skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it. All of my procrastination sites in one app so my browser history doesn't get cluttered by non work stuff.

One of my biggest fears is when I start to type in a URL during a screen share with a client who's website is REGEX.COM, and they will see my auto fill trying to take us to Reddit.com/SEXY_TOE_PARTY
> For example; If Google finds a bug in your product YOU get 90 days before they put you on blast in front of 8 billion people.

> But if you find a bug in GOOGLE'S product and put them on blast YOU will find yourself in court.

Reference needed.
Be aware that svgo is a lossy operation. One thing it does is round the digits in numbers to a certain precision. When I last worked with it, it also did some things I did not like such as mess with viewboxes. I found that it messed up the sizing of SVGs embedded with <img> tags in certain browsers. It has been a while since I used it though.
The Turing test is quite abstract. Talking with Siri can be seen as a Turing test (would you think the machine passes it? I would not). Captchas are obviously an annoying one (which are in some crisis because they need to get harder and harder). Automatic driving can also be seen as a Turing test from the perspective of the other drivers. All those problems are bleeding edge of research.
From the article:

> Jeremiah Heaton, beyond the “kingdom for a princess” schmaltz and the forthcoming Disney adaptation (he has sold film rights to his story for an undisclosed fee) [..]

I'm not sure if this was meant seriously though.
A Domino's extra-large pizza is 16", comparable to the width of the handlebars. I think they'll be fine.
You misunderstand. The rule refers to a sign-up page for something that does not yet exist.
This is an excellent comment. Thank you! I see what you mean – I am double-wrapping with Promises and could replace this with try{} catch{}. My error was that I previously simply wrote

return course.email

or whatever, which as far as I could tell did not make the outer function wait.

I will correct this in the article once I've tested it.
We didn't elect another Clinton, which is overall a good thing. I think the Bush dynasty should have given anyone pause that multi-generational or multi-household (?) Presidencies are simply bad, and I won't even bring up all the unproven but highly suspicious criminal activities the Clintons have been alleged to be involved with since their Arkansas days. It is simple enough: In a nation of 350 million people, there are plenty of qualified individuals such that we don't have to settle for the same brand of psychopath over and over. At least, that's my dream. MS. Clinton publicly screwed up as Secretary of State--not only the email server scandal but more so the deaths in Libya. The deaths in Libya alone are a disqualifying incident on a purely qualification/suitability for office basis. They callously wrote off loyal Americans for political reasons.

If we are barreling towards 3rd World status, the current Administration is at least attempting to apply the brakes. I've been watching very carefully the moves that have been made. I know it's fashionable to just bash everything but try to step back and just look at the facts outside if your own echo chamber for a change. Not every policy shift is terrible.

In my own city, we've had the same mayor for something like 30 years. I feel like that's not very democratic. Yes, she keeps getting re-elected. But if representative government means anything at all, it has to be more widely shared. Otherwise, it's all just a big lie.
Commercial lending has this component as well. Any real estate operator working at scale will have some experience with giving this or that project back to the bank.
If you are pricing it at cost plus, yeah, it can be worth near-ish the cost of production. Not things with assosciated costs like rnd, but think some of spare parts, for example.
The 'narrative' on the international stage often times seems to be might is right. Cute mythological stories hardly change that.

Almost everything we appear to hold so dear and immutable or self evident seems kinda arbitrary depending on how far back you go and whether you consider yourself part of this team or that.

Nationalism or tribalism is a whole lot of make believe, is what I'm saying.
> My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics

...or perhaps they're not interested in talking about politics with you.
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No, browser vendors have not tested verification markers that are consistent with other platforms. See the top post in this thread.
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No, there's no guarantee. It comes down to trust.

You could use a privacy slide on your cameras, but you'd still have to worry about the mic and that brings a whole other sets of complications.
Perhaps there should be more heat on the competition. Microsoft could have found this problem as well, much easier even by reading their own internal documentation. They chose not to care.
Funny to read in the html:

- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO

- This site is optimized with the Schema plugin

Yeah, optimized to death
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Isn't that more of a similarity than a difference? When financial debt gets overwhelming you can declare bankruptcy and abandon the project as well.
How does raising $1mm - which is nothing spread out across any number of farmers going to affect the revenue stream?
It's feasible and already thinking about Quora plugin. Yack has an open source plugin architecture. Each community in the app, Hacker News, YouTube, Reddit are a plugin. Once out of beta, users will be able to install custom plugins directly from a GitHub url.
Google benefits by crawling the content everyone else creates and by being the aggregator for consumers. So it’s unfair to use other people’s content for rich snippets and not reciprocate by referring traffic.
For those interested 1m DEM and other GIS data of the United States, check out the USGS' National Map: https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/

