skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trust me, no one wanted to use WinCE for anything.

Well, maybe nobody wanted to, but to support a new platform with unknown uptake, would you rather use your existing code, write something new on a less capable api[1], or just walk away?

[1] well, a lot of wince stuff was still there on wp7, if you were willing to do terrible things in order to get available features that weren't exposed.
Cable 1971
Double Irish Dutch sandwich. Apple would have entity in both Netherlands and Ireland for sales in EU. Money is transferred to Netherlands and then to Irish subsidiary and then further to other countries.

The second Irish company is for sales from US.
You need a convex Lagrangian for the Legendre transform to work so I think it's more than a convention. Of course you could redefine the Legendre transform to work for concave functions instead of convex functions but in either case you'll want the convexity or concavity of Lagrangians to be uniform.
I would not be surprised at all to find a paragraph like that in some fiction, especially in poem form.
UPS drone makes first home prescription deliveries for CVS
U dont need to know a tool at all, all u need to know is how to use Google and express ideas clearly and diversely. The rest is mechanical. Solve the problem first then worry about what tool is better. The whole idea of efficiency has destroyed heuristical discovery. Current state of life on this planet: patheticly lame.
Optionals! I wrote Swift before typescript, and I'm a huge fan of these new operators.
I mean, that's all cows. Cow tipping is a myth.

...

Oh god, you mean, the entire swiss dairy industry is a front?
Ethereum as a platform has made many bad design decisions. It's not really suitable for a lot of things; including, well, things it was marketed for (unstoppable, uncensorable, scalable applications).
"But we already have over 1,500" wow...
I would start there...
What makes you say it is an amazing system? In my mind, an amazing system would at the very least be cross platform.

It's 'new' and it has 'Apple' behind it. I had to google to make sure I wasn't missing something. It's 'declarative', it has 'design tools' and it works on 'apple only platforms' [0]. Are those supposed to be killer features?

There was a twitter question that really made me think - it asked what framework, language or tool of today, would give a competitive advantage, if you had it 15 years ago [1]. I couldn't come up with a single thing, and that was a depressing realization.

Is SwiftUI that tool that will be looked back on in 15 years? Is Swift that language? For me, no. It's not even bloody cross platform...

[0] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/swiftui/
[1] https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/1183146890293956609?s=20
The site is not credible. This is not news, it's propaganda. The article doesn't belong here. It's just provocation designed to make amazon affiliate money.

For example, the article says:

> For those of you who don’t know – anything that touches the soil eventually gets taken up by the plant. It becomes apart of the plants tissues and DNA. It is unavoidable.

The point of hydroponic farming is the plants don't touch the soil. They don't take anything out of the soil at all. Glyphosate does not become part of a plant's DNA.

Edit: Down votes why?

It's an anti-vax website for crying out loud:

https://livelovefruit.com/still-vaccinating-25-questions-for...
Every way except keeping the profits in the local economy.
Hebban Olla Vogala
In the words of Scott McNealy, "Everyone likes to hold hands while circling the drain." (I believe he made that comment when SGI agreed to acquire Cray.)

It is interesting to me as a technologist to remember these companies as both powerhouses in their domains and failing enterprises. What I don't know is what allows a company to successfully 're-invent' itself or to recover its core values and return to a previously powerful position. IBM did that once transitioning from PCs, Microsoft seems to have done it, and Apple pulled it off when Steve Jobs returned. SGI died, MIPS is nearly dead, Sun is dead, Compaq died, Dell might be considered a comeback, National Semiconductor died, AT&T Bell Labs died, Northern Telcom died, Polaroid died, Kodak is nearly dead.

There are obvious issues when the accountants take over and start squeezing the cash out of a company, and companies that just keep getting deeper and deeper into a technology that isn't going to survive when something new has come along. But why are these events so crippling that companies that have the resources to re-invent themselves seem to so often fail to do so?
Not quite. More like 3K.

The 15.4" MacBook Pros are 2880×1800, and the 13.3" are 2560×1600 px.
Not disagreeing that there's a point of no return wherein an infaller will inevitably collide with the singularity, just whether it's really correct to say that makes the singularity a moment of time. For starters, different infallers can arrive at the singularity at different times (even ones that arrive at the horizon at the same time can be relatively accelerated, resulting in having different interval lengths).

Also not sure it makes sense for non-eternal BHs. For a BH that forms by gravitational collapse and eventually completely evaporates, surely the singularity has a timelike worldline? Some "lucky" too-early infallers (a cosmic neutrino, say) might pass through the centre collapsing progenitor before the horizon forms, while too-late infallers might pass through the region after final evaporation (assuming no horizon-equipped remnant). The "just-miss" is depends on where in spacetime the coincidence happens, and any reasonable slicing or threading would attribute the miss to being at the wrong moment in time.

