skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don’t understand is why people are excited about the new features of JavaScript. The problem with JavaScript has never been that it doesn’t have enough features or syntactic sugar. The problem with JavaScript is that it has a rotten, unsafe core. Its very nature is antithetical to writing robust software, yet we need it to create dynamic UI applications.
US residential electricity is (typically) 240 V center-tapped to ground, so you can have 120V or 240V.

110V hasn’t been the standard since before World War II.

Slow charge for my LEAF is about 5 miles per hour from a standard outlet.
Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
They've hired heavily on the GPU side and announced a partnership with AMD (presumably to use their infinity fabric).

This'll sound a bit strange at this point, but I have the feeling CPU's will become little more than an I/O controller in the long term. Much consumer computing will be done in the data centre. Data centres will be dominated with devices that look more like GPUs and TPUs than CPUs.

Naturally, GPUs will inherit more CPU like features before this happens.
Interesting story but not seeing why it has anything to do with Windows in particular, you could have flipped the OSs and told the same story, it's not like you can't run software that sorts files by tags on Windows.
There definitely are clients who are happy to pay $40-$75 an hour for senior full stack eng talent. We are such a client, and two VPE friends also commonly use upwork for 1-3 month gigs where they don't want to pay $175/hour for an sfbay contractor. The reason you're not seeing them is good clients eventually find a good contractor and either just run fulltime ongoing work through upwork (for eg payment convenience) or move off upwork.
He just uploaded another repo (SCCamera), round two.
> In fact you could do almost all of this in JS even before ES5.

Well you do get static type checking if you write it in Dart, but I see your point. :)
Is there any hardware that supports only DX12 and not Vulkan?

My understanding is the only extant device is the Xbox One, which doesn't support Vulkan not because the hardware lacks the ability or drivers (since its an AMD SoC shared with the PS4 and using GCN 3 tech) but because of politics trying to lock developers into their API over the industry standard.

Trying to fight politics with software rarely ends well, especially with hobbyist software. Microsoft has complete control over their console and are probably willing to take moves to prevent the use of transpilers on their platform in the same vein Apple has.
I struggled with side projects that I never completed until I decided that I would never do a side project that can't be done in one or two afternoons. There are people out there that can chip away at a project over months or years and I think I just took a while to learn that I'm not one of them.
I think that's fine at a certain price point (it's the a la cart system we clamored for) but at $9-$20 a service it ends up costing more than cable because there's no comprehensive aggregator platforms anymore.

The Netflix model became "get or create everything we can," which means a lot of cruft. Prime gets scraps. Hulu and Sling are just putting lipstick on a pig. It's a mess. What consumers want is to select and pay for what they want. That was the major complaint against cable and it's no different with streaming services today.
There are plenty government owned registrars. Heck the gTLD .gov is pretty much a goverment entity. They even have policy regarding FOIA requests: https://home.dotgov.gov/foia/ which is they are exempt. However, good luck getting .gov domain. It probably is not happening unless your an actual government entity.
xterm supports graphics https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2114347/raster-graphics-...
You may be thinking of when Blizzard used this argument for going after Bot creators in World of Warcraft:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/05/blizzard-attempt-to-k...
Torrents are dead, they said. Well at least it disappeared from the mainstream when it got easy and relatively cheap to legally access movies and TV shows.

With the increasing fragmentation of commercial content networks, I can easily see a resurrection of public interest in non-legit ways of consuming content.
I don't know if it'll happen, but it's been proposed, e.g.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/china-unveils-propos...
Reminds me of the fallacy that Autonomous vehicles need to be absolutely infallible, when in fact they only need to have fewer fatalities per mile than humans.
Train your mind to be creative
Borgmon's model is pretty solid.

It was sort of crippled by the user-facing part, which was clearly (to me) over-engineered. And the lasting neglect of attention helped the tech debt to grow.

Over-engineered + lack of maintenance == tech bankrupted ==> everyone started loath it ==> everyone concluded that it was designed wrong

Disclaimer #1: I am part of the borg team.

Disclaimer #2: I have been deliberately high-level and no details attached; please let me know if I need to revise this.

Edit:
'review' -> 'revise' (I am pretty good and writing typo unconsciously ...)
> OK, hypothetically, if he were part of a Russian operation to destabilize the United States, would the US government be justified in prosecuting him?

Sedition is a different charge than censored speech.

> I meant "fire" in a political sense.

When you are talking about free speech, there is no other sense other than the literal in-a-movie-theater sense.
I'm sorry, but it's not on my hands. Nothing is really different, just a never ending slow decline for the majority of the country.

