skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven’t heard of it yet, Subnautica is the last game I’ve played that truly felt wondrous to play and hooked into my brain in a major way. Highly recommend, one of my favorite games of all time I’d say. (Up there with Undertale and Super Metroid)
They very much do!
The Alameda Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)
Rust isn't new to Turner (the author), he was one the Rust Language team at Mozilla.
"In June, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario revoked the license of a fertility specialist in Ottawa, Dr. Norman Barwin, 80, and reprimanded him for repeatedly using the wrong sperm — including his own — in artificial insemination procedures over decades."

Perhaps the system could benefit with a modest amount of regulation?
As someone who has lived in both Hong Kong and San Francisco, this comment made me chuckle.
I just want to make a note that Tobi (Shopify's CEO) has made great contributions to Rails open source ecosystem with projects like Liquid and ActiveMerchant, which he started:

- https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/commits?author=tobi

- https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant/commits?au...

We leverage these projects daily, so it's awesome to see his company doing so well. In addition, we're on Shopify's platform as a app developer, so his company has added a lot of value, both commercially and non-commercially to developers, not just e-commerce merchants.

Kudos to them.
I think there’s definitely room for mirrors of package repos that focus on a stablized and audited subset of packages, with frequent security and bug backports and medium-length cycles for new features — like what Fedora and Debian do, but for language ecosystems.
Thanks Ras for the above pointers! I also wanted to add that there is a demo of the system with different levels of feedback mechanism hosted here: http://sketch2.csail.mit.edu/python-autofeedback/new-encodin...

It uses constraint-based synthesis to search for small repairs. We also did some follow up work on learning from other student's solutions to learn to correct similar mistakes: https://rishabhmit.bitbucket.io/papers/sarfgen_pldi18.pdf
https://rishabhmit.bitbucket.io/papers/dyn_iclr18.pdf
A big chunk of that 3% Shopify fee is eaten by the CC exchanges. But they make money from the App Store, and monthly Shopify fees.
The problem is the human mind is not made to understand computers, the reason we have C is because assembly language was tedious, the reason we had assembly language is because direct programming binary was tedious...

You see at each layer we've created abstractions. The problem is what we want to do or is easy for us in the real world is a giant list of millions of instructions for a computer turning a switch on or off according to some mathematical function. When we want to draw we get a pencil and paper because the universe already provides the 'infrastructure'.

Programming however means you're creating entire universes from scratch. That means you have to create atoms, define their characteristics and functions and you basically end up having to understand the behavior of the machine to get it to do what you want it to do.

At scale this completley out-stripes what the human brain is capable of grasping. The reality is research into translating machine or human models back and forth between mind and machine needs to be a field unto itself.

The hardest part about programming when you start is wrapping your mind around how the machine works underneath it's a foreign language to most peoples minds.

So I have serious doubts most people can comment on it with intelligence. Most people are not experienced enough to know what they don't know. What are valid and not valid criticisms, etc. Because it takes a lot of tim and expertise to understand different models, abstractions and approaches.
Maybe in the Middle East but not here. I'd say it's similar to how African American men are portrayed as being forward, i.e. hollering at women and being forward about hitting on women. It could even be related to socioeconomic status as a lot of the men I'm describing would be in lower socioeconomic brackets.
As a consumer, at least in Europe, I have a bunch of rights executed via the retailer. If I have a serious doubt the retailer will be around in 2 years, I'll choose a different one. This should limit Shopify's prospects of international growth.
FPGA-accelerated ML inference as a service for particle physics computing
What about dust storms? Seems like some areas in the American Southwest (AZ, NM, West Texas) are dry enough for swamp coolers, but they also can have these insane dust storms that are so intense you can't see to drive on the highway.
This is comically terrible advice. You can’t read someone’s mind even if their body language suggests openness. “Escalate a bit or don’t” is just a bonkers thing to say. There’s such a high risk you are just bothering the other person and no matter how receptive they seem they have infinite entitlement to retroactively claim you were being creepy or pushy or annoying or anything else. The risk is so asymmetrically high that in fact people would rather nauseatingly scroll through self-absorbed profiles online than to express willingness in public spaces.
No, we’ve been on the brink of annihilation many times and have found a way through. We cannot predict what new knowledge will be discovered to solve these problems. But we must keep trying.
Dont worry, when we get remote brain scan technology, advertisers will attempt exactly what you are saying. This is a technology that may actually be possible, heck, it could be possible just by life monitoring at the scale FB and Google do these days.
>I don't have many high quality pictures and I don't do very well.

So you know recognize your problem area, then go work on improving those. Get fit and dress better. Get professional photographer to took your pictures, etc. Women too has too spend time and effort on these.
How did you take "rule out meeting a partner and having a family" from what I said? Dating in 2019 is really easy when I have free time I can line up multiple dates per week without having to resort to harassing every attractive woman I pass at the grocery store.
So, Stanford, obviously.

