skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to assume IPA is basically gibberish to 99.9% of the world, if not more. Is there a digitally synthesized version? Whenever I'm reading Wikipedia/Wiktionary and see the phonetic version of a word, I wish I could click on it and hear the sounds (without having to have someone upload a sound file). The pronunciation key (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English) isn't particularly helpful.

Honestly, we're all basically just hoping whoever wrote it knows what the symbols mean. An example: Greenwich (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich).
At our office all of the macbooks have had to go back multiple times this year because of broken keyboards. And because of the way apple designs their laptops this means binning most of the laptop to fix a faulty key.
As far as I know HN downranks threads with a high comment to upvote ratio, and this one probably fell under the threshold
Not being in the Play store means that you have to actually engage in marketing. This increases the cost and hassle, of course.

> there are a lot of shops where the store is their only marketing funnel.

Any business that only has one "funnel" is a business at risk, whether the Play store is involved or not.
Yep, I am in full agreement with your points. Especially this:

> It goes well beyond "any long-lived project has its issues."

I heard this mantra as a justification for bad coding practices likely 500 times.

I appreciate that C++ still drives a lot of our virtual world but that's more a proof of the tenacity of those programs' creators than the virtues of C++ itself. IMO it's time tools like `ripgrep`, `dua` / `ds-cli` (both calculate directory contents' sizes) to become the norm: Rust tools, multicore friendly, insanely fast, and with no quirks and weirdly interacting CLI switches.
Even VMS wasn't the first. The PDP-11 had its own operating systems, RTS and RSTS.
I've been on both sides of this. When somebody will try and help me in a situation like that, once they suggest one thing to me i've thought of or tried, i'll usually give a quick rundown of what I have tried and thought of. Doing it that way still validates them and at that point i'll usually say something like so 'I dunno what do you think, any ideas?'. Then they might give another suggestion I have or haven't thought of. If it's something I have thought of and realized won't work, instead of saying I already thought of that, i'll pretend to think about it, then give them my reason I thought of before for not using that option, but pretend I just thought of it.

People get angry, because they want to feel helpful and useful. When they can't help with something they feel frustrated and when you tell them you've already thought of everything, they feel stupid. By doing it the other way, they still feel like they've helped you. I'll usually try and be light hearted about it and laugh about how it really is a difficult problem or something like that. When you do it that way, it puts the problem into perspective for them and they don't feel stupid for trying to help, they feel like it's something difficult you're both trying to solve. Then they inevitably get bored and go do something else and leave you amicably to work on your problem. At least in my experience.

Sorry for the unsolicited advice.
One possibly good outcome would be if Chrome's embrace of V3 is the catalyst that causes Firefox usage to shoot up again. By most measures, around 40% of users use ad blockers.
I've spent many career years in sysadmin / process automation for manufacturing companies, and LOTO is one of many pieces of proper procedure and process that really impresses me about that industry. I worked at a big steel recycling plant, and the zero tolerance effort put toward safety and generally ensuring that this type of stuff was upheld was impressive. Not locking out a machine, or forgetting your lock on a machine was a fireable offense with like, one warning I think. You certainly didn't want to be the guy who was working on a machine that morning, and left your lock on it when you went home while someone else was working on it. They'd call you and get you out of bed real quick if it meant the machine couldn't start up because your lock is on there and you weren't accounted for.

SRE's and operations people can pick up good habits from manufacturing gigs. A lot of the same concepts like uptime, good documentation, procedure, discipline are really important to the business at all levels. When lives are at risk good companies put a large sum of time and money in making sure everyone is on the same page.
Someone at Apple probably said, is there something we can do about those leaks from Rambo?

Then someone probably said, well we can block his dev account, may make it harder for him to reverse engineer everything right away.

Then they told someone else to block him, and they flipped a switch somewhere.

Nobody documents anything, and a few weeks later, when Rambo manages to escalate this through the support team, noone knows the background and noone can tell him what the issue is.

That's my speculation how things like that happen....
> You will find very quickly how reluctant people are to pay for anything despite a few cultural-phenomenon-level exceptions like Netflix.

That's absolutely not true, though. People buy stuff all the time. Clothing, shoes, sporting goods, dishes, food, housewares, books, DVDs, etc.

The "freemium" approach Spotify takes is a poor example because they're not charging for their real service of music streaming, but instead to get rid of advertisements. They've moved their own goalposts, and the question isn't "Is streaming music worth $10 a month?" but "Is it worth $10 a month to get rid of this commercial?" If the options were "Pay $10 to stream music" or "Listen to nothing," the results might be a lot different.

