skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evernote can export notes into ENEX XML document itself.
I've used https://github.com/laurent22/joplin to import this ENEX file and access most of the features (formatting, images) but not other (i.e. password protected values)
The basic premise of the article is that

systems programming=irrelevant bloat and abstraction

while

data reduction=definite purpose and utility

People writing python notebooks to do data analysis are probably fairly comparable to the scientific computing programmers of the past, but I feel like this picture tends to dismiss the computer science side of systems programming:things like GUIs, network code, processes and virtual memory, all the architectural aspects of computing.

One might prefer APL or Forth for writing one-page programs, and it's probably true that systems now are bloated relative to what they could be. Still, there is much of interest going on in a typical operating system, compiler or video game, while a typical data analysis notebook is IMO fairly dull and even basic, from a software angle.
I trust my eyes. The ads that get through filters show that a trillion dollar company tries to earn another cent of my data and ddg team doesn’t, at least it is not instantly visible. Chances are, their business model really implements my privacy, while a $1T guys openly sell it asap. Health, porn, food, tech, politics — everything. If ddg datamines me too, then, well, data buyers remain the same and there is no way to hide the fact of sale. Given that, is there a reason to trust them less?
My 6s has amazingly poor battery life even after I got the battery replaced and this was before battery gate. I got frustrated and bought an 8 Plus because I knew it had a very large battery and the battery life while using it is about at iPad levels - I can use it all day without it breaking a sweat.

I updated my 6s and reset it to see if that improves the battery life situation.
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Don't regulate job ads targeting at all, so that it's as cheap as possible to post a job ad and so that there are no burdens on websites that host job listings.
I'm still surprised that there'd be an element of uncertainty. Wouldn't you want to be sure that your code would pass before pushing it out for others to see? What if you pushed and the CI gave you a red X, wouldn't you then feel bad when your coworkers see that and think you are a poor coder? Seems to me it'd be best to be absolutely sure everything would pass before letting anyone else read the code...
This really isn’t why Evernote is dying. The product as a concept is fine and has a lot of users.

The problem is the people running it now don’t have the passion for it. And a bunch of core employees either got fired or left since Phil left.
You're absolutely right about this, and the casual dismissal from GP is the kind of attitude that landed us in the scenario that AMP claims (ostensibly) to fix.
Huge mismanagement. I used to be a loyal EN user. Even considered paying for the premium offering, but they just didn't price it properly for what was offered. They also went some weird directions that I didn't like, and removed features that I did like. Then they kept raising rates. They also never put in a dark mode or even themes and made constant changes to make it impossible for it to be done easily on the user side.

Edit: To be clear I'm paying for Standard Notes right now. So I'm not someone against paying for good things.
There are options that let you write the bulk of your code in one language then code platform specific user-interfaces against that library. This is basically the Xamarin philosophy for iOS/Android development, and Xamarin apps generally offer a much better user experience than these web-app wrappers cluttering the App Store.
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That was the first public release. There used to be a History.md file in the repo with the January date. There was a lot of experimentation even before that - browsers started adding experimental WS support on the second half of 2009, right as node was gearing up. Some artifacts from that era:

https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c4125128...

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-moni...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/1Bla2JHc3f0/N3fpKe7dY...

Another thing to keep in mind is that the precursor SSJS environments like Jack/Narwhal, Helma etc probably added it even earlier. Hard to tell since GitHub itself was new and many of these sources are hard to find today.
> it's that if we were collectively trying to solve the problem of page bloat, we could probably do a much better job in general than AMP does.

There are a lot of people interested in reducing page bloat. Outside of AMP, I'm not aware of any other efforts. (Discounting just telling people to write better pages which is basically just telling people to status quo harder)

One of the repeated critisicms of AMP seems to be that its debloating could easily be done better - but if it's so easy, why is no one doing it?
Why don't you just add "this article originally appeared on" the way search engine land does?
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> "rent-seeking real estate speculators"

A rent-seeking speculator? Not sure how you're using that phrase but I don't think rent-seeking applies here.
It’s not a bad idea to stick them on their own VLAN as well, with access exclusively to the NVR and/or specific management devices. Their only purpose is to feed video back to specific systems, why let anything else touch them at all?
Just call your model "AI" and people will become interested. You're not p-hacking, you're hand-tuning hyperparameters!
Curious but what business are you in that's complementary to data science?
You can say this exact thing about every product in existence.

