skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, use object notation for passing around objects, use a markup language for markup. It's almost like reading the names gives a hint as to what it was designed for and probably best at.

My sniff test is that if you're editing it by hand, JSON is a poor format because you'll want the benefit of a schema or at least a user-friendly format. If you're not, the syntax doesn't really matter so we should evaluate it on technical merits (verbosity, computational complexity for serialization/deserialization, memory footprint, etc).

I use:

- config file formats for config files (usually TOML or INI format)
- data formats for data (JSON, protocol buffers, etc)
- markup formats (Markdown, XML/HTML) or code for markup

I really don't get why people try to force all use cases onto the same format. Use whatever is well suited for the task, preferring familiarity over unnecessary technical benefits.
Ehh, I don’t think that justifies it. Furthermore, it isn’t illegal to sell drones without these restrictions; DJI has done this voluntarily.

There have always been tools of mass destruction available in our society. You can buy unlimited quantities of gasoline and propane without the nozzle tips doing a cryptographic handshake ensuring that you’re putting it into a car and only a car. Same goes for explosives. They’re readily available, without scrutiny. It’s sufficient having laws against murder and blowing things up.

We don’t need technological restrictions. Indeed, the law does not require them for drones. This is purely DJI being proactive and fucking their customers.
Word of the day, thanks!
Perhaps it’s the P/E ratio in valuation. If a company isn’t growing the premium portion of its stock price reduces and the stock price drops.

TLDR; stock price includes a portion reflecting increased future growth
As a man in my mid twenties, should I ask my doctor to check if I have glucose hypometabolism?
If you are under the delusion that print and TV media is duly fact checking all political ads, then you are free to believe what you want.
I'm writing Flutter apps with Dart, and not having to use XML (or HTML+CSS) for UI layout has been a breath of fresh air. It's just code. I really like it.
Obviously.

That’s the first thing you teach kids when the start browsing by themselves.

Google provides a security layer over the brand-domain pair.

Google profits handsomely from this service but it is invaluable nonetheless.
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Welcome to the modern web, where you need to download megabytes of largely useless crap to display 1 kilobyte of text.

We don't just need ad blocking, we need crap blocking and text caching.
Please, can we all stop saying “but what’s a political ad?”

Surely HN commentators are smart enough to try to answer their question before posting it. Well, did political ads exist before social media? How does that work? Etc etc.
But to be fair, the current state of gender relations is all men's fault. For all of time, let's say, the patriarch has abused it's power. Not sure how we could we could have avoided this backlash. And in my opinion, the revolution could have been much worse. And if men think their complaining should be heard, then go back over all of the times where women's complaints were completely ignored or even punished and is most scenarios, women never spoke up at all and suffered in silence. Not saying men have shitty lives too but men can't all of sudden be the victims after millennia of victimization.
When I figured out that address bar autocomplete could look for matches in bookmarks, it started to change how I interact with internal tools at work. I still like to have a wiki page with all of the links for a subject area, but I'm as likely to start typing the name into my address bar and seeing what pops up.
The burden of proof would be on you.
I'm in Japan and just get a 404. Just shitty web development, nothing surprising.
It's not pedantry at all. Look at F1's battle with cigarette advertising for a concrete example. Certainly, explicit advertising is easy to stop, but there are many ways of advertising things surreptitiously.

A great example of this is Ferrari's evolution to avoid the F1 cigarette ban. They started with the word Marlboro on the side of their car, then they moved to a barcode that resembled a pack of cigarettes, and now they are partnered with a front company called Mission Winnow (google it, it's really interesting) that is widely believed to be subliminal advertising for Marlboro.
What is a CRM, and what problems does this solve instead of being simple/cheap? (not all of us work in the same industries with different acronyms)
> I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram.

I mean. You have the right to your opinion. But... really?

I understand that the sentiment is “Twitter is mostly what you make it“, but it was so incredibly toxic that I was stunned to the point where I almost became radicalised against the ideology that was pervasive at the time.

Even now I am sensitive to it.

Facebook in comparison never had strangers piling on me telling me I am worthless and invalid based on my race and gender.

Not that any of them are fantastical beacons of acerbic communication which puts such a high emphasis on civility as hacker news does. But to call twitter the best of this breed is, I feel, speaking from a far different experience than my own.
> His response was - I am retired now and there's nobody to tell me or teach me.

There's something prescient here. I can't count how many times a day just being surrounded other people I've seen them do or use something slightly more efficient than the way I would do it, and have integrated it into my workflow.

