skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Windows 10 have a good design. The last time Windows had good design was Windows 2000. Windows XP was terrible and that "pretty" design was in Windows 7 as well. I could switch to "classic" theme, but Windows 10 is even better.

2. Windows 10 have Linux subsystem which is good enough replacement for my Linux VM I always used for some tasks.

3. Windows 10 have multiple desktop support, much better than macOS for my needs, for example (those desktops are actually separate, so I can have gaming setup on one desktop, work setup on another, hobby setup on another and they are like different computers).

4. Windows 10 have notification support which is nice to have.

5. Windows 10 have awesome improvements for good old cmd. It's really bad feeling when I have to use cmd with old Windows versions.

6. Search in Start menu is useful (I don't remember whether Windows 7 had that). Also Windows 10 had tons of tiny features which are not very noticeable until you don't have them. Win+X, for example.

It does not get into my way any more than other Windows versions (I'm always reading those scary stories about sudden updates but I don't really experience that, once a month my "power off" button replaced with "update and power off" and that's all I notice. I have enough system resources (16 GB RAM) so those are not really any concern for me (Google Chrome sometimes eats more resources). I don't spend any significant time with OS, I'm using Intellij Idea, I'm using Google Chrome, I'm playing some games, system just works.
Calling calling a Python standard library function "not pythonic" is a great example of when the term "pythonic" is beyond usefulness.
It frustrates me how almost every company's "secure question" system is utterly retarded and recklessly dangerous.

1. They draw from fixed unimaginative pools of often-overlapping questions, so that a breach in one company compromises you on multiple others.

2. Unlike a password, the actual secret question is often plaintext

If I had to design a replacement... The user would always be allowed to define custom questions, all questions could be assigned multiple synonymous correct answers (e.g. "Dr. Smith", "Doctor Smith"), and they all go through a one-way hash with salt.
I’ll be releasing the code to reproduce the experiments soon.
Ancestry DNA Databases Can Help Police Identify Majority of European Descendants
You price risk into the contract or buy insurance.

There is no law preventing parties from negotiating in good faith either. If circumstances change, people usually adapt.
I like Signal. They don't store much of anything. Code is open. A friend got me onto it by one day going cold turkey off all his other messaging apps. It works. I Have tried that on some of my family.
Maybe it's finally the "year of the Linux desktop," lol... I mean both Apple and MS don't care much, and the market for desktop OS has become specialized again, so if it doesn't happen now it's never going to happen.
Yeah. I just don't understand your comment. The company and the employee both need to have some power to define the job role and compensation.
It’s perfectly reasonable:

Run task every 4 weeks:

Onesecond = 1000;

Oneminute = 60 * oneSecond;

oneHour = 60 * oneMinute;

oneDay = 24 * oneHour;

oneWeek = 7 * oneDay;

Then from that reasonable set of definitions you make a even fire in 4 * oneWeek.

Maybe you aren’t even using setTimeout, but you’re using a timer library that internally is just using aetTineout (what does node have besides setTimeout by the way?).

You end up with an accumulation of individually reasonable questions that don’t work, for no obvious reason.

That said someone else is saying this actually is a “timers stop working in general after X days”, rather than just long lifetime timers, which makes this even more obtuse.
Obligatory reference to Betteridge's Law of Headlines... But seriously, the idea that you vote with your dollars becomes even more compelling when you have billions to throw around. Unfortunately when you cast your vote and what you end up voting for don't always happen in the expected order.
In python 3.6 and up, that becomes

def example_cheater(color, flavor, age):
return f'I am {age} years old and I like to wear {color} hats and eat {flavor} icecream'

Even nicer!
I already have exactly the same setup (minus the second GPU)!
Jury clears J&J of liability in New Jersey talc cancer case
> However, a small minority of people who use anonymity servers are sociopaths who are attracted by the ease with which they can avoid responsibility and accountability for their actions.

Yeah. No.

This argument against is old enough that it is now a straw man.

There are known state-level actors actively pushing propaganda through the internet. There are companies founded with the express purpose of providing influence in exchange for money. There are companies founded with the express purpose of providing bot accounts to make it seem as if a person is more popular than they are.

There is an industry and state level actors abusing anonymity online to shift discourse, with real life consequences more severe than death having already resulted. It isn't unreasonable to suppose that it is possible that millions of people will die as a consequence of some of the manipulations which has already occurred, given UN projections regarding the effect of climate change.

We accelerate in progression as we progress. 1995 is a lifetime ago. You might as well link Plato.

Recent google slides which made it to Hacker News frontpage has a slide that put the estimate of bot traffic on the internet near 30% of all traffic.

Taxes can be great; taxes without representation aren't. Anonymity can be great; anonymity for people with hostile motives who influence things which do not relate to themselves are not.

