skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one of those grubby little "dark matter" developers. I fled Perl for Python over a decade ago. While I do love Python, one of the impediments (not the only, and perhaps not the largest) to my progress are the endless packaging issues. Among the larger attractions to Python is that there is supposedly one obvious way to do things and here there is not. Instead, I must make my selection largely based on opinions that have the same foreboding stink of those I associate with arguments over Linux distros: dashed-off dismissals starting with "just" and drive-by engagements with the topic.

As a result, I end up rarely going outside of the standard library. In a perverse way, being locked on an un-upgradable (due to Reasons) version of Python 2.7.5 for the foreseeable future has helped put that temptation a bit further away.

Yes, Packaging Is Hard. It is certainly beyond me. I will probably never need to package anything I wrote, much less distribute it, so many of my concerns are purely academic.

Rather than fussing over things like the walrus operator (really, c'mon), I would love to see those who steer Python buckle down on issues like this, solve them, and then relentlessly backport the solution further back than everyone thinks is reasonable.
I'm not convinced that burning out trying to change something that's unchangeable is the right strategic way to fix things for anyone other than the company.

If enough people leave and go work on next-generation things because the previous-generation has run it's course - that strikes me as having many parallels in nature.

Large companies don't adapt quickly unless they have a true (ie, in-practice, not just in-speech) mandate to do so.

A leaf contributes to the health of the tree, but it doesn't control where new branches grow.
I think the point OP was making is that dozens of people died because executives as Boeing “shut down” concerns that some long time engineers had. I’m not sure lives at risk with Google’s products but I think the point is hoping that a half a trillion dollar monopoly will change its ways because lots of employees leave is wishful thinking and might only happen if it results in a catastrophe. Google can replace them easily and regardless a majority of their profit comes from search which only requires a small fraction of their employees to keep operating at profit.
Broadly, "a project is being actively developed and makes releases reliably often" is a fairly tolerable maintenance plan.

It's only when that implicit contract breaks down that you get "is X dead?"
Everything is, but in terms of factors, eating enough is more within control, i.e. the excessive GOMAD prescription, gallon of milk a day. Mostly diet genetics becomes an consideration when you're at the extreme ends of weight goals, like dietting down to unhealthy bodyfat levels or trying to cram 8,000 calories a day to maintain in the heavier weight classes (250lbs+). Compared to genetic propensity for gaining muscle or one's training response, conscientiousness to train consistently - eating habits for most "hard gainers" is current diet + a few spoonfuls of peanut butter a day.
I haven't seen that yet but it makes a lot of sense. 1:1 matching at a busy airport doesn't really scale. It's one reason I tend to default to cabs flying into airports (and usually take an Uber/Lyft on the return).
You are welcome. I have zero affiliation with the project; in my humble opnion, the dev is an all-round nice person.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/cfmlca/i_build_the_a...
It depends what you want to do exactly since German industry is quite siloed by area so you sort of have to know what you want and which places to look but in general the country has a strong engineering culture and appreciation.
Amazon and wapo are independent entities
While it's made them financially successful, it is in some sense a bit depressing that the company has spent years casting about for an economic engine that will generate revenue as efficiently as ads and nothing has been found.

One could ask for better of the world, but the world does not deliver. "People's attention" is the highest ROI resource to mine.
Amazing find! Thanks for sharing!
I am a daily fervent cyclist, but from what I'm reading I don't think I am a fellow cyclist of you.
WIPO Begins Public Consultation Process on AI and Intellectual Property Policy
OK, Boomer – Musings from a Software Developer
Let's say I want to skip the development of a parser and use a preexisting library for that; allowing me to dive into the semantics. Do you suggest any libraries/tools to take care of the parsing?
What do you mean by same style? Like alternating backgrounds and such?

I used Webflow CMS to build it, so I was a little bit limited in the amount of colors I could use unless I wanted to upgrade to the business plan lol.
> Women aren't inherently better than men (and viceversa)

While I would agree that that is true, axiomatically, when discussing moral worth and human dignity (whether speaking in terms of gender identity or biological sex), it's very clearly not true when talking about, well, a whole lot of capacities with physiological components when speaking of either averages or distributions between the biological sexes. I mean, this is fairly obvious with biological capacities closely related to sex and reproduction (I don't think anyone is going to argue against the idea that biological females are inherently advantaged when it comes to childbearing), but strucural and hormonal (among other) sex differences have far wider impacts. Testosterone levels alone, which are clearly linked to though not strictly determined by biological sex, have fairly wide ranging impacts on physical capacities and psychology/behavior.
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From the post itself, the symptom is: people are committing, but releases are not being made.
CMake 3.16 added support for precompiled headers and unity builds
Yap is the best new chatroom
Could this be used for cooling spacecraft someday?
I use HTTP cloud functions (google/firebase version of aws lambda).

