skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> XAML can declare any type and configure it as needed, it is a way of declaring components in a logical fashion.

XAML is a lot like Python object constructor syntax with all named parameters except one positional parameter that is a list of child objects (obviously, explicit closing tags rather than a closing square bracket and paren is a difference, but structurally it's m almost identical.) It's certainly a convenience for declaring certain kinds of object trees, especially if your main programming language doesn't have a similarly succinct object construction syntax. JSX is effectively a way of adding an equivalent object constructions syntax to the host (JS) language, rather than requiring it to be in separate code files.
Good observation in the comments:

You were rich because you discovered that you could eat little but peanut butter sandwiches and eggs and still be content. Others, despite having the discipline to spend less than they have, find they can't be content living under the privations that doing so entails. They do not feel free and cannot be considered rich.

You can be content on surprisingly little. It pays to find out what that "little" is.
Ask HN: What are the pros and cons of DevOps?
I came across this HN post recently
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668168

> In practice, and talking from my experience, unless you're one of the lucky few this is what it really means to do DevOps in 2019:
- Forget what the books said, theory, semantics and idealism. You are a DevOps Engineer, working in a platform specific team.

- You deal with Jenkins or similar, and consult other teams or developers to write scripts for it, or worse, do the work for them since they're too busy doing actual programming.

- You are not allowed to come up with your own abstractions. Proposals to develop anything are automatically declined by your Product Owner, who simply points you to whatever tool with a fancy logo he could find listed in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

- You pride yourself for being an engineer, but decisions end up being only made in terms of getting free open source labor and ease up hiring, so you end up doing what everyone else is doing.

- Half of your team co-workers are perfectly fine dealing with churn, software updates and other sort of manual, classic sysadmin tasks.

- You are repeatedly being paged at night for problems that your fellow developers won't feel responsible for. You hear buzzwords and talks about this SRE thing or "you built it, you run it", but it never seems to materialise due to politics.

It used to be a lot of fun back in the day, and a great chance to get paid to solve interesting problems related to system and infrastructure engineering instead of the boring CRUD work that plagued the last decades, but seeing the "App Store" that this turned into, if you are a creative individual with a software engineering background and you're considering a career in DevOps, my advice is to run away while you can.

I wonder what developers are actually thinking about DevOps?
I was expecting a scroll of paper fitted into a phone shaped box or something, such that you could literally scroll it.

That was still interesting, the title alone got me excited and thinking 'what could it be?'
I only know one such square in Korean, but that's funny enough that I'd like to share:

개똥아
똥쌌니
아니오

"Hey gaettong (literally "dog shit" - which was a popular affectionate name for kids a hundred years ago)

Did you shit?

No I didn't."
If you are on Windows there is QueryStorm, and it works amazingly well IMO.
I tried open office base about 10 years ago and it was almost but not quite impossible to use. Has it improved?
whats their angle here? Gather data about customer's unhealthy eating habits and sell that to insurance companies? Show sports-related ads to people who eat healthier?
I'm aware of that. But the piece in question is literally titled Which Planet is Closest?

So while it's possible that the sun actually is the winner, it's not an answer to the question being investigated.

If they can pedant, so can I.
Zimbabwe is getting another 'new' currency
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. For a start, this facility only holds people who have not yet had a trial. "Normally", wealthy people like him are not held in detention at all while waiting for their trial - like Martha Stewart.
Aww thank you! Our design team is pretty cool. :)
I didnt see anyone mention Verily, the company Google already bought to try and make a wearable device.

Did that whole company just flop so they decided to go out and buy FitBit?
OP comment from Reddit post:

>Hey folks, OP here. I’ve been using security keys for a few years now and decided to spend some spare time over the last few months writing this up. Despite the name it’s pretty detailed (15k words!) and hope it can help folks understand the benefits of security keys and what fido2 brings to the table.
Usually more like 16.1" or 16.25" barrels. Since non-compliance can result in jail time, they give a bit of a compliance buffer.
Just because sometimes lines can be hard to draw, it doesn't mean they can't or shouldn't be drawn.
If you are so certain, could you share some links to the said similar programs.
Check out Oracle application Express (APEX). HN loves to hate Oracle, but it is a great tool for a building crud applications and dashboards.
Free Business Card Mockups PSD
TD;DR vaping as a quit method shouldn't be banned. Non-smokers should be discouraged from taking up both vaping and smoking.

It began as a safer alternative to smoking, which was an assumption. The science isn't concrete but there is some evidence vaping is safer than smoking. Note safer and not safe.

It's also easier to quit cigarettes by switching to vaping and then gradually lowing the nicotine until you're vaping liquids with no nicotine. Then it's just the habit you have to beat the addiction to and not the nicotine.

