skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd never use that because support is mostly dealing with company specific problems.
> transfer it to a online poker site for example (directly, without raising possible issues)

If we think of Bitcoin as an electronic cash equivalent, isn't this a bit like worrying that you can't get away with making a withdrawal at the counter followed by a purchase from your drug dealer on the sidewalk out front?

What's far more concerning is the (even remote) possibility that any of the tracing services achieves technological success.
Coinbase and the Winkelvii thing, Gemini, only.
Assuming you want a very lightweight HTML/CSS UI engine, I think you can get 80% of the way by using webview[1].

It's very tiny (1200 lines single-header file).

I actually wouldn't be surprised if it used webview internally.

[1]: https://github.com/zserge/webview
I learned a lot reading the book "the honest truth about dishonesty" by dan ariely.

He did a whole bunch of really interesting experiments, like self-reporting how many you got wrong on a test before it is fed into a shredder and similar.

fascinating book.

How many of you work exactly 8 hours a day with your employer?
He ran sales arms of SAP for 20 years, not SAP itself. After he became CEO of SAP itself he was fired after 2 years, then he joined HP amd he was fired from that after one year. Pretty rough end to his career there..
And what is that going to achieve?
You don't have to click little parts, you can use Powershell :-)
Not your personal army
It's fun to see that most of the people here know only about the book because it appears in the Matrix (myself included).

Whenever I read philosophers like Baudrillard or that share similar ideas, I can't help it but to see their thesis for very complex, very elaborate and very ornate systems of epicycles around the concept of value.

A lot of them don't even acknowledge the assumption that there's intrinsic value, and just run with it, with expected results. From Marxism multipliers of labor to simulacra, to me it just sounds like constructions to avoid the idea of value being an emergent property.
Will Coronavirus lead to fairer societies?
French economist Thomas Picketty discusses the effects of pandemic on economies, societies and globalisation.
Even the Fed Knows Big Tech Is Listening
This may be a lot more viable today than it would have been in the past when there were huge compatibility issues between browsers (e.g. which IE version does the user have on their system?). Especially with the Chromium-based Edge in the future.
All living things use pattern matching - not just humans - as a surviving mechanism. It allows fast decision making.

Which model do any of us prefer in most situations: one that allows us to be right more than 50% of times done in miliseconds, or one that takes hours/days/weeks (whatever) and allows 95% of good (or fair) decisions?
Thanks for sharing, very interesting to read.

> basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started

Wow, this is nuts. 20,000 database tables?
The burden of proof is on science, not me. I’m not going to follow every conjecture and hypothesis floated by a scientist. If something sounds fanciful and violates my common sense, I need a robust experiment. Accepting results without that just brings us back to pre-science.
A privacy reminder from YouTube, a Google company
It's really not a similar situation. Refusing to social distance is illegal as it puts other people's lives in danger but working for a dirty restaurant is not and is not analogous this is in any way.
> Logic, an arguably superior product

how so? I personally find Ableton to be vastly superior to Logic. Some of these latest Logic updates look like copies of core Ableton workflow / features:

Live Loops : Session View

Drum Machine Designer : Drum Rack

Sampler & Quick Sampler : Sampler & Simpler (also Looper)
I wonder what kind of lawsuit payoff employees would get if they went to work and caught coronavirus?
GANs in computer vision (part 5)
Not risk their employees' lives just to keep the Musk profit machine going? Let their workers stay safe while collecting unemployment benefit?
Oh, interesting, then I guess I was just lucky.
DKB is indeed well known for being quite old-school.
I'll add that in my case the need for a printed and hand-signed copy was always connected to shipping the document or faxing it. Never through email.
Awesome. And gross. And awesome.

I did something similar around the same time parsing out some archaic TSV format. I forget the details of it all but we were copy-pasting from Notepad to Excel which I think involved changing some Notepad word wrap preference with every file? I think the objective was to get a CSV file and then FTP it somewhere?

Anyway, I wrote a powershell script I think it was, maybe I managed to install python? Whatever it was I basically replaced myself with a shell script and spent my spare time posting on somethingawful. Which actually did lead to a better job interview. Overall a good use of my time.

I hadn't thought about this for years. Thanks for reminding me, I think.
On Joe Rogan he said he was selling all his houses and will rent.
> Dart still has all types nullable by default

TypeScript is even worse in that regard since it has to deal with JS that wasn't written in TypeScript & there's no way to verify the runtime object complies with the interface you say it does. Then of course JS has to deal with multiple null & undefined values & even more falsy values, ultimately TypeScript provides nice static analysis but also a false sense of security as there's no guarantee that the compile time static analysis matches the actual types / values at runtime.