Have a little subtlety.

Edit:

I'm getting downvoted. Go watch Facebook testimony to congress and similar things in which their is admission of acts as vile as extremist groups being intentionally provoked into armed conflict being performed on online platform. Go read about the IRA and probes into Russian influence on social media. Stop being so ignorant, Hacker News. I get that you filter bubble out political talk, but in case you missed it, there is an actual reason behind why California is moving forward with a law to ban bots which don't confess to being a bot and similar laws designed to curtail these influence campaigns. Its not that legislators are insane.
Indeed. If there is no downside to stuffing contracts with every potentially useful clause they can think of, then why not do so?

Perhaps the solution is to give workers the right to have employment-related contracts reviewed and negotiated by an attorney of their choosing at the employer’s expense.

With actual costs attached, employers would suddenly have an incentive to keep their contracts as short and simple as possible, reserving the more onerous clauses for only the most senior positions.

Contracts for most positions would need to be kept short, reasonable, and comprehensible such that candidates don’t feel the need to exercise their right to attorney review.
The idle checks all happen in the kernel scheduling code which runs on every CPU/core/hyperthread between doing real work. There isn't a separate core which hands out work or controls them. The kernel knows which CPUs are active because it's the one running things, not because it asks the CPU if it ran any code.

On a single CPU system it works because when the current process stops running (calls sleep, does IO, etc...) the kernel looks to see if there's anything else to do, if not, it knows the system is now idle.
Likely somebody paid for it. EU is creating the law for big corporations, so it seems like one of those would like to copyright telemetry data and EU just amended it to please them.
How to delete Facebook and Instagram from your life forever?
What a wonderful Gish Gallop. Thanks for letting me be another in your long line of intellectually dishonest copypasta responses. Keep on pushing conspiracy theories like the "deep state"!
It was my mistake to interpret "shoes" as "athletic shoes" even though the example in the first post looked like running shoes. You do not need to spend more than 150 on running shoes. Boots are a different story.

Shoes for aesthetics are beyond my scope.
Following Years-Long Investigation, Tesla Coughs Up $13M in Oregon Settlement
The custom seats mean you cannot use someone else's. You wouldnt fit (if too big) and would obstruct things. I may be possible, but would never be part of any plan. There are also weight/balance issues to consider.
CEO Lampert explores bidding for Sears assets in bankruptcy
I think a no-Hacker-News or no-reddit day would be far more productive for me.
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the trouble to sign up to offer your first hand experience! It's both beautiful and little sad that your summary of the main finding (antisocial punishment) is "There were some random punishments by the others which did not make sense".

Reading the supplemental materials (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2008/03/06/3...) it looks like the difference in "reward" for a cooperative strategy was on the order of $10 USD. Does that seem about right?
https://social.coop/about is just that :). Although I see they've killed their front page and closed registrations for a while.
If you bought a laptop which came with Linux, why did you fight battles with GPU and hybernation? It is supposed to be supported, so let the vendor solve the issues. Or return the computer, if they can't. That's exactly where the vendors' value proposition comes from, have them earn their money.
Senior Software Engineer.
Ex Amazonian, left Amazon, now rejoin Amazon.

Joined a startup. Had many rosy fantasies about how life could go for me. It turned out not very honky dory after all. The management could be best categorized as directionless, worst completely chaos. In terms of salary, it is less, if not much so, if your startup fails to take flight. So I quit, and rejoin my previous employer, but in a much different group on different things.

Lessons learnt, your situtation won't change dramatically as you might hope by changing companies. Grass is always greener on the other side, and patience is something you only can only learn to gain it.

Ultimately, I want to work on something that I believe is valuable, and useful. That is what will keep me in my position for longer term.
I guess it's possible if Apple got a hold of pre-release materials on the Essential phone. But a company the size of Apple gets the design ready months, possibly a year, before release. The Essential Phone was officially shown off May 30, 2017 [0], so that's the earliest Apple could have seen the design without getting pre-release renders. The iPhone X was announced on September 12 of that same year. That means that, if Apple were to copy them, they would have to completely pivot their design, change manufacturing plans, get new displays, etc, in just over 3 months. I find that unbelievable personally, especially considering things Apple did to make the display work even better, like eliminating the chin by folding the OLED panel in on itself [1]. I don't believe it's possible that they got that working in 3 months. And I guess it is possible Apple obtained pre-release renders of the Essential, but even if they got it, say, 2 months before Essential's announcement, 5 months is still not a lot of time to pivot a phone's design.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15711170/essential-phone-...

[1] https://www.redmondpie.com/why-most-2018-smartphones-have-ch...
Sure, but you're also party to an adhesion contract where you're forced to surrender that ownership to the manufacturer. As Coase pointed out, the initial allocation doesn't matter so much as the market will get it to whomever can best exploit it. The liability is in carving out a market-legible ownership handle to begin with.