It is a little difficult to switch from smoking to vaping as cigarettes are engineered to be as addictive as possible. There are more addictive chemicals in cigarettes than just nicotine, and some added chemicals to make the nicotine in cigarettes more addictive than plain old nicotine. Cigarettes are engineered for an instant hit that fades quickly. The hit from vaping is slow and steady. It takes time to adjust to vaping and there are cravings until you do.

I think something has to be done about non-smokers taking up vaping without stopping smokers from switching to vaping, I don't know what. There's an argument the non-smokers who take up vaping would probably take up smoking if vaping didn't exist.
No, money doesn’t easily solve anything, and it can actually bring attention (like tabloids that want to expose your sex life). And existence of billionaires? Envy of other people’s wealth and taking it away by force is at the forefront of every catastrophic economic outcome.
Fun. I worked on the Multiscope Modula-2 dev kit and debugger in 1990. Had no clue what I was doing, but helped with the graphics library. Download it here:

https://winworldpc.com/product/multiscope-debuggers/2x
It can be difficult to predict the knowledge gaps in a high school kid, even the "intelligent" ones.

A smart friend told me that a score of 800 is all it took to "pass the SAT". He said you could get into the best colleges with that score as long as your grades were good, etc. So we put no effort into studying for the exam. We regretfully, conflated the combined score with the individual section scores.

We also had another misconception that college was a waste of time. A place where rich kids go to join a frat and burn their family's money.

The irony is that this occurred at a private "prep" high school. In my late 20's I finally realized that "prep" was short for "college preparatory school".

The above was 30 years ago. Perhaps with social media and the internet it is unlikely any student would be this misinformed.
You are assuming that all diversity pushes are purely for diversity sake. But that is simply not true. Uber has started pushing for diversity because a monoculture is what helped turn them into the toxic workplace that it was.

Other companies are trying to hire diverse staff because they are building products for diverse customers and they know a diverse staff will create a better product.

If you hire all young, white, males, you end up with products like facial recognition that only recognizes white people and AI with built in bias among many other things.

In these cases, rejecting you for a diversity hire is no different than telling you, "well, you are really talented at what you do, but your expertise is Java and what we need is an expert in Go."
What the fuck is this? I had to leave due to mental health issues that I wasn't able to get documented at the time, and have been having huge issues returning ever since.

Fuck all of this.
I'm not saying that you can't make advertising go away for yourself, if you try hard enough. But I don't think you, or you and all the other people of your mindset, can make it go away altogether.

I don't use adblockers, but I can't blame people who do. I'm not convinced the world would be better if everyone did.

I do wish that there was legislation that required all ad supported web sites to have reasonably priced plans where people could pay to bypass the ads. Or something. But right now ads support a lot of services that I am glad are here.
I don't even think you need to be in the sciences. Perhaps it's a result of a protestant upbringing, but I grew up in blue-collar America where virtually everyone was a tradesman. If I may generalize: these are people that while they might complain and dislike going to work, they feel deep satisfaction about contributing back to society.

Or maybe it's that with trades you have a direct connection to the work you do and the effect it has on the world.

Either way I think we could learn something from them. White collar types seem to want to avoid work at all costs. Work isn't to be avoided. In fact if you measure your life by how much it affects others, it's probably the most important part of your life.
The vehemence of this response surprises me. First, from the anecdote, there's no particular reason to think this student was the only one who was given a chance to take a make-up test.

Second, re: the 'integrity of an education system', there are already all kinds of problems with using tests and exams to evaluate student skill, and one serious flaw is how sensitive they are to random fluctuations -- like being tired or sick the day of the test. Many educators hold this view, and professors often have a lot of flexibility in how they structure their tests (and classes more generally), compared to say, high school teachers.

I am curious about the circumstances of the parent post. In a 600-person Psych 101 class, I would agree it would be inappropriate to offer makeup tests (unless they were available to all students). But in a 15-person upper-level class? There's no grading curve, the whole process is basically individualized.
Jack Dorsey on Political Ads
The domain should match your organization (or name), not your product. Honda doesn't have civic.com or accord.com, and should vectra.com point to the Hewlett-Packard PC or the Winnebago RV? (It's neither.)

As for being able to get a domain name for a company, I just tried checking "${surname}${activity}.com", and almost all of the combinations with my name (a top-25 surname in America) and common activities were available. In the rare cases where it was already taken, adding a "co" or "company" suffix was sufficient to get an unclaimed domain. So I don't even have to be very creative to come up with a perfectly good domain name.

