skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on. I'd call it "Fake news", but the article you posted as proof actually explains things rather than leaving it the way you did: implying that you have Senators running around calling abuse victims "attractive" as if its relevant. Read the rest of your own posted article:

“Hatch uses “attractive” to describe personalities, not appearances,” Matt Whitlock, deputy chief of staff and communications director to Hatch, said in response to reporters tweeting about Hatch’s comments. “If you search his past quotes you’ll see he’s used it consistently for years for men and women he believed has compelling personalities.”
Everyone I know who uses it wishes they had gone with TypeScript. Anecdotal for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if most Flow users felt this way - TS is winning in basically every way.
This is good advice but practitioners should be advised that iOS data backed up to iCloud can be decrypted by Apple and, as a result, is subject to subpoena by the authorities.
Link to blog post: https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/workerdom/

tldr; aim is to bring scripting to AMP pages
Can I use it for - My Family is Black in a mostly White neighborhood, if a neighbor calls the police about “suspicious” people entering my house, it’s probably just my family.
During the last 2016 automated elections here in the Philippines, the company responsible for it was Smartmatic and just found out their source code was licensed by Dominion.

Now finding out that Dominion's equipments mentioned here is a little bit worrying. There was also an incident during our elections hours before a voting machine was accessed just because they have to change a single letter. It is still disturbing to this day.
> Deterrence is how law works in a modern society.

I think there's also a sense of fairness. I wouldn't like obeying a law if I knew everybody else is ignoring it and getting away with it. I'd be happier following it if I thought everybody else was. You wouldn't want to be the only bottlenose dolphin that didn't back-date your stock options.
I find that distinction very much of interest, and sure enough, RMS also has an explicit text available which deals with that matter more directly [0].

While free software protects the freedoms of the user only, copyleft software protects the freedoms of the developer as well. Both types of software are ethical (as mentioned in [1]), so it comes down to personal choice of the original author, who can use it as a tool to ensure their goals.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
I only found mention of v8-isolate when searching for it specifically. Coming up in only https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-performance-compariso... and a few comments on HN. I don't see any description of its use other than a summary of 'we use v8 isolates', which begs a /r/restofthefuckingowl. Even an interview with KV doesn't reveal much. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...
Isolate also doesn't do anything for sandboxing from what I can tell. Cloudflare quotes 'That said, we have added additional layers of our own sandboxing on top of V8.' I do not see any actual technical information on how they're using v8.

v8 and by extension isolated-vm by itself does not cover things like fetch if we're talking JS. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm/issues/63 This is an immediete killer as js browser features are part of why a js engine is wanted.

Having node handling these things is a time bomb of debugging where instead of debugging v8 you're debugging node. There are node version problems with stability as mentioned on the isolate-vm readme.

DOS goes beyond just CPU time and memory. Wasm is being treated as an environment of its own with some lower level accessibility. Unless the API allows feature whitelisting - I can't find any docs relating to that - then I don't see anything stopping thread creation. I'd be interested to know how cloudflare prevents these features. isolate-vm doesn't appear to interact with the v8 api with options relating to this.

Fly.io has their fly engine meant for local development so you can deploy onto their servers. https://github.com/superfly/fly
Isn't that data freely available already on their website ? It looks like you can get full name, company, position just by creating a free account. Maybe they just scrapped it.
No, it can’t by definition. Complexity is a type of difficulty. :)
I always thought newegg was Egghead's online presence. Oops.
Fun fact: the Sixteenth Amendment does not give Congress the right to tax income; Congress already had that right. The sole purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment is to override the Supreme Court's Pollock decision, which held that a tax on rental income was effectively a tax on property, and as a property tax, it needed to be apportioned to the states in accordance with population.

