skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's a distopian fucking horrorshow. You're right, of course. Humans are involved, it's not consistent, you're witnessing a state machine where 'opinion and carefulness of the human(s) that are part of this process' is a significant chunk of how it works.

But, __the escalation features__ are clichéd Catch-22-esque lunacy, and the actual information you receive in order to ascertain which part of the big state machine caused the rejection is non-existent.

If this was how a government worked, I'd expect literal "shoot a leader in broad daylight and storm their palace" levels of unrest in a week.

Apple (and other corps) are perfectly capable of reasoning beyond the almighty dollar. Tim Cook did it, presumably, in a rather famous incident yelling down someone on the earnings call questioning apple's decision to spend extra cash on environmentally friendlier packaging and distribution processes. Possibly Tim really is a short sighted moron who just thinks its worth wasting money on the environment ('wasting money' in the sense of the amoral stockholder only, of course!), but I'm assuming someone of Tim's caliber is a bit more intelligent than that, and Tim's thought through the (potential) brand damage, let alone the benefits of exuding an imagine of being environmentally friendlier than needed. Which isn't just "brand", but also staving off government intervention.

So, given that Tim and co are presumably capable of thinking through the repercussions of how the company operates, are they truly making the call that causing people the kind of pain and frustration that makes posts like this rise to the top of hackernews is somehow 'worth it', or are they, at least in this highly specific regard, short-sighted morons / dangerously uninformed about how their own company's processes work?

I just do not understand. Whatever it costs to stop pissing off and chasing away developers for your platform whilst arming the masses to demand regulatory intervention HAS to be worth it. And if Apple and co can't see that, I say; Heck yeah. Bring on the fucking regulators. I know and accept it'll suck and they'll make a hash of it, but odds are good it won't be such a shitshow as what app review is today, and examples need to be made.
You’re not alone. I’ve spent more time talking about _Better Call Saul_ and _She-Hulk_ in the last week thank I have about _Stranger Things_ during the entirety of its run. Zeitgeist conversation is both enjoyable for many consumers and free marketing for streamers.
Isn’t this only a good thing if the human being on the other end makes reasonable decisions in the interest of (1) the App Store and (2) iOS developers?

I understand I am biased by only seeing stories from developers who have issues getting apps approved, but these stories rarely end with a reasonable outcome.
As per info from an HN commentator - S3 is now such a protocol that can be used for accessing cloud-based storage at least. I had assumed it was proprietary (and certainly never used it for anything other than AWS S3).
Discovery is trying really hard to get me to cancel my HBO Max subscription.

How about they start dropping all those crappy reality TV shows instead? They have a few hundred of them that nobody watches.
const can serve to mark invariants in your code as well as provide the compiler with information that it can use for optimizations. I highly recommend Scott Meyers' "Effective C++" wherein Item #3 is to 'Use const whenever possible'.
Yes, Firebase is listed on YC’s list of companies they have funded here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/firebase
I don't know anyone who pirates on torrents any more for things other than video games, just streaming sites. Use yandex and search for the show + stream. Google works too honestly but isn't as good since they respond to dmca requests
I do wonder what makes people voluntarily publish their apps there. It's not like they can't DIY Mac app distribution.
I think the idea that working people were feeling the heat from eastern european competition is a bit simplistic. Most industries have been facing a 'skills shortage', so people are generally aware that the health of their companies, and therefore their job security and career progression, are essentially limited by the pool of skilled labour. That and, working side-by-side with people from all over europe, people tend to feel a great deal of affinity.

The typical profile of a brexiteer is somebody retired, not somebody in employment, and I think the reasons are largely ideological, rather than practical; polling showed people who supported brexit would still do so if the hypothetical included economic pain.
My thinking is that it will circle around to that. Meaning one or two streaming providers will remain and all content will be published there and likely the producers and studios will make the same amount of money regardless. Might be even more given no overheads of technology build and maintenance costs.
It seems a bit odd, huh?

I found on google:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-24-me-49796...

Interestingly similar phrase:

> Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland, but not across a wide region in between.

> Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland, but not in wide areas of northern England.

Searching the exact phrase

> "Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland"

Turned up a couple sites, one from the national academies press

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25226/chapter/3

but it appears in a "background" section of a work on highway engineering, not cited.

The other sites seemed like maybe sketchy textbook sharing sites, so I didn't check them out.

Seems like maybe a popular bit of questionable trivia?
LOL, skin labeled I to V instead of giving them descriptive name.

