skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really appreciate hearing your experience.

You're very welcome.

As a last note, I would like to mention that I am not any faster (maybe a bit if I focus on speed) with Workman than I was using QWERTY. I am, however, much more comfortable. I don't have to contort my hands at all (except to accommodate the popular staggered physical layout, which your new keyboard explicitly fixes).

So far, thankfully, I don't have any carpel tunnel, so I don't really know what that is like, but I can imagine a better layout helping about as much as a better keyboard.

> I think at least initially I'll do QWERTY layout and as you suggest do an hour or so a day of some other layout.

Good luck! I hope things go well for you.
> The idea that you seem to be pushing, ...

Interesting, I read it the other way, because of the "sneaked" later.

@Top19 also misspelled Stiglitz.
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> It's very easy for people who haven't worked in software to hear "socialist" when told about "Open Source Software". This message from Oracle seems to try and evoke that sentiment.

I think FOSS is more socialist. Isn't that a good thing?
> The crux of the problem seems to be that the State allows guardians to profit from their arrangement. It's ludicrous that courts enforce guardian's financial claims against people who are presumed to be incapable of independence.

The noble-sounding term "public service" should be reserved for unpaid volunteers working for the public good. Instead public service now means a government job with a large salary, easy working hours, early retirement, etc.
> In a lot of the rest of the developed world US liberals/Democrats are centrists.

Err, no, growing up in an European socialist country I can say this is not true. The left in the US has caught up pretty well ..
Can't they just look at the referrer?
They reward some notable people in science, they don't determine what was the best and most worthwhile science. You might as well criticise bananas for not actually being bicycles.
Uh, "Not looking good for Waymo..." is absolutely your opinion.
is just because he works in the area where tech companies have their headquarters?
But you have been stating your opinions here, without including the disclaimer that you're an Uber employee. The standard procedure is to put your disclaimer within your comment as people typically don't automatically lookup a commenter's profile when reading his/her comments.
And while you are at it, compare that to:

#define USAGE "usage: blah blah"
Does it really belong to you if you have no control over it?
There's some good points, but of course neglects the true comparison with closed source, which has a terrible track record in all of the stated claims. "Tail costs" are hilarious coming from an Oracle executive.

Notably, given identical budgets, I'd be shocked if FOSS couldn't delivery faster, more feature-rich and more secure solutions.

Is the success of healthcare.gov an example?

I, for one, would love to see a mix of the two methods across 100+ projects, then a GAO post mortem.
I think the thing that is less comical is that she had to work a minimum wage job and juggle homelessness while going to college.

Difficult to graduate in 4 with those challenges
Though every SaaS is 99% Open Source software with 1% proprietary sprinkled on top to create the value add. So really these are much more open source than the old vendored solutions where they installed the proprietary software onsite.
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Yahoo probably has the record for cumulative total of spam in users inboxes.
nice to see Evercoin going mobile.
Not me :(

I'm just a .NET developer, I have no idea what my code runs on.
You've misplaced 2.5 million bytes in a megabyte?
Yeah he's not going for accuracy with the nom de guerre. The name is part of his campaign to create a larger-than-life cartoonish character to help the Basque movement. Saying crude things is very much part of it. In that regards the choice of name may not necessarily be progressive and an attempt to identify with the Cagot. (Though I haven't read the book in 20 years.)

Edit: I just remembered the Author's Note at the front of the book saying something like, "With the exception of <three people including Le Cagot>, none of the characters in this book are real -- though they may not know it." Unfortunately Google Books doesn't show that page.
Sometimes you're limited by time more than bits, but they're both rates.
How CitiBike (NYC) crowd-sources bike distribution
What was your decision? Did you stay or leave?
I enjoyed this explanation of crowd-sourcing, especially the featured angel I see that does exercise with this: "I'll bike north in Central Park to an empty station, then run back down the park and repeat a few times."
I see Uber cars with lidar on top every day in Scottsdale. (yesterday I saw one doing a very late and hard breaking at a traffic light).
> But aside from dynamic memory management, memory safety isn't hard (we did that back in the 1970s and 1980s), and for dynamic memory management, we can get memory safety with a garbage collector and much less complexity.

