skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would characterize the ads of yesteryear as, more often than not, straight up malware. As in, definitely trying to skim your personal info using fake-site phishing tactics, or get you to download and execute malicious code. Particularly nasty ones would basically hijack your browser and make it uncloseable, or literally fill the screen with replicating popups.

The current state of Internet ads, which is mostly just exactly the same car, consumer goods, and travel agency ads you see on TV, plus the modern version of informercial doohickey ads, is much more benign IMO.
> Now it's permeated everything to the extent that almost every click is paid for.

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That last part about the business not being able to validate years worth of data sounds heartbreaking to me. I particularly enjoy learning about the different businesses I've worked with (banking, oil, cheeses!...) doing "BI" stuff. Some of the things you see are genuinely interesting, even more so than the actual job that I'm hired to do (programming is also really cool =D)
> On the "we force you to buy our OWN UNIQUE cables because f... the global standards and nature" they are still doing pretty bad

Considering the looong time that it took (takes!) to get out USB-C, and the early "fried laptop" issues, one can't exactly blame them ?
I think people who stick heaps of fruit salad pills into their gob because "muh science" are, in fact, dipshits. Darwin award winning dipshits. Plenty of "merely ignorant" people have the common sense required to refrain from shoving grams of factory produced mystery chemicals down their throats because some marketer convinced them it might be a good idea.

I realize there is a large contingent of HN numskulls who just luuurb to chime in with a list of their "meds," for conditions imaginary and otherwise, whose idea of activity is playing video games while subsisting on a diet of microwave pizza rolls. Such people probably got that way in the first place by being coddled, rather than encouraged to not commit slow suicide by remaining inert lumps of dung who think their Jetsons fruit salad is doing them any good. Maybe being confronted with harsh language will save a few of them. Either way, it won't hurt them. But hey, that's just, like, my opinion man.
I sometimes use it at work when asked if something can be done and the answer is yes but it's unlikely to be worth the effort
> A second general solution to the problem of cooling the mark out consists of offering him a status which differs from the one he has lost or failed to gain but which provides at least a something or a somebody for him to become. Usually the alternative presented to the mark is a compromise of some kind, providing him with some of the trappings of his lost status as well as some of its spirit. A lover may be asked to become a friend; a student of medicine may be asked to switch to the study of dentistry; a boxer may become a trainer; a dying person may be asked to broaden and empty his worldly loves so as to embrace the All-Father that is about to receive him. Sometimes the mark is allowed to retain his status but is required to fulfill it in a different environment: the honest policeman is transferred to a lonely beat; the too zealous priest is encouraged to enter a monastery; an unsatisfactory plant manager is shipped off to another branch. Sometimes the mark is "kicked upstairs" and given a courtesy status such as "Vice President." In the game for social roles, transfer up, down, or away may all be consolation prizes.

> [...] Where roles are ranked and somewhat related, persons who have been rejected from the one above may be difficult to distinguish from persons who have risen from the one below. For example, in America, upper class women who fail to make a marriage in their own circle may follow the recognized route of marrying an upper middle class professional. Successful lower middle class women may arrive at the same station in life, coming from the other direction. Similarly, among those who mingle with one another as colleagues in
the profession of dentistry, it is possible to find some who have failed to become physicians and others who have succeeded at not becoming pharmacists or optometrists. No doubt there are few positions in life that do not throw together some persons who are there by virtue of failure and other persons who are there by virtue of success. In this sense, the dead are sorted but not segregated, and continue to walk
among the living.

On Cooling the Mark Out:
Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure -- Erving Goffman

Psychiatry: Journal of Interpersonal Relations 1952

http://infofranpro.wdfiles.com/local--files/19520101-on-cool...
Not sure if this is qualified: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite

It seems to be a Sqlite (compatible) implementation written in Go.
I'm surprised this has been noticed now. This has been happening to me with Firefox on and off for about a year, until I decided to switch to nitter.
It's quite a mess indeed.

There's obviously a contemporary movement that all your systems should be rebuildable by code, which would make getting the systems back into a trusted state (assuming you trust other layers / your code) a lot easier.

Obviously this doesn't help if your data is already messed up, if firmwares are hacked, and if your code itself hasn't had te rigour to be trusted, but it's a hell of a lot better position than "scan, remove, forget".
Some people are seeing what they want to see: the Swedish approach hasn't failed. Lockdowns have failed.

Remember Sweden was supposed to see 25x hospital overflow and 100,000+ excess deaths according to the models. Instead they have seen a basically normal year in which excess deaths might come in to about 2,000 to 3,000 by the time December is counted.

