skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Backbone the closest analogy to React, in that it tries to be modular enough to be as small/big as needed -- as opposed to a full MVC-ish framework like Angular and Ember?

Backbone is an elegant library but I think its popularity and ecosystem were on a decline even before Walmart -- which was one of the biggest corporate contributors (e.g. Thorax [0]) -- did a complete overhaul in 2016 to React [1]

[0] https://github.com/walmartlabs/thorax

[1] https://medium.com/walmartlabs/publish-react-native-bundles-...
Use Firefox and Container Tabs. I have set up a Container for Gmail and use tabs for Google Calendar, sites that use Google for authorization, etc.

My default window (and other Container Tabs) doesn't have a Google account attached to it. So I see "Sign In" on the top right when doing Google searches.
SONM's first commercial render
Good (edit: in the long run). The services they list, like health insurance, retirement, or pensions, should be decoupled from your employer.
>>Yes, there are still Perl shops. But no, there aren't very many of them

That's because any shop that needs to get job done quickly is a Perl shop. During my early career I even knew a architect who had sort of put a blanket ban on any Perl to be written. He was only stumped people were largely acting like pirates, were writing and running directories full of Perl code all the time.

Only a week back, I needed some stuff to be written. Talked to a Java guy, he tells me he can do it in a week. Told him to never mind. Went back to my desk and wrote in a afternoon in Perl. And we are a Java shop and write Java most of the time. But its just that Perl is unbeatable in getting things done.

And yeah Python. It doesn't even remotely hold a candle to Perl in terms of practicality and getting things done. Readability and all that, but frankly beyond that there is nothing in Python. Not even multiline lambdas, half baked, half implemented functional programming features. IO looks like somebody held a gun to the implementors head and he added it because he had to.

Some times I even find, sed and awk to be a million times more useful than Python.
I don’t think it’s particularly intended to be innovative. The thing is, the existing options aren’t that great either for various reasons. This might be pretty good if you are in the apple ecosystem.
Dynamic SQL vs. Stored Procedure
He is pointing out the arbitrary nature of the algorithm the workings of which was determined through research. The psuedo code is obviously not the point. The reader would have to either be ignorant of the discussion to make this mistake or intent on blurring the discussion.
Also as the energy mix in the grid gets greener, everything on the grid takes free advantage of the increased efficiency. If your state adds a giant solar array and spins down a coal plant, you don't have to do anything to get that overall cleaner energy into an electric car.
The points about marginal costs are true, but I would argue the thinking driving the Amazon Go store is the customer experience:

How do we improve the retail experience for customers and differentiate?

Then they worked backwards to make the economics work.

These stores, if they open at scale, will most likely lose money, but the customer experience will be so far beyond current brick / mortar stores that going to a Walmart becomes a jarring experience. Just like Amazon.com vs. other e-commerce sites. That's the moat.
> Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the American workforce.

This is pretty shocking to me. With recent trends you can easily see that the other half of the population will be people in IT and health care (home service providers, nurses, etc.)

I've never had a contract job, I'm not sure if part-time college jobs count, are contract employees getting work via an agency or are they on their own? If these agencies exist are they helping to negotiate on behalf of their workers?

It feels like there is space for a digital employment agency, there must be a way to combine the "flexibility" of contract work with the longer term cushion that comes with a full time job.
Is there a way to get the website rating functionality without being forced to use DDG as a default search provider?
That is a good point, but if a US citizen rents a server from Hetzner, they might still be affected. Better safe than sorry.
> Why can't I fix the typo in my editor, hit "upload", enter some commit message and be done with it?

You can do this, if you have permission from the repository and have a local up-to-date clone already. I suppose it would be nice to be able to create a PR to someone elses repo without needing to fork first. I don't see any other reasonable way to make this easier.
Beamforming audio?
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Neat, maybe add a hint button and show what kind of terms one can search into the 2 input fields.
The benefit of physical objects (like paper) is that you don't need to simulate reality in AR. Using physical objects lets you discover things that you wouldn't have otherwise with simulation. One of the neat things about the paper at Dynamicland is that can you "stretch" paper by just tearing it in half (or into quarters) and move those out.

Doing all of that is easy and natural, sometimes you even discover cool things by mistake.
Clearly GP means that the price would be increasing more quickly without the hypothesized devaluation. Like most economic questions, this isn't binary.
It is to a degree. It's also for a different audience and purpose. I should have been more specific. I was referring to Disney shows targeted towards really young children as educational like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Jake and the Neverland Pirates
Good news. The BomePod really appears to be a high quality speaker that they were forced to shove Siri functionality into.

