skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to development as a creative skill, good developers know that being deeply involved in the problem helps them to build the best possible solutions.

Bad developers are the brilliant ones who already have so much expertise and intelligence that they don't need to get their hands dirty. Their solutions will tend to be engineered to perfection—and inferior.

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Note: the following was my response to these paragraphs by lapcatsoftware which he subsequently deleted. I've kept it here because I think it helps explain my point for other people.

> What does this even mean...

> Would you suggest that Craig Federighi spend
> half his time on app review? If not, then who?

> It's all too easy to say that someone (not me)
> should do the unpleasant thing.

The best way to understand an undefined problem is to live it.

When you don't have a bounded problem space, e.g. "we need software solutions that will help improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of our app review process" then half the job of a developer is creative and explorative, not performative.

Internal tools don't need to be finely crafted pieces of excellence, they need to make the lives of the people using it better. If I was building a team to improve Apple's processes, I'd task a dozen developers to live the problem for a while and then have a dozen solo missions to build tools which make their lives easier.

Suggesting that when I said "good developers" I meant Craig Federighi—let alone anyone with the skill to make significant positive contributions to an operating system core—is absurd and disingenuous. I'm talking about the B+ developers here, not superstars or executives.

You might say that App Store reviewing is beneath you, but I think that's short-sighted. I think it would be fascinating.
Time to move to Japan i guess.
Nah, it’s a reaction to critical theory / PC convention dominating the culture. This philosophy of everything is socially constructed and nothing is objectively true has fueled a reaction that at least feels like our feet are on solid ground. This has nothing to do with classical liberalism.

Classical liberalism can under attack from critical theory over the last 40 years and has manifested in mainstream adoption of this type of thinking. This betrayal and dismissal of classical liberalism has forced the right into authoritarianism as the norms of liberal democracy have been dismantled.
I have dealt with the uncertainty in a surprising way.

Pre-Covid, I could map out the rest of my life with near certainty assuming no death. Stable career, next promotions, children’s age/steps, etc.

Now, the uncertainty has been freeing in a sense, because I almost felt trapped in following through with the path that my mind seemed certain until retirement/death. The certainty almost made me live all life simultaneously and therefore time flew by.

This time has been slow and steady, and I have appreciated that.
I always thought this was a pretty interesting take on the future of web applications/APIs, and aligns pretty closely with what you describe:

https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/
Apple’s app clips and Googles instant apps are meant to fix that
That is not in fact “illegal”. If it were always “illegal” then Apple, Microsoft (Xbox), Sony, Nintendo, Roku, etc would all be breaking the law.
Yeah, except Hypercore or SSB sync'ed data types are not as flexible as the relational model.

I'm building something like this, with one extra requirement: permissionless / trustless p2p operation. It works in the browser, here's the README:

https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/hyperhyperspace-core
Paper medical records were great for doctors. They made it really hard to switch providers. They were a great excuse for medical errors, or for "accidentally" ordering expensive redundant tests from their buddies. EMR had to be legally imposed on doctors because otherwise they would still be gleefully killing people through bad handwriting.
> The real benefit of having true experts teach something is all the tacit knowledge you get from hearing how they think about and approach their craft

I think that's part of it, but only a part.

The real value of teaching lies in tight feedback loops.

Learning, as a neurological process, is entirely predicated on feedback loops. Our brains observe some system, make a prediction as to how that system will iterate, and then adjust their prediction mechanism based on the observed outcome.

Maybe to give an example, I learned to dance (Lindy Hop) by working with coaches. My nephew learned to dance by watching things like Masterclass.

He has spent much more time on watching videos than I have in working with coaches, and has been interested in dancing for far longer, but I am the better dancer. By a wide margin.

And that is not due to natural talent -- if anything, I would say that I am less coordinated than he is.

The advantage I have is -- partially! -- due to my instructors sharing a bunch of tacit knowledge. The structure of music, why jazz is polyrhythmic and how you can use syncopated steps to move between rhythms and melodies, etc.

But most of it comes from my instructors watching me flail about, and giving me immediate feedback on how to be less dangerous to my follow (the person dancing with me). And then watching me apply that feedback, correcting me again, and repeating that loop until I get it right -- which means than I then know what "right" feels like.

Online learning -- especially through watching videos -- completely lacks that realtime feedback.

