skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can think of 2 reasons why it is not free.

a. These are meant for a business to show off its compliance. A business means it is already making money. I am sure every company would be happy to pay that 100CHF to buy it for you , just like they can afford to buy a book, if they are thinking about ISO.

b. The ISO compliance is to be asserted by a 3rd party auditor. They are a member of the ISO community and/or have a copy of the standard with them.
Inside the black (cherry) market of vintage Kool-Aid packet collectors
For Firefox, there is DarkReader [1] A small sub-set of websites will be slowed down or break, but you can enable/disable per domain.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/?s...
When Pepsi was swapped for Soviet warships
Blocking commuters gets people talking.
Police 'violence'? Have they never been to America? Or seen any G8 meeting in Canada or Europe? Talk about propaganda...
I have no empirical evidence for this of course, because there's no way to really measure this, AND it's getting more moot because of things like Electron.

But you can infer it historically by a few observations:

- More people intentionally get into mac software, than back themselves into it because it was for a job (like Windows/.NET development). So there's a quality vs quantity argument there.

- Just use independent windows applications vs mac applications. There's almost always a much higher level of fit and finish on the Mac side.

- Judging by how quickly a lot of iOS apps start to adopt newer frameworks and technologies
I find the author's attitude maddening. People writing open-source software are not being exploited. People writing open-source software have alternatives. They can simply stop writing open-source software.

It does a disservice to the millions of people on the planet who do not have alternatives, and who are truly being exploited.
No, the comment refers to Wikileaks releasing the names of American informants in Iraq, potentially endangering their lives.
War, war never changes ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBDrv1PY-uU
Please read the message you respond to. I already wrote:

> Unless you use functionality that the format you are trying to save to doesn't support, then you can resume your work. If you try to use functionality that the target format doesn't support, GIMP could simply tell you so, like what many other programs that support multiple save file formats already do.

There is nothing dangerous about the "2.6" workflow (which is also shared by many other programs) and what you describe is really trying to come up with nitpicky and arbitrary distinctions between saving and exporting to justify their unnecessary separation.
It seems wrong to judge based on the number of false positives without weighing agianst all the snake oil they keep out.
We generally use the 5/1 minute warnings, then when it's time to go use the (Daniel Tiger) "pick one more thing to do" approach.
The point was that they feel very close to native apps.
Hello! It looks like you're reading HN - would you like help with that? chuckles

I foresee a great future for the <clippy> markup. So much friendlier than the bland <track action=spy> tag normally used.
That's obviously false. See sofosbuvir for a recent counter example.
> The number and intrusiveness of advertising grows in proportion to the desperation of the author to make the most of what little time you're going to spend.

I have a rule of thumb that hasn't failed me for a decade now: the trustworthiness of a source is inversely proportional to the amount of advertising it puts up.
Apple benefits from not being in "Enterprise".

Enterprise is where you have average developers with mediocre managers and ill-formed specifications working to inadequate (but overrunning) budgets. Something gets nailed together to support the business, and once it's working you're never allowed to touch it again. The king of this kind of line-of-business app used to be VB6. There was a brief phase were people wrote intranet applications with embedded ActiveX controls and got permanently stuck on IE6. These days it's more likely to involve SAP or Sharepoint.

These customers made Microsoft a lot of money from all those desktops and Windows Server client access licenses, but they're extremely conservative.

And maybe they have a point; I can see what the advantage of UWP is for Microsoft, but as a developer it's not a clear win over WinForms.
LaLiga already does this, they display a "B" on the corner and every few minutes a code that can be checked against the subscription, but this doesn't seem to be enough...
I think what they mean by modern is that every new project nowadays doesn't involve directly manipulating the dom and everyone uses some new library or framework of their choice.
Here is talk that elaborates it. It's obviously not 1-to-1, and there's other gotchas but there's convenient tables comparison linked directly.

https://youtu.be/ScE9TnoWltA?t=1792
No. It doesn't depend on blockchain except for the ENS resolution.
I recommend it, view's great.
OH Senate nears vote on nuke subsidies as PJM finds $1.6B savings closing plants
> It is basically a credit score similar to what you get from credit agency

With the salient difference of judging one’s political views and affiliations. Like if FICO took into account the number of times you praised or criticised the President.
That is not the south polar region though.
I see how you may think that, but I would argue that I am not redefining anything, as things turn nonsensical without this assumption.

It is not an input if it does not affect your output (I am sure a better formal definition exists—I usually hear "meaningful", hence my use of that). Without this restriction, any input could be arbitrarily padded, inflating input sizes and making an algorithms complexity appear lower.

I find the even/odd example to be an exceptionally clear case of an algorithm that takes a fixed 1-bit input: Its implementation on a little-endian machine does not know the bounds of its input, only the location of the least significant byte (due to byte-addressing).