At a severe cost in performance. Static object lifetimes cover 99.9% of a garbage collector's use cases, without the performance cost of GC, nor the nondeterministic runtimes. We first saw static object lifetimes come into their own with C++'s value semantics; Rust refines and clarifies the idea and makes memory safety an inherent part of the language itself.

Static object lifetime is to GC what static types are to dynamic types. Lisp is 1960s tech. It has failed, and been replaced with something much better.
There'll be a small chunk of the purchase price left in escrow for a year for any extra liabilities that weren't discovered in DD. They'll be claiming that. But it won't be much.
"username <username@yahoo.com>" is perfectly valid in SMTP last I checked.

If it's a user experience thing, fine, but at least make it an optional field.
It's all CSS animations!
Yep. For many applications, RDP on a LAN is literally indistinguishable from a local session. Sadly, nothing I've tried on the Linux desktop comes close to this performance. One of the few areas where the Linux desktop is 15 years behind.
Forensics is hard for even companies that are well versed and adept with tech. Evidence suggests that Equifax is not among that group of companies.

The number being revised doesn't surprise me. I'd have been surprised if it hadn't been revised. I'd expect additional revision, as the investigation continues and the breach more fully understood.

For the record, that doesn't show I support them, nor am I making excuses for them. It's just the opposite. I believe them to be very, very inept - to the point of being incompetent, illsuited, and inexcusable. I expect additional revision, not because that is justified but because they simply suck that bad.

I can't think of a breach handled quite this poorly, and that includes my biases from the OPM breach. I'd say the OPM breach was far worse but handled marginally better. Equifax had to work hard to take the crown, but they have managed to edge them out by a narrow margin.
Someone somewhere is going to get rich
Not in America, where it's traditionally been used as an epithet.
> The grandfather comment was concerned with whether the future "C of the web" would literally be C, but I don't see how the introduction of WASM will start convincing the majority of people to start shipping webapps written in C.

WebAssembly supports C/C++ now, and there is a lot of existing code that could be tested or convered. WebAssembly will probably get garbage collection and be able to support many other languages soon, but by then network effects may have taken over - especially if most online tutorials for WASM cover C or C++.
Really. I’d love some concrete examples to make that case.
There's also an official stripe elements react component. I tried it recently, and it felt like completely overengineered garbage. It was convoluted, involved implementing 3 different components as separate layers of implementation, required the use of component context (a huge red flag IMO) and was completely unusable from typescript. Compared to other projects I've seen from stripe, it left a lot to be desired.

Not really sure if I place that blame on Stripe though...React makes interop with non-react SDKs needlessly difficult.
I'm also turned off by the idea of switching jobs just to switch again in one year. Even if the pay cut and DC were palatable.
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Don't underestimate the impact of the SaaS model causing this to shift. Most on-prem, whether FOSS or commercial, has large startup cost associated with it.

Conversely, more are choosing the (mostly commercial) SaaS alternatives to avoid those startup costs.

Source: corporate finance and work with IT purchasing.
Then you shouldn't buy software from anyone but a natural person who is the original author of 100% of the code, because the same logic applies to any license regardless of the terms.

It's just as easy for proprietary software to be a derivative of some other proprietary software which the seller screwed up and didn't acquire the appropriate license for.
Yes, right now Gnus is probably the best option.

But with good logic to implement tag-based rules, something like notmuch could be marvelous.
The irony - most of oracles propriatary software has large chunks of open source (not theirs) code. If they ever looked at all the jar files of their “fusion middleware” and similar things they’d know.

A bunch nonsense from oracles sales drones.
Bitcoin mining is like buying a lottery ticket, you exchange electricity cost for the chance of wining Bitcoins.

