skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it pretty disturbing (and hilarious) how much the hive mind sentiment has shifted on HN. I remember back in 2013 when Snowden blew the whistle on government surveillance the overwhelming majority of HN users expressed the opinion that giving the government too much power would inevitably lead to tyranny. Likewise with Bitcoin, the consensus here seems to be that decentralized money would be a good thing because it would remove the government’s ability to devalue its own currency.

Now the pendulum has flung in the other direction and people are clamoring to not just break up FAANG, but to nationalize them and put all of their data under government control! It’s absolutely bizarre.
Crete, on the other hand, is full of pickup trucks.
I didn’t mean to imply that your assertion was unsupportable, but rather to draw attention to the fact you didn’t provide any justification for it. Had you referred to one or two of these in your original comment, it would have gone a long way. Especially so if you had explicitly drawn a connection between your chosen examples and failed regulations or bureaucracy, which would have tied it into the wider conversation by an additional thread than argonaut’s name-dropping.
The Can’t Be Evil Sandbox: A new user-centric security model for the web
I'm interested in this (closed) question/answer. Do you have a link to it?
There's probably a lot more to the story.

And if you can't follow a simple set of instructions that is life or death for your startup then the management that oversaw the application (the legal team?) should be fired immediately.
But java isn’t slow and sluggishness is definitely not only due to GC pauses. It’s all about input handling subsystem.
I have a college..
Wouldn't it come from counting enterprise site licenses as one customer / many users?
OTOH that means you have to upgrade quite frequently (EAP stop working) and the editor is completely broken from time to time.

Also if you take part in a prerelease EAP (before the product is 1.0) (and your feedback is constructive and valuable enough) Jetbrains might gift you a license. That's how I got my first year of PyCharm (well my first year after the EAP ended anyway).
Don't you have food hygiene requirements?

In Denmark the university cafeterias are outsourced to private companies, and subject to the same quality standards as any restaurant or other place that prepares food.
> It's possible they wouldn't be able to get off the ground today if they tried this whole thing again.

I think that's unkind. The product they had when they started (IDEA) was so much better than the competition, that it felt like magic. Yes, they rode the Java wave, but there have been other waves since then (Ruby, Python...) and nobody really managed to replicate for those markets the same experience of productivity jump that JetBrains managed back then.

Meanwhile, JetBrains have done it again with PyCharm, which is the Python IDE and has been consistently ahead of the competition literally from day 1. They entered a market where others had been for more than a decade, and ran away with it. That's just skill, not timing. By the time Python exploded in popularity, they were the obvious choice already. The fact that they can even field competitive products in the Microsoft space, where the gold-standard of IDEs has existed for 25+ years, is testament to their talent.

They've also legitimized a subscription-based approach to software-development tools, which will make it much easier for anyone to compete with them. A "new JetBrains" would find it much easier to develop an IDE today and get paid for it, which wasn't the case 20 years ago. The problem is really that very few people seem to think they can deliver a jump in developer productivity of the sort we've seen with IDEA back then.
We don't maintain futures-rs. But for the reasons you outline above (stability), our interface is also effectively done.

The choice of not using all of futures for their interface is outspoken the strategy of tokio. We have encouraged them to prefer the futures layers, but we don't see the work happening.

So, to answer your question: we are not working with them, the place of collaboration is futures-rs.
How did sqlite help in this case? We are talking about the Web.
>The secure email services provide far less product-based value, though clearly the security and lack of ad tracking is there.

I have thought about this as well. What do you think could be added to secure email services to make the value more appealing?

In the dark distant past, ISPs of old would include email as a side effect of their data services including shell accounts, user file hosting, and maybe even CGI-BIN, if you paid.

The only thoughts I have had were to bundle some kind of VOIP/SMS package along with the secure email offer. Perhaps some startup MVNO could also include secure email and other advanced features along with their mobile data services.

All of this seems pretty far fetched, as email looks to be as niche of a product category as Premium IRC.
Apple is in every single segment that Google is in and Microsoft is in most of them. Should we say that any company that has a product in one category shouldn’t be allowed to branch out?

Should Apple have been forced to keep selling iPods knowing that the phone would eventually kill their business? Should Microsoft and Google not been allowed to offer cloud services?
My best friend was writing a twine about his ordeal before he died. I'm so happy someone on Hacker News brought it up.
They are just as dominant as they provide good service. there are alternatives, nobody is forcing people to use Google
Adventures in Terminal Emulators
New techniques could help neuroscientists track brain computations
Using "copy" as the description of what Amazon did in the opening paragraph sets the tone of what they are trying to do here. Open Source is not even mentioned until most people have stopped reading.
Even worse, the previous summer I was all hyped for UHD-1/HDR, decided to go buy a compatible Xbox... (since it was the most recommended player) only to find out that the (big!) store didn't even have Planet Earth 2 to go with all the "4k" hardware they sell !
Guess what I did ?
> Ads keep the lights on and they are labeled as such

Not really, at least to how they were previously labeled. Over the years, SERP ads have gotten closer and closer to looking like organic results.
Yeah he’s gonna need to take 10-20% off
The newly revised edition of "Lazy man's guide to enlightenment", Thaddeus Golas
Children Process Forgiveness at Different Ages
It's great to see tutorials like this. FWIW, here's a tiny incremental (baker treadmill) collector[0] library I wrote. It was used in the implementation of the Io programming language.

