skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least that partially confirms my long-held suspicion that Skype's acquisition by MS was also made for "national interests", only that they (the US Administration of that time + MS itself) used to cover it up better. The same goes for FB's acquisition of WhatsApp.

And people were laughing at Putin in 2012-2013 when he was saying in an interview that the Internet was CIA-controlled, not to mention the derogatory Western press headlines of when Putin's cronies took over control over VKontakte the same way as the US military-industrial complex is taking over control over the parts of TikTok they care about right now.
The back of my card wasn't signed until I went to America. Then the 'clerk' 'rang me up' and asked me to sign the back of my card so that she could check it against the receipt I just signed.

(Really!)

I'm not old enough to have had to do that anywhere else - 'Chip & PIN' was required in the UK from 14 Feb 2006; I'm not sure how long before that it became available/widely used.
90% of the time I don't want it. Database, cache, etc, not really that bothered. Web requests take 100-300ms to complete, tying up a worker for 300ms isn't much of a problem.

10% of the time I'm calling an API that takes 3s and tying up a worker for 3s _might_ be a problem. Being able to not do that would be really handy sometimes.

Not web servers, but I also do a lot of web scraping and Python is definitely the best tool I've used for that job (lxml is fast with great XPath support, Python is very expressive for data manipulation), using async for that could dramatically improve our throughput as it's essentially network bound, and we don't really care about latency that's in the 10s of seconds.

Source: I work on a large production Django site.
They are components from VisualStudio proper. Probably derived from a quite old code base. On old code bases you easily have the situation that parts of it are licensed from other vendors or contractors. Digging through old contracts and history of the code can be a notable effort.

Microsoft did the digging with their C++ standard library, which is derived from Dinkum's STL.

I observed that a bit with Sun and Solaris/OpenSolaris where in the final release was one component missing.

So even with will this won't come for free.
MicroG Creates FOSS Implementation of Exposure Notifications API
"People of African descent" have the highest genetic diversity among all human subgroups.

Isn't that a truism? All humans are of African descent.
By integrating well with Azure and by making their brand attractive to developers.
> Django puts DeprecationWarnings basically everywhere

This seems like exactly the way that deprecations should be handled. Are you suggesting they should maintain backwards compatibility for much longer? They already have a pretty long deprecation policy.
By definition of fair trading?
Spotify is so huge that it would be a suicide not releasing on their platform.
What should you know before starting with Agile?
The good kind of labor is where the people doing it are free, compensated and satisfied.

If we are going to avoid Switzerland because it's a tax haven then we should probably avoid doing any commerce with any country, including the one you probably are in now (unless you're in NZ or something).

And with regards to your update - no one is talking about faux luxury consumer goods here; in fact an argument can be made that the _only_ sustainable mode of consumerism is the kind practiced by these luxury watch makers if antrhung.
Don’t understand why you got downvoted. I work in a Python shop and 100% agree with you.
The worse thing that happened to driving was we were convinced it should be fun. Sharing public space with big, heavy, dangerous boxes of metal should never have been been spun as fun.
Yes, same thing with racial disparities. Something needs to be done about both issues, perhaps technology can help by using deepfake audio/video to repeat what the defendant is saying and avoid judge/jury/prosecutor visual contact.
If you're going to do something like this, just use Flutter. It's the same principle, draw pixels to a screen, but it has a lot of advantages over Godot for application development, such as accessibility and only rerendering components when they change.
MCAS is only needed in situations with a very high angle of attack, that is a very steep climb which should not happen in normal flight situations. For example, MCAS is completely deactivated, if the flaps are extended. So unless you get into the steep angles, a 737 MAX with MCAS disabled, wouldn't even feel different in flying.
To facilitate learning ofc. Not using software to check for plagiarism, isn't going to invalidate the use of essay work in learning.
I wonder if all that just comes naturally to them or it feels like the "prison" it seems to me as an outsider. Constantly caring about this stuff, buying new clothes, looking out for fashion trends etc seems exhausting. I'm the typical nerdy wrinkly T-shirt and jeans guy and I know I'll not get into high circles anyway, and subjectively it feels quite freeing not to care. I spend my time immersing in stuff I'm actually interested in, not any required stuff like watches and suits and fine wines and whatever else. Or perhaps to these people it's not a burden, they naturally care about watches and fine wine... I honestly have no idea but would love to once speak honestly about such things with insiders...

Edit: upon some reflection, perhaps my stereotypes are outdated and it's not really necessary for even old-money-rich young people to care about fancy watches and wines any more. I mean some base level knowledge is needed, but I have to remind myself that when I think they may have it worse in some respects I'm probably wrong. Why would they restrict themselves to rigid bullshit, if it's not pleasant? Probably the rules are more flexible today. Probably I'm totally blind to whatever the current actual class markers are as they are invisible to us.
I think it's often easy to unknowingly use or rely on a proprietary extension, such as in Visual Studio or even a particular browser's features.
When an extension requires you to get out your credit card then this isn't possible. If it costs $2000 you can assume it's proprietary.

