skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by that logic, amazon should just be selling books to make it easy for investors to make 'pure plays'
> However, it seems that the average C# or Java engineer who goes through our process does less well than the average Ruby or Go engineer. I have no idea why.

Given that they have the test info... and they're the ones deciding pass/fail... it's a bit strange they "have no idea why". Well, perhaps just this person doesn't?

Are people not finishing the projects? Do the projects have syntax errors in them? Or logical bugs? What metrics do they use for "pass/fail"?
Will Mircosoft use V8 or Charka Core?
> That does not work because most of the food transportation is by ship freight and truck, which have enough range to evade your tax.

Solution: If the carbon tax for the product's production and transportation is not collected by the country of origin, it is collected by customs on import.

> And the local transport costs are identical between local and export farmer, while local production is more expensive on labor and fuel.

If it's more expensive on labor, it was the whole time. If it uses more fuel, discouraging it is the intended outcome.
> As part of this, we intend to become a significant contributor to the Chromium project, in a way that can make not just Microsoft Edge — but other browsers as well — better on both PCs and other devices.

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish"? At this point, with google, I'm not even sure if it's a bad thing, if true.
It was on BBC's Top Gear some time ago: https://youtu.be/c_eLViH7_YI
Given that they name "robot learning" as an application, the target domain is probably self-driving cars, not route optimization.
Another "if you can't beat them just join them"? In fact Edge is 99.9999% irrelevant at least to me, all my time with Edge added up to be less than 5 minutes over the years, I only need it to download chrome(or firefox).
I have a 2011 volt and have had negligible degradation. Thats an N of 1 but from GMs data, degradation hasn't been an issue in volts.
I like the idea. I could give my Spanish
The monoculture is the main issue here.

Google should not be happy about this.

Makes it harder for them and everyone else to push web standards forward.
> but if Microsoft is moving to Blink, wouldn't they, as well, have (as you say) influence on the project?

No.

1. Chrome will remain the dominant web browser

2. the Chromium repository itself is owned by Google

The only leverage Microsoft is in forking Chromium, but that does nothing to Chrome's market.

Google themselves forked WebKit when they couldn't get along with Apple. And that was back when Chrome wasn't as pervasive.

So what makes you think Google would give a crap about Microsoft today?
Interesting, thank you. I could see Electron apps replaced with WebAssembly apps eventually.
Room to grow for all of the reasons you mentioned? Alongside different/better governance and perception

Also revenue. They has it.

I can more easily see how a public market shareholder would make money in a lyft holding, than in an uner holding. This isnt about getting married to a stock and putting the share certificate in a frame, this is about growth and potential addressable market, which is easier to see.
The "live shared coding" angle in VSCode makes it a great option in many areas where there's a need for it. People have been asking jetbrains for this for a decade, and there's nothing on the horizon as far as I can tell.
> Even opening the data formats like for Office

Ah the only second ISO Standard for the same thing. With transparent definitions like: if option XYZ is set, render the output like Word 97.

Blatant corruption by a standard gremium.
He was not "over-dressed". He was well dressed. (If your theory is that a young black guy in a t-shirt and hoodie would have been less likely to trigger unconscious bias, let's just say I'm skeptical.)

Absent fMRI recordings from the elevator lobby, I of course cannot prove that it was unconscious racial bias. But we can't prove most things in life with that level of evidence. Nevertheless, we have to operate in a complex and dynamic world. This is my best interpretation of events. It was also the best interpretation of the person present, of my boss, and of several other people in the company I discussed this with.
Probably offset by the amount of people who can't access it due to their internet not working haha
I am imagining digital walls going up, starting with consent banners similar to cookie behavior (ala GDPR)?
Discoverability is a good thing, though! And one place where emacs is much better than others, too.
Not sure if you’re just trolling but to say that press is attacking FB for it being used in a presidential campaign is a straw man. The issue is very specific to targeting unknowing users with fake news in order to influence the outcome of a election and how much FB was aware of this. Obama did not do this. Did nothing like this. It’s completely false equivalency to compare social media usage as intended with this shady business
OTOH clojure script is completely written in clojurescript
WordPress 5.0 marks a new era for the world’s most popular CMS
One of my favorite things about VS Code is how usable it is with its default configuration, and how easy it is to customize to my liking. I found Atom and Sublime Text very frustrating in that regard.
I was confused by the results then read online:
"It seems impossible that a gallon of gasoline, which weighs about 6.3 pounds, could produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. However, most of the weight of the CO2 doesn't come from the gasoline itself, but the oxygen in the air."

btw, have O2 levels been dropping over last century?
edit: https://weather.com/science/nature/news/earth-atmosphere-los...
Just wanted to say that was quite a poignant piece of writing. I wish you well.
It's not a blogging platform, it's a badly implemented Facebook clone. It's also private, making it difficult to collaborate or spread content, and has terrible search functionality. The only thing you can do is look at their global viral content feed and hope something that isn't just bondage or idiotic rants pops up. It also trends strongly towards kink, and white heteronormative sex, which excludes a huge portion of the Tumblr lgbtq+ spectrum.
The Mac and iOS design uses explicitly valued enums in all APIs (aside from anything else it makes it much harder to accidentally break ABI).

