skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems I was unclear when presenting my thesis.

My impression is the journalists used to give Facebook a pass on many, many well-known bad behaviors. Atrocious behaviors, even. And then it changed, and they would go to great lengths to point out all the faults of Facebook.

I experienced the change as a rather abrupt flip, right around the times of the Cambridge Analytica kerfuffle.

I gauge it as journalists at first considering Facebook a friend that stumbles and is worth covering, but then feeling betrayed and instead perceiving Facebook as a dangerous enemy that needs to be taken down.

Just like user gerbilly in the other post you use whataboutism of assigning blame to presidential candidates. . While interesting point, that detracts us from considering when and why the journalists changed their perception of Facebook.

edit: Just to wrap up the very specific "targeting unknowing users with fake news in order to influence the outcome of a election", that's one of the points Facebook raised themselves around that time, were very adamant they are working on fixing it and will fix it. They deployed various mechanisms, including flagging certain news and linking to factcheckers (IIRC). Long story short, that was one of the very few things where Facebook and the journalists (and to large extent the political class) are in agreement, and working together to sort out.
Why should they need "edition"? Just bump the first number of N.N.N semantic versioning.
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Let's see if it sticks
Like others, I use Digital Ocean. I get a VM that I can do everything I want on. For me, that is running nginx and several Go projects. You get to do things you might not normally get to play with, like setting up monitoring, service start/stop, lb configs, log handling, etc.
why Canada arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver, this is not belong to Canada, really suck up to American. Canada got fuck good on tariff and still never learn. stupid the Canadian justice. tax fair paid him and he do job for American.
What language do you write?
I said this up-thread, but Firefox Quantum made me switch back to Firefox, after years away. I noticed a marked speed improvement.
Seems that you are speaking of Id rather than ego. That or your neurology is alien to me.

Not everybody is ruled by circumstance. With hard work and dedication you can begin to eliminate the factors which force your hand. For some individuals the task probably is insurmountable. For those of us lucky or unlucky enough to be able to reach a state of free will, accountability is a dubious reward.
> ...this will not change ever.

I'm sure the Europeans thought the same thing barely a hundred years ago.

Army size, August 1914:

Russia: 5,971,000
Germany: 4,500,000
France: 4,017,000
Austria-Hungary: 3,000,000
Italy: 1,251,000
Great Britain: 975,000
Japan: 800,000
Romania: 290,000
Bulgaria: 280,000
Greece: 230,000
Turkey: 210,000
Serbia: 200,000
United States: 200,000
Officially we just made 26 people millionaires
This decision is perfectly in line with Microsoft's shift in focus -- Windows is no longer the hill they want to die on. Microsoft is all about services.

Also I suspect Microsoft will have far more actual influence by driving development of Chromium than with their own rendering engine. It's pretty hard to drive new standards when you are barely achieving the current ones. Microsoft's focus on Electron for cross-platform development kind of informs this move as well.
Uber is losing billions subsidizing the market.

Lyft has an actual balance sheet Investors can understand.
> Taxis are 4x worse

It really depends. One city I travel to fairly regularly, I tend to take Lyft because it's cheaper but I'm really indifferent to taking a cab vs. taking a Lyft for any other reason. In fact, I sometimes take a cab from the airport if there's no line and cabs just sitting there because it saves a few minutes.

Yes, taxis are generally bad in quite a few cities but it's not universal.
I believe they experience all of those. But yes, there are many secondary uses, especially in situations where high energy density isn't required.

After the last economically viable use for electricity storage, however, there has to be an economic incentive to actually recycle the raw materials. Presumably this is when value of the raw materials exceeds the cost of their reclamation.
Can't really speak to performance comparisons, but VS Code has has multi-cursor support for a while now.
I was kind of disappointed with Rust 2018. While it technically maintains the guarantee of backwards compatibility I don't feel that it meets it in spirit.

The prime example is that code for working with modules that works fine on 2015 throws an error in 2018. This means that I now have to know two languages that are basically the same but have important differences. This is a real issue because I'm sure that some crates will jump to 2018 while others want to continue compiling on old compilers.
From a point of anthropological curiosity, do you work in a team where everyone uses that style of brace indentation?

Is it actually common and I've just never encountered it before?
I would rather not install Chrome at all on my windows machine. I use Brave (a chromium based browser) and with right extensions, I can see myself using the new Chromium based Edge.
I bet that will be the thought process for a lot of general people using browsers. Chrome will loose its market share to Edge for sure.
Thank you, although I fear you may get downvoted to oblivion for your tone.

Something that people need to consider is that the tech folks behind things like CT and cert pinning (many of whom I know personally) have true technical motives, but their employer entertains them because it protects against ad injection.

