skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I could recover previously saved versions of e.g. a word-processing file? Used to use that back per-millennium on a Novel network with shared drives and it was very useful indeed. I've always wondered why that feature wasn't available in later systems.
The fast pizza delivery model in the US was really invented/established in suburban Detroit (Domino's).
A combination of both is really ideal. CSS Grid seems great for full screen things and FlexBox is really great at laying out small components.
As of October, US debt to China is 1.13 trillion. Total US debt is 21 trillion - most of that held by the US government itself or US citizens. (Foreign debt holders only total 3.9 trillion of that 21 trillion total)

The municipal debt being referred to is estimated to be ~6 trillion.

Neither are particularly meaningful at current. The fear with the Chinese municipal debt is that it's being used to subsidize growth in a way that will flame out and cause their economy to slow. And both countries have more to lose trying to strong arm each other over the US debt than they stand to gain from using it as political leverage.
You look around the table and see if anybody is currently serving themselves. If not you rotate a little ways. There is usually someone else who wants it turned. Since most of the meal is spent grazing and serving small amounts, the table really never stops turning.
On a collective level it doesn't make sense for a developed 1st world country to spend a disproportional amount of money, public services etc. for its population, only to have some large portion of it sit behind a sewing machine all day making T-Shirts.

> I think protectionism and tariffs cannot be cast as inherently failures, and are necessary to build an economy[...]

I agree. There's a lot of cases to be made for bootstrapping an economy with central planning, protectionism and tariffs, e.g. post-WWII South Korea is a frequently cited example.

But this isn't the form tariffs tend to take in 1st world economies. They tend to take the form of concentrated benefits and higher diffuse costs to protect already failing industries that we mostly wouldn't have anymore if it wasn't for the tariffs propping them up.
People write papers about these things.

"Do they make commercial applications?" is the question.

The paradigm here is "Does method X get better answers than method Y?" as opposed to "Will we embarass ourselves if we put method Z into production?"
You don't actually need to know what NTP is to enjoy this story. I knew I had heard of NTP but had forgotten about it. But it ends in P so it must be some protocol or other, right? Just create a variable in your mind called $protocol and keep reading. It could just as easily be Zuqwatny Protocol at that point for all I care.

That said, I went and looked it up after. Because that's what you do.
Snapchat lenses now officially work on dogs
As a progressive, I am actually lukewarm regarding the tariffs. I think they are a horrible long term strategy, but they do send a signal to the 'world order' that something is wrong. And if we don't fix it, populism will continue to take root in democracies around the world (and I don't think populism is necessarily bad, it just that it tends to get coopted by tyrants). I also think that the next President can use Trumps tariffs/positioning as political cover to take a tougher stance on China, which is something that has been necessary for a while.

Regarding the class dynamics, I think globalism would have been fine (in the US at least) if it hadn't also coincided with massive tax cuts on the wealthy. The US benefits from being the world reserve currency, having a strong legal and IP system, and massive military, which is what allows the concept behind globalism to potentially work. But most of those benefits accrue to big corporations and the wealthy. Coupled with a strong social safety net and investments in jobs programs and education, I think it could have worked. But the wealthy led an unprecedented effort to convince half the electorate that big government is bad and tax cuts were the solution. So instead of a wide spread prosperity, we have a system that is mostly benefiting the wealthy.
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Flex has better browser support though, so I still like to stick to Flex instead of Grid.
> a lot of substandard programmers use it

That’s no longer the case. Substandard programmers have moved towards safer GC languages.

> STL and Boost and other total and utter crap

For many parts, yes indeed, but both are optional. Boost is not even a standard library.

> typical C or C++ programmer simply will not write anything more efficient or more robust than the methods in these libraries if they decide to roll their own.

Some parts of the STL are just horrible. Look at <iostream> header. Even with my experience, I will struggle trying to roll my own IO that’s less efficient or less robust, I don’t think it’s humanly possible.

Other parts work OK but just too slow. For example, I avoid using standard collections except strings and vectors: https://github.com/Const-me/CollectionMicrobench

> to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C.

C++ has a problem, it doesn’t have an ABI. When you’re writing complex enough systems with it, you either invent one on top of it (see how MS did it in Windows with COM, IUnknown + HRESULT, used in DirectX, Media Foundation, .NET, UWP, and many other libraries & frameworks), or indeed limit yourself to things available in C, plus just a couple extra like unique_ptr, string and vector.

