skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems a halfway before create a webscraping solution. Adding support for integrate automation with zapier or ifttt could help to close the circle. Nice project
I can't help but feel that all arguments defending how this Clojure solution supposedly can't be done as elegantly in other languages, use "idiomatic Clojure" as the judging criteria. Of course the conclusion writes itself.
The companies that are renting their space also have fixed costs.
Yes. I really miss it, but I'm just not sure how practical it is anymore.
It is entirely possible that I have no idea what I'm doing with ads. I did try to learn and apply all the knowledge I had. My conclusion was not that it doesn't work at all, just that it doesn't work for me and I would not recommend it to other solo founders.

As to commission-based work, I still think that when presented with a SaaS with a good 4-year track record, a confident marketer should at least consider something else than a flat rate. What exactly is the risk here? There is organic growth, there is customer retention, there are MRR numbers. After a customer learns about the service, everything else is known and very clear. What remains to be done is work on what happens before a customer learns about the service, which in my opinion is entirely on the side of the marketing person.

I guess my skepticism is also before I haven't met a marketing person that is convincingly good at what they do.
Can you explain how HFT raises the barrier to entry? Barriers to entry for who?

Arguably, payment for order flow has decreased the barrier to entry for retail investors by helping enable zero-commission brokerages.
And so the US draws closed it's Iron Curtains. For the US imply that undemocratic corporations are the arbitrators or truth is laughably absurd. An honest person has nothing to fear from the lies of another.
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>Given the harsh economic reality, I'm very bearish right now.

as am I.

I've more-or-less frozen my trading until a) a recovery plan is clear and being executed or b) until it is more clear we've hit a real bottom.

All these hopeful spikes that do not correlate to the economic reality are probably going to throw a lot of people through hoops until any real roof or floor is hit.

It sucks because I keep having these "buy the dip" moments, but then I have to hand-wave the opportunity away knowing that whatever dip i'm looking at is likely one of many upcoming movements.
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That’s a good idea as well. I just read a couple of articles (They’re back at my computer so I don’t have links handy, sorry) and apparently the Minneapolis mayor has put together a task force on different ways to completely dismantle their police force and build it from scratch–I suspect an idea like yours would fit in nicely, take some of the current forces overblown budget and redirect a bit more of the funds towards programs which are aimed at making a community healthier rather than an enemy.
New construction (supply) brings down prices overall but rental market reports only include inventory turning over right now, which is biased toward new, empty, and more expensive buildings. These two facts are not conflicting.
Aye so you can suffer through shitty half arsed third party repairers who either write your phone off as water damaged even though it wasn’t (thanks Motorola) or glue it back together because they broke all the clips opening it (thanks dude down the local repair shop).
If people can't understand your meaning, because you bend your words so hard, that undermines your goal.

Cheers.
First-hand experience: helicopters are wildly more difficult to fly.

Perhaps the lead-lag hinges can be elastomeric and one could purchase props with different fixed hinge stiffnesses for different amounts of noise dampening or frequency spread but perhaps at the cost of prop-speed change response? There'd probably have to be some compensatory mechanism in the flight- or motor-control software that'd be set for a given prop's hinge elasticity.

Of course, I am just idly speculating here on whether there's any benefit at all to any of my blather.
Xonsh, that's it!

Thanks to you and x1798DE, and to geophile for the attempt :-)

I could not find the right keywords on two different search engines to find it. This never happens.
According to the postmortem they had removed the site in question a week back. Google was acting on a week old data.

Besides, any user-content serving platform will have to deal with malicious users. It is not a perfect process, especially against bot traffic. Shutting down the whole domain was very heavy handed.
Good points, I appreciate the response!
All of them? The economy has been pushing everyone, including landlords, to lever up for decades.
How is AWS a monopoly? There are several competitors, two with similar market cap as Amazon and likely more cash in the bank. AWS neither builds on any pre existing monopoly, not is being used to push another product.

Contrast this with Azure, which greatly benefited from the Windows and Office monopoly. I am pretty sure the Windows, AD, Office monopoly is the prime reason Azure is where it is today.
In the UK, there's the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). Unfortunately, it's not all that independent, since it's generally staffed by ex-police officers. So the outcome of police brutality is more or less the same as it is everywhere - a lot of smearing, lying, then ultimately, either a slap on the wrist, or a promotion, for the culprit.

