skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this. I'm surprised they're not labeled as scary "socialism" and replaced with public-private "partnerships" with commercial ads, membership fees and overpriced concessions. It seems the public commonwealth is being cannibalized for vampiric exploitation at every opportunity. You can't sit down anywhere, because it's been replaced with a sterile multi-use zoned commercial areas with a Code of Conduct* without buying something. Remember water fountains and public parks? Not anymore.

*I ate at this food truck in Austin that was in a mixed-use commercial area that had a 12 term CoC. These places typically have control-freak power-trip mall (wannabe) cops.
I always liked this Clickhole piece on military/environmental issues:

5 Ways ISIS Can Reduce Its Carbon Footprint

"As ISIS continues to expand its operations in the Middle East, it is more urgent than ever for this group to enact sustainable policies that will have the least impact on our environment. Here are some expert tips to help the Islamic State go green!

Requiring cars to stop at a military checkpoint leads to fuel inefficiency and idling engines, especially if an ISIS agent has to search the vehicle. Limiting checkpoints to one every 20 miles provides similar security with significantly lower emissions!"

https://news.clickhole.com/5-ways-isis-can-reduce-its-carbon...
Or if you're not a developer and don't need to do the proverbial heavy lifting, MacBooks are just nicer in general.
That doesn't excuse false advertising. If a company wants to offer "enough foo for 99.9% of customers", they can say that. If a company offers unlimited foo, it ought to be able to provide unlimited foo (which it can't, of course, because it doesn't have unlimited money. Their problem.)

On a related note, I'd love to work for a company that offers unlimited vacation that's located in a country with decent protection against unfair dismissal. I wonder if I could get compensated for the (infinity-365) days of vacation a year I can't take?
Finally, it's here
China can make new IP too. Our big advantage was our head start and we blew it. I'd love to be wrong.

As for letting China continue to reap the benefits of being defined as a developing nation, yes, that's absurd, and also needed to stop 10-20 years ago.
reinventing by not even providing pull down to refresh as option? so much for Firefox customization, lacking for years such basic feature

and don't tell me about buggy add-ons as substitute

also by my experience it was crashing on regular sites and had problems with repeated words/characters and jumpy cursor in text fields making even writing comment on hacker needs impossible

I mean first fix such horrible bugs and provide basic features before you start doing something else

I use Firefox on desktop, but I am not really masochist to use it on Android
Just to be sure that I understand your position: your opinion is that the motivation behind all this is "to see their potential released"?
G2pK: G2p Module for Koreab
How the Neighborhoods of Manhattan Got Their Names
rpm and apt act on two different layers, either you replace apt with dpkg or rpm with dnf/yum/yast/zypper
That's why it's a good idea to leverage bundlers and simply roll all of your desired dependencies into a single file and then just execute Node against that.

You can easily do this with Webpack.

edit: To clarify I'm talking about server-side components.
Don't get me wrong, I love Ruby, and my code was originally in Ruby, but the 20x speedup and better math libraries in Julia without sacrificing the speed of development too much made the switch for me very easy.

Actually translating Ruby code to Julia was much easier than I thought (the only real difference is the indexing).

The 1 based indexing really sucks in the PTX assembly output of Julia as well, I see a lot of useless increment and decrement operations when I don't expect it.
Germany lifts ban on swastika, Hitler mustache in Wolfenstein video game (2018)
I was being sarcastic - high score on captcha probably means G knows too much about you. That said, I don't think the scores are reliable. It is possible (probable even) that G is still running experiments.
The Republican and Democratic parties did a flip around the turn of the 20th century.

What's happened since the 1960s is more that the Republican party has been charging madly off into the far right (and, in some cases, simply into looney-land), while the Democratic party has shuffled nervously rightward after them.

You'll note that it's far from true now to say that the Republicans are doing much of anything that the Democrats would have done in the 1960s (aside from things that were prevalent across the board at that time, like racism and sexism).
This teenager's document is a great counter point to Tao's naive claim that he is not a native genius and that anyone can do what he does if they merely study as much as he did growing up.
Visualizing MNIST: An Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction (2014)
I believe it. Currently the rest of my team and I are close to burnout. Our boss is a workaholic who is controlling and rare to give any praise. The company is financially successful, but the average employee only lasts 1-2 years.

For some reason I thought I could stick it out, but I'm trying to make it to the end of the year and then take a break to refocus.

Money only gets you so far - at some point people need a supportive work environment and a sense of ownership at their job.
it doesn't have pull down to refresh and other browsers like Edge,Bromite, Brave or Kiwi have ad blocker out of box
> Not a coincidence the US usually has a carrier battle group somewhere between the two.

