skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure nothing's going to change in the next 5 years.

Given the speed in which effective vaccines were developed I think this is a rather bleak outlook.

Sure, a lot is still unknown with the new virus variants and as has been expected vaccination drives had their teething problems. But in a few month time (almost) everybody who wants their jabs can get it (in rich countries, that is).

I for one, see myself on a 3 week vacation in Asia later this year. Optimistic? Maybe, and certainly dependent on a number of factors beyond my control. But I think it's a much better perspective than wallowing in misery and not seeing a way out.
They should have promoted the photos instead; that's the most humanizing photo of Zuck I've ever seen. He's upgraded from "I hate everything about him" to "I hate everything about him except that he cleans up after his dog responsibly."
> It really is incredible to me that you think that's an actual solution.

Likewise regarding your position. I fall firmly on the side that Big Tech should be heavily regulated, and in some cases broken up. This is simply an extension of that, shifting monetary rewards to those creating content versus platforms extracting all of the financial rewards, throwing scraps to the content (which has a real cost, versus the zero marginal cost advantage platforms have).

Google and Facebook have a combined market cap of almost $2.2 trillion dollars and collectively generate over $260 billion a year in revenue. Am I supposed to feel bad for them? I pay for my news content (listed in another comment), and I think they should too (disclaimer: I am not a trillion dollar adtech platform).
The amateur radio frequencies that are "legal" for a ham operator to transmit on are well defined. If the NASA devices used Amateur frequencies for commercial work I believe they would be breaking US law as well. So the terms of the amateur license prohibit transmitting signals to the remote systems on Mars.

The practical requirements of getting a strong enough signal to Mars would require a big dish to focus the energy and some high power microwave equipment which make it more difficult but not impossible given enough resources. Then as you mentioned one needs to know the communication protocols.

BTW there were Ham built satellites in orbit, that piggybacked onto other missions. (OSCAR) Not sure if they are still in orbit. And again they used reserved spectrum for licensed experimental Amateur radio stations.
> Taking the opposite of your argument, why you do you believe a platform creator is entitled to the value of a link aggregator without compensating those creating the content?

If it is not copyright infringement why would you need to pay someone?
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What intro cs class uses Haskell as its first language!
Hmm, I don't quite agree with that characterization of Jordan Peterson. I believe his main point when talking of these prison-guard horror stories is to "embrace your shadow", as in: Realize that you might not be as far away from being dangerous as you would think, if you just thought of yourself as a good person. Considering the numerous crimes against humanity that have been carried out by people as soon as the "veil of civilization" showed a few cracks in the past, I don't think it's an unreasonable aspect of human nature to remind people of.

I believe the concept of the shadow stems from Jung's work, and I admittedly don't know precisely in which context Jung applied it. But ostensibly, being mindful of the dangerous paths one can be lead down if you don't take care to stay in balance seems like a reasonable thing to teach people, without it instantly degenerating into a "you are a sinner and need to atone"-routine (as you seem to see it).
> But they would be being 'paid' perhaps double the employee rate. Paying yourself and spouse with dividends (20% tax) rather than a salary, taking lots of business expenses, and withholding income until needed.

Dividends only save NI rather than tax as only first 2K is tax free, then its' 7.5% to the end of the lower rate band, and then something else in the higher one (andahdn as they come from profits corporation tax has already been paid on them)

Real savings come from avoiding NI, and having partners as co-employees / directors / shareholders so the 'income' can be split between two people rather than one

Offshore companies and gold bars is ripe for HMRC taking a closer look
Let's say you found out that someone was willing to give you $50 back if you give them $100, but then you also found out that there was a $100,000 reward for telling authorities about this scheme: don't you think at least someone will tell authorities about that scheme to get the $100,000 reward? Along with a sufficient jail time for the person/"journalist" running this scheme.

And that's not even taking into account that we'd likely require a trail for accounting to know exactly where money went, so that it can't simply be "cash spent" to give back $50 untraceable to a bunch of people.

Why don't you think that would work?
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It's the domain of the contact email for curl. I think that is exactly what this person latched on to, given it was the first screenshot this person sent. Of course, Daniel is not to blame for people's uninformed reactions. But, one might point to this as a potential reason to avoid drawing the attention of the misinformed.
No, it would not exist because ycombinator makes no revenue and can't pay anyone.
Acceptability isn't usually a binary. Legality is the cutoff point at which we decide you should be punished for unacceptable behaviour, but it's perfectly possible for behaviour to be both unacceptable but legal.

Consider:
- Cutting your grass at 8am when your neighbour works nights.

