skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had problems with being marked as spam when sending from my own servers, which is why i was using a 3rd party in the first place.
The problem is many popular languages place a heavy emphasis on object oriented programming. Primarily functional or procedural programming, with the ability to fallback to OOP when necessary, seems to better align with the software design sensibilities you lay out here.

You can of course write FP-like code in Java, or OOP-like code in Clojure (or Golang), but I find I get more done when working in ecosystems I swim with rather than against.

I think OOP is great. In certain circumstances. Usually rare ones. I don't think the number of problems it does a good enough job solving warrants designing a whole language around, because the language will be less than optimal at solving most other problems.
First, start by making a giant empty class heirarchy in java. Once you have created a dozen classes that inherit from each other, but not yet made any variables or functions, send it right over, your work is done my man.
Even if Google fixes that loophole, I think the larger point remains, that if they're exempting iframed content from their calculations, we're going to see a lot of SMB site builders sticking stuff unnecessarily in iframes just to claim a good "score".

Long-term, there's no rationale for excluding iframes. If it's visible on page, it should count.
Lost track of time, but point is he didn't create the crisis at hand. He's been at the helm a short period of time.
This website about internet privacy includes a tracker from Twitter...
I run an offshore dev shop (web/mobile) with over 15 developers based out of my Ukraine office.

I don't think the base country will make too much difference. The biggest issues I had (that would not have occurred in the US) were with cultural barriers.

No matter the country, language can mostly be addressed with the right process and managers, but the attention and service that US customers expect is not something culturally that exists in many other places.

Getting that right, so that my team leads and PMs meet customer expectations was the hard part. I think that is where many offshore projects fail.

If your team is committed to delivering quality, and you, as the end client know how to communicate your needs and check the deliverables, things usually progress very well.

If your offshore team doesn't understand or care about this (many just don't get it, because customer service is NOT a thing in most countries outside of North America and Western Europe) then you will have frustration no matter where you go.

My clients are about 75% US based and I would be happy to talk with you directly if you have more questions or want to discuss a project. Reach out to me here: ethan [at] abovebits [dotcom]
People can select multiple cron vendors for critical flows, this helps make sure we could notice when one vendor doesn’t silently goes down.
I use Innoreader for feeds and a lot of email newsletters. If you don't like things in multiple places, Innoreader can also generate feeds from websites (with mixed results depending on the structure of the website) and can give you temporary emails that you can subscribe to newsletters in so that they'll show up in the same interface.
the "jumped out of a window" part seems suspect. It's a common anti-LSD propaganda trope but as far as I know it happened only once provably. It's so strange that your best friend would have been the second case of that.

IMHO psychedelics get a bad rap because they are used by people that haven't done even the bare minimum reading and preparation to have an optimal experience. It's not difficult to do, and once you are in the right place, with the right environment and mindset, it's very easy to use the altered mental state to do productive work on your own psyche.

A hammer is a useful tool as long as you don't hit yourself in the forehead with it.
well yes, however good management works to check up on that. it is foolish to assume everything is smooth because it is smooth, you want to know why things are going well just like you want to know why they are not.

at a high level this is really hard to know. but it is important to know who your talent is, otherwise you replace the talent. many in upper management assume engineering is like factory work, which is how you end up with the most terrible software and no path to fix it :(
and Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union.
Various discord servers, mostly nowadays, or skipping through YouTube watching various content from horror stuff to technical stuff.
EC2 Origins (2009)
What awaits tourists when they re-emerge from lockdown?
The difference is, accountants aren't telling the software engineers that they don't know how computer science works.
> I am totally terrified of being in an accident or having a serious disease and then getting wiped out financially

For majority of people through history, a serious accident or disease would wipe them out biologically, not just financially. Were they totally terrified throught their lives because of it? I don't think so. It's all a matter of perspective.

I personally try to accept that my life will end, the ending will likely be agonizing and nasty, and it can happen at any moment. I don't know a lot about meditation, but I think some strains of meditation schools tend to focus a lot on this fact, with daily contemplation of decaying bodies etc. It's an ancient tradition which may actually contain a lot of wisdom.
Because sometimes you don't need a class, or don't need the full-blown machinery that an object system entails.
America rethinks its strategy in the Wild West of cyberspace
Linux Sucks 2020
Aestheticly, the main font (logo / h1) looks squished, like an image that has been shortened without resampling or cropping

I also do not think this qualifies as a search engine, it's a simple 3 question form
My NASA JPL Reading List
Yes, it is ostensibly a tool from the 70's but it is also the most complete, correct, and featureful typesetting engine that exists.

