skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that doesn't sound impossible. After all, it's what the dollars are attached to.

Think about it: if you want to implement an echo server that can't be cracked to view previous things it echoed, you could probably do it quite well. Now imagine I bring a billion dollars, and some more requirements, and I hire a few hundred people to work with you on this, and some of them are security consultants, and some are compliance guys who want the echoed text saved for compliance, and some others are privacy experts who want the echo text inspected by DLP software so that you aren't sending PII.

I rate former you more likely to succeed than latter you. In the first problem, it's technical. In the second, it's organizational.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
I think you're taking it too literally. The assumption is that even a script that's not very "execution dependent" needs a competent crew. Just maybe not an absolutely stellar crew.
> No such expectation exists in a public space.

I have that expectation for most of that space.
Which aren't also supported by either PS 4 and XBox.
I would be productive if there were an emacs that weren't a parenthesis hell and slow as molasses. I hope there's is a lumacs
According to the latest national Emerson poll today, Yang is in #4 with 8% support.

The thing with exponential growth is that by the time you realize it, it is too late
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I did my most basic research: I went to the websites and saw the interface and concluded that the interface does not distinguish between the gender of the members. That sounds like quite an evidence against your claim.
Proton is like the OS/2's Win32 compatibility, it did wonders for OS/2 adoption.
What's surprised me, coming back (obliged to for work) to MS Windows after 15 years away, is how the WM can't even put windows back where you left them, nor do basics like "always on top" (I swear, even recently, it used to do that; but it's application specific now). And how in generally great tools like OneNote you can't rotate a page printed to it (there's a workaround though, snip the page as an image [it's already an image!] then you're allowed to rotate), nor is there grouping of selections (ink in particular).

Third party tools have fixes for all this, and more.

These all seem like pre-1.0 issues to me.
Is it really worth this much effort of yours to defend the honour of a guy who is so involved with a pedophile rapist and pimp that he arranged a conference on said pedophile's private island, where he kept his sex slaves?

Like, isn't at that point time to step back, look at the situation, and go "wait, this does not seem right"? To think that maybe this guy might just be rotten, and maybe he is neither worth listening to or defending?
Because they still need to the QA work for each supported platform.

Develop once, debug everywhere.
> in-app event sourcing

What's the difference between in-app and not?
The remote can be configured for either CEC or IR, see also: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205225#siriappletv. The only problem happens when not playing from the AppleTV and you use the volume buttons. It’ll switch inputs on the TV/receiver to the AppleTV. So it’s no longer an universal volume control, which can confuse family members as they have to remember which input the whole setup is in.
I'm not sure, but we're now in a new cold war with Russia. This is what cold war feels like. Attacking our political infrastructure, assassination of political enemies.

We're one shooting war away from a major conflict. We were lucky we didn't get into one with Iran.
The app is really really cheap. Fair to say underpriced, especially compared to the books.
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The data paints a different picture.

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https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
You've put unnecessary tension between the collective/society and individuality and individual achievement as if they are at odds here. Lucas didn't need the whole of the collective to believe in his vision from the start, he just needed some measure of support in his life coming from another person or people. This is especially true for someone making films, as that involves hundreds of people combining their individual talents to a project. (ps he's donated 6 Billion into helping people get good education, a support system for people to help get success)

Superstar athletes get to shine with their superior talents only because they had some measure of support in their life to encourage their career and open up the possibilities. This is especially true for countless NBA athletes, many of them having come from poor backgrounds. You won't find a single NBA star who doesn't acknowledge that their success was made possible through the sacrifices of others in their life. Their childhood peers who kept them away from gangs, a parent who drove them to games, a mentor who kept reinforcing their belief in their talent. Not to mention the infrastructure that was laid before them by the pioneers before they were even born.
I don't really agree, and in fact I think the EU already has a pretty good proactive law, in the form of the GDPR. You can't use indiscriminate facial recognition, gait recognition, or any other such mechanism if you need individual consent to process any data related to a person.

That said, specific bans for cases that the GDPR doesn't cover might still make sense. But we should be careful about de-fanging it by making it seem that any technology not specifically banned is fair game.
It's about Constructable Stylesheets. The entire discussion is here: https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45
Sam should have written "I pretended leading a team of 70 instead of 3 to get an interview"
It's a non sequitur, derailing the conversation a bit. Although I admit I am curious about why anyone would like currying in JS where it is a bit unnatural to do so.
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The most transformative experience was learning how to retain information better following the Coursera course: Learning How to Learn (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn)

I'd not always been the best learner and this taught me how to learn more effectively. Whilst at the sametime accepting the limitations of the brain.

