jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
AT&T suspended iPhone 4 pre-orders Wednesday after demand overwhelmed inventory.

Really? Are they incapable of predicting demand after four versions of the phone, or are they unable to manufacture enough even though they knew demand would be high?

Or are they just artificially limiting supply?
Isn't the difference that SpaceX builts the rockets but also does most of the rest too? You pay they and they get your stuff to orbit. With the others, you can buy a rocket, but if you aren't NASA, you probably can't get it to orbit.
Not so—I'm merely pointing out where the burden of justification lies, not staking out a contrary position. Merely asserting that something is unique doesn't serve to justify the implication that uniqueness is a virtue.
I hope Apple is getting fistfuls of cash from AT&T.

From the failed WWDC demo (couldn't activate cell data) to the leaked iPad emails to the iPhone preorder, I can't imagine Jobs + co are too pleased with the negative brand impact AT&T is bringing to Apple.
No, price isn't everything. CPU and IO performance matters also: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
With an unlocked phone you can resell it.

I bought an unlocked iPhone 3GS in January and paid a premium, but I will probably sell it this summer, if I can get an unlocked iPhone 4G.
Gruber has been that way recently. My impression is that he realizes Apple are being dicks lately and feels like he has to crank up the volume on his apologia to compensate for the additional ill will generated, and it's made him more combative.
No, the downvotes mean saying "hurr you must be stupid" is not a good enough comment.
As with all things it's a cost benefit analysis. It costs money to support old browsers and a lot of money doesn't come from them do do the math.

I was trying to buy movie tickets online the other day.I tried Firefox then Firefox without ad blockers, then ie, then edge, then chrome on two different desk top machines.

Then my gf bought them on her phone browser.

Thanks mobile first development. How much money must you be costing your adherents?
He may have meant, criminality wise. Public lightening is, and has been, a major factor against criminality. Public sodium-based lightening is too week anyway for depression.

One way to ensure security for pedestrians with lowest consumption, is the “light carpet”. Only the feet are enlighted, with low spotlights. Consumes little, lets you see where you walk, but in case of theft, doesn’t allow you to see the criminal’s face. I don’t know whether this is what they chose for Place de la Nation.
Agreed, early Quora was interesting, it had a buzz and you got answers from people you wouldn't expect.

Now, it's spammy. Some of the questions are ridiculous, with easily Googleable answers, but makes sense if it's spammers using Q&As to raise profiles of people and services.

Quora now also appears desperate. I occasionally answered questions but doing so would trigger something like three emails a day asking me to answer another question. That level of desperation is offputting, so I just unsubscribed and as a result don't answer any more.
even google had their own extension to do this few years ago until they deleted it from the chrome web store, personal blocklist was called.

There is now another alternative, ublacklist

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
I don’t think it is unfair for people to monetize their content. They may do so either by charging a subscription fee or by requiring people to register, but they need a way to get traffic to them. Isn’t a search engine the top of the funnel for that purpose? And if so isn’t it appropriate that these results continue to be listed? Would we treat Quora or Pinterest (the typically named offenders) differently from journalistic outlets
Link missing? I think it's this article https://www.quantamagazine.org/perceptions-of-musical-octave...
It's excellent timing, no one knows if it's a "joke". Amazon gets coverage either way.
Got me thinking about what is means for SAS, and found:

R vs SAS, why is SAS preferred by private companies?

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/33780/r-vs-sas-why-...
Well it was August 2009 for one thing.

For another: physics/math isn't a stepping stone to technical roles. Physics from ivy league/new ivy is. A B.A. in English from brown is closer to a quant job than a physics degree from New Mexico Tech is. Hell at least NMT is, in the non austerity days, a path into a defense lab. There's half a dozen of state schools (in new mexico alone) offering STEM degrees that most people don't even know are schools.
Works like a charm, doesn't interrupt touchpad either: https://mos.caldis.me
Is there a filter that automatically removed "The best" from the submission title?
Now we have to wait for DDG to manually fix their results every time Bing censors something? Great…

I wonder what Yandex is like these days…
It’s easy for people to make this assumption since all of the Apple Silicon chips are “M1” but some are “M1++”. It helps to avoid that misunderstanding by talking about baseline M1 or non-pro M1 chips.
You can reset your lastpass password if you have access to any machine that was recently logged into it.
The prevailing wisdom in my circle is that you just don't want to consider UE for 2d games. Godot is fine, but sometimes you just wish that you have that killer Unity asset that you have always been using.
Just follow the content creators on Twitter and they’ll notify when they post something
Why a proxy over a VPN?
Maybe they did that for sake of responsiveness? The site looks really good from my phone.
This URL appears to be accessible from mainland China.

