skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few programmers care about standards and even downloading drafts of them - despite all these forum/mailing lists arguments "what/which code is standard"( a tiny vocal minority), their market is likely some sort of enterprise bureaucrats that must have the Official(TM) Standard(TM) printed in triplicate to bully local programmers into following it "up to legal code".
If the standards were free, i guess they're going to be a bit more popular, however thats too late to change programmer culture[1] which evolved without them - so standards organizations don't have much of an incentive to make them public domain.
[1] Compiler manuals are what people using as standard, and standards eventually adopt compiler features.
I think it's credible to say that they assumed that the reader would understand that if there were only a few antifungals that could be used on crops, they would start working very poorly in short order. That's not exceptional, because we've seen it happen before with other compounds we spray on crops.

Seen through this lens, I don't necessarily follow with your thinking - but I can try now! Thank you for explaining it so well.
I like Ustinov's even though he's, at first glance, a strikingly poor fit. Acting, as they say!
That sucks, I’m sorry. I made this about 5 years ago and am no longer involved in the project.
I would recommend https://diff.blog and https://lobste.rs
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019
That's more or less how Russian printed press worked in the 1990s and early 2000s. All major newspapers and magazines not telling you how to have sex after properly tying your girlfriend to the bed were losing money, and each was owned by a major businessperson who wanted to control the narrative or at least to look like they were able to.
The “click on the indent bar to show/collapse” on reddit was something unintuitive for me initially. Moving from desktop where there is a clear arrow icon for that, I searched online on how to do this in the interface without the triangles. :)
Is anybody aware of a similar initiative for software developers?
Should Lawyers Learn to Code? If You Have a Good Use Case, Yes
Security note: Please remember that, while this is a great idea, it’s also an excellent platform for causing havoc such as phishing if the operator’s account is ever hacked or turns malicious. For demo purposes it’s obviously fine but do not make this live without hosting your own, or consider the risk of it sending users to e.g. “glthub.com” someday.
Well-Built Sentry Gun Addresses the Menace of Indoor Micro-UAVS
Because people value the convenience of Google's integrated services. Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world. Generally, the winner takes all in a given category. If we break up Google, one part of it will end up vanquishing the other parts.
> Also, if they're capable of learning then they're sapient by definition which means we have some moral obligations to them rather than being disinterested observers

It's because we have moral obligations to them that researchers try not to interfere.

> Perhaps we should start considering them as different species of people rather than mere livestock.

If we considered them livestock they'd be in cages. These researches are treating them as we treat many uncontacted tribes of humans.

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It's fine if you disagree with the option, but this approach has nothing to do with being callous or indifferent, it's just a different point of view on how best to protect them. And in my opinion, it's a reaction to the full contact approach that was already tried in the 60s/70s, and frankly didn't go well for either side.
Seems that private repos trigger a 500 error ;)
You can make it distroidentify.
We throw a random iso(i.e myos.iso) and it will tell which distribution iso it is.
After reading this I couldn't help but remember an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (on the BBC world service in 1980) where John was talking about Phil Spector calling him up after a recording session saying:

whispering over the phone "John....I've got the tapes...I've got the tapes, but there are helicopters flying around my house"

It took them a while to get them back from the guy.
Here is thread published a week ago[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20127154
GameMaker? Now developed by Yoyo Games

https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
Sounds like the beginning of the next reboot of Fast and the Furious in ten years.
Seems nice. Anyone has an opinion on why Google built this? Do you think it is related to Stadia? Or just a company hobby turning well?
Wait, you can’t leave us hanging about how font rendering was unexpectedly useful. What kind of fonts did you deal with later in life and why?
They went full corporate so far, I had a meeting with one of their salesman 2 years ago and they're mostly on corporate accounts business. Their software, as well competitors is so bloated.
I was ready to be skeptical but this is pretty cool. If it were trying to replace Minecraft or games like it then it would be a tough sell, and you would have a hard time breaking into that community. But it looks like it's more powerful for the individual contributors, with the ability to make custom blocks/entities on the fly rather than just using the ones someone else coded up and made into a mod.
Perhaps it is wars, of all things, that made cooperative behavior an evolutionary advantage? Larger, better cooperating groups are more likely to win. Smaller groups are more likely to get wiped out. I sometimes think that humans are half way to becoming a superorganism with individuals as cells. But the superorganism actually benefits from some individualist cells, unlike real organisms where cells are supposed to perform their task and shut up.

I recently watched Band of Brothers. It is about people sticking together to kill other people. Why the hell is that interesting to me? I blame genetics.
Yeah, I repeated that as a mantra when I was first learning to program and trying to make games. We all did, it was a common meme of our local game development scene.

And it's utter and complete nonsense. If what you want is to make a game, then these tools aren't half as bad, and at the level of simple games, unless you have some really novel mechanic, you're quite literally wasting time and effort coding it instead of using a game builder.

