skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's something you don't find much these days

This is approach is available with all of the JVM languages too.
Putting that with what others have noted about the CLR, C, and LISP implementations, this may be more common than rare.

https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/reloading_java_classes_...

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2018.1/debugger-hotswap....

It may not be so much the case the people are being uncharitable as that there really isn't much that is new or unique in software.

For my own part, I have hit that wall so many times that I now begin with the assumption "if I can imagine how it might work, someone has probably already done it".

That is actually nice in the sense that I nearly always have a starting foundation when solving problems these days but also frustrating to the point of cynicism when discoveries or inventions I put a lot of time in to turn out to be minor variations on something 1k+ people already knew about.
You don't know who is London's city mayor, isn't it ? Well I grant you he's not black.

Racism is certainly an issue in Europe, but at least our cops do not gunshot black people for any reason.
Ask HN: What's your no-code “tech stack”
I'm a massive believer that you can build a huge amount of stuff (maybe even a whole product) without actually writing any code (other than excel formula!)

My current "no-tech" stack is:

- Wix for landing pages
- Typeform for signup forms
- Zapier for a bunch of wiring and automation
- Notion.so for documentation / other semi-static content
- Google sheets to simulate having a database

What is your current/past "no-tech" stack?

What things do you wish you could do without code, but can't find good solutions for?
So what we get is a very big case of survivorship bias.
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1827/
Problem is that these are political markets not market markets. Denmark spent a lot of money on getting their windmill industry up and running and windmills still aren't solving the base problem as they aren't reliable for all sorts of weather.

Furthermore, windmilss don't really scale well, Nuclear on the other hand which is both safer and more scalable and greener would change that but right now only the Chinese seems to have realized that.
> It would force the consumer of that data to replicate the environment.

It won't, because JSON is a standard. Imperfect like all standards but practically good enough. And "plain text" just means "an undefined syntax that I have to mostly guess". And nobody "programs" in bash or awk anymore. The "standard scripting languages" for all sane devs are Python or Ruby (and some Perl legacy) and parsing JSON in them is trivial.

The "UNIX philosophy" was a cancerous bad idea anyway and now it's thankfully being eaten alive by its own children, so time to... rejoice?!

EDIT+: Also, if I feel truly lazy/evil (like in "something I'll only in this JS project"), I would use something much much less standard than JSON, like JSON-5 (https://github.com/json5/json5), which will practically truly force all consumers to use JS :P
Urban Aeronautics AirMule
Strong agreement w/ you. The Jordan article (https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re...) is a good one to read.

On top of that, we should be having this discussion w/ or w/o AI -- letting algorithms of any kind make critical decisions in society is fraught with dangers large and small, and something we should do with eyes wide open and great deliberation (something seemingly challenging in today's political reality).
My 75+ year old mum uses WhatsApp. Not sure who is left.
Let me fix this for you - "Imagine talking about IPX in the late 1980ies. The blockchain isn't interesting as a business case any more than IPX was."
To be fair, you may want to retire somewhere different from where you live when you're working--and may want, for example, a smaller place that requires less maintenance. But, yes, there's a strong argument for the desirability of owning your own place if you're a healthy 65 year old because you don't want to one day wake up and find you need to move in a couple months because an owner has sold a building.
In high school I hated having ICQ and MSN and AIM because friends opted to use different ones. SMS is great because it connects you to anyone with a phone.

And that's why I like apps like signal that will fallback to SMS but make it trivial to use the secure protocol if it happens that the person you're talking to also uses signal.
> I'm genuinely curious. Why the downvotes? Did I say something wrong?

"The Blockchain is TCP/IP with History" - this is just sound bytes, noise without any substance, technically wrong, and could have triggered most of your readers to stop reading right there and press the downvote button.
Honestly, I only clicked on this page to read all the comments hating on electron.

Not helping with my confirmation bias though.
Good riddance to one of the great phishing enablers.
What I've meant was mining on the wind mills themselves. So there would be no need of passing through the grid.
Or Delta...

I just now have a personal rule to never fly with a North American carrier.
People are generally ignorant of seat etiquette. Window seat gets the window, obviously. Aisle seat gets the better legroom. Middle seat gets both arm rests.
I tripped hard yesterday and realized that it is likely that the subsystems of our brain harbor other consciousnesses. If consciousness is an artifact of our brain's process of decision making, acting on sensory inputs -- then consciousness is like a black hole, it is marked by an event/information horizon. The outside world is higher dimensional and the conscious subject experiences a lower dimensional projection of it - forever trapped within a reality of qualia like vision and sound, formed by downsampling the actual phenomena.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaneron
Milling electromagnetic fields, and producing electricity.
>Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse.

in my case every single time was by accident whilst moving the mouse around, off of other text I was trying to read.

frankly, its bloody annoying

it covered the text i was reading

the search for yet another "disable" setting begins....
A 3 year term would not have been possible at my then current salary to finance the car. The standard term period (when I was buying) was 5-5.5 years.

