skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was the leader of the LoCo Team[1] for my state in Brazil, helped translate Ubuntu to Brazilian Portuguese, gave talks around the country to help promote it, handled installation, and support for Ubuntu in public universities, and schools, distributed install CDs, and merchandise in install parties, and events, and had the biggest blog about Ubuntu in Brazil at the time, Ubuntu-BR-SC.

Canonical, and the Ubuntu Council recognize a few contributors, and grant them the "status" of Ubuntu Member[2] as a sign of recognition of significant, and sustained contribution to Ubuntu or the Ubuntu community.

The membership gives you a few perks, like a certificate signed by Mark Shuttleworth, an @ubuntu.com email address, and a few other stuff[3], but these perks are nothing when compared to the experiences I had along the way. I got to test Ubuntu Touch, participate in a closed beta for Steam for Linux, have a face-to-face chat with Richard Stallman, talk with Mark Shuttleworth, and meet a huge number of people so much smarter than me at a young age, which helped shape who I am as an adult.

I have been calling Ubuntu my favourite operating system since 2008, and I am what I am today because of the journey I went through with it, but as of last week, I have replaced it with openSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop, and will probably do the same with my servers. I no longer contribute in a serious way, and the decisions Canonical is taking really rub me the wrong way.

Hopefully, I will find a new home in the openSUSE community, and a new journey will start.

[1] https://loco.ubuntu.com/about-loco/

[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership#The_Perks
Ya. They have no defensible reason.
Turns out you just have to go thru the intermediate step of pioneering cloud services and becoming the leader of the space.
> Leverage company resources to build a open source solution

This part requires permission from the company in some jurisdictions
The Darwin on ARM Project[1] attempted just that. It depends on what you mean by "iOS" if you want to say they accomplished it - for example, they got XNU, the kernel, running on a Nokia N900, but they never got a UI up and running (only single-user mode).

[1] https://github.com/darwin-on-arm
If I ever want a landlord who is going to trash me in the press while I am renting, I know where to look.
Sorry, wrote that and then went offline for a couple of days. Perhaps it's my own cynicism about corporate engagement coming through, and that may be unfair given how open GitLab is as a company -- but the sentence beneath that heading just says "we're accepting community feedback, write your thoughts over here".

I guess the core of my (admittedly petty) complaint about the language is that it doesn't really indicate a willingness to listen, more than it steers people towards a box in the corner they can vent into. A bit of language along the lines of "we think this is the right decision, but we're willing to reconsider" would maybe come off as more considerate, I guess?
Coronavirus clobbers Uber, leading to $1.8B quarterly loss
For the curious, the bit.ly link points to: https://eupedromasid.wixsite.com/website
An insufficient auto-formatter is very frustrating ...

I think there are very smart older programmers who don't appreciate this fact properly. They sort of have a belief that there does not exist a "sufficiently good" good code formatter for all users -- and so therefore code formatter should have tons of configuration options to satisfy a range of style choices.

I think that opinion belongs in the past (with the discussion of tabs vs spaces). We have witnessed the existence of sufficiently high quality opinionated code formatters (java, gofmt, prettier, ...) -- and these code formatters without style choices produce a better world.

The way to get there is to find and prefer the non controversial formatting choices -- that means style preferences are abstracted away and consensus building grows from examples of code that everyone agrees is wrong and wants to fix.

The rust formatting issue he highlights makes me really annoyed -- the format chosen by the auto formatter for that sample code is not the best for that situation -- and I'm pretty sure it would be non-controversial for folks to agree on that ... am i right?

I'm doing some swift in xcode after awhile using an ide that lets me have "reformat on save" and the experience of "reformat on save" is good enough that I think it probably should be adopted as a first class goal of language designers -- there should be a language level "reformat on save" story that language designers assume will be used ... Baking in reformat on save as an assumed feature at language design time could allow creation or recovery from "write only" syntaxes -- (nice to write but ambiguous to read) -- either added on purpose or by mistake. Would also allow for really powerful Language evolution cleanup opportunities and the opportunity to introduce semantic changes where old functionality is preserved with complete compatibility until the source file is interactively edited from within an editor (eg the semantic change produces a code diff) ...
Indians and Asians are basically considered white in tech, especially if they're male. And white women have so much white privilege, they're practically men. So you see, all those founders were pretty much white men. /s
Hi,

Yes, these are available by default.

- Cross filtering: https://muzejs.org/demos/wa/latest/crossfiltering-with-dynam...

- Drill-down with custom drill path: https://muzejs.org/demos/wa/latest/drilldown

- Drill into grid: https://muzejs.org/demos/wa/latest/show-datagrid-on-doublecl...
Pfizer and Moderna each are lined up to produce 100 million doses each by end of the year. Pfizer’s CEO thinks we can get approval by October. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/washington-post-live/wp...