Maybe easiest to think about that if the singularity is not always at the spatial origin of a system of coordinates. For instance, if SN1987a's remnant contains a black hole, that black hole is surely moving around the galaxy with the luminous matter "now", but before the final collapse there was neither horizon nor singularity.

I'm also perhaps unreasonably superstitious about the slogan's survival of arbitrary parameterizations, e.g., one can do an affine parameter on even an eternal BH's singularity and have what looks like a decent proper time for it.

Perhaps another way of putting it is that the usual Carter-Penrose BH diagrams showing long horizontal wavy line segments for the singularity are misleading because of exaggerations caused by the particular conformal chart it uses, kinda like how the Earth's very-near-polar regions are not that big even though they look that way on Mercator charts (those are also conformal, and you get really different results in the near-polar regions in other conformal projections even as closely related as a transverse Mercator/Gauss conformal projection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection#/media/File:Usg... versus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usgs_map_traverse_me... ).

Just thinking aloud in the wee hours, and maybe having given too little weight (pardon the pun) to the qualification "inside the horizon" just before your close paren. There's a lot of rigour that can be hidden in those three words.
It's a lot for people who can't drive, like children or the elderly.
return the money that was taken unfairly from the customer would be a start.

And then a sizable fine over that, let’s say an additional 100%

These companies need to feel pain for unethical practices. Not a slap on the wrist.

Next where does that money for the fine go? It shouldn’t just disappear into the ether.

Using the money from the fine perhaps a third party committee should be formed that regularly audits this known exploitive behavior. Maybe 50M could get that off of the ground and moving.

That could be 36 months of auditing from a third party.

All of this of course isn’t how things work. It’s just what I think is ideal.
The point is you can put var inside the try because it has function scope. That's what I do, although it is inelegant.
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Airbnb destroyed my neighborhood (crime, noise and rent saw dramatic increases) and was a factor in me moving to Germany with my entire family. I am hoping more ppl get the message and ban them outright.
http://archive.is/dhAsU
I like this idea of it being a percentage of gross.

Make it hurt.
It’s more than marketing in the sense that certain pesticides are excluded for their toxicity.

That said, the list of allowable, synthetic organic pesticides is pretty damn long.[1]

[1] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f10...
http://archive.is/cP124
By SQL IDE, do you mean for developers or for data analytics?
did you die?
An ad flyer in the mail had a set of 48 "collectible" US quarters purportedly at a huge discount. Oddly enough, if you divided by 48, the ostensible original price was close to $2 per quarter, and the discounted price was 26 cents.
In additional to the sibling cuelang recommendation, there is also https://dhall-lang.org/.
Controlling node consensus is the most important "layer". Nodes enforce protocol rules. If most "dapps" are using Infura, then Infura can easily force changes upon not only the dapps themselves but the entire network.

Ethereum's engineering decisions have absolutely led to this, as well. Arbitrary "dapps" do not need a blockchain. Having all of this unnecessary data "on the blockchain" makes it bloated and impossible to validate, leading to entities like Infura.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Overpopulation
That’s a shame. Airbnb really changed the game for my friends and I. We’ve been travelling all over the world with airbnb.
Ok, but can you please explain why? Otherwise it's a shallow dismissal per the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You sure have an axe to grind
A company with $10bn revenue buys one with $58bn revenue. This comes after cancelling a merger and nearly getting sued for $1bn because they last-minute-cancelled a merger with Fujifilm.

Sounds totally healthy and not at all like some financial game played by Xerox's activist investors.

Prediction: if this happens the joint company will be worth nothing in 2030. They are already now kicking out lots of staff, so are probably as usual destroying the R&D departments in favour of short term profit margins.
> What services business?

They also do document conversion, although I'm unsure of what the business is called publicly (maybe this [1]). They take documents in practically any format and do language conversion, whilst maintaining formatting (a super hard problem). As I understand they get a considerable amount of business from converting technical documents.

[1] https://xeroxtranslates.com/
Nitpick:

> I do not forget what Albert Einstein said:

> If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left.

Einstein didn't say this, nor is it true.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/27/einstein-bees/
Is this just me as a non-native speaker, or does "Norton LifeLock" sound... kind of sinister? Like something out of a dystopian novel?

