skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admittedly live somewhere that theft is unlikely to be an issue, but I now only get slips on the rare multi-thousand dollar item (plus the equally rare WTF "why do I have to sign for this?"). It used to be fairly common at the same location.
Right, but when is using procedural sedation on unconsenting suspects acceptable?
Theranos's first funding was in 2004, it had already raised $90M at $1B valuation in 2010, and started filling its board with defense bigwigs in 2011.

What media wave had happened at that point? From what I've seen, serious media coverage appeared in 2013, when they left "stealth mode" with the promise of the droplet testing, almost a decade after the initial investment.
Huh??? What was the Michelson-Morley result then?
I do not think we had something similar prior to React Native.

I programmed MFC, Delphi, YACL (if folks remember..), wxWidgets, Borland OWL, Dojo toolkits.

There was never a concept of State-as-first-class citizen for UIs.

And there as never a cohesive multi-screen layout engine story, like we have now with flexbox (via RN and RNW).

So in my view, the data binding via explicit state-management paradigm that React introduced -- will survive for decades, and will be copied to other programming environments.

Same, probably for flexbox as a layout management model...

Although, there, I wish that it would be more 'typefull' where various incompatible layouts could be flagged as errors or warnings at compile time.

Perhaps (and may be this is is far fetched) with the advancements in practical category theory, compute power (including at compile time) -- we should be able to do 'shape' management as algebraic concepts -- where layout engines, should be able to treat layout definitions as composeable, multi-variable functions.

WRT javascript vs C#, I was just noting, that, in my view C# is just a much better language, and I wish it would have been a de-facto web-standard and not javascript.
This way something like React, would not have been conceived in javascript.
This is not nastiness like pure fluorine or hydrofluoric acid, but a salt. It may be somewhat toxic, but it does not require extraordinary handling precautions.
Hi guitarbill, the article is intended to point out how to review the original code. I figured out a bad code written by anyone else and I tried to make it better.

About the lambdas you are right, they’re good just if you have trivial functions, like in other languages. If you need more “power” just use normal functions.

PS: if I mispelled “inspect” or anything else... sorry, I’m not a native speaker, I wish I could speak and write better but the truth is that my English sucks... :(
I had a crack at fixing this. Could you try my make_portable.sh script on one of your Crystal binaries?

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/3067#issuecom...
The maximum number of face turns needed is 20, and the maximum number of quarter turns is 26.
> I'd like to see Physics, finding itself at a halt, go and start to study all the Mathematics it's been putting off.

And that kind of approach is exactly what Sabine Hossenfelder in the article criticizes, I my opinion significantly unfairly. The critics (she is surely not the only one) exactly complain that, for example, the "string theory" is more math than physics because it can't be "immediately verified" or they complain that the most of the experiments are "not confirming" the most obvious variants of the expected results of the new theory candidates. But the science shouldn't be reduced to the short-term goals and only to the processes which are "guaranteed to work." That's exactly when we won't see further from our noses.

And if the critics say that the "alternative theories" don't get enough funding, I posit that the average "alternative theories" are typically even more conservative than what is widely accepted physics (by the virtue of the accepted physics being already "unintuitive" enough and having the steeper learning curve than practically all "alternatives" are ready to accept).

We should all appreciate that one the most impressive achievements of the 20th century physics, the General Theory of Relativity has its fundamental support in the famous Michelson-Morley experiments which also didn't confirm the expectations of the 19th century physicists.

So we have to achieve enough experimental results against some approaches, and more than that, with enough precision, to even have the chance of finding out the new rules, if the new rules in the form that we're used to find them even could be found. We must be open to the experiments, and be happy even when the "most hoped" results don't happen.

On another side, when Sabine Hossenfelder is more precise and when she addresses some specific aspects, I can surely agree with some of her statements, for example:

"The criticism of heliocentrism based on the argument that the absence of observable
parallax implied the stars had to be “unnaturally” far away was wrong for exactly
this reason: They had no probability distribution but erroneously postulated one by
assuming that the stars should be likely to have similar distances to the planets as the
planets have among each other. We now understand the distribution of stars and their
typical distances comes about dynamically during structure formation and that there
is nothing “unnatural” about the distance of our Sun to the other suns."

Her criticism, however, is that currently physicists are "looking for the lost keys under the street lamp" because "in the dark they can't see them." But even if it sounds funny or misguided, it is true that in the dark not much could be seen, and before we actually check the already properly lit areas we can't expect more from looking into the dark where we really see too little. Investing in the flashlights can be reasonable, but also only once the lit areas are actually checked.

