skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that Rust tries to set a high bar for error messages, so not just bad, but even pretty-okay-but-could-be-better error messages also get tracked as bugs. As a result, 1/6th of all open bugs in the Rust issue tracker are "diagnostics" (i.e. error messages) bugs, making it the single largest category (AFAIK): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...
Just because Mr Greenwald is facing death threats as a result of his work doesn't mean he is 100% on his interpretation of the story. Also you forgot to mention that Greenwald's husband is a congressman which means they enjoy some enhanced security. Also you need to mention that the Brazilian's Worker's Party (the largest party in Congress) has Mr Greenwald's back. He is far from being alone in Brazi, there is a broad support from the establishment. It doesn't mean that his worries about his security are overblown, my point is that he enjoys a great deal of support especially from journalists, politicians and the Brazilian last instance's judges.
394 comments based on a rumor from an anonymous employee? Is this what HN considers "news"?
It is, and C/C++ are used in so many areas which are not system programming right? Being a scientific Python backbone is one of them for example. My claim was that it is nothing out-of-ordinary. In fact, I really dislike the article's somewhat evangelist attempt to target newbies. These so-called benefits existed and do exist in so many other languages. The only thing that Rust comes with is memory safety which on closer look is actually an illusion and is a pretty evil one.
I would praise Rust for speed, yes. For ecosystem, yes. But that's it.
Try running further.

At 5k your body is only just about warmed up - I never really enjoy a run until after the 5k mark, it gets easier after that point
Put that way, google is a market maker and hence should be regulated. Right now it’s an unsupervised private regulator, which doesn’t make sense.
A "startup studio" and a "venture capital fund" ???

no conflict there !!

Like, great, please send us your detailed startup plan and then come pitch and answer our questions, and then.... well, its not a good match and we pass 99% of the time, but hey, look at this back office studio we got going here, trying out new ideas we have never heard of before.
If done well, it could just be a way to inform customers of an improved product.

Lets say Apple launched iTunes2 as a separate product and one day you opened iTunes and saw the banner "Try iTunes2!" would that be equally upsetting? Or you go to gmail.com and see a banner for "Try Inbox!" etc.

This isn't candy crush in WordPad, it's an ad for an enhanced text editor
Vendors pay for placement throughout google's interface and search results, even if the 'list' of links is still 'organic'. For example, the placement of buy links for movies, flights, hotels, etc. Now with instant articles, google places content higher if it allows google to track and advertise within the article.
I don't think we can know yet. It's infected around 300 people, 6 of whom have died, putting a mortality rate of around 2%. Thats not as bad as SARS, which was 10%, but its early. SARS ended up being restricted to around 8000 people, mostly concentrated in China, though eventually spreading to dozens of countries, but its impossible to say how far and wide this one could spread, especially given that the outbreak is occuring on the eve of Chinese New Year.

According to some of the sources I've found online, coronaviruses tend to be much less easily spread from human to human than something like the flu, but just a few days ago officials were saying they didn't think this virus was transmissible between humans, which they now have confirmed is in fact possible, so clearly its a very fast developing situation.
All you do by ignoring your emotions is that you become unaware of them. They don't go away. Psychology and neuroscience have again and again found how irrational and emotional we are even when we think we are rational.
Within my first year of professional development, I encountered several fixed-width files I needed to read and write. I suppose exposure depends a lot on the specific industry.
It has been known and talked about on HN for a long time that only certain things are E2E encrypted on iCloud. And, if full privacy was the goal, then either the user can only do local backups or no backups at all.
You may also enjoy Clojure's core.clj: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...
Lambdas have unique types, and you can't use a generic parameter in a return type (which is impl Trait's raison d'etre), so I think it would have to be this:

fn compose<T, F: Fn(T) -> T, G: Fn(T) -> T>(f: F, g: G) -> impl Fn(T) - > T

or:

fn compose<T, F, G>(f: F, g: G) -> impl Fn(T) -> T
where F: Fn(T) -> T, G: Fn(T) -> T
NomadBSD
I googled it before I commented, and I can't find any lawyers who agree with that. They all say it might be possible, but that fair use is definitely not automatic, and that the best course of action is always to either acquire rights explicitly, or only post images that you have explicit rights for.
This MBA vs engineering dichotomy is a myth. One of the people with a lot of responsibility for this disaster is the Chief Test Pilot, who is a Navy Veteran, engineer and prototypical flight enthusiast. That didn't stop him from lying to the FAA.