TeX's downfall is the macro system. It makes it too easy for people to pile on poorly written abstractions that make working with any given document a nightmare because it has its own DSL. But because those packages and macros grew organically by researchers solving problems for themselves they are too practically useful to just drop them. So there are lots of annoying unintuitive quirks that you end up just having to put up with.
Being able to add small text between margins would enable the ability for an app/extension to let person A markup an article with their thoughts and emphasis, and share it with person B. That's something I'd personally use.
gosh, this is so long, sorry!
Virtual Economy
Crossplane submitted to the CNCF, Microsoft and Alibaba join community
It’s like they copied and pasted two unrelated things together. Bizarre
I am a huge AWS user. However, as a VSCode fan and generally happy GitHub user, I also regularly consider playing with Azure integrations just to see how seamless they have made the experience.
Reminds me of the GM EV1.
Not until there's a native, non-cloud IDE solution.
> how exactly do you expect DDG to know what you want from this

The obvious heuristic is “does this search term frequently appear on local result sites?” For example, “brick suppliers” is a search term associated with websites that have a business address, whereas “python string length” mostly isn’t. The search engine already has to scan your search to know what to send you from the index; it doesn’t require anything more than that to be able to guess at the intent of specific searches.
block buildings that they have. Rows and rows of massive constructions that look alike

I've seen a lot of that in South Korea, and the Czech Republic, too. I wonder what other countries have this.
We suffer so many bad abstractions at the church of DRY.
Luckily Knuth himself has this on his radar as this "earthshaking anouncment" by him shows: https://youtu.be/eKaI78K_rgA
(Won't spoil it by giving more details)
oh absolutely. I am willing to pay.

I will add right here that I am interested in using python (django or fastapi). I know the basics about python, but really limited in html, css and javascript.
Yeah, so how one approaches those search engine companies for such deals?
Please, specify license of your code, e.g. GPL3.
Those things are tanks and I really enjoyed the low center of gravity making an easy ride.
Upbound seems to still steering the project for the coming years. In fact, I can even say that it's not really open source so long its direction is set by a commercial entity. It's just that the code is open.

I know that it's important that Upbound makes some money so that it can keep maintaining Crossplane (see poor Docker) but it's just we should be careful about what we call things so that the words don't get meaningless..
I wonder if iOS is ever going to catch up, I'm still waiting for them to implement getFloatTimeDomainData(). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AnalyserNod...
In the UK, Jump bikes were a far superior option over Lime. My experience with both was that Lime bike maintenance was very poor; with two-thirds of all rides requiring a refund due to the bike not functioning or having physical damage.

Getting support and refunds from Lime was exceptionally painful. Uber also supported bike drop off in the East, where as Lime would silently fine you.
And there is one unspoken piece. Real decisions happen in person, and then may be just repeated via email for CYA purposes. Remote communication may be solved, but the reality of making hard decisions was not.
Not exactly the motto of USSR :)
Google Introduces Bleurt – A Bert-Based NLG Evaluation Metric
I could see it being used for screenshots of text to draw attention to certain points. Tweets, facebook posts, etc.
> I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns.

Same here, and often the difference has been down to randomness, but lately - as I mentioned - I have had not just one but two times that Google actually behaved like Google from < 2009.
New ceramic with highest melting point of any known substance synthesized
Chain of custody forms have existed for centuries.
Rails Engines – Independent Heroes
most important thing for folks to do right now is call their reps and tell them to oppose Pelosi attempt to ram this thru using conference committee 202-930-8115
Gitlab has always had many of those same features- and more- for free- and they aren't as large as Github alone was.
How is twitter labeling his lies as 'misleading' with evidence "galloping" towards china?

I think they have an obligation to annotate extremely popular and dangerous comments, but they do not have an obligation to fact check everyone.
Why not sell them at a discount?
This is 100% spot on. Organizations build up value over the long-haul by learning things and then building on top of those things, learning some more, building on that, and so on.

Look what happened to G.E. They outsourced everything they possibly could and had a decade or two of unparalleled profitability. But, over time the well of ideas and competencies for products and services dried up and they went from being a powerhouse to a cautionary tale.

Don't export knowledge or know-how to save a few bucks. It always comes back to bite you.
Next we know Reader is back ;-)
If they stop maintaining Firefox, is there an org that could fork it and continue supporting it?
Quickcheck, clojure.spec and similar efforts are getting damn close to it, and using clojure.spec raised my confidence in my code a lot, more than unit testing ever did. Since generative/property based testing is gaining more ground, we'll get better tools as well.

Not to say there is not still a place for manually written unit tests.
you need to face your problems head-on, yoga will not help with that
They should list the name of the group, Fight for the Future directly.

For whatever it’s worth, Fight for the Future does a great job on tech policy (arguably up there with EFF) and it’s worth being subscribed to their emails.

My understanding from recent conversations I’ve had with people involved in civil rights advocacy groups is that FFTF was instrumental in making it politically necessary for the House to back away from the PATRIOT Act / FISA renewal. A lot of people are surprised at how well they played this.
If you cram a lot of formulas, images and graphs into a world document, you'll have an instable slug to work with.

