skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't believe any company that doesn't already exist will ever compete at scale with Amazon or Google.

People said the exact same thing, with the same conviction, about IBM, Microsoft, Walmart, etc.
So, the definition "money you get your hands on" definitely isn't correct, and the way to make this clearer is to think of it in terms of credit card processing and merchant accounts: if you sell a $5 product and the credit card processor takes $0.25, your revenue is $5, not $4.75, and they actually will report the full $5 to the government as part of a 1099-K and then your job is to report that full gross income and deduct the fees you paid. They also will report any sales you made which were refunded, and you would then separately report deductions for that also.

Now, that said, one can actually use that construction to argue that the store is then having revenue, and giving a royalty to the developer or something, and in fact my store did something where I sometimes modeled it as a retail storefront of licenses I purchased wholesale, but these are just not normal models for how the word "cut" is then applied: most people reasonably--and I think correctly--believe that the user bought something from the developer, with the store acting merely as a middleman payment processor charging a "fee" or taking a "commission" off of every sale (and I am pretty sure at least Google even models it directly in that way in its reports; there are a ton of advantages to the store to doing that, and I think even Apple sometimes reaches for this model).

From such standpoint, and to look at this using descriptive linguistics, you simply don't ever see anyone say "Apple
recently increased the cut of smaller developer's from 70% to 85%": every single headline I've seen says "Apple recently decreased their cut from smaller developers from 30% to 15%".
There have been actual studies done showing a clear correlation between the decline of local news and an increase in municipal- and county-level corruption, so it's hard to argue they were entirely useless.
The criticism regarding Cloudflare as an MITM is odd:

> The connection is encrypted between the browser and CloudFlare, and between CloudFlare and the website if the website has a SSL certificate, but the communication in-between remains completely visible to CloudFlare.

This critique applies to all content delivery networks. CDNs can't deliver content if they can't see the request and response. That visibility is a problem in certain use cases, but in those cases you simply shouldn't use a CDN.
Bad news for you, then… your counterparty can’t still bring you to court.
Not really.

The JVM and JVM bytecode was written with Java in mind, whereas WASM wasn't designed for a single language.
You are correct, good sir. As you point out, both are somewhat the same: your value increases as more people buy into the illusion of value.
"They are comparable in that both keep working as long as no one tries to cash out, and money keeps coming in."

So...a Ponzi scheme?
AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – A Visual Tool for Building State Machines
Leave something obvious and easy to fix on each PR. This lets them get their 2c in and you can move on with life.
Can you repeat that in English please?
Series F by itself isn't necessarily a bad thing anymore. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Snowflake all had Series F rounds at one point.
I was working a project where the BOM was to be at most 50 bucks. It is kind of difficult to hit that number. Ironically while the board was cheap it was all the additions to make it a full computer that ended up ruining the idea. That was even before we add in any profit margin. Add in a screen, keyboard, mouse, power supply, and so on. It adds up quickly. What was a 15-20 dollar computer is now 70-80 or more plus paying someone to put it together.
It depends on how the coins are stabilized. If they are stabilized by generating new coins and those coins ate given away to current holders (as opposed to sold to establish more collateral), then this is precisely a ponzi scheme.
IMO the issue here is that: everything that is not carefully specified as a precise algorithm, will be implemented differently.

This is why each browser used to parse HTML differently.

This is why you'd have compat or even security issues because some software used \r\n for newlines splitting while other used \n.

Luckily the browser vendors formed WHATWG which created pretty precise specs which are maybe convoluted but at least everyone parses HTML in the same way, and each browser pretends to be every other browser for compatibility.

2021 is really great for web compat, maybe not all browsers implement every API, but existing APIs are accompanied by very thorough test suites (Web Platform Tests):
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt

Live results from nightly builds: https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali...

Having said that I don't see vendors aligning on definition on word count any soon due to corporate inertia, lack of incentives and lack of "Word editors consortium" (or is there any?)

A truly good function for word count might be pretty complex, and perhaps different for every language.
Cursive writing in English has conditional rendering.
Wars are great sources of innovation. Here are all the innovations stemming from the American Civil War:

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/civil-war-...
At some FAANG companies, fixing bugs and other "boring" projects don't get you promoted.

I can tell when there's a perf/promo cycle coming up at Google because all the core apps on my phone change their UIs and get buggier and slower.
The variance is probably due to a difference in what counts as a word + ambiguity around white spaces etc in each text editor. So it's not that the word counting problem is unsolved it's a problem of different companies adopting different definitions.
The coarseness of pharmacological dosing:

Right now, if the average effective dose is 10mg, doc just gives you 10mg. Often pharmacies can only provide multiples of this. People can have very dramatic differences in drug metabolism and tolerance, so this 'one size fits all' attitude is very coarse.

