skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely see where you’re coming from here. But to me, the answer is, “because that is what is required for a civilized society to function”.

It is not as if Apple has given developers this platform to create and sell software out of the goodness of their own hearts; the App Store is wildly profitable for them. What is being asked for here (in the comments, not in the blog post that was linked to) is nothing more than some common courtesy.
The problem isn't implementing the features, the problem is making the UX/UI intuitive to people who call Microsoft's tech support when Firefox displays a "cannot connect to internet" message because they unplugged their router because they needed the socket for something else.

IRC is objectively superior to slack as a distributed chat client, but goddamned if the first step into slack isn't significantly shallower than the first step into IRC.
I'm not sure that is so necessary. PDF is kind of a cleaned-up version of PostScript to begin with. Which features or ambiguities would you remove?
I'm pretty sure this was around 1983/1984 See the papers
"Modules for standard ML" 84, by Dave Macqueen,
MacQueen had previously written a paper Modules for Hope (81) which likely influenced it.

Unfortunately the SML-Family doesn't have links to these in it's history section afaict. But ML languages didn't get modules until the standardization effort that produced standard ML.
The worst thing about it is how fucking easy it would be to fix. Just treat the backticks as characters when backspacing or navigating with the arrows, that way you can 'enter' or 'exit' a code block reliably, and all previous muscle memory from the markdown editor would carry over.

But no, apparently that's too hard for a company that's worth more dollars than the number of seconds any of us have been alive.
Agreed. chx from Drupal? If so, thanks for your contributions.
Fuel on the ground is cheap. Halfway to orbit, nothing is cheap.
So much the better?

Github could have put all the issues into the same repository, and built on top of that for the sake of managers, but that would make projects too portable. Having important project metadata in their domain aids lock-in.
Google Cloud Launches Bare Metal Solution
Popping in to note that if anyone is on the fence about the Oryx Pro, it's a fantastic machine, I love mine! System76 was a fantastic company to deal with.

After some initial troubles with the cooling system (I sent the laptop back and it was serviced under warranty), I've been chugging along the last few months.

I should note that the fans can get pretty loud (from what I read on reviews other laptops like the Lenovo X1 Extreme are even louder), so while it is portable, it might be a little bit intense to use at a coffee shop/coworking space.

For those interested, shameless plug to where I rambled about the experience, and getting Arch installed (which isn't an officially supported OS but worked fantastic):
https://vadosware.io/post/starting-my-journey-with-the-syste...
Same here. I'd made some nice (and quite simple) tooling to parse docstrings out of a Python project and turn them into Markdown that I could copy-and-paste into Confluence. It was so convenient to run something like "make documents" to basically compile the project's documentation from inspecting the project itself! But then Confluence broke their editor by making it WYSIWYG-only. And in response, I broke Confluence by convincing our CTO to ditch that now worthless documentation system for something else.
Survivorship bias.

What happened to Digg? Myspace? UI isn't the only reason, but it's definitely a contributing factor in their demise.

The eBay story about changing the color of the banner should be followed for new features as well.
I'll do my best to answer your question in a different way.

What differentiates Fast.io from Netlify:

1. Simplicity: GitHub + Cloud Storage integration allows an extremely simple workflow (for technical and non-technical people alike). This enables us to handle files up to 1GB each, unlike Netlify which maxes out at 10MB unless you add Large Media support which modifies your Git repo.

2. Enterprise CDN included with Free: We work with CloudFlare and Akamai to provide their full Enterprise capabilities to all users, including Free. Netlify only provides a real CDN to their Enterprise customers - they call it "Enterprise CDN".

3. Analytics: We integrate directly with Google Analytics (and future MixPanel) directly from the CDN - so you can get complete analytics data on even direct file downloads - no javascript required. Unlike Netlify who only gives their own analysis tools, with us you can leverage Google and MixPanel’s much more powerful interfaces and tools.

Most of the same can be said for all other competitors in the static hosting space - and yes, simplicity is probably our true key differentiator, especially compared to Amazon S3, GCP, or Azure.

We think we’re a great developer tool, but we may be better positioned to offer powerful features to novice developers or non-developers (marketing people, designers, etc..).
I typically set things up as projects. When I'm working on the projects, almost daily over to make sure I remember things correctly. I also make additional notes when I'm going through the project so I can have everything in one place. A lot of the time I may work on one thing, then it's a couple of weeks and I need to get back into it.

At some point, everything will get written into a digital scope of work document or deliverable. At that point, most things become superfluous and I don't look back into notes.

Every once in a while I'll want to remember a name or a book and I like being able to have those at the tip of my fingers. Those things are typically in a different notebook.

I take a lot of notes and honestly enjoy it.
The CIA would never do such a thing!
Meh. Not being easily editable is a feature, not a bug.

