skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A less fraught name could help.
No, your scenario is different than the headline. Closer, but still not the same, would be “xadhominemx posts in this thread”
Lossless MySQL semi-sync replication and automated failover
I'm no js/node fan, but I'd say it's a hell of a lot easier to install and manage dependencies with npm (or yarn) than in python. To the extent that people joke about/are horrified by the number of dependencies managed by them in a typical project. There's just a lot more tooling around it that's somewhat official/default/the one way.

With pip you can manually pin versions, or 'freeze' what's currently installed, but then updating them is a manual effort or a third-party service like pyup.io.

> which languages do people feel have excellent package management?

Rust (technically cargo) is probably the best I've seen or used.
Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir
Maybe, but if they are caught they can go to jail too. Several hundred[1] government employees are prosecuted for corruption each year.

[1](https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/646/)
> 2. Average age of a truck driver is 56. So 4 years from retirement.

things that will never happen in our lifetime.
I'm also really curious about the behind the scenes of companies like this

Would you mind sharing some of your experiences?

What were some moments in particular that made you feel not good about what you were doing?
So after reading the article, I'm still not sure of the crime, or the motivations (from netflix's perspective at least). Can someone help me?
Did the Earth tip on its side 84M years ago?
> I don't feel in any way "inferior" to people with a degree.

I did the same thing, but I do feel inferior to degreed folks. Not skill-wise; I know people are all over the board with their skill level. It comes down to this statement: "I have two candidates who are equal in every way except candidate A never finished college. Candidate B gets hired!"

Going this route you have to be better than everyone else with a degree: If you're not, the person with the degree will win, every time. I did this with personal projects/passion/odd jobs, and now with a decade of work experience as an engineer.

Sometimes I want to finish my degree (I got an associates, so 1/2 way there!) but the ROI doesn't make sense with school being so expensive. My big fear is that I'll never get hired after this job because there are lots of qualified candidates who went to school, and I just don't stack up.

EDIT: It's also affected my willingness to change jobs, confidence in myself, and as a result my salary. I make $120K/yr in a high COLA. If you're reading this as a youngster: GO TO COLLEGE AND FINISH IT!
You’re suggesting that the App Store impose more rules on developers in this day and age when the App Store is deemed onerous, restrictive, rent-seeking, etc. The other side of this argument is that developers will always find ways to make money — they need to pay bills. As long as they are following the rules of the platform — use IAP, don’t abuse user data, etc. — the App Store should allow the app on the store regardless of the future subscription cost. Whether it is affordable or not is an individual subscriber’s decision, not that of the App Store. So, should Target not carry items at a price point higher than a threshold that it sets arbitrarily?

If users don’t want to pay a subscription for a service that they don’t think is going to add value — not for you or me to determine the value an app has for its legion of users just because it is not of value to us — they shouldn’t download the app or pay for it. Maybe users can use the day counting app to count down days until when their free subscription ends, then unsubscribe. Apple has made it super simple to unsubscribe to a subscription purchased through the App Store. If users don’t use said feature, that’s on them; it’s not the responsibility of the App Store.

Let’s take responsibility for our actions & subscriptions.
Did you think Google might have deleted them from the internet? I'm somewhat struggling to understand.
Apart from acoustic characteristics, I like the math a lot better with 432. Lil odd so few people ever mention this
The journalist got it wrong. The startups weren't victims. They were clearly complicit in the crime. They could have very easily reported the bribery scheme to the Netflix board and gotten him fired, but they took the contract instead. The DOJ claimed that the people at Netflix who used the services assumed they were evaluating the services and not paying for them.

There are many better articles about this story from reputable news sites. The more interesting story from this article is what is Business of Business and Thinknum? Is it another Ozy?
I guess in 3k years archeologists will discover black bricks and say “it appears to have an apple motif. These people seemed to worship some apple god.”
My partner is figuring a lot of the same things out through https://farmsproject.org. Farmers are taking huge risks, literally "betting the farm" on their regenerative practices because as you say the universities focus on commodity crop research.

Your note somewhere else in this thread about comparing farmers to silicon valley entrepreneurs was a cool moment of clarity; they don't get several rounds of VC financing to try their ideas, just regular loans and a lot of paperwork tied to crop insurance.

