skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The google play subscription API is probably the worst I ever had to integrate with.

For example

* Response leaves out historic data (i.e. a subscription doesn't show it was paused, had a trial, etc. once they're over)

* Fetching the subscription state frequently returns data inconsistent with previous results (e.g. the start date of the subscription keeps changing, the expiry date keeps jumping around), so piecing together a subscription's history by combining versions observed at different times is practically impossible

* Each subscription is a singly linked list, but doesn't give you enough information to actually follow the link. And it's from newest to oldest

* Authentication is a mess (it's half integrated into the google cloud, but not really)

* Settings changes take about ~24h to take effect
> The tests passing or failing.

This is what I'm calling consensus btw. Because in science we don't just trust the experiments of a single person or group. They present it, we say "wow that's cool. Let me try to poke holes in it" and then a bunch of people do that and we gain strong evidence that that person was correct.
All these "your side/my side" sideism stuff is going to destroy everything.

No one can have any nuanced opinion without all of their individuality being discarded and all weight being given to the party they vote for. It seems to me that the party they vote for is just an ephemeral label and really doesn't suffice in extrapolating much. We should stop contextualizing all conversations on the political affiliation of people.
10 events/minute - I would guess SQLite/DuckDB can fit the bill for many years?
They have workers which are serverless which only work for a specific kind of application, how do I connect that app to a database? what do I do to get metrics / logs out of it, monitoring / alerts? as I said they have nothing even close to what cloud providers have.
> They are there to help promote a broad feeling of engagement.

I guess by this point they could streamline that process (and avoid a lot of harrassment) by simply generating all comments with GPT3.
So, I was kind of hoping for something that could do some of this for me? As in,e.g. bounce some pings all over my local network and tell me what's what?

I'm one of these 20+ year Linux using types that still just has SO MUCH trouble with this sort of thing.
Oh, yes, I also know a lot of people who don't try to find out and understand the motivation behind a request and instead just jump to conclusions.
Maybe because trees contain a lot of water/nutrients? Tbh I've always wondered what you've said too, though I'd just dump the wood in old mines etc.
Yes, it works for electron apps. You'll need to host the binary somewhere, then install it. You can bundle those actions in to one test and then reuse as a building-block for your actual tests.
I have used the goto statement to implement enumerators classes in C++ using a state member and a switch statement with goto statements at the start of the method. Of course, also all local (loop) variables need to be replaced by (private) members. At each 'yield' location, you set the state variable, have a return statement, followed by a label.

It is also possible to do this in C with functions and structs. See for example: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Ha_cmt.html
This is a bit like saying there is no '+';

Because if you put in

return 1+2+3;

And look at the assembly code, you will see that the compiler generated something like

return 6;

The compiler is allowed to take advantage of the standard to substitute in more efficient code that does the same thing.

IIRC, for C++, it would actually be ok if std::vector was implemented completely as a compiler intrinsic with no actual header file. (No compiler I am aware of actually does it that way).
I think what you're saying it totally reasonable, I don't think I disagree with any of it, except one small point in your edit about my note.

The thing I was referring to (and this is my bad for not being more clear) in regards to the "build the wall" rhetoric wasn't actually specifically about the wall exactly, but more of the surrounding anti-immigrant sentiment that followed. My wife (a Mexican immigrant) had to deal with an increased level of horrible stuff being said to her after the "build the wall" stuff started, and it did seem to correlate as a dogwhistle. That's why I said it gave me a bit of pause about the intentions of some voters: it really seemed to bring out the worst of people, and it did seem like there were a lot more "worst of people" than I thought. It didn't seem like a lot of them really cared about "a wall", they just didn't like people who didn't look like them.
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I agree with everything except leave the children behind. That should be a decision made by the judge on who is the better parent or at least a sharing based situation.
And, folks often forget, the fact that the states exist and have control of their elections is part of what helps with the incorruptibility of the system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28906939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28906105

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28916075

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28934059
> papers were published, did not have peer review.

We post papers on ArXiv now and they don't have "peer review", except they do because our peers read them and talk about them, open issues on GitHub, exchange emails, and write blogs. If that isn't peer review, I don't know what is. Your definition of peer review is far too limited and not what science actually is doing.
78% of Republicans want to see him run for President again [1]. I don't think he's faded into obscurity at all. This new social media thing though? Yea it will probably go the way of Parler and the other "platforms consisting entirely of people kicked off of other platforms".

