skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the kind words!

I'm currently thinking about a model of notebooks / interactive programming where the default assumption is that you're using it as a scratchpad, i.e., you won't need to explicitly name the file in order to get the benefits of auto-save, but yet the file won't pollute your filesystem / project namespace until you choose to "keep" it. Hopefully this helps reduce the friction in the exploratory programming realm; my goal is to eliminate the "ConsoleApplicationX" directories (I'm a VS guy from way back so ...) and I think it helps with your scenario 1) above.

The Python VS Code extension team is well aware of the gaps that you list as well, and are working hard to narrow them with each release. We are definitely serious about improving the Python experience in VS Code. How times have changed :)

Thanks for the support and encouragement. And as always, if you find issues that aren't already in our github, feel free to add some more and keep the feedback coming!
It's interesting to see they mention that the FHD display option supports FreeSync and that the HDMI port is at the 2.0 spec. I look forward to seeing reviews hit soon to see if anyone takes notice.
Apple Maps not being as good as Google Maps has nothing to do with data collection. The privacy part is just an aside in that article, the main part is how they're making their maps better.
Not just for that, though it's important--as I understand it, the electronics needed to feed data at high rates over RJ-45 are actually surprisingly difficult. Going much over 10Gbit (currently expensive) over RJ-45 is going to be prohibitive.
Relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/538/
> What if every app invented its own symbols for play and stop?

That'd suck.

But I don't care about the shadows, or lack of, on buttons.

Nor do I care about the exact animation that happens when transitioning between screens.
>> Ultimately, it only has value if someone is living in it.

I got kicked out of my unit vancouver unit (3500$/month) because my landlord wanted to sell. In Vancouver's market a unit with a renter is worth LESS than a vacant property. Clearing it out to repaint and upgrade a few faucets is worth more than the rent income. That's how twisted the market has become.

Professional landlords like paying tenants. Investors see them as potential problems, irritants and impediments to redevelopment or construction.
TLDR; The article says many people are being mugged to give away their iPhone at gun point and then scammers somehow reset the device for resell. They describe 3 techniques to do reset the device (1) phis victim (2) fool Apple store manager (3) reprogram CPU. I don't see how any of these would be effective. I would guess mugger would simply ask password and do it himself. The article needs technical review.
To be fair, they were leveling perfectly good lower income housing to make way for luxury apartments.
> These things exist to make programming easier but are then duplicated across thousands of servers.

I think about this kind of thing, but more in regard to Electron et al.

Garbage collection, by contrast, seems like a more worthwhile trade-off, because there's a great argument to be made that garbage collection isn't just easier for programmers but safer for users, in terms of security. Since it mostly removes an major class of vulnerabilities.
OMG. I am Tunisian and was planing to buy an sdr dongle next month for research purposes. I guess if I had done it I would be in big trouble by now. It is well known here that customs are very suspicious about any device they do not recognize. Back in the early 2000s they were questioning people about their USB sticks!
Please share a useful workflow for getting a non-technical user onto a non matrix.org homeserver.

I've personally run 3 homeservers for communities formerly centered around Facebook, only one of which was technical. For the non-technical communities the workflow was the one provided by riot-web when a mobile user visits the homeserver.

Neither of the non-technical communities saw more than 5% adoption in the org. The technical community constantly complained about the login flow.

When I deployed Mattermost with a custom app for the first non-technical community I saw 40% adoption within a week, and 80 within the month. The second community has looked at the first as an example, and I can expect 80%+ adoption within a week or two of deployment.

I've asked repeatedly in both #ios:matrix.org and #android:matrix.org about assistance in putting together docs similar to mattermost's and was completely ignored.

I've asked if the Riot folks would be open to deep-links providing the homeserver to mobile apps, and was shut down by somebody who insisted deferred deep links were the only kind of deep links, and that they would only ever be supported by a Google Play on-boarding flow.

I really want to love Matrix, but y'all make it fucking difficult sometimes.
So... Rust, basically
An average Canadian or American cannot compete with the ill-gotten wealth of corrupt individuals in China, Africa or anywhere else. Those corrupt individuals are investing in these properties taking advantage of the stable and lawful markets enabled by the common man- but they are also harming them. Ironic.
In very brief: Apple allows only this; Android allows both this, and rooting. See another branch of this thread for further details.
This comment tells me Purism et al need tablets next.
Seems like we could just as easily stop using garbage collection. ... or even go back to reference counting / smart pointers and just live with the “limitation” that we can’t have circular references.
> Consumers, for their part, do not generally pay out-of-pocket for drug regimens at all

