skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to say after reading some of the other responses that there's something seriously fucked up about the idea that you would save your dog. If you even, for a minute, thought that saving a dog with a life expectancy of 10-20 years tops living as a pet for someone's indulgence is remotely comparable to saving a child - who might live to 80 as an independent being - give yourself an uppercut. I'm a dog lover and love my dog, but I would sacrifice her in a heartbeat for a child - any child, regardless of whose it is.
That's no different than traditional taxi services. Getting a taxi license is time-consuming and expensive in most places (as sometimes you have to buy from an existing license-holder)

Taxi drivers will therefore try to maximise their investment, so they have people driving their car 24/7, on shifts.
>Not just optically mediocre,

Modern kit lenses are optical marvels. A couple of decades ago you couldn't buy a lens with the quality and versatility of Nikon's 18-55mm kit lens.
Those are not the only things that cause needless suffering in this world
Yeah you can do that on Firefox as well. Though they have a web URL to view the desktop version, which begs the question: do they get complaints about the mobile version? Why bother...
Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize
I have the same impression.
> Netflix is a great example. It went from having a large library because the producers were its friends, to entering production itself, and alienating its former partners.

This is the opposite of what happened: they had a large library because they were able to cut some deals in the early 2000s when streaming was a niche due to bandwidth and hardware limitations and most of their business was DVDs in the mail. That became popular and the large content owners decided that they wanted a greater cut and especially to avoid what had recently happened in music where iTunes had such a large share of the market that Apple was able to negotiate less consumer-hostile terms with the music industry.

Developing their own content is how Netflix is trying to even that up - they profit directly and it makes it harder for one of the large rights-holders to setup a competitor and lure most of their customers over.
I have started to notice a strong anti-professional writing attitude in the last year or so from my US colleagues, so I expect this trend will grow. I think that in general, manipulators have become so good at their trade that people have developed false intuition on how to identify it.

For example, equating well polished equates to manipulative marketing and folksy poorly written to authentic. Of course both forms are being used heavily for manipulation today.

It is a really dreadful situation. I thought the post was genuine, with the obvious motivation of the author to be successful in their new role.
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You raise an interesting point, how are they going to prevent Amazon just taking their business with making SkyllaDB on demand? Confluent ( Kafka folks ) did it by adjusting the licence.
Any mention if this was a reserve (TAR) ship? The last ship I was on (FFG-19, 1995-1997) was ship designated for training reservists. We had 2/3 of the normal crew as active duty sailors and on weekend a month we would spend the weekend at sea with the full crew (complimented by reservists). We still deployed (on counter-narcotics operations) just like the rest of the ships on the waterfront even though we were 33% short on personnel.
> The deluge of anti-fb comments is the public finally having enough of their crap

This is the trap I'm talking about. Instead of "public" what you mean are "commenters" and "writers". Assuming that is an accurate representation of the public is folly. As has become clear so many times recently, and is especially visible in election results, the loud public and the general public are often not of the same mind.
I've been looking for a while: Can you furnish a link for worldwide sales of Leafs for 2018 (or at least several months). I've seen several estimates of 7K per month, which would be 84K units, but no actual figures.
SequelPro is amazing and I used it for many many years.

Now I’m using TablePlus which is a great paid client ($50 I think) and I love it.

I really hope in the new era, we can have paid open source tools with some bounties for important bug fixes and UX improvements.

That seems to be a very sustainable way to develop great software.
Flutter sits half-way between those two. It's more structured than JS with static types (and without all the JS oddities). It's also lighter syntax than Java with type inferencing and real first-class functions (and not everything has to be an object). The syntax is very familiar, so picking up the language is easy (Swift is syntactically quite similar).

Dart doesn't have the library issues like JS or the bloat like Java. In addition, Dart is an ECMA spec (like JS), so there are no copyright issues like with Java (other companies can even get committee members if they really wanted to invest in the language).

Dart was designed to prevent all the dynamic coding techniques that make JS slow (you can write very fast JS, but not in a normal style). Dart should be able to perform about as well as Java (it could beat Java on some benchmarks a few years ago).

https://www.nikolaybotev.com/blog/dart-vs-java-the-deltablue...