Down in eastern Colorado/western Nebraska & Kansas farmers are having a harder time being regenerative _and_ organic but a part of that is because they're also dryland farmers.

Anyway it's exciting to see your stories hit hacker news! The innovation and work of the farmers you're covering are going to have a huge positive impact on US agriculture.
>Driving too much is not just at the cost of time. It is at the cost of life, drivers and whoever he crashes into.

Do you really think a middle aged truck driver is (was) holding the steering wheel for 16hr straight as a matter of routine business? Of course not.

Tropes like that make for easy online virtue points but that wasn't the reality for the overwhelming majority of people who were cooking the books.

These guys were putting in 60-80hr 6/7 day weeks. It's no different than the plant maintenance tech or the IT guy doing the same thing. What they sacrificed was their outside of work life. Nobody is working those kinds of hours and having a life outside work. You would have physical complications from that in very short order.

And occasionally someone would go overboard, drive 36hr straight and cause a crash. And because that's an easy thing for people who have zero knowledge of industry incentives and feedback loops to get their panties in a knot over they made it "extra illegal" because you can't make being an idiot illegal.

And so now the industry cuts far less tasteful corners and pays everyone crap and you have drivers who have barely memorized the pre-trip, have barely and hours behind the wheel, can't read english, and who choose a different career in short order and are likewise treated as disposable.

So the net effect is more or less a wash but a handful of people get to get big raises and some politicians can pat themselves on the back for "solving" logbook fraud.
what did you think it's supposed to cost? i can't imagine it would cost less than $1000, even just running conduit inside the walls, instead of doing drywall.
Did anyone notice the amazing cookie banner?

1. It offers a 'accept essential cookies' button
2. It doesn't take up as much space as many other cookie banners do.
I do not understand this. I mean, politicians do this all the time and do not go to jail (Spain).

I do not mean people offer themselves for briving.

But did anyone ever think what would happen if politicians did not have much power to regulate? Companies would not be able to lobby.

That means there would not be nearly as much incentive to brive as there is today.

Once a regulator is in the middle, the incentive for corruption is there.

I do not think people use Netflix because of the corrupt business of this guy. They use it because it is entertaining or find it useful. The same way people will keep studying Picasso (I hate his art, but anyways) because they consider it art, and he was a misogynist.

But his art is his art, the same way Netflix is entertaining for some people.
I wonder what would have happened if you had rewritten your Java project in... Java. Maybe with better/faster/less/more frameworks?

How much of the improvement is attributable to the rewrite and lessons learned and how much is attributable to using the backend language du jour?
No idea, but my zoology professor was called Prof. Elepfandt.
Oh of course, but they're very much in the minority. Most voice actors earn very little - it's really just a side-gig for most.
If I'm running an excavator at a construction site and I dig up a relic like this, do I get to keep it? Do all items of a certain historical significance immediately get confiscated by a government body?
We need to figure out how to fund Qubes development.
Why? Is the VP compensation package at Netflix really that bad?
IMO pipe operators wouldn't bring a big improvement from looking at the examples, some are becoming harder to read for me and I think temp vars would clean them more, in any case I would probably use them as they make code fun in some places.

It would be nice to see more functional features, similar to async/await, template literals and lambdas. Some things that I think would be interesting are optional type hinting (native), exhaustive pattern matching.
>False

To quote the article you shared above:

"About 52 million Americans are age 65 or older, according to the Census Bureau’s 2018 population estimates. One quarter of these older Americans live in one of three states: California, Florida, and Texas."

There are large elderly populations in all three states. Florida may have more elderly per capita than California, but not 2X more. However they did have twice the death rate. Elderly population alone does not explain the poor performance of Florida's COVID policy.

>California is the fifth youngest state in the country, so there's a level of herd immunity already existing there as young people under 55 are virtually untouched by Covid.

Again, this point doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Texas is the 3rd youngest state in the US, with a median age of 35 (California is 5th, with a median age of 37). California had <3/4 the death rate of Texas.

>more people died of car accidents in 2019 than under 55 age group in the entire pandemic

I don't know what point you are making here. Accidents are the 3rd leading cause of death for Americans after heart disease and cancer. Certainly not an insignificant amount, and all 50 state governments go to great lengths to reduce them.

