skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-webdev to me they look pretty much identical. I only ever need them for a one off static site or some jQuery, or when trying to figure out why some page looks broken.
This is what disguised propaganda looks like, obviously the post is not about "How tear gas works"
Several reasons.

- What colors to choose for the user if he/she doesn't know the colors?
- What icon to choose based on the text given?
- What fonts to use together?
- What font types to use (bold, italic etc)
- Can we generate icons from scratch?
- As we get user feedback, can we improve the logos?

And so many more areas where we can apply ML. Happy to talk at length about this if you want.
Good thing that I won't buy a phone without a headphone jack.
I didn't even saw that piece of information. It's probably because of the delay thought, it can get very annoying if you add bluetooth delay to the processing delay. Let's see if we can find more information on that. Maybe it can even remove your own voice
Why is it always assumed that you have to use one or the other in these types of articles?
Use the ORM where it makes sense. Use SQL when it makes sense. I know that Django's ORM lets you you run SQL through it and prevents SQL injection.
None that would be considered scientific. I work for a few affiliate/seo-people, and the exit intents, newsletter popovers etc worked well on sites that target non-tech-savvy people (as in: better newsletter-signup-rate, higher overall conversion rate with exit intents; it's not gigantic, but it's large enough to be meaningful). They didn't work at all on the one site that targets tech people. While we didn't see a lot of total rejections (e.g. "I see that and I just close the tab"), we also didn't see more signups or conversions. Would be improved if it was tested on more tech-audiences, but they don't do a lot of those.
>Lamp

>Car

>Mattress

Non tech? What?

What?

... what?

Excluding manufactured goods from tech just kind of broke my brain for a minute there. I guess "tech" and "technology" are different words now and I just have to accept that.
From my experience, there’s always one developer in every enterprise dev shop who understands transaction boundaries, isolation levels, and concurrency/reliability scenarios that do happen....and 10 other devs constantly instilling fear in him/her
They had the right idea by using a different symbol set for protocol vs ports with USB A B C. Maybe they could use greek letters for speeds.
Ecto is just a dsl for writing SQL queries, not an ORM. It’s difficult to understand if you think it’s an ORM...
Yes.

And small electric planes are in fact beginning to show up. It is my understanding that going electric enables more efficient designs, and with those one or two decades of further battery tech development might actually get us large planes too.
Is that a pitch for the Boring Company?
The problem with paying for content for people outside of that bubble is that the prices are way too high. Consider how much money an average visitor earns a site through ads. In relation, paying 5USD a month for an ad-free subscription to that same content seems ridiculous. I'd wager that's even more money than a newspaper subscription sans the printing costs.
I get the desire to fund one specific project directly (like I get to do with Mozilla Thunderbird where I know I'm donating to that project directly) or at least have part of one's donations go to the development of Firefox. But it doesn't seem like that's possible at all. I have edited my comment above to reflect that.

I personally value everything that Mozilla Foundation does (including diversity campaigns) and wouldn't hesitate to donate to it (I've been donating for a few years now), but I would also like to donate to Mozilla Corporation and directly fund its activities, even if it means some money may go to Pocket or Lockwise or anything else. I don't want to micromanage how the company manages my money. It would be defeatist and unfair to ask that, IMO.
Logitech M570 Trackball. Cheapest mouse to get you started on a Trackball.
You dont really need pellets. The pressure of a water canon is high enough to break rips and pop eyes. You dont achieve anything more by adding pellets. They do however mix in the different variants of pepper spray into the water.

Some countries use regular pellet guns, for example India in Kashmir with the expected result of a lot of lost eyes.
If you are trying to avoid funding administration/marketing you can offer bug bounties for Firefox or Servo.
Why do we think the markups on EC2 are insane? Aren’t they comparable to Azure and Google?
Because if I bought a new phone last year, why would I want to spend money to buy a new phone now that's worse than what I already had?

Telling someone to buy an iPhone because of this is pretentious. Telling them to buy an iPhone that may be worse performance wise than their current phone is way worse.
This is factored in the article. As you know, Windows have moved to a new model since then.
Surprisingly by moving away from the screen and keyboard, taking a pencil and paper and sketching a rough design and scribbling down notes on the key issues. Then once I have my head sorted, I return to the computer and start coding, using the sketched design to guide my work.

Of course, with this approach the resulting code often ends up looking quite different to my sketched design. The design changes, etc being commented as I go along.

I expect that many readers are shaking their heads. But for me, I don't necessarily see the big picture for a new program in my mind's eye, so this process works for me and I'm more productive compared to when I go straight to the keyboard and screen.
To offer a bit of an opposite view here on HN:

I give firefox a shot from time to time. I switch all devices to it, and then I use it exclusively all the time.

