skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went thru that like 8 years ago when after launching a great first unibody MBP, Apple stopped producing pro equipment altogether (a pro sticker doesn't means something is really pro). It took some courage to get back to using effectively other platforms, but it's been easier than I thought.

If I would be about to make that choice now, I can tell you that seeing what Apple does, I wouldn't be worried. I would be terrified.

There's a well known phenomena called "vendor lock-in". Consider a consequence of teaming up with someone you don't trust. Yeah, nothing good is going to happen because of that...

Linux is great this days. Even Windows is OK-ish. Apple was a big deal in the era of Windows XP. In those days it was a huge difference. Now they IMO have nothing to offer to a tech savvy customer. There's so many reasonable options out there that only a person enslaved by Apple ecosystem for years can think that there's going to be an issue with going with anything else than Apple. Yes, I was that person too. The truth is that Apple has nothing to offer except of shiny overpriced hardware and a fairy tale about user's superiority because of "think different". Nowadays I don't even care about what Apple does. The world is a huge place and too beautiful to look at it thru the lenses of Apple's gay-ish UI ;P Not that I have anything against gays, but how am I supposed to think seriously about a company that produces its widgets for the sake of making non-tech-savvy people satisfied? Go to an Apple store and for 1 hour observe who buys their products. That was an epiphany for me when I had doubts! Clearly not (usually) people who know what they are doing...

Writing this on a Lenovo Legion Y530, a great machine 50% of the price of a new MBP. Booting Linux and Windows. I have no artificial limits enforced on me by anyone. I'm happy.

Nothing of the above is going to work for an iOS developer, etc. Those people have no choice. Ups. Who the hell puts himself in an "I have no choice" situation willingly?
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Potentially yes, but current prolog implementations are mostly academic productions with few man-hours invested into them compared to more popular languages. So no, you won't build huge industrial websites on current prolog, but mid-size webapps are certainly within reach as modern prologs are much faster than people usually suspect.

Prolog huge data munging is a thing though. Check the "semantic web" and related for examples.
But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps when we have our own?

It's called having protestors in the first place. China wouldn't let you hear about it, or all you get is distorted information, which means you don't know what's going on in their society.
I argued with a family member about this just the other day. She was trying to get a faculty member at a local university fired for saying something offensive on Twitter. I asked her what happens after we get him fired? Can he earn back the worthiness to again feed his family? Will he need to denounce his views or just stop spewing them publicly? Will he just need to collect unemployment for the rest of his life now that we've deemed him a heretic unworthy of work?

The answers of her and her friends bounced between "I don't care what happens to racists like him" and calling me a racist for "defending" him. One participant said that he'll just have to work a job making far less like "the rest of us." As if there's a cap on how much money racists are allowed to make. I read everything he said that offended people, and I didn't see anything racist, as far as I can tell, he just hates protesters and "PC" culture.

I just can't shake the first 3 words of The Constitution from my thoughts lately. Very nice of the LA Times to include a picture of it at the top of the page. We are not two separate entities in this country, the government and the NOT government. We are all The People. And we should all uphold the rights guaranteed in The Constitution to all of our fellow citizens.

Shoutout to Paul Grahams ever applicable "What You Can't Say"
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Interesting, I think there's more to this than people know, but most doctors I've spoken to don't even know about DSP let alone the seemingly obscure idea that it could be caused by EBV. It's hard, because I really think some amount of validation would be really beneficial to people who suffer from these problems. People have made some pretty insensitive comments about my sleep. Am I just lazy? Is it all in my head? Am I broken? It has an effect over time. I've heard doctors state that CFS doesn't even exist, or that EBV doesn't cause long lasting issues with sleep or fatigue, yet I hear so much about it. For me, the abnormal sleeping schedule isn't really a problem itself but rather it's the social expectations and obligations people and work has that you sleep to their schedule, what they consider normal.

There has to be more research conducted for this (and sleep disorders in general, really) because if there is a link that's the only way forward to managing it through your healthcare provider. At the moment I haven't found many doctors willing to be so speculative which makes sense - they don't know what to test for or how to treat it; so there's nothing they could really do anyway.

Personally I have found modafinil[1] to be extremely helpful in combating sleep and fatigue, one of it's on label uses is for people with narcolepsy so it's possible your doctor might be willing to prescribe it for you off-label. I buy it off the internet which is technically illegal where I live but it's way cheaper.

