skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you arguing we should make nuclear power less safe, then?

I'm arguing that we should look at the cost-benefit of each marginal increment in safety, before dismissing nuclear power as "too expensive".

If you put in place requirements that wind power must kill no birds, forcing them to build expensive bird nets and other countermeasures, you could reach the same sort of conclusion that wind power is too expensive to be competitive.

> What's the advantage of that?

As I said, if nuclear was cheaper, and also not too dangerous, you would displace coal much more quickly (particularly in China). For some values of "cheaper" and "not too dangerous" you would prevent more deaths (by averting/reducing climate change) than you caused with such a policy change.
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This is a common misconception. Anti-competitive practices are generally outlawed, even for those that have not already acquired monopoly power.

Trying to acquire a monopoly via these practices is also not allowed.
> with little or no communications to the developer community,

About the use of private APIs in App Store apps? The communication has been consistent and loud enough that most non-Apple developers are completely aware that using a private API will get your app rejected.
Yes, sorry you are correct. I will fix when at a computer!
Non-mobile link: http://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-hist...
Magic may be the best game ever devised.

Unlike chess, it’s stochastic and unlike backgammon, it has hidden information and bluffing. But it’s more than that - the cards change the rules of the game itself.

On top of those layers, the fact that each player builds their own deck makes the game asymmetric and ultimately the meta-game of building the deck to beat the Keynsian beauty contest of optimal deck selection becomes the most important part.

It is this meta game that makes me think it will be a long long time before we have a machine learning model that can play the full game (and the meta-game) consistently better than an expert human player. At least while new cards are being added to the game.

The game is turing complete. It can have infinite loops and crazy, ridiculous complexity and is gloriously fun to play. I’d love to hear about any AI projects that have taken a serious stab at playing a complete game.
We're beyond incentives. We need taxation, aka carbon tax.

My point was that the "capitalist" is not running that production line in isolation, it is the end consumer demand that drives that pipeline. So yes consumer demand is the ultimate source of all this.

Carbon tax is but a first step but it is necessary as it will force the actors to take action. As you correctly pointed out they have no "incentive" to do so right now.
I've just been away on a non work retreat for 5 days and it was a big ask.

I can't imagine doing something similar for work. Are they paying you all the time you are away (after all, you are basically "at work" the whole 24 hours).

It just seems another way to squeeze more house out of people.
It is possible to be a retailer, and a monopoly, without being a monopoly in retail. Indeed, most determinations of monopoly power use a much narrower definition of the field they hold that power in.

For instance, Amazon holds a significant percentage of online book sales—and, in fact, of online retail sales in general; see one of the sibling comments for references.
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Yup, but they do so only once per shard (well, twice, once at the beginning and once at the end). If you've got a big job where each shard takes a few minutes to process and a hundred or so workers, the DB gets about 1 req/sec, which is well within the capabilities of Postgres.
I get that it's net zero, but it's still releasing it back into the atmosphere. Burying the compostable material might actually be a way of sequestering carbon.
This is huge for open source, it needs good payment models like this without messy licensing structures. NPM's latest funding update is a joke.
Every day someone somewhere gets fired for something they posted on Twitter. I've never heard of anyone getting hired for a tweet.
Or could it be that the reason Chrome “enjoys” a monopoly is because Apple doesn’t care about “winning” the browser war? Why should it? That was last decades battle. Not even MS cares about the browser enough anymore to invest in its own engine.
you're not alone in liking the smell of books! many of us join you in this predilection :)
How do you square this with Apple's new model of desktop Mac apps being repackaged iOS/iPad apps? Is that native or is it half-mobile half-native? What distinguishes that from Electron, in principle?

It sounds like what you want is for every application to be hand-written for the target platform using target-specific APIs, because code reuse and cross-platform tech are 'not native' and thus bad. QT and GTK? Not native. Java's UI toolkits? Not native. HTML? Not native. Perl, Ruby, Python? Well, they're not C or Obj-C and their standard libraries aren't libc so they're not native.
I've encountered a bunch of code generation in client-go - I'm not very good at Go, so not sure what the term for the code generation directives in comments is, if there is one.
The varied art in the old sets made the game feel "big" to me, like it was this giant bazaar of oddities that I was sifting through and piecing together in a unique way. Nowadays it feels more like assembling parts in a carefully curated environment. That's not an entirely bad thing, but a lot of the mystique is lost.
Thanks for the correction, and the simulation code!
Ehm, so...

