skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then people would create television shows demonstrating innovative ways go waste 10,000 cubic meters of material every day.

I'm not convinced human stupidity is bounded.
Right, race and religion are not the same. And no, it's the hill from which to not die. How are you doing over there on rocky Mt Everyone-is-Identical?

My discrimination is your bigotry when you're trying to make me the bad guy. But yes, I do reserve the right to judge things for myself. You obviously do to, and have lashed into my views simply because they differ, not because you've shown them to be incorrect.

In an area where a vast majority of a class of criminals share a combination of home country and religion it makes perfect sense to want to screen them more thoroughly, because the only other option is every citizen having to be race-conscious when hiring men with access to children.

To make this specific situation worse, the governments refusal to acknowledge it means that the criminals aren't getting an appropriate conspiracy charge because that would have to acknowledge the gang nature which would then demonstrate the race (if not religion) and as such, they face minor charges (ex 3y for kidnapping and gang rape) that don't actually stop the problem and then release them back into their communities where they poison others. A gang charge would also prevent them associating with their past conspirators.

> Islam may be awful, but so is Christianity.

One, your moral relativism is disgusting. There are obvious differences between all religions and trying to one-size-fits-all totally craps on people whose faiths aren't violent or abhorrent, or whose churches have practiced differently for long enough to be recognized.

Two, I'm not making the claim that either is bad or good, but that islam and pakistan together are a huge red flag. Whether that means Pakistani islam is different is irrelevant in the context of protecting children.

> Fortunately, people tend to cherry-pick from their faith and interpret it in a way that is actually compatible with a free modern society.

Yes, fortunately. But what do we do about those who don't? Close our eyes and pretend they do?
Why would you assume prions? Isn't mRNA a standard cell product, which can be found in any of your body's cell at any time?
I can't help but get the feeling that plan with Swift is to be the only language you can effectively use for Apple platforms, but also is probably going to be the language that will only be used on Apple platforms because of Apple's whims like the function builders.
I might have misunderstood you but there is a huge difference between a developer being able to use docker and understand the basics of containerization and CI/CD, and a devops/ops person managing servers/clusters using docker swarm or kubernetes. The latter of the two is so far more difficult to master than the first.

Managing a kubernetes cluster has so many possibilities to shoot yourself in the foot without realizing it. There are dozens of tutorials online how to set up a simple linux/nignx/python/postgres cluster (including lots of results for common error google searches) while routing problems of your legacy php application that is behind an istio controlled ingress running on a specific kubernetes version will leave you for yourself.

Sure you won't be able to scale indefinitely. Switching a solid containerized project running on your self-managed machines to a kubernetes setup will be quite easy (if you heeded devops best practices).
I agree with your general point, but I raised my eyebrows at this:

> So for example, NY Times has a banner (not on ios) saying signup for $1/week. Great, you do it. Then you find out that in a month it switches to something like $15/month

Out of curiosity, I went incognito (as I'm an NYT subscriber) and clicked that banner just now, and it says it's $1/week for a year, not a month ($4.25/week afterwards). I'm pretty sure I've been seeing that offer for years, too.

Maybe you're in a different cohort or something but that's a weird and antagonistic way to treat a customer that's going to drop people out of a funnel so I'm wondering if you're misremembering.
It's not about grandma. I also don't want to deal with bullshit myself.

- In the country I grew up I have to install rootkits in my computer in order to use the bank website. Some of them are borderline impossible to uninstall, and some banks have rootkits that conflicted with the ones of other banks. How do I know if it's not spying on me or not? It's a multi-megabyte kernel extension. I can't even use Linux or a Virtual Machine to access the website!

- For some apps I use for music making I had to install iLok which is (or at least used to be) the biggest piece of shit ever and crashed my computer all the time, because it was terribly written. I still refuse to buy anything that uses physical DRM.

- Even today in macOS (which is supposed to have a sandbox) I keep finding stuff in the disk from programs I uninstalled several years ago, because developers can't keep their telemetry spying garbage off every single corner of my machine.

- Every single scummy websites (which is 99% of all sites, HN and Reddit are the only exceptions I can think of) requires a login with Email so they can send me spam and send my information to third parties. With iCloud Sign Up I can sign in without that fear.

So yes, most of the time I wish my desktop was limited the way my phone is locked because I own my computer, not some asshole developer who decided my computer is their playground.

As long as I keep developing my software and compiling open source stuff, I'm good. Other developers can embrace the sandbox or piss off.
> I'm always amazed that in the land of the brave and free butchering general purpose computing machines is supposed to be justified by the fact grandma doesn't install the wrong apps.

