skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Go is not a great example for dependency management either. That’s like saying how much you miss being slapped in the face after now being punched in the face.
I'm sorry you are going through so much trouble.

I did not introduce myself to you. I posted on a public forum where I am a regular participant. As I already stated elsewhere, I did not seek you out because I'm sure you don't care what I think. Your remarks here strongly suggest my conclusion was spot on.

I'm not in the least bothered by your appearance. You are free to do as you please in that regard. I've already stated that elsewhere as well.

I don't actually care about your assertion that you know more important women than me whose opinions matter so much more than mine.

Your hostility is unlikely to further your cause. Coming at me like this is only serving to alienate me.

Your remarks here are simply convincing me that your ideology and mine are fundamentally incompatible.
It's a common scenario, unfortunately. Synology RAID is nice. External USB on the same power circuit is not a good idea. Actually, I'd look at least into a surge protector. But it's quite possible to have those blow up and still fry your hardware.

I'd run some batteries in the basement and run my Synology (or similar) off of those. Additionally, the USB Backup of backups should be in the garage or the attic, if at all possible. Also, a nice cloud-backup solution that is capable of delta-uploads is a very good idea (cover against fire in the house, or any other "catastrophic" failure).

If you don't have DC experience or if you didn't do much hardware, it's common to over-focus on software. And to be fair, vice-versa :)
Being forced to follow local laws in the countries where you do business is one thing.

Who is forcing Google to buy copies of everyone's credit card transaction data so they can expand the surveillance of their users in their offline life?

>Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...
If the cost is so tiny it doesn't matter, why does Netflix have that annoying "Are You Still Watching '<showname>'?" pop-up that's shown after a few episode have auto-played? It's annoying when binging shows, and I always assumed it was a money-saving measure.
Thanks, I keep hearing great things about React, not to mention the added bonus of React Native. I’ll look into it further.
> These five traits are generated by putting hundreds of possible personality axes into statistical analysis to find those axes that are uncorrelated with each other.

That depends on the axes you start with...

Ask a bunch of questions about "can you write neatly", "can you juggle", "can you balance a pen upright on your finger", and suddenly your "5 personality traits" will include a category for motor control, pushing out or shifting the meaning of the original categories.

You can't therefore claim that these categories are decided by stats only, without arbitrary human input.
Damn maybe if I'd been a vet before becoming a developer I wouldn't be so suicidal :( (not sarcasm, something I've struggled with for years and lost multiple dev jobs because of)
Is This the World’s Longest Continuous Walk? Cape Town to Magadan
Interestingly, it's the same problem than to determine if live in a flat or curved space(-time). You can determine curvature by intrinsic means. I you go from north pole to Ecuador painting your direction, turn 90º, advance a quarter of the equator, turn 90º still, and go home the Pole, your arrival direction is at still 90 degreess relative to your starting direction. the angles sum 270º! Instead of the 180 that should sum in flat Euclidean space. IIRC Gauss went to the mountains with ropes and instruments to verify things by himself, in a striking display of intelectual independence, defying any common sense of the time, and in fact he was shown right by the physics of last century. His shitty ropes just hadn't enough measuring accuracy.
It's in case you've fallen asleep, so you don't suddenly wake up to find you've "watched" three seasons of whatever show you were on. This is only displayed if there's been no input on the remote for some number of hours.
+ ~90% of the world's population are religious (depending on how you look at it) and they mostly grow up in communities wherein everyone is basically the same religion, ergo, they are not generally 'missionary' , 'proselytizing', nor do they feel they have access to 'special information'.

In fact, it's the total opposite: for most of the world's religious, 'religion' is just part of every day, normative culture in most places. It's kind of mundane, actually.

Jehova's Witnesses, referenced in the article, are a totally different ballgame. They are 'default proselytizers' and have a substantially different world view than most folks directly around them.

+ As for why 'Flat Earth' is considerably dumber than Scientology:

'Dianetics' - the Scientology predicate is very close to psychotherapy. Scientology itself is bizarre, but also very interesting 'armchair philosophy'. For example, I think Hubbard's concept of 'tone scale' is brilliant, though it belongs in a blog of ideas, obviously not an institution.

But Scientology is very complex, there's a lot going on, many levels. I can see how it is 'rational' for people to get caught up in it, eve if it's crazy. Scientology leaders are not stupid. There are tons of otherwise very smart people caught up in Scientology ... it's not just full of idiots and crazy people.

But 'Flat Earth' is utterly stupid. It's like saying 'the sky is not blue'. It's the denial of a simple, almost arbitrary fact and it makes no sense at all. I don't think regular people get trapped in 'Flat Earth' conspiracies. Something has to be almost 'wrong' I think to fall for this one.

