skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ what Yoz said (Hi Yoz!). Also within the last 6 months login.gov added support for PIV/CAC cards so while that product only handles the sign on experience, there is some hope for internal sites improving across the board. The tools exist at least.
Rails 5 has webpacker embedded, you can use npm packages in your projects.
Looks like SV is exporting techbro ageism to China, this will surely help with the trade deficit!
In the event that MCAS is disabled, the pilots will have to work harder to notice impending stalls and prevent them. Which is why this requires training.
Since you work on ads, may I ask why you support this? Won't this make most of your features ineffective?
How does that reduce costs, though?
Without starting a rant myself about people that think C++ has nothing to offer over C, what is in your opinions then the reason for any large company to develop their code in C++ and not C? I'm thinking of virtually all Adobe Products, anything related to the creative industry really, Google, CERN, Microsoft... No-one in their right mind would try to develop Adobe Photoshop in C.
Although it is not stated in the article, I suppose it is Sentinel2 (with highest resolution 10m for bands Red, Green, Blue and Near Infrared).

The data is available for free and accessible via Copernicus or at major cloud providers.
fiat's value is, at least partially, backed by an army that can defend/assert it. not having fiat eliminates the need for as much army.
The lobbies are usually quite busy in my area.
Its might be a strong claim in the bay or the PNW, but that different sexes statistically have some different preferences is a pretty tame notion.
The credit card I have via my credit union has a 13.24% APR. I'm fairly sure that's pretty normal if you have good credit and pay on time - I certainly didn't go out of my way to look for a low interest card.
Serious answer: It would take a small political shift.

We do not need to reinvent our economic systems, we just need to push back against the political power of a few established special interest groups that want to protect their current profit. Green technologies are already being adopted rapidly. Smart government regulations, taxes, and incentives can speed along these changes. The situation is not hopeless. We're having an increasing impact on the climate, but we're not extinct yet.

Vote. Tell your friends to vote. Cultivate green initiatives in your own community. Contribute to environmental organizations. Buy the low carbon alternative. Steer your career to build the future instead of picking over the carcass of the past. Stop waiting on the world to change.
It might surprise you, but some people actually prefer factory work, construction, and manual labor over sitting behind a desk.

But I definitely see more value in the jobs you demean than the "liberal arts".

If all jobs could be automated more cheaply than humans, don't you think they would have done it? There is nothing pragmatic about a liberal arts degree in Ancient Chinese Art History....
I mean, it's great when you're trying to blow a bubble with VC money and then pump and dump anything your shotgun-oriented monkeys-with-typewriters approach managed to create. There's entire companies in the US that are based around these principles.

Where they don't work is long term, when investors (or acquisitors) realize that they've been taken hook, line, and sinker. And really, it doesn't even work if anyone did due diligence, but technical diligence is almost as difficult to do well as interviewing.
Your tax preparer probably uses Intuit's tax preparation software for professions. I think it is called ProConnect.
"Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor" had this for me. It also made me feel like I was getting good at just finding my way around the city. Knowing alleyway shortcuts, where different shops are, or where to find a cheap meal.

Plus each day of the week has its own different mood / street festivals / music. Lots to love in that game.
They make it optional.

To be real, though, somewhere close to 0% (rounded to the third decimal place) of users would agree to grossly inefficient cryptomining in the browser. As a web funding model it is terrible and is almost always akin to malware. It certainly costs the user much more in electricity costs than it will ever benefit web publishers.
I think it's more elitist to get people to toil away, spending their time doing something we could automate instead, because you think it's better for them to be kept busy than to set them free to do something more creative and meaningful.
Basically there are no senior developers in those tech firms. They are going to be running around in circles. I couldn't think of a worst idea.
Fragmentation of this sort has always been a major goal of Java.
Stories of automatic no questions asked account deletions with no chance of appeal is worse.

Any startup choosing google cloud is taking an unnecessary risk.
Do you not think there's a meaningful difference between privately-run exchanges fraudulently manipulating the price to enrich themselves (to clear short or long positions off their books, pump the value of their assets, etc) -- and central banks who operate on behalf of the people of their respective countries to ensure a stable and reliable money supply?
I think my idea goes about a rapid prototyping, where i build the skeleton of a program faster, no matter the boiler code, and then workout the details.

Intellisense or shortcuts do this up to a level, but the current big IDEs are limited. Maybe some editor with the concept of VIM with a separate command and edit mode would be more fit to work like that.
It's degrees. Sure Ruby has those things too, but Python's is better/more comprehensive.

Go look at the releases up from 3.4 of Python. The features that have been added since then are pretty specifically what the community has been asking for. asyncio being integrated into the language, type hinting, f strings, just to name a few.