That and “could build it in a weekend”.
I don't know why you think I was advocating for free stuff. I was not. I'm happy to pay for content I want. It's what time companies should be doing instead of not charging, tracking invasively, and selling user data. If you can convince people to pay for your content then the market is telling you you don't have a viable business.
Esperanto?
Mismanagement and not exiting at the right time.
What is a branch in Git?
This limitation is especially frustrating when a fork becomes the "primary" repo for a project for some reason. It's probably not a common occurrence overall, but I've run into it at least a couple of times.

A good example is that GitHub's own repo for their CommonMark implementation isn't searchable, because it's a fork of cmark: https://github.com/github/cmark/
> If a company isn't growing, its dying

I can't argue the logic, but this makes me sad. Can't someone make a product that people will pay for that is sustainable over time (even if # new users == # lost users )? Why does everything have to be huge to exist?
Closing apps on iOS unless they are using location services in the background (which you can disable) doesn’t save anything in terms of battery life or processor usage most of the time.
Yes, installed smoothly, seems faster. For example, time until the camera is up by swiping right on the lock screen is 2-3 seconds instead of roughly 6-8 seconds.
If formalwear of the future is to consist of multiple popular styles, and not just the western suit, then we shouldn't discourage people from trying clothing from other cultures.
If it's hard for a dev to write a native apps, then maybe they should re-evaluate their career choices and leave it to the competent ones.
...should've made that native linux client.

I stopped using them after they made it clear they had no interest in supporting a linux client. Not sure if they have changed their attitude since then, but that ship has sailed as far as I am concerned.
> If you don't want to sign, they won't do business with you.

That's illegal. Consent to processing can not be a prerequisite for service. [0] (Otherwise GDPR would have no power, even in theory.)

If the processing is so important that service cannot be provided without it, or wouldn't be legal to offer, it's covered under Art. 6(1)(b), (c), or (f): performance of a contract, legal obligation, or legitimate interest of the business. Consent—Art. 6(1)(a)—is what you use when you just want the data but don't actually require it to offer the service.

Saying "Sign consent or go away" is saying "We could serve you without this, but we want it, so we're lying and saying we can't."

It seems like almost everyone has chosen this weird malicious non-compliance (maximum annoyance but without the compliance) as their GDPR strategy.

Maybe lawyers found a way to claim that left is right and up is down.

[0] Art. 7(4): https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
Stop using autistic to denigrate. /Reported.
'People thought we were interns but we were in charge'
> Public schools are underfunded.

Compared to what? Spending per pupil in K-12 are up >2x compared to 40 years ago, adjusted for inflation. Worldwide, they are second only to Norway and Switzerland. Moreover, the poorer and worse performing schools typically enjoy higher spending per capita than richer schools. See e.g. [1]. For a specific example, look at the public schools in DC, which have absolutely atrocious educational outcomes, while enjoying double of the national per-student spending (which is already very high by itself). DC is literally spending 4x as much per student than US was on average in 1970s (again, inflation adjusted), and having worse educational outcomes than US in 1970s on average.

> Also, who measures children by “quality”?

Hardly anyone, which is why you have uninformed opinions about how increasing funding will improve outcomes. We already did it. It didn't work one bit[2].

[1] - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...

[2] - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DW0f2MbVAAAw_69.jpg
This directive has been simultaneously criticised for being both
a) an outrageous cash grab from the EU, aimed at making money from Google et al
and
b) an incompetent "poorly drafted" piece of legislation that stops anyone competing with YouTube, hence ensuring their monopoly in the lucrative "boring videos" market.
Even the Stanford NLP Java implementations don’t always match the code they’re meant to be a translation of. I think R is a worse offender than Python.
I wonder why "data engineer" isn't one of the suggested terms. Scientists do not really program science, nor do programmers research programs, as their respective fields of expertise.
Is marketer the new journalist?
If you have 100MM users 6 years ago and you have 100MM users now you still have an impressive 100MM users.

(They don’t, but just illustrating that not every business needs hockey stick growth to be viable).
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Firefox didn’t use the Gecko engine on Android until a week ago and it’s still in beta.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/
Falling in love with Rust
I am your lawyer and investment advisor, and this is legal and investment and skincare advice.

Short APPL, pay your taxes, wear sunscreen.
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I was talking about your car.

