skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is what makes transparency so scary to many people - aside from cynical reasons. Society has long been accustomed to their hypocrisies and transparency forces people to change it and accept them.

I think it might be evolutinary for the same reason people are reluctant to openly question authority or hold it to the same standards and why public speaking is feared more than death - angering the big man could get your entire family killed.

It reminds me of one thing that Google faced backlash in Japan over with streetview - people worried about being caught shitfaced drunk and ashamed of it. Everyone knew that it was a norm that "everyone" does yet they were ashamed of it.
Here's the visual!

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
It’s heavily upvoted on HN, so it would seem that, maybe, people disagree about it being a “total non-story”.
That one dumbfounded me as well.

Has the author never given a pointer as an argument to a function before? Do they make copies of their strings and structs every time they want to pass it around? I just... I just don't understand how they could think that.
This is a seriously fertile area where you get to "define the new interface".

It's a big problem though, since few buyers know they want those things. Around 95% of customers come into it with "give me the transcripts" and discover over time they want these other things too (some graphical, some technical). They just didn't know it was available.

New GUIs and data representations is a big part of it. Getting accuracy and scale in place is a big part. Building awareness and distribution of what's possible now is another big part.

Re: JSON Error; We fixed that doc link error you saw (it was pointing in the wrong place since we _just_ updated it).

The real docs link is:
https://brain.deepgram.com/docs
Or pauses between words
> There are deep sociological and psychological issues that have been uncovered over the last couple years, that have always existed beneath the surface in society. At a time of hyperconnection, if it wasn't Facebook surfacing them, it would have been YouTube or Twitter or Reddit or whoever else. I am not saying grave errors haven't been made and the future does look scary.

> But now that the issues (from fakenews, to terror recruiting, to child abuse, to identity theft etc etc etc) have surfaced in a manner that cannot just be wished away, who else out there has the skills to do something about this stuff?

I appreciate you having the courage to reply as an employee there, but but this is exactly the type of Zuckerberg-esque deflection I would have expected from the man himself, or a C-level, but not an everyday tech employee. Have they really brainwashed everyone there to the point that they've bought into the narrative that they have no culpability in any of this? Sure the root issues were there, but you are paid to surface them and exploit them. If in the pre-internet age of television and radio, do you think people let stations get by with that lame excuse of throwing their hands up and saying "well it's deeper societal issues, we are just the transmission mechanism!"
Type annotations don't seem to actually have any effect, though? Consider:

>>> def add(a: int, b: int):
... return a+b
...
>>> add("a", "b")
'ab'

This should be an error, even if it's a runtime error.
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> "Pass by reference" is a specific term for a much different technique which is very rarely encountered these days.

C++ isn't all that rare.

I suspect we'll have to agree to disagree whether your definition of pass by reference is universal. Given your definition, can you name any language with calling semantics which are not pass-by-value? I mean, you're always passing the value of something (be it the actual value, the address of the memory where the data is stored, or the pointer to the string containing the name of the data in an associative array).
This article was published November 28 of this year. From mid-November to now, cryptocurrency exchange rates have fallen by about 50% across the board, with some much higher.

This move took many speculators, including Novogratz, by surprise:

"I did think Bitcoin was going to hold at $6,200," said Novogratz. "It stayed there for four months. It felt like the selling was finished. But then Bitcoin Cash decided to fork again."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/12/12/bitco...

I suspect many of these speculators are betting on a quick recovery. Should that not pan out, Novogratz and many others are headed for a world of pain.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin the technology continues chugging on. The most noteworthy development is the rapid build-out of the Lightning Network scaling solution, but there's a bunch of stuff beyond that which gets almost no attention.
What if I have private values I want to access programmatically? Ie. fields = ['#foo', '#baz', '#bar']; fields.forEach(field => { this[field] = frobnicate(field) }); ?
Like Trump then?
being "asian" doesn't mean you cannot think as a "neonazi" does. every ethnic group has examples of similar worldviews.
I wonder if their recipes have evolved over the years. Like I mentioned, I haven't used them in four years.
It's not like that at all.

Software ENGINEERING skills are important for software engineers. Period.
Excuse me but Jesus fucking Christ ...
He probably quit Facebook due to Facebook being constantly defamed in the media - and now the media is reporting on him leaving. It's like that Jake Gyllenhaal movie where he starts off as an ambulance chasing freelance reporter and ends up causing crimes so he can film them.
It's a two space error in a trivial example that no editor can help with.

