skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point spectactularly. Words do not exist in groups of "These are always ok to say" and "Never say these", their meaning depends entirely on context. You should be aware of this considering the main derogatory term for African Americans and other black people is also used as a synonym for "brother" depending on the context it is said. If you're saying that Jewish people should phase out this word because some people use it in a negative way, that's a flawed argument, it's akin to saying we should ban anything that can be used a weapon - meaningless considering anything can be used as a weapon.

Rather than trying to convince people that certain words are always ok or not ok to use, you should give reasons for others to reconsider their usage of the word and prompt them to think of the context before using the word. Then you let them make the choice of when to use it.
> Their war chest is funded by gambling mechanics, mostly gambling mechanics which are actively aimed at minors.

Funny that Apple wants a cut of this action.

In fact the App Store was a giant contributor to the free with In App Purchase model of software, undermining the previous paid upfront model.
The problem is you can’t have two different threads operating in different working directories. One “cd” would overwrite another. You could have different processes but then you’re now recreating a shell, in which case you might as well just write it in Bash (for example).
Oh, it was "HTTPS Everywhere" which kept on redirecting me to the https version without me noticing! Thanks a lot!
Nothing compels them. It is who they are. And they are not alone in being like this.

The better question is, why are so many people in positions of authority like this?
I think a bit of both to be honest. I don't generally surf the internet while in working-hours, but I always make an exception every Thursday to read the current LWN release.

Computers are my hobby, not just my job, so I feel that I research and experiment in my own time. But I'm reasonably happy to experiment at work, in short doses.
Local apps

- I can install once and check signature.

- I can store them in a backup for later forensics if they do something bad.

- I can firewall the process only to required services.

- I can disable outside network access for local process.

- I can analyze what it does before and after the fact.

- They can be scanned by a malware scanner / virus scanner.

Web apps:

- need network access to load (and probably at runtime?),I cant firewall off...

- can be refreshed by app provider - targetted to a specific user.

- Traffic is bundled together with chromium?

- I have no clue after the fact what happened. I cant sniff https traffic that app used to load its code...

Bad App owners should be considered as well... or well intentioned but hacked ones...
Mostly better performance / less CPU usage. NTFS-3G is typically CPU-limited even for sequential access, which isn't exactly a great spot for a FS driver to be in.
Recently I've been working with cljfx for developing a JavaFX app with clojure. cljfx does a great job of creating a re-frame like development experience for JavaFX.
Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
That's not the only "clean" energy that's hard to keep for long with low costs:

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...
I use this for configuration on some equipment I sell. The unit has a local web server that lets you configure IP, ID information. It works as a captive portal. Then you just plug your ethernet cable in and its good to go. (I use a Pi 3 in the product).
When I first was getting into coding while doing test engineering, this was one of my greatest complaints. The software engineers would hand me bash scripts filled with very clever, but unexplained and esoteric one-liners.

Whenever something didn't work (and it didn't, because perfectly interfacing with embedded hardware is tough), I had two options: spend literal hours on Google and Stack Overflow, or go stand outside their cubicle and hope they had time for me.

I'll take a verbose function with clearly-followable logic over an amazing one-liner with a maze of options and hacks any day.
You can use ExtJS. Works in all modern browsers, both on desktop and smart phones.
Personally, the biggest win was to learn how to leave tasks unfinished.

This pays off in two ways - firstly I finish work when I planned to instead of "just five more minutes", which inevitably spins off into a series of open ended diversions. Secondly, it means I can start the next day with something I can sink in to, avoiding the feeling of procrastination and guilt that comes along with that, ultimately resulting in working later to pay back that lost time.
I see a couple options:

* Belgians do their own trials to determine vaccine risks vs coronavirus risks.

* Negotiate a new price that accounts for liability.

* Negotiate with another manufacturer that allows liability.

* Wait a year or more to better understand vaccine risks.
You can set up Google Voice, then remove the number. You can continue to use it indefinitely without another phone number attached.
Yea I don't fully understand it either, to be honest. Also it's interesting because in a recent HN discussion about Jeff Bezos courting early investors, the second employee of Amazon showed up in the comment section (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245909) and he mentions Ingram:

> I remember that not long after we "opened the doors" to the public, we had a visit from some reps from either Ingram or Baker & Taylor, the US's two biggest book distributors (I forget which). Part of the reason Jeff had picked Seattle was that it was within the 1 day delivery radius for both companies. These guys came over to see what we were doing and they were completely flabbergasted. They could not believe that a few people in a small commercial building in Seattle had built what we had already done by that point. They had no idea of the technologies involved, they had no grasp of the vision. But we never had to convince companies like this - we just ordered books from them, as their customers, and then sold them to ours.