The reason why apple offers those services is because it has competition. If they figure out how to make third party repair intractable, you can expect a full reversion to the "screw you, buy a new device" state of affairs.
I recently moved to SF Bay Area. I live in Fremont (cannot afford to live in SF). I don't know any good places to hang out with peer entrepreneurs. I guess I should try harder.
One of the things that seems the most unfair to me about global trade is that for many American internet companies, China just totally bans them. Everything from Facebook and Google to smaller players gets hit by the great firewall. That is way more impactful than a tariff of 5% or 25%. With all of the talk of how China is or is not playing fair, I feel like their internet bans get taken for granted, and I wish there was more pressure to play fairly there.
The problem is if you raise 300M for a note taking app you need to come up with some plausible way for your company to be worth 3B. There is such thing as raising too much.
You won't believe it, but I had this exact same idea in my mind. Can I please get an invite?
I think I like when programming is hard.

When you're working on your own project, some time sink that you didn't anticipate may be frustrating, but other than that, I definitely prefer it to coding something I already know how to do well.
I am considering making the switch when my Pixel 2XL is no longer getting security updates, but I agree with your point. I don't think I'd pull the trigger unless they stopped that ridiculous behaviour. Every other operating system I've ever used has allowed other rendering engines.
It's not writing the native code that's the problem, it's designing the same GUI experience across platforms that's nearly impossible to do.

If it was so easy as you said, a lot of macOS apps would've been portable to Windows years ago given the market share.

I work for a cross-platform company, Windows is a much more difficult to develop for compared to macOS. You can write a Cocoa UI but what do you do on Windows when you need to support Windows 7 and above? Win32 controls are grossly outdated but the best accessible/consistent experience across multiple versions, UWP controls is limited to Windows 10 and best under MS Store, WPF has been neglected but so far it is the fastest way to develop a GUI. Microsoft has decided to split UWP out of Microsoft Store to bring it to everyone with UWP XAML Islands etc.

The reason Slack prefers Electron is because you can just write the same HTML/CSS front-end, deploy it, and all Slack apps can simply be refreshed to show the newest UI. You cannot do that with native apps at all. You could get around with a few webviews embedded in the native apps but might as well go full Electron.
Is there anyone selling CCTV cameras with good software?
in claiming that our rights are self evident, we are very much saying that everyone else is wrong.
Got a portfolio you can link to?
We're actually accumulating quite a list of these "stop" words. I can think of dozens off of the top of my head, many of which don't seem obviously problematic, but could easily get a person fired if used in the wrong context.

It'd be nice to have a curated list. In theory, both pro- and anti-PC folks ought to agree on that.
It is. I was a data engineer at spacex this past summer.
Periodical Cicadas
For Firefox Focus, which is a fairly young (released last year for Android) offshot. The main Firefox for Android has been using its own engine all along.
Stripe is great for small websites in the US.

It's disappointing for global payments and for high volume. I wish all developers here to outgrow Stripe.
> Then stagnated while tons of competitors blossomed.

Which competitors have blossomed and are also cross-platform? I can think of OneNote, but the 'clip from web' feature in Evernote is superior IMO. But I hate Evernote's "rich" (my foot) text editor for being so dumb and so basic, and the lack of organisation that tags and notebooks give, and am always keen to find a replacement.

Replacements always seem to have better features, but the cost of getting a note into them is higher.
Your numbers are a little off. 16 Billion in aid. How much has Puerto Rico paid in taxes? I remember when people where losing their minds in the blue states when federal aid was given to a red state.

Tesla is rebuilding your infrastructure. Tesla get so many subsidizes it's not funny.

Let us not forget how inept your local government is.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-storm-aid/puer...

https://electrek.co/2018/06/03/tesla-energy-storage-projects...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/13/left-huge-stockpile-b...
It's added to all soy milk, far as I know, so personally I've never had to worry about that, I get B12 with my breakfast cereal.
One big problem with appropriation occurs when the native culture has been forcefully damaged via colonization. Many people in the minority have only tenuous connections to their culture, because it deliberately wasn't taught.

If, in that situation, the dominant culture appropriates (and muddies) a concept, it becomes very hard to discern what items in your culture even mean.

This element of power imbalance or colonisation is what makes cultural appropriation harmful. It's also, at least the way I see it, what makes it appropriation - otherwise it's an exchange, and that's vital for cultures to grow.

So what you defend when you protest cultural appropriation is specifically the transfer with an existing power imbalance. It's not "what you're born into defines you", but "people have already taken so much, let us keep what little we have"
Or they could have used one of the dozens of apps that have the functionality....
Price gouging drastically reduces shortages because anyone with supply will be tempted to quickly move in to capture the high price on the curve. It also encourages people to actually plan ahead so the entire population isn't trying to buy a full tank of gas the same day.

