skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By thinking about how it might happen if it were tech companies, I have a possible answer.

From that perspective, I am assuming that the top (in hierarchy, not importance) groups from the then-incumbents will be the fastest to raise new companies, which will still be able to attract talent with the prestige that the old company used to have (think about how startups founded by ex-FAANG work). E.g. Nature executives and leaders develop N2, FOX builds Wolf, Tesla builds...Tesla, all of which start off with more credibility and popularity than offerings without this benefit. I do not think that the exact same situation would arise though. There would still be easier entry into these markets than before, at least at first.
You know that you can run and host websites from outside of US, right?
Google confirms Allo will shut down, Hangouts Chat/Meet coming to non-corp users
Nginx on Wasmjit
> the burden is on you the majority to earn back the trust broken by lived experience.

A single person can not be a majority, and claiming someone has a responsibility to treat someone with kid gloves because they are a member of the majority race is pretty extreme. I really have a hard time believing someone actually believes the thoughts expressed in this post. Doing any of this in your workplace is a terrible idea.
Three Pillars with Zero Answers – Towards a New Scorecard for Observability
One thing that’s worse than Microsoft not adopting a technology is Microsoft adopting a technology.

Historically, they’ve used the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” strategy quite often, and maybe that’s what’s happening here. But maybe I’m being overly skeptical/borderline cynical...
Is there a preview anywhere?
I think this misses who the intended audience of this simple password advice is. Hint: it's not us.

Normal people's passwords are terrible! It's the site name, their name, "password123" or a single word with a number on the end.

A lot of advice about passwords is aimed at getting normal people to make easy steps to make their passwords better, not perfectly uncrackable.

Complex passwords don't work for lay users and most of them aren't going to switch to password managers. So getting people to make small steps, like not reusing the same password and making it more than one word and a number, does make a big difference to users' security.
That section says:

There are a number of possible ways that applications could use Well-
known URIs. However, in keeping with the Architecture of the World-
Wide Web [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215], well-known URIs are not intended
for general information retrieval or establishment of large URI
namespaces on the Web. Rather, they are designed to facilitate
discovery of information on a site when it isn't practical to use
other mechanisms; for example, when discovering policy that needs to
be evaluated before a resource is accessed, or when using multiple
round-trips is judged detrimental to performance.

I am guessing they consider “general information retrieval” and “URI namespaces” to exclude it.
That's not really the same thing. If you're speaking with an accent thick enough that it's causing difficulty understanding what you are saying, then that's a legitimate communications barrier.
“Better reinforcement-learning algorithms could ultimately prove useful for things like autonomous driving and optimizing vehicle routes”
where? From what I've seen Europe, UK, USA, Canada, and especially China are all moving in this direction of more privacy intrusions. Considering the West has traditionally offered the most freedom for its citizens I'd say things are trending towards authoritarian governments
In reality, none of the browsers are quite standards compliant, and developers don’t know the standards by heart, so they often go with what works on their setup, which usually means Chrome.
Randox forensics inquiry: Forty drug-driving offences quashed
> "Google mostly does not have their own desktop OS to "protect""

But they do and they are actually Microsoft's biggest competitor on the desktop:

https://www.google.com/chromebook/
I have a friend who has also developed a number of applications that use OCR specifically for PDF which uses Tesseract. The Report Miner application does a nice job of locating and extracting PDF tables.

https://www.opait.com/tesseractstudio/

https://www.opait.com/Pdfreportminer/
Google Translate reducing gender bias by offering feminine, masculine results
Rust can do explicit values for C-style enums; what it currently doesn't support is the ability to set such an enum to an arbitrary (non-declared) value as C does.
Be careful that's it's only open-source if you build it yourself or if you use VS-Codium (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium).

The VS-Code that everyone uses is under a Microsoft License and includes close source Microsoft telemetry (spyware?) and user data collection :

https://code.visualstudio.com/License/
Edit: Disregard, I don't know wtf I'm talking about.
Oddly my "mid-sized" car (eg, VW Golf) supposedly gets 18mpg, but I was driving the 300hp one and still getting 26+mpg :)

Then again, I just replaced it with an electric, so I guess I'm producing half the CO2. And am "100% solar" (for what that's worth), so... 0?
Any plans on SRE/DevOps roles?
This is probably just me being ignorant, but I had to look up whether or not petrol was standard gasoline.
What's the point investing time in learning a proprietary tool when the developers could take it away from you at any moment?
A few things:

1. A third pane which shows a summary of all the diffs between the two compared files. It's point-and-clickable, and has a point-and-click bi-directional Apply button to apply changes in either direction. Easy to arrow-key through the changes and apply the changes from the keyboard, too.