You should put blame in the right places, such as campaign finance laws and mainstream media which undoubtedly played a bigger role than non voters...since people who abstained literally did nothing. Maybe the system is broken and people see nearly the same candidate over and over and have no real way to vote outside that?
Apparently it's that analysts on the Tesla beat ask boring questions that are not cool.
Thanks! This is amazing!
I built a hackintosh using the recommended build and had a mediocre experience. Things I take for granted like sleep and Bluetooth were broken. I ended up spending weeks trying to fix it. Eventually I gave up and bought Apple hardware which hasn’t been perfect, but it’s definitely less annoying than the hackintosh.
Yep, The content companies want to have their own streaming services. But what they risk is that they will fragment the market and consumers wont want to pay for 5 different monthly recurring bills to get the content they want and will just go back to torrenting.
I was just thinking that they recently got some good content added.

These were all added this month: Batman Begins, Clerks, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, No Reservations, Stripes, The Aviator, and The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire Comedians in Cars series is a lot of fun. Heat, The Godfather, Gangs of New York, Casino, and Seven.

Maybe you're bored of all that, but it's not like the films on Netflix are universally terrible.
Yes and no. Sometimes it's not about the destination but about experiencing the journey. From the post it seems like the author extracted the value they wanted to extract over the years. Knowing when to give up is difficult, especially when you've sunk a lot of cost into the project and feel like you have to finish it. The thing is, you don't have to and it's perfectly acceptable to put it on hold indefinitely.

In the end you'll still have all those experiences with you and that's what you paid for with your time.
Wells Fargo Reveals “Calculation Error” That Affected Customers’ Mortgage Loans
My greyhound rarely cocks his leg, and I would imagine that on the occasions he does that he's simply trying to mask a scent from a taller animal. He usually marks somewhat like a female, pressing his hips forward and just going on the ground.
We are still going strong in Pony land. There an ebb and flow to publicly seen development.
It's his project, and I'm not the one who is going to judge his maintainership, but I am glad that there is choice in this class of application.
I'snt Hulu owned by Disney and Fox? Not in the US and don't use it but I'd imagine they could really make it pretty amazing with back catalogue etc if they wanted to.
Sony starts taking advance orders for new version of Aibo robot dog
I cancelled my subscription when they raised prices, though I was already on the fence with the whole Billy Nye thing and the Dear White People thing. Netflix had stopped offering a lot of content that I wanted, even as they promoted content I found morally objectionable and charged me more for it.
I'm not an Android developer but they say supporting older versions should still work:

"Existing apps that are not receiving updates are unaffected. Developers remain free to use a minSdkVersion of their choice, so there is no change to your ability to build apps for older Android versions."

[1] https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent" - keynes
FYI, liquid salt is not quite the same thing as liquid sodium. Source: someone I knew worked on liquid sodium power plants.

Also, I think PV prices may have declined around 50% since that article was written.
"You need to have your JAWS BROKEN!"

"1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN IF YOU TRY TO TAKE OUR FIREARMS!"

Note that the second one is directly connected to Sandy Hook, since he tells everyone that it was a hoax done with the purpose of taking people's guns away. He's basically telling people to rise up in armed revolt. He tells his audience that the victims' parents are actually part of a conspiracy to take their guns, tells them that armed revolt is the proper response....

You're not demanding that he be treated fairly. Being treated fairly would mean that if he's advocating violence he should get kicked off these platforms. You're defending him by saying you don't think he does this. That's not being just or fair, that's being counterfactual, and even worse it's coming from a position of deliberate ignorance.
"You will face the consequences."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
Sure. They would like their liability be zero in both cases. I think it should be more than zero in both cases.
> - CoffeeScript was hugely popular at the time - it was even mandatory at GitHub to make new applications in CS not JS

We'd probably really be regretting that choice since CoffeeScript use is dwindling and the programmer ecosystem has generally turned towards static types.

> - Typescript was immediately well recieved. JS folk liked optional typing.

Dart was an optionally typed language and is actually older than TypeScript.

But, the original creators were very focused on getting a native Dart VM in browsers and were willing to sacrifice seamless JS interop to get that. There's good arguments for that since great interop often means adding ugly features to your language in order to play nice with the existing one. Dart was intended to be a bigger leap forward from JS.

If the VM wasn't part of the plan, then Dart probably would have hewed much closer to JS and been very similar to TypeScript. That probably would have been good for us then, but it might have been a limitation long-term. TypeScript is a really nice language, but it's got a lot of baggage that it inherits from JS.

Dart is, I think, a much nicer language if you don't need to reuse and interop with a big corpus of existing JS code.

> - Ruby was popular amongst the web community

Is the "was" part of that intentional? I like Ruby a lot, but it's luster seems to have faded some in the past couple of years.

I think what all of your points show is that if you pave cowpaths when doing language work, you end up optimizing for what users did several years ago. Languages take a long time to develop, so I think you have to aim for where you think users will be, otherwise you end up irrelevant by the time you launch.
Wouldn't a subterranean city by traversal with a map and sonar sensors? The only thing I could see a flying drone struggling with there would be the doors.
New in School: AI-Driven Gun Detection Systems
Dart is really interesting. It's a cool programming language, managed by some incredibly smart people. It could have been what TypeScript is today, but failed dramatically due to a lack of pragmatism and an outright loathing for JavaScript.

