skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or worried about anyone else too really. Platforms have had so much fun profiting off data that they chose to democratize the tools which enable random people with zero scruples to violate privacy at scale. The person who's actually spying on you might turn out to be some hobo who wrote an app you downloaded with overly broad permissions. It could be some open source browser extension author who got burnt out and turned to evil. I was just reading a lawsuit a few hours ago where some guys paid lenovo to preinstall a layered service provider on their laptops that decrypts https and proxies it through some service, but this particular time it generated a lot of outrage and attention because it injected ads on the page and broke nodejs. Somehow, that is called a startup.

I think most people get the sense that things like this are happening to them all the time. That their personal space is being violated without their consent. Except on a technical level, it's harder to understand than magic. The only people offering answers unfortunately are the ones who try and galvanize that anger towards big company x or government y, who are also totally culpable too, but for failing to act and defend us from all these micro-tyrants.
As I scan the comments, you're one of the few talking sense.

I'm a serious literature head. Mishima lives in a world that creates itself and then tries to impose that desired world on reality, dressing the entire essay in narrative poetry, like a ninja assassin he seeds poisonous concepts disguised as flowers in his readers heads. But their mental soil has none of the fertility of his mind, so they die in his fans, but his fans have fallen in love with his narrative poetry and that is what they cling.
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Shouldn't be too hard unless:

- you got deep into the custom headers

- you used ic-action heavily

- you used the path-dependency mechanism heavily

On a sibling comment I mentioned some new features in htmx:

- no jQuery dependency

- trigger filters: https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-trigger/

- HTML validation integration: https://htmx.org/docs/#validation

- Out of band swaps: https://htmx.org/docs/#oob_swaps

- htmx has a more advanced swapping mechanism (swap and settle, not documented well yet) that makes it easier to use CSS transitions

Happy to help out with the transition if you jump on the discord:

https://htmx.org/discord
The accumulation of many small wins in things like naming is often much more helpful than full-on overhauls. But you have to be willing to do the small, seemingly inconsequential things to build up to those.
> Why would I need to move it to another portion of the disk?

Sometimes you want to store applications on different disks. Like say a removable USB drive so you can use it at multiple computers, or you want to run some from an SSD but others are ok running from a larger slower disk. Or maybe you just want to run them directly off the network. "Installation" is just a copy operation from one media to another, "uninstallation" is just a delete operation. In other words: there is a minimum of abstraction, the application is a single file and performing the same operations you do on any other file to them does exactly what you think it does and the application is stored exactly where you think it is stored.
If we take that logic to the reductio ad absurdum, the other adults in your neighborhood could choose to band together, forcibly evict you from your house, and let one of their number live there — after all, that'd be their adult choice, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
> "Even in places and times of extreme lawlessness, generally society continues to function without everyone being murdered."

Remind me, how many people are declining to wear masks and ignoring stay-at-home directives during this pandemic?
Try ordering online from Walmart. You might order five items and get four packages in four days. Amazon used to be like this 15+ years ago.
People in comments suggesting alternatives like sourcegraph, zoekt, hound, etc -- I've set up local code search for repositories on my computer a while ago and tried out most of the tools I could find at the time [0]. Nothing comes remotely close to a simple ripgrep against literally all of the repositories, both in terms of convenience and speed (it's instantaneous against hundreds of repositories, at least on SSD!). The only hassle is configuring .ignore files (most is covered by .gitignores), but usually only have to do it a few times to exclude the few spammy offenders.

I'm using it with my emacs (+helm), I just have a global keybinding which instantly opens a new code search. I could imagine having a web frontend being very convenient for people who aren't hooked on Emacs, even I often want to persist a code search result for several days, so will give datasette-ripgrep a try!

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html#code
> I am then left with figuring out which changes are related to the bug fix and what is related to the cleanup.

Hmm. That has never been an issue for me in practice unless they go way too far with the refactoring. Usually it’s me who suggests cleanup for defensive coding reasons because the bug is often a coding issue.
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I have a suspicion that they might not be able to store everything, but do make aggregated reports.
They don’t re-seal. You can use them for dry goods storage or freezer jam, but if you need a seal for room temperature storage or cellar storage, they’re no good anymore.
Agree that it's important to be aware of licensing implications of dependencies.

As I mentioned in reply to another comment, from a first look at MPLv2 it seems like it could be a good fit for k6 as well.

You said:
> We chose MPLv2 specifically to address licensing concerns.

