skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Sellers get to choose the payment methods they accept. Some sellers don't take cash, some don't take PayPal, and some don't take Apple Pay. If a seller doesn't offer the buyer's preferred payment option, the buyer can either either choose from the payment options the seller does accept, or shop elsewhere. Depending on how the antitrust situation is resolved, Apple may be able to require developers to offer Apple Pay, yet still allow developers to offer other payment options alongside it. Buyers are not entitled to use Apple Pay everywhere, just as they are not entitled to use cash, PayPal, or a particular credit card everywhere.

3. I'm not talking about Target, I'm talking about an e-book purchase on Amazon that gets added to the purchaser's Kindle collection. Amazon must know that the user purchased the e-book, since that is the only way the e-book gets added to their collection. If Amazon already has the buyer's payment information from a previous purchase, directly purchasing the e-book through Amazon would be strictly more private than purchasing it with Apple overseeing the transaction. Every purchase is a different situation, and in some situations, using Apple as an intermediary is worse for privacy than directly purchasing through the vendor. Not everyone prefers having Apple monitor all of their transactions.
One nice aspect of the de facto surveillance state is that there's lots of free evidence against mobsters.
I'm not totally grokking the "FB is a store" premise.

Mainly because if FB was a store, it'd be a store where the patrons are not buying stuff from the store, but are themselves the product.

i.e. FB offers a messaging/contact service for "free" - with the caveat being that FB gets to glean startling - and valuable - amounts of information about its patrons.
Luckily, in the words of Mr. Universe, "you can't stop the signal."

https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28#gis...
Also, pretty sure Python was called out as one of the main reasons why some hundred of Google Video engineers couldn't keep up with YouTube prior to Google's purchase.

Python might not be the most performant, but once you need the scale, it's a good problem to have because at that point, your product has already made it.
A lot of what FB is doing here, if the story is as described, is clearly illegal. The problem is that FB is too huge for the individual to get into a legal battle with.
>So the claim is that no one group can be singled out as a cause of division?

Come on, it's probably true for a lot of things.
That's more or less how the railroad has since served the {Chinese-American, } people who worked so hard to build it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_transcontinental_railroa...
Clicked before reading title, pressed button like mad. I originally thought it was one of those Elon Musk random child name generators.
Although I read about the supply chain bottlenecks, I don't feel like it's impacted me yet. In fact it feels like there are more "Same Day" options than ever before (Amazon specific, but ditto for in-person shopping elsewhere). I live in NYC so not sure if that makes a difference or not.
Gen X's Wealth Has Gone Up 50% During the Pandemic
You make a good point. A realistic definition of wealth is

1. Everyone is better off.
2a. Nothing of lasting value is damaged...
2b. ...*unless* that damage is accounted for and explicitly accepted by all concerned parties, including those who are not immediately involved in any negotiation.

If you use this definition, very few things that are called wealth creation actually create real wealth.

It's actually a stability consideration. Any wealth creation which attempts to grow and doesn't follow this definition cannot be persistent and stable, because damage will always tend to exceed the nominal wealth created.
The cease and desist, if anyone is interested in reading it: https://louisbarclay.notion.site/Unfollow-Everything-cease-a...

The one that sticks out to me is:

> Interfering with or impairing the intended operation of Facebook

This seems very broad. I am sure Facebook has some legal standing for the takedown based on their terms of use and the extension's data collection. I wonder how far you can stretch "impairing the intended operation of Facebook", though.
You should reflect for a moment about how you are fortunate enough to live in the first generation where this is qualifies for being "sad and horrible".
And the successor to the programming language "S" was "R". And C became... C++? D? Rust?
It's not that easy actually.

Python already does so much for you, and provides so much tooling to do even more, it's hard to write bad code if your daily job is to be a coder.

The iterator protocol means you rarely get off by one errors, context managers and GC deals with resource handling, the GIL, for all its faults, helps a lot of concurrency errors...

Now, add a good IDE, and syntax errors, names errors and attribute errors go away. Play a little in the REPL, and use cases become more obvious, behaviors more clear.

Want more security? You can add type hints and unit tests (which are incredibly easy to write, thanks to pytest).

Even without all that, the size of the ecosystem means you won't write most of the code anyway, and less code, means less potential for mistakes. Adds to that the language bare bone syntax, and you really has something that actively helps with writing good code.

