skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many low wage workers are aware that a non-compete clause is not enforceable in CA? Many contracts have it present, and businesses like to call attention to them, making it perhaps non-obvious that they are meaningless?
That would make many things much easier, and I would enthusiastically use it.
> However, the VSCode binary is not FLOSS so you cannot be sure what it is running.

That's equally true of the VSCodium binary. It's not a reproducible build, I have no way of knowing from which source code the binary was generated.

Of course I could build from source, but VSCodium is just VSCode built from source with a build flag set. So in this regard it's not contributing anything notable (and doesn't claim so either).
Now if we could just block the autoplaying Netflix menu video...
I have a theory that much of the success of "internet" companies is less due to disruptive business models, and more because they can software.
LitHTML and LitElement don't need a specific bundler, they work with whatever tools (or not) you'd like. You might want to get them another look!
Glad to see the ruby community handled this quickly and professionally. Proud rubyist here.

Far cry from the way a recent npm vuln was handled.
Another way to look at it is that the government isn't prohibiting anything, it just isn't enforcing things just because they happen to be written down in some contract.

Or you could frame the enforcement of the non-compete as the government prohibiting people from freely using their labor.

I think it's not so bad that when Hal asks the government to give him the money that he says he was promised, the government just tells Hal he was a fool to expect anything from that promise. Or course that isn't a universal, there are things in contracts that absolutely should be honored, the point is that you figure out which ones as a society rather than blindly enforcing anything and everything.
One could draw a corollary, there, about Java. But it might be perceived as invidious.
I didn't mean to imply the direction of causality, only that they were related and that the relation elucidates the factors (e.g. how identity is defined, how interests are aligned) we should be looking at to better understand and categorize the behaviors.

Colonialism and imperialism are labels that imply particular motivations and dynamics. Just because America did some [horrible] things that resembled the things other powers did doesn't mean the same narrative can or should apply.

American exceptionalism is real. We're just not always exceptional in the ways we think we are. And we're not exceptional in being exceptional. China is exceptional. Western Europe (and now Europe) is exceptional. Imperialism and colonialism is reflection of Western European (and Japanese, in so far as they deliberately imported it) exceptionalism. It makes no more sense to use colonialism and imperialism to describe American history as it does using Manifest Destiny to describe European history. Likewise with slavery--you're not going to get very far in terms of addressing the legacy of slavery by lumping the American slave trade in with the European slave trade, despite the obvious and substantial and, indeed, causal relationships. There are infinite parallels to draw, but doing so doesn't contribute much to understanding what happened and why it happened.

The law of tort distinguishes cause in fact and proximate cause. A proximate cause must be a cause in fact, but a cause in fact isn't a proximate cause. Scholars can identify all sorts of causes of fact about American occupation. And they can show how those causes of fact are identical to the causes of fact in colonialism and imperialism. But so what? Broader historical narratives aren't based on a set of causes of fact, but on higher-order dynamics--the proximate causes of why things happened the way they did.
...or they're like me. I spent over a decade making a living on PHP and now it gives me major P(HP)TSD. I'd have to be REALLY desperate to consider a job that involved PHP.
It's a context that matters. I actually haven't compared "a passive circuit element" to an iPhone.

I answered to the following (one level above): "I've saved it in my notebook for forward to folks who go on and on about how revolutionary they are."

My claim is that iPhone was "revolutionary" even if "it is not 'fundamental' in any sense."

Moreover, just "a passive circuit element" that you used is surely way too simple to be used to describe a memristor:

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

Also:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7319

The way I read it, a resistor is still the only "real" passive circuit element.

My view of a "memristor" was always more as a "marketing name." As here:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328535-200-online-s...

Which doesn't mean something marketed as them won't be useful. But, as I've also said, up to now, year after year the announcements happened, the time passed... Still, I know nobody would care "if it's fundamental or not" if it would allow us to do the things we couldn't before.
Two of ours ended up on (very mild) drugs for acid reflux, for a little while. Friggin' lifesaver, that stuff.

With the first one we had to switch doctors to finally get one who'd listen to us (no, shrieking like they're on fire when you lay them down or hold them in the wrong position, and starting to drink from a bottle, then shrieking for a bit, then taking some more, then shrieking for a bit is not normal kid fussiness and we are not being oversensitive first-time parents, you asshole) so that one'd burned their throat quite raw by the time we got ahold of the medicine, but things got way better in a matter of days anyway. Knew what to look for with the other second one who had it, got it taken care of fast, and damn was that easier. Practically an instant fix, in that case, without all the weeks of accumulated damage. A++++ would reach for meds at the first sign of reflux again. Those few weeks without on the first one were... very bad. Very, very bad.
I gave up on vscode when it locked up on a 32gb machine. Seeing that there's analytics code inside clears that right up. I assumed the problems I had with electron based apps were the overhead of running a browser on top of the application. The real problem is that it's running 1990s omniture code. Thankfully they haven't added auto-play video to the search yet...
Channel blocking, with recommendation weighting.

