skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> long-term monetary commitments towards landlords

borrow-long then?
Shouldn't politicians generally spend time and attention on the problems that affect the most people?
Yes, I made an additional point but that doesn't invalidate the main response that a bigger burden of proof than men/women are different == MUST BE GLOBAL THERMONUCULAR SEXISM is on its feminist advocates. If you're upset that I think the sexism victimhood industry is bigger than its opposition you can set me straight on how billions of dollars over decades, tony institutes, college majors, federal/state regulations, corporate campaigns etc etc are equaled or exceeded by a few neckbeards complaining on Roosh.com.
This should have been either a paper or a video, but it couldn't decide
>If it actually worked that way, there would be an amazingly high incentive for sellers to minimize packaging waste.

But why? Adding a nonsense convoluted disincentive is inane. Landfills are cheap and plentiful and filling them with plastic doesn't hurt anything (and can be billed to either supplier or consumer) If something is worth recycling the market will sort it.
Not all of the games on GOG are DRM-free at this point. Some require GOGGalaxy, their version of the steam client.
I went through a frustrating refund process after learning about this after making a purchase.
Bill the manufacturer for the waste it creates, as it gets scanned and sorted.
> But fine let's say you're right.

Because I am. Stop saying he's a rapist.
So you're saying Uber is a tech company for being what it is. But it wouldn't be a tech company if it is exactly what it is today but also owns the cars the driver's use?

So by that logic if Uber ever does migrate completely to a self-driving taxi system, it is no longer a tech company.
> So if we had added it to std many years ago, we might find ourselves with an API that we regret! It's tough.

That is the ultimate problem of batteries includes vs a small standard library distilled into a specific example.

People used to tout Python's "batteries included" line as positive almost universally a decade and more ago. Then better replacements were developed, and those batteries started looking less appealing.

There's really no escaping that while including any base functionality. Either you include it and portions will be stale later as better interfaces and paradigms are developed, or you don't, and you risk slower adoption and harder usability as people need to figure out solutions for common tasks, even if that solution is as simple as find the crate that provides it. Because eventually that becomes a problem not of finding the crate, but finding the best crate out of the multiple that exist, which itself causes fragmentation of the common developer experience (and thus makes it harder to share knowledge and have a good community).
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What deception? You aren't saying anything useful.
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So the days of “Splunk for logs and X for monitoring” will change to “Splunk for logs and monitoring”
Indian maps show them as having control of all of Kashmir.

In reality, control of Kashmir is split between India, Pakistan, and China.
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I can't remember where I heard this or who said it, but I do like it and use it as my own definition.

A tech company is a company whose product is "easily" scalable with a few taps of the keyboard and clicks of the mouse. A game development company is a tech company. Selling one, two or a few thousand units is not that big of a deal. Now, we can argue that scalability in terms of cloud services is an issue. Think Steam for video games. But generally, there's little difference "work" wise between selling 10 copies and 10,000.

A not tech company that uses a lot of technology, but again, is not a tech firm, let's say Haas. They build high-end CNC machines. Manufacturing one or two machines is not negligible. Well, kind of. Compared to them. They build like a few hundred a month. But lets say they want to build a few thousand. That's a big deal. That's more manpower. More equipment. More materials. More warehouse space. More planning. More everything.

But Autodesk selling Fusion 360 (modeling program for CNC milling) is a tech company. Because it's generally meaningless if they have 1,000 licenses a month or 100,000 licenses a month. Production wise. All the upfront work was done for the product and now it's a matter of people giving up their credit card numbers.
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>Uber isn't at taxi company, since it doesn't own or operate taxis. Conceptually it's a platform for connecting independent taxi operators with customers

Uber is a moonshot bet on re-imagining transportation when autonomous vehicles become a reality. If that reality never materializes, Uber either raises prices and sees its growth rate and valuation crash back down to earth or it goes out of business.
In theory erase could return a move iterator, meaning that you could omit the call to std::move. This wouldn't be backwards compatible though so not going to happen.
> From what I've read, they genuinely understand that what is at stake is their freedom to choose their own path.

Unfortunately that's not what's at stake because they won't succeed; freedom isn't actually an option. They think it is, but they'll fail.

> Liberty is what they are fighting to keep. Not wealth.

That might be what they tell themselves, but I can guarantee that if all the HK youth got cushy finance jobs like the previous generation, these protests would have never happened.
In absence of personal fulfilment, HK youth are searching for an identity.

> The trigger for the current mass-action was not an economic event

Yes, that was the trigger. However there are triggers, and underlying sentiment. Remember the Umbrella Revolution was a thing only a few years before.

