skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I enjoy using D, I find it hard to use at times. Especially if someone isn't a C++ veteran, as soon as heavy template usage comes into play I get confused, and error messages are useless because it's several screens of errors with multiple isX() && !isY() && isZ() conditions for types.

Most of the standard library function calls return some opaque Result type which isn't obvious how to progress from. Only after some googling you'll learn that if you import std.array you can use .array() on the Result and get something usable. Oh, and I don't even know if it's possible to pass such Result to a function because you have to use auto to declare it.
There are also a number of quality universities shutting down their MBA programs as well. It's not just because of the unemployment rate.
The CEO of one of the three largest companies in Switzerland is of Indian origin (born in the US to Indian parents, I think).
Microsoft Seattle is around 100k
First the headphone jack, then the fingerprint sensor. Smartphones are getting dumber by the year.
This would be a lot easier to digest with some line breaks separating paragraphs and capitalizing the first letter of each sentence.

The paragraphs would help in keeping track of which line I'm on, because it would give more shape to the text. The capitalizing would help in scanning for the beginning of sentences in order to search for the main ideas presented here more quickly, and then go back to fill in the details.

Regarding why I would scan, it's because there seems to be a fair amount of filler. For example the beginning:

> gonna take a wild guess at this coz yeah it's a good question, but basically my guess is

contributes nothing to the idea you're trying to present. You could literally just cut that out and you wouldn't lose content.

I'm just trying to advise. You can disregard me if you want.
You must be on Social Media at medically dangerous levels for same time to accomodate for 200 books, or those are all booklets
I'm not sure what you mean by "having access" to it. What does it mean to "have access" to wealth? Do you mean offering them financing with favorable rates?
The Life and Times of a Backblaze Hard Drive
> The driving factor is pretty obvious....

As a Canadian I am stumped, surely people don't like cold weather :)
It gives a 32-bit hash prefix (derived from Sha256) for a subset of URLs that matched a local database of suspicious prefixes. Those prefixes are used to request the provider send a list of malicious sha256 hashes with that prefix.
Sounds like an indictment of competition vs cooperative planning.
"all these things needed to be invented from scratch by Jeff Bezos in the late '90s so that Amazon could be a success."

That's like saying Elon Musk invented the electric car and rocket. More like he hired people to do it, probably from the companies Amazon is competing with.
What are the odds that all phones are a black rectangle?

Seriously, though, some problems just have one solution.
Which part do you doubt: the assistant or the wifi? I never use the assistant stuff but the wifi is great.

Gsuite accounts never work right with every product google launches, often get features late or never. Many google products have _never_ become available for gsuite accounts.
Yeah, comparing it to requests which is:

A.) Not even stdlib

and

B.) Doesn't support async/await

Is an odd choice.
That's fair, but it undeniably Just Works for events that are very similar to the ones Meetup typically hosts.
To be extremely literal about it. Everyone's slowly dying every day, but if you go and speed that up and kill somebody, it becomes really illegal.
Outline: https://outline.com/eRjrp9
Anders went to Microsoft to design J++. .NET only came up a couple of years later and as follow up on Sun's lawsuit.

Ext-VOS design document clearly refers to Java and J++.

Secondly, I have been developing for Windows since Windows 3.0 and wonder which compiler support features do you mean. Even the old express editions had the required Windows SDK tooling for COM.
...with the cleanest, most on-time, and pleasant public transit you can imagine
An L5 at Google Zurich will earn almost the same as one in Mountain View, pay less taxes and have more vacation.

Sure there are more high paying jobs in the Bay Area, but there are also lots of start-ups that pay pretty average salaries plus monopoly money that make the total compensation look good on paper. Assuming everyone will eventually be in the top 10% is silly.
This seems like just any old other "10 reasons for X" or whatever - blog fluff to help raise a brand. Rather than spend a lot of HN intellectual energy on it, we probably should have just passed it by...

That's not to say there aren't some really attractive reasons to be in Switzerland, but trying to compare it to SV is rather pointless (or too broad or too open to disagreement about which metrics matter, etc.).
FWIW the women of Switzerland are IMO a bit easier on the eye than those of Silicon Valley:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swiss+women&iax=images&ia=images

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=silicon+valley+women&ia=images&iax...

(OK, OK it's a tough contest: So flip a coin if this is your deciding factor!)
BetterC was created at first to make it easier to port D compiler from C to D. Then people realized that it might be interesting to have D without GC and without runtime, because it makes it trivial to port to other platforms such as embedded, mobile or WASM.

The problem is, betterC is kind of in that awkward spot. It's not comparable to the "real" D, and if you can live with betterC, you might as well just use C and enjoy the wide C ecosystem.
That's because people like Michael Dell have truly absurd sums of money. 30 billion dollars.

