skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I see what you’re saying.

We should send all criminals to Harvard. We’ll save money, and they’ll become productive members of society.
You ask if you should use Java, Python or Go and the first three replies recommend you Java, Python and Go in that order, I love it.
In a similar boat - I have a couple of customers that generate repeated business more or less regularly, but have no idea how to generate more. My niche is very profitable but very small and not really based around where I live. I am also really lazy...

I'm tempted to give a spin to Linkedin premium features, or just exit the niche and sell myself as a regular coder.
Not the sensible part. But still part of the free market.

Just like the corporations that abuse their monopoly powers.
Thanks for this, installing this on both me and my wife's phones.
Did Big Tech Get Too Big? More of the World Is Asking
> Honestly I think your 99% figure just suggests you are browsing the wrong websites. Maybe visit parts of the internet that are less sketchy.

This is not true and I'm gonna provide some evidence:

I am a conservative christian[0].

I get those ads as well.

My browsing habits:

- stuff linked from hn

- local news

- one mainstream newspaper

- fringe political papers from the left and right (mostly don't agree with any of them but it makes for interesting reading, a better understanding of why people are mad etc)

- christian podcast

- technical stuff (both related to work and to my technical hobbies)

- repair videos, childrens videos (when they get to borrow one of my devices)

And still I get ads for singles in my area. Extremely stupid ads. E.g.:

- when I'm at work in the middle of nowhere and I get ads with a picture of someone who is supposedly desperately looking for someone like me, supposedly living in the valley next to nowhere where there are nobody except old farmers. That kind of stupid.

For a while I tried to hit that micro x in the corner of those ads and mark them as irrelevant. Only got equally stupid ads for other equally irrelevant sites.

I don't want to remove ad income for honest writers but I've given up now and I'm ad blocking like many others here.

I've also come to the conclusion that tracking doesn't work, it is just a thing they do to scam marketers.

And I've concluded that if I were to place ads for a product I would place them based on the content of the website, -like Google used to do. If anyone wants a proven business opportunity here it is :-]

[0]: No, not embarrased by it, but I do not want to discuss that here, this is a technical forum. Just pointing out I don't visit what I consider sketchy web sites at all.
Oh he's aware of it. He just doesn't care, because it works for him and the software he is the end responsible for.

I mean compare Linux to the Java ecosystem, which is similar in scale (billions of installs / dependencies) but run by commission. How is that working out? Less hurt feelings I guess but it's not making any significant advances either and has been stagnant for years.
>They are less likely to offend others and discourage people from contributing to the project.

What if the purpose is to discourage the people making those mistakes from contributing to the project?
Well, until the 20th century, the modern way of funding science (by competitive grant proposals to funding agencies) didn't exist. Scientists were to a large part just doing it for love of the subject as being a professional scientist just wasn't a thing. At best they could get a job as a professor, but that literally meant teaching back then; if they wanted to do research, they had it do it on their own and pay for it themselves. And the best scientists of the era like Darwin and Lord Rayleigh were from the idle rich who never needed a paying job at all so they could devote themselves full time to science. It didn't work that badly -- except of course that the number of scientists was tiny compared to now.
It's not cost but profit. The prison business is a huge business in the US and there are lots of people profiting from it. Some prison companies are on the New York stock exchange even. We are talking billion $ companies backed by institutional investors.

It's a great business because your primary customers are clueless politicians trying to look tough on crime paying whatever they are being told to pay.

Prisoners are also laborers, slave laborers that is because they don't actually earn a lot. Somebody profits from that as well. The reason so many people are in prisons in the US is that it is good business for a lot of people.

So, to spell this out, US prisons are funneling tax money straight to institutional investors. Cost has nothing to do with it. Meanwhile they are cutting corners left right and center on cost and exploiting the prison population via lucrative corporate contracts.
You need to specify which INI config file format, unfortunately. There are many different ways to handle leading & trailing whitespace, quoting, multiline strings etc. and I think all of them have been implemented at some point.
March 2019 Report to the Computer Conservation Society
This is very cool. Any plans to support Elm lang in the future?
Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55
If it can't run a browser, adoption is going to be crippled, and porting a browser to a new OS is a much bigger project than writing your own OS.
How to use ActiveStorage in your Rails 5.2 application
Another way to do this is to explicitly list must-haves and want-to-haves under separate headings.
It's hard to trust just a "software update" with your life. I don't believe what Boeing is allegedly trying to do to fix the MCAS problems is sufficient. If they don't read 3 angle of attack sensors, how is this 'software update' going to solve anything.
And all they have is 2 sensors (only 1 of which is read now)
I wish more people online were like this. I've basically given up on Reddit because the discussions in many of the major subs devolve very rapidly to a "you are an X, therefore your argument is junk because you are stupid/evil, here is why". Pretty much all sides do it (and all sides say they don't).