Without a defined bound, such an implementation must be assumed to either take a single byte as input (here a byte read is an implementation detail, despite the algorithm only needing one bit), or the full system memory from the location specified as input regardless of contents (due to having used the word "arbitrary", the input is allowed to not fit in registers).

However, I admit that I am now entering deeper theoretical waters with regards to definition details that I am normally comfortable with. I do however not find any other definition to line up with practice.
As someone who's constantly learning how to be human, I found this helpful.
Not screening for efficacy will result in both legitimate cancer medication and homeopathic medicine having an FDA stamp of approval.

Nothing is stopping decentralized decision making, you just need to market whatever non-effective but safe remedy you're selling as a food supplement, a tea or whatever. You just can't advertise that it's a drug.
Just for the record. I am not ok with a toast element. It has no place in HTML at all.

I have a really hard time understanding why anyone would want it.
UB is not what makes C fast. A good (and fast) program does not contain undefined behaviour, at least ideally.

The only speed advantage of Fortran, to my knowledge, comes from pointer aliasing information that C compilers have a harder time to infer. But that's more a consequence of the programming domain. Fortran is not a systems programming language. Fortran has specialized data structures for scientific computing built in (I think??). It's an apple and oranges comparison.
Cute. We actually built a data lake (with Python and MySQL) and immediately found problems we weren't even aware of, like (as I mentioned above) people getting the same email multiple times in the same day.

When our sysadmin left, we migrated all our websites from leased hardware servers to cloud hosting and were able to use that head count to hire a developer instead, who has built great new web apps for staff and customers.

I understand the temptation to be cynical, but these really are useful tools. I say embrace change; it's fun.
Are Web Standards Toast?
Although I have to say, VB6 was AWESOME in the late 90s. :)
> Larry Summers, when he was "advising", didn't make a secret of the fact that he didn't really care who "owned" most Russian assets provided it was in private hands.

Ideology over practicality. Lovely.
You think the major powers have the equivalant of 8 billion tonnes of TNT in conventional munitions?

Because I don't.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nwhmt.html
All they are implying by "modern" is loadable with es6 modules.
This may be true, but it completely fails to distinguish between 1) the type of regime implementing the surveillance - autocratic vs democratic, and 2) offensive vs defensive.

It is necessary for any society to do intelligence gathering to defend itself, or it will soon be overwhelmed by an autocratic one.

In contrast, when the entire state apparatus is turned to the goals of a single leader or party, and to suppressing any dissent and plundering other countries, it is quite a different affair. While the US has institutionalized racism in it's police forces, this is being openly fought. In contrast, China massacres thousands in Tianamen square and actively wipes it from the record, and currently imprisons over a million, it is a far different story.

False equivalence actively undermines truth.

(NB: the current US administration is doing everything it can to turn the US into an autocratic state, i.e., where the entire state apparatus serves the personal goals of administrators. However, it is actually the relative independence of the various agencies and branches of govt, including the 17 Intel agencies that are helping thwart those tendencies.)
Yes, the current behavior makes sense if you are treating the XCF files as your "master version". The problem is that as long as you want to use something else as the master version and do not want to bother with XCF files at all (including, but not limited to, nothing else supporting these files) then that sort of workflow breaks down.

Note that the "export" workflow could work as it does right now, there is nothing wrong with saving to a separate file (and the program remembering it) without changing the filename of the current image you work on.
I’d like to believe that but just yesterday someone posted links to a Chinese news site showing lots of visible support for the pro government side. Lots of signs in the city showing support and a fleet of fishing boats with signs. Even if this is pure propaganda it shows there is visible support (even if artificial).
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Even computationally parallel algorithms hopefully have a centralization point where the compulation completes. What's the equivalent for whether or not a drug is more effective than a sugar pill, given countless edge cases? I could imagine a case where a drug that was never effective is widely distributed before being calculated to be no more effective than placebo. In the meantime, such a widely distributed drug could cause significant harm as it is selected over medication with actual efficiacy or effective drugs avoided due to the side effects of the ineffective one.
Efficacy is important as many drugs have significant side effects. If a drug is not going to actually reduce your chance of heart attack or help treat aggressive cancer it's likely not worth the trade-off with side effects.
In Canada at least, the beer you could get in 40oz bottles was generally pretty strong. For example, Colt 45 is 8%.

The hardest part of Edward Fourtyhands is that you’ve got to consume 80oz of strong malt liquor without peeing. Or... figuring out some way to unzip your pants...
So, uh... fun web history time... this actually kinda existed.

