skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main example I can think of is when I'm not home--sometimes it's nice to be able to use my laptop in a not-very-accommodating public space, like on the bus.

You're right, though. I try to avoid doing that whenever possible.
Well the success of the uncompromising tea party in taking over the Republican Party and leading the way to Trump seems pretty obvious.

I’m not sure how anyone who follows Democrats wouldn’t see the constant compromises unless they’re center or center right. Pelosi has control of the House but refuses to pass extremely popular ideas like pay check guarantees or cash per month for everyone, or rent cancellation etc.

It could setup a showdown in the senate where republicans have to vote down very popular ideas, but she refuses.

That’s just a recent example, it happens continuously...
i'd be remiss not to mention the author (Ainissa Ramirez's) wonderful book, "The Alchemy of Us," (https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Us-Humans-Transformed-Another...) which explores how materials — and the innovations they made possible — shaped the human experience. She's a materials scientist and, as you'll see if you read the polywater piece, a terrific science writer.

Full disclosure: i work for the MIT Press. but i'll also disclose this: books and authors like Ainissa are rare; i'm not a publicist or a sales person. This is just one of my favorite books that we've published in recent years. Oh, and if you want more stories like the polywater one, check out this segment with her on Science Friday ("How An Undertaker Helped Develop Computers, And Other Untold Stories"): https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/alchemy-of-us-book/.
Maybe its not possible to regulate such a high current at gigahertz speeds off chip? The board traces and pins might have inductance high enough to negate smoothing capacitors at these speeds?
I remember some really good public sites, but the quality cycled up and down and the Pokemon devs fought back a bit. I used some tool that basically was what OP described, but let me easily self-host a server. At the time I think there was some hack where the server component could fake location, so you'd just send it off to walk a geofenced area and could browse on mobile remotely while playing the game. Ran it off my laptop, then a DO droplet. Good times.
Sometimes your hair or hat can look like a tasty meal. Sometimes it's territorial, if you're getting too close to a nest or whatever. Usually it's one of those two.
yeah, sounds silly
e-ink monitors?
Totally agree with you but in the context of the comment I replied to the guy made it seem as if it's like why take this government pittance when I can just wave a magic wand and get a job and get a job at <insert your favorite top tier tech company>

I was merely pointing out that it is muuuuuch more difficult than that comment made it seem.
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> I'll be downvoted for saying this.

Because it's against the site guidelines.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google only gives you good service if they respect you as engineers. We'd say stupid stuff and get the cold-shoulder, and then later would find some cool bug with encrypted VPNs dropping packets (with no monitoring in GCP, only our tcpdump from various places) and got some very skilled network engineers looking at the data and making code changes. They still muted us for long periods of time while talking amongst themselves, but did deliver.
GoPro releases a flashlight for some reason
I should have clarified; they were moving mostly to Kotlin and Java.

I don't have a problem with the JVM; virtually all my personal projects nowadays are in Clojure, and I actually gave a talk at Conj last year....so yeah, I'm a fan :).
> This would be accessible anywhere on any computer hooked up to the internet,

If you has access to internet you could also download & install native app. Also native app once installed could be used without internet access.
The argument from surgeon is so bad that it's borderline eristic. Surgeon has a very clearly defined objective while politics is the total opposite.

Politics is about deciding what to optimize for - "what should be" which just cannot be "meritocratically" derived from "what is". If somebody claims they have some special "merit" that makes them fit for this kind of decisions, you should ask them to walk on water or something.
At the initial presentation, Ryan mentioned that a move from Go to Rust was a possibility due to a few things, and they were related to the languages themselves, not to Mozilla vs Google or something.

(And, IMHO, saying that Rust is a Mozilla thing is just plain incorrect.)
The term "meritocracy", like the term "capitalism", was originally coined strictly as a means of criticizing the concept, yet the people doing the criticism don't really say that meritocracy is necessarily bad, just that they don't think we really have one. I have yet to see any suggestions on what to replace the current system with, though. Usually when somebody criticized meritocracy, they suggest stratifying everybody into a few broad categories: race, gender, sexual orientation, and then it seems to be implied that the meritocracy competition occurs within those categories.
If the names of dependencies are the only unportable thing, we have indeed come a long way.
Seems like more big company crowding into niches innovated on by smaller players because they can't come up with innovation of their own. We need new antitrust laws to prevent the degree of capital and labor accumulation that hinder innovation and sustained healthy competition.
Do you mean a systematic category error, that people are "ranked" or promoted according to criteria that is irrelevant to the purpose of the ranking (e.g. armwrestling is not politics)?
Someone in the comments also mentioned array initializers, arguably a better use of the feature.
I laughed at "1900's" — technically, you could have gone with "1000's" just as well :)
> Because Scala has so many features that anything has at least 3 different ways to implement it.