If I get recommendations from a channel producing shit, I should be able to block the entire channel.

Sufficient good-faith blocks dock that channel's recommendation weighting.

The fact this isn't available even when logged inremoves all incentive I have to log in to YT.

(Which is already near nil.)
This cuts both ways, the spending on veterans post Korean War, WWII, and the Vietnam War was probably very large as well. The point is the overall trend is down. The economic burden of the US defense budget is decreasing, not increasing.

Our military spending as a percentage of GDP has dropped by roughly 4x since the 1960s. From around 12% to around 4%. In no way can a reasonable person describe our military spending as "out of control".
Haha indeed. Besides, this is opensource and one can build it from source anytime. Using emotionally charged language to sell a trivial product.
Fooling Google is a different game than catering to arrow clickers.

This is really more of a data problem.

I think the strategy is to take the most popular things around this time of day, day of week, and month of year from say a pool of 5-10 year old data.

Then you filter it looking for evergreen content. This would be an incremental heuristic model.

You take the candidate content, use some trivial grammar model to rewrite it so it's not completely identical and then automatically put it on different styled templated sites.

Register a few domains that suggest they are tech information sites

Make sure your Twitter cards and url naming system is reasonable, then have a bot to post it from a handful of puppet accounts

Have a much larger pool of about 250 or so puppet accounts and use a different 5% subset to seed them with upvotes over Tor in order to confuse any clustering algorithm and then keep the profits.

Affiliated ad revenue is total complete shit though. Even if this all worked beautifully you're looking at what? $20/day? I mean who cares...

The truly dishonest and devious thing you could do is freemium it and have a generous paywall like NYT.

That's an incredibly dishonest way to make money though. It'd probably work great.
> because they read some "why php sucks"

Poor souls. It must be pretty awful having your mind be a walking trashcan of everyone else's blog posts.
> No. Even if it were true, how does that justify not getting the social security that was paid into?

Did the U.S. change the rules on her, or could she have seen this problem coming?
Evidently not popular enough to become prohibited by law. Granted, I'm not as familiar with non-US laws.
Are they still one data center only?
Bitcoin has nothing to do with anonymity. Or rather, it's designed to minimize anonymity. That is, there's a public blockchain, to help prevent double spending etc.
Performance is kind of a meaningless question in this case, since the "bash" script makes calls to external binaries. You could write a webserver binary in C, then invoke it with bash and call it a shell script.
> I expect they're tracking really basic stuff [...] information that helps to internally justify the continued existence of the project, and data that lets them better prioritize resources on the project.

This is my big issue with almost all analytics setups. Sure, you expect that they're probably tracking stuff like that, which is perfectly reasonable and benefits everyone. But when you look at the privacy policy inevitably you find that the data they "may" collect is incredibly vaguely defined, wide-ranging, and generally not actually limited (they use phrases like "we collect data such as..." and "some examples of data we collect are...").

And then what they do with the data is also left unrestricted by phrases like "ways we use the data include..."

And then when you point this out, everyone tells you that you're being paranoid and they're just covering themselves and don't be silly.

And then when they do precisely what their policy legally enables them to do (cough Facebook cough Cambridge Analytica cough) everyone is aghast.
Because Chinese companies don’t have anything that wasn’t stolen from western countries.

Oh and NSA doesn’t pass stolen information to private companies. That’s what China does.
Ah, yep, I get it now.

Thank you for your swift and thorough response.
This is exactly why I get up a minute earlier each day. As it is, I am waking up tomorrow at 4:39 AM. Mission accomplished.
Well stated.

There's two kinds of parents: Those who have left their child asleep unattended in a Rock 'N Play for a few minutes, and liars.

If you design a product aimed particularly at new sleep deprived parents, you have to assume imperfect usage. And a product that a baby can sleep in will be left unattended for a few minutes, that's just a fact of life. The doorbell will ring, you'll make lunch, you'll put in the laundry, go bathroom, whatever it is. You aren't going to wake up a sleeping baby every time you step out of the room momentarily.