The USA hasn't sent an aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait since 2007. Barring some major geopolitical shakeup, it is fairly likely it will never do so again.
> A principled person would chose to take his/her business elsewhere and purchase a book on a platform whose ethics they agree with.

A principled person would follow their own principles which may be different from yours.
But only a certain kind of book; government approved books.

Definitely nothing interesting.
Repairability is really important for sustainable, maintainable systems. Beauty without reparability-- in hindsight it will be like those illuminated manuscripts from the middle ages that were created with poisons like arsenic and stored in sealed containers[1]. It's beautiful, but most definitely not as functional or impressive as it otherwise might be.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/63025-poisonous-books-coated-in-...
I think you have to balance that against not preventing instability around the world. What would it look like if China, Russia, Iran and many others were unchecked and we let them do whatever they wanted...

Now, the current admin is cutting back on involvement. Some candidates call for more interventionism. That we’re retreating from “our duty” to be international police, essentially. So what is it?
So... the author would rather have

// Old school
String string = new String();

over

// C++ style
auto string = new String();

// Rust style
let string = String::new();

I don't see a single advantage to repeating the type, especially in the case where it's already apparent what the type will be.
In Romance languages the at-sign is called an arobase/arroba.
No.

Docker isolation is for convenience not security isolation.
It requires the user to create their own API project.

GYB has such functionality built-in since 1.20, see the release notes: https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/releases/tag/v1.20

For gmvault, you have to create it manually: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335#issuecomment-4...
you can have dark mode and ad blocker in snappier Brave, Bromite or Kiwi, as well as pull down to refresh
I think you have to balance that with the tendency of military to destabilize the world.
Loss of biodiversity is in big part caused by global warming (temperature rising, ocean acidification etc.)
Global warming is not caused by loss of biodiversity.

On top of that, many of things that need to be done to reduce global warming will directly positively affect biodiversity, such as reducing deforestation and thus habitat loss.

So no, fixing global warming is more important since its a prerequisite to stopping loss of biodiversity.
so AirPods with replaceable batteries are "promoting positive choices for society" and the current AirPods Apple makes are not? I think the OP is saying there was an election by the people, and they voted overwhelmingly in favor for current Apple AirPods with their money. If people have money and are allowed to choose one thing over the other won't one choice always be "promoting positive choices for society" and one not as much? Unless you make the choices like they do in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale country of gilead.
It might be that the truth is in the middle.
Clearly the design was great but hindering repairability is a legitimate criticism.

I recall watching a young child from a poor family in an Apple Store trying to get the iPad that she loved repaired and the family being told that her only option was to purchase a new one which they clearly could not afford. Seeing how distraught it made the little girl really bothered me. That was the day that I started to intensely hate Apple.

In fairness, however, hindering repairability feels like a business decision that Ive may not have been responsible for.
This is applicable to almost every research area, where the publication of peer-reviewed (PR) papers is de-facto a standard. I have a background in physics and a few papers published in Q1 journals, so I heard these complaints about "peer-review pressure" many times. But the truth is somewhere in between: 1. yes, sometimes you get a stubborn reviewer and it is extremely difficult to get through, I've experienced this several times; 2. but PR still deliver a required filter against a flood of low-quality papers.

In essence, I found the note above as too emotional, since currently we have nothing better than PR of papers, review of code, etc., in order to guarantee the minimal level of quality.
Economic and Social Impacts of Shared Autonomous Vehicles
> It was a 10% pay cut, but to compensate for that they offered 3 additional weeks of vacation (five total).

Hell country.
My Mum attended one maths course at university (as a mature age student) with Tao, and I distinctly remember her coming home and complaining about some 'smart-arse kid who wouldn't stop challenging the lecturer'. I guess it can be tough being very smart and capable and also young at the same time.
>To ease the blow, Micron appears to have found a workaround. It said it had recently resumed some shipments to Huawei based on its interpretation of the Trump administration’s restrictions, noting that some goods produced by American companies overseas are not always considered American-made.

This sounds like the trade war is discouraging US-based manufacturing
That would help anonymous discussions on non-work platforms offsite or on personal devices.
China has over a million people in concentration camps right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
It's really not. The one guy in this thread who keeps trying to say that is, I think, either mistaken (from movies or whatever) or is trying to paint an exaggerated portrait of rural life such that it seems extreme to urban-living folks; either way, it's not the case.

You don't go around shooting people you see on your property. "You did WHAT Jim? Because you saw some guy out in the cotton?"

(Now watch that same individual in this thread come back and say, "well, it's not like that in cotton country, but where they're ranching..." and...no.)
It is Friday evening somewhere!
No outage for me, but I'm seeing some messages appearing twice. Is that related?
Node has a great server-side ecosystem. I'd go as far as saying Node lends itself to certain layers of the backend stack because of it's history being more CPU-efficient then other server-side runtimes.

