skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also another sound that macs would make, in case the initial diagnostic tests came back negative, to go with the "Sad Mac" screen. My favorite is still the NuBus Power Mac one (car crash sound).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwmtvrdJlQ
A problem is that before you have a webapp at the level of Excel without any customization, we're talking developer years of effort. Webapp frameworks are for trivial frontends, they make the equivalent of slide handouts.

(so "budget appropriately" means developer years for simple apps with equivalent functionality to basic excel sheets. It is not reasonable to expect this to happen)

In 2009 or so everybody decided that webapps don't even need a data table component at all, and I have yet to find such a component that has the features of Delphi 1.0's datagrid (sorting by row, dynamic rows, built in search, accessible, ...)

GWT is the only thing that even came close, even made an attempt (and tolerable means, the third iteration - cell tables). It's the only thing that I ever found tolerable for developing business web apps.

This means that anything built after that point that has a web UI has subpar data presentation to a windows 3.1 app. And it shows. Handling nontrivial amounts of data in a webapp ... well compare Google Sheets with Excel, and it's obvious even there. Sadly Google Sheets probably has hundreds of developer-years in it at least, maybe thousands, and that's what it requires to get a webapp to that point.
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I am not a bitcoin maximalist. But Bitcoin is a new kind of money that no one can take from you. Better than gold, cash or anything that came before in certain circumstances.

That said other tokens have similar characteristics..
Ah that's pretty encouraging. I see an $809 model right now from 2015 with 8GB/128GB which is all I need for my current day-to-day.

I'm not even sure how iOS development works yet, but you think the <2 GHz processor is fine with the whole toolset? Any complaints at all? Like any CPU intensive aspects that get bogged down
> Are you now claiming to be the ultimate authority on academics and their interactions with 'paidleaf?

No?

I said 'I'm not sure I believe you' - that only makes a statement about what I believe about this interaction. It doesn't claim anything about ultimate authority at all.
> the most common situation is the manager is a shitty person

You don’t know nearly enough about the situation to say this. Most managers are not shitty people.
I learnt that having a kid would not be the end of my freedom, but rather the end of procrastination: changed jobs, bought a home and I can't count how many great and little things I eventually dared and took time to do.
What article did you read? The word "colonializing", doesn't appear in this article at all.
Conducting Meetups and workshops.

Recently I started giving talks by organizing meetups and workshops. Mostly teaching and spreading awareness about open source software like Blender, Krita and others. It has so much positive impact on me and the people attending the workshop as well. I became confident in public speaking. Got deeper understanding of things which am teaching. Able to meet and connect with lot of amazing folks.
The article talks about how the talented painter Frida Kahlo is understood by many as simply an exotic snack, and finished with the extreme example about how someone is declared to be dressed as Kahlo by the single feature of having a unibrow.

A comparable example would be an article about the hollow understanding of the 1960 hacker culture finishing with a story about how someone was declared to be dressed as Stallman because they held a printed email.
Exactly my thoughts. If this to be done during normal work hours when this person would normally be in the office and working (almost certainly the case), then the manager would definitely need to approve this, especially since there is usually a cost associated with attending. If the employee is willing to pay themselves, that still leaves the issue of that time being utilized for non-approved activity during work hours. If the employee decides to take that day off and use their personal time they can certainly attend on their own dime, but the employer can still stipulate that they are explicitly not to represent the company at that event and not introduce themselves as an employee of the company. I don't know what the employer's reasons would be for this, but if that was their desire they are certainly allowed to choose who represents them and when.
> We have loops much bigger than this with much more complex magnetics and vacuum components in our particle accelerators, so this wouldn’t be terrifyingly novel tech

Last cost estimate I saw for a reasonably-sized slingshot was $10 billion, which is in the neighbourhood of the LHC's €7.5 billion accelerator + accoutrements cost [1].

Some of the skepticism in this thread, particularly regarding the technology's core viability, is premature. But economic scepticism is warranted. I would be skeptical of a space elevator project without mass-manufactured carbon fibre; I am skeptical of a slingshot proposal without cheap superconductors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Cost
> As in, OP feels going to the conference is a must, "a given", a "constitutional right", and that the manager "wronged" him by not letting him go.

Well, free assembly and association are in fact corrolary to "free speech."

If an employee wants to go speak at a conference and the manager says, "Don't" then one of two things are happening:

0. The employer is abusive and undeserving.

1. The manager is attempting to take credit for the employee's work and should be called out.

There really aren't other scenarios; there's no valid reason to attempt to sabotage someone's career arc.

