skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their most popular thing on HN was probably the Chaos Monkey. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=techblog.netflix.com
I'm pretty much never worried about the performance of the "exception taken" case. The compiler can be really quite inefficient there before I have any reason to care.

There are places to worry about compiler efficiency. I don't think that this is one of them.
I agree. I think this was one of the motivating factors in the change.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/25/macwoes_google_chro...
There is very much a difference between news organisations that attempt to present the facts e.g. NPR, PBS, DV, BBC, ABC AU and those that seek to divide and target specific demographics for profit e.g. Fox News, The Sun.

There are facts in this world. And our collective belief in them is what holds the world together. Reckless and intellectually lazy comments like yours are what is responsible for so many of the problems in politics in the last decade or so.

Seek out facts instead of pretending they don't exist.
What happens when more people move into the area from the rest of the country and start driving to work from their newly built housing units? Silicon Valley has, at best, poor coverage of Caltrain and no coverage for BART in South Bay. If let’s say 10,000 more families move to San Jose into new housing units and they all need to commute to Palo Alto for work, how exactly would they do that without choking up the already clogged freeway network? Caltrain is already packed beyond imagination during rush hour. Each year, the rush hour commute time between Palo Alto and San Jose increasing by 5 minutes and that’s with limited net population growth in the area. Imagine if the population influx increased 2X or 5X. Housing is not an isolated problem. Due to decades of lobbying by the auto industry and a crippled public transportation strategy, what America really has is a transportation and infrastructure problem.
Without solving that, the housing problem will never be truly solved and building new housing will degrade the quality of life of everyone in the area - both newcomers and existing residents.
That introduces the problem of someone getting a new phone number. If the previous user had it tied to pin+signal it means that the number is essentially blacklisted.
You can't have a magenta laser either (since magenta can't be represented by a single wavelength). Or a black laser. Or for that matter, a C sharp laser. That doesn't mean those concept are particularly hard to wrap one's head around.
I recommend this a lot "A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (Dover Books on Mathematics)" by Michael Crowe. It's a page turner.
No I'm not agreeing with you at all.

It's a great idea, and my clients and bank account agree with me.
Fun Fact: if three cities(San Jose, San Francisco, NYC) in America were to loosen up housing planning rules, America's GDP would be 4% higher, that is incredible in of itself, source: (paywall - https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/16/the-wests-bigge...)

Although I think California especially needs new housing, the bay area in particular has a housing issue which is somewhat artificially created due to a number of large (google, facebook, etc) and smaller tech companies requiring a "buts in seat" mentality and a philosophy that all "important" jobs be based in the bay area near their HQ's. Its really quite sad as a job that can be done anywhere is forced to be located in one of the most expensive areas on earth.
Wouldn't be the first false positive. Didn't trigger for me, so... ymmv.

//edit: Sorry, I just realized that I loaded my copy from https://winampheritage.com
Ask HN: Alternatives to Bootstrap for non-front end devs?
I’m looking for alternatives to Bootstrap that are as easy to use. Any suggestions?
>00Axx General and miscellaneous specific topics

The structure of any successful classification system: these things, those other things, and everything else. ;)
I mean, given the Signal protocol, the alternative would be your messages being routed from your phone via your computer. And the average person's computer isn't on/awake/connected to wifi as often as their phone is, so that'd be a much spottier experience.
Ah, the time when you could actually "master" all the web technologies to keep a website up and running...
> flirted with Kylix -- Delphi for linux -- but at a time of great upheaval in the linux desktop world, and it never really took off either.

It's worth noting that Kylix's failure to take off had a lot more to do with Borland's variously stupid, obnoxious and immoral business decisions than it had to do with the upheaval in the Linux desktop world. It was a strong enough concept for a product, and the base technology was implemented well enough, that all they had to do was not screw it up... and guess what they did?

All these years later I remember saying "fuck it" when Borland decided to wrap up some important bug fixes into the (full price) upgrade for Kylix, rather than just giving them to existing users. The smug uselessness of the one or two Borland employees who liaised with the community online has kind of stuck in my memory as well. The technology deserved to survive but the company sure didn't.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

Agreed. But I was pleasantly surprised to find the map is built out of a HTML table and extremely simple js, and longer I looked at it the more I liked it.

I'd go so far as to say it's the back button that needs to change, rather than the site. By that I mean, it's often rather useful to have a stack-based history of your explorations around a map (like this, or a deep dive into Wikipedia, or...), but it'd also (obviously) be nice to pop the whole stack for this site and jump back to HN in a single step.

After all, why are browser history and bookmark navigation so linear when the way we use the web is not? It's like being forced to use turtle graphics or turn-based navigation to connect places on a geographic map. The bookmark manager in browsers is super primitive and hasn't really evolved in 20 years.

