skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used turbolinks with django. It just required a small middleware:

https://gitlab.com/danjac/localhub/-/blob/master/localhub/mi...
A 3080 with 20gb is planned already
TIL JavaScipt doesn't have an integer type and uses double under the hood to store integers. Yet another footgun to add to the massive stack.
I avoid FP as much as possible precisely because of these nondeterministic (at least in the practical sense) results. I use integers almost exclusively and if I need fixed point I have view code that renders things correctly (such as for currency). When Erlang didn't have a power function that didn't use floating-point (and thus resulted in rounding errors), I wrote my own: https://github.com/pmarreck/elixir-snippets/blob/master/math...
Are your referring to the fact that Make requires tabs to indent blocks of commands? It's not even whitespace in that case - Makefile treats the character as a prefix. Sounds like it would be even worse if it required 4 spaces...

I actually see Make's use of tabs a great example of why they make more sense for indentation, especially when it matters. 1 \t => +1 level of indentation. No guessing the number of spaces and praying it stays consistent throughout the file.
Or a failure of infrastructure - lime/scale buildup. Or not a failure, but expected preventative maintenance.
https://qz.com/india/948392/why-did-winston-churchill-hate-t...

http://ramachandraguha.in/archives/%E2%80%98a-beastly-people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Church...
It just must be illegal without real consent. See: GDPR.
what? technically accurate perhaps, but not normal. Uncommon and breaks things like cookies and expected behaviour, which would explain some of the Turkey workaround stuff

weird.

Real thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24549979
and not a workaround to get some karma.
Good luck with James Joyce's Ulysses ... or Samuel Beckett. Or Thomas Pynchon. Or -- the author you didn't even know existed until the domain expert (aka professor) assigned/suggested it.

Or, you know ... history?

Or even Shakespeare, for that matter. For some, a course makes reading such material hugely more enlightening.
Sure, it’s mathematically impossible to guarantee the behavior of an app in advance.

That’s why Apple needs to be able to remove or disable apps that pass review through intentional deception.

Edit: for that matter they need to be able to remove apps that have unintended bad consequences too, at least until developers have a chance to fix them. Like they did with Zoom on the Mac.
I think the always-on IoT thing actually makes sense for life-and-death fields such as automotive/medical. There are cases where if an update does not reach the device in time human lives could be at stake.

It's definitely not for the consumer's benefit in most cases. No one is going to die because your Smart Keurig or 5G-TV goes unpatched for a month. Hopefully we can avoid the slippery slope and realize that these devices' internet capabilities are not for us - they are primarily for data collection/advertising purposes.
After a couple months of nothing but ads for bodice-ripper romance novels with semi-clothed, entwined bodies on the cover (based on my consumption of biographies and Fantasy?), I went to Amazon support to pay for the ads to be removed and they did it for free and gave me a rather large credit for kindle books.

I've done this with one other Kindle and several other people have done it based on my experience and they've all gotten ads removed for free and some have gotten store credit in various amounts.

I didn't even mention why I wanted the ads gone, I just asked how to remove them and they gave me free books and a typically $20 upgrade for free.
> Some consumers may hate ads like poison. But most of them are just fine with it, and prefer the micropayments to the macropayments, as it were.

It seems like the smart thing would be to have ads by default but allow the customer to turn them off. Most consumers would leave them on and be fine with it (like you said) and the haters would be happy too.
Show HN: Teaching data as a science – Research and experiments with data
>Or teaching that math is racist...

Can you elaborate further?
Double represents consecutive integers up to 2^53 - that's even larger than Java's int so it's more than fine for almost all purposes.
Both Linux and Windows represent terrible user experiences for many users. Windows, until recent improvements, had a very rocky relationship with being online (primary attack target for viruses, rootkits, and botnets). The Linux ecosystem's user-hostility to the average computer user is the stuff of legend, although things have obviously improved greatly (this is still not the year that Linux on the desktop gains mainstream acceptance).
As far as I can tell, writing and publishing a dead-tree book is the best/only way to get on NPR.

As far as I'm concerned, that's the only purpose dead-tree books serve anymore.
I'd like to point out the California approved portable gas cans. They were intended to prevent spills, but they suck so bad, that spilling is more likely than ever before.
Also (almost) no one has to say the pledge, though.
Well, yes, the original article is about funneling traffic through a centralised DPI content blocker, and not a trivial DNS blacklist.

Agreed, the UK's DNS filtering is definitely a simple to defeat by anybody whack-a-mole (e.g. thepiratebay.org is blocked? Oh no! Let's just google for Pirate Bay and pick one of the many, many unblocked mirrors)

But the kind of DPI, forced blocking utilised by these middleboxes is certainly a step above that, to the point that most people will not be (say) using measures like a VPN to bypass the block.
The "Special Offers" also have the advantage of being super unobtrusive, especially when the device is actually in use. That's not really the case here.
Symbian apps were sold by mobile operators with margins up to 80%.

