skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has given away half his wealth, and plans to give more than 90%. If this is all a ploy to keep his money, he’s doing a terrible job at it.
> Not everyone on earth is a dev/gamer/video-editor. For regular people, electron is a cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud.

My 10 year old netbook runs RStudio? Discord works great on my 10 year old Dell 2nd screen computer. What doesn't run VSCode?
The article mentions they tried to engineer mosquitos to not carry malaria, but it made them weak and so natural selection favored the non-engineered mosquitoes.

As for the rest, yeah tricky business. By all accounts we have more value than a mosquito, but as you move up the food chain what are the unintended consequences?
Desperate? I'm not sure.

The total addressable market here is every non-local computational need.

That's trillions of dollars. For a market that is emerging right now, which already shows massive path dependency. So there's one time to win a slice. It can't be done later.

If I was Google's position, I wouldn't be running a profit. I'd be throwing every spare copper into Cloud to grab market share. I'd be giving away credits on street corners. Driving out at least IBM and Oracle by just drowning the market with data centre capacity. Buying my way into existing relationships. Finding folks in consumer-facing divisions who've trashed the brand ("how long until this service is canceled, ha ha ha") and pulling them up sharply. Doing whatever can be done.

I don't think Google really gets, at the highest levels, that this is the first business they have that can truly diversify them out of advertising. They seem to see it as a nice extra source of cash, rather than an existential imperative.

But then, Google hasn't got the DNA to be afraid of existential threats. It's just not something they've dealt with since they switched on the cash pumps. Meanwhile, everyone else in this fight gets it.
Given what counts as "feature rich" these days (and it seems some developers are constantly removing things that users used to use), I doubt that.

Software used to be both fast and "feature rich" (relatively speaking), designed so users could "grow" and learn increasingly more of it. Now almost everything seems to have idiotically dumbed-down "flat" UIs that look simpler yet still manage to consume more resources than before.

The new Skype is a great example. Compare to something like this: https://www.microsip.org/ Yes, I know they're different protocols, but the point is that IM and audio/video call functionality doesn't need to take as much resources as Skype does.
I've built applications on AWS, IBM Cloud (Bluemix at the time), Azure, and GCP. If a client has no preference over platform, I usually go with GCP. I find it the simplest, cheapest, and most reliable for the type of stack we use.

I've never had a client question GCP on the basis of Google's pattern of removing services. I think people can logically separate Google's consumer-facing offerings from their paid cloud services, the same way people logically separate AWS from the Amazon store. I've never noticed a GCP service removed in the nearly 10 years I've used them. In fact, the pattern I see with GCP is that they're slower to add services , but the ones they do release are very well thought out and solid. AWS, on the other hand, seems to add tons of services, some of which are incomplete or never get traction.

I would happily use either AWS or GCP. IBM Cloud and Azure I'm far less inclined to use, although I can understand Microsoft shops wanting to use Azure. IBM Cloud is pointless.
Because doing the same thing every day for decades is incredibly dull and some people want to do something new and exciting? Maybe someone started off in a high-pressure environment, but now wants to focus on their personal life and wants more freedom to actually... live their life?
Smallpox was a species, too. If we allow viruses to be species.
Intentionally getting banned by doing something publicly known to be bannable doesn't really apply
here httpswitter.com/zozie_kicks/status/1078008088978956289
“Your honor her skirt was so short she was asking to be raped” is what you are saying.
tomato - tomato. They are all the same thing to me. We still don't want others to see our sensitive or whatever info we own.
Sounds like abuse of the visa system. It puts you in a tough spot.
Deep Reactive Ion Etching should turn up more results. For watchmaking the application would be bulk micromachining.
> We should do it even if it isn't

That depends on the level of risk to other species, in case these genes leak across some barrier.

Which might be fine, but you need to, uh, check.
Dear Founders, Here’s What’s Better Than Money and the Epitome of Elegance
> I always like to use VSCode as an example...