My most recent attempt failed few days ago, after a bit more than a month with it.

Firefox performance just doesn't feel the same as chrome, from constant small freezes, to using 100% CPU pretty often.

And just overall experience on some platforms - especially macOS doesn't feel native at all. On top of that some websites don't support it that good (not Firefox's fault here - but I don't want to deal with that day to day).

Firefox also seemed snappier on the first few runs, but as the time went on I didn't find it faster or feeling less bloated than chrome as a lot of people like to portray it.

Chrome for me, as an average user, does not have any of these downsides. The closest to a downside for some people you could pin to chrome is that it's owned by google.

At the end of the day, chrome gets the job done, and does it without being in my way, on all the platforms I use, - and that's what I want from a browser, so for now I'm sticking with chrome.
I don't think of video game publishers and studios as tech companies. They're media companies. Is a film studio a tech company? Video game studios create products that requires actors, a score and runs credits.
A lot of the time they offer a discount in return for signing up. Anecdotally, people sign up for the discount if they were going to buy something anyways, otherwise they don't.
> "You seemed to hold statement 1 as your position in the first comment"

That may have been your read of it, but that was not my intention. If somebody wants to stay behind, as some in Centralia did, that's their perogative. Society has an obligation to help people meet their basic requirements, but the form that assistance comes in is another matter. The assistance may very well be in the form of "we can't afford to support your lifestyle in that location, so we'll pay you to move."

If moon men figure out a way to pull water out of rocks, that's wonderful for them. But if they want me to give them water, I'll be glad to give them all they need as soon as they come back to earth. They're entitled to clean water, but not clean water on the moon.
Th optimal growth factor is the golden ratio 1+sqrt(5) [1.618], but 2 is much faster to calculate.
> With some guns, some tanks, some international support, and the right leader, Hong Kong could win their independence from the monsters who run China.

You're suggesting engaging in a proxy war with China?
While wording could be improved, the point stands. I want my money to be used for working on Firefox (the core browser) and for that exclusively. Not something like Pocket or whatever Mozilla thinks it should bring out that nobody asked for. There is no way to ensure this, so I will not give any money at all.
Nanomachines are hardly being built at all from what I can tell - I doubt if any have progressed far beyond laboratories.

Meanwhile, micro-machines are everywhere these days - MEMS accelerometers and gyros and SAW MEMS microphones are in every cellphone made, every smartwatch has similar features, DLP TVs have actually gone out of style but were micromirror devices, MEMS barometers and altimeters are cheap and commercial drones commonly have one or more, MEMS cell sorters and biochips are actually being used in production medical labs, the list just continues on for ages...

(I could go on a long aside about the households comment, but I'll save that rant for another time. Suffice it to say, we're doing jack shit with technology in homes, and that alone is hugely depressing. Innovation in that space seems to be sorely limited to what you can bring in and plug in to a socket, rather than disrupting home designs to better fit what our technology is actually capable of pulling off today - just look at the absolutely pathetic state of residential air conditioning, vs what can be done with passive cooling and occupant-aware HVAC systems.)
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Correct I meant revenue
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Sorry for the typo I mean revenue :)
Jeepers it's almost like the OP wants the choice of what their money gets spent on.
Wanting their funds to not go to diversity doesn't equate to not wanting Mozilla to fund diversity.
https://blog.constellation.com/2018/09/21/energy-efficient-d... gives a ballpark number:

"In order to be approved by ENERGY STAR®️, energy-efficient dehumidifiers must have an energy factor of at least 2.00, or an energy factor greater than 2.80 for dehumidifiers that remove more than 75 pints of moisture a day."

So 2-3 litres water extracted per kWh electricity consumed (And I'm guessing this is probably in best case damp conditions).
I'd watch the yellow light times. Often they get reduced to increase revenue, even past the legal limits.
That's a very cool tool, congrats. :)
Because they're not interested in donating, and they need a handy excuse to justify that.
I've given up trying to convince people of taking privacy serious. It's usually just the "but I've got nothing to hide" debate that goes nowhere. Even half of my tech friends still use chrome, got Alexa at home and whatnot.

So instead with my non-techsavvy friends I usually just set up Firefox with ublock and tell them to give it a try. You don't have to mention ublock is available on chrome too, right?
1) the cost aspect is only part of the equation, my point is also on the attitude of people

2) the mechanical keyboards is only one item, a gaming rig or a good laptop could cost you 1 or 2 thousands dollars if not more. It's just that mechanical keyboards is where I see far more behavior in the line "these plebs who don't know better". And in term of relative cost, first time I heard 150$ for a keyboard, I was a bit puzzled, in my mind, a keyboard cost between 5 and 15$, so at least 10 times less.
Or we can all go to Brave or even better to Tor.
Django's ORM is pretty complicated under the hood, but I suspect that this is not easily avoidable given the requirements.

