skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! It’s also way more than a “minor nuisance”. Try two weeks of painful, disgusting scabbing, washing your hands constantly (God help you if you self-infect your eye, which is totally a thing), and a decent amount of pain and self-esteem problems. Oh, and forget about using your mouth for pretty much anything besides eating, and even that can be difficult. It’s totallt a quality of life thing. I have so many outbreaks, which can be caused by something as benign as shaving or kissing someone with a beard (and I happen to be into dudes), that there really is no other option. I guess I could spend my life breaking out in gross herpes sores, or... I could take a pill every day like I have been for years with no ill effects, and enjoy the things that everyone else does.
> Credit cards are mostly supplied by a couple huge companies that aren't interested in improving their rates.

This situation is called an oligopoly. I don't think it has something to do with government sanctioned rent seeking.
Sure, I'm not disputing that. What I am trying to dispute here is kgwgk's assertion that there is no such thing as a false positive because even "high risk" people may end up not recidivating.
DNA testing services have no real delete option
"Terraform is a good tool for infrastructure provisioning. However to test terraform it could be pretty difficult. So you will create some terraform scripts and upload to the cloud a run some slow Jenkins job?"

One can test Terraform scripts without requiring it be hooked into Jenkins. If I have an account with a supported provider, testing during development of said script(s) isn't really that hard.
The whole concept on the internet of sites with "Come join us, we can do all this cool stuff .... well naw #### you!" and you're just done with no recourse is kinda sad.

As this settles into the status quo... i gotta wonder what impact it has on content, who makes content and who doesn't, and etc.
Yes. ZenMagnets has always put warnings on their products, and there are no confirmed incidents of ingestion involving their magnets. To me, this constitutes empirical evidence that warning labels can work.

ZenMagnets also petitioned the CPSC to establish labeling requirements that all small magnet vendors would have to comply with. Instead of going along with this eminently reasonable suggestion, they continued to try to get the product off the market.

Full disclosure: happy ZenMagnets customer.
My point is that even high end restaurants haven't found it worthwhile to grind immediately before cooking, so it's probably a pretty minor difference
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To me, blockchain is equivalent to PageRank in terms of impact. An amazing algorithm with extremely limited use cases. Maybe one company can create significant value like Google did with PageRank, but that is probably it.
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> You actually buy and take some kind of man-made chemical every single day to avoid getting a cold sore every month or two?

Yes? I don’t understand why you’re being so judgemental considering this is between me and my doctor and Valtrex is an incredibly safe drug. Unless you’ve gotten cold sores like I have (try four at a time), I’m really not interested in what you have to say, which seems to just be a regurgitation of side effects, which I will remind you have to be reported from the experimental group REGARDLESS of whether or not they’re actually caused by the medication (because you really have no way of knowing). Furthermore, I don’t actually experience any of those side effects. The main concern is that Valtrex may cause reversible kidney damage, but they do labs every so often and my kidneys are totally fine.
It sounds like some of the content may be locked down, but whether or not the extra content is any good will vary from channel to channel.

> It will also allow subscribers to gain access to members-only posts in the Community tab where creators will share custom perks from time to time, like access to an exclusive live stream, additional videos, shout-outs, news of upcoming events, early access to ticket sales and other things.
This is probably a very simple question, buy will someone please clarify:
$100K in sales - does that mean:
1) $100K worth of (3rd party, for an ecommerce platform) product sold via the platform, or
2) $100K revenue accruing to the platform, as the commission earned on sales of whatever amount.
> VS has an entire loading box it shows before it even renders the main window, because of how slow the startup is

And even when it's loaded it's not done. You can look forward to some more loading when you open a code file, when you try to open the main menu and a dozen other things. They went full eclipse.
I don't like Linus's approach because it takes the conversation away from "how did this break, let's investigate carefully" and steers it towards blaming an individual for making a mistake.

As Mauro points out in the replies, the patch here was trying to fix an issue where one driver (uvcvideo) was returning error codes that didn't match what the majority of drivers were doing -- something that was also a bug and was also breaking userspace. The -ENOENT that Linus screams about is an internal driver error that accidentally was returned to userspace in one place.

No core maintainer was refusing to fix userspace (read the thread!), they just wanted to understand the breakage in question since the patch was intended to fix something else!

Software is hard and tricky. The correct response to managing this complexity shouldn't be calling someone an idiot for trying.

