skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to care an awful lot about an issue that doesn't seem to affect you. Why?

Because it does effect me. Electron is promoting a monoculture of apps that don't behave well (resource usage, accessibility, abysmal native integration) and they're not portable to boot. What that means in real terms is that more and more that quality native apps become less common and hacky Electron apps become more common. Unless you're using an unsupported configuration, then Electron just means that people are being encouraged to standardize on the lowest common denominator and ignore you.

VS Code? Definitely not my first choice, but its rust support is still better than IntelliJ (or nearly anything else for that matter). But that's network effects for you.
Sentiment analysis is snake oil.

But being snake oil doesn't stop people from trying to sell it. If these sort of systems get widely adopted, or people attempt to adopt them, the days when fighting against ReCaptcha challenges will look quaint. You'll have guess why the black box says what you wrote is naughty.

The fact they're still plugging away at this is just an indication of how deathly afraid they are of actual criticism. They can't handle the ability of the average person not being a compliant consumer only able to express themselves in cat pictures and sponsored posts. With the rise of authoritarian regimes, this sort of technology will try to be applied to mass severance programs and detect "hostile elements" without any due process.
I purchased [2], having enjoyed Nick Higham's other book (a treatise on matrix computations), and knowing how well-received [1] was.

But, [2] turned out to be kind of a dud. It was not really fun to browse, and I wasn't sure who it was directed to. The articles that I sampled read like they were intended for academic applied math folks, rather than introductions for interested outsiders. It's a huge book, so YMMV, and has been very well-reviewed by high-profile and well-qualified academics (like Steven Strogatz) but I spent a couple evenings with the book and could not recommend.

In any event, it's not like Feynmann's lectures! It's an encyclopedia.

TLDR: "it was good for someone, but it was not the book I wanted".

(PS: recommending the CRC tables is an odd thing, this is also nothing like Feymann's lectures)
Probably nearly everything portrayed in American movies and TV shows. Um, no, there is not choreographed singing and dancing in the cafeteria of American high schools.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319688

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007508

also 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053949

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520964

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432214

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178686
I love discussing the Monty Hall problem with people who haven't been exposed to it before. I always make it clear that the host knows what's behind each door and will open a door with a goat. People still, most of the time, get the answer wrong.
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The article said the responsibilities had been transferred to a DoD entity and tried to imply that having the DoD involved in White House operations is somehow bad.

Yea that's a re-org. That's how you fire someone in government because it's so convoluted to outright terminate people.

[Note] since I posted this, the original article link was updated from an Ars Technica link to an Axios article with even _less_ analysis. This is kind of absurd.
Bitcoin price crash: What the experts are saying
you mean the days when most software had to be manually installed on your Windows? :-)

Yeah, web is not only about documents these days (how it was originally intended) but it is also about running and hosting real-time applications.

But I hear you, people indeed use wrong technology to solve their problems. I agree that there is no need to use any React and Angular to display a document.
No I mean the good kind of crazy hah
My reservation with complete legalization. Is that I think there is a strong conflict of interest, in any corporation being allow to sell, advertise, and market any highly addictive substance.

You could argue that there will be rules and restrictions, but lets not forget that the current opiod crisis, was caused directly by those corporations corrupting the supervisory body (Doctors) in place to stop it happening.

The supervision needs fixing (which I trust it can as it seems to be a uniquely US problem), but if you lifted it all together, I believe the floodgates would be open for corporate exploitation.
Oh, interesting! As an American, I had to google that one.
You're correct about C99. I cut my teeth on K&R; C99 has inline declarations.
I do feel that the application use-case has already been reached, yet I do not think this cycle speed is going to change. I do hope that at some point this will stop as this cycle is wasting way too many human brain resources which could be otherwise used on more interesting problems.
I don't expect level 4+ autonomous vehicles any time soon, but the "trolley problem" is an irrelevant distraction. It's not something that comes up in real world collisions. There's never an even choice between hitting one of two targets. Other factors are always present and dictate the safest course of action.
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Isn't this exactly what hooks allows you to do?
Some language environments like Lisp or Smalltalk let you fix the code in the debugger, plus you have inspection tools available.
I'm still lost with medium publishing.

* Did not check box for my most widely read article that had 15k views, so did not get any money. Clicked link for two other articles (10k and 5k reads), yet $$ for each is super different (I know it depends on /who/ reads, but hard to get a sense of what to expect)

* Still don't exactly know what it means when someone asks me to publish to their publication. Is it exclusive? I know it is distributed.

* Still can't figure out an easy way to separate out accounts (I write creative non-fiction and philosophy and poetry and I also write programming tutorials - not much overlap between the audiences) other than publishing into different publications.

