skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that people stopped filling their man pages because the information got into info pages when there was an ongoing campaign to create those (because the format was much more expressible).

And then, the users simply didn't learn how to use info, so developers dropped those and kept only the very short man pages.
That's why Factorio has a Death World game preset (self-explanatory) and a Rail World game preset (which among other things, makes it so that enemies never expand and never attack you first).
Personally Kotlin/JVM. Gradle gets the job done, incremental (and concurrent) builds are fast, etc. You can also use just plain Java if you prefer if you really want a very fast compile time.

Arguably Golang is decent here but it's not my cup of tea for other reasons but you do have to admit it has a very fast compiler and the way it's package system works makes for good incremental build support.

.NET has always been very good in this regard.

Rust is a bit slower on the compiler end but it's still very good, incremental support is good etc.

All of these languages can also either produce code that works on all targets (JVM/.NET) or cross-compile natively (Go, Rust). This matters for packaging and deployment as half of devs use MacOS but deployment target is usually Linux and increasingly containers. Being able to construct Docker containers directly from artifacts without needing Dockerfiles is a huge win and all of the above languages support that via one tool or another (Bazel, Jib, etc).

Literally any of these blow TS out of the water for DX, performance and tooling.
Unless you are chained to TS for browser reasons or isomorphic code requirements it's just not worth it on the server.
The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source (2020)
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Recognizing the root cause doesn't remove choice or blame. If we follow your logic consistently, then none of us are ultimately responsible for anything we do because of determinism.

Things like that should only really be a factor in choosing sentencing and rehabilitation.
https://twitter.com/morgancheatham/status/153205904564093747...
If you have Play Store services disabled, you probably don't have Play Protect working as I believe it runs under the Play Services.
10+ year Amazon veteran.

AWS has very strict rules around accessing any kind of customer data. All of Amazon has some pretty significant red tape and hurdles to get security clearance to launch any piece of working software. No, that won’t stop a shitty product manager from looking over sales data to figure out if a certain business is worth exploiting, but accessing AWS customer data is an entirely different ball game. It’s like: jumping over a fence vs trying to break into Area 51.

I can almost guarantee that this egregious level of snooping on AWS customer data would never happen, and if somehow it did happen, it’s a nefarious individual with SIGNIFICANT authority to influence entire teams to extract, analyze, and get insights from this data. Again, I don’t think anyone at Amazons leadership is that insane to put their entire professional career in jeopardy, for something that someone would have a 100% guaranteed leak.

The people working there aren’t exactly idiots who’d easily fall in line and do something like this.

I’d like to be clear - I’m not defending Amazon. I no longer work there, and for what it’s worth, I think it’s a miserable place to work. A culture of back stabbing, inventing abstractions to drive promotions, people literally crying, disconnected leaders focused more on empire building to get promotions instead of doing what’s actually right for customers. Even then, the notion that AWS could line up teams, even on a secret project to do something so disdainful is an extreme stretch.
too little, too late

they lost credibility long time ago...

bye, Felicia
But what I mean is you wouldn't even need to look at customer data. Just knowing how much traffic is going to which services would tell you a lot about a business. I don't know if they somehow obfuscate that as well.
Thank you for your efforts Richard.
I would also like more information about this phenomenon.

What’s the scale of this? For example, how many people accepted a job and then quit within a few days?

How did it impact these people’s lives? For example, did this result in increased recidivism? If so, at what scale?
oh so you made the "reddit is down" page. :)

(Just kidding.. I appreciate your work and I've been using reddit for a long time)
I imagine poker players don't use expected value. That's silly. You'd be all-in on a bet with positive expected value for no good reason.

They use expected returns in conjunction with size of current pot and size of current holdings.

What you say about variance is right on. It involves the payout and the odds and so on ...

They use something internally like the Kelly Criteria, probably tuned against their own model of what is the probability of each relevant outcome.
What you have done, take on a seriously hard problem that has real benefits for marginalised people and society as a whole, is exactly the type of risky innovation that we need more of. Pause, heal, and come back again.
cheat: command not found

Out of the box, I dont have an OS (or shell) that ships this. I wouldnt call it so much a command, which implies it is inherent to the system, I'd say its a tool, like a step below coreutils in that its not so pervasive.

Arch didnt have it, Debian rolling or stable didnt either, neither does RHEL

(I also tried on MacOS, but that is not Linux)
> And the incentives are awful to boot; a company has to run beefy servers, which means it's pressured to find ways to extract ever more money from the players, leading to stuff like pay-to-win.

