skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So this is a recipe for anger and resentment.

I know this is a common idiom and makes complete sense in context, but I must point out that it's also an analogy. I just thought it was genuinely funny given the first sentence of your comment. Analogies are hard to escape! :)
Yes, maybe a tiny proportion, but to nowhere near the extent of what we saw. We are 100% confident in our assessment.
I do use meetup and weeples but they are ... not online native. I would love to chat more about this if you can provide a channel.
Attempts to solve obesity are met with the same objections around freedom of choice. And honestly any attempt to do anything about it would be so much more complicated than saying "get this shot", which is already fairly complicated to begin with.
> The case against analogies is like trying to teach something to someone without any kind of frame of reference

If this was intentional... nice.
Which is awful, because I've seen a number of FLOSS projects that have perfectly good reusable code in their internal/ subdirectories. And I mean code by no means unique or specific to those projects.

And whoever says something about instability or APIs being subject to change without notice - they're wrong because those are Go git repos and one can always pin to an old tag or even a commit SHA.

If something is unusable (too specific, too fragile, too flaky), no one would use that anyway. A warning is fine and even welcomed, but a block is a slap in the face.
Because distributing apps to iOS isn't commercially viable?
Yep! Just buy from a non-emitting company. They wouldn't lie to you and claim to be non-emitting, because that would be mean.
Yes I’m sure app developers were making tons before Apple and their rent seeking abusive monopoly.

If it’s so abusive for the developers why do they stay on it?
Payment Processing System Designed for Central Bank Digital Currencies
Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?
Tell us about your legitimate, not-a-total-scam blockchain based project! I'd love to see some.

Please explain why blockchain is the better solution for your project than existing technologies, and please no projects that exist solely for the purpose of driving blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs.

I look forward to seeing your replies!
I did that at Amazon, and it didn't help me too much, since basically my entire org got burned to the ground after our VP lost a fight with another VP. Proving I did my job for the year I got a bad performance review didn't really mean anything when 4 layers of management above me all disappeared.

It did help at Microsoft, though. They tried to PIP me, and I gave them a paper trail a mile long proving that I was working exactly to specification.. We ended up settling on a few months' salary for me to leave.

In retrospect, though, I wish I'd just gotten out of Amazon as soon as the more senior people started scurrying out of my org. I wish I'd quit Microsoft a couple of weeks in when I realized what a Faustian bureaucracy it was, haha. Life's too short to work at terrible jobs, and trying to keep a paper trail like that is too stressful.

Semi-related, I live beneath my means and had many months' worth of liquid savings, which was an enormous help to my peace of mind. I was able to take a year off and relax after I ended up quitting Microsoft, and then find a new job I actually enjoyed with no rush.
This is great, because it serves as a basis for what Apple can be forced to reduce their commission to. What Apple has said here is "The cost of the payment processing is 3% and the rest is our commission", which obviously opens the door to legislators then saying "Well, you said the costs of payment processing is 3%, that's what we'll cap your commission at".
Depends. If you want a social-credit-score-like system like in China, then more restrictions are great, because obviously once you implement restrictions, you also need to document them and make sure that everyone complies. If such a dystopia does not sound good, keep them to an absolute minimum.
As you have observed already, this experiment is set up specifically to eliminate the effect of training/skill/physical endurance etc, and YET when it's performed in real life with a good facilitator, people who are unlucky start to feel like they're underperforming and need to step it up, while people who are lucky start to feel like they deserve the praise for doing well.

I've read about people who go for days after the experiment and feel bad about their subpar performance because they feel like they've let down or brought shame to their company and wonder if they couldn't have done something better.

And this is an experiment that's set up to remove any trace indivdual agency what so ever! People still beat themselves up over it.

When you experience this experiment for real, you start to forget that it's actually designed to eliminate any sort of skill.

In other words, the experiment shows how hard it is to recognise when we're judging the system and not the people in it. The experiment shows that even when you think you're seeing individual performance, it's very plausible you're not.
I should probably take a vacation there at some point, once the pandemic ends. I miss traveling. I spent nearly two months outside of the US in 2019 (Japan and Germany) and it was awesome.
Contracts are typically for higher order behaviors than unit tests target. They're for the component/service functional granularity.

Contract testing is great, though. And given that the contracts are about behaviors, they're a great candidate for BDD. (But please hold the Cucumber!)
> You don’t know how many flaws there are, how long before they are fixed, or how many are protected against by the App Store.

