skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that this is just a product of capitalistic logic in action. You see an opportunity and want to profit as this is how you are SUPPOSED to play the game.

Look at all the things that Amazon is trying to do to make a profit...

Not the least of it listening with microphones in peoples home to private conversations in the hope of training more powerful AI systems and making a few more sells of toilet paper on the way. Or Uber breaking the law in multiple places. Not to mention everyones favorite... FB...

If these players are „permitted“ to do those things, it‘s just a normal consequence that the small person is trying everything they can to profit in return.

Capitalism (at least as practiced today) is not a moral system. We live in a capitalistic society. Thus, our society is not moral. I am not really surprised and don‘t really feel like it‘s super useful to just blame the people for a more systemic issue.
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Designing a bug free software to meet requirements that are ever-changing is hardly a solved problem.

If you specify a system correctly upfront it is indeed possible to make something very very reliable. But a big part of building nowadays software is requirement gathering as you build (or worse - deploy it) nobody knows what it should do beforehand, and in a lot of times it is impossible (or very very expensive) to know.

The whole thing called XP and agile came out as a way to deal with it.

I can still remember the time when devs battled hard to make business people / clients provide requirements up front - the waterfall model. The Apollo program was brought up constantly as a proof that this is the way.

And then we went “fuck it its never going to happen, lets design a process that recognizes this and allows for _some_ sanity”

What NASA used was the latest iteration of a process that has been in use for hundreds of years, quite well understood. Agile and the like are still in its infancy but I think it has a lot more potential for evolution. And its more recognizing what is that wishful thinking of what could be if human nature was different.

And its not like waterfall is banned or anything - you can practice it to your hearts content, for some domains this is even a good idea (implementing protocols comes to mind, financial, medical etc.).

We’ll see who goes to market, gathers business intelligence and answers the customer’s needs faster/cheaper/better.
Till then make ad revenue off clicks on the future crisis.
The writing is on the wall. Netflix isn't doomed to fail, but it might be doomed to comparative (i.e. not a third of US internet traffic) irrelevancy. Every rightsholder has realized that it can make more money than Netflix will/can pay, either by making its own service or by licensing it to someone who will pay more (perhaps Hulu?). The content will continue to trickle out of Netflix until it's left with just some TV shows, B-movies, and of course their original content (which judging by other comments and my own experience is very hit-or-miss). The question is whether people will stay subscribed just for the original content (inertia is a powerful thing!) which is, as far as I can tell, a toss-up (which is why I wrote might).
Is there even any evidence that this was an accident? From what I’ve seen, there is no evidence that this wasn’t on purpose despite everyone stating it was surely an accident.
you are right.
probably China has always been under reporting their growth rate as the hide your strength strategy. It's inexplicable that China's GDP from construction is smaller than that of U.S., given that China is undergoing an infrastructure build up at a scale that human race has never seen.
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Good money after bad.
Yes, PyPy is fantastic for long-running processes that aren't primarily wrappers around C code. In my experience, the speedups you see in its benchmarks translate to the real world very well.
This is very interesting. I'm in Europe so I'm going to investigate this further. Thanks
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What does UK law say on the subject?
RAPIDS has picked up Dask for multi-gpu aspects of cudf (think spark/pandas on GPUs), and as cugraph is single GPU (https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph) for going fast on ~billion row datasets... I'm guessing dask+cugraph will be happening for the next 100-1000X, if not already.

Graph partitioning is a weird world, so will be interesting to see!
Was there rationality in the first place, ever?
Just a casual glance at the stock markets gives an answer.
> You cannot have both free speech and a code of conduct at the same time.

I feel I should point out that this is a point of view that's very popular in the US, but not universal. F-Droids' website makes me belive that they are somewhere in Europe, where the rules for "Free Speech" are different.

Also, I'm admittedly not familiar with the nuances of freedom of speech in the USA, but I would believe that your statement is not entirely correct in there either.
But this stems from lots of people having bad experiences with obnoxious people who will not stop before the police is called.
Yeah, to that I agree. I have a colleague from China and in her experience, moving from her smaller city (population 300 000) to Shanghai was a big eye opener for her. She was exposed to more educated people and more sources of information outside CCP control.

The tactics you describe to quell protests would definitely work in her hometown and 90% of all other population centers in China. The other 10% are doing great and don’t feel like protesting the smaller issues.
> Edit: for reference, this is the congressman who was accused of writing "Bigfoot erotica" during his campaign.

