skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well sure, if I took the extreme position of arguing to never trust the government you'd be right.

That's not what I, or the person you are originally replying to is doing. Rather we would say something like "you are asking us to trust the government when it is bypassing or ignoring the checks and balances put into the constitution precisely because of issues like this". For a few examples:

Checks and balances are why the 6th amendment requires to a "speedy and public trial". Which the FISA courts are not providing. They are why the 6th amendment requires the accused to be informed of the "nature and cause of the accusation", which is regularly being violated by these secret proceedings by way of parallel construction.

You bring up the topic of warrants, but warrants (by the 4th amendment) must "upon probable cause [... describe] the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized". From what little we have seen of the FISA proceedings, neither of those conditions are being respected.

You bring up the judicial branch, but the judicial branch is required (by article 3 section 2 of the constitution) to hear only cases and controversies, one sided proceedings that aren't even released publicly after the fact to be challenged are neither. This clause exists (I believe) precisely because one sided arguments lack the necessary checks and balances to reach a fair verdict
I do not get why people do these total rewrites, especially for working Python systems. Why throw out the baby with the bathwater ? Python is fundamentally a composing toolkit. Rewrite the slow bits in C++/Rust/Go and wrap it. That's how all major Python components like Numpy, Scipy, Tensorflow, PyTorch etc. does it. And that's a major reason why Python dominates today.

Align with the core strengths of Python's philosophy and its toolset and get the benefit. Why fight it ?
"The major blocker right now is security issues related to device firmware hijacking." - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58
Thanks. So, for this to work, I have to enable iCloud Drive on both machines? Looks like it takes quite a long time to upload 375MB playground files to iCloud too.
If the cost of books went down I'd happily start buying them again. Until then, I can't justify paying $150 for non-fiction that will be outdated in 2 years.
Flight to quality... Put it all on scep256k1
Like what Ubuntu tried to do
maybe it could have been much worse if it was colder.
She came up with STP over a weekend. A friend of mine calls her the "Mother of the Internet".
> I can't think of any other similar missteps in recent years.

I stopped using Ubuntu a while ago due to a large number of individually minor "missteps", so I don't have any equally blatant/memorable (or particularly recent) examples, but there were enough of them to be a constant hazard of updating anything.

(For similarly large, there's systemd and wayland, but neither those are specific to Ubuntu.)

Also, someone (for analogy) dumping toxic waste into a drinking water supply, and then listening to feedback and ceasing to dump toxic waste into the water supply, still seems like a damn good reason to say "fuck those guys in particular" to me, and that's what shipping malware in a software update amounts to.
The problem with face mask filter stocks (like 3m) in this case seems to be that while demand has hugely increased, ability to deliver has actually gone down. The supply is constrained by just in time delivery/minimal stockpiling, and the fact that 99% of them are made in china which has basically shut down all nonessential factories. 3m also re-brands many chinese mfg's face masks/filters, and the local chinese demand is high enough these days that those mfgs are probably just selling the few they have domestically.
That is a basic feminism that in a patriarchal society as soon as a profession becomes more prestige and/or well paid it also becomes more male dominated.
This is an important angle. "Good people" is, to a substantial extent, a relationship property, not an individual one. That is I am "good people" for one job, but "bad people" for many others.

That said, this is not a random distribution. Some people have serious character flaws (evil, lazy, angry), or are just not very competent at anything. If all organizations only hire "good people", these will be left unemployed.

And here's the thing:

Those unemployed underskilled "bad people" are then an underused resource, and a reasonably functioning labor market will find way to make use of them.

I think of things like fast-food restaurants as a real triumph in this area! That industry has found a way to run a well functioning business using barely competent people who often quit within months.

And that's pretty much what I had in mind when I wrote my tongue in cheek comment.

BTW, my apologies to current and former fast food workers. I know you're not bad people :) But when you argue about those left out "good people" policy, you kind of have to use that term...
Hi! I sent in my application online for the Software Engineer role. By when can I expect to hear back?
My personal phone is FaceID. My work phone is TouchID. I always pick the wrong method when I need to use it.
NPR had an excellent piece on this a while back. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

tldr: home computers were gendered male (because video games) and cs 101 curriculums started presupposing extensive computer exposure.
Stock markets dominated by semi-intetested participants are terrible at predicting unlikely events.
Honestly, this runs so counter to the experience that not only I but everyone I know has experienced here, that it almost sounds made-up (though I'm not accusing you of that).

