skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>PayPal is a private company and can choose not to process payments for anyone, for any reason. The Fed/ACH doesn't have the same issues because they are a service in the public interest. They will process payments for anything legal for 1/10th of a cent each over the span of a couple of business days. By the end of the year, instantly, via RTP.

Sure, PayPal is a private company and can do what they want. That doesn't mean they don't censor individuals. You said nobody ever got censored except for illegal deeds so I pointed out how that is wrong.

Also, can an ordinary guy open a bank account at the federal reserve? I don't believe so so your point is moot.

>Luckily being a public institution remediation exists through the courts.

How about why the hell should we allow this kind of behavior in the first place? You shouldn't need millions in legal fees to participate freely in the economy. Most people couldn't even pay that.

>Take it up with your government. That's how government works. You don't like it, change it, don't circumvent it.

Why? If the policy is not moral there is no good reason to follow it. Civil disobedience. Besides, you see this changing any time soon?

>No, they're expected to overturn the government. Freedom isn't free, and all that.

Oh great. Who will pay for that?

>In fact, I'd be more worried about transacting on the indelible public (pseudonymous) blockchain than transacting in say, cash, if I didn't want the government to know what I was doing. You don't think the PRC would build automatic deanonymization tooling?

Luckily there is Monero which provides actual privacy.
> I don't know the author...

Hmm. C.S. Lewis is perhaps the most influential Christian thinker of the last century. If not, he's second to Francis Schaeffer. You wouldn't think much of a Christian who didn't know who Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris were.

> but anyone advocating for a God or a religion is a person with an agenda

Perhaps so. So is a person advocating for atheism a person with an agenda. So where does that leave you?

As C.S. Lewis said in reply to a different atheist: "That is why the motive game is so uninteresting. I decline the game and continue the conversation."

So: You claim that God - any God - does not exist. What is your basis for claiming this? It sounds like your basis is science. Is that correct?
False equivalency. Changing private APIs without warning is not the same as actively breaking clients.

You know all the talk about Google or Facebook or Comcast both owning the platform and competing on the content layer with self-dealing is anti-competitive monopolistic behavior? Same goes for Microsoft Windows in the 1990s (actually litigated these very issues) and Apple today.
This sounds like an implementation specific detail (no doubt for mysql) that for all you know has been fixed in later versions but gets passed around as if it is a permeant truth that applies to all database servers.
I'm definitely going to review your work. You/it seem/s pleasingly enthusiast and just brilliant!

The names you mention, from Haskell to Rust passing by Julia... if Go indeed "is the right balance"... well it really makes sense based on what Pike, Ken, Russ and others said/say, and my related parts in my 20+ years of general computer nerding.

(currently listening to your YouTube talk and loving it)
Please read the century article it comes from! It is so beautifully written and really gives a sense of the future vision of the times:
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1895-04-00.htm
> Unfortunately, the Electron ecosystem is too big to dismiss - there's a lot of software using it that could potentially pull customers away from Apple's App Store if they weren't allowed back-in.*

Spotify and co will care more of getting into that 30% of the mobile market (and the more lucrative 30% at that) by doing whatever they can, than Apple would worry about them leaving because no Electron is allowed...
I think editing the comment brought undue attention to it... in the end, a politely worded response as a comment would have probably worked out better.
It's important to recognize that the ethical concerns with the current administration go far beyond the scope of simple politics. That's the fundamental issue at stake here. Are we willing to hold the line on ethics, while our political system is in turmoil. The political sphere may be willing to look the other way, but that does not mean our private intellectual organizations have to follow suit.
Why do you think that’s age-related? Are you sure it wasn’t caused by you changing your exercise or coffee consumption habits?
No; unfortunately, this isn't cherry-picked. Unlike with the accused this topic is referring to, Sarah Mei has lots of history you can scroll through. Another incident involved her attacking an author regarding a book on 'software craftsmanship' because - she claimed - the word 'craftsman' was definitionally sexist.

https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/990265064866308096
Apple’s decisions on this issue are entirely consistent with their business model as a hardware company. Allowing private APIs to be used liberally causes those to be de facto public APIs. When those APIs are very low level, they enable companies like Google to build frameworks that bypass Apple’s own.

In the long run, if nobody uses Apple’s APIs and everyone prefers cross platform ones, then they lose exclusive apps and Apple hardware becomes an overpriced commodity.

It’s the same business model as Nintendo, just with more expensive hardware and cheaper software. Really, none of the game console makers want all of their software to be cross platform. Exclusives are what sell consoles.
In the world where nothing matters, would be no heroes.
Really great performance, buttery-smooth. Excellent job!

Looking at the 6502, I've got to wonder if today's most powerful Place 'n Route tools could make any significant improvement to it.
Rechargable alkalines have also been around for several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_alkaline_battery
50% is not good enough.
People already associate progressivism, socialism and liberalism with Marxist and Stalinist ideals and a desire for authoritarian violence, and do occasionally throw in Antifa to demonstrate how the leftists are the "real Nazis." So it's apparently already "fine."

I tried to find out what Bernie Sanders' "association with Antifa" was, and I couldn't find anything that would indicate that he supports the group, or that his supporters do by a particularly wide margin. But yes, if the same shoe was on the other foot, obviously that would happen.
Is the activity wrapped in a transaction?

If so if worker crashes you get a connection timeout on postgresql and it rolls back the transaction and releases row locks - then next select SKIP picks it up.

If you want fast response with safety listen and on restart do a poll always to pick up anything that's ready that you might have missed a pub for. If you want lots of coverage do a poll every 10s - postgresql can handle it, you still get immediate response by listening to notify.

If you need fancier approaches you can do a last_updated time on the job and or watch waiting on pg_stat_activity or similar etc - but all totally overkill I think - the simple approach get's pretty far (not an expert though at all).
this just sounds like eventual consistency which can form part of a perfectly optimal design
Where is the price sheet for the SPIs Electron is using?
If you ain't testing against the full system state, then I'd be hard-pressed to call that "integration testing".

If you're generating the test data from scratch, then it shouldn't be hard to generate the dependent data while you're at it. If you're testing against (anonymized) production data, then it shouldn't be hard to pull the dependent data while you're at it. In either case, you should be validating the integrity of those data relationships as part of the test criteria.
Centre for Investigative Journalism (UK) does workshops to teach these concepts, they welcome volunteers to sign up and share tech knowledge. The conferences are always extremely interesting, too. Well worth attending.

https://tcij.org/
Flexget, flexget.com, can help with the ability to download your IMDB watchlist.
So are you asserting that the following products are all built on top of a "toy" database, and their engineers have no idea what they're doing:

Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Pinterest, Slack, GitHub, Etsy, Yelp, LinkedIn, Shopify, Dropbox, Wordpress, Wix, Tumblr, Square, Uber, Booking.com, Box, Venmo, SendGrid, Okta, SurveyMonkey, WePay, Alibaba, SoundCloud, among countless others...

An alternative view is that your statements are incorrect. Do you have much direct experience with high-volume OLTP database workloads, or are you basing your views of MySQL on something else?
They're putting their apps out for the money, not for some principle.

If they need to drop Electron to get into the more lucrative 30% of the mobile market, iOS users, they'll do it as fast as they can...
It's very easy to write JS in a functional style, since as you point out, it already supports first-class functions, which is the most important building block.

To really go whole hog, try setting one constraint for yourself: only use immutable data. Make all your variables `const`s, and only use immutable data structures (Immutable.js is a useful library for this).

You'll discover that it's basically impossible to write code in the familiar imperative style – everything needs to be a pure function, that just takes an input and returns a consistent output, without mutating state. This really is the "secret sauce" of FP.
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The OP is literally about Apple locking down a Mac API.
Wearing a MAGA hat is arguably a CoC violation in and of itself. The entire purpose is to offend.
Demonstrating a lack of ethical values in personal life seems like a good measuring stick to whether one might demonstrate ethical values in a professional setting. But more importantly, how can participants interact with any event or process of an organization if they cannot trust those involved?
It's my belief that everyone except the incredibly naive know that the "rideshare economy" by these companies in the u.s. are just an excuse to buying themselves time until they can smooth out fully autonomous l4-5 driving.

Cars are incredibly cheap compared to human labor and the investors subsidizing each of our rides know fully well that if they don't do so at the moment, people will complain enough and through mutual shared pain figure out effective ways of transportation which will make the costs of developing fully autonomous solutions way higher and increase the risk of people not adopting it when its actually available.

Because inertia and human conditioning.

This does not solve the core issue of inefficient implementation of public transportation, poor planning and bad road design.

As a developed nation, the u.s. has absolutely terrible infrastructure seconded only by its terrible healthcare situation.

However, my thoughts are that when I no longer have to drive myself through bumper to bumper traffic, caused by a few frustrated and short sighted drivers zig zagging during rush hour slowing everyone else down, an hour each way to work, I probably won't mind the effects of poor infrastructure, and neither would others. It would probably be the same as riding in a train to us.

That way I'm not losing hours of time a day doing something I absolutely dislike and abhor instead choosing to use that time productively for myself.

(I don't want to comment on whether remote working will alleviate this for this particular article.)

