skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to urban densification where everyone lives in the sky and the city is crowded, polluted, noisy, crime ridden and dystopian?
Government taxes are a different ballgame than private company (Apple) profits. Interesting that you see them as the same thing. :/
An iPhone makes setup easier and it supports some neat things like using the camera on your phone to calibrate color tone, but it's optional.

If you buy a new Apple TV make sure you get the one that just came out with the new Siri remote, it looks much better than the old touchpad one that I think at best people tolerate.
There was a fairly large polling miss in 2015, yes - and the traditional in-depth postmortem by the British Polling Council[0]. Nevertheless, the conclusion from the inquiry was that the shy Tory effect "...is unlikely to have been a contributory factor in the polling miss." (p.42). Or from your link 0: "I do not mean to dismiss the "shy Tory" argument out of hand, but I find it far less plausible in 2015 than in 1992".

In short, the polls are normally a bit wrong, and sometimes more than a bit. And occasionally that changes the expected result (as in 2015) rather than just the magnitude of an expected victory. And over the last 30 years or so those misses have on average been larger against the Conservatives than against Labour. But the conclusion, on analysis, is that the misses have generally been caused by structural problems with the polling, not respondents lying because they're shy. This shouldn't surprise us too much: trying to produce a valid poll with less than 100% response rates requires assumptions, and increasingly more heroic ones as the numbers fall and distributions of those still answering change. I'm mildly in awe of my colleagues for getting as close as they do, given how difficult the problems are. And (with the exception of a few partisan hacks) the polling industry and polling academia in Britain is remarkably straightforward about exposing their errors in public and issuing 'mea culpa's where appropriate.

The last part was intended to relate because the notion of a 'shy Tory' is that a voter has deeply-held but perceived socially embarrassing views that they are shy about revealing to a pollster. Persistent dishonesty is disliked, by voters of all parties, and seen to be socially unacceptable - so we would expect social desirability bias to apply to polling for Johnson. But, in fact, voters are happy to rate him as both dishonest and their preferred choice for Prime Minister. Which suggests in a straightforward (though admittedly non-rigorous) way that they're unlikely to be hiding voting for his party.

[0]: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3789/1/Report_final_revised.pdf
I did a deep dive into liveview and this was my take away.

Its nice tech, but once you start introducing JS again to improve UX you really start asking yourself why you didn't just build it with react in the first place.
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Thanks, this puts it better.
I don't know how Terraform works, but `virt-builder` will cache the xz-compressed template images locally on your first pull. So for example, if you build a Fedora image:

$ virt-builder fedora-32 --size 10G --format qcow2

Then the (xz-compressed) template Fedora 32 image will be cached under ~/.cache/virt-builder. So your subsequent Fedora 32 image provisioning will be much faster.

You might want to give it a whirl and see if it satisfies your needs; `virt-builder` should be available on most major Linux distributions.
> In Scotland we have a saying

Also in England. Coincidentally I'm reading a book about the British experience of World War 2 which suggests that the phrase came into widespread usage as a result of the wartime black market economy combined with a truly massive amount of stuff being moved around southern England in the logistics prep for the D-Day landings.
Yeah, my stance has always been that companies should exist to:

1. deliver value.

2. capture a fraction of that value.

I think it is pretty clear in most cases that 30% is well above the value Apple is actually delivering with their App Store. It's not like Apple is building the apps for other people. You still have to build the app entirely on your own, the only thing Apple is doing is letting you distribute your app / distributing it for you, which costs pennies. People keep saying "but you wouldn't have devices to distribute your app to without Apple" and while that is true, Apple is already capturing the value for that part of the deal – they're selling the devices to customers. If they were giving away iPhones for free, that would be one thing. But if the only reason you are able to charge 30% is because you've monopolized distribution on a device that the user "owns", that is not ok.

Then there is the dubious value Apple claims to be providing to end-users by "maintaining the quality of the app store", but I don't think this is true anymore. Shit-tier apps get thru every day, and great apps get knocked for arbitrary reasons. Apps are pretty well sandboxed at this point, requiring explicit permission for most worrying features, so I don't really think Apple oversight is needed. Allow 3rd party app stores already.
I don't disagree with you, but you couldn't really have picked a worst example (short of an an actual EU member country) given how their bilateral treaties with the EU means EU rules apply to do business in non-EU Switzerland.
>They shouldn't be allowed to run an App Store, and they should probably have their services division peeled away into a separate company.

I think the ship has sailed on App stores. They're just better than the alternative and consumers are used to them. I'd consider them an integral part of the OS.

