skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great if you have something worth yearning for.

"Teach them to crave fast data insight from the their analytics software for marketing campaigns" lacks the same sense of romance or moral imperative.

I'll acknowledge that's a bit tongue in cheek and not being charitable to the underlying point as it applies to day to day work, but I also think that this snark often applies to the "missions" that some/many Silicon Valley startups proclaim for enterprisey, salesey products, because I think those missions are a form of self-delusion about how much good you're really doing for society, as opposed to just making money because there's value to be captured.
OK, so I signed up for it.

Minimum salary where I live is about 400usd/mo, and it's asking me for 12usd/mo. I predict not that many people from my country will join any time soon.
Why do you say that? :(
Judges are elected and can be recalled in many states. Their stances and rules are usually public, too.

Why would someones proprietary codebase be more accessible than public court documents?
> Twelve months postoperatively, 5.0% of PRK and 0.8% of LASIK participants developed chronic dry eye.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796443
> ... the other is people ordering the real thing, repackaging it with fake from aliexpress and returning for full refund.

Can't you do this to a retailer?

> More enterprising folks sign up as Amazon supplier, register for some expensive products, ship real thing once or twice and then start throwing more and more fakes into their shipments, all nicely co-mingled by Amazon

Seems like a fast track to getting your account suspended. Why compromise a profitable business to basically skim off the top?
So "just following orders"?
The point is it's a new way of looking at arguments (in this toy example). In Latin, the order of the nouns typically does not matter. Their role in the statement is unambiguously determined by their declension.

So if you wrote a library with the verb "bite", you wouldn't specify that the first bites the second, or the first was bitten by the second. Those are ambiguous, because they're you're choice as a developer. Rather, you'd specify that the noun in the subject case bites the noun in the object case. That's unambigious in all declined languages.

So, as a reader of someone else's code, I can see immediately that `bite(boy-um, dog)` -- in my fake Latin where "um" denotes the object (cf. "Puer - Puerum") -- that the boy was bitten by the dog. I don't need to look up any documentation or look at how the variables are named in a third-party library.

Again, of course this case is a toy example. The article is more in-depth.
I'm excited for names.sr.ht! Relatedly, a long time ago on an early lobste.rs post [1] about sourcehut, it was mentioned that it'd be sweet to point one's own domain at sourcehut to be able to host your stuff under your own domain. It'd be extra cool if this worked with mailing lists too. Drew, any chances something like this might come along with names.sr.ht?

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/z0sqez/sr_ht_sircmpwn_s_github_alternati...
It has been well-documented that kids generally pick up languages much faster than adults.
TL;DR; you can construct a logical computer, that uses +inf and nan (because it is fun?) as true/false and some combination of floating point operations on these as NAND gate.

Then he proceeds to implement it in hardware.
https://github.com/Barski-lab/cwl-airflow
If they want to lose market share.
SourceHut is a really inspiring project.
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No it is not. Why would you socialize a problem by requiring the government to spend taxpayer resources and slowing down shipping with inspections in a stream of hundreds of millions of packages?

It would be much easier to empower states to enforce existing concepts like the warranty of merchantability in interstate settings or have a regulatory framework that would allow predatory platforms like Amazon to be held accountable for their behavior.
The problem with all solutions to facebook (and this one) is getting a critical mass to join them. People use Facebook because _everyone_ is on facebook.

I don't need to think "Is my cousins boyfriend on Facebook?" you just know they are.

Without that assurance, you'll end up with two invites for a function, and that is more work for little gain.
If his point is that you should dogmatically reduce long functions into a bunch of small functions, I think he is completely wrong. If his point is that when the clearest way to implement some functionality is with a single long function and not several small ones, and that that is likely indicative of poorly architected code and/or data models, I probably agree with him.

Iff you have some poorly architected code that results in you writing a 500 line function, breaking that poorly architected code down into 20 small functions will only make things worse. However it might be that you could re-architect the code and data models in such a way that functions don't need to be large to be clear then that is probably a good thing.

So please don't go breaking a long function into a bunch of smaller ones, where your small functions' names are effectively code comments, but if you can, rearchitect the code so that a set of smaller functions can accomplish the same task in a more clear way, I am all for it.
If you don't like those risks then don't undergo it but for other people will find the risks acceptable and want to have it done. Being approved doesn't mean it is forced on anyone.
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Harry Q. Bovik would likely weep tears of both pride and joy for everything Tom7 has ever done
I suppose it depends on when this all kicks in. In my case, in kindergarden I was tested into 11th grade; in response I was placed into 1st grade. Which was fine, honestly, I spent a lot of time drawing and so forth, but things got really unpleasant and pointless in 7th grade, so I dropped out, and dropped into college. I'm reading a lot of people complaining about the damage to one's social prospects, and surprisingly few calling out what I experienced: school was minimally useful, the social environment was pretty toxic, and in my case, the teacher was tyrannical.

University was so much better! For highly motivated and gifted students, early university can be a great option. It is important to place it on a larger arc of one's own journey of learning, development, and self discovery, however, that must continue for as long as one keeps growing.

As an important aside, girls and boys have approximately equal interests in science math and technology earlier on; for girls this changes pretty severely in middle school and high school. I'm sure there a very large social component to this, parents would do well to inoculate against it by finding alternative environments, and university is certainly one.
People pay lots of money to join real world social networks, like country clubs, so I think something like paid online social networks will evolve.
Yes, I can understand that.

But Facebook's model, for instance, also prices people out. I am entirely unwilling to use Facebook because I consider it far too expensive. True, I'm paying with data rather than cash, but it's still paying. From my point of view, $12.99/mo is actually cheaper (assuming that paying that means I'm not going to be datamined).
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100% agree. $12/month and you have to convince all of your friends to also shell out $12/month? Dead on arrival.
Honestly, this is because the organization of the Python 3 docs is terrible.

The documentation for str.replace is located halfway down an enormous page that describes every single built-in type in the language [1].

And then, once you manage to find the entry for str.replace, what does it tell you?

Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

That's it. No examples, no link to re.sub or other functions you might want to use for replacement. Stack Overflow or even W3Schools (gasp!) is much better results for this.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html
Yeah, my parents are totally going to do that.
I don't agree with your assertion that "the demise of news kingdoms happened when it became impossible for us to ignore what we were getting for our money," and I haven't seen any literature which would back up the argument that people suddenly woke and realized "we ain't paying for this shit anymore." There is, however, plenty of literature showing that with the advent of the internet the shortfall in print advertising was not made up for by online advertising.

The "diet of crap" that you bemoan has always existed to a certain extent because of economics. More people want to read about celebrity gossip or sports than the CJR. The internet has simply exacerbated this issue because the online advertising model rewards eyeballs and clicks, and what you would call "crap" content generates more of them.
Or perhaps smart enough to know how it could be seen to say so.
I think what the parent comment meant is it can be recursive. If you update one row, a lot of these recursively small minors of minors won't change, and you probably can do the computation quicker.

I haven't fully worked out the math yet as well.
From WT:Social's website

> We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.

But what constitutes a bad actor?
> Exactly how certain are you of this?

This is my job. I design consumer electronics that ship in volumes larger than the raspberry pi. You've probably used something I've designed before. The backseat engineering by software devs in these threads is annoying and presumptuous. The pi designers aren't incompetent, they've probably rolled up dozens of feature BOMs to find what they can afford to ship.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was 50c instead of 1$, but _nothing_ is 5-10c, so you're off by an order of magnitude. Even a single transistor in a package is a few cents. Additionally, if they add the IC they still need a connector, and those are some of the more expensive components in a device like the pi, probably 25c-1$ depending on quality.

> I can buy that chip that also happens to come with a PCB...

You're right that the economics don't seem to make sense, but you made several mistaken assumptions:

1) The price of that device is _almost entirely_ driven by the cost of the IC. Those designs have almost no supporting electronics, and the PCB itself will be 10-20c.

2) You're overestimating the margins. It's probably not delivered to the retailer for 2$, closer to 3$. Generic electronics are not high margin.

3) In cheap, commodity devices the manufacturer can use grey-market ICs, but the pi designers can't get away with that. That easily doubles the IC price.
Walmart partners with their suppliers because they have a direct liability for selling dangerous or counterfeit goods. Amazon's lawyers try their best to shift all liability from themselves to their suppliers.

If I buy a product from Walmart that is faulty and injures me, liability falls on Walmart.
At no point did I claim it's new behavior. It's just getting old.
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Right now you have chronic eye problems, in the form of a lack of focusing ability. When I underwent LASIK, I knew my eyes weren't perfect before it, and that they wouldn't be perfect afterward, either.

The problem was never the surgery, it was the hype. I've regressed about 1 diopter over 15+ years, but that's better than being at 6 diopters and being almost unable to function without glasses.

In any event, taking away informed choice isn't what I want my taxes to pay the FDA to do.
"What we need is a cloud platform that allows people to deploy code to computers on their home network, or any cloud, or any data center"

Ease of deployment is one thing, but managing and troubleshooting these deployments is another. Ordinary people generally don't want to do any of these things.

