skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone. Alan Kay asks if there's been any new ideas in computer science in the past 50 years:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-i...

He'd previously named spreadsheets and all the stuff from PARC:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/357813/remembering-a-quo...

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We're probably in a commercialization/application phase of ideas. For example, lisp ideas are still being applied in other languages.

Perhaps all the low-hanging fruit has been gotten?

Or perhaps it's a bit like DNA and RNA transfer: the most ancient part of all livings things. It's probably not optimal, but you make faster progress by building atop it rather than starting over. Similar for cell structure, multicellular organization, neurons (worms have 'em), vertebrate anatomy, mammal design etc.

Industry has a habit of reinventing the same ideas every decade or so, in a different language, operating system etc.

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There are new ideas, though mostly a combination of existing ideas at this point. The last example I noticed, several years ago, was jq, which applies unix streams and haskell to json processing. (Though its author wasn't an entrepreneur.)

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I suspect there are golden ideas just one or two steps off the beaten track. But how much work they'd be to productize (and whether the market would adopt them) is another question...

If no one else is doing it, it's an opportunity - for you.
YMMV, but all 50 U.S. states require some sort of notice for security breaches.
Seemed like the kind of place you have to drive around a lot, which you may or may not care about. Not super crowded == everything is spread out. The vegetation was lush and the public bike infrastructure was pretty legit downtown at least, so its got that going for it.
> Is this article arguing that poverty is never a result of bad personal decisions?

No I think this article is arguing that ending bad personal decisions (if at all possible) will not significantly affect poverty, but a safety net will.

Another interesting topic, which is not mentioned in the article, is how poverty causes bad personal decisions.
Are you sure you're not playing a game of 'No true Scotsman' here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
But in this regard the pilot wave is not different from the standard Schroedinger’s wavefunction, is it?
Do you have any feedback on my side project?
So their are approximately 2.5 billion Android devices in the world and less than 2% are sold by Google and they are the only ones getting updated and you don’t think that’s a problem?

But yet every single Windows PC sold by any vendor can still get updates directly from Microsoft.

In this case, the choice is between properly updated Android phones, poorly updated userspace iOS phones, and poorly updated base system Android phones. The obvious choice is a phone from the first group.

You are really claiming that Android has a better update strategy than iOS and is more secure? Which Android phones from 2011 are still getting updates? 2013? 2015? Heck 2017?
Google groups now require a login.
I think this only works if the teams are actually working on different products. If Team A and Team B are both writing to and reading from the same data stores, then I’d say they’re likely both working on the same product, and you have a multirepo.
The Institute for Justice has been challenging laws requiring licensing for hair braiders in the courts and has successfully overturned them in several states. https://ij.org/issues/economic-liberty/braiding/
Alpha, Barcelona’s Moonshot Factory
Los Angeles would be more ideal if you don't have a commute, I think. Just stay in your little beach community around Venice or Long Beach.

I'm often wishing New Orleans had a bigger tech scene, it's a beautiful town.
It took me about 5 years of grinding to get my foot in the door and earn enough experience to prove myself. It was a lot of hard work but I managed to do it, and now I'm paid really well and do more interesting work. It definitely takes time and effort, but it can be done.
Textio – The Augmented Writing Platform
“Is Apple still capable of innovation?” must be one of the most tedious and clapped out topics in all of tech. No one can even remotely agree on a definition of what constitutes “innovation” and yet people keep showing up to dash themselves against the rocks chasing their 5 minutes.

If you’re sitting at home playing armchair quarterback with this stuff, all I can say is I hope you’re not responsible for managing any actual money.
The Mariner 4 probe showed that there were no canals on Mars, and no open water, by 1965. Quayle's knowledge on the subject was over two decades out of date at the time, and he was supposed to be in charge of the space initiative.

Quayle was not a smart man, even by the standards of politicians.
1) found/join a startup (which doesn't do a lot of CRUD) 2) Go into teaching and teach others to build CRUD apps 3) Go into penetration testing (break other people's CRUD apps) 4) Skill up through online courses
'Fought for a long time, but today I gave up': V G Siddhartha's last letter
You lived in or near NYC and didn't know that right-on-red is illegal in the whole city, at all times? There's no possible confusion there (except maybe near the borders of the outer boroughs, but Manhattan is an island so pretty hard to claim you didn't know you were in the city).
Chrome Shows Install Button in Omnibox for PWAs
It's not quite clear to me how dabbling in Arduinos or Chatbots is leading to a career though.
VP of Engineering Tim Wagner Becomes Latest Exec to Leave Coinbase
Yeah, PC-DOS was able to invoke the BASIC interpreter included in the IBM PC ROM, but MS-DOS had to rely on GW-BASIC loaded as a separate executable, which might or might not be present. BootOS is the same, except that its BASIC is only 512 bytes and somewhat more limited than GW-BASIC, but astoundingly it is documented to include a full arithmetic precedence parser with parentheses. No string variables or floating point, but still, unbelievable.
Apple Won 30 Patents for Apple Pencil, Augmented Reality and 3D Face ID
It doesn't matter who's fault it is. What matters is "can we afford to help these people?" and for a lot of definitions of "help" we can, and most people think we should.
You could always look at ClojureScript. I know I am.