At least with Dart, you're guaranteed everything is written in Dart so you can have confidence in the static type analysis is actually going to be valid at runtime. With that said you can use the `--enable-experiment=non-nullable` to enable its Sound non-nullable Types feature [1]

> The expresiveness, the ability to accurately describe data structures with its type system just doesn't seem to be there. It seems about on par with Java in that regard.

This is a gross mischaracterization that I'm just going to assume you're familiar with Dart at all. It's vastly more modern and less verbose than Java in basically all aspects: type declarations, auto properties/getters/setters, auto constructors, implicit interfaces, factory constructors, mixins, typedefs, inference, lambdas, async/await, extension methods, optional parameters, string interpolation, single integer type, cascade/chaining, null guards/assignment/coalescing, generators, operator overloading, Callable classes, first class functions, everything's an object, duck typing with noSuchMethod, etc.

[1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/110
I like the "Flat Earth" setting.
I think you might be surprised, it’s possible some types of programming could be automated away. Honestly I would consider writing programs more straightforward to automate than a lot of systems that need to interact with the physics map world, or with people.
Believe it or not, there was business software in the 90s. They were called *RP. ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning, MRP = Material Resource Planning, CRM = Customer Relationship Management. Home-grown code hacks to run a business cannot do what these companies can do, that’s why they’re expensive.
A decade ago, Java was the de-facto language to build a cross-platform desktop application (with Java Swing). Now it is JavaScript. So be it then....

Too bad Rust does not have something similar.
Good, then we agree :-)
LOL! No they don't, they laid off all of their waiters already!

Fuck! I routinely cannot get through to restaurants that I ordered from, without a lockdown in place.

It's 100x worse now.
For commercial farming the question is: does it have a high enough yield to justify the harvesting cost? If it doesn't, it doesn't matter if the land is free.
> copied the raw compiled machine code (as hex) into AutoHotkey and directly called it with DllCall

Holy potatoes, you can do that?! Or, I suppose, you could do that, because I half-expect you can't anymore with all the various security features that were added to Windows over the last two decades. But cool stuff nonetheless.

It reminds me of my own foray into the space of running assembly output; back in my teenage years, I compiled a small bit of assembly into an object file, read it into a C++ program, casted the string into a function pointer and executed. Surprisingly, it worked. I got the idea from StarCraft modding scene; in those days, if you wanted to add a new button for your unit that did something, you had to write the action in assembly, compile it with MASM, and then let StarGraft tool patch the game executable with it (I don't remember if it did it at runtime or modified the actual executable).
What do you mean by a benefit? Most compiled/native languages can make static binaries.
I feel like we crossed the chasm in the past and regressed back over it.
For someone with ADHD, "outwitting the devil" had a very strong effect on me.

I know public sentiment for Napoleon Hill is not positive overall, but I definitely recommend this one.
Nah, I never get city life anyway, especially the culture of frequenting bars. But the bay area is wonderful. Yes, commute is horrible there, but being able to find many people who are passionate about CS, engineering, math, startups, and geeky stuff in general, that's hard to get anywhere else.
yes, and the global supply chain is a weird place. Because I also know that these industries seem to spring up overnight and disappear just as quick.

From an american point of view it doesn't make sense for the amount of capital investment to happen so quickly, but that does seem to be true. Entire products with complex supply chains.

Entire industries seem to be born and then completely die much much quicker than I thought possible.

I would love to understand how all that works more deeply. Seems interesting.
Honest question : are you really "eager to find more women, NB, trans.." people ? or is it just something people say nowadays ?

I have never ever looked at any tech show or podcast and thought "hey, that subject was really interesting, but i wish the person was a trans.." From my european point of view, this would seems borderline discriminatory. I'm more of a "i don't care who you are" person.
Does anyone know if there is any plan to port that on Mobile ( iOs / Android ) ? That would be a killer feature.

Even if I am not sure it would be even legal to port that to iOS with Apple's restrictions on the Web Engines they accept in the Store.
How Working from Home (WFH) Can Be a Success Story
Nice to see HN considered "mainstream tech coverage"...
Oh true, good idea!
Check out React context to avoid this property passing, which is annoying, I agree.

Did you know that Redux is now basically built into React?

https://medium.com/simply/state-management-with-react-hooks-...

https://blog.logrocket.com/use-hooks-and-context-not-react-a...
The transparency is good for competition and market in general.
My point was about the poster I replied to omitted any facts that got in the way of Musk looking bad. I'm not going to say Musk calling a non-pedophile a pedophile was good (though it was sorta a tit for tat situation, with the guy saying Musk was only trying to rescue the boys for PR so Musk says the retired diver was only trying to rescue the boys to diddle them).

