skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/seized-cache-of-facebook-d...

"The documents were obtained by a legal discovery process by a startup that’s suing the social network in a California court in a case related to Facebook changing data access permissions back in 2014/15.

The court had sealed the documents but the DCMS committee used rarely deployed parliamentary powers to obtain them from the Six4Three founder, during a business trip to London."

Um, what? This is bullshit. I'm much more concerned about the misuse of government power to seize documents in court cases outside of the country of jurisdiction than I am of Facebook.

Whether or not these acts of populism are genuine, governments that abuse their power are just as bad as companies that skirt the law.
Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that didn't make him a "good choice". Things may be looking up for Brazil if you're a corporation (especially one looking for unrestrained exploitation of natural resources) or a member of the ethnic majority. Otherwise you're fucked[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Views_on_the_Br...
pardon. One shalt not argue with a true believer
:D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpq40ug7-RM
you still feel valued for not doing anything unusual

I didn't really express any thoughts or feelings about doing unusual things, real or perceived. Doing unusual things can be great! Telling yourself you are awesome can also be great! I do think, though, that the type of thought expressed in the "The Python Paradox" and related writings (say, the bit about blub language programmers) is pretty lousy. It was lousy then and has aged even more poorly.
A negative article on HSR from a conservative think tank? I'm shocked! :P

The price tag in real dollars has increase since Prop 1A was passed in 2008, but the author is misrepresenting how much costs have increased compared to the initial estimate of $40 billion in 2008.

The absolute cost has increased because the estimated completion date has been pushed back by a decade or more and the construction estimates are in year of expenditure dollar, not current dollars or 2008 dollars.

I wrote a comment about it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560843

Granted, I hate to see funds being poorly managed and contractors committing fraud with no accountability, which appears to have happened, but I also hate hit pieces where someone compares 2008 dollars to year of expenditure dollars like they're the same thing.
Firefox and Chrome are the two major parties, and IE/Opera/Safari are third parties.

There’s no way this can be true.

Apple owns various platforms that ship Safari/WebKit and it’s the only option on iOS and watchOS. They’ve shipped more than 2 billion (and growing) iOS devices.

And hundreds of thousands native iOS apps use WebKit views.

So there’s no way Safari is a fringe 3rd party browser and has a better privacy story regarding fingerprinting and tracking than any of the other major browsers, including Firefox.

Unless you’re on the W3C mailing lists and GitHub repos, you wouldn’t know how active the WebKit team is on the development and implementation of web standards.
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The trackpad is a little off center on this laptop, it looks like. Maybe 1cm? Could you really tell?
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I learned vim and with me is hitting :w<cr> all the damn time. Not to mention pressing <esc> to leave insert mode.

Had to use Android Studio/Eclipse for some time but it was so much harder that I kept trying to find ways to use vim even if I had to memorize or copy/paste package dependencies from Android.

I honestly wish I could use some of the most advanced refactoring tools from IDEs into vim but the way I edit is so ingrained that it's simply not worth it.
Being bought by China? I wonder what the ultraliberal minister of the economy Paulo Guedes thinks about not doing deals with China.
The "hype" part is pretty subjective and may have warranted down votes.

It's not hype if it solves a lot of organizations pain points.
Right because... each 100 billion value market only has room for one player? Seriously, this attitude is absurd.

Competitors exist, and they sometimes do things better.
Firefox is very good now. It used to have terrible performance, but after they have made changes to their core, it's much better.
This is the Russians.
In regards to in app purchases, yes I have a lot of experience with them. It will depend on the game design how well they do. There's also the difference between durables and consumables, which you can research when designing your core game loop. You should have a combination of ads and IAP anyway. Even if it's just a "Remove Ads" durable. Virtual currencies are also all the rage and allow for consumable IAP.
Private projects come in on time and on budget all the time? Do you have any evidence to support this? I’ve seen plenty of private projects gonoff the rails. The difference is that private projects can keep their budget information, well, private.
Even if we were to stipulate his 10% number, that's 4.3% of cloud formation based on cosmic rays. Not insignificant.