Is that something you've encountered while building Artillery? We've not met a lot of pushback from legal teams at companies using k6.
The point is that the retail service industry was a big source of "bullshit jobs" that America needs to a) keep wealth distribution reasonable^, and b) keep people believing that success is all about hard work and gumption&.

^ There are differing opinions on what is "reasonable".
& It sometimes is, but is usually about circumstance.
But this will take all the fun out of guessing where to choose your seat so you'll likely have the row to yourself, or to anxiously wait for them to say "boarding completed" and then make a mad dash to that empty row behind one's current seat!
I don't think it's about growing fast so much as, from those I talked to, Amazon now has a fairly bad reputation in the tech community. You only go to work there if you don't have a better option (Google, Facebook, etc) or have some specialty skill they're willing to pay for. Pay is below other FAANG companies and the work culture isn't great (toxic even some would say).

edit: They also had the most disorganized and de-centralized interview approach from all the FAANG companies I talked with. Which isn't growing pains this far in, it's just bad management and process.
May sound odd how does this fit in with spirituality ?
I really don't think writing needs to be that one thing or first step toward that one think.

Pretty often people write to clear head and process what is happening. Very often people write for fun - either own or fun of other people.

None of that is supposed to be concise or get to point.

Plus, writing to teach others is often better when not concise. The long version is often easier to remember then sort one.
YES! I am so happy this has come to Europe. Accelerating the economical collapse of the entire "west" is tight!
What statistical tests have you done to back up the claim "the ranking engine has been trained on a large amount of data and has high predictive power"?

I'm having trouble connecting predictive AI models on highly biased portfolios only optimized on historical data to live high risk-adjusted returns and diversified portfolios.

Do you have any numbers for the volatility of your portfolios and/or downside risks?
No! and that's why we had nuclear deal with Iran to monitor their nuclear program. No country has the same amount of international monitoring on their nuclear program that Iran has by IAEA. They signed more nuclear treaties than many other countries with nuclear power.

Putting sanctions and and assassinating their generals and scientist will only give them more reason to distance themselves from west.

You can't use force and unlawful actions and expect your opponent to do nothing or trust you after that. We need sensible solutions.
Wigner's friend might have something to say about this...

I don't have a specific argument to make here, only the feeling that if it were all just a matter of what a given observer knows, no-one would be talking about there being a QM measurement problem.
That's fine, unpoly is a reasonable approach to building front end code, but it's a very different model.

htmx is focused on improving html qua html. It doesn't have any notion of the server side beyond that which html has: URLs. As such it is attempting to say within the original model of the web: a hypertext architecture with REST/HATEOAS as the bedrock.

It isn't a complete framework in the flavor of unpoly, and so it won't have the expressive power of unpoly in many cases. That's an intentional tradeoff based on the core motivating concept of the library.

Which is fine: different strokes for different folks.
It all goes back to what was the consultant actually hired to do? Was it to rewrite that code? Who is watching what the consultant actually does?
I just realized now in after hand that the statement "Google does not use any personal information collected through the Public DNS service to target ads" confirms that they ARE collecting personal information from the DNS service, they are just not using it for targeting ads.

Why are they collecting personal information in the first place, for a public DNS service that is supposedly built for "faster and safer DNS infrastructure"? Collecting no personal data would certainly be the fastest and safest for me as a user.
While you’re right in absolute terms, I think you’re obscuring a valid point.

The ONS having tests doesn’t change the fact that for the vast majority of the population, being an essential worker was the only way to get a test.

The ONS tests are not the only input to the announced R number are they? Maybe I’m misunderstanding horribly, but it seems like you’re saying there’s absolutely no correlation whatsoever between availability of tests to the general public and the accuracy of the announced R number for the general public.

If I’m misunderstanding I do genuinely want to understand!
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One example was a quantity field that could say “warehouse”, which meant there was quantity in the warehouse but some manual process needed to be done.

Why were they using a quantity field for more than just numbers? Why was it only being used in some corner of the code in a totally different module?
> They are both programs with logarithmic Kolmogorov complexity

In the case of true random numbers, how is that so?

Very few random sequences can be generated by a logarithmic-sized program, since most strings are not significantly compressible [1]. A simple counting argument shows that: there are 2^n strings of n bits, but only 2^(lg n) = n logarithmic-sized strings, a much smaller number!

[1] http://theory.stanford.edu/~trevisan/cs154-12/kolcomplexity-...
Ahh, pity.
Similarly you can compile Rust in "edition = 2015" or "edition = 2018" and soon "edition = 2021" to guard against changes in the language, e.g. adding keywords.