We haven't seen robust development of alternatives like DNSSEC not because they are worse, but because it isn't in the commercial interest of the powers-that-be.
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>Fortunately there is a win-win solution to this - unconscious bias training!

It's not a win if unconscious bias training doesn't actually work. I have yet to see it change the behavior of racist people. Do you have any papers that show that it works?

So far it just seems like a way for a company to cover their ass via a PR stunt that disrupts a bunch of employees' days.
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In which codebases is Whitesmiths formatting used? It looks so wrong if you're used to any of the other styles.
I'm very interested with Rust on Embedded Devices. I've recently ported my cryptographic library (www.embeddedDisco.com) to C, thinking it was the only way to support these many tiny systems, but it looks like it might become less and less true. I'm still wondering, how are young developers using something like the Arduino IDE supposed to figure out how to use a Rust library.
The mass part of the vehicle could either detach from the negative mass component. Or the vehicle could eject mass to reduce velocity.
There is an official "Who is hiring / freelance post?" the fist day of the month. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

Look there in case you find someone you can hire. Or you can perhaps post there in the correct thread, but try to provide more info.

Try
Because they haven't actually broken backwards compatibility, but rather allowed people to opt-in to incompatible changes by setting a flag.
Ad a Dev, you want things to just work.

It's a tragedy that companies and standards committees can't give you APIs / SDKs / Standards that just work.

When a company gives up, that's not good.
Separately from being my JS IDE of choice, VS Code has for the most part replaced Notepad++. It's quite good at being a general purpose "heavyweight" text editor.
Awesome! Sorry out of the loop since only use them when visiting the states.

Vancouver is so backwards :(
You can also use associated consts which feels nicer in my opinion:

#[repr(C)]
#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy)]
struct Foo(i32);

impl Foo {
const BAR: Foo = Foo(0);
const BAZ: Foo = Foo(1);
}
This is actually a problem that could be solved by naming actually.

Angular has a similar problem because if you search for an olde version of Angular you get 2.x and they're up to 7 now...

I think at some point it makes sense to rename the project to avoid the cruft of the past when it really deserves it.
Maybe because with Go, there's less ways to skin a cat compared to each of the other languages?
Less expressive language - just hammer out code worry free about being judged on method or code style?
Even if the US changes substantially and most people no longer own a car, there is little reason to believe that Lyft or Uber would come out on top, and not Enterprise, or Ford, or another new company that does not exist today
Is there any data to support that rural dwellers spend more time outside than dense urban dwellers? I’d expect the opposite, especially in cold weather.
Is there a link to the actual S-1?

edit: No, it looks like they filed confidentially.
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Uber (Founded March 2009[1]) created ride sharing in SF before Lyft (Founded: June 2012[2]). Uber just started with commercially licensed Black Car drivers and Lyft started with anyone with a car and a drivers license. Then Uber moved down market with UberX and Lyft moved up market with Lux.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyft
The switching costs for ride-share are far lower than Reid's examples.

AirBnB can make recommendations based on past experience. Uber/Lyft are one-time transactional commodities. There's no loyalty incentive.
> On mac firefox is eating battery faster than chrome.

If you're on a Mac and want better battery life when web browsing, Safari will do better than both Firefox and Chrome in most cases.
It depends on the situation.

Being private means the company doesn't have to follow compliance rules strictly. A good example of that is accounting rules.

There are tons of companies out there which show non-GAAP profitability. But non-GAAP actually means companies can ignore stuff like ESOPs etc to create their balance sheets.

When it comes to creating GAAP reports these same companies tend to be unprofitable by a large margin.

Then there is the flip side too. Even if the company is profitable but not profitable enough. Let's say a hypothetical $1 in profit. And then company needs more than $1 to keep it afloat but no investor is interested. Then they have two options - raise debt or go public and raise money. Out of the two going public is slightly better.
Tempest for Eliza is an cool old piece of code to play mp3s over your CRT via AM: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
I haven't read the proposal but it made me think of something like:

/.well-known/personal-access-token

To get an access token for API access to my own data. You know, for our right to be represented by a bot[1]

[1] https://continuations.com/post/172413445510/we-need-mandator...
I actually enjoy using Rider on macOS over using Visual Studio for Mac with C#.
VS Code uses Electron.
Here's a sample from my 4x dictionary-based generator. Let me know how quickly you can re-create it via brute force.

Pocahontas-ballot-balustrade-blackouts

https://www.xkcd.com/936/
I know SoftBank pretty well from an old job. They do not do ops very well is the minimum I can say on this.
> > 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"?

