skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't have to make different binaries for different architectures? Pretty obvious I would have thought.
Dunkin' Donuts is officially dropping 'Donuts' from its name
Looks good, will give it a go. One bit of feedback, the viewport in Safari is busted - https://imgur.com/a/ksfCCtK

What kind of import formats are you planning to support? DDL, dot, UML?
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Startups: Masters of Scale

Startups: a16z

Startup History: How I built this.

Comedy: Nothing beats the old episodes of the Bugle for a laugh.
Google now works in France
Socialized healthcare just means that healthcare is primarily a government monopoly and monopolies always provide their service as the highest possible cost with the lowest possible quality.

The waiting times in DK were at one point so bad that it was mandated by law, that certain timeframes for treatment must be respected, but this is rarely possible. I had one family member diagnosed with cancer i november, treatment started in february, death was in september. Another just last week, was hit by a heart attack, something blocking the arteries. She received some pills/nitro and was told she needed a scan of the heart in order to fix the problem, and that she should come back in a month or so. We're hoping she'll make it that far.

I can't say how much worse this is than in the US, but it seems to me that the problems the US face in terms of steep pricing are also the result of government regulation.
This is so fucking true. If anything you can see this in the real marketplace. Consumers have become so averse to paying for software because they see gmail, google maps, google keep, docs and photos as available for “free” - meaning they have to part with something from their life but not the cash, so why the hell pay for anything else?
Russia invades another country. You are the President of the US. Your options are:

1.) Do nothing. Poland, and the parts of Germany that used to be East Germany, might not like the long term consequences of this plan.

2.) Start a nuclear war, killing hundreds of millions of people. A few disadvantages to this plan as well.

3.) Economic sanctions. You can certainly say this will kill people by way of depressing GDP growth. Will it kill fewer people than a full nuclear exchange between the US and Russia?
> much more if they are married to a zero-income spouse

In France it's the same, but here's a major difference once you add kids to the equation:

Each kid of a couple counts the same as "0.5 zero-income spouse", up to 3 kids. After the 3rd kid (or if the kid has handicap), they count the same as "1 full zero-income spouse"

So for a couple with one spouse with a salary of X , one spouse without job, and 2 kids, the taxes would be calculated as if there was 3 persons making X/3 each, instead of 2 people making X/2 in the US.
Given that the tax brackets are even more progressive than in the US, the impact seem huge.
It can because you'd just add Wasm as a new machine type. That would be intrinsically architecture-independent because... it is.
I actually missed this, that said the pertinent details that would concern me and others like me are covered right here:

> As is expected with Apple now, searches and results are all encrypted and anonymized and cannot be attributed to any individual user. Once you click on the ‘Show Google results’ link, of course, you’re off to Google and its standard tracking will apply. Clicking directly on a website result will take you straight there, not through Google.

In effect, this is much like using Startpage instead of google.com, at least up until you load a full results page (which I actually haven't done in quite a long time now that I think about it).
The URL hiding change is NOT reversed or shelved, only delayed:

> Thanks for the feedback so far. We plan to collect additional feedback, particularly about the enterprise use case, before launching the feature. We will not be launching the "www" elision in M70.

Note: “before launching” the feature post-M70.
Pretty much. Companies are good until they star leveraging their market position. Either you give us everything, or you can't do basic things.

A work around was to create a G Maps link on my phone with directions to an address (e.g., home).

But honestly, I took the plunge and carry around a feature phone now. Haven't missed the smartphone much.
Google’s Eric Schmidt accidentally discovers labor unions
I wasn't in any real sense. Until of course the view of my next turn was obstructed... Are Uber drivers "using their phone"?
>> it's purely an exercise in philosophy and logic

> It's of little use as long as it is.

I didn't mean to imply uselessness; my previous comment was worded poorly. Aside from the spiritual aspects, logic and philosophy alone often manage to achieve (or form the basis of) incredibly useful things.

> the whole clue is a thing we can experience directly

The trouble I have with this is that trying to differentiate between "true self is separate from body" and "body is all there is" based on an experience seems to beg the question. If the former is true, then the experience is what it seems. But if the latter is true, then the experience itself is yet another bodily event - one that results in you (the body in this case) coming away with a false understanding.

A parallel might be someone who feels quite certain about a fact (ie experiences a sense of knowledge), but that "knowledge" later turns out to be false. In light of this, how can we use a direct experience to differentiate the above?

