skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fresh graduate from uni so I'd say that I don't have that much experience. My last years working on the side of studies using Python really made me prefer strongly typed languages like Haskell, Rust, Elm etc. My experience is that the compiler almost always finds my small errors and would-be-bugs which Python exposes at runtime (crashes with e.g. None-type errors).

What would you say the benefits are with dynamic typing?
Startup Offers Hackers a Reward to Break Its Consumer Data Encryption
Yes, but Javascript developers aren't functional.

In either sense of the word.
Unlike the cartels, the Venezuelan government doesn't have to kill journalists in retaliation for a published story, they can kill the story.

That doesn't mean Mexico is as bad a place to live as Venezuela.
Why the New York Public Library Has 7 Floors of Stacks with No Books
Thank you! That's the plan since the onset as soon as I have some time to turn this into not a glorious hack that basically only runs on my machine. Just the Excel and OpenDocument formula parser (using PEG via treetop in Ruby, can't recall what I used for Go, got a Python thing too) could be very useful to some already.
Step 1) outsource low paying positions to temp/service companies. Step 2) pay all employees at least $70k.

This is a tough problem to solve but nice they are trying. Paying a receptionist or cleaning person $70k doesn’t make much sense because it’s way above market rate. But outsourcing to a company paying $11/hour doesn’t fit into the “everybody makes a good amount” message.
The latest you can download offline might be this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2095...

(Best to get a copy while you still can...)
Constitution doesn't protect me if I'm not a citizen. For example US can tapped the phone of Angela Merkel.
Richard Wolff would be proud. A company that actually values all its employees. However, he would advocate the company to be OWNED by its employees, in which case this would be a likely outcome already, not surprising. It's only surprising under capitalism.

Here is another take completely:

https://qbix.com/blog/2016/11/17/properly-valuing-contributi...
Might it be cheaper/easier/more ecofriendly to print in the destination country?

(Which probably might not be possible for any country, but for example in Europe it might work pretty well. Many printers offer the services you'd need I think. Or just one printer per continent might also be ok.)

Although there might be other problems of course.
Discussed a bit yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963291
I think people are paid based on supply and demand. I don’t think it’s accurate to say this is the person’s worth as it’s easily confused with other factors.
Who pays the developers?
You can see the OSS and Free offerings at https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions. Real question is what are the Open Distro is offering:

* Alerting - you can use ElasticAlert

* Security - Search Guard

* SQL - https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql

There very little reason (IMO) for users to a choose "Open Distro" except that it comes as an AWS image.
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I don't really see how the service mesh solves eventual consistency. You might call a service which handles all the tasks asynchronously similarly to a message in a message broker system.

Service discovery is also inherent in the routing rules itself when you use something like AMQP for example.

Observability might be something that the broker system lacks of I agree.
Only able to read the first article (2nd two are verboten for EU users), but all I read is that a private company was implicated, not a national level single buyer (such as the NHS in the UK).
Self-driving trucks begin mail delivery test for U.S. Postal Service
Perfectly on point.

US companies have now been shown for what they really are: an extension of the US government.

As such those companies can and will be used to make political points and advance US interests.

Caveat emptor: using US technology has big risks.
And so we’re still denying women opportunity for the sake of the comfort of men.
You really telling me that they both authoritarian?
Could you elaborate on the “most” part? Coming from my experience on Rails over the past couple of years, I’m quite happy with what I’ve found so far.
Pharo is looking less and less like Smalltalk with every release. I looked at the typed slots a while back and they just look alien. Types in an extreme late-binding language?
Hackers can steal your identity and bank details from a coffee machine
Lol, instead of one developer now you need two developers one who fucks with spread sheets and one who jiggers the shitty tool to make the web app.

See basically "no dev needed", perfect for old timers who can't code. Or not.

private void placeAnOrder() {
listSheet.unprotect("");
Range costCell = spreadsheet.getRangeByName(exchangeSheet.getSheetId(), COST_CELL);
if (!costCell.toString().isEmpty()) {
Double cost = costCell.getRangeValue().getCellValue().getDoubleValue();
if (cost > 0) {
Double amount = spreadsheet.getRangeByName(exchangeSheet.getSheetId(), "amount").getRangeValue().getCellValue().getDoubleValue();
Range orderTable1stRow = spreadsheet.getRange(BOOK_NAME, listSheet.getSheetId(), "C6:G6");
orderTable1stRow.getEntireRow().insert(Range.InsertShiftDirection.ShiftDown, Range.InsertFormatOrigin.RightOrBelow);
orderTable1stRow.setValues(DateUtil.getExcelDate(new Date()), cost, destinationCurrency, destinationRate, amount);
}
}
listSheet.protect(PROTECTION);
}
Have successfully completed tasks call home to mama. No call no work. Easy.