His failson can piss away money all day every day and never even make a dent.
I think it's insane that Meetup thinks they can get attendees to pay $2 per event when a lot of those same people only show up at events to grab a free slice of pizza.

I suppose it's still economical if you plan on eating more than two slices but I doubt it'll work out for them.
No, it's Apple. The Chinese government is crying, and Apple, being the spineless company that it is, buckled under the slightest bit of pressure. Apple removed the app from their app store. Apple is in complete control of what apps are in there.
Mostly donations from graduates who have done well. I suppose if you want to look at the data you could figure out how much of that is some kind of quid-pro-quo to get those people's otherwise not terribly worthy kids in vs how many are simply moved to contribute.
I think of "elite" (M7/T15/whatever) programs as an expensive recruiting mechanism.

To get in, you need great work experience, great recommenders, excellent test scores, and a great story. Basically things that signal you're generally pretty smart and can learn quickly.
Sears is basically a REIT owned by Eddie Lampert [1]

[1] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1c33fqdnhf21s...
This is just flat-out wrong. Police can absolutely compel you to use your fingerprint on the device if they have a warrant which is exactly what happened in the Face ID context in that article. Any type of biometric identification can be compelled via warrant. Passcodes, on the other hand, cannot because that would violate the search and seizure clause of the Constitution.

And, in either case, that doesn't really matter as Face ID/Touch ID can both be disabled by tapping the power button on every iPhone. In terms of security for that specific case, they're both equally secure. Face ID, however, has a much lower rate of false positives than Touch ID (with the notable exception being twins).
The only reason I use Chrome for development is the custom formatters, any idea if there’s a plan to implement this in Firefox?
That page will not show you the Pixel 4 if it's not available in your country (I'm in Mexico, for example), but if you're still curious here's the blogpost: https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-4/
Looks like the lovechild of Galaxy S9 and iPhone 11. It's good to see project Soli graduating out of Google ATAP!
As an American who lived in Switzerland for a couple of years, I agree with all these points. If I could have, I would have stayed there.

Edit add: On the other hand, at least when I was there, the wages weren't comparable to US wages for similar work and management attitudes about software developers tended to border on considering them glorified typists.
> Induced demand is only relevant in developing markets where there is latent demand

...Yeah. And since the topic of this entire post is climate change, the developing nations and induced demand are all that matters. No one gives a fuck about per capita energy consumption in the US, the question is about the total energy demand of the planet and how it's supplied.

What the developed world does from here on out is irrelevant in terms of first order effects on climate change. It's already done the bulk of the damage it was going to do. Switch all of the developed world to fairy-powered zero emission fusion overnight, or anything else you want, it won't make a difference.

The deciding factor for climate change is how China and India will power themselves, and if the answer isn't nuclear, then we're all screwed. Just like TFA states.
> Lamenting the fact that Michael Dell's son "just hasn't become poor like me yet"

My thoughts exactly. This isn't some generations-long dynasty, with a genius at the top and buffoons all the way down. This kid is literally one generation removed from the guy who made all the money. Even with an Elizabeth Warren-style wealth tax, there is no way that someone who grew up the son of a billionaire would not himself be very, very wealthy (unless his parents cut him off entirely).
I am worried the push towards integration with C++ will just turn D into a cheap C++ clone. We already got copy constructors, just to interact with C++ code. More C++ features to come.
The idea of things being a meritocracy has always been a lie, its just perhaps more obvious now than in the past.

Tell me when exactly was this golden age of black people (for instance) in the USA not facing systematic discrimination, because I don't think that one ever arrived.

Situations like that cant exist, and still have people claiming with a straight face that the system is a meritocracy.
I'm not seeing the 1-year gap? I'm pretty sure where it says "January 2018" is a typo, was actually 2019.
It really isn't that bad. I regularly see much, much worse, and much more unidiomatic python, from people who have gone on to work at FAANG.
>blindly copy Apple

What makes you think that's what's going on here? You don't think Google did their own market and user research before making this thing?
Do you think the era of scrappy startups is over?
I listened today to a podcast about the future of startups. The overall idea was that startups that hurry to launch without providing a quality product and differentiators, will most likely fail.

I'm also in a pretty competitive niche, so I would have to agree with what I heard on the podcast. Providing a high quality product and focusing on the customers should be our first priorities as founders.

What do you guys think? What's your approach on this?
All EM waves can interact with molecules in our bodies, that’s true.

But all of the interaction is thermal, not ionizing. And the energy levels are so tiny that the thermal impact is much less than the thermal impact of opening or closing a window on a warm day.

Microwave ovens have thermal interactions with the food inside them, because the microwave runs at tens of thousands of times higher power than is used for radio frequency signaling.