Thankfully that problem doesn't exist with C# /s
My money's on the latter. A familiar example for me is the "Certified Scrum Master" racket. The only actual requirement for those was the ability to keep breathing throughout a short course. But they undeniably had an economic benefit for the holders, in that it made them more hireable by companies that needed some sort of blessing for their top-town control apparatus.
Check out the Elixir "protocol" feature, it's similar to interfaces: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/protocols.html
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It was probably a harpy. Those things have no chill.
What is the winforms simple (ie, drag and drop form designer, click through for code) current windows development recommendation. I've seriously lost all track of how to just get up and going. I've tried UWP/WPF etc - they felt like a bit of nightmare for quick and go, but the tooling now seems to have dropped winforms? I couldn't get the form designer to actually show up even on a WinForms project?
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The psychological effects may be more damaging than the virus.

"Why come you don't have a tatoo?" asked Gov Inslee.
'Upside-Down Cosmic Ray Shower' May Be Evidence of a Parallel Universe
> Has JavaScript changed for the worse?

Clarification - I don't think JS has changed for the worse, but I do not think it is clear that all the changes have been for the better, both for the language and the ecosystem.

I see it as a double edged sword.

Take the example of handling asynchronous operations - async/await is good solution for that. But now you will be working in code bases with callbacks, promises, async/await, and possibly even generators - with generators being an example of an area that was not a clear improvement in the right direction, but an experiment now obsolete because of async/await.

I'm a fan of improvement, but nowadays I try not to pick up the latest trend for concern that it might be obsolete in the near future. You demonstrate this - you picked something you like (ember) and just stuck with it. Ember solves problems, it works, no reason to refactor your ember projects to react.
Microsoft warns of 'massive' phishing attack pushing legit RAT
Owls are extremely territorial, even small owls like tawnys have been recorded attacking/bombing humans when coming too close to a nest site.
qmail last had an official release in the late 90's.
everything else is third-party forks / patches. Back in the day, I upgraded many systems from sendmail to qmail. However, that was a very long time ago... It's been over 15 years since I've done something like that.

Nowadays, the author should be telling people to install postfix.
Think of it as a Maslow's hierarchy of needs-like thing. You take care of the lower tiers before worrying about the upper ones.

The lower tier is that things work. Food gets grown, things get built, medicine gets done - and it's all done well.

The upper tier is 'justice'.

Meritocracy (and related concepts like capitalism) simply isn't about pursuing justice or equality or any of these higher-tier concepts. It's just a way to satisfy those lower-tier requirements - the only way that really works. To criticize it on the basis of justice is simply the wrong level of analysis.

Meritocracy is a foundation that satisfies the lower tiers. Once that is handled, and upon that basis, you then worry about how to pursue the upper tiers using the resources that meritocracy has provided. But that doesn't mean you jump off your foundation to do it, down into the pits of scarcity and hunger - that would make no sense at all.

And this is how all functional societies work - a meritocratic/capitalist engine of production, paired with other social structures (redistribution, military) to handle other social needs. Right tool for the job.
> Thus it is clear that a stable of white horses is not a stable of horses.

You're not making sense any more.
Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheets for?
With yesterday's announcement of Microsoft Lists, I was curious to learn more about how people use spreadsheets today. Are we using them for complex calculations, or simply to store lists/tables of data?

Most of my recent sheets were simply lists. Here are the last five I've opened:
1. Lead prospecting (accounting firms)
2. Lead prospecting (B2B SaaS companies)
3. Cap table
4. Health insurance plans
5. VSCO April 2020 Layoffs Candidate List

If you're curious, you can get your list at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/.
I've seen this pushed before. Unfortunately, the more you focus on advertising the less you focus on technical knowledge.

Let the two be separate, because the world has enough 'leaders'/'advertisers'. What it needs now is technical knowledge.
"Meritocracy" always works backwards in practice - the "crats" are anointed as being the ones with "merit". Credentialism is just the most obvious expression of this - e.g., you get a Harvard degree mostly by being in the social class that goes to Harvard - but it happens at every level in every way, and nearly everything which purports to assess merit in fact launders social class.

This hits me, personally, hard, because my tribe is the thoughtful, the curious, the problem-solvers, &c., and so many such people take the stated aims of the prestige launderers at face value, only to be disappointed when being smart and dedicated means nothing in reality. To plagiarize a bit, I see the best minds of my generation destroyed by what amounts to a lack of class consciousness combined with the unforgivable sin of hoping that something in the world is fair.
I think there's a second substitution, hinted at in your last paragraph where the agreement that the best surgeon should do the surgeries moves to the best people should be wealthy and run society and then to "the people who already have wealth and power right now, are better than everyone else".

