skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why it would be helpful to be able to find someone with a history of mental illness, who is likely avoiding help. But I agree that it crosses into very murky territory, and the avenues of abuse are many. Couple of quick meetings, maybe some legislation, and suddenly the police and councils have access to a GPS map of homeless individuals. Then they can deploy security and anti-loitering measures wherever a few too many show up.
Then they are short sighted. I think it is more just general resistance to change.
i think he's referring to the healthcare system.
For Node to be a “sluggish Golang” in the first place, it would have to be otherwise functionally equivalent to Golang, which it is not. Writing your own TCP and SSL layers is also kind of nuts if your motivation for doing so is to optimize your Node apps.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending
Right some people want to disable animated GIFs, but this is no different so it's not really a new conversation, and 'If I wanted video, I'd turn on my TV' shows confusion because it's a silent animated diagram in the middle of a document is not like turning on the TV is it.
Should be possible via PostCSS and something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss-stylus-parser. Haven't tried it though, i've moved away from Stylus some time ago as it seemed to be pretty much dead.
If you want only text, open a text-only e-reader.

The web is consisted of not only hypertext, but also hypermedia.
I personally want it, and I'm sure a lot of people want it too.

There are a lot of interesting experiences that can be enabled by autoplay. If a site ends up being too annoying it will simply lose visitors, and extensions can perform more aggressive blocking for those that don't like it.

IMO this is a fine compromise solution.
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As someone who also completed Advent of Code in Rust this year this was very interesting. I agree it is a great way to learn more about a new language. Thanks for sharing!

It seems like we ran into a lot of the same pain points like parsing, lack of a min-heap, etc.

Regarding HashMap initialization the best way I'm aware of to do what you are looking for is with lazy_static[0]. Maybe not very clean or idiomatic though.

For sorting I found the best solution to that problem was using sort_by_key with a tuple like (a.year, a.month, a.day, a.hour, a.minute).

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/lazy-static.rs#example
Why is everything in US/UK so expensive?
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Or tired?

Both lead to unwarranted angry outbursts IME.
Whilw the gdpr text version is an applaudable step by npr, I wish they didnt link to their frontpage.

Can someone link it?
As someone who uses Typescript, HOCs are a nightmare, and hooks are a world of difference.
So after Businessweek's story about Supermicro sending hacked boards to companies, the FBI director Wray deflected questions by saying

>“We have very specific policy that applies to us as law enforcement agencies to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation,”

Why are they now seeming to break that policy by confirming this investigation?
It's supposed to be like that, just jump into one of the cubes.
Again, you are comparing a phone that was half the price at launch. Operating systems evolve. Just because a phone is newer, doesn't make it snappier. There are far more things running on Android and iOS by default than there was 8 years ago. Try comparing the 2015 iphone to a galaxy s6.
Under modern monetary theory, shouldn't the govt commend this man for helping stimulate the economy with quantitative easing?
Thanks a lot for writing this up! A lot of good stuff to digest here.
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It cost $120 in bitcoin to buy a $100 counterfeit bill? How does that make any sense
It's mostly the overall tone hammered on, e.g. starting with: "Will Node.js forever be the sluggish Golang?" which is click-baity.

In fact I gave up around the insults at various Express-successors, and missed that the main point of the article is the µWebSockets.js.

Why not go into that directly and skip the rest? That's what people would want to know, not that "Node is worse than Golang in raw performance".
In Nightly at least, media.autoplay.allow-muted = false should disable muted videos as well. I'm not positive they're moving this feature into FF66 for release but it seems likely.
I had no idea that a $50 cost overrun on a disk drive pushed them up $500 to $1995! Not sure I agree with the logic there. Then it seems to have been one bad executive call from there to $2495 (thanks, Sculley). So you could argue (it's a stretch!) that the $50 drive price increase ended up driving the price up $1000.
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Because ultimately the user still can decide the behaviour they want -- you can choose to not visit that web page. You decide where your browser goes and what sites you visit.
I would be more worried about the smart burglars than the dumb ones.
Stop making up things and seeing past with rose colored glasses. Accidents due to things like bridge collapse are much lower than in past, and much lower in US/developed countries than in thailand. Google "thailand bridge collapse" to see the cases.
Mobile devices have user interaction restrictions for media playback. It sounds (though I have no idea myself) that NPR is getting tripped up by them somewhere.
More on topic, interviewee side: Describe me a typical day here.

Expected answer contains: Overall process, roles distribution (who does what), project management style, issues triage, etc...
Try running Netscape on a 4" screen
i've had autoplay disabled for awhile now... the latest annoyance is the floating videos used especially on news sites.
They don't mention the range...
Robot Automation wouldn’t do jack shit in the larger scale in 10 years. May be 50 years yes, not 10.