So the Sixteenth Amendment isn't "we can collect income tax", it's "we can do whatever we want with collected income tax." Which makes the tax protestors' arguments that the Sixteenth Amendment wasn't actually properly passed utterly hilarious.
Nor is github a perfect indicator. Some languages promote their own open-source repository hubs, such as https://gitlab.common-lisp.net.
" it's a lot easier to get up at 5am, shake hands firmly, and dress for success"

Let's not be superfluous. Being a CEO is hard, even the 5 am rising and 'hand shaking' parts.
Search for anvil.works. I never actually used it but the demo looked pretty cool, and it seemed pretty affordable.
>and had been turning Apple's reputation and Halo-effect into cash rather than innovation.

Sounds pretty much like his job. Apple doesn't exist to innovate. It innovates to produce cash.
Single-shot spread with sniper range.
A more appropriate title is "Google has hidden a text adventure in their search home page", as it's also in Firefox.
Please don't post personal attacks to HN. If you don't owe better to the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand, you at least owe it to this community not to degrade it like that.

Also, in the case that your view is correct, stooping that low discredits the truth. That's bad for everybody.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Was your dad working solo on everything he did? Did his collection numbers reflect teamwork?

You're comparing revenue on a per-producer basis to a much different number. There are support staff, programmers, benefits, buildings, etc. which all must be paid for too.

For what it's worth, this article from 2011 noting a 4:1 ROI. I'm not sure where 1.2 came from, but I was unable to find it after searching.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/irs-funding-cuts-c...

_ The Treasury estimates, for example, that every additional $1 invested in IRS tax enforcement beyond current levels would yield $4 in increased revenue
afaik safe rust would not perform that well compared to unsafe. The main safe part could be the command line or API but using Rust brings you into the Rust ecosystem and it may just not be worth it to do if most of their code is going to be unsafe and purposefully use performance hacks and SIMD.
Weaponizing the haters: The Last Jedi and social media manipulation
Recently I've been playing around with MacOS 9 for the first time in at least a decade (bought a $10 PowerMac, woohoo!) and have had a good time trying to recreate my old setup.

It really brought back to me just how many shareware and freeware utilities there were that changed how some very fundamental parts of the system worked. I've replaced the behaviors of window rendering (Kaleidoscope, Power Windows), text rendering (SmoothText), scrolling (Smart Scroll), drag and drop (Gravite), menus (Menutasking enabler), etc etc. Also how unstable everything becomes once you do that!

It really was the wild west and it's still fun to play with.
So... why don't we fix the problem at its source by trying to better assess the reliability of a lone phone call before barging in guns blazing as though it was a war zone?

Before: "We got a single phone call guys, this is bulletproof. No need to actually assess the situation or anything, no one would ever lie to us - we're the authorities after all."

Now: "Not in the database - looks like we're good to shoot on sight!"

Obviously I exaggerate, and hopefully things don't usually proceed the way they did in Kansas (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/gamers-swatting-charge...). But I really have to wonder about the reasoning here. In all seriousness, which of the below is a more frequent occurrence?

* A hostage (or similar) situation deserving of this sort of response, but with no externally visible indications - just a single phone call.

* "Prank" calls of this sort.

I don't actually know the answer, but I strongly suspect the latter by a very large margin.
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> spot an extreme growth opportunity, bet everything on it, and be correct.

> Or be born into money. No amount of self-help is going to tilt the scale towards that.

While there are undoubtedly success stories which resemble both of these caricatures, I think they're in the minority. I can't say I'm hobnobbing with the Forbes billionaires list but I have personal relationships with many people who built successful businesses. Betting on a unique opportunity is often an amplifier, so is starting in a good place in terms of money/family. But what they all have in common is they focused religiously on the top line, they didn't fuck up the bottom line, and they worked very hard.
> but it is removing some potential revenue