I think the term 'deprogramming' would be apt for a regular person caught up in a cult.

For 'Flat Earth' - I don't know what one would do with one of those people.
They even have a wrist watch. Wow.
https://qlocktwo.com/en/qlocktwo-w/
The Scala community has some clever techniques to ensure that those properties can be proven at compile-time, for example, https://github.com/eaplatanios/tensorflow_scala for TensorFlow and https://github.com/ctongfei/nexus
Thanks, I’ll look into TypeScript more.
They have it so their watchtime metric is accurate, obviously.
Don't miss the assumptions they're relying on:

>Emissions are considered per kWh of produced electricity (kWhel), including emissions that occur over the complete life-cycle of a technology (cradle to grave). We use the following values (based on Sovacool (2008), Lenzen (2008) and updated values from Jacobson (2009); nuclear: 66 g-CO2/kWhel, onshore wind: 10 gCO2/kWhel, PV (no difference between utility-scale and rooftop): 30 g-CO2/kWhel.

That paper Jacobson (2009), the subject of the dispute mentioned above, factors in emissions from the burning of cities from nuclear war (at the high end, one city every 30 years), as well the "opportunity cost from planning-to-operation delays." The latter assumes 10-19 years to set up a nuclear plant, during which time emissions from a hypothetical incumbent coal plant are attributed to it. Somehow, PVs and wind have no opportunity costs from delays (though section 4b says they should take 2-5 years). Apparently PV production scaling will never bottleneck as they're deployed grid-wide.

http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayHTMLArtic...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeardOfEvil

https://io9.gizmodo.com/scientists-prove-that-a-goatee-makes...
If you want to make that argument, then be aware that many more subtle questions on the Earth's geometry still don't have clear cut answers.

That is, as "geometry" becomes more and more refined, there are questions of why the the continents are they way they are (Wegener's theory wasn't rejected until the 1900s!), why certain volcanoes exist where they are, why certain rock formations exist where they are, etc. That's why geology is still an active field.
Thanks, I’m leaning towards React and Vue
Absolutely. And it's great that the option exists for anyone who has the technical literacy to understand how to benefit from that openness. But as soon as you encourage grandma to download Android roms, you can be certain that the internet will be flooded with dangerously exploited copies.

These things seem simple for us because we deal with them every day. We understand how to interpret the components of a URL. We understand the reason why these critical downloads are paired with sha256 hashes.

For most people on Earth, understanding computer security and the modes of trust in open source software is as likely as speaking Esperanto.
Agreed. There's also something janky about the power supplies on some Synologys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ly8zde3dE

And joy of joy's it's not a standard off the shelf part, and pray you're not outside the warranty period because the price of a spare is eye watering.

Steve has posted a few other videos about failed Synology's, worth a watch before parting with you cash.
Programming – theory matters
Yesterday I found a post about electric universe or so. Boy, that thing seems to get traction is right on the level of flat earth... They think math is wrong and not needed and everything is based on electricity...
It depends, on the chemistry research side the pharmaceutical companies still do a lot, if not most of the heavy lifting. Cheminformatics benefits from the big scale in these organisations and also do the of the type of thing discussed in this article. The same with other parts of this research, like having access to the fancy spectrometers etc. Finding and understanding new compounds with potentially useful properties is only part of R&D process, then developing the biology all the way through to making it a drug fit for human consumption is also quite risky because most of them fail and that's where the small companies come in who takes up that risk.
I have always disliked the “GPL doesn’t prohibit commercial use” argument. You know well why it isn’t practical to use for commercial purposes. You basically make any project using it into an unlimited full featured free trial.
Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor
The difference is that traditional "free" governments don't maintain the entrenchment of existing political officials and the competitive dominance of their own domestic industry as a defensive justification for using their legal system to force companies to disclose, steal, falsify, or destroy information in secret.

Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft are free to challenge court orders from the US or other friendly governments, even those ordered in secret, and they regularly do so. You don't hear about it, but it's pretty common. And these cases do get the scrutiny of many eyes, following similar legal paths as more traditional court challenges, only without all the news coverage.
Yes, I’m well aware of the trade off here, and unfortunately I have not yet been able to find a solution that combines both benefits. As a technical user, I’d love to be able to mess with my device, but I can see the problems it can cause and why Apple might not want this to be available to their users.
OTOH, you you are irish and your surname is McSomething (which naturally reads as "mac-something") then you should be free to use that as branding. It's literally who you are and who yo've been your whole life, and your ancestors before you.

