skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren't both political parties equally culpable for the destruction?

Yes, they are, and in 2016, both political parties faced outsider candidates running surprisingly strong campaigns in their Presidential primaries on explicitly repudiating different aspects of neoliberalism, including deindustrialization.

But one of those candidates was Donald Trump, and it was much more important to point out what a rude, crude bastard he was, 24/7, than to discuss the issues of political economy raised by the outsider populists. The point was to crush them, to avoid anyone in the political sphere questioning deindustrialization and financialization.

Four years later, we know that trying to silence populism while also giving Trump, a populist, 24/7 earned-media coverage did not work. At the time, though, people expected it to work.
Wait, so it's just dandy that private organizations can and do censor as they please, but it's wrong to demand of them to not do business with cyber criminals and people selling child porn?
Unsure about the tool being a vscode plugin. I like my current note taking app (ZimWiki) partly due to it being standalone.
less hassle, enhanced security. I can spend hundreds of dollars without having to carry that much cash on me, or having to go to an ATM ever. It's more convenient and more secure, which is almost never true today.
Acquiring the data, perhaps. Utilizing it, from this article, is a lot less clear.
Does that happen automatically in some cases? I think I'm on 8.6 and I'm pretty sure I forgot the expr and it worked OK. Could have been a string operation or something, I don't have the code to check on hand.
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Does iPhone not have a pro mode? On my Samsung phone I put it into pro, adjusted the white-balance inside and then pointed my camera outside.
Fred Wilson is just reiterating what Michael Bloomberg said a few months ago at DNC[1]:

> I'm not asking you to vote against Donald Trump because he's a bad guy. I'm urging you to vote against him because he's done a bad job.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/bloomberg-fire-donald-trump-031227989...
Overwhelmingly (in my experience), you're not even really parsing HTML with regex. Rather, you're just treating it as a text document and using certain tags or code snippets as boundary points for finding the data that you want. It's certainly way faster, though prone to its own issues that don't come up as often with something like a DOM library or headless browser.

Many HTML documents will have the same data included multiple times, so a lot of the limitations can be avoided by targeting the places that appear the most consistently. Most of the reason why a web scraper would break would be because only one place was being targeted for data, and often very loosely. That place would get changed. Suddenly, you wind up with either a lot of wrong data or none at all.
Loose change is both heavy and worthless. You can carry cash around without bothering with loose change.
designing data intensive applications is quite excellent
If comets are icy things, and are constantly crashing into the Earth and the Moon, why shouldn't we expect water on the moon?
Not the usual culture war, but my wife and I live with my mother-in-law and after she got addicted to a certain conspiracy youtube scene she's started taking (or almost taking) increasingly drastic actions.

1. (pre-covid) asking us to cancel a family trip to her home country because her youtube channel says the police are just randomly shooting americans for being american

2. Refusing to go outside at all for months post-covid. In the first few weeks she tried to convince us not to even open the windows!

3. Having family members send us HCQ as a "just in case" even though we literally are more cautious about covid than probably 99% of households

4. Trying to convince us that she should take the HCQ as a preventative even though she goes outside the house for maybe an hour a week and takes no significant risk of exposure

Anyways, I think the easy part is avoiding discussions about politics and world events. Ultimately it matters very little to me why she thinks democrats are evil and which boogeyman she thinks secretly controls the world's finances. It becomes problematic when it leads to irrational behavior. I'm concerned what her youtube channel is going to convince her to believe or to do should Joe Biden win the election.
I'm a native English speaker (American) and have thought it was odd for a few weeks that Reuters in particular likes to use the word "jab" for "vaccination". It's not commonly used that way in the US.
Three major problems I see:

1. When these systems go offline, they’re nearly useless. One WiFi glitch and the system gives me the audio equivalent of a blank stare. This directly reduces the chance I’ll casually use voice and instead prefer my more-reliable phone.

2. Most systems haven’t figured out reasonable responses and are basically chatty and full of sounds. Make it Unix-like (silence on success = golden)!!! If I say “turn on the light” and you turn it on, I CAN SEE THE LIGHT ON so I don’t also need to hear a loud chime and some voice confirmation like “sure, no problem”! The fact that I can silently do things quickly in other ways (e.g. phone) is another strike against voice. Yet this is something they could easily fix.

3. Voice systems are not 100% perfect at comprehension yet they tend to babble out long responses. This puts me in the situation of trying to shut them up for long enough to listen for my intended query. Maybe they can improve this by erring on the side of fewer words in replies, with more pauses? Not sure.
What the GP is referring to (Misc.Unsafe) is basically going back to manual pointer reads/writes (IE writing more or less C code in Java), the benefit is you get C speed/memory layout/cache-locality but with the downside of writing it in a less suited language (Java).

