skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The issue indeed is that these companies can just vacuum up all of this data and keep it around. The problem, however, is that this is possible now. This means that if people (or companies) somehow figure out a way to either keep this information from the state or keep this information from being collected, then the state themselves could start collecting (some of) this information. We've seen it before that intelligence agencies don't seem to care about spying on their own citizens through technicalities and then abusing that information.
People like to ding AWS for lock-in, but Microsoft still does it better.
It's on the roadmap. There are a lot more things to do.
Would be happy if you could help to bring them into an order and upvote your favorite feature:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jF6Xs_7Kd46NJVbxtOMwZ0G6QKu...
Ouch! I was not aware of the unclickable video. And ha, fluffy marketing speak! I will be the first one to admit that the landing page isn't perfect. We will probably go through a dozen more iteration until we get the message right.
Thank you for letting me know. Which bindings do you use the most?
Germany swapped nuclear (and coal) for renewables. While I wholeheartedly agree that it would have been better to extend nuclear in favor of decommissioning coal earlier, that‘ll still not make your argument valid.
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
Real-life Transformer might be one of the coolest robot toys ever made
You can still buy them[1]. 37 years ago I started my career working on these, they haven't really changed much in between.

http://printronix.com/products/line-matrix-en/
As an engineer working on Azure, why would you be opposed to migrating everything to Azure specifically?
Sony’s electric car is the best surprise of CES
Cars can be driven remotely using only cameras, so the motion is likely not very critical. https://youtu.be/9sgetWQGYxY
YADFWA? Seems to be an unGoogleable acronym :D
The precedent lies in law enforcement getting their hands on minute by minute details of your life from a year ago and probably much more. There might not be protections against this, but there should be. Judges shouldn't have too much power.
pro-tip: I think a lot of people would really appreciate it if you put a quick blurb about installation at the top of the GitHub README and on Broot's landing page. It took me about 30 or so seconds to find the installation page, which gave me enough time to think that this was still new enough that you don't want to hand it out like crazy yet.

Those of us who like to charge in to CLI tools all guns-blazing-like would appreciate it. Also, it would immediately communicate that the project is written in Rust, which some people may like.
I have no problems with search and seizure that is backed by irrefutable "probable cause". But one year?!! Why not his entire life? The courts are stretching common sense definitions of "cause", and simply fishing for anything to nail him

As for Google, while I agree with you, the reality is that their business model relies on personal data, and we're none the wiser continuing to use them despite this knowledge. How many, even within the HN community, will bother transitioning away from Google, after reading this?
Stupid, stupid, stupid.. design-by-corporate committee.

“Open standards” my left foot.
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Thank you for introducing me to Duverger's Law! I had been looking for that concept for a long time but never knew how what it was called or how to search for it.
Maybe AD, but honestly it feels more due to strong marketing and relationships with enterprise companies.
My three most recent projects were all Azure based, no one could justify why Azure other than "that's what the customer wants".
I’ve read plenty of material which would disagree with your skeptisim there eg (top link in DDG)

https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/possibility-silicon-...

Regarding life, I don’t just think human life could thrive in such environments, I think even single cell organisms could...if implanted there that is. As I said earlier, we have life on Earth in seemingly less hospitable environments like naked rock faces, sulphur-rich volcanic lakes, etc. We even have microbial life on Earth that uses arsenic as one of the chemical elements for DNA. So while 99.99% of life here does fall into a narrow spectrum, even on Earth we are constantly surprised by the ability for life to thrive and adapt in environments it classically shouldn’t. Therefore I think we should be open minded to the possibility of surprises outside our own ecosystems. Albeit bootstrapping aside.
You have just changed my understanding of the world. Thank you.
You should come out from your Ivory tower.

Thousands of developers use F#, VB.NET, Powershell, C++/CLI every day, and to lesser extent Cobol and Fortran compilers for .NET.

C++/CLI support was a must have requirement for .NET Core adoption, not only because of externals, because all .NET UI Frameworks make use of C++/CLI.

So much for no one really uses.

We use the tools our customers are willing to pay for.

Care to provide a link to a code review tool with IDE like capabilities for code navigation?
Hmmm. I'm definitely in favor of more functional programming features / capabilities, particularly in a language like Ruby that allows for pretty effective mixing of OOP/functional paradigms. Right tool for the job, where the job is usually "communicating with other programmers what this code should do".

I've always found Ruby to be an amazing mix of functional & OOP already, what with blocks, and that class definitions are also (actually?) functions themselves. And don't forget being able to drop parens!

I've also always felt like Ruby had mostly clear vision - arguably better than a perfectly clear one, since it leaves more room for play, exploration, and other people's contribution - even if it's not one that's able to be put into words. Every time I came across something surprising in Ruby, once I learned what was going on, it made sense in that larger whole.
Fantastic, inspirational.
Thank you for the feedback :)

You've made a point with the toolbars. I have to get a Window machine and build the app for Windows too. I will decide then what to do with the toolbar and how it will look like with the native toolbar on window.

