skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah interesting - I should try this!

I'm a huge fan of Mail.app, but my biggest frustration is that the colored flags don't carry to my iPhone (the latter of which only has one color flag in the Mail app.)

My other response is that I'm big on stack-ranking tasks / priorities, so your flow would be great for personal stuff, but not best for what I need for work.
> the first person to submit a pull request that can exactly reproduce that ROM will get a HiFive Unleashed board!

That's a fun challenge and a nice reward.
It suits that the comment text became gray, as this is a textbook "Argument to moderation" fallacy (aka "Fallacy of gray").
RIP Terry. I hope he finally gets his space alien.
It's a three-minute read according to Medium. I think it's alright ;)
Yes and no. I do think Stripe is biased, but that doesn't prevent what they're saying from being true. I think it's mostly true.

At the very least, the report quantifies to some extent the cost of code.

I'd love to see a more in depth study that deals with integrating with services vs libraries vs written in house - each of those have costs, though probably not equally.
It kind of applies to those languages. It more applies to languages like SPARK or Eiffel. But yeah like other posters have said, it's more about avoiding runtime errors.
Unfortunately, it's more profitable to speculate on the rising property prices than selling them to home builders...
Of course. No one doubt that Tesla and SpaceX were primarily created to make money /s

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/please-sell-our-stock-...
I also like the oxford comma. Something about how it makes a difference in the meaning of a sentence.

I still think the term "fascist" is being waaay overused in politics, much less when describing a bullying, cheating behemoth.
I disagree. URLs still save state in a standard, copyable way. I find that to be very important and experience situations in which I miss them quite regularly.
> and this statement makes me sad and angry

Your MAC and/or IP address should not identify you, and never should have been used as an identifier. It's the identity of a communication endpoint.

If the OSI model is about making the core of the network stupid and fast, which has proven benefits of scalability and/or extensibility, then identity/authentication is not the network layer's job and never was.

If a protocol assumes all hosts on a subnet are trustworthy (ARP/DHCP for example), it's an upper-level protocol design failure, not really having to do with transport (TCP/UDP)/network (IP) layers.
We need to stop consuming these food "studies". Every day, fat/carbs/coffee/wine is good/bad/cancerous/prevents cancer in a "new study".
Jio has enabled a digital revolution, just like Reliance Infocomm did by making all incoming calls free back in 2005 I think.

Jio has also made sure that my youtube homepage is filled with soft porn. It is an absolute scourge.

WhatsApp rumour mongering has increased a lot with lynchings happening based on the fact that law and order can’t keep up pace with technology.

I also see that lots of unemployed people now are just engrossed in WhatsApp videos nearly all day. It should have made job searching easier, but wages are depressed to such a degree that people just lose all hope and find solace in the mindless videos. Indirect consequences of the technology too.
How would you count views or reach?
https://ffprofile.com does almost the same thing, albeit without the memory stuff described in this gist.
Always in Berlin the knee jerk response to what is going on "We have to keep the rents down!" in response to housing crisis....never "We have to raise pays!"
Pay situation for many jobs in Berlin and to some extent most of Germany is just abysmal, even in tech in many cases.

If people here put half the energy in fighting for fairer remuneration for their work rather than whining about the raising rent and property prices that come with being a desirable city and country...
Tesla stock falls 9 pct after CEO appears to smoke marijuana during interview
> we call them "shreds"

...as in, the results should be inserted into a paper shredder.
Some of us actually do live here. And some of us absolutely share your views.

But you need look no further than this very forum to see one country's feeble attempts to leave the sorry cirkus habitually likened to the end of civilisation as we know it.

We're on a road to nowhere good whatsoever.
Mechanical Turk doesn't have built-in quality assurance so unless you're very skilled in QA systems or have a lot of money to burn on validation it's going to give poor results. Btw it's relatively hard to build a QA system that validates work, establishes trusted workers and optimizes for cost without significant redundancy.

I do the technology at an MTurk competitor that automates the quality assurance/training process and pays fair wages to refugees to do the work (workaround.online) if anyone is interested in an alternative to MTurk that is still relatively cheap I would highly recommend it.
CFO and Chief of HR both left? coincidence? must just be the shorts and their propagandizing

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/another-tesla-executive-leav...
How will voting help when property rights are concerned? Are you advocating for eminent domain?

