skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I qualified it with "if that's what you mean by closed source". I don't know if all source is either open or closed and anything that isn't OSI-approved is closed. I don't think that's what people usually mean by "closed source".

I also freely granted that dmd's ad-hoc license wasn't open source despite having visible source.
I've used it too. It's one of the best free tools of its ilk. But yes, it's not SSMS.
How do you propose we ban them?
> While HTML is great for rendering, it sucks at WYSIWYG editing.

Nobody says you have to operate on it in that format. You read it into internal structures and output those internal structures to HTML. I don't expect an editor to maintain a 1-to-1 relationship with the storage format while operating in memory.
All this waste of medical resources to deliver essentially a feeling to the mother, while there are plenty of adoptable and miserable children all over the world. At least in this case, they used the mother's own DNA.
This is exactly how a story is declared newsworthy or not
I think this is perhaps referencing a recent HN comment about the code quality of Oracle DB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
I think it's already happening. I've received a few emails from recruiters about jobs at Facebook in the past few weeks and before this hadn't received any. Same with my wife. It's obviously anecdotal, but we were both surprised to get emails from recruiters for the same company a few weeks apart. My first thought was that they must be having more trouble hiring people.
Immutability (and the related idea of forming things in a declarative instead of procedural fashion) is a good idea generally and prevents vast swaths of possible bugs from ever occurring.

SPA's are a bad idea because 1) it greatly complicates good unit testing and requires gross things like headless browser drivers in your integration test suite, 2) it does not degrade gracefully to HTML (such as on assisted devices) 3) javascript is, at best these days, a sunny wasteland of dependency hell.
New Patch Replaces F-Words in Linux Kernel Code with “Hug”
That article is about DRAM, not NAND. Any article that talks about SK Hynix as a major player but doesn't mention Toshiba is clearly not about flash memory.
I invested close to the ETH ICO. just $10k or so, but that gave me a windfall of $3.5m (I sold in early to mid-December).

Wow. You got out at the top. ETH has dropped 90% since then.
It happens when concurrent queries update records in a different sequence, but the same application on Postgres never deadlocks.

SQL Server has like 4 different isolation levels + MVCC, you just pick the one you need. Postgres just does MVCC so it sounds like you should just switch SQL Server to that mode. A poor workman blames his tools. Unless that tool is MongoDB.
The time is coming when Facebook will be a stain on a resume. If you work there now, you need to be working on your exit strategy.
Another anecdote: about a month ago I applied to Stripe and was rejected within a few hours. I had some truly mixed feelings about that! On one hand I was deeply appreciative of their prompt response, but on the other, it was a super quick rejection!
Counterpoint: The Pentagon is a massive fraud where over half of each tax dollar is taken without accountability.

https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget-frau...
Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed:
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit
If only we had an open specification for formatted documents already. It could be based on text, and ideally there would be lots of different implementations, so it isn't hostage to a de facto master implementation. We could call it OpenDocument or something like that.

Now, a serious question: does this have an advantage over the existing standards, apart from "is JSON-based"? It looks like the company that made this decided to open source it, which is neat, but not very news-worthy.
Also, a reform of the school system means that fewer students will be going to college, so the students are out protesting that too.

Really these protests are an amalgamation of various groups that have almost nothing in common with each other other than being upset with the current government. And some of the goals are even opposing... presumably those students want something done about climate change, but they've joined pro-global-warming protests and are about to throw out a government trying to do something about climate change, just because they're upset about college.

They're probably correct that taxes should be going up on the wealthy. And it's also probably correct that taxing energy consumption is the wrong approach to take when you have industrial mega-polluters that can individually put out more carbon than whole countries. Maersk going carbon-neutral is the best climate news I've heard in a long time.

On the other hand, it's easy for the young to demand in front of the UN that something be done about climate change... it's harder when the changes you demand begin to impact you personally (says a person who has felt no real impact himself).
why would negative mass fill in the space rather than just "zero mass?"
XML is not a native data structure to the web, and JSON arguably is. Browsers may have XML parsers built in, but XML requires APIs to work with in any meaningful way. XML's data model is complex. Where JSON allows you to build the entire data structure using pure JavaScript data types (objects, arrays, numbers, etc.), you can only build XML data reasonably via complex interactions of createElement(), appendChild() and so on. Compared to the thinness and transparency of JSON, the XML DOM has huge overhead. There's huge value in your document model also being your in-memory model.