You could make the case that Bitcoin main valuation is from the network efect, so other people buying and using Bitcoin increases the value of your Bitcoin.
Cases aren't allocated by any random process - once you're known as the guy who does tech things, you're likely to grab those cases.
Agreed. Mozilla as a tech company should stay out of politics IMO. "Picking" a political side will alienate at least 50% of the users (if not more as the left typically is < 50%). As a loyal user for years and contributor to Firefox I will start looking for tech somewhere else.

The tendencies in the US of tech companies coming out of their political closets is disturbing, at best. It worries me that this is being normalized and that it starts to lean toward corporatism as well in some cases.
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So the mitochondria damage the cells nuclear DNA which then makes the cell divide uncontrollably?

But the experiment mentioned in the article doesn't support that? They took the damaged nuclear DNA and couldn't get a normal cell to go cancerous with it.

So I'm wondering if somehow the mitochondria is actually affecting the cells behavior and division?
TBF, while he was more critical of the Uber legal team, his criticism of Waymo was more about the merits of the case.
For the curious, the creator of the phishing site is actually an HN member. This is their thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15295146

If folks missed it, it's worth skimming it to get a recap of the details.
Had me up until this:

>> There is no such principle that technology developed or
procured by the USG should be available free for all citizens, in fact that would
present a significant dis-incentive to conducting business with the USG.

Conflating software developed with software procured. And this is a section where he pointed out a tendency to conflate some other things. I wonder if that was a subconscious confession ;-)
It will never work. At least without some vpn blocking distopia.
FOSS is a philosophy of making source code available to people to do as they please in the confines of their homes. It's far more rugged individualism than collectivist, standardized one-size-ism.

The EFF should read up the NRA playbook - "only defense against bad OSS is good OSS".
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I would think they would have to go to a variable-reward model, like "surge mode" in Uber, where major shortages/overages require added rewards.
For some, understanding grows with reciting. There's nothing wrong with memorization iff it is followed by understanding.

And if you "step through", it's not a socratic approach any more. It's a test.
IT for US Embassies must be incredibly challenging from a security perspective. I think you would learn a lot. You might actually end up staying with government for the benefits. There's more to compensation than the paycheck. Also, nobody makes movies about cool spies who work for Amazon :) US Embassies. I would do that. That sounds awesome, even before you get to the patriotism aspect. The free school is just icing on the cake.
It seems to me that it's unfair to compare a relatively small, new and homogeneous country such as Singapore with the states, and come to the conclusion that the USA lacks human empathy.
Courts are based on facts, not popular opinions, and it's innocent until proven guilty.

If there really was patent infringement, then it would be difficult to erase all traces. Similar to the Zenimax Oculus lawsuit where computers were erased, but the verdict still came down against Oculus.
I thought this was an Onion News Network article at first. Perfect example of when satire becomes real life.
So it's a "coincidence"?
We’re entering an era where the public will start to become more interested in technical Scientific publications generally, IMO.

At some point the “prestige” afforded by research gatekeepers will reach a point of diminishing returns for professionals looking to publish.
Needs more ICO.
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I got the t450s recently off eBay. I would not make the same purchase again. Instead I would go for the x series models. This is because the keys on the t450s size laptop (which is larger) are too far apart for coding. Then there's the tn panel screen, the viewing angles are so bad that at 14" you have to choose whether you want the top or the bottom of the screen to be clearly visible -the other side will appear washed out. I never noticed this on the X230 which probably has an equally shitty screen, because its size is just right to never be an issue.

If I could return the t450s I would go for x240 or x230. Upgrade the battery, and toss in SSD if it doesn't already have one.

Also, check out mini PCs like the gigabyte brix. I use them as headless dev boxes on the local network. Run 24/7 without issue for months now.
> Her family paid virtually nothing for 15+ years of treatment, and then the government paid for her university. Full-ride. Oh and they also paid her directly to attend classes. About S$1500 per semester, last time I checked.

Singaporean here. How does one enjoy such education benefits? I haven't heard of them.

