skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requiring a Mac reduces the number of low-effort “checkbox ports”, which the google play store has no shortage of. Nobody who just wants a quick, easy presence on iOS will buy a Mac, leaving (mostly) devs with the intent of building decent iOS apps.
> The Chinese government, in general

...has nothing to do with the app from this article made by "Breej Holding" "most likely a front company affiliated with DarkMatter, an Abu Dhabi-based cyberintelligence and hacking firm where Emirati intelligence officials, former National Security Agency employees and former Israeli military intelligence operatives work."
Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
This is untrue. I have also tested throttle by wire systems and found more lag. The auto industry needs it for emissions and markets it as better, it is not.
So all the suffering in the world is the fault of giant corporations? How giant do they have to be to go from being the building blocks of capitalism to breaking it?
It's my point so what is your point?
As somebody who used to develop a small Safari extension and dropped it when the fee was introduced, I was really disappointed at the time. All the critiques of the time are still valid today and I believe have been vindicated: developer adoption has plummeted, there is no real growth in the number or quality of Safari extensions, the browser itself is lagging by any popularity metric one might care about... The same fate will likely befall Sign-in, although I guess leverage from iOS is stronger than Safari’s.

This said, Apple’s approach is consistent: “this is a walled garden, you play by our rules, but we will make it worth your while”. The fee helps existing ecosystem developers defend from newcomers and challengers. It’s one of the ways the feudal ruler discharges its duties in the vassalage agreement, and then ensures loyalty by exploiting the sunken-costs fallacy. If you invest even a small amount of money in the agreement, you are much more motivated to actually produce something with it; and you’ll have less competition because a lot of people won’t even bother starting. The ecosystem will be markedly different from others, so that people that live entirely within its borders will struggle to ever leave, and developers won’t have to worry about expanding to other platforms.
If I understand it correctly (unlikely), Nix has the degree of purely-functional rigor necessary to do this correctly, right? Sounds like it would eventually be awesome for Bazel usecases.
Ah, yes, it is definitely reasonable to draw that conclusion based on people's disinclination to spend 100% the fare for a 10% larger, somewhat less uncomfortable seat, and/or 1000% the fare for 50% more space and an actually comfortable seat.
book an emergency exit seat for extra $50 or something
I wrote company-wide, but it's not the case everywhere. At some scale you'll want department, or even project-wide process. But the policy should be fairly common - who owns it, what's the response time, how to escalate urgent things, etc.
Your findings are not mutually exclusive with other theories about the underlying causes of high U.S. healthcare expenditure, such as a chronic lack of price transparency. The more money is in the pot, the greater the incentives to pilfer it, and, in lieu of adequate controls, the more it will be pilfered. The way I see it, your linear regression is between income and aggregate pilferage across all layers of the healthcare establishment (Kafka baklava :) ). I surmise that the accelerating nature of health expenditures (1.8% increase for every 1% increase in income) is due to the rapid inflation of disposable income relative to overall income at the higher levels. Disposable income and the saved wealth accrued from higher disposable income over time are more readily pilfered. I should say “otherwise disposable,” because the healthcare industry takes a progressively larger chunk of that and makes it de facto indisposable. I say this with no irony: a linear regression between income and amounts extorted during kidnapping, controlling for other variables, would show similar results.
Sorry , I mean in a job interview you will probably won't get the top 0.01% individuals.
This is a shallow dismissal, which the HN guidelines ask you not to do, and especially not out of indignation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's obvious from early in the article that Garry wasn't "buddies" with Thiel. He had just graduated, and a college friend was the connection. That means your point reduces to: people who go to elite colleges encounter opportunities as a result. No one disagrees with that, certainly not Garry, but it's a tangential, generic and therefore a weak response to the point of this article, which is about taking the opportunities that do come your way.
Also interested in the spreadsheet, but figured commenting directly rather than in that thread would increase the likelihood you see this.
That all comes down to how well-designed the API is. Not all APIs are created equal but in the hands of a skilled designer, this functionality is priceless. Not only that but you can also look at the actual values to tease apart any meanings that seem ambiguous (but, once again, in the hands of a good designer those won't exist in the first place).
Million WebSockets and Go (2017)
I think Kayak was one of the first few to implement this since it was there the day iOS 13 rolled out.
Hardware tooling is bad. Like really lifesuckingly bad. Download yourself some free Xilinx IDE and try to do some Verilog Hello World on a cheap demo board. Blink a LED or something. Its so bad you will want to scream: Dog slow sythesis (~compilation), useless IDE support, ten steps to run something, badly composed. Errors will land in some arbitrarily named logfile somewhere between the code. More expensive tools are hardly any better.

