skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing a Vulcan bomber doing aerobatics over our wee Scottish village - quite a site and the noise was incredible.
No. Not true. Nobody does that. Economists are well aware that as countries develop the rate at which they progress slows.
I left it out because it seems to me OP was mistaken. Debian Stable ships with Rust 1.24.1, which is well beyond the last vulnerable version 1.20.

https://packages.debian.org/stable/rust/
Probably because those things are much harder to quantify or are depending on cultural factors that make difficult to establish a comparison.
"Alexa data mine my whole life"
“Demand” and physical infrastructure have a lot to do with GDP. By Demand I mean the price quality curve people / companies are willing to pay.

Russia has 1/12 US GDP spread over a huge area. They have fairly good network capacity but simply don’t pay for that many servers. Tiny counties with good networks may randomly be chosen, but the odds are low. Where both US and China have the demand to support multiple AWS zones,
Nor is he any sort of “security chief”
The old Google Finance site was one of the better finance and stocks portal you could go to. Now it’s shite.
Bill Gates on the Vergecast
Golang's iota enums seem to me to be at least equivalent to C-tier enums. The iota syntax helper is even an improvement.

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Iota
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135701
About as fascinating to watch as media produced on the ISS. So after the initial hype, not mainstream.
I am interested in designs/technologies that could be viewed as alternatives to the usual tech stack for SPAs, even if these technologies are outdated but exhibit interesting properties compared to what we are used to today. That would include Smalltalk and Delphi yes. Sorry if I misunderstood your initial comment.
"At the moment, global CO₂ emissions are about 37 billion metric tons per year"

"Still, greenhouses and soda bubbles together represent a small global market — perhaps six million metric tons of CO₂ annually."

Hmm... as they point out later on, this only starts to make a difference if they get the whole air-capture-to-hydrocarbons thing working, fuelled by surplus renewable energy, and there's a global moratorium or limitation on oil/gas exploration and drilling.
> You are replacing 1000 low-skilled sweatshop workers

> It's a complete win

Complete win for who exactly ?

How do you reconcile automation and the current economy of consumption ? As far as I can tell they don't work hand in hand very well.
These 1000 workers will still want their part of the cake, to do so you'll have to get them new jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if every time we go through a cycle of automation we also go one layer deeper in the "bullshit jobs" creation.

It's all fun and games until you have to take into consideration the soci-economical aspect of automation.

"Automation, the most advanced sector of modern industry as well as the model which perfectly sums up its practice, drives the commodity world toward the following contradiction: the technical equipment which objectively eliminates labor must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity and as the only source of the commodity. If the social labor (time) engaged by the society is not to diminish because of automation (or any other less extreme form of increasing the productivity of labor), then new jobs have to be created. Services, the tertiary sector, swell the ranks of the army of distribution and are a eulogy to the current commodities; the additional forces which are mobilized just happen to be suitable for the organization of redundant labor required by the artificial needs for such commodities." - The society of spectacle.
Protectionism does work, every rich country protected its domestic production until it was able to compete on a global level.

Doing otherwise would just result in the internal industry being bought out for pennies or being obliterated by advanced competitors.

Protectionism doesn't guarantee that a country will be successful at building cars, but they should at least bloody try to before giving up.

And yes, capitalism can improve a country's fortunes if applied judiciously. Merely opening the markets to a free for all wil just result in the vultures swooping in, getting rich and leaving some rests for the locals.
>And they had pocket-sized automatics in 1920? Women's pocket sized?

I don't know much about women's everyday clothing of the 1920s but I would wager fewer people carried handbags so the average pocket was probably bigger.

The article said she was wearing a fur coat so she probably could have concealed a broom-handle Mauser had she wanted to.
Still using PayPal? SuperPay is cheaper
> Saudi Arabia is a sovereign nation. That means within their borders they can do as they please, even if we don't like what they do.

Sure, but no western agent is obliged to comply with the moral standards of Saudi Arabia, or any other country to that matter.

Apple, Google are complacent because they want to do business in Saudi Arabia. They're favoring profit over enforcing western morality within their operations abroad, and will continue to do so as long as they don't get too much scrutiny.
One of those processes emits energy, the other requires energy input - and to overcome the entropy, the capture process requires more energy.

Edit: one barrel of oil produces 0.43 metric tons CO2 and costs about $60. Therefore, if your price of CO2 capture is more than $140/ton, it's cheaper to "capture" the CO2 by buying a barrel of oil and "sequestering" it as you would the CO2. So if carbon capture prices are more than about $150 it would be a viable business to operate a "reverse oilfield" buying oil on the open market and pumping it underground.
No, spyware does not have to be installed without anyone knowledge. Spyware is software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's activities. The app that sends one partner wherabouts to another one without the first wanting it so is equal outrageous when used by jealous western girlfriend.

