skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes an interview podcast good or great?
We ended up here, because a) the promise of easy to use structured data - that is inherent in data processing systems - has not been fulfilled: you have to scrape HTML to reconstruct some relational table, and b) information, despite being almost free to transmit in large amounts today, is treated as if it were a physical good, and each copy costs money. There is just lots of money in there, because our economic system looks more backwards than forwards.
I don't see how any of those are build machines that are offline.
That sounds great in theory, but how would you properly fund foreign interventions, the war on drugs, dragnet surveillance, bailouts, anti-competitive corporate regulations, and other unpopular policies if nobody is willing to pay for it?

That's why bundling taxes in a few non-optional packages is so important. Otherwise people will try to selfishly evade paying for services they believe they don't need, and needlessly pry into public finances despite having no expertise in it.
I have never wanted to go TypeScript in first place.
Not always true (in the US). Per diem and other travel expenses are not taxable for up to 1 year spent traveling away from the employee’s home, though that ‘year’ doesn’t necessarily have to be consecutive time spent away, and there are a variety of complications that influence when the taxation would kick in (e.g. when was the project known to be over 12 months in duration? When does the employee spend over 50% of their time in a location other than ‘home’ for business purposes? and many other nuances).

The joys of the US tax code -_-
While it is very fun to hack using dynamically typed languages, it’s obvious that they are not suitable for large enterprise systems. Refactoring, code navigation, code reading is much much more better with statically typed languages. Moreover, modern ST languages like Scala have a “feel of” DT languages due to type inference, without compromising static type checking
My last couple devops roles were somewhat this, involving mostly infra-type stuff. It's really a catch-all term for someone who keeps the "10000 foot view" of the product so the "real" devs can focus on their own little cog in the wheel. I usually absorbed all of the testing automation, centralized logging/metrics, "IT" (directory/ldap, backups), sane security and networking etc etc and ensured their was a coherent story soup-to-nuts. Wrote a lot of python/glue and "business"-oriented infrastructure management tools along the way. Had to be the point person for anything in the aws console, from dbs to vpns to docker containers to cdns etc etc and dealt with integrations to other saas/products as well
The American people have continued to enjoy the benefits of hydrocarbons for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. The "big polluting companies" produce legal products that meet vital needs. Demonizing them is hypocritical unless one lives like the Amish without electricity, and I doubt these retroactive taxes would stand up in court. It would be legal for Democrats to drastically raise the gasoline tax, but they avoid that because they know that people are not willing to pay much to ameliorate climate change.
Last time I checked it was wrongly reported as malware and blocked at the browser level.
At least it's accessible now but there may be some latency in Defender getting updated.

The tool is sound. Unless your company explicitly disallow it, you should be able to bypass defender and force it to install, although there are some dark patterns there that may not make it obvious.

The author of the tool is aware of the problem, from the github page:

_N.B. A few antivirus programs incorrectly flag Policy Plus as malware. Policy Plus is a powerful tool and so may cause problems if used recklessly, but it is not malicious. If you would prefer to not trust binaries, feel free to read the code and compile Policy Plus from source. You can also verify that a build was created from the published code by examining the output of a GitHub Actions run: the input commit hash can be found under "checkout master" and the output executable hash can be found under "compute hash."_
I'm wondering if there are existing laws that would cover the intent part. Defamation and harassment laws etc. Maybe they just need amending. Trying to police the apps exact functionality directly seems counter productive.
Sure, but your comment didn't make much sense if switching to an iPad was an improvement in regards to hostility, logically that would mean that Windows should behave just like an iPad, i.e. no control.

What Windows "suffers" from is that it is still in a transitive state going from an open platform (open in the sense the user decides what to run & install) to a closed platform (the iPad).

Traditional desktop users expect an open platform and thus gets annoyed over forced updates, stores and similar things, but those things is considered normal on closed platform.

The thing is that the traditional desktop user is vanishing, as your parents are an examples of. The "market" wants a closed system, thus Windows is adapting. Eventually Windows will have completely moved to a closed platform and will be used and viewed as iPad or similar (the Xbox is already such a device) and the annoyances will no longer be annoyances.

Yes, the traditional PC user will be migrating to Linux & BSD, but they will be such a small number globally it will be a rounding error, and eventually it will be harder & harder to stay on those platform when the hardware industry is entirely serving the closed platforms.
Nope, it's still absolutely atrocious. My least favorite thing about my Macbook by far.