It's possible to do! But most of the online course offerings that I have seen, don't. They are little more than recorded lectures and multiple-choice quizzes.

Moreover, now that I have a solid foundation -- built by working with coaches, and understanding the "why" behind the techniques -- I can leverage dance videos to pick up new moves, because I know what to look for an how to apply it.
Right, and if my borderline conspiracy theory that evacuation was a bigger factor than we know today is at all true, I'm not saying that the federal DOT is lying to us today or anything. If there was a considerable FEMA influence in the motivation and design of the system, staff today probably just don't know about it. A lot of this stuff happened in face-to-face conversations, a lot of the documentation was classified and by the time it hit the DECL ON it was moldering in a bankers box somewhere... the same reasons that a lot of stuff about the relocation program isn't very well known today despite it being declassified. One of the consequences of secrecy is that the whole thing is more likely to just be forgotten as decades go by and the people who were in the know cycle out. And FEMA and its precursors seemed to have a particularly weird and insular inner culture that makes them hard to talk about from a historical perspective today.
Lenovo's Fedora laptops are coming to the EU, they just haven't launched on the web portal just yet. I believe you can call them and they'll sell it to you anyway.
On the contrary. Young docs hate EMRs with unrivaled passion. I am personally convinced that EMRs are a frequent indirect cause of suicide among young docs.
I'm waiting for this since long time. Hope it will be more human and more feature and more user friendly than other languages.
Good argument and well stated! Also inflation hasn’t kicked in since real wages are also stagnant compared to their real values (not nominal values) since probably the early 1990’s. I have been waiting for commodity inflation since 2011 and this period has been more deflationary from my observations. Take the price of oil as an example. Since 2008 to now. The prices of gold and platinum have been relatively low until the pandemic. Also look at prices of wheat and other commodities. They deflated in 2007-2014 and struggled to pick up.

Commodity pricing is also affected by varying political, social and technological environments. And from my own personal observance of the economy we are in a more biflationary period. This would be evident by the stagnant pricing of oil and the high prices of certain real estate, property and stocks.

This is also evident with the knocking off of Exxon from the Dow Jones stock exchange.
Around here, the fancy restaurant has a boat dock. The people with money have boat docks. You don't walk to the restaurant! The dress code probably doesn't include SCUBA, especially if dripping wet.
Hi, not OP but I may as well make a shameless plug: http://iv-devs.com/robotics.html
This is certainly factually correct.

It’s interesting that our current ‘modern’ culture focuses on feelings much more, such that someone may feel they are going through something worse than WW2 and we to affirm their feelings or we are ‘hating’ them.
I'm waiting for this since long time. Hope it will have more features, more faster, more performance oriented, more exciting, and more user friendly than other languages.
So is all of this theory backed up by case law?
Used to... now I slack myself - email inbox is major source of anxiety, for me, given how many unread/junk emails I get.
You're right. I almost deleted my comment when I realized that. My comment would have been much better without the judgmental tone. Reducing my judgmental mental habit is my lifelong struggle. My EQ skills are definitely not good enough yet.

How's this for a non-judgy version?

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That must have been really frustrating. I struggle with frustration and anger. Sometimes, I make decisions based on those emotions and then miss opportunities, alienate people, and experience negative outcomes. Things work out better for me when I'm more calm and patient.

About 5 years ago, I started spending effort to increase my EQ and mental habits. I consulted a therapist regularly for several years, read Marshall Rosenberg's Non-violent Communication, learned meditation at a free 10-day silent retreat, and talked with people close to me about my emotions and mental habits. I occasionally ask people close to me for feedback on my attitude and behavior. All of this effort has paid off. Compared to 5 years ago, I have more stable relationships, fewer and shorter arguments, fewer days lost to playing unhappy mind-movies, and more work productivity.

Since you and I seem to struggle with similar things, I think you could also benefit from working on EQ skills.

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I found podcasting to be one of the more delightful parts of the internet, for a while mostly ignored by the surveillance and adtech applied to the rest of the web. Overcast is wonderful and I hope can continue to support an open podcasting model as opposed to the closed model currently most successfully pushed by Spotify.
This is such an informative comment on a niche I am so foreign to. Thank you very much for sharing.
The point is though that Google and Facebook don't put ads on news content. The user still has to go to the news site to actually read the news article, and the news site can put their ads on that or have a paywall. Google and Facebook only have ads on pages that might also link to news sources. (This bill is specifically about Google search results and Facebook's news feed - not Google/Facebook's ad sales businesses). So it's not, for example, like Spotify where the music is played from Spotify's servers and the user stays in the Spotify app/site.

