skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not more challenging in the sense of we don’t know how to write laws that would work or that those laws would be unconstitutional.

Corporations have figured out how to use incentives, winks, and nods to avoid having anyone but the lowest level employees end up with provable beyond a reasonable doubt intent level mens rea. But we have solutions to that in our toolkit. We can define crimes as requiring only negligence or even strict liability crimes.

We need only summon the collective will.
> disabled the plugin in their other IDEs

Wut? The plugin is there. I installed it in IDEA without any problems just two weeks ago. Then again, I have an Ultimate subscription, I don't know if the free versions are held back.
What other applications for this could there be?
Perhaps one day bureaucracies will accept proposals via JSON (or other open data format... XML anyone?) rather than Word or PDF.

One could argue that these formats are more accessible than their equivalent pseudo-paper formats. It would eliminate the nitpicking over document format, as the low bar to enter would be enforced programmatically.

This would allow technologists with lesser experience in the minutia of proposal writing to compete with huge government contractors with specialists who deal in final proposal preparation. At least it would in the short term until the big contractors retooled.
Haha, I’m glad I’m not the only one who wanted this! Nice work
Did you post this on wrong thread or you didn't care to open the posted link?
Depending on how small, a patreon-like solution might work, express that you're open to feature requests but that you can't justify it without compensation.
Show HN: HTTPS Cert – from a domain name to a complete PFX bundle
To ensure that the ruling body telling you what you can't use is the only group that gets to use it.
SO questions and answers do sometimes seem ossified now, the ever-shifting flood plain of restrictions and gatekeeper culture having muted and chilled what used to be a more dynamic forum. I increasingly find more valuable and timely information poking around in the relevant subreddits.
No surprise.
Also, who can seriously claim that other proprietary search engines (yandex, Baidu) don't sell uprankings?
Google is paying to Apple around 12 billion for being default search, this is only to Apple, but they pay to Firefox and others too. So if you want to get those users you need to pay more, you also need top talent and the most important thing that you need is data. Data is the king and Google controls the kingdom. So to start competing with Google for real market share you need XX billions for start and you still will have small chance to win because you don't have Chrome, Youtube, Maps, Gmail, Google Analytics, Android and many other data sources.
This endeavour is a huge risk with small percentage of succeeding. This is probably the reason there is no real competition. Market will not solve this on its own.
> I wouldn't start a java app to develop Python

Have you ever used PyCharm? It's head and shoulders better than any other IDE for Python out there. A slight delay whenever you restart is worth the productivity improvements it grants the rest of the time.
Let's see what the actual selling price is. It's probably going to be very high by pickup standards. In which case the prestige value matters more than the functionality.
It's disappointing to see bugs slowly creep into their products and stay version over version. I have the All Products Pack and most versions are currently pinned to 2019.1.4 which has the most bearable balance of bugs and new features.
Honestly, I'm not seeing any signs of webtorrent usage at all. It appears to be a normal stream from a normal server. Even if they don't store all the video, and just proxy the torrent sessions, I'm not sure how they could afford that.

The video loaded very fast for me. It's quite impressive.
Oh, and a special mention is deserved for Rider's git merge UI, which is by far the best I've used.

It's based on 3 window panes: you get your code on the left, theirs on the right, and the result in the middle, along with tools for accepting changes from either side, and you can edit the result pane at will too.

I've never liked the git merge UIs in VS or VS code (or other IDEs I've tried over the years) - Rider's is perfect for me.
Wouldn't these same rules apply for all the other pickup trucks?
This has been explained to you before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21596722
Eclipse is gimp
Jetbrains is photoshop.
I used to work for a company that ran a vertical search engine (products/shopping). Search results were essentially results for ads. One of the engineers demoed a project where you change the weighting of relevancy and yield in the results. The internal complaints of bad results were mostly explained by yield optimization.

The company ~died when Google started removing aggregators like this from its results (the Panda update) and doing product ads, itself.
This has been happening in Chrome extensions for years now. I’ve tried reporting it so many times. In our case it happens randomly so it’s impossible to reproduce, which inevitably leads to ”issue closed - couldn’t reproduce”.
I dream of a product where I can watch anything. Any tv station, from any country, in real time and HD. Any movie or film that has been digitized. Searchable in a well indexed fashion. Any user generated content as well. No switching between YouTube or reddit or Vimeo. Just one search bar and all of the things.

And then I wake up. It was just a dream. The rights and licensing would never let this happen.
I am on SO and a few sister sites for 7 or 8 years now. Only 40k points or so.

