skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching people fight Javascript never gets old. Keep yelling at those clouds, fogies.
Google'a shit is more easily mitigated if you're smart and want an only slightly less great browsing experience
> Erlang's syntax is not difficult or complex

I will say a lot of it does feel dated & crusty though, especially when digging thru the documentation. And the different forms of iodata, list, binaries, bitstrings, and other string-y things is super confusing in the beginning.
Watching television without a licence in the UK is actually a criminal (rather than civil) offence, and hundreds of thousands of purple are convicted each year of the offence.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/24/in-court-non...
Where do you stay that programmers are in such high demand?
8 Engineers Share Candid Feedback about 1:1 Meetings
In response a BBC spokeswoman rejected claims that the vans are a hoax: "Detector vans are an important part of our enforcement of the licence fee. We don't go into detail about how many there are or how they work as this information might be useful to people trying to evade the fee." AKA they do nothing other than scare people who wouldn't otherwise pay the license fee into paying it.
A more recent similar expedition was the Falkland war of 1982 where the British, at high cost, sent a force to retake the Falklands when they were siezed by Argentina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
Linux/FOSS: always the bridesmaid, never the bride. They sit under massive proprietary stacks silently churning through data making large corps billions. They run the internet yet no one sees them. Beasts of burden really. Facebook, Google, Android, pretty much all of these large orgs and their products use FOSS and Linux but none of it is visible. And it never will be because there's no profit in free software. There's only profit in controlling users. You can control users using FOSS unless you cripple it using proprietary upper layers.
It always supported CI/CD, they just changed their marketing strategy from "No it's not just CI/CD" to "Yes we have CI/CD now"
Our Journey to Driverless Cars
HN is full of this stuff. These people don't even understand what modern JS is.
But that is exactly what I like about it. I rarely have to use regex, but when I do have to write or change something I always have to spend 15 mins reading (remembering) most of the things about it again, this would help me understand my old code way better.
Or even more in their pockets if they just got better, cheaper Android phones.
Now that's just silly.
I had a junior dev show me a neat site where you can paste in a Java thread dump and it performs an analysis. After explaining why it's a bad practice to send diagnostic details to an un-trusted third party I think he understood, but it seems like every week I'm finding people using ngrok, unauthorized password managers, grammarly, JWT parsers, Base64 encoders, and all manner of questionable tools.

I too wonder if I'm out of touch, if I'm tilting at windmills.
" The comments on this site are superb. "

I would agree with this... with caveat. The comments on this site are superb when discussing highly technical topics within the STEM sphere. However, the comments here tend to trail off to not much more insightful than average population for the following:

* Lifestyle posts (keto diets, IF, cold therapy, supplements, probiotics...)

* Drugs (microdosing LSD, ketamine therapy...)

* "Identity" politics (female-in-tech topics become a hotbed of debate, much of it not insightful)

* Nuances in economics or international affairs

At least IMO unless you can broadly anticipate that it's a subject that most commentors have significant education on, the discussion generally falls to either spitballing or anecdotes, neither of which are more insightful than a general public.
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The left is not a racist, hateful group

You should look into the beatings of the Marines going to a dance by members of Antifa. The Antifa assailants said vile, racist things to their non-white victim.

they do not coordinate and perform mass shootings. This particular problem is not shared equally by both sides.

There are calls for arming on the Far Left, and documented cases of their acquiring and training with weapons, while planning for conflict. The Dayton shooter thought of himself as Antifa.
Interesting and good points. Thanks!
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I've formed a firm opinion that nation states with borders restricting people's movements and economical freedom based geographical citizenship is a leftover 20th century concept that we need to move overcome.

Grew up in Europe and I see no reason why others shouldn't have the freedom of movement that I have, practical consequences aside. In my book it is (or should be) a fundamental right. It's more than just travel and tourism, it's also the right to settle as long as you comply with local law.

I've been saddened and disillusioned to see the rise of support for restricted border control in my home country during the past decade.
Completely agree. If you know good old regular expressions, then this rxe definition is actually harder to read.
This is how APL programmers must feel when they look at code in popular programming languages.
I replaced the screen and battery by myself on other iPhone 6. First time I damaged cable of the front camera. 5€ used with shipping. Second repair went smoothly. Original display was something crazy expensive as 180€. 30€ display from Amazon was ok for 5 year old phone.
We pay the licence fee to fund the BBC. They make some amazing documentaries (Planet Earth, Blue Planet etc). They also have radio stations, all advert free. Being advert free is rare these days.
Apple's HomePod Estimated to Have Just 5% of Smart Speaker Market Share in U.S.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369960 (845 points, 33 days ago, 210 comments)
I've been using GitHub actions for my personal projects for the past few months. The documentation was not the best and the UX was not polished at all, so the experience was painful sometimes. A lot of my problems will be solved with the features announced today, except I'm not sure if they're also adding a way to cache e.g. dependencies between jobs.

