skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The firm risks joining the ranks of corporate untouchables like big tobacco. If that idea takes hold, Facebook risks losing its young, liberal staff.

So any institution that's considered repugnant by young liberals can now breezily be compared to big tobacco? Should the Republican party restructure its platform so that it can have snazzier candidate webpages?

Big tobacco is big tobacco because the product is widely seen as addictive and harmful, even by its biggest users. The nuance needed to argue that Facebook is bad but Twitter and Reddit are fine will never have this sort of broad appeal. Social media for me but not for thee?
How Brainly Generates 4M Monthly Visitors
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And how you can leverage the same technique for your business.
Yo! Thanks for creating/running the site! And also for not changing it. It doesn't need to change. I wish more websites would realize this.

The day that my program (Antrun) was on the frontpage of ticalc.org is still one of the biggest success-highs I've ever felt :)
Depends on the story, the publisher, and the sources. Like everything else.

If the story is well cited, from a reputable publisher, and/or backed up by concrete facts, then I tend to trust is a little.

Not a lit, but a little. I am generally skeptical of most things here, though. As another poster in here said, I am always shocked by the ignorance on this site relating to things I have a ton of experience with. I have to assume that same ignorance extends to other areas as well.

That being said, in general, if a post makes it to the top of HN, it seems to be better informed than other places I go for news.
> Libre/Diem being dead on arrival because Facebook brought it to the table

This was always a terrible idea, and would have died regardless of who had proposed it. From the people I talked to (i knew some people on the core team) it seemed to be a retirement home for FB execs who didn't want to do useful work anymore.

(I don't disagree with your overall point, just stating that it's not the sole predictor).
GlobalFoundries IPO–Mubadala Lost over $22.4B, Hoping for Public Market Bail Out
Congress did not intend that the Roth IRA, given the rather low annual contribution limit, would allow someone to accumulate essentially unbounded amounts of gain in a tax-free way.

If you read up on what Thiel (and presumably some others did), yes, they successfully invested using their IRA, but yes, they also took advantage of the tax status of a Roth to avoid paying capital gains tax.

They will not be retroactively penalized for this (the law doesn't work this way), but their doing this has now made at least some in Congress want to prevent this from being possible in the future, since it was not what the Roth IRA was intended to allow.
The (from my point of view) canonical application like this is www.1soft.com's Above & Beyond. Sorted's hyperscheduling is a pale shadow of the fully implemented "Dynamic Scheduling" that A&B does.

I've been looking for an Android implementation for forever, but 1soft apparently doesn't care about platforms beyond Windows. A true shame.

Having worked with A&B when I used to be desktop bound years ago, it's almost painful to see some very few others stumbling around in the dark and almost getting to A&B's full algorithm.

I wish I had the confidence and tools to go ahead and build the Android version I want!
I suspect there isn't an even subconscious effort to exclude people of age, but that it's a side effect of the FAANG interview process. People who have been in the industry for decades don't care to learn to do leetcode interviews when they can get paid perfectly well somewhere either based on connections, or by going through interviews more centered around job experience. That said, I doubt a person making 60k somewhere would have made it in to a FAANG at any point. Making that little in the modern tech market shows either a lack of skill, a lack of desire to improve one's salary, or a need to live and work in a location where there aren't many opportunities for employment. There are plenty of non-faang places that are desperately hiring for 6 figure salaries at this point.
The past 6 months has seen a marked decline in the quality of results for anything techincal. It's all just SEO spam and SEO results that are ripped from SO or other answer sites. Doesn't matter if you use another 'engine' as they all pull from Google.

If you have a nebulous question it's pretty darn good at deducing what you want, but this exact ensmartening has caused the issues when searching technical things. Hell, even verbatim mode under tools doesn't work 100% anymore.
So first of all - just because the end-user wants Apple to check for actively malicious programs doesn't mean they assent to all forms of control. Secondly, even on the matter of software deemed malicious by Apple, I think it's questionable how reasonable it is for Apple to entirely remove the end-user from the decision making process.

Even on really weakly policed platforms like windows, people still tend to leave virus scanners enabled; and on android similarly most people don't choose to expose themselves to unnecessary risk by sidestepping its store - at least as far as I know. Users regularly do really stupid things, so some level of external control is perhaps not unreasonable, but how much, and for what? And should Apple even get to be involved in that decision?
> Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s all-powerful founder, made a reasoned statement after this week’s wave of anger.

"Reasoned statement" is not how I would describe his post at all. It was nothing more than gaslighting and being deliberately obtuse.
This is not the tax loophole that needs closing. Policymakers are still refusing to tax the ultra high net worth elites.
That's a massive flex on your part, I know a co-worker who did this and he earns less than 185k a year.
I'd just like to point out how amazing it is to have someone with the username "bernulli" comment in a thread about fluid simulation programming.
I know those tools exist, but I haven't used them.

