skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Executive Branch is going after both the press and the Congress, and the article doesn't convey anyone putting up too much of a fight. Unless I missed something, I only see statements of concern or principle, from 'we'll see if this is bad' to "we're deeply troubled"

> “Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy, and communications between journalists and their sources demand protection,” said Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman.

> Ms. Watkins’s personal lawyer, Mark J. MacDougall, said: “It’s always disconcerting when a journalist’s telephone records are obtained by the Justice Department — through a grand jury subpoena or other legal process. Whether it was really necessary here will depend on the nature of the investigation and the scope of any charges.”

> Ben Smith, the editor in chief of BuzzFeed News, said in a statement, “We’re deeply troubled by what looks like a case of law enforcement interfering with a reporter’s constitutional right to gather information about her own government.”
It is popular with Chinese manufacturers doing "factory tours."

To make an impression of a "serious business," they stuff warehouses with empty boxes. I once was a part of such factory tour where an impressed buyer from a American big box retailer said "wow, there must be at least $10m of stuff there" to giggles of people who were more knowledgeable in the trade.
Not a replacement for Perl no. It was a great sales trick but as we know a sales trick is not about the truth. But thankfully all the crappy code gets written in Python or JS these days.
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It just sounds like a realpolitik explanation that a bill that would cause that level of job loss should have a solution for the affected employees.
Why should deceiving be some kind of desirable conduct ? Either for start-ups or the larger firms they become, trying to squash competition of startups, do away with regulations etc. Of course many will do it and the more you get away with the more edge you have - unless the customers vote with their wallets for a fairer society.
Not sure what the age and gender of the workers has to do with it?!
Are you sure it was so they didn't go to the competitor?
What was the point? They already left his store, surely not being able to go to the competitor the same day won't change anything? They probably appreciated the gesture though.
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The other stores should have given out coolers...
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I have heard of another proverb, which translates to "If you throw peanuts, only monkeys will gather".
I've noticed that most Home Depot employees use a specific question they ask to overcome the fact they don't know anything about their inventory or home improvement.

If you're looking for a specific product, they'll ask this:

"What are you using it for?"

To someone who rarely goes to Home Depot, this may come off as if the employee actually knows something about home improvement and wants to help you by understanding your nuanced situation.

What it really means is that they are clueless, so if you reply with "I'm looking for Jasco paint thinner", they'll either point you to the paint aisle(even though you've probably already been there) or they'll drag you there and fumble around until you find the product before they do. If you're really unlucky, they'll bring you to the wrong aisle or flag down another clueless employee.

Going to Home Depot is an aggravating experience. Every time they ask me what I'm looking for, I get this deer in the headlights expression for even the most basic of things. Unless you're buying lumber, the employees don't seem to understand concepts like "I'm looking for some little pieces of felt or rubber to prevent my cabinets from being loud when they slam."
I love Pascal (C++ less so but we all have our own personal preferences) however if you're targeting the web then you're definitely better off with C#, Java or Go* . You'd get similar language constructs while having a much richer ecosystem to develop in. Which was the point the GP was making with regards to development time verses request throughput. Only with the aforementioned you at least don't sacrifice that much in performance compared with node.

* I know Go gets a lot of hate because of its lack of generics and choice of error handling, but it's worth remembering that for web development you don't run into those particularly annoyances much.
What are you saying here exactly? It seems pretty obvious that buying products by random chance is worse than by competition or an "arms race" in the market. It's precisely a well functioning market that allows the best to rise to the top.
It was a standard practice to have empty boxes shops in the communist block.
The reason was the same, but it was a structural and permanent one.
This article makes arguments that I don't think hold up under full scrutiny.

I think it is argued far better in the below article, including the top comment there:

https://medium.com/@drewfrench/grass-fed-beef-the-most-vegan...

The counter tends to be that there just isn't enough land for this and it's inefficient, but that is addressed clearly in the statements that managed properly with land allowed to go fallow, it is regenerative and therefore mostly still ecologically useful vs the complete destruction of land required for crops.
They used to have experience trade people.

Now--it's who ever wants a crappy job.

The corporation managed to piss off their customer base, and their employees.

They don't have much competition because they killed off the competition years ago, so their sales are respectable.

I used to enjoy browsing the store near my home. Now--I just dread going in.

And they don't have the lowest prices anymore.

It's a shame what some corporations morph into. Would I go in if they were handing out one dollar bills--hell no.

