jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Quote : "Using a real-time service provider rather than a custom, in-house built real-time solution has numerous advantages ..."

Not really -- it has no advantages at all, and many drawbacks. All one needs is a reliable way to communicate with the house from a remote location, and that already exists in several forms.

This article tries to make a third-party at-cost "service provider" seem like a natural addition to a home automation system. It's nothing of the kind. It's like proposing that a third party should charge you to listen in on your phone conversations and suggest the perfect bon mot while you talk.
As I do ~ 40% of my work from Terminal.app, I'm not sure how the introduction of the Mac obsoleted the CLI.
Introduction to Law
There is a subtlety here that helps defendants with competent lawyers. The police and prosecutors will be more than happy to show video evidence in court when it justifies police actions -- it is pretty hard to raise doubts about the claim that a suspect charged at the police with a knife when the police have a video of it happening. When the police show up in court and claim to have forgotten to turn their cameras on, the defense gets a big boost -- "Convenient that you forgot to turn the camera on just before beating my client into a coma, yet you did not fail to turn it on in your previous 30 arrests."
Because I don't care to consider the more insidious alternative, that he wanted this outcome.
This is really incredible, now that i've read it, it seems very intelligent, but I don't know if it can have any other side effects.
Retired. Did the math. Somehow doesn't strike me as the average Uber driver.

It's trivial for Uber to "do the math" based on some simple factors drivers could plug into the app, and then they could show what the driver is actually earning after gas, maintenance, and depreciation. Writing a spreadsheet and figuring out all that yourself is difficult to get right and requires a fair amount of mathematical and technical knowledge.

Mr. Money Mustache's argument is that it would be trivial for Uber and Lyft to "do the math" for them, but they won't because then drivers will realize just how little they're making.
Rapes and murders in public places are exceedingly rare.

The app could certainly facilitate "safe" dates by helping guide people toward certain places. That could even be the business model where you would book reservations at certain restaurants, coffee shops, or wherever through the app.
Yeah, there's something about the kerning that is just a little off. I agree that what happens on the page in the center of the screen has to be 100% perfect for any word processor.
Increased spending on employee insurance is due to increasing healthcare costs. Even if companies are spending more on their employees healthcare, employees are still paying more on healthcare than ever before. So, that still means less money available for everything that isn't healthcare, and is functionally equivalent to a pay cut.
You have enough experience to apply through interviewing.io

Triplebyte is also good. Also ask around with ex-colleagues for referrals.
> an artificial moat around starting a new app

In the real world we actually inhabit, where Uber and Lyft have lost money every quarter, I'm not sure "state-mandated exploitation" is the "moat."
Have you been there lately? They are actually quite many non-local workers these days. Not sure they are treated well though.
I'm hoping Texas doesn't sell this stuff.
From the paper:

‘The simplest and most commonly used method to detect publication
selection is an informal examination of a funnel plot’ (Sutton et al. 2000a:
1574). A funnel graph is a scatter diagram of precision versus estimated effect
(such as estimated elasticities, regression coefficients or partial correlation
coefficients). Precision is best measured by the inverse of the standard error
(1/Se).

As the name suggests, the expected shape is an inverted funnel — in the
absence of publication selection. When there is no publication selection,
estimates should vary randomly and symmetrically around the ‘true’ population
effect. Because small-sample studies with typically less precision form the
base of the graph, the plot will be more spread out there than at its top.
However, it is the graph’s symmetry (or its absence) that is crucial for
assessing publication selection (see Figure 1).
It's a response to the use of "he" as the default pronoun. "he" is gendered and basically everywhere, which means that many people consider its use sexist. Their response is to use "she" in an effort to swing the gendered-pronoun usage towards 50/50. Other people choose to use the gender-neutral "they", which gives grammar-focused people an mild aneurysm.
I agree with your overall message but in this case I would like to point out one thing - a lot of fad diets were first adopted by people and then researched to see if they are helpful where as Fodmap has been specifically researched for the gut and only after it has been shown to be helpful, its now being recommended by doctors.

Obviously you should talk to your doctor before adopting the diet. It may not provide all of the nutrients that your body needs and its normally only recommended for 3 to ~6 months. Its may also not work well for some variants of IBS / IBD / other gut issues and may even be a detriment - so talk to your doctor.

Personally its been helpful for me. A lot of people also may not need to do fodmap and instead just do a elimination diet. For example you may not know it but may be suffering from lactose intolerance or gluten intolerance and so on. Probably easier to try that first as well.
The only information this site seems to convey then is "the GPL exists and is able to be violated". I'm not sure what use this is?
you don't have to be a leftist to know diversity is a good thing
"We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc."

