skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think even if they fail (though I prefer they succeed!), they've still done a wonderful thing. They are pushing boundaries far beyond what I thought was possible in modern games and that in itself is a great accomplishment. It's going to push more game developers to do the same and given the success of Red Dead Redemption 2 - which also pushed boundaries beyond what I expected - it seems we're going to be getting some really massive and immersive games in the not too distant future.
For a while the Russians had a designed plant that produced electricity, steam heat for nearby homes, and desalinated water with what energy was left. Apparently the design was abandoned, which is kind of a shame.
At least that’s what he wants you to think ;)
I'm less concerned about Alexa saying nonsense than understanding nonsense, like commands hidden in a popular song or TV commercial with unintelligible background noise:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255680
Not sure how its done in other countries, but It will be like this in India:

Police to person: Give password.

Police to company: Give data.
In case you haven't watched the talk, people don't spend so much time optimizing Java; on the contrary, Java is often faster than C/C++ without optimization effort. It does have a lower ceiling, but as he says, if you need to be faster than Java (for the uses he talks about), then you're better off going FPGA than another language, because that's the only way to gain a very significant boost.
The fact that the component is made up of html, css and javascript instead of layout code, styling code and logic code seems irrelevant.
A brief history of Algol 68 Genie (2016)
For simple UI you need to understand how layout works and then use the drag and drop designer. IMO is much simpler then learning and debugging CSS issues.

If you want to create custom elements I assume is simpler to do it in html with a couple of nested divs, background images and some css rules and some trickery and most probably your custom widget is not accessible and missing some nice features. As an example I know toolkits(Qt,Flex4) that can render huge tables of data, allow customization and are very efficient and you don't need third party libraries for that.
as a former enlisted US Army soldier i dont see the issue.

- we have electronics that insist upon murder constantly. the IFF computer is a blood-thirsty piece of garbage that wants every tank on the battlefield scorched and ruined. no no, no firing solutions today my saucy chiquita, today we let the allied APC through.

- robots that talk about sex? LT's and bird colonels have been droning on about our habits and practices whilst on leave since time immemorial. Yes i get it, shes a hungarian prostitute. Double-bag everything and save the receipts for the medics when theyre naming your new STD.
Some other things to try next time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo_bar
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:London_Fog

Not really a fan of poutine myself (though I like gravy with fries - just not swimming in it. Mayo and fries is okay too sometimes). I do love me some chilli cheese fries though.
Have you watched the talk? The point is that it requires less effort overall, and if you need to go significantly beyond that, C++ can't save you anyway and you'll use FPGA.
Well that doesn't tell me much about Electron, the latest Visual Studio Code for macOS that I just downloaded weighs less than 200MB.
Can you elaborate about types of bugs that are caused by a static type system, about extra possibilities introduced by it?

There are many commonly understood disadvantages of static type systems, but extra possibilities for bugs usually isn't among them.
>Use built-in com.sun.net.httpserver or add undertow dependency.

Haven't used Java for a while, but IIRC, (some of) those star.sun.star classes (as opposed to star.java.star ones) used to be mentioned as liable to be deprecated, so not to be relied on (long term at least). Is that still the case now?
Fair enough, I did just see that in the article. Maybe more FCC oversight actually helps since my problem with FCC seemed to be that the application just sat on a shelf for two years with no one looking at it.
I am already using it. I am enjoying the ability to set max object size in the cache, so I can ditch an entire layer of nginx caching servers.
> Whatsapp etc seems to be guaranteed here

It is end to end encrypted
Vindicated ahead of schedule!
> I propose that using web components for desktop/mobile applications is not a good thing.

It may not be, but it can be the difference between a developer releasing something that has real value to end users versus not releasing anything at all.

One could say that building an Electron app is an example of doing things that don't scale.
And that's a bad thing?

Startups in general seem to benefit just one category of people: investors, and it's usually to the detriment of Joe B. Average who happened to use their product/service.
From Sputnik to SpaceX: 60 Years of Rocket Launch Acoustics [pdf]
Can you clarify how assault is relevant in the context of the current thread? Private rocket launches, general biz, etc.? I think I'm missing your point and would feel better if you would clarify.
Ironically, the provided implementations for Queue and Deque are algorithmically terrible, giving O(n) performance for operations that should be O(1).

