skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Terrorism, children, drugs, or sex; all excuses used for attacking individual liberty.

You've provided no basis for this claim.

> Let's get real here, stuff like this is about control, not about security, and certainly Nota about morality...

You've provided no basis for this claim.

> That's just how politicians package it so the people swallow the poison pill.

I take this as an expression rather than a claim, but still it doesn't teach us anything.

You haven't tied your point about sovereignty to the topic of discussion, and when commenters don't do that we get taken off into generic tangents.

This is not about holding controversial opinions. It's about failing to meet the standards of discourse here, and meeting them is a rather mechanical thing which all commenters are capable of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hope you had a good contract that outlined everything that was expected and for how much before doing work with said client.

Hold them to the contract.

If you are a component to their project and their overall project is failing so they want to cut your component? If so they paid for your services and if they are failing their overall project that is not on you. Keep the money they paid you for your product that was outlined in your contract.

If they are a component or part of your project and want to quit because they underbid the portion they are responsible for and now want to bail before taking a loss that is also their fault and hold them to finishing their portion of the project for whatever amount you agreed to prior.

Not sure what else to say without knowing more and this is taken from construction experience with dealing with various sub contractors so it may not hold true as much for the tech sector.

Take all information as anecdotal evidence and I am not a lawyer.
How many calls are you actually getting? Even if it's one a day, who h seems extremely high, is it really that much effort to lose the 5 seconds it takes to answer and hang up straight away?
At Pycon, I spoke with a couple of people at Microsoft who insisted that it would be eventually. They were not, however, on the VS Code team, and speaking unofficially.

At the booth, the VS Code people said that the reason it was closed was because it fell into the "services" umbrella, which has a lot of closed-source components. They did not have a comment on if it was going to be opened.
Good question!

I prefer Atom because I use it since the early days and I am so used to it. The whole workflow is super awesome and everything is simple and clean. I don't have any performance problems nowadays (this was a big problem years ago) so I have zero complaints.

It's hard to switch, I tried VSCode, don't like it and have no reason to switch because _for me_ Atom just works and I love it.
Microsoft Officially Launches React Native for Windows
Possibly only easier to maintain as Java due to developer tools being more recently developed and actively used.
She only says

>Transwomen are transwomen

once, in an effort to sound reasonable. The rest of the time she just calls them men...
>What happened?

In this specific case? Only the nerds used it, and most people didn't even know it existed. We could have educated them about it, but making a forum and sending out an email was easier.
“A proven interest in computer science from a young age”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oWl6FD-7c : there are many mechanical weeding robots for field cultivation. France’s Naio Technologies is my favourite. They are coming to North America soon.

It seems like Europe is far ahead of us with robotics and field automation. In America, we have always had abundant cheap labour.

Also, American Agtech is a data play and geared towards commodity crops. That’s not always suitable for food crops and speciality food crops and fruits etc.

Edited to add: I guess tertill is for gardens. It’s not bad but can be better.
How does it work with the consumer ISP? Can you elaborate on any special considerations? Obviously not for customers, but I'm interested for it as a hobby thing.
I'll bite. For context, I'm very much a rust beginner with probably a couple dozen hours at most. I find that anything having to do with lifetime parameters is hard. I think this is even worse than C++ templating in some sense since it behaves differently than type templating.

Otherwise, I think the syntax is fairly reasonable.
It doesn't violate the laws of physics, just of typical human aircraft engineering. The lack of visible thrust could be due to using interaction with the Earth's magnetic field[1] to generate thrust, as one random example.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether
Indeed.

I've been running WSL for over a year with Docker for Windows and while the experience feels native to WSL (WSL has no problem running the Docker CLI and connecting to Docker for Windows) it'll be a very nice perk to just apt install Docker in WSL and not deal with DfW.
Roslyn is open source.
My socks are blown off. At my most unimaginative, this is a glimpse of what high-schoolers and tabloid journalists will be using to get filler for their assignments.
That's really insane, although it makes more sense than, say, writing a code editor in Javascript.
On the WSL2 piece, is this continuing the direction of WSL1 (syscall emulation) or going for a hypervisor based route to enable compatibility with things like Docker?
If you have $2000 burning a hole in your pocket, Husqvarna already sells a solar-powered automower.
There are a number of ways we, as individuals, can help.

Choose air conditioner and refrigerator coolants based on hydrocarbon refrigerants; urge politicians to invest in on-shore wind turbines; reduce food waste; eat less meat; and support restoration of tropical forests.

The summary (https://bit.ly/2Jg5XY1) is addressed primarily at policymakers who will enact laws that direct us, as a group, into making helpful changes.

