skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arc/Rcs in Rust refcount, but the language doesn't at runtime, or even really at compile time.
I refer to myself as "male" and I frequently see women refer to themselves as "female". Please don't tell me what I should be insulted by.
> images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built

If you scroll to the bottom of the page there's a few links to "raw video clips" and "how we did it". I'm downloading them now but the names of the files sound like they're exactly what you want.
It lost in an air to air trial to an older aircraft, and they covered it up. Are you sure?
The government has far too much vested interest to be trustworthy.

What is required is a re-assertion of reputation.

People have become far too willing to believe facebook posts, etc, and even respectable media has become far too willing to echo them.

Reputable media sources need to re-assert their credentials, or even individual bloggers etc, need to step up to stand behind their posts.

With a cadre of trustworthy sources, individuals can then take steps to exclude internet chum.
You could just bounce that back with "A lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine". If a project is due soon and needs your attention outside of work hours, it should've been planned earlier.

Yes I know that's an ideal world etc. But how did people handle that before there was email? That's right, they didn't, and it had to wait until tomorrow.
This is a great post, although I am sorry for the experiences you went through to acquire this perspective.

Thinking more about the specific use-case you have in mind, I find myself wondering how sentiment and inflection might be captured via a synthetic voice. Would it be inferred by context? How would that inference deal with things like sarcasm/irony. I wonder if there could be some input mechanism for controlling the inflection - what would that input interface look like? Could it go off facial expression?

I wonder where the existing tech sits in the uncanny valley for this space...
I welcome this public by default pattern. Same thing could be said from the other side, public by default is an educational problem, it's to figure out the best practices for how to teach it to the older generation on how to adapt in the society where everything is public. To me privacy issue is better solved by radical transparency for everyone. Public by Default is a good initial step.
Is Canada Prepared for the Threat of Returning Jihadists?
Jesus, that is not about Google Analytics on Mozillas websites but on the about:addons page of Firefox. That is terrifying.
I guess we know why Intel tried on that benchmarking restriction. Serving static content from Nginx is a 22% drop on Intel, a 7% drop on AMD. That's huge for cloud providers!
Plausible deniability: It could have been Emacs pretending to be vim.
On a closed course yes.
Hash URI scheme for content addressable storage (2016)
Use Go Playground as a blogging platform
Correct me if I'm missing something, but what's the usecase for user submitted data on the map?

Do city names change so frequently that they need to be dynamically updated? I can see some use for it when you get to the neighbourhood level to account for local nicknames, but not full cities.
> Special chairs are more expensive

The patient wanted to bring in his own special chair, not get one purchased by the company.
I believe so, but you do have to make sure your drug application clearly labels when it is safe to use.
Windows file attributes: Why there is a gap between System and Directory
I am not sure about the specifics of Angular (I hate it), but in this sense it is similar to other frameworks of the time.

Vue, React, etc all use a transpiler to turn their code into code compatible with as many browsers as possible. The end result is that the syntactic sugar and niceties of the more modern JS specs get removed and replaced with their older counterparts. A popular tool for this is Babeljs.io

Modules themselves are new in browsers as well, so what actually tends to happen is that they don't just all get concatenated and use global variable scope but a module essentially becomes an enclosure, and all the enclosures are linked to one another at compile time. So there is usually no global variable called "Angular".

So if you generate an Angular app with their CLI, they pre-install all those build steps (along with Typescript, minification, etc). You get Angular using the transpiled module system out of the box.
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One I just found recently (via it being by far the leader in a recent "other blog" survey on slatestarcodex) is:

https://marginalrevolution.com/about

"Marginal Revolution is the blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. MR began in August of 2003 and there have been new posts daily since that time. In numerous reviews and ratings over the years Marginal Revolution has consistently been ranked as the best or one of the best economic blogs on the web, but it is more (and less) than that, also representing the quirks of its authors."

As far as I can tell so far, it seems to be a relatively unbiased, non-ideological commentary on economic news. One interesting article (not from the site itself, but from an "assorted links" post) is this one on NAFTA negotiations:

https://moneymaven.io/baldingsworld/china/chinese-economics-...

Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, that sort of perspective is highly unusual in mainstream public economic news. I've certainly never seen many articles on trade policy that go much beyond discussing aggregate GDP.

The SSC survey:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9aak39/favo...
The note is to allow the employee to bring their own chair to work. How does this cost the company anything extra?
"Authorization" answers "does the entity have permission to access the requested resource?"