There are already alternative compilers, though most of them are WIP, e.g. mrustc[1], rust front-end for gcc[2][3], or using cranelift[4] for the back-end.

[1] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

[2] https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust/tree/rust

[3] https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs

[4] https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift
We need fascism, ASAP. No free thought can be allowed!
Authentication works the normal way: you login via a login screen and that typically would establish a session cookie.

You can also use events to hook in CRSF tokens if you need to do so.

But it tries to use the original security model of the web as much as possible.
One approach is to live every day as if you would live it forever again until eternity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return#Friedrich_Nietz...

The concept of "eternal recurrence"––"the idea that all events in the world repeat themselves in the same sequence through an eternal series of cycles"––is central to the mature writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Nietzsche calls the idea "horrifying and paralyzing", [citation needed] referring to it as a burden of the "heaviest weight" ("das schwerste Gewicht") imaginable. He professes that the wish for the eternal return of all events would mark the ultimate affirmation of life:

> What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' [The Gay Science, §341]

To comprehend eternal recurrence in his thought, and to not merely come to peace with it but to embrace it, requires amor fati, "love of fate":

> My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants to have nothing different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear the necessary, still less to conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness before the necessary—but to love it.
How do you know you're not introducing a bug by replacing copy/paste code with common functions?

Most of the production code I've touched I would never dare to do something like this until I had a very good understanding of the codebase as a whole.
I have a better idea. Let’s make driving to the store a net positive for the environment, and then people can do it as much as they damn well please.
Bolts for a car? I would not dare buy bolts on Amazon due to the risk of counterfeits with lower grade than advertized.
Philip McShane expressed this nicely: "...a thing is defined by... systematizations of coincidental aggregates of the properties of lower things". Probability theory "allows for the emergence of the systematic from the non-systematic".
I might finally beat nightmare!
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Yes! I'm so glad you mentioned this, this was utterly fascinating to me too. I don't think Covid is some miracle drug, but it's really interesting how different things can seemingly trigger the body's reaction to heal itself.
I'm sorry, but if you reply in such a hostile manner, I really have no interest in a discussion. You don't seem open to actually discussing anything and would rather pontificate for upvotes.

My suggestion: read more history books and learn to appreciate the sacrifices that your forebears made so that you have the privilege of having your current opinion. A lot of people died for you to to be able to have the freedom to write unappreciative, snarky comments on the Internet. America certainly isn't perfect, but even a cursory reading of history will show you that the alternatives were far, far, worse. Unless you think Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Confederate States would have been better moral leaders?
That's great to hear and one of the big benefits to an HTML-first architecture: it's much easier to understand the entire stack, for feature development as well as optimization.

Thanks for mentioning it!
I wondered this too as soon as I got to “(It’s just code, after all)”.
I saw this title, PDI Check, on the Nintendo eShop listed for $99.99 USD: http://www.pdicheck.com/

I was curious and looked into it. It's very interesting to me to see an effective clinical application of the 3DS's hardware.
Yes, if anything needs fixing, it's governments. Because they are the ones who should fix large corporations. Not their employees or their customers.
Amusingly, last few times I have tried to print from my phone have not been successful. I recall one printer wanting me to have a particular app. Or, now, one expected to have internet access, which I don't have at home other than my phone connection right now.

That said, I would still count this as having nice things. When we got rid of our ancient printer and bought a current one, it does work more often. Ironically, better from Linux, as I don't have to install drivers; because of course it came with a windows disk that has installed some crap on that computer.

So, try this with what you could find at Goodwill some day. Or work with a budget where you stay trying to get refills to work.
A margin of a dollar? I believe you should support your local store as long as you can afford it. It's more work, money, and time off your day but it's likely you waste the extra time Amazon convenience gives you with browsing HN, or the like, anyways. Local business also most likely have picked up curbside for convenience.

It's in Amazon's best interest to shutter all locals aside from what they own (Whole Foods, Amazon Grocery, etc). Their ultimate goal is automating everything they can to remove the human element and maximize revenue. You can see other businesses like Starbucks taking over as well in different fields. In my opinion it's a matter of time until Amazon starts their own attempt at local cafes.