For example, if corporations aren't legally allowed to sell gasoline-powered vehicles, then hybrids, EVs, and hydrogen-powered will be the only options available to the general public. I hope any enacted policies are sufficiently broad, meaningful, and timely to actually help.
I totally agree on this. My head hurts each time I try to understand what is going on.
Windows 10 will take a long time to update and initialize everything. If I power down my machine for a few weeks it will take a few hours for it to calm down when powered on again (I’m on the insider release cycle so there is almost always a major upgrade of some kind). Lenovo stuff doesn’t help, but I suspect things like store app upgrades (whoever needs those?), Windows updates, search indexing, AV scans.
I'd suggest Nolt for the public roadmap feature. There isn't a lot of whitelabelling functionality but it works in a pinch. https://nolt.io/
I'm with you on this and I think the problem really got started when Zynga began actively optimizing to monetize underlying addiction in its core users years ago. The real solution here is that we need legislation for "casual" games that puts addictive games into the same bucket as gambling, but doing that is going to be really difficult (how do you even legally define bad addicting gameplay?).
It was for clarification that while .Net Core/.Net 5 are cross platform, “porting” Windows Forms doesn’t mean it will be cross platform.
It works on smaller plants, you just have to place the collar around them.
Does it solve SPAM problem?
Microsoft’s plan for Edge: Integrated IE compatibility, better privacy
Coin ups existed a long time ago too. Arguably you got even less value from those per dollar spent.
MakerDAO Critical Vulnerability Notice
E480 here. I didn't see unusual CPU/IO. Did you let it settle for a day? Noise: Lenovo doesn't enable Speed Shift and the firmware provided fan control is shit. If you want to fix it: Get a tool like tpfan and tweak the fans. Get ThrottleStop to enable Speed Shift and undervolt a bit. - Noise was pretty much fine on Linux out of the box. I just undervolted because why not.
Sort of did that for a brand new X1 Carbon:
1.created a usb bootable image from MS's tool to install new windows

2.installed from scratch

3.the windows setup only put essential Lenovo stuff - hotkeys and thermal management.

4. ???

5. Profit [1]

It made a real difference to disable the automatic windows updates and run them manually.
There were no bloatware installed on my unit.

[1] A joke from the memes, its all good otherwise.
I've used perl5 for a long time (although these days I've replaced it with python in my toolchain, although I have my fair share of complaints about python as well) and I think your comparison is unfair.

Rust's sometimes complicated syntax is made necessary by the very concept of the language. You need to be able to express lifetimes, you need to be able to express generics, you need to be able to strongly type lambdas etc... Of course the syntax is going to be a bit more complicated than, say, Common Lisp where everything is dynamic and garbage collected and you can let the runtime figure things out.

Perl 5 was syntactically insane because that's how the authors decided to do it. Effectively it didn't let you express things that were impossible in Lisp, Python, Ruby or JS. It's just a design choice to lean heavily on sigils and magic variables to favor short code even if it can be cryptic to people not intimately familiar with the language. I doubt anybody who hasn't used perl before will be able to figure out exactly what this does (and I'd argue that it's a fairly simple and idiomatic script, not some heinously cryptic code golf):

while (<>) { chomp(); s/f.o/bar/; print; }

Rust is noisy because it has to represent concepts that simply don't exist in other programming languages.

I'd go even further: Rust does a better job than most languages at letting you only explicitly mention things that need to be explicitly mentioned. Thanks to the very powerful type inference you can write very tidy code, IMO much more so than in C where I have to explicitly type every intermediary variable that I would use for instance.
Perl was designed to be familiar to C programmers.
Understanding 5G: A Basic Primer
Check disk indexing.
I spent some time reading through this (managed to access via Sci-Hub) but I lack the statistical background to fully understand their Regression Discontinuity Design. Some things I find interesting:

1. The study seems fairly large, with 444 children included in the IQ comparison.

2. Taking the claim of 0.5% in IQ per month in daycare at face value, and the included age range of 4 months to 36 months, you have an expected drop of 16%. They include daycare from ages 4 months to 36 months, yielding an expected drop of 16% for a child who spends the full time in daycare. That's more than a full standard deviation in IQ and equivalent to the drop expected for >250 micrograms/dL of lead in the bloodstream (for reference, lead poisoning is defined as 50 micrograms/dL).

3. For an effect this strong, I'd expect you could simply scatter plot "months in daycare" as one axis and "IQ" as the other and see the effect. I don't see such a chart.

4. The ".5%" per month claim seems to be derived from a single drop associated with acceptance into the child's preferred daycare program. There is a 3% drop and also a ~6mo increase in typical attendance as a result. They seem to have turned this into a claim of .5% per month without evidence of a continuous month-by-month effect. I am perhaps misunderstanding.

