skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the D509 type of issue is just a trade off. At least when in happens in the US: It is the "official" designation and can be used on Post, while the local name changes from town to town. That is less of an issue when navigating within the same town, more of an issue when navigating through towns: Go 30 miles along a "CR" county road and it might change names 4 times. Rather confusing for directions to make it look like you have to travel down 4 different roads for that one leg of the journey. I suppose Google could show both though, depending on zoom level.
Fair enough. I assumed from his comment that he meant mainstream political Conservatism.

Big-C Conservatism does of course include a lot of small-c conservatism.
The entire point of this concept is removing that noise pollution. Additionally, a more modern, efficient aircraft than the Concorde might conceivably someday make sense for more widespread, and hence more affordable use.
I actually thought about Trello for family issues. With two kids it feels like managing a startup. Did you mean something in that nature?
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Incidents like this is why we're not going to save the planet with individual actions. I could spend my entire life eating vegan, recycling, and bicycling everywhere and that entire gain is dwarfed by one incident like this.

The only thing that will save us is decisive and collective action. Think about that when you think about your vote in the next election in your area.

I particularly like the suggestion in one of the comments on the original article:

>I wonder if it would have taken 20 days to stop if they were being fined by the pound.
> Interesting how you are sending SMS with different caller-ID based on contacts, but I am curious - without a VOIP dialer, can you place voice calls from your native dialer with different caller ID ?

Yes it is not very pleasant, and it is how you basically described it where you call a Twilio number, and then type in the destination. You could set up some sort of signaling where you activate the outbound number with an SMS which may be less cumbersome than dialing on a phone call, but for native support that is the only way I can think of -- just dialing the target number would of course route from your main Telco

A decent SIP app might be an alternative here, I haven't explored them thoroughly because of Twilio Wireless (last I checked they weren't spectacular, but SIP is good)
Funnily enough I was thinking an almost identical thing this morning. We had IKVM [0] for.NET, which if I understood it correctly allowed Java to run on the CLR (I probably misunderstood this).

I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft don't build something official to run Java code on the CLR/.NET, is it a technical or legal limitation, or simply that there's no business need?

[0]: https://www.ikvm.net/
I like the direction the "new" Microsoft is going! Hopefully they'll behave themselves this time (re: Visual J++, etc)
They don't compete in the local talent market, they compete in the global talent market while offering local compensation. If they have a physical office, then they actually compete in the local market.

edit: I mean have an office and require to work from there. Companies which have an office and offer remote are naturally at a disadvantage here in the same way, though having an office may help offset the disadvantage (some people don't want to work remotely, having an office to go to from time to time and talk to people, meetings, integration parties, other benefits)

edit2: I've also just checked their rates, and for my region they are at best average even accounting for local market prices. So I don't see how they have an attractive offer in any way.
I've only been to the one near MIT in Cambridge. I'd be curious to see how other locations compare.
In normal operations sure, but in downtime that’s another story.
> perceived by those in a fever about PC run amok

Careful with 'run amok' you might be calling a non-Western culture's deeply spiritual phenomenon a mental disorder.
>I am interested in how the US can put a military base on a piece of land...

First the US didn't put the military base there, the military based was already there, the US just put troops and supplies there.

Not sure what the land being part of the USSR in the past has anything to do with the then current military campaign, when the USSR no longer existed. For example the US has maintained military bases and presence in both Germany and Japan since WWII...no one asks how the US could do that in Countries that were former enemy combatants...not to mention no one asks why the US came to the aid of the UK in WWII when they too were former military combatants.
Beginning Java Programmer
I can't speak to the actual work yet as I haven't started, but I just accepted an offer as a senior / staff level engineer at one of the smaller public tech companies (think Dropbox, Lyft, Pinterest, Snap, etc) after 10+ years of being self-employed. I had two startups offer me $170k plus some (probably worthless) options. When the offer I ultimately accepted came in, I had several more startup interviews lined up and likely could have gotten closer to $180k - 200k from the startups.

Now, $200k isn't bad. But the offer I accepted from the public tech company is for $420k the first year, and will likely go up from there, especially if the stock does well. It's not crazy to think I could be making $600k - 800k within a few years. And to be honest, I think it's on the low end for the big tech companies at my level. And it doesn't come with some crazy grind as far as I can tell. People seem to actually work 40 hours, the PTO policy is flexible and people take 20-25 days a year off, people work from home when they need to, the benefits are solid, etc.

