skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to the unnecessary unhelpful comment that "Islamophobia" was "prevalent" in Australia even more than US. I live here, and disagree with that idea and I responded with reasons. No flames. Maybe delete comments that seek to label an entire country with sour accusations.
Why would you pay workers above what they are willing to work for you?
I'm intrigued by the CO2 transformation companies. Would love to know more about the byproducts and energy efficiency of the processes, but I can't find much info about them. I guess we'll find out as they progress
Blue doesn't mean far left progressive. Being a Democrat in Texas isn't necessarily the same as being a Democrat in a more progressive state. So "blue" is an ambiguous term here.
> locked into your cloud provider abstraction layer instead of the cloud providers themselves

but the assumption is that this layer is free (due to OSS), and the "owners" of this layer cannot pull the carpet under you by raising prices.
Rust does not have goto, but it’s not about being academic: a lot of Rust’s compile time checks are flow-based, and unstructured control flow would make them a lot more slow and complex.

Bitfields have a package that makes them easy.

If you want aliasing, there’s UnsafeCell.

Yes, there are vector intrinsics, and they’re part of the language, not a non-standard extension. And there are tools to choose between things too.

Switch requires a default, but you can declare the default unreachable. You should always be able to get the same asm.
The FBI Had Already Accessed Family Tree DNA’s Database Before Cooperation
So you would have been willing to spend $500 morethen but not spend much less and buy an external drive now?
You'll note that I said "experiment", not use as your daily/production tablet. With that said, all but the latest generation Fire tablets are rootable, and they are available at the usual places (eBay, Swappa, etc.) in new, used, and refurbished conditions.

There are Lollipop based ROMs for all 2017 and older Fire tablets (Amazon's FireOS is based on Lollipop so it's an easy base to start from) and there is work in progress to port Oreo to the 2017 Fire tablets:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/rom-androi...
I've been a python programmer for years, toyed with go a bit. My next project might use it, beautiful language. What c++ should have been
Vital features is double speak for any Java feature that isn’t in Go.
And suddenly you've created Accenture
After being on a jury once deciding a DWI case, I wouldn't be surprised with any outcome involving an understanding of scientific evidence. What's terrifying is realizing that there are only two of you on the jury that really understood what happened in the trial.
I don't know how this situation with most WiFi hardware being FSF-hostile will ever change. People who care (be they end users, enterprises, Linux kernel developers, or distro developers) don't provide sufficient motivation to the manufacturers.

Part of the reason might be that, even if one is generally aligned with the FSF's goals, the distinction the FSF makes, based on where the closed firmware is stored, isn't very compelling, IMHO. Most people need a good reason to incur the high costs of FSF-friendliness.

(I've compromised on this, myself. In 2010, the Debian Live variant utility stick distro I made bundled the `non-free` drivers, since that was already a problem then. Though I have bought FSF-friendly `ath9k` PCIe WiFi cards for my own use. And I even went through the massive headache of converting several ThinkPad X200 units to Coreboot, which let me put FSF-friendly mini-PCIe WiFi cards in them. I never would've done the latter, had I known how much work it would be.)
Rad hard would be achievable if this was instantiated on a suitably rad hard FPGA, which do exist for mil & space applications.
The couple of times i've actually used incognito mode for planning a surprise or buying a gift it's definitely put a smile on my face to realize i'm being a euphamism.
I've tried a dozen thus far to no avail :c

I can hijack SMS routing entirely for inbound/outbound, but short of doing that I can't forge the from field and get the message delivered.
Yeah, unfortunately. Awesome but impractical.
People love Path of Exile because it's essentially a slots machine.

Also, it doesn't have that high of a playerbase.
But that's not a cloud provider thing, that's just the same-old locking yourself into proprietary software that we've been doing since computers were first invented. "We have to renew the license on our Fortran compiler because nothing else has the features we use" is exactly the same "I'm stuck on DynamoDB".