http://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=gmail.com
The package manager Nimble is written in 800 lines of Nim: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/src/nimble.ni... Maybe that would satisfy (a)
Looks nice actually. Seems to have been inspired by Barometer. Shame it's not open-source.
There's a freedom I had when I didn't know what I was doing to never know I was "doing it wrong". Reading Reddit, Hacker News, and various forums over the course of my career have definitely put me in the upper echelons of expertise (and my clients have certainly appreciated that). At the same time, there's a creativity that comes from "I'm going to solve this in the only way I can think to" that people often loose sight of as they gain expertise. When you know it's the road less-traveled, you're less likely to walk it yourself, even if there are some great solutions down there that nobody else can see because they're blinded by groupthink.
I'm a sucker for these kinds of stories too, but after a little reflection I'm usually just left disappointed. I don't think he's really using scientific principles, unfortunately. Science would require a constant attempt to falsify his results, at least enough to ensure he's not fooling himself. This capacity for genuine self reflection is exceedingly rare. The guy has the academic background to carefully test and verify his own conclusions, and lay people typically assume those credentials in themselves are sufficient when really they are worthless by themselves. I understand being driven by something like this. When you work alone on a long shot, you've got to go through periods of speculation, exploration, driving ahead somewhat heedlessly. But you also have to go through periods of withdrawal, reflection, checking the assumptions that you made in your wild flight forward, and making course corrections as required. What happens when you find you've reached a dead-end? Some people change course or give up. Others just keep plodding ahead as though it weren't the case. This has the feeling of the latter, and it makes me sad. I wish all the best for the guy, but I'd put my money on a lotto ticket.
Note that in current gas/electric hybrids, the concept of "started" loses most of its meaning. The system as a whole can be "on" or "off", but doesn't intrinsically make any sound that distinguishes the two states. The gas engine subsystem will get turned on and off at the whim of the controller; if the engine is up to operating temperature and the battery's charge level isn't too low, the controller will turn off the engine whenever its power isn't needed (stopped at a stoplight, driving very slowly, coasting down a hill, etc.). On some models, it's also possible to press a button to tell the system "delay starting the gas engine as long as possible". Hence the concerns about hybrids "sneaking up" on pedestrians.
Doubling your money is much better returns than any hedge fund I've heard of.
Sidenote: This is the same Ulam of "Ulam-Teller Design" fame, the basis for thermonuclear weapons.
Wired has a really good article from last year about why DNF was never finished: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/

Executive summary: The first game was too successful. Failure can be, and often is, a good thing.

"Normally, game developers don’t have much cash. Like rock bands seeking a label to help pay for the cost of recording an album, game developers usually find a publisher to give them an advance in exchange for a big slice of the profits. But Broussard and Miller didn’t need to do this. 3D Realms was flush with cash. [...] Yet the truth is, Broussard’s financial freedom had cut him off from all discipline. He could delay making the tough calls, seemingly forever. One day, Broussard came in and said, ‘We could go another five years without shipping a game’ because 3D Realms still had so much money in the bank"
Share ownership with employees.
want something small that stays out of your way? web.py

want something bigger that provides a "full stack"? Django
If you're considering developing this app further, you might want to take a look at the security of your app. A few minutes and I found quite a few XSS attacks on it.

If you'd like, I can email you all of the attacks I've found so you can fix them.

Edit: XSS isn't all there is to worry about.
Thanks. I love not only your appreciation of humour, but also your loving demeanor.
"Keep in mind also that they did more than scanning."

This bit is irrelevant to copyright law.
That’s a “Sweat of the brow” argument, but copyright does not work that way.
It's rather comical how few fixed income traders at banks actually understand how the underlying markets work and interact with each other.
Ironically, the html version of the text has 305 character long lines on a 1080p monitor =P.
A quick attempt to format the text on the page (via Stylish) to approximate the 95 character per line count recommended by the study: https://userstyles.org/styles/109432/the-effects-of-line-len...
Yes. Actually a brand new Mazda Cx-5. During the first 4 years it had 2 very minor mechanical issues covered by warranty and 1 minor electrical issue - broken USB (but not sure if that wasn't mechanical really, these ports are often fragile). Overall it was a very good car and much more reliable than the previous, much more mechanical Ford from 2007.

And my new car is still too new to tell anything, but AFAIK it is leading many reliability rankings - Lexus CT. Weird, considering it is a hybrid, isn't it?

I also have some electronic devices at my household that has worked flawlessly for over 40 years since manufactured - eg an analogue oscilloscope and lab power supply.

And a few new cheap LED lamps that half of them died within the first 6 months. :D

I conclude the thing is in proper design and high quality assembly, not electronics per se. It can be good, it can be also crap if done badly.
This is really not getting at the root of the problem (not saying we shouldn't also do this).