But yeah, it's not about "does it check the box" at this point with language like Python and Ruby, it's about how they check the box, and to what degree. Simply having a feature isn't enough.
>Advertising is unethical in my opinion when it lies or misleads, or it fosters fears and impulses that negatively impact individuals quality of life, or their social contribution and therefore others' QoL

Hard to disagree with that, but this is very different from the parent poster's claim.
I'm genuinely interested in how you find comfort in nihilism (I currently don't, but I'm not against the thought). Have you genuinely changed your attitude towards the universe, are you just ignoring your sad thoughts, …?
This, and other statistics like it, are really disingenuous and framed for a very specific interpretation. Here is the actual quote from the article (strikethrough is in the original - not sure why - maybe a bad stat ?):

"The vast majority of the people who are homeless today used to be housed – in San Francisco. According to the city’s 2015 homeless count, 71 percent of the people on the streets were living in San Francisco when they lost their housing. That means seven out of ten homeless people used to be your neighbors – before the tech boom and the eviction epidemic. "

So the presentation here is that average-joe-normal-churchgoer was minding his own business as a lifelong SF resident and was then evicted by an evil landlord, so his apartment could go to a techie, which sent him into a downward spiral to homelessness.

I have not done independent research into this myself, but I have a suspicion that the actual narrative is something like:

"borderline mentally healthy individual moves to San Francisco because it's interesting and fun and romantic (and warm) and, while still on their meds, manages to rent a room or an SRO or something, lives there for a month or two or six, runs out of either money or meds or familial support (or all three) and suffers their financial/emotional/mental breakdown here, on our streets, far from any support or family they have, if they had any at all."

If this suspicion is correct, it doesn't imply we shouldn't be compassionate or helpful or progressive in our responses, but it does suggest that we are importing problems and should consider how we might limit that tendency.

It also does not place some kind of moralistic "maybe they shouldn't be doing drugs in the first place" judgement on people - at the end of the day it is indeed a mental health issue. Just maybe it doesn't need to be our mental health problem.
Back then, you didn't have a choice. Most microcomputer BASICs did not have any other kind of "infinite" looping construct beyond a GOTO. FOR-NEXT was about the only other option.

There wasn't a WHILE or a DO-UNTIL construct in those BASICs, with the exception of (IIRC) or the BASIC used in the MSX systems (which didn't see much action outside of Japan) and in BBC BASIC (it was probably the best BASIC out there along with Microsoft's - but again, not as well known outside of the UK).
I'm confused because I can't tell what this actually refers to. It says:

> Congressional Democrats and Republicans are moving to permanently bar the IRS from creating a free electronic tax filing system.

But the IRS already has one. I used it yesterday to fill out and e-file my taxes. It's "Free File Fillable Forms" (freefilefillableforms.com) that is basically an online replica of the tax forms, some fields get automatically calculated, but you have to manually calculate the actual level of tax you owe, and it's submitted electronically.

And all income levels can use it, unlike the free tier of commerical tax prep programs which are limited to below a certain income level.

I use it out of principle -- it's harder to use, closer to filling out tax forms by hand (unlike the "wizard"-type interfaces of commercial tax prep software), but I don't want to support the commercial solutions exactly because of lobbying like this.

So I can't tell what this bill aims to do specifically. Is it trying to get rid of Free File Fillable Forms, or is it preventing the IRS from building something better?

EDIT: Free File Fillable Forms is apparently a private organization that the IRS website links to. In my years of using it, I'd always assumed it was provided by the government. Wikipedia clarifies:

"Another component of Free File is Free File Fillable Forms, which is available to all taxpayers, including taxpayers whose incomes are greater than $66,000. It is an alternative to Free File Software, although both are free. Free File Fillable Forms is operated by a private organization, the Free File Alliance and not the IRS. Though IRS links to it, they do not endorse it or any product... There are no income restrictions for using Free File Fillable Forms... It provides free electronic filing. Free File Fillable Forms is managed by the Free File Alliance." [1]

I'm still unclear, however, if there's pressure to get rid of this option that is free for everyone. I sure hope not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File#Free_File_Fillable_F...
At the same time older employees have more to lose by protesting and getting fired. They may have health issues, kids to support, mortgage to pay, etc. They also tend to be more conservative so they'd protest less against certain things.

I'd argue that protesting is tied to how easy it's to find a new job which tends to be easier with experience.
I don't know. It seems to me that Google started going downhill before 2016.
Unfortunately, the current US immigration policy has made it unlikely that US tech firms would be able to take advantage of any prejudicial ageism bias in China.

It'd be nice to entice them to resettle in cities other than those on the west coast, too, but that might be a local culture problem, less amenable to remediation by legislation.
It's all symptoms of the same problem: a vast oversupply of educated talent. To some degree we have it here to in the US, but it's much greater in China. With an oversupply of labor/talent, companies can be arbitrarily selective.