As for Ingress, Amazon does have an ingress controller that configures an Application Load Balancer with kubernetes Ingress API objects. I feel like this locks you in less because again, Ingress is standardized. The problem with Ingress specifically is that the standard doesn't cover things people actually want their ingress controller to do, so every implementation has their own set of features. We use nginx... you better believe there are literal nginx.conf snippets inside the Kubernetes API objects to get things to do what we want. So this is just a case of Kubernetes being bad, not really cloud provider lockin. I'm more stuck on nginx than on Amazon.

(As for load balancers; again, Amazon has proprietary configuration parameters that won't be portable, but they don't really do anything important. You can make your Amazon load balancer terminate TLS (a bad idea), and pick which of the 3 Amazon load balancer types you want to use.
Switch to Google, and that won't work... but you also probably won't care. The Load Balancer API spec seems to do what people want, so it's relatively commoditized and you won't be sad when you switch providers. We actually have to have a wildcard certificate specifically because Amazon's classic load balancers are so bad. Would be happy to not terminate TLS in the load balancer and have Envoy or Nginx terminate TLS and ask letsencrypt for a new certificate every couple months.)
Another thing to try is running up and down stairs, while holding a tissue.

Don't give in to temptation and stop too early and blow your nose! Keep going till you have full air flow, only then blow your nose (otherwise the pressure of blowing your nose closes things up again).

After that, consciously keep the nostril on the same side as your headache open, and let the other side close.

The closure is blood vessels in your nose swelling, it's not compacted material. When you exercise your body recognizes the need for more air and reverses the swelling. You don't usually notice, but it's normal to breathe with only one nostril at a time (and the body opens both when there is great demand for air). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle

Anyway, since there is no actual material compaction, your vibration did not work for the reason you think, rather it acted as a massage for the swollen (irritated) blood vessels.
Some of these old discussions might help. Ignore the answers pointing to documention. I once had to dive into a medium size Java web application without documentation and it took me half a day to even find out where data was stored (in a H2 database) nevermind trying to install it or finding out what changed between the repository and what I found on the live server. Ultimately told the client it will be cheaper for them to find another contractor. Best of luck.

Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299125

Ask HN: Studying large code bases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9060832

Ask HN: How to dive into large codebase? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142807
i tried this and found it to be pretty satisfying. i played entirely on a macbook while traveling during my winter vacation. It worked surprisingly well even with mixed wifi, i would compare it to the experience you get from using PS4 Remote Play or Steam Link over ethernet.

The only time i found it lagging was similar to the times when both of the above lag: during particularly complex visual scenes (i.e. you're circle strafing around a target and the entire screen is constantly redrawing). I thought it was great for playing a game casually: i.e. story mode. Lots of people use that phrase as a put-down, but the system is well suited for a game like ACO where you are mostly being tactical, planning, exploring, and moving the story forward.

I think of a game like 2016 hitman: i hesitated to install 30G of it to my ps4, but if you told me i could drop into the demo/prelude in less than a minute, even at 720, it's a very appealing concept for somebody like me that plays video games the way other people watch netflix while they're eating dinner: basically whenever i have some downtime and want to dip into a story or mechanic i like for ~30 mins.
Chewing on your observation...

During the 90s, the big lock-in strategy was thru proprietary file formats. With cloud, exfiltrating one's own data can get real spendy real quick.

But it seems the lock-in is the fit & finish of one's production env. K8s was the new religion at my last gig. But interop & migrating between on-prem, AWS, Google wasn't easy. All the fiddly bits, like managing VPCs, creds and certs, load balancing tweaks, autoscaling rules, backups, ad nauseam.

Maybe things have gotten easier. Maybe we were doing it wrong. (I'm certain that I had no idea what I was doing.) But I couldn't shake the feeling our effort to leave AWS (if we wanted) was gonna fail.
Indeed. In both Afghanistan and Iraq, the US initially supported agents who were enemies of its enemies. But then those agents became enemies. And innocent people suffered and died, all for power games.