HOWEVER If you DO _allocate_ much then 1TB seems like a great choice since GC pauses are killers w.r.t. latency in comparison to cache issues. A cache line (often 64 bytes) would probably only hold at most a couple of Java objects (minimum is probably like 16 or more bytes for each small object) so cache locality won't be improved much by a GC (Yes, the G1 GC in newer JDK's does neighbour compacting iirc so you get a little cache locality but only if the patterns were bad from the start, but avoiding GC entirely is better)
Right, but in a corporate production environment where everything is probably deployed compiled or compiled shortly after, does that matter? No one is altering prod code.
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Twitter is a private corporation and perhaps its best if we all realize that FB/Twitter/Google are biased agencies.

That said, maybe it's best if NYPost stays off Twitter.
The Google trends for "black lives matter" searches peak in 2016 and 2020. The media only brings it up in election years, even though police brutality happens every year.
What benefits are you talking about here? I haven't seen a lot of legacy banks implement the things I find interesting in the fintech space.

Legacy banks seem quite reluctant to significantly change the way they view their products, which is what I'm looking for from fintech.
That's usually the advice given to aspiring macro writers. You write ordinary code, but when you start feeling there's a higher-level concept there for which you repeatedly write the same boilerplate, that's when you consider using macro to introduce said concept as a first-class, explicit thing.

It's not that different than abstracting through functions or objects, but it allows you to abstract away the repetitive code structure as well.
It's mine, and the one I study. I'm guessing it's slang for injection? Looking it up now...

I sympathize with your pain of learning a new language (or system or whatever): It's hard to tell if it's a mistake on their part, a mistake on your part, some kind of regionalism, some kind poetry...
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Discovery and browsing are not good on the assistant interface but I'd argue that's a constraint of voice vs visual. On a desktop/mobile, the screen holds the state so you can go back to previous entries, etc. Over voice, you mind holds the state which scales much much worse.
Twitter wants revenge for the embarrassment it faced.
So, just talking thru the hat were we? As you say, you can't point to support for that statement about '100% of profits'.
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Yes, HFT provides liquidity to capital markets, reducing transaction costs of financing. The social benefits here can be a bit hard to see, but they are certainly real. When HFTs make money, it's because they're buying low and selling high. That means that they are making prices slightly more efficient for the next person to come along, which in turn means that that next person gets a slightly better more accurate price.
A few years ago when Microsoft was pushing Cortana with Windows 10, I decided that since I was wearing a headset at my desk 90% of the time anyway, I may as well try using a voice assistant so I could multi-task. So next time I needed to do a calculation in the middle of something, I said "hey cortana, what's 50 times 12.5?" while typing something up... and it opened the start menu, lost focus on my window, and the searched for it on Bing in Edge. I just wanted it to read me the answer.
Perspectives on the CAP Theorem (2012) [pdf]
Most of the budget for these corporations goes to marketing

Often repeated, but the data doesn't bear it out, especially in aggregate.

https://www.raps.org/getattachment/5578195e-ed51-4f03-8adc-c...
Borderlands 3 using millions of gamers to map the human gut microbiome
I wish the Democrats had the backbone to start throwing uncooperating bureaucrats into jail. I bet the rest of them would fall in line pretty quickly.

It is the Congress' job to conduct oversight. You can't have any "oversight" without cooperation and truthfullness.
> Your behavior is that of a jerk. Do you want to be remembered as a jerk?

Don't really care, to be honest. I won't be there. Nor do I care about my funeral, where (or if) I'm buried, or any thing else post-death.

But please tell me how my behavior is that of a jerk. I'm of the opinion that someone's reputation should be based on what they did while they are alive. How does the act of dying change or otherwise mitigate a dead person's despicable actions?

And how does pointing that out make me a jerk?
Oh! That looks awesome! Thanks!
And suddenly twitter is a leftist corporation.

Frankly I don't know whats the better way for twitter, its one of those doomed if you do, doomed if not.
It's stressful in the sense that the amount you earn is a linear function on the performance of the strategy. Unlike at other firms, bonus isn't discretionary: its a pure function of strategy performance. When the company loses money, you lose money. This incentivizes everyone to work together and solve problems.

Also working with some of the smartest people in the industry can be intimidating: if you're used to being the smartest guy in the room, it's very unlikely you will be anymore at a top notch firm. This is a form of stress in itself.

It's not stressful in the sense of shitty clueless bosses, long unpaid hours (people work long hours, but that work is often highly compensated for through pnl improvements).

Everyone I know feels extremely lucky that by just putting our heads together, we can mint money out of thin air. I don't think anyone I work with would rather be doing anything else. Trying to make money out of nothing certainly humbles you, but when something works, its the best feeling in the world.