Something I've noticed over time is that a good chunk of the people not too enthusiastic about their work tend to gravitate towards the enterprisey stuff like java, C# or VB while the more enthusiastic may end up in embedded, research or low level code like the guts of an OS or database.

I wonder ....
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Lyft’s founder created zimride which was the first ride share site. Sidecar invented the drive your own car model first.
> But actually, I'm optimistic about Web security in general.

Care to elaborate? https is not the most important nor most challenging aspect of "Web security in general". I guarantee, when you go to any Marriot website, you are getting to it via https.

Most phishing destinations are https-protected.

etc.
How do I convince Chromium to adopt parallel engine components written in Rust, in this world?

They won't do it, because the entire team at Google is staffed by C++ folks. How is that a better outcome?
Can't agree more. The readme/lessons looks very "academic" but I just want an overview.
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Great post! You mentioned different RL frameworks in the article (Dopamine, Spinningup, Keras-RL, etc...) Which one do you recommend in term of usability?
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How dare they do something good for the community
Zimride was founded in 2007.
Most of the counties with below 50% have populations smaller than most big city suburbs. While it's certainly still bleak given these are mostly just poor communities that at most subsist from agriculture, the vast majority of people in the state live in the blue area.
If Lyft were valued the same as Uber, then I'd readily agree. But it's not (necessarily), right?

Is there no price at which Lyft stock would be a good investment relative to Uber?
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>Now it's my turn to ask a question: why was it your immediate reflex to (rudely and dismissively) justify a situation that you know nothing about?

Because your story, as told, leaves that pretty massive gap. A supervisor in charge of interns being recognized vs the temporary intern not being recognized is the occam's razor answer that also popped into my head as well. The fact that you didn't offer any evidence as part of the story to explain why the obvious answer wasn't the answer does raise the question of whether or not that had occurred to you.
I don't see anything I can try out? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
IMHO regarding Gödel's loophole, focusing on unconstrained amending is a red herring. Any set of rules can be superseded by external means, eg revolution. Spelling out a formal procedure to do so strengthens a constitution - the only weakness it adds is a slight moral authority from technically following the procedure being contained in the original document, but if popular opinion is already against the original spirit of the document, that's moot!

My belief is that the loophole is more akin to layered complexity creating self-defeating contradictions - analogous to the technique used to to prove his first incompleteness theorem. Essentially, the law is not a consistent-incomplete system, but an inconsistent-complete one that can prove anything!

The US Constitution only defines individual rights in terms of prohibitions on the government, it does not qualitatively prescribe them! And this is indeed the totalitarian shape our modern society has taken. When you run down the Bill of Rights, for each right you can see that its basic ethos has been effectively nullified - through requirements mandated by some third party non de jure yet de facto authority. For any right, you still do technically have the option to engage in a very narrow course of behavior that preserves it, but in practice this is irrelevant!

And the real travesty is that for every such violation there is a straightforward chain of law that enabled it - handing the mob direct justification for why said violation is purportedly sensible and just!
They already do things the way they want. TFA doesn't change that. This kind of spec doesn't and shouldn't specify UX. It's simply "where do your users go to change passwords?" with a simple reply of "Here: $URL".
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VS Code has taken me off Emacs for Python development on Windows. I was never able to get a clean and speedy code completion, navigation, or refactoring to work with Emacs. I hope the situation changes someday.
I use emacs for Java and Scala development with LSP quite successfully, and VS Code's support for language servers is as good as they come. Is it primarily debugging that's the impediment to switching for you?
Any advice on where an individual could purchase (even limited) access to CRSP data?

I'm working on a data-driven financial analysis blog and can't seem to find decent time-series fundamentals data now that yahoo and google have taken down their api's. Everything I find seems to be a $1000+ yearly subscription.
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My understanding is that, since the edition is a per-crate property, crates that don't jump to 2018 aren't any worse off, and will continue to compile on both old and new compilers. I'd also be interested to know whether `cargo fix` covers the module changes for you.

(EDIT: I now realize you're talking about crates that will continue development on Rust 2015 specifically because they want to target older compilers, which is a different concern from what I was addressing. But now I'm not sure what the concern actually is. Even if you stay on Rust 2015, what reason is there to not upgrade your compiler? Both editions remain supported in 1.31 and will be for...ever, as far as I know.)
This is true to the level that most people are not comfortable accepting.
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The source code for zunzun.com online curve fitting and surface fitting is at https://bitbucket.org/zunzuncode/zunzunsite3 if you would like to poke around in the code.
This seems to show generally higher incomes around metropolitan areas, which I would have expected. But there are some areas in the 75k+ bracket that surprise me, such as:

1) Western and northeastern Wyoming

2) Western North Dakota

3) Northern Alaska

Does anyone know why that might be the case, and where the money could be coming from? (National parks? Military bases? Oil fields?)
* Javascript

* NPM

* It's still 0.59 or something and things are constantly
breaking

* Because of that every piece of information older than 1 month should be distrusted

* App size

* It doesn't play well when you try to gradually replace or add RN screens to an existing application.

