skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a Python with Haskell syntax (or at least, much less verbose than regular Python..) that can have little a Haskell static typing, as a treat?
This is a popular narrative, but I suspect the reality is - many of these named groups also voted for Trump. Consider this front line report in Ohio.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/21/outside-coas...

"“OK. You want to talk about Trump? I voted for Trump!” I asked him if he was pulling my leg. He laughed. “No way. I may be a Muslim, but I am a businessman first and I am not stupid. Many Muslims here did. Under the table.” He added with a big smile: “We are Americans. We have diverse views also.”"
> Living in the midwest, as soon as Hillary "won" the nomination, I knew Trump would win.

Exactly the same, for (probably—also Midwestern) similar reasons. As soon as he Wile-E-Coyote'd over the cliff of his first couple big scandals in the primary and made it clear that the secret to being scandal-impervious was simply never to look down, that plus his message meant I started telling people he'd probably win the nomination. He sounded like a mash-up of every Republican I'd ever talked to, and even kinda like a lot of older-school Union Strong sorts of Dems—not like a Republican politician or "intellectual" or media figure, mind you, but a voter, which is entirely different. Not even Palin had a message that close to what you might overhear at the local coffee, beer, & bait shop. It was uncanny.

Then Hillary became his opponent and while everyone else was laughing about the whole thing I was like, "Uh oh. Shit. Trump's probably gonna win. Doesn't matter if it's fair or not, fact is she's widely hated and, hate to break it to you, it's not just die-hard Republicans or irredeemable misogynists who feel that way. Should they hate her? Doesn't matter. They do."

And here we are. Sigh.
Sold an annual SaaS license to Northrop Grumman for $2.5k, how bad did I F* up?
A small team within Northrop contacted me (a solo SaaS business) to replace an existing solution (another SaaS competitor) that they were unhappy with (price, service). They were extremely price sensitive. I pushed multiple times to whip up some sort of deal worth a lot more than $2.5k, but they pushed back every time and insisted they wanted a mid tier plan listed on the website.

I eventually got them to at least go with the most expensive annual plan, because I agreed to fill out a "quick" security questionnaire. Naturally, that questionnaire turned into a 1 hr conference call with their security team, plus I just spent an hour filling out an insane vendor supplier form. Whole thing left me wondering what I could have done differently, or if this kind of customer is even worth entertaining. I did have a chuckle ticking "NO" for every box and filling out my name 100 times for all various points of contact.

Considered linking to my company but chose to remain anonymous for now.
More interestingly covering the mic with a fabric can dampen the jamming signal.
What is Wako is buying the snake oil these guys are selling you that socialism is an improvement to society.

It took almost 100 years after the last US revolution before it fell into a civil war,

It won't take more than a year for the next one if a socialist wins the presidency and thinks they they can re-allocate hard working Americans wealth to all the lazy socialist deadbeats.
> Or is it only "buying the election" when it's a candidate you dislike?

You could have just said "yes".
Smells like victry^H^Hery^H^Hoyr^H^Hry!
Appreciate you taking the time to answer.

I am really into what you are building here - are you looking for volunteers to help?
I believe people are not idiots and are capable of judging their own interest. I do not subscribe to the 'they are basically children, we have to protect them'.

To the candidate I believe in I give my donation. For someone I believe, I will spread their message for free. Him? He has to pay.
I think if something is possible to do given better hardware, no matter how bloated or useless, developers at large will end up doing it. I don't think RAM usage or performance are concerns for the people that go straight to Electron because in the present it's easy develop for and nobody has the right to force them to chose otherwise. Electron isn't going away; the only ways it improves are Chrome getting more performant or computers getting even faster. Either one is nontrivial to work on as an outsider - there are only two significant browser engines in the present age because they've become so complex and accumulated so many features that they require the support of well-funded corporations to maintain them, and computer processors can only become so small.

Browsers on the whole will not lose features. The web is ubiqutous and cutting down the number of features to maintain would break existing webpages. The resulting web standard establishes a hard baseline on the amount of complexity needed to engineer a standards-compliant browser. That in turn means a hard baseline on the amount of processing power required to run it acceptably, save for more performance gains that will surely be buried immediately under even more features.

I once tried using Firefox 1.0 and found it was impossible since it has no understanding of modern security protocols. The web as viewed by Firefox 1.0 in 2003 no longer exists. You can't practically divorce the features necessary to use the web such as new protocol compatibility with the extra features like Pocket in the code changes. And trying to do so anyway leads to Pale Moon where a scant few contributors are responsible for merging in dozens of security patches - which themselves come about due to the growing complexity of the web platform. Numerous people have called using it irresponsible from a security standpoint. In the end the endless growth of web standards and the code needed to support them has made that fact a necessary one.

