skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I tried to buy an item from eBay 3 weeks ago. eBay said the article was shipped few days after the purchase. 3 weeks later, nothing came. I asked the vendor, what happened, can you give me the tracking number? The vendor's reply: "our supplier haven't given us the tracking number yet." You mean to tell me that the item hasn't been shipped yet, despite that you told me it did 3 weeks ago? Yep. That's eBay.
So all of the tokens are being put on a central server. Today, governments use WiFi and Bluetooth to track traffic. It is not far fetched to see that your commute from point A to B could be tracked using Bluetooth receivers in transit stations.

This technology is currently being used to track people today. The use of Bluetooth address randomization does not do a sufficient job to prevent this, the only option is to not use Bluetooth.

It is important that people are aware of these risks. I am fortunate to live in a place where I can live my life without scrutiny from the government, but not all are afforded such a luxury.
If you do want notifications then at least on iOS the mobile website doesn’t cover that.
Yeah, but I'm talking is about generating (transpiling) code.
There are definitely things that I consider voodoo, like wetting the filter before you make your coffee, but there are tons of things that are just undeniable like: if you drink coffee from stale beans, your urine smells bad then next time you pee; if not, not. I'm always surprised when I drink some gas station coffee and then a couple of hours later "oh yeah, I normally drink better coffee, don't I?"
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Did you read the rest of my comment at all? I can appreciate disagreement, but that means taking the time to consider and look at what the other person has to say as well.
If Disney were embedding tweets, it would likely already fall under twitters license for redistribution of content (aka hosting.)

However, if Disney plans to copy and paste the tweets into another graphic, they felt they wouldn't have the appropriate license to reuse text copywritten by others, without this odd TOS.

The one thing about this that plays into Disney's favor, is the attention probably reduces someones honest ability to say "I never saw the agreement tweet."
Those are not the same open source projects.

When Amazon strip mines and destroys some projects, I don't think that's any better just because they need and do changes in the kernel
Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club
Does anyone know what's going on with the big ISP outage in UK at the moment?
Virgin media seem to be down nationwide. I've also read that other isps in EU owned by Liberty Global are down. Twitter suggests a BGP issue but I'm not really familiar with this stuff. Any info?
I'd venture to bet its pretty significant, and i'll bet whatever provider they were using is scrambling right now.
In some ways that's the problem with Twitter. A decade ago people used to post what they ate for lunch and any random thoughts that entered their head. It was true "microblogging". Now it's mostly politics and bots, and the service itself hasn't evolved at all to handle them.
Fake UV disinfection lamp from eBay
USO sinks 15% as biggest oil ETF revamps fund composition for 3rd time in April
If I use the hashtag in a way Disney doesn't like, can I be prosecuted under the CFAA?
‘Instead of Coronavirus, Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms
I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
I was thinking the same thing, only google has an incentive to do this and it would be too risky for them, legally and to their reputation. Either this isn't happening as much as people think it is, or some third party has an unknown reason to be operating bots like this.
Of course if it was real, it could cause serious eye and skin damage.
The issue is, if your putting the risk on infected users, what is the benefit to them to release their tokens? They are already at risk, this just makes them bigger targets.
Any modern MS Windows desktop, that is, of course.
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You really wouldn't really need to in Raku.

Mainly because you can add things to the existing parser instead. (See postfix and infix below.)

role Physics::Datum {
has Real $.value is required;
}
role Physics::Distance {
also does Physics::Datum;
}
role Physics::Volume {
also does Physics::Datum;
}

class Physics::Volume::Gallon {
also does Physics::Volume;
}

class Physics::Distance::Mile {
also does Physics::Distance;
}

role Physics::Per[ ::N-Type, ::D-Type ] {
has N-Type $.nu is required;
has D-Type $.de is required;

# could have a submethod TWEAK to reduce the fraction
}

constant gallon = Physics::Volume::Gallon.new( value => 1 );

sub postfix:<miles> ( Real $value ){
Physics::Distance::Meter.new( :$value )
}

sub infix:<per> ( ::NT Physics::Datum $nu, ::DT Physics::Datum $de ){
Physics::Per[NT,DT].new( :$nu, :$de )
}

my $mpg = 5miles per gallon;

Which would result in the following data structure.

Physics::Per[ Physics::Distance::Mile, Physics::Volume::Gallon ].new(
nu => Physics::Distance::Mile.new( value => 5 ),
de => Physics::Volume::Gallon.new( value => 1 ),
)

I think the main reason it was written that way was it was copied from Perl.
A lot of the above would be more difficult or slower in Perl.