In this case, there's already lots of other things on the web called "Micro CRM" or "MicroCRM", so if you pick that name, you're already screwing yourself on google-juice. The .cc domain name looks sketchy, but that's probably the least of your problems. It's a symptom of two other problems: you're using the product name as the domain name, and you didn't pick a unique product name. Fix either of those, and getting a .com is no problem.
I see you have a specific idea about what ‘true bioengineering’ should look like. But you have just made this up, based on your own ideas, which I simply reject.

Your first paragraph glosses over all the work that goes into making a useful antibody candidate, a process of iterative modification to meet certain specifications. I don’t see a problem calling this engineering. Your point about market penetration as a judge of ‘engineeringness’ is also silly. There are antibody drug conjugates that serve a specific patient population very well, the fact they aren’t in your ‘top 10’ is irrelevant.

So what if CAR-T cells are struggling in the clinic? It is an entirely new treatment modality. There are people walking around who would be dead without it. You deride it because it isn’t an instant global panacea?

Your point about Synbio is also wrong. Leaders in the field just wrote a position piece in Science and genome writing was listed as one of the major challenges. You’re trying to tell me that George Church ‘doesn’t know what to build?’ Pure bunk.
Well if you are ugly or awkward and are unwilling to do anything about it, you need to be less picky. You're the seller, women are the buyer. You probably need to work on your sales pitch. You should also work on what you have to sell. You also need to be brave enough to strike up a conversation and analyze the outcome. It's not easy for a shy person, but you can do it. It can't possibly make you feel worse than you are already feeling. If you suck at it, practice. Maybe have a more accomplished friend listen to your pitch and give advice.

Here is a good article I read at least once a year:

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
It's still a vanity-metric CPC game :(
Also if you created an account before, even if you never used it, you'll be prevented from redeeming your student developer credits...

Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
To really be able to manipulate gravity, you would also need to manipulate mass, and so far nuclear is the only way I know of, in which we do that, but uhh.. I don't think we'll get anti gravity until we can control mini stars... Little nuclear engines.
If you liked this one, you might also enjoy reading about the mycorrhizal networks some plants can use to communicate between each other: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden...
I can't understand how anyone thinks this is a reasonable argument after even ten seconds of thought, and yet it shows up reliably in every conversation on this topic.

We're talking about setting rules that span literally _billions_ of conversations. Taking fully for granted the notion that there are facts that are objective, 100% knowable facts: The question isn't about how the system handles obviously false or obviously true statements, it's how it handles everything on the margin. There were tons of things that were considered conspiracy theories that we now consider clear fact: people like you would have been the ones saying "of course we shouldn't allow people to claim the CIA is drugging and torturing and raping children"[1] in America in the 1950s, or "of course we shouldn't allow people to claim the government is euthanizing the disabled"[2] in 1930s Germany or any number of "obviously false" things that were very much true.

I have no reason to believe your particular example falls into that category, but the sweeping claim that arbitrating political facts is trivial is profoundly ignorant of even a tiny bit of history.

[1] Project MKUltra

[2] Aktion 44
You need to find what you're good at. Each human is an incredibly complex array of strengths and weaknesses. We all focus on our specific weaknesses and compare ourselves to others by noticing what strengths they have that we don't have. What you need to do is find the strengths you have that others don't have. Chances are there are some.

Also, make sure you care about doing a good job and improving. Most managers out there are dealing with one or two people who seem to not give a shit. Those are are top of mind for the manager. Always give a shit.
No. You actually don't have to start somewhere.

Starting somewhere bad without a plan is actively bad.

Here's the thing, people. FB and Twitter are pretty much garbage. That's fine, and we all mostly agree about that.

Here's the worst part of social media in general: it's uniting the absolute shittiest of the Republicans with the absolute shittiest of the Democrats and encouraging them both to get together and form a government agency that defines "truth" and then forces private entities to enforce that truth.

There is literally nothing Twitter or Facebook or any other social media website could do that would be this actually bad.
That's why I keep smoking. Those lungs deserve a workout!
The data shows that educated women seek men of similar means and status (Men happily date down due to different optimizations), which are in short supply. What option women settle on because of that isn’t yet clear.

With regards to poly whatever, it’s frequently mentioned that the top 80% of women are competing for the top 20% of men on dating apps. What happens as cohorts age will be the interesting part.

If I had to wildly speculate, a whole lot of folks are going to end up unhappy, and those who can will settle for whatever partner they can find once they meet the point of emotional exhaustion (ie loneliness, etc).
How do you call the lower store fees ?
Link to the research:

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/25/1911758116

>“As to why plants would need to panic when it rains, strange as it sounds, rain is actually the leading cause of disease spreading between plants,” said University of Western Australia’s Professor Harvey Millar, co-author of the study.