5. There also seems to be little to support the notion that less affluent parents will provide lower-quality home care, which is the entire hypothesis behind the measured effect. Frankly from 0-2 you aren't teaching kids physics. I'm not sure less affluent parents are really that much worse at being stay-at-home caregivers. You take care of the kid, feed them, stack some blocks and maybe read some books.

This whole thing seems really iffy to me. The supposed change is massive.

[1] https://tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4682...
>Not sure this is the type of article for juniors.

Most definitely. I worded that poorly. I meant "my juniors" as in those with less experience than I, but not fresh out of the oven devs.
That's similar to the "ex fossil fuel" indices I mentioned. It does not eliminate or lower the weighting of big emitters. For example, airline companies are built around the burning of kerosene, but they don't own fossil fuel reserves so they will be fully present in that index.
Everyone I met there had my respect. I find "not capable of understanding a brilliant language" to be baseless contempt and I'm surprised he didn't get more heat over it. I wouldn't work with him, nor whatever people he's trying in vain to accommodate.
I wouldn't use a programming language whose designer had this attitude.
Yes, since it's using Windows components like WPF. I dont think they ever had a plan for a cross-platform desktop UI kit.
This is just the next version .net core
It can using the compatibility shim depending on what framework capabilities it requires.
To make an orthogonal point to yours: I gave up meat a few years ago and this has lead to (more than) a few friends either giving up meat themselves or reducing their meat consumption now that they've seen (because of _my individual action_) that it's a viable option.
GPT-2 models' robustness and worst case behaviors are not well-understood. Our findings support the view that this may be a very conservative estimate of the true effect of low-risk paternal circumcision because our model has a relatively narrow definition of risk. The robustness of the model also highlights the possibility that the risk of adverse effects reported is indeed due to the high risk of unintended pregnancy. The observed risk of unintended pregnancies to women in a GPT-2 setting does not approach that observed in the US population. However, an even more likely explanation for our findings would be that unintended consequences that would not be present in the US population would have been lost due to the high prevalence of safe sex, especially condom use, during early childhood.

...Man, wtf.
Except they won't. Not for an esoteric or exotic bug that doesn't affect 99.9% of their customers. Unless your businesses contract costs more than that team of technical and engineering resources(Eg your Netflix et al), it's not worth their time to bother looking into it.

All that assumes they even admit the issue is their hardware not your code, which is a mighty big assumption itself.
My main question is why this can't be done incrementally? The system can almost always be broken down into functional areas? Does Agile here just not apply?
Mission-driven startups database: Add suggestions to the sheet ️
Hi friends

I want to create an database of mission-driven startups with their information.

I often come across startups that I find incredibly inspiring because of what they are aiming to add to the world and would love to create a database to help people find them. This could be interesting for job opportunities with more meaning and purpose, altruistic investment opportunities for investors, pure inspiration for founders, etc.

Just an example of an amazing startup that I added: Open Bionics, which aims to create affordable, awesome bionic limbs for amputees (they for example make amazing Star Wars bionic limbs for little kids that have lost an arm).

I'd love to see which startups you have come across that deserve a spot. Feel free to dive into the sheet and enter their information.

Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15uxsrU096RO7-k1uzN6VoMdGR-LXwSeVxzqa3rB23Zg/edit?usp=sharing

All love ️

Valentijn
The WSJ video doesn't get into it, but the fall of US Malls has more to do with changing tax code [1] than with Amazon (though that's still a part). They were on the way out before Amazon + eCommerce got big.

FWIW - I'm actually from that region of Ohio and think this is a positive step. There's a lot of other factors that go into this of course (shifting demographics, overall population drain), but on the whole, this seems positive.

1 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/death-and-rebirt...
At first I was firmly in the prefix camp, until I read one of the (massive!) GitHub issues on the subject and came around to postfix.

I'd _much_ rather use something like `?` than `.await`, though. Using a keyword just feels wrong in a few different ways.
My understanding from previous articles is that the DARPA grant went to coming up with the architecture and spec, then vendors would do the actual implementation. This looks like middleware.

From this random coder's perspective, the architecture previously designed sounded good. Voting and tallying were two separate systems. A physical, user-decipherable, paper that the voter carries over connected the two (it sounded something between a QR code and scan-tron).

It's good to see an open source codebase that multiple vendors would implement against.
I think the humans

I think the humans were so stupid and cowardly.
I didn't suggest enslaving someone. I favor automation to replace bee.
Did I suggest sacrificing bee ? Yes
I do care, (and of course we still support IE11 on any OS version) but Win7/IE11 users are gradually upgrading on their own.

