skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost no one thinks of that when they think of lawns. They are admired by many because they are aesthetically pleasing to many, which incidentally is why they were maintained by the aristocrats in the first place.

Who are we to impose our aesthetic sensibilities on others.
Thunderbird isn't a native app, for the record. It's a web application similar to an Electron application, but with extra steps.
The ironic part of this is the spam comment (that was not removed from there on purpose) and most likely is one gear of this fraud system
> The lack of full macOS support on Goey and the decision to target GNUStep instead of Mac Cocoa proper is... interesting.

complain to Apple which makes it illegal to have access to the Cocoa API if you don't own a Mac
This looks pretty hackish.

What would be really useful is if only sections of code can be delineated as requiring certain permissions. This way, it's much easier to see what parts of the code do what and also to make sure that users only get prompted for such permissions when the code actually runs.
Fungus is quickly destroying a buried Viking ship that Norway want's to save
Yeah, you can histogram the values if you just need an approximate answer (or if you have few enough discrete values, you can just have a bin per value). Once you have an approximate answer, if you need a more precise answer, you can go through the data again and only consider values within the right bin (which hopefully will be a lot fewer, if you've chosen your bins wisely) and then use something like std::nth_element.
The cycle of [software tooling] life
Take a look here for an epic build:

http://justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/

No SMS, no internet, but it shows that it is possible if you're dedicated enough.

Edit: See also these Arduino shields:

https://www.adafruit.com/category/867

One walk-through of using one:

https://learn.adafruit.com/arduin-o-phone-arduino-powered-di...
Is it just me or the syntax here resembles that of Flutter's Dart
Yes - to ensure the widest possible audience. English is the lingua-franca of academia and has been for almost a century now.
I don't write in Go but from what I read the language isn't oriented towards GUI app development.

Can anyone explain why this is the case? Are there any obvious reasons why Apple and Google haven't adopted it for mobile apps?
Zerodium expects iOS exploit prices to drop as it announces surplus
The true scope of the fraud will come clear when IRS starts coming after the named beneficiaries of the fraudulent disbursements.

In WA state (not sure about other states), the unemployment insurance agency does not automatically withhold taxes from disbursement checks. (It is an option the beneficiary can choose).

The IRS will come looking for those taxes.
Quantum computers and autonomous vehicles are more promise than fact, otherwise you might want to throw fusion energy in there as well.
I completely agree. I never actually used Firefox as an RSS reader, but I did get my mom started on RSS through Firefox, and later she moved on to a dedicated RSS reader. I don't remember, but I think that Firefox would offer to subscribe to a feed via Thunderbird if you didn't already have one set up.

But I think Mozilla's abandonment of Thunderbird is very much in line with their abandonment of RSS, and their loss of commitment to an open web.
The planet has an observable fossil record, whereas extra-solar heavenly bodies are still largely inscrutable.
Yet Another Video Series on Functional JavaScript Inspired By Clojure
I am familiar with Seastar too. It is one component that is pretty useless by itself. What is relevant in this topic is what is around it, the functionality that you provide. This is why Scylla is copying Cassandra. You can come up with a nice way of programming whatever you want but the end of the way the business functionality is what matters and there are different tradeoffs involved, still.
Yup. The first time I voted 15 years ago I didn't have to show any ID and was quite puzzled. A friend of mine actually considered voting under my name when he found out :)

The OSCE (? not quite sure) vote observers commented on this in their election monitoring report, and the next election the government had acted on the advice and you had to show ID
We're building POS applications for major retailers, and for this kind of software, native is king and will stay for the foreseeable future (with a few exceptions confirming the rule, of course). These applications need tight integration with exotic hardware, must satisfy weird fiscal requirements often written with native applications in mind, must run rock-solid 24/7 with daily usage and predictable response times for weeks without a restart, must be able to provide core functionality without interruption in offline situations while syncing up transparently with everyone else when back online and usually run in an appliance-like way on dedicated hardware (start with the system, always in foreground, only major application on the system, user should not be able to close or restart it, updates and restarts triggered by remote support/management).

All of this is much easier to do with native applications, running them in a browser just adds the need for crazy kludges and workarounds to simulate or enforce something you get for free if running native. Also you end up with managing hardware boxes with periphery attached and software running on them anyway, so whether managing a native application that is a browser which then runs the POS application or whether directly managing the POS application does not save you any work; if anything it even gives you an additional thing to manage, which increases maintenance effort and potential for failure (which quickly is catastrophic in this business, POS down today effectively means the store can close its doors).

