skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And increased spending in public transit including more automation while gutting pay to near minimum wage (which we should increase to a living wage ~$15) for public transit workers. Make public transit zero fare. We can pay for it with increased property taxes which should also help cool down speculative investment.

The focus going forward should be on mass transit and not on cars.
Better than (minor spoiler for Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy) finding out that the universe used to have many more dimensions, but in some past wars, dimensionality reduction weapons were used.
This is why reproducible (even better; deterministic) builds matter.
Dreams of Code
Combating Cybercrime with Artificial Intelligence
The EVE Online poets-for-hire thing is absolutely fascinating. If something that tangential to gameplay arises organically... it makes me think that MMORPGs are an underrated technology for test driving social and government structures. Maybe we should have a sim-world that models our actual world as closely as possible, so that we can test-drive things like Basic Income in it.
If you can find one who isn't busy.
Personally, I don't do tests on my projects, it's a weak guarantee in my opinion. I prefer formal proofs...
Working on a language for automatically managing the same..
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I would say it is exactly the iphone of thermostate because the iphone is far from a great phone.

All of the complaints you just made about nest can be attributed to apple as well
And yet, I will continue developing whatever and whenever I want, I may even skip that and just play instead.
"If Oracle is 'poisoning Java', Kotlin's not the answer."

It's not Java, and at the same time it is.

It's 'far enough away' to protect them legally, but close enough to leverage the ecosystem.

Without that, it'd be very hard to attract new devs, Also, Android uses a kind of JVM, they've invested a lot.

Oracle can only poison Java they'll have a harder time poisoning the JVM etc. - there's just too much dependent there.

If Oracle goes nuclear with Java, Google has the wherewithal to fork their own version of the JVM.

It the right move, pragmatically.

Remember, Java is a very useful thing and especially the JVM.
So when the economy is turning bad its also obamas fault i take it?
What Is B2B Writing and How to Become B2B Writer
I'm not so sure that Apple wouldn't allow Emacs on the App Store - they are a lot more pragmatic than they used to be. There is a project called iSH which is currently on TestFlight - it gives you Linux via a usermode x86 emulator. It would be strange for Apple to approve for TestFlight if there was no chance of it ever being approved for the App Store.
This is excellent! EMI testing is one of the things I have to do with my projects, but there hasn't been an affordable way to visualize them. I've played with an RTL-SDR for ADS-B traffic so this is right up my alley. I'll be sharing this with coworkers for sure!
Kids act on a family scale, which is still pretty small.

Insurance is spreading risks, lottery is gambling. These have nothing to do with production or wealth creation.

The successful startup does create a huge amount of wealth, and therefore the owner can probably capture a large part of that wealth.
Yeah, I'm sure the 4,000 person layoff was just to let go of this one engineer...
That's $776M for the quarter, not for the year. Typically, when doing the "multiples of revenue" valuation comparison, that's done on yearly numbers, not quarterly numbers. I have no idea how constant their revenue figures are quarter-by-quarter, so won't even guess about what a yearly revenue figure might look like. But "$17B on 776M" isn't doing the comparison the way I typically see it.
When the Pixel 1 came out I bought it pretty much instantly in November 2016 and was amazed by how great the camera and the quality of the entire phone was. As someone who was very much invested in the Google eco system this was the perfect phone for me and when Google announced the Pixel 2 I was over the moon. Unfortunately the Pixel 2 was a huge disappointment. I still find my Pixel 1 to take overall better photos than the Pixel 2. The quality of the Pixel 2 also felt much cheaper. When the Pixel 3 arrived I thought initially that this was the long awaited upgrade, but again I was left extremely disappointed. In my opinion the original Pixel phone was the first device which I thought could finally contest the Apple iPhone, but since then I think this was a one off lucky shot by Google and everything which has followed was extremely below my expectations.

Today I still use my Pixel 1, but it's starting to drain battery a lot faster than what it used to a couple months ago and I'm probably going to buy a new iPhone this year again.

I've also started to rely less on Google since they started to become so unreliable in recent years. I don't use Chrome anymore (FireFox rocks again!), I use DuckDuckGo for search, I use Office365 instead of the G-Suite and I'm eyeing up a different Music provider as I think that Google Play will sooner or later get shut down too. The only things which I find difficult to replace is Google Drive and Google Cloud which I use for work related things. Funny how things quickly change and how much other products have caught up again so that the change hasn't been difficult at all so far...
I found this very illuminating. I had never heard of Bergson until a few weeks ago, when I read Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy about family life in Cairo in the first half of the 20th century. These novels feature a (male) character who studies and writes about Bergson, and I wondered whether he was supposed to be a widely recognised subject of the time. Although Bergson appears to be popularly a sort of anti-rationalist, for the character in the novels his philosophy is a gateway away from the family's traditional Islam toward a rationalist view which distances him from the people around him. There is a mirror between these books and this article, in that the books are written from a masculine perspective and are ostensibly about a patriarch, but it is the women in the books who motivate much of the action.
So it's basically AutoHotKey?
[Spoiler alert, Hyperion series]
That sounds totally lifted from the Hyperion series, but maybe the idea is earlier than that, does anyone have a proposed source for that idea that's earlier than 1989?
Back in the day, safari 2.0.4 encountered a large amount of site breakage because sites were using useragent.indexof(“4”)!=-1 as the test for “are you Netscape 4”, and if you were then they’d use netscape’s layer apis (netscape’s alternative to css). Any changes to the user agent are very scary - that’s kind of how they ended being as terrible as they are.