I asked "dumb" questions on issues I could not really voice out as I was not understanding them clearly. In the vast majority of the cases I got helpful answers starting with "what you are looking for is called xxx". THANK YOU for these answers because I discovered new concepts.

I also asked questions with pseudo code telling what problem I have, togther with descriptions of the issue (and screenshots, tracebacks etc). I was using pseudocode because the codebase was large and it was not realistic to get a minimally working code.

But the problrm was not specific to my software, I knew it was more general but could not pinpoint the exact issue. “Post your code!" was the answer he explaining that it was notveasy was let with diwnvotes, close flags and whatnot.

So the experience really depends on the day. Still I find that the knowledge people have and share is extraordinary, especially for amateur coders like myself.
> The issue is that C is not much of an "IDE language"

This isn't an issue with the language so much as it is with the build systems, includes, library paths, and tooling.

Compare to Java (set the classpath to exactly the artifacts you want and IntelliJ uses its own build system unless you explicitly tell it otherwise), Python (set up a virtualenv with exactly what you want and PyCharm handles its own builds, insofar as Python builds).

In C on Windows and Unix you have to figure out how to find and address includes and libraries in a cross platform way. CMake is probably the best bet. If they were in the position of, say, TurboC back in DOS days where they provided stdlib and you added everything else you wanted, they could do as good a job as for Java.
It's just the way the API works - to get the details for a single story (i.e. title, score, user, time, etc.) you need a single API request. Once the stories are fetched, then you can query the API only for those that have changed.

I was wondering what is the API limit - I haven't hit it yet. Will see.
Betting the Company on ClojureScript
If you're at all into custom keyboard making, and you haven't already, check out the QMK firmware: https://qmk.fm/ It makes it a lot easier to deal with the non-standard layouts that you'll probably want to use.
Carbon trading is when a polluting economy/state throws its weight around to keep polluting. It's that simple and that wrong.

There should be no such "credits", just emissions reduction plans - and the states which should be required to reduce the most and the fastest are those which pollute the most per capita, and the most period.

Of course, this won't happen because the largest polluters are also the most politically powerful, so they rig things in their favor.

Let's name the names: China, US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Korea, Canada, Brazil.
https://www.countryaah.com/top-10-countries-that-contribute-...

What should be negotiable IMHO is:

* How to account for the unfairness in the fact that some countries got to pollute freely for a couple of centuries while others didn't get this "free pass" and are still behind in grid development.
* The question of whether absolute pollution should count more than pollution per capita or the other way around.
* The extent and the form of aid by richer/more industrially-developed economies should be committed to help with technology to poorer economies which already pollute a lot and will have difficulties adjusting independently.
That's (part of) my point: Google isn't some egalitarian techno-utopia.

You could, say, have a policy that the lowest-paid employees have a floor of 1/7th the pay of the highest-paid employees, like the janitor makes $100k and the CEO makes $700K, or whatever.
> I'm guessing it's some sort of a rule here to have at least one anti-google link on the front page at all times

Not only this, any submission that's remotely related to Google HN crowd finds a way to start bashing Google. It has gotten so bad that recently I started hiding any submission related to Google.
But this is for top 1% streamers. Average streamer makes nothing close to what average programmer makes and it's much, much easier to be average programmer. Plus 1% programmers are probably better compensated than 1% streamers.
How do you implement the adaptive shadows, which change shape depending on where on the page they are?

How do you implement diagonal corners on elements?

You can implement some of Material on the web, but not all of it - which is why many components and styles are missing
It’s a fat regressive tax at a time when the lower working class is already rebelling. Invest more in technology and instead increase subsidies and build transmission lines
Sadly, international agreement is the only hope because it is a global problem. For example, if California will go 0 emissions tomorrow, it will hardly matter if the rest of the world would remain on the current trajectory.
Avoid having your weekend trashed by what you don't know
Through the Looking Glass. Staysafeonline.org. A Travesty
Not as much as people think. The existing grid, in the UK at least, can cope with only minor changes, so long as cars are smart enough to react to pricing signals as they charge. This is quite simple to do as the grid already implements a market system with prices available in real time.

The big challenge will be providing charging for people (in the UK about 40% of the population) who do not have the opportunity to park their car off road. Quite a lot of this demand could be met by simply providing normal domestic sockets with RFID controlled breakers on posts at 6 m intervals along urban streets and in every public parking space. This is relatively simple and scalable and does not need large capital expenditure to get started.
Congratulations. Solve a real problem for people and make a nice income stream.
We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson
Achilles' Heel. Proofpoint.com
Man is a tool using animal. Anyone else could take your lament and turn it around on something you depend on every day.
it's true, offsets can't prevent purchasers from adding to their emissions, if they choose to act in contradiction to the spirit of purchasing offsets in the first place (mitigating the emissions which cannot be immediately reduced for whatever reason to buy time for when they can be reduced).

however, they can fund projects to help people with less money to reduce their emissions by an equal amount, generating a large value in beneficial externalities as a result.

if i purchase an offset and the proceeds go to a hydropower project in india, there's a lot more going on there than the compensation for one ton of emissions alone.
I think their model is pretty fair. You subscribe and then are entitled to use that version forever, even if you end your subscription. What you gain in the subscription is the right to use newer versions.