For all practical purposes, you either use one of the two major browsers or get left behind by coders and organizations that have orders of magnitude more resources than you.

Society and the economy don't incentivize creators with being happy with a modest amount of features if there's a glaring increment in performance that ought to be seized on. It's about growth and innovation. Finding new ways to reinvent the wheel and get further away from the hardware, because it's now easy to.

Sometimes I wish we could undo growth. It would be nice if Electron and the like fall out of favor and we have a renaissance of software like it was designed in 2004. But enough developers have decided that the performance tradeoff is worth it, and average users have become desensitized to SPAs and their expectations are low enough that they would rather put up with it all in order to do what they need to instead of demanding better.

I feel like it can only keep growing. That's one thing the collaborative nature of software pushes forward. More features. It's just that some are better at limiting the scope of projects than others.
And here I am thinking there would be a discussion on decentralized web applications in the comments. Nope. Just leave now, it's a wasteland.
And perhaps in this case, rather than some adjunct media agency (i.e. Fox News), the candidate has his own networks already...
I don't think that's true. Building more houses would also definitely increase property taxes, but the government is not doing that.

Currently, people are already spending a really big part of their incomes on rent, and hence property. It is not possible that they'll spend any more.
"Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth." -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi
>After Fowler thoroughly documented this first incident, an ostensibly non-sexist HR/management would sanction the manager, not Fowler [0]

The initial asshole propositioning her isn't really to blame for the reaction of HR and the management, tho HR/management protecting him and making him feel "safe" to conduct himself this way played very likely a role in this ever happening to her. But still, that guy was an asshole, but not necessarily a sexist or an expression of systematic sexism.

While The first quote from her writeup doesn't yet show sexism in HR/management (just general hostility/toxicity) the second quote, where the HR person mused about races and genders, is very clearly sexist (and racist), no contest there.
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How is a world where search is convenient and automated but comparison isn't less accessible than a world where neither search nor comparison are convenient and automated?
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Travis got held accountable? I see the poor fellow is only worth $2.5 billion. If that's what that means, I'd like to be held accountable too!
Not quite – some energy was lost converting from its source form to electricity. If you heat your house by directly burning natural gas (the most common way in cool countries like the UK) then it can still have an efficiency advantage over converting electricity to heat.
Hasn’t it always been “public domain” but only now published on GitHub?
I think fanfiction starts that way, but a lot of worm fiction is written by people who did not read or did not like the source material. They read a few stories written by fanfiction authors and go from there. Eventually you get ideas from the fan base that takes on a life of it’s own. This is especially true of minor characters who get fleshed out really well in some specific work.

It’s like how Superman’s source material is self contradictory where individual works are different. So, you can have Smallville fanfiction or more generic Superman mythology fanfiction.
But a one-time-use, non-precision motor is pretty inexpensive. A precision motor that has to run 24/7 outside in the elements is super expensive.

Musk is trying to get rid of the $100 cost of professional installation by substituting with a $10 motor. I'm not sure it'll be successful (I wouldn't be surprised if professional installation still ends up happening and they eventually delete the motors), but that is the plan. It's just to get a good view of the sky, not to scan. A reliable scanning motor would cost a lot more. (And they need to track multiple satellites at once... can't do that with a single array steered by a motor, has to be beam-steered.)

Source is here:
"Looks like a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick. Starlink Terminal has motors to self-adjust optimal angle to view sky. Instructions are simply:
- Plug in socket
- Point at sky
These instructions work in either order. No training required."
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12145487640542167...
> so are nvidia graphics.

Is there a workaround (replaceable card?), or does running Mac OS mean you can't use discrete graphics (which is a major degradation)?
With all of the images broken/missing (they appear to be linked to a domain that is owned by some domain squatter that is trying to get me to install a skeezy Chrome extension), it's hard to actually compare, and tell what toolbars are enabled on the old version.

But in Word 2003, everything that I ever had on the toolbar would fit into a single row, and Word 2016's ribbon uses the same icons, and is three rows high.
Anytime somebody doesn’t like you, there’ll be some reason for it, even if it’s a bad reason or completely without merit. There’s usually something to learn in taking an interest why that is. But you can only have so much influence over what people think about you, so not being bothered by their opinions is all I’m advocating for. If somebody disliking you causes you to notice a character flaw in yourself, or an instance where you’ve legitimately wronged somebody, that is something you should care about irrespective of their opinions.
Ah, I think you have a misunderstanding about what collateral is. Collateral is not generally a limitation on the lender's ability to collect the debt. In some specific cases (like certain home loans in certain states) the law adds this limitation but generally collateral is just something the lender can take in the event of default.

