skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah yeah that's fair. But every time a new product comes along that isn't _yet_ as good as Android or iPhone HN commentators reflexively dismiss it.

I get that that when its some new proprietary product trying to enter the market, but when its something grass roots and community driven line the pinephone with classic linux distribution on it... I dunno, I guess I just expect HN to have more intellectual curiosity in technical projects, rather than surface level critique of packaged goods. That's the sort of thing I spend time on this site for, but those sorts of discussions are far and few between. Maybe its just time to move on, I can't relate to 90% of HN comments anymore.
> the syntax is very readable

Yet it can't be used in a lambda, it can't be assigned to a variable, it can't be used as an argument, it can't be called as a function, it can't be put in a datastructure, it can't be raised, it can't be returned, it can't be yielded, and so on for all the things that can't be done to statements.

Heck, we can't even match on a match!
I know you pronounce it ES-KYU-EL because you used "an"
This. 100%. If you don’t pay the BBB their extortion fee they will tell anyone who asks that “you are not a member in good standing” which is technically true since you are not a member. Because you didn’t pay the fee. Legalized extortion.
Great to see this become official. I suspect many remote employees weren't working strict 9-5 anyway, especially given the lack of things to do outside the house during COVID.

How does Salesforce's culture compare in terms of respecting peoples' off time? I've worked at companies that ditched strict schedules before, but it quickly turned into an excuse to expect everyone to be available on demand, 16 hours per day, 7 days per week.

The official company position was that no one should feel obligated to respond on weekends or outside of regular hours unless it was an explicit emergency. In practice, when you get a request from your boss's boss at 9AM on a Saturday, it's hard to say "I'll get to this on Monday". Some of the more toxic teams even weaponized this, by sending out requests at odd hours and then marking their tasks as "Blocked, waiting for response from X". My heart still sinks when I hear the Slack notification sound on evenings or weekends, because for years that was a signal that several hours of my free time were about to disappear.

I firmly believe that good management can overcome these issues, but it must come from the top. Not only that, but managers who abuse the system must be visibly removed from the company for doing so. Unless there are consequences for abusing the flexibility of your employees to extract more work, some percentage of managers will take advantage of the system to get ahead.
Off topic: Do people actually pronounce “whilst” the way it is written? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it spoken.
That’s what the article at play here discovered: she makes sure no law can ever touch her pot of gold. Oh and god forbid any law force them to use a seatbelt.
For starters, your current and future employers, dates and insurance companies.
I don't think ActionScript <> JavaScript is as important here as everything else about Haxe (full / safer static types, speed, multi-backend, pattern matching, etc.) and Typescript (gradual typing to support idiomatic JS code at the cost of being unsound by design).

If you applied Typescript's philosophy and design to AS instead of JS, you'd get something much closer to Typescript than to Haxe, is what I'm saying.
Regardless of legality i find it very rude to have someone I am speaking to all of a sudden turn on loud music. I think there is room to post a behavior complaint against the officers who do this.
Direct link to NASA PR:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-to-l...
Not leaving the EU would also cause stability and prevent turmoil.
Almost every major business is moving towards pay for SERVICE / LICENSE rather than ownership.

You used to own your music. The next generation largely DOES NOT. Does HN not understand this?

You used to own your movies etc. The current netflix generation DOES NOT.

You used to buy equipment (like tractors). Now a surprising range of stuff is going to pay for power / hour etc. This includes firmware for tractors which enforces whatever emissions control regime, speed control, overload control, annoying safety things (lane departure warnings on commercial vehicles are so maddening commercial drivers have the silence button built into their muscle memory and almost all would turn them off if they could).

John Deere and EVERY other company is going this direction as fast as they can. This is not a question of PR, it is a question of current fact. This is to make money, build big tech platforms, allow for snitching on all sorts of things (elogs now let fleet operators know about tailgating by drivers in commercial trucking) etc.

One factor for me - things were opened up in the automotive world, and emissions controls on diesel trucks are a MAJOR source of the "hacking" people came up with.

Some estimates are 50%+ of trucks in places like texas are running delete's. So that is an incredible pollution impact.

It would be helpful to have some more specific examples (other than emissions bypasses / feature lockout bypasses - yes very annoying on a 800K vehicle!, etc) where farmers can't do a repair. What repair, in particular, do farmers want to do in the field, that they can't? That might help ground the convo.
Right? Prior to this discussion, my thought was similar, typo, or something benign.

Replacing a word breaks the syntax and brings ambiguity to some use cases involving brackets and quotes that did not have it before.

As I mentioned elsewhere, a similar thing happened with the one space vs. two spaces to end a sentence.

