skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My interpretation of the direction is the opposite of Thurrott’s in some sense – UWP will be expanded and morphed together with Windows Forms and WPP into .Net core app eventually with .Net Core 5.0
Here is my take of UWP development that I have expressed on different occasions:
1. The best target OS compared with Android and iOS.
2. The best IDE (VS). Android Studio is catching up fast, but still has a long way to go before rivaling VS.
3. The best user experience compared with apps on other platforms (e.g. Android) for for which I also develop apps.
4. The worst app store by far.
I have been suspecting that Microsoft Store killed Windows Phone. WP came out late, but it had a decent chance to survive and thrive (its market share actually reached double digits in some European countries), but the lack of apps killed it eventually. I blame Microsoft Store for it. It is pretty much the worst in every sense and had glitches one after another. If Microsoft had outsourced the app store to a competent company, Windows Phone could be rivaling iPhone and Android now.
It is as if Microsoft thought the poor store was not hurting UWP apps enough, they introduced .Net Native toolchain nightmare to hit UWP further. I have never noticed any promised app performance benefit. Instead, one app’s performance deteriorated so much that it became almost unusable under certain circumstances after .Net Native was used. An app’s debug version may behave significantly differently than its release version compiled with .Net Native. It takes 10 to 20 minutes to generate an app package with .Net Native. More than 90% app development problems I have encountered are related to .Net Native nightmare one way or another.
Sideloading UWP app could make up a little bit for the store’s deficiency, but it seems they have changed the sideloading mechanism many times. I have lost track of it.
In summary, UWP apps are the first-class products marketed and sold by a third-class store.
I cannot help mentioning one emerging technology that adds absolute excitement to UWP – Uno Platform. It allows C# UWP code used for creating iOS, Android and WebAssembly web apps. It is truly “program once, run on billions of devices".
Ask HN: Apartment Hunting Near Stanford
My partner and I are moving to the peninsula for 2 years. We most likely can’t make a prior trip out to secure housing before the move. We have a small quiet dog.

We need to be able to get to Stanford’s campus roughly 4 days a week. We are experienced bike commuters with a range of roughly 5 miles each direction.

What sources on info are most likely to be helpful to our housing search? My anxiety over this is extreme. Any good info is deeply, deeply appreciated.
McDonald's released new meatless, vegan burger, you'll need a passport to try it
What on earth are viruses, botnets, worms, algo trading, etc?

Computers partaking in actions with consequences has been going on for ages already...
Someone who wants to buy 100 of those airplanes, but knows that the safety option reduces the risk of incurring a $100 million total hull loss by less than one percent, thus saving less than the $100 million extra cost for the option? Obviously the numbers are different, but see the oft-quoted 'Fight Club' line about product recalls for similar logic.
Apparently it is.

Because she is refusing to testify, and it is producing significant public backlash, and she was released eventually anyway.

Seems like it worked out fine for Chelsea.
I started mine by politely thanking for the sourcing and I still got downvoted. I think there are politically motivated downvoters on this topic.
I wrote up a post about getting on HN and how it's helped me build my Open Source project due to the feedback.

https://getpolarized.io/2019/04/02/getting-hacker-news-lesso...

I have actual stats rather than speculation in the article if you read my post.

It's more like 15k users over 24 hours... then usually another 5k. I included full google analytics charts if you're interested.
Uber Raises $8.1B in IPO Priced Near Bottom of Range
A Case for Building a Case for Building Authenticity in Content Creation
They should also let you filter by country of origin.
How broadly applicable is it? From what I've read of machine learning powered classroom monitoring systems from Hikvision and the like require regular retraining (eg: new 360 degree photos) for each student as they age and change. Seems like an idea that is 90% of the way there, and is mainly propped up by the central govt subsidizing these systems despite their severe limitations.
It’s funny how the mind works. We tend to accept the far greater risk of allowing automated software updates (either in-app or blindly trusting your package manager e.g. apt-get upgrade) but the Firefox Studies mechanism which does a minuscule, strict subset of what any automatic update can do is somehow a “crazy security risk”.
In what way? Can they automatically assume the worst possible thing you could have said?
As a Washing State resident, I am happy to see our state leading the charge in these kinds of efforts.
BO makes the engines for Vulcan so they'd probably be fine with a ULA rocket
Musk Courts Controversy with Tweets on Sex Video Filmed in Tesla
Windows 10: Microsoft is bringing back one of Windows 95’s most popular features
Generally immunity is qualified to include anything that comes out of asking you.... and you'd have your lawyer to give you a hand.
They should also be required to remove the "SoClean." A device designed to intentionally pump toxic ozone into medical breathing assistance devices.

