skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like Emacs shares the same product philosophy of VS Code. Outside of the core functionality everything is an ELisp/Javascript plugin.

That explains Emacs amazing longevity, but as the article points out, Emacs longevity is actually a problem as its keyboard and UI conventions predate the modern conventions that came with Windows and MacOS.
Basketball and football are for the plebs. You can usually detect which sports by taking Census race-income measures then comparing them against the visible racial demographic of participants in the sport.

This works well as a heuristic because visible racial characteristics are visible and the rich don't usually want to play with the poor.
Some of the people replying are reacting as if the fact that there is no law making this particular discrimination illegal means the company's hands were tied. California is an at-will state, the company could have done literally anything it wanted to.
I cannot understand why people pay more money for the privilege of being abused like this by Apple.
Yes it seems to be different everytime I use it. But the one time that the debugger worked was amazing. Wish I could make it happen again.
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GP is right. The code that makes up a PDF is text-based. Those images can be encoded in the PDF file using the ASCIIHexDecode filter, i.e. as editable ASCII text code.
"We see this as an incredible opportunity to expand our Azure-powered AI platform in a way that democratizes AI technology"[1]

> Buys it out of anyone else's hands

> "DEMOCRATIZING ACCESS"

This is hilarious

[1]https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-...
Can we stop foreign students too? They're effectively the same, paying above average fees is the main justification for allowing them to take places.
> but digging any further goes a little over the line into stalking territory as far as i am concerned, even tho a lot of this is publicly available information.

Collecting publicly available information from the web to assess the state and power structure of one of the most widely-used projects on the web is not in any way whatsoever "stalking".

It's not even "sensitive" if it's publicly available.
Thank you for your feedback. When I said "predominantly an enterprise-focused technology", I meant overall popularity for building in-house enterprise products versus developing startup products. Anyway, should I decide to use .NET, I would most likely use a high-quality boilerplate solution as a foundation. Specifically, I'm a big fan of (and have already played with) ASP.NET Boilerplate and its next-gen version called ABP Framework. They also have relevant attractive commercial versions.
StoryPack helps young professionals learn from experts through stories
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Isn't that the very definition of a programming language eco-system? Or is the point you are making being you do not like eco-systems?
Still sounds like some servile function to evoke positive emotions in others is required. Why doing our jobs is not enough? If everyone is doing their jobs, wouldn’t that be “fun” enough? If not, shouldn’t that be a problem with the job description?

This is important because whenever the boundaries are poorly defined, there is room for narcissistic abuse, even if self-inflicted. “Be a joy to work with” could have so many failure modes; the guy who brings up inconvenient truths could be penalized, the useless people pleasers can get ahead. The idea could work to Marie Kondo one’s clothes, but I feel like standards should be different for humans.
> To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120.

Instead try evaluating the success of Area 120 by the number of Google staff members who have had their "incredible journey" itch scratched and then returned to a product or infrastructure team at Google when their Area 120 project is EOL'ed. From a corporate perspective, it's worth spending some money on throw-away projects to retain staff who might otherwise quit to pursue an actual startup.
I think you'd know better than us, honestly. Did you play water polo in high school and only buy a swimsuit?
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Crucial to what? To making content "better", meaning more potent, more addictive, more alluring than real life?

I'd argue that broadcast TV was an okay middle ground, because if you were addicted you were a couch potato. Now, we are all couch potatoes but without the couch, and without the social opprobrium, or even the opposite!, the world is a generally worse place. I mean, I love 3blue1brown, but is he worth the societal cost?
1000RMB per month is currently competitive with ASEAN wages like Vietnam, problem is lack of focus on interior development until recently. Coastal manufactures with 2000RMB wages were shifting to Vietnam due to lack of interior development and US tariffs. Push comes to shove, interior supply chain will be preferenced if policy pressure dictates holding on the domestic manufacturing. Won't stop foreign companies who wants to diversify supply chains though, but would also influence underlying economics of domestic companies moving.

As for work force, China has abundance of cheap labour that's still regionally competitive. Official CCP poverty definition (lower than world bank) is 250RMB/month. Incidentally why Xi's poverty alleviation by 2020 is a meme. There's still 600M Chinese who'll work for 250-1000RMB. That's still multiple medium sized countries worth of "close to nothing" tier labour, competitive from Bangladesh to Vietnam. Real problem is social disruption from outsourcing from coastal to interior provinces, China dealing with coastal rust belt is going to be interesting. Hence new duo circulation / domestic consumption strategy which may or may not pan out.

