skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I.. agree. After all, even before ASCII people already used the English character set and punctuation to type out many non-English Latin characters on typewriters (did typesetters do that with movable type, ever? I dunno, but I imagine so). Just as ASCII was intended to work with overstrike for internationalization, i can imagine combining codepoints having been a thing even earlier.

OTOH, it wouldn't have been UTF-8 -- it would have been an EBCDIC-8 thing, and probably not good :)
We need laws to prevent this kind of shit. However, we have some laws already. If the TV is cracking passwords, who goes to jail? Oh, wait, I forgot laws like the CFAA and other shit like that are only enforced when regular people break them, not when companies break them to make money.
Uh, people like this are rounding errors in these kinds of statistics...
do they use the elastic fork they did a while ago?
Hey fellow Vimmers. If you (just like me) have to use Mac to do your work, you may find this little project of mine interesting https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer. It's a Hammerspoon config inspired by Spacemacs, written in Fennel.
Readme doesn't really describe every cool feature, I need to record a screencast, but I've been swamped with work lately.
It doesn't exist because many people don't want it to exist, chiefly due to privacy concerns.

In the mid aughts the Consumers Union successfully lobbied against the creation of a 411 directory for cell numbers: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2013...
If the boot camp is used as a get up to speed mechanism by someone with a previous technical background of some kind, even tangential, I guess it could work out sometimes.

I tried to look for a junior dev recently and was flooded with boot camp resumes from career changers. The code samples were all more or less cut and paste type stuff where you could tell immediately that even if the candidate were a fairly bright and motivated person, the degree of handholding needed to ramp them up would be just impossible.
I’m not sure I follow, I don’t think that if a white guy is present during your interview, he is automatically racist? What I got from your post is that you are having problems during interviews because you are not comfortable with white people conducting your interviews. It’s sounds like you are automatically assume that white interviewers are racist? You are broadly generalizing people who happened to be white which does not sound good any way you look at it.
> My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes do where they show up, take over a hobby, and drive all the fun out (and thus women) as "MENTRIFICATION". It is my new favorite word.

Versus when chicks show up, deconstruct every aspect of a hobby, and drive away anyone who was actually interested in it. At least with competition someone wins.
In the 5G era, probably. TVs will come with 5G connectivity built in and always on. At initial power-up, you'll have to log in with your "television provider". Like the way CBS online works now.
I was thinking of just adding pseudo-elements on top of the existing links to make their clickable area bigger and not touching the design of the website per se.
https://webdesigntips.blog/web-design/css-tricks/enhancing-t...
I agree, "being political" as in defending and fighting for what is right comes at a cost and people (or companies) have other priorities as well. But be aware those wanting to move away from what we consider right will be thankful for our inaction.

Thing is, waiting usually makes problems worse. Divisiveness seems on a recent all time high already, and two political extremes won't just cancel each other making everything go back to normal. One of them will probably just win. That's how it went prior to the Reich, at least.

So yeah, increasing divisiveness makes defending the good parts of our current societies require more and more effort. Had we not let it get to were we are now we would have required a lot less "being political". Waiting will likely make it worse down the line.

Yes, politics is a never ending process. Since there will always be rules needing to be revised and people trying to use that processes to gain power. Again, allowing this to happen initially and undoing so later will require us to pay extra.

But yeah, obviously most people just want to live their lives not having to spend their valuable time (and more) on politics. Doesn't mean this is a great move. Even more so in times were shit is about to hit the fan.
Yeah, but almost perfect ergonomics is good enough, and type safety >> ergonomics.
> It almost makes me wonder how they/we can work around that sentiment now.

From my perspective, the issue ultimately is - why? What do I gain from using Microsoft software?

I worked at a Microsoft shop for a short period. All of the 'new MS' stuff I've personally worked with has certainly been Windows first.

Take C#. It might work on Linux, sure, but you have stuff like the .NET runtime taking forever to start, the reliance on Visual Studio, .NET Framework isn't open source because.... why?

Or perhaps you have Microsoft Teams - for which, despite it effectively being a web app - there is no Linux client and in Firefox half the features are disabled. Even on Windows it's literally a shit version of Slack which presumably exists solely because it's bundled with other Microsoft stuff or because the name has appeal to some PHBs.

For the most part from what I can tell it's all still either Windows first, or a crap version of something else, or both. There might be some minor researchy fun bits, but anything that seems to actually see wide use is all Windows stack.

What's the point? I read the article, and it pretty much feels like they want to Windowsify Rust. Why should I care about that?