I think it would be much better for certain medications, particularly ones that are taken over longer periods of time, to be titrated more carefully:

- First dose should be <= 1/10th effective dose to check for hypersensitivity or allergies

- Early doses should gradually titrate up - patient has no tolerance, and so early doses will have more effect. Titration should watch for both whether therapeutic effect is being achieved and whether side effects occur.

- If therapeutic effect is achieved, stop increasing the dose. Possibly slowly reduce the dose until therapeutic effects are insufficient and then step up a little but in order to minimize side effects.

- If side effects are too severe and no therapeutic effects are found, look for another drug.

* This could be counterproductive for certain medications, like antibiotics or drugs with atypical dose response curves

I think the main hurdle is that custom-dosing medications is expensive to do currently. Also requires an ability to quickly detect and react to whether therapeutic or side effects are occurring, which is also expensive and has patient compliance issues.
> If you’re deploying code that has to run on someone else’s computer without supervision, it shouldn’t be a shell script at all, this is why we have compiled languages.

Why? It's more complicated, you need to compile different version for different operating systems and different architectures, if you have to update something you have to recompile it and typically to recompile it you have to install a development environment, versus opening the script and editing it.
The last time I bothered with it, it complained about my use of `sudo` but wouldn't run unless I was logged in as admin - not a temporary bump, just logged in as an admin. Sudo isn't alright but running as admin is…? I really can't work that one out.

It also broke so I uninstalled it. When I need to I go straight to their formulas and install by hand, as a non-admin user.
I'll broadly second this. As an experienced dev, what kept Triplebyte on my radar was being able to at least theoretically cut past the initial round of 'can you actually fizzbuzz or are you just lying about it' that most companies need to filter out the people with inexplicably good resumes but no practical skills.
>> Interestingly, the same is true of waking life.

The notion that most of our experience is projection is really fascinating to me. Or rather it's projection combined with inputs at various levels of abstraction, and our attention is diverted to where these two differ. A lot of empirical evidence suggests this is the case. A deep dive in psychotherapy can help one to see this up close. The notion that it applies to visual input seems crazy, but you can also do fun experiments with the "blind spot" in your vision that are pretty convincing.
In Europe, more and more banks have been slashing opening hours and the number of clerks at physical locations, or even closing locations outright, because customers are expected to do nearly everything through online banking. Many forms of interaction with the state require using their online portal, and even if you visit the government office, they may just show you how to do what you need through the online portal instead of helping you directly. Programs to assist people who do not have a phone and internet, now focus on giving those people a phone and internet; there simply isn’t willingness to make technology optional for that tiny demographic that eschews internet use.

Yes, the Amish have managed in the USA so far, but I think that even those days are numbered. Just as many Amish already own mobile phones, though they limit their use and keep them stashed away most of the time, they will be forced to do online things, too.
Much like NASA the CNSA has to play politics and it's fair share of butt kissing politicians to get it's funding.
> the most breaking thing someone is going to do is turn `allow_url_fopen` off

See [1]. "If PHP was compiled with --disable-url-fopen-wrapper, it won’t work." ... "But it will be printed if scream.enabled is set in php.ini." ... "exactly where it goes depends on display_errors, again in php.ini." There's so much variability in what an arbitrary PHP interpreter might or might not have support for, especially from 10 years ago.

> I'd far rather run a script I can see what I'm actually doing to my machine instead of a binary.

Then why not ship the source, along with an interpreter binary to run it in isolation? This is one of Lua's main use cases.

> Binaries are at best a sad compromise in the name of performance.

I disagree with this at a fundamental level because of the fact that binaries are what can be used by a computer. Anything that runs, is ultimately a binary, even if parts of that binary are generated dynamically. By adding a dependency of the environment (system PHP), it adds a layer of magic and unknowns.

[1] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
> Their docs state that there should be a max supply of 1 billion iron titan tokens[0]. But according to coingecko, there are over 27 trillion in circulation[1].

How on earth does something like this happen?
> For every wonderful experience with a TM there were 10+ engineers who we screened out.

maybe (and i know that this is an outré thing to say these days) that was the point.
Right, but that was unlikely to be the correct parse as we don't normally use phrasing like that; we say "well, you might think X is Y, just let me tell you Z is actually way more Y... at least in your Z situation, A is true, which mitigates how Y it could be". There was a lot elided here, but the structure was the same.
If you want cheap and fast internet you're not going to get it by making it a utility. You're going to get it by removing the regulations that let ISPs have local monopolies and removing the barriers to competition. Sure, it might require other regulations to enforce competition so companies don't consolidate too much but at the moment the issue is most localities regulate out all the competition.

Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc have fast internet because of competition.

Adding municipal broadband might make things temporarily better but long term it will go bad. See roads and transportation systems all over the country. Then remember that tech moves much faster than road tech. Is the municipal going to upgrade to terabit speeds? No, but competition will.

Note: I'm not saying I support the bill. Rather I'm saying municipal broadband will be a net negative. You'll all cheer it on and it will feel good at first and then in 10-15 yrs you'll wonder why we're so far behind countries that encouraged competition as their ISPs competed on faster speeds and those municipal IPSs are still in government committees arguing over funding.
The entire crypto marketplace is built around the fiction that stable coins are backed by something financially stable.

More than half of all crypto trades involve stable coins. Coins whose value is being artificially set without any real, tangible, verifiable basis for doing so.
True, I'm just saying as someone who's been in the space for several years I've not come across too many of these. I think it's a stereotype that doesn't match with reality - at least from my experience.
Not sure if you saw our graphql integration, that takes typedefs and converts a graphql query into a single cypher query, which can then be executed directly. https://neo4j.com/product/graphql-library/ has links to docs and api scaffolding tools.

When I started back then in 2016 with it, it was pretty cool how directly graphql mapped to the graph model in the db.
> Supporting exec sounds like it could be a security issue.

Why would it be any more of an issue than calling a blocking exec?

> why on earth you would call exec that way

The same reason as why you would want to do anything else with io_uring? In an async runtime you have to delegate blocking calls to a thread pool. Much nicer if the runtime can use the same execution system as for other IO.
Because a lot of books are filled with needless bloat to meet some number of pages goal, in an attempt to boost sales.
So, we ARE keeping the quiz (and companies still trust it as much as they did in the past). It's just not mandatory.
That one's on the Canadians. Our side is nice little park. I've done a lot of hiking on the east coast and even a managed park with an entry fee and a visitor center with a little movie will have hundreds of miles of wild trails. 1% of it will be for the car tourists with railings, pavement, strollers and small children. Yellowstone for example, for as touristy as the main areas are, has 900 miles of trails. It is incredibly wild.

Our protection of public lands is a crowning achievement. We have 7,000 state and national parks covering an area roughly the size of Spain. Sorry you didn't like the park you visited in PA.
That’s because the vast majority of things have a clear correct answer. Even in multiparty nations, many legislative acts passed with the overwhelming majority of mps
Yeah you’d need the multitrack original recordings to do a good job I’d say. There are tricks with eg. phase cancellation/spectral filtering and so on I suppose you could use to try and hack something together, but the results would vary greatly depending on the original material/skill of the engineer… A lot of multi-track recordings, especially older ones, have a lot of bleed between tracks which might complicate matters…
He was Italian, C− for effort
> Can't wait to try it? Go ahead!

> curl https://get.wasmer.io -sSfL | sh

No, thanks.

I looked at the docs and running this shell script from internet is the only mentioned installation method.

Then I took a look at the script, it only supports bash, zsh and fish and will try to inject stuff in my shell config, add a new executable directory, and download and run an executable without even verify file checksum
I feel the exact same way. I went through the interview process with a handful of good startups through Triplebyte (and got offers from almost all of them) and even though I ended up taking a job with a company outside of TB, I still walked away extremely impressed and confident that I'd use the platform again in my next search. I loved that I was pre-qualified and didn't have to intensely prove my technical chops at every on site. With this change, I don't see the benefits for me to use TB over a competing job board or just applying to companies directly. With these changes, I don't plan on using TB for my next job search.

Edit: just saw the comment that TB is keeping the quiz. Would consider using the platform in the future as long as that pre-qualification track is available and that this new direction is just a superset on the existing TB features.
I don’t think that’s particularly amusing or a “disconnect.” From what I can tell, the entire point of GraphQL at Facebook was to expose an interface that looks like a graph database but is in fact able to load data from any number of different underlying data stores (without the query developer needing to know about that part).
A problem for me has been the inconsistent nature of intrinsic motivation. I start out in that "honeymoon" phase where it's fun and interesting, but after a few weeks or days (or even hours in some cases) it loses its intrigue and becomes boring work. So I either wind up forcing myself to continue or adding it to my pile of unfinished "to be continued" projects. (And knowing that this loss of intrinsic motivation may happen feeds the fear to even start new things.)

(This is to say nothing of the inherent problems with extrinsically motivated work, such as freelance work.)
> He would still demand rework after doing it his way .

