skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I get you. My expectation would be that this post would be heard by Google and Google would make the appropriate changes: first and foremost, position Wikipedia on its proper place in the search results and give other websites a fair game.
Any plans to sell the book in dead tree format?
> The problem talked about in the article is that it's not easy to express your optimization goals in terms of concrete metrics,

Largely, because what you are wanting to optimize is something like current value of the future income stream of the firm. So a proxy is taken, which inevitably has bias, and you need to understand why hat that big is likely to be a continuously sanity check your results for reason to think that you may being caught in that bias. Which you probably can't measure well (though maybe something has improved since you adopted the proxy), because if you could you'd have a better proxy to start with.
And this is why amazon workers are abused. Supply significantly outpaces demand.
>We are truly in a golden age for taking pictures of dark shit with phone cameras.

Apparently I take pictures of different things than the author. Different kinks for different folks I guess.
Keep states where they are needed.

Make most things immutable.

Prefer composition to extension.

Treat Types as contracts.

Sandbox "unsafe" codes (codes that interacts with network, file storage, etc).

Eliminate side effects.

Eliminate premature abstractions.

Prefer explicit over implicit.

Keep components functional.

Prioritize semantic correctness and readability.

Use events to for inter-component communication when those components don't need to care about each other's functionality.

Think protocol over data.
You forgot off by one errors
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And here you have welders earning top dollar. Whole business is centered around welding obnoxiously loud noise polluting exhausts for bikes.
Also In India people treating as literal deities the movie stars like Amitabh Bachchan / Rajnikanth. One of my Indian friend would bow down to poster of Arnold Schwarzenegger in all seriousness and call him 'Shakti ke devta (English: God of Power)'
> But if you created a massive piece of work that did wonderfully well, would you deem it fair you family gets nothing, whilst if you'd have survived, they'd share in your success?

No. This is the heart of the problem with the capitalist economic system. The vast majority of wealth belongs to people who inherited it, not the people actually creating all the value in society today.
If you are ever in the Black Hills, I suggest skipping Crazy Horse. You can see it from the road and the museum is nothing special. I’ve been there twice, once in 2003 and once in 2017. Absolutely 0 visible work has been made on the sculpture, despite two blasts per year.

My hypothesis is that the sculptor was completely unqualified to sculpt a mountain, and that physics are preventing the outstretched hand from ever being completed. The people running Crazy Horse realize this, but there is too much money so they need to keep up the charade.
> in China alone.

More like in China almost entirely. Global capitalist structures take a lot of credit for improving living standards all over the world, but when you look at the numbers, it's really a very dramatic improvement in China, a country that deviates from those structures in significant ways (and is demonized for ir.)
Frankly I don't owe you or the muppets attempting to participate in this thread by zombie-walking "MUH PRESS RELEASES" a damn thing: if you want to believe in pixie dust, you're free to do so. None of the "quantum computing results" factoring the number 15 have done the actual Shor algorithm -they've all used the shortcut described in this paper. Someone below posted another paper pointing out the same thing, as well as some discussion on a forum .... pointing out the same thing.

It's not my fault you believe in press releases without understanding what they mean.
time to get a dreambox with a keylist
Which could be impossible in a dense city with Xfinity access points.
They might be fine the first time you watch a DVD, but when, later, you see outdated adverts every. damn. time? That's actually the exact thing that made me abandon DVD's years ago.
You should write the feature with the highest risk and most dependencies first.
whataboutism is not a valid reply to the above (fairly legitimate) criticisms
I'm not a photo guy -- I have like 4 photos on my phone total (one for each of the people I care the most about -- but it seems to me like Apple should just create a DSLR camera.

It doesn't seem any more out-of-place for them as the HomePod, the idea of which is to have a bigger device just for listening because there's a physics limit to just using a tiny device for outputting sound. They then combine that with super advanced software for something unique. Doesn't sound different from photography, to me.

Why wouldn't Apple want to create the best camera in the world?
>I would love someone to design and manufacture an enclosure for an iPhone that allowed for better ergonomics and controls

There are several third party solutions that offer just that, have been for years, e.g.:

https://icdn9.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/pictar-i...

http://blog.incipio.com/home/incipio-focal-wireless-bluetoot...

and even more mainstream brands...
The setting is controlled by "Settings/Privacy/Smart TV Experience". The first time you go into an input a dialog shows up asking the user to opt-in or out of this.
I actually time-tested git grep vs ripgrep, and I'm not seeing meaningful differences on my repos. ripgrep smokes regular grep but for some reason git grep is just as fast as ripgrep
Adobe had demoed similar stuff back in 2016. [0] Not sure what happened to it after that.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...
Yea, IANAL but my understanding is if BNB is a security, then by allowing trading of BNB, Binance.us is an unlicensed security exchange
There's an interesting contemporary case of this going on regarding tobacco advertising. Because it's illegal in certain jurisdictions to distribute tobacco advertisements, some historical photographs have to be doctored for distribution there.

Take a look at the MP4/4 F1 race car shown on McLaren's website for an example: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/heritage/cars/1988-formula-1-...

Compared to an unedited version of the car: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/photos/ayrton-senna-mclaren-mp...

They even do this to videos of old races.
How is it a massive cognitive load? Use clang libraries and error out if there are any operator declarations, for instance.
Its reasons for today's existence can easily change. Luckily your hate won't win this battle.
Which police station? What coordinates precisely? Could there be signs of which software you used to alter the data?

All these things could leak bits of identifying information, which I think is strictly worse than the 1 bit of information leaked by removing EXIF entirely.
I've thought about this a lot, it's certainly something I want too. I think a case with a dial in each corner for shutter speed, ev compensation, aperture and iso would be enough for me to consider selling my camera. Perhaps they could even be customised?

For now, being able to quickly set one of these values depending on the scene is very important to me - so I keep the camera going for now...
I recently started appreciating 60fps screen but,

iPhone 11 came up with 240 fps

Galaxy Note10+ came up with 960fps

and now Huawei Mate 30 Pro with 7680 fps
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I think that the first wheeled suitcases used indoor roller skate wheels. So the parts were readily available for a long time before wheeled suitcases.

But early airports didn't have miles of corridors and a hundred gates, so maybe the need wasn't as great.
Looks like it’s on SquareSpace, which does their own cert provisioning. Maybe the author just hasn’t set that up or has it misconfigured.
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> Imagine that an author passes away between handing the manuscript to a publisher and the first printing hitting store shelves.

Why not ~20 years of rights to it like patents? Does the family really deserve to enjoy sole rights to someone else's idea for 70 years?
I have moved to Crystal Lang for the times when i need the speed that ruby can't offer. I could have leveled up my bash skills, and was indeed using bash for that porpoise, but crystal is easier i think.
Everybody knows it's the nautical cow farts that contribute over 80% of JSO2N emissions. It's causing ACID compliant rain.
Cinema is still pretty expensive. If I go to a pub to hang out with friends, I spend under $10/hour and get beer for the money.
> They violate the following moral principle: “If everyone did what I’m doing, what would happen?”

The reason a lot of people, perhaps most, don't follow that idea is because it's a lot like the slippery slope fallacy. Hypothetically, if everyone pirated all their content, perhaps there'd be serious problems as a result. In reality, that's never actually going to happen.
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He was also known for massive investments into wind farms, divesting his petroleum portfolio, and rallying fellow conservatives to take climate change seriously.

You admit you’ve never heard of him, then read Wikipedia, and feel sufficiently armed with the knowledge required to self-righteously proclaim judgement on the life of another human being.
Note that msys2 isn't just for building programs, it provides a full bash environment with many unix tools and a package manager (pacman, same as in Arch Linux) to install more. The build environment is unixy enough to be able to build more tools from source using the classic ./configure; make; make install route (more or less, may need some modifications in the code).

For me my main use of msys2 is as a shell where i run scripts and command-line utilities with the build stuff being a distant secondary use.
A typical scenario is like mine: I purchased season 1 and 2 of "private eyes" (I know, I know, but I just love this show :-)) from Apple TV. But season 3 is not available (yet?), but I know that season 3 is already out, so ...
Sorry, but being free is the reason 99% of people pirate software. This list is a good spin on putting pirates into a positive light, but the fact of the matter, is that they are stealing software and entertainment. None of which are a basic human need or right. What if you could download a Playstation or new TV, and have it materialize in front of you for FREE? This is like arguing that torrents are mostly used for distributing freeware/shareware. Sure there are some, but the rest is illegal software.
> Track things quantitatively and then make qualitative decisions

Decisions are often inherently quantitative, e.g., you allocate an actual dollar amount to a budget. Or a project go/no-go is a crisp binary decision. I think you mean don't make decisions directly based on quantitative metrics but on qualitative assessments informed by quantitative metrics.
The comments on this thread are terrible.

I don't know enough about him to pass moral judgement, but it seems like many others think that they do (after a quick scan of Wikipedia, meh, that's good enough).

It just seems crass to be flippantly judgmental when the guy just died, and in response to his last elegant / humble / insightful "post" to the world.

I'm also confused at the implicit viewpoints that, IMO, are at odds with the HN/YC ethos of "individual hussle/initiative/hack your way to huge growth/etc". I.e. if Pickens wasn't from another generation and another industry, I think he'd fit in very well with the HN/YC types (disclaimer/ha, I'm making an assumption that I just chastised others for doing).

Anyway, makes me wonder if the "real HN" crowd has moved on elsewhere.
How far can you go with overdub ? Can you just record someone for some time, and then just write a podcast (skipping the actual recording)?
Great work! Is it easy to interact between Swift and Rust or UIKit libraries?
I figure it's similar to applying to colleges. Stanford, Yale, etc send you info packets and ask you to apply but then reject you. Although some schools figure that if it takes $20 to acquire someone's attention and get them to apply to you (and pay a $90) fee then they can pocket the $70 (minus reviewer expenses) and look more exclusive when it comes to acceptance rates, but that's not the case with companies.
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I like the Orwellian term “buy back” as if you purchased arms from them in the first place, and secondly they’re using your money to deprive you. For the small arms nay sayers (against a well equipped military) case in point is Afghanistan, guerrillas wore down the Soviets.
We had wheels on cars, baby strollers, and bikes before the moon landing.

The cold war re-prioritized life for many Americans (and Russians, too I'm sure)
Looks like what? Seems like just a recent bunch of many fine grained edits to the README...

This however, from TFA, is troubling:

I think a lot of people don't realize how little Reitz actually has to do with Requests development. For many years now, actual maintenance has been done almost exclusively by other volunteers. If you look at the maintainers list on PyPI, you'll see he doesn't have PyPI rights to his own project, because he kept breaking stuff, so the real maintainers insisted on revoking his access. If you clone the Requests git repo, you can run git log requests/ to see a list of every time someone changed the library's source code, either directly or by merging someone else's pull request. The last time Reitz did either was in May 2017, when he made some whitespace cleanups.

At least as far as commits go, his main contributions since then appear to consist of merging some small doc fixes, and monetizing the project by adding donation links, ads, intrusive sponsored links, etc. All of this money goes directly into his pocket, not the project's maintainers.
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IMO the guidelines should be on by default. It's the first setting I change when I get a new phone or camera.

Like you said even if you're not a "photographer" it can make a huge difference.

EDIT: Also even if somebody has no clue what they're for, it can help keep the image level at the very least.
I have an old Disney DVD with a feature called FastPlay. It has a 30 second, unskippable, description of FastPlay.
But then they should run their own Nextcloud perhaps?
Right down corner, three dots, to switch subtitles on and off. You dont need it, its a sf of what could happen. Its filmed dramaticly so you will be extra scared of the future
My company uses the same "qualified" excuse. So we hire H1B workers who had someone else take their qualification tests and who don't understand jQuery despite apparently having 10 years of experience. They did a wonderful job of hard coding the front end of some shitty CRUD app they were working on (yes, part of the blame should also be on the developer who was assigned to oversee the project). Where does such a skilled prabeep go? Oh to Capital One for 150k a year, of course.

Anyone suggesting we have to hire outsiders because we don't have enough developers should be hung by the neck.
> I think at one time the advice to “play the numbers game” was correct for online job apps. Not anymore.

Are you sure about that? Most of the posts I see from devs who just got well-paying jobs show them applying to 20+ companies. Usually more. Then they'll get interviews at several, offers from 1-5? It's absolutely a numbers game on both sides.
Economic as a discipline has a painfully narrow focus on mathematical modelling. Anything that doesn't fit into the models tends go get ignored: one of the reasons few economists spotted the global financial crisis is that their models didn't allow for such a crisis.

It would be silly to expect a biologist to write down an all-encompassing equation describing a cat, solve it, and thereby understand the animal. Why should that approach work on something infinitely more complex, like a whole economy?
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That'd be really nice and it is something I've thought about, the issue is figuring out the _right_ way to do it. Self publishing or perhaps a publisher of programming books?

I can see now that there's a clear interest in a release in physical form. I'll start seriously looking into it. :)
They're stealing nothing. It's really hard to take you guys seriously when you talk about "stealing" information.
Salary is how companies distribute value to employees and Microsoft paid it's employees. Many people would prefer cold hard cash over stock that may be nothing but fireplace lighting material in five years. Likewise making 30% less this year because the company did badly for reasons in no way related to you doesn't sit well with many people either.
Single square bracket conditionals [] are the "older" (POSIX) version but do not have certain features that we would like to use in our shell scripts. Bash uses double square brackets to extend the functionality.

This is my understanding. Possibly not 100% correct but essentially correct enough for me to understand the reason/rationale for the difference.
Except it isn't, because most of your developers will be using an environment that includes syntax highlighting and probably some linting. Except within string literals.

