skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, you can use ASN.1 in a "schemaless" mode, but it's not very common.
Take a look at AT&T subscriber losses last quarter if you think people have decided one way or the other and are done cutting the cord. The two points are a pretty odd choice and I would say increasing cost is at the top of the list.
Never, ever sign up for residential Internet service. Always sign up for business service. You'll be amazed at how much better this type of situation plays out, for both you and the support rep.
Don't you find it at least a little bit suspicious that the big companies are putting so much money and effort into preventing unions "for the benefit of the workers"? Since when has Amazon done anything for the benefit of the workers?
Yes to illustrate a point about Amazon's margins, not to compare the person's emotional duress to Amazon's
As much as I like Pascal, and I am a big fan since Turbo Pascal since version 4 for MS-DOS, using all of them until about Delphi 3, lack of some kind of automatic memory management is a killer for anyone that cares about code security.

Delphi only supports it for COM and Objective-c/Swift interoperability, everything else is as manual as TP for MS-DOS, and I bet FP hasn't improved in that regard.
"Just a single piece of plastic was enough to cause higher cholesterol levels"

Either explain why or the study is junk.

One bores of studies that are only taking a hundred measurements until they find an irrelevant fact.
A more accurate measure would be the average amount of wellbeing a civilization extracts from its consumed units of energy.
So sorry for your mood, I feel you. Hope it improves.

About entropy and heat death. Let me offer an alternative story.

Imagine heat death as a universe-wide network of "points", all oscillating the tiniest bit possible. Imagine also that this is the maximum size the universe could expand to. Now, at this point, if there was any, even a tiny small contraction of the universe, it would start a full on contraction/heating up process. Maybe you can call that the anti-BigBang. And if that happens, there would be an infinite loop between the BigBang and the BigCrunch. Life would probably come back at some point and heat death wouldn't be such a bad thing after all ;)

Hope you enjoyed that story. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. Thank you.
Another Leak Suggests a Big Omission for the Note 10 Ahead of Launch
Of course it makes them seem dishonest, look at car dealers where this is the primary mode of operation. And just like car dealers, when everyone in the market does it you have to play along or risk losing out.
so adding more divisive comments, instead of discussing facts is the way to go?

The official recommendation from the NHS in the UK is now that vaping is indeed less harmful than cigarettes:

Public Health England's 2015 independent evidence review found that, based on the available evidence, vaping is around 95% less harmful than smoking. The Royal College of Physicians came to a similar conclusion in its 2016 report 'Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction'.

- https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes

Perhaps we don't have enough data yet, but as a matter of public health policy it is definitely useful to know which is less harmful for you.
Jane the Virgin Happy Ending
I actually discover most of my music on the radio, then at the record store (including online stores like Bandcamp). I hardly ever discover good music while streaming.
The thing is not all jobs need pay a living wage. Not everyone works to live. Some people work for extra income and their spouse works for a living. Others work to save for splurge purposes while being supported by parents. Others work for socialization after retirement. Forcing companies to pay living wages for every job means they are more reticent to create jobs which could help take families out of poverty or keep seniors from falling into hard times, etc.

Governments need to pursue policies to ensure there are a surplus of jobs paying living wages for the number of workers that need to live off work. This is not the same as pursuing policies to ensure every job pays a minimum wage.
I'm wondering if this is exclusive to TV. There were four 90 second ads in a 12 minute episode of Eric Andre on Hulu.
Thank you for that. The bit about the flooding of the Persian Gulf is fascinating.
What company wishes their employees were unionized? I’ve yet to find an example of management demanding unionization of their free workforce.

Unions, by definition, are strictly about the collective over the individual. You must acquiesce that you have no individual value and qualities that raise you above the minimal employee in order to benefit.

Decisions like Janus are supremely on-point: let unions justify their existence to their own members. Forcing one to join the union as a prerequisite for employment is undeniably immoral and robs employees of free choice.
Absolutely, one of my all time favourites. It was so delightfully imaginative and yet knowing it was tied to the science of the era made for a completely new world view while reading it.
And this point isn't even up for debate. Present value calculations essentially prove that a copyright long-tail provides minimal benefit to a corporation. Especially since long-tail sales are incredibly rare. So it a 1/200,000 shot at making a classic that will actually sell 100 years from now. And even for that one shot, the discount rate says a million dollars of sales 100 years from now is worth a couple thousand dollars now. There is no way 100-year copyright incentives art now.

Every 5 years is annoying short though. I'd say 20 years automatically, with 5 year extensions up to 40 years.