That is not true for the real expensive drugs where insurance companies expect a large copay. Something like 20% copay on a $2000/month drug is common even of high quality insurance plans.
MariaDB vs. MySQL in 2019: Compatibility, Performance, and Syntax
I'll offer a contrarian opinion. A lot of the issues raised recently in our industry around privacy or algorithmic bias come from the fact that as an industry tech has the hubris to believe that it knows better than its users what is best for them. Under the pretense of simplicity and scalability, we think that every individual behavior and tastes can be reduced into a one-size-fits-all product and business model, sprinkled with machine learning to give the illusion of a product experience tailored to different people, when in fact it is only mildly so. And I'm saying this as someone building machine learning models for a living.
>Except that feminism actively derides both the gender norms that say mothers are better caregivers and the US court system's bias against fathers in child custody rulings. There is literally decades of literature and other sources on these points.

But a feminist was the originator of the idea that women should get primary custody of children[1], and the National Organization for Women opposes joint custody[2][3], and highly patriarchal societies such as Saudi Arabia generally give default custody to the father (Saudi Arabia just changed the law last year, and now mothers get primary custory[4])

I would say that the idea that "gender roles, not feminism, is responsible for default custody for mothers" is by far the most commonly debunked argument amongst the men's rights community.

[1] https://baysingerlaw.com/2018/02/tender-years-doctrine-origi...

[2] http://archive.is/mbfAY

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20070708213232/http://michnow.org...

[4] https://www.khaleejtimes.com/region/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabi...
Even in the unlikely event that prices did stay the same after building massively more housing, it would still mean a whole lot more people able to live in a highly desirable area.

Who are you to tell people where and how they should work and live?
I remember people expressing concerns about this exact scenario back when Oracle bought Sun.

Reminds me of a James Gosling quote: "during the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle"
As a thought experiment, imagine the city tore down every other building in Chicago and filled every square inch of real estate with cookie cutter copies of the John Hancock center. The number of total available units in the city would skyrocket. Do you believe per unit price would remain the same?
Eiffel's take on inheritance might be an answer to its 'perils': https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

Here's the crucial part: in Eiffel, methods can have preconditions and postconditions, and overridden methods in subclasses must honour those conditions in specific ways:

> The principle of subcontracting follows from these observations: a redefined version of r may keep or weaken the precondition; it may keep or strengthen the postcondition. Strengthening the precondition, or weakening the postcondition, would be a case of “dishonest subcontracting” and could lead to disaster. The Eiffel language rules for assertion redefinition support the principle of subcontracting.

In a sense, languages which support inheritance might not actually be doing it correctly if they don't support these rules of 'subcontracting'.
Only old S3 buckets that are accessed the old way.
I didn't want to start a language war but yeah, basically. Swift and/or ObjC + ARC seem to be attacking the same problems on the embedded side out of necessity. It's too bad Apple is so apathetic about Linux servers.

Even just replacing Python with Go might save a massive amount of KWh consumed.
> Today's luxury apartment is tomorrow's affordable one.

Moreover, today's luxury apartment turns yesterday's luxury apartment into a less expensive one.
They likely identified this pattern as a way for sellers to avoiding eBay fees and protections years ago when they were merged with eBay, and only now has the problem become financially relevant to solve. The fees for those refunds might well have been coming out of their pockets this whole time and none of us every knew.
U.S. House passes bill bolstering support for Taiwan
I hate to be the one to tell you, but it's not all about you.
How the US Military Decided It Needed Its Own Professor Moriarty
Thanks so much for this write-up, really appreciate the candidness and detail.

I've learned a lot from it and will be adding some of these practices to the infrastructure that I manage.
Do you recognise that you are the outlier?
> a slide out cup holder.

By this I am going to assume you mean the cd-rom drive. (And thanks to the 1990s for the computer joke of that decade.)
>the effects thus far have been basically nil

This is quite factually untrue. [0] [1] [2] [3]

To be clear, this is entirely as a rebuttal to your claim, not as any broader statement about international policy or outcomes.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-14/u-s-soy-e...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/us/politics/farming-trump...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/02/24/under-...

[3]https://www.minnpost.com/economy/2018/08/trade-war-pulls-por...
Why is having a black market good? Is it that there's inherent value in making a market for something people find valuable (even if the seller is some tech person and the buyer is a dissident in a country that probably can't legally send money to San Francisco in the first place), or is it something else?
Why limitation in quotes? Do you feel it is not one in practice?
doesn’t seem cool to admire Apple technologies, but ARC seems to work amazingly well with zero CPU overhead
I just now realised that if the web required two-way links there would be no way to put them into books!

