skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The HTML DOM API is in no way separate from JavaScript. It's a mutable API that's tied into the JavaScript garbage collector, uses inheritance (unlike some languages) and uses JavaScript values in method parameters and return values. The only way to access it (once a web page is loaded) is through JavaScript.

To interact with it from another language, you need at least an adapter layer that does foreign function calls to JavaScript, or you need to compile the entire language to JavaScript like Elm does. Elm works because Elm is specifically designed to compile to JavaScript and they put a lot of effort into making it smooth. (And bootstrap is part of the same JavaScript ecosystem.)

In theory you could do the same thing for Flutter by compiling some other language to Dart. It seems unlikely anyone would make the effort any time soon, though.

Regarding the Linux container, it's not directly related; I was just pointing out how someone might do Elm development on a Chromebook.
If anything is a meme, then memetics itself is. It's no more "impactful" than the observation that people chant team slogans, recite famous quotes, or use mnemonic devices. Name something memetics has impacted. Viral marketing? Nope, that would've happened with or without Dawkins. Etc.
Can a cryptocurrency protect Facebook from being broken up?
It doesn't work if you don't build a moat.
Using GitHub trending for each language look at new things each month.

Build something and think how would I scale this project to X capacity then rinse and repeat.
I don’t like the idea of combining law enforcement, suicide and anti-bullying under such a mediocre privacy policy. I would absolutely never install it and when my daughter is in school, I would heavily fight any effort to introduce this to her school system.
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I've never done Windows programming but AFAICT you don't use `int main()` on Win32 anyway, you write something like

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInst, LPSTR, int)

(where WINAPI is just a macro for __stdcall)

I also found a reference saying you can in fact use `int main()` if you want to, in a GUI subsystem Windows app, by using the Microsoft linker options /subsystem:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup, but in that case you're not writing a stdcall function anymore.

EDIT: I guess I should clarify, my previous comment was talking about cdecl functions, i.e. the default calling convention in C.
Strange, I can still call this up at the original address at the moment. Just in case: http://archive.is/lTgGj
Investors want to IPO when they think the time is right to get a high ROI, as soon as possible that might be.
The whole presentation is made to emotionally engage an audience of one. One nostalgic non-reader who cares fuck-all about science but who probably remembers those 70's vintage color plates and is all about big ego-driven projects - i.e. Mr. Space Force.

I don't believe for a second that Bezos thinks significant numbers of people living in floating habitats is happening any time soon if ever, but I do think he wants a bite at a contract to go to the moon, and everything about this media push down to the 2024 timeline (call me, mr president) is about pushing those buttons in one particular man's lizard brain.
The wrong event may have been cited, but the timeline was special. As https://www.npr.org/2019/04/11/712306713/12-years-of-disrupt... verifies, here is the order of events.

April, a famous video was released from inside a chopper that was mistakenly shooting journalists. May, Chelsea Manning was arrested for that. July, 75,000 documents were released about the Afghan war. August, the rape charges are filed. October, 400,000 documents about the Iraq war. November, the cable leak.

So the cable leaks did not come first. However there was lots of other stuff already released that could have motivated the US here.

And it is also quite possible that concern over the cable leaks was the motivation. You see, the US knew about everything that Chelsea Manning had already released, and had reason to believe that Wikileaks had it all and was releasing things in stages for maximum damage. (It turns out that a drip drip of bad news has much greater emotional impact on people than a single torrent.) Therefore they had the motivation to find ways to put pressure on Assange to NOT leak what he had. And what they did, didn't work.

Moving on, please check your assumptions about whether he should be held responsible. It is my belief that he is an example of selective enforcement of laws that should be more broadly enforced. Therefore my belief that he was targeted for other reasons is not in conflict with my belief that he should have been targeted. I just think that it is wrong that it takes a guy embarrassing a major military for the police to take a woman's complaints seriously.
One site that does appear to be looking is SlateStarCodex. "Meditations on Moloch" [1] and "How the West Was Won" [2] both grapple with the notion that ideas are supreme and people are just uncomprehending vessels for concepts that are larger than any particular individual.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/
Getting in on Google’s Game by Searching a Trillion Facts
Honestly, do people not learn about labor history somewhere in school?
are they BPA-free ?
US Courts have always had the power to compel testimony via subpoena. It is in fact the only way a US court can compel testimony from a witness.
What is written:
> Imagine tapping your phone on a scooter or a parking-meter and paying for it without signing up or downloading an app first.

What I read:

> Imagine putting your phone down on the bar and being charged $1000 by some anonymous dude that hid a NFC tag there while noone was looking.