If you send me a mail (click the Feedback button on the website) I'll put you on the list with those people how receive a free version because of early feedback :)
Only if T is a value type, reference types share implementations.

The final semantics for specialized value types are not yet set in stone, so what Java might end up supporting is still a guessing game.
I'm using QtC daily too, and it's far from perfect.

- It still can't handle most of the CMake projects.

- Refactoring/autocompletion/go-to-definition doesn't work on a heavy-templated code.

- Clang must be patched to work correctly (at least code analyzer doesn't work out of the box).

- Code generation sometimes produces malformed code.

- No ANSI escape codes support in terminal/output.

- Random crashes.

IDEA with Rust plugin is years ahead.
That one looks legit. I’ll still claim I was right because it was … 10 years ago. ;-)

To be clear, “patsy” is too harsh a term for what I meant. There is value in diverting the attention of people intending to do harm from real plots to fake ones invented by the FBI. However, that is not “thwarting an attack”, and in my opinion does not justify excessive surveillance.
Author here: thanks for the tip. I'll do that. edit: done.

Note that broot is far from new and is reliable on linux. I used it daily in the past 10 months. The only thing which prevented me from tagging it 1.0 is the rough edges on Windows.
E-ink does need a light source, it's impossible to read without sufficient environmental lighting (like real paper).
Ahh, pulling the tractor holes! Oh so satisfying. And the green and off white striped paper.
https://www.fiveideasaday.com/

Could run into same issues as others, but right now looks to be focused on the light-hearted, fun aspect of idea generation and potential for sparking creativity. Unsure about the intent to start a sub community that is paid, don’t think this will be the long term winning approach.
They designated parts of the Revolutionary Guard terrorists, which is not Iran Army.
With gamble I meant that the vaccine being developed for the correct strain active in the flu season.
We do this in Denmark for storage of district heating water. They are called "varmeakkumulatortanke" in Danish, roughly translated to "heat accumulator tanks".

They are insulated like a thermos (but more efficiently), and since they are really big, they have small surface area compared to their volume.

It is a VERY efficient way to store heat over shorter periods, like a week or so, and it helps making power plants more cost efficient.

The best way to make it efficient for long term storage (like seasonal storage) is to

1. Make them huge

2. Make them ball shaped

3. Put them underground

There has been talk of tryibg this out in Denmark. Almost all our powerplants (i.e. the not-really-old ones) are combined heat and power plants, and because we use district heating water to create a vacuum behind the power producing turbines turbines (instead of sea water) we go from a theoretical limit on the energy efficiency of around 60% to 98%, as we do not pump out the excess heat into the sea.

Newer combined heat and power plants have an energy efficiency of around 95% to 96%. The trade of is a slightly lower vacuum, meaning less production of power. However, we can scale up heat production to reduce costs of running power plants when energy prices are low (or even negative).
I personally love my Dasung not-eReader. Yes, the software is not the best, especially at very low power it becomes unusable but having my eReader serve emergency monitor duty is awesome. It has a mini HDMI input. It's also an Android tablet but i consider that a gimmick.

With the One Mix Yoga 2S it forms my on call tech kit I lug everywhere. I wouldn't use this for full time work but I only need a tiny shoulder bag this way vs carrying the 14" ThinkPad everywhere just because once every half a year we have an emergency...

You can see my loadout at https://imgur.com/a/xmRmYSn
Here's a patent for a system like that: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100107627
Sounds a bit rubbish and quite underpowered. Fairly sure RR aren't bothered.
This is not true.

Automotive radar are in the ~80ghz range, giving it a wavelength on the order of about 4mm. Car radar can definitely see through rain and snow. All radars receive a range of reflections from many objects, rain included, but the return off of rain is nothing compared to the return off of a solid object. The filtering then becomes choosing the peak amplitudes of the radar return signal. Rain will manifest itself as a smearing of the signal and lowering the peak a little bit, but usually much less than a solid object.

Optical and lidar work miserably through rain/fog, with wavelengths in the ~1000nm range, but have much higher resolution.

Any real self-driving solution in the near to medium future is going to involve sensor fusion of as many sensors the car manufacturers can afford and cram in. This means cameras, ultrasound, lidar, radar, etc. Anybody telling you that there is only one true sensor to rule them all is either selling you something or ignorant of the state of the industry
IIRC engine cowling is supposed to contain most catastrophic failures, obviously there have been situations where this doesn't happen so no idea how stringent those requirements are
It's a nice idea but are there implemenatations yet except prototypes? I'm only aware of activities in Weilheim/Bavaria in Germany: https://www.haustec.de/energie/wie-pumpspeicherkraftwerke-im... and http://gravityenergyag.com/demoanlage-weilheim/ but this still looks like it will take a while to complete
Ahhh, sweet memories.
SF is still a reflection of the world in general. From business to politics, to religion, to the entertainment industry, the "important" people have and still do get away with doing things they shouldn't, and that community will often cover for them as long as possible.