Agreed, it's a great example of why Electron exists, but also a great example of an Electron app done well - I've used other Electron apps that have far fewer features, yet feel sluggish and/or are incredible memory hogs.

> But it's not.snappy.enough.

I also use VSCode on a daily basis (on Windows), and TBH I don't find it any less snappy than native IDEs such as Visual Studio or Rider, or indeed native text editors such as Notepad2.

> the whole user experience is actually quite bad. It's sluggish, inconsistent, it's full of random glitches

Similarly, I just don't have this experience - I find it both consistent and performant.

Do you use it on Windows, or another platform?
Reintroduce malaria?
None of those places humans inhabited lacked water and natural food sources, not to mention air.
Chat will never be interoperable because then vendors wouldn't be able to introduce their own exclusive emojis or GIFs or stories or whatever other nonsense.
The YouTube channel is even better if you're a Red Dwarf fan. Robert is amazing!
This is like acting surprised that a skateboard is not a suitable vehicle for going on a long vacation with.
I can think of one non-fiction book in particular that benefits hugely from being read as a summary[0]. The E-Myth contains some great information, but the storytelling style it is written in is absolutely excruciating.

[0] https://sivers.org/book/EMythRevisited
(I liked this summary - I found the link a few weeks ago on here. Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers)
MacOS Mojave Privacy Bug Allows Malicious Apps to Access Restricted Data
As usual, "regular people" means whatever the poster needs it to mean in order for their argument to make sense. It's a straw man.
I'm really struggling to understand your first sentence. Are you saying people generally aren't racist outside the US? Because my experience has been very, very different (and that's as a white male)
I remember more dreams of my own than there are dreams described on the paper.
IBM's Softlayer offers various Cloud options as well. I don't know how do they fare against other major Clouds however. I don't know about Google Cloud services, but AWS use a very unethical business model which lacks transparency. Most of their clients aren't warned that they will end up paying a high data transfer fees on "Data Transfer Out".

Our experience with Azure is a bit better, but they are still more expensive than any average cloud. Our company uses cloud infrastructure service with a smaller cloud - https://www.hostcolor.com/cloud/public-cloud.html - and they are pretty good and inexpensive, compared to the major clouds, in terms of technology (VMware Cloud computing) and in terms of cloud storage.
To be clear, I don't care if the text is the __exact__ bit I want to save or not. A bit too much on either end is time. I can always edit (if necessary). My immediate want / need would simply be the capture.
Sublime feels like a marriage between TUI & GUI.
* Everything is controllable by keyboard
* Mouse based menus for one-time usage
* Command Palette is awesome and very useful
* FAST
* Scriptable

Really hope they can keep being profitable.
"If you just want JSON over HTTP with some status codes"

yes this

Qualifier: have not been able to use graphql yet, and I'd still like to try it out at least before making and judgements
This space will go to Flutter. Probably faster than anyone realizes.
let me know when it's available as a WP plugin! should I drop my contact in the partners page for that?
Twitter sucks as a discussion platform but it excels as an insult delivery system.
I use VSCode for programming (Typescript), but it's also become a great replacement for my usual native text editor (Notepad2). I love how performant yet, feature-packed and extensible it is, and since I keep my notes in Markdown format, the `yzhang.markdown-all-in-one` extension is really useful.
this sound like that game — horizon zero dawn
umm. That's cvs. csv is something else, and it matters if you're a datashoveler.
> If you think twitter is bigger than the president of the USA

Why would it not be? It's a worldwide thing, not just for some provincial colony.

> She can post herself holding a decapitated head of the president

Which was clearly a joke.

> and sick mobs on school children

Yep, I'd agree she should be suspended for that.
I remember the mess that came before jQuery. This is quite literally what we did back then, just with a custom made snippet of JS for finding by id and by class. It sucked. I mean to me Bootstrap is just a black box library, I don’t care how it works as long as it does. But this is going to suck for those working on its code.
For the https://www.chef.sh/ there's http://www.foodcritic.io/ For Terraform there seems to exist a linter as well https://github.com/wata727/tflint
I‘m just about as far to the left as an old radio set to 800Mhz, but it still seems foolish to choose Bill Gates as the specific hill to die on.

