skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once got the advice that my target group should be the ones deciding if the quality level of my work is good enough, not myself. If they see value in what I do, I'm good. I still will strive to improve further, but there is no reason to stop, as long as people like my work.

Therefore, focus on checking that your regular readers are enjoying what you write, instead of focusing too much on actual or perceived weaknesses.
Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/07/android_developer_account_banned_for_life/

Even though I am developer and make my living selling my software products so far I am reluctant to deal with mobile for exactly these reasons: you can be cut off from your bloodline on a whim. So aside of writing servers I am a relic releasing desktop applications (well web starts to look as viable platform for some type of apps as well). I am curious how Google/Apple is gonna deal with that one? Although I can see that Google is slowly imposing their will through their browser domination.
What point are you trying to make?

Throwing around the n-word makes him a bigot, not right-wing.
Amazing name. Congratulations
This tends to be a very hot take, but I really hate "classic rock" stations. The songs tend to be dull and full of boring cliches, much like how I see pop music today. That said, I try not to discount any "genre" completely and admittedly do enjoy at least a few songs from most.
There's Spaceflight Simulator, which is for Android and iPhone. It is a 2D representation of space, which simplifies things a bit, but you still get all the orbital mechanics.
I care deeply about social justice, and I'm totally on Monica's side here. Even more so because as far as anyone can tell, she wasn't even violating a CoC yet, and would probably have followed it if it was sufficiently clarified. But at the most basic level, I feel gender-neutral language should always be okay.

In fact, I think it would be healthy if language in general developed in a more gender-neutral direction. We don't use special pronouns to divide people based on other characteristics, so why gender?
The generated text is a little too on the nose and sure enough:

> In each case, we generated more than one response and selected the predicted text that follows each section in the article.

Good article even so.
Is there a name for some kind of inverted Kardashev scale, where higher civilizations decide to slow down and go miniature, conserving as much energy and information as possible?

Possibly as a) some kind of bet to hide from other civilizations and b) to delay the heat death as long as possible.
Blame Daniel Webster for 'formalizing' spelling with his dictionary a century ago. Froze spellings in time while pronunciation continued to change.
Just because the discussions exist doesn't mean they should. Everyone feels their particular ideology is the one targeted. It's why Fox News can claim to be an underdog despite being the number 1 news station in the US. It's why liberals were shocked when the President won by following a strategy of electoral votes versus popular vote. Everyone is in their own bubble and it's the reason why politics are bad conversation. No one wants to have a conversation and come to an understanding they mostly just want to yell at one another about how the other side is wrong and stupid.
in the 1st world, I agree that terrorism is a negligible risk. but at least anecdotally, that math appears to be less sound in the rest of the world - i at least imagine that in much of the middle east, expressing a nominally legal but unpopular idea would likely result in you being killed. and i think that it's fairly accepted that in mexico speaking out against the drug cartels is risky

i'm thinking of MvPI for the USA (and presumably similar places). and it would require a society-level commitment to transparency for it to be sufficient (which may not be practical).

as for pictures, there would be technical means to obscure faces, tattoos, voices, etc.

as for the govt tracking you down, there would need to be an elaborate system of checks and balances - access to the unobscured data would require blockchain-like keys from multiple parties and would be publicly visible
In some cases, that is true. In other cases, it is an important part of removing a toxic element from your organization.

There are some people who refuse to behave in the best interests of the group, no matter how much direction you give them.

...but you are correct that they are often only one part of the problem. Then again, often firing them will motivate some of their supporters to quit.

I imagine that was the impetus behind firing Monica, so perhaps turnabout is fair play.
> You don't own your computers, folks!

You do, you just don't necessarily own the software running on it.
Every time I come across a paid 30 dollar version of software being sold for macos, I can find a free open source alternative that often works better pretty quickly.
I can't agree more.
I've never done standups in the teams I managed.

But I chuckled a lot when seeing other teams/companies destroying the morale of their employees with this childish and borderline cult-like parade.
They aren't "wrong" - sure there's no further indication telling the user what to do, but you can right-click and run the app from Finder all the same (requires admin permissions).

It's basically an upgraded Gatekeeper. I'm not quite sure what the pearl-clutching is about.
> Worry about the slippery slope when the slippery slope actually slips.

Wouldn't that be too late? After all we have "warning! slippery surface" signs to avoid slipping, we don't just let people slip and fall over to figure out the surface is indeed slippery.
Same here, it's met my needs pretty perfectly: Fast, good search, plenty of categorization options, absolutely excellent grocery store list integration with recipes, and bookmarklet to save recipes I find online.
> Moreover, many more people are killed with knifes than rifles

I'm sure. Just like I expect cars to be more dangerous than guns, too. But you're drawing odd conclusions. My point was that tools have a place. A car is a tool. A knife is a tool. A hunting rifle is a tool.

