skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Techthroway's that have never experienced war and don't study international relations and geopolitics should stop suggesting bullshit like this. I get so tired of people advocating more aggressive stances with other nations when it's not their ass or their offsprings that will go to war. This is also why I advocate that next war all the politicians sons and daughters get drafted and then we can see if they still want to go to war.

Oh wait, the congress abdicated it's constitutional duty to be responsible for declaring war via the unconstitutional War Powers Act and AUMF's...
Feel free to suggest an alternative.

The one that comes to mind is Communism (and its many flavours), and we've seen what a humanitarian and economic disaster that turns out to be.
Perhaps, but don't take the claim too far. From the article:

"Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists. "
The camera was pretty far ahead of everything else at the time also.
Don't depend on online services, other than for metadata lookup. I have a Logitech Squeezebox and run Logitech Media Server on a DIY Windows 10 fileserver. I also use MP3Tag extensively to clean up my media files. Looking at getting a Synology device and possibly switching over to that at some point. (But still running LMS for my Squeezebox at home.)
Not "API", and Mozilla intends to vote against, I hope...
In HTML, "linking" is a contraction of "hyperlinking". I guess deep linking and hyperlinking have a significant cross-over, maybe to the point where it's not a useful distinction?
Immutability may be a buzzword, but if you stick with immutable data, that does give you functional programming. The possible exception to this is that you could have certain kinds of real-world side effects in a language which only had immutable data.

FP used to mean just "no side effects". (Barbara Liskov mentions this old understanding of FP here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAKrMdUycb8). That is a desideratum for the even bigger buzz-phrases "referential transparency" and "equational reasoning", which are the goals of the FP research programme and have yet to really materialize.

As a counterpoint to your claim that understanding point-free style is a fundamental part of understanding functional programming, how about this 1998 paper by Andrew Appel, "SSA is Functional Programming" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3... which locates the essence of functional programming in the fact of immutable data (equivalent to imperative Single Static Assignment code).
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-ch...

https://apnews.com/05aa58325be0a85d44c637bd891e668f
AI Predicts Coronavirus Could Infect 2.5B and Kill 53M. Why It’s Not Credible
Private ownership of contractor businesses means decisions are made by a few at the top :)

Relevant comment I wrote on how to solve that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289943
Maybe it's because someone (grandma?) bought me a mid-price (probably £15 or so) pen at the start of secondary school, but I don't remember that pen leaking. It seems more likely with a £3 thing from WH Smith.

I had the pen-from-grandma until I was about 30 years old, when it disappeared from my desk at work. "Made in W. Germany."
You don't understand why the government of Iran would resent the US so much that they would contribute military resources to harm the US?
With added security! Air-gaped, no WiFi 802.11AC for you.
Think bigger.

The CCP routinely engages in this class of behavior of salami slicing. Tiny little cuts that unto themselves wouldn’t be cause for aggression.

This is the child poking another. Violence isn’t preferable but if one refuses to correct...
I'm also a big fan of Distributism (and G.K. Chesterton for that matter), but my background is Protestant.

Distributism is just a great idea that everybody should support.
Given that startups = rapid growth (PG's definition), this is another way of saying that moving new tech from the fringes to the mainstream is unlikely to be a viable strategy for startups.

If you can get those fringes in the beginning to fall in love with your product and make you ramen profitable though, then you might be able to hang on to the rising tide of the "gradually" part long enough to have something big on your hands, assuming you can keep your organization very lean and cost-efficient in the meantime.
ah yep, my bad. thanks.
Surely you jest. Are you seriously not aware of the "Mac vs PC" war? PC = Windows.
What I think is more likely is Apple and/or Google responding to Spotify making this aggressive move by doing something similar, which will put the nail in the coffin. And it's worth noting that Netflix wasn't default either, but look at the impact it had.
It has nothing to do with stock exchanges. There have been plenty of giant growth oriented corporations that are private.

How do you account for that?
In primary school in the US, we had a chart very similar to the one linked from TFA showing how to hold a pen.
It's pretty clear that the US hacks other countries far more than other countries hack the US. That's why the US has historically been very reticent to agree to treaties that would limit a country's ability to hack.
For the podcasts I listen to, at least, they don't ever seem to feel constrained by their advertisers. At worst they seem bored by them; they don't particularly want to advertise underwear and mattresses. But generally, the advertisers are trying to reach a market that shares an interest with the people who make the podcast, and it just seems unlikely that they're ever being paid off to promote or avoid topics that they wouldn't naturally gravitate to (or from).

Perhaps that's because I'm selecting content with little political or controversial content. But even there, I suspect that people who do want that content will find that the advertisers who want them are the ones who naturally appeal to them anyway.

