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Maybe it looks that way if you don't go out of your way to use or follow the Dev build but development has been consistent over the last couple of years
Ask on HN what to do. They always have clever tips for newcomers.
ML looks (for many peole) like a way to circunvent your grumpy statiscian saying that the underlying data is worthless and/or you should focus on getting the data pipeline done properly for a logit model on your churn rate.
Imagine if you worked for a gig-economy company that required you to cycle and you had a sprained ankle.

You'd be out of a job, with no money. Not even sick pay.

You can have all of the things you mention, and the companies that employ people can still employ them fairly.
I didn't mean to imply it's a magic number - it's a sweet spot as a cross between power/cost/efficiency. The band wasn't authorized for communications until it was already pretty much spoiled.
It's built into 26.1 rather than requiring the plugin (which I could never get to work for me under linux), although if installed via snap you have to enable v4l2loopback manually
Okay - Without understanding a specific tech, would it be possible to defend against it? And subversion may not be possible against certain countries. I would rather have these type of weapons developed by countries ruled by democracy.
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74% of economists agree “immediate” action warranted to curb emissions [pdf]
I suspect that the average is much higher than an SV salary. And the standard deviation is much higher too. More like in sports.
Right, the axiomatic semantics aka "the Floyd-Hoare rules". The interesting thing about them is that I've read many presentations of them and not a single one of those had any mention of subroutines (procedures or functions, doesn't matter) at all. All you have is global variables, assignments, sequencing, conditions, and loops. That's it. And while one would think that adding support for subroutines would be tremendously useful, allowing for e.g. specifying correctness of data structures' implementations, apparently it has not been done.

The closest thing to it I've seen is TLA+ but holy fatcats is it unwieldy.
We've got quite a number of API enhancements in the next version, including HTML sheets for non-text content.

That said, we are definitely focused on being first and foremost a really fast text editor that makes it easy to read, navigate and write code. Trying to implement a browser or be an IDE are outside of our area of focus.
> Close to 400M visitors means this is the mainstream.

Hasn't it often been said that foreign tourists are so prominent at the biggest parks, because relatively few actual Americans get enough holiday to go that long distance? I would think that visiting the big parks (as opposed to some less famous park nearby one’s home) is not really mainstream.
This whole story sounds like another Andrew Wilkinson embellishment story. Between this and claiming Slack's only reason for being worth as much as they were was because his design team work early on.

My takeaway from this story isn't nearly what Andrew believes his is. What I see is he was so tunnel visioned on trying to crush Asana and be not only the market leader but only option that he neglected his customers needs and wants until they just bailed on Flow for alternative products.

Death by a million papercuts, sure, but mostly from his own errors.
If my developer tool with thousands of stars on GitHub generates $15/yr in donations, I would say 0.01% of visitors each donating $1 to a website they on average spend 1 minute or less on (seems a reasonable assumption?) is far too optimistic.
Notorios hater of Moslem and purveyer of conspiracy theory, a very bad person and no serious candidate for office, just is running to make point, I supose. For instances, she has been refusing for to use any taxi with Arabic driver.
"Nobody goes there anymore! It's too crowded!"
EULAs are not law. They are an agreement between a business and a customer, and breaking them is wholly separate from breaking the law.
The conventional wisdom on the internet, often backed by common experience, is that significantly less than 0.01% of visitors leave a dollar. Internet donation plates are not known for producing consistent revenue.
and there are good & healthy improvements to each of these subsystems.

and oh good --json logging support is available everywhere. nice SYSTEMD_COLORS supports new 16 and 256 options for all these tools. my entire system will work much better. with high consistency.

this whole monorepo (not monolith) thing is working out.
A good starting point is the FAQ [1] When asking the community a question, the title should be prefixed with "Ask HN: ". If you click edit, you can add the prefix. As with any community it can be useful to lurk for a bit to get a feel for how folks interact with one another.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Stripe is a private company. If they don't like your brand of BS then they can boot you and should. Doesn't make them Nazis, makes them discerning.
Even if developers don't get direct credit, just having these big names in their CV increases their value massively.
Is simple. Just remove "work for hire" from your contract.
"Of course it runs NetBSD!" :)
Sublime Text has never crashed on me (or been slow) and that's why I use it as my primary tool. VSCode is still slow for me, last I checked.
So, it would seem that we have an opportunity for a niche appliance maker: the "dumb appliance" market. I think the issue is that most of the purchases are determined by price and features (that I want), rather than an absence of features I don't want. But you could probably build a decent amount of brand loyalty with a "dumb appliance" selling point.

However, because you would have no data to sell, you would have to actually sell the item itself for a price that would be sufficient to make a profit.
Good question. Why not?
Wow, this seems like 4chan conspiracy theory becoming reality. Will the worm one turn out to be true too?

