skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an outcome that I was only able to derive after giving the graph the benefit of the doubt, eyeballing some of the numeric data, and doing some calculations in IPython. But it isn't a result that I feel one can accurately derive from the visualization presented by the graph. (If both had increased by 50%, the shape of the graph would be very similar.)

It is not a contradiction to say the presentation doesn't help show the conclusion, and that the conclusion is (nonetheless) correct.
That's an interesting scripture for this situation! Very insightful.

I was thinking actually quite a bit earlier than a lot of the Hebrew historical times, like species that were more apelike.
Because it's easiest to search.

Please, explain to me how "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" is not divisive.
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Not surprised [0]. Pascal was always very fast to compile, especially with Borland tools.

[0] https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
edit: Interesting post from a humor point of view (not my cup of tea TBH).
I am positively in love with this website. It’s simple. Looks great. Works on mobile. It’s well organized with exactly the right amount of data. When dealing with algorithms you need to get right to the point. Don’t make it a dense read. And because of all these successes, this website is also a good reference.
It's where you're effectively banned without being told about it. You can still use the service, but any action you take is isolated from the rest of the site. The term I think comes from reddit but the concept is by no means unique to them: your upvotes or downvotes wouldn't affect rankings and nobody would ever see your submissions or comments other than you. The idea is to let spammers or fraudsters waste their energies on accounts that have already been flagged, instead of notifying them that they've been banned so they switch to a clean account.
It's an embedded facebook post, if you have any facebook domains on your block list you won't see it.
I'm not sure that it's Jeff Lawson as much as George Hu. 13 year SFDC veteran and credited by Benioff for many successful initiatives in his cloud book.

Separately, when George joined Twilio, they didn't really have a sales team. Started working on contract terms, raising prices and a host of other things. He's very systematic.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgehusf/
> Even if it looks like a warzone now

So you are just going to ignore the hundreds of thousands of people getting killed in the warzone?

Is that the price for freedom and peace?
The educational games like Dragon's eye, Podd and Granny's Garden are what really cemented my interest in computers at a young age.
Agreed really good fit. I bet a large % of Segment's customers were using Twilio endpoints. Really nice combination of a data hub / last mile across multiple channels...fully expect they will continue moving up the stack towards a CRM / Marketing automation solution.
> There's no law against me sending you

Giving people the choice of whether they want to accept moderation or not, seems reasonable.

For example, if twitter allowed everything that is allowed by law, but also gave people control over content that they see, then that seems fine.

There is a fundamantal difference between disallowing something, and giving a user the option of not seeing certain content.

IE, I do not believe that the block feature is censorship, for example.

> Is that really what you want?

I'd want to have the option to control the content that I see, as opposed to twitter forcing its own decision. I don't see a problem with someone choosing to allow spam to themselves, if they are OK with that.
They're driving up costs and hurting the consumer by not letting people into their stores to sell their own warez.
I am an outsider to this site. Found it trying to find something like reddit was around Mt Gox timeline. Posted my Startup to this forum. Never got much traction. 6 months later though Acre.com started much better funded than I. Is Acre a YC startup? Now i just follow on and read. aka old scool reddit lurking
Theres a video of this on YouTube it always fascinated me. I asked an old timer about it he said it was designed to be simple to compile and the compiler was in Assembly. Not sure how truthful this is would love to hear more about how and why its so fast. I would love to someday see FreePascal be just as fast. Its a shame Borland didnt try to make some sort of collaboration between them and FPC. I am sure FPC would welcome some sort of joint effort you help us we help you kinda deal.
I robot, except the AI decides to kill us to protect us from seeing our own nipples.
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You can find the liquid version though, it would make more sense than 130 pills if you were somehow convinced that was a normal dose.
I believe the bigger problem is that macros are too powerful. This leads to that every project becomes its own DSL, which is not compatible with other projects. So code sharing/ availability of tested libraries is low. This leads to low adoption rate.

Of course if you want to build your own (mega-) fortress all by yourself, Lisp is the language to go to. Most people and stakeholder prefer not to.
Hmm... Methinks your missing sense of humor would disqualify you from the same 99%.
No doubt - I’ve had plenty of psychedelics in my youth. However a blinded trial isn’t just about how people describe their trip. The people evaluating the results are unaware who was given placebo as well. This way they can conduct their study without bias.

Also, dosing matters. Can the apparent positive effects occur at low doses where possibly it isn’t very perceptible? This is important and a double blind approach is warranted.
Wouldn't surprise if it IS on their script. If they do too overtly scummy things bad things will start happening to them. The kind of guy who says "No." is the kind of guy who will chargeback or write a letter to his representative.
A digitally-signed (by the bank) copy of the transaction would also suffice instead of a check.

Decimal places can't shift with electronic payments.

