skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about a more direct measure of "power", the ability to get things done?

Honestly, I don't think that's a more direct measure, on the contrary, though it's a good measure of value. The question you ask is more of "is really power what we need?".

I would say yes, we need power, but not only. I actually agree with AnimalMuppet: some factor (like battery life) can render useless an otherwise impressive device.

My objection is that you can't call "power" to any factor that makes you more productive.

It's not just nitpicking. If you redefine power to mean value in general, you lose a more precise definition and take real power out of the equation to create value.

One of the little insights that I've found useful when thinking about all kind of problems is the often overlooked importance of negative factors. People usually look closely to power, acceleration and readiness, but fail to consider factors that are absent or that prevent a process to get traction.

I believe that the problem with Lisp is not that power is not important, or that we should call other things power, but that power is not sufficient by itself and there are other factors that prevented it for becoming the dominant language.
It's way more than doubling.

Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price).

Dropbox was definitely the first to offer a viable cloud storage, but they've always offered laughable storage plans (compared to their competition).
Some years ago there was a company that developed a "Social network" plus some games (Rally, etc) on top of google earth. It was called YoubeQ.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that SMTP the protocol is too complex.

However, the systems that people build on top of SMTP (often to address shortcomings in SMTP being too simple) can often be Lovecraftian horrors.
Um… Yes? Ever heard of sanctions and boycotts?
It's an interesting problem for Adobe, obviously they have huge inertia behind their products, it's hard to change from a tool you have been using for a long time. On the other hand they are a big corporation that needs feeding, they can't afford to give away their main product.

It isn't just Sketch, there are a whole bunch of developers nipping away at their heels. Many of them offer quality products that are good enough, especially for new users.

I wouldn't bet on Adobe looking anything like it does now in ten or fifteen years time.
I do pay for stuff on the internet.

IMO the NY Times simply isn't good enough or original enough to be worth paying for though, so I choose not to subscribe to it.

Also, I'm not very interested in being informed about the endless news cycle of daily events. It distracts focus and in the long run is mainly noise. Its main purpose seems to be to create jobs in the media for the oversupply of liberal arts graduates.
> With this company you end up $100 (or whatever) short and you surrender your data for it to be sold to ... .... insurance companies and whatnot.

False !
Source : https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/

We will not provide any person’s data (genetic or non-genetic) to an insurance company or employer.
Maybe they try to move toward aAmazon Prime-Style "one subsription to feed all your live-areas"-Service. Next time they might add pLay store-flatrates for books, video, music, apps and then combine it with youtube premium.
Well, poor customer-service is a longstanding complain about google. Maybe with GOne you now get some real human who takes care of your complain, before they ban your account for violation of what their AI Overlord told them.
HSMs have been around for donkey's years. SGX is interesting because now you can run e.g. a whole database inside an enclave on commodity CPUs with competitive performance.
I wonder why there aren't other cross platform sketch equivalent.

Question for cross platform experts:

If today, you were to create an app supporting Linux, Windows, Mac - which toolkit/framework we must use?
Facebook has a large network of adtech partners who integrate with Facebooks advertising APIs. This used to be FBX, then they replaced it custom audiences.

I used to work at one of these firms and AFAIK, I worked in sales, Facebook didn't exchange any data with us.

I believe with FBX was implemented using tokens but this changed with custom audiences.

What we could do was match email addresses from our clients, think newsletter list, and get custom audience segment to advertise towards on Facebook.

I seem to recall that we needed at least 1000 emails and we could see how many of them matched a Facebook user.

A possible covert channel of confidentiality breach could be that you feed it 999 bogus emails and one target email to find out if a particular email matched a Facebook user.

But then I don't think you would've been able to target ads to that small of an audience.

If there is a possibility to get data, my guess is that it would be through inference using this kind of covert channel.
Is it an existing market? I got the impression a lot of their work and success has been around prototyping mobile applications. This is a niche nobody served and grew quite quickly.
Still, it really does solve a problem. I wouldn't want to be working on a Mac just to have Sketch, as nice as it would be to be able to use it.
What's your definition of "low level"? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
This is excellent, concise summary. Thank you zimablue!
I couldn’t disagree more. Health care is great and I want everyone to have it but how can it be considered a right. Is food a right? Is shelter a right?

I support socialised healthcare but a right is very different to a reasonable service for a society to provide to those in need.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616285
This plays nicely to the Western stereotype, though. (Not the pictures in and of themselves, but pretending the outliers to be the typical).

