skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very happy to see yarn.lock will finally be a proper format that won't need its own parser. YAML subset is a pretty good choice, though I think canonicalized, indented JSON would be a better choice for this use case. Incidentally that's what npm uses as lockfile, I wonder if there's room to have the two package managers share the format (or even share the file itself).

Very excited to see shell compatibility guarantee in scripts as well. Using environment variables in scripts is a pain right now.

Finally one of the biggest news is the switch from Flow to Typescript. I think it's now clear that Facebook is admitting defeat with Flow; it brought a lot of good in the scene but Typescript is a lot more popular and gets overall much better support. Uniting the JS ecosystem around Typescript will be such a big deal.
Why don't you just install the official 'deb' package with the version of your choice?

https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/READ...
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That and the school can afford to absorb a meritless lawsuit or two, which makes those less likely to achieve their goal.
Are you saying that it's simply a case of resume inflation at employer's expense?
What you're describing on the HomePod is "ASR," automatic speech recognition, which is a separate function from natural language recognition. ASR is converting spoken language to (the correct) words, basically dictation; NLR is "I have these words, now what do I do with them." This is a distinction I've learned from working at Viv Labs, which is producing its own voice assistant. (Samsung's Bixby 2.0 is basically our Viv, and it's an entirely different product than the 1.0 version, which was basically a rebranded S-Voice.)

Having said that, I think Siri is better at NLR than it's often given credit for, and Alexa is much worse than it's often given credit for; Alexa's NLR seems less akin to its competitors than that of a 1980s text adventure, i.e., "use exactly this precise phrasing or you won't be able to [get the treasure | turn on your living room lights]". Amazon's real strength is in making it so damn easy to write Alexa skills and to forge deals with hardware/appliance vendors, which goes back to your "breadth of services" observation.
@sibling maxxxxx

If you think that being a plumber or an electrician or a mechanic never requires creativity and deep knowledge, then I think you are looking down on those professions a bit too much. Much like programming, most of what those fields involve is routine grunt work. But from time to time, the usual ready-made solutions don't work and you'll have some tricky problem to solve.
Independent research shop claims 50% of Facebook users are fake
There's a tort called "Intrusion of Solitude" that has been applied to online privacy but it would still be difficult here because you have to prove mental anguish or suffering. I suppose if you were "brainwashed" into proposing and then ended up divorcing the mental anguish wouldn't be terribly difficult to prove. If you were "brainwashed" into buy a puppy on the other hand... you're probably out of luck.

I would imagine it has to run afoul of at least one state's wiretapping laws though.
Nice point. And it could be a clue to Fermi's paradox. Perhaps the universe is teeming with life, but intelligent life is perhaps inevitably doomed to over consumption and extinction in a (astronomically speaking) very short time. Therefore, we have not heard from there short lived aliens.
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Intelligence? 100%. Sociability? 100%‡. What I think you're asking about is tool use.

Given roughly infinite time, is there a reason to think that the combo of social + tool users would not win over, say social + raw strength? Imagine perhaps that lions gain the ability to sweat and so can expand their range dramatically. Would the next tool users never achieve dominance over them/be relegated to a small habitat?

I find it hard to imagine tool users not winning long-term, but it's possible that intelligent non-tool users never let them amass the necessary population/skills/tools. Maybe something like the xenomorphs?

‡The only case I could think of is where some organism absorbs prey to continually gain power. But at a certain point it's either unable to grow its geographic reach or it's basically a collection of physically separate social sub-creatures.
Written as 'bing' is may mean many, many things. I doubt any Chinese will say 'bing' means 'sick' not least because a syllable means nothing to them without a tone.
I did one order in Milan with deliveroo, from that day I receive kind of emails and phone calls from different call centers.
You can also ask "why do programmers love GUIDs" and probably receive a similar response.

The HTTP protocol is another famous example of user-facing error/status codes that don't necessarily mean anything on their own.
I've found that programmers tend to be socially liberal (pro-gay rights, abortion rights, etc.) but financially conservative (don't like their money being spent on public goods). Which somewhat overlaps with libertarianism, yes.
Retro Super Future is a great brand for sunglasses and optical. Stores in the states and Europe, made in Italy.
I think we'd have http header compression regardless of packet size. Headers usually make up the majority of an http request. It makes sense to compress that.
So, another take on flatbuffers?
Gonzalo Higuain opens up and reveals why he signed for Chelsea
"They are still predicted to report the second highest revenues this quarter of any company in history - only surpassed by their previous record."

