skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d assume you can run builds that require 64GB RAM and 18 cores or whatever from your cheap ass chrome book, surface or iPad.
But if that's truly the case then shouldn't people not go to college? If there aren't enough benefits then people should be able to realize that, no?
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Yeah totally agree I found typora very standing out between all markdown editors because of that feature.
Thanks for the correction, I was thinking of potential for off target edits that lead to cancer but you are right, that's the wrong article for discussion of off target
Yes, for the most part. Some of them use Win32 functions but do their own drawing, like the newer opacity parts in the UWP settings menu.
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I wish I could upvote this a hundred fold! University rankings have utterly corrupted an already bad system.
Of course within a few years _everything_ was bottle necked on memory access and the advantages of processors that could do memory access in few cycles (like the 6502 or early ARM) doesn't mean much anymore, as CPU speeds easily outstripped memory speeds.
I doubt you even need a desktop app for simple markdown editor. Just a browser tab is good enough https://markdown.site
Debris tends to be stationary most of the time. Sounds like the car could have handled that.

I agree with that ADS being shit. Objects, once identified, should be accounted for in later updates in some form. E.g. in the way of "pedestrian now behind truck next to me". How the hell can an object switch status back and forth, loosing all its history? This should make the system be extra cautious at the very least. But yeah, safety doesn't seem to have been that big of a priority.
> I think people are missing the point that these cloud IDEs mean you don't need to be nearby or carry around a powerful + expensive laptop to work.

You already don't need to do this! Just RDP into your workstation. Christ, we've been doing it since the 90s people!
Don’t do Terraform. If you are already on AWS. Use CloudFormation. You are paying for the business support plan. They aren’t going to support your Terraform deployment.

I haven’t used Packer, but could you use CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline? Again if you’re on AWS you might as well take advantage of their support.

You can deploy Docker images using CloudFormation either to Fargate and not have to worry about servers or to EC2 instances (? I haven’t tried).
> I started with a bit of Win16 and then moved to Win32, and don't really see why it gets a lot of hate; it's not perfect, but it looks like it does exactly what it was meant to do, and does it well.

From a birds' eye view: Because it's just not productive to write apps without some type of modularity, and the WndProc abstraction encourages enormous monster functions that do everything. There's a reason why all UI frameworks have some kind of modular paradigm, whether it's object-oriented or functional reactive or what have you.

More specifically: A lot of the core APIs are just bad. RegisterWindowEx has a struct with a dozen random fields, and CreateWindowEx has a ton of confusing random parameters. For example, why do you have to specify a menu when you're creating a button? Why is dwExStyle the first parameter and dwStyle is the fourth? Why do you have to specify a cursor explicitly instead of just having a function that sets it if you want a non-default one? It's possible to make a low-level C API that's actually reasonably pleasant to use, as in GTK+. Win32 is just a mess.
Not the parent, but I've looked into this and here's my take.

1. Yes RDP
2. The cost can vary obviously, but let's take a lower-end 4vcore 16GB Windows VM (B4MS) - $29.12 (160 hours per month of usage)
3. 512GB of SSD storage - $38.40 a month

It's not a bad setup if you need flexibility to scale up your VM.
I can see them stopping the sale of windows, but not really using an online OS. I think they've just given up on the OS war and will try to get users to subscribe to their walled environment (office, azure, onenote, etc).

They're already doing that on mobile, they stopped fighting android and are now trying to be there in the form of apps and services for both android and ios.

Personally I think it makes sense: An OS is becoming more and more a layer to access the web. Most people use just a web browser and a couple other apps. It makes sense for their focus to be not in that layer, but in being the app/web that the user searches for.
I don't know if there's anything approximating release notes for 3.2 yet, but one big feature I'm aware of is support for Oculus Quest. Most people are using Unity and Unreal for that, so it's good to see an open alternative.

EDIT: Should have read more carefully, the post links a preliminary changelog https://gist.github.com/Calinou/49aefe52ce8f67ffa3f743932123...
Amazon acquired Cloud9 which was for years open-source and self-hostable. Today I'm not sure what the licensing situation is, but one thing they did improve was integration with EC2 so you can specify what type of virtual machine you want.
Not even to that extent. Some people propped indie open source dvd-ready built-in arcade emulator consoles in the 2Ks, and it bombed. The machine was alright, but the market was just not ripe. Look at all the classic mini consoles milking money recently.
The fourth player in a market doesn't need to be huge, in the UK the fourth provider (called Three) put huge pressure on the three incumbents.
Can any car described as comfortable and family friendly which run on gas?
And you can also travel without a laptop. Just get a rental or a tablet or whatever at your destination.
> without a filesystem