They've changed quite a bit it since I last used it for my CS senior project a few years ago, but figured out you can see DEM segments for download by clicking the icon with the popup name "Layer List" then click "3DEP Elevation - Index", then "DEM Product Index". You will need a GIS program like QGIS or ArcGIS to view and raw DEM data.
will do, thanks :)
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> Researchers talks and paper published by https://sei.cmu.edu is a good starting point

Please link to a real paper that explores Technical Debt. This is just the link to SEI's home page. I'm looking for clarity, not hand waves.

> A developer aiming for technical supremacy for its own sake isn't useful in a real-world business scenario.

You're straw-manning.

We're not looking for technical supremacy at all. (See my point #2 and my emphasis on brutal practicality.) We are looking for business optimization and all of the pragmatism that comes with that.

My objection is to using a dodgeball term like "Tech Debt", which in no way helps to carve a pragmatic path forward.

It is akin to hand-waving. If you move forward with any degree of efficiency, it will be in spite of your use of the fuzzy notion of "Tech Debt". You can do just as well without this (non-)concept.

I would call this "My Thesis" but that acts as if the burden on me is to justify my objection.

The burden is on whoever introduces this silly "Tech Debt" notion to 1) clarify what exactly it means and how to measure it; and 2) give a model in which the measurement can correlate with an improvement to the software process.

Otherwise you're just talking Santa Claus.

I have yet to see anything close to that kind of clarity when one discusses Tech Debt. There are a dime a dozen posts on "Tech Debt" and if you dig just a little you'll see that it is nearly always used to avoid clear analysis.

To be fair, clear analysis is hard, so I can understand why people give up and take the easy path. But let's call the spade a spade. "Tech Debt" is a dodge. It's not a constructive tool.

Your links are not helping your case either.

Fowler's writing explicitly makes a distinction between quadrants of Tech Debt and the only one he calls "Prudent" is the panic "We must ship now scenario."

If this is the only form of "good" Tech Debt, then my case rests completely.

Because all that is being said then is that "I literally have no idea what situation my code assets are in but I have to ship now, so let's go with whatever's on disk!"

Again, this is fair business. Anything is fair business.

But this is certainly a position of ignorance and not a position of strategic choice. So if can admit that "Tech Debt" is simply "Ignorance", then we are all in agreement.

Admitting ignorance, incidentally, is the only way an experienced practitioner can emerge and reduce the likelihood of being in such positions to begin with.

Matters are even worse. Besides "Tech Debt" being a useless concept. For the individual it creates no clarity, no admission of deficiency, and no incentive or need for growth.
You're right. The standard comment I hear is "Why should we do anything, China isn't doing anything and it's bigger than us"

My response is:

1. China is doing stuff. Not enough perhaps, but arguably more than we are.
2. Who are we to say anything? Canada has the highest per capita emissions in the world. If anybody should be first, shouldn't it be us?

But the free riding problem is still real. "Climate clubs" would completely demolish the "but China" problem.
No, but if Google imports a database then they are still affected by the compilation copyright. It's too obvious of a hack to "just" claim that "yeah, we imported that entire database, but then we cracked all the facts apart and they're all separate now and it's just as if we never imported the database". That's not how the law works.

Even more interestingly, we've still never yet resolved the question of why Google gets to lift your entire site's contents and re-serve them in arbitrary ways to their own profit in the first place. It's really just a thing that happens on the internet because it was happening on the internet before the lawyers got there. I've said before and still believe that if there was no such thing as a search engine and they were just invented today, they'd be annihilated in court as nothing but one big copyright violation.
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Google at least seems to be reacting to the Anti-vax and other medical inaccuracies by policing medical content - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676755
Hi all,
I am currently working on a project that aims to create a synchronised clipboard across your devices. So if you copy some text on your computer, that will immediately be available to paste on any devices that you have chosen to synchronise.
The first iteration only syncs from your a computer to an Android device. The option to go the other way is next. All feedback is appreciated.
Give me a break. I'm sure it was difficult to find reputable sources refuting the obvious benefits of banning plastic bags, but when the best you can do is propaganda from a right-wing think tank, that should be a sign that you might want to reconsider your position.
Thanks for the feedback!
I wouldn't necessarily agree that it is just a basic setup guide, some of the tools are a little under the radar imo. I know this from personal experience with colleagues, friends, etc. Even myself, I wasn't properly educated on the advantages of Zsh over Bash until a couple of months ago.

