skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like a context, any function can then access data relative to current request, transaction, and similar "async" flows. This is otherwise impossible with async/await.
Do you have a survey or other citation for it being a bad idea? I get that it enables bad behavior, per see. However, the idea of rejecting a customer/client because they did not form their request perfectly seems rather anti customer.

Ideally, you'd both accept and correct. But that is the idea, just reworded.
> Drupal is one of those many CMSs that stores tons and tons of code in the database, including executable PHP.

This is horrifying. Why was this ever done?
I don't think it's fair to single out particle physics. The Standard Model is one of the best tested and most accurate theories we have. While there are certainly problems with it, it's a bit like saying that explorers these days aren't advancing as quickly as they did in the 1600s because we aren't discovering new islands at anywhere near the same rate.

Modern genetics is amazing. The new genome sequencing techniques have (among many things) helped us understand evolutionary history in a way that people didn't even dream of 75 years ago.

Astronomy has also undergone explosive growth in the last few decades. The discovery of new exoplanets doesn't even make the news any more.

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017 and 2011 were astronomy projects.

Some of the recent EE-related Physics Prizes were 2014 ("efficient blue light-emitting diodes"), and 2009 (fiber optics); at least one person in each case was an EE.
No! It's email! See my opinion piece above about e-mail the new social network.

Reddit and other social networks could have been implemented using e-mail as a back-end.
Illusion is in reference to the phenomenology of mind, I guess, which in epistemological terms must precede a minding physics.
Even for basic assembly jobs? I doubt a time served mech apprentice would want to take that job :-) let alone a Techniker (which is effectively what I did albeit in a hyper specialised area Thermofuids which had been set up to cater for the local industry)
Traditional engineering has been using machine learning for years for condition monitoring...
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~maluf/papers/flairs97.pdf
Somewhat. NFCRing is closest I've seen to what I think of.

http://nfcring.com
I think protobuf is a binary format though?
Likewise the latest fetish for teaching CS to all school kids.
What are their actual objectives? I can’t imagine taking Facebook down is the end game.
That's what I've been using and idk if I need that much many features. Gogs gives me https+ssh, and a proper sane ui to quickly create accounts and config things. It's so lightweight I don't see me migrating to bigger stuff anytime soon.

Any clue on what gitlab-only features people need that makes Gogs unusable or unfitting? make me really curious
> You, on behalf of yourself and the Subjects, agree that Eventbrite, its successors and assigns will own all rights of every nature whatsoever in and to all films and photographs taken and recordings made hereunder (the "Recordings"), including without limitation of all copyrights therein and renewals and extensions thereof, and the exclusive right to use and exploit the Recordings in any manner, in any medium or context now known or hereafter developed, including the right to freely edit the Recordings for use or create new works from the Recordings

I take this to mean that Eventbrite owns the rights to whatever they record forever and ever, somehow including copyrights. So if I wanted to sell tickets to an event and once the event was completed sell a recording of the event, could Eventbrite sue me? It states they have the "exclusive right to use and exploit the Recordings in any manner" (including use in media not yet invented).

Am I interpreting this correctly?
that point is moot with xml, since xml (and don't even get me started on xslt) is as much of a mess as json.

Go try to nest a few XML documents and then came back saying if you still love it, or even if you still consider it a well-define standard.
Alexa, turn off Google Assistant.

In all seriousness, this is just sad.
Stanislaw Lem, "Summa Technologiae", translated by Joanna Zylinska, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis-London, 2013, ISBN 978-0816675760

Phenomenal work, well worth reading and re-reading.
I've never seen someone make an informed trade-off decision like that and acknowledge it.

Instead they just believe that they are 100% secure then when they get hacked they act all surprised and with great hypocrisy say "security is our number one priority at shitshow.com. we take security extremely seriously.".

Otherwise I'm not suggesting that there's some great incentive. As we've seen with huge hacks like Equifax and many more companies we know right now they just get a slap on the wrist and so they continue to try to use "we are sorry" PR statements after the fact as their strategy.
Not saying I'm successful in the web area, but one thing I try to do is to have some working code before buying a domain name.

Like business cards, buying a domain name makes it seem like you're doing something, but you're really not. You haven't even started; you're just throwing a small amount of money down the drain and dreaming of some future moneymaker.

I'm sure there are many people who have domain names for 1+ years but haven't worked on the product the whole time. I did that once and then learned my lesson!

If it helps, think of buying (and choosing) the domain name as the reward for making something work :)

----

EDIT: "playing house" is the term that Paul Graham uses for people who go through the motions of starting a business without understanding what they're doing.

http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
The agile methodolgy claimed we needed to switch to it to increase quality.

Quality got worse.