A rifle with the capability of mowing down herds (or people) with a high rate of fire has little merit in my mind. I speak generally, because I don't explicitly mean automatic/semi/etc because that's a whole other debate. Hunting rifles don't need "mow down herds" capability. Likewise, if you can walk into a store and shoot 50 people with ease, I question if you really need that capability for hunting.

How many people in a crowd do you think you can kill with bolt action hunting rifles? Likewise, how many people in a crowd do you think you can kill with a knife?

I despise these arguments of "but I have sports with X guns!" or "but I use X gun to hunt!". You can fish with explosives but it's not needed nor is it legal in many places.

I support rifles for hunting, but there are limitations on the types of rifles, rate of fire, real use cases and etc.
To give my opinion: The Dieselgate scandal shows that Volkswagen (and other implicated companies) are not well run.

You could make the argument that this kind of cheating is a form of optimising for profit and therefor doing it well is "well run". But I find that argument sociopathic and short-term.

And it opens the can of worms of the broader context of the industry: Are you doing something, well or not, that you shouldn't be doing at all (in this case, producing engines that turn fossil fuels into pollution)

But, make your own mind up.
For ATC in FSX, on a less serious note, you'd be amiss to go past Airforceproud95's work in his Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeC0ZTT8n7E
( and his coverage of the new FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TY56kA8oY0 )
Surely it would be even cheaper to have an automated process make these 10,000 different kinds than you could do manually. Its not much harder to automate, you're just not doing huge volume runs before switching up the ingredients. Hell, you could probably try more radical variations by having it automated -- A/B testing of ingredient/process selection of sorts.

> consumer tastes keep changing in this market because consumers seek novelty.

Seems like an automated process that can quickly churn out something new would be super profitable then.

The question is how varied are these brewing processes and can a machine handle them. I don't know enough about whackjob craft beer brewing processes to answer that, but the main aspects, I see no reason why they wouldn't be able to automate those. Maybe it wouldn't be 100% automated, but any automation will 1) reduce jobs and 2) help churn out crazy craft beers faster than the non-automated competitor.
> They said if she avoids using pronouns, she's just as guilty as using the wrong one.

People that think like this baffle me

When I refer to people online, I rarely use 'pronouns'. IMO in online communication, it's most clear/neutral to just refer to people by their name or username, e.g. if I'm referring to you I might just say @beerandt. I can't imagine how that could be seen as offensive in any way
I'm relatively comfortable with the English language but I absolutely loathe having to use it every single day. Whether it's the bland style found in newspapers, the opaque style found in scientific articles, the fake let's-pretend-we're-best-friends used by some technologists and younger journalists, or the long-winded and contrived style used by most of HN and reddit and technical blogs in general, all of it turns me off. (No offense, folks, I'm sure I'm no Joyce either.)

I guess it wouldn't annoy me so much if my job and social circles (many of them involving foreigners who don't speak my native language) didn't require me to consume so much of it. There's so much subtlety, nuance and "color" that's lost in a conversation where both participants aren't speaking in their native language. Even if both are relatively good at it.

Then there's the issue of native English speakers who seem to be only very dimly aware that other languages exist and think that everyone speaking their language fluently is a given. (This shapes a lot of current politics, such as language policing or the whole 'pronouns' issue - I'm mentioning it because antirez was the center of a controversy for not changing terminology that's loaded for Americans only). And many native speakers think the less of people who struggle with English, even unconsciously.
How does one get something notarized without a paid developer account? Is apple now letting people submit their apps for notarization without paying?
Pensions are very strange. IBM abolished its pension program some decade ago, replaced with a 401K funded to 25% or some such. Saved IBM billions; pissed off a generation of employees.

So no, not really a contract.
Flat fares are much better for customers who need to understand what they will pay. The ability to automatically change me an extra fare where I go on is nice only when I know and have budgeted for that fare. Flat fare, pay $x and go it easy to understand. Every time I need to pay I need to decide if the transit system is really worth it for the trip.

Now in a system the size of NYC you probably should do something, the person only riding a couple miles shouldn't pay as much as the person riding many miles (I'm not sure how you can get in NYC). However a simple easy to understand system of fares is important and very hard to design. Part of that needs to be a guaranteed maximum you will pay in a month - with the idea that a significant portion of users will hit that maximum - when you know you will hit the maximum you are more likely to take transit in off-peak times even though you have a perfectly good car.
I can't find any screenshots on the home page?
Not sure if this is legal or not, but this is definitely why I think the 401k/private saving model is the best. It's a lot easier for governments/corps to change the payout of a system they run vs. clawing money away from an account you own. That being said there should be a minimum safety net for those that don't have the diligence to save by their own accord.
> Anecdotally, I find that the people who are loudest about Apple's misdeeds (both real and assumed) are often people who've never even used an Apple product.