Isolation may be a factor in cognitive decline, we absorb a ton through fleeting social interactions.
Did those forums go away? Or are new ones not being made?
Shuttling the left-column navigation beneath the content, and preserving a minimal header, would preserve most of the functionality and remain mobile-friendly.
Hi, is this private? I upvoted + requested access through the email in my profile.
>But, the voice of individuals has mostly been drowned out, except on.. Reddit

A pretty big exception there. This reminds me of "But what did the Romans ever do for us?"[1] sketch.

"apart from free hosting and cataloging and tagging and community and moderation and upvote/downvote ordering and making all that easy to read with restrictions on formatting and still allowing individual expression by this newfangled concept of 'linking'[2]... what has the new Internet done for helping voices being heard?"

I'll tell you, I had a website that I hosted on my own PC. And before I got DSL, you could only reliably connect to it by dialing into the computer with a modem.

DSL didn't change much. My voice was heard by exactly one user: me.

And now I can make an comment on reddit about, say, why we use radians instead of degrees in Calculus, and it will have hundreds of upvotes, a dozen of responses, and an audience of at least thousands who actually read it.

Yes, there's no opportunity to practice Geocities-style web design there. That's why the things you write there actually get read by other people. Surprise, that's how it works in the old world too: print newspapers look and function about the same, and math papers are all generally typeset with the same font and style, as to not distract the reader from the content.

In today's internet, the voice of the individuals has been amplified. I had a lot of fun with HTML back in the day, but my voice was only heard when portals like reddit/fb/ng/etc came to be.

[1]http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html

[2]Somebody please tell the author of the article that they can simply link to https://mayvaneday.keybase.pub/ instead of ranting about how hard it is to find on Google

Also, it's not hard to find on Google. It's a personal homepage of "Vane Vander", and looking for Vane Vander gives you that page.
With whom? They don't have enough soft power to do much here. Their primary opponent is also nuclear armed.
A bit late to the party, but I've recently started a personalized recommendation service, currently focusing on news. So far it's good at identifying which subreddits you are interested in, and soon it will be able to give you recommendations across the web. Check it out!

https://www.onlyvetted.com/
If only spinning up bots was considered as part of political advertising.

I don't think political ads were ever really a problem on Twitter. The crux of Twitter's problems are what I like to call virtual populism (i.e. bot armies retweeting propaganda and fake news).

With virtual populism, the illusion of an organic movement is created and this illusion eventually draws in real humans (after all, bots don't vote).
> Although many websites like Vane's exist on the clearnet, it's getting increasinly harder to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google.

This is true, and is one of the big reasons why I don't use Google search -- it tends not to surface the sites that I am most interested in finding.

Other search engines don't have the problem so much.
A basic legal doctrine is that "it's better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be unjustly imprisoned."

If anything, prosecutors have been taking your attitude and gaming the system with plea deals, so you're not merely wrong, but horribly wrong.
My impression was the Jack made too many excuses.

But this announcement is absolutely stellar. Who knows if Harris influenced him ;-)
California would have issues with modifications to any emissions related software, even if your modifications meet or beat standards. They require testing by certified labs and proper state-granted exemptions. Even on your own personal car. It’s a ridiculous burden.
One of the things about the Oxbridge system is that tutorials are compulsory. They're traditionally the primary channel for teaching: you might go to a lecture to hear some interesting things, but the real work is the reading and writing you do in preparation for the tutorial, so you'd better go to them.

The standard tutorial is one fellow and two students, so (unless your tutor is hopeless and your tutorial partner is a narcissist), you will get the attention you need. Even if you have a tutorial where there are four of you (where the tutor is a rare specialist who has a lot of students to get through!), if you get stuck listening, at least you're hearing the same information that the more vocal students are!
I cut my teeth on dBase II back in the day, and built my first consulting and development company on the back of that, then moving on to Clipper, FoxPro and Clarion and other tools over time. I always managed to skirt around Access whenever it came up in client meetings ("Oh, we have this FREE database thingy that came with our word processing and spreadsheet tools - why don't you use that to write our stock control app??").

It has been many years since I have seen Access, and I thank the database gods for that. Nowadays I run an HR SaaS company, but just yesterday we landed the biggest contract of our fledgling company with THE biggest manufacturer in the UK of a certain household product. All the excitement was sucked out of me when they asked if they could integrate our cloud HR system with their internal job costing & time sheet database... which is written in Access!
>If you compare Mavic 2 Pro to Phantom 4 Pro, then the only arguable advantage the latter has is the mechanical shutter.

Quite false. Although the resolution isn't different, the camera sensor in the phantom is twice the size and has better optics on it. In terms of photography, it's a no-brainer.