They sometimes try to justify that by saying that the children of the rich who've been groomed from birth are better qualified than the children of the poor, but rarely would they venture into suggesting everyone should have an equal investment in their education before merit is decided.
I was just about to say, protocols fill the interface slot pretty well
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> Going back to our integer being a subtype of real number example, the "<" operator will work perfectly fine whether any of the operands are either an integer or a real number.

If we're talking about theoretical "real numbers", then in constructive mathematics I believe "<" isn't decidable on reals. Whether that matters for the point you're trying to make, I have no idea.

If we're talking about floats, we have a concrete example of weird behavior of "<" leading to programming error: in Haskell, you can make a Set of any type that supports "<" (by virtue of being an instance of Ord - things that can be ordered). However, following ieee754, NaN is not equal to NaN. Which means that you can wind up accumulating arbitrarily many copies of NaN in your Set. (You don't usually want to be comparing floats for equality anyway, but it's still not good behavior.)
> Do homeless people come to San Francisco because services are not available in cheaper CoL elsewhere?

It was ~20 years ago now, and I can't speak for every homeless person obviously, but no, SF has (had?) a rep as being a bit tougher and more dangerous than other West Coast cities. There's a "hub" of sorts around Haight St. for travelers but most SF city homeless folks are not involved w/ the hippies and travelers.

> I don’t think public spaces should be used to house homeless people in tents. Public spaces and commons belong to everyone.

I absolutely agree. Let me clarify that I don't think this move is an absolute good, just that it's much better than rousting people and taking their stuff.

Ideally, we would construct ~0.5 million houses and apartments and everyone can just live inside if they want to, eh? (The last thing I read said the national housing shortfall in the USA is around 400,000 units!)
And so do his supporters. It makes an extremely effective political combination: all the enthusiasm of winning without actually doing anything. And it works as long as you can have goodwill and assets to burn.
The older I get the grumpier runtime errors make me.

I want ReasonML (language!) and Erlang (OTP!) to have a baby, and I want it birthed by the Go runtime. (Go? Yeah, Go. I don't love the language, but I am a lover of low latency and garbage collection, what can I say?) Yes, there's Gleam, but if something's based on BEAM, the throughput generally won't impress. :-( Would seem a shame to do all that static typing, and then not reap the speed benefits.

Relatedly, I think there's a sweet spot for a language that accepts mutability inside of actors, but only allows immutable objects to be sent as messages, with an escape hatch available if needed. (Pony explored this space, would love to see it evolve.) Combine that with OTP for happy-path programming, and an ML so you catch most of your errors at compile time, and you could end up with great throughput, low latency and great ergonomics, all at the same time.
I subscribe to the NYT - and I don’t like the fact there’s ads behind the paywall either - but at least they’re static ads for boring things like ING Bank. Comparing that to my local TV news’ website with Adblock disabled is night-and-day: auto-playing video ads embedded in content, clickbait “one weird trick”-ads, and no end of Share buttons either.
NSO Group Pitched Phone Hacking Tech 'Phantom' to American Police
'NSO Group, the surveillance vendor best known for selling hacking technology to authoritarian governments, including Saudi Arabia, also tried to sell its products to local U.S. police, according to documents obtained by Motherboard.'

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6888574-Westbridge-N...
Look closely at FDRs policies and their effects they were a disaster.

Here's a good book on it:
https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depressio...
New 19% of U.S. Adults Have Tried VR
I see the opposite. I've talked to a lot of developers who have move to Firefox out of concern for things Google has been doing with Chrome recently. Though, developers are a minority for sure. Most people don't follow tech news closely enough to understand why they should be concerned.
All your points except the last one do not apply to Kotlin
Funny thing, I'm working on a game right now, using react and pixi.js and I implemented something very similar to what you're describing here! It's been fun so far
Is there a better link to the product and its features instead of a tutorial?
> windows-centric

.NET 5 is going to change this completely. .NET Core has already changed.
There is a third variant which should also be considered: Immutable. It offers exactly the same interfaces as ReadOnly but with the additional guarantee that not only can you not mutate the object through that reference, no one else can either. Enumerating an Immutable collection or getting the item at a particular index multiple times is certain to always give you the same result, which allows simpler code and (with compiler support) better optimization.

This would be superfluous in Rust since the borrow checker ensures that no one else can mutate data that you have a reference to, but most other languages with mutation would benefit. However, the only mutable-by-default language I am aware of which directly distinguishes between read-only ("const") references and immutable data is D.
You could do the same with VMware for 10 years.

I wonder what WSL2 brings to the table apart from maybe performance optimization and a little more integration to Windows than a third party app.

Does it have any feature that VMware doesn't have?
I see you weren't meaning to focus on welfare state by your edit. The US is different than revolutionary times in many ways, perhaps more significantly in women's rights, slavery, prisons, illegality of many actions.