AstraZenica also to provide 300 million doses starting in October. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/05/21/trump-administrati...
This sounds like a "golden hammer" argument[1], basically saying that SQL can do everything Django can do, and if you know SQL really, really well you can do powerful stuff which would be clunky in Django. Of course that's true, because it's true of any two tools which have overlapping functionality. But for the vast majority of things you need to do on a daily basis, and for developers with >10x more experience with Python than SQL it just doesn't make sense to use raw SQL any more than absolutely necessary. As soon as you use raw SQL in Django most of the maintainability advantages of an ORM disappear.

All that said, I totally agree about throwing out DB portability for anything but the simplest apps (or libraries, of course). Portability is extremely costly in terms of which features we have available to and how maintainable the resulting code is, so it should only be a goal when absolutely necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
The Impact of Caloric Restriction on the Epigenetic Signatures of Aging
But that was always the case? At least as late as 2001, they had weekly milk delivery in Moncton, New Brunswick. It cost the same as milk in a store. You put your order in an envelope with some cash for next week. It wasn't just milk, you could get most non-frozen dairy that way.

Is it at all the same as Amazon? No. But it shows that you can be profitable delivering low value items right to peoples doorstep.
Microsoft vendor marketing rebates in exchange for “recommends Windows” labeling
Private black car service means Jeaves is waiting for you in an S Class anywhere you go in the world. Uber Black is basically just higher tier Uber, they don't sit outside idle waiting for you to finish your meetings though, they're just an app way to hail an airport cab. Again, big difference.
What do you mean by patriarchy? If you mean traditional gender roles, what about country that have strong gender roles, but a fairly low suicide gender ratio such as india and china?
I once worked at a place that required passwords to be changed every month and contain at least one upper and lower case letter, digit, and punctuation, and not match any previous password.

So the password for August, 2020 would be “August, 2020”.
Regwall bypass: http://archive.li/WXucX

Title surgery to fit HN length limits.

Cited documents:

https://download.microsoft.com/documents/France//Partner/201...

https://docplayer.net/7300568-Oem-reseller-incentives-progra...
> You're using dogma to justify that.

I'm not using dogma at all, let alone using it to "justify" anything. It simply is how it is. There is no panacea. You're totally captured by a utopian vision which is why you can't comprehend that.

Even countries with universal healthcare can't provide healthcare services to everyone who needs it or wants it. Healthcare resources are finite. No amount of arguing on your part will change that.
Oh I am sure. Cash management is a billion dollar segment of consulting. Unsurprising that software has arrived to manage it.
It wasn't a 9 year old reported bug that took 9 years to fix. It was a 9 year old undetected bug that took... I'm not sure, it looks like a 1 week from discovery by the Ethereum team to a fixed released by the Go team.
Technically not since ~2000. Windows uses UTF-16 throughout the OS. That is, Windows strings will be encoded and decoded as UTF-16 not UCS-2.

However the tricky bit is that the kernel doesn't enforce this so it's possible for programmers to intentionally make broken UTF-16 strings. A broken UTF-16 string shouldn't be considered UCS-2 just because it happens to be a valid UCS-2 string (otherwise all bit patterns could be called "UCS-2" so long as they are an even number of bytes in length).
Good point. I agree Congress was notably less partisan during the Clinton era.
I use the optional approach for using it as a SSH ProxyCommand because it’s nice not to have the fidelity gaps like this.
Couchsurfing was a completely different arrangement though and that's why it was free. It's like comparing staying at your aunt's house for a weekend to booking a room at a motel, the expectations are just a lot different.
How is ancestry.com a startup at this point? It was founded in 1996.
US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
Russia plans mass vaccination campaign in October
There are some links to interesting papers further down the page. Look for "(pdf)".
Realistically what ends up happening is that the DB gets abstracted away to a painfully feature-free lowest common denominator.
Ask HN: Designer to Developer Handoff
I am a fullstack developer, and in my opinion the current method that my company uses for a designer to developer hand off is a bit lacking in efficiency.

The current method is usually a designer will provide a developer with a Photoshop (or very occasionally an Illustrator) file containing the entire applications design. It is then up to the developer to export assets (both quick exporting things as pngs, going through and separating shadows from assets, or creating assets from the layers provided) and dig through the file to determine fonts and placement of items.

Is it a common expectation that a developer should be spending a good chunk of time in Adobe on asset manipulation?

