skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never dealt with anything seriously distributed. Are they running full browsers or simple scripts? Do they execute JS, do they load images? Do they perform other actions on the site, or will they show up with their initial request be a login request? Do they simulate keyboard and mouse events?
I'm an applied mathematician that worked in those days with chemists, microbiologists, hydrologists, civil engineers, electronic engineers, physicists and almost every darn flavour of critter _except_ computer scientists.

Learnt a lot of interesting stuff.

Most of their code was utter shit to read and maintain... but then so is that from most recent comp sc graduates...
Structurelessness must be distinguished from established structures with a flat hierarchy. Codifying a non-hierarchical structure with explicit rules and norms counters the above situation where a few people start to become dominant through more informal means, and everyone else is left confused.

Flat hierarchies are not necessarily structureless and need not suffer from the drawbacks described above.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653538
Ah, the good old, "Read this pile of books", call me when you done style of onboarding.
Are you referring to it being a solid? Silicon dioxide would be a gas at some temperature - likewise CO2 is solid below -78.5c. Extraterrestrial life doesn't have to be anywhere near the same temperatures as us.

Also I don't see why you couldn't have an organism that "breathes" solid material.
Anything to help STAY asleep in the night?

I've lost the ability to sleep in one sitting and it irks me.
The fact that DJI releases an educational robot for kids that has a working cannon feels super icky from my western perspective. In China do they think it's a great idea? Is the culture gap that big, or is there another reason?

Also, how long until someone recreates the famous square scene with a lego character and 3 of these?

EDIT: This video from the promo page where it is hunting down a child - https://www1.djicdn.com/assets/uploads/v/1b34c0e069531a08639...

This would have been great without the cannon, with the cannon it feels... off.
Coincidentally, a paper was published today in Reviews of Modern Physics on this topic:

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.021002
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007

It seems like a fun time for this field
Don't you have to have pretty high performance needs for this class to make a performance difference? Unless it's called multiple thousand times per second I don't see it making much of a difference.
The morality, or lack thereof is your perspective and yours only, it is not an absolute fact.

What is a fact is that some are perfectly content having others pay for services they use while, at the sane time, trying to weave a fake moral framework with which to justify their actions.

Nobody is forcing anyone to use these sites, and you don’t have to.
> no one wants to order out for an egg and a couple slides of toast in the morning.

Why do you think that is? To me, having eggs and toast 'magically' appear in front of me when I get up in the morning sounds wonderful and I am really not sure why everyone wouldn't want that if the infrastructure to provide it was there.

While the actual act of making an egg and some toast is not terribly difficult, everything else that goes along with it, like having to plan the meal ahead of time such that you have the supplies on hand, starts to add up into a big job. A big job that I cannot imagine why someone who doesn't love cooking would want to take on unnecessarily.

I can see how it may be necessary under the status quo as we lack the technology to really deliver on the vision, but our discussion is not about the status quo, but rather a hypothetical future where industry has figured out to produce quality prepared food at scale such that the costs start to approach that of the raw materials.
tbf arcteryx is worn by lots of people in uni/college too
Did a course on a new fangled laser printer that printed _all _ the payslips for _all_ government employees of the time/place.

It took a fair number of pages to get up to speed and a largish chunk of a box of paper just to stop.

Postcript? Ha.

You're joking.
"More Fun" has more implications on productivity, defect rates, and quality than you give it.

You can't underestimate how much the motivation of developers and their enjoyment and engagement with a project, feature, or any given code change actually impacts the overall delivery.

Now, if you don't find it more fun, more engaging and more motivating, disregard this. But my point is, any language, tooling, environment, team culture, etc., which will bring you "more fun" will actually make you deliver way better software as a side effect.
Damn, a younger version of me would have loved this thing. The remote-controlled cars we had in the 90's were downright primitive in comparison.
The person selling to you pays the person who represents your interests? How is this not a conflict of interest?
> Sorry for calling you old.

Whippersnappers these days are so gosh darn polite.

Writing C code on a SPARCstation and Green Hills compiler/debugger as an undergrad in 1989, I got used to step-forward, and step-back, in a GUI environment.

I had no idea that I'd never see that magic "step-back" button again, in C, C++, MFC, Java, Scala, or a litany of scripting languages and development environments.