Do you know? I've provided many links about Apple's security, while you have only offered your own opinions. If you have any helpful information, it would definitely be appreciated.
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I think 30% is only unreasonable if apps in their ecosystem start to leave. Honestly, when the marketplace votes by staying on the platform at 30%, then it doesn't matter how ridiculous it seems to some of us, they're going to keep doing it.
And perfect for very high false discovery rates and unnecessary downstream diagnostic burden and iatrogenic errors.
Rather see a focus on new magnet technologies to reduce cost without loss if already marginal clinical MRI resolution.
Rust supports #[non_exhaustive] attributes, forcing users to cover the generic/wildcard case even though you have already covered all existing ones. Although, I rather do versioning and a breaking change if possible. Put it on the parsing/interop level rather than deep in the code during runtime because it is very likely that your code is not correct without handling the extra case either way.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/type_system.h...
IIRC the Zen Linux kernel[0] is designed to be more responsive for desktop usage than the mainline Linux kernel. I wonder what metrics these tools would provide on the same exact system except with the 2 different kernels. (also see Liquorix patch set for additional patches on top of Zen[1])

[0] https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel

[1] https://liquorix.net/
A bad analogy is like a bad analogy.
Understandable!
The idea of an ad is that it says you don't have this thing. Your life will be so much better if only you had this thing. In some cases, that makes sense, but mostly it serves to reset people's expectations and become dissatisfied with what they have.

I think in many cases we should be aiming to do that for social fundamentals that would make all of us live richer and happier lives like healthcare and education, but it has a lot of negative consequences in consumer products which are more individualistic, competitive, and status oriented.
I think "blame" for emissions is the wrong lens here to get to a solution.

I do think there is a bit of asymmetry here and there is some blame to dish out, in that there are corporations (e.g. Big Oil) that are spending large sums lobbying to try to distract the public from implementing effective solutions that would eat into their profits. There isn't really a propaganda machine that's as focused on misdirection in defense of special interests in the other direction. (I suppose the Fox News retort would be that the IPCC are being alarmist to inflate their grant budgets? But I think we're many orders of magnitude off in terms of $-weighted harms here vs. emissions from the oil & gas industry.) I wouldn't say we should blame the corporations for their emissions, just for their shady astroturfing, self-interested lobbying, and other activities that misdirect the public dialog on the harms of their emissions.

At the end of the day, the high-level solution is simple (not easy): rather than thinking about emissions as something that is the "fault" of companies or individuals, if we tax the externality that we care about (CO2 emissions) at a consistent price, then the market will work out the rest. The CO2 tax will get baked in to the price of every good, and people will naturally shift their consumption away from goods that are unreasonably CO2-producing (as they will become unreasonably expensive).

I'm not a free-market maximalist, but this is one of the cases where markets are the best solution to the problem.

This isn't an easy solution to implement though, as it requires strong international coordination to prevent emissions from being offshored to countries that either don't sign up to the carbon tax, or that do sign up but enforce laxly. If the US was really on board with achieving this, they could probably team up with the EU and succeed.
The DOS correspondent in those times was banner-mania AFAICR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_Mania
> Why is Apple different, such that they cannot charge such a fee while others can?

The difference is market power.

Yes, literally if a company is big enough, then they should be legally prevented from doing certain things that anti-competitively take advantage of it's market power.

For video game consoles, I am less concerned about the platform taking a fee, because there are 3 major consoles, as well as an absolutely huge PC gaming market, and the PC gaming market is very open

Where as for smartphones I am concerned, because it is a 2 company duopoly, and there is no major open competitor, with significant market share.
Interesting, I'm curious if it's just that brand ( https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-indus... )or other designs like it.

My street has a very similar design, I wonder if it's compatible with what you're saying, maybe just not certified.
Is it solved? How do you decide which enums are final and which ones need to be non-exhaustive to allow evolving the code?

I think that Go's decision stems from protocol buffers as they allow to push new values through old binaries, which is a must once you grow enough.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#e...
And sadly most of this is not unique to Amazon. Almost every company I have worked at over the past 15 years or so claims "we don't do stack ranking" but they do calibration and then effectively force managers to change ratings to fit the "expected distribution." It has the same effect as a stack ranking, except it's less transparent and even more open to manipulation. If you have a manager who is good at playing the game, you're a lucky one. If you don't, you're going to have a bad time. Maybe not this round, but soon.
Yes, they were much, much, more common before the Fed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
>All language stacks get faster over time

You'd be very suprised.
Latest Twitter tweak to test what happens when users downvote replies
When they eventually lose a major lawsuit, any 'record setting' settlement or judgement is likely to be a tiny fraction of the profits they were able to reap in over a decade of bad behavior. Name a single multinational company in the last 20 years where the consequences were more than a fraction of the profit they made from their bad behavior.
>It is like the mafia demanding you pay for the privilege of doing business on your street. 30% is just too much.

