skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the traditional stock market it supposedly works the same way, but the front-running is more well hidden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
“ This maternal silence, which soon came to assume a metaphysical presence, became the center of his work. ”

I have loved delving deep into Camus during this dark period of modern human society. Existentialism has become such an intriguing set of beliefs that I stumbled upon in reading “Ecclesiastes” and that I will probably continue to dive deeper into all of my life.

Has anyone read Soren Kirkegaard? He’s next on the list.
The problem is that it is not truly impossible to integrate into a commercial company. It's more that the license practically requires a lawyer to look at exactly how it'll be used and approve that use. AWS certainly does not shy away from hosting AGPL software. It does prevent AWS from taking the code and running with it though, at least not without a shim. A more permissive license can lead to the Athena/Presto situation where Athena is, to my knowledge, a proprietary fork of Presto.
> We have feature releases every 4 weeks. If your feature is merged before QA, it goes out in that release.

That's what a sprint is.
One thing I would do, if you can, is print out your last several annual performance reviews and take them home. Whatever route you take to finding a new job, those will be useful.
We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic
The term “sprint” along with most of Agile nonsense is inane and misleading. I was skeptical of the entire process until recently when I’ve seen some benefits thinking about and practicing it as “method to efficiently parallelize and delegate tasks.” Good planning saves me and the team some cognitive load in determining “what’s next” constantly. And daily stand ups are still mostly useless but a good touch point when doing remote WFH.
This was in 1987 and came from a little candy store across the street from where I lived in Østerbro just on the edge of Hellerup. IIRC it was sold loose as I remember him eating the pipes out of a paper bag.
I don't mind if people want to pay for someone to curate their apps, but I don't see any reason developers shouldn't be able to charge those people +43% for buying through the curated app store. If there's really as much value as everyone claims then users won't have a problem paying extra, right?

I also think it's crazy that IAPs are viewed as anything more than a simple payment that would incur normal payment processing fees. You'd never find anyone willing to argue that VISA or Mastercard should be able to charge 30% for payment processing because of the infrastructure they provide for merchants.
Hyperpallatability is in part a function of achieving a particular ratio of sweet to savory that convinces some opportunistic mechanism in our lizard brains to gorge on this food because it's high-value and rare.

When they say "betcha can't eat just one" that's not a motto, it's a taunt (or a scientific fact, depending on your perspective).
lol. Do you even know who Miguel de Icaza is?
I don't care for it, but I don't hate it. It's kind of "meh". Don't see what the fuss is, either way.
This is way better than random ids. You still have order of operation conflicts but now your source control can't tell you at the merge level.
If there is any uncertainty, there is no uncertainty.
> Not many people like salty licorice, given a choice

Whenever I read something weird like this I always need to remind myself to mentally add the quantifier "in America". Salty licorice is very popular in a number of European countries including mine (NL).
Agreed. I wouldn't like to assume that other animals don't have language though. Dolphins/Whales in particular seem pretty likely to have true language that we just can't understand.
Just got through consulting for a shop that thought a similar bespoke migration system was all they needed. Since the team was quite large and the CI/CD pipeline so slow, tons of time got wasted every sprint resolving the merge conflicts, getting rid of duplicate includes from auto-merging, etc.

I agree with the other replies - PLEASE don't do this. Use liquibase, flyway, or any other tool. They both let you write everything in SQL if that's your preference. The initial setup time will be saved later on if the team grows.
> There were two accusers.

Nope. Just one. You were lied to. The second woman refused to sign the statement that was presented to her by the police officer. She had been taken to the police officer by the first woman. The police officer was a friend of the first woman. The second woman _refused_ to sign.

If you didn't dig in to get the facts I can totally see how you would believe the constant misinformation that there were two accusers but there were not. One of the women made no accusation.

>Then why do the Swedish allegations get mentioned and dismissed on every single discussion of the case America is making against him for completely different charges?

Becuase this is the hook that is used to smear you as an "Asssange The Rapist Supporter" if you wish to protect your rights which are the same as his.

But going back to Police deciding who to prosecute. The police in sweden decided not to prosecute Assange and that he was free to leave the country. A politican decided something different later.

People /do/ get to decide to legimitately protect their human rights, even, perhaps especially, when they are being infringed through false accusation. Assange always said the US were after him. Remember when he was accused of lying about that to avoid being prosecuted for rape. Now nobody believes the rape accusation and here he is being vindictively pursued just as he said.

It really should bother you if that happened to an actual goddamn nazi thug. The ACLU defend your rights when they're attacked to get at an actual muderous nazi thug. Assange is a publisher and journalist who has exposed war crimes.