After your comment I did a really quick search for any information and found this paper[2] from 2018. It has some pretty big limitations, but I think it's worth doing more research.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220045/
There's people trying to get things done and then there's people trying to get in the spotlight with virtue signaling. And yes, they are willing to do actual harm to the first group's livelihood to get in that spotlight.
> he doesnt owe you anything

It is not a binding contract, yes. But it is an unwritten rule to finish the current work of art, don't you agree?

Sure, he is not breaking the law or anything like that. But it breaks the trust in the writer, or at least I think so.

The reason he is successful is because people read it.

Yes, we can imagine the ending. But it is not unfair to those who bought his books.
Your experience mirrors my own. I was never a big Facebook user, but it was a nice service to have and then, as you say maybe 5 or 6 years ago, it all went to hell.

People basically stopped posting to Facebook and it became an endless stream of mindless videos, cutesy images with quotes and supermarkets trying to push offers directly to users (successfully though).

Facebook lost the thing that made it interesting, news about long lost friends and insights into the everyday of the people you know. I'm not sure if it's something Facebook did, or if people just stopped posting.
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Having priced warranty insurance products in the past, the relative cost of repairs standardised by new vehicle value at the time of sale, JD power ranks were not bad proxies but bit and miss for their mid-field. Toyota being below average in reliability? Not in warranty claims it isn’t. Porsche usually does well on JD power but their actual warranty bills (again, standardised for their price) are very high. JD is mostly based oN subjective impressions and electrical niggles in the first 90 days of ownership (niggles including difficulty of operation not necessarily failures). If they have changed the method since I last checked my apologies for spouting nonsense
I don't think the issue we should worry about will always just be one bad actor in an organisation.

A corporation like Apple (or TikTok) will sometimes decide to implement features that are antithetical to its users best interests, because there's a commercial imperative to do so.

If the code is closed-source, it's more difficult to assess whether this is the case.
Why is this still on their store? I assume it breaks their walled garden approach. It seems Apple is putting kids at risk, in fact it looks like kids are having their privacy actively abused.
Ha! Our UK Prime Minister would love this. He wouldn't understand the implications but he'd appoint the usual cronies and hangers-on to implement it, and we'd all suffer the consequences.
> JavaScript apps to PureScript
> Both companies have seen a dramatic drop in bugs in production.

I suspect if they migrated from JavaScript to TypeScript instead they would have seen the same dramatic drop in bugs, but also migrated much quicker and would be able to hire engineers easier, and development speed would have increased (because of much better tooling/IDE/interop).

I think PureScript is a very bright project, I even want to try it myself, but realistically, comparison to plain JavaScript is not the best benchmark.
I'm afraid that even given how bad the news industry is now, if it disappeared I fear something worse would fill the vacuum.

State run broadcasting has always been mandatory around here but at least when there's a number of competitors - even when I don't like any of them particularly much - I can still shop around to see more angles that one or more of them don't want me to see.
> If I aggravated you enough that you feel the need to dig through my comment history, I apologize.

You did not. I usually take a quick glance on relevant topics to see if their are some obvious biases at play or if the user is just an arse.
Skype was never a nicely working Qt program, I remember articles about their ultra-aggressive anti-reverse engineering coding techniques from 10 years ago or older. They used self-modifying code and undocumented opcodes, active prevention of debuggers and disassemblers, etc., basically every trick in the book to keep someone from finding out what Skype is actually doing.
I use Django a lot. I'm quite proficient in Python and really like the batteries-included approach of Django. For REST APIs you have the Django Rest Framework..

I used to use Flask, but I don't like to have to repeatedly have to choose and install packages for common things (as in Django). As an example, after some months not touching a project, I couldn't remember how to make a clean database migration (I was using SQLAlchemy)..
‘It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you’ve done it.’

Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
It is hugely effective to have multiple physical books around you on the same subject at different levels of detail and different explanation approaches.

It makes it very easy to switch books in midstream if you get stuck, gain more understanding from another book, and then come back to the original book with renewed insight.
I wonder how the clipboard API could be fixed.

I suppose that the current scheme is that apps are monitoring paste events, and when it happens have a look at the clipboard for copied data.

