skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had this conversation with "most people" a number of times.

"I'm just a regular guy and I want to get my stuff done, but these programs are doing stuff I can't stop."

> Commercial software is adapted to the needs of the greatest number of people who will pay for it

Here's what has happened. Because apple is a hardware manufacturer, their app store makes software a complement.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

"A complement is a product that you usually buy together with another product. Gas and cars are complements."

So the price of gas goes down, the sales of cars goes up. and vice versa.

For apple, they can drive the cost of software to zero. In the beginning software couldn't really sell well above 99 cents, and now most software is free.

So now people are used to free stuff. But it is a trick. Free stuff pays for itself with tricky in-app purchases, or tricky sell-your-data. Apple doesn't care, because all the free software is selling gajillions of iphones.

But it would have been much better (for individuals and society) if people made and sold stuff, and if people just paid for stuff and got rid of the trickery.
UBI somehow is realized after a disaster. Interesting to see what economic impact will be in one or two years.
> For $99 per year you can install whatever you want on your iPhone.

Does it not get automatically removed after 7 days?
> e.g. you deploy your Django application to AWS Lambda and it automatically fires a lambda function when a view method is hit via a route.

Is that a bad thing in your opinion? Examples like that were very much a Day 1 use case, or at least intent, for a lot of AWS Lambda. When we were working on CloudFront Lambda@Edge it was explicitly the intent to move the compute out of the traditional data center or EC2 instance. We wanted to enable customers to run their entire application in this fully managed 'serverless' aspect where AWS can optimize along multiple axes on their behalf.

Internally Amazon is a land of APIs, RPC, and federated services/business logic. Getting to the point where each API action, or internal method, would be hosted as a Lambda was entirely a goal.

Source: Principal at AWS. Not in this space directly anymore, but spent time working on CloudFront & Lambda@Edge.
This looks like a good, minimal implementation of generics. It's mostly parameterized types. Go already had parameterized types, but only the built-ins - maps and channels. Like this.

var v chan int

Somewhat surprisingly, the new generic types use a different syntax:

var v Vector(int)

Do you now write

v := Vector(int)

or

v := make(Vector(int))

Not sure. The built-in generics now seem more special than they need to be. This is how languages acquire cruft.

The solution to parameterized types which reference built-in operators is similarly minimal. You can't define the built in operators for new types. That's probably a good thing. Operator overloading for non-mathematical purposes seldom ends well.

They stopped before the template system became Turing-complete (I think) which prevents people from getting carried away and trying to write programs that run at compile time.

Overall, code written with this should be readable. C++ templates have reached the "you are not supposed to understand this" point. Don't need to go there again.
This is one of those situations where regulation of some sorts could help the business being regulated. If the government decreed that they're not allowed to pick and choose based on the content then the ad buyers couldn't do anything. It's unlikely this would ever happen though.
Assuming it is race, do you really think the whole TSA does? Wouldn't it have to be codified in order for them to do so?

I think it would probably be more likely a few racist employees he unfortunately has to deal with.
Skylake was released in 2015.
Some would argue the economy is actually running O.
Two of Harvard's most famous students: Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't graduate, but the Harvard name still got boosted by the fact that they attended.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017726
I suspect they called out block storage as that's normally what you'd use for reasonable performance from a DB engine. As in that'd be the next step 'down the stack', not what was released today.
I read ZH pretty regularly. It carries a wide variety of opinions, and they often have the scoop many hours before any MSM.

Yes, the comment section is useless. They don't do any real moderation, and it's filled with, well, a lot of inappropriate material. So, I don't read the comments. (They don't even show by default.)

Is this really a good reason to "cancel" the site, though? Yeah, unmoderated free speech isn't pretty, but how much do you really hate it?
yes, Yes, Absolutely, they add zero, extract lots = rent seekers...
Yellow Lamborghini Aventador Crashed into Another Yellow Lamborghini Aventador
Never heard of ZeroHedge, but skimming it, it looks... less bad than most right wing sites?

Any idea what articles they were banned over? Th first current one that has something to do with the protests: “No we’re not all together” is on page 2:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-were-not-all-together

The premise is that there’s one set of COVID rules for the rich and the protesters, and another set for religious groups and “normal” people.

The article’s tone is a bit offensive (and outside HN decorum), but it’s reasonably well-researched, and not obviously incorrect.
https://archive.vn/4gTqu
I’m assuming list operations and small writes will be much cheaper with EFS.
"Are you also against every grocery store having store brands and “slotting fees”?"

I don't have any insider knowledge of the industry, but since COVID has been a thing, I've noticed that there are brands appearing that are local or regional, that look way better that what I'm used to, and so I'm asking myself if maybe there was something messed up or even corrupt about the distribution system before. If these brands can step in in a crisis, why didn't the store carry them before?

