skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. It's a thought that has gone through my head a few times. There are places that want you to conform to whatever it is we call "modern" software development, and I often find myself feeling uncomfortable about expressing an alternate viewpoint.

There's no conspiracy or anything going on here, and you're right it's wrong to assume. That's the general sentiment of what I was trying to say though.
I don't know why this isn't linked in the article, but I sought out Allison Walker's music and it's great: https://allisonwalker.bandcamp.com/track/3
Bring back commercial supersonic flight, everything else is just wasting time.
can't comment on the original comment you made here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20500181 because it's now flagged, so commenting here to state: There is a deafening irony in deplatforming a post arguing against deplatforming as a valid tactic. I hope it is not lost on the HN mods. ;)
Clearing all Github cookies seems to have fixed the issue for me. Otherwise I end up with "my least favorite unicorn".
That may very well happen over time. Non-Bay workers may bid down the price of coding labor, and remote workers from disparate markets will bid against each other, and eventually some "global market clearing price" may be established. Economic theory doesn't operate instantaneously, though. It manifests over time as individual actors bid and negotiate. Remote work is relatively new and its substitutability is being figured out. In the meantime companies may exploit the inefficiencies (and so might workers).
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You can check by going to chrome://safe-browsing/#db-manager
You come across as somewhat hostile but I'm going to assume good intent on your part, so thank you for the challenges on our stance.

So if you take a look at Recital 26 (https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/):

> To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly.

> To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.

> The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable.

> This Regulation does not therefore concern the processing of such anonymous information, including for statistical or research purposes.

So the piece about the principles of data protection not applying to personal data rendered anonymous is crucial. We believe that GDPR does not apply to us because of that. But even if GDPR did apply to us (we'll assume it does, that's always the best way to be), then our legal basis is that there's legitimate interest. As a website owner, it is in your legitimate business interest to understand how your website is performing - e.g. the most popular pages, the pages where people linger for longer, the pages where people bounce.
Why use this language? Fake news is this specific double speak created by Trump which has a different but related meaning to the words generally.

Fine, but I don't understand why so many people who he is attacking choose to legitimize this usage by parroting him at their own expense.

Note: Im not taking about the OP here, just Americans and American institutions generally
Because programmers always need a break. Don't go giving our bosses ammo. It's compiling, it's uploading, Github is down. Have some compassion.
Microsoft Invests $1B in OpenAI
GitHub has a really bad track-record on reliability.

I worked on our devops systems for a while. Every `git clone` had to have multiple retries, and even then there were multi-minute outages multiple times a month that caused things to turn red and caused distrust in our CI pipeline.

I tried hard to get my company to not rely on github as part of our CI process (as others in these comments indicate) but that's an expensive proposition for many - similar to relying on other third-party cdns like dockerhub, npmjs.org, etc.
You disagree because I assume, given the typical HN audience, that you live in a bubble of relative privilege, compared to the issues faced by African Americans (Ferguson), Native Americans (Land wars over pipelines), illegal aliens (ICE raids, DACA status), and Middle America (a Mad-Max style economic and social collapse, that had lead to an overflow of anger and frustration, and a political revolution, culminating in the election of DT.)

Of course none of these things seem like a big deal to you. You aren't one of the people on the front lines of these conflicts.

Notice how you don't see foreign leaders like Justin Trudeau, or Angela Merkel picking sides in these issues. That's because whatever their opinions on these matters might be, they don't want to piss off the the winner in these conflicts.

And yes, we absolutely have organized crime that is hired to beat people - what do you think happens at any of the large protests/demonstrations where the police are found to have engaged in illegal use of force? Just because the criminals wear uniforms doesn't mean they aren't criminals.
> a similar paradigm shift will occur after the first serious cyberwar occurs

I don't think we'll see a paradigm shift. Energy will still be the single most important strategic factor in electronic warfare. People love to harp on wind/solar/bio/etc... but even though they're growing in acceptance, they won't overtake the primary traditional means of energy production for many decades to come.
Satya Nadella interviews Sam Altman
I haven't seen any mention of csound in this articles or in the couple other recent similar packages which popped up in HN.
I don't want remote surveillance or control of the vehicle, otherwise it isn't my vehicle. My coworkers and I also hack into things that are said to be impossible to hack in to, so I never accept the word of a vendor.
Space is big and time is long.