What may make things worse is that the SF community does still attract a larger percentage of socially awkward young people, mostly men, who are also extremely passionate, so seeing that type of behavior normalized can have a larger impression on them.

This behavior needs to be stopped, but it needs to continue to be addressed in all communities.
Unfortunately ending their data collection is not as simple as leaving Gmail. For example they have Google maps, analytics, recaptcha and the contents of emails sent from friends to your protonmail account.
I just block traffic with the RFC3514 evil bit set at my firewall.
They'll need to fix their IAM features. Especially cross account role based access management. Most of their other offerings are pretty close to the competition though.
isn't slap in the face an appropriate response to a unwanted ass grab? Sex is everywhere, and each person have their own approach to sex. This is too deep in the rabbit hole for me, collecting opinions of opinions of opinions
Very cool!! Sorry it didn't get more attention.

In last paragraph, you meant not enough contrast, I believe!

Thanks for the writeup!
>> seemed to contradict most of the conventional wisdom about SaaS sales

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

Look at where this "conventional wisdom" comes from and it'll all fall into place.
I feel fairly uneasy about my ownership of my cat. I live alone (besides the cat) and am probably gone 12/16 waking hours per day and obviously asleep the other 8. During the remaining 4, I’m probably cooking, showering, or recreating (not involving the cat). Add all this up and the cat probably gets about 5-10 min of attention from me each day. That’s the entirety of her interaction with any other living thing. Day in, day out.

I’m not an expert but my guess is that that feelings of boredom/loneliness that humans feel are relatively primal and experienced similarly (at some level) in most other mammals. If that’s true at all, it comes to a rough life for domesticated cats.

That’s ignoring the fact that cats usually have large territories that they patrol in the wild while my apartment is 700 sqft as well :\
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Why can't pattern matching fit in OOP? It's not really functional, despite being in most functional languages. It's just sugar for more lengthy imperative conditionals and unpacking.
The pricing page crashed on click and I found that its because of a js error ```document.removeEventListener(this.listener, "scroll")```
But in the next refresh there was a fix with a console.log("fix please"). :D
I'm glad someone fixed the most important page of the site

P.S: It should be a static site
At least for grayscale e-ink (Carta) displays they have this under control quite nicely. Full refresh isn't needed often, and when it's needed it's a fast rolling refresh rather than the traditional full screen blanking. Although I'm not sure if that is a reMarkable specific feature.
"Yet Another Dumb F*ing Writing App" is the best I can come up with. Which, if I'm right, is not really helpful.
I usually buy brother because they didn't do that to me so far. But the last ones I bought are still working fine so haven't seen any new developement they did. Are they going the HP way now?

When the toner light goes on I just open up, shake it carefully from side to side and stuff it back in. It happily prints another 200 pages before it complains again. HL-1430 is my latest one, it just refuses to die. But all brothers we bought for work is also running way past their expected lifetime. The HP:s on the other hand breaks down all the time.
Wow fraidycat is fantastic. I couldn't get it working on firefox but it does run on chrome well.
Hmm, looks nice, maybe its time to kick my old (ls,less,vi) workflow :) Btw, anyone using this with another pager for fast source-code viewing ?
They said one year because its better to have more than less. Court /lawyers should've or should push back.
Answering some other questions might help you decide where to focus your efforts more on A or more on B. For example, and generally speaking:

1. Do you know your customers and their requirements? How valuable is it to them, does it address a pain point? Is it easy for them to use your product, i.e. fits in workflow without change or is there an incumbent process/product that needs to be replaced, etc.

2. Do you need a team to build an MVP, and if so, do you already have that team? More generally, do you require more resources (people, money, knowledge - e.g. from customers (1)) before you can build your MVP? Assuming that an MVP already delivers value to the customer and can be sold - is perhaps a POC a more logical first step (for example - if you need additional resources for an MVP)

-- if you know your customers and their needs and you have all the resources necessary for an MVP. Focus more on building an MVP. Start selling the MVP while focusing more on A to grow your business and revenue.

-- if you need resources you currently do not have for an MVP, or you are uncertain about the requirements, your customers, etc. Focus on A to either:

* find your customers and get the requirements. Possibly even a contract for a 'custom MVP'

* find investors (who preferably know your customers or their industry/requirements/etc.) to get the resources for an MVP. A POC will greatly help convincing investors.

* etc.

