skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I foresee how `devcontainer.json` could change a lot how development happens, especially on open-source projects and even within companies.

Imagine you just clone a repository and open VSCode and you have the full environment with all the dependencies ready for development and testing.
> Whether or not the uninformed masses care is a pretty poor measure of a problem's importance.

Agreed, see Tienanmen Square
Nasa was sold bad aluminum in 19-year scam that caused $700M in failures
> If they're going to remove all the voices they think are "dangerous", what they're left with won't be fun or interesting. Just lukewarm, milquetoast, or worse... lopsided.

Isn't it already?
Epic’s Rocket League acquisition made a messy situation even messier
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are very different. Your dismissal is pretty ignorant.
I have a friend who is trying to turn his small business for families into a membership-first business. This looks like it could do the trick, I'm forwarding the link to him: thanks for sharing!
Richer rich people leads to higher inequality but it really says nothing about the quality of life for the average person. If we euthanized the top 1% of the US, how much do you think the lives of the other 99% would improve?
Literally the very first sentence in the comment I linked:

"they might do better to remove the requirement to have the Web/Location/App history enabled for apparently unrelated features."

And then that comment, and the first comment below it, describe the ways this can be improved.

And then comment upon comment upon comment:

- I cant store my home location in Google Maps without turning on Web & App activity history. Why?

- I cant share my current location (not historic, just my latest location - they only need to store one) with my partner unless I turn on Web and Location history. Why?

- Google will still let you store your home address and they'll display it on the map, but if you have Location History turned off they'll refuse to list it as an autocomplete option when you search for addresses or directions. Why?

- Google Home and Android Auto require all of these settings to be enabled. Why?

- Can't subscribe to podcasts if web activity is disabled. Why?

All the above are severe breaches of privacy, requiring the user to enable data collection by Google for features that have nothing to do with this data.

But yay, hurray, they will graciously let us delete our data.
If it is good enough for Austin, Byron, and Chesterfield, not to mention Shakespeare, then it is good enough for me.

The catch is that it sounds best when there's no specific antecedent: "Every user of the workshop must be responsible for their own safety."

It sounds odder when it is deliberately used to avoid (mis)gendering a specific individual: "Pat does not discuss their* gender." I think this is the niche that 'ze' is supposed to fill.
You can read more about exactly how the IntelliCode feature uses telemetry and data here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/intellicode/in... - No user-defined code is sent to Microsoft, but we do collect information about your use of the IntelliCode results.

For base model suggestions, which are open source or .NET types and members, we capture whether you selected an IntelliCode suggestion and log the name of the suggestion. Microsoft uses the data to monitor the quality of the base model. For custom models, we capture whether you selected an IntelliCode suggestion but do not log the names of your user-defined types or methods.

Thanks
Mark Wilson-Thomas
Program Manager Visual Studio IntelliCode
Great, then everything is working as it should.

Still doesn't resolve the question of deplatforming and banning though. There's still considerable inconsistency at play here, with people like Dorsey saying social media is a human right, and then exiling people with no transparent "due process" or recourse for making amends. As deplorably as we treat our criminals, they eventually serve their term and regain (most) of their freedoms (and arguably, should regain them all).
Yep. This is well-researched. Some things simply have to be done - like unloading the dishwasher and brushing your teeth. Having raised kids myself I've seen this play out first-hand with several friends and acquaintances. It always ends poorly from the standpoint that they get jobs as soon as they're able and tell their parents to get bent on doing their chores. They never learned some things just have to be done. The kids I've known raised this way are also struggling with relationships - everything in their life becomes a transaction. What can you do for me? They're quite miserable people actually.
Fantastic, thank you for the tip! I'll probably prepend Real Analysis to the list!
Mirages in Data
Oh, there's more. Centre Point has been a continual shitshow since inception. It is a case study in the kind of people who mistake their own snobbery for business acumen;

>"The building is 117 m (385 ft) high, has 34 floors and 27,180 m2 (292,563 sq ft) of floor space. Constructed from 1963 to 1966, it was one of the first skyscrapers in London and as of 2009 is the city's joint 27th tallest building. It stood empty from its completion until 1975, and was briefly occupied by housing activists in 1974. Since 1995 it has been a Grade II listed building. In 2015 it was converted from office space to luxury flats."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Point
The standard way to delete things from cold storage is to encrypt each piece with keys that you can more easily to delete.

