skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at everything that Google is doing at the moment, it looks like a shameful power grab for the entire WWW.

I suspect that Google wants to gradually get rid of URLs, because if users can't identify websites by their addresses, they will be more dependent on Google Search. Landing on search pages means that users will click on more of their well-concealed ads.

I think it's also the reason why Google Chrome's URL bar has such terrible auto-completion functionality. It appears designed to send users to Google Search to click on ads instead of taking them directly to their destinations. Firefox's old address bar didn't do that. (The newer address bar in Firefox appears to be following Chrome's time-wasting functionality, and its auto-completion no longer works well.)

Without URLs, users won't know whether they are really on your site, viewing your content on google.com (via AMP), or in some kind of app or PWA. To get to an item of content, most people will end up clicking on an ad in Google Search or land on an AMP page that eliminates most monetization options that don't involve passing the money through Google's systems.

URLs shouldn't be trimmed at all. When you're on the URL, http://example.com/, (note the trailing slash), Chrome will only display "http://example.com", even if you copy it onto the clipboard. (It's still possible to fix it in Firefox with about:config.)

Technology shouldn't be made more restrictive and stupid -- users should be taught how to use technology correctly, and they will adjust. I've even met professional programmers who don't really understand URLs because their browsers mask the real URLs. The WWW isn't only about consumption -- it's about creating as well. People need to know how it works in order to create things.
In the first tech bubble, yahoo was making tons of money from ads placed by other startups, who pumped VC money into ads, and VCs spent money liberally since they saw huge returns on yahoo. The whole thing was cyclical.

If Pagerduty makes their money from startup VC money, could a similar thing be happening here?
You quit donating to charity because one specific charity is egregiously bad? Isn't that a bit like ceasing to eat because you had something yucky once?
AOL keywords all over again. It's all about building a moat.
Exactly. You may not like that but that's the way it is.
This doesn't seem to be present on 63b2.
That creating your own redundant Linux distro based on an existing one for bragging rights is not the only option!
My Whole Foods has also under-gone quite a bit of changes. I don't think necessarily for the worse, however. I think overall it is still roughly the same, but a lot of things have shifted and it's obvious that Amazon is dumping money into the store. According to a cashier this is because that WF makes a ton of money.
Are you by chance using an older iOS or macOS release? Since this is a hobby project, I decided to make BitMidi have extremely aggressive browser requirements. You must use an evergreen browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Brave, etc.) or the latest version of Edge or Safari.

Specifically, the feature you're probably missing is URLSearchParams with a spec-compliant toString() method, which I believe only the latest versions of Safari and Edge have, despite what Can I Use says. https://caniuse.com/#feat=urlsearchparams
How do they get substantial benefits for their workers?
I didn’t get the impression they were ignored. Just that developers were harder to hire.
That's a pretty amazing technical feat!
The EU is clearly valuable to many of its partners as a domestic scapegoat. The problems come when people actually believe them and try to 'solve' the problems 'caused' by them and find a stack of disasters that makes being the prime minister a position competed /against/ becoming instead of /for/.
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Union leaders can aim for that they want, I personally commit to dissent all forms of that robbery and desire for a freer and more fair society. I do not want to fight for the spoils of exploitation.
Woah, guess I lost track..
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it's hidden by default. see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967977#c17
I had Sherpaa through a previous employer and I think they were great. They were available when I started getting horrible headaches that wouldn't let me sleep in the middle of the night and told me what medicine I could get urgently at a pharmacy, they helped a coworker ensure they had all the prescriptions they needed. They followed up on cases to make sure things were actually resolved.

I don't know if this is really a true replacement for primary care, but I found it to be a quite useful addition, and it was definitely my first point of contact.

I wish they handled the ordeal that is scheduling specialist appointments though; they did suggest specialists, but actually finding ones with time was its own challenge.
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> How can an assumption be racist anyway?

Very easily: "you're Irish, I just assumed that you were a drunk".
There's no coup here. There are people upholding their sworn oath to defend the Constitution, and trying to make sense out of a logically incoherent President who hired them to do just that. The President can fire them at any time if he dislikes their work.
This is so interesting - one wonders if this is strictly immoral. I propose this thought experiment: What if there was a version of this fraudulent brokerage that conducted this behavior in the open?

Let's say their policy is something like, "You trade for real under favorable commissions and margins. If we decide via internal algorithms that you are liable to lose money, we will instead pocket your trade and credit you 10% of the money you would have lost back. If you win, you win in full as normal."

Would this be immoral? Illegal?
Combating overfunding seems difficult to do. I imagine VC type companies are ones that experience rapid uncontrolled growth. So how do you limit investors in that situation without running the risk of a future scenario where you run out of capital? Do you set up a waiting list of funders that you can take money from as you need it?