In that last sentence, there is now ambiguity after "vs. " where there was not before. Right now I am on desktop, but if I were to input that sentence on my Android, "two" would be auto-capitalized, even though I am mid sentence.

I see this headed a similar direction.

Cases where the actual verbatim expression may be made more clear with something added in brackets will now overlap with cases where someone wants to replace a word in a quote...

Sigh :(
Active military suicides are also more common than combat deaths.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/14/169364733...
Disbanding the police sounds a lot nicer than taking away the livelihoods of thousands and thousands of parents, most of whom are not raging racist bastards.
I used to think Google was the "good guy" by providing so many resources for free, but I've realized how they've exploited their market dominance by essentially manipulating the masses with their ad service. We need to move away from conglomerates and start using software that doesn't sell your soul to the devil.
I always figured it was more tradition then anything
Really? It’s best practice to use a magic number rather than a name?

That breaks one of the most fundamental rules for writing good code.
To perform or display a work “publicly” means . . . (1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or (2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.

- Section 101 of the 1976 Copyright Act
Yes, is better not thinking that much and fill all your free time with podcast, audiobooks and email subscription. So someone else will do the work for you
The two/all party consent laws are unconstitutional when applied to filming police in public. Unfortunately, not all Federal Appellate Courts have had cases to made that ruling.
Or, some itches just require more work to scratch than you can reasonably do on the weekend.
Reading Tolstoi for an hour helps me a lot.
> tends to have a favorable view on this subreddit.

"subreddit" becoming synonymous with internet forum?
I often notice when OSM is wrong/missing data while hiking and I'll record a trace and update when I get back home. I enjoy contributing but I wish there was a bit more of a community aspect to it (or maybe I simply haven't found that). In some areas the US government agency maps are hilariously out of date or simply completely wrong so OSM is great to able to simply fix it after visiting.
I don't think people are asking for abolishing the police force, but for restarting it with new or reformed people and with strong civilian oversight. Cops should go to jail for abuses.
If they randomly chose 34 people to poll it would be decent sample. But now it's not a sample at all. The responders are not representative of the non-responders.
Because certainly no one would ever lie or exaggerate on the internet!
There is a middle ground between "military budget equal to that of the next 10 countries combined" and "0 military".
Pandemic is causing a rising tide of abandoned boats in the San Francisco Bay
Curated Matches on Clubhouse
Get 1 to 1 Curated Matches on Clubhouse from matching to SaaS founders like Nathan Latka to great club owners like Han Kui for Chinese discussions.
I’m not particularly worried about a group of kids contaminating a single rural water supply, I’m more worried about coordinated effort by a malicious nation state to accumulate security cracks and then use them in a coordinated effort during a war time scenario.
I have come to the conclusion that the only reason why things like flatpak and snap exist is because the ergonomics for creating and maintaining .deb packages is so awful.
I'm often hesitant about mapping the unofficial trails, particularly the ones you aren't supposed to use. There are many around the SF bay area, some are simply non-maintained non-system trails, while others are illegal mtb paths off the allowed trail network. Some of them are so well traveled in areas with minimal erosion that they are almost as good as maintained trails, although often less well graded.
> Also, every member of the royal family should be stripped of their wealth and exiled.

From a democratic/ideological perspective you might be right.

On the other hand, having a royal family it cute -- doesn't that count for something :)

I live in Denmark where we also pay the royal family some money, few privileges, etc..

My personal pocket philosophy is that the money we pay the royal family is the cost of a peaceful transformation to democracy.

A revolution like the French isn't free or without risks. Paying off the monarchy for generations to come is quite possibly cheaper.

A revolution would have incurred negative growth, and it's entirely possible that our economy would have been marginally smaller today, had we opted for a violent revolution.

Would be fun to see if anyone did that math? :)

In any case, if paying a bit of money and respect was the cost of a peaceful adoption of democracy it might have been worth it.

Just look to Syria, paying Assad an absurd amount of money to take a ceremonial role would probably have been a lot cheaper, and less risky.
She is the head of state, a job for which the president of the USA has to pull double duty while also being the executive. It is an incredibly tedious job, requiring her to go to endless factory openings funerals, and so on. She doesn’t really have to do those things, but she has done them dutifully for 75 years or so. As far as I’m concerned it’s amazing and probably does a measurable amount to contribute to the stability of the country. Can’t prove it, of course.

As an American citizen it is why I don’t mind presidents that I don’t like have a large secret service revenue, fat salary, and so forth both during and after their presidency.
The lead singer died decades ago, but I think it is still very clear what the band would think: the lyrics of one of their songs are about very similar issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29,_1992_(Miami)

TLDR : Sublime is about as "anti-cop" as you can get.
How does one person have enough interesting interactions with the police to build a channel about that? They must be actively trying to create entertaining encounters.