It led me to find the Anki app and combined with more effective learning, it positively affected my ability to be a better programmer.
Actually the business model seems very much in question, judging by the fact that Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028517/sharenow-car2go...
I did. I see no mention of special do not disturb handling, instead high value placed on others being able to start voice communication without waiting for you to accept - the only thing that is opt-in is answering them, by the time your attention is already wrecked.
Do they know that this tentative move highlighted how the entire conneced device market is a bad deal for customers? Detractors of connected devices often tout how useless these are when the internet is temporarily down, but the biggest threat is not there (hopefully). The biggest threat comes from the entity providing the link. Those guys need to be up forever!

And that's not the only issue. There is no economic reasons for companies like Sonos to maintain devices for ever, for free. So either they stop doing so, or a new business models will arise, making connected devices yet another subscription-based play. Why not?

Connected devices exist because of our laziness at the cost of sustainability, privacy, security, control.

Apart from that they are a great deal!
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That's generally how all the Philosophy language-games work.

You claim that I've contradicted myself and then you go onto re-describe my argument in your vocabulary. Ex falso sequitur quodlibet...

You are imposing your language/vocabulary onto me, rather than adopting mine, while failing to realise that language itself is just another instrument. I use it for communication.

Not only are you imposing your language onto me, you are trying to impose your logic onto me also - failing to realise that logic is also just an instrument.

And in so far as you seem to care about contradictions - your dogma/religion is the 'Law' of non-contradiction. It's a false God, a man-made authority. Trivially side-stepped with either Dialetheism or Paraconsistent logic.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes. --Walt Whitman

Bayesianism, Intuitioinism, Structuralism, Counter-factualism, Reflection, Introspection, Self-reference, methodism, particularism (obviously the list is incomplete) are just some of the tools (formal languages/models - used for communicating with other humans, not to be mistaken for ontologies) in my toolbox. How and when I might use any particular instrument is context-dependent and is largely up to me. It's purposeful and intentional.

The rest of the time my mind does whatever it does all by itself - I can't tell you what the autopilot 'believes'.

And I am not here to be persuaded (by you or anybody) that your way is better than my way - I can change my mind all by myself if you give me the relevant information. That's how I use introspection/reflection.
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Hetzner's pricing for dedicated servers is impressive. However, I'm curious about how do you deal with (or whether you are worried about) the lack of their presence in North America, Asia, Oceania? Unless most of your customers are in Europe, latency might be an issue ... What is your experience in this regard?
Well, in my EU country the police was recently stopped by our National Data Protection Commission from implementing such a system in a public street. It's not impossible.
I'm homeless, live in a vehicle and can't hold a job (getting along with people). My parents insisted ADD was a fad and that I was normal, yet all of my peers said I was weird. Not many friends. Under-treated depression until 30. Lived withdrawn for several years. Finally on atomoxetine at 40, which helps some. Lots of plans but no sustained focus and execution to get anything done. I somehow slogged through getting a CS degree over 10 years, but went bankrupt and have $9k in undischargeable student loan debt. My cognition is declining, I sleep on a very odd schedule and don't really have any purpose or use because I'm too old. Intervention earlier and don't do as I did... because you can basically never recover from homelessness without help but there is no help.
Ask HN: What Happened to Firefox Nightly News Blog?
Firefox Nightly News blog hasn't had an update since November 13, 2019.

It was the best medium I found to follow Firefox development news, always with a bunch of great links and brief descriptions of the varied works in progress.

I wonder if HN knows what's up...

Link: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/

Last post: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/11/13/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-68/
A little off-topic, but I've built a small backend server in Node.js and Tensorflow.js to run a previously Pyhton-built model and was amazed by how performant and non blocking it runs.

The model can do around 10k predictions/s and does it with async, which allows Node to respond to web requests in the meanwhile.