Consumerism in general is always insidious, but that's hardly limited to podcasting. There are a lot of paradoxes associated with being wealthy enough to be in an advertiser's demographic, and yet still be vulnerable to wanting something to make you happy.
Which party boss sent out this draft?
Perl's just another language I've known. Maintaining a 20yo codebase in a language that people find distasteful sounds like comfortable job security, to me.
John Noakes would never have been asked to read the news.
Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.
> Extremely difficult to build an indie business on iOS given that there is a single distribution channel that you don't control.

Would this imply it is easier to build an indie business on Android?
Researchers link autism to a system that insulates nerve fibers in the brain
Related: Antarctica Sets Record High Temperature: 64.9 Degrees
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/climate/antarctica-record...
Unless it was closed source / DRM-y, the scraper developer would just compiler their browser from source and fake the detection code.

Scrapers that know what they're doing could implement this in a day. There are already easier ways to detect scrapers that don't know what they're doing.

And that's just the start of a long cat & mouse game that'd inevitably end up even more user-hostile and unaccessible than requiring a webcam to browse a website.
> a distributed system like capitalism

How is capitalism a distributed system? It concentrates capital in the hands of a small minority.

A free market is a distributed system, but "free market" is not a synonym for "capitalism".

> Centralization is not magic, but when it works, it works.

I guess we have very different definitions of "works".
I haven't seen that at all - many Julia programmers are (or were) also Python programmers.
I think there is a lot of respect in the Julia community for Python & the Python ecosystem.
There have even been a number of Julia talks at various PyCons over the past few years.
This will be unpopular but I don't care - I see nothing shady. They're promoting their product. In the era when we're lied to at every corner of internet, I see nothing wrong with Microsoft promoting their new and AWESOME browser.

Sadly, despite my love for Mozilla and Firefox, Edge is superior browser for me. It looks better, it works faster, it uses less memory and its developer console is much snappier, detailed and I am used to working with it. I'm sure there are people who would say the same about Firefox.

I would love for Firefox to be the best browser, both technically and subjectively. But it isn't (yet, and again - for ME).

Having hated Microsoft for a long time and having thought of Google as godsend, my opinion has changed in 2020. Microsoft did some amazing things for OSS community and for us web developers (Typescript, VSCode, Edge, Github.. I can stop here but there's more).

I actually recommend Edge to other people. The wording Microsoft chose might not be the best, but what are they supposed to do? Do nothing? What would the titles be then? "Trillion dollar company inept in promoting their latest and best product. Shareholders stumped."

By the way, the site that reports the issue (softpedia) loads ads and unwanted cookies. Using the same SJW logic, could I discredit their misleading title based on the source of their revenue?
Hey thank you for checking it out! Yea the is a first for me as far as distributing an app. Do you recommend any tools to use for distribution or a way to have users download the app? Thanks again!
But if you're simply making a narrow point about that pronunciation then I don't see how this particularly refutes what gowld said. That there's uncertainty or ambiguity around one specific archaising use of a word in a Blake poem doesn't change the fact that we (apparently—I'm no expert) know that someone wading through stanzas of Shakespeare in a cut-glass RP accent is doing it badly wrong (at least if any of period-accuracy, rhyme or the author's intentions are important goals) and that our best guess at OP is probably a lot closer to the mark, even if it’s not certain that every single pronunciation is exactly right. (And even if it's all somewhat indeterminate since not every actor and writer in early-1600s London had exactly the same accent, etc.)
> Oh wait, the congress abdicated it's constitutional duty to be responsible for declaring war via the unconstitutional War Powers Act and AUMF's...

AUMFs are (often limited and/or conditional) declarations of war, from a Constitutional perspective, not an abdication of the power; the Supreme Court has consistently held that the Constitution doesn't require magic words when exercising the Constitutional power to declare war.
Edge runs on Mac
There was also the Sidekick, which at the time seemed to be in the early stages of creating an app ecosystem.
Data of all 6.5M Israeli voters is leaked
I think the parent comment relates to a different subject. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288440 specifically.
Given their population isn’t a big fan of their governance, and actually holds a positive view of the US, I have sincere doubts to the possibility.

Perhaps aiding and abetting? But an act of war, no.
I made exactly this transition and don't regret it. Having a native debugger is hugely luxurious, and the Apple developer ecosystem is for the most part, an extremely nice walled garden. The platform is progressive and quick to deprecate legacy features, which keeps things interesting.

In my anecdotal experience however, frontend (React) and backend (Go, Java) devs are in much greater demand broadly across the market, rather than mobile devs.
... Cool.

So rather than blaming Equifax's complete incompetence at security, we blame the presumed attackers.