Ad second paragraph: how does that changes anything? Same app from Iran is same problem. Similar app watching Chinese dissidents is same issue. All would be against Google terms of services too.

You are also changing topics and goalposts. The "how to magically improve situation of women in every single oppressive country in the world" was not the topic of this thread. It was whether preventing this app constitute "asking Apple and Google to proactively police their apps, if they are designed to prevent freedoms on not" with implications for bank apps, bible and koran.

Of course pressure on Google wont solve problem. No single action will ever solve the problem. It might make the Google to contribute to the problem less. There is difference between passively not doing anything and actively contributing to the problem. That is fine.

Then again, keeping the app will not solve the freedom issue either.
Time to deprecate the web and start from scratch.
> and has a bad habit of slurping up binary formats and doing crazy internal YOLO pointer chasing.

... you know that this about what 9/10th's of an operating systems device driver code look like, right?
Modules in 1.11 have some rough edges. Internally we have written a merge driver which is imperfect for handling version conflicts, and a couple of my coworkers keep having to delete $GOPATH/pkg . I was hoping these would be addressed in this release but it doesn't look like they are.
For me the only use I have for IE is as a .net control to be able to access and manipulate the DOM in .net, for small web scrapping toy projects. I doubt the new Edge will be integrated as well as IE was (if integrated at all), so I will miss that when it is gone.
Google literally censors plugins they don't like from being loaded into Chrome. No.
The solution generally is "we form a department that employs qualified people and scores entities on quality X", then the law says "entities with less than 50% X as determined by the department for X scores shall not appear on the first page of results". As a programmer you should know that all problems can be solved with enough levels of indirection :) .
Sweden's cashless experiment: Is it too much too fast?
The new layout is annoyingly modern but I do like the ability to read an article and go back to the list without reloading the page.

Now if res can just be updated for the new site to further fix all the little niceties. The fast use switching inevitably drives me back to old mode soon enough.

In the mean time create a bunch of accounts to help their valuation right? I've got a dozen accounts and forgotten the password to at least as many.
You'd be amazed how much legislation just says "reasonable" and leaves the court to the details.
>If he's got a gun in each hand, how is he cleaning out the cash register?

Three hands or creative journalism.

>(I expect the author meant "from under her coat" and she had a tommy gun

Self loading pistols were called "automatics" in the day (they were more "automatic" than a revolver and all this stuff was relatively new, the wording was still getting figured out). A couple that felt the need to shore up their finances via armed robbery would not have had access to a Thompson. They were VERY expensive.

A Tommy gun is a pretty big weapon. An NFL line backer wearing a fur coat might be able to conceal one (a typical pattern folding stock AK is smaller in every way). An average person probably shouldn't even try. The women in the story is 5ft tall.
I think that there is a precedent for it, mainly in pop art and even more in film. You can't use other people's work to enhance your own work without giving credit.

I think that the gray area is if it's considered inspiration? We can't quantify how much we 'steal' from others in our own work.
I have a tax adviser but I do most of the things myself and let her look over it. 4 Years ago I had no clue what had to be done but I didn't want to give it away because it's an important topic and I want to know what has to be done. So I let her show and explain me basically everything (of course I paid them for it).

If you give it away completely, at least here in Germany they are paid based on revenue (%) so they get their money anyways and as it usually is they want to have the easiest path so they cut corners and not always have your best in mind. They are paid the same, if they save you money or not.

This was honestly the best decision I made because I learned a lot about taxes, businesses in general and ways to optimise my company. That would've never happened if I would've chosen the easier path back then. Of course it takes some time, and might distract you from your day-to-day business, but it's knowledge you will benefit from your whole life.
Calling something Dumb does not win an argument.

Is flag football still football becase it’s got a similar name?

Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling are separated at the olimpics. Even though they share the “wrestling” tile and just have different rules.

Clearly, people have different full names for the different types of football becase they are different sports. Which need somewhat different training and different reflexes.
This is just law of conservation of energy (1st law of thermodynamics). If burning carbon to CO2 produces certain amount of energy (part of which then can be used to do useful work), then the reverse of that process, breaking up CO2 to carbon and oxygen, will require at least the amount of energy that was produced in burning it.

So yeah, it's nice to have the technology to take CO2 from the air and create C and O2, however, the catch is, it requires energy. If that energy comes from fossil fuels, you will be better off not to do this thing at all, because you will end up creating a bit more CO2 in the process.
They're not. Better C compilers understand for warning purposes stuff like "you've used all but one of this enum in a switch case block, are you sure you don't want to use all of them"?
> How can I start, or be involved in, something more rewarding?