In general I like the Medium model, I like being there as a reader and a writer, but it is hard to figure out the best way to use it.
The Economist has long had a three-pronged revenue base, roughly 1/3 each: subscriptions, advertising, and bespoke consulting reports.

These not only provide a diversified revenue stream, but help (with apparently decreasing success) keep the publication from sliding into the oblivion of clickbait irrelevance, most especially the bespoke service, EIU, the Economist Inteligence Unit:

http://www.eiu.com/home.aspx

In general, business-oriented or public-interest publications (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal (somewhat), Craines, Mother Jones, ProPublica) do better than straight "family publication" productions. The subscribers will put up with less bogosity.

I'd done an analysis of mentions of any of the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, vs. an arbitrarily selected string "Kim Kardashian", back in 2015. The ranking of mainstream and alternative publications by "FP:KK ratio" was illuminating. (Also various online / social media sites.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
> Also, you can mix languages

Interesting. Judging by that it seems to be implemented with a JVM language and a screenshot shows "Scala" as a supported language, I'm guessing at least all the JVM languages are supported (personally hope for Clojure) but can't seem to find a list of supported languages anywhere in the post or on the website.

What languages are supported by Polynote?
Alternatively, the way I think of it is as follows: An initial random guess has a 1 out of 3 chance of being correct. Being shown a goat doesn't change this probability. Staying with the first choice doesn't change this probability. Only making another choice, and choosing from the smaller pool of two doors increases the odds.

Or perhaps better stated in the Wikipedia article:

> "By opening his door, Monty is saying to the contestant 'There are two doors you did not choose, and the probability that the prize is behind one of them is 2/3. I'll help you by using my knowledge of where the prize is to open one of those two doors to show you that it does not hide the prize. You can now take advantage of this additional information. Your choice of door A has a chance of 1 in 3 of being the winner. I have not changed that. But by eliminating door C, I have shown you that the probability that door B hides the prize is 2 in 3.'"
Agree, it’s also harmful to async that it’s being equated with remote.
It should be 100% free for all features...the subscription model is more like Patreon meets Medium, where money is pooled and shared w/ contributors who provide the most value.

Except unlike Medium there is no paywall. No limits on views/etc...
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What are "conspiracy theories"?
Yep, I wish this clickbait wasn't posted on HN...
> Bank-Level Security (using AES Encryption)

I know what they're trying to do, but "bank level" doesn't inspire confidence. Financial institutions have regularly clunky rules like max password sizes, and I've gotten a plain text password emailed to me by a bank before. I also feel like they're over represented in the Troy Hunt security shaming (https://twitter.com/troyhunt).
Yeah I couldn't give you stats on how many people do that commute via car, but bus vs BART is a no brainer. A 10-car BART train can hold about 1,000 people. Bus service can't scale like that (especially not on shared right of ways) which would definitely put you in the minority.

South city may as well be the middle of nowhere transit-wise but the difference between taking BART to Market St vs SSF isn't all that big.
The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny by Ivar Ekeland, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407320.The_Best_of_All_P... It is definitely not like Feynman's Lectures still one of the best books I've ever read.
well then you're a fucking loser
I don't even see how it's an industry problem - AT&T didn't do thorough verification before swapping the SIM, there's nothing broader about it.
Thanks, Dan. You’re a hero!
I rarely get caught up on pay walls.

Firefox with Ublock origin + Decentraleyes + NoScrypt + Cookie AutoDelete
> you mean the days when most software had to be manually installed on your Windows? :-)

Oof I do not miss that! You are 100% correct that tool selection is a major decision in how well a product, app, or website responds. Perhaps we need more of that then?
Broadcast commercial OTA seems to be headed to the grave along with its few remaining viewers.

Fox is doing relatively well within its niche.

Public broadcasting: the PBS News Hour, and NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition flagships, are among the very highest broadcast programmes bar none.

https://tvaholics.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekly-news-ratings-m...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pbs-newshour-ratings_n_58bf12...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio...
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In Memorium: Francis Tresham (Creator of Civilization Board Game)
There's a load more detail on it here: https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/21/googles-motion-sense-hand...
Up to around 1995 I had about 0 defects. Later the quality decreased until around 10-20% defects.
> That's all true, but assumes a quick move.

Or a required move.
Definitely - requiring a an extra header to access instance metadata on 169.254.169.254 does makes it harder for this kind of thing to happen, and is indeed what GCP does, but would obviously be a breaking change. Probably not merited by one customer with a misconfigured firewall.

