skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This faulty logic is deeply ironic, since it's an expression of irrational negative emotion, which is what it's accusing others of. It's so common and so unchanging, I can paste an old comment I wrote about it (just substitute "corporations" for "wealthy and powerful people"):

The "why are people surprised" line is a huge red flag for me that a person is not arguing in good faith. Accusing people of being "surprised" as an implication of naivete seems to be a very common tool of redirection when people are defending something perceived by others to be immoral or otherwise harmful. I'm not sure why such a particular angle became so common, since it seems so obvious to me that what they are calling "surprise" is indignation/anger. It seems to be exaggerated from the general notion that the stronger a reaction is, the newer it is, but obviously that's faulty. I may hear the same story of wealthy and powerful people behaving badly every day, but it doesn't make the behavior any more acceptable with each occurrence, and so my anger does not subside, no matter how un-surprised I am.
Now I think that Joyce : English :: Programmers : Brainfuck. It was meant to be a fun experiment to see if and how it's possible to get anything meaningful out of it, but it's perfectly OK to look at it and shudder.

If Donald Knuth wrote TAOCP in Befunge as a thought experiment, I'd regard it much the same: kudos to you for pulling it off, but even if it's a work of genius, I'd rather do literally anything else than try to make sense of it.
the great anti-trust battle is coming soon.
Feel free to
Alibaba is making huge investment in AI, 5G and IoT chips. They are totally bypassing the Intel<>Arm general purpose CPU battle because that isn't the future. The new fabs in Pingtouge are just the beginning. China has the skill, the money, and the motiviation. There's no reason why they need to be dependent on chips from Intel and Arm licensees. Ever since the mid-1990s the US has tried to use laws to prevent exports and hinder China (P6 export laws anyone?), 5G laws are nothing new.

This will end up with China exceeding US fab capacity and supplying chips to all non US & European countries in 10 years.

I'm not making a value judgement, I'm saying that if a country is going to try to hold you back by limiting your access to technology, you just develop your own.
Thank you for this thoughtful response
Not a great link for HN, but I was surprised to learn they have a process for 3D printing glass objects using photo curing. Sounds neat.
I read the article, I still think this is a fine line that overall points to a nefarious intent, I suppose we can debate which one it is...

1) Desire to cut Apple out of their share by trying to monetize a test app

and/or

2) Desire to escape the review process which might flag and reject an app designed to allow the user to easily fetch data from source that would be in violation of copyright laws.

This is relevant to the political example for a similar reason. Sure, we can say there's nothing wrong with the judge in a politician's criminal trial being seen with the politician in a restaurant after the politician's acquittal.... on the same day (look up Edwin Edwards and you'll see examples of just that), but it certainly does look bad, doesn't it? Similarly we can say that people from the vote counting app and their investors being seen in a bar with the guy responsible for failing to count the votes is not necessarily nefarious, but when the guy who counts the votes fails to count the votes in a way that favors the candidate whose staffers were also at the same get together at the same bar, it sure does look bad, doesn't it?

There's no reason for a guy with a successful app to fail to launch it and monetize it, unless he's trying to skirt Apple's rules in some way. It's just a matter of what way he's trying to game their system, isn't it?
If you rent it out so someone can live in it, then it isn't vacant any more, that's the whole point of the tax.
Nutritional info is legally required, and you cannot legally misrepresent it, doesn't that make it legally binding?
You should consider the possibility that the majority ignored it because it isn't true. DACA started in 2012 so the Republicans had four years to mount a legal challenge on those grounds. The fact that they didn't is evidence that Thomas is simply wrong.
How can't you foresee the argument people (me, in this case) are going to immediately throw back at yours : "so a company can find it unethical to do business with X, Y or Z, right?".

And then you will go to the legality argument: "no , because that would be against the law".

So why not give that argument directly? Because it's less noble.

Yes, of course google is partisan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za4tsfdpeMw

I bet you don't think Philip Morris is a far-left company, right?
What are you trying with self left study, and why do you want to learn?

These are important questions.
Usually when you're hiring you're trying to solve a critical business need. A pay raise to a legacy employee doesn't get you more productivity.
We're not announcing anything just yet but it'll be our best release to date
There's a large amount of evidence that COVID deaths tolls are hugely inflated. Just consider the problematic of/with confusion. The average age of the deceased in most countries is over 80 i.e. greater than the average life expectancy.

About 1/3rd of the excess deaths in the UK don't mention COVID anywhere on the death certificate at all. Of those that do, many of them have been reported as "caused by COVID" although when examined more closely the death certificate actually said something like "died of X, tested positive for COVID" or even "died of X, suspected COVID" where X is unrelated to the virus. This is possible due to significantly relaxed reporting standards, especially in care homes.