(This was mostly a quick throwaway example of how it could be done.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813833
I used to think the same, but in many cases nobody taught them how to read the docs. Once they get more familiar with the concepts they are able to dig in and be more independent.
Hum... Mozart's father (Leopold) took his son and daughter to a public hanging ‘for a jolly treat one free afternoon’.

That would not work, nowadays...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-marvel-of-mozart-s-l...
It seems like that the software doesn't have STARTTLS, so it doesn't work with Protonmail's Bridge :/
A Close Look at the Frontrunning Coronavirus Vaccines as of April 23
BuildZoom (YC W13, construction marketplace) is hiring a remote engineer
Could someone elaborate on what the author means by "leverage?"
> Anyone that responds to this thread legally

> You agree to not use the Site to: email or otherwise upload [...] software viruses

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Then why on earth is NULL being treated the same as false for the purposes of a WHERE clause.

Simple point:

SELECT 'foo' WHERE bar = baz FROM quux
UNION ALL
SELECT 'bar' WHERE bar <> baz FROM quux

To me, there are two acceptable outcomes of this situation:

1) The result is a single row containing "foo" or "bar".

2) The result is an error message that the truthiness of 'bar = baz' cannot be determined.

However, ansi-null-compatible-SQL just will give you an empty resultset if bar or baz are null. That's not the server saying "I don't know" to "bar = baz", that's the server saying "neither" which is very freaking different. "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. "neither" is a lie.

That is unacceptable, and I'm utterly bewildered that people can insist that this is okay.
Right up until the NHS-collected data is abused by another government agency for some purpose other than health.
You start by making a trilogy with no coherent story across the three movies that ends by basically undoing the first two trilogies and go from there.

(For the record I enjoyed the last three movies as general fantasy movies, they just didn't fit all that well into the mythology).
At least Vogon poetry is less harmful than Disney drones tweets.
Just to throw numbers around:

4x engineers @ $10k/month
50% overhead
25% net revenue

Is $75k/month. At $4/month that’s about 18,000 paid users. So 4500 paid users/engineer. Without a free tier and without prepaid lifetime plans.

Twenty dollars a month gets users per engineer down to 1000. A hundred bucks a month gets it down to 200 users per month and then there’s time to develop features and such.

Again, I am just throwing numbers around to provide an example of one way of establishing price. The important thing is that prices close to zero dollars are hard to make work at modest scale because there are a lot of users and not very much money for operating and growing the business.

On the other hand, 1000 users at $4/month is not bad as passive income for a person. That’s a different kind of business model.

Good luck.
Emailing you now.
I tend to agree. For some types of applications it may make sense to worry about it but there are usually other things to look into first.
The Walt Disney Corporation doesn't have social media run by interns, they have one of the more active and experienced social media apparatuses out there. They have to, they're one of the largest media companies in the world.

Ironically they militantly protect their brand, and have conflicting mandates and reasons for doing so (it's not just to keep the image, it's to keep others from deriving value from their brand). Sometimes those mandates interfere with each other, like we see here.
I'm pretty sure that field corn is perfectly edible for humans. The problem is that it doesn't taste as good as sweet corn, but it's not poisonous or anything. In fact, if you're starving, it probably tastes pretty good.
I just loaded a link to a tweet in a private browsing window on my iPhone in some sub-second amount of time. So whatever issue you're running into is a bug, not intentional.
Whatever damage a virus may rage, it will not be greater than maintaining the restrictions and preventing people from going to work.

Let businesses set their policies, employees choose their desired level of safety. Let us choose our destinies instead of confining us to quarters.
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I mean, Twitter over SMS made perfect and necessary sense back in the first decade of its life.

But honestly the time has long since passed where it still makes sense to support. Smartphone notifications with the app are far superior in every way. (And if you don't want to install the app? I mean, just don't use Twitter then.)

And the only people who don't have smartphones these days are the kind of people who have made an intentional choice to reduce their always-on digital connection. They are the very least likely people to use Twitter anyways.

It's a good thing when a company is able to simplify its software architecture to remove code that's expensive to maintain and keep protected from security vulnerabilities.
Tesla says cars can automatically stop for traffic lights
Derek Lowe is best known on HN for his "Things I Won't Work With" series of blog posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yeah I think it's very situational. Like an arena allocator is going to give you a tremendous bump in allocation performance since you just allocate once and replace memory every frame - to give the gaming industry example.
It was originally a base for which people made all kinds of neat things like TwitPic. But then Twitter started integrating everything and competing with all the people who made them great; sometimes even suing them.

I started using Twitter via SMS and before the age of modern smart phones (I was on my Palm Treo. The girl in the cube behind me just got an EDGE eyePhone) and for all my university friends, we used it as a big SMS-based group chat room. It was kinda fun, the total opposite of what Twitter is today.

