skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not certain, as I've never seen an implementation that involved it. There was a lot of stink about it 5 years ago[1], which called out the exact argument of it not working for HTTPS traffic. Which, is a substantially larger portion of traffic now than it was at the time.

But you still see nondescript references to the capability in places like that that up-to-date Adobe Analytics doc, and the carriers aren't trying to use legal means (a la lobbying) to slow down the uptick in HTTPS traffic and preserve their revenue stream. Which leads me to presume they've developed technical solutions that are compatible with HTTPS traffic. They can't really use the spray-and-pay method[2] they were using. But all bets are off when they destination site and the carriers are coordinating with each other, as that coordination can involve technical modifications to facilitate it in addition to just the whitelisting itself.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/31/are-mobile-carrier-injecte...

[2] Some carriers would inject a header into all traffic, and any interested party could slurp them up. But you'd have to pay the carrier to access any of the other information the carrier had for that particular identifier.
One benefit of the pandemic not mentioned in the article that I am hoping for is that the dip in emissions from driving, flying, cruising etc. will help us lock in a more accurate value for how sensitive the climate is to aerosols emitted by these vehicles. The error bars on just how much they cool the planet are large, ranging from masking 1 degree of warming to a more alarmist 2 degrees.
> people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in South America committed by the U.S. and in the next instant what Kylie Jenner wore to the MET gala

Doesn't this completely invalidate your argument? If it's that much easier for folks to read an article about war crimes in South America committed by the US and the next about Kylie Jenner at a gala, how is that different from reading one section of a newspaper and then a different section?
This is so interesting to me because I just never use these services. I think I've ordered on Grubhub's website maybe once, and I've never used DoorDash or UberEats, and I eat a lot of takeout. Though I don't do much delivery and maybe it's really just down to that.

The context of these (perfectly valid) complaints often comes down to, "wow this is a parasitic business model and we hate these guys, but we have to use them" from the business owner, and I guess I've just never gotten how much of the market they've apparently eaten up.

I'll use the restaurant's own online ordering system (a lot of the ones I've visited lately are using the Toast POS system which seems to include online ordering, and I've used some of the apps and websites of the bigger chains), or call them, but the generic apps just seem like an unnecessary middleman and I can't quite get why I would use them, and that's without even considering that they're skimming off the restaurant's profits. It's also quite rare that I want "just anything" within some category vs. some specific restaurant.

Maybe there's something I'm missing...
The rich data types can be useful for filtering, I guess? When you are running a query against a certain hash key and want the first record (sorted by range key) that meets a condition placed on a nested property of a map or whose "tags" property is a string set containing a certain member, for example.
Where Web UI Libraries Are Heading
So many things disallow + in email addresses I don't even bother any more.
It must be his fault, things like being visually impaired cannot ever be accounted for or considered.

Recaptcha is hostile to end users and makes my like a fucking hell. But your right, it's my fault.
#3 Yes but not so much the ones with valves. The ones with valves are better for the wearer.

Wear protective glasses as eyes are another vector.

Avoid using public restrooms as that’s another vector though apparently the virality is reduced.

Use sanitizer after touching anything that’s not under your control.
Probably something like turning off the lights at a specific time to reinforce good scheduling and with the ability to not turn them back on to prevent easily un-breaking a habit?
“Leaky” Rationality (2007) [pdf]
The mission has always been "to improve the free and open source ecosystem", not just "to make a cool code forge". On many occasions (e.g. [0][1]) I have made it clear that the goal is to invest our profits back into the broader open source ecosystem.

[0]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C2019042616072...

[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q....

I would rather not be the kind of company which pockets millions for its founders and investors with money built on the backs of the FOSS community. An explicit, stated goal is to spread the wealth and raise up the ecosystem as a whole. If you don't believe in that, then don't pay for it, it's your money. SourceHut-the-software-forge is not going to be any worse off because we spend $5K giving PeerTube a leg up. We spend more on that for a single build host for builds.sr.ht.
Are you thinking of gfycat? (Who, tangentially, is now moving all their adult content to redgif.)
Yeah the whole noble lie thing is pernicious because even really stupid people are often good at telling when people are lying to them. Problem is once people realize you're lying they have no good way of telling what the truth is.

So you just fucked them.
Currently around 500 deaths/ million. If you need ~60% for "herd immunity", that implies they'd get around 2500/1m, or 0.25% of the population. Pretty gruesome.
Congrats. That’s it for me then. Deleted
A16Z funds voice-only social media app with 5000 users at $100M valuation
ah, I forgot coffeescript had destructuring! yes, that is a great feature.
What I like in DDB is TTL. It is a fantastic feature. I read someone comparing it with Redis. Redis is faster because of TCP connectivity, whereas DDB is over HTTP.
I really hope they start splitting tech giants up. It would be a boom for the economy, jobs, and create much needed competition.
Sorry, what are you saying? This is Epidemiologyists doing statistical analysis of a vast data set. Where does the ai come in?
How strong is your will? You can always just unplug the box the program is running on, so your in-the-moment desires will always have the opportunity to win.