Meanwhile, lockdowns were meant to just last a few weeks to help ride out a temporary exceedance of hospital capacity. 9 months later people are still locked down with no end in sight, considering that many vaccines don't attempt to halt transmission. Meanwhile there are no correlations visible between severity of lockdown and healthcare outcomes. None. It is a 100% and total failure as a policy.

The media and international establishment types have been pumping out anti-Swedish propaganda for a long time now. You have to double check it carefully to notice it's false. For example, ICU capacity is extremely flexible. Sweden more than doubled it via a variety of mostly administrative means in the first wave and never ran out, even though in the first wave there were more hospitalisations than in the second. The occupancy figures that get thrown around are thus frequently meaningless because the denominator can change so fast. As for "thinking of requesting private nurses to help", is that meant to indicate a crisis? Why should anyone turn their lives upside down to avoid hospital managers having to do such trivial and basic things?

Meanwhile, lockdowns caused a significant fraction (nearly half) of all excess death in the UK in the first wave, and there's significant evidence that COVID is being significantly over-classified even on death certificates in the second wave. The economic destruction will undermine healthcare spending for years or even decades to come. The destruction of confidence in public health officials and 'scientists' is even more severe. It's a catastrophic policy that Sweden correctly ignored, and their reward is a basically normal year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
Testing h.266/VVC performance and quality vs. h.265/HEVC using VTM
Apple provides Core NFC to developers: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc

It must either be pretty neutered, or against the terms to use it for payment processing, given that there are no competitors to Apple Pay on the App Store that take advantage of the iPhone’s NFC chip or Secure Enclave (that I’m aware of).

I could definitely see the antitrust angle on this.
FWIW this is my first time coming across this project, and I had the same initial reaction.
My english is not good enough to translate this. Even with dictionary I have no chance. What is meaning of this - for example?
"She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array."
I understand every word, but don't get meaning at all.
ASO Experiments Part 2: Increase the number of characters available for keywords
I don't know about ponies, but for snapshots, I disagree: snapshots don't model diffs properly, and many operations in Git are essentially trying to simulate patches:

- Merge and rebase both try to "replay" patches. But because Git doesn't work with patches, it actually only simulates that, using heuristic algorithms such as 3-way merge. This works most of the time, but not always (see https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html).

- Conflict resolutions in Git cannot be modeled as patches, and you need `git rerere` to simulate that. This is not anecdotal, since conflicts is the one situation where you need the best and most intuitive tool.

- Short-lived branches are another poor simulation of patches: if Git were really working on patches, you would be able to create a branch "after the fact", meaning that you would work (possibly on multiple features at the same time), and push different parts of your work separately, without having to worry about branches before you start.
Well, you see, Cyberpunk 2077 is based off of a 1988 tabletop RPG named “Cyberpunk” that took place in 2020.

They wanted to release in 2020 to honor this significance. It has nothing to do with lying to consumers and maximizing profits from a holiday season during a pandemic with new consoles and hot new GPUs. /s
(I'm neither a physicist nor a philosopher and happy to be corrected.)

I don't believe you can. Given a snapshot of an arrow suspended in air, how do you know its direction and speed (or if it has been shot at all rather than just been let go in mid-air)? That's basically Zeno's paradox of the arrow[0]. A snapshot description without speed doesn't tell you anything about speed.

In the case of light-waves, their propagation is governed by Maxwell's equations, which have have a dynamic component (induction).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradox#Arrow_paradox

(Edit: typo.)
Adding another datapoint on this: I’ve been a Stripe customer for 5-6 years and have received outstanding customer service.

This includes immediate callbacks by phone, knowledgeable support on disputes, etc. Each time the support person has been more knowledgeable than I’d expect at a company this size. For more context, in case it matters, we process roughly 200k of through stripe annually.

10/10 service for me.
I much prefer doing MacOS or iOS layout work rather than working with the absolute clusterfuck that is HTML and CSS.
FYI: Perl5 has always had moderately strong static typing and runtime warnings, as well as forward references. I always wince when people try to tell me that python is "better" or "more modern."

To enable in Perl:

use strict;

use diagnostics;
There are a bunch of different instances running the nitter software too, so please consider choosing another one to avoid hugging nitter.net too much. Here's the list: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Yes, the contract that was arranged by a federal agent did have a real person involved.

The person blackmailing him was the person who he contracted to do the deed, and the name he had for the blackmailer was not a real person, 3 of the people never even were named in any way and did not exist either.

He did think he had killed a total (that we know of) of 6 people, which to me would be enough for soliciting murder if I were on a jury. But a defense would be very strong in a case like that, and a prosecutor unlikely to convince 12 jurors.
More propaganda. You're ignoring the variable that matters most: excess death in the previous year.

https://www.aier.org/article/swedens-dry-tinder-accounts-for...

