skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are great numbers of people who drink only water bottled in small plastic disposable bottles in their home.

I have a set of relatives that have a garage full of cartons of bottled water (there was a sale). Their tap water is of excellent quality.
Can you post a link (if there are no anonymity concerns)? Sounds like more fun than my current job.
Amazon to get cut in half?
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Sure, I can name one I've prototyped (but never gotten to deploy in prod) in industry.

I proposed an embedded μKanren in an Authorization framework for API endpoints. It relied on a system like JWT (or, preferably something less broken like Macaroons) to provide a series of "auth grants" on the request, auth grants being parameterized lines like:

(= :user-id 16)
(bu.admin-grant (group 10))
(is-super-admin)

A few more like this.

Then, you could use Python annotations on API methods to specify this kind of setup on API endpoints:

(= :group_id request.group-id)
(bu.admin_grant (group :group-id))

The system would then perform a kind of logical unification with the request, the cryptographically validated request token, and the API policy. When a request comes in, the request token is merged a "all is forbidden" default set (which is not a literal hash table, it's a policy annotation for the map that contains them). Thus, it's very easy to create arbitrarily complex security policies and so long as they're logically consistent, the interpreter can tell you so (and if it fails, it can tell you why the request doesn't have access).

What's also interesting was that you could unify the API endpoint annotations with an empty set of grants, and then it'd produce a series of example permissions that would be valid (or you could merge it with a user's invalid grants, and it could tell you what access they need to go through). This worked well for internal documentation and I had hoped that it'd be applicable to internal tooling to explain to an operator of a tool what access they needed to go request to use the tool (and even where to do it).

If you're curious, for most requests the time complexity and memory costs were very modest (approaching but not passing 1ms in the worst case I saw, which for API endpoints written in Python is usually dwarfed by garbage like JSON serialization).
We (Sourcegraph) have also found the “dump all the data from the compiler” approach limiting because it doesn’t work for the live editing use case (as the article says), and then that means you have 2 analyzers: one used with editors and one used for offline tools like Sourcegraph, DXR, etc. That bifurcation means each one gets less community involvement. The ideal IMO is to always target the live editing use case and add caching and optimizations that use language-specific knowledge, so that in both cases you’re querying a live server but it can compute the answers quickly. I haven’t worked with Rust specifically, but it’s interesting to see that they came to a similar conclusion.

BTW Sourcegraph is interested in funding this effort and building better Rust support for code browsing and search into our product using https://docs.sourcegraph.com/extensions. I just reached out to the author.
Monthly fee of your choice, regular donation... I may have been imprecise about what happens at the back end, but I think I described the user experience fairly well.
I've forgotten his name, but when I was at Brunswick Community College back in 1992/1993 or so, I had a great teacher for a history class. He was like a "fire and brimstone" Southern Baptist tent-revival preacher in terms of how passionate and animated he was. He never stood still, storming around the room, gesturing and pointing and talking louder and faster the more excited he got about something.

I don't think anybody, no matter how little interest in the subject they started out with, could fail to absorb some of his passion and enthusiasm.

I also had two really good professors when I was at UNC-W, Dr. Gur Saran Adhar[1], and Dr. Gabriel Lugo[2].

[1]: http://people.uncw.edu/adharg/

[2]: http://people.uncw.edu/lugo/
Bubble is a commonly used term in financial circles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Ah but who is the Han Solo of comp Sci?
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You should be getting ideas from actual open source projects that actually exist, not from imaginary/fake ones. There are numerous serving packages that actually exist and offer ideas.
Hahaha, flagged for pointing out that it’s SIPC and “SPIC” is an ethnic slur. I will add my comment again, thank you very much.
1. Adds a new directional 'spot beam' that can provide a 20dB signal boost (100x power boost) in a target region several hundred kilometres in diameter.

2. A new(-ish) military signal, the 'M Code', which is present on some but not all satellites from Block II. It has a number of features including [1]:

* Secretive design.

* Much wider bandwidth than civilian C/A code, meaning wideband jamming needs more energy.

* Power distribution different to the civilian C/A code, and unlike the older P(Y) code doesn't need the receiver to acquire the C/A code first, so less impacted if someone jams the civilian C/A code.

* A more modern spread-spectrum design (from 2000 rather than 1973) that provides better noise immunity and forward error correction, and hence better jamming immunity.

* The parts of the spread-spectrum design that rely on the transmitter and receiver having a common source of pseudorandom data use more modern cryptography.