For those who've not read the article and are thinking "but what about <insert political scumbag here>", the article starts by saying you should be charitable "as long as it’s reasonable" to do so. It is reasonable to assume that a political operative of almost any persuasion will attempt to bend things and miss-represent, so you should be on the look out for that and treat it accordingly.

I like the idea of the "steel man" argument, as a more effective alternative to the "straw man", you end up with a better argument that way, and are far more likely to "win" the argument than if you present something that the other person sees as BS. Even if your opponent is talking BS, the counter-argument you come up with will be more effective in countering it, a weak argument predicated on the weakest interpretation gives them wriggle-room.

I feel like the whole idea is the debate equivalent of the idea "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetance". Sometimes it is malice, but usually it's just a mistake. Assuming the worst in people as the default is very isolating, and understanding that made a big difference to my state of mind as I got older.
Switzerland doesn't lead the world in pharmaceutical development. Our health system has been captured by special interests specifically because we have let it grow so big.

Whenever I bring up this point I see downvotes. What I would love instead is a counter example of a country whose largest economic sectors do not capture the government and then have a huge hand in dictating policy in those sectors.

Our government intervention in the education market with student loans is just an awful system that encourages prices to continue to rise.
Is that not just a "no true Scotsman" argument?

"there is no free market but they are oligopols"

There used to be 12 private prison companies in 2000 but it appears there are only 3 now.

The start of the journey was privatization of prisons. This is where that path has currently led. It is what it is, ergo free market didn't work?
You can blame the US occupation for these laws, they didn't exist prior to 1945 when Cannabis was a part of Korean and Japanese traditional culture.
60% of College Students Admit to Smartphone Addiction
In a way, yes, but society should be formed to proactively deal with this.

After the fact, it’s a bit late.
Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people's passwords
But... That's the biggest benefit of raytracing/path tracing. It's why the movie industry is already all-in on it and has been for years. It's just in games where for some reason gamers don't understand the benefits and are so eager to dismiss it if they don't immediately see everything look 10x more amazing or realistic, entirely missing the point.
It's easy to echo who you perceive as smart people; it's harder to have your own opinions, and be at a level where you can defend them in a satisfactory way.

Somehow, the Go language is doing it, eschewing traditional OOP in favor of a get shit done fast and a little dirty approach. It's not even because of the charm of an individual either.

Then again, before Go there was JS as the big opponent to rigid OOP. I still don't understand why they felt like they had to add half-baked classes / OOP to it.
Maybe not force, but incentives? Or both...
"We are not faking it" - how about the hardware? Is it exact same that consumer could buy?
> I still don't think you can "thank goodness" for an organization that advocates for its financial interest of its members if that interest is bad for everyone else.

But it's ok for every single for-profit private company to do the same thing in the interest of its shareholders? Even when the company's aims are to the detriment of society as a whole?
Yeah, I got really into the whole auto-stereo effect when I was a kid, started drawing them when I was bored in class, so being able to play a computer game like that was pretty cool at the time.
> The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.

I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness". They may not be pleasant to behold but our brains have these mental states built in, for whatever reason. The mental health system wants to aggressively impose conformity of psychology across the population, which causes real mental illness. And the most evil thing we do is giving psychoactive drugs to kids.
This will depend a lot on where you are.

In the UK, many FinTech startups have started launching current accounts targeted to freelancers and small businesses. Some examples:

https://getcoconut.com
https://www.tide.co/

Obviously if you're in the US this won't work, but you haven't mentioned explicitly.
The “day in the life” is extremely valuable information that’s provided only too rarely.
Windows 7 SP1 support notification
Earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19361208
Top pharmaceutical companies with revenue greater than $10 billion

Rank Company 2016 USD billions

1 Johnson & Johnson NYSE: JNJ 71.89

2 Roche SIX: ROG 50.11

3 Pfizer NYSE: PFE 52.82

4 Novartis NYSE: NVS 48.52

Number 2 and Number 4 are swiss companies.
So why isn't it a free market in the USA when free markets is clearly seen as the way things should be?

Why doesn't lack of free market trigger a demand for reform of the sectors but only hand-waving excuses/acceptance?

When credit card companies in Europe started to price gouge with high fees the EU responded by putting a cap on fees. Why does the US government not respond by putting a cap on prices for hospital treatments?

