skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Command of the UK Trident force is independent from the USA. However control is more complicated ( as it involves political aspects ) and technically the USA has influence because the UK uses missiles drawn from the common maintenance pool in Georgia.
The charts and diagrams in that post are really nice, how did you make them?
> It's different quality of service.

I think that’s only true until it arrives in the US though and USPS delivers the package to your door. Sure, total time is long, but the cost to USPS seems similar?
Steps to Build Your Own Successful Car Rental Business
Here is Apple making it harder for the web to compete with closed wall gardens. Web apps could require the same permissions for accessing hardware as mobile apps do. On Firefox, when a website wants access my webcam, it asks me, for example...
> And the persons replying assumed that I had no idea about what I'm doing. Which isn't really nice.

This is simply not true. Your original response strongly implied that you were confusing decimal with floating point. If you reread your original reply strictly in the context of the original comment, you may notice what I'm talking about. The responses were just pointing out the difference, and doing so quite nicely I might add.
The question of how neurons find each other to connect was recently studied with experimental connectomics--altering neurons and then mapping their synaptic circuits with electron microscopy--in this paper by Javier Valdes Aleman et al. 2019 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/697763v1 , using Drosophila's somatosensory axons and central interneurons as a model.

If the OP's website Disqus worked (can't ever get the "post" button for comments after login), the above could have gone straight into the page.
The IKEA standing desk seems to have a safety key that needs to be plugged in for the desk to move.
I think they got out of the rut before Microsoft's involvement, but I suspect MS has allowed them to accelerate a lot of it with more investment and a more defined direction.

I've heard that for a number of years the Product org at GitHub essentially considered the product "finished", and that it did not need more features. Things like the rise of GitLab and the "Dear GitHub" letter, plus I believe a change of leadership, helped that completely turn around. Obviously that took time to yield benefits, so I think they've been in a much better place for quite a few years now.
Reactjs.org Official tutorial rewritten with hooks
We are talking about two machines talking to each other. Correctness is more important than human readability for bytes on a wire.
The seller provides all the Gerber files, BOM, etc. https://github.com/gcormier/megadesk

But it's pretty clear many are buying the pre-assembled kit. Hand soldering SMD components is pretty tedious.
Fantastic. I have been thinking that the best possible thing would be an external device with a screen and a key pad input. This seems to be exactly that.

You need the screen because the protocol includes the concept of an authenticator with a screen, and that allows you to verify the information even more compared to a yubikey or something like that.
You realise the kernel can be configured to support different hardware and many drivers are built as modules nowadays?
I'm really excited about the new permissions model that Apple is using. Perhaps in time -- after some testing -- they will gradually enable these APIs, as they are quite useful.
FastAPI for Flask Users
Isn't it possible for the UK to re-join Galileo even when not in EU? I'd think Galileo would be happy to get additional (paying) members.
You forgot at least a couple of big ones e.g. the indefensible calamity that is the destruction of millions of young people's life chances due to the Euro, the near-collapse of unity and immediate reversion to national self-interest in the face of a genuine disaster i.e. CV, persistent stagnation and lack of growth, gleeful destruction of the EU's natural environment in stark contrast to political virtue signalling, etc. etc.
Did it ever change the last 15 years for linux or windows systems? There are additional commands and perhaps some rules changed about which register need parameters and which need to be saved. But I cannot remember fundamental changes here.
But before that ‘done’ point or maybe for a new project, Github Action is a good feature introduced by Microsoft.
I know CS majors learn a lot of details about how programs work, but they don't teach science.

I think there is a very small group of people who like tech, but are okay with not learning science and difficult mathematics.

I do wish there was a software engineering degree.
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To their credit, those weren’t put on this list (which I was half expecting).
it's a general problem for developers to pay x money for something they could build themselves for y hours where y hours are worth x*10 money, even if you will not use y hours to build it yourself. But since the world has lots of people in it if even 10% of the people who can build something decide to pay for it that can be a profitable business.
> outweighs anything the Tories have done since

They're certainly trying to 1-up it with their coronavirus response (almost 70000 excess deaths compared to e.g France's ~30000)
Yeah. Before recently switching to windows I’d been on Mac for 10+ years. The latter ~5 of which I’d basically forgotten the dock existed and just used Alfred / command space to type an applications name and launch it. Now on Windows I just use Windows Q and type. I honestly don’t know the last time I used a folder hierarchy.
I am me, period. Put me in whatever box you feel like.

I honestly have no idea if policing has gotten more violent or if it's just more visible now. I would guess both. But it doesn't really matter, does it? It's still a major issue that we need to fix somehow.
I have another question: how did anyone buy into Quibi?