IBM's Rational Rose used to do something like that, but it was big buck$, and I don't think it exists, anymore.
I’m not sure that thread supports your point, tbh.
Or maybe it's trying to close loopholes around having to pay taxes.

>The whole deal is a 'we are spending tons of cash, so we need to take it from someone' plan

Funny how spending tons of cash is a problem only if it benefits poor and middle class people. I never saw this outrage on trillions spent on endless wars, since that benefits rich people. But if something helps poor or middle class and hurts rich people a little, there is a big outrage.
This is fixed in Android 12, BLE and Location are properly disconnected now. The permission dialogue reads “determine relative position of nearby devices” if you request BLE access.

You can also declare that your app “never needs physical location”, which excludes BLE beacons that could be used for that purpose from the data the app receives.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
I want to point out that if you want to release an app, be it for fun or otherwise, it’s going to cost you 100$ per year to have Apple list it in the app store.

One hundred dollars per year for the privilege of them judging your app and maybe even get it rejected.

They made tinkering around so ridiculously unattractive, because every app needs a business model (unless you are okay with eating the 100$ every year).

There need to be other stores or distribution methods. Desperately.
I would also suggest as someone on the other end is that they have been very aggressive trying to get people during the pandemic. The recruiter name changes every few months but you get multiple calls and so on, moreso than others I've been engaged with.
"tempted to give Terraform a look, but if I do, it will be terraform + CDK probably: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk "

The above package supports typescript as a language but not nodejs ... no thank you.

I don't want to see microsoft products (typescript) taking the place of the original, open source products (javascript/nodejs) upon which they are based
Python needs to go multicore, like OCaml. And add a modern concurrent garbage collector.

One of the difficulties is of course to not break existing C extensions.
I get an error in your first link.

Also, I hate when it's call a "horse dewormer", because it's also a good human dewormer. I try to write an angry comment in each article that calls it a "horse dewormer".

Note that many antivirals has been tried, but for now the only one with good results is molnupiravir and it's a very recent result https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-ridgebacks-investigatio... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719928 )
> Except for Apple who would not have shared my address.

Can you prove this?
People are always--and understandably--shocked to see Fox News' election desk report things accurately, even in the 2020 election. They have some standards despite all the bloviating tools trying to launder propaganda as opinion.

OAN does not even have that. OAN is for people who think Fox News is left wing.
I'm not a huge facebook user and I mostly use it to keep in touch with my parents. I did notice that trying to message them resulted in "message not delivered" (which gave me a prompt to retry) but I didn't try to post anything during the outage.
Untrue in practice. High income individuals have several loopholes they can use to make Roth IRA contributions.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/backdoor-roth-i...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/retirement/mega-backdoor-roth...
As far as I've heard, it's 2-4x the average salary on some positions. The ethical problems and reputation it faces in community increased their churn while reducing the available pool of candidates.
Echoing the comment about this being an indictment of election structure - my wife used to work on political campaigns as a high level operative and she says this is par for the course.

Note: am not a Yang supporter, just offering a different perspective.
Sure, but the internet is global, and a majority of the world doesn't live in Europe or the US. Large populations are still coming online.
No, it's payment for goods and services. If you want to live in a stateless utopia, you don't get any of the benefits of the state. That's the social contract.
My favourite quote about OCaml:

"Never have I took so long, to write so little code, that does so much"

OCaml can be a big learning curve, but I urge you to push through. The syntax might not be everyone's cup of team, but you get used to it quickly.
I think its a bit more complex than pure competition.

Let's say we're living in a world where Apple's IAP framework has a 5% fee. This is roughly in-line with baseline credit card transaction processing fees, think Stripe or whatever, at 3-5%.

Many apps would still choose to not use Apple's system, because of exactly what Match says: Its not a matter of cost, its a matter of power. Service providers want to control the billing relationship with their users; they don't want Apple to have any control, because Apple is traditionally very pro-Consumer, and they will delegate much of that power to the Consumer. Service providers don't want their users to have any power in the billing relationship.

There are reasonable arguments why this is fine; say, for example, a service provider wants to offer some customer 20% off for the next three months, for whatever reason. This kind of setup is hard to model in the IAP framework; its very egalitarian.

But, overwhelmingly, the problem is more-so when it comes to canceling subscriptions, and whenever Match or Netflix or whoever says "we want to be able to directly deal with consumers" you should delete every word they say and replace it with the words "apple makes canceling free trials and subscriptions too easy, and we want to make it hard." There's actually nothing else to it; the magnitude of the fee Apple charges is high (30%), and needs to be reduced, but that tax is dimes compared to the profit companies make from users paying for subscriptions they don't want or need.