Airplane travel today is also about 70x safer than it was in, say, the 1960s, on a per-passenger-per-mile basis. Despite Boeing's trouble, plane construction, pilot instruction, and flight management have all done a rather good job. There are no "good old times", at least none better than the present.
Well, as a user, I care about not announcing loudly to Google every single step I take on the web.
>Now the bad news: SiBeam was bought by Lattice Semiconductor, and right before I gave this talk, Lattice shut down the entire SiBeam organization and ended support and production of this part. I didn’t find out about this until months later, when I contacted the sales engineers I had been talking to about this part and they told me what happened.

This is one thing that really pisses me off. Time and time again you've got small(ish) companies doing interesting stuff, succeeding and then they step on a landline. They do something that gets them in the cross hairs of a big company and suddenly BOOM big company buys small company for ridiculous money and then inexplicably shuts down 90% of what the small company was doing. The sale happens for a nice premium and yet the second the sale is closed 90% of the things that the company did that made it valuable are jettisoned. How can it be that these companies can afford to buy companies at a premium, throw away massive parts of the value of the company and yet: this obvious value destruction seems to be standard operating procedure for large companies.
This leaves Apple to be the only ad-free platform, next to the opensource osses.
Can content from Histre be exported and easily digestible into a home brew solution or is the user dependent on maintaining* an account with Histre in order to not lose what they've put into it?
It is impossible to really express any prominent thinking on Twitter. Wrong medium.
> I've been in this A/B test for a couple of months now, so I've had time to adjust, and I still hate it

Me too. It just looks ugly.
> How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist?

Author's own blog or site. If they do not want to do it that's fine. They can chose Medium I can chose to not read.
Keep in mind your priorities are very different from your employer's. Healthcare systems have been on a big kick to reign in physician independence, and EMRs are effective tools in this goal.
I like your strategy. I have a "For Review" folder in my toolbar. Things get read and Saved or Removed from there. I export my bookmarks every few days also. And I have a link on my toolbar to the bookmarks.html I save to.

I also favorite YC items.
> Systems are created by people who think or ought to think about the incentives they are setting.

You can think all you want, but the system is larger and more complicated than you are. You might as well ask a gear to think about the engine.

The system has, in it, people who are smarter than you. You can’t hope to understand all the implications of incentives you create in a system.

> But in the end, the lower echelons are still "just following orders" by employing child labourers or pushing out a plane with a crippled design.

I feel that a statement leading with “in the end” is too reductionist. These are complicated problems, and pointing fingers is too simple a tool to solve them.

The system is set up so that you can blame the people who hired child laborers, fire them, replace them, and still end up with the same child laborers making the same clothes in the same factory. Same with Boeing—no matter who you point fingers at with the 737 MAX, you can fire those people and rehire new ones but the disaster will happen again as long as the system encourages it.
That's not true. CDNs host AMP sites on their own domains and infrastructure, independent of Google:

https://amp.cloudflare.com/
More Trouble for Fry's Electronics
>Releasing hundreds of open-source tools and donating protocols to standards bodies is really not what I would consider evil. The web is a thousand times better now than it was ten years ago.

Is it really? I only see small marginal improvements in the technical side, and lots of losses in the freedom, privacy, quality of treatment as a customer or user, etc, side, a lot of them because of Google.

>And despite the frequent misinformation, "Don't be evil" has never once left their code of conduct.

Yes, it just left their actual conduct.
iTunes runs on Windows....
Hum... UB is a huge source of analysis complexity. If are not comparing it with an insanely restrictive dialect of C (that will bring a lot of code complexity by itself), or I will love to see those static analysis tools that are better than Rust's.
Show HN: Bamburgh React UI Framework
Isn't that #1? Or do you mean more like what OP is experiencing by being banned?

GP already mentioned why #1 is not a solution (which I see the same way) and OP made it quite clear that not visiting CF sites isn't quite working either.
Blink powers Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc. The only competition with even a single digit of marketshare is Webkit and Gecko.

If Blink and Google both implement a feature it becomes a defacto web standard.
> The problem with the 737 MAX is that Boeing tried to make a plane with a completely different airframe

You've got it backwards. The problem was that they used the same airframe with larger engines that had to be mounted differently due to ground clearance issues.
I worry about the implications of the blank space idea. For example, if I owned coolstuff.com, when should I expect for my standard search result to be shown below the "blank space". Today, if someone searched "cool stuff", my site shows up as the top search result, but my arch-nemesis, the owner of neatstuff.com, has an ad tailored to that query. Would his ad go away since mine is the top search result for "cool stuff"? Similarly, if my site is preferable to Google enough that my site shows up every time someone searches for something like "cool shit" or "awesome things", would I also benefit from this "blank space" program, at the expense of the owners of coolshit.com and awesomethings.com?
I have some experience with user experience and navigation design. The new google search experience is horrible. The ads dominate, the scale seems clumsy and the layout and spacing seems awk-wierd. I was on the launch of NEW COKE way back when,Seems like a repeat, Coke did a focus group, taste test and asked "is this new coke was good or better than the old coke." A majority said better, but they did not know the OLD VERSION (classic ) would be no longer available. Deleted from memory. The result was a consumer response that i think has yet to be equaled. Old vs New, if they knew it was an either or the vote would have been different. I appreciate Hacker News and the intelligence that is emitted.
I don't see many people giving up their desktops for Chromebooks. Let's take a look at the stats [0]... Doesn't look like ChromeOS is significant. Hell, it doesn't even seem to beat Linux.