I guess it's a matter of using the right tool for the task, whenever possible, Python for data science, Nodejs for a web backend.
Fascinating. The article is talking about surveillance blimps and I can't help but wonder if someone is working on repurposing that tech to detect fires at their onset.
Last I checked, medical and life insurance is a thing everywhere else in the world as well. While a public healthcare system will pay for your treatment, it will not pay for the loss of earnings/business during your stay in the hospital and convalescence, nor will it pay you if you end up with a permanent disability (social security may cover a pittance of the latter).
Direct link to the relevant study (PDF):

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apa.15124
If that is the meter stick, then replacing the compressor with a better one is probably the best course of action.
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I have had the exact same thought. I have imagined myself being predisposed to being a great hunter. I would have no problem just idling away, alone in nature all day, until the final moment came.
What could go wrong with Facebook, it brings us all closer, right?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/15/technology/de...
Ask HN: Have you licensed or sold software to a large company?
I'm building software which solves an edge case that hasn't been accounted for in the industry I'm targeting.

Potential customers I've interviewed have expressed interest and willingness to pay for the solution, but some have actually requested that instead of turning it into a product, I should instead licence it to one of the big industry players so it can be properly integrated into one of the industry's standard applications.

Could anyone offer advice / thoughts / experiences on licensing or selling software to a large entity?
Agreed, respect the user.
Telekom[1] aka t-online aggressively uses Magenta for their Branding. Their newest Internet Package is named Magenta One.

At least they use #e20074 instead of #ff00ff

[1] https://telekom.de
It's can be a fleeting or an obsessive focus. Also, if you tack on depression, it's difficult (for me) to prioritize and proportionality/negative cognitive distortions get in the way of almost everything and depression makes everything seem and feel 1000x harder.
Touch typing. There was a huge difference in speed between the my brain and my fingers. Once removed, it was much easier to make the code flow.
Everyone on HN is no doubt sitting there nodding along sagely but there’s also a pretty good bet that 90% of us (nerdy, apparently in-the-know tech types) have done very little to think about cutting down on smartphone use. It’s the single biggest surveillance vector (a device that you carry everywhere that knows where you are and reports your habits into a data store we know pretty much nothing about!), but we all now assume - hilariously, in my opinion - that we “couldn’t live without our phones”.

Personally I think the battle is totally lost until people start actually thinking about the negative impact of these devices, both from a surveillance POV and a wellbeing one.
Interesting article. Thnx for the link.
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Oh wow, that's old school, and brings me back. I haven't thought of "SMUDGE" in a long time! One thing I love about FORTH is how completely off-the-wall and arbitrary some of the words are, even weirder than LISP's CAR and CDR. Most modern FORTH don't have SMUDGE any more, which has been replaced by HIDE and REVEAL.

Perl programmers may savor and fetishize their weird arbitrary unreadable code like letter-sparse sigil-saturated line noise, but Perl can't hold a candle to the subtle beauty and enigmatically punctuated surrealistic symmetry of FORTH code:

8 : BNF: [COMPILE] : SMUDGE COMPILE <BNF ; IMMEDIATE
9 : ;BNF COMPILE BNF> SMUDGE [COMPILE] ; ; IMMEDIATE

>b) Line 9 shows a recursive production, <S>. During the definition of a production, its name is automatically unSMUDGEd.

Of course it's still possible to write self documenting FORTH code:

: C(-; LICK SMILE NOSE WINK ;

comp.lang.forth: Why smudge?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.forth/olO-...

>Does "smudge" have any other use than to stop the current word being
found during a dictionary lookup? If not, then its only use would
seem to be to allow a word to be defined in terms of another (older)
word with the same name. Are there some useful things that can be
done with this ability that make up for the (minor) extra complication?

My other favorite (and much more useful and powerful for metaprogramming) FORTH words are <BUILDS and DOES>, but <BUILDS has been replaced by CREATE now, so they don't look as cool when used together.

http://amforth.sourceforge.net/TG/recipes/Builds.html

<BUILDS is the older sibling of CREATE. It has been in use in pre-ANSI Forth’s and is still around as an supplemental tool. It is a parsing word that takes the next word from the input source and creates a dictionary entry in the current word list. Unlike CREATE it does not add an execution token. Thus the word list entry created is unfinished and calling it will crash the system.

The definition of the word list entry is finished with the DOES> section, that makes the word list entry a proper callable word.

The big advantage over CREATE is that CREATE requires a rewrite of the contents of the execution token. That is on microcontrollers with the flash based dictionary only possible if a single cell can be re-programmed. The Atmegas can do that with little efforts, the MSP430 lacks essential ressources to do so.

