skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a foreigner, I'd mention that he did not start any new wars around the globe

Unless you count the US-Iran conflict he started, sure. (And if you don't count that because you want to claim it as a continuation or mutation of a preexisting conflict, a number of other Presidents also haven't started wars, just participated in such evolutions of preexisting crises.)
Yes, this may be a bit irritating. I actually failed to recognize my own article in the list. :-)
I think I put this too strongly, in retrospect.

By "distrust", I just mean that I do not default to trusting any news source I know of. I try to take what they say as plausible but not likely the complete picture. I also keep an eye out for what their overarching narratives tend to be and try to compensate for that in my own interpretation of events.
Think about what you were doing an hour ago. Now think about what you were doing 6 million years ago. You will be doing the same thing as then the day after you die.

You are not aware of the 13.8 billion years that preceded your birth. You have some conception of the abstraction of time, that an unknowable past has occurred, but that is not awareness.

You are going to die, just like the rest of us, and all that's waiting for you is the same oblivion that yielded you in the first place. You've been through that once before. There's nothing to worry about.
they're only fine because they did it cleverly via a Swiss Foundation
if they did it via US company, they would be hit with similar lawsuit
How many interviews do people do a year? I've been in my job 5 years and the one before that 8, I've had 4 interviews in the last 10 years. I kinda feel at a big advantage for not job hopping. It seems some people interview a dozen times a year just as normal.

Should I try to get 10 interviews just for practice before interviewing companies I really like?
James E. Gunn, professor emeritus, University of Kansas

He wrote science fiction, in particular a novel "The Listeners", 1972. I don't read much SciFi, but I think "The listeners" is very good. It is worth reading if you can find a copy.
I haven't tried it yet, but I can say the Cemu emulator (Wii U) works quite better than I imagined.
Adobe claimed that they could have gotten Flash to run on the first iPhone if Apple had allowed them. When Flash finally came to Android, the minimum requirements were 1GB RAM and a 1Ghz CPU. It barely ran then.

The first iPhone had 128MB RAM and a 400Mhz CPU. It was five years later before an iPhone had those specs.

The first iPad in 2010 only had 256MB RAM. It couldn’t even run Safari without crashing a year later when iOS 5 came out because of having too little memory.
I'd still be most impressed to see an AI beat the top Civilization players. No mechanical advantage since it's turn based, but there are several different types of decisions to make beyond just "move a piece". AIs haven't yet conquered such environments.

It would also give the gaming industry a kick in the pants to start making better AIs.
Ah, well in that case I agree.

Apple should allow it, especially since they're the ones who jostled to become a middleman to 'protect' their users.
> I'm suggesting the book should be treated very skeptically.

Well then why did you write about liking the book and whether it's good as the cause of disagreement? That's a very very different thing from whether the book is an accurate source!

Even a specific section you prove to be wrong can still be good.
As a user, I have the following honest question for anyone who's clamoring for the abolishment of the App Store(s):

Can you guarantee that your proposed distribution mechanism will give me a refund if I ask for it?

Apple has always given me a refund for all third-party apps, almost no questions asked, ever.

Whereas on the other hand, apps/services which bypass In-App Purchases and use their own payment systems stall me for weeks or months before they refund, if ever. For example I'm still trying to get my money back from Couchsurfing after they basically hijacked my account about a month ago until I paid a "COVID contribution" just to delete my info.
stop deleting flagged posts!! we will never ever improve if you keep deleting antithesis!!!!!! bad arguments are necessary!
Very good point. I've thought that about Google, starting years ago. Look at the Wave fiasco / failure. That would not have happened (at least due to reasons of unusable slowness) if your suggestion had been implemented there. And there are many other examples of their products needing more machine horsepower.
On the contrary, they equip their developers with high-end machines. How dumb. It should at least be a mix of low and high-end, and should be made compulsory to test the products on low-end satisfactorily before release.
> 13. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. You’ll find better recipes.

> No. You'll find recipes whose authors did bare-minimum SEO, not produced better recipes.

This advice is only true because if you do this with many western foods it turns up Kenji Alt-Lopez's recipes that are named this way, and they actually are the best (well, most researched and perfected).
3k US health workers died of Covid
Right I guess what is needed is some way for cell dependencies to be known, so that all cells that depend on a changed cell will automatically update.
> Same kind of person who never finds a partner because of the "ceremony around" dating, I guess?

Surely its the person who gets married and doesn't have to deal with that any more. Its a good reason to stay in a company a long time, like the OP says.
Nowadays, what's exactly "Adware"? Apps/Games with ads is now usual (remember Opera is called Adware). Possibly an app that forcely displays ads still can be called as Adware, but it's not possible on iOS and need manual additional permission on Android.
Also, the Web PKI model has no real granular authorization when it comes to which CA can issue for which domain. A trusted CA can issue for any domain. So if you TOFU in my CA to connect to my website you’re also allowing me to issue for google.com.