I started doing hardware but ran away, I feel it is a waste of developer time to even consider doing any custom hardware designs. People should be punished for even thinking about using FPGAs. Just don't do it.

Sorry for the rant, but I feel warning yall is my duty ;)
You don't think you can make money from a cancer cure and cure cancer at the same time?
There is build2. It has "high-fidelity" (instead of hermetic) builds meaning that besides sources it keeps track of changes to options, compilers, etc. This gives you similar benefits at a fraction of the cost. There is no distributed compilation or caching yet but it's coming. In other benefits, it doesn't need Java or Python (or any other "platform").
... You somehow assume someone called Christian must be a Christian?

Really?
The shorts on twitter are particularly venomous today. I have to wonder if they're too emotionally involved in this. Tesla is seriously flawed but "fraud" is truly ludicrous.
Then I guess I'm guilty sneaking my personal preferences. I wanted to have a conversation about the industrial food supply and failed to ask the right questions
Won't accept? It seems startups are the same. "Rationally" a poor way to get rich, but if enough people miscaulate their odds (or enjoy it for nonmonetary reasons) we'll get a few big successes.
Many heavily authoritarian regimes in the past have defended comedians as bastions of free-speech promoting those that do little harm to the system while spurning those that spread truly subversive messages.

I think we also need to acknowledge the fact that the president is hardly the government - America is a gigantic bureaucracy and our government is primarily composed of civil servants who keep the lights on. If Steven Colbert (similar to his better know a district series on the old show) started to tear down agencies within departments, going after Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Nuclear Security Administration or Foreign Claims Settlement Commission[1] - then he'd actually be subverting the government. The executive branch is both structurally minor and, IMO, partially exists to be the target of blame and praise so that the rest of the government can get on with their business.

1. Random agencies pulled from agencies under the departments listed here https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/d
Going into the unknown can be guided by things other than luck and randomness. Did you figure out why you chose what you did?
have you seen anyone ever happy in a cubicle?
Obviously not all. You know how english is with these words.

There's a gradient. The point at which there's no point in going up against them is definitely too far. Competition is important to a healthy capitalist economy.
Because USA doesn't execute prisoners at the rate China or Russia does
That he'll completely fail to smoke properly.
Working for a consulting firm with a lot of startup clients can also be a great experience if you plan to go that way yourself down the road, at least in what YC would call "hard tech."

You get to see the inner workings of a bunch of startups in your field, and you get to see which ones work out and which ones don't. Of course, the pay isn't great, but you do get to work on a lot of cool stuff in a "startup-ish" environment.
those 1st world morons and their ideas of progression means nothing if you cant even feed or house your family.

losing karma for defending people who need actual help.
for crying out loud.
Is this platform also against certain things, like getting weaponized against universal health coverage?
> In practice, you deal with the unproductive employee, lying partner, etc. the same way you always have.

This is one option, but not the only one.

"When you go out into the office, and you look at the landscape, you see all these different employees. And some of them are highly productive and collaborative, and some of them are less so, and some of them are positive high-achievers, and some of them are whatever. And you look at each employee and you allow it. You see [or try to see] why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that they didn’t get enough love or understanding, and so they turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the person."

"The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are."

I think what Ram is getting at in the last paragraph is something along the lines that, while we can engage with nature in an unassuming, open-minded way, doing the same with other humans is extremely difficult. Due to our lack of control over our own minds, they get up to all sorts of mischief, jumping to unfounded and epistemically unsound conclusions, feeding our conscience minds with a representation of the world that is largely a hallucination.

One way of dealing with this in the case of a problem employee, is to talk to them. Easier said than done though of course, because that process is subject to the very same problem, and others.
GitHub user attempts to create the first open Business AI and ML repos
Correct in this case. And to a pro driver, this is not drifting. This is donuts. Mashing the gass to lose grip is the lowest tier of 'drifting'. Real drifting as racers do it uses mostly the momentum and changing inerta from braking at corner entry to get sideways, using the gas only to modulye traction. That can be done in any car, fwd included.
The government is elected by the people, it doesn't fit that definition.

An authoritarian type of government is a government that is in power by force.

Democracy and slavary existed together. Having a prison population 1 in 125 people doesn't matter because the people decided to elect someone to make that decision.
Warlock of Fire Mountain had an interesting twist re: memorization in that there was an actual maze embedded in it.