> One common response to this is "well, maybe everyone should be hobbyists again making content for free," but surely we can find a better middleground than structuring things such that we depend on people toiling away in their freetime to produce the content we happen to want. For example, I'd rather my favorite content providers be able to feed themselves working on this content. We both benefit: I get to enjoy more content. Depending on hobby work doesn't get us there.

I'm not making that argument, and you're setting up a false dichotomy. There's no reason content creators need to use advertisements and can't charge for their content instead. It worked fine for music and movies for over a hundred years, and books have been using that model for hundreds of years before that.
as an UWSer who does not know anyone with a "country residence" or who can afford a second residence at all given the exorbitant price of living in this city, there are plenty of other reasons for people to take the car out in the middle of the day on a summer weekend like, say, going to a beach with your chairs and cooler etc which isn't something you can do with public transit, or going hiking someplace not right off a train line, or any number of things that ordinary non-super-rich people do.
Reddit warns Trump supporters about 'systematic harassment' of whistleblower
Not GP, but I sympathize with their sentiment. I think I'm generally pretty "mindful", but I've tried meditation probably half a dozen points in my life (each for a week+) and it has never felt like anything but a waste of time to me. I really don't know how to express it in any more detail, it simply didn't feel like I had accomplished anything of value with that time.
Those ideas aren't mutually exclusive.

Sometimes people are more receptive about suggested solutions after you've expressed some solidarity.

"Yeah that does suck"

"That situation happened to me, it was a pain in the ass, I tried to do X, it didn't work that well, then I tried to do Y, it seemed to work ok, if I'm in that situation again, I'll probably go with Y"
Have you published information about undisclosed features in the press?

Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not?
Yeah,

I struggle with this a lot. My life is so focused on problem-solving that my mind doesn't generate anything else. Sure I can say a few empty words of empathy and sympathy but that leaves a lot of empty air to fill and using tools is all I got and I can't remember a time when I wasn't like this.
With regards to your second question, I think the preference to selling a minority stake over taking out a loan is that the loan is debt, the minority stake is not.

A lot of what DHH is arguing for here was only possible for 37Signals/Basecamp because of how they structured and ran their business. He basically bought a seat as a (non-controlling) member of their LLC, and that was really it. So he bought a share of their profits. And Bezos had the option to sell the stake back after 7 years.
It is not about the character count, but the word count. wc decodes characters to find non-ASCII whitespace as word separators. If you read further in the same man page:

White space characters are the set of characters for which the iswspace(3) function returns true.

That your text is ASCII encoded does not matter, since ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. So at the very least, you need an extra branch to check that a byte's value is smaller than 128 (since any byte that does not start with a leading zero is a multi byte character in UTF-8).

However, if you look at the implementation at

https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-68/w...

You can see that in this code path it actually uses mbrtowc, so there is also the function call overhead.
Speaking Machine, Art, and Design with John Maeda
As by my sibling comment, the language was called C+@, formely Calico.

https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-c-programming-language/18440...
I knew I was going to regret not double checking the spelling on that, haha.
Very valuable advice. Thank you!
It would be interesting to consider 15, 16 as the evolution, the same with 11, 12 and Air 13.
Not all those who participate. The vast (overwhelming) majority of app developers don't make a dime from it. A tiny, tiny minority make some side cash from it. A vanishingly small set of maybe a few hundred people maybe earn enough from it to make a living doing it (not developing apps for other people, but developing their own app products).
I just don't see this article as putting forward an argument one way or the other. It just talks about the statistics of mass shooters from several different angles. It is focused on the individual circumstances of the shooters rather than policy or wider culture. It is left to the reader to draw conclusions if they want.
That's what I am falling in love with as I am learning Rust: both sensical and compiler-helping restrictions.

Rust can use less ways to do the same thing, I keep hearing from people, and I am hopeful it can be tackled in the future with clever deprecations or simply de facto libraries / ways of doing things.

Thanks for your hard work, it's much appreciated.
I've read the description, but I fail to understand how this is different from just merging current master into the PR and running integration on that before merging in back into master? This can be done with 10 lines of groovy in Jenkins.

Also the exact workflow described with staging branch and batch merge is probably another 20-30 lines.
Then there's this debacle I've never spent enough time getting to the bottom of... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_g...
In some cases the region locks were even counterproductive if the goal was to reduce piracy. If you have to install a modchip to play a game from a different region, then you've just enabled someone to pirate who might not have bothered otherwise. But now that they've gone to the trouble to mod the system it's no extra effort to start pirating games.

It also give the modchip companies a thin veneer of semi-legitimacy.
Where did you read that? The only thing she says is to wait the competition to end (by 2022):

> “It's very important that people wait for NIST to do its due diligence,” Frincke said.

