skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just immediately thought about this quote from Dune: "Give as few orders as possible. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."
> They even suggest asyncio could be a replacement for celery... It really is the Wild West out here.

Yeah this is pretty questionable.

Having state in your app's process and then having to pretty much re-invent queues, job cancellation, uniqueness guarantees, scheduled jobs, periodic jobs on an interval, queue draining and retries with exponential backoffs.

I mean, yeah you could code all of that with enough time but why would you when Celery exists. If anything having the queue's state held in Redis or anywhere outside of your app's process is enough of a reason to pretty much never replace Celery with asyncio. Even in the post's example of sending an email I would still want a lot of what Celery has to offer and wouldn't consider replacing it.

IMO Celery isn't going anywhere soon and I would still use it in every Python project that needs background processing.
I think regulators will see the difference between Apple kicking out developers, and Microsoft letting them in while not promoting them.
Yes, the word is "toe".
This should probably get tagged [2013] or something, there are now built-in options into most platforms (at least Android, iOS, Plasma).
> If I bought scissors that could only cut certain types of paper

If there was a scissors duopoly, in which a company that controls 50% of the market, implemented practices that are anti-competitive, then this could be illegal.

> has always been limited to the feature set the manufacturer originally intended for it.

Actually, no. Once you purchased the item, you can do whatever you want with it, regardless of what the manufacture wants.

> This entitlement

This is about anti-trust law. Apple should follow the law. They are not entitled to break the law, without consequences.
Or use it with GPT-3 to answer phone calls I don't want to take...
That is what I had read or heard at some point. The majority of their business was in the holiday season, and needed several multiples of servers to handle it. So in say May, 80% of the machines were sitting basically idle. So why not rent them out.

Unfortunately I appear to have been mislead by a myth: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...

So, thanks for calling that out. Would have gone on believing it otherwise.
It's astonishing the number of people in this thread that don't understand the basis of Epic's lawsuit. There's way to much of "Epic broke the ToS, therefore everything Apple decides to do in retaliation is justified".

First off, Epic's whole lawsuit is that parts of Apple's ToS are illegal, and thus Apple has no grounds to enforce it as they did. Secondly, the kind of retaliation Apple has attempted to do here very much resembles anti-consumer monopolistic behavior. Apple is using their position in one market (common sign in, developer tools, hardware) to enforce their position in another (app store). Classic no-no.

Obviously the final determination on these points will be made by the courts. In the meantime, if Apple isn't an anti-consumer monopoly, they sure are walking, talking and quacking like one.
The big bang didn't fling matter out into the universe, it created more distance to go between all the matter that was in the universe.
Based on NOAA satellites, the smoke and fires seem to end in Oregon, but I don't doubt that this may extend up to BC in no time. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
Update: Since I made this comment, I have gotten a "don't use if/else" article on my Medium digest... every single day.
Why wouldn't you have just leave home at 7AM and walk to school if you're that close?

(A 7:18 bell seems crazy though - what's wrong with a 9AM start?)
That exactly what Library Genesis and Sci-Hub are. Assuming, you aren't expecting this public utility to be 100% lawful, since the other parties involved here (universities for instance) don't seem too keen on the idea of a having their work circulate openly.
Why? That wouldn't work. You don't win changes by meekly arguing over things.
This is a presentation by Jared Mauch of how he managed to dig and build his own fiber network in his town without help of big telcos.

He shares his lessons learned (if you feel inclined to build your own) and details his expenses (it's not cheap, but not impossible either). It's a very informative and fun talk!
Until I see the pricing of 5G, I don't believe a word of it being better or more useful to me.

All I expect is that I'll burn through my monthly data sooner, and not see a dime of faster, cheaper technology improvement.

Why should I be in favor of 5G?
Can people not try to make a scam out of everything??
Do you have a better response than this snark? Perhaps by pointing out where the poster is actually in error?
How It Works

The system consists of four components: A scientifically illiterate public, a gullible trade press, desperate capitalists, and wide eyed entrepreneurs riding the hype cycle all the way to the exit.
America Saves – Vanguard [pdf]
Things You Can Do Now to Make the World a Better Place
Epic isn't negotiating with Apple. They are suing Apple.
> Ultimately the molecular structure of your meter-stick is determined by various structure constants that aren’t changing

Really? These structure constants never involve any units of distance? Isn't distance changing at all levels?

