skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this resonates a lot. Not fun.

I think it's something in those steps, starting with "What to do next", that leads down that rabbit hole.

Maybe try working backwards -- "what do I want my life to be like in a year/2 years?"
I think working back helps narrow down the infinite immediate options - some things become obvious must-dos, others not so much.

Years go by really fast. This sucks on one hand, because anxiety and lack of direction can easily suck up a whole year with nothing to show for it. But it's also awesome to view things on longer scales, because you don't have to "be" anything next week, or next month, just slightly better than the week before, and at the end of a year, a lot has changed.

Best of luck!
Groonga http://groonga.org/
They'll still be downloadable and playable in a standalone player.

Also it would technically be possible for someone to write a WebAssembly flash player. Although I don't know if anyone will feel particularly motivated to.
> Publishing in a magazine that’s not peer reviewed doesn’t matter if they’re reporting on their research

This framing should tell you the bad faith in which the statement is being made. The authors didn't call it a research, critics rightly pointed out that it wasn't an academic research when they first revealed the hoax, and that nobody should take it seriously. Now that it is convenient to attack them by saying otherwise, now all of the sudden it is an academic research
Apollo program, Kalman Filter and go-filter package
This is very cool. But Github tells me that the minified version is still over 400KB.

I really wish browsers hasn't decided against WebSQL and replaced it with IndexedDB.
been using android since forever. Now I'm on a s8+. I never had a case like this. maybe I didn't noticed it. But my alarm always went on like it should. my music always played.

is this a bug that sometimes happens? how rare is it?
Gaining access to Uber's user data through AMPScript evaluation
PGroonga https://pgroonga.github.io/
It's not dismissive to call it fantasy.

Do we have any scientific evidence that any of higher-dimensional antics in 3BP are possible?

If not, then the author is making up his own world building rules (completely acceptable). But that makes the story more akin to scientific fantasy than hard scientific fiction.

And unless the English translation excised a LOT of technical details, there are some huge leaps of scientific faith in 3BP.
Heh. I work with AS400, and BlueZone Mainframe Display, every day at work for nearly 13 years now. Hundreds of us do, we do the bulk of our work in it actually.
We might have to compete for the attentions of such lady. I hope it won’t come to fisticuffs.
I think you are a couple of steps behind in the discussion. When people say that health care is a basic human right, they don't mean that physicians don't deserve to get paid for their work, they mean that everybody should have affordable (possibly government provided) health insurance. That insurance pays the physician. In some cases, the government simply pays for all care whether or not the patient is a citizen.

But yes, if an unlicensed physician tries to practice without a license, that's generally considered illegal in most countries, and for good reason. Charlatans pretending to be able to cure patients have cost lives. There's a good reason why physicians need to meet certain standards before they're allowed to call themselves physician.

Physicians can absolutely be and often are self-employed, even in countries where health care is considered a right. They too need to meet those standards. No, they can't be fired, but they can lose their license if they violate those standards. I'm not sure to what extent they're free to refuse to accept patients, but if they do accept a patient, that does come with a certain responsibility towards that patient.
A design so disrespectful it borders on malware.
Fair point. Totally forgot about Q (assuming we're not in a simulation, the feats that Q pulled off are most probably not realistic in the real world.)

As with most things, I think it's probably more on a spectrum. I probably should have said that Star Trek leans more towards science fiction than Star Wars - so yes - I agree with your points.

Another one that's more 'science fictional' is the Expanse - worth checking out if you haven't yet.
These price lists look like "malicious compliance."

Based on the quality of published data, one could rank hospitals in order of probable honesty. Crowd sourcing estimated bills based on price data vs. actual bills would provide another metric.

If we in tech treated hospitals as being engaged in predatory wealth destruction, we could probably make a dent in the harm they cause. The most authoritative data could come from medical bill debts in collection, with signals in regard to how likely a given hospital is to make an egregious claim.
There are over 100k firebase authentication files on public GitHub repos
Exibit A: https://github.com/search?q=filename%3Agoogle-services.json&type=Code

also amusing:
https://github.com/search?q=%22delete+google-services.json%22&type=Commits
Chrome is on the same tracks as Firefox.
Honestly, that seems like a string of unrelated things glued together. I don't want to be mean of course, it's just confusing (though if the project is all of that, the documentaiton might be reflective of the confusing state of the project).
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I was in the "$100 phone, cheapest possible carrier" camp for years before getting a Pixel 2. I was using my phone for work and really needed something with clearer reception. It doesn't seem like call quality is really affected much though. I honestly regret the decision. I don't do anything that actually requires my phone to be this quick, and I haven't noticed any change in call quality, at all.
It's give-and-take.