In this scenario it's the fault of agile, as the reason for doing agile was to increase quality.
Don't give people saws until they spend years chopping down trees with axes. Or maybe they should start out by punching them down, we weren't born with axes you know, and you won't understand a saw until you feel the wood fibers buckling under your knuckles.

No. This stance is complete nonsense. People who don't want to learn how things work won't learn either way, but an IDE can at least make them safer and more productive. For people who do, an IDE can magnify your abilities quite a lot. All of which is true for any (decent[1]) tool in any field.

[1] here, have a twitter rant. You're advocating for the Hole Hawg: https://twitter.com/myrrlyn/status/980148201456943104
When I was 9, I managed to chop off the last 3/16th of an inch of my left thumb with a simple hatchet.

(Building a fort...)

Pre/post hatchet moment, many many many serious power tools and no incidents.

The key to anything is paying attention.
Here are some thoughtful arguments against "Postel's Law":

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0...
No-haggle pricing -- Saturn. Battery vehicles -- EV-1 (granted, there were many even before that). Enabling autopilot -- better not go there...

If you look closely, there is very little that's actually innovative about Tesla (and what is is mostly Panasonic battery tech).
You're right! Although email is already more popular than Facebook. ;)
That is totally fair. My main point here was the users have to pay one way or the other. Either via more seeing more targeted ads, which sacrifices their privacy, or via real $$.
Google provides a dashboard with everything including ability to remove or even download. Wish we could get the same from Apple.

Do not think Google has the same issues as FB.
Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations – 2018 Edition
You may want to take a look at 9 (b) of their Terms of Service then... you agree to arbitration or small claims court max.
But of course you could have opted out of that (9 (i)) - if you knew that you had to do it within the first 30 days of using Eventbrite. Too late now.
No, I'm pretty sure I took that point. It's just that... that isn't the problem. All formats get messy for the same reason that all software designs get messy. It's just that messy software is amenable to replacement, while messy formats leave their garbage in public to scream about on HN.

And like I said, we've been where you want to be: .xls, in particular, is actually a very simple format at its core and easily inspectable with a hex dump or whatnot. Likewise Wordperfect's binary format back in the day was straightforward for humans to use, yet still binary. It didn't help. They still sucked.

To wit: you can't solve this problem your way. All you'll do is create another messy format, c.f. XKCD 927.
Articles like this make me worried about my future as a blind programmer. I enjoy back-end database and web services development, not accessibility work. A lot of the I'm a blind programmer articles I've scene appear to be blind developers who work on accessibility. I hope they work on accessibility do to interest not because everyone assumes if you a blind programmer accessibility must be the type of work you want to do.
I look forward to seeing this. There was a lot of exciting and creative stuff going on in the 90s around handhelds.
The really interesting thing about cash transfers in the developing world is how often the funds are used not just to meet immediate needs but are invested in some form or another. GiveDirectly has tons of examples, but it may be anything from paying for a child’s education to buying a motorcycle to start a delivery business to, and this is my favorite, upgrading from a thatch roof to a tin one (this is an interesting win and one that might not be obvious to outsiders: not only is the tin roof more effective but it is also cheaper in the long run because the thatch roof has to be replaced twice a year at considerable cost in both labor and materials whereas the tin roof lasts for years; and this is a perfect example of how the poor can get locked in to an expensive cycle for lack of capital up front).

I’ve seen the same in the people I’ve given to. No one just wants to take the money and do nothing and become dependent. Everyone, literally everyone to a one, wants to start a business.
Admirable enthusiasm, but I beleive this is a legal problem not a software/product one.
The network effect can only be broken by fashion or laws requiring completely free movement of users and all their data among competitors for ALL online services.
> No one has a decent autopilot (Driver assist) close to Tesla and they have hardware ready for level 5 autonomy(or close to)

Unsubstantiated claims. I don't buy tesla marketing as easily you have.

Just because Tesla decided to hand over the driving reins to a lane keeping assist doesn't make it superior. It has killed and will kill people who think Tesla autopilot is anymore than a lane keeping assist that notifies you when you deviate from a lane.
Then again that is what W. Edwards Deming did for Japanese industry after being rebuffed by Ford etal
Masterpiece of translation to English, too, by Michael Kandel.
Apparently the cows now produce way more milk per day than the calf needs. The wikipedia also says calves grow a lot faster when kept with their mother.
You also make another interesting point, even if it wasn't your intent. Mueller's indictment of hackers was in a legal system that would throw out the indictment if it were not logically and legally sound. The followup to that is, why wasn't there a presentation of the actual data that formed the conclusions of the IC the in the other cases that you mention? If you look at them, carefully, they have also been discredited since their presentations. The conclusions should be: 1) people are people with their own agendas and designs, and 2) appealing to authority isn't critical or independent thinking.
It might be <1cm with this antenna but someone else with a better antenna might be able to read it from 1m...
Eventually, once various forms of fully homomorphic encryption become practical, we can have the best of both worlds.

