skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the old "nobody is ever fired for choosing IBM", and I think Google actually succeeded in forging a "shouldn't we avoid Google ?" mentality.

I saw it real time with Maps changing its pricing model, where an international company reworked all their maps display. It was a lot of money, and it's not something you brush under the rug explaining the contracts are otherwise marvellous.

Then there was the whole google chat -> hangouts -> meets transitions with every variations in-between, and messaging applications are one of the most sensible tool to change in an enterprise environment. In particular the bigger it is the worse these changes will be perceived.

When came time to choose between AWS and GCP, the choice was clearly political, more than the technical merits.
I've had so much trouble shipping my cat with me going places for an extended period of time during the winter. Almost everyone tells me to just register him as a service animal. Those same people would gasp in horror at the idea of pretending to be disabled for preferential treatment in any other situation.
You aren't.Yes,you are probably making a few times more than an average person in the country,but at the same time you want to have bigger house, send kids to better school,spend your free time going to some nice country on the other side of the pond and etc. Can you quit your job today and be stress free with all the commitments you've got, at least for a few months,maybe even a year?
The claim was that anti-nuclear sentiment was the sole reason for the current climate crisis.

The fact of the matter is that cheap oil and extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry is by far the major cause of the current climate crisis, and stationary nuclear power plants would not have significantly contributed to a reduction in emissions. Similarly, the economics of naval nuclear power were disproven by at least one attempt at running a commercial vessel on nuclear power. There are uses for nuclear powered civilian vessels (ice breakers, supply ships operating in sensitive environments) just not in the merchant fleet.

The US ship “Savannah” was an economic failure for many reasons, the apologists will claim it was because Savannah was a breakbulk ship built just before the market moved to container ships, but it was also just expensive to build and operate. Savannah was designed as a PR piece, not a serious commercial operation.

If we want to encourage a nuclear merchant fleet we need to put a price on carbon (and other air) pollution so that bunker oil is no longer commercially viable.
I have one principle, after over 30 years of programming and a decade in "Software Archeology": Consider the poor sod who will have to deal with your work in 30 years.
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Wasn't there post on here just a few days ago about how Discord exactly does that? pretend to support end to end encryption? Someone created their own discord client and found that VOIP packets were being decrypted by discord in between clients
America's well-endowed universities seem like a perfect example of human greed. They have amassed so much money that they could seriously invest in furthering their ostensible mission — education — yet they'd rather just obsess over making sure the big pile of money only grows bigger.
Bzzzzt, try again. I can fit both kids and carseats in the back of my old tiny 2 door VW GTI.
Rent seeking would require the new owner to not really be doing anything (I.e. not operating the tld nameservers, etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Just paying recurring fees (e.g. paying rent to your landlord) does not match the definition of rent-seeking.
There's also https://www.dragapp.com/ doing something similar.
It's SCCS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System)
I went to a university that required quite a bit of liberal arts education with the CS degree. I can't think of anything with a substantial relation to engineering ethics covered in those courses.

I don't mean that to be demeaning, but just the reality of what gets covered. I did take Intro to Philosophy (Can't say I learned anything new in it), but most courses were things like French Caribbean Literature, Art History, Civics, etc.
The improvements in the new version of ptvsd are around multi-process debugging, though, not so much multithreading, hence why I was curious. Multithreading was supported before VSCode even, going all the way back to PTVS 1.0, so if we still have any major issues with that, I'd definitely like to know!
Yes? So will Cobol. So will Latin! I suspect discussing design choices might be more interesting than a popularity comparison.
I think the mistake we are all prone to is assuming that everyone experiences existence approximately the same way that we do.

It might not be that she was so bold as to admit her wrongdoing, but that she simply doesn't possess whatever it is that causes someone to actively analyze and predict the world around them.
w/r/t #2 you're not arguing the point you're just re-phrasing it. That money has to come from somewhere, so it comes from the schools and the spending power of the residents via higher property taxes. That's why all the "old burb" areas like mass/ct/nj/long-island have very high property taxes. People think they can flee it by moving to burbs in delaware/florida/rdc/whatever but its just moving the problem and kicking the can a generation, not solving it.
Apple Addresses iPhone 11 Location Privacy Concern
I did not purchase the GM connectivity because it didn't provide any value, the features were lame or useless and it was no loss not having them after the trial period ended.