To bring up the car loan example you mentioned earlier, if you decide after a year that you don't want your car anymore you can't just drive it to your bank and drop it off instead of paying off the rest of the loan. If you stop paying it they can repossess it but you will still owe whatever is left on your loan balance after they auction it.
Cherry picking a strong cohort and using it to create a narrative is the same thing as cherry picking a weak cohort and doing the opposite.

This is my point. Journalists are picking a narrative first, then seeking out facts to justify that position.

When they thought lambda was going to fix education they were more than happy to report the 86% number without any research. Now that lambda is “evil” they look for the lowest number they can find.

I’m sure the truth is somewhere in the middle.
MBA types are great at conning others into self-serving false insights like (2) isn't perfectly capable of enforcing sound security policies given the appropriate authority. Their jobs are directly about justifying their own existence, usually by song and dance.
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No one does this. There is a huge infrastructure overhead of doing what you are proposing. If I were to guess, not even 1% of the companies are separating git & its contextual data (CI, PRs, code reviews, etc).
"His attempt to simply buy an election is.. annoying, if not unseemly."

How about subvertive of the democratic process?
It's only barely over minimum wage if it takes you a full-time job's worth of time to do it. This seems like the type of thing you could do in a little bit of spare time.

As for why it's a story: Well, there's was (and still is) a bit of controversy over the role that technology, specifically social media, played in the the 2016 election. What Bloomberg is doing fits right into that theme. It also raises questions about what is advertisement, and what is individual "speech", because the former generally has to be identified as such in the context of a political campaign. Posting a status update on Facebook isn't by definition an ad, posting such an update in support of a political candidate doesn't have to be either... but if you're making those posts and you also happen to be getting paid by the campaign? Does each update and DM need to say, "This tweet was paid for by 2020 Bloomberg for President"? Does it need to have a link to Bloomberg stating, "I'm Michael Bloomberg, and I approve of this ad."? Logistically how would he even do such a thing for each and every paid social media interaction?

In short, it's a story because it sits are the nexus of technology, politics, and general societal discourse.
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For all the great things about SQLite there are some concerning things around the project.

First off, even though the source code is public domain, you can't contribute since it is closed source: https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

There are 3 developers who maintain the project https://www.sqlite.org/crew.html and operate under a "code of ethics" that used to be called their "code of conduct" https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html

While it succeeded in getting widely adopted I have trouble believing that this is sustainable.
Sounds ridiculous, but I still remember the lack of synchronous reporting of divide-by-zero errors, and wasn't really sad to be rid of it.
So taking that analogy backward: who was Google's USSR that motivated them to start X?

Facebook?
Yep, like 80% of tech people don't make as much as the average doctor ($270k+). Of course this is ignoring the opportunity cost of the extra education. Same applies to top lawyers and bankers.
I mentioned two completely different solutions, it’s not clear what “these” is referring to (both?). Also, both are clearly supported on Windows and used by tons of successful libraries and applications, so without details about your use case it’s not a very useful comment.
Yeah, but verification of correctness is much less work than implementation.
It's definitely imperial, but it's kind of fundamentally an imperial problem to have companies taking advantage of your world-leading economy, then moving all the profits elsewhere to avoid contributing to the society that made all their success possible.

Extradition is also imperial, but without it you effectively offer impunity to anyone who can get out of the country before they're caught. We don't offer this type of criminal impunity, so why are we offering tax impunity to the wealthiest and most powerful entities in the world?

The VAT idea is interesting and sounds a lot better than what we have now, but still seems like it could be subject to shell games in terms of what gets spent where. Wouldn't it also be extremely complex from a reporting perspective?
They were far and away the most selective team in the company.

I’ve seen this before in university too; competitive to get into can still be cooperative once in.
So aside from the additional cost, is there any catch in using it instead of palm oil or tallow, provided you balance it out with a moisturizer like olive oil?
yep, it works.
I worked for a company that is not google, yet has its own .dev domain.
I hadn't heard of Lemonade and it is 30% of the price of State Farm for the same coverage levels, and is way more transparent for electronics and cameras. Thank you for mentioning.
NoSQL databases came before SQL, irrespective of MUMPS. But back then they just called them databases.
Games have huge advantages of constraint of application that mapping applications don't. You can get pixel perfect scrolling when you constrain the max rate the user can pass through the dataset, you deny them random access into the dataset, your dataset isn't trying to represent a space the volume of planet Earth, etc.

There's a huge gulf between the use cases you're comparing here, and I don't believe for one second that loading the Google Maps dataset into Commander Keene's engine would make for a better experience.