I'm not sure why you think this particular JSON schema is a "complex stringy structure". XML is a complex stringy structure! There's conceptually and semantically zero difference between <node style="normal">text</node> and {style: "normal", text: "text"}, other than the fact that the former requires an API to read and manipulate, and the latter doesn't, from the point of view of JavaScript code. XML has a specific formalized data model of elements, attributes and so on, but this is just a graph representation: You can lossly encode an XML DOM in JSON, and vice versa.

The argument in favour of XML should revolve around the ecosystem of tools (XPath, XML Schema, namespaces, etc.) that allow you to work with it, but so far the comments here haven't conclusively highlighted these features as benefits. They also seem to ignore that with the exception of legacy enterprise software, the web world has largely (not entirely, but largely) moved away from XML. There's a reason we're using JSON over REST instead of SOAP. XML isn't the lingua franca of the web that W3C seemed to assume it would be during the early 2000s; JavaScript/JSON is.
I was sorely disappointed with pipenv, and transitioned to poetry [1], with which I’ve been very satisfied. There is also some commentary in the README on the design decisions re: pipenv [3]. Contrary to the author's perspective on poetry using poetry-specific sections of pyproject.toml, that's actually the proper implementation (and expected usage) coming out of PEP-518.

I also am a big fan of pyenv [3] but that’s of course to manage Python versions (not environments)

[1] https://github.com/sdispater/poetry

[2] https://github.com/sdispater/poetry#what-about-pipenv

[3] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
Not even without pressing a button on the car to start it?
from a non US perspective, lets say "cruel bussiness culture" is usually associated with american companies. The main thing that seems to foster suchs an enviroment is the lack of worker represenation in US companies.

concepts like works councils[1] seem totally foreign to many US companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council
> Because the free will either exists or does not, and that existence requires it be compatible with the rules that govern how our universe exists. If it's not compatible with how the universe works, it doesn't exist.

Agreed.

> There is no such proof, and as such, the null hypothesis or null assumption is that free will doesn't exist

1. This is a misapplication of the null hypothesis. There are good reasons why angular momentum should be zero and that's why that would be the null hypothesis. If I were to accept that a null hypothesis is sensible in this scenario, then the opposite is the case here: we directly observe us making choices free from coercion and are good at inferring and understanding other people's choices with or without coercion; we use terms like "free will" and are able to communicate precisely what this means to others, and they easily understand our meaning. The null hypothesis is then that we do have free will and a test must be devised to disprove this (some might argue that something like the MRI tests that detect decisions before we're consciously aware of them would qualify).

2. Compatibilism doesn't require such low-level physics considerations. It depends only on intelligent agents acting on reasons, a category under which humans fall, and that is proof that Compatibilist free will exists. You can dispute whether this should qualify as "proper" free will, the type of free will that grounds moral responsibility and matches our moral language and moral reasoning, but you cannot deny that Compatibilist free will itself exists. I have further provided considerable evidence that Compatibilist free will does in fact explain our moral language and reasoning and does ground moral responsibility, therefore there is no reason not to accept Compatibilism as "proper" free will.

In both cases, your burden of proof has been met and exceeded.

> I'm not arguing about whether or not that's what Compatibilism believes, I'm arguing that Compatibilism is wrong because you cannot separate the way humans act and think from the physical laws of the universe.

Compatibilism doesn't require you to.

> and then does a philosophical shoulder shrug and says that free will exists anyway, because we have freedom to act, despite that not being nearly enough to encompass actual free will.

Physics says that day jobs don't actually exist. There is nowhere in the fundamental physics ontology for a location in spacetime where certain aggregates of matter must go for 8 hours a day from 9AM to 5PM on week days.

And yet, by and large we all have such a day job. Do you agree? Is it a philsophical shoulder shrug to say that day jobs don't exist, but then say day jobs kinda do exist because I quite clearly go to a day job every week day?

So either the distinction you're making exists but doesn't matter, or it doesn't exist and you're simply making a category error, confusing two phenomena which have no direct relation to each other.
I am not going to read that, because of the huge number of ads on that page.
I suspect that the more likely you are to moan about the management, the more likely (1) the management wants to look at you because you’re always negative, and (2) the more likely the management wants to look at you because they’re the sort of control freaks that you want to moan about in the first place.