I don't have a really well-formed point, just a vague sense of vindication that yeah, markets (like an app store) are run by people, and maybe they're not run in the best manner and it isn't obvious. I think markets are valuable, just like computers, as tools to solve optimization problems. But like computers, they can fail to solve your specific problem, or have uncompetitive performance. Like computers, they're complex and you can easily be snowed about how well they're functioning if you're not immersed in details.
The stars energy is its rest mass plus the energy in its gravitational field. That gravitational energy is negative. Otherwise we have all sorts of problems with conservation laws. The energy model for the early universe with its dispersed array of unbound atoms and photons is a matter of record. There are plenty of referenced articles available and I have already explained how to find them. There’s no point complaining to me about it.

Your calculation of the stars binding energy uses the classical formula, but for a star and the universe generally you need to use relativity. The calculations for this are in the paper linked from reference 5 in the Wikipedia page on the zero energy universe. It’s a free pdf download.
Can someone address the levels of failures that are required for this to happen, and the measures organizations take for this not to happen?

The idea of having such leaks is terrifying. How do your organizations, the ones you've worked with before, or others manage and prevent that, especially if you're in an organization that has this covered?
This should be the top comment: constructive criticism with a working example of how a simple sum-type-Rust-like-thing would be implemented.
Something like Preact can be pretty good for this too. The one thing that makes React (by itself, not with all the stupid extras) good for this stuff (as opposed to Vue and Angular) is that it has a very simple API without much surface area, so it's relatively easy to maintain, just like jQuery. But where it still falls a bit short is the actual size of the library itself, it's a bit wasteful to package in React just for a widget or something.
I think the research will need to specify potential side-effects and their probabilities. It's trade-off at the end of the day.

Here's a different perspective on dexamethasone:

https://youtu.be/pnS4MbRribw?t=1188
Ehh not really. Technically speaking Apple isn’t buying anything, the users are. Maybe if Apple was buying in app subscriptions on behalf of everyone, it would be a monopsony, but it isn’t the case here
Not sure I follow. Reactive frameworks includes more than React. Reactive frameworks generally mean some form of observables, observers, and mechanisms for linking the two together via a dataflow graph, e.g. http://reactivex.io/documentation/observable.html.

> This page explains what the reactive pattern is and what Observables and observers are (and how observers subscribe to Observables). Other pages show how you use the variety of Observable operators to link Observables together and change their behaviors.

I'm not familiar with React so I'm not sure how all these concepts are implemented in React.
The ever-shrinking transistor and the invention of Google
Ok, it is no longer New in the title above.
congrats. Just one thing: in Barcelona the official language is Catalan, so if you look for a local station try not to put "Latino" music (that's latino america -> south America
Wow, this is just wonderful. Such a simple idea so well executed! Having just shown it around at the office, the consensus is that it's fascinating and very engaging. I hope more videos are forthcoming.

A minor fix would be to prevent the audio tracks from restarting at the beginning. Instead, start from a random point, or resume from the last location. Considering the video appears to be crowdsourced, it might also help to include a "suggest video" function.
Pertinent satire:

https://youtu.be/wz-PtEJEaqY

You are subsidizing landlords by giving this stimulus. It’s not that bottom up.
I’m very excited to find this. I have a handful of projects in my pipeline that require “just enough” of the dynamic sugar that this could potentially provide for little investment of time.
The reason is that they're one of the few sites that doesn't moderate comments into the dust.
> You can literally just add up the number of deaths for each race and then divide by population numbers

Should it not be -> number of deaths by race DIVIDED BY police interaction by race?

Or maybe -> number of deaths by race DIVIDED BY police interaction by race but only for 911 emergencies (or something like that)
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542864
The CERB is all the downsides and expenses of UBI without any of the benefits---no incentive to find work, bureaucracy hell, Canada has to worry about and invesigate fraud, doesn't help poor workers working minimum wage jobs (which are almost all essential)
Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds
> As much as I respect the technical acumen and creativity of my colleagues in the industry...we do a pretty bad job of communicating it.

This is the root of so many problems for technical teams in ostensibly non-technical businesses. More developers and engineers really need to embrace the reality that your work doesn't always speak for itself - sometimes you have to speak convincingly on its behalf.
Developing stable complex software in C takes a hell of a lot more effort and skill than it does in Rust IMO.
Looks great man. Once you have your main board set (like you do), don't forget to think outside the board you've built to add things like a wah and volume pedal. For me these have both been staples of my rig that sit outside the "effects" part and can be be added/subtracted as necessary.
Traders love it, and traders are rich. They don't need Russian money.
The title is far from "clear" or "accurate". Attention-getting for sure.