Profits, perhaps, but not revenues.
Can you speak to how useful you've found the pattern/paradigm? Sort of an ambiguous question, but I've sat through some intro Rx stuff at Microsoft seminars and I've yet to deliberately reference it when writing code. This isn't to say it's without merit, I'm just looking for inspiration.

Edit: Further clarification - I think I'm unfairly generalizing this to a mix between coroutines and an Observer pattern.
This vertical grand piano - you have to go up a short flight of steps to get to the keyboard - from the same company, is ACE https://www.klavins-pianos.com/products/model-450i/
> Why would any serious musician spend 22k Euros on this piano... inferior instrument in volume, tone, tone control, sustain, and pretty much all the features

It's a different sound. For a certain type of music, it's superior to regular pianos.

There are how many kinds of electric guitars, acoustic guitars, woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion instruments, electronic gear...? Very very many. Even in piano-land, different makers have characteristic tones. A musician hears a sound in their head, and wants to replicate and shape it exactly.
Why should you build a remote team?
I am all in favour of equality, but the inequality we have now and the one we've had in the past produces these great and bizzare artifacts that people still value after centuries if not wins.
We still go to see the sphinx in Egypt - a true homage to slavery and I suspect archeologist in the future would prefer to uncover such a piano as opposed to 1000 more old cars or TVs
I'm glad this is getting more attention.

If you're interested in learning more, the book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist[1] is a great in-depth dive into a couple specific cases where testimony from "experts" resulted in the conviction of innocent people. It also does a good job explaining the incentives and institutions that make it hard to stop this.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33296669-the-cadaver-kin...
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> But there are plenty of areas where you need a lot of creativity and deep knowledge to make progress.

This is also true for many other skilled trades.
I had the same question, the piano is already a well developed and standardized instrument from centuries of revision and engineering. Returning to one string seems like a step back into the past. The video is really nice though, explaining how they came to this idea, and now I want to hear one of these one-string pianos! From Nils Frahm:

"It really felt like a brilliant new instrument, it was so nice. First time in my life to have kind of like a new piano. It sits in between a clavichord, guitar and a harp, and that was exactly what I wanted."
I find it interesting that this should appear on the front page at the same time as the other post about the stigma of menstruation in India. The fact that this data is considered "extremely personal" just goes to show that it's a subject that's also highly stigmatized here in the west. In TFA they even compare it to medical history!

~50% of the adult population menstruates. I don't get what the big deal is.
That sounds pretty bad and I'm not so sure it's a npm bug. Do you have a diff of the change in question? Is it on the npm registry or a custom one?
That's exactly what happened: I was too far so I set the delivery location to a place they accepted after a few trials and errors.
And a day later, that it is a technical error, but way to jump to conclusions lol: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/china-is-...
Power constraints seem pretty tight, though. Modern hearing aids have radios in them for continuously sending audio data between the left and right sides, and they run for a week on a hearing aid battery.
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For people now thinking well we have a large untyped codebase..damn.

You can turn typescripts type inference on on a regular js file.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-checking-j...
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For those unfamiliar with the Michelberger Hotel: if you have the opportunity to stay there, do so. It's like nowhere you've been before, and the fact that this piano was shown off there first is a surprise to no one who ever had the pleasure of spending one or more nights in their hotel, especially if you're multiple people and explore each others' rooms. And I do mean explore.
This isn't a replacement for a traditional piano, but an additional option for composers, conservatoires and collectors. Nils Frahm explains it himself in the video - guitarists have a vast choice of different instruments with unique timbres, but the piano is largely a monoculture.

I could never entertain spending €22k on a musical instrument, but I own the Native Instruments sample library for the Una Corda and use it often. It's a beautiful instrument and I'm glad that it exists in the world.
> we’ve tried to build as much as we can as to skip dependencies, I’ve spent enough time in rails to appreciate debugging owned code - an argument for another time...

Okay, I'll bite. I have no experience in RoR, but does this line suggest that RoR encourages NIH?