JSC also uses them extensively in the lexer and parser.
Oh I'm not claiming they're out of line - they deserve that pay. My point was that it's not all these evil salesmen / drug capitalists driving high-costs in medicine. Sometimes better quality care just costs more.
those batteries are coming from the gigafactory, which is a joint-venture with tesla. the batteries produced there aren't about to start going to other companies.

if other companies wanted to build a new factory with panasonic, perhaps they could do that....and then we'll start to see their results sometime in the 2020s....
Crowd-funding is a scammers dream come true in general. Never "donate" money unless you are ok with the possibility of never getting anything in return.
Expressedly, this is my opinion solely, with that said:

I stopped using Sublime and stopped recommending it not because of price (I actually prefer to pay for things when I can) but because the community plugins for my development workflow (PHP + Frontend) is...not great. I also found the distinct lack of API documentation to be frustrating (I'm not above making my own extensions and I very much like Python)

Visual Studio code at least has good front end tooling (The PHP extensions can't handle my large PHP projects, though I am tempted to try the a paid extension on this that I heard works well in Visual Studio proper, also, Twig support plain sucks. I'm not 100% certain if this is a limitation of VS Code or the Extension but it can't find my variables from the PHP files)

I've since moved to a combo of PHPStorm (my daily driver) and Visual Studio Code for Git Merges (I prefer the way you can handle it in VS Code) and doing other misc tasks that I don't want to fire up a PHPStorm instance for.

Same reason I never liked Atom. Tooling always seemed off somehow.

Side note? If you are going to pay for an editor, I recommend any JetBrains product offering.
Maybe set up your release process so that independent code review _can't_ be bypassed? (Review company handles building and signing the application.)
Pluto deserves to be a planet
Excellent news. Google mostly does not have their own desktop OS to "protect", so they are probably incentivised to make the browser and the apps running in it feel as "native" as possible, with proper access to important local resources when relevant. Considering how Apple is dragging their feet with service worker and offline support on Safari (where they have a monopoly on iOS), this is probably a good thing overall. Fingers crossed!
They're amazing little cars. Mines 14 years old and I'm still hard pressed to find a car that makes me feel the same way while driving it. Was the first car I purchased entirely on my own (thanks, Dad!) and I can't imagine ever selling it.
I don't think public companies should be pure plays. But I don't think they should be portfolios, either. There's reason for both.
> How can you commit a crime under US law when you are not under US law at all?

What makes this complicated is that Huawei does have a registered company in the US (with multiple offices), and therefore at least some part of Huawei ought to be subject to US laws. By making the choice to establish a US presence they ought to be willing to comply to the local regulations.

> If I pass a law that bans eating cornflakes, you then have breakfast and enter my country, am I justified in putting you under trial?

Yes, though the problem is that this example is trivial. If I pass a law that bans cyber attacks on my country's infrastructure, and you perform attacks in a country where it is legal and travel to my country, I'm well in the grounds to arrest you.

If cornflake eating were against the law, the solution would be to avoid traveling to that country in the same way that some people might not travel to North Korea for fear of being arrested unfairly.
"Do Emacs and Vim users have some other characteristic that makes them more likely to succeed during interviews?"

I think the Interview Pass Rates chart makes it clear that the answer is a statistical "Yes", at least for Emacs.
From MVC to Modern Web Frameworks
> I don't think all the cencorship out there are good; and I don't think all of them are bad as well.

This one is too broad of a topic to fit in this thread I think.

> My point is, Google should not be the one who fight against any laws.

I agree that it is not Google's job to fight against laws of a country. But, what we are talking here is freedom of speech, and freedom of Internet. The reason Google is the point of the discussion is because of their dominance worldwide when it comes to accessing information.

Let's have imaginary country named A. And Google wants to enter this country by providing a search engine. But country A has a law that states "It is illegal to say/read/write that Earth is round"

What do you think Google and other companies that lead the way for accessing information on Internet should do?
This is not even close to comparable. I’ve said in other threads the issue with IE and really IE6 - was for multiple years Microsoft did zero development. The browser didn’t patch zero day exploits for months or even a whole year. Fundamentally IE6 was an extension of Windows via ActiveX controls. The layout bugs were permanent. Remember zoom:1, hack to fix a layout issue or just float:right etc...