All B2C debits (SDD Core) have the right to be reversed within 55 days for specific reasons; this can be done online by the account holder and they are instantly refunded.

This is all across Europe, and has been for years now.
Yes that is why I said its better to deal with the devil you know but then Saddam later invaded Kuwait.
Care to explain why do you think these articles are deceptive?
I’m sure that you, personally, did not set any fires, try to burn down a federal courthouse or the residential building where your mayor lives, nor have you assaulted law enforcement officers, attempted to blind them with lasers, physically interfered in legal arrests of the people who did these things, or murdered any of the Trump supporters who showed up to counter protest one day. But others in Portland have committed all of these crimes, and you should be even more upset about it than I am because these criminal terrorists are the ones undermining the cause you claim to care so much about.
Hopefully they drop the pricing after this, else I am moving to Rudderstack.
Some mutant form of bikeshedding.
I'm sincerely sorry but I lost you at the part where you compare the Web and the App Store. One is a fragmented, open network. The other is a proprietary marketplace based on proprietary technologies. The concept of ownership is relevant in current US law. Apple owns the App Store. No one owns the web.
An unrelated question to HN. English is my second language, and we don't use the Latin alphabet. My English handwriting is pretty bad. I always wanted to improve it, but didn't have much success. Are there courses out there for practicing handwriting for adults?
I do not think those are good suggestions for the average person. I've read meta analyses about low caloric intake but not about malnutrition, which in general is a bad idea.

That being said most people who aren't severely restricting the types of food they eat, and eating healthy food, are unlikely to have significant malnutrition.

The lung cancer thing I remember was specifically smokers, so its not straightforward.
It happened earlier this year to Doordash!

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135474/doordash-workers...
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> pop-science articles with unbridled enthusiasm for megadosing vitamins

That's an instant red flag for bullshit.
Could it be just badly coded scrapers?
How easy would it be to use Julia on a problem that would take advantage of the 16 hyperthreaded cores on my computer? Does it use threads, async/await mechanism, something else? Is it intuitive to use?
IMO "how many packages are the dependencies broken into" is a far less useful question than "how many maintainers have commit access to the dependency subtree".

The latter is a better question because:

* It's directly connected to your security posture.
* It's a stable metric across languages with different norms about module size.
Pascal compiles to some sort of bytecode doesn't it?

One would think it's an easier task than all the fancy x86 business?
I did explain it. Was there a part of it that was ambiguous? Apple didn't ask them to monetize, article says it did.
> protocol

I wonder if that's an euphemism for "stuff they learned on youtube".
> Most of the over the counter doses are ~ 5000UI.

In what universe?

In this one, doses I've seen are around 1k UI.
If this is blatent, what is octave?
Donald Trump’s faults are more libertarian than authoritarian
Gaddafi was not a friend of the US, Saddam was but then he changed. Why do you think US wont do anything?

and you conveniently ignored my point about Egypt
> The core of the issue (why it gets removed) has been that GPSLogger supports a lot of older devices and frameworks, whereas the Play Store is always trying to get everyone onto the latest versions.

The enforced obsolescence is infuriating. Whilst you can argue the security implications of older devices, an offline task like being thrown in the top of a backpack recording a gps trace is a great use of old hardware. Google making it difficult for devs going out of their way to support this is upsetting.
well, "hot dog" or "not hot dog" aside, FB seems to be onto something - i like onions and just looking at that picture i'm salivating. God forbid somebody place a piece of "salo" (Ukranian style bacon) into that picture, and i'd have a heart attack.
Good old times ... Thank you for the nostalgic reminder.
So your point is that you are unable to articulate what your standards are?
You are using a manipulation technique in your post and your whole point is that without Apple there wouldn't be an app store. The name itself is as generic as it gets and you would have other companies taking the lead.
From my perspective in Europe in 2002/2003:

There was an incredibly harsh and damaging debate on this matter. Back then I was on the losing leftist side. We watched the Fox News broadcasts in horror.

Nowadays I find myself on the rightish side. Fox News is still insane though.

In my mind the current equivalent of the outsized influence of 2002/2003 Fox News programming is the political influence of employees of SV companies.

Somehow the common factor here is americans imposing their misinformed view of the world to the rest of the world with force, be it physical or cultural.
Hmm interesting dilemma I hadn't considered. I've been pretty okay with blaming low information consumers for buying any Apple product, but this is totally different.

How can users escape Apple? You are not the first person to complain about getting locked in because they used an Apple account.

I don't have a good solution, but maybe this will be a good lesson you can carry on for the rest of your life.
ProtonMail user here:

I think you are missing the point. They didn't have "in app" purchase ever. The email account being paid really isn't about the app in my opinion.

I can use the same account on any device I want to. But now they must have IAP on Apple devices, for which they raise prices.

