skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give me:

- mixins. Like SCSS and SASS has had for a decade now. 'apply' was supposed to add mixins but 'apply' was cancelled in favour of 'part', and 'part' doesn't work. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74097950/how-do-i-create...

That's actually it. We already have aspect-box, adding gradients for borders would be nice but I can live without them.
Your description of 1997 Apple sounds uncomfortably close to modern Google. I miss working for startups.
What's Wrong with a for Loop?
I've got a Tesla and I'm at gas stations alllll the time for my vice (Zyn tobacco-less nicotine pouches).

When I have to, I'll park at a pump and walk inside. That always feels a bit weird (the opposite of ICE'ing an EV spot: https://electrek.co/2021/12/09/tesla-system-prevent-gas-cars...).
I'd like to see an interactive tool to help you compose them. My first cut at this was https://github.com/darius/js-playground/blob/master/palindro... (not currently online) but you could do more.
Yes, there’s a reason we didn’t go to 5th grade at two different schools.

This is a non-issue.
This was a case that tripped me up when using Qt's QFileSystemWatcher. Many apps implement "atomic updates" to files by writing out to a new file (e.g. foo.txt.temp), then moving that file on top of the old one. As far as QFileSystemWatcher was concerned, the old file was deleted and its job is done (just because the new one has the same name doesn't mean it's the same file). So you have to watch the parent directory and manually implement checking for a specific file by name when the parent directory's contents changed.
> Ask where the documentation is.

I've had a reasonably long career and worked at a number of companies at this point, and I've never seen this 'documentation' that engineers are supposedly producing.
> Surely alex Jones has broadcasting equipment.

Broadcasting equipment. Think "towers/rented space on towers and dishes and antennas and radio engineers and technicians and insurance policies", not "microphones and a recording studio".

Neither he nor his companies have spectrum allocation or licenses to broadcast.
> Apple made store computers available for demo and he didn't bypass any protection to run the software, and there isn't any agreement you have to sign to use one of the demo computers that lists what you are and aren't allowed to do with them.

Unauthorised entry is unauthorised regardless of whether you have to open a door or break a lock. Not having to circumvent protection measures does not make something legal.
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Thank you, that makes some sense.

I'm not trying to be contrarian here, I was curious why not and why this isn't a thing already. I'm just more of a programmer guy and less of a lawyer guy
The exmh E-mail client frontend used this: https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/exmh/thexmdi.html
The numbers probably aren't that bad, but real need depends not just on the quiet moments where station keeping people keep things running smoothly. It also depends on the capability during incidents and outages. Institutional knowledge in playbooks people are too panicked to read or never ran what if disaster drills to write may as well not exist.
How do you propose we get to such a language that is more than a superset of the status quo if CSS, the compilation target itself, is severely limited?
Looking back at places I've stayed... all have ratings over 4.8 (average above 4.9), all have 100+ ratings, 75% are "SuperHost". None were high priced (relative to other Airbnb in that area), mostly middle or high-middle price. All were as-depicted in the listing, with the worst being "adequate lodging, fantastic location" (steps from Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy - apartments was spacious and clean, but dated). Others were above expectations (newly remodeled crofters cottage near Stornoway, UK).

Based on my experience, either I'm staying in very different locations (typically not big cities, Florence being the exception) or shopping at very different price-points than many of the horror stories.
That's it! Thanks!

Clearly left a mark on my memory.
These days it’s often a word count rather than page count because page counts are too easy to game. There will be an upper and lower limit and when you submit the file, it might be rejected if your paper doesn’t meet the criteria.
The illegality of it might be clear cut, but the immorality of it is not.

And why should the store owner be furious, and not amused, or embarrassed? It's just things, nobody got hurt. It is a very libertarian idea that violence against property is morally the same as violence against a person.
One of the benefits of EVs is that unless you're on long road trips (300+ miles), you don't need to charge anywhere other than places you park for long periods anyway (e.g., home and work), which means going to a convenience store in one just to charge would be highly suspicious.
If you frame the system as "the universe conspires to create a series of coincidences such that no paradox exists", then it makes perfect sense that nobody chooses to run that experiment, because the simplest coincidence that prevents the paradox is for the characters in question to simply not think to run that particular experiment. This raises the obvious question of how the time machine got invented in the first place, which seems like a great story.
Superdeterminism gets an unnecessarily bad rap.

If determinism is true, don't you mean "necessarily"? :)
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You guys were creating Java?

> ~1,000 classes in 1.1, ~10K in 1.2 the next year.

9K classes in a year sounds crazy as hell
It's reasonable for AirBnB to verify that their hosts are in compliance with the law.

I am a landlord: I let a single house, to a family. New regulations came in on 1st September, requiring the property to be registered. I already had a valid gas safety certificate, expiring in 2 months, and an electrical safety certificate good for two more years. Registration also required an energy performance certificate, which I had.