> Colin Powell

It is widely known that Gen. Powell had multiple myeloma, which hobbles the immune system and makes all vaccines less effective. Why omit this? It is almost as though you are trying to cherry pick anecdotal evidence to support a deeply-held, quasi-religious belief that people are overreacting about COVID.

>All of this was to save Granny remember?

If that's true then Florida has clearly failed. Common sense dictates that the state which takes more precautions against COVID will have fewer cases and deaths. If you believe that the inconvenience of the restrictions is not worth the lives saved just say that. You've not made the case that they are ineffective.
The title should be " Google deletes 3k articles from its search results over bogus DMCA notice "
Apple isn't sacrificing any battery size on the 16" at least. 100-watt-hour is the standard max size for TSA.
But garbage collection is really optional. You can use manual memory management: https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=3uVt

You even have smart pointers if you need: https://nim-lang.github.io/fusion/src/fusion/smartptrs.html
The DOJ press release is clearer than this article is:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...

Some fun details:

Kail did his criming through a shell LLC he set up called "Unix Mercenary".

He took between 10-15% of the total billings for each of the companies he hooked up with this scheme. None of those companies were charged (more's the pity).

They got him on mail fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, and money laundering. The victim of the fraud was, of course, Netflix itself.

Additional fun facts from PACER:

He's seeking to exclude his shares in Sumo Logic and Netskope from forfeiture, arguing that they were largely the result of his own hard work, which takes some serious chutzpah.

All of this apparently happened back in 2014 (the conviction is recent). If you're wondering what Netflix thought of all this, Kail apparently left Netflix for a job at Yahoo, from which he was fired after Netflix found out about his scheme and told Yahoo.

Kail's sentencing memorandum is a fun read (again: chutzpah). For instance, this gem:

Further, though Mr. Kail complained of problems with Sumologic (as one would see with any new startup), the product itself was “useful,” according to Ashi Sheth. (R.T. Vol. 8, p. 1670-71). As described below, at the time, Sumologic saved Netflix from paying for a far more expensive and inferior product called Splunk.
12-TET and Harmonics
How clear is this!
The amount of "I don't get why this is wrong?" going on in this thread would seem to support the prosecutors' view that this is a widespread practice.

Long ago, before Dotcom went Dotbomb, I worked for a firm where the CIO was being paid kickbacks by our hardware reseller. He was terminated for other reasons and, shortly after he left, our head of network ops got a call from the distributor asking where they should send the bonus check that was due to him. They clearly thought that with the CIO gone, the head of network ops would be down the with the deal.

Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for him, he was absolutely not down with the deal and reported the whole thing up the chain.

We were overpaying for hardware and the previous CIO had been splitting the difference with the distributor.

If it's unclear to anyone on this thread why that is both illegal and immoral... perhaps you are in the wrong business?
As soon as the right person found out about it...
As someone who had the pleasure to write plain JS since, say, 2003, I greatly welcome all these changes that make JS less repetitive and easier for writng the correct thing.

And JS codebases are so much larger than in 2003 that the old idiomatic style is just unproductive.
This is so incredibly common and is actually taught as tactic at many accelerators.

You can form "customer advisory boards" which basically pay small percentages of common to early users to use the product.

Like, seriously, more than half of the companies funded by YC do this. I think this is the norm more than the outlier.
In the ORM field, Norm[1] is an actively maintained package that supports SQLite and Postgres (shameless plug). It's framework agnostic, I've used it with Jester and Prologue (it had nothing to do with Prolog btw).

Among frameworks, Prologue is the most actively developed and feature rich.

[1] https://norm.nim.town
Comparing with Julia, which claims to be a do-all fit-all language, I'd take Nim any day. I've used Julia in production for many years and it is an absolute nightmare to maintain.

Nim seems to be what python should have been from the beginning. It is a breath of fresh air.
> Example: people in present day Babylon often drink beer.