The Tesla connectivity is really part of the whole car experience and I would probably be willing to pay quite a bit more, I was surprised by how reasonable the price was.
I’ll buy 0.0000001% of your company for $1 and you can be a “billionaire” too.
Being petty jerks in Six Ages makes you the most powerful clan ever
They are not. That's why clarification is needed here. The Americans with Disabilities Act prevents discrimination against service animals without expressly defining them. As of last time I checked there was no federally approved or recognized training requirements or certification program that is required to proclaim a pet as a service animal. For less that >$30 on amazon you get a vest and official tag, the ADA created a bit of a mess.
There may not even be statistics - Canada doesn't have any comprehensive foreign demand data - that accounts for multi-unit demands for recent immigrants (now citizens or PR) acting as proxy buyers for third parties to evade taxes, and various other reporting gaps that exist.

So it mostly comes down to relative wealth & population sizes versus desirability of an area, and then spillover effects into surrounding areas. But unless China crashes I would expect this to be an increasing source of demand over time, especially if you live in a pro-immigration country that needs to paper over domestic government budget shortfalls.
Regardless of what this article says, I'd stay away from the Red Cross: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin...
Hey Christopher! I really really love this.

We met at Racket con this last year (and grabbed dinner briefly). I love your passion for open projects and think about that, especially as I make my own plans!

I especially love your passion for the reality of funding for open projects, and I'm excited to see what comes of your labors.
That's only if you want your own server. If you just want a room for you and your friends, you can use the primary instance for free (you can make private rooms too, if that takes your fancy).

The only thing this doesn't let you do is install bridges to other services (such as Discord). For that you'll need your own server.
French Caribbean Literature sounds pretty specific, but you really don't think Civics has any relation to engineering ethics?
> Surely we can read her comment and understand her intent rather than find a way to be upset?

It would be helpful if the article actually included the comment. Instead, it's hard to discuss at all, since it's a very hollow story.
Stealing data has nothing to do with changing data.
I was going to make a similar comment. Programmer salary and owner profits are not necessarily related. The more specialized a skill is, the more it pays in general. (From the worker's standpoint this is a mixed bag in that you get more money if you are employed, but may have less geographical choice.)
people who abuse service animal privileges are always scum. send these people to work camps when they attempt this scumbaggery ;)
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And more investors, "And we're backed by some very smart VCs including @BloombergBeta @FuelCapital and @upsidevc among others" https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1220078067328024576

It's interesting.. I'd guess VC money is not in line with what the scuttlebutt community would think is the right approach for creating a better alternative to current giants. But at the same time it's clear that you need a lot of time and money to create something polished and mainstream. There must be multiple ways to achieve the same goal.
I think when you compare the scale and scope of SARS with the WNV, I think there should be slightly less finger pointing. The US, North America and Europe are not immune to sharing their viruses globally. Lets not pretend 'the west' has the problem of virus control sorted. It starting there less often because there are less wild and animals around.
this is a very good point, and i have had the same experience. its also super common for very cheap, very low end custom ics to use i2c for the same reason; keeping the pin count and package size down
It seems that flying with pets in cargo space is not only traumatizing to animals - it can be deadly: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/is-taking-your-pet-on-....

For me it is hardly surprising that people who love their dogs or cats (and essentially treat them as family members) would go the extra mile to take them in the cabin, to ensure their physical and emotional safety. The alternative is to treat them as a disposable piece of luggage (which IMHO is inhumane and cruel for a life companion, human or not).
Indeed. I love dogs too but happen to be allergic. As are a lot of us. Boggles my mind that this is just not even considered by either airlines or pet owners, when bringing them into closed-air-circulation system where we're trapped like sardines for many hours :<

I was seated next to a person with a small furry dog, who proceeded to tell me how hypoallergenic (marketing thing - no such thing) it was as I proceeded to sneeze and leek the entire flight :<
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stop associating with scumbags.
The storm hit in August.
You're ignoring the point, and just being pedantic.
Many european cities max out at 8 stories simply because they were built before the advent of elevators, or the design aesthetic started before the elevator and they're keeping new neighborhoods consistent.

4 floors is mildly inconvenient on foot but 8 floors is becoming a real chore for people over 40.
Not with properly seasoned cast-iron cookware, it won't.
Latin never died or stopped changing or stopped being spoken; it is still spoken by about a billion people today — they just stopped calling it “Latin” at some point.
If you folks are enjoying this but want more flexibility, check out Mapbox - it lets you define fully custom styles for OpenStreetMap maps and download them as high res images or embed them in apps (basically this but more flexible and a bit harder to use). https://www.mapbox.com/
> land/housing prices will quickly recover and continue to outpace wage growth and many other productive investments

Saying land/housing prices are outpacing many other productive investments seems like a stretch. If you look at the performance of large US REIT ETFs versus market indices like the SPY the rent seeking behavior by real estate investors doesn't look so profitable.
You aren’t helping your case by labelling people who disagree with you as “uneducated idiots.”