I remember the outrage over Microsoft Encarta which used photos similar to the Barbey's ones to illustrate the "Poland" entry in 2003 :)

See http://of19.internetdsl.pl/bzdury/encarta/

Two can play that game, http://www.landoverbaptist.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/... - life of an American citizen, 2016.

And two did play it indeed :) Communist propaganda would actually pull a similar trick on the West, focusing the coverage on the stuff that was, well; weird or creepy at best.

For example the "This is America" documentaries (by Romano Vanderbes) were broadcasted on the communist TV in 70s/80s in prime time. An average viewer would assume it to be an accurate representation of the prevalent lifestyle.
WHile I understand you, you miss the “Through the lens” , Is his personal view, not the real life. That is exactly what photography should be , art.
Um...well...can't say I'm overjoyed about that - the Good Old Times, whenever invoked, were rarely good if you happened to actually live in them^$#%$#NO CARRIER
lol!!!
In that photo with the wicker-basket love seats on the beach — which I'm guessing is Sopot — we still have those. Also ul Mariacka looks no different.

I'm guessing you're from somewhere prosperous? I mean even today, yes Sopot and Warsaw are just masses of Porsches and pretty women, but that isn't the case in some less well-off areas.
true, I had to scroll up and down at least 3 times until I more or less got what it is
Are you a company? I mean come on, let's be realistic. If you accidentally pay a company money and ask for it back it goes through a reasonable process to assess your request. You probably start by going to customer service, CS then refers it to finance, finance has to identify the transaction, check that it's a genuine mistake, has to account for that in their systems, authorize a refund, and pay the money. Each step in that probably involves a different person. So yes, it takes time. If a company pays you money you go through the same process. The difference is that because you're not operating on a large scale all of those steps can be done by you, very quickly. If you were receiving tens of thousands of payments per day, all from different people for different reasons then we'd expect you to take the same amount of time to refund. It's not that companies are necessarily treated differently, it's that they're treated in a way that is equal, but not the same.
You're entirely right and I quite agree.

Except that I'm not sure I do, now that computers are involved and can pick up every scrap of maybe-data and correlate sets of maybes into probable identities. Twenty years ago walking into a shop with a voucher wasn't an identifying action, now it may be. Twenty years ago what the shop owner got from the voucher distributor wasn't a list of names, now it may be.

If the shop owner gets a list of names at the end of the day, then arguably that list is what Facebook sold. Maybe Facebook sold it with plausible deniability, maybe Facebook would prefer not to sell it, but the shop owner paid money and got something in return.
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Thats one of the main reasons i implemented my VM in go.

Its fairly rudimentary, a map for instructions to function pointers but.. I can quickly duplicate a subtree of code and execute it within a different goroutine, and wrap that section of code in an instruction that sets the output to a channel, and have another goroutine select the different channels from different goroutines.

At each node within the tree of code, i store the variables within a map instead of using a stack-based system; if the data is not in the current node, look down the tree until i find it.
I've always known the parachute manufacturers mostly ride on fear, uncertainty and doubt on this. They ruthlessly cash in on people's lack of knowledge and fear of death, advertising parachutes as a safer option which people buy because it's like insurance; if you'd happen to fall, you'd at least want to feel having prepared.

So I'm glad to hear there's now some scientific evidence pointing to the futility of parachutes. Surely, the experiments were carried out in a constrained environment with some unavoidable assumptions baked in but it does rather convincingly suggest that parachutes consistently do not offer any help in the event of freefall.

A corollary might appear that parachutes might even do more harm, adding weight to the falling person which could cause further injuries unnecessarily upon touchdown.

I'll look forward to follow-up research.

The big question is how would altitude affect the results.

For experiments at higher altitudes they might need to locate an airstrip situated on a mountain, with enough runway to allow larger planes to land there and enough free space on the tarmac for several planes while they carry out the jumps. It will likely shed much more light and build confidence to the applicability of this new research and the obvious conclusion.

Also, I'd like to see jumps done from different kinds of aeronautic vehicles, by more people, different brands of parachutes etc if should there be any differences regarding that. But it looks like after a few rounds of serious experiments we should quickly conclude the benefits are thin and see no need for excess research but, rather, reaching a steady conclusion.
First impulse: "That sounds like a great way to get your GA account banned for using their API in undocumented ways."
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Kind of "to sort out", but the more specific meaning is lost. The history has filled our vocabulary with quite a lot of such terms that don't lend themselves well to translation. Eg. "chałtura".
Some great things about companies that you can always count on:

- They never change their terms of service

- The demand for constant growth never causes them to reconsider ethically dubious revenue streams

- They never get acquired
I think the most direct English translation for this word is "finesse". I had only ever known this word as a noun before recently hearing it used as a verb in US prison slang from a documentary.