If I have a meter stick, and then space expands by 10%, you're saying that my meter stick will end up being 0.91 new-meters long, yes? Wouldn't that require the structure constants to change, to allow for the same molecules to take up less space?
No typing is great whether its BSON types in MongoDB or column types in RDBMS. Anything past that generally gets in the way of flexibility to respond to new business requirements. Business changes rarely originate at the schema level so its a bad place to encode business semantics.
Yes, Andrew Mason is the CEO. He's full time on Descript now and isn't working on Detour anymore.
Well, the even more basic plastic corner piece used on this person's one in the same thread has started to break: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/4976933/

> The LCC (Liquid Cooled Condenser) was probably not designed to be mounted horizontally so they added the cinch strap which needed edge protection to prevent crushing the condenser contact surfaces... enter corner molding from Home depot. Will be interesting to see if that corner molding holds up over time. The cheap stuff is mostly air, the better stuff has more plastic content. If you do 3D printing you know what "fill" means..... look how the strap crushed the plastic corner molding in this photo. If it crushes/compresses it more over time.. the strap will be lose and the condenser will shake/possibly stress crack at it's base?

I did like this sarcastic response to it:

> See OP??? The Home Depot wood trim on yours exceeds the factory spec! At least it will not get crushed by the strap because it's not cheap plastic corner trim from Lowe's like others have.
It would have been much cheaper to buy off the Hussein family, and play them against the Iranians if cheap oil was the objective.
> And despite all of the efforts the adversaries haven‘t effectively been taken down

Some might argue that that wasn't even the objective and that the take down of adversaries was only a narrative created to justify the start of these wars.
Using a headless browser for scraping is a lot slower and resource intensive than parsing HTML.
In terms of achieving a certain level of functionality, you can do that, but the additional abstraction you add into your software stack translates into poorer performance and additional complexity. It's a trade-off.

Source: worked on GPU drivers for over a decade and had to make decisions like that.
There hasn't been a hearing on an injunction yet, that happens later this month. The hearing that HAS happened was on a temporary restraining order, which was to keep Apple from doing anything UNTIL AFTER the injunction hearing.

The difference is important, the temporary restraining order's effects are only limited to that August-September time window, and the hearing itself had limited argument, and very little preparation time (Epic presumably thinking Apple wouldn't be so aggressive, and would want to drag things out, which they do, but they're also probably hoping to force a settlement as soon as possible). Part of Epic's legal team's arguments was that there is binding legal precedent that "self inflicted harm" was not disqualifying of any of their claims in an anti-trust suit due to the standing hurdle (of note: a similar anti-trust suit filed by an Apple user was thrown out without a trial on grounds that the customer was not able to sufficiently demonstrate Apple's practices harmed them; standing is a very big hurdle), but Epic's lawyers messed up and forgot to file that case brief in the documents they submitted before the restraining order hearing, so the judge made no determination then. They indicated it would be included in the injunction hearing filings. Basically, everything the judge has determined so far could change at the end of the month.
No part of the Universe is older than another.
I got drive-by downvotes from Apple fanbois for saying this in a previous thread, but I think this could actually have a significant impact on the iOS user base in the long term. I'd wager that a significant portion of iOS's user acquisition funnel is children for whom Fortnite is a requirement. All those kids will be throwing tantrums until their parents get them an Android device.
If you rely on the good graces of Apple/Google/Twitter/Facebook/MonolithOfTheWeek for your business to survive, eventually you're going to have a bad time.

Twitter and Facebook entirely eradicated based around their API's.

In Apple's response to Epic, they make the case there is absolutely no way to define them as a monopoly, since even just for Fortnite, there are a half dozen competing platforms of which they note, the App Store isn't even the biggest one.
Fun and holy crap, addicting!
All official wordings suggest it is based on residence, not citizenship:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
I agree. The framing of the article could have been clearer that (start, length) data structures are widely better for the general case, but that null terminated strings can be faster for certain niche cases.
Well at least IRC isn't losing money
Eh, last time I messed with I lost interest after noting that from-json | to-json would silently convert all numbers into quoted strings and do terrible things when nil was involved. It made non-trivial JSON manipulation not worth it. They might have fixed it by now.
1. A website operator must capture your IP address to issue a cease-and-desist or come after you legally.

2. It is 100% legal to mask your IP address when accessing websites.

3. Always mask your IP address and you will never hear from the website owner.

(I'm not condoning anything illegal, and I have public-facing web-servers so I know all about the pain from aggressive bots and scraping. I'm just pointing out the facts around this instead of some vague lawyer's blog post with a "who knows, contact us" at the end of the article.)

From the website owner's perspective:

1. I get nailed with bots and scraping all day. If you do something outstandingly stupid and become the signal within the noise: I'm just going to harden my bot detection and mitigation instead of calling up my lawyer.

2. Almost all websites published today are running blind. They have no idea you are a bot, and they are more likely to get excited in the bump in traffic because "of course it's from the money we poured on that marketing effort".

3. If a website has a bot problem, they will recognize your scripts and give you guidelines on how not to be a jerk when scraping their content. This is usually backed up by IP based throttle limits.