That was mostly a smear campaign by his political opponents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/politics/bigfoot-porn....
Upfront sale is not like the others at all because it doesn't interact with addictive behaviour in the same way.
There is also enough of almost anything by your logic or lack thereof. Guess everyone should just pack up and go home.
I think you are deliberately missing the point of all this. Fdroid does not want to promote something that goes against their believes.

If you love hate speech hiding behind "oh, but of free speech!" nothing forces you to use their store.

See, that argument goes both ways.
Best case we see international action like the response to apartheid in SA, but there’s a lot of apathy out there.
Can you pls post some links. I'm a die-hard collector of these articles.
You can't really predict a 'when' if the government controls the economy. But I would say that a 'when' doesn't matter much if it happens at some point.
Europe does not have free speech. But that cocs conflict with free speech is true independent of national laws I think.
>Kim Hill, an evolutionary anthropologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, rejects such parallels to humans. “[T]he extreme social brain hypothesis doesn’t claim other primates don’t form hierarchically increasing groupings,” Hill wrote in an email to Science.

I don't see how that makes the study itself controversial. He was simply answering an unseen, possibly leading question from the person writing this story.
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No, you don't have to run it by an ethics board. Who taught you this?

If what you were saying were true then just testing a joke at one stand-up event and testing a slight variation at a different one would require an ethics board. That's patently absurd.
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> Depending on the country this is even enshrined in law (e.g. customer protection laws against accidental buying).

Isn't that usually the case for the seller as well, i.e. obvious pricing errors allow the seller to void the contract?
Some people even seem to see their 2 weeks vacation abroad as their annual excuse to act out power fantasies.
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If you rely on global state, this global state is also mangled to a different symbol, this might be undesirable.
For example, if you use a logger which relies on a extern defined variable. Your singleton is duplicated.
Also all your code is duplicated.

I agree that how rust does it is a very nice solution.
I didn't do anything useful before I had to for work, and it took 10x as long as it should have. I'd suggest just taking some known working examples for fm radio, garage door openers, etc and working through them. It'll be painful, but with enough time and effort it'll happen. And it's sort of like makefile debugging-- the first ten times you have to do it it's excruciating, but after that it turns into just another task you know how to do.
I work fairly regularly with our mainframe team, and the general reasoning boils down to massive parallelism and consistency when processing critical data. The number of rows our mainframe can process and write with perfect accuracy is leagues ahead of what similarly priced commodity hardware could achieve. There’s a reason the world still pretty much runs on COBOL/Natural and a hardware design from the 70s, it worked well then and has worked well ever since. Slightly related but I’d describe most of my role being getting data from our micro-services down into the mainframe in a format it understands so we can do ‘something’ with it.
Nah. Neither as the guest or as a host.
Yes! One side is the job program. And second is also because ordinary Chinese look at it as an investment.
They also buy houses in EU for the sake of investment and leave them empty. So much in fact major EU cities are going to add empty house tax.
I'll bite - but first some caveats.

I didn't follow the case and I'm only tangentially aware of it, I don't know who said what to whom and to how any of it is handled. I can't say with 100% certainty knowing the full explanation of the case that I would side with either the Christian bakers or the customer.

However though, it should be within a business owners right to deny someone access to a paid service or good on essentially any grounds.
Because this sort of stuff really triggers certain people.
Yea. Sounds like pointless grand standing.

A country of about 5.5 million people. About half all live near one particular city.

2.7 million people have a job.

Most of those live near the place they work. Tourists aren't going to these places

No indication that the inter city links are operating anywhere near capacity, or there is a real need to do this. Are politicians tired of having to go back and forth from the capital to their region perhaps?
No, unfortunately circular polarizers kill any specular reflection that goes in. To do them you need a wide spectrum 45 deg phase delay film on top of the polarizer. You can buy the circular polarizer film, but note that it has a front/back (it's not symmetric).

Another confusing attack is to put a camera behind a much larger half-slivered mirror... that does the job too because everything reflects... add a circular polarizer to that :^\
It doesn't relate to addictive behavior, but there's still continuous uproar about deceptive marketing and lack of support. Developer interviews are picked around and lists of promises are made. Any monetary incentive a developer has will be viewed through a bad faith lens at every turn. That can't win.
Data messaging is a legitimate and well established study and practice
Sale itself was a result of an error tho.
>how absolutely bonkers it is that we see housing--a basic human need--as something to make a profit from

The concept of restaurants must really blow your mind.
> Every way to monetize a game will be interpreted with hostility.

