skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this before (postgREST) for internal apps and it's amazing. You can POST a JSON file to the front end from a shell script with curl and have it show up on a Grafana dashboard immediately. I've used this in the past for setting up automated quality tests for machine learning pipelines -- the pipeline runs automatically and you get the results in a central place, so you can see how your quality metrics are trending over time.

Given that postgREST exists, I don't see any reason to talk to postgres directly from a JS app.
I've found Captcha is an overkill strategy that also demonstrates poor customer service as you are both annoying your user and selling their data to Google.

Often site-specific form validation is more than adequate to prevent bot registrations. Until you hit the level of "people are scripting for your site specifically" level, rudimentary data validation will catch almost every bot.
Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources
Say you read ten articles every morning. With no public option, you read ten private articles. With a public option, you would still read the same number of articles each morning, but every time you read a public article, some private organization loses a tiny bit of revenue.

Worse still, imagine you are a paying subscriber to some private newspaper. If the public option has very high quality coverage, you may find that you no longer need your private subscription.
As far as I am aware google has already tried with the home security and they have been caught forgetting to tell customers that their device has a microphone integrated.

For home security you need to have customer trust to succeed. Google? No way. Facebook? Yeah right.
> The NYT now has (for argument's sake) six times as many subscribers, all paying slightly more than six times as much.

Not really, there must be an intersection between them and we don't know how large it is. And I don't believe there's many other magazine/news sites as successful as NYT so the revenue number is more likely 3x~4x even assuming no intersection and 100% conversion rate.

The real issue is that traditional media's competitive edge was its infrastructure for content distribution, not the content itself. Sadly, people willing to pay money for high quality journalism seems minority so its budget is. Otherwise, ads-powered yellow journalism cannot be thriving as is. In this landscape, there's simply not much incentive to pursue such aggregated subscription model for media itself. Maybe there can be suitable business models for aggregators like FB or Google, but I don't think this is what you really want.
The best criticism of Marxism I've read is in the introduction to Human Action by Mises where he shows that the concept of class struggle, specifically class itself, is illogical.

Also FWIW I have been upvoting you as you get downvoted.
Thank You.

We were really thinking and arguing a lot about how we make Frontendor loading fast.

We are really happy with what we have done.
The UK too has only just introduced the concept of "no-fault divorce": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce#United_Kingdo...

Previously couples had to apportion blame for the marriage breakdown, which encouraged it to be an adversarial and rancorous process.
> selfishly lowball the cost of whatever it is they want.

if you asked a recording industry person in the CD age if 10$/month flatrate for music (as offered by Spotify, Google, Amazon, Apple) was a fair deal, they'd have said the same or worse.

The point is, there's enough people willing to pay something but now paying exactly 0$ and not willing to pay north of 200$/year. And we're still stuck at the "newspaper bundle" stage where publications that used to bundle articles into a mass-produced paper copy and distributing them want to use that same one-size-fits-all bundle for how they charge users, even if those same users would only ever read articles by one author on one topic.
>If, let's say, bank has a policy that you need 20% down payment to qualify for a mortgage, and let's say this has a differential impact on some group, how do you go about addressing this?

You look to see why that's the case, and if it happens to be that those people have been recently (relative to society) emancipated slaves who've barely had 4 generations in a society that still systemically kills them via law enforcement, then you do whatever you can to change that.
Not to mention that a lot of that "old" productivity software is so much faster than its "modern" replacement that running it in a Electron-based VM is still faster.
Even worse, silently auto-posting when you leave.
Sounds like you're advocating for robust consumer rights legislation on data collection.
So it's a redirect basically

$ curl -I hacker.news
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:17:20 GMT
Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Server: AmazonS3
I wish other writers would take this to heart. Reading The New Yorker it’s as if their language is a shibboleth and if they didn’t use it, it would alienate their audience for using average language, yet they are the same people who pontificate and pretend they advocate for the lower classes.
> I am generally confounded by the flatness of Window 10. The ability to see which window is on top is gone!

It's the window which is not partially/fully obscured by the windows underneath it?
How the travel downturn is sending jet planes to 'boneyards'
You're really not paying attention if you think this behavior is unique to Trump
Plenty, let me see.

Although it is a polyglot target environment, CUDA hardware is designed for optimal support of C++ semantics.

C++ is used for device drivers on Apple and Google's OSes.

Swift and Rust depend on LLVM, written in C++.

Unreal, Unity, CryEngine, Godot have C++ at their core.

AUTOSAR safety standard for cars is based on C++14.

UWP and DirectX are heavily based in C++.

Tensorflow and PyTorch depend on C++.

And plenty of other endless examples.

