skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probe doesn't make any sense. Lawmakers are either seriously misguided, or have an agenda against specific tech companies.

One aspect of the investigation claims that tech companies are stifling competition and that the big names are monopolistic. I'd argue that's as far from reality as possible - it's never been easier to start a tech company, and the barrier to entry is extremely low. You know a market with a high barrier to entry, and literal laws preventing new competition? Internet service providers. Investigate the ISPs instead.

The second aspect of the probe surrounds concerns about personal data and its aggregation. But why bother investigating how Google et al are handling this data when there are clear offenders who have behaved with gross negligence and suffered no consequences (Equifax)? If those companies are not investigated, what possible reason could there be to investigate Google (who have not suffered a large-scale data breach) other than politically-motivated harassment? You know what would be more productive than investigating big tech companies - passing actual legislation like the GDPR to set up a framework to prevent the kind of privacy issue these legislators are supposedly concerned with.
It's not election meddling. It's counter-meddling. Counter-meddling is itself kind of a form of meddling, but you're left with no choice if your platform is in the process of being deceitfully meddled with by one of the most powerful states in human history.
How will the laser achieve the Leidenfrost Effect[1] that’s necessary to atomize the liquid into droplets?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
South up Australia-centered world map
The risk of being laid off seems like an immediate monetary downside to me.
Whenever I come across a description of Cory Doctorow's novels, I almost always find them compelling.

It's probably time for me to check out his books :)
And here's the positive identification of a WW2 bomber on the moon.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-O0DAAAAMBAJ

Also JFK's tomb empty.
Note that this applies only to tasks that are !Sync. If they aren't, two tasks accessing the same state could be moved to different threads and access that state racily. In that case .await tells you nothing about accessing non-local state. However, for purposefully single-threaded task pools avoiding locks this way certainly seems possible.
Never a good idea to be playing with Satan's kimchi!
The solution lies beyond ... Prefab by Fogarty & Dixon.

References:

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lju6IIteg9Q

2 https://www.washington.edu/news/2010/04/01/what-if-all-softw...
By your own logic China is equally dependent on the West.
> Is it problematic? Sure it's problematic.

No it's not. That's just a story you're telling yourself. You're either working your farm or you're working someone else's farm. Everyone can choose either. They both have their pros and cons. The former is greater risk but greater reward. The latter is lower risk and lower reward. You have to choose one or another to survive in this world. There's no free lunch. Mother nature doesn't afford any other creature in the animal kingdom a free lunch, why should human's receive any other treatment?

Work predates the rich. Hunt or gather. It's the natural order of things.
Google is near monopoly on <500usd mobiles and maps. So it is difficult for users to exercise the right to not use them.
Your first point isn’t a matter of opinion. Competition and innovation have been steadily declining, and monopsony (wage-setting power) concentrating. These aren’t just the musings of some random know-it-all on some tech board, they are reality. Look it up.

Your second point is just whataboutism. Investigating Google now doesn’t mean Equifax can’t be investigated later.
That's just the Gillette of the coffee world.
The thread was about how words' characters and meanings relate, and with ateji that relation is highly atypical, is the basic point.
Shameless plug, I wrote a book on KSP (for O'Reilly!) with some friends: https://www.amazon.com/Kerbal-Players-Guide-Easiest-Program/...
This is silly and will further harm GCP's viability as alternative to AWS or Azure. Firstly, I can't find any official announcement regarding the rationale and suggested solutions for their customers to reduce their cost. Just adding a banner to docs pages is plain lazy and is not customer friendly.

Ideally IPv6 support should have been added or at least scheduled to be available at instance level [1] before enforcing such charges. This indicates a lack of engineering capability (more likely resource commitment) to implement such a critical feature on its platform in a timely manner, particularly given that its rivals already have the support in place. To me, that is more worrying than an increase in bill. What is the pace of innovation one can expect from GCP platform? How committed are its leaders as a public cloud service provider?

1. https://googlecloudplatform.uservoice.com/forums/302595-comp...
The network continues to be an annoyingly expensive part of GCP.
Financial Times values Greenland at $1.1 tn, Buy rating in mock sellside report
> It's a state where the people inside can exit into China at will, while all the other people in all the other states in China must get permission to enter Hong Kong.

This is not 100% true. Setting aside the fact that not all permanent residents in Hong Kong are Chinese nationals, there have been many cases where people have been denied entry into mainland China. But this is a minor point compared to the next point you make:

> So, its a state where the people living inside have all the benefits of being Chinese, with few of the downsides.

As a native HKer this sounds very weird. I'm not sure how the previous point leads to this.