That's quite different from someone who posts a single bad encounter to be held accountable. He seems to be provoking the police for profit.
Salesforce to allow remote or flexible work for most employees
I think you're not quite getting bikeshaving's point. Certainly in the US, you can't be jailed for past behavior even if it's outlawed now. It seems like Great Britain isn't quite as absolute, but the European Convention on Human Rights bans it explicitly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

I also think "expelled from society" is a touch dramatic. As best I can tell, not a single famous racist has starved to death, or even been forced back to subsistence agriculture. I think the most extreme penalty I've seen is having to change jobs/industries, or perhaps losing some friends.
You mention only good things about Haxe. Why would you expect it to be gone by now?
> it's their data, and you're allowed to use it.

Here in the US, facts are not copyrightable. Your phone number, birthdate, email address, likes on facebook, list of friends, etc are not things that you can "take away" from someone. In theory you could exercise copyright over an email you've written, but I'm not sure that's ever been worked out in court.

> GDPR

You have a jurisdiction problem.
I don't think Bitcoin will "go out of fashion." In the long run, I believe it will "flip" the market cap of gold and become the new standard hedge against inflation. I've read reports that Bitcoin mining is already being used to subsidize green energy infrastructure. If this trend continues, then its role in making the transition from fossil fuels more economical will outweigh any temporary setbacks it has caused via increased energy consumption.

I'm still not really up-to-date on Lightning Network and its potential. But even without that, I think that Bitcoin will remain dominant in the cryptocurrency space due to network effects. It has the best name recognition, the most secure PoW blockchain, and the highest capitalization. Ethereum will likely stay quite relevant, but between its migration to the less-secure PoS system, and its constant inflation rate without any cap (vs. Bitcoin's decreasing one with the 21 million cap), I think that Bitcoin will continue to be prized as a store of value.
Because the powers they hold have to be given to someone else. Replacing them with an elected president or parliamentary appointed one potentially create there own issues and sacrifice the long term stability of a monarch.

If the crown was directly replaced with an elected president for instance, that would be an enormous amount of power for a populist leader to wield and the lack of policy responsibility would lead to populists leaders. If the president was appointed by parliament then there is opportunity for corruption.

So there would need to be far more drastic changes and many possibilities (like changing from a parliamentary system) would not be popular. Ideologically I don't think anyone should hold such power based on who their parents we're, but in practice I'm a soft-monarchists or conservative on the matter.

Edit - The powers don't have to be replaced, the holders of those powers do.
Don't underestimate just how many cycles ended up sucked into higher resolution screens with more colours. There might well be more integer calculations going on to render a single screen of text from vector fonts onto a 4K display, than from an hour of VisiCalc running away on an 8086.
The inflationary edge should be capital, inventory, productive investment eg. real stuff, not immaterial crypto tokens.
> YouTube doesn't like the DMCA process because it's expensive to handle and process individual claims, compared to letting their big partners just sling bogus claims across the entire site.

It's unclear to me why it would be expensive. The hosting provider just has to check that a take down request includes all the statutorily required elements.

That should be pretty easy--they don't have to check that the claims are right. They just have to check that the claimant identified the infringed works, the infringing activity, and where it took place; check that contact information was provided; check that the claimant includes a statement they they have a good faith belief that this is infringement; and check that they have a statement that the information is accurate and they are authorized to make claims on behalf of the copyright owner.

Similar when responding to a counterclaim.

This seems like something that could be cheaply outsourced to some cheap forest digital sweatshop to handle.
Aunt Jemima finally has a new name
But what is the relevance of knowing that? Why would anyone care? It's a bit like the question of how many angels can sit on the tip of a needle. Existence of aliens in a different galaxy has absolutely zero consequences for us now and forever. We may "share the universe" in a theoretical way, but we don't share anything in the real sense of the term.
Here’s my point of view: it would be extremely simple to change our system to give reduced powers of our Governor General to an unelected president named by our prime minister every five years.

But because the Canadian government rammed the constitution down the throat of the Quebec government, any constitutional change is now a political impossibility. And now Indigenous groups are demanding a seat at any constitutional discussion, which is absolutely appropriate but also fraught with uncertainty.