In Afghanistan, the US initially supported the Taliban against the Soviets. Just like in Vietnam. And then the CIA trained Osama and al-Qaeda, with financial support from the Saudis. But once the Soviets were gone, the downsides of the Taliban and al-Qaeda became evident. Oppression of women. International operations. So the US invaded.

In Iraq, the US initially supported Saddam, because he was tough on Communists, and not overtly Islamic. Like those nice Turks. Except that he was rather fascist, but hey. And then they supported him against Iran, which had thrown off US domination (i.e., the Shah) and frightened allies (Israelis and Saudis). But then he pissed off the Saudis, and started talking too much about international operations. So the US kicked them out of Kuwait, starved them and sporadically bombed them for a few years, and finally invaded.

What a mess.
This is absolutely Cuckoo, even for RMS.

Take people, probably leaning nontechnical who have an interest in trying OSS and try to explicitly impose on them the concept that they are wrong and you are right and they are 'dealing with the devil' if they don't see things your way. They will be put off linux and the FOSS community for life.

It's not like we don't have years of evidence of what happens if you try to impose your idea of politics on someone.

If you really want people to care, then you need to introduce them slowly, and even then - without appreciating some sort of obstacle (like a technical user trying to get their wifi or graphics cards working) I'm not sure it's so easy, because most people have other priorities.
> The buyer can’t get a loan for more than the house is appraised for.

The buyer in most cases (there are exceptions) probably can't get a loan with a LTV ratio higher than some number less than or equal to 1 times the appraisal value (.8 typically for a conventional, first mortgage alone), but can generally put as much of their own money into a purchase as they want.
>problems of labor mistreatment

i don't think there have been times in tech when employees were paid and overall treated better than today (maybe the boom 20 years ago comes somewhat close). Even more, I think tech employees situation today beats any other mass employment situation in the history of humankind.
That’s not how unions get board seats in countries where they’re on the board; they don’t own significant parts of the company. They have board seats because that’s legally mandated. This can help with short and long term planning but it’s not a free lunch.

A worker owned business is either a partnership or a co-op. The forms have been around for centuries. They’re not generally competitive with firms where ownership and employment are separated or they’d be far more common.
Late 90's is almost 20 years ago. OP mentions 10 years ago
Is there some reason Google has zero support for developers?
Any of the other big corps I've had to deal with as a dev usually have some option to email support to resolve issues. Some of them have amazing support, with live chat.
But Google is an impenetrable blank wall.

The obvious answer is to save money.
Maybe they reckon the Play Store is saturated so it doesnt really matter if 5% of devs say meet an impassable roadblock ,it wont affect their revenue.
No such assumption exists here. It doesn't matter in the least if it is a substantial community or not - this was a one-off event from an individual. Still doesn't follow that he should be enabled.

Nevertheless there are groups who wish to cause harm - anti vaxxers and up who benefit from the reach of social. You;re right that restrictions won't stop lone wolf madness, but publicising their actual message and videos encourages every other copy-cat to be "outrageous enough". The phenomenon of copycats is well enough known and seen in all sorts of things, even atrocity and suicide methods.
Thank you.

You can use it for testing as well. Cliperado runs headless chrome for the refreshes.

For Cliperado we run a full screenshot refresh before every deploy. We've caught various bugs that way. After the deploy, a full refresh and screenshot update for the site and docs takes maybe 5 minutes.
It worked great, in my experience. The most awesome thing about it was playing Dirt Rally 3 I believe, on a Motorola Droid/Milestone. A full PC game on a smartphone, pretty mind blowing at the time, and it was quite good even over 3G.
Nothing makes me happier than Musk's utter disdain for legal processes that he can pay his way out of. I wouldn't even go to court if I was him... would just hide out on my island and keep tweeting stuff that pisses off the SEC until the bitter end
The article seems good (although dated). See http://www.jmlr.org/papers/v18/17-468.html for an in depth survey from last year.