Basically, the entire planet is now 'fair game' as a skimmer.
No, just an outlier example. A way to show that graphing things like this would make Tufte's teeth grind.
> If we take all the money the Netherlands spends on social security, welfare, pensions...

Okay...

> ... add extra money from increased taxes (make it flat 50-60%)

No. You can't presume anything about increased revenue from extra taxes. If you taxed income for any amount of work at 50% and you give every "household" 42,000€ (which I assume is livable in NL) you would drastically reduce the incentive to work and pay taxes, so your actual tax revenue goes down.

> The numbers are similar for other western economies.

The numbers generally say that if you pool all the social spending, you can redistribute it to everyone and it will pay for a subsistence level of living. However, a big part of that pool is pensions, which are liabilities in proportion to the amount paid by the individual. A lot of pensioners would be subsidizing people who never paid into the system. That's the main problem.
Hey just wanted to say that I like your style of writing. It's funny and spot on. It's actually much much more compelling to read your voice than the "inconvenient truth" style.

For all the people down voting, I suggest considering this voice as a weapon in the fight against climate change. It might be salty but there's virtue in it.
Yes.

It is crazy that people who get their insurance from an employer get a tax break (indirectly), while those that purchase it on the individual market do not. Also, it messes up the risk pool: more affluent people who get their insurance from work are bound to be more healthier than the poor schlubs who are not affluent enough to get insurance from their job. As an insurance company, I could get away with charging group plans much less than individual plans.

Switzerland, which is basically where the heritage foundation copied what would become RomneyCare/ObamaCare from, does not allow for group plans. You simply don't get your insurance from work, everyone is shoved into the same individual plan market (with some weird probably overthought exceptions, like Post docs....). This very important aspect is missing from the ACA, but would be impossible to remove politically, full on universal healthcare is much more likely.
>A fatal accident can cost a trucking company over 1mil USD

That's the deterrent for the trucker to not screwing up.
Dealing with tectonic activity on Earth seems much less difficult than all of the challenges of building on Mars.
H-1B Visa Court Case Could Curtail Restrictive USCIS Policies
Google News and Ranking Stories (2009)
The insurance industry is what makes medical care unfair and inefficient. So long as we allow health care to be a rentier cash cow nothing is going to fix this. Not the “free market” and not sticking government with the bill.
Large index weighted funds don't buy into IPOs until significantly after the fact.
The picture from someone who's done doesn't look so good.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazo...
there are other papers from as recent as the early 1990s which were used for receipts, in the US anyway, which also fade.
US employers also seem to have a strong preference for young single employees - my theory is that this is because older employees with families are much more expensive to employ due to insurance.
My 'social network' was LambdaMOO (well, earlier than 1998 I guess), and IRC.
Global Warming: How Hot, Is It Going to Get?
Vertex Data and Vertex Descriptors – Metal by Example
But "grain farms in the Midwest" is actually is a lot of people. Statistically, soybean farmers have almost the same tonnage output as cattle in the US, and corn is 4x that - so those "grain farmers" are a significant chunk of US farming.

And that is significant source of livelihood (and culture) for people in the midwest. Sure, different people think of different kinds of farmers when they hear the word, "farmer", however, for a sizable chunk of the US, that does actually mean grain (corn/soybeans) farmers.

And even 'smaller' operations have to upgrade their (shared) equipment at some point.
Honest question - how do you go 40 years and realize this now? I assume you've been doing this for your whole working life.
If they go private or acquired, you get the difference (positive or negative) between your short and the price at which this happened.

If they get delisted, you make a pure profit on your short.
This is precisely the problem - no government can enact "coordinated action" globally - especially not governments of countries bringing millions of citizens out of poverty, who want basic things that require energy like refrigeration.

People pretend there's some magic bullet here, but there just isn't. No coordinated action on climate change is possible, no one wants to move on this to the detriment of themselves or their own citizens. The only realistic fix is a technological one, we need cheap, clean power, carbon capture or some combination thereof. Anything short of that and we're still burning this thing to the ground, no matter what any one individual or even collective country does.
So the solution is to give all the power to one company and hope they do well by us?

Just because a problem is hard to solve it doesn’t mean that an authoritarian solution is acceptable.
Are you familiar with search engines?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/19/14664474/uber-sexism-alle...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/27/uber-fine...

Does it really need to be said about the law breaking? They've been sued so many times it's not funny.
That tends to not work so well when the product is a commodity.
If you think about it, insurance is there to protect you when something unlikely nonetheless occurs. Having your house broken into, your car stops functioning, or as in this case, getting ill.

So for the user (as opposed to the insurance company), the value of the insurance is not to on average be covered. The point is to always be ok if you get ill.