They have to run servers that would have been beefy decades ago. These days I could go rent a server for $5/core/month, and as a lowball handle 100 concurrent users per core. And based on some searches, if 10% of players can log in simultaneously that's much more than enough. So that comes out to $60 a year per 1000 subscribers.

I don't see how server costs could be a problem for a game that has any income. You could ask for $5 a year to play and server costs would completely disappear. No need to do any harsh money extraction at all for server costs.
Just because you can doesn't mean you must — it depends on your process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_swapping#Software
CNN is political commentary, not journalism.

Journalism is serving as witness for who was not there.

CNN is about interpreting stories to mold your opinion, instead of reporting what happened in a neutral way.

Also, this: https://youtu.be/FK3vpdmEFow?t=35

CNN should not exist, or at least, you should avoid it like the plague.
Sure, the average employee doesn’t have access to this information. But do you seriously believe there isn’t a way for the inner circle (VPs and above) to do this kind of data mining covertly?

Sheryl Sandberg was using her power to silence reporting on her partner’s sexual harrasment charges. Ebay execs were terrorizing a random couple. But no, they would never look into customer data! Pinky promise!

Such a naïve way of thinking…
For my bank I can only use their android/ios 2-factor app or their own physical authenticator, which I also have, but I found out the hard way that it's vulnerable to rain when in a pocket of a backpack. It is impossible to do anything without the 2nd factor auth of course.
The incentives aren't really there. There's a lot more money in selling infrastructure than in (poorly) copying some B2C application.
> ... the most destructive force in any human endeavor: politics.

I imagine you were being tongue-in-cheek, but just to unreasonably latch onto that statement a bit: politics is certainly infuriating, and it's easy to treat it as some unalloyed Bad Thing that we wish would just go away, but politics is essentially communication, and so it can be a good thing, too. The bigger the group, the more communication you need to keep everything (somewhat) together.

For instance, on a larger "human endeavor" scale, I am grateful that WW3 has not happened yet — thank you politics (:

As with many things, it's a tool that can be used poorly or used well. But the tool itself is not inherently bad or destructive, I don't think. Or maybe it is both inherently good *and* bad, and you can't entirely separate the two.
One view from the geospatial, data science, and machine learning world: Python is the most commonly used language, among my peers. However all the heavy lifting is done by C/C++ libraries which Python binds with. NumPy, GDAL, GEOS, Tensorflow, Torch, are all C/C++ libs.

Zig's C-interoperability is actually pretty huge in this context. Not familiar with the other 5 languages the OP listed.
I agree with literally all the problems in the criticism presented here. I think the problems are real as well. My only issue is that the approach to solve some of the issues generated in crypto industry are either not practical, sustainable, or effective, hence my criticism of the criticism presented in this thread. I don't like the idea of insane power consumption, specially when coming from non renewable sources. But at the same time I also recognize that the incentives built into the protocol (BTC specifically here) are stronger than the environmentalist approach of either killing the industry or moving to POS (which has not been proven to work at scale or in the wild outside a testnet yet). Which is why I think that a better approach is to guide the industry into ONLY using and incentivizing renewables.
But it seems like if you're making the argument that science is getting harder, then raw numbers should matter more than percentages. From the article:

"I’m claiming that science is getting harder, in the sense that it is increasingly challenging to make discoveries that have comparable impact to the ones in the past".

So, unless you're arguing that there aren't an equivalent 20 people alive today as prestigious as the 20 people that went to the 1911 Solvay conference. Then the fact that there are greater percentage of less talented people now, shouldn't make it harder for the greater number of talented people to make "discoveries <of> comparable impact". (With some caveats of course.)
This knee-jerk slander really ought to stop. Especially here on HN.

Just because someone doesn't hold mainstream views doesn't make them whatever your version of evil or insane or ____ is.

I would hope that people here were attempting to be better informed instead of merely shouting down otherness.
It's to prevent tweeting "LIKE this if you like Ice Cream" and then editing it to say "LIKE this if you like pedophilia"

Nobody would ever Like/Retweet anything if it could be changed later.
Does it? Seems like if the State doesn't know who owns a piece of land, it can just auction it off.
Ask HN: Got job offer where I would downshift technically but upshift culturally
I have two job offers which are both good in their own ways and I struggle to choose between them.