I think the problem is ultimately deeper than police culture and/or lack of checks and balances. The problem is simply that police, by the very nature of their job, must be violent. There is simply no other way to deal with the level of desperation a society like the US causes. They live and work every day in a milieu of all the worst, most desperate behaviours capitalism has to offer. Untreated mental illness, drug problems, dysfunction of every kind - all articulated in a completely insane legal system that seems almost purposely designed to consume vast numbers of people and vast quantities of money while doing nothing but harm.

So when people get upset with police for their brutality, it's easy to understand why they are outraged - it is simply impossible to do their job without violence.

When people point at German police, or UK police, and say, they're not so bad - what they're really pointing at is a different job. German police kill people, or turn out to have connections to far-right groups, or beat people at protests - but ultimately, the average german is less desperate, less well armed, and simply less dangerous than the average person an american police officer must work with. That's simple statistics. That American police have built a culture around violence (the 'warrior' thing) is a pretty obvious result of the fact that they are caught in this bind, where violence is necessary for the society to stay in its current state, but where they are constantly castigated for its use.
Not in this regard. I don't think there was any point at which iMessage on Hackintosh was impossible without a donor, but I've personally been using it since ~2015.
The "umemployment" part of the question can also be heard incorrectly. Unemployment properly refers to a specific benefit paid out after loss of a job. But I'd bet many respondents mentally generalized from that to many other types of public assistance and welfare.
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# Why Learn JS?

JavaScript is the only language that lets you do every aspect of technology.

This is misleading at best.
There is spam on Facebook, there is spam on Reddit, there is spam on Twitter, there is spam on Hacker News.

Proactive spam control is not a solved problem anywhere. Banning a website over it is absurd.
I imagine you are also confused about why people buy BMWs and Mercedes or shop at Whole Foods when Walmart has cheaper food.
> (1) everything is text

And lists are space-separated. Unless you want them to be newline-separated, or NUL-separated, which is controlled by an option that may or may not be present for the command you're invoking, and is spelled completely differently for each program. Or maybe you just quote spaces somehow, and good luck figuring out who is responsible for inserting quotes and who is responsible for removing them.
I'd love to do this again, but my company uses o365 and will not enable IMAP. Do any of the common background sync apps like mbsync or offlineimap support this now?
When I last got my Australian passport renewed, the guy in front of me had his photo rejected because it had been edited. They had some sort of automated analysis that I presume worked off spotting weird JPEG aliasing.

If there are signs it's edited, they'll tell you to come back with a different photo. (In this case, there was a photo shop a block away they had an arrangement with.)
is this doc on Fed site related to what they are saying. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/smccf-tr... I see BlackRock all over the spreadsheet
> Also to be perfectly blunt I think this just ties into people generally being uncomfortable with tests. All the examples you gave have the benefit of allowing unlimited time. What’s wrong with a test that challenges your knowledge of data structures and algorithms? I actually find that in general the very smart people I know are good at them and most of the people who “don’t test well” aren’t. And even then they can just practice them. They might even learn something. Sorry if that sounds mean, I don’t mean it to be, just blunt.

Not everyone sees these trivia games as a valuable use of our time. Some people have hobbies, some people have side projects that are of use.

The leetecode problems don't test you for experience. They just demonstrate your ability to minimally code up a trivia problem. They don't show good coding practices, doc, or testing.
When the next pandemic hits, I doubt any government will dare to attempt a closure.

The costs for these closures have been high in terms of economic pain. In addition, the protests, though they are justified due to the oppression the community has experienced, are likely undoing a lot of the effects of social distancing by putting a lot of people together in close proximity for hours.

So in the end, we will have experienced a lot of economic pain for not that much benefit.
I was curious what the benefit was to the company if the unemployment insurance is already paid (sunk cost) so I looked it up -

> Employers with more unemployment claims against them will pay a higher rate, and employers with fewer claims will pay less.
I've thought this through.

The military is both loyal to the Constitution and wary of the idea of fighting an insurrection at home - the generals know exactly how bad it gets because they have just been doing that overseas. They have every reason to do what it takes to put back the country together with minimal harm, given a crisis where they are called upon to make a significant commitment of forces. But they won't act until they start getting orders that will trigger such a crisis - i.e. to do unconstitutional acts at home with the goal of putting down insurrection.

And that presents the worst case scenario: Months to years of military governance that is premised in reestablishing the values and principles of the USA. This will necessarily bring out some related questions around the founding document and overturn some historical precedents.

But it will not turn into a dictatorship because that makes the loyalties compete with each other: You would need a leader so strong, so approved of as an ideal, that they can overturn centuries of belief in the nation. Unlike countries that have little history in this regard and are prone to instability, the only way any such leader can look legitimate and maintain power is by following through on the core values of the USA and therefore winning "hearts and minds". As such they would reinstall a republic in due time.

