skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never stand between people and a pile of money.

Your Board doesn't fire you when you're the best guide to a pile of money. Your Board will fire you if they think you're slowing their progress toward a pile of money.

If you think your skills as a guide to piles of money are imperfect, don't put your life in the hands of people who need you to rapidly increase their pile of money.
One could imagine, though, an object-oriented language that doesn't retain objects' actual types, just pointers to their virtual function tables. Perhaps, as an optimization, it even skips that in cases where it can prove that all method calls can be statically dispatched.
> Flatpaks are not meant to replace established package managers, but to act as a supplement to them.

I'd be genuinely surprised if distributions like Fedora still use, or actively maintain, RPMs for any GUI software after a few years.
How does that work? Couldn't you fire the board and reinstate yourself if you wanted to at that point?
> Because code derived from GPL code is also GPL.

I’m not happy with the Co-Pilot situation either but for the sake of correctness it should it should be pointed out that your point hasn’t actually been tested in court with regards to machine learning. In fact some lawyers have suggested the GPL might not cover that particular scenario.
Nice write up, congrats for having an API that supports it ;)
I wouldn't be the one doing it!
It is great to see this happen.

It's also fascinating that the crux of the Apple's case against NSO hinges on NSO engineers that accepted iCloud's terms and conditions.

From related NYT article:

>The sample of Pegasus gave Apple a forensic understanding of how Pegasus worked. The company found that NSO’s engineers had created more than 100 fake Apple IDs to carry out their attacks. In the process of creating those accounts, NSO’s engineers would have had to agree to Apple’s iCloud Terms and Conditions, which expressly require that iCloud users’ engagement with Apple “be governed by the laws of the state of California.”

The clause helped Apple bring its lawsuit against NSO in the Northern District of California.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/technology/apple-nso-grou...
Not sure what is your source, but this seems to disprove that: https://taxfoundation.org/publications/comparison-tax-burden...
You know what's a pretty naive take? Handwaving social control as necessary to maintain "the comforts of modern society." How exactly does one follow from another? What does that statement even mean?

The alternative... A world where the only things that are illegal are infringements on someone else's rights. Why does it have to be anarchy or social conformity and control? It's not a dichotomy. Literally every time some group opposed some social control the bellyachers came out with the anarchy argument. No more segregation, let the women vote, let gay people do what they want, let people smoke weed... Good enough is simple, really simple: let everyone do whatever they want except infringe on the rights of others. What "comforts of modern society" do we lose by simplifying our rule set down to that?
You are consuming the product. They have an asking price for the product (which includes affiliate links and ads).

If you don't like the asking price, that is 100% fine. Don't consume the product.

You seem to be wanting to decide what is a fair price for product that they produced and set a price for.
Pregnancy tests still a dollar? I went to dollar tree a lot when I was first married...
Why is that the case? I thought we don’t actually have any real good evidence either way.
It reminds me of Weebo from Flubber (1997).

https://www.google.com/search?q=flubber+weebo
What do you and your brother think people enrolled in PhD programs do?! Build paper planes and throw erasers at each other all day long?
Sure when it all boils down to the tiny .NET Core subset of ASP.NET MVC applications, instead of those 20 years of history.

Looking forward to see how they deal with MAUI and Blazor integration.

What others call bloat I call productivity features.
This is Dollar Tree. They are known for only hiring part time to the tune of ~15-20 hours a week so they don't have to pay any benefits. (At least they are here in Fort Smith, AR. It may be a local manager policy.)
You're not wrong. But I feel that like most things, it's only hard because it hasn't been tried. Once we've done it a few times, it's routine. That's human nature.

We've also done some experiments already. There was, I believe, a Mercury mission where they spun the ship up. If I recall, it didn't go super well. But hey, we've had 50+ years to think of how to do it bette!
> The C++ equivalent might be snprintf

There's std::format from C++20 too[1]. One can use std::ostringstream instead, I suppose, but at that point I'd probably use snprintf too.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format
I think this totally depends on where you look. I've had a great time during the pandemic just living with my high school friends, hanging out, drinking and smoking and just doing whatever. And before the pandemic, this is what my work friends and I would do in the bay area pretty much every day.

I think the key here is to just find grounded, normal people. There are a lot of insane narcissists in this country that need to consume, post, buy, etc. Kind of like the movie "American Psycho". These people generally suck IMO and I try to avoid them. My personal rule of thumb is that the more time a person spends on social media, the less I will find in common with them. I find social media obsession to be highly correlated with being an unpleasant narcissist.
OK. I don't know how you'll avoid the html/css/js part entirely, maybe look into a fairly complete UI framework?