And that's before you get into the cases just openly misattributed by the press.

Georgia and Florida so far this year have reported Pneumonia deaths at something like 4x the rate of any prior year

Ironically enough that's a left-wing talking point, but it's not actually backed up by evidence. In fact it's fake news.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/29/theres-a-new...

"A theory that spread on Twitter and Reddit this week insinuating Florida health officials have masked the toll of the coronavirus by labeling thousands of deaths as caused by pneumonia is not supported by facts, said experts who study morbidity statistics.

Nevertheless, the idea has spread rapidly, appearing to originate with a couple of widely shared and poorly sourced screenshots. It was picked up and swallowed along partisan divisions"

"In an analysis he ran for the Times using publicly available data, Andrew Noymer, a professor who studies population health and disease prevention at the University of California Irvine, did not find major discrepancies between pneumonia and influenza deaths in early 2020 compared to recent years. He found about 1,485 such deaths in 2020, which was within a few hundred of the same period in any year since 2015."

The of/with confusion is highlighted in this story as a key problem:

"People, [Howard, the University of Texas at San Antonio professor] said, frequently die from multiple causes. It’s hard to attribute a death to just a single reason. Some Floridians might be avoiding needed medical attention out of fear, he said, and then they could die of an untreated illness or condition like heart disease."
I see this sentiment a lot.

from what I hear of our management Slack's enterprise sales folk are a bit shit w.r.t working out deals and the like. 10 quid per person, for context, is roughly the price of all the MS software stack if you're a decent size.

So for 10-bob you get email, word, excel, teams and exchange/AzureAD -- or a chat app.

So that's the context that they're dealing with; but I fucking hate teams with white hot passion. So I still get annoyed.

And yes, these nickle and dime tactics are rife everywhere, we buy 3k computers for people but our budget for a monitor is 70gbp and it is supposed to last 6 years. :|
The majority may simply disagree, and it's irrelevant to the legal matter before the Court - whether rescission was lawful.

"He started it" isn't really a legal doctrine, either.
The doc says:

> Generic types can have methods. The receiver type of a method must declare the same number of type parameters as are declared in the receiver type's definition. They are declared without the type keyword or any constraint.

So my original example should have been:

func (obj *SomeType(K, V)) Foo(key K, val V) (*OtherType(K, V), error) {
...
}

(hopefully this is now correct!).
Note to the people asking why this matters:

Legally, if you take a position in federal court on X (i.e., that it's okay to ban external transactions by apps using your app store), and you are found to be doing not-X in an analogous situation (i.e., setting up external transactions to avoid fees in your competitors' app store), the court can rule against you in the original case...and then sanction you and your lawyers for wasting the court's time proclaiming X...and then legally bar you from asserting X in those proceedings, or related proceedings.

Courts are generally okay with some form of alternative arguments, (i.e., I didn't do Y, but if I did Y it was legal for me to do so), but they absolutely will not accept contradictory arguments by the same party (It's okay for me to do Z but I won't allow others to do Z in the same situation).
Wait, doesn't this demonstrate collusion? The two predominant mobile platforms have conspired to exclusively reduced pricing.
If you are developing a product: at what point do you think you will bring on a UX person? And what would you want that person to do for you/your product?
We have been using a self-hosted matomo for our company site for years now (back from when it was called piwik). Highly recommend it! The satisfaction you get out of not using any google product is unsurpassed.
not just engineers, everyone. that's the unfair advantage that companies especially have over lower wage workers.

we need fairer, more transparent and liquid labor markets everywhere, not just in the upper echelons.
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Publicly traded US companies are beholden to investor returns. This is going to make them less able to respond to international competition.

Think about the Fair Trade laws that aim to prevent large companies from dropping their prices to below cost to drive small plantations out of business. There's no reason china needs to make 1,000% profit on their latest CPU when they can sell at a very low price, and put US manufacturers out of business.

And FTA:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-10/u-s-lawma...

I just barfed a little in my mouth. This is what is so eff'd up about the US. Semicon stock prices drove the creation of millions of millionaires over the last 2 decades, and now they need a handout.
But Netflix pays real money, right? FB and G heavily compensate with stock that has historically been valuable, but could always tank with a cooling ad market or strong privacy regulations.
Oracle CodeOne 2020 will not take place in Las Vegas
I totally agree with you but still.. it makes me wanna kill myself so it seems it's working..
"Pioneer" in "Europe"? What are the arguments for the claim that it is a pioneering work and that it is directed for use in entire Europe? Why would citizens from EU countries use this app and send their data to Swiss government? The article dosn't say anything about that after making the bold claim. The correct title should have been "Coronavirus tracing app launched in Switzerland".