[0] https://github.com/stevedekorte/garbagecollector
Clojure PersistentVector vs. Java ArrayList
This is a bummer. :-(.

I only had this happen a long time ago with a iTunes code-provided copy of Shrek. Every other movie I’ve purchased has worked across generations of devices and stuff since the first iPad. I’m curious if I’m just lucky?
How we express our emotions will change and this will be useless
Yes, I agree it’s mostly tools...
The book Term Rewriting and All That by Baader and Nipkow includes a lot of code in ML, I highly recommend it.

The code is available online:

https://www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow/TRaAT/

The book also contains many useful references, which I also recommend to check out for your other questions.

Also, in my experience, logic programming languages like Prolog are especially useful for reasoning about term rewriting systems, because they provide built-in features such as unification, subsumption checks and implicit search and backtracking which are very useful when working with and reasoning about term rewriting systems.
The situation will be worse if you break it up, what do you think will happen to a nationalized Google Search, a nationalized Google maps and a nationalized YouTube ? The services will be badly managed and get worser and worser
Oranges and lemons?–?the FX scandal in perspective (2014)
You're right, I am discounting the staggering fraction of people who are making essentially no money. The median number of viewers on a Twitch stream may well be 0, but it's surprisingly hard to find hard numbers here.
Perhaps a "Wisdom" stat that's influenced, in part, by the age and positive signal of substantive reputation that's old enough to have decayed.
It doesn't work that great for anything that isn't "top 100 popular".
> DDG, Startpage and such, on the current instantiation, they are proxies to someone else search-backend.

Does this remain true for DuckDuckGo? I was under the impression that they used to be that way, but that they had switched over to using their own search backend some time ago.
> something a breakup can't fix

Really? Breaking up the search unit and the ads unit into separate companies would solve that problem, no?
Changing keybindings is really easy. I understood the comment as copying Mac's style (unclear what exactly) and recreating it on KDE.

But maybe that's the weird translation from English in my head.
Ah, so you're telling me that your proposed new power plants can't meltdown. Well that's great to hear, but you know it hasn't been deployed at large scale for very long, so we don't actually have a good actuarial model of the true risk it poses.

Doesn't that mean we should prohibit operating it at scale until we have some better data on the risks of operating it at scale? Or at least require you to carry the insurance in the meantime, say for six to twelve decades?

Isolated demands for rigor can make anything too expensive to be competitive.
This is not a strong result as noted by the reviewers, and they have not proven state-of-the-art performance among other things. Those of us who did ML in academia also look down upon using the media to bolster ones claims before a thorough peer review of research.
What makes you think there's litigation?
A decay function in the ranking of answers, so that old answers drift toward the bottom over time.

It isn't a question of reputation here.
> Assuming you can track CO2 emissions

Also assuming that you meaningfully enforce violations. Although this is also a problem for a tax.
NSStatusItem has been in OS X since at least 2008

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.07/NS...

So I have a hard time seeing how you blame menu bar icons on Steve Job’s absence.
There are a ton of people asking questions who genuinely don't know why what they're asking to do is a bad idea. If you assume that they just weren't aware of the better way, you'll be right about 99% of the time. It's not a reflection on you, it's a reflection of the cluelessness of the general population. If you really just want to know about the internal workings of something, perhaps stating so up front would get some sympathy - but no guarantees.
I think that if Google was prevented (somehow) to pay for user acquisition that would actually be enough to allow competition in.

They use billions each year to acquire users, even though they are a dominant market share. Why would they do it? They have the users already, and a great product by the way. Reality, however, is that are no really acquiring the users... they are just increasing the price so that no-one else can acquire them and start a "real" competitor.
Self-Aware Video
Redbox Got Rid of Video Game Rentals
I love custom keyboards. Sharing work like this is pretty inspiring. All I’ve done is solder two ergodox’s from massdrop, but it was a blast.
To protect the jobs & social status of those lucky enough to have a natural aptitude at emotion/deception-detection?
IDEA has its annoyances though. E.g. you get a Go plugin that delivers almost everything that GoLand has, but you still have menu items here and there complaining that your project lacks a Java SDK...

