skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's because people are likely to try `sex.com` in a web browser for laughs (and get surprised when it turns out to be a real site), but aren't likely to do so with `books.com` or `travel.com`.
I know you're saying that in jest but it's actually called pedigree collapse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse
> Apple's mice have always been form over function

I respectfully disagree:

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/31750-53575-magic-m...
There have been multiple news articles in the past few years of professors and activists (besides Elizabeth Warren) portraying themselves as minorities.

It can only be concluded that they perceive a benefit to minority status over the so-called privileges of being white. Examples include scholarships, hiring programs, "diversity" programs, loans, and grants that aren't available for white folks.

Another benefit is to remove oneself from a class that is sociologically defined as an "oppressor" class.
The media part could be about owning the consumer, even at a loss, or owning the providers, or preventing Google from approaching the user login market to tight, etc.
At least 60 of those Americans were sent up on the Russian Soyuz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_human_spacefli...
Also, How are you doing the math to get a 4.4% fatality rate? The numbers are much lower than that.

Soyuz has launched 394 people and killed 4 of them. The most recent fatality was 50 years ago. The Shuttle launched 833 people and killed 14 of them, most recently in 2003 (8 years before the program ended). That gives Soyuz a fatality rate of 1.0% and the Shuttle a fatality rate of 1.7%. In other words: You're 70% more likely to die if you ride the Shuttle instead of Soyuz.

The more you look into the specifics, the safer Soyuz seems. The Soyuz deaths were early in the program while the Shuttle deaths happened when the program was mature. (Soyuz 11 was the last fatality and it was the 10th manned mission. STS-51-L was the 25th Shuttle mission and was considered to be safe enough for a civilian teacher to ride along. Oops.)

Soyuz's design is inherently safer. It has a launch escape system (which saved the crew of Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L).[1] The Shuttle did not. Soyuz's heat shield is much more robust than the Shuttle's. Soyuz's crew section is on top of the rocket, reducing the chance that any falling debris (or shrapnel caused by an explosion) will harm the crew module. Lastly, Soyuz uses liquid fueled rockets that can be shut off at any time. The Shuttle's solid boosters could not be throttled or shut off. All of these design decisions make for a simpler and safer vehicle. If I had to pick one, I'd ride Soyuz for sure.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-ST_No.16L
That would be great because the redux doc read like dark wizardry the reader isn't worthy to glaze upon.
It is actually a matter of Google blocking Australia, not the other way around.
What incentive would an investor have to claim that a company is fraudulent if there is no financial upside to it? Altruism? That's just naive.

Sure, you could point towards regulators but we know that the advantage will always be with the regulated.
Keep in mind that every millilitre of fuel burned has to be carried from the start.

If you want to start burning a few seconds early on landing by policy, you need to lift that fuel, and the fuel to lift that fuel, from the surface to space and then decelerate all of that. Just for those seconds. If you’re doing this from Mars, you also have to accelerate that mass around the Solar System and out of the Martian gravity well.

Not a bad thought. Just wanted to illustrate how energetically leveraged these systems are.
AppleCare+ does cover the full cost of battery replacement, but only for 2 years. I don't know what threshold they set for replacement, but IIRC it's 80% of max capacity for their laptops.

I don't know how these new headphones perform, but I would doubt that many people would get below 80% in two years (even with increased usage due to COVID).

It might still be worth it to get the warranty though, since it covers accidental damage (with a deductible), and the cost for the warranty is the same as the cost for battery replacement ($80).
See, for example, Walmart Labs: https://careers.walmart.com/technology/technology-software-d...

(6000 employees in 2018, per wikipedia)
*While building the first space rockets in the world, literally making it up as they went.

That's not quite the same situation SpaceX is in right now.
This happens in ponzi schemes too, people will find a scapegoat rather than feel their ignorance or greed was the problem. Here it's Robinhood and hedge fund conspiracies and Wall street playing by different rules. When MMM ponzi scheme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_Global) peaked everyone was furious about people writing negative editorials and government warnings not to jump in.
> unified notification/message centre too.

All of which also post-date first Ericsson phones, which UI later was later copied by Nokia, Siemens, and everybody else.

I do remember my R520 from 2001 had something similar.
OK, continue to downvote rather than articulate any kind of intelligent response.
Okay, but how is that relevant in this case, where you can pay to remove the ads, regardless of whether other people do?
I was thinking about antennas as layers that consist of feedback loops that employ interaction outside of any reasonably small bounds (the more abstract layers onwards are therefore also affected, but the error might seem to be negligible). The question is, if the error we make by simulating brain on a higher level (physical) API can destroy the intrinsic properties of intelligent beings.
Invest in Undervalued People
My favorite quote

“ Keep inventing, and don’t despair when at first the idea looks crazy. Remember to wander. Let curiosity be your compass. It remains Day 1.”. - Jeff Bezos
Wow but they already get free AI training
Private bills have existed for for quite a while.