But ... what's Santa Clara University's significance? It's always seemed a minor local school to my knowledge.

If anything, SJ State would be a bigger factor, turning out armies of technical and applied (rather than theoretical) engineers.
There’s a lot of money to be made in verticals, my friend.

“Mainstream” doesn’t always equate to “success”. In fact, trying to please everyone usually pleases no one.

Creaform is doing just fine. They wouldn’t have been acquired otherwise.
I posted this somewhere else before, so I will just repost as the answer did not change that much.

I use Safari with JS and cross-tracking disabled on macOS and iOS, Firefox with a custom user.js on elementaryOS. I enable JS only when necessary — looking at you, Help Scout.

For actual blocking, I run a Pi-hole on a VPS that connects to multiple DNSCrypt servers that I control, which block everything I want while improving privacy. Planning on replacing Pi-hole with AdGuard Home for DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS, since I want to have this server public at some point, for others to use.

If anyone is interested in testing, shoot me an email at root@jamespond.co. No logging, DNSSEC, disk encryption, Canonical Livepatch, 24/7 monitoring and completely open source.

:)
I’m kicking myself for not investing in Shopify when I saw it in the 100s this year. Given the size of my average investment I could have made a good $20k in profit. Wondering if I’m making the same mistake again. Could this be another $1000 stock?
Earth has always been uninhabitable for the most part. It’s only technology that allows us to live where we are (unless you live in the great Rift Valley). And it will be technology that saves us in the future.

Edit: downvoted for technology optimism on this site?? Please explain.
Hmm I like this but there's no way it's replacing fish for me, I'd rather use it as standalone command that provides the same functionality.

e.g. `ls | nu where size > 10` or `nu open Cargo.toml`
"would be using Sciter for embedded apps" that is not a problem already. E.g. it runs on ARMs like Raspberry Pi. SDK contains binaries that use GTK but it is possible to run it without any window manager. Access to FB or video memory is enough.

As of OpenSource, yes I have plans for that. The only problem is that OS is a great responsibility, at least for me. It is going to be a significant effort to document source code, etc. I am actively looking for sponsors for the effort.
Feature suggestion: detect timing differences between program outputs to determine where an individual output ended and the next one began, so people can automatically scroll to the top of a stack trace for instance by double clicking it or something because the shell will recognize all those lines as a single message.
Agree mostly, but there are certain languages that I give it a pass for given the context. A good shell written in Rust is intriguing.

I don't think I want the fad to go away, because it can even help me know what to steer clear of. e.g. Introducing a new shell written in JS!).
Something Deeply Hidden
Why should a bunch of tech workers be administering justice? We've elected government officials to handle that.
It doesn't.

Seeing this point remembered here will help some, but overall you A. either won't know you're shopping at a shopify.com store or B. you'll not care because the company is too big to fail (Tesla).
If you take a look inside the United States for a moment, you’ll realize we actually have a fairly hard division between civil, criminal, and political disputes.

Civil justice concerns two private parties, typically adjudicated by a Judge and Jury when they cannot reach an agreement.

Criminal justice concerns the State, represented by the Attorney-General or someone who works for him, and someone found to be in criminal violation of the laws of the State. They murdered, raped and/or defrauded someone, or something like that. The State takes a special interest because they have a monopoly on violence to enforce, and no one wants people taking Justice into their own hands. It would violate the social contract.

Political justice is typically subjective, an example of political justice would be Congress impeaching and removing a President or other official from Office.

What form of Justice are corporations specifically found to have disproportionate influence over? Certainly they might influence some laws and regulations around the governing of their business practices, but not all laws are concerned with Justice.

Justice is the domain of legislatures, Attorneys-General, police officers, juries, lawyers, prosecutors, public defenders, and so on. Justice is the domain of people that have the power to detain, arrest, try, pass judgement, imprison and kill you.

You take it as a given that they have this power and influence, but let’s say they do. Why would we formalize that state of affairs implicitly or explicitly? Their job is to be profitable, it is not to act in any meaningful capacity on Justice.
A huge part of Shopify's revenue comes from Shopify Plus. We're also fellow app developers[1], and we've noticed that if you offer value to their higher end businesses, you'll be running at churn rates that are much lower than what you'd think you'd get with the "average Shopify merchant".

Something like 70% of small businesses fail[2], so it's not surprising you'll see a large amount of churn if your audience is the broad set of all merchants, including those that are probably just kicking around the idea of spinning up a drop shipping business on the side. That doesn't mean there aren't great businesses in the Shopify ecosystem.