Alan Kay and fellow minded et al. are looking at Biology and to an extent Physics as the successful approach to pervasive computation at large.

It is the desirable feature set of the biological organism that informs that perspective: self-healing, self-regulating, regenerative systems operating in an open-ended operational context.

So that is the holy grail. Or at least one of them. Clearly biological systems can do all that. Can we do this with software? That's what Alan Kay wants us to find out.
Experience moving from Enzyme to react-testing-library
Question about MS strategy: why would someone use this over Chromium or Firefox?
Heh. I've still got a gen7 happily chugging away - it is happier streaming 1080p x264 rather than x265, but aside from that we never notice it's so feeble. That's easy enough - we only rip x264 now. It's heavily used, ZFS performs flawlessly - running on FreeNAS, and runs a surprising amount of plugins and jails without issue.

I haven't looked at gen 8 or 10 - where was 9? - since the arbitrary HP switch in policy to say you need an active support contract to download a BIOS update. For most people buying a MicroServer that's BIOS updates in first year only, which is far too hostile.

I'm more likely to self-build using a U-NAS 8 bay or something else with more bays next time around, or pick up a rack off ebay.
Focusing on integration tests: oh, the test fails, something is wrong somewhere... I will debug all layers for the next week, as we simply don't have too many tests covering the internal code.

I like to have both.
Yeah wow, that's pretty bad. It looks like it thinks you are the thing that should be stationary and it's stabilizing the rocks with you as the reference point. Nice climbing by the way!

In the same vein I wish that Google would just let me view all the photos I had taken on my phone.

I almost exclusively use the "Camera" Album in the Photos app on my Pixel 2, but some update seemed to irreversibly back up and delete most (but not all?) of my photos. Now when trying to view all these backed up photos online (as there doesn't seem to be a way to get them back onto my phone) the feed is polluted with other random images from Whatsapp, etc. with no way to filter any of them out. And now I can't easily show anyone anything I took on my phone from a few months ago!

It's annoying because I quite like the Pixel 2 camera, but definitely agree with you that it should have more "dumb" options.
OneDrive vs. iCloud Data Security: Which One Is Better?
Persistent memory is going to a big thing in the cloud computing space in the coming years. Without an answer to Optane AMD is going to have a tough time competing with Intel.
Yep, and new old stock of the gen8 were listed around £400 last I checked. Any word if there'll be a new model that improves on the gen10?
Finally, IE come back to Mac, since IE5 in Mac OS 9.
Windows itself is not a bastion of privacy.
Court Case Challenging Police Use of Facial Recognition Begins
TDD brings little business value and isn’t worth it
Salesforce database blunder outage enters day three as fix falters
I think bureaucracy is not specific to academia but is rather something that just arises when a group of people try to coordinate work among themselves.
Some amount of catastrophe is baked in. Coal is bad, but there's a lot of places in the world where coal + global warming is better than no coal without global warming. And some of those simultaneously have precarious economic situations and nuclear weapons. We're only going to nudge them so hard. Honestly, I'm impressed with how well it's going. I suppose we have a different perspective on what we think is actually achievable from a geopolitical standpoint.
Do poor lifestyle hampers male fertility?
> An alternative would be to basically do the same as is usual in set theory. That is, have an axiom that states that an infinte set exists. (...)

I was not aware of this construction, thanks! The only thing I knew is the construction of natural numbers from the empty set, by iteratively building singletons.
This comment nicely sums up one of the things that's wrong with the Apple ecosystem --- apparently, whatever backwards-compatibility Apple does manage to have gets dismissed by developers because "it's old".

...and then they wonder why they can't find the old docs that actually have what they need. Apple thinks the developers don't care, and vice-versa. It's a cycle of negative feedback.

On most other platforms, the assumption is that things will not change between versions, and changes are explicitly mentioned and documented when they do occur, but Apple and its developers seem to have the exact opposite mentality.
At least once a week, during a standup or other meeting where you are reporting progress, describe what you have accomplished and for which you are proud. This can also include getting information or collaborating with other departments. While this won't make others around you more emotionally sensitive it will build your reputation among your colleagues and also give each of them something they can talk about with you if they are so inclined, which they probably are since I am sure you are not alone.
Just a reminder that Nortel, an ex-Canadian giant was “spied to death” by Huawei back in early 2000s. The stolen tech is the foundation of Huawei.
see also http://docs.xlwings.org/en/stable/rest_api.html for the Python version of the REST api. It doesn't require any VBA...
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I assume they bet on people who want to use the Chromium engine without all the Google stuff and corporate people who use macs but work with MS infrastructure (like Exchange and Sharepoint).
I have been running an N36L with FreeNAS for 7 years now. I don't keep it running all the time, so it's not really a "NAS" anymore, but more of a backup system since I configured the disks to use RAID-Z.
I didn't recheck your calculation (assuming it's correct).