What drove this point home to me after more than a decade were two situations.

1) on a global game jam, the artist in our team got fed up waiting for us programmers after 3 or 4 hours, and did the prototype we're trying to build in 15 minutes flat, using Construct 2.

2) you too may be surprised to discover that some of the fun and highly acclaimed titles like Cook Serve Delicious or Nuclear Throne were made in Game Maker. I didn't even suspect it until I found it on-line (in the former case, because sources were available in Humble Bundle's Game Maker bundle).

There's value in hand-coding a game, and this is what I still like to do in simple cases, but it's often not the practical option. And if a game maker allows you to add custom code, then really there's no difference between this and Unity or Unreal Engine.
From another comment, it was released by their internal startup incubator. It's potentially not related to anything else at all inside Google, just a project a small team was able to put together with Google's money.
Not at all. Linux support is developers effort and if you are serious about it you won't use wine.
Its backed by some large companies and a bunch of money:

"The financial and e-commerce companies, venture capitalists and telecommunications firms will invest around $10 million each in a consortium that will govern the digital coin, called Libra, according to people familiar with the matter. The money would be used to fund the creation of the coin, which will be pegged to a basket of government-issued currencies to avoid the wild swings that have dogged other cryptocurrencies, they said."
Pretty much all of the self-driving car companies use remote assistance to help out with difficult cases and have been for years. The other companies just realize it's another tool in the arsenal with its own limitations, whereas Starsky seems to push hard on it being the magic sauce.

The problem with remote assistance is it's only useful for static scenarios, like getting a vehicle unstuck. It can't help you make a left turn due to lag (cellular networks are not reliable for real-time safety critical systems), but it can tell you whether or not you can proceed after stopping for a paper bag in the middle of the road.
CVPR 2019 Pretty Papers
Just curious, could you tell me what kind of verification do I need to provide?
And aluminum metal was effectively non-existent until the Hall-Héroult process in the mid 1880.

Literally so until 1824.
A simple and innovative Node.js log library, support view logs in Chrome F12
The Problem Is Capitalism
I don't disagree with this, but honestly I just wish they'd give me a way to restart a video that had autoplayed. I have to tap to start audio, so if I get to a video a couple of seconds after it has started playing and want to listen to it, I have to wait until it loops around to get to the start.
iCloud has been on Windows for years and this is the same unusable, out of date app...they just listed it in the Microsoft store.
Being able to write some code to make a custom block and then just drop it right into the world, working the same for everyone else, is pretty cool. Hopefully that is how it works.
The problem isn't the judge; it's that the defendant didn't claim copyright infringement, but a "taking" of property. I'd rather like to know who is the lawyer.
This is a fantastic read. Thank you for investigating this and writing about it in such a clear way.
Huh, Paper was the first time I thought Dropbox might actually be able to go beyond files. It's one of their best products since their original, simple tooling was released.
You totally missed minecraft?
Not really, because thedefendent didn't claim copyright infringement (which the Texas courts couldn't rule on anyway, they would have had to go to federal court).
Because that doesn't reduce latency, but instead just makes it look like that which is worse.

If the user then copies the URL of their post and sends it to another user the other user will not be able to view it.

It would also not be noticeable for the user if an error occurs while processing the video.
Claws Mail.

I have all my email since circa 1996 right here in my ~/Mail directory, something like 60+K messages accessible through Claws Mail, which is probably the fastest around both to operate and to do searches with.
I've changed my mail accounts several times in the past but kept in subdirectories all the old mail, which got indexed automatically, so I can search both my current mail archives and the 20+ years old expired ones in a breeze.
Backing up is just a matter of copying recursively the ~/Mail (mail archive) and ~/.claws-mail (accounts, address book, filters etc.) directories somewhere.

https://www.claws-mail.org/index.php?section=general

https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/
Thank you for the information. I did not see it.
If your prefix is always skipping, you have to complain to your ISP and meanwhile automate your network renumbering. Is there a reason you are not using the pfsense device to do routing and (put the cpe device to bridge mode)? Then you don't need to worry about your firewall not knowing about reboots, and the firewall rules will just work (assuming pfsense supports using prefix relative rules, vs hardcoding the prefix to all firewall rules...)
And while your comments are valid, a large part of your comments are actual FUD, because every other chat application out there behaves the same (and for a large portion of the user base, matrix probably is just yet another chat app...)?!?

Especially your ongoing notion of metadata as private information which should be hidden is funny: how do you intend to do that? Short of wrapping your application into Tor (which seriously impacts performance letting your average family member happily pass it), I can't think of any method not including any BS-Bingo (how about a blockchain...).

