skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course... the cost-cutting just stops/reduces the bleeding, extending the company's runway so that it can survive longer without running out of cash. The company still has to come up with a new product or strategy, in AMD's case it was Ryzen.
There is emscripten-qt that built Qt apps w/ Emscripten for a while now[0] (since asm.js and WASM should not change anything even though it hasn't had updates in a few years). Appears this uses Emscripten as well. I wonder how this compares at a tech level.

0 - http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...
Here are some other dirty "secrets" about China:

* No free and fair elections.

* No freedom of speech and of the press

* One party rule

* People imprisoned for their political and religious beliefs

* Nobel Peace Prize winner died in Chinese custody

* Freedom of travel can be fairly restrictive, especially if you are trying to leave the countryside

China embraces the open market purely from a utilitarian perspective as to what will help them become and stay a superpower. There really is no big commitment to an individual "rights" based foundation for society. Because of that, it is not surprising that they discriminate against women.
Agreed on the absurd downvotes!

I think nuclear is quite bad, we've got to transport / process / store nuclear waste for thousands of years. We should probably do anything we can to avoid producing this stuff.

I grew up near where a lot of the worlds nuclear waste is processed and while it does make for lots of good jobs, that last many many lifetimes, I just can't get onboard with new nuclear when it is cheaper to build interconnected grids + renewables (in the UK at least).
Is there anything that can turn your email into a secure personal RSS feed? A feed reader that also includes emails would replace quite a bit of what centralized social media provides.
The ICBMs are usually not 9m wide, made of carbon fiber, carrying transponders, and making a gliding reentry.
I'm surprised how often RSS is mentioned on Hackernews, and how infrequently some recommends Feedly. It has wonderful features, like saving articles, collection boards, team features, and popularity-based sorting options.

(Full disclosure, I don't work for Feedly nor do I own any of the company. I just like the service!)

http://feedly.com
If nearly 14% did, that’s amazing and a much larger percentage than I would have ever expected. Of course depending on the methodology, and given the diversity of FB accounts, 5000 in a survey is probably meaningless. Still, let’s give it a huge error bar and say it’s between 7% and 21%. That’s still a ton of people, and you have to wonder if they were people central to the content and networks that keep others around.

The only way to tell will be the trend, not the snapshot.
"The Laffer Curve is a real thing."
there are some assumptions about where on that curve we are.

The balance sheets of most of these companies were at record levels before the tax cuts, and most of the tax benefits will go into share buy backs, which will not do that much to stimulate the weakest parts of this economy.
> Ideas were not coming from me, they were just passing through my head

This might sound like I'm crazy but this brings back memories of a strange experience from some years ago that I can't really explain other than "coincidence".. but in the light of this article I started to think.. is it?

Me and my gf were really tired and both exactly in this "almost sleeping but not quite" state. We were lying down with our heads touching (my left temple touching her right temple.. not exactly the temple but just to give a generic idea). We were still talking with each other but at the same time I was seeing random fragments of dreams and the reality was fading away and coming back occasionally. At some point I saw a dream(?) about an orange (I think.. or a ball) that grew bigger and bigger till almost everything was.. filled by it and at that moment my gf says something in the lines of ".. and then there's this huge orange ball coming at me and growing bigger". I woke up immediately and asked her to explain wtf just happened because she was seeing the exact same thing that I was seeing at exactly the same time.

Could it be that one of our brains was picking up the brain waves of the other (..the brains were so close together after all :)) and as our consciousness was fading between being asleep.. it didn't filter out this random interference and interpreted it in the same way, producing the same dream like encounter? Was she, in essence, "reading my mind"? Am I crazy? :)
I second this. Programmong languages where made to be precise enough for computers to understand and ambigous enough for general computing
This all reminds me of the CueCat[0] scanners I picked up for free from Radio Shack so many years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
See what the places he’s applying to are looking for, learn that. Seems like Rails is popular still.
So, you're saying I could use a QTWebView in the browser?
Alternatively, if all you're doing is supporting RSS, you could opt to just use the DOMParser API (native to most browsers) and navigate a DOMTree which is a type of JavaScript Object already...
> So the very idea of RSS - obtaining content from a website without having to visit the site itself - is due for a comeback. No ads.

RSS content may or may not be free of ads, but that is based on what you subscribe to.

I used Google Reader heavily, now I use theoldreader.
The words that change what colours we see
This isn’t retirement it’s just people deciding to live a minimalist life off minimal income. This could backfire big time when they realize they want “normal” stuff a few years down the line or have expenses (like health issues) that cost a ton if you don’t have employer coverage.

Can you live off the income of $300k in savings from mid 30s onwards? Maybe. Is that a good idea? Probably not.
Thanks for the great explanations and insights, I really appreciate it. Cheers.
I work in health IT and have noticed that candidates with experience in the field are more appealing. If you don't know what FHIR is, then you're "just" a programmer.

