skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. For those decisions that need to be made collectively, democracy is just the worst bad method we've come up with.

But one huge benefit of freedom is that if we embrace freedom, the vast majority of decisions can be made individually, or by mutual agreement of consenting individuals, and not collectively. So the negative consequences of democracy aren't as impactful.
Don’t let your corporation muzzle you out of fear, especially one like Google which 1) has a specific policy about this and 2) is big enough that no post on HN is going to move the needle.

Disclaimer: I don’t work at Google and my pseudonymous internet opinions are all definitely correct.
Agreed. It seems like every platform's goal is to ignore all rules and responsibility and grow large enough to become a toll road for an entire industry.
It is reasonable. For Go case, Go is slower than C. For Zig case, zig is not slower than C++.
As others have said, the convention is to use tsc for typechecking and declaration file generation and babel (ie by way of webpack) for bundling. You should not have typescript mismatch issues if you follow good practices. You should get no mismatch with babel using one typescript version and your tsc command using another. Do not use a global tsc command for instance, typescript belongs as a dev dependency in your project
That sounds like wikipedia, some vertical directory/review sites and a browser address bar, rather than near-magical exploratory "full text search of millions of websites a.k.a. The World Wide Web".

Previously (1500+ comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719
I think their point was that if the hotel website is less convenient than booking.com and doesn't give you any benefit: why do it on principle? Yes, if booking directly would give you better service it makes sense to go through more effort. But if they are both shit, why not do the thing that's easier and has the information up front.
Can TruffleRuby be a drop in replace for running Rails apps yet?
I think maybe the underlying problem here is that some people somehow manage to write javascript inside .ts files and I haven't figured out how they do that. I doubt it though, I think there is no way. It always complains about lack of types, it wants me to add annotations. The promise of mixing js and ts is not real for me. It just defies belief for me that people actually want to write squiggly line, broken autocomplete type of code and have it compile a tiny bit faster compared to just having a single unified workflow where typing, build output and build information always matches and you don't have to guess and look up whether the build is already done, or maybe there was a build error or maybe this time one of the type checks that I ignored actually mattered for js also, not just for ts or maybe the error was actually not just a typecheck error but also a DOM api error and on and on it goes. To actually want to live in this world of uncertain, mismatched information and expect to be faster iteratively is not believable.

How is it not a problem for you that you make a change in a .ts file and then you are immediately in a world of uncertainty: Is the typecheck already complete? No clear progress on this. The js output is probably already here, but not sure unless you constantly want to check yet another terminal window. So can I reload the page yet? Oh no wait, a few more type errors popped up after all, so I can't yet. This all happens in under 2 seconds but those 2 seconds are uncertainty and slow you down far more than any wait for a normal sized typescript project where typechecking is done integrated with the build.
Apple is also very famously way out on their own with these kind of policies. That’s not real life.
Apple obviously didn't think it was worth it. They sold billions of adapters and licenses for the lightning connector.
> Does anybody really use those for generic cloud projects though?
My impression was that those were geared towards firms who have already bought heavily into the Oracle/IBM consulting/licensing.

You could say the same about Azure. I see a lot of click-next-collect-cheque being done in Azure, only with a browser instead of a desktop wizard.
There is absolutely nothing that stops anyone from forking the project.
I never heard that was the ambition for Stadia, but it’s a very powerful idea to make gaming more “ambient”.
Lol. You definitely do not care about climate change if you're not willing to take SOME personal sacrifice.

Blowing it up to hyperbole is stupid.

I don't think people are villains. I just think they are misguided.

Well, you don't have to go full vegan. Doubtful you need to eat meat every day to stay healthy.
I've feel I've reached a strange line of reasoning here where the OP complained about asian discrimination of college admissions, but the most recent reply seems to imply that asians are also over represented as well (~22% of Stanford, but 6% of US pop).

Any time I see this come up it always feels like asian students are being used a cudgel in order increase admissions for white students.
I'm a big fan of the Amex Platinum, but the Concierge won't book a hotel for you.

Amex has 3 separate similar services:

* Concierge, who can get you restaurant reservations and recommendations, event tickets and the like.
* Amex Travel, their online travel agency that actually runs on Expedia and shows bookings as Expedia bookings on the hotel's end.
* Platinum Travel Service, actual travel agents associated with Amex.

Only the 3rd option, PTS, will actually make a booking on your behalf, but their quality has slipped significantly in recent years.
It's confusing because it makes it's technically correct [1], but doesn't really get at the heart of the matter. If 'tptacek hadn't pointed out the subtlety that it was the arbitrary nature of exceptions added later that was the reason for this judgement, I would not have understood or noticed it.