Of course this line of reasoning can be (repeatedly) applied to anything, so at some point I suppose we just have to accept that there are enough separate lines of evidence and that something is presumably true. But I don't think a single direct experience which itself involves the system in question (ie the body) is enough.

As an aside, my rambling on about unknowable-ness isn't intended as an attack against your interpretation of things but rather just general pondering of the (current?) limits of human knowledge and experience.
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It'll be very interesting to see what happens with the next macOS when Python 2 will be EOL (which is roughly 3 months after its release). The upgrade to Python 3 is long overdue.
I came to the bay for a few days before a PhD interview (cognitive science). My friend convinced me to crash on her couch and find a job in SF. I skipped the interview, taught myself some web dev, and got a job at a startup.

I was pretty burnt out on research at that point. I can guarantee I wasn't mature enough or stable enough to get through a PhD program.
I've seen the error of my ways. I thought they were just behind the curve a bit. I did not know it was scamware.

No I am not affiliated.
There's good and bad to America being able to do things unilaterally. The bad is stuff like the Iraq War. But two examples of its good are the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has global reach and has been used in enforcement actions against international businesses operating internationally, and more recently the Magnitsky Act.

Both of these are the best exports of American influence and require the US to be at the center of all things financial.
With my 2012 rMBP (first gen retina, with nVidia GT 650M) I cannot play video on various websites using Firefox since about a year or two. Did an OS reinstall, switched to nVidia native drivers, nothing helps. It plays the first second of video, then freezes, audio does continue. Youtube does work, but performance is poor.
> There were harassment complaints that kicked the whole thing off.

Nope, what kicked the whole thing off is somebody found his profile on a thematic forum, got offended by a years-old post they misunderstood, and complained to the CWG Committee. Which found no fault. Then Klaus Purer started a personal harassment campaign against him. Which became public and when CWG declined to punish him for having a private life, was escalated to public hounding that eventually led to Dries Buytaert and others kicking him out. He never harassed anyone. If you don't believe me, here's example of press coverage:

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.htm...

" although no one has made any specific allegations of abuse, and in fact many women have come forward to defend Garfield."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/sex-and-gor-and-open-sourc...

"It’s worth noting that a handful of women who worked with Larry did not report harassment or abuse from him in the workplace. We can’t know for sure if he committed offenses, but if there were allegations or even rumors of his mistreatment of women we would be having a very different conversation right now"

So, not even harassment allegations, let alone confirmed violations, and his only fault was his private life and "belief system" (which was also wildly misrepresented).

> he was presenting this stuff in public at Drupal events as a representative of Drupal.

He was not presenting anything besides tech content "as a representative of Drupal". If you have a private life, you are not allowed to be a representative of anything? Nothing in the presentations had a relationship to the private life (which was kept private). But even if something had some connection: imagine somebody were gay and wore a rainbow T-shirt to a conference and were removed from both the conference and the community because they "didn't keep their private life private"? You would be outraged. Yet you seem to support same treatment for somebody who is a member of a different minority, for the sole reason of being in that minority, and somehow it's OK for you.

> Please kindly drop that horseshit down the caldera of a volcano. It's an absurd category error that even you surely see through.

Nope, and no amount of swearing will mask complete lack of argument on your side here. In fact, if anything, it would highlight it - if you could say anything sensical about how "keep your gay to yourself or we'll fire you" is different from "keep your kink to yourself or we'll fire you", you'd say it. But there's nothing sensical that could be said about it, because there's no difference. So you resort to swearing. Swear away, I am not offended, I am delighted by this demonstration.
Delighted to find my favourite concept car of all time (the Renault Racoon) featured. Pity something similar never made it to market.
Watch one of the 20 minute BJ Fogg videos on habit formation. Then figure out ways to morph your bad habit into a harmless 'other' habit. Or break the feedback loops that trigger the habit.
Why does the US get to unilaterally decide who gets sanctioned and who doesn't?

Europe has a lot more to loose on an unstable Iran than the US and can't risk deals being undone because the US has a new regime every 4 years.
Not really, it was what everyone was hoping would happen for ages. Remember PNaCl?
A Seemingly Small Change to Chrome Stirs Big Controversy
As per your footnote, LA reminded most of Australian sprawl in how it’s all spread out. Brisbane, where I live, sounds big, but the actual city is rather small — and way less dense than central LA!
FTA :

>>> On the surface, the application would more closely resemble what the platform expects, while behind various libraries, teams would have more flexibility to use their choice of programming language or tooling.