In hindsight its easy to look back on what I could have done differently, but I guess that's point. When first graduating, I wouldn't recommend entering into even a medium term financial commitment as things can change so quickly within your first few years in the professional world.
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital [pdf]
The more of everything problem
I have read numerous stories and heard accounts of white people in black neighborhoods who were stopped because it is assumed they are only there to buy drugs. Why would a white person be in such a neighborhood? Sure, there are valid reasons, but it is generally still out of the ordinary.
XMPP is a terrible square wheel.
Korean Air Chairman Fires Two Daughters Over Rage Incidents
Battle City clone using React
Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Mobile UI Testing
Yeah, another one of these "errors" that always seem to gain Facebook more (rather than less) data. It's so strange how this keeps happening at Facebook.
Congratulations on making probably the slowest circular-progress bar I've even seen, that had to be a challenge, but you did it.

https://gfycat.com/NimbleMintyBinturong

That's on my laptop with i5, 4 cores. I can play smoothly on this L4D2, TF2, CivV... but not this reactive circular-progress bar.
I don't know a single person that uses WhatsApp, and I live in Europe. We have a tendency to think that everyone adopts the same things, especially when it comes to technology. This has been demonstrated to not be true multiple times.

It'd be cool if we had a standard that everyone could use, like SMS, just that supported larger messages. Oh wait...
Windmill is a defacto synonym for wind turbines in most english speaking countries
Before I went to bed I checked HN and this was on the front page.

Now many hours later it's still on the front page with 74 upvotes and absolutely zero comments. What's going on here? I've never seen this happen.
> "some of the commenters dismissed either it ("impossible") or me ("doesn't know anything about load balancing"). "

This to me is odd. Was this posted when AWS's ELBs were new and shiny?

Most of the big failure cases I've dealt with are along these lines.

One server does something stupid and gobbles up the world.

That being said, this is a very neat way of describing the problem, I shall be referencing this in the future, I might start putting that in an interview question....
I don't think he meant there is no opportunity for black people, but that it's truly a "land of opportunity" only for whites (more specifically white men).

Like, I grew up in a lower-middle class family and flunked out of college due to my f-ups. I squandered a lot of opportunities through my 20s, and yet still ended up in a position where I could teach myself to become a software developer, and make good money today. I got a lot of extra chances, chances that people of color don't necessarily get.
There is no way you can charge again for messaging in a world of WhatsApp & co.
Care to elaborate? Not sure I understand.
So Apple delivers your messages via magic? You are logged in from one endpoint. So Apple knows that you are you. It does also know who your other chat partner is. At some point there is a transmission of data from A to B. I don't see a way to hide the metadata if the data is transmitted through Apples network. If it's P2P, then yes.
AWS SF Summit Recap: Analyzing Data Streams in Real Time Using Kinesis
Around here most management companies probably wouldn’t care.

These aren’t small mom and pop operations but companies with straightforward rules. You’d probably get an eviction notice before a human was in the loop.
Presumably because Mezzanine was thir first album to chart number 1
This is pretty good. I've been considering moving over to Apple for everything to avoid Google, but this offers a partial solution.

If only I could pay a monthly fee to include search and maps!
Thanks for the feedback! You are right, the demo currently hangs quite a lot on Firefox, Im pretty sure the issue is actually not related with the component itself, I created a issue on the repo to fix it https://github.com/zzarcon/react-circle/issues/10 :)
Your numbers don't add up. You live in a premium location, I guess a nice part of zone 2? So let's say 1mn GBP for a 3 bedroom house.

You pay 20k/year in rent (2%) = 1666/month for a 1mn property?

Then you're getting an incredible bargain. You can only get a 1 bedroom flat for about that in a good part of London. A 3 bedroom house would be closer to 3k/month, so really you're looking at 4-5%/year. So the difference in performance is only 2-3%, which would be offset by the gains you'd make in house prices from owning your own place.
Or they could push out a (targeted) software update that lets them do that silently. I don’t think they would, but they could.
> If you add up random costs you are confronted with during the whole process of flying with them they aren't even that much cheaper.