For the stuff I really rely on, I feel good knowing there's a reasonable business model behind it. The ultimate version is $500 / year or $149 / year for business and personal respectively. For a lot of use cases, it doesn't need to save you very much time to pay for itself.
As landing page states it is a runtime supplies actor-model like concurrency. If you are familiar with Erlang. Bastion is the reflection of the Erlang runtime in Rust. Far beyond an actor system implementation. It is a complete system with full asynchronous communication.

"...It supplies actor-model-like concurrency with a lightweight process implementation and utilizes all of the system resources efficiently guaranteeing of at-most-once message delivery."

It might be a single process, pile of workers, a bunch of http servers dispatching requests, various middleware layers connected with asynchronous boundaries. With all these built on top of crash and fault recovery.

For more information what it provides please take a look to my latest presentation at Rust Berlin:
https://slides.com/vertexclique/crash-course-with-bastion#/
The show recently changed its format so that people who win are allowed to come back the next day, so the longest one ever just happened to have been set the week before - they took part in eleven episodes.

We certainly weren't the best ones ever, partly due to our own ability to find the correct words even when many letters are given, and partly due to luck playing a significant role in the actual game. (I didn't go into the luck-based elements in the post, because our strategy couldn't influence that.)
Just because you coulda, doesn't mean you shoulda.
> Welfare benefits are very hard to claw back.

I agree with your post, but I would note that this is not entirely true in the US. Benefits that such as SNAP and Medicaid that are only used by a vulnerable segment of the population have been a frequent target for clawbacks. Social Security and Medicare are much more resistant to politically-motivated clawbacks yet not resistant to meddling in general since they are not enjoyed equally.

A benefit that exists at the level of “everyone gets $N per month” would seem to be much more resistant to political meddling.
That isnt a problem. Your API docs are the solution. Mapping communication protocols on to your applicarion for zero benefit over any other strategy. Yhis idea has been a hindrance at various cargo cult teams for decades. At least the RFC doesnt try to fool others into the fantasy.
As someone from a less represented group in tech, I would want to know exactly who is classifying emotions present on the dataset. I don’t want to be mistaken as feeling angry anytime I don’t look happy or sad. There’s definitely unconscious bias to how certain people’s feelings are interpreted that lead to inaccurate perceptions.
I would not be surprised if they had a safety specialist assigned to evaluate paragraph A3 of each proposal, in isolation from everything else. For fairness, that specialist may not have even been given access to the other parts of the applications.

In this case, the employee tasked with separating out the application pieces and sending them to the relevant specialists is likely not highly-trained, and there may be no-one in the organization competent to do this: the people that process the application as a whole aren’t qualified, and the people that are qualified can’t look at the whole application for fear of introducing bias.

> If the content doesn’t matter, as this bureaucracy has demonstrated...

I saw no indication that the contents of properly-formatted applications were being ignored. I believe it’s more likely that they set up a complicated review process that relied on applications being formatted as requested, so Skip’s application couldn’t be put through the pre-planned approval process.
Prague based company. Aha, yeap.
Make public transportation infrastructure more convenient than cars and cheaper than cars, and the problem solves itself.
The IntelliJ dark theme is called Darcula. Nice pun.
>> unless we make it some base service paid by tax or similar they need a revenue service and ads is the only which seems to be working.

Are you seriously saying a company worth north of $300 BILLION needs ads on their search engine to generate revenue?
Cotton is softer than hemp and it's lighter than hemp. And unlike either of them, cotton is slightly elastic.

If you've ever had linen sheets you know that they get softer and looser over time.

There are companies that specialise in making clothing out of flax, but a quick look at their designs showcase just how bad linen is for clothing. The only linen garments that resemble the cut / silhouette of their standard counterparts are blouses and dresses.

I'd love to see a comparison of water required to make a square yard of cotton textile vs rayon (tencel is a form of rayon)
Maybe certain professionally empathic people at MIT Media Lab should have used their high-tech emotion detection software to determine if Joi Ito was lying through his teeth to cover his ass by an appeal to authority when citing the names of a bunch of "very respected & well-known" people who vouched for Epstein being reformed. I still would love to know what the names of those people are, and if they're "well known", are they still "very respected"? How about a bit of empathy for his victims, huh?

https://twitter.com/RosalindPicard/status/116899800880720281...
Now that is another nice name in search of an async/await project.
There are more alternatives for social change than "authoritarian government" and "oligopolic corporations".