2.4 GHz WiFi isn’t microwaving our bodies, and neither will 5G.
Medical Marijuana states often have similar laws. A registry of people with medical access exists, but it becomes illegal to exfiltrate the data for any reason (the registry is often on one computer in a state house office somewhere).
I still have a Kodak digital camera from > 20 years ago. It's great because:

It uses AA batteries

The resolution is low enough you don't need to post-process stuff to put in on a web page.

You just plug in USB to transfer files. No nonsense like trying to get photos off an iPhone.
run like it was meant to lose money

Sadly, that's why they're entering bankruptcy. The current CEO has little to no interest in keeping Sears alive, but they make a decent piggy bank.
on the similar MS stack of SQL Server it breaks down hard when you start trying to max its throughput. You have to start tearing down all the features, turning off indexes, foreign keys, etc. Otherwise what could take hours will take days or even weeks.
> Sure but if you don't know how zfs works do you really want to figure it out in the middle of trouble shooting installation problems

Isn't it similar to using mdraid, lvm and dm-crypt without experience?

> or post install root volume problems?

In my other comments I suggested to not use ZFS for rootfs unless someone is already experienced.
Oracle's new licensing requirement for Java is a bit threat to that platform. My company for technical reasons can't switch to OpenJVM so we're going to pay Oracle their new licensing money but we're not doing any greenfield Java development and are going to work towards moving our Java applications to another platform. That's an n=1 example but wouldn't be surprised if others end up migrating away, causing longterm harm to Java.
What makes the economy obviously not a fixed sized pie? Every dollar that Michael Dell's son has came out of somebody else's pocket.
>This is the problem: the State is turning to the enemy of the poor in the US, and if you crunched the numbers, they're probably not even earning that much off these people. It's fucked up.

I honestly can't see how it can even be about money when you have government agencies stripping drivers licenses and vocational certificates from people for defaulting on student loan payments. At that point, the government's taking away their ability to work and earn an income in response to them not paying a debt. How is somebody, who likely couldn't pay it before, supposed to pay anything back when you take away their ability to actually earn a wage?
OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
Good news. These programs are cash cows and the vast majority who apply for MBA do it for the wrong reasons (networking and a big name school on their resume). There are lots of MBAs from elite schools in my company and the gap is huge. Some are great but some are completely useless. Anyone can have an MBA from an elite school. You just need the money and be willing to spend it on a degree.
(sorry MBA graduates, I know you gonna downvote this comment :))
Cell site location information was deemed a search based on the fact that it is "detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled." The speed with which law enforcement can track you with CSLI, compared to canvassing witnesses, is the key factor.
MS licensing is somewhat expensive, but easy to understand and relatively benign. Oracle licensing chokes you like the Drakh keepers from Babylon 5.
Flavored rice, usually with wasabi and sea weed. The fish is also fresh, not processed.
How many positions for Oakland Dept Fire Captain are there? I’m in the market.
Anybody who thinks these schemes are about anything other than removing legitimate voters from the roles is deluding themselves.
> we can work towards restoring social mobility and equality of opportunity for all.

Restore to when? Where's the point in history where we had greater social mobility and equality of opportunity?
What are the ways to get a visa? You've said you married a Swiss woman, and that work visas are only available to non-EU people when companies couldn't find a Swiss (or EU) person to do the job. I suppose there's also some kind of "millionaire visa". Is that it? How hard are each of these categories of visa to get?
iPhone XR production has begun in India with iPhone 11 next up
"And voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people — who had been marked to be purged because of inactivity in future election cycles, but were actually active voters in previous Ohio elections. These voters were in Franklin County, a Democratic stronghold in the state."

Aaaand there it is.
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So because of the butter is no longer boring?
Or if they decide that they don't recognize you anymore that you're forever locked out of your account?
At least in VS Code it's formatted nicely (at least most of the time, there are some ugly edge cases). Might depend on your editor integration though.
Let's be realistic, though... the type of thing that would be a game-changer and make a big buzz at an event like this just doesn't exist right now. Phones have gotten so advanced that the "next big thing" needs to be paradigm-shifting and completely redefining in order to get a sizable reaction.

Everything else right now is just iterative.
I can't speak for GitLab specifically, nor for the whole of Europe. I'm from the UK and living in Toronto (which seems vaguely comparable to SV in terms of income/cost of living). I generally keep a pretty close eye on the UK market and I can tell you that salaries for a senior developer job in the UK will compare, when accounting for the cost of living, to about a 75% pay cut against what I earn now. That's not to say there aren't outliers in the UK where you could earn a comparable standard of living. I'm taking the median/high income range for a senior developer in both places.
Three wrongs do not make a right.
> The oracle database functioned as a database, but also as a high throughput queue, as well as a message passing platform. At high loads, different applications were hitting the same rows so frequently that the transaction errors alone could bring down an entire fulfillment center.

