skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand, Boris Johnson heavily promoted a bus manufacturer in Northern Ireland (they went so far as to call them Boris Busses). The company eventually went into administration right during the Brexit fight and were laying off 1,500 people. People speculate in an effort to "SEO" this along with some really damaging news where he was alleged to be having an affair with a model and steering contracts her way, Boris gave a completely bizarre response in an interview:

> Speaking on Talk Radio on Tuesday, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May was asked by the interviewer, Ross Kempsell, what he did to relax.

> Johnson replied: “I like to paint. Or I make things. I have a thing where I make models of buses. What I make is, I get old, I don’t know, wooden crates, and I paint them. It’s a box that’s been used to contain two wine bottles, right, and it will have a dividing thing. And I turn it into a bus."

> “So I put passengers – I paint the passengers enjoying themselves on a wonderful bus – low carbon, of the kind that we brought to the streets of London, reducing C02, reducing nitrous oxide, reducing pollution.”

A few more cases have been ID'ed by people on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1169719026060320768
Thing is, for the common scenario of "safe enough for random users to install" we want some barrier of entry. The market where random creations of a ten year old are acceptable isn't the Apple Store, it's something like Roblox environment for user-created content or some other sandbox that is (a) isolated from the rest of the system and (b) makes it clear that it's likely not to meet even the (already low) standards of the generic Store.

For all the major means of distribution the problem isn't not enough apps, the problem is too much garbage - so the direction of improving end-user experience is more filtering of apps and developers, not easier access to distribution.
The whole point of the original tweet was to point potential systemic gender bias in the algorithm. The argument here is that the black box algorithm may produce sexist results whether gender is included or not.

While there may only be anecdotes at this point, there should be some investigation and discussion into whether bias may occur toward particular classes outside of explicit gender checks. Seems like that would be done by comparing the allowed limits with gender, race, etc. and considering why the algorithm may unnecessarily limit those classes on a broad scale.
Check the message id's to see if it is in fact the same email you are seeing again.

Also check any id's in the URL for differences - if there is no difference in the confirmation code, then it's an old email being resent, possibly because some mail server on the route didn't correctly ACK your message.
Nothing absurd about it. Benghazi is an even more egregious example of the phenomenon I mentioned.

The phenomenon is the amount of outrage at what happens to four Americans while at the same time hardly any coverage of the MILLIONS of non-Americans who have to live and face atrocities in the failed state of Libya we helped destroy. That’s the phenomenon, Kashoggi is just another example.
The amateurs will have to start distributing source. I remember back in the day when I was a kid making GameMaker games on Mac in the late 90s, sometimes I would collaborate with other developers and we would just send the source files around which were completely useable, but of course we wanted to distribute executables as if we were legitimate companies, even though our users were typically other kid developers. We had fake company names and stuff, but if we were emulating open source projects instead of cloistered corporations, we could've gotten more done together.

I predict this change will cause kids to embrace open source more and distribute their projects in a way that can be shared and reused.
tbh, it will probably make searching for this laser more difficult.
My own suspicion is that they have access to some raw information that others don't have.

An example of such information would be information gathered from insiders at other corporations or industrial espionage.

It's more likely, in my view, that they've created a world-class industrial espionage outfit than that they've "solved the market" for decades where virtually everyone else has failed.

On the other hand, if they really are cheating, I'm not sure why the US government (who doubtless has penetrated them with their own spies) has let them continue operating for all these years.
I don't think there really is that huge of a problem, but the justification for these special rules seems a bit absurd. If you want to treat retired cops differently and give them special privileges, just say so. Stop positioning as something that retired cops need because of all the criminals out hunting them down.
I had always assumed that these sorts of exceptions can become HR liabilities, especially when the person getting special treatment shares the same title as other peers.
> I hope we can all agree that notarization is pretty valuable to users.

I don't. As a user, I don't need Apple arbitrarily allowing big players' apps through their approval process while they hold smaller developers to a stricter standard. That will stifle innovation.

If security is the touted excuse, macOS already has sandboxd[1] which can be used with arbitrary apps that aren't in the App Store.

Linux solved the security problem with Snaps, Flatpaks and AppImages, which all use various layers of containers, kernel namespaces and isolation to provide a sandboxed environment for apps.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...
let's say you're an open source app, and develop on linux using electron. there are some people that would like to run your app on a mac, but you don't have one. you can set up github CI so that your app gets built into an appimage, that's a little work, but not much. should you now also be required to pay for the luxury of sending one or two people an app? should they pay for it?

this is not hypothetical; I literally just received a GH issue update asking if we can use community funds for the $100 ransom^Wfee.
This is a super stupid question, but in the rendering it looks like the turret only has a ~180 degree turning range. It can't point behind the ship because there's a giant wall behind it. So as the enemy...can't I just shoot the back of the ship?