Which is basically what McDonald's creators did.
The website does not say the production limited to exactly 100 pieces. You should add that, because limited could be 20.000 or something... Plus number each clock, like '12 of 100' with a small metal plate, having a date and your name. I am sure this adds to the value.
What living in San Francisco on a tech salary really looks like
RAID is not for data protection. It's for availability.
It’s nice for running Docker in too and give a beginner a fairly gentle introduction. The boxes are also really nice in that you have a range of configuration options that lets you get what you need.
Don’t put big Seagate drives in it if it’s near where you sleep though as they make a bit of noise as they grind.
I know what you’re saying, but you still can. React/Vue can be included as a script tag. You won’t get a transpiler or a bundler or a linter or types, but you didn’t before with just a text editor either. And honestly if you just want to sprinkle some JavaScript onto a website it is easier now, you probably don’t need jquery to do your Dom stuff and you probably don’t need to worry about browser support for what you’re doing either.
If somebody get to your email you are doomed anyways because with passwords all they have to do is reset it through that hacked email.

The benefits of sign-in links are:
a) you don't have to remember gazilion of passwords
b) you don't have to use password managers
c) you can setup a really strong passphrase for your email and actually remember it because it's the only one you have to. And of course set up strong MFA or whatever
d) you don't have to setup MFAs on services and giving them more personal info(phone number) than they really need
e) for me as a developer it's also easier to implement actually
I have youtube history disabled but still get "recommended" videos.

I'm thinking reinstalling greasemonkey to find a script that get rid of them.
And you are forced to give it away for free if asked to.
sure but if you optimize you have to optimize towards a number. Now that number is either 0 in this case or x which is close to zero. Now which x would you choose? And if you choose an x (let's say 47 minutes and 23 seconds) you'll lose data moving towards it.
> "If you don't like Google's choice in focusing on their particular solution which involves intimate user-data integration for more intelligent assistance, the answer is to buy from a competitor."

No, that's exactly right.

Competitors exist. Using them makes them stronger.
True..I feel like this...Sometimes, I don't know how to deal with this..it somehow make me incompetent as programmer.. I see really good projects and then I get depressed :(
Costco is quite responsible. I think the fact that they are opening a giant chicken farm is a good indication that it is not a pipe dream.
"I've worked on software/apps that pull in millions and millions of dollars and have hundreds of thousands of users. So when it comes to work, I'm solid and secure."

Sorry but nope. Just because you've worked on something that is popular doesn't mean that it is of good quality or well developed or secury or that the particular devs are competant or good.
Am I the only person who sees privacy pages on sites like this - where they say 'accept our conditions and cookies' and there seems to quick way to make settings that you're happy with - and then presses the back button, adding that domain to an internal list of sites I won't visit again? Any time I see any Oath-owned domain, I know that it'll be difficult/impossible to set what I want, so I don't even bother any more.
That's a freaky (sorry, but it fits) idea. I mean, it does seem that rabies increases the likelihood that its hosts will bite others. And respiratory viruses cause sneezing. So it's not impossible that selection pressure could drive viruses to modify behavior of hosts in other ways. Something like black-box decompiling.
Come for the tool, stay for the network (2015)
Some one who has deals with top 5 orgs on Earth gives zero shits about the software or who made it, as long as it gets the job done. Actually, they might care, in a sort of "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" sort of way, but if you're on deadline and there are jobs on the line, people paying rent, you really can't afford to worry about whether Office costs you $100/year every year for the rest of your life.
The issue is probably the Synology PSU and nothing else. This is the third Synology NAS breaking down with intact disks I hear about this month, and it seems to be quite a common issue.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ly8zde3dE
I'm not trying to argue about relative effectiveness behind Vue et al. I'm saying that, as a newbie, you wouldn't be able to know the difference.

"Just try it" isn't a good argument when all you see are big, unfamiliar names that you're apparently supposed to know – and without guidance, learning web dev on your own, you effectively do, even if just to see that you don't need it. It's overwhelming.

Imagine having to learn color theory and all kinds of subtle differences in the production of crayons you could have before you sit down to doodle something in your spare time. Imagine having to read your literary national treasure section whole before you want to write that cool short story you had when you took that shower. Ridiculous!

So, I argue, is the fact that there's seemingly an obligation to read up documentation for major frameworks before you sit down and code your first clicker-number-increaser.
Thank you for illustrating my point ;).
Show HN: List of serverless failure stories
Sure, Tim, so why is the App Store infested with apps that phone home to Google Analytics? Why does every other IOS framework report to FaceBook et al?

If Apple were serious about this, they would expose the massive amount of data that is streaming out of Apple App Store apps into big corporate other than Apple. Or, they would provide their own analytics service that works the way Tim says it should.

Sorry, but this guy is the worst leader Apple has ever had, including Scully.