Ozone has a limit but studies have shown even below the legal limit[0][1][2] can be considered harmful. The population that typically use devices like CPAPs may be more vulnerable than the general populous to ozone exposure (and this exposure is targeted due to the usage of the "SoClean").

Mark my words: This will be looked back on like asbestos, radon clocks, and giving kids x-ray toys.

[0] https://www.healtheffects.org/research/ongoing-research/effe...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755393/

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060216231940.h...
كلمات اغنية حدوتة مرة انغام مكتوبة كاملة
In that case, it was already dead, for all practical purposes.

For example https://lichess.org/blog/XMvcJSwAADkA0hPE/lichess-v2-is-here
Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom
This will likely not be useful: now you can't buy iPhones, and many companies will perform "assembly" in the United States to get around these kinds of things.
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Completely agree with you.

Language is an incredibly useful tool and it works very well for most of our daily lives and many important things without thinking too much about it.

It's just very interesting to me to see how something that seems so solid, in some ways is much more fluid and fuzzy.

Thank you for keeping this thread going, really enjoyed discussing this.
> I would ask you - why?

Optimally, you'll want to build your full app in a single language, frontend, data queries, everything. That eliminates every problematic interface where you have to re-encode values, verify types and other invariants, connect different runtimes, abstract foreign behavior, etc. (Somehow the JS developers talking about isoiconicity only cite code reuse... And the Lisp ones focus on metaprograming.)

We have a variety of good application languages, so it's a safe bet that one can create a not horrible one; we also have a few standards for IPC and some very safe literature on how to integrate them with a language. Foreign interfaces are always iffy, but it's also settle how to create a not horrible one. The most risky part is data querying, so it makes sense to start with a proven implementation here.
If the population is growing, what’s the alternative?
You don't. Remember, it's like having your mother-in-law preside over your divorce proceeding.
Netflix Is Working on the Legend of Zelda Show
Or the merchants are the scammers. That's $20 for probably $5 of raw product. Even if the merchants are paying the scammers a portion, that's a good profit.
The subpoena Chelsea was served with before release indicates that she will be right back in the same position in short order.
You can't do this on mobile, though…
Markets can’t work their market signal magic if information is concealed. If I don’t want to support an authoritarian regime, I shouldn’t have to.
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I wonder what they're using the lead and cadmium for? Also, "toxic" may be overexaggerating; "poisonous" or even "possibly harmful" might be more accurate, but even then, from what I understand you'd have to consume a lot of it for it to be a problem.

(I worked on electronics and soldered with real lead solder for many decades, starting when I was a kid, and think RoHS and the lead-ban has caused far more environmental problems.)

Edit: apparently controversial opinions are not welcome here either...? Or is it the "chemicals are scary" crowd again? :|
Good. Amazon is just lazy when it comes to product quality. Any non-specialty product has a pretty high chance of being a fake and/or manufactured with sub-standard materials. It's shaken my confidence to the point where, even as a card-carrying Prime member, I'd rather shlep over to Target than order from Amazon.
Chelsea Manning Released from Alexandria Detention Center
The grand jury expired and was not extended. "Public backlash" had little to do with it.
They've already failed to provide necessary post-surgery care, resulting in potentially permanent, intractable medical complications, according to this declaration filed three days ago while she was still imprisoned: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.405498... (paragraph 13)
If you like the author's writing, I highly recommend his newsletter, The Convivial Society with more thoughts and links on the intersection of technology and society. https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas
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Other areas I've been working in and interested are:

1) security

2) machine learning

3) marketing

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My latest projects are 2 ecommerce stores I've built from zero. Full list: https://gildedhonour.me/projects

Thanks && Cheers.
This isn't just Amazon. CBC in Canada found lead and cadmium in major retailers in Canada. It's cheap chinese imports that are the problem overall.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cadmium-jewelry-ardene-aldo-1...
The practice is pretty common when dealing with a large enterprise. Pen tests vary wildly, in quality and scope. Typically, you require 3rd party pen tests, a little more common is to review the report and methodology. However, it's not uncommon to specify that it has to be a Big4 type firm or from an approved vendor list.

It's pricey, especially for small firms. However, most companies don't know what their security posture is - this is all part of managing risk.
The Case Against Breaking Up Facebook
What did you expect to happen? You're using an online service connected to signing authorities. Of course it can be remotely broken at any time, that's how the internet works, it's all remote.
That wasn't the impressions I got from the article:

> And the way we know that’s true is that Win32, WPF, and WinForms have all been “elevated to full status”—Gallo’s words—in Windows 10 all these years later.

It sounds like they're promoting Win32 as a long term option. I wouldn't expect them to say "UWP is dead", MS has a history of playing "it's not dead it's just resting" with UI frameworks, WPF was one of those.