Some context:

Back when the www was first released the most common criticism was the lack of back links. This is such a stupid and obvious deficiency that it really wasn't worth even looking into a system that was an obvious stillbirth. It wasn't just the "experts" saying this, but so many of them did because it was just so dumb. So you've probably never heard of this "world wide web" thing -- not only were there only one-way links, but it had its own homegrown markup language dialect and instead of using an ordinary protocol like FTP or even gopher it pointlessly used its own http protocol.

(Also back then there was this research protocol called TCP/IP, which was another waste of time given that the OSI protocol stack was poised to dominate the networks just as soon as a working one was written. I wonder what the modern equivalents are).
I think I'm confused. If you want to delegate _everything_, why not just actually use inheritance? Or even the object itself. What's an example of when you would want an ObjectProxy?

Definitely agree about metaclass magic being a blessing and a curse. That superdelegate library was fun to write and uses a metaclass to make the API pleasant.
I call BS on the parent comment's perspective. Some evidence:

"Homeschooled kids have the same access to online learning, friendships, and extracurricular activities as the typical public school student — but without many of the drawbacks, like standardized lesson plans and bullying."[1]

"Regarding socialization, Taylor's results would mean that very few home-schooling children are socially deprived. He states that critics who speak out against homeschooling on the basis of social deprivation are actually addressing an area which favors homeschoolers." [2]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-homeschooling-is-the...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling
Do they warn non-technical users on every boot that their device could be used to spy on them in language plainly understandable to a consumer?

I’m glad they have any warning at all - but warning in tech developer terms and warning in consumer-understood terms are entirely separate problems, as Motorola’s insufficient developer-focused terminology demonstrates.
Why scare quote "limitation"? It literally is a limitation, since it prevents me from doing something in code that can be useful at times. It certainly has tradeoffs.
What are the good alternatives to Concur? I don't mind it (as far as enterprise software goes)

Also, did you think about telling Steve Singh these comments, or just HR?
Well, this happened right after the news about one of docker's databases being compromised, so perhaps he is being scapegoated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763413
I'll take this "noise" as a success, considering that the previous few years saw insane 20% YoY growth. Crashing the market overnight was not the government's task.
Except for literally causing financial harm to the elderly that they prey on. With email there has always been extra scrutiny, after all it is the tech literate who were and are most likely to use email. And by literate, I mean can turn on their computer and visit Gmail. I doubt we will see the similar scenario with email due to spam being commonplace since the beginning.

Not to mention every other person is actively bothered in the real world by a real alarm instead of just scrolling past while checking their email. Email spam vs robocalling is not even comparable in terms of the effects. I miss real phone calls from people, such as job offers, due to spammers forcing me to send everything to voicemail. I'm not a hateful person by any means, but I honestly wish the absolute worst on anyone who is behind scamming robocalls purely due to the amount of minor annoyance built over time.
What's keeping you on Azure?
US sphere of influence is huge, but the French-speaking Maghreb is not a place where US is the #1 influential foreign power.

UN has the power that its members collectively attribute to it. It is far more than a US tool.
I am surprised a researcher has diplomatic immunity. Even lower level embassy staff do not necessarily have it.

In the USA I don't think he would be protected as an International Organization staffer (he is not a diplomat):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity#In_the_Uni...
In a perhaps related mode, and apologies if the discussion goes further off track, what I liked about the front panels of "real" computers back then was that they always had a key lock. The minicomputers (PDP 8, PDP 11, and VAX) that I had access too all used the lock to turn on power and optionally disable they key switches. The IBM 360 and 370 series had an operator enable key lock which could lock out operator functions like initial-microprogram-load (IMPL) and other system control functions.

That always seemed more impressive to me, and I have expressed it over the years with different types of panels that I've built that carry the look, but not the gravitas, of "serious" control circuitry. I have ressurected some of that when helping a friend design escape room puzzles that are more set piece than functional but it is much more fun to get a clue from something that looks like it could power up a reactor than it is to find it in a coffee can or amongst the graffiti on the wall.
It seems like this was politically motivated and if one were off the radar it may not be an issue. If you're concerned about someone looking for an excuse to arrest you, that might be an unfortunate cause for concern.
That's a bald-faced lie.

If it were true, you'd be against affirmative action and quotas. Which you're not.
Not clear as the article speculates that the SDR was simply used as a fig leaf for the real arrest motivation.

They used to be illegal in Germany (along with wifi-specific sniffers): is this still the case?
I think it's an interesting project. They'll have to make it very easy for me to change what I'm using now though.
Buy yourself a USB TV tuner ... then use it as a RTL-SDR.
I don't think I'd make it in the current age. We routinely drove snowmobiles to school in the winter, parked across the street in an empty lot during hunting season so that our bird guns were locked up technically off of school property, and carried leathermans and swiss army knives every day as a matter of course. Kids were frigging dipping Grizzly into soda bottles in the back of the class room most days.