I use FHIR as an example because it's an excellent technology to investigate for someone new to health IT.
It simply doesn't work that way, maybe for a small business they reinvest all or most of their earnings (Amazon being the exception).

For someone like Apple or Google, they have made it very clear their policy is to hoard as much money as possible (and as much of it offshore as possible too). This is a main reason why a corporation SHOULD be taxed, you only get taxed on PROFIT as a corporation. If a company was truly increasing their "productivity" and "output" they would have much less profit quarter over quarter.

As far as the government being owned by corporations, that already happens because we allow them to directly fund politicians. With or without taxes.
5 days later, check the Savedroid ICO website out. As I predicted, the whole thing was faked.
I want you and everyone else to stop kowtowing to blatant nonsense and “daddy”.

Physics and economics are not one and the same.

Ownership is not divine and should be treated as such.

Paulo Freire and others are better at explaining the reality.

This forum is a wasteland of neoliberal babies who want to build a giant castle to their egos and live in it.

Grow up a bit. Be less ignorant of history and stop fetishizing economic output.

If we have to motivate the species so hard to produce, perhaps economy is inherent to our biology.

But next quarter growth or bust!

Clueless rubes
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A brain is not equal to a computer or a processor.

You will never get the answer if you look at it from a narrow minded perspective.

A brain is equal to billions of processors connected in a highly naturally efficient network functioning almost effortlessly.

Something along these lines seems like a plausible comparison to a brain.

What is a brain is not equal to a processor but a neuron is equal to a processor?
> Hindustan Time hatetracker

I am curious why this was shut down. If you need any volunteers, sign me up.

> zomato tracker

I was working on something similar to that for San Francisco using SF's OpenData APIs for new businesses :)
So send a check to the Treasury. Nobody is stopping you. You could even organize a bunch of like minded people to send checks to the Treasury.

I needed the tax cut. If you don’t, you don’t have to keep it. I am a better steward of my money than the government, especially when it comes to saving and investing for my family’s future.
Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence Is the New Electricity (2017)
> It's threaded vs async/await

Fair enough, sure.

> lack of backpressure

You’ll get new calls into the application on new requests, yes. Request bodies are pulled tho.

You can perfectly well ensure that server implementations properly handle flow control, and if necessary also have a configurable number of maximum concurrent requests.

Either way, those sorts of concerns would be far better addressed by having server implementations against a common interface, than by framework authors having to handle (and continually re-implement) the nitty gritty details of high/low watermarks and pausing/resuming transports.
It’s starting to feel like everyone is jumping on the write-an-article-about-reviving-RSS bandwagon.

Not disagreeing with the premise, but I think I’ve seen at least a half-dozen articles saying the same thing in the last few weeks. Can’t help but wonder if it’s getting click-baity (or perhaps click-hungry) every time I see yet-another-RSS-is-back-baby.
IQ is just a measure of intelligence mapped back on to a standard distribution with a mean of 100 and SD of 15. The mean equals the median of a standard distribution by definition.

The reality is if you measured absolute intelligence that it would not be a standard distribution (there are more people at the bottom than expected), but it would be close. The reason why is that intelligence is the result of tens of thousands of independent factors (mostly genes).
> The participants unwittingly brought with them alien genes, perhaps from the lover they kissed that morning, the stranger with whom they had shared a bus grip, or the barista who handed them their afternoon latte.
>of concrete code examples

Examples of what? Python? Ruby? Java? C++? You cannot please everybody. The article is written in a way that touches all developers. And judging by the feedback I got it has succeeded in this way.

>that basically amount to good tests are good and bad tests are bad

And the article helps people to understand which tests are good and which are bad in the first place. If you are already an expert on the subject then maybe you are the wrong audience.

>Who reads this and is any wiser as to how to write valuable tests?

If you think you can do better then by all means I am expecting your article on the subject

>What these people need is not another article talking in loose terms about the wonders and virtues of testing.

Please write the correct article then.
Or consider a much more common catastrophe such as weather. Clearly there are more places prone to these types of disasters (like hurricane prone areas), but it is not hard to cut off a supply chain for a few days. Even when there are forecasts of heavy snow or something the grocery stores empty real fast. Prepping is for events like this.
> There’s the “you can’t fight the army with small arms” bucket, which is increasingly unsound given our ongoing decade and a half war with Afghani tribal goat herders.

Has either side "won" the "decade and a half war with Afghani tribal goat herders"?

There are certainly no invading forces of "Afghani tribal goat herders" in the U.S.

Sounds like small arms will, at best, hold off the army.
These kinds of tools are only viable for their narrow problem domains. Code will always rule for general purpose development. At least until AIs are good enough to produce usable results from a problem description.

