skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean you oppose all companies or business which are owned by more than a single person?
I’m using this image. Can vouch for greatness.
I believe they are, by some fairly loose accounting definition (i.e., not counting back office expenses, capital expenses, etc), profitable on non-pool rides in core US cities.
Too bad Winforms is butt ugly.
HTC proposes to issue cash dividends for first time in 4 years
Mutable strings was a mistake.
The key thing to realize here is that the plaintiff was not a public figure, notwithstanding his role in an otherwise well-publicized incident. The plaintiff doesn't have to show that Musk acted with malice or reckless disregard.

Elon is fighting this because he can, but even his lawyer would know it's a loser. OTOH, it's probably a fun case for the lawyer, like the cases assigned in law school that are designed to be losers but you make it a personal challenge to see how far you can take it. Plus he's getting paid well.
Thanks! It wasn’t clear at all to me where I would have to go to find this information from the home page.
.net 3.0 is new, lulz
I maintain a non-trivial Swift app and while compile times are indeed longer than those of Objective-C, it’s nothing insurmountable and has improved a lot on the past couple of years. To me it’s more than worth the trade with all I gain with Swift compared to Obj-C.

Hot reload is nice but to me is far from a dealbreaker, especially after your app is past the phase where you’re writing a bunch of new UI.
You think fred isn't going to just loot the next town over?
It looks like it’s built for teenagers, but the market he really sees for this is elderly people, who likely wouldn’t touch this.
Yeah, that is one workaround that is reasonable to use. I'm just a bit weird and want to do delivery to other servers without an intermediary :P
Not sure what specifics you mean by tooling but in the context of build/deploying tooling, I really enjoyed learning about it. Beyong the knowledge to be able to develop at both front/backend, setting up the CI/CD pipeline and seeing it all work seamlessly, is useful. Understanding it end-to-end is quite satisfying too.
GAE went through a lot of changes after coming out, I remember the days spend on catching up its changes, so I wouldn't say it costs nothing to run 2 successive years. Even worse, after around 3 or 4 years they completely cancelled the node I am on notifying me to deal with my datae myself within limited amounte of time. Bleeding age my ass
Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html

Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?"
CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT.

The short story is they are quite open about having ADHD, and that's what causes the long twitter rambles, but also what makes it very difficult to assemble it into a blog post. Every once in a while foone's wife will edit a popular thread into a blog post, examples: https://foone.wordpress.com/

If this seems like a particularly good story to you, maybe you'd like to edit it into a draft for a blog post and gift that to foone?
I would hapily passthrough any ideas, with attribution!
I am the only one I know in the Bay Area who has at least the bare minimum tools for tinkering. Given the way housing is here, I consider it a luxury.
I don't think it's an affordability thing so much as perceived value. People will probably fixate on the products that they wanted at some impressionable age. It's a lot easier for me (being an old guy) to buy expensive stereo equipment even now than it would be to buy a $1000 cell phone.
> It's also kind of egotistical to assume a company needs you and you alone to solve their problem. If the problem is big and important enough, rest assure there's more than one shop that has an idea as to how to fix it.

How is it egotistical to say that you’re good enough at what you do that people will make their bureaucratic procedures go away to get you to work for them? It’s either true or it isn’t. The number of people who are literally the only person who can solve a given problem will always be minuscule but being one of the top five people in a very expensive niche is an achievable goal. Being the only one of those people with a public profile and a consulting practice is also achievable.

Think of academic expertise. I’m confident people go to Peter Norvig and ask him as an individual with incredibly deep, broad and publicly known Algorithms skills to do work for them and if they make it too bureaucratic he just declines the work. Likewise economists like Alvin Roth with mechanism design or other hairy, expensive and lucrative problems.

This model of being very good and being known to be very good works for individuals. I’d be shocked if there aren’t one man consulting shops that bill $1m a month, very expensive expertise exists, at a minimum in finance. They probably have a secretary but a principle plus minimal support staff consultancy.
Strap wrenches are great for jar lids. I sometimes use two. One for the jar, and one for the lid.
Personally I think that there is such a thing as too much liquidity, and we are at that point now. It certainly undercuts the power of the workers in a region if its that easy to pull money out, but the people can’t leave. So the holders of the capital have all kinds of leverage (they can pull their money out in a nanosecond) but the people have none (they are stuck where they are and must take what they can get).
No

Мы с женой оставались на местах после удара — она пыталась встать и побежать, но я сказал сесть, потому что ждал, что из-за паники в проходе начнется давка.
In microbenchmarks like https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... / https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... , Swift is mostly equivalent to Java with a few outliers both for/against Swift. Rust outperforms Swift fairly consistently and sometimes quite considerably. Of course, real apps may be different.