[1] - https://apps.shopify.com/reamaze
[2] - https://www.fundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-busine...
All systems are _NOT_ OOP.

State, or the existence of an "object" does signify OOP any more than the existence of a function or a function call signifies FP.
>An organization(in this case, a for-profit company) created to deliver products and services to consumers and advertisers playing politics on the world stage is laughable at best, and downright irresponsible at worst.

Most large companies have lobbyists. That's much more "playing politics" than simply deciding not to bid on a military contract.
See? Google filtered your search. The libs run search.
Isn't running the AC constantly means the thermostat is stopping the compressor every time the temperature gets too low and starting it again when it becomes too high? If so, why is it better to run it constantly?
Well, obviously people who aren't opposed to ads per se won't use extensions like this. I, personally, believe that the whole point of ads is to manipulate you into making purchasing decisions that are irrational, i.e. decisions that aren't in your own best interests. Therefore I think all ads are unethical.

I realize that's a minority position, but it's an example of one way in which someone could come to the position that all ads are bad and should be blocked.

Note - someone might respond that in theory an ad could be designed to be genuinely useful by helping you make a more informed choice. I'm not denying that that's possible, just that you're imagining a very different world than the one we in fact live in.
This happens to me all the time. A few weeks ago I registered for a half marathon and I’m still seeing targeted ads for it. As if I would somehow be able to run it twice lol..
> Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user.

They quite literally cannot do that. It's security theatre.
I place 50 virtual chips on your shop going out of business in the next 2 years.
I feel like you and everyone else are missing the obvious explanation: people who claim to be from a top 10 CS program who can't solve FizzBuzz in a few minutes lied about their background.

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has spent more than a week programming couldn't solve FizzBuzz. Even if they somehow weren't familiar with the modulo operator, you could just explain how it worked.

FizzBuzz is a way of easily filtering con artists.
Is there a reason why FAANG and similar companies don't use more contractors?
With the salaries of contractors being far lower, with fewer stock and other grants, I'm surprised there aren't more contractors at these companies. Why is it the case?
> So why skip over D+T if we need to go through it anyway?

Because much of what you'd end up doing to "do" D+T will be worthless for H+11B. Tokamaks, for example, are useless for H+11B.
>draw backs like swelling

swelling of what, my I ask? (My guess would be the drywall or plaster of the home being cooled.)
Another day, another entry in that one decades old flamewar.

Each paradigm has its place.
Oakland is the Bronx. SF is Queens. There is no Manhattan or Brooklyn. San Jose is central New Jersey.

(This comparison is unfair to both Queens and the Bronx, mind you.)
'First Vape Death in the US' Recorded in Illinois
The trick with LVT may be to find an alternate form of it that skirts Prop-13 restrictions, in the meantime.

As for zoning, that's likely a chicken-egg issue, but once holding nonproductive land becomes nonviable, reversing restrictive zoning may become far more tractable.

Alternatively, cracking the nut outside SF (and yes, I realise you're in the City) might be an option, where if a sufficient alternate jobs-and-housing magnet were formed, SF would be forced to follow suit. Not my first choice, but I'd take it.

Tackling this as a strategic "having defined our point B, how do we get there from A" question, and finding the least-cost path seems the right approach. Finding examples of other areas which have successfully tackled the problem is another.
I think they took one step in the right direction, where two more were needed.

The UNIX idea of piping text output from one command to the next was fine at the time, but it means that the downstream command has to parse text. With nushell, you are parsing slightly more structured text.

The two steps they could have taken in addition:

1. Instead of generating rows of a table, why not lists of strings? E.g. ("abc", "def", 123) instead of "abc | def | 123". Much easier to deal with in the command receiving this input.

2. And instead of just lists, why not objects? E.g. a process object, a file object, or, if you'd like a list as above.

I have implemented this idea: https://github.com/geophile/osh. For example, if you want to find processes in state 'S' with more than 3 descendents, and print the pid and command line of each, sorted by pid:

osh ps ^ select 'p: p.state == "S" and len(p.descendents) > 3' ^ f 'p: (p.pid, p.commandline)' ^ sort $

^ is used to denote piping. ps yields Process objects. Select examines those processes and keeps those with the right characteristics. Then f applies a function, mapping to the the pid and commandline in a list, and then sort sorts the lists, by pid (the first field of each list). $ does output.
No, they did not deny ad blockers the ability to read the URLs. They removed the ability to modify requests via the webRequest API, but left in the functionality for observing all requests made.
> perl and lua aren't necessary to run nginx core

But that's the crux of my argument, most of the time I don't just want the core, I want to be able to do almost everything and I'm willing to pay the binary price to have an "apt install nginx-everything" available.

Users with limited system resources could always "apt install nginx-minimal".