Can you provide any examples where Node does not provide a good ecosystem for backend programming? Genuinely curious.
Yep, I wish I could opt out. For years, I've used an app to backup my sms messages to gmail, now it's being taken away.
It worked because apartheid SA didn't have an oppressive government (for whites), it had a democratic opppressive populace. Blacks in SA were wholly disenfranchised who had near 0 participation in the national economy and wealth, so sanctions had no affect on them, but did affect the middle class who colluded in their oppression.
"HTML is not hard to learn properly, especially if you’re already accustomed to learning Javascript frameworks. I haven’t counted, but I’m pretty sure there’s only about 116 elements, and most of those you’d never normally need. Why would you not learn it?"

Couldn't agree more..

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/115029
They need to stop targetting "creatives" (many of who already left Apple) and create another developer line...
The majority doesn't have to but journals should. The majority will pick it up if and when someone has proven its utility above and beyond current techniques.

However, it should be noted that most "radically new" ideas are neither radical nor new. And it would be more or less accurate to label a vast swathe of them as "nonsense" although I'd prefer to use a term with a less pejorative connotation.

The difficulty comes in sorting out the "nonsense" from the genuinely new ideas. This takes expertise and time. It's easier to use a quick heuristic to weed out those most likely to be "nonsense" so you can spend the time on better prospects. Of course that heuristic is unlikely to be perfect.

Admittedly I can't speak to ML specifically but I assume the same applies to it as it does to many other areas.
I'm sure Russia and China would love if we dialed it back a bit! Of course, then our pollution will just be displaced by theirs. Then, if we all do it, aliens will arrive and they'll pollute the planet when they destroy us. I know a lot of people think aliens would have sufficiently advanced technology, that we'd be defenseless. I'm not so sure about that. We have nuclear weapons...
Unfortunately, I can't use a laptop which has a joystick in the middle of the keyboard. Until they stop that I'll have to go dell xps13 when my mbp-2014 dies.
lol what? 2 or 300 maybe. rpm, Deb, apt, apt-get, APK, nix, aptitude, dpkg, aur. some of these are different, or the same, or not. dammed if I can tell. hopefully containers eat them all.
I have always despised how publications latch on to anything Apple like a pit bull. Especially when you’re borderline insulting of a person instead of a critic of the work.

End of the day, he’s one of a select few household names in the space. His work helped make Apple one of the biggest Andy most influential companies on earth. Nobody will remember the keyboards — his legacy is just fine.
> Well guess what, that's a design decision and we live in a free market - so if you don't like it you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone.

This shifts blame off suppliers and on to consumers. Suppliers can do whatever they want: it's the responsibility of consumers to choose what is best for society.

In my opinion this is not an effective approach for society, for example because of unbalanced information. I think the responsibility needs to be shared.

> The fact that these design decisions have been integral to making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world probably indicates they were good design decisions.

I don't think the author is disputing that the designs were good decisions, when the goal is profit. They are complaining that sustainability was not taking into account.
Welcome to the first lession on to how to sell your favorite framework and/or coding language;

Step 1 : Take a convoluted example code in another language/framework that you want to shit on, this example should break as many good coding practices as possible.

Step 2 : Show a simple example that adheres to good coding practices in your favorite language/framework.
> Is that related ?

That's the symptom of the outage as far as I can tell.
> The author also omitted that China has no bleeding edge foundries (like TSMC & Samsung's 7nm fabs)

Is that supposed to make Americans feel any better? :) Seriously the Chinese government still thinks of Taiwan (and on a bad day Korea) as one of its provinces and given its location it could easily become one again.
> Action speaks louder.

You're right. For economic sanctions to work, the Iranian people must choose to act. They are in a unique historical position with an opportunity to choose and prove kinetic wars obsolete.
"It worked on South Africa... in these cases the sanctions are for specific wrongdoings that the State can address."

Apartheid South Africa was justifiably asked to change their entire government system, and to hand over power from the ruling racial minority to the majority. Iran - even according to Pompeo's maximalist "12 demands"[0] - is being asked for far less: none of the demands relate to internal affairs, much less asking the mullahs to lose influence on the government.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/mike-pompeo-speech-12...
>"there is no such thing"

Huh?

iOS 12, iPhone X, swipe from top-right to reveal:

Carrier, VPN status, Battery life as a numeric %

... none of which appear in the notch-level "ears". Which is fine (tho were it up to me, I'd prefer VPN status somehow integrated w/ signal strength indicators for cell & wifi).
One thing that's left out of here is compile time. In one Swift project which was making heavy use of generics, I was able to decrease the compile time by double digit percentages by declaring types explicitly in a few places.

Also I've noticed in experimenting with Rust lately that use of type inference in code examples slows down the learning process. Often times I have to look up a few method signatures to figure out exactly what's happening in a given code block.