Array.flat() => flatten
Array.flatMap() => mapcat
String.trimLeft() => triml, trimr

Symbols are great but they’re much more useful when you can write them as (optionally namespaced) literals, which are much faster to work with:

(= :my-key :your-key) ;; false
(= :my-key :my-key) ;; true

Object.entries() and Object.fromEntries() are both covered by (into). You can use (map) and other collection-oriented functions directly with a hashmap, it will be converted to a vector of [k v] pairs for you. (into {} your-vector) will turn it back into a new hashmap.

And...all of these things were already in clojurescript when it was launched back in 2013! Plus efficient immutability by default, it’ll run on IE6, and the syntax is now way more uniform than JS. I’m itching to use it professionally.
Those are all excellent questions. The last question is very important, since employees who feels like they're 'stuck' in their position will become downhearted and lose motivation.
Yes to this.

Somehow it's easy to imagine that the Iraq war could happen for the benefit of some people's careers, and Halliburton's stockholders, while being a complete disaster for the US as a whole (not to mention for everyone else).

Yet when we discuss 19th C colonial adventures, the default assumption is that the much weaker states of the time certainly knew exactly what they were doing, for their own good. And could make sure that their generals, months away by post, certainly obeyed, and never got rich themselves...
That's the curse of UI development: improvements often mean breaking user habituation. Given how difficult the old UI was to learn, this is totally worth it. Blender needs more mainstream users.
Unless you are a PhD in finance working at one of a handful of the world’s top money managers, I guarantee that what you confidently refer to as your “edge” is gonna end up poking you in the eye. Age and experience will teach you that if you let it.
Of the 7.5 million existing rental homes that extremely low-income families can afford, 3.5 million are occupied by higher-income households. In other words, families who need affordable housing the most don’t necessarily get it.

From this article:

For every 100 families living in poverty on the West Coast, there are no more than 30 affordable homes

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...

Most people will absolutely not be getting the average amount. Some will be getting quite a lot less than the average.

(Someone with a PhD once told me: "The average human would have one breast, one testicle and a three inch weiner." Designing policy around averages is practically guaranteed to go bad places.)
It is so easy to make fun of the failed ones and try to predict the past, but once there were other government projects which ended up working and now we see as obvious right just because we know how history has gone, see for example ARPANET.

If the fifth generation would have worked in some degree now it would have some status and if ARPANET would have failed it would have been forgotten.This is how anglosaxon culture often works, making fun and parodies of competitor failures, etc. In other aspects of history the same historical rhetorical approach is often seen.
What Is Risk-Based Approach (RBA) in KYC/AML?
What point are you trying to make here?

How is the average retiree's income from Social Security relevant to the broader issue of poverty and homelessness among people of all ages?
If there are so many accessible bathrooms that there is no way a disabled person could possibly wait, the concern is moot. Of course. A super common situation /s
Dean Radin: Making Sense of Psi (Parapsychological Association 2019)
In the current proposal,

case (value) {
when { constructor: Buffer } ->
console.log("It's a Buffer!")
}

that doesn't handle subtying though and doesn't work across realms.
The 1960s was very long past the point where being something other than a WASP would keep you from the height of power. It sure as hell wouldn’t keep you from getting a loan if it wouldn’t keep you out of Congress, the Senate or the Governor’s mansion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed

Boss Tweed was elected to the US Congress in 1853. Irish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Smith

Al Smith was four time Governor of New York and Democratic nominee for President in 1928. Irish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pastore

John Pastore was Governor of Rhode Island from 1945-1950 and Senator from 1950-1976. Italian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Kleczka

The first Polish American was elected to Congress in 1918.
To clarify: Referring to peer reviewed papers on inter-species, rather than intra-species of course.
And you've summed up almost perfectly everything I hate about how math is taught, how math is discussed, and how ideas about math are communicated, when it really should be one of the most beautiful, insightful, and rewarding subjects of study in the known universe.
> the poor can afford amazing TVs but cannot afford to buy the content we rich get to watch.

I was surprised to discover the local public library http://kcls.org seems to have a greater selection of DVDs than Netflix. You can also check out a box set all at once instead of Netflix sending one DVD at a time, which is nice for binge watching.
That's orthogonal though. WSL would be fine even with GPLv3. It runs on a hypervisor. WSL poses no restrictions on modifying the source of the kernel. You can fork, rebuild and run. You can't on a tivo device.
For every 100 families living in poverty on the West Coast, there are no more than 30 affordable homes

There are 45 more states in the contiguous US that are not on the west coast.....
On Chrome for Android, the URL is not editable unless you press an edit button, which displays a text box. I imagine this is another step in that direction, and if you click "edit", the text box still shows the whole thing.

