skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most governments are perfectly afraid of their citizens, hence every decision being towards more control. in the face of being more afraid, they will tighten that control, and not loosen it.
Thank you for this comment! It really helps a lot to get decent feedback.

> What I didn't see is some performance promise like Elm, or simplicity, where it make sense to use this over anything else.

I was focusing on the example, it seems I should really put up more information about this on the website, but to answer for this is basically:

- it uses React under the hood meaning you have the same performance, the devtools works the same, it is possible (with some work) to use components from Mint in React and vice versa.

- the error messages are really nice (there 281 unique error messages overall) both for syntax errors and type errors

- easy JS interop using backticks

- no import statements

- fast compile times (the website compiles around 1 second)

- single binary with all the tools included (development server, production builder, favicon generator, test runner)
I'm amazed at how many people here think that a company should be default responsible for what is essentially a third-party tampering with their product. Unless the problem is a result of negligence, it's unreasonable to say that a company should be automatically responsible, except perhaps if they decide not to address the problem in in future products.
Are you seriously calling the extuinguishing of a species - all because some socially deprived devs need a little furry killer maschine to cuddle - trivial?

Just do with strays as they do in every other country- trap them and put them down.

The need for a biological diverse environment outweights the needs of some humans for easy consumable and controllable "social" experiences. For the googlers, get a real human to interact with - yeah, its more challenging, but that is what a social life is all about.
My router started acting weirdly about three weeks ago (intermittent disconnections, slow connection etc. ) and then stopped working all of a sudden.
I asked for a replacement from the provider and they changed it last week. Now I am freaked out, because if the device was compromised I will need to change all my passwords which is a real pain in the a
If everyone in the EU could email them to speed this up that would be great.
I really thought it was just me who loved QBASIC. I wrote my first game ‘Dancing Dobbins’ the horse racing and betting game on qbasic. It started off as a simple gambling simulator and got more and more weird with horses going mad and attackig each other as they raced. Had to draw each horse by hand with line Co-ordinates. I remember writing programs down in a notebook while at my granny’s house.
I created a formula that i havent used since i was 13 but worked amazingly well. (Talk about hard to believe stuff eh?)

The trick was to use sleepyness as a resource.(even more hard to believe!)

You simply focus as hard as you can on the thing you wanted to learn/study/memorize. You dont actually focus on the work but you focus in general. As if pointing the eyes at the self. Make large eyes, keep some muscle tense like your jaw. Breath heavily. The idea is to wear yourself out in 20-30 min. Then go to bed and sleep 20-30 min. And repeat!

I dont know how it works but information is proccesed during the powernap.

After doing some 20-30 cycles of this you are starting to mis out on actual sleep and some trance like state with laser like focus activates. It seems the body gets used to using up all the powernap energy as fast as possible.

The blob of memories becomes self referential by lack of other activities.

The partially parsed modules are organized further when you finnish of with 8 hours of proper sleep.

I think the formula skips the 30 min you normally need to get into something and it consumes just the good part of the 3-4 hours that one can normally focus during a day.
> That's not true at all. Many industries that are very competitive and are full of small companies are effectively regulated.

There are many industries that are very competitive and full of small companies and have regulations, but what most commonly happens in those cases is that the regulations are rarely enforced which nobody much minds because the competition is preventing abusive practices regardless.

> There's a simple fix to this problem. You require companies to carry insurance to cover the problems you're talking about. We do it with general contractors, doctors, tree removal companies etc...

None of those things happen at scale. When a doctor makes a mistake, it affects one patient. A single security vulnerability can affect millions of people.

That's the problem with this. Typically what regulators try to do with risk is to find a deep pocket to stick it to that can absorb it with minimal consequences, but there isn't one here because the risk is large compared to the (inexpensive) cost of the device.

It's also a poor thing to try to insure because the main risk factor is code quality but insurance companies are generally not equipped to evaluate that. It doesn't help anybody to triple the price of every device just so the customer can still get pwned because once the insurance is covering it the developers lose the incentive the liability was supposed to be giving them to improve their security.
You're just repeating yourself so I'm not going to respond point for point, just allow me to state that you're confusing copyright law, first sale doctrine, and contract law (which is what governs licenses, NOT copyright law).

You should go through your claims, determine what they fall under, and how they are enabled (and limited) by the domain of law they fall under.
This is what developers like us tend to think. But consider this: the development cost of the sodtware does not change much in order to create feature reduced versions of most products. But if you are in a small market where the volume of expected sales for the full version of the product can barely lead to proftability, creating a cheaper version for a higher volume market is a sound business strategy. This would not work with a single undifferentiated product.
From the article: "The GDPR prohibits such forced consent and any form of bundling a service with the requirement to consent (see Article 7(4) GDPR). Consequently access to services can no longer depend on whether a user gives consent to the use of data."
> Now I have to put that work-around in my compilers.