As but one problem: Microsoft employees, especially the early ones, don’t strike me as particularly good examples of abject victims of capitalism.
Great write-up, thanks for sharing your real-world experience.
Building a larger and better sales org is exactly what Google should have been doing starting 5 years ago.
nginx is your friend.
Have you tried searching commands with the "command Palette". It makes everything discoverable for me.
I personally LOVE the UX
Dude, it took me 2 evenings. My IQ is abysmal. What is wrong with you?
Antifa stands for anti-fascistic action. They don't just oppose fascism from the arm chair, they oppose it with violence where necessary, because they figure fascists use violence too. If not now, then certainly once they gain power, therefore use all means necessary to prevent that.

It's absolutely a case of the end justifying the means, and there's no doubt an anti-democratic aspect to it. It's driven by a fear for fascism and a perceived need to use extreme measures to stop it.

Some people argue that Antifa is itself fascist in a way, and if you consider how fascism uses (and stokes) fear for a common enemy to unite people in support of their ideology, there might be something to it. There's some very slippery slope there.
Not my area of expertise at all, but mosquitoes seem unique in nature in that they can pick up diseases from one animal and spread them to another by direct blood transfusion. I've long wondered if this might confer some kind of advantage to the animals being bit, perhaps along the lines of how vaccines work.
One could argue that the rise of people arguing against vaccination of children is directly related to those people not having direct experience with the horrific realities of the diseases in question.

That aside, millions of human deaths (annually or in total) is a horrific tragedy, but if we, say, managed to render a large area of land uninhabitable through ecological collapse for a generation or more, it might be far worse, both in some imaginary absolute scale, and for the people directly displaced.
> Kathy Griffin literally called for her followers to dox the MAGA kids.

Well, she asked for names, not a full dox, but I would agree that she should have been temporarily suspended for that, yep.

> like some trans-esclusionary radical femminists

They tend not to be leftist/liberal in my experience.
> Unless... unless, of course, we are happy with the import of rabbits et al to Australia.

Odd that you lead with the dismissal of one logical fallacy and then in the short space of this comment fall into the trap of using another one yourself.
Yup: https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/...
I find this meme annoying because it so often misses the point (as I'd argue it does in this particular discussion).

Yes, races are largely a social concept. However, once society has defined races based on whatever phenotypes that are in fashion at the time, it turns out that yes, there is a biological and genetic basis for those phenotypes. It's conceivable that this biological basis could be targeted by some gene-based technology. Probably not very accurately, but based on past observations I'd say that racist mass murderers are not particularly likely to care about such subtleties. And that's what matters for the GP's point.
Sure! Any two things I don't understand are equivalent to me!
Twitter was not made to have conversations. It is not a forum system. And that is not a bad thing. If you want to use a forum, why don't you sign up for one?
I both love it and hate it. I love it because a lot of the supporters, on the inside, hate it too. They've spent the last decade saying, ya gotta keep 'em separated. Now they have to say no, it is fine to mix 'em. And it's killing them to say it, but they need jobs, so they follow the herd.

But, yeah, other than that, it's a stupid idea.
Well, it was a test to see if it was the word 'goy' that was the trigger - previous suspensions had already happened. But fair point, it's not a great example.
Agreed, but showing messages in order? That's doable isn't it?

I'd be annoyed if my text messages started displaying out of order.
>But it's not.snappy.enough.

I was following you until this line... In general I agree about Electron though probably not to the same degree as you. But for me VSCode runs amazingly well; I think the only thing that tops it is Sublime (and I vastly prefer VSCode's interface and features). Not saying that what you said isn't your experience, but you should know it's not everyone's experience.
SMS can be chained seamlessly to form longer messages. SMS is frequently between two parties, twitter is the opposite. I'd say SMS is very good for (asynch electronic) conversations between two people, twitter for one-way short thoughts that are fire-and-forget.

