skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm trying it... starting to have second thoughts though. They make it look like it's all ready to go and then you start uncovering bits and pieces of things that seem to be half-done, half-legacy, half-dead at the same time. TBH it looks like they got spread too thin and can see how a good amount of services are solid while many are just there.

Interestingly, that's my experience on Azure. Seems like a lot of offerings were smashed together in order to try to form a coherent product.
Great article!
Surprised to see Flutter adoption so far...
The dangerous nonsense is pointing selectively at what you dislike and claiming they’re biased, while ignoring that everything in the space is biased. Saying that reporting is “biased” is like saying that water is wet. The issue isn’t bias, the issue is undisclosed bias, bias so strong that it leads the story rather than the other way around, bias that leads to lies, and so on. Simply crying “bias” is the definition of a shallow dismissal.

“Bias” as a generalized complaint is effectively a straw man to beat up when debating the actual facts would be untenable, or make you looks like an asshole. If you think that isn’t obvious, think again.
Do you think Amazon subtracts their own massive utilization of AWS out from their numbers? Not likely.
I can’t thing of anything useful that MS added since Windows XP.

Going from 16 bit cooperative to 32 bit preemptive in the 3.x to 9x change, useful.

Going to multiple accounts with permissions in the 9x to XP change, useful.

Rearranging the UI time and again since Vista, and sucking up CPUs with scannning processes, so what?

Note that I really only used Windows at work, anyway (instead of Linux, or more recently OSX), and I managed to avoid the post-7 cluster-bomb entirely at my current job.
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arr. strait over my head.
I can't say I'd be a fan of a CMake based package manager. While CMake has been a great tool under Linux environments (I've used it for C/C++ builds, and in mixed C & Go build environments), I've also experienced horrors when CMake is used to generate Visual Studio solution and project files.

I mostly work in Windows development. CMake scripts created by a professional build engineer caused a lot of havoc. It injected itself into the project files in such an insidious fashion, that it was nearly impossible to tell if dependencies were correct. It completely broke Intellisense, making code navigation an exercise in frustration.

I was not happy, and wound up ripping out the scripts and creating new solution and project files that actually supported the needs of the developers.

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I do wonder what is going to happen when/if there is more margin compression in the cloud space. Specifically when it comes to Amazon, because Amazon really has razor thin margins in its retail sector. Other cloud providers have high profit margins outside of the cloud (Google, Microsoft, Apple) so they could still be ok. They all have so much pricing power too, that I wonder if there is some mutually assured destruction of margin that prevents them all from competing heavily on price. Or if the space is growing so fast that they simply don't need to compete on price as much.
I've used it for a year without Google play services.

The basic OS utilites (camera, SMS, file manager, "phone" app, etc) are part of the Lineage base and don't need play services. You can also install f-droid which has a good variety of open source apps, including mail clients.

I even installed Whatsapp (downloaded the apk from whatsapp's website), which doesn't require play services.

Now, I don't think LineageOS is for the "average person", its for people who care about their privacy and like having control of their device, but you don't need to be some sort of long-bearded hacker to be able to use it.
Last year I spent 5 months cycling through the US. Walmart was the one place I could consistently find healthy food such as fruit at low prices.

Many other retailers have specials prices on fruit that only apply to loyalty cards holders. Obviously they track their customers.
Let's see the docs what is needed to use this:

> just one file, download here...

Later on:

> You'll need Buck on your system

Then, on Buck's site:

> Buck requirements: Java 8, Apache Ant, Python 2.7, ...

Well, that does not seems too honest, would be best to warn upfront about all these dependencies.
Cool. A few comments with all that in mind.

Contracting rates in Canada are not the same as the U.S., but my best estimate would be probably in the C$50-75 at the low to high end given your experience. $30 is a little too inexpensive, but to be fair $35-45 might be a good starting point for you to get some experience and raise your rate for the next gig. That is if you need to do hourly. I personally disagree with hourly and prefer weekly rates, or for longer gigs monthly even. It takes away the hours being the issue and makes results be more the focus. I would not flat rate anything given your experience level right now. Not that you are bad, but you need more time to gain experience with interpreting peoples requests for what they really mean vs what they say. In addition, estimating is hard as hell even for people with 10+ years of experience so it is a hard thing to do unless you have serious scoping and change management controls in place for flat rates.

A complete app like this is likely more like 3-4 man months of effort depending on level of sophistication and 3rd party component usage. So that is more like 450-600 hrs, including writing all the tests and client testing etc. The MVP should be done pretty fast, and if the UX is already done and in HTML than I'd say you could cut a decent amount of time off this.

