skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the RNC clown car from 2016

As opposed to the DNC clown car from 2016 where everything about the primaries was pre-cooked by DNC insiders and their media helpers?

I don't understand how any rational person can claim moral high ground for either party.
I know this might not be a popular opinion, and I recommend that the the code author inform people about this, but realistically, I kind of expect installation telemetry of some kind at this point. Would it not be right to assume that most installs do a ping back to help track things like the versions of the OS and compiler used to build and install the software and if there were any problems?
http://august.nagro.us/small-java.html

You can run an empty Spring Boot service in 15MB of RAM or so.
Alexandre Dumas’s Magnum Opus Was a Cookbook
> The OP is about 3DOF content where the stereo is baked

The OP is about Google Spotlight Stories, which mostly produced non-interactive 6DoF experiences. Obviously on Daydream headsets or YouTube videos which don't support 6DoF you'd only get 3DoF, but if you download the videos on Steam 6DoF works just fine: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=Google%20Spotlig...
I don't disagree with you, querying for every page served could easily get out hand.

Strictly speaking, I didn't even write the comment above. Someone else did, it got censored, and I found that disgusting, so I copy pasted and posted it. You can find the original at the bottom if you have showdead.
A conjecture that I entertain, allowing a bit of validity to Julian Jaynes' "bicameral mind" theory:

Egyptians back then could literally hear commands from statues as representations of the gods. Maybe breaking off the noses muted the voices (not sure why noses and not mouths). Warring factions might have wanted to mute opposing gods and install their own.
They just don't simply "acquire" you, with a gun to your head. They make an offer and then one presumes they would mull it over. It is publicly known that Yahoo tendered the $1 billion USD offer at Facebook in its infancy. Obviously they said no, and then they disrupted the market.

I'd also like to point you to Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. One of the parts is that well run companies while doing everything optimally will lead themselves to destruction because they will laugh and scoff at the idea of being involved at the lower-end market brought on by new technologies.

Then theres also the internal resistance within the company. Imagine trying to staff up a small team to checkout a possible new technology to do X. No rational manager will want to take that opportunity as it is clearly a fool's errand. They'd rather stay and be the manager for the profit generating center, rather than go pursue some foolish idea that clearly will never go anywhere.

So what you end up with is many, many reasons why the best companies miss the ball on where the market was moving to in an obvious (in hindsight) way.

[0]https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation
I always hear about these “retraining programs” but I’ve never met anyone who has done one. Where do these programs even happen? What are they training people to do? Is it offered to people who file for unemployment or meant to be more proactive?
Given how rock-solid Syncthing has been, I wonder how hard it would be to bolt encryption onto it so anything that some specific nodes receive is always encrypted.
From the TOS:

By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service. The Company does not guarantee the accuracy, quality, or integrity of any user content posted.

They also have a ban against distributing or even talking about macro/autohotkey programs, and, of course, they can see every single message and piece of content you put on the service.

It's 20XX; why is there anything but harsh condemnation for services like this? Modern communication platforms should not be set up this way.
You compare the value of a given property to that of similar properties in other locations. Let us say you have two identical apartment buildings: one in the city center, and one on the outskirts of the city. It is likely that renting an apartment in the former is more expensive, despite both building being exactly the same. The difference in rental rates between the two buildings is due to the difference in value of the land they are built on.

Further reading: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/p/valuations-and-potential-lvt-r...
All the effort to avoid Google Analytics, only to turn around and use Google Sheets?
Because they were afraid of Yuni and not his wife.
Does this have a way to only sync partially sync? So if I have my huge music library there, but I only one sync particular folder to my phone?
H.264 isn't capable of HDR is it?
Which would be ignorant, everything has its place. In any case, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSk5fdKbd3o
Facebook outage continues for millions of users worldwide
Just a noob question here. IPFS doesn't guarantee that any data stored in it will be available for retrieval in future (unless lots of nodes want to cache it).

Why will anyone want to use IPFS for data storage without an availability and latency guarantee?
>retraining these fifty year old guys who have been truck drivers or coal miners

While thats true, I think the premise is wrong. Techno-types love to imagine that automation is just going to sweep through these industries.

