skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the fact that the UI tools for web development are mostly way easier to use than Gtk or Qt.

Even "simple" stuff like Tcl/Tk is not trivial to get working easily or well.

HTML + CSS + something like React is miles simpler than writing something for Gtk. Qt has QML now but the C++ Qt bindings are _pretty hard_! And after all that work you don't (by default) get an app that resizes as nicely as the HTML/CSS box model does!

I think that WxWidgets has one of the better usability stories for cross-platform native, though.

If someone wrote a good feeling UI library that generated native UIs and had good JS and Python bindings, so many people would be happy to use it, I think. But right now, despite all the shortcomings, web tech is pretty easy to prototype in.
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I, for one, have absolutely no idea if my bank uses EV. Let me check... ok yeah they have it. But I would not have noticed in a million years if they got rid of it.

The real security here isn't the cert, it's the fact that I use a password manager and it will refuse to enter my password if I'm not on the right site. If I pop open 1Password and it doesn't offer me my bank login, then clearly I'm not on my bank's website.
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So, Dan Primack is reporting that it sold in the neighborhood of $3m.

So the porn was the part worth a billion dollars. Huh.
I am basing my statements on knowledge from personal experience. As I said above, I'm a primary source with first-hand factual knowledge about this topic. (If you do a lot of capacity planning for a UGC / social network infrastructure over many years, you become intimately familiar with changes in growth rate over time...)
I have always wondered this. I've always been somewhat enamoured with the stern and mysterious two-word nicknames of classified programs, such as the ones listed: 'HAVE BLUE', 'ACID GAMBIT', 'AUTUMN RETURN', 'SENIOR TREND'... Maybe I'll write my own generator for these.
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> Anyway letsencrypt already serves 80% of market. So it's already too big to fail, I don't see much difference between 80% and 100%.

The difference is all the big websites still pay for certs, so if LE is distrusted then your bank will still work, google.com will still work, apple.com will still work, etc.
ripcord is exactly that

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
If you assume that the build systems and the distribution are secure.

If somebody had stolen the signing keys and could do a https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/bgp-hi... there will be no trace.
Uhhhh, wouldn't they get surge pricing?

Plus you're talking about investor-subsidized transport. Sure, it would be nice to have investors subsidize school transport.
I'm not sure how to take this. Does it imply that you don't believe the US political system will be able to deal with income inequalities, and that it is doomed to fall apart? Cause otherwise, the only other outcome is that the system changes itself from within over time and quality of life remains high for its citizen and the country stays prosperous and able to sustain itself. Which would mean someone will eventually work with the system to change it, otherwise it's doomed to fail.
React isn't MVC.
> if Rust's community isn't already several times larger and growing faster, I'd be stunned

I'd love to see the numbers on that if you know where to find them.
Interesting how most of the issues cased by dyslexia he describes have a strong social component.

Seems like having people be more aware and tolerant of its symptoms would help a lot.
Thanks - I didn't know this.
http://www.word-detective.com/2012/08/harebrained/
That's effectively what I do as well, but we don't have a corporate Slack account.

Teams is great for internal communications on long-running projects. It's well suited to that and I wouldn't substitute Slack. When used well, it cuts down on a ton of internal emails and status updates.

I don't really blame IT for locking down Teams. It makes a lot of sense for all the reasons you mention and many more. It's just that by locking it down they prevent Teams from really being a challenger to Slack.

It's not that Teams can't be configured to be just as useful as Slack, but enterprise IT best practices pretty much guarantees that it never will be.
It's going to be one hell of a "our amazing journey" email that informs customers they don't have a home any more...
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/327/
There have been comments in this HN thread that this implementation of continuations based on futures is supposedly more performant than a stack-pointer switching one (like green threads). Can you elaborate on how? It looks to me that it should instead be slower (and even much slower if the stack depth is deep).
Then be glad that it's at least not Skype for Business: Teams has a decent web client, SfB doesn't.
"My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear — Naturally I refer to the bulk of rock ’n’ roll. It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people."

Frank Sinatra, 1957
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CBD is really working for me to curve anxiety. I’m surprised there not that many replies about it here yet.
Have you read any thread that involves statistics? I havent really detected that low an opinion for the FDA in particular but I recognised the broad outline painted.

I could add quite a few more generalisations myself while I'm at it, HN isn't solely populated by hyper intelligent, well reasoned, logical doctors, who form their ideas completely independently of everyone else. There's going to be group think, there's going to be like minded individuals attracted to one another, that's human nature, deal with it.