Include that and you can find the reason for this supposed mystery: Sweden had an extremely low number of deaths in 2019 compared to its neighbours. They'd have regressed to the trend sooner or later anyway, whether it be via flu or natural attrition, but it ended up being COVID.

This comparison also assumes there are somehow great differences between European countries, that Sweden and France are as incomparable as Sweden and Saudi Arabia or India. Nobody ever presents an argument for why that is, so these "don't look at France or the UK, Sweden can only be compared to Norway" argumetns end up looking like motivated reasoning.

Swedish deaths are not going to be anything remarkable this year compared over the last 10 years. Probably 3-5% higher than the 10 year average, so a few thousand deaths, all of whom will have been very old. For a supposedly deadly pandemic that's pretty good.
Which Political Party has the most eco-friendly website?
Or if you're from a country where there is no official Amazon store. Like some eastern european countries
You didn't read the papers. Anyway, the literature is chock full of "sleeping pills associated with early death." Whether the pills are causing it, or because people with deadly sleep apneas pop a lot of pills is really pretty irrelevant: take home is the pills ain't helping you, so you better get serious about fixing things.
From what I can gather from the replies, a bunch of us are curious nerds that are passionate about their carreers =)

Now all I need is to figure out how to make a living out of it XD
Show HN: TypeCatch Find font pairing for your next project
That is a permission to install a font system wide, not the same thing
> Patches are commutative (barring conflicts).

That isn't quite true, even without conflicts. The same example that shows that Git merge is not associative (https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html) can be used to show that it also isn't commutative.
Handful of Twitter Users Can Sway Council Decisions, Finds Data Analysis
Yes, that's true. But I was once thinking how many developers are directly or indirectly dependent on ad money. I believe that there would be quite a significant ratio of developers who would lose their job if the ad or even if just the personalized ads are stopped. Even mozilla, which is most active privacy oriented organization could only pay their developers through ad money. Thoughts?
From top of my head: GTAV, RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, FF7 remake, Demon's Souls Remake, nioh 2, Dragon Quest Builders 2 - all got released on console in a proper good playable state without any giant bugs (or even small ones if that matters). Played them all at launch day 1 and didn't encounter any issues, so it is totallly possible to release a finished game in 2020 ;)

Sadly Cyberpunk 2077 is not that, game on consoles looks like a PoC demo at best.
> That’s the strongest truthful statement any company can give you.

Oh, I agree that no company will ever make a categorical denial of something like this; I just don't think that justifies promoting a lesser denial into a categorical one.
According to the conference call, they never really prioritized performance on prev gen consoles. We don't know if this would have changed with more time or if they would have used the time for other fixes / features.
Concentration is indeed a powerful skill for any human to have. It gives one the ability to apply themselves at the task at hand.

One thing that I have discovered is that one can’t concentrate intensely on different hard things at the same time.

The why behind the concentration is also very important.

The blog article here https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/do-not-engage-the-mi... explains this further.
Do you realize that you're plain in what Dijkstra criticizes? All you say is being contered in the talk.

> [..] way too big to test every possible code path

He disregards tests. Most are futile. Maybe automated testing could make some sense (fuzzing, quickcheck, etc), but still, most are stupidly weak and offer no guarantee whatsoever (even quantitatively).

> I'd rather have an OS with a few bugs than no OS at all.

He specifically argues for error instead of bug so that we can't say it's "almost correct" but only that it is "wrong". "a few bugs" is just "wrong".
The website continues to work, but when you go to "Messages" tab, it shows an error.
This is an issue I've noticed too... when I open a new tab (in the background) to Twitter, then Safari won't execute the javascript until I go to the tab and hit refresh.

It sucks, because it adds a new refresh cycle just to see the tweet.
> Is this why the web is less successful than it might be?

I'm struggling to understand this question. If the web were more successful than it already is right now... what would that look like?
You have a typo in your URL, it should be:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...
You probably don't need to improve, just play. Or you could teach someone.
The author is a ~2500 GM. I do think it depends on the kind of chess though, bullet is rather different to classical in mental requirements.
It’s great for flattening it too, so you can figure out the path to specific content in those larger gnarly docs.
I saw a problem recently where a file had a .csv extension but was actually colon delimited. The data contained fields with large quantities of text so a CSV parser happily parsed the file splitting lines on commas in the text and didn't complain so the problem wasn't noticed until much later in the processing of the data.
Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College [video] (2009)
Uh-oh. Looks like you logiced me.
> why couldn't there have been a <vcenter> from the beginning?

Because HTML is incrementally rendered. The content of <center> can be rendered line by line as data arrives, but a <vcenter> would need the full content to be loaded before it could be rendered, since you need to know the dimensions of the content before you can center it vertically in a container.