You may have been thrown by a typo in my comment. Was "I've do doubt" but meant "I've no doubt"
I don't see how it would be cheaper to send a human to the Moon to retrieve samples than it would be to send a robot.
Webvan brings up old memories and I really thought of it as the future. My neighbors tried it a few times and I can remember it showing up. When I asked my parents to do it they thought I was crazy. Pretty sure cost had something to do with it. I’d still fill up a shopping cart just because.

Webvan failed but if the gig economy was around it could’ve succeeded for a time. These companies need non-employees to make it viable I believe.

Will Uber eats and the like become the next Webvan? Grocery store delivery? Paying someone to shop for you then picking it up?

IMHO, robots will not be picking people up and delivering our groceries in the near future. Your business can’t depend on the weather. Gig economies are not good for the gig seekers long term.
in germany, games like these are common. though more often during the day than at night, and usually with an elaborate backstory. think LARP. also each game was usually developed new, either from scratch or as a variation of a previous game. rarely the same game was played multiple times, though some groups have developed traditions to play the same game at each camp.
Robinhood is a predatory lending scheme. The vast majority of its users should not be trading anything other than indexes.
You can read more here and here
https://qz.com/1154306/hubble-sold-contact-lenses-with-a-fak...

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/9o6a0h/ysk_t...

listen to their "verification" message

https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hubble-contact...
> Both entirely fair comparisons. Where it gets tricky is what conclusions you draw from those comparisons.

Brilliantly put, I need to commit that to memory.

It reminds of the saying: "All models are wrong, some models are useful".
wouldn't it be better to go to the other side and use a lunar pulley system?
How much does the average open-source project contribute to society?
Sorry, there is no one tool to rule them all
"That's some powerful language for wooden sign."

Many people feel the same towards their country's flag, which is merely a piece of fabric.

Legitimacy is also in the eye of the beholder, with one's perception of history, cultural or ethnic identity, and politics playing significant roles.

All of these are of course abstractions, just like symbols like the flag and like the very notion of a country itself. Yet there's no shortage of people willing to kill and die for them.
> But in fact it led to a database corruption

You're saying you had a system that did redo failed writes to disk, unlike other systems discussed so far, and it managed to corrupt your database anyway?
Interesting. But the recommendation to limit the number of AP classes a student may take is unrealistic: with enough AP credits a student can get through college in 3.5 or even 3 years. This saves lots of tuition, and potentially relieves students' debt burdens.

If tuition were free/cheap this situation would be different.
Too late. I already moved to a different service and it was a pain.

The only thing that might bring me back is Zero knowledge privacy. There are smaller competitors that have this as a value add, but I'd trust Dropbox more, since Dropbox is a household name.
scheme & lisp actually have quite a history in computer music -

see snd editor, common lisp music

in the late 80s/early 90s, adding a processing core to a lisp/scheme was probably the easiest way to bootstrap an interactive/interpreted environment, and also give you the language features to design specialized syntax for your music language
It seems like a lot of things that sound an awful lot like fraudulent practices from a lay perspective don't actually reach a useful or provable definition when it comes to legal liability.

But saying something is sold by a specific party which I then choose to do business with, then substituting goods that are likely to be from any of numerous other parties, some of which I may be explicitly trying to avoid doing business with...I would at least be interested in hearing why that doesn't count as fraud or false advertising or some such, or maybe some trademarks issue.

At least, I'd love to hear a less rage-inducing justification for putting up with allowing this behavior than "it was buried in a ToS somewhere that lying about who my goods came from is okay, actually."
C++: Improve Multiplatform Code with __has_include and Feature Test Macros
Isn't the common sentiment now that Redux is no longer considered a must-have for all greenfield projects?

Also aren't communication apps a perfect use case for Redux due to the need to have events from multiple sources happen in a single store in a linear order?
wordpress exported as a static website
Yeah I got a really bad vibe when I got the supplement stuff and then pushing some questionable quality things. Really quickly my impression of Amazon changed.
Of all the companies to bite in the the dot-com crash, Webvan really did seem like it was truly viable.
Correct. If he had been voted in four years earlier I bet there wouldn’t have been Apollo 11 either.
Jumping ship is a great idea! Perhaps you'll find something you love or just gain some new appreciation for the platform you're trying to leave.