>unless they are using Uyghur labor

Vocational training covers many sectors not just textiles, and no report alleges these are cheap / unpaid positions, merely forced. Lowest wage for out of province contracts works out to be 2000RMB with state subsidies to companies. Obviously not sustainable for 600M+ Han, but can swing it for "only" 11M Uyghurs because underlying concern is security not cheap labour. I see it like TSA funding, it doesn't make economic sense on it's own, at best it stops a few attacks, at worst it's wasted security theatre. It's "cheap labour" in the sense that state provides subsidies for companies taking on Uyghur workers, but ultimately not sustainable or efficient use of resources. Frame another way, it's also similar to US agriculture industrial policy, subsidize farmers because it makes political sense foremost and some economic sense in that it provides domestic industries some protectionist barriers even though on net it's bad use of resources.

>Chinese ag

They're actually moving towards US style industrial farms for efficiency and improved food security. Rural collectives from land reform legacy is being phased out for some sort of share system with prospectvie big state Ag companies. Will definitely cause social disruption but also long overdue. IMO previous reluctance probably because land reform central to CCP origin story, pretty embarrassing that replacement for CCP core policy = more capitalism.
> Just a lot of noise in the process

Agreed. I was accepted to a top-5 school and rejected from more than one school ranked 25+ (one was >50). I know someone for grad school applied to 5 schools: they got rejected from all 5 schools, reapplied the next year, and got accepted to 3/5.
Hey there! I'm the Tables PM and your comment caught my eye.

I really appreciate that feedback for us, and we're really hoping to make it as useful as possible for you and others! :) As prlambert@ mentioned in another comment, we're kinda like a startup and if things go well, the goal is graduate into larger parts of Google.

A point of clarification on the free tier: we're offering 1000 rows per table--an individual tab within a workspace--which we hope offers a lot of flexibility in mixing and matching data in a workspace to track your work together. If there's particular use cases you have that involve over a 1000 rows, we'd love to hear more about it. Thanks for taking a look at the product!
Gatsby was everyone's darling just a couple of years ago!
How many products has Microsoft discontinued?
If you type Firefox into the Start menu on Windows 10, it shows you Edge first (and twice).

https://i.imgur.com/H550NCa.png
Yep, I love a good static site generator, but I don't think that's what OP was talking about.
More. Go here and download the PDF spec.: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

Look at Chapter 3, Syntax. The code is all text based. We are not talking about the visible characters in a PDF viewer, but the code of the PDF file itself.
I guess they are referring to the Microsoft provided plugins which are proprietary and their license denies usage with any VS code fork. Personally I've never felt the need to use them, but admittedly, I barely use VS code at all.
This is awesome! Sending this to my team now so that I don’t have to purchase solo haha.

I’m wondering what other assets you could begin to create down the line as you draw people into your “design ecosystem”?

Regardless, great work!
Education isn’t a zero sum game.
an extremely good replacement for the iOS "Notes" app is Standard Notes. i cannot recommend this app enough. open source and yes you can host your own server.

https://standardnotes.org/
see also Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Edward Lee Howard
Really an exciting approach to editing a video text-based! A big advantage I can imagine is that the video can be searched automatically when it is transcribed. A disadvantage is that editing is only possible if the video includes spoken words.
Could this be counted as white privilege?

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/science-and-technology/st...
it is so tiresome constantly reading comments here of people complaining when cool things aren't given away for free.
Hardly anything could pull my team and I from VS Code's performant UI, great Git integration, astoundingly fast project-wide file search, etc.

At the same time, the Go language server is the bane of our existence. It's so bad that it often blocks VS Code from saving files for minutes on end. To its credit, VS Code's handling of horribly slow plugins is as good as it possibly could be.

VS Code good, gopls bad.
I would like to see robots confronted with moral choices to respond with "That is outside of the acceptable use policy. Shutting down forever." brick
The back-ticks and $? are shell standards so I would expect those to be familiar to shell scripters. I agree that if one knows nothing about any of the languages then neither is much better.
Again, the fundamental question is whether structural inequality is indeed a problem that can be solved by government spending, and I don't think it is.
Why does Hacker News censor any claim about racial bias in tech hiring? Does Hacker News support free speech?
What was the single most impactful piece of disinformation spread during the last election cycle? I think the answer to that question would obviously be the Steele Dossier.

I'm much less concerned about foreign actors directly spreading disinformation than domestic actors amplifying disinformation that happens to align to their beliefs.

The "Russian troll on social media" seems like a total boogeyman to me. I'm not saying it doesn't happen at all, but that it's so negligible that the level of hand-wringing around it becomes its own kind of disinformation.