I had no idea what the premise of the article would be without clicking on it. The article's thesis: "abolish cop shit in the classroom" would make a more accurate title (albeit still inflamatory to those sensitive to the language).
This is well put and concise.

On the mentor note, even if you don't have a formal mentor relationship, most people are open to discussing their roles and responsibilities.

Depending on the firm, even more would be ecstatic to talk about a specific idea or side project to provide their input on marketing/strategy/finance. As long as you come from a place of genuine curiosity and not "tell me exactly what to do for free," almost everybody wants to help you.
The linux layer does not work for electron apps, sadly. I run a FreeBSD desktop, and I have a linux VM to run electron desktop apps.

My understanding is that the core issue is a lack of support for the linux sandboxing syscalls that chromium (the basis for electron) uses.
> This is going to sound contrived, but they have a monopoly over the Apple App Store.

It is contrived. Put aside the fact that the Mac's market share is in the teens. You're saying that Apple has a monopoly over a market for products they created which are designed to run on a product they created.

So: Nintendo has complete control over distribution of games through their console; indeed much more total than Apple. Do they have a monopoly? How about Sony over the Playstation?

> You might argue that this isn't the definition of a monopoly, but the DOJ gets to decide that, not you.

I'm going to argue that this isn't the definition of a monopoly. Monopolies are over markets. The Apple App Store isn't a market. More importantly, having a monopoly isn't illegal. Abusing that monopoly to eliminate competitors or to broaden the monopoly into other markets is illegal.

I intensely dislike what Apple is doing here. But I'm not sure we have much legal recourse.
I came here to say exactly this. I found this article[0] here a few months ago on HN and it dramatically changed my life for the better. I had always thought I was just "easily distracted" and a "natural procrastinator", when in reality I actually had ADHD.

Now that I am medicated and it is mind-blowing how my life has changed. I can hold more than one thought in my head at a time, I can get back on track to what I was doing before without forgetting what I was doing, I don't sleep in until 10am anymore and I don't binge eat anymore. Consequently my self-esteem has improved dramatically too.

[0] https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html
Any chance you could add the radio station m2o for Rome?
I mean,

ffmpeg -i something.avi something.mp4

works as well, but there's just _so_ many more options inherently involved in converting a video: most inputs and outputs will be at least 2 tracks, so that's 2 codecs, and the majority of containers used now (MP4, MKV, etc.) support all sorts of codecs, so while ffmpeg will "guess" what you want just like ImageMagick does in your short example, the chances that it guesses right are a lot lower just on the basic level of what format you wanted your output to be. But it's not exactly ffmpeg's fault.
You must be new here. Head over to 4chan (and 8chan?).
Pornhub is calling...
A better analogy would be a dishwasher from BigCorp that only allows you to wash dishes approved by BigCorp.
These regulations would greatly harm the ads industry: Google will be forced to place their ads on trash websites.

AFAIU Google is not yet the monopoly among the ad networks (it holds less than a half), so it’s too early to regulate.
He's being deliberately obtuse, by offering a "solution" that doesn't address the problem.
A little more context: What's not mentioned in this article is that the Liberal party, currently in power, has a minority government, and therefore needs the support of either the NDP (left of the Liberal Party) or the Conservatives (right of Liberal Party) to get things done. NDP was pushing for extending the financial aid, which is likely a significant political reason why the liberals chose to extend CERB (in addition to not wanting a massive number of evictions to occur all at once...). Here is some more info on the give-and-take going on: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-bill-impasse-1.5605937
I think that is way more sensible. It gives people the time to experiment and understand growth and the nature of their market. It also gives room to hobbyists, which is an important demographic of creatives that shouldn't be punished by regulation.
Sure, we'd consider it. But in a community that cares a lot about privacy and getting more so, I wonder if enough people would turn such a feature on to make it worthwhile. Also, would we show it by default on every comment? I think probably not, but then it would be less useful for preventing misunderstandings, since most readers won't click through to a profile.
People seem to be using that term way too much for anything that involves making a profit. Rent seeking has a narrow definition in economics and providing access to a wide consumer base cultivated through years of hardware and software development definitely does not fit in that definition.

It's weird to just forget the value added through the whole ecosystem by Apple and say that they make "30% for doing nothing" which is only true if you ignore... everything? It's like saying a downtown store is rent seeking because it's only selling stuff they didn't make at a higher mark up.
The draft design document is very readable too: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...

I'm rather excited..
I agree that poverty and inequality in general is the real problem. But one must be able to point out that the shitty situations African-Americans are in today is the result of a whole bunch of dominos that fell over and if you follow them backwards they lead back to red lining, slavery etc.