I'd probably also allow copyright-lite protection after 40 years. You would lose protection against direct copying and sales of your work. But you'd keep protections against derivations. This would allow an author of a long-running book series to keep his rights to his characters and "universe" for future works. I'm not sure how long I'd let those copyright-lite rights run for, but at least 70 years. Maybe with a trademark like a requirement for consistent usage.
Languages are software products like everything else, so they either improve to cater for their "customers" and survive against competition, or they wither and die into some kind of maintenance corner.

Even languages that supposedly no one uses like Fortran and Cobol, get their standards revisited every couple of years.

One might not want to re-write that surviving Cobol program into a reactive text UI with a couple of FactoryFactory classes, but it is surely possible as per latest language features.
>Sure, you'll have people like the author, the person I'm replying to and you who will be complaining their butts off about clapped out equipment every step of the way but if your operation is designed to roll with the punches then at the end of the day you'll be 99% as capable as the people with new equipment who rely on that instead of being able to roll with it and fix things fast.

Must like in software, the people doing the work and the people who choose what work is done and with what budget are almost separate circles on a Venn diagram.

Please, as a wise man once said, take your assumptions and gate-keeping and shove them somewhere unpleasant.
I wonder if this is exclusive to TV networks. I was served four 90 second ads, in a twelve minute episode of the Eric Andre show on Hulu.
Same in the company I work at, but only for IT employees. It's fine as long you have over 80% of the monthly hours in you contract tracked.
Definitely not used for micromanagement. I myself find it useful for seeing inefficiencies in what I do and ensuring I actually go home.

It's handy for charging clients for development work specific to them.
You can hate insurance prices, and you can hate the ACA, and you can even hate Obama if you so desire, but don't hate the ACA because of insurance cost increases because it SLOWED THEM DOWN.

You're confusing correlation and causation. Health insurance costs have been rising faster than inflation for decades, but the ACA actually slowed that growth through a variety of measures - one of the simplest being that insurance companies had to be paying for healthcare with at least a minimum percentage of what they charged in premiums - prior to that they could deny everything and put the savings into executive bonuses for performance.

Some reference points with links to source information, though you may have to look at news articles for 2018/2019 numbers. The Kiplinger article notes ~5% for 2019, still well below the 9.9% average between 83-92 or the 6.4% average between 93-2010. Post-ACA, prices between 2010-2017 ran ~4.3% average increases, so it has been creeping up since 2017 for some reason cough.

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs... this one has convenient table of annual increases over the past 59 years along with notes of what major event in that year impacted costs. Source is CMS data that's inconvenient to extract on a phone.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/avg-annual-growth-...

https://www.kiplinger.com/article/insurance/T027-C001-S003-c...
Long are gone the days of Jon Stokes
Open Source Hardware Hearing Aid Part 1
> and assumes galactic society is organized much like Earth.

When has earth society ever successfully left something new and foreign alone?

If there is a 'galactic directive' to leave us alone, it's because we were seeded here. I.e. we are the aliens, and being observed as some sort of experiment
7 doesn't contradict 2. If you are the loss prevention VP in charge of stopping theft, and you reduced the number of reshipped items, you are decreasing a cost account. The revenue account for sold goods was already increased when the item was sold. The revenue account belongs to the retail group. They look good as long as sales are made. The cost account belongs to the LP group. They start out looking very BAD with huge losses and have to fight to get their costs back to zero.

For this reason large companies might group all their cost groups such as shipping, LP, fraud, etc into one big organization with special protections so they won't be cannibalized by revenue generating groups that have more political power.

> That's enough to put a dev on this problem for a year with required infra and still save some extra money - just from that single pawn shop.

If LP saves 400k, retail doesn't cut them a check for the 400k. They are on fixed budget, usually small because it is considered good money after bad. And at Amazon it is easier for devs and managers just to transfer to a shiny new AWS project than try to reduce costs.
I agree. My point was the security risk is worth it if extensibility is achieved. I cited the example of browsers and content blockers.

There are many intrusive permissions that already are major privacy and security risks-- Launchers, SMS apps, VPNs, and even alarm clocks that mine location data. The playing ground isn't level, right now, to counter this intrusion.

One way to affect what other apps do, without root, is to route the traffic via VPN and firewall as appropriate. That's possible only when a user enables a VPN to do so. Similarly, the plugins could also require a user to explicitly grant or deny permission for them to work. This is enough of a security measure as its on par with the current system in Android (regardless of its notoriety).

> None of these answer my question though.

May be I understood you wrong. I hope I made my point clear to you above?
Not gonna lie, ars seems like one really bad echo chamber. The content is usually mostly advertisement and the comments always circle around the same circlejerks.
How to build a simple search from scratch with Apache Lucene
No c extensions? So most popular gems won’t work? Does that make this essentially an intellectual pursuit without practical application?
Think what you are suggesting. In all the possibilities where life grows it evolves exactly in one sociological way as you suggested.