This is just going to keep happening until data security is taken seriously via extreme fines and/or jail time.
As Asia panics, one country wins praise for approach to virus
The problem-benefit approach to job interviews
China's military is growing rapidly and the US cannot expect its hegemony to last forever. See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802161
I think a lesson to learn from Google's experience with Android circa 2007 is...

If you have the main strategy right, and execute well eventually, you can succeed despites a lot of despites.

Those early androids were pretty poor value phones. But... the overall approach/concept was right. The strategy was very right.

There would eventually be plenty of good OEMs. The market needed a msft. Apple was never going to supply the whole world with phones.
Tenets
What is up with the recent wave of relativism-type comments? "Yes, Facebook is bad, but what about Reddit?" "Yes, Microsoft is bad, but what about Google?" etc etc

They're not productive. Yet a ton of people are doing it. It almost smells like astroturf.
U.S. Indicts Four Chinese Military Hackers in Equifax Breach
Somewhere in the FAQ they indicate that NIST and the US Navy sync their clocks every 10 minutes. I'd wager that is why they refresh the webpage at that same frequency.
I don't think China cares to follow international, or even their own stated, protocols very well - reminded of recently seeing a comment highlighting China's official values that includes freedom of speech, yet in the same stroke - the comment thread highlighting that China has the phrase "freedom of speech" ban from use in social media for people demanding "I want freedom of speech."
To some degree it can, but there are a number of problems with using Swift for this:

(1) Swift does not support multiple dispatch. That limits the way you can glue together unrelated libraries.

(2) Swift does not use abstract type hierarchies very much. E.g. in Julia one frequently define functions to use arguments of type Number, AbstractArray, AbstractString etc. This means it is easy for somebody in the future and define an array that works on a GPU or which is statically allocated and all existing functions operating on arrays work just fine.

I can invent a whole new number type and make it a subtype of Number and all my existing algorithms operating on numbers work just fine. One example of this would be Dual Numbers, which allow automatic differentiation. This was fairly easy to accomplish in Julia, but has been a major undertaking on Swift, which I don't think is done yet. I think they actually have to change the whole compiler. For Julia this is just a library thing.

(3) Swift function and method syntax is a pain to work with. For purely object oriented code it is very nice to read with parameter names. But once you get into functional programming and composition I find that it just creates a mess. I have to fiddle way too much with my Swift code to get function composition working as I desire. With Julia it is straightforward.

I would say composition is easier when everything is just based on the same function syntax.
Is bashhub itself secure? The FAQ says "You need an access token associated with your user account to retrieve them." Wondering if anyone has any other color on this.
>Fir me, Lisp languages, Haskell, and Python are more general purpose.

You mean Julia as language is not enough good for general purpose or it lacks ecosystem (frameworks, libraries) for general purpose use?
Which requires AntennaPod to be manually installed, which "normal people" won't do. (Either because they already have Spotify or Apple Podcasts or because they simply don't care enough.)
Leaked 12-core IceLake server ES nearly 100% faster than CascadeLake
If everyone acted that way we wouldn’t have supermarket checkouts, clean bathrooms, or trash pickup. And a whole lot more people would be unemployed.
'Doing nothing' (or very little) by no means reduces the possibility of conflict escalation, possibly the opposite.

By declaring such intrusions as an 'act of war' (or maybe something literally just a little less hard sounding) it's a signal to foreign powers of the seriousness of such activities.

There is no doubt that this is a really, really serious act that has to have serious consequences.

In this new 'information era' we have to establish new boundaries. Those boundaries will help establish clarity, validate responses, enable 3rd parties to take a judicial view instead of just a political one etc..

Edit: For the last 30 years, China has been on a fairly exponential path to increasing aggression, there's no reason at all to believe this will not continue to the extent they have the material ability (i.e. supporting economy) unless they are stopped, or it becomes too painful for them to continue. If there is little meaningful response to this action, it will grow 10x. Charging the military staff responsible is the wrong tactic as the state is responsible, not these actors (it may even be against the Geneva convention), but more importantly, the cost to the state is nothing. Throw a few officers under the bus for a massive attack? That is 'no consequence' to them, and maybe even not said charged officers. There won't be any lack of volunteers. There has to be a pretty comprehensive coordinated response, and definitely not just some artefact/negotiating point in a trade war. The response may include trade, but it shouldn't be part of a tit-for-tat in a trade deal.
No. Whatever effect the 737 MAX grounding has had on Boeing's profits pales in comparison to the benefit gained by rushing the plane out the door to get in front of Airbus and thus making billions in sales contracts. There has been virtually no effect on Boeing's stock price, and the plane will probably be back in service within the year.

All in all, putting lives at risk was a good move for Boeing, and they'll surely do it again.
> I just don't understand why people run windows.

