skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it more like it's calling a square a rectangle? All these codes are 2D codes - the general public doesn't care if it's a QR Code or DataMatrix or Aztec etc. Anyway, the Baidu Wiki [0] says QR Code is a kind of 二維碼.

[0]: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BA%8C%E7%BB%B4%E7%A0%81/238...
5.) Make it legal to form a PAC that can take unlimited money from any entity or person globally and spend it on politicians to ensure the cycle of wealthy people doesn’t break.

6.) Watch socialism and communism become more interesting systems of governance again as more people are frustrated.
Unfortunately those bureaucrats are actually doing work. A good chunk of it is around Title IX since the consequences were so severe if you didn't have enough bureaucrats to handle the extra-judicial pseudo-tribunals to handle any sex-related allegations. Jump forward to the woke 2018s and now you need even more bureaucrats because all of a sudden each group needs a bureaucrat from it's own race/gender/religion/disability. And now we need even more processes because #metoo and #believethesurvivors and how do you handle a scenario like Mattress Girl which is basically a Kobayashi Maru for a university? So now we also need a bigger legal department and consultants to help develop best practices when there is no clear innocence or guilt, but if you don't assume guilt it could go viral and your funding will get hit.

And then people wonder why education is more expensive despite teaching staff getting paid less and less.
Yeah - my thought was "Oh good, Crystal City. That way Amazon won't suck the soul out of a city, since the defense industry already left it a husk."
The author probably does not realize that Moore's Law has really slowed down and the geometric increase in 3D rendering power is unlikely to continue as fast as in the past. Not to mention that you need ever more graphics processing power to make smaller and smaller improvements in realism. I therefore suspect it will take longer than anticipated to get to the cinematic quality that he hopes for at the price needed for the transformation he anticipates.
Agreed. State government in Texas is constantly overturning city ordinances in Austin: the whole bathroom bill BS, requiring local police to hold suspects for ICE, even overturning the plastic bag ban.

All of the current political ads are pretty nauseating. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of managing immigration (and IMO there are lots of fair points on both sides that I think unfortunately get drowned out by extremists), the tone of the current set of ads is clearly "Evil brown gang members are coming to sell your kids drugs and murder your family." Makes Willy Horton look quaint.
They have apparently improved a lot in the best decade. I mean, ultimately it's just about finding the right algorithm; there are no unreproducible sounds coming out of a piano.
I lived in DC and rather liked the Metro...
I would rather use Sailfish on a Sony Xperia then. Privacy, cheaper, faster, longer battery life. Can also install Android apps.
Comp may be lower, but so is everything else. At the end of the day the guys in the south have more in their pocket than most Bay Area workers.
there is a lot more structure in this java snippet though. At equivalent structure, the python code isn't that much shorter.

It's just convenient for a scripting language to be able to print stuff without any code structure. Something that Java enforces.

I've concluded it's because Java isn't designed for scripting that it doesn't allow scripting practices in its code bases. I just started learning Java and I guess if I use a class that could throw an exception I have to catch it (or transfer it to my class' user it seems). In this particular test I knew it wasn't gonna throw but it wouldn't compile: I was opening a file I knew existed for some quick test - instead of 1 python line I got 7 java ones. But with exception / catch structure.

It's an enterprise language, I'm all for the code structure enforcement. Help a dev catch an exception, so many things could already go wrong on larger codebases ;)
Economic theories to the side, people tip for varying reasons. Some people tip to reward service. Others to impress a partner. Others will tip in order to assuage guilt. Some consumers tip, because they recall what it was like to work for tips, themselves. There are others who refuse to tip, maybe because they were never tipped or are short on money themselves.

This is like an argument about trickle down vs trickle up economics with both sides thinking they are absolutely correct, when in the real world there are various forces that change the rightness of either position for different times, places and people.
"It would be interesting though, if Amazon was prepared to invest in capital improvements for Metro..."

Narrator: Amazon wasn't.
... which you can build using a LoggingFrameworkFactory.
If (and its a big if) they can get this off the ground I see this as more of a threat to CDNs then to cloud hosting providers as it makes zero sense to do anything but host content at the cell tower.

Hosting compute is completely bonkers as only those customers who connect to a tower where you've co-located your compute will see the speed up. So you either co-locate everywhere, or you only co-locate if you have a geographically isolated set of users.
I was surprised to see that you charge $100 for a 60-day post. Is that typical of job posting sites?
Censorship is unethical because it's a giant slippery slope of subjectivity

What does that actually mean? How would you translate it into any sort of policy short of complete and absolute non-regulation of speech (or, really, anything if you just pick something other than 'censorship' as a scare-word).

