skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the gains are small & taken for granted. Do you remember what banking was like twenty years ago? These days I might visit a branch five times a year, and everything is auto-pay, e-bill, remote deposit, and p2p payments. Many years I don't have to visit the DMV. I used to call stores to get their hours & check stock, now I can mostly do that online in half the time.

I will agree that around the house, aside from Roomba not much home labor has been saved. Everything has gotten more efficient, but cooking is still cooking, and the washing machine still can't fold. Power tools have become a lot cheaper & better, but in many cases the maintenance overhead is often not worth the labor saved.
Where has this been since 2015?
> ("randomly" as in: why is "open file" throwing an exception when file doesn't exist but "find substring" returns -1 when substring doesn't exist?)

Because there can be lots of ways for `open` to throw an exception (encoding issues, not found, permissions, etc.). The underlying open syscall has 39 error codes. Python adds a few more failure modes atop that. I'd much rather deal with named error conditions than deal with return values -1 through -50.

Find substring can only fail in one way.
This isn't a problem, it is a design decision that you evidently don't like. There is a difference.
How about just open source and allow self hosting...
If I’m listening to them, in general I’d expect some thought put into it.
Gamers are not a monolithic bunch. Many boycott efforts seem to be unsuccessful.

Yet I suspect the full-price coupon and checkout method used on their continuous flow of "free games" allows them to rack up an impressive game sales total at no actual customer cost. Were free games used to pump the sales figures?
Since twitter is horrible on mobile, here's a summary:

# Nasorg sounds like NAS and could be mistaken for it.

# Nasorg is conservative and have published material with conservative slant.

# 7 out of 21 speakers are climate denialists.

# Therefore it is righteous to deplatform them.
godawful title. I refuse to read this. put a fucking description of what software project this is.
Yeah, Amex Travel is a reseller. I’m not sure if the backend the Amex Travel people see is the same as what we see as end users or if they have a different interface, but at my company, I call a number for Amex travel and speak to someone there, even for bookings made using Concur.
Key quotes:

>The @NASorg [National Association of Scholars] sounds like the National Academy of Science, but it's not.

>The conference they are organizing has 21 speakers. Of them, 7 are hard core climate change deniers and 0 are climate experts.

Sounds like a pretty shady group to me.
Why not just have everything in Fidelity or Vanguard?

Fidelity has free checks, debit withdrawals from any ATMs, easy ability to buy/sell stocks and index funds.

Their software could be better, but it's okay enough.

I'm not sure why anyone uses the other banks?
Because card paying members may choose to shop the store where they don't feel like they're losing.

Ie; gas station 1 has a 3c cash discount. Gas station 2 has no discount, but you don't feel like you're not getting the discount. Gas station 3 can even compete by having a 1c credit discount.
An example use of bracket would be:

do
filename <- getLine
fileContents <- bracket (openFile filename) (closeFile) $ \file -> do
contents <- readFile file
if contents == ""
then do
writeFile file "hello world"
return "hello world"
else do
return contents
putStrLn fileContents

this ensures that the file is closed even if readFile or writeFile throw exceptions.
I only know of CAN because some of the pwnage is somewhere between amusing and terrifying.
Emphasizing publishers does not reduce susceptibility to misinformation
This is why tracking should be opt-in. Then you can allow it to support the things that you value without my privacy being invaded.
This is a useful guide to reading all the briefing for the Google v. Oracle lawsuit over the legality of copyright for APIs currently under review by the Supreme Court. If SCOTUS finds in favor of Oracle, the impact on the computer industry will be cataclysmic.
Are these useful yet ?

I am very excited about this feature and have tried to incorporate it into my workflow but find it very difficult.

I want to open a window (not tab) as a particular profile, and then all subsequent tabs in that window are of that same profile.

This would seem to be the basic, beginning use-case from which all other use-cases would follow. I don't know why it doesn't exist ...
I'll cover this in the second post but we will be using ShareDB for our initial launch (although probably building our own once we hit production release).
I share frustration with many of the issues that the author discusses. But I disagree completely with his thesis. I am profoundly optimistic about our future.

The individual liberties provided by the Constitution empower each of us to speak our minds, share ideas, and start/join movements. We have the power to elect our representatives, and have an independent judiciary to push back against corruption. The average quality of life here is higher than in almost any other place on Earth, and no other country can compare to ours in terms of diversity of thought, culture, and ethnicity.

Look, I understand that there are real, serious problems with our institutions and our economy. The beautiful thing about the United States though is that our political system allows for solutions to be discussed, proposed, and adopted. The biggest threats I see to the United States are not unique to us: climate change, nuclear nonproliferation, and global unrest/poverty.
Yeah, the "redemption period" is what you're thinking of. As far as I know, only the person who last owned the domain can get it out of that status (usually at a premium cost). After 30 days, anyone can register it.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-lifecycle-2012-02... has a graphic explaining a typical domain lifecycle.
Your complaints aren't unreasonable, and I wouldn't disagree with skipping the book to read others instead. I agree with whoever said the book needs a version 2.

