skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree from in some capacity in the growth or greed to increase DAU and engagement for social networks is similar to Amazon’s desire to grow SKUs and purchase volume. Amazon mixing SKUs maybe relates to when press piggy backs off of the same initial headline as it creates distrust and makes people question the quality of the product.

There’s a big difference though. Social media allows many individual voices, and much like the printing press, allows previously unheard voices to be heard and to have reach. Therefore, the world’s expert can call out a journalist for being wrong immediately, making it seem like “fake news” is more common than it was previously.

Amazon is actually causing distrust around product quality when there wasn’t any before. Consumers may have trusted Colgate’s toothpaste, but if it isn’t actually Colgate’s toothpaste, yet it poisons someone, it becomes Colgate’s problem too. This would be like Facebook or Twitter allowing any account to adopt a WSJ or NyTimes verified badge, one of those accounts publishes fake news, and then the paper itself has a problem too.
What exactly are they adding in value compared to any regular webshop? It's just as incomprehensibly bad as the standard run of the mill default PrestaShop.

At least Shopify is a real platform you can build stuff on.

Amazon is just this giant bullying machine. The Dalek of retail.
When two contradictory ideas are true at the same time we call that a paradox.

There are reasons why the current IT hiring status quo seems to be so paradoxical.

https://itnext.io/the-cloud-skills-shortage-and-the-unemploy...
Then why couple those goals to Google instead of ascribing them to a broader philosophy that Google happens to be adopting (among many others)?

Your original comment read like you were salty that Go didn't adopt ideas that enhanced yours and others productivity. Instead of writing it off as a philosophical difference (that can be attributed to any language with philosophical ideals), you have to take it to the next level with some kind of "Go devs only care about Google's needs" conspiracy. I've seen this kind of thing a lot over the years. Why can't people just agree to disagree?
That can and should be generated; it's not as if the machine doesn't know which function failed. We don't force human beings to plow through all the rote instructions that set up a stack frame or invoke an object's implementation of a method, and for the same reason we shouldn't force them to plow through the rote instructions that bubble an error toward the handler. When errors exist in your problem domain, manipulating them becomes part of the language's job, and nearly every language from the last thirty years acknowledges that.
Which ones?

I wrote ObjC for 7 years, Swift for 3. I only looked at the first two examples, they both were generic programming advice, nothing to do with the language
stdlib was once an exemplar of good, idiomatic Go code, but a lot of the idioms it uses haven't withstood the test of time, and it's less and less appropriate as an example.
I think about this too, it seems hard to find a competent leader.

Look at the Australian PM during the bushfires, he was in Hawaii on holiday for a good part of it.

Shinzo Abe, just seems at a complete loss on how to deal with this issue, the cruise ship thing was a complete debacle.

Then most world leaders who matter seem to have trouble even comprehending climate change, ocean acidification etc.

Yes it’s anecdotal, but it seems your right. We’re lacking real leaders and left with talking heads at the helm.
I can't tell if you are serious here.

You want self signed certs to be trusted and the web to move back to the days of HTTP where anybody could just intercept your traffic ?
Jakarta EE has officially taken over the Java EE spec, tlc, ...
Safari market share ... so who cares.

I am not talking about mobile usage.
I mean, that's a not in the standard library, and it's a library that's literally already in maintenance mode.

Edit: you also deleted the context of your call. You didn't create an error type for Unwrap to match on. That means that downstream code only has extremely primitive errors to match on, with the context of the call gone. Just because you can track down the EOF error, doesn't mean that code calling this can do anything useful with that. 'Socket closed unexpectedly' is way less useful than 'Unable to update user record'.
Sure, it’s a NeXX 3020: https://openwrt.org/toh/nexx/wt3020

I have two of them, and use one as a Wi-Fi client/NAT/VPN gateway/ad blocker when I’m at customers and some hotels.

Setup is pretty trivial, you can do a lot with LuCI and the OpenWRT packages.
Anecdotally, in the last 6 months none of the parents of kids I went to highschool with have cold called asking about crypto shit. People aren't leaving crypto, cause they already have all left.
The wider context here is that ministers have been arguing that the BBC is behind the times, because Netflix-style on-demand services are the way people want to consume content now. Not only that, but an annual subscription to Netflix is cheaper than the BBC licence fee.

The BBC have responded by pointing out that government regulators killed off their attempt to work with competitors to produce such a service over a decade ago (Project Kangaroo), and now they’re being criticised by government for not being one.
PiDP-8/I (Raspberry Pi replica of a PDP-8/I)
Thanks for the feedback.

1. It looks pretty modern to me. I'm not selling to web designers, so I'm too bothered with keeping up with all the latest trends, I just need the web design to be 'good enough' to be credible.