Anyways, I know this is how it's portrayed in mainland China, but the current movement is not about creating an independent Hong Kong separated from China. Sadly, most mainland Chinese people have already made up their mind and let their patriotism fuel their hatred towards Hong Kong.
Most of those "sock puppet" accounts are not hard to detect and bucket.
What is the best Android app for this ?
Anyone know ?
> The main value in software is not the code produced, but the knowledge accumulated by the people who produced it

The problem is most CEOs see the binary as the asset, not the knowledge gained. I've tried to explain this concept to multiple startup CEOs, who hire outside development firms, for which it rarely works out for them.
My understanding is that C++ opted more for a coroutine-first design, where a very generic coroutine abstraction is in the center of the design, and other things (like generators and async functions) are built around it. That makes it very universal - but probably also harder to understand if one only has a specific use-case.

Rusts design compared to that was not only focused on async functions as the main design goal, but also on maintaining compatibility with a "struct Future" type which also can be implemented by hand and represents a state-machine.

The latter will allow Rust to reuse lots of async infrastructure that had been built in the (combinators & state-machine) Futures world in the last years (e.g. the tokio library and everything on top of it).

One downside of Rusts approach might be that some parts feel a bit awkward and hard, e.g. the 2 different states of Futures (one where it hasn't been executed and can be moved around and one where it has been started executing and can't be moved anymore) and the pinning system. As far as I understand C++ exposes less of those details to end-users - this might be something where the implicit allocations might have helped it.

As far as I understand the async function flavor of C++ coroutines also have run-to-completion semantics and can't be cancelled at any yield point like Rusts Futures can be. This has the advantage of being able to wrap IO completion based operations in a more natural fashion than Rust. But it then again has the downside that users need to pass CancellationTokens around for cancellation, and that some code might not be cancellable.
Just in time I started reading ``Drawing Physics'' by Don S Lemons
Lyft and Uber are public now, so they have a bit less latitude to engage in an even more aggressive price war, at least without making some painful cuts. They’re already under pressure to demonstrate that they can be long term going concerns. So, I think Nomad is coming out at a perfect time.

Also, it’s much cheaper to jump in and piggyback on the existing supply of drivers and riders than it was to create that market. It’s one more app to run/check, and many drivers already run two, and many riders check two. If Nomad runs super lean and they offer drivers and riders more income and cheaper rides, respectively, without singing the experience too much, I think they have a shot.

In any case, I’m rooting for them, it seems like it’ll put some more power in the hands of the drivers, away from Uber.
Couldn't get it to work.
I love this projection (either side of the map). While I've known since childhood about the size distortion of the Mercator projection (one need simply look at a globe), I never saw any of the size-preserving projections until a West Wing episode ("Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail") featured the Peters projection. The Hobo Dyer projection shown here is even cooler.
The cloud NAT is not for avoiding ip costs.

Lot of external services need whitelisted IP. And in the world of k8s and on-demand instances, NAT is pretty much the only way one can guarantee static outbound IP.
I did complain to the author, but the damage was done. Can't undo a magazine article. I didn't save a copy of the magazine I was so annoyed.

BTW, it goes on. A couple years ago a kind soul gently suggested I implement DFA since clang had invented DFA.

(No, I didn't invent DFA either, but I do believe that Datalight Optimum C was the first DFA compiler for DOS.)

http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/CCompilerHis...

The Data Flow Analysis code:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/d...
Websites set log in status via the browser's cookie mechanism. Have you made any changes to that in your browser?
You can buy third party compatible pods. It's pretty convenient compared to building coils, replacing pre-made coils, or even refilling a tank.
Artificial human eye replica used for disease modeling and drug testing
Life has forever been hiding in plain sight. Microbes too small to see, living in places we didn't even think to look, surviving off of chemical and electrical metabolisms we never considered. Our challenge has never been finding life, it's been recognizing it.
Disinformation is very popular right now. It is happening everywhere. Humans have much power with social media, it is getting abused. The good news is that Facebook and Twitter are finding ways to slow it down. Maybe that technology can be imported into WeChat somehow.
Hopefully his username is not an indication.
I think most people are freer than they believe to bring themself to work.

Even at companies in rural areas, people can generally be somewhat "weird" or "alternative" and still be accepted at work if they don't make their personality a weapon to annoy people with.
we have

Hypothetical: if aliens started building a Dyson sphere around Sol, could we stop them?
Serious question: why just the executives? I know everybody needs a job to get by, but there’s an expression for getting by by getting kids hooked on harmful drugs: being a shitbum drug dealer. There should be some consequences when it comes to earning your living by damaging the health of children.
This thread hurts so bad.

I never used helm / kubernetes before 3 months ago.