That seems really minor to me... Just because it takes a long time to find the root cause of a bug doesn't mean that the root cause was a stupid decision.

Disclaimer: I partially work as a developer/support engineer for a RHEL-derived OS, but use Debian at home.
Plants can be weirdly resilient to smashing -- various bits of plant fragments can decide to grow new roots.
+1

"No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Some clarification for readers: this generally doesn't mean that a plan is scrapped entirely; it means that changes are normal and anticipated (i.e. NOT an automatic sign of failure) that as new information comes to light and circumstances shift, those executing a plan should be adaptable enough to make adjustments where prudent. In fact, decentralized command was developed in order to allow highly-functioning teams to actively exploit unforeseen advantages which develop as a battle/campaign unfolds.

Although these concepts were forged on the battlefield, they are 100% relevant to civilian 'battles' as well - in this case, time management.
Change the cable, not the device.
They can totally delete "their" data. It's not "their" data if someone else has it.
What has worked for me in the past has been to create an initial list of TODO items comprising a mix of vague inquiries, curiosities, and specific tasks.

During the day I work from that list, either performing the work for the item or expanding an item into additional more detailed items. Most items will expand into multiple smaller items as they are picked up.

Completed items get a few comments and are moved below the unfinished items, so that a historical stack gets built up over time which can be fodder for monthly progress reports.

I have found this to be incredibly useful from a productivity standpoint, a morale boost, and as a historical record. It requires some discipline to sit down for 15 minutes at the end of each workday to update the list.
Define "mission critical". Are people going to die if bugs get shipped? If so, be aware that static type checking will not get you there alone, but it should be considered mandatory.

Beyond that: If your team is most familiar with Python, it is probably best to stick with Python. http://mypy-lang.org/ might be the best option: you get static type checking for new code, you can add static type checking to your existing codebase, and you get to use something you're already familiar with.

I recommend reading http://boringtechnology.club/ - especially the "let's switch" part.
Which is even harder because you have to convince the masses to care instead of just messing with some code to fix the problem for yourself
This is what Visual C++'s __declspec(dllimport) is for. :-) On Windows, GCC also seems to handle it correctly, along with its own synonym __attribute__((dllimport)).
I just converted a large project's build system from Makefiles to meson+ninja. The ninja part is significantly faster than make was because it's keeping all the processor cores busy all the time which make doesn't do.
They used to be owned by Evidon Inc., later renamed to Ghostery Inc., which was a classic ad company (sold data gathered from the opt-in GhostRank feature to help other ad companies figure out how to not have their ads blocked).

Nowadays, the Ghostery extension is owned by Cliqz GmbH, which is still an ad company, but they specialize in privacy-conscious ads (mainly ad personalization based on evaluating browser history locally), have a privacy policy that has no holes as far as I can tell, have all of their client-side code open-sourced and they are even minority-owned by Mozilla, so Mozilla can at least check over what they're doing and would probably give up ownership should Cliqz infringe on privacy (even if you think Mozilla itself is the devil, they would still likely do that for PR reasons).

So, I do think it is nowadays fine to use Ghostery. I still don't quite understand why it's so popular, there's tons of other tools for the same purpose (for example Disconnect, Privacy Badger, Firefox's built-in Tracking Protection), but yeah.
Do you read your own links? Or do you just spew this information with reckless abandon? You’re promoting blanket killing of innocent animals, and you can’t even get your information right.

Until you understand the problem, perhaps you should avoid killing it.
Penniless Yogi Baba Ramdev Controls a Billion-Dollar Corporation
Reminds me of some popular headphones (I forget the name) that had two models. One was the standard model and one was the pro model. Someone went to repair their headphones and found that the only difference between the two models was some extra foam that was installed to distort the sound bit in the standard model... I wish I could remember who that was.
Oh yea, the Supreme Court is generally just as crazy as the other two branches of government. Go read about a few of their decisions.
So, running under perf stat tells me the luajit version runs very much more instructions (5M vs. 3M with my patched C version), but they run in the same number of cycles (2.5M), with the luajit version using more instructions per cycle. The unpatched C version uses 3.5M instructions, and 3.5M cycles, which is half the number of instructions per cycle compared to the luajit version.
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Given that these people would live in my "house", I would hire people that would be interesting to have around when they're not doing their job, so I would assume I would get to know them better than those other folks.