At a butt-in-seat job, I'd turn up on time and leave on time - and that's the end of it. If during those hours I happen to be in an unproductive mindset (eg, unable to concentrate) then so be it. I'm paid for my time. If I happen to be in a productive mood after hours, their loss.

Now that I'm working remotely, if I'm feeling unproductive then I will stop work and do something else (shopping/walk/etc.) and resume when I'm more productive.

I also don't mind being contacted out of hours (I'll decide if I'm busy or not) - they're flexible with me, so I'm flexible with them.

They'll get the same number of clock-hours from me, but with more work output.
Elastic? They basically build a lot of extra (and very useful) functionality outside elasticsearch and sell that.
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I have 4 BlueZone Mainframe Display windows open right now connected to AS400 servers. I do every single day at work :).
Agreed, the dream of a megacap open source company is dead. Mongodb shows this, the Unity fiasco (I'm surprised nobody has put the two together) shows this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874400 Guys, charge for your work. Don't place the economic value of your company to be ancillary to your product. That just invites another company that has that ancillary as their core competency to come and do it much better than you while you waste time creating this free thing that other people free-ride off of.

More on unity: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/unity-engine-tos-chan...

Here's the main difference between unreal and unity. Unreal costs 5% royalty per sale, meaning their product is extremely expensive to the developer if sales are high. Unity is generally royalty free and relies on "support and services" to make money. This is why Unreal will always encourage the growth of the ecosystem while Unity jealously guards the actual profit centers of the business, because Unity makes nothing on its core product!
I just doubt that "managed" platforms are delivering what they have promised and think that the quality of apps on more open systems is generally better by a few magnitudes without exaggerating too much.

And no, the trash app I am talking about exists to prey on unaware users by being an obvious fake or by extracting information about location, contacts and configuration.

"Managed" platforms accelerated this phenomenon in my opinion.
Could you elaborate a bit? What tech are you using? What's the core design? etc.?
>As interesting as it all is, it's also very concerning for Law Enforcement. While petty things like drugs don't really worry me much, the advances in the anonymized distributed networks like this do mean that things that previously required big budgets of national intelligence agencies become easier for common malcontents to use.

Last years state only tech is next years commercial tech. Once upon a time only the clergy were literate, now everyone can read and write whatever they want. Once upon a time the state could control the news. Now anyone with an internet connection can publish stuff. Once upon a time only major powers had tanks and artillery now every podunk warlord has them. Once upon a time only superpowers sent things into space. Now companies are doing it and making a profit. Once upon a time only the three letter agencies could bug a room. Now anyone can buy pinhole cameras for $5.

Trying to stand in the way of that is just stupid. You can't stop the long slow march of technological progress. At best you can quarantine off some small dystopia that you control.
Reload the shell itself

alias reload='exec $SHELL -l'
But why did Red Hat succeed then? (this is a genuine question, I'd have guessed IBM would re-package RH's products, and Oracle failed with their Unbreakable Linux)
Yeah, this paper just lead to name-calling, which I think indicates that it was not out to really do anything, but to appeal to certain narratives. Additionally, its main demonstration is that bad papers can be accepted by journals, which we know is also true of many other fields. But, I'm pretty sure the authors wouldn't consider medical journals as members of "grievance studies".
Halo 2600
Ask HN: How do you think 5G will impact web and mobile development?
I am trying to see what is the opinion on HN about this. With the 5G network expected to come in the next few years how do you expect that web & mobile app development will change? Are you already preparing something in the works to take advantage of the increased speed and low-latency? Do you think you will be able to get away with more "un-optimized" web designs because of the speed?
One trick technology can do for political aspects is to offer options[0]. Whether or not politicians choose to do something is not really up to engineers, but we can try to make desirable decisions easier to make, by offering more, cheaper and better options for implementing them.

This is a double-edged sword, of course, as a lot of damage to society and environment has been done by technologies creating - often unintentionally - easy options for undesirable behavior. Optimizing internal combustion engines had that side effect, so did optimizing production of plastics. One big argument against adtech surveillance is based around precisely that: it may be mostly harmless now, but it creates cheap and easy options for government abuse.

--

[0] - Not my idea; something I stole from Saul Griffith[1], via Bret Victor[2].

[1] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/saul-griffiths-fas...