Other people have touched on it, but you could be proficient in literally all the programming languages back then. There were less than 20. The later explosion of languages and techniques in common use can be overwhelming, but has stretched the spectrum available to our craft.
You can disable a single input field from autocomplete

`autocomplete="off"`
@sullivan You can get full-time employment even though formal education is required but sometimes not mandatory. Visit https://angel.co. Try to build up your networks and show up your product and revenue in social media this will help you to land up your next full time job. Wish you good luck.
day before WWDC:

was rocking the 6

day after WWDC SwiftUI announcement:

look ma, shiny new xr lol
We should just do the right thing no matter what everybody else is doing. That's called leadership.
Other people doing bad things does not negate that Muslims also do bad things. I hate this deflection/whataboutism as if it means anything.

On another note,

>Muslims are being killed in Palestine by Israel and still Muslims are terrorists.

>US attacked Afghanistan for oil and still Muslims are terrorists.

>US threatening to attack Iran and still Muslims are terrorists.

You can talk about and criticize all three of these things freely if you want, without worrying about being retaliated against physically by extremists or being censored by platforms who are afraid of the lashback if they fail to do so as Muslims are somehow a protected minority.
I wonder if this works with Jupyterhub-spawned notebooks, definitely want to try.
Clearly you haven't taken the MUNI on a regular basis. The last thing we need is an incompetent government agency taking over yet another method of transportation.
I strongly disagree. These are the lower priced, more scrappy competitors. I think they'll reduce competition, especially toward lower priced customers.
ZeroPrestige
Sounds like the answer is to increase the response size for failed login requests. At $12.5/G, if you blow up your response to a mega byte, they'll spend about a cent per try - close to the rate they'll need to pay to have recaptchas solved by humans.
Yes it stands for member. The notation had been used in conventions like Hungarian notation (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation) and WinApi.
Or writing amazing CGI scripts in perl that did amazing things before I realized I had to maintain aforementioned perl scripts.

Turned to shit pretty rapidly, but for a day or three I was wondrously happy.
From the 80s I miss the variety of computer systems at the consumer level. Apple ][, C64, Tandy Model 3/4 and the CoCo, OS/9 and more. When it became clear everything would converge to x86, that made me sad. The world is just that much more boring without variety.

I miss programming in assembly. Slapping together frameworks with some sample code from Stack Overflow just doesn't provide the same mental satisfaction.

I miss interviewing in the 90s. No white board algorithm puzzles or such nonsense. Just a conversation to see if your interests matched the role and you're hired.

(I guess I don't miss the low salaries which were on par with any office workers in non-tech fields, nothing like today. But the good side was that everyone was in tech for the sheer love of it, not to make a buck.)

But what I truly miss (nostalgia aside) is when Silicon Valley used to be about technology. The big names in Silicon Valley were all actual technology companies: Sun, SGI, HP (the good original HP, not the ink maker). The product was the technology and the culture reflected that. Engineers were in charge and the goal was to make better technology.

Today the product is advertising and the goal is just to drive more eyeballs. Engineers have become commoditized and micromanaged (agile) by PMs who are driven by advertising goals. (PMs as we know them today did not exist.) Except for Apple, none of the big names today (FAANG) are tech companies anymore.
On what concerns the Spectrum range, there were some pseudo C compilers that you could type in, but there were basically toys given the 48KB space.

With the 128KB +3A model you could use CP/M, which had a better compiler available, still a pseudo C toy compiler versus the real thing on UNIX.

We only used such compilers for homework assignments.
In my experience, the vast majority of spam bots don’t run JavaScript, so simply setting a hidden input to a specific value on key down and checking for said value server side has prevented 99%.
Apple Engineers Explain $999 Mac Pro Stand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58VJ6v54KU4
Scientists create a lifelike material that has metabolism and can self reproduce
Today in stupid, pointless redesigns: Mozilla destroys one of the best icons out there, replaces the Firefox logo with a generic swirly likeness of it.

Mozilla should fire their design department and shut down all the stupid side projects. Just make a good browser, that's all we're asking for.
I've been using the Jupyter AppMode plugin for a few years, it has been very useful for internal tools.
Voilà looks similar, with more sheen, it's going to enable true rapid SPA development.
Oh, also: personal computers in the 80s booted into a BASIC prompt. It was a terrible language to cut your teeth on, but it was there, right in front of you, and there were magazines and books (at the library and local book store, on dead trees), that taught fun things (like how to animate sprites, or set half your screen to graphics mode, or how to poke the midi controller into croaking out something beepy).
The fight for Freedom is constant and never ending. I’m a bit of a pessimist in this case. Since 9/11, anything became a reason to take away individual liberty and we slowly moved towards an authoritarian utopia.
Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in.