However, I don't think this justifies dismissing the entire book. "I'm not sure which studies weren't reproducible and I don't feel like looking them up," is a very different statement than, "This whole book is bullshit." There's really no reason to make that latter overstatement.
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All of this ignores the elephant in the room. NetHack 3.6.4 released!
the per person amount hardly matters for a family's budget...the fact is you're paying far more than a single person
Even after reading his tweets I have a distaste for what he is doing. He doesn't want this conference going forward because they are of different political leaning or are saying things he doesn't agree with. What business is that of his? If these people want to meet, they can meet without his stamp of approval.
It's been sad to watch such a storied institution reduced to another Murdoch mouthpiece over the last 10 years. The WSJ never had much of an ideological bent other than "capitalism" until News Corp took over.
This is still very common in Tunisia too
The wsj article is actually fairly accurate, since it has basically listed all the same arguments.

The question is the last point: assuming everything else here is true, is this sufficient grounds for deplatforming? Do you want to live in a world where it is?

Edit: apparently the HN answer is: yes, we totes do.
Yes I know China has had several civil wars, but it was never rendered permanently too weak to ever rise again like Rome. But yeah I agree I was not wording myself very clearly there.

> China fell behind because the KMT and CCP fought a decades long civil war that was interrupted by the Japanese raping the country.

I disagree. At that point China had already fallen way behind. The KMT and CCP was fighting in large part because China had already stagnated and failed to keep up with European powers.

When China got humiliated by Britain in the opium wars it was already a failed empire.

Long before KMT and CCP western powers started carving out their own enclaves in China. They had whole city sections where Chinese where not allowed. China was being humiliated on home turf by the west. Relative to the west China was not that different from today in terms of economy when this happened. The west could not outright take China.

However the technological advantage the west held in maritime warfare meant that western powers could cause massive damage in China without them having a way of retaliating.
> After WWII, the US had confidence in its own system of government, and imposed it on Germany and Japan with a sizable occupation force.

Neither Germany or Japan's governments are modeled after the US system of government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system#/media/Fi...

We helped impose a system of government in both nations after ww2, but neither is our system of government. They have a lot of similar parts, but it isn't our system of government.

> It worked.

The marshall plan worked in germany. As for japan, they didn't receive any marshall plan. It wasn't until the korean war that "it worked" for japan. But both germany and japan were major modern powers before ww2 so they would have reverted back to it if left to their devises. The US didn't create the success in germany or japan, the germans and japanese did that themselves.

> The US underfunded the post-war period of round one in Afghanistan, after kicking the Soviets out. In Iraq, the occupation was botched. Paul Bremer is generally blamed for this.[1]

No amount of funding was going to save afghanistan. The same goes for iraq. You need a nationalistic centralized power to stabilize and grow a nation - especially a war torn one. Something Germany and Japan had and aghanistan and iraq don't.

> Blowing the aftermath of a war leads to big trouble. See: WWI.

Aghanistan and Iraq wars are nothing like WW1. Nearly 40 million people died in WW1 and it involved all the great powers at the time. WW1 and WW2 are fairly unique went it comes to wars. Maybe vietnam or algeria are better comparisons, but even then, aghanistan and iraq are not even vietnam or algeria.

For the US, the iraq and afghan wars were more skirmishes than wars. The military casualties are 4,497 and 2,216 respectively.

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

To put this into perspective, quite a few cities in the US experienced more gun related homicides than the US military did in iraq or afghanistan. So nothing like ww1.
This is quaint history.

But it clearly won't work.

Yet there are no environment impacts with testing this theory, it was thought to work until the 1980's, so why has it not been practically disproven.

Even from the point of view it clearly will have a visual effect on a quite lake[2]. Why are we not trying to see what is actually happening. What are the magnitudes here.

Suppression of breakers in stormy seas by an oil film
https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871415588671

[2] Crazy Lake Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2H418M3V6M
> there's also GFS2, HDFS, GPFS, OCFS, VMFS, Ceph, Lustre, Gluter, Lizard, Orange, Hammer2, MapR, Xtreem.

Until quite recently I was a maintainer for one of those. I've worked on two others. One more isn't done, two more are unmaintained, two more will trash data in specific ways I have identified to their developers, and HDFS isn't even a real filesystem. Also a couple more are proprietary. We're nowhere near "same functionality" here.