This is because we have so much "freedom" that Apple is free to do this. I would argue this is a false freedom, like the freedom to own slaves.
> I just can understand people creating non HiDPI displays in 2021.

Because they still sell.

Back around 2 decades ago, we had a funny thing in Russia where people demanded 640x480 monitors back, and even bought, and sold them on premium because new 1024x768 monitors "make everything so tiny!"
You should probably move out there then.
A society built via capitalism just gives people what they want; not maximizing some arbitrary objective function.

We currently have no capitalist societies on earth.
There is one good argument for Google, and that is it’s free as in beer. For most people, any price over $0 is a dealbreaker.

However, assuming you’re willing to pay for privacy, switching e-mail is super easy. For example, from the Fastmail UI, you literally log in to your Google account and all your mail is transferred to Fastmail.

Switching to DDG? It’s 95% as good.

Switching to Apple Maps or OSM? It’s 95% as good.

Google Drive? There are 100 competitors.

There is one site you cannot do without, and that is YouTube. Everything else from Google can easily be ditched, the only two things in your way could be a reluctance to pay money and a slight feeling of unease at having to get used to something else.
Wisconsin has open season year round on feral pigs with a small game license.

Land owners don't even need a license to shoot them.

However, that hasn't wiped them out.
Actually, I have already tried trusting my Apple device to not backstab me and lock all my data.

I've also tried reasoning with the device and unlocking it myself, which also did not work.

I don't see how you can say I haven't tried anything.

By the way, in case you missed it, this happened yesterday, I just happened to come across a thread which was relevant.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I know that putting something in your terms of service doesn't give you legal carte blanche to deceive people. The law understands that most people don't read the whole ToS before clicking "I agree". This doesn't mean a ToS has no legal effect, but it's supposed to be for clarifying details. Any obviously major conditions (like "We might make your device stop working at some point in future and you'll have to pay us to make it work again") usually need to be stated in plain language, not buried in section 8 paragraph 9 of legal waffle. This sort of thing is what equity law is for, and why judges are paid so much - they often have to make rulings on what is 'reasonable'.

I agree Cricut must have had their legal team vet this decision, but that does not mean they necessarily believe they'd have a watertight defence if taken to court over it. It just indicates they made a business calculation and decided it's a good risk/reward ratio. Not many disputes make it to court. For example (pure speculation): maybe their lawyers estimated a 90% chance that they make lots of money out of this scam, just giving a few refunds and apologies to the angriest customers; a 9% chance that a serious lawsuit emerges (in which case they can probably just backtrack on the whole thing at some small cost); and a 1% chance that they somehow end up in serious hot water with a regulator.
Outside of typing out emails or schpiels, yes. If I discount Ctrl, Alt & Shift - probably significantly more than 5%.
Gaming, even indie gaming, follows a power law just like everything else: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/ars-analysis-80-of-st...
Very cool!

FYI, I would pay for this, but $8,400/yr. is a killer for a startup. You're leaving what might be a lot money on the table at the bottom that you could scoop up with graduated pricing. This might also protect you from competitors, because if you leave the low end open, you may get eaten by a copycat offering cheap/freemium. For example, Github vs. Gitlab and Mailchimp(freemium) vs. Constant Contact.

You've made something very cool that I think people will want, and this price point won't be crazy for enterprise folks. Great work!
Personally, I'm glad he documented his journey in this way. I'm glad to have shared in it, (mind the sarcasm) without crowding his solitude by watching him in person for a year.

It's a real accomplishment. I thought part of the point of the internet was to share things we do. This doesn't read as "gross, wannabe influencer" material, but rather a journey of interest and passion, documented for himself and others.
Hotmail was 10x worse than all alternatives. It was an ugly web page, not an app.

Gmail took XMLHttpRequest and its ActiveX fallback (we used to call this “comet”) and proved the world that we can ship a robust app inside a web browser.

It was well designed, had no ugly banners like Hotmail did, it was really fast, simple and working like a desktop app.
There's also a right wing case in that if the welfare system is simplified then even if the amount paid out stays the same, a simple system has less room for the government corruption and incompetence that libertarians hate. So the overhead cost of the distribution would be much less, saving taxpayer money while still providing a safety net.

Also that people should be trusted to spend the money the way they see fit because applying myriad rule systems to how someone lives their life is dehumanising.
My cofounder and I run a startup called Love Spreadsheets. I work on the Front-End and do marketing. He's a Full-Stack Engineer.

I would often find myself needing things like the list of new users, information about a user's activity, or sales figures from the past month.

All this information is stored in our database but since I don't know SQL, I frequently had to bother him to query it for me and send me the result in a spreadsheet.