I'm actually not quite sure what the name is supposed to mean. Are they locking my life to protect me from evil hackers?
I mean, no? Seems like it's the worst of both worlds.
Tradewind Digital Platform Uses Blockchain to Track Provenance of Gold
Here’s a nice gallery of “houses” :)

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/06/26/fake-chalets-unmas...
Hate speech is spreading on Facebook in India again
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius:

4.33 what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

4.48 Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Well, I can't edit my post any more, so I'll fill in with a bit more detail for our international HN'ers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

I grew up in the Midwest. The version of cow tipping that I heard about was to get some naieve urbanites, typically college students, all geared up about cow tipping and the theory behind it. Then take them to a pasture in the middle of the night, typically with alcohol involved. The idea is that they will return to the dorm rather covered in mud or "mud," as it were, never quite sure if they were pranked or not.

Of course I have no idea if anything like this has ever actually happened.
>> It is information itself which produces uncertainty

I would argue, information is uncertainty. That is basically baked into its definition. Something that is lost on almost all of us about the information technology paradigm.

So, you have the paradox of the act of "connecting people" leads to people growing further away.
Houston, a city proud to be without zoning, and where being a "city planner" is barely a notch above a registered sex offender (I wish I were joking), has just voted for the third time to expand LRT transit, and expand Rapid Bus lines, and improve the quality of its bus stops, in a $3.5BB bond measure.

https://www.khou.com/article/traffic/metro-houston-approves-...

On the other side of things, Austin may get a third crack at approving an LRT system next year, but the last two times Austin voters disapproved of LRT. As a result they have a weird heavy commuter rail that runs on a strange schedule, goes almost nowhere, and does not serve the people well.
Ok, we've put partners in the title above.
To add to this - giving them foundation encourages comb the correct size for workers. Let them do their own and you get more drone comb, and more drones.
Yes, there’s the apocryphal tale of a Nordstrom employee refunding a customer for snow tires purchased elsewhere.

http://www.startribune.com/did-someone-really-return-a-set-o...
except for a motorway

But this Tempe case was on a motorway (AZ equivalent).
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They're well known for abusing their monopsony power to force brands to offshore production and reduce quality of products.

First they take on a product line and become a big % of the company's sales, then they start tightening the screws and demanding price cuts. The manufacturer has to either give up a large fraction of their total sales or use cost-cutting measures like offshoring and materials substitution to reduce their cost so they can sell at the price Wal-Mart demands. Wal-Mart does this incrementally over time so the company has already started down the road by the time they realize what's being done.

This was a big part of the manufacturing offshoring movement of the last few decades. Of course one company isn't solely responsible for that trend, but Wal-Mart with their huge size was a significant part of it. This was before Amazon was a thing. Now the damage is done and everyone seems to be forgetting that Wal-Mart had a hand in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
Ursula seemed to think her job was to diversify Xerox away from copiers, and then Carl Icahn came along and said, no, there's more value for shareholders in breaking it up.

The Conduent separation happened at the beginning of 2017. There were some dribs and drabs that were transferred to Conduent because they seemed to be services and not copiers, but most of it was the former ACS.

For perspective (if the numbers I just looked up are right), Conduent has 85,000 employees but averages less than $18K in revenue per employee.
Another potential solution is to use a constraint solver like MSFT Z3, or if you want a nicer syntax and more flexibility, Prolog.

E.g. https://medium.com/@ahelwer/checking-firewall-equivalence-wi...

This is much more scalable in the long run.
There was a good reason for creating key material external to the token though, even though it's objectively more secure to let the token generate it. In the past(and possibly this is still the case) most sites had flawed U2F implementations, in the sense that you could only register one U2F key to an account (or rather, you could normally only pick one instance of any supported 2FA method e.g. SMS).

If your U2F token was lost or damaged it would thus permenantly render your accounts inaccessible (depending on whether or not account recovery bypasses U2F), and the best practice to avoid that was to have two tokens initialised with the same key material and to keep one in a safe place at home / bank safe-deposit box / other secure location. Then, if you needed to regain control you still had a valid U2F token.

As U2F gains traction more sites are implementing it properly with multi token support, which renders this method obsolete, but that's the historical reasoning.
Think it comes down to incentive structures and what kind of behavior is rewarded. In a well functioning company people creating value bottom up see an upward trajectory in their careers. Companies that lose their way end up in a limbo state where power brokers, star communicators, coordinators end up capturing all the value and the act of creating bottom up value becomes an irrational act. An employee will do exceptional work if they have some kind of belief that they will be able to monetize it by capturing some of the value created. Once this belief evaporates doing great work becomes a fools errand. We (humans) appear to be hard wired to reverse engineer the incentive structures both explicit and implicit in any given situation.
One of their gearheads messaged me in one of the regular marketing emails. I told him I could not do business with them due to their lawsuits. You should email them too.