Literally everything I read about Microsoft seems to be from people who want an excuse to use Windows, or something. I want Windows to burn and die in a fire; so what is there for me?
https://typeclasses.com/phrasebook (especially the later lessons) has some nice little tutorials / tips and tricks showing off libraries you'd want to use in production for various tasks, very practical. (I haven't tried their for-pay courses, so can't comment on that.)

https://tech.fpcomplete.com/haskell/library/rio is a tutorial for an alternative prelude, perhaps a bit opinionated, but it shows a common "production" architecture.
A saas product is the oposite of a plaintext file..
Jupyter notebooks
The poll is here [0]. It was discussed recently in an NYT oped here [1]. It was an interesting result that definitely altered my opinion.

[0] https://medium.com/@ThinkNowTweets/progressive-latino-pollst...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/opinion/latinix-warren-de...
Sounds exactly like the path Theranos took.
One such feature is the ability to play from local network storage. Possibly also ambient lighting control.

I guess if we were talking about possible features rather than actual one's: the ability to use the tv's tuner to stream to other devices would be another intranet feature that could be on someone's wishlist.

I agree the equivalent of cyongenmod/LineageOS for smart tv's would be great.
Show HN: We released our developer conversion funnel featire
Hey HN,

I'm Derric, CEO of https://www.moesif.com. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we released our Conversion Funnel feature (https://www.moesif.com/docs/user-analytics/conversion-funnel-analysis/) for API platforms. Conversion funnels are an easy way to measure developer adoption metrics like Time to First Hello World (TTFHW) and Time to First Working App (TTFWA).

We built Moesif to help API-first companies understand how customers use their APIs to plan a better product strategy that drives actual growth.

If you have any questions or any feature ideas especially if you're an API first company, please share!
Yes I have, provide some substance to what infrastructure you mean, and what "less developed world" means.

As it stands, these statements are vacuous. Context helps. And to be honest, it seems like people making these statements haven't ever been to the "less developed world". America isn't perfect, but if you're going to just blanket write stuff like this, at least be prepared to back it up with examples.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jhoward/2005/01/27/conto...

"at the event we needed 2 companies, so someone in the product team came up with Contoso and Fabrikham, and in the BizApps events, all the integration scenarios where around these 2 companies doing business with each other. i have no idea where the names come from – i guess its like with setting up your own off-the-shelf Limited company, someone comes up with mixes of word & names. Fabrikham is a horrible name! Contoso is better, bu only just"
Or non delete right.
I was rather young at the time this was on, but I have very fond memories of this show. Even then I realized the distinction between "wholesome" and "risque" humour based on this show.
It's rare and treasured for a punchline to serve both simultaneously. Adult innuendo for the adults watching and innocent jokes for tender-young ears.

I also learned the comedic value of sarcasm.

I don't know how well this show would work for an audience today, but it does hold a warm place in my heart for a good time in my life.

Thanks for the reminder SmackToward. I'm going to go get a tissue while I miss my father.
Since rates are so low, taking debt is a lower risk
wait, when did TVs start shipping with cameras?
Just this week package theft was part of the tv show The Rookie and last December Mark Rober had that staged video highlighting it.

For my apartment complex, generally the carriers will just leave it at your door. However, at this time of year, USPS won't even attempt to deliver packages and takes them all to the office and makes the office text/email recipients (I don't think this is legal and I've complained about it but no one cared) and the other carriers (except for Amazon delivering themselves) will knock and if you don't answer in the time it takes them to scan the bar code they'll take it back to the distribution center for UPS and to the FedEx office a couple miles away for FedEx packages.

This is purely done as a response to theft.

At my current apartments I have had some Amazon packages go 'out for delivery' then just never come. Most recently this happened 2 weeks ago and Amazon issued a refund as a gift card balance. In this case it was just 10$~ of microfiber eyeglass cloths.

When I still lived in a house 2 years ago, I'd regularly have Amazon packages taken off my porch that was 20 ft from the street and blocked by bushes. I never had any plain brown boxes taken though, only stuff with the Amazon tape. Fortunately a lot of the stuff was garbage I was getting for free to review and the few times it was something I paid for Amazon would reship or issue a refund without hesitation.