While you feel pretty solid and comfortable in your skills, I would just be careful of the dynamic nature of a small company and changes they keep shooting your way etc. It can really chew your time up and you have to be super diligent about telling them this and pushing back or getting more scope/money for the extra work/changes. This is the biggest risk IMO, assuming you have all the skills to do all the work which I have no reason to question.

No matter what, good luck and I hope you kill it!
Yes, but they're being upvoted by the same collective.
I'm not saying Snopes is maliciously preventing "the truth" from being discovered.
I love Snopes. I've sent countless "You're wrong because snopes links" to people.
My humble concern is that if you find yourself disagreeing with something as trivial as "shaking a soda can" there seems to be no actual way of addressing the issue. And then if I can't address the pathetically mundane and boring... well how do they handle the complex?
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DOM has always been incredibly slow. Quantum showed that CSS layout has been incredibly slow. Servo showed that HTML layout is incredibly slow. In addition, the DOM is extremely memory intensive no matter what you use.

A great example is VS Code switching from HTML to Canvas for Terminal. Performance increased by several times. React Native is another example. It performs much better than a Webview even though it still uses JS. Gnome and GJS perform better than any electron app out there while using way less memory.

I assume that when you say query string, you are talking about document.querySelector() rather than the actual query string in the URL. Modern apps using something like React almost never use those. Even with a lot of care, those apps will still be slower than apps written with native GUI frameworks.
I've been in SF most of my life. The city has been heavily impacted by tech ever since the dot com era, but it's built on some robust cultural foundations: Waves of arts and landscaping projects dating back to Adolph Sutro, the nearby academic influence of Berkeley and Stanford in addition to smaller local institutions(for example, the Exploratorium - a great place for kids, and still fun for adults), a variety of social movements that have swept through the city from the Gold Rush era onwards, multiple ethnic immigrant cultures, and access to nature.

These are things you appreciate and can grow from by living here in the long term, but are easy to miss if all you do is walk around and see low-rise buildings and homeless people. There are far more exciting cities in terms of bustle and grandeur, and more livable, well-maintained, inexpensive cities for everyday activity.
The challenge I see here is mostly psychological. Will people be okay with having to wait for the arrival of their vehicle when the self-driving car is delayed? Will they be willing to accept the wear-and-tear their car suffers when someone who doens't own it uses it as a delivery vehicle?

The illusion of control is a powerful one, and I think many people will choose to own and park a personal car near to their work so that they can get in it and get stuck in traffic immediately, rather than waiting at work while the car returns through said traffic.
VAT in the EU behaves in a similar manner as a tariff would. Yet we seem to be doing rather okay in that sense.
Ceph is distributed storage, ZFS is direct-attached to one host at a time.
Hopefully they offer him a job before taking legal action over something that petty.
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It's too late for me, I don't tolerate this sort of bullshit. I had pizza delivered once and paid/tipped online (I have ten years in restaurants behind me, on the rare occasion I eat out I tip really well) and the delivery guy gave me a funny look when he dropped off my order. I took a look at the receipt attached to the order and the price I paid was higher plus the tip was not on the slip, I sent him a text with my order confirmation to let him know what I paid he texted me back that this wasn't the first time they screwed him on tips and that hes going to find another job. Every few months I post a yelp review with this experience so it remains on the first page for the restaurant.
> I just don't hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I'd love AWS to have some competition.

Google Cloud is fair competition – provided they have the service you need. AWS and Azure both beat them in number of services. If Google has it, then it should behave as expected, and some are downright impressive (GKE and VM auto migration on GCE).

Azure is... infuriating. Inconsistent, unreliable APIs, surprising behavior everywhere (attach an internal load balancer, lose internet connectivity!?), lots of restrictions on which features can be used with which SKUs.

I see improvements and it is difficult to beat them in the enterprise, but speaking as an engineer, man Azure is infuriating.
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right... but almost nobody is going to do that...
I think you guys are onto something. At $100 a pop, my family, just counting out to first cousins, could buy a pretty nice sequencer.
With all of Apple's privacy PR lately, it's fun to recall that they've been helping the NSA spy on us since they joined PRISM in 2012, a year after Steve Jobs died.

Tim Cook like to say repeatedly that they don't sell your data. Guess it's ok to give it away to the government, though.
I skimmed this article and the linked sciencemag article and they seem to talk about wide scale weather events (eg. hurricanes), rather than the typical things that people look for in forecasts (yes/no rain, min/max temperature). A freakonomics article from 2008 found that at least for precipitation forecasts, weather forecasts don't fare much better than a simple probabilistic model. Has forecasts like these improved in accuracy?
A huge part of the problem is that many companies don't take security seriously.
Maybe people should start tipping in cash again. Every service person I've asked has preferred it.
That’s me but with cd’s.

