skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a developer edition of the 9570 model (there's no linux driver for the fingerprint scanner for example), and in any case we rarely get the Dell developer editions here in Australia.

I am certainly saying that a fresh install of Ubuntu (and a reasonable attempt to get over the initial issues eg. using a respin available on github) has too many problems for me to either live with or spend time investigating. Others may have more tolerance for fiddling around with OSs, but I've done my dash with that kind of stuff.
I can't speak to the rest of your comment, but tax overhaul is certainly a high priority for the Party right now.

https://www.economist.com/china/2018/12/01/why-only-2-of-chi...
i dont fucken think so
Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]
almost no one in any sort of governmental power on the US left has proposed a gun ban

Senator Feinstein (D-CA) advocated for a total gun ban right on "60 Minutes".
Apologies, it wasn't down because of HN! I can't edit the original post now, but it was just my computer blocking your domain at the hosts level via https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

I should have realised, but it's the first time using that hosts list has ever stopped a website I've wanted to go to from loading, so I didn't think of it.
https://nostarch.com/gnumake
There is more to HTTPS than just certificates. For instance, the website lacks an HSTS header.
3D data visualisation with rotation and zoom. Nicely done. Makes me long for a soup sandwich.
All food has a certain soup-iness, salad-iness, and sandwich-iness. This plots some common food on these axes.
Setback for Trump
Fyi Australia's economy has also been without a recession in 30 odd years
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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds (2016)
We've seen similar limited designs in forum systems. And they aren't necessary driven by the social media economics.

So why are they so similar?
>>but the vast majority of licensed occupations are licensed because bad shit happened when they weren't. Doctors were quacks. Bridges fell down. Buildings caught fire. Planes fell from the sky.

You repeat this as an article of faith. Do you have any evidence that licensing increased safety?

If yes, do you have any evidence that the increase in friction for those wanting to enter a field of work incurred less social costs than the risks alleviated from the occupational licensing?

If you're going to massively intervene to restrict economic interactions between consenting adults, at the very least you need a comprehensive, well-sourced argument for the net utility of such restrictions. I've personally never seen such a case made for the centralization approach.

It's all just repeating a narrative as if it's self-evident it's true, which is not giving things as complex and impactful as economics and the laws that govern us the respect they deserve.
This [0] is a link to a portion of 2018 Bryan Lunduke's presentation where he gives a refresher on Microsoft + Linux, and goes on to discuss Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactics and how they're relevant here.

[0] https://youtu.be/TVHcdgrqbHE?t=425
R you a girl ? never had a problem standing up. you just jump from sitting and land on your feets
Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (2008)
A more common problem is eye infection. This is an issue for contact lens wearers, and amoebas can also get in your eyes when you go swimming.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/acanthamoeba-keratit...
Quantum computers and black holes
... where the geometry of spacetime creates entanglement!!
Reddit is no better.

The majority of posts on /r/popular are shaming, harassment, mocking, etc. Whole subs are devoted to that.
> This was the immediate concern shared by me and several genomics researchers - gene variants that are often shown to be good for one thing may be bad for another.

I think it's certainly possible to get mixed or even bad results with gene editing by trying to push the technology farther than we really understand.

That being said, the basic priority for gene editing is probably to prevent/reverse bad genetic conditions that we understand well. No more downs syndrome.

That seems to be an unmitigated win to me.
"We'll do a rewrite, simplify everything, get rid of all the edge-cases."

Guess what? It turns out that all those edge-cases were there for a reason. You needed them. And by the time you've added them back, or equivalents, two things have happened. First, you've burned an order of magnitude more time than you budgeted for the rewrite. And second, you have a codebase every bit as gnarly as the one you started with.

First rule of rewrites: don't do it.
Second rule of rewrites (for experts only): don't do it yet.
Don't just say No.

You need to explain why.

Also, I agree that the person you replied to was oversimplifying.
> I still wish we were better at having a standardized desktop that goes across all the distributions.

A standardized desktop can be used just fine by all of Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch.
Be kind but consistent. When I have had drama it tended to be over non-technical issues such as pay, time-off, notice period, stuff like that. It’s best your team respects you first and likes you second.
Where do you draw the line between bug, neglect and outright malpractice?

Obviously, it’s still not clear for many people: All services that process personal data became more regulated through GDPR.

And yes, if any service loses its customers data, there will be a fine. The fine depends on many factors. And yes, even Mastodon.social or Gitlab.com (the service, not the OSS). The advantage of these platforms is that they actually don’t process that much personal data.