As to Jones,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#White_genocide
I suppose the culture, politics, and traditions. Bay Area is generally quite liberal and tolerant, even if it is not the most diverse. Tech workers tend to be highly educated, well traveled, and open to new ideas. In contrast, I feel like the South is more xeno/homophobic, resistant to change, conservative etc. I have well educated family members in the South who are low-key racist. As a single data point, most young people I know/work with in California who comes from the South does not want to return for these specific reasons. That, combined with a lack of the kind of critical mass that provides Bay Area tech workers with a thriving job market / safety net, precludes (to me) the possibility of tech ever truly thriving in the South.

I realize how pretentious this probably sounds. Take is as a single anecdote, based off my own personal experience.

I would love to be proven wrong, and will gladly eat my words for dinner.
Clarke's Profiles of the Future was off on a whole lot, but still impressive.

There's a recent book Where is my flying car? with the thesis that old sci-fi visions of the future could've been accurate if not for unnecessary stagnation in key areas like nuclear power. The 70s were the turning point in this view, which I think isn't crazy, though the book was pretty self-indulgent. Reviewed here: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2018/10/14/wh...
Inline some data structure. Json, interestingly, embeds trivially in lisp. Not so much in Java. Especially once you learn the quasi quote.
There are good ways to protect that. It could be fully encrypted with keys available only over local network via trusted execution app. Nothing unbreakable of course, but it would not be possible to get it without significant effort and cost.

Also, this is assuming no checksums served from the origin of the service. If you don't provide secrecy, trusted CDNs are easy :-)
“Quiet Heroes” Looks at the Early Days of an Epidemic
There are a number of c compilers for 6502. They all produce bad code and/or stray quite far from c. Looking at the architecture sort of explains why. Things c needs, it makes hard to do (pointer math, reasonably sized stacks)
I followed far enough, I think, and will look at the airbnb site for more.

Much appreciated!
Cyberiad is really fun.
Reverse Engineering Cathay Pacific’s Seat Selection Page
most of those majors would have been fine choices 10+ years ago.
Unfortunately, as with the idea of batteries for electric cars that can be swapped out at the charging station, there is an incentive to hold onto better units, and quickly return inferior units to the pool. It's a case of Gresham's Law.

So the utopia of interchangeable shared units of anything will only be viable if those units are completely indistinguishable. If there's any kind of distribution of quality, the incentives will cause the economy of the system to devolve into hoarding of the better units. One way to work around this is to mandate regular exchange, but that really gets you into the territory of communism. Not necessarily a bad thing in theory or in some vastly different future, but a big change.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181104014612/https://www.igork...
The examples the author uses and states that they are “almost real” are in no way almost real. To compare his short film to Disney price and art is a joke. They’re nothing a like. One of Disney’s Moana stills was something like 15GB+. Try do that in real time.
Ummmm yes & no. It has a REPL, but it sure isn't easy to use and very few C# coders actually use it. Contrast that with a dynamic language like Python where people basically live in the REPL. Common Lisp takes this to a whole new level. You really can't equate C#'s REPL to Common Lisp's. This is one of those things where the sum of the thing is greater than its parts. Note that I'm not saying C# isn't a decent language, just very very different than what you get with languages like Smalltalk & Lisp.
The guitar market is dealing with this problem, too. Moving to other woods that aren't quite as difficult/expensive to come by. And, they're even beginning to use artificial woods.
Simplicity in CI is what werden all need,thanks for that.

... but. Wtf. Triggering job dependent on exit code?!
If El Bulli was voted 5 times as the best restaurant in the world, why did it close?
I'm seriously interested in what you thought of that argument after you looked up Radio Mille Collines.
9 compelling reasons not to raise VC money for your startup
Java's insistence on using one class to one file, naming files with class names and placing everything in a class is extremely helpful in industrial software engineering. When you pile up devs with different backgrounds, some bright, some bad, the rules that force everyone to follow some standard are great. This also helps with creating IDEs and refactoring tools. If your area is to play with math, go use whatever you want. Java is not that, it's sweet spot is different. Why is thislink here? There's literally nothing smart or useful in it.
We're also bad at predicting what's valuable in the market, and lots of just-so stories aren't true (i.e. not all STEM majors are viable or better than some humanities degrees).
The Real Origins of Birthright Citizenship
People really need to start putting this stuff behind Cloudflare before posting to HN.
If you're running from an IDE and want to inspect values, why not just set a breakpoint?
Just choose elixir, golang or C# with .net. Crystal has been “almost ready” since 2016.
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Hey! Thanks for the feedback

On my first tutorial I did post the code, but the code viewer on Medium is a bit crappy; this way I can make it look a bit nicer, while referencing the GitHub repo as often as I can near the screenshots.

Taking out CGFloat would be good, I was trying to make everything as clear as possible but it might not be necessary there.