And this coming from a big fan of the Rock N' Play.
Ask HN: What NON monospace font do you like for terminal/IDE?
Sometimes I like to use a non monospace font for daily use (term, IDE). right now I'm using Mali. If you do that too, what font do you use?
If there is no Internet, I'm going home. You can't seriously expect me to work without StackOverflow
For reference: Mali https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mali
I’ll leave BoB[1] here as a reference for the OPs comment

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781019
That sounds like they legally released it under MIT. They legally can't just revoke a license grant, even completely unpublishing it by rewriting git history wouldn't solve that.
Ask HN: What are your most recommended GitHub repos to learn from?
My background is mostly frontend development and I'm always looking to learn more about C.S. fundamentals and how JavaScript libraries can be used for full-scale app development. I find myself checking out the following from time to time:

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

Any good gems out there you recommend?
Es un buen editor. Actualmente uso distribuciones. ya que soy principiante. Uso https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d y tambien probe prelude emacs.
Naval has a lot of good content.

I would start with his tweet storm: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?s=21
The drugs are magic. I will say ours still benefited from inclined sleeping even with the drugs.

We used the Rock N' Play for several months then got a foam wedge that goes under an infant mattress (which frankly didn't work too well, they'd roll down the hill).
Much more than that. Comes to around $16 per wage earner.
Good things such as trackers ostensibly designed to deliver you relevant content?
I have the feeling that's how IT is done at my company. They have a huge number of outsourced contractors in India and the US and not very many people who really understand technology and can move things forward.
Reading the consumer reports report was a bit more scary to me...

At 4 a.m., when the mother checked, all was well, but by 7 a.m., the baby had stopped breathing. Her head was tilted to the side with her chin on her shoulder, compressing her airway. She was pronounced dead at the scene from positional asphyxia, or an inability to breathe caused by her position.

and

In one, on July 25, 2014, a 7-week-old boy was placed in a Rock ’n Play Sleeper while his grandmother was in the room, according to a lawsuit filed against Fisher-Price that was ultimately dismissed. The grandmother, Jan Hinson, of Greenville, S.C., says she looked at her grandson and saw he was “cocked over all the way, and he was blue and lifeless. It was absolutely awful.” She got the infant breathing again, and after a stay in the hospital, he was released.

https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-...

These weren't caused by children placed in the rock n play with extra stuff in it or children that rolled over, it was because an infant sleeping at an angle puts them at risk of dropping their head down and cutting off their airway.

We have a newborn 4 weeks old and received a rock n play as a gift. I put the baby in it next to me while I was working at my desk and I was constantly worried his head was tipped too far forward, it's not surprising to me that accidents like this have happened. When the baby was in the NICU the doctors highlighted to us multiple times that when babies sleep they need to be on a flat firm surface with no other items with them.

In 2010, the CPSC made it their recommendation that only flat angles of less than 5 degrees were safe, but Mattel lobbied to add a separate exception for surfaces of greater than 10 degrees so the rock n play would not violate their standards.
Earlier in my career I was a Rails dev. Since it's on my Linkedin, I get PMs at least once a week about Rails gigs from companies in SF/SV. Rails isn't dead. Furthermore having had stints with Django and React, I think Rails is still by far the simplest and most pleasurable way to build webapps. Their core philosophy of maximizing developer happiness has something to do with it.
In my opinion, Firefox has regained the crown as the best browser. There really arn't that many disadvantages to it while having many benefits.
For sure, but it's sometimes a mix of both.
I'm not, I apologize, an electronic engineer, so I mainly only get to view the whole memristor discussion as one of competing narratives - and certainly the 'whatever HP are pitching, it's not what was originally envisaged, and there's no certainty that's even a thing' narrative is certainly compelling. But there is a slight feel in this paper of an attempt to reconcile an unclear new concept with an orthodoxy, and that rubs me the wrong way. It reads a little like an alchemist dismissing the concept of phlogiston. Maybe you're both wrong?

"The basic question of the “missing element” is whether we can we have a new passive element that cannot be made from the combination of existing passive elements. Water (W), Fire (F), Earth (E) and Air (A) are the four fundamental passive elements that a contemporary alchemical engineer is familiar with.... "
No one needs to justify the "why" when we're talking about a very well trodden slippery slope.
I will second this. I use the two words interchangeably. I would probably use the word fit when talking about liner regression and train when talking about a more complex ML model that requires more computation. I really don't remember the last time I fitted a regression model by hand, it would have probably been in a college exam.
Are we still on with the FUD about telemetry?

It doesn't help anybody except probably the one guy who 'Showed Microsoft'.

Telemetry helps improve products and opt-out means the product company will miss out on the behavior of power users thereby not being able to optimize their software for their usage.
Then you are saddled with the overwhelmingly bigger problem of where the interventionist came from.

You don't converge when each next term is astronomically bigger than the previous one.

