skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling LINQ a "feature" still feels very off to me. It's a set of library functions with some very strange and, at least in my neck of the woods strongly discouraged, SQL-ish syntax that you can use if you like making it harder to understand what your code is actually doing. The library functions are...fine, to be clear, aside from the inconsistent-for-the-sake-of-inconsistent naming (and I know they want to ape SQL, but 'Select' is a map function, sorry). But...they're library functions. You should expect that stuff to exist in a programming language worth a fart.

C#'s feature changes over the last few years have been marginal. They nibble at the edges while stuff like record classes--an actually and materially valuable thing that significantly improves the writing of immutable and functional code--have been punted for multiple versions now.

C# is Java now, in a way it wasn't when it was younger. It's afraid of change and in being afraid of change has slowed to a crawl. Such is probably the way of most programming languages and ecosystems. But it is a little sad for me to see.
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Awesome Human Pose Estimation
The media tends to focus on the most extreme misconduct resulting in death, but grossly unprofessional behavior, excessive force, etc. are far more common and attract far less attention.

I was shocked at how many people are charged with resisting arrest or assault on an officer. Are that many people really resisting and assaulting the officers? Maybe, maybe not.
Seriously? A checkout operator at Costco is doing a significantly different job than one at Walmart?

You will get to compare the UX if you walk into any Walmart store...
A news story reunited Uber’s CTO with refugee boat captain who saved his life
C# has a super solid feature set, built up over years of development. When you know C# well you can really lean on it - today I was applying list operators to iterators over the results of database queries that hadn't even been evaluated yet, so that I could apply them just to a specific page of the result set. That's pretty cool - LINQ is a beast combined with the ienumerable/iqueryable interfaces.

C# might have minor drawbacks (ok single inheritance is a pain) but it works better than most languages in its class. The only thing that makes me feel inadequate is seeing some really advanced level Haskell code :o
There are, like, a million cultures out there that use an arbitrarily large number to mean "a lot" ;)
It should be that Audi and Jaguar can make a nicer interior. But their dealers hate electric cars, because there's no maintenance. Tesla's biggest advantage is their worldwide network of charging stations that is available to everyone. They also have billions of miles of ev driving experience, input into the autopilot program.

The real engineering advantage tesla has is their proven battery heating and cooling technology - none of the other companies have that, and the recent cars have adopted some of tesla's ideas about heating and cooling but they don't have experience.

Finally, don't forget that there's a world wide shortage of electric car batteries. that's why tesla had to build the irritatingly named giga factory, because without it they couldn't build a lot of evs. and other companies can't either, without new battery production coming online.

Audi announced they wouldn't keep the audi ev at dealers, it's special order. I don't know if this is because dealers didn't want it or they didn't want to train them or what. gm dealers are said to not be enthusiastic about the bolt.
"My tech is farming". Absolutely

The word Technology means 'the skill of crafting', but its become hijacked to mean anything with a microchip

That so few people can feed so many using such a small amount of land is a massive tech innovation
Traditionally the way it has played out is that casual workers are screwed in favour of permanents (who are more likely to be union members). The company saves on wages overall but some employees get better wages. And of course corrupt kickbacks to prevent industrial action, aka a protection racket.

There can be multiple unions too, and inter-union conflict. Some of the unions are very right wing (hate gays and women basically) and have e.g. opposed paid maternity leave in a zero sum game approach.
They didn't say that something goes badly wrong most of the time, just that it's usually dangerous. Likewise, most of us would agree that policing is a dangerous job, even though in the vast majority of cases a police officer comes home unscathed at the end of the day.
That's exactly what all major drones do. DJI has a market share of about 75% [1] and you cannot take off any of their success in a restricted flight zone. Flight zone updates are also mandatory and forced to the users. Same for Yuneec, which has another 5% market share.

1. http://thedronegirl.com/2018/09/18/dji-market-share/
Raspberry Pi has a Videocore IV GPU on the chip.
About 90% of my experience with police has been profesional and unremarkable.

The other times should’ve been recorded and discipline may have been appropriate even though I was not harmed.
Assuming I understand what you mean by "deeply rooted with iOS," then that is in fact a crucial difference between the new Shortcuts and the Workflow app that it replaced. Shortcuts triggered from Control Center or the share sheet run the way Automator actions on the Mac do; there's no more of this "switch to Workflow, switch to an app Workflow is calling, switch back to Workflow" stuff.

I don't think the title "Shortcuts User Guide" was particularly misleading; the name of the app is Shortcuts. If it were a list of keyboard shortcuts for macOS, it would probably have a name like, I don't know, "macOS Keyboard Shortcuts."
I like your idea for social silo-busters. You may find my side project interesting: https://peapods.com
A team with multiple big exits could possibly raise the money from VCs or self-fund.