Yet still sites continue to use the user agent to gate access. The same sites also like to complain about how bizarre UA strings are.
'Poisoning' is not 'getting rid of'.

'Poisoning' is taking full control and monetizing everything, making everything closed source.

GraalVM is in their eyes, going to be a money-making investment. The only extent to which it might be partly OSS is a function of how much they really had to give away.

Oracle's objective with Java is to take a huge bite out of the Enterprise and do with Java what they did with their DB.

Imagine if we all needed to talk to an Oracle sales person to make our app :)
Fossil fuel cars are bad in cities not because of CO2, but because of other harmful substances they produce. If there was a good fuel cell working with fossil fuels then your suggestion would work.
So you are saying instead if running the required test vehicles with trained drivers in California like Waymo does Tesla is running unsupervised Beta tests with 50k cars? For self-driving? Not sure if that's how new cars are certified...
That's of course a separate can of worms, but I too never understood why people buy electric cars in their current form. Imagine you had a laptop that can last a month on full charge, vs your typical laptop of today that lasts a day at best - people would obviously choose the former. And yet, in cars, people choose the latter, and pay extra for the privilege. [1]

[1] Except that situation with cars is much worse than with laptops, as you can continue using a laptop while it's charging.
10 Factor Dapps: Best Design Practices for Ethereum Dapps
I've used many ORM's in multiple languages and on multiple teams and have never had a good experience with any of them, once the complexity grew beyond trivial.

I've been tasked with various database optimisation tasks over the years and ORM's have always gotten in my way when it came to understanding a queries indexing and locking and improving/fixing it. I always end up just looking at the logged SQL, fixing it in SQL and then trying to convert it back to ORM code, which has always been tedious. In my experience, in multiple otherwise talented teams, ORM's seem to encourage less-than-ideal database modelling and overfetching data because its too easy to just make an ORM class do it for you rather than really thinking about your data and the data model you need. This isn't ORM's fault of course, but rather the teams using them, but its happened so frequently that I don't think "discipline" or "better developers" is a valid answer. [1] I used to hate databases and dread working with them for the above reasons.

I recently started loving databases by working with Clojure and the HugSQL library. The reason I love this approach is that Clojure isn't OO, so there's no Object mapping: I deal with plain old data instead, in whatever format I make the query return it (I can then easily transform that data further if I need) and HugSQL lets me write (composable and parameterised) raw SQL. Its fantastic and has been super productive for me. I can think in pure data and model the database how it makes sense and still have a good understanding of the indexing and locking of my queries.

[1] As jandrewrogers said: "in almost every place I've seen them used they've become a way for developers to avoid understanding how databases work, inevitably leading to inexplicable data models and poor performance. In practice, ORMs tend to end up creating crippling technical debt" and this has been my experience too. Sure, you can use an ORM well, but in reality, this seems to happen so rarely that in my opinion, ORM's are a net negative to be avoided if possible. Saying that you just gotta use them right (when few people seem to actually do so) seems like a bit of a no true scotsman argument to me.
Mirajobs – Anonymous Job Search Platform
MESG Marketplace Beta Live on Mainnet
But it included this one engineer
Websites should not be tied to a specific browser. But, if you mean plugins’s then sure that’s a huge risk.

Mobile and desktop both have more risks than the web, but they also have vastly more dependency on their ecosystems.
Casey Neistat had an interesting take on this in one of his recent videos. He described it as completely fulfilling in all of the components of friendship and community, but without the intimacy, which I think is quite apt. I do believe wholly that casual friendships are almost indistinguishable online as they are in person; however close friendships and relationships on the other hand require an element of intimacy that cannot be fulfilled.
Thanks for providing additional context
anyway at the moment you can share with https://search.feedi.me/?q=ruby
Nice and all, but as it's google... When will it be abandonded?
>wondering why he is so focused on returning to the US.

says he spent half his life there
Another option that might be worth considering is seeing if one of the solarwinds, redgate etc. type companies want to buy you out. Or sponsor you. It depends what they offer of course as to if it’s worth it.
There's an interesting benchmark against TimescaleDB and InfluxDB from VictoriaMetrics that seem to do better on performance and disk space than both. I consider using it as a remote storage of Prometheus.

https://medium.com/@valyala/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks...
I got a free gym membership by winning a "health and activity" competition at work. I kept the fitbit on while jerking off and had almost double the amount of points than the 2nd person once the competition was over.