> most modern SANs have all those features and more

A SAN is not a filesystem, so it fails the "equivalent functionality" test again. No, that's not a "No True Scotsman" fallacy because you set the goalpost and it hasn't moved. If it's not mountable, not shared at file granularity, or not writable at byte granularity, it's not equivalent to NFS. You're also mixing cluster, network, and distributed filesystems in a way that makes me doubt your ability to comment cogently on their strengths and weaknesses. I developed a SAN-based filesystem at EMC, it made sense at the time (no later than 2002!), but nowadays it's utterly insane to posit that as a serious alternative. But at least now I know what you're trying to sell, so thanks I guess.
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This guy's Twitter thread doesn't seem like a great defense, because he doesn't make any specific scientific claims. It's all just ad-hominem that this org are "climate deniers."

More troubling is his claim that they are "weaponizing" reproducibility against climate change. Doesn't that raise a red flag? If you're worried that reproducibility poses a problem for something, doesn't that mean you might just a little bit probably have beliefs not based on reproducible science, but on faith? And that the irreproducible science has a chance of being wrong?

I'm not trying to deny climate science, I think it's real. But it seems like there's a real problem with this person's stance and how they're trying to argue and obstruct.

I'm kind of a believer that people can think for themselves. Let anybody attend anything - if it's a science convention that isn't promoting science it seems like it's not going to get very far, no protesting required.

Who are these people who feel that simply listening to someone speak is equivalent to endorsing them?
somefamousperson (shrug) once said (I roughly paraphrase) that you could be handed a picture, and you could analyze the makeup of every square millimeter of it without ever seeing the picture.

What does it gain? I can never know anyone. After long effort, I've made some progress knowing myself. Yet we manage to have some kinds of relationships. We can enjoy (or suffer) them, but comprehension is a fantasy.
Yeah, Southwest keeps their pricing info private for the most part. Depending on the route, you can do better on Southwest than basic economy on another airline (and you can check bags or whatever), but the lack of IFE, their route plans, and the fact that there is so assigned seating (which means you either pay for early boarding or save seats for travel companions, which the FAs refuse to do anything about), not to mention my aversion for the FA schtick are part of why I will only fly them if there is no other choice.
I've been given advice that ShareDB is "pretty antiquated and not well supported". I'm told it is not difficult to rewrite in modern NodeJS, replacing things like callbacks and event emitters with async/await produces a much simpler and more reliable server.
(disclaimer - worked at Kayak a long time ago)

A big part of what made Kayak good was that it was (is?) a solid data product - basically a gigantic farm of scrapers and crawlers glommed together with direct-from-provider (airline, hotel etc) data ingestion pipelines and coherence protocols that flowed into massive unified local cache databases. All this to ensure that you, as a customer, saw the most up to date and widest variety of information possible.

When Kayak IPO'd, it was around the time that ITA software (massive airline data provider you've never heard of) got sold to google, and there was a lot of hand wringing over whether this'd spell the end for Kayak. But even then it looks like ITA supplied only 42% of flight data (check out the S1 filing https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/000119312510...), the rest from other data providers (Amadeus etc), online travel agencies, or individual airlines.

So given that, Hipmunk's focus on "we're gonna make the UX so much better" was admirable (especially given the state of a lot of the competition), and it pushed everyone to do better in that regard, but always felt a bit naive as a business strategy to me, since I think most people will pick the site with the slightly worse UI and better / cheaper / non-stale flights rather than the other way round. Especially in a non-premium race to the bottom industry like online tickets. And getting quality data takes a big team and lots of money and infrastructure, as well as lots of business relationships.

But I always thought they were a cut above a lot of the other competitors which were bad UIs mangled with dozens of ads thrown together in a slapshod way on top of the same 1-2 data providers.
Integrated perfusion machine preserves injured human livers for 1 week
LIke I say, I'm not a hardcore gamer so I don't know if I'm best qualified to answer your questions, but basically...

1) Everything has its limits. There are seven basic plots[0] and while human creativity has an amazing ability to retell them in different ways, after a while you definitely start to see patterns. The real world is great and I definitely keep up with current affairs etc, but if you look too closely in any direction things are kind of messed up. Sometimes a dreamy world is a nice place to be, particularly if you can get there without risking too much damage to yourself.

2) I guess every art form is constrained by its boundaries - you could say that nothing much has happened in portaiture in the last 600 years. I think that story telling is getting better in gaming, and player choice and branching is definitely something that keeps pushing outwards. The whole online/collaborative scene is something that we've wanted from the start and is really only being solved satisfactorily now.

> Do you really think a PS5 game will be that much more enjoyable than a PS2 game?

Not necessarily - some old games are great, and the whole retro-gaming craze is a testament to this - but that will only feed the cumulative growth of games. People will be playing the classics and the new releases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
Cancelled, I suppose.
There is plenty of evidence supporting positive correlation between parental incomes/wealth and the child’s success in academic and commercial endeavours, but little evidence either way relating to success at starting a new business.