You could only install apps outside the store via the SDK.

Later on, during the Ovi Store days it was possible to buy applications and install them via the phone management software, which only technical inclined users did.
This is why I continue to use a Chromecast rather than using the native smart tv functionality.

Ill let my TV be a dumb TV that I can simply send a signal to.
I dont see any rebuttal
Well, it was pretty obvious that Stalin was murdering people, so in that case it was fear of the known, instead of fear of the speculated. That fear due to speculation would be what allows the speculated fear to come to pass, is the particular irony I am highlighting.
Thanks for doing this. Love seeing privacy coming up front and center. FYI- if you're using web-based email (e.g. Gmail), a browser extension like PixelBlock will zap most shady trackers. I would love it if there was a Hey-like mobile client for Gmail (and other email providers). It's still hard to block this tracking on mobile.
We built a hyperscale cloud file system on Azure
Test Flight App Store
I agree. I particularly liked to see the ubiquitous Google Analytics was absent from the website.
Smart money would be looking into irrigation infrastructure and history of its development in Mesopotamia. They had to raise water for a "hanging" garden. That implies some sort of pump technology.
things like this:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/black-lives-matter-oxford...
That's incredible. 50W is wholy unnacceptable.
Of course taxes would need to be raised.

In the USA households worth 1 million or more own 79% of all household wealth in the country.

The bottom 50% in the USA has approximately 0.025% of all national wealth. Yes 0.025%.

This is untenable. Solutions to this need to be implemented, fast. It is a moral imperative. It is a systemic stability imperative.

If you were in the bottom 50%, would you prefer navigating a dozen programs to handle food, phones, heating, internet, baby clothes etc. or would you rather just take cash and make those decisions in the market just like everyone else?

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1310620150614425602/p...
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/09/28/millionaires...
I noticed that you seem to attack the sources of a lot of things you disagree with as biased.

I don't think that is obviously true, but in any case your arguments maybe better received if you explained why their claims are wrong.

I'd note that you used the same approach downthread, until it turned out the author himself was Indian and extremely well qualified to make the points he made.
While I think everyone can agree this is just yet another terrible design decision in JavaScript, at least there are libraries to give you this, and it looks like BigInt will eventually be native to JS:

https://github.com/peterolson/BigInteger.js/
To be honest, I disliked PHP’s dynamic typing just as much as I disliked Java’s static typing, and that’s after spending over 10 years professionally developing primarily in those two languages (and some python and javascript).

The last couple of years I’ve developed stuff in haskell and elm, but I’m currently getting back into python and javascript. And I’m sniffing around, trying to figure out how to utilize typescript and python type annotations in an ergonomic way, that doesn’t feel like too much overhead.

I’ll easily admit that it’s not as easy to reach the same kind of benefit in those languages.

The magic sauce really is (ideally as global as possible) type inference combined with programming primarily via expressions instead of primarily via statements, with appropriate language support of course.
My Samsung TV auto-updates. It's infuriating as I cannot disable it.
> I've taken the train from central Pennsylvania to NYC several times. It's great, but it's also a hike and not something you want to do for anything shorter than a long weekend

From where in Central PA? It's definitely the fastest way to get into downtown NYC from anywhere between Philly and Harrisburg.
Nope, but here is how to block them [1]

[1] https://mashable.com/article/how-to-block-email-pixel-tracki...
"Why not 30%? Why not 40%? "

How ridiculous.

A) It's not the margins, it's the lock-in.

B) Why didn't the Judge ask what kind of 'margin' Apple or MS gets for desktop versions of their apps? Because it's not 30%.

C) Asking 'when did Apple become a monopoly because they were not 15 years ago' is irrelevant: when did Standard Oil become a monopoly? AT&T? Certainly not the day they started out. These issues are shades of grey.

I'm tired of judges ruling on issues they don't understand, we need more expertise, just as they have in medicine.

Perhaps the most fundamental issue here with respect to 'Nintendo' comparisons - is that Gaming Consoles are purchased for Playing Games. That's it. All market participants know the stakes.

A mobile phone is an entry point to every line of business imaginable - it's a very broad platform and Apple has tried to take cuts of incidental businesses for all sorts of things.

The analogue would be AT&T charging you for 'every kind of business you did over your phone'.

Or Verizon charing you 30% for 'any kind of business you do over the internet'.

Or the electricity company for 'anything you use electricity for'.

Apple is leveraging the broader terms of mobile access: voice, browser, basic apps, which gives them a duopoly over mobile devices with Apple - into a crazy monopoly over their own platform.