In China, seasonal workers coming into the city actually earn more than college degree holders because there's just so many people with degrees. We something similar starting to happen in the US, as more and more people get bachelors degrees, those people get compensated less and less.
Understanding Connectable Observable Sequences in RxSwift
Yep. It's one reason why I prefer to write my own code where possible instead of using 3rd party libraries. When you need to change something, it is nice to not read tons of other code.
I am deeply confused now by the name "openjdk." I thought openjdk was the open source version, but it seems like it's just an adjective according to this article.

IceTea is one OpenJDK JDK? Azul is another? Does IBM still maintain a JVM and will that be another? What the hell is this thing:

https://hub.docker.com/_/openjdk

Is that Oracle's OpenJDK release, which is different from Oracle Java? Or is this the IceTea release?
> the benefit of the middleman over the benefit of the individual citizen

I think you put it just right. Health and Education are the two areas this is bought up, but the taxes are a good example.
"stray" implies they get closer, eventually coming close enough for tidal effects to get nasty. Everything I understand agrees with a white dwarf not ripping apart planets whose orbits are not distirbed from their previous ones.

IANA astronomer/astrophysicist.
Almost no person even resembles the "rational actor" we learn about in Econ 101. Environment, unconscious biases, and conscious biases have a large influence on most people's behavior.
I recall the controls took some getting used to. I believe the left/right controls actually started movement of a slow turning wheel on the forklift that moved at a constant rate that then turned the wheels, as opposed to direct/real-time input like racing games.
This leads directly back to a discussion of net neutrality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

(I'm lying-- it's not relevant at all. I'm just mad because I clicked the phony "start" button on one of their banner ads because I thought it linked to an archive.org emulator.)
Your server logs.
Wait, are you blaming consumers for the short life of the products they buy?

Sort of a chicken and egg problem I guess. What came first, the short lived product, or the consumer's desire to buy something newer and shinier.

People definitely want to buy new shiny things, but I fully disagree that product cycles and lifespans are the result of that desire. Companies have positioned themselves to scale uncontrollably at that cost of product lifespans. They make more money if people buy a new thing every 18 months, so they make the thing fail every 18 months instead of making something that has a longer term life. This practice can only be characterized as wasteful and greedy.

Spending less on components that are guaranteed to fail _is_ a malicious act. Apparently we're so far down the rabbit hole now that there are actually people who think that planned obsolescence is a feature. You're blowing my mind here in the worst possible way.
Kotaku is very partisan in its Nintendo fanboyism. In their view Nintendo can't do anything wrong, where as the slightest hint of a mistake from Valve or Sega or others, they pounce upon with extreme outrage. Also they kind of patronizingly fetishize Japanese gaming culture, over others. They'll have pages and pages of articles about even the most obscure Pokemon game releases, while they give lesser coverage of a Total War game.

Note to mention the click-bait and hyperbole laden writing style.
Customers liking your service is not lock in.
This recognizes the struggle behind the recent re-licensing of Redis Lab's addons for Redis, as well as the public tit-for-tat of Amazon vs Elastic resulting in the "Open" ElasticSearch distro.

Instead of developing their own value-added versions of redis/elastic/etc, Google will simply partner with the providers. This requires less of a commitment from Google while directly benefitting the companies that pay and support the creators and maintainers of these open source projects.
You might be right. However, the author didn't show any evidence that the UI was limited by the available processing power. 1990s computers were very capable of displaying advanced graphic interfaces.
Users who are prohibited from installing addons (or otherwise unable/unwilling) would benefit greatly from not needing to install an addon to be protected.
This is an interesting idea. Do you know of any good articles/books about it? I am interested in learning more.
Pretty much everything has moved to Python 3 now.
I dunno, before Postgres, Oracle was kind of the only game in town for that particular genre of RDBMS. I'm sure you can rattle off a dozen other systems that hit some of the featuresets (or even most), but even today, Oracle is really the most straightforward, in-house scalable RDBMS platform that you can actually hire folks with experience on, isn't it?

It's hard enough finding Postgres SAs these days as it is!
Solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels, today.

There is no reason at all why humans can't continue to use a lot of energy and also cease pumping CO2 into the atmosphere. All that is required is that the changeover be made.
Oh you're right. Silly Mozilla adding protections to their browser for their user-base.

That's it everyone. Shut down Mozilla and have all the users switch over to Brave. Brandon Eich's got everything covered.
I would legitimately use this. I just moved to Vancouver, Canada & had to do some serious Reddit research to find all the small/midsize fests. Is it crowd-sourced data?
I've always acknowledged that it's not my strong suit: I thought it was common knowledge that women are, in general, lacking in that area. I'd be curious to do the course to see if it could be improved, and maybe I'll get better at Starfox on the SNES, my childhood dream.
It is a feeling of limitless boundaries.