I equate more to the nanny we have now -- she's only here about 15 hours a week, but we chat all the time, I know all about her family, and I've seen her engagement video.
Interleaved study leads to greater retention than blocked study.

http://www.indiana.edu/~pcl/2014/01/interleavedblockeddelaye...

https://www.northeastern.edu/learningresearch/interleaved-st...
Author here, please keep in mind that Mint is still very young and I'm still working to get things in order for a first stable-ish release (there are a lot of documentation to write and lot of cleanup work)
like ugh.. you've ruined Seattle and now you want to ruin the moon? Get a life.
Why? It's an airless rock that sits at the bottom of a gravity well that has maybe a smidge of water. I guess you can make yourself a nice radiation shelter there?
That level of cynicism may apply to some government departments, but agencies like the NTSB are much more grounded.

When there's a bad accident on a ship that was more-or-less following procedures, owners and captains of ships really want to know what went wrong and why, so they can avoid it themselves. This is the sort of document that captains will read and discuss with their crew, not all of whom are highly literate in English, so it needs to be accessible and clear. It seems to me that the NTSB did good work here.
No one can actually read this.
Ctrl+w?

I'm pretty sure there are mass bookmark extensions. Get one of those and dump all open tabs into a triage folder; once a week go through the folder and move the ones you want to keep into a proper folder and delete the rest.

Hell, that ought to be an extension too. Autopurge a bookmark folder at set intervals.
Firefox has Reader Mode (little book icon to the right of the URL bar, appears on text-heavy sites) which should do this automatically.

I believe Safari has this, too.
Might find an extension for other browsers.
I didn't downvote, but the part I object to is the socialist moniker, not the questioning of their motives.
Wow, go overhead sucks.

Thanks for the benchmarks, poster!
Well you need to have huge marketing and support for B2B. And then B has to actually make money for you to get anything.

It is really hard sell in gaming world to get paid for engine licence upfront, because developer is only going to make money on launch. So even if you sign somebody you are only going to see this revenue when they launch 2-5 years from signing date.

On top of that gaming ecosystem is very much platform and IP driven. So if I want to distribute MMO on Steam using existent IP, about 50-40% of revenue is gone. If I use Unreal it is another 5%. Then there is marketing, live support. It is super hard to take more from this cake.

It is not the same as selling enterprise software where enterprise already has core business and revenue.

So in Improbable case with 0.5 B raised spending 20m on game should be no brainer. It might be complete waste, but they are going to learn so much more what industry needs and develop much bigger set of tools for this kind of games.

I really like idea of the company, just implementation very much VC driven and they are clearly not experts in the field.
Funny you should mention emacs. Nothing so fancy on the CX-1. But it was lauded because its BASIC editor was similar to ed!
Meanwhile, I have my Pixel lock on screen off (only because the fingerprint reader makes unlocking/turning on easy) with OK Google unlocking enabled.

The only problem here is that Google still doesn't recognise my voice half the time, perhaps because I'm never sure about how I should speak to an inanimate object.

Speaking of unlocking methods, face unlock appears to no longer be available as an option for me. I can't find it in settings anymore (smart unlock etc).
By that logic shouldn't any post anyone makes on Facebook be treated as political?
> what will investors think when the potential growth is being artificial cut down to 75%?

You make two mistakes:

1 - Assuming every business has investors. The majority do not.

2 - Assuming every business is suited to a global audience. The vast majority are not.
I feel like "reality" is a good placeholder for Mike Tyson. It hits quite hard at times :)
Yea, I don't like the current debt-based economy in the first place that treats people as consumers to be extracted from.
There are many offline apps/data which can be synced via wired ethernet, including maps, audio, music, video, photos, books, notes, sound/light meters, compass and special purpose add-on devices.
Absolutely, this discussion always devolves into good vs bad and understandably so because it's very frustrating when your work environment doesn't facilitate your performance. But the typical knowledge worker actually functions on some blend of the manager and maker schedules -- sometimes they need to do deep work without interruptions, sometimes they need to look up from their desk and communicate to make sure their output is aligned with the company. A private space free of distractions facilitates the former but an open plan is actually pretty good for the latter.

The best solution (I'm surprised more companies have not implemented this) is to provide both environments and give the employee some guidance in terms of where they choose to work. Most knowledge workers will not benefit from the monastic strategy described in this article but almost all will benefit from a bimodal or rhythmic strategy.

If you already have an open plan office this is as easy as telling the employee he/she can work remotely a few days a week as long as they select a quiet space that's free of distractions (so if they have kids running around at home during the day, maybe better to advise them to go to the library instead).

The manager should provide some guidance in terms of how much time the employee spends remotely vs. "on the floor" with everyone else. Graham's maker vs. manager article is great on this topic,engineers often err a little too far in the direction of isolation, managers err too far in the direction of having everyone in the collaborative environment, the solution is a little dialogue.

