skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You either get called "complacent" or "naive."

This stuff is going to happen regardless of how upset people get, nation states have too much to gain by having more information and very little to lose when they're caught by an allie.

And it isn't like this is new to the information revolution either. Countries were spying on each other using the postal service and telegrams, or even eyeballs and fast horses.

As an aside your example isn't relevant, the CIA spied on their own government in that example, that is what makes it especially egregious and dangerous, since it impacts the state's own sovereignty. The actual topic at hand was nation-states spying on one another, apples and oranges.
I somehow doubt it, most of the APIs (with the notable exception of some of the reflection APIs) are at parity and the language is the same.

This is more like a major library dropping support for a legacy runtime going forward.
So in other words Microsoft doesn't think .net standard is a practical approach to prevent the fragmentation of the .net ecosystem and won't use it themselves.

Also it probably means blazor (which runs on mono) won't be able to share libraries with asp.net core...
I think there's probably a dramatic difference in attitudes about this between those people flying for personal reasons and trying to play the points game to maximize the goodies and those being paid to fly for work and just letting things accumulate and reaping some personal benefits from it when they fly for themselves.

I fly for work a bit and other than the initial sign up for the programs and giving my various reward account numbers to my company travel agent once, there's no cognitive load to me. I don't go out of my way to maximize the goodies, but I've received enough perks here and there that the whopping 10 minutes I've invested into each signup process has more than paid for itself.
The main feature really just seems to be "it's RiscV". A 180MHz Teensy is half the cost, and likely able to do most, if not all, things this can do.

Makes sense though. First mover is probably a good PR move for SiFive.
It's not on Belgian citizens, Belgacom is the Telecom supplier of the EU parlement in Brussels.

Let's see how getting out of the EU is what they really want on the long term. They haven't been really a member of the EU anyway ( a lot of exceptions were allowed for them and it was still not enough)

Source: I'm from Belgium
I also assume they paid money for that domain, since 4 letter domains tend to be already taken.
Is Guix related beyond also being an OS?
Mastodon dates from 2016. Depending on which aspects of blockchain, it lon postdates Bitcoin, and came up roughly in parallel with the blockchain-all-the-things idiocy.

Mastodon itself has no reliance on blockchain.
I first misread that as "The Purely Fictional Linux Distribution".
I hope people will eventually figure out that a Brexit (deal or no deal) will help no one.
It's not based on another distro, although I guess its closest cousin would be Gentoo, which is another source-only distro. By default everything in NixOS is compiled from source, but they use some novel techniques to reduce duplication, and you can setup binary caches for your workplace if you wish.

Edit: apparently packages are distributed in binary by default, but if you customize options it’ll be compiled locally. My mistake.

NixOs is the amalgamation of 3 things: Nix, Nixpkgs, and the other bits it takes to make an os.

Nix is a programming language and a packaging tool. It allows packages to be programmed in a type safe way, then executed to install the actual libraries or binaries. This is the area of the system that I actually know the least about.

Nixpkgs is a large collection of packages for Nix. The community really has worked on this set of stuff like gangbusters, it's quite impressive how many things they've wired in from scratch. Each package specifies its dependencies, and the various options it accepts to tweak various options. A good example would be setting the data directory for the postgresql service.

NixOs combines the previous two items along with the other bits it takes to make an OS work. So they provide official installation instructions and media, configure how Nix is going to actually be run on NixOs (as compared to say, OSX), provide stable channels for various versions, etc. Basically all the regular things you expect out of a distro.

Personally, I'm not exactly sure if this is where Linux is going to go, but I think that this is how Linux would have been built if disk was much cheaper back in 1970ish. A lot of the regular problems of systems management are completely solved in NixOs.

Need two different versions of the same shared library? No worries, they can each have their own copy, and Nix will automatically make sure the correct one, specified by the hash of all the build flags, will be the one that's loaded into memory for said program.

Have a shared system? Great! Users can install userland programs without root privileges. Because items are inserted into the nix store idempotently and paths are not universal, I can install vim without any other users seeing that, and without root. The only thing that takes root privileges are services (e.g. Postgres), or installing programs for universal access.

Sadly this does come with some downsides. A lot of programs over the years have come to make very bad assumptions about program location, or the ability to modify the PATH variable. A good example of this issue is RVM, which for the life of me I could not get to work.
Not to defend Diaspora, but it's not exactly like this stuff doesn't happen in real companies.