In my local environment the most visible people championing nuclear power are the same ones who turn up in Parliament House wearing their sponsor’s uniform, or bring lumps of coal into the House. They also engage in corporate style group psychopathy of “if what we want to do isn’t illegal, there’s nothing stopping us from doing it.”

With friends like those, nuclear power doesn’t need any enemies. The impression is that the only reason nuclear power is mentioned is because some politicians are looking for a comfortable post-retirement life in a junket lobbying position at Westinghouse.

So between the nuclear advocates here on HN claiming that everyone who doesn’t support nuclear power is a “climate alarmist” uneducated idiot, the only proponents in government being the most visibly corrupt, and the discussion of nuclear power always turning to “proven” thorium technology, nuclear power really has little hope of being accepted by society at large.
> you want to have bigger house, send kids to better school,spend your free time going to some nice country on the other side of the pond and etc.

That's a lot of assumptions.

> Can you quit your job today and be stress free with all the commitments you've got, at least for a few months,maybe even a year?

Yes, I could in fact.

And that despite the fact that I actually make a bit less than the average engineer with my level of experience, because of the kind of company I'm working at. I also donate 10% of my pre-tax income to charity and make the full contributions to my 401k, and I'm still able to put some money into my personal savings every month.

I realize that not everyone in my industry is in my situation - particularly outside of the U.S. - but lots of people are.
And I don’t trust random people’s pets to be well behaved and would rather not risk sitting next to them.
It's basically the same way with VB6 apps - so many of them out there, and MS can't get rid of the runtime DLL...
It seems crazy from an European prospective the Bay Area is 200 years old (from a western world development point of view of course)
Looks curious, I'd love to try it, I always wanted a system which wouldn't run anything I don't need (e.g. I never need Avahi or Samba, I don't need a user manager and would love to startx, I agree to sacrifice boot speed for simplicity - waiting a minute is ok for a desktop PC to start if you get something as valuable as understanding your system in exchange). That's a pity it doesn't have binary packages - building everything I need from source is going to take too long. I also doubt everything is going to work without the D-Bus. AFAIK many apps also fail to work with musl, and busybox might not include all the features of the classic GNU tools I may occasionally need. So I wish there were a slightly less radically simple Linux distribution.

PS: and I hate sh (as many others probably do), everything-LISP would probably be more fun.
Brilliant. Needs more results but I like the concept.
She didn't care about telling you because you didn't do anything about it, and she knew you wouldn't. People are starting to realize that everyone else is so caught up in their own crap they will never take the time to concern themselves with someone else's.
there is some definite financial engineering going on there.

btw, I have a pre-idea/pre-founder start up I like to pitch. It's sort of like a SPAC without any special purpose. I'd appreciate any VC intros that can be made.
What if a signed version of the content was always accessible, content addressable, in the Internet Archive? Does it matter than what the current namespace is?
For citation here are two sources:

50% of population: https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization#how-urban-is-the-wor...

70% of emissions: https://www.c40.org/why_cities

This is based on the concept of a "consumption emission", which is an interesting concept. The point being that cities (especially western cities) have seen their emissions drop due to de-industrialization, but consumption has increased (hence your statement about carbon footprints correlating to wealth/income). To say that cities impacts are smaller when they just outsource all of their carbon impact is disingenuous.
I work in healthcare, our main app runs in an embedded IE10 and this will likely _never_ change. I fully expect to need to support IE for the next 10 years.
Ryzen 7 4800H benchmark leak shows AMD's laptop CPU beating a 9th-Gen Intel
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In the U.S. we can trace a lot of the damage back to Citizen's United v F.E.C.

See https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZS.html
It is an error to think that reductio only applies to “physics and math problems”. Logic is logic, it applies to all truths. (Though one has to be careful with things stated informally, to ensure that one is working with the claims that were intended. There is a danger of parsing an informal statement as if it were a formal statement, and as a result interpreting it to mean something other than what was meant.

Also, there may be a risk of people being more likely to derive in invalid ways when attempting the reductio, like making some hyperbolic statements, exaggerating the implications of a statement, and treating those exaggerations as if they actually logically follow.
But this doesn’t make reductio an invalid technique, just one that people can fail to use properly.)

