skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teen Spirit was just a popular deodorant at the time! But the first example makes sense.
Does mobile Chrome not have extensions? Or you really prefer that solution to uBlock (or whatever)?
Ten Years of the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon
Hope dev will add all functions in the future.
> Android will never be a humble, efficient, reliable platform.

A phone needs to be able to make 911 calls even if its the most unhumble, inefficient, unreliable platform. This is completely offtopic.
Also there are many different ways to undestand and use pointers; there are many many programmers that are really good at using pointers and are able to engineer essentially safe architechtures, but many of those very good programmers would come up with incompatible architectures around pointer usage.

My wild guess is that most "simple" pointer errors (use-after-free, double-free, unintentionally using unitialized memory, ...) happens at interfaces where there isn't perfect comunication about what component is responsible for keeping track of each task.
If the Italian market is too small to justify 1.3B costs of doing business Amazon has only three options there:

1. Stop doing what it's doing now and become fair and transparent, at least in Italy

2. Move out of Italian market

3. Keep paying even increasing fines and change nothing

In all those cases consumers in Italy would profit, either from fair market or from more tax money.

EDIT: formatting the list
If anyone from HN is here reading: maybe just make this change? The current touch targets on mobile are much too small and definitely fall below most UX / accessibility standards.
> ...is because they have much higher throughput than the alternatives

You're equating "high-performance" with "throughput". This is a classic newbie mistake and exactly what I mean when I mention cargo-cult.
Fines are designed to disincentivize the cost of doing "illegal" business. It's not an insult, but comes across quite capitalistic to not consider the difference.
Germany is more cooperative yes. But their "workers council" concept is very strict. We've had several times we couldn't implement a global change in the multinational I work for because some workers council in a 10-man office in some German village didn't agree.

In Holland we used to have good union representation that really worked together with government and employers. The "polder model" it was called. However since we've had many neoliberal governments this concept has been hollowed out and the unions are now run as companies by the same kind of people so they no longer really represent the workers. They're just corporate puppets now. It's gone completely the other way from France or Germany. When it did work it was pretty good though. There was a decent balance between workers rights and efficiency and there was no need for many strikes.
Am I right that this is (only) about unfair dominance in logistics? It looks like Amazon Prime is forcing sellers on Amazon to use Amazon logistics and thus putting others out of business.
> Personally, I prefer having a switch since it's more obvious which opcode goes where.

In practice, having a switch is not worse or can even be better for performance because any non-naive optimising compiler will emit a nicely ordered indexed jump table, whereas following function pointers involves more indirection through the addresses of the functions, and has the additional overhead of passing args and preparing/restoring the stack.
Don't use points, use em or rem. Otherwise it won't render well for people with unusual screen formats.
Dracula looks pretty good, Dracula Pro looks much better because they did a lot of research for the colors (but it is expensive), and Dracula UI looks fantastic.
that's a neat solution!
Protectionism is good. We've been colonised by the US - shipping all the high paid jobs there and paying no taxes in Europe.
third parties can't sell stuff on Lidl website
Doesn't seem this will hold any ground if Amazon decides to fight it...

FBA products have a clear competitive advantage: free shipping for Prime customers, fast and reliable shippings, easy returns, a networks of lockers so you don't have to wait for the package at home (in Italy packages have to be handed to a person, they can't be left in the front yard unattended).

Marketplace products have longer and unreliable shippings, you need to pay extra even if you are Prime customer, customer services is usually subpar, customer protection is inferior and so on...

There's not an abuse, they offer a better service, they get better business.
> ...and the assumption of a cooperative system provides more opportunities for optimization

Also much more opportunities for blocking and starvation. Especially when people try to reinvent schedulers without understanding how they work in the first place.
one minor error from the automatic translation, the correct sentence is:

> Among these exclusive benefits stands out the Prime label, ...

In the Italian version is made clear that the Prime label is one of the most important benefits

edit: formatting
This will only stop when USA takes symmetrical measures, fining large European conglomerates in response.

It's like tariffs - just another form of protectionism.
I talked to Jordy about it. It was his first CVSS HIGH vulnerability and he was super happy & excited about it. While we would have preferred if things went differently, it was an honest mistake.

On balance, I still prefer if someone approaches us with good intentions and messes up a bit over someone simply dumping a 0day into the wild or into private circles. And this way, we at least had a tested patch in hand already and knew that Grafana Cloud was not affected.

And as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495431 ... we all make mistakes.
It's about following the rules, instead of making the rules.

Uber tried to make the rules in Europe: they failed.

Europe has a stronger governance then in the US. And yes, it's a pro-market governance.
If you have cash, post a job. People will respond.