When you consider Java is multi-threading while the Dart implementations generally are not, performance is quite similar in the benchmark game too

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Off-topic, but for the pidigit test, Java just unloads all the work to a C lib. How is that a Java test? Any language will be "fast" if they are actually just leveraging highly-optimized C libs.
Why I agree this is terrible, you might want to reconsider your comment also. Pets are a luxury for well-off people. It is in no way a necessity of life like food, or a basic shelter.
That would still make you wait for the switch.
Switching channels on digital TV is slow due to key frames - you need to wait until one full Intra-frame of the new channel has been decoded. Here client can simply request Intra-frame on demand and receive one immediately.
I have this same smoke test and it's one of the reasons we built "slash commands" into SeekWell (https://seekwell.io/). If you type "/show" (or even just "/s") you get a list of tables that will be filtered down as you type. Once you select a table it will autocomplete a SELECT statement and return the results. It also works for things like adding a WHERE condition. The goal is to make it so you never have to leave your keyboard, but also never need to type out menial SQL. Here's a 30 seconds video showing how it works.

https://www.useloom.com/share/0e0b79b0b8304035af4bb15552abc3...
I was happily paying 7 USD/month up until last week for the private repos, and they apparently had 300M USD/year revenue when Microsoft bought them a few months ago. I am not aware of their costs, but since they are part of Microsoft now and trying to foster adoption, integrating money into the system should be considerable.
US property tax of 1% or rarely 2% is not much of.a speed bump when you are chasing 10+% gains.
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You are perfectly right, all of this is a result of the SV techbro culture of growing at all cost.
I suppose it depends on the bandpass of the filter. I have several older phones which can take (rear) images of IR leds - we used this as a sanity check at work several times. Images of normal things didn't look noticeably worse for having that sensitivity.

Many visible optical filters leak in the infrared, so perhaps a small amount gets through, but not enough to cause a noticeable colour cast in normal photography.

Vegetation in sunlight is a good test target, too. Leaves strongly reflect NIR.
Yeah, I feel like people who don't like debuggers either don't use IDE's with amazing debuggers, or don't take the time to learn and understand how to use them. You can do powerful things with a debugger in seconds. I still use print statements under other environments. I think 'debug' logging is useful. I prefer logging over "print" any day of the week.
> Leaf didn't change anything.

Citation needed.

Nissan has sold 400,000 of them to date.

I believe that once the initial backorder is addressed and Model 3's get some miles under their belts we will see the various subpar engineering & manufacturing issues highlighted in the teardowns come back to bite.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-3-teardown-decon...

The model 3 excels where the SV talent was brought to bear but it's long term durability is clearly suspect; too many parts, too many fasteners on too heavy a frame. And that will have serious consequences for the brand over time.
I think concept spaces acquire a "shape" when we become familiar enough (I associate this with the idea of a subject "clicking"), and that creativity often involves realising the shape of different concept spaces are similar and thus ideas from one can apply to another. Furthermore, I believe these "shapes" exist as a metaphysical "truth", akin to platonic forms. I think it ties into how real-world problems can often be reduced to pure mathematical problems. I experience ideasthesia very strongly (often having strong, immediate instinctual reactions to e.g. how well new software features fit within the "shape" of the overall domain as well as having affinity or aversion to concepts for reasons I have to deduce later).

I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say, beyond "I think so, yeah". It's a super interesting area of exploration and either it hasn't been looked into enough, or I don't know the right words to look for. I can feel a thread linking concepts like mental models, systems theory, cybernetics, Christopher Alexander's work on pattern languages, and so on.
Netflix says Fortnite is bigger competition than HBO or Hulu
And a little more:

The last Scholarch of the Neoplatonic Academy was Damascius (d. 540). According to Agathias, its remaining members looked for protection under the rule of Sassanid king Khosrau I in his capital at Ctesiphon, carrying with them precious scrolls of literature and philosophy, and to a lesser degree of science. After a peace treaty between the Persian and the Byzantine empire in 532, their personal security (an early document in the history of freedom of religion) was guaranteed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy#Neoplatonic_A...
You mean "command economy"?
>If there were any real answers that could be given

>I personally loathe self-help books

Some of them do actually have "real answers". (e.g. see my other comment on this page) There are good and bad, as in any field. It seems you have decided without evidence that none are worth reading. To the point of loathing. Hate? That's a shame. (And you are recommending an open mind?!...)
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I agree that tech companies depending on attention will devalue. However the value of companies is also based on expected future value and the FANG companies are well positioned to profit from advances in AI, new energy technologies, life extension tech, etc., etc. I think there is a lot of profit to be made in emerging tech.
The first response to the tweet quoted in the article ( https://twitter.com/tbaxter/status/1085659746755997696/ in case they kill this post) is #duckorgy which is even funnier... :D
Updated my parent comment. I took my numbers from wikipedia. My understanding is that Leaf sales have declined as better cars have come on the market.