Dozens of studies about music have proven this theory false. In fact music “piracy” likely has increased their revenue because they spread music. Intuitively you can see why labels have gave in to free as supported YouTube models as opposed to locking them down; they wouldn’t have done this had CD sale revenue was higher, but in aggregate having people’s attention is worth more. Similarly, I can for sure let you know that I would not pay for WSJ if I couldn’t read their articles under any capacity. For me not to be able to read it just decreases their network and thus their value in other ways. And now that I’m more familiar with them I might pay one day.
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Why the “Pursuit of Happiness” is leaving you depressed
I've got my eye on Joplin as well to replace EN. The deal-breaker issue for me right now is that the mobile app (iOS) only supports Dropbox as the backend sync provider. I refuse to use Dropbox, and prefer to sync via filesystem. I use Resilio Sync (formerly btsync) for this. Until some other method is allowed, I can't make the jump.
I talk about it a bit in the original post and the replies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209768

> if the decision makers were profit maximizing individuals

This might be a different problem, because "profit" (or utility, which would be a better word) is not a straightforward measure. A firm is a very complex organism, so it isn't trivial to account for 1st, 2nd, 3rd order impacts of any actions. Often enough, the "best" decision might seem counter-intuitive, or just terrible.
A great improvement to that would be an option to silently reject all suspected spam calls and send them to the voicemail. This has been suggested many times on Google's product feedback and suggestion boards but for some reason they have not gotten around to doing it. The hard part of detecting spam calls is already there; all it should take is adding a couple of new check boxes.
Wondering the same. How if used git protocol itself? Not sure how efficient is git, but if it is then it's a relatively easier change
SQL Server: Move Over TDS, Binary EXchange Language Is Here
We look at what the Binary eXchange Language is in SQL Server Machine Learning Services
There's supply/demand - as some area becomes more popular more people want to move there. If you're not building new homes in the area at a rate that at the very least matches both the migration rate and the birth rate housing price is only going to increase. (People in SF fighting against tech folk also seem to fight new properties, ignoring that simply having children in SF means you necessarily must build more homes, maybe just a bit slower)

The thing that makes it worse is when taxable property values trail actual property values - it makes simply holding on to property a tax payer subsidized investment. CA for instance has capped taxable property valuations at 2%, which is a subsidy for empty properties, properties that increase rent/lease by more than 2% a year, and business (which never sell property) - the biggest component of civic services is fundamentally the cost of rent/mortgage, as that dictates how much all civic servants (emergency services, city/county administration, elected officials) need as there /base/ income. It also indirectly costs tax payers through the increased need for housing and other financial support for low income people (which can actually be a double tax, as it may result in tax payers paying rent on a property that is underpaying taxes anyway).
SepConv layer visualization
Another typical problem with the American system of deregulating everything and anything. In Europe (at least the parts I know) this is never an issue.
In addition to selfish interests aligned against the IRS their past approach created a PR problem - they operate on bullying, dread, and provide poor customer service so naturally many who deal with them hate them. Dysfunctional for everyone but it is their chickens coming home to roost. I believe Machiavelli had some things to say about the downsides of ruling through fear.

The same thing has happened to (other) law enforcement creating downward spirals of trust in high crime areas. The solution in both of those cases is making reforms to restore trustworthiness and successful pursuit of heroic causes to get people to fund them more. Sadly said option is seldom taken.
Github ranking by open pull request to me feels the best approach if what you are interested in is trends of language adoption.

Measuring total corpus would be measuring past popularity and may miss trends. Search metrics on the other hand may actually overrate newer languages which may be searched more compared to more mature languages. Opened pull requests sounds like a better metric overall.
This 1000%. My wife and I came from families which did not know how to fight fairly. When we first started dating, our fights would last 3 days, then 2, then 1, then a few hours, then maybe 1 hour. I am proud of the progress we made and healthy communication style we developed together. Always from a position of mutual respect and seeking to understand alternate views. Made married life pretty blissful (I am a widower).
I'm moving back to Oakland
Commodity hardware in the sense of “it is made but impossible to get hold of outside the place its made or Leningrad or Moscow and half what you get is wildly out if spec” as Soviet reality tended to be. Only aluminum plates were really a commodity where I grew up in the 80s.
Wow, Brexit negotiations really aren't going well, huh? This seems like the most obvious 'hey, look over here!' I've seen so far from an elected official.
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This has to be balanced by the need for fast responses when there is an actual real emergency. Heads will roll if the authorities come slowly or not at all for a real hostage situation.
One thing surprises me about this article: It prescribes Inflation as the antidote to land/RE prices... But that was not the case necessary for Japan.