I was afraid that IE11 would literally never go away. Microsoft has said that they'll support IE11 until Windows 10 reached End of Life. But they've also said that Windows 10 is the "last version" of Windows, that they'll continue shipping new updates for Windows 10 in perpetuity.

Now, I have hope.
I think there are some developers who would consider .NET 5 a huge breaking change. .NET (Framework) 4.8 looks like the predecessor but has features (rightfully) not available in .NET 5.

I like the vision but hate the name. .NET Core 4.0 would have done it. When you market software engineers stick with patterns. This looks like a lot of managers have feedback to stuff they did not understand in the first place.
Does financial risk come right away to mind when people talk about risky jobs? It doesn't to mine.
If you already have a mental condition such as schizophrenia it may cause a bad reaction. Mushrooms give an experience of disconnecting from reality or existing outside of your own body. Not the greatest move for someone already having problems with reality.
regardless of what "definition" of theory I used, the post is still without conclusion. It started off somewhere and then never made a point.
Promotion of alcohol makes as much or little sense as prohibition of marijuana or mushrooms. I guess you can pick your side. But banning one while allowing the other doesn’t make sense.
In Python you can write it like this:

if a < b: x = -1
else if a > b: x = 1
else: x = 0

Which a lot of people seem to hate for some reason, but I always appreciated the compromise between terseness and clarity.
Rust: A final proposal for await syntax
.Net 5 isn't just a rename of .Net Core. Though for most people I think that understanding would be sufficient and not outright wrong, just incomplete. It is where Core takes over. It's also Mono to target other platforms, in a unified programming API.

Moving projects from .Net Framework to .Net 5 should be as easy or hard as it was to go from Framework to Core. In my case, this isn't a problem for the current project that I'm working on, but thankfully Microsoft will support .Net Framework 4.8 in maintenance mode for a very long time.
Sure, but the accountants got to move it from capEx to opEx and then everyone went out for a beer.
just started using them recently for a rails project I've been working on. I cannot recommend this project enough, saved me hundreds of hours.

if you want a crash course in implementing it in a rails app, look no further then these 2 AWESOME drifting ruby episodes:

https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/fullcalendar-events-an...

https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/recurring-events-with-...
I have extensive XP with .NET Core 2 in production on huge services with 1M+ users - we started making some stuff before 1.0 and had it in production after having few sessions with local MS.

WebAPI, APS.NET Core, Pwsh, C# 7... I dont work for MS, but that is some seriously good tech stack. Performance is amazing too. I highly recommend it. Worked in 50+ environments so far but this is top stuff. MS really nailed it this time. No, don't tell me that JAVA is comparable to C# in elegance, that linux dudes had python/ruby/perl/whatever before Powershell etc.

The only problem we had so far was with the Oracle db drivers which were non existent until several months back, but that is on Oracle... which sux more and more each day - commercializing java for example will just give a boost to .NET now, a lot of it - who at Oracle made up such decision escapes me, but maybe he works for MS.
Why should we care if they go out of business? If they shutdown and bow out won’t newer, useful businesses pop up in their place? I see no reason to treat a small shop like an endangered species that must be preserved. Preserved for what? Most people won’t go there anymore.

Example: There was a fairly large Mom and a Pop retail store here that shutdown once Walmart moved in. What opened in its place? A massive rock climbing facility with 40 foot walls. It has enriched the community and given people something to do other than just roaming aisles looking for crap to buy and not talk to each other.
serious question: what things should you work on that can have the greatest impact and compound positively (I.e go beyond changing just your personal habits)?
I think comments like this are too dismissive of how important and valuable games are in many people's lives.

Personally, I fear the opposite, that over-regulation of rapidly changing industries based on fear and anecdata will make people's lives worse.
Play too many video games. If my income is the same as it is now, spend too much money on clothes and going out. Do some programming but probably not as much, and only on things I am interested in, such as open source game clients. I currently read a lot (though not traditional books usually, but I have done a lot of that in the past) so I would probably read more. Oh, and waste time on hackernews/stackexchange/reddit.
Yup, it's the 10×ers' equivalent of <https://xkcd.com/763/>.
I would consider it not viable to miss all AXS-managed ticketed events. It’s not a biological need, and I don’t care. The functional notion of viability is not constrained to merely literal needs. That would be a dictionary definition of viable, instead of a practical definition.
DWP 'defies Gregorian calendar' to leave Universal Credit families short of rent
The work to bring flutter to the web is well underway. See https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-f...

Maybe Google IO will bring more news.
The Little ASP.NET Core Book [0] is a pretty good introduction that covers all the pieces you need to know for a basic ASP.NET Core application. It's available for free in all the usual ebook formats.

[0] https://recaffeinate.co/book/