I’m glad I don’t have that problem.
People are hiring more women because it improves performance and productivity [1].

It is true people would expect you to “change the way you act” so as not to make women literally uncomfortable around you, how outrageous that you should have to do this.

> The slightest criticism against women needs to be considered through a lens of misogyny and if it's plausible you keep quiet.

> It's very obvious that gender equality being achieved in the workplace is not via reduced discrimination, but by hiring women at a very flexible bar.

Wrong on both, and you have no evidence to support this.

[1] https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter
The reality is that the tech industry, specifically the ad-tech industry, has had its Lehman moment and now the bloom is off the rose. Facebook and Google are increasingly going to be regulated and subject to more scrutiny going forward. That's just the reality of it.

You're not going through anything unique. There were plenty of bankers that felt that politicians, the press and the public were being unfair to them.
You have some good points. I personally think we still would have an unacceptably large problem w.r.t. climate change regardless of what happens in the USA. And the U.S.'s potential for emissions growth is just so much smaller than other large countries - and ones that have strong, independent governments to boot. The US is definitely a big player. I think it is still most useful to look at this in terms of emissions per geo-political entity rather than per capita since that will be the mechanism by which the problem is addressed (or not).
Rust brought something new that no other language had: memory safety through statically enforcing object ownership and borrowing. Anyone who has done manual memory management already is familiar with those concepts, and how difficult that can be to track in large systems. Whenever a language is able to abstract pervasive concepts to first-class entities in a language, it becomes attractive to people who deal with those concepts on a regular basis.

D, from what I am aware of, did not offer any new abstractions. Rather, it was an attempt to do all of the existing abstractions in a better way. Which is laudable, but it can be hard to convince people to switch to a language when it offers only iterative improvements.
The article is an opinion piece specifically about Google's decision to pull support from DoD projects while choosing to engage in other projects within China. Of course they talk about Project Dragonfly and they also talk about Google's new AI China center and China's "civil-military fusion" strategy.
It won't catch on for other reasons too, such as that existing software won't understand Unicode tags and will either not preserve them or break their forms so that you'll have the equivalent of </b>stuff here<b>other stuff here.

Unicode tag codepoints simply cannot be reliable.

Nor can Unicode tag codepoints provide sufficient functionality to replace XML (or HTML, or ...). Even the subset they can replace/displace would require revamping XML/XSLT processors in order to make XSLT able to see them -- that's a terrible imposition on the rest of the world.

Some of us hate UTF-16, but there it is and we can't get rid of it.

Others hate UTF-8, and.. the same thing applies.

XML exists, it's widely used, it's not going away no matter how much anyone dislikes it. Moving parts of HTML or XML into Unicode will not work for the reasons given above. Please dedicate your energy and ideas to innovating in other ways than this.
It should be noted that many of the time(most?), acquisitions are simply press releases. I mean they actually happen, but the ability to spew out a true press release is the actual value of the acquisition; not the data or the customers or the software or the employees.

Just the ability to tell the market they acquired some company is the reason for the acquisition. That should inform where you fit post acquisition.
> ... data talks far better and reveals insights that customers themselves don't have.

I can see how that would be the case for games. They're special purpose one-offs, and aren't tools for getting a job done.

For business applications though, the concept of "data talking far better" than actually talking to customers seems very wrong headed to me.

It's very common for business application users to follow processes that are effectively workarounds for missing or broken functionality in their tool set.

When they're able to communicate with the vendor and describe what they're actually needing to do, the tools can be changed to achieve the desired result properly.

I've never heard of telemetry being able to address "how the tool should be working" rather than sending a stream of data showing what a user did. Maybe good for support issues, but pretty useless for product planning and addressing actual user needs.
The FB stock value today is roughly where it was almost two years ago. While the stock value of some other tech companies (Twitter, Netflix, Amazon) doubled in the same time period.
The performance evaluation period in two months will be interesting this year I'm sure. I guess they will award lots of RSU refreshers to keep strong performers around.
The quotes from Blind are laughable and completely destroy any hints of journalistic integrity in this article. It reeks of desperation for any type of quote that supports their narrative.