People would have a conniption fit now, and this was only when Bush II was in office.
What about 8" floppies -- both hard and soft-sectored so you'll need two drives. And QIC
On the contrary, the reason for this kind of arrest is usually a military paranoia over the import of military equipment.

You may not take them seriously as a technological country, but such arrests indicate that the army is worried about the smuggling of military tech and has power to enforce checks.
I'm having hard to time to share your enthusiasm. Google has been leveraging its monopoly more than ever and myself as customer feels our arm getting twisted all the time. They shut down products arbitrarily, most of the time with FU on your face. The quality of main search has been massively in decline with they ignoring most of my keywords and putting generic links all the time. I'm sure they are delusional that this is not the case. Lot of Google products are becoming 2nd rate or even 3rd rate but because of their special treatment on Android and other properties you would be forced to use them anyway. Overall, I don't think Google was the innovative company it used to be. They are mostly in business of milking their monopoly to increase shareholder value.
The per unit price would obviously drop compared to the existing John Hancock Center. The per unit cost citywide might drop (I don't have enough information about Chicago to say for sure, but it is certainly feasible). But it is unlikely that any of these new units would be as cheap as the cheapest units that currently exist in Chicago. That is a problem that this market approach to affordable housing doesn't solve. Housing isn't a single market in which every unit is interchangeable. You need a wide variety of different housing options in order to house a wide variety of people.
I don't have any disregard for Americans or for that matter for any person based on their nationality or religion. I used "Americans" since this about American immigration system.

I do have a problem people trying to diminish the credentials of a person whom they do not know and have no idea about circumstances of his professional or personal life. He did not get asked to publish in NYTimes. Many immigrants are returning to their home countries, how many have stories have you seen published ?
D) you don't want to be accused of a crime you didn't do just because circumstantial evidence implies that you did.. like when reddit or some other groups dox you online.
Folks who feel a need to carry guns always have to let everybody on the internet know they pack heat.

There isn't anything wrong with concealed carry, but damn if it isn't annoying to hear all of them talk about it.
big fan of lists/checkboxes. my default is to just use a spreadsheet and use traffic light colours. let's me move them around a bit and group as per the article - it'd drive me nuts to re-write everything all the time. also, there's room for comments, who/what/when etc.

for large projects (my large maybe 100-150 items on the list) my status report is just a ctrl-down scroll until everything fits on screen and take a screen shot of green, red and orange/clear - real easy to see if you're on track or not.
Good clarification. For all intents and purposes though getting caught with mushrooms goes from being extremely scary to not scary at all. Even though theoretically they can put you in prison for a year for the misdemeanor, in practice you're probably more likely to get a $300 fine as long as you weren't in a school zone.

Even though everyone hated Malloy for whatever reason, he actually did a lot of good stuff for the state and it seems like Lamont is going to keep expanding on the criminal justice reform stuff that he got started. And now that Toni Boucher is finally gone it will hopefully keep passing.
I'm getting a Cloudflare error 524. Hug of death?

Here's a backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20190509030015/https://www.rtl-s...
It's not a hard limitation, the fallback is some degree of manual memory management.
Google Chrome’s Portals: like iframes, but better, and worse
I can’t imagine the code is checking the returned value for uniqueness after seeing a SUCCESS code, and iterating in the hopes that becomes less true.

That would be quite something to read the comment on;

// Here we check to be sure the Earth is not flat

...

// Seeing that the Earth is indeed flat, we will iterate in this absurdity some more in the hopes it rounds out eventually
Compose existed before k8s, and was created by a small company that Docker acquihired.
They should have targeted a premium around what Apple charges for their hardware, not the absurd multiple they were charging.
Younger animators still struggling amid anime boom
It's not exactly fair.. and also not likely without extensive time spent doing the estimation, like sure - you can be more precise, but the more precise you need to be, the longer it takes you to frame the estimate.

Two books help with methods of doing this.

Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules: https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Deve...

This likely does mean you'll need to be allowed to deploy automated test cases, develop documentation and the entire nine yards, because it's going to be far harder to hit any reasonable deadline if you don't have a known development pipeline.

You'll need to reduce your uncertainty as much as you can to even have a chance - and even then, things will still blindside you and double (or more) the actual vs. the original estimate.
> young male angst

Tbh, it's this sort of thing that fuels the alt right. I'm a young male and I have some political concerns. I don't consider myself alt-right. But, when you dismiss my concerns as "angst" - I'm far more likely to continue talking to them than to you.
you forgot $15000 worth of candles per month https://twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472