skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically the opposite of APL.
The 'escape' is for governments to have their own semi-competent IT departments that can maintain the digital infrastructure needed to run the government.

It almost seems like a pipe dream.
I should know more about those uses cases to say anything about it.

My hunch is that it would be good with a different term than "config" for those things.
What Is Force Majeure?
> As one of the comments in the linked issue points out, dropping IE11 means they can also start using basic JS constructs, like Array.prototype.forEach.

Array.prototype.forEach is supported from IE9.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

EDIT: It is the nodelist api that isn't supported in IE. Not Array.prototype.forEach.

Quite a lot of these basic JS constructs even if they are missing (most aren't in IE11) are very easily polyfilled.

Personally I think it is fine that they drop support if they don't feel the need to support it. Bootstrap 4 isn't going to vanish.
Donations poured for mentally disabled man stranded at LAX. PayPal has the money
4 or 6 transistors is more common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_random-access_memory#De...
A progressively enhanced site should work fine in text mode on IE11.
> this is a gravely serious statement. in America youre talking about a fundamental shift in the relationship between the governed and the government.

Uh, consumer protection laws have existed in the US for over a century. The FTC was founded in 1914. The mindset that laws should protect people from things that they don't understand is not an abrupt or fundamental shift. If not for the government, would you know how to find out if an apartment was built and wired in a safe way? Or do you rely on government permits and inspectors for that confidence?
I would invent a piece of jargon that is plausible, but not in use. Drop that in, and see whether it surfaces.
Your link is a bit different, she was in Chinatown to show people that not all Chinese people have the virus. Seems there businesses were stagnating due to xenophobia. She was wrong to encourage people to go out and shop in general but she was not wrong to try to stop the rumors surrounding Chinese Americans.
Obviously bad to upload heap dumps, but they do have an enterprise plan you can pay for to host their software on your own hardware to avoid public upload.

Still, even offering the public upload option is a serious concern. They'd be better suited offering a download with free tier limitations.
Dunno. Political killings are kind of a big deal to me. Should I buy the argument that Coca-Cola was a different corporation back then, young and impetuous and we should not hold them responsible, because they are a changed person, err, corporation?
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Very cool. This kind of work makes python and ML better for everyone. I'm not sure I have a use case at the moment, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one.
AFAIK Crytpo AG was swiss
LunchMoney 2.0
https://twobithistory.org

If you think you'd enjoy long-form, deeply researched essays that look at the development of technical ideas throughout the history of computing, I've got you covered.
It is mostly due to the credit available, I totally agree.
Also not a lawyer. To be covered by Germany's consumer protection law, you need show that you are end consumer of a commercial product or service. I don't see how that would apply to YC/HN.

If you could pull that part off, I think you could take YC to court in Germany, and even achieve a favorable judgement. However, I don't see any way how you could enforce the outcome, except if YC has assets in Germany.
> many states would violently oppose the idea that the government knows whats best for you and should create laws for you backed by lethal force.

Isn’t that exactly what a police force is? Doesn’t that exist in every part of the US and act to uphold laws designed to protect the people who live there?
To be fair, the "justice system" is a commonly accepted name for the legal system, in the same way that you would call it the "Department of Defense" or the "Department for Health and Social Care."
Text Recognition in Flutter Using Firebase’s ML Kit
Some American states are curbing travel to fight the coronavirus
Guns vs Gardens. It's really about different mindsets.

The argument for guns basically boils down to a zero-sum game mindset. It's all about taking or protecting a limited supply.

Gardening is a positive-sum game. A single seed can produce tens to thousands of copies of itself. No other investment has such a high ROI.
Or the GameCube was the only console with decent analog sticks.
Do you mean exactly what China has done with its semi-nationalized technology companies?
You think all the people in this thread talking about quake 3 and doom 3 running smoothly are part of an agenda against ancient bytecode formats for IBM mainframes?
Statistical analysis in the Browser: new Webapp Datatab
Mail Automation for Legally Required Utility Billing and Financial Communication
Two things having the same artist doesn't mean they have the same mainstream potential. As I understand it, the "OBEY" thing was distinctly anti-authoritarian. For it to become mainstream would be for it to become the subject of it's own mockery.
Now name any transaction more complicated "I agree to pay you $3 for this bunch of asparagus" where the buying side has as much information as the selling side.

It seems to me the government should be involved in almost every transaction.
Started this recently as a challenge to write something everyday: http://jasonkuperberg.com/journal.html

It will definitely evolve over time, but right now it is an opportunity to document this time in our world by writing about my interests and how I spend my time.

