skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m certain its so you spend time wandering around and buy more stuff.
Love pretty much all that article, except "If you want to be trendy, use XML."
This one is PoS though.
That's how it generally works. If you're subject to a court's jurisdiction, and the court orders you not to do something, you can't dodge the order by just doing it in some place where the court doesn't have jurisdiction.
Right, nuclear energy is a perfectly clean and safe technology, unless built by corporations, operated by humans, or overseen by politicians...
Up until a tree falls on us one day. :)
> Her students objectively less able to share information with each other. I have certainly seen kids who have to go as far as taking screenshots of what an app contains and send a screenshot to someone, than actually be able to export text.

True story: while performing support for development tools, I asked a developer for a source file. They opened it in their IDE, took a screenshot, pasted the screenshot into a word document, hit page-down in the IDE, took a screenshot...

We got a several dozen page word document filled with screenshots of the text file.
...yeah there's no way the creatives we're talking about are gonna use that. There must _not_ be any command line or scripting involved for most of the population to be able to use it.

But why reinvent the wheel? I think that the key to Flash's success is in its roots as an excellent, intuitive vector graphics editor called SmartSketch. (Way easier to use than Inkscape, IMO) They added animation to compete with Macromedia Shockwave in 1995, and the rest is the well known history of corporate greed and a victim of its own success.

The Flash IDE is still around, however (https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html), but Adobe's giving it up at the end of 2020 :( I can only hope that they open source it.

A light, friendly version is Flash 5. It's available online (http://www.oldversion.com/windows/macromedia-flash-5-0), weighs in at a whopping 18 MB, and still works on Windows 10!

Anyway, Flash 5 Player .swf files can be exported as standalone .exe "Projectors". For example, the IDE tutorial one (https://www.sharhon.com/files/flash5test.exe) stands at 405 KB and still runs on Windows 10 as well. Surely it would be possible to wrap _real_ Flash projectors in a WebAssembly Windows NT emulator using a drag-and-drop webpage...and let the games begin.
After almost 22 years, Imaging Resource is set to wind down in early 2020
This was very informative and thoroughly convinced me that I am not good enough to do ML dev ops myself if I ever want to deploy a model.

Is there an easier way? Shouldn't there be some company who will take my money to instantly turn my models into a microservice?
I use a Trello board as a personal knowledge base.

There are lists of cards in no particular order that cover also sorts of random things like.

- the research I did while buying a suitcase

- random supplements I take

- Buying an air purifier

- how to hit the Philips hue API directly when their app doesn't work

Basically any random thing I want to remember that doesn't fit neatly into one of my larger Trello boards
> 3. Authors ignore the waste storage problem, which is a debt future generations will be saddled with for hundreds or thousands of years.

Taking on debt is profitable if the interest rate is less than the return on investment. I'd rather take on the nuclear waste storage 'debt' (does no real damage if we do it properly, can be paid back later with much more powerful technological resources) than the climate change 'debt' (does real damage now, resulting in permanent loss of some amount of economic growth).
Can people who know they got a knock-off return the item for a legit copy? Don’t know if the counterfeit volume is high enough to force Amazon to care...
Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent (2015)
Lots of good points made, I'll add mine.

Flash got me started in web design as a kid and put me on a path to earning a good living. Lots of things changed since then but I want to hear your thoughts on one specifically.

It used to be cool to try things and put something together that in the grand scheme of things is kind of bad. I get the feeling that's not the case anymore.

Seems like there's so much pressure to sell the image of you being an expert, there is no room to try wild things and see what happens - which is the basis for learning and development btw. What we get then is everyone copying the "expert" patterns, but hardly anyone doing anything original or truly creative, because it feels risky.

This is probably true for a lot of other creative endeavours that have big $ behind them - the movie industry comes to mind. Sure, there are more movies being made now than ever, but it sure as hell doesn't feel like we're in the most creative era and you know it's got nothing to do with the tools.