That being said, using cryptography to protect information will probably always have some (albeit constant) overhead over unprotected computation, so it may be true that these platforms will still be the "least intelligent" even though they are intelligent enough.
Maybe wait longer than 5 hours before trying to repost the same thing?

Honest feedback: when I land on a site that asks me to watch a video to understand the thing, I almost always just close the tab. Put in enough info for me to understand why I'd want this without having to watch the video.
He said "All"
Product Launch: A Trip to the Taco Bell Space Station
While it might be convenient, someone could just steal your NFC device or skim the NFC chip and mirror it.
> I disagree, and we both know there's no clear evidence one way or another

I think that the lack of evidence in favor of a strong effect is normally counted in favor of the null hypothesis. It may not feel fair, but the burden of proof is solely on those who claim a strong effect exists, not on those who don't.

> but a bad language can do those just as easily as a good language

Again, the burden of proof is solely on those who claim there is such a thing as a good language with a strong effect. If you can't display an effect, or claim that others can also induce it by other means is a win for the null hypothesis. If you claim there is such a thing as a "bad" language, and there is no evidence this is true, doing so will harm your cause.

> A genuinely better language should have at least a slightly better chance of winning a debate over which language is better.

I just don't think that a debate is the right way to establish an empirical claim. It's ok to engage in a debate - even a heated one - but the lack of evidence should at least encourage humility. My point is just that an imagined "win" at a debate only harms your mission. If it convinces anyone, which is highly doubtful, it's probably not the people you want, anyway. An approach that says, "I think this is cool. I like it and it helps me and may help you, too" is so much more effective at marketing than "my way is best" especially if the evidence is not on your side.
Yup. Humans are allowed to make mistakes and fail fatally. If self-driving cars make a single fatal mistake, then watch out for negative press coverage for weeks. Why? Because every failure can be traced back to a root cause. Every root cause (other than something like another driver literally trying to kill you) looks like an incompetent screw-up after peeling back all the layers. In principle, self-driving cars are basically perfectly safe (as a system). So every failure causes righteous fingerpointing.

...which is also partly the motivation to improve.

I expect self-driving cars long-term to be a lot like air travel. It'll have a reputation for being super unsafe, with lots of people paranoid of it, for decades after it has far eclipsed the safety of regular human car driving. The paranoid hyper-focus and ridiculous press coverage is also what will enable it to become essentially perfect (like passenger air travel is today in the developed world).
i wish there was a chance for EDN[1] to replace JSON. it's a shame the industry defaulted to a subset of javascript as a data notation format considering all it's shortcomings =/

yeah, i get it, "but it has native support in all browsers" is a valid argument, i just wish it wasn't.

[1] https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I do and why I use Google. But live in the US which is a free country to use whatever you want and just want to be left alone so I can.

I am fine with you using whatever you want.
If that were the case and the developers knew it, then they should have pulled it from the store long before now.

Think about it - they didn’t pull the app because of the bugs. They pulled the app because they don’t agree with Amazon (of all people) that releasing a major version update with a bug known to cause personal data loss is totally unacceptable.

They’d rather not provide an app for the platform at all than work out a solution to a “slight bug” that would cause their users on that platform from losing their playlists during an update.

It seems to me that this is a case of a diva developer getting his feelings hurt, not a reasonable decision based on an unconsistent approval process. I can’t imagine a more used-hostile attitude than that.

Edit: somehow got it in my head that they pulled VLC from the Google Play Store.
Google maps

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
Amazon’s Next Conquest Will Be Apparel
Reminds me of last years CouchDB bug (CVE-2017-12635) which was caused by two JSON parsers disagreeing on duplicate keys: here it was possible to add a second key with user roles, allowing a user to give admin rights to itself. JSON parser issues are real.
> It is able to operate in environments where other systems fail and is able to do so reliably on more roads than their competition.

Proof needed. Just because Tesla rolls out their software in risky situations and while other manufacturers play it safe doesnt mean that Tesla is more capable, they are just more riskful.
The problem isn't just my reccomendations, it's those of my fellow citizens, voters, and potential lynch mobs.

No argument there.

Also, I don't get the information on why a video is reccomended to me - is it country-specific?

I don't know; it worked in all European countries I've used it in. You mouse over the video, it shows the three-dots menu (⋮), then you choose "Not Interested", then the thumbnail is replaced by text saying "Video Removed" and "Tell Us Why".