How about a progressive web app? That's what I do for Apple apps.

Sure, it's just a web app but most apps need an internet connection anyway.

I know there are some drawbacks, but you can work around it.
> Fukishima only killed 1 person directly but the evacuation interrupted the medical care of a large number of sick and/or elderly people and ended up killing over a thousand people.

This is the product of highly naive analysis. Out of a population of 300,000 displaced people, ~1,500 died over the span of a month. This is the same as the expected natural death rate assuming a lifespan of 90-100 years. If you dig into the causes of death the overwhelming majority are elderly people and the causes are listed as "fatigue" and "exhaustion". This "study" really just measured the number of people who died of old age, and attributed it to the disaster.
Does anyone adhere to the guidelines? Apple doesn't, and they even have the ability to change them. They're guidelines, which if you look up the definition are not iron-clad rules.
Good to see pseudo science being recognised for what it is.
No updates for WhatsApp??
A: "I live on the second floor."

b^)
There is no trade-off to be had, the industry should not be ageist, end of.
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All of these metrics have subtleties regarding the methodology, which makes the long term relative shifts more important than the absolute values.
`malloc` won't fail, right?
None who doesn't care about it will ever learn it just to become a good developer.

Never seen this.

I learned it out of curiosity.
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The performance of my team's application at Myntra (Bangalore) was badly affected by foreign keys on MySQL and we decided to drop them.

The trick we used was to drop them only in production, not in test environments. In test environments they acted as guardrails to ensure that our application did not break the constraint.

So in a way it gave us best of both worlds
Is that correct? Is there a Mac App Store rule that says “thou shall use WebKit” ?

Do note that the point on macOS is kind of moot because it IS an open platform. Unlike iOS you do not have to use the App Store.
I usually stay in Verdun or Hochelaga... I'm not a stranger to the city.
Can anyone post a paywall-free link to this article? I don't want to pay for Bloomberg. ;)
Ask HN: How do you show your manager that you do not need “handholding”?
I'm SE2.

My manager just told me that sometimes I need handholding (I do disagree, but I didn't tell him that).

95% of the time I do my tasks on my own.... however, sometimes I have to ask questions to the higher-ups on clarifications or just bouncing off ideas...

Being free of handholding can take me to SE3 apparently, and I want to do that as soon as possible.
"Need to come under closer scrutiny" is not based on the exact details of current legal enforcement.
Please write more about the bear.
It’s at its core a case by case decision, I think FK are also a net negative in data ingestion scenari where the data set is big enough.

Trying to make sure everything is where it needs to be at any given time, everything is inserted in the right order and the data is always consistent brings exponential amount of conplexity when it could all be checked at the end and pruned for invalid data. And usually DB integrity will not be enough, you’ll want business level validation that all is OK, so there will be app level checks anyway.
You just need to learn some basics. "I would like" "I feel like" "Where is" "Hello, goodbye, Good day"
The latest “London” mulligan rule is far better than the older rules and only became standard a fee weeks ago. It helps mitigate the mana issue fantastically well.
I don't know how pervasive the act of trying to fit into rules for a Chinese audience is, but the fact that all of cape-movies are made to fit in gave me some tangible reason to say why I find them so empty and lame (and you should to!).

It's also really strange given how much the opposite web content is becoming. With patreon, we're starting to get some seriously fringe content, and the streaming services don't seem to be too afraid of having an opinion either.
Never used them in my personal projects either eventhough I learned about them in school. It just didn’t make sense to me, why would I constrain myself in the database when I could manage all of this in the application logic?

And if you want to experiment with different schema it’s just a nightmare.
> Apple doesn't give a toss if your app is cross platform.

This is an outstandingly silly statement. If I followed your example, that's where I would have stopped reading your comment.