I agree that the vector.im-identity service seems really unnecessary and it reminds of Mozillas approach to sync (yeaah, the ones with your cited manifesto cough); still, I was well aware that this means regularly contacting this server and probably also checking my contacts DB against it (as well as having metadata on my browser, like every other website + it's 23 ad-networks, uuh)? Also for anyone interested in actually hosting a server it's really spelled out plainly, that this is a measure for convenience and you can still host your own server – btw: did you ever try to integrate federation into syndent (you might show the world your archived Issue/PR...).

The part about the integration server is indeed worrying (but not you, putting at the end?!?) because without it, I don't really see the value proposition of matrix compared to plain old XMPP (and I wonder how you intend to monetize on kamax...). And I wasn't really aware of it...

The other parts

- I didn't give an eMail, wasn't a problem for me and I'm seriously not imaging any way to resolve this w/o aforementioned BS-bingo or yet another personal information (private/public key, which is beyond scope for most people + creates its own set of problems (people with unencrypted keys on their machines...)

- so the only way for matrix to read messages is by adding a bot? can the scalar.vector.im server initiate that too? otherwise your claim that vector.im can read all your messages is just BS

- you never mention that encryption by default would be cool. How will kamax.io handle this?
Just that Facebook influencing public opinion, elections, and currency seems like it would be too much for the government to allow.
Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect
The link to the github repo is located in the code you paste on your own website, so you already host that part yourself. The only thing someone could change if the account is hacked is the contents of the image.
Matt Ridely argues something like this, characterising it as trade within a group, and perhaps it began with the hunter/gatherer division of labour between the sexes.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rational_Optimist

Can you elaborate on your sources?
The immunity from copyright and patent claims is critical to universty researches. Without it basic research would get mired in patent and copyright claims.

Many would be eventually ruled as fair use but that requires a judge to make a judgement as to the fair use factors. SI just requires the judge to see that it is the uni of Texas.

The uni doesnt care about the photographers licence fee. It cares about not getting by a phama company because a researcher happened to use a chemical that was under patent.
> As we get older, there is one thing at which we get worse: Being a novice.

Personally, I love being a novice. I intentionally seek it since mid 20 (being ~40 years old now), by learning a new game, mastering a microcontroller or programming language, etc.

I still don't notice a "slow-down" in my learning process... but maybe because learning is a process that I train continuously?

What I do notice is a mechanical-learning slow-down, for example, if I pick a new videogame, it takes a while until I "catch-up" with aiming, or button sequences, etc.
Nasa Spacecraft Spots 'Star Trek' Logo on Mars
Plants are possibly in that club too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
Atheists are well aware of the distinction, I can assure you. A statement like "I do not believe in God because there is no God" proves absolutely nothing. I could tell you "I do not believe in pink unicorns because there are no pink unicorns" and you would not take it as a statement of faith, just as the obvious truth. Such a truth is also obvious about the Judeo-Muslim-Christian God to atheists: there is no evidence of God, and in particular, there is no evidence whatsoever of Yahweh.

As a side note, the strange idea that Yahweh is the only "possible" God is taken as granted by religious people, but it makes really little sense to those who came to disbelief through a philosophical journey. A lot of atheists will tell you that the specificity problem is one of the most convincing reasons not to believe in God.
> I still don't get this.

Lobbyism can be quite profitable. Why invest money in improving your website when you can invest it in lobbying for a law that gets you a better return on investment?
Actually I agree. If I’m too interested in the story I won’t sleep. There shouldn’t be a story.
I really hope this concept takes off: https://refresh.study/
We use netting
Handwaving this question says it all really.
You normally have to create an account to get the new game manager to work as well. Now I'm trusting yet another company with my account details, and had to "accept" a bunch of terms and conditions all totally unrelated to the game I want to play.
I thought this would be something more like how plants chemically communicate with each other about insect infestations so other plants can proactively protect themselves or "scream" (give off a pulse) when attacked.
> The reason is that state institutions have sovereign immunity from copyright infringement lawsuits.

Federal courts disagree; in Cambridge University Press v. Patton, they did a work-by-work fair use test, and Georgia State University was found infringing on four counts.
I'm sure many people have, but less sure that it works.
The next upgrade is Skata which in my experience actually gets eaten a lot more. There is Þorláksmessa on the 23rd of December where bucketloads of the stuff get eaten all over the place. It’s perfect if you really want to stink of ammonia in a deep seated way.
I generally avoid meat for this and other reasons, but the Kea for sure don't seem to care about animal rights:

> The video confirmed what many scientists had long suspected: that the kea uses its powerful, curved beak and claws to rip through the layer of wool and eat the fat from the back of the animal. Though the bird does not directly kill the sheep, death can result from infections or accidents suffered by animals when trying to escape.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea#Sheep
You are correct, they have developed Proton [1] which is based on Wine.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
I didn't see anything about how Nike willingly enabled child labor and human rights violations?
Energy density of hydrogen per litre is few orders of magnitude lower than that of petrol. Really the only saving grace of hydrogen
vs batteries is the speed of refueling.
The author describes DSLs and the concept of a compiler. Some people might think of AI and LISP-like "programs that write even more intelligent programs", but that's not what compilers do. They only translate.