That said, I was providing a counterpoint to the OP's statement that Japanese manufacturers weren't doing anything, when the facts clearly indicate otherwise.
Sane and not sharing any info with 3rd parties: The usual email and password. Neither Google, nor Github, nor Facebook, nor Twitter need any information about me trying out Monocle Reader.
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That might be true, but right now i don't want to focus on anything but github, so why shouldn't i be able to use all my screen space for it?
Same here. The Laplace transform and it's consequences changed my life. I also took a class in college about some stochastic signal processing where I learned about Autocorrelation. The application was finding signals in very noisy environments. The professor who taught it was measuring electrical signals from the auditory system in rabbits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Even with this new understanding 3G will eventually go. Coverage depends on several things: 1) deployed infrastructure, 2) frequency used and 3) waveform / standard efficiency.

3G can have a temporary advantage for (1). But as the 3G infra ages, it will always tend to be replaced by cheaper / more efficient LTE infra as the existing 3G bands can always be refarmed for LTE. And LTE will make a better use of the available bandwidth. There are large differences between operators on the speed of this process, but the trend is universal.

(2) is why 3G was impaired vs 2G: 2G was deployed in low bands (900 MHz for 2G is very common), while 3G was very often only available in mid-bands (1700+ MHz). The higher the frequency, the more challenging the coverage. So 3G coverage lagged 2G for a long time, and is still lagging in places (Europe for example).
The situation is different with LTE, due to the digital TV dividend. This opened low bands for LTE everywhere (700 to 800 MHz, depending on region). Those bands are even better then the 2G bands. They're not yet fully deployed everywhere (Europe is lagging), but they eventually will. And when it's done you can kill 2G and 3G.

For (3) or course, new tech has improvements so 4G is better than 3G and 2G.

When you combine all of this LTE will replace all previous technologies everywhere, in time. How long it will take will however vary a lot depending on regions. Europe invested a lot in 3G, and telco there will milk this infra as long as possible. And because 3G coverage in Europe is not as good as 2G (see above, bands) 2G will also tend to stay with 3G. Cheap second hand 2G/3G infra will remain for a long time in developing countries. But in the end 2G and 3G will go away, it's just a question of time.

On the other hand, 5G will take a lot longer to replace 4G. The big change is mmWave, but it's for small hotspots. You can have 5G in low bands too, but then the gain vs 4G is small so I expect operators to take their time to replace their 4G infra. We'll have 4G for coverage + 5G for dense areas only for a long time IMHO.
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> Having a EE and CE version of a product is one of the few remaining models that still enable fruitful enterprise and FOSS combinations. The support-only or maintenance-only models are very rarely successful.

There's also the dual-licensing model, where non-free licenses can be purchased which allow things that the FOSS license doesn't, like non/partial-contribution. AGPL seems even better suited to this than GPL, precisely because many companies would rather purchase such a license than expose the custom elements of their network services. IIRC that's precisely why Affero came up with this license for their software (in collaboration with the FSF, to ensure GPL compatability).
I still use qs!
I can easily imagine the policy started like this, and multiple dogs having died in the hands of the Wag service, but over time by gradient descent they slowly tested moving to greedier and greedier policy as long as no scandal arose, such that most people felt powerless and grudgingly took the little on offer. Until they encountered this principled owner!
Probably just the One tea leaf
If you add in solar and batteries with continual improvement, the improvement is just fine.

> We must drastically reduce the low-occupancy car miles driven and reverse the car growth trend in developing countries.

Any solution that ignores self-interest at the personal and state level is not a solution that can be banked on to work.
And so, the martian race would be born. Different genes, upbringing, environment and even gravity strength.
None, don't remember ever subscribing to any paper/magazine/journal.
It's also brutal if you use a well-known VPN service.
Funding is the obvious biggest issue with open source sustainability. But it's arguably not the lowest hanging fruit. Because it seems to be a hard problem. Perhaps even a wicked problem.
One suggestion for improvement: Like so many other web pages for fancy new frameworks and libraries, the github page does not really explain what Flutter is and what problems the Go library can solve.

Can I make a cross-platform GUI with it (a) in the current state, (b) maybe later? If so, what features does it support? How does it compare to Qt, Lazarus, Sciter, Elektron, etc? Does it have internal drag & drop? External drag & drop? Standard file and folder dialogs? Are widgets native or not (I suppose not, but it should be clear from a glance at the page)? Which widgets are supported? Does it have rich text support? Does it have OS-level clipboard support? Does it have transitions or not? Is it themeable? Is it fast? How large are executables built with it? Is it intended for ease of use or somewhat complicated? Do I need to write in other languages (HTML, markup, Javascript) to get things done or can everything be written directly in Go?

All of this is absolutely essential information. Nobody can reasonably decide whether to use this GUI toolkit or not without getting answers to all of the above question. So please, please explain in one sentence what Flutter is and make a section with keyword features.