So the real question is what kind of disincentive can you bake in that will be stronger than your future self's desire to turn off this mysterious program.

If you like money, you could have the program generate a crypto wallet but don't save the private key to disk. Program it to refund any coins sent to it after 30 days, and now you have a financial incentive to keep that process running, since if it ever loses power or otherwise terminates, your money disappears.
I’m curious why not allow implicit anys instead of creating the tool that inserted anys? Seems roughly the same outcome but implicit anys would take a lot less work?
> ...they refused to do "services" the same way Google did (aka a login and a central server). So as a result, Chrome "just worked" and Firefox was completely unusable.

I think Mozilla found the perfect solution to services. They provide a service and open source the implementation [1]. This gives a "just works" option (which is still probably setting a pretty high privacy bar because it's Mozilla) and a fully self-hosted ultra-private option for those who want to go the extra mile.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/
If you have physical access to the box, you can always unplug it or destroy the unit. Where do you draw the line for the obstacle? Regardless, you may want to look into running a dead man's switch on an external box that you don't physically control (AWS?).
Surely this is their hosting provider getting hacked, not the 'site'?
It's more "fully comprehend all aspects". You could also say "get" or "understand" or "know" as synonyms for comprehend (in the right context).

Grok works in English, I've been reading it for, what, 20 years in English texts. It mightn't be in dictionaries but they're not the sole arbiters of language.

It comes from US English, AFAIK, a neonym from Heinlein (the sci-fi writer).
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Do you prefer someone read you a book or reading it yourself?

As a related issue: I just don't understand the audiobook phenomenon. I'm clearly the outsider here. I enjoy reading words, not having them read to me.
Montreal reassigns streets for pedestrians, bicycles during pandemic
> Death rate for under-45 is under 0.024%

The rate of death for people under 45 is very low. It's going to be more than 0.024% because:

> Deaths which have COVID-19 on the death certificate are included in ONS figures but not here; we are looking into their inclusion.
Looks optimistic when large scale serological testing in Spain, which has a higher per capita death rate[1] suggest prevalence under 5%, and under 12% in the epicentre of the disease in Madrid.

[1]yes, caveats apply
The daily status update has different role for different people (devs, scrum master, tech lead). It might be useless for devs but valuable for scrum master, for example.

The dynamics also depend on # of people involved - the fewer, the more effective.

What we did in my last 2 teams to make standups better:

Team 1: move it from 10 AM to 11h45 (just before the lunch). Advantages: 1) Not stressing out people who are late; 2) Not breaking the work of people who arrive early; 3) Keeping it short - since it's before lunch, it can't last forever because people want to eat.

Team 2: move to slack e-standup. Advantages: 1) and 2) above; 3) Async, so you can do it early, late, or even the evening before; 4) It takes 2 min for each person, not 20 min and you don't have to stare in the floor while your mind is somewhere else; 5) Avoiding "ummmmm whaaat did I do yesterday ummmm let me think" x 10.
Well, if the program ran on their main computer, that would be a pretty strong disincentive to unplug it.
You kind of need to search without quotes, and you’ll get very appropriate results.
If the managers don't know what the team is working on, daily, change managers.
This antitrust case is the most straightforward one for prosecutors to win. It's been a long time coming and the FTC would have brought one during the Obama administration if they weren't so captured by the tech industry and Google in particular [1][2]. I expect Google will lose their antitrust cases globally. Cases against other tech companies like Facebook and Amazon seem less certain, but I haven't really thought about antitrust theories too deeply for them.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323689604578221...
I've built a podcast app that lets you take notes at specific time stamps.

What I've personally found is it's way too cumbersome to pull the phone out of your pocket, unlock it, press the "Add Note" button (assuming the Now Playing screen is already showing, otherwise another click for that), type in your notes, and click save...and probably rewind 15 seconds because you lost track of the conversation.

But now that I write this out I realize a Siri shortcut could be apt here.
Couldn't find !sp. What is it?
Does any alternative have any traction?