And that is the worst case, as I see it. It only gets milder from there, with more of the reforms coming from within the existing system.
> It sounds like he was passing off non-apple parts as actual apple parts (by not properly removing the logo)

From the article, it doesn't sound like that to me at all. It sounds like Apple deliberately put the logo on individual parts to try and make this claim later. But the logo on the part itself presumably isn't visible on the finished product. Even if it were, it would still not be passing off because the part did originally come from Apple!
The iPads are usually bought by the adult children to replace the aging computers because they are both much simpler to use and much harder to screw up. I gave my parents an iPad and added them to my plan for $20/month unlimited data. They don’t have to worry about WiFi or anything.
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Unfortunately, correct is a function of time, and almost all correct programs become incorrect at certain points of their lives. Maintainability is a thing, and I've learned to lean pretty sharply in the direction of just shitcanning unreadable code.

As a corollary, unreadable code almost always seems to have a lot of latent bugs that simply haven't been observed yet.
> The Macintosh model, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. The system doesn’t deal with character streams. Data files are extremely high level, usually assuming that they are specific to an application. When was the last time you piped the output of one program to another on a Mac?

And yet, at least it's possible to have more than one Macintosh application use the same data. Half the world has migrated to web apps, which are far worse. As a user, it's virtually impossible to connect two web apps at all, or access your data in any way except what the designers decided you should be able to do. Data doesn't get any more "specific to an application" than with web apps.
Zoom's explanation is that they do not want the free accounts, which can be easily gotten with burner email accounts, to be used for child sexual exploitation (picture trading, etc). This in my mind is at least a reasonable explanation since the same sorta situation happened in the early days of Discord.

I think in the current situation they should have been much more upfront about this.
> fragile ... the word is fragile. We've built an insanely fragile economy. Take a look. There's been no war. 100% of the (not so great) US infrastructure that was there before SARS-COV-2 is still there. We've lost about 100k people, which is horrific but in the scheme of things at "USA" scale, and with the skewed demographics, not much of a hit to the economy.

And yet the economy is staggering and it's likely to get worse. Why? Because people have stopped doing things

We've built an entire economy around people doing things they don't really need to do. In and of itself, that's not so bad, but we've also built an economy with so little resilience, so much fragility, so little spare capacity that the mere fact of people stopping doing a bunch of stuff has the potential to cause complete economic disaster for, what 15-20M Americans?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23328234
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This article is incredibly misleading. The Fed is buying ETFs instead of constituent bonds because the ETFs are a more liquid and convenient way to buy the constituent bonds. The net effect is roughly the same as if they bought all the bonds individually, just with less effort and lower transaction costs. (People seem to find it weird that a basket of securities could be more liquid than the securities themselves, and I agree that it's weird; but it seems to be true, and failing to understand that leads to grossly wrong conclusions like those of this article. Matt Levine has many excellent discussions of this effect.)

BlackRock is just the administrator, and derives no benefit beyond their management fees. The direct benefit is to the sellers of the constituent bonds (whether individually or as part of the ETF), who get a higher price. There's also indirect benefit to the non-selling owners of the bonds, since that stops the price from dropping to the point they'd get a margin call and be forced to sell. That indirect benefit is the primary goal of this program, to avoid forced, cascading, 2008-style deleveraging. The Fed isn't trying to directly support the issuers (though the issuers do benefit from functioning capital markets, if they do choose to raise more money at this time).

The $75B allocated for losses is just an accounting placeholder; they don't know what the losses or gains will be. Historically these kinds of programs have often ended up net profitable, though that's not that point.
> One experiment showed that even when given an opportunity to learn the facts about immigrants in the U.S. for a nominal sum, those holding the most negative and most inaccurate perceptions were the least willing to pay.

There's more to it than just what you pulled out.
How will this affect outlets like BBC, NPR, and others? They’re state funded, if not state controlled to a certain extent. Just listen to people’s attitudes towards the BBC recently. Will they be prevented from taking out Facebook ads? I think I’d prefer that honestly, because I don’t want my taxpayer or TV License money buying Facebook ads...
I wouldn't worry about it: it's an election year. Those UI payments will just get extended another 6 months.
Unless you're an expert at designing systems as complicated as the entire economy, maybe a lot of people.
> why can’t I get a $300k/year job without knowing what a trie is

You're grossly misrepresenting my complaint.

I've made contributions to several high-profile OSS projects (including some small HTTP core contributions to Golang), have published one book as a co-author (another as an editor; both with Apress), have several projects with 100+ stars on GitHub, and am in the top .9% of Stack Overflow contributors. This is in addition to having a few interviews out there given to legitimate outlets, like Vice and PCGamer, about past startups (all of which have involved hardware or software).