- A well off person putting their child up for adoption because they don't want the hassle.

- Payday loans given to people you know won't be able to pay them off, ensuring they pay you far more than the value of the loan.

- Banks processing payments out of order to trigger overdraft fees that would otherwise not have been collected.
I don't understand this logic. Surely having a job is better than no job? The fact that they're choosing to work with uber in the first place probably means there's no better job available, so getting rid of uber or that type of job would result in the worker being worse off.
If you don't already know the commit message before you start writing the code, maybe you should wait to write the code.
I think it may be tough to imagine what being alone and isolated for a year does to a person if you are someone who is stuck inside with the same people all day. I would imagine the situation for those with family is very difficult and exhausting... but not suicidal ideation level of difficult, which has been my experience with this extreme social isolation. This is in spite of devoting a lot of time and energy to self care: exercising daily, eating healthy, not drinking alcohol, and many other things. Maybe my assumption here is wrong and there are plenty of people out there living with their families who are in as precarious a situation as I currently find myself. Either way, everyone is suffering right now, but my experience has been that long term social isolation is a unique form of torture that can really push a person to the edge.
That has been my question for years.

Back in the day when I was only hearing of this thing called the Internet, people mentioned how they can read the New York Times online or another famous paper. Coming from a small town in Eastern Europe that was amazing.

But I also wondered why they were able to read it for free. I wonder what made the newspapers post their content online for free - probably because the internet was a fringe curiosity and they only realized it's becoming important when it was too late.
If the media orgs in Australia were able to convert their Facebook traffic into newsletter subscribers as easily as this there would be little fury in the media. After all, they would have stopped Facebook profiting off the back of their content AND kept their readers.

The fact that The Australian media is steaming about the policy change, running negative stories about Facebook across almost all mainstream sources, and urging/willing the government to somehow crack down on Facebook for making the choice they did suggests that maybe they are hurting quite a bit more than they might be letting on with their newsletter/app pushes.
Price controls do not negatively impact the labor market.

Employment is an inelastic good, everybody needs it, even if the price sucks, and employers hold all of the bargaining power. Wages naturally sink to zero in an unregulated environment.

The United States has the cheapest labor in the developed world, despite being the most productive in the developed world, because it has the lowest minimum wage in the developed world, and it's not pegged to inflation, like in the rest of the developed world, so it's actually a constantly decreasing minimum wage.

In the 12 years since the last minimum wage increase, inflation has decreased its value by 21.5%, the equivalent of $5.75 in 2007 dollars, which is, by the way, the longest period of stagnation it's ever seen. Prior to the Reagan administration, Congress raised the minimum wage by 5-10% annually. If that pattern had kept up, the minimum wage would be over $20 today, and if it had been kept close to inflation since 1978 it would be $16 today.
You seem to make many assumptions that are, AFAIK, false. The data is there and gets stored indefinitely. It is not only monetized for ADs, but for surveillance as well. Companies and state contact the company and buy that data about you.
The specification and boundary conditions directly comes from an analysis of the expected usage. Except for some all-purpose libraries you don't develop in a vacuum (assuming you don't work for Roomba).
If you owned a restaurant called Fred's Diner, you might have a website called freds-diner.com.

If a delivery company gets the domain freds-diner-restaurant.com, then they're competing for your traffic.

And their domain might end up higher in Google search results, leading customers to order there. So I don't think it's necessarily the case that they're getting customers they otherwise wouldn't have.

Customers that are only willing to order from Uber Eats etc. aren't going to look for the restaurant's website anyway, they'll just go through the delivery company's website.
Given the last years events, I would suggest gardening, green houses, solar and battery power storage, canning and other aspects of food storage, home physical security and anything else that supports self reliance and sufficiency.
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Hmm...your marketing is a little deceptive. You claim that the $79 fee is a 'lifetime' payment, but yet you have to pay $39 every year to get the latest updates. That's a rather shady way to do things IMO.
What is the difference between the user discovering the URL from the news organization webpage/news feed, and from Facebook/Google? What would the news organization lose from this instead of gaining more viewers?
The problem isn't so much the financial cost to link aggregators, it's the regulatory burden. All this bill does is entrench the existing biggest companies in the space and prevent competition, because smaller entrants will be unable to e.g. negotiate contracts with all media providers.

This is just legacy media using their quasi monopoly and regulatory capture to squash competition.
That collateral is caused entirely by the overly broad definition of what is "news" under those laws.
> Could it possible be the case that the old media actually wants the burglars inside?

We see this in Germany, too.

On the one hand, "old media" is eager to take any traffic that Google et al. send to them, but on the other hand they don't like aggregration and ask Google et al. to pay for text snippets.