Or like the IRS
Do you think that a 99% tax/commission would be fine? If not, how do you decide that 99% breaks the business, but 30% is fine?

The answer of course is that different businesses have different margins. For some, even paying 99% commission to Apple would not break the business, as they have such great margins that even getting 1% of each sale would still leave them profitable. For others, even a 1% commission is too much, as they have such low margins even losing 1% of sales price makes them unprofitable.

For any set price, some business models are excluded from the App Store, for better or for worse.
What a great link! And quite the coincidence for me.

My dad worked at Burroughs in the Medium business group (B2500-B4900 series). He was there from '76-'92, even after the Unisys merger (Burroughs+Sperry). I've been looking for a good condition user manual of one of products in the medium series to keep in my home office.

Any ideas on where to find such a thing?
Should all businesses be capping their fees to their costs?

If so, then that implies no profit. If no profit, why bother?
We're launching our next startup in less than a month and were faced with the same decision.

Ultimately went with Rails. As said in the article: so, so much comes out of the box or from a very well maintained ecosystem.

Real-time dashboards (action cable), background jobs (active jobs, sidekiq), auth, tooling, etc. was each less than a day's work which allows us to launch so freaking fast.

Only real downside in my eyes is the hiring for our location (central Europe) and future UI complexity, where my solution will probably be to just drop in a Vue app where it makes sense.
I'm shocked those defending the Apple tax aren't considering the fact that businesses are just offloading that tax onto consumers making things artificially more expensive for iOS users. Even worse, when you do this you can't communicate why this is the case or tell people you can use the web for cheaper so users feel like you're just scamming them.
A random library uses unsafe all along creating a lots of drama and drives author of said package into depression, ah never mind its rust.

A random package author removes a package from npm breaking thousands of apps, never mind its Nodejs.

A random package typo squats a famous package name making many apps vulnerable, never mind its python.

A random logging library grants access to shell, never mind its Java.

I could go on.
If critical thinking here is a euphemism for loudly objecting to published scientific findings, which I suspect it is, then I disagree.
By 2009, mobile was clearly the future. But the phones were underpowered and didn’t run web pages well. Even today, most of the world is browsing the internet on low end phones where the web provides a sub par experience.

Desktop penetration is lower outside of the US. Aren’t Internet cafes still a thing in much of the world because people don’t have computers at home?
If Best Buy doesn't sell the software, they lose money, because A. They already paid the developer for it. B. It takes up space that could be used to sell something else. If Best Buy wants to sell it at a discount, it doesn't affect the developer, they were already paid by Best Buy.

With Apple, its the opposite. If Apple sells something at a discount, the developer suffers (or Apple has to pay the difference in some countries). If it doesn't sell, no one gets any cash. Apple has no incentive to market something and/or move inventory. Apple has only the incentive to market things that you spend money on vs. Best Buy that has to take a risk on something by spending money to buy it from the publisher first.
"radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints"

it doesn't matter though
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Seems to be OK in pidigits — Java #3 program

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

C gcc #6 0.56s
Java #3 0.79s
Tucson Arizona is well known for having a strong night sky protection law. It sure makes the street lights in that city very different.
Isn’t laravel so alien, that they’re called laravel devs rather than php devs?
CBD vs CBN:

https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/cbd-cbn-what-is-differ...

Looks like Salk submitted the paper to a paywalled journal. Can anyone here refer me to a copy of the PDF?
Superconductors can theoretically produce perpetual motion: once you set up a supercurrent, it will keep going forever. The caveat being that the electrons that are to move perpetually cannot do work of any kind*. That is, the field generated by the supercurrent cannot be interacted with.

Likewise, an ideal LC circuit made of superconducting material can theoretically ring forever, provided "nobody hears the sound". So, given my understanding of the physics, nature does not forbid stable perpetual resonances (though engineering constraints may forbid even microscopic perpetual resonators).

* When people talk about "perpetual motion machines" they tend to want to extract energy from them. That's folly.
+1 to Binary Eye. Good scanner.
right it's that, couldn't remember who it was, just saying that there could be regulations and if so that could add to cost in different regions.
>It’s still compiled to byte code. It’s not been interpreted in decades.

