skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kotlin did pretty well in the matrix [1], though it appeared to be weaker in the areas of memory control and thread safety. These two areas stood out as important because we were bit by them over and over when we had two parallel native codebases written in Java + Objective C.

Not crashing our customer applications, and not exposing them to any additional security vulnerabilities is top priority.

It's important to keep in mind that we evaluated these options 18 months ago (roughly), so numbers might have changed.

Note that we specifically do not use Swift at this time -- even in our platform glue -- because we cannot guarantee that a Swift runtime appears on all devices that we are targeting. We are evaluating options to allow us to use Swift in our glue.

[1] https://language-compare.glitch.me/
Shouldn't tmux core devs be motivated to write a tool like this? Assuming they are interested in attracting more users.
There's also a GPT2 version of Subreddit Simulator, and I find it amazing how close to an actual Reddit thread the replies look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
54 across the state is good. In Philly, we have about 6k dead people voting in presidential elections.
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How can it be done securely? Just curious about the updated models
When I saw that their pricey support rep also emailed jeff@amazon.com on their behalf, I laughed out loud.

Nothing says organizational dysfunction better than having a disempowered employee email the same last-ditch "please may a human see this" support email address that's given out to customers.
> it has one of the best open source module ecosystems in the world,

Left-pad, is-promise.
Companies like PTC don't have an issue with GC languages on C and C++ domains, https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
It's not a new concept, either. It was something I learned about in introductory business courses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
You don't have to use all of C++ everywhere when programming C++.

In particular, I really love that I seldom use operator new. Objects are instantiated in the stack and object creation is ridiculously fast.
I dont know... I'd be curious to find out but I honestly dont have the time or motivation to figure out their broken processes.
You can see some online learning drama unfold here. Student has to go back home to bad home situation, bombs online test, complains about prof, to the point where prof gets on to defend themselves.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/g5vzfc/stasko_doesn...
Many places let you register when you cast your vote. That's usually how I change my voter registration when I move. It should be far more widespread. I'm of the opinion that if you are given a social security card that you should be automatically registered to vote.
Can you even speak to Amazon on the phone?
It seems an established account is as likely as any account to sell a ton of ghost items and cash away the money. Consider if the vendor account gets hacked or the wife of the vendor pulls a stunt on him. The reward for fraud only gets bigger as the account is more trusted.
AmericanChopper, you're really out of touch with the realities here. BEV sales are above a million a year and growing rapidly. According to the experts falling battery prices mean that in another two or three years the sticker price for a BEV will be equal to an equivalent ICE for many classes of cars, and sales will skyrocket. Charging structure is growing rapidly.

On the other hand, hydrogen car sales have been stuck around 10,000 a year, and there is no prospect they will expand in the future to anything significant.

The reason for the difference in sales is BEV's are just way better. You know, when it first became clear a few decades ago that we needed to get off of fossil fuel cars, hydrogen seemed like a good idea and lithium-ion batteries were really poor in terms of capacity and cost.

But since then batteries have improved tremendously, but hydrogen cars much more slowly. And every year that goes by battery cars get further ahead. The future clearly belongs to BEV's.
“It’s no exaggeration to say UK rejection of Apple API will cost lives”
This could be the new way to filibuster! /s
You can have whatever feelings you like, but comparing property rental to (I assume you mean) for-profit prisons advocating longer sentences is a pretty gargantuan leap.
Postal voting undermines the secret ballot. People in your life with power over you can demand to see your ballot.
I'm with you on this. But if we think of this process as akin to a funnel, I really wonder about the people making it all the way to the bottom. It suggests a lot of stuff is getting created by people who just blow right past the ethical considerations.
So did Standard Oil.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you're trying to tell me? The example I mentioned is not about surreal numbers.
Sellers sell where buyers go. Unfortunately, Amazon today represents a very-very large portion of online sales. And if you don't sell there, you lose. And convenience (I think? I don't think it is a place to find a best price anymore) looks like it takes over concerns over small business.
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You can, but the Lithium Ion can't gather invisibly around your car, it's not at high pressure waiting for a structural weakness to start escaping, it's not known for causing Hydrogen embrittlement in whatever's containing it, and it's not just about the most easily ignited material going like Hydrogen is, it's often water cooled to keep it more stable and electronically monitored in a way that can reduce current draw from possibly weakened cells, and it's easier to reinforce against damage because it's not pressurised, and if you can get away from the fire it's not a gas which can spread out around you. And Li-Ion batteries have less power density than Hydrogen and Hydrogen burning takes half the reaction fuel from oxygen in the air.