Not 2 weeks ago I needed to loop in a helm config file in order to basically say "all this same config, libraries, etc., just run this other command instead" ... because someone who makes those decisions had ~100 lines of environment-injected configuration + boilerplate in the yaml that I couldn't get rid of, needed, and would have otherwise needed to copy / paste.

Since then, those environment variables have been pulled out into a different file (refactoring!), and now we replaced a loop over 100 lines of config, with 2x sets of 15-20 lines of config boilerplate. Better, but still a lot of bull. I don't know what the right answer is, because we've got less helm templating bullshit in there, but we still need boilerplate. Because it's not like I can tear down an entire kubernetes + helm infrastructure because I don't like how the config files are written.

Configs / config generation is hard, and generally awful. If you don't see it that way, congratulations; you're either a genius in your field, you've got not enough experience, and/or you're wrong. If you believe it's easy, and we're all missing something - please, by all means, write a book on how / why configurations aren't as hard as the rest of us say they are.

Best of luck to you.
Is anything magic? It doesn't really matter when a thing is so inscrutable that it is indistinguishable from magic, especially if you believe that your personal subjective experience is 100% the result of brain function.
Thanks for the insight! Reached out to an old friend and I’m now shilling him. Wish me luck ;)
Guess I need a few co-founders. A designer/product person and perhaps another engineer so I can focus more on operations.
Everyone loves a good "the worst possible example".
Juul ads and the old time cigarette ads from decades ago remind me of Coca Cola ads as well. These massive marketing budgets all take some ugly thing and make seem like you can't have fun or be cool without it.
> One thing though: I hope the modding capability and freedom won't be diminished.

There was a video posted alongside with a lot of development interviews and one of them was very specific about mentioning they were creating a platform and they wanted to expose the framework they use to the community. Hopefully not just lip service but as far as signalling goes it was important enough for them to mention.
Always cool to see projects like this. Feels like you gain a little more insight into the hobbies and lifestyles of the prominent figures who usually only appear in news related to their famous technologies. Plus, seeing Linus as a contributor is kind of a subtle seal-of-approval as far as the quality of the software.
> Serious question: why just the executives

I never said 'just', but you've got to start somewhere and there is nowhere better to start than at the top. When people lower down the food chain are the first targets, there is a nasty tendency for the matter to stop there. (First rule of plumbing: shit flows downhill...)
Off topic: Thank you for getting me to research the history of the hyperlink [1].

- 1945 linked microfilm pages in the essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush [2]

- 1964 the term "hyperlink" in Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson

- 1983 the "highlighted link" in HyperTIES system by Dan Ostroffin [3]

- 1989 manifesto for the Web by Tim Berners-Lee

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#History

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

[3]: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/
Plenty of original Star Trek episodes with similar plots (1966–1969). Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_...

However, just because something is and old idea does not mean inclusion does not represent a prediction.
Having reviewed your comment several times, I still feel that my representation of it is a good-faith interpretation of what you said. Yours has much more depth and nuance, justifying that perspective and elaborating on how you go about accomplishing it, but I think my summary is an accurate portrayal of your core principles. Can you clarify in what way it's not?
China Testing Self-Driving Vehicles on 16-Mile Mountain Highway
The graphics are kind of irrelevant because it's not a gameplay rendering you're seeing. They've listed multiplayer and interstellar travel as notable new features. Looks like colonization will be a big part of it.
Can’t disagree with you there. I don’t know how these people sleep at night. The taint should extend to any firm that consults for them. I don’t care how many adults really do use them as cessation devices, they are clearly intended to be used by children.
I don't think anyone who has thought about government for more than a few minutes believes that democracy is a form of government without significant downsides. Authoritarian governments have many advantages over democracies. An easy example is the current trade war. Authoritarian governments have a much easier time weathering pain for a long term benefit than democracies who change leaders every four years.

The Chinese government survives for the same reason every authoritarian government has survived throughout history. Overthrowing governments is really hard and requires truly extreme circumstances. That's the core problem that democracy solves. Overthrowing a democratic government is as easy as checking a box on a form. Overthrowing an authoritarian government requires violence.
'const' in JS is 100% for readability and enables no additional optimizations above 'let'. In fact 'const' and 'let' are often worse than 'var' because of the temporal dead zone.
I use firebase, heavily.

The issue with that design pattern is that you end up with those hand-coded REST (or GraphQL) endpoints anyways.

You can't push all the business logic into the client because as soon as you do that, you end up duplicating all the business logic twice when you want to add a different client (especially in a different language).

For example, I have my Flutter phone app which is primarily for inputting data. I'm not going to put all the logic for talking to the firestore in the app because I also need to have a backend management app for viewing/editing all the data, which is web based.

