skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is sad but hardly surprising. Google News is broken in the same way as a unregulated free market is broken. Basically, giant distributors control the whole market and only those who are big enough can survive. It's sad because we lose small but independent players, which we actually need when it comes to news organization.

I think it is kinda hypocritical when you criticize big news organizations and keep using big news distributors like Google News. They're not necessarily bad per se, but people should understand what's really costing them.
> I’m an angel now

You actually label yourself that vs. an investor?
> the Norway problem

Huh:

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/

I've always liked YAML, it's always seemed pretty intuitive to me coming from Python, and I like human-readable resource files, but those are some pretty damning counterexamples.
So I get that it's likely to be impossible to fully solve anytime soon, but I'd think at least requiring a couple of basic measurements would make a dent.

I've seen exactly what you describe - sizes varying between countries, between brands, between individual items in a brand. A lot of the listings on Amazon include a custom size chart now, but it's not semantic data - it's just a screenshot in the product listing.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Beautifulfashionlife-Waisted-Pleated-...

This one lists a XXXX-Large as a 34" waist, and a Large as a 28" waist. It shows up if you search Amazon for "plus size skirt"; if Amazon made vendors put in the waist measurements and let them be filterable based on that, someone in a US size 18 dress wouldn't be offered this as an option.

Again, I get the difference between a 90cm loose fit and a 90cm tight fit. I should be able to tell a major ecommerce site "look, I'm 150cm... fuck off with the 90cm stuff".
>If you are of working age, learning this shit is not fun

Well there is your problem. I have been working for quite a while now and I find this stuff very fun. I tried out VueJS last year as my first framework and I found it delightfully simple. Then I got a job working on react and found it a little worse but still nice. Took me very little time at all to go from vue to react.
> The more likely interpretation of their data is that "in countries with shitty internet, providers tend to offer a lot of zero-rating offers".

I agree. They even seem to admit it's a pretty suspect analysis:

"However, since zero-rating offers are now prevalent in almost all EU countries this analysis cannot be extended into the future."
Most websites could work without JS but they would be in a degraded form. You need JS when you want a select to change the fields displayed on the form. You need JS when you want to make the list resortable by drag and drop. You need JS when you want a page with a list to not reload every time you press delete on an item.

Sure you could make it work with JS but you would be degrading the user experience for no reason at all.
No, I don't support this argument. Pedophile priests probably gave support to many people and did a lot of good, too. They still need to be thrown forcefully from their offices and straight into prison.

We are not so desperate that we must accept evil just because it comes with a small payment of good. You can have the good on its own. That reporter or his team could just as easily have found that story while working for a different publisher.
I work for my company as a lone coder in a coworking space, an ocean away from the rest of the company.

What gives, you my ask.
I sit in one corner of a 6 desks arrangement and the rest of these desks plus another arrangement of 6 desks are occupied by a company in the RPA bussiness.

The CEO of the company sits right next to me (When I started working in this space almost a year ago all these desks were empty, so obviously I took the best position) so we have a good couple of chats the days he shows up (They have a "formal" office in the city).

They have a couple of whiteboards in the wall next to my right, where they use actual, physical pseudo kanban boards with postits and shit that get reorganized probably weekly, because they can't cope with the amount of new work they are getting.

They have doubled the number of programmers since May, in a country (Argentina) where things are not looking that bright for nobody.

From my desk, I can _feel_ the pain of all the jobs they are killing.

I can't tell you _exactly_ what "large group" of jobs they have killed because the chats are not that intimate, but I see the list of companies they are working with, and all the big ones from the country are there. all of them.

They _are_ killing jobs, a plenty, without discrimination. And this is barely starting.
I am currently learning (german) sign language and I see very many parallels to programming languages there as well. Eg the subject object verb sentences structure reminds me of a stack machine and establishing references points (for persons or objects) in the space around your body in order to later in the sentence (or in future sentences) related to to them reminds me of register allocation.
I've always been skeptical of where my digital tips are going. Even in local restaurants if I have the cash, I'll write "cash" on the tip line for the credit card receipt and tip in cash.
Do large animals experience a meaningful delay when moving distant appendages?
So you expect all customers to accept higher prices because of the community aesthetic you personally enjoy more?
You post a comment describing one alternative as "simpler" and "easier to read" compared to another.

Respondent lists five specific reasons in support of the opposite conclusion.

You dismiss those as "opinions, not objective facts". Ignoring that the same could be said for your parent comment, to a much greater degree.
A similar story: I bought AMZN because I thought the Kindle was amazing. I correctly foresaw that it would get cheaper and better (despite people sneering that $400 for the gen 1 was obscene and that they preferred paper), and that AMZN could become one of the biggest sellers of books just like AAPL became one of the leading sellers of music with the iTunes store.