This is the standard process.
You can already do that in JavaScript, what's the difference?

You can even implement a WASM interpreter in JS.
I completely agree with your sentiment in the [EDIT] part. My theory always was that remote shops can do more `hazing` because they have people who want to freely move/travel/go full digital nomad lining up for them. Would be interesting to know if this is the case.
On each product page they have an animated gif of the unfolding/folding. Example:

[5 Mb] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1830/6127/products/F991B71...
The C+@ Programming Language (formerly Calico) (1993)
If a webpage does not render correctly in Firefox, I close the tab and support an alternative. It doesn't work for every case, but nevertheless it makes a difference. I also use and support Firefox everywhere, at home, at work, and on mobile.
> Only when forced to in response to some very pointed questions.

They weren't asked these questions one at a time.
NASA makes entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free (2017)
The headline is clickbait. The only reference to not rushing into quantum-proof encryption happens near the end of the article, and the warning is that folks adopt them gradually so that any vulnerabilities are caught.

This is standard practice blown out of proportion.
I have a vt420, vt510, and IBM3151 and not one of them do RTS/CTS like we'd expect. The vt510 can apparently do that on the DTR/DSR pins, but the vt420 and below cannot, and neither can the 3151.
And The City with all its tentacles in sunny islands.
This is a great teaching technique as well. It opens the door for students to realize that they can attempt to solve a problem on their own. You also gain more insight into what roadblocks they are running into and what to really focus on. They also get to practice conveying their thoughts and in some cases, this builds confidence as they might find that they were much closer to the answer than they thought.
The UK Royal family is wealthy because they acquired land through a combination of warfare and marriages many centuries ago. If they're unique, it's in the lengthy tenure; other medieval kingdoms have mostly overthrown their kings and seized their assets.

That's completely different from rulers who are actively looting their nations today.
The best advice I've ever been given is when I didn't ask. Honestly trying to please people doesn't always help them out. Being the bad guy can help them more than sulking with them. A good friend will care more about you than what you think of them.
I live in Europe, but I see no reason why parking space would be free. I also don't see a reason why a part of the street should be used parking when they are built for driving. I am not an eco-nazi, I use a car and a motorcycle, but they are always parked either on my property at home, in the shopping mall parking (cost included in the price of the products I buy) or in the parking at the office (which the employer already considers as a cost when paying me a salary).
For the people down voting, please read the source code of GNU and Apple wc before down voting.
>you were stuck in raw mode, and had to reset the terminal session

Man I forgot about all this terminal wrangling stuff. Thanks for the memories!
Hi, thank you very much! You have found a bug in our code, we have fixed it today.

As for the pricing, in MVP we only show airfare prices so far. Later we can add hotels, cars, etc.
I'm not a linguist but it seems that most phonemes exist as areas (or multiple discontinuous areas as seen in TFA) in phonetic space while IPA attempts to describe only points in phonetic space[0]. Wouldn't it be better to instead just define X = {(F1min,F2min,...),(F1max,F2max,...)} for every dialect instead of making a universal X = (F1,F2,...) and then using it describe any area in phonetic space that happens to contain it?

[0] https://sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonetics/Source_Filt...
All etymologically linked to the Greek γύρος and ultimately PIE "*geu-".

In the case of the Greek wrap, the reference isn't to the "rounded" pita shell, but the "turned" meat, roasted on a spit.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gyre

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gyro-
> neglects to mention

Whataboutism is a bit tiring. That issue doesn't really seem essential to include.
Why sci-fi is bad for tech design
New antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens
Wow, that predates OS X.
>So why is that kind of deal not available to more founders? Why isn’t there a market for selling a minority stake of your profitable tech company to people who’d be happy to be paid back in distributions and dividends, rather than capital gains? It seems like a glaring gap in the market. [...] There’s got to be a way to make this work.

It's not available because no smart investor has found a way to make it work ... yet. I'm not sure we can extrapolate Jeff Bezo's particular motives for investing in Basecamp into a widespread market solution. Back in 2006 when DHH said Bezos made the investment, Bezos was already worth ~4 billion.[0] In other words, being a multi-billionaire allows the luxury of making some investments "for fun" instead of worrying about being fired as a manager of a fund.

In my 2 previous posts[1][2], I attempt to explain the logic of why VCs / hedge funds / private equity ... do what they do and why they care about "growth".

So, one way to make it work is that you (the royal "you" as in the daring contrarian maverick investor) prove to the world that you can take some money and make it earn 8%+ returns by doing what DHH suggests. Nobody prominent has done that so nobody copies them and therefore, the "market solution" looks non-existent.