Sometimes you want to send out a finalized document and want to make 99% of the users unable to edit them. That's what PDFs are for. Imagine lawyers needing to send out a finalized contract. Or a graphic designer sending out the finalized design. Or an electronic book that has gone through the work of the author, the editor, and the publisher and needs no more changes. PDFs give an air of permanency and stability when so many other digital formats are malleable.
What You See Is What We Give You.
Feel like a lot of people don't understand what business Honey is in. And a lot of the times they're not even familiar with the whole lineup of Honey products. Knowing someone's intent to purchase is very powerful. You're literally giving information about what you want to buy, what price you might buy at etc. Plus deals, coupons, price drops etc make manipulation really easy. $4B might be a bit too much but still, this adds a lot of value to Venmo. I'd say it was a good buy! But yeah people calling it a scam etc. are unaware of the company. Maybe because they weren't as publicized as Bay Area companies or didn't raise too much money
I love this thread! Relevant to this, I'm the Founder of a very early startup called Junto where we help people learn soft skills via audio courses. I've found soft skills to be absolutely critical to succeeding in your career, building better relationships with the people around you, and feeling generally happier and less stressed. Imo this is true for all roles, not just management or leadership.

I'd love for anyone interested to give our product a try and tell me what you think: https://juntohq.com/

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OK, so plugins can enhance code editing. But what about compile-time checks? With TSX, if you have a mis-matched tag the TypeScript compiler will give you an error.
This is simply not true. I don't think anyone would pay $4 billion for a referral stealing chrome extension anyway
Is it used anywhere outside of education?
I don't think there's much danger of epileptic seizures when using Fast.io, thats lawyers for you. ;)
NEO2 - it's ancient but so well built. Buy used, there's no modern better product 'cause the NEO2 was so common and well made. Instant on.
Neo makes a pen product now, if that's more appealing to you.
But what I need now is software that auto sorts (according to tags) each note into the right place in my various notes documents. Now I'm doing that manually.
There's a lot of profound misunderstanding about the whole YouTube/COPPA thing
I'm not sure this proves that Go is a possible systems language, since it could be equally like that the explanation is just "wc doesn't need to be written in a systems language to be fast". For an executable that runs, processes some stuff, and then terminates in the span of a second or so, you're not going to incur much slowdown due to a GC counting references and cleaning stuff up, but for something long-running, it could make more of a difference.
My username gives me away.

My most recent series is The Naturalist. It's about a computational biologist that hunts serial killers. Even though the book goes into Bayesian statistics, Fourier analysis and has the occasional bit of Python, the series has been well received by the general public (it's Wall Street journal best seller and was optioned by a major studio.)

Diving into ML for research for the book lead me into actually doing my own projects and current AI startup.
I'm a huge fan of A4 notebooks and fountain pens!

I'm currently partial to the Leuchtturm 1917 master series, at least in part because of all the beautiful colors there are to choose.
There's probably a degree of forward-compatibility intended with that requirement. Slack may only display the image at 64x64 (128x128 at 2x dpi) right now, but they want to avoid requiring you to upload a new image if, at some point in the future, they implement a UI with larger action images.
You are mistaken if you think humans have changed or "evolved" that much in that short period of time.

> Even in war very few people would be this brutal now, we have moved beyond what we were and I hope we can do it again.

Then you don't know war. Even the most "civilized" nation was mutilating their enemies.

ww2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LIFE_May_1944_Jap_Skull.j...

vietnam war.

http://www.george.loper.org/trends/2002/Mar/65.html

You could even argue humans have gotten more superstitious and brutal. Would humans of the past dropped nukes on hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children of their enemies rather than sparing most while killing a few? Or maybe "man is the cruelest animal".
Operator Overloading in C++
My favorite fun fact:

The Great Pyramid holds a record that will almost certainly never be broken: it was the tallest human-made structure in the world for over 3800 years.

(OK technically the Tower of Jericho held the record for ~4000 years, but it was only 28 feet (8.5m) tall; another neolithic archaeological dig could unseat it; that’s not happening with Giza)
Indeed academics do not need to live in a place to study it, but they need to live there to feel it.
I disagree, and this is the mistake I made earlier in my career. Having the market is most important. I have built great products that flopped and ok products that were incredibly successful.

Quoting Andy Rachleff:
If your startup addresses a market that really wants your product, you can screw almost everything up and still likely be successful. On the flip side, if you are really good at execution, but the “dogs aren’t eating the dog food”, you have no chance at winning.

“When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.”
Very surprised they hadn't locked merge to master until recently.

I do like the emergency exception. The problem then becomes having a solid policy on when to use it.