When I first tried just sin it was actually telling me that it only accepts Double and suggested sinf to me, I'll Double check that though (pun intended)
Your comment is valid, but screens today are generally for a consumption model vs an interactive one you and I grew up with. I get the whole painting, drawing, etc - but mastery of those are still very much founded in the physical realm of many mediums.

The other thing this article fails to touch on is the damage that can be done to younger eyes. Screens can literally burn retinas. Apple, for example, made quiet reference to the improvements in their new iPhone displays that they are easier on eyes (https://www.cultofmac.com/581646/iphone-xs-max-display-is-sc...). I've also seen the MPE (maximum permissable exposure) metric reference more and more lately.

Finally, I'm sure you spent as much time in front of the screen writing code when you were growing up, just as I did. But it meant going to sit down in front of a desktop. You weren't laying with it in bed, on Facebook or sending Snaps 24/7. The difference of access today is 180 from when I was using technology as a teenager. I don't think technology is bad when it has a purpose, but I would say the majority of youth are not using technology in a manner that's constructive to their future long term.
Having lived in Alabama, this would be rather offensive if it weren’t so endearing; Sounds like a child who’s so certain that the closet hides a monster, that they’re too scared to go learn that the noise is just an air vent.
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Ah, similar name. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
Hah. Just made the Vancouver to Halifax move for exactly the reasons you cite. It’s a great place to be for young families. Affordable, welcoming, walkable, lots of nature close by. No roots here but did the math and took the path that 20 of our friends have taken and left Vancouver. And not even close to looking back.
Does anyone know how this works with profiles / cache? Does this force something like incognito mode? Also does this mean you can't upload / select files outside of the Downloads folder?
For recruiters we are literally just a product they try to sell to their internal teams. Once you understand this everything else starts making sense.
I hear this often. I would like to see an analysis, breakdown, or a real life comparison that suggests this, and for which tier of engineers this is true. I think two things;

1) non bay area tech workers severely underestimate the total comps that bay area workers are earning right now.

2) many renters in the Bay Area may actually have more in their pocket. If you are willing to rent a room (i.e not have a studio or 1BR apartment), you're probably paying 1-1.5k more per month. The salary delta for Bay Area techies is way more than 12months*1.5k/month per year. Have some basic financial responsibility and you can really save a lot out here.
Why is this comment downvoted? It's a well reasoned opinion and guy has balls to make a solid prediction. You may not agree, ok fine. But he put it out there, it's not a stupid comment, not a "metoo" comment, it's a considered viewpoint and that's worth more than casual cheap dismissal. Slap it if you want to but this reactionary downvoting makes the site worth less.
Well you had a tightly knit package back then, I'd argue that increased complexity in the front end was what lead to the 'full stack' developer.

As the previous poster mentioned, it's quite simple, if you can implement a feature vertically (and I'm thinking at least a 3-tier system should be considered), you could consider yourself to be a full stack developer. I've met plenty of developers in my career who refused to work outside their tier.

The fact that sales people and recruiters are making full stacks up to be some sort of mythical horses with a single horn on their head is a different story...
I get what you want, it's the same thing everyone else wants. That doesn't imply it's possible to get it. What we're doing is pretending it works, it's not the same thing.

When I'm working on solving real problems, I'll come up with ideas that make your head spin. Put me in front of a whiteboard and feed me canned problems with right/wrong answers and you won't ever see me again.
There are quite a few complications of Java lambdas and their abstraction bleeds out in several edge cases. This is a result of their class implementation and would not exist if functions had first class support in the language and barcode bytecode (there are complications there too because they didn't want to change anything at the bytecode level for lambdas).

https://dzone.com/articles/java-8-lambas-limitations-closure...
Yep. They call it “tracing” in debugging and a good debugger will be able to directly catch and log the values of any variable at a particular line of code.

By using logging instead you’re reimplementing years of good work done by engineers before you.
Hosted our family email server and Wordpress blog running OpenBSD on an Old World Mac using DynamiC DNS from home back in 2003. Specifically, I ranOpenBSD 3.4 on my G3 Blue & White with a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 PCI Card. That was about 15 years ago. I was self-hosting. :-)
The article contains a surprisingly small amount of images for an article about images.
And it's far less common nowadays per capita.
It’s not even subjective. I would love to leave my dslr behind, but phones are just not there yet. My d7100 with a 50mm takes amazing portrait shots, even in my amateur hands. The d7100 isn’t even a newer body.
> Umm. Yes. Most normal people have no idea Google isn’t the internet, I’m guessing.

The same people that think you can only access the web through the Microsoft Internet Explorer :]
It is, I didn't think so many people would care enough to read about it though
I’ve known many a gay man who has left the south because they don’t feel safe there. Certainly voting wise, the parents comment feels very true.
After some thought, here is what really matters.
The same people who make demands on companies to effect deplatforming are the ones who post about "freedom of association" for those companies when the deed is done. This is not a real argument, just an excuse.