I would say that in almost any business there is always small amount of people who intrepret the pricing and/or the business model of the business with hostility. I think it is quite natural - people would rather not pay for things. However the majority of people are not the ones bitching loudly about it, they pay for services happily and are somewhat content & quiet. The small minority bitches about it and that minority is often quite vocal.
Real estate and primary residences should not be a market and an investment opportunity imo.

A company buying thousands of homes and then milking workers through rent for decades seems unethical.

While I do not have a solution, I think this is an issue we should work on
I’m not sure the bad publicity is worth it. People will who read the press about it, will doubt the real deals are real and not order them (e.g. 50% off, which is big saving, but still happens). Amazon is big company with a lot of good engineers, seems like they should be able to solve this problem.
That's a prober, not a canary.
Someone posted in a related thread I was nerding out on tonight that mainframes are excellent when you need to do an enormous amount of I/O with 100% uptime and "exactly once" consistency guarantees. According to that poster, you also don't need to build distributed logic or certain kinds of error handling into your software.
If I saw cheap photo equipment on Amazon, I'd assume it was some knockoff. It might be good, or not. I mean, really, how much does it cost to make a camera back? It's simpler than a smartphone.
The Netflix or Apple Music model might work. Fixed price per month for a catalog of games, with revenue shares happening based on play time. This a basically a solved problem for video and audio content, games don’t need to be different.
Sometimes I wonder if everything is illegal or void in Quebec. That is all I see on sweepstakes/lottery tickets, backside of boxes, warranty cards, etc.
Leave it to the NYT to show us the evils of the NYT, I guess.

But isn't it all about timing? You could have said a similar thing about articles predicting the end of the 2000s-era growth in the US up until 2007-2008. They're so obviously wrong until they're not.
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Governments have issues with non-stable code because it changes rapidly, is untested and a security risk. Facebook moves fast and break things.

I think it exposes a key difference between a FAANG company and a lot of other development though. Because most of use simply use the programming languages as tools, but Facebook is actually going to change the Rust language to fit their needs.
Except that Python existed before I was born and I still appreciate the concept of 'Pythonic'. The language should stay true to its roots.
I stayed in one in Ottawa, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are only common in areas popular with families on holiday, and large cities.

Edinburgh has some.

https://www.adagio-city.com/gb/home/ has many across Europe (also listed on hotels.com).
Bigarray[1] allows you to do that and share the memory between C and OCaml.

[1]: https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Bigarray....
1 million times this ^^^^.

Although the deal is amazing, it's even more amazing how quickly people seem to turn a blind eye to take advantage.

It reminds me a bit of the various insurance systems here in the Netherlands. People complain about the high insurance fees, yet they claim as much damage as possible and even commit fraud in order to get the most out of it. Which of course, in turn, increases insurance fees again.

Thanks greed!
Are you so sure that is what China is doing? That the program is not a result of a decade of yearly terrorist attacks?

That China is trying to de-radicalize extremists and integrate them into modern society?

I do agree that a China needs to be more open and allow UN inspectors.
FYI:
I live in the EU and work for a large corporation.

I have a Pluralsight subscription via Visual Studio+MSDN and when the period is near the end Pluralsight sends several emails informing me that the subscription soon will end and that I should renew.
> First version of what later became BigQuery was built in a few months by a much smaller team, because it was targeted at a much more specialized use case: querying structured application logs in (almost) realtime.

Is there more about this story that you could link me to? Or would reading the whitepaper provide most of the interesting detail of how a log query engine became a general-purpose query product?
So you'd welcome restrictions on freedom of expression (a human right)?
>The thief was smart about the hiding it, but not smart enough

I am interested in knowing in what ways he could have never been caught? What did he miss?
>The last time I checked (less than a year ago), opam was mostly broken on Windows

opam had windows version based on cygwin for a long time [1].

> any software requiring cygwin still means poor Windows support

And software requiring .Net has good linux support? Since when requiring an additional runtime means poor support?

>While the language itself might work, the ecosystem didn't seem great.

Sure, just like .Net ecosystem, which is totally absent on linux. No wpf, media foundation. And bindings to local facilities, like gstreamer, are lacking.

Yet the only real metric of the maturity of the support is the fact that people use it in production. And people heavily use OCaml on windows in production.

[1] https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/
I’ve been in europe on travel and business for the past few weeks, and this may be entirely provincial and American of me, but the best meal i’ve had in a week was the €20 moroccan takeaway for four I had for dinner last night.

The classic continental cuisines are good, and i’ve found good examples of them, but good lord i want something with hot sauce. Then a salad. And maybe a decent bagel.
Video and audio content are not interactive. You never feel active manipulation from static media.