While writing your own actions was painful (at least for me), reusing actions that other people wrote worked like magic. I think the reusability aspect is going to be huge when Actions get more and more popular.
In many cases Python generators are better than lists: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators

E.g. consider xrange() vs (Python 2) range().
This seems cool, but I think that's mostly because the regex you think of as a point of comparison is something like

r'^[\w.%+-]+@[\w.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$'

which does look awful. But there's no reason you can't do

username = r'[\w.%+-]+'
domain = r'[\w.-]+'
tld = r'[a-zA-Z]{2,6}'
email = username + r'@' + domain + r'\.' + tld

which is arguably easier to read than the rxe version for someone familiar with regex.
You're talking about style, I'm talking about idioms. Those aren't the same thing!
Any reason CI providers couldn't start adding repo hosting?
No, it’s not. AMD didn’t have double of the performance for half of the price at the time.
This is a much bigger advantage.
Appveyor also support stop and RDP in the windows build agents for 60 minutes each build.
really nice for diagnose the issues
Protractor vs. Selenium: Which is easier for testing?
That makes much more sense, it's not like Google needs the money, so going to charity is much better. Now the follow up question is, does Apple do that?
This is exactly what I've seen here. I've had to read through reports and papers people have cited to see whether or not the paper supported what they were arguing. Or sometimes, people would link to incredibly biased sources whom bury the lede of the stories they cite which in turn only tangentially support what they said.
That feeling you get when you allow your country to be taken over by migrants.
Making a Realistic Glass Effect with SVG
OS X includes the json_pp command, so I often just do this to format JSON in my clipboard:

pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy

For just viewing, I like Node's console.dir() formatting better since it's more compact and colored (but it's unquoted JS objects, not JSON), so I aliased this command in my shell:

json='node -e '\''console.dir(JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("/dev/stdin", "utf-8")), { depth: null })'\'

Then I can do

pbpaste | json
We're engineers, and Retool is built for engineers. So it's pretty flexible: the internals are all available for you to see and modify (every Retool app is serialized to a YAML blob, and can be synced bi-directionally to Git), you can write JS in most places, as well as import npm packages (everything inside {{ }} is sandboxed JS), the front-end components are extensible (you can import your own React, Vue, etc. components), and the back-end we're completely agnostic towards (we connect to any REST / GraphQL API, as well as most databases).

Here's more info on:

* git syncing: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/git-syncing

* hosting on-prem: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/setup-instructions

* custom components: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/custom-react-components

* using JS between {{}}: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/javascript-overview

* writing custom JS: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/custom-js-code

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with? Thanks!
Make a screw-sized clip. Done.
It is not that bad - there are plenty of minicab companies, and they are all much cheaper than black cabs and many are often cheaper than Uber. The problem is convenience - Uber has a better app, and typically shorter wait times and few competitors in London cover the entire town.

I see Uber as an expensive convenience - my 'local' minicab company is usually cheaper but odds are I will wait 10 minutes instead of 3-4 for a car, and if I'm in another part of town I have to resort to Uber or finding another minicab company anyway.
I recommended Quirk to my girlfriend a few months ago. Still haven't tried it myself.

You seem to know what you're doing so my only advice is to not take VC money or you'll probably be pushed into making this app a general health app that is a bit useful for everyone instead of very useful to a lot of people, for the sake of money.
Author here! Happy to share more about what I learned in the interviews.
This is such nonsense. In my opinion the BBC should be paid for by a proper tax, as an informed public benefits everyone, or they should just give up on calling it a license. The people going around houses just send threatening letters, and act as though they have some right to enter your home and inspect it (they don't). They go around terrorising people who don't know their rights, but don't watch TV anyway. I routinely get threatening letters from them despite not having a TV on the premises.
Thanks, looks like this is: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
Apple makes increasingly disappointing products. I recently was looking at replacing my iPhone 7 Plus, but around $900 would get the next baseline model, for no real tangible benefits, and some tangible downsides like no zoom lens and being forced to use the face scanning. Sorry, I'll replace my battery and cracked screen and wait a couple more years, thanks.
Perl's is a superset ("PCRE" - Perl Compatible Regular Expression). It's now supported by a lot of other tools, not least of which is GNU grep.
Love the theme, but I despise unnecessary animations (such as the weird dance of images loading).