Running, career, design, research, education, and more?
Yeah, that’s the cookie-cutter generic answer to any consumer protection.

Does anyone actually belief it’s workable to require every single consumer to be informed about the most minor details of a router’s DHCP configuration in order to stop such shenanigans? And how does this fantasy work when the router is provided by your cable company? There must be thousands of issues of that magnitude you would need to research when deciding among the two options for internet most people have. Although I guess it’s easier once you notice both provides use the same routers and you don’t have a choice after all.

Do you also favor the government leaving food safety to the individual consumer? If yes, do you routinely research the full supply chain of all ingredients that go into your cheeseburger, to be sure nobody is using lead as a convenient sweetener? Do you check every restaurant’s kitchen for hygiene?
Truckers warn supply chain in jeopardy without better Covid-19 protection
>I do love an open mind.

As do I, but one's mind shouldn't be so open that the brain falls out.

>Here's a simple and fun way to perhaps convince yourself that this 'utter bollocks' has something to it.

No. The way to decide whether there's something in it is to perform a robust clinical study.

People have, and the results have shown that, in layman's terms, it's utter bollocks.
https://blog.farnasirim.ir

Random walk among cs/math topics. From cellular automata to max flow algorithms and infiniband.
I don't very much whether this will make much of a difference. Most devs very rarely ever upgrade the version of boostrap once it is in place, on intranet sites. One of the sites my friend supports is built in bootstrap 2.

Typically if 25% of my users use IE11, I will just make sure it works with IE11. If I have to stay use an older version of the library I will just use that unless I can polyfill or patch the lib to work with older versions of IE.

Then again I am kinda strange in the fact that if it should work in an old browser (and time permitting) I will normally make sure it works well enough that it is functional in that browser.
> These are for-profit institutions with huge bursaries that avoid paying almost all taxes.

If it doesn’t have beneficial owners it’s not a for-profit. Eton is in the same position as Oxford as far as having owners who receive profits from it goes. Neither do. They’re run with some regard to the idea of a mission, on inertia with the biggest impact coming from current staff.

That’s not saying they’re perfect, or that they should be allowed to continue to exist. Plenty of UK citizens hate them and the class they represent and want them destroyed. If they get a government elected that wants them destroyed they will be. Nothing lasts forever.
The US government should’ve stepped in a long time ago and made arbitration optional for essential services. If I’m opposed to entering an arbitration agreement, what recourse do I have?
That is one expensive setup you how - wow. Your chair costs more than my laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
I just wanted to say I really like the format of your site - particularly your implementation of sidenotes.
Something similar happened back in the late 1960's.

Eisenhower had pumped tons of funding into universities to help us catch up to the Soviets after Sputnik. This was primarily for what is now called STEM but benefited each university as whole.

Fast forward to the late-1960's and the costs of the Vietnam War plus social programs under Johnson led to huge cuts in funding to universities.

To make up the shortfall, admissions rates at many schools, including the Ivy League, went north of 50%. Coupled with the fact that being in college was an exemption from the draft meant that total enrollment skyrocketed.

This whole situation was made to clear to me when I was in high school and attended a UPenn information session. The rep from UPenn asked "are there any UPenn alumni in the room?" and numerous parents who graduated from the late 1960s to the early 1970s stood up. I remember thinking "Wow! Admissions rates at UPenn now are below 10% so these parents must have really been sharp!".

Finding out about the funding cuts and admissions rates changing drove home that an institution's reputation can change dramatically over the years; sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. It also highlighted how outside incentives can dramatically change the internal processes of a large school/company etc.
Another part about the firewall is that without profiling, it's pretty hard to make a good firewall that allows "good traffic" and denies the "bad". It takes a good amount of profiling and being a firewall admin.

And for a house, thats kind of overkill for the general network. Sure, set up a restricted wifi for IoT crap, but having to fiddle with it daily is NOT acceptable.
Do you have any notes or have you shared the implementation for Kindle Reader? I've been looking for similar things to pick up "UI"-fluency in other languages.
Exactly.

A pandemic scenario was modeled/tested just last year [1]. Some participating states appear to have learned from it, other not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion
We are building a new SaaS product from scratch and blogging about each step. We are also filming it and putting it on YouTube so people can see how the sausage is made.

It's hosted on Github Pages so hopefully it's available:

https://requestmetrics.com/
These tips are OK, but they miss, in my view, two essential components. My background is ten years as CTO and sales lead from founding to cashing out at a B2B software startup.