You can also, of course, read in the data, rewrite it with the deleted portion removed, and write it out again.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, though I don't know anything about how Google handles this)
They have free road service for the first year (“free” means the coming and doing minor fixes part, I guess you still pay for non-warranty repairs) so calling them was an easy option. After the first year the cost is comparable to something like AAA except the mobile service person who comes out is trained on Teslas.
Don’t force the verb form.

“I’m worried about my kid at summer camp”

“Don’t worry, I’m sure they are having a great time”

Sounds very natural to my west coast ears.
I would love to subscribe to a monthly haircut at a fixed time (something like first Monday of the month at 4pm), use it or lose it.
I run dockerized mailcow and nginx on the same machine with two different IPs. Works fantastically.
> Legally culpable for what?

The harassment campaign from his fans, emotional trauma, etc.
Well, there are quite a few people who lack empathy to such an extreme extent as to be quite cruel to others. We all want to avoid these people, so we expect those we interact with to express strong empathy-signals, and distrust them if they won't. It's absolutely normal for autists to be inconvenienced by this, since - their empathy-ceilings being lower, as a rule - they have to pay a higher personal cost than most to send these reliable signals. But this is not in principle different from any other problem that may be experienced due to having autistic traits. It's surely better than the alternative of being distrusted, or else of enabling cruel abusers.
Games compiled for SDL1 are not required to upgrade to SDL2, but games compiled for SDL1 will also not get any functionality introduced in SDL2 that could have been transparently made possible to them if the API wasn't broken in SDL2 - e.g. supporting alt-tab, wayland, etc.

Xgalaga works because the X11 library developers have not broken backwards compatibility. This is a good thing. This is what i'm referring to when i'm talking about a library not breaking backwards compatibility and what something like Gtk and/or Qt (and, IMO, SDL) should strive for.

EDIT: i give a more detailed example here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813074
In addition, something is off with drag-and-drop extraction. AFAIR, you can't make the desktop visible first by dragging to the right edge of the taskbar. Maybe they fixed it, but in the meantime I got used to 7-Zip FM.
I see this as a continuum, not a binary dichotomy. I mean, quantify how much language A is short on, say libraries, compared to language B. Surely A has some libraries, and surely there is something that B does not have a library for, no? Similar notions apply to the other dimensions.

So I don't think there's an easy answer to this. You might just have to define some baselines that represent minimum criteria a language must meet in order to be selected, and then satisfice[1] with anything that passes those baseline measures.

For example, maybe you say "anything that doesn't at least have a library for making HTTP requests is out". Or maybe it's "anything that doesn't have an easy to use C FFI is out", or whatever.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Same here.
On a positive note, all our apps are still working - apparently their internal DNS is still working, at least in the same datacenters.

I can't access anything from here though.
This tool helps look at very small chunks of assembly code to identify the cost via a simulated execution. Beyond that it focuses on multi-stage execution of instructions in a hardware pipeline, providing tools to show the execution as well as flag which factors would be the limiting factor for the code in question. The level of detail that it provides as well as the apparent simplicity of using the tool makes it unique (from what I've seen).

Understanding where the limiting factor is can help optimize and tune small chunks of code.
I attend a lot more meetups and coffee meetings, myself.
Remote “mind” surveillance tech is real and therefore passwords are obsolete
Got a "demo" of the tech recently. It is capable of "control" and not just "surveillance" and has existed for a long time. They can read/hear your thoughts, see what you see, hear what you hear, etc. Probably has existed as long as "tin foil hatters" have existed.