Many markets are not rational in the way we would like them to be and have to be regulated, this is very common with single points of access: phone, water, electricity, energy, drugs, hospitals.

This looks like a prime opportunity for some creative and thoughtful regulatory response.
Martin deserves every penny of his hard-work on Designing Data Intensive Applications. Experienced engineers can easily use the book as a reference and you can give the book to smart junior engineers to give them a great foundation.

Honestly, the best technical book I’ve ever owned.
This is why I will never buy another Samsung. The stupid TV keeps pushing Facebook and CBS apps in the "most recently used" apps; mind you I've NEVER used either. I delete them from the list and within a day they are back. Samsung = screw the user.
You are describing a reading list.
There's a chain of supermarkets around here that are the size of a Super Walmart, but all groceries. They carry for example 15 flavors or more of PopTarts, just to give one example. And they have low prices, and have seemed to figure it out (they were even apparently mostly immune from the TP shortages earlier this summer). I wonder how they manage, yet other chains don't (not that they have a lot of stores in their chain, they are spread out to no more than 1 or 2 stores in any county).

They even have other customer-service oriented niceties, such as the fact that you don't have to put your groceries on a belt at checkout -- instead their carts are designed so that the cashier pulls directly from the cart, they go into bags that then get put into another cart for you to take out of the store. Little things like that make me wonder why these concepts haven't caught on. (Same with Aldi's letting their cashiers sit on a stool -- employee friendly, and doesn't interfere with the customer).
Double Digit Decline in Infectious Disease Research During Coronavirus Pandemic
Except that on windows, "del" defaults to prompting "are you sure" when one types "del *".
> Looking at prior examples, state-subsidized education seems to become indoctrination at the worst possible time.

3/4 of the university students in the US are currently enrolled in a state-subsidized public institution. This has been the status-quo for many decades.

To the contrary, US state universities are known for their solid educational foundations and research output -- and the reputation of various private-universities in the US is rather spotty.
Philosopher AI: solve the Collatz conjecture (GPT-3)
> The problem is that they only teach Marxist ideas about the 20th century

To you, what is a "Marxist idea" about the 20th century?

And if your teacher really did gloss over the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin / the USSR, Mao / the PRRC, then, well, that person was a poor teacher.
Let's not forget Sony's rootkit debacle.
This is all true, and likely necessary, but it's all negative value that Google created and you just have to buy your way back up to zero.
Couldn't you just buy the TV but not let it connect to your WiFi? Then just use Chromecast/Roku/AppleTV/etc. to get internet to your TV.
Argos have 14 different ones for sale, largest being 43" https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/technology/televisions-and-ac...
It’s very relevant. If other people do it, and it’s a problem, then this isn’t about Apple. It’s about the practice, and the scope of the case should be much larger and apply to everyone.

I support that outcome. I don’t think Apple should be targeted. If walled gardens are bad, they should be banned everywhere, not just the one Epic happens to want to profit from.
Here is an article discussing it more in depth. It does seem like Nineveh is the better candidate.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2020/07-...
> schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education.

Can you summarize the ideology, instead of merely demonizing it? ;)
8. Didn't see a way to save our creations for later use. That would be good
Very good presentation, and very good analogies to get the general public attention.

I think the key points are:

- Data allows the projection of stereotypes on everything you might be involved.

- Rating systems create unwanted incentives.

I don't think social credit systems are crazy, but they are extremely dangerous and easy to get wrong. Their memory should be limited, and their use should be controlled, opt-in, show-to-see, or whatever might be relevant.
> manage a budget, understand how to vote, keep themselves fed and clothed

You'll be shocked to find that there are people all over the world and throughout most of history who learned how to do all of these things without any school at all!

I intentionally kept reading the newspaper off that list, because that typically does require some formal education process.

I'm not a radically anti-state person, but its strange and concerning to me that there has been this increasing trend of critique public school for not teaching you basic life skills.

Maybe we need less school and not more. Extending the definition of "child" to be 18+ and keeping students so busy with homework that they don't even learn how the world works through their family and peers seems like a problem that more school won't fix.
But on the other hand, don’t you do the same thing with training? If the output of your model doesn’t match your expectations, do you treat it as the absolutely pure objective mathematical reality, xor do you adjust the training parameters until the output matches your expectations?
A related point is that of Amtrak's 21,000 or so route miles, only 623 are actually owned by Amtrak. In nearly every case, freight operators only tolerate Amtrak because they're required to. The money they get paid is a drop in the bucket of their revenue, so they do the minimum required.

It's also worth remembering that the US is huge. For the routes many of these trains cover, especially west of the Mississippi River, you have a choice between plane, bus or train. Getting to an airport could be a 6+ hour drive, and 18 hours on a train is often a much more comfortable experience than 10 hours on a bus.