I like gaming. That's pretyty much all I do on Windows. I have a macbook for work because MacOS gets out of your way and just works. I have a linux server and a linux workstation for other stuff - the workstation for coding, experimenting etc, the server for VPN endpoint, gitlab, time-machine and various other servery things.

But for games, if you're wanting to game on PC, windows is King. And that's why my workstation has windows installed too.

(My mother and my brother still use it because I can't be bothered to try to teach them anything else)
> The US has essentially on omnipotent traditional military force that can either engage or assure mutual destruction of any opponent on the earth. Nobody can compete successfully.

How many times in the past two years have our boats crashed into one another? The F35 program is a complete failure. When we ran Hormuzi wargames, a rag-tag group that fought through guerilla warfare won until our Navy cried and made the other side "fight fair." In the past 80 years the only win we can claim is the Gulf War. This is seriously overstating our military capabilities.
The US would do better nationalising Equifax.
Most security breaches are because of incompetence (typically management/oversight, rather than technical).

Equifax didn't have good oversight of which systems were patched and instead relied on a single employee to remember to do it. One got forgotten. People broke in using an old exploit and then leveraged into Equifax's network.

Equifax's first problem was bad patch policy. Its second problem was lack of network isolation/intranet security/onion-ing. As soon as an edge server was compromised the attacker hit the jackpot and had everything.

The last problem was lack of audit/accountable into who/what was accessing sensitive data on the intranet. If they had that they still would have been compromised and lost data, but not every customer's record (which took a long time).
British Airways 747 just set subsonic speed record for Atlantic crossing
[adjusts glasses]

We don't know about life at depth. As we keep digging, we keep finding life miles down. Deep underground bacteria could be Earth's dominant life form by weight. We just don't know.

It's possible that as Earth surface life was wiped out a few times, the "life reservoar" deep underground is what, ever so slowly, repopulated it. Or that's what I heard on some, perhaps not super reputable TV show.
Most banks in Austria mandate their own proprietary push-TAN apps and don't support SMS as a second factor. Depending on your POV this could be better or worse.
I would be careful treating this too much like a popularity contest. Python will still be used 20 years from now, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be dominant 20 years from now.

Source: I used to do a lot of programming in various dialects of Basic, which, a bit over 20 years ago, was popular largely because of its own ubiquity and popularity. And, while I still maintain some Basic code, I was surprised how quickly it died. One day everything was being written in it. The next day, we were were writing new things in a fancy new language that everyone agreed was more productive, and talking to the existing stuff through an FFI. And, a day later, we were replacing modules in order to get them off of the "legacy" platform.
I use the following found zsh function to log each each command to file by date. I've definitely found value in looking up less frequently used or complex commands.

# Custom history logging
# From: http://blog.andrewhays.net/love-your-terminal
# https://web.archive.org/web/20130525150720/http://blog.andre...
function precmd() {
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
FULL_CMD_LOG="$HOME/.shlogs/zsh-history-$(date -u "+%Y-%m-%d").log"
echo "$USER@`hostname`:`pwd` [$(date)] `\history -1`" >> ${FULL_CMD_LOG}
fi
}
For folks who are genuinely interested in the relationship between British and American English, it's worth checking out

https://theprodigaltongue.com/

The author has a blog that is no longer as active as it once was:

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/
Yea right now if you opened the app, wrote something right away, and the comp died after 20 seconds or you quit the app, you would lose that work you did in those 20 seconds! just wait a little longer!! I'll have to thinkk about this and see if there is anything I could do to accomodate for this. Thank you so much for the input!
Show HN: DIY Digital Room Correction
That’s not true. Samsung shipped GAPPs Android devices along with phones running their own proprietary mobile OS. HTC, Samsung, LG etc shipped GAPPs Android phones at the same time shipped windows mobile phones
What would be the "correct" response? Given that citizens affected (including me) have gotten their information used relating to this attack, I'd say a state sponsored cyber counter attack will be/is the best deterrence. UN clearly has not caught up with the times in how to respond to state sponsored attacks.
The mobile "web" is embracing native apps in a big way. It's difficult to go anywhere now without being pestered into installing an app - even if the site already has a perfectly usable mobile version. Worse still, some sites refuse to work at all or are severely limited. I don't particularly like the direction things are going in (despite having very few nice things to say about "modern" web frontend) but if I was in your situation I could certainly see myself going with iOS (or Android) from a salary perspective. Not sure how things are in Europe but I've noticed a lot of tech startups where I am in Tokyo skipping the web entirely in favour of apps.
"Russia, Iran, NK, a number of countries we ignore in Africa."

Russia won't, neither will most African nations.

There won't be a war anyhow.