Imagine Gmail personal now being mandatorily paid because they have optional pricing tiers on their website, that's linked in the free email client somewhere.

It's boring the customer at the least.
Right, we all associate them as a failed startup. Great marketing!
IMO the people whose scientific papers are equation-heavy will have someone else do the editing, or the publisher will have a template. Latex could use a disruption, but who will do it...?
>Can't both preferences be equally valid and normal?

They can. They are to me.
> The same is true of Javascript and Java.

World would have been a bit better place to live.
False, the US received 100,000 airline passengers per week from Wuhan and Shanghai. No chance.
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I think one aspect of the discussion is that the Raspberry Pi does not represent a sample of the engineering that Broadcom customers work with.

It's way too high level. Broadcom would be glad to sponsor something like Verilog/VLSI engineering tools. Maybe like an FPGA board that implements certain Broadcom proprietary instruction sets and lets people use that as an onboarding ramp to get them inducted in a "first hit's free" kinda way.

Broadcom customers buy chips in order to build other electronic products. Not to learn or program python or even C/C++. The original intent of the Rpi as an embedded controller is closer to what Broadcom wanted to do, and likely was how RPi talked them into agreeing with the whole thing in the first place.

That market position has been taken over by the arduino family though, so the positioning of Rpi within the Broadcom general strategy isn't well matched.
Now let's compare performance after implementing 2 decades worth of missing program optimization techniques

(edit: downvotes? I'm sorry to ruin the romanticizing, but surely it should come as no surprise that these old compilers aren't fast due to black magic)
I think optimizations passes is what takes the most time in a compiler. Older compilers did a lot less.
> Costco used to make you pay with a debit card, if I remember correctly.

Costco, gas stations, and some mom & pop shops really want to save on that credit card processing fee.

Personally, I consider missing out on the cash discount at a gas station a convenience & fraud protection fee.
908087's reply is dead but should not be. As someone who ran bots since they were simply macros this is exactly what is done.

If you find a botnet you can assume they have an additional ~50% or greater 'clean' accounts on standby for exactly this situation. These become easier to obtain over time via purchasing or black hatting accts, etc. The longer you run undetected the longer you have to stockpile clean accts as you know its simply a matter of time.

I would imagine if 100% of your revenue depends on it you'd be even more prepared.

I know back in the Diablo 2 days some of us were friendly with blizdevs who would warn us of impending banwaves, upcoming updates to server code and whatnot. I'm quite sure the same still applies today only at a far larger scale since back then online communication was still young.

Anyways all this to say if they are experienced and know its coming they wont be down for long, if at all.
It is hard to emphasize enough now how the original Turbo Pascal was such a breakthrough in development tools for the PC. RIP Borland - for a while there you were really the business.
What are you talking about? I have several family members with MS and they don’t do stupid shit they learned off YouTube.
It doesnt sound good that you do not trust julia as a source language for the IDE, actually didnt Julia wanted to solve the two language problem?
If Big Publicly Listed Company A contracts with Small Fly-by-Night LLC B to provide workers to vacuum and empty wastebaskets, and it turns out that LLC B is illegally withholding wages, then Company A could be partially liable because they should have done due diligence and picked reputable law-abiding suppliers.

I can think of a couple different legal metaphors for this:

1. Something similar to banking's Know-Your-Customer could work... maybe call it Know-Your-Suppliers.

2. People are criminally liable for possessing child pornography even if they had no participation in the direct crimes of its creation. In other words: in this case there is no immunity just because the crimes happened somewhere "upstream".
I think a very early Turbo Pascal was in assembly, but I would find that hard to believe of Delphi.
There is a book, Applied Mathematics for Database professionals that uses a terse mathematical notation to describe queries and I remember actually kind of liking it. I especially like that they used it to describe the state of the database and the transforms.
I notice default syntax highlighting in Emacs, Vim, and VSCode make that odd-one-out "GET" a different color than the rest which would make this a lot easier to catch than otherwise.
That said, it is a good way to clear out their warehouse inventory I guess.
I'll spell it out a bit more.

Since, as a member of a minority group, they probably get more negative feedback than average, and since probably most of that negative feedback is due to x-ism, why shouldn't they assume you're an x-ist?

And that's completely leaving aside whether there exists any sort of stereotype that members of group x aren't as smart or capable as non-x folks that you may be playing into.

It's really on your shoulders to indicate or demonstrate that you're just an asshole and not an x-ist asshole. Because, as far as the various x-folk are concerned, isn't it simpler to assume that a non-x is being an asshole to them because of x-ism? Odds are that they're right.
Something about a pen and paper, and a calm environment, stimulates the brain much more than a screen bleeding light into the eyes.