I'm not ashame at all.
Hi Mike!
Look inside the box – breaking the encryption/obfuscation in the Dropbox client
If you're in a position to be aware of an imminent attack, ramp-time is probably within reason. Power reqirements are fairly modest by military standards -- a small fireboat can pump impresive quantities of water, and since the goal in defence / obscuring is to blind (and absorb energy), a finer atomised mist would be more effective. Filter and system fouling is likely a bigger concern.

True bolt-from-the-blue attacks are rare, though possible.

The spray profile could be modified to enable sensor detection, or alternative (off-ship, buoy, balloon, drone, ...) sensor placement could enable both eyes and shields.
NTP vs. PTP: Network Timing Smackdown (2013)
The thing is, that's clearly not what most people actually object to about Cambridge Analytica. I mean, the same is even more true of Obama's 2012 campaign, which went so far as to harvest their supporters' friends' posting activity to assess how best to get those friends to vote Obama, and yet nearly all of the people who loudly decried Cambridge Analytica used this same bogus consent argument to justify why the Obama campaign's actions were OK.
Be sure to also read the comments, very insightful.
Fair enough.

Regarding:

> the government guarantees healthcare, but that doesn't mean that you will always be healthy.

It guarantees you will always get treated if you seek such treatment (within reason, basically all actual medical problems will be treated for free here). I had spent 3 weeks in a hospital including numerous tests (MRI, CT, ultrasound) & concluded in brain surgery.

I paid next to nothing & despite nobody being able to guarantee the procedure would be a success I think this is as close as you can reasonably get.

I would be surprised if the same in the US will not have resulted in a hefty bill, even for most people covered under generous employer-backed health insurance.
I was also disappointed that some aspects of modern JS frameworks make adding strict CSPs incredibly hard. Especially with CSS there don't seem to be many resources on how to make something like React styled components work with CSPs, disabling the CSS CSP seems to be the only reasonable way to do this.
Eclipse and Oracle Unable to Agree on Terms for Java EE
My coworkers. It really doesn't matter how much good the place is if I don't enjoy the people I work with.
From what I recall correctly, Cigarette corporations also argued that only addicts would become addicted to cigarettes.

Casinos and the gambling industry is also trying to argue only addicts will become addicted to their products.

I don't think we should believe the people who make a product or are paid by said people when they say the product isn't addictive or not harmful. We need independent research.
a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law

Calling it a Democracy without mentioning the more important word misses the point; your original comment:

The idea of a majority having more power than a minority is, as another user puts it "a feature, not a bug".

That is exactly what our Republic protects against. The minority has the same inalienable rights as the majority.
I find emacs too slow on Mac, so I use vim (actually nvim) with jceb’s vim-orgmode. Good enough emulation for me.
Well, up to now the mainly compete on price and booking comfort (apps) with traditional taxis. So taxi prices are somehow giving an upper price limit, maybe plus something for the better CX.
I thought the clearest option is to harvest it from nations with weak environmental lobbies, like we do today.
Anyone up for some Amazon rain-forest?
I agree that the regulation is not perfect. We can do better to accommodate the needs of enthusiasts. But, in the case of brute regulation, I prefer we err on the side of safety vs enthusiast features.

Here in the netherlands, really old cars that fail to meet emission standards have special dispensation to be used on the road for less than 500km a year. Maybe something similar for sports cars would work. As you said, nobody is using their 911 GT3 for 10,000km a year anyway.
How AI can improve products for people with impaired speech
> most fraud occured at the local level

If it was something that was done at local level, not in conspiracy with central government, then why the investigations in cases of election fraud are so ineffective, and even if the case gets to the court, it typically ends with just a fine? If the central government didn't have relation to the fraud, they would prefer to punish local officials, yet they try to avoid doing it.

Instead, they warn heads of regions that the results of election in their region might affect their evaluation.

Regarding things you have described, they are possible with electronic voting as well. Hashes not matching? You probably made a mistake, verify again, our experts say that everything is correct.

Also, for an average person, seeing a video recording with officials throwing a pack of ballots into the box is easier to understand than some difficult calculations with hashes.
Silence (I have my own office).

I'd take a job with an office over.one without even if without pays 15% more, I know this because I did.
Google vs Oracle isn't "no problems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....
That okay, we all get carried away sometimes.

I think you are underestimating the language and cultural barriers inside Europe. When I still lived in the Netherlands (my native country) we got a British employee at some point. Everyone in the company spoke English reasonably well, but not quite fluently. So what happened was that lunch conversations started out in English but quickly evolved to Dutch. I felt bad about it, but it was just so much easier to joke around in Dutch.