FYI, rising rents are a hotly debated topic in Berlin, and have been for years. Sadly, the previous government was asleep at the wheel in the last decade with regard to housing. The current government is a center-left three-party coalition. The department responsible for urban development is led by a politician from the Left party. Her previous undersecretary (Andrej Holm) had somewhat radical views with regards to urban housing but was forced out by what I consider a smear campaign soon after the government was formed.
While BMW has moved up a lot in recent years in reliability ratings Mercedes is sitting at 14th place behind Hyundai, Nissan, Mazda etc.
> That way, the vacuum can't access the internet but I can still control it.

Interesting! The camera functionality still works without an internet connection? I'd always assumed that some of the processing was getting offloaded to the "cloud," since I couldn't see another reasonable need for the wifi connection.
Very cool little project. The adapter board that got designed to make this is pretty neat. For $99 (Projector) and $10 for the Pi and the Adapter board ($4) (and shipping to your part of the world) you can get a programmable projector. I'm thinking of building one that I can hang on the network to do "headless" displays with.
have I anywhere said anything to that extend?
what are the reasons for disabling memory and disk cache, and lowering dns caching?
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Yeah that's not a rotating door of anything. Both those executives were with the company for 2-5 years before they decided to leave. Wheeler was almost certainly fired because Musk wanted Ahuja back. Consider that the announcement of Ahuja's return occured one day after Wheeler's announcement. Sorry, this entire narrative you have invested in of executives running for the hills just has no relation to reality.
config.trim_on_minimize = true
Reduce memory usage when minimized. (Windows only)
-This really helped for me
I agree. Yet people keep voting for socialism.
The new hotness is ARC (arc-spec.org), which I understand came out of DMARC? Not sure though, don't know too much about it.

For DMARC, it's not so awesome :\ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900765
Totally (mostly) off topic:

I'd love to see an index of who uses what. I see the who's using us section, and some of those names look familiar from other sections. So it'd be fun to flip things and show what any given company is using.

I dunno, maybe scrap prodcuts from product hunt?
He was mentally ill, didn't take his medicine and harrassed female youtubers like Physics Girl via email on livestreams. Circlejerking degenerates took turns on praising him and baiting him while building a cult on 4chan's tech board, ultimately enabling his dementia induced behaviours. It was a downward cycle that only had one outcome: suicide.

I'm not glad he is dead, but I'm glad he is gone.
The following may sound like out-of-the-blue. To expedite the discussion, however, allow me to state that it has been in reviews at the highest levels of responsible organizations without receiving a shot yet. So, please enjoy the information.

The IPv4 address shortage issues have been resolved. We came upon a scheme that can expand each public IPv4 address by 256M (Million) fold without affecting the current Internet. A proposal called EzIP (phonetic for Easy IPv4) has been submitted to IETF:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-add...

Essentially, among other benefits, EzIP can establish a sub-Internet capable of serving an area with up to 256M IoTs from just one IPv4 address. This is bigger than the largest city (Tokyo metro) and 75% of the countries. This can realize the CIR (Country-based Internet Registry) model proposed by ITU a few years ago stealthily even without setting up a CIR organization. If a government is not interested in this resources, private enterprises can make use of it to provide "local" Internet service in parallel to the current "global" Internet services, very much like the Independent telephone companies in the PSTN industry.

The current Internet then becomes the backbone / infrastructure / skeleton for interconnecting these sub-Internets, yet only for carrying inter sub-Internet traffic, very similar as the electric grid supporting islands of renewable energy generated by individual homes and businesses. Consequently, there will be a lot of spare IPv4 addresses for quite sometime to come.

Then, much of the efforts in deploying IPv6 are no longer needed.

Thoughts and comments will be much appreciated.

Abe (2018-09-07 10:49)
I missed that, than ...it's true.

I'm shedding bitter tears.
Indeed. In some cases the opposite was done; the message was given out as a whole, and some were told off-the-record that it didn't include them, this is another problematic approach.

Clearly this is how I became aware of the situation.
It has a separate operator for adding two floats: +.
> So hopefully, this will not impact smaller SaaS companies as much as it might look.

... this would not impact smaller SaaS companies ...

This isn't a law yet and I don't think most people want it to become one.

That said, I disagree that this isn't a terrible burden for the small guy. Even if it would be trivial to set up, all the other downsides remain and it leads to lock-in in the form of dependence on large companies who have implemented this.

