skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was really surprised to see Plex in my friend's off-FB-activity list. I've been wanting to switch to Emby, but I already have a Plex lifetime membership, and it would be difficult to get friends to make the switch. I'm not liking Plex's direction with getting into the streaming business, along with this FB spyware mishap.
I wish they would have removed SysEx messages. They cause way more trouble than they're worth, now that we have property exchange/profile configuration built into the spec.
Please stop scaring me.
In 1975, at 4 billions we were not going to be able to feed 8 billions.
Now we do.
I want to respect the food chain. Let the birds eat the bugs.
Let us eat the birds.
> Maybe they are struggling to find Java/Kotlin devs and have a surplus of Swift devs.

Based on AirBnB's experience, now you need to find React Native devs in addition to Java devs.
Thanks thewarpaint. Good point. Having read the below counterpoints though, I'm not quite sure now! I'll look into it.
Here are some reasons why someone might choose to use us:

- We're super developer friendly - you don't even need an access token to make up to 1,000 requests per day. We have a clean / simple JSON response, and official SDKs for most popular libraries

- We have a quick, reliable API. We obsess over latency and availability, and handle over 20 billion API requests a month. (here's a technical overview of how we reduced rDNS lookups by 50x: https://blog.ipinfo.io/reducing-ipinfo-io-api-latency-50x-by...)

- We obsess over data quality. We have a data team that's constantly striving to make our data and accuracy even better than it already is.

- We're innovating. We've launched and are working on exciting new data sets and products in the IP and domain data space (VPN detection, the host.io domain API, and more).

- We care about our customers. We have people working on customer support and customer success. If you run into an issue or need help, we'll be there to answer your questions.
Actually the future of the application UI is React.
That's a good way of putting it, because in a recent manslaughter case the US citizen (driving on the wrong side of the road) flew home on diplomatic immunity (a familial extension, not even the diplomat herself) and the US has refused extradition.

I think the immunity was eventually deemed not to apply (or at least to be questionable) but even if not there was precedent of a Briton's immunity being waived for extradition to America; a favour not repaid in this case.

So yes, 'political power' indeed.
lock_guard doesn’t have a default ctor, you have to pass a mutex (or presumably invoke a move ctor, but I can’t see one on cppref).
I'm not totally convinced of that.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s people really took privacy seriously. The whole PC culture considered spyware anathema. Anyone around back then can remember the outrage when any piece of software was caught sending any private data anywhere without explicit user authorization.

Then the mobile revolution happened, and mobile basically re-educated and re-conditioned the market to accept surveillance capitalism as the de-facto business model. That was then "back-ported" onto the PC and the web.

Why was mobile built this way? Because the web learned that surveillance and ads is the only working business model. Mobile was built as a surveillance/ad platform first and an app platform second because the web showed that this was economically the way forward.

If users were accustomed to paying for things mobile might have been built like a mini-PC for your pocket with a touch UI but carrying forward the old-school PC culture of "I own my stuff" and "don't spy on me."

If I were given a billion bucks to build an iOS/iPhone competitor that respected user privacy and such, the first thing I'd do would be to actually prohibit free apps in the default App Store. All apps must be paid. I would pair this with really advanced privacy and security controls and a good UI for those and a lot of dark patterns applied in reverse to discourage apps from asking for elevated permissions. Push the market back to "you are the customer" from "you are the product."
That album splitting bug has been around for years and I don't know if they'll ever fix it. It's particularly infuriating because when you look at one half the album in your library there's a button to see the whole album in Apple Music's library, and when you click on it it shows that the entire album is downloaded anyways. So the system has the information it needs to group them as one but refuses to do so.

I am not sure but I think it's related to another longstanding issue where a particular version of a song is replaced with a different version of a song (usually one from a compilation or best-of album instead of the original single or EP, etc.)
Honestly you can say this about just about all Apple software now. Their quality has absolutely tanked.

I also enjoy the "play random song when plug into car" feature :)
I might have some time this summer, feel free to contact and explain ;)
That's one option, but maybe less likely for a business than for a car, because of valuation.

If he already thinks the business's days are numbered, options are limited. Instead of taking a loss by holding it until bankruptcy, or selling it cheap to someone who also sees limited value, he sells it to someone who's (overly) optimistic, and and is willing to pay a higher value.

Since the risk (at that higher value) is high, lenders will either refuse to finance, or offer a rate higher than what Buffet is offering. Buffet needs to offer the financing to make the sale possible, or at least more attractive.

So at worst, he's turned a dead-end investment into positive cash flow for a few months, where he previously was getting zero. If he forecloses and there's something of value left, he might try to sell again, but the foreclosure makes that less likely, given future buyers will consider it in determining it's value. Regardless, he's still better off than before.