But then, can we really call it a conversation when potentially twitter user base is included in the event? It's more like lotsa people on a town square, shouting. Including the town idiots.
Tech is boom bust, and nobody ever sees the boom end.

The problem is that large segments of the workforce have a relatively short shelf-life.
If it wasn't for the fact that Skype is one of the products that tends to work in China without interruptions (as opposed to Hangouts), I'd have deleted my account there long back.
> What rubs me the wrong way, however, is that the paper also implies that the less anxious you are the more normal you are in your dreams.

Hi, thanks for your comment. To be clear, it is not a value judgement by any means. We do not have responsibility for the feelings that we have and how they are surfaced in dreams. I have found it is the case that as an anxiety is worked through (e.g., I was anxious about standing up for myself, and practiced this in real life and found that I did not need to be so scared of it) the behaviour in the dream shifts to suit the demands of the situation more. These changes could be in accordance with the reconsolidation of the fear memory in the retrosplenial cortex (an area of the brain thought to be responsible for storing episodic fear memories which is more active during REM sleep than during waking). However, this is not where the process ends. When an anxiety is dealt with, another one surfaces and the behaviour is again at odds with the demand of the situation. So the 'normality' is short lived (and is not useful).

It is the case that individuals who experience less fear have more positive dream content, such as those with non-functioning amygdalas (Domhoff, 2017), individuals with greater wellbeing (Sikka, Pesonen, & Revonsuo, 2018), and even the Dalai Lama (Mehrotra & Lama, 2005). Those who have greater wellbeing also have fewer recurring dreams (Gauchat, Zadra, Tremblay, Zelazo, & Séguin, 2009). These are not my views, and I do not have an opinion on what type of content is 'better', but they are the results from other studies.
This guardian article is relevant:

Blend of stupidity and seriousness does BuzzFeed no favours

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/17/buzzfeed-city-...
Microsoft’s bias towards windows stunted it’s growth severely. It seems googles bias towards its ad-revenue based models is something similar.

Specifically, googles inability to adopt a customer-service oriented mindset and customer-privacy will be its end. Is search really it’s core strength anymore? I’d think it’s more it’s ability to reindex in a day and filter out spam.

Fundamentally, as long as google offers free services funded by converting its user data into anonymous normal distributions to be sold, I don’t think google will ever be able to overcome its stigma as a non privacy focused company. I don’t care how many privacy menu settings or SPA control panels it offers. It’s like asking if fb is ever going to be trustworthy.. haha

When a new company scales out a better search algorithm updates as fast as google... on top of aws infrastructure.. that would be interesting

I wonder what is amazons weakness that will be its undoing

It’s been ten years.. still waiting for google to give me a reliable customer service phone number on the quality of amazons.. heck I’m still waiting for google to offer a user service where I know it won’t just die or change 180 arbitrarily. I think it’s a little too late by now. Does the general public even trust in google being a secure, reliable company? Doesn’t seem that way imho
Why will AR require a persistent full-scale model of the globe? Isn't the whole point of AR that it takes the existing environment, generates a local map on the fly, and overlays something useful on it? My 2025-model AR sunglasses don't need to know nor care what shape the Arc de Triomphe is, they just need to know the names of the people in my field of view[1], or where the walls and floor of my house are, or maybe the next 500m of the road I'm driving on.

[1] This is my dearest hope for AR, that someday all the people around me will have MMO-style nameplates, because I have many strengths but remembering the names of people I've just met is not one of them.
So you are like Barney from How I Met Your Mother? “What’s my other other number one rule Ted? New is always better!”