There's more which can go wrong, needs less to happen for it to go wrong, gives off more energy if it does go wrong, looks more spectacular (scary) if it does go wrong. This image [1] is Toyota's own video of what happens if the Hydrogen tank is safely vented, a five meter high flamethrower.

Over time, Li-Ion batteries lose charge capacity, so there's incentives to replace them with new ones. What would happen to Hydrogen tanks in a ten year old car, would you trust one? What would it take for you to trust one?

It's not that it can't work, or nobody is trying, but I'm siding against it. I think anything with high pressure is unlikely to become mainstream, and anything with high pressure Hydrogen even more so.

[1] http://asj.nolan-law.com/wp-content/themes/flashnews/images/...
I have, I live in the United States (Minnesota). I've voted absentee and I've even worked in local election offices.

The process is fragile and fragmented at best.
Current college student here at a school with a large off-campus housing population - one thing I've been hearing from some of my friends (although anecdotal) is a decent amount of people still want to go to their apartments next semester even if it's online. I don't know how much of a dent this behavior will do overall, especially because I think an overwhelming majority of people would prefer not to have to pay rent every month for an unnecessary apartment.
It can both be true that it seems pretty reasonable that people put in some effort to acquire an ID to vote, and that if you require said effort, fewer people will vote and the ones who don't will disproportionately support one party or political ideology over another, meaning voter ID laws in fact favor one of our two viable parties over the other. If it also turns out there's little proof of an extant problem voter ID laws solve, one might suspect the primary motive driving support for them is exactly that tendency to skew the electorate.
I thought it's obvious on the context of America we talk about countries that well developed.
This is ridiculous. Senators don’t have to literally be on the senate floor to debate, it’s the 21st century. This has nothing to do with nazism anymore than all the companies who have moved their work meetings to Zoom have become Nazis.

Never mind that the “debate” on the floor is just them making speeches to to the TV camera, something they could just as easily do from home - and often do by calling into cable news or major broadcast networks. Often the speeches they are making are to a nearly empty chamber as well - you’re not seeing actual debate in most cases, the other side isn’t there listening and considering the arguments.
(I wrote the article.)

We don't use ts-node for our dev processes because it adds some annoying startup delay. We keep the TS compiler running at all times on our dev machines, and we run our server/tests/etc. from the TS compiler's build output directory. This hasn't been a big pain point for us so I wouldn't worry about it much.

Related, just in case: I definitely wouldn't use ts-node in production. If your deployed code fails to typecheck for some reason, you don't want to learn that by seeing your backend server failing to boot in production. I think you should always compile your app during your deploy process, then have production boot the compiled JS as if TS weren't involved at all.
The one that causes pain in ears.
> I'm not taking a position on monstrosity, or lack there of, but the reasoning provided seems flawed.

So, no?
> Teams were all aligned horizontally.

What does this mean?
Re: the voice activated light class of idea. I have a weird NIH/hoarding bug. I always try to do thing on my own (am now making electrical circuits). Somehow it's a huge waste of time. Yet I know a ton of stuff and can fix some things, or avoid fear and scams.

One alternative is a hub of DIYers. Remember the story of how Xerox PARC operated ? unattended, unmanaged.. you had an idea or a problem you ping people around that know that domain, chat around and make a thing. In groups it might turn diminishing returns into a massive life enhancement (in theory, I never worked in such an environment).

ps: I actually think that picking this kind of projects is a tiny art. Don't scratch all itches but know that knowing is always a good thing.
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The NSA doesn't have access to US security cams and couldn't care less about them. Come on people...
Can you expand on this point of view?

I would enjoy reading a couple paragraphs, or a blog entry about this.
I'm genuinely curious. How did you handle identifying yourself to the police? Also, was this when you could still get a greyhound bus ticket without photo ID? Where you ever asked for ID when cashing or writing a check? It seems like ID is required for EVERYTHING these days, so I'm interested in some of these points.
> keep track of deleted users so that their usernames can't be reused

This seems to violate GPDR, no? Attacker attempts to create an account (say: victim@gmail.com) on AshleyMadison and is prevented because the server tracked past users. Attacker could them demonstrate victim@gmail.com was at one point a user on AshleyMadison.com
Ok you're right, maybe I have two points: I think this distraction is driven by ideology and partly maintained by (or taking advantage of) pedantry. It is far too tempting for logically-minded pedants to say "but you can clearly see what the numbers show", which is true, but is not a useful point except as further fuel for the distraction.

The real problem we're going to have is people struggling to find jobs as demand ramps back up slowly in fits and starts. This whole conversation is an attempt to portray those struggling people as the problem. It is indirection, like in a magic trick. And the pedantic "well actually"s are falling for the trap.

