skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or at sea! Nuclear mines, torpedos, etc. A lot easier to take out that SSBN or carrier I guess.
One made it to Shark Tank (no deal): https://sharktanktales.com/hoopmaps-shark-tank-update/
One time when I was a teen I woke up and my brain wasn’t doing saccadic masking for a few seconds, I would move my head left and right and things would motion blur. Eventually it turned back on though. Any idea what that was?
its...

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sorry

not possible (can't store empty string in a NULL col either)

for reals
you have been really lucky, then.
Again, I think your preference requires a litmus test to decide which services should and which shouldn’t.

I don’t agree that FB should be a content neutral platform. Just because there are network effects and social media is common do not mean they are “the” town square. They are more like a private mall where lots of people are allowed, but some people have been banned for trespassing.
anything new on this since 2012 you think?

Here's a bunch of previous discussion from 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419658
In terms of Biden's recent mandate announcements, that would be two questions:

1. Is OSHA legal?

2. Is the mandate within OSHA's scope?

In terms of state level mandates, the Jacobson vs. Massachusetts ruling clearly applies.
Has that been confirmed?
A better distinction in my experience is whether the developer thinks to serve 100 concurrent users or 100k. Whether frontend, backend, or fullstack, different considerations and choices are made. Frontend less so, but still has impact, e.g. understanding of caching details, can't use sticky sessions or persistent notification connections etc.
HTML is a pretty good XML-like UI builder.
It is also the only database that has a precision parameter when calling spacial functions. Like 1 and 1 can sometimes be 1.9. Never again.
Don't want to be offensive but your insight is not really insightful.

Why?

Because it goes in totally wrong direction.

Most people don't want to work on stuff or plan the trip - they want to pick up the phone, tell what they want and have it organized. Organizing or even putting your wishes into some forms is work and that is not what people want ... they want to have VACATIONS and not fill in some application forms.

I work in insurance area - my business people would like to make forms so business owners can fill in what they have and what they need in some magic form and that software does the rest. Removing middle people who pick up the phones and moving work of filling in details to the customer.

I see it is not working because business owner wants to call someone, tell him "I have a bakery, I want insurance" and be done with it. Because he is busy making bread, he does not give a damn about your risk compliance process.

Last point is - people also don't want to pay the real price for what it takes to have custom vacations organized - that most people pay for all inclusive in some resort go to swimming pool, have Swedish table and they are happy with it, because they don't have to think about anything and they have all organized.

"All inclusive" is shitty vacation by my standard and I like custom trips but I go into so custom stuff that you don't have database for that because no one is going into those places because of what I wrote earlier.

There is no business in travel planning because it is people who are into custom stuff they want to do themselves (and don't pay) niche or get "all inclusive" and don't care about anything whales. Maybe there are some people somewhere in between but I don't think you are getting money out of them.
Thanks for the clarification! I didn’t expect apps would be resolving using their own DNS or connecting to preset IPs, but it makes perfect sense.

I’m curious, what’s the FOSS alternative to NextDNS you’re developing?
Apple WILL appeal. This is 25% of their yearly revenue at risk. I think many people don't realize just how critical this case is to Apple.
Is "cartel" fitting? These companies aren't always associated. (Though recent leaks do seem to indicate behind-doors conversations are taking place.)

Some of the prevailing themes:

- These companies are after attention across any vertical a person may touch

- These companies build platforms that scope creep into other platforms and verticals. They connect and entrench them.

- They make it impossible to access consumers without them, and then they tax the entry points

- They make switching costs high
not all jsonschema validators are codegen/macros, so some of them are relatively unperformant and come with a lot of code baggage.
Because those rules are anti-competitive.

I don't think anyone is saying that they need to provide support for third-party payment processors themselves, but their rules can't restrict someone else from supporting them.

I don't know why that would be controversial.

Imagine a world where Google required a 30% cut of everything bought through Chrome. How is what Apple's doing any different from that?
This is well put.

Containers side-stepped the deficiencies of Linux distributions, which had become so based on 'singleton' concepts; one init system, one version of that library etc.

A shame because there's an inherent hierarchy; everything from the filesystem, UIDs, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could really allow things to co-exist without kludge of overlay filesystems. Just it was never practical to eg. install an RPM in a subdirectory and use it.

Containers aren't a very _good_ solution, they're just just best we've got; and still propped up by an ever-growing Linux kernel API as the only stable API in the stack...
Just use normal Tinder, and ask every match to a date playing basketball! The problem solves itself.
it certainly sped up Google's internal project to encrypt its between-datacenter (cross-countries) communications. "SSL added and removed here" indeed.
Great question! There's a minority of them, but the ones I've run into the wild all usually boil down to having some internal book-keeping that is either triggered by function calls or can affect a function call.

