skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about house prices, saying something about less supply, but not fully comparing the volume of sales is IMO very misleading.
Yes, in the early days it ran on 6-7 different platforms. Back then it was about 1-3 developers per platform, however. Small focused teams like that can have significantly higher per-developer productivity, but are far more limited in the breath and nuance of what they can work on.

As a project grows in scale, there are a lot of development tasks that take a significant amount of time and effort for relatively little user-visible impact. However, in aggregate, there is a benefit to investing in those sorts of things.
tame impalas recent album was on a portastudio i believe..
I'd love to see them out of the language. I do not have evidence/document supporting this, but I think it was ultimately a failed attempt of copying the C# feature ignoring the fact that JavaScript works differently.
Apparently for Americans helping China surveil their population is insufficiently patriotic, they must help their own DoD and NSA as well
Building a e-commerce website using Vue and Django 3
> "Compare the size of these companies, in their time, to the Soviet-scale bureaucracies of Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Google."

Not sure what you're trying to say here. I'll wager that Bell Systems at its peak was probably was larger than even Amazon in terms of total employees, given that they ran the nationwide telephone network. Xerox was no slouch in size in its heyday either, given the ubiquity of photocopiers at every single office everywhere.

[EDIT] From Wikipedia: "At the time of its breakup in the early 1980s, the Bell System had assets of $150 billion (equivalent to $370 billion in 2019) and employed over one million people." So at least as many employees as Amazon currently has and enough market cap for consideration as a FAANG.
Wow, that's quite a strong insult, considering that I can't find a hint of what you could be referring to. You should really elaborate instead of lashing out.
I think some seed rounds work this way. Some seed rounds have a small number of large checks that fill up the entire round.

For managing chemistry, the extent of our interaction with most of the investors is they are on our investor mailing list. Besides that, we ask them when we need help with something.
Does anyone else hate foo(), bar() and baz() as example names. They are meaningless - except communicating that its a programmer selected name. Even func1(), func2() would be better.
With a billion cellphone cameras out there there are both things that have become more believable because there is video now. And things less believable Because no one has really captured them. An example of the former is tornadoes which footage was rather rare until cameras become commonplace. An example of the latter is Bigfoot with not much new imagery.

Now what category would you assign UFOs?
I wish people downvoting you would explain why. Your comment seems eminently reasonable to me, but there are no replies to it.
When people buy stuff on Amazon they can verify that they received the goods. They can't verify their vote was counted correctly.
For the past 50+ years, frames have been integrated with bodies on all cars and some trucks (unibody). The exterior shell of car bodies is a mix of materials, including plastic. The interior shell of body interiors contain very little that's recyclable without an ambitious amount of disassembly that would be very costly. I don't see car recycling happening until something like another world war makes it worth the effort.
You’re also living in a prime wildfire area in Truckee. There’s too much fuel in the Sierras as it is, it’ll burn sooner or later.
Yes, but the point is that the UNIX timestamp doesn't count the the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. It counts 86400 seconds per day, regardless of how many seconds the day actually has (which can vary due to leap seconds).
Sounds like you posted this comment after only reading that example at the beginning. Did you read the rest of the article? What were your thoughts at the end of it?
For example, a new election was ordered for the 2018 NC 9th district congressional race.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-candida...
"Alexa, do not disturb."

I use this feature regularly to prevent drop-ins when I don't want them.
Which isn't possible in case of an election. If you knew the proper result, you wouldn't need the election.
Heh... I've run into this bug myself recently. Get-Date '...' returns a DateTime object of Unspecified kind, i.e. neither Local nor Utc. By design, such objects are interpreted as Local by ToUniversalTime() and as Utc by ToLocalTime(). They essentially assume the inverse of themselves, for better or worse.

Since the Kind property is readonly, to get the real UTC date you need:

$naive = (Get-Date "1/1/1970").AddSeconds(1600000000)
$local = $naive.ToLocalTime()
$utc = $local.ToUniversalTime()
The entire thing is on YouTube. Part one starts here: https://youtu.be/m_2m1qdqieE

Worth a watch imo.
Here's what I want on observability/diagnostic platform. Are there tools to achieve something like this open source or SaaS in a reasonable way? Am I ignorant or is this actually too hard to do at scale I wonder.

1. Detail response/time taken for every single endpoint. So I want a histogram and not just an average. I have seen often you get the top X endpoints (for me mostly requests) in tools and top X by global measure. At my work the number of unique requests are a lot and the good response time for them varies a lot from 50ms to 1s easily. A global threshold is useless. There's also the fact that users have different cost for same endpoint but that I don't have a super good solution.