Whenever I think of assessing or creating a design is to repeatedly ask "why?" until the product or service is boiled down to its essence - minimum required "design" to make it functional. Then, the immediate priority should be to make such a design accessible - sufficient contrast, color palette, font size, column width, etc. Aesthetics that emerge from this kind of bottom up approach always in my view trumps superficial top-down design where a designer has some kind of a personal subjective vision of their aesthetics which is then used as a mold to engage in the design process - the latter usually results in a poor overall product or service. This is just a general pet-peeve of mine, not inclined to your work. :)
God I love the USA.
Wow, 100 Watts over USB-C!
Thats enough to power the incandescent light bulb in the original Easy Bake.
The warrant revealed that a BBC contractor had used an "optical detector" to reveal the possible presence of a TV.[10] The warrant stated that: "the optical detector in the detector van uses a large lens to collect that light and focus it on to an especially sensitive device, which converts fluctuating light signals into electrical signals, which can be electronically analysed. If a receiver is being used to watch broadcast programmes then a positive reading is returned." [10] The BBC stated that this was strong evidence that a set was "receiving a possible broadcast".

According to The Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office, "where the BBC still suspects that an occupier is watching live television but not paying for a licence, it can send a detection van to check whether this is the case. TVL detection vans can identify viewing on a non‐TV device in the same way that they can detect viewing on a television set. BBC staff were able to demonstrate this to my staff in controlled conditions sufficient for us to be confident that they could detect viewing on a range of non‐TV devices."

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That device description is entirely consistent with a video camera, perhaps with a telescope in front of it, used for peering through people's windows.

Does this put the BBC at risk of violating anti-peeping-Tom legislation?
They were locked away and alien puppets took over their roles.
> evidence from a detector van had never been submitted

How could it be, if the mechanism behind the detector is not made public?

Prosecutor: This machine says you are guilty.

Defendant: How does that machine work?

Prosecutor: You aren't allowed to know.

Defendant: ???

Judge: Case dismissed.
Nonsense. The airport has no need of additional procedures because it is gatewayed by Norway (it's not an international airport).

If you arrive there by boat, things look well different:

> Visiting yachts must obtain a cruising permit before arrival and make arrangements for special insurance to cover the possible cost of a search and rescue operation. Also compulsory is having a gun to protect the crew from possible attacks by polar bears, of which there have been several in recent years. Those who do not possess a gun can hire one locally. SAR insurance cover is also available locally but is probably much cheaper if it is arranged through one’s own insurance company or bank.

Source: https://www.noonsite.com/place/norway/svalbard-spitsbergen/l...
It drives me crazy when I see people do it. For the most part tools like VSCode have plugins for it as well, so no need to send this stuff to random third party.

The biggest struggle for me is diffing random bits of text. Pulling two JSON docs from the DB and wanting to compare them. Recently found a VSCode plugin that makes it a bit better, but still a pain in the ass.
I think it over-selects for impassioned discussion, and consequently under-selects for admitting self ignorance.

How often do you hear "I didn't know that, and it's a good point" in political discussion? When hypothetically, there's no reason you should hear it less frequently than in scientific discussions.

One of the great casualties of modern political debate is that citizens mimic professional politicians, in that the sole mode of discourse is argumentative.

When in reality, if I'm faffing about on HN I would much rather learn something than "win."

It's not like dang steps in at the end of every debate to award the winner a gold trophy.
'cept for the Linux Journal editors and writers
Don't go buy a BMW anytime soon.

Have to recode the battery, and it's been that way for years.
The London Restaurant: 1840-1914
Certs are not important. No real security person is going to care about a cisco cert either way.
They replace the whole phone. They do not swap batteries when you bring it in for a battery replacement.
A cautionary tale on using microservices when building software for others
There's also megaolm.
Megaolm seems to be scaling better than other production setups, in practice.
I'm an operations guy, but I think I have a different perspective. The developers I work with don't have to think about CI/CD, but the configuration still lives in the repo, I'm just a contributer to that repo like they are.

Having CI configuration separate from the code sounds like a nightmare when a code change requires CI configurations to be updated. A new version of code requires a new dependency for instance, there needs to be a way to tie the CI configuration change with a commit that introduced that dependency. That comes automatically when they're in the same repo.
Newly Discovered Proust Stories to Be Published
Agreed, but that should favor the skippers. And we should see it in the data, still.
Those are the previous generation, Zen 1 EPYC CPUs, whichn were rolled out on AWS back in November.
Yes, this was essentially my thinking, although I meant it at least partially in jest since Dune is of course fictional.
> Seems like you just don't like certain kinds of people, based on your prejudices about certain industries.

More like based on my own first-hand experience with these people.

This is a verbal pattern used by bigots throughout history, including those who have bashed me personally on the basis of race and sexuality. What's your p-value based on your sample size?

Now you are labeling disobedience as evil, regardless of what this disobedience is in response to?

The ends don't justify the means. You seem to be pushing a notion, that sufficient evil justifies evil in turn.