Someone please tell me otherwise.
> Their health and hygiene section can be hit or miss, and if you're looking for more natural products similar to what may be sold at Whole Foods...

Whole Foods sells a lot of homeopathic garbage, though.
The DEA busted two Russian arms dealers and Hungary extradited them to Moscow
Doesn't the nutritional label list "glucose/fructose/sucrose content" though? (I don't know, I'm just asking here)

Nutritionally, simple sugars are the same whether they come from fruit or syrups. Taste-wise they are different, but nutritional labeling is primarily concerned with the former rather than the latter.
SEC is blocking their launch. On the face of it, telegram has been complient with the SEC up to now and have filed exemptions for their sale.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1729650/000095017218...

On their own discounts are not illegal.

I think what’s obvious is that the network is not truly decentralized and depends on telegram and investors expect to profit from telegrams work on the network. So they should probably file an s-1 and follow the blockstack route.

What would have been ironic, is if TON was truly decentralized and independent of telegram than the network would have been launched anyways.
You're going to run straight into 'NIMBY' and other political constraints for your eventually designated storage sites. I'm sure someone will find a way to argue that we should send it to the third world as long as we get to control the burial sites on account of proliferation worries. We've already done this with many other kinds of waste.

In the end it isn't about the area directly affected in the near future, it is about the long term effects and those are very hard to model accurately when it comes to massive deposits of nuclear waste.

Just a couple of the risks: massive terrorist target, risk of pooling, risk of large scale groundwater contamination, risk of the whole thing blowing up. These are not trivial and not all of them can be dealt with over the time-scales that the waste would still be significantly radio active.

Political structures are not stable across the time-scales that you are looking at here, you might end up seriously regretting any particular site a few hundred years into the future.
I agree, it doesn’t take me personally any longer to write typescript. In fact, it saves me tons of time and endless headaches. I _love_ typescript and use it at work in react and have used it in node for side projects. The benefits are incredible as you mentioned!

I guess it depends on what you’re doing. Setting up the tooling can sometimes be a bit of a pain in combination with other tools which are not designed with typescript in mind from the get go, such as react_on_rails.

If you’re doing a quick mvp in a weekend, I’m still not sure typescript is right. But it really depends on what other tools you are using and how well they integrate. If the mvp works, ya, definitely switch to typescript ASAP. That’s a fine line and really depends on the use case.
What is the real “danger zone” for food?
Now that's a lie - go to shibuya around 5am right when the trains open, right at the crossing and look at Shibuya-Gai.

There's your trash.
Supposedly, AFAIK it's vaporware and may never be released.

Even if it is functional PoS (which sounds like a codified plutocracy, but I could be wrong), they still managed to botch securities regulations. Even if they sneak past that somehow, it seems likely they'll also fall afoul of AML/KYC regulations.

Maybe not! Maybe they're finally the ones who will do it all! Legal and ecologically responsible! If so they're off to a very bad start.
It's so interesting that people get hired on account of the organizations and jobs they've held in the past, instead of strictly based on current skill. It sounds like those things should roughly line up, but from my experience they often don't. Makes for a high-friction and vaguely irrational recruiting process.
Aesthetic complaints seem to be largely nostalgia/conservatism based - anything new and functional is called ugly at first because they aren't used to it.

See how the Eiffle Tower and trains were called ugly and now tearing it down would be unthinkable and old steam engines are considered picturesque.
I also moved from Ontario to London in the same year. What was the job you went into?
My wife and I both grew up in the era of Flash on the web. We were both inspired by it, I became a developer because I wanted to make games like the ones I played that were built on Flash, my wife became an animator and designer because of the cool animations she could find and create using it.

The death of Flash meant the death of her childhood and while I still make my living developing for and on the web - my wife has basically been locked out of it because she hasn't been able to find anything "modern" that really takes Flashes place. She can write HTML and simple CSS, and even tweak tiny bits of Javascript or even PHP here and there but nothing at the level of expressivity that she could do with Flash.