Regarding COVID 19, the BBC has been repeatedly telling me that most countries are counting deaths with COVID19 as COVID 19 deaths (resulting in an overcount) and has been telling me that the response to the virus itself is likely causing many deaths due to things like people being more reluctant to go to hospital, higher depression due to isolation/general climate of fear, no in person access to GPs and similar issues.
> add a system-modal popup that requires you to type in "network" correctly 50 times in a row and then issues a Ctrl+Z; if you make a mistake, you start over.

There, fixed :).
Nope, none of these points apply to the specific change, atleast as far as I am able to tell. The code that broke did not use unsafe when I last updated it and then it simply didn't work anymore in the current go version.
Another discussion from today (React Native Windows / Mac) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160075

Not web/HTML though, uses native widgets directly (mostly).
I've dreamed of making this.
I had the same issue. The issue was a security one https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11840 which required a breaking change to fix so their options where leave everyone vulnerable but could compile or break anyone that uses this code and fix it. I think they made the right choice.

Also golang.org/x/crypto is not a core library so doesn't actually fall under the compatibility guarantee but they seem to try their best not to break it.
A great deal of his fame is premised on this priming effect. It’s been taken almost as gospel for decades, to the point that a typical applied psychology paper will actually include a priming step even if unnecessary just to spruce up the methodology. E.g. “subjects were primed by having them read articles on spicy food” for a study on water fountains, etc.
Amazing video! And these poor neurons are squished between glass, imagine them crawling around in a 3D space.
Just order them by availability.

In stock first, out of stock second.
Promoted to the level of his incompetence perhaps.
Office already uses react native for parts of their desktop and mobile platforms, win32 is in the process of integrating react-native support. So does Adobe at least if their github is any indication.

And if you look at the end consumer software which have billions of users, who in one way or the other pay for it, it's almost always built on web tech these days. Discord, Skype, Slack, Spotify, and so on.

Of course there's professional or industrial software written in native code. But that's not because it's popular, it's because it's niche and specialised. The business model of charging upfront isn't exactly a sign of popularity, if anything it's the opposite.
>> Consultants

> A term so generic as to be almost meaningless. It can apply to an Agile coach, an Ivy League fresh grad billed at $1200/hr by McKinsey et al, or a programmer with an LLC and some marketing skills. These all vary widely in prestige.

To add to your point, it is absolutely the case that in places like McKinsey et al., several key measures of the consultants as they make their way up the ladder are directly related to how many people they manage.
I got a job as a UX designer and what I learnt along the way
True in the US, not necessarily true elsewhere.
Actually, they don't.

In fact, Newsome's Executive Orders refer only to GOV § 8567, which only refers to procurement powers of state agencies. It specifically does not create any criminal statute, which in CA happens to be a very involved process including traversing multiple legislative committees.

In other words, he could trigger a process to confiscate your steel if he can establish urgent necessity for all of it, but he can't make it a crime to build a car. You're flat wrong on this.
As a complete remote company, I wonder if GitLab's business affected much by COVID-19?
I think the increasing openness towards remote work is certainly encouraging, but it still seems a bit too early to conclude that these companies will consider going fully remote to be sustainable in the long run.

As the author notes, once companies figure out a streamlined and scalable way of onboarding and supporting a remote-first workforce, we should see much greater adoption of this approach.
It's a violation of basic freedoms, that's true, but it's not one without reason (hence my example). I do agree with you that measures like this require constant justification, as would be the case in any democracy. I do not think that flouting these measures arbitrarily is the best way to achieve this.
Exactly, it only seems to lubricate things one way, as most tech against centralized banking.
Bare-metal hypervisor written in Rust for RISC-V
Dutch e-bike company VanMoof raises €12.5M
For people outside the USA, the idea of mixed units, or even just the various interpretations of imperial/archaic, I suspect isn't as intrinsically droll as it perhaps is from within a culture that's still trying to work out whether to adopt a basic measurement system in use across 95% of the planet.

However, gripes aside, for fruity measurements you may wish to adopt (read: you may not be aware of, but if you aren't, I suspect you'd approve) the FFF [6] measurement system.

The above relationship would be expressed as 54 furlongs of mycelium per 1.2283533E-7 cubic furlongs. (I think)

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system
I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?
How to Design Boxing in VR
Ahhhh Adobe Flex with MXML and ActionScript3. Before Typescript and React with JSX got popular that was the cool kids club. RIAs yo! Rich internet applications.

I loved what Flex brought to the table. Too bad Adobe didn’t open source flash and let it die.
Hi! GitLab Community Advocate here - I agree that we need to get better how we improve the quality and performance of existing features/bugs. I am sorry for the negative experience you had. Please ping me on any long standing issues/bugs that are important to you and I'll do my best to route it to the directly responsible individuals.