Firebase database for long term persistence.

Huginn for scheduling and event based triggers of those cloud functions.
Are there any good alternatives to the reddit platform?

I've been a user since 2006. When reddit blew up in popularity, many subs massively declined in quality as is to be expected. Niche subs, however, remained pretty great.

But reddit as an organization is beyond repair at this point. Changes like this are now par for the course.

Worse even, reddit is now engaged in censoring subs. The most obvious and possibly most disturbing example is the quarantine of r/the_donald on political grounds.
Nobody in any of these articles complains about ads, so that is nonsense. They complain about becoming like Apple and handing over unrestricted access to data to the Chinese government or about becoming like Palantir. They also complain about bigwigs being protected after harassing lower level workers. Those things, and the no-poach agreement Google entered with Steve Jobs, are evil.
> Stimulants do NOT, in themselves, make you crazy.

Perhaps. They do, however, have a pretty direct relationship with overly verbose writing and excessive use of all-caps formatting.
Imagine when these faces start talking, tracking objects with their eyes with a perfectly synthesized voice all, generated in real time.
More than once I had a SuperShuttle driver tell me their credit card machine wasn't working. When I told them I didn't have cash, they'd insist we stop at the ATM on the way home. When I pointed out that the website where I booked plus the outside of the actual van we were in said they accept Visa, they'd really get in a huff. Always magically had paper credit card slips, though. Some of them really sounded vaguely threatening, with the Always Sunny style implication that I needed them to get home. Lucky for me I'm a reasonably large guy and could've just called a cab if needed - I'm sure their shtick worked on a lot of foreign travelers and people who felt intimidated or wanted to avoid confrontation.

For all the hate that Uber gets, I'll always appreciate them for being the first mode of transportation where you have some form of recourse against your driver via ratings/complaints, so the driver has an incentive not to be a total scumbag.
I think it's worse than that. I think "Don't be evil" implied that the company sought to avoid taking its highly-trained technical talent and applying them to the job of, say, weapons systems. In that sense, they weren't evil; attention shifting isn't nearly as bad as drone targeting.

... but if the money isn't there in ads in the future, I don't expect the company to just curl up and die. It'll be interesting to see what comes next when "The smartest people" need to find something to do.
How do I go about gaining the trust of the local murder of crows? We've a group of them that hang around, and they do an great job of scaring off the 3-4 red tail hawks in the neighborhood too... we've got chickens, and I'd love to trade some aerial protection for food.
That is basically a union effort. The cognitive dissonance on display with regard to labor in tech is fascinating. Many have internalized the propaganda created by big business that "unions are bad, unions are expensive, you don't want to unionize" and they aren't willing to revisit that internally, but they're like "what if we just organize without a union, refuse to work unless our demands are met" failing to realize that's exactly what a union is.

Union dues aren't collected so somebody else can get paid for doing nothing. That somebody (or somebodies) else is your advocate. They know your industry like your bosses do, except they aren't on your bosses payroll, they're on YOURS, meaning they go to bat for YOU, not the company. And Union membership is often a requirement for working. Why? Because if it wasn't, the company would staff up on workers not wanting to be part of the union, until they had enough to survive the resulting strike, and fire all the union people.

The effectiveness of corporate America's attack on organized labor over the last century cannot be overstated. They have done a fantastic job of demonizing any efforts at bargaining from the employee's side, and employee's wages demonstrate it.
Heat can be dissipated in a vacuum by electromagnetic radiation. This is how most heat is dissipated in a vacuum.

For the Casimir interaction, virtual particles are one way to do the bookkeeping to calculate the force between two objects. One object transfers energy and momentum to virtual particles which in turn transfer the energy and momentum to another object.
I only joined Twitter in 2014. I find it really odd that you couldn't share images originally. Did anyone here use Twitpic back in the day?
Perhaps AWS Certificate Manager certificates are deliberately large so more outgoing traffic can be charged?

Interesting idea from the post: "it could be a selling point for a Certificate Authority to use URLs that are as short as possible"
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i happen to keep a list of these things! under Color Picking https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy
> Look to Patreon

God, this one baffles me. I feel like you could write that website and app with 5-10 skilled employees and a handful more for support and administrative overhead, skim your 10% of a good chunk of all Internet microtransactions, and retire early. Then they go and nuke all their goodwill trying to milk every cent they can out of the process[1]. What the fuck? Just make a product people want to use and charge a fair price for it; payment processing with a small blog platform is not rocket science. No part of this requires 60 million dollars and 100+ employees[2].

[1] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/12/08/patreon-fees-con...

[2] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/58231-45
Ask HN: How do you release your software?
I'm working with Java and Maven, using company's SonaType Nexus registry as proxy.