It appears, already, that amino acids and RNA were inevitable, and RNA turns out to suffice for the needed enzyme operations. RNA that replicates other RNA arises spontaneously. Once you get two of them, the seas fill with variations of everything they encounter.
Umm, it's slippery for me. I haven't had a stable sleeping schedule for over ten years. Send help.
As I'd noted on an earlier story of FB using users' likenesses in advertising, the practice of social mediavcompanies is prcisely and literally what lit off the right to privacy movement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19645531

I also strongly recommend the linked story of the subsequent discovery by the judge writing the majoriy opinion in Robeson discovering a right to be freed of concern of being "snapped by some fellow with a camera".

http://www.nycourts.gov/history/programs-events/images/Judic...
I find it curious their IPv4 table from 2019 shows a ton of /30s appeared since 2011, is there any reason to use a /30 instead of a /31?
Forgive me for not being clear enough in the beginning. I understand that the US has the power to enforce their whim over much of the planet despite not being in charge of it. I disagree with your response that implies this is right and proper.

Making a law that declares a crime over people not under your jurisdiction that happened on territory not under your jurisdiction is a mockery of the idea of sovreignty. The US might be able to enforce their will anyway due to their might, but they shouldn't do so as this will just ensure that the second they lose their advantage in power they will be treated as poorly as they treated others
I am pretty sure there are no populations with high Denisovan ancestry on the Asian side of the Wallace line. Do you have a reference which describes such a population?
I was unclear in my weight explanations. The OP’s point was that one of the advantages of fossil fuel aircraft was its ability to shed weight during flight from its fuel source burning away, and I claimed that was irrelevant for GA ( which it is ).

Completely agreed on the avantages of fuel for weight adjustments before takeoff though.

To be fair however the eFlyer specs of 440pounds of useful load for the 2, and 800 for the 4, are quite generous when you compare to fuel equivalent aircraft with realistic fuel loads.

The real insane drawback is the limited range at useful speeds...
The Minority Army the Indian Army’s Gradual Recomposition
Really you should be starting with bash, thats how you know why these other languages exist. My rule of thumb used to be if I have more than one "if" in a shell script then its going to python... But now its any ifs or variables

Edit: now that I read the readme I think the title should have been "show hn: I made a web framework in bash" this is pretty neat, I still wouldnt use it, but its cool as hell.
Child porn? Video of you in the bathroom that someone took from a hidden camera? Your stolen financial information?
The problem is, there is no way to block silent video without disabling JS completely.

Block the <video> element? Sites will use GIFs. Block GIF animation? Sites will present a slideshow of still images. Alternatively sites can implement video decoding in JS and render to a <canvas>. This isn't just theoretical, these have all been observed in practice. And these are all worse for users in every way than letting sites use <video> with a decent video codec.
I thought PHP was disliked because its flexibility can lead to horrible code if it's used without discipline, and for a long time its default settings were completely insecure?

I don't recall hearing any serious criticism claiming that it was hard to get things done with (unless you count security).
Assistant Shuts Down Interview with Voss After Questioning the Internet Filter
No, good things such as telemetry and automated error reporting so that bugs can be fixed effectively and efficiently and everyone is better off for it.
Actually, it was open sourced and hence posted here on HN, which is how I discovered it. Hence added that detail hoping it might help someone remember it. When it was posted, I had no need for it and hence did not bookmark it. Now I would like to repurpose it for a conference.
Maybe you can clarify what you mean.

Do you mean that you don't believe heavy metals can cause brain damage, cancer, etc.? Lead itself makes people stupid and violent, they used to put it in paint and even gasoline. Don't remember that? That's why they call it "unleaded".

Or do you mean that you don't understand why an organization is trying to test juice products for safety? Is it because you trust the people selling the products to produce safe products? That's like self-regulation, man, and self-regulated industries are the dirtiest ever. CR is trying to keep folks honest.

Or did you just read the headline and not the article?

As a father who gives juice to his kids maybe once / week, this is useful information.
Oh yeah, incline on the first one with the (temporarily) effed-up throat remained helpful for a while. We also ended up on some wicked-expensive prescription formula stuff with that one, for two or three months. God was that a lot of money.

> We used the Rock N' Play for several months then got a foam wedge that goes under an infant mattress (which frankly didn't work too well, they'd roll down the hill).

I'm having a really fun time imagining the scene when you realized it was doing this :-)
Overwhelming empirical data across history.
Strange, I didn’t realize they had a medium.com version. I originally read it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...
What was that other than read or write barriers that happened to be cheap?
Safari also has clickable speaker icons that show up on all the tabs that have websites playing sound.
Would you consider open sourcing the micro service you wrote to perform the migration? I could see it being helpful to others interested in migrating from S3 to B2.
I didn't say that it should, only that no-audio videos behaving like GIFs seems like a good idea for bandwidth. Otherwise people will just use GIFs.
> Telemetry helps improve products and opt-out

Did you mean to write "opt-in", or are you suggesting it's OK for software to refuse the choice to opt out of data tracking? "Power users" simply do not use such software or block connections via firewall.