skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the stuff Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association puts out it's mostly "taxation is theft!!1" and starving the beast. I don't believe that people are still buying the whole thing about poor old grandma since it's very easy to make laws specific to them, cf. https://www.cga.ct.gov/2000/rpt/2000-R-0836.htm
> life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities available to you than any amount of hard work.

Of course it is. My life is one example. Working in a third world country I was working like crazy and I had many of my customers in Europe and US F100 companies say that I am the hardest worker and I am way better than their employees. When they came to know how much I was paid they were in complete shock. My company too used to ignore the appreciations because if they do then they would have to pay me more! I worked in the company for 12 years. Moved to another smaller company and the cycle repeats there too and have moved out after 1.8 years in it.

It is a lottery alright. That is why you had gold rush and mass migration in search of better life. Lower migration barriers and majority in poverty motivated them. It is difficult to make this decision now as there is a feeling of OK pay and a bigger migration barrier.
Wow, you summed up my thoughts on DFW better than I could have. I really tried to like Infinite Jest but it felt so... indulgent on the part of the author. Many parts felt like a real slog, with the only payoff being some weird joke the author found funny.
We need to quantify it though. Thinking about long term implications and talking about it is good, but that doesn't break us out of the bubble of communicating it to the business. After all, they don't know what a story point is (heck I don't really, and I've been doing this for a while).

As the article points out, management can be short sighted- they want to deliver on their roadmap this quarter or half (because that is what they are paid for).

I don't know what the answer is, I struggle with this. Testing has some promise here: if we can deliver (failing) tests early on that demonstrate progress toward the roadmap, and use those to show progress to the business and help them hedge risk, we can use tests as a forcing function for quality - testable code, especially for business processes, is usually good code.
> Internet freedom and is a surveillance state.

I think these terms as understood by Americans becomes quite meaningless for people of a country that is victim of a civil war led by both the Islamists and the Left-Loonies (see the latest staged "false-flag" operations at Delhi's universities).
OK, I'll bite. What's your definition of "native" that conforms to your intuition and works equally well for all platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, ...)?

Don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of reasons to hate Electron, but this shouldn't be one of them.
I'm not sure, but as far as I know there isn't any way to accidentally grant a license to copyrighted material. Even if there is it is almost certainly all sorts of things that everyone but IBM really won't like, for instance, revokable.

And of course no one thought to ask for a real license, because no one thought it was copyrightable.

Willful on Google's part to avoid licensing is sort of synonyms with saying Google willfully complied with the law... I'm not sure how it's relevant.
"Just tell me what the damn thing does."

http://www.tarsnap.com/

(I'm also a happy user!)
> If the data is not encrypted then all my data can be automatically taken by my spouse and kids, used in any way they want? How is it not scary?

It's not "his" data any more, by definition. He's dead. Your capacity to control things in the world, in any way, stops once you are dead. That's what "dead" means!

There are ways to create contracts with the living that will bind them to your (heh) will even after your death. They tend to be pretty complicated, unsurprisingly. But by default someone gets your stuff when you die, and they aren't you and don't necessarily have your opinions.

If you don't like this, well, I guess plan on immortality?
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> But yeah it's a UX problem that hopefully will find a better/non-hacky solution than "register multiple keys for each site".

This seems like a huge blocker for adoption. I currently run into this issue with FIDO for 2fa - I store my backup key offsite, which means enrolling the second device requires me to make a special trip to retrieve the device. My current approach is to retrieve the backup token every few months and add it to all of the new services I have enrolled in, but I don't have a good system for remembering all of these services, so I inevitably forget one (despite only using the key on a few services)...
Fortran has been doing it longer.. Fortran 66, 77, 90, 95, 2003, 2008, 2018. It really is a very helpful approach.
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (2018)
Here's a great book on this: https://www.tidytextmining.com/. Incidentally, the author is joining RStudio next month. However, in my experience sklearn's feature extract methods [1] are more straightforward and NLP libraries like Pytorch/Tensorflow, Spacy, NLTK, Gensim and Snorkel are more geared toward python as well.