You think price gouging is unethical, I think price capping is unethical and harmful since it encourages hoarding and shortages.
> The nymphs emerge in large numbers about the same time, sometimes more than 1.5 million individuals per acre (>370/m²).[14] Their mass emergence is a survival trait called predator satiation: for the first week after emergence, the periodical cicadas are an easy prey for reptiles, birds, squirrels, cats, and other small and large mammals.[5][15] Early ideas maintained that the cicadas' overall survival mechanism was simply to overwhelm predators by their sheer numbers, ensuring the survival of most of the individuals. The emergence period of large prime numbers (13 and 17 years) was hypothesized to be a predator avoidance strategy adopted to eliminate the possibility of potential predators receiving periodic population boosts by synchronizing their own generations to divisors of the cicada emergence period.[16] Another viewpoint holds that the prime-numbered developmental times represent an adaptation to prevent hybridization between broods with different cycles during a period of heavy selection pressure brought on by isolated and lowered populations during Pleistocene glacial stadia, and that predator satiation is a short-term maintenance strategy.[17] This hypothesis was subsequently supported through a series of mathematical models, and stands as the most widely accepted explanation of the unusually lengthy and mathematically precise immature period of these insects.[18] The length of the cycle was hypothesized to be controlled by a single gene locus, with the 13-year cycle dominant to the 17-year one,[19] but this interpretation remains controversial and unexplored at the DNA level.
LibreOffice has native versions for all major desktop platforms, does many more things than Slack, and is maintained by open source volunteers and the Document Foundation staff of six.
I don't do much JS either.

I am going to try Fennel, specifically look over your work on Fennel and the game you did. I am sure it will speak tons to my questions. I can always try and duplicate efforts in Lumen if I really want to know for myself if it is a good fit for me and my needs. Thanks!
In fact, I'd argue it's virtually guaranteed.

You can look at the list of AMP components we have right now[0], including some stuff from the social section:

- Facebook comments

- Vine

- Twitter

- #!?X Riddle.com

So what happens when Facebook changes how its comments works, or adds more Javascript or bloat to the component? What happens when Vine closes down?

Does anyone really think that an AMP committee is going to say, "No, your component isn't efficient enough Facebook, we won't update what code gets shipped"? We've traded a composable API for company-specific widgets. And once you decide to have company specific widgets, two things happen.

First, when the AMP standard really does become commonplace you get complaints that it's too difficult to get new components approved and updated, and that this is anti-competitive and unfair to smaller companies who are just trying to launch their own Vine replacement. Second, once you open up the process and make it easier to approve new components, people start shipping a bunch of awful code that breaks existing widgets and slows down pages because some CEO somewhere decides, "we can have an fancy widget on the Google? We need that by next week."

So then we'll try to come up with some kind of automated system to tell if components themselves are performant which will... sort of work. And the question we apparently won't ask at that point is, "why didn't we just start with the automated system for weeding out bad code and use that to rank websites, and skip the whole AMP thing?"

Seriously, AMP has only 15 social components right now, and 1 of them is already for a dead service that no longer exists and that will absolutely go completely offline at some point in the future. I'm sure this system is going to scale just great.

[0]: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components
Ubquiti Unifi is one.
In theory, FedEx overnight envelopes, their most lucrative business, just died in Washington state. Am I right?
Where I work, the data scientists are more educated and experienced on containerization, CI tooling, unit testing, profiling tools, web service prototyping including API validation tools, caching layers, queues, GPU systems programming, etc. etc.

We are constantly thwarted by infrastructure teams that use superficial policy basically so they can whine and complain that they don’t want to have to provide support for the extremely heavily researched and tested implementation we create.

They don’t care that different technologies, database systems, whatever are chosen to solve customer use cases and that growing our business means supporting “Lovecraftian concoctions of R and Python” — they just don’t want to do their jobs (which indeed requires providing infrastructure support for crazy screwball data services that repeatedly break all the assumptions)...
It's scary how much this comment applies to my current job. Literally just spent today discussing with entire engineering org how to steer away from this behavior.
There are plenty of businesses like that. They just don't make the headlines very often.
The U.S. is a popular tax haven for people in other countries, and the City of London is the center of a whole network of tax havens. It's not just remote islands looking for a way to scrape by.

A great book on how it all works is Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson.