skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is where the difficulty of your problem lies. I work with serving and reporting ads, so most of our actual logic is simple. Glorified ETL work and fancy caching layer really.

The problem comes about that we can have peaks of 20k reads and 20k writes per second with strict guarantees on response time and data consistency. All at the same time needing to be kept consistent across multiple datacenters in several regions.

Your typical application won't hold up in that environment or can become extremely difficult to maintain. And I've met people at conferences who would say my use case still isn't "big data" and is pennies compared to their data streams. It really does become a class of algorithms and solutions on its own, just dealing with your real-world ability to manage that much data.
Why not just use VB?
The Safety Question Persists as Energy Storage Prepares for Growth
But most of this content will get a negligible amount of views, which means that most of the conplaints come from a much lower number of videos.
Ravens of the Tower of London
I agree. I am not missing generics at all. It's a pain once is a while but it passes. But addressing that minor downside in no way in my mind justifies destroying what actually makes Go an effective language.
Jony Ive would agree. The dichotomy is strong.
Looks like a clone of those CIA birds
I know it's a cliche but the sqlite code is the easiest to read C I've encountered. Followed closely by the code for Redis.
If you go and look at the Map/Reduce/Filter, Channels, Containers, and Append sections of the examples, there isn't any use of contracts.

I see. I'm of the opinion that the Go team might be more cautious and introduce a more limited form of generics first, which seems in line with what you're saying.

In my experience, this fills most use cases. It allows generic data structures, and generic functions over those structures.

How would one make something like ConcurrentMap? Perhaps some operations on a map could be exposed and "overridden?"
The headline seems obvious, but this actually is an escalation. Beijing is requesting change, by what seems to be any means necessary, in a public video conference. It seems to be a warning, until this quote.

“We have noted that the special region’s government has already done some serious summary and reflection,” said Xu Luying, a spokeswoman for the affairs office, citing Mrs. Lam as saying she would “change the administrative style, and listen to public opinion more openly and inclusively.”

I'm surprised by that language as it seems to be targeted at a Western, potentially even Coastal US, audience. Especially when sending Chinese troops has appeared to be a possible option of last resort.

All in all, I'm not sure what to make of the situation, but I hope that the conflict gets resolved in a way that allows Hong Kong to maintain further sovereignty. I doubt that that it will.
Problem is that YouTube has automated the process to favor the fake claims filers.

Real case that happened to my friend(with maybe 2k subscribers):

1. Film a seaside with normal sea breeze and wave sounds (recorded at the same time) no music added.

2. Some Sony Music subsidiary claims that video infringes on their song from a different region which apparently contains similar sea sounds(facepalm here). Ok stuff happens algos are only human..

3.This is where the evil of Youtube comes in:

You file a dispute, point out the obvious in a professional manner -> YouTube seemingly reviews your dispute and claims that the video is infringing still!! It is obvious to anyone that the response was automated.

4. The only way to win this nonsense is to escalate to the next level of dispute which most normal humans are loathe to do (scared of lawyers, scared of YouTube, etc).

Again, the YouTube is evil for taking out the humans out of the review process while faking the review process.

We know they do it for everything else and that is Google modus operandi - to automate everything requiring human interaction.
The link is dead (404), do you have another one?
Seems to happen whenever china is brought up...
Without a browser, it kind of ceases to be a smartphone. It's just a flipphone. So I don't see how that is really something you need to note.

For me it's Google Maps. There is just no comparison. I don't want to imagine trying to drive around finding places without it. It's not just the navigation and traffic, it's the business hours lookup feature and all that.

I hadn't thought about TOTP stores (Authy), but that's certainly way up there. Unless they can read a NFC yubikey.
The distinction is largely irrelevant, since creators generally believe such a thing to exist, which raises more questions of algorithm transparency.
> Honest question - when the creators know the bad behavior of Disney/Sony etc, why poke them at all?

My original video of an art exhibition got taken down because clapping in the video matched some rapper's song that Universal Music owns.

What do you recommend me to do to "not poke" Disney/Sony/etc?
Not entirely true regarding sports, 538 has done some decent analyses of basketball shooting and found that hot and cold shooting is often true, the same is likely true for baseball. Streaks are naturally occurring, both for randomness and due to other, harder to explain factors.
I think the argument is that generic code, being, well, generic, promotes reuse at an abstract level, rather than a concrete level. Abstract code can be more difficult to understand than specialized code that does only what is needed in a particular use case.

I like the generics proposal, but it seems like a valid concern.
Honest to a Fault: Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small
I'm fairly sure that you are required to take a lie detector to join the FBI, which makes me worry about the validity of all federal forensics. And now we're resuming executions...
Who is the author of your recommended "Beginning Game Programming in C++" book...? Sounds interesting.
No. As far as I know, there are always proprietary blobs.

