skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signing binaries and distributing apps on the MacOS and iOS app store is commercial.

The compiler isn't commercial, unless you are saying that anything Apple makes is "commercial" because they are a for-profit business.
Study: Inequality Robs $2.5T from U.S. Workers Each Year
Nothing wrong with healthy debate and dragging things into the sunshine. And there's obviously some fraud going on here.

But when shorts simply make up stories out of spite or manipulation, like those guys screwing with Tesla calling it fraudulent, it's exactly like pump and dump in reverse. The difference might be that shorts are stuck when a stock is rising legitimately and have no recourse but to use fabrication.

"Pump-and-dump is an illegal scheme to boost a stock's price based on false, misleading or greatly exaggerated statements" - Investopedia
Manipulating people with interests from corporations that are uncontrolled is not good.
To be clear, the issue at hand is calling yourself a developer when you are one step higher than typical on the abstraction chain (e.g. WordPress). So far, the responses to this comment have chosen to take it outside of that context, and compared it to calling yourself a doctor when you have no medical education, a Navy Seal and combat veteran when you are neither, and the president of the United States.

There is apparently no limit to how false an equivalence can become.
Who was telling people to drink bleach? Can you cite a specific instance?
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I think it's unlikely that Stallman would consider a hosted offering of Canvas to be 'free software'. But I agree with you that it can be both SaaS and free.

Although at that point I question what advantage free software gives you - you can't change it and you are still at the mercy of the hosting company since you aren't able to host it yourself.
People who are trying to hire developers, for one.
Don't call me low that's rude. I find it low whenever a commenter on HN decides to be call someone low simply because they disagree. You're using words to twist my statement as if I'm insulting veterans. I clearly am not, don't try to manipulate others' into thinking that's what I'm doing.

I'm saying that you can't call yourself whatever you want in all cases. I use an extreme example to illustrate that it's not so clear cut. Giving yourself titles doesn't only apply to developers and it's not so clear cut why we can only be so laissez faire in software but not in other certain fields.
But don't you see that the person you replied to is an unrecognized holier-than-thou genius? Get it together, man! ;)
Can you get the compiled binary into the app store? Or to end users in some other way?
The US doesn't need to commit genocide because it grooms foreign military officers and paramilitaries to do it for them.
When I think of "fast", I always think of a time I was building a product that required subscribing to Twitter's API to receive updates from specific users.

In my testing, I'd set a breakpoint on my server code to see when I'd get the "push" from Twitter's API and would use the Twitter App on my phone to create test tweets. Every single time, I'd create a tweet and my server breakpoint would be hit immediately. Not soon, but immediately. I'd see my breakpoint triggered well before the UI in the app even refreshed after submitting the tweet.
His speech target: Corporate know-it-alls.
As someone who just started teaching a highschool programing class, it's what makes my class even possible right now. I agree I'd rather have things run locally myself, but it is great for getting students up and running fast, and is pretty much the only option I've found for on their Chromebooks.
They have been experimenting with this for a few days now. A slightly different, possibly less branded version of this had already been on the Youtube app. I found myself sucked into it last week. I clicked on what looked like a funny short video and, before I knew it, I was 10+ videos onto the rabbithole. Whatever algorithm they are using, I think they really nailed it.
How did you remove the GUI?
Why is it that as soon as cancer comes up as a topic, people stop exchanging arguments and start selling books instead, where normally they would be paraphrasing and occasionally referencing something.
So not only more expensive proportionally, but more expensive absolutely.
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Baseless statements like it is "I skimmed it, and it is just propaganda" are not welcome in any educated conversation. If you cannot give a good explanation why it is "a propaganda", it is probably better to not say anything.
Through their ads platform, you can target people. Otherwise I'm sure you can buy it from Facebook employees with the right offer.
Edit: I was too quick to judge your post. The article is indeed just about serving content, not about why their results are fast.
Have you read the rise and Fall of the Third Reich?

I appreciate your perspective on the incubation period of nazi Germany- but I think you are floating over some important events. These ‘brown shirts’ were citizen volunteer believers who evolved into a kind of political pressure group hitler could direct around. They would harass towns, intervene at businesses, assault and eventually murder people. They were not a part of the nation’s legitimate police force at the beginning of hitler’s rise, but as he acquired power, so did they.

Do you reject the idea that there no parallels to the black bloc and the brown shirts behavior? Motivations are obviously not the same, but the behavior sure looks like it. Where does “Rules for radicals” fit in your perspective?
The USSR proposed deescalation and moratoria on new weapons development repeatedly during the Cold War, and they were consistently rebuffed. Did the US not have a presence in Europe on the Soviet Union’s doorstep?