And on the other hand they didn't highlight the role international investment in RE has had on local markets. It plays a significant role in many of the major international cities where foreign entities are allowed to buy RE as investment properties.
I am sorry to hear that. Is your neighborhood wealthy? I'm in SF, and there are some neighborhoods (Pacific Heights) where your risk of getting the cops called at you is pretty high just by walking around at night if one of the nosy neighbors doesn't recognize you. I assume being black would increase those odds.

I was almost swatted once -- there was a knock on my door "Police! Open up!" and when I came to the door the police said they heard reports of gunshots from my apartment. What?? I let them in, they looked around -- I think it was an ex-gf but I can't prove it. They started asking me if I just moved in (I had a few months before). I tried to ask them who reported it, but they wouldn't say. I'm just glad they didn't bust down the door guns blazing.

It's a scary world out there.
Cool! Are you working on IDE plygins, e.g. for Atom?
You could probably just remove the partition's fstab entry to get past most border searches. Or store the data in what appears to be a swap partition.
> It is true that housing prices in urban areas have risen astronomically in many regions of the world, and while we may well see a correction, I wonder if these these areas have simply become way more valuable than they used to be.

They are, in the short-term. The problem is that high housing costs have a slow, long-term corrosive effect on a city. Companies have to pay higher wages for workers to achieve the same standard of living, which makes them less competitive. So, for example, you see a lot of tech companies springing up in Austin now. It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens.

It also creates a large net transfer of wealth out of the city whenever someone moves. Someone who moves in with half a million dollars in net assets would normally be a boon because they would go use that money to patronize local businesses, but now they have to spend that and a good chunk of their salary going forward on housing, which goes to the seller who is moving out of the city and taking the money with them.

The housing ratchet is also completely unsustainable. The people who already own real estate want prices to increase rather than decrease to justify the high price they already paid and generate a competitive return on that huge amount of money, but when housing is already the majority expenditure for city residents, costs long-term can't increase faster than wages, and the higher wages get for the same standard of living the less competitive local companies are.

Eventually you reach a limit on how high housing costs can sustainably go, but once you hit it, nobody wants to put down a million dollars for a house that won't appreciate at all when they could be getting some ROI on the same money in the stock market. Then prices finally start to decline, but people definitely don't want to pay $950K for a house that will lose value, so the decline is rapid. This is, of course, catastrophic.

It's almost impossible to avoid this once the values are already ridiculous, but what the article suggests can mitigate it somewhat: Sustained moderate inflation combined with a large increase in the housing supply, so that real values come down even though nominal values are stable. Then the crash is in real value rather than nominal value, so people don't end up with underwater mortgages, and it can ideally happen over a period of a decade or so rather than instantaneously in a way that causes a local economic crisis.
Thanks!

I'm not concerned about Whatsapp, and I figured I use Twilio for text messages. Out of service phones can still call emergency services, 911. My main concern is being "that guy" who everyone has to make exceptions for when contacting.
When I read stories like the one you linked I wonder how a normal person won't get shot because they make some weird movement. Having a bunch of armed guys yell at you is a pretty stressful situation and a lot of people simply will not comprehend what's going on and not "comply" in some way.

Sometimes I wonder if cops have watched too many action movies and try to emulate these movies. How about first waiting and assess the situation? Why that rush and aggressiveness?
Amusingly, the works of Epictetus we have are because one of his students, Arrian, recorded his teachings.
I like this term “digital archaeology”. I find myself saying it a lot when dealing with “only” 20 year old database data in my day job. Apparently, but not surprisingly, it’s a real thing[1]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_archaeology
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Streamers like Ice Poseidon and Sam Pepper could benefit from such a service, though unfortunately they aren't based in Seattle.
In a real hostage situation you won't just rush in with full force. Most of the times the situation gets resolved with long negotiations wearing the hostage taker down.