I'm always fascinated by how the implementation of the core principles of an application is dictated by factors alien to it, such as OS, company organisation, etc. Therefore, the job of coding is often a small part compared to the amounts of trivialities, project management decisions, customer's ideas, corporate policies, etc. Although my soul is a coder's one, I always realize how much coding is just a small part of what I call application development.
I'm on Mac OS 10.11.6 (15G22010). The regression might be due to some interaction between Firefox and changes in the OS, if you're on a more recent version.
Infinite Monkey Cage, Material World, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Thinking Allowed, The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry.
Curious.

I'm a large person - 6'4" and I weight train extensively and my experience has been that pickup trucks and cars are the only vehicles that can comfortably fit in. And I'm usually in agreement with other large people. CUVs have a squished passenger compartment and the seating is very high off the floor pan.

4 people like me could comfortably fit inside a Corolla or a Civic but not a RAV4 or CRV.

My hunch is the CUVs have some amazing appeal for people who don't want hassle in general and don't care about the additional costs. And some people think they're cool. It's easier to grab stuff out of the back of a SUV than rummage through a sedan's trunk although they're comparably voluminous

And if your knees are weak, it's nice to shimmy into a CUV than squat into a car. But you see so many people with large guts schlepping themselves into CUVs and scraping their carcases out of the seats they're sweat-welded too and the things loose their cool image.

And you can run winter tires and get your accord through the snowy and icy weather or you can just pay the extra money for AWD and let Jesus take the wheel as needed.
Google is legal in Russia, and there is a rumour Yandex is going to launch Android smartphone in a month or so. And the store.yandex.com is up.
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They surprisingly don’t, in my experience.
It is a second factor, so the'll also need to know your password.

You will notice your key missing, then you can disable that key with your backup key. With only a password, it becomes a lot harder to notice someone stole your pw.
> The US should aggressively block any attempt to get around it.

The ubiquity of US dollars in international trade allows US to torpedo the economy of any country it so desires. It is like the US has a kill switch to shut down any economy it wishes to. But the only reason the rest of the world plays along and allows the kill switch to exist is that they trust the US to use it responsibly and only in extreme circumstances. Now with the erosion of that trust, it is to be expected for the world to move towards eliminating that threat.
You forgot to mention the 4th scenario: turning Iran into another Afghanistan or Iraq. smh!
Code of Merit, an Alternative Solution to a Code of Conduct
A bit off-topic but, how does a yubikey compare to a password manager (e.g. 1Password) + biometric auth?

What are the pros/cons?
Yep -- same with 'Macbeth' for me [the Macduff castle scene] -- especially the recent Stewart version
It's not targeted to technical communities. Chrome's market share is 50% and growing. It became successful in the first place because it's fast and simple. It's clearly targeted to average Joe by design, not programmers.
I've recently jumped off this bridge, twice. They have pretty much gone nowhere. I know you're supposed to be patient w/ these, but… it is frustrating.
Hello from the magic tavern - if you like D&D then you’ll fall in love with this.

Welcome To Night Vale - bizarre and compelling
That may be an explanation, but IMO there's a huge difference between the two, and putting both concepts under the same wording is dangerous. Selling data means surrendering any and every control over it, and if from a user (trust) perspective there's no difference to offering a service based on data, companies will choose the more lucrative one.
Sorry, I missed this - Quite simply my kidneys filter more than they're meant to, it's hereditary, as you've discovered. I've found that a cup of stone breaker tea once or twice a week keeps them at bay so that's well worth looking into. Look it up on Amazon.
Or did we misunderstand it all along?

I’m really curious, what did you think their business model was going to be given they have free services?

Surely the path they are on is the obvious one?
If exempting Google's cookies from being cleared was a bug, they would not have added a message in the UI that "you won't be signed out of your Google Account":

https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044282084020441088
There is no way to do this? Lol
I said Chrome-first. Not Chrome-only.
Because developers don't bother to read books like "Filthy Rich Clients" and "Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs", or aren't even aware they exist.

http://filthyrichclients.org/

https://joshondesign.com/c/writings

Don't use library components like JGoodies, http://www.jgoodies.com/

Also many just write everything on the UI thread, thus making the application unresponsive.

Swing can be used to make nice looking applications, even if they aren't exactly 1:1 to native ones, but that requires good UI/UX programming skills, and yes the defaults do make it a bit harder to achieve it.