I'm a heavy user of Blind since its inception and it is nothing but a cesspool of anger and bitterness. It's fun if you want to blow off some steam and engage in mass trolling, almost like 4chan with its memes, but if you believe for one second that any sort of honest discussion can occur on that platform, you are delusional. It's literally the worst of the worst, and only people who enjoy trolling will engage on that platform.
"Eventually, an SSD with cost parity with a low end HDD will be big enough, after which there's no reason for the low end consumer market not to switch over. The high end will have already as well (I certainly will never buy another laptop containing a HDD)."

Reliability and mean time between failures figure in to the equation as well -- at both the low end and the high end.

Data centers don't want to be swapping out bad drives all the time, and low-end consumers can't afford to buy new drives all the time. Both want to stretch the drives they have as long as they can, and at least in the past SSDs were less reliable and failed a lot sooner than mechanical drives did.

I personally do like to buy laptops with mechanical drives in them, because I can get a lot of storage without paying insane prices, and because I want the drive to last as long as possible. And just in general, I don't trust SSDs. They have yet to prove themselves to me.
4 of 6 water landings blew up. A small amount of LOX goes a long way.
>The fact that it is predetermined and automatic doesn't change the causality

It doesn't change the causality (and I concur to that -- as I wrote "both are events destined to do by the initial state of the universe in the big bang"), but it changes the cause of the event. The cause is not someone deciding as a free agent (picking X or Y, or able to go either way), but someone that cannot but do but X, because of events outside their own control and personality.

What I say is that predetermination it removes any personal agency from the creation of the laws and from the people doing less crimes.

>You don't remove the cause-effect of everything in the middle of the chain just because the end was known from the start.

No, but you don't attribute any particular significance to a mere step in the chain, be it moral or whatever, when it was inevitable due to earlier steps.
Because nowadays you can get servers with about 192GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores.

You can get servers with 2T of memory and 96 cores off the shelf for a few years now. Real world workloads that you can't run on these boxes are few and far between. But everyone worries about "scalability" like they'll ever run into those limits.
It most definitely isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_force
Protesters are not protesting just the taxes on fuel.

They protest the fact that taxing fuel is not the solution if you don't provide an alternative mode of transport.

Some people live far from the cities, Should they be the ones paying for everybody else and let the people living in the cities without a car not pay their fair share of the burden?

The problem with taxing the diesel is that you are telling people that they are criminals and should stop polluting, but at the same time, airline companies, and freight transporters don't pay the same taxes.

Rich/urban people don't care, they just rent an Uber or get a Lime and I guess that's ok, but lately, it seems that the only ones paying the price of carbon are the lower and middle classes.

Surely, you can understand that people are tired of paying when they can't even feed their families properly?

Should I remind you that there are 9 million people living close or below the poverty line in France? And half of those people are actually working or looking for work but can't find any, yet the government is asking those people with the least amount of disposable income to foot the bill for the entire country.

Sounds like a shitty deal to me.
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I find many union's efforts to be lacking generally.
Nuanced or not is pretty irrelevant. At the end of the day there is extremely little tolerance for making carbon sources of energy more expensive. It's certainly not just France - in the US the gas tax was last raised 25 years ago, it is not indexed to inflation, and there is 0 substantive political discussion about raising that tax in the US.
Not even close.

Fossil dating is based on whether or not certain marker species exist in a particular rock sample. The very same species that gradually evolve and become extinct on scales of millions of years. The resolution is piss poor, and so unreliable that most wells in petroleum forgo biostratigraphic dating altogether.
Having attended an unconscious bias training, I'd say it achieves two objectives:

1. It convinces people to use objective, methodical criteria to evaluate candidates. (Whether or not the "unconscious bias" rationale is valid, the actual remedies boil down to, "have a process instead of winging it", and in today's political climate, "unconscious bias training" is an easier sell than "not winging it training".)

2. It makes it harder to sue the company for bias, because they can turn around and say, hey, look, we made everyone do unconscious bias training.

Similarly, anti-harassment training mostly boils down to, "these are the legal categories of harassment that you and the company may be held liable for; consider yourself forewarned".
It's not just China and India. It's nations in Africa that are prime for (re)industrialization.

Keep an especially close eye on African countries in which China has made infrastructure investments. Those roads, railways, and ports will be pumping raw resources in the near future, but I'd be willing to bet that eventually export of finished goods will be a major component as China's labor force demands more higher wages.

At that point Africa's carbon emissions graph will start to look very familiar.