I feel like we are pointlessly going in circles here.

No. I think 3rd party readers will learn something.

To be honest, I think that a much better choice is just resigning from the job

Agreed.
The Macbook Pro 15" charger is 85 watts.
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My immediate thought too! I'm glad someone else got the reference.
I downloaded it yesterday and plan to try it out this weekend. I think this is great because this seems to be an empowering way for someone to do some CBT with a low barrier to entry and very accessible.
That's due to the CTA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area).
Not necessarily the cause of migration today - I think this is a conclusion about how much more of a factor it will become in the future.
As a child in the 80s I remember my family being scared of this van even though it probably never existed. Because of this my mum got a pay TV instead which we had to put 50p coins in periodically that paid for both the TV rental and the license fee.
A zero bullshit reality check about layoffs
>A Corporation is legally required to work only to increase the value of a share, nothing more.

That's just the excuse the CEO's mouth pieces trot out when the company is doing stuff that is shitty and sociopathic. You'll notice the CEO has no problem getting the company to do things that enriches himself at the expense of the shareholders.
This is what keeps our security industry employed. Anything like a pastebin is blocked at my workplace.
Yes, it still exists. A TV Licence is required to watch any television programme live as it is broadcast. This applies to online live streams of TV channels, even if viewed on a PC or mobile phone.

It is legal to use a TV set without a licence, so long as you do not watch any TV programmes live. So it's fine to connect it to a laptop and use it as a monitor, or listen to radio programmes through it, for example.
Having driven all over both MD and WV, both in cities and country. they are _very_ different. I also think that Belgium and Australia are very different in many ways, but they're also on opposite sides of the earth, whereas, as was pointed out, MD and WV share a border. I've also been all over NY and VA and would say they are more similar compared to the WV vs MD comparison. I'm not sure where you saw that NY is the second poorest in the US... would be interested to see a source on that.

Median doesn't tell me much because it doesn't describe the skewness of the distribution of incomes. Without looking, I bet that both:
1) max income is higher in MD than in WV
2) there are more people at higher incomes in MD than in WV

So I looked it up for MD [0] and WV [1] and while they don't really help with my conjectures, MD has a higher per capita income ($24,774 in WV vs $39,070 in MD) and lower poverty rate (19.1% in WV vs 9.3% in MD).

Also interesting to note from those sources that they have basically the same retail sales per capita and rate of persons without health insurance (although MD has about half the disability rate).

[0]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/MD
[1]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/WV
I believe I asked you a while ago to provide citations for your claims. Can you provide me some citations? Since you seem to consistently make claims that the left is as violent if not more so than the right and I'd love to see some data.
To give another perspective: I bought a used iPhone SE about a month ago and was worried about battery health because many sellers didn‘t mention it. After passing some more shady offers I found an SE for cheap (around 100€) that claimed 95% battery health. And I could verify that in the settings. Seller mentioned the iPhone was never serviced and only used as a backup phone. Perhaps that should have ring an alarm, but I bought it.

Two days later battery health was down to 71%. A week later the battery was dead. And of course it was not an original Apple battery by any means.

So, it might be bad communication by Apple, but for buyers a sign that the battery isn‘t original is very welcome.
I liked this article, though I think it missed the best part of Hacker News. To me, Hacker News can feel like walking through Dumbledore's office -- magical and mind-bending collections of incredible devices, ideas, and oddities.

Just yesterday someone posted a comment with links to UI design libraries that I've been subconsciously wishing for in my dreams (humaans, undraw.co), and I used it in a product demo. As a self-taught technologist, HN has exposed me to SICP, functional programming, and just yesterday someone posted a book about Data Structures and Algorithms that I started reading. Dang was quoted as describing HN as a "hall of mirrors" or "fractal tree."

The author's focus on the controversial political parts of HN seems to me like going to a music festival and commenting on the food trucks. Yes, it's part of the experience, but that's not why people go and not what makes it magical.

Communicating the beauty of unfamiliar technical topics to a lay reader is much harder than politics, but the New Yorker has done well at that elsewhere (I like the Sanjay and Jeff profile). Moderation is an interesting topic in its own right, though, especially in the age of the IRA and meme-warfare.
Most of the time you can bypass by going into incognito mode / privacy mode in FF. Chrome is making it easier to bypass paywalls too: https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/google-chrome-update-in...
The problem with this argument is that going from most of south America to any part of central America would be a large economic jump. And we know that people who come into the USA illegally tend to go towards major hubs with more economic activity and opportunity. The amount of economic migration would increase for sure. And in a situation where we already turn around over 100,000 a month for attempting to cross illegally, not to mention the number we never catch, it's definitely not going to advantage American citizens to have open borders along the Mexico-USA border.

If anything it would disadvantage citizens.