You have to understand that most places that inherited common law also inherited ‘parliament’s sovereignty’, the legal notion that no bill or law can constrain the power of parliament. Now that has been curtailed in quite a few places but the notion still fully exists (I believe it was used recently by the UK Supreme Court to force the government to give parliament a vote). Australia is such a place.

Even the US system had it to a degree. Originally the bill of rights only applied to the federal government, later Supreme Court rulings extended it to state law.
The customer friendliness is 1. free fast shipping 2. they will cancel and refund things 3. if you make multiple orders they'll combine them 4. the website loads really fast.

Competitors have gotten better at many of these, but it's still hard to impossible to cancel orders many other places, and if I have to chat to Amazon they still refund and replace things very easily.

I have used amazon.com.au and noticed the selection is pretty bad there. amazon.jp is great though, and worldwide shipping is amazingly fast. The customer service is even more important there because Japanese companies hate cancelling things or special requests (omotenashi/"Japanese customer service" means you do what they tell you, not the other way round.)
Where are you reading that they messed up their collateral calculations?
These damn JavaScript powered rockets keep crashing on bootup!
> Had they not raised that capital, they would have just had to keep blocking those buys, but they would have been fine otherwise

This is not my understanding. The 3AM phone call was a collateral call. That covers existing trades.

As a clearing broker, when they sent in the trade they created the liability.
On a similar note, I'd avoid naming a property type.
Must be a slow day on HN today. Usually when its discovered that a company is stealing tips to subsidize base pay, there are at least half a dozen commenters defending the practice by pointing out that wait staff in restaurants are paid the same way in most states.
COVID19 and the riots were the big stories. Without them, doubt the media would have been able to resist the drama of astronauts possibly blowing up by connecting the two different rocket projects.
I remember that era pretty fondly and I don't ever recall just typing in random URLs, except maybe jokey ones like sex.com or fuck.com for kicks. We had Yahoo's search engine at the time and worked well enough. And to a lesser extent Lycos/Hotbot/Inktomi/DMOZ. The pre-Google web was pretty interesting and a bit more sophisticated than gets credit today. I also feel you were less likely to discover retailers on the web randomly. You'd more than likely hear about them first on the news or from friends and go from there. I don't think it was common to just discover some random e-tailer like we do today, put in our credit card, and expect the package in a couple days. You learned about Amazon from 60 minutes or your friend who subscribed to Wired magazine or the guy at the software store, not from a search engine.

I think the whole pets.com and travel.com is just the usual marketing logic at work and not really related to the limitation of search engines. Its just shady marketing tricks, a bit like how we see the .biz and other gimmicky tlds today.
I had a blackberry until last year. I love a physical keyboard. I know I'm the minority but I'll never be able to type as well on a screen with no tactile feedback as I can on a physical keyboard.
Sounds like exactly the same thing, but with worse sound quality and costing money per minute.
I'm disappointed to learn Conservapedia does not have an article on Tom of Finland :D
Reddit has all comment history, dms, emails and ip addresses just as a routine measure.
Except that mechanism would have to have some sort of measurable effect in the world. To date, has there been any evidence of this?
In your hypothetical example, a stock is going up and up, and I suspect it might be fraudulent, and you believe I have no incentive to pull my money out before the house of cards collapses?

Getting my money out is all the incentive I need! I bet plenty of Theranos investors would've loved to do exactly that. And there was no shorting involved in that company.
I'm very impressed by how it's coasting on the fins down the atmosphere. I had never even heard that idea discussed before I saw SN8 do it.

Of course, they'll have to land some other way on Mars or the Moon.
Ah ok, this sort of clarifies the issue, which is that you can't really run more engines at lower thrust, and if you deal with the tank pressure issues from S8 then I imagine it should be able to go down on 2 engines alone without catastrophic issues.

With respect to failure on ascent, I imagine in that case they just send up another starship and transfer in orbit (coming down has always been the hard part).
IIRC just sitting (joking not intended) is enough to play Sound Princess. Maybe you put the machine on wrong place?
Citadel Didn’t Just Bail Out Melvin Capital, They Had a Big Short Bet in GME
Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon chief executive
Don't forget good ol' VME.
Reading through this list reminded me why I actually don’t want to use TS in the first place.

I think we need to have a discussion about the benefits of dynamically typed languages and why many people purposely choose them over statically typed ones.

In my experience, 95% of the time TS would not have helped anything. And the other 5% where it would have is not worth the constant work required to type the whole application. And sure you can use ts just a little bit... but everyone knows that organizationally the pressure then begins to use TS for the whole app.

