skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't focus groups work better AND respect your users?

Devs think it is either telemetry or develop blind but in reality software was developed (and possibly was better) before telemetry using focus groups.
It's called a PC.

And the fact that people still flock to consoles means that users want a safe, curated, vibrant, affordable gaming platform. Which would be destroyed if you (a) stopped Sony making a profit of games and forcing them to make it from the hardware and (b) stopped Sony from blocking crapware, malware and counterfeits.
Why is it not helpful? Sometimes people accept the reality of a certain situation as the only possible reality. It’s helpful to suggest what might happen in an alternative situation in order to put the current situation into context.

The simple reality is that the Chinese would absolutely not accept this resolution and in fact would consider the actions of the Sacklers to be completely unforgivable, which brings the American reaction into stark contrast.
It's a legitimate basis for a lawsuit, since spying on users isn't illegal and you can theoretically prove Apple's changes will cause real harm. But everyone involved is kind of scummy, so I'm gonna let the billionaires fight on this one.
Except when you're in Fortnite, you're not in the Apple Store, you're in the Fortnite Store.
I don't think Youtube would be able to survive on its own outside Google. Are they even making a profit?
A blockchain retains a complete, coherent, censorship-resistant listing of what's available on a network in a way that local or federated key-pairs can not.

There is no search all of PeerTube. There is search all of LBRY.
For the 4-5 language pairs I picked, there were more matches for the feminine names. I wonder if that is a sample bias.
>>Those people will want to charge during the day as well,

Why would they though? In my experience owners of electric cars who can charge at home don't bother charging during the day while out and about, because....why would they? They start the day, every day, every morning, with a fresh 300 mile range car. Charging while out at work or in town is a faff, and usually a lot more expensive so....they just charge at home. It's people who can't charge at home who mostly rely on public chargers and charger at their place of work. They have to have a solid and consistent place to charge their vehicles, just like we have petrol stations now.
Apple has an ad platform.
The name could be a reference to learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com, which is an amazing resource.
It is also fun to question aesthetic choices for example - children's iPad apps - why do they need to use "friendly" and "fun" fonts, pastel colors, excessively rounded corners, etc? Nothing in human psyche dictates that children should be exposed to this particular type of aesthetic. I can understand if they're physical products and sharp corners for example need to be blunted, but there is a lot of excessive decoration. Blue/pink color themes with boys and girls toys is a whole another can of worms. I don't think children have any sort of native affinity for soft and cuddly aesthetics - probably the opposite from the evolutionary standpoint and developing early survival instincts.

Lol, I am not saying to develop iPad apps for children that look like F-15 controls, but the society is full of aesthetic subjectivity, noise, prejudices, norms, etc. whatever you wanna call it. Some University's psychology department should study this.
> Otherwise you're implicitly testing the implementation, which makes refactoring impossible.

Red green refactoring isn't, and shouldn't, be a goal of unit testing. Integration and E2E tests provide that. Unit tests are mostly about making sure the individual pieces works as you author them, as well as implicitly documenting the intent of those individual pieces.

If done properly, they're always quick/easy/cheap to author, and thus are throwaway. When you refactor significantly (more than the unit), you just throw them away and write new ones (at which point their only goal is for you to understand the intent of the code you were shuffling around, and making sure you're breaking what you expected to break). Delete, rewrite.

People are resistant to getting rid of unit tests when they did complex integration tests that took forever to write instead. So the tests feel like they were wasted effort. Those tests are totally valuable, in this case for things such as red green refactoring, but then yes, you have to carefully pick and choose what you're testing to avoid churn.
Samuel is really the perfect name as even the spelling is the same in all European languages except for diacritics in some languages.
My name, Michal (Slovak), is not too bad, but the local version varies greatly across Europe: Michael, Michele, Mikael, Miguel, Михаил (Michail), Mihái, etc.
yea I trudged through season 2.. season 1 was great and had all sorts of good stuff going on with it... I kind of want to watch season 1 again to try to figure out what went wrong..
This seems like the biggest advantage to me. Not everyone wants to rewrite and debug their several thousands of line rust/c++ program into typescript.
Regulation is tantamount to communism and socialism? Ownership is still private in the US but has rules on what can be done. Russia has state ownership in many of that country's companies.
Chinese in general is very problematic on that website.
Depends on your storage needs. More than 6-8 hard drives and getting an ATX form factor machine is near impossible, while many brands/generations of rack mount servers fit the bill for cheap.
I don't know. I mean how people always say life is rare. What were my odds of being born? I think somehow it was 100% certain that I'd be born. Why didn't I awaken as a grasshopper?
Crypto Is the GitHub of Money
Yes they've been pretty much terrible. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160623/17483934805/super...
A huge number of the people on this site, myself included, already voluntarily donate huge amounts of time and money to free and open source software and hardware- they are already choosing to give away for free what others might otherwise pirate.