I don't even think it's an ad-hominem. HNers are generally argumentative gits (generalisation), who like finding an exception/hack/new way of looking at something (generalisation). I have no problem with some of those schemes being described as 'hairbrained' (sic although actually... [1]), but that's why I come here, because if people didn't think that way they wouldn't be Hackers.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/harebrained
Someone on Blind mentioned that this is about the cost of a midrange house in the Bay Area. Incredible.
Frankly, the regular Skype is better than SfB: it has a fully featured Linux client.
The thing I don't like about the move to cashless most, is that it is very much centered around payment systems in the private sector. It makes the middleman compulsory. Our Australian government is moving to make all payments over $10,000AUD cashless only. Thus making middlemen practically compulsory. If government wants to seek their means of deanonymisation for money laundering, make sure that there's an easy way to do that without middlemen taking a cut.
Very cool! I seem to recall first reading about such plans as early as the 90s. It almost certainly wouldn't be allowed most places in the US because regulatory schemes always need approval to change, and it would be considered suspicious and an attempt to hide 'true' costs from the consumer (eg, the power provider can just change the rate any time they want, it will hurt poor people who can't afford these smart appliances, etc etc. Too bad.
One of the biggest gains in moving to async/await is the fact you can have a single try/catch for both synchronous and asynchronous code. This makes async functions which implement some kind of transaction much easier to implement.
Back in my senior year of high school during Spanish class I naively used NET SEND to send a message to one of my classmates. The only problem was that I failed to specify the user in the command and instead used *. This ended up sending a message to all computers in the school district.

I remember the computer administrator coming into the class saying “Are you aware one of your students is sending messages to the entire school district?” My heart sank.

I ended up getting in-school suspension. Considering this was my first ever “offense” in school, I felt like a badass going out with a bang.
My Cessna T206 has a 9:1 glide ratio, though I plan around 7:1 as I am not a factory rest pilot under ideal conditions. And nothing glides as good as a glider. A 20:1 ratio is exceptional for any airplane, let alone a heavy airliner.

To be fair though, I can safely land a Stationair on 700ft of dirt so my options are a bit better than a 787..
I think Teams is exactly excellent because it allows you to secure your collaboration tool. Especially valuable post GDPR where you really don’t want your non-tech savy employers putting privacy data into some online Trello board, or slack/discord for that matter. The fact that teams is just part of your 365 platform is soooo awesome in non-tech enterprise that it’s hard to describe just how useful it is. But basically we have 7000 employees in my shop, 20% of them them can’t name the operating system iOS/Android/windows when they call support. You want your IT to protect them from themselves, even if that’s obviously not how you would word it in your strategy.

Too much control is bad though, like you say, creating channels/teams/task-boards shouldn’t be too bureaucratic. We were a little too liberal when we first opened up, allowing people to name their own, which resulted in mail-list mayhem. Because Microsoft created an e-mail address with the name people chose. This resulted in the “specialised child care department” creating a “specialised childcare” e-mail address, that would show up in outlook. Which in term led to some rather important e-mails getting lost, because people sent them to the one of the now two “specialised child care” email addresses that wasn’t getting read.

We fixed this by moving creation into our own tool and using the 365 API, so people still get to name their own collaboration projects, but they get a “Teams - “ in front of the name, and that’s filtered out of the e-mail listing so they don’t show up in the outlook address book.

I don’t personally like Teams or Tasks all that much functionally wise compared to other tools, but the fact that they are part of our 365 security setup and the fact that we’ve already paid for them, means I’ll use them.
picking up airplane position-indicator feeds with a DTV USB-stick and mapping the into a display in an rPi?
this is indeed basically what I meant. but seeing the other comments I can see an use/product case for this. As long as it's not subscription based I have no issue with the pricing. Although I wouldn't grab my wallet at this pricepoint
You're right, I misread it. I'm reading my own experiences into it, but those aren't everyone's experiences. I had what I felt was crippling social anxiety in my teens and 20s (I'm in my 40s now), or at least an extremely limited and lonely high comfort zone surrounded by an unlimited discomfort zone. I felt like my whole life had been filled with people always telling me to "just be more confident" or "be more outgoing", but what does that even mean? That's not actionable advice. It was especially annoying because it's so ambiguous and unactionable, but always seemed obvious to whoever was giving me the advice.

One thing that helped me personally was realizing that in my case, "just be more confident" really meant not worrying about putting up a falsely confident front. Like, I always felt this pressure to appear confident and charming and however I wanted people to see me, but I never felt that way on the inside, especially around women I was attracted to or other people I wanted to impress. So if I didn't feel confident, the only thing I could do was at least attempt to appear confident. After all, that's what everyone kept telling me to do, or so I thought. Anyway, this pressure (probably rooted in a form of narcissism) that I subconsciously put on myself in the moment to be confident/charming/etc. was just overwhelming, to the point where it sometimes rendered me incapable of social interaction at all. It was like the part of my brain that was in the driver's seat during social interactions would just lock up sometimes and I wouldn't even know what to say. But even when it was working it was exhausting.