But collecting all these documents, along with the precise dimensions of each room in the house, including the kitchen and bathroom, has been a terrible hassle.

I'm a good landlord; I don't mess with the rent mid-term, I fix things quickly, aand I don't bother my tenants. They are good tenants; they are German, and Germans know how rental is supposed to work.

I live in a flat, and my neighbour is an AirBnB, whose owner lives in Bavaria, and whose "host" lives in another town. It seems to be a nice clean apartment; but it's illegal, because local regs ban holiday lets in homes that are suitable for residential use. AirBnB don't give a shit. I notified the local authority, and they're trying to close it down. The "hosts" have appealed, so this saga has been going on for a year.

The problems, for me, are that I share the front-door of the block with complete strangers (where my post is delivered); the guests don't understand UK recycling rules, and dump mixed waste in my recycling bin (resulting in non-collection); and sometimes they have noisy parties. More generally, most of my neighbours seem to be investment properties; there are no kids around here, and I only know a handful of neighbours. AirBnB has sucked the life out of this neighbourhood.
In practice paying a lawyer $250/hour to sit with you while you answer questions (or not answer) is cheaper than missing out on five years of income and all of the other consequences that come with going to prison.
All it took was a single person who was a wanderer from each isolated community. I’ve read a number of articles that estimate, based on genetics, that every person living has a common ancestor who lived 2000-4000 years ago. It could have been a peasant in rural Tibet or a South Pacific Islander or someone(s) else entirely.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1038/nature02842
Sure, and I don’t support this guy.

I do find it funny though that the same government that does this exact thing at scale works so hard to go after people who do this.

It’s not that they think it’s wrong, it’s that they don’t want competition.
Gaining a skill is how we can measure learning.

Writing is a skill.

Writing clearly, grammatically, persuasively, and logically takes many skills.
Disagree on the > cost component - the stated nightly rates may be lower than AirBNB, but with all costs AirBNB is generally uncompetive

You rent a cabin through a local company somewhere in Tahoe and it'll be ~400 a night, flat. AirBNB's include cleaning fees, AirBNBs unlisted cut, and the need to clean up after yourself. Absolutely ridiculous.
All of those things are legal. Marijuana is not.
Politicians will happily spend $1 million on consultants and studies to figure out how they should spend $100k on actual infrastructure. It's like it's been decided that money isn't wasted until you spend it on something physical, and they are paralyzed by fear of building a "boondoggle". But paralysis costs money too, in some cases more money than building the wrong thing.
The best reading on that period I'm aware of is the Jim Carleton book "Apple". He's a WSJ reporter who was covering the company at the time and the book covers the period ending around when Jobs returned but before he stepped in as CEO. The thing I find most interesting about that book is it was written without being tainted by knowledge of the company's later resurgence. It provides a really different take than anything written much later. I didn't care for Walter Isaacson's book much, he injects too much of his own opinion into things and besides being obnoxious I don't think his calibration on the business is very good.
Yes, indeed! If the rate increases are capped then you have a bit of control over it, as you do by choosing the adjustment period (1 vs 3 vs 5yr ARM).
as a former physicist and quake engine modder, your joke is very nice:)

more seriously, having spent countless nights thinking of QM, it feels a bit like Nature is playing w you and your nerves.
> I would love to see them resourced appropriately, but the "let's hire more IRS employees" has been viscously attacked as "87000 more people with guns coming to take all your money!". I've been hearing that propaganda for weeks (months?) now.

Yeah, they've got way fewer people per taxpayer than in the 90s, and I don't think the new hires, the hiring of which will be spread unevenly over a decade, will even bring them back up to that level. Meanwhile the "armed" thing is just transparent bullshit—"here was ONE job posting for the police branch of the IRS (tons of federal agencies have such a branch of armed agents, including many you wouldn't expect), so all these new hires will surely be armed IRS cops coming to bust your door down and take your money!" LOL WUT. But A Certain Set of Terrible News Sources ran with that (knowing it was a lie) so to some chunk of the population, it's true now.
> Who is "allowed" to talk about England?

I don't see any issue - both can talk about England and provide different perspectives.
Yup. Most recently, see Impression Products, Inc v Lexmark where the Supreme Court held that the initial sale of cartridges exhausted lexmarks patent rights and thus couldn't prevent 3rd parties from refilling.
The worst is, computer clocks drift, and ntp's domains are signed, so if your clock drifts enough, you cannot update your time, because dnssec invaliates time server records.

Good times.

Seen more than one org disable dnnsec, in bind, because of this.
> Anyone who knew the drill could grind leetcode, study interview guides, apply to enough FAANG companies and get a job eventually.

It's ironic that the trackpants set that got into leetcoding over medicine because the lifestyle was better are now getting fucked by the fact that if you're doing useless shit in programming, you truly will get fired and fucked.