The other side of this is, when I complain about Apple not allowing sideloading on iOS, I get asked why I use an iPhone if I don't like the policy.

(fwiw, I have no issues with macOS as long as unsigned apps can still be run, and lots of issues with iOS where they cannot be.)
People currently accumulating benefits will stop accumulating. It’s a pay cut.

Plan was closed in 2012, so these are longtime employees.

People currently collecting pensions are not affected.

Ex employees in the pension are being cashed out with lump sums.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/erie-hit-rock-bottom-the-former...
I have to use so Apple products, although mainly mobile devices. I don't have any deeper prejudice against the users but think the devices are mostly useless.
And these days they cross-reference the IBAN with the entered name as well, giving another round of are-you-entirely-sure.
Well, what is the downside to having duplicate* questions?

I would guess the vast majority of traffic to any specific question page is search, followed by specific links people have posted (on or offsite), and relatively little will come from browsing through lists of questions (tags pages) or something like that.

Search is going to surface the most up-voted and linked questions. Links people have posted are obviously very specific (no chance of confusion following the link).

I would say the upsides are that you end up with more opportunities to have nuanced differences in question handled, give more people a chance to answer questions, naturally refresh questions/answers over the years (eg: "How do I minify CSS in <stack>?" will have very different answers in 2019 than it did in 2009).

* I'm not necessarily suggesting exact duplicates, but allowing for questions to be re-asked after a year or two, and allowing any subtle difference in the situation, stack, etc.
I've had Itamae (the Peruvian stall mentioned towards the end of the article) a whole lot and I have to say that is definitely one of the best food spots in all of Miami.
Growing up, speaking US English natively, I never realized how messed up English is. Then I learned Spanish (and lived in a Spanish speaking country for 2 years). Wow. Now that is a sane language. Once you learn the alphabet and a few pronunciation rules you can read anything in Spanish correctly. Try doing that with English. Ha!

This has become even more reinforced as I've helped my children learn how to read English. Trying to explain to a child why a certain word is pronounced the way it is, even though it looks nothing like how we are pronouncing it, usually falls back to "that's just the way it is" unless I want to try explaining to them the niceties of Old French/Latin, Old English, Old Germanic, the great vowel shift, etc. Eh, that's just the way it's pronounced.

There are so many people who already speak Spanish and it is such a nice sane language that I think it is a real shame that it did not become the universal language.
Come on. Pop songs have had meaningless silly lyrics since shortly after the invention of singing. I doubt there has been any significant decline in lyric quality.
Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
>My main experience is with Romania

Fair enough, that would explain your reaction. To be fair, Malaysia is more like Romania than some of the other countries I've mentioned.

>just excuses at spending money, badly

Yes, and funding startups is just about the perfect excuse, because new businesses often fail. However, the SCMP report also said the government has been giving grants to startups for some time now. Grants to small businesses is something that a lot of governments engage in: it's about trying to create jobs.

>Perhaps other governments are better at managing money

Nah. Other governments just behave better. Funding new businesses is always a "bad" way of spending money, in that most new businesses fail, and nobody has a good way of figuring out which ones will.

>the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution.

They may get some prestige, but I'm sure a lot of startups fail eventually.
There's typically a minimum limit set out by a set of laws. So if you have $100k yearly pension, they may have to pay at least $25k.

Reality is, 401k is much better for all parties as company and employee can part ways at any time. Employee has more control over their funds, but risk they will lose it all (not companies problem).
SCOTUS hands victory to blind man who sued Domino's over site accessibility
Agreed. That's why I said "initially." Sanctions ended when the Chicago Boys were in charge of economic policy, but still did not convince the military dictatorship to hand Codelco to private control.
While these books sound interesting, “amazing and incredibly influential achievement” sounds more like something someone might say about a President than a sci-fi author.
What does China produce that we have fans for? I don't see many cultural exports from them in America.
A quick glance at the voat entry will convince you that whatever comes next must withstand a banking blockade, DDOS, bitcoin dust attack, DNS denial and possibly no one will host your domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat
Don't know if it still works, but I used to get around this on school computers by loading the app binary (SomeApp.app/Contents/macOS/SomeApp) in the Terminal.

Gatekeeper really isn't a stringent measure, it just protects people who don't know what they're doing.
Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
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Yes, you are right.

But that can be learnt. Studying phonetics, despite its theoretical aspect, is essential to know how to pronounce but, also (and most importantly), what sounds to expect. Only when you try and make them do you realize what you should be "expecting to hear". Otherwise, sound becomes simple noise.