> My Singaporean Uncle got stage IV nose-cancer two years ago. […] After a year of constant, weekly treatment by an assortment of doctors, he went into remission and paid in total less than one thousand dollars.

An MRI here will cost between 700 to 1,000 dollars, even at subsidised hospitals [1]. I fail to see how a year's worth of cancer treatment would be that cheap.

We have mandatory hospitalisation and surgical insurance (MediShield Life [2]), but with the various co-payments and deductibles, a procedure would still cost anywhere between $2,000 to $4,000.

[1] https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/pressRoom/pressR...

[2] https://www.medishieldlife.sg
> Even then, who is 10 and has enough money to float a business?

I don't know how much was in there, but say my parents were putting in $10 every month. By the time I was 10 that would be around $1200. In a country where median income back then was probably around $15000 that's 1 month's salary. Plenty to tie one over when they're low on cash and see a paid invoice just around the corner.

I'm sure he did it with the best of intentions and with full intent to put it back in just a short while.

My point is that when you are strapped for funds and you have full legal access to somebody else's funds, it can be hard to resist.
Elements lets you define validation behavior and styles by listening to event handlers that emit errors[0], and you can specify custom web fonts with the `fonts` option[1].

You can see a few examples of Elements using custom validation and fonts here: https://stripe.com/elements/examples

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Yea, but if they were literally all published publicly, banks wouldn't even be able to pretend they provided some measure of security. Though of course whatever banks use as a replacement may be equally bad
Yes, it defines the venue for civil cases.
I think you mean FSF.

(Source: I'm an FSF member and an EFF employee.)
>You get safe programming for “free” in Rust.

Not really. Rust will tell you your program is unsafe at compile time, whereas c will tell you at runtime. The major difference is that c sometimes won't tell you about an unsafe program, whereas rust will call perfectly safe programs unsafe. Note that for a beginner, the former is vastly preferable, because it allows them to iterate much faster. It doesn't matter if your code is buggy if you throw it away, and it doesn't matter if your code has security bugs if it will never be worth hacking.
In that case, it's a great time to sell them on Socialism!
dispatch(-1)
Major Lawsuit Challenges Censorship of Dietary Advice
2.5 million people is minor?
That is uttlery insane!! I thought the best possible outcome for Equifax was to avoid getting sued into oblivion, but now that get a 7 million dollar contract with the IRS?!

There are clearly two sets of rules - one for large companies where they can brazenly flaunt laws whilst going from strength to strength. And another set of rules for everyone else - where if you take a wrong step it's all over!
Which mass production techniques did startup investors need? Assembly lines? Lean Six Sigma? The Toyota Production System? Not a trolling question, actually interested in any specific examples.
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Paying someone to offload things you shouldn't be doing is a sound strategy when applied correctly. Unfortunately this message can't come from someone like Oracle whose entire business depends upon companies choosing to buy instead of build.

I used to work for Oracle in the field as an SE working on the largest enterprise customers they sell in to. What's left out of the rebuttal is how Oracle (or really any vendor), often sells solutions to problems that customers don't have. And even the solutions that do solve the customers problem on paper are often complicated, don't quite work right because of implementation problems, and lower quality because they're more general purpose. So you end up with a situation where it's dubious that you're any better off at the mercy of a vendor whose interests aren't well enough aligned.

The real trick is figuring out where the line should be drawn in buy vs. build for any given initiative and the underlying technology required to satisfy those requirements. Can a homegrown software org. handle the entire lifecycle of building and maintaining the products they build? The ideal place for these teams is at the margins and leveraging highly used products where there's as little custom code ownership as possible. Open source or otherwise. There's certainly a tipping point beyond which an open source project has better quality but it's not clear where that lies.

And if you're getting into bed with any software vendor without transparent pricing and good vendor management you risk subjecting yourself to renewal conversations that answer the question of "How much?" with "How much you got?"
Same on mobile Firefox. The text only uses 50% of the width of the narrow screen, and quotes go down to 25%, so it's no more than two words (or a single long one) per line.