At least if you grind in medicine, you are helping people. That said, the lifestyle options like radiology that those same trackpants kids get into will have their comeuppance too, just in longer time scales.
My biggest gripe is that its design leads to accumulating long list of slightly different "tests" whose purpose is soon forgotten. I suppose there are better practices that can stop that, but the path of least resistance is "copy, edit, run," and so a huge pile of meaningless garbage accumulates.

Something is missing.
Related:

People Staring at Computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27799859 - July 2021 (337 comments)

When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235037 - July 2012 (64 comments)

People Staring at Computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746026 - July 2011 (3 comments)

Feds visit artist behind People Staring at Computers, confiscate laptop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740485 - July 2011 (50 comments)

Secret Service confiscates computer of "People Staring at Computers" creator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740083 - July 2011 (1 comment)
Insomnia is open source too
But these profiles can be built on the fly. Imagine you host photos but have no biometric profiles. The police show up with a warrant and this warrant demands you run a search for all faces that match a given face and turn over the resulting images to the court. If such a search algorithm exists, the court might be able to order you or an outside forensics company to use it.

So basically to prevent police being able to do this you have to prevent hosting non-end to end encrypted photos.

That’s a significantly reduced service capability.
Is this the one with the loaded question/insult from an audience member about deprecating a framework? Cause I agree that Apple has been too developer-hostile on Mac OS for a very long time, even though I'm mostly on the user side (but have also done a little Mac dev). They unnecessarily break third-party software too often, to the point where many devs have given up on proper Mac support and just thrown things into an Electron app. Maybe the guy in the audience was right.
> by (seemingly) one dev

I think Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina both did pretty substantial work on this?
AFAIK, the latest A-series chip to boot Linux is the A7/A8 (so, iPhone 7-ish): https://konradybcio.pl/linuxona7/
Besides Asahi, I've done dev work on arm64 Ubuntu running under Parallels (GUI works fine).
Here's an alternative I recently came across. In Firefox on the network tab of the dev console, right click on an XHR request. You'll have two relevant options: "Resend" and "Edit and Resend". Edit and Resend doesn't give you all the features of Postman, but it is useful and a lot easier. I have spent a lot of time in Postman just putting in all the headers and POST body to set up the API call. With this method in Firefox, all parameters are already set because it's an exact copy of the request you already sent. You can change params or just hit send when you're ready to retest something you're doing on the backend.
You're right, it's a lot. But you're also missing something important (like most people here who compare it to products like Cragislist). You're thinking about it as a service that needs to be run. But Twitter is not an open source project. Twitter is a public company where they need to make share holders happy. That means they HAVE to grow Revenue year over year. At that point you start hiring people just for that reason. Most employees were not hired to run the business. (for example, if Twitter wants to grow its current revenue by 20%, next year they need to roughly make $1B more than what they did this year).

BTW, under Musk the pressure to grow revenue is going to be even higher, despite his plans to take the company private. He has plans to triple revenue in like 3 years. Good luck to whoever stays there...
> Old Italian Fiorenze, modern Italian Firenze.

That I can follow.

> Florentia, [...] became Old Italian Fiorenze

Still lost. I know accents are thick and an ex used to wax poetic about the fluidity of names, especially at the intersection of thick regional accents and illiteracy. But this one is still a bit of a stretch.
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Not only that, a car is basically a requirement for life in the US.
With a complete lack of decent public transportation in the majority of the US, couples with a lack of walkable communities, a car is virtually required.

Anybody who disagrees, try living in the Phoenix metro with a family without a car. Good luck buying groceries, getting to the doctor, etc...
To make general electronics (as opposed to semi) supply chain issues worse, we just did a major hit on Chinese semiconductor industry. My impression is that they are not taking it well. Supplying the rest of the world with cheap electronics might not be their highest priority at this point. And it will be hard to produce a price-competitive (obviously US can manufacture anything at high price) alternatives because China has 20-30% (?) lower energy costs and much lower labor and regulatory costs. I guess the idea is to move manufacturing into other Asian countries. But other Asian countries are either China-friendly, or they will have the same higher energy costs as the rest of the world.
The other part is that the scale of large musicians has grown so big (the biggest 100+ artists in the US have selling-out-stadiums-anywhere-on-earth scale) that there is effectively unlimited demand for their shows at any price.

If you want to see Blink-182, Pearl Jam or Taylor Swift, yes it's difficult and expensive. On the other hand, tier 2 artists have nowhere near that difficulty. You could see the Violent Femmes tomorrow night in Red Bank, NJ for $50/ticket [0]. You could see Illuminati Hotties for $30 in Brooklyn [1]. You can find local bands and see them probably for the cost of a few drinks at a bar.