[Please don't take this wrong, I'm not a naysayer. This is meant as a constructive criticism, not just of this page but of many similar ones. It sure looks like an interesting project.]
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TL;DR - converts a mobile app written with flutter.io to desktop, including binary packaging.

From what i understand, it allows you to package your flutter application (android/ios framework using dart) as a standalone binary on windows/mac/linux.
The harsh truth is that the company is offering a particular compensation package for a particular expectation of work. If an employee doesn’t like the trade, he can and should leave. That’s not what the letter says. It pretends that we are all in this together to save the world.
It's the same for postgresql. Search 'postgresql select' and the first result is to a 9 year old postgresql version's docs.
The repeated questions are also designed to detect if you are just answering at random. If your answers to these similar questions are wildly different, your test score is likely to be judged invalid.
> Imagine Einstein or Hawking sorting paper in an office. How do you think their minds would feel in such an uncreative, unproductive environment?

Einstein is the perfect counterexample: Had he not worked at a boring paperwork job in the patent office, he wouldn't have had enough mental capacity to devise his theories.
And then share it with 3 friends?
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But it is literally anybody using that service. Why not get a dog sitter then? Someone they will get to know personally?
That may be true on windows or some flavours of desktop Linux where simple windows management have existed for some time (windows 10 being a real champ of multiple frame management on the same display), but if you're on a Mac you're stuck with a real mess that requires a lot of manual screen size management.
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>And in a nutshell this is why my beloved NYC's subway is such a disaster :(

It's not like the people building terrible systems don't know there is a disconnect with their users. They just don't care.

I know a guy who works for a similarly corrupt and incompetent rail system. They told him not to take the train to work because if he was late "I was on your train and it got delayed" was not a valid excuse for being late. Management knows the system sucks.
I'm totally lost. How does the "frothing at the mouth" insult apply to somebody making a questionable claim to a moral high ground? What does it mean to claim the moral high ground against somebody who has potentially used Nazi imagery by accident? Doesn't the "by accident" part make that inapplicable?
>Ancient philosophy rarely contains information.

Sounds like you haven't read much, gee. What a strange comment. It has a far higher signal/noise ratio than modern philosophy, I'd say, maybe because usually only the best has survived.
They have some system up, otherwise you wouldn't get a TLS error, just a network timeout.
I agree losing a pet is like losing a family member and in certain circumstances much worse. I have had many losses in my life including family members best friends who have died in front of me as well as pets who have died from illness or old age. However never have I lost a pet through using a device that is supposed to make something easier for a pet owner to accomplish a set goal like walk a dog. I am not sure what this device is or why it was being used, if it was out of necessity or laziness. However regardless of either situation I agree and believe that a company that produced this product should show overwhelming support for the family that lost the dog and do whatever it is they can do to make it right. Since this company manufactures products for pets they need to take a stand showing how important animals are in there mission statement as well as their actions after this incident. Imagine how frustrated and pissed off people get when drug manufacturers raise prices on necessary drug just increase their profit margin. I believe this is both immoral and inhumane however people do have an option of where they will purchase their pet needs from and likely they will not choose a company that is not show a sense of compassion for the species they are creating products for. It would be a huge blunder on their image not take such a strong stance as stated in the comments above. Just like people not all pets mean the same thing 2 the same people. However when you do find a best friend in a four-legged creature there is nothing that differentiates them from other members of your family in my opinion. My dog was not only my best friend but he had helped me through many issues that my family had abandoned me on. Therefore when my dog passed away from cancer around the same time I had end-stage renal failure I felt a sense of relief that both myself as well as my best would likely die around the same time because for me there was no life without my dog. However unfortunately I did get better and my dog did not which I cannot hold anybody accountable for but I did suffer from severe depression and anxiety greater than any I have ever suffered from losing a fellow human being maybe that makes me a monster but that is honestly how I felt. To me a life is a life whether it is your dog your family a cat or any other animal. Not one species has more of a right to live then any other. I do understand that not everybody has the same experience or thinks the same way as I do in this situation or many others people often have conflicting morals or points of view which prove to be based on a specific person's experience , individuality and morality which another individual also commented below. What I do know for sure is that when given the choice of supporting a company or no longer supporting a company in effect boycotting them that should only be done when the company does not stand behind their product or the species they are manufacturing products for.
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I don't think there is a killer use case for 5G yet, but I don't mind. I think the performance improvements alone are worth it. It's hard to predict the future, and while often there are points of diminishing returns in technology (which maybe Apple is experiencing right now) I'm personally not sure we are there yet in terms of speeds and availability of computing power for cellular networks.