No one is buying $350 home assistants, but if it’s a really high quality speaker (we’ll see) then the price is reasonable.

The marketing around it is really weird and confused. At this point I wonder what Apple even thinks it is.
If it was a big deal, beyond the opt-in SF text alerts, there's a thing called Wireless Emergency Alerts. It's geographically targeted. It's basically like Amber Alerts going to your phone except for imminent emergencies.

There has been some controversy about the timing and use of WEAs for evacuations for the big wildfires in California recently, but I imagine it's hard to balance alarm fatigue with the need to warn people.
Ideally they would be coupled to our government, but since they aren't providing that, our employers should be obligated to ensure they are providing us with the means to keep ourselves healthy.
Why would the Planck length be the smallest measurable length in the universe?

Edit: To be more clear: Is there a theoretical reason why the Planck length would approximate the smallest measurable length?
I think there's actually a better example of the usefulness of Google's broad search embedded in there: Somebody writing "Star Wars 1" most likely intends Episode 4 rather than Episode 1.
Shit Programmers Say, Translated
> Before I move on to the next topic I want to raise one more narrow, distributed ledger or "blockchain"-related legal issue by means of a hypothetical. I doubt anyone in this audience thinks it would be acceptable for a public company with no meaningful track record in pursuing the commercialization of distributed ledger or blockchain technology to (1) start to dabble in blockchain activities, (2) change its name to something like "Blockchain-R-Us," and (3) immediately offer securities, without providing adequate disclosure to Main Street investors about those changes and the risks involved. The SEC is looking closely at the disclosures of public companies that shift their business models to capitalize on the perceived promise of distributed ledger technology and whether the disclosures comply with the securities laws, particularly in the case of an offering.
Practical Introduction to Web Scraping in Python
What is the monetization model of DDG?
That's correct. But this is why you should shape your purchase habits in different ways than choosing lack of automation.

For instance, choose to shop at a coop grocer, where the workers are paid a livable wage and usually also become member-owners with voting rights and a share in the profits. (There are also consumer advantages to consumer coops, obviously.) In this case, it'd be to the workers' advantage to automate things which make sense to automate as they share in the higher profits and possibly a higher wage as well.

Personally, I don't use self-checkout usually because cashiers are almost always much faster when you have a lot of stuff. But generally, I'm much in favor of automation.
>- What is the sense behind this syntax?

>- Can we go back to HTML/CSS/JS when the hype's over?

Frameworks like React and Vue make building large, complicated front-ends a lot easier and predictable.
I've been freelance for decades. Recently I got a gig thru an agency, but only because the corp I'm doing work for has an onerous 'qualified vendor' hurdle I don't have the resources to pass.

So all of it exists, as it surely would in an efficient market!
Democratizing access to startup capital – love it!
TSA agents add you into no-fly list.
That links back to a CNN article and that CNN article cites reports by http://endorganpillaging.org/

A quick look through their reports frames this whole issue in a bit of a different light [0]. Mainly in the context of a Chinese shift from socialism to capitalism and the need for hospitals to fund themselves and run as for profits.

The numbers are big, which looks scary at first glance but ain't really that surprising considering it's the most populated country on the planet. Sadly the report does not seem trying to account for that, by comparing transplants per capita with other countries, instead, it just cites big numbers going "Look how many!".

Without wanting to sound too cynical, this looks more like an example of extreme capitalism, without any regards to ethics, and not for "Communist China being oh so evil", which this often is framed as. Which overall is a rather difficult topic as these are the very same dynamics that make China a world leader in human cloning research and one of the most important manufacturing hubs in the world.

[0] http://endorganpillaging.org/an-update-chapter-nine-findings...
A pretty correct analysis imo

> [Bitcoin] not good enough to buy your decaffeinated expresso macchiato at your local virtue-signaling coffee chain.

Plus he has some humor.
If you write small programs that interact with other programs, then rearranging them on the floor/table becomes a form of programming (similar to how combining UNIX-style programs in shell scripts is a high-level form of programming).

So even when playing just with the papers, you can be programming.
In Python:

dict[index] = stat

...works much the same.
First Amazon kills retail stores. Then it opens its own retail stores. Sounds like a winning strategy.
The local news here says the stores will be staffed. There's just no checkouts.

More to your point, when you have as much money as Amazon, you can afford to throw every idea at the wall and see what works. If you generate a crap ton of publicity along the way, that's just gravy.
Yesterday I said "hey google, turn on the kitchen lights" because my hands were full and the switch was across the room. I wouldn't say it had a meaningful effect on my lifestyle, but it was useful at that moment.
Although presumably with Airplay 2 you would still need your phone to play the music from, where with Sonos, once it was playing, you wouldn't need your phone as the speakers themselves would have the music. Though that might not be useful for your use-case.
Im pretty sure he means there is a central design with a distributed behavior on monetary policy.