It's like saying "On-call developer fixes problem caused by program written in Java" – correct, but doesn't point out, for example, that it was caused due to a commit pushed to production on Friday evening after overriding the failing CI tests.

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[1] Which, as they say, is the worst kind.
Purely as an observation, as a driving holiday tourist I stayed in hotels in Penn. in the 2010s era, and even in off the main path motels, the reception was a wire mesh cage with a hole to pass money. For anyone who comes from other developed western economy cultures this can be a bit of a shock. "rough" is very contextually defined.

If however, you wound up in the parts of town truck drivers in the UK have to put up with (they call them lorry parks, not truck parks) you could find similar things. Not that the drivers are a problem: far from it. They just get shunted to some of the worst parts of town.

Lots and lots of cheap hotels and B&B in the UK are now de-facto housing otherwise homeless people: this started to be routine under Margaret Thatcher if not before, and has continued at varying pace ever since.
The Spotify Android app is at a minimum in the top 3 lowest quality pieces of software I've used in my life (been using computers since 1992 or so). Probably #1, I'm just hedging in case I'm forgetting something.
Sure.... but they are very different things.
>I am perfectly happy to have a COVID spewing firefighter get me to the hospital after a car accident and let me take my chances there, than to be left without a first responder. 100% of the time.

Except that doesn't apply to this situation. IIRC, ~95-97% of cops, EMTs and firefighters in NYC were already vaccinated and those that weren't were given ample time (extended several times) to get vaccinated.

As such, that was never an issue.

That said, there certainly was an arbitrary and capricious standard applied in this case.
> It's within the best interests of the city that…

Yes, but that’s not the sole requirement. In addition to serving a legitimate government purpose, a government order must also avoid being arbitrary or capricious. Every order has to meet both requirements, and this one only meets one of them. From the ruling:

“This Court finds that based on the analysis above, the Commissioner’s Order of October 20, 2021, violated the Petitioners’ equal protection rights as the mandate is arbitrary and capricious. The City employees were treated entirely differently from private sector employees, and both City employees and private sector employees were treated entirely differently from athletes, artists, and performers. All unvaccinated people, living or working in the City of New York are similarly situated. Granting exemptions for certain classes and selectively lifting of vaccination orders, while maintaining others, is simply the definition of disparate treatment. Furthermore, selected enforcement of these orders is also disparate treatment.”
It is you who is ranting at me with this small comment complaining about a lack of reasons while I've given many reasons now across multiple comments while you have called me a ranter with two dismissive lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will#Nota...
Extreme Miyake radiation events captured in tree rings stump scientists
> are an open source project that takes donations: don't get greedy. Two projects I went out of my way to support because they were open source shortly afterwards started "experimenting with models".

How do you know it's greed and not just insufficient donations forcing them to try to find alternative financing? Just because you donated doesn't mean enough people/businesses did.
This should be the universal byline for all JS projects.

Make a T-Shirt with this and get rich.
This is also true of the US at the federal level - comments on regulations.gov for example.
Sadly that's comparable to rent in some places these days, so not so special. But yes I've always been pretty happy with the level of service personally.
Didn’t those mostly just mean that people kept getting their same salaries?
It is quite punchy for an online service, but you would have to prise YouTube Premium from my cold dead hands. I visit YouTube multiple times per day for work, entertainment, research etc. Without Premiun there are so many ad units it’s painful.
One reason is that the planes are taking off with reduced thrust, which produces less noise, uses less fuel, is easier on the engines, etc. That is, they can calculate and use a thrust setting towards the minimum required given the available runway length, rather than full trust to get airborne as soon as possible.
It's probably too complex of a product for much of its audience.

The whole retirement process is usually presented with little useful guidance. Here's a packet of different investment offerings, many of which are opaque, and plenty are surprisingly inefficient (high fees, excessive turnover). How much should I be contributing? Here's a calculator with confusing and iffy assumptions baked right in! This all but guarantees the house will win in some way-- even if you get a "good" outcome, you're probably not doing absolute optimally and that margin bankrolls it.

Actually, I'd like to pull out a little. Investment in general is too complex for most people. My 401(k) using the default "2035 target date" plan I was offered is down 20% over the last year, but it's not like my self-directed investments are doing better. The only thing that's worked out bulletproof has been I-bonds, and I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far on that, with a 10k-per-annum cap.

TBH, what I want is a product where I can "prepay" retirement services and have someone else take the economic risks. In a way, defined benefit pensions were sort of like that, but I'd like to be even further decoupled from the dollar. Let me sign up to pay $x,000 per year during my working years, and when I'm 70, I get a paid-for-life furnished condo in (what will by then be) the palm-tree lined beachfront party town of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

If the counterparty to the deal is a brilliant dollar jockey and makes 70% a year compounded on my money, good for him and I don't see a cent of it. But if he bets it all on Meta and has to pick up dog droppings to pay for ramen, too bad, he's the one who's gotta pull a housing unit out of his ass in 2050. Put it behind some sort of state backing fund to ensure delivery of goods if you have to.