I think the whole idea of the US being the world's most powerful country and acting outside our borders would have been something the founders would have struggled with, because they fought a war to get away from the world's most powerful country.
There is also this clon— er, “spiritual successor”, which got some pretty good reviews: https://www.twopointhospital.com
Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)
But note that a simple

<img src="http://127.0.0.1:8080">

should do so as well, ie this is just the newest iteration of an old problem that the major browser vendors never chose to properly address - with the exception of Opera, see eg this stackoverflow question [1] and corresponding answer from 2011.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5464599
They are poor for a reason
Mostly because nobody (statistically) spends too much time reading books. And because books have (on average) more substantial content than social websites and other such uses of time, so that's a better tradeoff.

That said, some people can (and do, more so in the past) over-read, to the detriment of their social life or even to their health...
> can you imagine the uproar had he praised Russia for their efforts at Auschwitz?

From his supporters? Bearing in mind that he has a well established history of openly admiring Putin? I don't see why that would be a problem at all.
Is there anything to indicate that excessive screen usage can cause blindness? Especially since LCD aren't that bad concerning eye strain.
if 90% of tech talent stays at FAANG, collects their pay check which puts them in the top 3% of income earners, and never leaves the Walled Garden Golden Handcuffs of FAANG, that shows the strategy works to suppress potential competitors. not to mention while you are employed at FAANG, you are forbidden from contributing to open source projects and the Company automatically owns any side projects you may create.

when i look at the 500,000 Galaxy Brain coders working at GoogaAppaFaceSoftZon, i hear a giant sucking sound from the open source ecosystem.

if only 10% of tech talent leave before 5 years, that is still a lot fewer Ronin wandering out there who might eventually threaten the Shogun.
> Modern browsers are pretty secure nowadays.

Just few examples of "pretty secure modern browsers nowadays".[0,1]

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=1&q=lab...

[1] https://techdows.com/2020/05/mozilla-halts-firefox-76-rollou...
That is so awesome!
Great decision of EA for one of my 'all time' favorite game!
The oxidation of the terminal (Rust CLI replacements)
Protocols + the Typeclass library [0] makes for some of the most extensible Elixir code I've worked with.

[0] https://github.com/witchcrafters/type_class
I certainly accept that every other first-world country claims to have these to one degree or another, and that for most of my lifetime, considered exceptions to these practices to be aberrations.

To the degree that we are talking about aspirations, I accept your suggestion.
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I like it.

Can you open a text editor and get going with C#? Now you easily can. iPython and python notebooks gained lots of traction from just this type of simplicity.

If you were to write a "script" using the language, doing some things just top level is simple. Very pragmatic. I ALSO like that it's an error to call to any top level functions outside of this, so it keeps this from exploding complexity everywhere.
Dont say this out loud. I said this in 2011, I was mocked and treated as a kid. I just showed equivalent products in mainframe and respective offhost products. Only difference offhost had many options on softwares, mainframes only few vendors(CA/BMC or IBM).

By the way how many of you planning on moving from Nodejs to Deno.

In mainframe there is a language Rexx, no change for last 10yrs.
“Polywater turned out to be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

That is an amazing punchline.

The article is like the longest buildup for a joke I have ever read.
Emperical evidence says no. They just extinguished Wunderlist.
I feel the policy behind plea bargains is sound. Some of the problems the Japan criminal justice has is because plea bargains are not generally allowed except for recent limited reforms that in some ways make things worse.

Many US-style plea bargains are reasonable and do not require defendants to lie because they are pleading guilty to lesser included crimes rather than lying about what they did.

The problem is when plea bargaining is used as a weapon that encourages false confessions or false guilty pleas. Or, more generally, when the choice to plead guilty or go to trial is unbalanced such that defendants will not even try to force the government to prove their case. This is bad for justice.

The Feds are big into this. They wield/abuse 18 U.S. Code § 1001 (making false statements a felony) with abandon. A defendant can be faced with $100,000s in legal fees with the potential of decades in federal prison or they can plead guilty to one count of 18 USC 1001, it happens everyday (probably several times a day).
Politics is also about deciding how to optimize for it. I don't know if it's a good idea that those are the same job.
No, we've. If you're a professional JS developer in 2020 coding everything in vanilla JS with no framework or tooling, you are in the minority.
The page could never read the contents of the image, right?

If the user has a web-socket-server running (for example because he is a developer) could the page read from it?

Can a page read from any web socket server on the internet?
Agreed. Well-reasoned stubborn opinions that are fleshed out through critical thinking are examples of good opinions.

The stubborn opinions from fads, not so much. Those opinions try to signal - 'I am the smartest because I know the latest and greatest.'
May I ask why do you think kotlin is best designed?