2. Character level diff -- not just different lines but will also show you characters which have changed.

3. Directory level diff shows files which have changed on a per-directory basis

BBedit integrates very easily with command line tools with the 'bbedit' and 'bbdiff' commands, so you can use it with difftool-type commands.

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit11.html
Honestly the concept here is not new, and the more I think about it the more likely I see levels of storage from fastest to slowest (and capacity in the same vein) ranging from batteries/capacitors to pumped storage systems. Between all of those they should be able to normalize the inputs into the grid I would think.
> With 17% of the pie, VS Code was the editor used by the majority of Triplebyte candidates last year.

Huh? This has broken the world of math for me.
Maintaining an independent browser has been of no benefit to Microsoft for very very long time. It has actually been an extremely costly effort with almost no result. That's my opinion.

The CEO Nadella however has no interest in this kind of thing carrying on, hence the Axe.

Pay attention:

With hindsight, perhaps the recent "crazy" efforts of the Edge team to increase usage and prove some kind of value were in-fact a last-ditch effort by sections of Microsoft to maintain a high-level of browser investment.
It's almost as if you are missing the larger point being made and taking your own experience to be the sum total extent of the entire issue.
I liked the "limited number of customers" yes that's true, it affect 2-3 companies, it's just that a single one of those companies had 32M customers.

Ouch.
The man behind “the most famous email in history” still has plenty of questions
I think the author is saying they have no idea why C# and Java devs are worse on average than Ruby and Go devs. I'm sure they know the specific reason those devs fail, but are trying to understand the more general trends that lead to higher rates of failure. I would guess that this is another instance of the python paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html).
I don't prefer one over the other. They both serve my purposes well enough. Generally, I've found that people who don't like Firefox's dev tools just haven't used them much.
Afghanistan and Vietnam would love to speak to you.

Think about all the heat Obama got for drone strikes in the middle east and now imagine what would happen if they tried to do that in the United States? Factor in that close to 90% of infantry and special forces are either conservative or libertarian. US government is helpless against its citizens as long as they are armed
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The action of a trajectory is not minimized either, it is usually at a saddle point, maximal relative to some trajectories and minimal to others. The linked paper has a detailed discussion of this.

http://www.eftaylor.com/pub/Gray&TaylorAJP.pdf
They mean plurality.
Just from its looks, mainly on mobile. It's got a large, dull green banner that just says 'Hangouts'. I'm no UI expert, but it just looks outdated...
"fastest" doesn't mean "fast", "friendliest" doesn't mean "friendly".

Suffocating progress with monopoly abuse is not a good platform for claiming to have the "best" browser...
I can say wholeheartedly that it's Safari that's the problem, not Firefox or Chrome. I develop for Firefox first and have no issues with Chrome but Safari is requires some special tricks repeatedly.
The chat or the video? The video hasn't worked in long time now.
Just changed it to plurality. Thanks!
Maybe it’s because the editor was taught to students at places like MIT, Berkeley, etc?
It's right there on the home page:

"Sublime Text is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.

Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform."

Are we talking about some other sublime?
Lin Clark, the author of this post, is extraordinarily skilled at explaining complex ideas in layman's terms. Here's another example of their work - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a...
Meta: why is this marked as a duplicate? Where’s the other submission of this URL?
Show HN: Voice bots for learning to *speak* a language
Tweet from journalist Simon Le Gros Bisson:

EdgeHTML and Chakra will still be maintained; I was told that the transition to Chromium for web views in UWP and the like is a longer term plan.

https://twitter.com/sbisson/status/1070726583445409792
Has Mozilla considered focusing on the emerging federated ecosystem championed by Mastodon. I really think that federated sites are a way forward for the open web. Federated platforms are inherently decentralized, and they avoid the problem of a single company deciding what's right for all the users. Platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube are already able to interoperate via ActivityPub, and it would be great to see this ecosystem keep growing. I can see an ecosystem of federated platforms that fill the same niches as Twitter, Fb, Reddit, and Instagram. All developed independently, and all able to collaborate with one another.

