skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I got a custom board made ..."

That's a complete non-starter. I'm not making a custom board for anything not related to guitar. :)

The general market of computer keyboard users is not going to build their own hardware for hundreds of dollars in parts if they just want a silent keyboard; that's practically the same as admitting these things are not available.
If you mean this building: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/jewel-changi-airpo... then I disagree. That structure couldn't have been achieved with the technology of the Googie era. It's a "high-tech" structure as far as stylistic categorization goes.

It is a bit of a retro design, but it looks back to the scifi environments, megastructures and geodesic domes of the early 70s rather than the stiffer, simpler shapes of Googie.

You could argue that it's what futuristic architecture looks like now, which is probably fair. That doesn't make it a form of Googie.
> In the particular cases of parsing XML and JSON, I'd wager Python is much faster, actually.

Up until you need to do anything interesting with the deserialized data. :)
People invest in open source when they believe in its continuity.

No, people sending patches are not necessarily benefiting from it. Patches can be very expensive and it can be cheaper to pay for actual support with a proprietary solution that's at least honest about its nature and won't pull a bait and switch on you.
First use of "exponential growth" in the article was OK. I don't think the second use was. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20866372
I honestly doubt it. Flight life expectancy for drones must not be great and fixing a drone can use quite a bit of time, depending on what is wrong with it.

I say that as someone who worked with drones. They are, honestly, a pain.
Not to mention the last-foot problem of placing the package somewhere safe for the recipient. How would these drones put a package in a locked vestibule or even my covered porch?
I really wish I could pick up Amazon packages at a lockbox. I live in San Francisco, and Amazon's checkout process tells me the closest location I could pick up a package is at Berkeley's student union, across the bay, which is a good 30-40 minute drive (each way) unless I'm very lucky with bridge traffic. It's an hour using transit, including two transfers and 15 minutes of walking, which isn't really doable if I have anything but the smallest of packages to pick up.

I get that real estate is expensive in SF, but it's a little insane we can't do local pickups. It would be cool if Amazon could make an arrangement to drop packages off at USPS post offices; there's one a few blocks from me. Not as convenient as delivery to my apartment, but eliminates problems around package theft and delivery drivers unable to get into my building.
While I too like the change, there can be a user cost. For example, it makes using grep across a project slightly more annoying. Much like the flexible identifier rules in nim, it feels great but using common tools suddenly needs more thought.
> Some compilers will issue a non-fatal warning, which is allowed by the C standard but IMHO is unfortunate.

GCC 5.1.0 reports:

warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
I started poking around and noticed that Go 1.13 now defaults to the Golang Proxy to fetch modules. This means a proxy, governed by the Google Privacy Policy, is now capturing everyone's module usage by default. Unless you change settings this includes proprietary/corp stuff.

https://codeengineered.com/blog/2019/go-mod-proxy-psa/
You refute your main point in your second paragraph - they do inform you of key changes
The designated initializers example will actually compile in recent versions of GCC, Clang, and Visual C++, even if that's not part of the standard prior to C++20. A better example (i.e. one that doesn't compile in C++ but does in C) would be

int arr[3] = { [1] = 5 }

or even

struct A c = {.x = 1, 2}

or another example where the designators are not declared in order of the struct members, or where the designators are nested. The version of designated initializers standardized in C++20 only allows the simple case that's currently implemented in all the major compilers.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/29337570 for more info and examples.
Huntz is a vastly superior product, for a similar (or cheaper) price.

Give it a shot!

edit: I made the switch a couple years back, when Huntz switched back to sugar (from corn syrup) and haven't looked back. AFAIK, Heinz still uses the high fructose rubbish.
> As far as I know there exists some labour laws in the US?

There are very few. Research how few protections a US "at will employee" has and then know that workers considered to be "contractors" have even fewer.
FWIW, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C%2B%2B+is+a+superset+of+C%22&t... finds things like:

- C++ is a superset of C, and that virtually any legal C program is a legal C++ program. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_overview.htm

- "C is a subset of C++." / "C++ is a superset of C." https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-c-and-c/

- "C++ is a superset of C; (almost) anything you can do in C, you can do in C++." https://www.cprogramming.com/begin.html

- "As you recall C is a root for C++ and C++ is a superset of C." https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/similarities-and-diffe...
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So we agree that calories a dumb way to track the amount of food you eat in a day?
> a better C, aimed at server-side data plumbing

I agree with all what you said but this. Go isn't a better C, it's a better Java.
Bikram yoga (likely any yoga also) helps as well quite quickly.
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Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons
I'm even okay with changing your license (although I understand why people who made contributions to what they thought would continue to be an open source project would be mad). All I'm saying is, MongoDB is no longer "open source" in the same sense that Linux/nginx/MySQL/etc are. It's not a slight against MongoDB that — for example — Homebrew would remove them from their core package repository, which only includes software with OSI-approved licenses.