From the programming perspective there are no differences. <BUILDS can safely replace CREATE in defining words that contain a DOES> section as well. All other occurances of CREATE should remain unchanged.

: constant create , does> @i ;
\ or
: constant <builds , does> @i ;
I wish there was a supermarket that just didn't have all the redundant products. Take laundry detergent for example. Why do there need to be 523423 different brands and types. They should offer just 3 options: Color, Dark and White. I don't want to have to choose between all these irrelevant options, I just want my clothes to be clean.

They should only offer choices where it matters, like different kinds of beer or frozen pizza.
> W3C Advertising API

What is this?
This "China = boogeyman" has become very common on HN and I'm surprised it's rarely called out for the xenophobia it represents. For most of the rest of the world, the US is not much more trustworthy than China, but Americans generally frame it as if control is transferring from some guardian angel to a horned devil.

I'm well aware of the horrors of the Chinese govt, but it's always talked about here as if a fresh new threat has appeared, rather than the source changing from West to East.
Worth noting that ADHD is often misdiagnosed, in the sense that there is an underlying condition, and ADHD is just one of the symptoms.

Case in point: my now 14 years old kid was diagnosed with severe ADHD when he was 6. Medication improved his condition a lot. Last year we started to notice that he would have brief periods of absence, resulting in a battery of neuro tests. He has been diagnosed with generalized absence epilepsy and he is now on valproic acid. He is now much better - especially with mood stability - since started epilepsy meds.

Yet, I am afraid that epilepsy is again, just another symptom. Structural damage was discarded (brain mri was normal), but we are now running a battery of genetic testing to find out. First test - cgh array - came out negative and we are now waiting for a whole exome sequencing to see if we are able to identify an underlying genetic condition.

My take away: If you have severe ADHD, go to the neuro and ask at least for an EEG and a brain MRI to discard underlying conditions.
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For years the share of coal in the German energy mix had been in decline, and this trend continued after the start of the nuclear phase out.

So "nuclear power was mostly replaced with power from coal" could be misleading...

(Plus the price of coal had played a role for some spikes of coal consumption some years, which is independent of the phase out...)
>I've seen so many ...."Bernie's people are horrible" posts on the Yang subreddit which has turned me off the yang gang

Well, Bernie's subreddit literally bans every single person who makes a post containing the word "Yang". They even remove him from the poll results. Certainly doesn't give any socialist dictatorship vibes (that, and his support of Venezuela).
So even more people get your data, horay
The companies like 23andMe can do anonymous tests. They can even sell "gift cards" for cash (or bitcoin, for digitally inclined). Don't deliver kits, let them be picked up without asking for an ID, just by the gift card number. As long as the test results are not linked to a specific address or name, it's fine.

They will still have clues about the state and the city and the IP address of the person. It's enough to do whatever research they may want to do with aggregate data. It's not good enough to sell this data to insurance companies and advertisers.
I agree, have ADHD this ran on so hard... I got bored so fast. Got some points here and there but skimmed all the h1 tags.

When writing to us... maybe just try bullet points.... Don't run past the page fold - or I'm out.
> All tourist business will be conducted in a single co-op building, and will be run collectively.

IOW, guaranteed to fail.
Isn't that a general thing? I hate the quality of Amazon's internal search, but Google's results for shopping related queries are just atrocious in my country. There's barely-related Amazon-Products on the top 5 places, SEO spam on the next 10, a few shops on pages 2/3 and then scam shops.
> The goal of the law is to prevent the development of a technical reality

Facial recognition in the brain is just specialized object recognition, therefore any research on powerful general-purpose object recognition via deep-neural-networks is improving facial recognition technology whether it means to or not. Only a law banning all artificial neural network research seems to have a chance at stopping the technical reality here.
Well because it is not ugly. It is utilitarian. It looks like military rations design which are often wonderful (especially japanese and australian army) and extremely well designed.
start with explicit requirements to the system you are building. so obvious, but so neglected! i blame the typical belief in one's omniscience.
From iOS perspective changing to clean architecture using VIPER has made our code testable and easier to reason about.

We enforce the architecture as much as possible through protocol conformance, which doesn’t always work, but works extraordinarily well for “Views” or “Scenes”.

It’s taken so much stress out of the development lifecycle for our team.
It seems to me you are conflating hard with important. The case was being made for the former, certainly not the later.

Other than that I do agree.