More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person.
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In one case in particular, I wasn't the manager and it wasn't software but it was something similar (research/writing) where iteration is to be expected. However, this was a case where the person had to be held by the hand through rewrite after rewrite with others ultimately doing most of the work.

Should the employee have been given a clear "improve or you're gone" early on? In retrospect, yes. On the other hand, workplaces that have a low patience for people who don't quickly get to full running speed aren't necessarily the best places to work. And, to use your analogy, if you're dropping a lot of balls as a receiver, the coach shouldn't need to tell you that your job is at risk.

This was also a very small company so there really weren't other types of positions. It also meant there weren't a lot of formal processes. On the other hand, the connection between work and results was pretty clear.

I agree with your points as a general principle. On the other hand, it's reasonable to expect some degree of self-awareness which can be lacking to a surprising degree.
> Again... Google is already trying to do this for me. No, thank you - I can easily set up there rules for myself.

But most people can't. Google isn't doing this for people like you, they are doing it for people like me that either don't know how to set it up or are happy for somebody else to take care of it for them.

And even for people like yourself that have the skills to set up these rules - why do you want to? Surely there are higher value projects for you to apply these skills.
It's interesting that these technologies acted as a brake or limiter on the compexities of the businesses/organisations that relied upon them - and this, IMO, was a good thing, as it meant by extension that the entire enterprise was comprehensible to humans.

Contrast with today, where it is trivial to build software that enables - and thereby imposes - hugely complicated processes and rules, as often as not with little or no aggregate benefit.

My go-to example here is WWII, where the western democracies were able to run hugely complicated beaurocracies for, inter alia, logistics and codebreaking, with superlative efficiency using little more than pen and paper (the use of computers in codebreaking being technical rather than administrative or procedural of course). If we found ourselves in a similar situation today there would be stormtroopers marching down Whitehall while our top brass were still in requirements capture workshops.
> GDPR

“My oh my, we won't be able to sell people online life without them knowing it”

> local movie quotas on services like Netflix

Promoting local culture, what a shame.

> arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy salute

Of course, if someone is training their dog to do a “Bellamy” salute when prompted by statements including “Heil Hitler” and “gas the Jews”, the chances that this guy is a closet neo-nazi are so low[0] – BTW, you're the only one presenting it as a Bellamy salute, that sounds like if you were trying to cover a neo-nazi.

> I can't think of a single reason other than vacation days that I'd ever want to live there.

Nah, even for vacations, please don't come here, it's awful, you wouldn't like it.

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/scottish-man-who-t...
LEDs could be harmful to health – the EU halogen ban will make it worse
Exactly. We can be quite sure that whatever CFO Tesla hires is well-aware of the expected workload, stress levels etc in advance.

While we don't know for sure why they resign so quickly, it has to do with something surprising that happens after they join.

The CFO and those who hire him have decades of industry experience collectively. A CFO quitting so quickly is not a result desired by any of them. This is not some fluke or a minor issue.

There's no positive way to spin this.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
People seem to focus on the joint, but I am more worried that he can't piece a few coherent sentences together.
That is a case of correlation is not causation, and it's essentially one of the biggest problems faced by macroeconomists and policymakers alike (alongside... many other fields, of course). Unfortunately there's no way to determine causality without extensive experimentation, and more unfortunately monetary and fiscal policy do not allow for the same playgrounds that other fields have access to. We know certain policies work, but for those what's then missing is to what extent.
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If you're looking for an easy way to test your outgoing mail setup, I recommend mail-tester.com. They give you an address to send an email to, then analyse it and tell you how you can make it more deliverable.
It was beach house and yacht trips, considering we had zero customers (B2B).
It was relatively big in European universities during the mid-90's.

Former Oberon researchers now work on GraalVM, Go.

The Austrian university which collaborates with Oracle Labs on Graal, used to do Oberon research before switching to Java with Sun Labs.

Java and .NET kind of killed it.
They'll be a unicorn like Uber in no time at this pace!
Currency inflation measures the value of currency relative to... everything. Inflation is a fall in the value of currency.

Why do you want a special term for e.g. the dollar falling by 8% at the same time that the british pound also falls by 8% (in which case the value of one currency relative to the other doesn't change)?
The missing link: http://www.projectoberon.com/
Hey, I'm all for "raise the pay for everyone". I just don't see that happening and I do see the issues arising from "raise the rents and keep the pay low" all around me. I'm even a part of the issue, since I'm on the "hey, I can afford the rent for that nice, freshly renovated flat." side of the equation. Good friends are on the other side. I could go and close my eyes and willfully ignore that, but I'm afraid that won't make the issue go away.
That’s pure trolling:

First off, the Article 13 in question was already rejected once by Parliament and is expected to be repealed against (but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious, good on Mozilla).