So I think the issue for VScode is more nuanced: proprietary extensions are not clearly marked or separated from the open source feature set.

Another good example to consider is whether people feel deceived by various Linux distributions who bundle one-click or automated install of proprietary blobs.
I have the same climber/fingerprint issues and spend way more time typing in passwords and phone unlock codes than I would prefer.

I'm actually rehabbing an injury at the moment and haven't touched the rock in almost a month. This week, all my devices magically sprang to life and I can get in to them instantly with just a touch of the finger.

It's amazing, this world that everybody else is living in.
Yes, but more specifically on Thinking, Fast and Slow, as noted elsewhere[1][2]:

It is only the priming-related chapter (called 'The Associative Machine' in the book) that put "too much faith in under-powered studies", as Kahneman put it[3]. Not the entire book!

The book is a synthesis of forty years of Kahneman's research and his collaboration with his late colleague, Tversky. A wide range of topics are covered; and it still absolutely merits reading. Patiently dive into the book and make up your mind.

(But yes, a v2 of this book definitely is worth it, given the "authority" of the Nobel Memorial Prize.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22054603

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757524

[3] https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
Gandhi was with the Nazis then and would have been with whoever is branded as Nazis today.

Nazis are the "ultimate evil" only because the winners wrote history to make it so. Look at the population graphs, do some back of the envelope calculations. None of the bs propaganda makes any sense.
>The main way people use VS code is through the proprietarized official build that uses the official EULA

The blog author complained about "Live Share" as one example. As far as I can tell, "Live Share" is not in the builds one downloads from Microsoft's "Visual Studio Code" website: https://code.visualstudio.com/download

The Live Share feature is downloaded from a separate web page:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv...

This separation seems similar to SQLite Encryption Extension. Can someone explain how the situations are not analogous?

The github page for "Visual Studio Code" prominently displays "Open Source" in its title: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

I'm willing to be convinced that it's a marketing deception and "open source" should be removed but so far, I haven't seen any precedent from other hybrid open/closed source projects justifying that.
Under GDPR any kind of data processing falls under the protection umbrella. And that includes the data processing that automatically happens during the creation of a TCP/IP connection - where the recipient party automatically gains knowledge of the IP address of the other side.

For a web site itself this is generally fine as it is a technical necessity and intended by the user... however stuff that is not necessary to fulfill the user intention such as any kind of tracking or telemetry is opt-in only.

And yes this was and is the explicit intention why the GDPR was passed in the first place: get rid of involuntary tracking, telemetry and other data thefts.
Perhaps of interest: GiveWell touched on the ‘Worm Wars’ here: https://blog.givewell.org/2016/12/06/why-i-mostly-believe-in...
Why You Should Never, Ever print() in a Lambda Function
Deactivating MCAS on AOA disagree would have prevented both crashes. But yes, the program behaved to spec, so strictly speaking it is not a programmer error but a spec problem.
Is this beyond the relm of what is possible with open source parts today?
Oh, if you need a reminder when this thread comes out check out https://tryjobalerts.com we send out free reminders.
So? If it already on the pfficial appstore, its not the fault of alternative apstores.
The Haskell snippet included is basically gibberish. It’s best to ignore it.
Remains of 10k-year-old woolly mammoth pulled from Siberian lake
What's wrong with that? I happen to prefer a "lower" resolution on a laptop (and by "lower" I mean the same pixel density as my IPS monitor, which is 1920x1200). Unless I use an operating system that has completely solved the problem of GUI scaling, I don't see the benefit of higher pixel densities, only constant issues with incompatible applications.
Redux was my first introduction to FP, and I loved it. You simply have to use Redux Toolkit that takes care of the ugly parts of Redux (namely: the boilerplate code), and it becomes a breeze to build things with Redux.
By word of mouth I mean mostly social shares (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Forums, blog and news coverage) which I think might have a greater impact on SEO overall than doing your own content markering. It's like your customers are doing the content marketing for you.
A pre-departure COVID test should be required for all flights.
With the rate of spread in the US, the risk of having infected -and probably asymptomatic- people on board is not negligible.

Having to stay in closed quarters, breathing the same air, going to the same toilets, wearing the same mask, with a good portion or people not caring much for all the extra measures and who will probably find ways to defy the order to wear masks properly, well, that doesn't seem a particularly way to fly.

A test within 3 days before departure would at least give a chance to temporarily prevent someone from infecting others.