ReasonML is used by Facebook. Elm used to get more attention on HN.
Thank you! Yes, that’s definitely interesting to think about. The long-term fate of the universe is another open question -- does it accelerate forever, could it collapse somehow, or cycle somehow? Physics seems to suggest that space will eventually just atomize completely, with individual galaxies or perhaps even molecules expanding beyond each others’ observable horizons. Or could some interesting new unanticipated structures arise, maybe at massive distances or ultra-slow timescales? The general question, I guess, is are we witnessing the long decline of a mature universe, or is it still in its youth?
Don't they get half a billion per year from Google?
An individual restaurant can’t just go back to the pre-delivery days when the whole industry has moved on. That’s not how competitive markets function.
What’s wrong with implicit returns? I’ve always liked those in CoffeeScript and Ruby.
I can see two areas in which it might break.

I might put #!/usr/bin/env make -f in case it's somewhere in else in PATH.

Also some systems (BSD, old commercial Unix) have non-gnu-compatible make and sometimes call their gnu make port "gmake" or "gnumake".
> There is no way to install extensions outside the web store

> The vast majority of people use Chrome vs other browsers.

Can you even do it with Firefox any more?
Yeah, is this sense Coffeescript didn't only feel like the future, it was a preview of the future.
This quote at the end sealed it for me:

> “It’s clear how even though all companies say they “do agile”, in fact most don’t; they just do random meetings while standing up, which produces bad results that I consider right-out offensive towards developers."
YAML-Sucks
It doesn't seem to me it meets the requirement of the landing page being relevant to the trademark and making it easy to purchase/view information: the ad takes you to a page that puts Applebee's front and center, and you have to search again for the restaurant.

Hopefully it's a violation and can be fixed on Google's side, since I find that to be the worst part of all this.
Wow, they used the "complaining online and getting enough upvotes" support channel. It should not reflect well on companies when they fix things that come to their attention this way.
Hi Patrick! At the risk of this comment appearing as if it might derail conversation -- this really is not my intent (the iniatiative sounds great; I'm unable to find the details I'm looking for on the site) -- are these Mozilla programs open to participants/startups based outside the U.S.? Thanks!
Ever wonder why innovation takes place? Wonder why we are not still reliant on locomotives for transportation?

Economic incentives for innovation and disruption are greater when a monopolistic entity is over charging for it's good or service. If they are not over charging then there is not as great an incentive to innovate or disrupt. If the latter is the case, why bust a monopoly that is providing a fair service?
Yes he is an Epidemiologist by profession and I think it is his team that came up with the way to access medical data. I tried to get it in the title but it seems to have been edited out.
Coffeescript definitely felt soooo much nicer to work with than JS at the time. Writing in Coffeescript back in 2012 felt like Typescript does now, where going back to working in base JS felt miserable after using it. ES6 took a lot of ideas from coffeescript which basically made it redundant. I wonder if the same will happen to Typescript if types get added into a future version of JS? We'll probably have another post about switching a massive codebase off Typescript onto whatever the next big thing is.
My revelation wasn't that it was difficult or easy-- it was that unknowns lurk, in vast numbers, in places you don't even know exist, let alone don't know to look.

It sounds easy, with hindsight, to say "Of course the burn profile of the fuel grain would determine the the thrust curve". The idea of fuel grain burn profile just simply hadn't occurred to me. Sure-- I knew motors had total and specific impulse but, I grew up on Estes motors as "black boxes" and never thought about motor manufacture or that performance could be engineered. I never thought about the motor as anything more than "put an ignition source in, get energy out".

I know I've had a lot more of these moments. This was just a memory evoked by the parent post. I'm having trouble coming up with another of these "deep holes that look shallow, or don't even look like a hole at all" moments immediately to relate a second anecdote.

These shallow-looking deep holes clearly exist in large numbers. By their very nature we can't know how many there are. They're fractal, too. Inside each one are more similarly-appearing (or not appearing) holes to go down.

That idea might trouble some people, but it's very exciting to me. The only troubling bit is knowing I have a finite period explore the space of knowledge and a limited capacity to understand. That doesn't discourage me, though.
Then maybe we start them off with "now listen here you fucking idiots!"? The response rate seems to go up when there's anger involved.

Unfortunately that's a lot of characters for twitter.
If you get the chance (it is exclusive), I consider Bloodborne to be a contender for narrative excellence in games.

There is complete mechanical proof of the player's knowledge and understanding of the narrative and there is no wrong way to play. You simply get a different interpretation of the story depending on how curious you are and how closely you examine the textual evidence they elude to.

The storytelling can seem obtuse. I argue it works in support of the world design. You are the narrator.
I agree and might add that having improvements on something imperfect (but a thing that does get real work done) can be worth much more than compsci perfectionism.

It is very hard to do something that is 'good' in technical terms while also being 'good' in product terms. While the discussion often doesn't revolve around the practical implications of taking steps toward a commercially uncommon language or paradigm during business engineering it is pretty much where all the 'stuff gets done'.
Usually in that situation you could sue the person in court.