Perhaps the clipboard shouldn't be visible at all, and only when the user decides to paste content should the targeted app receive a "paste" message with the copied data (or perhaps some more complicated selection mechanism with a list of recent copies à la emacs). This would essentially merge the 2 steps process outlined above into a single operation.

It's probably more complicated than that though.
Hey @Lucasoato,
Yeah, the idea behind the two projects is quite similar. But while Argo is Kubernetes native, Xene is a generic distributed workflow runner tool built on top of K8S primitives and is not dependent on K8S. This helps xene to be performant but at the same time makes it simple to develop and use.
Yeah, xene comes with an inbuilt Scheduler. The scheduler is quite simple at this point and various scheduling strategies are yet to be implemented for xene.

Hope this answers your question, let me know if you have any other doubts regarding Xene.
Genuine question - I hang around in some pretty seriously left-wing, often social-justice-obsessed circles and I've never heard anyone complain about the term black market, or want to pretend that slavery doesn't go on in the middle east. Have you got examples of this kind of thing being commonplace? I have heard people complain that people complain about these things, but never first-hand experienced people's complaints about language beyond stuff that seems pretty benign like "don't use ableist or racist slurs". I would say that I'd be the most likely to see stuff like this - I spend a lot of time online, mostly in leftist and social justice circles, and most of my friend group in the real world aren't too different. I think that the idea that free speech is under attack is entirely a fabrication, and the idea that people get "offended" at this stuff is no more real. The term "triggered", which is so often used by the right to refer to people offended over nothing, is a term specifically referring to people with PTSD or trauma. You'd understand that they might want to be careful with subjects that might "trigger" them - i.e. set off episodes of PTSD - and when people give content or trigger warnings that's what they're talking about. No-one who liberals and the right might call a SJW cares about "offensive" content, and if anything leftist and social justice circles LOVE offensive content, they just hate when people openly and deliberately punch down. It is definitely true that leftists will criticise use of language, but when they do it's often that there's a good reason that is deliberately ignored by those who rail against this criticism (see use of "retard" or "spastic", or the fact that "aspergers" is named after a nazi who wanted to commit genocide on those with autism) but this idea that it's arbitrary or that everything is offensive isn't borne out by reality.
Thanks very much

Business is about people more than it is about product.
Please, tell me that you're joking...
It's pretty impressive that HN crowd got upset just by stating some facts.
You are right and I do not think you should waste a single thought on the easily offended. They suck. There is no hope for that kind of faked fragility. Somewhere will always claim to be offended by something you say or do, to the point that the only safe thing for you to do is nothing at all (maybe). Much better stay true to your heart and plow ahead with the good work your are doing. Good people will see it and as to the others, fuck them.
That was some sloppy writing by me. I've edited my previous post to avoid further confusion. (It is about data traffic, not ordinary customs.)
Blimey!

That’s a rookie mistake!
There's nothing illogical about describing as racist a group of people who make Nazi salutes, who attack black people, who spray racist graffiti.

I'm pointing out that this is a simplistic, dishonest, framing:

> Eg, people out protecting Churchill statues in the UK are labelled as racists in several stories[1].

A more honest framing would be "people out protecting Churchill statutes, many of them making Nazi salutes and chanting racist slogans, are labelled as racists in several stories".

This isn't just the extreme left calling everything racist. Here's the Telegraph[1] quoting Boris Johnson[2] who condemns "racist thuggery". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/13/black-lives-matt...

[1] A right wing newspaper.

[2] A right wing PM.
"Forest of the Gods" is a very good film.

But there are a few Lithuanian films that are my all-time favourites (besides "Forest of the Gods"):

1. "The Ancient Woods": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/487463-the-ancient-woods

"The Ancient Woods" is, perhaps, the best film I ever watched—it is actually a documentary.

It has one shot with a human and there are no human voices in the whole film.

It is a love letter to the "untouched nature" (of Lithuania).

2. "The Collectress": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/56074-kolekcionier

3. "You Am I": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12681-a-esi-tu

4. "Vanishing Waves": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/133764-aurora

5. "The Summer of Sungaile": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310568-the-summer-of-sangai...

And some to not use too much the brain and have a fun time:

* "Redirected" (by the way, in English): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190469-redirected-u-lietuv

* "Patriotai" ("Patriots"): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/408809-patriotai

* "How Saul and Paul Robbed Them All": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/349954-how-saul-and-paul-ro...