Your repeated contention that pollution aerosols are of equal magnitude to cosmic rays contribution requires a large helping of evidence to back it up, given the huge quantity of cosmic rays that impact the troposphere.
Anybody also feel there is some sort of similarity between the way how she talks and Elon Mask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
I switched months ago. No regrets, as a full time js/web developer, the dev tools are good enough. Not better than Chrome, but good enough. You can do the right thing.
Ctrl+Shift+L will select all instances of the highlighted term in one shot. Ctrl+D , as you mentioned, is useful for progressively selecting the highlighted phrase within the file.
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The irony here in that Australia just passed laws requiring local vendors to put in backdoors at the governments request, not just for national security but also in regards to "national economic well-being" aka industrial espionage.
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I disagree that hype leads to the problem you describe. Kubernetes is good at its job, and therefore it's popular, and therefore it's used by people who may not understand it.

You could say the exact same thing about Linux, Cisco, Dell, or pretty much any of the popular FOSS projects. Popular things, regardless of their complexity, get chosen by people of all experience levels. Inexperienced people are less likely to properly configure something, regardless of its popularity or hype.

If anything, having a few attractive projects tends to be beneficial (or at least neutral) for security as there are so many more people scrutinizing it, and many more people learning how to properly use it.
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My favorite subjects in under/graduate school were things like operating systems, networking, filesystems, and databases. I rather enjoy worrying about memory/performance and my current skill set revolves around optimizing existing code. However, it seems to me that most of the new job postings that are "infrastructure" related seem to be writing wrappers around AWS/GCP/Azure services. Even within FAANG companies, it appears to me that the teams working on these systems are few and far between.

Where can the bulk of this type of work be found? Has the computing world solved most of these problems and moved on or am I not looking in the right places?
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I'm not sure the point is actually to keep it secret, but (as with all government "services") to cover the arse.

Also, if you were an employee in a company in this situation, and you'd been told that the security of the nation depended on your silence, and more to the point, you'd be locked up and your career ruined if you went public, what would you do? Whistleblowers are pretty rare, because the consequences of doing that are huge.
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The 1976 BART cost $10B in today's dollars to construct. If you were alive in 1976 would you have said it was a boondoggle and the project should have been killed?

IMO people consistently underestimate how much public infrastructure is worth. The US highway system was sold at a cost of $27B [1] but cost over $100B and has cost nearly $500B today [2].

Does that mean the US Highway system wasn't worth it? Of course it was, the public just doesn't understand how much it had to cost. The Iraq war cost trillions for zero benefit for future generations, even if 50% of the cost of HSR is waste it's still a better deal by far.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
So it’s strange I hear it as a sound describing the action then?
Exactly. That's also the reason of bringing Edge to macOS.
What would it have cost you if you dumped your windfall into an index fund in July 2018? Answer — you would have lost money and get the shaft when you’re forced to sell to lay taxes, etc.

Prudence and dollar cost averaging are your friends. People who stay rich are conservative with cash.
Open your email in thunderbird or move your email somewhere else. This is all part of googles game. They slow down youtube in every other browser as well.
To each their own. I've used CLI git only for a decent amount of time but VSCode's git diff view is fantastic and effortless to use. Their interface for staging files and making commits is excellent and combined with the ease of viewing local changes, it makes it very easy to ensure that commit messages are well documented and accurate. Same goes for handling merge conflicts.

I still use the CLI to push/pull/branch/merge, etc just to have total control, but staging files, viewing diffs and making commits are a lot more annoying in the CLI.
I never heard a good reason for cancelling that model. Presumably with modern hardware they could be much more portable now. Imagine how much battery life they could get if they had a 17” with one of the low power cpus and just fit it with the largest battery they could?
Sounds fair enough to me
I use PyCharm and VSCode and I find that for python apps, PyCharm is much better. Lots of more features, easy to use commands, etc.