At the end of the day though, I think I made money on the stock for other reasons (AWS; Prime; AMZN eating all of retail).

Similarly, your family member seems to have made a good bet for all of the wrong reasons.

So I'm not sure your example is a great one.
I can't even read this because of the leading space tripping up my eyes!
I took it differently: it's an indictment of a system in which a person without Thiel's means is much less likely to obtain justice.
I don't get those in the mail anymore, just an email with a link to their site.

But even if I did, what do you do from there? Call someone and say "I have a piece of paper that says I should have $x but they say I have $y"?
I sit and discuss ideas on what’s easy, what’s hard, etc. It’s an ongoing process but I rarely end up with something that involves too many hacks
The components referenced in that quote are literally from the 1940s. We're talking vacuum tubes.

Comparing 80 year old parts to a project that is barely two years is not really fair.
I quite like the cases, personally. If you're not in a more formal context or writing (like say you're talking to friends or so) it lets you be a bit more fast and loose with word order, plus it can let you say things more concisely than you can with english. The only real solid annoyances I've had were adjectives. Learning all of the rules and endings around them sucked on some level and it felt really quite superfluous, but once you get them and you can gauge correctness just based on it "sounding right" it's not so bad.
It’ll still be here after Trump. He’s just the largest symptom.
(It doesn't seem like it's an acronym anymore: http://www.qantas.com/travel/airlines/history/global/en)
And now we have to live in a world where Mr Bezos' unpublished "materials" are patiently waiting to be found among other junk in somebody's hard disk. How can humanity sleep at night...
OK, so let's go to "char.gd". The top story:

"Featured read: Surface Go is proof that every computer needs LTE".

This is a "news site"?
FWIW, the efficient market hypothesis has very little to do with the efficiency (or absence thereof) of market based economies, efficient production, etc.
That's exactly how it works. For example in West Virginia, you get paid either 8.50 or 2.62 plus your tips, whichever is more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
I don't know what evidence he Bezos may or may-not have, but I certainly wouldn't put it past Trump to call his good friend David Pecker and tell him to press on the Bezos scandal. Trump is certainly on record picking a fight with Bezos because of WaPo stories.
References: https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/16/media/trump-catch-and-kill/...
I agree that regulation should be put into place, I've blogged about it in the past and I've argued that it should scale with number of affected users, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't make certain acts illegal. Selling a iOS 0day to the Saudis should be illegal.
We have lots of threats. We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out. A free society demands some level of risk at the hands of other citizens.

Freedom of movement without harassment is important to me. More important than catching every drunk driver.
There's a difference between a correction to a flawed article and attempted blackmail though... One is an accident that can occurre in the course of good journalism, the other is something else entirely.
Yes. I think I do. Which is at the heart of any tax discussion: So you expect all local citizens to accept higher taxes because of the community utility function you expect everyone to contribute to

What you're driving to, is that get off my goddam lawn and I drive over the border to buy cheaper and screw the lot of you get off my lawn is really fine.. except it isn't. Its pretty sad. But sure, its legal, go for it, don't worry, I can't stop you. I can feel about it, but you don't care what I feel so there's no downside. Right?
BTW: as an onetime verilog implementer those temporary storage locations that are made behind your back by the compiler when you use <= are potentially quite expensive, the compiler can optimise the normal case of:

always @(posedge clk)
r <= v;

and in some more complex cases where r is only set once in one always statement (or once in any path through an always statement) - but something like:

always @(*)
r <= c;

is a nightmare that essentially means that r can have many changes scheduled in the same instant of time, more importantly it's a number of changes that can't be determined at compile time (could be 1000s of transitions) - resulting in code that's mallocing space to store all those changes - simulation can slow down if you use <= in a non-clocked place because the behaviour can't be determined statically

Also using <= a smart compiler can merge multiple always statements:

always @(posedge clk)
r1 <= c1;
always @(posedge clk)
r2 <= c2;
......

into a single

always @(posedge clk) {
r1 <= c1;
r2 <= c2;
......
}

behind your back, effectively converting 2*N simulation events into 2 (a very good thing)
True! Though I believe that for this specific segment it's really important that Google is a little less opaque. This isn't a popularity contest or anything; it's genuinely just gatekeeping.
Well then use Chrome, where you don't have to suffer the pea under your mattress that is typing about:profiles once in a while.
nothing in his letter suggests it was directed by "trump or his people"
This is laughable. It's our freedom of speech to alert others to DUI checkpoints, speed traps, or coupons at at the donut shop. Whatever we want. It's the same as flash the brights, which the police have tried (and failed) to stop [1]. I hope the NYPD does try to push this so they can get smacked down in court.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I agree with you. It's bizarre and cruel. I wonder who would find pleasure in this.
What AMI did is unlikely to be criminal.
You can read about the process here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4078...
No, but we should really not have upvoted it quite so highly considering it's a non-primary source that isn't really adding anything
I think what you're doing with pulumi is the right answer and it's only a matter of time before this becomes the norm. The author's examples could easily be done with plain ol' JS/ES/TS with more far more extensibility and customization when the need arises.