Accents are, of course, an aggravant and a difficulty: for this you need exposure.
As part of my PhD dissertation, I wrote an "interval valued" constraint solver and a Python internal DSL based originally on miniKanren, that ran it. The intervals handle the floating point in interval chunks, allowing for set-like reasoning and relational constraint programming atop floating point.

I used it to operate on a design space as a single entity, or sliced into finite chunks, and to cut out sub-spaces of infeasible designs by constraint propagation.

I think interval valued relational constraint programming could be extended (and probably already has) for mechanical modeling, and 3D animation, yes.
But the utility of a purely discrete constraint solver, such as the one posted here, is maybe less for these types of cases. Interval systems methods (for solving nonlinear equations) have a long history in optimization and motion planning. No reason a constraint solver couldn't be applied there. Similarly, if you have a specific use case, I could try and offer more about constraint solving for it.

I should also note that constraint solving with real or and especially interval data goes back to at least the 80s. I just made use of some low hanging fruit!
If everyone took your advice and used 1pass, then I doubt 1pass would be able to defend itself against the coming hack attacks. I do say this in a bit of ignorance, but they don't imho possess the resources to defend against the complete list of cybercriminals out there.
The tool that's used to submit a binary to Apple only runs on macOS. Short of something like a hackintosh (which is against the macOS license) or maybe Darling, it's not clear how one would do the submission without a mac.

This is a real issue for me, as my open source project is a cross-platform game development tool. It used to be that it was possible for someone to click a button and get Linux, Windows, and Mac distributions - but now the Mac side is proving more and more difficult.
So your argument is that all the people spreading the news of that kid in HK being shot were surprised?

They didn't sound surprised to me. They sounded elated and fulfilled that they were right about the 'bad guys'.

News stories spread because people want to click them. Nobody wants to hear about Iraq, it's a bummer and a reminder that they probably supported it.

The other, though? Tell me how bad they are!
Asheville, Raleigh-Durham, and Charlotte are all pretty nice. RDU has a growing tech sector and is pretty bumping for jobs; Charlotte to a lesser degree.

DC the city is nice for the most part; crime and rough areas are concentrated mostly in South East DC. The DC suburbs are literally the overall richest counties (Loudoun VA, Fairfax VA, PGC Maryland, etc.). Lot of tech around there, in those 'burbs, but also expensive. To unlock the SF-FAANG level salaries around DC you need to do cleared work -- with all the headaches that security clearances imply.

Really liked Salt Lake City, Utah. Mormon presence is lower compared to other parts of the city and a beer isn't too expensive. Weather and people are nice.

Heard good things about Boise.
I'm not against welfare agencies subsidizing the poor. If we are subsidizing the poor that should be from a different budget: as far as the transit system is concerned rich or poor use the same resources so the income to the transit system should be the same even if it comes from a different pot.
I bet you're from Utah... just a guess.
> Pretty sure you don't need a Mac for that.

Maybe you do, I can't find any way besides using Xcode, either on the GUI or using "altool", which comes with it.
IMO there is no point in undergoing age reversal if you haven’t already been maintaining a fit and healthy lifestyle. If you’re fat and 65 and treated your body like a dumpster your whole life I see no point in going back to being a slightly younger fat blob.

I also think that true age reversal will never be achievable anyway the way people think, but stopping aging may be possible. I have met some individuals who seem to exhibit qualities of negligible senescence, the only physical thing that gives away their true age is probably the quality of their skin and hair, which does not look as fresh (but still pretty good) as someone much younger.
...With the spirit of an old man at the Waffle House counter.
Author here: I actually wrote this library for a skateboard magazine - we wanted charts to feel fun & un-intimidating but still informative. Some alternatives exist (Semiotic for React and a plug-in for chart.js), but nothing as a standalone, super simple javascript library. I made this to allow the non-coders at the mag to easily ideate and play with representing the data as well as the chart's aesthetic.
Most non-currency things can be sold for currency. What makes BAT more similar to a currency than those things?
Well if crypto is managed outside the database I don’t think it’s a huge problem.
Voters don't vote on particular decisions, or even on decision makers for particular issues, they vote on one decision maker for all issues.

How likely is it that an anti-surveillance candidate also happens to satisfy more than 50% of voters on aspects other than surveillance?

Since surveillance is low on the list of priorities of most people, it's a rational choice for them to ignore the candidates' stance on surveillance while choosing their preferred candidate.

As such, the stance of republican leaders on low-interest, non identity-defining aspects like surveillance is mostly unaffected by democracy.
That's interesting. It seems that gambling is getting more popular today. I also started gambling on https://syndicate.casino recently. It turned out to be quite entertaining, besides they offer bonuses for new players.