Behind any service is a legal entity that asks people for their data, to provide a service. These legal entities are subject to the same laws.

However, since the GDPR apparently determines fines on a case-by-case basis, they might give a low or no fine at all, if the service is non-commercial and had no intention to collect user data for commercial purposes. But the law still applies.

If you put a web service online that handles personal data, you must make sure to keep that data safe. It doesn’t matter if your service is free or not.

Turn this around: just because you as a user signed up for a non-commercial free service like Mastodon.social (the service, not the OSS you can host yourself), you wouldn’t want the admins of Mastodon.social to mess around with your data, no?
Interesting point. To expand on it... By analogy, western Europe has a long history of basically continual war, generally featuring some combination of France, Prussia, England, and Spain.

No one analyzes Brexit as a return to literal western European warfare, at most as an analogy of interests.

The last century featured advances in weaponry that changed the cost benefit of armed conflict in a way to make some types of historically prevalent warfare much more rare.

You could argue that the difference with China is the fear that information control and the other authoritarian elements of the communist party are masking significant internal discontent, making the political situation more volatile than can be reliably observed.

And... that civil wars aren't the type of warfare that technology has made more rare. (Really just limiting superpower territorial invasions of other superpowers?).

But who knows. China is such an enormous complicated country that there are basically no parallel examples to help us predict its future... Even China's past is limited help. China of the Tang dynasty was more similar in population to present day Myanmar. Its problems and issues and politics might have basically no discernable relationship to China's real issues today.
> "If even SQLite can have a RCE vulnerability, I'm convinced that it is not feasible for anybody to write safe C code."

This has much less to do with C, than it has to do with the fact that sqlite is a huge codebase.

Software can be vulnerable regardless of the programming languages used.
>They aren't publishing it, just indexing what others have published.

Depends on how you define publishing, I guess.

They definitely pushed news about both things to my phone, and I'm in Australia, moreover Google clearly knows I'm in Australia as many of the news articles relate to Australia/Australian things.
So this is the highest use of the .xyz domain?

I think it is.
Sometimes the reason has not been relevant for ten years, though, like when a codebase is filled with horrible hacks to account for the fact that you only have 64MB of RAM, while running in a vm with 4GB.
If the licensing actually provides benefit to the consumer, the loss in consumer surplus is smaller than that calculated by simply counting the wage differential as the study authors have done. Deadweight loss in economics implies an efficiency loss (hence why Pigouvian taxes, for example, are not considered to produce a deadweight loss even though they actually do reduce producer and consumer surpluses) and thus very much does imply no benefit to licensing when estimated in the manner the study authors have done. The whole field of welfare economics is based around the assumption that a distortion to the price and quantity supplied on an unregulated market might lead to a welfare gain, and thus does not necessarily result in deadweight loss.
Ask HN: 5 years from now; what do devs do?
1. What languages do they write in?

2. Which stacks do they use?

3. What hardware is king?

4. Why software is king?

5. What are they developing?
>You could say "out of thin air", but its really "out of social expectations that you pay your debt eventually"

You missed that- Since its 'out of thin air', the interest on this debt is artificially low.

When interest rates around 0, things that would otherwise be a bad decision, become feasible. Or, things that are a good idea, are sold and the cronies who get the loans make even more money.
You've got build system Stockholm syndrome! :-) Changing a flag because you've changed compiler (or any other reason) should take no thought in the 5 seconds it takes. Any flag change. The end.
Do dogs know Calculus? [pdf]
>It's kind of silly to spread corporate and government debt across all people.

Why? The most indebted (how may have billions the bank) still need to have others work for them in order to repay their debt. Billionaires earned billions because "people" work for them (or buy from them, in the end that's the same thing).
Two points:

(1) The coverage testing used by SQLite is very good at finding problems that occur when the system is used as it was intended. Fuzz testing is better for finding vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a hacker. The 100% MC/DC testing in SQLite is very useful in ensuring that the code does what is intended for sane inputs. And 100% MC/DC helps prevent us from breaking things as we evolve and enhance the code. But the MC/DC testing is less useful at fending off attackers.

(2) The magellan vulnerability exploits a bug in an SQLite extension, FTS3, which while very well tested, is not testing to 100% MC/DC. (See the second sentence at https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#test_coverage)

Hence my takeaways from this episode include that I need to extend 100% MC/DC testing to all commonly used extensions in SQLite, including FTS3, FTS5, and RTREE, and I need to improve fuzz testing throughout SQLite but especially in extensions.