Those are your rights.
I find tarragon to be reminiscent of anise as well.
“Zkann: A Possible Solution to the Content Problem” by Ross Ulbricht
I took TBL's Semantic Web/Linked Data class 10 years ago (https://www.ilamont.com/2010/09/encounter-with-tim-berners-l...). Here's the description from the syllabus:

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." Linked Data is the use of all that information in a manner that essentially treats the entire web as one virtual database, allowing data to be pulled and manipulated from multiple sites as a single query and, beyond that, allows the sites queried to point to other locations that might have useful information.

Linked Data Ventures is a graduate-level class that combines traditional academics with practitioner perspectives and practical hands-on experience, to empower students to launch new ventures using this technology. From the instructor team, students will learn the technical components that are needed to produce Linked Data offerings, will learn business skills fundamental to growing and sustaining a venture. Weekly guest lecturers will provide insights into how they use the technology in their business and their experience launching a venture. This is a unique course in which teaching is shared between EECS and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and learning is a cooperative effort between EECS and Sloan students. A team-based project will culminate in sustainable prototypes that could be freeware or have the potential to be commercialized in the future, and will serve as a good launching point for entering into the MIT 100k competition. At the end of the semester, each project team will do a business presentation in front of the whole class and a panel of outside experts and judges, as well as a technical presentation as the conclusion of the lab.

The faculty were clearly interested in encouraging adoption/development of commercial applications. To that end we had several speakers from industry showing off some early-stage applications, and the project teams had to build simple apps based on the technology.

One of the teams actually did achieve success, building a prototype restaurant database using Semantic Web technologies we learned in class. It eventually grew into a commercial service and was acquired by GoDaddy about five years ago. However, to scale it beyond the prototype they had to move beyond Semantic Web concepts and use a different technology approach; IIRC the founder said it just wasn't ready for prime time. He mentioned latency was a huge issue.
Is there any quality content that is hidden behind JS? From the comments here, OP isn't.
Where did anyone say anything about superiority? If anything, the implication is that the humans are stupid for not mucking about and having a good time, and that even though the dolphins may be “superior” in this regard, it’s a race to the bottom since the more violent species wipes out the fun-loving one.
The price looks really good compared to Stadia, and being able to use a dirt cheap Fire Stick that many already have instead of a $100 hardware investment is a huge plus. To really drive adoption they could cut the price of the controller and make some games available for Prime members.

That said, I think there's a tendency to pooh-pooh the "gamer" concerns about streaming far too much in the rush to declare that the state of technology couldn't possibly be an obstacle to launching a product. Just from this year two of the most popular games with non-gamer audiences were a samurai adventure that sells itself on its HDR visuals that wouldn't look so great compressed (Ghost of Tsushima) and a party game where you wouldn't need to be a stereotypical FPS gamer to notice and be infuriated by relatively small amounts of input lag (Fall Guys). Yes, people who don't play games all the time will be less demanding, but don't forget we're still talking about them playing games.
It was this one, right?

https://youtu.be/l_bTTUihfx0
> Don’t bother Googling for a coffee mug embellished with this vow. I tried and came up empty.

This is an easily solvable problem, at least for however long this link lives.

https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_mug?addon=none&color...

More relevant, Camus has recently re-entered into pop culture thanks to Rick and Morty, with plenty of articles connecting the two (e.g. https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/rick-and-morty-...).
> they are false in a different way.

In what different way? Has not both been scientifically refuted by reputable scientists? Just because one sounded more plausible doesn't mean it's not false.

To me, both needn't be banned, because I believe and agree with your premise, but I don't agree there's a difference.
Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
Water is crazy competitive. Octopi ate probably pushing the limits on useful intelligence.
Well, species success is measured in periods of time orders of magnitude larger than recorded human history.

It’s an open question whether our aggressive strategy will be successful past anything but the very short term. (Currently it’s not looking that good.)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
Yes, that’s what “consciousness” is. Self awareness.

All living organisms have it, including unicellular.
> I always wondered who the hastags serve: humans or machines? I think it was machines firstly but then it got appropriated by social dynamics of people and business.

