skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the nice, well-thought things about $ (end of line) and its inverse, ^ (beginning of line), is they have exactly the same meaning in normal mode as they do in regular expressions (with a small caveat that ^ ignores whitespace, so it's not so much the beginning of the line as it is the beginning of text on that line).
Queue the HN cheerleaders for tariffs. Not sure why everyone seems to think politicians meddling in the economy is a good thing (subsidies or tariffs).
Yes,they're a blend of synthetics including plastics.
I had no idea any of these features existed. In particular the story) support for vimrc and the surround plug in are game changers.
Which I agree with -- but the device they're showing it off on looks pretty cramped for screen real estate. It has two 9" screens. If we guess those are 16:9 displays, that's about 69 square inches of space... which is actually a few square inches smaller than a single 13" display of the same ratio. (72 square inches)
While I wrote this with the Software Freedoms in mind, which the GPL is an expression of, I'm only using it as a model for discussion. I'm not explicitly saying "license under the GPL".

So with that said, the GPL does not say "put your code up on Github". It says "give your code to your users". It also doesn't say "don't charge for your software." I'm talking about taking these ideas literally. The only people who get your software from you are people who have paid, and they get the source code along with it.

People have always surmised that, because of Software Freedom #2 (redistribution), they could turn around and release your code for free, so the majority of people have defaulted to just releasing their code, in the open, for free. I question whether or not that would actually be the case, or how big of an impact it would have.

I'm also not really sure I like Freedom #2 in its most explicit sense. I am starting to think that I'd prefer to operate under a model where anyone may modify My Code as they want (Freedom #1), and release the modifications as they see fit (Freedom #3), but the original base of it all, My Code, they need to get from me. In the context of "getting paid", I think that model might work better. But that's more of a minor detail.

I'm not saying "hide your code". I'm just saying, "stop leaving it laying around."

Yes, the world has benefited greatly. But Google and Facebook seem to have benefited more.
Besides, all that you have mentioned is hardly unique for Russian government.
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It could, but as a design decision, TS never infers function types based on function bodies, to keep inference more local and predictable. You're expected to specify argument and return types from outside (and TS will then check the body against them). So it's reasonable to expect you to specify assertion types from outside (and TS should then check the body against them).
>But how much did quality of life increase in the past 20 years in the US?

I have a magic little rectangle in my pocket that can answer an obscure question, get in contact with someone or order me a pizza faster than the president of the united state could get those things done in 1999.

My car tells me when a tire is low. My oven automatically turns off when it's done baking for a pre-selected time. Etc. Etc.

Sure, all that stuff existed in 1999 but it was rare or primitive. Today even someone living paycheck to paycheck has that standard of living. Technology has come down in cost and permeated our lives resulting in unprecedented convenience. It's the difference between the USSR launching the first satellite once at great expense and a private company flinging a car into space because "well we needed a test payload and why not". All this comes with trade-offs and a learning curve but so does every other bit of progress humanity ever made.
Because Zuckerberg already testified that election influence and interference was not a serious threat, it is newsworthy that he turns around here and says the opposite, that companies would not be able to control interference threats in the face of a breakup.

Also newsworthy is the existential nature of the legal battle he openly talks about, whether or not there is legitimate reason to be broken up as regulations do have a purpose. Especially since in the same audio he admits there are election influence threats to worry about, it seems to pit facebook directly opposed to the democratic system and regulations meant to uphold democracies. Saying we will use our deep pockets which are deeper than the U.S. regulators—to fight any regulatory action (which seems reasonable now) is like saying we will fight against democracy and being fairly regulated because we have more money and power than the people and government do in any legal battle. The rules, it seems, will not apply to FB or any company of similar size and power.
Here is a fun game

Coleslaw is to Hamburger as cabbage salad is to ?
Yes, and yes. Can't give you references right now, though.
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People supported the anti-straw movement because it has zero impact on their life. The only people who even ask for straws are some women wearing lipstick. It's an easy issue to support.