If the function is longer or their are a couple of additional levels of indentation, and it isn't a print statement, but some additional logic, it is a hard problem to spot.
I have had good experiences with people delivering packages and caring about how obvious it is that there are packages out. When I lived a row of townhouses, the front doors of the houses were very exposed and visible from the street. So if we didn't answer the door when a package was delivered, they would bring it around to our back porch and set it over the fence.

However, this did result in one of the delivery drivers not correctly counting how many from the end our townhouse was and put it on the wrong porch...
There are a number of apps and web sites that do what you ask. My favorite one (from the old iPhone days, now discontinued) would let you input the ingredients you have on hand, and it would suggest what you can make with them.

They seem to come and go. I think the problem for a supermarket to adopt something like this is that you can use it to make a list using one market's superior app, then do your actual shopping at another market.
That is literally the opposite of what this article says.
I mean, we're kind of wandering off the main thread of things but in principle you can if you climb high by other means and are separately engaged (before or after your climb) in theft and lies.
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>but there's still a ways to go before security camera footage can be sent to the PD and automatically identify the offender via facial analysis.

Good.

I'm against theft, and also against Police and facial analysis mixing.
I recently heard about a book called "Anything You Want" and wanted to add it to my shopping list. I tried repeatedly saying "Alexa, add 'Anything You Want' book to my shopping list" and every variation thereof. Alexa was unable to add that book title no matter what I tried.
Having worked in tech my whole life and been a frequent visitor of the site, I have never heard of him.

I suppose one could spend an entire tech career having never heard the name Doanald Knuth, but I wouldn’t wear that as a badge of honor.

Mossberg is hardly on the level of Knuth, but it does cause me to wonder if the cave you must live in is damp enough to cause problems with computing gear.
I've seen meal kits in stores here in the Boston area, Wegman's I think.
> Novogratz and many others are headed for a world of pain

Management fees make for good medicine.
My intention isn't to be inflammatory, but booby-trapping an aerosol spray can to release a spray designed to make someone uncomfortable just isn't a smart thing to do. Even if you think you're getting one over on a thief.

If someone designed a trap to spray perfume on an unsuspecting person, I would describe it similarly.
Something I've noticed recently is people that say things like the author did here

>Just for crossing the street, I’m rewarded with an even fancier President (of Apple Products) title

I'm not saying this is happening more often, I just have been noticing it recently.

Maybe I am misinterpreting the tone or misunderstanding the situation. But, this seems in contrast to actual humility where someone is grateful for a raise or promotion but possibly feels undeserving or lucky. The author comes across to me as pretty detached from the struggles that the lion's share of the world experiences. I get that this article is about some high level corporate politics but it still seems tone deaf to me.
Sure, but "evading the censors will probably be a continuous effort" and "censorship becomes a non-issue" are not compatible in the real world.

Even despite that the great firewall has not succeeded in preventing the use of proxying services it still is a massive success. And despite all the ways you can circumvent it censorship very much continues to be an issue, I'd argue more so for every day.

The instant such SMS message transactions become popular a quick filter will kill that if the need for it arises. And SMS is hardly the technique for privacy minded communication (neither is bitcoin).

What remains is perhaps ham radio. Still easy to triangulate, jam and is not accessible to anyone but the most extreme. Making triangulation even more desirable and paints an even greater target on your back.

Printed copies are hardly something to look forward too, it also excludes pretty much everyone. Cash would be quite superior unless you are transferring huge amounts (which most won't).
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I buy the family size of Blue Apron for myself (12 meals at $8.99 per serving). There is no food in NYC of any considerable size/quality/taste that is a quarter of that price for that amount of calories. Ramen noodles and tuna maybe..
Being open-minded with someone in a non-business context is doable with the development of intimacy, and more about personal factors. Being contradicted in front of others in a workplace setting, especially more than once, leads to a narrative -- and I think this situation is more governed by political factors.
> The good stuff happening is not going away

The problem is small groups of bad people, creating a small amount of bad content are having an outsized affect on society using your tools. Even a mountain of good content cannot fully mitigate these damages. Facebook has not demonstrated any capabilities to deal with this and is in fact, playing catch-up by stumbling behind investigative journalism with feel good PR pieces about how "we're going to change starting tomorrow!".
"No matter if you are already a functional developer from a different community (Haskell, Clojure, Scala, etc.) or you are a complete newbie to functional programming (like I was 3 years ago) I think F# can equally impress you" -> "For this task and for the rest of this blog post I'll be comparing F# with C# in order to show some of the benefits."