So the lack of change to our constitutional monarchy is not because we cannot think of how to replace it: it’s because Pierre Elliot Trudeau done goofed.
The objections I've seen to dismissing a lab origin aren't coming from "the US" proper, but rather from a large cross section of independent observers of varying levels of expertise -- some of whom also point to potential involvement of US-linked entities like EcoHealth Alliance. The WHO team having had the most access to the lab in question does not necessarily imply we should always defer to their conclusions ... particularly not when they're still holding out the possibility of the virus having been introduced to Wuhan on frozen food packages.
More than most women her age, I think it’s fair to say. If the Queen was lazy she could have abdicated two decades ago with some justification.
> This is how pattern matching works in any language

No, its not, but no language (at least that I am aware of) except python does pattern matching + local variables + not introducing a new scope with the pattern match.

Ruby is the closest, but it does introduce a new scope while providing a mechanism for binding variables in the containing local scope. (As well as a method to “pin” variables from the containing scope to use them in matches.)
I can't believe I've been a HN user for 14 years. Things come and go but HN was one of the very very few web sites that I visited pretty much every day for this whole time.

Pretty much the same here, except you have me by almost exactly a year. But yeah, HN has been the one constant site that I visit more than any other. And probably the site I'm most "active" on other than Facebook.

It's also amazing how the spirit and the quality stay more or less the same here. I guess not all Eternal September effects are alike.

True. That said, I definitely feel like I recognize some changes in the prevailing zeitgeist here. For example, there seems to be less startup ecosystem oriented discussion, and when there is, it often has a more negative tone. Actually, I feel like there's more negativity in general, than in the days of yore. And while others argue the exact opposite of what I'm about to say, I really feel like the overall spirit of the site has drifted from away from a libertarian / pro-business / be-suspicious-of-the-government vibe, to more anti-business / pro-government one. It's subjective to be sure, but it sure feels that way to me. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is, I suppose, relative to one's pre-existing biases and viewpoints...

Still, regardless of any of that, the S/N ratio of the conversations here remains fairly high most of the time, and I still learn a lot from participating in these conversations. So here's hoping for another 13 years of this crazy orange and tan website...
Yeah, who would want to live in a society where obscene wealth is redistributed?
I disagree strongly with this actually. The police shouldn't be a military force and shouldn't act like it but, at least in terms of the Army, rules of engagement taught to soldiers are a lot more focused on de-escalation and proper response to force than what most police officers receive.

I just think you need to filter out the nut-jobs that think they're Rambo and view the streets as a warzone.
can you name your city?
Active membrane rupture spurs a range of cell deaths
Pacman FTW
I read the whole article hope of to find out exactly what the 9-to-5 workday being dead meant, and I don’t feel like I really got an answer.

Does it mean that a parent can go pick up their kid from school in the middle of the workday, but is otherwise expected to be working from 9 to 5? The article doesn’t get any more specific than mentioning an example that sort of sounds like that.
You can donate at https://donate.openstreetmap.org/ - though money is not used for buying satellite imagery, but rather for server upkeep, maintaining core software etc.

You can also contribute directly - there is edit button on https://openstreetmap.org

StreetComplete may be useful if you have and Android phone and you are not interested in learning how to contribute (registering for OSM account is the worst step).

Vespucci (for Android), Go Map!! (for Apple devices), JOSM (Java standalone program) are full-scale editors that I also recommend.
Switch is a strange relic of C. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement#Fallthrough the fallthrough behaviour is due to it being implemented as a thin veneer over computed GOTOs. It seems to have infected a surprising number of languages, probably due to a mixture of C's popularity, cargo-culting and Stockholm syndrome.

I'm very glad Python never got C-style switch.

As for Scala, its pattern-matching (among other things!) ultimately comes from ML in the 1970s (its modern descendents being StandardML and Ocaml, and to a lesser extent Scala, Haskell and Rust).
I don't think this is it. I think it's more about (1) marketing and discoverability and (2) ease for current maintainers.

Getting new contributors is overrated for OSS unless they are an exceptional contributor (like if a big org were to contribute).

Main incentive is getting more consumers of the project (increase popularity) and making it more convenient for current team.
>don’t be mean/rude to other people publicly, and think about what you say before writing it down.

This is obviously good advice, but the rest of your comment basically amounts to rephrasing "there is nothing to be afraid of if you have nothing to hide". The problem is that often times people don't have a choice about what they are forced to hide.

For example, one's sexuality is often something that needs to be hidden. It isn't just that some fetishes are embarrassing. Some orientations in some jurisdictions are illegal or not legally protected. It was just a few months ago that the US Supreme Court ruled that you can't fire people for being gay for example. And that is just the legal repercussions. There are all sorts of social, religious, and familial circles that will react negatively to a person's true self that might force that person to hide a part of their life.

Ideally we get to a place in the future when this isn't true. However it is true today and failing to recognize it is either of sign of naivety, privilege, or a lack of empathy.