So, to scratch our own itch, we developed an internal tool that lets him write the queries, set up filters for me to customize and for me to easily download the reports and lists as spreadsheets.

This tool helps us so much so we decided to launch it for everyone! Right now we are offering lifetime access for 50% off the annual price!

We hope you check it and helps you & your team out!
I don't think any of it has really been tested, but because two of the Howey test's four provisions are "with an expectation of profit" and "on the work of others" and don't seem to fit something intended to not create a profit it seems like there will be a significant difference in eventual treatment.
> My understanding is that owners of Tesla do not have to pay for electricity to charge cars.

Your understanding is incorrect.
Ah. So we're expecting people - rank and file worker bees - to be paid based on how much revenue (not even profit) their employer (or in this case customer) makes, rather than how much value they provide or another sane measure?
I can't think of an example of someone in America who bought their way out of a murder they committed in a crowded nightclub with many witnesses. I don't mean to minimize your valid point about wealthy people buying their way out of trouble, but the magnitude of this problem is far greater in India.

Also, no, I don't think he killed himself.
Have you heard of Baumol's cost disease? It's the idea that if a sector of the economy experiences productivity growth, wages in that sector grow; as a consequence, wages in the other sector grow, because otherwise workers would flee to the higher wage sector; but because those sectors have not seen productivity growth, the price of what they produce will go up.

I think we are experiencing a similar problem in the world of new enterprises. Software companies can produce huge growth/profit/market valuations/etc. To attract the capital required to create the company, they have to promise and do everything in their power to achieve the same money-printing results as software ones. But they are not inherently high-potential as software companies, so the price and quality of their products suffer.

Everyone wants to be a tech company because that's the way to survive and thrive in the current capital climate. Banks, airlines, real estate leasing companies, hotels, etc. mimic tech companies, because otherwise, capital looks elsewhere and the company won't get funded.
I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency.

Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5 min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be able to use Pygma?

Looks v cool!

P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/
Depends how medical advice is defined, but AI has been shown to be better than humans in several contexts already, e.g. radiology.
I still have a vintage 2010 HP TouchSmart tm2 sitting around. It was certainly an early execution of the convertible idea, and I appreciate it for that. Doesn't stop me from also appreciating my modern Surface Book 2 and Dell XPS 13, though.

Anyway, that's basically the creation myth of the iPhone, no? That it supposedly was basically iterated on for quite a few years before the technology got to the point where a high-quality execution was allowed. I also had Windows Mobile smartphones and remember the iPhone releasing. I didn't recognize or appreciate that difference then.
Yes I was referring to Prisma 1, never looked in details to Prisma 2 because we moved to Hasura before Prisma 2 got released.

I loved Prisma 1, and probably would love Prisma 2 too, but Hasura was enabling us to query already existing databases without rewriting the schema (and having to maintain it), which was a necessity at the time.
And those miner cards can't become gamer cards so gamers will need to buy a new card instead of an old high end miner card when crypto falls out of style again.
A lot of hardware these days just convert DP to HDMI internally for ease of engineering.
> Is it possible to have growth that simply outpaces what a human could possibly consume?

We're already maxed out on information, tools, media and interactions.
Won't say I haven't done this to order online glasses, but the point of TFA is that the real issue is that it should be quick, easy, and cheap to get an eye scan and updated prescription. Better yet, why can't we put free eyeball scanners in grocery and drug stores (like free blood pressure machines), and have those print out current results? There's no real reason for prescriptions at all except in cases where you're dealing with extraordinarily dangerous drugs or procedures. (Nobel economist Milton Friedman was famously against licensing doctors, as he said bad reputations would spread, something even more true in today's internet-connected world...)
> democracy can become antagonistic as people seek to vote money away from each other.

...

> We should therefore focus on taxing capital rather than labor

I find it amazing that these "thinkers" don't see the irony. You are "afraid" that people are going to vote you away from your wealth via democracy; but then you feel privileged to decide how this wealth should be taxed. Since AIs are getting smarter than humans, maybe we should let them decide?

> and AI teachers that can diagnose and explain exactly what a student doesn’t understand.

Since AIs are smarter than humans, why bother teaching humans at all? Unless there is a point where a developed human brain could outsmart the AI, it seems to be a waste and emotionally guided.

> We could do something called the American Equity Fund.

Any solution that is not universal is bound the fail. These companies can move overseas to cut their tax bill. It also easier than moving now since all they need to move is data; electronics being already made in Asia.

The reality is, there is no place for humans in an AI driven world where AI is smarter than humans and robots can make stuff. Realizing that is the first step to move forward in this new world.
I love actors, but baking them into the language like this seems like the wrong approach to me.