That said, he Fair Phone 2 officially supports degooglized Android Pie (Lineage).
What do you like about Laravel and dislike about React?

I like the Linux kernel codebase: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
It starts with an interesting description of problem, but I felt that it took a sharp slope and reached into a bizzare conclusion.
1985 wasn't really before the internet, just before the public proliferation of access to it, and browsers as a tool for navigating.
https://github.com/golang/go
So for me, this is roughly what I want in a phone. But the thing is, I bought a phone over two years ago, with better specs for $100 less. That same phone today is priced at $200-$300.

The way I see it the real value add for this phone is the software, and this whole mainline Linux, FOSS, run whatever you want approach is very attractive to me.

But is it worth $700? Is it worth $700 when my current phone is in great condition and most likely will be usable for several more years?

I feel bad, because I do want to support this kind of thing, I'm just not sure that buying __this__ phone is the right decision for me.
For what it's worth, the port also runs really poorly on the Switch. It feels like there's a lot of input lag and the frame rate is all over the place. It's not unplayable but it required me to spend the first 30 minutes just learning to compensate for the poor performance and lag. You'd probably get a better experience actually playing it back in the mid-90s.
Occam's razor would say that such a large corporation does not have the direct controls to monitor every single actor. Is it so hard to find actors acting against the interest of their employer? I've even personally experience cases where the actors are rewarded for such actions due to flaws in the incentive structure.
They also use personality tests to screen out job applicants, and that is no argument for their usefulness. I mean you could hire only libras and claim that this policy has given you better candidates, and you would not be wrong. But at the same time you couldn’t claim that libras are better at the job then leos. You have other hiring practices and biases that makes sure you are usually happy with the libras you’ve hired.

An IQ of 100 is defined to be the mean intelligence. It is a magic number (albeit not a magic number representing competence). Usually an IQ of 80-90 (around one standard deviation below the average) give you general competence, lower then that and you probably have some mental disabilities (unless the test is badly standardized; which has happened more often then it should have).

IQs above average correlate with loads of desirable things, individuals with higher then average IQ are generally more well spoken, they have higher income, they are quicker to respond to questions, they know more jokes, they are probably more handsome as well (I know; citation needed). These traits are as well desired (if not more) in the criminal world as anywhere else. But this is precisely the problem with considering high IQs. If your measurement is predicting everything, it usually means you are measuring nothing.
This is why I'm looking into buying more beverage products that use aluminum cans...they are more recyclable than plastics...
Financial transactions are frequent, reversible, insured, and don't require parties to be anonymous.

Elections are one-off events where after-the-fact mitigations reduce its validity. Plus, elections require strong privacy (i.e., voters shouldn't be able to reliably show how they voted).

Elections have far tougher constraints than finance.
Recently had to make a few changes to ffmpeg codebase. It's pretty good.
How good is measurement of water underground? I feel like we simply haven't drilled enough holes to know.
>Saying it is completely a cultural construct is just plain wrong

No, it's completely correct, in the sense that there is no objective or scientific definition of "race". Every cultural construct is based on something.

>This is an example of the kinds of differences that it is actually interesting and helpful to study.

And of course, these are exactly the differences that people obsessed with "race" aren't interested in.
There is small town rural life within an hour of any big coastal city. You don't have to move to the homogeneous middle of the country for that. Suggesting people move from a popular place to middle America for a good quality of life is disingenuous in my view because its predicated entirely on the fact that it's "cheaper". Their lives aren't going to be "richer"...only their bank account for a time, but even that will fade as salary and opportunity are less as well. Yes some people enjoy being surrounded only by their race, religion, and politics so that outweighs the losses of accessibility, culture, and experience...and frankly most of the ones who have never experienced anything else don't even know what they are missing...getting away from that gave me the only good parts of my life personally. Once again...people don't put photos or postcards of Topeka or Little Rock or some town nobody knows of in the vast sameness of the Midwest on their dream walls. There is a reason for that.
Many creators don't want to use music claimed by the big names, but they might not have a choice.

For example, footage used in a review (say a clip of a TV show) necessarily comes with any background music. If the TV show is using licensed music in that scene, it then shows up in the Youtube video.

Even real-life, vlog-style footage can have unsolicited music.

There's also a full spectrum of Content ID claims that are frivolous because of over-matching. Even public-domain footage (especially video) can be claimed. For example, if a news agency uploads its own news report to the Content ID system for matching but that news report contains public-domain material such as a NASA video, that raw video itself can be reported as 'matching' in other uses.

Whether this effect is malicious or unintentional is a subject of debate.
Whilst it's non ideal, various polls peg the youth vote at being around 70-75% remain [0]

[0] https://fullfact.org/europe/how-did-young-people-vote-brexit...
I think it's the best decision for future you.
The problem with Taleb's argument is that, as the linked article shows, IQ tests are as good measure of intelligence as of unintelligence. There is no inflection point after which IQ stops correlating with wealth. The slope is constant across all scales.

Taleb's argumentation relies on fictional scenarios whose conclusion do not match what he would have gotten looking at raw data instead.
They don't explicitly state a warranted capacity for the Model S/X, but I've never heard of an S/X battery with more than ~20% degradation that wasn't considered faulty by Tesla. Whatever Tesla's reason is for not stating a specific capacity, it's not to screw over S/X owners, and I'm sure that 30% capacity loss within 8 years would be considered a fault.

We don't yet know how they stand up over >8 years of service, of course, but there are many examples of very high milage Tesla vehicles (> 200,000 miles) that are still on their original battery and show only modest degradation.
Emulsify Design System: What’s Great, What’s Coming
I wasn't happy with what was out there to recommend to others so I decided to create something myself.

The goal of this article is to walk you through, step-by-step, everything you need to know to optimize your pricing and clear your head of all the anxiety and stress that goes into it. Most of the articles/ebooks I’ve read are either super brief or extremely scattered. I want to create something that’s actually actionable to help you with pricing and packaging your products.
And once you get bored of plain old DooM maps, there's Oblige:

http://oblige.sourceforge.net/
The Gatsby codebase is dreamy https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/packages/gats...
Apparently dislikes count almost as much as likes for popularity - videos that evoke an emotional response are considered better by YouTube. It's a general trend in social networks, because it leads to more views, and one of the causes of the current environment of polarization and toxicity.
From an environmental perspective, it makes sense to keep your current phone as long as possible.

I'd love to get rid of this thing full of proprietary stuff though.
I'm really curious how you see laravel as a shining example of clean code?

That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake.

Pretty sure Most of Martin's talks begin by complaining about this sort of thing?
Sorry, I was typing it from memory and forgot that the repo was named "inferno" not "hellaphone". Fixed.
I can assure you that developers are not the archenemy of implementing good color schemes...most of the time. The Creative Director and six Editors listed on the About page probably have more say in why they can't read their own work on certain monitors.
There are many different ways to implement carbon tax.

His proposal to replace other regulations with a small and uniform carbon tax, is bound to make both proponents and opponents of carbon tax unhappy (which may be a sign that it is a reasonable proposal:)

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comm...
I passed a polygraph, I was untruthful and still passed. The person administering the test had done tbis for the FBI for 15 years. I had no special training.
> From at least three of the mobile apps on iOS, data about the use of the apps goes to a US-American marketing company that specializes in predictive profiling.

@Microsoft folks here: This, if true (edit: in the way presented here) is outright disgusting.

I have lately found myself defending you when people have been complaining about telemetry (I'm a developer myself so I can see the value), but selling (or giving away) data from Office apps to profiling companies is not ok.

I honestly believed that your upside of such deals was the ability to easily upsell me to a paid version of this software.

This, again if it is correct, is disgusting and might easily be a huge GDPR issue despite how many cookie warnings anyone adds.
Ask HN: How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing)
How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing) when English is not your first language. I live where most of the population are not English speaking.
Any actionable advice which I can practice daily which you or your near ones did and helped them.

Few thing I considered like joining Toastmasters but nearest club is too far to my place.
You aren't buying a phone, you are buying an Experience.
Electron stinks – jk, Commandeer is now available on Windows and Linux
Indeed, this is surprising for many reasons:

- B2B is a large part of their income, telemetry has probably damaged their reputation as a business vendor.

- They have mostly failed at social media (except LinkedIn and Skype, which they have bought). So, there is no strong need for them to collect all this data to profit off (otherwise free) social media.

- They have a strong developer story with WSL, Azure, etc. They could have replaced Apple as the darling of developers. But not with telemetry, start menu ads, etc.

- At least in the EU, more privacy is where the puck is going. They could take on Google's weaknesses.
Equifax gets hurt a little bit extra for each person up until 5.6 million people are claiming, by those numbers.
You could buy a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it.
https://grapheneos.org/#device-support
If you're concerned about this, you really shouldn't read up on the actual "forensics" the FBI did in the past, like "hair analysis", because it will ruin your day:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-testimo...