Watch the following video. It contains opening sequences from various seasons of the TV show "Person of Interest". It's similar in real life but people are being used as the surveillance cameras. No actual surveillance cameras or smartphones or computers are necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzG4a9jTxGw

The tech has a LOT of capabilities other than just surveillance and "control". They can plant ideas in your head and even make you dream, just like in the movie "Inception". Looks like it has only been misused all this time.

Anyway, posting here to make more people aware of it's existence. Doesn't matter if you believe me or not, just remember this post.
Some of us can do two things at once. :)
How many deaths would have happened if everyone in group “inside job” switched opinions with everyone in group “they hate our freedoms”? It’s not often good for mortality rates if the people turn against their government, even when they are right to do so.
Another factor would be accounting for newness- if a language has a better foundation than other languages and just hasn't been around long enough to have developed those "wide-ranging libraries, extensive documentation and many prior examples/tutorials", it could still be a good long-term investment. Rust comes to mind, and to an extent Clojure (at least if you exclude the Java ecosystem).
> You definitely can't tell in 60 minutes whether someone will be a success at your company.

> But you often can tell, with very very nearly 100% confidence if someone will not be a success.

These two statements are at odds. If you can tell one you can tell the inverse.

The truth is you can't tell in either direction from a single 60 minute interview. Your "very very nearly 100% confidence" rate is outlandishly wrong.
A bit of a cliche, "low effort, high throughput" has been my mantra so far.
To me in the 90s uptime was mostly limited by the fact that every month or so there was a new Linux kernel with a feature, driver, or fix that actually mattered to me. And I'd do `make oldconfig` to answer only new questions.

Now, it just works... mostly. systemd came in and made it like it's the 90s all over again with just plain basic things no longer working. It's pretty much stabilized in my experience in the last year, though, but it took years. The latest disaster in sound systems was well into the '10s, and actually not quite "just works" yet.

As for phone, I bounce it about once a month when the bluetooth stack just stops working.

And that's all for Linux. *BSD tends to go "Yeah, we don't do that here" about POSIX, so it can be unpredictable. And Solaris is just madness.

So no, I wouldn't say we're quite into "basic stuff works" just yet.
A trove of emails between Steve Bannon, Breitbart, Milo and I think Paul Joseph Watson were released a while ago. In those emails Bannon instructs Milo/etc to target specific groups. There were multiple instances of this throughout the emails.

They were coordinating and planning to falsely target groups with their hate speech, With the full knowledge that their targeting would cause repercussions in the real world.

I lost a friend to the Breitbart "prison planet", etc toxic sludge dump. He started sending me picture of people in tinfoil hats marked with "CNN", "NSA" and such.

Then he started sending me videos about aliens babies (birth defects) and flat earth. Finally he went full out racist, with muslim crusade theories.

Even to the point of telling me a city in Sweden was overrun with Muslims and a white man couldn't walk down the street safely. I have a friend living in that exact city, so I offered him a video chat with him. His immediate quote was "Your friend doesn't know what he's talking about".

Some people go farther and shoot up people in mosques, or churches. And Alex Jones, Steven Bannon, Milo, PJW, etc knowing planned for these ends to happen. We just don't have the legal means to hold them accountable.

So yes, these people are dangerous. Very dangerous, in the same way that Julius Streicher (Publisher of Der Stürmer before WWII) was. Streicher was tried at the Nuremberg trials and hung. Streicher was found guilty because he continued knowingly publishing outright falsehoods and hate speech in Der Stürmer after he was aware they were false.

Hopefully that precident can be used against the current crop of hate-mongers at some point.

Sorry for feeding the trolls in this thread.