Types are nice in some circumstances but are they really worth it? I feel like the answer is no for the majority of applications.
Maybe they could light them all, then nominate any extras for turnoff and stabilize things out after that?
FOSS replacing Google, Twitter, Spotify, Signal, GitHub and Co
Just a friendly reminder that corporations doesn't care about justice and your basic rights. Only money.
I disagree that they are equivalently misleading and hate-based, though I agree they are biased.
Falcon 9 lands using only a single engine and it has been a long time since a merlin engine failed to reignite on landing.

It'll be interesting to see what exactly happened with SN9, there's some clear video footage of piece flying off the rocket right as it was doing the flip maneuver.
The fastest way to convince me not to use a product is to put a Google label on it.

Posted using a de-Googled Moto G4 Play running e/OS.
Yes, you can run Xcode in a VM or emulator running macOS.

The reason you can't run Xcode on Linux directly (i.e. not in an emulator or VM) is that nobody has done the work. The people with the expertise to do it are Apple, and they haven't done so and are unlikely to do so.

Some reasons Apple doesn't provide Xcode for Linux (a la Visual Studio) are that 1) Apple is in the business of selling computers, so they benefit directly from requiring iOS and macOS developers to buy Macs, and 2) Xcode is written for macOS, so it requires a large portion of the macOS ABI and runtime in order to run. Also 3) Apple is in the process of switching from x86 to Apple Silicon. Although there are ARM-based Linux systems, they may not be 100% compatible with Apple's M1 and other chips.

There is little to no business or technical incentive for Apple to do the large amount of work required to either port Xcode to Linux (especially x86 Linux) or to create a virtual macOS environment (analogous to WINE) for running macOS software on Linux. The GNUStep project created a fair amount of the Objective-C/NeXTSTEP environment and enabled some macOS apps to be cross-compiled for Linux, but a great deal of work would be required to create a complete environment capable of either cross-compiling or running Xcode (or other large macOS apps) on Linux.

> MacOS could be running headless inside a docker container,

Linux containers are for native Linux executables, not foreign OS kernels. To run an OS kernel, you need a virtual machine monitor like kvm or virtualbox.

TL;DR: Use virtualization.
How does that follow from a belief that people have free will? Is it somehow impossible for people who have free will to traffic in other human beings or force them into starvation? I don't see the logic.

Of course you are implicitly accusing those who "believe in free will" of saying that being trafficked or starving are the person's own fault; but I don't see the logic of that either. There is no requirement that believing in free will requires focusing on only one person's choices. The human traffickers and the corrupt leaders who allow their people to starve are making choices too--bad ones. And part of believing that people have free will is being willing to call a spade a spade when people make bad choices.
They went after executives and ended up with the sort that tech people hate. I suspect when everyone started thinking about getting cell phones and asked their tech friend, anything but BB was recommended.
Short and long positions are important for things that a) have a future value of money component and b) have risk that can be mitigated in a cost effective way.

Artists would take advantage of this in the form of working on commission. Large enough commissions do in fact allow shorting in the form of insurance. The same is true of strawberry farmers & landlords at various places on the size distribution.

One of the complaints my farmers market strawberry vendors have is that they don’t have access to the same finance agreements that large producers have. Part of that is because it’s not cost effective enough to short them.
You answered it, fix regulators, and heavily punish fraud, don't let people get away with a slap on the wrist. This is literally the job of the justice system. You may as well say what benefits do police or FBI have for catching criminals. The reward is a stable and just society, on top of their salaries.

On a side note, this is one aspect that religion addresses. Ripping people off is not going to end up well when facing God.
It’s weird he mentions 1-click as one of their crowning achievements. Couldn’t any software engineer do that in an afternoon?
It took 10 years. Might have been faster and wasted less capital if had been publicly traded and therefore possible to short it.
While it is definitely laughable to make people download a single-use browser to access a website, making me download your 100mb binary app from the app store to order pizza or read text posts is essentially the same ridiculous thing.
Do you have some examples out of curiosity?
They're obviously discussing the term in its colloquial context. Further, your rebuttal says more about you than it does the other poster since you're really just arguing that people who don't entertain dogwhistles are failing in some arbitrary regard.
The film 'Gaslight' had Ingrid Bergman starring, so not exactly an obscure film. The plot was about what you'd expect. It came out in 1944.

But, hey, if you want to exclude arguments because of one "modern" trigger word, I doubt anyone will stand in your way.
?? catches any falsy value, so it is quite semantically different than default arguments, and also quite different from ||
Much long money is absolutely used by the company indirectly; they can use their stock like a currency to raise funds with debt, pay employees, acquire companies with stock, etc. Thats hopefully a virtuous cycle where people do more stuff that creates value.