Electrical Engineering has already trod this path. Before HDLs became good enough for logic synthesis, FPGAs and ASICs were developed with schematics or manually mapping circuits into the target architecture. That process doesn't scale well as you end up wrangling with 2D spatial representations and constantly fiddling with low level details. Now, HDLs are the primary means of developing such hardware and the vertical tools are limited to specific data processing niches where there is some productivity advantage in reusing established design methodologies.
Meet the Startup That Makes Building Apps Quick and Easy
Agreed. But it has been very frustrating that they haven't allowed boards to be public.

Maybe someone knows a service that lets you mark posts from your feed to be shared as a public collection?
It goes right to the heart of this story about sickness and health, because yes someone does tell you. “In sickness and in health, until death do us part.” It’s right there st the outset, not just how long marriage is, but the circumstances you’re expected to endure together.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m. It anti-divorce or for that matter, pro-marriage. I think it’s an interesting perspective in this article about the curveballs life throws at you, but I disagree with the conclusion.
I already had my privacy settings where I wanted them (about 90% of the way to “fully public all the time”)
I can recommend Inoreader.
Did anyone else notice how corporations like Twitter and Facebook quietly tried to kill RSS in the past 10 years?

RSS is a wonderful technology with embodies the spirit of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer.

I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging, because it is free and has RSS functional out of the box.
Even in Europe it can be difficult to do cross-country, even though the connections are excellent, fast, and on time. The problem is cost - I can travel within one country for reasonably little money, and 99% of the time beating flying on cost. But taking a train from Paris to Berlin or Berlin to Warsaw? Suddenly we're looking at hundreds of euros, in which case it's almost always cheaper to fly. I don't really understand why.
Another interesting thing that was not mentioned was that the index can place semantically similar items close together.

For example, look at Word2Vec. It "indexes" / "hashes" words that are semantically similar to the same "bucket". This means that you can search for semantically similar data just by inspecting what is near by. This has all kinds of applications.
>>To be completely blunt, paternalism is very deeply embedded in Chinese society, and its roots go back a couple thousand years to Confucianism. I don't see anyone seriously acknowledging or discussing that fact, nor the major changes that have happened since the 50s (often under an explicitly Communist ideology, where the only allowable conflict is between the classes).

Not sure where you're going with that... are you saying because it's part of the culture for 1000s of years it should be acceptable? Or, that because it's been around for 1000s of years some affordance should be made for it taking time to work through? I'm confused. I looked up "paternalism" on wikipedia - sure enough, there's the example of white racists using it the days of slavery to justify slavery's existence
My use of RSS has fallen (very recently) so I only consume a few feeds every day.

However, I both enjoy and dislike Feedly. Here’s the rundown:

Pros)

- advanced features like highlighting, team management

- pure free offering that just works

- integration with pretty much every feed reader app out there

Cons:

- no ability/willingness to pull full text

- iOS app is honestly kind of clunky

I emailed them that I’d willingly migrate from a different app that I pay a subscription for if only they’d pull the full text, but they told me that is an intentional non-feature. Big bummer.
It depends, when talking about interconnecting cables between countries, yes the majority are DC, both to minimise transmission losses and also to tie together grids working at different frequencies....

In terms of km installed I think it will be HVAC just from the sheer number of offshore windfarms built over the last 10yrs in Europe. These things can be huge - 60km in length, 220kV ~1500A....
There are also inflation adjusted annuities. If you think this through, I don’t think you will see a dramatic difference.
I’ve lived in China and speak Mandarin too. I’ve always hated the fact you need a photo, but I was truly disturbed when I went with my girlfriend (Chinese) to have hers done. Even she was uncomfortable with the level of photoshop used. It looked like a different person, and she complained to have that amount of editing reduced. It’s just such an obvious point of discrimination.

While anecdotal, in every in depth discussion with Chinese women about their perception of women’s equality in the workplace, none of them felt it was fair. It doesn’t help that there’s still a strong expectation that women should have a “stable” but lower paying job (1/10th or lower) in comparison to their partner.

There’s a definite difficulty with progressing in your career that arises due to a culture that has a strong emphasis on guanxi and male dominance. If you don’t have connections and you’re not a man, there’s a strong chance that you’ll experience huge resistance when trying to climb the ladder.
Yo, I heard you like browsers, so we put a browser in your browser, so you can surf while you surf.
If RSS threatens to become mainstream again, expect pushback from content providers. I know a blog where the owner will ban any commenter from the site for even mentioning that there is an RSS feed. He believes that the RSS feed that his CMS provides by default, is somehow important for SEO, but he doesn’t want people getting his content through RSS because his way of monetizing the site requires that people reguarly visit the site itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
A few years back I became obsessed with securing a server (a previous one had been hacked). I noticed after a while that what started out reasonable (updating software, closing ports, etc)... had become unreasonable (writing custom code to detect changes to any file on the machine)... and I realized that each step normalized the next step in the sequence. The same thing is in effect with preppers.