This might be a bit of an assumption :)
A brief look at https://www.nhtsa.gov/ reveals that more data is available than I thought, along with a roadmap to full automation (https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...). I'm glad this is being looked at, and it seems that they are in favor of automation. That being said, the data is there for comparison/analysis.
One major benefit of autonomous vehicles is that they are certainly better reporters than humans. They need not rely on the fallible memories of human drivers when data from sensors, cameras, internal system monitoring etc is out there living in the data-center. A complete snapshot of an event for replay removes any uncertainty from the equation. Simply put, these systems are designed to provide optimal data that should be captured for analysis.
I am not a Luddite here, I think that it is possible for machines to be more effective drivers than humans. As a consumer/pedestrian however, I am skeptical of any claims without actionable (open) data being provided.

*edit whoops don't know HN link formatting :)
>Installing atom or Vscode is ridiculously easy, what’s with this obsession that things need to be available out of the box?

What if your enterprise customer staged a VM for you with no access to the internet and a highly restricted environment? You know what happens in that case? You're editing configuration files in notepad. You'll never run into it because you're just working on your home workstation but a good set of defaults will have an impact on these kinds of use-cases.
Jack Tramiel's Atari Corp. evaluated the NS32k series for use in their Atari ST. They even built a prototype. But the processor had bugs and quality issues and they went with the 68k instead. I understand NS did fix their issues but by then it was too late and it never caught on outside of anything but embedded applications (apparently used in laser printers...)
I think overpopulation is having/growing a population larger than you can support. I think this definition scales also. Don't have more kids than you can afford to feed and educate. This applies to families and to countries. Societies facilitate this thru cooperation. Regarding places like sub-Saharan Africa, the land was ravaged to the point of desertification where they cannot grow food. And disease ravages them in a way that they have 5 children hoping 1 or 2 will survive to adulthood. Perhaps large-scale change can turn the tide on the desertification, so they can feed their population. And so they can fight disease and survive.
Probably most people wanting to learn Win32 in 2019 have inherited a legacy codebase too large to convert.

Personally I work in wxWidgets but occasionally it's useful to dig into wxWidgets's internals which are (for the Windows version) written in Win32.
How many $1M margin accounts can RobinHood support?
One of the most terrifying lines in those documents to me is this:

> According to Uber ATG, the SDS did not have the capability to classify an object as a pedestrian unless that object was near a crosswalk.

Jaywalking is extremely common. I've seen pedestrians jaywalk a 45mph 6-lane road, with no median to speak of. Anyone with driving experience should know that pedestrians can occur even with no crosswalk, so it boggles my mind that any engineer would sign off on such a decision.
There might be db schema changes, migrations, who knows what else. Your service might even have multiple databases it interacts with. Your service might need to precache some stuff, that will add startup time. You can't simply shut down your service, you need to finish answering the requests already started.
I think you're thinking of a different argument. I never said it doesn't provide consistent UX.

It's just that when I hear a "simple markdown editor", I don't envision an app with a bundled web browser. I'm sure it looks great and all that.
> "Germany paid net €12bn. California has net federal tax receipts of $450bn"

It is meaningless to compare a net transfer to gross tax receipts. California's large, wealthy population generates high federal tax receipts, but it's net contribution is actually negative because the federal government currently spends more in California than it receives in taxes.

Source: https://www.governing.com/week-in-finance/gov-taxpayers-10-s...
I'd sure like to see more leaks, but I'm sure you understand why it's unfair to expect a company that has its documents stolen to respond by publishing a bunch more of them.
October Saw Largest Increase in Fed’s Balance Sheet Since the Financial Crisis
> Even if the bag does not inflate, breathe normally as oxygen is flowing. Or not.

The 787 doesn't have any accumulator bags, the big difference with that system is that its electronically pulse controlled oxygen flow rather than a mechanical/chemical constant flow system.

His claim isn't exactly true, the lab he used sent power to all systems at once, this is why he saw a failure of about 25%, in fact the system on the plane actually fires the system in a sequence because the power draw to start all systems at once is just too high. So sit closer to the front of the plane if you want oxygen faster.
Age of Invention: Wonder of the World
I don't know the motive for the site design, but I wonder if perhaps it wasn't coded for mobile because the app is not compatible with mobile devices but rather only Windows, Mac, and Linux.

https://github.com/marktext/marktext
The proliferation of Linux filesystems such as ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, reiserfs, JFS, JFFS, bcachefs, etc. If any of those filesystems were truly adequate there wouldn't have to be so many.