I also suspect the default 401(k) choices tend to reinforce our society's toxic relationship with the stock market. Yeah, there's probably something bond-centric or emerging-market somewhere in the Poorly Printed Menu of Confusing Investment Choices, but mostly, it leads to the narrative of "We have to keep pumping up the S&P 500, and make a bunch of flailing companies trade at a P/E of 73, because Grandpa's portfolio is fundamentally garbage but we feel a social duty to not make him work at McDonald's when he's 89."
Excellent piece.

I strongly agree that most of the existing literature overcomplicates the subject. It's likely that most technical authors are excellent at the subject they write about, but not good at writing in general.

Authors should put themselves in the reader's shoes more often.

And no, I'm not saying things should always be simplified. When you write a book you do define an MQR (minimum qualified reader) and write for them. The problem I'm talking about here is that most of the aforementioned content hasn't even defined an MQR or has defined one poorly and is not taking it into account.
> Personal anecdote: 3.7 GPA in average high school with 8 APs (some of which were self-study), 2400 SAT, 36 ACT, lots of state-level top 3 finishes in multiple academic competitions, varsity track, musical instruments,

I love how the GPA requires a decimal place of precision, yet musical achievement requires nothing more than listing the plural of "instrument."
> would almost certainly spell the end of JavaScript

We'd all give up all the code we've already written and never update our current or legacy JavaScript codebase again?

I just don't think it'd happen, people need a more compelling reason to switch. Typescript merging into js seems a more likely sea change.
Lost me at:

> An enhanced enterprise version

Good thing it's towards the end, guess it's time for the next fork of gogs then.
What’s stopping you from offering a mobile stereoscopic view? There’s likely more Google Cardboard users out there than active Horizons users at this point.
> at the same time I think that everyone on HN does believe that IP should exist, and people should have rights to what they create.

Maybe, but I've never seen people protesting the idea that math can't be patented, and compression methods are pretty close.
Yes fully agree here — a rachet screwdriver is very useful without being an electric screwdriver.

But if you sell me something as an electric screwdriver and then I need to use it manually, you've set me up for disappointment.
Wow, so what does it take to get into the top schools as an Asian?

My (Asian) kids are going to face the same challenges when they apply for college. When the time comes, I'm tempted to ease off the whole tiger parent thing, let them have a more well-rounded high school experience, and go to a public state school. It's what I did. Had to spend a few years clawing my way into a FAANG compared to graduates from fancier schools, but in the end it worked out.
If the author of this blogpost is reading this and wondering why the link in the post didn't render properly:

> (their move to using Gitea)[https://code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/]

it's because you switched up which braces go where for a markdown link. should be [text](link)
The biggest risk would be that a politician will be wrongfully denied participation when they actually were fit for the job. That's a smaller price to pay than living with a politician who works against the constitution.
Go is definitely far more verbose. Go cannot compete with switch expressions, pattern matching, and streams.
I’ve tried booking through hotels directly and it’s never been cheaper. It is so weird. I usually end up using hotels.com which is just one of many booking services owned by Expedia.
I thought about this for several moments, and I disagree.

Vaccines offer some personal protection but predominantly become effective by achieving herd immunity. Vaccine hesitancy undermines this goal and weakens the system. Being pro-vaccine is senseless without being in favor of enough people being vaccinated to provide strong immunity, including for those who cannot be vaccinated due to medical complications.

Even if you were to argue on behalf of one who is indifferent to vaccines but is against mandates, so long as those mandates encourage vaccination, they effectively are discouraging vaccination and are thus anti-vax.

It can be hard to recognize all of this without the right perspective. In isolation, it is easy to claim that one is not anti-vax; however actions speak infinitely louder than words.
They mention "a decentralized autonomous organization" which is a blockchain invention (a "smart contract" thingie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
Indeed very serious politicians signed up to the Kyoto Accords (etc, etc) which are (and obviously were at the time) toilet paper.

If you think artsy food-fights are as tough as this fight is going to get, I'll take the other side of that bet. I don't advise, say, building crossbows out of old car leaf-springs and using 3D printed arrows to shoot out RV tires; but I do see it coming, sadly, and plenty more. Acts that will be far from infantile in their effects. I won't be doing it, I won't be helping it, but what I also won't be is surprised.