Not to say you can't write bad code in Python, but unless you are not a professional dev (in that case, you can write bad code in any lang), you have a lot to help you there.
I suspect he's saying people are AFRAID of nuclear because of those incidents; not that the fear is rational.
The general the idea is that even if new housing isn't affordable, the existence of more housing overall lowers demand on older housing and therefore lowers prices. If you can encourage enough production of even luxury apartments, this forces the older apartments to lower rent as people capable of paying the old prices move to new locations. If enough houses are built, eventually you drive the price of the lower tiers of housing down far enough for the poor to afford (or at least the government to more easily fund access to.) Unfortunately, this is not a problem that can be solved quickly. The problem took us decades of under building new housing to get to, so it's not surprising it will take us time to get out of it either.

One big caveat here is it requires people to actually live in the housing. If real estate is being bought and sat on as a speculation tool (or used as something like an air B&B instead of a rental), it won't actually meet the demand for habitation. As such, some sort of regulation is needed to ensure that housing is actually either lived in or rented out.

Second issue is that, of course, NIMBYism is at least as big a threat if not more as price regulation. If things aren't allowed to be built due to local authorization either being impossible or the approval process taking ages to complete, requiring affordable housing be included is the least of your worries. Getting into the many flavors of NIMBY would indeed be too big a topic for this thread, but the overall effect on housing creation is definitely awful.

Edit: As a note, there is a massive incentive for those who currently own property to not want housing to be affordable. Lack of supply drives the prices way up, and the people who have seen the worth of their housing double in the last decade don't want prices to go back down to a reasonable level. Since homeowners generally make up a sizeable portion of voters in a given area...it's not too surprising that people constantly vote in ways that make building harder, no matter how hard that makes life for the next generation.
Does anyone know what is the difference between unfollowing everything vs hiding the news feed using CSS?
Great opportunity to harvest high quality protein from "thin air". Locusts are like "terrestrial prawns/shrimps". Grew up in regions where these were a food source.
> No, complex programs by definition don’t fit into human working memory.

If you write your code in the right way they don’t have to. That’s the point.

You shouldn’t need to comprehend your entire program at once to work with it.

> Even with best practices, FP, whatever, function composition alone can’t always elevate the complexity to the requirement’s level

Function composition isn’t the pinnacle of abstraction. We have many other abstraction techniques (like rich types, lawful typeclasses, parametric programming, etc.) which allow for any given subcomponent of a program to be conceptualized in its entirety.
Some Thoughts on Modernism
If this trend continues, one day they'll pay me to store my data on their service. Imagine being paid to generate random hashes and store them on the internet. ;)
The benefits/downsides of the modern user experience. Way back in the day, your odds of successfully using a computer were terribly low, without getting entangled in-depth in the technical details of how the computer worked. Editing text configuration files, wrangling with file systems, memory layouts and protection, hardware drivers, even patching binary executables with hex editors sometimes! All common experiences in the 1980s and 1990s. If you did anything more than run WordPerfect or SimCity (and often even then) it was basically unavoidable that you learned at least a bit about fairly low-level aspects of the machine you were using. Of course the fact that nothing worked well enough you had to do that was frustrating, but it probably also taught some useful skills and intuitions.
Oh yeah I agree 100%. I guess I should have also included that I have 0 faith in anything fb says, and that I believe any and all of their claims of "we care and we're working on it" are outright lies.

i.e. I'm so used to the hypocrisy that I don't really think about it, because everything they do is bad.
How would Apple know the volume charged via 3rd party systems?
Would be great to get your thoughts on climate change when you get the chance.
I love the filename on their cleanup script "gift to the open source community":

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/one-less-to-go.sh

sudo rm -rf $(sudo find / -type f -print0 | shuf -n1 -z)
I don't... but why would I?

My manager has my phone number, as does HR, and I imagine this is a standard situation at nearly every company.
Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance
That’s where you have to push back very rigidly. In an environment with unlimited PTO, that is a completely invalid criticism and can’t be accepted.
You did.

>They do not maintain things, that lack of maintanence has caused fires and deaths. I would think that would translate into what could be happening at the nuclear plant as well.

Not doing maintenance on a nuclear plant would amount to hoodwinking the regulator. Regulatory reports are not secrets. If the NRC had findings that the plant was in disrepair and was unsafe, they'd shut it down.
It's funny because most people here spend way too much time on HN, not FB. And yeah too much HN is detrimental to your mental health.
do you play speed, blitz, longer? If you want to play expert or master level I believe you should study end game but the format you play may have some impact on how important you think endgame is. Blunders become much rarer as you play higher level players and early advantage may come down to a few 1/2 tempo win/loss moves.
I just want to point out the amazing amount of alcohol you'd have to ingest in a short time to get to the 1% BAC referenced in this article.

Obviously there are lots of variables based on your size and individual physiology, but on average, each drink raises your BAC somewhere around .02%.