> I don't want to handle the back and force between the server and the client

Maybe you could look into something like pouchDB -> couchDB here? Or some other similar solution that handles the networking for you.
African governments get sophisticated at squashing citizens' internet rights
I understand. I also mentioned regular expressions. It's not as convenient as a menu option, but it's not too difficult and it works. For instance, you can add this rule to the whitelist to not discard any YouTube channel video lists: re:https://www.youtube.com/.*/videos

You said particular YouTube channels, so in that case you can just put the full URL for those channels, e.g. re:https://www.youtube.com/channel/SomeChannelABC123/videos
VAT (sales tax) is much higher in Europe (20%+), though it won’t bring the total tax to 80%. On the other hand, taxes in the US are much generally much more progressive than in Europe. In the States, the wealthy pay large majority of the taxes, while in Europe, these are covered mostly by middle class. Therefore, for median wage earners in Europe, effective tax rate is much higher than in US.
> Even embedded systems run on an OS

Many do not. I've seen quite a few ARM processors running without any OS.
I don't think so man, tons of frat bros just hang out drink beer and play darts or whatever. There are obviously people who are desperate for a relationship or to get laid, but you find these guys in every race of people.
Since you ask, I've reduced over 90 percent, which I've shared publicly, anticipating I may be like a Roger Bannister to some. Will you join?

Here is a graph: https://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ReduceFo...

On my blog https://www.joshuaspodek.com I post my electric bills, that I pick up litter daily, that I haven't flown since 2016, haven't filled a load of garbage since 2019, and more. Most importantly, that each of these changes improves my life. Or watch my TEDx talks on sustainability leadership: https://joshuaspodek.com/tedx.

Leadership, not individual action is the point. Yet more important and magnifying my effect, I lead workshops in food deserts, coach executives and politicians, and host a podcast helping change American and global culture from the attitude I read in your post, that sustainability and stewardship are burdens, deprivation, or sacrifice, to expecting it will improve their lives, help the most vulnerable, and create stability and abundance.
Yup, this is my thinking as well. If I go back to fully server side, it's because I can somehow instruct the browser to update without JS involved.
When was the last time you used an application from a gallery, archive, museum or library? How many people use https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238 instead of visiting wikipedia.org? I'm not naming names but this came up a number of times at meetings I was involved with in the GLAM community where people mentioned having spent considerable amounts of money on apps, even winning design awards or getting featured in the Apple AppStore, and then seeing that their daily active users never came within 4 orders of magnitude of their web traffic.

What they generally had in common is that they're content-heavy (i.e. solidly in what the web was designed for), might not require authentication, and most importantly aren't something most of the users wanted to use all of the time. If you are trying to get the hours for a tourist destination or even a restaurant, look at public information, etc. the time needed to login to the app store, authenticate to approve the purchase, wait for a large file to download, open the app and complete any mandatory enrollment, wait for it to retrieve content, etc. was often orders of magnitude slower than using the website. Restaurants and bars are a great example of this: if it's your hangout and they have something like integrated ordering, maybe a trivia night or something like that, the app can be useful. For most people, however, a webpage with the contact info and a menu with Apple/Google/Stripe buttons to pay is going to be better than an app they use a couple of times a year.

The other key thing to understand is that this is a question of priorities and budgets. It wasn't that there is no possibility of doing anything useful for these organizations in a mobile app but rather than the cost wasn't worthwhile for the incremental benefit to the users, especially when you considered the opportunity cost of not spending that much money on something else, especially since most of the cool things you could do in an app could also be done on the web with very similar quality but with the difference that you only had to build one version rather than 2+ and the web version required much less ongoing maintenance.
Yesterday's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845
Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list? They could argue it was an attack on national security if they can show some important person from US would have been hacked by a foreign government.

Then if EU could put the same guys also on the list maybe there would be some effects.
Likely through shrinkflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation

Next time you’re at the supermarket check if the bacon brands you remember are still a pound. I bet many of them are now 12 ounces.
More than 50 companies hiring with a 4 day work week
My thoughts are worth only a monatary rounding error I guess...
It’s not much of an internet without mass participation though
We stopped minting pennies here in Canada in 2012. Pennies are still legal tender, but cash purchases are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. I don’t think anyone here misses the pennies.
> Whether or not you love or hate this model of development is irrelevant, because if at some point you need to render on a client other than a browser -- you have to start from the beginning and write an API now.

That's not true generally since many mobile apps are simply wrappers around a WebView. Rails Turbolinks basically has mobile shims that allows you to deploy to all platforms.
Sure, if you can't use a Web View on your mobile app (idk, for performance reasons) that's something else. But that's not the rule.
The news have abused my "you should be afraid" notification too many times for me to take this to heart.
Am I the only one around here that is less and less excited about Vercel as they raise more and more money?
I've gotten good recommendations from Wirecutter, but also very bad ones. I bought their recommended coffee machine, and it's $200, and no better than the $30 Mr. Coffee it replaced (except, I guess, in the referral fee they get).