Ya want infantile? The average Canadian voter when polled before the pandemic said that the climate had to be saved but that they would pay no more than $20 a month to accomplish that. That's truly infantile, worthy of a two-year old's mind.
Rust's unsafe still needs to uphold the rules of safe Rust. It's not a license to just do whatever you want.

There are often ways to do whatever you want, but it's not as simple as "I have a raw pointer now let's goooooo."

I'd describe it as different, not "less", but I wasn't the one who said it originally.
Because some CMS products like Sitecore push it as their main headless FE infrastructure, otherwise I wouldn't care it exists.
shows how much the term "decentralized" got hijacked by scams...

Or well.. DAO. Likely means blockchain bs.
> Is this sarcasm?

Nope, not at all. Simple UI, go to book and the important stuff like when your booking is cancellable until is right there. And if I want to change my payment card, I just push the button and it works.

> Good luck getting any after purchase support from booking.com.

I have, and it was great, FWIW. (Hotel I booked at had stopped doing 24-hour checkin in between when I booked and when I arrived - I was able to message booking.com, no calling and waiting on hold, and they sorted it out despite a language barrier).
I agree with most aspects, especially with regards to specialists versus generalists.

There is, however, one point with which I strongly disagree:

> Comfort in the False Negative Zone

In most jurisdictions, it's extremely expensive to fire someone. In Brazil, for example, you may have several months of severance pay and it's likely that you will have to significant face legal trouble, thus increasing overall costs with a lawyer (plus your time).

I think this advice must be evaluated depending on your jurisdiction, not taken as an absolute.
I'm hoping they mean something else but I really can't imagine what. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
A lot of Stockholm night clubs are partially ABBA museums
I am happy that my git host of choice has a very simple monetization/sustainability
model: I pay money, they host my code.

Thanks ddevault and anyone else from Sourcehut who may see this!
As another example I have an extremely easy to understand and well commented version of a similar technique from about 10 years ago

https://github.com/kristopolous/piggypack
The old money taking intermediary that doesn’t take responsibility: happens all the time with all the things. Don’t take shit from these shoulder shruggers and try not to use them. Not just booking websites but tradespeople and wrapped finanical services too.
>There's nothing stopping the state from renaming the courts now to conform with established convention in the rest of the nation, in order to reduce confusion.

I imagine that the entire New York Legislature are hanging their heads in shame for confusing a few dozen folks on HN who don't even live in the state.

I further imagine that it will immediately become important for the governor to call an emergency session of the Legislature (which normally meets from January to June) to change the name of the court after they read your comment.
And software is an emergent property of transistors? Math must be an emergent property of paper, then.
My experience with Starlink is that it kind of works(I get 50-100Mb bandwidth) but I have multiple(as in 10s) sub-second interruptions every hour.

Dishy view is completely unobstructed. And weather is clear most of the time in California.

As much as I hate Comcast, if 100Mb Comcast was available in my area I would trade it in a heartbeat.
Have to call them -- they often have contracts that mean they can't offer cheaper rates online, but are happy to over the phone. Though it's possibly down to where you're staying I guess, but I've had good luck doing that in Australia, the UK and a couple places around Europe!

And worst-case, they'll match it usually, and I'd rather be booked directly to avoid the crap that the article is discussing
I'm confused, they don't mention crypto. This blog post is simply an announcement that they started a company. The purpose seems to mainly be for providing support services and paying developers. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
usually by the fact that a 200x200 jpg is 15MB
This whole thread sprawled! I just meant that it wasn't clear who the ruling applied to, because New York City is easy to confuse with New York State.
> It was obvious that with the success of Netflix that streaming was the way forward. They also realized they were no where near capable of doing it on their own.

For example, Star Trek streaming was originally leased to Netflix, then when they eventually created Paramount+ they pulled out and put it on their own platform.
Are these really two different topics though?
>Passing a Calculus test doesn't necessarily predict if the student can apply their knowledge to production to generate new ideas and widgets which make our lives better

It actually does though, because if he fails, then you can be completely certain that he can't.
From the ones I've seen, the main offenders are easy to tell apart, no additional signals are needed.
That being said, I would use this on w3schools just to get it out of my search results.
Preview App on macOS Ventura Drops Support for PostScript Files
It’s valuable if you are valued. I’ve been with the same place for many years, but moved up the ranks and have a job that pretty much the perfect role for me. If I was toiling away hoping for a 3% raise, I’d have peeled out years ago.
I think so too, and the fact we put human consciousness far above other animals like elephants and dolphins is human ego imo.
If we really believe in evolution then what else could the answer be?

It's a processing loop that helps with executive function, self-reflection etc. which I think lots of animals have some basic version of.
This is usually the main problem, in most cases the donations aren't enough as main line of income.