Keep in mind that things might be different at a larger firm: lower compensation and upside, more hierarchy, etc.
The second someone steals my cash i don’t have it anymore. If someone steals my phone, it is locked and the money attributed to it are safe. Sure, i may have lost my phone but my money is safe.
Sure, but that can be done in C++/Java/Python too. The real question is about the merit of the Tcl language.
>As for affirmative action being an effort to keep out Asians...have you been to Harvard’s campus? There are many, many Asian students there. In fact, nearly one in five students at Harvard are of Asian descent. The idea that elite schools are purposely excluding Asians is absurd on its face. The people pushing the idea have an axe to grind and it usually isn’t actually in the interest of Asian-Americans.

Looks like the courts found that Harvard's admissions system did not qualify as legally discriminatory, but did nonetheless somewhat disadvantage Asian-American applicants. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/harvard-admissions-law...
> I think it would be better if there was more understanding of what people were talking about when they said "racism"

You do realize that one of the main reasons for redefining words is to cause confusion?

As in, we'll take this word with narrow meaning and then massively expand the meaning in order to fight our cause?

As in, nobody wants to be accused of being racist so if we reuse the word "racist" for something else we'll be able to manipulate the discourse?

If they actually used the words as they mean, people would realize that they're complaining about nothing.
Sounds like the Forth philosophy.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
And no wind! But the atmopshere is the reason to build the thing in the first place.

You also can't build one on the Moon because you'd need to reach its "lunastationary" orbit, a point which is more influenced by Earth's gravity than the Moon's.
Jokes aside, the police probably want to know whether your complaint is that there is a burglar holding you at gunpoint, or that you're trying to order a pizza. They probably get both types of calls at about the same frequency.
Any use of youtube-dl is in violation of the ToS, no?
OK, I didn't read it like that. My reading was more along the lines of "manufacturers are cheap, when they could pay extra for a better sensor and mark up their product accordingly".

Unfortunately I don't remember where this was, but I read that the way Sony is setup they couldn't really do it.

This was related to "actual cameras", not phone cameras, but the article's point was that "Sony sensors" was a separate division, and Sony Cameras would be their client, just as, say, Nikon.

Nikon was supposedly taking part in the design of the sensors Sony would manufacture for them and this design was only to be used for Nikon. So if some engineer came up with some revolutionary idea, at least in theory, Sony cameras wouldn't be able to use it.

Not sure if this is the case with the phones, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least Apple took a similar approach with this.
Not OP, but no. Purism specs their own hardware and oversees the entire supply chain to an extent that some chipsets are even custom modified before even being soldered to the motherboards.

Long term they're dedicated to ever increased supply chain control and customer choice in supply chain decisions. They already allow customers to choose where some key components are manufacture and even have one (smartphone) device which comes in a nearly entirely USA manufactued option.
Filing for unemployment doesn’t have to be so terrible
Also "prep'" should be "prep.".

I strongly disagree with your tag line. I think the only way such note taking should be is open source and completely private, otherwise a) you're locked in and b) you risk sensitive info leaking.
but you would still understand them if they did or take 5 seconds to ask a clarifying question.
I've never really scraped anything where the valued data is in JS or dependent on a browser. Sometimes the browser uses JS to fetch the data, but generally the call is easily found out in your browser console. The patterns are generally obvious.
Very cool to see Java continue to be used in high perf situations.

Something about warmup: this is an area where JVMs still have catching up to do versus JavaScript VMs. JVMs have suboptimal startup time in the non-cached case (I.e. not what they are doing with Zing) because it’s just not been an optimization target for JVM hackers. In the JSVM world, we were forced to optimize for this and optimize we did (otherwise page loads would suck). I suspect that Zing with the ReadyNow thing is way better than normal Java, but I don’t know if it’s better than what JSVMs do. It’s probably still way worse if you’re not cached. It might be better in the cached case but then again JSVMs also save some profiling in the cache (JSC definitely does). That suggests that JVMs can probably improve further. No reason why Java - an overall very performant language - should start slower when uncached than JS. I suspect this will get fixed since AOT is a thing now, but getting start times right is about way more than just JITing less.
> Taking cards is voluntary, there's no "forcing processing fees" involved.

Lol, sure. That's why they make stores promise to never, ever, under any circumstances make interchange fees visible to customers.

Hiding in the shadows is not the sign of voluntary mutual-benefit value creation, it's the sign of a good hustle that someone is hoping to milk just a little bit more before the Sauron's Eye of public attention turns their way.
I've been a TCL fan since the mid 1990's. We used TCL as our web server / scripting setup. We were able to attach to our IBM mainframe and deliver custom pages to all of our customers.