No one is disputing that piracy is a crime. They are pointing out the difference between the fact of what is, and their opinion of what ought be.
That's why you don't pay per click or impression. The newspaper/magazine model has worked fine for 100 years.

I fully understand why advertising companies would be opposed to this, it's in direct opposition to their value prop. As a consumer, though, I don't want anyone who is not the entity I'm interacting with to know anything about me.
I'm not sure how this made it to the front page, it's not really providing any useful information. Platforms like Twitch aren't really equivalent to Youtube, it's a different platform with different strengths and weaknesses, it's not something most people would want to use as a primary video host.

It's also an incredibly short list that doesn't mention any of the more interesting, uncommon alternative platforms that are popping up nowadays. You're building a list of video hosting platforms 'at a glance', and you can only come up with 5 of them?

> Vimeo claims to be an exchange platform for creative minds, which is reflected on the website

Sentences like this read like an AI scraped each site's marketing pages and automatically generated a list from the content.

What's going on with this, is it just an SEO article designed to point people towards the company's blog, or is there some kind of actual value that I'm missing?
If you mean purchasing a bank for such a sum: indeed, the price can be cheap.

But then you own a bank, and have to be in full regulatory compliance, which today is an immense burden. You need an officer for this, a responsible person for that, you need risk management, accounting, etc.

My argument is that nobody with 8 figures net worth would put up with that hassle just to hide an investment (because you can do that with comparatively less hassle by other means), but if someone is willing to actually operate that bank, why not.
No, you shouldn't need to trust software in the first place. Why should my email client be allowed to access my camera, whether I trust it or not?
>but if they are easily imitated, it's hard to argue the works themselves make their author a great artist.

By this logic no writer is a great artist, as anyone could just copy out their books by hand - their work is "easily imitated".
Bombardier was not really a sure bet and maybe Canada didn't want to risk tax payer's money? Just because Airbus succeeded with A220 doesn't mean Bombardier would have done the same.
Name collision? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack
Yes, at the highest rate of charge which:

1) is an optional extra when ordering the car

2) as far as I know, there's only a handful of these 200kW chargers in all of UK, nearly every motorway and public rapid charger are "only" 50kW, so it will take about an hour to get your battery to 80%
DeepTraffic – deep reinforcement learning competition
> given how the average USSR citizen had more food on their plate than even in the US

Utterly ridiculous nonsense. USSR's stats were fudged from the lowest state farm levels up to the highest corridors of the Kremlin. That's where the HBO Chernobyl series shines - it's a great example of how the whole system became detached from reality, fudging had become so widespread that nobody knew the truth anymore nor could tell facts apart from "propaganda numbers". Official statistics are a total trash and I see no way to reconstruct actual figures so long after the fact.

Anyway, better ask someone who lived in the USSR how they felt when they first visited a standard supermarket in the West. I know a woman who had a mental breakdown on her first trip to Stockholm because she thought that stores stocked full of food were a CIA propaganda, and couldn't believe that she had been lied to all her life.
Racket is an evolution/rebranding of a scheme variant (Dr Scheme) - or rather family of them - specifically designed for pedagogy. It's got a pretty good multiple decade history in that space, fwiw.
How do video/audio creators content protected from people stealing their videos? Is there a ContentID like system?

Can creators make money on this platform like YouTube?
The sooner we get to Cowboy Bebop names, the better
VC fund strategy = NFL coaching strategy
I used to work in the industry when all this changed. Could there be a one-off company doing it? Sure. They are risking being brought up on Federal charges for it. The gov't has gone after drug companies for much less.
Are those academically-accredited?
> Piracy is a crime, deal with it. If you don't agree with the price or the distribution method, don't consume the content, problem solved.

Sure, or I can just pirate content. That's another way to deal with it.

I'm not sure why I'm supposed to have a problem because you're trying to keep your bytes a secret. Pretty much everyone has accepted that you can't stop piracy, at least once the content is available on p2p.

This article is about topsites that were probably involved in hacking into content sources directly. That's a much bigger deal than everyday civil copyright infringement.

Some of us actually do want a future where you can download a car.
Companies have processes and changing those processes is very difficult and risky for the managers involved. A new software provider really needs to fit round the existing processes if it wants to make a sale.