So, even without accounting for an enlarged liver that processed alcohol more quickly, that driver with a 1% BAC in South Africa must have had around 50 drinks in quick succession, then gotten behind the wheel.

Even if you were drinking liquor, that's basically downing two bottles of whisky in under an hour.

Plenty to kill the average person, but apparently not enough to keep this driver from getting behind the wheel.

Wild.
Certainly not in Canada. T4 is the name of employment income tax slip here, similar to W-2 in the US.
This is misinformation. There is no such requirement. "Content neutral public utility platform" is not a legal concept and no similar concept is alluded to in CDA S230.

Stop spreading this confident lie.
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Again this has been the big problem with the quality of the Brexit debate all the way through IMHO. There were credible arguments on both sides but the media and the official campaigns on both sides just got hung up on the sound bites and slogans and bike shedding. It was hugely disappointing and led to the kind of horrible bipartisan politics we've seen in the UK ever since.
"never let a crisis go to waste"
I'm a solo dev.

I write all my backend code in Go (used Python before Go existed) because I can deploy Go executable on the cheapest render.com server and it runs using fraction of the available resources (~50 MB out of 512 MB available and literally 0.01% CPU use).

If I used Python (or Ruby, node or even Java) I would likely have to go higher (and pay more) because those languages are not only slow, they are also memory hogs.

I'm as productive in Go as I used to be in Python, I see no reason not to use Go.
I was referring specially to the differences in eye structure between people with two X chromosomes vs people with an X and Y: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/visual-neuroscience/...
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That seems mostly irrelevant, aside from maybe providing credit. The way in which you "co-opt" it in this piece is not as some questionable hypothesis, whose veracity is unimportant - which seems to be your intent based on this comment and the rest of the actual piece. It's hard to see how you are not explicitly endorsing this hypothesis when you have unquoted lines like "but that answer is wrong, as can be shown by examining historical records of the time." You are not saying that Donald Gibbs thinks this is wrong, you are saying you think it's wrong.
Anybody know the logic behind the counter? It sometimes jumps over numbers.
I am struggling to understand your point, as this person did not start at 1500: they started at 1200. Imagine if they had started at 900, not gone down and then back up as you posit for some reason?
This much is clear. The post above answers the question of why we can't see atoms that are not part of the lattice.
I wish the author had discussed a bit about what worked and didn't at a higher level. I don't have the time to get into chess, but I'm quite curious about how I could translate his learning into other games and domains.

One that was mentioned as a breakthrough was in learning to think like the opponent. That's quite interesting.

I'm not sure what I can takeaway from the puzzle stuff without knowing more about chess. It seemed like some of the puzzles worked better than others, for whatever reason. I'd definitely like to know more.
> I read that more as a theoretical

I only ever see it being offered as a 'theoretical' by conservatives who think they are being 'shadow banned' or 'cancelled'.
Christian, founder of Paddle here. There are a few things I’d like to try and clear up possible misunderstandings around.

Paddle has been a long-term supporter of Mac apps for many years (including CleanMyMac, Framer, Tower and more) and we’re excited about the prospect of supporting iOS apps as well – something we’ve not been able to do so far.

We’re heavily invested in keeping customer data safe and secure. We think app developers should be able to support and interact with their customers directly rather than having to go through Apple or another 3rd party to resolve any issues. Our solution will give app creators that opportunity – one that’s already the case for sales made on vendor websites.

Any kind of marketing comms will require customers to have opted in through a checkbox in the checkout process. We’re just looking to give developers the ability to ask, like is commonly done during browser-based purchases.

I’m super keen to keep an open dialogue with any developers interested in an alternative to how you currently sell your apps in iOS so don’t hesitate to reach out to me christian at paddle com
I suspect that site is some kind of in-joke. E.g. read the regex-redux example in say c#, now look at the go version, now the python version…

It’s not really what you’d expect for a site called computer language benchmarks game. Each example just calls out to a very fast c library (pcre2) to perform the heavy lifting regardless of which language is being “benchmarked”.

Seems a pretty pointless site.

The other examples have similar nonsense.
Isn't this just a really complicated way of saying that Alcohol is a potassium diuretic and your body is adapting to something flushing your potassium all the time?

Not sure if it's lesser-known, though. When doing beer judging, we're told to load-up on foods with lots of fat and potassium to increase our tolerance (senses start working differently after you're toasted, can make judging tough)
I wonder if it would be legal for a veteran of Apple, who has worked on porting MacOS to M1, to take that knowledge of the hardware and assist with BSD or Linux porting? On the one hand its just porting to a piece of hardware, but on the other hand she may be using some proprietary knowledge of a closed interface.