I wish they had a way of building an IDE in a completely modular way. Then again, maybe it would end up as bad as Eclipse...
Is Your Company Too Dumb to Be Data-Driven?
Check with the Munich colleagues, but some of them will live in houses. They're unlikely to have 2½ hectares though.

As well as all apartment-vs-house compromises you'd have anywhere in the US (cost, noise, travel time to work etc), moving to a new country and living at the edge of a town or in a small village can feel more isolated, if you don't speak the language.
Or the Netflix thing with Qwikster ? :p
Except that if we instituted a simple carbon auction it's provably effective (not just theoretical, it very effective for NOx and SOx). I suppose that's not a pseudo market solution, that's a real market solution, unlike all of the trading proposals being put forth at the moment.
Linaria – zero-runtime CSS in JavaScript
Gasoline tax and vehicle registration fees pave the road.
You can check for yourself, Bing seems to the the user agent... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22my+user+agent%22&t=h_&ia=web
Sooo... in standard profile, yes. `async_std::spawn` uses async-stds runtime. Also, our io interfaces (TcpListener, etc.) are effectively bound to our runtime (they need our mio instance in the back).

But this cannot made work generically in the current ecosystem, as there are no common abstractions here. We can't come up with those unless we have buy-in from other players.

For applications, that doesn't really matter: you pick one Listener type and you're done. Applications aren't very generic.

For libraries, that's harder, but there's strategies around that make it feasible to work with this situation (mainly: injecting the exact type to use into your library).

Finally: there's a flag in async-std called "runtime". If you turn it off, you can use async-std without that behaviour, at the cost of having to bring your own runtime.
This is actually what triggered me to get the personal site license when it first came out a number of years ago.

JetBrains announces that IntelliJ is going Open Source.

I checkout the code, build it (~20ish minutes) inside of the downloaded bits, launch the newly compiled IDE, build the repo source again this time debugging IntelliJ from within itself. All in less than an hour, with no hiccups. Amazing.

I love JetBrains so damn much it hurts.
The guidelines also say: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

In this case, assuming good faith would be assuming that @ordx is stating a fact that they're aware of, not trying to stir up controversy. If you were interested in finding out how they knew that, you could politely ask them what their source of information was, without implying that they have ulterior motives.
Greta Thunberg row with German rail operator over ‘overcrowded’ train tweet
First one was aptly closed IMHO, much too vague. SO is not the right tool for absolute beginners to seek guidance when they have no idea what they're doing: the format asks for a reasonably specific answerable question. Would be nice if upon closing the asker was given pointers to beginner-friendly resources, though.

The other two are better, and (aptly) not closed. Of course you'll get inappropriate votes to close, but I hope they are correctly offset by other votes the (hopefully vast) majority of the time.

Now about this:

> how is closing the question helpful in any way?

I suppose it's to stay focused. When googling I quite often get useful SO results (& upvote those), and I'm happy not having to sift through tons of useless questions.
Tool for making and sharing cellular automata
Well, not really. If run at the national level, once carbon dividends become ingrained in the public's mind it becomes a political 3rd rail to raid that cookie jar. Welfare benefits are very hard to claw back.

And w.r.t. size of the bureaucracy, not so much either. The size of actual government bureaucracy is quite insignificant compared to size of transfer payments in this case. Like 1% or less.

And this particular tax has fantastic property; since it will drive down carbon use, the amount of tax collected will go down over time, thus reducing it's drag on the economy.

Hardcore market fundamentalists, like myself, love carbon taxes.
Lets do the math. We will assume that 100% individuals switched to electric cars and heat.

Commercial and Residential Sector Emissions for US - 12%
All Transportation for US - 29% (It includes rail and aircraft. Only 60% of it is light duty vehicle and I couldnt find what percentage of it is commercial transport)

So we have 12%+ 29%0,6 = 32%. It is big number but now we have to produce same amount of energy in electricity. 79% of all electricity generation was fossil fuels.

32% (0.21) = 7%

So even if all individuals will stop using fossil fuels for heat and will use electric cars for transportation. We will have less than 10% of reduction.
> Usually the products are nothing more than a collection of IntelliJ Ultimate plugins

That's not really true. The experience you get from, e.g. PyCharm and GoLand is substantially better than what you get from IDEA + Python plugin or IDEA + Go plugin. Yes, the plugin will get you 85% of the way there, but it will feel more clumsy and hacky than just using the dedicated product.
The problem is the programmer thing just isn't comparable - knowing a little bit about the law isn't like knowing a little bit about web development. No one who is not a lawyer has the ability to get qualified to handle legal issues within the time frame they would need to for a legal issue at hand. Beyond that, with legal issues, you can't take back your mistakes - if you get armchair legal advice and it turns out to be bad, you've probably irreparably harmed your prospects in the negotiation/case. If you mess up web development, it's not a big deal.