That is actually a very interesting thing as an economist. I would have loved to see Hayek and bitcoin in the same era..
And there is at least one company that has done exactly this [0].

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/iced-tea-company-cha...
Poor Kodak can't seem to get a break...
I agree with everything you said about Apple’s MO.

But this thing is expensive. Siri almost seems grafted on (they wouldn’t even let people try it at the announcement) to a speaker that was already in development.

I wonder if this will be the iPod HiFi 2.0. Sounds great, too expensive, no one cares.

I’m curious about it but have no real interest in it as a speaker or assistant.

Reviews should prove interesting.
quicktype – Contextual Class Names
Sounds like you might enjoy Annalee Newitz's _Autonomous_ (https://www.techsploitation.com/#/sciencefiction/)
I've run my own email server since the mid 1990s. While it's not trivial, it's certainly not all that difficult. What I find strange and suspicious, though, is how quickly and readily people go out of their way to actively discourage others, and how there's this crazy push to move everyone and everything in to the "cloud". This even happens in places where running one's own email server is expected, such as the selfhosted reddit channel.

There are two problems with that, broadly speaking. One, if we care about privacy and security, the "cloud" doesn't have that. Google can genuinely try all they want to keep things secure, but we know without doubt, thanks to Mr. Snowden, that people who actually work for TLA agencies are working at Google (and Amazon, and Microsoft, and Yahoo, et cetera). So is our data REALLY safe? Even if they're not interested in our data specifically, the data can't be said to be safe.

The other problem is that email with Gmail and others is not deterministic. In the real world of email, you either get an email or you don't. If you don't, you can look at your logs and see why. You'll end up with a precise reason why delivery failed. With Gmail and friends, though, they might simply not like the choice of subject, or they might not like the attached picture, or they may simply not like the cut of the sending server's jib. I've been told that access to email logs for businesses is better than it used to be, but do you think a user who gets free Gmail gets to know why a specific email wasn't delivered?

Finally, I think Gmail accounts shouldn't be usable for WHOIS and for abuse addresses because they can't accept abuse complaints. I consider any WHOIS or any Internet service provider which uses Gmail to be amateurish and unprofessional. There's nothing less professional than setting up an email for incoming abuse complaints that filters abuse complains.
This trend of people modifying someone's words and then projecting those modified words onto them has been more and more widespread. I see it as intellectually dishonest, and as depriving someone of their own agency in the context of discourse. Everyone has a right to speak for themselves, and this mindset erodes that right.
Facebook invents new unit of time called a flick
Isn’t the whole point of crypto-based currencies is to develop a system that has no need to be regulated by a government agency or any single entity at all? If this is about protecting the consumer, perhaps the consumer shouldn’t be meddling in a space that is still being developed where there are big risk factors at this point in time. Or maybe I just dont get it.
Apple has been pretty up-front from the start that they don't want to make the best possible home assistant, they want to make a really incredible speaker that has home assistant stuff built-in.

Whether the "incredible speaker" part is true remains to be seen since the thing hasn't released yet but you can look at a lot of the features and they're very music-focused.

It's more competing with a Sonos than it is with an Alexa in my mind, the Siri stuff is just lagniappe.
Atom cores and IIRC all network disks, with some peculiarities. For example, reboot means waiting while your instance's 'local' drive is copied to some other type of storage, then your instance reboots, then all the data is copied back, THEN you can access your instance again. When I tested them last year reboots meant 30+ minutes of down time.

Their setup is interesting and I really wanted to like it (I did like the pricing), but it was a dreadfully slow experience. And those Atoms really suffered when benchmarking HTTPS connections compared to almost any other provider. Not even close.
I recommend the follow up film as well, Revenge of the Electric Car. (It follows the launches of the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, as well as the first production run of the Tesla Roadster.)
I'll take a Xeon core over an Atom core any day :-)
I don't see how that is a fair exchange.

There's every chance that Sidewalk Labs would get to build infrastructure that would otherwise be illegal, and collects data that people don't want collected, just because nobody outside Sidewalk Labs managed to get access to the data.

Even people inside Sidewalk Labs shouldn't have the data. The data shouldn't be collected in the first place.
> Should have chosen a different name for the language.

I wonder if Fortran 2008 wasn't called Fortran, could it be sold to computer science people as a "fast, type-checked matlab".
Easy-to-use “render prop” lib (React.js)
"Fast forward 10 years and Amazon will have a cost advantage over all the other retailers."