Code inside string literals is less readable and more inclined to be wrong/buggy.
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i love this very creative marketing idea!

any ideas that make woke -> go broke = good snarking :)
I do remember when there was a strong left "anti-globalisation" movement, mostly focused on the "G8" and "G20" meetings. Two things seem to have contributed to ending that: one is heavy police action against the violent demos, and the other is the rise of "rightwing anti-globalisation" which tends to be anti-immigrant and anti-semitic.

Joseph Stiglitz and Naomi Klein are probably the standard starting points for reading about anti-globalisation.
> In the case of piracy, the thing you’re downloading wouldn’t exist unless the majority of people followed the rules.

They would be forced to adapt, just like other industries adapt to changing social behaviour or technology. Maybe more movies would be crowdfunded (Kickstarter-style or Patreon-style). Maybe they would have product placements. Maybe something else entirely.

Things change -- you either adapt or you go out of business.

(For the record, I personally do not pirate. I rarely watch movies or shows anymore, listen to all my music on a premium spotify account and buy all the games I play and non-open-source software that I use.)
no, its 27 directories and 947 files, with a plugin architecture (pipeline)
>He was deluged with donations from both individuals and large companies like Microsoft, Google, Slack, etc., and the fundraiser total quickly reached ~$30k.

Off topic, but the total looks disgustingly low, if companies like Microsoft, Google, and Slack have donated. Shame on them, they could splurge some more for the FOSS they use...

>On March 15 2018, he contacted me to talk about the fundraiser. He told me he was uncertain what to do with this amount of money – he said his original goal was just to raise $5k to buy a computer. Privately, I was skeptical that the $5k computer had anything to do with Requests. Requests is a small pure-Python library; if you want to work on it, then any cheap laptop is more than sufficient. $5k is the price of a beefy server or top-end gaming rig. But I figured that even if he spent $5k of the money on some unrelated computer, we could call that compensation for his past work, and it would still leave ~$25k to fulfill the promises he'd made in the fundraiser. And this was clearly a great opportunity to build some amazing new stuff. So I didn't say anything about the computer.

Until here, and if it's his project/fundraiser, it's his call. He could have spent it all on blow, and as long as he delivers the end result he raised funds for, it would be totally fine.

What he actually did in the end however (not work at all for the project and expect the volunteer to do it for free while he kept all the money) is a no go...
I leave my Kindle in airplane mode for weeks at a time and have never experienced this. I've had Kindles for 6 or 7 years now.
Well get to it then.
It's one of several copies, as benji111 pointed out. But I also really like what they're doing with it, per the last three paragraphs of the article.
Well maybe the rest of the people would never pay for all the content they pirate but they'd probably pay for at least a small portion of that.
Or being edited. I (perhaps naively) didn't realise that happened to any real degree, but there was a thread on reddit today where someone had noticed that a series they wanted to stream had been retroactively edited to remove the music they liked from it.

Archiving media by torrenting or ripping a stream is the closest we can get to owning media in this subscription based world we live in. Of course there's physical media, with the associated drawbacks others have mentioned (availability, ads, FBI warnings, etc).

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/d68gi9/how_can...
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It's hard to get more fundamental than studying how quantum properties & effects can be manipulated. But call it what you will: You avoided the issue. Whether or not you use the label "fundamental", the research can absolutely yield practical & critical advancements. Plenty of necessary aspects & engineering of the LHC would be unlikely to fall under your definition of "fundamental", but nonetheless have are part of the benefits realized from those efforts.
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I was thinking similar thoughts. I imagine a lot of efforts are duplicated in all industries. New players have to make many of the same mistakes established players made, and this is part of the barrier to entry.

Someone could potentially make a killing managing a marketplace for buying and selling failed industrial results. We learn from mistakes. If it were cheaper to learn from others’ mistakes than make them anew, this could have huge benefits for everyone. But it would have to be very enticing for the established players.
they send those to everyone. Would be hard to find anyone in tech not contacted by amazon.
I'm in no way defending bash as a language. There are lots of gotchas and weird constructs. I avoid bash too. It's just that trim function isn't that cryptic or "unreadable" if you know the syntax.
> Yes, that protection is called "password". [...] Which is why you should not limit the rate of guessing

Any password can be brute-forced if you neither limit the number of guesses nor limit the rate that you can guess them.
At what point is it no longer noticeable?
A Facebook rejection pushed me to start and grow a business in 12 months
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say people where you live probably torrent less than people where I live. :P
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Because it is much more lucrative for them to have a phone with the best camera in the world.
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The key elements to these photos basically come down to dramatic lighting(dawn/dusk), leading lines(look at the bridge and waterway shots, your eyes are guided to the mountains and the horizon), and the rule of thirds(dividing your image up into quadrants, and keeping important subjects at their intersections). Basic stuff, but as always requires LOTS of practice and experimentation.