I have never seen anyone use the phrase like this. "present-day Babylon" is meaningless because there is no "Babylon" in the present day. "People drank beer thousands of years ago in present-day Iraq" would be valid, though.
I don’t think they will fail on the 30% commission part. If they lose on that, console gaming as we know it will end because commission/licensing fees is how console manufacturers make money too - the hardware is sold at near break even cost; with licensing fees being how they make back their R&D and misc cost.
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That is orthogonal. Java could easily have free standing functions that are still not first class.
Update (since I can't edit the submission):

Producthunt's frontpage has been redesigned and is now accessible without an account. Great to see!
I generally prefer wired, but there are some annoying pain points that wireless solves. Tangled cables! Working out is SO much better with AirPods, you don't even need to have your phone on your person at all.
I almost wonder if we need something like deno but for the python language--a reboot that uses the same language and syntax, but jettisons the cruft of packaging, etc. and starts over with a better developer experience. Perhaps just reference and import packages directly by URLs and forget all the pain and struggle of curating system-wide and virtual environments.
He was playing both sides of the deal : acting for Netflix in selecting a vendor, while simultaneously acting as a paid consultant to the vendor.

Conflict of interest. Netflix is defrauded because they could have selected a lower cost vendor, or developed the service in-house.
I don't disagree that those are difficult to implement. My claim is that Apple has wiped away any competition for any of those things by locking everyone else out of their platform and now claim that they're doing you a favor by not allowing anyone else to compete with them. Maybe no one else could do it at the margin Apple is doing it, maybe they could. We'll never know because of Apple's anti-competitive practices.

They're just unwilling to participate in Capitalism as far as their platform is concerned by pre-emptively blocking off any competition. They want a dictatorship and they want you to pretend it's out of their benevolence.
Personally I love scientific pitch [1] (C=128Hz, A=~432Hz, 12-TET), I wonder why the world is still using A=440, it doesn't make sense to me. Powers of two is the way to go.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch
> while not being given the flexibility to drive for other companies. Leaving some drivers with negative paychecks (basically, their pay didn't cover expenses).

This seems to me that the drivers should just file a self-written W-2 as a statutory employee and let the IRS figure it out. Not allowing an 'owner-operator' to work for other companies pretty clearly puts the 'owners' into the category of statutory employee.
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I happen to work in academic research. Let me just say that research in 'soft science', i.e. that which uses statistics to 'prove' things does very little to convince me. I'd trust a senior pro over the last shiny study anytime, precisely because I happen to produce such studies.
laughs in datomic
This is super common in the Valley. This isn't the exception it's the norm.

Every single angel investor I have ever pitched asked for/suggested this.

If this is illegal 99% of the Valley is committing fraud.
The Steam Deck does not use an ARM CPU.
I realize they haven't committed to '%' as a final choice for the placeholder, but I'm wondering if there might be any ambiguous situations with the modulo operator. Perhaps the places where an operator can be used are sufficiently distinct from the places a placeholder might be used for that not to be a problem, but it bugs me a little that this is not addressed.
According to wikipedia, Maps.me is using OpenStreetMap data. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps.me
Thanks this is what I was looking for

My last name is Colle so maybe I should start a glue company
I could imagine some slippier cases. A lot of successful startup executives have a bunch of money and invest it in startups. They (of course) pick ones that they think will do a good job in their space. It isn't that crazy to imagine them recommending using a startup they've invested in, and it's also possible to imagine them making a convincing case to a board that the startup is the best option available.

They still can profit massively from that, though, so it's still kind of messy territory.
This is very interesting and good to know. I rarely game on my phone these days, but every now and then I get that itch. I’ll check out their catalogue.
Re #2: Are you on a desktop/laptop? It took up a third of my screen on my phone. That’s not much better than others.
See recent media reports for non-technical summary:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/19/phone-fir...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-linked-hacking-grou...
So your contention is that HFTs make prices more stable? That they somehow assume risk and that justifies their profits. How would that work? I thought HFTers only got involved in between two parties when they knew they could make a profit. That's why HFTs don't have days when they lose money.
I managed to find an annoying situation with poetry in which if you specify a range of versions for a dependency, and one of your other dependencies specifies a slightly different range of versions for that dependency, it will refuse to proceed. (I was expecting it to have chosen something in the intersection of the ranges, but it did not)
I don't remember justifying it. Your comment seems a cheap karma grab.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211019152119/https://www.thest...
> 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio

If we subtract 74 pixels from their heights, we get 3456 by 2160 and 3024 by 1890, both of which are 1.6. So I'm guessing the notch is 74 pixels high?
Once you hit the sweet spot of developing for cross-platform (even just Linux, MacOS, and Windows) and supporting normal average-people users and have (even optional!) C dependencies, Python's packaging situation quickly deteriorates into "nightmare" territory.