2. I think that information is all on the front page, isn't it? I don't want to make the tag line too wordy.

3. The screenshot is Mac. But it says Windows and Mac further down.

4. I've kept the testimonials short, but bolding might be worth a try.

5. Pretty much the same 'about' page seems fine for my other 2 products. Also, no-one much goes to the 'about' page. One of the advantages of my product is that your data stays on your computer.

6. Fair comment, but I don't think they would be on my website if they we happy with just Excel!
There are other ones that can't reasonably be because of legacy, though; for example, the lack of memory permissions.
Isn't it just a paradox to store infinite data, to use it later for very specific things without having to define it first?

It sounds very common sense to not to "limit the potential of intelligence by enforcing schema on Write" while in reality, the same problem just shifts (or gets hidden) in the next steps.

For example: there are 10 data sources with each 100TB of data. I aggregate these to my new shiny data lake with a fast adapter. Just suck it all without any worries about Schema. So, now I have 1PB of semi unstructured data.

How do I find the fields X and Y when these are all named differently in 10 sources? Can I even find it without having business domain experts for each data source? How do I keep things in sync when the structure of my data sources change (frequently)?

It seems like there is an underlying social/political problem that technology can't really fix.

Reminds me the quote: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."
All I can say is that it isn't an uncommon operation to do.

I have stress-tested it a bit and know that it won't be a problem for me, certainly not for the music and navigation I will be using it for. Also as far as radios go only wifi+bluetooth.
An Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems [pdf]
I address this near the beginning - and you are correct that there are some examples that can have a significant impact on the resulting experience of the software. Emulation is not a 1:1 recreation of the original experience including all of its intricacies. But I'm thinking extremely long-term here, far beyond "what our kids will think about the games we played". I'm thinking about what historians of the distant future could learn from our creations, due to how well they can be preserved compared to other forms of media. Ideally people would have an intuitive understanding that input methods and displays make a tangible difference in the experience, and that an emulator is never going to be a full replication of that - so that hopefully they can study and judge a piece of software with those differences in mind.

Technically this is true of anything that can be represented digitally, but software's interactive nature gives it a much more profound ability to represent our culture and elicit a strong and personal reaction in those who experience it.
GPT-2

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/

https://talktotransformer.com/

https://github.com/openai/gpt-2

(GPT-2 docker image needs a version tweak to get it working)

and BERT:

https://github.com/google-research/bert
Well in that case you're not talking about the original scenario where we were talking about whether or not to use a pre-production setup that mimicked production as closely as possible, are you?
Huge, but I have made it a point to reduce my bellyaching about it.

A lot of the reason that I stopped looking for work, was because, almost instantly upon finding out that I am afflicted with eld, the microaggressions and veiled insults begin.

It's kind of amazing. People contact me, telling me how awesome my résumé is, then quickly backtrack, as soon as they find out it comes with grey hair. I guess the industry is full of 30-year-olds with 35 years' worth of experience.

It was really getting me steamed.

I'm not rich, and could always use the income from more work, but not badly enough to put up with that stuff.

I just make sure that people know that I'm "ancient," right up front, so we don't waste each others' time.
There Should Be More Mergers
>"AWS has started to take on third-party, open source components e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB as they run out of things to build."

I'm aware of their Elasticsearch and MoongoDB offerings but what is their Cassandra offering?
Myst’s style of gameplay (user jumps from environment to environment by clicking) seems like it would be a great fit for the current generation of virtual reality headsets.
I loved 7th Guest! I mean yes looking back it seems a bit cringe-worthy, but the merging of video into a game that had a decent creepy factor made me want more and set me on a course of enjoying creepy/scary video games.
This has been a feature that I wish existed. I often like to 'favorite' a post, and wish there was an RSS feed so I could use various automation tools to easily combine those favorite links into bookmark collections.
It's funny: I always thought the Internet and platforms like Amazon with the collaborative reviewing system would make brands more and more obsolete, because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews.

Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases. Recently there are more and more Chinese products flooding Amazon (Germany) with products that have hundreds of well-written positive reviews. I have to assume that most of them are fake because there's no way that some niche product can have more reviews than let's say a PS4 or Nintendo Switch, which is sold millions of times.

Really a shame that Amazon does not seem to care much about this, maybe a chance for the smaller shops to take back some lost business though. I find that I buy more in smaller e-commerce shops, because I find they're much less affected by the review fraud and often ship things just as fast as Amazon.
In ye olde times that was the intent of "staging." Deploys were more expensive then. That's back when we talked about having some number of 9s instead of MTTR.
This is why they made the last two seasons of Doctor Who so horrible; they aren't allowed to compete with good sci-fi shows.
I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substituting Pangolin and Clamp for any other nouns)

I don't think he ever caught on.
Yeah, been going to AliExpress more and more. If Amazon is going to a platform for other companies, I'll go with the cheapest one....
> Basically you're outsourcing QA to your customer.