2. Some level of traces for requests that crosses a threshold. That means the agent has to keep the threshold for every endpoint but is that so expensive? I think I saw some ideas (in some commercial product) where they collect data and drop them if the request ends up being fast enough. I think that's a very good approach. So I want specifics when something is slow and against a per endpoint threshold. Perhaps I want all requests slower than 99 percentile, perhaps I keep 20% for > 90 percentile etc.

3. Now the per end point statistics has to be kept for significant period, months not days otherwise how would you see the change. I have things slowed down due to code change, due to usage increase, due to query plan getting whacky. You have different performance due to different level of usage (concurrency). No one can probably afford per second resolution for a year sure but if my 9am spikes are averaged out how would I know that this is an old problem or the spike actually worsened by 20% in the last two month? I think you can get away with reducing resolution a lot if you keep a histogram and not just average. But I don't think anyone optimizes for that. And you also need to keep those important traces for quite a long time.

4. I work in Java and use unstructured log and have been trying to figure out how to parse that reliably for debugging so that we don't spend hours to grep the logs. I just realized recently the most common queries are easily parsable for me users, servers/app-instance, codeLine (java loggers prints the class:line) that narrows things down so much for me that I can afford to just export those and grep if I need to. But most log tools seems like either grep & super structured. Also someone else mentioned cardinality because while the rest can be fine, user is definitely high cardinality so everything might break down there.

I think for my problems, at my scale Million of user not Million concurrent user I think these are nicely solvable given the capabilities the tools today have (even if they are not doing it exactly like that) but is is unscalable at large or this is just not needed if you do 'something` which I/we are not doing?
The issue is not that Facebook is restricted from doing some things in the App Store, that they aren't on other platforms. That's a strawman, that nobody in this thread is complaining about.

The issue is that the rules for Facebook on the App Store isn't subjected to the same rules as <Small competitor> on the App Store.
"Many Americans — especially 30-somethings who remain employed — are ditching their tiny rental apartments in hip districts of expensive cities and moving to buy houses in more affordable cities or the burbs for a life of shopping at Home Depot and spending their Friday nights eating mozzarella sticks at Applebee's."

oof, that's a savage take for NPR.
A lot of this is basically just the republican establishment pissing into the unknown. They don't understand the scale at which google operates - the people at the committee Google's CEO testified at seem to think liberals with dyed hair get to go through and manage every single search result one byone.

Trump would not have won without social media, for example. The republican party didn't even ratify any policy at their convention, just sweating allegiance to the man - that is the position they base their actions from.

This isn't an establishment thing as much as an explicitly partisan play by part of the establishment.
I dont think it matters
> the accountability should come with regulation ensuring fair competition and respect for user data

Yes, so what we're saying is there's clear evidence that they have failed at adhering to those regulation, so should be broken up.

> not just going ahead and reducing competitiveness of US companies by breaking them up.

Siri, define competition.
There are lots of great stories about "magical music" that could have a hint of truth to them. But the rat bit seemed to come later.

It seems to me there is something more shameful going on, as the original tragedy was forgotten.

The earliest written town records of Hamelin state, in 1348, "It is 100 years since our children left." The German Lüneburg manuscript, dating 1440-1450 "130 children born in Hamelin were led away by a piper [clothed] in many colours to [their] Calvary near the Koppen, [and] lost."
Physics is stuck
While there might or might not be questionable or illegal things that Bill Gates did, by himself or as the MS corporation at that time, the over-fixation of the article on how he is talking to the attorney in the deposition seems misguided and amateurish.

Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996?
Gates: I don’t know what you mean “concerned.”
Boies: What is it about the word “concerned” that you don’t understand?
Gates: I’m not sure what you mean by it.
Boies: Is—
Gates: Is there a document where I use that term?
Boies: Is the term “concerned” a term that you’re familiar with in the English language?
Gates: Yes.
Boies: Does it have a meaning that you’re familiar with?
Gates: Yes.

Isn't this how you are supposed to talk to lawyers? They make it their business to routinely try to force you into their own prepared lines of questioning and try to use your own words against you and make you appear to say things that you didn't really mean. This is their job.

If you are on the other side of this, it is your job to prevent this use of language and make sure that they don't manage to implicate yourself in any way, by nonchalant use of words. Being vigilant about your use of specific words in specific contents, and about querying what exactly they are trying to say by each question seems like a good default approach to the problem of not giving your opponent attorney more ammunition than they should fairly have. I imagine Mr. Gates was used to mistreatment by lawyers and simply speaks their language at that point.
I'm very unconvinced considering the section on avoiding exceptions doesn't discuss async code at all. I mean, a returned Promise from an async function is very similar to the author's "Result" object where you can even pass a success handler and a rejected handler right in the single "then" method. That said, I greatly prefer instead to await on an async function and handle any rejections in a catch block.
Growing up I was really into UFOs and watching UFO documentaries is still a guilty pleasure of mine. One of the things that struck me is that people who investigate UFOs are their own worst enemies. Often, while watching documentaries, people will say "I've never believed in UFOs until I saw one". For the longest time statements like that really confused me. How could you not believe that people sometimes see things that they can't identify? Then I realized that to most people UFO means alien spacecraft. UFO people have pushed the "I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's totally aliens" narrative to the point that the entire field is tainted.