In hindsight, this was the source of much of my social anxiety. It was like an ass-backwards subconscious instinct to play the role of the person I wanted other people to see me as. That's never going to work, it's like scripting and acting in a role in real time, a role that you don't understand well enough to write in the first place. I could never begin to get any better socially until I really truly internalized the fact that I didn't need to pretend to be someone I wasn't when I presented myself to other people, and I should just try to be in the moment rather than anxiously observing my own behavior. But, that's probably pretty specific to me and may not even make sense to anyone else.

Also my brain parsed "confident and assertive" into "extremely confident". When I think of someone who's consciously assertive, I think of a display of confidence for its own sake. Maybe that's not what they meant though.
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Joking aside that's not what syndrome means. Things that have no known cause as of today are usually called idiopathic.
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Great to see the image of the turbines on the plane afterwards.
Sorry, but this really is the best way to go about this. What's the alternative?

1. Random list of all search engines - most of which may be far worse/less advanced/more evil (read: poor & desperate) than Google.

2. Hand picked list by Google? If you want neutrality, then you are joking... Right?

3. 'Independent' committee who decide every so often - I'm not against this, but who's going to fund this? I can guess the two main companies in a whim (cough: Google, Microsoft). This is basically a less-transparent auction.

4. Auction-based. You call it 'selling off to the highest bidder', I call it allocation of limited resources - let's call this what it is, an advert.

5. Android switches to a paid model, Google completely closes off the platform and charges carriers directly for their services.

I really do like what Ecosia is doing but consider this:

1. Google is not cutting off your ability to download Ecosia - there are still dozens of search engines in the Play Store.

2. Ecosia benefits from Google Play infrastructure without having to contribute back because it's free for developers. Obviously Google benefits from having mindshare/user base, but there's still a lot of value for developers that Apple charges far more for.

I think Google should have given Android users a choice long ago, but I don't believe it's completely fair to call this auction move 'evil'.

What else could they do?
Indeed. If (when?) these guys fail, their assets, i.e. your home, will be liquidated. And you probably won’t get your “investment” back either, you’ll just have paid inflated rent for awhile.
Haha, me too :D

Wrote a batch script that used a wildcard - it took them a while to find it and I was very lucky the only 3 persons who knew who it was wouldn't tell anyone.
One was a teacher and I am thankful until today that he didn't screw up my life with telling this.
Sidenote: That Oath GDPR / data collection management popup is pretty much unusable. I can't figure out how to make sure that tracking through their "partners" is disabled and judging by how hard to navigate this tool is I guess I can't rely on the assumption that all of those unnecessary, sketchy options are opt-in.

And since I refuse to blindly accept those opaque terms Oath popups basically have become an automated call to close the tab for me these days.
At this point it is more like a salvage operation and I am unable to see anything good that will come of out this. Verizon should not be selling Tumblr they should be offering money to someone to take it.

I was a big fan of Tumblr porn. I havent visited the site since they stopped serving porn.
The people with that stigma aren't going to be looking at that content anyway.
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Tumblr was censored to drive traffic to Reddit and Twitter, which creates a more centralized crowd. The decision to censor Tumblr makes absolutely no business sense for tumblr, which means the main motivator is something else.
I’m also dyslexic, however my experience has been completely different from my fathers (also dyslexic). Where as he struggled though school and university and eventually attended night school lessons to help with work, and still to this day has real trouble communicating effectively through written text, I went through the unitsofsound[1] course before the age of 10.

I can say that for 90% my of day to day I really don’t notice it. With more intensive written work (writing a CV or a formal letter) i need to “double think” myself quite a bit and follow processes to write & then review & refactor my work before letting out the door.

Obviously it’s a sample size of 1, but I think unitsofsound really helped me, and when about 15 years ago my dad started work on converting the course into a program that could be delivered easier for more people that was great. 7 years ago I got involved converting it to flash so we could deliver it on the web and reach even more people, and this year we sold it to another company who can hopefully take it to the next level again and help even more.

I hope people will not dismiss my praise of unitsofsound as just self promotion, the ideas were not mine/ours, the theory goes back to the 70’s, but I do believe it has the potential to help lots of people.

Anyone wanting to try it out for free please get in contact and I can set up some accounts (just now still anyway). One of the great perks of doing something like this is giving it away to those who genuinely need it.

[1] https://www.unitsofsound.com/
> Even with a standard outlet you can fully recharge a Tesla overnight.

Nah. 230V 10A is about 2kW and 15A about 3kW.

More realistically it's 24h for a 20-80% charge.