We use contact for everything, with the limit being (for me) $100. Signature is explicitly not allowed any more (overseas cards excepted), with anything over $100 requiring chip + PIN instead. When I say everything, I mean that I don't recall the last time I saw someone use cash to buy a coffee, and the one mate I have who uses cash when he's out at the pub is a unique anomaly to me. Even our public transport systems are (slowly) moving towards augmenting existing NFC transit cards with just allowing you to tap your CC on the reader and charging you a ticket fee directly. I generally don't even bother carrying cash any more, and the biggest payment issue I encounter is whether AmEx is supported (since contactless terminals don't necessarily display that during the payment process).

I would be taken aback if one waiter here was "stunned" by you not needing a PIN to buy things. For "most" to be so beggars belief. As a sibling comment said, the only explanation I can think of is that if you're clearly American due to your accent, then many service staff will be used to Americans being the single different group who can't use contactless and thus prepare to hand over a pen for signature whenever they hear the accent.
I really disagree, a small amount of customisation of tools can reap significant productivity gains.

I think your anecdote is really just an example of bad management, not bad tooling. Could easily be that some management doofus had prohibited git from being installed on the 'production' system.
> Now that the UK is in the process of transition, this isn't possible unless a court order is presented

Under the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 all existing EU law has been incorporated into our domestic legislation so the EU mony laundering scheme (assuming it is some form of legislation by the EU) still applies even though we are no longer an EU Member State.

However, it can be repealed after the transition period ends (1st January 2021) which might well happen depending on the priorities of the Government at that time.
The TV reports stated that the cards could be cloned in this manner. Nobody is bringing a store point of sale terminal on the bus and holding it to your butt.
Have you tried resellers? eg. https://www.cdw.com/product/windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2019-... Also, I've heard that if you need to comply with volume licensing requirements (ie. minimum 5/25 products), you can buy a bunch of cheap CAL licenses.
Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive?
That seems like it incorporates a lot of assumptions. I think it's best to slow down and realize that comparisons don't mean much if you're comparing the wrong things. The first step is to determine the first thing that you are comparing and exactly what it is. Then you can move on to the other half and determine whether it is appropriate.

Humans are much safer than people on average, when driving in conditions suitable for Autopilot.
Or...properly assessing risk?
But 5 years after Samsung introduced MST, Apple Pay is closing in on 10%.
Why do they need a back door when they can walk right in through the front door?

Because when one is discovered you use the other?

Redundancy is a hallmark of good systems.
> it's really mostly a great way to keep up w news

Receiving information is not the same as being informed. The head of Facebook’s news authority is the owner of a far-right news site. A famous 2012 study[1] found that Fox News viewers were the least informed on facts covered by the news while NPR listeners were the most informed. Fox viewers were even less informed than those who consumed no news media at all. All news is not created equal and you are what you read. Curation is important and an organization with a fact-oriented status quo is a superior source.

1. https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/survey-nprs-l...
It's an older paper (circa 2006) but...to be honest, I revisit it occasionally, and the problems we point out are still there. https://jvi.asm.org/content/81/11/5429
A screenshot or a demo page would be nice.

Also, was Node.js necessary for this project? I thought Conway's Game of Life could be implemented entirely as client-side JavaScript.
It does both, and I don't mean to minimize the extent to which it does that. An unambiguous example of it doing nothing but restricting the government would be the 6th amednment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
The case of Steve Walsh is interesting, given that he apparently infected several others before being
hospitalized "despite showing no symptoms".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/uk-man-linked-...
bad_alloc does not mean the allocator has stopped working. It only means that a particular allocation cannot be served.

And there are plenty of other root causes for exceptions in real programs, not just allocations.

That does not mean one needs exceptions, though.
Exactly. The comparison with Indonesia is interesting, which has a similar climate, but isn't as rich or developed as Singapore.

Air conditioning is actually very conducive to colds and the like. When you go from outside to inside you're usually sweaty and the air conditioning tends to make you too cold until you dry out. I've caught way more sniffles in the tropics than in the freezing climates.
All right! Thanks a lot. I was confused with their home page https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ "Learn serious code on your iPad." I guess it's just not up to date.
The state regularly tortures, murders, starts civil wars, provides weapons to genocidal allies, etc. I have literally the entire history of the world on my side. You have, as you admitted, hearsay. The sane position is that they will be at least as bad in private as they are in public.
All it takes is one elected president who could upend the other branches, and the three letters become much more scary.

But thats just a partisan political beliefs, right?
It's because it used to be considered "womens work", similar to clerical work. Then companies did research and found that the best programmers were usually introverts, so they started advertising and pushing to get more men into the field because women tended to be more social, or would want to leave school/work to start a family. So it shifted and became "mens work", and women naturally assumed it wasn't for them because there weren't many people saying that anyone can do it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-01/women-onc...
I'd be interested in reading more about that, too.

