skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of interesting to see this release and previous ones mention 'performance fixes' (V8 and Blink does all the work) that it brings, yet the job postings for desktop software engineer requiring Electron experience also put data structure and algorithms and what I see here is a runtime that is very expensive in both space + time complexity. It makes no difference in using a different language with a faster runtime to combat this.

Imagine if I were to write a 'next-gen' CAD program or an alternative 3D modeling program in Electron. I'm not so sure if the manufacturing or the games industry would take a second look at that. But in our industry, it is seen as normal for our text editors, ide's, git clients and video editing software and our messaging clients to be expensive in memory and cpu time.

Can't we do better than this? Or do we have to accept and depend on Google to create our desktop software?
Can the results be used ti justify off-label use of normal ketamine?
> 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.

No, it's not.

There's a subset of the left that has that ambition, but there's a subset of the left that subscribes very hard to the idea that doing so is improperly aiding the wealthy (even though “eliminate means testing” mostly means “consolidate means testing into the tax system rather than duplicating the income verification function redundantly across various programs plus the tax system”.)

Now, it's true that the thought leadership on the left is mostly in the former group, and the public figures talking up the latter position are mostly center-right neoliberals. But they are using the specific rhetoric they are using because it appeals to a wide swathe of the rank-and-file left and allows them to seem progressive when what they are actually doing is defending the ability of the rich to preserve advantages that exist for them in the status quo system while blocking progress to universal access. (And that's true whether it's healthcare or college funding or whatever else.)
I see people talking about refuellig time of hydrogen beein an advantage. Although most videoes I see on youtube seem to use ~10ish minutes - and it depends if the pumps has the correct pressure). Recharging an electric car is usually done in a few seconds of active time (plugging in the cable when you park), only if you exhaust the range during one trip you have to wait for recharging.
Sounds like the I'm feeling lucky button will finally be used and abused by Google. I already hate that search is merged into the url bar even in Firefox if I type an internal hostname sometimes instead of trying to resolve it googles it or duckduckgo's the damn hostname even at times where it ends in .com from an intranet url I dont understand why its so stupid in those cases either, Chrome being worse than Firefox in this regard. I dont mind it on mobile where real estate on my screen is already expensive.
Facebook App Development: How to Register It?
As a kid, i used to muck around with a 3d modelling tool called anim8or - it was around 2mb. Seems that they're still around - (http://anim8or.com/). Current zip download is 4.7mb - No installation just an exe in a zip file. :)
Not quite 4k, but MicroPython runs on 16K of RAM.
Also by Óscar Toledo, chess in 1k of JS: https://js1k.com/2010-first/details/750
Looking at this now, it's amazing to compare with the public criticism that Werner Vogels gave to the face of the corporate blogging movement back in 2006.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/naked_answers.h...

Back then when he claimed that Amazon did a very good job of being customer focused, I was thinking: maybe, but whatever, I'm not sure what's special about their customer experience compared to others. Today, I'm thinking: wow, now that's a real example of audacious vision both executed and realized.
Yeha they merhed the URL and search boxes. I am not a fan. Now and then my browser thinks a local hostname is actually a search term.
> It's more efficient to power your car with oil directly than to burn the oil for electricity and then power your car with that.

Please run numbers and you may be surprised.
Some preeminent foreign statesmen rulers who have gotten / who are getting their surgeries done in the United States.

Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, QC a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010. [1]

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2005 to his death in 2015. [2]

Moses Veerasammy Nagamootoo is a Guyanese politician and writer who has been Prime Minister of Guyana since 2015. [3]

[1]
'Danny Millions' Williams heads south for heart surgery

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/02/03/danny_million...

[2]
Waldorf-Astoria Bumps Guests for King Abdullah's Entourage /
The Room Is Booked, Until the Hotel Says It Isn’t

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/14road.html

[3]
Prime Minister Nagamootoo to Undergo Heart Surgery in the United States

https://www.thewestindianonline.com/prime-minister-nagamooto...

edit: typo; rephrased sentence
Hire Developers
> We don't expect people to understand the details of how their car engine works

You may be amused, but in Europe the technical details of a car engine, transmission, breaks, etc, and how to perform a quick repair have been part of the drivers test (and was still, when I made mine). It was a three parts test, involving a technical part, a legal part, regarding rules and laws regulating traffic, and, finally, a practical test. (Similarly, understanding how analog radio works was part of high school curriculum.) This was based on the conviction that dealing with a technology also afforded a basic understanding of it, not the least for legal/liability reasons.