Absolutely fascinating question, but sadly not one I personally have the answer to, because I think only you do.

EDG looks very interesting - but I wonder how much business they actually do though? I also notice they do work with Dinkumware (http://www.dinkumware.com/) - God that is a blast from the past!

I guess just keep trying small projects and following interesting ideas and companies - something will grab you in the end.
> Eventually one simply caught fire in the air

Full details in the Haddon Cave report [0], the official investigation into the crash of Nimrod MR2 aircraft XV230 in Afghanistan in 2006. The 'simply' here (as in 'simply' caught fire) was in fact a catalogue of known problems and missed opportunities. The Nimrod variant involved was originally intended to perform long-duration maritime surveillance and was designed to allow the crew to intentionally switch off one of the engines when the plane arrived on station (to save fuel while loitering for hours). To restart the engine there was a pipe routed through the fuselage that carried hot gases from the running engine to kick start the cold one.

A separate modification of the complicated tanks and plumbing that supported in-air refuelling led to a (leaky) fuel pipe that was routed right past the (very hot) engine cross-coupling pipe. Very minor leaks somewhere in the system were routine.

In this case there was a fuel leak near the engine cross-coupling pipe. The unfortunate crew of 14 had six minutes from initial fire warning to the eventual and unavoidable explosion that killed them all.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nimrod-review
OK, I was hoping others had perhaps found something I'd not, even though I'd tried to read whatever documentation I could. Thanks, though.
Indeed. We should be able to split our browser choices freely between a duopoly!
It's drawing unnecessary attention to the sex of the human over the content of the argument. The way people casually (and self deprecatingly) throw it into conversation seems like a cheap way to win points with those who share a certain ideology, not a logical argument.
We have law from a few years ago that demands that all services that operate users' personal data to store it in Russia. It's more about having the power to access the data if needed without asking a service to provide the data first. Just come and grab it.
Not OP, but possibly illustrated child porn? Perfectly legal in Japan if censored correctly, illegal in France, Germany and other countries. See also the Mastodon and Pawoo split.
The other part of this "cooked" term we're missing is that microwave energy (RF energy in the 300 MHz to 300 GHz band) only "cooks" things when there is enough energy at the excitation frequency of water molecules. That frequency is around 2.4 or 2.5 GHz. Most cell phones operate in the 700, 800, 900, 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2100 MHz bands.
I'm very happy to hear it's less of a problem in other countries. I admire your optimism and hope for the same :)
Doing so today would only result in a worse and more proprietary product, I suspect.
You are badly mixing up sides in nuclear race a bit, we europeans were bystanders compared to US-Russia race and never really caught up with neither of them.
Who would fight for Taiwan?

The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis is illustrative in this regard: The Clinton administration sent two aircraft carriers and accompanying ships toward Taiwan. Beijing threatened a fierce response: if the U.S. Navy entered the Strait, it would face a "sea of fire." Washington turned the ships around. See [1].

China is a lot more powerful today that it was 2 decades ago.

[1] J. A. Bosco, The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Crisis: Three What Ifs?. https://taiwaninsight.org/2019/01/26/the-1995-96-taiwan-stra...
Indeed. I for one was very excited about Edge and desperately wanted a new browser engine.
When you put it in context, there's a handful of people using all kinds of local systems. Then there's hundreds of millions if not billions that use the other well-established systems.

Regarding credit cards, very few Visa and Mastercard are credit, especially in Europe.
The new package in Ubuntu Trusty seems to be broken. Not that Trusty is supported for much longer. See https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/591
> Google is trying something with Fuchsia though. And there are experiments similar to how Linux itself got started. (Redox OS comes to mind.)

Aware of both of these, but yeah, wake me up when either are close to being capable of being even a niche competitor, for example, as complete and accessible as Haiku currently is.
Export+to+Excel+using+VB.NET
Cash is king. Anything else you should consider a heavily discounted lottery ticket.
I don't think it's a given that it will always be cheaper to avoid emissions. Long-haul air travel, for example, isn't likely to go electric anytime soon, and it could well be that the cheapest option is to absorb their emissions from the air and inject them into the ground, rather than producing carbon-neutral jet fuel.

If this technology really does get down to $94/ton, then a $100/ton price on carbon emissions is likely to give it a role. People can reduce emissions whenever it costs less than $94/ton to do so, and if it costs more, they could pay for absorption instead.

$100/ton CO2 would raise the price of gasoline by a dollar a gallon, which doesn't seem all that unattainable, especially if the collected funds are redistributed as a dividend.
If anyone cares: Get rid of new Facebook sponsored posts
There are also many people for whom ActiveX and NPAPI plugins are the only reason they use old browsers like IE.

