skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with Apple and iOS is not a 30% cut at all. It's the push notifications policy and monopoly on app distribution. I want apps that run in the background. I want apps that have reliable and fast push notifications without those recently imposed restrictions on the only type of notifications that worked well in iOS 13 [1] (VoIP ones), etc.

It's my device! If i want to run some app in the background, I'm OK if it uses battery faster. If Apple wants to show how they care for the battery life of my device, they should show me the warning and stats, which app costs me what, not cut off my ability to run the app in the background at all.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/08/06/ios-13-voip-background-...
Exactly. Not just that, when the Obama used social media targeted advertising to its advantage it was fawned over in the media.

Cambridge Analytica was targeted purely because they were on the wrong political side, it's as simple as that. Does anyone really think they would have gotten any attention if they were working for Hillary?
Is that really any more complicated than arrays of arrays or structs within structs? Pointers to pointers definitely makes things harder to keep track of, but I don't think they're conceptually difficult.
I'm generally sympathetic to the idea that Section 230 protections should come with some sort of obligation to allow free speech.

However, the actual policy proposals for replacing Section 230 are all outright dystopian. Josh Hawley, in particular, is NOT a free speech advocate. His problem with Facebook/Tiwtter is perceived liberal bias, and the alternatives to Section 230 that he suggests are 100% about wrestling editorial oversight away from one class (tech CEOs) and then giving it to another (a politically-appointed board).

Does anyone have a good proposal for how to go about reforming Section 230 in a way that's workable and values free speech?
Java Sealed Classes
Truly the golden age of chess.

Shoutout to lichess.org - one of the best sites on the internet IMHO.
I looked into that but it's not ideal mainly because we don't need a video conferencing system.

I suppose I could dig through the code and disable anyone but the host's video feeds but I don't have a lot of time to dedicated to this project unfortunately.

I just try to help them out when I can.
So if a gun manufacturer did keep control over their gun, like with an electronic targeting system making decisions on behalf of the user[0], by the control argument, wouldn't they then have a responsibility to make sure it's used appropriately?

[0]: https://www.tracking-point.com/ (Yeah it's an aftermarket product, but for argument's sake, let's say it was 1st party)
Question, then, is: where does this end?
FizzBuzz, minus the modulo operator, plus grit
Apple's big lie is that their "curation" prevents bad actors, when historically we've seen that apps will track your usage, location, harvest contacts, etc. etc. even when allowed in the store.
This is a real example of how things can go from 1 to 1.000.000 by a combination of luck and execution.

GM Hikaru have been streaming chess since ~2 years ago [0] but there was little traction. Then one day he got into stream with xQc, one of the biggest streamer on Twitch. Because of Hikaru's skill and meme, many xQc followers started to follow Hikaru.

Soon, Hikaru joined Lindores Abbey Challenge, an online chess tournament where 12 world's best chess players compete, including Magnus Carlsen. I think that tournament was what made this whole trends possible. The recent surge of Hikaru's followers are chanting on the Twitch chat to give support to Hikaru. And Hikaru was playing against Magnus Carlsen, the final boss in the chess world. It felt like you're watching the latest episode of an anime/tv series.

The momentum didn't stop there. Hikaru knew the fads usually won't last long, so they made the pogchamps tournaments, featuring big streamers, to capitalize on the momentum and to make sure it was just not a fad.

[0] https://twitter.com/gmhikaru/status/1058781473271148544
It's hard enough to get heard on a 7-8Billion human society to reasonably ask someone to not (shout) about their stuff...
My initial thoughts on the matter were similar to yours. Why not perform a simple search and replace on the source code for a contentious word? Or click a few buttons to change the default branch?

The problem is in the unintended consequences. Once we started accommodating requests to change potentially-problematic words at my last company, those words went from "possibly problematic to someone" to "officially confirmed as offensive by company policy".

From that point forward, many people assumed that anyone accidentally using those words had ill intent. This peaked when an interviewer chastised a candidate for referring to the "master branch" during an interview. We also had someone try to cause problems because our Linux systems had "man pages", which they believed was proof that Linux distributions were sexist. It's one thing to search/replace your documentation for a specific word, but just wait until you have a team of people brainstorming complex plans to remove "man pages" from every Linux PC and server in the company.

Ironically, once we stopped making company-endorsed efforts to navigate problematic vocabulary, the number of people offended or insulted started to decline. The policies had the opposite of the intended effect.

It's one thing to make a personal effort to use a less contentious vocabulary. I have no problem with that, nor should anyone else. However, the problems come when using industry-standard vocabulary is assumed to have ill intent. No one wants to operate in an environment where they can be declared to be racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced for using a basic technology term without ill intent.
Exactly - the 30% is a complete red herring, as is the desire to sell outside the App Store.