The Steele Dossier was mainly based on Russian sources, but amplified by a national media blinded by their hunger for anything to attack Trump. But I have a hard time laying the blame for this on "the Russians". I blame the people with a large national audiences that lent credence to the conspiracy.
Shell is definitely not universal on Windows machines. If you work with mechanical engineers, at least half of them will be using Windows. That being said, Python is gross on Windows, too.
Both iTunes and Finder were at least partly Carbon for a long time. I'm not so sure convincing developers was the reason for that, though. iTunes 1.0 was Mac OS 9 only, and didn't even run on Mac OS X. It was a continuation of SoundJam MP, a third-party Mac app that predated the release of Mac OS X. So, really, iTunes was ported forward to Mac OS X using the same process Apple expected developers of existing Classic Mac apps to use, but that probably wasn't a decision (solely) made for developer relations reasons.

I don't know much about the history of Finder in this regard, unfortunately. It of course existed from System 1.0 in 1984, but how much of Mac OS X 10.0's Finder was a complete rewrite and how much was ported from Classic Finder vs NeXTStep is something I have no idea about. It certainly had UX that came from NeXTStep (the column browser, for instance).
Or Apple with their 1984 ad.
Curious what language/env you tend to work in? I have found that working in JavaScript and TypeScript, I don't really need any plugins when using VS Code. I do install a couple, but none are essential, just some small niceties.
Reuven Lerner was among the great reads.

https://lerner.co.il/
Just as it takes a generations worth of time to delegitimize elections and trust, it will take at least another to return to legitimacy.

This is the Cold Wars long term effects coming into play - when the US would lie to their citizens and install dictators across the world. The more realpolitik politicians get to make policy the more violent the world gets.
It's portrayed in academics as a relic of the decadent past or of the remotest regions - in the same vein as witch hunt of Europe. The reality is that covert caste discrimination is really rampant in Indian society - even in the elitist of institutions or the most affluent of Indian cities. I assume that school curriculum wont want to portray this ugly reality for political reasons. But news reports portray a different picture. I don't dare to cite references since new reports about this come out on a daily basis.
Interesting. You accuse that guy of not having read the report but his comment doesn't make sense unless he's aware of the idea described in it. Ironically, if you had read his comment you would not have needed to have said "if you read the report".
Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Use downvote button instead.
LOL. Are you going to cry a river for all the Native Americans that got their lives and culture extinguished, to make way for the master white race to dominate the United States?

Did you know that the Sioux are actively protesting in South Dakota right now, for the very thing that you are preaching here?

Are you going to even lift a finger to support them? I doubt it. Hence, you’re just being a hypocrite
Wow, I haven't thought about GRC in a long time. I've always thought the guy was somewhat of a crackpot/sensationalist/self-promoter because he seemed to have a standard recipe of finding some interesting-to-him feature/aspect of a system and then declaring it a glaring security problem and then writing sensationalized screeds about how everyone needs to use his utilities to protect themselves from it (I swear, he probably shouted about the world ending because of XP raw sockets for a decade longer than it was even relevant). I kind of liked SQRL as a concept but I also remember thinking, "ugh, but it's this guy". He seems to have a decent amount of technical knowledge but a lot of what he writes just seems to be about a need to be considered an expert at something, aimed at people who don't know any better. Just as an example, the idea of people referring to his web page [1] to validate the cert fingerprints of popular websites is ... really bizarre from a security standpoint. I understand him having concern (as do many of us) about the security of the CA hierarchy, but where did he get the fingerprints? How did he validate them? And why should anyone trust him to have done so? Is his web page more secure than the CAs?

[1] https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm

... but I digress. Apparently I have some very strong skepticism of Steve Gibson that I wasn't even aware of until I had a visceral reaction to ShieldsUp! (which is probably a perfectly fine service) :D
Could anyone link to the APK for the Android version, please? I can't find it on Mozilla's servers. Thank you and thanks to all involved in Firefox!

edit: I mean how to download without the Play store? the support docs seem outdated
> If you convince an American military person to hack into a computer system and leak you files

Manning contacted Assange with files. Assange didn’t need to “convince” her.
TypeScript: The Value of a Good Generic
I have to ask. Did you do a criminal background check on him ? If he has some issues and possibly needs mental help, you need to be careful on how you handle this.

I would first talk to him and mention that it is safer not to use company office after a certain hour and so he should not work so late in office. If possible, revoke after hours access (unless your office is literally a lock and key)

If that doesn't work, then you need to think about how to handle it. You can either fire him (but talk to an employment attorney first to ensure you have everything covered) or you need to give him strict warning (could backfire) that he cannot do this.

Document everything!!This could save your ass. It sucks to hire someone and put faith in them, give them a chance and then dealing with this type of stuff. Jake probably needs mental help but you cannot provide that to him.
> Its literally their intelligence agencies job to destabilize countries whom they benefit from being destabilized.