4. I'm more afraid of this lawyer's hourly price, not the possibility of damage caused by web-scraping against my servers.
It could be argued that neither are Teslas...
Mozilla makes a gazillion dollars from Google for being the default search engine. They get free labor from volunteers all over the world, being OSS and all that. So what do they need extra money for??
One of my 'smartphones' has a screen the same size as most of the laptops I've ever owned, 13" rounded up.

Also, you're way out of touch with how 'the youth' (anyone under 30) use the Internet. It's highly video-centric, and sure, depending on the market, keeping that video feed alive away from WiFi can get expensive: but I would rather pay than go without, and I suspect this is often true for most youngsters as well.

Cell carriers spend money where they can make money, and that isn't rural bandwidth. If we want to change that, and I think it's worthwhile to do so, it will take legislation.
Yes. It's unwise to depend on a sole source of income.
HCL, Jinja, Go Templates, etc are much easier for people to read and understand than standard programming languages. If you're going to use a standard programming language to write your IaaS then you might as well just use the native SDKs rather than an overlay.
This is quoted often, but doesn't take any subject or reality detail into account. It is simply not true. I'll show you why.

Goals and outcomes have to be realistic, not idealistic. All parties considered, and given how app/media world works, there are two major models that are represented by two big players (google, apple). First one is to build a garden that, barring little fuckups, mostly works in favor of a money-spending user and has no economics in selling them out. Another is a "free as in cheese" model where everything costs less, and is less- or un- controlled, so that various third-party economics who are another giant's infotrade puppets play their game at relaxed rules or at will. This includes phone vendors, other stores and software packages from the internet. There is a third model, a PC, that has a rich history not worth exposing again to an innocent user. And fourth, ubuntu, which had essentially zero economics.

For the context, I own both android and ios devices (and mac, and pc). And android's agenda of being free and doing everything you want simply isn't real. There is basically no possibilities ("freedoms") without some sticky strings attached. I could bring a metaphor of being an android user, but it hardly fits hn format. Let's say that an android user has to make bodily compromises along the way of searching for "freedom", but never finding it. Because no one in the world needs you to be free and happy for free, and your market data costs more than you. They will either sell you a big margin, or monetize it by digging in your laundry.

So basically, there is no choice at all, from the perspective of goals you (and I, ideally) chase. The world and its needs simply do not work like that. I'm not exchanging freedom for safety, I'm exchanging money for privacy, and "free as in freedom" is not an option at all.

And I wouldn't even mind if such ideal world existed, where everyone just writes an app that does great things, then sells/gifts it on an open mobile store and everyone to be happy. But by giving up on a walled garden IRL, I give up on a walled garden and freedom and privacy and hygiene. I'd better not own my device rather than not owning my privacy or checking constantly where my info leaks.

Hope that clears my views.
It depends on the failure modes you're trying to guard against. Most of the distributed systems I've seen built are within a single AWS region and they do pretty well.
Voice acting for ... games, audiobooks, etc?
Why do people show Apple's ToS so much deference but then (rightfully) shit on all other ToSes by other people? ToSes suck. Most people don't even read them. I'm sure big companies like Epic have lawyers that do actually read them, but still, it's not like you have a choice in the matter. You can't just not publish on the biggest mobile market. The ToS isn't a negotiation, it's just a big monopoly owner exerting their will over others.
It obviously wouldn't. Windows PCs are open (relative to consoles) and have a more vibrant and diverse set of games available.
Even Windows has it built in now with Windows 10 since the Creators Update in 2017.
Haha :) I'm glad you enjoy!
"X is a safety risk (perhaps it could be designed differently)" is a helpful safety warning to others, not just "let me list my opinion of problems".

Do you harsh on people who remind you how dangerous it is to work on live electrical outlets or wear long sleeves in a chemistry lab?
More competition is good for consumers. 5G competing with fixed broadband means lower prices for everyone.
Which bag for life? One of the sturdy plastic ones, or the hessian variety?
This article is just a teaser to get you to hire the author (who is an IP lawyer) to explain the issues raised. It's not very informative.
It's things like this that make me not worry about sticking with opengl. It's supported everywhere, fast enough for my uses, and is exactly the level of abstraction i want to be at. I completed the vulkan triangle tutorial and i cannot imagine needing all those knobs for the games and other things i make. I'm pretty confident that by the time opengl is no longer natively supported, software layers like this will be stable and fast enough.
FYI, you don't need another extension for the 'Don't care about cookies'

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If interest rates can't go any lower (and there isn't much room, unless we think negative yield mortgages are possible), and the Fed chooses to inflate the currency (which I concur, would be a most likely response, as the alternatives have far worse consequences), then the real value of homes will decline-- though the nominal dollar value could stay the same.
the Linux equivalent is http://jonls.dk/redshift/
The mathematical values of Linear A fraction signs
To me the whole concept of LTSE feels like this. The listed companies say to the investors "we want your money, but you know what you should just seat tight". I don't think that's gonna work. But whatever, I'm just a lawyer :D
100% legal.

