skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't know what she is doing. Maybe now she can adjust a report to return the figures she wants, for just a week's worth of data or whatever. Most people can benefit by becoming more computer literate.
how about MAME, which has a zip-based format containing raw ROM dumps, and the "CHD" format for disk/disc based media? obviously all of the metadata is still contained within MAME itself.
Not sure why you are downvoted. China is exactly a kind of cronyist, state capitalist system.
If you were dependent, to the tune of 100s of millions of $ on certain hardware, wouldn't it make sense to start the process anyway?

You don't necessarily need to move the $new project off the legacy hardware, just write it in such a way that you can do easily later.

I'm eliding many details here, but the principle stands.
Learnings from the 2008 Great Recession
And this was particularly exciting in the runup to Y2K
Remember the case of the German engineer who was arrested in Florida while trying to return home after his vacation?

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20171206/vw-executive-arr...
Having trouble finding a reference but I recall that they used to comment on how certain pollutants stick readily to plastics.

So while the plastic might not be absorbed, can we say the same thing about what’s stuck to the plastic?
I imagine this comment was not intended to be openly anti-semitic, but it certainly reads that way. It comes off as the old "Jews control Hollywood and use it to spread their ideological propaganda" conspiracy theory. I would suggest you expand and clarify your point to avoid this hopefully accidental implication.
Awesome work. Following, I'm a noob when it comes to this type of stuff but always found it highly interesting.
That's ok as far as it goes, but it's not very far. To be convincing, the argument about negative incentives resulting in lower growth needs to be expanded on more than it usually is. (Or is reasonable to do in casual conversation.)
...who was complicit in a billion dollar fraud in the US. How is that comparable, exactly?
so capitalist democracies never detain people for a year without charges?
Mail wasn't involved except for picking random addresses from the list of known postal addresses. The interviewers went door-to-door. They also chose a household resident over 14 at random, not just the door answerer. And a 50% successful response rate is pretty good for a random survey.

Really, though, I wish people who question survey methodology would mention specific problems with the methodology.

One problem I see is that part of the weighting is based on "ACORN" categories, which aren't well-defined and remind me of junk sold by marketing companies. Of course, I assume the data's based on actual demographics, so it might be good for weighting even if it's bad at explaining.
Can you name anything that the CCP would think is not political? They are great at making up excuses after the fact to justify what they do. If for whatever reason they want to arrest you, you can be sure they will have an excuse for it.

What's the excuse for harvesting organs for political prisoners? Were they "asking for it"? A country that is run by people like this is not safe to visit.

https://chinatribunal.com/china-tribunal-final-judgement-and...
> make a spec that implements API's that would conflict with 70%+ of the web

Why would it? jQuery’s APIs could be folded into HTMLElement and HTMLDocument. Instead, we’re stuck with 90s-era Java style in all the DOM APIs.
Is Mathematics, Like Science, Pluralistic?
Or people generally don't distinguish between good graduates and bad ones. In most discussion, the distinction boils down to "college graduates suck and don't know anything" to paraphrase.

While granted there's obviously people who don't take college seriously, many do. And unfortunately, I'm one of those people that worked very hard to get through college and didn't attend hardly any social functions. Same as high school. I would spend weekends from 8am to 6pm reading textbooks and doing assignments.

However, I often feel that doing this was somewhat of a detriment to both my ability to socialize and my ability to really solve problems organically.
I ask in the opposite direction.

Why IBM have no "micro-mainframes" or workstations so small companies and developers get on the game?

I see the problem with legacy code but then the big issue is how build new code in a platform where the hardware is so expensive?
Only a very small subset of them: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14240

$/ input record separator (default argument for "gets")
$\ output record separator ("print" prints it at last)
$, default separator for Array#join and print
$; default separator for String#split

As for the gain it's because these variables globally change the behavior of important core methods. They really aren't that useful, but can easily cause havoc.
That's where the FUD comes in. With no evidence of any kind, everybody can get excited as they like about the possibilities.

Science involves measuring things. So far, all that's been measured (unreliably) is that these things exist.
Instead of using a different DoH server than the user set DNS servers, Firefox should test if the user supplied DNS servers support DoH and opportunistically switch over to that.
What happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos
>I don't know. Stallman doesn't address it. Hence, if he's really trying to change minds, he's doing a bad job of it.

I agree, and after the media started to gather around his comments, he regretted that he did such a poor job of communicating.

>It's a very weak argument to say they are wrong, based on your views, when they can say that you are wrong based on their views.