[1] https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/pdf/betz_overview....
*Offer not valid in Flint, MI.
Perhaps he pivoted after he left Goldman Sachs? Plus there's many examples of people who have managed to keep their beliefs and/or outside lives well away from the people they work with. Many serial/spree killers have had someone quoted afterwards saying they were the nicest person and you'd never think it, etc. It really doesn't require great acting.
For as much as Bezos bangs the "Customer Obsession" drum, I'm beginning to doubt any serious product managers have used Amazon in the past few years to actually buy any simple, everyday items. I've had the following experience for several device categories: (electronics, tools & hardware, 3rd party phone cases, etc)

1) Search Amazon with a description (ie, "Qi wireless charging stand"[0])

2) Results are full of clearly duplicated products whose only difference is the screen printed brand. Sometimes, the Amazon tag of "Amazon's Choice" or "Best Seller" is applied multiple times on the first page, as a re-brander has taken over a subcategory that is irrelevant (eg, "Sports-Tennis Equipment"). These results also have ads injected and sometimes even totally irrelevant categories, deals, etc injected, further confusing the layout.

3) Look at several products pages and am unable to distinguish the differences or advantages of any. Obviously, most of these products are manufactured in a handful of OEM factories in China. The brands typically do not match the "sold by" section of the product page, either, further confusing me.

4) Scroll down to reviews. These are essentially worthless as they have been gamed to irrelevance. I mostly come down here to see if some angel who genuinely bought the product for their own use decided to write a review, with pictures. Even these can't be trusted now, though.

5) Check a review rating site, such as Fakespot, although I generally don't know what to do regardless of score, besides keep looking. (That is, a good review typically won't instill enough trust to flip me to "Buy it").

6) Go to Google and search from there. Results are sometimes better, but not always. I'll check several results.

7) Look at the Wirecutter to see if they address the category. Just buy whatever they recommend if so.

8) Go to a specific community for recommendations. This would be a subreddit, looking through a trusted Twitter user, forums, etc.

Now, I mostly skip all this, and my default behavior is to not trust anything on Amazon's website, and either start my search elsewhere, or buy whatever is cheapest and save my time. I used to go to Amazon to save time, but now I'd almost prefer going to Walmart and buying whatever option they have.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...
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>> Strictly speaking it is “source-available.”

The source code for Windows is also "available" ... "to qualified customers, enterprises, governments, and partners..." [0]

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
..that the Don was the one who really revived Apple by inventing the iMac and the iPhone ? Yes, yes, we know all that.
To better understand why this project is trying to re-implement the compiler frontend, I really recommend this video from Anders Hejlsberg (creator of C# and TypeScript) explaining how modern compiler construction oriented towards IDE works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ
And for the longest time I thought XUL was the biggest downside of firefox. When the browser got slow not only did the render view get slow, but the "native" gui as well. Really frustrating and also contributed to the very clunky feel and a pretty ugly somewhat-native UI. It wasn't until I realized they also rendered the UI with gecko that I understood why they were having so much issues with it.

Much better now thankfully.
you're missing a couple of other factors, one is timing and being bale to move quickly, a perfect example is the warren buffet's investment in GS during the financial crisis [1]. GS didn't show that deal to the world - it went to someone that they knew could act quickly (one decision maker) and stroke a big check....

[1] https://qz.com/67052/heres-how-warren-buffett-made-3-1-billi...
That is not my experience. You don't need apps to meditate.
Sleepyness is a kind of thing that can be affected by chemical processes. Truth isn't.
Per the tweet: CMU has higher female ratios in their CS programs? Is that specific to undergraduate?

I’ve looked into applying to their masters programs and of the ~20 options, only two appear to have higher than 50% female[0]:
(1) HCI and (2) Educational techn. and Applied Learning Science.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/sites/default/files/SCS_Masters_Progr...
The problem is then you can't always tell if you're getting the same product as that reviewer.
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Chaos and control: the story of the web
Can anyone ID this keyboard depicted in the article?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/18/science/18SCI-KNU...
It's great if you want to quit and it helped me too. But it's not great if you just start, it's not great if you are a teenager who will dismiss parents or older people's advice to not get into it, just because it's cool and they know what they're doing.
I'd be concerned about household plastic products degrading over time. Would an original Atari still be in any fit shape today if such bacteria or fungi had been around?
I am not sure I understand the criticism of RLS. It feels to me that the Language Server Protocol does allow for incremental parsing etc. In particular, the approach taken by rust-analyzer

> Analyzer maintains a "database" of input facts (source code + information about project structure) and derived facts (syntax trees, name resolution information, types). The client then can change input facts, and query derived facts at the current state of the world.

seems that it could also be adopted by a language sever for Rust.
Amazon purchasing rule of thumb used to be: "no electronics."

Then it was updated to include "nothing that goes on or in your body."

Then it was updated to include "nothing that goes on or in any living thing."

Then it was updated to include "nothing you wouldn't by from a random stranger standing outside a fly-by-night flea market."