In Denmark when the doctor sends you to the drug store with a prescription for e.g. pain medication, the drug store is required by law to tell you about cheaper alternatives (with the same active ingredient) even if they do not stock the cheap alternative. We simply do not accept being locked into a corner by medical companies.
https://min.medicin.dk/Generelt/Nyheder/50
I use Rust almost exclusively for my side-projects now, and it has given me (as a guy who spends 2 days to find the Right Way to do a thing because this one hand-waved line in a tutorial just gives a bad smell) much joy and taught me a lot, but as professional, slow adoption in the industry makes me nervous. I have decent experience and background in my current tech stack to easily find a well-paying job, but if something happens to it, or to particular industry it's relevant to, I want something to fall back on; I've seen too many developers drift into a comfortable numbness of stagnation (ActionScript, anyone?). And yet, Rust jobs are extremely rare, and each one attracts a lot of VERY motivated and skilled candidates eager to start writing Rust full-time; and quite frankly, while I think that I'm a decent developer, I don't consider myself among this 1%.

So, I'm curious: how does HN see this situation going forward? Where will Rust find widespread industry adoption, and what can Rust community do to bring this forward?
I'm fine with speculative transactions, I actually did a draft webapp to do that. I used Gnucash for years too. what I really miss is a more visual way to understand the flow of money and make predictions. Like, seeing a chart where those predictions make a dent in things.

Last time I checked, gnucash sucked in charts :p
It seems kinda slow (FPS wise). The idea is pretty cool though.
That argument applies to something like Linux. Here we are talking about a language and wrappers and an essentially completed framework (granted new ideas mean no framework is every completed).

And unlike a google service, which requires continued resource usage and high cost, flutter+dart has low needs. It may get outdated, but it can't be disappeared like other dropped google projects.

In any case, Unless Dart+flutter becomes an undesirable competitor to another google offering, there is no reason for Google to drop it unless it fails to get sufficient adoption. But I think that's unlikely.

Javascript devs are widening their horizons these days (as opposed to their rejection of Dart 1.0), and Dart only needs a few of those javascript devs to take an interest. The framework is an easy crossover for many of them, with an almost instant access to app development and little commitment needed to spin up.
I use beancount [1] for double-entry bookkeeping. It's similar to ledger/hledger, but it enforces correctness of your ledger a bit more, and it's written in Python which suits me well. You keep a ledger in a plain text file (easy to keep under source control), and then run various commands for analysis. Fava [2] is a web interface that gives you some stats. There's also a Vim plugin [3].

For analysis and filing taxes and stuff, I've written some custom analysis scripts that take the ledger file as input. Pretty easy to write, since the tool already gives you a large and reasonably well documented Python API.

[1] http://furius.ca/beancount/

[2] https://beancount.github.io/fava/

[3] https://github.com/nathangrigg/vim-beancount
Now it's not like it's only an engine change, for this to work they added PBR layers (metalness, emission, normal, yada yada) to all textures here, and that's a big artistic work.

That said… gimme gimme gimme Half Life 1, plssssssss :D !
Why do you go the path of using LD_PRELOAD?

Could you not provide an alternate DISPLAY environment variable pointing to a little proxy X11

Either way it's a neat hack. Is the source for the redirector available? It would undoubtedly have wider applications.
"More information about Windows 7 end of support can be found here:"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-s...

"What should I do?

For most Windows 7 users, moving to a new device with Windows 10 will be the recommended path forward. Today's PCs are faster, lightweight, yet powerful and more secure, with an average price that's considerably less than that of the average PC eight years ago. Our Guide can help you choose a new PC in just a few easy steps."

Forcing users to buy the new computer and spend your time to transfer everything, learn the new OS etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning
This just reminded me of Reagan's mantra of "trust but verify" during the period of nuclear disarmament (which seems like another world now). If you want to cooperate, even with your biggest enemy, you both have to operate with trust, but that doesn't mean you don't keep an eye open to other possibilities.
Something is rapidly killing young apples trees in North American orchards
When someone complains that a free market does not work because it's not truly free, I always remind them that communism failed because it wasn't true communism. /s
Cost is not always the first/most important consideration for incarceration. Britain shipped convicts to the other side of the world (Australia) at one time.
Locastic and OmoLab Win Digital Takeover Awards
The creator's website ie mentioned on the article, and code is available on his github[2].

> As Christoph states on his site [1] ...

[1] http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt
[2] https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt
I feel it is always better for programs to accept YAML than JSON, because then you can feed it either YAML or JSON (all valid JSON is also valid YAML).
Daedtech has an excellent article

https://daedtech.com/software-consulting/

If you live in a major metropolitan area almost anywhere in the US, and your skillset is in tune with the market, you should be able to find some W2 or 1099 contract quite easily through local recruiters. Yeah they will take their cut, but you still should be able to negotiate close to market value. You will definitely get paid more than using something like Upwork.