First of all ZFS is not a “linux” filesystem. Second, available choice of filesystem is a strange thing to use as justification that previously existing filesystems are “inadequate”. By what criteria are you establishing adequacy? Success of technologies is often not dependent solely upon their technical excellence but on a variety of factors that may have nothing to do with the technology itself. (Betamax vs VHS, etc.)
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I still think "commodity" is not the correct word even in that context. Mass-market, or commercially available might be better. How can it be a commodity when there is only one manufacturer?
Windows, Mac, and Linux.

https://github.com/marktext/marktext
The original title is too inappropriate to replicate, however I do believe the information in that post is relevant to HN.
It's a bug with a non-normal use case. Most people don't use margin, and they don't sell covered calls, let alone do both. I just buy and hold regular shares, so I don't forsee how they can mess that up in anyway. If they do, I definitely will move my account elsewhere. But for now, it's still a huge hassle to move everything to another brokerage.
https://github.com/marktext/marktext
I switch between this and Zettlr, they each have their small annoyances depending on what you're doing.
Reminds me of one bit of game mechanics in the Total War series that seems to be actually accurate in two infamous cases. The game series features assassination of prominent "people" in roles - generals, kings, and even clergy, merchants, spies, and other assassins.

There is a chance of success based upon relevant stats and traits and one of the outcomes is that failed assassination attempts often result in them becoming harder to assassinate as they take more precautions and occasionally show mental side effects.

Now look at Fidel Castro and the clownish job of the CIA's loony toons assassination attempts.

It sounds absurdly gamey at first but assassination resistance may be effectively trainable like immune systems or antibiotic resistance. There is nothing magical about it - the target simply builds up infastructure of countermeasures, deliberately not following schedules, and less physically accessible to anyone unvetted. If in the dirty business of sending assassins in the first place quantity does not have a quality in its own but makes defenses stronger - strategically what is needed is one to do it right.
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The article is good, but it could do with a lot less ad hominem and calling people 'idiots'.

You can do better than this:

> you may think that you’re very sophisticated, but actually you are just being ridiculous.

> Sure, you can say that if you want (though I don’t think that’s how the word is actually used by ordinary people), but only idiots think it shows that it’s not a problem.

> I know that some people, especially among libertarians, think it makes them smart to believe that, but they clearly have not thought this through.
This comment makes no sense.

I don't plan to fly to Japan on my phone but I still want flight booking sites to work on it.

Reading about an activity and doing the activity are two different things yeah?
You are telling me random GP in France gets paid 2x more per patient than hourly wage of specialist on ER shift in central Europe, and this is somehow a slave wage now??
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/baghdadi-monday-d...

> The informant also obtained Baghdadi’s underwear and blood sample that was used for the DNA test to confirm his identity before the raid took place.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kurdish-source-provided-k...

> U.S. intelligence tested those samples and got positive DNA matches for al-Baghdadi, kicking the hunt into high gear. The informant stole the underwear about three months ago and the blood sample was taken roughly one month ago, a Kurdish official said.

Curiously the articles suggest they used the blood sample in advance of the raid to confirm it was al-Baghdadi, with no suggestion of what they were comparing it to.
I had the same idea about the fake irrelevant data while trying to fall asleep last night. It's a great idea, but I also don't want to send any unwitting hiker or backpacker down the wrong route or include weird info that doesn't make sense - especially if someone gets lost on the trail and they're trying to decipher my trail notes.

I have contacted REI and submitted takedown requests on Google and Bing as well, but I'm not holding my breath for much. I do include a copyright at the bottom of the page from the site's inception until the current year as well.

It's nice to see that other people support this and don't just see this as me complaining. I truly think the internet is broken, but I'll continue to help build this stupid beast. Thanks for the reply!
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Now consider the world wider than the USA. Imagine I am in the UK (I am), who have overly strong libel and defamation law. Other countries can too. I don't agree the law's balance is right, but that's a different discussion.

Were HN and FB a publisher, and had a UK office (and similarly in other countries with strong laws in this area) they would be liable as well as the individual posters. Those laws are why when things like Snowden and Cambridge Analytica broke they were published both sides of the Atlantic.

You've now created a problem potentially far bigger than the one you fixed.
Instead of an ideological bias, what if it is just a demographic bias?

The author supposes that there are some mustache-twirling masterminds behind the scenes at Google, Twitter, and Facebook, picking and choosing what content is promoted. But the algorithms, at their most basic sense, promote what is popular.