Yet the one sample we have, us, doesn't fit the pattern
Both of your experiences are valid for each other.
No reason it can't be added in the future.
A network overlay written by people that know what they are doing.

but, unless you have an actual reason, why put another layer over the top? especially given the performance and tooling hit.
Having designed the plane to be a "drop-in replacement" for a 737 and having failed at that, it seems like there's no path forward, neither more jury rigging nor certification as something else - because to make the thing like 737, they made it not like a contemporary aircraft (paper manuals is the big example).

Boeing have essentially painted themselves into a very costly corner. The FAA or congress could do a "certify it just for Boeing" action and the plane might even, maybe be safe then. But how many airline customers would want to fly in it?
> Market power is irrevelant to workers being able to fetch the market rate for their labor.

If the market consists of few actors, you get collusion to depress wages and opportunity (in tech you had https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...) but it exists across a number of industries. Your assertion assumes only good actors, which is not commensurate with reality.
It can be both. I buy CDs and have a streaming service subscription. The good stuff gets bought, the OK stuff just gets added to an online playlist.
Also from Ward Cunningham is the CHECKS Pattern Language (published as far back as 1994), which developed novel ideas about value objects well beyond the mainstream of the day. The examples are in Smalltalk but the uniform abstraction level for values is an instantly applicable concept, allowing generic treatment of value objects, and is probably more accessible to modern audiences comfortable with option types and so on than it was at the time.

http://c2.com/ppr/checks.html
Heart as You Age
I wonder how much this would change the performance of ruby... that's all kind of cool except no c extensions, that basically makes all the gems I use unusable.
European style unions are not the same as American ones, despite the same name.

One huge difference is there can only be a single union at an American company, while with the European style an employee can pick which to chose from.
Go is actually pretty close to the perfect language to me -- for "general purpose" computing, at least. Sure, it's plain and somewhat boring to write but it doesn't make me that much less productive. Error handling and generics are the only other features that I want, so I'm really looking forward to Go 2, if that ever comes around. I would be happy to see Go declared "feature-complete" at that point, similar to Elixir [1].

But even then, if I want to have fun and feel like I'm learning new things while I code, I'll always use something else that's more interesting.

[1]: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas...
I'm not clicking on that bait. Could someone change the title to something that actually says what it's about?

Original title was: "Chrome 76 Has Given Billions of Google Users an Incentive to Use Firefox Instead"
Diagrams. I want to see a diagram that tells me the story of some back-and-forth message exchange at a high level so that I have a mental framework for the rest of my reading. Maybe something built with: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Title is inaccurate as proven by the authors opinionated statement in the first paragraph.

> Google has just released the Chrome 76 update which brings plenty of things to like from a security and privacy perspective, and one real stinker as far as usability and the potential for cyber-shenanigans is concerned. Whether it is enough to give many of the billions of mobile users of the Chrome browser (it has been installed five billion times according to Google Play) an incentive to march towards Mozilla Firefox remains to be seen. One thing's for sure, though; it's undoubtedly annoying the heck out of web developers.
Github 'Actively Encourages' Hacking, Suit Filed Against Company
"amex platinum powered by mastercard" as well takes > 5 seconds
> The old Truck enactments were very numerous and date from about the year 1464. The particular evil intended to be remedied was the truck system, or payment by masters of their men's wages wholly or in part with goods – a system open to various abuse – when workmen were forced to take goods at their master's valuation. The statutes were applied first to one branch of manufacture, and then in succession to others, as experience and the progress of manufactures dictated, until they embraced the whole or nearly the whole of the manufactures of England. They established the obligation, and produced, or at least fortified the custom, of uniformly paying the whole wages of artificers in the current coin of the realm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Acts
Hundreds of dollars? Maybe if you’re an audiophile. Normal people buy most of their music second hand. If you are really poor, prerecorded cassettes are a quarter to 50 cents at your nearest thrift store. CDs can go up to a dollar and you can get a decent vinyl record from half a dollar to 2.

If you are willing to spend it you can buy second hand CDs or vinyls for less the 10 dollars at the record store, and they usually have a good enough selection such that you can most likely pick up that record you never found in the thrift store.

I only buy new music from newer artists (mostly from Bandcamp) and yet a CD is usually around $10-15 with vinyl maybe $5 more (+ shipping). But I take comfort that this money goes to supporting the artists, so it is worth it.

Usually I spend about $20-30 dollars on music a month (with some months spending more on expensive records). But with every new album I buy, it is added to my collection so I can listen to it again without needing to buy it again.
To contrast with most of the "write your own small text editor" articles out there, I feel compelled to post this:

http://kparc.com/$/edit.k

This is a text editor written in K, an APL-family language. Determining how it works is left as an exercise to the reader. I wonder whether an explanation would be longer or shorter than the tutorial in the article...
I think fossil fuels moved us too far up on the energy usage scale before we were ready for it.
Not everyone wants to found a company though - you can just enjoy your privileged high quality of life.
8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
Yes, but that's layer 3 +.