My impression is that hashtags grew from people on Twitter. A group of people started putting # in front of keywords in their tweets, to mark them as central to the topic of the tweet, so that others could search for those keywords with the # in front and find only tweets that were specifically about that thing rather than happening to use the same word while talking about something else. Twitter staff noticed and the hashtag was turned into a feature. Other sites then adopted the hashtag feature too.
Actually it won't cost that much if yout have the proper way of paying for it. If we implement a VAT like Andrew Yang's proposal, you can pay for it. Also you have to think how much we waste right now with current welfare and the productivity gains we will get if people have a reliable basic income.
IIRC, Australian hawks intentionally spread fires by dropping burning pieces of wood. They do this cooperatively, too. (Don't piss off Australian Hawks, I guess ;)

https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-3...
Not a particularly useful comment, but, wow: melatonin is a prescription in Australia?

I mean, there are potential complications to melatonin…but I think it’s hard to argue that it’s less safe than paracetamol or aspirin.
Would love to without the Roundup
I assumed the gendered usage here was intended, since it's not a poem or a format where character count matters. Unfortunately it's ambiguous without further clarification.
Also,

What is the real difference between Sneakers-As-A-Service and planned obsolescence?

If my Nike shoes only last 3 years (or go out of fashion) and I need to repay $120 to get another pair, is it any different than paying $3 per month?
My connection degrades depending on peak demand, because cable, and because internet duopolies. It's great that yours doesn't, but that's not reality for everyone.

Also for most people in the US, 4G has significant usage caps.
The German population was also split on the Nazi issue. That can't be your litmus test!

If holding children in cages, subjecting them to deplorable conditions, separating families, and forcing/denying medical procedures aren't where someone draws the line, then... well... I don't really want to know where they draw the line.
Air filtration engineer tests and reviews N95/KN95/KF94 masks
Definitely user-hostile app stores are better than potentially user-hostile?
It's a great platform. I highly recommend their react courses
That's nothing at all like a consumer device being offered for sale with an intentionally tweakable baseband firmware. Getting a device certified by the FCC (and equivalents) doesn't require that the baseband firmware be 100% free or 0-day exploits. You can hack certified devices in all sorts of ways but you're then breaking the law (wrt to the radio portion) and doing so completely outside a relationship with the equipment manufacturer.
Let me preface saying I have the perception Apple is already doing better than Google in this regard (which contains flat out malware in Play Store). I don't use Play Store to find anything via the Play Store; I get linked to the Play Store by a third party.

The way I see it, it is the way it is due to the inequality in the world, and because we dislike paying directly for something. It doesn't make sense for a developer in India to ask 10 USD for an application when only middle and upper class people in USA can afford it. Hence, you get alternative methods of earning money such as IAP (which makes it less clear you spend money), currency tokens (idem), advertisement (stealing the user's time; imagine you'd be forced to solve captcha's for other people during this time? Having your CPU time used for mining?), tracking ("if they don't wanna pay, I'll just use their PII. Cheapskates!"), malware (idem), ...

Sure, something like GDPR might protect EU people from some of the above. What are they going to do in above example, going after developer from India? Of course not. Those who lay low are getting away with it, and the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Perhaps the parent should screen the application or game before allowing the kid to use it. Read a review site for games for children. Check out the age requirement. Learn what your kids likes and dislikes. And then, buy the (virtual) present for them.

I'll be using my Pocketsprite (portable game emulator) to install games appropriate for the age of my kid. Plus, its locked down as well, without some kind of store on it because it has no direct Internet connection. Its actually why I bought it specifically. Graphically these games might be less good, but Tetris is at its core still Tetris, looks be damned. The time before the Internet was the status quo has its charms. I've also selected a bunch of games on Steam which I regard as appropriate. Of course, she's free to dislike any of these, including Tetris (she already loves Duplo though).

We have so much choice though. Just open Netflix right now. There's no way you can watch all that. Same with Steam, no way you can play all that. Same with screening that content. Back in the days, on my Gameboy I only had a couple of games. Less choice made the things I did own more precious. Anyway, hence I'd say curate a couple of good choices (games, movies, series, toys, ...). There's no way you'll find the best of the best; they just gotta be good enough for develop and/or enjoy themselves.
This whole “you have no evidence to substantiate your claim thing” is empty. The evidence is plainly there in present normal competitive behavior. That’s all that is needed.

Google is not a model for what would happen if Apple was forced to open the App Store.

There are two reasons for this. One is that Google isn’t the app market leader and so the pressures aren’t there.

The other is that secondary app stores are basically crippled on Android by comparison to the play store, which is why Epic is also suing google.

It just isn’t comparable, so you can’t use it as an example of what would happen.

I’m not bringing moral weight really. I think Apple provides a lot of benefits to users and developers.

I think we ultimately need a more open environment where what people can install is not controlled by Apple.

However I just don’t believe that the competitors who want access to Apple’s customers have any incentive to maintain an open marketplace or to serve developers.

