skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is about how systemd wasted lots of time, in a thread about software that has wasted lots of time. The issues around bad documentation and the specific issue (the last one is probably the issue I had, but this was five years ago lol. Knowing me and arch linux, I probably didn't have the full man pages installed, so the cli tools were the only thing I had available.) wasted me a lot of time and very clearly others, and that's exactly the point of this discussion!

Hell, to troubleshoot that issue, I even ran something like a `find / -exec strings -a '{}' ; | grep timeout` and found nothing that ended up being helpful. But I absolutely had some form of documentation, again likely the last link I provided which isn't simply a philosophical issue when it provides misleading information that would have ultimately fixed the issue if it gave more informative output!

You admit yourself that the documentation can be insufficiently clear with bugs, and it's true: systemd happens to have lots of time killing bugs. The whole point of this thread.

You're missing the forest for the trees, friend.
I find it incredibly ironic that from the current voting patterns we can clearly see that you have a point (yes, it's bad etiquette to refer to voting, but in this case it's topical), even with people claiming that you literally made this up.
The title does not seem to fit what’s behind the link? I see people complaining about google canceling ongoing subscriptions after failing to collect the payments, presumably because of some fuckup on Google’s payment processing end.
> People borrow for much more than basic needs and they do so voluntarily without anyone forcing them.

People can be forced without there being an "anyone" to do the forcing. Being underemployed in some expensive city, unable to make your next car payment that you need to get to your job doesn't require an "anyone" to force that person into a loan at gunpoint. They're still being coerced into that decision, even if there isn't an "anyone."
I'm also a contract programmer and looking at job sites the work is completely drying up. There are still a few contracts going but its a small fraction of what was available 2 months ago. What makes you say that business is booming?
Agreed. Although one might note that those involved in wall-street are highly likely to be amongst those voting for conservative governments that are enacting these policies.
RSS feeds are a bit of a mess, but only due to each publisher's implementation being slightly different. the vast majority only send a headline and summary on the RSS feed, i then have to go and scrape and extract the article on the backend to populate the content, which is it's own challenge and i've not gotten it to work for a few sites yet.

This is also running in a semi-serverless container in Google Cloud Run (only costs me £1 a month!) so fetching and re-caching all of that when a new container is scheduled is painful, however it seems like state in the container is persisted longer than i initially thought, so it's good enough for now.
SaaS and lifetime subscriptions don't play well together.
What a great write up. If they can get over the technical fear for the average user this is a huge idea and the price is fair.
Anyone could die in a car crash, but that doesn't really get people worried. There's a million ways to die at any moment, but people just don't worry about it.
Go for it! Forget about setting a DB at first. Django will default to a “pseudo database as a single file” called SQLite and for all intents and purpose it’ll function as if it was MySQL or Postgres.
Also dlib performs very well (especially in C++)
That's disturbing for consumers, and of course Google will attempt to force you to arbitrate for remuneration.

Perhaps the Google Music consumers can perform the overwhelming "mass arbitration" denial-of-service against Google that was on the front-page a few days ago?
I think political bias at FOX can diminish their reporting substantially. But government propaganda truly is a different thing. It's as if you are comparing a natural disaster to a genocide - yes, the issue with both is that people die, and humans dying is with us no matter what we do. But even a serial killer acting as maliciously as possible isn't the same as a government dedicated to killing. There exists a meaningful ethical distinction and it's strange to hear people pretend it doesn't matter.
Iirc, the Million Dollar Homepage had non-trivial marketing resources poured into it.
It's ironic how short a "lifetime" can be on the Internet.
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Roughly, through what means should we fix it though? :)
Scheme is the same. If you type a number with a dot in it, you'll get an "inexact" number, which is floating point. If you prefix it with #e, you'll get an exact representation of the entered number (so, e.g. #e0.1 gives you 1/10)

The output of inexact numbers is typically truncated. In CHICKEN, you can use flonum-print-precision to tweak that. In an example, straight from the manual:

> (flonum-print-precision 17)
> 0.1
0.10000000000000001
> There isn't an alternative.

Of course there is - look at how people actually behave given various stimuli, rather than presuming enlightened rationality.

Enlightened rationality does not govern real actions, we know this, we have ample evidence of this, and making economic forecasts on this basis has been repeatedly exposed as a fools game.
Yeah, it's kind of impossible to argue that production costs haven't gone up for manufacturers. I have an employee who we need to still go into the office for some manual work 2x a week - he asked that we pay for an Uber for him because he doesn't want to ride public transport.