Someone is afraid of the lynch mob.
>> we also don't seem to care that behemoth US companies exert their influence over other countries

In the case of United Fruit fomenting military coups all over LatAm, I agree. But in this case we're simply exporting our values through soft power, money and influence. I don't see a problem with it. Some countries outright ban our social media and films - many like Iran or China citing American corporate support for gay rights (which for most conservative dictatorships is a convenient way to redirect popular anger toward an outgroup and to clamp down on free speech).

American values as relate to what you can say and who you can love are better[0] than the values of countries which dictate who can sleep with and arrest people in their beds (e.g. Malaysia). I'm glad our corporations uphold our values overseas. What is particularly offensive is when they don't, when they cave in to the whims of totalitarian governments, e.g. Disney and the NBA kowtowing to China.

Would it be bad if our corporations were going into free democracies and spreading values that align with dictatorship and the abrogation of freedoms? Yes. That's what Chinese companies are doing here.

Good for Goldman, and all other US companies that put pressure on countries they do business with to uphold universal human rights.

[0] I don't just mean morally better, although I do believe in universal rights and ethics. I mean that American-style personal liberty has outcompeted other systems in the marketplace of ideas, in economics and development, and is a more fit model for generating broad societal wealth than totalitarianism is. This explains why it's both utilitarian for Goldman to support LGBTQ rights, and for Singapore to agree to those terms from foreign companies.
What kind of forecasting are you looking for?
I'm searching for something similar to calculate profits & planning expenses over time.

If I can't find something that works, this might be something I'm considering to build myself.
I'm not for clearing out djvu, but it sure is frustrating when a PDF isn't available.

It's not just about laziness preventing one from installing the more obscure ebook readers which support djvu. It's about security: I only trust PDFs when I create them myself with TeX or similar, otherwise I need to use the Chromium PDF reader to be (relatively) safe. I don't trust the readers that support Djvu to be robust enough against maliciously malformed djvu files, as I'm guessing the readers are implemented in some ancient dialect of C or C++ and I doubt they're getting much if any scrutiny in the way of security.
It is public. HBO pays just for exclusiveness for some time. You can still watch those lost episodes, PBS still had the right to distribute them. They’re not gone, just gone from HBO.
There's no war on cars, but a war between two ton polluting children killers and sensible city design, public transport, good urbanism, healthier living.

No conspiracy about it.
Yeah, this kind of lossyness can be very bad for serious archival purposes of critical documents, because this small corruption wouldn't be self-evident nor detectable after the fact in an easy way.

Most probably its raison d'être is for non-critical stuff, such as literature, where character flips may be easily detectable during encoding and after the fact (eg. with a spell-checker) and won't possibly subvert the meaning of a whole literary work anyway.
This was basically my experience as well. I had to fight against our idiotic guidance counselor to do so. This lady told, and is still telling (she's still there and is the one I've complained about in my other posts) to take whatever class is easiest, there's no need to push yourself, etc. She also actively discourages AP for dual credit, which is beyond useless if you actually want to study a subject in university; she also told 17 year old me that taking out 250k in debt is worth it for my dream school...Like wtf! There were three things that saved me, and pushed me more in high school

(1) My mom was a teacher there, so she knew what classes were offered better than I did, and was able to help me plan stuff early on without the counselor.

(2) The curriculum director used to teach beside my mom and got hired the same year (and they retired the same year even), and had known me my entire life. She often just went over the counselor's head to make sure my schedule lined up like I needed it to

(3) I had an uncle who worked over at the central administration for the school. He got sent lots of information about summer camps, etc, and passed them on both to my mom and the curriculum director to advocate for them.

All three of them are, sadly, retired now (though my mom keeps coming out of retirement because they can't find biology teachers) and there's not many at the school who advocate for the kids in the same way. The old principal (left at the end of the 2021 school year) was horrible too. I've heard the new one is better, and is slowly trying to re-rigourise the curriculum, but he's fighting against a lot of lazy teachers and our guidance office. It's a mess, but I truly hope he succeeds. It's almost made me want to go back to help push for that and for academically gifted kids, so they actually realise what's available.
Thank you, this indeed is the approach that I'd like to take. Like I mentioned in the commit message on the patch, one of my goals is to show that we can iterate the language (and our codebases) gradually. I'll add a feature flag to my patch to selectively enable and disable these changes.
For those not aware, you can also access O'Reilly books online through many local libraries for free:

Seattle: https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/books-and-ebooks/oreilly...