Having a dedicated IDE for a given language has it's pros.

However, I use VSCode for JS/HTML development, as it has a lot less clutter, than compared to other IDE's.
Pacheco is southern enough that the line can continue up through San Jose and up through Silicon Valley to SF. Altamont is far enough north that it would bypass SJ/SV, plus would require a bridge.

Also the land further south is a lot cheaper.
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Let's be honest, pretty much every new tech got hyped initially.

K8s is no doubt hype, otherwise it won't enjoy the explosive growth.

That's not subjective, at least IMHO
All that space and they couldn't be bothered to put in full-sized arrow keys.
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I have to say, the coverage of this bill on the news has been atrocious.

I've seen zero discussion of the possible ramifications of losing all security companies in Australia. Any software company that depends on security (and which one doesn't?) would be insane in the membrane to think they could credibly work in Australia now.

All they are saying is "the bill was passed to access encrypted communications of terrorists and criminals".

No discussion of no judicial oversight either.

News orgs are shooting themselves in the foot because there's no possibility of a journalist protecting their sources anymore with this nightmare.
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Thanks for the context.

So the Chuo Shinkansen = ~ $253,218,691/mi.(9 stations)

Est. CA HSR (Stage 1) = $190,384,615/mi (15 stations)
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Very impressive. But in just three minutes, I thought of an even better plan: put a $10M wormhole between LA and SF and have near instant travel. Wormholes don’t quite exist yet, but they seem close at hand.
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> I do not understand why web developers have such a knee jerk reaction to native development.

So this is a one-off anecdote, but my experience with my teammates at work is that it's not so much an objection to native development, but an objection to having to learn more. Over half took a bootcamp-style class for web development after having never done any programming before, and managed to get hired. Their current status:

* One has kept on learning, and I see no issues with them doing native development if they ever encountered it; they have the right mindset to teach themselves.

* One has been on the team nearly as long as the first, but seems to be stuck in a rut. They've not progressed very far on their own and have to be handheld much of the way. This is a person I would expect to object to native development and push for using a framework like React Native, just so they don't have to go out and learn another language, expecting it to be too difficult (because of their inexperience with anything other than javascript and React).

* The others joined too recently to be sure yet, but I have an inkling one of them is going to be more like the first, just much slower at it.

I have the unnerving feeling that at least some of these web development bootcamps are presenting themselves as "learn this and you're good to for the rest of your life", with too many jumping in because it pays well right now, and not realizing they will have to keep on learning.
Ok I'm sure it's a horrible plan. But I'm also sure if you think a little out of the box you could mop the floor with this rail project. Being too risk averse is also a risk, it's a risk of settling when you could have had better.
> most type systems don't actually reflect the subtyping relation inherent in the topos correspondent to their logic

Would you mind elaborating? With examples if possible.

> ignoring that there are piles of similar features in the language design space, like highlighting, typesetting, brace-matching, whitespace, capitalization conventions, docstrings, named variables, named procedures, 2D/spatial layout, ASCII/JIS/Unicode art, and the list goes on and on and on.

I am interested to see how any of these would protect against bugs that say a type system with dependent types would protect against.
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I wonder how one can be genocidal without having killed anyone, homophobic without having persecuted LGBT, racist without having defended racial thesis. Has Bolsonaro said ugly reprehensible things ? Yes he did. But that is his opinion at best.

Bringing these empty accusations wont prove your point neither add to the discussion.
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Right. You can also think of a type as a set of valid values that a variable could hold. In typescript you can define union types that simply hold one of a set of defined values. Eg:

type OneOrThree = 1 | 3

or

type Nullable<T> = T | null

This is arguably nicer than Maybe / Option because you can loosen / tighten API constraints without changing the API. Eg, myfn(x: number) can be rewritten to myfn(x: number | null) with all the safety benefits of Maybe but without the need to change any callers.