Buying one person, or one team, a tool like Adobe CS doesn’t really change any processes so it’s easy. But dropping a new system in that changes a process and everything changes.

“Helen from risk wants a new fraud detection system” is effectively the same as “Helen wants to review all our fraud detection policies and if anything changes and subsequently goes wrong it won’t just be Helen that gets fired”. There’s a huge pressure on the software provider to make their system support whatever unique, crazy or arcane processes the risk team were previously using, and support all existing interfaces into and out of the risk team, because nobody wants to sign off on any changes. So enterprise software has to be crazy flexible. And flexibility makes for bad UX.
It would certainly appear to be scraped (see "Name sources:" at the bottom of the page), and that there hasn't been any human curation.

eg.

Masculine English names that may also be Croatian words:

Blagdan

This is more likely a surname than a given name.

And I'm not sure how names like Ivo and Kristofor can be considered in the intersection of English/Croatian.

Having said all that, I think it's still a useful resource, and I don't wish this to come across as putting it down.
> Aren't a huge part of tests to prevent regression?

Depends on the kind of tests. Old school "purist" unit tests are meant to help you verify the correctness of the code as you're writing it. Preventing regressions is better left to integration tests and E2E tests, or smoke tests. Alternatively to "unit tests" if your definition of "unit" is big enough (in which case it only works within the unit).

It's totally fine and common to write unit tests that are not meant to catch bugs of significant refactors. If you do it right, they should be so easy to author that throwing them away shouldn't matter.
It also doesn't seem to have a byline which is... unusual.
The Monolith That Breaks Up Itself
complete anesthesia is indeed a very disturbing experience, similar to a cut to a new scene in a movie: you were there and then and you are here and now, without anything in between. You cannot really tell if you are the same conscience that existed before the anesthesia, because you have no feeling of a continuous conscience: it feels like you have been switched off and on.
Perhaps they could come up with something different for the first header? Because saying "Racket, the Language-Oriented Programming Language" right after "Racket, the Programming Language" seems a little too similar.
mrandish’s comment had three paragraphs, but I was mainly responding to the part of it that was concerned with US law, not the Kim Dotcom fiasco. New Zealand does however have a criminal statute on their books for copyright infringement for commercial gain, and an extradition treaty with the United States.

If your concerns are the activities of the American Federal government, you take that up with the US Congress for writing the law. If your concerns are the activities of the New Zealand government, then take that up with the New Zealand Parliament; but today’s news largely concerned a Trans-Atlantic multi-country operation and an indictment filed in the US Southern District of New York in which the acting authority is the United States, not New Zealand.
>My issue with Brutalism is that it seems to evoke a sense of helplessness of the individual against the sheer size of the State

I would not attribute that specifically to Brutalism.

I tend to find that style more likely to evoke a sense of modesty. The lack of ornamental or ostentatious features tends to make Brutalist designs feel, to me, more egalitarian.
Why even make these straw men? What's the use?

1) Who said that games need to be sold at cost?

2) Who said anything about stopping Sony doing anything?

Does the fact that you can unlock Android phones mean that the manufacturers (or Google) have now gone out of business? Or that they can't curate their stores?

Just a super low effort reply.
Does it not depend on context? For example, you don’t need to know anything about the user of a recipe website to know they are hungry and once they pick a recipe, some basic notion of what they are looking for.

On top of that, extremely course information can be gathered without tracking users. For example, you can probably get a country level location and maybe even language from the request the browser sends.
Wow. I’m amazed you thought season 1 was even vaguely close to the book.

I never even tried season 2, they diverged so much (and so irritatingly!) from the books in season 1.
Didn't IngressClass change that?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingr...
"I find running a k8s cluster on a raspberry pi to be inconvenient. I prefer a desktop or server class CPU if possible."
GNU tar blocking factor, blocks, records and checkpoints
If the test suite took hours, couldn't part of the problem be that a lot of those tests should have been more focused unit tests? With small unit tests and mocking, you could run millions of tests in 3 hours.
Nobody “pretends” that master zone file format is sent using the DNS protocol over the wire.
Ask HN: Why does Mozilla not ask the users to pay for Firefox
A genuine question, that's timely in context of the recent layoffs at Mozilla:

Why doesn't Mozilla take user's money for Firefox? I would gladly pay a few bucks per month for a browser. It could even be the same version that other people get for free.

I don't want to pay for other services that Mozilla has to offer, like Pocket or VPN. I just want a great open-source browser from someone who is not FAAMG.
It seems like you've moved from a position of "way more harm is done by protecting people than allowing freedoms" to "more harm is done by allowing Apple to do as they wish; we need protection from that", despite Apple being a subset of "people".