On a side note, what kind of idiot puts graphene in masks, when its so widely known that graphene is a carcinogen. How can this not be maliciously done.
>That they implemented any software at all instead of full-time internal advocacy against PRISM?

Yes.
I am assuming this is a joke, but if it isn't, then guess which countries have/don't have the manpower to be thrown at killbots :P
This seems an increasingly common dev cycle on software that hasn't adopted subscription pricing. See it a lot in the Mac ecosystem, big numbered release that you need to pay again for, fast follow with about 4 bug fix releases then silence for 3-5 years and repeat.
The fact a QA engineer didn't properly anticipate localization issues with the joke could be indicative of other performance issues.
A few different points of view:

https://tomharrisonjr.com/uuid-or-guid-as-primary-keys-be-ca...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523523 (the hacker news comments for the above article are really insightful)

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-bu...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/primary-keys-ids-versus-guids/
As someone who grew up with the advent of the world wide web and got my start coding on Geocities, I very much appreciate the choice to add a scrolling marquee and visit counter towards the bottom of the site.
> I don't think this comment should have been flagged. It's obviously not literal.

...it’s not at all obvious to me...
Development for v4 has been going on semi-publicly on Discord for 2 years now. For Sublime Text 3 the dev builds were on the website, and im both cases the dev builds can be used as daily driver.
Regarding plugins, Language Server Protocol really helps against defragmention and dead projects. There's an actively developed LSP plugin that theoretically works with any server.
Never underestimate the pro-capitalist apologists of HN. This forum would insist that Milli Vanilli did nothing wrong and were simply "smart business men."
Most songwriters write songs then shop them around. They're not typically freelancers writing a song for an act for pay. They're like small software shops writing source code, and then the company that licenses that code, compiles it, and sells it is wanting a copyright on the source and royalties on other licenses sold.
It's unfortunate the comment is inflammatory, the information contained is valuable.
Not immediately obvious why something designed in the UK and manufactured in Taiwan should be subject to US export controls, but that's the world police for you.
Most pop hits are written by a dozen middle-aged Scandinavian men. I'm sure they are paid very handsomely.
With these types of "manufactured" performance groups I don't think there's any question that they are not composers. The Lady Gaga case (she promotes herself as a composer / guitarist / pianist) is much more of an intentional mislead, in my opinion.
I think it is kind of an unreasonable expectation that businesses will flout the law of countries they operate in out of some sense of principle. There are plenty of unsavory actors right here at home Apple answers to, and I’m not sure that a world of sovereign corporations would be improvement anyway.
The performance and reliability of subl is unmatched in my experience as well.
Famous last words...
Any computer that can run Ubuntu 20.04 should be able to run JingOS
Can you give any other metric for its popularity? Stars aren't a good one - Github stars are bookmarks, not a reflection of whether one actually uses a given repository. Personally, I have 301 starred repositories, of which I maybe use... 5?
They are, but I think they have some ways to go still. BookKeeper is still on ZooKeeper, though they've abstracted the API and have added support for using Etcd instead (not sure if this is production-ready).
>they are being paid handsomely for their work

Seems like someone didn't read the article...
It looks nice overall, but I can't get over the jarring edges on the M. And to this day I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke.

Minor details, absolutely. But with the number of newly released coding fonts you gotta compare them somehow.
CCP has an entire branch of their military dedicated to missles! Also their shipyard build rate is exceeding US rightnow.
Tutorial: Debugging Go Microservices in Kubernetes with VSCode
Again, try reading the article before commenting.
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Hugging Face partners with AWS
But it isn't a false dichotomy. The claim I was responding to stated that the workers had created nearly all of the 200 billion in wealth, which would make Bezos's efforts hardly consequential.

And with your line of reasoning I should be mad when my doctor spends 30 seconds checking me and makes a diagnosis and then receives the lions share of the pay. He couldn't do his job with his nurses, office workers, and other employees. But I'm not mad, because he's doing something they can't.

Just like Bezos did something no one else could do at the time.
Ephebophilia, or whatever -_-
> makes very common usecases needlessly hard for beginners (e.g. run something on boot)

Ah yes, systemd unit files are well regarded as far more complex than shell scripts that are 99% boilerplate. /s
Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing! I’m adding that book on Goodreads now.
I appreciated the breakdown of steps involved in selling an NFT. Cool writeup.
Why not ask people for this kind of stuff in an honest[1] way? If that doesn't work well because people rarely want to share that information, collecting without asking doesn't seem right.