Without more details, we are stuck with generalities.
We all know sex sells, but do you think this appropriate?
The problem I have with assuming plasma is pervasive in the void of space is that, unlike the hypothesised dark matter, plasma should be hot and visible. As I understand it, there is mainstream acceptance that there is a possibility that some regions of space, such as the galactic center, could contain plasma (though the preferred explanation is that they contain matter pulled apart by a supermassive black hole), and some other regions such as nebulae do contain plasma, but the picture I linked earlier doesn't show any kind of hot visible substance that could refract light to produce that lensing effect.

If gravity affected the atomic clock frequency, we would need to understand how. Either way, we know from observations of the speed of light being constant in any reference frame that time dilation must exist when moving at high speeds. GR incorporates acceleration and gravity here.

Note that rejecting GR doesn't get rid of space-time (perhaps at best, it gets rid of curved space-time). We know from very good observations that the speed of light is a physical constant, so at least special relativity must be true (or we need some other theory to explain this physical phenomenon).

However, if we got rid of GR we would also need a new explanation for a very old problem: why is an object's inertial mass (the amount that it opposes motion) equal to its gravitational mass (the amount that it is attracted by the earth through Newton's formula)? GR has a beautiful unification of these two masses, making acceleration equivalent to gravity (which also happens to match how we feel, by the way).

Now, if I understand correctly, Plasma Cosmology does not discount GR, but simply proposes that plasma physics is more important in some galactic structures, especially the large-scale structure of the universe. There seem to be some technical limitations (related to implications for the state of the early universe vs observed current state), but perhaps they are resolvable.

Electric Universe starts from there essentially and seems to go much farther, getting rid of gravity and GR (and Special Relativity?) and hits all of the issues I mentioned above.
Not OP, but in a similar boat. Basically, having everything in one cloud provider's hardware is a risk to uptime guarantees is the biggest reason. There are other, less good reasons too, but that is the one that can't be changed by adding features to Azure (or any other).
lol. he's a reservist. so are a lot of other people. they are allowed to have a private life.

if every reservist is part of your conspiracy theory of "state-owned" then i guess most corporations are "state-owned". which would be a surprise to the tens of millions of shareholders, the SEC, the FCC and many others.
Looks like you are using suspense already in production?! How is it serving you?
Tools for dev teams to integrate throughout the devOps pipeline
No worries, I look forward to your response. I honestly doubt either of us will be able to fully convince the other of our conviction, but it'll be worth the exercise to refine my position.

That's actually a pretty good idea. When I'm in a position to get a rootable handset, and have the time to audit my apps, I'll have to try it.

With respect to your second point, it's quite possible.
But I don't actually see much diversity of ads to begin with (typically tracking closely with my purchase and search history) so anomalies stick out like a sore thumb. But I'll be the first to admit that I spend a lot of time trying to figure out why I see what ads when, and I may at times overfit my explanations.

I'll never be able to prove the assumptions I make.

It is a phenomenon I've seen reported in the media, and it tracks with how I percieve my own experiences, as well as the experiences of my friends.

If it made no financial sense, I'd dismiss it. Likewise if I saw a study that convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt, I would dismiss it. If there were legislation with teeth in my market to prevent it, I'd dismiss it.

But with the ubiquity of voice recognition, and the financial incentives at play, I just don't see a reason companies wouldn't leverage the tech for the purposes of superior ad targeting, and profiling, when they already go so far as to record our screens.
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> Most standard taught US history on the events that took place basically from the split of the One Catholic Church, through the dark ages, and up to just before the founding of this country is woefully inaccurate.

I don't think anyone who places the East-West Schism before the Early Middle Ages (on top of the still using the term “Dark Ages”) really has any leg to stand on in accusing any other portrayal of history as “woefully inaccurate”.
If you talk space, the difference is that all relevant people were and are aware of the risks and do their job despite them. And they do their job in such a way that the risk is always minimized (through extensive preparation, Monitoring, …), you can handle a situation immediately or even recover from it (e.g. redundancy; failure detection, isolation, & recovery mechanisms; etc) and learn from it (post-mortem processes). Everything and everyone breathes risk awareness.

If you are talking aeronautics, the situation is fundamentally similar but also the scales are very different (also in terms of operating personnel vs. throughput). But more importantly, society in the majority seemed to have accepted a level of risk even though we know for sure that the next catastrophic event could happen any moment.
hello from Singapore! I've been performing standup comedy for about six years as a hobby. Anyway, last year I went to London and Berlin and I found sites like https://www.opencomedy.com/ and https://comedyinenglish.de/ super useful in finding open mic gigs to perform at. I know in the post venue owners and bookers were mentioned but wanted to highlight that for comics who travel, sites like yours are super useful to us too albeit we aren't the ones really making the money.
Isn’t that an example of survivorship bias? The women that any of us meet (including those of us who see one in the mirror each morning) in software engineering are necessarily the set which have not found their environments so bad that they left.