Also, rendering a beautiful word document is quite chalenge.

Rendered latex document looks stunningly clean and professional out of the box.

They also are plain text, which mean they can be diffed, used with git indexed easily, etc. They play well with anything, being text.

You can even read them without having to render them.

And finally, latex check the structure of your doc. If you change it, it will crash, preventing you from commiting dead references.
I've been sad about this sale for a few weeks -- was a pretty heavy Jump bike user in DC and they've just been sitting on the streets disabled -- vanished from the apps overnight. They were/are well built machines and I hope Lime or someone reactivates them. They also feel much more practical and safe than the cheap bird/etc scooters(having eaten shit on a bird before going over a curb) -- bigger tires for bump tolerance, more stable position, etc.

We have another dockless ebike entrant in town called Helbiz and they're pretty nice, plus have an unlimited subscription option -- hoping they get traction and stick around - I have already noticed some of the bikes being seemingly vandalized on purpose(pedals ripped off and strapped in the basket) which is sad.

It feels that the timing could be right with very limited Metro and Bus service(and widespread virus related public transit anxiety).

edit: I could also see this business model as being self cannibalizing -- I'd never ridden an ebike pre JUMP and now would consider buying one myself for 1-2k. How many people who really enjoy the JUMP experience would similarly leave the platform for a nicer model, long run cheaper experience. Introduces other tradeoffs like security, having to take the bike home(so you can't really ride it out if you're going to be drinking), etc.
Scientific fact-checking using AI language models: Covid-19 research and beyond
It's been my experience that a good chunk of the researchers on HackerOne are exactly what this point would lead you predict. I recall working with some in Morocco, Pakistan, and Romania.

This was admittedly a few years ago. No idea if that's still accurate.
Books to learn about designing systems of scale
I completely agree with you. I'm constantly trying to figure out why CPU usage is high and fans are spinning on my brand-new 16" MacBook Pro. Whether it be Chrome, Zoom, or even Apple's own processes and daemons, my machine is getting cooked all the time.

Even the simple act of connecting to an external display (2560×1440, mind you) gets my machine an extra 20° warmer. These could be platform-specific issues (i.e. Apple hasn't done a good job with thermal management, GPU drivers, or both), but something has gone awry.

After fast internal SSDs became mainstream around 2015, that was the last major boost I've seen to the overall computing experience. For example, open/save dialog boxes loaded much faster, and other common actions were a lot zippier. Apart from that, there's been no perceptible improvement whatsoever in terms of "daily computing". My CPU and RAM resources have increased dramatically as I've upgraded laptops over the years, but I can hear my fans more often than before doing the same exact workflows.

I'm just as shocked as you and want answers.
As much as I would love a cheap e-bike to tinker with and restore (even if it's old), I can't say I'm surprised these are being recycled.

On one hand, how would it benefit their/Lime's business to have loads of people owning electric scooters and bikes? On the other hand, there really are logistical and liability issues involved with distributing old gear in varying states of repair.

It's a shame they don't do something like gov/edu institutions and auction off the stuff as-is. At least then someone could theoretically buy it up to do something with it.
Brave builds privacy-focused video chat right into its browser
Yes. And, yes, there are better end user tools, for many use cases, for creating documents to be typeset than coding them directly in TeX, but (starting with LaTeX and moving up to many more modern solutions) a lot of them are built on top of TeX (and some even on LaTeX) rather than replacing it.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I wrote some documentation in html and wanted to export it as pdf. The main blocker: an index with page numbers. css has them, but support for them is mostly non existant.
The suggestions here are fairly good. One complaint, though: embedding tweets lets you select their text; taking a screenshot does not. Consider perhaps using some styled text instead. Also, I think your example of using share links might be more actionable if they actually worked instead of just being a static image ;)
It's a bad example. You can of course do more with lambdas in python. Maybe "lambda real_user: real_user.get_balance()+1" or "lambda some_junk, real_user: real_user.get_balance()" would have been better.
This sort of stuff is going to fall on deaf ears. So long as there's tons of money to be made, things won't change. Many of the elected officials are also shareholders in these tech companies, and they (like everyone else) want their stocks to go up so they can have a juicy deluxe retirement.

IMO the only way to level the playing field is for everyone to go to war with these companies by installing adblockers, pi-hole, and whatever else. Don't use websites that don't respect privacy.

I don't think the government is going to save us, not unless something changes drastically. Taxing or regulating ad companies would be a good start, but it probably won't happen because tech makes up such a significant portion of the S&P500 these days.
It sounds kind hokey to say it, but "what gets you into developing software is... developing software".

