skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if it's really worth going into the politics for this one since news like this is becoming all too common. But that patriotism has a lot to do with how China unites its very heterogeneous people firstly under a contrived 'Han' ethnic identity but also by drumming into them the idea that they owe everything (i.e. their modern standard of life) to the Communist party thanks to the Chinese economic boom.
The same Communist party who laid waste to virtually all of China's culture and tradition and killed off their intellectual and aristocratic elite. Now they get to have their opinions made for them even when they're not physically present on the Chinese mainland. What progress!
I don't think you can say, "hindsight," when the mitigation was actually recommended in reports that were made before the event. It's only hindsight when mitigations become obvious after a disaster.
Microsoft just hit its $20B cloud goal, almost a year ahead of schedule
I love mother test! Even though it takes as back to the point made by @Msurrow and @scoggs
You mean the Japanese sharp screen xiaomi took and created a non viable product around. Oh, wait....
Apple did make their own - iCloud Keychain does most of what most people need from a password manager, and is built into their OSs.
Isn't the only reason why they wouldn't block booting "other OSs" was because you can use their Boot Camp utility to dual boot Windows? Then someone figured out that the machine didn't care what you ran once you selected the Windows option, so they started doing things like running Ubuntu on there. Most operating systems know the genies is out of the bottle more than Apple apparently, as they let you not only customise your partition schema at install time, but you can use standard utilities to change it whenever you want.

I may be misrecollecting, but Apple doesn't let you resize the Windows partition unless you do it manually from Windows/Linux, or you use the Boot Camp assistant again. The utility is deliberately built so that you can't resize the partition without erasing it. Things may have changed, though.
Enabling the F4 key in macOS
Yes. We absolutely do. I know the FAA regs for drones, and if I violate them I should expect to be arrested. I don't need some poorly-designed firmware that I cannot override pretending to be my mom.
Yes. I've used the Windows client, and I'll admit it's not bad, but not great. The Chrome extension (actually works on any version of Chrome; I'm running it on OSX in addition to the extensions that plugs into native version) is a bit lacking.

Part of what works great about it is the TouchID/FaceID integration on both iOS and OSX.
Yeah, this list amazes me that there have been this many companies/teams creating new blockchains and yet they still fail to solve any real world problems more efficiently than current solutions (besides illegal markets where governments have explicitly made it hard and the "decentralized blockchain solution" kind of currently gets around it).
Ruined Tattoos-Infections from Picking and Scratching
Exit visas haven’t been a thing in china since the early 90s, but they totally existed before then.
Open-Sourcing Marc Andreessen’s Library
Why does the race of the hipster matter? That’s in poor taste.
Is HQ Trivia the Future of TV?
> The gig economy is always going to be more volatile than full-time work.

This is not an excuse to short-change the people doing the labor.

I can't repeat this enough.
Tomorrowland: Indian pilot shows world how to put land records on blockchain
Most employers also wouldn't add their contribution towards vision insurance to your salary if you decline coverage. I'd decline several of my employment benefits in an instant if I could get the employer's contribution added to my salary somehow. But that is not the world we live in.
> they were introduced in described exactly why they have such serious problems.

Yet, people stopped mentioning this kind of warning even it was already there for way over half of a century.

Reason of we successfully limited use of nuclear weapon is because, well, the US tested it on Japanese, saw the devastating result and thinking "What if the Japanese (Or Russian, Chinese etc) one day use it on us?".

I would guess only similar event can trigger everyone on earth stand in line and effectively ban those AI weapons all together. That's AFTER we all actually be seriously hurt by it.

It's just like the warning of globe warming, the math is there, proved by observation, somebody out there still believe we will be fine because the whole globe warming thing is just a conspiracy made by China.
Matrix refers to a specification, not an implementation. There is nothing stopping you, or anyone, from implementing a Matrix server in whatever language you'd like. In fact, there is already a server being implemented in Go called Dendrite,[1] another called Ruma[2] that is being implemented in Rust, a "WIP toy" Elixir implementation called Matrex,[3] as well as others.[4]

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

[2] https://github.com/ruma/ruma

[3] https://github.com/bismark/matrex

[4] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#servers
Any customer who would buy this would probably buy an AMD APU instead and AMD would take home more of the money without giving their competitor anything. AMD also has the capability to produce almost the exact same product using their own processor instead of Intel, so again why help your competitor by sharing the profits?

I'd say either AMD doesn't have the production capacity for whomever the customer is (Apple?) or its something more nefarious like preserving ME.

Given that AMD is still a close second in graphics, maybe it really is a way to increase volumes for their GPUs. But that still suggests there's some reason they can't deliver the same with their own CPUs.
#2 - Neat idea, don't think it would be widely accepted though.
What usually happens is that restaurants institute an across the board 18% service charge on all receipts. That covers tips for all the staff.