I also don't subscribe to the view that Django is too complicated. With other frameworks you end up implementing part of Django, and most of the time that will be worse in every conceivable way.
When places like Uber and Airbnb became "cool".
There is other way. ORM nor SQL is a source of truth. Database design (physical diagram) is the source of truth.
ORM code and SQL migrations are generated from the design.

Why not replace "vs" with "and"?
> With some guns, some tanks, some international support, and the right leader, Hong Kong could win their independence from the monsters who run China.

The moment military grade weaponry is used by freedom fighters (or protesters, or anything that stands in the way of mainland China) the whole thing will be over in 48hours to China's advantage.

International support ? So, going at war with one of the top 3 nation on earth. Considering how Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. benefited from international support, what can go wrong ?
I am sure that riot police that saw this was actually grateful. The MO for protesters around the world is to haul the charges back at the police - he just disabled it.

In my experience, the only cops who like tear gas are those who never used it. They have a whole barrage of cynical jokes about tear gas (~"It's only weather control device that works - wind will turn 180 degrees a few seconds after you placed the charge.").

EDIT: Disclaimer - got some loads myself during protests but also have riot police in my family.
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Tried what? Running a wire vs building a road?

Of course non-existent wire vs existing road is not competitive.

If both exist, electricity wins. If neither exists, electricity wins. And electricity has that added advantage that you can buy an equipment that will produce it in place without consuming additional resources.

The only case where fuel is competitive is when roads exist, electricity distribution doesn't, and diesel generators are installed.
Pech gehabt
I suppose if he wanted to donate to a diversity campaign, he'd donate to one directly.

Wikipedia is a big one for this: the donation campaign is all about 'keeping our servers running', and then huge chunks of the spending goes on community feelgood stuff.

I've nothing against diversity campaigning but if you were to treat donation like any other 'purchase' you'd be pretty miffed if you thought you were ordering a cheeseburger and you got a carrot and the waiter gave himself a bottle of beer.
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This has probably been the case since Go 1.11 (2018/08/24)[0]

On macOS and iOS, the runtime now uses libSystem.dylib
instead of calling the kernel directly. This should make
Go binaries more compatible with future versions of
macOS and iOS. The syscall package still makes direct
system calls; fixing this is planned for a
future release.

I'm not an expert in Darwin, but looking at the implementation of the syscall and runtime packages in Go 1.13, and most seem to be via trampolines into libSystem.dylib

FreeBSD looks deprecated not because of syscall difficulties, but because missing functionality and upstream EOL.[1]

[0]: https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#runtime
[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27619
> But then again: Is it even a good idea to access the same database from two codebases at all?

It's an integration pattern. It works in some contexts.
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>The technical answer to the question you asked is "10-20ms, if you're not on an SSD

C'mon the directory structure would be cached already, even if it was not - the seek times for HDD are 3-4ms.
Actually, the whole point of those characters is that they cannot be used in values.
Yeah, actually I forgot how boring you can make the experience once you have people addicted to it. I should know, there are tons of pachinkos where I live. The dullest experience of all...
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I think this phenomenon has also a lot to do with self marketing of ad agencies. To stand out against the numerous competitors, they want to provide as much information as possible to their clients about potential customers, target groups, etc.

I agree that we should block those even harder. The bad side is that whitelisting sites doesn't work well and well behaved actors are punished too. Especially those, since they do not employ measures against blocking in the first place. That does cost those sites that you actually do want to support.

So the current situation is that bad actors ruin it for everyone.
How I help devs write for the company blog
I'm digging AdGuard
Arschloch
The benchmarks compare this to standard arrays, but I'd be curious to see how tiered vectors stack up against persistent vectors (either Clojure's or Python's [pyrsistent's])
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Now set a restriction on pollution or kill it so there is no trace.

Else this man's water will be polluted.
Thats how you pay respect,
not by using more of your intellect.
Nope - but I see the same sort of ads on every machine including public ones, they don't follow me, and they aren't annoying.

So if they do use an ad network, it seems like one that can connect me with products that I'm interested in without being intrusive.

I guess that I have no assurances that they aren't collecting my information and not using it, but down that road lies madness.
Meanwhile, in Germany, Firefox is at a stable 25-26% (according to statcounter)

If you are offering services to us, you probably can’t afford to ignore FF. If you are a German company, that goes double.
> Those who want a world where Firefox has a higher market share and mind share

I used to be one of these people but I am no longer. I have switched my default browser from Firefox to Brave since I cannot withstand Mozillas bullshit anymore.