1: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/577453-nearly-80-perce...
I made thousands of YouTube videos using Python
Your math looks correct to me.
the author came off as a below average intelligence blowhard to me
There's another part to this same equation: the "institutions" have very little credibility left. Whether it's about the health risks of tobacco, the environmental risks of fossil fuels, the addiction risks of opiates, the security of mortgage lending, or (recently added) the safety risks of flying, we constantly see the same pattern of officials being undermined by paid-for scientific studies that are aimed at undermining or thwarting policy.

Given that adversarial dynamic between business and policy, I can't bring myself to fault even a single person for refusing the vaccine (I can still fault someone for publicly speaking against vaccinating others on invariably shaky arguments though). There is no public institution that I would trust to act towards any common good, that's how much public trust has been eroded in the name of "good business".
That feels unfair. Part of the point of the article is that though looking stupid has a cost, it's sometimes worth it, for example, to ask an important question or to share an interesting idea, but maybe not just to prove that you're okay with looking stupid.
You maybe the right person to ask… Aren’t function / functioncallers a form of goto?
I like being able to respond to specific bits of what people have to say. While it has the distraction and noisy downside of a conversation occurring linearly in time, to me, that ability makes it better than a linear conversation in that way. Discord is now getting that with threads, though.
Yeah I just ran with the first paragraph in that article. But further reading shows the rules stuck for congress. Regardless theres still an issue in my opinion when Nancy Pelosis husband is buying Microsoft calls one month before they are awarded a large government contract and several other suspiciously timed trades.
Okay but charging fees on in-app purchases as a pretty high percentage of the purchase amount is ridiculous and basically just a moneymaking racket with no real justification, that they do just because they can and they already have a stable base of customers who are unlikely to switch to a competitor (Android is the only competitor).

Flat per-transaction fees to cover operating costs is more acceptable. But Apple might make less money in that scheme. On the other hand, more developers might be willing to write apps for iOS if they weren't getting gouged by such high Apple Store fees, so Apple might even come out ahead if they reformed their pricing and payments policy.
> But this is not because the earth is running out of oil and gas.

Well, it kind of is?

> Rather, it’s because they are increasingly eating themselves to stay alive. The oil and gas industries are consuming exponentially more and more energy just to keep extracting oil and gas.

i.e. we’ve drilled all the easy-to-extract (cheap) oil, and now all that is left is the hard-to-extract (expensive) oil.

The thrust of the article is still correct though: the answer is to redouble efforts to move to non-fossil energy sources.

Expensive oil might be the sense of urgency we need.
This article makes a terrible argument.

> As economists Professor Tim Jackson and Dr Andrew Jackson of the University of Surrey have shown, there is now abundant scientific evidence that the decline in EROI is an underlying driver of the decline in economic growth.

> This suggests that the last two decades of global economic turbulence are closely related to the global economy’s continued structural dependence on fossil fuels: a dependence that, if it goes on, will guarantee a grim future of energy and economic decline amidst mounting environmental crisis.

It argues that increasing EROI has led to decreased economic growth, and therefore we should switch to renewables before EROI increases for oil in order to make sure we fuel economic growth.

But it ignores how EROI decreases growth (mentioned in the article they link to), it does it through increased energy prices. But a switch to renewables is not going to decrease energy prices, if it did we wouldn't need to subsidize renewables.
WordPress uses a WYSIWYG editor called Gutenberg for quite some time now: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
I feel like I could have written this post, even the trouble getting blood drawn, and the response from nurses when you tell them.

Except for this part:

The person who helped me, despite being very polite, also clearly thought I was a bozo and kept explaining things like "the size of the box and the size of the computer aren't the same". Of course I knew that, but I didn't want to say something like "I design CPUs. I understand the difference between the size of the box the computer comes and in the size of the computer and I know it's very unusual to care about the size of the box, but I really want the one that comes in the smallest box". Just saying the last bit without establishing any kind of authority didn't convince the person

In that case I most certainly would have established that I knew what I was talking about, and also explained exactly why I cared about the box. Maybe the author never worked in retail or public facing tech support, but when you're in those jobs you learn to not believe anything the user/customer says. At least until they let you know they know what they're talking about.