That's just one of many additional costs companies that struggle to continue working are paying.

Some degree (within reason) of increased prices for an high-in-demand product is a necessary if you want to convince employees to work longer hours and through tough conditions.

...not to mention many of their underlying fabric costs are probably higher as well.
How to be a good product manager in a bad product company?
Google maybe (?) had a better track record in 2014, but if there's one company I wouldn't buy anything with a lifetime guarantee from now it would have to be them.
Hi HN,

This past weekend, I had an itch to play hearts with three of my friends. Other sites were asking me to make an account, download an app, or play with strangers/computers. I threw together my own version where all you have to do is send your friends a link. There's aren't many bells and whistles, but let me know if something is missing--I would love to build this out.

I've open sourced it (https://github.com/zchr/hearts). It's a Node app with a Vue component for managing game state. State is shared between you and your friends with Socket.io. It's my first time using Vue/Socket (and publishing a web app, really), so I look forward to hearing thoughts on the stack.
What you complain about is more about the author of the notebook being disorganized rather than the format. The format also allows that to happen, but it's a lack of discipline on the author that creates that mess.

Many people don't care about reproducibility, or having a paper that can be simply read and understood. They just care about getting their paper out. Part to blame is also on the reviewers who don't really evaluate this as part of the paper (assuming they're given access and the opportunity to evaluate the code, that is!).

I recently reviewed a paper for a conference and it was a mess in every aspect. I wish they had included the .ipynb file. Instead, they provided mangled (both by cropping and jpeg compression) screenshots of the notebook. The code was an utter mess (instead of doing X_prime = X[10:100], they did X_prime = [X[10], X[11], X[12], ..., X[98], X[99]]).

I gave that mess the strong reject it deserved (the rest of the paper was on par with the code, if not worse). I'm still waiting to see if the other reviewes will do the right thing, or they'll jump on the fad that """deep learning""" (they used 90's machine learning methods at best) has become.
OF course it's making a sensible point. If the dose response function is not linear (and is a differentiable function, as any physically real function must be) then it will have a point where the derivative is greater than for LNT.

Your example is discontinuous. This is not physically realistic. Any "real" function, describing the response of a population with random individual exposures and differences, will be smoothed, and so be better behaved.

It also misses the point that when you abandon LNT, you don't also get to say "and now we'll assume the function is even more favorable to my political agenda". Sure, it's possible the actual function makes it better for nuclear advocates. But it's also possible it makes it worse. Are the policy makers going to be on your side just because?
Typedefs – A type construction language, programming language agnostic
>>of course Google will attempt to force you to arbitrate for remuneration

Arbiteration thankfully isn't a thing outside of US much. I would love to see what would happen if you took them to small claims court in UK for instance.
It depends on your clients. Don't put all your eggs in one basket which I did.

My two current clients in Germany are heavily invested in the automotive industry. They have everything on stop for the manufacturing and their software department is not working their full 100% capacity. On the other side, I hear lots of good news from people who are bringing physical services to the web. The digital revolution is just starting here and people have to keep up with more and more demand.

So yeah, I think there is lots of opportunity. It really depends on who you are aiming for as clients.
reason I never opted in any lifetime offer. Company may fail, they may renegade.
I am a native Russian speaker and a former Korean language major. I would estimate that the modern Korean writing system has roughly the same amount of exceptions and non-phonetic spellings as the Russian one.

For example, the letter ㅎ (h) is not pronounced in a lot of cases. Some other consonants are reduced depending on their position in the syllable, etc.

The illusion that Korean is "pronounced as written" is created by the fact that Koreans are extremely happy when you learn to speak their language at all. I as a Russian speaker would also rather hear you pronounce Russian words as they are written than not try to learn Russian at all :) But as soon as you start working on sounding as close to native as possible, that illusion of simplicity quickly breaks down.
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My subscription is still active and is due to renew today. I will let everyone know what happens.

fyi nobody is complaining about this on the youtubemusic reddit which is the one of the first places I think we would hear about it if this issue was widespread BUT maybe its regional and hasn't hit the usa users yet.
Perhaps google silently saying "we are all going to die"
Welcome. :-) That could be #32 also: "I like the idea of universal health care, it's.." "That is Socialism!"
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A projective space is defined as a quotient of a vector space under the equivalence relation x ~ y <=> (exists k =/= 0 such that x = ky).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_space#Definition
Because people don't buy stocks with the expectation that they'll remain flat in the long term. They expect them to increase in value over the long term.
Of course, lifetime upgrades of licensed software didn't really either. They didn't go away immediately with a canceled service, but in most cases they still end up breaking with OS upgrades, new devices, etc.
It's quite possible that what happened was a glitch with their technical billing tables.