The cost argument is a fair one, and I think that's worth considering. In this case, though, OP has indicated that this is a project that he feels has some amount of value, so it's worth spending $300-500 for a consultation with a lawyer. I'd try to look at it from an expected value perspective - even if paying $500 only has a small chance of improving the outcome of your negotiation/case, if the value of the thing you're negotiating over is $25000, it's worth spending. If the value of the thing is $600, then don't bother.

In terms of finding a lawyer, upcounsel.com, avvo.com or referrals from friends are good places to go.
The post said they had an enterprise account, which I assume could limit access via separate logins, but many of the users were sharing the same single set of credentials (e.g. everyone logging in with the same account), so there was no real access control or knowledge of who all had access using that account.
I would be interested in more information about this too. Maybe we can start with intellectual property, for example maybe Google patents that are enforced by governments laws and justice are a huge barrier of entry for potential competitors
Looking at the API request counter/how it renders it seems like you're pinging the API for every news item? 43 for just the "news" and "show" sections seems pretty high.

If that were the case I'd be worried about hitting an API limit, etc.

Great concept though! Looks clean =)
Looking through the Wikipedia link I determined that Google is probably more likely running an extortion racket

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
A couple of million people lost their lives, and a civilisation that had been around for tens of thousands of years was wiped out in a hundred.

Australia got away with its genocide while the worlds attention was elsewhere. Don't even try to defend this.
I don't know if you've ever seen "The Good Place" but it's a driving plot point of a recent season that it's almost impossible to be "good" because every action you take has all these unintended consequences/ supports all these negative systems.
React, JSX, and CoffeeScript
Did you publish a paper on these experiments?

I'm not familiar with the boolean circuit problem, but I wonder if it's an instance where the NP hardness comes from specific edge cases, and whether your experiment tested said edge cases. Compare with the fact that the C++ compiler is Turing complete: its Turing completeness arises from compiling extremely contrived bizzarro code that would never come up in practice. So for everyday code, humans can answer the question, "Will the C++ compiler enter an infinite loop when it tries to compile this code?", quite easily, just by answering "No." every time. That doesn't mean humans can solve the halting problem, though.
There's nothing wrong with an almost monopoly if no ones is forcing people to use the company services. No one is forcing users to use Google
I'm not familiar with this family of technology, so forgive the dumb question:

But.. what is this?

I read the landing page and browsed a couple examples and I have no clue what I would use it for.

Would it be a pile of distributed workers handling jobs? Sort of like pushing a job into a job queue and having a bunch of workers consume jobs?

If that's the case, what are some reasons I might choose this Bastion model over a more traditional JobQueue <-> Worker model?

Thanks to any replies. I feel I should be interested, but I'm confused :)
Have you thought of potential ways to use AI to help some problem domain you’re interested in? Like maths and other sciences it’s important to have an interesting application that you can get behind. It’s just a tool after all.
> though I do love the idea of using protobufs!

or FlatBuffers!
Why we sleep - Deep-dive in why we sleep and what to do to sleep better

Born a crime - Follow Trevor Noah in his early life in South Africa.
I think you misunderstood GP. My take on their point is that when a question from 10 years ago about a C#/SQL issue has a top answer with 300 points about using a library that’s 12 years old, but a better answer with Linq from this year only has 4 points, people are probably going to either go with the 300 point legacy answer. A decaying function can implement relevancy.

I think it’s a good idea!
I like Twine but I ended up using Ink and Inky much more https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
Oh boy! The guy who hates jazz!

French postmodernism is not the right place to go for epistemology
Carbon trading works great as long as two things are true:

1) The total amount of emissions are set for all participants with the sum of all participants emissions being set based on current scientific data for stopping climate change.

2) No double counting. If you sell it off you can't also use it.

The climate talks failed on the carbon trading discussions because people would not agree to those.

While carbon tax is nice and possible a good method to combat climate change, it is not immune to those problems. Carbon tax also have an rather uneven impact, so I personally see it as a tool to be used in specific industries where the benefit costs analysis show the intended incentives without causing unintended side effects such urbanization.
Altavista wasn't as good
How new is your computer?
I thought Eclipse was pretty good... obviously not a 1-to-1 comparison...
Distributing malware with Google images, service workers and vegan Twitter bots
I thought the same when I first saw "stock" Rider - it's a very different look and feel from Visual Studio, more what you'd be used to as a Java dev with IntelliJ, or an Android dev with Android Studio. I personally found th look a bit... dated.

A while back JetBrains made Rider more themable (prior to that update, you could only really theme the editor, not the file explorer etc). After that update, it looks great with a dark theme enabled!

I'm on mobile now, but if I remember later I'll mention the name of the theme I'm using - it's pretty close to VS's dark theme.