More likely, something like this would start inside another company or it would partner with a license holder at first.
Fellow consultant here. These are the top 3 things you should fix:

1. The site loads very slowly. This is largely static content, it should not take this long to load. Adding in all of the whiz-bang animations and transitions detracts from your overall message.

2. It's not very accessible. Small fonts, poor contrast, it's very difficult to read. If you have a 50-year old CEO with money to burn, do you really want him/her to pass on your firm because they can't read your case studies?

3. It's a bit confusing. The logo kind of looks like a hamburger menu. The hamburger menu dropdown is really in your face, and you take over scrolling when going through the list of projects. So many things that make me cringe, please don't take over my scrolling! Make the information intuitive and easy to access.
In past decade Verizon had been rapidly reducing workforce: 224K to 153K. The 44K new cut is massive 29%. So net shedding over a decade is almost 48%. From the look of the graph, the shading had been at constant rate. This short of indicates that the problem isn't over-hiring (which they could have fixed by one time layoffs) but rather attempt to increase stock by risking long term prospects. AT&T for comparison has over 254K employees. I'm now bit worried about verizon's long term future. I have been planning to switch to Verizon from AT&T and now this doesn't give me comfort.
Sony, Samsumg and Canon dominate the camera sensor market in that order of volume.
The weird special-case LINQ syntax appears to have receded and I don't recall seeing it in the wild for some time. Hopefully we can just all agree that was a bad idea and it can get officially deprecated and go away in future versions.
Truth in labelling will help. Labels that stretch the truth to the limit make us all cynics, and you wonder if this pricey organic chicken was really raised any differently from the cheap chicken.
The Art appears to just be ascii of their uname, but I’m not 100%.
Police and FB, the favorite HN’s punchballs. The circlejerk says HN focuses on data yet this kind of posts show up every single day.
China's Butler Boom (2015)
That Dutch hydroponic system is nice. It has many of the features of cost-effective mechanization. The system is mostly water tanks in huge greenhouses, with automated handling equipment around the edges. Plants are handled in trays much larger than humans can handle, so fewer units have to be handled. There's not a lot of wasted motion; the cycle taken by the growing pallets is about as short as it could be. Looks like a profitable business.
I think:

* Most devs are at least full stack

* Most apps now-a-days interact directly/indirectly with browser

* Attributing this problem to frontend devs without understanding why CORS and issues in handling that, makes you unaware of security issues with your backend services.

FYI: I am a backend developer.
Cool, now sentence him to death for using Fitbit. Ah yeah and the murder as well.
We had 0 dramas moving from 2.0 to 2.1. Was nice and easy.
Seeing as the category is called "Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners", then it's definitely upstream of Stripe. I don't know who exactly has that rule, could be Discover for all I know.
How long should non LTS versions be supported for? Non LTS versions should be 12-18 months maximum, IMHO.
When I started to write this post, I had no intention of creating this rambling essay that might well come straight from a comspiracy nutjob. It is certainly not well supported by any facts that I have readily available. But I really need to vent, so here it is anyway:

I too get the perception (through media!) that the world is becoming more dystopian. But I think that there may be more to that than meets the eye.

I am seriously starting to wonder if social media and internet based media in general have a big part in that.

This is not a single issue IMO. There are several aspects to it: people get offer a much wider spectrum of sources of information and generally tend to prefer thise that have slants more in line with their own views. Also, bad news is more sensational and spreads wider and faster than good news. This lead to a bias in what is reported. Thirdly, and most damning, social media is not only supporting these bubbles that people build around themselves. They are being exploited by actors who post material that is designed to undermine our perception and our opinions. This is apparantly done in subtle ways. Some internet shitstorms are apparently engineered using bots to shape public views on certain topics. This seems to be done to subtly, slowly and purposefully undermine public opinion and steer it towards extreme views.

There was a recent study undertaken of s sample of Twitter messages to Rian Johnson about Star Wars VIII. A substantial fraction of the negative comments were apparently manufactured using bots. This activity appears to be linked to a political motivation, but I do not know how the study reaches that conclusion. But if it is true, it is quite disturbing.

When creating the world wide web, the idealists among us wanted to bring the world closer together and make it more connected and peaceful. I get the suspicion that these good intentions instead bring us closer to an age of renewed nationalism, intolerance and totalitarianism, which is created by maliciously exploring the very freedoms we wanted for everyone.
It's really innovative how they were able to add all these features but still prevent customers from creating an action like "Play I am the Walrus on [competing music service]."
It’s a description of the economics of a corporation. If they have so much in revenues and so much in non wage costs the difference either goes to wages or profit. If revenues drop either profits will drop or wage costs will.

In the very long run your pay will tend towards your productivity but ease of replacibility will also play a role among other things. Sculptors and aerospace engineers are both highly skilled but there are many more jobs for the second than the first so they get paid more.