If you want to hack on platforms and build tooling around them, I suggest people look at ActivityPub implementations: Pleroma, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed and others. ActiviyPub is really where a lot of the neat federated social networking stuff is happening, and having more devs hacking on it and making more implementations can help keep it diverse and falling into the state where modern E-mail is.
There is a whole industry geared to those who "might be intimidated getting going". This often leads to being stuck in 'tutorial hell', where one never has to feel intimidated and never lets go of their instructors hand. Slippery slope in my opinion.
Even if they do that, they can only track the people who self report as contaminated for the period during which the self reporting applies (i.e. n days before testing positive). Not before, not after.

But I just can't think of a system that achieves contact tracing while no one having any idea of the whereabouts of a person who self declares as contaminated. At one point the person who self declares has to volunteer to disclose some information.
The bot doesn't know, but the ad platform is optimizing for similar traffic.

So if bots are more likely to click download, and bots have similarities, bots see more ads.
That's not the point. It's about the pipeline.

Once the pipeline empties, it takes months to fill back up, because animals take months to grow to marketable size.

Edit: to expand a bit, most meat animals are raised by a supply chain of specialized farms. Some specialize in breeding and birthing them, some specialize in raising them to marketable size (these are called "feeder" operations), and finally they go to a slaughterhouse/processing operation.

If the slaughterhouse stops buying animals from the feeder operation, the feeder operation has to kill them and waste them. Now the feeder isn't buying feeder-sized animals, so the breeder has to slaughter and waste them. Now the supply chain is completely empty.

When the processor opens back up after a few months, that doesn't magically cause market-sized animals to appear, waiting to be turned into meat. The breeder will have to breed more animals and wait weeks to months for those animals to be born. Then the feeder will have to feed them for weeks to months to reach marketable size. Only then can they go to the processor to be slaughtered and sent to consumers.

So, yeah, if the supply chain empties out, it is a Bad Thing.
I don't know what's up with your specific iPhone, but I've never experienced anything like that on mine.
I use nitter.net as an alternative frontend, it's better in every way
Having the government control the food supply distribution is not a very good idea.

During the gas crisis of the 1970's, the government decided to control gas allocations to gas stations. Stations were allocated gas based on how much they sold last year. Naturally, as demand shifted around over time (as it always does) this led to shortages in some areas and gluts in others, and the supply of gas never matched the demand for it. A big part of the gas line problem was caused by this, as people were terrified that the local gas station would run out of their allocation.

This problem vanished overnight when Reagan, as his first act in office, repealed all the oil & gas price controls and allocation controls.
The submitted title ("Developer efficiency prized above all else") broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Cherry-picking the detail you think is most important from an article is editorializing.

Like it or not, titles dominate discussion. The comments in this thread are nearly entirely a reaction to that title. The HN guidelines specifically ask users not to abuse that power. On HN, submitting an article doesn't confer any special right to frame it for everyone else.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please post it as a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

If it's necessary to change a title, please do that by picking the most neutral and accurate phrase you can find on the actual page which represents what the article is about. More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932244
if it's a badly written article that many aren't finding informative, stop upvoting it! Here's the other techcrunch article ppl mentioned, posted a week ago and not garnering much interest. heh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913692
If this happens to a client attempting to load a single page in isolation (which it does, a lot), you are a failed web site. They may be a very successful mobile app, but as a website, they've failed miserably.
I would prefer if they created a year alias to the version.

So both of these lines would be equivalent.

use v5.32;

use Perl v2020;
Why stocks rise around earnings announcements
Wow, it’s not my cup of tea aesthetically!
> Youtube is also great for conquesting your competitors. In the SaaS space I’m in right now I pay over $20 per click to bid on my competitor’s search keywords.

I hate the modern internet. Platforms are holding developers hostage. Because if you don’t pay for ads for YOUR PRODUCT then they’ll show your competitor’s ads.

It’s anti-consumer hostile. If I search for a thing I want to see that thing. Not a different thing that has a bigger as budget.
There are a wide variety of outcomes available when the implementation of global operator new is visible to the compiler. It may inline the entire new, and having done so it may also apply any other optimization that would apply to any other function. Without an allocator at build time the only thing it can do it generate a call to malloc. Leaving malloc resolution to runtime also negates all benefits of sized delete.
Again, "See: Stress inoculation".