After this experience and seeing the huge disparity in pay, I would never go work at some random startup unless I was founder level or deeply, deeply believed in their mission.

Check out https://levels.fyi ...from everything I've seen, it's pretty accurate. The numbers there for my company and level were almost $70k lower than what I ultimately accepted.
I'm working on the Semantic Web stack in a more limited setting of biomedical data. Performance is definitely a problem but the project is currently exiting pilot due to what were seen as satisfactory results in indexing and summarizing biomedical information, and bridging connections between domains of results (with human assistance).

This is a different outcome than in the commercial setting where the W3C is still imagining people as users of their computer rather than consumers of the services their computers connect to. But it also means that in certain technical domains where e.g. publication results are scaled out to oblivion but the ontologies are regular or made easily negotiable, there can be benefits for researchers.
If Anders Hejlsberg is not a part of this effort, then meh. If he is, then wow.
How to describe semantics? Seems nobody is intensely aware of that at all. WTF? the language, of course. U must know how many forms of languages in semantics domain. XML will die, JSON after. huh? json5, jsn, ...... shows that, and proves that none is the best. BTW it is just like the papermaking technology, albeit Earth rotates without paper.
In my professional work all of this is someone else's job, but I've experimented with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Digital Ocean, and only with Digital Ocean did I feel confident I wasn't going to make some kind of costly mistake.

Every time I have to update something on GCP App Engine, I end up creating a billing account so I can use Cloud Build for a Node.js app, then blow the billing account away after the app is deployed. It scares me to create a way to be billed when everything I'm doing is at the free-tier level.

On AWS I discarded my account entirely after I got a bill for a few cents when I wasn't (knowingly) using anything at all.
I don't know if it's the baby duck syndrome, rose tinted glasses, or 'back-in-my-day-ism', but I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Computing for me peaked in about 2002-2005 (I'm young, sorry), coasted okay until about 2010, then began gaining weight until today where I have a sense that computing latency is like a type 2 diabetic man having his midlife crisis. Either he loses some weight, or he has a heart attack and dies.

I agree on your point re: number crunching for rendering videos, manipulating photos, audio DSP etc.
I mean yeah, they might be able to arrest someone. The unfortunate aspect is that it is now up to the arrested person to tell the judge that they were arrested because of an executive order which only applies to the rules that govern federal agencies - and that they, and higher courts alone can overturn that order (or the act of arrest due to the order).
My understanding, and I confess I haven't followed things very closely, is that the Russia meddling claim is somehow connected with the current impeachment of Trump. True? If so, does this report on the FBI at all relate to said impeachment?

As an aside, I have absolutely no idea why Trump is being impeached. Every time I open Google News all the top headlines are "Impeach Trump!". But I never see anything about why exactly he is being impeached. Granted, I haven't really read any of these articles, more than just skimming, but I'd expect at least something in the title or summary that I see in Google News. Very bizarre thing going on. When Clinton was impeached it was very clear it was related to Monica Lewinsky and lying under oath. But regarding Trump, I mostly just see articles about who wants him impeached. Nothing about why. Anyone know the particular reason Trump is being impeached? What law he violated?

UPDATE: I googled it, and someone claims he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden's son. Perhaps impeachable, but not obviously so. I guess that's why the reason is not more widely promoted, since on the face of it does not sound particularly egregious, compared to what other presidents have done.
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I guess this is related to fracking? I seen something before that Pennsylvania doesn't allow certain waste, so the companies put it in trucks and pay to put it in injection wells in Ohio by the barrel. Pretty sad Ohio accepts money to dump other states waste.

Looked it up to confirm about how waste from Pennsylvania gets dumped in Ohio:

https://environmentohiocenter.org/programs/ohc/ohio-fracking...

Even caused a earthquake in Youngstown, which isn't where you'd typically expect earthquakes. https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2018/10/12/fracking...

Then it gets into the water supply too. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/ohio-communities-are-becoming-d...

Remember seeing a video once where someone could light the water coming out of their kitchen sink facet on fire. https://youtu.be/4LBjSXWQRV8

I don't know why state leadership allow this stuff to happen. Then you have the brain drain problem, Ohio is losing highly educated residents to other states with more opportunities, especially when it comes to tech. I feel like Ohio is moving backwards and not innovating. Maybe in Columbus or Cincinnati, things are better but still probably dwarfs in comparison to opportunities in Silicon Valley or Austin.
Sic transit gloria mundi :^)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machi...
If my memory is correct that was the first directv/ussb system. I think I remember reading they were using something like a pre-finalized version of mpeg2.
Since Svelte is a compiler I was thinking they could wrap the exported variables in an observable of some sort and make any method call on the reference variable trigger a value update behind the scenes. I have now idea how costly/complex that would be though.