They also recommend an air purifier by Levoit, which performed demonstrably worse than a box fan with a HEPA filter bungee corded on to it[1]. In fairness, Wirecutter recommended a cheaper model, but is that model going to perform better than the more expensive one in the same line? In any case, it's still not cheaper than a box fan and a HEPA filter, which ought to be the baseline you'd test against if you were providing value to your readers.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/portable-air-purifier-tests...
The examples listed are Honda Element and Nissan Murrano, which are decidedly not small, fuel efficient vehicles but instead blown-up heavier counterparts built on a shared platform with a 4 cylinder engine. These cars are often less practical than their smaller, more fuel-efficient counterparts. So these are not exactly arguments against buying smaller, lighter and more fuel efficient cars.

One reason why SUVs are as popular as they are is that car manufacturers are allowed to produce less efficient cars if they are larger and with off-road capability. This allows bigger, less efficient cars compete with the more efficient ones because the sale price ends up being close enough to the more efficient counterparts for this to not matter.
You can disable the GC in go. https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetGCPercent
It also makes some software under the Gnome umbrella incredibly hard to package for distributions.
I'm imagining just a screen shot of a middle finger in response to discovery requests.
The difficulty is on Earth you have a convenient stable mass to anchor your robot to while in space everything is unmoored and unstable if you start swinging around a robot arm.
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Yikes. The overwhelming sense of entitlement is very strong here.
> why is gas always ab extra 9/10 of a penny

Same reason things are $.99, $19.95, $299.99 instead of $1.00, $20.00, $300.00.

In the US, there's many places that have 2 or 3 gas stations in near vicinity and price competition is fierce. So the $0.01 matters, people will drive to the gas station down the block to save that penny per gallon.
> With Golang, you actually don't need a mega framework to get started

You just need to build it from scratch, document it and ensure it is well tried and tested.

"mega frameworks" are there for a reason. Rails, Django, Laravel, etc have everything they have because almost any web application you build (except if it is just a minimalist micro-service) will need routing, authentication, i18n, ORM or similar, migrations, caching, e2e testing, validation, background job processing (the one that works after a deploy or restart), and a thousand more other things.

Of course you don't need it to "get started", but 1 week after getting started you'll find yourself rebuilding the wheel yourself or tying together 10k dependencies (something doable if you have enough experience and know what to pick and what to not pick, but risky).

> And it's not uncommon in Go codebases to repeat yourself.

The fact that it is not uncommon doesn't make it any better. Rewriting the universe from scratch in every single project is the worst idea ever.

I don't think that because we like a programming language which happens to have no popular web framework we need to negate all the problems of not having one, or say it is in benefit of simplicity. It is not.

I'm very sorry for my rant, but I've already faced too many disasters in work environment were people thought that "just flask" would be enough, and years later we're still fighting the fire and trying to understand why this custom ORM validation integration doesn't work.
A focus on where you can/should improve is definitely the most valuable, but positive feedback is part of that. Specifically, if you're actively working to address a deficiency, this is likely not true:

> since my default is to just keep doing what I'm doing anyway, I don't need to be specifically told that

I had reviews that were something along these lines in the past:

Q1 review:
* "You need to work on your communication and keeping stakeholders in the loop."

[I move all design discussions from DMs to non-private Slack channels, post regular updates on Slack, and set up biweekly status update meetings on Zoom.]

Q2 review:
* "Posting updates on Slack is nice, but not solving the issue." <-- Good to know, but less valuable information than:
* "Using Slack channels + the biweekly Zoom updates have adequately addressed the issue."

TL;DR: If you've changed nothing, then positive feedback is useless. If you're experimenting with various solutions, positive feedback when one works is critical ['cause I'd drop Zoom meetings in a heartbeat if they proved useless].
Buddy, there's no way you paid 3123 RON for a Big Mac, since that's approximately 750 dollars. You probably paid 3123 ROL (the old currency before it was redenominated circa 2005).

(You are correct that amounts below 100 ROL were totally meaningless.)
As someone who works flat-out to increase automation every day, I certainly hope the unlucky will be OK, but I am also convinced that they will be
I'm not so worried about humans maliciously trying to destroy the world. There are few who would do so intentionally.

Far more worrying is when people do what is easiest for them, regardless of the cost to their neighbour.

A mask collects particles, including the COVID-19 virus. Please can we work together to pick up the masks from the street?