For the new features part, going fast is a core part of our strategy, as is focusing on breadth over depth (https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/#breadth-over-dept...). Not only does this provide an easier path to collaborate and contribute for the wider community, it allows us to shorten the feedback loop with everyone that uses GitLab so that we can invest our time and effort in the areas that matter most to the wider community.Hope this is helpful.
The worms are very special. Their nervous systems are weird because they have been heavily optimized to be small. A huge push to get the full connectome of Drosophila is coming to an end right now, we are not there yet fully, but close. This research has already elucidated many things about how their brains work. People are discussing how to do the mouse now. In conjunction with functional experiments this research already explained many pathways such as olfactory associative learning, mating behavior and many others. None of these understandings came from simulations, but from multiple experiments and study of selected subcircuits. There were also successes in simulation of the visual pathway of drosophila, based on the connectomic data. For example this study [1] was able to reproduce direction sensitivity of a specific set of neurons. It isn’t necessarily true that we need to fully understand the worms before we should and can move on to more complex nervous systems and successfully understand them. It might just be that neuron abstractions don’t work well in worms, because of the mentioned evolutionary pressure to optimize for size.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04793
Smoking and obesity put other people's lives in danger as well, whether it be due to second hand smoke or being a burden on the healthcare system and diverting resources.

There have been countless discussions already about at risk groups and potential spread to them, QALY's, etc. What I want to get at is "social distancing" is arbitrary (6 feet?) and should not be forced. (I am unsure of your statement "Refusing to social distance is illegal...")
Kevin Mitnick
Hmm a decade or two? IDK, could be way sooner. If Corona comes back at the fall (this time accompanied by regular influenza) there's just not much choice I think. When this is all over all companies will have experience in running things remote for a year or two.
It could be there'll still be an office but 50% of the personnel is remote.
We'll see what happens, but I don't think this is gonna take 20 years.
Open Source Eclipse Foundation Announces Transition to Europe
Twobird is a collaborative email app from the developer of Notability
I have no doubt that the law is crystal clear, but does it make sense?
Very odd outcome considering they didn't do much different from Ethereum or EOS, both of which seem fine nowadays.

I think it would have been different if they were to release their coin first, ask questions later.
It makes me think of Google Web Toolkit.

Not exactly abandoned - it seems to have been maintained for 10 years, although no stable release for the last couple of years.

It does feel like it would have been a dead end to get into though.

My worry with Flutter is the same - it won't get large enough adoption by other tech companies, and Google will move on to something else.

I think it'll still hang out as open source project. But will it get the large investment to make improvements as the various OSs change over the long time?
Ooh, I'm guessing Windows and its weird treatment of powered-off monitors.

I dual-boot and leave my home PC on for weeks at a time; I just power the screens off when I stop working. My Linux system doesn't even notice; when I come back, everything is at it was. Windows however, the second it notices I powered off one screen, moves all the Windows to the other one. So the first thing I have to do when I come back is to rearrange the windows back to where they were.

I don't know the justification for this behavior of Windows.
You've missed some news:

>If Tesla’s Prevention & Control Plan includes these updates, and the public health indicators remain stable or improve, we have agreed that Tesla can begin to augment their Minimum Basic Operations this week in preparation for possible reopening as soon as next week

https://twitter.com/Dare2BWell/status/1260430367061876736
I don't think they meant to say they can't do it, more that they don't want people to use github pages for those use cases, otherwise a lot of people would move their high bandwidth and relatively expensive to host sites to github. I might be wrong though.
More than once in my career I've wished for a read-only connection to the data store and a copy of the schema.

Let me figure out my own UX, thank'ee.

Which sounds cool until said schema takes up a wall in an 8-point font.
90% of the Indian Software Engineers are from two states in India - Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. While 10% or so are good, the remaining are junk. They get into jobs through shady practices, through team work (one guy gets in to a company and works his way to get others inside, and they chuck every other guy out, including other Indian guys from other states). I know people who even edit PDFs and produces fake client letters to get visa extensions. Most of these guys can't even speak proper English. But their perseverance and tenacity to come to US, and stay here is like a parasite on a mammal. Doesn't leave the bite. When a couple of them gets into an apartment, they invade that place by inviting everyone who is from those two states. Never gives a penny as tip. Worst is when they speak in their local language in restrooms, aisles, between pens/cubicles.
I have a question:

Where is her second leg?
I can relate. We use GitLab at our company.

I still think the merge request UI is great. Its main problems are its slowness and the fact that files with a long diff are collapsed.
As the full merge request is quite slow, I will usually open the diff of each commit one by one, then put review comments as a "per commit" basis.
People still have kids who’d normally go to school, family to take care of, etc.
Thanks for your advices. I think I'll focus on the product rather than learning a new web framework.