They have every incentive to fight bitterly and use their own assets of one kind or another to lock-up parts of that market and to try to monopolize it just as Apple has.

That just isn’t going to be good for developers.

If Epic’s grousing leads to better terms from Apple, with Apple still in control, then I’d agree that it was ultimately a win for everyone (even including Apple).

If on the other hand we get a court mandated soliton, or anti-trust action, I think we’ll end up further away from a truly open, competitive environment than ever.

All the air will be sucked out of that possibility into what will effectively be a government authorized cartel.
> My question/wondering was on: why the hell would someone buy drugs online, and how to they accept the risk on consuming these when they arrive.

The alternative is buying them in person, where the dealer you have worked with for years may have been flipped last week.

And it's not like injecting something you bought from your dealer doesn't have similar risk factors. Why do you think overdoses have been skyrocketing over the past decade?
Liquidation contracts and Arbitrage contracts do check the caller and would not allow to be executed by non-approved senders. This raises the bar, so that you can front run only contracts that you can implement and deploy.

If anyone could just replace an address and execute a profitable transaction by being first on existing contracts, surely miners would be doing it already, no?
My stupid bank sends encrypted attachments as an encrypted PDF with HTML file attached.
Or, you can have multiple app stores and kid-friendly app stores will specially curate apps to make sure there is no adult content, or other unwanted features. We already do this with a wide variety of physical goods.

Apple doesn't get the source code for the App anyway, so a third party can perform the same type of automated + manual review that Apple does. Its time to open up the app store to competition. As a consumer, if you don't trust a particular app store, great, don't use it.
This is a nice simple concept, one I agree with. How do I actually make the shift away from excess consumption?

I blow my proverbial load on technical thinking at work. I spend time exercising and meditating to try and maximize my "production" time but there's just not much left for after hours. This leads to an abundance of consumption on mental breaks during the day and after hours.

I'd love to be the perpetual creativity machine. Constantly churning out art and technical production but I don't see how it's actually feasible without suffering from extreme burn out.
As a meticulous observer, Camus may provide interesting insights into a how a mother may providing relational for her beloved son.
That's not communicating, a daily standup IS micro-managing. It's an incredibly destructive and soul-crushing anti-management technique.

No-one needs to have daily updates. Weekly, twice weekly, maybe, daily is simply treating people like small children.

Communication is a two-way street, not irrational cargo culted standups.
>But calculating the fingerprints of the videos rather than store on disk and serve all the exabytes video means you're still at a fundamental _information_ disadvantage.

>You already know the following but I'll spell it out for readers who may not see the distinction: web surfers don't watch fingerprints... they watch the actual video bytes.

This is like saying "nobody goes to Google to look at links, they want the actual pages". These are search engines. People are more than happy to use them to find what they are looking for.

>Youtube employees and researchers found out that user behavior such as actual watch time of the videos was a _stronger_ voting signal of quality than the user hitting the subscribe button. To replicate that measurement, how would Pex get similar usage data without actually storing the exabytes of videos or convincing millions of web surfers to install a browser plugin to spy on their youtube usage?

Exactly the same way Google does it in their own search. User clicks on a link based on a keyword which creates a loop that you feed into the system.

We also have a lot of information. For instance we know what video is deployed where on the web, which pieces (down to 1s) are being taken out and how they are utilized and also general performance of the content on each platform. This way we are able to show things like "here is the best part of this video" or "here is the first occurrence of this video" or "here is the longest version of the video".

>I'm not convinced of your claim that the Chrome browser is the competitive moat that prevents Pex from rising up

I can tell you didn't read the link I posted. I never claimed this because of Chrome. They are the default search engine on EVERY browser. Firefox, Safari, Chrome. The tyranny of defaults is quite substantial.

>TikTok got very popular without Chrome browser help.
This feeds into my second argument. No VC will fund it. TikTok spent billions on ads to promote their app. My point was exactly that. It's not the technology that is the issue, it's the marketing. We would just never stood the chance.

>As another example, I found out that a gardening expert[1] gets most of her views from Facebook-hosted videos instead of Youtube. She gets more than 3x the views on Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account so I watch her on Youtube but it turns out I'm actually in the minority of her audience.

YouTube is big, but small part of the UGC world, which is quite diverse. That's why a search engine would make sense.
Cockroaches, ants and plankton rule the world, depending on your definition.

Or sourdough: https://xkcd.com/2296/
That's probably the idea, but if you have any sense (and experience of using Google for 10+ years) left, you treat anything Google like using a new Product Hunt product. If you're expecting anything long-term from them at all, you're soon in for a surprise.