And then walk down the corridor to the terminal room to turn thoughts into programs and/or ask the other guys or gals.

Strangely enough there were more ladies around in those days.

Miss that.
It may have been dues with some sort of credit. They basically ate out and did all family functions there if I recall.
Cashless Society = Surveillance and No Privacy
Webpack CDN Plugin
Or at the very least, why not Clojure? I'm unaware of any advantage CL has over it at this point.
As seen in the movie Her.
Setting the Salesforce/Tableau Acquisition in Context
The language will recognise it in a future version by default, or a from future import can be used now.

mypy isn't behind (here), it's ahead.
Is it possible to have a proper compile time ACL for C++?

Arguably the Badge pattern as presented in the article is just an honor system that provides zero security, since it's trivial to forge a fake Badge: https://repl.it/repls/BountifulQuerulousCron
Seems to me this would interfere with the accessibility of the website for those that use screen readers.
American corporations don't need a special encouragement to increase censorship whatsoever. Google has been censoring searches in China for ages.
Lucky Github.
Erica is an incredible founder, met her few times in early days of Bitnami at OSCON, Portland.
Same here. I only log in through Tor and I'd never have imagined HN uses ReCAPTCHA if it wasn't for people suggesting that.
I am usually 100% behind you on your attempts to moderate, but I'm not sure I follow you here. But thank you for doing what you do!

In this case it doesn't seem to be a generic political tangent, but specifically addressing what appears to be bias in the report.

I found the post informative and adding context, but then, I'm probably politically aligned with the GP. Which certainly colors my view. :)
Or "poke" into the interpreter's ram region to do crazy things like shifting the string store to overlay the graphics ram and clearing the screen faster than any other technique by creating new blank strings and then poke the original values you peek'd out of it back.
Checked my history. Before I opened the matrix link in the top left iirc( mobile)
It took me to the try now page. Maybe not, but that’s where I ended up
Obviously your government has to not be a disaster before this will work.
Grab a look at the FDO and AutoFDO sections from GCC's wiki:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tutorial

You'll also find it's referred to as Profile Guided Optimization, there's docs here for clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#profile-guided-...
Are the Good Old days before computers became those things the secretary didn't quite know how to use.... it was downhill all the way from there.
NASA's Mars 2020 is set to collect samples and place them in a capsule for later pickup; NASA and ESA have announced collaboration on a separate sample return mission to pick up the samples left behind. Lets them save collection hardware weight on the return mission.
I only login through Tor and I never encounter it.
I have worked in several Swedish companies, and I prefer the Swedish approach of not having several layers of hierarchy, but I really don't prefer the Swedish approach of just about everything needing full consensus, or being a total democracy.

Basically I recognise the problems described in the article.
I think the idea is to have multiple columns on screen (like some print magazine and newspaper layouts) so each paragraph is still 40-80em like you say, but you just see more of them at once. (this was roughly the Windows 8 layout guidance)
Sometimes, clever little patterns like that are useful to get stuff done in time. However, it that case it definitely smells a lot. Also, the global singleton stinks.

To me this is a violation of the Interface Segregation Principle. I think the author went the right way to fix it, but not far enough.

He added a parameter to segregate the device registration operations from other operations. It works, but the segregation is artificial : you still need a Device object (which seems to be used by a lot of classes, another smell, god object ?)

Instead of asking for an entire Device object, register_device should ask for a different type, specific to that operation, like « NewDevice », « UnregisteredDevice », etc. This object would depend on very specific information only available at the device creation. Now, if another developer tried to call register_device, he would need to create a weird object that he never heard of, with parameters he cannot even provide.

Thoughts ?
No, they'll just have poor service from not enough towers and spectrum.
Cloud City would have no access to raw materials for ISRU, and still have to deal with (low-pressure-gradient) sealing and wind forces. In terms of engineering, easier to build a self-contained environment in a place where the only environmental interactions are heat loss and some dust, and where you can use local materials to make oxygen, concrete, and metals.
That point of the example wasn't demonstrate definitively whether the government has moral authority to sell exclusivity. (That's obviously disputable whereas the lawn-chair example is not.) The point was to show that Lyft isn't necessarily entitled to anything just because they have a signed a contract, as you suggested. Rather, you would actually have to dispute jMyles's claim on moral authority.
Isn’t this exactly the problem that categories in Objective C solve? Why not adopt that pattern versus this “Badge” thing?
Oh, also: I made fun of my friend who got a 1200 baud modem.