I'm also curios what these changes mean for compatability? Anything that can't be used on windows 7+ will be dead on arrival. If they could just provide a "This is how you build windows apps for 7,8,10+ that we won't deprecate in future" I'd be happy.
manufactured in china isn't the same as shipped from a chinese seller. i think it would be difficult to profitably use the assembly workaround for small cheap stuff that gets sold by junk peddlers a la this press release
I don't disagree, but why can't the market itself solve that instead of requiring government intervention? Just don't buy from people who don't disclose their supply chain (and perhaps rely on government to punish those who commit fraud by lying).
Fast sparse convolution library for 3D/4D perception
And if I admited that, what would you say?
Just a note number two doesn't express rent or actual home cost. Just home prices.
> were to force two-factor...

Q: How secure is the "forgot 3DS password" functionality on 3DS-enabled cards?
This seems to be the central argument:

> “While building more affordable housing in core agglomerations would accommodate more people,” the authors note, “the collapse of the urban wage premium for less-educated workers means that the extra housing would mostly attract additional skilled workers.”

In other words,they seem to argue that building more only attracts more high-paid works.

Ok... so let’s build even MORE, until a new equilibrium is reached at a lower price. There is a finite number of the higher paid jobs and a finite number of people who can perform them without additional training. That number is not small, so if want to change the market for housing, amount of new supply must also not be small.

Seattle has been making a dent, but unfortunately not a very big one: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-build...

Imagine what would happen if they built even more?

However, if we did build enough, a significant number of people would be impacted in a different way - it’s impossible to build just the right number, so we are much more likely to significantly reduce the value of homes if we built enough (in actuality too much) to not price people out. Anyone that bought around the time of the boom would likely see prices fall.
I remember reading this back in the day. Reading it all over again today. Still madness!
- A robust security model with role inheritance that supports both column and row policies.

- PLV8/PLPython/C functions/etc (with security!)

- TimescaleDB

- Better JSON query support

- Foreign Data Wrappers

- Better window function support

- A richer extension ecosystem (IMO)

Honestly, at this point I wouldn't use MySQL unless you only care about slightly better performance for very simple queries and simpler multi-master scaling/replication. Even saying that, if you don't need that simple multi-master scaling RIGHT NOW, improvements to the Postgres multi-master scaling story are not too far off on the roadmap, so I would still choose PG in that case.
Consider PSK TLS.
I.e., fixed AES key and something like GCM or similar for integrity. No certificates.
Libraries exist, also it's a lot faster on both ends to handle than RSA crypto.
They're probably using the cadmium for red paint/dye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_pigments
Stable doesn't necessarily mean 'doesn't crash' what it means is that the API/ABI interface is stable.

EG: let's say libfoo.so.1 implements DO_FOO; libfoo.so.2 implements DO_FOO2, but not DO_FOO. In this case, anything you need that links to libfoo.so.1 and needs DO_FOO would need to be patched, recompiled, and shipped out to all your customers. For the distribution provider, this is not really a huge deal. But RHEL is merely the platform. The value-add is that 3rd parties can write software and compile against libs and know they're not going to break arbitrarily.

Similarly, if you've ever written a kernel driver, you'd know that kernel function names and signatures can change from release to release. The same example above applies to kernel code as well. So, compiled binary drivers would have to be patched and recompiled, and shipped out. If you're writing a driver for a network card, would you prefer having to ship your (non bug) driver updates every few months, or every few years?
Is anybody forcing them to sell in Europe? If it's not profitable I would assume they wouldn't sell there.
Not familiar with the reasons why the lead ban or rohs would be an issue for the environment, can you point me in the right direction? They seem like positive moves on the surface, but I’m sure they’re not as straightforward as I’d like.
Paint.

>from what I understand you'd have to consume a lot of it for it to be a problem.

Your understanding is wrong.
Precisely. If I can't trust Amazon to detect a counterfeit Apple charger, then why would I trust them to test anything for something even more subtle?
How to visualize a matrix (1962) [pdf]
If I'm buying clothes for the gym, I don't want to buy "ROWILUX" or "YAKER" or "YSENTO" brand. I've bought enough to know they're all junk. Just show me the stuff that people actually put effort into! If I'm looking for an iPhone, I'll search for iPhones. If I'm looking for tank tops, show me the ones that aren't going to disintegrate after a month.
You know what would be amazing to have for DB engines? Auto-optimization. For example, something that automatically determines which queries are slow and which indexes should be created to speed them up. Basically self-tuning. Not sure if this could be something for a machine learning model to do.
Sorry, but TLS has PSK cyphers that do not use asymmetric cryptography. They are not used often, as you normally want the benefits of asymmetric cryptography, but they are useful if you can pair devices out-of-band and can store a unique secret key for each communication partner.
I’ve got a UV filter in my furnace that i believe produces ozone, should i be concerned in your opinion?
> “The ‘end’ or ‘goal’ is to keep going. Americans, as F. Scott Fitzgerald concluded, believe in the green light.” The green light, constant motion in whatever direction, acceleration—these are, of course, no ‘ends’ at all. They are what you have left when you have lost sight of any true ends. It is fruitless to save time if you don’t know why exactly your are saving it for.
Would New Sagan be the Amazon-sponsored lightsail-powered generation ship to Alpha Centauri?
ChromeOS has supported CUPS for a while now.
Why does he keep using the word "computational" like it's some unique thing and not literally the same thing as programming?
They can be used in emulators and replaced on C64 boards that had the ROMs burn out. This reminds me of the Amiga ROM Kickstart that AROS made for Amiga 68K units o run AROS in emulators or real Amigas.