(If you can show me a distro that includes all the modules for nginx, caddy, postfix, certbot, etc. by default, I'll switch in a heartbeat!)
No, that's not what the issue is. That's an effect, not a cause. The cause is that fusion turned out to be less promising than had been thought, and that led to budgets being tight. Lidsky's devastating critique was part of that (tokamaks not being as good as early hopes implied was another.)
David Wallace wells isn't your best source. His work has been criticized for misrepresenting the science by many reputable climate scientists, many of which are easy to find online. It is clear in his response to being called too alarmist that he chooses to stretch the truth.

Whether or not his tactic is ethical is worth debate perhaps, but whether his picture is reflective of what climate scientists believe is an answered question (its not). The situation is bad, but we need not become defeatist, lest we give up entirely.
Is Google saying "everyone should just.."? It sounds like
jgunsch's comment is about "what should we (Google) do?". That is, should Google bid on the JEDI military contract, should Google make a censored search product in China.
Translation: if I find you attractive talk to me, else don’t. Not very actionable advice. A dating app will at least clear the hurdle of the first part.
...I promise you that getting those first dates is a learnable skill like everything else
Harvard's CS50x on edx is an introduction to programming aimed at people who've literally never programmed before and has them finishing knowing C and how to use pointers.

You'd have a huge advantage over the typical student and could probably easily get over any problems with pointers by taking the course.
I interviewed with them and it was one of the worst experiences I've had interviewing. Really shabby company.
Don't you notice a slowdown in your connection on using a 20MB hosts file?
Yes, it appears so:

https://github.com/meteor/meteor

looks like they're a monorepo now:

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages

but its slow going, from the looks of it perhaps.

I think the meteor community is a shell of what it used to be, though.

I wonder how Smile Software is handling it, they were 'all in' on meteor when they announced their subscription pricing model.
My creds:

Worked in a german shopify partnered agency for ~3 months beginning this year (latori.com)
Yes, I also stumble upon many different numbers from time to time, but more or less they are in millions (only US). The mobile internet infrastructure in the US is still one of the most developed. Sprint and Comcast claim that infrastructure is not a barrier but of course I agree there will be some areas with lack of coverage, but definitely not areas where 20% of US population live.

Btw thanks for this conversation, everything that brings our brain cells into movement is definitely helpful;)

Regarding why should one choose us. One thing we have discovered is that our cause resonates very much with Millenials and the younger generation of professionals. Mostly those engaged in so-called Gig economy (internet economy) Developers, designer, copywriters, etc. 65% Women btw.
Second transparency and sense of community we are trying to build (Monthly transparency reports with all the cost breakdowns, student success stories, new geographies, bank account transactions, etc.)
We are building a nonprofit for the next generation of donors and are thinking a lot about the ways to achieve really radical transparency that technology can provide.
Mario uses Python objects in pipelines instead of plain text.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
If you like xonsh, I might recommend the tako shell (by a former xonsh dev).

https://takoshell.org/
Actually, there's a TED talk where the implementers of remote, self-contained ATMs in India had to modify their procedures and deliberately rough up and age their paper money. Otherwise, people didn't believe that the crisp, perfect paper money that came out of those remote ATMs was real money.

If it was really ₹2000, someone would already have roughed it up already.
This looks great. Is the autocomplete as good as fish? If so I may switch from fish to nu. The autocomplete matters a lot. With fish I often repeat commands during development and I only have to type the first letter or two.
If the applicant has the skills and wants to get a foot in the door then why not? Equal opportunity for all college grads.
It sounds like you would benefit from using spaced repetition.

https://sivers.org/srs
VoIP service provider anti-patterns
I agree. Mario provides read-text as well as read-json-array, read-json-dicts for each different type of file (json, csv, yaml, toml).

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
Perhaps I'm the asshole here, but until internet companies feet are really held to the fire on pricing, I don't feel like giving is going to make a substantial difference. If suddenly the money becomes available to sponsor millions of people's internet, the price of the internet will magically jump 50-500% in cost.

Additionally, while we want to magically give internet to all nations and I think that is a wonderful gesture, it seems to me that the very best thing we can do for the whole of mankind is to improve the impulse control of every single person alive today. With proper impulse control comes the ability to want to be educated and make a difference. Internet certainly makes it possible to become more educated, but without proper impulse control I'm afraid it would all be wasted on uselessness. I say this as someone that has themselves looked at way too many cat pictures and Netflix videos. Also the internet seems to be awash with types of vendors that are trying their very best to remove the impulse control of others. I don't think giving Candy Crush to the entirety of any continent is going to benefit if impulse control is the issue that is causing them the most struggle. Perhaps we should better focus on giving people the types of applications and access that are scientifically proven to improve lives? Just a thought.
Cool project! I like the intuitive syntax and clean doc. Will give it a try.