A lot of the widely-celebrated "Linus burns" have important, nuanced discussion behind them that is thrown out the window when it's reduced to swears and anger.
tldr; https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
He's talking about installing a package globally on your system. That's the -g flag
It does not seem like Google is in the wrong here. Unless Blender is willing to pay hosting charges, Google has no obligation to host these videos for free
Blame AT&T all you want, but the CA assembly passed the law with AT&T’s goodies included. The obvious fix is at the ballot box.
i remember years back when people were installing Chrome simply because it had Adobe Flash built in and didn't require a system wide install anymore. For a while, that was the biggest reason my friends installed it. Then Flash started going away, and they were still using it, and wrapped up tightly in the Googleverse with Gmail and then Android.
So, one day after Instagram introduces IGTV to keep creators on their platform, YouTube jumps in with their attempt of keeping people on their platform? YouTube has been pushing creators like Blender forcefully monetise their videos.

Today creators complain about burnout and abuse from their subscribers. Now with a corporate angle stepping in, they might be worked even harder to ensure their income streams are secured and fluent. Coming years might be the worst years of being a creator.
npm? that sounds way worse than the others
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I owned buckeyballs many years ago. I've since lost them, but every now and then I'll find an errant ball attached to a random piece of metal around the house.
It’s about time for internet sales tax. Just how do local firms stay in business when internet based businesses can undercut them by 5-10% automatically.
Sure, maybe 200 years from now everyone in the world "on average" might be doing better. That still doesn't mean people whose jobs get automated today wont suffer, or that the Luddites didn't suffer when their jobs got taken away back in the day.

In any case, very few technologies (relative to everything that's created) actually make living standards better, mostly just things in healthcare. Almost everything else is pretty much a rats race fueled by business and profit, not by intentions of improving people's lives.
Is `let foo = () = foo;` good or bad?
I'm playing around making a language.

I'm a firm believer that recursion is good, but there's a lot going in in `let foo = () => foo;`.

First, I think `let foo` is interpreted, and `foo` is immediately hoisted, as it will be defined.

Second, the value of foo is known to be a function.

That function code isn't evaluated at all, and here's where I have several thoughts going through my head.

I was wondering, at compile-time, should a language bother checking identifiers? I don't particularly like hoisting and think values should be evaluated before declaration begins to take place. I've always liked recursion, but at the moment I thought: "if I want to do recursion, I shouldn't implement any id-validity checking in functions."

Let's say,
let bar = () => foo();
(function() {
window.foo = () => console.log("hi");
}());
bar(); // console logs "hi"

So, at compile-time it seems complicated to check for the existence of "foo" in the function "bar". I mean- sure, it's possible- but it seems like a losing battle for a compiler to chase identifiers all around the program, simply to check if they will exist when they are needed.

So I suppose one solution is to just let undefined identifiers slide unchecked until runtime.
Another solution is to check as much as possible, unless or until the existence of an identifier could potentially come to being during input.

For example, the compiler could see that an array of links in a search-robot might be built after visiting a url that has n links. Perhaps a function is generated for each link, so the compiler might see `links[i].visit()` and think, "Well, that function 'visit' isn't ever created, but links is an object populated by a resource, and maybe that resource provides the necessary API at runtime to make ..visit() defined." Designing a compiler like that seems.. not simple.

So ya, idk. Thoughts?
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Is it really your understanding that fast food workers never or rarely go on to do anything else?
Incredible. Shutting of API access to paying customers after a 30 minute heads up at 6AM.

Astoundingly unprofessional.
Who are you to judge my life decisions about what I spend my time on? It's my choice and my life. I do what I love and nothing more. Go search elsewhere for controversy -- there's none here.
Seriously? All the proclaimed freedom in country is built on the backs of soldiers/police. And we are worried about helping them? If we cant trust the govt then boot them. I am more worried about big companies which are accountable to small set of shareholders more than big govt accountable to najority.
It's likely one could not appreciate the true mass of ATT without actually trying to acquire / control it. Like picking up Thor's hammer, perhaps.
Seeing, in the press, actual technologists' opinions on what is and isn't a good use for their technologies is extremely refreshing, and something that that many on HN have grumbled about for a long time.

Along with the similar actions at Google and Microsoft[0,1], I hope that this represents a bit more of the decision-making power of tech companies coming back towards technologists, and away from the money-men.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/tech-companies...
Is subl really that much faster at big CSV's for you? I made a quick 10 million line, ~1GB CSV in Python, opened it in both sublime text and code. code opened in 20seconds, subl took over a minute.
Wow, who would do this, especially since all of the brands mentioned are probably also Twitter customers.
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I think this partially the law's fault and partially example bias. I worked for a company who was acquired and I did very well especially considering I was a relatively new employee when the company was acquired. In other words, I think you tend to only hear about the bad stories because employees are pissed. In addition, the 90-day rule for stock options means early employees are rarely able to participate in an exit. I think if the law was changed to remove this 90-day exercise limitation, then a lot more employees would benefit from their shares/options.
Does it not have "GitHub Integration" link in the main set of buttons for you?
Google made the option to mark a video as unmonetized in the first place, I don't see how it can be an uploader's fault for using an available option?
The view basically holds for any software that large numbers of users can use without paying a cent: everything from binary-only "shareware" to "freemium" apps, to open-source-but-not-free things like the Pine e-mail client, to BSD to GPL.