I find your thoughts regarding Windows VS Linux very interesting. Especially that you prefer SSHing into a VPS, running Hyper-V etc over just running Linux.

Personally, I rarely have the feeling with Windows that it just works. I still use Windows for multimedia purposes (i.e. video games) and on professional occasions when I have to and I am often bothered by things that don't work properly. One issue for me is for example that there is still no official tab support in the file explorer.

Also, I think Linux gets some unwarranted hate regarding drivers and hardware support. I use all kinds of devices, such as thumb drives, external monitors, projectors and never have any trouble.
>One would think they would plan for their long-term survival

Why do that when you can focus on short term gains? Outsource departments, cut funding for health and safety, ignore potential issues, collect your fat bonus for cutting costs and then move on to screw the next company before the one you're at implodes
sometimes the blurb just has an answer to a different question. Websites are curated, unless its spam.
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Good point! Thank you! Added.
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Sourced from Josh Pollack on Twitter, where he brought it up in response to Trump's comments on the Russian missile explosion:

https://twitter.com/Joshua_Pollack/status/116135859677872537...

He also links to a second, orthogonal presentation on Kilopower:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/kilopow...
It might help to say "what is my regular IP address" since so many that search this don't want their IPv6.
Unlike previous articles about tech-companies-listening-to-user-audio, this is over voice transcription rather than smart speaker QA.

Facebook does have a smart speaker (Portal) with voice commands (https://portal.facebook.com/help/2149102838698668/) but that isn't mentioned in the article.
Modern expertise is deep and narrow; increasing the difficulty of aggregation and reconciliation of findings.

Those nuanced and complex findings must then be disseminated to a population with no attention span; meanwhile the competition is motivated to publish a dumbed-down (wrong) version faster than you in order to capitalize on sensationalism and pull in ad revenue.
Re 1) Use lichess app. Once you finish a game, go to the "analysis board" -> "Request a computer analysis" -> "Learn from your mistakes". Then you can see where you made mistakes and how you could have avoided them.
Neither of the articles you cited mention anything backing your claims on food contamination or sanitation.
Ah, excellent points. Thank you for the very carefully crafted comment. I will update once I've re-tested with these changes.
Because the government doesn't care about our well being, safety, desires, environment, etc. As long as they can keep their money and power there's no need for them to step in
I meant to say that GitLab is a mess, and GitHub seems to want to compete by also becoming a mess
The FA's title is scaremongering. Microsoft definitely still wants you to pay them for office software. They just don't want to support shrink-wrap-style software so much.
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Yep. And what's worse is that sometimes the site is correct and/or up to date and the Google snippet attributed to that site isn't or is poorly chosen for the question.

Google "chancellor" from the UK and it'll suggest the question "who is the UK chancellor now" which expands to name the previous chancellor (an error Google attributes to gov.uk which would have been updated in July with the new appointment). Click on the link to Google the question and this time the snippet attributed to the same source will be up to date and give you the correct answer. But if I still need to load a new page to get the right answer I'd preferred to go direct to the source page without it serving me wrong answers wrongly attributed first.

And the other questions are also a rabbithole of rubbish to fall down (the question "who was the previous chancellor?" answered by "previous chancellors have opted for whisky..." is my favourite combination) or excerpt the wrong part of the page and then encourage you to search Google again to get the same unhelpful excerpt again rather than deign to look at the source period.

Getting this stuff right across millions of queries and unstructured data of mixed quality is undoubtedly an incredibly hard technical problem but I think it's probably better to sometimes let users leave Google properties than feed them inaccurate answers inaccurately attributed...
>> You have to accept that no one will come to save your ass when trouble starts.

That isn't a thing. I work for an organization (military) that sometimes gets involved in search and rescue. Our society doesn't let people die in agony alone in the woods. If you are attacked by a bear, or your boat sinks, a helicopter will be sent to pick you up. You cannot opt out of that. Even if you say no, we will send the machine. Eventually you will fall unconscious and then we will treat you. That's modern society. "Just let them die" isn't real. It is pure fantasy to pretend that anyone can opt out of humanity.