Or the business does ok, and he gets a better price for selling than he otherwise would have. And 9% interest on it, which is something, but I suspect extremely low for Buffet. But he's locked in a minimum value and getting a positive rate, mitigating what he perceived to otherwise be a bigger loss.
Tareq Haddad said on a podcast that he plans to put together a site that promotes and informs about the more general principle of freedom of the press and how it is being very damaged worldwide.

https://tareqhaddad.com/contact/
>research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example

In an industry with high fixed costs, marketing may in fact reduce the cost per consumer. Using software as an example, you can't just take the marketing costs per customer and subtract that from the price. If 1,000,000 in marketing brings in 3,000,000 in extra revenue, that marketing didn't cost customers anything. It could even allow the software company to charge less per copy.

There are some real differences between software and medicine. And I'm not sure increasing users of a drug is a good thing in many cases. But I doubt prilosec commercials are increasing the price I pay.
What is stored is the discussion here, not what is sent.
It is quite a long winded rant when one could simply use a different music app.
> SML is kind of like the lisp of FP.

Lisp is the Lisp of FP.

SML is more the SML of FP. Alternatively, SML can be viewed as the Lisp of statically-typed FP, in that, loosely, SML : Static FP :: Lisp : DynamicFP
>Fight the urge to assign greater credibility to those who are afraid to be noobs.

...but conversely, someone who is afraid to be a noob is likely deeply experienced in something.

It does create a very interesting natural tension.
For daily business, sure, a lot of public benefit can be justified monetarily. Of course, there are exceptions, and a PBC would be allowed greater ability to choose.

As I understand, another big benefit is the ability to use public benefit as a protection from hostile takeovers from companies that might undermine the PBC's social mission.
> Given he lives in England why was he extradited to the US?

This scares me a great deal. Totally bonkers totalitarianism from a rogue state.
I'm sorry. It sounds like your management is misguided.
As someone leading a team that does releases to clients, this is a pretty naive take.

As you scale you get quite a few constraints that require additional manpower

1. Scaling generally means revenue, which means more internal teams pumping out more business products/features.

Those features often need some sort of mobile integration. So you not only have your planned features, you have the features other teams would like you to work on.

The larger the company, the more requests like this you get. Feature velocity MATTERS.

2. As you scale you almost always have to rework your backend to some extent to keep up with load/feature growth. This means existing features are at risk of using deprecated & older APIs/Tools and need attention in order to keep working and allow scaling.

3. By the time you're scaling into the millions, you're almost certainly acquiring enterprise users. You can skate by in the individual/small/medium business with some pretty glaring bugs (things like 2% of all android users see crashes at startup). This wiggle rooms goes away when you start working with enterprise customers (or at least gets considerably tighter). It's an inconvenience when your 15 person org has that one phone that doesn't work right. It's a showstopper when the 10,000 seat org has 600+ users who can't use the product.

Those are just a few of the differences that happen at scale.

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Long story short, you're not really wrong from a technical side - A small dev team can absolutely make a small & focused app and manage to scale.

You're just glossing over the politics of working in an org that's successfully scaling.

It turns out being able to get additional employees that don't need extensive mobile experience and can just crank out features is a huge pressure release. It lets that original tiny dev team (the folks who could write a fine native app without any issue) focus on bigger/harder problems.
I'm trying to set it up on a RPI4 as an 802.11ac wireless router, to verify this. If it manages 100mbps+ then it'll be a cheap replacement for my current router.
Lock guard has no default constructor, so the line will in fact materialize a temporary lock guard around the mutex m, then throw it away at the semi-colon, thus locking nothing.
/me gathering momentum...
Strike me as a good approach!

Something I learned from a Twitter thread, which would be impossible to find (sadly), is the following:

With the water cold, close your eyes, point your face at the water stream, and hold your breath as long as you can.

This apparently triggers some kind of mammalian response involving dive reflexes, that's good for cortisol levels. All I know is that I feel great afterwards.

I don't do this consistently, but I should.
It's a valid argument, though. I'll put it in different words to show.

"This is useful for legitimate reasons and is an industry standard practice --- even though it has rife potential for abuse, too."
In what way does it go against that hypothesis?
Most Lisps (and certainly Common Lisp) have enabled a functional style, but were never particularly "pure". You have to squint a little bit and gloss over some parts to call them functional programming languages.

Haskell is the poster child, but quite rich in syntax and concepts. So while I wouldn't really agree with grandparent, it's at least defensible to see Standard ML as a small core, a kernel of functional programming languages.
Solar and Wind Gain Steam in US as Coal’s Decline Accelerates
Great feedback - thanks!!!
Corporations are a power of attorney document. They are golems that sometimes act on behalf of people. They are not people.
Sure he did he's not stupid he understands fucking with the market has effects on people. Autistic people have a different sense of morality. Acting like an autistic genius can't understand that doing illegal things which contributes to the stock market crashing for the sake of profit is bad... Is mostly infantilizing.