Obviously this is all addressable in theory, but now you’d need some kinda policy system baked in pretty much everywhere.
appreciated your previous tweet but I am falling asleep here & none of your rebuttals feel like they address the topics raised in a genuine/direct fashion. so many stronger points to make against this
The report timeline was listed in the link, with this new variant being reported on September 23rd.

Having disclosure deadlines is the only way to get away from companies taking literal years to provide patches, and the deadlines only matter if they're actually enforced.
> If you're a skilled worker, you're livelihood (and security) comes from your skills.

Didn't protect James Damore.
This is click bait.

Google My Business is a Google maps profile. Of course you are going to need a physical address.
> There is no mechanism to make paid updates possible.

Sure there is! Quite a few apps are delivered as separate numbered versions, like Acorn 4, Acorn 5, Acorn 6, Textual 7 etc.

That's how software used to work a millenia ago. Yearly updates that you would buy separately should you chose to.

Most of the time I can still download older versions even if they're not listed on the App Store.
I note that your rejection of Ayn Rand's philosophy is that it "leaves you cold", rather than a rational refutation of it.

Ayn Rand begins with axioms, and logically derives her position from there. (Well, maybe. I suspect that at least to some degree, she already had her position, and derived her axioms from there, then argued for her position from her axioms.) So I attack her position by saying that in her third axiom, she mis-defines consciousness, and the rest of her errors follow from her flawed starting position. That's rational. "It leaves me cold" is not a rational response. (It may be an indication that you feel there's something wrong with the position, even if you can't define it or prove it, and that's fine. But it's not a rational response.)
Gambling Industry regulators issue fines in excess of £44m in 2020
I love when candidates go on sort of relevant tangents. It shows they've actually done the work and formed opinions about it. Pros and cons, maintenance and growth, missteps and how they've been burned, competing or preferred solutions, etc. It means they are capable of more than: I can code in X and help clear your backlog.
I agree with the end point you made but I think it's really unhealthy to think about any time not spent working as losing money.
I've encountered the "wait on async things from sync code" issue several times, too. I have found that something like `block_on` from either `futures` or `futures_lite` often does the trick.

https://docs.rs/futures-lite/1.11.3/futures_lite/future/fn.b...
this is 100% the thing apple does that google absolutely refuses to de-intermediate themselves out of. apple allows direct bluetooth discovery, google 100% insists on closed proprietary "android nearby" systems to find local devices. neither release protocols or standards to interoperate on.
It is possible to buy highly targeted personal data as a seller on Amazon marketplace.

You buy generic of a well-sold product id and sell it at a discount. Your inventory goes to the top of the stack and sells through.

You get the full name address and contact info of everyone interested. This can be combined with data broker info to assemble galaxies around these individuals who can then be remarketed to in uncountable ways.

This is against the terms of service of course, but so was keeping Facebook user profile data of people who installed your apps back in the day.

There’s no way to police the behavior and it’s open season.

You can do this on just about any product and if you go into weird niches you can find very particular types of folks.
Heh, it's just a matter of time till this scenario "fully" reaches us here in the EU, and in the US probably, too. E.g. my health insurance company (AOK) here in Germany called me last year, and tried to give me an Apple Watch for free. The main part of the contract was, to submit my movements for "a study". In return they offered me something like "bonus points", and cheaper additional insurance plans. I said no, and they asked if I'm interested to have this for my kids, and that they also have a smart toothbrush "to motivate" kids to brush their teeth 3 times a day, I just WTF'ed, and told them to not call anymore with such offers. https://apps.apple.com/de/app/aok-bonus-app/id1085724967 with this App you submit your activity, this was part of the contract. 100.000+ downloads on Google Play says it all, Apple does not display an App download counter.
> but people who bought via App Store will be out of luck for updates then.

Apps like Coda have offered mechanisms for people to update from the App Store version to a non-Store version for free, by looking for a Store downloaded .app, so it's not impossible.
The pseudo part tends to really get into gear once an ideology no longer considers itself as such. e.g. in this case a typical westerner with vague neoliberal beliefs who sees their broad outlook as the End of History and life as simply the mechanistic application of mental models
I completely agree. I've found these are generally challenging tasks that pull you into a flow state, and when doing them with family, contribute to a great sense of accomplishment.
this is really cool - great work, but what's the probability of nintendo nuking this?
You cannot infer anything useful about that site from that.

All of those prior submissions were from user 'dulo'. If you check their history, all 153 submissions of theirs are dead.