The problem is the fees. 30% is excessive especially so for in-app purchases where the customer is already acquired. The easiest and cleanest solution is to just cap these to something more reasonable. Something like 5% or maybe CC transaction costs + a couple percent.
Most major corporations have teams of mixed offshore and onshore developers. If it was okay to have the offshore part of the team working from outside the office before the pandemic, I don't see why onshore developers wouldn't deserve the same treatment now.
> Nearly everyone I've spoken to has reported that WFH productivity has been equal, if not better than pre-pandemic.

Certainly not the case for everyone. Many people are struggling to be productive at home, alone. Jobs that require more coordination are also at risk of slowing down.

WFH is great for some, but it’s not a panacea.
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Youtube don't seem to want me as a customer.

My setup is all running through Roku's.

I run my Plex server, Dolby Atmos through an Ultra, and a tonne of other channels through 3 Roku's.

Youtube is the expendable link here.

They can up their negotiation game and strategy ... or become obsolete in our house.

It's the same with Sonos. I can't run or cast ad-based Youtube through Sonos either. Oh well. Am I going to give up Sonos? Nope.

Bye Youtube (?) ... Obviously their business doesn't depend on me, but weird to see a once favourite website so relegated ...
> the next protracted drawdown

We should have seen this drawdown last year.
I distinctly remember borrowing a copy of "Linux From Dummies" from the public library and then using it to learn how to use the Linux shell, back in the '00s. It even came with a CD of some extremely old version of Red Hat.
SES is pretty good at monitoring your email usage, such that it maintains a "reputation" score calculated by monitoring the hard bounce rate generated by your account. The premise being that high bounce rates (AWS define this as >5%) strongly indicate you're not managing your email recipient list properly i.e. sending untargeted SPAM.
To which I honestly, just kept my mouth shut and stood aside.

I can never keep my mouth shut in these situations. Sometimes it leads to promotions, but I suspect it puts a ceiling on how high I can climb the corporate ladder.
For reference I have over a decade of JavaScript experience in industry and my async Rust rewrite of a large JS project was *more* concise then the heavily refactored and polished NodeJS version (a language I consider more concise then most). If you are having to copy and paste excessively in Rust that is an issue but it is not necessarily intrinsic to the language.

For what it's worth traits largely prevented copy and paste and where traits fail there are macros. The classic inheritance example you link to is a tiny percentage of my code and an orders of magnitude smaller time sink when compared to the code maintenance problems I faced in other languages.
Maybe Apple should hire Steve Ballmer, I hear he's available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVhiybBb1U
We are building a similar serverless no-code inbox (with SES and S3) not for outgoing emails, but to only receive them [0].

Our service doesn't require a user to sign-up with any existing identity (like email or phone number), and so, when they make payments, we send the invoices from the payments-processor to an email (corresponding to the customer-id) on our subdomain that goes to SES which promptly plonks it into an S3 bucket set up to life-cycle it out after 60 days, encrypting it with keys associated with customer-id. This encryption serves us well when the customer chooses to rotate / delete their pseudo-anonymous identity (and the keys along with it), as then all data in our systems associated with their id (the archived emails, for example) is essentially tombstoned.

The reason we prefer serverless over other solutions is not because of its scale or low-cost, but high-availability.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiv...
By what logic is that? I do not see any logic anywhere here that would imply any such thing.
It's probably just that one of them is doing location verification through the account's location and the other one is doing location verification through your IP.
I personally gave up, I treat all of their platforms as "legacy" and only port stuff as "best effort" similar to what I was doing with IE in the IE days (yes, that also includes Safari).
I was making a comment more about how the socialist EU can offer better corporate taxes than the more "capitalist" country (USA).
Were there plenty of water would you think the same? Is proscribing asceticism and passing judgement morally superior to engineering abundance?
foone is a national treasure. That he uses twitter this way should make us reconsider our initial negative opinion of that style.
It definitely happens at some point — I saw it in my mother when her Alzheimer’s progressed to later stages. She only seemed to be aware of her condition in the initial stages.

I have wondered if Alzheimer’s preferentially damages certain parts of the brain? And also if eventual death is unpredictable because it depends on when the damage interferes with autonomous bodily functions such as heartbeat, breathing, or gut peristalsis?
WTF do I want a heated cupholder? It'll melt my ice.
Yes there was also Skyliner.io and I had one coincidentally named Surfliner 3 years before that which I killed before launching. What I’ve learned is that in this particular space there are two kinds of developers: the ones that don’t want to run anything and the ones that want to run everything themselves.
I honestly think leetcode is a pretty terrible way to learn how to do algorithm problems, especially without a formal education in algorithms. The large test case bank is the most useful feature. The discussion and solutions shared on the site tends to be lacking in breadth and depth.