Having said that,

> Never write programs with your fingers, always write programs that make codes

Obviously nobody writes a compiler for a mini problem which can solved with some scripting language instead. That's a waste of time.

I wasted my time so many times when I wanted to invent a fancy new language. It can be na exercise but frequently doesn't get someone closer to getting the actual work done.
Please, please wrap that text box and button in a <form> so that when we press "enter" the form submits. HTML 101.
It’s also about showing the sibling that was hit that you as a parent consider the behavior unacceptable. They need to feel that grownups react, even if they realize the apology is fake.
Reminds me of Robin Sage[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Sage
For short distances you could use a bicycle or scooter instead.

Cars are mostly useful for larger distances, i.e. on highways, where slow vehicles are not allowed.
This seems consistent with what we've learned about Hacker News. What defies expectation tends to be interesting. The predictable is uninteresting.
BitMessage absolutely obfuscates the metadata FYI.
That's true only for web development. Due to nature of web development is next to imposible to have a good RAD tool that can cover all use cases.

For desktop and mobile there are a few RAD tools. Some of them: QT Creator, Windows Forms, Delphi, C++ Builder X, Mono.

Maybe some are not of the highest quality and maybe there's not enough RAD tools, but that's because many people think that "true" development happens only in VI and command line.

As someone already commented, a good RAD tool can save 90% percent of the time because you don't have to connect by hand signals, events with handlers and you don't have to draw the UI by code, unless you need something specific. Doing this tasks is a tedious and boring work, takes time that is better spent doing something else like working on the app logic.
I see in this survey[1], 47.2% are against the extradition bill, 23.8% supports, and the remaining are neutral. I don't think 47.2% is An overwhelming majority.

[1] http://video3.mingpao.com/inews/201906/20190607_Mingpaopoll....
I really respect people who work in impressive tech jobs who can admit this.
I'm unsure how UNKNOWN could not propagate into other decisions that depend on the value. Could you provide an example or two?
Ok, so this makes a lot of sense, but let's get real - the chance of a wholesale change to economic fundamentals is very close to zero. Look at who is getting elected lately.

Mitigating Capitalism's greater evils seems like the only feasible option. The two things that stand out are stopping the incredible concentration of wealth in single entities (eg Saudi Arabia), and preventing perverse economic incentives (see American Health system).
Please read the site guidelines. The first paragraph explains that HN is not just for tech and entrepreneurship ("includes more than hacking and startups").

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re that example, it wasn't a great HN submission because it stokes indignation without teaching us anything new. Indignation is always good for upvotes, but it didn't last long on the front page.
How does this compare to MOSH? It's SSH over UDP. (Http://MOSH.org)
I'm in the same boat, and thinking of some sort of open source utility which will bridge rsync and AWS Glacier.
Yes, I meant the original plans for the remake.
Do you support triples in those states that allow them?
GP was talking about life causing its own doom, so I thought that plants causing a climate change and mass extinction due to uncontrolled growth would be appropriate.

This does miss the "crafty solution to an immediate problem" part that you and the original article mention, though.
Can't resist a little gem from "Shoe Dog".

Nike wanted to introduce a shoe during the 1968 Olympics being held at Mexico City. In honour of the location, they initially called it the "Aztec". But Adidas already had a shoe called "Azteca Gold" and naturally threatened to sue. Bowerman asked "Who was the guy who kicked the shit out of the Aztecs?" . Phil replied Cortez and the iconic Nike Cortez was born :-)

Edit: It seems that Bowerman asked the question. Corrected!
> I have never been an enthusiast for state communism

"state communism" is an oxymoron. Communism, by definition, implies the absence of the state.
How to Remember Anything You Want to Remember, Backed by Science
Wow, this is a cool concept. Efficient tab management especially is a feature that should be baked into browsers, there should be no need to install an extension for that.
Right, and unlike those philosophy texts, there is actually a payoff for the reader.
If you read the link posted elsewhere in the thread by Mathnerd314, it is apparent that the question of whether the states can be sued for copyright infringement is a live one, on which the Supreme Court has just granted certiorari.
HN has never been "all tech oriented".
How is that not ideal? Isn't that a perfectly valid mechanism to implement a 3-valued logic?

Perhaps some people would prefer to wrap a standard bool. In Rust, a type of Option(bool) would work. An equivalent in Go would be *bool. But I don't know how the CPU would distinguish between a null pointer and falsehood in that case.