The book iOS and macOS Performance Tuning ( https://www.amazon.com/iOS-macOS-Performance-Tuning-Objectiv... ) has pretty damning benchmarks against Swift versus Objective-C even without using any tricky optimizations (not what you originally asked but something to consider). Of course the whole book (written by a former Apple engineer IIRC) is pretty much full of performance gotchas across many Apple frameworks/APIs, but the chapter on Swift was pretty harsh and basically said Swift fails to live up to its name versus Objective-C (at least at the time the book was written).

I think most people think that Swift performs like Rust/C++/C since it doesn't have a garbage collector and imagine ARC is providing relatively free memory management, but it seems Swift performs closer to languages with a garbage collector due to the various design constraints on the language (interoperability with Objective-C, ARC isn't free, and maybe without the explicit lifetime/ownership declarations in the code like Rust, ARC can't be optimized as well).
The most hilarious enhancement chip is the SA-1, used in the Super Mario RPG and other games.

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

It's essentially the same exact chip as the SNES's main CPU. Except three times faster.

Imagine buying a game for your 3ghz PC that ships on a flash drive. And that flash drive also contains a 9hz (edit: whoops, 9ghz, haha) Intel Core i9 CPU.
I still don't see how this is as complicated as these arguments suggest.

There is a known risk of Firefox being compromised by malicious addons, including those preinstalled by certain organisations. This risk is what is moderated by requiring addons to be signed and hard-coding a block. However, moderation is all this gains, because anyone who is preinstalling Firefox on a computer could still install a modified executable instead.

There is also a known risk of the user's security or privacy being compromised by visiting malicious websites that exploit weaknesses or vulnerabilities in Firefox. This risk is what is moderated by addons that block or otherwise interfere with undesirable content. It doesn't take any sort of hindsight to anticipate this; it is one of the major reasons people advocate blocker extensions, and this has been true for many years.

It is understandable that Mozilla would want to disrupt the former threat, but as I and others have explained, there are tried and tested ways they could do so that are no more vulnerable than the current approach yet would not suddenly remove all protection offered by addons against the latter threat without warning in the middle of a browsing session. The current heavy-handed approach is like building a secure home by making a concrete bunker with no doors and windows: the efforts to secure the addon system ultimately rendered the entire system useless.

Worse than that, though, the current strategy violates the basic principles that attract some users to Firefox in the first place, specifically its extensibility through addons and its relative respect for users' privacy and control of their own systems. The fact that Mozilla have so far shown little understanding of why some users would have a problem with this is regrettable, but perhaps they will come around with further thought after the event. However, the fact that there are people here still trying to defend the policy despite the highly visible train wreck that just happened seems very odd to me.
Interesting idea. But do browsers sync cookies across devices? Are you suggesting that they start doing so for all cookies or a single one specially meant for this purpose?

This would also require browsers to implement unified notification view across all devices.

Both of these will be interesting features on their own.
The idea that the police will take your webcam still and nail a suspect is pure yarn. Have you filed a police report when you were robbed? All the police will do is take your statement, maybe send a forensics crew to dust for prints in a day or two, and the buck stops there unless they happen upon your stuff in an unrelated incident. No manhunt is being started because your laptop was stolen.

The best piece of mind isn't a webcam and paranoia of people you don't recognize in your neighborhood, its a list of your valuables and appropriate renters/homeowners insurance to replace whatever might have been stolen.
M$-SQL would be appropriate, but it might be confused with Oracle...
That would make sense as a worst case scenario but I'm not sure the evidence suggests that's the route they're going. If they wanted to acquire a CI/CD product, they would've bought Travis when it was being shopped around for a buyout.
I don't mean that calling COM objects from C doesn't work. I just mean that COM isn't designed to be used from C.
I think you're thinking of Gogs or Gitea. GitHub should have been building a self-hosted open source version and CI platform. Now they're well in the dust and still don't have an open source version.
Disheartening to see Safari lagging so terribly behind; there are some standardized web APIs that are a decade old that Safari still hasn't implemented. Because of this my new shiny web app [0] doesn't support Safari at all (!!!) which disturbs the hell out of me (if anyone has a reliable workaround for setPointerCapture, I'd love to hear about it).

It's further disheartening to see them implementing hardly any of the features mentioned in this talk, which means these APIs are unavailable to all developers since their OS's are so ubiquitous.

It surely isn't a capital constraint issue; Apple is the most well-funded among browser vendors, so it begs the question as to why they are letting their browser fall behind. It will be interesting to see if they decide to start lending more resources towards the browser or continue to deliver a subpar experience; which seems quite contrary to their core competencies.