Not really sure about the flakiness test (the 25% figure is totally random), as you could have a test that is failing only at a certain hour of the day and you would be furiously rerunning the test suite for nothing because it would always fail, wasting resources. It would be much better to at least single out the failing tests and rerun only those, dropping the ones that pass successfully until max tries are reached or the queue is empty.
There are a couple of other non-native things Firefox does that annoy me.

1. It has its own certificate system. That would be fine if it used that in addition to using the MacOS built in system, but it seems to use it exclusively.

2. It has its own spell checker, which is orders of magnitude worse than the one provided by the native MacOS spell check API. I can't think of any program I've used in the last few years on Mac or Windows that had a worse spell checker.

LibreOffice is open source and its spell checker is fine as far as I've seen--definitely way better than the one in Firefox--so that if Mozilla for some reason needs to have the same spell check on each OS and so can't use the native MacOS one, they could still bring it up to par by copying from LibreOffice.
You can use the prescription directly by directly seeking a distinction for your ego to experience.

If you want to appreciate food, then perform a fast.

If you want to appreciate rest, then exhaust yourself through exercise.

If you want to appreciate life, then approach the doors of death and return.

If you want to appreciate bliss, then walk through suffering.
I believe that's what https://www.riot.im is?
Parallel parsing made practical (2015)
Same with lit-html and the TypeScript compiler plugin.
Even as homogeneous as the set of HN readers tends to be, we can't agree on anything. The idea that there is a singular "key that unlocks everything" in life is downright bizarre. You probably wouldn't copy her diet or sleep schedule or religion or footwear or anything else. Why would anyone look to adopt her life philosophy? Monty Python and Douglas Adams mocked this very idea.

The author has her MBTI on her profile, and it's nearly the opposite of mine. That suggests to me that her preferences are likely quite different from mine.
> Rambo hasn't, AFAICT, even had it confirmed that his account is suspended at all.

In the original article, Rambo is complaining that his dev account has been limited in some way. Anyway, how is that relevant when no one in this thread is contesting that the OP's account was (or was not) suspended/disabled in some way?

> they should be clear that that's what they're actually doing and offer at least a sentence or two as to why

I pretty much said the same, but given all the missing information, it might be a case where they can't or don't want to. As other comments have pointed out, Apple has covered themselves legally with their TOS explicitly stating accounts could be terminated without notice for violations. Other comments have also pointed out that Apple might be in a legal situation where they were advised to not communicate (blame the corporate lawyers).

> The argument that this just can't possibly scale is dubious

Well FussyZeus had a whole explanation for his/her opinion backed by his/her experience and a certain attitude towards the whole situation. Your only argument is that Amazon, Twitter, and FB do manage to give explanations. Yes, but not always, and Google that you don't mention is notorious for not giving explanations and not being able to speak to a human about it.

I have the feeling that this is not a minor violation and there is credible speculation the OP seems to have behaved in ways that might merit what happened. So I think it's premature to jump to the conclusion that Apple can and should be more forthcoming in this case.
I could honestly say that about most Slack features. The drafts feature in particular drives me crazy.
UIBuilder doesn't do incremental updates at all. You might as well use innerHTML and template literals. That's a 0-line library :)
Pachyderm Is Hiring Kubernetes DevOps, JavaScript, and Golang Devs
You know, I can't stand re-designs, and I was agreeing with a lot of the comments here until I got off my phone and was able to click through to the article and to Twitter on my laptop.

The responses are kind of repetitive/grating in that they're non-replies and kind of stonewalling, but I couldn't help but picture some poor soul fighting against the gratuitous negativity. Some (Most?) people were being constructively negative, which I do appreciate, but the Slack employee on Twitter essentially can't give anyone any closure or solution, and is just generally powerless against the whims of the designers or whoever it was that pushed for this change.

I like all my tools just so and have gotten used to them over many years, so I definitely agree with a lot of the sentiment here. It's just that for some reason the human sitting on the other side of the Twitter account was 'visible' to me in this instance.

EDIT: just to say that for the above reason, comments like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21590681

make me a little sad. It's one thing to rail on a company, but in the case of Twitter, it's another person. Maybe a team of people; I'm not sure, but I'd say the same in that case too.
Because African Americans didn't get the chance to get in on the thievery angle, and most other races didn't come in significant volume early enough to have the chance to in numbers significant enough to be worth mentioning?
I wouldn't say "learn to cook in an hour", but I would say it gives you the confidence that you /can/ cook, and even learn to make just one thing good enough for just you. (an actual achievable goal)
I used to do a variation of this by converting all text to outlines in a PDF. It will even deter more people from editing the document. This also saves paper, and text will remain sharp (although slightly different because operating systems have different heuristics when it comes to rasterizing text and graphics).
I don’t like to hate on acquisitions especially by smart companies like PayPal but I don’t understand this one at that price. I’ve tried Honey several times and it’s mostly annoying. I suppose one could save a buck or 2 here and there but that’s about it. And you’ll end up at a retailer with lousier total offering.
I gave up local TV news years ago when I realized it was focused on “murder of the day” and other FUD. We even called one Channel Fear instead of Four.