The devil of these things is in the details. Yes, perhaps the tech can get to approximate 90% of what a human can do. However, the real problem are outside of tech. Like liability insurance. Who gets sued when one of Elon's driverless trucks plows into a school bus? Surely not the "trucking company"? So the software company will have to assume that...Now, imagine there are 50M driverless vehicles on the roads, what does that monthly policy look like? What insurance company will underwrite that? What happens if a zero-day is found? etc. etc.
These calls always seem easy in the aftermath, when you have the benefit of hindsight. In both of these cases, billions of dollars are on the line, but the truth is, there is always some risk. There is, as we've all heard, a greater risk of us dying in our car than any type of air catastrophe. Yet we still drive. How many flights have these planes taken? I can almost guarantee that Boeing did not build this sensor; the sensor has a spec sheet, its operational capability was verified in a laboratory and the FAA approved it. If the problem was not recoverable, they would have grounded the planes after the first accident; it appeared to be a training issue. Anyway, we can only make decisions with the information we have; it was the satellite data that suggested there was a link. It was then that the direction was clear and the call was made; this system is too dangerous as it is.

Making decisions based on fear is a fools errand. It is how you spend trillions of dollars waging wars combating terrorism when the risk of a terror related death is the US is lower than getting struck by lightening.
>You should track its usage with your own analytics.

I appreciate the joke, but don't give them ideas. Since one can't normally track interactions with the scrollbar, I wouldn't be surprised if they were to implement their own "scrollbar" from DIVs to be able to track if the user had dragged it.

Just put back the built-in scrollbar. Period.
Microservices are resumé-oriented architecture, like using CORBA 25 years ago.
Is there a reason to believe this is a Google strategic change instead of some individual Chromium hacker who happens to own a Switch and wants to use its controller for fun? (I don't see any more context on the bug, so it seems to be it could be either.)
Wow, this just shows how fragile the connection between users and apps are now...

Ome Minute down and you lose 1M users..
Agreed. The duty-cycle rating for the commercial machines is much higher and typically are field serviceable. $15k is still a bit steep in my opinion, based on peeking inside a few of those machines. I'm nosy that way.
Most of the conversation here is pros/cons of Signal vs. Telegram. The bigger elephant in the room is whatsapp. Instead of telegram/signal trying to one up each other, try to be better than whatsapp. Even then, you will need to get to a critical mass usage to be useful which whatpass has already accomplished.
Likely also the same reason he disabled outlines on all input. Because people think they are ugly without any thought devoted to accessibility.
Note that the 737/A320 class of plane is by far the most common in the sky and the one that has the largest environmental impact.

Boeing and Airbus have been resisting a clean sheet upgrade of these planes because it would cut into their profits -- even though the impact in terms of lowering costs for airlines, reducing environmental impact, and a better flying experience for the public, would dwarf the 777 and 787 put together.
I would create the account directly from the initial call and return its ID and then publish an account created message. Any other services could receive the message and perform some action such as send a welcome email or do some analytics.
The parent talked about signing up for Signal requiring a phone number. The following point is tangential from that after the signup is completed using a phone number. Signal Desktop is a standalone client that can be launched and used without having one's phone nearby or available or connected to the net. WhatsApp, however, requires the phone to be around and connected for the desktop app to send the chats through. From that perspective, WhatsApp actually offers a worse user experience than Signal.
All ebook readers I ever used provided for me vastly inferior experience to simply holding a physical book. Using anything else than e-ink reader is downgrading experience even further onto 'if I have to' level.

Yes you can carry 1000 books around (a rather theoretical advantage in many cases), it is smaller (not necessarily lighter), and it has backlight. And no trees cut down. But - experience is not even equal.
If your goal is to ship a game just use Unity. The goal of Godot is admirable and source access is great, but it’s still just a toy in comparison.
Signal requires a phone number that discloses your identity and location, they could have more privacy if they didn't require it.
The dataset she assembled was in Russia, over 100 years or so.
I see a scroll bar there, on Firefox.
I've had to explain our architecture to new hires a while ago, and it was a real mess. I was screen sharing while talking and drwing an ugly graph in inkscape at the same time.

It gave me an idea though, I'm working on a project that'd turn a plain text document (dot language style) into an narrated video made up of graphs showing how things work, who does what when..

Idk if there's a market for that but it's really fun to program anyway :)
Honestly, it's not hard. Just don't design everything around color. On ticket to ride, the grey lines ones have a dot or shape in the middle whereas the black ones do not. I can see that dot, but it's small. If it was larger then the problem would be solved.
In a place with sufficiently tight exits like the crawl holes you mentioned, it is enough if there is a little smoke to cause a panic. People will die from being trampled even if there is no actual danger from the fire.
Doing a search on HN for "write your own" returns a lot of answers, including 'Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591918 from a year ago.
Woops, not intentional, scrollbar is back.
Rules like this are usually less about risk, and more about conveying information. If I see a variable ending in "_", I immediately know to look for its definition in the class rather than the local scope.
Cars have a lot of issues, but those issues are more forgiving than a similar issue in a plane.