Even Google would not silently cancel a paying customer's subscription without some communication.
Fascinating, thank you. It's interesting how the Arabic numerals in the dates are flipped 90°, as opposed to in some right to left scripts where they are just reproduced as is. I've always thought this would hinder the flow of the reading, but I suppose small numbers (for most people) are instantly recognised rather than being parsed left to right.
Both aisles, conservatives and leftists, support Cronyism with their actions. It was the Bush adminstration that came up with the plan the save Wall Street, and it was Obama's that passed that plan, in one form or another.
wow, genius!

(the second doesn't work on older versions of bash, like macos)
Probably because the diagram originated in a Vector Spaces book, and commutativity is viewed more as a valuable property than a structural constraint.

Do physicists have any use for non-commutative algebra? It already seems pretty niche in mathematics.
Ideas are worthless, it's the execution that matters.
I disagree that ABC is the only school of thought that has an explanation. Almost every economic school of thought can discuss decreases in aggregate demand and aggregate supply. Not every school of thought may have theories regarding the drivers thereof, which is a feature ABC spends a lot of time on, but some do and most can assess and even build predictions for anticipation.

As an example where ABC will go off the rails, our current crisis is not one build up due to overage in inventory, a favored ideal rationale for ABC to explain the business cycle. Much more explanatory, surprisingly, is Keynesian animal spirits.
I am one of the original $7.99 lifetime subscribers. I received no emails or cancellations. My payment for the month was processed last night. Music apps in the browser and mobile still recognize my account.
FWIW, if you're in New Zealand you can follow economic news updates from www.interest.co.nz.

It's an impressive aggregation of data and journalism. But boy could their site do with some improvement... Could be some work in it?

There's a comments section under every article, and a motley community of dedicated "common 'taters". Plenty of workers, business owners, property darklords, doomers, prospective first home buyers, trolls, and even a few wise farmers. I find it helpful to guage the vibe of what is happening on the ground. Deep down, I think what's really needed is a forum.
Aside, I wonder how long UK dialects will survive: my kids often come out with US Americanisms - of both word choice [garbage] and pronounciation - because of the media they consume.
All subscription contracts provide that they can be cancelled by either parties with reasonable notice. If that was not the case we would have open-ended contracts that can never be brought to an end, which would be obviously unfair (and in fact such contracts are deemed unfair in many jurisdictions).

In this case it seems that Google's promise was only never to raise the price.

That might sound misleading because consumers are not used to have a company cancel on them (they want to get paid, right?) but that's always a contractual possibility.
Most households have more than one person, so in that case the $20 is no longer for a single person.
I came here to say this, the REPL feedback loop is amazing, I think we can do more with LSP in Clojure with spec so I'm trying to build that out to attract people used to advanced type systems that would otherwise be put off

The problem is I don't have a good track record for completing projects so competitors or collaborators would be greatly appreciated
Somewhat Less Lethargic JSON Support for iOS/macOS, Part 3: Dematerialization
> Upon contacting support, the only remedy they offer as for now is to subscribe to You Tube music (higher price and no lifetime guarantee) and are 'investigating' while of course they hadnt provided any solution.

This isn't the case. From the link:

- "So I've managed to rectify the issue and they've renewed my Google Play/YouTube Premium subscription for 9.99USD a month (slight increase from the 9.99AUD I was paying, but hey, still a discount)."

- "I got my subscription reactivated through chat this morning at my original rate."

- "I had no choice but to use the link to get YouTube Premium subscription at my original price 7.99."
it was a lifetime subscription. it just wasn't your lifetime.
He once said in an interview, "I'm doing a poke in the ribs, not a kick in the butt".
Love to see experiments like this with web articles. Have you thought about making it more print focused? It's the kind of layout I'd want to print out and read offline.

I've experimented a little with trying to create more readable, printable layouts of web articles and feeds on https://www.fivefilters.org [1],[2] but yours has a much more traditional newspaper look which could look great in print.