Ultimately, the death of Flash was the death of our childhood.
> so far they manage

Yes, by doing not much of anything and only across a very very short span of time compared to how long it will have to work eventually. That's a bit like saying that the landmine you are sitting on hasn't gone off yet. True, it hasn't. And it may never go off. But it is still a landmine and it is still quite dangerous. If you had the choice between not having a landmine to sit on in the first place vs sitting on one to keep it safe which would you take?
> Reading my old code, I was surprised by how clean it looks. How easy it is to digest. There is a certain sense of calm when your brain doesn't have to process all the visual clutter of a C-style syntax. I miss that.

Indeed, Coffeescript is one of the finest languages I wrote in. Consider that 95% of the time we are reading code, what is the win of TS with a linter? The TS codebases I've worked on really hurt my eyes and brain, and that for some stupid website where type safety hardly makes any difference at all. And all those average web developers I've worked with bragging about type safety while the code they are producing is full of wrong constructs, bad naming, dependent on heavy tooling, etc..
I'd assumed it was on purpose to push you toward the app. I don't see it as much on desktop.
It's no big deal. That just means Safari will find malware on any site critical of Chinese government and they can track through url the id of any critical comment you post on HN and link it to your ip and, thank to statistical analysis, your name and your physical address and your results through your whole scolarity.

I'm personaly ok with it.

Beside, it is well known the farts of Chairman Mao smelled like flowers and Xi Jiping doesn't look like Winny The Pooh and the Chinese Communist Parti is leading the world toward the enlightment of a new blessed era welcomed by sane people.
> again

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I totally agree with reducing acronyms, but I think you're doing a really bad job at advertising that idea right now.
> You can also bet it’s significantly more inexpensive than anywhere else you can get it.

That is not true atleast in Melbourne (Australia), comparing the prices with other super market chains, Costco is a bit more expensive.
Totally depends on jurisdiction, but where I am, labour lawyers will usually do a free consult, and can extract their ongoing costs if an employer underpaid you owed severance and termination pay if you were suddenly fired.

Sane employers will pay lawyer costs if they know they’d lose in court.

But that’s Canada.
Yes game feel is hard to quantify sometimes. There have been games that on paper I should adore, but in practice I struggled to enjoy. Bastion and Hyper Light Drifter are two - beautiful presentation, but the controls and gameplay feel just didn't click for me personally.

I play FFXIV and I'm not sure what the quote is referring to but in general I think it has a very good feel. They made a conscious choice to decouple animations from hits, meaning they can go nuts with extensive and flashy animations but your job is to just not be in the ground AOE marker when it vanishes - if you didn't get out in time you are hit, regardless of how long the following animation takes or whether you've walked a few steps since. This has a learning curve and confuses new players so should be explained better, but it makes for snappier gameplay and tighter movement patterns at the higher skill levels once you get it. Top raids are very much a dance of positioning, movement, and maximising uptime, which I enjoy a lot.

To the contrary (referring to ugly old MMOs) I also enjoyed FFXI and that was anything but quick and precise, the battle log itself was delayed and sluggish and abilities only came out every few minutes if you weren't a caster. I'm not sure what it was, but I think it was that feeling of overcoming a challenge in a group (or the challenge of just finding a group!) and the ability to break the rules by beating enemies with 2 skilled people instead of a full group. I revisited it recently and still mostly enjoyed it, so it's not just a case of it being the best we could do back then.
Yup, I've been on both sides: survived a round, and got caught in the next. The first round was brutal. It happened on a Friday morning. Some really good people were let go, including one guy who was taken out to the senior leadership summit the week before. We didn't get a thing done that day. We left early, and did our best to help our friends start lining up things.