However, on the lower level, in the implementation of these components, C++ helps a lot. If you’ll look at how MS implemented C runtime library routines like printf(), you’ll find they have used a lot of C++ inside, even templates to avoid code duplication caused by char/wchar_t versions.
I train NER and text classification models using Spacy. You can give Spacy word vectors and the accuracy usually increases 1-5% in my experience. I use NER to classify entities within search keywords, text classification for determining if a new court docket is relevant to a research group I work for, and I have started working on an ML-assisted structured data extraction from free text tool. All of these things are part of commercial products or will be.
WebSockets come to Serverless
Hash functions are OWFs, but OWFs are not necessarily hash functions. Among other things, for an OWF inverting the function is only hard on average, and recovering some information about the "preimage" may not be hard (the only guarantee is that there is something about the input that is hard to compute). Also, there are common uses of hash functions that are not even theoretically sound (anything in the random oracle model), so we should be careful when discussing the "theoretical basis" for hash functions...
Oh no doubt they have even more conviction than me, the thing is that conviction doesn't win arguments, what separate us from animals is reason, mockery is just a medium, a channel of communication, more consumable that long essays or books about why-they-are-wrong or whatever you believe to be the alternative to such mockery.
Companies in China boycotting Apple, reportedly threatening to fire iPhone users
Pair held and released over Gatwick drone feel 'violated' by media coverage
Points convert to dollars at 1c apiece. Base earnings are 1.5 points per dollar, plus a 75% bonus for having $100k+, so 2.625%.
You probably know the answer: Apple would rather you get a Mac. If you’re using Safari and want it on Windows, you’re in a small minority since there are many competing browsers on Windows.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18752469
I liked both. It kept things light and breezy, a comedy of errors.
Heh, I know of one time the kernel did break backward-compatibility, intentionally even - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b99e3569ba17b9fd38...

My fan controller used the sysfs paths mentioned in the commit message directly. So while the commit is probably correct that users of the lm-sensors library would not be affected, my application was.

It was relatively easy to fix since I was the only user of the application, so I didn't care about being compatible with older kernels.
Thanks for the kind response. I now see that the final average core temperature should remain the same, but I'm less sure about the surface temperature. There are a lot of complex processes involved, and I'm not sure that one can conclude that everything cancels out to keep the answer constant.

I respond late to offer a link (that's hidden on the second page of this thread) that I think presents that argument I was trying to make better than I managed to: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/370446/is-randal.... I thought the comments on the answer were a helpful reframing of the problem.
That's not how doses work. A dose of nicotine weighs less than a dose of caffeine (roughly 12mg vs 95mg). "In isolation" is talking about removing the effects of the other chemicals, probably popping one pill of each, not about putting the exact same quantity into each pill.

But more importantly LD50 is completely the wrong metric for measuring the harm of this kind of drug. The number of overdoses is statistically negligible.
This doesn't invalidate your question, but an interesting comparison: Historically the same situation of fairly regular minor releases was the norm, even for Python 2.x. It was only when Python 3 was released that Python 2.x was fixed on Python 2.7 for a while (for a generous definition of "a while"), so that was the anomaly.
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This was literally a single court case of a single applicant of a single small department.

The ruling is that it is not literally illegal to refuse to hire someone for being smart. On an totally unrelated note, the applicant was an older fellow, and age discrimination is illegal.

The applicant was also hired as an officer in another jurisdiction.

Most departments that have more than 100 officers require a bachelor's or associate's degree. The department I worked for did not explicitly have this requirement, but I was the only person in our class of 96 hires that did not have either a college degree or military background. Most had bachelor's, a few had master's, some had doctorates.

On a completely separate tangent, law enforcement as a field is much like a skilled trade. To do it well you need a specific set of skills and the desire to learn them. Any high school graduate can do the job more than adequately if hes willing to listen and learn the stuff he needs to learn. At the end of the day a cop simply needs to be an honest person who understands the basic principles of the laws related to policing, and is willing to take calculated risks to help others.
Especially considering the current US administration, or at least the president, has repeatedly expressed wishes to censor the press.

Seems like they are cutting off their nose to spite their face by calling for increased censorship. Do they honestly think that people who hold fringe views will stop holding them if they can't express them on Facebook?
No. That doesn’t mean I won’t be surprised if it goes down more, just that I am sure I’d do a bad job deciding when to buy back in.
The Cyclical Theory of Open Source
Interesting, thanks! But at the same time who knows how long it will be until Go 2 exists and even then the migration will be probably be longer than desired.
>I believe the issue might be that while the US has enjoyed the surpluses of globalism, it has not redistributed that surplus well.

Note that with respect to globalism, it has also allowed a significant amount of companies to dodge both environmental and worker safety policies by moving to a country who considers the bulk of their population expendable.