I mean his lawyer argued that but his lawyer is trying to exploit people like yourself.
considering every transaction gets taxed, and it's a zero-sum market.. there is no damage done overall. The opposite, actually. Money is raised for the government thanks to the activity.

It's possibly a foreign relations issue if the winners or losers are heavily biased towards one country or another. Like if all the winners were Russian and the losers were American
Ironically, match-by-name is what US customs has to fall back on because it lacks a facial-recognition system to make it easy to determine if the person in front of them looks nothing like the person of interest, and a well-implemented facial recognition system could decrease the odds your friend is subjected to an hour-long interrogation for having the "wrong name."
Yes, some autistic people have "childish" beliefs like that.
I should add, thou, that there is no way for a 3rd party app to support downloading your own iTunes library tracks from the cloud. You have to use Apple's music app to do that.
Very helpful - thanks for the insight!
When I select Search box I want it to default to Apple's search rather than my collection. For me that has been a pain point. Clearly from your case, various users respond differently to features.
I tried this, but it only gives me the option to sign up. I think I deleted my account around two years ago, and it's seemingly really gone.
You got downvoted but I can't completely disagree with what your saying. I wish there was something in between where you could expose bombers and pedophiles without exposing normal people even with extreme views.
>why would you write a program to use threads if you don't need concurrency?

... exactly. There is no good reason. That's what I'm saying the point of the article is. However, this doesn't mean that people don't do it. He is saying that the tasks that people typically use threads to solve can actually be solved with an event loop and handlers, thus eliminating all of the messy issues with shared state, race conditions, etc. that true concurrency introduces.
You could also set an alarm in iOS, using the sleep timer function, to stop whatever is currently playing [1].

1. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/08/07/how-to-set-timer-st...
I suppose my point was that people with the expertise to know how to do so are typically reluctant to stick their neck out and say so in front of a crowd.

I should know. I'm one of those people. I very rarely agree to a feature without ironclad certainty (e.g. a working prototype in hand) that it can be done.
The Mac Apple Music app is just rebranded iTunes with a lot of the kitchen-sink stuff removed. It even has the weird modal preference window that none of Apple’s other applications have.
There's typically a couple of reasons for that, and awareness is not really one of them.

Just like the FDA reviews drugs for safety and efficacy, and just like your insurer reviews drugs for price, national health boards review drugs for safety, efficacy, and price.

Sometimes, the boards want to wait and see if the drug is actually effective in clinical use.

Sometimes the boards want to wait and see if the drug is actually safe in clinical use.

Sometimes, that equation does not swing in the drug's favour. If a drug is $10,000/year, compared to a $500/year, but provides someone taking it for 10 years, on average, with a month's extra life, it would be foolish to spend $100,000 on the better drug - if for that money, you can buy more than a month of life for other people, with another drug, or with surgeries, or better screenings, etc, etc.

Likewise, if a drug improves quality of life for someone, how do weigh that against saving someone's life? There's a limited medical budget, and there's some ethical calculus that you plug the numbers in, and determine which of those options is a better use of scarce resources. But in order to do that, you actually need to get the numbers. Clinical trials, in themselves, don't give all of those answers.

The FDA differs from the FAA, in that the world does not consider it the sole gatekeeper of medical efficacy, safety, and cost.

What will not solve this problem, is the drug manufacturer spending half a billion dollars on taking doctors, medical directors, and politicians on all-expense paid junkets to the Carribean. You're not going to get better awareness from this, you're going to get more corruption, and more expensive drugs. (The $500/year alternative can't compete with the $100,000/year alternative in this sense - as the manufacturer of the latter can trivially out-bribe the former.)
why isn't there a generic for insulin?
Santa Cruz decriminalizes magic mushrooms
Most react native apps have a custom UX but needs native plugin access.
This is the point of ionic react.
I wrote a tunneling service called Packetriot that is similar. It's probably slightly older than inlets. However, it's not an opensource project. The tunnels are assigned static hostnames and the servers you connect to are static as well, so setting up CNAME and A records for custom sites are simple. You can host any number of websites or services behind a single tunnel.

Let's Encrypt is built-in and can manage all of your certs automatically. The client can serve static assets and upstream to app servers, so you can eliminate the need for an extra web server running in your environment.

There are packages for Deb, RPM, containers, mac and windows, and for almost all architectures (x86/amd64/arm32/arm64).

I designed the service for 24/7 operation so uptimes for tunnels are weeks at a time. They auto-reconnect if there's a connection drop. You can find it here: https://packetriot.com
> Because they have massive platform specific teams, and they would like not to.