Despite the not-so-great timekeeping, there are many rural areas where the train is still the best of options. Keep in mind how large the US is.
Around the ordering guarantee, are there tricky edge cases if objects are moving between machines in the face of network partitions or some other system instability? Where request1 and request2 hit two different instances of the object, but request1 persists at the end instead of request2?
> you can install whatever the hell you want on an Android device by merely toggling a button

I can because I'm a computer geek. The majority of the population wouldn't know how to or care to learn how to go through the trouble of enabling "unknown sources" and ignoring all the scary malware warnings. Without that population, the prospect of running a commercial third-party store is hopeless.

> complete anarchy like PCs?

What anarchy? Software distribution on PC is great because users can, and regularly do, go straight to the vendor's website to buy their software. There is no middle-man.

From the security side, since Android and iOS have had sandboxing built in from day one, the risk of downloading software from a random website is much lower than it is on Windows. It's not zero, but it is lower, and it's not that much riskier than downloading a random app on Google Play (which has always been filled with malware).

But lets say it's still too risky for some reason. Fine. That's what anti-virus software is for.
Yes, that's correct. I only buy original Samsung or SanDisk SD cards that come with 5+ years warranty, and then I keep original packaging anyway.
This is an episode of Black Mirror, coming to our reality sooner than thought.

Netflix Trailer
https://youtu.be/R32qWdOWrTo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
The US picked a different optimization. The combination of transportation modes from Rail, Truck, and Barge are amazingly important to the health of the country. Passenger rail had a brief time of importance but was passed by plane and car travel.

When the fully automated, electric car and buses arrive, I would imagine that passenger rail in the US will disappear entirely except for nostalgia operations and metro systems already in operation. It is much easier to be B2B or B2G than deal with individual customers for any of the railroads, and getting passengers off the rail will be a bonus for them. The nodal nature of rail will always be a handicap compared to roads.
" and it’s free for anyone to collect data from the whole web."

Is it free free or a trade for id & data?
I can't help but compare JS to python though. For every footgun in JS, the same footgun does not exist in python including this one.
Though this does mean internet RFC822 email doesn't have non repudiation functionality built in.
The UX of Banking
I, for one, am happy to see my government held to a higher standard than Saudi Arabia is.
> Go folks couldn't contribute to Deno since it is in Rust

Deno was originally written in Go, until V8's GC was getting in the way of Go's GC, so they could always work on early versions of Deno, if they are willing to accept the problems with V8 that pushed the project to Rust.
Apple and Android together have a duopoly or an oligarchy over mobile phones.

Apple also has a lock over it's own platform for which switching costs are very high.

If people switched phones every few weeks, this would be less of an issue.
Firstly, you can create any number of accounts without matching people. Secondly, even for real users, those users are often from nations full of people that haven't learned better yet (new market growth). What's their growth look like in the US amongst those 25+?
I’ve tried that, and throwing my Android across the room out of frustration emotionally led me back to iPhone ;)
I just completed a cross-country Amtrak sleeper-car journey from New York City to Spokane and flew back from there. (I would have continued to Seattle or Portland but everything seemed to be kind of on fire).

I got off in Chicago for few days, then rented a can in Montana and drove around for a few days before getting back on.

The Lake Sore Limited line had much better sleepers with windows on the top bunk. The Empire Builder has that amazing viewing car though with panoramic views.

Until I got to Glacier National Park the first leg between NYC and Buffalo was much more beautiful. Glacier is not worth trying to describe, just go see it.
Well, that's the price of abuse.

If you have an Uber or Airbnb score low enough to get banned from the platform, you're the problem and you'd have a very hard time arguing otherwise once you start revealing the reviews people have left you.

You're probably vomiting in Uber cars every weekend when you get blackout drunk and destroying property on Airbnb.

Maybe other people should know these things about you before they accidentally do business with you. Of course, once I think of actual implementation of such a thing, I only encounter showstoppers and ay, there's the rub. But the goal doesn't seem categorically wrong.

Though I also admit the inability to have a practical implementation that works is a good reason to condemn anything. I'm just radicalized by horrible ex-tenants and like to smile as I ponder the utopia where trashing my place echoes in their lives forever.
If lowering your price doesn't increase demand then you are in a way a monopoly. I don't see any scenario at all where Apple lower their cut from 30% except via government action, so it makes sense to legally force them to either get competition or to lower their cut below 30% to something more sensible.
Note that for many people this would be an example of their plan "working". For some, the most immediate goal is not to change your mind or the minds of others. There's an intermediate goal to make your position appear marginal, which can help in changing the minds of others. By dropping out, you increase the efficacy of this strategy.