But reading the title, I was like "well... sure?". Bad title for this article.
Android users in Europe will be asked which browser and search engine they want
Fascinating. I tested this on Windows 10 PC, though. So may not be the same issue.
In principle.

But do you have an example of that fiduciary responsibility being enforced to any real degree?
MMO's are pay-monthly for unlimited hours, not pay-per-hour, that's a big difference. The marginal cost of an additional hour of play is zero.

Players aren't going to spend hours grinding if they know they're paying extra money for each of those hours.
>Ripping up the crust for Lithium isn’t much of an improvement over ripping it up for hydrocarbons

If everyone converted entirely to lithium-ion batteries, the crust would still be ripped up about one millionth as much it is at present for fossil fuels.
> plus I paid her a 2% commission instead of 3%, and of course not 6% as if she represented me as well.

I tried selling my home twice: first with the “normal” approach, using a real estate agent and paying everybody full commission. My agent just didn’t do enough to move the process along. After my contract with her expired, I bid her goodbye.

On attempt #2, I listed it myself (for sale by owner) but put in the listing notes, “FSBO, but the buyer’s agent will get 4% commission.” Agents kicked my door down bringing buyers in, and we sold it for full asking price in under a week.
Yeah definitely, from reading the article it sounds like they just want the freedom to do what they want to do (and that likely could come with bonus income). The article mentions the programmer's wife is an optometrist and is still working actually.
That's largely a thing of the past. You're more likely to be handed over to Interpol than anything else today.

Also, HN-ers beware -- the FFL doesn't take people without military experience, anymore.
You should see a jury deliberate in an IP lawsuit.
TL;DR Good luck, give it time, stay busy

It took me nearly two years after a ‘startup’ I was working at collapsed and I realised I was burned out until I was ready to consider writing code as a dayjob again.

I was in a comfortable position, but didn’t really have the luxury of being able to do extended travel, so got back in to work as quickly as I could (mostly technical salss and consultancy type role - wasn’t really ‘me’ but it helped me recover - there’s something to be said for keeping bisy - and taught me a few new skills along the way)

I’m now back to programming basically every day and loving it - but it was a long road.
They are absolutely desperate.

I give them 2 years.
> Really, there's no point in them letting you have your own app store which relies on parts of their infrastructure

The proposal was to host your own app store which doesn't rely on their infrastructure.
Limiting personal freedom is what the enterprise Java ecosystem is all about.
Aside from the annoying popups, another issue for me is that medium is profiting by monetizing your content. Blogs aren't hard to host with gitlab or github pages (gitlab and hugo is especially nice, in my opinion), among a ton of other options where you aren't subjected to this.
Ah yes, the strawman disto which matches exactly what <user> needs and is the reason <problem> isn't actually an issue since they can just switch to strawman distro!

Unfortunately strawman distro is never real and the problems still exist after congratulating the ability to switch to it.
This is one of the real mysteries related to Trump.

When all other banks have shunned Trump and refuse to deal with him and his business, Deutsche Bank continues to do so even for loss. Or at least it looks that way.

Maybe there are some yet unknown third parties who vouched for Trump and dealing with them covered the losses and risks the bank had from dealing with Trump. In the end Trump may be just a front for all kind of shady businesses from Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
You are right that they have some network effect, but are also right that it's not zero.

Recently the one "creator" that I funded on the platform moved to allowing direct bank transfers. I was glad to make the change: my bank is a platform that I really am already familiar with, way more than Patreon.

And the creator did not have to belong to the same bank as me.
From the sounds of it, Ubuntu is a definite no-no:

> But it is hard to trust a devil to do wrong only within certain limits. What is to stop the devil from offering to install a GNU/Linux distro such as Ubuntu[..]?
This only works if I'm throwing the exceptions myself, but not if I'm using a library function (like a rowMapper for example).
My go to was PCLinuxOS, though I ended up going back to kubuntu later for other reasons. Really liked it, might go back someday.
Yes, it worked!
My limited understanding is that high end Unity devs code their stuff not to make garbage. Unity has a very nice system for profiling that sort of thing.