In the last round, it was a Tuesday. We had just discussed lunch when in walked HR and the CTO. They announced they were closing the office. Very hollow announcement. It was definitely not the best way to do it.In between the time they told us, and my turn to go into get my comp paperwork, I sent out a tweet just asking for leads. By the end of the day, I had multiple leads. I gave myself 24 hours to be sad about it. By the time Tuesday evening came around, I was going out riding with a cycling shop, and used that to put things behind me. Wednesday I woke up to 6 interviews scheduled, with another 6 on Thursday. I had a job the next week. Thankfully I wasn't too rocked because I had the finances to stay above water.
Don't forget Hy and Clojure (which pop to mind, but I don't intend to be exhaustive).
But the machines hosting those VMs are physical servers too and i'm certain than gigatexal was including them when he wrote that comment.
Product reviews are meant to be of the product, so it shouldn't matter which seller it is if you're all selling the same product.
Some California Costco’s have outdoor food courts. You can also enter through the standard entrance and tell them you are going to the food court or membership counter. At that point no membership is required to get food.

The membership counter/food court and exit are all next to each other at most Costco’s.
Free street parking in Manhattan. Can anything be more ludicrous and unfair?
>Some of SoftBank’s cash could also be used by Mr. Neumann to repay hundreds of millions of dollars of personal bank loans, one of the people said.

Why would they save his hide when the money could be used to cover more of We’s enormous unending losses?
Flash may have had its merits, but it was massively overused to build crappy non-searchable, non-accessible web sites.
I think pure FP is too alien. I mean any programmer expects a language to have for loops and mutation.

That said, I love Haskell and I have endless fun studying and playing with it.
But that is not how it generally works. If Unilever gets told by a UK court they can't sell peanut butter because that court doesn't like peanut butter, it doesn't mean Unilever is suddenly forbidden from selling peanut butter in the USA.

Edit: to clear up the analogy - UK courts don't have a say over what Unilever can and can't sell in USA jurisdiction. Likewise, the SEC can (should?) only regulate trade within USA jurisdiction or by USA entities. If Telegram wants to sell Grams on the UK market, Telegram should be able to tell the SEC to go pound sand, as any USA court orders don't mean jack outside that jurisdiction
I have worked on embedded software with and without touchscreen UIs, and in some cases a touchscreen was used where it did not make sense. Peak touchscreen was around the time of the huge iPhone / iPad media sensation. Since that is over, it's probably getting better.
It's a fair criticism.

There is a workflow you can use with a custom Adobe Animate plugin that lets you use Adobe Animate as your authoring tool.
Yes. Amazon cares enough to push for higher criminal penalties for counterfeiters (see https://www.aboutamazon.com/our-company/our-positions)
Tilton
> if you want to go from eg 50% to 100%, then you need MASSIVE storage to guarantee that you have power when you need it.

You really dont, you just need to burn fuel to fill in for gaps caused by weather, that become increasingly less frequent the more wind and solar is oversupplied. And oversupply is not a big problem - it can be easily curtailed. The optimal amount of renewables supply to build is over the level where they regularly exceed demand - and that is the stage where big batteries become very economical to build.

Carbon neutral fuel-wise, biofuels and electrically generated fuels are very viable future options.

Storage doesn't become more of a problem with more wind and solar - it becomes more of an opportunity to further reduce fuel consumption.

Storage is not a problem now - economic solutions exist already to build it where it is valuable. Its just not needed much yet.
Yes, these are all good performance tips, but you're still testing the system as a whole. Performance leaks across the abstractions.
> Saving yields a psd which indeed requires PS. Whether project lives "inside" app or not it's still bound to it by format, and separate from your source.

PSD files can be read by other applications. Not perfectly, but can. Many other proprietary formats have been reversed or opened to the point that other applications can read or edit them. And then there's a whole set of formats that aren't tied to any application per se. No app owns JPG, PNG, WAV or CSV.

> whether edit-in-place is accomplished through system file manager or back and forth across apps through piping and callbacks is just an implementation and workflow detail.