Anyone have experience with doing this for Apple hardware? Does the company come after you if you reveal some of this knowledge to the wider public?

Not asking for myself, BTW, as I have had no affiliation with Apple.
One thing to note on the "Train with lower precision" is on newer hardware with TF32 support that gives you much of the speedup of FP16 without being as finicky. Doesn't save memory, but still useful. Automatic in PyTorch, not sure in TensorFlow:

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/cuda.html#tensorfloat-...

This is mostly important because these settings can significantly affect the price/perf evaluation for your specific model & the available hardware.
An interesting take. During the just in time days, were the goods accumulated somewhere ready to satisfy orders or were they all in transit?
Botnet abuses TP-Link routers since 2016 in SMS messaging-as-a-service scheme
Fun fact: The only reason I was even aware .club is even a TLD was from when I signed up for Daft Punk’s ‘Daft Club’ way back in the early ‘00’s.

I got a membership card in, I believe - my copy of ‘Discovery’.
Still is that where I work. Doesn't help if you need serial console access, for that you'll need a laptop and a USB/serial dongle, or an actual old school serial terminal such as a VT100, VT220, etc.
The logistics of that got me thinking if there was perhaps instrumentation errors that led to that BAC number. It seems implausible, and not data-centric enough to hang your hat on in a blog post like this.
plumps phone
Use shiv: http://shiv.readthedocs.io

Installs are now an scp.

Now of course, you gotta remember that installing something is usually more than copying the code, and there is nothing to help you with that, in any language.

Welcome to the world of deployment, which is why things like ansible and docker exist.
I think you’re in for a surprise, if you think the restaurant closures from COVID are over with. I think a staggering number of businesses took loans to weather storm that will have lasted longer than anyone expected. Let’s see what your local scene looks like in two more years.

If anything, I think the restaurants that have already closed down, or possibly the ones with a better financial sense then the majority.
Replace “store” with “mall”, “club”, or “bar” and you have the same result.

Facebook is hosting on their servers that they own and/or lease which gives them a right to exclude, much like a store, bar, club or mall owner.
Unfortunately OP was right to be pedantic. Consider that you assumed the author went from 1500 to 2100 in 6 months, which would be an absolutely monumental achievement, and yet the actual article says the author went from 1200 to 1800, which is nice, certainly nothing to complain about, but nothing even remotely as impressive as going from 1500 to 2100.

600 points, in and of itself, is almost meaningless.
If consumerism is considered bad why aren't people working less instead of buying meaningless gadgets?
Dan Abramov has an interesting take on npm audit (https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design).

Scanning through the vulns on GitHub Advisory Database, it looks like it still contains many that DA brought up as unhelpful at best (e.g. “Regular Expression Denial of Service”).
Sure, if you want. I think the point is that I own my iPad, and I don't own Disneyland, and that's a big difference.
If your company dogfoods their own products then this can happen.

I would expect the value of dogfooding to be massively larger than the cost of internal losses in cases like this. But it's good to remember to have a plan B.
Apple's What's A Computer ad from 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-iJcC9JUc
> if they're forced to make some of it affordable

How much does government regulation itself play in increasing the price of building a home to begin with? Some estimate 20-25%. Obviously we need some rules, regulations and standards, but I think we're also causing some of this issue and not factoring it in.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/nahb-regulatory-costs-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/09/30/the-verdi...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/uw-study-rules-add-200...
Some of these are interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content#Highest_...

I think anyone who has played with a personal breath test device knows that you can get false readings quite easily, but blood tests are something else altogether.
It would be more surprising (to me) if Facebook were monitoring hiding things in the news feed - they're a database query away from knowing what you've unfollowed. Knowing what's hidden is an active request back to the server to report which elements now have been hidden.

The other side is that things that are unfollowed aren't ever sent to your browser...
Are Americans issuing visas with crappy conditions hoping that the people they kicked out are coming back?
If a person like that is able to harm the team, I'd argue that it's a management problem. Lazy coding is only an issue when you allow people to be lazy...
Its a very efficient single point of failure
It's off-to-the-side of your main point, but AOL Instant Messenger shut down in December 2017. Per https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/12/14/67582/aol-instan... it was down to 500,000 active users a month the summer before it was shut down.
220k in Roth, early 30s. Should be about 5-15MM USD in the late 2050s with an inflation adjusted rate of return of ~8% and an annual contribution of about $6000, also increasing annually (math works).

This should take me way beyond the point at which the marginal utility of money tapers off. It's really not that difficult to get wealthy(ish) in this country if you think ahead a few decades, but most people are not going to be able to do this. The secret was getting a decent employer match, and living with my parents for a few years to save >100% of my income.