The other sticking point for me is the idea that it's "exploitative" for cloud vendors to run managed MongoDB instances without paying them. MongoDB has existed for over a decade, but their own managed service only came out in 2016 — before that, they offered an enterprise version and support. So were cloud vendors offering a managed MongoDB before still exploiting them? Or did it only become exploitative once MongoDB decided to enter that market, too?
Has there been any successful patent infringement lawsuits over the last three years that targets a Chinese company that has infringed upon a US company? Isn't that part of the issue in the current trade deal talks with China?
An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit
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Which is often just meaningless pedanticism. There are a lot of questions about C APIs where it's irrelevant whether the answer uses C or C++. The latter might not be an exact superset, but in most cases it's easily close enough.
Pipe in the field can be damaged during farm operations like field prep, planting and harvesting etc... they also get clogged by dirt and in many jurisdictions you can't send pesticide down a water irrigation pipe for example. For some farms that would also be a lot of pipe to lay. So overall just a really bad idea.
The cable? Yes but why? It's already removable from the keyboard.
When I put in a fresh SIM, APN details are sent via some kind of special SMS and automatically set up. I think it’s been this way for a decade or more
I can't imagine a desktop PC that is unlikely to ever be used to browse the web. Spectre and simliar mitigations like disabling hyper threading are required to properly isolate javascript.

Defaults should be set for the lowest common denominator. A lay computer user shouldn't have to understand and make decisions upon things like this.
The DRF relies on Equibase data for program and scratch data for all US and most International tracks. Even Churchill Downs relies on data agreements from Equibase to provide up-to-date information to feed to Totes. Result chart information is also almost exclusively Equibase data at least in the US. They make closed door deals with tracks, ADWs and Totes to provide data feeds.

Also, it's important to make the distinction between editorial content (analysis, predictions, subjective descriptions of a horse or jockey performance) and empirical information (horse weights, medication, surface conditions, weather, placements, jockey-horse combo win-rates, etc).

The DRF sells its speed ratings as well as analysis of pedigree and past performances. There's value in that and it definitely justifies the cost of their publication and the other publications that perform similar work.

The critical issue with your stance is that users have no options to aggregate their own data easily. The free PPs Equibase offers have been scrapped before and I know of several specific instances where the creators of those scrappers were sent cease and desist for collecting the information Equibase otherwise provides for free. Even to Github to remove the repository that contains the code.

I'm not advocating scrapping (please don't scrape sites like that) but there isn't any industry interest in providing modern consumable data. Wouldn't it be in Equibases best interest to put that information behind an API and sell access to the public? The industry actively discourages using publicly available data.
I was struck by his comments on the un-wisdom of many cities' efforts to create their own local silicon valley, that they don't seem to take a critical look at what would make such projects succeed or not.

This essay on his website was interesting - saying maybe you could do it, if you funded a critical mass of startups, "for the cost of a stadium".
http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

And I know he wrote later about being impressed by Detroit.
(I thought there was a whole essay, but all I'm coming up with is this:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/595736193297457152 )
WTF are kids doing at the school at 6:30 (Zero hour)? That's ridiculous.
Not sure about go, but you can do this in C as a compile-time constant:

#define foo 1.34E8

Maybe go would benefit from a pre-processor? Though it can be somewhat byzantine in C (and result in very unpredictable final source, if abused), it's very helpful to have a complete functional language available for code transformation. It might help go in some cases, too.
We live in very regressive times in that respect. As kids, we used to read and watch books and series and movies which mostly were originally intended for adults (I don't pretend that we didn't read any children literature or watch any youth program, but the former was seen as a step and the latter wasn't mass produced, so the natural way was to quickly evolve to adult literature and movies, just keeping a small regressive space for children/youth stuff). But now adults read and watch stuff that is specially designed for teenagers!

Even in a for-kids/for-youth book collection, where we used to have Jack London, Jules Vernes, James F. Cooper, Alexandre Dumas and so on mixed with more specific children's literature; I looked at the current catalogue the other day: such authors have been erased, and the whole offer is now made of novelisations of Star Wars, novelisations of cartoons and novelisations of comics... Oh you can still find them in other collections, but those are a bit more, how to put it, distinguished/smart collections (and aimed at a bit older age); so that was quite a shock to browse the catalogue of the 'standard' kids collection.
This is awesome, thanks for the share! I just said no to slack and now we have compelling reasons. I think your experience happens for companies internally, so I won't buy it for my co either.
> Another factor here--China pushes a lot of propaganda domestically. Some of these tweets might be mindless repetition of the propaganda.