Offer #1: Well-paid remote job at a startup, cool tech stack where I would learn a lot, but most likely stressful.

Offer #2: Well-paid remote job, irrelevant/outdated tech stack, most likely relaxed environment, and ability to practice and improve German at work.

Context:

I have been in the software development industry for ten years. I've worked for startups, small and larger companies, and bloody enterprises. During the last 5 years, I had technically challenging jobs, with a modern tech stack, and I was also improving my skills and trying to stay in the age. At the same time, I have been learning German as a hobby, reached a B1-ish level, and had a lot of fun learning it and traveling to countries where German is spoken. I would say learning a new language opens a completely new perspective to see a word and, without joking, makes you a different person.

It has become a bit hard to work at my current company because the founder would push us to deliver more and more, faster and of coerce with fewer bugs. Recently he was wondering why we still perform not well enough and told me that he knows people who don't stick nine-to-five, deliver on weekends, etc. He didn't say it meaning forcing me to work more, but more as a sidenote. However, I understood his point well, updated my CV, and got two job offers with salaries 50-70% higher than my current level.

Now I came to the point of deciding what to do next and surprisingly it turned out to be hard.

Normally, I would decline the second job offer or I wouldn't even consider it in the first place. But because of German, I went through the process. They are a small company producing goods. In the team, they speak German, and they wanted to find somebody with whom they wouldn't have to break the routines and have to speak English. They use SVN, Java 8, Vaadin, BPM tools, and some other stuff that is not relevant on the job market. It sounds like serious downshifting. But the more I think about it, the more I understand that it might be a cultural upshifting. There is no doubt my German would be at a new level after a year in the company and this on its own will make me a better person. At the same time, I doubt whether I would be able to do something boring for a long time understanding that whatever I have been doing in my whole career was already more modern than this.

What would you do if you were me?
The larger fight continues, to treat people who have been to prison with dignity and respect.
If anyone is curious, the submission from 2020 got 443 points and 153 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23396499
Former OpenSea exec arrested in first-ever crypto insider trading charge
I'm not sure the Queen-in-Council is any more (or less) the person of the monarch distinct from the institutional government than, say, the Queen-in-Parliament is. Everything is done in the name of the Queen, one way or another, and almost all of it is practically at the direction of the government.
For some of us taking a train across the Mississippi was part of the point of the journey, but yes, the scenery is considerably better from SF/Emeryville to Denver.
Hopular: Modern Hopfield Networks for Tabular Data
This is not a 4x increase in energy density. It’s functionally the same as high end lithium ion.
I've had good and bad ones. It's hit and miss. Good ones can change your life.
The judge took those definitions from other parts of the law. An interpretation should not result in an absurd conclusion. If so, your interpretation is wrong.

Here's what the judge should have said. "In this part of the law, 'invertebrate' refers to a fish. In other parts of the law, 'invertebrate' refers to terrestrial animals. Obviously, the legislature did not mean to include terrestrial animals as fish. Therefore, a bee is not a fish".
Coast to coast is very uncommon. San Diego to Seattle, or New York to Miami would be much more typical of a once per year road trip.
Zaslov and Discover got to where they are with low budget reality TV and "hard news" means expensive up front investigation. My skeptical take is that this is more about brand positioning.

> "It has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience."

Banner blindness makes sense as a motivation. If authority to use it is too decentralized then it's a tragedy of the commons situation. Every reporter / section editor wants their story to get visibility.
The sooner we move AI to 127.0.0.1 the better, enough with The Cloud powerhouses.

Yes there’s work to be done, resilience, power efficiency, responsiveness, but it’s the right direction for everything that involves private computing.
going back and forth from a search tab, the results, and this comment, I'm over here trying to remember FAST in case Im having a stroke or what. Is this tool written in Klingon or something?
Could the title please be changed to something that doesn't sound like HN itself is shutting down? This is incredibly misleading.
> a filtering mechanism that reasonably skews for police to be above-average

Cite your sources please. I have a very significant doubt that this is empirically true.

In fact I'd be willing to wager that the nature of the job provids an improvised filter that achieves the exact opposite effect.
I don't disagree entirely with your sentiment either. But the solution is still the same. People need to stop virtualizing relationships. Apps, especially for dating, NEED to go.

Probably shouting into the void here and pretty soon society will be a complete wreck of social dystopia once older generations pass away and nobody has had the complete social lifecycle. But damnit I can try!
Came here to look for this exact example, was not disappointed :)
I don't see this Reason story on here in any other post.
Unfortunately not politically irrelevant at all. The Queen has directly interfered in legislation, and she also has a weekly chat with the PM every week.