I also feel this is where JSX got it right. Instead of creating yet-another-templating-language (looking at you Angular!), they used JavaScript and did a great job of outlining how interpolation works. Any new templating language is always going to be missing some key feature you expect out of a general programming language and your customers will continue to ask for more features.

Take for example Terraform and HCL, they're continually adding more and more [templating features](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/website/d...) and [functions](https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/interpolation.ht...) because there's so many different ways to skin configuration/infrastructure as code. What if TF just expect a "computed" JSON object and it's left up to the developer to figure out how to put it together?

I'm gonna keep an eye on Pulumi and hope to be able to use in a real project soon.
> It's broken for me in a different, far less important way. I can't get the darn "For you Recommended based on your interests" section to stop showing me stupid stories about dumb things I searched one time for 2 years ago

Have you ever thought that maybe the algorithm is correct and it's you that's broken? Google is a giant tech company full of AI ML geniuses and massive stores of customer data, it they're showing you those stores, they must have a good reason. /s
In principle, yes. In practice, it's painful. I built a vector laser projector back in the 80s when lasers were huge and my XY galvanometer probably cost $1000, but my college was paying for it, so why not? I drove the thing with a Fairlight CMI, onto which I painstakingly drew the parametric equations of X and Y with a light pen. (Nowadays I'd write a program to do that bit for me.) The biggest problem -- other than the cost -- was the fact that the galvos are not perfect: They exhibit lag and resonance at certain frequencies, so you have to cancel all that out and overdrive them in particular ways. This is probably easier today than then, and it can be done more easily with closed-loop feedback than the open-loop way I did it, but it looked amazing.
That would have been news when it came out, and it's a manually selected featured story. What's your point?
I can see the day coming when the "sign in" button on "google.com" is a popup, instead of a little box in the upper right. Maybe you can still bypass it, but a dark pattern suggests strongly that you must log in to search.
None of that makes sense to me. Sure it sucks to be in such a shitty place that you just have to take whatever pays, but that's the reality for a lot of people and I don't see anyone being all morally outraged at people who hire construction workers or whatever.

It's like you're saying that having sex is so terribly bad that it's better to let people starve instead, but that's a bizarre idea considering the fact that sex actually feels really good.

What would you do in the car washing example? Drive back to your city and pay $10 because paying someone who's willing to do it for $1 is exploitative? Surely the people doing it for $1 would rather do it for $1 than not do it for $0.
Yet here we are. The internet wasn't "meant" to be the global apex of commerce and communication, yet here we are. People started making more than just static documents because running programs on the web was fun and cool and it still is.
Yeah my bank is the same. I could download the statements, not sure who really does that accept the extremely paranoid.

Civil claims are based on a preponderance of the evidence. if I go into court with a piece of paper from the bank saying that I have $5,000, and the bank has nothing to say that I do or don't have any money there, I have more evidence on my side than they do on theirs.

In reality it's probably not that simple.
Nothing you've said here is wrong. The enquirer doesn't meet the minimum standards of journalism, they are a blackmail rag. I think this could actually be proven with empirical data.
perhas because they are also the only ones who would care to do so?
Agreed. It's just sad that a mag that runs stories on Kennedy conspiracy theories and rat boy stories runs cover for a reality show dolt that has his hands on the nuke codes, and half the U.S.electorate cheers that on. Real life is far more cynical than sarcasm.
char.gd appears to be a blog, not a news site.
It always been (since 2015 anyway) at least 15k thb for business which is closer to $420rtn, I dont recall seeing first being that competitive either, looking at now when first is available it is over $1000usd nowadays. It's possible I've missed a megasale though although I used to check quite regularly. Showers in first are booked on other legs, you're given a choice of times, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't enabled for such a short leg.
Yea. Looks like you're right. they prefer the Qantas branding, so I'm in the junkheap of history.

I'll try and learn to use Qantas not QANTAS.
It is not "QANTAS" and it isn't an acronym.

In October 1947 QANTAS was bought out by the government and shutdown. The company that exists today is the descendent of Qantas Empire Airlines (notice the different capitalisation) which was founded in 1934 as a joint venture by QANTAS and BOAC (British Overseas Air Corporation). When the joint venture was founded the name chosen was not an acronym and was not all uppercase. That name was "inspired by" QANTAS Limited but is not QANTAS.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1472377?c=people
That's exactly how OP was using it though, with full awareness. OP's mindset at the time was "I failed: I meant to start a billion dollar business, and I only have a crummy lifestyle business"

They now have come around and appreciate their success. Their use of "lifestyle business" was chosen to convey their own negative attitude at the time.