This is probably what Uber, Lyft, Google and their investors are betting on?
This gets it all wrong. Ethics and religion are not emergent properties in a universe devoid of humans, sure. But we don’t exist in a universe devoid of humans. They’re emergent social patterns of interaction.

Societies trial & error for working together at scale.

I’d prefer we develop such rules based upon scientific measure of what makes us human versus the top down pressure of traditional social organization structures (religion).

What “matters” isn’t a literal idea. More broadly phrased it might be “what behaviors should social rules oblige us to.”

Toiling on profiteering of the moneyed is not ethical in that it obliges me to focus on outputting paid speech or else go hungry.

Ethics and religion are emergent properties of human conscious measure of our localized reality. They don’t exist in a vacuum, but they do exist in physics as emergent properties of us.

The navel gazing grunge era woe is me crap is grating. Just because smart people (more common people we’re conditioned to agree with) haven’t pinpointed how we should look at/interpret the literal measures of physical reality (physics) to find meaning doesn’t mean life is meaningless.

In fact we’re still the only evolved version we know of. It’s a pretty unique position.
Ptolemaic cosmology was hardly a bad idea. It was the simplest model that fit the available evidence for a long time. The Heliocentric model didn't really make sense until Newton's theory of gravitation was developed.

https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...
At the extreme, there are some jobs that are 75% (or whatever) travel to customer sites. Not my thing--though I travel quite a bit. But it's silly to suggest that such jobs shouldn't exist. Just don't take them if they aren't for you.

For distributed work, I actually think it's really important to budget and plan for F2F events. Again, if you prefer more of a 9-5 5 days limited travel job, maybe don't do that.
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The entitlement idea comes from the fact that bundling undermines market mechanisms and is sometimes illegal. Consumers are not entitled to free products, but nor are vendors entitled to unlimited discretion in the way they sell their products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
I don't live in Saudi Arabia, or China, or Russia... I live in the USA. Not that I dismiss what the US has done, I'd say the scope and scale aren't quite the same a lot of the time.

In this case it's about preserving values from undue foreign influence. Preserving values from undue domestic influence is a bit easier inside the USA.
Sorry to hear it!
What your parent is suggesting is to make those private APIs public, or at least make a public replacement. It's not calling into question the ban, but instead saying that there's a hole in the public API Apple provide and that they should bring in new public APIs to fix that hole. The last time this came up I asked why those APIs were being used, and was sent two interesting links by users skymt and Humphrey, explaining why both Chrome and Firefox use those private APIs:

- Chrome explanation: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/chromiu...

- Firefox explanation: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

Windows has public APIs for doing those things. It's pretty clear that there's a need for them. Apple should absolutely design a stable solution for those, since there's a clear demand.
>The fact that Mill wrote those words 200 years ago does not mean they are incorrect

It also does not mean they are correct or meaningful, at least not in every case they are applied or quoted...
How does Go solves your EF issue? Or, what would you use to write that app today in Go?
If I assert "there is no law", obviously I am unaware of any research demonstrating such a law.
Well, Mr. BuzzKillington(!), I’d disagree. I’d argue that fast thought to code ratio would give you wings! Surely you’ll type bugs in faster (valid point) but you’ll fix those also as fast! Overall development progress is incomparable.
> I don't know the author, but anyone advocating for a God or a religion is a person 1. with an agenda and 2. can has no scientific basis for his thesis.

There is no scientific basis for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem either. That doesn't mean it it false.

> God, the one in Quran or Bible, doesn't exist. It's as simple as that.

Aristotle would disagree:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

See also Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, and Leibniz, not of whom make reference to the any kind of Sacred Scripture

* https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...
Because US position is to use the least costly sources of oil first, and that this should also lean towards using up the oil in foreign countries ahead of our own, so we run out last.

I'm not saying I support this position, only that it seems to be what it is.
Is there an easy way to learn MtG online, without buying cards?
> Too little (PHP, JavaScript) is suboptimal, and too much (Scala, Haskell, Rust) is also suboptimal.

I find myself thinking the exact opposite. When you want to do something quick and dirty JavaScript or Ruby are my go to. When you want to do something right, do it in Haskell or Rust.

The middle of the road options I find are worse for anything.

Unless you want to hire big teams. Java, C#, Go are great for that.
The problem is I don't know your company when I buy direct from you.

I bought direct from an Instagram ad. Turns out they wanted me to wait for their next shipment despite saying "in-stock" - 2-3 months. When I said refund me they said no wait, we DO have it in stock! That is shady.

All this took lots of back and forth. I couldn't just cancel without talking to them, I had to figure out their system for submitting requests etc.

Amazon sells predictability in part. Their business accounts let me ad a GL code to my order and ties into a statement that can be paid by check within 30 days through an AP system on our side (also electronic).