Robots right now are bulky and incredibly expensive devices which don’t even come close to human dexterity, intelligence or flexibility.

Look at self driving cars. First DARPA driving challenge happened in 2004 and self driving cars are still very dumb and have killed a few people on the road. Simulation hours don’t count. Real driving hours without human engagement count.

Sure in soft intelligence like speech recognition, language translation, vision we’ve done big advances. Deep Surveillance is going to be a real thing where every individual/car is tracked through the city.

But replacing a ~billion jobs with robots. Not going to happen.

Unless we have huge advances in bio manufacturing and computing. Doing it like DNA does it. Building machines from the same fabric we’re made of. Grow the machines from watery goo at scale. Make artificial muscles that are strong, fast, accurate, light and quiet.

Now that would be the stuff of science fiction brought to reality.
>1) Menu link, one of two important things on the entire site (the other one is hours) is buried in a hamburger menu

I think hamburger menus should not be used anywhere except in hamburger restaurants.
So, it shouldn't be optional?

I like cheese, everyone has to have cheese on all meals!?
I suspect they've locked themselves in to whatever crappy menu system the iPads run on. Works well enough in-house, and the website's menu existence is an afterthought. Not great since they do takeout, but for the most part I think it's a sit-in restaurant.

If the menu vendor had bothered with responsive design it wouldn't be half as bad, but "here's an iPad viewport centered in your browser" must have meet the contractual requirements.

A $10/month Squarespace subscription is pretty damn cheap and IIRC you don't need to know much of anything about web development to set that up.
I've been starting to learn Rust and found the post quite useful. I think the inherit constraints with these sorts of challenges allow for time to think of creative ways to use a language's fundamentals, rather than focusing too much on architecture. It forces learning through immersion, akin to being dropped in a foreign land without knowing the language.
Who needs transportation infrastructure when you have F22s, B2 Spirits, Ohio-class submarines and aircraft carriers?
To quote my earlier comment:

> if a deep fake is used to specifically target and harass an individual on a personal level ... then afaik that is already covered by existing harassment laws.
Do they also cut corners with their kitchen?

And the cost of web development has never been lower.
Probably, but I live in the US so like it or not they hold weight to me.
A long time ago before I was treated for bipolar disorder I found my depression was related to anger turned inward at myself. But others I have talked to didn’t always relate this way as I did with depression.
I don't follow — MPG and range have a direct, linear relation. They're also one of the most aerodynamic, low drag coefficient vehicles on the market.

This table on wikipedia[0] puts the Model S and Prius at the same coefficient: 0.24. The Model 3 is a rounding error better, at 0.23. The Model X is a rounding error worse, at 0.25. Another list with helpful pictures[1] shows that literally every other low-drag mass market vehicle has conventional handles[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient

[1]: https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news-list/most-aerodyna...
Where I live you can have a "Virtual Address" with the national postal service, which is essentially what you're talking about. You can direct it to various houses or you can direct it to 24/7 access postal locker at any place you like.

You can change your virtual address itself or keep the same one for however long you like, and just change the final destination that it resolves to. The postal service knows where your current postal destination is set and third party freight carriers able to look it up from an API (someone has to deliver it eventually after all). Your destination can be changed in your online account, and if you want a particular package delivered somewhere different you can quickly create a new virtual address and use that instead.
Flying into America (from Europe) is like landing in an airport stuck in a time warp from 50-70 years ago, it's so strange. The first time I landed in New York (can't remember which airport) I was really struck with how old the place was. It had more in common with fading ancient airports (such as Bangalore's old city-centre terminal—now replaced) than the (mostly) smart and clean airports we have this side of the pond (and we're still outclassed by Asia). It was a feeling that followed me around the whole trip, that America was still stuck in the era of the 80's films I'd grown up with.
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I always hesitate before posting travel updates on social media, and make sure it's only visible to friends. Probably paranoid, but it makes me feel better to not live with the added risk of entire the world being able to know my house is empty.
> four fake $100 bills for $120 in bitcoin

You get $400 for $120 in bitcoin.
Massive infrastructure projects require massive amounts of money nowadays. Truth is, in North America (U.S. and Canada), the governments at all levels are effectively bankrupt.
Here we go again. Let me compare a gigantic country that was industrialized over one hundred years ago with much smaller and more recently developed countries. It’s not that we don’t have things that need fixed and maintained, but the hyperventilating about it is overdone at this point.
> but not at that price point

Are they too expensive?
Sorry Apple, but I won't buy another MacBook Pro again in the foreseeable future.