It's unlikely they talk about tea and biscuits.

But the real issue is that the Queen legitimises hierarchy and privilege. Instead of modelling democratic authority and meritocracy, she models the opposite - vast inherited wealth and land ownership, without accountability.

She is also the head of the armed forces, who swear an oath of loyalty to her personally - not to Parliament, and certainly not to the people of the UK.

In the UK she has Sovereign Immunity, which means she literally cannot be convicted of any crime. She can't even interviewed.

None of this would be a problem if she was in any way outstanding, but unfortunately the Royal Family have made some exceptionally poor choices. The Prince Andrew trial - and his $12m bailout - is just the most recent scandal in a long series of shady events and associations.
I guess you are right. I looked up the stat on Wikipedia:

"Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_State...
So acedemical research isn't relevant to new technologies anymore? Then one might conclude that most technology driven research is done in private companies rather than in public academia.
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I took Amtrack around the US: Sacramento -> Santa Barbara -> LA -> New Orleans -> New York -> Boston -> Syracuse -> Chicago -> Sacramento.

I didn't buy the Rail Pass because I wasn't sure before I started that I'd enjoy it so much.

What was great was WikiMapia – as the train was rolling through the countryside I was able to know what was around me.

http://wikimapia.org/

https://www.amtrak.com/tickets/departure-rail-pass.html
> Is one on the "radical left" if they think LGBTQ people should be able to get married, that the non-religious / non-Christians should have equal rights? This is a serious question, not a troll.

No, that is not “radically far left.”

In 2019, according to Pew Research, 44% of “Republicans and Republican leaners” supported same-sex marriage.

As for your question about equal rights for “non-religious / non-Christians”, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Can you elaborate?

> I ask it because the "conservative" party in the US explicitly is against such things in their platform documents.

I assume you’re referring to the Republican Party platform document? It’s quite large; can you identify the portions you’re specifically referring to?
> While there is definitely room for prosecutors to be more aggressive on police misconduct

That's severely underselling it. Unless somebody dies, a prosecutor is more likely to give up before they even try. Even when somebody dies, that's still a common outcome. Prosecutors even let cops off for crimes committed off duty, wholly unrelated to any conceivable work matter.
Hi Pym. First of all my deepest condolences to all of you in the sequential family. Reading the news this morning and I was truly left stunned. Dave was taken from us way way way to early. He was a true ledgend and genius, and will be greatly missed. He seemed like such a wonderful man. I recently mentioned to a brother of mine that Dave was my hero, and he still is, and forever will be. I shed tears on more than one occasion today reading comments and stories pouring in from those who were lucky enough to have met him. Linked is a photo of my setup, sans a poly evolver which will soon join. I've also owned a tempest and mono evolver. These instruments mean everything to me, they are not just mere physical and material objects. They are harbingers of that which cannot be put in to words. I have been meaning to write an email to Dave and all of you on the team THANKING YOU for the awesome, amazing and inspiring instruments you put out on a consistent basis. They have enriched the lives of so many people, no least my own, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Going forward I can't help but feel anxious about the future of sequential. I hope you will all be given the authority to continue and innovate in the Sequential way, the way in which Daves spirit can be carried on. I have no doubt nor does anyone else in the community that you guys will kick ass. Thanks again for everything you have all done and will continue to do. Please do an AMA when you are feeling up to it. Love, J

https://imgur.com/a/rUQYCjf
Let's start with Google holding their own software and services accountable to this level of readability and detail.
Unfortunately, this seems to be something that will go the way of the JCPenney CEO removing the constant never-ending sales banners.

If this were a winning strategy, most organizations would be coalescing around it already. The question is whether CNN will be able to stay the course _despite_ the hits to revenue/growth/viewers they will take with this approach.
>They wouldn't be a source on, for example, what is happening in Ukraine at the moment

Unfortunately they pretend they are. Half of them make a living being contrarians so for the past few months they have been spewing pro-Russian lies and propaganda.
By that logic we should make Charles the Prime Minister and shut down parliament.

Maybe the reason the Queen is so respected is that she doesn't (visibly) exercise much power, and the lesson there is actually that Prime Ministers should be more limited in what they can do of their own volition (without broad consent from the public, in the form of a truly representative parliament and an independent judiciary enforcing a codified constitution).