I don't drink coffee but I imagine Starbucks does the same otherwise why would everyone go there?

Amazon's big risk is their marketplace and the crap in there. They should clamp down HARD there. That is getting us to consider moving business purchases elsewhere.
I get it, but it’s not a very constructive way to point out their mistake, and it seems like a good way to incite a flame war. Everything else about your comment struck me as really thoughtful.
The "Photos" app in Windows. Thankfully the old Windows Image Viewer is still there, just need a registry hack to enable it back.
You're reinforcing the point that the linked article was poorly researched and written.
>Try actually understanding your designated opponents, instead of slapping nasty labels on them.

I do understand my opponents - they won't shut up about themselves. The labels I ascribe to them are reasonable extrapolations of the rhetoric they use when they express their contempt for liberals, progressives, feminists, "city dwellers," immigrants, and anyone to the left of themselves, or with whom they disagree.

If such people are a minority, then they are a very vocal and, apparently, very influential minority. And if their views don't represent yours, then I would humbly suggest that you may be the one who doesn't understand your allies.

>We did NOT "choose to embrace a racial narrative", it was imputed on us and we don't know how to fight it effectively (a la "I don't believe X!" "well, that's surefire proof that you believe X!").

You seem to be implying that narrative was imputed from the outside, but it wasn't. It's a narrative that the extremists who took the party over from within embraced and a banner they proudly waved in everyone's faces.

It wasn't fought against because a house divided against itself cannot stand, and it was embraced because the narrative of the "alienated, disenfranchised white male" at the center of the victim mentality driving right-wing populism was so effective as a galvanizing force that its true white supremacist roots didn't even register, or didn't even matter, to a lot of people.
How exactly is modern civilization too successful? More than 500,000 people are homeless in the US alone.

You live in a bubble.
Dunno why you are getting downvoted. MySQL is such a poor database that is always leads to hacks. The people who use MySQL almost always get burnt by something and figure all DBs are like that. Then people who have never worked with non-toy databases assume all databases are like MySQL and dismiss the whole field, which is a complete shame.

The fact is, a real database system like PostgreSQL is one of the coolest, most underutilized tools developers have in your toolbox. Good databases can do so much cool shit to help you. It is amazing how well a good database system can take your weird crazy query and return something in mere milliseconds.
You can do that with any word. I mean, I might define "up and down" differently than you. You might think they have to do with gravity, the orientation of the head and eyes, or the center of the earth. But most of the time, we agree on what they mean because we aren't in outer space or hanging upside down while using them in conversation. We can adapt to situations like a piece of paper on a horizontal table, where "up" has more to do with how it might fall into our visual field.

But the words aren't meaningless just because we might disagree on some edge or corner cases.

The thing is, lots of people use words all the time without getting analytical about it. My daughter is 5 and knows what right vs. wrong is, but I doubt she could explain it to anyone without it just being circular.

When people use the words "right" and "wrong" (and all the related words such as good and bad and moral and immoral), most of the time they all pretty much agree with what it is. Stealing is wrong, cheating is wrong, killing is wrong. Helping someone who is hurt is right.

You can come up with scenarios where there are ambiguities, sure, just like with up and down, but most people agree on the basic ones.
Or even a more broad software development community that strives for fairness and well-thought guidelines instead of the current ones.
Ah yes, this comment. Whenever a story pops up here about a media company having the temerity to try and get people to pay for their product, I count the seconds until someone's inb4 with some pithy response invoking BitTorrent, the immorality of paywalls and DRM, and the supposed right that we all enjoy to freely consume content that costs billions of dollars to create. Love it.

Came here expecting to find it, was not disappointed. In some sense, anyways.
No DELETEs - it's banking!

But seriously, there are a host of issues one must overcome for this plan to work. And there were indeed managed permissions for DELETE. But ultimately, I wasn't aware of much of the implementation detail ...
My favorite is "Ach! Hans, Run! It's the Lhurgoyf!" - Saffi Eriksdotter, last words.

Just a fun, stupid and memorable flavor text.

But there is more:

- They made an Unhinged card out of it (Ach! Hans, Run!)

- It is referenced in an other card with a similar ability (Revenant). "Not again." -Hans

- Saffi Eriksdotter is a creature from the "time spiral" block. Many cards of this block are "parallel universe" version of older cards. And indeed, here, Saffi Eriksdotter manages to run away.
> but they chose to fork WebKit into Blink, in part _because_ they didn’t want to share the work they were doing

I believe that statement is false. As I understand it, from @tomalsky, Google simply had a different (superior) design for making WebKit multi-process, and Apple did NOT want to take those changes upstream into WebKit. So if Google wanted to use the better design, they had to fork.