I mean, obviously, why do you need more than 300? You can't read text faster than 300 baud.
I think 1. is very good In most companies the rational decision is to go into management because you make more money. If that incentive is removed I think we will have better managers and individual contributors because they could choose their path without financial preasure.
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

- Theodore Dalrymple
> Trying to make modern users happy with '90s era tech would be impossible and deeply painful.

Given my experience users can be delighted in 2019 by well-designed and lightweight UI built with just CSS and vanilla JS, instead of an overweight buggy SPA (usually built by engineers more interested by the code itself than solving the business problem in the leanest way). Source: I made that my business and I couldn’t be happier.
Yup! And then we reached a (very-low-carbon) equilibrium.
I don't think you've come close to adequately addressing the PII issue here.
The information you're collecting, if it ends up in the wrong hands, could lead to some nightmarish identity theft.

Surely you're aware of massive and prevalent data breaches[1]. You're collecting sensitive information to help people, but not providing any convincing bonafides on information security, let alone an actual plan for how sensitive information goes in your web form, then (many technical/logistical steps later) ends up in Chase's P.O. box, without leaking out to some unintended party.
I don't think anyone should feel comfortable with "all we plan to store is an e-mail address"

1 - https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Most forum or blog comment spam I've seen was trivial to detect, even without access to the server. Isn't written in the right language? Very likely spam. Contains a link and little text? Very likely spam.

If you have access to the server's information, it gets even better. Origin makes it much easier to identify likely spam, previous interactions with the site and their speed ("hits the page and 1s later submits a comment") provide more info.

Sure, all of that can be worked around, but that makes it more complicated and increases the cost for the attacker. If they spend money on faking actual user interaction with your blog, routing all requests through a residential IP in your country etc pp, they are likely spending as much or more than they would on a recaptcha solving service.
HK to one million protesters: We can’t hear you
Both were still somewhat regional, and that acquisition made a national carrier out of it.

Edit: found a spectrum map reportedly from the acquisition

https://www.howardforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=888...
IMHO this comment qualifies as one of those "bizarre anti-Chinese sentiment" ones.

The #2 consumer drone maker in the world after DJI, Parrot from France, also sells an educational drone for kids with a cannon (it's an add-on but gets sold together in a popular set), and has done so for years: The Parrot Mambo.

There's countless other toys for children that include weaponry and/or glamorize it for that matter, like just about any toy for boys sold in the US throughout the 80s, or so it feels like. I'm also quite sure LEGO has sold sets with motors and plans to build catapult contraptions. Nothing about this is "super icky from a Western perspective".

I am deeply concerned about many things going on within China (e.g. Xinjiang), but this willful othering and breakdown of empathy has to stop. The bottom line here is that some people think it's fun and/or will sell well to have a toy that shoots things. You can absolutely criticize that, but it's a culturally universal phenomenon and doesn't need to divide us along borders.
Or spending afternoons typing in some game that was printed on the back of a magazine in assembly, and then poke 32768 and poof, game. Magic when you're 9 years old.
We used waterfall and planned stuff so that it'd work. Apparently that isn't good enough for your generation.
Just ones that people have particularly strong feelings about being radios
This is not mypy, it's "python-the-language": the annotations are values, and, in this case, the method annotations are evaluated when encountered - which is before the end of the class.
So you are trying to use a value still not defined.
It's like doing something like

def foo() -> Bar:
...

class Bar:
...

obviously the python interpreter cannot find a "Bar" definition during the parsing of the foo function
Thanks. (I was actually wondering if the customers were just overreacting more than I was wondering if Ford was looking for cover.)
They probably already are just hidden behind closed source firmware
I had the Dell at my old job. Great picture quality! But 4K on 27“ is however still a compromise, since everything will show up too big when using 2x scaling. And when going for 1.5x or 2x things will get blurry. I now use 2x with smalller fonts in editors and browser zoomed out by default as a compromise.

But I’m really looking forward to have a real >200dpi desktop display for 2x scaling.
I can imagine, that some primitive gripper is many times more expensive than this offensive component. With a gripper robot must be also bigger and wider as well as more expensive.

As I can see in my home country (ex Soviet Union), parents have no problems when little kids play with guns, tanks or planes. Germans, for example, avoid this. I have mixed feelings, I love peace, but the guns also exist in this world.