In my store, my picture is taken at the door, around the store, at the checkout, the exit door, and in the parking lot. All in order to buy a screw.

I believe they are trying to control theft. I have a sneaky suspicion most of the theft is internal.

The employee apathy is palatable.
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I work with a codebase that implements a sort of OO inheritance in C. It looks like this:

#define BASE_FIELDS int a; int b; int c;

struct Base {
BASE_FIELDS
};

struct Derived1 {
BASE_FIELDS
int d; int e;
};

struct Derived2 {
BASE_FIELDS
int f; int g;
};

Then, it has lots of code that accesses Derived objects through a `Base*`, with ->a and so on.

Is this against the standard C aliasing rules? If so, how would this need to be rewritten to conform to the standard?
What is the correct percentage of single family zoning in Seattle?
You make the best widget X in the market. Google's widget Y and Microsoft's widget Z are far inferior. You are in your bedroom, holding your newly invented widget X... now what?
> If you consult for any of them you quickly realize there are like 5 people running the entire company

The sad thing is when some clueless manager on a power trip, or just trying to reorganize in the most clueless way, threatens someone vital to operating the company without knowing it. It can escalate quickly as the employee realizes how undervalued they are compared to their contributions, and a small local panic may set in for other people that see the train wreck that's fast approaching and its possible ramifications for them.
Communicate that you are self-taught in grade school and that your work ethic primarily kicks in at home ;).

Perhaps you need to find some different words, but a strong motivation with your application helps miles in getting a job.
I got caught up on that a few times too but GDScript is actually pretty good. I actually enjoy using that more than C#. Great during the quick prototyping phase at least.
Ooh, thanks - I read a bit of the blog but didn't find this one!
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It shows the importance of self-promotion. If you don't self-promote then no one will know that you exist no matter how good or even how significant your project is.

It's easy to forget to self-promote when you're busy doing actual work though.

That was my problem as well because I created a popular open source project and I was focused on driving all the attention towards the project and none to myself. I created a Twitter account for the project, the GitHub repo was under an organization instead of my own personal profile, the blog I made was also named after the project.

The lesson I learned is that people don't care that much about projects and concepts, they need to see faces and names. Even among highly technical developer communities... So imagine how bad it must be in mainstream communities.
You can check the opensource.com blog, articles like this [0] might be helpful.

[0] https://opensource.com/article/18/5/metrics-project-success
I don't know how likely it is, but there's a risk that this could backfire:

> Most people who decide to donate less than the default will probably feel slightly bad for doing so.

If the default amount is too much for me, then my choices are to donate less and feel slightly bad, or not donate at all. It will be pretty tempting to keep my money, rather than give some up and feel guilty anyway. Paradoxically I might even feel less guilty for not donating, because that's a passive act and I can tell myself I'm only postponing the decision, rather than definitively making an ungenerous choice.
Another question is would Linux become what it's become if everyone would really have just forked it?
> The generation tool should know all the ORMs or whatever used by the clients and modify their models. Saying that this is not mainstream is an understatement.

I'm not sure that there would ever need to be any code-generation tool that knows more than one ORM and is, presumably, bundled with that ORM.

Now, if you're saying that they don't actually exist, currently, for anything other than jOOQ (which is being promoted in the article), I don't doubt that.

However, given something like ActiveRecord's schema discovery functionality, maybe that's good enough when combined with slightly more manual intervention. Other ORMs may be better or worse, of course.
No, that's not a good question, it's political pandering to special interests. It's wrong in it's superficial representation and it's done for very wrong reasons.

A significant reduction in overhead would free significant funds into the hands of the consumers, who would employ them to improve their lives, generating economic growth and demand in other economic areas that would pick up the slack. Granted, it's not comfortable for the workers made redundant, hence the tendency to band together as a special interest group and put political pressure to keep things inefficient (that's all assuming single payer is indeed an efficiency improvement, an entirely separate discussion).
Fake signalling is what's always been present in communications. Deception, bluff, camoflage, and distraaction are all highlydeeveloped even aamongst animals. It is scale and rate especially which are changed now, and the ability to entirely bypass trust or trust-development.
My country is what it is, a place where that demographic of old and female does not have much technical knowledge because society has traditionally discouraged it. So when you see a store with aisles full of tools and building materials overwhelmingly hiring that demographic -- and workers who are indeed unable to help customers much -- it does seem strange and one wonders at the reasons that the company's management has in mind. Are wages so low that only this demographic would accept them? Is it merely an anti-shrink measure? Are profit margins higher on the products (e.g. gardening) that they do know much about?
I've been working in a financial company for the past six months and honestly there's more bullshit than real work. I'm now convinced that the entire finance world is the biggest scam of all time, but that's another matter really.