"Authentication" is "is the entity is who it says it is?"

"Entity logging in" is an example of authentication. Is the entity trying to log in the entity it claims to be? An example claimed identity is a username, and example proof of authentic claim is a correct password.

"Entity trying to read data" is an example of authorization. Does the entity trying to read the data have permission to read that data? Checking an access control list against a username is an example of checking authorization.

How are they different, and separate?

I claim to be a user and supply a password. My claim is authenticated and I successfully log in. I have requested access to zero resources and thus no authorization has occurred.

A hacker steals my session while I'm logged in and requests my sensitive data. The system sees the request came from a username that is on the access control list for the resource and authorizes the hacker to see my data. No check on my actual identity (authentication) occurred, only a check whether the provided identity is authorized.
RescueTime's “Work Hours” feature gives deeper insights into your work habits
At the very start around 95,96 tech stack was a Linux or FreeBSD box running apache, configured for cgi-bin to execute whatever program/script you have. Programs were written in most programs were written in bash, perl & C, data was stored in text files

I personally started with bash, C & perl and storing data in text files. then moved to python and RDBMS

Those that were forward thinking were adopting php, python & java.
I want to see what's under the hood!
Any source on the 30 year thing? They already have test cars driving around with no one in the front seat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPfC9Yfsjd8&t=2m40s) and it seems there will be both intense competition to grab market share and also a push from regulators to reduce the present 1.25 million road deaths per year.
Boeing's proposal was horrible. LockMart at least made a fighter-bomber that could fight. The F-32 would have been fine in A2G, but in air to air would have made the F-35 look outstanding. Plus it had a hard time with ingesting hot gas exhaust.
> The very first point in that letter requires identifying every communication you have ever had with or about the data subject that is still stored anywhere in your organisation, among other actions.

The magic words here are "still stored", PII is a liability so you never want to store it longer than absolutely necessary. Why are you hoarding this data when you can't even retrieve it easily, what is the point ?
This company reached out to me about their services two years ago. A quick search convinced me that the ethical practices of the CEO should cause anyone to question working with him.

“Samal was sentenced to 90 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring and 3 years' probation. He was also instructed to complete 288 hours of community service and undergo moral reconation therapy”*

Anyone who has to undergo “moral reconation therapy” may be a dubious business partner.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecode
"But who is the authoritative source?" The enlightenment tells us that Reason is the authoritative source!

You dont need discussion, you need a clearer picture of enlightenment values. You can start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qYjisp51M
Yeah, but for non-techies? As a fellow uMatrix user I love it, but normal people don't want to set up a whitelist for every site they visit and get broken websites without.
Great idea. My workaround is to use the portals of online delivery services. However even those are not available in my parents town.

I see a lot of monetarization potential in stuff like custom domains, online orders, etc...
I'm not sure the E-myth is really targeted at the kinds of tech businesses HN readers are after.

If you view it in the context of small-scale food/retail/manufacturing it fits really well. It doesn't fit well for creative efforts, but I'm not sure that invalidates the book either.
This is pushing it sooo much that makes me wonder if you have an agenda here. Tweets can be viewed without signing in( including replies) so anyone actually has access to them. Additionally there is legal text in the Tesla shares saying "expect updates on social media".
Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station
A crash-test video would be nice :)
Do city names change so frequently that they need to be dynamically updated?

Maybe that's the bug. It didn't occur to me until I read your comment [0] that the system could simply accept user-submitted data only above a certain level of detail. It won't eliminate the damage, but it would keep it more contained.

[0] OTOH, GIS isn't my day-to-day like it would be if I worked at, say, MapBox.
It wasn't a "trial", whatever that means. It was a test flight, with parameters that the critics have no knowledge of.
The use case is that the entire globe is both incompletely mapped and also constantly changing: having it all editable is much easier than differentiating each and every case where some element might or might not change frequently.

Such a system of differentiation of map elements by likelihood of change could be good in the long term, but it would be a huge undertaking to classify them.
> The question is, how did companies persuade people that they should work for free on the way into the office?

That's the fun part - companies didn't, people did it to themselves. Probably started as just some people answering emails they got overnight on their morning commute. Thanks to smartphones and always on connectivity, other colleagues get a ping that there's an email. And before long you've got your employees mailing each other.