Note also that this bill specifically exempts ABC and SBS, as well as most independent news sources from being able to get any benefit.
App Review should be more transparent and more public. For instance, even without naming an app, the reasons for rejection by category could be public.

In the bigger discussion, we don't know if "difficult" cases like the ones in this thread are common, if the approval process is used against whole categories of apps, if competitors are being harmed, or perhaps if it's more about fine-tuning user experience, and bad developer experiences are rare.

Right now, there are many awful stories (and many successful apps), and we don't know how long companies and developers spend trying to resolve problems like these. If the App Store is the modern market for software, the lack of transparency is a big issue, and developers would feel more comfortable making a multiple-year investment to bring a product to iOS if they could see what's likely to happen in advance.
It is mostly networking through friends of friends at this point. The big event I know is the IREX but I never got any contract from my contacts there.

Cultivate friends and contacts that's my main advice.
A friend of mine who is a glider pilot once compared thunderstorm to a steamroller.

If you get hit by the leading edge your plane will get smashed into the ground. If you somehow get to the back part, your plane might end up in the stratosphere, which might be just as fatal due to very low temperature and lack of oxygen.

He mentioned some early gliding pioneers who were insane and lucky enough managed to "ride" a thunderstorm and achieve record breaking flight distance - and somehow not getting killed in the process.
How do these compare to openscad?
It doesn't even need to be due to "poor" intentions, either.

For example, a lawyer who thought she was doing the right thing and protecting many people has caused endless problems, both legal and moral, and likely ended up protecting (by tainting the case against) the very people she sought to bring to justice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Gobbo#Lawyer_X_scandal
it has been brought to my attention that this won't work on iPhone / safari. I'll fix it tomorrow
> Vecdeque is implemented once in the standard library

it is, what about other similar cases of using pointers in other data-structures and algorithms that are not part of the Rust standard library?
>but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

Apple doesn’t have 50%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Yes and there are in fact better languages for dealing with relational data than SQL, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...
> It really highlights how important it is to design a system that’s focused on error reduction (like aviation) rather than focused on allocating blame (like medicine).

How can we change this culture though? For some reason doctors attract insane lawsuits seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. People don't seem to be so litigious when they're against rich corporations with lots of lawyers at their disposal.

If this continues, the only possible result is defensive medicine since doctors will need every bit of proof and documentation in order to prove their innocence in the event of a lawsuit.
Liberalism can’t fail on its own - it can only be taken advantage of via subterfuge. Mainstream politicization of critical theory has deceived liberalism by using its freedoms but not respecting its counter-freedoms. Authoritarianism is the reaction to this abuse.

And really if by critical theory’s definitions that everything is relativist then what’s the problem?
Before clicking the link my impression was “big deal, I have a Twitter account too.”
Yeah, I mean 12! is ~479 million, and there are 20 vertices, so that is very much within brute-force-on-a-laptop range. For some net, I think given a vertex + list of faces, there is a simple-to-get yes/no answer on whether a ray passing through the faces and returning to the vertex exists. I wonder if you can just write a Python script to do it...

Edit: Even simpler - there are 43,380 nets of a dodecahedron, and each has 20 vertices. So if you just draw ~8 million straight lines and see if any are both on the net and do not intersect another vertex, you'll find (at least) one that works!
Mind linking anything on how you’re doing that? We’d looked into a couple years ago but it seemed quite complicated from a setup perspective.
The Axiom of Choice is not an example of Gödel's true-but-unprovable statements, because Gödel's statements are true in all models (as you said) but AoC is NOT true in all models. The Continuum Hypothesis isn't an example either for the same reason.
"It's okay, the minor negative effects of that are never going to be more important than the ability to protest effectively."

No way. You do not have the right to arbitrarily lock down traffic for some arbitrary reason.

Wait until Trump supporters lock down traffic in LA all day because they legitimately believe the 'election was stolen'.

You can protest in the park or city square or somewhere where it doesn't stop a large number of people from going about their business.

You don't get to suppress others with your ideology.
Maybe it should shake an attached appendage instead. Like a tongue!
Are you saying that developers should be forced to support all of the platforms?
So what is “competing normally”?
> Most hospitals and larger primary care installations are monopolies. There is not and cannot be for practical, zoning and regulatory reasons any sort of meaningful "competition".

