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Workers' rights and housing are very different. It's a lot easier to move jobs than to move house. It's also a lot easier to create jobs than to create housing.
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Crypto is cancer for any company. It is an utterly useless technology
Why not look at it as costing $10 of externalities plus $90 worth of steel bars that you’re preventing? That combination would make a $100 removal cost a good goal. Or at least something that includes both the positive (stuff is good, jobs are good) and negative externalities (carbon is bad).
> Why calculate density of Sweden based on the total country when most people live in a couple cities? That’s just lying. It’s like calculating Canada’s density over the Arctic when 80% live within 100 miles of the US border.

Even if you want to compare by Sweden's most dense region, it's still 282/km2 versus 8,358/km2. Your comparison makes no sense whatsoever.

> And is my statistics about suicides wrong? 2020 was the highest since 2012?

You weren't making some generalized point about suicides increasing (which would have been irrelevant to the conversation at hand), you were trying to imply that lockdowns were directly responsible for the increase, which the statistical trend refutes.

Your commentary is intentionally disinformative.
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> But I've been seeing responses to people working FB have been horrible since for a while now.

This might be more indicative of your bubble than anything.

Facebook isn’t having a hard time hiring, despite whatever the headlines are trying to imply. There will always be a steady stream of applicants for high paying FAANG jobs.

Being able to choose exactly which ultra-high-paying tech job you take or being able to walk away from one of those highly paid jobs is a massive privilege that not everybody shares.
And the flip side of that with YAML is you can stream it, but you don't know once you've gotten to the end if it was the whole document without some user defined checksum mechanism.
> commercially supported OS that's built around a unified memory model

Doesn't OS/400 work that way? (Of course then there is the question to which degree "commercially" should imply "readily open to third-party software and hardware vendors")
https://archive.md/AAMM6
I suppose part of the problem is that even the employees likely don't know what sort of ship-steering they want, and hoped to gradually get enough context to eventually be able to see an optimal path forward. But unless conversations are happening constantly, that day will always be years in the future. And Facebook's internal framing that "those conversations should always play second fiddle to engagement" has effectively quashed any hopes of productive context-aware consensus.

The question on everyone's mind, of course, is: did leadership intentionally prevent these conversations and from-research-to-practice pipelines from occurring, or was their ineffectiveness simply an unintended side effect of the laser focus on engagement? Based on the anecdotes shared with media of how much of the balance was driven by public-relations considerations, one imagines that the perception skews towards the former. And that's not a good place to be from a retention perspective.
Facebook (Meta) Is Strengthening, Not Dumping Facial Recognition
Maybe the Freud heirs can sue Id Software?
What a cool project. Expose that port 3389 (RDP) to the internet & see how long before it gets cryptolocked.
Check out the book "Chicken Hawk" by Robert Mason, who flew Hueys in combat in Vietnam. These pilots were able to pilot in and out of some very dangerous situations using the unique qualities of the aircraft. I remember one involved taking off from a hilltop artillery battery by using gravity to drop the aircraft backwards off the steep hill after making a dropoff, or landing in a jungle using the rotors to chop away the vegetation (branches and leaves only, not trunks) to verify that a crashed U.S. aircraft had no survivors. He also talked about a stunt that another helicopter attempted to do, lifting a heavy pole or beam without the proper stabilization which resulted in uncontrollable spin and the death of all aboard.

Interview here:

https://rotarywingshow.com/rws-46-chickenhawk-robert-mason/
Yes, but if their own ad converts the user to a paying customer, they don't pay 30% of their revenue to Apple.
JSONC. JSON with comments. And even if your favorite parser does not support it natively it’s not so hard to add with a very simple pre-lexer step.

JSON schemas exist and they’re ok for relatively simple things. For more complex cases I find myself wishing I could just turn Typescript into some kind of schema validation for JSON.
But where are all these jobs? Aren't they mostly in the already impacted cities?
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I didn't really imagine any sort of incentive to join the pact. The motivation to join would be something akin to a protest against facebook's product. The goal would be to make it more difficult for facebook's product to exist.

I did consider laws that prohibit asking about criminal history. I don't think those specific laws would apply, as they are designed to help the previously incarcerated re-enter society through employment.

That said, I could see a court challenge to the blacklist with those laws being cited during arguments.
> very expensive if you consider...

Do you mean "very inexpensive"?
I already address this in my earlier comment, there is an obvious distinction between urban and rural locations.