Now consider your ideas that would actually make a difference. I bet they actually change people's lifestyles which means those proposals are going to be political suicide unlike plastic straws/bags.

For example, look how angry and defensive people get when it comes to their meat consumption. People will openly brag about how little they care about the slaughter of factory-farmed animals because it tastes good, just in response to someone bringing up ethical concerns.

Though I do think plastic straw/bag movements are a gateway to larger ecological movements. You can't jump straight into massive changes unless society is advanced enough to not throw a shitfit if their drink doesn't come with a straw, something that we're still working on.

So, maybe it's plastic straws today, but tomorrow a politician will have a real shot with a platform against waste wrt TFA.
You can use abstractions that push such code out of the developers concern, into the "code infrastructure" layer.

But there are also plenty times where I'd rather compute at the database side; there are no silver bullets.
I think the authors use of MacVim makes mouse integration better supported than terminal vim.
I know you're just quoting here, but for the record, the idea that AMAB/AFAB are "owned" by intersex people is bullshit. The terms were invented by the trans community, and a small minority of transphobes want to erase that, but they don't represent the majority of the intersex community or anyone else.

AMAB/AFAB means "they said 'it's a boy/girl' when you were born." That's all.

Sources:

* The reply to your link https://medium.com/p/fb8447cffdee/responses/show

* Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/7glz6x/does...

* This article https://freedominwickedness.tumblr.com/post/34492218525/once...
Writing novels while you're dirt poor and riding a train to your low paying job does not count as "drive"?

I would love to hear your definition of "drive" then.
This crosses into political flamewar and personal attack, which you can't do on HN, regardless of how right you are or how righteous your cause.

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U.S. household size is increasing for first time in at least 160 years
This is because Bulgaria still accepts Soviet passports with "Bulgarian" in 5th point as proof of Bulgarian origin, its complicated by the fact that there are still plenty of ethnic Bulgarians in Ukraine. Some of them, unfortunatelly have parents and grandparents listed as "Russian" in the old documents.

I'm surpised it costs so much thought, I guess demand is high.
From the article:

>Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene).
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Old WP devices are comparatively easy to mod - bootloader unlock is not an issue at all. The issue with running a custom OS on those is hardware/driver support, as is usual for this class of devices.
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language” George Bernard Shaw
I posted my own feelings in another comment, if you're interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21139083
Is it just me, or does the Upper case C lead to a hard C pronunciation, which leads to an unfortunate insult, in UK English at least.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spacky

Although I understood it to be derived from:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spacker
They weren't bleeding on the portable side of things in 2010. Apple, Microsoft and Google (TPU) all have some sort of custom chips now which aren't x86
There have been USB powered portable monitors for years that would let you get a dual screen experience. With iOS 13, there is built in support for using an iPad ($329 10.2inch screen) as a second display.
How does one logically follows from the other?
Ok, now make it not shut itself down randomly for updates.
all I can think about now is the total surface area of plastic in the world rubbing against something and being ground into microplastic dust
Above comment isn't putting blame on Airbus, it's objecting to the statement that competition would have prevented the 737Max, and challenges that competition was the reason the 737Max was made.
Article is long but well written and argued. I found this paragraph about a proposal in UK especially interesting:

"The Labour Party’s plan is detailed. It ensures that investors are not injured by having their share value diluted because it institutes a transition process: every year, employees gain a 1 percent ownership stake, up to a cap of 10 percent. Once funds are in a trust, then the shares are not available to be resold. This is crucial: the stakes are not a private, freely transferable wealth asset, and since employees don’t purchase stakes, they can’t sell them when they leave employment. Rather, by becoming an employee of the corporation, you receive an ownership stake in the employee collective trust—a stake that remains in the trust if you move to a different job. So long as you are an employee, though, that stake grants you governance rights and the right to receive a share of the profits."
It wasn't even "the market" that spoke so much as US telecom companies. ("Vote with your wallet just means the rich and the mega-corporations have more votes.") Windows Phone had a good enough market share in Europe and Asia to remain a viable and competitive third place contender for a long time. It was the US where Windows Phone got locked out of the market duopoly by bad deals with AT&T and Verizon, and indications existed that all of the US telecoms were much happier with a duopoly than training/sales/marketing anything beyond that (whether or not that was an anti-competitive trust is left for your own imagination, it's not like the US has strong anti-trust teeth right now).
I was reading that capital gains for crypto are also very low, was it Bulgaria or am I remembering it wrong?
Is that sarcasm, because I had cheap Symbian 40 phone with Opera mobile way before iPhone was announced. Browser that i used everywhere. And this Symbian phones were majority of the market. Also Windows mobile phones that only geeks were using at the time also had browser and also way before iPhone.
With that much money you would be thinking about it more often. How to protect and grow and can be more stressful.
You put it in an index fund and get back to work?
Based on our experience, it is not about actual risk, but perceived risk. As for how they are blocked, it’s done by an intercepting proxy that doesn’t allow encrypted connections through it.
Big stretch. Nice rationalization, but big stretch regardless.
I prefer Cliff bar overall, but the Rx bar isn’t bad at all. Seems healthier (more protein than Cliff), but the texture is hard to get used to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmaioTs0NH8 @ 1:10:00 mark for tablet. I did not see the keyboard coming ! Great job microsoft
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The new Surface Earbuds are Microsoft’s first truly wireless earbuds
> For people saying dual screen is a gimmick, have you not wanted to replicate multi-screen setup on your laptop (while traveling or when not on your desktop)? Power users have always wanted more screen real estate!

Can't say I have multi-screen.. but I have wanted more screen real estate.

One thing I think could happen is to make laptops that let you fold the screen out, thus letting you have a larger screen while still maintaining a small physical footprint.
I've always thought the expanding universe was simply the draw distance being increased as the players instruments got better.
I double plus appreciated the giant footer telling me to sign in with facebook or google. Even though the header also has a signin link.
True... But with the 737 saga continuing, and there is no Boeing successor in sight, and you ain't gonna buy any Airbus soon, I personally believe there are influences in some airlines to actually think about switching. It isn't going to be easy but you've got a lot of time on our hands anyway. This taxes might make just that bit more difficult.
How does any of this benefit your average American? The way I see it a broken bone or a pregnancy could very easily spell financial ruin for a whole family. Education costs are also off the charts!

It's almost as if there are two ways to look at the economy of a country: one looks strictly at how the economy benefits the owners (not sure what the right word here is but I mean Bezos' of the America) and the other looks at the benefit the economy provides to the rest of the people.
Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50
We're Lisa and Alexa, co-founders of Revel (https://www.hellorevel.com). We help women over 50 build their community by hosting and attending small, local gatherings.

We're two women in our 30s who decided to work on this problem after seeing how important and how challenging it has been for our mothers.

Lisa's mother raised her as a single parent while working as a public school teacher, and that meant that she didn't have much time to focus on her life outside of parenting. When Lisa left for college, her mother retired, and found herself longing for a community of like-minded women, which wasn’t easy. Alexa's mother is similar in need but different in circumstance: she's a physician with a high-powered career and a robust social life, living in a dense urban area, who nonetheless feels that she doesn't know where to turn for genuine connections with women her age.

In the United States alone, there are 50 million women like our mothers. They are a dramatically underserved demographic. We sometimes hear talk of "elder tech" and "silver tech" but our customer is not "the elderly"—she's in her 50s, 60s, or 70s, statistically healthier than ever before, with some disposable income to spend, and she wants to enjoy life alongside women her own age.

How Revel works is that any woman over 50 can sign up to join as a member for $15 a month. As a member, she can then browse our listings of Revel events being hosted by other members in her neighborhood. All of our events are user-generated and any member can apply to host at any time.