Games in that model will be accused of manipulating players into having as much play time as possible even sacrificing quality. The same addictive mechanics can be used for time instead of money.
It already has plenty of fans, me being one of them.
Then you could get games that are long for no reason
You should not ask the questions you do not want an answer to, regardless how rhetorical they seem. This is HN, not Twitter.

Thought stopping cliches will get pushed back.

Violation of human rights (if these are even recognised by PRC under your definition; they're not) are committed on both sides. Trying to weigh them is silly and does not make them any better.
Measuring others by your yardstick is a kind of imperialism.
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I would also like that the "human rights" won't be an excuse, so it would apply for the people in China but also for the women in Saudi Arabia and other countries that do not respect human rights.
Perform a chargeback and leave a negative review on any app store you may have bought it from. Companies will just keep screwing people over if they never get punished for it.
I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there.
After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, and I probably will never need to.
I will probably never get to maintain a codebase that uses it.
So if being 'up-to-date' isn't something I will go for, how do I measure myself as a developer? I think I will go for something like 'having made a lot more regular people happy than I have frustrated'.
Oh no way. That has huge potential. What are the limitations?
Every once in a while I'll ask people this question: assuming evolution is true, which species do you think will evolve next?
I really don't understand the morality of an average HN user.

There was a post a few days ago about Spotifree (which mutes your ads), and everyone took it as a personal offense, every possible negative word was said about the person who made it, and the people that use it are lowlives who don't deserve anything in life if they won't cough up $10.

But now when it's Amazon losing thousands of dollars per product, it's okay because stealing from someone rich is acceptable and they should just eat their losses and move on. Do you understand that if you scale Amazon down to Spotifies size, their losses are way heftier?

I've also learned that stealing is justified if it's a machine error. So by that logic, if the receipt machine malfunctions in a store and prints out some large number, you would pay it?
That’s correct, guilt would be something that evolves with social structure, but social structure arose pre-hunter-gatherer. The jump to agriculture took hundreds of thousands of years after the first hominids (pre sapiens).
This is the dominant tone of discussion in video game communities. I certainly haven't seen that in other places. No one accused Disney of using cliff hangers to scam them.
By itself I agree, every now and then you write a few lines that will be made a little shorter now that := exists.

But there's a long standing trend of adding more and more of these small features to what was quite a clean and small language. It's becoming more complicated, backwards compatibility suffers, the likelyhood your coworker uses some construct that you never use increases, there is more to know about Python.

Like f-strings, they are neat I guess. But we already had both % and .format(). Python is becoming messy.

I doubt this is worth that.
Yup, clickbait.
The Chinese government is really smart about it. From what I understand, it goes at follows: the price bubble will not burst if real estate market has little to no transactions. The trick is to limit the number of eligible buyers with policies, so that the price can only go up.

It's really genius if you think about it. Chinese housing market is NOT a free market, and the government is the biggest player (and judge) in it. If it is made-up from the beginning, how can it collapse?

Well, unless the government collapses first.
Now China’s censorship of foreign “news’ makes sense.
This has become absolute reflex and is therefore off topic here. So has the "but Saudi Arabia" response.

This is not a site for incessant repetition. If that's what you guys want to do, there are other places on the internet to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I... agree with you. Everything you say is making sense. Thank you for the insights.

It's just that I couldn't help but feel that these guys are among the "good guys", and telling them to "cease operations immediately" is a bit harsh, for just being not good enough. They are probably not doing any harm.

> I think this company is just going to be away for those individuals with a little disposable income, that believe in climate change and feel guilty about driving their car and flying everywhere for vacations, to buy themselves a little 'feel good' or a little peace of mind.

On the other hand, maybe this is harm. Those individuals who buy themselves a little "feel good" may believe that they are actually doing everything they can, and that they really are offsetting their carbon footprint so what they are doing will be sufficient. This can prevent them from realizing the real nature of the threat. This I don't like very much.

> This is Silicon Valley being clueless and/or overly optimistic as usual with these sorts of markets/challenges

Haha. Agreed.

> We need to present the facts, as unbiased as possible, to the masses and get people to start questioning the topic. We need people to start going "oh, wow, we did that?" we need them to start thinking "well how can I minimize my impact myself".

So how do you think we can do this? Masses won't listen to people like you who are talking too much about numbers and then doing this in a very pedantic way (as you did in your first comment). Even if you have the facts.

Or, maybe even arming masses with unbiased facts won't be enough. Maybe it's only people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk who can save us. What do you think?