Also, maybe it's a conscious choice and they want to make any data update explicit with reassignment.
Not without an enormous amount of breaking changes. The severity of them would be so high that no C# or Java programmer could ever convert their existing code.
This is why a company i worked at about 3 years ago switched to AWS. I suggested using Digital Ocean and argued that we didn't need the complexity of AWS. But the CEO (who is so tech-illiterate that he struggles to send basic email, I am not even joking) has heard that everyone else uses AWS, so he wanted to use it too. Nobody was going to stop this guy from switching over to AWS. He wanted his company to rank among the cool kids that was built on AWS. He had heard of AWS and he trusts Amazon. He has never heard of Digital Ocean. His un-warranted opinion on switching to AWS was not worth fighting, so I let him switch as he desired. If any problem had ever come up with Digital Ocean, he would have pointed fingers at me and said "this wouldn't have happened with AWS, because they are AMAZON!".

And thus is why one small company dumps $1,000 a month into AWS when it could dump about $250 a month into Digital Ocean for comparable results. I know these are small numbers for many people on here, but it is a good illustration.

For what its worth. I was able to justify getting an AWS Certification because of this, which has been surprisingly helpful to have on my resume, even with companies that don't use AWS. It seems to be a fairly respected certification that demonstrates knowledge of cloud computing in general.
I don't care about being turned away (I did a very similar project for another company, that I now happily work for).

However, it's infuriating to have spent so much time just to learn that the engineering team didn't want me anyways. If I got rejected for a bad work sample - that's fine. Getting rejected because the hiring manager couldn't be bothered to look at your resume before assigning tasks - not cool.

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Good on you for bringing candidates in. Technical screens are tough and can be mis-understood by candidates. They should only be a tool to support other data points.
In the early 90's I scavenged a broken reel-to-reel tape recorder from a neighbor's trash. It had a magic eye tube that still functioned. I ended up disabling the tape portion and hooking it up to a cassette deck to play music thru it and watch the magic eye tube. At one point I stuck it in a dark room w/ my parents' camcorder pointed at it in macro mode and recorded some of its pulsing and winking to use in videos that I cut together.
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Worse than that, not many 70 year olds in the us military.
Of course you can use other IDEs (VS Code, Rider, Monodevelop) and databases (Postgres, Sqlite, Mysql, Oracle).

And plenty of people don't use R# either, but I prefer to do so.
> I haven't followed things very closely, is that the Russia meddling claim is somehow connected with the current impeachment of Trump.

No.

You could read the articles of impeachment themselves if you want to inform yourself: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/12/politics/impeach...

"It is absolutely illegal for anyone to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with any election in the United States."
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I'm interested why everyone obsesses over CPU. Everything I've personally ever wanted to do costs more in Bandwidth than CPU. I'm also sure that one of the companies I worked at we spent more on Bandwidth than CPU (until we started doing something super stupid -- caching like several terabytes worth of rendered pages in memory at all times, even though no one ever visited like 90% of the pages over the life of the cache).

Is it the norm for CPU to be a bigger line item than transfer?
The Mayo Clinic embeds its engineers in real patient treatment
Please MS, increase development resources behind net and c# instead. It will benefit Java more than direct Java development - competition will give Java more motivation to grow.
To be clear: the server will be publicly federated. All modular.im servers federate by default unless you explicitly turn it off.
Woah, I didn't realize that we can use it in Python already!

How do you go about using it? I see that there's Python mentioned on https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Purism/libhandy but would it still not work if the phone itself doesn't have libhandy? Would you be able to install libhandy on Ubuntu Touch or Plasma Mobile?
Maps is a consumer facing service for which revenue is derived from the data collected and advertising. That business model is nothing like selling commodity compute services to enterprises.

So selling access to an API that businesses depend on is nothing like selling access to other resources that businesses depend on?

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/google-maps-apis-new-...

Prices have gone up as much as 14 times in certain scenarios
>> As many of you may know, Microsoft and its subsidiaries are heavily dependent on Java in many aspects, and also offers Java runtimes in its Microsoft Azure cloud to its customers.