Having said this, JavaFX is much easier to work with for doing graphical customization, as it is quite similar to QML and WPF in spirit.
They became the "Alpha Bet" to be AI top dog - betting to be on top....
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk

Thought they don't (yet) have openjdk11.

There's also some problems with making (at least) the openjdk8 build appear in the usual places, see https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk/issues/9 for how to do it manually.
The US gets to unilaterally decide because they've underwritten global stability and security in the post-WW2 era. Europe being one of the biggest beneficiaries of that.

And this isn't even me being a jingoistic American, I was born in Canada.
What does this table say? I'm not convinced you can just divide real salaries by PP adjusted numbers and get a meaningful result of the kind you are claiming. Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor, i.e. an inverse ranking of the highest PP?
There is nothing dark about this, they are doing this in plain sight, there is very little people (who wants to use Google services*) can do about it. Even GDPR looks more and more toothless as days go by and nothing happens to obvious violators and it only covers European users of course.
Yes, only be loyal to people who demonstrate some kind of altruism. I've had a client offer me a big raise on my hourly rate once without me even asking. It's a sign of trustworthiness.
Wonderly! American history tellers is absolutely fascinating. Also Atlanta Monster is f’in gripping.
> ... This paper shows that the “STEM shortage” phenomenon is explained by technological change, which introduces new job tasks and makes old ones obsolete. We find that the initially high economic return to applied STEM degrees declines by more than 50 percent in the first decade of working life. This coincides with a rapid exit of college graduates from STEM occupations.
US: Nice. Then we will just roll the dice once a week and point our finger to random big company of yours.
after a quick review here, it seems like folks who try (for however long) something different are content with their decision, in spite of the fear they had in what they defined as comfort, or whatever they happened to be adapted to at the time.

ie the developer turn usmc pilot. another example is the police officer i met the other day who was previously a developer at ibm for TEN years.

not to be too dark, but seems like we get a limited amount of time here on earth being conscious, so spice it up!

my bias here is that i'm currently craving something different; something totally outside of my current tech gig (recruiter, hello, DMs open ;) and have to courage to jump into the unknown...if only i could figure out how the finances and budget might work.
For me, privacy and tracking is the problem. I have nothing against ads per se. I guess we should work on meaningful stats for ad billing that doesn't involve tracking to go back to content-based rather than targetted ads.
The USA invades at least as many countries as Russia.
That's why most of the tools I use in my day to day work are Go or Rust binaries.
* Pod Save America - "Four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling conversation about politics, the press and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency."

* 99% Invisible - "Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture." - Roman Mars' voice and production is amazing, and I find the subject matter fascinating.

* Planet Money - "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening." - Often interesting looks at economic aspects of society.

* The Adventure Zone - "Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure." - They're playing D&D with their dad. It hooked me.
I feel this attitude of “just do it and see if enough people complain” is inherent in these big web companies.

Just look at how they do product naming. How many times have we seen Google or Facebook launch projects with the same name as an existing project and just use their size to steamroll over refernce to the existing work?

E.g. the Go programming language or Facebook’s Flow checker for starters.
It is not one country's place to police the world.
Also one of my favourites. You might enjoy this story also https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...
While I'm no fan of Zynga for a great many reasons, the writeup I was reading from June [1] went into detail about their current woes stemming from irrational former management, and was hopeful that the new exec and high-profile licenses would be sufficient to save them from falling off the edge.

Obviously, that didn't work out in practice (and the complete lack of transparency about running out of money is horrific), but the firing of the CEO and some of his cohorts, and the former CEO suing the company he cofounded for firing him, are objective facts, independent of whether you believe the story of why he was fired or why this would have been different.

Having worked for a bit as a contractor, and knowing how close to not having reliable funding for some of us the small contracting shop I worked for was at times, I'm less surprised by the lack of warning than I might otherwise be, though a place sufficiently large should definitely have been more...robust against that failure case.

The whole thing leaves a horrendous taste in my mouth, because I liked some of what they did (I never found TWD appealing, for whatever reason), but after I found out how horrendous their working conditions were, I couldn't convince myself to buy any more of their work.

And now I'd like to hope this will be a cautionary tale about trying to live on the knife edge of viability, but I suspect it will just go down as something where the founders take shallow lessons but not the substance behind them to heart.

[1] - https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/netflix-telltale-st...
They clearly write in the blog that they'll make changes in Chrome 70 which will release in mid-october.
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