I'm sorry but that is nonsense. I live abroad so am a frequent flyer back (say 5 or 6 times a year at regular intervals) home, for the past 5 years. I always compare the prices, never once have a rival airline beaten Ryanair. I've never had a bad issue either.

Personally as a 6ft 2 guy I love that they don't have seats which can recline :) the bane of my life on other airlines.
True. I don't think the OP or I deny that. The premise is that some practitioners use ML as an overkill for things that are simple enough to be solved by SQL.
After some investigation, I found that the cause of the issue is not the component itself https://github.com/zzarcon/react-circle/issues/10
“We realized that a lot of senior level people were craving a service like this”
When we do finally send people to Mars I think they'll appreciate having a local copy of Wikipedia with them. This would be one of the top 10 resources beyond what's required to produce air, food, water, and heat. Otherwise, something comes up and any question you have could take almost an hour to get a response from someone on earth.
That's more a Silicon Valley culture than an American one. Not to say California isn't part of America, but that same glass ceiling exists in most places in America, and it's probably lower.
Thanks for the link! But I am in the US? Will Apple be transparent in the US like Google is?

More than anything I just want to be able to remove what Apple has on me as I want all my data in a single place when possible.

So I share my location with my family with Google Maps and do NOT want my location also to be at Apple for example.

But Apple is the worse like this. They are far less transparent than Google and that bugs me about Apple.

Plus considering Apple gave all their users data over to the China government versus Google fought the China government Apple has a horrible record with privacy and looks for a buck will give up your data.
No, analytics management is something many companies feel they need to pay for since the marketing team wants to show good numbers, they need to justify ad spending, web development etc. You do need a good relationship with a client to sell more than piecemeal work, but you don’t need to be “legendary” to get enough clients.
One of the best things about ad blockers is that they are really just general purpose content blockers. Want to disable this permanently? Here's an Adblock Plus-compatible filter to block the div if you find it annoying. Tested and working on uBlock Origin:

! Disable link preview popups on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org##.mwe-popups

It's just a div with the class ".mwe-popups", and using your ad blocker will persist the change after clearing cookies, which the preference setting (mentioned elsewhere here) does not.

For Wikipedia in different languages, just change the subdomain in the filter.
Does anyone have a datasheet so we can calculate the Energy ROI?
Yeah, thanks to 261/2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Compensation_Regulation...) airlines generally have incentive to make sure people get to their destination ASAP. Although it's kind of a prisoner's dilemma at the gate when they ask for volunteers to take a later flight, if someone agrees to compensation which is less than the regulated amount the airline will of course take that.
Are there no budgeting apps that use plaid for transactions?
Flickr bought by SmugMug as Yahoo breakup begins
Nitpicky but critical detail: union types are not the same as "sum" types such as what you get in Reason, Purescript, and Elm. Union types are convenient for adding atop a dynamic language or modeling records (although, Purescript's row types are better), but they are less capable of abstraction.

The key example to differentiate union and sum types is `int union int == int` whereas `int sum int` is something unique and different from `int`. A sum type keeps track of the "left side" versus the "right side".

So, all said and done not only is Reason producing faster, tinier code... it's also managing a more sophisticated and powerful abstraction!
Unlike the ones they've already built that mechanically turn their paychecks into dozens of little brown boxes?
I may be cynical but it would seem that RCS came out as a collaboration between carriers to get this model and control back.
Your comments reads in bad taste. Maybe be more constructive?
> Given the network is not live, this was sold via a SAFT (simple agreement for a future token) to accredited investors only, with the tokens to be delivered once the network is launched. At that point, since the tokens are used to pay for storage, is the token a security or a utility token?

Filecoin ran an exceptionally-compliant process. That said, it's not obvious that even their token will not be a security.

SAFTs are self-admitted securities. (One can think of them as deliverable forwards.) There aren't many securities in the wild that convert into non-securities for the simple reason that they were bought for investment purposes, and so anything they become traces to that desire.

So even in the case of the exception, we need to wait for the SAFT to convert and see if that token does what every other token so far has done: die or "moon" as a speculative investment vehicle.

> They are NOT, I’d [sic] sure, arguing that any company should be able to ICO freely

"The group wanted formal assurance from regulators that their products would be exempt from SEC oversight" sounds like that [1]. They asked for too much, too soon; this presentation is part of the backtracking.

I don't mean to say it isn't worth flipping through. Just that this context is material to any analysis of it.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptocurrency-firms-investors-...
You know Europe is developing a fusion reactor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station
And what a completely senseless thing it would be. Reminds me of all the random stockphotos in articles wasting bandwidth and attention for no gain.
No they will actually refuse to delete your account as well. They did however present the option of renaming the account, but then it turned out that's not possible either.
Your point of view resonates with me.