To pick one example out of a hat, when Twitter bough Smyte, they shut down the API 30 minutes after announcing the acquisition[0], leaving vendors like NPM with no warning. After getting hammered by large companies in the press who depended on their services, their response was, "we could have done better and are learning from this experience."

From a customer perspective, there's not really any practical difference between a company deleting your account because the founders were just given a ton of money, and a company deleting your account because the founders are worried about database performance.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
.NET Framework isn't going anywhere. It is and will remain the basis for Xamarin.

.NET Framework 4.8 will be the last release though. Innovation will happen in .NET Core and the packs available for it (e.g. the Windows Desktop Pack).
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Of all the things I thought would come from my wife's campaign, having her show up in XKCD was not one of them.
Would you have preferred I phrased it "That attitude is not unique to the UK, given that the US and Australia, among others, have been known to act much the same way"? Same information either way.
I'm Francesc Lluis, one of the coauthors of the paper.

The reason why we don't use audio stems as training data is because during the preparation of the MUSDB dataset, conversion to WAV can sometimes halt because of an ffmpeg process freezing that is used within the musdb python package to identify the datasets mp4 audio streams. This seems to be an error ocurring upon the subprocess.Popen() used deep within the stempeg library. Due to its random nature, it is not currently known how to fix this.
Adding some classes is alright. Things like "row", "column-6" are tolerated evils.

Look at the button from his article:

<a class="text-xl rounded bg-orange pt-1 pb-1 pr-4 pl-4 text-white hover:text-white no-underline leading-loose" href="#">Buy for $10</a>

That's way too granular.
I've been using tailwind for almost a year and I love it. I would not use something else willingly for something new! Its easy/fast to write and in my mind VERY readable, and if you don't know whats what, their docs are really good.

And for example in React to build a component with conditional styling I use classNames and use props that correspond to classes.

https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames
And it’s not just unemployment that’s down. Latest numbers are showing an uptick in actual wages. Combine that with people taking a look at their pay stubs and you’ve got a recipe for succcess in 2020.
Fair point, I'll pass it on.
Does this mean .NET framework is being dropped slowly for new projects?

Yes.

It's not a secret. Microsoft has said that .Net Framework is basically in maintenance mode and "will move slower". They are moving EF6, Winforms, and WPF to .Net Core (Windows only).

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/04/update-on...

I've been developing on top of Microsoft environments for over 20 years and .Net is by far my favorite language. But, the writing is on the wall. Anyone who wants a long term career in development needs to run away from Windows as fast as possible and slowly move away from focusing exclusively on .Net.

Linux even dominates on Azure.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/

Microsoft knows that Windows can't compete in the cloud and selling Windows for desktops is not the future.
I was just thinking about focussing on technical underpinnings like you said, while reading their copy. Do I care that Nomad Firewall uses Qt? That's almost the first thing they say about it, and then later about how it's written in C++ with a QML user interface. That's what I'd expect for a Qt application these days, and it's also almost entirely irrelevant.

I do tend to look askance at things written in JavaScript that aren't destined to run in a web browser, but ultimately what I care about is whether it works, and I suspect users who aren't developers (that would be most of them) really only do care if it works for what they need it to do.

We keep promoting stuff as "ooh look this is written in Rust!" or "it's in JavaScript!" but the important thing should be the effects of those things - i.e. you might choose to write something in Rust for performance and reliability reasons, and to write something in JavaScript for portability.
People were running a real money service that consumed JSON from another service and it didn't validate the incoming JSON? Wow.
None of those were as deeply involved in criminal activity and none of them had Robert Mueller on their tail.
I assume his opponents will wait until 2024, he won't lose with a strong economy.
> However the Belgian government and security services were kept in the dark, something which the federal prosecutor’s report described as “exceptional between EU states, and something that could lead to a diplomatic incident.”

Seems a lot missing from this story. Do they usually engage their partners? If so, why not this time? We’re they afraid of being tipped off? Who were the targets, terrorists or perhaps other government officials in the Middle East?
Ask HN: Do you intentionally practice kindness? If yes, how?
Got screwed over for thousands of dollars by a recruiter. Did work (haven't gotten paid for anything yet) for a client only to be insinuated that I broke something (I didn't, the code base was a major mess before I touched it and I was careful not to change anything related to workflow).