[1] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/feature_extraction.h...
Reposting here. Over 15 months later, still no concrete evidence, no retraction, no apology.
Oracle's documentation on the other hand is

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/api/

Not to mention, they reproduced it on the server even if they didn't distribute it. Copyright protects making copies just as more (more really) as distributing them.
This is one of the reasons that Panasonic has a stronghold on IFE/Sat Connectivity equipment. They have service teams to support the airlines around the world.
YouTube has become phenomenally boring of late no ? The censorship is really starting to kick with our SV overlord syndicate turning into the de facto Ministry of Truth.
This isn't new. Processors are often the same template for multiple models and manufacturers "bin" based on quality and just turn off the bad parts. This is why it's more expensive to produce a nicer processor: the yield rates are much lower. There is still significant variation in models, though, known as silicon lottery. This is why some chips overclock or undervolt much better than others. There's even one site that sells chips that basically go through extra binning to ensure a better product: https://siliconlottery.com/
None of that actually answers what causes insulin resistance to develop in type 2 diabetes. You can't claim that sugar "almost certainly" isn't the cause.
The exec who was proudly in charge of those IIS shenanigans is now in charge of Azure (Guthrie).
would it be for millions or even billions?
I feel like that last option would attract attention soon.

Not sure how legal would it be to buy a block of potentially more valuable land and put nuclear waste on it both paid by your money?

I guess, other ideas include paying selective group more and target loans for risk taking behavior causing holes in a small economic country
by creating instability and inequality.
Maybe pay people to pollute their land? Marketing to make people unhealthier and reduce their life expectancy or invest in scams/drugs?
Although all of those seems less direct and depends on generating negative value to counter the spread of money.
I think cryptocurrency will be around for awhile. But, it's very difficult for anyone to use it as intended..a decentralized currency.

Massive swings in value, easy manipulation of value/little regulation, and all of the hacks we've seen of major exchanges have scared off the average non-tech user.

My brother, who is tech savvy, had about 30 bitcoin on a hard drive when it was worth sub $50/bitcoin. He formatted the drive accidentally and completely lost them all.
Yes, I was completely wrong. PBKAC.
That was also the first thing I was looking for in the docs. I mean how it ties to the Erlang OTP. It's the reason why anyone would use Erlang's platform after all.
You're probably going to get more bang for your buck if you go with a Windows machine.

Windows 10 + Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great setup for learning to code.

You can use VS Code and the remote plugins to do your work in the WSL environment from Windows.
Ha - I read the cruise ship essay on the flight home a very miserable week at Disney World and it was exactly what I wanted. But that was a while ago; skimming it now it doesn't seem to have aged well.
Google adopted Apache Harmony for Android - as you might guess, Harmony also had an Apache license. You're right, the law suit has dragged longer, but Apache Harmony's tussle with the official JDK predates Oracle's purchase of Sun. Oracle inherited the fight and broadened it after Android was already a success.

The whole Harmony TCK situation was a clusterfuck, because Sun was ostensibly for Free Software/ Open-Source, but a certified, Apache-licensed Java implementation would have killed the official JDK. Harmony was donated to the ASF by IBM - Sun's erstwhile rival. As an outsider, that era of Sun vs. IBM proxy wars was...interesting to follow. I had a chuckle when I learned that the "Eclipse" IDE was named to throw shade at Sun, and it was from a salty Sun CEO/employee.
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In some countries there are no 5ghz bands that don’t legally require DFS (which can kill your network for 30 minutes or so when interference is detected) and out where I live 5ghz usually doesn’t make it across half the house (land is cheap as crap and everyone builds crazy large houses on it.)

I have to wonder what you’re even doing that needs 5ghz, I guess you’re in the city and trying to escape interference?
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Apolitical answer:

Markets prefer political stability. Average annual S&P 500 returns are around ~7% adjusted for inflation, but ~12% when a President is in his second term.

Political answer:

A Trump loss would be presumably be to one of the self-avowed socialists running which would certainly crash the markets.

Furthermore, even without a market crash, a socialist implementing mark-to-market capital gains taxation while also doubling the long-term capital gains rates (15% to 32% for me) would drastically slow down my march towards $1,000,000.
> "Irreproducibility", as Nature and the common scientist would use the term, doesn't mean "I tried once and failed", it means "I tried everything I could possibly think of and it still doesn't work".

I’m not a scientist, but it is surprising to me that the term would not be regarded as at least ambiguous. The article quotes a microbiologist who says “there is no consensus on what reproducibility is or should be.”
Would be very interested in seeing a reference for this 80K thing.

B/c that would be 100% in favor of the sole focus of the country really needing to be a restoration of the middle class.
It's a "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't" situation. If you reveal something truly heretical (perhaps supporting eugenics or something), you risk offending the interviewer and ending the interview early, even if it's completely irrelevant to the job position. If you reveal something that's actually fairly mainstream, but slightly fringe (e.g. K-12 education should prioritize trades, not college), you could be marked as uninteresting.

It's just another case of "do you interview well". An interviewer should try to control for nervousness, unless they need someone truly outgoing/confident. And asking someone to reveal something very personal is the opposite of that.