Does everyone want a new alternative asset class that simply buys minority non-controlling stakes in smaller companies and just takes a slice of the dividends? Let's call it the SmallCoDividendsFund. Ok, show the world how you reliably return 8%+ every year from DHH's strategy and limited partners will be beating down your down door to give you more money! You don't have to write essays evangelizing the alternative investment thesis; instead, just invest real money in SmallCoDividendsFund, get awesome returns, and all the media outlets will provide publicity and encourage copycat investors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Wealth

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15728480

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365966
For some reason my comment was downvoted. Here is a quote from the end of the article showing that burglars are not being punished severely enough to deter them:

When Martin recalled the June break-in at the Pine Tar Grill, what sticks in his mind wasn’t losing the computers or bobbleheads. Instead, it was a conversation he had with a police officer who viewed the footage of the break-in, who told him that he recognized the person in the video and that he had been arrested multiple times, Martin said.

“As a business owner,” Martin said, “that’s just really hard to hear.”
fun to see that the pictures on the home page are from venice beach.

as neat as the folding and pouching is, i’m more impressed with the 1 dress 100 days campaign she did and all the different ways she accessorized one black dress: https://origamei.com/blogs/news

this also reminds me of these foldable grocery bags that i still use after many years (was an early customer): https://flipandtumble.com/
I guess it's possible at any moment in history to say that nothing will change because nobody cares. There will always be some truth to that.

But I feel like we're reaching some sort of tipping point. 200k+ people just signed up to a new social network whose only real usp is no tracking.

I don't know what a drop in alternative is so I can't answer your question, but if your assertion is that generally speaking sites need to allow their users to be tracked I would disagree.
The belters are the lowlifes and marginalized of the punk-ish scifi, working in hazardous conditions, and used and discarded by the powers of the universe. I think that's where The Expanse does better. The other more "space adventure" plot points are enjoyable, but more run of the mill.
True, we should be careful to not conflate "Manhattan" with "New York City".

That said, I agree with OP's comment within the context of Manhattan. Anyone who owns a car there is very wealthy, even within the context of a wealthy city.

(I don't agree with pegging the divide at 110th street, that's much too low.)
Sounds useful in some cases, but the wording of their PR indicates they want to make this the default, instead of opt-in. The list of places where one may have a private conversation is growing thin.
I agree that Chrome would protect users' security (privacy is a different issue). But that's one browser, not an arbitrary browser. Could you allow Chrome without allowing other browsers with lesser pedigree?

Keep in mind that several of Congress' questions are asking whether Apple provides privileged access to favored partners.
> actually it's EU's privacy regulation

The GDPR (which is not the only EU privacy law) is fairly described as a “law”, “regulation” is just the formal EU law term for a directly-applicable primary legislative act, which is a kind of law. If you're complaining about the “EU” part, well, the GDPR applies in some non-EU countries too (e.g. in the EEA).

> They said that they ve been collecting WITH consent, at least with their definition of consent

Some data is collected with ostensible consent, some without, and there's still processing to deal with.

> And i bet only 4% want to pay taxes too. polls are not legal documents. Also, "wanted advertising" is very different from "accepted advertising as part of the terms"

Sure, but the GDPR also means you can't forcibly bundle consents together. You need to separately consent to invasive use of data for advertising versus provision of the basic service.

> I believe facebook does give all their personal data

Did this recently change? I seem to recall that Facebook are known for not providing e.g. the data they've got from you browsing other sites with FB cookies unless you went via some difficult legal route.
>The alternative is to just be brutally honest and that way filter out friends who aren't ok with it.

I found the inverse to be even more valuable. Finding friends who are not afraid to be brutally honest with you when the situation calls for it is difficult, but worth it so much. Just make sure you actually can receive this kind of criticism first without taking it as a personal attack.
The only reason people believe this non-sense is because of how we are going into another election cycle and pundits like to stoke people's ignorance of international finance/taxation. If you repeat a lie enough, it becomes reality and then you can use that new reality to push your agenda through with the support of the ignorant masses.
Use a USB condom that will negotiate fast charge but not passed data over the cable
The key difference being that Microsoft was found to have market dominance and using that position anticompetitvely.
I don't think it's related. They were removing XBL piece by piece for a quite some time now. /r/firefox has many mosts about such removals.

Anyway - nightly is a dev build. It is expected to have bugs of all kinds.
I think you can skip #2, if you're trying to help then this is about them, it's not about you, so probably the word "I" can be removed from your vocabulary for the rest of the conversation. Algorithm for nerds is: ask questions, repeat back what you heard. Also works in sales!
It only calls mbrtowc if domulti is set (and MB_CUR_MAX > 1), i.e. only when given the option -m.