Compare with how email headers work in gmail. You don't see email addresses anymore by default, but there's a dropdown that shows them.
Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records
I wonder how Capital One could have been GDPR compliment. Surely they weren’t going into these S3 files and deleting customer data when asked to.
How do you know it sounds like garbage if you haven’t even looked at it?
From the parent post:

If you live on Social Security as your only income and can no longer work, we don't have any market based housing for you and many government housing projects have wait lists that are years long.
Many people, other than Christian Assyrians, still speak some Aramaic daily!

For example the _Kaddish_, one of the central Jewish prayers when praying with a minyan, is mostly in Aramaic.
The fact that AAPL goes on regular stock buy back sprees with its warchest instead of risking innovation helps with the stability of what should be a declining stock price.
Oh interesting you can match on that!

However I think my point stands that javascript has runtime conceptions of types that go beyond duck typing.
DIY Solar Panels on Nissan Leaf
One of the first web browsers in the 90s was written by one dude in four days, with the whole GUI. A browser doesn't necessarily mean CSS and JS.

Sometime in the past couple months, there was a link on HN to a project also by one dude, who's implementing a CPU on breadboards, with wires. (Can probably be found by the score filter from the ‘undocumented features’ of HN: the post got >2000 points.)

Computers aren't necessarily gigantic corporate undertakings.
How to ask for help with coding bugs
You can simply disconnect/blind the sensors, I’m sure the rest of the phone will continue to work fine.
What do you mean when you say employee happiness? Because this list is pretty much what I'd reckon constitutes employee happiness.
Bogota, Colombia. For sure.
Previous post on the 'discovery' for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721741
According to 538 Hillary was going to win in a landslide too
It looks like AOSP. There is no extra eye candy or frills, and that's not even remotely their focus.
I assume it's mostly due to misunderstanding. It's been a long time since the open source definition was adopted and we're seeing more and more people now who don't know the history.

People who have been using a term their whole lives might not have any idea where it came from, or that it even has an official definition.
Not the creator but this is pretty good if you are serious about finding remote opportunities:

https://findwork.dev/

There's good amount of filters to make it work for you.
Ah fellow Queenslander, I'm about an hour and a half north of Brisbane. My grandparents own a farm about that same distance north of Brisbane as well though.
Pretty sure funnelling some of that money into health and education would be a better deal for the average US family.

American multinationals would however argue more needs to be done to protect their overseas investments and access to markets. Just don't expect them to foot the bill.

"For globalisation to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonald-Douglas, the designer of the F-15, and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technology is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps." - Thomas Friedman
I'm from Norway. The backside of the medal when it comes to welfare services of that kind is the rather humiliating process you have to go through to actually get them. I've heard many stories about this.

Yes, you'll get help if you do as they say, but it can feel very invasive at times. Some clueless bureaucrat will need to know about your finances and all your medical issues, and if it's not a clear-cut case, these clueless people will need to form opinions about how sick you are and how much help you need, and they'll often be wrong, and you'll have to fight them.

It's better than the alternative, of course, but it's not anywhere near being the utopia that U.S. liberals like to describe it as.
They're just using us to promote their own agenda.

With that said, I do find myself thanking heaven that I was born in this country from time to time.
Except perhaps Google is actually better at search because it knows so much about you.

In that case a Google without the privacy issues is basically the same as duckduckgo.
> Another presidential candidate said he would “clear the swamp”. How did that work out?

She's never been a presidential candidate, but what do the words of a pathological liar have to do with anything? That no-one can be trusted and everyone will always do the opposite of what they say they'll do?

If you've followed the House meetings AOC has participated in you would've noticed that she's been committed to exposing corruption and corporate greed that she's brought to light. She's also taken a public pledge to refuse any corporate PAC money that she's highlighted (in another House Meeting) was a common cause of corruption.

So I'll take her word over a serial liar who's been favorable towards companies, lobbyists and foreign nationals that frequents his hotels and earned him more than $80M in revenues.