Analogously, just making that red "No SSL" alert "go away" may be not enough. It may be preferable, if users were to understand what this is and why it is important, what the possibles consequences are, etc, if they would be actively looking for this, if they would and could confirm the mode of their interaction. Not the least for legal/liability reasons.
(Teach them first to never engage in any critical interaction unless there's a verified, secure connection as indicated by such and such icon or signal. Facilitate them in asserting this. Then put on an additional warning light, but don't replace the former by the latter. There's no "easy mode", no "My First Sony" – which was, by today's standards overly complex, anyway –, when it comes to your livelihood.)
With regards to weight - hydrogen tanks are heavy, even if the fuel is light. The tanks on a Toyota Mirai weight 87.5kg (193 lbs). In addition you need the fuel cell, piping, more wiring.. The actual weight advantage is not as great as it might seem.
There is lack of vision/innovation in the actual photo-taking too.

All high-end phones take tens or sometimes hundreds of raw frames for every photograph, and then combine them to reduce noise and get more dynamic range than the tiny lens and sensor would otherwise provide. The combining process involves using a gyro to remove camera shake and optical-flow to undo the effect of anything moving in the scene.

As far as I know, no DSLR camera does this. You need to be able to take ~100 frames at 120fps or more, and either store it as RAW (ie. 10's of gigabytes of data), or process it realtime. Phones process it realtime on the GPU or with dedicated silicon.
If the £1bn investment from Jaguar-Land Rover IS included, then investment is on a par with 2017 and better than 2018.

Also, this is the real story:
Spoiler: It's not Brexit

https://www.businessinsider.com/automobile-car-industry-prod...
> That's a bit light on details. Does it have hardware acceleration? Replay attack protection? Perfect forward secrecy? What are the underlying algorithms? Implementation verified by whom?

More details here: https://github.com/jedisct1/charm
Until you reach age 18 in the US you have very limited civil rights. Freedom of speech, assembly, bearing arms, due process, and privacy are restricted. On the up side for kids, the amusement park tickets are cheaper and the prisons are slightly nicer.

And in the US, parents would face criminal charges for things Japanese parents routinely do, like sending their kids to the store alone. Unfortunately the US is filled with plusungood sexcriminals (citation needed) and weapons (price of freedom) so we can’t do it in the land of freedom.
No it isn't. Men's Rights Advocates are concerned with several very serious and very real topics:

• Unequal treatment under law, especially in family and divorce law.

• False accusations, especially of rape and the general unwillingness of the state to punish women who make false accusations, or even reveal their names. This is a much larger problem than anti-MRAs (feminists) are willing to admit.

• The excesses of feminism and the general prevalence of man-hating, e.g. the fact that Sarah Jeong got a high placed job at the New York Times despite having tweeted a lot about how much she hates white men, the way men are being excluded from jobs because of their gender.

• "Intactivism", i.e. being against circumcision

And a bunch of other topics.

This author was making some possibly insightful observations about the flat earth movement. But when he claimed people who care about men's rights are the same as people who believe the Earth is flat he lost all credibility immediately. He wouldn't say that about those who care about women's rights, would he now? That's just a totally hate-based and unhinged position.

How can I trust his evaluation of flat-earthers (who I know nothing about) when he appears to genuinely believe that people who want equal treatment under law for men and women are delusional?
That was an example on the other direction. A pure chirality was safe, but a racemic mixture was dangerous. Here we know the racemic mixture is safe, which strongly suggests that either chirality in isolation is also safe.
I don't know if there has ever been a major drug crisis, Japan has a long history of using cannabis for hemp based products but the use of it recreationaly wasn't really a concern domestically. Though the figures around drug use and overdose might be under-reported, even Japanese doctors will report drug use to the police thus deterring people from being honest.

The pressure to ban cannabis outright came from US influences when Japanese legislation was passed in 1948, meth infact is actually the most used illicit drug today.
Legendary lost game found on Team17's Amiga
Why should the stock price be declining? Also companies do buybacks when the stock is cheap, not exepensive.
It seems like you have three choices at the moment for desktop development (for non .NET) that I am aware of.

* C++ and GTK or other UI framework : hard but excellent performance.

* Java and Swing UI framework : easier but less performant.

* Javascript and Electron : easy but terrible performance.

Which one will prevail?
It seems to use the conversion bonus where you discard an old fossil car to a new more efficient one, it can't use the EV bonus because it needs to be a new car, in this case this is a 5000€ bonus, if the law was changed to accept conversion it would make the whole thing free.

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F34014
Paying Bay Area prices when you don’t have to seems silly.
The EU is already investigating Apple management of the App Store. Regulation is coming and one has to wonder much walled and profitable the garden will stay.
I have heard it is pretty easy to become an Israeli citizen if you are jewish. They have socialized healthcare.
I expect them to do it when they feel it will hit harder the competitors, for example if one year they expect to lose market share, better reduce the profit of the others until they are ready to beat them up. It is like when a software giant gives away some technology as open source so the competitors cannot make profit on the previous market segment they occupied, and keep closed source the biggest ROI segment.
If that were true, the law would still privilege men. It doesn't - in most western countries it now radically privileges women, on the basis of gender.