[1] By "honest", I mean like a pop-up with a question or two and a clear "Not now" button. Not another cookie banners or passive collection.
I'm curious - Have their servers and processes been subjected to any audit like that?
As someone from Ontario who moved to Alberta, you deserve a Chinook when it's -30 out.
When whittling down text output like the examples on the project page, I've found that just piping into vim and using a combination of vim commands and external commands like `:%!grep -v foo` to be far easier and much more capable.
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>It's annoying (from a privacy and security perspective) how 'smart'-ening even the most innocuous things can be quite appealing to the end-user, and how nasty (again, from a privacy and security perspective) the implementations that make it to market end up being.

I agree. The benefits of "smart" devices could be a great boon to all of us, far beyond the examples you gave.

In fact, most IOT devices would be most welcome in my home if, and only if, they only pushed data to a local source directly under my control.

At that point, as long as I can manage the flow of data, I would be perfectly happy with a voice assistant (which connected to the Internet only to service specific requests and didn't pass my voice data to "the cloud") or an entertainment device which would connect to the service(s) of my choice and retrieve/stream voice/video/music when I direct it to do so.

Video door entry systems, room-by-room climate/lighting control, automated oven pre-heating and a raft of other conveniences would be fabulous too.

The problem isn't the technology, but rather how it's implemented. And these ideas aren't anything new either. Heinlein, The Jetsons and many, many other sources predicted home automation like this decades ago.

The real barriers to such locally managed systems is widespread adoption of protocols and software to locally manage this stuff.

But it's a chicken and egg problem. Why would home owners/builders/renovators include such systems when the IoT devices all phone home and specifically forbid reverse engineering and re-purposing?

And why would device manufacturers implement such open protocols and integration with locally controlled/managed systems when there's both no market for it, and they can increase revenues by selling all that tasty, tasty data?

There's a multi-billion dollar industry for locally controlled/managed home automation/IoT systems that could be created and cultivated, but the current barriers to entry are pretty high and (given that general-purpose computing devices for the home are on the decline) getting higher.

More's the pity.
Have there been any known cases of someone being identified for copywrite violation while using a VPN service?
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That cuts both ways, doesn’t it? Without any songs what does it matter how beautiful your voice is?
>Economic sanctions should aim at the top of Chinese society. Magnitsky type sanctions on officials.

Though an improvement over blanket sanctions, I suspect the rich would use it as an excuse to squeeze more out of the poor.

Additionally, I doubt the widespread abandonment of due process will truly make the people more friendly towards the West. You'd be targeting potentially millions, and any borderline case is a PR disaster. Imagine something like "mailman for forty years loses savings due to US attack."
That's why I still think NFTs are scam
Are pop songs inherently valuable? Artistically they're not usually interesting but in the market sense, would people listen to them without the massive marketing push?

I strongly support distribution of profits in the relation to the value being created. While it is absolutely possible, even commonplace, for organizations to exploit their workers and other smaller orgs, I also suspect that value in "hit" songs is created elsewhere: in production, marketing, name recognition of the singer, etc.
That's a "feature" - high beam assist sucks. IMO the root cause of all these stupid safety/assist features is people not paying attention:

Lane keep: because you're on your phone

Collision detection/auto brake: because you're on your phone

High Beam Assist: because you're on your phone

Adaptive Cruise Control: so you can be on your phone

Auto Headlights: because turning on your headlights means putting down your phone/coffee cup.

I've only ever been annoyed by Collision Detection/High Beam Assist/Lane Keep/Auto headlights. They do the wrong thing at the wrong time.
How do you differentiate between a write which is safe and a write which isn't? File system location gives a hint but it's no guarantee. Likewise for network connections, SELinux couldn't protect against an unsafe HTTPS POST request vs side-effect free GET request.

And the amount of SELinux tuning you'd need to cover every single executable in every single configuration available on SELinux enabled machine (and even then, your limiting your tool to only work on systems with SELinux) is monumental, manual, inevitably error prone.

There isn't a practical way of making this safe.
> There simply aren’t that many folks working on regex engines.

Yes that's true but there are A LOT of leetcode/hankerrank problems that are trivially solvable when one has a solid grasp of DFA and state machines in general!
In 2018 she chained herself to the front door of Twitter's New York offices while wearing a yellow star to protest being permanently banned from Twitter for hate speech against Ilhan Omar.
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LOL, interesting response. Well feel free to reach out to me (check my profile) and let me know why. I'm very curious :)
> - recognising that it's about to pour onto hands and reducing the temperature to below scalding

- Mistakenly recognizing that it's about to pour onto hands and reducing the temperature

- Training users that it's safe to hold their hands under a faucet set to scalding, who subsequently burn their hands at someone else's place

- Training users that it's safe to hold their hands under a faucet set to scalding, then plain not working
Facebook reveals its “Fairness Flow” toolkit for assessing AI bias
Exactly my point. You have to configure all dependencies correctly as well as have all the dependencies themselves configured correctly to make systemd aware at what point they are ready (which again can be non-trivial to do).