You've just described any software ever used.
I don't know what it's like on your jurisdiction (although I'm still laughing a bit at the notion that I'm an 'older' worker at 30 something), but could part of the problem be that it's technically illegal/regulation risk?

By which I mean, we all know that age discrimination happens, but you're not 'supposed' to do it. By setting up a website that explicitly discriminates based on age, you're exposing the employer to a verifiable action that they're taking to discriminate on age. It doesn't matter that it's an attempt to counter the widely perceived current discrimination.

Imagine if you set up a website for another protected group (sex, religion, pregnant). Most companies would run a mile from that. The whole thing about structural discrimination is the plausible deniability that you're consciously doing it...
Column Tools - a FOSS (&free) add-on for Google Sheets that adds missing functionality (e.g. horizontal sort, convert columns to named ranges). Google's increasingly onerous, specific, and ever-changing requirements for market place listings takes up too much time for a free project. I could try to monetize, but then I'm having to spend too much time in bureaucracy-land (between working out billing and complying with Google's requirements) rather than making good product. At least the source is there for anyone who wants to set up themselves.
There's a huge discussion here, if you're interested: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19814

TBH I thought adding enums was a cut and dried case until reading through some opposing opinions. Now I'm not so sure.
Nah. I made a low-level VM in 2001 similar to this funclets proposal cwzwarich linked to (Hi, Cameron), and verification was a fast local check. Each funclet had a signature, you collect the signatures before you start verifying the code, and then track changes to the stack as you walk through the code, using the signatures for the effects of any calls you encounter, and finally insisting that the funclet match its declared effect. Control flow within a funclet is reducible. (I didn't call them funclets, but it sounds like the same basic scheme on glancing through. One simplification: my VM could loop only through the tail calls.)
U.S. to triple operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity
The first three. Objective-C doesn't have enums with associated values and it's common to store things in heterogeneous collections or stringly-keyed collections. Creating protocols for generic constraints is also rare–informal protocols (respondsToSelector, anyone?) are instead quite prevalent. And Objective-C's "collection" APIs are much less powerful than Swift's: I might use a regex replacement instead of four calls to replacingOccurrences(of:with:), but it's the same principle.
Nobody here suggested it, just something I see organizations doing quite often.

(edit: the rationale behind this tends to be that you can avoid the heavy lifting of ETL/transformation logic by just using a data lake - obviously not the case, as most of us know)
Because UK competitors are not going to provide the BBC any content, and they don't have the kind financing to buy from the US, who even then were not up for this kind of deal and it took an incredible bit of BD innovation by Netflix to even get that going. The BBC would have been be able to put its own content on the web, and not much more, which is not much of an innovation.

Finally, there's a good reason the BBC's charter is limiting in scope, like any other business, how would you like it if you were suddenly found out of a job because someone with incredible power in the government was able to waive their hands, raise taxes/fees thereby 'forcing customers to exist' for their competing product, which is probably inferior by virtue of the fact they don't actually have to provide much value at all and can continue on with their guaranteed revenue stream?
Microservices are the new hype with related tech. It's DDD with a new jacket, requires a devops team and it has some interesting concepts though.

Almost no one has a decent implementation for micro-frontends. Although ING bank released a nice framework related to this - https://medium.com/ing-blog/ing-open-sources-lion-a-library-...
Strong marketing plan is true, but not accurate. I think a lot of people's marketing plan is to show it on HN/Product Hunt/Indie Hackers/Reddit entrepreneur groups, which is a horrible marketing plan.

I think the marketing plan is part of the project design - you should have it before you build it. Are you targeting remote workers? That should be part of the UI, the features, etc. Do you plan on marketing via social media? Your app should have lots of share buttons and the formatting of the content should be shareable.

Every time someone brings up the discussion of whether an app is web, iOS, or Android, my answer is always how that links to marketing. Some people are better at some forms of marketing, and that has to be in synergy with the product.

However, if you need to throw money at it, it's also likely not doing a great job. Sites like Google and Facebook launched with no paid marketing, even though they spend a good amount of money marketing now. It's not that they didn't have money, but not using paid advertising is a good way to gauge how strong your product is and give you time to patch it.
What about people who want to share information about things they love with privacy and security? This change seems likely to enhance my privacy and security.
Right, and I hope that doesn't extend to things I haven't posted on the internet.
You mean like how it has been for decades ?

You have always needed at minimum hosting, SSL and domain service providers.
There are reports of ingestion of incredible amounts of LSD known as "thumbprints," wherein a brave person sticks their thumb in raw crystal LSD and presses it into their palm (or tongue).