I see a lot of projects like this in Europe. I guess their IP laws are slacker than the USA?
I think the other thing is that it's not only expensive to become a doctor, but fairly grueling as well. Some number will still do it for altruistic reasons, similar to how you get some amazing teachers despite the terrible pay, but it'll probably be a lot harder for most extremely effective people to justify doing that over another, more lucrative field.

One thing that might help is eliminating the undergrad requirement before medical school.
Toyota and Panasonic to merge housing units and team up on 'smart town' business
I guess a good community needs constant upkeep, like anything else in life. The community was created over what a few people thought was good content, and if left alone will probably get dissolved in some "large reddit" effect.
City officials careless with contracts is not news.
Vietnam Accused of Manipulating Its Dong
Because it’s cheaper to lie and accountability would require the government anyways. If forced arbitration and class action bans weren’t a thing then maybe private citizens could band together and sue but that method of accountability has been effectively killed.
Worth reading the safety section, which starts with this sentence:

Cadmium sulfide is not very toxic (LD50 above 5,000 mg/kg) when used as a pigment, although acute exposure to cadmium vapors from welding is harmful.

For comparison, sodium chloride (table salt) has an LD50 of 3,000mg/kg.
Of course it's less capable than Apollo - we don't have anywhere near the lift capability of Saturn V anymore, and this program's budget is a rounding error in the $200B (inflation-adjusted) that went into Apollo.

I think people underestimate just how insane the investment was in that program: in the neighborhood of 0.25% of GDP for a decade.
I think the problem here is is institutional--both our teaching institutions and normal industrial practices. Objective studies have shown repeatedly that functional programming models (which emphasize recursion, a stumbling block you mention) are easier for students with no prior programming knowledge to pick up and use effectively. It also tends to make better programmers, more quickly. There's a reason MIT taught Lisp/Scheme in its introductory computer science course for so many decades.

However (1) once you've ingrained all the counter-proactive habits of thinking and worked past the stumbling blocks that imperative and object-oriented programming models present, the conceptual jump from that to SQL is smaller; and (2) good, in-depth introductory materials don't materialize out of nowhere without demand. Your instructor was probably trying to do something good, both by introducing you to data processing in a language with fewer syntactical hurdles and in year-by-year incrementally improving the quality of introductory material by using it in instruction.

Datalog allows you to express data relationships in a more straight forward, more compact, and easier to refactor way free of most boilerplate. It does, however, require you think about what you want to accomplish abstractly, rather than as an imperative process, which is difficult merely because of the years of experience the typical student already has in unergonomic languages like C++, Java, etc.
Unique genetic adaptation lets deep-sea fish see color in darkness
I thought he was a nearly completely absent father?

Not according to his neighbour [1].

[1] https://patch.com/california/paloalto/my-neighbor-steve-jobs
The cadmium could easily be tied to pigments, though I suspect this is more likely from environmental contamination.

Some quick google searches find things like:

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/HealthyLiving/cad...
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=6&po=5
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3184/095422910X126314...

So likely, they aren't using the Cadmium and Lead for anything directly with these products, it just happens to be around as a contaminant from other processes.
Also, you wouldn’t have nutrition facts on labels without regulation. Some things the market just can’t solve.
The whole point of key expiration is that somebody might get a hold of it (or crack it).
Construction costs have also gone up due to the fires of last year: Paradise, Ojai, Malibu, etc. We're getting our house remodeled, and it was a royal pain to find architects and contractors. Most were booked up to a year in advance!
Toyota boosts eco-friendly car and engine output in China investing $2.2B
What field are you looking to work in?
Playing the part of the optimist, I think we'll always be able to outsmart our ailments in the long run. It's startling to see an arms race start with antibiotics, because we've been winning in that arena with very little effort for over a century, but having to get creative again and being totally helpless against a coming apocalypse are two different things.
What about supporting the poor people in the authoritarian regime?
For what it's worth, Leviathan and Bishop Fox are both strong firms.