Limiting and controlling growth seems like a difficult and dangerous proposition, particularly in an environment where there are competitors just waiting to perfect the idea and take it to market before you.
So you're saying they should therefore be happy to be treated like robots?
I'd add one more: they need to be able to ship new product at the cadence of Nvidia, Intel et al. Showing wins in the lab is very different from getting that product to market before the next round of improvements from competitors overtakes you.

And then you need to do it again.
Yes, I was talking about total savings. I honestly think that if you know 'more than a few people' with 300k in their 401k then you are living in a upper class bubble, or maybe you are 60 years old...

(Or I'm in total denial. That's a real possibility as well).
> my understanding is that master/slave more accurately describes the relationship than primary/replica does

Please, do go on—what else about the master/slave relationship is implied by the terminology?
Only if you are referring to perfect tests which cost zero time to write/maintain and only the tests written that eventually will catch an issue.

Otherwise, tests have a cost just like any other code. You can see this by looking at both extremes: perfect tests (described above) and useless tests. For example, tests that make your codebase too brittle, tests that don't actually test anything useful, spending too much time writing tests, spending a lot of time writing tests for precisely the code with high disposability, tests that are too coupled with the code, stupid tests that should be removed but won't be because tests tend to be append-only, etc.

Testing is an advanced topic where every +1 unit you spend on testing doesn't mean your application is now +1 unit more robust. +1 unit of time spent in tests can even mean your application is -2 units worse because testing is a trade-off.

So tests are more than capable of hamstringing your unlaunched MVP. They're also capable of being the reason you launched your MVP sooner than later. But the costs of testing are no illusion.
love these memories :-)

a category / theme browsing method would be added value i think
Same here. I need a phone call to pay any attention. I use UptimeRobot and their RSS feed to pipe into a Zapier Zap which uses Twilio to call me and read me the site that is down in a British voice haha. Easy to setup, works and really cost effective!
By creating a level playing field for negotiation in an environment where the one who owns the capital could otherwise dictate terms.
Why the West Rules—For Now, by Ian Morris, focuses similarly on the Middle East throughout most of history, as the "Western" center of civilization, until roughly the industrial revolution.
This is great!

I also took the liberty to add this (and setuptools_rust) to Arch Linux's AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-py-spy
> also because people are better at writing code than they were then (even if it doesn't feel that way)

Any reference or data to back up this assertion? My intuition would say otherwise, if for no other reason than that because the many layers of abstraction that exist today allow a person to become productive writing code with significantly less knowledge and in a shorter time than in the past. When you combine this with a general shortage of workers in the industry, you have a huge influx of individuals less educated in the field and with less experience. With all that considered, I find it hard to think that we're any better at writing software, in fact, the abstractions that exist today are all about letting us be worse at writing code while still being productive.
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Yep, I had some financial missteps, including divorce, a year with an income, etc. That said, I do have the "average" 401k by now, but Vanguard is still telling me I need to save a lot more...
Can we say artificial deadlines are the root of most technical debt coming out of experienced developers who otherwise would not create significant technical debt? Most of the time I think a simple list of priorities with some milestone goals would be far superior to sprints.
That link works fine for me. It doesn't for you?
What kind of reputation she got? She wrote some stupid book which just showed how much disconnected she is from the regular people and preach men to "lean in" like we are some kind of idiots who need her advice.
Aren't most of those changes pre-20th century while anything published before 1922 would have an expired copyright? You wouldn't have to go all the way back to the original to escape copyright, you would just have to go back 96 years.
> images don't cause mental health problems

This is categorically false.
Yep, I plan to add a way to suggest tags for each MIDI. And then list the top 20 tags on the homepage for easy browsing. Does this seem like it would work for you?
Many very powerful groups benifit from people thinking that way. That does not mean unions are great just that they would get a lot of bad publicity regardless so you need to adjust for that.

My personal experience is they are a large net positive for workers, but every mistake gets heavily publicized.
I was not a regular Whole Foods shopper but went into the local one the other day to get some things. I was shocked at the lack of items on the shelves.

It reminded me of when our local co-op went out of business. Staples like bread & milk weren’t available.