Tariffs against imports from countries like that make a lot of sense because we already take that into account for domestic production (which drives the costs of those goods up); having free trade with countries that do this severely undermines the environmental (and human rights) protection that Western countries have successfully implemented over the last 50 years.

Couple that with the fact that when your country loses a critical mass of manufacturing capability the supply chain goes with it, and the fact that a government needs to provide the people who just plain aren't smart enough to benefit from higher education (which arguably comprises a significant fraction of people in Western universities today because they're stuck in jobs that don't make enough to pay down student loans, which means their degrees were worthless) with something to do or face significant instability later.
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1) they are not all "caused by the vaccine itself." I even quoted how payments have happened when "the injury was not caused by the vaccine".

2) The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 only covers manufacturers, not healthcare workers, and doesn't protect manufacturers who fail to exercise due care. Thus there would be no payout from your example because it's not covered. Instead, the healthcare provider can be sued directly for medical malpractice.
Yes, that is the impression the article is trying to give.

It's too bad the article has to lie in order to give that impression.
The link to the "Docker image for WordPress" in the first line returns a 404 :-/
I’m pretty sure that Google purposely cripples their office suite on mobile Safari and iOS because it helps their narrative of iPad not being a “proper” computer, which helps them sell Chromebooks.
This is indeed a great link (expand the comments on the answer), and shouldn't be languishing at the bottom. Thanks for digging it up!
Not everything uses Semver (which is primarily aimed at software libraries). Blender's versioning scheme is consistent and reasonably well documented.
Paradoxically/ironically, the new president is also preparing to liberalize gun laws (which are currently very restrictive, also a fairly recent change) so that everyone can own guns [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/world/americas/brazil-gun...
They’ve supported this for quite some time in the absence of Safari for Windows. The iCloud for Windows client will sync your bookmarks from your third party Windows browsers, much the same way as it plugs the holes for syncing photos and documents on Windows as well.

> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201391

> https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pro-tip-sync-bookmarks-...
They don't release numbers, so everything I have is personal anecdata, but I'm in 12 active Discord communities, and any time the discussion has come up, pretty much no one involved has a nitro subscription.

We're the demographics that, at least to me, seem the most likely to pay for it as well. Better than average incomes, MMO subscribers, groups that host their own servers for games that support it, subscribers to twitch streamers, etc. I can't fathom who is paying for Nitro in large numbers if not these demographics.
I have been using the iPad since day 1 in 2010 and almost every single day since. Our home has 5 versions that I have cycled through for the wife/kids. It is my daily driver at work.

The best thing about them is they require almost no troubleshooting except for the occasional restart. The first iPad still has a week standby battery life which blows my mind.

That said, the devices are still fragile and require bulky protective cases for kids to not destroy them.

If Apple really cared about iPad in education, they would release a $100 plastic version (hard poly clear screen and backing a la iphone 5c) to get kids on the OS. They have the software infrastructure to make sure the device only works through schools if they were afraid of it cannibalising sales of their glass/metal versions.

Ipad could be an amazing remote teaching assistance device, where someone can write pen/paper style to walk students through problem solving (I tried this volunteering through WeTeach, but the browser software was too laggy).

I am all for google docs dominating education if Apple is unwilling to compete here. We can’t honestly expect schools to spend money on ‘textbooks’ that will shatter if dropped, and that cost many hundreds of dollars per device.
All of those things are used daily by billions of people around the world. Google sells their translation system through Google cloud, so does AWS and a bunch of other NLP startups.
If you leave your phone unlocked with Google Authenticator / SMS 2fa and a weak master password, you still get popped. The only difference to me in convenience of 2fa code auto fill.
Did the American legal system break while I wasn’t looking? Wake me up when rich Americans start moving to China to protect their wealth and for protection from local government whims.
Python 3.7 is a great release. Finally is faster than 2.7 for almost all of our use cases.
It's more of an internet culture change. People used to be more into making and curating their own little corner of the web and that's how the early internet felt. Now everyone gathers at the garden between the walls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Your response affirms my earlier statement that "I don't think it can be as simple as [a lack of 'political subdivision at the regional level']". I thank you for your more detailed response now, which I do not object to.
Eh, I just think advertisers need to stop caring. In fact, the fact that advertisers care at all is due to adtech, which IMO has ruined the internet.