As the article mentions, it seems like the idea of aliens visiting the Earth has become almost some sort of religion. The other thing is that actual science isn't very sexy. I'm reminded of the Hessdalen lights, unidentified aerial lights that have been appearing over a valley in northern Norway for several decades. There's a monitoring station there with all sorts of instruments, but there still isn't a definitive explanation for the lights. "These are alien spaceships" is definitely a much more thrilling explanation than "we have several possible explanations, mostly involving some sort of plasma in the atmosphere".

One of the documentaries I was watching was by the History channel and it was really bad. They didn't even attempt to present prosaic explanations and took everything at face value. One episode even talked about native Americans being descended from aliens and being able to summon UFOs. I know the History channel is complete trash, but this series was apparently done in collaboration with MUFON.

The entire thing has been tainted so completely that it can actually interfere with real science. The study of upper atmospheric light was likely held back for years because pilots who saw it were afraid to mention that they saw lights in the sky.

These things are almost certainly worthy of study, but the entire field of interest needs to be completely cleansed of the woo and pseudoscience that plagues it.
the author.
AFAIK, there is no canonical time in relativity. There is the "local time", which is what your wristwatch shows, and the "time in place X", where X can be Earth, Mars, or some spaceship. These times might not be in sync, and they might even be distorted. Because, if place X is moving relative to you at a significant percentage of lightspeed, their seconds will be longer. Also, the further X is, the blurrier the concept of simultaneity becomes. Which makes the question "what time is it _now_ in place X" moot :)
Not necessarily,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

https://genode.org/documentation/api/dde_kit_index
Yeah, that's great for turning off the radiator but does nothing for the pipe of pure magma running through the bathroom.
> Decent folks being landlords are the exception, not the rule.

This sounds like you're generalizing the experiences of you and those around you just as much as the person you responded to.

Do we have any data on this? Or is this just a "we don't know, so everyone goes with their own experience" sort of thing?
What do you mean by this?

Isn't Google and their army of lawyers/board members/consultants/lobbyists/etc already the establishment?
It cuts both ways. You're not wrong, and yet atrocities frequently depend on people following orders, which is something that only an unreasonable person won't do.

Basically, for good or ill, history pivots around the unreasonable people. The reasonable ones might be bystanders or accomplices, but in either case, going with the flow is simply the reasonable thing to do.
Who cares about NPR elitism. Why shame people for doing what they want.

Hell, the Buffalo Wild Wings in Daly City has a more diverse crowd than any bar or restaurant in SF.
It's funny to go back and read what this forum and the tech world was saying about Groupon a decade ago. It was valued at $30 billion!

Everyone likes to point to the "infamous Dropbox comment" whenever people are negative here about a hyped startup, but it seems to me these stories are far more common; "you just don't get it!". This company minted millions (billions?) for SV insiders cashing out on the public, and was heralded as the fastest gowing company ever. All hype.

It's still alive, apparently (market cap < $1 billion), and still bleeding money.
>I wouldn’t buy a Mac.

I run Linux but I am the only one that I know in my family and friends and if the hardware would be DRM and locked down you could not get an older windows machine and put Linux on it.

Don you think that the hardware and software you bought should serve you the owner? Like if it is my own OS it should execute what I tell it to do(maybe I would need to enable something to exit the "kid mode")
This bothers me to no end. It makes the vast majority of content on Netflix nearly useless in terms of trying to pick up new words.
If you are such a misanthrope that you are this disgusted by the mere suggestion that someone will share your personal space for a few hours, then I have nothing in common with you. That makes you unpleasant.

If you are so self important that you write an entitled article about it, that makes you tedious.

Hence, tedious and unpleasant.
Author here. Thanks for the correction.

You caught me red-handed for not testing these codes in playground.
The wood chipper really only shuffles the problem around, and doesn't provide the ecological boon that many West Coast species are dependent upon.

After all, that debris has to get moved somewhere, or it is just more fuel. Further, what are you running the wood chipper with? Where are you getting it from? How are the people doing the work getting there?

Planned/properly engineered burns just work, and the only reason they stopped was an accumulation of humanity that refused to adapt to the ecological needs of their environment to an excessive degree.

