skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're making the same kind of application and using technology you're comfortable with

To an extent yes, most apps (the ones that need a database anyway) are data oriented at their core, just a combination if input, storage and display. The data gets input here, it goes into rows, it gets displayed mixed with other data and displayed to someone else over there. Even when the specifics differ the data generally follows the same sorts of patterns because data is naturally relational and the combination of tables/rows/joins works really well nearly all the time.

> rather than considering alternatives.

The thing is, when you consider alternative you also have to consider the huge risks of what you don't know about them too. I've worked on one product where no-SQL seemed like the right choice, it was document oriented rather than the usual data oriented and it worked really well in our proof of concept. Problem is that the more we fleshed things out the more and more normal relational data we had and no-sql was making things more and more difficult and we started wishing we'd just stored the documents as a blob in an sql database.

So no, it's not just because I'm comfortable with it (although going with what you know has it's own merits), it really is the superior solution most of the time.
I guess I don't take enough meetings to need this type of complexity, but I'll add this feature to the icebox!
Did someone also pointed out that CRLF is a pointless Microsoftian archaism? There's no need anymore to use two characters to mark the end of a line.
> I am asuming this is intended to have people cycle to work instead of taking public transport once the lockdown is lifted.

No. It literally says in the subtitle, and then again in the first paragraph that this is about keeping pollution levels down.
I thought the Windows Registry was reviled because it was a single database that held everything from user customization to device driver and boot configuration, in one file. It was contrasted with the Unix/Linux way, which was single-purpose text files, with the system-wide configuration in protected /etc files, and user-specific configuration in ~/. files

Plists are the best of both worlds. They're a file format rather than a system database, so user-specific config goes in ~/Library/, application-specific config goes in the *.app/ bundles, and system-wide config is in /System or /Library. But it's also a unified format, so each program doesn't need to implement its own parser, and users and developers don't have to wonder how application XYZ decided to escape backslashes, in its config file.

How are they "the macOS equivalent of windows registry"? Or is that just a generic techno-slur?
It’d be great if we could actually archive this “archive”, but alas, it is behind a (temporarily disabled) paywall, which first requires user registration and login.
> Note that ownership of code is not the same of ownership of a service... if Brave is depending on Google services, then you would be right

Unless Brave is prepared (i.e. has the necessary staff) to be able to independently develop their Chromium base without any help from Google whatsoever, then they are dependent upon at least one Google service - specifically, Google's development of Chromium.

> The whole mantra that data!=privacy is doing a lot of damage

No. The whole mantra that "privacy is possible when hoarding data" is what is doing damage. Every byte of data you collect is a liability - a privacy and security compromise waiting to happen. Even assuming your intentions were good and pure (which, as you might guess, I take with a hydrostatically-equilibrious and neighborhood-clearing grain of salt), even locally-stored analytics/performance data is a rich target for less-than-benign actors, and it's information that more often than not has no business being collected.

That is:

> You can collect data from users and still do not compromise their privacy

This is definitionally false. The very collection of data compromises one's privacy, by nature of it having been collected. Sometimes that compromise is necessary, but nothing Cliqz did seemed particularly necessary.
Sigh. Immutability is a relatively recent addition to the long list of features that defines a language as "functional."

In the beginning, "functional" meant functions were first-class objects and there was little--if any--global state. Lisp passes this test. Lisp invented this test (especially Scheme which introduced lexical scoping and closures).

If you want to write code with immutable data, you can certainly do so with Lisp; it just doesn't force you to. For the most part Lisp creates a brand new data structure when you "modify" an old one. You have to work a bit harder to actually mutate things.

Where e.g. Haskell is "more" functional than Lisp is more about automatic currying than immutability. Plus the static type system that allows monadic programming, which is much more difficult in Lisp because of Lisp's dynamic typing.
The difference is that the dollar value of time in America is higher. So while an Indian may haggle over a bag of lemons because the rupee value of the lemons vs. time is what it is, the American won't.