Apple's entire business is built on trying to capture users, keeping them using all and only their computing products. Some aspects of this overall strategy (making beautiful devices that people want) are positive for customers. One of the less positive parts, discouraging cross platform software, is an essential part of the overall strategy.
Eh, we're in legalese grey area here. "Entitlement" is a loaded word.

Personally, I believe that if I am walking down the street and someone is playing The Avengers on a screen, I'm very much entitled to stick around and watch the movie. The internet, to me, is the same thing as walking down that street - public space. Feel free to disagree though - the CCP does. Not to get into politics, but it's fundamentally similar.

If I torrented a movie and then went to resell it in the public market, feel free to pursue legal charges.

If I click a link and the movie downloads onto my computer, look for the person who uploaded it if you want someone to charge. Don't come at me for using the internet.

The internet is a free market, or at least ought to be, if we're discussing what ought to be.
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No MS was sued for much more like forcing third party OEMs not to bundle Netscape and forcing them to pay for Windows for all of their PCs whether or not they shipped with Windows.
Because of missing ethics.

If you read this and you have enough power to influence something like this and don't consider where your money comes from -> fuck you.
I've thought this as well but there is more. You are constantly pulling from memory and examining that input combined with other inputs from other memories that you might not have had in the past resulting in a new memory and input built entirely from past memory.
Nothing you've said contradicts my assertion that consumer demand drives production, which causes emissions.

Nothing that I've said contradicts your point that management and regulation matter.

You're subscribing to an either/or dichotomy which is false. Consumers demand drives emission. The fix is to enforce heavy regulation on the producers which will ultimately result in lower demand through increased cost.

CO2 emissions are only ONE of the environmental challenges we're dealing with. We're resource bound in other ways, and regular ol' pollution of the environment is a huge concern which sometimes run contrary to CO2 emission. Meaning you can have a technology that reduces CO2 emission in production, so you consume more and throw away more. That is good for climate change but still bad for the planet.
Wouldn't you have to implement a DSL and all the parts related to it for that to work? Also things like serialization cost. What if I have a large local in memory structure I want to base my query results off of? Funny enough this is kind of similar to the problem solved by things like apache beam.
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I think Sarah Mei should follow her own advice & stop center herself at every conversation and opportunity.
Here's a scenario of punishing the American dream:

Imagine you're a startup founder who has a high-flying startup. You own 20%. It just got valued at $800,000,000. Now you're worth $160,000,000 ON PAPER. That's awesome. But it's not the same is being rich.

Imagine your salary is $150,000. With the Warren plan you now owe $2,200,000 PER YEAR in taxes from cash you don't actually have. So you now what, sell your company? Try to secondary? Congrats you just got taxed real money on fantasy paper gains that you never realized.
"Updating requires renumbering and is therefore expensive".
Safari is the worst mobile browser. It makes my life difficult every single day.
That may not be enough.

>Asked if there was evidence the database had already faced concerted attacks, scraping, or scanning, Rogers said, “I don’t want to get into it.”

>“Not that I am aware of,” he added. “I don’t know.”

>Rogers declined to comment on whether he’d been approached by national security officials about the site.

Good luck trying to destroy a digital record at this point.

Edit, Referenced: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614642/dna-database-gedma...
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This lives on the assumption (one I often see repeated) that everyone is writing code to the same requirements and implementation details as you. If I'm in a washing machine I;m in total control (or bloody well should be).
I wonder how countries like Norway and Switzerland implement their wealth taxes if this is absolutely impossible. It's true that more countries use an inheritance tax which has a similar effect to a wealth tax.
It's not really a great analogy.

In machine learning the cost function is static and is defined by a smart person working hard to come up with something sensible. In life, the cost function changes constantly and is developed consciously as well as subconsciously. Indeed, the training examples (previous experiences) will influence the dynamically evolving cost function.

Moving along the gradient in a ML framework means that every refinement of the framework will influence cost non-positively, while in life we often act in ways that decrease utility.

Also, to put it bluntly, life is just a lot more complicated than that.
Additionally, at least in Sql Server, trusted foreign keys can give the CBO more, good options because of the guaranteed referential integrity on reads. FKs are killer on larger writes, though.
+11 and thanks for the clarification, that even lessens the issue IMHO.

... my third and fourth cents.