Back-office applications in the same space are actually pretty well-suited for a web application, and frequently implemented as such today.
What, and now even my own comment gets downvoted?! If there was at least a reason given... coward.
Entitlement.
See, everyone likes to complain about electron but when I did a market study asking “would you pay for a full-featured native Slack app that was lightweight and designed with functionality in mind” the answer I got was mainly “yeah but no.” As best as I can figure, it was mainly feeling they were entitled to it for free as it’s what Slack should have developed, so they were not about to pay to correct a mistake they’re “not responsible for” never mind that they’re the ones paying the price for it.

(I wrote a fully native iMessage client for Windows 10 [0] and enjoyed it enough to consider building a product around the code, minus the iMessage component.)

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/imessage-for-windows/
That’s the one I was referring to. That is, Fusion is a tradeoff that isn’t always a acceptable (and still it’s not completely web based).
ooh I'll have to check out ripcord!
At least in MINT fields, probably less so in the humanities. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The problem is that if the ID is not free, it could constitute a Poll Tax:

https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/37045

Which is against the constitution. It also disenfranchises voters who do not have a permanent address.
Service workers are an antipattern. I don't want to visit a website and have it install something that runs in the background.

If you, as a website owner, want me to run an application then you should ask for permissions. No ifs, no buts, no ors.
Good luck: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/04/oregon-insight-h...

> Laid-off workers are confused and confounded by the department’s faltering claims system, erroneous denials and stubborn silence on key policies and questions.

> The frustrations lead people to call the department again and again – some say they dial more than 700 times a day.

> The employment department is taking steps to address the call volume. It has added hundreds of staff to process claims in recent weeks – it has 520 now and has leased a facility in Wilsonville to expand claims staff to 800.

> With jobless claims up nearly seventeenfold, though, the staffing increases aren’t close to keeping up with demand. So it may be weeks – or months – before Oregon works through its backlog in claims questions.
Depends on the field, but it is very common in computer science and generally in natural sciences. Studying computer science, I don’t think I ever even wrote as much as a paper in German; everything’s English.
> Economies don't serve anything.

Oh really? Considering that an economy is a system of consumption and distribution of goods and services, how exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that consuming and distributing goods and services don't serve anything?

> The economy is the way we measure productivity.

Wrong. The economy is a system of exchange and consumption of resources. Productivity is a secondary attribute and a side-effect, and one that is secondary to the whole reason of having an economy.

> People really must stop thinking of it like some kind of mysterious beast from another dimension that we must tame into subservience

I would refrain from judging other people on their ignorance if you show so little understanding of the subjects you're discussing.
Why do they have to make this such a pain in the ass? They are trying so hard to restrict abusers that it makes it almost impossible to get treatment if you actually have ADHD. Do you know what people with ADHD do? Forget to make appointments because they got distracted. Essentially the system is set up to be hostile to ADHD sufferers to actually get help . I ended up having to pay concierge mental health to consistently be able to fill this script. The doctors would sometimes refuse to see me because of this diagnosis, and the pharmacies would lie to me that they were out of the medication and to come back on x date. If I do this they just repeat the same statement and choose a different random day. This was so much trouble that I spent years without treatment and it affected my life terribly. I did things like cause 10s of thousands of dollars in damages to apartments due to Inattention, almost getting myself fired, driving extremely poorly, almost failing out of school. This condition is preventing me from doing things I really want to do with my life because theres a wall of motivation I have to get over, even for things I enjoy.
Japan didn’t “half-ass” their response, they just took a different approach from South Korea (attacking clusters), rooted in their experience with combatting TB.

In addition, they have a highly pro-social society that took it upon itself to do things like engage in universal mask wearing and social distancing measures.

That being said, we’re still very early in the course of this disease, so it’s hard to know how the responses will measure up in terms of durability. Since many epidemiologists are predicting a dark course this coming winter, I suppose we will see, but my bet would be on South Korea, given that their response is more firmly rooted in their experience with SARS.

The US has neither the aggressive government response, cluster-based methods of Japan, nor an especially pro-social society. You can’t really compare “half-hearted” measures across countries absent this context, but if even if you wanted to, it’s quite clear that our “half-heartedness” is far more deadly.
Unicode is Kind of Insane (2015)
I will use a native desktop app over the other alternatives every time given the chance.
A big benefit of the `users->where(...)` approach is being able to reuse and compose. An example would be conditionally adding a WHERE clause based on some parameters. Using the raw query approach you end up having to do some string concatenation versus managing the state of the some query builder object.