For the record, I'm not saying that Hong Kongers are wrong for protesting or wanting freedom. I'm just saying they'll fail, and the consequences won't be pretty.
Cloud Run is great if you don't need something that's always on (e.g. websockets). For the Postgres part you still need Cloud SQL. It is also much simpler compared to Fargate (perceptually, haven't actually tried Fargate nor would want to, happy GCP user)
>the most anyone could aspire to was making adventure games or flash stick figure games/movies back then.

As a counterexample, I present: Homestar Runner. Also, Homestuck.
That doesn’t follow. Even in recent history, most Presidents command large electoral vote majorities. In my life time, 7 of 10 elections ended in a more than 60-40 margin in the electoral college, including both Obama wins.
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Sure, but I think they hold up to skepticism
Politics is an emotional thing. It's unfortunately also a selfish thing. Both aspects must be kept in mind when saying or doing anything if the topic is political or religious. (Or anything else guided by emotion.)

Positive reinforcement works best. Find something that will make them feel good, that also breaks their bad habits. In this case, specially the habit of taking in news sources that lie. This is far more difficult than it sounds.

Negative reinforcement / negative emotions, seems to only work when they agree with it. You can steer someone's thinking this way towards a positive path, but usually negative feelings are to be avoided at all costs. This includes talking about conflicting information.

So, for example, if I was in your situation, it may not be an ideal answer, but I might talk about the fairness doctrine and how much propaganda we have in the US. If they already believe we are biased, this will have a positive emotional response, because the facts are in agreement. The trick with this is talking about how in our news it used to be illegal to lie to people. By talking about the fairness doctrine you plant a seed of how things could be done -- a better way.

This will not change their views, but that seed will slowly grow into something much more months to years from now, because they'll start questioning their own news sources. This happens in part because explaining the fairness doctrine explains one way to guarantee the news is not biased. This is done by giving equal time to opposing views. The seed then becomes, "This news source isn't giving an opposing view along side it." and then it becomes, "Maybe I should look at multiple news sources to get an honest take." Though, usually it will be an acknowledgement of how fucked up it is, without the effort taken to learn the real truth. Either way, that imho is one of the few seeds you can plant that will open people's eyes.
1. Ooh that's good to be aware of...
Again false perception issues, GCP is not Google consumer product. GCP rarely sunsets products already in GA (for now).
I'm afraid the "javascript sucks" meme has taken hold. The infection is terminal now. At least, in the minds of most developers judging web development from the outside.
It's a post on HN about modern JavaScript, everyone's gonna do that either way
> But how can I really prove they're not secretly backed by China and I'm paying $5/mo for higher priority access to a Chinese VPN farm

You can't. But you need to think of what your threat model is here. I tend to assume that FIVEYES is capable of intercepting all of my internet traffic going via a commercial VPN, but also ... that's kind of fine? My threat model is I don't want to fall victim to cyber-crime, and I want to remain relatively anonymous to large American corporations.
Major 'Anna Karenina' spoiler in this book review...
But won’t the community converge on that anyway, and in a similar amount of time? So why add it to the stdlib?
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I think there are a lot more barriers to entry, in terms of if you haven't worked in JS much previously. Meaning, pre-Webpack/Babel/ES6 Modules etc, it was just JS and so newbies could learn JS and then go from there. Now, there's a bigger learning curve in the initial stages, I believe.
Cloud Run. Serverless containers

https://cloud.google.com/run/
I have often thought that part of the rationale for the electoral college was that in the 18th century they did not have the internet, TV, Radio, even newspapers were pretty scarce. So it just wasn't all that practical for a candidate to ride a horse around all 13 colonies to meet each voter. The logical solution would have been to have a parliamentary system whereby the congress would select the president for you. The problem there was that the president would be beholden to the congress and you would lose some of the checks and balance features because he would be less likely to veto something. So they developed a "shadow congress" that did not have law making responsibilities but sole purpose was to travel to Philadelphia or DC and hear the speeches and so forth and select the president for you as your representative.

Looking at it from this 18th century perspective highlights why it is completely unnecessary today. Obviously the voter has many ways of getting to know the positions of the candidates themselves and hence able to elect the president directly. There is no need for it today.
Well yea, that's why I eventually quit both jobs.
I believe you, but in markets like Austin, TX (where I live) it seems odd that a landlord would not just hold out for a more orthodox lease, since there is some shortage of retail space and rental rates are high. What am I missing as to why they would lease to such an SPE?
Also originally from C++, now been working with the likes of React for about five years. After grappling with Redux, React Router, Immutable, Typescript, Flow Typing and a hundred other libraries, my solution was to go back to basics: build applications with vanilla JS, using a bare minimum of libraries and a lot of standard browser APIs. In my case, basically React only. How do I do client-side routing? addEventListener('hashchange'). Type safety? Unit tests. Mapping actions to components? onClick: dispatch(new CustomEvent('foo')) etc.