I don't think a lot of folks realize just how rich the ecosystem is for developing a MacOS or iOS application without writing ObjC or Swift. This is really one particular toolkit, that's doing something it's not supposed to, and that's it.

You can write MacOS/iOS apps using C, C++, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, and I'm sure a bunch more each using something _not electron_ and are not having this problem right meow.

The real pain I think for most people using Electron is that they're so far removed from the native SDKs it's scary to not know what the fuck really happened. That's fair, but that's also the price for using an abstraction like Electron. If you're not the one making the API calls, then you're opening yourself up to that potential issue and it's going to be scary until you understand it.

Personally, I don't think I'm smart enough to understand that many layers of abstraction even if I wanted to; so, I don't use them and just write native code.

Edit: Added MacOS or iOS for clarification since my point is the same for both.
Growing up in the suburbs south of Seattle, I got to visit the Wizards of the Coast headquarters once or twice. As a 14 year old, I approached Richard Garfield one day and asked him if he wanted to play. We played two or three games, I recall I won two. He signed one of my cards and continued playing other folks.

For a 14 year old me this was a pretty big deal. Thank you Richard for doing that!
To be clear, I'm referring to the (in my circles) usual parlance of not "pure" CQRS, which is as you describe and could entirely be in a OOP "Model" layer, but what usually goes with it - things like event sourcing for auditing, cached read services (eventual consistency), etc. Should've been more specific but was just pattering off the first big complexity thing that came into my mind.
Mostly exists to protect iOS users from all the security issues that browsers always seem to have.

Not that Safari doesn't have security problems, but Apple trusts themselves a lot more than the other companies for security.
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> What is it with old automatically equalling bad?

That's not what was said. What was said that it's old and that it hasn't benefited from decades of research on languages and the way programmers are most productive.
I just want to tack on that most entry level positions these days seem to "require" one-two years experience. These are the jobs that, as an entry level dev, you should be applying for anyways. 1-2 years is idyllic
Hurm, wouldn’t you be able to train equally quick to handle the trauma? Also, while trauma is tragic, everyone who faces something bad should face it fully. If you walk away from ashes you will never find the gold, to quote Neitzche essence! The last part was not as support to my claim or some fallacy, was just to speak on the human condition and suffering, which you eluded to in your post.

I agree that quick learning is not always beneficial, regulation is always important. Actually regulation is necessary so out right bans are not induced. However, furthermore we should not stop development due to fears. There will always be fear. You cannot understand the truth or reality until you are in it. Hopefully with the development of technologies like BCI there will not only be a better understanding of the human condition but of statistical inference. The combination of both being better can lead to safeguards against the consequences aforementioned. And if at the end of the day the technology is deemed as dangerous, even though the cat cannot be put back in the box, at least the benefits will exist. No technology exists without equal benefit and harm, the spread of both is the main point of concern. Or rather the disparity creates and the widening of gaps is of concern. There is always a cost benefit analysis for any dev.
I seriously doubt the 350K/month number
Are you sure? I have Chrome on my iPad.
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Then it is not a Mac app.

Which is fine, but if I'm looking for an application in the app store (as opposed to looking for some service on the web), I want a Mac application, not a web app.

One hint: if I'm looking for a Mac app, there's a good chance one of my requirements is controlling the data the app generates.
Your "bait and switch" is the author's whole point: that we intuitively understand the safety criticality of embedded infrastructure components, and have expectations about how they're designed, implemented, and maintained, but don't recognize when those expectations are implicitly imputed to commodity software that happens to serve those roles for some users.

If every once in a while a nuclear power plant wound up using an Internet-connected Mac Mini for its control systems, we'd immediately see the problem. But we don't see that problem when browsers and email systems get embedded deep into our political system, thus becoming (perhaps unintentionally) critical infrastructure.
I don't get it. You can deploy apps when you pay both Google and Apple or you can work without a paid subscription if you are just a developer dabbling at home.

The vertical integration is true but that also has been the case with Microsoft products. Google basically doesn't have it's own desktop platform until pretty recently, of course their tools ran on other desktop platforms otherwise they wouldn't have any.

It's nice to install other browsers on Android though. Using Firefox wherever I can.