This, by itself, realistically rules out any sort of "free market" healthcare system.
"a constitutionally-guaranteed right"

You absolutely don't have a right to suppress others with your ideology.

'Freedom of expression' has nothing to do with shutting down highways.
I have one example that I think a lot of healthcare consumers deal with - ridiculous prices for the uninsured.

The history is fascinating - in order to promote more transparency in the cost of healthcare, the gov't passed a law that defines "usual, customary and reasonable (UCR)" prices. This was because insurers used to just pay the bill, no questions asked (50+ years ago). Then they realized that the price for the same procedure varied a lot. So the law said that one could only charge the "usual and customary" price.

Sounds good right? Who wouldn't want to know the typical price?

Well, a part of that law was that the UCR price was the maximum that could be charged. There was no law about charging less.

So insurers start to negotiate discounts. Some insurers would get a discount, otherwise they pay UCR. That creates a huge incentive to push UCR as high as you can, otherwise you're potentially leaving money on the table if you get a random insurer willing to pay UCR.

So fast forward a few decades and the UCR prices have undergone astronomical inflation. No insurer pays U&C any more. In fact, they might pay 20-30% of U&C. It's nowhere close to "usual, customary and reasonable".

It wouldn't be a disaster if everyone had insurance because nobody pays it. But we do have uninsured and that's the price they're quoted now. $15,000 for an MRI that an insurer would pay $1500.

As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usual,_customary_and_reasonabl...
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330983
How do you choose what to work on?
But in 1995 or 2000 tech workers also skewed young and college educated and, at least according to my own recollections and a couple of authors I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, their politics did not seem very leftist then. What changed?
> You can make the touch bar surprisingly useful if you can install some third party software and configurations.

From your link:

> I'd recommend BetterTouchTool and things like finger swipes for volume up/down and brightness up/down and showing things like Spotify.

That sounds less good than function keys. If that's the best pitch for the touch bar, that is the very definition of damning with faint praise.
It sounds like Irmin combined with the GraphQL bindings is what he wants: https://irmin.org/
So long, and thanks for all the fish
That is a jurisdictional grey area. It is technically true, but practically speaking, it's why I specifically said "EU regulators will ask for help from other countries".

GDPR is only strictly enforceable in EU countries. All the other countries, it's up to whether they want to cooperate.

Example - EU cannot force China to make Tiktok/Bytedance to follow GDPR practices in China for EU citizens. They really they can only wave a big finger and claim Bytedance is out of compliance.

Sure, EU can sue Bytedance cross border in China, but it carries no weight/teeth. At which point, EU has to escalate... trade relations? sanctions? war?!

So practically - they have to ask for help.
I thought about this since March and my stock investments some what proved me correct. Any company that provides a strong “good” or service during this period with both a strong balance sheet and low debt will make it through and is a good investment.

Also real or physical assets such as real estate in proper areas are good investments, real estate in specific regions are going through the roof! This is also due to low interest rates from the fed as well as low supply of property and high demand in specific areas of the country.

The real question is how are commercial real estate investments and banks going to be able to absorb or handle these financial hits when small businesses can’t pay rents or when big corporations have their employees work from home and realize it’s more economical for them to work from home and no longer need office buildings?

I guess the Fed will just bail them out as well.
Greater scheduling efficiency and cost control.

You don’t need to deal with making sure pilots are all at the right airports. You don’t need to provide them lunch. You don’t need a bunk for them. Pilots are limited in hours of piloting time and sleep requirements, but they can be instantly transferred between planes instead of walking.
Yeah, this is the trouble with client-side solutions. If it's worth their time (for example, if there's a credit card field or something), the bad actor will first take a look at the request as it's sent to the server and then they will make requests that look similar. You can do some aggressive stuff with fingerprinting like this example but honestly at a certain point captchas are just going to save you a ton of hassle and the alternatives start to become increasingly invasive too. And I say this as a person who strongly dislikes captchas from both a privacy perspective and an end-user perspective.
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> Source: Lawyers wouldn't have the reputation they do if all the members of the club had integrity.

Calling that "source" is a bit of a stretch, no? More like "hypothesis"
I guess all that noise might affect the life of birds in some way or another.
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The same is true for musicians, book publishers, and developers on every single platform.