There are some people who have both the technical aptitude and desire to do these things, but they'll likely always be a small minority. An even smaller minority will be willing to do these things long-term without getting paid.
I agree with you on the Amazon Prime membership triggering impulse purchases, stickiness with the one day or two day deliveries and of course, shipping built into the products' prices. But Amazon Prime video here (in India) has a lot of local content and gets many new movies quickly onto it. My assessment is that Prime Video is probably a bigger attraction for people here (perhaps with Prime Music) than two day shipping alone (which is not very widely available on many products).
It might very well be "just drops", but it seems knowledge of management of dry eyes is not so widespread

See this https://www.reddit.com/r/lasik/comments/cfxewr/how_to_fix_dr...
It illuminates how small the achievement of a bachelors degree is.
Eloquent Javascript is a really good introduction to programming in it's own right, as well as being a great Javascript book. You can read it for free online and I highly recommend it. https://eloquentjavascript.net/
It's easy to poke fun but this seems like a 100% reasonable response when the alternative is changing the entire schedule of the entire team based on the feedback of a single person. And it doesn't seem like any one person should be attending all of these meetings (agreed it's definitely too many though).
Thank you so much. We use cypress-image-snapshot at work and I've been running into this problem for two days. I thought it was a problem with the plugin, not Cypress itself. What a coincidence that I came across this in an HN comment :)
Possibly!
Well they generally aren't responsible for the strategic decisions of the company.

But nobody said they are somehow immune from doing bad things. So nice strawman.
That's quite a manifesto you just wrote here, but

1. It won't happen.

2. More importantly: imagine it happens. Who would actually make a switch?

I mean, really, who chooses to use FB, because he likes FB? I don't think I know a single example. For the last year or so it even (finally!) became trendy among non-techy people to hate FB, but so what? People stay because their social circles stay. In fact, it's been quite a while since I don't actually feel pressured to use FB by induviduals, but rather the stuff like climbing club using FB as a platform to announce events and gather groups to go camping and stuff.

WT:Social might become of use as a very niche social network for news, but no way it can be seriously viewed as FB's rival. And even if they could, they are fighting for the yesterday's market, meanwhile Facebook builds the future, where their helpless users will willingly spend their lives in Oculus helmets socializing with their FB "friends" on VR beaches. Or whatever.
> Americans struggle with the most basic of math skills,” NCES Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement. “We need to better equip Americans with the numeracy skills that they need for success, starting in middle and high school.”

I can resonate with this. After starting sken projects that were going to require more CS knowledge than I have, I found in a rabbit hole completely ignorant of most things. Even simple things like doing division by hand and multivariable equations? I had completely forgotten hownto do. I was never particularly fond of math in school. Not sure why tbh, whenever I would get stuck on something the teacher was unable to explain things in a way I couldnt understand. I dont think I was stupid, hell throughout middle and high school I started programming andn hacking stuff, often finding ways out of classes to go do that instead. But by the time I was in HS, I found myself ending up in pre-calculus and calculus classes (ended up picking thats over stays because colleges would prefer it for any engineering discipline). And do to a mix of teachers who would generally pass anyone + technology ready available for me to plug in the problem in. I was constantly digesting articles that claimed this stuff would never be of use to me, that traditional education was useless for programmers and that of could slap together CRUD apps would be hired for six figures easily. I ended up deciding I wasnt going to bother with college as it was useless (in retrospect theres a lot of mixed truth to all that and I really wish I had gone to school)

And of course fast forward and I dont hardly remember simple algebra, and could flat out tell you nothing about trig, or calc. It sucks, but I dont have time to relearn all that now.
I love the idea of an alternate social network, and I'm fine with the idea of charging users. But in an era where free alternatives are bountiful (even if most of them are "free as in puppy"), where a full paid blog hosting service like Micro.blog -- which includes a social network timeline built on IndieWeb principles -- is only $5 a month, where "subscription fatigue" is entering the lexicon... this is just a bonkers amount of money to ask.

If I were serious about building some kind of social network at this point and thought it would need a revenue stream to be sustainable, I'd try to:

- find not just a niche but functionality that differentiates it from existing services in some way (if your service can be described as "Facebook for X," you've already lost, because the Facebook for all values of X already exists and is called "Facebook")

- build on open protocols, IndieWeb style (including ActivityPub, although the first point suggests the service better not be "Mastodon for X," either)

- if it makes sense, have a free tier that gives people some clue what they're signing up for, although not so much that it discourages them from actually, you know, signing up

- charge a low enough rate that signing up doesn't feel like a huge commitment: say, $2 a month or $16 a year

I'm surprised nobody has tried the low-cost route yet. Yes, I get it, those rates aren't going to be bringing you VC money and bazillion-dollar unicorn growth, but a relatively small number of paying users could create a sustainable, even profitable, small business for a few employees.
I feel like this is an intricate argument.