What is not, is the inflexibility of then App store’s pricing models, and the single storefront for all kinds of App.
Agreed. From a quick skim of the Go generics proposal I get the impression that they are in fact aiming for parametric generics though (in fact they use the term "parametric polymorphism" in the background section).
Consider building a tolerance for work in the absence of motivation.

My experience is that the sense of deeper motivation you are looking for follows action, not the other way around.
Cuckoo++ – High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications (2017)
FWIW, I prefer the "grit" solutions. No modulo, no faking/implementing modulo. Why?

Because the original child's game isn't about "If a number is divisible by X," it's about "Every Xth number." And directly implementing "every Xth" can be interesting.
Sorry, as someone who has been in the business, this is completely false. There are plenty of alternative networks. I used to work for one. Plenty of content sites that do direct advertising. Even plenty of ways to run one's own adserver. They're open source!

Yes, losing monetization through one platform is rough, but that's the algorithm. He has an audience, a valuable audience. If he can't monetize it, it's not from loss of freedom, it's from lack of brains.

Furthermore, every high traffic, high value property Google drops is an opportunity for someone else. It's not handing power to Google. It's Google ceding power.

Cheers.
No one is forced to buy US treasury bonds. And as soon as the Treasury issues new ones they always find buyers. There are a lot of finance managers sitting on billion dollar funds. They have instructions to invest it. It's a sure investment because tax payers always pay their debts.

Other countries, specifically China, have been trying for years to come up with an equivalent. They see it as an alternative to the instability of the US dollar. Problem is the dollar has been stable and the alternative provides almost no advantage to other countries who aren't China, or US embargoed.
To me it's just a monopoly abusing its position.
Yeah, you may use a pointer in C, but it will compile to an instruction that fetches some data from a location in memory relative to the currently executed instruction.
Yes. It will probably work to his advantage regardless of whether or not Apple comply. There will be general tech press articles being written as we speak about this episode. He creates 2 ways to win with this tactic.
I enjoy the chess game commentary/coverage on Agadmator's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5YbN5WLFD8dLIegT5QAbA

He goes into a couple different lines during the game and explains moves/blunders.
Because retail is a low margin business, but being a platform and collecting 15% off of top line revenue is much higher margin. Walmart’s market cap is $338B, Amazon’s is $1.3T. Even though Walmart’s share of retail dwarfs Amazon’s, clearly there is not much profit to be made.

You don’t have to deal with complaints, vetting products, or supply chain issues. Just side with the buyer in a dispute, and outsource all the other tasks to the customers who spend their time browsing through all the garbage on Amazon to save an extra few dollars.
A virtual meetup group for Indie Hackers
We're a group of founders/bootstrappers/indie hackers or whatever you want to call us meeting a couple times a month to work together on our startups and meet new people around the world.

Sometimes we invite guests who've built something cool and ask them questions.

The format of the event feels a lot like an in-person meetup with a mixture of discussion group and 1 on 1 chat-roulette style matching.
They all do that, but showing youtube advertisements to paying clients isn't ideal.

Also youtube makes it difficult to restrict who can and cannot see the video.

Without a pay wall there is little incentive to make payment.

Some studios have done OK with a donation/pay what you can model but those donations and rapidly dwindling now in the third month of Covid.
So, if I understand it properly, your model of the world is that the USA needs to borrow in dollars (its own currency) in order to finance itself. In the case that there were not enough buyers for their bonds, the interest rate of the bonds should go up because offer and demand.

This beg the question of where is the money coming in the current situation, where all the major countries are following the same policies.

At the same time, you are saying that "foreign investors" and "governments" are buying bonds with negative inflation-adjusted profits because they have "faith" in the US economy. So, in the last years, at the same time the deficit and the public debt went up, the "faith" has gone up as show by the interest rate.

Here is an alternative view: the markets are powerless to determine the interest rate against the central bank. An example, Italy and the crisis of debt of 2011. They had a debt crisis until the ECB decided there will be not more crisis.

The markets dance to the song that the Fed sing. I don't know what more have to happens for people to start accepting it. The federal government don't need the markets, the markets need the bonds.
This is how I make yogurt:

Step 1: Put 1 liter of milk mixed with 0.2 liter of Yogurt on a heating radiator at 11PM.

Step 2: Wake up at 7AM. Yogurt is ready.
Which jobs have been lost by the master/slave debate? I see people losing job after harassing Black bird watchers in park due to public outrage, but I don't see a lot based on those vocabulary discussion.
This is really cool to see and I love how webrings are making a comeback. Here's one from Jack McDade filled with weird people/things. https://weirdwidewebring.net/
I think it largely comes down to fear. Fear that if people find out they'll leave, or retaliate or some such. Also, a lot of people aren't (or will ever be) prepared to be in management positions. Some wanted to try it and are stuck and others got pushed into it.