Police are trained to see citizens as enemies and to see themselves as "warriors". The specific tactics they utilize are tactics they have been trained to use and/or are widely used in practice so new recruits are immersed in a culture where these things are the norm.

Additionally the reason cops get away with things in all the ways you list above are because of unions and lack of independent accountability.

Persecuting individual officers for doing the job they were trained to do actual inflames the problem because they already see themselves as the victims (that is crazy, but it is 100% true they feel this way).

Of course individuals play a large role but focusing on charging officers isn't likely to be an effective strategy for changing things.

A much better strategy would be to take officers themselves out of the blame/change equation. They get the most political sympathy so going at them increases divisions and decreases likelihood of any compromise. What's needed to to change police training, yes add independent accountability, and change the charter of police forces by breaking away social services to take over most calls that don't involve felony crimes or immediate life dangers.
> This happens quite frequently in companies with public stock and/or profit based bonus contributions.

Wait there are companies with their pension funds entirely invested in... their own stock?
I really hope that something can be done, but Tim Cook's hostility towards the end user gives me a feeling that they're not interested. Don't get me wrong, though, Cook's grip on Apple has offered some much-needed upgrades in a lot of key ares, but the power-user has been ignored the entire time. I also get the feeling that their interest lies in engineering the Mac to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They can sell an iPhone to anyone, they can sell an iPad to anyone, but they can't sell a Mac to just anyone. The solution? Make it run iPhone and iPad apps.
No, it is going to record images meant to be returned to Earth. See section "Sensors" on page 13 in

https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/46229/CL%2317...
Sure - off the top of my head, basically any fund or advisor which specializes in derivatives volatility. Universa Investments is a specific example, but you can find more by searching for those criteria.
Because articles like this are deceptive. In terms of climate change: 1. You need to look at all sources of carbon emissions (not just electricity). 2. You need to look at the whole world--not just the United States.

Overall it turns out there is a modest improvement in the U.S. and the other Western industrialized countries.[And even with the modest improvement in the Western industrialized countries, they are still putting massive amount of carbon into the atmosphere every year.]

However there is a worsening in the third world--and they are responsible for more emissions that the Western industrialized countries. Thus for example you see articles like:

Mexico was once a climate leader – now it's betting big on coal

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/mexico-coal-fo...
I'm working on a self-hosted, open source PaaS called Swarmlet. I really like Dokku, but I needed something that's a bit more scalable to my needs.

The installer is currently broken, I simply don't have enough time / bandwidth right now to work on it unfortunately.

That said, if you want to contribute, please let me know! I hope to get things running again soon.

https://swarmlet.dev or https://github.com/swarmlet/swarmlet
It's possible that soon whatever coin is most profitable to mine won't be profitable enough to justify buying more GPUs. There's always a limit.
Facebook is despicable and indefensible. They knew that they could not moderate Myanmar. They knew or should have known that it was a volatile political situation. The amount of money involved could not have been more than a few million dollars. They should have just turned everything off and said we'll come back when we can. It's disgusting what they did and they should never be forgiven for putting market position ahead of human lives.
I don't force my choice on others, but I'm firmly in "git cli" camp. The reason is simple - cli is available everywhere. I'm sure GitKraken & co. are great once you get used to them, but apart from GitLab graph view (which GitHub sadly lacks, and cli tool afaik also) I don't miss anything. But again, this is just my personal preference and I agree that developers should be free to use gui if they prefer it.
I am a fan of FreeBSD, and use it for a few tasks.. But I'm not at all clear why someone would want to do this? Does anyone have any idea what this gives you over just running a Bhyve VM outside of a jail?

Is it more secure somehow?
In some cases I agree, but squashes can end up so large that doing a `git bisect` (which is quite useful in finding the comparatively small commit which introduced a bug) becomes unfeasible.
I paid for the 30x500 course (so far not worth it :-( ... it anyway the point of the whole thing is to first identify your audience, then find where they hang out online and then do this kind of research.

This coukd be linked up with Rand Fishkin's new thing where he has found a million people's twitter bios and linkedin bios and can therefore find "people who post a lot about sailing and work in finance".

But honestly, it casts a wide net and I think I need to niche down.
> Well, how about there was a time when I could propose there was such a time, and wouldn't have immediately been flooded with accusations that the old times were just full of racism and everyone proposing liberty were selfish people who didn't really want liberty.

So... when you accuse me of that, are you denying that there were racially motivated actions being taken that harmed significant populations?

Because that's quite a claim! Most of my history education came from Bob Jones University "For Christian Schools" textbooks that were hardly trying to indoctrinate any sort of "white Americans are evil" mentality, but if you look at what happened, and who did what to what... it's hard to avoid.