In some ways it's like Ingram is striking back at Amazon, and sharing part of the proceeds with independent bookstores. My current feeling is that it has its place. I don't want Amazon to accumulate even more control and kill the diversity of businesses that make up our society.
I use interesting packages.

lsp, dumb-jump, projectile et cetera.
I would call those platforms much more symbiotic in their existance.

Also considering if they win this much more clear cut case, then they or someone else would try to apply it to those markets.
> Explicitly classifying LGBT as a separate group with different thought processes that could impact how a job is performed is inherently discriminatory, even if it is done for positive reasons.

It's not about "different thought processes", it's about "different lived experiences". We live in a society that is so completely bound up in its conception of the "default" person that we don't even know what we don't know. There are specific advocacy groups just for LGBT people in tech for exactly this reason: outintech.com, for instance. And here's an example of ways that LGBT people find themselves unable to work in environments that don't respect their views: https://www.geekwire.com/2015/out-in-tech-what-its-like-to-b...

To think about this as expecting LGBT people (or any group) to bring some different kind of thought is not the point at all. The point is to expand the range of people whose views we consider in the ways we act and in what we create at every level.
From a solar installer in Colorado: https://blog.namastesolar.com/hail-solar-panels-how-much-hai....

seems they're likely damaged by hail roughly the size of a golf ball, but in the link above they point to an example where 2.75in diameter hail did little damage to panels at NREL.
Amazon absolutely has the right to do that. As does Apple.

Government forcing companies to sell other company’s products is a terrible policy and completely contrary to the free market.
> 1 million old technology (burning)

AFAIK nuclear is older than oxidation/burning.

On a more serious note, burning has been a source of power only since about the steam engine, so about 300 years.
I've learned to no longer be surprised by it. There are a huge amount of people in this industry who have staked their personal identity in a brand. Apple, Tesla, Google, or whatever. It's no different than the high school behavior I grew up with where you were allowed be one of three types of people: Chevy, Ford, or Dodge.
For areas that aren't ultra new the space of good questions is kinda saturated.

This is less true for answers - even with old questions with accepted answers you can gain points by providing a better answer. Not necessarily better in terms of pure information but maybe better edited or explained more clearly.

And obviously you can still rack points by quickly answering the bad questions (before they get deduped or closed).

Disclaimer: this is only about my experience, not implying anything about Gordon Linoff - I have zero knowledge about his record on SO.
I’ve found partitions helpful. Slack is work, Discord is personal. Email is personal, Twitter is work.
I think you’re making too much of this. OK, then frankly, no: I don’t see this as a fight. I see this as paperwork flying back and forth, with nary a courtroom or judge or battleground to be found. This is just some routine filings that don’t IMHO raise to the level of a fight. I, too, feel like you’re trying to deliberately misunderstand what I’m trying to say.
This. Or, the unknowable lost opportunities that never materialized. How many relationships never formed, how many business never created, etc is unmeasurable but absolutely real and the impact from those lost opportunities will be felt in some way shape and form...
Coal necessarily produces waste. It's an inviolable law of thermodynamics. Burning coal cannot produce enough energy to capture the waste products of burning coal.

Solar, on the other hand, can account for its own waste stream, even in energy terms, because the source of its energy comes from outside the system boundary.
Not at all, let's give them a profit, but pay for a decent, reliable product, that's the idea. You don't pay beforehand for something that can potentially turn to be a disaster, without any liability whatsoever.
This is demonstrably untrue (from Hey.com to Netflix/Amazon and in between there’s plenty of ways to not give up 30/15% of your revenue). But even if it were true, it’s the same world that didn’t largely have computers in people’s pockets 15 years ago, and that then involved cell phone network operators defining 100% of the installed content on those computers. So this is one of those things where you can be as irate or happy as you want to be.
Please don't put nationalistic flamebait in your HN posts. I'm sure you could make your substantive point without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well sure, and that is a perfectly valid comment at the micro level. However, we can relatively clearly see that the COVID-linked death reporting is under-reported from mortality baselines.

Therefore it's highly likely that for a given death it is more likely to be incorrectly categorise as non-COVID when COVID was responsible, than to be incorrectly designated COVID.
It doesn’t. Purchases need to be done through the audible web.

Even the amazon app doesn’t allow buying kindle ebooks directly.
It is mentioned in the third page of the original Hyperloop paper: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
>What's a reasonable way to protect yourself here?

Refusing to travel to the United States would prevent this from happening.
Impressive!

Personally, I am a few thousand places behind, but still in the top 0.2%.

How? I asked and answered a few hundred questions early on, years ago, when SO was new and interesting...