Where I'm getting at is that employment is a thing that isn't always a given. You're going to be between jobs at some point in your life, and you don't want a potential huge bill to wipe you out financially. Even if it is just for a short period, it ought to worry you that you aren't covered.

I get the feeling most of the debate just glosses over this with the average case, which is that most people are going to be just fine not being covered for a few months.
Nope! Linux desktop is still a PITA. Even Ubuntu won't start fully out of the box due to an Nvidia driver error on my machine. My partner's machine is still unable to even boot to tty1 because of some odd microcode error.

I love Linux to death, but I'm not afraid of the terminal and building from source. I can't imagine my parents or most of my friends really enjoying this sort of stuff. Just too frustrating if you don't live in the ecosystem day to day.
There is a great idea present here, which is simply this: Caching items to be delivered locally, but in whatever facilities a local delivery partner would provide (small home, small office, etc.).

I used to think that large retail store partners were the solution to this problem (that is, scaling deliveries beyond centralized warehouses, no matter how large).

But, this is clearly a much better solution because it opens a slew of additional storage/delivery possibilities to be determined by the local delivery providers...

It's sort of like taking a grand problem and outsourcing it to thousands of individuals or small businesses who then solve a small piece of that grand problem in whatever creative ways they can. (Also virtuous in this solution: Autonomy -- authority is presumably pushed downwards to the local providers for various package types, rather than being all centralized at Amazon's warehouses...)

So, brilliant Amazon, absolutely brilliant!
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

In my experience, most hobbyist programmers are fine writing scripts and other small programs but have no exposure to the sort of ideas that are necessary for making large programs. This course at least exposes you to a lot of those concepts.
Article is behind a paywall unfortunately. Any help? :)
Great, so you are an employee, and can sue for backwages and back-benefits. If the company specifies how the work is performed (rather than what work needs to be performed for compensation), you are an employee, basically full stop.

Actuually, you don't even need to sue. Just file your taxes as if you are an employee and the IRS will handle the rest.

EDIT: See here: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

> You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done). This applies even if you are given freedom of action.
Why are you assuming that the person who gave prior consent must be a woman?
Isn't that a different kind of "Systems Thinking"? This one is about feedback loops.

Hanselmanns is about operating systems stuff.
Insurance is annoying, but Physicians and healthcare workers have a legal license that drives up costs.

Do we need a 200k/yr gatekeeper to basic antibiotics? Or would an experienced nurse be able to figure out the difference between bacterial and viral?

Do we need a nurse cleaning patients? Or is that a job for unskilled labor?

Government licencing has gone too far, and has created artificially low supplies of health insurance workers. This was driven by incumbent healthcare workers.
I think the reason automation isn't taking over as quickly as expected isn't because the efficiency gains are small, but because the capital investment required to automate is often large, and because many of the jobs that haven't yet been automated are complicated to solve in the general case. (This machine, for example, only handles boxing; it can't actually pick products off the shelves because that's a very general problem that's more difficult to solve.)

There are also numerous other economic effects to consider, such as the increased activity from capital spending on automation equipment and software, and (as you pointed out) the economic losses from higher short-term unemployment.

My initial question was only made in reply to a reductionist and intellectually lazy statement implying that the company owner is the only one who benefits from automation. I asked that question in an attempt to get the other commenter to think more carefully about their position (the answer isn't "nowhere" by the way, as the very figures you yourself provided indicate that 70% of it goes directly back into the economy). Unfortunately it doesn't look like they ever replied, but nonetheless I think I've made my point.
The idea feels out of date because optimism about the future is out of date. More people are willing to believe that humanity should go extinct than believe that humanity should colonize space. The author’s foil for Gerard O’Neill is none other than Rachel Carson, whose advocacy against pesticides has directly led to countless human deaths from otherwise-preventable diseases like malaria. Instead of someone like O’Neill who tries to figure out how humanity can grow and flourish throughout the solar system, our hero is the savior of the mosquito.
Plus you get people are less interested in “work life balance”, and generally don’t have as high of salary expectations.

I’ve been involved in hiring decisions where HR brought up the healthcare costs to complain, then stated clearly we can’t use that as a criteria for hiring.

I have doubts that human brains can separate out that kind of statement from our actions.
Google Docs?
I've been working in my little corner of the world to re-frame the conversation. Socializing medicine isn't about restricting your freedom to choose your physician, it's the freedom from. Freedom from fear of losing your job, freedom from fear of having to change your doctor if you do, freedom to pick any doctor (they're all in-network), freedom from fear of starting a new business, freedom from fear of death and bankruptcy if anything goes wrong -- and it does, to all of us, eventually. Socialized medicine is freedom, and private medicine just isn't.
Yes it's a vicious circle. If you have any type of illness mental illness and have poor work history or worse currently unemployed then it is tough to impossible to find a full time job with insurance. I am 43 essentially unemployable due to a poor work history, on mass health which is second class coverage. The newest and better anti depressants are not covered so I continue on Prozac, Lexapro which make me unmotivated and indifferent.
Makes me think that the "right" is insincere, they say they are "pro-business" but really they are only "pro BIG business".

