skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely this time A16z got invested in some bottom-of-the-heap Dev tools SAAS businesses.

> And a giant hairball of queues and retry logic is too brittle. To deal with this, we’ve seen, over the last few years, the emergence of new solutions that bring sanity back to transactional logic. They can be roughly categorized as either workflow-centric approaches or database-centric approaches.

Ok, using databases and queues is bad. So what is good then:

> we call this the application logic transactional platform (ALTP) approach because, ultimately, it extends OLTP transactions into the application

Really how much I will love to get few of my brain farts funded on being brilliant insights for typical enterprise application.
Maybe Macgyver'ing it would be a more modern reference. Still pretty dated. Is there a word for what Phineas and Ferb do? That's not a good fit, but still has the same flavor.
> I decide to talk to some fellow applicants and by cross-referencing data, we can identify quite a few identifier numbers of quite a few beneficiary companies, and we observe that there are projects much less innovative than "Moons of Darsalon" that have obtained much higher scores. It is strange that no unknown companies are observed; it is normal that most of the winners are experienced companies, but it is also normal that there is some newcomer. The vast majority of beneficiaries are former students of the 2 expert evaluators from the academic world or have had a professional relationship with the 2 experts from the professional world. It is also strange that all the scores obtained are multiples of 0.33, and considering the number of evaluators who judged the projects, it is mathematically impossible for these scores to come from calculating the average score of a 0 to 10 rating from each evaluator.

I am Spanish and sadly this does not surprise me. Spain would be a great place for software development: things like universal health care help in taking risks during development, but then the actual business activity difficulties make such projects die in the vine.
It’s not a flaw, it’s by design.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/urxvt.1

> -ss|+ss

> Turn on/off skip scrolling (allow multiple screens per refresh); resource skipScroll.

> […]

> skipScroll: boolean

> True: (the default) specify that skip scrolling should be used. When receiving lots of lines, urxvt will only scroll once in a while (around 60 times per second), resulting in far fewer updates. This can result in urxvt not ever displaying some of the lines it receives; option -ss.

> False: specify that everything is to be displayed, even if the refresh is too fast for the human eye to read anything (or the monitor to display anything); option +ss.
Sounds like a lot of changes, wonder how big the lag between the world and European version will be.
I find Duolingo’s cartoons racist, somehow the Brown people are always doing funny / silly things, and sound weird. But the other characters are a lot more ‘normal’.
In theory eSIM allows for self service without going to a store or waiting for shipping. In practice you might be on hold with your phone company for an hour. Some USA MVNOs don’t support eSIM.
Ah yes, you can only call it “Open Source” if the source code is certified by the D.O.P. as written in Manila. All other source may go by names such as “Permissive Source” or “Unclosed Source”.

“Free Software” is prohibited; a small donut shop it Tennessee aggressively defends its trademark on the word “Free”, as applied to coffee (which is widely understood to be the primary ingredient in Software).
* The lack of a serious bash command line and its associated tools on Windows is cumbersome.
* Most of the documentation for running web servers and developing backends assumes you're running Linux when things get complicated.
* Even Microsoft themselves recommend WSL for professional Node.js development: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/ja...
A language that just so happens to have built-in interoperability with Java.
Zionism’s Moment of Decision
An article on the subject from NPR[1] said:

> Molson Coors Beverage Co., which owns the Miller High Life brand, does not currently export it to the EU, and Belgian customs declined to say who had ordered the beers.

Not sure who ships in 2,352 cans without realizing it could be an issue at the border, but maybe a fan of Do the Right Thing? [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171460421/miller-beer-champa...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkrPHv5qOCc
I can't give you a black and white response because I don't think the issue is as black and white as most seem to.

I think the app store is a tool and I think it is a powerful and useful tool. Can the tool be used for good? of course. Can it also be used for bad? most definitely. Can it be wielded poorly? yes.

