skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand why this article has such a negative bias against vim and/or emacs users. Comparing an emacs/vim user and a dog that does not want to walk on grass seems gross. Even calling them stubborn, well... The authors claim that "Modern IDEs are magic". As a freelance devops, i don't code-for-a-living being a magician, all i want to do is editing text, most of the time there's no magic involved.

"Why are so many coders still using a keyboard?" Answer for yourself.

I have been using emacs for a decade, and finally settled on vi/vim because of its broader availability. Both are excellent editors. I have also used dozens of graphical user interfaces for development, but as a devops i sometimes find myself in an environment that does not support graphics.

Not having graphics at your fingertips may sound like a restriction, but it allows me to focus on my code rather than being distracted by color, hints, hovers, help, type ahead, code completion and the like. I do not need all that, i can freely speak my favourite programming language same as i can write a text without referring to the encyclopedia britannica every other word.

Final rant: i consider the bio "He's spend over 15 years as a technical writer" as sloppy as the whole article.
You could configure your router to only allow traffic from the printer to devices on the LAN, but at this point I would throw it out and buy a new one.
It would have been nice if we didn't do a bad job but my point is that a "good job" still isn't gonna come out looking like Japan. The national unity isn't there.

I know everyone wants to write wall of text rants about everything that went wrong in Iraq and there's more than enough content there to do that but my point is that if you take a step back from the detailed specifics of how we went about nation building it becomes clear that even a "win" doesn't look all that pretty.
Rest assured that there is also a large fraction of Turks in Germany who have a fiery hate for Erdogan. I personally know some of them. But yeah, it's troubling whenever wanna-be dictators get so many votes. Do you know if this percentage is "of all Turks" or "of all who voted"? I could image that those who don't like him simply didn't vote.
I again suggest looking at other retail models. Grocery stores, department stores and such operate a sizable part of their business by simply providing distribution and shelf space for goods. They don’t own all the inventory on their shelf. For things like beverages and certain other goods they literally just rent shelf space in the store (3rd parties come in and stock the shelf) and then put their own store brand stuff right next to it selling for less. It’s literally the same model. One really struggles to make the argument that it’s bad to do this online but not in person. That’s the issue with this line of reasoning.
Pardon my ignorance but I just went to place a £2 bet (minimum) on Biden "Back All" at 1.07. Does that mean when Betfair DOES pay out, I will make a profit of 14p?

Surely not?
I think the assumed implication with E2EE is that no one other than the partcipants can get at the content of your communications. To do that you need:

1. All cryptographic keys controlled by the users.

2. Some way to confirm you are actually connected to who you think you are connected to.

3. A way to confirm that the code you are running is not leaking keys/content.

So Zoom failed on all 3 points. There are lots of things out there claiming E2EE that fail on one or more of these points. Almost all fail on point 2 unless the user does things that they almost never do. Is the FTC going to come up with a E2EE definition for trade and start prosecuting those that don't meet that definition? Otherwise it would seem unfair that they only went after the entity that ended up in the general media.
Bush/Gore took 37 days to resolve or something like that.
There is a lot of interest on microservices from the research community; there are many open-source frameworks that enable you to write/deploy/operate microservice applications with different levels of abstraction. One thing that is missing in the open is (significant) example applications / benchmarks, across which we can compare the different frameworks in terms of ease of use, convenience, performance, etc. Can you give a description or samples of what people are doing in m3o.com?
The fact that people on hacker news are angry about this cracks me up. The vast majority of folks here really are the crotchety programmers.

Yes, a founder gets compensated significantly more than early employees. Massive shocker. If those early employees were talented enough, they’d be founders getting compensated.

I don’t know when this dramatic shift happened to Americans to believe building a successful company is mostly luck, but it’s depressing.

Shame on you, HN.
Embarrassing amateurism level of the UK government.
I was watching Supernatural last night and became very annoyed with the creators because I thought they had clearly "made up" the angel Metatron while the rest of the story uses names such as "Gabriel", "Ezekiel", and "Michael".

Nope. He was a "real" myth.
Bitdefender: UPX Unpacking Featuring Ten Memory Corruptions
It also still requires 32-bit drivers, which were initially missing from the last nvidia update, forcing a rollback.

I'm incredibly grateful for the work they've done on Proton, but it's definitely odd they don't seem to have anyone prioritizing updating the Steam platform itself.
It might make them more attractive to the next generation of founders, especially if it is widely communicated as here.

Advertising money well spent?
The author of "GitFlow Considered Harmful" put out a simpler workflow that achieves all the upsides of GitFlow with none of the downsides:

https://www.endoflineblog.com/oneflow-a-git-branching-model-...