I think that the "query builders" though are just one piece of the ORM that you mention, alongside the change-tracking, data mapping, etc. Having a decent query builder that isn't abstracting away too much of the underlying sql (essentially just mapping 1-to-1) plus data mapping are the sweet spot for me personally.
Branches also can't be vectorized, so going branch free can lead to a substantial speedup if you can use vector instructions (you might be doing twice the work, but your vector instruction may let you do it 4-16 times faster).
I'm not totally sure what you mean by "hedge the inventory risk." How would you accomplish that? You can reduce your position size but that's not hedging, it's just reducing your exposure in the first place. You could use options, but that 1) exposes you to other risks and 2) is prohibitively expensive given the cost to transact in that market is much higher.

The best way to keep risk low as a market maker is to keep inventory low, which means you need to get out of positions quickly, which means you need to have competitive prices to increase your chance of interacting with order flow.
How YC startups shorten sales cycles by 20% with Slack
"But the .ORG registry still needs a faithful steward, because the Internet Society has made clear it no longer wants that responsibility."

Stopping the sale doesn't prevent a "distasteful" actor from acquiring it eventually. Definitely need to get on the road to picking a capable successor or else this will be for nothing.
This isn't defensive. I'm simply stating that anonymous posting is different from named posting. That said, I will be adding a way to do anonymous posting and unlisted posting today. :-)

Thank you for your suggestions!
If everyone's online activity and browsing patterns were made public it would destroy the profitability of Facebook, Google, and other companies conducting web surveillance as a means to generate revenue.

It would also obviate the need to ask a question like this. We could just search through user histories and discover new things that way.
White collar crime is treated very differently from street crime or other kinds of lower class crime. I'd almost say it's not prosecuted at all. You have to be pretty flagrant or step on the wrong "third rail" to go to jail.

Make a few grams of meth? Go to jail. Launder billions in drug money at a major financial institution? Get a small fine and probably keep your job.

The current president of the United States is a borderline white collar criminal, though most of his past scams are of the "greasy" sort that are just barely on the right side of the law.

It's basically all about the social class of the criminal. The word "villain" comes from the same root as "villager" and means a person of lower social class.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/villain

A while back I found a fascinating crime map of white collar crime. It showed the inverse of what you see for street crime, with huge white collar crime hotspots in richer more upscale neighborhoods. In Compton (Los Angeles area) you are more likely to have your wallet stolen. It's safer to walk around in Santa Monica or Newport Beach, but the person you pass on the street is more likely to be stealing your pension.
Those are both pretty simple issues to address. Many Democracies around the world use some form of voter ID and we could easily just follow their implementations with some adjustments.
I used Google reader but went for feedly. But I missed some simple reader for the terminal since that's where I spend most of my time. So I built gorss to read rss/atom feeds. Ended up reading more news faster :) take it for a spin: https://github.com/lallassu/gorss
The primary reason you won't see me bothering to engage with comments such as this is that as soon as your single, de facto trusted top Google search result of their organization's own website is presented as the beginning and the end of your argument, I know that no matter what I present it is highly unlikely to do anything other than create some stupid long chain of discussion where any point I attempt to make is just "conspiracy theory" because you've already proven me wrong with incontrovertible proof.
The Great Migration from Counter Strike to Valorant
California passes similar cottage food laws but the counties have been mostly fighting it.

I had a friend try to do a startup to connect those who want to cook with those who wanted to buy but couldn't get much traction due to local city and county laws. After about a year he gave up on it.
IRC! :-)
The rental of farming fields goes back to time inmemorial.

In fact it is only a modern progress that has resulted in ownership actually working the fields they own.

This is where the feudal lords came in and what peasants actually were.

It is still pretty rare to find small farmland ownership in all of south america and asia. USA is the exception, not the rule.
Hardly anyone is going to read, let alone cite your work if you were to publish in German. I'm not even aware of any German-speaking conferences.
Oh no. You made a joke. Don't worry, you'll be punished.
Also, "promise first" seems to be premature to me. You could have simpler, more stateless async/await without promises: https://www.npmjs.com/package/casync
I agree, and I'm even fairly liberal. Showing proof of who you are, to be allowed to vote in the most fundamental process in a democracy is not a dumb idea. Why would you not want the most rudimentary election security?

The only reason that it's a ridiculous situation here is that (and you can debate whether widespread or not, or believed or not) some people use it as a means to make voting difficult for others. And we tolerate / compromise on the situation because we have no good (or widely believed) stats to document the frequency of the risks.

My question there is, why don't we simply make getting an ID easier for everyone and this will no longer be an issue. Take one year to have roaming DMV offices, voter ID, licensing stations, and take care of this stupid problem once and for all. No more arguments or patches to look the other way.