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Just to add to your comments, the events on (the book) "Forest of the Gods" (which the film is based on) are based on the real experience of the main character, "the Professor" [1].

There are some criticism on whether the events are 100% faithful to the reality [2], but indifferent to that, it is a hell of a piece of art!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balys_Sruoga

[2]: I am sorry, but I don't remember where I got that information. It is not that important, anyhow.
The art and science of naming prescription drugs (2016)
Apple bought TestFlight some time ago, which ended up not as a standalone service but as an integrated service; this will probably happen to Fleetsmith too: it'll close as a standalone, be rewritten into something Apple likes, and be marketed as an Apple solution for MDM.
> we had concentration camps for Japanese people during World War II

I study WW2, and it's important to be factual.

The correct term is internment camps. Japanese-Americans usually lost their property, but the purpose was to locate them in central locations, not to re-educate or liquidate them, as our enemies did to the Allies.

For that time in history, it could be argued that the decision made sense. Japanese subs did shell the US mainland, and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii did help a Japanese aircrew try to escape after Pearl Harbor. Japan planned to return to Hawaii after Midway to occupy Hawaii.

I think using the term "moral high ground" is not helpful for a number of reasons. However, the US did rebuild the world economy after WW2, mostly to prevent it from becoming aligned with the Soviet Union. Most of the world's national borders are descended from WW2.

As leading historian Dr. Victor Davis Hanson says, "[WW2 was German and Japanese soldiers machine-gunning unarmed civilians by the tens of millions.]"
All that stuff you already read about refactoring, patterns, paradigms, pair programming, documentation, design, architecture, mentoring: it works.

Some take these things more seriously than others though.
The fact they went to shit has nothing to do with analytics.
Analytics is just a tool. Like any other it can be used for bad or for good. Just like a hammer.
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Yes. From my experience (as a user), webrtc is good for up to 4 people, and is rarely supported for more than 8. Reason is that few laptops can cope with many more incoming and outgoing videostreams in parallel.

Also, when in our company we tried using webrtc for standups, we often faced issues when participant A couldn't hear participant B, but participant C could hear them both. All that with video working in all directions. Or sometimes we had this issue with video.

Another reason why standalone applications like Skype and Zoom (which is known for trying to install its client too much) might be better than webrtc is that they might have better noise-cancelling algorithms than browsers.

Also, point of usability - compared to browser, standalone apps don't have permission dialogs ("do you want to allow this website to access your camera"?) and might be smarter with choosing correct microphone by default - this might be important for non-techy users who don't understand why system suggests them to choose from two microphones when there's only one plugged into the computer.
For you, maybe.

Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes.

For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.
When I was in my teens I used to go to the library and pick up 20-30 books on the same subject and basically sort them into various piles of difficulty, and then start reading and move to the next book if I hit a blocker, and possibly come back to the same book with renewed insight.

Every author explains things differently and explains key concepts in different orders, so it's a no-brainer to go through multiple books on the same subject at the same time.

But IMO you still do need to dedicate yourself to linear reading the truly good books.
If people have shifted from other platforms onto FB then doesn't that say the opposite?
> doesn't the CPU handle the caching of most used memory locations itself?

Yes but caches aren't "never failing magic". You can imagine them as the mechanisms that allow saving some work in some scenarios. If the work thrown at them is different from their limitations, worse results aren't surprising.

> If there are an equal number of hot constants, how does changing the order of them help performance? CPU is going to cache the most used locations anyway.

The caches have some limitations by design. It's easy to construct the code which stresses the caches more, and sometimes just the position of elements accessed can influence the "congestion" points due to the changed mapping between the addresses and the elements accessed.

> adding some contact info to your HN profile

Thanks. I still hope that if there's a real interest the contact happens in spite of not being exceptionally easy -- also a kind of filter.
It’s Puritan to view air conditioning as a new-fangled luxury, while viewing heating as a necessity.

50,000-70,000+ people died in Europe in 2003 due to heat. “Gets hot/cold enough” eyeballing notwithstanding.
I have to say, as a FF user who's never gotten on board the Chrome train other than as a target for dev work (because it doesn't have tree-style tabs), I do not see the problems you're reporting.
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You probably can't tell. A friend bought a Samsung Bluetooth headset from Amazon several years ago, it looked genuine and worked well until it died. He sent it in for warranty service and Samsung sent it back with a note saying that it was counterfeit.