An interview should measure competence for the job first, and additional traits second. I'd much rather have a technical question, followed by a discussion on alternative solutions and why they might not be a good fit. I want to see how they reason about a problem, and I feel like that might give me insight into what Peter Thiel is after.
I'm going to have to hard disagree. I think the fact that sex has value should be respected and it's problematic to pretend otherwise. I honestly think that stuff like this, and the proliferation of camgirl/insta culture in general is a trend in a really good direction.
The author has an unshakeable web-centric perspective, and it make for a bizarre, alien, and insulting read. Here's my kindest take as not-a-web-dev:

> Static is globally fast. When you deploy, we can hoist all your static assets to a global CDN network. By removing the server from the equation, we can also maximize availability by reducing and even altogether eliminating cache misses.

You don't "maximize availability" by shuffling from one server to another. You do it by shipping the assets as part of the app. That actually "removes the server from the equation."

> It [static] gives you "O(1) TTFB", which is a fancy way of saying you get stable and predictable latency to the first byte of the screen. Always, because no code, servers, sockets, or databases are involved.

Hosting any asset on any server means that code, servers, sockets, and probably databases are involved. "TTFB" is nonsense.

> I propose the following alternative definition of native: an app that behaves to the quality standards of the platform it's deployed to. This explains why Electron has been so successful in re-purporsing the web stack to the Desktop platform. A well engineered Electron app will give you "native" platform fidelity, regardless of programming language.

Indeed "native" is descriptive, not prescriptive. Any app which looks and feels native, is native! But Electron apps struggle to meet that bar. Electron is succeeding because it taps into a giant well of web developer expertise; software quality is secondary at best.

> This means it's only a matter of time before React Native (and similar technologies) replicate the success that Electron has had on desktop

"JS orchestrating native widgets" and "single-site-browsers-masquerading-as-desktop-apps" are very different futures.

> Electron app memory usage: 150 MB

> Native app memory usage: 0 MB (because you never ship it)

I agree the author has never shipped a native app.
WiFi Pro
Interesting. Ime, euro Googlers tend to be somewhat more productive. They may put in fewer hours but they seem to be more focused.
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>Move to South East Asia instead.

No thanks, I prefer to live in a free country.

>"a rural state" sounds like all the worst bits of living in the US.

I don't have the level of contempt for my fellow Americans that you have
For what reason do you think this is "a startup to watch"? The site is insecure, the copy has broken English, and there is absolutely no detail on what it is their product actually does.

Actually, I know why you think this, it's because you own it. At least be honest and acknowledge this if you're going to shill for your company.
ISO standards annoying are copyrighted with DRM (your pdf copy has your personal email in it, so they would know who shared it IIRC) — but have a policy that any patents must be disclosed and reasonably licensable.
Those firms don't have much control of the rate technology is adopted.

Look at how slow USB-C has been to come on. Look at how 802.11ax has gone nowhere. Or how Intel has been dragging its feet with PCIe4.
The impossibility may be "unacceptable" but it's reality. I believe that at a certain point - e.g. when evicting one means 1000 or 10000 more people are able to afford somewhere decent to live near where they work - eviction becomes a lesser evil. If you're unwilling to make that kind of trade, then however much sophistry you put into "focusing on solutions that solve both sides", more likely you'll just end up never getting those 1000 or 10000 people a place to live.
The Wi-Fi

2 Wi 2 Fi

The Wi-Fi: Tokyo Drift

WiFi

WiFive

Wifi 6

Fi 7

The Fate of the Fi

WiFi Presents: Facebook & Google
Nintendo Switch NAND Upgrade (2018)
This is what I do too. I also configured it to only sync with a specific WAP.
It would be a very high tax for the Los Angeles County Club. It would be a comparably low tax for 432 Park.
bpftrace is already available in 19.04 and 19.10.
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I'm looking to run a few online courses with a live instructor with slides and some video. There are number of solutions that require either the attendees or the trainer to use a desktop app or other download to either deliver the training or attend, or both. I'm trying to find something with no such requirements.

The meetings will have slides, require chat with trainees, and allow for viewing videos and perhaps cameras. The sessions need to be recorded for future viewing by trainees.

I've tried BigBlueButton, but there's no credible hosted solution, and I'd rather not have to go through the expense and trouble of running my own BBB server and managing it. There are very few third-party hosted BBB solutions, but if there was one that offered long-term recording storage as well as just BBB hosting that would be great.

Right now, there are very few web-only / web-based training solutions that don't require downloads and also record the webinar / training for future use.