For example, caches whose eviction calculation is triggered by function invocation aren't functors, even if you can map over the elements in the cache (since just calling any function on the cache can cause certain elements to be evicted). That's a bit of a weird one because caches also usually have some time-dependent behavior (which in general makes notions of things like equality a bit hard to pin down and so moots a lot of laws), but you can also have caches with eviction policies that are not based on time strictly, but rather deterministic heuristics that use the number of function calls as an input to the heuristic.

Another example is certain tree-based data structures that use function calls to rebalance themselves in a way where the rebalancing causes publicly observable changes. Again there just calling map by itself can trigger a rebalancing, regardless of whether identity is passed or not.

Another example is stuff like variants of `Iterator` where just iterating over something creates changes or function calls are logged.

FWIW all these cases of a mappable non-functor can be changed into a mappable functor, simply by "suspending" calling the function until you actually ask for a value (so the `map` call does nothing other than just squirrel the function away somewhere). So often the idea of a mappable non-functor isn't useful so much for truly distinguishing a functor from a non-functor, as it is for pointing out how you should implement `map` in a way that "makes sense."
I am one of the moderators of the /r/Twitter subreddit and based on community sentiment I have come to the conclusion that Twitter is in its core a user-hostile organization, and is unable to change this at all.

Use the Fediverse please. It is the ONLY ethical alternative.

edit: I know the Twitter comms people lurk here. I've tried multiple times to get you to contact me and have hit a wall. You can modmail my sub. Your engagement is requested.
> HTML is too complex

The suggestion was a simplified subset of HTML.
Follow up article: Containers don't solve anything.
Exactly my problem with this ruling. What we'll probably end up seeing now is a million "free" apps for things with lots of hidden fees and costs, and now you won't have the apples-to-apples comparison directly on the search page.

Awesome.
Can you check your link? I think those are serology studies which cannot give an indication of efficacy. I believe you that recovered+vaccine gives stronger measurable antibodies but above some threshold more antibodies does not really give any indication of the two most important factors:

1) transmissibility
2) patient outcomes

What do you find when we compare recovered vs vaccine for those factors?
This will be interesting to watch. I think this is a necessary and welcome development - but I also believe it will handicap smaller teams and reward the big players. The companies that have the resources to stand up payment systems will do so and reap the benefits, while the smaller teams will likely continue eating the 30%.
Good products disappear from consciousness
Shitty products drive "engagement"
Looks very good! I’ve been looking for a headless e-commerce solution for a new product for a while and I might go for Medusa.

One thing I was missing was a demo admin panel and demo store to get a bit of a feel for what is possible.
It depends where you do your writing. I don't think there should be any expectation that a personal blog is anything other than "writing for yourself."
"Why haven't we grown any giant companies?" UK attempt to take on Silicon Valley
> its algorithms promote hoax COVID-19 cures, including the livestock dewormer ivermectin

Am I the only one who's really sick of media outlets referring to ivermectin as a "livestock dewormer?" It's an FDA approved drug that's been used in humans world-wide for decades. Hell, the researcher who figured out it can be used in humans won a Nobel for his discoveries.

Framing it as a "livestock dewormer" is like saying, "Psychologists are using a horse euthanasia drug to treat depression!" or "My doctor gave me a rat anti-bacterial for my strep throat." It's just intellectually dishonest.

Plus, the more the media mentions "livestock dewormer", the more likely gullible fools are to go out and buy a tube from their local feedstore, which is going to be an extremely dangerous dose for humans.

Is there evidence ivermectin is useful in vivo against COVID-19? No, it's looking like one of those hundreds of drugs that's highly effective in vitro and useless in vivo. But can't we just say that, instead of creating a media circus around "livestock dewormer?"

I used to read NPR almost religiously. But lately content like this makes it harder and harder to take their articles seriously.
https://archive.is/xLgUK
Pre-disclosure: upcoming critical fix for several popular Matrix clients
From the ruling itself:

> Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately
conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws. While the Court
finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinarily high profit
margins, these factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. Success is not illegal.

> Nonetheless, the trial did show that Apple is engaging in anticompetitive conduct under
California’s competition laws. The Court concludes that Apple’s anti-steering provisions hide
critical information from consumers and illegally stifle consumer choice. When coupled with
Apple’s incipient antitrust violations, these anti-steering provisions are anticompetitive and a
nationwide remedy to eliminate those provisions is warranted.
I think the confusion is calling anything that doesn't "obey the rules" a map function just because it is named "map".