If you're Google.
They have proved that, already. They could have reverted the direct payment system, kept only Apple IAP, and then sued even for damage recovery of 30% since the beginning of the lawsuit (or even the beginning of Fortnite on iOS). Apple has clearly written even in legal documents of the lawsuit that reverting the direct payment change would have been enough to keep operating Fortnite on iOS fully featured.
Wait I've seen this movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film)
Seems like someone accidentally installed F.lux on the Bay Area skyline today
Gpg4win and Mailvelope are very easy for the average user.
Relevant comic: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/billy-the-bunny/
>> The console market has been slowly dying for the last decade. If anything, opening the console market could help rejuvenate it by turning consoles into general purpose entertainment devices <<

there was a time when consoles didnt require internet tethering, were media capable, and could be used for common PC tasks.
Perl is "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" [0], but don't tell anybody ;-)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#cite_note-63
> So, computers will stay part of everyday life

I don't think this is a guarantee. Already most people's primary computing device is their phone; there are households where everyone has a phone and a couple iPads and no PC; and iPads or Android tablets seem to be fairly common as POS terminals and kiosk devices.

PCs will definitely always be around for serious content creation and heavy work; but the group "very large part of the population" is also the group that is less and less likely to own a PC or use one other than at work or for school.
> More space appeared for it to exist in.

This is a very different idea from "it's the same amount of space, but bigger", which is what I understand by the claim that a scale factor is increasing.
Probably not a big deal if your business model doesn’t revolve around harvesting user data.
Since there's no frame of reference outside the universe, you can't make that analogy.

I think you're getting tripped up on a variation of this idea, e.g. moving a laser pointer across the moon's surface faster than light. https://www.universetoday.com/109147/how-a-laser-appears-to-...
This seems useful if you're expecting to pass your strings to a lot of C libraries, which is probably sensible for C++ (especially whatever vintage of C++ happened to introduce this string design); however, surely this is a negligible concern for most mainstream languages?
100mW/cm^2 is the same intensity as sunlight. It's not a ridiculous amount.
I (pretty strongly) suspect that engineers were involved, rather than this being an assembly line worker floor-level decision.

The same company that erected a factory-in-a-tent (unconventional but also appropriate) to hit aggressive production targets seems like one that would consider and execute appropriate but unconventional substitutions.
PR#3 got you into 80 column mode. I thought the PR# was to activate a card in a slot number.. but I'm not sure.

https://archive.org/details/iie-80-column-text-card/page/n29...

Apple2 Manuals where quite excellent back in the day.
The internet archive has a bunch. Search friendly machine names the are not (Apple ii , apple//e, apple][ , apple //c.....)
Yes, but at least for macOS f.lux has more features so for me it is still the clear preferred option.
Based on NOAA satellites, the smoke and fires seem to end in Oregon

No, your view window ends in Oregon. I don't know how one is supposed to determine anything about what's going on in Washington state from that link. Here's a more useful link for the doubtful:

https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Redmond&state=WA&country=USA
As someone attempting to port a docker-compose application to a Helm chart I'd love to hear more about the resources you used. As someone working with a very simple application I've found the processes to be more difficult than I anticipated.
What about Nginx or Apache configuration files? Could you write them without googling?

Easily, because noone writes them from scratch, they just modify the default one.

For most of my Kubernetes work I "kubectl describe" something existing into YAML, modify it, then "kubectl apply" it back again.
On the flip side, it could become 10x MORE lethal, and people would still be blissfully ignoring it.
This is too funny.

Reminds me of that time the psychologist kept showing me pictures of my parents fighting. She insisted that they were just blots of ink. I'm not sure what she was playing at.
The "Add to Cart" button exports a recipe's ingredients to Amazon Fresh.

Ok that's actually rather smart. Cheers
> teach kids about evolution

The possibility of a children's picture book serving as immunization against misconceptions, BU's "How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses", seems intriguing.

[1] reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1Q_q4f-hQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyVd1pO3nIh [2] paper https://www.bu.edu/cdl/files/2017/10/Emmons_et_al-2017-Journ... [3] press release https://www.bu.edu/federal/2017/09/29/new-book-by-bu-researc...
I'm surprised that this doesn't exist already. There's many hundreds of open access journals already, yet they're not standardized on one internetworked system? They're all implementing the basics of a PDF repository independently, and poorly? Why??

Take arXiv and expand its scope and upload everything there. Boom, problem effectively solved using mostly existing tools.
Will the long term stock exchange feature any kind of derivatives?