Granted, there might be other sources (I found this with 1 minute of Google searching), but I doubt they'll paint a much different picture. Chromebooks are just big smartphones and are not a sufficient tool for the tasks which people actually use Desktop computers for.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
Understanding the group dynamics and success of teams (2016)
Isn't google already the front door to everyone's website? Are the amp URLS really crazy? If you have a .com address is that roughly the URL in search results?

Your link is being shared from Google's search results and their application, so you might not like it but they have every right to control how it's displayed. Is it difficult to accept traffic from an AMP link? Are there technical downsides besides being called a name you don't want?
CF has nothing to do with that, website operators can choose to blacklist Tor exit nodes regardless of whether they use CF. Many of them do, because Tor is such a massive source of malicious traffic. It sucks, but it's not CF's fault.
Show HN: MVP - Platform for sharing recommendations – Requesting your feedback
I am creating an app platform for sharing Lifestyle recommendations from everyone.

I would love to hear your feedback reg. the problem I am a trying to solve. Any feedback is appreciated! Thank you!

Motivation for building this app:

I always wanted to have a catalog of recommendations on various Lifestyle experiences from everyone for my reference.

These could be as simple as coffee flavor you liked to Anything helpful to you at home and around such as the board games you enjoyed, TV shows, Movies, Books you liked, the discoveries you made during your routine, Items you have at home which were helpful or not so helpful to you, etc.

This is so that when I get bored or did not like certain experiences, can refer to this shared catalog to see what others are recommending and try them myself and thus in some way achieving Lifestyle productivity :)

It's a problem I wanted to solve for myself for many years and current ways of building a catalog of user recommendations are very inefficient and all over the place on the web.

I am trying to figure out : Are there enough users who care about this problem than just myself and few users I gathered so far (about 250)

I built an MVP for iOS and Android (App available in US only at this time). Currently validating the problem with users and gathering their feedback.

MVP app download links are here :

https://findsmine.com

App name : FindsMine
(As in gold mine. It's mine full of various Finds from everyone )

No personal information, not even email, required to access all parts of the app.

Some insights I gathered so far from current MVP users:

Most are avid e-book readers of biography & non-fiction genres and about 60% of them are do-it-yourselfers.
It was planned given the news, but clearly something leaked beforehand because it dropped significantly in the minutes prior to the halt.
Sonos discontinuing “Legacy” zoneplayers such as the zp90 and zp100
We've entered an era where hounding and intimidating journalists is considered a legitimate political position. So they probably really are genuine far right users, Brazilian and otherwise, swept up by the reality distorting extremism of the day.

And their influence will continue to expand so long as they are able to shout down, spam and vandalize venues that might have been used to find solutions.
Doesn't the Tor browser now come with PrivacyPass by default?
Just a little clarification: the architecture is 3-tier, databases are not directly exposed; the software includes an authentication layer and firewalling rules: you have fine granularity on tables & columns access per user.
I find the content and art on the site really cute and heartwarming and occasionally useful, so thanks! There are so many memes on Twitter that use a funny wikiHow image.
> Their destructive AMP service confusingly shows you Google's domain instead of the website's

No, it doesn't. It's actually served from Google's URL, but it (the AMP service) shows you the original site URL (well, it shows the domain by default but that's a button that expands to the URL if you click it.)

Your address bar shows you the Google URL, but that's not misleading, either, since what the address bar has always shown is what location content is being served from, not a content identifier distinct from the mechanics of content distribution.

> they can't fix that without losing out on tracking

Nah, they could track of they worked like a classic CDN
It's a nicer skin with better privacy around mainly this search engine: bing.com from Microsoft.
If you prefer languages with more features, then simple languages aren't for you. But me? If you told me you'd give me language X but with far fewer features, my eyes would light up, and I'd only ask, are you sure you can't get rid of any more? As Saint-Exupery said, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Zig has all you need to write clear, efficient, generic, systems code and nothing more, but also nothing less. It is also intended to help you write safe code, but it goes about it differently from Rust.
Samesies :(
The 20th century saw the pendulum swing towards an absolute faith in materialism to cure all ills, and today we are seeing the pendulum start to return back toward faith in the immaterial: love, thought, spirit, community, etc.