It is much less forgiving to mistakes (and yes.. the little annoyance I am having right now has the dependencies set correctly, correct service type, systemd-analyze chain looks good.. so mistake is somewhat well hidden).
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This crew does have a US military veteran, so even that distinction isn't accurate.
A small animated gif occupying a space between paragraphs or comments. I've not seen one for a decade, but google provides an example:

https://www.oocities.org/itsamemario2000/english.html?202025 the animated green lines.
I would, particularly if the blurb was very honest (or very creative). I have no trouble throwing someone even a one-time $5 if the website is funny enough.
The UNIX way is a cargo cult.

I have done most commercial UNIXes starting with Xenix in 1993, none of them was (or are, regarding the surviving ones) following it.

In fact some of them have introduced systemd like ideas way longer.
I agree -- as ML becomes increasingly easy to be applied by non-experts or people without a heavy math/stats background, I've seen an increasing volume of arguments against the data science profession (someone the other day called DS the "gate-keepers") but: there be dragons.

Anyone can use SOTA deep learning models today, but in my experience, it's more important to understand the answer to "what are the shortcomings/consequences of using a particular method to solve this problem?" "what is (or could be) biases in this dataset?", etc. It requires a non-trivial understanding of the underlying methodology and statistics to reliably answer these questions (or at least worry about them).

Can you apply deep reinforcement learning to your problem? Maybe. Should you? Well, it depends, and you should understand the pros and cons, which requires more than just the knowledge of how to make API calls. There are consequences to misusing ML/AI, and they may not even be obvious from offline testing and cross validation.
With XWayland there is no urgent need for conversion. And "a lot of applications that just wouldn't load" sounds pretty fishy to begin with.
Do you know why it's called "pop music"?
Several people, all listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP_(song).

The song has topped numerous charts, for instance Pitchfork and Rolling Stone's best song of 2020. Why wouldn't they want to take credit?
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
> The operating system sizes everything according to the equivalent of devicePixelRatio, not font size.

You just finished telling me that "font size strongly relates the sizing of all your other interface elements". And I agree with that, which is why it's preferable to use a unit that's tied to font size.

> The em-size however could be anything.

The `em` size is a constant based on the current font and font scale that the user/OS has selected that will scale predictably as that specific font scales.

> What exactly is the advantage of "em" in this regard?

It scales predictably alongside the currently displayed font. It almost completely solves the problem of Mac and Windows displaying fonts at different sizes. Again, you just finished telling me that handling OS font-size differences was a task that I was guaranteed to mess up. Well, `em` and `rem` units make it so you won't mess that up.

When a user changes their fonts to be 1.5x as large, you don't want to be using a logical unit for your layouts and popup window widths that completely ignores that change.
Well, sure, but the median is probably quite low.
Technically I guess this is only about launches from the old oil rigs he bought, but this is explicit and recent. I feel like there's a better tweet/quote out there somewhere which says it for all launches, but you know, limited time to search for it and all..

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1364470475620044802?ref_...
It seems as though this is not a well understood issue from reading the comments here. This isn’t artists doing interviews and saying “I wrote this”. The problem is that the artists are bullying their way into getting points for the song writing credits (publishing royalties) when they had little(change a word in the lyrics) or no input into the song.

I fully support artists getting as much of the live performance/merch/appearances money as they can. If they did not write a song they should not be getting paid for songwriting. All of the justifications in the article dating back to Elvis Presley show how long the business has been slimy.
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For some languages, VSC plays in IDE territory. Compared to other IDEs in the same space, it's pretty similar, if not lighter.
This article does the difficult job of actually saying nothing interesting but still giving the impression that it holds some great newly discovered insight about Roman doll playing.
Text is displayed on the movie screen all the time, so I'm unclear what your argument is here. Yes zoom the whole thing, as apposed to zooming only the text and then changing the layout to accommodate. As a user I do this all the time in browsers, in video games, and even in display settings. It works great, because everything stays locked together, and there are never any unanticipated interactions between elements. The absolute worst case scenario is the aspect ratio doesn't fit the device perfectly.

You know what doesn't work great? When I resize my browser window and the responsive designed threshold decides my 3k monitor is a phone. So much engineering effort to achieve a bad user experience, when zooming the entire UI is superior in every way.

Just use pixels, they are unambiguous units that are consistent across all digital media, scaleable without changing layout, and understood by both designer and user alike.
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Have you read their contract?