I’ve been building up a curated list of local third party recruiters for years. I always engage with them when they reach out to me.

Even though they call the above “consulting”, it’s actually closer to just freelancing.
A lot of power users are a bit wary of PayPal but for much of the average customer it's still a great option so you will get a request for PayPal.

I haven't had the opportunity for myself yet but I can suggest you to look in to Mollie[1]. I think that's the processor I will use for my next project.

[1]https://www.mollie.com
And worth noting, Objective-C’s strings (actually Foundation’s NSString) is UTF-16 because at the time it was implemented UTF-8 had become as universal as it is now. UTF-16 still seemed like a possible option. And changing the existing strings from 16-8 would have been a huge undertaking - Swift adds an interoperability layer and more flexible compiler/language that makes the transition much easier, not to mention a whole new standard library that has been designed to make this transition work well.
That's q2vkpt. It sounds like Quake II RTX is built on top of that but with more features.
Ok, but were you ever asked if you wanted to grant permissions for that? Did you ever see the UI I linked?

Or is your claim that you gave only permission for profile and friends but the Spotify client had messaging permission as well?
Absolutely no problem! I 1000% agree, submitting paperwork/doing some official function for any other country (except maybe Germany? I've heard they live up to the reputation) is a walk in the park once you've been on the wrong side of some transaction in Japan's bureaucracy.

> But, yeah. It's best to keep it light in your own head. "Going up against Japan" is like going up against a brick wall. If you start getting upset about something you're just going to wreck yourself. Japan will not change. Until it does, of course. And then it will change literally overnight for no discernible reason and you'll be left wondering, "How the heck did everybody know to change???"

This is so true. Japan will pull a 180 with near zero warning -- one of the biggest things here is the constant contradiction/juxtaposition of opposing forces -- I have to admit I just can't reason about some things. The example is a bit out there, but I could see gay marriage laws being reversed in that kind of manner -- there doesn't seem to be the judeo-christian stigma here, and most people seem to be neutral (younger people's attitudes aren't actually shifting that far from older generations) so it's the kind of thing that I expect might just happen at some point and everyone will be like "oh, yeah, of course".

Another fun anecdote (which may or may not be true) for others reading this (I assume mikekchar already knows) -- The reason you basically can never find trash cans around Tokyo is likely due to the subway sarin gas attack of 1995, Japan was basically like "can't bomb us if we don't have trashcans to put the bombs in", and that was that. I am thoroughly convinced the reason Tokyo isn't filled with litter is due to cleanliness being ingrained in the Japanese national identity -- you basically learn to just hold on to your trash (internalize your inconvenience) until you get home or to somewhere with a trash can.
A LSP client maintainer's view of the LSP protocol
The beauty of the Fediverse is interoperability. Friendica (a Facebook-like social network) is currently implementing the ActivityPub protocol, which makes it possible for Mastodon users to follow and communicate with people on Friendica servers.

If you don't like the Mastodon UI you can always try Pleroma, PixelFed or a number of other ActivityPub projects offering wildly different UI's. It's early days still, but the Fediverse is growing steadily.
AdGuard 3.0 for Android
Marijuana arrests account for 0.7% of the prison population.

It would be interesting to see the figures for other types of arrest.
TIL. I shouldn't have skipped art class. Thanks for the sources.
The State and parasitical machinery within (unions) and around (crony capitalists) it naturally aim to maximize their benefits from this asymmetric relationship (the State vs taxpayer).
Let's put that one next to the CABIN ALTITUDE and TAKEOFF CONFIG
lights. Those came from crashes where the warning horn was dual purpose: improper takeoff configuration or cabin pressure corresponding to an altitude over 10000 feet.

In the Helios 522 crash, the crew departed with an incorrect cabin pressure controller setting. When the horn went off, they were thinking, "Why are we getting the takeoff config warning? There must be a bad switch somewhere..."

Modern planes shouldn't just beep or do ambiguous complaining. People must die before planes like the 737 are modded to give proper annunciations.
> One thing is clear, the bomb was used on an essentially defeated enemy.

The bomb were used on an enemy that was sooo defeated that there was a coup attempt by the military between the two bombs to prevent the emperor from capitulating.
Mastodon is only a client to the ActivityPub protocol. There are other clients that look more like Facebook.

But yes discoverability is an issue because it's hard in a federated environment.
Even in free markets, Oligarchies and Monopolies are a thing. No system is perfect - potential lack of competition in niche areas is one of the weaknesses of a free market system.
Here is a study you might find interesting to add to yours

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/income.html
The Mathematical Madness Behind a Perfect N.C.A.A. Basketball Bracket
In my opinion, the negative comments are more useful for the OP than the positive ones.