Sure, but some version of this goes for every country on every form of social media, with a little freedom over the "some" and the "might".
Are classes and templates not the bulwark of what makes C++ C++ though
I have a strong suspicion that there are so many exceptions to your assumptions here that your model is wrong.

My finest computer science teachers never did anything but teach, either. At the high school and collegiate levels. Same with my favorite college English teacher.

I think a more effective route is to regularly fire the bad teachers, so they can’t harm students with their poor guidance.
I think he meant the mass delusion about Sinbad playing a genie in a movie called Shazaam. See

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/55f5rt/the_s...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinbad-movie-shazaam/

https://news.avclub.com/sinbad-created-a-fake-version-of-tha...

Personally, I think it happened because Sinbad regularly wore windbreakers and parachute pants, the name Sinbad sounds stereotypically Arabic, and perhaps because of his darker skin and pan-ethnic features. When I stumbled onto the meme I never once thought I remembered such a movie, but I instantly understood why people would think that way.
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I shudder to imagine how much styrofoam is used to deliver this food. Even if it’s all paaper based packaging it’s still a huge amount of waste generated. I can see these apps increasing food delivery multiple folds and so the waste generated as well.
> you’ll still be spending about $3000 for a no-frills entry level fridge.

And if you purchase it for use in a non-commercial environment, that'll usually void the warranty. That said, I'd still take it over the standard consumer models.

My wife and I wanted to do that ourselves, but without a major kitchen renovation (our house was built in 1973), nothing commercial would fit. So the last time we replaced our fridge (earlier this year) we just got another side-by-side. But you know what?

New side-by-sides have (mostly) become larger! And they don't fit into the spaces meant for the refrigerator in 1970s homes! So we couldn't even purchase our "new" fridge "new".

Instead, we went to the place where we purchased our first fridge, a local used appliance refurbisher/dealer (who's been in business since the 1970s). We got that fridge when we got our house in 2002; there was actually nothing wrong with the cooling/freezing functions - just that the icemaker and on-door water dispenser no longer worked. So this used appliance lasted us a good 17 years. We ended up getting a similar style fridge and so far it's been great.

But anything else, we try to buy commercial, because it's so much better quality (but you have to pay for it). We have a commercial microwave oven (we were tired of having to buy a new oven every time the old one died after a few years of normal usage) - it only has a single knob with a max of 6 minutes of setting and high-cooking only, but that's never been a problem - and the interior is super easy to wipe out, and not having a rotating turntable has never been a problem (if you need to even the cooking out, just stop it and rotate the plate yourself like old-times). It'll probably last forever.

A couple of years ago I bought my wife a Robot Coupe food processor. Ugliest appliance I've ever seen - it's basically a box with a 1.5 HP motor in it, with 3 switches (on, off, and pulse). The blade is like razor sharp and heavy steel. Shakes the whole counter when running. Chops and blends anything. Her old Kitchen Aid thing just died after a few years.

We also have an older model (early 90s) 4.5 qt Kitchen Aid stand mixer - not their largest model, but the next size down. It's a beast, and has never let us down. I'm not sure if their currently models are any good; I think I would likely go with their commercial offerings if I had to (Hobart).

So yeah - commercial is where it's at, if you have the space (for some things) and don't mind the utilitarian look of most of the appliances (we don't care - it needs to work, first and foremost) - oh, and the cost (none of the appliances I mentioned were inexpensive - but that's worth the peace of mind). I also like that they are all super-duper simple; if you know how to cook, you don't need all those fancy controls and settings, and fortunately for me, my wife does know how to cook (she used to work at a place that didn't have an oven, but the place next door was owned by the same owner and had a pizza oven - she learned how to bake cookies properly - and fast - in a 700+ degree oven).
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Why is this only a German thing. There're nude beaches everywhere. Basic idea of freedom is to be free from the conventional norm.
This is immensely reflective of the type of problems you tackle.
How do you know?

The license is no longer OSI approved, so how do you know what you're allowed or not allowed to do?

How do you know that what's keeping AWS from using it isn't also creating a problem from you?

Have you consulted with a lawyer?

That's one benefit of using actual Open Source. You have a definition that all licenses have to comply with, such that developers know exactly the set of freedoms that's common between all of them.

Once you step out of that definition, you're on your own. So you know, I wouldn't take legal advice from random people on HN, you might run into problems.