Calling AWS "defective cloud computing services" seems technologically inept, to be generous...
I'd just like to say this to all the super-smart skeptics on hackernews who think they are experts on just about everything including the UFO/ET topic, you're wrong, and that's okay, it's really okay. Your world is about to get very exciting soon as the smart money has already positioned its self to grab the trillion-dollar opportunities in this emerging space (no pun intended). Peter Thiel, although a certified jerk, is also one of the first VC's to educate himself on exotic ET originated metamaterials, others will follow shortly...

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-vc-firm-founders...
The police have military weapons and the best equipment money can buy - especially SWAT. What good are “citizens” going to do against them?

That’s just like the militia running around in the woods training just in case they have to fight against the government. The same government that spends billions on weapons every year. If the government wants to impose martial law - like the nutcases including Chuck Norris thought they wanted to do a few years ago - the “militia” wasn’t going to be able to stop them.
Yes that’s a very good one. So many editions - with Einstein raving about its skill in bringing Math to the masses in a preface. Now it’s almost unknown.
I couldn't agree more, and I'm also still learning this lesson. There are so many subjects for which I love the idea of being interested in, sometimes for years. The knowledge about these subjects is freely available, often in abundance, yet I rarely go seek it.

However, I'm still not sure what plays the bigger role in my lack of action: laziness + the abundance of junk content, or simply the lack of any real interest. Perhaps a combination of both.
For those who are curious it's basically mayonnaise, but not quite. There is no direct equivalent in US cuisine to my knowledge.
Yes this is the exact explanation I give. Mentally pick 2 doors, but say out loud the other 1, when offered the switch you take it as it means you are back on your secretly pre-selected 2. Hence 2/3 chance by always switching.
For those (with gmail accounts) looking for other alternatives, Google provides something like a "Dead-man's Switch": https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2013/04/plan-your-digita...
I've always wanted to use this (and enabled it on all my sites, e.g. www.stavros.io), but it has never worked for me, I can always see the alt-svc header in the response (using TBB 9.0).
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>ultimately be worth $1,200 to the company.

Ok, then charge $1,200.

The price doesn't matter. In fact, $99 is very likely too little. I shouldn't have thrown out a token number.

I mean, it would cost ~$0.11 to store 1KB of data for 100,000 years [1]. I don't plan on living that long.

$99 would be more than enough to store 1KB, 10KB, 1MB for 100 years. Business-wise, death is big business, charge $1,000, $1,500, whatever as long as you can convince people it is worth it.

Emotionally it feels much better to pay a lump sum and now it is taken care of rather than having to swallow and maintain a monthly payment regardless of its size.

I don't want to look or think about my will every month. I want it to be done and filed.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
This would only work on people who were made aware of the problem but spent no time understanding it and just memorized 'switch.'

Even if you didn't cheat them, this game has zero expectation value... I guess if you are working with people who wouldn't know this you are fine.
I don't see any essential difference between the two.

You can build 1 million forms within a team of 5, or you can run a distributed system of 10 machines that runs as fast as 1.

The only difference is between bad engineering and good engineering. Good engineering gets rid of repetitive work, bad engineering breeds them.

If your team needs a lot of junior engineers to do trivial stuff, that's probably bad architectural design.
> Apply separation of concerns properly

The disconnect here is the definition of "concerns."

One analogy is, imagine cutting a square into stripes. You're implying that there's only one way to do so, say, cutting horizontally. But you can easily cut vertically and still end up with well separated stripes.

The stripes, whether horizontal or vertical, are separated cleanly.

While you may see splitting by data fetching, view, etc. as the only way to separate by concerns, there are certainly others. The component model that has been adopted by many React users is one such way.
Then American hegemony would collapse.
No offence but honestly your comment is perhaps the thing that isn't really that interesting...
That's a good one, thanks!
> I don't understand this question.

The GP is saying that someone using the Tor browser could simply just visit bbc.com already. However, they'd have to exit the network, whereas with an .onion address they don't.
Can you even force something like that on yourself? From what I saw in the documentary about Magnus, he just loved it. He seemed uncontrollably driven toward it.

What you're saying sounds like you'd have to force yourself to endure the training, but you'd have to force Magnus to stop playing chess.
I'm a fan of tennis, I'm not a very good player though, and never will be - I don't want to play 12 hours a day. I've watched Federer many times and a couple of take aways I've seen from watching him - practice every day, if you're losing, just keep going, the other guy will eventually give up or make a mistake, or you'll lose today, the other guy will eventually give up.

I really think this is the only way to be the best at something - do it every day, some days you'll fail, but if you keep going, eventually you'll have so much expertise you'll wake up one day and be the best, or close enough.

The trouble is no one really wants to do this, all Federer does is tennis, he must love it, every day he gets up and plays tennis. Most people will stop at good enough though.