> OP focuses on himself, on what he wants. There is no mention in the question of what the manager wants. It screams "me me me"

Well evidently the manager in question isn't going to help the OP with their career, so someone's gotta do that. When a company aligns its interests with the career growth of their employees, then its a win-win. If it's pitched as an adversarial relationship, then there will be a winner and a loser. I cannot imagine why a good manager or intelligently run company would encourage such an adversarial relationship; it'll cause massive turnover.
postgrsql's future is pretty safe, whereas MariaDB/MySQL was pretty worrying for a while.

pgsql is closer to the (SQL) standard and has a rock-solid track record.

However, given the size of your project, you might want to test both in "real" conditions, see which ones work correctly. You should perhaps even call for a contractor.
I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome and I find that a good Sativa will really help with it and calm my stomach, Indica not so much.

Some times when I want to work on something I find my self depressed and apathetic. A nice bowl of Girl Scout Cookies will fix that, once I'm started I will be less critical of myself and more pleased with my progress, allowing me to get into it and enjoy my work. If I have something more Indica I will just sit and watch tv :(

I feel it increases my creativity while stoned, but when I look at the work sober its not as good as my sober standard. I have anxiety problems it doesn't help with that.
Gitlab CEO Interview on Coder Radio
How to Optimize Performance of MongoDB
In some places, the budget for the police or the prosecutors office is made up of civil forfeiture proceeds.[0,1] A budget should never, ever be made up in part or in totem of the proceeds from civil or criminal fines and forfeitures. Ever.

0. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
1. http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/28/new-york-prosecutors-gave-...
Do we know any details about what specific trade secrets were “stolen”?

This is legitimately scary to me. If I change jobs how do I know what the line is between applying past experience and copying trade secrets?
Yeah, Notes/Domino got a bad rap for a lot of stuff, like the cruddy 90s UI that never got updated, but it was quite powerful for what it was.

A couple of things in particular were really good - reliable replication (which meant your workers could work offline and sync back later) and the document based store.

Fast forward 20 years from Domino 3, and you'll notice that the document based store model is still around in the form of CouchDB (spiritual successor to Domino?) and other products like MongoDB.
Quick Base has been running its no code platform for almost 2 decades and does not tie you to an information or vendor silo - happy to integrate with many cloud and data integrations.
How to Transform Your Web App into a Mobile App in a Week
Wow. Cells are machines made of molecules. Saying we shouldn't study molecular biology is like saying that it's a waste of time for electrical engineers to understand transistors.

I think he's misunderstood reductionism too. Reductionism isn't about saying "only the lowest level detail matters", it's saying "the lowest level detail explains the higher levels".
Tired of having the services and products you like deprecated and abandoned? Now you can build your own services on a platform that will end up deprecated and abandoned!
Anyone who believes UBI will allow them to maintain that quality of life fundamentally misunderstands its purpose and possible scope. UBI just decouples employment from social welfare, people who want a big house and two cars would still have to work for it.
> That's a pretty adverserial approach. Why not understand the manager's motivation and then work with him/her?

That we are here suggests a critical disconnect with the manager already, so that's already failed.
Letting go.

There are things that you really want and things that you think you want. The more you focus on the latter, the less likely it is that the things you really want and need, come to you.

But after I could let go of arbitrary wishes and ideas, the things I needed came easily.

Secondly, even in moments of intense emotional stress(like death of a close one) - never "don't give a f*". You still breath as natural as possible, you still try to find to keep your center, your equilibrium. Not also in those moments, but especially in those moments.
Wow, I feel for you man. That's crazy. You should do a write up on the process. Maybe submit it to a paper, local or otherwise?
Cars, as great as they are, did disrupt and significantly negatively impact cities. They remain incredibly dangerous and kill and injure shockingly large amounts of people every year.

The widespread adoption of automobile technology without much thought in the 20th century should be a cautionary lesson for tech enthusiasts.
Netflix doesn't allow crew members to look at each other for more than 5 seconds
It is a bet. They need to prove that they are there to play the game like the rest of the competitors. If they fail for many different reasons a small budget increase is not a big deal. They are ready to pay the fines.
> Once released, it drags a cable, carefully laid out at an angle, with the payload attached

Unless your cable were elastic, this would not materially change the payload's acceleration. That said, you might find skyhooks [1][2] interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_%28structure%29