If my cars engine has issues, I can pull over. If a plane's engine has issues, there's a good chance its going to kill everyone on board
I was going to mention about Napoleon's troops shooting the nose off the Sphinx, but did a search to confirm:

> ...he face of the Sphinx was vandalized in 1378 A.D. by Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr, a "fanatical sufi of the oldest and most highly respected sufi convent of Cairo." [0]

[0] https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html
Maybe you're taking the blub paradox backwards.

People think Go is worse than other languages because they look at it from a PL theory point of view, ignoring the practical aspects. "Compilation speed? Trivial cross-compilation and deployment? Consistent coding style accross projects? Ability to recruit junior developers/maintainers? Warnings-as-errors? Who needs that?"
it's a clever mechanic, but recursively... what if you want to automate automaton creation? must you then develop a licensing body for automaton creators? and who will administrate this most important committee?
I don't know where you live but I traveled quite a bit and I never had to do more than say "Hi, can I have a coffee, thanks" and hand over the money.

But let's say for the sake of argument that we do replace all these bs jobs. What happens when you go to a bank for a mortgage and the AI doesn't agree with your conditions ? It's the same problem with autonomous cars, it works good when the conditions are absolutely perfect, the second a problem arise it becomes useless. You end up needing redundant people to watch over machines, just like what happens in factories, but these are job for skilled workers. What happens to all the unskilled workers you replaced ? They find other bs jobs.

There are many automated coffee machine in my office, they cost thousand of euros each, every few weeks we have to call the company's technicians to come and fix them because there is always 1 or 2 of them which stop working. What do you think will happen for that $33k robot arm ?
There are a number of alternative paths in this space if you're truly focused and willing to invest a bit, but if you care about privacy enough to seek a service like this out and just want to minimize mental overhead, this seems like a good choice.

Tahoe-LAFS makes some impressive claims like maintaining confidentiality while running on untrusted machines. I think a lot of folks now would assert that really any machine running x86 due to Intel ME and the AMD equivalent should in fact be untrusted.

I'm not in a position to criticize though, this is just from a cursory glance at the summary page, and frankly I used PIA as my own VPN provider for a number of years and had only positive experiences.
Keeping a long history is almost always a bad idea because something you have written a year ago and have forgotten can be used against you. Keeping messages for just about a week is much better idea.
If you're in the san francisco bay area I'm sure there would be tons of people that would be interested in talking to you
> The defense of gmail in the other comments is bizarre.

This statement is bizarre, I don't really see anyone defending Gmail here - just commenters offering further explanation on what's happening and other people mentioning specific examples of being caught out by this behaviour.
Thanks for the Memory (Allocator)
> Don't hate the game, think of it like a fun challenge.

Seriously. So many people spend so much time hating on it and refusing to even get involved, but if you look at it rationally, it's by far the best return on investment you'll get for your time in your entire life.

Around 5 years ago I spent about 40 hours studying for the interviews for my current job. I got the job, and I'm now making $300k more per year than at my previous company, where I was pretty much capped out. So I'm now making $7.5k/yr more for each hour that I spent prepping for those interviews. Note, that's not $7.5k/hr, it's $7.5k/yr/hr, so the value only grows with tenure in this job vs if I'd stayed where I was.

It doesn't matter if it's not the best way to evaluate applicants or whatever, it's how things work, and you need to play the game to reap the rewards. Doesn't matter if you don't enjoy it; there's a colossal amount of money at stake. Force yourself to do it. Not everything in life is pleasant, and most unpleasant things in life don't even come with rewards. People who opt out on ideological grounds are cutting off their nose to spite their face, because they could be foregoing a better job paying a lot more money.
I had the question, after visiting Rome, of why so many Roman statues lacked a penis. Found this. But I'm sure that in many cases it was just due to the fact that appendages on statues are more easily damaged - whether nose or penis.

http://ourromanadventure.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-are-all-...
> The fact that its default chats are not end-to-end encrypted and are stored in plaintext on its servers is a concern.

"Concern"? This is a deal-breaker.

> Everyone who talks about this as a huge deficiency should also consider that this applies to email too, unless one always uses encryption (like GPG/PGP or S/MIME).

The contenders here are Signal and WhatsApp, not email.

Having better UX and safer defaults than email is nothing to be proud of - it is the bare minimum.
Your comment makes it clear to me that you don’t understand microservices. The challenge is not in the organization of simple compilation or code units that produce libraries, not at all.

The challenge is that in reality you will always need distinct build tooling, distinct CI logic, distinct deployment tooling, distinct runtime environments & resources, etc., for almost all distinct services, as well as super easy support to add new services that rely on previously never used resources / languages / runtimes / whatever. This need happens whether you choose a monolith approach or microservice approach, but only the microservice approach can efficiently cope with it.