Firstly, it is not as "absolute" as you make it sound. Nowhere does he actually use that word or imply that his moral judgements are handed down from heaven. He explicitly says "I think" - and as a moral claim, it only requires as much justification as our other moral claims, which all reduce to "ought", which cannot be gained from an "is". Your moral view is that all humans are of equal moral worth, your view is that murder is wrong, etc. - all of these reduce to matters of opinion which are difficult if not impossible to justify absolutely. Stallman, for one, does not appear to be a moral realist. If Stallman had proclaimed that he was actually a subscriber to the doctrine of moral error theory (perhaps even with good reason, say he read a paper on the doctrine which he found convincing), he wouldn't have to justify "That's morally wrong" any more than he'd have to justify "I don't like bananas".

>Correct. The point is, he doesn't offer any replacement viewpoint, other than "the current law is wrong." Therefore, it's very easy to interpret his statement as promoting sex with minors.

His statement is more than that, it claims (a) that the law is wrong (again from his point of view) that it is of consequence if the victim is 17 or 18, (b) that the law (perhaps globally) is wrong that whether this act in particular is permissible depends on the specific location of the act. Whatever misunderstanding comes about from these two points is only from reading more into what he said than what he actually expressed, a chain of inferences that build up until someone on HN can say that by the same logic he'd be OK with the rape of a five year old.

>Then would need to show how the existing laws are actually immoral.

It's immoral according to his system of morality. You don't have to listen to it, and he doesn't have to listen to yours. The law is a different matter.

>Now, what does he consider to be "abuse of minors"?

I did not put that part in quotes myself because he never uses that term, even so, I apologize for the misattribution on my part. He says,

"Since then, through personal conversations, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

That is to say, he thinks that "sex with a child" can harm them psychologically, and as such, "adults should not do that". Granted, this is not a comment on the law (there are many things we should not do which are not illegal), but they are comments on his moral system (by the use of "should" in this apparently non-instrumental sense).
Counterpoint. “Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019”, https://arp242.net/jquery.html
I don’t think you are tied to FB’s TOS. Nor their fate. If FB went bankrupt, Libra would still operate?

Not sure what you’re trying to get at.
Every important document ever in my life arrived via "snail mail" so I can't really imagine anyone not taking it seriously. Except maybe some odd internet whiz-kid with a propeller hat.
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Humans Running in Place on Water at Simulated Reduced Gravity (2012)
Not necessarily. Truckers will often pick up entire new loads and chain deliveries depending on whether they're last mile/long haul/commodity/or specialized equipment haulers.

So your packaging job would likely just be another blip on another trucker's route. But it would increase the need for more truckers since you're essentially (worst-case) doubling the number of deliveries to be done per transaction.
Ask HN: Do you opt-out, or consciously opt-in to binding arbitration agreements?
Or other option, such as never reading terms & conditions (unconsciously opt-in)?

This question is initially referring only to companies that give you a choice (e.g. Chase, Comcast, Discord, Discover, Dropbox, Google Pixel phones, Instagram, Nintendo, Sony, WhatsApp and many others)
> it's implied that they're sending postal mail and following up with people who respond for in-home interviews.

I've read that section a few times now and I can't see even a hint of that implication. Is it because addresses are chosen randomly from the Postal Address File?
Given the current reliability of classic wiper systems I don't think this is the improvement. Part of the reasons classic wipers have multiple moving parts (basically motor + rack and pinion) is that you want to guarantee they stay in sync and never overlap. You can put 2 simple motors on them for similar effect like the Tesla design. Tesla's solution focuses on design rather than better technical specs.

The claim that "the electromagnetic moving block induces minimal friction" says very little considering you achieve the exact same effect with a classic wiper arm mounted on a single electric motor. You probably want more than one arm anyway.
Could humans run on water? https://www.outsideonline.com/1783941/could-humans-run-water....
Man, I really hate this website. It's bad enough that it's the kind of page where you have to scroll large distances while crazy effects fly all around to get the information you want; it's even worse that the page actually lags while doing it (specifically at the multitask/be organized/stay up to date buzzword soup)
Some of these exit bans might be in the situation you describe, but other ones are not. US citizens, born in the us, who also never had chinese passports, who aren't under any known investigations have also been held back in exit bans. Also, holding someone's adult children because their father is suspected of something is never acceptable.

The fact that these bans are only becoming more frequent now with the trade war is evidence that they aren't just a neutral exercise.
I don't think you've falsified the argument. Maybe you would have if economic growth and marginal tax rates are the only variables.

I think it's pretty clear that progressive taxes create negative incentives, particularly when it comes to encouraging people to get rich in the first place (which usually means starting a business).

> Further, equality of opportunity is surprisingly cheap over time. You end up with more capable workforce which pays for the cost of training it.