* There are multiple ways to do the same thing

* It adds another layer on top of the iOS and Android builds
I’d like to see this AI hooked up to an actual Atari machine somehow. Has anyone tried something like that? Could the model process the frames quickly enough to move a robotic arm up or down on a joystick?
I'd worry about those problems (e.g. "revert wars") if and when you ever see them happen. They will be easy enough to spot.

MSFT is already contributing to Chrome, e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=893460

From my position sitting at the crossroads of Clang/LLVM and Chrome (the team I work on developed clang-cl), all the interactions I've seen with MSFT are positive.
"i.e." – for "id est" in latin – means "that is", or "in other words", "in essence".

"e.g." is "exempli gratia" in latin; just meaning "for example".
Batteries are systems, not just cells.
When Microsoft released Edge, they claimed bugs plagued IE because they couldn't update IE without OS updates. Edge as a "store app" would receive frequent updates, independent of Windows OS updates. They ended up tying Edge to Windows. And kept promising but never delivered. Instead of small frequent browser updates, we got large frequent OS updates. Maybe now that Edge's dead, they'll slow down the frequency of Windows update a bit.

In the beginning, IE was speedier than Edge. Had more features too. Edge was fragile and froze often. Updates fixed some of the speed issues. I froze my windows update so, I don't know how it stacks up right now.

To increase Windows store usage, MS also decided to tie Edge extension to the Windows store. This wouldn't have been a problem. In fact, I like the idea of getting all my stuff in one place. However, MS decided to create the annoying store app. I'm on a desktop, a real computer. Why on earth can't I open the store on a browser and have the installer do its work in the background? This is where I drew the line with Edge.

I'm not surprised that Edge's marketshare declined with increased Windows 10 marketshare. Edge is Microsoft's second Windows 8. They are both PC software designed to please mobile users and infuriate PC or touch-less users. And both hide settings - make it a chore to change minor settings.

I believe throwing Windows Phone under the bus has come back to bite Microsoft in the ass and Edge is just a trailer.

Microsoft is still gutting Windows 10 - turning it into a phone OS for desktop users, replacing working software with incomplete toys.

As far as I'm concerned, Google didn't beat MS in the browser game. MS simply frustrated IE users over to Chrome by forcing Edge on them.

Windows is the next software MS will abandon for Google's alternative. All Google has to do is not mess up android.

If you remember Nokia/MS's failed fork of Android you'll feel the chill. Microsoft now sells android smartphones in both its online and retail stores.

I predict MS is not done with Edge. At the end, they'll abandon that too for Chrome. And all they'll do is change the default search engine to Bing.
It's not in AUD, it's in USD. From the linked article for cost -

"The French energy company revealed that the entire system cost 56 million euros (~$66 million USD)"
More than more languages, yes.
Oil Fields.

Western Wyoming has some crazy huge oil fields and refineries. I would assume similar cases for North Dakota and Alaska as well, but I don't know for sure.
For those not familiar (as I was), here's what Whitesmiths style looks like (straight from Wikipedia):

while (x == y)
{
something();
somethingelse();
}

finalthing();
I don't think it's common, but one of the projects I work on has the entire codebase and documentation already in Whitesmiths.

I don't know much about the history of how it came to be that way, but it's my understanding that pretty much everyone else who's ever worked on the project came either from big iron, or had big iron in their background. Maybe that's where it came from.

I could just be used to it now, but I find it much easier to follow what's happening in the code than Ratliff or K&R.

Horstmann and Lisp aren't bad, either. They make a lot more sense than some of the other options that litter the screen with braces in seemingly random places.
you can select country in list of countries without highlighting some area finally?
I wanted to like jq, but honestly, I can't figure out it's crazy syntax.
Do you know how long these cells can last in such a scenario ?
Other automakers are limited in their offerings because they didn't commit with any enthusiasm until a few years ago, and the development time for a new car is at least that long. There are a whole bunch of new EV options coming to market in the next year or so.
Unfortunately, they don't really reduce peak load anymore. With the solar-adjusted demand curve looking duck-shaped, the peak load is now in the late-afternoon/early evening
I am a C# dev who plays with python in my spare time.

In coding interviews, some interviewers want compiler approved code. That's a lot less writing with python than with C#. The problem is I'm just not as confident with python as I am with C#. If you want compiler approved board code then I've got to write it with C# and not python.
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