What is the end game on this strategy? Cause wrt the coop it was “go away forever”.
I'm not a tax attorney but I don't think that's how deductions work.
> How many hours per week do you estimate developers
at your company waste on maintenance (i.e. dealing
with bad code / errors, debugging, refactoring,
modifying)? 17.3 hours

How is this tracked? Looks like it's just a survey of opinions. From my data I see the median time spent in IDE at 11 hours so 17 hours spent on refactoring must be a lot of non-coding tasks.
As a small side note, Central Market is also pushing into the online shopping model and using open source software to do it. A friend here in Dallas worked on their WooCommerce integration.
Most languages will probably still do their own error reporting, so it will arguably not do very much, except make extra work for language maintainers to make their own error reporting coexist with the c type.
I had always assumed that some version/edition of "foo" by "bar" (from the author, I mean) is always the same series of notes, with the same timing, played in the same way, etc. Or at least ideally. I knew that instruments differ. And that performers have different styles. And that there are parts of pieces that basically say "improvise here". And that performers occasionally make mistakes, or even consistently make some particular mistakes.

But it never occurred to me that there are variously derived versions. I mean, how can it be referred to as "foo" by "bar", when it's actually a distinct version. Indeed, distinct enough that it can be copyrighted. At that point, isn't it really "baz" by Sony (based on "foo" by "bar")?
I'm going to side with the guy who got flagged. Calling a space venture "corporatefascist", which isn't even a proper formation of a portmanteau, is so blindingly ignorant and confused on arguments, I don't know where to begin.

I guess I'll start with... how is space exploration in itself fascist?
Ask HN: Why everyone here is passive aggrasive and know-it-all type?
You people here remind me of California bay area and typical beta soyboys who don't have spine. You all act like you know it better than anyone in the world. You believe if something can't be backed by data, it is false.
Many of you can't run a family or town or city and you think you qualified to comment on national matters.
Guess what, more than half of you are depressed fucks who don't get sunlight or women.
Shame on you beta boys. Go ahead and downvote this post or if you have balls keep it up and face criticism.
Well it also has to do oddly with 'fairness'. If the pool never grows from failures they are more likely to suspect that it is 'rigged' against them instead of merely being unlucky. But if the pool growth is fixed as either an absolute or a percentage there is no incentive for the running agency to try to make people lose.

So long as people keep buying in they really haven't lost anything even if the build up turns it into a sure bet. And winning splitting solves the equilibrium as well in a rather market allegorical way - if everyone puts money into a sure bet the returns eventually diminish.
Well, the life expectancy at birth was 67 because of lots of early deaths. Life expectancy at 65 has only increased by 2 or 3 years: https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-...

Once you're old, you've kinda "made it" as far as life expectancy numbers go. I think someone who is 70 in 1935 would be considered just as "old aged" as someone 70 today. In fact someone who made it to 70 in the early 1900's may be considered healthier due to obesity/diabetes epidemic numbers alone...
Safari's URL masking is doing a terrible disservice to society by making people ignorant. Make the Web more usable by educating people, not by hiding basic information from everyone.
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Pretty similar to 4 average characters, really.
> throwing it away into a corporatefascist space program

Isn't it better to have some competition with the corporatefascist Musk Space and the corporatetourist Branson Space, than to not have it?

(And I am pro-union, FWIW...)
I gotta say, the only difference I've noticed with the GPDR is I've got one more annoying popup to click.

I think it's supposed to allow me to deny cookies or customise them, but enough sites have just looked through to some huge unusable page when I click "more info" that I don't bother anymore.
Same response as yesterday, stop using Chrome, now, there are alternatives.
https://github.com/benfred/py-spy#when-do-you-need-to-run-as...

tl;dr - yes, it's a limitation(?) of macOS syscalls.
stop taking them for a month or two... see what happens.
Not quite. Sending a DMCA notice on behalf of someone that you do not actually have authorization to send DMCA notices on behalf of is perjury. There is no penalty at all for sending a DMCA notice against something that is not actually the work you say you are sending the DMCA notice for.
Is this really about testing?

> If (the database throws an error) { do nothing }

It's paraphrased, the original was probably the C++ anti pattern of

> try { /some code/ } catch {...} {}

Whoever wrote this should be disciplined. This kind of code doesn't do anything, it just makes a bad situation worse. (It's also never tested, because who writes tests that provoke failures?) This kind of idiocy has no technical solution, unless the two-by-four counts.

If you're ever tempted to write something like this... don't. Especially in C++, the correct approach is to do nothing. Someone else will handle the exception. Code that isn't written doesn't cause trouble and doesn't need to be tested either.
That's basically taking a short position on whatever the customer thinks they're buying, right?

Whenever the customer wants to sell their position, you'd have to pay them whatever the value was at that time, whether the position had gone up or down. Big risk, unless you're confident that the customers are going to reliably make terrible trades, on balance.