My pedigree is verifiable. And yet, if I want to switch jobs (which I will inevitably have to do), I will be subject to being asked about some algorithmic questions that I am willing to guarantee I couldn't answer without studying. For example, I genuinely don't remember how red-black tree or splay tree balancing works. But I'm small fries compared to people like Max Howell[1] (who wrote and manages brew) and yet couldn't get a job at Google because of some algorithmic question he flunked.

Fighting for better interviewing practices in software engineering is one of the few hills I'm willing to die on.

[1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
There is also 32 trillion sitting outside the US that needs to come home a be burned.
If you're in the US and agree with Right to Repair, consider joining Repair.org with an individual membership, or asking your company to join:

http://repair.org/join
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I don't think this is true at all.

In the mobile space Apple is transitioning to a services and ecosystem business as the space commodifies. You buy an iPhone and then get Apple Music, TV+, News+, AirPod, Watch, Glass etc.

If you look at the Android OEMs they don't even support phones after 2 years. And Apple would likely increase upgrade support for more than 5 years if those phones weren't massively underpowered.
I have been using a single plain text file as my note for 6 months now. I'm using vim mode on sublime though.

Switching to a plain text file that syncs to GitHub feels more permanent.

I've gone through several note apps (e.g. Evernote, Joplin) and I never really migrated the notes to the new app...

Anyway, I have my own apps to share. They might be useful to others.

* I use https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes to sync my note file to a bit repo

* A programmable tooltip on Mac. You can program it to send the selected text on any app to your note file: https://github.com/tanin47/tip/wiki/Universal-Tip,-a-program...
It’s not hostile that you build a system with a public API that doesn’t change and private methods that you make no guarantees about. This is how software engineering has always worked.
Would that not necessitate basically all of Chinese news organizations?
Apple gets sued all the time for patent infringement so I doubt this is true.
The biggest hoster of phishing sites is Google.[1] Here's a list of major sites which have live entries in PhishTank.[2] Hosting phishing sites on Google Drive is very popular.

Many of those are long gone, but PhishTank hasn't cleaned them out, so they're still listed.

[1] http://www.sitetruth.com/reports/phishes.html
[2] http://www.sitetruth.com/fcgi/ratingdetails.fcgi?details=tru...
This mirrors my experience with google support, even as a paying gsuite customer. I lost a YouTube channel and wasn’t given any option to restore it. Their advice was to just re upload all the content and forget about view counts and old links that would no longer work.
thanks, glad to hear it's coming in handy
you still didn't comment on right to repair. Seems like you work for Apple!
God help you if your paths have spaces in them.
Docker keeps a history of changes to the container with layers, and you might arguably treat it like version control.

maybe "docker history" ~ "git log"?? tags=branches?

Docker isn't one thing, so it's ALL grey. It's not really make. It's not really a vm. It's not really even reproducible.

One thing is for certain - it's hard to describe docker to new folks so they get it. "it's sort of like netflix, for cows, but in space..."
This article's tone is wildly conspiratorial.

Blackrock is the largest asset manager in the world. They manage $7.4 trillion. They're also one of the biggest providers of low cost index funds for retail investors.

There's nothing nefarious about them running the Thrift Savings Plan. It's basically a 401K program for federal government workers (the public sector's equivalent, anyway). It's a really good program with great expense ratios and plenty of passive index funds. The idea that they'd be using employee funds to manipulate the stock market through future purchases is ludicrous.

What exactly is "not fully understood" about Blackrock's role in the "outlandish valuations" of Apple and Microsoft? Blackrock is the #2 shareholder in each, after Vanguard, and owns 6.3% and 6.8% respectively. Much of that is in index funds like the iShares S&P 500 ETF or the Russell 1000 Growth ETF.
No, it really didn’t. Even if it did, it has since transcended into something more general that many people are familiar with. Ending your statement with “be better” is condescending and seems purposefully antagonistic. How about you lead by example?
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But they don't keep the mortgages. They sell most or all of them.
That's very interesting that you haven't had any signal from Github. My friends also shared that feeling but I've tried that on two people and they were both hits. So at least I know it has specificity.

Ah I see, you do one for the role, not per person. I misunderstood. That makes sense. What sort of roles were you doing that for? Generally, I aim to keep things short which is what I worry about with exercises. The tendency to perfectionism is higher in that than in real work. But if it's effective, so be it. I know I was hired that way once out of uni the better part of a decade ago! :D