You'll often see this when selling used stuff in America. Poor people will haggle to the end of time because every dollar matters to them - something that manifests in selling something at a higher price being more risk-free than selling something at a lower price. For the same reason, if anything goes wrong with the used product they will be upset with you. Because every dollar counts to them.

I throw away cheap stuff instead of Craigslisting it because of the danger of it only being worth buying to poor people.

By the way, Americans prefer calling it 'negotiating'. You 'negotiate' a lower price, you don't haggle things down to a lower price.
So how many is the data?
I reading document of COVID-19. I want understand this problem. Then watching free museums. And you @adatavizguy?
> Where’s the conspiracy?

Sigh... I feel like I read an article about chemtrails. Author concluded it's a Eurocratic-Catholic-Coptic-Jewish-Canaanite-CroMagnon conspiracy. The dismissive or passive aggressive remarks he drops every 2 sentences don't do the article any favors either.

12 is a number that kept appearing throughout history, probably starting with the 12 months in a year we've had since the ancient Sumerian calendar and the wider adoption of the duodecimal system. It had meaning to the ancient Greeks, Hindus, Christians, Norsemen, Chinese, Muslims, Jews, etc.

It's fitting that the symbolism is still appealing in modern times, in addition to the EEC actually having 12 members when the flag was adopted.
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What's your basis of comparison?

Content curation is not trivial.
There have been a number of fairly credible leaks in this direction recently, pointing to a launch within a year or so.
I have to replace the chain every 1500 km. I replace the chain multiple times, store the old chains and then do a second run (the rationale is that putting a new chain on a used drivetrain does not work, so I need to wear them gradually). After 12000 km (4 chains in the process, 3000 km per chain) I need to replace the cassette and after two of these replacements (24000 km) even the front gears. That's 4 * 6 EUR for chains + 10 EUR for the cassette + 20/2 EUR for the front gears every couple years, or more than twice more than what you say, and that's only the drivetrain... I ride 4500 km/year (daily 2 * 7km commute + a few bigger trips during summer). According to a quick Google search, 3000km per cheap chain is reasonable.
Because a 4 hour take home is way too much. Respect your candidates, please. When we hire, we give a very simple 1 hour take-home.
I think he's just pointing out the irony
Why I still carry my toddler when I can
What is the most complicated and or biggest standalone JavaScript library?
What I mean is the program can be run without anything being server-side. You just call js files, sorta like jquery.

I'm guessing it could be related to :

AI and video detection (detecting objects such as faces, audio, or words in videos)

Generating deep fake videos using AI

Plotting 3-d animations of data

3-d physics simulators with gravity and other variables
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Why? If you have the principle just invest it yourself and then pay off the loan with an auto payment each month from that same principle.
It can be interesting to compare "game rip" versions of game soundtracks with the official CD releases. An official release of a track from Remember Me might be 2-3 minutes long, but the game rip is 10-20 minutes long, filled with stems and loop segments that transition back and forth based on a few things like the length of the player's current combo chain and their HP.

AFAIK, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is another example of this - there's an official release of the soundtrack but the game rip versions of the tracks are typically all 5-10x as long because they are extremely dynamic.

Aside from loop point adjustment, a common technique is to split a track into layers and fade layers in/out dynamically depending on world state.
Even for users it can be valuable. For example, an Electron application gets an automatic pass from me.
Yes, dealers also perform service, even beyond warranty items. The mechanics may not make a commission, but they are usually not the people talking directly to customers at a dealership. Instead, they send a "service advisor" that may or may not have any idea about cars. This person's job is to make money for the dealership and it isn't uncommon for their compensation to be commission based.

There are conflicts of interest everywhere in this process, as you might imagine.
It is far from the Windows registry. Everything is file-oriented, making it easy to backup or wipe away any given plist. The plists themselves are well named and located files that tell you what it is, and things don’t appear in multiple places. No program that gets installed needs to modify any system plists; in fact, apps pretty much never access plist that they don’t own. This last fact makes it so different from windows that you don’t see “plist repair apps” in the same way you do for windows.