I'm familiar with both Python and Common Lisp, and to me they've always felt very similar.
We analyzed every “Modern Love” column from the past 10 years
If Apple is serious at crushing PayPal it'll purchase Shopify.
Apple should really provide a tip when you have done it the wrong way multiple times. I too didn’t know that was a better sequence.
Air-conditioning also removes humidity from the air.

On a tangent, I'd love to see a graph of illnesses during summer before / after the widespread adoption of AC.
I meant the tool-vs-internals idea, not the specific example here. If you want something comparable in complexity: we learn programming from `print "hello world"`, not from memory models and assembly. Some people even just start with `=sum(...)` in excel. Every programmer pretty much stops at the level that's useful and productive for them.

There's often sentiment that people should know more, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone saying starting programming from high level is "the wrong way".

Example from out of it: doctors learn both how to use USG and how it works. But in every case, I've seen it in that order: practice, then internals.
nCOV-2019 seems okay.

References to SARS in Hong Kong news were often accompanied with references with 2003, the year of the outbreak.
There are nearly one billion iPhones in use in the world today [0]. That's far from a Porsche or Vuitton level exclusive, it's more like Ford.

And since the US corporate tax rate was cut back to normal global levels, they've been repatriating the extra overseas cash [1] and mostly using it to fund buybacks and dividends.

[0]: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/01/30/900-million-iphones...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/apple-exp...
When will we move away from this archaic domain name system? Do we really need a single governing body to manage domain names for us in this age? Can't we have a free and distributed DNS maintained by volunteers?
>we learn programming from `print "hello world"`, not from memory models and assembly

You're talking to the wrong crowd with me, you know. I disagree with this approach, too. Maybe we start with "hello world" to get a taste, but the first thing we should do is start breaking it down.
I think awk is better than any of the alternatives if the problem you're solving matches a pattern-expression paradigm and, as others have said, you have no external dependencies.

Granted, this is quite a constraint and perhaps there aren't many problems that fit this model, but when you do encounter one of those problems it's good to have the right tool for the job.
Everyone is terrible at predicting unlikely events. If you think you've got a better bead on it, it doesn't take all that much money to buy some options.
Are the numbers in the article inflated? The app store uses Apple Pay. Are those numbers being lumped in?
"A recipe can not be protected by copyright"

And how many introductions to programming compare a program to a recipe? Yet programs are copyrightable. If you're using logic, you already have lost.

I found an amusing web page today - someone wrote a book on programming for Windows, and also has a website, and on a particular page, they have a helpful snippet of code, which is really just a wrapper/reference to a Windows system call. Literally one line, no additional logic. However, they have ~5 lines of copyright declaration above it, saying it is theirs and you can only use it if you buy their book.

I thought this was really funny, given that they are essentially claiming a portion of the API defined by Microsoft just because they wrote a (pretty much the only possible) line that accesses it. It seems to be a controversial area of copyright recently.
Go for it! You won't know until you try and so long as it's not 'mission critical' or anything you'll have a lot of fun!

And ignore 'threshold', often it's an imagined difficulty, check out George Dantzig[0], he mistook two unsolved maths problems for homework and solved them both!

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/533146/dantzigs-uns...
great, now what happens if another coronavirus epidemic hits? do you still call it "novel coronavirus", because it's novel? do whoever's in charge of naming get their act together and allocate a number in hours rather than weeks?
This list is amazing, great job. Would be great to understand your rationale about 1-on1's?
Also, do you guys use a tool where I can use these questions?
Storage is cheap. It’s the delivery that’s costly.
That sounds like a reasonable point of view.
Google Takeout bug sent some of your private videos to strangers
I really enjoy examples of analysis contravening ones opinions. We rationalize far too often.
The market is dominated by large commercial banks in US, but banking here is still so very backwards even compared to Europe.
Meh, I wish they said if you have one registered mac device already and are part of the apple developer program, you can legally run MacOS vmware on a non mac device with 4 VMs and just be done with it.

They will still get mac sales because corps want to be legal and not use hackintosh and all their developers are getting macbooks anyway. The vmware compute licences would be used for CI and for beefy compile machines to run xcode that will run on whatever thread ripper equivalent.

The cheap small shops would do hackintosh vmware either way, so they won't be missing much in sales in practice. MacStadium and huge iOS / macOS development must only represent what, 50k-100k unit sales? Which is a drop in the bucket for apple either way, but a very important partner in making good stuff for apple.
New Filesharing Implementation in Docker Desktop Windows Improves Dev Inner Loop
If you do find yourself or someone you love infected with corvids, I can, if nothing else, guarantee a very high karma HN post for you if nothing else. HN loves corvids.
From Python to Numpy

https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/

A book teaching Numpy vectorization.
Very clearly put. Thank you.
Given everyone is trying to eek every last percent from their conversation funnel, I am really surprised more sites aren’t integrated with Apple Pay for web.