I don’t mean to make a moral argument, just question the need for short positions. If the company is truly bad their shares should deflate as demand deflates, no short seller position necessary. I think, from the perspective of the needs of society, punishing bad investors who fail shouldn’t be as rewarding as finding the right investments to grow.
Another reason is that XCode and Messages are rapidly-moving targets.

Even if you develop something with feature-parity, by the time you get there, the puck will have already moved quite a ways.

I felt this is much the same reason why projects like ReactOS and GNUstep, while I consider them great achievements, have not seen mainstream adoption. They achieved great things, but the puck had already moved.
I’m glad Amazon is larger and more powerful than most nation states.
Why indie developers shouldn't fear being cancelled
> Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it?

This happens constantly, but in private. Usually the conversation goes like this:

customer: opens support ticket, asking how to do some task X
vendor: sorry, that needs a feature added to the product
customer: fine, we'll switch to $other_vendor
vendor: oh look at that, our engineering department scheduled the feature for next release.

Granted though that when dealing with vendors as large as Microsoft that's not going to happen.
You live in a bubble. Most people find Bing and duck duck go adequate.

I don't, but I'm a special snowflake.

You also seem to think this government gives a fuck. It's constantly getting caught out and exposed as corrupt (for real, not hyperbole), but nobody cares,Murdoch prints it under the rug and people move on.

You think Australians will care about Google a month after being forced into Bing?
It should not have been an experiment leading to explosion at this stage.

You are not seriously willing to justify the explosion, are you? I hope that you are being sarcastic.

The experimental flying of rockets of this size are the 1960s thing. They should have acquired proper specs by now.
Just sharing my perspective here - I noticed that US political posts are actually better moderated here than other non-US ones.

I highlight this because one of the difficulty I often face as a user on foreign social media networks is that the foreign mods are unfamiliar with our country's history (political or otherwise).

And so I find they often resort to the easier way of just removing the posts that have the most complaints, without realising that this is also one of the strategies used by the online troll army to suppress genuine criticism (all the "flagging" that you see for such posts are often online brigading by the troll army abusing the reporting tools).

In other words, the controversy is manufactured for something that isn't really controversial, and the mods are forced to step in because of the controversy and remove many of the posts, which is actully one of their goals. You unknowingly help them.

(Unfortunately, I cannot also offer a practical solution to this).
There was a big influx of new devs 6-10 years ago. I was part of it. We're all now salty, jaded old grumps who pick frameworks that will pad our resumes and prioritize politics and optics over getting stuff done. Companies who hire us can't hire junior engineers, because we convolute the codebase so much that no junior could handle it.
Curious: Roughly, how many people work on those code bases?
Who wouldn‘t. It‘s not like they have anything to loose when it comes to search.
I know the origin of the word and its history. Its usage has increased tremendously in the past few years.

I think we've reached the point where people should push back on invalid usage; I see somebody just posted the following to Hacker News: https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical...

It is not gaslighting when someone contradicts you, or intentionally causes you to doubt your beliefs, or leaves you uncertain of what you believe, or even makes you think that they think you are crazy. Gaslighting is about someone lying to you in a way that causes you to lose trust in your own capabilities as a rational person: your ability to reason, your competence to figure out the truth, your capacity to remember things in a broadly accurate fashion even if you are sometimes fuzzy on details, your knowledge of your own feelings and thoughts and desires. And if your mind is unreliable… well, you’ll have to rely on someone else.
> The median family income of a student from Princeton is $186,100, and 72% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.3% of students at Princeton came from a poor family but became a rich adult.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
Everything is inverted from the bank perspective. When they receive "cash" they actually receive an obligation to pay one of their client against some other debt, which might not be an enviable position.

There is no such thing as digital cash actually. You have cash, the real and physical and all the rest is balance sheet expansion, i.e. debt.

If you are interested in banking I would encourage you to watch this course from the Columbia university: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking which is the reference and is fascinating.
I've got a team that insists all types go into `.d.ts` files. For every type internal to the app (an API backend). The types are never exported, not even to the frontend. Apparently because the tech lead thinks importing types is noisey.

My pleas, of "just fold the imports in your editor" and "it makes the types globals, so it's not modular" and "interface /declaration merging becomes an issue" all fell on deaf ears.

Some people like their bad habits because it makes sense to them, I guess.
Harvard disagrees with you:

> HARVARD COLLEGE has almost as many students from the nation’s top 0.1 percent highest-income families as from the bottom 20 percent. More than half of Harvard students come from the top 10 percent of the income distribution, and the vast majority—more than two-thirds—come from families in the top 20 percent.

https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/low-income-students-harv...

(They do have great financial aid for low-income families)
Secure to the core: IoT Ubuntu Core Linux 20 released