With very light guidance and very little additional cost to the business you can improve both productivity and morale this way. Our team functions best very far down the deep work end of the spectrum -- we have one day a week where everyone goes into the office or gets on calls and gets aligned. For the rest of the week communication is mostly async and work is mostly remote.
There is a lot of Helium-3 on the moon that could make the trip worth it.
Chuck the weed in a barrel and take it away somewhere to be killed. Apparently a compost pile will kill weeds (and their seeds) if at a hot enough temperature long enough.
> it’s only idiotic in the sense of tools not working with them properly.

It's idiotic because it's annoying for things like tab completion (technically another tooling issue I suppose... but why bother going against the grain for little/no benefit).
I'm not sure I understand.

Can't you do something like PEEK(PEEK(a)) or PEEK(PEEK(a)*256+PEEK(a+1)) ?

I always thought of pointers as indirect addressing mode when I was learning about the 6502.
> If Google has chipped the cats as they say in the article, then an RFID reading station in the owl territory would allow them to identify and eliminate those cats predating on the owls I expect.

That's a good idea. But still probably unacceptable to cat lovers. Maybe there are middle options. Google could build a very large cage, and release non-adopted cats there. Or if that's not feasible, it could declaw and/or defang them. And yes, I know that those are horrible things to do to cats (or anyone, for that matter). But maybe it's better than death.
>Also, the former literally makes money by altering the environment whereas the latter is generally web-based.

Do you think the web is some magical place outside of the environment? Google has more servers running than any other company in the world consuming significant amounts of energy.
Nice! Just the sheer amount of engineering challenges a permanent moon base would bring in gets me excited. Humanity would learn so much from this experience one way or the other.
> Regulations are tools. They’re not inherently good or bad. It depends on how you use them.

It's not just that though. There are good and bad regulations in the sense that the law against murder is good and DMCA 1201 is bad, but there are also compliance costs for any regulation, even good ones.

Economic transactions have a certain amount of surplus. The value of doing something is $100 and the cost of doing it is $20, so we do it and gain $80 worth of surplus.

Compliance costs consume part of the surplus. Maybe it costs $5 more but we gain $10 in positive externalities, so it's worth it from a societal perspective. (But not from the perspective of the parties or we wouldn't need a regulation to get them to do it.)

The problem comes when you start stacking them. $25 is still less than $100. $50 is less than $100. $90 is less than $100. But at $101 people stop participating in the transaction and you lose the whole stack. All the benefits of the transaction, to everyone, including the positive externalities the regulations were intended to provide, are lost.

This is true even if every regulation is individually justifiable. There comes a point when the compliance costs exceed the economic surplus available to cover them. It doesn't matter if the regulations have nothing to do with each other, they can still conspire to destroy the thing they were supposed to be improving.
Because we can. In the 13.72 billion years the universe has existed, we're the only ones who can.
I think beeing in this kind of bubble for to long, automatically generates the perspective that you are the center of attention for the whole universe.

My grandfather had a nanny/servant, who had to do whatever the spoiled brat asked for. The result was a person, who automatically assumes that all other beeings have not meaning or intent and are in dire need of beeing pupeteered.

Its the sort of disgusting human beeing you regularly find to be CEO. Its one of the reasons they are also so fascinated with art- because art can not be created by pupeteering- as they are usually quite unimaginative.
We could fix the current planet instead of rich people escaping to other habitats
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The analogous behaviour would be you being aware of Alexa's flaws and not triggering it accidentally.

While you may have never pocket dialled, plenty of people have. I've received more than a few accidental calls in the past.

I equate this to some phone users placing their devices hanging over the edge of tables - as if they don't care about them hitting the floor. Should phone makers toughen their phones and should Amazon improve Alexa anyway? Sure.
I think as a geek your life changes once you learn being right means nothing outside of your field of expertise.

And being a smartass means nothing outside of your social circle.
We have a 2015 Honda Odyssey Elite (same color scheme) and I can honestly say it is the most usable vehicle we've ever owned. Awesome tech, plenty of space for the kiddos, and an unbelievable amount of storage space. It's a great ride and I'm assuming super reliable because Honda. It's fantastic to see the author gaining some freedom and mobility back with this conversion.
Actually, it's in a much shallower gravity well than Earth is; that plus the airlessness makes it a much better launch platform for interplanetary spacecraft.
> can't please everyone

Absolutely; and pleasing an audience of one (me) isn't a great business move. Thanks for your exceptional effort.

> I like to document the path I took

I think people learn more from this kind of inductive approach.
The links I posted are accurate and informative. Have you actually read them ?
Capitalism demands limitless growth, and ultimately that means leaving the planet. Colonizing the moon is the first major step.
In one case they asked a judge for permission to do just that, but as you cam imagine taking on that responsibility isn't something to do lightly.