Edit: Even after Julius Steicher was found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and executed, Andrew Anglin thought it was a good idea to resurrect it as "the daily stormer". If that doesn't raise the hairs on the back of your neck I don't know what will.
I don't know why any program would copy files, let alone twice, to un-archive them, but the usual extract-then-mv pattern is an important feature, usually well-worth the cost of the extra syscall: if the extraction is interrupted, it avoids leaving incomplete files that are indistinguishable from correctly-extracted files. I would consider extracting in place by default a design flaw.
One should just use the column name "id" then the table can be renamed if needed without having to rename the columns or perhaps the indexes. Although that's another debate altogether..
Writing from the awards ceremony ballroom at INSAR, I just want to say that this was a beautiful article that perfectly captured my own thoughts on the matter as an ASD researcher.
IP address geolocation is the normal way people determine if GDPR applies.
> Yiannopolous has promoted violence against journalists and associated himself with white supremacist movements.

Yiannopolous is Jewish and is married to a black man. White supremacists hate Yiannopolous
Right, there's lots of ways to solve it because it's a completely human created problem. I guess my larger point was that if we're trying to assess if an older generation would be more willing to sacrifice for a younger generation, it would need need to be a method that disproportionately affects the older generations.

Raising the age gets you there, I think raising taxes does the opposite.
There is an asymmetry in the reaction though - being turned down by a company is regarded as just something that happens, turning down a company once you've had an offer seems to cause genuine shock.
I do wonder what would've happened if both states had such schedules!
Global Azure network infrastructure issues
> Capital is necessary but not sufficient for innovation.

Yes, this is true. My point was more that innovative products are profitable, not necessarily the novel tool we need. See: smartphones and walled garden app stores. Innovative for sure, but an objectively shittier scenario than one built around the tool people want to use.

I don't see innovation (as in, using market forces to push forward technology) as playing any role in collective problems. The regulated market's popular hope for fighting global emissions with market effects, the carbon tax, will do very little to slow emissions on a global scale. We need to think outside the market to have any optimism.
Yea, Farrakhan belongs on the censored list. He's absolutely a racist and show be disavowed by everyone everywhere.

In Jones's gay frog case... there are chemicals that turn frogs gay - that's the strangest thing about his critics... using that to point out how much of a lunatic he is, but... Atrazine [0]

IDK... Maybe I'm just bad at hating conservatives... but if I was trying to mock a personality for being crazy, I'd choose something a little less plausible.

https://www.livescience.com/10957-pesticide-turns-male-frogs...
it's like preparing for the worst, while hoping for the best
Well done Facebook PR. You've successfully spun this to be about 'toxic' individuals, when the fact remains that it's the architecture of your platform that is tearing away at our social fabric.

How much longer will these money-printing giants remain unaccountable, unregulated, and a publlic health risk?
Network Connectivity

Engineers are currently investigating DNS resolution
issues affecting network connectivity to Azure services.
More information will be provided as it becomes available.
I work for Google, opinions are my own.

I understand your skepticism but at least in this case, I think your incentives are aligned with Google's. If we don't delete it (within ~30 days I think?) then I'm pretty sure we'd be in violation of GDPR.

Is that to say it's definitely deleted? I can't say that for sure since there bugs are always possible but at least I'm pretty confident the intention is to delete it.
That doesn't make him not racist. If it means anything at all, it's that he's a hypocrite as well.
As others have noted, putting these into two opposing buckets removes a lot from the equation. That said, I would tend towards #2 for a professional project and #1 for a hobby project. I've definitely made things for fun in a less practical language, just because I knew I would get more enjoyment out of describing things that way than from having a bulletproof end result.
> Re Alex Jones: The targeted and continual harassment of the parents of Sandy Hook victims is definitely dangerous.

And he's being sued for his part in that, which is as it should be. If he is culpable, he will pay for it.

> Not to even mention the promotion of the pizza gate conspiracy which inspired someone to walk into a pizza place with an assault weapon.