Once this happens, then Amazon can sell every retailer Amazon Retail Services the same way that it sells AWS. Maybe they can even be deployed via shipping containers on demand. State fairs, festivals, summertime around lakes, disaster recovery areas all have a spike of consumers that is limited by where retail storefronts are already in place and mobile facilities like food trucks.
Thanks. This is really helpful. Comically I googled and DDG’d for how to do this to no avail. And last time I checked under tools I didn’t notice verbatim as an option. But tools is different now. The shifting UI should make me recheck.

Even though I can’t set this for a default, I can at least choose it when necessary and it’s faster than quote escaping terms.
How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security
They disrupted the space, killing traditional stores. Theirs will not be a traditional store.

Once upon a time our local small town had a general store. The freeway came thru, and it went out of business. Then a gas station came in by the freeway. Then it started offering some groceries, clothing, amenities. Hey Presto! and we have a general store again.
Definitely a new way of raising capital in the start-up world...Looking forward to its success.
In case you're wondering whether an Alaskan earthquake could cause damage in California, the answer is yes. The tsunami from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska obliterated the port of Crescent City:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_City,_California#Tsun...
In a world where 'literally' can be defined as 'figuratively', I'm not sure why we bother splitting hairs on terminology... what is accepted is what is accepted.
You're reading that meaning, I'm only reciting the facts imperfectly as I may recall them. I could add a bit about how religiosity (Catholicism/evangelicalism) imposes rather arbitrary (to an outsider) limits to medical care/research (stem cell funding research partially blocked by NIH/abortion and sexual education eliminated in favor of useless abstinence guidance to USA and the rest of the world under GOP) in the USA but that seemed to add politics/religion judgement. The end result of those policies seems less humane - though some people judge policy by the policy without regard for outcome, and other people judge policy solely by outcome.
Instagramable Balloons: How to Get YC Partners to Come to You
Your comment made me think about our math curriculum, and a lot of the work that we do with the younger kids deals with just establishing some basic numeracy; for instance, having small blocks that represent a unit, and then having a different type of block that represents 10, etc. Having a camera recognize these as the children play with them could be absolutely perfect. Thanks for the inspiration.
Ah yeah, this was meant as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16214124

Looks like it went to the wrong thread when HN hiccuped.
Does gastric bypass surgery help over the long term?
My office has at least a few hundred thousand lines of perl 5 (v 5.8.0) running on legacy systems, though we've switched to python for new development.

We won't be using perl 6, and suggesting it in the office would get some good laughs out of everyone who's had to work on that codebase.

I'll still write perl when I need a quick one-off script to solve the kind of problem it's good for, like throwing a bunch of regexes at a bunch of text files.
> move to the beginning of the search field

Just to clear things up: it really doesn't matter where you include the bang. The beginning, the middle, or the end of the search query, the result is the same.

When looking at the search results H, left or right arrow, and type in the bang.
Tackling Ethereum scalability issues
If you're interested in this, I suggest the new web browser Brave. It does a great job of cleaning up all the ads & protecting your privacy. I also haven't ran into sites that block me yet like I do when using an ad blocker on Chrome. You can choose the search engine you want to use unlike this extension. It's also built on top of the same code as Chrome so you get all those benefits as well. Brendan Eich (JavaScript & Mozilla) is the CEO.

Slightly off topic, Brave also has an interesting feature as well to help support content creators. Since a lot of content creators rely on ads, you have the ability to add a small amount of funds to a crypto wallet that Brave can use which get distributed to the websites you visit the most over the month. You can enable or disable this for specific websites as well. I think this is a great idea but it may have a hard time catching on. I think people will have a hard time adding money to a virtual wallet to pay for something they "think" they are already getting for free. At the same time I love the concept as it is a way for you to reward people for good content & create a disincentive for bad content.
Regarding "smart devices" and IoT, honestly, I don't qualify it as dystopian. To me, it's just pathetic.

A "smart", unnecessarily Internet-connected kettle or lightbulb or juicer isn't going to usher the second coming of fascism to the Western world. Even data breaches connected to those devices aren't going to have any meaningful impact on an average person's life. But it's sad, because it's wasteful. It's ugly. It's bad engineering. And all of this is motivated by greed and sociopathy of people putting it on the market. With each everyday item that gets attached to my butt, I lose faith in people a little more.
When it comes to "Smart Cities" in the US at least, Chicago is leading the pack:

http://arrayofthings.github.io/
Well, if wealth is spread more evenly around the globe, this will indeed be good. Less unrest, less war, less refugees. Not sure if it's beneficial for the US as well though - the money flowing to Vietnam/Slovakia/Nigeria, etc has to come from someone...