It's a real bummer because it's definitely going to work, which is going to cause us to underinvest in unemployment insurance over time, which is going to make this even more painful than it was already going to be. It would just be nice if people could see that they're being played.
I asked you for a reason and your answer was basically "do it my way or you are a fascist." I am happy to engage in debate or change my mind on this issue, but I need something more specific and tangible than allusions to "debate and transparency". How do these speeches on the Senate floor lead to debate and transparency in ways that can't be replicated remotely?
Oh boy, currently interviewing with Amazon. All of these negative articles have me spooked.
>If they didn't do this, they would be exploited.

You're implying that the way they're currently doing it is the only possible way to deal with the problem.
I worked at two Fortune 500 (> 50,000 people) public companies and now work at a medium-small sized private company (~500 people). I prefer medium-small company. Also - what number would be small? like < 100?

The only advantage to large companies is if there is a large presence in your area, moving internally between jobs is relatively easy if you want to change things up.

Advantages of small company:

- Privately owned so no stockholder BS or the constant downsizing/offshoring accounting games.

- Most time-wasting corporate stuff is very minimal at a small company. At large corp you could spend hours upon hours doing the mandatory annual security training which ironically required Flash installed to run the big brother tracking video course. Same for ethics, HR and other corporate-y trainings.

- No real politics. Large corp it was common to run into people that didn't contribute anything to the products/solutions. It appeared they existed to slow things down and act out Dilbert comic strips. This can really wear on you. Watch the movie Office Space.

- Want to try a new tech out? Talk with a couple people, give it a whirl - it has to have some purpose though. Large corp: "no, we use XYZ, we've always used XYZ"
This is really cool - you should write a how-to blog on it when you have time. I think it could really help drive more adoption.
Daily testing for those over 60 seems like the only way to meaningfully protect risk groups.
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All the big stations are news entertainment state side, mega editorializing everywhere.
Seems like the better approach would be to host the blog on the GCE f1-micro instance instead of using it solely as a proxy / exit node.

Or use a CDN and host it without Google Cloud.
> Amazon considers sellers to be a renewable resource

In all honesty, isn't it? Isn't that the fundamental thesis of Amazon?

Amazon is an American business, and American capitalism has always favored the (near) monopolists. Nowhere else in the West do we find such a lack of diversity in options as in the US for consumers. Americans perhaps like succes more than others, for instance I feel the French are much more prone to sympathizing with the underdog, which builds a natural counterforce to monopolism.

Sometimes I think Americans do not realize their large internal market is both a benefit and a downside:success can snowball like nowhere else, into bigger snowballs like nowhere else. No other western market has a natural market of similar size, therefore foreign competition is always an underdog, or must succesfully learn to expand internationally before they can match for size.

We let Amazon get away with it, because we are letting them get away with it. In other circumstances, we'd not identify one company with its market so easily or totally, and Amazon's competition would keep them sharp.
Neat! I love your demo. Could you say a bit more about how you're intending yours to be different? (I know zero about this kind of app, so this is genuine curiosity about the space and what differentiates tools.)
Unless we are also cutting off hands for felonies, I don't think this will provide the same level of utility here.
>The universe has finite sizes of things like the Planck length for example being a theoretical thing at the smallest distance I would imagine

The Planck length might or might not be a physical limit of the universe. We don't have any specific proof that it's the smallest, just that we will not be able to observe any of that size or smaller. To look at something, we need to use light, and we must use a wavelength smaller than the details we wish to resolve. For something of the Planck length or smaller, this ultimately results in a photon that would have more energy in that area than can exist without a black hole forming... so one does, which then prevents us from measuring it, much less anything smaller.

Space and time might very well be discrete and not continuous - certainly the Loop Quantum Gravity folks would agree there. But there are widely supported theories that take both sides.

(I tend to lean towards them being discrete, but I would hesitate to call myself even an amateur hobbyist when it comes to theoretical physics...)
I know nothing about the Senate resolutions process, but this seems to fall in the same ballpark as "bill proposal". Most proposed bills never go anywhere, so we usually treat them as off topic. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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So are you for or against? ;)
>Every generation of Apple product has a competitor that's more elegant, better-performing, more durable and reliable, better integrated within its own ecosystem, etc.

Just the fact that Apple actually provides software updates for devices for years longer than their competitors seems to disprove at least part of this statement. Their investment in retail stores and customer service is laudable, but to say the iPad has any competition in any of the metrics mentioned above is not true.
Amazon lost me as a customer completely. They're not at all customer focused. Their shipping care/quality is horrendous (stuff is damaged all the time). Any non-trivial issues (anything that can't be resolved by refunding money, re-sending the item) have no path to resolution. Amazon.com itself is like a flea market: tons of untrustworthy/counterfeit merchandise, fake reviews everywhere.