Its "byte code" is a not that different than the interpreter reading the lines directly.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. My neighborhood went from yellow, sodium lighting to stark white LEDs a few years ago. The result, to my eyes, is that the contrast between what is lit by the street lights and surrounding dark areas is much higher. Perhaps what is needed is better diffusion onto the ground.
Android has plenty of free stores and with v12, those stores can also update apps automatically. It's going in the great direction.

I use 3 different stores on my phone for example.

Of course, an average person doesn't need that many. I use fdroid for sensitive apps (I can verify an app build there compared to playstore) and some developers provide apps without google services framework on froid as an alternative to their playstore version.
> Godot is a dead end.

c'mon, there have been millions of human hours played on games developed on engines or systems with not even 1/1000th of what Godot is able to achieve.
They should pay for it but an independent body should be responsible for building, launching, maintaining, calibrating, etc.

What we need is an incentive for the O&G companies to be squeaky clean and to rat each other out.

Align the incentives.
Asteroid will follow Earth in orbit for the next 4k years
Meta: Peak Facebook
While I agree that your chair is probably to blame, don’t think that you need to spend 1k to sit properly.

I have a very ergonomic good brand chair (can’t recall the model but it’s a Steelcase) that I paid 200 for.

My GF is at home more than I am and stole it from me almost immediately. A month later I found another one on fb marketplace for $100! So now we both have one and her back pain has decreased tremendously.

The way I found mine was googling for used office furniture in my area. I found a warehouse that did that kind of business. They are tailored for small companies or startups that’s just want to put some tables somewhere and get started, but I made a cash offer and got the chair for much less than they offered to companies. It was a brown boring dead looking building with blinking fluorescent lighting that I would’ve never thought of.

I don’t live in a city with big fancy companies (some financial and medical but no tech or progressive offices) and they still had a good selection.

I hate the aeron everyone recommends. My legs go numb on it. The leap is ok but It was out of my budget.
If I had blindly purchased one of those I would’ve hated my decision. What I’m saying is that buying after you sit on it is much better than buying one blindly.
Kyba and colleagues found that streetlights accounted for just 13 percent of the city’s total light visible after midnight. That number would jump to 18 percent if the city did not dim the lights. This means most of the light is coming from other types of artificial lighting.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148259/experimentin...
Apple ran an ad campaign with the message "Your next computer is not a computer": https://youtu.be/awTP7IUY3uo
"The manual for the LGP-30 refers to “Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming...” "
What is consciousness? Self-awareness seems like a good definition that can be explained in the context of artificial intelligence research. What is the experience of consciousness? The experience of an emotion? To me, this seems beyond the reach of our current understanding
What about just not using Facebook...
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I do a lot of astrophotography in California mostly -- https://instagram.com/dheeranet/

That said, cameras are inherently much more sensitive to the naked eye, and if you expose for even a few seconds you'll get an image that is far more than your eye can see, let alone hours which are normal for astrophotography.

To add to that, your monitor only has about 8 bits of dynamic range, which is far less than your eye has, so it's not really possible to represent an image on a monitor exactly like it looks to the eye. You'll end up with a lot of black pixels or a lot of white pixels.

It's not really possible to describe what the sky looks like to the eye using photographs. If you're US-based, I'd really recommend a trip to a dark sky national park such as Death Valley, Lassen, or even Pinnacles.
The fundamental problem is that words are an approximation, a low resolution model of the actual thing. The actual thing is the code, the schema, the configuration, etc... but because we need to get on with our lives we use low resolution models.

Then the problem is, how to make sure that when I say "user", the people I talk to understand that I mean the "User domain object" and not "a human using the system" or the "user_table".

There really is no way around the need to have a calibration making sure that all have a more or less similar mapping word => actual thing.

How much calibration is needed, how to go about it not wasting time and not offending people is tricky.
It helped me to think of them as a "Magic Token" that the Finance Department issues so they know that the invoice is genuine. It means that when the invoice arrives they can look up the appropriate file and check that the details before issuing the payment.

A busy Finance Department needs some way to cross-reference incoming invoices against previously issued permissions.
Not sure the dead salmon is relevant. That paper is focused on false discovery in FUNCTIONAL MRI. Different can of fish. Most clinical work is structural MRI.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I greatly prefer declarative vs imperative. But since SAM is also declarative, I was just curious why TerraForm.

Use what you know and what you already have in you stack!
All knots can be untied, if that is what you choose to do. But not everybody chooses that. Thus far you have not chosen that.

"Noticing yourself" is something literally everyone does. Not everyone ties themselves in knots. The alternative to tying yourself in knots is to think clearly without inventing falsehoods.

"P-zombies" is just another word for solipsism. The moment somebody proposes either, you know there will be no more clear thought.