Also, CLR has F#, which I like much better than Scala (and, no type erasure in CLR), Clojure which is ... just like Clojure on JVM, and C#, which as a Java dev since 1.1 I have come to prefer as a language even as I remain JVM ecosystem preferring on the server side. JVM has ABCL, a neat Common Lisp, and now Graal/Truffle which is super interesting. If not for Clojure though (and maybe Kotlin) I would probably give up on the JVM. Oracle does not help. Just my opinion.
Reid Hoffman Defends Blitzscaling
Hardly surprising really, two years after the Restoration.
doxygen turned the classes into hyperlinked web pages for a ginormous complex enterprise code base we worked on, it made understanding the code structure and class organization trivially easy - and we could email code structure links to each other for collaboration! For this purpose I rate doxygen as at least 11 or 12 out of a possible maximum of 10.
Some states actually require a lawyer in the process as well. So not only is the RE agent holding out their hand for their 3%, there’s a lawyer that wants a couple grand for what is usually filling out boilerplate. Not only that, but you can also find states where the agents aren’t legally allowed to tell you what is a “good” neighborhood or school district.

I would rather pay an RE agent by the hour to show me houses than this percentage nonsense. Zillow/Google street view helps to drop most of the false positives, and the agent can help me focus on real candidates.
Is "install fest" actually a thing? I thought people just download whatever OS they want to install these days...?
> They’re not generally competitive with firms where ownership and employment are separated or they’d be far more common.

That logic doesn't actually follow; even if they performed equally, capital owners get more return in conventional firms (because they get all the returns, not just partial returns from lending capital), so they will favor conventional firms. So, all other things being equal, employee-owned firms have a disadvantage in access to capital and so can be expected to be less common than traditional firm unless they outperform enough to negate the return disadvantage for capital providers.
Did you mean ThoughtWorks?
Rethinking EM-1, and SLS
Software social organisms: implications for measuring AI progress [pdf]
Lithium-ion batteries can be recycled. Not doubt a profitable industry will develop. And even if they weren't, they wouldn't cause global warming.
Work with animals.

There are so many shelters that need help, like dog walking etc. and the dogs will love you for it.
Facebook is not part of the 'press', as in Free Press.

They are either a dumb pipe or the publisher, depending on whether it is time to being sued or collect ad revenue.
It also subverts the idea if users are on no instance at all.
And (while I realize you're oversimplifying for the sake of example), it's not just per-continent in this case, but something more akin to per-metro-area.
The problem is that Einstein didn't mean "religion" to mean a belief in either a God or an afterlife, as most people assume. He just had a sense of wonder in regard to the natural world. So what? So does Richard Dawkins.

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -- Albert Einstein, 1954, letter to Joseph Dispentiere.
I agree that it is pretty obnoxious when logged out, but I find it to be fine when I am logged in. What parts bother you?
I really really need to get one of these now. Is anyone at GTC right now?
>>> That stopped being an issue years ago. OpenJDK is a thing, you know?

Well, that's seeing the glass half full.

OpenJDK was complete garbage in the java 6-7 era, less than 5 years ago. Pretty much every major java software was requiring to install the Oracle JDK. Nobody would accept a bug or a support issue if it happened with the OpenJDK, which was the first question to be asked. And that wasn't fear mongering, java applications that worked perfectly fine just didn't work on the OpenJDK.

It is better now. I personally haven't seen an OpenJDK JVM crash in a while.
Toyota and VW are the world's two biggest auto makers. VW is going strong on battery ev's, while Toyota is sticking with hydrogen. I think VW is going to clobber Toyota very badly in the coming years.