“Everybody does imperialism” is not the glimmering rebuttal you think it is.
What if you develop software for medical equipment?

Then you're a programmer, not a doctor.

still the doctor has a piece of paper saying that some checked his or her qualifications

Yes. That's how we keep the frauds and whackjobs from killing people.

"Gatekeeping" is a dirty word on HN, but it also has its usefulness. We don't let just anyone drive a car, even if they really really really think they know how. You have to have a license.
I mean neutral in a sense that there is no obvious gain for them to fabricate the data.
Got a "System error occurred. If the error occurs repeatedly, please contact the Help Desk."

Probably taken down?
I used to listen to Bach's Musical Offering when studying for my qualifying exams. I think the repetition of the main theme through the piece contributed to my focus
Chiming in to say I have done the same thing and observed the same result. Seems to work perfectly fine. Mine is a 2017 model MBP.
The last example you provided is very helpful, thanks. I'm surprised that the unhinted rendering is so good.
Looks like next Theranos to me. You have to give credit to the guy though since he is showing how easy it is to fool the so-called "smart money".
Zhenhua Data leak: personal details of millions around world gathered by China
Remind me that i never play D&D with you ;)
This is once again the confusion between free (gratis) software and Free (libre) software.

There are plenty of vendors who support Free software. They will install Free software and configure Free Software and provide whatever level of training is required for Free software. What they don't do is provide that value for free.

The difference between Free software and non-Free software is not that there is no training involved. It is that if you purchase Free software you end up with Free software, and if you purchase non-Free software, you end up with non-Free software. That's it.

Oh, and if someone decides they want to cut costs by not paying for something of value that they need, they will get what they paid for. That's orthogonal to the liberty of the underlying software.
Climb to the top of a mountain in the USA (or live in the countryside of a developing country), where you can only get 1 bar of 3g service.

Then try to load https://cr.yp.to

Ok now try to do a google search for dog food.

Tell me which one executes in less than a second, and which one hangs forever
I paused at that as well, maybe it makes sense to think of it as a "request for additional execution" where it happens to be to Base64decode the data URI or pull the image from a remote server.
>Then for some reason, the SV bubble latched on to "software engineer," without understanding that it was supposed to be a joke.

It started as a joke? I had no idea. Is there a definitive source or initial point where it all started? Link or story perhaps?
It's not gatekeeping. Sure, you can call yourself whatever you want but, if what you call yourself doesn't accurately reflect the expectations of others, your title means nothing and people aren't obligated to respect it. If someone doesn't want to be perceived as a douchebag, then their alternatives are to not be deceptive to people or to learn the skills to earn the title.
> But when shorts simply make up stories out of spite or manipulation

Well it's a good thing that's illegal and there are whole departments in the US government that exist to deal with it.

Funny, though, that there hasn't been (edit: m)any securities fraud investigations of short sellers in recent memory.

Makes you wonder who the real liars are: the shorts, or the targets of them?
I haven't been this excited about Java since JDK 1.2.

Especially Project Loom. Virtual threads will be a game changer. A return to original Java's rallying cry of programmer productivity.

There's always been steady progress, sure. But it seems like Oracle is much less risk adverse. Or maybe the governance changed. Or maybe Sun, IBM, other had been holding back a lot of progress. I'd love to know the backstories. To better inform future efforts.

Regardless, Java today is amazing and rapidly getting better.
It's the most accurate part of his statement. Everybody is walking around with portable supercomputers.
titles are often just a way to make an employee feel self important without giving them a raise. see pmarca and zuck discussing this.
It was not flawed nor rhetorical, if their concern is with ecosystem damage, then the fact that the company makes a closed source superficial rebrand should have no bearing on that. Unless they indeed have a problem with companies profiting from Zig.
Grant for the Web awards Distributed Media Lab $2M to develop new revenue models
How to make incoming calls not reachable in Android
Gluing together "bits of framework boilerplate" can be immensely valuable. There's no shortage of mid-career engineers at FANG doing just that.
The author is just not an expert in this field. This is - for the most part - what Hacker News sounds like when there are discussions outside of computer science.
I think this is just the result of multiplying the estimated IFR by the US population. No model I'm aware of did this.
Yes? Anyone can download a binary that runs on MacOS.
let me try to decipher this, maybe he explained it poorly.

> That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips.

I guess he means that they built their own infotainment on HTML5 instead of some proprietary commercial car infotainment technology which would also come with its own chipset. So now they can use their own chipset as long as it can run HTML5.

> Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate.

I guess it means they built a standard data bus for the car and every component can subscribe/publish to it.
It has to do with the risk and impact of your work.

Medical doctors, engineers, lawyers, researcher, teachers - they all do important things and need training, selection and accountability.

Luckily, developers never have to write MCAS software for Boeing, so we can hang out on HN where you can be a Senior Engineer after a 6 months bootcamp and 2 years of stack overflow.
Cool concept! What language is your sdk in?
Hi Loris, thanks for the question and congratulations on your new role at the Zig Software Foundation. We originally planned on supporting Zig in Japan via support contracts and this is from that preparation. Trademarks have multiple categories and one such category is for contract work and related materials. We don't plan to use this trademark to harm Zig.
By doing all the calculation in memory. Disk is too slow
> Bill Gates DESTROYED Covid-19 pandemic with LOGIC AND FACTS

your snark completely obliterates your argument. nobody will listen to you if you talk like that.

i'm telling you this as someone on your side.
That's one of the costs of using the MIT and BSD licenses: anybody can take it and go private/for-profit with it (without giving back even a "thanks"), and all the author can do is issue a strongly worded statement about it.

Moreover, they can't even claim the moral high ground when writing the strongly worded statement, since they've made the explicit choice to give up any and all rights to the product.
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You think it's because the ticker is similar to TSLA? They are trying to develop treatments related to COVID-19, I bet that's the real reason it spiked this year. I don't know anything about the company, just took a minute to look at their website.
They can be contradicted, but it's very hard to definitively refute them in a way that will convince somebody who wishes to believe it. Even people without a stake in it will often conclude, "I heard X, I heard Y, sounds to me like it could go either way." If anything, they're taken in by how short and empirical those statements are: it makes them seem more true because after all, if it were false I'd see the evidence myself.

There is no statement of fact so definitive that it can overcome a vast barrage of inflammatory conspiracy theory. If that's done in front of a crowd looking for a simple solution to their problems, they'll pay no attention to refutation of "short, empirical statements".
I’ve always just used twomonusb, has just about worked and required very little configuration
No credible forecast predicted 2 million deaths by now (I'm sure there were some stupid one that just projected a exponential growth curve forward or something but hopefully they had large disclaimers that they are only accurate very short term).

The CDC in February (back when they weren't compromised) did modelling that predicted between 200,000 and 1.7M deaths in total for the entire epidemic. This March piece from NYT has the details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est...
> Can you get the compiled binary into the app store?

Can you do something completely unrelated to the question at hand without fulfilling requirements entirely unrelated to the question at hand? No.

That doesn't make the compiler commercial.

> Or to end users in some other way?

You can put your mac application on your website more or less as you've always been able to.
The problem is that you'd have to compete with scum that uses political power/influence and bribes/corruption to sell their software.

Even if your software is better than the competition when it comes to features, the competition can still beat you by selling the school a huge contract and sliding some money under the table of whoever's in charge of evaluating the deal.

This is in fact how a lot of enterprise software is being sold (not just to governments) and how crap software still manages to survive in the face of better alternatives despite being absolutely unusable (because the person who OK's the deal judges it more on the personal benefit he will get from it rather than judging the product on its features and contribution to the business).
I must have missed the boat as well. I paid for two different compilers last year.
But does a Visual Basic GUI allow you to create your own chips? Can all its components communicate over the data network?
for salt look up topics around:

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000394.htm

Magnesium and potasium main but not only function is to regulate heart beat. Lack of them might lead to arrhythmia and other complications.

Not sure about muscle loss.
Great thanks, never heard the term before so I'm guessing it's a US term. This is what I understand a Chartered Engineer as in the UK, but that would normally be abbreviated to CEng.
Yea i was going to ask how the license would differ from a CS degree. I assume you're thinking of more of an .. apprenticeship arrangement? Something to vet the authors capability?

The problem here is "developing" is so loose and unique that it's difficult for me to even imagine a useful certification. Lets take easy examples - can someone make a store front to handle incoming transactions? Well firstly that tells me nothing of the scalability, security and mostly importantly maintainability of the software. It tells me nothing about the language of choice, assuming i care.. which you usually do if there's a team involved and you're trying to integrate a new employee.

But even if we ignore those we still have the biggest issue that i see; software development tends to be unicorns, imo. Every project i've worked on is largely unique, and while there is overlap - eg all of it is APIs, the quality of the work (if i was to self judge) was solving the problems inside the "Web API CRUD".