That is a moral judgement. It may be one you agree with, but it's wrong to say that's not a moral judgement.
Right. I'm sure you can explain more but I've read due to peering agreements and the like having a lot of one-directional traffic can be a good thing.
Probably? They grew only 22% last year and trade at over 25 times SALES.
I see the ANALYSIS you provide does not use my DNA but I'm unclear- are you collecting my DNA? Are you saving it or storing it, in any form, in either physical or digital form? What assurances do I have that any of the labs or other partners you use won't do this either?
Some websites also allow you to disable or rotate your 2FA creds if you're already logged in, without having to re-authenticate with your second authenticator.
Their accusation that "we" are conditioned by it is also real and an unjustified projection coming from the author's own unexamined biases.
Kuro5hin redux.
by the excellent Buster Benson also creator of HealthMonth.com
I don't see how a loss of tens of millions in revenue qualifies as "irrelevant". Even if it wasn't part of their business plan, it is money lost.
Are we going to ban computers, newspapers, the Latin alphabet, telephones, magazines, and street corners, too?

After all, the pernicious influence of sex must be eradicated, everywhere. We must stop at nothing!
That paragraph of the article was completely irrelevant: Adult Services was never part of whatever Craigslist considers its "business plan." Craigslist doesn't try, in any way, shape, or form, to optimize for profit in the way a publicly-traded company would. Disregarding the fact that running a single ad on each page would make them ridiculous amounts of money, they're not even charging for ads in any but a few category/location pairs (e.g. real-estate in NYC.)
Traditional shells provide some small conveniences that are hard to give up. You cannot shoehorn this stuff into an existing language by defining global functions, it must be syntax. Ruby could come close by not requiring parens, but still cannot allow something like the following zsh command without extra quoting, parens, or function calls.

for f ({foo,bar}/*(.)) { cp -v $f ${f%.js}.min.js } > output.txt
I'm currently advising a Fortune 500 on their autonomous vehicle work. In some of the design process I've tried to get them to do threat modelling. Every engineer is interested in it. Middle management, enterprise IT and enterprise security has tried its hardest to shut it down.

The reason why is probably control. Middle management wants to control the narrative and be able to push blame away. Enterprise IT thinks engineers are too stupid to understand security and wants to nanny the dumb engineers. Enterprise security is a black box that no one directly speaks to, but considers themselves above the peasants.

It most reminds me of Eddie Izzards "Encore on Computers" [1]. They will almost certainly come back with concerns, but not give any suggestions on workarounds. "You have an issue in your design", "what is the issue, can you tell me please?", "I'm sorry I can't tell you, but let me know when you fixed it"

You can't speak directly to the security team. Nobody knows what they do, nobody knows who reviews what. They also rarely have a background in security and also don't know how to do threat modelling. On top of that its becoming increasingly clear that their centralized approach to security has created the biggest security vulnerabilities possible. I.e. Exchange and Solarwinds integrated into the normal LAN environment, while everything else receives extra scrutiny.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQzqwn-jIM
Communication is 10x better when you are face-to-face and the tech to accommodate remoters is fickle and just unnecessary extra layer. If we can get decisions done faster by excluding remote people then thats what is going to happen.

And just the fact that if I am at the office people will come to my desk with their problems and the constant fiddling with headphones is annoying waste.

I don't get why everyone thinks those of us who want to go back to office are the selfish ones for not bending over backwards over the people who prefer to work remote as if we didn't sign up for this when we started to work.
I know some Google teams that might qualify.
What (if at all) does this mean about the immunity of federal officials working in New Mexico? Do the same rules apply, or is there still QI for them as they’re not state officials?
I think what you are getting at is a "staged execution model", and I agree.

GNU make actually has this, but it's done poorly. It has build STEPS in the shell language, but the build GRAPH can be done in the Make language, or even Guile scheme. [1]

----

I hope to add the "missing declarative part" to shell with https://www.oilshell.org.

So the build GRAPH should be described as you say. It's declarative, but you need metaprogramming. You can think of it like generating a Ninja file, but using reflection/metaprogramming rather than textual code generation.

And then the build STEPS are literally shell. Shell is a lot better than Python for this use case! e.g. for invoking cmopilers and other tools.

I hinted at this a bit in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343716

And this current comment https://lobste.rs/s/k0qhfw/modern_ci_is_too_complex_misdirec...

Comments welcome!

[1] aside: Tensorflow has the same staged execution model. The (serial) Python language is used for metaprogramming the graph, while the the highly parallel graph language is called "Tensorflow".
Such breadth, you could dedicate a lifetime to learning only one of those topics!
Yes there are people with kids who don’t own a car. Madness. I guess they just don’t make excuses.
It is not really about the language at all. He got older, and does not want to learn new things. Other people who stopped learning earlier say, "better C" instead.