Or "bite mark analysis" (don't google that, it will ruin your day as well).
Zulip is way better when you have people in many timezones.
I’m not sure that this has anything to do with where the organisation is registered, rather where services are provided. CA has particularly strict education regulations from what I understand (I’m not an expert at all, but I was homeschooled, and that’s certainly more heavily regulated in CA than most states). I’d be curious where Lambda has to register, and how all of this is managed from a compliance perspective, especially as they expand into international markets.
Generics help with reducing of code duplication. This doesn't really depend on what you want to do exactly, more on how complex your code base is.
Office on iOS is free.
I've done lots of side projects over the years.[1]

The things that stand out for me in staying sane working on them, and occassionally getting them done are

1. the most important thing: prototype end-to-end user workflows to prove out that the idea is a good one AND that it's technically possible -- you'll discover lots of technical issues you'll need to go solve when do this (put them in the to-do list mentioned later). Don't over-design anything at this point. Just make it work. Be okay with rough code or experiences. Get the idea working and it'll be a great motivator. Likewise, if you get a rough experience working and realize it's not a great idea, you can move on and do something else!

2. make the project easy to leave and come back to (see next two items).

3. create TODOs.md markdown file in the project and just add items as you go along. This is your source of truth of what to work on next. Don't use any fancy task-tracking service or app, just a simple markdown is good enough. And it should live with the project so you can read it and see what's next.

4. always have a "next task" that you are working on. Don't focus on too many tasks at once b/c you will get overwhelmed and give up. When you are looking for a fun design to think about when you're going for a walk, you can think about this next task.

5. be okay with leaving the project for a while (months, or years). You can always come back to it if you want.

6. don't stress about how quickly you're making progress. Do it for fun.

[1] https://www.ussherpress.com/
Ask the average person not interested in aviation what the autopilot does in an airplane. They will tell you "automatic pilot. It flies the plane."

Autopilot is technically correct, which is useless unless you are only selling it to aviation enthusiasts.
If their vehicles need to charge more often than just overnight, then they need to consider whether they are buying the right vehicles for the job.

The examples I mentioned are from London, which has a growing fleet of hundreds of heavy electric vehicles (city buses, UPS trucks, etc). All of these charge exclusively overnight.
Sure, do that. I'm not a Python fanboy, and there were some issues with how the transition was handled. Move to another language if you have the manpower. I think in in this case, since they claim to not even have the manpower to do some relatively straight-forward migrations from Python 2 -> 3 and/or they have some dependencies on Python2, I'm doubtful that's even an option.

I'm just pointing out that it's a risky move to adopt a soon-to-be-deprecated programming language for new projects, given the potential for security issues that won't be patched. It's the kind of ignorant arrogance that has always bugged me about many companies with non-technical management (please note: these words are not directed at user kgrave given that this appears an edict from above at his company, and he's unable to change it).
I failed a polygraph. I was truthful and still failed. It cost me a job. Luckily I found a better job. So, thanks polygraph.
> No. It was designed to identify children who are struggling in school. That was the original goal.

I think trying to debunk the current utility of IQ by invoking its original goal is almost a sleight of hand. Unfortunately it didn't stick to its original goal. IQ tests have been administered to people of all ages for all sorts of reasons. How much has it deviated from its original goal? And more importantly, how do we restore it?
IQ varies significantly across China: http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/world/148304d1429... (A map someone compiled based on https://m.doc88.com/p-5803924483878.html , a study on the effect of iodine on children's IQ)

Compare with the distribution of GDP per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...
> I like the Linux kernel codebase

Same here, I was looking at linux kernel network code lately and I was surprised by how clean and easy to follow it was.
Not sure about that, Instagram is a much larger platform, and as far as I can tell, Instagram TV is not taking off.
Worth pointing out that, as purely an exercise in military hardware intelligence, the Navy surely learned far more about China's fancy new drone than the People's Liberation Army did about the capabilities of a 30 year old missile cruiser.
if it works for large scale and profitable webhosting companies, it should work for youtube.

granted, this is not exactly apples/apples, but it's not far off
Yeah larger screens gives them some more leeway internally but does kind of restrain them a bit too because the larger screen wants more battery which requires a certain amount of space.

If you've ever seen a tear down of the iPhone X for example the boards are actually stacked to maximize the space available for battery in the thin form.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975#s182...
Dark emerges from stealth with unique ‘deployless’ software model
"[I]n engineering, the “success” of a technology often has less to do with solving problems than rendering them opaque or distant from our imagination. Like an endless game of whack-a-mole, the problems never truly go away—they come back with a vengeance decades later and miles away in new forms, often made worse by the very infrastructure engineers created."

This article reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Aurora", about a generation ship's various engineering issues and how the inhabitants find various ways to rebalance the closed system, but never completely.