There are entire levels of people whose only real purpose seems to be putting together PowerPoint presentations for other people. Literally producing entertainment for others who spends most of their time consuming that entertainment.

I'm glad other people have observed this too. It makes me feel more sane. I hope to be back in a small tech company soon.
I think they rely (more) on radar now since the "I can't see a white truck" incident. The camera is useless if the sun is shining against it, the radar will still work but be useless for stationary objects. I have no idea how Tesla intends to solve this "small" issue.
After that they did exactly that, they included multi-factor authentication when it was previously unavailable. The MFA available in 2018 is dramatically better than it was in 2014, when I believe all that occurred.

Companies that don't protect unsophisticated users from simple mistakes or inaccurate mental models will get a reputation for being insecure and lose sales. This is regardless of whether the user "should have known better."
Control your iPhone with your eyes
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> Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-)

About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income)

So Apple almost certainly could afford to buy the company, but they'd need a business case for doing so, weighing that option against all the OTHER nice things they might want to spend $200 million on.
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Implementing chatbots using state pattern
Did your programs take input? If you had studied parsing theory, you would know that "strings" do not mean ASCII/Unicode text strings, they mean sequences of symbols from a set. All communication protocols, any kind of input, can be described in terms of grammars, and that is important:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
Not really. The boundaries of type theory (say HoTT) are exactly what is possible on a Turing machine (computable). And a step beyond those throws ZFC itself into paradoxes (say Russel's). Moreover ZFC is directly expressible in type theory https://hott.github.io/book/nightly/hott-online-1174-g29279f...
This really isn't that surprising. If, by reporting you are directly involved in a crime - you're gonna have a bad time. We can argue all day about whether information should be classified, but the fact remains that disclosing classified information is illegal in the US. Had the reporter engaged in murder or theft while reporting, would there be any outrage? I admit it's a bit odd, because it isn't a crime for the reporter -- but they are definitely involved in the commission of a crime.
I completely agree. I didn't know about how Discourse was started, but would be interested to learn more. Do you have an article or writeup to recommend to learn more?
Sure, in the US now codes make this and so many other things impossible.

But if it's just the problem of connecting various kinds of pre-built conduit in lego-like walls, yes it would be a hard problem but it seems solvable in itself. Especially, you don't to have just fixed pieces. rather you can have pieces whose routining "logic" is adjustable after that fact (switch the flow of pipes from an internal panel of the wall). And you could have an app for verifying a given arrangement could work, before you ordered your "lego" set.
I do. My favorite part about coding is always dealing with the domain, algorithms, and design parts. And C# lets me code quickly so I can focus on the fun bits.
These are minimum wage employees that would only really know the major categories at best. What are you expecting? If you already know what you're looking then why bother with them at all?
I really wish XKCD would've gone back 400,000 years instead of only 20,000 for that strip. CO2 and temperature have been higher during the longer time frame, and it would be valuable for someone to explain the bigger picture adequately.
And nobody gamed it by visiting the competitors first...?
I've started using React-static on netlify. Works well, and will auto deploy on commit to GitHub.
What sorts of bugs did you encounter? (Not looking for full bug reports, just a flavor...) I've only toyed with each of them so far so I haven't really found all the gotchas but Godot's the only one I want to spend more time with. It also seemed to fit my mental model of how I want to build a game better than Unity did. But as I said, I just toyed with them, so I'm interested in hearing critical feedback.
A history lessons:

Once there were only 4 original SEZs in China, Shenzhen was the one with the least of official blessing.

Back in days, Shantou was the official favourite of the government, so all of China's money was poured into it.

But the party officials made huge, grave and extremely banal mistake: they thought they will suddenly institute growth where there is none just by issuing official edicts. People who used to the idea of getting anything from others with a simple "I want," were shocked, and felt disbelief when they saw for the first time that building "that market economy thing" was completely outside their capability. It showed them how inept they, the elite class, were.

Shantou was full of "5 star hotels" and first shopping malls in China, and Shenzhen was full of factory dorms and omnipresent smell of unwashed socks. You know, there rest is history. Where is Shantou now, and where is Shenzen?

Now, we live in Shenzhen where not only the empty hotels and shopping malls being constructed in droves, but also there are 10 empty investment funds for each remaining manufacturing company.