Obviously the solution here is to put another turret behind the ship, but is that actually the plan or am I missing something? Do missiles always come from the front of the ship for some reason?
The answer needed was "this is better than democracy" and at the very least you could have given an example of a better implementation. Not only you did not, but you gave a "some say" type answer which has absolutely no value. Any thing will be eventually said by "some people".
The big consulting firms provide all of the same services as big law firms and big accounting firms and to some degree the services of big investment firms. The only difference is they operate without any minimum standards of ethics or oversight whatsoever.
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Don't overgeneralize. I don't agree, for instance. I want to run whatever I want in the computer I bought.
> Are you saying that you’re ready to put your name on an app you’ve shipped but never tested yourself?

At work, I do this for in-house command-line tools. I have automated unit tests and integration tests, and all the compilation is done on a CI server. And if a problem slips through automated testing, well, then somebody will ping me on Slack and I'll fix it.

I only need to take out my MacBook Air to debug something once every year or two.

We may actually need to start a conversation at work about whether we want to continue supporting Macs internally. We could notarize our own CLI tools, but we also rely on lots of open source CLI tools, and I understand that all of those will eventually need to be notarized, too.
I find that when pursuing purely personal interests, publicly committing to a deliverable helps me get it done. I say I'm going do something by a given date as a way of putting myself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating.

People's motivation systems vary a lot, but it works for me.
Apparently not but the "fastest girl in the world".
Yeah... you're pretty much proving my point with a fact that is not at all new to me

In areas where people are living on the extremes of society and in poverty (most people in food deserts are from low-income families) they're driven to go against a social norm (not stealing), and that act is enough to drive out stores because of razor thin margins, and they close.

That literally shows LP is not what's keeping stores open, it's the people choosing not to steal.

The only difference affecting shrinkage between the stores that close, and the stores that stay open is the people shopping in them. As soon as the people start to steal, the store can't literally can't afford matching increases in LP to counteract it, and closes.

If even a minor percentage more people decided to steal, many stores would literally not work.
Used Oracle for a long time but have never had the need to do this. Can I ask what your use case is? I can’t imagine one which isn’t solved by a subquery or a built-in Oracle temp table which automatically restricts the contents of the temp table to one transaction, with no need to setup/teardown per execution (as long as you’re using sensible transactions).
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For most people that's probably true. But I definitely know people that are just like that to the point that it's at least sustainable for them. They were absolutely brilliant, but kind of manic at times, and that's just how they worked best. They'd work for like 20 hours straight without eating and then come home, wolf down some food ravenously and sleep for 14 hours. Who am I to judge the schedule they chose?
> However Intel Core Duo was released in January 2006 and it had 2 cores. So in a bit more than 13 years we only have 3x as many cores. Core 2 Quad was released in January 2007, so if you count from that one, a bit more than 12 years for 1.5x as many cores.

https://xkcd.com/605/

If you are going to extrapolate, don't pick the date. Take all the numbers you have and trace the average value. If you are picking the numbers, you can extrapolate to any point you want.

> I wouldn't bet on widespread 64 core CPUs for consumers in the next 10 years or so.

We already have 32-core processors for servers. Imo, the biggest challenge will be the laptop and heat management rather than putting a bunch of processors together.

> We need a software breakthrough, a killer app, something that people really want and that really needs a ton of cores.

We need that now. Most software I'm using is slow. Part of why I picked the iPhone (and I bet many people did) was speed. It is fast. People care about speed and if you introduce them to something faster then they'll get hooked. Also, you are already using all of your cores because of multi-tasking. It makes your computer experience overall better. At 6 cores, multi-threading for an application doesn't give much noticeable experience, since you probably have 5-6 things running on your computer doing other stuff like network or an audio-player.

> For now, I don't see it. But then again, that's how killer apps are, nobody sees them until they're there.

> I hope you're right.

Don't worry, just hang in there. The start of multi-cores was slow but then that's all there is right now. Seems intel/amd have mastered how to add more cores but the CPU frequency is pretty much capped going forward!
Had a similar experience with some people I studied with (full disclosure: i went to one of the top b schools) who ended up going there. I was sitting and having dinner with them about their internship and how they liked the job etc, and they seem to be fascinated with how consultants wore 4k+ suits and had platinum memberships on airlines...
Many people. We had a vote on it in the UK, don't know if you heard about it...
> If you can just avoid dying, you get rich.