So; competition states, if their solution is genuinely better, companies will use it. Actually, this is false; companies don't give a shit about their users. They won't use it, even if its better for users, even if it were free, because the solution is definitely not better for them, because money is power, and Apple's IAP framework delegates too much power to Apple (a third party) and the users. The competition argument is actually irrelevant, because the two solutions we're comparing (self-managed sub management vs Apple-managed) are actually not fungible in the same way Stripe is fungible with Square (or whoever). They carry fundamentally different externalities for both users and service providers.
This is very digestible, thanks so much for this. I'm going to set up a little test IPv6 network this weekend and play around!
California had a capacity-related blackout lasting less than an hour affecting fewer than 1% of customers, more than a year ago. So, no?
I think you may be wrong on point 3.

> Furthermore, this section prohibits all employee after-tax contributions in qualified plans and prohibits after-tax IRA contributions from being converted to Roth regardless of income level, effective for distributions, transfers, and contributions made after December 31, 2021.

This makes it sound like backdoor will be stopped for everyone, since after-tax contributions to a (Traditional) IRA are a necessary step.
How long do you think it takes to put enough pressure to get a change like this going? It's not overnight. To me, 10 years seems pretty fast for something like this.

The cynic in me knowing that it is owned by PG&E thinks there are a few very expensive maintanence items coming up that the owner has decided it would be more feasible to just shut it down rather than doing the repairs to keep it going. The expense is what led to the decision and not public pressure, but since they won't admit to any of that, the pressure groups claim the victory.
The vast majority of developers are probably paying 15% to Apple and not 30%.
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I switched from jQuery to React(+ the ancillaries, babel, webpack, etc.) last year. I don’t feel anything in between or after added enough value to justify the cost of learning/changing stacks. No need to chase the latest fashions in software when you think about it.
What I meant is that Rescript is not really tied to OCaml as strongly as it was before. The connection before was: ReasonML frontend + Bucklescript compiler backend. Now you just have Rescript which is a rebranding of Bucklescript with a more focussed front-end language (which is a subset of ReasonML).

ReasonML aims to supports all of the OCaml syntax while Rescript's aim is to preserve only that syntax that is beneficial for a JS target.

ReasonML syntax can be used to do backend OCaml programming as well as front end programming. Rescript is focussed only on the (browser) frontend and drops some features from ReasonML. Its all quite complex and confusing but the TL;DR according to me is that ReasonML syntax is not going to be as important in the OCaml community as before...
Dylan from Assembly here. Most of our customers have actually switched over to us from Google - this Launch HN from a YC startup that uses our API goes into a bit more detail if you're interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251322

My email is in my profile if you want to reach out to chat more!
I'm not sure the traditional gas station format will make sense long term. Charging an EV takes longer than an ICE vehicle, what are people supposed to do with an extra half hour at a gas station? I think people are more likely to want to charge at a grocery store or restaurant.
That's certainly middle class lifestyle in many states in the US if you have a family with kids and have never had a windfall from parents, inheritance, startup luck, etc. Trying to figure out retirement on top of that is a challenge.
This is wrong. Both 401k and Ira have roth variants which are post tax. The normal variants are pre-tax.
> WOOOSH The point is that it's terrible advice. My point is people who espouse how smart they are about something should put up or shut up.

I get your point, and I'm telling you that the thing they should do is nothing, not take a short position.

Your argument that "if you're so smart you should short it" is BS. If you're smart, you'd stay the heck away.

(1) Decentralized exchanges have all sorts of their own issues, from contract bugs to flashbots, to requiring crypto collateral that may also get nuked in the event of a systemic collapse due to Tether or Bitcoin.

(2) Herbalife is an MLM, but MLMs are not illegal. In fact it says so on their wikpedia page [1]

(3) Anything at any crypto exchange is subject to massive systemic risk.

> So you don't want to short BTC but you still think it's a ponzi scheme ... report it as such to the SEC. Accept that's a loss cause because bitcoin is deemed as property, furthermore a commodity and thus regulated by the CFTC.

The SEC is well aware of its structure, as is the CFTC. They'll act as they deem appropriate in due course, or they won't. But that's a non sequitur. It's actually the first item listed under common misconceptions.

>> That is not the legal definition of ponzi in country X. The legal definition is relevant to understanding the legal implications: can anyone in Crypto Space be prosecuted for running/promoting/aiding that scheme in country X? But if one wants to know whether bitcoin is a good investment, or just an old type of investment fraud with a new coat of paint, the legal definition is irrelevant. One must use a quacks-like-a-duck definition, that describes the mechanism through which fools and money are separated and the reasons why it is a fraud.