If you're not paying more for your shopping in an urban location then this is almost always going to be because the costs are amortized over all the stores in a chain.

There is no free lunch, someone ends up paying more than they should somewhere.
> Are they also on tape somewhere else?

I can assure you they are and that there must be a number of copies available for use on any respectable supercomputer.

It just may be that the canonical source of the data is, officially, the cloud and that they release the data by uploading it.
That all seems quite logical to me. And if the same thing happens on Android devices, I expect the state would fund the initiative there, too.

The weird part seems to be that Apple is chipping anything at all in, to me, other than maybe some support.
You posted a bunch of flamewar comments in this thread. We ban accounts that do that. Would you please review the site guidelines and use this site in the intended spirit going forward? I'm not going to ban you right now, but you've been doing this repeatedly, unfortunately:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970746

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969532

Posting like that will definitely get you banned if you keep it up, so please fix this. Btw, I suppose I should mention in a thread about SA that this isn't some sort of ethical or moral requirement. We just have those rules because we're trying to be a particular kind of website, and we need to do something about the sorts of posts that impede that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
JSON has integer types/literals AFAIK, it's just that the Javascript implementation doesn't support them.
Came here to comment about this specifically. Being a little more generous on the drop zone would be nice. I could see the dragging around and pieces snapping in would be an odd behavior. Can you limit the "snap" test until a piece drop type of something to make it more of a concious effort than magic?

Another thing I missed was being able drag select multiple pieces to move them around the workspace. The large zoomability to increasing work area was nice.
What percentage of online revenue does Walmart make? How much does Amazon make?
In the US, that would result in severe disparate impact on non-Asian minorities, because Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are currently the least-vaccinated groups.

Not really politically viable until these numbers equalize.
Totally agree with you, today Cloud companies: GCP, AWS and Azure native ML solutions are not a E2E platform but different teams that work independently and as a whole release a ML solution, specifically I can talk about Vertex AI. Notebooks, Training, Prediction while they provide Enterprise features (Security, Network, IAM, Encryption) do not play well with users. (Expect ML users to be Cloud Engineers) and an ML E2E workflow is hard to achieve.

I would divide the main challenges for AI startups as follows:
1. Support Enterprise Features. (Security, IAM, VPC-SC, Ecripyion)
2. If providing Compute Resources do not make that your main source of income (i.e. DeepNote, Saturn Cloud) which that may not scale.
3. Data integration. (BigQuery, S3, GCS, etc)

Databricks is one of the ones that have integrated with each of the clouds and provide this E2E workflow nicely, in addition they have seen the nascent Analytics market and invest on it.
My concern with some startups:
Cohere.AI similar to OpenAI GPT3, is that some are only solving some part of the ML workflow: (Seldom, OctoML, etc.) they may get some customers now, but will be hard to scale, and probably best destiny is getting acquire by major players.
>It stops there, and nothing traveling over the SATA cable can be correctly called AHCI.

Informally, a lot of BIOSes (another informality there!) would give you the choice back in the day between IDE or AHCI when it came to communicating with the drive.

I think this is where most of the confusion came from.
Clay tablets are still the gold standard for durability ;-)
Roughly 1 in 10 people in the USA already live more than an hour away from their job, a number that's been increasing over the last ~15 years as people move to cheaper places. This sustained migration of workers has not yet fixed the whole issue of housing.
> amplify their transition to Facebook on LinkedIn

That’s just humble bragging on LinkedIn. It’s so common on that platform to humble brag everything that I wouldn’t read too much into that one.
The original claim was a qualified 'impeccable' - "the current ones with an impeccable record" - that is the original response was that the current covid vaccines are as safe as the other safe vaccines we have.

The follow up was saying "the covid vaccine doesn't have a perfect safety record therefore it's not really impeccable is it!" while not comparing to other safe vaccines at all.

You can't use a broad definition in the original claim and then try and use a narrow definition when refuting counter claims.
Low interest rates benefits everyone who takes mortgage and in fact makes (leveraged) investment into building more properties a no brainer.

There is no bad guy here, just individuals displacing other individuals.
It really doesn't matter. Just force the leading indent to be exactly the same bytes. If indent moves between two values where one isn't a prefix of the other raise an error.
If the HomeAssistant subreddit is anything to go by its their biggest complaint (HA configuration is in YAML).

With that said if they weren't complaining about white space they'd be complainit about missing semicolons, missing/extra commas, missig equals signs, missing closing )]} or whatever.
When I worked at radio shack we would send catalogues, later fliers.