It still speaks volumes how out of touch Apple is that it got included on a device that is supposed to be for professionals.
You might want to check out Vimac[1], provides system-wide Vimium tooltips. Not the same as keynav, but imo works even better.

[1]: https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac
How large do you think those tribes were?
Wha. I still write everything in Eclipse. Neon. And tsc somewhere under v3, compiling back to es5 in some cases to support old safari. Works great for me... lovely language, and zero lock-in.
The other side of the coin is that complexity creates jobs because you need individual who guide you through it.

Lawyers and bureaucrats careers are based on this complexity of criminal justice systems and government administration, respectively.
More precisely, she wants the distribution of nudes without consent, real or faked, to be considered an offense. This isn't about the tool, but what's being done with it.
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Just fire up your tinytinyrss server and os/mobile clients and you are good. RSS is still going strong... https://tt-rss.org/ You can also create feeds from sources that do not provide them, e.g. http://fetchrss.com/
>Honestly I super hate the word “DevOps”.

Absolutely, i call myself adaptable Administrator ;)
In some places. But at any given time many people lived in relative isolations, i.e. Winters alone with family, while in most times no one could have been in a high enough density where you didn't know everyone. So this normal is imaginary while lockdown is like a normal lifestyle even if it wasn't the only lifestyle at all times.
Because then you can employ more of your lawyer buddies to consult on the complexity.
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Apple is the most petty entity that I have to deal with on a regular basis. They refuse to automatically capitalize the words Linux or Windows but they'll practically force you to capitalize the phrase "app store" even though they don't have a real trademark on it. They'll try to change your vocabulary from "installing" to "side loading" just to protect their business model. They'll reject your app for looking too different. They're so petty that I think there's probably another word that I should be using to describe the level of pettiness that they've reached. Machiavellian perhaps.
My city is in lockdown right now, with no contact allowed with anyone outside of the household. I can't see how the human race would have survived in such circumstance for very long, let alone millennia.
Not sure if it's a feature or not, but setting the page permissions for "Override keyboard shortcuts" still allows '/' to work, but will disable 'esc' for closing the search modal/popout - and as '/' is a keyboard shortcut, I have no idea why it still lets the site take it over
Three dudes can do the bulk of a cinder-block foundation in a few workdays with no special equipment. Blocks and bricks are cheap to work with because there are no special material handling requirements to increase overhead costs. This approach is economically viable pretty much everywhere except the urban areas most heavily represented on HN.

When you get into fancy high dollar construction in HCOL areas where time costs more money that's when you get bigger blocks that need machines to move them or you get formed and poured structures.
I find it mildly amusing that the author spends the first half of the article mocking squid for handling disk cache manually when varnish just hands the work to the OS instead, and then the second half of the article explaining how and why varnish does all its own memory management for processing requests instead of just letting the OS handle it.
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I wonder as well, there have been people putting their friends or adversaries’ heads on nude model bodies ever since photoshop came out. Is that a crime and has it ever been prosecuted (maybe for defamation)?
What’s Worth Worrying About and What’s Not [pdf]
If there are types that allow you to not care about the type, then why have a type?

People argue that they need types to very that you do not add in programming errors, and in order to easier read what the code does. In the environment I operate in and the jobs I do, types do not achieve those things. All they do is add unnecessary information and restrictions that need to be worked around.

Shell is an interesting environment in that there really is only one type: string. There are no int, no floats, barely any arrays (rare enough that I don't ever use them). You run a program with string inputs and you may get an string output in return. The majority time writing a shell script is spent on manuals, understanding how different programs interact, and data flows. This remain mostly true for dynamic languages. For static typed languages some of the time get redirected on dealing with types, declaring types ahead, and making sure the type declarations and castings are correct.
idk about loads, it depends on how everything is setup. Most of this is ajax calls to a backend you control and develop. Making sure the types are coherent between frontend and backend is not a big deal. Generate interfaces based on the types returned by each endpoint.

If it's an external API, do the same thing except it probably needs a more manual approach.

This is not something that's in anyway unique to typescript. The difference is JavaScript is designed to fail gracefully using coercion whereas most other languages and runtimes abort and throw exceptions.
Sure, but by “service” I mean “service to someone”, not “a commercial service”. It’s about who you work for and what for, not whether you provide a commercial service at all.
Apple Maps:

>“We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B. We’re collecting the segments of it.