F# is neat, and I see why it's useful if you have a big .NET program already, but for anyone else I don't see why I'd pick it over a more mature (and less Microsoft-centric) functional language like OCaml, SML, or Erlang.

Does F# have any unique features that other functional languages lack, or is .NET integration its killer feature?
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If someone forced me, an avowed Python lover, to write 1000 words about why I hate Python, I imagine it would turn out something like this article.
From The General's Daughter court scene:

Jack Nicholson: You want the truth?
Tom Cruise: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH

Caps intentional as Tom was shouting.
Depends wildly on the area, but property crimes rarely go about a 20% clear rate. That is, 80% of the time criminals get away with it.

Some areas even murder is 60%.

A healthy society keeps people from committing crimes, not a giant police force.
I've really enjoyed these solutions in Javascript: https://beta.observablehq.com/collection/@mpcowan/advent-of-....

Observable has made it fun to follow along and re-run the code.
And this how we get “expert beginners”.
I've seen what's happened to Musk happen to people who have seen the dark side of life.
Stoicism to improve your life
I would be happy to help with solving GCC related issues and look into performance regressions relative to clang (I am still in process of looking into -O2 performance and plan to set up talos next)
It seems like you're more interested in being correct than having a discussion, so I'll leave you to it.
There are different reasons why people commit crimes. Some do out of need: they don't see a better option. Others do so out of opportunity: it's easy and they can get away with it. And I suppose a rare group does it out of a commitment to pure evil.

I have very different degrees of sympathy for these groups. The first group needs access to better options. The second group needs to be held accountable. The third group cannot really be allowed to participate in our society.
I am not saying that to belittle the man in any sort of way, or diminish his accomplishments, I am just simply saying it shouldn't be surprising that people haven't heard of some other people, despite how famous others think he or she might be. Pretty sure there is an XKCD for this. I have my categories of people where I would react the same way ("What do you mean you have never heard of Carl Sassenrath!?" as an example).
It was. In the 90s, people's email address changed pretty much any time they changed jobs or schools. Their phone numbers changed too, every time they moved. For college students, it often meant multiple complete changes of contact info per year.

The churn is much lower now.
He literally is the media.

What’s wrong with the idea that that he observed something, made a decision, and then acted on it? Or is he presumed to have no agency?
I clicked it and frankly the larger topic is more intersting than the specific incident of Apple in its low point. Everyone already knows past Apple made a bunch of dumb decisions. I think that may be another reason why that is a focus of discussion. Everyone has their own stories and has seen the larger problem.
Lightning is never going to happen. They have absolutely no idea how to scale that network or handle the routing problem. The entire system is just rife with potentials for monopolies and abuse. No consumer in their right mind would ever commit their money to it.
Kudos for the interesting approach! I do think that DB management on Kubernetes belongs to operators, and maintaining a collection of them would be great.

This being said, you should not be using TPR, but rather CRDs (see https://coreos.com/blog/custom-resource-kubernetes-v17). The welcome video is not really convincing either - condensing it to an animated gif would make it much more attractive imho.
There are definitely people a service like this makes sense for. The issue isn’t that someone following a recipe doesn’t match your expectation of a Parisian chef carefully selecting items at a hole-in-the-wall fromagerie on Rue Mouffetard.... it’s that Blue Apron’s model is simply too easy to copy.

My local Albertsons has meals in box ready to roll. Amazon is launching their service. There are the Blue Apron clones you listed.

BA’s stock price isn’t because they are “hacks” or because the idea is bad.
It's always sad when I get my upwards of 10 percent by professionals. I personally get 500-1000 percent return year over year. I'm working with small amounts of money that if I lost entirely wouldn't be the end of the world. But some years they barely beat inflation.
Tesla has relied on CA ZEV credits to stay afloat at several points in its lifespan.

It has also relied on the CA clean car incentives to sell the Models S and 3. One of the major factors in the current popularity of Teslas is that a lot of its competition are no longer eligible for those incentives. This is why Wall Street has been so concerned about the end of the federal incentives in 2019.
Is this really so? I can't help but wonder if these are not all training images, or very close to them.
> Robbers and burglers basically have immunity now because the police is busy with... I'm not sure what.

Robbers and burglars usually get attention.