[1] Simple Print for single articles https://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/

[2] PDF from feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=854Csokl3QA
I use escape-. a lot
Here ya go:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
Well, he's continuing to do new music, rather than relying on just playing "My Bologna" a million times. He's done Lady Gaga at least, so I think he'll last longer than you might guess (hope so!).
What I was implying is that the aggregate effect of corporate spin and government pressure is not materially different (in theory or in practice) from what might be happening in China. They're both very very bad and we should talk about how to fix that, what we shouldn't be doing is pointing fingers and pretending one is bad (while neglecting to mention the other).
> Keynesian would be fiscal policies

Well most governments around the world have been running deficits (the US to the tune of~$1T annually) since the last recession. I consider that to be some pretty serious fiscal stimulus.
Was reading the PCem forums to figure out how to share files with the host. It seems disk images or getting networking up is necessary (which is not uncommon for similar emulating programs).

One thing I really like about DOSBOX, is how ordinary folders in the host can be mapped to drives in the guest OS. I wish pcem has something similar. This can make creating files with ancient software more convenient (e.g. new retro games).
Why Did President Trump Request India for Hydroxychloroquine?
Of course LCoE is a simplification, but it cannot be ignored if the differences are large enough, as nuclear advocates wish to do. More detailed analysis has to be specific to particular situations. However, as I have also pointed out elsewhere, when optimizations are performed of the best way to produce output for "real" grids with real weather data, using realistic cost projections for 2030, new nuclear is left at 0%. The LCoE advantages of renewables are so great that the cost of dealing with the intermittency, even to 100% renewables, is less than the cost of using nuclear instead.
>You suggested there is a moral duty of an individual in the EU to buy specifically from outside Europe (like Morocco or Turkey) because they were expected to receive migrants.

No, that's not what I'm suggesting at all and it's not what I'm doing myself. I'm suggesting to buy the best value for money wherever it may come from (barring special circumstances).

I'm also suggesting that reducing trade with poorer neighbors has downsides for everybody, even if you are convinced that buying locally is economically beneficial.

>Yes, buying from "where they live" does support "where you live".

No, it does not necessarily do that. If you buy the same quality at a higher price locally, you may well be preventing your local economy from moving up the value chain or from becoming more productive and more competitive.

>You made a weak argument, appealing only to pity

That would be true if I was advocating buying worse value for money to support those countries. But that's not what I'm saying at all.
Was this a known starting point? Or Randall Munroe just discovered this in two days?
> There's only two types of people who die from it:

> - People with a pre-existing health condition

> - People with a pre-existing health condition who don't know about it yet because no doctor has diagnosed it yet

This is the kind of shit I expect from Facebook comments, I'm frankly flabbergasted to see someone making that kind of stupid assertion here.
Sounds great, can we decolonialize away from the Norman conquest and get back the old Anglo-Saxon orthography?
1. In many countries the lifetime guaranteed price from 2014 was lower than 2020 price of YT Music. E.G. in most of Europe.

2. Did you have the original grandfather plan of Google Music?

3. Besides, YTM does not have guarantee of lifetime price.
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Cool, thanks! I'm doing a lot with AWS serverless, it's a great way to go (and similarly cheap). Any chance you could open-source your scraping code?
What if it doesn’t cache the page on the server, and the service is essentially a cloud-based user agent?

It can’t be legal to run a user-agent in your computer, and illegal to run a user agent in the cloud. The question becomes, what is the defining property of a user agent?
In the early 80s, I knew "Yoda" before I knew "Lola". Thanks to Disney's persistence, my kids now know and giggle at "Yoda" (picked up from the internet, not me) and only vaguely know that it came from some old song somewhere.
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that's a good tip.

I've always used /bin/mv or /bin/ls to get just the command, but your method is shorter. (although I can't help but think of windows paths)
The Fed artificially lowered the interbank rate to zero percent for ~7 years after 2008, bought other treasuries across the yield curve, and bought trillions in mortgage backed securities. This created an environment that disincentivized saving and encouraged borrowing for both individuals and businesses alike. The market growth over the past 10 years was completely fueled by this artificially cheap credit. The economy was already extremely fragile before the coronavirus hit due to how over leveraged everyone was.
There is a large difference between 10 USD and 10 AUD, about 50%
I think you overestimate how big the flat earth movement actually is. There's no way anyone of them actually makes any significant money off youtube ad revenue when even the most well-known flat earth videos ("flat earth clues" by Mark Sargent) only have a few 100k views each.

The flat earth debunking channels, on the other hand ...
Dark pattern to "erode" an unprofitable category of users...?

"Oops, we had a technical problem and now your lifetime option is gone. Unfortunately we have no way to create new lifetime subscriptions, because of technical changes. As a goodwill gesture, here's a free year on $some_other_yearly_service. Whatchagonnado, sue us for a few pennies? lolmao"

Repeat a few times until everyone gets the memo or resource usage from that category goes under "acceptable" levels of waste.