All this considering that Germany has already released their own app [0].

[0] https://www.berlin.de/en/news/coronavirus/6204357-6098215-co...
Everywhere in the world, nutrition labels appear to try to summarize in a simple way if a food product is "good" or "bad". Examples:
- The European nutriscore : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-score
- The Chilean black labels : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_labelling_and_advertising...

There's also lots of new apps like Yuka which try to warn you about bad ingredients. You scan the bar code on a food product then you get some summarized details and warnings.

Maybe there's something to do to make these privacy policies more comprehensible.
Controversial Russian theory claims forests don’t just make rain–they make wind
What are some other good scientific databases compiled from the open literature?

Are there any best practices for the construction of similar databases?
Facilitating Data Discovery with Apache Atlas and Amundsen
http://github.com/lyft/amundsen and https://github.com/apache/atlas
It doesn't actually. Finding a solution for us would make me feel way better.
This class of characterization gets around, though usually the coverage is more directly about the "culture of fear." Please consider how terrible a job is when you're constantly afraid and working yourself to the bone to avoid being fired; it's probably in line with that.

The WSJ had a piece in 2018 which sparked a bunch of follow-on coverage:

"Mr. Hastings’ ring of top executives take the keeper test seriously. At a meeting in late spring of Netflix public-relations executives, one said every day he comes to work he fears he is going to get fired. Karen Barragan, the vice president of publicity for original series, asked how many other people felt that way. A number of hands went up. “Good, because fear drives you,” Ms. Barragan said, according to people familiar with the meeting."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency...

Other coverage from 2018:

https://qz.com/work/1439451/the-seven-ways-netflix-culture-s...

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-culture-of-fea...

https://theweek.com/articles/805123/netflixs-culture-fear

Older coverage:

https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-culture-of-fear-2010...
Re "objectively successful" that's debatable. Looking at Google Trends, Go mindshare is low & flat. [1]

I'm writing as a regular Go user who's found it very productive, tho I'm worried about its future

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
And the EU has opened an antitrust investigation on this precise topic (and on their reserving the NFC hardware for their own payments service, which also extracts a fee, as I understand).

This strikes me as textbook antitrust matters, that traditional laws are actually equipped to deal with. It doesn't seem legal to be the marketplace, and a provider on that marketplace, while granting yourself a 30% subsidy and building your own business based on the taxes collected by the other providers.

Apple's crackdown, combined with the timing of this, is rather convenient (well, inconvenient for them).
> The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States.

How would the PRC succeed in convincing TSMC to stop producing chips for the US, short of military action? The PRC is Taiwan's primary military adversary, and the US is Taiwan's primary military supplier and ally. IIRC, TSMC even recently agreed to build a foundry on US soil (which is kinda surprising, since that reduces the incentive of the US to defend Taiwan in a military conflict with the PRC).
The emotional basis has a lot of influence, and is a problem regardless of emotion. But we are human. It's only through working together we can find what is and is not simply emotional by seeking the overlap.
And it has an exception for "digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players)".
Apple does not present the 30% cut as a machiavellian reality of business. They describe it as a fair, reasonable, and mutually beneficial practice. Apple’s practices on the Google play store suggests that they are arguing in bad faith.
Given the strong emotions around the topic, I've been a bit afraid to ask this question - is what Apple does really that different than traditional retail? In FMCG there are difficult hurdles to jump over to get on the store shelves. The stores don't have an obligation to put anyone's product on the shelf. They can also module what the cut of the revenue is. I'm not sure I have an opinion on what Apple is doing, but isn't it worth asking if it's really that unique in the economy? I welcome feedback on if I have a major blind spot here.
Stock based compensation may be the norm in Silicon Valley, but it isn't par for the course across different roles and industries. But the ~3% raise seems to be pervasive. This tells me that it doesn't have to do with stock based compensation.
People were pretty excited back in the day. We may look back on this excitement and think it's unrealistic, and indeed it is. That is the Hype Cycle at work. People can't get enough of the shiny new thing, and will inflate things to make it look even better than it is. You have to watch out for the effect, as it's very common. The inflated expectations is what causes the transition to the Trough of Disillusionment as people begin to realize that what they were promised is an impossibility. In the case of Go, the lack of generics was a good sticking point. Here an article has promised me that Java is dead. But Java has generics. I guess I was lied to! The result was many breathless battles over whether or not generics were really necessary.