And we should also not forget that the current physics already enlightened immense parts of the universe. The "dark areas" were never so amazingly small as they are now.
How's that even possible ?
Haha, two of those principles are literally "Earn Trust" and "Insist on the Highest Standards", neither of which is happening here.
What did Mac OS build off of? Would that be possible without OSS? Same for the large web services. How far would any of those companies have gotten without open source?

No one is arguing that unfunded projects will kick the ass of funded ones. However, innovation that can be shared will produce more innovation.
Flutter looks interesting. As a React/React Native dev, I found this doc page particularly useful and enlightening:

https://flutter.io/flutter-for-react-native/
I'm not sure why you'd mention it otherwise.

We were considering moving the documentation to GitHub so people were more likely to contribute. There is a function viewer and many of the functions are documented in the source. The autogeneration was abandoned before it was set up because the program does what it was built to do.

Part of it is you need to have some idea what you want to do with the program before you start. Most of the tutorials exist on villavu.com's forums with the goal of automating gameplay.
This code can look a lot better by replacing the compute function with this:

https://pastebin.com/fMtc8Git
You forgot to mention putting duct tape over all the unbearably bright LEDs designers insist on putting on anything electronic these days.

Now I need to figure out how to stop my refrigerator from sometimes making a whining noise all night...
> Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law?

That's the very first sentence...
>> We actually started fixing this by switching to sodium bulbs, which was better for humans too, but now with the push to LED, we're undoing the fix that we did, again hurting both the wildlife and ourselves in the process.

What's the tradeoff on electricity use, though?
I second this, Office has become less and less usable over the years. They keep hiding features and menu items that I use and constantly move around what is not hidden.

Libreoffice is a breath of fresh air for me to use.

The only thing they have improved in the newer office is the intruduction of 64 bit excel so I can do large (100x100+) matrix operations without external plugins.
If there was a 10x larger market for shipping then UPS and its competitors would have already taken it.

Some things actually are zero sum games. And we are a lot closer to that now than 50 years ago when there was so much more room for growth.
What happens if you tell them you quit effective immediately and stop coming in?
Firefox needs to get in the game and throw chrome an elbow, i'm tired of google dominating every field.
>> While I agree with you about the inconvenience of most residential shipping services, I think people not interacting directly with the industry tend to forget how absolutely huge the business-to-business market still is for UPS. I expect the margins are quite a bit larger for them there as well.

Definitely. The consumer side is less relevant compared to the business side.

We spend tons of money on UPS' insurance products that they must kill us on, but we have no choice, as we send $10k+ packages regularly. USPS' insurance is a complete joke but UPS/FedEx honor theirs pretty regularly, even if there are some hoops to jump.
Unfortunately one major flaw of the patent system is that you don't have to produce a working prototype to get a patent.

The United States had a working requirement only between 1832
and 1836, and only for foreigners.

So for the most part, if you can think it, you can patent it.
There are examples. For instance, both Linux (Linus Torvalds) and Python (Guido Rossum) have been steered by original contributors who changed employers several times, always still retaining their role as primary developer/coordinator for that open source project. Not saying it's the majority, but Linux and Python are two pretty important examples.
I probably would have agreed with you in the past, but not anymore. Here's why:

I was having coffee with a friend today and he mentioned he was thinking about opening a facebook account – here's the kicker: the reason he wanted to get a FB account was the news feed; he wanted to be able to subscribe to people's pages and get updates when they post something new.

I mentioned RSS; he was flabbergasted. He didn't know such a thing exists. I came home and investigated – the option to "subscribe to page" when the page has an RSS feed is gone from Firefox, or at least I couldn't find it.
https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver ?
I never cracked disk protections, but I did sometimes reverse engineer games to figure cheat codes, etc. One EA game I looked at was the Will Harvey's Zany Golf for the Amiga. I had read somewhere that there was a secret level (the mad scientist? Or maybe that was the last public level). I got reasonably good at it, but not good enough to unlock the level.

I disassembled it, etc. It did not make any sense to me. With other games it was easier to find where in memory they kept game state. I ran out of tricks. I was young and not too experienced. Eventually I figured that it was not really written in 68k code. It was using some kind of interpreter. I hadn't read many books or studied CS at the time, so I didn't know that I was looking at a VM. Register A2 or A3 pointed to the current opcode. There was a jump table and each opcode handler ended with a jump to the dispatcher. I don't believe the opcodes were 6502 instructions or I would have recognised them. It would have been a reasonable candidate, since the original was written for the Apple //gs.

I still never got to the secret level. I either gave up or damaged the disk.
>By that time, hotels will be more expensive than if reserved in advance.

Hotel rooms are “perishable goods”. Generally prices will be lower than farther out but value will be lower than if you bought earlier. It’s like milk, grocery store can’t sell spoiled milk so yes the milk that’s about to turn you can get at a discount but it’ll be less value per dollar.
I'm not sure if there's a way to completely remove it, but you can make it use a faster, and different (fade instead of slide), animation.