Sure you can try to make do with Rust or Go, but be prepared to code like we used to program in C++ 30 years ago in regards of eco-system, IDE support and wealth of existing libraries.
The pictures and then you can verify he owns it through county records:

https://eringcapture.jccal.org/caportal/CA_PropertyTaxParcel...
I think the selective memory is not just mine... f.lux was working on iOS in 2011. Sure, they used a private API not allowed in appstore, but it worked fine - a whole 5 years before Apple released its copycat version.

As for the browser: dynamic code execution is a red herring - there are plenty of runtimes like python available on the appstore, and they execute all sorts of crap just fine. Modern browser engines are sandboxed so hard, they are equivalent to (or better than) anything you find in an OS. The security angle nowadays is just a flimsy excuse to keep Safari (the IE6 of our times) from becoming utterly irrelevant overnight.
Sitting in USD is more risky than tech.

Tech is still the future. Recession isn’t hitting tech as hard as others, recent financial results prove that.

The dollar is being printed on a massive scale. That’s what’s pushing up stocks. It’s not a bubble as much as it is moving the baseline value of stocks relative to USD.

Property will also be going up in the near future (this has already happened in today’s super low interest rate environment). Property historically holds its value; this article reeks of recency bias. Because most investments aren’t doing well now, real estate is an attractive place to park all of those “on paper” printed gains (which are not real gains, of course).
The position that a less sophisticated company with less integration into the rest of your live would be able to connect fewer lines with only access to your home security data doesn't seem that outlandish.

The claim that ADT or another large, established home security company is less capable of securing your data than Google requires evidence.

I don't want a company that makes its money selling information to advertisers to have such full access to my life.
Doesn't negate the fact that there was a drop in demand for those skilled workers during that time.
I like your site but you shouldn't implement a custom scrollbar, that's horrible usability wise.

When I scroll, I think something is off on because it doesn't behave like a normal site would.
I can’t believe how little it costs for all the effort involved. Four people and four months to sabotage a relationship for <$15,000?
I mean I was being hyperbolic. My point is, none of that stuff is high-resolution information. It doesn't strike me as a reliable proxy for ability. And we all know that! Blindly hiring off resumes (let's assume we've filtered out all the people who outright lied) would be a disaster.
Nest (and Dropcam) has been a disaster since Google acquisition. They dont seem to give a flying fuck about the service.
There is nothing simpler than misusing statistics.

The right wing does it all the time.

53% of all prisoners are black, ergo blacks are criminals.

Homosexuals represent 70% of all HIV infections, ergo homosexuality is inherently risky and should be treated the same way as hard drugs.

Now Thomas Sowell doesn't say any of those things himself. His points are much more interesting ... to people who have been only exposed to the liberal side of the story for their whole lives.

To someone who has read the original red in tooth and claw conservative talking points from the 80s his books are just a rear guard action and a not very interesting one at that.

Which is why the success of Thomas Sowell with people who have gone to university and then exposed to the real world is entirely the fault of the people who cancelled racism/sexism in the 80s/90s and are trying to do it again today.
I'm sorry that your parents were inconvenienced. Why didn't they just pay for private medical care? Nobody forces you to use insurance.

When my dad had a stroke, requiring extensive hospitalization and rehabilitation, the biggest expense that they faced for the hospitalization and rehab phase was ambulance/ambulette service. They were fortunate to have had the means for private supplements for things like homecare and physical therapy beyond that Medicare, private insurance and family could accomodate. Most folks do not.

> it is ironic that you talk about people being on illness away from ruin in the private system when you understand and know that if you end up with a illness bad enough the government will seize all of your assets to pay for that care. Does not seem like a vary fair system to me but I am sure you do not believe in private property either most socialist do not

I've spent most of my career in finance, so I doubt that I would fit in well in socialist circles. I would agree with you that the system that requires people of modest means to either self finance care that costs $300-700/day, or become indigent to receive Medicaid social benefits is fundamentally unfair and arguably cruel. Ultimately it's draining the wealth of the nation away, and will impact the earnings potential of our fellow capitalists - how will consumers buy my products if 60% of their cashflow is rent/health/transportation?
I think GP’s point is that the overlap of domains that C++ is well-suited for and that go is well-suited for isn’t particularly large.

Go was at least originally touted as a C++ replacement, but to be honest, that story hasn’t really panned out in practice.
>Oh it does.

I absolutely disagree with that statement. A uniform standard for all is the opposite of racist. It is literally what was fought for by every civil rights movement. We used to live in a world where certain groups had racist barriers placed with intent to bar them from those institutions. A Jewish teenager had to get through harder entrance exams and/or a quota to get into a university. The way to fix that was to provide a universal standard. If you meet these criteria, then you're in. A policy that requires 20% down payment for a mortgage is NOT a racist policy, even if it has differential impact. It just sets a bar for every individual because math doesn't care about race. People intrinsically understand fairness like this.