Its not just Ada - Rust also has non-zero integer types in the standard library. Eg:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/struct.NonZeroU32.html

This was written mostly let Option<NonZeroU32> take up the same amount of space as u32. Ie, if you know your integer will never be zero, you can reuse the zero slot as a sentinal None value in a way thats API-compatible with everything else in rust.
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That’s a bit semantics as it’s looking at just one year, and in any case doesn’t look at the delta from the old law.

Edit: IIRC the law had some incentives to onshore money at special tax rates, which may cause a one-time bump in revenues.
It's weird and frustrating to see how laptop manufacturers always make basic mistakes like this. My favorite was placing ports so that you can't have an USB thumb drive and the charger at the same time.

I guess the manufacturing pipeline really don't allow for prototypes, so by the time someone is using the device, they've already made twenty million of them and it's too late to change the design.
It's unfortunate that linux.org was hacked, but I haven't seen a website like that since the early 2000s.
At least cryptocurrency has removed most of the creativity from script kiddies - there's so many more interesting things you could do than just mine coins.
It looks bulky and unwieldy, and Apple doesn't want their logo on anything that unsexy.
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> You[r] brain does not have a print function.

If you've been trained to draw or paint, it certainly does.

So is it morally wrong to draw or paint without consent?

I do tend to agree with you, if we're talking about surveillance of the weak in the panopticon. But if we're talking about surveillance of the powerful, in the course of protecting human rights generally, I'd say that anything goes.
> Who do these fools think they were representing?

The same interests they are always representing. Themselves. The organisations and lobbyists that got them voted in. The organisations they're looking forward to offers of high-priced consultancies and directorships after the next election.

Did you expect anything else?
Or when they silently installed an extension in order to send telemetry from Firefox installations that had explicitly opted out of telemetry. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-...
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Because cherry picking dates on such a short timeline in a highly volatile market like stocks doesn't really tell you anything.
I don't think you can even get a (new) 10 seat plane for less than $10,000,000. And I doubt that a plane built using technology that doesn't exist yet will be 70% cheaper than ones you can get today. Even if you can find 33,000 planes for that cost there will be significant infrastructure costs (if you want to multiply the # of planes in the air in California by 10, you'll need more ATC, more runways, more hangars, more parking garages, and probably more airports).

Upfront costs are just a small fraction of the price of flying planes around. That 3 (or 10) million per plane quickly gets subsumed by maintenance, staffing, and other recurring costs.

I don't know how loud these hypothetical electric planes are, but if they're like traditional ones I doubt that they'd beat a train in terms of noise (even though HSR can be 10-20 decibels louder than slower trains). I would question that there would actually be an advantage in speed or convenience, at least between highly populated areas.
Seconded this. The downside is you have to use C++ to beat Javascript performance. You can use Python of course but it is kinda slow.
I find it very curious that this is being characterized as Microsoft giving control to Google. Chromium is open source; Microsoft isn't ceding any control of what goes into their browser.
If you've been following the past DM releases, you'd know they pretty much never release additional material when asked and it's pointless asking a junior employee (who hasn't answered any questions to begin with). WYSIWYG.
> Yes he did. But that is his opinion at best.

What does this mean? We're not talking about a random Youtuber here. He's the leader of the country. Presumably his opinion will influence his policy decisions (in fact he's promised as much)[1].

When somebody tells you they're going to kill you and they're holding a gun - it's wise to believe them even if they've never murdered before.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4606489/jair-bolsonaro-beliefs-br...
Anyone have a guess how well Linux would run on such a beast? How are the driver issues these days? Could I likely get by without manually compiling drivers and without putting magic incantations in config files?
I don’t use macros but it looks like I should tbh
Ontario has a similar site showing power usage. Key difference: replace Australia's coal with nuclear:

http://www.ieso.ca/power-data
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