The segments that he is referring to are sliced out of any given person’s navigation session. Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

Google Maps:

>Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18070183

and

>An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-science-technology-...
A Story Tellers Tale
How StoryBrand inspired me to professionally use Story Telling.
One source is:
https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a...

Here is a shorter blog post that references the above research: https://www.rand.org/blog/2014/03/the-internets-role-in-radi...
The Samsung chargers that came with my phones seem to be high quality as well. Never noticed any problems.

Never seen a detailed teardown of one though. What does everyone think about them?
Aren't programmer salaries equally bimodal?
I cant wait for this to be build into push-through augmented reality glasses. And you can sell the opposite in more prude countries.
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As I've written in some other comments, because of my lack of foresight I wasn't clear enough.

I've put this in other comments but, briefly, it's not the protocol RSS that has a problem. It's the RSS-enabled future that we imagined back in the early 00's that didn't happen. Those opportunities for connecting things together via content (esp. around the RSS micro-formats work that was going on) disappeared when content got swallowed by advserisers.
That's fair for Lisp, I though having a standard made it better and the main choice was between Common Lisp and Scheme, but from what I see different people use different standards for scheme.

> OCaml has become a workable option almost entirely due to the gargantuan effort of Jane Street, but again, it wasn't then.

What do you mean by this? I'm aware of dune and opam, but people were using C and C++ without equivalents before without problems. Python's package managment and building is also not that good, even today. I don't have a strong grasp of the history of OCaml so maybe they released Core, Base and Async really early compared to batteries and Lwt? But outside of that, basic OCaml with a makefile doesn't sound worse than C/C++.

> Standard ML remains terrible. Library support is sparse, there is almost no community outside of academics, no consistent implementation of the standard basis, compilers are wildly different from each other.

That's fair, my point is more that I don't really understand why no big company ever picked it. Considering how much companies invested in their tooling (Google with Java, Go, Dart, Python, C++ ; Facebook with PHP and C++ ; etc), they could have made something great.

> it's very difficult to get from a set of source files to a portable executable, whereas with Python and Ruby, just writing the source files already gets you that.

Depends on your definition of portable executable. I've always found deploying and distributing Python and Ruby painful, at least to end users. The best in class experience here for me is Go, it's great for end users, great for servers, cross compilation works well.
I've noticed that many entrepreneurs have this immense drive and very little ethical/moral sense, and this helps them get by the most dire situations, where common people would simply give up, because they simply go on with a "fake it until you make it" mindset. Entering very dark grey areas and leaving a lot of bodies behind (figuratively speaking).

There are the stupid ones of course that don't get far, but the smart ones are the ones who really shine, I have a acquaintance who owns a unicorn and he is exactly like that. I'd never work for him.

I think it must pretty similar to the corporate psychopath profile who many times gets into the CEO position in big companies.
Looking forward to seeing how this resolves.

I remember when deepfakes first was released there was a group who would deepfake coworkers, Facebook friends, etc for a really low cost (like $100) as long as the target had a few hundred public photos.

This is without consent as well, but it’s also not real. It seems like the equivalent of imagining people nude. Kind of creepy if I know it’s happening but not truly a violation of my privacy.
You can also blame society for undervaluing tradesmen. If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that even though we are able to recognize how essential a lot of jobs are, we will still refuse to respect or properly compensate the people who work them.
I was in law school for 2 semesters. I got a job at a top m&a and societary office, in one of the highest profile avenues in the tropical capital I lived in, as an intern. It was summer, lunchtime, and I was walking on said avenue when my boss crossed me. He stopped and all of a sudden reached for my tie knot, to check if the button behind it was correctly buttoned (is this the right word?). He proceeded to tell me I was an employee of his high-tier office even during lunchtime and I should always keep appearances. Luckily I'm deeply anti-violence, because my first instinct when he touched my tie was to smash his face. I didn't return to the office, and soon after that I quit law school. By that time my tactics to circumvent the office proxy and access forbidden websites had gone viral :P.
Any source for that? He sure seems to know very fine detail of almost anything related to the product.

See for example:

Everyday Astronaut recent Musk interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw

Munro interview with Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtLTLiqNwg

There are also other examples where Musk talks about things it's hard to imagine of him even being aware of if he's not building anything.
You can started from a complex system by using hyped (popular) technologies X, Y, Z. They may be good, but not necessary in every single case. People like complex tools because they look good on CV. And when everyone around uses them it feels like you are doing thing wrong if you have a simpler solution.