It's hard for me to square the claim that people in the past were BETTER about wanting "liberty for everyone" when I look at how they allowed their society to treat people of different races, sexual orientations, people who wanted abortions, etc... I would need more concrete counterexamples, not just generalizations of the past being claimed to be better.

Were they any worse/more hypocritical/differently motivated than today? Probably not! I don't know that people change that much. But it's hard to say they were BETTER based on their actions.

If there was a time when your claim that people in the olden days were better would go unchallenged, it's probably because the people being harmed in those days weren't very visible to the people you were talking to.
Even more to the point is that there is a readily identifiable problem. It is better to put energy towards fixing the problem than apply a really shit work around with horrible second and third order sequences only for the point of doing what you couldn't do the correct way.
Torturing yourself does not necessarily improve your ability to wield this tool responsibly.

A lot of my writing grows out of the fact that my life is torture. Writing helps make it less torturous but it doesn't come without risks.

It is rather arrogant and likely comes from a place of privilege to presume that people who find writing torment are in a place to chose to not be tormented. Not everyone has some nice, cushy life where they can decide between "Get X job or write" and choose X job because it comfortably pays the bills without being emotional torment for them.

It doesn't have to change the world for it to be monumentally important for that specific writer. Their torment is no less real just because most of the world didn't care about their personal struggles in the face of monumental personal problems, even if solving their own problems only solves it for them and for no one else.
Minor nit, but if you find yourself writing `return true` `return false`, it's a sign your code can be simplified. In this case:

fn react(token1: &String, token2: &String) -> bool {
token1.to_lowercase() == token2.to_lowercase() && token1 != token2
}

Anyway as soon as I saw the problem I thought "this is either completely trivial or insanely difficult depending on whether you want proper unicode handling or not".

I haven't really thought about it but I doubt his solution is fully correct according to unicode. E.g. What happens with `aßSSb`? Who knows what should even happen in that case.

As for the malloc performance, MacOS has a significantly slower system memory allocator than Linux does. If you use jemalloc (https://crates.io/crates/jemallocator) instead I think you will see better performance than Javascript.

Good article anyway.
I know this isn't an advice thread but 1) milk it while you're still collecting salary and 2) make sure your LinkedIn profile is fleshed out and your resume is clean and up to date 3) hit up your former coworkers to ask how their new job is...maybe let it slip you're looking to move

Good luck!
Speaking of interleaving, I wish Spotify understood how to interact with Concept Albums. Changing to the middle of The Wall for one song is jarring and I usually skip it.

And then I worry skipping it is going to train the algorithm that I don't like Pink Floyd.
> If Michael Jordan wasn't such a workaholic would he still have become 'The' Michael Jordan.

1) Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls (for the second time) at age 36. I suppose in tech with rampant age discrimination, that's also when you're expected to retire after burning yourself out...

2) Michael Jordan made enough money that he could have retired even earlier. No employer was forcing him to work. He did it "for the love of the game".

3) None of us here are or ever will be Michael Jordan. Either in talent — arguably the greatest of all time — or in financial security — one of the highest compensated athletes ever.

You say you're not comparing yourself to Jordan, but why even bring him up? He's not only the world's greatest basketball player but also the world's worst analogy for comparing with normal people working at a job.

If you're in control of your own destiny, then by all means, do whatever you like. But a lot of people are busting their butts just for their current employer, and eventually you're going to find out that you actually mean very little to your employer, who will drop you at the drop of a hat and not give a damn about your fate. Your family and friends are the only ones who will stick with you and care for you in the long run.
I'm not currently coding because running a company, talking with customers, learning to build hardware, solving electricity and magnetic problems. Coding maybe every second week.
I don't think you quite get how Ofcom works.

Ofcom received a complaint in Feb 2020[1] which it investigated -- taking a year to reach this conclusion is not 'sudden'.

The request to transfer the licence to another entity didn't supply all the required information for the transfer[2].

Ofcom operates with a bias against meddling[3] -- you've got to try quite hard to get them riled but not complying with broadcasting law is definitiely one way to do it.

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/212884/...

[2] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...

[3] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/policies-and-guidelines
Yes, as we age and especially as we eat the wrong things such as too much sugar, carbs, processed foods the sugar damages the vascular system I am greatly over simplifying this after we develop insulin resistance and we start absorbing calcium in the wrong places. That body uses calcium, zinc, white blood cells and a few other things to essentially bandage the micro lesions in the artery walls. This causes several problems, including increasing risk of a cardiovascular event, reducing access to pathways required for nutrient uptake, arterial stiffness. I am also greatly oversimplifying this. You can find a myriad of studies on this topic on nih.gov. I find it best to use google and put in the search field "site:nih.gov topic" so in this case, "Coronary artery calcium testing".