[2] - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
I have to turn the phone into IT when I get a new one. It still belongs to the company since they bought it (and they pay for my unlimited data plan).
> Furthermore, renters favor rent control while landlords oppose it. So whatever the mechanisms, clearly it benefits renters at the expense of landlords, clearly by reducing housing costs.

this is a questionable line of reasoning. it's not uncommon for people to unknowingly support policies that don't actually benefit them.

the only group of people who rent control clearly benefits are people who already have leases. it's not at all obvious that it helps new renters or people who want to move to a different place at all. it seems plausible at least that people in the business of renting buildings (ie landlords) are the group with the most information about the market, and are therefore in the best position to see the distortion.
It's always been possible to have free flash players. Gnash is one example. But they've never been feature complete or particularly fast. Maybe if Adobe opened their player things would improve.
git aliases is best done with git itself, e.g. my favorite git alias is `git alias`, which lists all my git aliases.

alias.alias config --global --get-regexp ^alias

I really like blameconflict:

alias.blameconflict blame -L '/^<<<</,/^>>>>/'
One "extreme" way would be for debts to require better documentation in order to be collectible. E.g. the credit card company would have to have an authenticated video of the debtor stating "I am Jane Doe and as of this date, January 14 2019, I owe "Capital One" five hundred dollars." Stealing social security numbers wouldn't be enough to accomplish "identity theft", if that were the requirement.
Definitely had the same observation that Google prefers subterfuge through obscurity/difficulty as opposed to legal methods. Their open source projects are notoriously impossible to build.
The user experience is more important than a app developer's need.

Users want better battery life. They don't want a app using it up.

Feel free to block the installation of your app on devices that you feel unfairly target background apps, they'll just use a different application.
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They still suffer from the same problem: AWS is selling it's own elasticsearch service. It comes with a set of severe restrictions and is way less capable than elastics own offering, but it's improving and I see it used more and more often.
> I couldn’t stand the first book of this series. Interminable, I never built any empathy for any of the characters.

I didn't entirely have this problem (though it was more difficult), but I had a problem with some of the plot points. Namely, (minor spoiler) scientists killing themselves when science did something they couldn't explain. I just couldn't buy that people who dedicate their lives to discovery would do that. I mean, the double slit experiment didn't cause such problems. It was just too unbelievable to me.
I see, that's interesting. So essentially, AMD's hardware schedulers are not concerned with branching the same way Nvidia seems to be doing it?
As a group they invest in women slightly less often, though not extraordinarily less.

The guy who was an outlier, supporting women founders twice as often as everyone else, was also forced to quit a position because of sexual harassment.
Oh sure the standard lib is well documented, I thought we were talking about 3rd party libs.

> And bad package management or not (I don't see much problem with it -- and you have several options to chose from, cocoa pods, carthage, etc)

That's the problem. It should be SPM, period. But few libs use that, and some still don't work on linux and you don't realize until you try to build. Carthage is slow, hard to integrate with xcode project and CLI. CocoaPods, I guess it was super useful before swift, but now it seems like it can only work with xcode projects.
Indeed, the GP ignores the whole Cyberpunk scifi movement and the effect it has had on almost all scifi writing since Gibson et al.
I think you're assuming that your personal experience is representative and unbiased. Is there a particular reason you'd consider yourself an expert on "grievance studies"? Is there a comprehensive list of areas of study you'd consider members? Could we perhaps figure out what level of knowledge you have in those fields, and with the academics within them?
I still can't understand what's going on :(

Who's doing what, and which machine connects to the other one?
I think you are reversing what the parent comment meant. You can continually write to the sandboxed filesystem of your app, say write the current timestamp every 10 seconds, and a status of if the app exited gracefully (which you can control). Then when restarting the app you check if there was a timestamp written in the last say 2 hours and no graceful exit then you know the app was terminated and can explain that the app didn't crash but that the OS vendor force quit it.
I'm sorry - $500k!

I work for a big US company in the UK in a senior role and I get $150k approx. I work just outside London but I regularly have to attend meetings right in the City.

I'm going to move to Mexico before Trump gets his wall!
I have a Xiaomi and oneplus phone, neither of them have ever closed a background app so I dunno what you are talking about, but if phones are doing that then, yea fair enough thats a problem.

The wording in the linked website is talking more specifically about cpu limits, which is how most os manage background resources, whats the problem with that?

Sleep tracking is a good example you should use an event system, but developers are lazy and use "while (true) {}", which is my point.
"First, there’s “Open”.

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc."

oh the irony on this :D
Not yet. I've been meaning to, and recently my wife bought me hardcover Foundation books for my birthday; it's my next fiction to read after I finish the newest Safehold book!
Oh that's good to know! last I tried I was told this service no longer runs.
Stowaway bird found on Singapore Airlines plane after 12 hours
I am glad that they are doing it. Also, I don't think this is being done for benchmarks or marketing. Pretty much all mobile manufacturers specify/market the battery capacity in mAh and not in terms of hours. Also, even in cases where the battery life is marketed as full day/2 day, I don't think it impacts the purchase decisions. Killing background apps has annoyed me sometimes, but there have always been solutions by tweaking the settings, in my experience (on Nokia, Xiaomi & Samsung). Overall, it has definitely improved my experience by drastically improving battery life. The article says "just to get a little more juice", which I have found to be untrue in my experience. For example, comparing the battery life of Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 running MIUI vs the same hardware running Lineage OS, the battery life was significantly better on MIUI and worth the sacrifice of spending some additional time in setting up apps for background execution. I wish my current Nokia phone was more aggressive in killing tasks.
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If you want to parse pure Clojure lexical syntax with read tables, one has to get rid of all CL lexical syntax, otherwise it would parse a mix of Common Lisp and Clojure syntax.