Men may be "dominant" numerically but the author of this blog post was a man. Numerical dominance doesn't help if a large subset of men want women to have more rights than men out of some misguided identity politics.
VSC isn't commercial, though it's probably narrowing the market for commercial IDEs.
There are better alternatives, in almost every possible way. The problem is they aren't that popular. And you can't reuse code (and coders) with web version of your app.
It seams you forgot to list stupidity and as one of the reasons
If not to do with brexit, why are three of the six examples in the UK? It's disproportionately represented.
I often use a VPN over TCP port 443 from a network that blocks all UDP traffic. It works quite well in practice.

I use a wired connection, all routers and switches on our side are oversized professional units and the uplink is a beefy fiber link, so my packet loss rate is basically zero. Your results may vary.
Python and TkInter : always better than electron
When we speak about affordability, Hero and TVS comes in our mind, here are <a href="https://www.motorcyclediaries.in/bike-news/best-scooters-und... scooters under 50000</a>
> Men may be "dominant" numerically

No, they are dominant in power despite not being dominant numerically. (Women outnumber men.)
My job is remote. I decided to relocate from big European city to very small asian tropical island in the middle of nowhere. Best decision ever.
Go into Netflix or YouTube on your phone. Press the cast icon.
>Didn't Gmail start as someone's 20% project,

Gmail's creator, Paul Buchheit, said it was not a 20% project:

https://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/

excerpt: >Gmail is often given as a shining example of the fruits of Google’s 20 percent time, its legendary policy of allowing engineers to divvy off part of their work hours for personal projects. Paul Buchheit, Gmail’s creator, disabused me of this notion. From the very beginning, “it was an official charge,” he says. “I was supposed to build an email thing.”
Why are top speeds of 4G not reached?
Its a valid point, the average computer in the Western world is at least 4GB.

However when I was in South Africa a few years back they were still running with XP and < 2GB RAM with HDDs that I saw in a school and hotel.

Ok, hardware components are cheaper and easier to come by but we shouldn't stop caring about system resource usage.
>Even if it it was possible I think the bigger question is do we want to live in a society where any and all conversations can be ease-dropped on? I get the point that they want it for investigations, but its been proven over and over that if there is a way it will be abused.

I'm going to defend what is probably the minority opinion on this site and say yes, I'd rather live in a society where communication is open to surveillance.

The reason being that the situation appears to me very binary (and I think most people would agree on this), either there's strong encryption in which case almost all communication is not subject to surveillance, or the state has the capacity to eaves-drop.

The first scenario scares me because it essentially eliminates the ability to engage in surveillance when it is needed. Be it financial fraud on a wide scale, terrorism, crime, radicalisation or whatever else, and society has a vested interested in having the capacity to prevent this.

I don't think the two most cmmon criticisms hold up. The first one is that surveillance affects many people adversely. I don't think that's true. Nobody has an interest in eaves-dropping on average citizens, it's simply a waste of resources. The second one is the slippery slope line of argument you brought up. I don't think there is a lot of evidence that, in states of law, surveillance has been abused or employed illegaly.
those are the ones without a goal in their life
Qt & PyQt?
The interesting challenge would be when the first cubesats launched by private persons reach the moon and send back a picture of earth rise.

From what I can tell, cubesats might be able to get ride-alongs on future launches towards the moon, so that is basically what this challenge would be hinging on.

You'd have to figure out long distance communication, a simple LoRa module won't cut it. Your power needs to handle 3 days of travel, possibly without power until the sat gets deployed and sees the sun for the first time.

You'd have to figure out how to orient and point a camera outside the stronger parts of the earth's magnetic field (commonly cubesats seem to rely on magnets to orient themselves).

Then you'd have to bring a camera with decent quality and that works in vacuum along, snap a picture or ten and finally send them back.

It would be awesome if I, as a private person, could organize and launch that.
I would guess most breaches of this nature go entirely undetected forever.

How many companies actually go through the audit logs without a reason to do so?

The vast majority of systems are designed to keep the bad guys out, rather than raise alarms when the bad guys have already stolen the crown jewels. If you want that, check out [1].

[1]: https://www.serverthiefbait.com/
Art is a profession which can be learned, you dont need to be gifted or have any talent to start. But like with many professions, art takes time and people underestimate the amount of time which is required to get to a decent level (multiple years of practise and exercise).
Witchwood (Team17) Cancelled Tech Demo
And in the default configuration I often hit the Siri button when wanting to press Touch ID or (sometimes) backspace.