(Also, not to be overly pedantic, but "The professional doesn't start a job before he has everything he needs to do it" pretty much classifies all building construction as unprofessional. The professional doesn't magically have everything on-hand, especially bulky or expensive resources; they have a plan for acquiring them at reasonable rates of input and mitigation strategies if that plan can't be followed)
This has impacted the video production business in a positive way over the last couple years. Previously, we had to put on gloves, find a 30 amp fuse and use hot tungsten lights to put together a production. Now folks are using high-quality LED-based lighting, running off battery power, and significantly smaller than a generation ago.
If the domain is hosted on a /24, then more specific routes will be filtered out by default in most ASes. Also, with the increasing adoption of RPKI, in conjunction with its maxlength option, more specific attacks will be a challenge for adversaries.
Hah, was planning on linking to Nicky Case[0], but of course that's exactly who's behind this! :D

Very exciting project. We're absolutely leaving "leaving money on the table" by not leveraging the full power of the brain for education and reasoning about complex systems. See also: Bret Victor's "Ladder of Abstraction" [1], and Kevin Simler's "Going Critical" [2].

[0] https://ncase.me/

[1] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

[2] https://meltingasphalt.com/going-critical/
The increase in video RAM requires more of the CPU and GPU. Downloading and displaying a JPEG at today's resolution requires more of everything, not just video RAM.

Anyway, If you come to over to the server side you can see other code that performs very differently than it could have back in 1983. Sometimes unimaginably different — how would a service like tineye.com have been implemented a few decades ago?
Just curious, what's wrong with a community college? It's cheap. It's flexible. Its admission rate is practically 100%. Its courses are not worse than a code camp's. My relative went to a CC, and I reviewed his course work. CCs does not spend much time teaching all the fundamentals, but they do teach some. In their data structure course, they don't teach student why two pivots are not better than a single pivot in quicksort nor do they cover discrete probability or classic complexity analysis extensively, but they do teach (and practice!) asymptotic complexity and why vanilla quick-sort may perform badly. They don't teach students how to prove the boundary conditions of ODE, but they do teach intuition and how to solve and apply a wide variety of ODEs. The examples can go on. They also hire teachers from industry to teach courses on data processing, frontend engineering, and etc.

With the belief that education is all about laying solid foundation for life-long learning, for job or not, I don't really see any need for coding camps. I'm not denying there are success stories, but I don't see coding camps make statistical sense.
Whether or not you would, or believe people shouldn't have to do so, there are laws regarding ad identification and candidate approval of ads when the advertisement is political in this way.
they have contracts to support the US military for many decades into the future. Hard to be more sustainable than that.
Do you think advertising is ineffective?
It looks like its lumping Android in with desktop linux.
Since they are differentiating platforms by the user agent that seems like an easy thing to fix?
The issue is Facebook Ireland or Apple Sales International are separate entities from Apple or Facebook US so on paper the profits are happening in completely different companies like Honda buying a car part from another company. So how do you effectively tax that just by saying we also tax overseas profits as well. To do that we'd have to define and pierce all sorts of corporate veils about true owners, decide what the threshold is for being legitimately a separate business and not just an international subsidiary.
Yeah, 36 trillion requests slowing down the loading of websites. Way, unnecessarily, overused.
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Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak, UK court hears
Oooo, i like "cozos"! Nice one!! :-)
We've fixed the title. Submitters: please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. This is in the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Submitted title was "Entire Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code is now in the public domain")
As long as we’re sharing anecdotes and interpreting them as typical case outcomes: We’ve had two births, an uncomplicated broken arm, a complicated broken arm, another moderately complex issue that was many visits over a length of time, and countless pediatrics and adult GP visits and a few ER visits over the last decade with BCBS.

I’d say that 95% of all visits go off with zero interactions beyond paying our part of the bill and waiting for paperwork to cycle around. The 5% cases are about half billing questions and half “just confirm that subscriber XYZ visited doctor D on date Q (so that we [as BCBS] know we’re not being scammed by the doc)”.

We are nowhere near “tens of hours...every time [we] use medical care”. I doubt we’re even 10 hours per year on billing issues.
What happened afterwards?
1) Has been told what needs to be done and decided to nix the idea because security is a cost center that cuts into their bonus potential.
> Online stores have less and less useful categories and filters.

Yes, I agree. But at the same time, F-Droid has only improved.
I'm not sure that negotiating the acceptable value across the entire transmission path is a reasonable thing to do. I'm not sure that IPv6 _should_ be aware of a minimum/maximum MTU of underlying transmission path particularly since that path can often change transparently and each segment is subject to different requirements.