Blink is open source- you want to encourage innovation in the usability and utility of the browser and let people compete on market share of their browser product not how people’s web apps that run on that platform work or don’t work - The key is it’s open we’ll never have another IE6. Anyone can compile Blink. Look Microsoft is focusing on getting it to work on arm- cool. This is the opposite of locked to windoze only.
One dynamic that's underestimated in markets where the optionality of substantial non-marginal costs (CapEx, RegEx, etc) is amortized over volume (rather than optionality charges: access charges) is that a 10% decrease in use will never (in the long run) result in a 10% decrease in costs of the product. i.e. Consider a Crusoe economy, where you buy a magic box that supplies free electricity 99% of the time. Do your electricity costs (in the long run) go down 99%? No because the electricity supplier will now have to amortize all their costs over the 1% time when you need to buy electricity.

Regulation delays this (inevitable) blow up, allowing the magic-box seller to oversell the market before prices are allowed to adjust to snap down to what would have been the post-magic-box equilibrium without regulatory friction.

Electric-utility arbitrage batteries are basically physical call-option contracts: you pay a premium for the right to purchase electricity below market rate. The question for a firm assessing this gambit is, is the ratio of the premium to in-the-money(ITM) payoff time profile worth the premium.
The idea this this is a silicon valley thing is funny to me since I didn't get asked to sign one until I came out here, and then when I refused the other party freaked out.
It's a long text, but key takeaways are:

• There are no disruptive changes. You'll just opt in to a couple of new keywords and some warnings turned into errors (most of which will be fixed for you automatically). The "old" code continues to work unchanged and can be mixed with the "new".

• In the last year, in general, Rust has fixed a bunch of papercuts in the syntax, modules/namespaces, and the borrow checker that were annoying and unintuitive. New tooling has been added. It's now easier for new users, so if you've hit a wall with Rust 2015, give Rust 2018 a try.

• Rust is finding its strengths in embedded, WASM, CLI apps, and these areas are getting more polished.

• High-performance networking is another area of focus, and async/await is coming soon.
Avoiding lawsuits by hiding the facts is in no way an attempt to solve the problem.

Oh, wait. Maybe we're talking about different problems. My problem is my intern having a bad experience due to unconscious racial bias. What problem are you trying to solve?
Yes it was. But was it further left than it is now? I think you are confusing the methods used to achieve a goal with the degree of support for that goal. Communism is authoritarian, and far-left. Modern "liberal democracy" pretenders are far-left and less authoritarian. They want the same complete equality, they just rely more on manipulation and deception than direct violence to get there. Saying they are not far left because they don't use the same tactics to achieve the goal is like saying Gandhi was only moderately in support of independence. He was as far to the independence side of the independence/colonialism debate as you could get, he just wouldn't use violence to try to achieve that goal.
Good development. Now we need more open source collaboration in MS gaming branch. Let MS back Vulkan instead of continuing DX12 lock-in.
"That application whitelist probably needs a permissions flow for a user to agree that Password Manager Brand X is indeed their password manager application of choice."

This scares me. Are you proposing it as something that is necessary, or something that is necessary as part of the parent poster's suggestion to use HTTPS + PUT? If the former, how does this scale across the multiple platforms I use? Ugh. Scary.
Automating Data Flow Diagram Management with Terraform
>> "“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge?"

Yes, exactly like those two.

>> "Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit..."

Actually when Google forked WebKit, Chrome wasn't obscure at all. But yes, that's the perfect proof that Google doesn't want to cooperate when they aren't pulling the strings.
I read it that way too which was interesting to me. What about Google's actual clients: the advertisers who lost out on clicks/traffic because a fake ad took their place. I guess I'm surprised Google would bend over backwards to keep the platforms happy but shrug off the impact of the error on the people who ultimately pay them. Perhaps it's indicative of where the power lies in the internet advertising chain: whoever it is that can generate clicks.
Show HN: Temporal Price – recalculate item prices in terms of works hours
There are some warts, but it seems nice from afar. The biggest wart is/was the "FUCK FUCK FUCK" git clean vs git reset UX error: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 . This is a fantastic demonstration of why i exclusively use git from a command prompt -- i know what will happen and nobody's going to reinvent terms to put on buttons that just confuse me.

In my life:

- I'm committed to emacs for org-mode and LaTeX editing and daily use.

- I paid for sublime so i will use it -- and multiple cursors everywhere is a boon for quick and dirty data munging.

- I write serious python code in pycharm.

- I write serious c# in full blown Visual Studio
I wonder about that - given that a dictionary attack relies on known values (and can substitute out "l"'s for "1" and "!") - what happens if you write something like "Ger!bils"? Is the dictionary attack totally nullified, or is that possibly accounted for? That would seem to open up the potential space a ton.
Really? I am British white and I have the opposite problem. In my company, they have gone out of their way to promote non-white people and my achievements and accomplishments have been overlooked. I feel like I have to work at least 2x harder and accomplish more than non-white or non-male people to be given any credit, respect, or the promotions I think I deserve. Once, at a company meeting to discuss recruiting, my direct manager thanked the non-white and non-male, and non-heterosexual people for bringing diversity to the company in front of everyone. No one else was thanked or praised for anything there.