For example, ruby's hash "map" returns an array instead of hash. That's not really a map, is it?

Making this useless distinction between "things with map function" and "functors" serves no purpose. It should be "things with real/fake map functions".

The name of the function does not matter!
I attended a bootcamp that learned through pair programming and it was one of the most stressful times of my life (and I'm a veteran who served in Afghanistan!)

It's almost like there are two parts of my brain that are mutually exclusive; understanding abstract concepts and communicating, pick one!
Already a busy (front-page) thread about this re: TheVerge.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895

And a bunch of other submissions...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483564 (NYTimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483558 (CNN.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483745 (WSJ.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483248 (MSN.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483372 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483162 (Bloomberg.com)
Okay, but you claimed that "there would be no spread". But that is not true for 0 < R < 1. Can you just admit you misspoke instead of arguing a pointless point?
The UK has some similar things in its tax system. Child benefit is lost if either parent earns a penny over £50,000, but there are various "salary sacrifice" schemes (or heck, just put more into your pension - tax deductible here) meaning financial trickery like buying put options isn't necessary.
Using synthesized speech to train speech recognizers
What is to stop you from searching for services that still let you use Apple Pay? No one is stopping you from living in your tight-knit Apple world, but you seem discontent with the idea that people will no longer have to live there and would rather find ways to force them to stay there with you.
youli.io is doing it, steadily gaining traction. Disclaimer: I built their mobile app.
Why do you think people would implement their own IAP? It would most likely be a few competing platforms like Shopify for web purchases.
i.e. go back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware ? It seemed to work quite well back in the day.
That's interesting, my very official competing VAERS shows that the vaccine has caused several thousand people to have spontaneously come into existence! I welcome you to submit your data, as I accept any reports from anyone regardless of political axe to grind.
I'm disappointed that zip and unzip are only available on RV32. It's great to be able to create Z-order indexes with a single instruction. I was surprised they had these and then disappointed they're on on RV32.
The extra 30% they get may not be worth the loss of players that find it too hard to pay alternatively
The judge ruled that Epic violated Apple's App Store terms of service. So unless Apple decides to forgive them, I don't think they'll be allowed back.

> But she ruled in favor of Apple on other counts, including that Epic breached its contract with Apple when it allowed Fortnite users to pay it directly, instead of via Apple, inside of its iPhone app last year

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/technology/epic-apple-app...
You're right. My mistake. However it was a little a year ago (June) that BLM protestors breached the fence surrounding the White House, and Trump went into a bunker. If the media reports were correct.
I think my most upvoted comment on HN was me complaining about open offices during the 2018 world cup soccer/football game. The TL;DR of it was that I don't really care about soccer, but most of my coworkers did, and they were really loud while watching TV right behind me, making me really hate open offices.

I more or less stand by what I said (though I would probably be more polite now than I was in 2018), and I think now I'm somewhat more convinced that open offices are a bad idea for one simple reason: getting sick.

Pretty much any person who frequents HN has had to work from home during the pandemic, but something that I didn't realize until the end of 2020 was that I didn't really have any cold for most of that year. I was somewhat convinced that I was one of those "perpetually sneezing/with-a-cold" people, since for most of my life I've always had a bit of a runny nose or a cough. 2020 was different: I didn't really get sick at all last year, I think more likely because I wasn't going into an office filled with other perpetually-sick people.

Honestly, I don't know that I would accept a job at this point with an open office. I'm happy to work from home, and I can deal with a private office, but I really enjoy not sneezing or coughing all the time.
Are you me? I used to do the same thing i.e. read books cover to cover and I still do. I still used to bring books very recently and as you said people get pissed off. There are other curious and rude people who would pick my book and think that I am acting superior or something. Very irritating.

Now I got tired of this and switched to Kindle and go through the book on Kindle web app. Curiously staring at my mobile screen does not evoke such response.
It does not say that there is non-zero benefit vs variants. This data does not exist, it could be the case that natural immunity is as good, better, or worse vs variants, or perhaps is different depending on variant.
I built exactly what you describe at Flights With Friends. But the thing I learned is that group trips are not a democracy. Trips without a dictator who makes the decisions don't actually happen.

Building tools for the dictator is hard because getting the other group members who are not the dictator to actually use any tool is too much work. You are always dependent on the least reliable member of the group.