Everybody is a product of the past. Hell, Anglo-Saxon’s are still worse off then Normans in the UK 1000 year after William the Conqueror.

There are people who never lived under communism who have to deal with the stain and prejudice of being an Ossi in modern Germany.
Ask HN: What frameworks do you use for prototypes?
In order to quickly create a prototype with good frontend what do you use besides React
Maybe cause something like earth is a 1-in-kagillion chance
I guess it made more of an impression on me when Apple surpassed Microsoft in market cap.

I could be off, but I feel like there was a time when the valuation of Microsoft was something like 100 times that of Apple, and Apple wasn't even leveraged like we expect companies to be now. I remember when it seemed like every story about Apple in the WSJ called them "beleaguered" or something similar.

And then, to have them some back and surpass Microsoft, while it was a triumph for Steve Jobs, it also did kind of seem like Microsoft had been hobbled. Especially because while Apple had broken out of its rut, Microsoft's stock price was stuck going nowhere for a very long time, post 2000.

Now Microsoft is having its own renaissance, but a lot of people thought it had lost its way.
Field Play: a cool vector field visualisation
Before any of the studies came out, I was reading anecdotes specifically stating, "this only works with zinc". Which is not that hard to believe, from a biochemical perspective.

Apparently most or all of the studies do not include zinc. Hooray.
I know this is probably not a podcast that is frequently brought up here, but Chapo Trap House recently discussing their issues with the book White Fragility and brought up many of the same issues here (it's marketing material for a anti-racism instructor, the author is white, racism is presented as an issue that must be constantly atoned for in perpetuity [because DiAngelo would like to be hired in the future], it's geared towards the workplace which is inherently not a place people associate with emotional openness, it's geared towards what not to do as opposed to what to do, etc etc). I'm a longtime fan but I enjoyed it because i didn't know anything about White Fragility besides it's constant recommendations within the last few weeks.
That's good to know and I'll definitely check that out when it comes time to recommend something for some of my less technically inclined friends and family.
I miss an "always on top" setting, but, beside of that, it's good.
The people they employ will more likely be available?
What about the support available for businesses (ie. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/economic-respons...)?
This is interesting approach. I suspect that developing x86-64 compatible CPU could happen lawsuit.
Which she is certainly able to speak about.
Presumably referring to it using IPFS - which means there's no central hosting for the cops to try and shut down...

Looks like the http://dapp.policeaccountabilitynow.org domain and the bundle.js it's hosting could be targeted, but all the content for the (single) report comes from urls like https://damp-lingering-feather.kovan.quiknode.pro/b7169106fd... - which would presumably be available from any other public IPFS gateway (or directly from IPFS)
Which implies that as the user, you are the product, being sold by Apple (and Google) to the app developers for a 30% vig.
I think this is an outstanding idea. But if it's to be credible, the recordings need to be unmodifiable/undeleteable by the user, and immediately available to law enforcement.

Heads I win, tails you lose is not credible. It's just riot bait.
The actual problem you are having is that there isn't a setup option on virtually any distro that will set this up for you but you are clearly setup incorrectly. I was using Funtoo with a zfs root for years until the machines CPU died.

The process of booting up looked like hit power button wait for desktop to show up. The "basic mistakes they are doing" are completely a function of your distro not having a way to easily set this up and you not knowing how to use it correctly. As far as I know the only distro that supports zfs on root via its installer is at

https://project-trident.org/

You might try it in a virtual machine.
> I'll be contrarian

Why do right-leaning libertarians always have to pretend they're being contrarians?

It would be clearer to just say something like "if you're interested in a conservative take on this issue, check out Thomas Sowell."
The point is to be the counter-weight to the process you describe (which I agree is what happens). It's not that we can banish in-groups or concentration and power, it's rather that we /can/ put our efforts in preventing or mediating this. And this very effort is what leads to whatever equilibrium we end up with.

Consider the current discussion surrounding police brutality in te US, and the racial aspect of it.

I don't think anyone expects we'll have 'no police' or 'no racism'. But like in any negotiation, I think it's sensible for the starting point to be more than you hope for, which in the case of many protestors might be operationalized as 'abolish the police' (which sounds quite anarchistic), and in the case of 'the powers that be' might be limp-dicked stuff like "let's just put more camera's on cops' attire but no legal consequences if the footage is lost".
And on top of this, it's usually not "some idiot" calling the function from a REPL. It's "some idiot's code", which may not be executed until the program is running in production somewhere if it is rare. "Oh, someone uploaded THAT kind of file? Well, let me see... AttributeError: Type SomeObject does not have attribute append. Here's a list of 47 functions that were called between the action you took and this error being raised. None of them guarantee the types going in or out, so you should probably get going waking through all this logic. You're welcome! -Python <3, XOXOXO"