Binary plists are identifiable to ascii plists, they’re just more compact. plutil is a utility that can convert them back and forth. Internally the plist classes can be passed either to load and they won’t bat an eye.
In 1985 there might have been 10 members, but Spain and Portugal were already in talks for years and locked to be included (as was scheduled for the next year).
Honestly, excluding the absurd situation with car dealerships and the laws they managed to get written for themselves, I'm rather glad most things still have local distributors.

It forces companies to have many more local points of contact as they otherwise would, which improves customer service. For example, with my HP laptop, I ordered it and all accessories locally and in my language, can have it serviced within a few days at any of 3 locations in our country, have someone that I can argue with in my language when they inevitably try to claim the warranty was void somehow etc.

If HP had chosen a direct distribution model, I would've had to order it online, send it halfway across the continent for service and have absolutely nobody to talk to in my language to in case of non-standard issues. We saw that exact with Apple some 10 years back, when it was impossible to get an iPhone from our country, because it didn't seem worth it to Apple, while Samsung and everyone else gladly threw phones at our distributors and watched the money pile up.
I don't understand what it has to do with reentrancy?
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I think the poster is referring to

* Apple tried to drop it once before (but the 12’ MacBook didn’t do well enough to usurp the MBA)

* The latest iPad advertisement talking about “your next computer” and the keyboard + trackpad attachment

Aberration May be a bit strong. Stopgap living beyond its intended life may be more appropriate?
Actually there are 13.
I just said be careful, they can pump and release at will. You can't predict when they will do it, it's better to wait for them to announce it and THEN take action.
"The Vital Intelligence Project can help estimate the distances between people, but it can also monitor temperatures, heart rates, and respiratory rates of individuals in crowds and workforces."

So essentially, these are cattle helicopters for humans.

The amount of outright assholes in the "tech" industry is alarming.
Twitter is a simulation of our world created by users content, the accuracy of the simulation with relevance to our own world is extremely debatable and should be treated thusly.
Plists support dates (json doesn’t explicitly), and has you explicitly type the contents, which can help make sure that when you want a string you don’t get an int.
> Anybody that's written a compiler or even stared at assembly would tell you how prevalent integer multiplication is, for any sort of loop or pointer addressing.

I think those transform to an integer multiplication…like never? They're almost always an offset to a base pointer that's incremented as you go through the loop…
Do you think an extension for vscode might be worth it?
M guess it is it somewhat related to his girlfriend Grimes is expecting a Baby on Monday. He also tweeted that shes mad at him. Together with the whole covid situation is likely a bit too much stress.
Indeed, they joined on 1st January 1986.

In 1985 the talks had ended and them joining was a done deal. This coincided with the adoption of the flag.
So much has been rewritten you can’t really call it legacy at this point.
> The key takeaways for semantics are: always use a <form> tag

Great article; I would like to learn more about what the <form> tag is functionally providing (it did not explain why it's necessary). Does it have a purpose beyond serving as a landmark?
I use regexbuddy and it does a lot of this. Huge downside is that it's $40 and Windows only.

You can do things like write a more generic regex and then select your language (e.g Python 2 or 3, Java, Perl, so on), And a few common actions, such as "iterate over all matches in a string" and it will auto-generate a code stub for you. Whenever teammates of mine are working on a weird regex they usually email me to double check it for them. (My response is usually that they're trying to do too much with one regex, haha)
AS does almost all other fraud fighting tools (they all use beacons to try to get as broad a sample as they can of user click / browse trails).
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I'm not ignoring anything. Communications of the masses use electronic media and will continue to do so, and those will be compromised if E2EE is forbidden. Masses aren't gonna stop talking and writing to each other digitally.

Journalists however, having a special need to protect their sources, and being aware of a potential lack of E2EE can always find other ways - similar to what they used to hide their sources before E2EE, when their phones could be tapped, etc, including intermediaries, face to face meetings, etc.

Journalists might be hurt from killing E2EE, but theirs is less of an issue (and they can take precautions). The big issue is with masses lacking E2EE.
In 1985 the admission of Spain and Portugal had been ratified and they formally joined on 1st January 1986.