The two key points:

1) Know your product. Know it inside out, what it can do, what it will do, what it can’t and won’t do, and why those things are the case. You should be able to answer any question, and you should know the metrics you’ll inevitably be asked about like your mother’s phone number. If you’re a founder doing sales, this is doubly important, as it not only answers the question, but shows that you are deeply involved in the business/product, which brings me to

2) Passion. If you’re passionate and excited about your product, even the most stone-faced pessimist will be wanting to sign a contract by the end of the pitch. Enthusiasm is contagious. Have your story and why you set out to provide this solution ready to go, and tell it. Narrative tells people why you’re passionate, and allows them to share that narrative, that passion.

I converted almost every pitch I made, to the tune of £100M or so over the years - early days, sales of £10k each, a dozen a year. When I left, I was selling as many £5M three year contracts each year with the same core two points. I don’t say this to brag, just to underscore that these aren’t scale-limited factors, and that as a founder, this is a pretty solid strategy - particularly if you’re selling to other founders.

The hardest hurdle was filling in the RFPs - always different, always asking the wrong questions. All that worked there was putting in the hours.
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https://startupsoflondon.com
I interview London based startups so other founders can learn from them. We also have a youtube channel where we publish each episode in video format youtube.com/c/startupsoflondon
If you running a "real" business frequently you have to get customers to sign waivers to get insurance.

For instance, if you want to get insurance for a riding academy, they will want you to get all your riders to sign a contract that disclaims all liability, put up a big ugly sign about it, all that.
Why is something that happened 30+ years ago relevant?
Your blog is stunning!
I specifically remember talk about the college experience in brochures in 2001-2003. It may not have been the focal point, but I remember MIT specifically focusing on their specific flavor of it (particularly the dorm experience), as well as brochures from private liberal arts colleges.
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About software development and technical leadership. Just got started. Primarily writing to sort out my own thinking and get better at writing, but hopefully the content could be useful to others as well.
Just to add to this:

Definitely do not use their cloud service to analyze heap dumps out of production. You will probably be leaking sensitive company secrets, and, if your company's data handling policies are at all reasonable, you'll probably also be violating legal obligations to your clients, as well as their trust.

Doing it for development may be safer, insofar as it it's more likely to merely be dangerous, but not also tortious or unethical.
Another tool for this is jvmtop, https://github.com/patric-r/jvmtop

I've used this a couple of times to profile running servers. Not perfect but it lets you profile memory and cpu usage. Visualvm is a PITA to get working over ssh.
I only have one post so far but it’s going to be about all things software, data science, and working on cars. http://alexfromapex.github.io/blog
Evolutionary and adaptable ontology driven data architecture
You're forgetting the most important point. There's no law requiring a "news" agency to report the facts. In fact there's no laws requiring them to not lie about everything they say. It seems crazy to admit, because news is suppose to be useful and factual information surrounding current events, but in America it doesn't have to be and it stopped being that way when they realize that sensational and entertaining stories got better ratings.
Survivor of the anti-PNaCL, Java and Flash crusade I guess.
The can art looks like the prototype of every craft beer can on the market now.
Yesterday some girl was wearing one of those T shirts in a newspaper photo. I'd never saw them before. Is it related to Carpenter's movie?
Two Contradictory Principles of Social Life
then why are you reading hackernews ?

Let the people have their fun.
I wasn't sure what "only AA accessible" referred to, but apparently it's a rating[0] to mean at least a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (a "AAA" rating requires a 7:1 contrast ratio).

This site[1] lets you check the rating for any color combination, if you're curious.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

[1] https://accessible-colors.com
Yes unfortunately. It is that time when everyone I know had free time and money. The lucky of us got good jobs, the others debt
App Monetization: 3 Essential Issues and Solutions
>The FTC was founded in 1914

the ftc was founded as an anti-monopoly arm of the government, and is not the same thing as saying "consumers aren't smart enough to know whats good for them"

IMO as a libertarian, trust-busting is one of the fundamental responsibilities of the government because consumers and small businesses usually cannot overturn a monopoly.
https://johnfraney.ca