I've been really polite, especially in my client's case, as they got screwed by previous dev and they are under pressure from their investors to show results (I do like them, they are nice people). But it really stung when they insinuated that I broke stuff.

How do I keep calm and still be polite and kind? I've already decided to quit this client, but don't want to do it when they are just going live. It will only make their situation worse. But I also don't want to be accused of stuff I didn't do. Also trying to figure out how to quit politely, kindly without them creating a scene.

What would you do in this case?
Interesting. Any proof that he's not a fan of democracy?
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And of course, those colors are fully customizable.
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Technically you can do that just with the webNavigation (allows you to see the URLs loaded) and the notifications (to alert the user).
Likely because he thinks he has a good chance of winning regardless of whether it is right or wrong, and that being on his side will personally benefit him, so the usual motivation. He's very similar to Trump.
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I do not understand your concern…
I agree with the point that he has a very significant chance, wouldn't even disagree that he's the favorite (wouldn't agree either, just because I don't know all the indicators precisely enough).

However, it's worth noting that his ratings have never been above 50%, whereas all three of those presidents had honeymoon periods above 50% right after being elected, and returned to above 50% approval before being re-elected. Saying his approval ratings are comparable is technically true, but a little misleading. It would be accurate to say "some presidents had similarly bad approval numbers, but recovered and were re-elected. If his approval numbers rise, like theirs did, that would suggest he'll win."
Indeed, we could see industries change. Technology itself has changed many others intensively, who's to say it itself cannot be changed.

Though, unless we can create some self-refining process to create software automatically, some group of people must be creating it. Unless another group, other than software engineers, would be better and more able to apply their current skills to whatever coding becomes in the future, it is more likely that it will simply just be software engineers refining the way they work, rather than being replaced by a different group of professionals.
Adomd lib for communicating with SQL Server Analysis Services (from MS) has not been ported. WCF is also absent from .net core which makes migrating to .net core much harder for existing projects.
Peter Thiel is opposed to democracy[1], and he thinks Trump is the most efficient way to destroy the American democratic system so he can build some kind of capitalist libertarian utopia in its place.

[1]: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Most fun quotes from that:

> Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

> The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.
> Does this mean .NET framework is being dropped slowly for new projects?

Unfortunately, yes. I would've liked to have seen support for netstandard rather than a particular runtime, I worried that it means people will get sloppy and just target whatever their web framework is targeting.

You've luckily got three plus years of support, so hopefully in that time you'll be able to make a plan about 3rd party dependencies.
> similar to a Cortex-M0

Granted, a very high clocked Cortex-M0+. The clocks are about two and a half times the highest clocked M0+es on the market AFAICT. What it lacks is peripherals (especially ADC).
So I recently chose to work in SF as opposed to Seattle (partially) on account of the amount of green I saw on Apple Maps in SF as compared to Seattle. Would have been nice to see this article before hand....
I have a somewhat naive question. Since this and many similar recent issues are associated with SMT (Spectre, Meltdown), and the concern is about malicious code being run on the same core.

Can IaaS vendors simply restrict VMs to always use whole cores. If you want 3 cores in your VM, you get

1. Core0 Main thread
2. Core0 Hyper thread
3. Core1 Main thread
Core1 Hyper thread is un-allocated

And then we don't have two actors on one core? Or just only offer 2-core VMs.
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Many of the “positive news” sites out there also have this property, that the good news is often about horrible situations and ends up being still pretty depressing.

Similarly if you go deep into cute animals websites, you’ll start getting more and more content about disfigured or abandoned animals.

I think people—and maybe especially depressed people who seek out this kind of content—are really more deeply interested in dark stuff than truly uplifting stuff.
I don't think anyone wins when someone adds nonsense to a thread that then needs to be corrected.
Not to mention parsing the javascript, and then generating the HTML and/or DOM tree. Sure, you can do SSR first, but then you're still doing SSR for the first load anyways.
I'm aware, I use a Pi-hole at home. :) Web filtering hardware in corporate environments is a fair bit more sophisticated and contains a lot of other features.
I bet if they changed it to disapora most people wouldn't notice either.
> most of the Arduino software won't run on the chip

In addition to the standard toolchain, there is a full Arduino SDK.
And Twitter is giving this blocking right to it's users, lol.