It might still be fraud maybe if you claimed to be performing a service that you're not performing, but if you actually told your customers that you were doing it (as in the situation you ask about), then I can't see how it could be breaking any laws. And I'm not certain why your customers would even care, and might even prefer it, due to the "get 10% back if you lose everything" clause which you don't get with normal day trading.
So then it semi-randomly sends Google URLs you visit? That's better, but I wouldn't say patently wrong. Statistically usually wrong?
As a relatively new programmer, no matter the IDE, I still run my code from the command line in a venv is there another way that something like this makes an option?
I remember these guys from the first TwilioCon in 2011. It was some sort of group fireside chat IIRC and they were describing how their initial product was all on Amazon with no redundancy. Of course many of their clients were on EC2 as well so when EC2 had an outage they all had to man the phones and call their clients and say "your site is down" haha. Happy for their growth and success.
> people are better at writing code than they were then (even if it doesn't feel that way).

This is far too broad.

We have better tools (compilers, static analysis, linters, etc.) to find some of the errors we make earlier in the lifecycle. These provide the ability to rapidly address categories of error that were once avoided primarily by an arduous and slow process of scrutinizing hand-written programs. Coupled with more abstract programming languages and computing resources, what we have today is the ability for single developers to write incredibly complex software quickly--with bugs that have a complexity that increases non-linearly.
Most tech employees suffer from impostor syndrome
Before Trump's tax law which upped the standard deduction to the point very few have the ability to deduct... a benefit of donating yourself is your can deduct it from your taxes.
If they don't like working there, then they should go work somewhere else. It's still a free country... right???
You can, you just have to avoid chain restaurants to do so.
Is there a major performance impact for having not using the session tickets? It seems odd that it's buried this deeply.
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In my experience servers ask this to find out if they should give the longer description of the menu or not. If you have been there before they might just tell you the specials, while if you haven't they'll tell you about some of the most popular items and anything unique about the way they do things (tapas style, etc.).
that's what was sent to or rendered by your browser anyway
A lot of finger pointing at Amazon but most of the employment demands from the 'union' have been characteristics of Whole Foods since looonnngg before the aquisition. For example, unpaid paternity/maternity leave, no recognition of any holiday including federal - just 3 weeks of PTO used at your discretion, below market compensation, crappy benefits, calcified management, and the list goes on.

Most people work there because of the perceived culture of being free-spirit & hippy, but from my observation it's not that great of a place to build a career & wealth. Or perhaps it's par for the course and I'm just accustom to tech companies treating their people pretty well given how competitive the market is for top talent.

Source: I live in Austin with friends who work at the HQ.
The thing is, there are people who care about usability for whom this is not "clearly" an improvement. If it was clear, we wouldn't be having this gigantic discussion...
Looks like a good time to jump in :) I've always been interested in playing around with sourcegraph, been saving for a little home server upgrade to run some projects!
OK, so for people who want to read the actual articles:

1. Look up the DOI of the article on Nature's website, e.g.:

https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v199/n2/in...

(un)conveniently, you can't find DOI on the page linked from the OP's article.

2. Use the DOI to look up the paper on http://sci-hub.se (or one of its mirrors), e.g:

http://sci-hub.se/10.1038/scientificamerican0858-100

3. (deprive the publisher of) Profit!
They are also free to unionize, right?
Imagine how less useful Google will be if it only show page titles?

Lots of website have misleading title. Without a snippet in search result, I need to open each and every links on the search page.
That's part of it. And more generally with WebRTC, peers know whatever you're doing together. And that's an issue with all P2P stuff that doesn't use overlay networks to proxy connections.

So what I should have said was that it's OK in a VM that reaches the Internet through a nested VPN chain, or whatever, so your ISP-assigned IP address isn't trivially discoverable.
It's not true that the second level and third level are always controlled by the same group (most of .uk for example). You can put an SOA record anywhere.
No comparison with Set?
They’ve already triggered it.
> But the problem with unions is that over time they are corrupted, and quickly become inefficient bureaucratic institutions.

Replace "unions" with "corporations" and the same is true.
It's the best measure of distance in determining how far away a destination is.

Let's say you ask me where a store is, and I tell you it's only 500m away. "Great!", you think, "That's an easy walk!" No, it's not, because it's on the other side of a river, and there isn't a crossing particularly close. You'd much rather go to the store that's 1000m away because it's not across a river.

Now you're probably going to say, OK, so let's restrict it to actually allowable paths ... but again, something a few kilometers away that doesn't have good road connections (and the ones that do are full of traffic) is actually much farther away in every way that matters than something that's 10km away but is a straight shot on an empty highway. Urban environments are complicated, and distance doesn't tell you as much as travel time does.
I beg to differ. Below is my source that (I took the photos). $4 at Asian grocery store vs $10. Regular price at Asian store is $5 It's coffee from New Orleans, nothing exotic.

http://imgur.com/gallery/BrHhzVx