Extremely short film only works for the spontaneity of people’s individual creativity and not as a corporately produced product. See: vine, tiktok, etc. When it’s a corporate production it isn’t cool anymore.
I have a suspicion, which I have never verified, that the things that make emacs great are basically the things that made Lisp Machines great back when those were a thing - that emacs is best viewed as a Lisp Machine embedded in a modern operating system.

I never used a real Lisp Machine, but I'd love if someone who did can confirm this.
> > A good linker will remove unused symbols.

Additionally, a linker not be able to remove symbols that are unused at runtime but are still (transtively) referenced statically. For memory mapped dynamic libaries those code pages will not be loaded unless needed.

For example, statically linking libstdc++ for any C++ program which uses iostreams (or anything else infected with std::locale) will mean including code to format and parse e.g. monetary amounts even if your program never uses this functionality.
Companies losses are just spending.

If I pay you 100k then you spend 50k buying land that’s not a “loss”. When a company spends 50k on R&D that’s generally an investment not an operating expense. Plenty of other dodges exist for physical assets via depreciation games etc. Even just buying more brand averting is an option to increase capital without being taxed on it’s creation.
This project is a spin-off from my wireless biometric authenticator. I was asked to make it open source many times.

Other than that - I've got one on my keyring as well. But buying one is not as fun as making :)
I’ve heard so many people complain on HN about Safari’s lack of support for APIs. Before now, we didn’t have a public justification why Apple refused to implement them. Now we know.

The price of a Safari user in the ad market is going down, and it’s exactly what should be happening. I’m very happy with Apple.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/09/apple-safari-privacy-feature-...
How is that ironic?

It was a deliberate strategy to destabilize Russia and undermine their war effort. It worked.
> "Ah yes, the IRL downvote: call someone a racist / Nazi / fascist / Klansman."

But it does need to be called out when it happens. Otherwise we allow it to continue. Protecting the status quo is not neutral or unbiased when the status quo is marginalising certain groups. And no, white people are really not remotely marginalised in any meaningful way in western countries.
Unless you are using an IBM mainframe, Big Endian is all but extinct. Besides, it is about ~10 lines of C to detect endianess and reorder bytes if necessary.
You need to set up your own “chain of trust” to verify your self-generated certificates. You can run your own Certificate Authority for example. (There are other approaches too.)
How comes the lump-of-labor fallacy still is so widespread? It feels like the majority of educated people should understand it's wrong yet so many people still believe in it, major politicians still exploit it regularly and that's considered Ok. Isn't this weird?
Using MIT’s Unhangout to Host a Virtual Barcamp or Open Space
Many of the things you mention to have experienced, I too have experienced. Only I am white, working in a largely caucasian environment.
Clever. Let’s them announce a new feature which is basically u locking access to the hard work done by others and further by putting a better user experience into how they privacy sandbox extensions they get to further highlight the the safety and privacy you get by sticking with apple products. All important brand position messages as Apple positions itself to be the future of where you should store your sensitive health data.
Time is golden, just because I could do something myself doesn't mean spending all that time on it is worth it.
Any javascript CDN?
Ask HN: Change results when searching for 'suicide' on HN
Times are bleak and news says the rates of suicides have went up recently. Search engines such as Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing will show suicide prevention hotlines when searched for 'suicide'. Reddit will take you directly to r/suicidewatch. However, on HN, the results are just like for any normal search term.

Can we change this to point to a suicide prevention hotline as a top result and
perhaps some other positive/askHN threads after that?
That's kind of funny. Have they decided where they will be building their cars? Normally those types of announcements (new car plant) will get big coverage.
Scientists - not just CS, but biologists, chemists, etc. - are not in elected leadership positions very much. I agree they are frequently not willing to represent. But again - why?

A few opinions:

* scientists (computer, life, or otherwise) do not think their talents are best used in making public policy. There are so many other ways those talents and intelligence could be used

* perhaps worse pay (though the benefits, and opportunity for jobs after elected office, are certainly stellar)

* the process seems toxic compared to other ways to make a living

The first and last bullets seem the most important to me. Business and academia have some similarities with government, since in both cases they involve:

* writing, with the intent to better the world somehow

* raising money, whether from selling a product, grants, or donors

* using evidence to decide what to do next

The day-to-day work seems reasonably desirable, but the way that work must be done is, I think, the dealbreaker for many scientists.

At a company, everyone you work with on a daily basis is generally in step with the overall vision. Some teammates may differ on details - which language or data store, how to architect something - but the goal of the finished solution is mostly in agreement.

In government, there are at least two groups of people who publicly profess to have VERY different ideas about what the finished solution should accomplish. And even if you get elected on the team you think has the best goals, you may no get to work towards those goals directly, since the other team might have the majority of seats.

I have so many more thoughts on this, but I'll save that for a blog post. I'm curious what others think of this though.
Apple honors eight developers with annual Apple Design Awards
> and a more defined direction

Except for Atom :(
Try what exactly? Joining the Police?