The language should provide all the necessary abstractions to create an isolated context. Actors can then "just" be a default abstraction provided by the standard library.

Side note: has the Swift cross platform support improved? I was very much looking forward to using Swift as a general purpose language, but Apple didn't seem very interested in making it a true first class cross platform language. I believe IBM also dropped their "Swift for the server" efforts a while ago due to similar concerns.
This clinic has researchers and they publish, plus they cure the incurable, it's not something to be dismissed as a "fad". If anything, the fad diet is whatever we're doing since the 50s, or all the way up to the invention of agriculture.
Nitpicky/unsolicited UI feedback:

I do a lot of double/triple clicking to highlight text as I read online (fidgeting, but also helps keep track of where I am). On your site, triple clicking unintentionally hits the twitter share button, which opens a new, unwanted window. Bit annoying.

Medium does something similar, but they offset the button so you have to move cursor in between clicks to actually trigger the button.
I implemented a printf format checker for D, which checks that the argument types are compatible with the format specifiers. (This is really a nice feature, I should have done it long ago.)

To be successful, it had to correctly deal with every nuance of the printf spec. cppreference got a couple of these incorrect wrt to modifiers. Not something a routine user would notice, but a pedantic one would. (Sorry, I don't remember exactly what the mistakes were.)

I still use cppreference because it is so dang convenient. But I don't rely on it when perfection is required.

It's really too bad that copyright forces everyone writing a manual to rewrite & rephrase things. I wish the C++ Standard was online.

One online reference I dearly like is https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html which has saved me so much time. But it was created by scanning the actual reference manuals, so barring scanning errors, it is exactly correct. I gave up using reformulations of the CPU instruction set long ago, they had too many mistakes.
Not only Firefox but AFAIK most browsers -- at least on Windows -- have interpreted "target=new" as new tab, not window, for several years now. "Open in new tab" is also the first alternative on the right-click menu, before "Open in new window".

Also, BTW, Firefox has had a Tabs menu for years now; both vertical and hides itself away automatically. (Though perhaps you still can't save any vertical space with it: AFAICR it lives on the tab bar, so if you hide that you lose the menu too.)
This seems to be a way to tackle concurrency, without addressing distributed programming.

Why?

As far as I can tell, both Erlang and Akka (the two cited examples that implement actors) do both concurrent and distributed systems.
> ...Github are stupid in some way, but just asking if other architectures have been considered.

To me, asking an engineering org if they’ve considered alternative architectures for their main engineering problem is silly at best, overconfident at worst.
Considering how entrenched Docker has been in global tech infrastructure for so many years

It is not entrenched at all, that's their problem. You can literally drop in Podman as a replacement and alias the command it it will "just work" - and Podman has some significant advantages in many environments/use cases. Docker, the company or the product, has no concrete barriers to entry to protect itself.
We fundamentally believe in the prosperity of our physical world. The fair itself will be physical, but will have a virtual component so that anyone with a smart phone or, even better, a VR headset, can participate.
Yup, my team has a backlog of hundreds of bugs, perf issues, and technical debt that we developers would love to spend months digging into and fixing. There's a high likelihood we already know about any given bug that gets filed.

But that's not what product & business prioritize, so it's not what we do. Occasionally we get thrown a bone and have a "quality week" which is laughable.

And this is at a respected company you've probably heard of and used. It's even worse at the smaller companies I've been at.
We would like the right to take our phones to independent specialists to have them repair them with equivalent parts to the original where possible.

It's the case that in the EU and UK (for now) that we can take our cars to qualified independent service centres without invalidating our warrantees.

We want the same for our phones and other devices.
Most sites that don't work without javascript are unpleasant to use with it enabled anyway.

Also some portion of those 0.9% might be running librejs or noscript which has the user review each script file before running it and is much more aggressive about blocking cross site requests. With "disable js" removed from the firefox GUI a lot of the people "blocking javascript" probably show up as "errors."

I use this. The main reason is performance, my thinkpad is unusable if I let everyone's crap run wild on it. Also evaling every snippet of code you get over the network is absolute brain damage from a security perspective but no one actually cares anymore.
I'd argue deep learning is just as much a waste for most businesses anyway
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Partly it's a copying and adopting mechanism. Words become fashionable. One obvious phrase used in the media that has been recently been adopted in the last 10 years is "optics": https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage...

(Dark patterns was first adopted in 2010, for example)

Partly it's pattern recognition on your/our behalf. We notice something new, then something again, and there's a pattern.

Without actual data on the frequency of words and phrases we wouldn't really know either way. Similar to those charts / graphs of NYT could be a good start, but for HN e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981380

Maybe the search results below could be hacked?
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