For thousands of years, brick-and-mortar stores have lived and died by the quality of their merchandise. Amazon is just learning this.
Think of it like a venture capital deal. If you wanted to invest in Uber in their seed round, you couldn't get in the deal unless you had a fund set up or you were an accredited investor and had a connection to the founders.

This type of deal can get you huge returns but is also very risky.
Define "cover". Yeah, you'll have used it in one or two classes. It won't be a part of your day to day workflow unless you voluntarily make it part.
I worked at a place that was the only seller of a popular product yet it was sold on my countries amazon. They were about 25% off retail price too. They used pictures of genuine packaging and genuine items. I’m not so sure that they sent the customers the real things though.
>The only reason this doesn't seem like an immediate threat for US is decades of responsible monetary policy that built trust. US definitely can get in a position it won't be able to sell debt in its own currency.

I think this line of reasoning is absolutely valid in a purely theoretical framework, where there is an endless supply of possible creditors and perfect market competition. But we live on planet earth, and if you look at the Realpolitik of global trade, the US is uniquely situated to dominate markets no matter what. We have more fresh water than the rest of the planet combined, and more arable land than China or India. It's too productive of an economy, with too many fundamental geographical advantages that position it above any other political entity in the world, that it's impossible to imagine a scenario short of nuclear apocalypse or total political breakdown where the US cannot repay its' debts.
Is it because the rich investors are needed to bring some level of expertise or connections to the investment to make it work?

My first thought was regulation. See: accredited investor. One can sell to accredited investors, and caveat emptor, or get buried in a whole new ass-load of paperwork and butt-microscopes selling to retail.

My second thought was scaling, or selling in volume. Why do companies sell wholesale? Because they don't want to deal with nickel-and-dime buyers, there's a whole new set of infrastructure and process needed for that. Take a little less profit to sell one big block rather than doling it out to retail investors.
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Based on my personal experiences, cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms are far less destructive than alcohol, which is perfectly legal in many countries.

Of course, one can easily destroy one's life with those "soft" drugs. Many people have. But simply making those illegal obviously has not helped much, either.
I mean, yeah, but then it's not a bomb.

My comment is lighthearted - I'm just saying they mixed metaphors.
You guys created language server protocol, right? I think langserver.org is owned by sg?
I struggle with this a lot. I think I would agree with you if he was some random schmo, but he’s a millionaire with heaps of power and influence. As such, I don’t want to give him even an iota of extra renown. He’s had many chances to use his gifts wisely, and he wasted them on trolling, white supremacy, and reactionary politics.

And for the record, he’s already found plenty of “other” allies as linked elsewhere in this subthread. I can’t stop Luckey because I am some random schmo, but I can at least help drain his power in some infinitesimal way.
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There was a line from the first season of the TV show Silicon Valley: "Are you kidding? [Rich VC] would spend a million dollars just to mildly annoy [competing VC]!"
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" This browser is created and maintained by the team behind Pale Moon..."

These guys https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

How about not.
The sensation is somewhere between having my soul sucked out of my body and having a terrible ear infection that impacts balance.
For me XEmacs was the go-to environment while I didn't had access to Borland like IDEs on UNIX environments.

Nowadays XEmacs seems to have died, I have plenty of IDEs to choose from for my favourite languages, even on GNU/Linux and Emacs seems to still lack some of the nice features of XEmacs.

As for VIM, I learned VI on Xenix, but never could bother to actually use it more than for profile files, or as the go-to editor over telnet/ssh sessions when nothing else was installed by default.

I assume many on the IDE camp might share a similar experience.
Comparison of many standard (and non-standard) SQL features amongst 10 databases
Public Policy After Utopia
Wasn't emacs farther ahead for full-time programmers though? I'd love to see if there were some historical stats.
> There might be lines of thought that are repressed normally that when on a psychedelic is allowed to enter the conscious mind.

And how do you know that those lines of thought aren't repressed because they're total garbage and make no sense at all?

Just because something feels true when you're on psychadelics doesn't let you skip the scientific method and assert its universal truth, fie on the unenlightened who says otherwise
RESTHeart announces support for MongoDB transactions and change streams
RESTHeart, the leading Web API for MongoDB, recently published its product roadmap.

https://restheart.org/learn/roadmap

The new major release 4.0 is expected in early 2019 and will feature many improvements including a simpler JSON representation format, support for transactions and change streams.

Another important announcement made by SoftInstigate, the company behind RESTHeart, is about the security sub-module that was moved to the new independent, first-class project named uIAM (micro-IAM).

uIAM is an Identity and Access Manager that includes and extends the security features embedded in RESTHeart 3.x.

https://github.com/softInstigate/uiam
So much process and formality!
“He’s a maximum in the community. If you had an optimization function that was in some way a combination of warmth and depth, Don would be it.”