Not very likely, I believe they will find themselves on the wrong team any day now.

It was never about protecting and serving the people, the whole thing is a lie.
The OS probably has this feature - inotify/fswatch. It's not clear why you would want you text editor to do that for you.

What if another program edits the file? What if you accidentally pull up notepad.exe and edit it?
As someone who works in Russia for a few months every year, to say that Putin is loved by Russia is the same as saying Trump is loved by America. Putin has a base.
I myself have Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science degree with 11+ years of full-time industry experience (Canada) and here is my opinion about popularity of computer science degree:

- What is the point of getting a Computer Science degree when the people sitting besides you are also Tech Team Leads or Sr. Developers or Architects without a computer science degree?

- Why bother spending so many years going through theoretical computer science courses when you could have gotten through some bootcamps, youtube vids, Leetcode, and spent time creating github portfolio? Ultimately its the frameworks (and sometimes certs.) which gets you the money. There is a reason why even Google dropped the 'degree' requirements for their Software Engineering positions.

- When it comes to corporate IT: Among the most glorified of CS/IT career is that of a Software Developer (coding). And if I was to be biased, I would say those who didn't get CS degree and instead went to Community College for programming diplomas tend to better at picking up frameworks and churning out code. It seems that their minds are less cluttered with useless technical details which nobody in Corporate IT cares about.

- Frankly speaking, Programming and even other CS fields (including niche ones such as Data Science / AI / Machine Learning) suffer from absence of licensing requirements. I am not advocating for one but from what I have seen, just about any office job outside of IT has set of licensing requirements (PEng, LLB, CFA, CPA, Securities course, etc.) and atleast in Canada, they want the "Canadian version" of CPA, CFA, etc. -- this ensures that new immigrants can't just walk into such Canadian jobs and safeguards them against offshoring to an extent.

Despite all this, I am still glad that I have my CS degrees because that is just me, it's fits my thought process and personality. I really didn't do it for the money. I just feel I couldn't have done any other degree besides a CS degree - it's not about harder or easier.
I don’t think it’s just that, I think it’s also the perception that computer science = programming. And programming isn’t a career, it’s a job you do for a decade or two before you get too old or move on to management. And if you’re planning on management anyways, why not start with a degree for that?
But.... they were pursuing him! They chose the distance! If they weren't able to safely stop him because they were too close and had to kill him if he stopped (because let's be honest here: they killed the guy because he stopped)...

Isn't that STILL a failure of policing? It's it STILL true that he didn't need to die? Why were the cops' "lives on the line" if they were the ones choosing to engage?
Some things work, other things don't work.

You find out by trying.

The thing is not to use $1bn to try.
The template seems designed for mobile. It looks pretty good on my phone but worse on my laptop
VME bus 680x0 servers were in pretty wide use in the appliance market through the 90's as well. Things like firewalls.
My point of view may be outdated. Back when we were walking to school uphill both ways, you needed the right paper.
It seems like quibi raised the equivalent of the entire GDP of Belize without first verifying if literally anyone was interested in their offering.

Classic silicon valley-style hubris.
Doing it the hard way – My career journey failing forward into success
This is liable to become a shit slinging fest I imagine, because I believe that while the EU does have issues it is not as bad as we make out and we blind ourselves to the issues we have at home.

How about we agree that the UK has done much worse than the EU regarding its governance?

(I mean we have: Grenfell, our homeless problem, our funding of NHS, our human rights violations, our de-regulated banking system, our selling of fishing rights to EU companies and then crying foul, our reliance on hand-outs for agriculture, our housing crisis fuelled by foreign "investment", our massive inequality between the north and the south, social mobility being stifled for generations due to Conservative cuts to the poorest areas such as Coventry, our national transport system that costs more than any other EU country and is less reliable- AND london focused for some reason, the house of lords, the russian collusion dossier that Boris will not release, the defence of Dominic Cummings breaking lock-down (I mean, rules for thee but not for me))

I will not begin to defend things like the euro because it's mainly in hindsight that it's a bad idea. But aside from a few very real mis-steps by the EU it's overwhelmingly more democratic, fair and has far /fewer/ issues than the UK Government does.

I sincerely believe we needed reforms at home before we looked to the EU.
Definitely, thanks for sharing.
> a YouGov poll shows that 31% of people want to see big changes in the way the economy is run coming out of the crisis, with a further 28% wanting to see moderate changes and only 6% of people wanting to see no changes.

What's the basis for assuming it has anything to do with the pandemic? Who's to say that 59% (31%+28%) of the population didn't want to see changes to the economy before the pandemic?
This is a good explanation of range reduction with respect to floating point. I use a similar (but not quite identical) techniue in the article; I may expand it with more information about what's happening with the exponent and mantissa bits like you did here.