Edit: Parcel for module bundling and transpile, but I'm waiting for JS native modules. Eventually React too, will go away in favor of Web Components.
> when you're very poor, economic circumstances matter more than political freedom.

I consider the 2 to be intertwined. If you are not free to pursue a better way of life, economic circumstances matter very little. The Arab Spring was sparked by a Tunisian street vendor having all his possessions confiscated by the local police. Out of frustration he set himself on fire.

Authoritarian regimes are rarely fair and are not particularly interested in the financial well being of the population.

> The finance industry is already planning to exit HK (too volatile), and China can kill the rest of their economy.

Businesses aren't leaving HK because of the volatility, they are leaving HK because Beijing is choosing the winners and losers. And they have decided that Beijing and Shanghai will be the financial capitals.
Public awareness at the unrecyle-ability of the majority of products should hopefully upstream business packaging change.
How anyone can do productive work developing software in an open office is beyond me
LinkedIn is so spammy, I hate it. The recruiters don't even read your profile, and you feel like a jungle explorer trying to find how to turn off all the notifications
OK, so you have a bank balance of $1m, rather than paper bills. Your bank can go bust -- it does happen -- and you'll probably find that the Government only insures/guarantees something like the first $100,000 of that. However, the government here are selling you 30 year storage and guarantee of your balance at a small cost (the negative interest).
> .NET developers love using the standard libs

I may not be a typical .Net developer, but my personal feeling is that this is too general and somewhat glib.

If you're inexperienced you will (and should!) choose the default option, if there's one available, and the most commonly used option if there isn't a default. So, if you wanted an ORM, then before EF there was NHibernate. But after a while you become able (from painfully gained experience) to determine what you want from a tool and what trade-offs you want to make, so you might use something like Dapper or no ORM at all.

Personally, I have found some of the MS provided implementations - shall we say - less than optimal. The Unity Framework. EF (which I dearly wish I have never had to suffer using). MSTest. Enterprise Library (oh god ugh).

So I make other - informed - choices about what to use. Some things I keep using because they are 'good enough' and I have a library of utilities and a mental map of how they work - log4net, NUnit - and some things I find I just don't need any more (mocking libraries, for one).

MS still support their provided implementations - as they should - but even their own projects can and do use third-party frameworks rather than the MS provided implementation (for example, Bot Framework used AutoFac (back when I was using it, anyway) [1]) - because their developers have been released from the requirement to exclusively use MS provided frameworks, and are making their own choices about what to use in their projects, and consequently what their users should use when using those tools.

Eventually, of course, if a tool is so crucial that it becomes part of .Net itself - the best example I can think of is dependency injection in .Net Core, which is in Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection - you'd have to be mighty stubborn to use anything else.

One other point: I wouldn't describe NHibernate as 'obsolete', but given their historic and chronic inability to keep their documentation sites live and working ([2] referenced from [3]) it's easy to get that impression. But people are certainly still using it [4]. Just not as many as there used to be.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-sdk/issues/938
[2] http://www.nhforge.org/doc/nh/en/index.html
[3] https://ayende.com/blog/4139/nhibernate-documentation
[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nhibernate
It might be legitimate for a western people e.g. you may be used to get different laws in different levels of government, but it's utterly unthinkable for the Chinese. The fact that HK even keeps foreign judges and officials pretty much surprised a lot of Chinese.
This is why velocity is a 3 week average of points and can be overridden in the tool to show people who are out on vacation/sick. The tool dynamically updates to show what stories make it into an iteration as well.

The whole idea is not to force people into a box. It is to just give PM's a way to plan the future. Obviously, things can change so it isn't some forceful thing at all.

Don't knock it until you've tried it. I had an opinion like you and then I went and worked in this system and it totally changed my mind.
Thank you, good sir, for the selfless effort you put into conducting and publishing this research for the benefit of mankind. I mean, not entirely selfless, but still, thank you.

Changes how you look at things.
From the inside of the cyber security industry, it certainly doesn't feel that dark horse-like. It feels quite crowded actually.

There are two big things going for it though:

1. There's an adversarial relationship that drives up demand for products.

2. It's stupidly complex, so there's a lot of potential value add in anything that can simplify the problem.

The main thing going against the cyber security industry is that while it's sexy to subject matter experts, it's not really sexy to boardrooms, Silicon Valley tech startups included, many who see it as a cost center and something that slows down product development and thus do the minimum necessary to look secure. Speaking from anecdotal evidence.