Now those answers are old and, like most answers on SO, out of date. Usually when I google something technical and get seemingly the exact right question asked on SO, the answers are no longer correct. Software versions change.

And yet I still get a steady trickle of votes, forever increasing the gulf between outdated and no-longer-participating people like me and anyone starting on SO today.
> Also considering if they win this much more clear cut case, then they or someone else would try to apply it to those markets.

The case is definitely clear cut, but not to Epic's advantage.

I have no love for Apple, but at the same time Epic doesn't have a leg to stand on here. This is two extremely wealthy parties fighting over a giant pile of money, and Epic is cynically trying to claim they're fighting for the consumer.
Thanks, maybe it was the expectations set by the tone of The Register article, but the mailing list discussion seemed mostly very reasonable...
It's a beautiful metaphor.

Puppies can bring a lot of joy, but they certainly bring obligations.

Really spot on.
A lot of you otherwise smart folks are misinformed about patents
There's a lot of misinformation on the site about patents. Folks - yes, novely is still required for patents under 35 USC Sec. 102, and nonobviousness is also required under 35 USC Sec. 103. Nonobviousness means taking multiply novely destroying references and combining them together in an obvious way. That's true for all utility patents, be they for software, hardware, life sciences, biotech etc.
The baseless speculation is that Apple will escalate this. Given that there’s no evidence in either way, I don’t think it’s reasonable to speculate on what Apple might do in the future when they’ve given no indication that they’ll do anything at all.
Which means we need battery storage at LCOE < 3 cents/kwh so a battery that lasts many cycles (> 4000) would really help in lowering costs.
You deduced that from his comment?
This article misses the important piece of information that AstraZeneca is producing this vaccine at cost. They're already taking a large financial risk up front by scaling up production in advance for a vaccine that may not pass stage 3 trials, so may not be approved for use. They will make no profit from it, so you cannot really expect them to also accept liability. These are unusual times, and they require unusual approaches.
Their stunt doesn't actually demonstrate that Apple's commission harms consumer welfare. If it did any retailer with a margin over the price of a manufacturer's goods would also be harming consumer welfare.
I'm thinking 3 months would be ideal
> irrespective of the edition or number of updates installed on the user's computer.

That is the problem though, some user expected software to meet the platform he is using, use latest function the platform introduce, meet the brand new style guide. Claims the software is creepyware if it isn't.

And of course, the developer don't have infinite time and can't meet every demands the users request.

Making functions works between different platform is tough enough. The developer is unlikely to have enough time handles all extra optional platform best practices under the situation that developer don't have enough time to make one software for each platform at first place.
Qt embedded is actually pretty nifty. I converted an old GTK "bare metal" interface UI over to Qt once while keeping the "business" logic basically the same other than a couple of tweaks, it went pretty well. The app was pretty well partitioned between backend logic and GUI logic so it wasn't a bad experience at all. All in C++
Curious what Twitter would do if this was contested later.
Vacaville Man fends off fire with Bud Light
Ah, wonderful. A platform where Apple can remove backward compatibility even more easily, and which forces you out of the other subscription services.

The big difference between games and other software, is that typical devs also profit from Apple making changes, e.g. Adobe managing to deprecate their previous licences and switch to subscription-only without backlash since it's Apple changing the platform. So Adobe loses a bit from porting, but gains more from new subscriptions.

Old games are almost never ported as is, at best they're "remade/remastered" which is a serious investment. So Apple making changes and choosing their own APIs is a pure loss for gamedevs. That's hardly the only problem but that's a big one.
I work there, not on anything remotely related to this.

For me the "justification" is mainly three things.

1. What Facebook is doing is not morally wrong.

2. This is not a moral issue, it's a political one with powers much larger than Facebook duking it out on the fact-check
surfaces.

3. IMO the fact checkers use marginal cases to reinforce a political agenda. Often "fact checks" will call exaggerations made by conservatives "false" while calling similar exaggerations made by others "partly false" or "mixed". I am absolutely not a conservative and generally despise the conservative publishers subject to fact-check drama, but it's also very clear to me that these appeals make treatment more fair.
> rather than V and MC

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, so I apologize if I misunderstood.

I would expect American Express--a lending bank--to track more closely with Discover Financial--also a lending bank--rather than Visa or MasterCard, which are card network operators. Visa and MasterCard don't write the actual lines of credit issued to customers; the card-issuing financial institutions (Bank of America, Chase, Your Local Credit Union[tm], and so on) do and the latter carry the loan risk.