We’re lucky to still have few large and small newspapers in the area that are relatively decent. Facebook groups and next door fill in the rest.
Loyalty is decreasing: What can you do to drive your employees engagement?
They're paying for the large existing userbase, regardless of how that large userbase was acquired.
Oh, but that's the funny thing. I don't struggle with the article. I use le/la or un/une etc correctly. It just seems I do it without ever thinking what it means.

So I'd map "la table" to "το τραπέζι" and "un oiseau" το "ένα πουλί" and never notice that the gender has changed from one language to the other.

Unless I think about it.

And the same with pronouns also.
That's exactly what I like about it.
My ideal PDF is essentially a PNG file with selectable/searchable text.

It's a great WORM format. Every added feature makes it worse.
Yes. Use cases are numerous. One would be if I want to fork someone’s GitHub to make a pull request without setting up a dev environment. I wish all GitHub projects had a “launch easyVM” button that would give me an ip to a micro instance for 24 hours that I could ssh into. Then I can edit some code, Run the tests (since all the dependencies should be there), push and submit a pull request, with the server auto destroying that night.
Data Lookups via Raytracing
First time that happened I had no idea where it went. Still don't and it's happened a few times. They killed my flow. I hate this "feature".
I have never seen anyone automate what Bors does with Jenkins and have anything approaching decent UX. The closest I've ever seen is a permanent stage branch that sometimes has automatic promotion, little integration with reviews and inevitably breaks every few weeks until some poor soul debugs it.
This is known as a "Canadian Standoff".
OP might be referring to "cancel culture": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html
It’s much truer for PDF than for other formats. The only format I could think of that’s worse would be plain images.
Just saying -- transitioning a large project from one component system to another -- while also developing/evolving the new component system ...

I can just imagine it would be easy to build up a very large mess ...
Everyone (and many family members) working at SSFL 15 years later died early of contamination. They were careless in those days. Probably had a few buckets of the stuff laying around like at the Grand Canyon gift shop.
> in many cases they won't have had a choice

In the sense that they either do what Apple says they can, or they don't get to play in Apple's sandbox, yes, of course. That's because Apple owns the sandbox and therefore gets to make the rules for everyone that plays in it. And everybody who wants to build Apple apps knows that going in.

> there is functionality that you simply cannot provide without a native app. If your competitor chooses to provide that functionality and you don't, your business will no longer be viable.

Yep. And everyone who builds Apple apps knows that up front.

> 'm referring to businesses which must provide mobile device integration for their (otherwise unrelated) products and services.

"Must" in the sense that they chose to try to build a business that requires it, yes. But nothing forced them to choose that business.

Basically, your argument is "Apple should allow other businesses to use their infrastructure, which they have spent many years and many billions of dollars building, however those other businesses want". That's unrealistic; no business in the history of the world has done that with something they own.

In some cases (e.g., banks, which you mention), Apple isn't going to kick them off the app store; if there is an issue with CapitalOne's app, for example, someone at CapitalOne will talk to someone at Apple and they will figure something out. Apple are not fools; they know everyone does banking online and their users aren't going to accept their bank's app not working. But that's because the banks are also large businesses and Apple can't just ignore them. It's not because Apple is under any requirement to be nice.
The end of the article mentions "newer, digitally focused outlets" as one possible solution, and lists three of them. They could have further elaborated that all three examples are nonprofits. Imo that's one of the possible futures of local news.

Besides the three mentioned by this article, there are ~200 others listed here, although they vary in activity: https://inn.org/members/
Computational Origami
How is Honey worth even remotely close to 4B. It is a coupon aggregator in a browser extension?
I didn’t know that but ePub is great for ebooks and manuals.
"I spent a lot of time with photos (Picasa) trying to do peer to peer..."

As I recall, one of Google's many "failed" projects was a means for transferring large numbers of photos person to person called "HELLO". I reckon this existed for a short time post-2004, then AFAIK disappeared from public view (or morphed into something else). I could be remembering the details incorrectly.
The famous Blue Cube in Sunnyvale, the USAF's satellite control center

I just got off westbound 237 at Mathilda an hour ago for the first time in years. It's so strange to see that entire side of the road leveled in the background.

Blue Cube: gone. Lockheed building 101: gone. Lockheed building 102: gone. Five years of my career without a single physical artifact left.
So it was working right up until you put in the special password? How would you make it look like a remote wipe?

Also, keep in mind, remote wiping your phone after the police take it is evidence tampering. In the US, that alone can get you imprisoned.