The point is that the EC did have 12 members and that time coincided with the adoption of the 12-star flag.
How would you prove that?
Mental health professionals already have a culture of not engaging in speculative diagnosis from afar, ought we not exercise even further restraint before engaging in clinical terminology?

And are you even claiming personal access to Elon Musk?
Harvard got $9.1M from Jeffrey Epstein. Belatedly, it gave $200K to charity.
Lispworks has a capable IDE. It looks like a 1995 Geocities page but it works well enough. Their editor is Hemlock which is a Common Lisp clone of emacs, so most of the key bindings are the same as emacs and you can rebind them if you wish. Or you can use Lispworks without the IDE and drive it with (real) emacs and SLIME.

Personally I prefer the CCL IDE but it only works on the Mac.
> Give me a bike that doesn't break all the time

What you need is a 'commuter bike' with an aluminium frame, Shimano Nexus 8-speed hub gear and Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres. Should cost less than $500.

You'll need to pump up the tyres every 3 months, and have a bike shop service it every 2000 miles or so. But I've been riding this configuration twice a day for 5 years and had maybe 3 punctures in that time and no problems more severe than that.
A reason cars keep getting larger is fuel-economy laws.

> Expanding a car's footprint — the wheelbase multiplied by the track width — gives it a lower fuel-economy target to meet under the CAFE standards negotiated by automakers and regulators.

https://www.autonews.com/article/20160814/OEM11/308159946/is...
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Yes, you need to do all those things, and it is expensive. The organization's choice not to pay those costs to provide an environment suitable for engineering work (not every single one someone could ask for, but one) reflects its views towards engineering.

It may be correct for them. But for you, as a candidate, it's a good indicator that you'd be happier in the kind of company where engineering has the power to get that done.

Between jamfcloud, osquery, munki, etc. there are plenty of companies and tools out there catering to IT departments that take this seriously.
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the fact that an astrology company is paying 130-150k makes me realize I am very undervalued at my current job
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If it said "belongs to a recognized news org" I'll bet the Washington Post would figure out a way to allow you to affiliate yourself with them so you can use E2EE.

Or someone could start a news org and get "recognized" and then allow anyone to affiliate.

People are creative. They'll find a workaround.
> Everything is file-oriented, making it easy to backup or wipe away any given plist.

Does cfprefsd react well to that these days?
My take on it is that every browsers' behavior by design is to download and execute additional code (JS and HTML). Web extensions are JS and HTML code so there is no change in app behavior. Worst case scenario is we have to turn it off on iOS, but we still get the macOS Webkit browser with webextension support which is still unique. Would love to hear your thoughts, my email is above.
I have no idea why he thinks that the 12 showed up because that is how many periods a woman has rather than how many full moons there are on average. Not that these are unconnected.

As https://qz.com/1706398/the-average-menstrual-cycle-is-not-28... points out, the average woman's menstrual cycle is 29.3 days. The length of a lunar cycle is 29.5 days.

That they are so close is unlikely to be coincidence. In fact a close-knit group of women in primitive conditions will synchronize their cycles to each other and then the group synchronizes to the Moon. An evolutionary explanation can be found in the fact that predators can smell the blood from menstruation. Therefore there is a real advantage to having women do this all together, when the moon's light makes defending them easier.

It would be more convenient still if women didn't menstruate. However periods seem to have evolved when primates lived in trees. There was no barrier to this since smell is less important for arboreal animals than ground dwelling ones. And once evolved, it is hard for it to unevolve.

A side note of evolutionary speculation. Our arboreal ancestry seems to have been when primates lost most of their sense of smell. However in temperate zones, smell is very important for finding food under snow. Is it a coincidence that there are only two species of primates that live in the temperate zone? (Japanese snow macaques are on an island with less competition, and homo sapiens is clearly a special case in a lot of ways.)
Property lists have a JSON format, interestingly.
Feel free to disagree with anything I’m saying. I think disagreeing is important to maintaining a democracy and I’m glad that you voiced your opinion. I support your right to voice your opinion and I would not support any effort to silence your voice, even though in this case, I don’t think you said anything interesting or insightful. I might have been reading too much into things but I don’t think you’ve read much into anything. Which is fine and should be legal.