I remember putting together a 'logic map' for a scripting language in order to generate CYOAs, but never went anywhere with it. I wanted to have things like dependent choices on starting items affecting page turns and so forth. With only 400 items as a 'limit' to gamebook memory it was an interesting challenge!
Applied Category Theory 2020 – Adjoint School
All of which exist, and will happily take you in if you want.
So this is a social value in addition to that, not a replacement for its loss.
"The NYT didn’t have to be right, they only had to sell newspapers and clicks."

This is totally wrong. The New York Times depends on its reputation for accuracy.
Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11k people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch
As opposed to working for a small money losing company backed by VCs who hoped to be bought out by big tech companies....
I think we’re talking past each other? I’m not making a value judgment per se. It is simply a fact that many in the toxic social justice group you reference do not believe that the work of dead white males is particularly interesting or important. Thus, they tend to self-select out of classes with an emphasis on the western canon. This isn’t an assumption — it’s an observation about many of my friends who took DS (I couldn’t hack it myself!)
I don't understand your problem with QString, but anyway, AFAIK the common way to get Unicode support with std::string is ICU. ICU is quite large (~15-20 MB binary) and it breaks binary compatibility with every release.
>> He asked, "How much a year do you make at Microsoft?"

>> It was $72,000 a year, really the lowest of the low coming right out of college. He got out his checkbook and wrote me that check.

>> "Cash this check, quit your job. This is a zero risk opportunity for you."

>> I said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Thiel, but I might get promoted to Level 60 next year."

Wow. This is probably the most impressive combination of arrogance and stupidity that I've ever read about or witnessed in my life.
> but that setup employees with the lovely complication of having to learn about insider training and how to NOT do it

Generally speaking, the majority of (non DOD) Boeing employees should not be restricted by insider trading; It's often rumored to have broader reach than it does. In order to be an insider, you would need to have direct impact or insight into an unannounced project, corporate, or financial disclosure. It may even take some authority to be able to materially impact delivery deadlines or financials before you're considered an insider.
Practical AI 70: AI for Search at Etsy
The response to this post is startling. Would it received the same reception had it been written and posted a decade ago, I wonder. Has HN gotten more jaded- and mature?
If you want to see what a Navy SEAL's life is like, I highly recommend this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvvNKBGgUw

"Documentary" makes it sound sterile or clinical, but in fact it's pretty badass.

Kind of dispels the illusion that we're not pampered.

It's so good I'll probably watch it again today. The diving section is the best, IMO. Imagine someone spinning you around underwater and ripping off parts of your dive gear then having to reassemble it basically blind.

Imagine a junior code review that starts like this (https://youtu.be/AGvvNKBGgUw?t=230): "This entire codebase has been a joke. There hasn't been a single module that you've written during the course of this project that has even remotely resembled perfection. Everything has been sad, weak, and unreadable. And it's all because you're inside your tiny little brain, self-defeating yourself."

Admittedly that only happens during the training phase, though.
In contrast, it's impossible to spot someone miserable on a jet ski.
>> Overall I was curious if you were suggesting I'd need to go to racing school and learn drifting in order to keep my family safe. thanks for clarifying.

Excellent question

Absolutely need it? probably not. Many situations are like the tricky one you described, where picking the least-worst snowbank was probably your best move. That said, only chance will tell if anything more hairy comes up (the thing that wigs me out most is dashcams of things coming in from the oncoming lane -- gotta be really alert, quick, and dynamic to survive).

Highly recommended? Absolutely!

I cannot recommend enough going to some classes that are typically called Car Control Clinics, and are often offered by the local SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), BMWCCA (BMW Car Club of America), and others.

IMO, these should be obligatory for all new drivers. They cover the general principles of the limits of grip, and how to manage the car at the limits, and how to drive more precisely both at ordinary speed and in quick situations (e.g., sudden-lane-change drill), how to keep the car balanced in maneuvers, how to get the most out of brakes, steering, etc. I took my mom to one once, and she had decades of experience in snowy climates, and she learned a huge amount and had a ton of fun - started out timid and was smokin' the brakes by the end of the drills! A great investment of a day and entry fee to cover the site, and a lot of fun.

If you want to move up into track day classes, autocross, and road racing - you'll learn all kinds of hings you never knew existed (true for me even w/top-level experience in other speed sports) and have the most fun you cna have with your trousers on

Please ping me if I can help you find options in your area.
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I don't know, space is hard and things go wrong. Just because we've done it hundreds of times doesn't mean we should expect perfection.
I think... I think if it's not obvious to people why supporting companies that undermine competition is bad.. I think maybe I should stop commenting here entirely. I'm going to log out, and not log back in. I'll be happier, you guys can enjoy yourselves too.