[2] http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Skyhooks
This seems a rather trite and self-serving take. 'Loaded down with features'? It seems the conclusion is there was exactly one problem, change the angle of structural members for aesthetic reasons without adequate structural analysis.
Is there a reason you can't output rambda functions to your methods object?
Why is Crystal popping up so much on HN and why do all these comments read like advertisements
Best part is, it doesn't even have to be something new or innovative. Even spending time creating a really excellent meal is rewarding.
True, nothing is technically unlimited, except sarcasm perhaps, but with Comcast they make money by limiting it. When it's sold to you it's sold with the idea that you have all this bandwidth and can use it, but in reality there is a cap, and they will use that cap to gouge and make money. I don't believe the cap is for data management, but rather profit. It would help if they would just be honest about it. Again, it's like baggage fees: They don't reduce bags or weight or anything for the plane, they don't really help conserve all that much fuel, but boy do they add to the airlines bottom line. It should be: "We charge baggage fees because we can, and you'll pay." Let's stop pretending these corporations give 2 cents about us, our experience, or our business.
I think Maps.Me did something in that direction - but well, the quality of the underlying data varies wildly. Google can (and IMHO does) periodically pay for licensing the transport data, OSM doesn't do that (for cost and license compatibility, amongst other things). Not all PT authorities are amenable to open data :(
I'd worry a bit about the 128GB SSD if you are getting this for iOS development. My Mac is at home (so I can't check) but the current version of xCode + iOS simulators/dev tools is in the tens of GBs (40 or so GB, IIRC).

I honestly think macOS + xCode + Office is really close to 128GB by itself, but I am going from memory here.
Right, but you can use the system webview that way... so why not also use the V8 engine embedded inside the system webview?
> Hypothesis: Today's dads behave more like kids, compared to previous generations.

> I mean, 40 year olds dress like teenagers (sneakers, t-shirt, jeans, sometimes a cap), they often have the same hobbies as teenagers (e.g. video gaming)...

I'm with you to this point. The 'adult' father figures of the past - for example, as exaggerated in the character of George Banks from Mary Poppins - were much more austere and had higher societal requirements regarding acceptable activities and behaviors. If that means that they are involved in the lives of their children rather than simply trusting that the nanny has them scrubbed, tubbed, and adequately fed, so much the better!

As Mr. Banks lamented,

You've got to grind, grind, grind
At that grindstone
Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve
And all too soon they've up and grown
And then they've flown
And it's too late for you to give
Just that spoonful of sugar
To help the medicine go down

Mr. Banks was a miserable person, and his children needed a father figure. If today's dads are more like Bert and less like Mr. Banks, good for them!

> and responsibility is low because there is a high level of social security.

Uh, I took a different track than you did. You seem to be of the opinion that fathers being more involved is due to the fact that they are kids. I believe that they choose instead to decline the negative aspects of traditional masculinity and, in so doing, are better than if they had maintained those aspects. This may mean that they wear comfortable clothes rather than suffering in a suit and tie, or that they are more active (their children may see their fathers doing undignified activities like running when they could be walking), or that they change their kids' diapers or feed them rather than leaving those tasks to the womenfolk. All positive changes, in my opinion!

People shouldn't need a fear of death by starvation to motivate them. If a removal of this fear allows them to be better people, that's a good thing. If some people abuse the safety net, things would not be better if it were absent and they simply crashed.
>Why is Crystal popping up so much on HN

1) Because HN is a social news website, so when someone reads a post about a subject, others are reminded of it, and can post in return. This happens with all popular topics, they come in batches.

2) Because Crystal is getting more popular (e.g. it jumped TIOBE rank for what it's worth), and more people like to read and hence vote such articles.

3) There's a huge conspiracy, with marketing shills and aliens, for an OSS language.

4) More than Go or Rust or React or Ruby back in the day?

Take your pick
Designing socks with code
Node.js:  Even Its Creator Thinks Its Flawed
I have the Acura version. Adaptive cruise control is great if there is no traffic. If there is traffic, the 4 car buffer it wants to maintain will just lead to cars always weaving in, causing lots of crazy speed changes.
Unlocking intersection types with `var` in Java 10
wget?
Here’s What I Know About Firebase
Yeah Cyberpunk 2077 has a je-ne-sais-quoi that reminds me of "Ready player one". The 80's are there.
It does seem genuine...but the fear of another SCO-like submarine lingers.
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>> The moment that they need to scale, they become a liability, like...

Yeah, but this is true of just about any home-grown solution, whether they are "low code" or not. There are surely a lot of VB and PHP ("high code"?) applications that were quickly thrown together to solve what was at the beginning a small problem.

The reason they're not best practices is usually because there's no IT support or money to build it, so someone (often self-learned) finds a way to build it themselves. You can complain about having to rewrite it once it became a mission-critical app, but more often than not, that app would have never been written by a seasoned developer because the original user(s) of the tool couldn't justify the resources to build it at the time.
Right, that's why the best abstractions are built on solid tools, and if needed, give you access to that lower level foundation.

If I can do 95% of my work using the super simple UI, and then for that last 5%, I can go in and hack my way with some code, I'm much happier than having to write 100% of the code with code.