What soured me towards Dart is its continued history of ignoring community input. I remember when it was announced--the original "Hello World" transpiled to JS was around 70kb. 8-years later, and after all the user feedback (and shock in the original HN announcement), it's now around ~80kb.

Why do this? Why continue to play so poorly with JavaScript? Dart2js is an indefensible Rube Goldberg machine that no human being can reasonably understand or debug.
Deleted G Suite Account Accidentally, Recovery Email Was Merged with G Suite
Helping a friend to get back into their accidentally deleted g suite account. Standard gmail.com account was merged into the G Suite account.

Message when attempting to recover that account is to contact the domain admin. But as far as she knows, this was the only account (and should have been the admin). Since she can't get into the account, there's no way to contact g suite support as far as we can see.

Basically just want to connect someone on the G Suite support team to my friend who just wanted to recover her account. Can anyone help?
This sounds a lot like how students in the US are treated with respect to first amendment rights in public schools
apparently someone else thinks so too: https://github.com/leaf-lang/leaf
It was optionally typed. Dart 2 is statically typed.
> This is literally Go, save the fact that it compiles to WA instead of JS.

Except Nim compiles to C and JS, no official WASM yet (though you can Emscriptenize the C output). Nim has macros, generics, inheritance, exceptions, deterministic GC, and more. Otherwise, yeah, exactly the same.
Executing in OS userspace, for the pedants out there. ;)

PS: are EcmaScript binaries actually a thing?
Subsidies seem to be on the decline. In fact, I was just reading that due to the Chinese government cutting back, people are predicting PV prices will plummet in the next year.
Except no one actually believes it's "all Russians". Everyone knows "the Russians" means "the Russian government". So yeah, just noise.
Looks like every content producer wants their own streaming service these days, and for good reason too. Good video content is expensive to produce. Why give Netflix all that extra margin?

My only concern is whether consumers will opt for a bunch of different streaming subscriptions instead of the old duo, Netflix and Hulu, with a side of HBO? At some point it’s just going to be too much to pay for, and there’s only so much television one can watch in a month.

A subscription service for a solid niche will do fine - Disney is all but assured to have a permanent subscription from their dedicated fans and the parents of young children, and Marvel pretty much owns the superhero entertainment space - but what is Netflix’s niche? A browse through their original content is a spray-and-pray of categories that seeks to grab ahold of everyone. Some of it is pretty good, a fair amount is mediocre, and the vast majority I will never watch or probably even know exists. At what point is a subscriber going to shrug their shoulders and cancel all-for-all Netflix in favor of a subscription to a smaller selection of the stuff they love the most?
Airbnb and Uber woes show Japan does not share easily
Arguably the story doesn't change if you look at it that way. No one would fault a newspaper stand for choosing not to carry the Weekly World News, or, say, the newsletter of the KKK.
Java 10 only has type inference for method-scoped vars.
This is amazing - thank you!
It's fricking hard to write. Writing well takes time, effort and patience. Writing well as well as engagingly takes talent.
It's owned in part by a lot of media companies, primarily as counter-half-measure against YouTube and later Netflix and Amazon.

It's not an end game. It's the proverbial finger in the dike, a way to buy time until figuring out the next great way to screw consumers.
Its not loss of revenue per se since apple doesnt sell licenses for the OS. And presumably you are making the hackintosh because you DONT want the exact hardware apple sells.
What is the oversight for approvals? Is it just the 45th president and his mates saying, “Vladimir says it’s okay to put asbestos in brake pads and drywall”?
This very much smells like fluff piece. Tech for obstacle avoidance is not yet mature to the level where it would be safe to have autonomous drones near bird path and potential busy air traffic. Add battery restrictions, wind, weather etc and you get nice vaporware demo.
Interesting point... I wonder if all this tech being open sourced by teams in bigger firms is actually killing off smaller firms that rely on providing these services. Not sure how I feel about it: I like having free stuff but also want to support the little folks.
"Investors in Tesla should know to regularly check Musk's twitter with an incognito browser" doesn't seem like a defense the SEC will actually appreciate. Knowledge of incognito browser function is not a requirement to purchase stock.
And if this list is anything like the no fly list, its tough to get off of even of you were placed on the list in error
There should be an option or plugin for whatever browser you use to disable auto-play videos.
Previous submission was flag killed for being click-bait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17708847
Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women
I think you are overestimating the predictive power of the cited historical events.

Whether or not killing Maduro would bring back democracy is irrelevant, the bottom line is if people like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin were removed from power earlier in their lines it's reasonable to imagine that tens of millions fewer people would have suffered and died.