Likewise, think about when you have a plethora of open tabs; I've had as many as 400 at times, spread across 7 or 8 windows, with heavy insite overlap (ie I might have 10 tabs pointing at different books or products, multiple tabs going to a specific news outlet, multiple tabs pointing to different Wiki and Git pages etc.). Yet my open tabs are arranged in highly linear fashion along the top of each browser window, and there's no simple way to pull back from looking at the individual pages to looking at the map of my page universe.

tl;dr We use the web in a nonlinear way, like jumping around a dynamic tree, but the browser limits us to an ant-like perspective where leaves are privileged over the tree.
Very good point. Social media platforms were held up a shining example because Obama's message was largely positive, but few stopped to think about the flip side of the scenario... until 2016.
Not every NIMBY is motivated by greed. Some just want to stay put, pay property taxes like it's 30 years ago and drive to their favorite burger shack in under five minutes. That particular generation also holds on to the doctrine that density is bad for environment.
To anyone with a detailed understanding of the current limits of machine learning, this should be no surprise; unsupervised learning is far from solved and ML in its current state will always be plagued by the cat and mouse game of edge cases. The reality is the industry has decided to go this way anyways because it has a good profit outlook if you can get it to work, which is the only thing funding the endeavor. Consider two ways of going about automated transportation:

1) AI. The car independently makes decisions and drives itself.
2) Networks. The car communicates with a grid to make decisions.

Why did we go for #1? Well, thats easy, capitalism. Consider:

AI:
- Company gets to own the intellectual property to form a temporary monopoly.
- Easier to sidestep governments involvement.
- No need to build large infrastructure

Networks:
- Shared, less opportunity for monopoly formation.
- Will need the government to cooperate. Governments are slows.

If I had to guess, we will eventually go the network route. The research used for AI will drive safety features and failsafes, but not the meet of it. Anyways, why accelerate a line of stopped cars one at a time with autonomous vehicles when you could accelerate the entire line of cars simultaneously with a networked setup?
1. Teases are always forgiven :)

2. But, I feel quite the opposite is the case here.

I fully comprehend that somebody may want to use phone as their primary communication device (my wife, for one:). More power to them and I would never get in their way. I will use it myself when on the move. On the other hand, so many people seem to get a "deer in headlights" look when trying to imagine my use case of using laptop to communicate.

App like Google Hangouts supports phone and laptop as equal first-class citizens. It makes EVERYbody happy. It's a great superset of all use-cases. You can share your pictures on the phone and type your long messages or parallelize conversations on a laptop. Everybody happy! :)

Signal and Whatsapp, I will counter, do not solve the problems or userss case that we on HN think it does. NOBODY I know using Whatsapp has a clue that it uses end-to-end encryption, nor do they care. I would venture that's the case for majority of the 2bil userbase. All they know is they never had to create an account or password, which makes it simple to use. It is actually the "lack" of security that's the biggest selling feature (though of course, at this point, the network effect is the single biggest selling feature over anything else; my family uses Whatsapp because everybody they know uses Whatsapp - QED).
> It is all you need to know about C…for the first few weeks.

It seems the author was aware of this. Isn't syntax a good place to start for a new language?
Ask HN: Resources for designing custom file formats
I am working on a custom OO micro-database, which needs to persist to files.

I am spending a lot of time solving problems utilizing files that are novel to me; but I am certain have been solved many times over by others. I'm having a hard time finding resources describing patterns and practices for custom file types (especially where data is changing often, the items being stored can vary in size, and I want to rewrite the smallest portion of the file possible).

Are there resources out there that you know of? Old resources would be great. The language doesn't matter. Any hints would help me save time.

The data is too volatile for something like JSON or XML to make sense, and the more I can optimize for performance the better. I will be storing more data than I want to keep in RAM at any one time, so just loading everything into RAM is not an option for this.

Thank you for any response :D
But we've had mass media for a long time, whereas social media advertising is a rare concept. The former probably has a much greater effect.

The only reason people are concerned now is because Trump manipulated the electorate in a different way than politicians usually do, and this is a great violation of tradition.
That's cool, but I'd rather Signal first did 2 other things:

- Make it so notifications go through consistently, for both messages and calls. Right now, about 1/3rd of the time, I find out about new messages when I open the app. Doesn't matter if it's desktop or mobile.

- On Desktop, please, please find a way to make it not feel extremely laggy. I'm typing and I'm getting like 10 fps, it's horrible. And it uses so much RAM. Jesus christ, it's 5GB and I've only got 2 contacts.
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."