My point is that we can probably all find something to complain about and it irks me that white people are accused of being racist and undeserving in tech roles. I certainly don't feel like I have any sort of privilege; quite the opposite. I suspect this will be downvoted which is proof of my point.
Do aged lithium batteries lose charge efficiency, discharge efficiency or capacity?

Each loss would encourage different kinds of secondary uses.
iPad Diaries: The Many Setups of the 2018 iPad Pro
I wonder how much of KHTML is even left in WebKit/blink.
Announcing Better Worlds: a science fiction project about hope
Arrest Shakes Huawei as Global Skepticism of Its Business Grows
> why does it seem like the majority of the social-right in America think that the social-left automatically consider them racists?

> media and academics are whipping up a problem where none exists

TL;DR: a large number of social-right people say very racist things.

Here's the long version. I feel like you're completely ignoring the fact that racism exists, and ignoring all of the racist comments made by social-right. It feels disingenuous, but if you honestly don't see the social-right making racist comments, please look into what Republicans in America say. Here's an example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018...

Of course, that's not representative of all Republicans. For example, read the first and third paragraph of this: https://politi.co/2xDyEqc and you'll see an example of one republican being very racist, and another (DeSantis) denouncing that racism. But here's a list of things DeSantis has also said: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/eight-times-ron-desantis-...

While you might not consider all of those things racist, I'm sure you can agree that some of them are. You aren't outwardly denying that social-right people say racist things, but you aren't factoring it in either.

> You seemed to take offense ... I think there's a parallel between your response to me and the response many socially-right people have toward systemic racism

I agree tribalism is bad. In hopes of not being tribalistic, I'm providing you with lots of clear explanations and evidence so that we're on the same page. I'll explain my offense again. You said this:

>>> one side thinking (and saying) the others are racists because they don't support various race-targeted policies (or talk about systemic racism all the time)

If you read through my links of racist rhetoric Republicans use, you should be able to see why it's outrageous to say that people of the social-left are mad about social-right not talking about racism all the time. Social-left people are mad about the racist things social-right say.
If there was one guy I'd like to have beer with..
I don't understand how anyone can claim FF is faster. I love FF and I switched completely from chrome. But Chrome is far faster. I don't know maybe it is because I have an abundance of RAM (32 GB) and others don't and that's why they think FF is faster.

But for me, it's easy to test. Go to http://addic7ed.com/ and open the (very long, nearly 5k entries)
[Select a TV Show] drop-down. On FF (and IE/Edge FWIW) there is a noticeable delay in opening. I'd say 200-400ms. On Chrome it opens instantly.

Next, have something playing that consumes decent amounts of CPU in a tab. I used twitch. Then go somewhere and rapidly open new links (I middle-clicked around on Wikipedia). After about 10 tabs, FF starts slowing down (opening tabs that look like blank tabs and only starting to load after a delay) and possibly interrupts playback in the background tab. IE/Edge are even worse and will start opening tabs slower than you click and keep opening for a while after you are done. In Chrome on the other hand, everything is instant.

I'm on Windows 10 and everything is up to date. I'd love for someone to tell me that it's different for them.
Oh wow. Especially with its juxtaposition with Alabama. I bet the map looks even more bleak in another five years.
It's crazy! This is not the Microsoft from ~5 years ago. They have really changed! Opening up to linux, cross-platform apps, open sourcing tech, open sourcing their patents(!), and now using open source chromium for MS Edge? Dam. I never thought I'd see the day...
Don't forget Opera is a re-skinned Chrome.
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium.

MS went with Chromium because they want that implicit "best viewed in Chrome" compatibility.
"Ride sharing" is not an accurate representation of these companies anymore. Uber and Lyft are trying to become major mobility and transportation platforms.
The core of their business right now relies on ride-sharing, but if they want to become sustainable long-term companies they need to evolve their business.
Sadly, drivers are just an input to generate cash flow. They're definitely not indispensable, especially with new short distance tranportation solutions like scooters.
it seems like a lot of people don't know this but the current Edge engine is Open Source. look here https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
Apparently you need to `rustup self update` before installing this version, and it will work. So if you've installed it, uninstall it, then update rustup, then reinstall it. Sorry about that! There was a miscommunication...
Don't people follow standards-compliant HTML/CSS/JS and compile to the browser of their choice? How often does a standards-compliant site work on Chrome but not on Firefox, assuming that all the targeted features you want are there?
When was the last time a google link took you to the url that was displayed below it?

They don't treat links honestly at all anymore (including javascript clickjacking, not just tracking links). Direct navigation is not in their best interests at all anymore. Yes, they want to kill the URL.