The language has gotten continuously more powerful since 2011, albeit in smaller increments until C++20 when several big features landed.

Good C++11 looks practically nothing like C++98, and good C++20 looks as little like C++11.

It is really getting more fun all the time, as old crud falls away, and you can just say more and more just what you mean. Improved type-inference capabilities are doing a great deal of the heavy lifting.
Programmable logic seems like a space that could be disrupted with a company that has fully open-source tooling around its hardware along with great documentation. FPGA tooling is in the dark ages compared to modern software development environments. If you found such a company I will be your customer and simp/shill/stan for life.
I've been trying something new for the past couple of weeks that seems to be working pretty well: throughout the day, I disable my internet connection by hitting the wifi button on my laptop.
The problem is that Excel already has pivot tables for relational data, and charting. The charting isn't interactive, so that would be cool. But you're not going to get people out of Excel just for that one feature. Because there are 50 other features in Excel that they use daily.
> "They should be announcing cool awesome features no other device has got."

God no. Apple has rarely ever introduced any features that is simply unheard of on other devices. That is not Apple's core strength: their strength is doing the same things everyone is already doing, but doing it better, making it more accessible and usable, and giving it sleekness and sexiness that it simply did not have before.

Apple is never at the very forefront of raw functionality, it's at the forefront of accessibility and usability.

Even now, it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device. They were late to the game (and admitted themselves as such) but they did it better than the incumbents.

I'm not sure where this Apple hate comes from, with the "hur hur hur Apple plays other people's inventions off like their own!" - this has rarely ever been the case.
I haven't really looked into it; but do open source contributors not have a problem with using a closed platform to manage their products?
AIDS: easily avoided

MMR: easily avoided

That leaves swine flu. According to this Wikipedia page about the 2009 flu pandemic (which is what the term “swine flu” references, as best as I can tell), worldwide fatalities are estimated at 575 thousand (upper bound) and worldwide infections are estimated at 700 million (lower bound). Given those numbers, the worst case fatality rate is 0.08%. Then there is this quote:

> A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu.

So my point remains: no one in the west had direct experience of a pandemic.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
Science and engineering are a cycle on a spectrum, you don't get one without the other.
Some organisations already have such systems in place. Take for example this Redditor who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because someone some time in the past pushed his coins through a mixer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blockfi/comments/skxiei/blockfi_hor...
Across the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
Alcohol/disinfectant in a spray bottle. Spray it everywhere inside.
As a citizen of a EU member, EU is laughing stock these days.
I used to get that error, but starting today I simply get the ads.
any worthwhile API should offer some form of public/private key cryptography based authentication.

No. In fact, for API authentication, you want generally the least amount of cryptography you can get away with. A 128-bit random token, if you can. An HMAC'd token if you can't; if that's not enough, and you absolutely have to, a symmetrically-encrypted token. Asymmetric cryptography in an API design is usually a design smell, and a weakness.

This design, in particular, seems like a very bad idea. The reuse of any cryptography key in a new, different context should always make you break out in hives.
Dial in numbers are an additional $4/month cost for Teams - it's not that the person didn't include it, company likely didn't pay for it.
Actually I didn't have to do much beyond setting up the machines (in our case an Oric-1/Atmos) and getting the means together to load the old software archives on it.. once that was ready and booted, the kids just took over. It turns out that 8-bit computing is really accessible to little kids, just like it was for me in the 80's, and while that may have changed with the current generation: the old machines still live!

;)
There's only a windows build available. If we want more games on our platform then we should also release tools for it rather than just for windows.

Other than that this would be a cool library to include in a game for runtime texture creation.
True, but couldn't the same be accomplished by simply changing your alarm clock?
Honestly, I see him in management pretty soon. He's amazingly good with people. He's not yet good with people he doesn't know - it costs me nothing to ask for good platform recommendations on a site I've frequented for years, whereas for him, posting this question here would be a real hurdle. He'll grow out of that pretty soon; the trendline is pretty obvious at this point. In the meantime, I've got some interesting things to get him started on.
This article is (and/or was influenced by) western psyops.
I'd be very interested in a good approach to this as well.
I specifically reference Qik in the blog post I linked to.
The same way GDPR is enforced. Given the cookie popups I'm seeing everywhere, it doesn't seem to be toothless.

Realistically, if the EU were to impose such a rule, then any ad company doing business in the EU would have to follow it. Thus, any web site deriving any significant revenue from EU advertisers would have to follow it. I'd strongly assume that it's not possible to effectively monetize EU eyeballs without EU advertisers. Of course, anything operated by a EU company or hosted in the EU would also be subject to these rules.