How many times can you update a URL parser or leftpad? Do you need to update them just to up your GitHub activity meter?
It seems like that statistic will be harder to keep as technology becomes more pervasive in our lives.
Horror.
4 antivirus programs in 2G RAM

That makes me think of what school and uni digital illiteracy should look like.
We are going way off topic here, too bad there is not even one answer to my question:

> Do you think this is acceptable from a privacy perspective?

But back to your point. Query params contain usually tokens, search queries, and id's. This is not so much the case for paths. I think you agree with that. But indeed, paths can have sensitive information too.

How would you prevent that data to be sent to my server?
Interesting thought - CRISPR could be used to create a baby of an entirely different "race" to its parents just by changing these DNA markers.
The comparison between the classes of "Las Vegas" and "Monte Carlo" algorithms is a useful distinction, along with the author's suggestion of using a cache table as a lookup table for compression match finding.

If anyone is interested, I wrote @ronomon/hash-table as a fast, scalable cuckoo hash table for Node.js.

It has high load factor, constant lookup time in the worst-case and uses a non-recursive variant of the cuckoo probing scheme, together with a bloom filter to reduce cache misses to the alternative cuckoo bucket by an order of magnitude.

Last but not least, caching is supported according to the CLOCK LRU algorithm, which is elegant and effective.

Benchmarks and design decisions are in the README:

https://github.com/ronomon/hash-table
The newsworthy bit is that Jack seemed tripped up by it, too. Why agree to an interview in a format that will showcase the worst aspects of your product?
Simply confirmed the widespread suspicion? That is an interesting historical retcon. It brings to mind room 641A being "widespread suspicion". It is the difference between theoretical and practical.

The NIST is a known danger - they have earned their reflexive blind distrust. I wouldn't even trust their relative rankings.
While it's not what article is about, but amount of distraction you see even just to read this article is insane: https://i.imgur.com/xHRmvuJ.png
I feel like Kara Swisher just handled this in a bad way. You can easily have a conversation on Twitter: you make a tweet, someone else answers it. Rinse-repeat. Jack would've just needed to load Kara's twitter profile and reply to new tweets. What am I missing?
uBlock Origin on Firefox is available on mobile.
Twitter is basically broadcasting. Why would expect bidirectional communication?
Questioning the end result of capitalism is obviously touchy for many...

My comment was simply that you can question the state of capitalism in the world today without suggesting that communism should take it’s place.

P.s
Also, have a talk to the insects, polar bears, cheetahs (only 7000 of them beauties left), etc.

Out of whack and out of balance.
Gold bugs and libertarians believe in the epically flawed quantity theory of money. Inflation can be controlled if it is used to build capital that increases efficiency and thus lowers the cost of oroduction. If newly created money flows directly into asset speculation via the western system of lending against assets to buy other assets, then this creates inflation. The western system also has the side effect of rewarding lazy money thst doesn't need to make anything to see itself grow. All it needs to do is follow the newly created money into whatever asset class is currently in fashion.
Free API for football (soccer) videos
Just curious, are there any users of irssi that chose it over weechat-curses? If so, why?
Electron has a leg up in this regard long term, insomuch as the web is a platform that folks using assistive tech often use, Chromium is a reasonable target for assistive web technologies, and Electron apps have a higher chance of using accessible semantic building blocks by default.

Now, in practice? Yeah, not so good right now.
If you're early in your career and looking for something useful to learn, SQL's a good bet. It will probably outlast every other part of the tech stack you now use. Everything the author says about SQL is true.

But, like asphalt for roads and aluminum for airplanes, it still can stand a lot of improvement. By the way, it's just as important as asphalt and aluminum, and consequently just as hard to change. That's the curse of the customer base.

I wish the SQL world could agree on standards for string manipulation, and stored function / proc programming.
> CNN is easily the most far-left news show.

Really? CNN has never struck me as particularly left.
Possibly also leeches - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8073013

"many fish leeches directly transmit several blood parasites"
"Consequently, the leech is a potential vector of many pathogens, especially in regions with an endemic spread of human and/or animal pathogens."