This includes submissions from such publications as the Washington Post, USA Today, Popular Science, Fortune, Slate, a whole bunch of newspapers from fairly major cities, and much more. Most of them seem to be reasonable submissions, too.

They were all within about a month or so of each other, starting right after the account was created, and mostly happened in large batches. It seems highly likely they tripped some anti-spam or anti-flooding detector and the user was perma-banned and all their submissions instantly killed.
It's possible to improve cql to a cql++ .. if you start going this path, it will lead to sql which isn't bad a all ;)

It's not 'fair' to compare CQL to SQL, if you compare CQL to DynamoDB's http api, which scylla implements as well, you'll see that cql is better: https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/12/comparing-cql-and-the-dy...
In my experience being careful with the queries is harder and/or more expensive. Developer time is either very expensive or you just don't have the right developers.

It also depends a lot what kind of money you can throw around. Are you a big fat insurance company? Music business? Bank? You are just gonna throw money at Oracle and your hardware vendor and its gonna scale (thinking 10-ish years back into my past here as an example). I think we came from like 4GB of RAM on the DB and a couple of CPUs with single path i/o.

Could have spent ages optimizing all the different workloads. And this was already using read only replicas heavily for around the globe acceleration. This internal app was used 24/7 from different places in the world tho heaviest usage was Europe/US timezone. Instead they got 128GB of RAM, 16 cores IIRC and 4-path i/o (still spinning disk w/ SCSI at the time). Sure it cost a lot I'm sure. But I doubt it cost more than a year's salary of _one_ of us developers. And optimization would've required the application developers, the backend batch job developers and the (shared resource) DB admins to work on a multitude of workloads and use cases to analyze and optimize.

FF to my current job with lots and lots of but mainly smaller customers. One DB instance per per customer would be a lot of overhead. We do one schema per customer on PostgreSQL right now with sharding.
If fluid intelligence was truly perceived as the most important thing, then people would just skip the coding entirely and try to directly measure fluid intelligence. There are companies more than happy to run IQ tests and the like to screen candidates. Probably a lot cheaper than the current hiring processes.

The fact that they aren't trying that, and are instead attempting to get a measure of coding ability, suggests they don't really believe in the approach.
Folks here may want to read more than just this piece at The Stacks Reader. But first, a disclaimer: The site is run by a dear friend and I have done a lot of behind the scenes work on the site content.

So why poke around the site? The site's mission is clear: "A living archive of the best print journalism." What the site operator does is, essentially, rescue good journalism that would otherwise be lost to microfilm. Nearly all (if not all) the content pre-dates the internet, and these pieces become virtually unavailable without efforts like this. Everything is done with permission from the rights holders and this effort allows anyone to experience journalism across a range of subjects and styles that at one point captured some of a cultural zeitgeist.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
There is lots of interesting code here https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY
Why can't I Airdrop from my phone to my MacMini thats connected via ethernet cable. They are on the same network, and verified with other tools, but AirDrop has to be done over wifi for what reason?
Ha I’m 40 same boat!
You’re talking about Microsoft.

It takes me a couple of lines of code now to spin up a web server than can handle thousands of connections. Or an app with beautiful fluid UI.

But I remember that I am standing on the shoulders of giants. What seems like zero complexity to someone on the shoulder is actually not.

Sometimes the giants fuck up too. Ultimately it is incompetence. But not the kind that is attributable to laziness or stupidity. Engineers at Microsoft, I would assume are like engineers everywhere - no smarter, no dumber.

Just because I can build a Lego bridge perfectly, doesn’t make the guys who’ve built an imperfect actual bridge are incompetent. They’re just solving very different problems.
That's precisely how ICANN was set up, as a public benefit corporation with articles of incorporation that required it to promote "the global public interest in the operational stability of the Internet." But if you control the board, in the long term you can accomplish pretty much whatever you want. Relying on regulators to give such an organization sufficient attention isn't a good strategy; their attention is spread thin across thousands of organizations, and of course they lack domain knowledge. Though, you can leverage the threat of regulators to impede the board, much like the EFF did as a vigilant third party.

Ultimately what needs to happen is for ICANN board members to be replaced with better people; perhaps people nominated by the EFF and similar organizations. Hopefully that will happen. Moving responsibilities to the EFF just shuffles labels around. The same thing that happened to ICANN could happen to EFF, it just hasn't happened yet because EFF isn't holding billions in assets.
This looks super cool, very useful for some of the data science stuff I've been working with at work recently.

Something I'm curious about; is it possible to use datasette as a sort of "sqlite browser"? Say I have users with sqlite databases with various data, but all the dbs conform to a known schema; can I use datasette to allow my users to upload their sqlite databases and browse them?