I won't accept your dogma anymore.

I encourage other developers to use Linux. Many Distros have come along way, personally, I think Manjaro is great.
Not really, Kubernetes is a way to manage Docker containers. Istio just supercharges the network of a Kubernetes cluster. It doesn't really manage K8s clusters.
Many major metropolitan areas in the US have similar inputs, just different historical priorities.
Uhhhhhhh, you'd consume something from Alibaba/Aliexpress???

You're likely to be getting Gutter Oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

I think I'll pass that... deal.
Can we all agree to stop putting the "back" button in the top left of the screen though? It's literally the worst possible place to put a button that has a very high likelihood of being used.
At least some of the major package carriers in the US offer package-holds.
"Paris’s metro was inaugurated in 1900, but its well-maintained system continues to run excellently and expand continuously."

Any daily commuter in Paris will tell you that this is untrue. Trains are often extremely full, delays happen frequently and many stations are deeply run down.
I think that comparison is backwards. It's more like "I don't like cheese, so no one should be allowed it"
I agree with you.

It's very exciting to remove these sorts of redundant lines, but I cannot train my brain to intuitively view that line as it will be interpreted.

There is one case where the benefit, IMHO, far outweighs the negatives, and that can be seen in slides 30-31 of Dustin Ingram's slideshow[1].

PEP 572... the day Python jumped the walrus.

1. https://speakerdeck.com/di_codes/pep-572-the-walrus-operator...
Not sure about that argument.

Isn't the "effort and risk" usually what those in favor of patents propose? Lest there's no compensation of the inventor for their effort, and we stop having inventions or something?
Eh, but you cannot deny these are cosmetical / taste preferences and not technical disadvantages of the languages.

IMO OCaml is a less sciency Haskell, and more focused on getting stuff done -- but I am still evaluating it and it definitely has warts in the tooling. Time will tell.

Rust... I looked at it but it struck me as a modern C++... too many ways to do one thing.

We need opinionated tech. Programming is not an art class practice session.
There's some sort of whitelist:

"We are also allowing sites to autoplay audibly if the user has previously granted them camera/microphone permission, so that sites which have explicit user permission to run WebRTC should continue to work as they do today."
I’ve never once found autoplay video to enhance a web experience. I’ve never once found a single example to be “interesting”. I don’t care if audio is muted. I don’t want it, full stop.

It’s atrocious UX. It’s hostile to users. It’s presumptive and frankly rude. There’s no excuse for autoplay. Even on YouTube, it’s more often infuriating than not.

Edit: clarified “autoplay video”, not animated GIFs
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imo, the Witcher 3 is an example of very well done fully voiced dialogue. I almost never wanted to skip through it. I think it fits in this game because you are playing as an already fleshed out character, Geralt. like you said though, sometimes the player character is meant to be more of a blank slate that you fill in yourself. in KOTOR, the player character is essentially a blank slate, as you literally have no memory of who you are and an important part of the story is that you decide who you will be (villain or savior). in this game, the unvoiced player dialogue was the right design choice.
I would say it depends on what you are trying to learn.

These types of problems will give you a good intro to a language, but won't introduce you to the more advanced libraries which you'll likely need in a professional context (e.g. threading/mutexs, tcp/udp, etc).
Some browsers have an option to disable GIF animations, I use this option in Falkon browser
> much smaller and more recently developed countries

Like China?
The religion as a concept has a use or a few. The allergy cuts both ways, with religious people not wanting their sociotechnological or psychological practices broken down and appropriated without core memes.

To do so is considered heresy or worse. More so if done with required irreverence of science where anything can be shown wrong.
Though they may be located in Helsinki, I think the people doing that sort of stuff usually don't have citizenship.
It looks like Nuosu and Loloish are different ways of referring to the same language (group) with Lolo being the Chinese name and Nuosu being their name for themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuosu_language

> Nuosu is one of several often mutually unintelligible varieties known as Yi, Lolo, Moso, or Noso; the six Yi languages recognized by the Chinese government hold only 25% to 50% of their vocabulary in common. They share a common traditional writing system, though this is used for shamanism rather than daily accounting.

I bow to your superior expertise when it comes to the differences between Sichuanese and Mandarin but all of Sìchuān is definitely part of the Mandarin speaking area.

The book to buy if you’re interested in this is the Language Atlas of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Atlas_of_China
I think it’s political will more than structure. The desire to play obstructionist politics has consumed parties on all sides, to the detriment of the population at large.
So, you think browsers should pre-load, analyse for media and provide info with every link to allow a user to avoid following links with autoplay? I reckon just allowing autoplay to be turned off is easier and makes for better UX.
There are at least two differences.