As to the 6% thing that's in the the same sense that you got 50% of your genes from your mother. Most of the genes there will be identical to the ones your father has on a codon by codon basis but their origin is your mother. And by looking at the 1% of genes where humans vary from each other we can tell which genes came from this ghost population.
This appears to be additional to CDNs. Apple is saying they will put their own servers directly into ISPs data centers as a cache for content requests that would normally go to a CDN. So the path for downloading data would go from your computer to your ISP and if the data you requested is cached on your ISPs Apple Edge Cache server then it wouldn't even go to a CDN. This is an attempt to address your complaint which may well be caused by slowness of traffic between the CDN and your ISP.
Most of them just heat, though. And in terms of heat, you don't need to be "orders of magnitude" below sunlight. It's not exactly hard to have two walls in the same room differ by 100 watts per square meter.
To me, that screams "put your resume out on the street".

I mean, I'm not opposed to documentation. It's important. But if your management thinks that flowcharts are the way to do it, I wonder what millennium they think it is.
Humans don't do this affordably. Programs proven end-to-end correct using human provers and semi-automated proof assistants have required extreme simplification of the program so that it could be verified at all (so no clever efficient algorithms), teams of graduate-student proof-monkeys working for years, and even then the biggest programs we could prove that way were ~10KLOC. The greatest achievement of this semi-automated approach required years by highly-trained specialists to prove simplified programs that amount to 1/5th of jQuery.

We have some very interesting advances in formal verification, but that is probably not the way.
That's what docker images are for :-)
> This means one of three things:

The problem happens with and without tmux btw.

The same configs work in WSLtty and even a few other terminals too.

I recorded a video in a different comment demoing the problem with and without tmux and also linked to my dotfiles.
So here's some perspective from an Amazon seller doing 7 figures+ annually.

- On average, only 1-3% of customers review products.

- Each review is worth a lot of money, often times multiples of the product itself, and especially if you're just starting out.

- Each category in Amazon has it's own Average rating, for example, electronics typically have lower ratings because more things can go wrong and there are more usability issues vs something like kitchenware, where less things fail outright.

- If you play in a category with a certain failure rate, it is absolutely essential that you do everything you can to mitigate bad reviews as enough of them will sink your business, even if you have a great product.

- It takes 8+ 5 star reviews to counteract a 1 star review if you want to maintain a 4.5 star average which is the bar for a good product. This is extremely hard to do without manipulation.

- People who complain about fake reviews are only seeing half the problem, the other half is that legit businesses who do it the fair way can't compete. How do you launch a great product on Amazon with 0 reviews? Hope that 500 people buy it to maybe get 5 reviews? Alternatively you spend thousands on product ads hoping that enough people buy... or just succumb to the dark side and pay for reviews which is WAY cheaper.

- If you hate Amazon reviews, do your part and start reviewing the good products on Amazon. It is worth more to the seller than you think!
Can I use Signal from desktop only? Can I create an account from desktop? Is my account independent of any specific device? Can I use Signal on multiple computers at the same time with correct credentials?
It’s really just a matter of time. Those that started out optimistic (when it was hyped) but are now saying that they don’t see self driving cars can do the complex situations we humans supposedly can should have some patience. As the tech improves, and more data is used to train models, it’ll surely surpass humans in driving ability.
So Netflix, Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, and whatever Microsoft has going on, all these sound horrifying too?
I think YIMBY is about city restrictions and ordinance. This sounds like the private building developers just wanted to save money and cheaped out on building additional parking space. Unless the city itself imposed a restriction on parking

That being said, I'm not aware of any YIMBYish laws that outright restrict parking in residential areas. The only thing equivalent I can think of is the Market street law in SF, but that's not a residential area, so it actually makes sense.
I probably could have made my comment clearer. I'm not assuming anything. It's well documented that NYC is building frighteningly little housing per capita.

I was just pointing out the the linked post shows how NYC construction is stagnant, not "active". It was unclear if he meant "active" as in "they're building a large quantity" or as in "currently happening".
I think #1 is easier for lots of reasons.
TL;DR - there is surprisingly little money in politics. Even the "low billionaires" like Elon Musk (who has like 10 times less money than Gates, Buffet, Bezos, Bloomberg) could easily overspend all other candidates together.
Any possible increase in BART ticket revenue would be a drop in the bucket for the capital funding necessary to significantly increase system capacity. The popular routes are already at capacity so they would have to build more tracks and stations. This would cost hundreds of billions of dollars mostly from federal and state budgets. The planning, land acquisitions (eminent domain), environmental reviews, legal battles, and construction would take decades. We can complain that this is unreasonable, and that it ought to be cheaper or faster. But that's the reality and it isn't likely to change.
The highest figure I could find for oil usage by sector gives ~60% for transport, so even that gives only ~47% of GHG emissions for transport in total. Then start to discount for all non-local transport, and you won't get anywhere close to a majority.
Orange itself is just a name for what sits between red and yellow. We didn't always have a name for orange either.
That is the excess
Sure it will. Housing is about compromises. If you can rent a 3 bedroom apartment for $900/month would you pay $9000/month (plus taxes and insurance) to buy a house?