And I will say also, it's a fucking sad situation when the people you want to be voting can't get it together in their lives to get an ID renewed once every 5 years. You don't even have to go in person in most cases. If that's the issue, I don't think you would've gotten their vote even if they had ID.
Of course. But if we didn't have this evidence, the logic of the Fermi paradox would lead to conclusions that we just can't be the first ones because the probability for it is so impossibly low.
Meanwhile meth is ridiculously easy to get and can even be ordered on the dark web with little chance of getting caught.

The whole system is just shockingly stupid.
This is a big part of why I still use MacOS. The mail, notes and reminder apps are simple, easy, fast and can be used with third party providers like Fastmail. The Windows apps are fairly sluggish by comparison. I prefer most native MacOS apps in general, Finder/Explorer is a big exception though.
The checks have changed significantly since we last spoke! Right now there are ~30 conditionals as it relates to determining if an e-mail is legit, and I imagine this will increase and be tweaked over time!
True, but part of this higher cost would also be to handle all the "requirements" from the government from years of accumulated desires from the people (accountability, supporting minority owners, prioritizing US suppliers, hiring veterans and the disabled, reporting sexual harassment, etc.). In the end, it's all one big cycle with each part blaming another, when in reality this is roughly the best we can do with a system where everyone acts in their own self interests and agency.

In such a system, doing anything takes a lot of time and money. Look at extending subway lines in NYC. The unions, negotiations with property owners, environmental regulations, etc. also impose a major cost and roadblock. Not saying these are bad things to support, as we do want those things, but we should recognize that each of these requirements reduces efficiency (probably exponentially).
Hacker News, Reddit, and lobste.rs are my regular loop. Comments often send me to a deep dive somewhere. Yesterday it was rereading stuff from Yudkowsky: https://www.readthesequences.com/
Makes you wonder if the infamous OPM breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...) has been distributed beyond China.
It's subjective, naturally. I don't know if I'd be that enthusiastic, but I definitely like it a lot.

My main languages are Python and C++. I've also used Java, C#, Javascript but not Typescript, among others.

In my opinion Swift does a pretty good job at striking a balance between expressiveness/usability, safety and performance. If it gets more traction under Linux (including a larger ecosystem and better tooling around it) I'd definitely consider it for projects where Python could become a bottleneck but C++-level performance is not absolutely required.

On the other hand, other languages in a similar niche - Rust, Go, even D or Nim? are already more established outside of iOS/MacOS, so I don't know. My experience with Swift has definitely made me more interested in learning Rust, which seems quite similar in some respects.
I paid for Ripcord.

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
My impression was that the only reason for Ethos Capital to exist was to hide that fact that key ISOC decision makers were giving .org at a bargain price to themselves and their buddies while getting rid of the pesky non-profit status at the same time. It doesn't actually have people with the skillset to manage an investment fund and will likely be wound down after failing its mission.
Wow Nigerian Scammers have really kicked it up a notch since the “Prince of Nigeria” days
Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
Why would doctors and pharmacists refuse to serve you? What's their incentive?
except that the developer controls it, since its is embedded. As such it follows the exact same lifecycle as the code itself ( versionning, testing, etc).
Hmm, that's a good point.

Though, wouldn't an LVT that encourage companies to push all their employees to work from home, where possible? There are certainly benefits to that, but it might mean that certain industries get taxed much more heavily than others. Is it ok if distributed work-from-home software companies pay no tax at all, because they have no offices? The workers would pay tax on their own houses and apartments, but the company wouldn't.

I guess it depends on whether you want to consider taxes to be a tool for limiting rent on scarce resources, or for balancing out wealth disparities. (aside from the main goal of raising revenue, of course) The two things are related, but not identical. The first seems like more of a proxy for what we actually want to do, which is to prevent concentration of wealth. Or is it more about the fact that collecting rent isn't an economically productive activity, so if we incentivize everyone to gain wealth by producing value, it'll make us all wealthier?

To be fair, the hurdle that LVT has to pass is not to be perfect, but just to be better than what we have, which isn't a high bar. But it is worth thinking about the possible loopholes and edge cases.

Should we also assume that switching to a single tax wouldn't exclude things like cigarette taxes and carbon taxes? These taxes are designed intentionally with particular incentives, just like the LVT, and unlike property taxes and income taxes.
It would be a shame to take away the single best tool we have for fighting climate change, for example.

Anyway, no obligation to reply, a lot of these questions are just me thinking out loud.
I wonder about people who say things like "I average between $35-40 an hour" doing food-delivery gigs. How many hours per day is that level of work available?