If you don't have cash, you don't have a startup. Don't make the mistake of trying to "pay" a stranger with equity.
Italian here: probably yes

Since it became available here it became the de-facto standard for online purchases, most people don't even look at other marketplaces now and are often willing to pay more just because the order is coming from Amazon (even when it's a 3rd party seller)
Lidl supermarkets are full of 3rd party products.
Problems I had on Android phones at various times in the 10 years I owned them (mostly Nexus / Pixel):

* Can't make calls
* Can't receive calls
* Can't send text messages
* Can't receive text messages
* Receiving text messages out of order or days late
* Can't take pictures
* Can take pictures, but they don't save
* Phone randomly shuts down when cold
* Phone randomly shuts down when hot

As much as I liked Android when it worked well, in the end I realized the bugs in the OS were putting me at risk of physical harm or, at the very least, incredibly damaging data loss or missed communication.

I bought myself a $400 iPhone SE. It may not have every feature I loved from Android but it's 100x smoother and more reliable. I don't regret the move.
Nice. Is it possible to contribute to the localizations?
I don't know, insulting others with rhetorical questions shouldn't be tolerated. I didn't read the rest of your comment.
Just a small snarky comment, funny you were done with your LG phone, and bought another LG phone :).

I actually enjoyed nexus 5, nice form factor, awesome weight.
Amplitudes are normalized locally, using something like a moving average. Global normalization rarely works because most sounds have high dynamic loudness range.
I really appreciate Ken's content. It is always fascinating to learn how these chips were engineered with minimal simulation (not to mention design tooling) by comparison to what is available today.
Labor Shortage Worsens in China
I don't think we know yet, as Amazon EU did not report per-country in 2020 according to a quick search; but the total revenue was 44bn, and the biggest EU markets are always disproportionately Germany, France, and Italy, so I would expect Italy-sourced revenues to be in the 5-10bn per year.
Protectionism stagnates societies, slows innovation and disruption while benefiting incumbents.
Thank you for sharing. I've had one or two similar events over the years.
I think often times people don't even know that they are indirectly using something or have indirect ownership of something. Only when switching it off does it get crystalized.
I like MAGMA (Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple).

Especially when you are getting burned by an outage.
I was referring to the use case, not the implementation details. ML-style functors may not be zero-cost abstractions, but they are a way to implement polymorphism, just like C++ templates. You may be able to achieve that with a PPX rewriter, but I'd rather use a functor.
Maybe they're better, but Apple updates are not all sunshine and rainbows.

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones - BBC News – https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
I use Bash in an idempotent fashion so that my readers can rerun the demonstrations of Deployment from Scratch (or even just small part of them).

Apart from doing what the article suggests, I make sure that every step of a process is rerunnable by cleaning the state beforehand.

E.g.

rm -rf /path/to/dir
mkdir -p /path/to/dir
# use the dir now

If a command doesn't have the right switch to handle both cases (like using semanage), I use || to fallback to another command.

It feels pretty manual compared to some declarative approach, but it works nicely in small Bash scripts.
I thought it was because of the monopolistic behaviour and market abuse.

Do you have an example of anti-American discrimination?
So after attacking the “Drones are better than cruise missile” argument that I never held, you are now aiming at the “quadcopters” I've never talked about?

I'm gonna end this discussion here because I've made my points and you look way too determined to fight against straw men than discussing them.
The other factoid though, VY Canis Majoris fits inside the orbit of Saturn... that's huge in the other direction. Especially compared with what you said.
I know a guy who used to work with it but no clue. I guess something like Delphi might be the closest thing to it today
You don't think it's different to experience the art and to own the art?
Agreed. We will certainly improve processes on our end as a direct result of this, as well.
I feel your pain. I've been working in IT for several decades but not in SV nor NY. For the most part what you describe is the REALITY.

With the exception of startups and personal projects, programming is about getting business goals met. The PMs are just as burnt out as you are. They are getting masses of user requests, management demands and other "inputs". They are running interference and doing their best to ensure that at least some demands are satisfied. 95% of programming work is maintenance - bug fixing, feature additions, interfaces for new data sources, etc.

In large corporations it is mostly about fixing what the vendors and highly-paid-consultants promised and failed to deliver. Working for the global consulting firms is the same grind, but wearing more expensive suits - unless you are working in an off-shore sweatshop.
It's on their Github, which is linked on https://opensource.apple.com/projects/swift/
write the actual script in a heredoc, and wrap it in a script that pipes it line-by-line into a shell and tees to the lockfile. then, if the script stops, you have a journal of what's executed so far, and the next execution can just skip everything duplicated in the logckfile.

totally foolproof except for the race condition between when your script crashes and you hit up-arrow then enter, someone else with your user account might change it maliciously.
Welcome to society! Believe it or not some possibly enjoyable experiences are already regulated/illegal.
FBA only exists because market dominance makes FBA style shipping arrangements profitable. Without Amazon's scale and marketplace dominance, that shipping and pricing doesn't work.
The first version of Microsoft Windows only appeared a year after that ad. In 1984 Microsoft was just a supplier for IBM.
Agree ... there are always factions etc and all these factions may manifest power within china, but external to China, CCP at projects a coherent facade unlike other democracies.
Even more impressive is this note that I got while browsing from a developing country.