The comment I replied to totally missed that the author wasn't critcizing their own business! They just felt badly about it a few years ago. See the part of the comment where they praise gumroad.

A more self aware comment would have merely decried the prevailing VC attitude that led the founder to feel bad. Instead the commentor seems to think the founder needs cheering up and convincing.
I was shocked to learn the Fortune-500 bank I was working for had only a single data centre. Should they ever go down, much of the world would be disrupted. I think this is not unique.
Not an aviation nerd, but had a local one explain a particular A380 issue to me. About once a month the main daily SYD/MEL to LAX routes had to turn around and it was pretty much always the Rolls Royce engine (one of two engine manufacturers for redundancy). And then it started happening on the other engine as well. Can't confirm the frequency, but when I was talking to a Qantas crew member about this over a year ago he nodded and said they won't be purchasing any new A380s. He said he felt they were bought for the marketing "me too" reason more than anything else.

EDIT: That being said I loved the A380, I frequently flew premium economy intl. on it and even if you could wrangle the small (something like 20 row?) economy section upstairs it felt less like cattle class.
> However I fail to see any mistakes of his threatened to be revealed.

Cheating on his wife?
Boot Up: Preparing for a Developer's First Week
"blackmail is legal" is a pretty depressing take, but it does seem plausible.
Hamilton–Reynolds affair
Okay, I can see that. Being on the shorter side, I rarely feel discomfort in airplanes. And total strangers are only a problem if we're not completely ignoring each other, which thankfully was the case most times I flew.
It's not all bad news.

"Transactional Memory" seems to have flopped for lock-free synchronization, but it is a nice way to keep writes from ever going out to RAM or beyond. It reserves a bit of cache for temporary storage, and automatically wipes it if anything happens, like an interrupt -- even on a guest OS.

That is better than zeroing, and the toolchain won't fight you. But it might not be available everywhere you want it.
Also, it wasn't designed for crypto, so there are probably vulnerabilities to the host OS.
The Supreme Court has expressly ruled these constitutional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Department_of_State_P...

You can think it was a bad decision (3 judges dissented) that should be overruled, but they are currently constitutional.
Regardless of what you've typed, at least don't outright lie and completely expose your troll. A fundamental truth is 2+2=4, and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. What is typed above is not.
big kudos but he should remove the popups , with the extra gdpr prompts it's unbearable
> Prepositions claim different areas of ‘cognitive space’ in English and German

The thing about pre/postpositions is, their use is almost entirely idiomatic in modern language, i.e. it doesn't follow from the meaning of individual parts and thus doesn't translate without reconstruction.

In English, afaict, practically all adpositions signify relations in space or time, plus there are ‘of’ and ‘for.’ However, once you begin dealing with even slightly more abstract notions, these semantics break―and you just have to pick a word that you will use, without ties to its meaning. “The paper is on the table” is straightforward, as it uses the original meaning of ‘on,’ but you can't say why it's “We speak in English” and not e.g. ‘under English.’

So, German and other languages simply picked different words: it's not like you can complain that some inherent semantics are violated by that.

It's pretty much the same in e.g. Russian with prefixes, since many of them also originally denote spatial relations, and this derivation with prefixes is used in much the same way as with adpositions in English. (Speaking ‘in English’ is actually something like ‘along-English’ in Russian.)

But, English also has a habit of forming piles of new idiomatic phrases, with completely different meaning, by adding postpositions, in the same entirely arbitrary way―which makes learning these phrases an ordeal.
Human Nature.
Possibly, I'm trying to access it from Canada.
In python that’s been a non-issue, but I’m not sure YAML can reset indentation as python does with functions
RIP National Enquirer.
If you also have long legs, have you tried raising both your chair and your monitor so you’re sitting higher relative to the desk? (I’m short, so I have the not quite opposite problem of desks being too high when sitting with the chair low enough for feet to be flat on the floor. The solution was a sit-stand desk with a very low minimum height.)
If zero rating wasn't allowed then the ISP would still be doing that sort of thing with popular content providers anyway, just the ones that their users prefer instead of the ones their users are being railroaded onto by the ISP itself, so as far as I'm concerned it's a wash.
The Supreme Court ruling something constitutional does not mean that it is constitutional. It's every citizen's duty to understand the law for themselves, in order to know when the government has exceeded its mandate.
Cooling water? Essential in a data center.
I looked into removing it because I got sick of seeing similar recommended stories over and over. It's always about WearOS for me... Can't remove it, so next best thing is I scroll pass it.