I"d like to know how do you perform your Java releases and how often do you publish them to the registry?

Do you build everything everytime or just what has changed?
Reddit is the Uber of social media.

All of the hard work is done for free by the mods of each subreddit. But they have no piece of the pie when Reddit goes IPO. The entire value is predicated on an Army of free workers that get nothing when the site IPOs.
I wonder if some automatic governance model could be put into place to ensure a project never dies. Of course anything I can think of has the potential for abuse so maybe forking is the best solution after all.
Show HN: Drop-In Minimal CSS – Preview Minimal CSS Frameworks on any HTML Page
Is this some sort of a plug?
Concur - some of the contrasts would need to be improved for the palettes to be accessible. I found this particularly true with dark backgrounds and light hyperlink text.

Great effort on the site though - was fun to look through to look at some options.
AT&T Launches 5G Network in 10 Cities
Googlers are trained not to think of themselves as leaves, but as roots. That's the source of the friction.
Not big projects but this was my fear when I started open sourcing my hobby projects. At one point you will learn how to stop worrying and love the open source.

There will be all kinds of responses. Indeed, people complaining about the quality, but also poeple how help you get up to standards (also remember, there is not one standard).
People who find a spelling error in your README.md and make their first open source contribution to help you fix it. From hostile complainers to humble user. You can get the entire spectrum.

Find your own level of engagement and don't try to get stressed out by feeling guilty. But whatever you do, imho, always communicate something. Just putting a text at the top of your project's readme that you have taken a break and don't know when you return is always better then leaving people guessing.

As for the Pipenv project. I think people kept it at the highest standard because it was actively endorsed to be the one true new way of package managing, but anded up not trying to solve everyones problem. It's ok if you don't want to solve everyones problem, but make that clear in how you promote your project, not through shutting down issues and PR on the backside.
Are you privy to any warrants actually being issued solely because the police couldn't turn up info on a suspect via Facebook or Google? Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't think that's a thing that actually happens.
I don’t feel that this machine is ultimately meant for poorer regions with cheap labor. This is just mainly R&D.
It’s hard to imagine that Tesla would bring a product to the reveal stage without running a crash simulation or two. Although the panels look sturdy on the outside, it’s possible for there to be internal (on the reverse side) cuts/scoring which, when impacted by other members, result in buckling.
It probably _could_ be, but I'd probably have to build (or hire someone to build) some sort of external app / database to manage all that.

A simpler solution I thought about what recreating the layout in Figma or Sketch, then someone could create their own palette simply by tweaking color swatches (and have it auto update on the mockup).
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IMSI, IMEI, MSISDN, etc.

Systems to associate 'burner' phones to individuals, with patterns of metadata, have been commonplace for decades

https://github.com/kimgr/asn1ate/blob/master/testdata/public...
Interesting though, I don't think I've ever seen a code 507 in the wild!
Did all of the founders leave Reddit or something?

This is totally backwards. Valuing pure signup rates over the user experience of hundreds of millions, who may already have accounts but dont feel like logging in, or just simply want to read content and sign up another day, is what happens when marketing/business people hijack a business over product/UX people.

This is a very obvious vanity metric issue to anyone who has run a popular website. And most people do it to appease VCs/investors... Reddit is already mature, so there's no justification to artificially increasing growth at the expense of the wider product.
Thanks dude, you're too kind
This is not true at Google, you can trade all your vested equity ave the not vested ones should be replaced by a similar amount in your next job.

Google pays pretty well which makes it hard to leave, ave there is a lot of nice people to work with.
VirtualBox 6.1
I'd strongly disagree with that assessment after building on serverless platforms full time for 9 months. I'll never go back to a server-full backend.
This looks like an email harvesting scam to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if the authors of the cia field manual just copied verbatim their management training manual
I guess the attractive new plants out front are 3D printed too
That is a great/hilarious post, even if the title is wrong.
(The CIA did not yet exist in 1944; The manual is likely from the OSS, which was roughly the wartime predecessor of the CIA.)
I am aware of paying for transit, which allows you to access larger swaths of the Internet through someone else's (better connected) network.

But if I am with an ISP A, and I want to watch something on YouTube, then given that I am paying my ISP for connecting me to "the Internet", and YT is on "the Internet", how/why would YT pay the ISP anything?

How exactly would an ISP charge a CDN, YT, or Netflix? The content distributors simply connect to the Internet and advertise via BGP: besides paying their own ISP(s), how would a content provider pay a 'distant ISP'? If a content provider is willing to pay for dark fibre and install their own gear into IXPs, how would any ISP issue an invoice to the CDN(s)?