That said, 2kW is a 10kmh charge, so "overnight" (let's say 12 hours) you can do a 60km commute from a regular socket.
They set their blog to private. You can only view it from a sidebar in your main dashboard.
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Despite Segment using Kafka nowadays, I would encourage everyone to give NSQ a try and see if it might not already fit your use-case. For me it's been one of those do-one-thing-well pieces of software that's really well-engineered, where I can clearly understand how it works and what the scope of its features are.

NSQ is my go-to queue whenever I'm working on any kind of service, even more so when that service might be standalone. Consider deploying a service on an isolated box which frequently pushes data into the cloud. Connectivity to the cloud might be intermittent, so you just store every work item to the locally running nsq and you're protected against network outages as well as your data-producing process crashing. Since NSQ is so easy to spin up and easy to interact with (Publish works via plain HTTP), it's not a lot of overhead to add it to your process.
aeon web write ups feel like an attempt to be super-informative which just .. misses. They always seem to riff on things making a HUGE DEAL about THIS ONE THING which the authors feel WE ALL MISSED and I feel like I am watching a 1960s movie of stoned people.. grooving on the pattern the coffee cup makes on their hand, man.. its all one hole man.. one hole, the hole is not the cup, the hole is .. the HANDLE..

is it just me? Am I really too "thick" for what aeon is trying to say?

I hate this. I hate being critical of people doing long reads, but I think of the family of long reads, Aeon is about the worst example.

Jarrod Lanier. Jarod Diamond. Ray Kurzeweil. Rent-a-quote new-age theorists trying to be a psychopomp for the modern age, or philosophers but as self-taught, auto-didact philosophers they didn't learn how to do it very well.. And it shows.

The two line take-away is: care less about material things. Gee.. nobody said that before, 2000+ years ago. Did they?

(I should speak. I can't write for toffee either, but the point is I don't put it out there on Aeon)
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Wait, so Verizon/OATH censored their platform to drive traffic to competitor's sites? What master plan is this?
For elementary students apparently “Hundreds of families were facing a 9:30 to 7:15 a.m. shift.”

That’s a significant change in wake up time. Yeah, I’m not keen on that. It’s a non-starter.
> About the only thing Arrived seems to be doing differently is allowing homeowners to change houses without affecting how much they're paying towards any house - in other words, you're really purchasing a subscription to a collection of homes.

I mean, that sounds like a huge difference.
>> Fear holds shut the doors of perception, because to even deeply consider, never mind act upon, the idea that we live in a consensual hallucination, presents the illusion of being capable of devaluing one’s entire existence, and therefore one’s identity.

Well said. Yes people are afraid to question themselves and are actively discouraged and distracted from it.
Any PKD book you'd like to suggest regarding this ?
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Importantly left out here is what the default is. It sounds like the default is must log in - I can't imagine how many tumblr users would choose to only have logged in viewers. I've left a while though so feel free to correct that.
Not unexpected given the trends in the EV market (dropping battery prices, increasing ranges, faster charging times, massive growth in charging infrastructure, etc.). A VW executive made some interesting comments about this recently: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-exec-says-tipping-...

Basically they are talking about a tipping point where BEVs are flat out cheaper and more cost effective for everyone. They are not talking about decades but the next few years. Right now it's a luxury thing for early adopters. A few years from now, it will be the obvious cost effective choice across all price rangers and vehicle types.

The WSJ article seems to suggest that battery vehicles are not profitable currently. I'd argue that's probably not true. At least Tesla is apparently enjoying pretty decent margins on their cars; even before you consider tax advantages.
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I never use google. On searching Bing for 'nutrition supplement' I found examine.com on page 4.

I also found the NIH's 'medlineplus' on page 4. It is certainly authoritative. So, in a way, that's a compliment.

But apparently 'authoritative' is not the only significant factor at Bing. Yes, I found 'nutrition.gov' and 'fda.gov' on page 1, as well as 'wikipedia.org' and 'supplementwarehouse.com'.

I suppose that 'authoritative' ought to be a primary factor in a search algorithm. But then, I think 'accurate' ought to be a primary factor in 'translation'.

It's no surprise to me that machines are no better at distinguishing science-based authority than they are at translation. You have to consider the culture the machines have grown up in.
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Point (https://point.com/) is another company in this space.
This looks interesting, but I lack the creds to assess it properly. Since motors are already quite efficicent - one wonde how much true gain can be realized.
Their jargon looks like obfuscation - a sure revelation of high tech quackery - you know the crap the over unity hacks rattle on about. I would like to see a tear down by a potential buyer.
Also as a Swede, I could never see myself raising kids in a country like the US. It's seems to be horrible in every day possible compared to here.
Without an effective application isolation a la iOS, itis exactly this.