Cheers and good luck.
Do you know what Uighurs are?

I mean, I guess China doesn't so much mind them when they are in Africa. Thousands of miles away. But they're all muslim.
Yeah the whole reason Sign In with Apple is appealing is because sites/service are notoriously bad about abusing access to one’s inbox. The ability to cut off any site/service I please without trickery with email aliases, etc is invaluable.
If you have a family or you have a chronic illness, working at a big company -- at least in the US -- generally means better health benefits. I'd wager that health insurance alone is the most compelling reason why many people choose big companies over startups.
Easy way would be to build an RNG system into the gamebook, such as "you must enter a 3 digit pass code" and have whatever number is the first digit 'seed' the RNG options. then later you can ask the reader to validate whichever of the 3 digits, and if they get it 'wrong' it acts as a seed update for new choices.
> The same fate will likely befall Sign-in

I highly doubt it, at least not for the “fee” reason. The number of Safari extension developers without a paid membership when they introduced the fee (or the number of browser extension developers of any kind, really) is hardly even a rounding error compared to the number of iOS developers who already have a subscription.
It's probably not one single reason. Tesla has had a lot of good news lately, from reports about Elon behaving a little better (and winning that defamation lawsuit), to competing EV from companies like Mercedes and Audi not really selling well and securing a large area for GF4 near Berlin. The most impressive feat for me was how quickly they built GF3 and started production in China, but my tiny contribution to the stock price was earlier this year (late May), the return to profitability in Q3 probably impressed many investors as well.
They're not the only company that does this. It's ridiculous.
You'd better stay away from Istanbul then, it's full of unspayed Socrates-es.

In seriousness, China's problem is not with all Muslims, it's with the Uighurs as a threat to their national integrity (especially in a region with such strategic importance, bordering Pakistan and India, and containing many railheads linking China to the rest of Eurasia). One of China's largest partners is Pakistan -- which is in its own words an Islamic republic -- and whose government generally turns a blind eye to what's happening in Xinjiang.
>> Isn't the whole idea behind showing HN something to get criticism?

>Let me categorically say: Hell no.

It seemed obvious to me that the GP was referring to constructive criticism (which can be very valuable). I would not say it is "the whole idea" behind "Show HN" posts, but it is definitely one of the primary motivators for most of the posts I've seen.

That being said, I'm sure most don't put up a "Show HN" post to effectively hear "this sucks" with nothing helpful in the response (and that does happen).
And yet I'm unclear on where any of the big tech companies have a lock on their market such that there's no point in competing with them. Google has huge market share in search, but Bing and DDG and others are still competing.
It's not the question of what's better or worse. It's about what's already there. Within any large enough network where some level of consensus is able to be formed, you will see conventions start to form. Once these conventions form, they are almost undefeatable. But the most intersting thing is that they are undefeatable, even if there is complete consensus that they should be.

Take for example, the imperial units. I think the vast majority of American engineers would agree about its shortcomings. But it can't go, simply because it's already there.

C is the same. Look at any modern natively compiled language. They will always come with some easy ways to bind to C. Because to not do so would be a stillborn language.

So even in tech, where things evolve extremely rapidly - compute power/$ has improved a million x since the days of C, C still lives, and is the underlying basis of everything. Because conventions.
What a harsh action. What is next? Decrease his bonus for the year when several hundred people died because of the actions of the company he is leading?
Geostationary orbits won't necessarily cross the equator.
I wonder why HN can't implement proper css for quotes that doesn't have scrollbars.
I’m 6ft and have normal length legs. I don’t have any issue doing a 5h flight on a 737 with minimum pitch. I wouldn’t pay extra for legroom, but people who are taller than me would, I imagine.
Anything frozen & prepared seems to be taboo -- like a frozen pizza. But frozen peas and berries are fair game. Everything else seems to come down to branding.

I've seen premade refrigerated pizza fly off the shelf. I've seen drinks with all kinds of highly processed ingredients sell like hotcakes. I've seen condiments with a list of ingredients as long as a phone book purchase by plenty of people that eat only "real food".

Protein powders and supplements intrigue me to no end. These are some of the most processed and unregulated things sold on shelves. But "real food" advocates literally eat them up.

One of my friends is making millions catering to this group. I've been trying to figure out how these shoppers think. To me, it doesn't seem like there's much in common. It seems to be mostly branding.
Those prisoners are being deprived of their lives - and I'd guess in many times wrongly since the US incarcerates twice as many people per capita than Russia or China.
Please don't take HN on generic ideological tangents. They're repetitive, tedious, and off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html