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1427364
Chinese citizens archiving the Coronavirus outbreak with Git: search for "wuhan"
Building a PC, in a Year 2020
If data stays in RAM and is not written to permanent storage, I think you can reasonably say it’s not recorded.

Frankly, I think you could even persist it to disk as long as it was pruned within 24 hours and reasonably say it’s not recorded.

Otherwise I’m not sure how you can argue ANY data is “unrecorded”. Writing to a hardware buffer in the camera module would seem like “recording” to me by the strict standard.
Did your neighbor call the insurance commissioner and attorney general to tell them that they were operating a non-registered insurance company in Massachusetts?
I tried using some similar app with HTC Desire X, it would become hot and eventually powercycle.
>64-bit only

how has that benefitted the user? Directly and measureably, no "it's 0.3% faster now" excuses.
Usually it's economics and/or need.

The first jet engines were invented in the late 20s to early 30s, almost simultaneously in Britain and Germany.

But it was easier, and cheaper, to continue building propellor-driven planes until the extreme pressures of WW2 nearly 20 years later pushed people into a change-over from ICE+propellor to the more expensive jet.
I’m fascinated by the “outsider” profile of the Myst creators.

Per the article, they didn’t play contemporary games and only used off-the-shelf GUI tools on the niche Mac platform — this in an era where “real games” used handcoded x86 assembly. Yet their creation outsold practically everyone in the industry by an order of magnitude.

Where are the tools today for someone like this to be successful? Unity is of course impressive but seems very tightly bound to gaming industry thinking — not that approachable or interesting to an outsider.

Around 2000-2005, the Flash GUI had lots of potential here... But then Adobe turned Flash into a programmer-oriented sprawling mini-Java and eventually Apple threw it under the iPhone bus.
...or let automated tools like c2nim do the job.
This is true, but it's still worth poking around for pre-existing solutions to problems. My editor will jump to stdlib definitions so I've learned a lot just diving into various stdlib packages (I remember the JSON parser being a good one).
Can you give tips about this ? I'm trying to build a Gmail add-on that works with Spreadsheet(contacts + headers to filter) and reverse chrono counting unread emails
Because the entire governance board of golang is Google employees, and if your use case is different than there's they become outright hostile?
How Popular Is Swift?
You can, but it takes time to build an audience and find potential customers. Starting that process early can make all the difference. If it takes 3 months to build that’s 3 months you could have been finding potential users.
Monopolies, like externalities, are a huge source of market failure.

Though ironically sometimes the solution to negative externalities is a (regulated) monopoly.
I'm not even using Duck Duck Go. But that doesn't mean you need to use Gmail, Google Maps, Android, etc etc.
> Beyond that, the complexity of a language has nothing to do with how much you need a debugger

I disagree. There is a higher chance you need a debugger when trying to understand, say, Scala code versus Go.

> If you are writing a complex program [...]

Complexity of a program depends on its author. Even a stupid simple function can get complex if the programmer is less experienced. Go has a philosophy to simplify things. The community tries to follow this philosophy as much as possible, which is why a lot of Go code is easy to read regardless of how complex the logic is.

In the majority of cases, a need for Go debugger means you are dealing with bad written code. Heck, this idea can be extended to pretty much any language.
I can’t remember if I liked 7th guest or 11th hour better. But I distinctly remember playing both and myst and thinking the graphics in video games were amazing :)
Filecoin Roadmap Update February 2020
I think it was the easiest way to get around Google's line limit restrictions on Python.

Okay, that's probably not the real reason, but I'm not joking that this would be the easier way :).
It isn't that bad.
Look up "Dreams" on the PS4. This is absolutely today's version of that.
It’s a delivery flag, never was a quality flag.
> Google's increasingly onerous, specific, and ever-changing requirements for market place listings takes up too much time for a free project.

This is the same experience for mobile apps too, ESPECIALLY Android apps on the Google Play Store.

Good luck if you think you'll increase visibility on other android app stores, its just more requirements.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-cli...
Doesn't wal-mart allow drop-shippers to list on their website?
Nope, I think that about sums it up.
Sorry, couldn't resist posting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Ken Burns’ “Jazz” has a lot about the Savoy and other similar places of that era.
Hey, cool idea and implementation. I think even a single screenshot (of a diffed part in the sample PDF) front and center on the homepage would go a long way, if you ever update it.
Anecdata: A guy bought a small usb fan for his laptop, inserted it and bricked this laptop. Not worth the 50% discount in any way.

As other comments mentioned, we are entering a hyperfake decade - and we are only at the beginning. I am virtually certain, we will exit this decade with a profound experience of more and more private universes (which may deteriorate what is left of civil societies even more).
Why does it implement just a few of the superscripts, but not all?