Additionally does anyone have any process or program suggestions that may make life easier?
Whether reformat is called on save is up to your text editor and has nothing to do with the language.
Well - not me personally. I'm already in the system. (The one way to be sure Mormons won't have you baptized after your death: join up beforehand!) I didn't mean to imply that proxy baptism is a bad thing. I just meant it's going to happen regardless of any other data-extraction schemes any other organizations come up with.
> I cannot help but wonder who has the money to throw away on such obviously flawed plans.

I've enviously pondered that very same topic ever since I stumbled on HN 8 years ago and became enlightened to the existence of a whole new world I never even dreamed existed.

I've never witnessed the funny money leprechauns myself, but stories like this keep my dream alive that I still may some day.
No, that's the point. You aim at the guys for whom, if they're lucky, they can win and win big. Then you attempt to cover as much of that space as efficiently with your money as possible.

That's what the VC world is about. Luck is factored in. You don't make the waves, but you do need to be out there on your surfboard if you want to catch one.
There are lots of ways to host video content that have global reach. What you don’t get is youtube’s discoverability. So you would have to be more creative about finding your audience.
one <cr> does it for me and no ctrl+c/d needed
Government bodies restrict "all possible treatments" all the time, especially when they are unproven and have side-effects. There's a whole FDA for that purpose. It came into being, among other reasons, because history taught us that those with a deadly disease are some of the most desperate of our fellow citizens, and are vulnerable to becoming victims of charlatans and snake oil salesmen. It is, perhaps, conservative in its risk estimates, but that conservatism grows from experience paid for in blood and lives.

And it's not just the FDA. As you've observed, multiple standards bodies and professional organizations have cautioned against off-label use of HCQ for this purpose. These bodies don't all have the same incentives, when they agree on a topic, It can be taken as a signal that their consensus is probably correct.

And the larger concern isn't even doctors prescribing it. As citstion 2 indicates, the larger concern is the public deciding (partially based on the words of our president... for all the concern that your first citation expresses about politicians interfering with medical care, she sure seems to give a pass on the most powerful man in the federal executive speaking well beyond his experience and understanding) that this thing is a miracle cure and trying to self-dose with black market acquired medication, which will increase the death toll. Although, I suppose, it may have an unfortunate net positive side effect for the community at large... Not all of those overdoses will make their way to the hospital before they die, So there will be more resources freed up to treat covid cases and other medical conditions.

That is not a solution we should pursue or encourage, of course. Not if our goal is saving lives.
tilde dot is life.
I seriously wonder if these guys (and they are mainly guys) have ever cooked before. Seriously, you go from upper-middle class+ upbringing to 4-10 years at Stanford to eating every single meal out because no time working on startup... like literally every twentysomething "founder type" I ever met lived on takeout and couldn't cook for shit. Cooking is so obviously the absolute last thing that's ever going to get automated, as anybody that's spent appreciable amounts of time in the kitchen can tell you. I can only assume the disrupters are drawn to this industry because they suppose, wrongly, that everyone hates to cook as much as they do.
The project uses PyTorch for development and ONNX for the production system
There was a thread about it a few months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359820
half a liter sweet jesus thats a lot
Weird - it works for me, and it should be totally in the ssh client; I can't even see where the shell is involved. Are you doing something weird with key bindings? Does it work if you temporarily run without your zsh config?
The article is a little misleading. I too operate without VC funding and behave in a ways similar to the small business owner -- because I am one. But to apply the philosophy of a small business to a startup would be a big mistake. Startup founders and their VCs behave the way they do, because they are optimising for different things than a small business owner like me. I am optimising for survival, a startup founder is optimising for the expected size of the outcome. The possibility of ruin in that expected outcome is taken into account in the VCs calculation. As long as one is clear about what one is optimising for, both strategies are fine. Problems only begin when you take VC money and behave like a small business owner. Or behave like you have VC money when you are, in fact, a small business owner.
I used research records from the LDS, twenty years ago. I ordered film from Salt Lake City once, too, and waited a month for it. I also used other sources that are not LDS, but long ago. I used Ancestry email listserv at that time.

I believe the parent comment misrepresents what I saw, at that time. Some sources that were "family Bible" sort of records, were marked as such. Authoritative sources, like the microfilm of late 1800's US Census, were also marked for what they were. US Daughters of the American Revolution a bit, too.

The late 90s saw a coalescing of previously disparate sources, and even "high quality" records turned out to have important errors, in some cases. The lower quality was DAR, which was (for me) shown to be inconsistant. I have not looked at these sources in any recent era, so things may have changed with monetization.
Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
This virus is novel. The whole human population is immunologically naive to it. We don't know what affect it will have on us. Suppression/eradication is the only way forward.
I don’t think anybody cares that much about one to one communications. You don’t know or care what your neighbor is communicating to their friends. When things are public and ad supported, then people (and advertisers) care.
Oh no, it's the opposite. Established companies could be established for no good reason. ULA was in space, they're the experts, but they could be beaten. The incumbent could be just a result of survivorship bias. That's what presents an opportunity. If the incumbent is just very good at the product, the only part you can disrupt is margin (or verticalize or something, but lets set aside that) and you don't want to be in a price war unless you're uniquely suited to it. So you don't fight those guys.