Just add K8s to the mix and you are starting from a relatively complex system.
Hi Blake.

Alas, most of my email archive from that period disappeared in the intervening years. I'd love to be reminded of what we were talking about.

m@t
> Does the 'or' not make sense here? If you don't feel qualified, you can get anyone you trust that is. If you do feel qualified, then go read it yourself.

OK so I'll try again. If you want someone to listen to anything you have to say, do not start off implying they need someone to interpret information for them. Fix your language or not, I don't really care anymore.

> In a way that makes no sense as a counterargument. If I say you can fix your own car or get a mechanic to do it, there's no reason for you to name some famous mechanic you hate and act like I meant them.

Famous mechanic? Just curious, can you list any famous mechanics that anybody would know? Anyways, since this one is too difficult for you (see how offensive that is?) I'll explain more. Last year how many times did these people step on their toes when speaking to the public? That mask vs no mask thing early on in the pandemic. What became clear is that these "experts" will say whatever is needed to get people to do what they want. Be it get vaccinated or stay indoors. They lied to attempt to control people, and destroyed all the trust they had on the way.

> This conversation just confuses me. All I wanted to do is explain that the vaccine is tested. And there are plenty of non-'left' people that can confirm the numbers and the underlying science, if you're honestly looking for the truth.

It is tested in that we've stuck in in arms and most people don't die. Please explain to me in excruciatingly great detail what will happen to our bodies as a result of this shot in 5 years. When you can answer that question, then it's tested
My flight got cancelled out of Stockholm once and I was given the standard 'dinner' voucher the airlines give out. Not being particularly hungry, I walked up to the cheapest looking pub like place that would take this voucher and ordered a beer and some peanuts, and that alone cost more than what my food voucher was for.
Fourth power of temperature of heat spreader. It can be isolated from earth's atmosphere and still export heat. Of course, it's not enough if we want to limit ourselves to "IR wavelengths to which atmosphere is transparent".
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Probably more than 2.4 people, which is the average household size in the UK, for example.
Discovered this when some vim-like plugin failed. Realized it's about 90% of the reason I was using a vim-like plugin.
Does it open the browser search if you press ^F a second time?
But we do: if your business is weaponry, you’ll be pretty tightly controlled.
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I'm gonna self study group theory, at first using the book 'visual group theory' and figuring out the rest later.
smart people of HN, give advice, resources please. thanks in advance
Perhaps give them some flexibility if there's a technical co-founder as CTO.

It depends on what the startup is working on. If it's trying to sell into the enterprise I'd be a lot more confident in its future if the CEO is heavily sales-focused provided there's also a technical co-founder keeping things sane on the tech side.
If Apple is perfectly happy with other sign on, then privacy is certainly off the table. Otherwise, they wouldn't allow apps in their store offering any other sign on (extreme analogy would be apps with virus in it). Then why force developers to add Apple sign on even they don't want to, instead of just encouraging? They can easily do so by telling developers that "apps with no Apple sign on are allowed, but are placed low priority queue so the review process will take longer".

It is pretty standard "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy. Similar to what's happening in the browser market. They are waiting for majority of the apps to have their sign on and majority of users use Apple sign on, then update the policy to disallow other methods.

I mean I don't have any issue of Apple doing these in their own ecosystem, but at least don't be so hypocritical or naive when defending them.
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1727.9 ± 620.6 persons.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756541/
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It's great that brand-new EVs are getting cheaper. Recall aside, a used Chevy Bolt is a much better value. 15-18k USD for 240 mile range, DC "fast" charging (50kV).
It's blurry but I think in a way it is a violation of privacy in a similar way that other forms of harassment are.

It's not quite the equivalent of imagining people nude as there is an artefact that can potentially cause its own pain when distributed.
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I guarantee you that most people back then would've been hunting, farming, building huts or rearing children. There is no model of the past where this level of isolation was even maintainable. People simply depend on each other to live.

All that changed is that we've outsourced that direct dependence with indirect dependencies, like supermarkets.
Mmm... not for me. The distorted human bodies in this style are unsettling to me in an uncanny valley way. These images generate literal revulsion.

The mileage of others probably varies. I mean, obviously it does, or so many sites wouldn't be using the style. But for me it's just hideous.