Again, you have to understand that HN's biases play into this effect. There are many people here that want to be at the forefront of the field, but are outraged when they have to show up at an interview and code up a data structure on the whiteboard. If generics were in Go, then someone else would have already written the data structures, and they could continue to believe that the practicing programmer has no need to ever look at a computer science textbook. But the reality is, when you use Go, sometimes you have to show up and write an algorithm or a data structure. (The most common one I've written is an ordered set; a slice with the keys, and the keys and values in a map.) So you can see why emotions are going to run high. Two ideals are in direct conflict -- and generics are going to solve the emotional problems. Thus, much is said and argued on these topics.

I have to say, I sleep way better at night knowing that the Go team is around to deal with all this stuff. There is a lot of arguing and strong emotions, and they sort through it all and continually produce something that seems sane. Because they do such a good job, I don't have to feed the hype cycle, I can sit here and enjoy the view from the Plateau of Productivity.
Stock Analysis in Python
The US accounts for a small part of the global REM consumption. Even with their majority share, unless China is willing to burn the rest of the world, the US would be able to make do. And that's not even getting into transhipping which was used to circumvent previous REM export bans.
Big Tech Zeros in on the Virus-Testing Market
First, I'm not convinced that the original DACA was as bad as emailing Linus a Word kernel patch. But if it were, I can think of another reason that nobody bothered to challenge it: because it's wildly popular and would be politically disastrous to challenge it and tear it down.

As somebody who believes that this court is more motivated by partisan political concerns than legal reasoning, it seems likely to me that Roberts ruled against this not out of true legal principle, but because it would be so wildly unpopular in an election year that he doesn't like the consequences.

There are many realities that seem plausible here.
Which is funny too because GitHub repos have Docker repository functionality: https://github.com/features/packages

But since its release, you still can't do public pulls: https://github.community/t/docker-pull-from-public-github-pa...
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn Operating Systems?
I've tried reading some books but those books only explain the concepts with no exercises to apply those concepts. Are there videos, books, articles etc which you would recommend?
Great! Now do it for code formatters!

After using Prettier for a few years I'm firmly in the camp of mandatory/enforced code formatters. As long as it's a half decent formatter like Prettier I believe my personal opinions on the specific formatting choices are much less important than essentially never having to think about formatting again, in particular having to ask people to fix formatting in code reviews (or fix it myself).

I also love just banging out code, saving, and having my editor clean up the formatting for me.
I wonder if COBOL would be a good choice for him to learn. Not the most in-demand, but probably not going away in 11.5 years

Edit: Another idea -- good excel and data science and visualization skills probably won't be going away too and may be more accessible if he doesn't have access to a command line
I know there's a big difference. I was kind of rambling about my own experiences.

(I was advised by the moderator team -- I think -- that the rest of this comment had racially inflammatory flavors. I'm not at all in agreement -- I think people are minimizing the experience of mental illness and assuming by transitivity that I minimize the black experience. But I trust in HN's crack team of moderators. There's an... inflamed, that's probably the best word, political climate in the USA right now, and while we get American news, I don't have the lived experience to know when "being right on the internet" gets folks who are living it enraged.

I want to say "either way I don't care" without sounding dismissive and arrogantly aloof. But in a calm, detached, Alan Watts kind of way, I don't. Stay cool, folks.)
IMO, the situation is much worse than this. There haven't been any new particle predictions since the 1970's. The observations since then have all been confirmations of earlier predictions.
Ask HN: Does anyone want to join a group to “Teach Yourself CS”?
I've been looking at https://teachyourselfcs.com/ and wanted to get people together to go through the material as a group. If someone is already familiar with the body of the work, it would be great to have some mentors.

Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/teachyourselfcs/shared_invite/zt-f80pmv4z-bdeyPwQq2DH9I4_Ya9IMnQ
Using Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) with AWS Lambda
Can we have something to beautify the code too? Like gofmt or shfmt?
There's bat or powershell (or bash if on Linux). Html is another option.There's a chance it might have a JDK. Of course this would need to be done in a text editor if there are no installed IDEs.

Maybe they prison computer admin can install python, C++, or similar and an IDE to go with it.
> If China somehow got complete control over TSMC to the point they no longer supplied the US, it doesn't take much to sabotage the factories.

I am told that TSMC has a poison pill setup for their fab(s) for the case where the PLA takes Taiwan by force, which makes sense in the same way that a "driver carries less than $20 in cash" window sticker does.
> I don't follow why breaking the TOS is required to qualify for behaving in a hypocritical manner

It very much matters if this is to be used as precedent by Spotify in its legal proceedings against Apple.
Well said. This is something I've been noticing a lot lately but you put it into words better than I could have.
Maybe it's that "rotation" is viewed as normal, and nobody is really blamed if someone goes. If employees suddenly leave en masse, it's normally not due to salary.

But growing personel count on the other is definitely a concrete objective/bonus for someone. That someone will allocate whatever possible budget to get his bonus or praise.
I thought you were exaggerating. I was wrong.