Queue and Deque could easily be developed from first principles by building on dictionaries or linked lists. It was a mistake to use list operations like s.pop(0) and s.insert(0, x).
Intel Vows Better Communication with Partners About CPU Shortage
You can have more than one facility -- but the process to get approval for just one is a tedious quagmire of dealing with all the various steps just to get to apply for a BCC state license.

First, finding a landlord who will rent to you - then securing that agreement with them such that they sign off on it (which can mean entering a lease)

Then getting the local (county or city license) which include application fees as well.

Then applying for the state license.

I have been mapping this process out -- and there are certain counties which like to think of themselves as "big government" and thus err on the side of the old thinking (Contra Costa and Placer are two examples of counties which are anti cannabis)

Then there are all the regular thing that one has to deal with in a hyper competitive market. There are a lot of shady characters in the weed industry. Its not all happiness and hippies.
Research study on “serverless”: How are Cloud functions used in practice?
Agreed! tkinter is blazing fast and frankly I don’t give a damn about the looks if it means I can solve problems faster and with less errors (ex when I keep a lot of data in my wetware memory).
I'm in "stand on the side and enjoy the show" camp myself, but looking at gameplays, the game is not that lacking. Its vertical slice that they can now build upon. I'm not aware if there's dynamic economy or sandbox wideopen yet, but I'm not losing anything holding out and bidding my time for final release.
I'm ~25.5 years old, and had a pretty healthcare oriented upbringing (I grew up in family of clinicians).

So I guess I'm not 100% dead set, but pretty close. If this tool was used in a healthcare context, by healthcare professionals I might consent to it. For example, if as part of my annual check up I filled out a list of the people I had intercourse with (and their location, DOB, some more identifiers) and the last time I did so, etc. and it got entered into the EHR, and then EHR did some linking (Epic EHR already has Care Everywhere which links records across health systems), then at least the data would be in the system. From there it could automatically send alerts out, or perhaps better, it would alert your physician/clinician that you might be of higher risk. I don't think the clinician (or any human user, besides the user them self) should be able to see who their self reported partners are.

So the above system makes the assumption that people have regular access to physicians, which is not a safe assumption. People who already have regular access should be getting screened by their clinician to see if they are at risk, and then tested. So I'm not sure it really has that much of a value add, and it certainly adds some complexity.

I'm all for reducing the burden of STDs/STIs, but I'm not sure that a registry is the best approach, but I'm not a health policy person.
Rober's full statement is here:

--

Note about 2 missing the reactions in the video- I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the video. These were reactions that were captured during a two week period while the device was at house 2 hours away from where I live. I put a feeler out for people willing to put a package on their porch and this person (who is a friend of a friend) volunteered to help.

To compensate them for their time and willingness to risk putting a package on their porch I offered financial compensation for any successful recoveries of the package. It appears (and I've since confirmed) in these two cases, the “thieves" were actually acquaintances of the person helping me. From the footage I received from the phones which intentionally only record at specific times, this wasn’t clear to me. I have since removed those reactions from the original video (originally 6:26-7:59).

I’m really sorry about this. Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here. I can vouch for that the reactions were genuine when the package was taken from my house. Having said that, I know my credibly is sort of shot but I encourage you to look at the types of videos I’ve been making for the past 7 years. This is my first ever video with some kind of “prank" and like I mentioned in the video it’s pretty removed from my comfort zone and I should have done more.

I’m especially gutted because so much thought, time, money and effort went into building the device and I hope this doesn’t just taint the entire effort as “fake". It genuinely works (like all the other things I’ve built on my channel) and we’ve made all the code and build info public. Again, I’m sorry for putting something up on my channel that was misleading. That is totally on me and I will take all necessary steps to make sure it won’t happen again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo

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(I added the paragraph breaks for better readability; click on "See More" of the description for the original)
I bought Kano Complete kits for three of the neighborhood kids, they really like them.
We appreciate the fact that influencers are susceptible to the tumultuous nature of social media, but most jobs come with the risk of your company suddenly tanking or letting you go. In a way, she works for the companies she's using to sell her products and generate revenue from, and I think that's ok.
My cat perpetually wants to go outside.
Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?

And, at the risk of getting political, whether the idea raised in the article about the success of China in the last forty years being due to abandoning their isolationism is at direct odds with a trade embargo anyway.
No single person knows.
MongoDB will reuse free space when documents or collections are deleted (even though the storageSize stat will remain the same). You can compact the database to release free space to the OS. You can read more about how MongoDB's WiredTiger storage engine reclaims space here: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/faq/storage/#how-do-i-reclai...