The problem often arises because it makes more sense for the mother of a baby to take a longer leave than the father (e.g. breast feeding).

Therefore, that time shouldn't count as missed work experience (although it factually is).

One can discuss if 16 months is the right time frame (or maybe say for 6 months it doesn't count as missed work experience, anything above that does). That's a different discussion.
>Must be written in any dialect of Lisp. This includes, but is not limited to Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and Clojure.

from https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2018

From the last 2-3 Jams, IMHO, you can see a tendency towards exo-lisps as many entries were done with Fennel or some in Urn.
You've presented yourself as a great example of the unfortunate misunderstanding that has come from people mistakenly calling GNU+Linux distributions Linux distributions. You were not able to recognize that this was a GNU distribution when then they called it GNU, until they mentioned Linux which is one thing Guix distributes. Then you suddenly (mis)understood what it was, and proceeded to blame the author for confusing you by speaking correctly instead of sharing the same misunderstanding.
> a good alternative to chrome for those sites that support nothing else.

Edge is literally Chrome with Microsoft slapped on top of it.
Same here.

> Also, that specific point makes me think of sales which just makes me shudder

Yeah. I maintain that currently, the marginal RoI on sales&marketing is greater than on actually doing something useful - it's too easy to bullshit people into giving you money, so making money is only weakly correlated with doing something useful.

(I know this hinges on the definition of "useful" and I haven't put enough time to clarify it even for myself, but roughly: for me, something useful means making people happier or suffer less, or increasing the pool of knowledge about the world humanity has. Making people suffer, or part with their money for very suboptimal reasons, has negative utility.)
If Microsoft integrates all the functionality of the original Edge into Chromium Edge, then it will be a great browser to use on their Surface line of tablet computers. Without those features, it’s a non-Google Chrome with a large company backing its feature updates and contributing to the codebase’s continued improvement, along with syncing features and potential better integration with Windows. Firefox has a lot of good features still, but its small usage amount has made some development budgets ignore it or drop support of it on some sites I have visited.
It's much faster. Microsoft ripped out about 30 different Google-specific components, I think @ericlaw tweeted the list a little while ago.

Additionally Microsoft pay attention to developers. Chrome Devtools has has a Headers tab, with response headers and then request headers. There's a seperate tab called 'Response' which only contains the response body. I fed this back to Google (suggesting a request and response tab with headers and body) and (per Google) the response was from an engineer saying they personally liked it so therefore there was no reason to change it. Microsoft's feedback was they're actually looking at more logical layouts.
Well if it comes pre-installed with windows then that's one big reason. As a power user, I'd probably install another browser. But given that this is basically Chrome, there's not a lot of reason for an average user to switch.
Actually, that `Inductive nat` is precisely a natural number object in terms of categorial semantics - it's worth mentioning that NNO's in categorial semantics are unique up to isomorphism. That "Inductive" syntax in Coq is actually a key part of the system, it's involved in defining things as basic as equality and product- or sum-types. This is quite different from how things would be done in a "standard" set theory.
Not really. There are many reasonable places to start learning in the edifice of mathematics, without needing to be aware of the whole structure.

For example, you can do a lot of math without knowing the definition of real number.
This is Chromium. Maybe you mean Chrome. Someone would use this over Chrome if someone doesn’t want to be surveilled by Google. Of course now you’ll be surveilled by MS. It is better when your surveillance dossier is split among multiple entities.
I see your point, but I'll add that telemetry is focused on making sure stuff works, whereas selling ads based on your data is focused on making money from you.

Telemetry can be disabled on Enterprise: https://www.kapilarya.com/allow-or-prevent-telemetry-in-wind... but I agree it would be good for Microsoft to allow this to be disabled in Pro.
I know that updates were not installing when I rebooted. It may have been checking for updates, but it definitely wasn't installing them.

To recover, I booted from an installer image on a USB drive and tried to mount the partition R/W and it hung. Since the installer is a known-good environment, this rules out breaking my system the way you describe. This was a corrupt BTRFS filesystem.

One possibility is that because I was using a rolling-release distribution, I may have gotten a version of BTRFS with a bug in it or minor changes in the BTRFS code as the system got updated eventually got the filesystem into a state that rendered it unable to mount R/W. Either scenario doesn't inspire confidence.
An insightful and well illustrated perspective.
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"She's getting paid based on years of working experience and those 16 months can't count towards it of course."