It's not an implementation detail. The "back and forth across apps through piping and callbacks" is under control of the app developers, and the extent to which it works depends on the contractual deals they sign between each other. A file system is an universal intermediary layer owned by no one, which maximizes interoperability and doesn't require the user to maintain or be aware of relationships between app vendors.

(Or, look at it from a software design point of view. If you were presented with large and potentially dynamic network of components exchanging data through APIs, you might actually come up with a file system equivalent as a way of separating concerns and maximizing composability.)

> the difference between On my device and iCloud isn't clear or something

That would be an important difference to have. Basically, "I'm on a train and Internet is spotty, or my ISP has an outage, will I be able to open and work on this file or not?" is a question for which the answer is kind of critical. The Internet is not electricity, it's not always available.
Neanderthalese: A Constructed Language for the 42nd Millennium BC
> PC overclockers move mountains trying to eek out half-percentage perf gains.

But they usually do not have to compromise on security for that, not even stability unless they are aiming to set some new world record.
Been laid off a few times. Mostly businesses run out of money and the IT department are first to go. You can run a business on old IT with an old website, no need for those pesky webdevs.

Moved from code monkey to lecturer. More stress. More fun.

Side note: people thse days who take quallifications in Comp Sci very rarely have a side project (coding) or take any time out of school to code. Most are extremely surprised to hear that it's my hobby to code, you know, just for fun. They couldn't imagine wanting to do it for fun. It's sad. But it says more about how we educate and test people, rather than their attitude towards programming.
Eh. My main desktop is a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz from 2005. I'm typing this comment on said machine right now.

It's running Kubuntu and I'm running the latest versions of everything on this -- Chrome, RStudio, etc. -- and it runs plenty fast. I have a Windows 10 computer at work with the latest i7 chip which feels slightly faster, but not that much.

Most software these days aren't CPU-bound but IO bound. I got the most performance boost upgrading to an SSD and upping the RAM to 8 GB.

If you run Linux, you can have a very comfortable experience running on hardware from yesteryears. Throwing out a perfectly good machine is a waste.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS

"What's taters, eh?" and "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!" were also pretty memetic.
I'd guess he can block attempts to further take control from him, and they'd need to buy out parts of his shares or otherwise compensate him.
This is why, IMHO, Walmart will eventually win this aspect of the online shopping war.

Supply chain control.

Amazon may continue to dominate AWS and even the 3rd party marketplace, but they've already ruined their brand reputation as a supplier.

Edit: Sold and shipped 3rd party marketplace may survive.
Nuclear power suffers from piss poor economies of scale. If you want your country to invest into nuclear then it should be prepared to build dozens of identical plants at the same time. Of course this will require at least a trillion dollars of funding but the upside is that costs per plant will go down significantly after the learning phase.
not-paywalled article reporting about the submitted one: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/13/softbank-is-seeking-to-take-...
Wow, this is epic! Nearly 2,000 pages, that's amazing.

Weird as it sounds, some of the happiest moments of my life come from deeply studying mathematics like this. When I finally cash out of the entrepreneur game, I'm looking forward to spending several decadent hours each day studying something like this again. Great fun.
>go to a copy place (if you can find one)

Office supply stores will often send faxes.
Yup, agreed 100%.

I recently purchased 2 Lenovo 65w USB-C chargers. One came shrink-wrapped in a legitimate Lenovo box. The other was in a plain cardboard box with a prominent "Made in China" as its only branding. These were sold from the very same product page.

When I told Amazon, I had to go to UPS to return the fake product to them to receive my refund, so not only do I have to purchase it again (obviously not from Amazon), I have to go to a store to send it back to them -- defeating the whole purpose of ordering it online to begin with.

I've received fake books and other things before as well. Each time I reported it to Amazon, and each time nothing happens.

This is completely unacceptable, and I just now cancelled my Prime membership, which I had since pretty much day one.