I work for MongoDB so if you have any questions about storage, feel free to reach out.
Have you ever been in a US emergency room, especially a rural one? The regulations are stiff, but not necessarily rigid, as the law is not a theorem-proving system.

Disclaimer: I am not an MD, but I used to work in drug and medical device development, where the regs did have to be followed strictly to the letter, and became quite familiar with where flexibility was and was not).

(And I meant IDE -- device exemption -- not IND, which is a drug exemption).
It takes about 0.5 GB for me as well, but shared across three processes (main app and two "helpers"). Maybe parent commenter looked only at the main app's usage?
Well if I can't use the same UI components I spent years developing everywhere then this is a deal breaker for me.
On the flip side, if Facebook had never existed and never committed the privacy violations it has, would the GDPR exist?
I think the point is to trivialize an adult having a meltdown over receiving one piece of toast, rather than two....
For anyone skipping the article - This is actually a composite image and not a single photo.
How mass tourism is threatening Barcelona's Boqueria market
This would work only for packaged apps from the repos right?

Better then nothing.
Thank you! As I mentioned, I hope to tackle the physics portion of this topic in another article. I had originally included it when drafting, but it got way too long and off-topic.

That said, you're spot on with your equations, though there are a few others I'll cover as well!
What If Blockchain Leads to an Ad-Free Internet
> Isn’t this showing up in intervires?

That depends on the interview, isn’t it? In my on-site with one of the companies, I was asked hard algorithm questions in four out of five rounds, and then one system design round. I doubt anything related to personality would show up
Looks like it's changed since I last looked into it. Probably a good option now.
Thread Carefully: An Introduction to Concurrent Python
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. The standard ram for midrange laptops now is what, 8gb? At some point you just have to upgrade.
I'm still very surprised that any of this is true. This definitely seems like a booby-trap device situation to me, and I wouldn't risk leaving it out in front of my house.
Incidentally, BG1, BG2, & Icewind Dale are available on iOS and play quite well on an iPad pro. Perhaps even better than on a PC, as using the touch screen is easier than moving a mouse around.
They already have most of the market though. What will advertising really do for them, considering that anyone who will even remotely be interested in this game has already heard of it. The population of people who would be willing to play star citizen has to be smaller than the number of people interested in something like red dead or GTA, the original pitch focused on the fact that this game is niche enough to not attract AAA studios.

Who will they advertise to, they've attracted enough attention that any potential players have already heard of this project?
The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
I used to be an Electron hater, but I realize the problem is less Electron itself, and more has to do with how well it was used to develop the app.

VSCode and Discord to me are notable exceptions, whereas most other Electron apps feel pretty sluggish. They must be doing something right that other devs using Electron are not.

That said, I do still prefer the performance of native apps. Even though VSCode is fast for an Electron app, when I switch back to Sublime Text, I still realize the performance gap is there (especially for launch times, when I'm opening a bunch of small files at once)
> The misrepresentation of the purpose

Incorrect. It's not about purpose. It's about misrepresenting who you are. Oracle is saying they are Oracle. If Oracle is pretending to be someone else, than it's phishing.

What you are describing is not phishing. It's just regular old fishing.
That was my understanding too. Is it plagiarism if they were totally upfront about what they were doing?
I would imagine if they were repeat offenders the FCC would just tell them to go f-off on future launches and there goes their whole business plan.

But the FCC already told them to go f-off, and they launched anyway.

"Swarm launched the satellites in India last January after the FCC rejected its application to deploy and operate them, citing concerns about the company’s tracking ability."
As you observe one can't really recover any non-trivial number theoretic things by looking at integers with the discrete topology. The theory of discrete topological spaces is just the theory of sets.

Instead you can look at things like prime ideals of integers localized at some prime, and consider algebro-geometric topologies on that
Hotels are governed by laws. They cannot for example, agree to rent you a room, charge your credit card, AND THEN demand that you provide your facebook account, and if you don't have one, upload a video explaining why you want to stay in the room, before failing to provide a timely refund, literally saying "we want to refund you, but the bank just doesn't believe that we want to give you back your money".

I will skull fuck a dead pig with a chicken shitting on my face before I ever try to use AirBnB again.

As for Uber. People complain that taxis are all just greedy fuckers who act like pricks to the customers, and then they expect a private company paying less than minimum wage to people will give them a better outcome. Let me know how that works out when Uber stops subsidising all the rides with VC money.
I'm working on an app that uses both PDF and web content to build a document repository that allows you to manage your reading with tags, annotations, etc: https://getpolarized.io/

The issue with memory consumption is definitely there.