It appears that nor the government, nor the industry has learned this lesson.

Make your conclusions.
> It is just a matter of tool maturity.

Err.. today's remote debugging is strongly based on the premises of the issues being isolated to some degree: broken app will not hit the network stack over which you run you remote session, misbehaving network stack doesn't impact serial communication, so using gdbserver is still possible (but already significantly harder), etc.

Will it be the same with unikernels?
Never heard of any bias towards phone. If anything, people prefer email as it leaves a trail.
I would be very interested to hear more about your experience with Indie.vc. Especially a summary of the pros and cons that you've seen, pitfalls to avoid, etc. Have you by any chance published a writeup on the subject? If not, I'll be the first to read it, and to thank you for it!
Here's a related article that circulated in finnish media a few days ago: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_researchers_use_a...

This is about the apparent work of a Finnish researcher to come up with a scalable way to produce fuel from air such that it can be done locally. Think gas stations producing their own gas. Right now this would be relatively expensive because of energy cost but as those drop and the technology is improved, that cost can go down.

Stuff like this not surprising for anyone that has followed news around renewables lately and a very cool side effect of the fact that renewable energy prices have been dropping exponentially for quite some time now combined with the fact that the cost of lots interesting chemical processes are primarily driven by how much energy is required. As energy becomes cheaper, those chemical processes become more feasible and the demand for more energy causes people to invest in making that cheaper further. The same economic dynamic that is causing us to destroy our planet is also producing the solutions for saving it.

For example, producing clean water is a trivial process if you have cheap energy. This is why desalination plants are popping up in lots of places where clean water is scarce and they tend to be paired with wind/solar plants. You can also produce fuels out of water and the resulting fuels, whether it is hydrogen or hydrogen peroxide, are useful ways of storing energy.

Oil is a scarce resource that is hard to procure and therefore relatively expensive. If there's an energy intensive way to produce oil from CO2, that's great news because that means it's just a matter of time before the price of that energy drops enough to make that worthwhile.

Things like this can go from being too expensive to only slightly more expensive to being magnitudes cheaper in the near future.

What I love about this is that climate change can be countered with simple economics rather than idealism. Once we stop pumping new co2 in the atmosphere for cost reasons because we found a more cost effective way to just suck it from the atmosphere, nature will do it's thing and help us revert the effects of the past centuries. We don't actually need to actively clean up the atmosphere, our planet is fully capable of doing that by itself given enough time.

Also worth pointing out that oil is used for more than just fuel. So, stuff like this is relevant even if we switch to electric vehicles. We still need to produce plastics and other materials. All of that can in principle be done with co2 harvested straight from the air as well.
Wellfare dependency bas negative, debilitating effects that can last generations once it take hold. Just like poverty.
there are two ROI points, one ecological/energy wise and the other economical. the former has been roundabout 1.5 years of production a decade ago. I assume this has gotten better through more efficient production. the latter depends very much on the price of electricity. but since the kWh production price for photovoltaics recently fell below that of coal shows that solar totally makes sense.
Did it factor currency value too? An average Indian has a salary of 400$ or lesser, with which he pulls off a family of 4.
Leaving Apple and Google: full eelo status M-3 before release
Both nudity and violence have their respective filter in the store preferences and one can also blacklist tags and individual products.
ISO 8613-6 uses colons. Admittedly it's a less supported standard.

Sadly handling terminal escape codes is one of those impossibly painful jobs. Heck, often even the terminals don't seem to support the escape codes they have documented or the documentation is so poor that you're basically left with trial and error (or a shit load of hex dumps to trawl through if you're lucky). eg I've wasted hours trying to get Kitty specific escape codes working on that terminal emulator before giving up.

I'm investing a lot of effort at the moment learning escape codes because I'm writing a new $SHELL which is designed to have rich media support even in $TERM's which don't support rich content. But I do still have support to convert the $SHELL back into a black and white console (I even have an option to strip colour from the STDOUT (even when pipelined) of all processes negating the need for your sed command. However that feature hasn't yet been committed back to the master branch.
Incorporating Google’s AI Principles into Google Cloud
I know some people who have worked there. They report having their schedule continuously janked around and being moved departments often. Hardly conducive to becoming knowledgeable about any one department. Apparently some of the older (seniority, not age) full-timers are allowed to stay in their departments permanently.

I'm guessing which of the two you get will have a big effect on your experience as a customer.
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