> GDPR

While not uncontroversial, GDPR is generally seen as a good thing by experts.

> arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy salute

This didn’t happen. The man was arrested for hate speech, not for gestures his dog made. It’s also unrelated to EU law.

> arresting people for having potato peelers in public

This didn’t happen. The man was arrested for wielding a weapon in public. This weapon happened to be a knife (but not a potato peeler, though it was called that by the press: it had a fixed > 3″ long blade) but the nature of the weapon is secondary; what’s relevant for the arrest was the fact that the man wielded it as a weapon. And, again, this has nothing to do with EU legislation. And some additional context: the knife wielding laws in the UK are indeed pretty draconian but the UK, which is generally pretty low on violent crimes, has a specific problem with knife crimes and is therefore tackling the problem heads-on. Seems reasonable.

> I can't think of a single reason other than vacation days that I'd ever want to live there.

Really? https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...

(In fact, even with occasional questionable laws being passed on EU levels the legal situation in the EU, both on EU and on country level, is still a lot saner than e.g. in the US.)
"Welfare rights"?!

That's a great neologism. It's now a right to take other people's paychecks?
> dom.event.contextmenu.enabled = false

This is a blunt tool. Some sites uses context menu events in a benign way. A better alternative is to simply bypass context handlers with shift-rightclick when necessary.

> webgl.force-enabled

This isn't really a performance improvement. If webgl is disabled it's due to troublesome drivers. Forcing it on can crash things.

> layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = true
> layers.offmainthreadcomposition.async-animations = true

Those are the defaults anyway on supported platforms
Whats the explanation for why all the talent leaving?
The ‘ask gap’: New evidence on the supply side of the gender wage gap
When I was a smoker I found that the smoke pit was the only area in the company where senior leadership and new, low-level hires would openly converse without the typical formalities. This often lead to people being pulled into projects they wouldn't typically have access to.

For me, I often received extremely valuable input from folks in other departments for the projects I was working on -- typically people in production had the most innovative ideas compared to that department's leadership.
Interesting that you can secure text that is a password/passphrase. For a moment there I thought this was something like Tails OS' encrypted clipboard[1] feature, but alas, no.

[1] https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/gpgapplet/...
Rental glut sends a chill through the hottest housing markets
+1 for High Output Management. Great book.
B.S. You just need to re-zone massive sprawling single-family zones into mid-rises.

The "american dream" of a massive house for every couple can't survive the 21st century without triggering a revolution.
Is there a simple, objective summary of the proposed rules? Everything I've seen is propaganda trying to convince me they're the end of the internet, which makes me quite wary of the authors' motivations.
I was thinking about summarizing some of my own changes for this as well, but I realized I didn't realize what a lot of these settings actually did.

One setting I read about recently I wanted changed was to turn off URL trimming, so http:// still displays and the like: browser.urlbar.trimURLs
I get the impression that ride-hailing is the new file storage or image upload business of our days: tempting but inherently not a valid business model.
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I was expecting more historical evidence to support this argument. I’m not saying I have an opinion on whether it’s wrong or right, but I would like to see how the dollar performed during previous rate hikes.
I'm assuming that "bellamy" is a weird autocorrect for "Hitler", in which case I refer to my recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927075

The illegal act was sending the threatening message "gas the jews" through a telecommunications system.

The potato peeler incident: https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/03/british-man-arrested-for-...

Homeless man with learning difficulties wielding a knife-like object in public?

In both cases the relevant law is UK domestic criminal law, not EU law.
A practical and high stakes application of these same points:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tel...

Reading that NYT piece sharply impacted how I communicate undesirable information
Not entirely a direct relationship but often heavily related is the international Fisher effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fisher_effect).
I believe there was/is a stage 0 proposal for pattern matching in ECMAScript
You can use an automated (customisable) tool at saveyourinternet.eu to do this too.
You're close to the truth in the second paragraph there. I don't want to go into too much detail, the company is doing well now (I believe) and I harbor no ill-will.

There were issues throughout the ranks, the company grew quickly and had issues adapting. I think the exodus gave them an opportunity to begin again without those that had been jaded by experience.