In a building analogy - i don't care that you can build a house to spec. I care that you can architect the floor plan, decide features yourself, future proof as best you can, etc.

Perhaps there's some level of architect certification that matches this, no idea. But i care about peoples generic ability to problem solve, to find information and suss out real application. Their ability to build a house according to spec is of little to no interest to me.
Perhaps. People give up privacy for many reasons, sharing on Facebook for example. If the user was respecting their own privacy then they wouldn't use social media at all, but people willingly upload their personal details.
Hitachi 'withdraws' from Wylfa Newydd nuclear project
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA0nelfNc

doesn't get any better than that for me.
/me nervously glances at all the production infrastructure I manage that's still on JDK 7 or 8.

I've just recently been able to upgrade some things to JDK 11.
I read it as less than 1% of all land that has burned this year. Not 1% of all land in the US. Can you imagine if 1% of the entire of the US burned!
Meanwhile, my 6x6 deck posts are actually 6x6 and a 2x6 railing won't cover it.
This guy is a billionaire, I'm spending my time on the wrong things it seems
Creating a successful business is hard enough. The last thing you need is someone trying to make the case that you are going to fail at every turn. It is one thing to point out fraud like Theranos and NKLA, it is another thing to kick someone when they are down especially if your attack pushed the company into bankruptcy.
I gave a talk once at the then brand new science museum at La Vilette in Paris. A slightly chauvinistic pal from England came along and as we walked to the lecture hall he observed, sneeringly, “this is where the French pretend to have invented everything”.

I thought he was being ironic but it turned out he really assumed pretty much everything in the last 500 years or so had been invented in England.

I assume the equivalent belief is probably pretty widespread.
Absolutely. Let's look at the claims.

What is the first claim though? Is it that extraordinary evidence needs to be provided for the claim that a poison (chemotherapy) is a cure for cancer?

You will likely say that there is evidence in "multiple strong, well-vetted and well respected studies in peer-reviewed journals".

But then I would question the authority of peer-reviewed journals. Do know about replication crisis?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778 : "According to a survey published in the journal Nature last summer, more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis : "a number of efforts have been made to re-investigate classic results, to determine both the reliability of the results and, if found to be unreliable, the reasons for the failure of replication."

Another reason I dismiss most scientific authority is on account of funding. If funding is controlled by government, the military and private corporations (as it is), then this triad can cooperate to fund or de-fund whatever studies they like.

To see what I mean about funding, we can look at my imagined idea that 'you want to prove the health benefit of cold potatoes'. First you can fund 10 studies. Let's say 2 support the thesis, 2 refute it and 6 are inconclusive. You can then further fund the 2 that support it. And rinse and repeat. Pretty soon you could have enough studies to create a whole new field exclaiming the wonder of cold potatoes.

Unfortunately, this really is how science works. Science is a money making operation, and is politicised. A common sense idea like fasting for cancer, or not eating carbohydrates to get rid of diabetes, has no economic benefit. Scientists themselves can work within the system with good intentions, but can be more or less unaware of the machinations and agendas at play.

If you want to talk about solutions, you would take a totally different tack. At present we have a sickness not a wellness industry. Companies get money from you when you are sick. The more sick you are, the better it is for their monetary return. The ideal patient is someone who will be ill for a long time, which is a perverse incentive. Really, you want a wellness industry, where if you are well, those ensuring your health get paid. As they are incentivised to keep you well, you should expect good advice - their financial well-being depends on it.
Pandemic-Inspired Song
With COM+ they can.
I also tried after hearing people on HN speak so highly of their recommendation system.. I only watched (in full length)/searched for/liked videos of a specific gender/race/age group.. yet even after liking over a hundred videos, then 100% of the videos they suggested to me were the wrong gender/race/age group. YouTube on the other hand is capable of recommending the correct videos after watching just a couple.

It’s very easy to conduct this experiment, just make sure that the race you target doesn’t represent the majority of the users in your proximity. For instance, if you’re in Norway then try to get TikTok to recommend Asian girls aged 20-35.. sounds like it should be easy, right?
Are you comparing search with a static page load ?

Just compare the google page load if you want to compare with that ?
Am I the only person here who wasn’t thinking about the frontend, but rather all the things that need to happen in the backend to render the search results?

To me it feels like an oversight when answering the question “how the hell is Google so fast?” and not digging into how Google is able to return the results to your actual search query in a matter of milliseconds. That, to me, is the real miracle.
Here is one trustworthy paper, exploring subject of artificial origin of the virus https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340924249_Is_consid...
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