I've dealt with this before by documenting everything they told me to do differently, with date and time.

Always fun doing code review in a group, having the lead point out a number of problems they have with the code, especially actual bugs, and pulling up the changelog which includes notes from the one criticizing your code, telling you to make those design choices. I've collapsed whole meetings this way, with people walking out and going straight to HR with requests to transfer teams. Really helps to remove the poison from the group.
Have any of them figured out how to generate a profit or have they just switched from extracting money from VCs to extracting it from the public?
From what I can tell, they provisioned their DB instance(s) in a single AZ, but weren't aware that Aurora automatically provisions its own storage and always uses multiple AZs. We touch on the separation of compute and storage in the post.

I think the surprise is that it's not possible to have a truly "single AZ" Aurora database, even though you might have thought you provisioned your DB instances that way.
A Senate proposal for a new US agency to protect Americans’ data is back
Vaccines usually are successful (like 80% in phase 3 make it out?) - it’s cancer drugs that ruin the averages since they are very common and never work.
OneNote, Apple Notes, Bear, Google Docs do everything.

Except being functional on my locked down work devices and VPN network.
On the recruiting side (I’m not a recruiter but a director making a lot of hires), we actually do the opposite all the time — we post relatively senior positions then downlevel whoever we hire to fit their experience level. A lot of people think more highly of themselves than the employment market does.

We look at the job posting as a brand marketing — all we’re really trying to do is get you to apply and fill the funnel. The whole hiring process is designed to be a calibration on role, cultural fit, compensation, etc.
> it is free

I would like to point out that this is temporary, for people who don't want to pay at all for note taking https://discuss.logseq.com/t/what-is-logseqs-business-model/...

(And yes, Logseq is great, couldn't agree more)
There are browser plugins to remove domains from DDG and Google (for me: Firefox, DDG: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...)
No, much different, in a Ponzi scheme you're fraudulently claiming that the high returns you're delivering your old investors are real, and result from your investing acumen, when in fact they aren't real, they're just money from new investors that was never invested in the first place.

They are comparable in one way however.
Hi, I'm Wiqar, product manager for Wasmer. We would love to hear more about your application and use case. Is the app in production?
In every case I can think of in life, there are things I care about and things that get swept along with that.

I have one electric distribution utility provider. They use service trucks that have internal combustion engines. Suppose I was passionately pro-EV and against ICE vehicles; it would still not be a contradiction that I purchase my electricity distribution from that one available grid provider. "He's buying from them, so clearly he must support their use of ICE vehicles."

I can virtually guarantee that you disagree with at least one position that the candidate you voted for has taken. They're your representative, not your agent.
Bug fixes in GNOME are driven by volunteers, so if no one shows up to fix them after years, they are probably low priority and don't affect many people compared to the effort that it takes to fix them. Sorry, I don't know what else can be done about that, besides putting more strain on already strained open source maintainers. I don't know what you mean peer pressure to be a GNOME app. The file chooser and color chooser are unlikely to be changed unless somebody with a lot of UI/UX design experience volunteers to work on them, and makes them better in a way that benefits all GTK apps. The bugs with flatpak integration should probably be reported if they aren't already, the issue may be that some flatpak packages need to update their SDK version so they get a bug fixed version of GTK. Regarding your last sentence, issues in GNOME's wayland implementation won't affect users of other desktops.

Does that help? I don't think those are issues where you're being controlled into an unfixable situation, so I can try to help offer some solutions.
To be fair, it's the OP that chose to use the URL with the extension. However, you could say WC3 could've disable their servers from automatically creating URLs with file extension if they wanted to follow this.

1. https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI works

2. If https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html is ever 404 then you get a very useful 300 page (e.g., try https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.foobar)

3. However, from (2) you can see Spanish page is encoded as `.../URL.html.es` which is bad because `.../URI.es` does not exist
I don’t consider that a gotcha question at all. There are so many examples of evil in the world so it is easy to question the role of God’s plan. I’m not the best person to ask as I don’t necessarily believe that there is some sort of master plan. I’m also not overly religious even though it may sound that way in this thread. I think that religion can give people a sense of meaning deeper than yourself- something that is sorely lacking in today’s society IMO.

As far as your question, I would recommend reading Viktor Frankl’s book A Mans Search for Meaning. It’s powerful as any book you’ll ever read and give you an insight to how at least one person persevered through the most horrific of circumstances.
Indeed. It's not that just developer experience and skill matters. Team size, project size, nature of the project (firmware for a medical device or space probe will clearly require a different level of scrutiny than e.g. a game), point in time of project life cycle (are we talking PoC or post-release enhancement/fixes?) etc.