But copyright is likely moot anyway, as the cars will be imprisoned [0] with strong digital restrictions to siphon the data to manufacturers while preventing access by people.

[0] The complement of "jailbreak", right?
Using any of the big tech firms, they are actively moving against freedom or anonymity on the net, specifically the web..

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/411002-leaked-presenta...
Right but UK salaries are about 2-3x lower than US (at least for software engineers).. or at least they use to be.
No error left behind
One trick is to dig in. A large cave would provide both structural support and radiation shielding for an initial settlement. But it's true that a Mars colony would initially require a huge flow of goods from Earth - even if they get a proper farm going, they'd still need replacement parts for all high-tech equipment that's being used. That is what I think will be the primary import - high-tech components.

As for costs, dropping them is precisely the goal SpaceX is based around. The BFR isn't just meant to enable transport of people - it also aims at being able to move a lot of mass to Mars for cheap.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest very few people will own an autonomous vehicle and will probably rent/lease them instead, which solves the problem neatly, if it happens.

If you don't actually own the thing, then it's harder to claim the data is yours.
First, yes, Iceland would be easy to occupy. In fact, it's already happened once - the UK occupied it during WWII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland).

But holding it would be a problem, for anyone except the US or the UK. Let's say China occupied Iceland. How are they going to send supplies to their troops there? Well, by air or by ocean. That's going to be... problematic. It's going to be much more problematic if NATO lives up to its charter and defends its' member Iceland.
Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases
Good point. I enjoyed it, but never picked up on the attention-span lesson at all; I read it thinking it was about censorship. I know now that the author's intent was to write a story about attention-span. I now take it to be a social commentary. Side-note: after reading the book, I rented the movie on DVD. The DVD had a scratch on it -- a scene faded out, the player hit the scratch and skipped ahead... it landed on a fade in scene. I didn't even notice. The movie I watched was only about 20 minutes and I thought "man, they left out a lot of stuff".
For reference, this feature is Formatted String Literals ("f-strings"). https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#fo...
Two years ago a CD would have beat it. Today it's not quite there, but there are very safe invenstments out there that will almost certainly beat a mortgage rate.
SV founders get into bed with questionable characters, one-party governments, and evil empires all the time. If the past and present is any guide, the people named in this article will say some nice-sounding things or stay quiet and wait for the news cycle to move on to the next scandal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/yu...
We care about the TDP, which can be improved in various ways, not just moving to 5nm. Physical size in a phone or whatever is small enough, we don't care about smaller chips. The amount of space saved is negligible.
Look for anti-cyclical companies and more generally “value” companies (in opposition to growth companies). This means large companies in banking, insurance, telcos... Consider that everyone has to purchase home and car insurance, whether the economy is booming or in a recession. Everyone will still have a mobile plan and/or an internet connection. Everyone will still buy groceries at Walmart. Any sector that grows slowly during economic booms will shrink slowly in a recession.

Other factors: the bigger the company, the more inertia it has (assuming your job suppports its core business; even large companies will cut side or non-essential activities if the economic forecast is bad). B2B companies are less exposed to a recession at first, because of longer contracts and decision cycles in enterprise customers (it’s relatively easy and quick for an individual to downgrade their internet plan to save money; it takes much longer for a large company to renegotiate a telco contract). Defense is always a safe bet.

So basically the bigger the company, the more boring and/or morally dubious the sector, the better :D
Not having debt can be very, very freeing. Same goes for expenses. I'm still a software developer because it pays well, not because I really want to be slinging code anymore. If I didn't have a mortgage and child care to worry about I would have a lot more freedom to switch jobs to do something I would enjoy but pays significantly less.
Writing Redux in 15 lines of code
Didn't know this. Thanks for sharing!
Just nitpicking, but the EU is nothing like the federal government in the US. That also explains, to degree, the much smaller budget.
And even if you do want to call it "bureaucratically neutered" travesties like the Challenger disaster explain why the bureaucracy is necessary.
It's not about the extra money, it's about the opportunity cost of not doing anything with all that cash. Mortgage rates are still relatively low, you could easily beat it with most any investment.
>”Is Starbucks a righteous source?”

I remember the time they cut up a Peet’s coffee customer with a bone saw.
OMG! that is so exciting, Thank you for telling me! I have only been using 3.x as my primary language for a few months now, I can't wait to try this out. I feel like a huge dork right now, because that made my day.
Its a fairly common argument for SJW types.
I was just yesterday discussing the opportunity cost of infrastructure changes, as a new team member was bemoaning our out of date patterns...