If YouTube's algorithm recommends a hateful propaganda video to me, I shouldn't be angry at Pepsi for the preroll ad, they obviously don't specifically endorse that content. But the acceptance of targeted ads implies that endorsement. I just wish we could entirely abolish targeted advertising, it would make the internet overall a better place. And it wouldn't even make the ads less relevant, considering that Amazon and Google apparently can't recommend products I'm interested in even with all the data they've collected.
The title suggests that the article is going to be about Pixelbook but there is hardly anything about Pixelbook and the same old iOS can't do this and that type of a post.
also, linux is NOT an operating system.
I don't think extra is a synonym of ratchet. Ratchet is a mostly-sexist way of saying "trashy".
> This seems a bit too much sugar to me, to the point where people will end up writing inefficient code because they will thing these methods are more performant than they really are.

Real-world performance and asymptotic complexity aren't the same thing.

> Usually, I like to see explicit conversions to sets to make the performance characteristics explicit.

The performance problem with this approach (for certain problems) when you have input arrays and want an output array is that Array->Set and Set->Array conversions are not free, and even if this is better in asymptotic complexity, you aren't always operating at the extends where asymptotic complexity dominates, so you can end up with code that is both excessively verbose and unnecessarily nonperformant just to make asymptotic complexity more apparent.
At this moment the only facebook product I use is whatsapp, which is free of ads thanks to being sponsored by instagram and facebook itself.

Once whatsapp becomes an independent company, I will probably start getting personal messages from Ford, Nike and KFC.

It will be a great company to invest to and make money from, I agree.
Working for me. Do you have JS disabled or something weird?
I'm a little confused. My reading of the article was that if only we could cache HTML, things will be faster. So the article proposes some new headers for that purpose.

I didn't see the existing headers, which are standardized and supported by browsers and CDNs already.

Without a comparison to the existing tools that solve this problem, I'm unclear on what additional value this vendor specific standard provides.
Chladni figures
You didn't answer the question of how much evidence is enough.

You can only expect someone to disrupt their appetite so much to prove a point. Is it effectively impossible to prove to your satisfaction?
Lol. That is the best summary I’ve seen. A systematic escalation of scamming.
Actually, as part of my consultancy, I make a fairly substantial income from doing development work with the older (and technically deprecated) Qt scripting framework QtScript (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtscript-index.html), which is really just an ancient version of standard ECMAScript with Qt'isms and hooks added. I do ERP work and the ERP that I've been working with is Qt based and is extensible via QtScript. While I'd prefer to be 1) using a different scripting language, and 2) at least a more modern JavaScript flavor, given the nature of COTS ERP software I'll probably see a fair amount of work here for quite some time, albeit niche.

The big problem I have these days is finding people sufficiently knowledgeable and willing to take overflow as projects exceed my availability. Old, obscure ECMAScript variants that aren't web focused aren't the draw they once were ;-) .... kinda feels like a less legit version of COBOL... but pays enough to keep me engaged with it.
That’s fine and everyone is entitled to their opinions. But my point is that it’s an alternative root nameserver that anyone can choose to use without the need of starting their own ISP or breaking the current system. The technology exists and it’s been up and running for a while now. The seriousness of it all and whether or not important people dismiss the technology is a moot point.
> Happen to know any sources quantifying this phenomenon?

Perhaps the best answer you can get here is "no." That's exactly what the privacy advocates would want to hear, yet the phenomenon is very real.

I'm in my mid-30s but almost all of my social networking with younger colleagues/friends is done via ephemeral group chats (Snapchat) and Signal. I keep a business Twitter and personal Facebook like everyone else, but any substantial communication is moved offline to encrypted and less-trackable methods.

The younger crowd figured out how to use the encryption technologies we've been wondering how everyone will adopt all while we've been missing it. Are they perfect implementations? No. But a lot better than what standard communication looked like years ago.
I did see his series of videos recommended on YouTube and yes those are quite explanatory. Good choice.
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Does anyone really control their IP addresses? I thought that ultimately those were controlled by ARIN, RIPE, et.al.
1999 was crazy year, I do remember it. Irrational exuberance, as Greenspan put it.

Try it now though, when FB is already what, 30% down from ATH.
Yes, hash functions only approximate one way functions since we haven't technically created one - your point here is what I was referring to by mentioning the random oracle model.

But the random oracle model is fully theoretically sound - I'm not sure where you got the impression it isn't. Do you think everything outside the standard model of cryptography isn't theoretically sound? What, then, is your definition of soundness?
Why would people think that this is unique to Facebook? For a lot of people, relationships and one-upmanship is detrimental to their mental state... offline.
> Students do not want to be exposed to opposed views

Students do not want to be exposed to arrest and torture either. There's the problem with your analysis.
Damn, I should have remembered that. Especially considering I had a project where I had to trawl through the ruby parser including multiple assignment rules.
Agreed, since learning flexbox I haven't touched css grid albeit I've only done front-end for small internal tools and hobby projects recently.