That reminds me, I'm using the domain [-1, 1] for range reduction. But by symmetry of e^x, I can actually use [0, 1]. Thank you!
USB ethernet adapters exist for nearly all modern versions of these sticks. Including Roku and Chromecast.
The listed "Idle Detection" is a different spec that is way more invasive than requestIdleCallback (which seems on track to be deployed more generally in Safari).

It's about detecting user idleness, including in the case the user has another tab active, not a way to queue and coalesce bits of work at an "idle" moment to optimise for latency and battery life.

The Idle Detection spec at https://github.com/WICG/idle-detection says it itself:

"As opposed to the requestIdleCallback, this is not about asynchronously scheduling work when the system is idle."
Man, I looooved those books when I was a kid. My parents bought me the Klutz book that came with polymer clay and it was wonderful. I also had the one for paper airplanes, which ruled. Almost makes me want to order some polymer clay again.

https://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Clay-Book-Klutz-Press/dp/1...
Ask HN: What’s its like to work in Defense as Software Engineer?
Dear HN,
What is it like to work in defense industry as a software engineer do you get to work on cutting edge technology and weapon technology such as F16/F22 or missile defense systems and how can you get into this industry
What about hippocampal neurogenesis? Those are spewing out at a nearly constant rate all the time
The thought that buying short content from celebrities I think fails to realize that content is not desired if from people who have status, but content that is interesting in and of itself. The fact that the two spearheads are in Hollywood shows this as a viable hypothesis why other avenues were not considered.

This is just another overly hyped "business" that wasn't meant to pan out.
Regularly we get ask HN questions that boil down to 'help I am depressed'. It would be good for these people to get some quality and standardized advice.
> Giving me the ability to do something I do not want to do is not beneficial.

Expecting that an example should be tailor-made is not very beneficial, either. When I go out to buy a car, and the salesman tells me the trunk is big enough to fit a grown pig, this information is of use to me. Not because I smuggle livestock, but because this gives me a good idea of what the capacity is.
But he mainly had a career as a military officer. He gets his social status from that, not from being a computer scientist.
The lines are too long. It's not very readable.
What limits legal access to cloud data in Australia?
I'm a bit surprised by the statement that "most newspapers use it [Helvetica]", as my perception is that they mostly use a serif font. (How do you suppose Times Roman got its name?)

But perhaps this varies between markets/regions/languages/etc.
Given that social media often has the affect of an echo chamber I think that "a lot of us aspire to be less important" is hard to take as anything more than "some of my friends aspire".

You might feel that we have an "inferiority complex" but that's just your take on it. The UK is one of the world's leading military powers by most measurements.

The left wing meme that Britain should accept a smaller role in the world or that our economy is too small to mater does not chime with reality.

For the record I think that leaving the EU has made us weaker and more isolated.
I'd absolutely buy this if you made it support inline LaTeX fragment rendering (as emacs does[1]). Without it, it's sadly fairly useless for me as a math student. A subset of LaTeX would be sufficient, such as that supplied by KaTeX[2]

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Previewing-LaTeX-fragments.html

[2] https://katex.org/
Lucene? Android :) Tomcat? Maven?

The Minecraft coding community is amazing. What they get done without documentation is stunning.
The autonomous desk is sturdier, cheaper, bigger and actually has built in position memory settings etc.

It’s served me amazingly over the past few months WFH. Definitely worth a look.
I've also done plenty of SOAP back in the day. I independently invented the equivalent of SOAP in an API back in 1998 where my RPC API used only one method, which was basically a "call(command)" for sending XML data upstream and getting an XML response (C++ app). The request XML had the "name" of the "verb" as part of the request. Basically a "command pattern".

So what I do today is I use "REST APIs" (like in Java Spring, Axios/Ajax, etc.) but all my endpoints are named as "verbs" (not nouns), and the only HTTP verb I ever do is a "POST".

So everything boils down to this:

let myJsonReponse = api.doSomeVerb(myJsonRequest);
You are getting downvoted for speculating on Quantum entanglement, but I think all of your speculations are useful here and to be encouraged.
Most definitely not. It acts in a very privileged bubble that definitely costs taxpayers.

fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/amp/
On the other hand, there’s lots of software that’s been around for decades that still works quite well today. Most GNU software for example, and particularly Emacs.
Nice catch, thank you. I'll edit that and credit your comments in the errata :)
Factory Design Pattern in Modern C++
How has traffic/attacks changed since acquisition? Microsoft name surely gives them an even larger target on their back.
The vast majority of female programmers I've met were Indian. White female programmers are surprisingly rare in Netherland.

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this observation. Is Netherland more sexist than India? It's hard to deny based on this observation, but Dutch society is usually pretty egalitarian. A lot of women work. Just not in software. But it's not that women in general aren't interested in it, because Indian women clearly are.