.
I think the author purposefully included politics in there, he probably didnt care if it was a decent article or not because he was more or less expressing his views.

Sarcasm intended
My guess was that they wanted to reduce the chance of news leaking before they announced it. If they're like other large companies I've seen from the inside, changes to the main website involve lots of meetings and lots of people/stakeholders.