While some local US news would certainly take the "we block all traffic from the EU" approach to avoid dealing with it, the advertising and tracking landscape would quickly and drastically improve.

If now, for example, California would also decide to copy these rules, this would very quickly be the worldwide standard.
I'm not sure why it's difficult to believe. Universities are more than just faculty. In the past few decades, universities have become full service institutions that provide more than just education and have added an army of counselors and administrators.

see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
>It feels weird that a containerisation technology imposes requirements on the underlying storage technology to work well, tho.

Why? Storage is literally the backbone of technology. From databases to webservers there are unique and real requirements. There's a reason why the enterprise storage market is still worth several billion dollars, and it's not because storage is easy.

In 2021, with billions of dollars of R&D at their disposal - neither Amazon, Google, or Microsoft have even a mediocre NAS stack in comparison to the likes of Dell/EMC (Isilon) or NetApp (ONTAP). Heck they can't even compete with startups like Qumulo or Vast.
I think it’s a big stretch to say that providing tools which interoperate with product A and not product B is pushing anyone toward anything. By that logic everything is coercive. This is like when I was informed that I was ruining free computing by personally preferring a less free desktop OS for my own usage and encouraging others to choose what they prefer.

I’m glad you made something that works for more environments. But be careful, you may be accused of pushing more people to use git over mercurial.
Coupd anyone explain how this works, are we any closer to the dream of being able to boot generic Ubuntu image on a random ARM device like you can with x86?
Thanks for the article it's given me a bit to think about. I've been running a web design business for 5 years and I would say it's well and truly stuck in that word you used. But it's hard to know whether you are the smart + entrepreneurial type or just a small business operator and it's hard to know what else to do as well. Thanks for the post though it's food for thought
harmonix went for 10 years before hitting it big.

I would say a better test is if you are still having fun
Where did everyone get SPARC from? The slides clearly say ARC, not SPARC.
Eugenics was in more than just Germany in the 1930s. Amazing how widespread eugenics ideas were (so widespread they came out in this high brow Brit's 'utopian' future).
Profile dammit!

Things that improve by few tenths of a second in a million iterations are NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.
> I'm bothered by people who prioritize synchronous communication over asynchronous.

Amen. My voicemail greeting for my work phone is "Hi, you've reached the voicemail box of Jack Maney. Instead of leaving me a voicemail, please leave me an email. Thank you."
Though, sometimes you want to benchmark with 'ondemand' just to see how the cpu scaling affects your code.

It is known that 'ondemand' may make multi-threaded programs run slower when run on multi-core system. The problem which I have myself observed and reproduced is when two threads are alternately scheduled to run - one thread runs for some time, then wakes up the other and goes to sleep, ad infinitum. With such a workload, the scheduler/governor may enter a situation where the workload moves from one CPU core to the other (*), with no core reaching enough average load to switch it to a higher frequency.

I can't find a reference for this, but it was easy to reproduce by writing a simple program with pthreads doing what is described above. My actual application where I encountered this problem consisted of an event loop thread and a worker thread doing computational tasks (encryption). The most interesting observation was how disabling one of the two CPU cores (yes Linux can do that at runtime) sped up my application and benchmark considerably.
Strongly agree on Spook Country. It is my second favorite Gibson by quite a bit and I feel it's generally underappreciated.
That's a popular view, but I don't think that in real life it's an entirely correct one. At the very least those with money tend to be able to have a fair trial in the US.
I lived in Las Vegas in the 70's when the Secret Service stepped in and shut down the process of people paying for things with Casino Chips.

For those not familiar with them, a Casino Chip has a current denomination ($1, $5, $25, etc) and the name of the Casino on it. For a long time Casinos, as service to their customers, didn't care if you played with another Casino's chips so you could just carry them around from place to place and play them. At the end of the day the Casinos would settle accounts and exchange chips and cash to make it all come out even. It was a great convenience and while occasionally people would try to counterfeit chips, at that time if you were caught doing that you literally disappeared. Of course businesses near the Casinos, 7-11, restaurants, etc, started accepting chips in lieu of cash since they could just walk next door and exchange them for cash. It was a kind of fun and "just one of those things."

And then the secret service came and said "Under the constitution only the US Government can make a currency, stop accepting chips or go to jail." And they did a few stings and there were some high profile wrist slaps (I don't think anyone actually went to jail) and the whole thing stopped.

Had the Liberty Dollar folks read that bit of history they would have seen where their enterprise was headed.

Relinquishing the right to create a currency was one of the pre-requisites to ratifying the Constitution [1] which took that power for the Federal government and removed it from the states and the citizenry.

[1] http://www.jstor.org/pss/2124065
Are you saying that even US citizens who live outside the US are breaking US law if they gamble online?