Canada is constantly dealing with this problem. People want to live in the middle of nowhere but they still get government services, even the ones they might not want. You cannot choose to live outside of basic health care any more than you can opt to live outside the legal system. Given that reality, why should the larger society cover the costs of people who want to live a wilderness fantasy? Why should we allow people to live in places where they will inevitably need very costly rescue services, where their kids will be needed to be flown to and from they basic schooling they deserve?
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Danny Cohen died yesterday morning, August 12th,
peacefully at home. Danny was major figure in the development of Internet protocols, particularly those related to packet audio and video. He was a member of the Internet Hall of Fame (https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/danny-cohen).
I'd love to do this right now, but the thing is that workflow is rather complicated and needs through testing after change. Would adding a download button to landing page suffice ;)
Ask HN: What does developer enablement mean to you?
In the context of a large enterprise I'm working on defining what "developer enablement" means in terms of technology components.

What does "developer enablement" mean to you?
Where are you getting 3 foot wide pizzas from? The largest pizza I've ever seen was perhaps 22 inches in diameter. It looks like Domino's extra large size is 16", so they're probably not causing too much havoc out on the bike trails.

Interestingly, Dominos maintains a page on their domain about pizza sizes[0] that fails to disclose the sizes of most of their pizzas (the 10" inch "small" size seems to be disclosed almost accidentally).

[0] https://www.dominos.com/en/about-pizza/pizza-sizes/
So it's a case where the webmasters get greedy, and google steals their food, and everyone cheers for google. I 'm starting to think we need search engines to go back to their beginnings, when they were crawling the web , not creating or replacing the web. If they are only pointing to the websites, but rank them by speed, then webmasters would compete who will answer the question faster.
I got a lesson the hard-way. Mendeley crashed and refused to start up again. There was a known bug that they had not fixed for months. Almost a year of annotations gone. Even though I could find the PDF on disk I could not get to my annotations. they store it in a sqlitedb. I needed to reverse engineer the sqlitedb to get anything out. Total nightmare.

Still searching for a better solution for annotations + referencing. I use zotero and the highlights app at the moment.
Ok let me phrase it differently. If you have some library function that does some IO (for example) and you want to make it as useful as possible, would you declare it async or not? If you make it blocking, then you'd ruin any opportunity to have it called from async functions (because they don't want to be blocked). Therefore, you'd make it async. So that means that all IO library routines will become async, and possibly a lot of others too. Wouldn't it make more sense to have async be the default?
Environmental damage depends on them getting into the environment. If they're properly disposed I don't see the harm?
Looks cool. But it should have a Python API letting you wrte your own source drivers so you could add other blogs.

PS: If only everybody were implementing ATOM and doing it properly - we wouldn't have to implement any site-specific clients then.
Well then we're guilty by omission for all the trillions of species that could have evolved if we had done something different in the past. For example, maybe if we had used higher amounts of chlorine in our swimming pools all along, then that would have caused some new bacteria to evolve. Are we guilty because we never gave that poor, innocent, helpless bacteria a chance at life? (Queue images of bacterias crying into their handkerchiefs with tiny little violins playing in the background)
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Back when they were far more common, bike messengers in places like Manhattan were notorious for riding all over the place, including sidewalks, fast and recklessly.
Technical debt is a wonderful ally when building prototypes.

Imagine you are building a prototype and you are clever enough to only focus on validating an idea. Having this focus you ignore all best practices and maintainability issues you might tend to out of habit.

What you are likely to end up with is a functioning application that resists change beyond its original goals.

And this is good. It lets you declare technical bankruptcy early enough to avoid painful rewrites on a software that was not meant to exist for long anyways.
WAAAY more than half of my google searches show the answer at the top.

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>but there is nothing I hate more than LibreOffice

I can use LibreOffice with little to no problem. Gimp, on the other hand...
see also http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/
I don't see how he'd need them to be an actual threat to his personal safety in order to not like them. I mean, I don't like bird-eating tarantulas, but here in MA I am unlikely to encounter them.
I'm an omnivore. Chicken, eggs, beef, broccoli, carrots, peas, potatoes, rice, bread, cereal, milk, water, black coffee. Just about anything but this is what comes to mind.

Avoid deserts and sugary drinks.

Exercise is weight lifting. Focus on explosive lifts with lots of rest between sets to avoid lactic acid.
>As indie tho i know plenty of success stories out there to think otherwise.

Survivor bias. For every success there are many hundreds or thousands of failures, not all of which are necessarily of poor quality.