The monorepo/monolith approach can go one of two ways, both entirely untenable in average case scenarios: (a) extreme dictatorship mandates to enforce all the same tooling, languages and runtime possibilities for all services, or (b) an inordinate amount of tooling and overhead and huge support staff to facilitate flexibility in the monorepo / monolith services.

(a) fails immediately because you can’t innovate and end up with some horrible legacy system that can’t update to modern tooling or accomodate experimental, isolated new services to discover how to shift to new tooling or new capabilities. This does not happen with microservices, not even when they are implemented poorly.

(b) only works if you’re prepared to throw huge resources and headcount at the problem, which usually fails in most big orgs like banks, telcos, etc., and had only succeeded in super rare outlier cases like Google in the wild.
Another option is to use a cloudfront hosted pixel, and have a cloudwatch job to schedule processing of that data every X minutes. This gives you ultra fast edge response time on your tracker, instead of slow lambda + api gateway, but you have to back-process the data. This should also cost less if you have a lot of traffic.

Instead of Google sheets, throw it to bigquery. Or reprocess hourly/daily into parquet then scan with athena.
The author has a @google.com email address.
300M people x $1000 per month.

Where does that money come from? (taxes?). What will stop inflation from just negating that 1000 gain?

UBI doesn't have a political problem. It has a math problem.
By 2021, phased in from 2020, the fleet average to be achieved by all new cars is 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre. This means a fuel consumption of around 4.1 l/100 km of petrol or 3.6 l/100 km of diesel.

To encourage eco-innovation, manufacturers can be granted emission credits equivalent to a maximum emissions saving of 7 g/km per year for their fleet if they equip vehicles with innovative technologies, based on independently verified data. [0]

So this move is more of a combination of short-term gains of less-restrictive emissions, and a long-term move to electric.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...
A lot of companies offer starting bonuses and relocation packages, and of course they will fully pay for flying you out for the on-site interview. Do NOT rule out a potentially life-changing career move just because you're a little bit short on money now, especially because that's not even a real hindrance!
Compared to the US, Montreal seems to have a larger proportion of people with “weird jobs”: artists and performers, but also small, non-VC backed startups with unusual ideas. I think part of the reason is the more generous social safety net: you can follow your dream of becoming a circus performer or building highly-instrumented clothes for athletic training, without worrying about ending up sick and broke. As a result, people are happier, the city is more interesting, and some of the innovations seem to be panning out.

I don’t actually know of anyone who is out-and-out abusing the system. I’m sure there may be some, but I think a lot of people seem disproportionately worried about someone, somewhere eeking out a meager existence vs. the possible benefits.
I just bought the Conversations app a couple days ago. It looks like, from the Quicksy.im site, that Quicksy is meant to eventually funnel users into Conversations.

I'm a little confused by this path. What would make Quicksy users go to Conversations?
Ha ha ha ha, no. He qualifies for the first debate because the DNC allows him to. If they didn’t want him there, they’d bend and rewrite the rules to prevent it. Witness Larry Lessig’s experience with this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/1...
Also it works under Windows XP unlike most of the competitors with poor quality Electron apps.
Well deserved! At work I have been using ArangoDB for a few years now as a graph database. So far it's been working great with up to 100K graph nodes across two dozen collections.
Billsby – subscription billing made insanely simple
Moral indignation is the new chic
He's not saying that the push to growth-by-disruption is a solution. He's saying it's a problem, and we have to deal with it quickly, because it moves quickly. He's not saying we should run the country like a Silicon Valley startup. He's also not saying innovation should be banned or punished (coughcoughWarrencough). He's saying that it's coming, and it's going to mess up a lot of people's lives, and if we don't do something big to deal with that, we're going to have a revolution on our hands.
We need to make an internet pact to kill floating "navigation" bars.

Especially when they don't do anything other than display your name, face, and a hamburger menu. If you want the hamburger to follow me down the page just have that float...
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You aren't reading it correctly. The OP was saying it's not fair unless you compare against an unordered map. The update is referring to an ordered map which is much slower than an unordered. The GO math implementation, which is an unordered map, is still significantly slower than the C++ unordered map.
If it helps anyone, I wrote a two-parter on Git internals a while back

https://looselytyped.com/blog/2014/08/31/gits-guts-part-i/

https://looselytyped.com/blog/2014/10/31/gits-guts-part-ii/

Disclaimer — This is my blog

Update - Fixed formatting / Clarified post
99% of users don't care, it's a great product
Things move slowly in the world of Big Automotive. A new model can easily get worked on for 5 years. If they are planning on having an electric version of each of there models, they need to be making this investment ASAP.
I think I found my learning projects for the next 10 years.