That said, I can't imagine working in modern languages without type inference altogether. I tend to agree with the last argument that the author doubts: if I repeat redundant type information several times in a scenario where it should be obvious, that makes my code less clear.
I may have been incorrect then. Perhaps my pace was 25 minutes remaining, that'd be 35 minutes of ingame time. While I didn't waste too much time and didn't die (dying is the biggest timewaster), I wasn't skipping any fights either along the way so definitely wasn't going anywhere near a world record pace.
Yes, true. But my point is sometimes we think in idealist terms where there are no negative effects to completely pulling out from international involvement.

Deterrence is good. Running roughshod like Bush and Obama resigned himself to is not good. But completely shutting it down is worse than even that.
If the bubble is only VC money as you suggest, then I don't see it having very strong negative effects outside of Silicon Valley.

I'm more worried about global economic crises than VCs losing their money.
Best thing is that some messages go through despite returning 500s. This leads to our integrations spamming our companies channels with redundant messages while retrying. :/
https://www.outline.com/ahGrMV
> international nations

What's an international nation?
Has the CTO and key technical staff retired after the Slack IPO ? :-) In the UK there is no real outage, although Slack struggles sending some messages and this can result in some messages appearing twice. This problem seems to be worse when communicating with offsite staff, onsite messaging seems to be fine.
The US (same as all countries ever) fought their wars to push forward their interests, no more no less. Of course the narrative the country tells itself is different (same as all other countries who fight wars), but the narrative is false.

If what you said was true, that people being "free" was so important to the US and the reasoning behind all foreign policy, then please explain away slavery? Segregation? Discrimination? Explain the wars of aggression, which despite their operational Orwellian names, have had nothing to do with freedom, or freeing oppressed peoples. Explain policies of supporting brutal right wing dictators throughout Latin America, the training of death squads, the military school of the Americas, the CIA coups / assinations of democratically elected leaders, the torture prisons, the giving of asylum to those not only reported of being involved in the above, but charged (in their home countries).

If what you said was true, that the US really was the first, noble country doing everything to "free" oppressed peoples the above wouldn't happen, but it does. Unless you mean freedom is for some, oppression for others, that could be argued perhaps somewhat true, but if so, then it negates what you are saying.

This isn't to single out the US, as I said the same is true for all global power countries since the beginning of time, but the narrative that the US only starts wars in a selfless manner is quite frankly ridiculous and naive beyond belief to anyone who has even an elementary understanding of world history as opposed to home state propaganda
I've had both good and bad experiences of Google map routes.

On the bad side, one time when going to a small festival I got routed down this tiny narrow lane that ended up at a dead end leading into a couple of fields. Luckily there was just enough room to turn round (though it was a squeeze) and I was able to find signs to the festival.

On the good side, the first time I ever used it to plan a route to my mum's in Wales it took me a a very odd direction, and I was paranoid that I was going the wrong way, but I got to my destination perfectly and a lot more quickly than the old routes I planned myself using a map.

I've also once or twice used it to plan a cycle route and it's found little cycle paths and back ways that I never knew existed and were a bit quicker (and a lot safer) than going along the main roads.
I remember wondering if AMD was about to die back then from Intel strangling it to death. They totally did this out of desperation, and I'd imagine they were not the only Western company that were faced with choosing between impending doom or fire sale to China.
When was the last time you tried the trackpads on different brand notebooks?
They've gotten better.
For me the Dell XPS 13 9350's trackpad was good enough that getting all the goodies (USB A and USB C, a repair guide, changeable standard M.2 SSD, SD slot, non crappy keyboard, a lot cheaper) compared to the MacBook Pro made me switch to the Dell notebook.
oh yeah

600kB of pure joy

taught me one thing though, having a hard coded IDE hurts. I missed emacs so damn much..
The replies to this status tweet seem to indicate it’s related

https://twitter.com/slackstatus/status/1144577107759996928?s...
Gotcha: Taking phishing to a whole new level
My typing speed is not the bottleneck for me either, but the double bookkeeping certainly is. It takes me from "problem solver" to "code writer", a context switch I gladly live without. Type inference helps with that.
Hacker News TV – made up from the best HN videos
They made the wrong democratic choice, they needed some freedom wars and liberty bombs to be shown who the right choice was
the slack app was telling me messages weren't sent, asking for a retry. perhaps people retry and succeed twice. but i've seen messages as sent twice in my window, but they disappeared after reload of the app/page.
In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
Paying Oracle to use their database software makes Oracle stronger. Paying China to use their manufacturing makes China stronger. That's the meta-game.

China strongly discouraged their citizens and companies from buying US products and making the US stronger, but the US encouraged their citizens to buy from China, making China stronger.

This worked out well for China.