EDIT: Then again, maybe not. When I hear people in Poland use that word, I'd maybe translate it as "organise" or "arrange", but only in the sense of arranging the acquirement of something.
I wonder how much apps like Sketch and Pixelmator rely on CoreImage to do the heavy lifting. They all seemed to appear after its introduction.
There is also Figma, which is a direct competitor to sketch that is multiplatform, and they indeed run on electron (and even directly in browser). For me that's a great example of electron app done right, as you won't really notice any performance issues.
Curious. Is that binding forever? Are they not allowed to ever change that and then retroactively give out data?
"Capita admitted it had "underestimated the complexity" of the project."

Classic :D
We're all familiar with over-exaggerated claims of being able to build them something in a weekend, but £113m for a recruitment web site?!
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I thought exactly the same today when I had to switch from inbox to gmail. Now if I want to know about my trips I have to use the Google Trips app, which I can only use on mobile.
Why would they do that? That has to be unpleasant for the doctors and damaging to the organs themselves... or is this “fake news”
These outsourcing companies seem to have reached the point where their core competence is winning bids rather than delivering projects.
Inkscape (built with gtkmm)? sk1?
I think you could say it was a niche in an existing broader market, which had previously been covered by Illustrator and Photoshop. Sketch came along with a focused tool which did it better than the general-purpose tools. But it's not like UI protoyping was impossible before Sketch came along.
you grew up in the country's capital, and had family in the north-west, no wonder you have no idea how life really was
Thanks but I have a ton of cap at home, as well as a convenient and secure way to access it remotely
There is no special privacy policy, in other words, if you upload your "whole life" to there, as they suggest, then your whole life is owned by Google and they can do whatever they want with that data, as you signed over all the rights.

I mean, I use online storage for my family pictures, my important documents etc. etc, and so the minimum requirement is that it is encrypted and the company contractually agrees not to snoop, data-mine or even sell that data.
Google basically tells you they will do all of that, tied to the most invasive unique ID except than maybe facebook.

Why would anyone actually do that? That's just a disaster waiting to happen...
There exist a great one, which is called Figma. They use electron in combination with WebAssembly to make it fast. I'd say that's a pretty decent choice.
I can forgive the forced login but i cant forgive the extra steps and buggy login process - I cant count how many times I've ended up trying to register rather than login.

also the recommendations get old quick its just my previous searches aggregated gets boring quick. The instagram explore page has my valuable time these days - it uses my searches plus things related to those to find new things on many topics and ability to say "not relevant" is awesome - all i need now is the ability to block anything "#lifehack"!
From my understanding, there's nobody added on while it is running, but a fixed group from start to finish.
Quite the opposite of cost saving, the Transit Center was a test of cutting-edge, unproven structural engineering. If they wanted it cheap, they could have built a much simpler building.
It’s interesting how much that can vary. I’ve met every one of my second cousins on 3 out of 4 family branches (one grandparent was estranged from their family). Those who live nearby I’m closer with than first cousins who live further away.

My and my siblings’ children will also know some of their third cousins, and see them at least once every few years at holidays.

I’ve met a couple third cousins, and am fairly certain with any others (aside from that one branch of the family), we’d discover our relationship well before being together long enough to consider marriage.

That said, I wonder to what degree physical proximity plays a role. If the second cousins didn’t for the most part live in the same metro area as the entire rest of the family, we’d probably see them even more rarely than the set of first cousins who live a 3-hour flight away - which is to say, roughly once a decade.
Read that as, 'Capita didn't care too much to manage requirements and sanitize them but instead realised that they would get some sweet dough by stringing it out'

They should have capped the price up-front.
I've worked in many languages including C#, Python,Javascript, Typescript, Haskell and while I understand Python and Javascript are amazing for prototyping, I don't see the advantage in the "on time with minimum maintenance" which Python has against C#.

Could you please expand on this one?
Capita's nick name is Crapita in the UK which tells you what you need to know.

I am sure my current (small) employer could have done better I could spec the architecture for a the site (I have worked many large related sites ) recruit a few extra good devs and bobs your uncle.
Well, if we're being paranoid they probably don't need to touch your personal belongings. They just have to have a look at the bed sheets after you've slept on them.