After using Manjaro Linux / XFCE for the past year, I never want to go back to Windows for work in the field of web programming. I had been working with Linux servers since the mid 90s, but mainly my work revolved around Microsoft tech until about the last 5 years when I switched almost completely to JavaScript/Typescript. I had tried various desktop distros many times, but Manjaro was the first one that was truly very stable for me without a lot of babysitting so now I run it on all of my workstations and work laptops.

Having used Macs for various purposes over the decades, I never want to use one again. Unfortunately, I need to keep one around to build iOS apps and to debug my iPhone or iPad.

So, where does that leave Windows?

Mainly on my TVs and gaming machines. Every TV in the house has a Windows box and we love them for having "YouTube parties", watching Netflix, Amazon Prime Video et. al. and of course for playing games. I have only one Windows workstation in case I need to do some C# programming or something, but I haven't done it in a long while.

If there were a Windows or Linux tablet with comparable battery life and stability as an iPad, I'd definitely use that instead because about 90% of what I do on my iPad is browsing the web. I have tried using some Windows tablets and they do work great, but battery life and stability are usually nowhere near the iPad. I really miss the "Quick Javascript Switcher" Chrome extension on my iPad. Ad-blocking seems to work alright in general, though I wish I had more control.

I just hate the locked-down feel of mac and iOS and I resent Apple daily as I use their devices, whenever I can't do something that I want such as being forced to copy and paste addresses out of Contacts into Google Maps because Apple is such a petty asshole about locking you into their shitty feature-barren digital properties. You can't just do whatever you want, how you want to do it. It's Apple's way or the highway as they say. I hope one day that they become completely irrelevant again like they were in the 90s. (I know it will probably never happen, but I can hope.)

Anyway, this is just a long way of saying that they all suck in some way and shine in other ways. I can't stand Apple but I still use their iDevices since they protect me from more bullshit than Android does. I hate the groups inside Microsoft that push ads and dark patterns, but there's no way I'm going to try playing Rocket League on Linux or Mac because I want to have a good time, not a headache. I love the dev division of Microsoft that is open sourcing everything, building great free products like VSCode and so forth too.
ES proposal: private methods and accessors in JavaScript classes
This is a different article, going into more of the technical details of the desktop update. The other post is for a more general audience.
Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut
tl;dr It's not an actual design.

"While not intended to represent an actual aircraft, Airbus’ “Bird of Prey” is based on realistic ideas – providing an insight into what a future regional aircraft could look like."

“Our ‘Bird of Prey’ is designed to be an inspiration to young people and create a ‘wow’ factor that will help them consider an exciting career in the crucially-important aerospace sector,” explained Martin Aston, a senior manager at Airbus.
> Aware of such criticisms, NASA is defending the Gateway. In May, the agency quietly distributed a white paper titled “Why Gateway?” [PDF] that makes the case for the space station.

Casey Handmer's take on that document, the best I know and strongly critical, is here:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/05/05/the-lunar-gate...
Polls show that ordinary people don't care about the Moon and Mars.

There is actually more support for planetary protection from asteroids, space-based observation of both Earth and Sky (people love the Hubble), resource utilization in space, etc... That is, the real Gerard K. O'Neil stuff.

If it were me I would set a goal of building a sunscreen at the Earth-Sun L1 point (e.g. planetary protection) using lunar or asteroid materials -- something like the lunar gateway would be an ideal crossing point for that. Space-solar power could be a byproduct of these efforts. This should have the urgency of Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers.)

The lunar gateway is also essential to long-term deep space exploration. One place where Obama was totally wrong was going to Mars without going to the Moon first. Since a Mars mission is going to be isolated from Earth for so long, we need to know that all of the technology is completely reliable and the best way to do that is get it to the point where going to the Moon is like riding the bus.

Radiation exposure in deep space is a known problem with the known solution of using space resources to build a radiation shield. This could be lunar or asteroidal rock and ought to be an early goal.

I am also very curious about Lunar geology and also the possibility that the moon has hidden sources of volatiles. People talk about the water, but you also need Carbon and Nitrogen as well as Phosphorous and Potassium to grow plants and run an economy. (Also you can't breath pure oxygen unless you want to end up like the Apollo 1 astronauts)
And what brand are you buying?

FWIW I have several Pis running 24x7 and have not had a single SD card failure. I usually buy high end cards but I also buy cheap cards (4GB cards)and a few Micro-Center house brand, for which I don't know the quality.