I was happier to learn algorithms properly via the algorithms Coursera course taught by Sedgewick. The next time I need to go through the interview loop, I’ll probably start with Programming Interviews Exposed and supplement it with some other algorithm books as needed.
They certainly did feel nasty to me, but they shouldn't increase the force required. A narrow enough O-ring should provide cushioning just past the actuation point. What I would have to do when I used O-rings is press every key very hard after installing them to ensure that they were pushed as far up as possible.
That's one way of looking at it. But there's also another side of it: this type of interviews let you change career path.

Imagine that you're run-of-the-mill java programmer, but you'd like to dive into Machine Learning, or BlockChain, or whatever. Some companies will require you to have 3 years of previous experience before considering you for such job. Others will give you a Leetcode interview to ensure that you're smart, and then let you learn the actual tech stack on the job.

Also, Leetcode problems might be removed from everyday development work, but most of us did learn those things at some point, i.e. in college, so asking them in the interview kind of makes sense, it's kind of "common denominator" for all programmers.
My situtation is slightly different than the Google one, but I've already resolved if my employer makes me come back into the office with a full-time commute, I'm going to start looking for a different job right away.
The laws will be against hidden tracking, you can track but you need to be transparent about it and if you misuse the tracking you should pay.
My concern is not exactly that it could potentially be misused. It's more that it seems to set up forces that subtly push projects toward becoming resistant to change over time. And, while it's possible for individual programmers to exercise discipline in order to push back against these sorts of forces, at a larger scale the guiding principle seems to be, "water flows downhill." So we should seek to find ways of building things that generally set up forces guiding us toward good design in the long run, without having to drill people on large laundry lists of best practices. That approach only works for as long as the code is owned by a sort of benevolent dictator who is able to, by hook or by crook, keep all their teammates on (their version of) the righteous path. And that approach itself is unstable; it has a tendency to degrade rapidly whenever the leader decides to spend a week at the beach. If they should ever leave the company, it's likely to be lost forever.

I can't say that I know a software development idiom that reliably creates a more stable equilibrium point. But I don't think we'll ever find one unless we're willing to examine the failure modes of existing paradigms.
> It's an open platform and it's one of the only places you can access all streaming services (I think?).

Yes and no. Yes, they all seem to be available, but not entirely as DRM implementations have varying support across browsers and platforms which currently just limits your access to HD content but could in theory limit you entirely.
I think it's a legitimate question: we all have a large chunk of savings stuck in this game because of perverse incentives set by corrupt/inept US gov. Now what?
Looking through the examples, I see lots of pitfalls such as unquoted variables, backticks, no error checking, and parsing ls. Also bash features such as [[ are ignored, and expr is sometimes used for what bash handles natively. Also there's a lot of new stuff that this old guide doesn't cover.
I (in the CEST time zone) am currently collaborating with a colleague who lives in Australia, because academics often don't get to choose where they end up.

Its a fucking mess, most of the time its ok, we can meet in the early morning here which is late at night there and do most work offline, but when deadlines are looming or issues crop and we have to talk back and forth over stuff urgently it basically cuts the useful time in the day down to like 3 hours at most, and even that results in at least one of us working very unsociable hours.

Remote work I like, I'm very happy working from home and can do so fairly productively, but timezones are a big issue. My example is with two people working in two timezones, if you've got a bunch of people working in different timezones (the person above mentioned 5!) it can quickly become very messy.
Google doesn’t care if most employees quit, they are replaceable. The few that they do care about, they will arrange unofficial exemptions for.
You might be surprised. Phonetics and historical linguistics are proper subjects of study, not quackery. I've heard teachers say that in England people used to pronounce Latin much like English until the specialists rescued much of the original pronunciation of Latin for the public. Today every Latin primer, especially the British and the American ones, insist that you read Latin in the reconstructed way.

WS Allen in his book, Vox Latina, actually explains how Latin might have been pronounced in the Roman period. Interestingly his theories have universal acceptance today.
Yes there should be no difference. I believe this is due to how Roku handles account region settings. When you create an account and register your Roku it gets region set to your country at that time. According to what I've read this becomes a permanent account setting, which you can change this by contacting Roku support, but they only allow you to change it once.