Why are german soldiers held in a negative light even though the war decisions were by its commanders?
Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws.

The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-ice-raids-koc...
Ok but what about contacts?
This very site is a specialized social network...

Reddit is a big social network with many specialized groups.

The (sparse) descriptions of wt.social sound more like a variant of Reddit than anything else.

But the presentation is horrible.
I was going to say the same thing, submarine duty is highly competitive. Every sailor I knew who wanted to get it had to work very hard and was very excited when they did.
The sad reality is that cognitive decline over age is more likely than not.
I have prebuilt a set of habits that I hope will serve me for when I need to rely on them to get me through the day.
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Suppose someone still had a box or two of old Amiga floppies but no old hardware - what is the easiest way in 2019 to turn them into .adfs?
"I don't even have a TV!"

Watches TV on Phone/Tablet/Laptop
It's absolutely amazing to me that people can pay nothing for something and frame the party providing that software for free opting not to spend even more effort to provide bug fixes for an old version of their software as them effectively taxing them. This is especially true of python 2 which is was supported from the release of python 3 in 2008 until 2020 and further supported by red hat until 2024.

This is exactly backwards of reality. It's as if they were eating at someones home and had turned a cup off coffee into a week long stay during which they rudely complained when the host asked them to please do something about their pile of dishes, trash, laundry, and leavings.

Nobody is after all taking away your version of python 2 or ability to use and maintain it. It takes active effort to keep fixing bugs in software that may be network facing. If you want to do that maintenance you can of course but people it seems aren't going to be doing this for python 2 forever. If you disagree either take up the reigns or pool your funds to pay someone to do it.

The thing to do back in 2008 was to figure out when you wanted to switch and schedule a bit of time to learn python 3. Anyone who did this by oh 2009 or 2010 would have virtually no work to do now. Any work that has been created since based on something you were told 11 years ago was going away is most assuredly work that you have created for yourself and will be obliged to take up.

Anyone who did this in 2014 would have a decade of runway before they can no longer run their python 2 apps on rhel/centos. Anyone who switches TODAY 11 years late to the party can run python + redhat for another 4 years.

>completely unnecessary

It would be more work to do otherwise. Nobody wants to do that work. You don't and they don't.
I find Slack to be terrible unless used properly.

Non-developers really don’t understand how bad it is to be interrupted when “in the zone”.

I am way more productive if left to check email/slack of my own accord, when an appropriate time presents itself.

Recently, having become a home worker, I’ve found that meetings are quick & to the point, and it’s anti rely because of the group video element. Makes meetings seems worthwhile and productive.
Ah, I'd agree with that. Calculus/probability/statistics/combinatorics were usually freshman courses at Amherst, and you could often place out of them with APs. Linear algebra was taught proof-based; it and DiffEq were usually sophomore-level courses. The rest of the major was all proof-based.
It’s storage cache they put in your isp so if you and your neighbor watch the same thing, it only goes the first hop from your house to the isp instead of all the way to Netflix, which is much cheaper for the isp. This is a fairly common thing that cdns do
They do disclose the potential conflict in the article and FWIW it's a pretty negative review of Amazon's business.
Wait, what is the basis of ranking that you expect for your site? Is it based on Planck's constant or ???
You can still search for it, but it shouldn't be auto-completing conspiracy theories
Why is there even a wait list at all? This feels sketchy from first use. And to not be up front about the cost before getting my personal information is, I feel, dishonest.

How can he expect to create a platform of honest people if he is dishonest from the point of account creation?

This is not the way to do it.
Apple was undervalued.
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Amazon's active "solution" is customer service to address these problems.

"Oh jeez, you ordered a GoPro and got a "YiGorProHD" knockoff. Here, we'll credit your Amazon account with a gift card or try to resend you the item again. Thanks so much for your patience, I'm so sorry for the error."

Amazon doesn't give a shit about everything being sold on the marketplace. They aren't going to track down who put the rotten egg in the basket. It's cheaper and more effective to just give the customers what they want so they shut up and go away happy to continue buying stuff. Plus, in the returns/refunds area, it's the sellers who pay for those costs, so Amazon has nothing to lose by just being a marketplace and customer service sounding board. It's a win-win for Amazon.
Wow, HN is flooded with geniuses. I'm not surprised.
I've looked into minio, but I think Ceph offers more of the features that I want. I don't just want S3 object storage - filesystem and block device options are both things that Sourcehut would take advantage of from Ceph, too.