In general, the checkout flow is garbage far too often.
They mentioned the Marvin Gaye vs Robin Thicke case disparagingly. (I also think it was a terrible outcome.) But their project seems to support the idea that there is no objective measure of how similar two songs are. It follows that we should 1) eliminate music copyright altogether or 2) accept that human jurors will make decisions we disagree with. They might have been going for #1, but that is obviously way too idealistic to gain traction (in the USA at least).

I think that there can be a partially objective measure of song similarity, and that melody is an important component.
Exploring Itemset Mining
As much as I miss having printed manuals, every phone has a leaflet with a link to download the manual. It's in there.

It's also online:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201239#stores
Yup, we need "DesktopPlay", "TVPlay" (think nintendo switch) and "CameraPlay" so you can sync photos via AirDrop on your SLR.
Manning - Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node https://www.amazon.com/Getting-MEAN-Mongo-Express-Angular/dp...
This one is really good if you want to do a fullstack application using MEAN stack.
Then what you're really saying here is that you think they're spending their free time wrong. Maybe they enjoy watching Netflix or playing games or whatever much more than you enjoy your zen moment of washing dishes and listening to the radio?

It's like me going for a Sunday ride on my bike (which I very much enjoy) and then telling other people that they shouldn't resent having to commute to work in rush hour every day.
Audrey Tang as well. She's awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
Absolutely, but if that’s what you have (and most will), you can probably manage an overnighter without buying more gear.
"Courts have ruled that, because there are so many different ways to express any software of nontrivial size, the way the code is written (including comments, variable names, organization, etc ) represents sufficient creative expression to be protected."

If I removed comments and/or translated the code in a literal manner, I'm sure it would still qualify as plagiarism in school. Are you implying that it would not or should not be a copyright violation in that case? I have no idea legally, but I would assume the worst.
Never tried yet for hosting content, however I've read good things about Lbry.

https://lbry.com/faq
You know this from experience?
I don't believe the numbers.

Apple pay is not useful outside of the US as contactless cards are better (don't need to unlock your phone and play around with a weird UI to make a payment), and prevalent. Weirdly within the US most cards dont have them.

Within the US very few places support NFC, and super common workflows like paying at a sit down restaurant never support it (because of tipping).

I suspect the research firm's data is very incomplete, or they are calling contactless payments "Apple Pay".
Amid coronavirus outbreak, Trump proposes slashing CDC budget
Mostly I don't want people blaming corvids for this. They've already got enough trouble with West Nile.
TSYS EnsureBill
Ah yes, we needed another blockchain to solve this problem. Perfect.
Here is a book on this topic - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality - “How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.”

One of Britain’s first contract software companies was founded by Steve Shirley after she was pushed out of her job when she got married (which was normal at the time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley
That does help clarify things, thanks :) For context I'm just starting out this app so it's simple for now, but this is my first major project with xState so I'm trying to come up with sensible patterns.

I'll have a think about this and see if I can work it into my structure as I'm certainly going to need inter-machine communication as it grows.

The `makeMachineRoutable` function in this gist is what I'm using to consume my state machines in React. https://gist.github.com/UberMouse/49ff91e95390265d63d3ac1bc7...

It also shows my prototype for xstate based declarative data fetching, though I have sinced switched to using observables instead of promises for representing my GraphQL query results so I've changed it quite a bit.
This is another use case where I prefer Touch ID, as the act of double-clicking the home button to summon Apple Pay also takes care of the auth.
It's the same corporate entity, but Microsofts incentives and the majority of executives have turned over. So I don't see any reasons why Microsoft would be any more likely to EEE than another company. In fact I think they would be less likely because they they have more to risk reputationally.
Good luck procuring them at any sort of scale right now. If you are in a position to do this (because you own a mask factory or you found 20 pallets of face masks in your garage or something) you probably didn’t wait for an HN comment telling you to do it :P
Bank transfers of money generally don't cost money. They are just slow.
Replying with clickable links for each of these twitter accounts:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing

https://twitter.com/MackayIM

https://twitter.com/trvrb

-

https://twitter.com/maiamajumder

https://twitter.com/aetiology
Tesla driver in fatal crash had reported problems before with Autopilot feature
For some reason I have started seeing them a lot more lately and I am not in a tech hub. Perhaps having to upgrade to chip readers, the restaurants were able to get the portable readers as well?
Thinking of the US as “the good guy” deters improvement. If anything, the US is “the better guy,” a more modest claim.