Maduro hasn't quite reached the level of those despots yet but his removal from power would certainly be a good thing for Venezuela. I've seen pictures of babies starving to death. The guy has turned the entire country into a concentration camp through his ineptitude.

Case in point: The Communist Party of China has ruled the mainland uninterrupted since 1954. Look at the phenomenal progress that's been made since Mao's death in 1976. There's no democracy in China, but different leadership has made a huge difference. There are no more famines in China.
It appears that Linux x86-64 does not support more than 6 arguments for syscalls[0]. So if you want to pass more than 6 arguments, use a struct... or modify nearly every step of the syscall process in the kernel.

[0]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc8/source/arch/x86/i...
I too wish there were a central aggregator platform, but I think the price:value calculation still favors streaming if you don't care about live events. My mother's "expanded basic" cable package costs more than my subscription to 4 streaming services[1]. It may be different if you negotiate aggressively with your cable provider every time the introductory prices expire.

[1] Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, FilmStruck + Criterion (annual plan).
Most engineers at large Ad-supported companies are not working on ads in any meaningful way.

Ads pay the bills, but only to the extent that you have something people want, to put the ads next to, and most of the engineers are there trying to make something people want.
Show HN: Small utility to change xfce4-terminal themes on the fly
I would love and pay for a service that would let me subscribe to all the episodes of a show for one month at a low price, directly from the content producer.

I would much prefer to pay, say, $.99 or $1.99 for an unlimited month of The Expanse, and if I don’t watch it all in a month and I want more, then I pay for another month. Maybe keep some shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on retainer for whenever. That would kick the crap out of having to pay twice as much for the 2-3 aggregator subscriptions just to get all the shows I want to watch.
If it runs all of today's software with at most a recompile, that sounds like a CPU to me.
Yes, agreed. What we've learned over the past few years that where algorithms exist, there are incentives to try to exploit them. Ad and PR firms: Google search algorithms, Twitter ranking algorithms. Political orgs: Youtube ranking algorithms, ad placement algorithms. Repressive govts: Facebook abuse reporting algorithms (done in Ukraine), Twitter hashtag algorithms, tweet ranking algorithms (bots pushing particular political tweets).

Humans may be in some ways easier to influence, but once an algorithm gets big enough, it can be worth attacking if the impact would be huge.
Because I don’t want to. Writing is not something I enjoy.
The Windows bash shell would be a lot better if you could interact with files on your normal Windows filesystem, like Desktop and Dropbox, and vice versa with opening files you made in Bash in Atom outside.
Nobody is arguing that they do. The question is whether CEOs can decide what their own companies host. Since being a Nazi is not a legally protected category they’re free to not help Nazis.
Ah, well then I'm too drunk to be reading this. Never heard of "tries", guess I haven't read enough. Conclusion could have used some improvement for sure.
> the price will naturally gravitate towards $420

There's a decent chance of a bidding war driving the share price far higher than that.

This is strategic for the Saudis. And there are other strategic investors and sovereign wealth funds who will not want to see Tesla taken private for 10% above today's closing price.

Tesla's market cap is only 6% of Apple's, and Apple isn't geopolitically strategic.

Norway, China and Abu Dhabi all have SWFs larger than Saudi Arabia [1], and the energy implications of letting Tesla go would be strategic for each of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_...
Disney Reports Earnings, but Focus Is on Its Streaming Service
Drone bombs became one of the favourite attacks by IS militants during the Battle for Mosul. They are a remarkably effective terror weapon, as unlike car bombs, they aren't stopped by walls or barriers. By all accounts they weren't actually particularly effective at actually causing damage.

They were basically dropping 40mm grenades (the kind used in under-barrel launchers like an M203) with fins attached.

Here's a video released by IS showing them purportedly blowing up a humvee with a grenade dropped from a drone: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-39092883/so-ca...

Here's an article from the BBC with pictures of captured drones: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38663394
Just thought I'd remind you that there are currently 0 Rust jobs on Indeed.co.uk by title for the whole of the UK. The HN bubble is not how the world at large operates.
Xamarin is not dead and being actively developed. It just doesn't intersect with the startup scene because of its enterprise roots.
This will get you onto High Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/
Yes, you can still support older versions. But the app must target at least Oreo, which means supporting the new permission model on newer versions of Android while making use of unfettered access on older versions.
There is a program to provide that feedback. I already own an enabled water heater for example.

https://smartgrid.ieee.org/
http://www.whatissmartgrid.org/smart-grid-101
All three responses 'time is money'.

Yes, security is a cost. There's a bit of tragedy of the commons effect here - many of the downsides are pushed onto others. I like Doctorow's general take on socializing costs of privacy and security breaches while privatizing profit: https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-o...
There is a config option for most broswers.

For firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702

Not sure for chrome.