System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce Motion
As a matter of fact, it is normal for patent examiners to not even read the invention specification and focus only on the claims.

I was surprised to learn that from a patent attorney, but it seems to be common knowledge, e.g. [1]. Upon reflection, that's the only way it can work. A generalist patent examiner could never understand all the inventions given the volume of applications they must handle.

[1] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/07/25/anatomy-bogus-alice-rej...
AutoItX: https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/177167-using-autoit...
you know what would be interesting... is if there was some kind of equivalent for dtrace or strace or gdb.. but instead of collecting statistics on performance or call trees of functions, it could instead tell you statistics on who wrote the code that your machine is running, line by line.
Maybe not every sized company should be tackling every market.
Can someone explain why this post was downvoted?
From the DOL:

> The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

The focus seems to be on the temporary nature.
> The US does not declare that US forces should just go and kill anyone, rather, 'anyone' can be considered a target

"There are no friendlies," one lieutenant told his men. "Shoot anything that moves." Over a seven-month period, they killed scores of unarmed civilians. Among their victims were two blind brothers; an elderly Buddhist monk; women, children, and old people hiding in underground shelters; and three farmers trying to plant rice. All were reported as "enemy... killed in action."

> In normal rules of engagement, the women and children running out of the village are obviously out of bounds. They are civilians. You can't fire at them for any reason.

During the Korean War, my grandmother had her life saved by a wad of cash (large, because of wartime inflation) hidden in a secret pocket in her skirt. It stopped a piece of shrapnel produced by strafing from a US Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Was she "in bounds?"

> The misinterpretation of 'free fire' or the 'loose application' of it are considered 'war crimes' by the US and it was absolutely never intended that the policy be used by soldiers to just shoot up people

Can you see how using Body Count as a metric would tend to produce "targeting" of the metric which would result in the targeting of people to turn into corpses? That is my whole point here.
This is 'disruption' in the operational sense?
Even if it does eliminate 20% of jobs (that number is way too high), opposing it in the short-run won't solve anything permanently, as the GP said. Then when UPS is losing money and facing layoffs, the leverage will be massive. The union needs to adopt a long-term strategy or risk getting destroyed 5-10 years down the road.
Isn't it pseudonymous? You use addresses to send and receive money, not your real identity. And anyone can generate addresses in a vacuum. Combine that with a VPN or some network routing, and its basically a mountain of work to trace any address or transaction to a person.
>Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma found that if two people share negative feelings about a third person, they are likely to feel closer to each other than they would if they both felt positively about him or her.

no duh. gossip is evil because of the risk to the third person. that the participants strengthen their bonds is obvious.

>positive gossip inspired self-improvement efforts, and negative gossip made people prouder of themselves

lol. is this fake news or something: how do you put a positive spin on "gossiping about more successful people makes one feel bad about oneself" and "gossiping about less successful people makes one feel good about oneself".
It was noticed. I can patent anything short of a perpetual motion machine regardless of functionality. But if you talked to people in the biotech community, most were very doubtful (at best) of her claims. I have several friends in the very markets she was going after, and they were never anything less than 100% certain she was a fraud and was going to blow up in the end.
> At that point UPS will have a lot more leverage in union negotiations because the alternative will be bankruptcy and everyone losing their jobs

The history of companies with incalcitrant unions isn’t the unions getting crushed at the last minute. It’s everyone losing jobs because the company goes bust.
You never know....

But in seriousness

2048x1365 - https://ibb.co/ifGzcy

It's night over Toronto from the station with lights glowing. I imagine it got it from that or something. I think it was a Canadian Space Agency photo, but I can't remember the exact source/which astronaut.
Empirically speaking, this turned out to be incorrect.
Here's a light-hearted comparison between the airline and PC world:

Motherboard/integration - Boeing/Airbus - a bunch of Taiwanese conglomerates, but the core design comes from Intel

OS - Boeing/Airbus - Microsoft/Apple

CPU/Engine - Rolls-Royce/GE - Intel

RAM/fuel - Saudi Aramco/etc - Samsung/SK Hynix/Micron

..

I don't know if it's useful in any way, but I found it interesting to do this exercise.
Yep! Good call! ;)
> I’m not a native speaker, I wish I could speak and write better but the truth is that my English sucks

For what it's worth, I actually would never have guessed that; in fact, I think your English is better than that of many native English speakers I know. Keep at it!
Because almost nobody non technical knows about it. Not even all developers know about it.
When they pose a threat to themselves or others.
OT: I'm getting a SERVFAIL response on archive.is from Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1). Weird. Not the first time I've had problems with Cloudflare though.
On my version (60.0.2), I can click the hamburger menu on the right side of the address bar, click customize... and there's a "subscribe" button with the RSS logo that can be dropped onto the address bar or the overflow bar.
Sure, but then you are not paid for productivity, and we should speak plainly about this.
The debate around copyright today is just so weird I think;

"I should be able to prevent anyone from producing anything too similar throughout my entire life, and my heirs should be able to stop them for another lifetime after I'm gone."