We still use a Mavic however due to the ability to upload a CSV of coordinates and camera angles, which is a much better fit for the photogrammetry we use it for.
Installed it, and had been running the beta for some time. No problems that I can think of. But I don’t use iPhoto, or any apps that depend on iCloud Drive.
Once upon a time, people spoke about the inherent value of knowledge, not just about if it can help patch your leaky conversion funnel.

Please respect those that still think there need not be any base reason for learning about the world
This isn’t that cool because Arepo is not a word.
It's all still there, the major search engines are just broken because they've been co-opted by SEO.

Tons of people still own and operate their own websites; BBSes exist; IRC is still here; mailing lists are still here; and so on and so forth.

You just won't find it on the top hit at Google because their business model is based on ad sales wankery.

Whilst we're on the topic, I'm gonna take the chance to write - if you work on this corporate shit and you're doing stuff you despise day in day out - please re-assess whether you could change things in your life to prevent that. Be the change you want to see. Cheers.
Not sure I buy this blanket statement. My dad learned how to use Linux in his retirement.
I'm biased for obvivious reasons, but:

https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB
That adapter includes pointless leds and attempts to clean up the signal in various ways to make it more reliable. You can likely do without for a one off transfer, at the cost of some hassle getting your audio output right.

The 'simple stupid' approach is to cut off a 3.5mm cable, de-isolate one of the wires and tape it to the read pin. I've done that (just connected random analog signals straight to an io pin with tape) to interface to other ports on the c64. It's incredible what it will tolerate.

But sure, if you have both a cassette player and a datasette to hand, it will definitively be easier.
>mary-celeste servers

That is a wonderful term for it, and a delicious mental image.
Apparently, I've been making up details without realizing it.

I've pulled the affidavit for the case, so that we can go through these details with more accuracy.

https://www.greenwoodvillage.com/DocumentCenter/View/13916/A...

The timeline of events:

1. Shoplifting at 1:22pm.

2. Abandoned his Lexus (with temporary tags)

3. Ran around town... jumping a fence, ran across a highway, attempted hitchhiking, eventually entering a private home.

4. Police eventually caught up, blocked the garage with their vehicles, and the siege started. The time was 1:54 at this point.

Apologies for wasting your time with unnecessary hypotheticals, but its important to stick with what happened. The car was already abandoned, the Police caught up because the people's home was invaded by the shoplifter.

-------------

> They've got a suspect description, car description, and license plate. There is no reason to believe the car is stolen, so there is a registered address.

With regards to this hypothetical: The car was registered to David Seidle. NOT Robert Jonathan Seacat. The car also had temporary tags. I don't know if Seidle was related to this case at all.

Under your hypothetical, Mr. Seacat would have gotten away, and Officers would have at best, gone to David Seidle's house.
I can't tell if you're joking... Microsoft had technology like this for years and years and no one used it. (I'm not talking about Frontpage.)
see also the location in Ankh Morpork of the same name, which is probably also a reference to Bughouse (washington) square in chicago:

Sator Square is also a place where free speech is allowed, if not encouraged, and is a place for ranters, haranguers, and self-absorbed mumblers to say their piece. This all comes under the heading of street theatre, and no doubt the Patrician has somebody in the crowd to memorise names and faces and take notes, on the off-chance that what is said might actually be important, or lead to consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Park_(Chicag...

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sator_Square
I had similar thoughts. Of course its NK, the most convenient nation state boogeyman we have in 2019. They are barely on the internet, yet somehow there is a large enough community of North Korean hackers such that their government can form this fantastical "Lazarus" hacking group from their constituents? Lazarus, which is purportedly capable of subverting nuclear power station security, exfiltrating 100TB of data from Sony, et. al.? Surely that doesn't require a huge range of unique talents which are best developed in an open and free society... I am at a point where NK is largely a CIA front.
Women, collectively (at least in the sphere of the "public conversation"), are growing increasingly tired of dealing with men and their idiosyncracies. Or rather, they are realizing there are alternatives to silently accepting the errant behavioral traits.

No one is making an absolute value claim of the two genders, so your comment is at best begging a divisive question that isn't relevant here.
Are you implying that Netflix software quality is good? As someone who uses the web interface in a variety of browsers, I disagree in the strongest terms possible.
Do you not find Reddit to be a bit of a cesspool? I tend to avoid it for that reason, but how true it is probably depends on which subreddit(s) we're talking about.
Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum - it's really inspiring to see a company take a stand against political advertising, if it can't be properly vetted. One more step to strengthen our democracy.
How was my comment even an argument? More of an observation that you likely have a theory you don’t stand behind except when it validates your existing beliefs.
Seattle Schools Lead Controversial Push to 'Rehumanize' Math
Respectfully, I strongly disagree. Software components, in isolation, may be understandable. Software systems are significantly more complex and often have completely unexpected properties.