There are a couple restaurants that have had good success with this.
I was amazed to see speech synthesis (speak / vs) as a standard feature. A little googling lead me to this: "Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974"[1]

I seem to have a personal difficulty imagining the level of sophistication that existed prior my own awareness a particular technology; in the same way that it might sometimes appear that before color photography, the world was black-and-white.

I'm grateful to the technology archaeologist who set the record straight.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d_h_t2QAA
Empty States
Especially since it already has a more informative 2 word description: Wu-Ver coin.
The article you're remembering was apparently written by an anonymous author on Reddit. (Your larger point stands, though.)
Reverse-engineering iOS UIKit (2015)
It's an answer to the question that was asked.
A couple months ago. I'll definitely give them another shot, but it was very non-exotic stuff like installing snaplet-postgresql-simple that sent two separate systems into dependency hell.
Lessons from Publicly Traded Enterprise SaaS Companies
I take the subway almost everyday since the past 7 years and its been getting worse.

NYC should learn something from Toronto and London. They have the best subway systems IMHO.
> Most services complain of complexity from "the monolith" but upon further inspection, what we're usually see is poor architectural layout. These teams feel that microservices solve this, but really just make the entire backend more complicated.

I agree with this, but there's another very important driver for microservices - the presence of multiple customers, each with different ideas as to what makes up the right stack - i.e. SaaS.

In our domain (HR software) microservices make good sense because they allow each customer to compose their own stack, with individual bits coming from us or from third party vendors.

Without this need, I don't think I'd recommend most normal scale companies (Netflix et al excluded obviously) go microservices.
Huh? Why is it a weird comment? The previous commenter said her English was bad. I think her English is quite impressively good! Kudos to her. It’s hard work to learn a foreign language to such proficiency.

She has better English than many foreigners I know who have been living in the US for >5 years, and better than the foreign language skills of many Americans I know who have lived overseas for that long.
Do we know if anything here was private? "Scraped" suggests it's already public content, in which case I don't see much of a problem.
It's not clear to me what you mean by the power of dynamic languages. I'm inclined to think your perspective on static languages is limited to C# or some other OOP static languages. In particular, your example doesn't seem very novel for a statically typed language. Heck, I just built a reasonably elegant parser framework in Go and it doesn't even have generics. This makes me wonder if you're not attributing your OOP frustrations to static typing.
The reason eye glasses cost so much is the multiple monopolies of Luxottica. Luxottica owns: (1) nearly all brand name frames including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada eyewear, Armani eyewear and so on, (2) nearly all retail stores such as LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical and Target Optical and (3) EyeMed, one of the largest vision insurance companies.

Luxottica retail brands: http://www.luxottica.com/en/retail-brands

Luxottica eyewear brands: http://www.luxottica.com/en/eyewear-brands

Luxottica vision insurance: http://www.luxottica.com/en/node/6336

See 60 Minutes story on Luxottica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM
It is very common for non-native speakers in general, especially if they're self-taught - getting started with texts is easier.
This stage of development is: based on an OS that died quietly over a decade ago. Not exactly "new operating system", isn't it?
Five-Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition [pdf]
Yeah - the older ones were horrible, but the latest generation in the Chromebook plus etc has pretty decent performance.
ya this is so illegal I doubt it's true
Don't. Use LPFSA. Keep HSA for investment.
> The latter just encodes the possible states directly and explicitly.

The very concept of "possible states" is the problem. By deciding that your domain entity has possible valid states in all situations (which is more or less what an ADT is saying), therein is the coupling, the pain, the productivity impediment. Not only do you not need to say that for all moments and places in my program a person must have a { id, name, uname, age, etc, etc }, it hurts you to assert that because the future is always much more creative than you and will soon put demands that exceed the assertion.

> Your line of reasoning is like saying that Mongo lets you adapt to future requirements better than Postgres because you don't have a schema.

Yes, that's precisely correct. As anyone who has had to collaborate across multiple features and/or teams can attest. In a NoSQL like system, I can bring in a new fact/information without flinching. In Postgres, I have to negotiate with the schema system and all of the consumers of the data, which obviously isn't necessary b/c NoSQL. (What Postgres may buy you is some transactional semantics and other relational db goodies etc but it is certainly not buying you adaptability/agility over the NoSQL/NoSchema store.)
You have a custom communication protocol over UDP and discover that with high latency, transferring large chunks takes a long time. You have a laptop available for testing. What do you do?

Sure, could do some hyper complex setup with multiple VMs etc... or you could just run one command to temporarily increase latency on localhost.