>Hey! You're coming from [Country] where this could be too expensive.

>I believe in Purchasing Parity Power, and I want to make this affordable.

>If you need it, use the code [code] for an extra 63% off the regular price.
The best workers I've seen have always been close to stakeholders and have a large set of permissions and a high degree of autonomy

Today everyone is scared or unable to give those things to juniors so we lean on agile processes instead

The funny thing is if you read the agile manifesto it explicitly promotes "people" over processes

My experience is that I have been abstracted further and further away from my work, in both being able to do it myself and seeing the results of it and being able to understand it from a stakeholder perspective, by processes

I've seen programmers explicitly say they don't want to think about these things but I don't think we know what we're trading away
According to dirk löhr a big chunk of stock market valuation is based on real estate and ultimately land. Once you include other land like monopolies like spectrum or patents you're looking at more than 60% of the value of a given stock being tied up in those things. Bill gates owns a huge amount of farm land. Land is still one of the biggest factors of production and the biggest driver of inequality in the 21th century.
No. I didn't think there would be any interest tbh. I have 100s of little apps like that which I have never shared...
fining large European conglomerates in response

Which ones?
I don't want to go down the rabbit hole that is politics, but Italian usually don't benefit from "more tax money', the government is not very good at handling money
Most of the time, we don't care that much about what we're going to build. The actual goal is "build whatever makes money". In FOSS circles without money it's often "whatever gets users" instead.

If I'm doing a custom project that does some sort of warehouse management for a client, I'm not really deeply invested in my particular vision about how a warehouse should be managed. I'm deeply invested in making my client happy.
Accuracy less than a wavelength has been possible for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_knife-edge_test
A few more explanations by Rob Pike, featuring words such as “normal trichromat human pigment spectra” and “scattered light”: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/color-blindness-i...
That's a host-enforced write protection, which is worthless for protecting against malicious modification of contents (because a compromise host can just ignore it).
Making text-to-speech outbound calls with AWS Connect and AWS Polly
Revenue, yes, but for a webshop with typically low margins, the profit will be much lower.
A billion is nothing for Amazon. They'll barely feel it. It's not even a slap on the wrist - more like waving an index finger snd saying "behave or else".
Nah, they just read the umpteenth "American company fined by EU country" and assume it's not fair for the company. What they don't realize is how good customer protections laws are in Europe compared to most of the world.

The fact that $1000+ purchases are only covered for a year in the US for example is kind of a joke (in the EU it's 2 years)
They can't do a man in the middle attack because the transaction is already signed with your private key and they don't have that.
All the recent actions directed against Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon. None of these is a monopoly in any sense of the word. Well, maybe Google, a little.
How to Play Live Streaming Video from OpenNCC We
To me the popularity proves that branding works.

My reading: There’s a clear identity – visually and in how it’s framed. Also a clear social signal (“this is what developers like you use!” plus a social status feel). One central site. The social attention mechanics: I see this, I get the sense that others have seen it or will see it. Doesn’t feel eccentric. Crafted to give a feeling of a common substrate. Slightly indie take on a clean and colorful look with a cartoon character that has mild stylistic tension in a very common art style – it’s palatable. It’s reassuring and tells a story. The PRO messaging also seems to successfully indicate that “because this costs money it’s worth something”. And while it’s all very programmer-normcore it’s also slightly unusual in all these respects and this induces curiosity.

It’s easy to install too.
What does it matter when you don't care about it? Tomorrow if Apple replaces Zsh with something else, you are the kind who won't care about that too. Those who care about bash, can still install and use it, and more importantly enjoy the freedom of modifying it as much as they want, without any hindrance from Apple or anyone. That's because with FSF opensource licensed softwares, Apple or others using it in their product cannot refuse to give you the source code. Other opensource license don't guarantee such freedom.
Rust has semantics which are designed to allow those best practices to be watertight and enforced by the compiler. C++ has semantics which are designed to fit around many years of backwards compatibility with unsafe practices. Attempts to make static analysis for C++ which mirror rust's borrow checker have thus far failed. There is not an automatically enforcable set of rules for C++ in any version which give you the same safety guarantees at rust (and the non-automatically enforcable set of rules is not followable by humans in practice, since we keep getting memory safety bugs in C++ code).
And that is why a corresponding product is more expensive in EU than in USA. Extra guarantee is nice, but nothing is free.
Why is Amazon retiring Alexa as opposed to spinning it off and selling? It must have some value. Google is great for shutting projects that must be worth something spun off, even at an early stage.