Without running the numbers I'd say my personal theft rate is probably below 1% in the apartment and probably below 10% when I was at the house.
Nepotism versus Democracy, a Simulator
I'm just going to leave this here as food for thought:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684088
Snips Console will be closing on January 31, 2020
Can anyone explain why this is different from a region or an AZ?
The unit Scholarship fund - http://www.unitscholarshipfund.org/ mostly.
Some back of the napkin math:

* $2.9+ billion in sales
* 25.5 million consumers
* Shopify Basic is 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction (ignoring $29 monthly cost.
* Shopify Plan is 2.6% + 30¢ per transaction (ignoring $79 monthly cost).
* Advanced Shopify is 2.4% + 30¢ per transaction (ignoring $299 monthly cost).
* Shopify Plus pricing starts at $2000 monthly.

If all merchants were on Shopify Basic:
* 2.9% of $2.9 billion = $84,100,000

If all merchants were on Shopify Plan:
2.6% of $2.9 billion = $75,400,000

If all merchants were on Shopify Advanced:
2.4% of $2.9 billion = $69,600,000

If 1 consumer ≅ 1 sale

$0.30 * 25.5 million = $7,650,000

So Shopify revenue for Black Friday weekend was between $77.25 million and $91.75 million

Obviously a lot of factors not taken into account there. But still. Nice work Shopify!
Our experience is similar. The skills gained in the first year -- how to actually use git, basic db skills, bash skills, bundler/nvm/etc, better debugging, better problem solving, working outside of greenfield projects, etc make a huge difference.
I'm feeling a sudden overpowering urge to throw clogs into things.
lucidworks or sinequa are already doing that in the enterprise search space
This stood out to me, and aligns with my observations in the (limited) female representation in the workplace:

> In India, for instance, about 35% of developers are women; in the U.S., it’s 16%

Does India not have the various gender biases we often attribute a large part of the problem to? What is India doing so well in this space to have over double the percentage of female software developers as the U.S.?
New: Set where to go next – Helpmonks Shared inbox for any email server
Out-of-tree drivers, support for closed-source drivers in Linux (assuming kernel API for wasm drivers is stable).
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You can search for the companies online and find interesting things, like this enterprise database schema for AdventureWorks Cycles: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=438...
You're making it sound like it's easy to hock a bunch of stuff. Ever try to sell a bed? If you can't take it with you and can't sell it then you're paying disposal and transportation fees only to buy the same junk again. It kind of seems like you're arguing from a place of privilege not experienced with the consequences of moving a family without help, without savings, without adequate work.
Now that he's been remaindered, I wonder who his enemy was.
I've heard the "buy commercial dumb panels", but also have never seen links.

For the one smart tv I do have, I just don't have it connected to the internet. Even then, I have no way of knowing if it's connecting to any open wifi networks near me.
Battery prices fall nearly 50% in 3 years, spurring more electrification
> taste of hops in a beer can be used to mask many errors and missteps

You are not alone.

A microbrewer here in London said it really well: most small breweries go with IPA and in general overdo their hops because it allows to hide faults. Without the overpowering hoppiness their beers wouldn't taste good at all.

As a casual home brewer, I try to avoid hoppy concoctions. And at some point I will learn how to do proper German style weissbier...
Nightmares in perl...
Founder Institute and NASA Partner to Bring Silicon Valley Back to Research
> Transparency builds trust in real life and there is nothing but transparency here.

What transparency? I all see are unverifiable claims. Such claims actually make you more suspect imo.

> PIA has never logged nor has KAPE.

So you say.

> And to Zero Trust we are headed.

How is 'Zero Trust' in any way related to the issue of transparency you bring up?
4D Imaging Firm Raises $109M for ‘See Through Walls’ Tech
Not even two weeks after announcing the acquisition, now the shutdown notice.

Seems like using snips for your own projects, with Home Assistant, ... is more or less dead outside of what you have working right now and don't need to change.
Obviously more GDP means more resources, the question is whether it solves issues like homelessness "by default" as suggested by the OP I responded to. My opinion is that it greatly depends on the dominant cultural narratives of the general public and of the ruling party.

In the UK we've seen fairly reasonable GDP growth in the last decade but have also seen a large overall increase in statutory homelessness acceptances over the same period [0]. That's just the official records: the Crisis charity estimates that the number of "hidden homeless" single adults has according to government estimates increased by a third over roughly the same period [1]. The reasons for this are generally given to be the lack of affordable housing being built, and welfare reforms such as capping the housing allowance.

The cultural narratives in play here are that a prolonged austerity was required in order to salvage the economy, and that our welfare is subject to significant levels of stress from deliberate "benefit cheats" or "welfare mummies". Both of these are contentious, as far as I've been able to gather.