If you give away copies, there is no "business model" other than some sort of custom work, or some non-free versions whose copies you do sell or whatever.
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And yet, plenty of people sign up for it. I do what I love and nothing more. If I didn't wake up excited every day or have intense fun, I wouldn't work here. I love my job and work 50 hours a week because I want to. Maybe it's difficult for you to comprehend that some people might actually ENJOY their jobs and CHOOSE to work longer hours.

It's my life and I don't see how there's a controversy that I choose to spend it doing what I love -- especially when I honestly believe that I'm contributing to something that's making the world a better place. I think if you spoke to most SpaceX engineers, they'd say the same thing; the ones that I know (and I probably know a lot more than you) feel the same.
I'm fully prepared for whatever negativity comes with this comment because it's being asked from a place of genuine curiosity-but yes there some snark baked in:

Does the rapacious acquisition game of Silicon Valley and seemingly increased rate of consolidation of startups to established giants feel weirdly like he days of Ma Bell to anyone else?

It seems like more and more There's tales of these acqui-hires with promises that the aquirer will present some kind of "polished" alternative but under the larger brand and I've found quite frequently the promised offer-if ever shipped at all-is far less superior and far more self serving to the brand than what was previously offer by the acquired when they had more on the line by operating as a startup.

Or am I just a cynic?
Then is shipping to an intermediary low-tax address (as a service) followed by a separate shipping event to your home an illegal circumvention?
They may, seeing as "eyewitness" testimony is pretty strong n in the face of its wild inaccuracy, I'm not so sure that protest will last too long.
Google Needs money and Content creator needs Living. Just not sure, if they will set up their own multi-vendor merchandize e-commerce like merch.amazon.com.
What the hell are npm doing that this caused a prod outage.

Either way, really poor from Smyte. No reason to immediately turn off access
There's nothing about Apple, banks or cable companies that are entirely "machine run". In fact they're the exact opposite of Google in that they invest significantly in customer support.
Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?
Small local businesses / startups get squeezed out by larger brands with name recognition. No one looks for stuff in the yellow pages anymore - they go to the most successful brand off the internet.

Additionally, the risks of starting a business / startup are much higher when the cost of housing and healthcare is so much higher. And on top of that you have student debt.
They can just use ... butcher paper.
Think a little harder then. There are legitimate arguments on both sides.
"Smyte" would be a good name for something that kicks users off a social network in a dystopian novel. "Smite" appears dozens of times in the Bible and means to strike someone, sometimes fatally.
> I think this is a major issue with the entire system of Western medicine

As opposed to magic like Chinese medicine? Animal Spirits? Shaman? What exactly are you comparing to?

Western medicine, for all its serious flaws, has done more to increase life expectancy and save lives than any other system. By many orders of magnitude.

> Healthy people (or any other life form) do not suddenly get sick and die

Demonstrably false, all throughout human history. In some societies people simply reused children's names and didn't mourn the way we do because it was an absolute certainty that at least a few of your children would die young.

People have been suddenly dropping dead from cancer, flu, random infections, et al for all of human history. In my mother's youth every summer random kids came down with polio. They woke up one morning saying "momma I can't move my legs" and that was the end of their dreams.

Animals also drop dead. Why do you think there are so many animal rituals designed to avoid actual combat? Why do you think males of species that fight each other chest pound, yell, stomp, leap, or otherwise put on these displays? Because one injury can mean death. Even a scrape can easily get infected. Such displays are designed to avoid this scenario as often as possible.

> Instead of focussing on healthy diet, lifestyle, exercise, managing stress,

Western medicine does focus on these things. They aren't magic cures any more than pills are... but peddlers of woo and unscientific nonsense often like to pretend diet can cure every disease, so I'd urge caution lest someone think you're one of those people.
> seemingly increased rate of consolidation of startups to established giants

Do you have any data to support increased acquisition rate?
heh.. think I had a rack near prgmr at svtix. I used to play a game with seeing how little information I could give them before they unlock my rack (and usually different people working there)

1) ID, rack hall, rack number, company name.
2) no id, name, etc.
3) no id, company name, "I think it was left?"

all worked fine.
Acquisions have been the principal way big companies have always done "innovation". Nothing new here.
Is this new competitor of Quora?
> Indiegogo, GoFundMe, npm, Musical.ly, TaskRabbit, Meetup, OLX, ThredUp, YouNow, 99 Designs, Carousell, and Zendesk

Half an hour of warning, to screw over all of these?