This has already led to bizzare laws, driven by old media and conversative politicians.
This is splitting hairs a bit, but, those languages only really have one implementation that dictates where things are going as far as the language is concerned. C is special because of when it started and what it was trying to solve in its day. My point was just that the communities and languages are every bit as monolithic as Rust, so why was Rust singled out?
"throw" is a nice thing in my mind and not at all like goto.

Before there was "throw" people wrote C programs with no error handling at all, or globals used to pass error conditions, or something like "Optional" with no syntactic sugar and 250% more coding errors.

Error handling is ultimately a non-local concern (e.g. this subroutine failed because somebody cut a fiber in Nebraska.)
This covers the wider problem of contract (protocol) changes in distributed systems:

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/ensuring-rollback-sa...

> With each change, we explicitly assign a distinct version to serializers.

> We do this independent of source code or build versioning. We also store the serializer version with the serialized data or in the metadata. Older serializer versions continue to function in the new software. We find it’s usually helpful to emit a metric for the version of data written or read. It provides operators with visibility and troubleshooting information if there are errors. All of this applies to RPC and API versions, too.

Backwards compatibility and the ability to roll out new changes (that can co-exist with current data) are the primary drivers.
GTP-3?
No-one should be surprised by a once-in-a-lifetime event. These are, by definition, not so rare that it is rational to ignore them.
Regenerative medicine will become significant business in next several years
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How much money is it?

I remember WhatsApp being £1/year, or something like that.
No, but you do have city managed taxi drivers where the city limits how many licenses are given out. While they aren't transferrable like the US medallions, that doesn't change the point of the post.
I guess the idea of independence and self direction in work is antithetical to a socialist Nanny-state like the UK. Too bad for them, and uber. If they (uber et al) can game this so that one can actually have a gig economy in the uk, that'll be great. Otherwise, I guess the old models of taxi companies and self delivery can be used just like they were for decades. Only the UK will lose in the long run.
Thankfully, while there were a few places that attempted to restrict outings to "essential" trips, it never was enforceable. I am not a fan of many things police do, but I am proud that my local sheriff announced that he would not enforce any such order.
Reading the wiki and some related patents I am curious how many such rockets would be required to sufficiently protect a region from random lightning strikes.

Are there methods to determine the potential for a storm to generate lighting or simply how much energy is potentially there to create them?
> baseline of 100 TB

> Institutions with greater than 20,000 [...] active users [...] will be provided with additional storage.

So >=5GB per user. Not great, not terrible. I guess most students who use their Google student account for educational purposes only don't need more than that.

Might get tricky for teachers and some STEM-students however.
The answer to both is 'it depends on what The Australian Government says'. The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Minister - it's why we are talking Facebook and Google and not Twitter and iMessage.
It hasn't been a problem for Go. Having multiple implementations didn't seem to help D either.

It might be a lock-in but fragmentation is bad too.
Yeah Hacker News would likely have to shut down if targeted by bills like these.
Is that 5TB school work, or are you using it for personal files too?
* Google Photos Unlimited has shut down.

* Google Drive unlimited for businesses has shut down.

* Google Drive unlimited for education has shut down.

* Google Drive files are now deleted if you've not accessed your account recently (no definition of recent)
It totally depends on context and the culture of the people you are communicating with. Safest option is not to use it
That's actually a great suggestion.

While I didn't give up booze I introduced a rule that I won't drink during work week unless I'm in company and pretty much stuck to it.

That was before the whole mess started. But this, and sticking to a rigid daily work schedule (rigid in terms of time, in which I really fully work) helped me a lot to cope with it all.

Alcohol (and other drugs) may help to keep boredom away, but it comes with a heavy cost.
"goods and services"

The service of delivery is what is being passed off.
I agree it is a bad report for the drone manufacturer. Although you may also be sharing this as the manufacturer is a competitor of yours perhaps?
For anyone missing the sounds of their local coffee shop, checkout Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com

Not affiliated. Just like to put it on sometimes with a good indie playlist while I'm drinking coffee and doing work.
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Maybe CL got this right with the condition/restart system? In addition to their utility for experimental programming, conditions work really well for handling errors programatically.