We would ask during a return and require it. When buying anything with cash it was optional. The sales staff had to maintain an 80% ratio per day.
If they did this nuclear power would become cheap...
Would be great to know why but this article ain’t gonna tell us. Like a weather report: it says might be partly sunny with rain. How about we narrow that down?
This is the right answer in my view. If you need something structured use XML, otherwise INI.

I'm more likely to Yacc my own config format than use YAML or JSON personally.

JSON is great as an output format for data though.
Workers rights were not generally gained by moving jobs, it was unionization and protest.

Moving house doesn't change the market unless everyone else does it, and even then, the major benefit would come from something like large numbers of people agreeing not to max bid (i'm not suggesting that such a thing would be realistic, but it's an example of unionization)
Aren’t most houses owned by their inhabitants, rather than evil corporate entities?
YAML supports tagged nodes and multiple documents in a stream, which can’t be represented in standard JSON. (You could make up conventions, but only your parser would support them.)
Can you provide an example of such a device? I have yet to see any adapter other than those with a firewire jack on one end and USB plug on the other, but no protocol conversion/bridging/etc going on (and likely to ruin your day, given FW power runs at 12V and USB at 5V)
On the topic, another neat video covering several "impossible mirror" shots in movies (including Contact): https://youtu.be/VASwKZAUVSo
Opera GX – The Browser for Gamers
This would be a lot more insightful if we hadn't already spent decades and billions of dollars looking for greener alternatives only to find that they don't exist.
arXiv already exists

You're not paying for the infrastructure of getting published. You're paying for the prestige of getting published under the journal's name.
Yes but I can understand the rationale. There are many numeric types and settling on some excludes use with others. If letting the application handle that, the configuration language can remain simple. His example where a version number 1.10 was round trip converted to 1.1 was enlightening.
When studying a foreign language unless you live near where the language is spoken, it's extremely hard to practice. Even online it's hard to find someone who doesn't disappear after the first chat and you almost certainly live in different timezones. It occurred to me how useful it'd be to have a little robot to practice with. Something I could sit on my desk, with a language model, that I could try out conversations with. It'd also be convenient if you're not super confident in the language yet since a robot can't judge. I imagine it would end up as a killer app paired with a robotic bear that children can use. You might even be able to sell to the education sector.

Btw, like others have said, it's a bit creepy looking. I didn't realize someone could make a teddy bear and somehow make it look cold and murderous but bravo. If you're going to make a teddy bear, at least make it look soft and cuddly. And give the eyes some life to them please
What happened to ngate? Have they ever been on a long hiatus like this one before?
Perhaps something I actually appreciate about Amazon's devices. At least their Kindles with ads. They give you a choice between seeing ads, and not seeing them, and put a price on it. If ad revenue is a meaningful amount of the price of a new TV, then I'd definitely like the option to buy one with all of it disabled (with a permanent legal guarantee to back it up).
> If you're interviewing for senior positions, it is worthwhile to read through Designing Data Intensive Systems. This will prepare you for System Design interviews where you do need to actually understand stuff.

Do you mean "Designing Data Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann? That's what most of my search hits found. If something else, do you have a link? Thanks.
Maybe you just shouldn't work in meth shops at all.
Right, which is why mostly the idea is to just bury the CO2.

However, if you do want to make fuel from it, say for airliners, then it's totally possible, you just have to add hydrogen, and more energy than you'll get from burning the fuel. E.g. the Sabatier process to make methane.
> If you don't want to pay a million quid for a house in London, refuse the game. Move elsewhere. Find a different way to get by in life, perhaps even a different country.

People did exactly what you suggest. And the country they moved to was England, and the city, London, which now has 38% non-UK born residents:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
You are not the only one. But even if you find a library for YAML AST transformations for your language. What ever other language uses your YAML probably doesn't have it.

E.g. I tried exactly the same thing, and it was quiet difficult with Rust. Because the way to parse it usually is with serde and it just removes the AST of course.

In the end I gave up, and just used JSON for my use case.
Can’t see why not. I’d also imagine patenting new technology and allowing open access would also be possible.
Python's semantics make homogeneity less useful and hard to enforce.

Everything's passed by reference, so the list has to contain pointers even if you know all its elements have the same type. And some objects can change their type by assigning to __class__, which can happen from a distance (because everything is by reference).