Apple is customer obsessed. Amazon is efficiency obsessed.
Knowing what the Fullstory product is I'm a bit un-interested in what they're doing with cool new technologies.
This is a bit like reading how palantir is using Kubernetes.
It depends on both what you are optimizing for. People cost money. If you can trade enough of your time by having a cloud provider do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” to focus on your core competency, then it makes sense to use a provider.

For instance it didn’t make sense for DropBox to stay on Amazon but it did make sense for Netflix.
Businesses are going to have trouble finding enough customers to support the staff they do hire, not this fantasy problem of having trouble finding staff.
Filibustering is an emergent property of profoundly broken processes in our Senate. If remote meetings force some procedural change, that's probably in everybody's best interest.
These are interesting strategies, are there places to read more? Most of my Indian friends are the South and wealthy, they're locked down in multi generation compounds and lamenting cleaning for themselves for the first time - maids sent home. The situation doesn't sound as bad on the ground but I'm skeptical in the sense that my province in Canada has imported 16 cases from India, which is on par with Iran (19), Cuba, while it's not as high as US (393), UK (124), or other hard hit European countries (30-40), it dose seem like there as some moderate level of spread in the country for that much to be exported. For reference China only exported 5. Are there discussions about follow up strategies? Contact tracing apps etc, or is the process going to be manual.
What you're forgetting is that Germany actually has functioning public transit, while the US doesn't.

If you don't have a car, you're out of luck if the DMV is 10 miles away.
A util like I propose would be able to 1) ask what term / ssh you're using, 2) ask you to demonstrate keystrokes and mice and determine if they're working, 3) offer suggestions for how to fix them.
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I remember hearing advice years ago about how vendors give you more grace period to pay when you make regular payments but once they have to bug you about it then they eventually cut you to 30 days and then cash.

It was impressed upon the other participant that you should make dead sure to pay your bills on time if you actually have the cash. Once they stop trusting you your cash situation just snowballs.

It seems like that relationship becomes very topical when your retailer starts sandbagging on their end. Like the question shouldn’t be how many dollars, but how many days.
You're assuming most people can afford to martyr themselves to pay extra on every purchase out of a moral stance.

Even if someone can afford that, I think it's been demonstrated futile to try to affect market behavior on the basis of employee treatment that's so normalized to everyone. Boycotts have worked on other specific issues on certain brands but it seems like people just don't care enough about Amazon's worker treatment or Nestle's horrible activities in Africa. So if those are never going to change without legislation then I can't really hold it against anyone for not paying out the nose to avoid Wal Mart and Amazon.
I just shut down my startup (2019)
Did Jobs really micromanage? From what I understand he just set high expectations and a lot of attention to detail.
Long post about wanting to sell function generators.. but no link to buy?
Have multiple friends/family that were at academies. Can confirm drill is hated by vast majority if not all.
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Definitely not 4% of retail or 37% of digital retail.
Looks like mods noticed HN traffic and closed the topic. Wanted to ask how they resolved it in the end.
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Meanwhile, we could simply eat more nuts and beans.

From https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/healthy-meat-serving-size-p...:

“The Recommended Dietary Allowance of protein for men and women is 56 grams and 46 grams per day, respectively, and is not dependent on caloric intake. To meet these recommendations, you should consume approximately 5 to 6 ounces of protein foods -- such as meat, nuts, eggs or beans -- per day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
It is different from how Ruby and Javascript handle default arguments. I'm surprised Python does that, since I would expect function arguments to be reset to their defaults each call. That's a major side effect.
I'm amazed at how many of the respondents on the Amazon forum are taking Amazon's side. That's nuts.
Within aviation and specifically military aviation, "UFO" means exactly what it says on the tin, an object that is airborne (flying) but has not been identified to be a known craft type by radio signals or visual recognition.

That's all. It doesn't imply anything about what it is, only what it isn't, namely identified.

There are tons of these on radar, HF etc all the time.
I think you misunderstand me, I’m not suggesting that the general social media community deserves to be apologized to.

The comment I replied to questioned whether publishing stories like this ruining people is right given the subject’s success and the public’s propensity to judge, which I didn’t agree with. It’s not the responsibility of the press to filter stories on compassionate or moral grounds, and there was nothing wrong IMO around its release.

I don’t believe that the public deserves an apology here, just as I don’t believe that journalists should refrain from publishing legitimate accounts of this kind of behavior, no matter how old.