But the issue for us is that if you're doing ANYTHING with 'content' you just have to use the web platform.

You need CSS, HTML and with pdf.js we have somewhat first class PDF support (though a few features are missing).

If it's a calculator app, then sure. Don't use Electron. It would be too bloated.

One feature in Polar that simply wouldn't be possible is support for web content caching.

We support downloading web pages for offline usage to allow annotation and to prevent bit rot.

It wouldn't be possible without some sort of web control but having full chromium (plus a webserver) means that you can setup a near perfect clone of the web but on the desktop.
> An overwhelming majority of email that ProtonMail users get is in fact unencrypted. Not only that, but an overwhelming majority of email that ProtonMail users send is unencrypted as well.

Could you cite your sources? I'm wondering what are the exact percentages.
Yes, if you need a new H1B visa (not a transfer), best to have an offer before April with enough time for the lawyers to apply for your visa. After that companies will have to wait until next year October for you to start with them in US.

Some companies like Google and Facebook might send you to a non US location until you get an H1B.
Yeah, I should definitely trust your broken website that can be made in 30 minutes with 24 blocked ad and tracking scripts and promoted on the fakest online community aka ProductHunt. Sounds very legit to me. This is exactly the type of bullshit that shouldn't be promoted on SHOW HN
This article is trying really hard to make spruce beer a health trend, like maple was (is?).

At the moment, it’s just a different kind of soft drink. It tastes a bit like a Christmas tree stand smells. Sort of minty, earthy, and a bit medicinal. It’s no weirder than root beer, or Asian soft drinks that have a grassy flavor profile.

For me it’s mostly a Christmas season thing, like eggnog. It often appears in Quebec supermarkets around this time, although, alas, not so much out west. You can sometimes get it in restaurants that specialize in Quebec-style fast food.

Though, I think if some enterprising young people put their minds to it, they could make it a premium experience and sell it in the kombucha aisle. The First Nations/miraculous elixir angle is clever, albeit exploitative.
There are forum systems in which shadow-banned people can see and interact only with other shadow-banned people. It would not be surprising if those who submit their own sites as regular stories end up quickly shadow-banned to discourage that practice.
I'd usually not respond, but this is overly negative and missing a number of points.

* PEP-8: This code is trying to demonstrate some pretty basic algorithms in simple terms. Should we care about double quotes versus single quotes and spaces to separate commas? If anything, this is an editorial issue in my opinion. Perhaps for your projects and production code you want it to be strictly PEP-8 compliant, but it does not diminish what is being presented here, which are examples of basic algorithms.

* Stack class is a thin wrapper: The author was built a stack class using common conventions. Some of it is pretty redundant, such as "def pop(self): return self.items.pop()", but the point remains. This is a clear and simple representation of an algorithms, focused on a common language. The fact that you can do stack-like things to a list misses the point of making a Stack class act and look like a stack. If anything, Python's list syntax makes implementing this minimalist.

* "The books provided on interactivepython.org are free and open source. They are for educational purposes." Perhaps the editing could be better. There are many ways to solve the same problem. At the end of the day this is given out for free and is a wealth of information.
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I think that list really shows how strong Facebook is.

Twitter? That's even less private than fb. Reddit? Seriously, you want me to post my wedding pictures on Reddit?

And for events, who is going to invite friends and family to their birthday via Eventbrite? Doodle? It's not like we need to settle on a date for my birthday.
Ouch. Thanks for mentioning the issue. I'm still happily using 10.9 on my main laptop and in no rush to change, and I was hoping to look into using Electron for a project, so that's going to be awkward.
> Could they have jailed the executives

Probably not. https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1068-vio...

> and investors?

Passive investors? No

> Could they have revoked their corporate charter?

The Commission couldn't, no. Corporate entity revocation (dissolution) is more a thing that happens when the entity fails to pay fees to a state or territory than it is a punishment: It's intentionally trivially easy to create corporate entities.
Discord seems to buck the trend of both Electron and React Native being bloated and slow. How do they do it?
> We may not have the resources that an Activision or EA have to launch one of their tentpole games

GTA 5 had budget of $265M (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Grand_Theft_Aut...). Assuming info on wiki is correct SC is nearing 200M (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Funding) which isn't too far off from GTA budget.