One big aspect of traditional web is searching, and that's where Google built their empire originally. Why not invert that equation and build search and discoverability into federated platforms. Perhaps extend ActivityPub, or create a sister protocol that focuses on searching. This approach would address the problem of discoverability much better than an external search engine. Perhaps Mozilla could help come up with such a standard.
Ha, what do you know... :D I actually always use startpage.com, but since they are using Google, I assumed they passed this query to it. What is interesting is that this trick still works on startpage.com while it doesn't on google... I must say I'm even less impressed by Google search than I was before. It's getting worse and worse.
Looks like from the article valuation is going to land between 20-30B.
I recently contributed VSCodium windows support, and IMO it's not too big of a different from the binaries that MS provides. The only few differences are the telemetry endpoints that are in the normal binary, that can be disabled through the setting, and some other MS specific branding
Sorry you are wrong.

They have to either sign it or be notified that they are covered under it generally by employment contract that you sign.

Without either of those you are not bound by it.

> It is not necessary for a person to have signed the Official Secrets Act in order to be bound by it. The 1989 Act states that a person can be "notified" that he or she is bound by it; and Government employees will usually be informed via their contract of employment if they must observe the Act. [1]

[1] https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...

Since I've never signed it nor a contract notifying me that I'm bound by it, I'm not bound by it nor would a journalist be.

This is how you end up in the somewhat funny situation of a government employee not been able to confirm something because they are covered but the person asking for confirmation not been.
This is the issue that pro "diversity program" people need to come to terms with. If these programs end up causing reverse discrimination, you just end up punishing majority members unjustly.

Knowing that black people have it harder on average is not consoling to someone who got passed over because they didn't fulfill enough diversity check-boxes as another candidate.
So, had you lived at the time of the American Revolution, do you imagine yourself among the pretentious loyalists accusing the founding fathers of "adolescent power fantasies"?
gofmt was certainly a huge inspiration here, and many of us are jealous that go had it so early in their evolution. Not sure why it wasn't included!
The purpose of DNT is not to stop tracking. It's to tell websites explicitly that you don't want to be tracked.

No one receiving a DNT header can say we didn't know people coming to the site didn't want to be tracked because they hadn't logged in.

It doesn't mater if it's on by default. It should still be respected.

That's different job to blocking trackers or ads.

That a site is ignoring DNT is just a sign that they are run by bad actors. It's no different to logging in to a site, opting out of tracking and the site ignoring that and tracking you secretly anyway.

...or putting some dark pattern UI in front of that option so that it's hard to tell if you've opted out or not.
An on point article and excellent read, but I felt deflated by the end.

This is the end of days for the open web I'm afraid, and this article lays out the path travelled and road ahead.
Yeah, I totally agree that this is a multigenerational problem. And I totally get why you're resigned to it. It isn't your job to clean up a problem created by white people, and you having to do that work is just another burden of racism.

But personally, I plan to raise a ruckus like this whenever I get the chance. MLK made a strong argument for creating a "constructive tension" [1]. It was his theory that the necessary changes don't just happen, but require the discomfort of the people with the power to fix things. If my intern had wanted to let things lie, I certainly would have. But since he was ok with me reporting it, I saw it as my duty. To society certainly, but also to the company. They had a serious diversity effort and worked hard to give interns a good experience. I would have been negligent had I let an unconscious mistake from one employee undermine that.

Plus, as a white dude, it's easier for me to advocate for these changes. Not only because of my default privilege, but because I'm seen as a disinterested party. I never get accused of "playing the race card" or "misandry" when I come out against some racist or sexist nonsense. So I hope more white people will put their shoulders to the wheel here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail
4 * $66m = $264m / $40m = 6.5 ish years payback.

Not many investments offer that rate of return.

You may be right to suggest it may not be competitive in other locations though. I don't know.
I'm also skeptical of microsoft products, but they have come a long way since getting their new CEO. I've gained a lot of respect from them for better integration with non-windows platforms.
If I recall correctly the test is 100% automated. Write code, run tests. Answer multiple choice. Humans and their bias need not apply.
I think he means he has no idea why candidates of those languages are less likely to meet his pass criteria
No need, we'll get pretty close by ourselves. Want to contact customer support? Sure, but only through Twitter - and obviously, we'll prioritise those with most followers, as they'll be most able to damage our brand.
There’s a jetbrains (IntelliJ) flavored ide for basically everything - even c#! I prefer Rider for doing c# in Unity3D over VS or VSCode because it seems muc more performant and the vim plug-in is way better
Right, at which point Opera too became completely irrelevant.