Petty theft that does not involve robbery or burglary doesn't, but there is a world of difference between the three crimes.
That sounds like an urban legend.
Ships can't ever sink when all you look at are the ones that are still floating.
Not true, look up indentation guides and whitespace visibility. Even my barebones editor has them and squashes ambiguity.

Still at some point one needs to be responsible for the code they write, braces or not. Braces are not a guaranteed solution either, if the author gives up complete responsibility.

Basically, this is a theoretical non-problem. The lack of braces pays back in readability every single day. Like +100 + -2, then complaining about the -2.
I was referring to the parts of the video where they brought the device into their car or home. This was obviously designed to continue recording the thieves in those private places. It just seems like a bad idea to me.
I haven't used Blue Apron in a couple years but it used to be an opt-out dark pattern which was supremely frustrating.
I would expect the fact that most packages are of low value to increase theft, not discourage it. Lower-value packages carry even less chance of repercussions, and incentivize thieves to steal even more packages to make sure their effort is worthwhile.
I'm not suggesting the pre-war world was perfect. Cities had tons of problems, some that wouldn't apply today and some that would.

What I am suggesting is, for all their faults, urban design reflected the fact that people could not commute to work by car, because they did not own cars. It was categorically impossible that a cities poor workers could be pushed 50 miles out to some cheap exurb. And it turns out, the politically connected elite still needed cheap workers, and so urban design reflected the need for cheap housing.

No, cities weren't perfect. I'm not advocating a return to tenements, and I doubt anyone else is. But car dependence isn't just environmentally damaging, it is fundamentally unable to scale to the demands of modern innovation hubs. Cars are well-suited to the dispersed living patterns of the late 20th century, but as I already mentioned the dispersed living patterns of the late 20th century do not match the centralized work patterns of innovation hubs today.
Maybe divorce should be illegal too, right? Do we call people who don't want to continue in a marriage selfish if they are looking out for their emotional good?

Most people spend more time with their coworkers than their spouse.
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> The police are a business

This is the problem.
Still too much work!

How about you give me a list of meals, I pick 50 or 100 of them, and then you give me a shopping list for the month including where to get it at the best price, taking advantage of bulk purchasing and overlapping ingredients. Then email/text/notify me every day with the recipe for dinner that night. I'll keep the left overs and use them for lunches.

This should minimize time for planning and cost of meals, two things Blue Apron largely fails to do.

It'd also be nice if I could get a further notification asking me how long it took me to prepare, so the service can get an idea for how long it takes me to cook and help me plan dinners accordingly - maybe giving me faster alternative alongside the normal dinner plan.
I remember the perl4 to perl5 transition. I had some perl4 code I wrote to automate runs of my code. Porting it to perl5 made me grumble a little, but it was mostly very minor changes. About an hour of work for all my code.

But, yeah ... CPAN, and C-TAN, are things to behold. Python hasn't done a great/good job with this. Npm is just plain awful. Julia's Pkg was good in the 0.6.x days ... seems to be borked now, though this may be due to the 0.6 -> 1.0 transition.

For me, Perl is my go-to scripting language. I've written some pretty intensive apps in it, which would be horrifying in other languages. It has (many) warts, though packaging isn't one of them.

I am looking at using Julia for scripting in places where I'd ordinarily use Perl ... mostly data clean up. This noted, it is very hard to beat Perl in munging data. R comes close, but writing parsers in it is hard.

Perl6 aka Rakudo is very interesting to me. Addresses many of the issues I've had with Perl in the past, and gives some truly incredible power going forward. Adoption appears to be low and slow right now. I don't actually have time to play with it now, as I've got other higher priority issues to deal with.
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20 million global Internet access subscribers would mean at least $15-$20 billion in revenue (assuming Starlink can't fetch the prices globally that they will be able to in the US access market). Starlink will definitely be a large business if it's successful, although their early projections on potential were outlandish. Comcast is a reasonable target for scaling comparisons.

Comcast access + tv is essentially a US only business. They have something like 26 million access subscribers and 22 million cable tv subscribers. The access business alone is good for $25-$30 billion per year in sales. They've accomplished that scale just in the US market. A bunch of medium income and developed nations still have relatively slow Internet access, including France and Australia. There are an easy ten million Starlink customers waiting just in the giant US market.

Starlink will never fund a Mars colony out of petty cash though. It'll take nearly every dollar of profit the business generates to establish a Mars colony.
I agree in the sense you want to keep a large circle of contacts and attribute a name to a face quickly.