Or end up a zombie startup. I'm not buying this stuff. It sounds more like an exploration of what works than a recommendation. Signs of success rather than suggestions for how to succeed.

> keep typing

Telling you about our progress leads to success? I believe you have your cause and effect out of order.

> 90% of those who get into Newsweek would survive.

Source? I see no evidence to support this is the survival factor. Why did those who got into Newsweek get there? It's comorbidity at best.
I guess the idea is not to just "hang in there (but keep doing what you're doing)" but rather "hang in there (while innovating around your problem/change course, etc, until you get it right)".
They can make apps and develop these skills, however, the apps listed for random end-users in the Apple store shouldn't contain all these experiments. This is about access to a particular distribution and advertising channel, which should happen after you've already developed the skills and are ready to offer something serious in context of which a $100/year investment is trivial.
I can't vouch for what other people are trying to put out, but this guy is spittin truth. Think about all the psychological issues that come with low agency/moderate risk jobs. Truck driver was a really good example.

Then there are the really whacked out situations you could end up being witness to if you were working something like Civil Affairs.

List goes on and on. I think one of the biggest needs of our latest generation of veterans is mental health support. Just because of the nature of a lot of what "war" has become.
There have been mini Silicon Valley attempts for much longer than there has been a ycombinator. If this sentence changed anything, it is something very small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers

Scroll down to "Places with 'Silicon' names"
I use Telegram messenger to share and save links between devices.
The endless focus on "rockstar" productivity seems misplaced to me. This is a profession. You're going to be doing it for a long time. No need to burn the candle at both ends.
> The problem is that the best indie games communities in my experience were those that revolved around free games.

Apple is not opposed to free games.

> Today indie gamedev has become more and more a minaturized version of the AAA industry, and that's a terrible shame.

I'm sorry but this comparison is ludicrously hyperbolic. Firstly because the Mac is hardly the platform for free and open gaming, relative to the topic at hand because the Mac itself has a high barrier to entry, being so damn expensive just for the hardware, and secondly because the total expenditure, if you wanted to publish, not develop because ANYONE can develop on a Mac for precisely no money, to publish a game for free is $100 for the dev license.

And, additionally, I see no reason the games couldn't be distributed as source code for free for people to build and run themselves. Is it as elegant as App Store? No, obviously, but that's what the $100 is paying for.

I'm sorry I just don't see why this is a problem. Mac has always been a bit of an exclusive platform, which makes it both of higher quality, but also does indeed introduce barriers to entry. If those barriers are too much for you, then don't do it, you're still spoiled for choice for distribution channels that aren't the Mac App Store.
Definitely a selection bias going on, but also he did say that you might have to change what you're doing.
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That it was also about war in Italy was more important than that the war in question was WWI. I guess they could have written "WWI in Italy" but that seems to ask more of the reader without much benefit, I'd say.
I just remembered that Celery has a DB backend too, but I've not looked deeply; I can't see it doing anything particularly fancy in the implementation:

https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/master/celery/backends...
I'm assuming that Bezos sells his stock to some private equity firms, investment bankers, etc., for cash, and that he then uses the cash to build another company with the same ratio of assets to employees.

Or, more improbably, that the government seizes control of his stock, sells it to the public, and then uses the $112 B to create new jobs with the same asset per job ratio as Amazon or Ford. Of course, in this case, the $112 B would be frittered away on administrative expense, graft, corruption, etc. and no actual long-term employment would be created.
The simple query:

explain (analyze, timing) SELECT id FROM a
WHERE a_val LIKE 'something%'
OR a_val LIKE 'other%';
QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bitmap Heap Scan on a (cost=8.87..12.88 rows=20 width=4) (actual time=0.012..0.012 rows=0 loops=1)
Recheck Cond: ((a_val ~~ 'something%'::text) OR (a_val ~~ 'other%'::text))
Filter: ((a_val ~~ 'something%'::text) OR (a_val ~~ 'other%'::text))
-> BitmapOr (cost=8.87..8.87 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.011..0.011 rows=0 loops=1)
-> Bitmap Index Scan on a_val_idx (cost=0.00..4.43 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.009..0.009 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((a_val ~>=~ 'something'::text) AND (a_val ~<~ 'somethinh'::text))
-> Bitmap Index Scan on a_val_idx (cost=0.00..4.43 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.001..0.001 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((a_val ~>=~ 'other'::text) AND (a_val ~<~ 'othes'::text))
Planning Time: 0.088 ms
Execution Time: 0.033 ms
(10 rows)

using union:

explain (analyze, timing)
select id from a
where a_val like 'something%'
union
select id from a
where a_val like 'other%';
QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HashAggregate (cost=17.23..17.43 rows=20 width=4) (actual time=0.135..0.135 rows=0 loops=1)
Group Key: a.id
-> Append (cost=0.42..17.18 rows=20 width=4) (actual time=0.133..0.133 rows=0 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using a_val_idx on a (cost=0.42..8.44 rows=10 width=4) (actual time=0.128..0.128 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((a_val ~>=~ 'something'::text) AND (a_val ~<~ 'somethinh'::text))
Filter: (a_val ~~ 'something%'::text)
-> Index Scan using a_val_idx on a a_1 (cost=0.42..8.44 rows=10 width=4) (actual time=0.004..0.004 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((a_val ~>=~ 'other'::text) AND (a_val ~<~ 'othes'::text))
Filter: (a_val ~~ 'other%'::text)
Planning Time: 0.124 ms
Execution Time: 0.164 ms
(11 rows)

using gin index:

EXPLAIN (analyze, timing)
SELECT id FROM a
WHERE a_val LIKE ANY (ARRAY['something%', 'other%']);
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bitmap Heap Scan on a (cost=176.15..247.11 rows=20 width=4) (actual time=0.036..0.036 rows=0 loops=1)
Recheck Cond: (a_val ~~ ANY ('{something%,other%}'::text[]))
-> Bitmap Index Scan on a_val_trgm_idx (cost=0.00..176.15 rows=20 width=0) (actual time=0.034..0.034 rows=0 loops=1)
Index Cond: (a_val ~~ ANY ('{something%,other%}'::text[]))
Planning Time: 0.091 ms
Execution Time: 0.193 ms
(6 rows)

Doesn't the simple query win?
This is one of the often unspoken benefits of remote work—it obscures how (and when) you work and exposes only the results. This naturally pushes back on micromanagement not only from managers but also from everyone else on the team.

It's not fool-proof by any means—you can still build up processes and expectations that lead to micromanagement if your managers or culture are so inclined—but it makes the default behavior of the team distinctly less oriented towards micromanagement. You'll waste a lot less time and energy worrying about optics if people being present at a particular place and time is not an obvious signal of dedication/hard work/whatever.
In general, Coaches are tough and demanding. In this case, clearly, Alberto has crossed the line with Mary. But, how does one know if the coach is abusive or “that’s just how sports is, it’s hard and coaches are tough”? Wouldn’t this lead to weaker coaches that don’t push the atheletes but now are afraid of abusing and crossing the line? Please don’t take this as anything to do with the what happened with Mary - I am not condoning what Alberto did.
Nobody really knows how RenTech makes their money. There have been some interesting data points over time, mainly through lawsuits where interesting tidbits of info were divulged.

There are indications that the main rentech fund is a combination of high leverage and some potentially risky tax plays through structured products.
Note that Kerala, like the rest of India, is definitely middle income. It just has much better education rates, public health, etc, than most of India.
Thanks for reading! I'm glad that it resonated with you and that the ideas were helpful.
The fourth amendment itself isn't weaker, as it is an abstract ideal. Stating things the way you have hides the party responsible for the current policy.

A better description is that the Supreme Court issued a justification to perform searches, this one based on being within 100 miles of the border. A similar justification could be written to perform searches in Kansas if they felt the need.
Unfortunately, your role is "customer support engineer". Ideally there is another team that does not directly interact with the client that is actually able to get real work done on the product. Try to get on that team.
It certainly accomplishes the intended goal of hiding what you've just typed in a slick and quick way.

I'm not sure why this is a good thing though. Often times I find I need to go back and edit something for the purpose of continuity.

This doesn't prevent that, but it does hide the reason for it. But, hey, if it works for the user I find no reason to criticize those who'd use it.
> only a small fraction of the companies that avoid dying manage to explode

And none of the companies that die do. Surviving gives you infinitely better odds of success than dying.

That said, for personal success it is often important to let bad projects die.
I think you've been drinking too much of the Warren coolaid. If you are American, vilifying wealth and building companies is quite a silly endeavour. This blame game mentality is counterproductive and will only restrict and impede your own financial success.
What do you mean by, "no payoff?"

Are you aware that winning is itself a payoff for certain people? And they want to win at everything, at every level?

You may not sympathize with these people, or agree with them, but they are not difficult to understand. In fact, they are easy to understand.

When people ask me why there is doping in masters bicycle racing, I quote: "Why are University Politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so small."

People's desire to "win," and the lengths they will go to "win," are not tied to economic or power rewards.
rtm ?

"An array in PHP is actually an ordered map."

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
The article mentions a "quality control process", so it's not only about the author being authorized. I view this as a first step to turn desktop computers into locked down iOS devices.