Locking every iDevice by default so that it can’t be reused, grinding up products for recycling instead of keeping them in service just to make an extra buck, these things are atrocious for the planet. If you care about the environment, don’t buy Apple.

Oh, they claim to be environmentally-friendly, just like they claim to be for data privacy, but it’s all BS.

If Apple gave one-half-shit about the environment, they would relay a message to the owner of a locked iPhone/iPad so they would have the option to unlock it for those who bought it second-hand but didn’t know to get the device taken out of Find-My-Phone, and for those of us who run charitable re-use centres—-we get locked iPads & iPhones because the owners who donated them didn’t know to unlock them. They’re e-waste.

And if you’re so concerned about data, Tim, why don’t you stop releasing a new OS every year and focus on fixing the bugs in every framework that render them both unusable and insecure? We don’t need new emojis or stickers, and we sure as shit don’t need anything to be thinner and have even worse battery life. Those things may impress the morons out there, but you’re losing us techies. And we, ultimately, set the trends and make the markets. If we stop telling people to buy Apple, they will eventually stop.

Tim Cook, you are a liar and you suck. And I’m an Apple fan with multiple phones, iPads, MacBook pros etc. I’m disgusted with them.
You'd be paralyzed by indecision if every decision had to be driven by the results of a test.
Your question - about data and transit volumes, and costs - would be answerable if you provided some actual numbers.
iAd failed because they refused to compromise privacy.
Similarly postgresql has access to the host shell:

COPY weather_json FROM PROGRAM 'curl https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Tokyo';
COPY 1

They both absolutely have to run under selinux.
What it’s like being female at America’s biggest economic conference
Hell, YouTube too does that on Android, pausing playback after ~1 hour.

I was quite annoyed when I saw it for the first time - I had music playing over my Bluetooth headset while cleaning my bathroom, so it was quite inconvenient to tap on the phone when YouTube suddenly paused it to check if I'm still there.
oh man. I've neer been into irc, but this reminds me of msn and chat days. You know, IMs with online status and not. I hate to be always present in the current ecosystem.
My 12yo has grown out of Minecraft, but 6yo shows signs of growing interest. This week, she discovered redstone and pressure plates and went automating every door she can find in old builds she normally doesn't care much.

Minecraft will have endless supply of users in the future, and when they're done with it, there will always be a next step waiting. That's why Netflix will always have trouble figthing with those.
I feel like the days of "we hand-crafted this algorithm to solve this issue as well as we could" like this RFC are over.

Instead, simply give the issue to a neural network whose loss function is to find the best strategy for timing packets to minimize retransmissions and delay. Then train that on the real internet, and preload the resulting mini neural networks in operating systems.

For extra bonus points, implement the trainer too, so the networks behaviour can be auto-tweaked at runtime to improve performance based on local scenarios.
What was the right kind of evidence?
Get some beefy hardware and a high speed internet connection. Don't cheap out.

Life is too short to wait for nothing. Nothing is more annoying than your computer slowing down and you having to close applications to free up some RAM or some analysis you want to do on a large DB to take forever. They are distractions that are easily removed by throwing some money at it.

If you can, get a 1Gbit connection, it's life changing to have package installations and downloading DB dumps to take seconds instead of minutes (or hours).
"If Apple changed to suit your needs, that would come at the expense of my needs."

Not really, if apple locks down iOS devices by default, and would create the ability to opt-out for developers/people who want to be able to create/install their own code, nothing changes for you/most people.
Much like how SIP works on macOS, enabled by default, ability to disable if needed.
Yeah, we've been there before with other libraries (GWT and others). It never works well.
I don't think it's a dead philosophy. I personally prefer one-handed phone.

We instead should adjust the UI to make it more comfortable with one hand (as in using thumb to navigate comfortably).

But, like you said, none of the phones is going this direction. This seems similar to the situation in 2005 where every phone required a stylus, and Steve Jobs came along and adjusted every UI/UX to be usable by fingers.

We need another Steve Jobs to revolutionize how a phone should work.
You sound like a 10yo telling their parents they want more computer time for... learning :).
Where’s the joke in that? You buy the installation on a 30 year fixed loan and reducere your power Bill tomorrow.

To compare, what is the “break even” point of buying a property and renting it out?
For whom live in San Fransisco. Is it really like that?
I don't work for a fancy company, don't live in a fancy city and I work on boring enterprise problems but I live considerably better than that. I would accept those conditions only if I were a college student and not an adult professional.
When the job is managing Linux systems and colleges arent producing people who know how there is a problem
For basic tutorial, I recommend to just read from books or official web site. Integrating multiple technologies is another problem I face mostly, so those online tutorials help a lot.