Not to dismiss the challenges of physical engineering, but as you say -- it's essentially Bayesian, with very strong priors available. Physical reality, on the human scale, can be comprehended with relatively straightforward equations, mod some fudge factor. We can account for the unknowns in the physical world with that; whereas software's complexity isn't limited to linear changes -- complexity can quickly grow exponentially.
While there are certainly degenerative diseases, "use it, or lose it" also holds true for the brain. And whether it's TV or Facebook, junk food is junk food.

The mind is no different than the body. In fact, the mind is probably more sensitive to neglect.
The following, recent Rolling Stone article provides some real-world context.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/suicid...
Isn't this exactly what I wrote above, just in more flowery language?
Twitter... is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram.

Off on a tangent: Are to elaborate? I've found Twitter extremely hard to use - people tweet and retweet so frequently, it always looks like a deluge of short, mostly meaningless, fluff. At least with Facebook, the longer bits of fluff are in a single post instead of spread aross and intermingled with other fluff.

But, maybe I'm doing it wrong? I really don't know. These days, I mostly stick to Instagram - it doesn't seem to have the negative impact on my psyche as either FB or Twitter.
maybe videogame could be a way to moderate this especially puzzle video game or brain teaser video game;
The Germans are slowly taking over the North so mabe ;)

Bikes are well used here and 3-4 km is no problem to bike on flat land, not even if you're untrained. Bike roads are usually straighter to goal and plenty of parking in front of all doors.
Yea I mod a sub with a few thousand subs.

I definitely shouldn't be subject to labor laws for that work. It's organizing stuff around a hobby, not creating concrete value for or at the discretion of Reddit the business.

Some of the bigger subs though should have full time staff on the mod teams however.
The problem is most of the people writing code in Access (or monstrous Excel macros or in apps like MatLab etc) are not trained programmers. I think the article sums it up well by using "power user" to describe them - technical people with no formal programming training. Think Engineers (the non software kind), Accountants, Plant Technicians these kinds of people.

In my org (I'm an Engineer at a manufacturing plant) a long time ago someone senior made the decision our company was not in business of hiring programmers so any coding is done by contractors.

So yes people have implemented things (Engineering models for example) in MatLab, or Access, or as an Excel spreadsheet etc as "prototypes" ostensibly intended to be rewritten by a real programmer. At some point these models invariably find their way into production environment and suddenly you have some kind of mission critical thing written in Access (or VB6 or Matlab or Excel).

Then IT has minor panic a contractor is given the job of trying to translate the "prototype" into "real" code and has a battle on their hands.

Often programming contractor doesn't have technical understanding of what model is doing, regardless of choice of language the code engineers write tends to look like Fortran (i.e it's essentially all math formulas), even comments probably don't help when they say stuff like "/* Ergun's formula to calc Delta P */" that doesn't mean a lot to someone without a chem eng background. I've seen contractors produce bugs by doing things like misreading a spec and adding a variable called Fe203 (i.e Fe "two hundred and three) instead of Fe2O3 (Fe "Two Oh three" - a chemical formula). You can't really blame contractor he doesn't know anything about chemistry - he was just hired to rewrite this monster in java based on a spec.

So I don't think its a simple as turning problem over to an experienced programmer and expecting success.
It's less than 5% though.
U.S. based brick and mortar casinos use a lot of older tech and at many of them, Access is still a vital component. One I contracted with recently had sort-of a data warehouse (a SQL Server db primarily consumed by Tableau reports) but the daily ETL process to move data from the CMS (casino management system) into the warehouse was 100% Access. Via macros, temporary tables and views, some individuals believe Access can be an effective ETL script writer. In reality it crashed regularly and when it did complete, best case scenario was it took 3-4 hours. A rewrite in Python reduced that to 12 minutes, with far fewer errors and additional computations along the way. Besides ETLs, Access is also popular in generating mail files -- a casino may send hundreds of thousands of physical mail pieces each month, the address and offer data is often passed to the printers via CSV which was generated by an Access macro. The industry has numerous well-paid people with "Database" in their job title, whose sole experience is with Access, and couldn't write a single line of SQL.
I'll anti-anecdote that. I've just started working a steady office job again after a 15 year "break" (mostly non-office work; raising kids) and existential dread is eating me. I had a couple of months interim and despite being dirt-poor in that time (no income practically) had no dread at all; too little time to get existential!