Vertical centering cannot be supported in the ordinary top-down incremental flow rendering. It requires a more complex layout model like table, flex or grid.
As long as you make the Filene extension .scsv

Jokes aside, we had that debate in our team way back and decided to follow the rfc and only use commas. The format is often abused, better not create more tools that do so.
Urbit is often about confusing naming and reinventing/redesigning meaning. I guess you have to accept it to really get into it?
And in shipping we could distinguish packaging and transport.
I would like to rate both.
> 90. Consider Static Analysis via typing to Obviate Bugs

Personally I wouldn't recommend using typings (we've tried around 1 year ago for multiple greenfield services ~5k LOC each):

- you will be better off investing into proper testing (I mean here code coverage), refactoring and onboarding documentatio/handholding sessions with devs who are on top of the codebase

- in practice annotations make code LESS readible, not more (unless variable names and general code structure and conventions are bad)

- remember most Python devs have little experience with staticly typed langauges, so in practice your team will be skipping annotations - e.g using Dict[str, Any], which defeats the whole purpose of annotations; actually seasoned C++ devs will be skipping it once they will see they can get away with it

Typings are still in 0.x version and are constantly changing - do it for fun or to put typings on your CV, but don't expect it's going to help with readibility, bug prevention, documentation. These are solved with proper structure, conventions, testing and developer prep (readme + pairing).

If you believe bigger projects need annotations tell me why Sentry didn't go with them yet?
I wonder why this happened to Cyberpunk 2077 when it did not happen to No Man's Sky. It could just be inconsistent enforcement or greater negative response, but it was also a timed exclusive with publishing assistance from Sony.
Apple is selling this as defending privacy, which is fair. But their motivations aren’t entirely altruistic. It also plays to their business model.

By choking off in-app ad revenue, they force developers who want to monetise towards paid and freemium apps.

That shifts revenue away from the ad networks (Facebook and Google) towards the app store, on which Apple can take their 15-30% share.
Three of the 10 biggest tech IPOs have happened in 2020
Why is Wikipedia a good example? It's a freely available encyclopedia without tracking nor ads.
You could also just keep the SVN repo around for its commit history and start a new git repo with the trunk imported without history. Sure you'll have to switch back and forth between the two repos for history, but over time it'll become less and less necessary.

Microsoft has done this for many long-lived repos; Windows and SQL Server are the two famous examples, with multiple such transitions.
TechCrunch ex-COO Ned Desmond has joined SOSV as senior operating partner
Spring vs. Micronaut vs. Quarkus: Which One Is the Best Framework for You?
I'm just stating that there's an alternative to asking for only 5-star reviews that will likely work better. Just asking for honest reviews (and offering a discount for them) is more ethical, and the honesty will be appreciated by customers.
Interesting. I've never seen this kind of visualization used for dictionary hierarchies like this.
> I don't get the folks who expect, exactly from this studio, to have perfect bug-less game on Day-1. I mean, how far detached from reality and clueless about games in general must you be?

50 years ago the quality of the code was much better. I expect some things from SW that I buy: 1. To run on normal HW (i.e. home PC or laptop dedicated mainly to web browsing and watching movies) or on the target HW
2. To have a usable interface ( Hello MS, Apple, Google - do you listen ?)
3. To be bug free or at least the main anoying bugs to be fixed. (Hello MS, Google - do you listen ?)(yes i paid for my Android phone)

>There are very few studios who can produce such quality prior to release (ie last Zelda), but I guess they are not under such pressure to release on many platforms in parallel just before christmas.

I'm impressed. So you are saying that a lot of "studios" produce crap and this is ok because other do it.

> It will be an amazing game once the patches progresses, and if you are tolerant I am sure it already is.

That's what they said about MS Windows too and look what it became of it.

> I would expect decent in 2 months, great in 6 months, awesome in 1-2 years (unofficial patches/modding including). Just like many other open world games.

See MS Windows.

> Personally, I'll wait for those 2 months at least, also due to getting better/smoother performance out of my current PC rig. I have no doubt its a game I will enjoy tremendously, again and again, it fits my preferred style very much.

Until one day when you had enough of its bugs, you smash the keyboard and the mouse in despair and you uninstall it.
I'm thinking about possible approaches from time to time. There's the ethical aspect, but also removal messes up threaded comment systems. A common workaround seems to be to leave the removed comment in place, but make its contents blank.

I think a good solution would be setting aside all owner-removed comments, concealed but available for review if someone clicks on them:

+ (124 comments removed by the author)

That the content uploader/business owner would be able to hide genuinely disruptive and spammy messages. Abusing the power would be pretty easy to expose. Just expand the list of removed comments and see if they're really trash or merely criticizing the author/owner/uploader.
Because we have had millennia to observe the effects of physical attacks, but the other 2 are much more recent? We haven't yet learnt the hard way.