A VLAN will isolate macs so that only those adaptors in that VLAN can see each other. Granted, there isn't really a concept of a netmask based subnet, but then that's because you don't really have control over one's physical address.

Now, you can have an adaptor in more than one VLAN, which is the point of them. As I said its not a perfect analogy, but then they are there to achieve different things based on different semantics.
In your opinion, what's the value of MessagePack? I worked with it when writing some Fluentd tools, and it was neat, but I didn't love it enough to switch from JSON on other projects. Maybe there's a killer feature I didn't know I need?
In time we will have an article about serverless components being bloated, and how what we really need is componentless components. Why bother with all the configuration and deployment? Just write it as procedural javascript and serve it from your laptop!
Good stuff for reminding me that `x/sys/unix` exists and the terminal-raw-mode it allows. Should inspire someone out there eventually to plumb everything in pure Go that people would otherwise seek from ncurses, GNU readline lib etc.
Using renewable electricity to make Hydrogen is bonkers today.

Using high temperature nuclear heat is not. You just need gas-cooled reactors that can make 900 to 1000 °C steam.

This company is making gas-cooled reactor in Canada and claim they can make competitive Hydrogen: https://usnc.com/FCM.html

The processes are different from electrolysis. From https://art.inl.gov/NGNP/NEAC%202010/INL_NGNP%20References/R...

"1. SI Process: A thermochemical process that incorporates: (1) endothermic decomposition of hydrogen iodide (HI) at about 450°C in the presence of a carbon catalyst to yield hydrogen and I2, (2) recycle of the iodine to a concurrent or countercurrent column reactor where it reacts exothermically at about 120°C with sulfur dioxide (SO2) via the Bunsen reaction to form hydriodic acid (HI) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4), (3) gravimetric separation of the HI and H2SO4, and (4) thermal/catalytic decomposition of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) to oxygen and SO2 at high temperature, up to 900°C, with the SO2 recycled back to the Bunsen reaction section. In the SI process, H2SO4 acts as oxygen carrier and HI as a hydrogen carrier.

2. HTSE Process: A ceramic electrolyte and electrode electrolysis process operating at up to 950°C. Water is the only reactant, and high temperatures allow for some of the energy required to split the steam (water) to be supplied as heat as opposed to electricity alone, as in LTE cells.

3. HyS Process: A hybrid process that produces hydrogen and oxygen in a polymer membrane based electrolysis cell operating at temperatures below 125°C. In the HyS process, SO2 is used to depolarize the cell and allow it to operate at lower voltages and hence higher efficiencies and current densities as compared to higher temperature electrolysis cells. Sulfuric acid is produced along with hydrogen in the cells, with the SO2 recycled from a sulfuric acid decomposer similar to that used in the SI process."
> This is a very smart way to organise society, if we think about it: people have to do more and more work to bid against each other for the limited amount of resources.

It's a very smart way to organize a society if you're a landlord using artificial scarcity to extract rents equal to the productive value created by everyone else. For everyone else it's warm dung.

It's not even economically efficient because it undervalues non-wage labor, of which child rearing is a prominent example that we are now under-producing as a result.

> reimbursement for all kids related expenses

Reimbursement overcomplicates things for no good reason and creates a lot of perverse incentives to overpay for services etc. Just choose an amount per child and make that the amount of the child tax credit.

But that's somewhat separate from the main thing driving the competition, which is artificial housing scarcity (and artificial scarcity in general). That may be the single most pressing problem facing us today, outside of climate change.
Ada is my favorite 'almost' language. I'm writing a Kalman filter example in it right now. Just about every programming error from some large C/C++ codebase wouldn't happen in Ada. It's got manual and automatic memory management, separate storage pools, packed arrays, arbitrary precision floating point types, fixed point types, checked integers, generic packages and functions, tasking, real-time support (how many other languages have a Delay_Until function in the standard library?)... It's like graphene - it does everything except get used in the real world (outside of specialized applications like Aerospace).

A fun thing to do is look for Ada tutorials from after the year 2000. There aren't many.
Thank you for expressing your concern about color.

About purple, recently I've been looking at pictures of rainbows, and one in particular caught my attention, it shows several (I believe 5) concentric rainbows. The order of the colors alternate on each rainbow, so of the outermost rainbow has red on the outside, the one right next to it has blue on the outside and red on the inside. Then if you look at the intersections or the space in between rainbows, it looks purple.

What makes that space look purple? And what makes the color order alternate?