How can we know? Because if they were pro small business they would be pro universal healthcare, so that it would be easy to start your own business.
I imagine they will have thought of this — there's probably an authorization step like Face/Touch ID or entering your Apple ID password.
That's the computer's problem, not the printer's. If rendering time really becomes an issue, it can start the rendering process while the humans are twiddling about with card reader terminals and making small talk.
Details:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-204

Link to Oral Argument Audio:

https://apps.oyez.org/player/#/roberts10/oral_argument_audio...
The concept of monitoring. This simple, obvious concept changed a lot how I think of software maintenance. I usually use slack but that's an implementation detail.
>Will there slight increase in safety failures ? maybe, I accept that.

So you want to deregulate commercial truck drivers because you feel costs of getting/maintaining a CDl outweigh the safety issues?

Do you have any insight on this at all? Have you ever driven a commercial truck for a living? Do you even know the cost of obtain/maintain a CDL? The average cost of a commercial trucking accident? The average decrease in commercial truck accidents via-a-vis trucking school?

How about commercial pilots? Should we do away with pilot license because the liensure increases business costs notwithstanding increase in safety failures?
Paper, sure, but this is thermal paper, so no ink is used. You could arfue that the chemical coating on the paper is equivalent in resource cost to ink.
Apple do this and I’ve shopped at some other places that also do it.

I don’t care about a printed receipt. Find a way for me to have proof of purchase without.
Your argument is essentially "the internet is fair". I was arguing against my parent, who basically said "the internet does not have to be fair". They are different arguments.

That said, the obvious counter-point to your point is that conservative sources are ranked lower because they are intentionally deprioritized by platforms like Google and Alexa. I'm not sure that I believe that, but the current state of affairs is not always self justifying.
> And it so turns out that finding and surfacing the best content aligns well with the number of people who link to that content, which creates a great product for Google, which aligns with Google making a profit.

The lines between Google "watching the market" and Google "commanding the market" are very blurry. If you don't get featured, nobody knows that you exist, nobody links to you, you don't get featured. Otoh: if you get featured, everybody sees you, people link to you, you get featured.
A real hard problem here is distinguishing between a lack of discipline and ADHD. Maybe that's kind of unknowable.
1.) Adderall.
2.) See 1.
> tweak one little thing

> [you] have installed a third-party App Store on it.

I believe that is more than "one little thing". Here is why: Plantiffs say that Apple's decision to be the sole source of apps for the iPhone is monopolisitc. In your scenario, the purchaser is buying apps from a third party, not affiliated with Google. So, no, a third party cannot be possibly "legally Google". Critically in your scenario, "you were just using an arbitrary Android device" and "Google, to them, is just the payment-processor they chose to use" and most critically "they could have just-as-well used PayPal or Stripe." So, I believe the facts of your case are very very far from the facts of the Apple case.

Hypothetical Google Case:
- Third Party App Store
- Multiple competing payment solution

Actual Apple Case:
- Only one app store by order of manufacturer/OEM/OS Vendor
- Only one payment processor (who is the app store)

In the scenario with Google, google is no more involved in the purchase than mastercard is in your purchase at Walmart.

In the scenario with Apple, the app developer is no more involved with your purchase than the book author is on Amazon (when you buy directly from Amazon). You purchase FROM APPLE.
Unit testing, mocking, and various other testing techniques.

Why? Any project of sufficient complexity is very hard to test. If all you're doing is code -> build -> run to debug your code, you can very easily break something that's not in your immediate attention.

The problem is that good unit testing is hard, and time consuming. It can be so time consuming, that unless you can really plan in advance how you test, you could spend more time writing test code than real application code. (This is what happens when writing professional, industrial-strength code.)

So, when a hobby project becomes sufficiently interesting enough; such that the code will be so complicated that your code -> build -> run loop won't hit most of your code, you should think about how to have automated tests. They don't have to be "pure, by the book" unit tests, but they should be an approach that can hit most of your program in an automated manner.

You don't need to do "pure" mocking either. If you're writing something that calls a webservice, you could write a mock webserver and redirect your program to it. If you're writing something that works with pipes, you could have a set of known files with known results, and always compare them.

The goal is that you should cover most of your program with code -> build -> tests; and only do code -> build -> run for experimentation.