The TouchBar is nice on paper, actually adds to some applications, but the current implementation is a world of hurt.
it will count toward the subsequent six months figures
Only the first one has my respect. The second one I'm neutral towards, the others fail as human beings in my view.
Powerful Frequency Tones at Once – Achieve Astral Projection – 8D Audio
Apple’s P/E has been pretty stable since 2008. Moreover, the average P/E of the S&P has been higher than Apple’s over this period as well. Apple hasn’t been a growth company (in Wall St’s eyes at least) for a long time.
Ironically, because Tcl was made to run GUIs on very limited hardware (old Unix machines, 30 years ago) it runs really nicely on slow Android tablets.

Its focus on asynchronous programming, rather than relying on threads, really helps, as does the small memory footprint (105mb of RAM used for my app).

Java-based apps on the same tablet that I supply with the espresso machine run at a crawl, whereas my Tcl app feels normal.
Yes? Nobody's denying that it's easy to get very good medical care very quickly if you have enough money! That's of course, completely irrelevant to the topic of this discussion, or, if anything, emphasizes the inequality inherent in the American system.
I wonder why there was a "Scripting language" dropdown menu, was anything but HyperTalk ever possible?
Google Groups has a weird state, if it detects some account cookies, it forces you to login, but it works fine if not. It's been around for years.
Tech demo of the MS-DOS version of the game:

https://archive.org/details/witchwoodtechdemo
443 is a nice default since it's the most likely port to be both unblocked and left alone by middleboxes. But I agree that it's not exactly a unique feature. "DSVPN - Dead Simple VPN over TCP" would have been a better headline
PhotoStructure for Desktop runs on macOS, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Desktop, is packaged with Electron (I'm alpha testing 6.0.0 today), and will be commercially licensed when the closed beta ends.

I'm also preparing a PhotoStructure for Servers build that is electron-less, and uses either docker or snap (it's how I run it on my NAS). I'm looking for more beta testers for this headless build, if you're interested.

https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ has more background and signup information.

Disclaimer: I'm the author.
Green shoots: Indian state introduces guns-for-trees scheme
It's not Brexit! It's not Brexit! It's not Brexit! La la la la I can't hear you!
This startup is in France with a 44gCO2eq/kWh electricity using 6gCO2eq/kWh nuclear electricity. Here EV emit 80% less than desiel car when you consider their whole life cycle.
You don’t have to believe in conspiracies. It‘s likely just lobbying and corruption.
Firstly, that chat doesn't measure popularity, it measures "how justified were they".

Also, I think that a honest reading of that chart would be that there is the Vietnam War (with very low justification), WW2 (with high justification) and then two subgroups: WW1 & Civil War with moderate justification, and Korea, Gulf War 1 and Afghanistan with lower levels, but still significant levels of justification.
I don't know how people manage without at least 5 weeks of holidays per year. I know i have troubles without at least 7.
There was a plan by Google that makes sense and we should move forward to, it's a shift in mindset:

- current situation: http is normal, https with bad certificate is bad, https with good certificate is good

- future situation: http is bad, https with bad certificate is bad/acceptable, https with good certificate is normal

i.e instead of telling people to check for the padlock icon and the green name that should be everywhere, tell people to check for the red warning that indicates a problem. I think it's lifting the expectation to something more secure by default.
It is not undefined behavior. atoi() returns 0 if no valid conversion could be found. Assuming argv[++i] is not out of bounds of course.

Useless comments are bad in part because they are sometimes not updated as the code changes, and no code analyzer will catch that. There is a reason some people say that comments are lies.

Most common example of what I've seen:

// set foo to x
foo = x;
// set foo to x
bar = x;
Electricity is not free, though, so you would have to subtract the price for electricity from your consideration.
Or synthetically generated fuels (eg audi e-diesel, which is a diesel, but I think a petrol equivalent can be generated), which can be done today, but are very costly for general use. I don't think the cost of fuel for a classic car will be a huge issue even if it is very high (10x of todays cost).
Agreed. I think NW.js is great (https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js). Especially the binary blob feature which can be used to compile JavaScript to V8 bytecode, and obfuscate portions of your source for security purposes.
Tim Cook Confirms Apple Card Rollout to Begin in August
The problem is that your mental model of how a boiler based espresso machine works is not how they are actually wired.

Here is how they actually work: 9 bar of pressure are generated between the pump and a flow constrictor which is placed before the boiler, pumping cold water into the boiler. This cold water then displaces the water in the boiler, which then gets pushed to the espresso.

Thus, the final pressure depends on the compressibility of the steam (or airspace) in the boiler. In practice, you get about half a bar less at the espresso than the pump got behind the boiler. But, the real numbers depends on lots of factors, many of which are invisible.
But there are delayed weapons and it's also possible to use weapons that other nations use. Even if the military thinks that know who did it doesn't mean the people will believe it, especially when there are disinformation campaigns. You can't fight a war if your own population doesn't support you/it. A hostile nation doesn't have to be able to do this completely undetected, they simply have to create enough doubt.