Is there a general reason tech companies retire over selling?
While I'm not sure this ruling is good, your argument is making it a bit too easy. Amazon does not naturally "provide better service" that others can't.

> free shipping for Prime customers

could be offered by sellers using other fulfillment too

> fast and reliable shippings

Not something only Amazon logistics are capable of

> easy returns

Not something only Amazon logistics are capable of (at least here in Germany, they just give you a label to put it in the normal postal system, as do most retailers)

> a networks of lockers so you don't have to wait for the package at home

That one is tricky. Although I guess the market dominance argument could still be used to say "well, your problem to figure out how to solve that, it's not absolutely impossible to let others ship stuff to those too"

For the first three, the pro-Amazon argument is of course that if third-parties do parts of it, Amazon has a hard time ensuring and monitoring quality of service, which is a problem for a "premium" product that's supposedly all about that - and which is popular because of a reputation to delivering on that, and it's unfairly harsh to go after that.

(The obvious fix of course would be for Amazon to not do fulfillment for third parties in Italy - if they are not in that market, they can't be accused of distorting it. If that'd be better overall for customers and sellers though? The theory behind the competition law says yes, at least short-term many might disagree)
Is it though?

Companies who want to operate in a country have to follow that country's laws and stick by that country's regulations. That's why Apple have to make islands appear bigger than they are for China reasons.

US companies can't just operate the same as they do in the US in other countries where people seem to have more protection from malpractice than in the US. Certainly from the outside looking in.

The US can only take measures in the US on EU companies that are breaking US law and/or regulations. It's not tit for tat like tariffs which are clearly arbitrary.
The challenge with C++ is that unless you are writing something entirely from scratch with very few third party dependencies, it quickly gets ugly because you have to deal with legacy code that wasn't written in modern C++. I've worked on projects that have started out small as well as projects that have reached (and passed) the 10M LOC mark, and this is a recurring theme.

I've worked as a developer for about 35 years and I have yet to work on a C++ project where there isn't older code that has to be accommodated.

Being able to write code that doesn't crash after a while isn't really a high bar.
prepping for a life changing trip across Europe,

Not sure what you mean with life changing, but from experience: if you ever find yourself in a situation where you go on a trip and your health might depend on the ability to call or navigate, don't ever use a smartphone for that ability :)
USA here, I trust the government less now but for the opposite reason: when it came down to actually enforcing covid restrictions during this disaster, they utterly failed. Everyone was out horsing around, shopping, dining out, ignoring the mandates, and there was zero enforcement. Everything was half assed and even the politicians were flouting the rules. All talk and no action.
Evergrande, Kaisa cut by Fitch to default after missed pay deadlines
Echoing this. It was a good find and well intended. We'll welcome any future submissions from Jordy.
Google you admit is a monopoly

Apple have abused their hardware position to artificially restrict and abuse devs via their app store.

Facebook - Do we really need to do this? Facilitating genocide and election interference both don't fly over here.

Amazon - Being a market place and a seller on said marketplace is a no no. Using your customers data from your market place to undercut them and run them out of business is again a no no.
I would like to be sympathetic to the author's argument, but this article is just riddled with trivially falsifiable inaccurate assertions.

> There are books that are never recommended by the Amazon algorithm, irrespective of how well they’ve sold or how likely a specific shopper is to buy them. Or, at least, there’s one such book. I’ll let you try and guess what it is.

YMMV, but if I search for "transgender" on Amazon.com in an incognito window, the very first result is the author's book.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=transgender

> But did you know that, for contested entries, Wikipedia assigns editors, some of whom are ideologically committed activists, many of whom have very particular views they want you to walk away with.

Wikipedia is far from perfect, but this is still a gross misrepresentation of how admins and the editing process operate on contested topics. It is interesting though that Wikipedia's Transgender page does not mention the rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy at all though.

> a 22 year old biological male at Penn who was competing on the men’s team as recently as November of 2019. That male athlete now holds multiple U.S. records in women’s swimming, erasing the hard work of so many of our best female athletes

This appears to be a reference to Lia (Will) Thomas, who as far as I can tell does not hold any U.S. records in women's swimming.

https://ussanews.com/swimmer-who-once-was-male-now-shatterin...
If the US were to profit from Amazon's extraction of wealth in Italy, I could see where you're coming from. But do they? It's not like Amazon takes the Italian money and builds roads in the US or something.