Don't worry about one particular study. Search for The Concept. Deduce for yourself its validity.
I had one account that got locked because of that and it took a lot of digging to find the right support link, but eventually I made a support request saying I didn't want to give them my phone number and violate my privacy and they finally unlocked that account. It wasn't easy though.
was looking for someone mentioning the 'party line' thing. I've heard ppl like yourself mention remembering that also.
Australia: COVIDSafe Tracking App Reviewed
The NHS is generally very well-respected, but it's important to remember that "the NHS" is really a large collection of distinct organisations and a huge number of people working within them, and to some extent the shared culture within that community. The professional ethics of those working in the NHS are generally respected, but that mostly refers to clinical staff and to some extent support staff. The management and bean-counters are not necessarily accorded the same trust and respect, nor should they be on the basis of past performance. The NHS has done some shady things with sensitive personal data on their watch, and we absolutely should be cautious of any cavalier attitude towards privacy if the NHS leadership and their political masters try to push out this sort of contact tracing app.

FWIW, I wouldn't install such an app if I didn't consider it to have sufficient safeguards, but then I'm a strong advocate of privacy and civil liberties who is also willing to give up various other "normal" parts of life to avoid compromising those principles in ways that make me uncomfortable. What should concern the powers that be in this case isn't me, but rather the number of my friends and family who typically do tolerate more intrusion into their privacy (for example, being willing to share a lot of personal information on major social networks) but have expressed concern about this app.
Startups are faster paced and provide faster general skills growth.

For example I was running a team of five devs a year after graduating - that would not have happened at a big company.

I also got the chance to architect complex systems within my first 2 years - again that would not have happened at a big company.

On the other hand by moving to a large tech company my pay quadrupled and I was able to focus on growing my pure coding ability.

I’ve also had the opportunity to solve complex dev problems that we would have just ignored/hacked around in a startup.

Probably my most frustrating experience is that big tech companies are biased towards big tech company experience. My extensive management experience was heavily discounted and I had to join as an IC. It took me almost 5 years to get to the same management level (director) at my current big tech (non-FAANG) company.
In general, is a tweet long enough to be a work for copyright purposes? Anyone know of any copyright caselaw around tweets?

I can imagine some poems being complete works and fitting in the character limit, perhaps.
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Calling it an extreme connotates it as "wrong" to a degree, when other philosophers might counter that there is just the right way and wrong way i.e. Kant's Categorical Imperative and its Universal Moral Law. I do not totally agree, or even understand, the implications of Kant's pov. especially the example of a Nazi knocking on one's door, one is universally morally compelled to say you are hiding people. However the intention of these "extreme ideologies" is not to create useful/practical approaches to life or thrive in society or even be happy, but to uphold values which may be greater than life itself.
This is a huge win for civil liberty.
Competitors have a strong incentive to click each other's ads.

Google has a strong incentive to let them.
Israel is small, and military service is required. If you're smart and have talent (versus just muscles), then you'll go through some unit like this during your service. It's a bit like saying Google is an extension of Stanford because that's where the founders came from. It just happens to be a place that people went through.
Medium publication about being human. experiences
I love nitter and threadreaderapp. They make reading Tweets tolerable. The stock UI is just a confusing cluster fuck of Web 5.0 bloated webpacked Javascript bullshit.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/georgia-v-public...
That's assuming perfect compliance rates, right? I cannot estimate what the compliance rate for self-quarantine will be, but if we look at a few rates we get different numbers:

50% compliance? We already lost, too many people will ignore the app and we can't get to 2/3 even if 100% of the population installs.

compliance rate | necessary install rate
<67% failure (R_t stays >1)
67% 100%
80% 83%
90% 74%
95% 70%
100% 67%

If as another person replied the R0 is around 6, then:

compliance rate | necessary install rate
67% failure (R_t > 1)
80% failure (R_t > 1)
90% 93%
95% 88%
100% 83%

These are... not great numbers for trying to deviate from what Apple and Google will push as a built-in app. Even assuming >= 90% of the country has a smartphone, you need a huge fraction of the population to participate.
> If have not seen a problem on monorepos that does not exist on multirepo

How do you refer to a library in a monorepo from a different repo?

The workflow seems to me to entail an all-or-nothing approach.
A bit unrelated, but if anyone is interested, I recently watched Andrei Alexandrescu's 2015 talk about a composable allocator design in C++ and it was really interesting. And Andrei's presentation style was fantastic, per usual.

Note that this talk is about a std::allocator-like type, potentially on top of one of malloc/jemalloc/etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U
> 2% of your countries population might die. Is that acceptable for a developed country?

Are you really a developed country if your relationship with death is such that you're only capable of considering lives saved and not properly considering the consequences of what you're doing to save those lives?

Right now we're welcoming all sorts of authoritarian surveillance that we will have long after the virus is no longer a threat. Is that legacy worth 2%? I don't know the answer to that question, but I can't consider any place developed if they aren't really having that conversation. The legacy of our actions will outlive all of us. What legacy are we going to leave? A surveillance state? An awful economic situation for those in their prime working years? A national debt whose interest only will claim greater proportion of the country's economic output?