Isn't that how everyone uses Oracle? I've seen exactly the same complains from developers at banks. Although building software around big featureful RDBMSs in general encourages poor architectures and messy software.
As a former top-level high school/college track and field competitor, I can tell you that track and field has a much more "urban" flavor[0] than, say, sailing. I always took sports such as lacrosse to be "sports white people play", but I guess wealth could be an indicator, too. Dunno, I was never rich enough to find out.

[0] Yes, that high-pitched sound you hear is a dog whistle.
The latest revision is not bad. But it’s not great either. Kinda mushy.
How C++ ‘using’ or alias-declaration is better than typedef
> Everyone else will not likely get the deal that they received.

True, but similarly few people would be able to swing the kind of discount they got at Oracle. I'd be really interested in seeing what those discounts worked out to overall.
Somebody can build a consulting business from this HN comment.
The future looks great, the language is improving and makes it easier and easier to write safe, and fast code with improved readability.
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As far as I understand FaceID makes a "map" of your face using a series of sensors (including IR) that is then compared against with when unlocking the phone or using a FaceID compatible login in an app. The beard/facial hair is part of that map, and the way Apple designed FaceID is to learn details that slightly change over time like a beard growing. It does (from experience) fail if the change is drastic, such as shaving a long beard or being in direct sunlight when you haven't been in a long time, but you can then enter the PIN/password and it will learn the "new map data" of your face and will work during subsequent tries. I would guess it does somehow combine old and new data when you enter a PIN and update the map, as it doesn't get tripped up if you, for example, unlock your phone in direct sunlight and then unlock in lower light shortly after, but I can't be certain.
I feel like 'evil' is a pretty strong adjective to use here when talking about the wording in a press release.
AmpliFi does not have dedicated backhaul.
Read this:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live...

Once again, Apple is in complete control of their App Store. They are the ones who decided to remove the app because of financials. This is the price of doing business in China.
I can accept the pretty smart part (I've never seen the GMAT but I'll accept it for the sake of argument) but what part of getting an MBA filters for "possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or manage people and probably well-connected"?
In theory by accepting and graduating students on merit, who then become successful and donate back to their institutions. Not by using their tax exempt status to solicit beneficial tax deductions from the rich in exchange for accepting their children who otherwise wouldn't be accepted.

It should be illegal for any school that is either: a) tax exempt; or b) a state institution to admit a student in exchange for money.
ATG Dynamo. Brings back some memories. It was actually a really smart platform that was killed by the vastly inferior J2EE. Spring is basically the same premise as Dynamo and is still going strong.
Tekton cannot be the new craftsman until I can get a replacement within one hour anywhere in the US on a Saturday.

If you're in a market where Amazon does 1-day delivery it's close. Otherwise there's Harbor Freight. For the most part though, the quality was good enough that if you were breaking your Craftsman hand tools you were doing something wrong.
I know that during the design of the original Pixel laptop, things like physically powering down and disabling the camera, rather than doing it in firmware was important to the team at Google. I wonder if they have maintained that vigilance.
90%+ of all tech meetups in Austin are this. Such sad garbage. I'm in NYC now, and haven't been going to meetups because I feel burned out on them from having so many bad experiences.

Hopefully the new charge that meetup is foisting on attendees will kill the platform and we'll see some of these alternatives take off.

Remember, you can't make friends unless you pay your corporate masters!
Isn't Eventbrite also a valid alternative, that has the advantage of bing a mature, feature-rich offering? Free events are free, and their profits come from supporting paid events.
Perhaps they're just using the Pixel 4's Soli as a test-bed for their future headset?
Flash Lite worked perfectly fine on loads of ancient mobile phones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite
I’’ve found that I just need to move my phone several inches farther from my face for it to work properly in bed.
Some people use software as a tool and aren't zealots about versions or constantly chasing updates.
What a weird thing to say considering that the whole "rounded corners" thing became so overblown that it's a meme at this point...

Look at Android phones prior to the iPhone and then post-iPhone. There are definitely more solutions to phone designs than just a black rectangle.
Well, he established them in his will. I was under the impression that the Peace prize was not in his will, but I just looked it up on wikipedia and it was. Looks like I got it confused with the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences", which shares his name and is administered by the same committee, but was established by others.
I'm pretty sure the latter is as you intimate, incorrect[0]. If it was correct, it apparently pertained to Mittag-Leffler, who is a very admirable human (with an amazing mustache) who was unfairly more or less forgotten[1] outside of complex analysis class.

The fact that the "economics Nobel" isn't a real one, of course, is indisputable[2].

[0] http://almaz.com/nobel/why_no_math.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Mittag-Leffler

[2] for example https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/nobel-...