> FURTHERMORE if you think these exchanges are crooked and are doomed to fail. Take a short position on the exchange it self. Binance and FTX have their own coins (which are probably securities) that you can take short positions out on.

At the same casino, taking a short against the casino at the casino is the worst plan I've ever heard. If they go under they won't pay you out. The entire crypto ecosystem is one giant distributed casino. Why would you say crooked exchanges are doomed to fail - and on any particular time horizon?

> Final words, how long must a market remain irrational before your prospectus is wrong about the market being irrational? The paradox is if you answer infinity, you may be "right" but you're still wrong.

This is a total non sequitur.

Nothing you've said is representative of the way markets actually operate here in reality, and you've provided incorrect and dangerous advice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbalife_Nutrition
I understand how the grid works, but I'm not following your argument.

> It’s not about every day it’s about cool days which lower demand for AC.

There is not a single moment in the history of CAISO when renewables+nuclear was higher than demand.

> At times your throttling power from a wind farm while also importing electricity in other areas.

Right, so that makes even less likely that abundant wind or solar could make nuclear unprofitable.
The difference from what I see is that Republicans are attacking Facebook for censoring too much, while Democrats are attacking Facebook for censoring too little.
>The internet is a major culprit in the shift towards clickbait headlines.

Nah anyone old enough knows this shift happened with cable news and a shift to 24/7 news. You cannot find enough content to make that interesting without filling it full of sensationalist bs. This was an issue far before the internet was a ever a major news source.
And generally, sourcers at Big tech are contract employees until they get enough talent through the door to go full time. So it may be that this person was unable to do this, and is putting some of the blame on FB's reputation (but it could also be true, I have no inside information).
Ask HN: Guide for a Postgres Newbie, Coming from DynamoDB
I'm a long time user of DynamoDB for various reasons. I never had to chance to use Postgres for real world. Now, have a new startup and my data model and access patterns do not seem feasible for Dynamo or other document/nosql DBs at all. I'll be probably using Aurora. Another reason is I want to learn Postgres, because its mostly a safer choice. I'm a Spring Boot/Kotlin person because it is currently the fastest way to production for my startup and idea.

What guides, good resources can anyone recommend for someone in my position? Everyone here on HN recommends "Postgres is good enough for you, don't look for adventure" in many posts/comments, so thought that would be a good place to ask.
Also curious, are there any 'independent' performance benchmarks in this space?
Not sure why anyone would downvote this. Legitimate or not, a lot of public fear about nuclear energy is due to the first three names on that list.
Facebook is the same company that has allowed a bunch of scam artists to advertise a $1500 ice machine for $30 (which is their S&H cost) while using another company's name in their ads. I can't remember the last time I got on facebook and saw a useful ad that wasn't either a scam or completely irrelevant.
I have become increasingly convinced Python as a language is a "trap" for any use of notable scale, be the scale about number of developers, codebase size, or performance requirements. It's a great 0->1 language and great at simple glue, but eventually you hit a wall and have to keep investing larger and larger amounts of people or computing resources to get continued returns... all due to fundamental design decisions in the language from two decades ago that are quite difficult to fix.

Unless you go all-in on typing -- which is difficult today with any meaningfully sized existing codebase -- maintenance is largely a "hope manual testing and unit tests catch anything resembling type errors" which is a major challenge for, say, structural change to a code base like refactoring. Plus typing is still young, the tooling somewhat immature, and can lead to false senses of security if you aren't very careful and opt into the strictest modes. This makes large number of developers and codebase size a major stumbling block.

The interpreter performance and GIL are fundamental issues as well. Multiprocessing and hacks around the GIL are quite painful if you even glance at any native threading code (say in a C++ library) and even when you stick to pure Python, you have a debugging mess when anything goes wrong.

But if someone can improve performance, that'd be great, and has massive impact potential. It is incremental though and doesn't solve fundamental issues with the language. I'm also skeptical of the "5x" plan referenced in the blog, and very skeptical we can ever see meaningful removal of the GIL due to library and baked in design decisions in existing code. This means performance will fall further and further behind compiled languages.

(I write all of this having been a part of supporting Python at massive scale for over two decades, including at two FAANG companies who invest heavily in it. I've seen the curve and the pain it's caused, and would never use it for any code that needs to be performant or actively developed on the multi-month or year timescale).
There have been no safety problems at Diablo Canyon.

Putting 600,000 cars worth of carbon on the grid because some Yahoos are afraid of a thing that isn't real is fucking stupid, no matter how you look at it.

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> They are in California which, from time to time, has earthquakes.

This plant has been through four of them with no damage.

Stop bending over backwards searching for something to be afraid of