Anyone know details on how MS uses Java outside of hosted runtimes?
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> The entire point of this concept is removing that noise pollution.

My understanding was that the noise-reduction was specifically for sonic booms. If I understand correctly, commercializing this would mean a transition from no sonic booms to quieter-than-before sonic booms. From my own, personal perspective that's a net-negative.
J++ might get a bad rap in hindsight, but back in the day, it was amazing. The editor was liquid smooth, performance wise, and the compiler was at least a dozen times faster than the JDK Java compiler. It was like the Jikes compiler before Jikes.

I recall using Visual J++ and its compiler to do "pure Java" development back then and it was a delight. I only moved to Eclipse later because Eclipse had a deeper understanding of the Java language and was able to do fancy things like traverse a call stack from static code analysis. Eclipse was considerably slower in UI and responsiveness, especially on hardware of the time, but that utility made up for it.
Weird to compare an IDE and a text editor, though.
The US asked to put one there, offered them some assistance with security and their own terrorism problems, and they agreed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Uzbekist...
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You couldn't pay the 6,000-8,000 for like 3-4 months and keep your business afloat until you rewrote it? Kind of sounds like your business was really really in the red already, or more information is missing?
They are! Spend some time patrolling AfD. They're a huge problem; companies are constantly trying to get themselves into Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is heavily privileged in Google search results. But for-profit companies tend to present clearer cases for WP volunteers: they're either well-covered in reliable sources, in which case they're easy accepts, or they're not, in which case they're easy rejects.

The problem with OSS is that lots of projects probably do merit pages, but it's hard to see which ones.
I didn't intent to begin with.

Check the PS, it's meant to mirror the parent's tone (and exact words) as an anti-example.
Is that is a terrible headline, or an association for what disappears when the internet is down?
> In a statement, the company blamed "multiple simultaneous fibre cuts", which are very rare.

Corporate speak for "obvious sabotage"...
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> Ergonomic design actually speaks against number pads

Either move the mouse or the number pad to your left hand. I've left moused in the office for years (Yahoo! ergo team preached it when I joined), and it took a bit of getting used to, and limits your mouse choices, but it's actually pretty nice sometimes to be able to have one hand on the mouse and the other on the number pad. Mousing with one hand in the office and the other hand at home can help with overuse injuries too (although, using good techniques is much better for that). Of course, that still doesn't get you a numberpad on a reasonably sized laptops, but laptop keyboards are an ergo nightmare anyway, reaching over today's enormous touchpads is awful.
the first image is Riot circa 2015 (back when it was called Vector). You can run it if you really want from https://riots.im.

Tchap meanwhile is opensource at https://github.com/dinsic-pim and there are unofficial builds which let you use it as a general purpose Matrix client.

However, we're busy improving Riot's UX in general to make it easier to grip - on Mobile that ends up being a rewrite (RiotX), on Web we're iterating incrementally.
I guess I had a lot of time to waste as a kid, because I bought it used and figured the gameplay without help. For an Atari 2600 game it was more involved than average, but the game itself gave you clues like the cryptic glyphs.

I also bought used the SwordQuest games, and with no comics or Internet, those really left me stumped.
Yeah, for me the approach is that the PR describe the what that was done at high-level, and the requirement describes the why.

That said, MS is good at long-term support if nothing else. Our TFS/VSTS/DevOps instance is older than dirt so I don't have to worry about losing history.
You know, the back button works in Google Maps and does exactly what you might think it does: take you back to the state you were just in.

After you accidentally lost your route, you could have just used a built in feature of your browser to get yourself back to where you were.

EDIT: The rest of your post was entirely accurate. Google Maps is a slow, stuttery mess on literally every platform I've ever used it on recently. At least the back button works...
Newer Dells like the R640 take minutes to boot, not seconds.

Here's a random video of a guy booting a R740, it takes 1:51 just to get into the bios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJNTdKdTJI
https://riot.im/app/ You need to register an account but you can log into many public channels.
> These days, every single commit I push has an entire paragraph or two clearly describing the changes, and the motivation behind them, even if it's a one-line diff.

I used to do this, but prefer the list form. I like to note what has been added or removed, if you're searching through the commit history it's all useful.
Microsoft doesn’t have to pull resources from anything to put them on Java. It’s like if Jeff Bezos is buying a car and you say “please spend the money on a boat instead”
It can be a bit onerous, half the convo in our matrix room is about updating matrix.
It's not live yet :) (and we called channels 'rooms' in Matrix).