In the context of big companies, Krebs on Security had a great article in the wake of the Equifax breach which pointed out that there are very few CISO's (or equivalent) who report to the CTO or CEO. For the most part they report to the CFO, to the head of IT, or to the head of legal.
Perhaps that's because most of HN is young enough to remember what it's like to be 16, and can empathize with being in that role more than you.

When I was 16, I was having sex with a woman who was - let's just say old enough to be prosecuted in California. It was great. If the right 55 year old came around, why the hell not?

I guess you'll claim that I'm an abused child. That's bollocks.

Or maybe you think that only girls need to be protected/infantilized?

Nobody is arguing for a world where teenagers turn tricks for a living. And sure this situation brings up all sorts of questions, and isn't "fine". But 16-18 is definitely in the grey zone of adulthood, and the majority of US states grant them a lot of sexual agency already. There's a big gap between "just fine" and "hang 'em!"

My moral judgement basically comes down to: How did the 16yo feel about it? It's really their interest we're advocating for, right?
What’s Uber?
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On the other hand, the electoral college, like congress, gives actual weight to the idea that a state is more than just the sum of its population, by automatically getting two votes for being a state.

Whether or not that is necessary is a different conversation from the information dissemination purpose of the EC.
What is a "decision boundary?" What does it mean to represent data as a point in space? Why would the number of dimensions of space matter? How does any of that relate to AI or machine learning?
It would probably be better just to have a separate partition with a separate OS install. Either way, as you indicate, this is an unusual imposition on the user. Valve are holding themselves to a much lower standard than one would expect.
Your argument seems confused to me, but maybe I don’t quite understand, can you elaborate? We do have state level democracy. The electoral college’s purpose is solely for presidential elections, not for local elections. Why shouldn’t we have a democracy for presidential elections? Your reasons given (local control) don’t apply to federal elections. Even with the electoral college, we’re pretty close to democratic representation for president anyway, and the discrepancy between what we have, a federal republic, and a pure democracy doesn’t serve the same purpose that it used to. So why should we keep it? Why is the proposal to get rid of the electoral college “absurd”? What do you mean about authoritarians taking away state level democracy?
We owe voting rights and statehood to the island nations we colonized during the past century.
I haven’t been hanging out in their chat rooms lately but for months and months there has been a lot going on. Gnome foundation people and regular community have been doing tons
>our energy and spirituality

>it is a “community company”

>“We are here in order to change the world,”

Can some explain to me what renting out shared workspaces has to do with any of this?
Sensible man.
It's already a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJT2h5uGAC0
The Kent State shooting is taught in almost all high school history classes. Not sure how you missed it.

It's also a totally different scale - 4 vs. a number in the hundreds to thousands.

We don't even know the numbers for sure because it's been clamped down so massively, vs. Kent State, where we know exactly what happened.
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IMHO, the Chinese influence over the law system will damage HKs economy more than the protests in the long term. "Protests damaging HK" is a narrative that seems to be pushed in Chinese state media.

I recommend:
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/08/hong-kong-for-internati...
It's for the Moscow municipal government, not national-level.
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You know, I read that and went "No they don't. That's not possible. That industry doesn't make that much in a day."

And I was right, it's actually ~$239 billion a day. Like... wow. And even that, by other sources is considered a low estimate.

So yea. You're wrong. But... yea...
Is there evidence that this proposition isn't true?
That isn’t a reason for a single state to be able to hold the entire progress of the majority back.
More often than not, absolutely. It requires a much higher level of competence to design a language and develop a functional compiler than it does to design libraries. There are packages in Node with millions of downloads, packages that are basically ubiquitous in certain domains that are riddled with bugs, with terrible interfaces and documentation. I can even think of libraries I've worked with in Java/C/.net/etc that are just horrific... If the languages themselves were as badly designed as the average library, they'd never succeed.
I've heard of this happening in Austin with one firm specifically. For the most part, they have a bad rep around town.
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Shouldn't a pizza box be compostable anyway? It's mostly cardboard?
Seeing a lot of hate here for modern JS workflows. The truth is you can make a mess no matter what ecosystem you buy into. I’ve encountered some absolute trash fires of complexity in Java, PHP, C, and (yes) Javascript code bases. They all suffered from the same problem: lack of communication and planning. This is a framework agnostic problem IMHO.
It has long been my conviction that tech stacks like React are necessary and/or seen as good because the frontend is trying to solve overly complicated problems. All of those framework-du-jour praises sound to me like people have found The New Great Tool for building a Tower of Babel¹.

Just, you know, have simpler problems?

SoC your stuff, solve the 80% instead of the 99%, challenge your assumptions about what you need and you'd be surprised how little complications you can get away with.

¹ one common tool in the pipeline actually being called babel never fails to amuse me.