I'm somewhat shocked at the size of some of the mobile app development teams at some of these companies. There's no way they need that many developers. What are 100's of developers doing on a single app for a single platform? How is there enough work for that many people? The overhead must be unbelievable.

I can't imagine that adding a platform abstraction is going to fundamentally change the headcount if your headcount is already ridiculous. It just doesn't remove that much effort.
I’ve been using a pi3 for about a year as a full time VPN on my cell phone and laptops.

3 is only 100mbit eth, but I’ve had almost no issues with it. Connects fast, no problem streaming HD video or cloning huge git repos. Maybe when I get home today I’ll take some measurements.... But my biggest issue is the trash Powerline Ethernet between my router and rest of my network.
Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
I'm familiar with the off-label discussion, but what number of these off-label uses were discovered by treating coinciding conditions in patients? How many were last ditch attempts when other treatment options either don't exist or failed?

I'm not suggesting that current regulation by the FDA isn't flawed, or that it doesn't need an overhaul, but I think it's clear that there should be some proof that efficacy studies were done before a drug becomes widely available, especially when the potential damage done by a failed treatment is so high. The current opioid crisis has completely eroded any faith that the pharmaceutical industry is capable or willing to regulate itself.
Yep, that's it! The first thing I made was a roguelike with Godot and I had the same issue w.r.t procedural content and "static" content being disparate.

Someone on reddit showed me this same tip.

You can even change values on the remote tab and have them reflected live in your game, which is fun for prototyping.
The merchant pays the interchange rate regardless if you get a reward or not. If you have a no annual fee card with no rewards, you are simply leaving money on the table (which your card issuer pockets), since you can get 1-1.5% cash back, also with no annual fee.
Honestly curious and hopefully not rude, but how can you concentrate on anything? Or does your work/life not require you to concentrate ever/most of the time on anything?

(I have turned all but phone call and sms notifications off on my phone. I will check my email/whatsapp when I want and see notifications there as needed. If someone has something urgent, they know how to call.)
I'm very annoyed by what appears, lately, the rush to criticize and tear down other people's thoughts and posts.

It's one of my least favorite characteristics of the tech community. Many people will come out of the woodwork to say "You can't".
US evacuees from China head to California military base as outbreak grows
It's reversed in most places historically. 0,0 is top-left. I think unity is the odd one here
> good design choices can outweigh the decision of which language

It sounds like you’re saying the project succeeded by good design despite Tcl (fair - I don’t know your project), but I’d argue Tcl itself is a fine example of good design. With a small amount of study you’ll be able to effectively reason about it. It’s extremely regular, composable, and interfaces well be it text manipulation, networking, filesystems, GUIs, ..., or indeed, itself - it’s well-established and takes compatibility seriously. I think I’m into it nigh 15 years, and it’s still a proper first-goto tool for me.
I feel like they could get almost 100% uptime with a lot less effort if they just put a second server on the other side of the world.

The antipode of Barcelona (where this is based) is pretty close to New Zealand.

If they put a second server there and then used a anycast IP, chances are one of the servers would be up at all times with no battery at all.

Edit: Changed multicast to anycast because for some reason my computer wants to auto-correct it. :(
Trying to get hired in infosec with 10+ years of web dev experience, and failing miserably even though there is a "desperate need" for more people from all backgrounds to enter the field :)
But with Kindle Unlimited, you run into the "Someone Else's Money" problem.

Say a user reads the first page of 100 different books—they can do that, because opening each new book has zero marginal cost for the user. Does Amazon now need to pay authors for 100 books?

I don't know how Netflix payouts work but I have to imagine that viewer time is taken into account.
The Future of Machine Learning Will Include a Lot Less Engineering
> I mean, how much more are you going to accept before they finally come for you?

Your example is the UK government being roped in by HUDOC, so I believe my answer is "Wake me when the UK isn't answerable to HUDOC."

In particular, the example you've cited is unauthorized and unjustified collection of private correspondence (intercepted communications), not collection of images of people in public and comparison of those images against persons of interest (a thing already legal to do by hand via human operators, which the computer algorithm merely speeds up). Private correspondence is private; why should people believe that their public movements should be so?
> You have to call the language something. For decades it was mostly just referred to as ML. In recent years people (including me) have started calling it Standard ML explicitly to avoid confusing people who now expect ML to mean machine learning.

IIRC, both SML and Standard ML were used to distinguish it within the ML family of languages before machine learning became popular.
This is my biggest civilization-level fear, that we'll mess up and end up with a situation like the opening of Seveneves, full Kessler-effect

https://www.space.com/23039-space-junk-explained-orbital-deb...

How can we reduce the probability of this going forward? Is tracking and maneuvering enough?
Pretty amazing for self-taught developers, or people coming straight from uni. You'll learn most of this within like the first year of a dev job.
Sounds like the opposite to me.

A bug in React Native and fundamental issues in Flutter.