Cheers for Microsoft under Satya for taking the hard stance and determining they did not want to devote the resources to Edge and ceding in a way that will ultimately deliver a good experience for Windows users under a chromium based browser. Although I'm concerned about the openness of the web; as a developer my foremost concern is that I can deliver a good experience to my users and their decision allows me to deliver on that front.

[0] www.blendful.com
Fair enough. Let me lay this out as a long time Windows developer and someone who loved Windows Phone 7/8 compared to iOS and Android.

1. The first version of WP7 was fine. Silverlight was a pretty mature technology and there was developer interest (at least in the Microsoft ecosystem).

2. WP8 (and Windows 8) came out with WinRT. This was incompatible with existing ways of writing Windows code, so you couldn't bring (almost) any legacy code over. This means that extensive porting efforts were required for code that used to work fine on Win32. This was particularly brutal for open source libraries (like OpenCV/OpenSSL etc.) which were sorely necessary if you wanted to target all 3 mobile platforms.

In addition there was a much smaller API surface. Bluetooth LE or VPN APIs for example never came out until too late. You couldn't even create COM ports (necessary for GPS dongles) in a Windows 8 (not mobile, just regular desktop) WinRT/UAP app. So Win32 applications would work just fine on Windows 8, but if you wanted they fancy new features, you were either SOL or had a long development cycle ahead of you.
The forced async paradigm also added massive complexity for cross-platform development.

They failed to see people rapidly losing interest in Windows (Charles Petzold's Windows 8 book sold so badly, he gave up on Windows for Xamarin. This is the guy who literally wrote the Bible of Windows GUI programming) and take action to remedy that. Instead, they spent time and effort on half-assing "Bridges" which they then rapidly lost interest in and stopped supporting.

It's fine to try to shed legacy platforms, but you don't do it at the cost of developer traction, at the very moment when you need them most. They could have done a lot more to make it easier for developers to bring code over. MS OpenTech, for example, was a worthy initiative that again got killed too soon.

So, my opinion is that nothing but hubris explains the decision to go down the road of abandoning Win32 at a time when Microsoft needed its developers more than anything else.

Having worked at Microsoft way back in the day, I've seen many bad ideas get pushed out, but Microsoft always used to treat developers with respect. WinRT was just a massive slap in the face in comparison.

*edited formating
There used to be a subreddit full of unsecured webcam links. Sometimes you'd see babycams even, completely open to whoever crawled for the link.
> I'm not trying to be combative, but why would they include it on the requirements then?

Frequently the people writing the job requirements, and the people who you’ll be interviewing with, are not the same people.
Uber and Lyft are far from free here. My commute home on the Subway is 1h15m and costs $2.75. By Uber/Lyft it’s 45m and costs between $38 and $80, depending on the time of day.
I wonder how many stories will be lost because of stuff like this.

In particular, text messages.

I can't tell you how many stories have been told between myself and family and friends that are just one lost device away from oblivion.

Apple should have an official app to let people save their text with photos and videos, because they are really family heirlooms.

I suspect they are one of the primary reasons for icloud, and the new apple seems pretty "practical" in this respect.
Except web development is almost all bootstrapped from a simple npm library these days. You generally npm install and you've got all your dependencies whether it's Angular, Vue, React or pretty much any modern web frameworks. The time for a new developer to get the tooling out of the way and start looking at code is dramatically shorter for web apps than Java in my experience.
Yes they are. Most of everything they do as a company is public and done on GitLab, including their docs, meetings and more. They are like 100x more open source than GitHub and I've seen GitHub trying to advertise as the company of open source.
> Uber and Lyft have "network effects"?
> I couldn't tell you what car sharing service any of my friends use.

It doesn't matter if you know who uses it. It only matters that there are. People are more willing to drive for it if there are plenty of users. If there are more drivers, there's more likely to be one nearby when you request a ride, so service is better. Better service makes for more riders. More riders makes it more worthwhile to be a driver. Positive feedback loop based on network size = network effect.

> I downloaded an app called Taxify while sitting at a cafe, and called a car from it. It's not a huge barrier to download and install another app, even when trying to call a car.

You know what's even less of a barrier? Not having to download and install another app.

Maybe it's not a huge barrier to you, but you're a single data point. You're talking to a second data point that's telling you that if I have a ride-hailing app on my phone that works, I will choose it before I install another app, every time.