I'm hoping something is out there that fits the bill!
I think you are missing the point here. The point is that "agile scrum master" is not a real job. You can't work hard at something that is not a real job.
IBM PC Real Time Clock Should Run in UT
Back button just refresh the page on android, very annoying.
A nation is the relevant unit here. A nation cannot always practically render useful all land within its own borders.

The hypothetical expansion of the human race in the coming centuries has no bearing on decisions that are made with the next years and decades in mind.
You really missed the point. It's not "there is an older way that works fine". It's that there is a simpler way that can be built in less time, takes fewer developers to maintain, will have less bugs, performs better, and is more reliable, because it's simpler than all the crap that people want to use. But people will insist on using all the trendy crap because it's trendy, FAANG is using it, it looks good on a resume, etc, etc.
> which would be an unacceptable outcome

an outcome can be unacceptable, but you have no choice but to accept it. It's like gravity will pull down, whether you accept it or not.

When you lose the ability to evict, you also lose the ability to rebuild (since you'd need to evict to rebuild).

What is desirable is balance. Where that balance lies is up to the populous, and in san fran, the populous have spoken (by their actions) - they prefer to keep it less dense, and suffer the consequences of high property prices.
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I agree with that, but that would also apply to Google's reimplementation of Java's apis.
Plastics don’t randomly disappear some mornings. Plastic compatibility is dictated by chemistry and not political crap.
Sorry I meant Molecular Biology of the Cell. I think it's meant as a reference more than anything else. Bio is like ML in that it moves very quickly, so there is the need for constantly updated evergreen texts.
Would it qualify if time was a factor?

I think you could almost say: if those things aren't hard you are working to slow and if you are bored you could benefit by raising your own expectations for yourself?
I wish XC implements dark mode some day. It is the only app on my Linux box that can't be themed yet.
While the switch to go modules was pretty smooth on the code front, the tooling was another matter. They had to rewrite everything to support modules and decided to create this concept of a "language server" which would then be universal across languages and help editors like VSCode support new languages that pop up as long as they provide their own language server that matches the spec.

It's a nice idea but has been (and continues to be) super painful for anybody actually trying to get work done. This was a huge fuckup on the part of the Google engineers to combine the rewrite with module support. They should have first added module support to the existing tools THEN bitten off the totally new paradigm of a language server. Yes it would have been more total work but so many person-years of productivity was lost with the approach they took and we are still counting.
This is a reminder that in modern Windows (they finally managed to fix all known bugs in 2014, supposedly) you can actually make the clock of your system run in UTC!

reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /t REG_DWORD /v RealTimeIsUniversal /d 1
Fisker debuts $37,500 electric SUV with a solar roof
I found the project via this article:

https://medium.com/clojure-on-the-beam/agents-9de923017adf

that discusses why Clojure 'agents' haven't been implemented in BEAM yet. I think (and I'm not familiar with Erlang) that Clojure agents are very similar to Erlang actors.
service stations will be redeveloped into higher value real estate such apartments or commercial buildings.

there is no reason with EV to have a separate facility as you don't need a massive fuel storage tank underneath. you'd just add charging capabilities to existing parking lots at shopping centres, malls, restaurants, etc.

so you're right people will be eating / drinking / shopping while charging but it won't be at what's currently a fuel station today.
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The Clojure community believes strongly in the idea that it is a hosted language, and therefore prioritizes maintaining the semantics of its host (whether that be the JVM, a JS engine, or some other VM) over independent, consistent semantics for Clojure itself.

That being said they've made some concessions to the fact that it would be really nice to have portable Clojure code with `.cljc` files, but those are only portable Clojure code by matter of convention (the only technical thing `.cljc` files accomplish is allowing you to use reader conditionals).

Personally, I wish Clojure went further. Even with the commitment to being a hosted language, it still is clunkier at interop than Scala or Kotlin, two languages which nonetheless do have independent semantics as specified in their respective language specifications. It kind of seems you end up with the worst of both worlds (worse interop and no consistent semantics), although to be fair Clojure also commits far more heavily to the FP paradigm than Kotlin or even Scala, which makes it intrinsically more difficult to have seamless interop with Java (yes yes yes its interop with Java is already quite good, just not quite at the level of the others).
If I recall, one iteration of their products sprayed a shower of cooled liquid Fluorinert[1] directly into the processor cards, with no heatsinks at all. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
> (although we should certainly adjust for the large gay male population)

Just curious, why wouldn't there be an equivalently large lesbian female population?
You're misrepresenting what was copied. The SDK is not what was copied so bringing up the details of the Apache license is what is not relevant.