A high impact infra change will often inconvenience dozens of people and distract from feature work... You know, the shit people actually care about... (this is analogous to how "Twitter, but written in Golang" appeals to approximately no one.)
The US QE consisted of printing money in a moment of deflation (reducing of the money supply), so the country would experience something close to a monetary stability.

It did create inflation, and basically offset the natural tendency of the market. The fact that the money was inserted directly into the capital markets, instead of the consumer market probably caused a huge loss of efficiency on the deflation containing goal, a bubble at the capital markets and the requirement of collecting the money back once it starts flowing in a non-controlled fashion into the goods. All that probably caused some instability down the line, but the US seems to be dealing with it just fine.
At the moment, what are some notable startups founded by ex Googlers ?
Sounds like Apple is the least of three evils. Too bad some people invested in programs or hardware that only run on Windows.
" whether it's just a money issue, or there's less benefit to be had from such test than we think? "

I think NASA will do them but their dates for such a mission are decades away. Others who want to do this earlier are probably just not serious. With current tech this would be a suicide mission. Any little problem will kill the settlers.
Same paper as PDF, not HTML:

http://history-computer.com/Library/AHI.pdf
But it means everybody has to keep one eye on Slack at all times, which translates into huge "engagement" numbers for Slack. So "synchronous everything" may be bad for you, but it's great for them!
> supply increases until demand is met fully

That is a very optimistic view.

What I've seen in Finland and UK is pretty much the opposite of what you claim. In both countries the housing supply in growth centers is essentially controlled by a handful of huge developers. In an attempt to make the planning permission system more comprehensive, it has only turned out more complex and expensive to navigate. That means that only the largest operators can afford to work within it.

In both countries we see developers deliberately restricting the speed with which new housing stock enters the market. In UK, the common pattern seems to be to sell a floor or two at a time, while the others are still supposedly under construction. In Finland, the developers literally shut down their sales and rather took a hit in maintenance costs than sell their available stock while the market was too slow.

Your assumption therefore makes a crucial mistake - it stems from an assumption of perfect markets and unrestricted housing supply. In reality neither of those two hold true.
Yeah. All jokes aside, Slack is really only good for slacking off.
Yup, there's a reason one of the internet rules of yore was "Don't feed the trolls"
Saudi Arabia's missing princes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40926963

Saudis Said to Use Coercion and Abuse to Seize Billions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...

Saudi Arabia arrests economist after he criticises Crown Prince's plans:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-a...
Usain Bolts may not be but the averages certainly are. I think it's pretty obvious that if a woman can pass the same fitness requirements that men have then they should be able to serve in combat. If you are lowering the requirements to allow them in that's dangerous.
A problem that could easily be solved by simply prescribing them all heroin. This was successful when it was done in the UK (https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-case-for-prescription-her...) although of course the government eventually shut it down.
Or use one that are supported by the open-source amdgpu drivers. Those have been pretty good.
Saudi's $500B NEOM city project forms international advisory board
Is this a project limitation or a tech limitation? I am familiar w/ browser efforts to impl web streams, I wonder if that would help.
This is an incredibly unpersuasive response. You don't like the post? Fine. But correct it rather than just dissing it.
If I take a picture with my camera the camera manufacturer will not get the copyright. How on earth are car manufacturers gonna be the ones that get the copyright?

(I'm sure you are correct but it feels absurd)

Will software companies claim copyright on logs?
In most of Europe (except for the UK as far as I know) you always take the responsibility for employment from the acquired to the acquiring party. In some cases it is even enforceable in companies acquired due to bankruptcy. The 'fire everyone and rehire under shitty contracts' does not apply. Though I have heard of cases where it was tried.
Your comment is a bit weak ("can we have a rule") - but this is exactly the type of thing we should be working towards. Why should software vendors gain legal control over our data, simply because we use their software?

If the compiler vendors could have pulled this crap back in the 80s, the Internet as we know it would not exist.
Yes the only possible reason is bias, there can be no other explanation.
Really wish SBCL ran on iOS. :( It's the only one with the perf I want. But like compilation at runtime on iOS is a no go so ... yeah. LuaJIT in interpreter mode is p fast tho.
I was probably around the same age when my parents told me I was adopted. Personally, I am glad they did it at such an early age and were as upfront as they were. I think I would have been more curious if I had found out later in life and it came as a complete surprise/shock.
That was my signing bonus, nevermind pay or RSUs. It's not hard to acquire that much money.
Whatever the gov does to them afterwards, bailing private companies and not taking possession of them on the spot is a huge failure of the duties of a government with their citizens.

Break them apart later, sell them, or keep them for a few years until the economy can absorb them. But I still can not accept how a democratic government can push money at will into private hands and nothing happens out of it.
This country should be on the terrorist watch list. 19 of the 9/11 terrorists came from that country.

This same country is armed by the Brits.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40553741