This line feels like that scene in a horror movie, right at the beginning, when the camera lingers a little too long on the janitor's face as he cracks a smile that's wider than it should be.

Red flags:

* NIH (mentioned above)

* Using Go in production (more specifically, complaining about the lack of support for Go in production -- you should have known what you were getting into)

* Announcing a hacked-together MVP to the whole company

* Escalated to a VP for a technical issue

* Not using the company's recommended workflow, instead building your own

There's no way that the inability for the author to deploy DocuSign, an API that hundreds of companies successfully use, is on DocuSign.

Also, an maybe this is just a cynical view, but when you start your cautionary tale with a literal, "It all started when I was 11", it's kind of hard to relate.
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> you have the timing wrong. " In filings in May 2017

Conceded. Pardon me--cannot edit the original comment.

> it was solicited, as they were written as a legal response to a legal claim

Do we know these filings were in response to a legal claim? It could have been in response to something more frivolous. (I am having trouble finding the filing.)

> Do you believe that criminal defense attorneys express a policy preference that say, murder is okay?

One, this isn't a criminal matter. It isn't even being judicially decided. These are confidential regulatory proceedings.

Two, when criminal defense attorneys defend a murder suspect, they don't advocate overturning murder statute. There is a wide berth between arguing against the facts and circumstances of a case and arguing for overturning a law.

Three, I've been in senior roles at companies in regulatory deliberations and litigation. Each time, company counsel briefed senior management on the arguments they were preparing. More than once, someone asked if an argument was essential. Once, it was. (It was maintained.) Another time, it wasn't. Concerned about a client relationship getting caught in the cross-fire, the argument was dropped and the case amended.

When you give a shit about a constituency, you don't argue for overturning their rights.
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Right now roads are designed for "human sensors." At some point we'll need to redesign the roads for new kinds of sensors. I have no idea what this will look like, maybe all the roads will have RFID in them or some other tech. I think that's the hurdle we haven't gotten past yet, recognizing we need new roads.
Hard to say because it seems like you need to be a bit of a psychopath to have done what she did in the first place.
>Teaching-focused people, even if you make them full professors, are still comparatively cheap

This is where liberal art universities strive. While their endowments and grants may be lower, their retention and graduation rates may be higher (unsourced opinion). But Unfortunately we’re living in a time where we need both type of institutions and having that choice is good. While i still don’t agree with the rising costs of education, research driven programs are good for future researchers and STEM. Liberal art programs are great for the humanities.
> Like Steve.

A more likely name would be 张伟, because most people are Chinese, after all.
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Not a class, but it sounds like you might find a stint at the Recurse Center rewarding.
Almost every programmer I've met in real life, and certainly most of the folks on HN, are very liberal yet are largely anti-organized labor. Don't conflate a general disdain for one policy with an entire political ideology.
You honestly do not consume any news about current world events, whether local, national, or international? Or do you just mean that you continually and deliberately ignore political news? I mean, that's not exactly rare: 100 million eligible voters (42%) did not even care to vote in the 2016 U.S. presidential election[0]; I suppose they either don't believe their vote would matter, or that Hillary and Trump were the same enough. I would think there are still easily tens of thousands of those people are still indifferent about the electoral process. Anyway, to me, it's easy to see how sports, video games, TV shows, porn, eating, alcohol, weed, and drugs can be seen as more interesting than, for instance, the current "battle" about if, when, and where the 2019 State of the Union address will take place.

[0] http://archive.is/NDUkb
Because the headline says “cartoon.”
This is a very valid, but still a very bad example. If we'd have remote mind reading tech, we could solve even more crimes. Everyone has the theoretical ability, therefore a right to protect his digital data.
We don't dominate the earth. Ants do.
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Well, to be fair, it wasn't the authors of the Bible. AFAIK, the word for God in ancient Hebrew doesn't directly translate to God in English. I think in the original language God's name is a more specific name than it is in English (YHWH). From Wikipedia on "Names of God in Judaism":

The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH יהוה‬). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the Lord" owing to the Jewish tradition increasingly viewing the divine name as too sacred to be uttered. It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lords”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures.[1]
Animals can do more than just count. Some birds understand ordering/ranking as well as the concepts of addition and subtraction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/science/pigeons-can-learn...

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/animals-can-d...
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> Education in what?