"Why?"

"Because the money they make is money I could've made."

"So, make another work that you can monetize?"

"But why would I work if I have to work?"

I can understand copyright to a degree, but the lengths we've agreed to in the West is absolutely ridiculous and ripe for abuse by companies that are built on aggregating IP.
If she is still in Canada court decisions such as this cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
HPS uses slightly more energy than LED, but since the power comes from the grid, if you power it with "green energy" then it doesn't really matter pollution-wise, and cost-wise it takes a long time to recoup the cost of switching all the bulbs in energy savings.

The more important reason to switch is that the LEDs give a whiter light, which improves driver reaction time at night.

However, there have been no studies comparing if accidents have actually gone down in cities that switched to LED, which would in theory account for increased sleep deprivation due to more white light at night.
It failed at making recipes but it excels at comedy!
There's sci-hub and libgen, precisely for people like you. Hobbyists who would/could never in a million years buy the standards.
Fundamental physics is not like flocks of birds. It is much more like a system which makes ideal assumptions.
There's a distinction here. An experiment may measure a parameter to be zero instead of some nonzero value that everyone expected. That isn't subject to the black swan fallacy. Only when you are sampling is the black swan fallacy relevant.
The airlines are having to pull massively CapEx equipment (the price tag on a 787-9 is well over a quarter billion dollars) out of their fleets to have the IPC turbine blades on their engines replaced — using a temporary fix, which will require them to be pulled from service yet again, once the permanent fix is vetted.

Of course they mean "disruption" in the operational sense.

I see no basis on which to infer the Silly Valley sense of the term here.
Structured Programming with Go to Statements – Donald Knuth (1974) [pdf]
Hypothesis 0 - all adult swans have largely white plummage.

Expectation - all observed swans "are white".

Observation - some swans "are black".

>"Nothing is falsified by the failure of an experiment to observe the expected." //

The experiment failed to observe the expected. The hypothesis was falsified.

Hypothesis 1 - all swans are white or black.

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Even with something like "we expected to find a Top quark at ~100GeV and found nothing" then the experiment has falsified that there is Top that would appear in such an experimental framework. We usual project that result beyond it's technical bounds, to say there is no top below that limit, is that what you're trying to get at?

If you mean experiments aren't perfect then I don't see how that truism is useful. There have been a couple of potentially massive results in recent years that have fallen to poor experimental process.
Fair enough, I wasn't sure if the review was just fiction - a good idea to base the article on.

However, I do want to refute that English skill has anything to do with the things I'm pointing out. Your English is fine, plus I don't care, as I also had to learn English as a second language. The issues are purely technical.

First, `BaseException` is introduced in the refactored versions, not in the original code - so it's hardly Peter's fault. Second, the misspelling is in code, and it stops the REPL example from working ("from inpect import signature") - the REPL code looks like it's copy & pasted from the console, but it can't be.

So "suspect" was probably the wrong word to use here, even if that code has been altered. I hope you can use the feedback to improve the article, even if the feedback is worded poorly!
Ask HN: HMD Global (Nokia) is acting shady Any recourse?
Nokia phones running Android, manufactured by Foxconn on contract by HMD Global Oy, appear to be shipped with badly designed Android images which contain malware apps designed by Taiwanese company Evenwell, that either already send data about the device, it's user and their usage habits, and other private or personal information to someone?'s servers, or they plan to do that, through updates, like Alcatel (TCL) has done.

I purchased a Nokia phone expecting "Clean Android experience", what I got was only skin deep. Below the stock-looking UI there's a mess of apps that do who knows what, and report to whomever.

And worst of it all, HMD has locked and refuses to unlock the bootloaders of all of their phones, as well as violating the GPL terms for months now, with no solution in sigh.

Full list of installed Apps on Nokia Android phones:

https://pastebin.com/5d5Kfqt1
I have looked at that but it needs Win10 and doesn't do WPF. Right now we a mix between Ranorex, UI Automation and Selenium. They all have their strengths and often one library can support certain elements that others can't.
You can patent pretty much anything. The USPTO runs open-loop. A patent examiner will face zero consequences for approving trivial, obvious, unoriginal, or otherwise invalid claims, but they will face real consequences for rejecting them, in the form of additional workload.

Their philosophy can best be summarized as, "Rubber-stamp 'em all and let the courts sort 'em out." We all get to pay for that.