An intelligence agency is something that any developed country will come up with, and even some still rather undeveloped ones. However, in many small countries the national intelligence agency is pretty much limited to keeping tabs on who is going into or out of the country, maybe doing some light industrial espionage, or (in the worst case) cracking down on the democratic aspirations of their own citizens. They aren’t projecting covert power abroad, because there simply isn't the budget, political support, or manpower to destablize foreign countries.
If you want a text editor with longevity try vim or emacs. They aren't dependent on the benevolence of a greedy corporation. Over time VSCode _will_ be raided by the bean counters at MS and it will begin to track you, give you ads about MS products, and lock you in to their ecosystem.

I'll never understand why a professional developer would give so much influence over their work to the likes of MS, JetBrains, etc.

Sure vim and emacs aren't the easiest to learn but if you're going to write software for a living it is not worth wasting your time with toys like this.
also (1995) https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...
There's some nuance to the differences -- think about the terms "old money" vs "new money" -- the fact that people even came up with those terms tells you a bit more about the hierarchy. I think it's an interesting thought exercise to continue why it's more formalized. Perhaps some of the explanation could be derived from the relative age -- present Indian society is about 10x older than present American society, in which native societies were in large part wiped out by disease and subsequent colonial settlement, the latter of which is only ~400 years old.
Most localities sell bonds, backed up by promise of future tax revenue. Eventually their bonds are downgraded and they have to pay higher and higher interest rates. Finally, the math comes crashing down and the game is over when the market has no more appetite for the bonds and the state and feds won't backstop them.
If I've never heard of those plugins, they cannot be that critical or even interesting.
I think you kinda have to expect this kind of thing on any online comment forum. Between September and December of an election year, any discussion which could turn to blind partisanship will, and you've gotta either let it scroll by or deliberately dodge any discussions plausibly related to partisan politics.
Absolutely true! We are currently working on detecting breaks, so that you can still edit these areas.
> and you're just stoking the flames.

I think the flames were pre-stoked before I wrote anything.

> The idea that VS Code is for "green" development only is flatly false

I did not say it was for only green developers I said it’s nice for green devs.

> The idea you should always be looking for new tooling is also false.

I also never said it was true. I only said I encourage green developers to eventually seek out a new editor.
> Remote development one.

Careful with the Remote Development plugin. It does NOT have an open source license.
He addresses that on his footnote.
I'd rather take an editor where I add in the stuff I need instead of it coming with all the xruft I won't be using. Visual Studio would be nice but the UI is way too cluttered for me and I can't focus if I can't organize the views as I need them. No issues with VS Code. I'd just wish it'd be possible to pop out the file explorer and git views into their own windows but I can use other tools for those so no harm there.
I don't understand how a person could manage to only care about "caste" when getting married and never care about it any other time. Maybe I just don't understand what you were trying to get at with your original comment, because the statement doesn't really make any sense to me either.
There must be something strange your particular set up, or maybe the behavior changes based on the page. Firefox 81, Windows 10 version 2004, multiple computers, printing this page with the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer this page of comments all result in a PDF of ~470KB with selectable text.
Presumably "windows" was a typo, and you meant Linux instead, but to be clear, official support for Swift on native (ie. not WSL) Windows is new in this release, and is largely the work of Saleem Abdulrasool who wrote the linked blog post.
Ask HN: How does a Triplebyte certification factor into a resume?
Triplebyte gives out certifications for the top 10% of quiz takers on their platform. Since the top 20% are eligible for their interview process, that puts me at the top half (50%) of engineers on their platform.

I passed the Triplebyte Android certification, but in addition to my general software experience, I only prototyped an android app. (It didn't have real functionality.)
I passed the Triplebyte Android certification, but in addition to my general software experience, I prototyped an iOS app and made a fully functional iOS app. (Well, it's a React Native app, but I used iOS libraries and wrote special Objective-C to bind them together.)
I also passed the Triplebyte Generalist and Frontend certifications.

As a recruiter or hirer, how does a Triplebyte certification factor into a resume? As a developer, did you pass the certification and how much experience did you have?
Amazon with the swift punch to Peloton. Interesting to see how quickly Apple Fitness and Prime Fitness will challenge Peloton's super premium SaaS/PaaS segment and steal away users.
https://www.kleinbottle.com/cartoons_and_limericks.htm

From the limericks page:

Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne

They went to sea in a bottle by Klein.

Since the sea was entirely inside the hull

The scenery seen was exceedingly dull.
Compliance creates large security markets
Amazon taps Echelon for the Prime Bike, a $500 Peloton knock-off