I love that quote.
The Yahoo! curse continues. Makes one wonder if the naming of Oath is simply an acknowledgement of the curse.
At Knuth's current age-related physical state, he probably didn't say much over the course of a day.
No, Microsoft created LSP, but we’ve built a lot of language servers and added LSP for code intelligence in Sourcegraph (and on code hosts like GitHub and GitLab with https://docs.sourcegraph.com/integration/browser_extension).

(Aside: are you from n-gate.com, as your username suggests?)
>"Cheap junk" is what we said about Japanese cars in the 1970's. Chinese companies can develop the important EV technology then increase reliability, safety, etc when it comes time to export.

Going from your first sentence (which is correct) to the second is... not trivial. I mean, clearly you have proof it's not impossible, but there's a lot of really difficult work between the two. For that matter, I think that it was easier for Japan than it will be for China, just 'cause the American car companies of the '70s were focusing on 'big and loud' and not putting a lot of effort into what a fan of Japanese cars would call 'quality' or safety, reliability or price.

I think established automotive companies are doing a much better job now, and that it's going to be really difficult to beat them on anything but the last criteria, and I think that even just winning the last criteria without sacrificing too much of the first three will be a challenge. (certainly not impossible; in fact I bet they will get it eventually. I'm just saying, this is a decidedly non-trivial undertaking)

But... I've been hearing about efforts to bring a fully Chinese car to the US market since the '90s. I mean, sure, it'll happen eventually, but having heard it so many times makes it hard for me to take any new pronouncements seriously. Clearly, there is something difficult involved
Agreed. A lot more time and money will be wasted trying to automate this. A CPA is not that expensive.
I feel like at least one reaction would be to try to steal your shit while you're blinded.
Heterogeneous Crowdsourcing
Web of trust springs to mind for me.

God I'd love something like that for reviews. Farm out all the fake mass reviews you want, unless you get people who have the trust of people who will actually buy your product, you won't get anywhere. More than likely the companies in the market for fake reviews would be the ones to get scammed.

If my brother reviews a set of headphones on amazon, I'd trust that a lot more than random 5 star reviews. I'd also trust the people my brother trusts (but less so). I'd love a system like this to be formalized.
I wish Amazon had a better system for reporting these things, that is, if they cared about the problem enough to implement one.
If you contact support they will take your reports of specific items; but will act on those exact things reported only, and not bother to dig any deeper (at least, it appears that way).

This time of year the fake reviews are especially bad as well. For example, if you go to something like the Electronics › Camera & Photo › Video › Camcorders category, every top rated item is padded with, or only contains, fake reviews. They have hundreds of non-verified five star reviews all occurring on a single day. On a few items you can see where there's a whole series of padded reviews, than a few bad, real, reviews from the people that fell for it, than a later series of fake reviews to re-up the score and bury the real ones.
Many of the fake reviews are painfully obvious too, like they know they don't even need to try to hide it. You can view a users review history by clicking their name on the review. If you follow most of these fake accounts, all of the activity they have is unverified 5-star reviews for questionable products coming all within a sequence of a few days.

If Amazon is using some internal/automated system to detect these things, it does a fairly horrible job. My guess is its not much of a priority for them though.
I was a little puzzled how Ithaca would factor in (~4 hours away) but apparently there's a satellite "Cornell Tech" campus on Roosevelt Island.

Clearly the local talent available helps when factoring where to locate, but I can't help but cynically think that this story is a retcon to distract from the public subsidies. It's telling that there's no quote from any Amazon employee that substantiates the headline's claim.
If by "in the dust" you mean the Chinese EVs are stuck in the dust where their batteries or engines failed, I would agree.

Nearly every non-Chinese transit agency that has purchased a Chinese-built mass transit EV has either severely downgraded their orders or cancelled them outright due to the abysmal quality of the vehicles. In states like CA, the vehicles are so unreliable they would be classified as lemons if purchased by consumers...
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What's your point? Neither the public float nor the shares owned by company officers, directors, or controlling-interest investors are owned by the company.
I wouldn't dismiss it that lightly. We tried it and it didn't work is not much of an argument here because this is exactly how many other OSS and standards bodies work. E.g. IETF has a process that balances the interests of the stakeholders involved but there's a clear editorial process with somebody nominated to be charge. Same with how Apache functions. Or the Eclipse foundation. These organizations have done stuff like this for a while and they get to deal with plenty of angry users, politics, and other issues that just are part of the deal when you have many stakeholders. Even Linus Torvalds, the prototypical benevolent leader, seems to have come up with a decision process that kind of works. Not that I would advocate that particular way of working.

The bottom line is that most bigger projects seem to end up with some kind of meritocracy. Not a bad thing to have a few responsible leaders staying on top of things.