They broke npm's user sign-ups, and publishing of packages, with half an hour of warning.

I can't imagine the havoc over at Zendesk either.

That is not 'winding down'. That's ghosting.
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Government-sanctioned rent-seekers are not the only kind. The comment by User23 was about payment system rent-seekers in general, with no mention of the government.
We had 20 minutes notice, and then everyone was kicked out of the Slack support channel and API responses simply died. What the actual fuck. They have mobile client SDKs out in the wild that are now just eating up battery life as they retry an impossible query forever.
I know - Quora.com is built with Python and MySQL. But as provlem.com writes at footer - "Powered by C++,Go,GraphDB" - It's going to stay for long.

What's your opinion?
This bring up an unrelated question. Where is Las Vegas in facial recognition? Before the big players like AMZ, GOOG et al got into it, they had the best civilian systems. Have they all migrated to the GOOGs and AMZs of the world?

Given that tech earned millions of dollars vs this tech earning billions, I'm gonna guess the old tech is now underwhelming.
lmao this is hilarious. Never seen something like this happen with such a large company. Let's hope the codebases out there had a simple integration with Smyte and the change to that "smyte" filter was fast. Crikey!
Keeping around meaningless jobs isn't a method of "caring about people". With unemployment numbers so slow, finding another menial job shouldn't be that difficult.

The "think of the employees" argument only works when there isn't an employee-friendly market.
Other than the Teespring partnership, this is largely just aping Twitch.

And I don't know if you've been in the average Twitch chat, but it doesn't scream corporate to me. I think Obi-Wan said it best:

> You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
I could imagine (just guessing): submit new repo -> scan with Smyte -> on success, publish repo. Maybe not handling an error properly and skipping Smyte.

This problem creeps up with external mfa/2 factor auth APIs that go down, bringing down the main login. Some choose to skip mfa if down, some don’t
I’m excited about the upcoming _true_ cross platform play coming mid July/August.

You will be able to create a new in-game gamertag; it will require re-adding friends but I’m really excited to be able to finally play remotely with my friends!
That's what overclocking means..... With 6ghz PROCESSORS
Long time Emacs user here. I’m enjoying Atom more and more on each new release. It’s not slow anymore and the UI is really minimalistic and clean. Highly recommend it.
Realistically, probably because they're not virologists. Looking for nucleic acids is easy/commonplace. Virus culture, electron microscopy and immunoassays are more specialized techniques.
Now they are taking that option away. They should get to dictate the terms of use of their free service, IMO. It's still a massive dick move. But what can you do?
Not much by way of a published study if that's what you're after, just a supposition if I'm being completely honestly.

Welcome to being wrong on this if some good soul does have the data on this, though. It's why I asked, maybe someone has research that would prove me wrong and I'll gladly take being corrected on the matter.
With paid memberships, content creators may feel they are a le to take time between videos to put out a more polished product, as their revenue stream is not nearly as tied to getting a certain number of views, being over 10 minutes long (and paddi g with filler to hit that as needed) and keeping from accidentally being demonetized.

It's easy to assume that this is "more corporate" and thus must be worse for everyone else, but that's lazy. It's a compiles topic, it deserves complex thought.
It's the not handling an API failure correctly that surprises me. That seems like it'd be quite common
I would assume yes, because otherwise why would people bother cheating?
I'm surprised it took them this long to add memberships. Although, with how rocky their relationship has seemed to be creators in recent times, they may have trouble winning some people over from Patreon. That said, they do have the obvious wins of convenience and tighter integration.
> I suspect the reason Java did it was to not surprise C++ programmers. Solely dictated by marketing, not by technical reasons.

C++ is actually more uniform than Java in this respect because it allows one to define new value types, and also allows heap-allocation of "primitive" types such as int.
Yes, it's possible to test it is local if you have credentials. But for security reasons, lots of times companies don't provide credentials. Also, it's your local dev machine you don't want mess it up right? So docker is awesome being ephemeral.

Sometimes when you use PACKER and you have a SHARED infrastructure a build could take 40mim to run all the things with Terraform/Ansible that kind of a mainframe :D Unfortunately this exit :(
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Is anyone else as tired of this schism of material gain over all other considerations? If the tech industry wants to end up with the same ill repute as Wall Street this is certainly the right way to go about it.