"Inspired" is double-talk for "had no direct hand in, but I'd like to blame him anyway because I don't like him".
The Tesla looks better from the outside, perhaps...but when I'm driving I'm not looking at the exterior, and I'm sufficiently misanthropic that I don't care what ugliness I'm subjecting people outside to. :-)

I've never been inside either car, but looking at interior pictures on the net, the Bolt looks a lot better. It looks like it still has physical knobs for things like climate control. Tesla appears to be all virtual controls.

The lack of physical controls is close to a deal breaker for me.
Glad to see you still going strong! I’ve been a supporter on Patreon since your job-quitting announcement 10 months ago. How has it been working full time on Zig? Did you end up relocating from NYC?
You are refusing to consider "reals"—people telling you that no, you're factually wrong—because you cannot conceive of holding a certain opinion and therefore your "feels" have you convinced that nobody holds it either. Facts don't care about your feelings, and you'd be well advised to gather some facts.

Your phrasing was quite confusing: it could mean either that no one who is autistic would choose to remain autistic if they had the option of choosing to not (which has been debunked) or that no one who is not autistic would choose to become autistic if they had that option. The second may or may not be true, but what does it prove? I'm not white. I don't think I'd choose to become white if I had the option, because I wouldn't be me any more, and that's valuable to me. Does that mean I think being white is inferior in any way? Certainly not! It just means that people generally wish to remain themselves, and that doesn't prove your point; in fact, it argues against it.

As someone not autistic, I look at people with autism and I say, oh, you have autism. They look at me and say, oh, you have food allergies. That's it. Sure, both are medical conditions, but I don't find a need to pity them for their medical condition any more than they find a need to pity me for mine and talk about how they wouldn't want to have allergies and how surely I must wish to stop having allergies.
He said $39k was the lowest.

My point was that $35k is the lowest.
Trump admin had 'no way to link' separated migrant children to parents
I don't think it's controversial that meditation practices can be problematic for some people with or predisposed to certain mental health issues. Some people just can't be left to their thoughts. If thoughts are unhealthy and a disorder effects self-regulation of and responses to one's thoughts, meditation may only make things worse, and has proven to do so.
The bill encompasses many things besides this provision. But Wyden did write a letter on April 14 to the NYT in response to an editorial criticizing the tax-prep provision: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/opinion/letters/taxes-con...
Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

Looks to be a global outage across Americas, Europe, APAC, and Africa. Office 365 is still up for us, but colleagues are saying theirs is down as well.
"They're having a great time"

The accord with the verb is still as if it's a plural pronoun. Just like with "you" which technically also used to be plural, doesn't take the old singular second person forms: "you have" not "you hast"
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Open Letter to Ethnic Nationalists
The IRS does not actually have all the information placed on the tax return.

For instance, all interest is charged as income for tax purposes, but 1099-INT is only issued for $10 and above. Similar restrictions exist for 1099-MISC but at a higher threshold, if you are a freelancer who receives a lot of small 1099 income from multiple sources, the IRS has no way of knowing that.

Conversely, if you’re eligible to itemize deductions, the IRS has no way of knowing what you gave to charities over the year. That’s entirely self reported and they only even ask for the receipts if you get audited. Charities don’t send records of their donors to the IRS.
... with an assortment of household items, effects, and a looper pedal. Still, impressive. I can barely make guitar noises with a guitar.
Google Chrome extensions that every web developer must have in 2019
Machinists Cut Out
As one in that (>65) bloc, I highly encourage younger people to 1) out vote us and 2) vote us out. I'm not one who believes we've single generationally screwed up the world, but we haven't done a lot of things we could and should have.
Carbon Capture or Not, Coal Goes Under Energy Storage Bus
What a great story. The only thing that makes it a bit sad is how unscalable it is. It's great to help two people, but it must be frustrating knowing there are so many others you cannot help. Imagine if everyone in SF with a guest bedroom did this.
3D simulation of ocean and sky in Blender