I am really really hoping for e-ink writing pads to work for me because I really hate to waste paper.
Damn...they totally got me and I didn't even pause to think of that.
There are, but Google put limitations in Android so that third parties can't implement all of the features the Play Store has. You can't implement automatic upgrades, background installation, or the batch installs that the Play Store provides.
I happen to be taking magnesium for headaches and vitamin D because I'm deficient. Thanks for the info!
The core of the issue ... has been that GPSLogger supports a lot of older devices and frameworks ... a majority of GPSLogger users are on older devices. This has led to a lot of complexity in the codebase and inevitably (and expectedly) made it difficult to support and maintain while keeping up with the latest Play Store requirements and user feature requests and PRs and issues, and giving them the attention they deserve.

I think the author is being too hard on himself. Investing massive effort to maintain a free app for people who don't invest anything themselves is not a personal failure.
I cut my teeth on Delphi 2. Didn't realize how good I had it! Solid IDE that Just Worked right out of the box with point and click GUI builder. And the builds were fast and IDE responsive even on "average" hardware of the day.
It's annoying, but then it lets me know "don't shop there anymore" if it's that bad.

jomashop for instance...
Don't forget this legendary post from the CEO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
Early Pascals did. P-Code [0] it was called. I don't think it was really about easy of compilation. It was about ease of portability, at least early on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
Ditto. This is a big reason why I left Spotify and refuse to work at Google or Facebook right now. Spotify has been turning a new leaf lately though.
But there’s still a core group of people willing to put up with that and use F-Droid, and having the app used by that group of enthusiasts is better than it not being used at all.

Considering this app is used a lot on older secondary phones, it’s actually very likely people who want to use it would go to the little bit of extra effort required to use it via F-Droid.
Graham Stephan is leaving California
He citing high state taxes. High crime rates. Homelessness. State regulations for new buildings.
No, it's not about nipples. I know this algorithm well.

Facebook does not allow advertisers to use Zoomed in images of body parts to artificially inflate CTR and play with their ad algorithm.

The onion image that was banned has the exact contour of breasts viewed from above zoomed in.
> Decimal places can't shift with electronic payments.
[...]
> This is all across Europe, and has been for years now.

Only after living in USA for some time do you realize that many corporations here actually use cheap labor to read electronically submitted information, and then type it back into a computer.

I've had my name misspelled on utility accounts where I signed up online, and damn sure did not misspell it like that.

Yes, USA is stuck in the 70s.
Perhaps, but a problem is that people aren't nearly as good at discerning one from the other, and they are especially bad at conceptualizing the notion of unknown, which is what most things are. Luckily, the media is able to define a lot from that category as axiomatic, so most people no longer have to consider those ideas, provided those who aren't down with the program can be managed (which can also be effectively managed via axioms).
Apple is a country where only Wal-Mart can exist. Nice try.
Regarding example 2, I've always found my personal tribe to be "those who challenge bad ideas." That is our tribe. Thus we stay cohesive as long as collectively never fear from challenging bad ideas.
I do that. I drink at least one 5-hour energy drink per day. I feel less depressed when I do that, but don’t try this at home without consulting doctor. I experiment with myself a lot and know my limits.
I think it's a matter of hiding them because of so many people fetishizing tits, which ironically is likely due to them being hidden in the first place. It'll probably take a couple generations of uncensoring them before it's not socially pornographic
It sucks that you are being downvoted for making a reference to one of Matt's recurring jokes
>In the past couple of weeks I've made a point of writing out the ideas and reasoning behind what I'm doing before writing any code. What I'm finding is I spend a relatively long amount of time at this, but even without writing code, I'm finding issues with my solutions on paper.

Yup. In my last project, I spent 6 months designing and redesigning a solution, with small experiments as PoCs, and ultimately built the solution in about a month. It was a complex project and a distributed application. However, I faced surprisingly few hurdles during the actual coding part.

I realized that, apart from programming competition level problems, for day to day applications that get work done, programming is 80% mind work and 20% coding, debugging, testing, etc.
Wow HN has come a long way ...
Well then at leastbwith -O0 should be similiar times achievable?
Agree. I don’t use Julia but think this font looks nice even for code written only with ASCII characters.
One of the best talks I had was a two hour discussion of this very topic with John Walecka. John had invested in Freegate and we were discussing risks and why things failed.

He helped me understand both the concept of 'stacking risk' (where the startup is taking on more unknowns than it should) and 'over burning' where a startup attempts to hire itself into shortening its schedule which not only fails but exhausts needed capital.

To this day I never hire an engineer if I cannot write down EXACTLY what they will be working on and how it will help the schedule. Even if they are a "super star", if I don't have something for them to do that will check off things that are currently on the path to the next milestone, no offer.

Whenever I've watched over hiring from inside or outside it tends to end badly.