If you can tell me something GitFlow buys you which OneFlow doesn't, I'd be very intrigued.
You people really don’t understand the concept of risk do you
Two fun facts about Pico-8:

* Pico-8 "cartridges" are PNG images with the source code hidden inside the low-order bits using steganography. If you see a picture of the cartridge that picture is also the game!
https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat

* The main limit on how large the program can be is the number of tokens. An earlier version just had a character limit but that encouraged the game developers to use unreadable minified code with terrible variable names.
This is actually a little more interesting than I originally assumed as the rules clearly state, "This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential election."

So they don't care about who actually ends up president. This is a pure bet on the voting results. I guess they think it prudent to wait and see if the Trump lawsuits hold any merit in the eyes of the courts.
This reminds me of a recently decried point the British government made encouraging people in the arts to consider technical jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/12/ballet-danc...

Josh seems to be extremely entrepreneurial and independent (https://joshpigford.com/projects) and maybe being a part of a trillion dollar machine isn't worth the $ to him. He succeeded doing what he wanted to do and that's fantastic.

Admittedly, people's attitudes to work differ immensely and being able to live the entrepreneurial life is a privilege, but from my POV, you only live once, so $3.7m made from several years of doing things your own way would handily beat even $10m made from several years of employment (and neither are guaranteed).
This. Hence the proliferation of government access to CCTV footage that was originally collected for "serious crime" only.

It'll start out with "we only need to break your e2e encryption for serious crime cases", but in 10 years your local council will be breaking into your dm's to see if you used the right recycling bin.
Isn't Biden still only the projected winner? Ballots are still being counted last I heard.
Might be time to start working on a replacement

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_...
You don't need any of the above if you have an effective media machine that tells people what to think.

Which you very much do in the US. The militias aren't there to protect "freedom", they're kept on hand in case they're ever needed to protect privilege.
EU has plans for a European Internet with a firewall [pdf]
Punishment is the best solution. Incentives are what drive behavior, and learning that you can get away with lying will just lead to more getting away with lying.
Genome data from Africa reveal millions of new variants
I have ranted against this many times, and I will say it one more time: the goal of war on encryption is not fight with terrorism. It is thought-policing.

Terrorists have easy ways to talk to each other securely, using GPG and email, or even SSH for that matter. They don't need fancy apps, filters, masks, stickers and other UX candy.

General population, on the other hand, wants these things, and uses a small number of apps that government wants to control. Turns out, not just in authoritarian countries, but in a supposedly democratic EU too. It is common people who are most affected by lack of privacy, and the goal is the same that STASI / KGB had: to filter out dissidents who might pose risk to those who are currenlty at the top.

Such powers can be abused easily, and it special services will be granted such powers, they WILL be abused. So a duty of every free person is to fight such proposals and kill them outright.
Because people are tired of identity politics being shoved down their throats, not because they're against immigration per se. The fact of someone's race or origin is far less interesting than the story of these individuals, their personalities, their minds. If race or origin comes into it, it's if it plays into these deeper stories. But we don't want people telling us that they should be "pointed out and repeated". It's both irksome and facile.
While docker, can be used to build the firmware for SES, it is not a scalable solution as the docker image will have to be kept updated for each new update of SES. Segger being Segger, changes things in their toolchain very frequently. If you're interested in automating builds on SES using Docker, you can check out our docker image for SES on GitHub here: https://github.com/vicara-hq/ses-docker-images

However, most hardware toolchains and examples out there use Keil, which is Windows only and DOES NOT have a headless mode, making it utterly impossible for a docker image or a CI tool to automate the build process.

The best way to approach this would be to use Makefiles on Docker for the projects that we build, making it cross-platform as well as CI-friendly, which is an approach that we plan to take with the configuration tool, automating the entire process for ease of use in any environment.
Since genders are classifications if everyone has a different gender it isn't a useful classification. So "too restrictive" -> "not very useful" -> "stop using"
Betfair is an exchange, so they aren't the ones paying. Assuming someone will match the bet, it does look like it though. Seems like free money.
It's amazing that antenna tower weight is 900 tons!

Could this be built using some lightweight composite materials?
> The one big mistake Woz made when designing Apple II was picking the MOS 6502 CPU

It was the cheapest chip on the market. It was faster than its competition, and also used by Atari, Commodore and, later across the Atlantic, on the Acorn/BBC computers. It's one of the most popular 8-bit architectures. While Commodore never invested much in upgrading the 6502 into 16 and 32 bits, they invested a lot in other developments. Too little and too late, the 65CE02-derived chip in the C65 was quite impressive for an 8-bit CPU.
The bet is for "next president" not "declared election winner", and not "electoral college vote winner". Don't be surprised if it doesn't pay till inauguration.