Twitter is choosing to give this feature of blocking to people, so I don't know what people are complaining about.
I'm a heavy Flickr user, with 14 years and ~200GB of data on the service right now. My usage pattern is mostly that of "convenient backup of every photo"; my phone auto-uploads to Flickr and I meticulously upload everything worth keeping from my DSLR, too.

I was once a Pro user, but after they announced 1TB for free users, I let my Pro status lapse. I'm not a pro photographer and care mostly about backing up my photos, making them convenient for me to access, and sharing them privately with friends and family. The 1TB limit gave me plenty of room for that.

At $50 a year, if you take a lot of photos, Pro seems like a no-brainer. Even the cheaper cloud storage options, like Backblaze, would charge me ~$50 a year to store my 200GB (and growing) photo library. (I'm intentionally discounting options like Glacier that don't allow me to browse full resolution photos at any time.) You also get a mobile app that makes browsing and sharing your photos easy, and tools like "Guest Pass" for making private photo links that don't require Flickr logins.

All that said, there's a large part of me that wants to get off the Flickr treadmill (every two or three years they get bought and/or change prices and limitations) and just self-host. It seems like it'd be relatively easy to make a static site generator that could be pointed at a huge pile of original photos and metadata to produce a nice-looking responsive website of galleries, but I've never seen one that didn't look like a toy. Does anyone use something like this?
This is actually a good example to argue for Flickr. No one would 1) pay to store a fridge, 2) pay for the electricity and 3) protect the contents indefinitely for strangers. It is perfectly reasonable to throw out food after a long span of time.
This may be because it's common for load balancers / reverse proxies to strip the TLS off before handing it to the back end (which may not even support WS over TLS).

If the TLS encapsulated WS removed the XOR mask, it would require such a reverse proxy to add it on, rather than blindly forward the connection.
I think it is beginning to. not to mention, its not outside the realm of possibility to use microwave backhaul in front of the 5g. Sure, it wont perform as well as it could, but for those in rural areas the coverage of LTE with good antennas is easier/better than microwave (mostly because of line of sight needs)
1) He's rich and directly benefits from the tax cuts.

2) The cuts to social services don't affect people in his pay grade.

3) He lives in a gated community and wouldn't be targeted for harm by the sort of people that are now emboldened to say the quiet part out loud.

4) He founded Palantir and wants to secure more government contracts

5) His experience with being outed by Gawker (completely unethical IMO) probably also led to him viewing "the media" as a monolithic force out to get him.
It makes sense. In 2016, the slogan was Make America Great Again. His 2020 slogan is Keep America Great.

He has delivered on his promises, America is now great again, why would you want to go back?
Scuttlebutt, Gnu/Social and Mastodon are also worth checking out.

Comparison of many distributed (and some even decentralized) social networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro...
I’ve tried just about every “modern” method of styling components over the last few years and this is what I still wish for.
Can you provide evidence that real inflation adjusted wages are going up? It's my understanding that wages for the bottom 60% of the country have fallen or stagnated since the 70's and have only gone up in terms of non-inflation adjusted, or have actually gone down.

The wealthy/elite classes are doing absolutely fantastic under Trump though, and are getting tax cuts and wage increases. Those don't represent America, though.

Edit: Simple Google search shows my thoughts to be true [1]. Wages aren't rising quicker than inflation/cost of living, so saying wages are increasing or are "up" is a bit inaccurate.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/09/25/real-...
If in doubt, follow the money.

Peter Thiel is rich and has a Randian "fuck you, I got mine" attitude. The GOP's policies disproportionally favor the rich without regard for practically anything else. A Trump presidency means that control is largely in the hands of the GOP. Hence Thiel favors Trump.

It's probably that simple.
parent probably meant *thick walls, but I bet modern lingo like "sick walls" would also apply, as it's a very "rad" idea.
Plus boosting the standard deduction is giving middle class people a few extra thousand a year, many will simply endure the rhetoric for the payout.
I was like this for a while until we got an RO unit with a water polisher. Tap water tastes like chlorinated algae and bottled water is just bottled tap water unless you get something expensive. Carbon filters like Brita don't really help that much with the taste. I ended up drinking mostly flavored water like crystal light and Mio.

RO water changed all that. It is delicious! Put a jug of RO water in the fridge and it's the best thing ever.
Well, it shares the same concepts, although instead of nix it uses guix which many of us like better than nix.