A lot of investment went into niche contracted solutions that are built in Java and Silverlight, and contracting replacements is a huge cost in the face of some abstract cyber security mumbo jumbo. Hell, those guys are screaming about everything all the time anyways, what makes this browser thing any different? /s
A downwards user-share trajectory, and a downwards reputation trajectory. I don't think that all the hate Mozilla's getting is deserved, but a lot of people didn't like that one easter egg, or the mess with Pocket.
The US has global powers of taxation, ironically brought by the GOP framework of war on terror laws. There has never been a time where the US has had more ability to tax the mega-rich.

It is still difficult to get away form Uncle Sam and will be for some time.
interesting. how do you do this?
I wonder if someone wanting to go despite a 90% death rate should be disqualified on psychological grounds?

Sort of like the old joke that "I'd never want to join a club that would have me as a member".
For gtk, gstreamer etc. PyGObject should just work. It has PyPy as part of its CI pipeline. Also in combination with matplotlib (GTK3Cairo backend) and numpy.

Not sure about PySide2..
Provided C-tiers enums are just constants associated with an integer value, go's `const` are already providing you with the same thing, and are even more strongly typed.

enum foo {Bar, Baz, Foobar};
void f() {
enum foo f = 5; // Will happily compile
int f2 = Baz; // Will happily compile
}

vs

type foo int
const (
bar foo = iota
baz
foobar
)

func f() {
var f foo = 5 // Will happily compile, i.e as bad as C-tier enums
var f2 int = baz // error: cannot use baz (type foo) as type int in assignment
}
When I was at university, there was one guy that came along to study sessions who was getting his degree part-time. He was already a software developer, writing embedded system software for a defence company, so he was already an established programmer. He was getting his degree in CS in order to complete his body of knowledge, and to try and open up other career avenues for him.

He'd been studying for four years already, and was in his final year of doing it part-time - working four days a week, and studying one.

To answer your questions from what happened to him:

* This guy left his job after graduating, because his department was closed, and he ended up joining a startup. I'm not sure if the CS degree helped him there or not.

* I can't speak for this guy, but the work he does now is in stuff we learned at uni, and not stuff he was doing before. In terms of FAANG, it's hard to say because a degree won't guarantee you an interview. I have a CS degree, and I've applied to each FAANG company, but haven't ever been offered an interview.

* I remember asking this, because I wanted to be a Web Developer, and he said that he found it easier to learn how before learning why, because when he learned the theory he could put it into action without confusing the subject.
* No idea on opportunity cost. I think a lot of it depends on the CS curriculum you'll be following.

* I'd say so. It's why this guy said he studied for his degree part-time.

* In my experience, a lot of places that want a graduate don't particularly care what the degree is in, so it's up to you. I've worked with capable programmers with all sorts of unrelated degrees, from philosophy to medicine to art history. With that being said, I've never worked at a company with degree requirements that wouldn't interbiew an experienced developer with no degree.

* Arguably, a degree isn't relevant. If you're already a capable programmer, you shouldn't need a CS degree to continue what you're doing.

* It depends on where you are from, but it can happen. One of the guys I used to do BJJ with has a doctorate in physics (from a good university) and no bachelors degree, based on previous work experience and a prior working relationship with a professor. It seems very rare, though, so I wouldn't hinge any bets on getting a masters in CS unless you can point towards significant contributions to the field in your previous work.
The author of the blog is Remy Sharp. He was first involved with these projects at CERN in 2013, it looks like: http://line-mode.cern.ch/interviews/

He is a web developer.

"My role was the coding part. I have a lot of experience writing Javascript-based applications. I could see how Javascript could solve a lot of the problems to replicate this old browser. So I worked on the back end server that allows you to visit any other website and get it into the line-mode browser."
Good for them!

As long as I don't have to pay for that stuff, either through taxes or directly, I couldn't care less.
When firefox switched to web extensions a lot of the UI modding methods were no longer supported. I doubt this would be a viable route.
Just checked out their offering, and they sell....glorified WiFi routers and range extenders?

And I've just read there's a mandatory account + sign-in for these things?

What am I missing?! Just go buy a couple consumer routers and a spool of cat5e and you're done. If you're lazy, get a powerline device to bring connectivity to the remote router.

This is goofy!
Show HN: Online marketing design tool
My buddy is developing a fireworks Sim in js + embedded systems to coordinate with a fireworks show.

The embedded work is basically done, but he was considering using JS and three.js, any suggestions/advice?
There's a pretty alarming trend of mass surveillance and censorship in the UK.
Agreed. It is definitely not profitable going to Mars. The only people who'd want to go, would be the most extreme ideologues.

A toxic environment, surrounded by a toxic environment.
The title sounds like someone is actually seriously working on stopping climate change, so that there is something to provide some help to. Which is, well, not the case, no?