Regardless this thread has become unnecessarily political. Her point was about the negative consequences of Buy Backs.
Santa Barbara
Not my area of expertise, but someone with depression or similar disease should be able to interview and function well in company for most of days. Particularly someone very smart may have problem with communication intensive roles, but may excel in repetitive/manual tasks.
How do you know that they didn't look at it?
That's what Mario is for. https://python-mario.readthedocs.io/
Sounds like they focused on making a small product for a specific niche and (now that it's taking off like wildfire) they are fixing things.
Folmura: Randomly generated visual with randomly generated formula
If you want more than the abstract, the friendly Russian site is now at .se ;) Pinpointing the spatial location of separate "selves" makes the hypoteses more testable (by examining split-brain patients or temporarily disabling one hemisphere od healthy ones). Actually, the second paper concludes that while the view that each human has two concurrent consciousnesses is most likely wrong, the reality might be even weirder (multiple intermingling "selves").
support for webhooks is already there on 1.4.0
Back when I maintained postgresql on cygwin I did it because if its clean codebase. But eventually I got struck when trying to fix a build system bug when creating importlibs. On all other build systems it was easy to fix the bug, but no so with postgresql. I eventually gave up after years, and I think it's still broken.

A special mingw tool to create importlibs is/was broken on 64bit. I think it was called dlltool. Normally you'll just need to add a flag to the linker to create that.

So no, postgresql not.
I thought of tweleve step programs reading this article.

Things get culty. But what community doesn’t look inclusive and strange to an outsider? Sports? Reps/Dems? Any system not your own?

I think its a lovely article. Spurs up alot of thoughts. Especially when being wrong is considered so bad in the US.
Your observation is correct. No degrees are needed there is a lot of stuff to build.
Highly recommend. I dabbled a bit and almost got a remote-control draw-bot working. Sometimes you gotta move the pan from the back-burner to the front-burner.
Apple Contractors Hear Sex Acts, Drug Deals in Siri Recordings
Why would a PR release be any more reliable than a news article? At least mainstream news articles try to maintain the appearance of being unbiased :-)
I also see this use case.

Why? Ongoing "battle" between a large CMS (AEM) and a more modern SPA using microservices. Our claim is that the SPA is actually a superset of everything. It can SSR (like the CMS), it can also get data to display (like the CMS). All that is missing is a service for such data (we have other services delivering domain specific data).

Now the problem is not in a data service, but rather in the whole infrastructure around it - to make it easy for an content editor to use. These people like drag and drop and they would love your solution.

Great job!
The Toledo browser Biyubi is claimed to support JS, but I suspect its support may be rather outdated.
>A super common situation /s

I don't understand the "/s." The public restrooms I encounter have either one or two stalls, and one of them is always accessible. Accessible toilets are never less than 50% of all toilets in the building. Occasionally there might be one wheelchair user in the building.
I just tried viewing the link in Private Browsing and it seemed to work. Not sure why you would be getting kicked to login.
Agreed, not good for mental health. Story:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
Why Bogota over Medellin?
But where does the misunderstanding come from? Where are they getting the fraudster definition from? Do they see threads like this and think “I should be like that guy who has all those people yelling at him that he's wrong,” or is there some reservoir of memetic infection out there where this kind of thing goes unchallenged?
It's a shame YC/HN can't find an article that doesn't require signing-up to read.

Given the huge amount of articles that require registration to read, and given HN's supposed freedom of information bend, this seems incomprehensible.

Why can't the mods find a more usable article? Are you that bereft of resources?

How about instead of whining about forcefully-conversant people like myself, you actually allow the conversation to happen with an article that we can all read? That's the point of this site, and if the mods can't allow that, they should step down in favor of someone that can step up to the job.

In before dang and stcb only highlight this comment as 'why people are toxic' while ignoring why they themselves are adding to the toxicity.

If either of you are actually REAL about your site rules, you'll e-mail me explaining why, or you'll talk here.

Only cowards try to hide behind rules without a solid and concise explanation of why they exist.
Extremely interesting YouTube talk also. You learn a lot about making good coffee.
Eastern Tennessee in the Smokey Mountains, preferably near a college campus.
I searched for logfmt and found your website – https://brandur.org/logfmt

What I can't find described for logfmt is how to handle escaping special characters in the keys or values. Specifically the quotes and equals.

JSON defines this very well, but Splunk simple key=value logging formats suffer from escaping and parsing problems.
I am not necessarily opposing string interpolation as a language feature, but I have an idea how could it work as a library. Implement string suffix and overload comma operator or overload reminder operator. It would look like this:

"Hello {} {}!"i, 2, "worlds"

Or with reminder operator as in Python:

"Hello {} {}!"istr % istr(2, "worlds")

But yeah, enough of this.
It seems this change hasn't rolled out on Chrome 76 on a Mac. I don't see any change.

(I don't have it on Android yet.)
As far as I can tell the only reason such an insane result was possible is because the transmission was in clear air. Using LoRa in a city you'd be happy to get 10 km.
For what it's worth, the ambition on the left over here (in the US) is to eliminate means testing for programs as much as possible. Healthcare problems? Free healthcare for everyone, no forms required. No home? Everyone gets a free / low cost house. We aim to do much more than that (give control of the economy to the people), but a robust welfare state is a good start.