Or would I have to do something more custom, running datasette in the background against an uploaded db and serving the result to my user?
Grocery Delivery system live demos
There are too many in others. They mostly do housecalls, serving as ambulances, since house fires are rare today.
Was it moral from advertisers to pervert the web protocols so that advertisements can be forced upon us? HTTP still allow us to choose not to fetch content based on the URL. If advertisers do not like it they are free to invent their own web.
Advertisements cannot be the price to pay for the modern internet because the old internet had more value.
Any big service using this?
I think you're right on one level: if your codebase is pervasively, implicitly multithreaded, then there's little value in explicitly marking yield points. But if your codebase is pervasively, implicitly multithreaded, then it's impossible to maintain without locking everywhere (and difficult even then), and combining async with (blocking) locking does not work well.

In a codebase where concurrency is carefully controlled and constrained, an async system that gives you visibility into where the yield points are is very valuable: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html .
Its been a long time since any ships of the US Navy were sunk.

If and when war breaks out, the Navy will lose some big ships. I suppose that any fleet west of Hawaii would be at risk.

Anyway, an early target will be the TMSC fab in Taiwan where all the best chips are made. That alone would be terrible.
Really twisting the use of the word advertisement here, it's the complete opposite really. Then again I'm guessing most only read headlines and hear what they want.

A small donation button next to GitHub projects or Reddit posts is not advertising.

Of course it should have an option to be disabled, without a doubt but for the most part it's no more intrusive than using RES on Reddit.
Apparently no relation to the other James Gunn movie director of several Marvel movies
Here's 10 hours of Cisco Opus #1 in case you find yourself nostalgic for the greatest hold song of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs
Just tried webauthn.io. Doesn't even work :/ I clicked register and it said "Use your security key now or cancel". What does that even mean? What's a security key? Is it a setting in my browser? I have lastpass installed, can it use that? Is it supposed to integrate with the Mac keychain somehow? Gave me no options but cancel.

Pretty underwhelming if that's the future of web auth..
Can you give an example where you get tripped up for months? I honestly don't understand. All the tools I use seem to look and behave 100% identical after an upgrade. I don't use much Apple software so maybe that explains this difference in perception..?

I think they only change that ever bothered me was when scroll bars started to disappear and stop looking uniform. That was a long time ago though, maybe before even OS X.
Depending on your goals, it might be helpful to know that Apple has open sourced their Chess game (under a restrictive license): https://opensource.apple.com/source/Chess/
This already happens, because most (?) people aren’t running vanilla kernels. Many (most?) distros compile their kernels with config options and patches that “make sense to them.” In the most egregious cases, you end up with things like bpf being intentionally broken by default.
Is that all they’ll do? Or will they eventually sell your data to health and life insurance companies?
That's not a war (at least, not yet). It is a conflict, but it's not a war.
Fundamental Linux util, intuitively search, filter list bash wrapper to “find”
Been there. It may sound weird but I do think Agnosticism or at least similar thoughts help on fear towards death. Occam's Razor is for better theories and models, but not for actual truth and the essence of existence. Accepting agnosticism-like thinking means that you don't have to worry about the existence of God or after life anymore, because you just have no way to confirm the truth.

So now life will be more like a game. The fact that you don't know if the judge is there indicates that you are somewhat freed from any known rules (I don't recommend you breaking any social rules or laws though). It is you and only you can decide what direction to go. Therefore death, well, any game always ends no matter what it is.

A never-ending game will probably end in some unexpected and unwilling ways. If there is no natural death anymore, then everyone can only die by accident. Other answer mentions reverse aging techniques which I feel quite skeptical of because I don't think you would want to live on a planet where inter-planet transportation is not ready but nobody dies anymore.

Regarding the cloud solution, Gmail outage can happen, why will Gbrain never be? Says 500 hundred years later no physical person can claim your brain are still in use online, why don't they remove you from the database silently? Too many uncertainties there.

Dalai Lama once said, to find joyfulness is to take care of others and be empathy about others' pain. Such imagination helps you to realize that there are painful things and miseries happening and they are far more worse than death.

Anyway, devote yourself to something you passionate about, keep seeking mortality and don't blame yourself for it. You either succeed and last to the end of all the universes, or you do something meaningful to people and die like all others. Both are good.
Is Spotify using web browsing history to track me?
Alright, so Apple finally shipped their privacy “nutrition labels” on iOS and I’ve been checking the few apps that I have installed.

I checked Spotify’s and was surprised to see that under “Data Used to Track You”, they have “Browsing History” as something they have access to.

According to the links that Apple has put at the top so users understand what this all means, Spotify actually has access to my browsing history. Is this actually true? Am I totally misunderstanding this?! Why does Spotify need my browsing history to play music?!

... I love Spotify as a service, I’ve had a family plan for years, and even if they are not selling my data, I don’t see why they need this and quite frankly leaves me feeling a bit violated if true.