Advocates of "safe" language correctly observe that this particular problem would not have happened if SQLite were written in (say) Rust. Rewriting SQLite in Rust in not (yet) a viable solution. (See https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html) But I can start moving SQLite in that direction, and perhaps make use of techniques taken from safe languages to improve its resistance to attack.
I worked for a wholly Australian-owned company that was subject to the EU GDPR laws. This was because we had customers, offices, and partnerships in EU Countries.
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Right?

I suppose that is why it doesnt exist anymore.
Submitted title is editorialized. Actual title: "Amazon delivery thieves beware: Cops plant GPS trackers in fake parcels"
I wonder if TPP would have fared better than tariff threats. That seemed to be the way Democrats we’re going to contain China, by forging trade alliances with SEA and chinas neighbors.
Lesson: when you are looking to elaborately justify an effect, you best make sure the effect actually exists.
Please don’t comment when you know so little about the subject.
No, very much no. Plagiarism is not about copyright it is about credit. Plagiarism hurts the scientist being plagiarized because their work is being passed of as someone else's work.

In the academic world, people building on your work is essentially how you get evaluated. If people build of your work without saying so, they are doing two bad things.

- They get recognition for things they did not come up with
- The person who did come up with the thing does not get that recognition

Consider the argument between Newton and Leibniz about who invented calculus first. That wasn't about copyright, it was purely about credit and plagiarism.
Perhaps the 1400 hour instruction requirement could be cut down to 20 hours, and the licensing could remain to give health inspectors a registry of who to inspect?

Something like that would be the approach if the goal were to use regulations to maintain good hygiene without imposing undue costs on young people hoping to get into the industry. If the intention of the license is to keep others out of the field of work though, 1400 hours of instruction would be the approach taken.
Pampy.JS – runtime pattern matching in JavaScript
The Case for Doing Machine Learning with F#
Because the land has vertical variations that you would have to work with, probably involving a lot of filling, bridging, and tunneling. The horizontal is just about planning the route. (Which of course has some restrictions as well, but not to the same extent.)
Apparently fruit salad is as much a salad as a piece of steak.

Sushi is as sandwichy as a hot dog, but a bit more salady.

Pretty sure this is the path to madness.
I totally agree with your conclusion but I wanted to comment about the IO performance remark. If you take an IO-heavy application and compile it natively on both platforms you will find that IO performance on Linux is dramaticly faster than windows(1) (and OSX for that matter). For certain workloads, I could see a Windows application running faster under emulation on Linux than natively.

1) This is maybe not true for big databases since those are optimized to basically bypass all of the Windows filesystem.
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Illegal Hacking and social engineering is my business I was 16 years old, never had a real job so i had the time to get really good at hacking and I made a good amount of money last +20 years. I'm not doing this to make few bucks here and there. I'm a professional computer expert who could earn 50-100 dollars an hour with a legal job. Stop reading if you don't have a serious hacking problem worth spending some cash on. Hit me up if you are risk taker. Send in your requests at lucidionysus/at/ hotmail/com and let my work do the talking.
30 year their economy was on par with India. Now it's on par with the us. Would some personal freedoms be great? Yep but I think having food in your stomach is more important. As long as they continue to do that Communist party will be ok.
One thing that worries me is, that by attempting to prevent and/or reverse one set of conditions, other issues may pop up because of adding/removing/changing something we don't understand the full functionality of and how it interacts with other parts of DNA.

DNA looks mightily like an extreme and profoundly complicated, complex piece of programming, with unnecessary redundancies removed, and useful redundancies left in, as well pieces of code that call lots of other pieces, as well as being called by others.

If the genome is analogous to a computer binary... we don't understand the file format, and how it is read and interpreted.

Nature knows far-and-away better than we do how to make it all work 99.99% of the time, with occasional errors due to radiation, poisoning, interbreeding being accounted for so that things don't get out of hand.

Well, these assumptions held... until we intelligently stupid creatures came along, using our intelligence to create dangerous tools that are most abused by those least worthy to wield them...
Never thought I’d come across a long Chesterton passage on HN. Hooray!
Ask HN: Does gaming impact work performance?
I’m in my 40s and have never really gamed. Over the last month I have invested a significant amount of time getting my rear kicked by kids on fortnite.

If you work in a busy IT environment do you think gaming is a fast way ro use up all your brain juice or not?
East Germany?
Hmmm, the 'journal are aggregators' model sounds really interesting. It essentially captures the concept that the value of journals is 'legitimizing' papers.