Symbols in CL are totally different. There are escape characters and symbols can have different characters in their names. Symbols can start with numeric characters. / and . have no special meaning in CL. Keywords in CL don't need to start with : . If we want to read a Clojure keyword, one probably don't want to read a CL keyword, but a different data type.

Lists in CL don't exist. Instead we have cons cells with dot notation and list-like notation optimization. ( a b . nil) = (a b) = (a . (b . nil)), (a b . c). In Clojure there are no cons cells in the syntax. If you read (a . b) with the CL reader, then it is a cons cell, in Clojure it would be some kind of list with three elements. If you read (a b .) in CL, then one gets a reader error. Clojure does not care. (a . (b . nil)) in CL are two cons cells which form a single list, in Clojure it would be two nested lists.

CL has different numeric syntax. CL has various other notation for arrays, structures, bitvectors, ...

CL has no metadata. CL has different backquote syntax.

If one implements the Clojure reader stuff in

https://clojure.org/reference/reader#_reader_forms

one might as well implement the reader from scratch.
Case in point: I tried to run the orisinal games, like Winterbells, for my daughter and found that they no longer work on Firefox. I was heartbroken - some of these flash games are art and should be archived.
As always, this link never saw the light of day. HackerNews Mods, I am not surprised. :)
Yes, statistics speak for themselves. Minimum wage is roughly $10 and a meal at McDonald's is $4. Perhaps there are reasons for "food insecurity" that are not the fault of the society in general.
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If someone hates both, and that includes you, do you hate back or hate the game that made them hate you?

Seems like too much given to a silly one-liner for movies.
I think it is because Red Hat sold support and training.
I think RH's longevity meant that it was already in a stronger position. There was also the kernel build obfuscation that happened to supposedly twhart unbreakable linux from taking everything wholesale.
I don't know if it's innovative, but you can look at https://www.nexedi.com/. They are open source, you can find all their projects on their gitlab: https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi.

They are selling services and the fact that you have to understand a lot of their tech before you can even contribute (let alone "steal") help a lot.
Podcasts are amazing. I helped invent that too.. I actually created the mod_link spec for this purpose:

http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/

interestingly I was attacked for it and people thought it was an anti-RSS feature and that it was "dangerously stupid"

... I didn't expect that reaction but looks like I was right. Podcasts provide for most of the value in RSS right now.

Podcasts aren't going anywhere!

The main reason podcasting was successful IMO is apple supporting it.
Honestly at this point I would rather use Closed Source software than Open Source that isn’t “Free as in Speech”. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. At least closed source is honest about its intentions.

I use Free Software not because the price, but rather so I can be Free. So I can know I am free to use software I develop with it in whatever way I want.

I find the push to market open source by limiting it’s use one of the most distasteful things in recent software history.
I think Citus Data is doing something right, they have an alternative to AWS RDS and some additional features. It still runs on AWS, but I think everyone who has tried to run PostgreSQL RDS on AWS has seen how slow it can be. A consumer grade laptop can be 10x-100x more performant than a cheap T2 medium RDS instance.

Managing your own PostgreSQL with HA and replication is a ton of work. And for many small to medium sized companies, using a hosted service makes sense.

But open source has a problem today, there is a huge lack of contribution in some projects. The older the project is, the more it seems to struggle.
> That's a power fantasy as old as time.

Yes, if by "old" you mean "dumb".

I couldn't finish this insufferably cringe-worthy book. Sorry.
Standards, regulation and ensuring people get paid. If programming services was decided to be a human right, and I was in the business of providing those services, I'd expect there to be a system in place to ensure my services meet the standard, and to ensure that I get paid for my work.

Consider legal representation: that is also a right. Sadly it's often very expensive, but for people who cannot afford a lawyer, one is generally provided by the government. And while there's certainly a lot that can be improved about the lawyering business, lawyers aren't exactly starving.

I am aware that for most examples I can come up with, the US tends to do a poorer job than most countries. I guess it's no surprise that health insurance is in such a sorry state in the US, and that many people have such weird misconceptions about things like this.
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