As a kid growing up in uk interested in US hip hop the specialist shops and their clientele turned me onto a whole different world.
I can't speak for negotiating in general, but I had some experience in leadership courses. This was in the context of an outdoor club in university, and they taught us techniques on how to make new people feel welcomed. Even among the group who were all given the same instruction, the techniques were still effective! I wouldn't discount it entirely just because the other party is also aware of the same information.
They double and triple dip customers pretty hard today, I'd imagine margin lost on basic services like EC2 would shift to AWS specific services they can layer more costs on top of (i.e. RDS)
Wait a second....
And since photons are timeless, they're already there.
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There's no such thing as an undefined variable in Make. The variable expands to text. Variables which are not defined by definition expand to no text.
You can install Buck as a single file also.
You just reminded me that my mum was big on homeopathy and regularly gave me homeopathic sand as a kid: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?set...

She also liked Bach flower remedies, and took one in particular for her memory…

She now has severe Alzheimer’s and, conversationally speaking, is no better than a Markov chain with a ~1000 symbol vocabulary.
That isn't a bad idea, but not exactly something drivers can rely on.
Lotus effect
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Yeah, you've got it. Your post reminds me of Sam Harris falling all over himself to hold up Charles Murray's racist-ass "research" as some kind of unimpeachable thing--mostly because Murray, as a crank, would talk to Harris, because Murray, as a crank, will talk to anyone who will listen--but demanded of anyone who would dispute Murray the third degree in an gish-gallopingly exhaustive manner.

Which is why it's usually the high-handed rationalist, the claimant of no bias, who is trying to sell you a pig in a poke. They either don't know it's just /r/iamverysmart stuff or don't care, but they're selling you something. Not the reporter with a story on their hands who admits to having an opinion.
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Hmm. My assumption was that Brightline (Virgin Trains USA) would be a lot faster than Tri-Rail for the WPB-Miami run; it's actually about an hour and fifteen minutes compared to around an hour and forty minutes, though, so how big a savings that is depends on how much of a hurry you're in. The Brightline trains and stations are almost certainly nicer, but the fares are much higher: $17 (for the cheapest Brightline one-way ticket) vs. $6.90.

So...yeah. I'm not entirely sure why they aren't targeting a market that isn't served adequately by an existing option, like Miami or Tampa to Orlando.
Still not a great example since it is a demonstration/joke page.
What crimes would exactly would you be proud to sell your relatives down the river for?
Genuinely curious if all acts that can/could be labeled as a crime by the government of the time would count.

There's a fair amount of historical and current laws that have arguably zero moral good; Homophobic, Segregationist, etc.. all around the world.

But alas, There's you cheerily pointing out anyone you can help identify because, it's the law after all.
In C/C++ static declarations are local to the compilation unit. So you will have two separate storages for foo - these will be two independent variables.

That's how C and C++ work.

And if you will have this (no static):

int foo = 45;

then linker will complain - "multiple 'foo' entities" as non-static entities have global visibility.
The NSA collects the records of everyone two connections away from a terrorism suspect.

This will allow the FBI to profile the families of criminals. I have a cousin who joined a white supremecist group. Does that mean my life ahould be put under a microscope in case I’m committing crimes too? Should I have to submit to body cavity searches at airports because of her drug convictions?

Our prison system is not designed to punish or rehabilitate. It’s designed to isolate society’s undesireables and put them in a cage away from the rest of us. The Powers That Be would like nothing more than to extend that to entire families.
Are you sure they weren't police trying to do some "civil asset forfeiture" (stealing)? People that deal with bitcoin might end up having a lot of cash on them and the police might want to take it.
You’re assuming that every crime anybody could possibly be accused of in the future is legitimate. What if the crime is ‘handed out pamphlets opposing the leader?’
Protecting user accounts when usability matters
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171005111100.h...

Fingerprints lack scientific basis for legal certainty
More research into validity of fingerprint comparisons needed
Date:
October 5, 2017
Source:
Carnegie Mellon University
Summary:
A new report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says that courtroom testimony and reports stating or even implying that fingerprints collected from a crime scene belong to a single person are indefensible and lack scientific foundation.

http://theconversation.com/fingerprinting-to-solve-crimes-no...

Fingerprinting to solve crimes: not as robust as you think

https://californiainnocenceproject.org/issues-we-face/finger...

The main problem with fingerprint analysis is one consistent with many other areas of forensic science: subjectivity. Instead of relying on tested scientific methods, the process is mostly based on the subjective beliefs of the analyst... Despite this subjectivity, fingerprint analysts also typically testify in terms of absolute certainty.

https://issues.org/mnookin/

Fingerprints: Not a Gold Standard

So to answer your question: Should law enforcement be prohibited from fingerprinting objects found at crime scenes?

You tell me.