While material conditions have improved, we are now seeing the consequences of blind faith in materialism. People are waking up to the truth that material comforts do not give their life meaning at all, and I think that's a good thing.

Record suicide rates and opioid addictions are enough to suggest that more and more people find this new way of life devoid of any meaning, and those of us still standing are starting to scratch our heads and search for ways we can do better.
Store Room – Smart Self Storage
Bellman Equations, Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
> If you stop and think about what that means experientially, it's pretty shocking: it means that we are surrounded by our own demons. Since everyone else is having the same experience, a forum like this is a community of people who all feel surrounded by their own demons, not realizing that they are mostly creating them for ourselves.

I've been thinking about this all day since I read it. Thanks for this. It's a profound insight for me.

This along with BurntSushi's insight about emotional code smell makes this one of the best hn post ever for me.
Good point, I have some blinders on - but the "millions enjoy free" line doesn't justify all the data-slurping and advert-pushing that ABC does, in my opinion. Too large of a marketshare, there's gotta be some serious anti-trust issues going on behind the scenes.

Not to mention the thoughtcrime and influence/propaganda potential.
There is a box at the top of the results page which you can tick to get country specific results
The Internet Correction Squad would like to remind you that 1) they are different programs that do different things, 2) if they changed over time, they wouldn't be portable, 3) if all you use awk for is '{print $2}', that is perfectly fine.

You can submit a new feature request/patch to GNU coreutils' cut, but they'll probably just tell you to use awk.

Edit: Nevermind, it's already a rejected feature request: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-09/msg... (from https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.htm...)
Question: how much would it cost Boeing if the 737 MAX was never allowed to fly again? Could it bring them down, on the brink of bankrupcy, or is it something they could stomach?
there are several people asking for invites. pm me or reply here and I'll invite you (Until my ten invites run out). In roughly 7h because I'm going to sleep now.

In a recent census we realized we have very few non-tech people and women, so please help us even the scales by reaching out if you see this ;)
Here's a video from the University of Michigan showing just how effective these cheap DIY air filters can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
Reduction of confusion, and information density.

Why does Amazon need to appear twice in a row - https://i.imgur.com/8Dhr1mj.png
Others have mentioned that this is almost certainly the result of a long course of A/B testing.

The problem with this kind of aggressive A/B testing is that it's a game of "how far can we push the user?" So instead of having enthusiastic fans, they have people who begrudgingly use them. Sure, Google picks up an extra nickel here or there, and I'm sure some PMs got a raise. But I don't know any strong Google boosters any more, and there are hordes of people ready to switch over once something tolerable comes along.

(And from the comments, it seems like many of you have already found tolerable replacement search engines. I think I'm going to join you.)
yes, likewise, I'm in New Zealand, and trying to find local stuff on DDG is a very poor experience. I'll swap to google for this.
Troll Hunters: 2 Professors break down the tactics of Russian trolls
I find that a lot too. Trying to search for anything Rails related always shows Rails 3/4 results before Rails 5/6. If Google really knew that much about me, they should notice I always end my searching by clicking on a Rails 5/6 result (because those are the versions I use) and every time I land on a Rails 3 or 4 result I almost always click back and try again. Same with Python when I get 2.x results, with all their data they should know I've used 3.x for years.

If companies want to track me and build profiles on me, I accept that I can't stop that without refusing to use their products and every site that's integrated with it (Google Analytics, Adwords, etc). But if they're going to do it, at least use that information to help me. What's the point otherwise?
Apple uses third party data centers, if it can't host encrypted data on a Chinese server without China having access to the data, there is something wrong with the encryption.
do you know that feeling when a problem is too much for the shell but too little for C? that's where Perl was supposed to fit.

in everyday life however, many small problems are a bit too much for the shell but too little for Perl/Python/whatever.

awk fits very nice in there.
Wow, didn't realize adwords and FB ads are so expensive. How do small businesses compete? are there any alternatives for those with smaller ad budgets?
They have to have some (possibly trivial) algorithm for aggregating the sources they combine.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mute-tabs-by-url/b...
Show HN: Mec.py Mathematical Expression Calculator
I don't see anyone here mentioning this, so I will. CloudFlare supports PrivacyPass, a third-party, privacy-preserving way to do proof-of-work for websites. Basically, you do some small amount of CPU work and get 30 tickets your browser can transparently redeem for access to a site.

That's a pretty clever way to both deter bad actors and ensure legitimate users get uninterrupted access to websites.
Some communites escaped the Spanish Flu via isolation:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-...

“No one came in and no one came out. Schools were closed and there were no public gatherings. We came up with the term ‘protective sequestration’, where a defined and healthy group of people are shielded from the risk of infection from outsiders.”
Also, see previous discussion[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384187