San Francisco: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/335267

Others: https://www.oreilly.com/library-access/
Do we get to read the stories that end with a reasonable outcome? I highly doubt it.
Similar historic outcome. I was in the room for Howard‘s Dean “scream“. which basically ended his campaign. As far as I can tell the cause was not enough attention paid to the microphone sound reinforcement. He had to push too hard to be heard in the raucous room.
Yeah, or Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Living_p...
Libertarians are generally more interested in ideology than policy research
My development environment is FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux; I am deploying to non-linux unixes only. 99% of the patches I have to do to build systems are one-liners that explicitly spell out what syntactic sugar the newest feature of gmake/bash supported or that fixes what a linux-only developer considers to be "the standard" (and let's talk real, it's not only "linux-only" anymore, one has to say "this-specific-linux-distro-only"). And that is on top of the fact that it is not about "running the new versions" but actually installing non-standard software.
Why is the world in love again?
Why are we marching hand in hand?
Why are the ocean levels rising up?
It's a brand new record for 1990
They Might Be Giants' brand new album Flood

Oh heck that's 32 years old
I have seen stories about the erosion of the Mac experience ever since multi-finder.

If all are to be taken at face value, the Mac ceased to exist-- eroded into nothingness, somewhere around 2004.

Like how every release of iOS is "less snappy" than the last. It now must be so slow it actually travels backwards in time.
Oh, certainly! I meant it more in that it's part of the skill of teaching, in figuring out where that "deep but not too deep" is for the student. And that there's a limit, and you can't drown them.
https://youtu.be/vOLivyykLqk
Retail investors and hedge funds do not always demand short-term results. If that was the case, Tesla and growth companies like it would simply not exist on the stock market. Instead, they are wildly popular.
I think this author is wrong, I've read many of their posts and find them low quality, more geared at getting views than providing value or knowledge. Even followed them on Twitter, for a short while, until this became quite clear.
Education and social services are one of the areas where we really shouldn't be leaning that hard on ROI. The return is a well taken care of populace. Yes, it may cost, but we pay that cost because we're not assholes.
Netflix is publicly traded and had managed to avoid shoving ads down the throats of user for almost as long as Steam has been around.

Steam is moreso lucky that the PC market was pretty much ignored by all the large game publishers for a very long time and had very little competition. We will see what happens in another 10 years now that even Sony is launching it's own PC launcher. PC is now more important (even Japan is finally opening to the gaming PC scene).
It's often not even state budget in the US. In the case of my town, while I believe some money comes from the state in the form of grants etc., about 60% of my town's property taxes go to funding the elementary school and a split (with two other towns) of the regional high school district.
This is hilarious - i am sharing my knowledge and getting downvoted for it.

Anyway, the gist of it is that you store data in denormalised documents whereby searchable columns become keys of a single entry. The storage is a secondary storage not the main data source. You write data in both - sync in your relational db, async via a queue or what works best for your infrastructure. Searches are then made against it. If you go for es you can rank results assuming filtering is done using free text search. I prefer es, the of flavour of nosql doesn't matter, but es is great for free text search.
The only approach I can think of which might be able to handle mutability of the rows used for sorting would be to support paginating through a snapshot: provide a mechanism whereby a full snapshot of the query at a specific point in time is captured such that the user can then paginate through that snapshot.

Expensive to implement, so this would only work for situations where you can afford to spend significant storage and computation resources to keep a specific user happy.
Goldman Sachs is based on NYC and is primarily staffed with college educated, urban liberals. One of their key executives (Marty Chavez) was openly gay. I was at their headquarters (consulting) when the 2016 election election happened and the mood was utterly morose.
Well, Today, HBO Max has a bug where every time you go to the site, it pretends you're logged out. You click login, and it logs you in without having to put in any credentials (so it knew you were logged in). Then, when you click a show, you have to tell it which profile you're using (which it also already knew, because it was showing you lists customized for the profile), and then it returns you to the home screen where you must go find the same show again.

This has been going on for a couple weeks. It's not stopping me from watching, but it is an obvious bug that should have been caught by any testing at all, and should be a P0 fix this tomorrow production bug.

I'm glad they did eventually fix the last bug: It was impossible to select a profile and start watching unless you resized the browser window down to half size. I can't imagine how they accomplished that one!
Nice to see the developer dogfooding and using his own tools to write and publish documentation for Bear.
This is false. Amazon had zero profits for a very long time and was publicly traded. It did very well. There are numerous examples like this.
That’s because they’re the same thing in different languages. I learned the same propaganda as you; the distinction taught to us was basically made up.
Derek Lowe of “In the Pipeline” blog. He's informed, rational, and knows when to stop talking. John Oliver. I used to enjoy Christopher Hitchens.
Worse; if someone came up with an efficient means of solving this particular "Rubik's Cube", the cryptocurrency people would be in a rush to move away from that, and find an alternate lottery where only dumb luck helps.
Cory Doctorow on “Bossware”
Why most programmers are single
Great suggestions all around. UB is a beast of a problem and compilers take advantage of UB for optimizations (some going so far as to break programmers' code).
Yes, if you want to support new records being added it's up to you to include something like a created date as part of your specified sort order.