Over the years, I've learned to test "what a thing is supposed to do, not how it does it". Usually this would mean to write high level tests or at least to draft up what using the API might end up looking like (be it a REST API or just a library).

This approach comes with the benefit that you can focus on designing a nice to use and modular API without worrying on how to solve it from the start. And it tends to produce designs with less leaky abstractions.

Of course YMMV.
The original poster specified the peak of a hype wave. I think we are due for a bit of a collapse where the more fanciful claims fall apart but that seems healthier to me because it’d avoid distracting from the solid real applications.
What? You are comparing processing a NN. How is that comparing on "own terms"?
This 'Download Your Data' tool is highlighted every few years when ire toward facebook is renewed, but while appealing it's never seemed more than table scraps to me looking at the data.

Even without looking, the idea that a data broker would just willingly give us all the information it has is unbelievable. The scale is so large, how would you even know?
The writer seems to describe very basic data mining in some cases, which in itself is a form of AI/ML, but then other examples have no relevance to needing to use AI/ML at all.

If their data is already clean enough for SQL queries to work reliably and they are familiar with the SQL syntax, why not look into things such as DMX in MSSQL to make predictions on what these customers are likely to want to buy. This solves the whole marketing breast pumps to a man who bought sneakers scenario, while it also providing more personalized recommendations.

If your current technique is to send an email about sneakers to recent sneaker purchasers, do you really thing they are in the market for another pair?

Sure, it might not make sense to implement a deep learning neural network just to send something like a semi-personal marketing email but their are so many varying levels of AI/ML that seem to get ignored in favor of the flavor of the month Tensorflow/IBM Watson/Whatever else. Quite frankly, the whole thing just comes across as a very closed minded rant from someone who isn't interested in exploring what new technologies are capable of.
That article does not say that Apple is encrypting the per-message key with an Apple public key (alongside the device-specific keys), just that it could. Yes, there are many ways Apple could bypass its own E2E encryption, but we haven’t seen any evidence that it is or has.
Why is this being downvoted? Is there something that guarantees visibility of unknown devices linked to an iCloud-account?
Speaking to a customer and developing some of use to them. Doing the design, programming and test yourself and helping them with the training. I'm thinking of standard enterprise web and back end development . There is a real shortage of this as far as I can see. Also people taking responsibility for their stuff and willing to pick up (not necessarily cool) skills required for the delivery.
I prefer a world where some Giancarlo Devacini guy, living and working in offshore country, can issue billions of "dollars" out of thin air and being literally unaccountable. /s
Yeah my question is not does facebook know your location (they do), but what criteria are used to determine if you are under the legal regime of the GDPR. If it's just the location you set, I would advise my non-EU friends to set their location to somewhere in the EU.
But why should the person in front be the one that experiences the issue? The tall person still gets to recline their seat.
Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework
As turbines get larger, not only do the costs go down, but the reliability of supply goes up. It becomes more economical to place them out at sea, where winds are more reliable, and the size allows them to run more effectively off low speed winds. These turbines are claiming 60%+ capacity factor, compared to 20-30% for smaller, onshore turbines.

The UK is already up to about 15% of its electricity from wind right now, these developments will open that up significantly more. Obviously at high levels of penetration there are going to be issues, we'll just have to see how far we can go, but even 25-40% of electricity would be a huge contribution.

Combine that with the new and existing nuclear, another 15%, some biomass and tidal lagoons, with the rest from gas (which produces half as much CO2 as coal) and it will go a long way towards meeting the UK's 80% CO2 reduction target from 1990 to 2050.
Thanks! That was the motivation for the project, do something simple right, feel free to add any feedback or contribute to the repo!!
I'm always happy to be convinced that someone has seen something I've missed in all of this hype about crypto, but when you say things like...

'imagine if you could fork Amazon and launch a direct competitor'

..you've lost me. Amazon is not a code base. It has over 500,000 employees who work hard to serve its customers. How do you fork that?

I would offer another, better example but I can't think of one. Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting.
Personally I think the ideas you have when you are 20 and the ideas you have when you are 40 are probably going to differ a lot. Since starting a business is about doing something in the real world that is going to make money I am not surprised to see that there is more older entrepreneurs than one might expect.

The ideas you have when you are 20 are often more idealist and not necessarily connected to reality as much as the ideas of a 40-year-old. This is coming from a guy that has some years to go before 30.