We're operating only in the Bay Area for now, but obviously our plan is to expand geographically as soon as it makes sense. Since we launched in late July, we've had hundreds of women sign up as members, and have had dozens of member-hosted gatherings in living rooms and backyard gardens across the Bay Area. If your mother, aunt, or family friend lives nearby, we'd love to meet her!

We'd love to hear your ideas and feedback and questions, and your own experiences in this area!
How the person who grabs the pixel sticks is removed from the final photography?
Bob belongs to a race that turns masculine when called with a name as it sounds when you read it left to right and feminine when you read it from right to left.
I guess this is the link https://ispc.godbolt.org/ ?
Interesting story. He really did become a millionaire overnight, it was a lump sum payout with no obligation to work for the acquiring company.

Different than other founders where you get stock in the acquiring company and you’re locked up for 2 years. You get to watch your potential payout oscillate in value all the while working for a big Corp.
Great points, I also think the big waves of emigration have passed and the population will stabilize soon. It might even start increasing a little bit.
Microsoft unveils new folding smartphone in surprise announcement
It's funny to see how Big Tech don't want to learn when it's about piling more money...

Google already has been caught (and fined) by the EU because it used Android to "promote" ("force" would be more appropriate) its search engine, like MS was fined 20 years for the same thing with Windows and IE.
But Google is doing the same once again !

I guess that they have a bunch of competent lawyers, that already told them that they WILL be fined.
And they surely decided that the benefits from abusing their position would be greater than the fines that they'll have to pay in 3 or 5 years
Triggers tend to generate all kinds of surprises when you change something in a part of your database and suddenly other seemingly unrelated things begin to change. Views can be hard to understand if you have views that use views, use views, and so on. But I don't see any problems with functions and stored procedures as long as you put them in a separate schema from your tables. A function in SQL shouldn't be more tightly coupled than a function in Ruby or Java.
One Hundred Possible Names for Your New Startup
This is one reason why I don't like living near freeways, especially near on-ramps, off-ramps, and interchanges. Car pollution isn't just tailpipe emissions - I believe a lot of airborne particulates come from tires and brakes (especially during acceleration, deceleration, and turning).

https://www.cdc.gov/air/particulate_matter.html
Canonical is a $110 million company. They are stewards of Linux, but they profit from the free work that others are doing. I'm calling into question whether or not that's enough. In the case of Canonical, it's a tough call, though getting a little less tough the more ad-tech they push more ad-tech into it.

On the extreme end, the massive profitability of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc., is a signal that they are taking more than they are giving.

And there is a long, long tail of other, popular projects that have had huge impact on the world, for which the developers have not received anything remotely approaching fair compensation. Look at the impact jQuery had on the world in the mid 2000's. Looking at Wikipedia just now, it says that it's in use on 73% of the 10 million most popular websites. Surely, somewhere, somebody could have coughed up a few dollars.
Yeah I thought the same, looked like he decided to delete the about page but forgot to delete the references: https://github.com/awakened1712/awakened1712.github.io/commi...
Everyone everywhere could change thousands of things about their daily lives and things would be perfect. This has been true since the dawn of time. It's never happened and most don't think it's realistic for it to suddenly happen now. This is why people want to focus change on the things that matter the most first, they know not everything is going to change.

That being said if anyone is up for the challenge personally go for it! That's completely different than wondering why society as a whole focuses on impactful problems first.
Alas, comments like this one perpetuate the problem you're complaining about, actually in a worse way because second-order phenomena are harder to deal with. For example, low-value dismissals tend to get downvoted and supplanted by better comments. But indignant meta-rants tend to get upvoted and sit at the top of the page, giving off fumes. That's where this one was until I marked it off-topic.

Believe me I understand the annoyance of bad comments and shallow dismissals, but trying to fight them this way just makes the threads worse.
Re: 1: The last official OS builds for Windows Phone expire from security support next month (November 2019). Microsoft has been telling owners to move to iOS or (especially) Android for months now. (It's why I've got an iPhone again in my pocket now after years of Windows Phones. Sigh.)