I'll concede we're now in the territory of arguing what constitutes "excessive" degree, which to me is any cessation of activity that tends to increase ecological stability over time, rendering an area unfit or overly risky for human population or sustainable economic/ecological value extraction. I'm generally open to a lot of pro-environmental policies as long as knock-on effects are generally counted into the equation, but your wood chipper idea falls foul of A) seeming to glance over them with little scrutiny, B) not taking into account the ecology of the area.

It really does sound like a fundamentally people driven problem.
You can trick a Eurocrat into regulating anything, though. The seeds of Euro proceedings against Google were planted years ago by a Microsoft astroturf campaign called FairSearch and the tree was watered since then by incumbent interests like putrescent newspaper conglomerates and software industry also-rans that nobody ever heard of.
Should you use a no-code tool to build a web app?
I think the two markets will stay disconnected somewhat. Maybe at the interface level -> e.g. Amazon/Walmart/Target
It completely flummoxes me what Europeans are willing to believe based on unsourced off hand HN comments.
I would recommend to link to a site where some example images can be easily compared (ideally with a viewer that offers toggling between them in-place to make it easy to see the differences), instead of directly linking to a colab that does heavy computations.

I assume most people just want to see the images, forcing them to recompute them is a waste of resources. Even just storing a version of the colab with the results present would help a lot.
Also there isnt really a lot of great tooling for making sweeping changes across repos.
> You mean the story where she said send message and it did just that?

No, the story where Alexa incorrectly interpreted some part of the conversation as a wake word, then incorrectly interpreted another bit as a send message confirmation, and finally misinterpreted yet more audio as a name in the contacts list.

Alexa does screw up, and when it does it screws up in ways that are _not at all intuitive_. It bills itself as a "smart" and as an "assistant", but it doesn't fit either of these descriptions. Tech people might call it "smart", but people who employ assistants would describe it as "dangerously dumb".

> No, it only sends your requests to the server after the wake word is said...

This doesn't contradict "voice data is stored remotely". Nobody is arguing that it is storing everything you say remotely (though it's just one government-ordered software update away from doing just that). What it does store remotely, and what is given to thousands of fresh, temporary Amazon employees to listen to, is potentially anything you say that begins with the wake word or what it thinks might have been the wake word, within a confidence interval decided by Amazon.
Objectively great contributions to OSS and mercurial but I wonder how many companies or projects will need to do something similar.

I enjoy the patches the make mercurial usable without the crazy extensions that few of us will ever use.
Haven't we learned from the death of Socrates that "good/bad for society" is a terrible and meaningless metric as it is so values dependent?

All of those things already exist by the way - Google ironically can help you find it but so can most other search engines. There are plenty of paid providers in addition to roll your own and many anti-spam solutions. Fairphone/Freephone or even just some unlocked down Androids will run whatever you want and can, federated social media like Mastodon has all sorts of stuff that wouldn't be approved of by the mainstream like niche pornography.
If you haven’t been deposed this will look weird. But depositions are about “gotcha” moments, so your job as the person being deposed is to play the game and only answer questions with minimal information and force the attorney asking questions to really work for it. It’s about being purely logical. If they ask you what two plus two is, respond vaguely and ask for clarification. “Are you asking about numbers? Or objects? What does plus mean in the context of this question.” Etc.
We tried at Spotify the multi-repo thing and it was a total nightmare. Once you have lots of people working on a product, it becomes very hard to do changes on a multi repo setup.

The alternatives:

1. Completely de-coupled code. I.e. teams ship libraries, like a 3rd part api. This slows down development considerably, and makes re-use of code harder.

2. Keep everyone on one repo, and allow to changes stream in.

1. Slows down dev. (it suddenly becomes more beourocratic), 2. requires scaling your code versioning tool (gir/mercurial, etc) and processes associated with it.

Also, single repos, make sense in one domain (e.g. server side, ios, android, etc...). You can have different repos for different 'domains' where code doesn't intersect with each other that much.
The RLCD technology is actually much more advanced than PixelQi tech. The first recent commercial attempt of a RLCD display was a black and white tablet from Hisense, check here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4dJu2_ur8&t=2s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqCTk7FjLw
I don't think it's that it got lost, but rather that a lot more money got into open source development. While I was at school I was really interested in hacking on Mozilla, where they were espousing ideals about meritocracy. After a while I realized that it really mean the folks they employed to work on Firefox had all the power, simply because they had more hours per day changing everything so casual contributors couldn't keep up.

It made sense for them, of course, since they can't hire that many people and just have them sit on their thumbs all day.
The author claims that the woman would not give a reason for her mysterious request, despite efforts - I'm not sure I would know how to resolve such an awkward conflict in the moment either (the conflict being the gamble on whether the woman's unstated reasons are worth sacrificing one's own feelings of safety for the duration of a flight).
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/innmgn/a_utility_to...