Based on voting records, in absolute numbers, there are simply more left-leaning people (at least in the US) than there are right-leaning people. Gerrymandering and the electoral college, etc don't reflect this in the government, but it is the case.

The left-leaning viewpoints are more promoted then, simply because there are more people who want to see them. There's no reason to posit a nefarious conspiracy.

We could argue that it would be beneficial to promote less popular viewpoints more to expose people to new ideas. It probably would be a good thing. But these companies are in the business of making money and people generally just want to see things that confirm their own biases. Just look at how upset conservatives are that they can't find enough content like that ;)
The 787 doesn't use generators, they use sealed single use oxygen cylinders. This is a newer version of the 787 system https://www.rockwellcollins.com/Products-and-Services/Commer...
Yep and whoever makes them the most money through AdSense!
If that's the case, those ideas dominated humanity for virtually all of human existence and still dominate in many parts of the world, so it seems strange to suggest the internet is somehow responsible for them circulating today. Is the claim that absent the internet those ideas would have been wiped out by now?
Sure, they're hard to predict, which is what makes Softbank's behavior here amazing. They're saying that by their own (surely optimistic) predictions, even they can't justify not declaring a loss.

As to a financial analysis of Uber, you're confusing some things. Uber did invent the summon-a-limo-with-your phone thing, so they get credit there. They didn't invent the rideshare model, but they did raise the most money to crush their competition and they were the most aggressive about committing crimes, so they currently have the biggest market share.

But all of that's ancient history. The real question for financial valuation is whether they can sustain that business once they stop burning investor money to get ahead. And I think there's good reason to believe that it will never be a particularly profitable business. Since Uber's valuation is built on being able to one day extract oligopoly rents from a large sector, it's perfectly possible that 10 years from now they'll be the next Groupon: once the new hotness, but with the stock now trading at 10% of its peak.
Correction: subtext and supertext are both smaller than normal type, I got carried away there.
US Army starts testing laser weapon that can burn through drones for 2022
Colorado, sorry for not being more specific.
> But would the Congolese have had electron microscopes but for Belgian colonialism?

Belgian colonialism was particularly vicious and damaging. It is certain that its consequences extend to the present day.
TalkToTransformer for the 1st:

CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS.

IT'S BEEN FINE FOR 100 YEARS.

BUT HONESTLY, IF THE REASON YOU CAN'T KEEP A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN YOUR MONEY,

HOW CAN YOU HAVE A CONFESSION IF IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A LIE?

WHAT MAKES YOU SO MAD ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?

SO YOU GO TO CHURCH?

NO, I WON'T GO TO CHURCH, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE GODS THINK.

I HAVE TO BE CONFIDENT, BECAUSE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,

I HAVE TO BE HONEST.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOESN'T HELP YOU FIND OUT WHAT GOD THINKS.

I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP MY HANDIWORKS TO ANOTHER AUTHORITATIVE GROUP.

BUT IF YOU
What I need from a markdown editor is the preview and vim keybindings that's why my editor of choice is vscode + vim keybindings + markdown all in one extension. Beside this combo all you can have is either vim keybindings without preview or preview without vim keybindings so if somehow marktext (which is great because open source) can have both it will be my editor of choice without any doubt.
Have you?

https://www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&ei=beXCXciEHqyyggem...
> Maybe this: https://github.com/tcr/edit-text

Nope, this is not what I expected for:

> Both the server and client are written in Rust, and its frontend is cross-compiled WebAssembly and TypeScript.
WTF type of logic is this? You can stop your employees from killing people, so the decision is ban the types of people your employees like to kill?

It's insane how much of an echo chamber HN has become in justifying any action that ignores any grounded reality as long as it means more revenue.

And the obligatory "government shouldn't intervene" aside.
Sure. You're just not allowed to claim it's lightweight.
If you don't have them host the environment for you, it doesn't cost a dime. If you have a desktop, or a server (that can run a gui for now, because they don't have a CLI option yet), you can run VSCode locally on there, install the VS Online extension, and register it with your VS Online account. You can then use VS Online "self hosted", with it connecting to your machine, for free.

https://aka.ms/vso-docs/vscode/self-hosted

My only issue is that it doesn't seem to work with SSH Remote environments yet (I use my desktop VSCode to connect to my servers), just environments local to your VSCode install. But I would expect support will be coming.
Those are real problems. For this to work, reddit would have to remove its frontpage and r/all - everything would have to be explicitly subscription based.

Youtube should be required to enable alternative modes (view all latest) and should be held liable if one can prove that they are e.g. suppressing a legal viewpoint in their searches. I see this as win-win for transparency