I've used windows, linux, apple, and android, and I like Apple's environment the best. That environment is a consequence of apples choices. Apple limits my choices and I like that. I like having less choices. I don't want to have to think about software security, I want to think about how to spend time with my friends, and apple is a an environment that lets me think about how best to spend time with friends instead of thinking about software security.

Apple's restriction of my choices benefits me. I want apple to restrict my choices. I want there to be only one way to get apps on my device. That simplifies my life. I will pay more to have a more simple life. I will pay someone else to make better choices than I can make with my limited time. I want to do that.

If you don't like that, then don't use Apple. There is a perfectly working alternative to apple that you can use if you want to experience other choices. Apple has a monopoly on apple devices, but apple by no means has a monopoly on smart phones. I'm not sure there are even any major apps exclusive to apple. Apple is better because apple has more money to spend.

> Microsoft is able to do the same thing with Windows Defender without using the App Store model at all.

If apple scanned the apps I side-loaded and reported information about them to their servers that would upset me, that feels like a privacy violation.

Apple's bullying of companies with monopoly power to force privacy labels won me over greatly. They have a lot of good will for that. If apple continues to do things like that, I will continue to support an app store monopoly.
You can’t (officially) install arbitrary software on a PlayStation. Explain how describing a PlayStation as “x86” is in any way relevant to anything anyone was talking about.

Your response sounds like a bullshit which, in my opinion, it is. Stop speaking like that please.
I don't think CEOs of software companies should be programming experts. It sounds cliche but I think what is missing with him is he is not visionary. Follower and not a leader.
I dunno. I never heard of the "common core" multiplication algorithm and my 3rd grader kid only knows "regular" multiplication. He grasped it from the first few examples and had no problems with it. "Common core" seems more unnecessary complication than the regular algo which works on arbitrary numbers: 7593 x 267: everything done in one go compared to tons of workarounds and additions. Again, my kiddo does these without blinking and I see no reason to teach him differently.
At least Google cloud was not a bad idea.
I have a reminders spreadsheet that is set up similarly to a crontab file. Each row has:

- subject

- recipient (usually my own email address)

- day of month

- day of week

- every x days

- starting on date

- trigger today? (calculated)

A daily apps script refreshes the spreadsheet formulae (so that the TRUE/FALSE values in the last column are correct for today's date) and then sends the emails.

It took some initial setup, but it's super-easy to add new regular or one-off reminders, and obviously to remove old ones.
Your conclusion that schools should be fixed is correct, but the important part is making it flexible enough to handle different kinds of students.

As long as the school system teaches and treats everyone exactly the same there will be people failing because they can't keep up and others because they're so bored out of their mind (and then punished for it) they start hating education and learning.
The whole idea of that being "quiet quitting" is preposterous. For many, many jobs that's just called a good work-life balance. They're buying your time in order to complete a task, they're not buying your soul. They want a task done, do the task. Doing just your job and no more is not a bad thing lol
bTC offers pseudoanonymity ie “kinda anonymous”. A vpn equivalent service could work.
I doubt any CEO can pass software engineering interview questions. That's a pointless interview. No CEO is writing their own app. What he lacks is vision to convert random sparkly ideas into actual practical products and to control his company to focus on one variant of one product.

Google often has 2 of same ideas competing internally, which might sound like it encourages a healthy competition but most of their competitions have failed. Gmail can use dozens of new features which would be useful but they launched Inbox instead, an app with a confusion interface and nothing more. Duo has great video compression but that's it. They never used that in Meet or Hangouts.