I don't think there's ever been an actual company policy that codified the expectation that people should be answering company emails in their own time.
You may have misread what I wrote. I’m not at all opposed to flex time, work schedules that include the weekend, people preferring off work hours. If someone prefers to work weekends and have weekdays off, fine. If someone prefers 6x6.66 hours instead of 5x8, good with me. People that work on drilling platforms or on ships have even more extreme schedules. Still, this is all fundamentally different from constant availability for a single person.
Notes on Haskell Extensions (2015)
This is exactly what I think of when I hear senators and congressman talk about cutting so-called entitlements.

The narrative needs to be switched around to highlight defense spending as "entitlements" to defense contractors and numerous local economies that depend on them.
Depends - what did you do at work while that design didn't click?

I was on HN, not doing much work worth paying for.
Uh oh, I just learned that Mozilla injects Google Analytics tracking code into Firefox itself. When you go to about:addons, it sends tracking data to Googles servers.

Is there a way to get rid of that? It seems to be not blocked by a default umatrix for example.

I think we really need a browser by a more trustworthy party. Maybe Debian could make a Firefox fork that is more user friendly in terms of privacy? Is there a way for vote for this or sponsor such a development?
Why youngsters need exercise?
Well, the idea is to produce Helium as a by-product of producing liquid nitrogen. But indeed, the numbers may not work out:

About 8 million tons of liquid nitrogen is produced per year, growing 5% every year [1], largely from Cryogenic distillation. By mass, the ratio of Nitrogen and Helium in air is about 1e6 [2]. So that means, about 8 tons would be produced, which is 3.5 orders of magnitude away from the current size of the market (like 30 thousand tons). But it may be possible to use non-cryogenic processes [3] to increase the ratio of Helium in the air before separating out the nitrogen. So between the increase of the nitrogen market, the decrease in demand if Helium gets more expensive when traditional sources run out, and better processes, this means that Helium will likely continue to be available for very valuable use cases almost indefinitely.

[1] https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/liquid-n...

[2] http://www.uigi.com/air.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_separation
(from your Github issue)
> We won't use Piwik. Mozilla uses Google Analytics for website analytics. Hosting our own is more work for a worse product.

Apparently there's some people who are not fans of Piwik, that's a shame.
Not just your manager / client, but your direct colleagues too.
PwC survey finds 84% of companies are “actively involved” in using blockchain
It continues to amaze me that OpenStreetMap is not massively plagued by this (I know that MapBox uses OSM as one of many sources, as mentioned in the article, but the changed name did not appear in the live OSM map, afaik, so I am guessing it came from somewhere else). In the past, the main explanatory argument was always that OSM's complicated editing process was the gatekeeper, but I don't think this is true anymore. With the OSM web editor, it is extremely simple to edit the map. It would only take a few clicks to immediately publish (for example) a highway in the form of a swastika to the live map, but despite using the map multiple times per day, both for private use and professionally, I have never encountered something like this.
> and to try and be objective: these examples make my point even stronger.

Maybe you forgot, but you claimed that almost all the important technical innovations of the 20th century happened outside of Europe. When asked for evidence you produced a list, which includes innovations that were developed in parallel in Europe as well (or even predate the development outside of Europe).

Or is your argument that only who ends up winning in the end (by some arbitrary metric) is the true inventor of some technology?

So how exactly does it make your point stronger?

> None of the folks who may or may not have been the first to invent these things in Europe managed to exploit the economic potential of what they had invented.

By all accounts the Zuse KG did quite well for a few decades, before a few questionable business decisions ended it (and it was bought out by Siemens). But initially he indeed was able to exploit it's commercial potential (in fact he was the first person to do so..).

> It is a deeply sad commentary of how much of bright people's potential is utterly pissed down the drain every day in Europe.

And that's not the case in the US..? And exactly how or why is this happening here and not in the US?

Fair point about Minitel, but that doesn't translate into all aspects of technology.. far from it.
Helping label things like construction, store closures/openings and like you said local nicknames that might be hard to get data on from an official source.
The press they'd get from this is worth the investment I guess.
That seems reasonable for an expensive US university, especially when compared to the post above.

I live in eastern europe and I was trying to remember what kind of administrative staff I encountered in my 6 years of university.

Apart from the people who handle the paperwork for admissions and cleaning ladies I honestly can't think any.
Is that a bug or a feature, though? Organizations often get stick in their ways. It might be easier to start from scratch if you want something new.
Assuming the interface definition is correct, it gives you one degree less of freedom. Error #1 is always evaluated vs the interface. Error #2 is also always evaluated vs the interface. Error #3 is evaluated vs the type constraint.