American Express and Discover also happen to operate their own card networks and issue card-accessed loans on them. You can get an American Express network card from other banks (like Wells Fargo and Bank of America) and you used to be able to get Discover network cards from other banks but I can't think of a non-debit one off the top of my head at the moment.
Downvoted without any argument for a valid counterpoint. This site is going downhill with low information posts.
+1 here - sales dominant in B2B, but brand >> product in B2C, look at all the most successful B2C companies
Dynamic, server-side rendered views

HTML snippets rendered for free (no need for an external HTML renderer)

Lots of little things like <video> being enough to embed a video into the view versus subclassing a C++ Qt class or whatever song and dance it is in other frameworks. It's productivity that's the killer feature. You can theoretically do everything Electron does in Java Swing, but it would require reimplementing most of the web platform.
Which same chance is that? Please fill me in, I've never negotiated with Epic's game store.
For people new to working from home, having work clothes is one of the most beneficial things I do personally. I would say over the last 15 years of working remotely this is the most impactful intentional thing I do for my productivity and work life balance.

Plus, it’s a super easy thing to try for a few weeks to see if it works for you.
You could try to push your luck, if you're an American citizen.

More realistic is to just wipe your phone and reset it to factory settings using a throwaway google account. They probably won't ask for it but that way it looks unremarkable and you don't have to waste your time arguing with them.

I wouldn't even bring a computer across the border anymore, at least not for a vacation. I always use full disk encryption and I am not interested in giving the CBP (which I'm sure has great IT security) copies of all my confidential work documents to just leave sitting around for the next 20 to 75 years waiting to get exfiltrated by who knows what hacker group will get to it first.
Important? Probably not.

Busy? Absolutely.
As I said, there's plenty to hate about Apple as well. But as bad as that IAP is for companies, it's actually not terrible for customers - they're only having to interact with one trusted party when it comes to their payments. The cost will be higher (which is not nice) since companies will pass that cost on to their customers.

This in comparison to the wild west of submitting your payment information to every Tom, Dick and Mary out there.
> The majority of what software engineers build is new territory.

I think this is where we just fundamentally disagree.

I can send you research about zero defect software, or the economics of software quality, or even research of across many disciplines how delivering value earlier is not in conflict with planning. Time spent planning in all cases saves time and money. However, if you think it's all going to be invalid because of your perception of new territory, then our discussion probably won't go very far.

I encourage you to read Capers Jones and Tom DeMarco, but they're not new.
Maybe interesting idea for long distance engine, worth exploring.
>And how would you prove intent?

They don't have to prove it, in the sense that you prove a mathematical proof.

They just need to agree you had that intent.
Zero. It's take-it-or-leave-it. Standard contract negotiation "tactics" these days.
Rock Pi 4C: Dual Display M.2 NVMe SBC
Many Americans don’t get those rights in practice - although I don’t think there have been any cases of the third ammendment being broken recently.
I was under the impression that - baring physical damage - solar panels won't just stop working one day as the article implies, but they merely decrease in efficiency over time. Most solar panels today come with a manufacturer's guarantee that after 25 years, they will still be 80-something percent efficient.

At this point they would have paid for themselves over many times, and would now be generating free electricity, so for most installations there is little point in replacing them.
> How about showing me a sound final (100k yr) storage for nuclear waste

You don't need one. You reprocess the waste; then you only need about 100 years storage, not 100,000, for what's left over, and we already have plenty of storage methods that will meet that need. Every nuclear-using country other than the US already does this. The only reason the US doesn't is stupid politics.
Reminds me of investing... the people who invested earlier get more ROI over time.
I don’t think you having to either A) remember what email you used or B) creating a new account is a big ask when the alternative is leaking your account presence on a given system. Not everyone wants other people to be able to essentially query a given app for an email account.
I apologise for the uncharitable reading, but this just sounds like you’ve reduced your information consumption to free up brain cycles which you’ve just reinvested into productivity porn instead of validating your business idea.
This is getting tiring... No, nobody is insane enough to only use batteries. They are primarily used to load-shift by a few hours within a 24 hour window. This is mostly useful for PV because it has a very low window during which it generates energy. Longer term storage would simply involve power to gas infrastructure. Alternatively you can use natural gas as your storage mechanism until power to gas has been implemented.

A lot of complaints against renewables are rooted in the myth of "baseload". For renewables to be effective they have to be available 24/7 except this is completely wrong. The atmosphere doesn't care if you pollute at 3 am or at 3 pm. A kilogram of CO2 is a kilogram of CO2. All you have to look at is how much renewable energy has been produced per year and divide it by total energy produced per year to calculate the renewable share. As long as that number goes up you're reducing CO2 emissions. Of course at some point you hit a roadblock where that share ceases to go up because you need to store energy but no country on earth has reached that point.

Here is an in-depth article that explains how 100% renewables could be implemented: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/09/correcting-anti-renewab...