Also:

1. Web browsing is not a "market".

2. (Physical) markets are not intended to "fix things".

3. Google's main strength at this point is its size and amount of computer power. And it is almost impossible (and actually very wasteful environmentally) to build something parallel to that which does mostly the same thing.
I find custom keyboards to be beautiful, but I have a very hard time using a proper mechanical keyboard. I am not a proper touch-typist, and lack the patience or free time to re-learn.

I tried with an Ergodox for some time, but it became so frustrating that it interfered with my appreciation for the engineering and artistry of the thing.

Any suggestions relating to low-profile, short-travel switches/keycaps that will work in kits found from massdrop, et al?
> a jetbrains ide can do are just much better than what my custom setup could do

I get frustrated by people who insist on a complex vi/emacs setup for something Jetbrains IDEs do better out of the box. Or people who insist Sublime is good for editing their complex React project.
They doubled down with DRM and still, the only place you can reliably get just about anything you want is from pirate sites.
The question is whether there is a sustainable business for doing search, but not ads.

An option might be that the search provider can license the search results to different companies putting their individual ads on topmofnthe results. Then different sites could compete for the the best dispaly and usability.

Similar to the way elictricity grids are split from providers or railway tracks are split from train operators in many European countries.

Issue of course is that with electrical grids and rail networks are a "solved" issue with little innovation. In the search market there is still lots of room for improvement and constant need to adapt to spamers.
I'm simply a mechanical keyboard user, I have a few trusty Filcos that I use and I will sometimes buy a keycap set and wait 1 year for it[1]; I don't have the courage to build custom keyboards.

However I do derive a vicarious pleasure looking at the build logs and end results shared by others, this post included. The two best places I've found to follow are the /r/mechanicalkeyboards[2] subreddit and the geekhack.org[3] forms which goes even more in-depth into specific subtopics.

It's a lovely world of enthusiasts that I am happy to place on a pedestal and admire.

[1]: https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-matt3o-mt3-susuwatari-custom...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

[3]: https://geekhack.org/
Good enough for its time and Goto.com was built on this very premise.
A Journey through every Billboard top hit to find music’s greatest era
He built his own keyboard and still included a huge CapsLock key in the place where god intended Ctrl to go?
The Center Must Hold
> What about reading, or caring for young children (both also good for your health) can that be a "health approach"?

Has this been verified with RCTs btw?
I dislike Ruby and have written about my issues with the language at length, but this is rarely a productive discussion to have. People work with whatever language they have to hand unless they are explicitly setting out to learn a new one. Almost certainly seven years ago the author was using Ruby as a central tool of their work and when they started a project just did it in whatever was in this toolbox at the moment.
I was completely baffled when I noticed Ctrl+Q is the shortcut to open the documentation
I suspect that advertising and selling marketing data are the only ways to make search profitable.
I’m on the verge of doing this. I have an Ergodox EZ but I want thumb clusters that are more useful, plus I’d like an encoder knob or two. The Kyria is close but it doesn’t do RGB per key or have a thumb cluster that exactly matches what I want. To the drawing board I go!
The last place I was at was an IntelliJ shop, but I don't think there was anything in the project layout or committed files that was specific to IntelliJ, so if they're good about not committing project files, it should be the same for Eclipse. You'd just be on your own, though.
Is Popcorntime still around?
> Google spams search results with ads

For god’s sake, it’s literally their business. It’s not spamming anymore than NBC showing ads during The Voice is spamming. You get something for no out of pocket cost and in exchange you are going to be shown ads.
Isn't that what the government does– protects us from ourselves?
What Goes Through a VC's Mind During a Pitch Meeting
I'm working on a pretty heavy Java Spring/React project in IDEA and noticed some slowdowns recently when doing certain things. The IDE also complained that it was running low on memory when it happened.

I enabled the memory usage viewer and saw that by default the whole IDE has a ceiling of 750M for the Java VM. I upped this to 2GB because I have plenty of RAM so why not.

The slowdowns have completely stopped and it runs great again. You might be thinking 2GB thats a lot of memory to write code! Yeah, but IDEA is my all-in-one development interface, I write, inspect, debug, etc all from IDEA. 2GB is totally reasonable for what it provides me and my dev machine has plenty to spare anyway. 750M is too low of a default for a heavy Maven project with lot of dependencies.