My belief is that most people will take the path of least resistance, just like I do. How confident are you that they won't?
Is swift a common language for kind of thing tensorflow is used for? Given that swift does not work on windows and Linux support is sub par, is this only because of Chris Lattner?
The point stands.
Not having a credit report is an option. Just don't live in the U.S.
The Git SHA1 to SHA256 transition plan is here, though it may not be finalized yet: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic...
As long as investors don’t get bailed out, who cares? I would have loved to invest in Uber, Lyft, etc back in 2014 when I knew they were going to be big. It also would have sucked to invest in Yik Yak, but you win some you lose some. As long as they are selective enough to not list outright scams, I say let people take their own risks.
The small fonts are a good point (so to speak). It can be hard to distinguish some letters from numbers, etc. on something like a Windows ID licensing code. Don't get me started on micro USB connectors...always with non-contrasting colors of course. God only knows how an elderly person deals with their CAPTCHA test o' the day.

My highly developed sense of old fartdom really comes out when dealing with modern cars with touchscreen displays.
I don't how it works in Canada, but in the U.S., if the lease becomes "null and void", whatever that means, then you lose the contracted right of possession. If you don't leave immediately, you're in material breach, and the landlord will start eviction.

I've had applicants who insist on similar changes, and I'll decline their application every time. It sounds like you're a good guest, but without knowing anything more about someone, I take such behaviour as a big red flag.
To those that are upvoting this and previous Swift + TF announcements: What are you excited about, specifically? Why Swift? Why not Julia? Is it the syntax? Types? Compilation? Performance? Community?

I like Swift and all but our ML/DL/RL/DS tools and libraries are in Python (and occasionally R). Most are missing for Swift without an awkward Python compatibility layer and I don't see a compelling reason to adopt it.
Glow in the dark star stuck to the faceplate works about as well
You're right, I don't know. I figure, if they are happy, I will get repeat business and referrals. If I'm charging too little, then they should be extremely happy and are even better champions of my work/name. That seems worth more than higher pay, long-term.
I’m pretty sure once the person gets identified then it is not too long until the arrest. Small town sheriffs talk, a lot.
Elon Musk will go to court over 'pedo guy' comments
Yep, back in the day when BetterDiscord was a thing we'd be making CSS and some JS to change font sizes, change the color of icons for colorblindness IIRC, things like that. Discord's staff continually acted in bad faith about it, to the point of spreading outright lies about the program being malware. Was a big post going around all the public discords, few ever just popped into the betterdiscord server to simply see how that wasn't true. Also when the server got big enough Discord refused to allow more users, so it was continually broken to everyone. Crazy how wanting to change the chat background into doritos and help people was such an evil threat to them.
I would be good money this is the opposite, the .com was registered afterwards.
Welcome to the new century where each distinct generation is so out of touch with the previous the only conclusion they have is utter destruction.
Doesn't Go already download packages from GitHub?
Good. It's become an over commercialized, over crowded mess.
The culture has changed a lot. Geek originally described loners with unreasonable passion and knowledge about a specific niche. Now it's a codeword for capitalist cattle. It's the Big Bang Theory crowd that turned consumerism and brand loyalty into a point of pride: I wonder what Nietzsche would say about that.
Sorry, trying to reconcile the comments.

LifeOfPi mentioned the short float to = 7%. Chollida1 mentioned the 7% figure was using 273mil shares as a base.

So wouldn't the total shorted shares equal 19mil? (19mil = 273mil X 7%). However, Chollidal mentioned in the first post that 27mil shares are shorted. Trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between 19mil and 27mil...

PS. Not trying to nit-pick. The comments are very useful. Maybe I'm missing something....
I think Fasten declined my card. I then tried FARE, but it wasn't working either for some reason, and I was in a hurry, so instead got a cab instead (which I paid for with the card Fasten didn't like).

I hadn't expected to be in DC--My connecting flight was cancelled, so I needed a ride to the bus station. But I think if it had been planned, I would have Googled "is Lyft in DC?" and seen that I was all set.

Maybe I could save a few bucks by installing an alternative service, but it wasn't worth it to me to bother. (On the other hand, my price insensitivity is largely because I only take a Lyft/Uber about six times a year, so they might lose heavy users more quickly.)
And WeirdStuff too :(
It's all moved on line... even the market places in Shenzhen are less than half full because everything (even phone repair) is on line.
Japan enacts legislation making preschool education free
They've had programmable thermostats for years. Having your house cool down at night/when you are at work is not a new concept that IoT suddenly made possible.
I've never actually asked or gotten questions about my invoices. So, either everything is crystal clear, or you're right, they don't look at them. I suspect every client probably looks at the first couple to get to know me and establish trust, and then just skims them thereafter. But it's nice for both of us--we can each review and see exactly what I did and how long it took.