If Federer played basketball, would he be the best? probably not, so thats the other thing - pick something your body and brain is built for, and do it every day.

If there were any short cuts then the best would use them any way and add them to their arsenal, so any short cuts will be short lived.

I think PG said something the same about start ups - they don't fail the founders just stop.

I think this ties in with why so many start ups are made by rich kids, they can afford not to stop, everyone else has to stop at some point and get a job.
> imagine if a SV startup started a distribution model in 2019 depending on young teens riding their bikes around neighborhoods

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/charg...
You have real world knowledge of what makes entertaining TV, and perhaps how this particular show actually operated. And you are correct. In the real world, Monty Hall always revealed the worst of the two prizes that the contestant did not select. In the real world, you can use common sense and assume that Monty Hall will use that algorithm.

But in a mathematical probability problem, you can't do that. For example, if there's a slightly smaller object and a slightly larger object concealed in two different sized boxes, common sense says that a person would put the larger object in the larger box. But if it's a abstract mathematical probability problem, and you have no information on the algorithm used, then you have to assume the concealer flipped a coin when they decided which box to use.

If I'm the one setting up the big-small game, and I use the random algorithm, the smaller object is going to be in the bigger box about half the time.
If my mom is the one setting up the game, the smaller object is going to be in the smaller box every time.

In abstract mathematical probability problems, if you don't know what algorithm was used, you aren't allowed to bring human behavior in, unless it's stated in the problem.
It's another indication of the danger of the incompetency of the current administration as outlined in Michael Lewis' excellent book "The Fifth Risk". The Fifth Risk being "Project management", or lack thereof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Risk
> But someone up the chain of command thought we could get away with it

That person is Paul Machle (CFO):

"I don’t understand. This should not be an opt in or an opt out. It is a condition of using our product. There is an acceptance of terms and the use of this data should be included in that." [1]

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...
Well, if you watched the news about how many people have felt threatened by a “menacing looking minority” you would understand why “people protecting themselves” is often worrisome.
Modern problems require modern solutions. The moment I see telemetry URLs in my browser - I will add it to uBlock Origin filters and submit a pull request into EasyList PrivacyList. Boom, like that.
On the project we used red gate for we were dealing with a Microsoft shop, so SQL Server. And we used the full suite, including SQL source control which gave hooks for some of our custom scripts to run too, but most of it was doable with the tooling. The software wouldn't catch all policy violations, but what it make it quick for us to fix them when they were found. But in general we were able to automate 98% of the tasks and only deal with true outliers.

I am not sure with Oracle what is available specifically and it has been a number of years since I worked with redgates tooling, but it was quality stuff. And I remember them being super helpful when we were getting started and answering a ton of questions, so maybe reach out to them with your specifics and see what they have to say. Some things they helped us do were not obvious in their documentation or UX, so it is worth a chat with them.
Neither Strzok nor Page was "the #2 at the FBI". Strzok was the second in command of the counter-intelligence division, but that's just one division of the FBI.

Since when are unfriendly op-eds in the NYT "unprecedented"?

Look, I'm sure the Trump administration has plenty of legitimate reasons to be paranoid about people trying to undermine them, but it's pretty hard for me to accept that driving out all your competent opsec people is going to reduce the amount of leaks and compromises.
The Monty Hall paradox hinges on the fact that the host knows in advance where the car is. If your scouts don't know where the herds are, but just picked an area at random to recon, then it is a different problem, and switching makes no difference.
> I do feel that the application use-case has already been reached

It clearly hasn't though, as demonstrated by this very OP ;)

Everything people are complaining about here, in addition to the problem being addressed by Concurrency Mode, are things that writers of native apps don't have to fight with:

- Lack of concurrency

- Complex, layered build systems

- Several layers of syntax transformation as an industry baseline

- Lack of a consistent story for modules

- Overall jank-proneness

- Platform bloat like that in Electron

But then why re-solve all these problems if you can just build a native app? Because native platforms over the decades have repeatedly tried and failed to a) be truly cross-platform and b) have truly flexible, well-documented layout systems. The web gives us those. We just have to go back in and add the things it lacks.

When all of these problems have been solved and a new framework is still coming out every week, then we can talk about frivolous effort being expended. Until then these are real, worthwhile problems being worked on.
> StackOverflow needs an archival process

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
"Executive Office of the President"

"President"

Not the same thing.
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
is ordering silence and secretly seizing control of the publication technology (ie website) then maintaining a false warrant canary a way around compelled speech ?
if so then regular live press-conference/video appearances would be the only practical implementation method.
if they say nothing and exit then the canary is dead.