Like I said in the other comment, the objection should be that the derivation of the absurd from the premise is invalid. For example, pointing to the “that you can stomach” part of your claim, and saying that the derivation was invalid in neglecting that part of the statement.
there are some reputable training schools (like guide dogs for the blind and canine companions for independence), but there is no real accreditation. there's maybe organizations like assistance dogs international, that hold member schools to standards, but not much beyond that.

the ada explicitly doesn't allow any kind of request for documentation or certification either. basically you just have to take people at face value when you ask them if the animal is required because of a disability. and lots of people with ESAs are okay being very casual about that.

(and the reason i can figure out why people with ESAs are okay with bending the truth compared to a trained service animal, is because they tend to be the ones that are VERY upset in two situations that are legal: the one where i negotiate different accommodations because i'm very allergic to dog dander, and the one where they get upset that a misbehaving ESA is being asked to leave the premises. having been around dozens of trained service animals - i've never seen one misbehave the way ESAs can, and everyone is happy with my suggestions due to my allergy since i go above and beyond, rather than making things more difficult.)
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I love the feel of IE, it feels like the most OS-integrated browser I've ever used. Of course, Trident was based off the same layout engine as MS Office, so that makes sense.

I still make my sites work in IE, down to IE4, and probably 1-3 too, I just haven't had a chance to test them yet.

I think that in the retro-computing world, IE will be one of the longest browsers still in use.
I can say from experience that vehicle selection goes down much more once you need to expand to a fifth row. There were just two choices, one from Ford and one from GM.

Fitting three car seats across is still difficult, despite enough car width to have a 4-wide bench in the rear. Putting car seats in the back rows makes them hard to get to, so they should go in the second row or in the third row seat nearest the door. That gives reasonably easy room for 3, but some states would have had me needing 5.
Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises will switch Chrome, Firefox search to Bing
Yep, I’ve had many people at the dog park talk about this like it’s just “the way you travel with your dog”.
My understanding of that was that is currently the only way to do WebRTC in a one to many scenario, so not sure I'd say they're pretending.
"being self-motivated, being sociable, and working well with others" doesnt require formal education.
I love dogs, but you're ruining everything for the people who actually need service animals.

I saw a dog with one of those fake "Emotional support animal" vests on take a dump in the frozen food aisle of the supermarket. When it was done, the owner just kept on walking.

People who use animals as fashion accessories and to draw attention to themselves should be punished.

Sadly, the Starbucks near me not only allows pets in, it has a corkboard where people are encouraged to post photos of their animals in the store.
There are special services for transporting animals outside of typical flights.
> As I showed, the desperately poor folk of Rwanda managed to get their government to make a plan. Their is no reason why hundreds of millions of these less-poor folk can't do it.

Apples and oranges!

It’s a heck of a lot easier to clean up plastic waste when you aren’t having literally millions of tons[0] of it shipped to you from the United States alone.

The issue isn’t a few folks aren’t picking up trash along the river/beach, it’s many orders of magnitude difference in scale.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/21/ch...
Mixing Delphi and C++
An exponent of 0 in IEEE format is a special case: It represents subnormal numbers, which do NOT prepend an implicit "1" to the mantissa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number
I did not grow up privileged myself (for western standards of course), but I'd rather be hungry than do something illegal/unethical that harms a lot of others.
You are right, however I think rent-seeking in this context is that the owner is able to extract more money without producing any more value. So it would meet the definition. This usage of the term has become quite common when referring to political rent-seeking.
One could ask the same question about systemd and its ecosystem.
A club is certainly more pro-humanity than some of the existing misathropic stuff there like internet.org. Philanthropy doesn't have to be about giving money.
> I think you have a different definition of advanced and sophisticated than I do.

What are your definitions of advanced and sophisticated?

Advanced : being beyond the elementary or introductory
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advanced

Sophisticated : highly complicated or developed
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophisticated

> If I do fizzbuzz with a neural network is it really more advanced and sophisticated?

Yes but that doesn't mean it's better.
Anecdote: I went to a small private college in the Midwest (around 1,000 students or so) and CS majors like myself were indeed required to take humanities courses. For me this included a philosophy course, religion course, a course on female literature, a course on fictional literature, and three theatre arts courses. I attended for 2 years (transfer from a community college) and had an otherwise regular sized course load. I currently work at a $BigTechCorp.
A mirror reflects light. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

I’m interested in a device that refracts light, in order to bend it in arbitrary ways.
Pythia: A modular framework for vision and language
To really improve them, the man format needs to be changed. For example, those blue underlined words... they arent links. Markdown (or better, a subset) would work.
I’m sure you could have asked to have been moved. Ironically they won’t serve peanuts if anyone is deadly allergic.