The asking questions part also reminded me of a story from when I was a junior network engineer in my mid 20s, working with two guys in their 50s who had each been doing the job for over 15 years. A little bit after I started they gave me a task that required me to use a system they knew I didn't have access to. After about an hour I figured out that I would need it. I asked them how to use the xyz server, and they both started laughing. It was a test to see if I would ask for help. Apparently the last guy who had to do that task waited 3 days before asking for help, and didn't even figure out he needed to use the system in question. They decided to see how I would handle it, instead of just telling me outright.
Google makes most of it's money on Android from integration of services. If Windows Phone had taken over the non-Apple market, as looked somewhat likely in 2009, Google may not have ended up a trillion dollar company
I found this
https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...
Does this just mean that stock will now all be held in their spouse's name? I didn't see any provision for that in the article.
Winters in Calgary regularly go to -20c at night with periods of -30 to -40c.

How will we able to heat our homes? I can’t imagine how much more electricity it would take to replace national gas, it could be many times our current electrical production.
> The term Artificial Intelligence implicitly makes people design systems that don’t involve people—because if people have an information processing role, then it seems like the system isn’t artificial yet, and therefore unfinished. That’s rather unhealthy

Well put, but doesn't go quite far enough. Because those systems do still involve people, it only as objects to be acted upon, rather than actors with agency. Which isn't just unhealthy, it is downright pathological (and often socio- or psycho-pathic).

We've seen this sort of creeping bias before, with terms such as "Content Management System" displacing more human centric terms such as reading, writing (or even authoring), sharing, and publishing. "Content" is just an amorphous mass that is only produced in order to be "managed", poured into various containers, distributed, and delivered in order to be consumed.
I couldn't imagine writing something like that to someone who I shared a life with for over a decade, and the mother of my children. But maybe thing were different back then...
>It's not volume, it's vertically integrated agility.

Which is easier at low volume...

>They have motivated engineers (culture!)

I love the implication that 100+ year old companies that build race cars don't have solid engineering culture. Aren't ICE vehicles far more complicated?
And, in 1851, Abraham Lincoln’s chief economic advisor, Henry Charles Carey, published his own book on economic harmony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Carey

Carey used harmony to refer to many phenomena, like how increased worker wages leads to benefits for owners. It’s lovely stuff. This systems-level beauty seems absent from contemporary economic schools of thought.
>"in a way that literally jeopardized the foundation of US democracy"

What does this even mean? This is way too vague and nebulous to ever get a grip on. I'm guessing you're talking about members of House/Senate contesting the results of the election, which they had a right to do, and followed the constitutional procedure for. You could also say this relied on democratically-elected representatives and wasn't undermining the rule of law.

>"and incited mass violence?"

Again, what qualifies as "mass violence"? I assume you're alluding to January 6th, which I hardly consider "mass violence" as it was very much localized and was over within a few hours. Surely the summer riots are more deserving of a term like "mass violence", no?

If we're talking about vigilante violence / decentralized intimidation, Maxine Waters told people to harass Trump staffers: "“They’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store... The people are going to turn on them, they’re going to protest, they’re going to absolutely harass them.”"

As for your four bullet points, I am confident you can get the same kind of result (eroded faith in Democracy) by tweaking the questions to appeal to the sensibilities of people on the left. Just imagine flipping a few them by asking if a liberal agrees with "The rights of women and minorities are disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save them" and "It is hard to trust the results of elections when so many people have been victims of voter suppression".
The difference is that for fuel cells, it has mostly already happened. It's quickly becoming a kind of denial where the haters simply pretend that it doesn't exist or insist on unsolved problems that have long been solved. It frankly reminds me of how Blackberry executives denied the viability of the iPhone even after it launched.
It drives a decline in economic growth through increasing energy costs. And no one is under the impression that removing our dependency on fossil fuel is going to make our energy cheaper. So if this model is correct removing our dependency on fossil fuel energy will drive down economic growth further.
Nice thoughts. A few comments:

1) federal Senators were usually appointed by State legislature and were regularly recalled by States and fired when they voted against the State's interests at the federal level.

2) a consumption tax, excluding uncooked food, might be reasonable. Higher tariffs and import duties can work, and tends to reduce offshoring for the purpose of polluting 'over there'.

3) surprisingly something better than gold and silver was invented in 2008 and appeared in 2009. Bitcoin fixes this.
Parts of the article seem to imply that the phenomenon is "in people's heads".

I found another article where the author clearly states that they don't hear it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/07/the-hum-myster...

I was not able to find anything mentioning the frequency, which seems odd, and would support the theory that either not as many people are suffering from it as the article may seem to imply, or it is not a sound wave, because that should be really easily measurable.

Either way, it sounds like an interesting phenomenon that I thought may be interesting to HN readers, and maybe someone has already looked into it more and has better information on it.
It can easily backfire. Some one who has an urgent but basic question might refrain from speaking up if, beforehand, a senior prefaces their pointed probing question with "this is a stupid question...".