[0] https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/london_assembl...
Hey there, thanks for letting me know. Developer features are in beta -- I have removed the link from the footer.
AWS is slowly going after StackPath and Cloudflare.
Amazon Announces Graviton2 64-Core Arm SoC
> ...I have a personal theory that the overwhelming aroma and taste of hops in a beer can be used to mask many errors and missteps in the brewing process...

For what it's worth, more hops absolutely masks errors in brewing. It's something that any homebrewer finds out very quickly.

IPA's/etc are very easy to get a drinkable beer out of no matter how many mistakes you make. (To be fair, it's not just IPA's that are forgiving. Weissbiers are actually quite easy to brew due to the yeast hiding off flavors nicely, and ambers can be easy due to lots of caramelized, unfermentable sugars hiding off flavors. You can overdo the sweetness in an amber or mess up the fermentation in a wheat more easily than you can make an undrinkable IPA, though.) That's not to say that really good IPAs are easy to brew, just that you'll get something drinkable no matter what.

Any commercial brewery _should_ be beyond basic mistakes, but scaling brewing is hard. What I'm saying really only applies to homebrewers, but I suspect it carries over to smaller breweries as well.

The hardest beers to brew well are actually Pilsners, Lagers, and American-style pilsners/mega-brews. Anything with very clean, crisp flavors. I hate to say it, but if you want to really test your skills, try brewing a miller lite clone... This is especially true in homebrewing, where proper lagering/aging and fermenting at low temps needed for lager yeasts used by pilsners/lagers/etc is difficult.

At any rate, my hat is off to Czech brewers. Trying to brew a really good pilsner or bohemian lager is damned hard to perfect, and it's an absolutely sublime style when done right. Sadly, it's somewhat rare to find a brewery in the US that can do it well.
Seems like you're agreeing with me in a very abrasive way.
Less than Uber driver's income in SF or Seattle for sure. In fact, it might be even less than Uber driver's income in Lisbon itself.
> you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment

People have been fired from Google for suggesting exactly that.
I was surprised not to see Spencer Ceramics listed.
They were featured prominently in MS Word for DOS manuals.
Congrats, so what’s your next project? ;)
That's a LOT of real estate to dedicate to charging cars.

Not really. It's a 700-space parking lot. A Walmart Supercenter, of which the US has over 2000, has more than that.
Is the right thing to assume we should target 50-50 gender representation as a first-principle outcome target in all fields? If so, it’s a negative sign that the marquee companies analyzed hired at about the gender split of universities they targeted.

Is it equally plausible that we should be looking bottoms-up from the perspective of a fresh college graduate entering the field and asking the question, “am I likely to get a systemically fair shake when interviewing?” From the data presented, it seems likely that the answer is “yes”.

By all means we should work on the pipeline. I’m supportive to the idea that, by default, we should expect 50-50 representation, but when we find pockets where that does not hold, we must be open to understanding possible reasons. Army/Marines, oil/gas work, and airline pilots are other readily identifiable fields without a 50-50 representation. Is this good, bad, or indifferent?

If women who enter those fields achieve success at the same rate as the overall population, is the hiring and evaluation system (basically after their decision to enter the field) “fair”? If not, why not?
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Better rsync support is actually in the works (though probably still a ~quarter out to land end to end in go-ipfs). The two main components are improving ipfs "mount" support, and adding metadata support into unixfs so we can only update modified files. See details here: https://github.com/ipfs/team-mgmt/blob/master/OKR/PACKAGE-MA... -- mount currently has IPNS read support but write support needs an owner to get it over the finish line and unixfsv1.5 (with metadata) should be landing in js-ipfs later this week!
I use it all the time. I grew up on IRC (37 a few weeks ago). Personally, I learned a lot infastucture and engineering from this IRC. Recently my team hit a problem using an open source ruby gem from AWS, that took us 2 weeks to find. It wasn't us that found it, but a chatter in the #ruby channel that had originally written the code 5 years prior, and knew of a conflict between two specific AWS GEMS. This would of taken months and thousands of lines of code to find. IRC FTW
Presumably because the gap exists in the current system, and the current system is optimized for the current scoring function. Changing the scoring function will cause the system to rebalance into a new steady state.

Although, there is no clear reason why the new steady state would not be female dominant or evenly split, but if I were to take a bet, I would bet that the new scoring function will still hold existing bias because the problem starts much earlier.
This is disgusting, if true. That should clearly be illegal. (Though every wifi network should have a password at this point...)
Eating healthy is 4 times cheaper than eating at McDonalds