Of course, if that last 5% is impossible to achieve at all, then yes, you're definitely not going to be happy and that 95% will have been a total waste.
Yes, let's go back to the era when you had to have a dozen kids because half of them would be dead before they hit adulthood.
A Gentle Introduction to Elixir
Well it's not a feature for me. Not sure how allowing vendors to install apps onto iOS without the app store (and having a few warning popups) has anything to do with OS fragmentation on Android. Isn't it an interesting coincidence how those 'draconian measures' you mention that are so great have a side effect of being really, really good for Apples business.
Please help out to make sure this directive proposal is voted against next week by the majority of the JURI committee. List of handles of reportedly yet undecided MEPs:

@Emil_Radev @1PavelSvoboda @KaufmannSylvia @enricogasbarra @mady_delvaux @FrancisZD @TadeuszZwiefka @marinhoepinto

(source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfrJ6kpWAAEifEL.jpg)

Full list of Legal Affairs (JURI) committee members that will cast a vote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8q1mfc/on_the_eu_co...

MEP @Senficon is leading the charge against this on Twitter with some sensible alternatives proposed.

A good takedown of this proposal that gets into details:

https://www.communia-association.org/2018/05/22/council-parl...

This reddit thread is also a great resource:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8q1mfc/on_the_eu_co...
Vue Passes React's Star Count on GitHub
Happens on the desktop too. It's impossible to respond or follow up to anything on there. You'll get notified of unrelated comments, you're not able to respond to a specific person, everything is just in one parent thread. I've since blocked comments from even displaying.
Native or Cross Platform mobile app?
But what chance do you think there is to actually have a real conversation with someone over social media (or even text)? Most of the time seems to be spent on making the wrong assumptions about what you think someone means or just straight up disagreement over the pillars of an issue.
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> images were locked away from the public as they would have revealed the superior technology of the USA’s spy satellite cameras

Whenever I read about 50-year-old government secrets being revealed, I wonder about all the things happening today we're not being told about -- that we'll learn about 50 years from today.

Looking at the Earthrise image, as another commenter pointed out, they didn't simply degrade the image, but they deliberately added vertical lines with differing brightness and gain, so it would appear that the film scanners on the Lunar Orbiter could scan only at a very low resolution.

To use an analogy: Suppose you request a secret document from the government under the Freedom of Information Act. They decide to give it to you, but they redact 99% of the material with black markers. Oh, but they also retype the entire document, without the blacked-out portions, so you think you received the whole thing. They even add staples, 3-hole punches, coffee cup stains, and creases to the paper before photocopying it. You get 1% of material, but you are convinced that you got the complete unaltered original.
>What seperates ideas from viewpoints essentially?

I used the first to refer to general abstract theories (marxism etc) and the second to refer to more concrete ways of viewing the world that people share / adopt etc.

In the 60s for example there were several abstract theories about this and that, but also a shared viewpoint about the need of change, revolution, etc
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I’m sure Tesla has a noxious arbitration clause that makes litigation difficult.

It does[1]. You can opt-out, but only in the first 30 days after making the order, so if you haven't, you're locked into it when the problem arises.

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/agreement-to-arbitra...
> I have a similar design philosophy that honesty is more aesthetically pleasing than deception

Isn't this the core principle of Brutalism? As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
MIR-based borrow check (NLL) status update
I've learned that the housing crisis is really just a wealth inequality crisis. Basically every city in America now thinks it has a housing crisis. Big. Small. Cheap. Expensive. Seriously, talk to people in every city and state and they all think their city has its own special housing crisis.

I think as long as there are people with deep pockets, anywhere desirable will be expensive regardless of supply. Like when dieting, "you can't out exercise the fork", you can't out build the wealthy and multi property investors.

The housing crisis is a wealth inequality problem. Trying to build out of it destroys the character of cities and their access to nature and for what? To appease the always too deep pockets of people buying up multiple houses...
> a lot of apps nowadays are essentially just forms to send data to a backend

That was true 30 years ago, when VB was popular, too. Heck, that was true 50 years ago, when CICS was popular. "Forms to send data to a backend" is deceptively complex.
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TechTalk: Google Production
This may be true, but it was removed from Apple hardware as part of the macOS Sierra update.
>>Adaptive cruise control I mostly trust. It keeps a set distance behind a car,

Sounds like you are also trusting that car. Would this system follow a car into a dangerous situation? I ran into this sometimes while riding sportbikes. Some car would be following us on a strait, a passing lane, but come the first turn it was way out of its league. I saw more than a couple sliding sideways in my mirror.

This doesn't have to involve speeding. On a mountain highway (BC) fast straits often end in very tight corners. The speed limit doesn't change. Braking, merging and cornering all have to happen simultaneously. Leading bikes in a group will sometimes even accelerate into corners to create space for those behind to maneuver. Any car setting its speed according to the bikes ahead of it is in for a nasty surprise.
Swift vs. Kotlin – the differences in memory management
How so? The biggest online game are running on AWS and I'm sure they're doing fine. ( Fortnite, Overwatch ect ... )