I've had one that has been running years, I think. Drives a monitor, looping a video where my wife works.

The only SD card failure I have experiences was in a camera.
The Pi doesn't necessarily need an SD card. I'm running it on NFS, booted over the network. Works just fine. No need to worry about burning out the SD card.
> Are the same levels of education (along with guilt and shame) being pushed in those areas?

There are efforts in progress[1]. Changing mindsets around littering, cleanliness of public spaces etc. takes time.

Keep America Beautiful has been running campaigns and lobbying efforts against littering for 2 generations.[2] According to this article[3] they only got started so they wouldn't have to face bans on packaging - which is what we're now seeing various Indian states enforce. Mind I think both are necessary: responsible packaging and responsible consumers.

> no praise about the good policies and progress we do have

Here's some sincere praise, from the bottom of my heart: I'm gratified to see that the vast majority of people in the US don't litter. They've taken the lessons and messages of the anti-littering movement to heart. Long may it continue.

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/india...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful

3. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-li...
> are some trans skeptics not transphobic: unequivocally yes

How?
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to burn up over the Pacific
> Confirm you meant to say stencil rather than solder mask there?

Yes, stencil is what I meant to say. The "mask" part of solder mask seems to throw me everytime I mean to say stencil, as in I want to mask the parts of the board _not_ to solder. Someways I wish English were more like Swiss/German or Hebrew.
The performance and resource usage of slack both on the desktop and in a browser indicates that “front end code” is not their strength.
Patriotism and nationalism are strong in China and this is not because of the government. In fact the government is an expression of this, not the cause.

China was attacked, invaded, humiliated from the end of the 18th century until 1945. This is what created a reaction that led to the collapse of imperial rule and to the rise of the modern parties (Nationalists and Communists).

The communist government did manage to rid the country of foreign occupation and to recover some breakaway provinces.

Hong Kong, lost to the British in the Opium Wars, was a very bitter symbol and a source of humiliation and most Chinese do credit the current government with getting it back at last.

This is a real source of legitimacy.

This is why showing the protests may be so potent on Chinese public opinion.

Protesters should be worried because if the Chinese government changes policy and starts showing these images this can only mean that they plan a more serious crackdown. Public opinion will demand it.
Actually a pretty smart design; raptors' spread primaries provide considerable extra lift. It probably can't be built as depicted without some pretty impressive materials science work and maybe a novel discovery or two, but that's okay; it isn't intended to be built as depicted in the first place. I'll be interested to see if anything comes out of it over the next couple of decades.
I think they were suffering from too much money that needed to be spent too quickly. If they had moved slower they may have become like amazon.
Basically I know what my costs are today. I take that number and adjust for inflation. I use 3% for that number. I know that some costs will go down, for example my house will be paid off. I know some such as health care will go up. I figure it will be a wash budget wise. That gives me a future number I need to adjust for.

I then take the current value of my savings, plus future planed savings and estimate their future value using several different rates of return. That gives me a savings rate that I need to shoot for, which I generally try to exceed that rate.
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I still have some life left on my current vehicle, but I appreciate the extra information. I suspect most of the electric cars have some aspect of network connectivity.
In case you're wondering what I mean:

"In the context of distributed computer systems, popularly referred to as Cloud-based computing environments, zero knowledge privacy refers to client-server relationships where a server or service is incapable of viewing a client's plain-text data." - cybersecurityforum.com
My phone will reboot randomly; depending on what layer the reboot happens at, there may be no flush command sent to the card.
Simultaneously handing 200 users is supposed to be easy?

Php Ubuntu MySQL and I slow down at 100.

Might be uncompressed pictures
> What good is a performance designation (A2) if no device in the real world supports it?

this is often the case for new hardware specs/protocols..

see also: any SATA/SCSI rev N+1, TCQ/NCQ, UASP, PCI n+1, etc.
"Sell to someone who needs a place to live"

This would have required me to take a huge loss on the property, which I would have had to pay out of pocket, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, which I did not have. I would have preferred to never rent at all.
Super nitpicky: sugar is 4 kcal/gram, but so is protein, and fats is 9 kcal/g, over double the caloric content.

By saying sugar is "pure calories," I guess you mean that it doesn't contain any fibre or micronutrients that might give it redeeming qualities (besides its taste), which is true.