More than page_size records with that value works fine - that's why the primary key is included as a tie-breaker.
I agree. Apple should implement both models, and then you can choose for yourself. No downside!
Throughout the Wolfenstein codebase, he spelled "column" with two "l"s.
It doesn't have to be violence though. Consider if you logged in to your email with 2FA, then walked away from your computer without locking it, and then someone else walked up and copied all of your messages. Is that bypassing 2FA?
Special education is exactly as well defined as that.

Gifted children fall under the banner of special education as well. They also require resources average students don't.
Peter Zeihan seems to have a very strong handle on geopolitics. Do not approach his work lightly... it's very depressing if you're not in the US.

Daniel Schmachtenberger gave me a strong heads up on societal energy blindness

Kevlin Henney taught me far more about programming than I thought I even needed to know. I'll never approach multi-threaded programming the same way again.

Eric Weinstein made me aware of the embedded growth obligations that have de-ranged so many of our institutions. It was quite a wake-up call.
I don't usually submit jokes but this genuinely made me laugh and figured others on here would find it similarly funny.
I have enough experience to implement anything from microcontrollers and Linux drivers to react webapps and scalable k8s clusters. I think that I can build most projects alone and limited only by time, not by skills. I have yet to find an idea that I would consider worthy spending time on, despite the fact that I really want to be independent developer with my own project. Of course I had miriads of ideas but nothing that I would really trust to become a business, even something small. I think that it's required to have some different background to be able to understand what people need and to be able to reach those people, because anything you could imagine as a programmer was implemented or nobody will pay for it.
There's a pop culture narrative of this Old/New testament divide regarding "Fire and Brimstone"... but you don't see "Fire and Brimstone" sermons coming out of the Jewish history of teaching. The old testament is also not particularly concerned with the impact our actions have on an after life (again, Jewish religious groups are almost never concerned with "heaven" or an after life). If anything the most important theme of the old testament is the struggle to do what is right. After all Jacob becomes Israel (meaning "wrestles with God") by literally wrestling with a divine being, against impossible odds, in order to receive a blessing. In many ways all of the complexity and contradictions of the old testament can be summed up by that one act.

The real divide is all in the New Testament, it boils down to Paul vs. pretty much everything else. The strong sexual purity and aggressive condemnation of moral transgressions pretty much all comes from Paul. This is also where you get the strong imperative to proselytize.

Of course Paul himself is full of interesting "contradictions" (I use quotes because it's theologically a bit more interesting). Especially considering the wildly different tones between Corinthians and the "faith to eat all things" aspects of Romans. Contemporary American Christian extremism can be pretty easily found by just reading Corinthians.
Caddy is great for web servers, but it's still not possible to have it run commands post certificate provisioning. So it's kind of a non-starter for anything but web-servers as there is no way to tell a different system to reload certs.
Hopefully, v1 will include webhooks.
All cable networks started ad-free because they charged a monthly subscription fee, then almost all of them gradually started introducing ads in addition to the subscription fee. HBO is one of the few exceptions. The fact that cable networks let you pay a second monthly subscription fee for HBO hardly constitutes an "ad free offering."
Creative!
Indeed. I conceded in my commit message that a linter or checker (such as clang-tidy) could be used to implement some or most of what I suggested (but not the mutable/const change of course). Aside from learning more about how clang works, I wanted to show that we can (and should?) modify the language. There appears to be inertia to drop legacy at the committee level. C++ needs a Snow Leopard release to do some of what I've done here.
The top banks and the top consulting firms love smart and educated gay men who disproportionally fill their ranks. Why? Because they’re far less likely to have children, and they marry (if at all, particularly the nyc crowd) far later in life. So you can overwork them and make them fly all around the world an huge percentage of the year and they won’t complain like married straight people will.
What you're saying is effectively: "But we're right and they're wrong, so I don't care."

Everyone thinks they're right about what they believe in, especially moral beliefs. The purpose of political systems is to provide a non-violent, transparent medium by which disagreements can be resolved.

In public health, the protocol is to maximize trust in the people you are serving. For example, if a female doctor is turned away by a sick misogynist, the correct reaction is to say, "Ok, let me find you a male doctor." The incorrect reaction is to become offended and attempt to use public health as a political chess piece to "make them more inclusive."

Global trade cannot flourish if every business attempts to install the moral values of its stakeholders in whatever country they're doing business in. There has to exist a level of professionalism where business people understand that they are not there to judge or influence other peoples and their governments.