You start with the thought "I should have some canned goods and water on hand."... 5 years later you're locked in your bunker in south dakota... each step seemed reasonable, but the destination is unreasonable.

That said, you should have some canned goods and water on hand. :)
Have you tried Thunderbird (https://www.thunderbird.net)? Combines email, RSS and newsgroups.
> Nintendo may still be able to detect "hacked" systems when they sign on to Nintendo's servers. The company could then ban those systems from using the Switch's online functions.

So at least one positive then. Nintendo will be forced to improve their online services.
Are you guys not familiar with the "Barbarians at the Gate" story of what happened with KKR & RJR Nabisco in the late 80s?

I highly recommend you watch the movie or read the book if you don't know about it. The movie is excellent.

Knowing that sequence of events, I feel like people should have realized that all of this would happen to Toys R Us.
How long until someone uses this to make an Electron app?
"People" keep rattling on about how RSS needs to be revived.

Do these people live in some sort of alternative reality where:

- The guardian

- BBC

- Reuters

- Ars Technica

- LWN

- Hacker News

and a fuck ton others don't have an RSS feed?

Or some sort or reality where Flym (or the myriads of RSS apps) don't exist?

Because I sure as hell don't.
Something like this? https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed
You make an excellent and fair point about the use of Chrome, as well asYoutube and other popular Google-owned products. That certainly makes it far less than my pulled-out-of-my-ass 99% claim. :)

It would be interesting to actually see the breakdown between Google's 1st party tracking (direct-from-Google) vs Google's 3rd party tracking (Tracking thanks to 3rd parties)

>If Facebook is to blame more than the websites putting their like button on their websites

I think the problem here is how Facebook sold the user data and/or used the data to target - as it allowed much more narrow demographic targeting than I think even Google provides. (I could be wrong on this, I've never actually USED either for ads - although I work for a company that does so I really should probably know this...)
Peh. I've been a victim of violent crime five times.

I was punched in the chest on my way to school age 11. I was chased by a gang of kids and punched several times in the back aged 16. I was pelted by eggs while crossing a park twice aged 22 and 23, and was fairly badly mugged aged 25.

Not one of those would have worked out better had I been armed. The first time I was surprised, and the best that would have happened would have been that some guy got shot in the back walking away. Satisfying, but unhelpful. The second might have been stopped if I'd brandished, but then again I might have dropped the gun getting it out and been shot, or overpowered before I fired. I was shit scared and vastly outnumbered. The third and fourth I was both surprised and outnumbered. And anyway, who the fuck pulls a gun in retaliation for an egging? The final and most serious time, I was attacked without warning from the back, and was knocked down to the floor trying to protect my head against my assailants' kicks long before I could have thought to draw a firearm.

Shittons of violent crime is like this: it mostly neither justifies nor provides opportunity for gun use.

Of course, I live in England, so at no point did I have to fear being shot. But I don't think that's in favour of owning firearms just-in-case either, frankly.
Betting against Elon Musk is historically unprofitable but if there was one of those bets saying that SpaceX will never actually field this other than for PR purposes then I'd probably take it.
This would be for the QtQuick backend.

The QTWebView is a separate plugin component with its own set of dependencies.

You wouldn't want to do that anyways, much more effecient to just communicate from Qt to Javascript webviews (but I'm sure you know that :))
So you wanna go on-prem (2016)
Hmmm i guess facebook is the IDE that's used to program me and each post is a line of code.
Least path of resistance plain and simple. They want to maintain their dominance without risking support of carriers, manufacturers.
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> I've learned so much without any help

"so much" by what standards? Our reference for knowledge acquisition is biased to what we perceive as our limits.

For example we've collectively spent several millennia improving our game of Go theory and knowledge, and then a machine trained for a few days discovered new ideas we hadn't considered.
Why would selection pressure be higher at the start of life on earth? There was no competition back then.

Maybe the “codebase” was simpler at the time. But it worked far worse. A good software analogy might be today’s Word vs the first notepad.
Could be lying, or maybe they contribute 12% to their 401k, or pay for daycare with pretax dollars, or have an HSA and an IRA, etc. There's lots of causes for taxable income ≠ salary- there's no need to make baseless accusations
Similar experience here. I suspect it's not a good option for speed readers.

Also, there are issues with red-screen sleep promoting systems like f.lux.
What would be the security model of such a browser environment? Maybe like an iframe?
I can hardly imagine trying to live in Boise without driving. Not because I love my car (now that I live in Silicon Valley I'm one of the few people who commutes by train), but because Boise is notably unfriendly to non-drivers. I agree that (every says) Portland should be much better for that.