In the long run it is almost a rule that if gpm drops wages will. Profits could also drop. The mix of compensation could change. They could keep wages the same but fire the least productive staff so the wage bill drops but the remaining workers do more work.
I read The Will to Keep Winning by Daigo Umehara (https://www.amazon.com/Will-Keep-Winning-DAIGO-UMEHARA-ebook...) last year. Daigo is arguably the best street fighter player in the world, for generations. (this guy competed in Street Fighter 2 back in the 90s, and still competes in SF5 now) A lot of the book is about his personal stories, ups and downs, but through the book you can really see what it takes to become the absolute best at something. (hint: practice, practice, practice all day. Keep your passion.) One fun part in the book was how he lost his passion for fighting games in the 00s for a few years, and he got into the professional mah-jong scene in Japan. He actually saw a path to becoming one of the best mah-jong players in Japan. At a certain point he decided to just get back to fighting games which he loved most. I think it goes to show when you got the right mentality, you can become the best at anything when you put in enough effort.
Fernvale Kits – Lack of Interest – Discount
We can call it... DocWagon.
I have both used Cloudera stack and Hortonworks. I would say in my experience that installation and management is much straightforward with HW distribution. Both companies stacks have similar Apache projects and management software like Ambari and Cloudera Manager.
Your insightful comment reminds me of the Seinfeld when George acts all pissed off and it telegraphs to others how busy he is. Maybe similar in these scenarios to justify the phat compensation?
That sounds less like Amplify and more like AppSync?
Our startup Mindsight (mindsight.io) is building technology to automatically surface your critical paths inside of your code in production (without breaking things) in real time, all the time.

We currently work with Python and Go, and we're in private beta. If you're interested in this we'd love to hear from you: eddy at mindsight dot io
That’s not correct, you can not take a tax benefit until you actually turn over control of the assets to the fund. “Pledges” do not generate tax deductions.
See section 4.4
https://drone.io/enterprise/license/

edit: section 4.4 provides a business discontinuation clause that specifies the source code will be released under an open source license if the business is discontinued. The clause was written by an attorney (not something I added myself).
Isn't it up to [competing music service] to implement this? Podcasting apps work with Shortcuts, so I don't see why [competing music service] wouldn't work.
> Only thing is you can't take tight corners super fast unless you want to flip over.

This is what is usually called "handling". The other things you describe are driving comfort or something like that. "Handling" usually means the dynamic characteristics of the car that would make it fast around the turns in a track for example. The large mass at a high center of gravity makes all SUVs pretty bad at this.
CodeIgniter 4.0.0-alpha.1 released
Should provide impetus to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
I am doing this with searchcode server https://github.com/boyter/searchcode-server which I wrote about here https://boyter.org/2016/08/gpl-time-bomb-interesting-approac... in short 3 years after a release is published the source at that time is licensed as GPL3. I did it like this to cover the hit by a bus, bored and such scenarios.

I did get some attention here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459492 from the post at the time and have actioned on a lot of the feedback.
We’re a .net house, or we see to be, so I should be embracing this like you are. I’m not though, not because it’s not cool and all, but because js front end has so many things that aren’t in .net.

I mean, where is the graphql and Apollo like functionality in .net?

How do you make a pretty reactive frontend easier and faster with .net compared to vue/react/angular?

How big does the browserbased app get when it has to load .net libraries?

Maybe I’m just not seeing it, but I honestly think what laravel is doing with PHP on the backend and vue on the front end is the brilliant way of approaching web apps and I think what Microsoft is doing with web assembly is going to be a needlessly complicated mess that’s really, really unproductive in terms of time to market. And I think they are mainly doing it because Microsoft never made their own JS front end.

I’ve been following it for a while too, and I see a lot of the xamarin disaster in it.
I guess to me it just seems especially perverse, because the union is supposed to be working in the interest of the worker. The worker even pays the union. Yet sinking the company is not in the interest of the worker.

Corporations can sink themselves because they are granted self-determination. That's sort of fundamental, sans bailouts.

That said, I would be happy if we could tweak incentives to shift focus away from short term returns towards long term. Companies are not perfect either, and my omission was not meant to imply they were.
That's a good question. Both CM and Ambari are front end for managing all the services and more.
Cupid advice to women about how to avoid abusive relationship
You piqued my curiosity, and I was pleasantly surprised!

I won't post the email address, because I suspect it's encoded like that to prevent spam. But here's two hints:

- the visual representation simply requires you to step back from your monitor and squint

- the "key" is an email address

Hope the hints help! Have fun! There's two classic pieces of Internet technology involved.
Damnit! You gave away the answer!
> I genuinely wonder if the US has more violent criminals or something.