If you know some better way of doing this, feel free to tell me.
not true. https://www.youtube.com/user/greatscottlab is a great resource of electronics education.
Yeah, I recently moved back to queens from the city and what used to be a 30-45 min commute 5-6 years ago now takes me 60-90 minutes.
Could you expand on the intermittent reinforcement concept in the context of an interpersonal relationship? I think it might help me.
Hacker Infiltrates North Korean Radio Station, Plays 'The Final Countdown'
How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
Would you care to rebut the assertion that you quoted or are you just here to snark? Because I have been a public school teacher in a school district in Texas, I graduated from a Texas high school (and two public universities in Texas, a small unaffiliated one for my Bachelor's degree and a medium-sized one for my Master's) and I agree with the statement with which you take issue.

The "Public University Core" in Texas is, by and large, the 2nd-level-advanced version of the basic high school graduation requirements. Those requirements aren't much more strenuous than "can do math with variables" and "understand compound sentences" and "pass a test on acid, base, solution, and precipitates." The school district where I taught didn't even have a senior-level financial education course until the year after I left and that was well into the 2000s. (But, by George, you absolutely will take a course in Texas History wherein you learn not to forget the Alamo and how Texans are fiercely independent unlike every other state in the Union and how we were technically an independent country and, depending on the teacher, we just might be one again.)

Yes, it's a gross generalization but it is true, at least in my experience, that the curricula we are teaching our kids isn't dynamic or flexible enough to keep up with modern society.
“17% of the budget is to pay down debt”
This is my userChrome.css file to correct the tab issue you describe: https://pastebin.com/5PrwSD5k. More tweaks can be found at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo....

I agree that I'm very disappointed with the transition to Web Extensions. In addition to the items you mentioned, Vimium can no longer be used while on a built-in page such as the about: pages or the start page. This is really frustrating since it requires different commands depending on context and leads to breaks in my flow.

I am hopeful that over time we will see an expansion of the current API to include a lot of the functionality that we are currently missing, but Firefox may never achieve the same level of useability that it has had until this point.
Honestly ed is mostly fine, especially on those old computers. It's basically just the line-based predecessor of vi
Universities are supposed to be morally upright. Even if they can't be prosecuted for this, it's still news that they're cheating.

Additionally, I think there's a really important difference between following the law and being a moral person (or a moral university, or a moral corporation). The law might approximate our conception of morality, but it doesn't cover it completely. There is an enormous grey area of activity that is legal, immoral, and newsworthy.

As an aside, perhaps one reason why there are so many "young people disenchanted with democracy" is your attitude: that a never-ending war between lawyers (looking for loopholes) and lawmakers (who should, in theory, be closing loopholes) is a feature. If that's a feature of democracy then maybe we should take another look at our options.

(I don't really feel that way. Well, sometimes I do, but on average I think democracy is the best we're going to get).
If you work in an office with non-dev's -- like QA's, analysts, regular folks -- ask them. And then listen to what they say.

As a QA, I frequently have the following experience:

me: "This won't make sense to people."

dev: "Oh, but it has to be this way b/c {reasons}"

me: "People are going to get confused. They're going to use it wrong and make errors."

dev: "No, our users are smarter than that."

{6 months later}

dev: "We're redesigning our interface because the users found it too confusing."
I was commenting on the topic generally and not on the specific case from the OP.
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It's not a problem to me. If I have spent 30 years loosing blood, sweet and tears to gain advantage in an unfair world, I am going to defend that advantage.

Your view is unrealistic because you don't want that advantage, forget about doing anything to get it, and pretend people who have the advantage can be tamed. Like turning lions into deer.

Never going to happen.
And now Luxottica is buying the largest maker of ophthalmic lenses: Essilor. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-15/luxottica...
The paper about the Unix speech implementation: https://archive.org/details/synthetic-english-speech
From what I read (no first hand experience, and based only on relatively shallow news & nonfiction reading), the CCP's aims don't rely on complete control of information. They want political control of the public sphere, for which purpose all they need to do is keep infractions below the surface. There's a nod-nod-wink-wink with the emerging middle class: "pretend in public that everything is as the Party says, whether you privately believe this to be true or not, and we'll deliver the goods". They don't require loyal hearts, just broad obedience.

What they're vulnerable to isn't information leakage, but a future failure to deliver the goods (in which respect they're not that much different from liberal democracies). So far 3 decades of predictions that they would fail to continue holding a lid on the public sphere, and 10 years of predictions that they would fail to deliver the goods, have all been wrong. Which is unsurprising given that those predictions were rarely based on anything more substantial than a priori and ahistorical liberal dogma.
GitLab Performance Monitoring with Grafana
>”... hundreds of mechanic positions have been cut because there is not enough money to pay them — even though the average total compensation for subway managers has grown to nearly $300,000 a year.”

I know this isn’t the primary reason the subway is falling into disrepair, but it’s clearly a symptom of a system that lacks real accountability. There has to be some reasonable push back to compensation (backed ultimately by the tax payers of New York) that is tied to real performance and efficiency.
This is the most odd post I've read in quite a while.