This is the exact reason that travel cost splitting tools don't work and the dictator just ends up paying for everything and getting the group members to pay them back. If they used a bill splitting tool the flights and hotels would sell out before the slowest member of the group put in their credit card.
I consider myself rational (at least enough to work in software). Here's a copy/paste of a comment I made before why I refuse the RNA vaxx...

- I already had long covid (lasted 14 months), and don't want the vaccine to cause a relapse. It did exactly that to a family member who also had long covid, and she's still not better. It's just anecdotal but I've seen on longcovid forums multiple people claiming the vaccine CAUSED their longcovid.

- I don't believe CDC recommendation that increasing antibody titers through vaccination offers better protection against the virus than convalescent immunity through prior infection. Antibody titers are just one aspect of immunity and BCells make antibodies when exposed to a virus again. Actually I'd be worried about training my immune system with only one part of the virus, it's possible that would hurt my robust immunity against variants, not help it.

- CDC is dishonest with numbers by not tracking mild/non-hospitalized breakthrough cases. There is no reason not to track them. From the UK Gov on Page 12... 37 of 73 deaths from Delta variant are vaccinated: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... According to the CDC and media such numbers of deaths among vaccinated would be statistically impossible.

- FDA not approving an inactive virus vaccine is BS. It's a monumental failure of the US government if they want a high % of people vaccinated to only offer DNA/RNA vaccines that are nothing like traditional vaccines people receive as children. China's Sinopharm works at preventing death and is just inactive virus. If required to take a vaccine I'd travel to another country to take that. Actually I'd even pay $10k to have an inactive virus vaccine imported if it prevented me from being discriminated against.

- If there was such a thing as "misinformation" then it should be openly mocked, ridiculed and contested with facts. What's happening now with censorship is unprecedented - we even need a dedicated news site to keep track of it: https://reclaimthenet.org/ . Organizations like the EFF should be presenting legal challenges for many of these things but it seems like everyone has gotten on the "misinformation" bandwagon. Doing that will lead to authoritarianism. Health policy should not be political, but opposing forced medical procedures is a fundamental human right, no exceptions.

Also, since you mentioned Polio and chicken pox, I don't consider those the same because they are not RNA vaccines. All my issues with taking a covid vaxx would be solved if only the FDA approved Sinopharm/Sinovac so I could take an inactive virus vaccine. Instead I'm losing my job soon.
You're completely wrong about robustness against strains. Via mrna vaccine your body only learns how to target the spike proteins that (inadvertently) break off the cell membranes and travel throughout your body. On the other hand actually getting covid your body explores various vectors against the virus not just spike proteins.
There are usually some space to move the laser around, even if you are restricting yourself to a keyhole. Would that not be sufficient to detect the location and shapes of objects related to the movement of the laser?
I'm guessing probably most companies of at least couple thousand employees have software engs. The reason is that, with that scale there's a lot of business processes to automate and the company is probably unique enough to not have its needs fully served by available off-the-shelf software only. Hence, they need to write their own software too. Sometimes, they contract outside companies to write it for them, in which case the in-house SEs write specs, oversee the work, check the deliveries, run production etc.
Regarding Emacs and this:

> It doesn’t define out-of-process plugin API (things like hyperlinking output).

The author may want to check out the GNU Hyperbole package.[1] I'm not a user, but those who can get through the strange docs and UI absolutely swear by it.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/
Yup this is what I read, and covers a lot of security reviews I have come across, where someone requests some functioanlity, such as password recovery, or some promotional code, and someone else discovers how it can be exploited.

I'd say long overdue.
In my opinion we don't need to change the definition of monopoly, we need to integrate "conflict of interest" more into anti-competitive practice discourse.

Apple, Google, etc. are having their cake and eating it, too. They have platform which they charge others to use (ok), and then they study usage data (somewhat shady) and then launch direct competitors (<<super>> shady).

That's the root of the problem in many cases.

Of course, this needs to be coupled with stronger anti-cartel enforcement. Because tech is rarely a pure monopoly, but extremely often is ends up under the control of a cartel.
I'd consider 70%+ market share a monoculture especially when you consider that it's significantly higher on PC. Edge, the default, now uses the Chromium engine. That right there is probably 95% of people. Why do you not think that's a monoculture when I regularly encounter devs who don't bother checking ANYTHING with Firefox?
That Apple collects high fees ought to be considered separately from whether Apple mandates at least the use of Apple Pay. As a user, I love Sign in with Apple + Apple Pay. It allows my family members to give over very little information over to app companies.

This is a level of consumer privacy that's not found anywhere else.