It is why Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of the bus as a protest was so powerful - because everyone understood, even the racists, that it is unfair for the color of your skin to dictate your bus seat. And it was clearly a malevolent policy. And this is where the modern approaches to solve 'systemic' racism really worry me. A modern (satirical but not far from reality) spin on that racist bus policy would have white people sitting at the back of the bus in order to make up for past racism ... but in that case, you still cannot get away from intuitive notions of fairness. The fact remains, the idea that skin color dictates bus seat is unfair, even if you try to claim that you need to do it to make up for systemic racism and the races are reversed.

Sorry for the rant. You and I have fundamental disagreement on this point.

>A PoC unable to get soap doesn't care why the soap dispenser refuses to disperse soap

This has nothing to do with anything. It is a silly example. Yes, the soap dispenser company effed up (not maliciously, just ignorantly) and should be embarrassed about it, and it will cost them to replace those dispensers, and I can guarantee you they will learn their lesson. It isn't the end of the world, and we're all on the side here, even the good people at the soap dispenser company.
I believe it isn't in most Western countries. Life sentence is not only about the crime committed. It's to isolate individuals who just cannot be redeemed.
The last few strongholds I see with C++ is probably game development. To crack into gaming industry, C++ is still a must-have skill.

But TBH, I really don't want to use C++ if the circumstance allows. The language spec is just so overtly complex that feels self-defeating, it is harder and harder to justify use it in the first place.
Markdown was created in 2004. Using footnotes for URLs likely goes back to near the creation of the web itself (1989~1991) -- not on web pages necessarily (but see Wikipedia for counterexample) but in plaintext discussions about web pages, such as in newsgroups.

It's similar to the way markdown allows for text decoration via asterisks (strong) and underscores (emphasis): people used such plaintext decorations long before any expectation that it could lead to more typical presentations such as bold and italic (italic and underline are grammatically interchangeable, and underscores approximate an underline).
That one doesn't include a hard drive, has several missing keys and mouse buttons, and doesn't include a battery or power adapter. The PPC Mac looks like the better value.
Based on the time of day of the posts, I'm guessing the majority of the anti-google sentiment is coming from Europeans. They are generally distrustful of large American corporations.
Not sure where others found them, but there is an investor prospectus on his website.

https://853a1197-2eb8-42a1-88fd-f004b8256f56.filesusr.com/ug...
In my experience (~10 years of doing this sort of work) software engineers typically understand how their users use the software in the abstract, but not in the actual experience.

E.g. It is well understood that users rely on a hotkey "a lot." It is not understood that users are so familiar with a hotkey that, if you relocated it on the keyboard, productivity would decrease 40% for 3 months.

That distinction is fairly important when trying to decide whether {new feature X} is actually worth disrupting {old feature Y}.
For example, one can code with async/await in UWP via C++/WinRT today, without having to think which runtime to use, or possible incompatibilities across async runtimes.
That's a pretty low threshold to pass, obviously it's not doing to die overnight in 2020. C++ will continue its steady decline in mindshare but the user count will stay high, countered by the growth of the programmer population.
Slow. The Nitrogen8M SOM used in the MNT Reform uses the i.MX 8M which is a 4x Cortex-A53 @1.5 GHz and a single Cortex-M4F @ 266 MHz. The performance should be comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. Still, I love the idea and I hope they support future SOMs from Boundary Devices.
Well I still can't create a mature cross-platform GUI app in either Go or Rust and Qt seems to be the first class option for that in the C++ world.

Looking at some of the solutions for both Go and Rust, its either immature bindings to wrap around C or C++ for the same thing (the best you would get is GTK+) which are unmaintained and less stable / usable to what you would get with Qt5 with C++.

I still keep seeing lots of cross-platform closed and open-source GUI apps still taking the Qt route.
Wish they would clarify what caused the 5 year delay. Were they running a password solver algorithm the whole time or were there major advances in technology that allowed them to crack the encryption?
As long As I sleep 8-9 hours it doesn't matter. My biggest factor is workout and not sleep schedule.
The idea that calling out systemic racism is like a Nazi propaganda tactic. Look up any of his other views on literally any social issues, it's just whatever Fox News-esque conservative would want to hear. Like, somehow it's not the government snatching people up in vans that is Nazi-like, it's actually the anti-racist protesters that are Nazi's to the genius brain of Thomas Sowell. How do people idolize this guy?
Try stock hd video sites like videezy.com. You'll have to convert the hd videos into suitable format yourself though, but that should be easy enough.
Software engineers do get that, they have been using vim, emacs for decades with few changes.

Product designers on the other hand.
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>Does the case for C++ in 2020 still exist? Rust and Go are much simpler to learn, can do everything that C++ can

There are 2 levels of comparisons:

- (1) language syntax : the "they're both Turing Complete" so whatever one can do, the other can do and because Rust is newer, it has nicer syntax. E.g. plain Rust syntax already has "ownership pointers" by default so doesn't require typing ugly verbose syntax such as "unique_ptr<T>".