I was going to reply defending the subject of the article -- a middle-class person with hobbies and a home who fell on some temporary bad luck and was pounded into the ground by an objectively bad confluence of policies. But then I realized you think blue and red pigments are symbols of extravagance, and even in 1905 I'd be pretty lost on how to reply to that...?
How the Next Generation Is Building Our Artificial Intelligent Future
Playing devils advocate (and not defending doordash in any way): Could the tip be shared potentially with the people preparing the orders and the delivery person?
Visualise Git diffs as flamegraphs
Even if one claims "no agenda" one can stil find an editorial agenda. When you choose to highlight someone way out st the edge of the Overton window (ahem), how do you treat them? And how far from the current "center" do you cast your net for stories?

Fuck that. Everyone has a bias. Admit it. Let your readers know who you’re pulling for. Let them know who’s paying to keep the lights on at the offices and how much of a blind eye you have to turn to any interesting misdeeds those folks may perpetrate.

(And in that spirit: I have lately taken to half-jokingly calling myself a "social justice witch". So now you can get an idea of my biases. What're yours, which way do you want to pull the thing you named yourself after?)
I think politicians in places like New York should lead by example and show us that much-hyped, long-awaited "smart government" before they angrily demand I support the latest government program.
Yes, but we can recover all of the power of anonymous inner classes by building up a (usually small) set of "ad-hoc" classes that just wrap delegates, as I explain here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20703002/does-object-exp...

By the way, thanks for your work on PTVS, I just discovered it recently.
I almost always want event listeners to have `this` refer to the element on which they were added, not the class from which they came. It's the default case for all but arrow functions, so it takes no extra effort in most cases, and if I really need other state, I find it is clearer if it comes through a closure. Plus, making it a habit makes it easier to keep it straight.
> Google News itself is not an AMP page

OK, but it hacks the scrolling in the same way amp pages do. So I assumed it was amp.

> promote AMP pages, as you claim.

100% it promotes amp pages.

> Bing also uses an AMP cache and sends users to AMP pages from the Bing app

I am not talking about bing "app". I don't know if such a thing exists. I am talking about www.bing.com/news. Click that link and bask in the glory of blazing fast performance.
DC's system is pretty bad too. this morning I had to choose between a 50 minute commute via metro for $4, or a 20 minute Uber ride for $10. I'm so so glad I got the Uber.
A tutorial series on writing Emacs plugins in OCaml
Telling someone what they do or don’t “need to add” when they are respectfully sharing their personal experience doesn’t sound like acceptance to me. I can only imagine how much better your life can still get.
How about Subgraph OS? It has grsecurity patch, tor network, container isolate, firewall. It's another good choice also

https://subgraph.com
This fucking community.
The truth lies somewhere in between. I'd recommend finding a good eye doctor you trust (ask around) and look at your itemized bill and insurance closely to figure out what's best for you. I'll say that my insurance, while not great, is absolutely a better deal than a flex or HSA account when purchasing glasses. I do, however, spend a little more and typically buy frames from my optometrist. I've gone the online frame route before and I think a lot of people can find value there, but I wear my glasses everyday and am willing to spend a little more for better quality.
Tough to live on in SF.

Wow, I'm really saying that.
Steelcase Leap v2. Refurbished models can regularly be found on Craigslist for about $250-300.

It's an incredibly comfortable chair, arguably much more comfortable than the more well-known Aeron, which I used for a long time. I also used a Humanscale Freedom. Compared to both, settling into a Leap is like sinking into a luxuriously soft car seat. It has levers for everything, and it's just really pleasantly soft. I've also tried the newest Herman Miller chairs (Mira etc.) and they are nowhere as good.

The Wirecutter [1] has recommended the Leap repeatedly. Their current choice is the Steelcase Gesture, which is very similar to the Leap. If you can afford a new Gesture, a great choice, but if you want to save money and can find a refurb Leap, go for that instead.

Note: Avoid leather as a material. It's not anywhere near as breathable.

[1] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair/
You may be interested in the similar process I went through in 1997 to make a PDF of the Sixth Edition manual, including the papers: https://github.com/ericfischer/v6man/

The files for the Fourth Edition papers did not survive, only what is what is archived at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v4/
Whoa. I will look into this. Thanks for letting me know! Figured that was only the case with Slack since Slack is IRC-based (IIRC).
Does China need to go down the traditional route to innovation when everyone else volunteers it to them and installs the manufacturing means and capital into their country voluntarily?

There might even be a curious second order effect that can help cancel out the lack of independent thought through censored education, due to the increase of means from disrespecting restrictive intellectual property ideas.
Nuclear will never be able to compete with renewables on cost or deployment speed. It’s dead tech for anything other than space probes and military uses.