Some countries already require the test before entering their borders but as a airline, I would expect that to be enforced before departure, for all flights.
Fields are messy because you have to check for nulls, yet JSON keys aren't messy because you have to check for nulls?
> Developers should be aware that VSCode is not as open source as it claims it is.

VS Code is as open source as it claims to be.

> If people were more aware about this, they might think twice before using VSCode for everything and getting lock-in

Are there many software developers who are not aware that most open-source software can run proprietary extensions?

I personally don't use any of Microsoft's services. Therefore, the entire claim that "the best parts of VS Code are proprietary" is completely false for me.
> Suppose Margrethe Vestager called and said TikTok, you are banned unless you let a "very european" company take over your business?

This would make sense if the EU had any company remotely capable of being able to afford this.
I don't get your argument. Those who are in "choice deferral" and chose online+print in the first experiment ought to have picked the same in the second experiment, but they didn't.
>Well, FSF is about freedom for users with the technical expertise to modify the software and understand its source code.

FALSE, example some guy pays me to modify a GPL script/program and add some integration for his business. If I am a jerk I don't give him the source code only an obfuscated binary. This guy is not an expert but if I would have respected the license and give him the source code then he can in future hire a new developer to update the application when a new change is needed.

Conclusion is that I do not need to be a developer to benefit from free software I can always find somebody that I can pay to fix or add something I need.
Still just a clever way to write a lot of if else clauses
Impact on Jobs Across Emerging Technologies During the Current Pandemic Crisis
I think 'pay through the nose' means pay a lot. Whereas 'pay through the teeth' means pay even through you don't want to.
Ask HN: How to Avoid Writing in Jira?
Hi HN,

I am an engineer turned PM.

My engineering leads will not switch to other softwares (LinearApp / Clubhouse).

I do not mind watching the progress in JIRA, but writing user stories in JIRA is a serious problem.

Here’s why:
All of my thinking happens in documents.
Putting ideas in JIRA can take hours, and it transports me to a non-creative world with grunt, data entry work. I do it. But it is expensive in terms of time, and attention sunk.

Is there a way to convert document paragraphs / sentences in documents to user stories in JIRA?

I may write a script to do this and put it up on Github, but I am wondering if a solution already exists. It must, it's a pretty common problem with most PMs in my network.
I have been playing around with Godot (to help my kids) and, to be honest, I had largely the same idea. For personal apps that have simple GUIs and have no formal spec, it might be just the ticket.

(I've been thinking of building an app to do photo triage, and Godot can certainly load up a bucketload of image assets and render them...)
Yeah this one seems weird. I would think it's actually the inverse. I used to code a lot in Go two years ago, so I can't speak to it much today.

Lately, I'm all Rust. If you're on Linux, it's so easy going to get it all working right. Windows is a pain, so much so you end up installing WSL2 and just moving on with your day.

A good follow up to this post would be OpenSSL compilation on Golang vs. Rust on each platform. It's a fair test as it's widely used library with both programming languages and all the operating systems.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Nitryfing Bacteria and/or Mother Dirt. I see people mentioning that some people who stop showering end up smelling rather nice over time, especially if they've been in contact with nature or living on farms. But some people can also stink if they stop showering

There's a class of bacteria that are quite important to preventing bad smells, Nitrifying Bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying_bacteria

They're quite sensitive, and is easily killed off by soap. You'd usually acquire them from contact with soil, but most of us aren't in daily contact with soil.

I've tried to breed the bacteria myself. I found a recipe for a medium for growing nitrifying bacteria, and just used some soil from the garden to start it. Sprayed the resulting water on one armpit and not the other. Asked my wife to smell both armpits after 3 days or so, and she found that the one I had sprayed smelled much better (I didn't tell her which was which)

There's a company that sells a spray with this kind of bacteria: https://motherdirt.com/

I've tried it and also found it has a similar effect. Can't say for sure that it increased the health of my skin much, I don't have many problems with my skin these days anyway (I use body wash, but only gentle and perfume free ones and not much/often)

I'd probably buy a spray with bacteria and use it daily if it was cheaper and I could buy it locally. I think in the future, probiotics for the skin will be as common as probiotics in food. It just makes sense.

I think it should be possible to make a simple procedure from making a probiotic treatment from soil that anyone could follow, similar to how people make sour-bread now a days. The procedure I used was way too complicated, but if you have access to clean soil, should be possible to just use a sieve to clean it up, mix in a thing or two that helps the nice bacteria multiply, leave it for a while and then apply it somehow.
I agree, the Moto G had the most useful casing. Plastic, durable, grippy, and looks good too. No idea why it's not more popular.
I think that's the difference. I'm saying they're going out of business anyway and you're going to have to line up with the other creditors. The question is whether you get $8000 for 4 months and zero after or $10000 for 4 months and zero after. You lower your rent and you don't get more because your tenant is going to die anyway. It's a no-brainer.
Spring transaction management. Isolation and propagation
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457801
I tried Lazarus a few times and even though I spent a _long_ time writing Pascal, it's just not there yet. At least on the Mac, just getting it to install and run was a big pain.
> Suppose Margrethe Vestager called and said TikTok, you are banned unless you let a "very european" company

Wouldn't do this make sense for Facebook? I would like to see a European company owning the European side of Facebook.