Delivering bad news is hard, and it's to try easy and avoid it. It's like firing people. A number of managers would rather wait until its someone else problem rather than doing what needs to be done. It causes everyone problems in avoiding it, but doing what needs to be done appears to be a far worse course of action to many.
That's blatantly false. Try posting porn, or lies in ads about non-political topics. Political ads are the only thing that gets a pass.
That's seven in the afternoon, I guess I misremembered! Thank you so much for finding it! :)

EDIT: This is six in the morning, maybe I heard that version https://soundcloud.com/oliviernijs/perdag600
If this is really the problem conservatives claim it is, there's a simple solution: Get a backbone and delete your social media accounts. Most platforms (unlike HN) provide account deletion functions (though some keep them well-hidden).
>A big part of your argument relies on the cost of a Harvard education.

Cite where I argued that please.

The argument was always framed as IF you have to pay $85k/y to go to Harvard and have to get loans to do it THEN it isn't worth it. Never wavered on that part. Never wavered on the part that Harvard is a great school. What I was informed about was a tangential point that Harvard has scaled tuition where nobody who can't afford tuition actually pays the full price. Good to know but that doesn't actually make a difference to my point.
Chess has been declared dead so many times to online chess it seems to stage a big upturn with the younger crowd. I am happy to see it.
Guess this was posted now due to this article earlier this week: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/belgian-police...
twitter only reaches the masses because the press relays the tweets. they only do this when it aligns with the story they want to deliver.

the vast majority of what passes through twitter is wholly unnoticed by the public if not many of those who use the service.

the idea of blocking political based advertisements is pretty much defeated by news stories of which many are political.

I am all just for putting a banner, border, or cigarette style label, on all ads with the ability to click anywhere on the border to hide that ad permanently.
You can also make Yogurt out of soymilk. Not every milk that you can buy in the store will work, but it works just the same way.

What works for me is:

- Heat up the soymilk to 45 °C

- Put in the yogurt culture or a tablespoon of the leftover yogurt

- Add a tablespoon of sugar

- Fill into an isolating container and wait for 8+ hours

- Put the yogurt into the refrigerator

- Consume yogurt but save a spoon for the next batch

I've found that when starting from culture it takes a couple batches until the yogurt gets really good. After that there didn't seem to be an upper limit on how long you can keep making yogurt from the old batches, although it can get bad if you wait for too long with starting a new batch.
I used to run a relay at home until two things happened. 1) my bank blocked my home internet as it was a listed tor relay node even though it wasn’t an exit node. I just told my wife to use the app and disconnect from WiFi so that wasn’t a big issue. 2) getting called to security at my company as they had some abuse from tor nodes and saw I used a “tor node to vpn to work” and it was pretty brutal. Nothing came of it (because I did nothing wrong) but I obviously stopped running a relay. Just a warning.
Agreed that Apple should be consistent in their enforcement of their rules. However, you can opt not to use the App Store. If you think that will impact your product, then this confirms that the App Store provides value - value you will need to pay for.
Police have serious problems ↛ the word cop is treated like a profanity.

A bunch of people suddenly start trying to capitalize on current events to look good → the word cop is treated like a profanity.
I go with official government numbers first in cases like that. period. And what makes you think police forgot to include the murders you mentioned in the official numbers?

Not some calculation I cannot follw. Not press reports. And unless you go and read the official report (there is even a spreadsheet, so you can use prime sources directly), I gonna stop now.
Any analogy between personal finance and macroeconomics is doomed from the start. If I printed money in my basement and I could spend myself out off a slump, then it might be comparable. But I can't.
>What's the benefit of Metal in this use case?

Continued usage on macOS if you care about that kind of a thing since Apple has deprecated OpenCL support.
Agreed it can be effective short term. But you'll feel the effects of sleep deprivation over time and that comes with certain health risks.
I'd rethink the this part of the explanation:

And this is how many times we're allowed to use the dereference operator: one time

I can see what you meant, but I initially thought this was trying to say that a pointer declared with a single asterisk could only be dereferenced once and never dereferenced again afterwards (as if there was a "one-time-use only" property to pointers). In the same vein, the "super_pointer" example could be misinterpreted like "Oh, so if I want a pointer that will let me dereference it on 5 different occasions, then I'll need to declare it with 5 asterisks?" I think a better way would be to replace the "how many times we're allowed to use the dereference operator" explanation and start with explaining the idea of a double pointer

int **doublePtr

in depth first. With a solid understanding of a double pointer (an address that points to a memory location that contains an address that points to another memory location), making the mental jump to understand

int *****super_pointer

should be easier.