Example: https://imgur.com/a/zlUtCfc
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Heh, I edited my comment and added a quick note about that -- apparently right about the same time you were writing this comment.
We tracked all bugs in a custom made bug tracker:
- Unit/Integration tests
- Failures reported by QA
- Bugs in production

Integration tests were really heavy, and ran multiprocess on a server. So locally we would run the unit tests, and relevant integration tests. The rest was tested on the integration server, which automatically created bugreports when something failed.
Why couldn't he just print an MSRP (manufacturers suggested retail price) on his bottles... Make the retailers justify the higher price.
Won't get an answer as there is nothing better. But people just use whatever you want and let me do the same.
Debugging across pipes and sockets with strace
Biometric can be used as an identifier but not as a password.
what about in the case of a hardware failure
This technique has its limits. If you squeeze enough people will be in a constant panic state that allows no forward thinking because everybody is in a rush to deliver now which then will predictably fail. I see that in my company. Every "6 month" project turns into 2 years but with the depth of thinking of a 6 month project.
Just for the record - XML and HTML are both subsets of SGML, somewhat overlapping, but by no means coterminous with each other (at least until HTML 5 - I'm honestly not sure what it's relationship to SGML is).

And, speaking from experience, the XML nay-sayers should largely be glad if they never had to deal with SGML :)
No, "hereunder" is the magic word here (as I see it). It should only apply to those recordings done by Eventbrite themselves under these terms, not yours.
Still, good luck having an artist sign that some third party (Eventbrite) may potentially record them without recompense.
I'm sure the network is valuable compared to alternatives, but it's probably diluted now, compared to joining when YC had no prestige. Your peers then would have been the current leaders of YC.

Customers don't give you money because you joined a good accelerator, so in that sense the "reverence" is useless. It's also a double-edged sword, because you'll attract people who are looking to ride your coattails, as opposed to doing useful work.

Apparently this phenomenon is common enough that PG has a word for it: "playing house". People join YC and play house rather than start companies.
Actually, the Russians bought the same pens from the same American company.
I couldn't tell what data is leaking to the service provider. Are they gathering data on all these sessions?
I read recently that (intended) sudden acceleration is a risk factor in automotive crashes. Can't find reference right now, but if that's true then faster acceleration isn't necessarily a feature.

But anyway, how often does the average driver drive around with their foot flat on the accelerator? I don't understand the obsession with getting to 100k/hr right now.

In these parts, most people seem to be quite content with a car that will get to 60m/hr in 15 seconds, as evidenced by all the Toyota Yaris and vehicles optimised for off-road four wheel driving. I imagine a Yaris owner would think it'd be nice if their tiny little car could do that, but it ain't happening without a set of tyres the defeats the purpose of owning a subcompact.
why is this on the front page?
Oh, the related videos. Yeah, I don't know if those can be influenced. I keep the autoplay disabled.
As with the majority of security issues it was done for convenience. Not every user has access to the hosting provider so it was done out of convenience.

Thankfully they removed this option in Drupal 8, the latest version. You could also restrict users from accessing the functionality so it wasn't that terrible. In practice few sites actually use the option, but when they do it can make troubleshooting a giant pain in the ass.
I just want to set my alarms and do some searches by voice. Why does this require my web browsing history?
Damn, the people that work on these kind of things are heros.
The Bolt is a fine car, but they sell them at an approx $8000 dollar loss. So not really a fair comparison unless you take that into account.
The podcast about the US Constitution puts a human face on the founding document
Well, my ears are on different places, too, which is why glasses were always a bad fit before I got PRK.
I’d say that the shape of the woman’s hair feels weird, but I’m not really offput by the image of the man.
It has nothing to do with Wikileaks
>> I don't hear people wanting a human readable text representation of their audio, video or images.

This is, in fact, a huge concern for people who think about accessibility.
indeed, in such a concept there is no room for causation between the smallest time steps. That's in line with basic human thinking, it is how it is. I mean, I settled on time being the measure of change, every change is a tick. However, there doesn't need to be a smallest time step if you use rational numbers or sum such. But the
"they offer real value services without which you can't survive a day on the web"

This is just not true.

There are viable competitors in about every space that Google is in. Use local documents and sync via a different storage provider. Alternate email providers exist. The only place where they have a distinct advantage is search, and even then, DuckDuckGo is usually enough (and if it's not, just pass a !g flag).

YouTube is also a thing, but I've never felt that having an account really gave me anything over just bookmarking channels.
> In that case the return on writing tests to try to shake out those areas is pretty high.

I agree, but in that case you shouldn't test for that one specific case that failed, but try to make a test that handles similar issues, or tries catch bugs of the same kind.

Of course it depends how far you can push this.
I’m not saying he wasn’t important. He’s considered a founder by Tesla. I’m just taking issue with the statement that he wouldn’t have started it if... because he didn’t.
Use whichever search engine maybe, but not
“use whatever you want” in general. The US is hardly “do what you want” in the general case. Is also the home of, “you have a duopoly, but you’re free to pick between the two,” trying to lock your mobile down. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-doj-at-t/u-s-said-to-inve...