TCL is still the fastest way for me to make scripts. And as someone else posted, EXPECT was a great tool for testing applications and doing some basic automation. I laugh when the new consultants go "Robot Process Automation" RPA is the wave of the future, I've been doing that for two decades.
Well, about real things. But using the wrong words, perhaps out of frustration.

The other unfair argument is to refute a minor point and claim there's nothing left to discuss. Like you did right there.
Saying that a nation ought to manage its industrial capacity in a deliberate way isn't necessarily a populist position.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what you're getting at... is it closer, then, to XML with an XML schema?
"Suddenly". You have to work really hard to make sure your timeline includes centre leaning views, never mind right leaning.
Python:

a = print
a("Hello World")

Rust:

fn puts(s: &str) {
println!("{}", s);
}

let a = puts;
a("Hello World");

C++:

#include <cstdio>

auto a = puts;
a("Hello World");

Also: every FP language ever. How is that a fundamental thing about TCL?

Also probably all shell scripting languages, like Bash:

a=echo
$a Hello World
that does not contradict or invalidate that the idea behind them was/is to force processing fees on merchants. whatever benefits you may or may not enjoy are unrelated to the purpose behind cards being offered.
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For the same price you can get a nice DSLR and the iPhone SE 2. That's what I did. Heck even my Nikon D70 from 2008(bought it used in 2011) can still run circles around even the most expensive phones for pictures. Best camera is the one you have on you, well when you have kids you haul the DSLR around anyway. Sorry.
I'm using a distributed filesystem for persisted files (config, assets and resources, etc - anything that'd need to be in a docker volume and persisted between restarts) in my container workloads. This mostly works fine, except for sqlite applications that insist on using WAL - this completely breaks and results in corrupted database files.

Maybe this could be an alternative for those!
The way that this usually effects people's personal lifes, is when there are individuals who care way to much about abstract politics, turn it into a moral cursade, and think that if you don't agree with them on every single issue then this is some huge judgment on you as a person.

Basically, it is with us or against us mentality. Even not having an opinion on some abstract idea, means that you are therefore a perpetrator of this moral wrong.

Not caring about politics is often the worst sin that you can commit to those people, no matter what other actions you have taken in your personal life regarding them or the community.

This is less common in person, and more common with individuals who have arguments with their "friends" on Facebook and the like.

Anyone who makes a post like "If you don't agree with me on X, then unfriend me, as I don't want any people like you in my life!"
Teradata is laying off people today
Apple is aiming for 'zero climate impact.' The iPhone 12 won't help
On an semi-related topic, has anyone seen HTML+CSS (non-JS) versions of node relationship displays?

I'm working on a knowledge store and so many of the node/graph navigation tools are heavy JS libraries. I'd like to implement a pure HTML one for ultimate lightweight, but i've never seen one - so i'm struggling on inspiration.
> It turns out that the current generation of "assistants" are mostly just template-matchers which really doesn't help me much at all.

All the cases you've indicated as "so simple" are only so simple as template matching.

When generalized, they are hard problems.

Sure, you could have humans sketch out a few thousand templates enabling "Ok Google" to support such simple things like "What is the air quality at <location> <Time>" which looks up from an API. But that doesn't generalize "for free" outside of your templates.

Google seems to want to avoid handcrafted templates and go straight for the generalized solution.
Recently I switched on the auto-generated subtitle on a German video and it was not just bad. It was basically impossible to even guess what the original sentence was meant to be. Totally use-less technology in that case.
Yeah I noticed that too lol... need to look into that ... anyone know why that happens? definitely didn't do it on purpose...
The Post publishes a lot of disreputable trash that's outright false or unproven, but more and more often, it seems that they release primary sources of information (especially videos) much earlier than other news outlets will, if the other news outlets do so at all.

There have been multiple times when I've seen an insane video of something happening spreading around Twitter or WorldStar or some other "raw video" aggregation site, and then I'll see it on the NY Post, and that's it. The other major news sites will only show edited versions of the raw video with their own commentary playing over it, or they won't release it at all.

As a theoretical example-

Immediately after event:

Twitter: OH MY GOD look at this kid driving a schoolbus! <35 second video of a kid driving a schoolbus>

Two hours after event:

NY Post: Child seen driving school bus <35 second video of a kid driving a schoolbus>

Twelve hours after event:

NY Times: Child Arrested for School Bus Joyride <3 minute video, containing 18 seconds of footage from original video with expert analysis diagrammed on top>
Yes, I love how quickly people decided to forget that private companies are often selfish, egotistical and profit driven. The idea of Twitter as a "town center" is non-sense as long as one man essentially has full control over the conversation.

Solutions already exist like the brilliant https://memo.cash for blockchain based messaging.
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There are surprisingly little “cultural” differences between iPhone and dSLR, iPhone shots look like a Nikon at wrong ISO.
QuickBasic is still a thing!

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