A possible workaround is to create a new separate Roku account from your new country and add it to your Roku, however beware this requires factory resetting your device. Also before doing so make sure Amazon Prime is available in your new country.
I want it to be smarter and choose quasi-optimal settings for me automatically. Dropping an almost entirely solid white PNG on it, the initial suggestion is to convert to JPEG which _increases_ the size rather than decreasing it!
The Network “Laws”
You've done all this supposed work and don't know the difference between heritability and genetic? Someone's favorite soda is hereitable too.
How does that allow me to cast to my Kodi box running Chrome though?
Digital ID for the Internet – Cyber Polygon Event 7/9/21 [video]
> This isn’t a contradiction.

Yes it is. The "server" in "serverless" means no need to low-level manage/provision a server (computer) and its lifecycle. While "server" in "A serverless email server" means actually "service" as in "A serverless email service on AWS using S3 and SES". Which makes much more sense.
The linked repo lets you have an "email server" just like GSuite gives you a "serverless email server".
> They don’t raise prices for a few reasons

>1. People are cheap

This is always the answer. Or rather they can not raise prices, because then sufficient number of consumers will not buy the product.
It's the same thing with Twitch - for a long time you could still get Twitch on Roku, but it was unsupported. AFAIK you can still install it, but it doesn't work.
Is the difference between "malware" and "malicious software" really that meaningful that it undermines the overall point of the piece?
I’m not sure you understand what monopoly means.

Nobody is mad that Apple/Amazon/Netflix/etc are creating competition for banks, movie studios, car dealers, etc.

The complaints about these companies are the specific areas where they hold a dominant position and unfair advantage over other companies. The App Store in the case of Apple/Google, advertising in the case of Google, etc. The areas where these companies have a stranglehold on distribution is the problem.

Amazon and Apple having movie studios and banking aspirations makes competition BETTER, not worse. Literally nobody is mad at Apple for having a credit card or funding movie productions.

Apple has zero control over credit card distribution or automobile purchasing. Why the hell would you want to protect the big banks and lazy old car companies from having to compete with Apple?
The problem is that if Apples' services have a price, then they should price it out, like any provider.

"Here's the price to have your app in the store, here is the one for one download, here is the one for an update".

Having a blanket "buffet" pricing (sub is 1€ or 100€ ? Doesn't matter it's a set % you owe us !), making it illegal to let the user get the app another way, making it impossible for them to not pay through Apple (and then pay back Apple what you we them for the service you use) is why they're going to lose.
Because above a certain level managers derive their sense of self-worth from the number of physical people surrounding them?
>it seems that average IQ in large population groups is mostly a function of culture rather than genetics.

Probably environment more than culture (unless you are counting environment in that). Just look at the effects nutrition during pregnancy has or the effects lead has on IQ.
So you are getting paid while you are not in the office, but you would make it so that others don’t have that ability?
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It's weird, sound is one of the few hardware things that always work on Linux (until I mess with it, but that's on me). Graphics, sleep, fingerprint readers, overclocking, I've ran into all of them, but sound just always works for me for some reason.

I'm using Kodi (running on plain Debian, no specialized distro) on my HTPC/server, with Kore on my phone and a Firefox extension to send Youtube to my TV. It's more complicated than it needs to be, but with neither Google nor Apple opening up their ecosystem enough to have an alternative, it Works For Me (TM) as best as I can make it.

I still blame hardware manufacturers for any shitty Linux support because they're the ones with the ability to fine-tune their Linux support, or at least provide an audio interface. The fact that some people are running into trouble but others aren't implies that the hardware level support is once again the reason things are broken for some users.
Notarization has been a nightmare of a solution to a problem that isn't effective. You can get practically as much security by pushing malware signatures to the client without the massive privacy overreach of having Apple archive each and every bit of code that you generate for distribution.

This is just Apple's overreach extended to the desktop. Excessive control that makes developer's lives hell while adding barely any security on top.
After just skimming through the landing page, one thing I want to point out:

I absolutely love the fact that they simply show me what the product looks like. Often times you have to dig through docs and "features" pages just to get a glimpse of the offering. Here it's front and center, screenshots are right there in your face, can't miss it even if you want to.

To other SaaS developers, I say: SHOW ME THE DAMN PRODUCT!

The only step up from this is to have an interactive, radically simplified version of the product embedded in the landing page, with dummy data I can play with it, just to get a feel of the product. Obviously this is much more difficult to get right.
Yes, these are examples of commodity markets working well. Video service should be the same. Roku should be able to get uniform terms from multiple content vendors.
You are incorrect, see man pages.
10.15 was released 18 months ago so I assume this article is from 2020.

The process has improved since then so not sure how much of this still applies.