Worms will eat the masks. Bats will eat the worms. And the bats will give COVID back to us.

We're not responsible for world-scale Epic issues: plastic in the ocean, climate change, pandemics. We are fully responsible for the Issues we see. Please, let's clean the streets while we cycle/walk dogs/skateboard and the butterfly effect will help to fix the bigger problems too :)
> why is the US still minting pennies?

A lobbying group funded by the producer of the blanks used to make pennies opposes penny abolition [1]. There is no similarly-motivated group promoting it. (Citizens to Retire the Penny exists, but their last news item is from 2019 [2].)

When the U.S. eliminated the half cent it was worth 14 cents [3], so there is a good case of nixing the nickel alongside the penny, whenever we get around to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Common_Cents

[2] http://www.retirethepenny.org

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_debate_in_the_United_Sta...
I think it's more correct to say that lab leak is a plausible theory. But it's going too far to say it's the most likely theory. I do wish China hadn't clammed up and would have allowed a real investigation. We'll never really know, I suspect.
WinAmp was shit, a pioneer of the idiotic "skinning" fad and the conversion of UI into an Advent calendar of cutesy hidden gimmicks. I wanted to listen to my music, not play Myst with the jukebox app.

Good riddance.
The amount of time that Apple sat on this is telling.

First reports on NSO activity are from 2016, Facebook filed in 2019, Apple iOS 14.8 fix released in Sept 2021.

Only when the constant negative news about NSO started chipping at their reputation, did they decide to make this symbolic (and ultimately ineffective) move.
Could the company and its executives could be sanctioned based on this court case ?
> Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list?

For not replying to an EULA suit? I sure hope not, as much as I'd like to see NSO nailed to the wall.
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Installing GNU stuff with the 'g' prefix (gsed instead of sed) means having to remember to include the 'g' when you're on a Mac and leave it off when you're on Linux, or use aliases, or some other confusing and inconvenient thing, and then if you're writing a script meant for multi-platform use, it still won't work. I find it's a much better idea to install the entire GNU suite without the 'g' prefix and use PATH to control which is used. I use MacPorts to do this (/opt/local/libexec/gnubin), and even Homebrew finally supports this, although it does it in a stupid way that requires adding a PATH element for each individual GNU utility (e.g. /usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin).
so ud be walking on your footbridge to work and your eyes start to roll. nothing to fear. you are just being updated :)
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So that argument is dead, it has been definitively for a few months now, and the proof is in the article we are discussing in this thread. Vaccination is not preventing transmission. it only lowers the likelihood of severe illness, apparently.

So yes, my actions do only affect me, and potentially those who have chosen to take the same risk as me. Those who are vaccinated have the level of protection they signed up for, I have the level of protection I signed up for.
Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone'
Makes me wonder if the future is in launching things in parts and assembling things in space. This probably has its own set of problems though.
Try this link outside of paywall: https://brothke.medium.com/the-top-10-phone-scams-of-2021-69...
Seems like the original TV movie is available on YouTube for anyone interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZY-yQYVf38
And what kind of legislation would tickle your fancy? Intentional release is already legislated against. How do you legislate the prevention of accidents? Are you specifically talking about disclosure? I can get on board with that, but I'd be shocked if there's not already legislation around that.

Now, the crux, whatever legislation you come up with, how does that apply to a foreign country?
Only curbing "abuse" implies that "normal use" of state-sponsored spyware remains kosher.
Also: venting through a turbine generates power, one moving part.
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The very hard edge on the tail of a wagon makes it a terribly great at producing turbolence which is bad for fuel efficiency. I think shooting break or sort of stretched-out hatchbacks will be where it's at.
> just right for botulinum and listeria

But if it was frozen, wouldn't that kill off any bacteria? Then, as a sealed environment, there wouldn't be anything to grow, even if the environment is just right.

edit: ignore this comment, I just read how the spores are resistant to boiling/freezing...
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It's not even that. It will usually be something like "7 + 3 * 2" and you will see a huge stream of "20" in the comments.
So they used iCloud to spy on NSO?

Sounds not right, regardless of what you think of NSO's actions.
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Gas prices are quoted to fractions of a penny and then rounded to the nearest cent when a card is swiped. For people paying with cash, rounding to the nearest ten cents isn't that much of a leap.
I watched the series and movie again few years back and I concur.

Amazing cypherpunk scifi. It has aquired some 80s patina that makes it only better.
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Are you thinking Dollar General? No Dollar Tree I've been in had groceries--maybe candy, but usually it's things like cheap plastic toys, paper plates/plasticware and cheap decorations for birthdays and the current holiday.
WinAmp never did anything well. That record looks set to continue.