Yeah, the question is where to draw the line. Public education seems like something we definitely want. But if we truly want equality of opportunity, I don't think we can have communities like this:

> Schull is a very small community, couple of thousand max but there's been a lot of 'alternative' type immigration there from other first world countries, artists etc from places like England (eg Jeremy irons), Netherlands so its secondary school is pretty progressive afaik. They have a slipway to the bay right next to the school so the school does sailing classes etc. The planetarium in question is a stone's throw from the school. County Cork has a youth orchestra. Overall not the worst place in the world to grow up.

Everyone can't have sailing lessons and a planetarium.
My experience is that the resulting architecture will sometimes end up with characteristics that makes it easy to test but more complex, exposes things it should not and too many layers of indirection.

DHH wrote some about it here: https://dhh.dk/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html

I do like automated tests (unit and integration) and often TDD is appropriate. However tests are not the end goal of an architecture. The code should be maintainable, easy to follow and simple to reduce number of bugs. If TDD starts to change that by adding layers of indirection or changing the purpose of something just so you can do a fast unit test then something is wrong.
The staying power of the smiley face
Is there a reason people don't use their password manager for OTP? In my case I'm using 1Password, which supports OTP but I know most other password managers support it too including clients for Keepass.

I guess there is the issue of your password manager being compromised but honestly I'm way less worried about that than website x or y getting compromised.
China has to walk a tightrope where if they're too humane they're accused of randomly treating arbitrary innocent bystanders like criminals, and on the other extreme they'd be letting co-conspirators walk free.

They seem to be taking a sensible path down the middle? Lets be realistic, the kids aren't significant co conspirators if the dollar values of the supposed identity thefts or conspiracies are really small compared to the whole (at least... as far as the authorities can publicly announce, LOL, maybe they are in deeper than they can announce), and you can't expect relatives to testify or cooperate against each other reliably anyway. On the other hand they're literally members of a "crime family" and if this happened to mafia members, people would not be overly surprised to hear semi-clean conspirators are having a rough time with the law.

Much like "anyone can sue anyone for anything at any time", arbitrary detention is hardly limited to one specific country or political system. I'm sure Assange, Snowden, and the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay would beg to differ with your opinion.
> > playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life?

> After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actually you who were in it. Now add in what you saw, thought, smelled and tasted, mix in with that actual hatred of the enemy and the euphoria of victory... than yeah, that shit would work.

Or it self selects for people willing to "play" those games.

I just picked up the Hotline Miami collection for Switch and started playing for the first time. It's an ultra-violent top-down game that tries to have you question your own motivations.

It's a fun game with good mechanics, so I've been enjoying it. If it were 2060 level VR in first person with Smell-o-Vision and hyper-realistic graphics, I wouldn't be playing it at all.
“Assume good faith” doesn’t mean “ignore evidence of bad faith”.
A null pointer is just a manifestation of a bug, usually unexpectedly missing data.

If you can't have nulls, you might have a better chance of spotting the possibility of that missing data and trying to deal with it, granted, but if it happens truly unexpectedly the bug is still going to manifest itself somehow, as an NPE or otherwise.

Following all the way through, let's say there is no exception anywhere and the missing data gets all the way through to the UI.. well then that's how the bug manifests.

Is the missing data just not appearing better than a 'oops, something went wrong' error or similar in response to a 500 caused by an NPE? Depends on the application and circumstances I guess, but in general probably not. The bug exists in both cases. You can present it in better and worse ways, but the bug is that the data is not there and it should be.

The point being, not having NPE doesn't fix any problems, fundamentally. It just shifts them elsewhere. No language feature saves you from bugs.
Please elaborate. How big is that subset of people compared with other candidate subsets?
If you have beard, if you look middle eastern (a bit dark skinned like from south Europe, may be Afro-European from south USA), originnaly from middle east (doesn't matter if you are rised and having western citizenship), having Turkic name (because of Uygurs), holding Turkish citizenship, looking suspicius, having pro Hong Kong ot pro Tibetian opinions you will be questioned by police, and you will have hard time finding hotels.

For example this guy cannot find otel because he has Turkish citizenship. https://youtu.be/2SvHsU7jwwk also he is being questioned every time when he is being noticed by police.
First, they shouldn't. Second we do have the rule of law which can get them out and get them penalties. There's one significant exception for the US, and it's has besmirched our reputation, perhaps forever. We have the situation where people are held for life in Guantanamo Cuba at a US military base, accused of being terrorists related to 9/11 and they don't have access to the us judicial system generally. There were many people held there who were found only after years of time to not have been terrorists. Then don't forget the cia tortured people on our behalf too.