So each of the 3 potential errors can always be pinpointed exactly, as opposed to my example where it could be any 3 (or all 3 simultaneously) of them because "T having a hardToSpell-method" is not part of any public interface description, it's something deep in the implementation of the foo-function (in my example it's not very deep but in real code it usually is).
Maybe looking at a region in terms of industry isn't the best measuring tool. Defense was a major industry (before that gold/mining) as was shipping and education and the related services to support these industries. The industries that were smaller than defense in the Bay Area were larger than the top industries in other places. There was greater balance in the ecosystem.
In my mind, it is not ironic. While the Internet has made great progress in solving human connectivity and distance problems--and indeed for many people (e.g. remote workers who happily work from home) it has solved it them for all practical purposes--in reality it has not solved it to the point that renders physical presence unnecessary.

We've gotten to a point where remote interactions are OK-ish (pareto), so incremental improvements now have diminishing returns with decreasing payoff. Nobody's really working on making things a lot better than they are now.

To me, there's still great benefit in clustering human beings of like mind in the same physical space because it creates a creative buzz than somehow cannot be replicated with telepresence. Being able to have serendipitous side conversations (without having a video conference camera on all the time), going to meetups in physical spaces (as opposed to watching streaming videos), and the ability to make random real-life human connections with people working in the same area all contribute to this buzz. This buzz is purely psychological but tremendously powerful [1], and I don't know of any instances where it can be created through technology alone.

Some say it is a question of bandwidth -- maybe some day we'll have augmented/virtual reality, very high-resolution video, etc. that will render all of this moot. Perhaps... but it would also need to be able hack our neuroscience and psychology in some way...

[1] Cities and Ambition http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)
Really? Not being condescending, but have you worked internally at a university?

You'd probably be right up to about 80%. Then all of the edge cases come in and it falls down, having a real impact on students. If you want to operate a university on the Pareto Principle, then fair enough, but there's a whole lot that goes on that requires tweaks and human consideration which breaks fundamental systems, usually when students need them the most.
FANG can only hire, what, 10% of all currently-employed engineers. Additionally, their hiring processes are notoriously capricious. Unless startups are exclusively targeting the same 10%, I don't see how that has a significant impact.
I know, but I imagine Mozilla has the same policy everywhere they use Google Analytics and that was the best source I could find for it.
If you're studying things that will help your career, you're working. Don't study for free either. Many employers will pay you for this time (if hourly) or credit you in other ways. If not, find a better employer. Never work for free. Your employer isn't your friend or your family.
WoW, i had no idea Quake had a vm inside it.
plantuml does something similar using a syntax that you can actually write by hand:

http://plantuml.com/timing-diagram
What pissed me off is the "opt-out" approach to public transactions Venmo takes. As a first time user, it's fairly easy to not see the transaction is going to be public (and the privacy button is small and tucked away in a corner).

Venmo just makes me paranoid about transactions. I want to make sure I am paying the right person (hard to tell sometimes when searching for a friend). I also don't want other people to see my transaction AMOUNT most importantly (seems like an easy way for a criminal/fraudster to target people with lots of money). Further, once you hit send, there is basically no recourse in stopping the transaction (which is why scammers use Venmo, since Venmo support basically says "your problem, not mine").

Other people may have different experiences and perfectly enjoy the app, but this steered me clear of it.
Good example of poe's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
It's so amazing that MUDs can create such a magical atmosphere to be in! such an atmosphere that it has never been captured by MMORPGs ever!!!

I have never played a MUD game but it seems terrifyingly addictive...
What are the requirements for what gets blocked and what doesn't get blocked? Is there a heuristics based approach to tracking blocking or is it all still cat and mouse with block lists? I'm not up to speed on any breakthroughs in that regard.
Indian origin employee of a Bank loses job after disrespecting Singapore flag
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edit: Removed some nonsense I wrote in a hurry. Sorry.
I will always be for more iconoclasm and skepticism rather than less, so naturally I'm not happy with idolization of entrepreneurs, either. Or religious leaders. Or artists. Basically, anyone who is revered for their understanding of matters which cannot be explained to the rest of us.

I'm still glad that the U.S. has a healthy distrust of intellectuals and academics.

I appreciate the work of all of such people, but I reject setting them off from the rest of humanity. We are all frail, fallible humans.
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