> People should be able to follow a citation from one paper to another, without having to pay to do that.

I really like that, but what about citing books? It seems like sources that are paid for should still be used. We shouldn't hamstring science / scientists. Similarly, we shouldn't just pass of ideas from payed sources as our own ideas.
Instead I would propose the slightly weaker rule:

'Where available, cite the free version'

This obviously needs to be complemented with strong reasons for people to create free versions.

I see another issue though. Sometimes, there are significant differences between the ArxiV version and the journal version. I've seen stuff where the journal had better figures, etc. In that case, a reader would be better of reading the journal article than the ArxiV version.
Whiners
One of the solutions to the €journal-implosion problem is to publish in both €journal as well as the new, open access version and to make this known in the article. Make this an institutional requirement for publishing in €journal in the first place and require Elsevier/Springer/Wiley/... to include the reference to the free version (no reference means no publication in €journal). The versions published in €journal might be better edited (or it might not, depending on the journal) but the science published is identical. Do this for a few years and the open access version will have built up enough of a corpus and a reputation to become a feasible replacement for €journal. Now you can either drop €journal cold-turkey style or start off by having the established names publish exclusively in the open access version while the up-and-coming still have the choice of publishing in both. Once it becomes known that the most revered names exclusively publish in the open access version it'll be game over for €journal. Once this becomes the norm in enough fields it'll be deemed irresponsible to publish through the likes of Elsevier and the world will be a better place.
It's one of the most repeated things on HN. Yet, the Tesla maintenance program is surprisingly expensive, more than a thousand dollars per year.

Maybe, no matter what the technology, if you have vendor lock, that is just the case. No idea if it's internally profitable for Tesla or not. I also don't know how it's for something like Nissan Leaf.

The majority of people currently drive petrol / diesel cars that are old enough to be out of warranty (also the warranties are shorter, which is of course not a good thing). They have way way lower maintenance costs because there is free choice where to have the car serviced and a huge pool of personnel with the skill to do it. Even if you take your car to the dealership for maintenance, their prices are still influenced by the competition. My city probably has a hundred places where I can have my oil changed.

But who buys a 100,000 dollar car with the idea of saving some hundreds of dollars per year in maintenance costs anyway? Be it BMW or Tesla. It's a red herring.

We'll have to see how the maintenance industry will be for older and more main stream electric cars.
You can't command wind. Which makes this cost per watt comparison pointless. Need to include storage.
I wonder if an intermediate step would be an ext2 filesystem driver for NT. As an officially supported feature that would be very handy.
Source? 'access to the blood brain barrier' sounds odd. You make it sound like the BBB magically starts in the nostrils and is somehow weak there. That's not how the BBB works. Sure, your nostrils are closer to your brain than, say, your teeth, but not by much.
I suppose letting the compiler-writers use new language features gives the usual advantages of "dogfooding" your own product.
The two are not mutually exclusive. A rewrite can be done incrementally. In fact, that's the best way to do it.
There are very few axioms of software development that are applicable everywhere. "Never rewrite" is one of the few that is valid in all situations.
You’re right, I have assumed that people only use JS because they have to. Happy to be convinced otherwise - please respond:

Other places - I guess you mean Node, and VS Code and Electron etc? I’ve always assumed that was either because of the available skill set (web devs know JS, so make their tools on JS) or to reuse JS on the web and elsewhere. So not because it’s a good language, but because people know it or solutions exists in it.

Is that what you meant?

To me, Node (for example) makes sense only if your devs don’t know other languages or you want to hire cheaply - I’d always go for a “proper” (better designed, more stable, elegant, robust) language on the backend given the choice.
A good rewrite is done bit-by-bit releasing the rewritten work immediately. This forces you to focus on deliverable chunks rather than code-for-code's-sake and to test your assumptions instantly. If you do not release your work there is a very large chance that it will all be for nothing.

A good rewrite happens so subtly that end-users and operators will never really realize that a rewrite is underway.

There are only very rare cases where a rewrite in big-bang fashion is indicated and even then the bulk of those will be incompetence on the part of the tech crew because they see no way to turn the job into an incremental one (or do not want to see a way).
Hmmmm

> Block reason:	Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

Just by curiosity how much is the cost difference between “amateur” and “pro” grade ? Like 1.5X or 2X the price ?
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It sounds like you haven’t read the Cathedral and the Bazaar, which really is one of the founding documents of OSS, and it does indeed encode ethics in its motivation. Recommended reading.