First they switched their engine to Blink, then predictably after 3 years sold out to an obscure Chinese private equity fund.
> Avoiding lawsuits by hiding the facts is in no way an attempt to solve the problem.

That's why it's a conflict. The map is not the territory. If you give them an incentive to reduce reports of discrimination, they will have an incentive to reduce reports of discrimination. Which interferes with other methods that require meticulous reporting.
CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring an SDR and an Accounts Receivable Specialist
Some people just really like applying blockchains to problems that blockchains have no business "solving".
I get that Microsoft is trying to reinvent itself, but at the core they are (were?) a software development company. It kind of looks bad when you throw your hands up and say “this is just too complicated, we’ll replace it with an OSS component”. Don’t get me wrong, there is no love lost for IE or Edge from me, I’m just baffled at this move.
Is this like Haxe?
Why do people use "i.e." instead of "e.g."?

EDIT:" For people who think I don't know what they mean, I do. I meant that the author of TFA obviously meant to write "Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (e.g. Rand)", because the entire article is about all non-deterministic functions and just uses rand as an example.
yeah - I am also curious about this considering there are projects like ChakraCore and node-ChakraCore out there.

Would seem like a shame to lose the work done on that project.
You seem to be tripped up on the difference between causality and necessary conditions, and also on analogies, generally.

As but one quibble: you can't admit oxygenation to be necessary for multicellular life but not dinosaurs. Unless there are some single-celled dinosaurs, which I am now liable to dream about, thankyouverymuch.
try messages, looks way more outdated.
I think you're right. Wikipedia (and other WikiMedia projects), MDN, StackExchange sites, wiki sites like wiki.archlinux.org, wiki.osdev.org, wiki.c2.com, public forums like lambda-the-ultimate.org or news.ycombinator.com would probably still be free. I can't think of any place that I've learned significantly from that provides their content for advertising money. They all seem to be up primarily for altruistic reasons.

EDIT: Thought of one: YouTube. I wonder, though, if the content providers I've learned most from in YouTube would have chosen not to provide if there weren't advertising options. Maybe they activate advertising because it's easy and would have uploaded regardless?

EDIT 2: The real question, though, would be if someone would be willing to make a YouTube alternative and eat the cost of development and maintenance of the site and hosting of those videos for altruistic reasons... It's a lot more costly than hosting a site that serves lightweight text.
No, it isn't. From the website:

Sublime Text is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.
It would be tight if we could purge from the web all posts and threads related to unsupported and outdated ReactNative versions.

It's actually quite interesting to see the almost in real-time development of ReactNative through the lens of hobbled and broke-ass solutions to problems associated with deprecated RN versions posted on StackOverflow or Medium.
Python's json package != JSON

JSON: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259#page-8
I guess the implication is that the manufactured cost is still significantly higher than the cost of the raw materials, which implies lots of room for improvement.
Manufacturing is rapidly scaling up. There is so much lithium available in the world (even commercially reasonable to extract from the ocean), that there is much room for per unit costs to decrease before you encounter lower COGS bounds (evaporation + transportation costs).

More importantly, a ton of lithium mined will be used for decades; when all of the Model S/X/3 battery packs are end of life (10-15 years from now), those modules are going to be remanufactured into stationary storage (or recycled entirely through a destructive extraction process, depending on degradation and next use case). This is similar to how your recycled pop can might end up in the aluminum used in a new light truck or an aircraft fuselage (edit: poor example; a better example would be automotive parts that are remanufactured and put back into service).

The smartest thing Tesla ever did was finance battery manufacturing using luxury vehicle margins (stoking demand with a sexy, desirable brand), and have those customers (including myself) finance the depreciation and capital carrying costs of those battery sleds they'll use again in the future. I am not a Model S owner; I am the temporary user of 100kw of energy storage, which will eventually make it's way into stationary storage where mobile energy density (ie pack degradation) isn't as much of a concern.
I'm afraid this is a nonsense.

https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106484220091004108...

https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106485722028904038...

https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106491195862390374...

To recap, based on financial statements the company:

used to be a "waste management" company that failed and was sold as a "public shell" to enable the formerly private company to go public and sell shares (the waste management business it was engaged in was an effort to commercialize a process to treat low-level nuclear waste developed by Russian scientists)

has $64 mil in debt apparently unrelated to aviation

has spent $3.8 mil on R&D for this project

has 8 R&D employees

only 2 of those 8 have any evident experience related to designing aircraft
Git-bug: Identity management #55