“When a raindrop splashes across a leaf, tiny droplets of water ricochet in all directions. These droplets can contain bacteria, viruses, or fungal spores.”

“The sick leaves can act as a catapult and in turn spread smaller droplets with pathogens to plants several feet away. It is possible that the healthy plants close by want to protect themselves,
I miss doing labour jobs were I could work my ass of all day and feel like I did a great job.

Nothing at all wrong with that kind of work.
Anti gravity is yet unsolved
Perhaps no one is enough resolved
Truly I say to you
This is my big todo.
Global risks 2035 update: Decline or new renaissance?
I'm not counting paving farmland, friend. Also, go look up aeroponics and 3D farming.

We don't need PG&E. The sun gives us free energy, and batteries + thermal energy storage can cover the cloudiest of days.

Well-designed suburbs don't need to be subsidized. And they can also be healthier and happier for you and your family (quiet, safe, better air quality, elbow-room, &etc). Just decentralize large cities by building smaller mixed-use "downtowns" surrounded by layers of variable density housing. Single family homes with yards are a part of that.

I'm moving and will be putting this into practice, instead of sitting back and seeing what happens. My cost of living will go down even though I am self-providing all of my family's utilities.

I might even use the savings to build more than just my own needs... creating opportunities for those with less capital to make the same choice to enjoy a better life at an affordable cost.

P.S. I have done the carbon calculations, and burying it in concrete is a good part of a total solution. "Deluding." Hah. A head not in the sand can more easily look in the mirror!
The quality of reading comprehension on this site is depressingly low.
That sounds sensible, and I'd agree with you that Twitter's decision does raise questions about who gets to decide what's allowed to have "reach".

I suppose your parent comment sounded a bit too incendiary for civilized discussion. It did seem somewhat reductionist to say the "elites" are banning free speech to control the narrative.

It's possible that Twitter is biased in favor of certain political leanings; it could be that this decision is not as altruistic as it sounds; maybe there are hidden (or even unconscious) political motives. And, as you pointed out, there's no saying what may happen in the future, when someone else is in charge of the company. I think these are valid questions about the power they have to shape the public narrative, at least in their sphere of influence.

For me at least, I'd like to give Jack the benefit of the doubt and take his words and this decision as an honest effort in trying to be a responsible social media company.
They can always claim sovereign immunity. Something rarely mentioned around government management of X (utilities, health care, police, etc.) is that it's harder to hold a bureaucracy liable for any wrongdoing.
What is described in the article doesn't fit the definition of panic.

I'm torn because maybe I wouldn't have read the article without the needless anthropomorphization. Plants are awesome and interesting to me because they're so planty and not animaly.
Vim keybindings for file explorer(s).
Even if the malware hijacks your session tokens, using something like WebAuthn prevents silent theft of a password, which is much more powerful (allows creation of new sessions).
I completely agree. I think the biggest problem with the current situation is that these loans are non-defaultable. If you want something to cause a bubble, let banks lend money with no risk of default!
Wrong thread?!
I'd just like to say that I find it amusing that "fiendishly complex" is wrapped in quotes as if from another source, but they're just quoting themselves in the article.
>To be fair, a comparison with modern desktop apps is much more favorable, because most of them have regressed in terms of usability.

A lot of desktop apps are basically packaged web apps now, so that's no surprise.
You've just proven his point though. Authority figures are just... people. And some people are quite nice and understanding and some people are grade capital a assholes.

Oh and any bureaucratic process is intentionally trying to weed you out.
Sell more Prime memberships and get a larger marketshare for Amazon Fresh which they can then monetize more.
Mind sharing link to your website?
Only the pay. I'd love to go back to that but I wouldn't be able to keep my house and make the change.
The original question was this

> Why don't the journalists who know how to run the business pool their resources up and start a business then? What's stopping them? What do they need those venture capital vultures for?

The answer is super simple - because they would starve to death before they managed to start making a profit. Most people don’t have that much savings for a runway.

Someone said ‘move to a lower cost of living area’ but there is no zero cost of living area to move to until you become profitable.

That’s why they need VC.
We need our personal websites to start linking directly to each other again… friends, coworkers, mentors, related topics, etc…

This trend died out, it used to be on practically every website. Maybe people just figured Google would find and sort everything for them. But now the search engines are packed with SEO garbage and offer no discoverability or serendipity.

Time to start sharing homemade link lists again.
> It sounds to me that a site dedicated to sports, should focus on sports.

What does it sound to you that a site not purely dedicated to sports—like say, I dunno, Deadspin—should do?
> You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story.

Literally worse than blogspot in every way.
Need to get rid of all that expired inventory somehow I guess