Easier to prove too.
Oh, that's just mean. "Your team is suck, here's why. How to improve it? I'll tell you somewhere later, don't know when exactly". Are we reading a soap opera here? Hitchcockian cliffhangers, anyone?
I mean, Pine is a company; their model certainly seems to be "sell stuff to make money". I might wish they ran some products with a higher profit margin so they could expand more, but they're not a nonprofit or anything.
Because of the way we had type checking set up - our existing code already used noImplicitAny, and we wanted to keep that, and we were typechecking it all in one shot, together, so we couldn't have different typescript flags for different files.

Now as to why to use noImplicitAny in the first place: mainly because implicit anys are usually accidents - places where developers didn't realize they should put a type. And the explicit `any` in many ways is sitting there for anyone who cares to replace it with something better; whereas implicit anys are much harder to notice.
I think it was also a forcing function for a lot of modern development patterns. Bundlers, sourcemaps, even chrome's prettyprint, all became mainstream around the time coffeescript was relevant (~2011?) I think they all existed before then, debugging coffeescript was a huge pain in the ass without them.
I enjoy both but have probably 5x the time for listening compared to reading.
I wonder what happened with the devs that started the tumble towards the Coffeescript migration... still locked in the cellar?
Well this isn't "pre-delivery". Delivery isn't a new thing — food delivery has existed over the past several decades. It's just that restaurants had to provide it themselves, and hire their own delivery drivers.

Platforms like DoorDash et al obviate the need for that, in return for a transaction fee. Restaurants appear to think that this is a good deal. If that's no longer the case, there is nothing stopping them from taking those transaction fees that they lose and using those funds to hire their own couriers — the labor market is pretty loose right now.
As far as I'm aware no court has ever agreed with your interpretation of the wording of the DMCA. Do you have a source on it being correct (which I definitely could have missed) or are you just giving out questionable legal opinions as if they are fact?

The best I can find for someone trying to raise that interpretation in court is when warner bros tried to argue it here [1]. That the motion was denied without prejudice in a brief order here [2], to be re-raised at trial if necessary, and then it looks like the case was settled before it went to trial or the issue was raised again.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/835805-184407656-war...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.373206...
Yes, you can do so through the about:debugging page.
I really like this book when I started it but by the end I just didn't feel invested anymore. All of the long conversations with the Librarian felt like a club to hammer in a bunch of complicated exposition. I remember thinking quite a few times during those passages: "how in the world would you pull off a movie version of _this_?"

That said, I will absolutely watch this.
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Edge dev uses chrome under the hood and you don't sell your soul to google.... Just to MS.
First of all, bravo to Drew for trying to nudge the world in a positive direction.

I was just wondering if he was running a fund that did exactly this, to pay for a few open content creators and OSS developers. (Is there already a fund like he's sort of doing here?)

If he (or someone) did peel off these altruistic activities, they could (a) get donations from others of like mind, (b) continue to let Drew use his good sense to decide how to spread those funds out to the creators, and (c) keep Source Hut funds separate so its users got a more fair deal.

Even if he does keep them commingled, wouldn't mind paying for SH and having some of it go towards helping the community.
Use Emacs.

(Really, use any fully extensible editor and take the time to learn it well. I'm told Vim fits the bill too; my personal experience just happens to be with Emacs.)
What has this book taught you that could be applied outside DynamoDB? I'm close to buying but the price is kinda steep... if however I can take away some general NoSQL insight then I'm sold.

Edit: nevermind, I see another review elsewhere and the author replying. Though, your opinion would still be appreciated! :)
Or accepts it at account creation, but not at login!
> to surface unknown unknowns

That may be true. But that's also a good way to turn a 10 minute standup into an hour long spitballing session.

Nearly every blocker or unknown that I've encountered could have been better handled by a 5 minute slack chat with the essential people. Which is almost never my entire team, and is frequently outside the people on my team who would not attend standup anyway.
Yeah companies don't change their basic modus operandi just because they bought Agile training.

Add to that problem that most legacy companies are very date driven and you really end up with Date Scrum where the team is pushed to get really anything out by a date. Then tack on people focusing on the parts they like - Agile means I can change things mid project! - the result of which is a scope moving chaos monster that delivers bad software by date certain.
This is one of the benefits of listening to a text-to-speech article over a podcast. You just need to pull up the article's original text and highlight it in that app (if you're using something like Pocket). Still annoying that you need to get your phone out but less so than typing up a note.
I think if browsers didn't allow JS calls to other domains without a user prompt it would solve almost all the woes ads/trackers bring. I'm willing to give up whatever optimizations the current silent behavior allows. I'm sure Google would do everything to stop that from ever being standard though.
How would they know which to sanitize???