I really like Silicon Valley and their initiative, but again and again American companies have shown that they cannot be trusted with European data (maybe USA data either, but that is an internal matter of the USA).

Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are the new public squares for social discussion. Even more now that many people works from home.

I can understand USA decision on this matter (not the way as it has been imposed in a short time-line and without much feedback). And I can see that Europe not acting in the same way damages European citizens capability to regulate their own public spaces.

I also see anti-globalization as a risk for many other types of products and services. A healthy global market has provided growth and stability.

Meanwhile digital social networks have been a source of radicalization and manipulation of citizens from all around the world.

A different approach is needed to product shoes or phones that to provide citizens with public spaces.
Scientists Make Major Breakthroughs in Solar and Battery Technology
Someone can correct me, but the last time I installed the remote extension pack I’m almost certain that a notification popped up that said “By using this extension, you agree to the license terms...” which is unique to the Microsoft closed source extensions.
And mining the uranium (at Jachymov) were partly German war prisoners and later Czechslovak political prisoners.
Depends on the country. Poland had intra-day free interbank transfer system called Elixir since 1994.

Basically it pays to be backward with these things - you skip many bad solutions and can learn from others. Our bank system was reconstructed almost from scratch in early 90s so it's quite modern now.
SEPA really is great. Would be awesome if more of the world (including the US) adopted IBAN - maybe it would lead to a similarly cheap and fast global payment area.
Bolt in Unity is _very_ nice. Seriously. Not "code grade" kinds of nice, but plenty good enough for map logic.
Google does the same or even worse with "open source" Android and chrome.
This process is nearly instant in every country I have used it in except for the US, where it inexplicably takes 20 seconds of waiting both pre and post pin entry.
Can you give some examples? I haven’t seen Google close source something lately, except for Go’s package hosting server (which makes me inclined to believe you, I just haven’t heard of other instances).
>C# is a better language by far and the .NET runtime is a better runtime by far.

Big nono!!
It's not in the UK, we have a serious political taboo against what's seen as a "papers please" kind of authoritarianism. Tony Blair tried to introduce mandatory ID cards and even with his massive majority it was politically impossible.

The ironic thing is that despite this widespread attitude, we have genuinely scary levels of mass surveillance.
“So far” with respect to some particular problem you’re solving or process you’re following. If you’re talking about all problems, you’d have to do some research. Perhaps OEIS [1] could help you. Or you could interview some number theorists to find out who is working in large numbers and ask them.

Asking the question in general, though, is equivalent to asking “what is the largest number anyone has thought of?” I would have to interrogate your motives to know why you would want to ask such a question.

Intuitionists would scoff at the idea of a “number larger than anyone could describe.” That’s heading into the territory of the interesting number paradox [2]. Intuitionism avoids this paradox by stating that numbers (and sets of numbers) have no existence independent of their construction.

[1] https://oeis.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Covid-19 is Accelerating the Future of APM
Exactly. And it's important to write articles like this about VSCode, Android, Chrome, and any others engaging in this (increasingly common) marketing approach.
This is assuming you can survive the short term impact, that impact would be no joke.
I found the article I read about the 3rd AoA sensor.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/europ...
Because he say's a hammer is far better then a screwdriver, and Metal is far superior to wood.
Because the Chinese cyber threat is incredibly real. The United States should be playing hard ball. The US TikTok systems are compromised by Chinese spammers already.
The 737 MAX with the MCAS fix is as secure as any 737 out there. Perhaps even more so due to having new engines, all of them being new air frames and because to my understanding in the review of the software they found and fixed another issue which always has been present.

One can certainly argue, that Boeing should have invested into a true 737 successor a long time ago instead of updating the old design, especially with all the restrictions of keeping the same type rating.

The problem is, this hasn't happened. Assuming air travel bounces back to pre-Covid levels, there is a huge demand for 737-class airplanes. Like thousands. Creating a replacement (which Boeing really should start like yesterday) will take about 10 years, you don't want to rush that, if you don't want to create an even larger security problem (just look to the 787 for initial problems and ongoing reports about manufacturing issues). So for the next 10 years, the option is either to fly the 737 MAX, fly much less or with aging 737 air frames from the pre-MAX times.
> Not sure what are you saying here.

I'm asking.

Often times, people make claims based on what they think should be happening. That doesn't mean it is happening.