Edit: Nevermind. Just read the rules and it does say it's based on the projected winner. This is very misleading and very bizarre.
There's always outside risk that Biden never becomes president, that's where your 14p profit comes from.
Benefits of Infrastructure as Code
I think it is easy. Allow "fake news". In many cases the accusation against accuracy was an opinion anyway.

And if you have people naively believing certain sources, you would even have larger problems.

If you allow it however people might fall for some sketchy reporting and learn from their mistakes. It couldn't be an easier decision, especially if the fake info gets to people anyway.

It is amazing that we have this discussion again, meanwhile esoteric opinions have multiplied already. With a little less stupidity, this could have been avoided. And I don't mean the stupidity of people believing the wrong stuff. Everybody does at some point. I mean the stupidity of people trying to combat "fake news".
I just came across this site, they seem to have books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bourbaki&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
How Much Does It Cost to Develop an E-Learning App?
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This is one of the reasons I'm happy closed platforms like iOS and Windows 10S are getting more and more mainstream. They'll simply prevent these poorly written drivers from getting written in the first place.
I guess the market is still open and someone is willing to bet against you.
Any chance for macOS version?
Long Live Pitman's Shorthand
Not making any other assumptions here, but I think this is a great example of something that's become more and more obvious to HNers over the past few years: from a financial perspective, if you have an opportunity to join a FAANG vs a startup, it pretty much almost always makes financial sense (usually much more sense) to join the FAANG. And since it usually makes a LOT more financial sense, it can often make a lot of the other points moot as well, because you could save so much more working at a FAANG that you could afford to take time off to do whatever you want, or retire early.

I mean, in this example Baremetrics actually had a pretty good outcome, better than most, and the employee's basically got very, very little for their overall equity. Even the founder probably got less than a mid/senior level FAANG employee would get (and the FAANG employee had no risk).

Of course, not everyone can get an offer at a FAANG, but again, if you could get an offer, startups basically never make sense anymore. You almost always will get more even if the startup hits, which is rare.
Is it perhaps because Steam Client is being "worked on" by Valve employees (do whatever you want, no bosses, but if you work on something we wont like you will be fired immediately, ask Jeri Ellsworth) while DirecX compatibility is all volunteers with maybe some funding? I googled Hans-Kristian Arntzen (VKD3D-Proton maintainer?) and he doesnt appear to be employed by Valve.
That’s because the election isn’t over... predictit actually has the odds of trump winning increasing

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698/Who-will-win-t...

Reasons (regardless of whether you agree):

there about 6 more weeks of the election. Pennsylvania’s process is currently being requested for review by multiple states, because of the following:

“Pennsylvana's high court ruled Thursday that election officials cannot discard mail ballots solely because of questions about the authenticity of a voter's signature; that ballots postmarked by Election Day and received by Friday, Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. will be counted; that third parties cannot deliver people's ballots; and that counties can use dropboxes or other official addresses for voters to return ballots to, among other decisions."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-pr...

Multiple Attorney Generals: https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-republican-ags-join-...

Basic argument is the house sets the rules. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court had no right to extend the deadline.

Barr also authorized local governments to investigate voting irregularities BEFORE validation/certification ends: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/202...

Such as statistical abnormalities: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325592112428163072.html

Or Michigan’s mail in ballots: https://austingwalters.com/the-dead-vote-in-michigan/
I've been around since BBS:es, and I can tell you that the success in avoiding hateful cesspools was very much linked to heavy moderation. The internet isn't very old in the grand scheme of things, but what you call "historically inaccurate" has been accurate for as long as there's been people on the internet.
> We understand a lot of old worries and so we know they don't apply.

What are "old worries"? This is a new type of vaccine.

> They have a lot of data from previous forms of this type of things suggesting it is safe.

How does this make sense, given this is the first mRNA vaccine? The expression "previous forms of this type of things" is as blurry as it can get.

> We know the that injected "things" break down very quickly in the body, which again makes us believe there won't be any long term problems.

Heavy metals are "things", and when you inject them in the body, they don't break down, but stay there and slowly kill you.

> Of course in the end who knows. There could be something, and we may not know for 10 years.

This is not the attitude I'd take on something that potentially hundreds of millions of people will be subjected to. I'm aware that you can't ever prove something to be safe. I want to know if the specific risk brought about by mRNA vaccines are well understood or not, and why.

> On the other hand, we know that Covid is killing a large number of people right now.

It doesn't.

> We have enough data to confidently state that the long term adverse effects are overall less bad than Covid.