This was wrong. It doesn't excuse what China is doing.
This is exactly the secret behind mainframe's ubiquitous persistence across mission-critical businesses. Consistency and availability are far more important than partition tolerance. You build your mainframe with >N+2 redundancy on any given component and then you build the datacenter around the mainframe. This is how you beat the CAP theorem. With brute-force engineering. Sure, you aren't truly defeating it in principle, but in practice it still seems to be the best option we've got.

Batch is the other aspect that takes mainframes to unbeatable status. When you run a batch job, you basically say "ok all daily OLTP is halted, we are going into a completely new architectural mode". Obtaining an exclusive lock on a table or an entire database for a single series of processes to operate on can yield insane amounts of throughput when you are finalizing the data from the day's operations.

A few years ago as a more junior developer, I will admit to being strongly "anti-mainframe" based on the principles I held at that time. Why can't we just put it all in the cloud, throw some MongoDB out there and pray it all works? After witnessing actual business cases for mainframe/batch unfold, I quickly started to change my tune. Mainframe is not for every business, but it does seem to be a tool you can reach for when someone says "everything just has to work always or someone dies", and "we have infinite money".
There are certainly people that feel like it was a mistake. https://getstream.io/blog/fixing-the-billion-dollar-mistake-...
This shouldn't surprise anybody. Anecdotally speaking, most old folks I know (of) watch television, read physical newspapers, and call/write/see people. What do they need the internet for? I'm -- if anything -- surprised the number isn't higher.
Mainframe hardware isn't reliable though. It maybe more reliable, but no hardware is reliable. What you call reliable is implemented by an architecture that lets the system route around hardware damage. The difference is that a mainframe is a mostly closed box where you preselect what hardware components are wired together, while a cloud computing type system is an open system where you can dynamically rearchitect it.
The altcoin market is pretty saturated now and most of this space is just full of vapourware scams.

If anything bitcoin and ethereum are the only coins that will have any meaningful chain for the time being.
There's no espionage claims, I think it's purely over economic crime. I don't know if they're complicit, their parents may have moved laundered assets under their name without their knowledge. I'm not even sure if their detainment is for the purpose of investigate, coercion or they're merely being made an example of to others.

As for Chinese papers, this is speculation territory but with some personal knowledge. You can buy Chinese identities, there's a market for it. I know people who previously revoked their PRC citizenship but later acquired a dead persons identity to buy property and start business in mainland among other perks.
It’s a bad analogy. Phone is the mainframe eras terminal (also dumb btw) and the internet is the time shared mainframe you “can submit jobs to”.

You probably can’t access mainframes file system directly either. That’s a security and reliability feature.
>The last men off the drowning ship said that they saw Shin in the wheelhouse, refusing to abandon his post or put on a life jacket. Hugging a pole and clutching his clear bottle, he was muttering in Korean and crying.

I find this fascinating. You really couldn’t ask for something that would align incentives more in keeping the ship afloat than the captain going down with the ship. And yet, the captain blatantly ignored safety requirements and caused his ship to sink.

I have more respect for this captain, who even though he placed his crew members lives at risk, placed himself at more risk and went down with the ship, than a lot of CEOs who do or tacitly encourage doing very shady (or illegal) things and then escape accountability through golden parachutes. Maybe we need more “captains going down with the ship” type of laws in the business sector.
Few orgs wants to pay for reliability/quality. Whether hardware or software costs. They are ok with a bunch of 99.5 or 99.9 availability systems. With no thought for high availability deployment.
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Ask HN: Thoughts on PWA?
To people who have experience in using PWA, what is your opinion on it? Can it replace apps? What about the user behaviour, Do people add your PWA to their home screen?, especially iOS users since they have to do it manually?
Huh, I think the blogpost parent links to at the time I'm writing this[1] is quite consistent with your reading. It's certainly hard to describe that implication as accidental. Quite sad!

[1] ("Demographics of the American Media Elite"; mentions "Jews" in the very first line of post content!)
Am I the only one that finds it wild/crazy - and disappointing- that our elected/selected officials took this long to realize the effect of big tech on the human psyche and thus our individual behavior..?
Here you begin to sound like you’re equating productivity to income.

There are many companies that produce little real world value, yet tons of income.
I think humans who didn't find fiction compelling would be incredibly uninspired. How could it be compelling unless the brain mostly reacted to it like it were real?

Would science exist without alchemy? Or cell phones without Star Trek? Civilization without religion?
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There are emulators for z/OS and friends, you can use those on a PC.
Meditation is a bloated term in 2019, spiritual materialism is rampant as well. I am Indian-American and feel more connected to the Sanskrit words for things, they are simpler and more descriptive at the same time.
I tend to think that the biggest flaw with TDD is that it assumes you have requirements, from which to derive test cases.

And In 7+ years of engineering at FAANG companies, I've never once had clear requirements before the software was complete (let alone started).