When PayPal start banning clients based on their activity outside of monetary transactions, PayPal effectively condemns certain points of view. Which might sound sensible at first, if the views are questionable, but it also implies that not banning an account is a way of endorsing the holder. And just like that, you arrive at the conclusion that PayPal and other service providers are responsible for the moral quality of all their clients, and not just can but have to ban clients who transgress. How's that for freedom of association?
Needs to get more coverage, weighted by the impact the first claim had. Would a wayback machine for citations help find who is in duty bound to say "that thing we said, cited? they retracted.." or not?
One big thing I notice about Java (and it’s ancestor, C) is that it’s designed to make it easy to pinpoint exactly what went wrong, when something goes wrong. Lisp, on the other hand, is designed so that you can get it right the first time.
Left out of the boingboing praise, but in the abstract:

"On net, the minimum wage increase from $9.47 to as much as $13 per hour raised earnings by an average of $8-$12 per week. The entirety of these gains accrued to workers with above-median experience at baseline; less-experienced workers saw no significant change to weekly pay. Approximately one-quarter of the earnings gains can be attributed to experienced workers making up for lost hours in Seattle with work outside the city limits."

That seems opposite to the summary in Boingboing. It's also in agreement with many studies and theory which should price the lowest performing out of jobs as they cannot add enough value to make it worth an employer hiring them. Increased wages by fiat long enough merely increase inflation.
I am convinced all this interview thing is to create a illusion of shortage, like Tinder.
Seems like we really are going to be stuck at around 5GHz for CPUs (we will see how many cores) and <20TFlops in GPUs, whereas for realtime animations we would need a ~1,000x speedup :-(
But it's still pretending, solving canned problems with right/wrong answers is not the same as doing the real thing. You'll get completely different behaviors out of most people. I wouldn't be surprised if plenty of whiteboard surfers and sweet talkers turn out to be less than ideal under pressure when there are no clear answers and no authority to back them up.
WSJ's take on the same study: https://www.wsj.com/articles/seattles-fake-free-lunch-154102...
> H street will probably be safe since Washingtonians seems to have a pathological fear or switching lines during their commute and it's closest to a Red line station (Union Station).

What if the gentrification spreads out from Union Market?
If it's through cf it shouldn't have resource exhaustion from the origin unless the html isn't set to cache.

Cloudflare isn't that necessary, you can go far with just a proper static serving nginx config. But yeah cf makes like easy.
At the moment Markdown support is limited - only HTML-to-Markdown conversion is in place. Check: https://html-notepad.com/2018/11/03/version-0-1-1-0/

Basic idea is that HTML is so called "master format" - you edit mostly in WYSIWYG and getting MD or reStructuredText (of particular flavor) when you need to publish it.

Next step in MD support will be MD-to-HTML converter so you can copy MD from, say, GitHub, edit it in human readable form and publish it back.

As of pre blocks syntax highlighting... This is also planed. Sciter already has native support for it, here is full source of script colorizing: https://sciter.com/tokenizer-mark-syntax-colorizer/ , thus it will not be difficult to do that.
Remote desktop access might be a niche feature, but people do use it (VNC, RDP, X11, etc.) to deal with problems that would be seriously inconvenient to solve otherwise. The biggest barrier to the adoption of remote desktop access apps is probably the fact that the average user can't readily conceptualise what's going on.
I can’t decide whether the old motif widgets are ugly as sin or not. But for whatever reason, I find the screenshot of that file manager to be salve for my soul. Probably just nostalgia.

I must say though that I’m just as glad Motif has mostly faded into history. It was... a challenging widget set to work with.

Now, I wish something like GNUStep had caught on. Maybe an independent BSD implementation.
Also American. East coast. I've been in tons of houses with separate dining rooms, as well as living / family rooms.

And yeah, nobody used em. A friend of mine growing up had both living and family room in his house. One was used all the time. The other was untouched, pristine. Like they might have even had plastic covering the furniture. We weren't supposed to play there; it was only for formal entertaining.

My in laws also have a separate living room with a piano in it. And besides the off chance someone tried playing chopsticks, the room is unused. Infact, most of us put our coats there. The family room has a TV in it, so everyone goes in there.

Heck, the house I grew up in had both a kitchen and dining room. I think the dining room only got used on holidays when we had guests over.

Not sure why you haven't seen as much. Might have to do with the size of the house, demographics, or region.

But boy, are they stupid. Rooms everyone thinks they need, but nobody uses.
It does have access to .cache and .config as well
That's funny as hell. I dunno about the effectiveness of the tactic, but, the comedy is top-notch.
I've been a lunch buddy before.

I don't remember there being anywhere on the interview app for me to put in feedback. I see lunch buddy's responsibility being to make sure you're well fed and caffeinated, and ready for the afternoon interviews/excited about the team/org.