We had presidential candidates in the US like Andrew Yang that recognize this effort and want to get ahead of it with UBI but I'm sure you know how that turned out. If the government isn't going to support local businesses in dire times, who will? And who wants to live in a boring world where there are no local shops?
the point of refactoring isn't reflected in the code

if your organization has lost its grip on the code base, no one understands it, and every time you try to touch it something odd breaks and you have to spend days tracking it down - you have a problem.

if you can talk to someone about what the code does, and there is sufficient testing in place so make it safe to change - you don't have a problem.

refactoring is the process of (re)taking ownership of the codebase. the result is in your head. you don't even need to get the result committed for it to have been useful.
That’s a great point. I’ll add a demo link to the sidebar and make it scroll up and highlight the header. Thanks!
> What appears to be their own hand rolled gossip protocol (that is clearly terrible compared to raft or paxos)

Raft and Paxos are not gossip protocols - they are consensus protocols.
To your last point: no, surely not. I think it's a failing of our current public view (daily news cycle perhaps?) of politics where politicians always have to be seen 'doing things' about all this evil lurking about, and if they aren't, then should anything happen, the blame lies squarely in their lap.

This, I'd argue, leads to it always being essentially career-wise risk-free to be more tough/stringent/et c. on <evil thing du jour>. And why not? There's hardly any downside. It's all unfortunately about optics.

EDIT: re-reading your comment, I realize I'm just stating in more words your salient point. It is, however, a particularly difficult hole to dig ourselves up from though.
javajosh, you seem to have a very strange model of the motives of managers in retail, a famously low-margin business.
in the short term, at the individual level, that is entirely rational thinking. I would argue in the long term all of these tiny decisions in aggregate end up being net negative.

if that is an accurate assumption, what is the solution? perhaps a paradigm shift in retail tech that enables any manufacturer to engage in direct to consumer at far reduced complexity? micro/regional manufacturing?
And my favorite of the old bbs scene. :)
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Yeah, this is what I meant. For example the paint in colored plastics. Which is why all those colorful "upcycled" food bowls from plastic fantastic kind of worry me.

To be clear: I don't know if the paint in plastic is dangerous, the problem is that I also don't know if they're not. It feels like the kind of area where even without bad intentions/incentives, the people who made the plastics or who set up the regulations for them might have assumed there is no real risk, because nobody planned for this type of plastic recycling.
Privacy invasions are always about everyone else's right to life. Supporters of Patriot Act honestly, wholeheartedly believe that there'll be more 9/11s if the government isn't allowed to spy on the public. I'm not an absolutist on this, there are some situations where there's just no reasonable choice but a temporary restriction on rights, but appealing to the sacred value of life doesn't work here.
I think this is deceiving because they were boot strapped with fossil fuels. When they can manufacture all the equipment needed to generate the renewable electricity with the renewable electricity then I think we're getting somewhere.
This is what Cal Newport says in his book "Deep Work". I think this is correct. His book scared me to my core. I do not want to be left behind and fall even more behind overtime. Which is how it has been for my parents.

This fear is what drove me to really change how I work. I do deep work on tasks for stretches of time and I've been doing a lot of personal automation.
I suppose the loops do help in the sense that looping in Clojure tends to favour using higher level abstractions. I don't think I've ever used while, I use doseq only for side-effects, for is for list comprehensions (or for when its more readable than map), but most of my looping is actually through map, reduce, filter/remove, etc. So I suppose you're right because that is definitely less error prone than C-style for loops. So yeah, as you say, the higher level sequence abstractions definitely do help reduce errors in comparison to traditional loops.

> how does i work?

The language can handle the mutability internally, perhaps? That is, the user only sees immutability, but under the hood, the language maintains the state mutably. But I guess that's just an optimisation over recursion since the end-users code looks the same as if it were recursive. Kinda like 'reduce'.
I'm sure it's great, but we'll have to wait for the source/demo/pretrained model to really tell.
I’d be curious to know how has competition scaled.

> It far outstrips the 230,000 employees that Walmart, the largest private employer with more than 2.2 million workers, added in a single year two decades ago.
I wouldn't count on that over the mid-term.

I've worked with a lot of Amazon merchants where they would put up a item with a decent margin and good sales only to be reliably be cut out from that exact item by Amazon offering it themselves after 1-2 months. The core of their business on Amazon was to continuously hustle and identify new products that would fill that niche, as that made up for the biggest chunk of their profit.

So there are many 3rd party merchants at risk _now_ on Amazon.

Apart from that there are also numerous brands from Amazon themselves already. Most obviously "Amazon Basics" and "Amazon Essentials", but also many with a non-obvious name[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17602470011
Now that You have provided examples of what You don't want.

Could You provide examples of any online community with a comments section that is more of what You consider better?

Or is this just a rant in the form of a question? (Which is ok, just want to make this a more rationale, evidence based discussion)