- (2) ecosystem and dependencies : In 2020, C++ and not Rust is still the primary API for things like NVIDIA CUDA, Unreal game engine, Qt GUI, and the ARM Allinea developer tools[1] for compiling code for the new Neoverse chips (e.g. latest AWS Graviton2 ARM servers). Sure, one could write wrappers in Rust for all those things but doing so will be going against the grain and now you're yak shaving your tools instead of building business value.

If I had a brand new startup today, I'd use Rust as much as I could but there'd still be 25% to 50% new C++ code because deep learning (e.g. CUDA) is C++ not Rust.

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/development-tools/server-and-hp...
> ask any US company that has tried to sell to the Chinese market

Like Boeing, Microsoft, GM, Apple, KFC, McDonalds, Proctor and Gamble GE, Nike, Coca-Cola? They all make billions annually and have dominant marketshare. American companies are everywhere.

Facebook and Google are the only two banned that I know of and it's because they didn't want to follow local regulations.
Also note that current CFR is lower than the PFR back in March in many regions!
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C++ was born for writing distributed systems at Bell Labs actually.

https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl-almost-final.pdf
Yes, the FBI director sent him a letter to kill himself or have his affairs exposed.
It's very possible. Another alternative is to go with Apple HomeKit Secure Video products, which do send your data to the cloud, but in encrypted form which is only accessible to you.
If you look at something like an AmazonBasics wall mount monitor arm, and compare it to an Ergotron, you'll notice every single part is the exact same shape. AmazonBasics products often seem like someone ran the well-known product through a 3D scanner and then started printing replicas with the Amazon logo on them.
Don't be shy; feel free to comment. This site claims to encourage conversation.
Working with custom neural networks in Snap's Lens Studio
Was luck enough to get a tour of the bird's egg collection at National History Museum at Tring, and also see some of the huge number of "skins" they also had. We were there to donate my father-in-law's egg collection - which they only accepted because it had his collecting notes from 30's and 40's (illegal now to even have such a collection I think).
Anyway they did require passports to be presented when we arrived for tour, and said security was upped since someone had a tour and then came back and stole a significant amount of the skins.
I feel you're unfairly conflating a 50+ year stable industry with relative job safety vs a decade of flash growth in a brand new industry.
Reminds me of dealing with Terminex dispatching exterminators to spray for insects in the arctic in the middle of winter when it was -20 deg F. There are lots of these service companies that are fall somewhere between inept and crooked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
As long as it updates when I'm leaving too, instant buy
The BBC also reports on the UK's undercounting, so it doesn't appear to be playing favourites; but a deeper independent investigation would be needed. Also, the BBC has News Watch which is an independent group within the BBC that responds to and tracks criticisms of its output.
Match inconsistent company name data across data sources
How the Pandemic Defeated America
Yes I did "all sponsored by deep pockets corporations."

Take their money out of the equation and the quality would be as the "state of the art GC" that CPython and MRI Ruby enjoy.
Does anyone know what Stroustrup is referring to regarding "better concurrency"? It sounds interesting but it's way too vague.
Potentially a questionable investment with the police being abolished?
You know Washington freed his slaves in his will, (when that was very uncommon) right?
OpenAI Wants Diversity in Its Scholars Program for Fall 2020
The linked article concludes:

"Creators must be compensated well. But at the same time we have to try to keep things that are important and profound from getting locked away where few people will see them. The truth needs to be free and universal."

Let's also consider whether lies should be made more expensive. Free costs more than it's worth.
As someone who runs a Banks internal Red Team group, the App Whitelisting is the biggest roadblock for us. Carbon Black (if properly setup and tuned) is a large leap to overcome. Drive-by attacks just stop, you need a dedicated method to bypass Carbon Black. That is usually very org dependent.

You don't known Carbon Black is there until something doesn't work. That "not working" propagates an alert up to the security team.
Seems like there's a great case to make it illegal, I wonder why it's not.
Basic Economics isn’t even required reading in an intro econ course. It probably has value for its alternative perspectives on a lot of economic concepts, but to say it’s “required reading for anyone who wants to claim they understand economic principles” is pretty demonstrably false.
Rothbard (and later Mises) are both on my reading list, I'm nothing if not open-minded. Thanks.
Fear. Fear of yet another vector that Google could use to connect the dots of their life.

Belief that Google's business model is incompatible with security/privacy.

Unfair criticism that Google will just shut down any service/offering once they get bored --- it doesn't happen to pay services.
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A customer saying, "My reservation price for the following good is $X." is not selfish. Information is easier to access and so, whether you agree with it, people are willing to pay less for information (including newspapers). We've seen many other "information services" get much cheaper due to this demand. The news media have simply been slow to change.