But given that the secret to successfully launching a business is to have enough resources to fail many times, it stands to reason that successful startups are highly dependent on founder funding (and thus, parental wealth).
I'm sure that's true but I'm also not sure that's entirely a bad thing. We may have opinions on what is reasonable but I'm fairly sure we don't think in general that living in tenements is a good thing.
Nearly all devices that have a horizontal USB port expect the "holes with shadows" side up. Look, then feel a little to jiggle it in. It takes just 2 mins to learn this and it will (well would have) save you years of frustration.
Here’s exactly how it rolled out: I get a call, my wife has been taken to the hospital in nyc, and it’s a bad situation.

I look at google flights, see the upcoming flights, don’t book because I don’t know how long it will take to get to the airport.

Driving to the airport, I call Delta, almost book their flight until they casually mention it’s delayed 8 hours.

Call United, it’s a 30 minute wait to book a ticket.

I put my Tesla in auto steer and pull out the app. Fucking thing keeps reminding me to touch the steering wheel. Eventually the Tesla revokes my auto steer privileges for the rest of the drive. Thanks. A. Lot.

I scream into the airport, while talking to Amex travel. There’s an united flight boarding in 20 minutes. Amex tells me that due to the inherent delay in the online ticketing process, to buy my ticket at the airport.

And that’s why you might have someone who couldn’t use the website to book a trip.

They say you don’t know what the guy in front of you could be dealing with. I was that guy that day.

I called Amex back and they expedited the ticketing. United never called me back after I left my number earlier for their automated call back service for the 30 minute hold time.
US man breaks record for completing marathon in an exoskeleton
Ah, I've not flown through those other major international hubs. I bet places like Dubai are super easy as well. I vote for your proposal! :)
Steam seems to patch very quickly so that's never been an issue for me.

Some games patch very poorly due to Steam's update mechanism. Path of Exile is notorious for this, to the point many download the standalone client instead. The issue is that it uses one big file for data and this interacts poorly with steam (a tiny patch will take half an hour to apply after downloading, even on SSD).
I don’t know whether you’re right or wrong, but calling someone a veteran based on 10 years of exp, and a director after 5 to 7 years sounds like a recipe for disaster. (Unless you literally started the company or something Like that).

Could this actually explain why a lot of people don’t like their managers? Because they are just too damn inexperienced.

Re: knowing few staff or principal engs, my personal anecdotal observation (and other people have told me the same), is that many engineers don’t change their titles on LinkedIn, or say they are “staff eng” etc in public. In fact, for some people, the higher they go the more they downplay their title in public. Don’t have data to back this up, just anecdotal convos with some people I know.

I’d also like to think the culture is slowly changing, about feeling forced to get into people management to progress your career. But that could be wishful thinking!
Article seems to forget that there are vast swaths of the population that do not play games. They do not have the patience to learn how to play games, not even console games with simpler controls. Even casual games require some level of skill to play, or they're not any fun, and the joy of television is that you do not need any special skill to enjoy it. This isn't even getting into people who view games as a waste of time, worse than television--at least television can sometimes teach you something, most games do not. You could try to argue that because a lot of children play games, future generations will be more game-focused, but I still don't believe that it's even close to a simple majority of children who like playing games as much as watching video content. Video content will always win because they don't take much (or any) energy (physical, mental, or emotional) to enjoy. I think most people find that you reach a point in the day where you're too tired to literally do anything else (no reading, no gaming) but stare at video until you're ready to fall asleep.
It's a reasonable perspective, but I think it's also reasonable to point out that "native" is not just used as a technical term but also used a shorthand for all those benefits that the user really does care about. So "fast, standard widgets, and conforms to UI conventions of the environment" is a useful enough group of characteristics that I think it's natural that people are going to use the term to describe them. It's precisely because non-native apps are generally worse on all counts, so if you can go to the trouble of making something that is just as good, people are going to want to label it that way, and if the technology used doesn't affect the user experience in any way, it doesn't need to be mentioned.

And I would say Office is native on Windows, I don't see how the flagship product written for that OS could be considered anything but. Even if they wrote the entire UI in an interpreted language and used all custom widgets, that would still be true according to my definition.
I recently started gaming after a good 8-10 years of non gaming. I installed Dirt Rally and bought a racing wheel controller. It is a blast to drive in a simulator-like game. I don't think it is a game I would've have enjoyed as a kid or a teen. The current gaming landscape is broad and covers more niches than ever before. Explore games that align with your interests.

Your 1st argument could be made for watching television. Television shows also range from self-learning to toddler cartoons to historical dramas.
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