The general problem seems to be something weird happening far down in the system, for which the correct way forward is dependent on how we got there. This situation can't be handled where the issue happened since that would break encapsulation, but unrolling the stack all the way up blows away the context that is necessary to understand how to move forward. I don't see how a system that either unwinds the stacks (throwing errors) or tries to encapsulate the state through the system (Either) would truly solve the issue.
> . If you automatically enforce exhaustiveness then you either need to freeze all your public data-types

I think that's good practice!
No. Your premise seem to be that this anecdote is correct and that that is the inevitable result of non gig-job delivery. I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of anecdotes out there with bad Uber Eats deliveries too.
The analogy to Formula 1 isn't apt either. It can be the wheel, the engine or the steer. But it's no way a whole "car".
The article explicitly says they were testing single threaded use cases.
How come you found it unexpected?
Comparing pay to other registries in other countries might not be a fair comparison considering local job-market effects - a better comparison may be to other public-benefit bodies in other industries within the UK. Though I can't think of any from the top-of-my-head... I was going to suggest OFCOM but that's a legit public department, not an industry body, I don't think Nominet is even a Quango.

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On a related note: I'm actually surprised at this point that Nominet hasn't been subsumed into OFCOM or similar - considering the vital role it plays in the UK's digital infrastructure. From a top-down perspective, it makes sense for Nominet to be part of the state apparatus, which certainly introduces accountability and transparency, I'm just wary of _the establishment_ at this point.
Are hard drives harder or more expensive to come by these days due to COVID related production issues? Or is storage not decreasing in price according to their benchmark? Google Workspace only offers 30gb in their lower priced plans ($6/month) which seems a bit less too.
Thanks for making this! I love these types of independent creative projects that don't rely on third party content to work (minus the Spotify embed).

There is something about ambient noise from people that helps me work and focus. Offices and coffee shops closing has saved me a ton of transit and coffee money but it's hurt my productivity a lot.

With Youtube 1hr mixes of ambient people sounds and Pomodoros, I'm doing a bit better.
Couldn't they just use robot.txt to prevent Google from listing them?

Not that I completely understand why exactly they don't want to show up on google.
If those news sources were going to be fine, why are they so desperate to prop up their failing business model by shaking down competition?
I don't know if it's a hack but I spent some time working for big four consultancies and would prep decks which needed logos with transparent backgrounds.

You can do a google search for '[company] logo' then click 'tools' then set 'colour' to 'transparent' and that will often throw the logo with a transparent background.
the app was 99p when i first downloaded it I think.
About 40 GB is school work, the rest is personal files.
Huge music collections, comics, course dumps, photos, downloaded youtube channels, etc.
Good for them. We really need to nip this "contractor" trend in the bud before it comes for us all.
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> If they aren't opting out, then clearly the people buying the delivery are paying the same as any other takeout customer? Where is the problem here?

If people have to pay a large markup, they may end up ordering less food. Or maybe ordering from another place because this one seems too expensive.

The offense comes from delivery companies forcefully inserting themselves between customers and the restaurant. Why not just let customers go to the delivery company's website to order, if that's what they wanted? Why is it necessary to deceive customers?
Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language on top of it, as in this case).

But why those square brackets for argument lists? That seems unnecessary.
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Nuclear went offline due to faulty metering equipment, was manually checked and brought back online.

Some of the windmills froze, while others did not, and yes that was due to a lack of winterization (despite repeated recommendations to do so).

But natural gas comprises more than 50% of our power sources, and was also not winterized, and we lost a huge percentage of our power as a result.

So among our un-winterized power sources, natural gas fared the worst, which is relevant when deciding, for example, where to spend winterization money in the years to come.
Many shops (I presume, since I work at non-FAANG) have their own version of UUID generation that includes info about the machine/instance it was generated from. I don’t think we’ve formally proved it but I think ours is guaranteed unique in our fleet.
> I would propose alternative is to fix your monolith first. If the team can't rewrite their ball of mud as a new monolith, then what are the chances of successfully rewriting and changing architecture?

Often, the problems with the monolith are

* different parts of the monolith's functionality need to scale independently,
* requirements for different parts of the monolith change with different velocity,
* the monolith team is too large and it's becoming difficult to build, test, and deploy everyone's potentially conflicting changes at a regular cadence, with bugs in one part of the code blocking deploying changes to other parts of the code.

If you don't have one of these problems, you probably don't need to break off microservices, and just fixing the monolith probably makes sense.
And then it was an annual fee, of $1 billed to your cell service provider, people had a much easier time parting with $1 at some future point on their cellphone bill which anyways is dynamic vs $1 now in the app. for the team size the projected amount they’d make was fine.

iirc it had like 500mil users and less than 50 ppl in the company.
So they can target whoever they want and charge them? Sounds a lot more alarming...
There's a hack!

You can do

data Value a =
I32 Int32 a
B Bool

and then

type Value1 = Value ()
type Value2 = Value Void

as a hack