The above numbers are realistic. You have a choice to nice 3 bedroom apartments for $900/month in the Des Moines Iowa area. The payments on a 30 year loan for a 2 million dollar house are a bit over 9000/month.
You're just being pedantic. That's not helpful. Obviously the point here was about "credulity", not proof. The very existence of a replication crisis in statistical science like this is an existence proof of what I meant. You don't just take papers like this at face value. You can't. They're simply wrong too often.

In the kind of first principles sense you are thinking of, sure, proof is proof. But in the real world the burden of proof for an epidemiological headline like this absolutely is much higher, in the practical sense of "should I believe this bullshit or is there a mistake somewhere?"
I'm always baffled by folks who assume self-driving cars would reduce traffic. No matter what, even if they are privately owned, truly self-driving vehicles could only increase traffic. If they can be dispatched without a human driver to pick up groceries or take-out, for example, there'll be a lot more trips. And sharing self-driving cars rather than owning them would surely be more likely to increase the number of cars on the road since they have to make a trip to pick you up and another one after they drop you off.
no they didn't lol

unless you were a layman, but then, what are your expectations based on?
A copy editor might even have employed suspended hyphens:

"Apple-supplied and -managed hardware"

—only to be quickly overruled by the marketing folks, who’d probably frown upon such a construction.
...Bellevue?
Dotfiles: Stop the Madness (2012)
If I'm not mistaken, most of the value of the home in places like the Bay area is not the house itself, but the land it sits on. In that case, it's super reasonable to expect it to appreciate in value, just like any other commodity. Arguably more so.
Ok, gotcha, not an intellectual role play.

I think we all dissociate, like it's a spectrum; the weakest most minute manifestation is when we just 'take a step outside of our current state' you know, when you stretch just a bit to be/think/do slightly different. Experiment. Mimicry. We temporarily sever/disable a few 'links' inside and let new connections form, just to see.

It's also how I picture resisting empathy, all these times when we shut down feelings almost automatically — some of it is mundane 'keep a straight face', some of it is deeply atrocious like awful news or misery right in front of you. We have these "mirror neurons" that automatically replicate emotions of those we see¹; and unless we shut it down or temper it, we are bound to feel that very thing too. I think we kinda "dissociate" mildly from these mirrored feelings whenever we must, it's automatic by now (social species must do that to evolve beyond primal emotions it would seem).

But sometimes dissociation gets out of hand, cranked up to 11, and it operates versus parts of your own self, it shuts down entire regions of our inner world, and what's left to see is a weird, paradoxical state, that which psychology and the DSM see and would rightfully call pathological etc.

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[1]: That got me thinking, maybe it's one thing people born blind can't do: "see" the emotions of others and trigger mirror neurons in that way. Maybe there's something in this, in the unsufferable realization that you may see but never really know what's inside others, that drives schizophrenic people so obsessed whereas blind people, obviously, can never experience such a feeling. It certainly converts to other senses (voice conveys so much emotion for instance), but hypothetically very differently. I don't know. Thinking out loud here.
Because if you can walk away from a $9000/month payment into a $900/month rent, investing the difference will make you better off in the long run.
hmmm, odd that you're getting downvoted...
Journalists are human. They will make mistakes. They will by default trust people e.g. Smollett who may then turn out to be liars. But as a profession they do seek to be accountable e.g. multiple sources and ethical e.g. protecting sources at all cost.

Should we also not trust doctors, pilots, engineers, programmers etc because they also are infallible. What exactly do you want here ?
What an infuriating format for an article.
As long as it's dumb content, it doesn't need SSL signed by Apple.

Apple own the intelligent layer, the one that hold the API. Once you query those, it answer with the location and the hash, which allow you to download it from the distributed box and safely verify the content.
I ran into this on my commute just last night. Cop car in the left shoulder, lights flashing. Cop on the right side of the road, waving a flashlight. Oncoming traffic crossing over into my lane and blocking my way. Finally I figured out that the cop was directing traffic and I had to wait until something changed. Eventually the oncoming traffic dwindled, and the cop turned around so I had a harder time seeing the flashlight - I assumed that meant it was my turn to go. I approached very slowly.

I never figured out what the problem was, this was in the middle of the road and not at an intersection. I was more concerned with doing the right thing than trying to determine the root cause.
This must have been a huge project, because I had a friend in Charlottesville, Virginia who got hired in 2008 to do almost the same for the Navy, "what amounted to UML diagrams of existing Navy units." They paid him $125 an hour and he took the work because it was the middle of the 2008 recession, but it was boring work. A year later they asked him to do more, but he turned it down.