And the "transit exchange" at VanIX seems to be separate from the open peering option available by simply advertising to the router servers. From the sentence right before the one you quote:

> When these conditions are met, and a contractual structure exists to create a market to purchase network services, the IXP is sometimes called a "transit exchange".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point#Traffi...

TorIX has the majority of participants doing simple peering:

> The Exchange also offers two BGP Route-Servers, which allow peers to exchange prefixes with each other while minimizing the number of direct BGP peering sessions configured on their routers.[3] Participation is voluntary, with approximately 85 percent of the membership using the free service.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Internet_Exchange
Technically. For all sorts of accounting purposes, they're not.
From Tao’s blog post, it sounds like the result is more in terms of things like: for almost all n<N, the maximum value of n’s Collatz orbit is bounded by extremely slow-growing functions of N (e.g. log log log log N).
Not a googler myself, but if I had to guess I'd say they feel a sense of ownership in Google employees at other companies
might not. I think that sense of ownership is warranted, if not in a strictly legal sense. If a Google employee feels that, it seems natural to want to see it change for the better, and stick around to help influence it to do so.

Moreover, the sheer size and power of Google means that changing its culture changes how it interacts with the world, which could have far-reaching consequences. Seems natural to want to see that impact improve.
I was on Facebook back when you had to have a college email to be on it. It was were you could go to find out the name of that cute girl in class. It was also when social media was still a new concept. MySpace was a much bigger deal at the time, but Facebook was the first place where I could meet people my age nearby, organize a party, find out what was happening around campus.

I have not doubt Facebook will continue to win for a long time. But I think kids retreated from social media to avoid their parents. Everything is owned by a handful of companies now, so it doesn't really matter where they go I guess.
Right, but hipster usually meant cool cat beatniks, not flower child hippies
The Python Packaging Authority declared it the future of dependency management once upon a time and it nominally checked some important boxes such as managing a lockfile.
It’s a quasi-particle.
yes.

I'm trying to build a relational lang (in python, F#, Swift and now rust) and have stayed at the AST level all this time.

I only put the lexer to be done from someone that wanna learn rust.

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Is incredible how hard is tu build more complex semantics than "1 + 1". I have even get some nice answers from the guy of crafting-interpreters and he not even now some of them!

Things you wanna know, and maybe you not find (easily) how:

* How incorporate AGDT and pattern matching in a lang. It take me A LOT of time to figure that you can encode it in arrays + labels (now you get more samples of do it... Is getting more popular with hobbits to implement it)

* How implement type inference

* How create generators, coroutines and the like, specially if your host not have it

* ok, add a debugger

* ok, add support for a IDE or at least a code editor

* How design a FFI system?

* How make a lang without GC and it work fine?

* ... and with a GC, not using the one in your host?

* Continuation passing style that perform well in a lang without call-cc

* How to test the lang, correctly! (have not even the idea yet)

* You read tons of paper with amazing ideas, that even claim to have worked. Then you find you can't read most of the "math stuff" inside and no code to look at them. Them PL guys get mad because we ignore them

And many many many more.
Simple and nice. Some way to visualize what font color works best with the selected background would be a good add.
> at the same time tons of subreddits go way beyond just moderating out the bad stuff and act like full blown newspaper editors who delete 75%+ of organically upvoted submitted content

While hyper active moderation and power mods pushing their agendas on Reddit is a major issue, a fair amount of moderation is key to maintaining the quality of content. r/MurderedByWords is an example when the mods bend a bit too backwards in allowing content, it delved from legitimate smackdowns to childish name calling on Twitter. The sub's a disgrace lately.

Striking that balance is important, forcing your own views of what the sub should be will antogonize people but at the same time maintaining a bare minimum is also important. Even more so for subs that regularly hit r/all and r/popular. A lot of niche subs hit r/all with a thread or two causing a massive influx of users and the rules are relaxed to accommodate the lowest common denominator. The end result of doing that is usually the older regular content creators lose interest and leave the community.
Ahh, thanks for the feedback! I can definitely tone down the animations... Or maybe remove them for everything but the homepage.

I did the reload / separate pages because 1) to make my life easier building it lol and 2) so you could send links to specific palettes.
Sometimes a smoothie around 3pm that contains plant proteins, collagen protein, amazing grass, 1/4 cup of blueberries, ground chia seeds, and maca powder.

I've been intermittent fasting + keto for the majority of the past five years. The minority is when we cycle off keto for a week here and there by doing intermittent fasting + vegan.
They don't really have a choice. Boston had the same problem and moved the pickup to Central Parking.

It's not really that bad although I'm sure at least somewhat confusing to arrivals familiar with the airport. I did one of my rare drive-ins to the airport last week--usually get a car--and I walked by the pickup area on the way to parking. It's well-marked and is no further away than most of the parking is. (Doesn't need a airport shuttle.)