A careful implementation can solve this for some builtin types. PyPy does it for ints: if a list only contains ints it's represented as a proper numeric array. But then as soon as you append some other type the whole list is converted to a more expensive more traditional representation.

PyPy's ints still have to pretend to be heap-allocated objects at all times. In particular they have to do something tricky with the id() function, which on CPython just returns an object's memory address. The return value has to be unique and consistent for as long as an object lives.
What is a tree editor?
Bottlenecks: Causes and Macroeconomic Implications
From the end of the article:

> Clear considered selling user data in the past, but instead uses that data to promote relevant ads to users.

Is there really a functional difference between these two?
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension for collaborative web browsing
From a developer point of view vs user point of view.
I feel like you are understanding the title as I first understood it, meaning like, "the external facing portions of infrastructure". However, reading the article, it seems clear that he's referring to the edges of a distribution curve (i.e. Infrequent events that impact experience nonetheless).

From the article: "It’s tempting to focus on the peak of the curve. That’s where most of the results are. But the edges are where the action is. Events out on the tails may happen less frequently, but they still happen. In digital systems, where billions of events take place in a matter of seconds, one-in-a-million occurrences happen all the time. And they have an outsize impact on user experience."

EDIT: IMO, the title is still a little annoying in this respect. I think everyone would agree if a request to your site fails 5% of the time, that is unacceptable, even though it "usually works." The discussion of the distribution curve simply to make the point that spikes in usage cause backed up queues which impact performance isn't necessarily helpful as far as I can tell, and it seems done largely in service to the title. In my mind while reading this, I'm thinking, "Okay, cool, but how does the fact that this interesting issue exists at the edge of the curve help me identify it?" Answer: It doesn't. If you see errors occurring, you will investigate them once they are noticed. Being at the edge of the curve may mean it takes longer to notice, but like, what kind of alerting system are you using that discriminates against rare issues in favor of common ones?

Discussing queues, over provisioning, back pressure, etc. are all super interesting and helpful.
I consider myself up to date when it comes to the web ecosystem, but somehow had missed this version of Opera. It has some interesting features for PC power users that are interesting: resources (CPU, RAM, network) limiting, built-in multi-platform music player and messengers, "pinboards" (bookmarks with bigger preview images) and some other cruft.

Not sure those things even belong in a browser, but that seems to be the elevator pitch.
maybe? the dynamic loading of the configs kind of restricts it to a markup language.
I think the idea is that you do both
Not really since it's true. It isn't markup, it's a configuration file format.

"<em>This</em> is a markup language" since there is text which is marked up.

YAML/JSON is a way to serialise fairly common data structures (arrays/lists, hashes/dictionaries, numbers, strings, bools, etc.)

Incidentally, if you can seamlessly replace XML with something like JSON, then you probably aren't using the 'markup' bit of XML.
3?? seems more like they gave them the wrong drugs
No, you would not expect a URL you can render and view and run to then suddenly have view-source blocked, because you are not just viewing the source, you are loading, parsing, and executing it. That's what they are asking for, to browse a URL but then disable view-source (of the URL you are currently successfully browsing).
Yes, I think this is exactly it.

The reason Netflix has become so popular isn't that they were "first", it was because you could get nearly everything you wanted on the platform.

Now we have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, HBOMax, etc. so forth. It defeats the purpose of streaming, which was to increase convenience and lower costs. If you subscribe to those five platforms, you're already nearly cable-levels of pricing.

No wonder piracy is in a resurgence.
>Nobody wants to wade through 90% bullshit to get to 10% useful info when the volume is high.

No one wants to, and yet it helps in understanding what others' grievances are. In today's polarized world, sometimes you even have to bear reading through what feels as insane rants in order to understand what another portion of society thinks. I may not agree with certain political parties or social causes but I believe it's still useful to understand them. Even if every other sentence is exaggerated rhetoric, somewhere in their diatribe there usually is some hint as to why they feel that way

>Or, put another way, why are you conversing on HN when there's plenty of discussions on Facebook you could be contributing in, and undoubtedly some of them would have useful info?

I do make it a point to visit other platforms. I find different platforms can expose you to views of different groups. HN has a lot of high level tech industry discussion which I appreciate. But there are certain topics the community excels at, and others that leave me wanting. I find discussions on medicine tend not to go very in-depth on here, while on a larger platform like Reddit it's not uncommon to have MDs and researchers to participate. Facebook I can't speak to, I don't really use it because I dislike the platform for ethical reasons