It's better to just kick things off with naive questions or even use a bit of humor to disarm people, so they don't feel like they have to be "advanced" all the time.
We can't because we are consuming 6-7 earths worth of other resources already. We are already in ecological overshoot. If it was only oil, you'd be right, but all planetary resources and pollution sinks are being consumed.

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19...
Or build houses and bridges and stuff with them instead of concrete.
Shoutout to anyone using user agent styling in 2021.
Scale, reportedly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qy6awPeric
The proven way to reduce population growth is via economic growth. It has worked everywhere it has been applied.

We should be carpet bombing Africa with books, higher-ed, and investment.

No genocide necessary.

The only problem with this plan is that it is far too boring/liberal/naive for a significant portion of decision makers.
At Netflix all of our monitoring was in a time series database so we could get real time insights into pretty much anything we were monitoring (which was most everything).
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Jonas Bendiksen intended manipulated images to be caught, but no one noticed
Relatedly, a recent post on SRP (the most commonly used PAKE) and how it's worse in all cases than PAKEs derived from SPEKE:

https://tobtu.com/blog/2021/10/srp-is-now-deprecated/
I'm really surprised by a lot of the negativity here. The author never claimed to actually be stupid, nor did they claim to be humble, nor did they claim that this particular essay was an exercise in looking stupid or an exercise in humility. All they did was claim there were some situations where it was beneficial to be willing to look stupid, and listed those situations.
One of the relatively younger Bell Labs guys who experienced Hamming (in my memory it was either Ken Thompson or Kernighan) described in a public talk the way Hamming would approach young scientists and engineers in the cafeteria and harangue them if he deemed their current area of research non-world shaking, and therefore unworthy of their attention. It was a hilarious story because Hamming was described after a brief pause as a "curmudgeon" but one got the distinct impression Hamming's younger associates had other, more colorful words to describe him.
This is probably where you want to start: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
> Approximately 49% of Alberta’s natural gas production is consumed here in Alberta. Alberta's residential and commercial sectors account for 17%. The remaining 83% of natural gas consumed in Alberta is used by the industrial, electrical generation, transportation and other sectors. Natural gas is also an important raw material for the province’s oil sands and electric power-generation industries.

https://www.alberta.ca/natural-gas-overview.aspx

You're gonna be fine.
I think it's the body horror aspect, thinking that there is a living pig-organ inside of you keeping you alive. That would freak anyone out if they thought about it.

At the same time though, if it were meant to be a temporary life-saving procedure to keep you at optimal health for as long as possible then it makes more sense. I would feel a similar (if less-alien) feeling about having a deceased person's kidney in me as well, after all.

I hope I am fortunate enough to never have to make that decision while still living a long and fruitful life.
Oh, I 100% agree about that. My pedantic side is just coming out and I wanted to point out the problem isn't that there's no rule, or there was a rule and it went away ... it's that we can't trust Congress to enforce rules on itself.
Suggesting that App distribution is even part of the consideration for why Linux didn’t catch on is kind of hilarious to be honest. Their app distribution methods being good or not had nothing to do with their lack of adoption and it’s kind of a non sequitur.

If I dropped their app distribution onto Windows it would also succeed there with the general mainstream public, in fact even more so, because of the garbage state for app management there.
Roughly half of current population I'd guess.
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When I was working in the utility space, the duration from identifying a need to commissioning a natural gas power plant was 11 years.

The state government subsidized efficiency and other measures to reduce peak demand just to slow growth and control price escalation.

Nuclear is a shitshow to build and realistically requires federal action. Similar to how the FCC declared 5G a national security priority and took away local government oversight of infrastructure siting, the Feds could do something similar.

Unfortunately, since the US has a political party that believes that political consent comes from control of geography, the coal mines and gas wells are better represented in Congress than people. The US will not be leading this transition, and we’ll be second fiddle to those who do, likely in Asia and Africa — as there is no alternative for them other than persistent poverty.
That was a bit of a scary read... but I wonder to what extent market forces can help mitigate and correct by lowering demand via higher prices.
they can get you into a legal battle of loopholes if they want to be assholes. hopefully they won't, but hey, its 2021.
A tiny microsite for $120/year tho.
Fair enough, I probably didn’t express myself well.

It’s just that the article re-plays the old “intelligence vs creativity” debate, and is full of naive statements about it. And you kind of want to answer: “you know, I think it’s a little more complicated”
Url parameters are not novel, in fact they are the default method to track ad success. This is just blogspam.