One is that the selection process is still opaque. If you have a corrupt prosecutor you're screwed either way. But if you have an honest prosecutor and you give them a collection of evidence selected for a bias in favor of guilt, they have no independent way of knowing that. So now you not only need an honest prosecutor, you need an honest AI, and we're back to the opaqueness issues.

The second problem is that in principle right now if the prosecutor and the defense attorney spend an equal amount of resources, they each get proportional results. If you create this database which the prosecutor can use, can the defense also use it? Do they get access to the data to run their own queries and algorithms against? If so it seems a rather large privacy problem, since the database would contain sensitive information about everyone, but if not then you're handing an asymmetric advantage to the prosecution.
>I contend it's cheaper and better for society to offer solutions unconditionally.

>That's exactly what I said with one small caveat

unconditionally means no caveats....
Living in Seoul a city with an insanely good public transportation I have to say that it takes me 1,5h to commute to work.

It's crowded, it does not cover everything it's just as good as it can get.

Public transp. is not everything and wont solve all your problems.
I had the exact same experience on my dev cluster. It's a bit of a scary black box if you don't have the time/experience necessary to debug it.
Seeing a single result just above threshold leads a person to believe it's a match. Seeing the 200 people within a few points of the threshold might lead someone to think it was actually completely indeterminate with a large number of potential suspects not far from each other.

(I could be missing something here)
It's optional, you can already turn all autoplay off (about:config - media.autoplay.* settings, specifically media.autoplay.default = 1 turns it off)
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I remember during the Equifax breach of 2017, they put that clause in there if you signed up for their credit monitoring system.

I always thought those clauses were funny...would that hold up anywhere else?

"Hey, sorry I shot you...here's a bandaid, now you can't sue me!"
Heh. The first time I saw the famed BART in San Francisco I had flashbacks of retro-futurist art.

From what I read, they've recently updated most BART wagons, so now they look more modern. But back in 2012 it was quite funny to see them in the tech capital of the world :)
That is one of the things not mentioned. Do they have heat/AC, do they work when it is -30, how do they do in a crash (granted at a 28mph top speed they don't need much production). Will they be road legal?

I'm interested, my 4 mile commute never gets to 30mph anyway, but I need to be sure it will work for me vs just be another ATV that I have no use for. (I just moved, my bike is someplace but until the weather improves I'm not in a hurry to find it).

After looking closer I have more questions: will I fit? I'm only slightly taller than average (about a standard deviation more), but the pictures I can find in a search suggest that I wouldn't fit.
The counter-argument to that is fresh façades and glorious airport atriums are also a bit of a boondoggle.

You're right about poorly maintained public spaces however. Civic Center BART station comes to my mind.
Footnote 1 explains "The article is based on a lecture at the 2018 summer program Prospects in Theoretical Physics", which is a 2-week school for grad students, most of whom would not be working on exactly this.
America stopped believing in public infrastructure -- so it doesn't get any anymore.

As for private infrastructure, private investors are happy to cut all kinds of corners. It's all about profit, preferably short term, than making something lasting, and even less so, about being proud in it.

The funny thing is, not very long ago (well, 30 years or so still) people were awestruck going into the US from Asia, Europe, etc. I've visited the US many times in the past decades, but I was more impressed with the past artifacts (e.g. Route 66, Chicagoan art deco, the fabulous country side, old New York skyscrapers, New Orleans, etc.) than with modern infrastructure. Heck, third tier cities in Europe have better subways and airports.

(That said, I did appreciate the abundance of ultra-cheap consumer electronics compared to old Europe).

The other thing I think (not an expert) is too much bureaucracy -- all the busy works laws and regulations that quadruple the cost of any project, and not in a good (e.g. public safety, long term quality, etc) way.

What's funny is the US budget is still huge. Just the stuff going into military BS could provide for top notch infrastructure, and even create an environment that could still jobs from China with a better supply chain (though, of course, the US can never account for the sheer number of Chinese workers).
And a lot of things that are "animated gifs" really aren't animated gifs anymore, they're using audioless video players. So if you stopped autoplay, everything from gfycat, imgur, and similar would stop playing.
Sorry. I skimmed that entire section three times and never noticed that sentence.
Sometimes I look at "normal" society and wonder if the vagabonds are just ahead of the curve ;)
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> Stop making up things

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-50-000-american-br...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/08/13/infr...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/30/report...
https://www.businessinsider.com/asce-gives-us-infrastructure...
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/