Splendid, I'm not going to ask for sources then, because I like the tone of your voice so much.
Technically, the election isn't over until the votes are certified by each of the states. Probably smart not to pay out until the process has fully played out. Not that the election results will change but some of the bets were for over a million dollars.
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https://ballotpedia.org/How_and_when_are_election_results_fi...
The media industrial complex doesn’t declare the president. The electoral college does, and not for about a month. This simple fact seems to have been forgotten by the entire world.
I think they could replicate mRNA into latge batch, then test it if it conains enough of correct mRNA.

If there is some slightly incorrect mRNA it will result in cells producing wrongly folded protein and if there's enough of it you'll get additional immunity to something slightly different.

Cells that produce the protein are to be killed by immune system anyways and natural viral mRNA is probably not perfectly replicated 100% of the time.
The UK is a remarkably un-island-like island in terms of the frequency and ease of travel between it and the mainland.
Quote of the relevant part of the document:

5.1. European Cloud / European Internet

The EU should include an action plan for a digital cloud – a European Internet – in the DSA. This European Cloud would foster a European digital ecosystem based on data and innovation. It would drive competition and set standards. Foreign web services could become part of such a digital ecosystem but must adhere to the rules and standards of the EU – such as democratic values, data protection, data accessibility, transparency and user friendliness. Technologically, it would require a top-level infrastructure, high-speed 5G or a 6G data network and a firewall. Setting up such a network would promote many European companies and therefore boost business and drive innovation. Like the Chinese firewall, this European internet would block off services that condone or support unlawful conduct from third party countries.
I think TI does, but haven't worked extensively there.
>I don’t know when this dramatic shift happened to Americans to believe building a successful company is mostly luck, but it’s depressing.

Because it's true? Studies (Gompers, et. al. (2009)) indicate that a second time entrepreneur has a 30% chance of success versus a 20% for a first time one. So there's some skill in it but it mostly comes down to luck.

edit: And if you're arguing skill then clearly the skill of the early employees matter tremendously and not just the skill of the founder. So why do you think it's wrong for those employees to get more stake?
Probably, need to polish this one.
Return it for a refund and buy a different one.

Otherwise, how will HP and the shops selling this crap learn?
Betfair takes a 5% commission, which is why you don't see probabilities for nearly-certain events driven down to 1:1.
Can't wait for the side effects considering its Pfizer teehee.
Aren't government officials using Signal themselves precisely because it is so secure?
I respectfully very much disagree. Even Sam Altman has been arguing that founders should give more equity to startups, mainly because employees who are usually sold on "equity dreams" are all coming to realize those equity dreams are peanuts.
Let’s say you work for a respectable $80k/year (more than enough to live comfortably in most of the world). If you get the job at 25 and retire at 65, that’s $3.2m.

So yes, he can retire for life.
After searching some more, I came across this: https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge

It sounds a bit more heavyweight than what I was getting at, but it still makes me hopeful that there's a future for something like this.
The actual election will be held on December 14.

(Source: the U.S. Constitution.)
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As a Belgian, I can't help but look at these numbers in disbelief. 100-200k/annum for churning out code 40 hours a week? Where do I sign up for this? I'm the best paid employee I know, work insane hours, and I'm not even in that bracket.

Addendum: it's very rare to make more than twice the average wage in Belgium as an employee. It's a different matter if you're self employed.
China's 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
Entrepreneur Raised $80M to Create the Easiest Mortgage Solution
4chan's only infrastructure is in California, so they really only have to abide by California and US laws. Only way for other countries to make them abide is via blocking them, which may not really be worth the effort if there are only a smattering of users in your jurisdiction using it
Samsung did similar thing with their S9 and probably other phones. You had perfectly working call recording functionality until it was blocked by software update that you cannot turn off - you can only postpone every day or so.
I'm German, I get a 404 on the original post - what is the exact wording of the bet?

That Biden does not get elected President, or that he gets elected by the EC but effectively not assumes the office of President (e.g. due to a putsch/other form of emergency law, a SC decision, being arrested, being assassinated, dying of coronavirus, the EC election being delayed/cancelled due to coronavirus...)?
Compare West Germany to American Occupation Zone.

The nation building was based on starving people to death and destroying any industry as well as R&D capability. It took years of "boots on the ground" reporting about growing discontent because soviet occupation zone "at least had food" till the west german efforts for independent country were accepted, with very strong shackles. And a lot of it was for a proxy war with another empire.
It's not entirely clear from a light perusing of the sites or docs. Is Micro a Go framework or does it support building services in any language?

A lot of the concepts and features seem really useful to what I'm looking to build, but the project will not be built in Go.
Can the govenment somehow restrict end-to-end encrypted messaging to officials only?