This is basically an arbitrary choice, you're still paying their salary so why not continue everything else? Similarly a male engineer might want to take 16 months paternity leave.

Allowing 16 month long full-paid leave for new parents would be an amazing policy though. This also seems like an issue with this example as IME there are very, very few companies this generous.
rpi3b+ got pretty good upgrades for networking and usb speeds compared to rpi3b. But sure, it is not the fastest thing in town.
No. They're working on a big privacy dashboard which blocks tracking cookies as well as other stuff: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/whats-next

Video: https://edgetipscdn.microsoft.com/insider-site/images/whatsn...
Well, this is where social media and social justice brought us. People are so afraid of each other that they actively try to barricade themselves in real life.

We thought we are opening doors, but we are actually closing them, one by one.

Instead of following a simple 'live and let live' rule, we are now actively hunting for the slightest mistakes and missteps. Humans can't be humans anymore, there is no room for error, or mistake. Even if the court rules in favour of the accused, the branding they can get on social platforms breaks their careers and it might drive them to suicide. Where mobs demand the employer to fire said individual is just insane.

But why are we even surprised, when just telling a tasteless joke counts as an offence nowadays? Where the micro-aggression craze is consuming everybody and some forms of speech are labeled as an act of violence. People are more afraid of saying something offending to someone than having an office shooter marching through the door and gunning down people.

Walking away was never more an appropriate response as it is right now. The reward is minuscule compared to the risk one can take in these situations on a personal level.
Why not just use Brave then?
How come that every single Microsoft application for MacOS requires an installation? It makes me suspicious that they're gunking things up unnecessarily.
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Women's time producing offspring is necessary for society and men should not have an advantage because that responsibility is of the gentler sex.

Your train of thought is not necessarily right or wrong, it's simply logical based on your assumption salary is a function of working experience.

Few companies truly pay on working experience, many pay on favoritism, sexism, productivity, luck, loyalty and other things.

But in a world where companies pay, promote, and reward on experience, let's further examine the disparity of men v. women.

Few would argue that in a world enthralled with grow, women producing offspring is a necessity for the human race.

If a woman is participating in required activities for the furthering of overall society, why should they be penalized for that?

So, I think your train of thought is wrong, but because I disagree with your premise that people should be paid on experience.
There are millions of tons of goods entering the United States every year. How exactly would you intend to enforce this perfectly?

That's like saying that websites shouldn't have copyright violations on them, since every single piece of content uploaded to them can be manually reviewed and approved to prevent violations. Good luck with that.
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Who Is Scott Alexander?
There was an article [1] posted the other day that cited "Scott Alexander" as if he were a psychiatrist who goes by that name.

> ... wrote the psychiatrist Scott Alexander

The blog being cited is "Slate Star Codex", which is an anagram for the name.

Some commenters in the other thread claim his identity and credentials are easy to discover, however I don't find this to be true. Does anyone know?

Also, for such a widely shared blog, I wonder why the about page [2] would intentionally mislead readers into believing it is a real name,

> SSC is the project of Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist on the US West Coast.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/waste-1000-studies/589684/

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
I don't know what the current MS doc situation is, but years ago when I left Windows dev to move to iOS I really missed the MS docs. The big reason was that they had tons of examples. I used the XPath MS docs for many years because they had so many clear examples.
This article is really light on details.
Too bad it's in German
This is the exact same "War on Drugs" logic that's been failing us for decades now. Time to try out solutions based on a better theory, like legalization.
Motivation is irrelevant if I don't want to share any data as a user.

edit: Besides that, the telemetry service has caused multiple problems on different systems already. I just don't see any results from it compared to previous versions of windows.
The title here is clickbait, pure and simple. It's neither the original title, nor the conclusion.

The wrapup at the end says:

> Now you see why developers insist on TDD. This isn’t only a “cool tool” from a technical point of view. It is more like a way to make the project more robust, and your business more profitable.
The "5x" difference is a measure of how wrong chip designs from the two companies are.

Intel being five times more careless and/or incompetent and/or malicious has implications beyond practical performance degradation.
I can instantly rat out a web app, instead of a native app. They scroll in the wrong places, don't react instantly, have weird or very uncommon widgets, look like a page is loading, etc.

If you don't care about high quality of UI, then sure.
I think the point is it doesn't matter where the company is located or what it's involved in, if it's proprietary you have no control of being left in the dust or not.
Cross-platform bookmark and extension synchronization is a cool feature that this would allow me to do.