Backcountry is a place not a trade-marketable name. Owning the word 'backcountry' is strictly against the outdoor ethos.

If they wanted a company name they could trade mark then they should have selected a different name.
You can still rent out a room of your apartment if you are living in it yourself.
The issue is about units that the owners are not residing in themselves.
I remember first being able to use USB mass storage devices (like a Lexar Jumpdrive with capacity measured in tens of MBs) with ME on the family computer. Then I learned that 98 SE had such support...but my HP Pavilion 8530 (with an AMD K6 CPU!!!) had the original 98. Copying files between the two was still limited to Zip 100s. Slightly related, apparently MSFT put out an update for 95 that included rudimentary USB support.
Beautiful editor, one of my favorites, and surprisingly free and multi-platform: works in Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
There is no doubt that it's a carcinogen, just some questions about how strongly and at what kinds of exposure.

IARC has an easier decision than most national regulators as they only look at the science. National regulators have to balance the science with the political/economic reality that glyphosate plays. Some countries have nonetheless chosen to prohibit it's use, others not.

So the question is not at all whether it's a carcinogen, rather it's this: Should we prohibit it's use or certain especially dangerous use cases, given that much of Western agriculture has become dependent on it?
FWIW, MSR and Osprey are tiptop as well, both have replaced products for me even though I was just looking for parts to fix it myself (MSR), or giving feedback on how a pack wore after 6 years of heavy use (osprey).

Maybe they just like to see their gear after some proper usage to see how it's holding up.
He missed a great opportunity when he didn't name it Merkistan, home of the Merkans.
New Frontiers in Talent Acquisition
20K Workers Will Be Jobless in Indian IT Sector, Thanks to Infosys and Cognizant
> Only opening your hives to harvest is irresponsible.

Inspecting brood comb is also required by law in some places. Here in New Zealand you are required at least one inspection per year of all the brood comb, looking for American foul brood.
Disease inspection and treatment is part of good been keeping. Done right it is disruptive but mostly beneficial to the hive.
This is easily proven - feral and unmaintained colonies die, usually within the season.
Sprint was on the verge of going out of business, they basically had no choice but to approve the merger, sprint's assets would have been sold either way.
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I think this is generally a good thing for consumers. One strong company with a solid network can provide more effective competition against Verizon and AT&T than two weak companies with crappy networks can separately.
Relevant podcast about baseball players forming pools to share their earnings: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773493342/episode-947-some-of...
The plan for West Germany in case of a sudden Soviet invasion was to destroy bridges and railways, render tunnels unusable by dropping huge concrete blocks on the entrances or – my favourite – filling them with foam so Diesel motors would suffocate while driving through; and destroying many roads.

All just to buy a little time to be able to mount an actual defence against the invasion in France.
Or we move on. Mastodon and the like seem to show promise. Reddit is around for something in between Mastodon and Facebook/Twitter, although it is ultimately susceptible to the same problems as the latter. Snapchat isn’t nothing, and while TikTok has problems stemming from its country of origin, it also isn’t nothing.

I would say we have a lot of choices of platforms. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn aren’t the end of all social networks and social platforms, they’re just parts of a larger ecosystem.

So maybe we can have it both ways. Maybe social platforms can regulate themselves into being the places they want to be, and we can move on when they don’t serve us anymore. Free markets are actually pretty wonderful in that way insofar as they provide us choices and we can take them or leave them.
Sorry, JS? While JS might get this stuff one day, these language features are for TypeScript which is its own language. It's strongly typed and just happens to interop with and in some scenarios transpile down to JavaScript. It's whole existence is to deal with that billion dollar mistake you mentioned.

Speaking of which, optional chaining and null coalescence are core language features of some very good languages. Kotlin and C# for instance. Kotlin, much like TypeScript, interops with a "broken" language (Java and the JVM in its case) and attempts to address some core deficiencies in that ecosystem. Let us have nice things!! :)

I am really excited about these new features and hope they do land in JS sooner rather than later. I hope they do the pipe operator next! `pipe |> operator|> plz`
I think there is a lot of truth in this. It was certainly the case at Sun when my friends started leaving that they had lost hope of being able to "make a difference." I expect that is an expression of the condition you describe.
They'll even repair gear made by others. Which is putting your money where your mouth is, if you ask me. They'd rather keep your gear, made by someone else, going than sell you new stuff.