I'm not sure how awesome it is, but I like to write about a particular problem that I came across and solved recently or an experiment that I tried, like writing a Vue app using a Python-to-JavaScript transpiler. I mostly write about Python and Vue, sometimes veering into CSS, Markdown, and TypeScript. Instead of just giving the solution, I try to walk through the problem and give background and bad jokes along the way.
but they didn't pre-populate it. they used 'corp' within their instruction text as a placeholder for whatever the corporation wanted to use. from my understanding, nothing was pre-populated.
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Personally I’m hopeful for the day when Edge becomes default. I believe it’s still able to use the older engines for compatibility, but not having to code for Trident for default Windows users would be so nice!
That was a fascinating write-up! I too immediately looked for `domain.name` registration and would have marked it up to DNS trickery after that gave a NXDOMAIN. I'm glad you followed the rabbit down the hole on this one. I've added the resolving domains to my Pi-hole block list: https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/
Tech conferences canceled, postponed, or going virtual due to Covid-19
If you want to help the world tackle Covid-19, what's most effective to do?
So, would you be ok with corporations selling things that are slightly radioactive? The average consumer isn't going to understand the implications and risks of such products. What makes a smoke detector safe vs. glowing paint that killed a lot of people painting watch hands/marks with it?
Is that asparagus bio though? I can't tell by just looking at it. And I definitely can't tell if it tastes any good.
Great idea but email sending limits are too low for my use case of outsourced email for small apps.

An API to simply send and receive emails would be great. Perhaps even webhooks.

Or perhaps JMAP
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8621
That's correct, and the "weird taste" relative to other sodas was (is? Been a while since I've been to India, and I noticed it was losing market share badly last time I was there...) cardamom. Cardamom is put to good use throughout Indian cuisine (chai, sag dishes, etc.), making Thums Up really much more complementary than traditional western sodas.
Reminder: CapRover works great for self-hosting the results of an SSG now that docker supports multi-stage builds. Build in whatever image, then copy the built site directory from the builder image to a vanilla nginx image at the default static pages root.

(Also there’s Netlify, but they don’t hook up to self-hosted git apps and their deployment CLI tool is spyware.)

You can even hook CapRover up to Gitea with a webhook so it autodeploys on a push or merge to the appropriate branch.

It would be a terrible shame if GitHub deleted or suspended your whole account and all of your repositories because you accidentally published something on Pages that broke their TOS about allowed content.

Every outage is a good time to reconsider having a business relationship with Microsoft.
Simple question: What are some seL4 "distros" one can install today? Which types of hardware is supported? And how usable the userland is?
Elixir does provide a few nice things over Erlang I'll admit. The way it deals with behaviors is a little nicer to type, macros are definitely easier (but now the issue is that everybody wants to use macros for everything). A lot of effort is put in the documentation and tooling.
I think this entire thread is a waste of space and deserves its negative votes, but Microsoft of today is no better than google. They both sell spyware disguised as OSes and consumer devices.
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> who were lied to by their employer into thinking they can work more hours than they can

And if anybody is reading this thinking, "whew, I'm sure glad I'm not an international student", this affects everybody. (I mean, you should be outraged anyway but just in case). By normalizing abusive behavior, it creeps up on everyone the same, even if it takes a little bit longer to spread.
some people just love to hate on microsoft no matter what they do, really.
State of Software Engineering in 2020
The Art of Working Remote
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I write posts mostly for myself, and host things/write them up after I've done them and struggled so that I have a well written and organized note to go look at. If it helps others, even better!
For me the problems is less of "how do I find the time for this" and more of "holy crap I have so much time yet so many things to do how do i optimize the in order in which to do them / decide which to do today / decide which will be better long term vs short term / pick out ones that are futile and should be let go".

The other problem I have in all sorts of things I do in life is getting compeltley halted, often at the beginning of a task,because of something small. Working on something hand on? Well shit, I dont have one specific tool I need. Well it will be a few days before I can have it shipped. Backlog it. Working on learning a new SDK? Oops the docs are 4 years out of date and theres no one in the IRC channel that cam get back to me in a timely manner. Backlog it. Bought a cool piece of retro equipment but csnt find any info about how it works on the internet, even after engaging on various forums? Backlog it. Trying to learn something but dont have the prerequisite knowledge? Backlog it.

All of those examples are real and have happened recently and combined with what I mentioned in the first paragraph ultimately just end up with men getting nothing done everyday, despite having loads of time.
Well, it's hard for a Linux server distribution to not come with a firewall installed, since it's part of the kernel; all Linux distributions I've seen (including tiny floppy-disk-based Linux distributions) come with the firewall module enabled in the kernel configuration.

As for being activated: my recent experience with is mostly with RedHat-derived Linux server distributions (like CentOS), and they do come with the firewall enabled (which more than once made things not work until we noticed it was the firewall again). That didn't use to be the case in the distant past, however.
> has no idea what they’re talking about.

Funny -- because you've clearly misread something in the thread or think you're in another thread. This has nothing to do with "Irish Slavery".

You be sure to continue to pontificate who does and doesn't know what they're talking about though.
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That small minority sounds to me like the NRA types.