So you count on the market leader being disruptable, which is often because they're just there as accidental survivors.
It works in ZSH; press Enter first. (Enter, ~, .)
I look forward to Microsoft adding support for Playstation Now. I’m serious. I want all the platforms to work with each other. Let the best content win.
Reminds me a little of a place I worked.

They sold very expensive devices that were actually an off-the-shelf 1U PC with custom software (which provided the real value). The problem — and this dates it — was that the PCs had a game port¹, which gave away that this custom hardware was really just a regular consumer PC. So they had some fancy plastic panels made to clip on the front and hide the game port.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port
Here is the [link to the investment](https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/ancestr...). The way they justified it to investors is that this removed the threat of FS ever competing with then in their core business. Back when Ancestry was public, they listed FS as their [#1 competitor](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1469433/000095012309...). Here is a [story](http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2012/07/ancestrycom-laps-fami...) from 2012 showing how the two companies were measured against each other for key content digitizations
It certainly was not always the case, but I think people assumed that it would be the case going forward (and given that grocery delivery has not recovered, it probably still is the case in grocery).

Walmart was the established model for "best practices" in selling general goods for a long time. Now, the Walmart model is showing its weaknesses, which people assumed did not exist.
What languages require string types to be valid Unicode? Go for example let’s you put anything in a string; it’s only Unicode if you put Unicode into the string including via creating string literals.
I feel that virtual or real embodiment is probably a good way to acquire sensory grounding of language and common sense. But I don't believe it's the only way to acquire it or necessary for the distribution or use of all of this knowledge.

What is necessary is a way to encode spatial-temporal information at different levels of abstraction. Maybe the best way we have to do that is neural networks. Or maybe something like networks of networks.

But it's a bit of a leap from the idea that training on text only is inadequate (which seems obviously true to me) to the conclusion that embodiment is necessary.

The next step might be to train on captioned video.
Seems like disrupting the food business is fraught with risk. Most restaurants work in pretty small margins. I guess using machines to eliminate labor is one way. One easy way to increase profits is to sell alcohol. Much better profits and if done right, easy to stop waste.
> a future version of rustc might deprecate or remove that functionality

Are you sure about this? My understanding is that stable Rust limits itself to compatibility breaks that are both rare and trivially worked around. (Like adding a new inherent method to a standard type that happens to have the same name as your trait method.) Even in a new edition, I think there's a very heavy leaning towards changes that can be automated by `cargo fix`. Removing this idiom seems like it would be much too big of a change. (The obvious automatic fix -- just inserting `pub` as needed -- would presumably make a bunch of currently safe APIs unsound.)
Trump said as much a few days ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/trump-...
Yes but there is no reason a language ecosystem can't assumes that this functionality is present, implemented in canonical form, and that it is a language use error not to enable.

If the language designers assume the capability exists and will be used -- they can specifically evolve the language based on this assumption. All thats needed is a super high quality, compiler-provided implementation of the functionality -- and to set the expectation -- "sorry you have to wire this functionality up -- otherwise your code is going to be more likely to break if you edit the source files over time while also upgrading your compiler over time."

I'm benoaning the fact that no languages I'm aware of have advertised such a position as part of their evolution plan ...
It's simply good to ask questions to show your interest in how others reason about.
Researchers show holographic AR control system for autonomous drones
> Where is the source of heat in a wall?

The rooms around it.
It seems to me when the company is stable, and the efficiencies come mostly from organising a large workforce MBA's do well. That is what they have been trained to do. Presumably that is what the like doing.

But that all goes to pot when the technology is changing so fast, the battle between companies becomes a battle about who advances technology fastest. In a battle fought over engineering, the engineers have a home ground advantage.

It's impossible not to notice that Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook were all founded by true nerds and when you here their leaders speak, most engineers feel right at home with their reasoning. When Microsoft changed their leadership to a non-nerd, it started to wither and die. Fortunately for them, they fixed that.
Amazon realized early on that technical excellence supports business excellence. Most businesses and governments have not yet come to that conclusion.

Cloud services should have come from HP, Oracle, Google, Yahoo, or any number of actual tech companies. It is an absurdity really that Amazon won the space.
Trump Targets WeChat and TikTok, in Sharp Escalation with China