Also, I think low addresses aren't used for various reasons, but I believe the kernel is stored in the top, high-address region of the address space. Otherwise, I think this is a really solid explanation of pointers!
No doubt, but even so, the markets are barely even down. How so?
What has been helpful for me is the group of friends I usually hang out with. They are all highly intelligent achievers and as a result, there is always this peer pressure on me to do better. We are close like brothers and are supportive of each other though. That turns the pressure into a positive nurturing force.
> I find it frustrating and damaging to democracy that politics is viewed as something dirty. Politics should be just a domain of problem solving and discussion like programming, home improvement, or cooking - except that everybody should have a say since it affects everybody. Why do we assume everybody in politics has sinister intentions?

Because politics, at least at the top levels, has been perverted by lobbying.

Your ideal of politics seems to be that of people trying to figure out what choices and compromises need to be made. I'm sure most politicians start out like that, but once they get to office, they see that fundraising for reelection is their #1 goal, full stop.
Collecting money is literally what the CRA was built to do.
The Financial Times Quasi-Scandal over the Vatican's London Property Investment
Deep Learning for Programmers 0.19.0: DNNL Tensor Operations on CPU
Fun may not be the right word for it. Github certainly never has deserved a description reserved for a world-class roller coaster... I don't think I've ever been "thrilled" by Github, but I've been very satisfied, contented, and sometimes amused by the experience. A positive experience really is useful as it makes getting other developers to comply with the process - something that was really lacking in source control prior to Github (and to a degree git itself).
I find that internal motivation is mostly a myth, that is, the part where people expect to just have infinite drive out of nowhere.

The cooking analogy is good but here's an IMO better one - would you make a movie if you knew for certain nobody would ever watch it? I wouldn't.

You want to get a PhD - why? Is the PhD a mountain to climb or is it a pair of boots that will let you scale a mountain? Both answers are legit, but I think you do need to agree with yourself on one.

Motivation ex nihilo doesn't exist. Humans are goal-driven and averse to spending time on teleologically neutral things (enjoyment of the activity itself is, of course, a legit end on its own).
Yes, this. This is what irks me, what makes 30 a lot, and not 12, or why isn't 30 low, what's special about each number.
No, I really don't see the difference, because the service here is the product. The service is not a place of accommodation like a skate park.

"Company makes thing, people do bad with thing, hold Company responsible" is a scary line of thought, and that's exact same scenario for both Facebook and guns.

"Thing hurts person using it" is closer to your skate park analogy, and yeah, in that case, of course Company should be responsible for making a bad thing.
I don't see what's so bad in that link. It's not a good suggestion, but it was made in a polite and respectful manner. There was some good discussion, and ultimately the creator said no and laid out his reasons why.

The only people derailing that thread by being hostile or aggressive are the people who oppose the suggestion.
By reading Stephen Pressfield’s “The War of Art” and realizing that I can decide to motivate myself anytime, anywhere if I want to achieve something.
You do - there are a few sites that have blocked me, but it's fairly limited.
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This discussion can probably be held under the many posts concerning the same topic. Insinuating bad faith with the question you are asking seems pretty suggestive to say the least.
clickhouse as aggregate functions (Pearson correlation coefficient,quantiles , etc... )[0].

Associated with their Materialized view and Liveview features, you can achieve observability [1].

[0]https://clickhouse-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest

[1]https://www.altinity.com/blog/2019/11/13/making-data-come-to...

Edit: fixed broken link.
Aunt Jemima to change name and logo due to racial stereotyping
The Hollywood Framework for Writing Popular Content
> his is the exact opposite of how burden of proof works. An extraordinary claim is being made.

Person suffering hallucinations is concerned they have a brain tumor, experiences said concern in the form of hallucination, turns out to have brain tumor, isn't an extraordinary claim. Person with symptom X consistent with disease Z worries they might have disease Z, expressed through symptom X, and finds out they have disease Z is ... not extraordinary at all. It's the particulars that make it an interesting anecdote, but the overall phenomenon isn't. Imagine we changed it just slightly:

Patient with spastic paralysis of their lower limbs thinks they have a brain tumor. Attributes that thought to themselves. Calls the nearest big medical center - because that's what people worried about cancer do - and gets seen by onco. Onco finds a brain tumor. Unsurprising, because central neuro symptoms.

The story changes only insofar as "symptom was a cognitive effect that made it an interesting anecdote."
But you, largely, can! We're privileged not because of any actual individual privilege (though it does help quite a bit!) but because there are already a bunch of people who are fighting for your interests. You only really have to participate in a tiny tiny subset of issues where your position isn't being heard.
Main IKEA retailer starts returning government aid received to cover wages
NZ tightens quarantine, tracks 320 close contacts after system failure
Probably best not to email suppport@bountysource.com with three Ps if you want your email answered.
See also, QAnon, Steve Bannon, 4chan, etc.