Well, there are many people on this thread who tell you that since they have never had a problem, the problem must not exist.
It works fine for me. Stop being grumpy maybe?
What’s wrong? They should be grateful they’re not dead.
I assume he just means "chose to omit the Autopilot hardware when buying the car", which makes the car $5000 cheaper.
No, you can’t do either of those things. Either one would be self-dealing, and would constitute tax fraud.
> To answer these questions, this article engages feminist geography and broader
feminist literature and draws on nearly 1000 h of public observations of dogs and
their human companions conducted at three dog parks in Southeast Portland,
Oregon, beginning on 10 June 2016, and ending on 10 June 2017.

In Sokal's single hoax in 1996 he (and his buddies, I guess) made a claim, followed it by a non-sequitur of true but uninteresting sentences about physics, then repeated the claim. It was a sandwich with no meat in it, and the (small, non-peer-reviewed) post-modern journal ate it up.

Sokal wanted to show that a certain style of post-modern writing substituted scientific jargon for an argument (or at least it used references to esoteric scientific fields as pretentious, uninteresting metaphors). The elegance of parodying this style was that his submission contained no data at all. It wasn't merely that the conclusion of the submission wouldn't be replicated. It was that any conscious human should notice the complete lack of supporting evidence for the claim!

The upshot of the journal accepting the article was that "the emperor had no clothes," so to speak. Sokal went on to write a book showing how several prominent post-modern thinkers used scientific non-sequiturs to make their non-scientific ideas sound more weighty. (Just as he had in his hoax.)

These three authors, however, are going a different route from Sokal-- specifically, one that provides fake data as evidence of a claim. (Or I guess they could have actually sat at dog parks for 1000 hours, but it doesn't matter for the point I'm making.) By providing fake data, this hoax passes an initial filter which the Sokal hoax did not-- namely, the filter that should reject submissions which lack any supporting evidence whatsoever. That means this hoax only reveals a lack of replication and/or verification, whereas the Sokal hoax reveals a lack of both peer review and basic reading comprehension even by a non-physicist. That makes this a weaker class of hoax than the Sokal hoax.

Finally, the authors purport to be going after an entire "ideological slant" in academia. Whatever one thinks of that aim, it is enormous and amorphous when compared to the narrow aim of Sokal keeping scientific jargon from being misused/misplaced.

So to recap:

* 1996: strong hoax successful against a single pomo journal, weak but persuasive claim against coopting scientific jargon for non-scientific aims

* 2018: weak hoax successful against 7 of (total number?) journals, strong and unpersuasive claim against all leftist academic fields

Now I'm curious-- did anyone in the late 90s criticize Sokal's hoax on the grounds that his careful constraints would be ignored by future pranksters?

Edit: clarification
I always wondered why we have ti pay for our basic needs given the degree of automation we have achieved. Is this the beginning of the golden era?
Chrome's sendBeacon content-type CORS bug is another fun one:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490015
Dr Christiano on OpenAI developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem'
Replacing fertilizer with plant probiotics could slash greenhouse gases
It’s not, not really, but it runs a lot of enterprise and reschooling developers is really expensive. I know, because we’re in the process of going from almost exclusively c# to mostly node.js and powershell scripts with orchestra and SSIS.

The fact that Microsoft keeps doing things like core 1, the 2, xamarin and now this web assembly stuff made the business case for changing better though. Because staying up to date on c# has also become expensive.

Still, stuff like AD and ADFS, msSQL and windows servers are the backbone in a lot of enterprise, and C# integrates really easily in that environment. I still think node.js, powershell and SSIS does it better, but I can certainly see why c# is still a thing.
I had never heard of this device before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph

It conjures to mind one of the scenes from A Clockwork Orange.

I have to wonder if this really works, or if it has an especially high false-positive rate for people with weird medical fetishes.
Lots of overlap between the two companies. I unfortunately expect a lot of layoffs on the Horton side of things, which is disappointing because I know quite a few people there.
Civilization has the cure of which civilization is the cause.

If you select people who avoid the ills of modern diet and inactivity, while enjoying modern medicine, you may get a different curve.
True. Some one in the cloud is managing these Hadoop stacks for you. You just pay usage of these services.
> It's the hardest couple dance and best suited for engineers -- for many reasons.

Please do elaborate!
> t also has this eco game thing, where you earn “points” when you drive efficiently, and it penalizes you for driving inefficiently (hard acceleration, braking instead of coasting, inconsistent speed). This “game” has transformed the way I drive, it should be in every car.

If it also earns a driver "points" for not impeding other traffic
while driving efficiently, and penalizes a driver for blocking
other vehicles that want to pass, when the driver could safely
move to a space in a non-passing lane, then it might be welcomed
by many drivers.

IMHO, the main reason that Prius drivers have a reputation
for driving selfishly while hypermiling is that Toyota put
the current MPG in big numbers on the default display screen,
and many Prius drivers got into the habit of optimising their
driving for a lager MPG number, to the exclusion of being
aware of other traffic on the road.