...or to get your DNA they can work it out from the "deposited" DNA of your close relatives. There will be no hiding! :P
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The administrative overhead of doing a government project is very, very high. I imagine that the time and effort spent on activity/progress reports totally eclipsed the amount of time spent on the product. And the report-writers, the people best placed to do something about the waste, aren't particularly motivated to fix it.
Adobe feels like it's playing catch-up when it comes to apps optimised for UI design. Programs like Sketch and Figma address this area particularly well.

I'm just happy to see more alternatives in the design tools space and to see them thriving. Sketch, Figma, Affinity Designer are all some of the vector alternatives doing well. Affinity works on both Windows and Mac. They have a Photoshop alternative in their Photo app and soon a potential InDesign rival in their Publisher app.
https://apply.army.mod.uk/login

Is this the website?

The HTML is full of comments like:

<!-- This was a temporary Single Sign on fix - I think it's no longer needed? SVL -->

<!-- This is being done since bundling is currently breaking css files!!!-->

I'm not calling out the developers, I'm sure they didn't get £113m, but where did it go?
Ironically after 47 minutes on HN their site doesn't load at all.

Here is a cached version that works: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Does it have python3 support? Tried installing it on a python3.7 environment and it failed

EDIT: I then tried a python3.6 environment and it worked. I guess it answers my question
What the hell - how? They're not launching a moon mission, it's a website. Unless it's the next Facebook I'm not sure how they can imagine it could possibly be worth that much.

But perhaps there's something I'm missing having only made website of the order of 100,000 times cheaper than that.
So I'm assuming it was meant to basically be Salesforce and handle the whole CRM (RRM?) side too
I have almost no idea what the offering is here... can someone explain?
Still popular in France, in 1906 they fell out of favour in the US due to the insurance company issuers tampering with the membership ledgers & then withdrawing too much investor capital as "insurer profits".

Some things never change.
Well: before communism Poland was more or less on par with Spain in terms of wealth and general advancement. (Not to mention eg. Korea).

The economic growth in communist Europe was on average 4 times slower than in the Western part of the continent.
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For UI design, icons, logos and other assets.
>I wonder why there aren't other cross platform sketch equivalent.

Adobe XD, InVision Studio (soon on Windows), Figma (in browser), Framer (soon on Windows).
Sure, but not to the tune of 113 million.
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This, I don't get about government procurement. Why not set a fixed price; with reductions for overruns.

Sure, with small companies they could go broke, but Capita has been given half of the UK at this point.
I can recommend https://github.com/ankane/ahoy for Rails
How is it prevented that they get "stuck" because no participant needs the money right now and would rather wait and see if someone else is willing to pay an interest?
Is it mobile friendly??

Where is the app?

LOL!
Google seem to think that's a good idea - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2018/03/16/googles...
It's worth reading the full report: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat...
Matt Godbolt is a great speaker as well. I loved this talk that included a bit about the architecture behind his Compiler Explorer. The rest of his talk is super cool as well. E.g. closed form solutions from O(n) code? Compilers are awesome. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4
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Both - as they're commonly referred to - "Poland A" and "Poland B" comprise of significant portions of the population. I can't see why life in one should be considered "real", while in the other, not. There are two sides to this picture.
Example that I remember getting pointed out on HN a while back

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/programming/co...
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I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see a privacy concern comment. Totally agree with you by the way.

It feels like there is an ever growing privacy awareness yet companies like google keep pushing the cloud storage for typical consumer. I’d be curious to know how average person feels about storing their private photos in google’s servers.
You probably could use this type of granular targeting described, and infer personal data from Facebook users using UTM codes on your campaigns.

But it doesn't tell you who this information is about. You'd have to trick the user to reveal their identity on the attacker website.

I guess this could happen if the victim had previously visited the attacker website and identified themselves using say their email. Store a cookie of this user. Then when the click the information leaking ad they identify themselves on the attacking website with this cookie. Now you can link the information leaking targeting with the user and potentially leak data.

It's misleading to say that Facebook is selling data to advertisers. Rather they might leak personal data through covert channels.
i'm a very technical person and I also wouldn't give up the convenience of keyless entry. that is what insurance is for.
Nope, when I was young and visited my family in Rzeszowskie district many farmers did plough using horses. Countryside that I remember looked like this. Ofcourse there were tractors, but A LOT of people were using horses - even in the beginning of 90's it depended on how poor a region was.

Harvesters and tractors were often rented for specific tasks.
They have it documented here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

So I think it's a totally legit way to use GA, since you don't always have the ability to add libraries. For example if you want to track GA server side.
After reading this statement like 5 or 6 times I am still not sure whether I grok it or not. Would put it on a sticker though.
I'd rather attribute that to ads, especially terrible ones that cause page reflow, than just javascript.