Not only is it a complete joke that firefox put Google Analytics on their privacy pages but their actions of "wokeness" in which they fired Brendan Eich and all their diversity shit has left me very unhappy with Mozilla as an organisation. I stopped my monthly donation a while back and I do not recommend Firefox anymore, only Brave.

Why should I donate money towards Firefox when I know it's probably not going to fund Firefox but rather some woke campaign that I am against? They even fired their own CEO when he privately used his own money to fund a political campaign. That is not ok according to Mozilla since diversity of opinion is not something they believe in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MozillaInAction/top/?t=all (there is a lot of other crap in there as well, but mainly about Mozilla and other tech companies)
VPCs are very helpful for when you have a large number of developers working in an AWS environment. It'd be oh so easy for a developer to accidently change a bit of terraform and expose your database to the internet without VPCs.
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Software companies sold software, now most seem to lease it at best, but generally just allow people to use it through a browser front end.
Money is fungible. You could donate simply to keep them afloat regardless of their campaigns, in acknowledgement that the sum total of their activities is a massive positive that doesn't need nitpicking.

Otherwise, you can recruit and hire someone to write the features you approve of.
Date is hard. The example says

> BETWEEN '2018-01-01 00:00:00:000' and '2018-12-31 00:00:00:000'

So the last day of december will be missing.
Saudi Arabia extracts oil at $7-$15/barrel. The price should go up over time, but constant innovation in exploration and extraction drives it down also. Their reserves haven't gone down for 20 years because they are constantly exploring more fields.

Currently their economy can probably remain stable until as low as $70/barrel for long periods of time although growth would be difficult. If their diversification efforts succeed in the next decade they will be less reliant and will be able to sustain much lower prices.

Every last drop in the Persian Gulf is economical for the foreseeable future. Fuel is the least profitable and they are already switching to petrochemicals. Oil is not going away this century.
I don't see the difference, it is like you imply that with software or "tech" companies you don't pay for improvements.

You get packaged software, you have to buy new version to get new features.

You have SaaS solution, you have to pay subscription fee, so basically for monthly payments you pay for that months version.
I'm skeptical of all these companies with "AI" logos. I don't see much intelligence in generated logos.

Why:

1. The logo icon is almost always from a service like The Noun Project. Probably fetched with 'category' of the company user enters.
If it's not an icon then the first letter of the company name, why not?

2. The generated logo has the company name in different combinations of fonts, background and foreground colors. A simple algorithm with random value selection can do that. Where's AI in that?

Either AI is not being used at all or not to its full potential at least.

Why don't I see a logo for my product that has an icon like, say Airbnb's "A" or Apple's "Bitten Apple". All I get for my tech product are small mobiles and browser windows.
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It could be that your parent comment wanted to spark a discussion on whether there is value added from Marketing campaigns, rather than about politics / diversity in the workplace.
Computer keyboards used to cost a whole lot, and were extremely well made, back in the 1970s and early 1980s when (a) typing was the main purpose of a computer and the competition was typewriters (which were expensive and often excellent), and (b) the rest of the computer cost much more.

Since then there has been a relentless 30+ year focus on cost cutting, and the elaborate engineering and expensive production that went into 1970s keyboards is no longer economically viable.

> see far more behavior in the line "these plebs who don't know better".

Personally I find that typing on a nice keyboard (which might be something picked up for $15 on ebay) makes a significant difference in typing speed, accuracy, and comfort.

Everyone I have ever met who was excited about keyboards (from casual users of split ergonomic keyboards or old keyboards salvaged from their own obsolete 80s computers up through hard-core DIYers with dozens of hand-soldered prototypes and hard-core collectors with hundreds of keyboards filling up their houses) was enthusiastic and friendly, excited to share their ideas and experiences.

People who spend their whole career typing and don’t know that they could find a better experience are missing out, and might enjoy trying some alternatives.

YMMV.
Well, why buy from such vendors? It's not like a lack of updates from vendors isn't a well known issue.

Pixel, OnePlus, Nokia.
NO! Approach everybody as a fellow human! Compliments on simple things are always a good ice-breaker. Can easily lead to a question to continue any conversation.
Preview to AmigaOS 3.2
Discussion over at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/cz70fu/amigaos_32_pr...
Great for launching products to inform your network via WhatsApp
Are you a software developer? No judging, just curious
There are so damn many far superior systems in this thread. We should have gotten together earlier and promoted one of them.