This also mirrors the experience of my British ex-girlfriend, who lived and worked in the Netherlands.

After this I lived in the UK for two years while working remote for an Irish company, and it took me a while to truly communicate efficiently with native English speakers. I knew the grammar and vocabulary, it just wasn't always obvious how to use it. People have made entire charts about miscommunications[1]. I also wrote a bit about this elsewhere[2].

It's one thing to argue in English on HN or watch Star Trek, but quite another to actually work in English every day. Perhaps it might actually be easier is everyone is a non-native speaker, but then you quickly run in to the "large group of natives speaking their own language"-problem I described before.

In addition, actually living in a foreign country is also a bit harder if you don't speak the language.

Either way, the barrier is certainly higher than in the US or China, where everyone just speaks the same language.

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0jvF8NIMAAFIn6.png:large and https://merican.vickihollett.com/wp-content/upLoads/anglo-du...

[2]: https://lobste.rs/s/xnjo8g/add_downvote_reason_unkind#c_imbo...

> too much focus on welfare and government control at the cost of free market and innovation. Too much "system thinking" as opposed to creative engineering. This used to be different a couple of decades ago.

Wasn't there much more welfare several decades ago? This certainly seems the case in my own country of the Netherlands, and it was also true in the UK (until Tatcher came in). I can't speak to other countries.

I'm not convinced these things are strongly correlated to creativity or innovation. It seems to me that the primary reason people create things is because humans are just creative; it's part of our nature. Certainly if I look at my own motivations the amount of money going to the taxman is pretty far down the list of why I do things.

Additionally, not everything is about economics. I have some amount of sympathy for libertarianism/free market thinking, but too often does everything get reduced to merely an economical argument. The world is more than just economics. In Germany they've been having a large debate about the ethics of driverless cars, for example, whereas in the US they've just put the cars on the road without first having a public debate. It may be more "innovative", but is it also the right thing to do?
I was about to like InfluxDB but ever since people say it eats memory and your data, I stopped caring.

https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/FAQ

("How does VictoriaMetrics compare to InfluxDB?")
I would understand if this was about mining in a forest or near a city, but what is the value of a desert where nothing grows and no one lives? Would people be also opposed to building canals and converting the desert to agricultural land?
Agreed, which comes back to the question as to why we don't cover vast swathes of uninhabitable desert in said solar panels - and we come back to the root of the issue; carbon lobbying.
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Being able to work with really smart and engaged co-workers.
In my experience, this is (almost) everyone I've ever worked with, in multiple teams, with multiple ORM's, in multiple industries.
Push gateway?

https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/pushing/
I thought it was already Google's preferred language. I remember they announced that some time ago.
> it's how to transport it efficiently (rocket equation)

This applies only if you have to carry chemical fuel with you; you can cheat a lot if you have lots of raw energy available. Chemical rockets won't open up the outer Solar System to us, but beamed power just might. Hell, at the Dyson sphere technology level, you could just push things around the system with giant lasers.

(Yes, that same technology could also be used as a powerful weapon, but it's the unfortunate feature of distances in space - anything interesting you'd like to do in timescales we're used to from daily lives requires handling energy in levels and forms that could be used as weapons of mass destruction.)
Google.com gets a D+ on Mozilla Observatory.
Paper ballots are vulnerable to systemic voter suppression of the kind that’s hard to eliminate. Voter ID laws. Complicated ballots. Overloaded polling stations. Worst, all these weaknesses are difficult to eliminate because they are both difficult to sincerely debate and difficult to generate the public interest necessary to generate enough activism.

Electronic voting can reduce the friction enough to where we can address these issues with common-sense approaches.
We use percent of person's total life revenue (jail time) for non-violent crimes (theft, fraud, etc.) all the time. It's not clear why corporations should get a pass.
What a great article, this paragraph really reasonated with me:

> Any situation where complex functionality is wrapped in another layer runs the risk of increasing the overall complexity when the wrapping layer is itself complicated. This often comes along with leaky abstractions - wherin the wrapping layer can't do a perfect job wrapping the underlying functionality, and forces programmers to fight with both layers simultaneously.

I think we can all agree that a mapping layer from a relational DB to your language is needed in almost every application, so the question is whether to build it yourself or use an off-the-shelf solution.

I work at prisma.io and we've set out to make database workflows as easy as possible for developers, this includes database access (= ORM) and schema migrations.

With polyglot persistence becoming a standard pattern in modern applications, today's ORMs fall short since they only map from relational databases. Our goal at Prisma is to provide a type-safe mapping layer to all your databases at once. This will allow developers to focus on their application logic and not worry about how to access the data from the various data sources.