So, instead, I built the logic into firebase functions via a graphql interface. Now both the phone and web clients can talk to graphql and share that single typesafe interface.

It is really nice that firebase is this flexible though. You can pick and choose and it is still relatively easy to secure the backend by using firebase functions.
Maybe a better invention would be a device that fires a high-power laser beam directly into the eyes of anybody who tries to 'innovate' in the addictive substance industry.
The purpose of a corporation is to allow passive investors to own part of a business and share in its profits without risking more than their investment.

That's basically all there is to it.
Google has a long way to go to figure out the intent of the request instead of dumb text search. I don't think creating J in 1980-s Iverson had to be bothered with that.
AWS Amplify is the competition.
What I liked about the current KSP is that everything is real. NASA actually sent a satellite to all of our Soler system's planets. They actually developed a rover that can drive on the moon, and they preformed rendezvous with two spaceships. They also had to deal with a finite amount of fuel and parts that could be destroyed if there was too much pressure or heat on them.

Now with colonies and mining it is less realistic and more sci-fi. I can see the appeal of that, but it is a different appeal. I would have preferred that they spent energy developing things to make it more realistic. For example, Lagrange points, different forms of propellents, n body physics, automation, ets. Recently with Bereshit I learned that before (certain?) rockets can fire their main engines they have to fire small ones to provide acceleration in order to move the fuel in the big tank closer to the main engine. It would have been nice if KSP also took that into account.

On an unrelated topic, I wonder how KSP 2 will make multiplayer work with timewarp
Binance Venus, a stablecoin that will compete with Facebook’s Libra
Reddit announces community live-streaming feature “Public Access Network”
Taking it a step further https://trek.nasa.gov/moon/ allows you to fly around google earth style as well as download topographic data as stl for printing.
Netflix really never had close to everything though. When it was discs, sure. The streaming though was always pretty sparse. I know I ended up frequently buying shows on Amazon. That's how I watched Breaking Bad, most Curb seasons, Better Call Saul, The Americans to make a few. To me what really changed is that there now are more shows than ever that are available with a subscription at all and more shows that are exclusive to a single streaming provider.
Quoting a teacher about math-related assignments.

"The answer has to be beautiful, being correct is obvious".
Not an American nor am I familiar with american laws. I'm curious to know whether tech companies that manipulate content to increase the time spent on an app/device can be scrutinised under the above act? Isn't spending hours and hours on an app/device basically an addiction?
There are some mods for ksp that make things more realistic, including a real solar system and more realistic rockets.
Windsurfers always sitting on the beach not windsurfing!!
If we're using hyperbole arguments like that, then the actual magic gold here is Jobs+Woz: one in a bazillion.
I thought Minecraft did support IPv6? Leastwise, I don't recall having any issues recently, although I'm still running v1.13 and atop Spigot.

I do recall some issues somewhere around 1.11-ish that required passing in the option -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false. The server-ip property also needs to have any ":" escaped, e.g. "\:\:"
The problem comes to distinguishing genuinely held beliefs from subversive comments designed to manipulate the HN audience. The fact that an idea comes from your peers is a powerful one. The average commenter on HN is not so different from you, after all, if they independently came to a conclusion then it might have some merit. However, if they came to that conclusion because they will be rewarded for expressing it or punished for expressing a dissenting opinion, the value is much less.

Some people make it easier - on many occasions you'll see someone discussing a subject but first disclosing their relationship, such as an ex-Google employee commenting on a Google-critical article. If a Chinese party official came to HN to express their views and disclosed themselves as such, I would welcome them to express their opinion here. What I'm concerned about is commenters with undisclosed affiliations writing manipulative comments which help prop up an oppressive state.
> gay marriage has only been legal since 2015 federally — that's a type of abuse

No, it isn't.

> the American Revolution had some type of value even though slavery was still a part of America's history. Therefore, America still provided some value

I never suggested otherwise.
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It appears they popularized nicotine salts, but you can get nicotine salt ejuice for use in standard mod/tanks setups.

I don't have any experience to assess if it is more satisfying or smoother but I believe Juul has used both those claims in their marketing.
Happy to look it up. Can you point me to some sources that measure competition and innovation? One yardstick could be the number of new businesses per year, which is increasing per this article from two years ago [0].

I am not trying to what-about around Google possibly having some skeletons in their closet - just pointing out that the company screaming "hey, I'm handling data irresponsibly" is not being investigated, but the ones that have been the target of techno-fear-mongering smear campaigns are. Makes me question that the motivation of the investigation is not actually to benefit the average consumer.

[0] https://fortune.com/2017/02/22/startups-2017-challenger/