And the "more of us than them" suggests that rather than any principled approach, you advocate something like the mob rule that the Athenians described to the Melians: the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must. Fair enough. That position has been common enough throughout history. Right now lots of people appear to like the way Apple is running their company. Does that make it right? You seem to think no, but are articulating reasons why you should think yes. That's perplexing to me.

I'm trying to make sense of what I think about the disagreement between Apple and Epic. I'm not sure. The arguments people are making against Apple so far seem unsuccessful and problematic to me. I think the collective bargaining argument I've cautiously advanced might make some sense.
It is crazy, how the mighty has fallen. At some point Dailymotion was actually the only serious alternative to Youtube. What's the point of buying a business to make it useless like that?
If you don't feel like paying for HBO, why should you have a right to watch Westworld?
they also paid a pittance for their concordes, which helped.
why though? i had Romanian colleague named Victor, sounds perfectly passable name in most languages, I'm sure there are plenty international Romanian names
The community has strong emphasis on teaching. I'm just a hobbyist, but transitioning from python allowed me to improve much faster and discover new horizons.
That sounds really interesting! Could you share some examples?
This sort of thing (if I understand the abstracts correctly) can also be done with dependent types: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/a....

This paper was my introduction to dependent typing, so if you have a little Haskell background, you should be able to grok its gist too.
> I also don't fear being dead.

> But the fact that I won't be anymore,

I think that’s what many people fears about being dead, the not being (alive) anymore aspect of it.
Flutter will stay relevant exactly as long as Google believes it is relevant. I'd say the jury is still out on it but IMHO things are looking increasingly like they don't have a winner on their hands in terms of developer adoption. I've yet to encounter a single Flutter app in the wild. I'm not aware of anything mainstream using it.

You can tell a lot by what Google is talking about and what they are not talking about or actively avoiding talking about. Right now they are not talking a lot about Flutter (and even less about Fuchsia). Given the timing, you'd expect them to be full on shipping Flutter everything with the upcoming Android. Not a thing. Not happening at all. What ever they are doing with it, eating their own dog food is not it this year.

They just unceremoniously killed Duo after it was long clear to world + dog that that was the only sensible thing to do after that clearly failed to bring in a lot of new users from more fashionable things like Skype, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Zoom, or Google's own Meets. Duo never came close to being in the same league. Same thing with Flutter. It's not happening and probably never will. It's a dead horse, they've flogged it for a while, it's not going anywhere. The next logical move is to shelf it.

Jetpack Compose on the other hand looks like it will be the main thing to do Android with this time next year. They are shooting for a release in 2021. 2021 Android will hit Beta probably in Spring. I'd say Jetpack Compse is well on track to release along with that around the same time.

I played with Jetpack Compose a few weeks ago; it's great. It might actually interest me in doing some proper mobile development. The old android SDKs with it's mess of XML, lots of java legacy, convoluted build tooling etc. is not very compelling to me. Jetpack compose does away with pretty much all of that. Good riddance.
Please don't do political/nationalistic flamewars like this on HN. When things get to this stage, curious conversation died a long time ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The existence of other risks isn't a strong argument for introducing more risks.

It's easy for HN to say "this makes no sense", but I guarantee you if the rules changed we'd see some article in the NYTimes where some retiree lost their entire life savings in a private investment including quotes like "no one told me it was that risky".
> Apple is making it harder for companies to track people's data across apps — and Facebook says it could have devastating effects on part of its business.

Good. Any business that relies on tracking people without their explicit opt-in consent deserves to be destroyed.
This is why code-signing certificates must be two-factor (e.g. embedded on a PIN secured smartcard where the private-key is protected from extraction by anybody).

My Tucows certificate is still a single *.pfx file - whereas my arguably less-consequential AATL (Adobe PDF signing) certificate is stuck on a crappy USB device that requires me to install marketing-laden software for. I miss my old commodity smartcard-based certificates.
That’s not true- the mere existence of you and the actions you’ve taken were and continue to be woven into the state of the universe since the day you were conceived. You made a direct and irreversible contribution to the increasing entropy of the universe and have helped push us all one step closer to ultimate equilibrium and the heat death of the universe. Be proud of your work, it is no more and no less than any other human or collection of atoms that has existed to date or ever will exist.
Probably because at the time it was deemed politically unpopular for the state to prop up a private business.
I'm not claiming a right. I'm claiming an opportunity. Those bytes are just sitting there waiting for me to click download.

I think the better question is: what are you going to do to stop me from downloading whatever I want?