Pretty much exactly like what gets you into cooking, making music, gardening, building stuff around the house. You get in there, start doing it, fall flat the few few times of course... then start getting "less bad"...

... until one day, to your utter astonishment, people you never thought you could consider as equals start telling you you're actually pretty good. More specifically clients show their appreciation for your work (with money), and managers start letting you know how happy they are that they've finally found someone who gives a damn and has some idea as to how to actually do things right.

There are some crucial differences between software development and the personal / creative pursuits I mentioned, of course. One is that yes, the engineering (and math) aspects of software development do matter (a lot) and you cannot just learn these through sheer grit - you have to hit the books. Another (completely orthogonal) is that matter of finding clients (or someone to hire you) - for which working on personal / pro-bono projects (as others have mentioned here).

But the point I'm trying to make is -- aside from strategy, tactics (and a non-trivial amount of time with your nose buried in the books) -- what ultimately gets you "over the hump" is just getting in there and doing it.

aka JFDI.
I believe they meant functionally foreign, not culturally foreign.
LaTeX is great, but it's obsolete (bad Unicode support), and is output to a problematic format (pdf).
ZIRP in action. Gotta keep everyone working full time, for uh, some reason. At least these ones didn't end up in gulleys and ponds.
It is inviting to believe this. It helps me feel as though I'm too good to be outsourced.

...but it's really just a comfortable lie we tell ourselves.
https://twitter.com/sanjaydastoor/status/1265667301526827009
You know what really fixes oppression? Asking politely for them to stop. /s

Sorry if I'm being a pessimist, but these changes require force. We need to start talking about what we can do to force change, not just ask for it.

It doesn't have to be grossly violent or anything, but I'm tired of leaving things up to the discernment of those who obviously lack it.
GitBook.com I care about making content rather than styling.
Eh, was your mom on the Internet all day 10-15 years ago?

My mom wasn’t, but now she is on the Internet 24/7. There’s a lot more people on the web to make the apocalypse happen.
The thread, as I understand it, goes something like:

1. The company should buy you this.

2. They may not.

3. If they didn't, that would be a concern.

4. Why?

5. Argument that the company should buy extra software.

Point 5 is off topic. There might be a good job that wouldn't buy you extra software and that wouldn't really be a concern.

It's like if someone said "Your job is bad if they don't offer free lunch". I might say "My job doesn't offer it, but it's not a concern because I like my job for other reasons" and your reply would be advocating for the benefits of free lunch. Free lunch might be great, but the topic is whether it's a concern that the company doesn't offer it, not whether it's great or not.
There'd be significant costs to make sure all the bikes are safe and in good working order, and it sounds like they decided those costs exceeded what they'd get from selling them.
I'm kind of disappointed I have never seen these in any movies before. I'm thinking they would have specifically gone well with the recent Man In High Castle series.
NATO Selects BlackBerry’s Encrypted Voice Technology to Secure Its Calls (2019)
Perhaps they did it to antagonize him. CNN is probably Trump's least favorite news outlet.

Besides, all news outlets post a bunch of BS under the cover of "analysis", "opinion", and "op-ed" pieces. Those are all carefully crafted to engage a target audience. NYT does it. WAPO does it. CNN. They are all running outrage factories just producing slightly different flavors..
These are the exact tools I am constantly looking for. Full browser sandbox for no stress "install", local-first, offline-first, so you own your own data - then option for locally encrypted cloud backups. I am almost 100% web now, I use very few installed programs and am constantly trying to get that to zero. One day someone is going to collect all these best-in-class web tools and make a proper chromebook where the user owns their own data.
Good idea. I had thought of adding text to annotations but didn’t want to complicate the first draft of this.
Bad example, cutting edge semiconductors are not like anything else. Even drug research.
#uberwasteful
Is the next release still planned to be called Python 4? I seem to recall GvR saying that at one point, though I could be mistaken.
Really hoping you add in spectrum editing, too, because waveforms are fine, but the power of RX and tools like it is that you can view the FFT spectrum and cull parts that are entirely useless (cutting out hums, >12k painful harmonics, etc =)
Protecting Chrome users from abusive notifications
Gene editing worries me. A genetic makeup is tuned to an equilibrium in the environment. Just because we can change an organism to better suit human needs, we cannot predict how that mutation will affect the equilibrium. Though genetics says unfit mutations will fail, the directed change of specific metabolic pathways is not like this. The organism is moved from one equilibrium state to another. Rather than the changed organism failing, it may survive and cause failure of other organisms connected to it. Genetic rearrangement is a spontaneous process related to mitosis, meiosis as well as dna repair and gene expression. A specific hazard for example is the accidental reactivation of proviruses or oncogenes or other more subtle change. The equilibrium state of the genetically modified plant and the environment might actually be worse than the present environment and the unmodified plant.
Rental culture. They don't want you owning one, just pay per ride.