Education in how the web works. That typing something into a text field, or moving the mouse, or any interactions with a website can be read on the other side. Many users expect this behaviour when they use, for example, Google search or Google Translate. If users expect their text to be private in one context, but shared in another, then there is clearly a lack of understanding of how the web works.

> Please don't blame deceitful practices on the victims.

I didn't blame anyone for anything. It's not a priori deceitful. Presumably some of the motivation is to enable faster responses to client queries.
You realize that since 2-3 years it is now standard legal practice to make sure deciders don't know the details of important decisions. They know the decision, of course, and what was chosen, and they decide.

But they don't know who the email was sent to to implement the decision. Or they don't know the law firm depositing it. Or they only generally know the numbers involved, and have since destroyed the exact numbers (email and any paper copies). This is done explicitly so they can truthfully answer "I don't know" to nearly every question.

Given how governments are going after companies, and how politicized everything, including testimonies at the police, have become, I can't say I blame them. Even if an answer is true, and not criminal, but somehow controversial, it will end up in the media. I can't say I blame them. We need to get back to the situation that it just doesn't happen that any statement leaks from investigations, at the very least unless the person is found guilty, and even then, only if strictly relevant to the crime.

For example the many times ceo's have been called to "testify" on tax minimization strategies, knowing full well the IRS (controlled and of course authorized by the government) has come to an agreement about those taxes, and that agreement has passed through the hands of elected politicians. The only purpose is to demonize these people without admitting that the government created half the controversies.
Students will do all kinds of "harmless" under the table stuff to get/save a little extra spending money. That's different to me than an person desperate for money to pay rent or buy food.
Northeastern University started doing this a few years ago as well. It definitely helps.
This is a great idea! And the tech to do it is already available. So why isn't it implemented tomorrow? There are too many questions on where the liability lies.

What city would take on the risk of their infrastructure failing causing economic, or even worse physical, harm?

What balance of control do you allow? Can a driver still stop their car? If they can and fail to, are they liable?

How much are the auto makers responsible for the behavior of the car? Will there be a universal standard of signals that yield similar behavior in all cars? Sam the other way, will all municipalities work the same with navigation systems in cars?

I hope a city tries this, and I hope it goes well, and I hope it happens soon. But what I want to see most is answers to these concerns around liability. That's what will spur real progress.
I'm curious as to this trend as well. I've read the justifications for it in each case and in this particular one I don't get it.

Isn't Flow more concerned with soundness than intellisense? Has TypeScript caught up with Flow in this regard?

Perhaps it's because I prefer to do my work in strongly typed, pure FP languages where I can but I work professionally with JS and have been investing in Flow there for over a year now. While Flow is still not exactly great it can at least mimic exhaustive pattern matching and catches most unsafe type errors without getting in the way of common JS patterns too much.

The reason the yarn maintainers are giving is because they want more contributors? What advantage will that have if TypeScript isn't catching the errors you used to be able to catch or don't know about yet?

Curious to know if it's worth migrating over to TS without sacrificing anything other than the minor inconvenience.
It sounds like a more refined version of a poorly maintained upright that needs restringing and new hammers
I feel you are moving the goalposts a bit, but yes, for people who got in to top large tech companies.

The original statement I made was 350-500 is about in line with senior-ish at top large tech companies.

The levels immediately below senior brush against that boundary (I made 350k one year when the stars aligned, and wasn't senior), and the levels immediately above are averaging at the very top of that limit.

If you disagree with the data, that's fine.

Edit: dropping random extra prepositions
I'd say that this claim is not unlikely. Facebook has inflated video views since years.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/22/facebook-miscalculation-si...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
I dunno. Playing with toys is an important way to build and practice fine-motor skills, and that won't happen by touching a screen all day.
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The only reason I keep using Mendeley sometimes is because it is nice for reading on the phone, and it syncs annotations back and forth without issues. If I can set something as smooth with Zotero, that would be it.
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You seem a charm to work with.
I'm not sure what you think dominate means...
Cool video i found in YouTube (18+)
The article was a bit meandering (bit of a bildungsroman), but good to know to avoid docusign apis. Might have been able to find out how much it sucked just by googling more "docusign alternatives" or "docusign api sucks" =D
Apparently Holmes is trying to raise money again [1]

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-elizabeth-h...