I recently bought an Osbourne "portable" -- seeing my children's delight as we booted up that ancient machine (from actual 5.25" floppy discs, no less) reminded me of own own sense of wonder at the same age, 40 years ago. Of course my middle-aged eyes didn't tolerate a 7" amber screen as well as they once did, but we proceeded to create an adventure type game, in MicroSoft Basic. The kids actually squabbled over who would get to play that simple game, very unlike them, such was their enthusiasm. And play they did, for many, many hours!

We had a bug where the player's "hit points/HP" could go negative. I loved watching my children deduce where the problem must lie, and debugging the problem. (comparison of <, rather than a <= )

They had lots of ideas for additions, some of which we implemented (others were very ambitious, bordering on Dwarf Fortress!) And even though what we created was very simple and crude, their pride in ownership was clear.
You're working from a position that perfect consensus is necessary for curatorial value.

We agree that curation is not consensus, I'm taking that a step farther -- consensus is not necessary for curation. In fact, the entire point of a human curated list as opposed to an algorithmically curated list is that different humans curate differently from each other and have different perspectives.

If you feel like my previous examples were too trivial:

I don't believe that we've reached a consensus on the best way to teach -- and there might not even be a right answer. But I still like curated lists of books and courses.

I don't believe we've reached a consensus on what good and bad or biased reporting is, but I still like finding curated lists of reporters and newspapers.

I don't believe we've reached a consensus on what effective altruism looks like, but I still like reading charity rankings.

So my assertion is that curation is fundamentally a different kind of activity than you're claiming. There is a huge difference between slapping a label on something and making it a point of policy (ie, labeling news articles on Facebook) and having a list that says, "here's what meets my own personal standards, maybe it will meet yours."

If OP was claiming that any software not on this list was not ethical, I would agree with you 100%. If they were claiming theirs was the definitive list, I would agree with you 100%. But they're not. I think you're reading a claim here that doesn't exist.
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I guess that's the trend and there is no denying Amazon but I'd be surprised if past gains are as solid of a future predictor as this this article purports them to be.

The seduction of avoiding traffic and human contact is undeniable, but every successful business becomes a victim of its success.

Amazon has a serious counterfeit problem and I doubt they solve it. It's too easy to do for profit.
Wow, I've received frighteningly little interviewer training, but the "things to not say/consider" talking point has been reiterated strongly. That said, I can't say I'm surprised.
"As a life long Mac user, if option 3 is removed i will be leaving for Linux."

I agree, however I suspect I will still by mac hardware.

So, for me, it's really not a dollar-vote against this behavior ... unfortunately ...
Do you really think companies that don't automate are doing it for the good of humanity and to keep people busy? I would draw no "meaningfulness" from anything that you probably consider "liberal arts".
Only 25% of US adults have a bachelors degree. Of the 25% of those with bachelors degrees, the large majority come from regional public schools, think "Cal State Sacramento", or "Northern Illinois University". Graduates of these types of schools often grew up within 2 - 3 hours of their university, and after school the majority end up in the largest city within a 2 - 3 hour drive of their university. If you didn't get a degree, you're much more likely to live close to where you grew up.

If you went to a top school (top 25 - 50 in USNWR), then your social circle was much more "mobile" than average.
I think all statements about support need to be clarified with $ monthly spend.
Not as of tax year 2018. SALT deduction is capped at $10k, standard deduction for married filing joint is $24k. I don't think you can get $14k worth of deductible mortgage interest, but I guess maybe. If you're filing single with a mortgage, it seems more likely to end up with itemized, still.
The switchover to Python3 has taken 10 years (as originally predicted).

Guido said there would never be a Python 4, though he has handed over the reigns so who knows.

As a Python dev, I wouldn't mind a Python 4 if it fixed some of the older / crustier corners of the API.
Personally like Linux a lot. It is worth it for the first-class docker support.

James Turnbull had an article reviewing the XPS 13 last year. It is what I would recommend: https://www.kartar.net/2018/03/dell-xps-13-aka-2018-is-the-y...
As I understand it, China is aging more than the developed world rather than less. The one child policy has led to a massive disparity between generation sizes with proportionally fewer young people.
Libertarians are totally right ... when they only consider certain variables that are favorable to their arguments.

When you combine "wages are lower for women" with "the free market," you get "businesses will insist on hiring more women any way they can."

But when you add in "techbro bias against women (and mutual disgust at having to work with the techbro fraternity with constant harassment)" and reference again "women in tech get paid less" you get fewer women available in a market (because a free market goes both ways) and less chance of women being hired on despite HR and management constantly pushing for more women.
But it felt so liberating and high-level, compared to the assembly we wrote before. :)