When Internet Explorer 4 or 5 was released, Microsoft was in full-on Embrace and Extend mode, on their way to Extinguish. One of the ways they tried to appeal to businesses (and one of the ways IE4/5-ish ended up being installed well past its best-by date in certain places) was a technology they called ActiveX, basically a brushed up and simplified COM. (The "X" here was from DirectX, which they were trying to market all together; IIRC technically the Agent had nothing to do with DirectX.)

And one of the ActiveX objects they released for this functionality was, basically, Clippy. It was called the Microsoft Agent [1]. It included a number of characters, but you could bring up the real, actual-factual Clippy in Internet Explorer. You could also use text-to-speech to actually speak to the user. It had an API that allowed you to trigger certain pre-cooked animations, move it around the page, etc.

In an advanced mode, you could also specify your own graphics files. It also allowed you to specify graphics for something like 5 different mouth shapes, so you could reasonably lip-sync your new wizard object. I did this to my University's logo back in the day.

I say it "kinda" existed because, technically, this wasn't its own tag. It was an instance of the OBJECT tag [2]. But there was a time where at least in Internet Explorer there literally was HTML you could write that would put the literal Clippy on your web page.

A gallery of the available characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb9yBfDLjsI

I didn't find any videos of the Clippy character used in a web page, but it shipped in the default control, I'm fairly sure.

I never encountered the Microsoft Agent in the wild.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCiSRQGJX4

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/lwef/access... - "[Microsoft Agent is deprecated as of Windows 7, and may be unavailable in subsequent versions of Windows.]" "To keep Agent running between pages (and thereby keep a character visible), create another client that remains loaded between page changes. For example, you can create an HTML frameset and declare an tag for Agent in the parent frame." Remember frames?
Our allies have historically been comfortable that the US President would be fairly responsible with shared intelligence, regardless of which party's in control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_o...
> The efficacy of a particular molecule for a particular patient isn't much easier than that to determine.

How do you handle situations where the provider doesn’t know/care which is best either and just chooses the intervention that was the most heavily marketed to them?

Why do we see new patent drugs replace the “old and boring” generics without any proven efficacy benefit?
Yes, but you need a very tilted election toward them due to the indirect nature of the election. Probably about 65% of vote against Beijing parties would do it.
You lost me when you made the assertion that the FDA isn’t corrupt.
Thank you. If Google were trying to be obfuscatory they could hardly do a better job.
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React is funded and staffed with full time engineers from Facebook.

React is a standout when handling large datasets, but tends to mildly underperform on small ones. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
I remember reading some study of hedge fund managers that concluded that despite having access to the same market information manager's behavior differed based on their personal experience. More specifically, managers who got burnt by a bubble burst were more risk averse.

I wonder how many nations will follow Puerto Rico's example before they experience a devastating storm first.
This is the version that I was used to, so I was surprised when I saw the video and it was a slowed down, more melancholic version.

It was my favorite song from the band throughout my adolescence, and the only way to hear it was through a live bootleg or otherwise. So I thought that this version of it was just forgotten. Glad to see it is still alive (and makes me feel like I'm 15 again.)
If you can afford it and care about grind quality, there are much quicker grinders out there.

The Baratza Sette 270 grinds with fantastic precision compared to other grinders on the market (even the Vario), and goes through 19g of beans in about 5 seconds.
Characteristics of Physical Law
I love the idea of a more efficient CDN for JS (and code overall!), but it isn’t clear to me how this handles the multitude of versions. None of the examples seem to include versioning, which is a huge oversight IMO.
A future I see is IPFS for this sort of thing. All objects identified uniquely, but cacheable by multiple entities.
I bought the book the day it was released. It's an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn D3. Of particular surprise was that I haven't found any errors/omissions that caused the code examples to not work properly so far.
> I see how you may think that, but I would argue that I am not redefining anything, as things turn nonsensical without this assumption.

The point I'm making is that this statement reduces to the claim that defining an algorithm's worst case time complexity as O(1) or constant time is nonsensical.

Do you disagree that adding two numbers is a constant time operation?
This works the other way too though. I've seen some parents use the 5 minutes warning and then pack the kids up after only 2 or 3 minutes. The kids don't know the difference and it allows the "warning" to be consistent even when the timing can't be for whatever reason.

And yes, 10 more times down the slide can easily turn into 9 times in a row and holding on to that 10th time for as long as possible.
This is great advice for life in general.
Thanks so much. Another clever idea!
You should check out Ben Eater's 8-bit computer from scratch.

https://eater.net/8bit

There's even a kit for you to build one.
Yeah I don't see what that has to do with my comment. I don't want my taxes sent to subsidise their space industry, nuke program or military. Not a big ask really.
Once again, I am not employing fizzbuzz on anyone.

But it's not indicating you are a fraud, it's indicating that some people in your situation are frauds, which lamentably appears to be the case.