[0] https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D005CCDD5B03A72

[1] https://www.axs.com/events/432872/illuminati-hotties-tickets
Pullman, WA wanted to benefit from the name association, if memory serves me right.
Why would the SS investigate this? Seems like a task for state police.
Almost all of what's described can happen outside of Airbnb as well.

Take Asheville, NC for example... they banned short-term rentals (for good reason). So, if somebody wants a 1-2 month rental, you would use Craigslist/Facebook, both of which are full of scammers. Friends got taken by a scam in 2020. Found a listing on Craigslist, had some email with "landlord", signed a 1-month lease, etc. When they arrived, the house was occupied (by its real owner, maybe). The neighbor came out and laughed, said they were the 3rd or 4th couple to be scammed at that address.
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Good question - I never calculated it, but house prices had shot up in the 2000-2003 period, so possible it was a real profit.
Starlink makes sense. If Twitter is a national security issue, then all social media is a national security issue.

That's not a precedent we want.
We really have the opposite problem, there are lots of documentations but they are not exactly organized or all up to date. Much easier to fix than not having any of them I would guess.
An article about the Canon Cat which doesn't mention that it was programmed in FORTH? Perhaps not essential to the UX, but when claimed "A predictable, documentable system must be entirely under Apple’s control,” FORTH, renown for its extensibility, in fact, complete blurring the lines between language, OS and application, seems a non-obvious choice.
Quickly getting to "no" regarding candidates for whom writing a cover letter is a language, ideological, or logistical hurdle is useful for HR in the age of online applications.

Would you hire a candidate who can't write a cover letter?

Would you hire a candidate who won't write one?

Would you choose a candidate whose cover letter has no relationship to the company and the position?

Sure you might in the abstract.

But maybe not if your job was looking at hundreds of resumes a week...or day.

Good luck.
but healthtech is doing pretty well!
It is completely incorrect to characterize these observations as "mispricing" - this is a quirk of automatically-determined prices across very different products. If the author actually tried to use these instances in any significant volume they would understand the driver - capacity pools are nowhere near equal, and not as interchangeable for AWS as the article implies they would be for a user. Prices reflect demand munged with available capacity - uncommon instance types are uncommon precisely because they aren't used as much, so there aren't the same signals to drive the price up and down automatically.

Instances with attached NVMe are available in much lower volumes than others, as are AMD instances. Obviously these pools cannot be used as a drop-in replacement for non-"d" instances or Intel families.
Personal opinion:
While I don’t expect much in the way of privacy in public I do have a general expectation of anonymity. E.g. if I leave my home walk down to the local cafe, pay cash for a coffee, put me my head into the local bookshop for a browse, and walk home, while people can see me and judge my actions, I can complete this journey in an anonymous way, if I misbehave (don’t pay for my coffee) I expect my actions to come under scrutiny. But the thought of the coffee shop, book shop, and all my neighbors logging my comings and goings is terrifying .
GPU driver is mostly by Alyssa, DCP (display controller) is mostly by Lina.
Yes you can https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/a/aspect-ratio/
I didn't actually ignore anything until the first point is clear. You clearly have little understanding of how PR works. And the Apple US press release is exactly the same as everywhere else, inclusive but not limited to English speaking countries.

The press release was world wide. And not a single word in there suggest anything being US specific, except you assume it was a US specific press release. And if this wasn't clear, in lot of countries, you are required by law to state it clearly if it was best selling Android Tablet in "US".

>This whole discussion has been pointless.

Yes. I do agree with this one thing.
This comment is begging for a link—or at least a description of this "extremely well known thing"
Has soda ever given anyone schizophrenia (or "uncovered" "latent" schizophrenia in people)? Or has anyone ever caused a car crash from drinking soda prior to driving? Marijuana is way, way more harmful than soda.
"People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them." --Epictitus.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --Shakespeare.
There's a nice bit in Forster's A Passage to India in which one of the Indian characters reflects on how ill-mannered another character is for taking a polite excuse (which also happens to be a lie) as a problem to solve and not as the firm "no" that any properly-raised person would understand it to be.
I always wonder how skeezebags justify their actions, and there it is. They're deluded
While this is true, 22 years on the tech industry is a very different size.
It could play out differently.
I think there's a lot of value in harvesting usernames of active HNers. Maybe I'm being paranoid/cynical, but I think y'all just got Cambridge-Analytica'd
Not to be snarky, but there is a clear answer to the question posed at the top of the page: "Why is everyone in such a rush?"

No one likes being poor.

The issue isn't about how long it takes to get good, but how long it takes to extract economic value from the exercise. How good to I have to be in order to make more money doing this than I make right now?

If it takes 10 years to get that value (it does not), then it might not be worth the effort. But I don't think expertise is binary, and the whole 10 years/10,000 hours thing can make people feel like the effort isn't worth it.

There is value to be gained during the 10 (or 50) years you spend honing this craft. And 21 days can create value, if not necessarily expertise.