And your response to this situation where someone who at this point knows only what's on your CV and therefore hasn't yet ruled out the possibility that you might be a fraud gives you the chance to show you aren't one is ... to "show[] you my dominance"? Yeah, that's definitely a good idea in an interview situation.

No one "attempted to offend" you. (Well, I dare say people have from time to time. But if you interview for a job and someone asks you to write a fizzbuzz program, they are not doing it because they want to offend you.) They were in the unfortunate situation of having to hire someone in an environment where some candidates turn out to be much worse at the job than the readily available evidence suggests. They gave you a chance to show that you aren't one of those candidates. You took offence at that because somehow the interviewer was supposed to just know that you're one of the good ones, and reacted by trying to demonstrate your "dominance". I suppose the good news here is that everyone's glad you didn't get that job.

(As for "the level of my abstract thinking you won't reach", once again you are making assumptions that go beyond what you actually know. Like it or not, some people who are plenty capable of abstract thinking use fizzbuzz-like interview questions.)
> I'm not even sure what's the "modern" way anymore to build Windows apps – is it UWP? WinForms? something else?

I feel like Microsoft has made this intentionally obscure because their business model requires that they talk out of both sides of their mouth: they want enterprises building their line-of-business CRUD apps to feel confident and secure in using older APIs like WinForms, by telling them that they’re using first-class APIs that will be supported in the long term, and aren’t being deprecated just because there are other, newer APIs; and, at the same time, they want developers coming into the ecosystem fresh to find UWP first, so that UWP apps get built and make Windows tablet usage easier/better.
"Hacker News is a website for anyone who has a love for hacking and/or any other computer-related hobby. It was created because we all wanted to know if anyone had any idea how to hack computers. Before we knew it, we were sharing the stories of the people who had hacked our computers and decided to create a website about the people who went to Mexico to drink mojitos and find the hidden secret sauce that would make them a better hacker. However, there was a lot of hate about the idea and it was pretty much a complete failure. Paul decided to get all the videos from YouTube and upload them to youtube where we will show you what our "Hidden Cheat" was all about. He said: "Just go up to Mexico and buy a lot of drinks, then you can find a secret sauce. That was how that was accomplished."
I used to use Firefox but it blew chunks at doing intranet authentication. Auth prompts for days. I had to use an extension that loaded an IE browser pane so that I wouldn’t spend half my work day typing my password. I hope they have improved.
The accusations were only made public a few months ago (with some leaks less than a year ago pointing to them). If they feel so strongly that he's a journalist they should've been saying something for the past 7 years. Instead they've been publicly smearing him, and in some cases flat-out lying.

Assange predicted publicly for many years that the US was going to indict him under the Espionage Act, and now that it's happening everyone seems to be pretending that "we couldn't possibly have seen this coming!". I was still a high-school student in 2012 and I could see it as clear as day. I refuse to believe that any reasonable adult would be so naive to have not seen this coming.
"Fear not my friends! I don't work for MS and this isn't a real proposal."

Bummer :-( Is there a free JavaScript library that does that, by any chance? I miss clippy.
> Nothing is stopping decentralized decision making, you just need to market whatever non-effective but safe remedy you're selling as a food supplement a tea or whatever. You just can't advertise that it's a drug.

Unfortunately, this is false. The FDA will still intervene in situations where it doesn't like what you're doing even if you don't advertise your work as a drug, medical procedure, or as having any particular efficacy.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603530/a-biohackers-plan-...

On another note, see the sensor pads story here: http://www.fdareview.org/devices.shtml

"We rarely get to try products that the FDA fails to approve, and we never get to try products that are never brought into existence because FDA rules and regulations have made research and development uneconomic. As a result, the public remains ignorant of the true costs of FDA power."
> The king of this kind of line-of-business app used to be VB6.

You say that like it's not still happening... VB6 is still the go-to tool at a certain blue cross and blue shield franchise - and probably at many others around the country. They post jobs(active postings right now) for .NET developers with VB6 experience. They do it under the guise to "help port existing applications", but in reality they are still developing new features with it, and will likely never stop.
> one of the best parts of the go ecosystem

Is it more powerful in some way than the auto-formatters that exist for nearly every other language?
I'm an iOS developer, I've been coding the platform since iOS 3, and I'm a .Net developer coding in C# since Beta 1.

Initially that argument was slightly true. But has long since passed and is completely bullshit now. As soon as it was apparent there was a goldmine in iOS development the floodgates opened wide. There is zero difference between the average Windows developer and the average iOS developer anymore, and there hasn't been since at least iOS 5. (most likely iOS 4)
Sometimes you can access standards from a library. Not sure how common that is for ISO but maybe look it up.