Seems like they have gold but would rather use bronze.
In Switzerland it's even stricter, only full-fat milk can be called milk. Skim milk is just called "drink".
The one thing that’s distinguished the place during my tenure is ever-decreasing norms and shared respect and ever-increasing distance, here, you see enabling jealous empire-building and subsequent directionless empire-defending, not engineering problems per se
I honestly miss Inbox every time I open gmail.
SerenityOS's Build System In-Depth: CMake Metropolis
I’ve heard of that but never ran into it myself. Isn’t that also the case for some carriers with physical SIMs too?
Can’t be both cozy and risky. Need someone not afraid to lose a nine digit pay package. Innovator’s Dilemma and all that jazz.
The way this story is written, and the quotes they’ve pulled from people, makes it sound like tap to pay is this magical radio-wave daemon creeping around stealing your money.
I wonder if it’s only illegal for corporations to pay bribes but not individuals
Sure! It’s about the excitement of new passion after all.
>> Kristen Bell cracks open a can of Miller High Life, pauses, and then exclaims, "Wait a minute! THIS is the Bad Place!"
Share a Newsletter (https://techblogsearch.substack.com/p/20230423-latest-engine...), which collects the latest engineering blogs from different IT companies and provides quick summaries for blogs (TL; DR -> too long, didn't read).
It was the most common, but not the only method.
You could (at least on Nokia phones) go to any wap site and download a .jad/.jar straight to your phone.
I did that a lot on my series 30 (3510i).

I think other manufacturers allowed that as well, but I could only use the "free wap browsing trick" on Nokia phones, so I never explored that.
That’s a cool interpretation. Very creative. But I think you might be misinterpreting because apparently the Pentagon has dozens of similar videos and they all look like spheres and they’re all kind of navigating around that area. Also, if it’s a missile fuel tank wouldn’t have some thermal coming off it? but apparently there’s no thermal on most of these.
With “historic” the stress is on the second syllable. With “history” the stress is on the first syllable.
Yeah, sure. I get it. But I see a lot of people wasting a lot of time arguing about the definitions of words and how to spin them to try to gain the upper hand in The Discourse. I’m not sure it’s worth it. 1984 may not be a good guide anymore.
I think you're wildly overestimating the amount of calories consumed by "fat people" if you think it's more impactful than the 20x factor you mentioned for meats vs plants.
The JVM flavor of Scala has built-in interoperability with Java.

Scala.js has built-in interoperability with JavaScript instead.

And Scala Native has built-in interoperability with C.
Yeah. Couple of days. To be fair Elixir and Nebulex library did most of the heavy lifting. I had been using Nebulex for a long time before implementing this solution. But as our system scaled we ran into more and more problems so I decided to try it.

Check out this video https://youtu.be/v-n8L-DiPL4
Does the majority of the calories consumed by the typical American come from meat? Looking at what is prevalent in supermarkets I would say most come from carbohydrates and sugars. Or is there data proving otherwise?
I recall digg.com, way back when. It basically collapsed one day. Gone. Documented on Reddit [0].

Sundar's "failures" must be considered relative to the risk - he has the power to destroy Google completely in a matter of weeks with a bold and headstrong call. There are idiots out there who would do that for whatever reason (obvious threat in Silicon Valley - maybe the search results don't promote enough Diversity, Equity and Inclusion when someone searches for "buy an [thing]"). Sundar being a known quantity who won't do anything bold is quite possibly worth $200 million.

Bud Light has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons - it happens. Mobs of angry consumers get triggered for the weirdest things.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxdqu/what_i...
I think the problem with “lesson” is that it sounds like you started out in the wrong. An important part of corpspeak is never directly accusing anyone of being wrong or directly admitting having been wrong yourself. Acquiring learnings does not have this connotation (possibly because it is a nonsense word).
Making a noun from a verb is called nominalization. Old school writing guides would advise writers to generally avoid it.
The migration process is, you ask your carrier for a new eSIM. They send you one via QR code. That's pretty much it.
Ask your carrier to send you a replacement. They can be delivered by QR code.
It was great, killing it was the bad idea.
There are around 1.5 billion cows alive today.
There is a growing ecosystem of frontend and creative computing libraries in Scala. It's a fun way to get into the language, and a good language in which to have fun.
Are you suggesting we should eat dirt instead of meat to get B12? Ist it even bio-available to us in that format?
Commonly repeated misconception. There is no way in h anyone learns Spanish in 480 hours. The number you are looking for is 575-600 class room hours which conveniently ignores this is 24 weeks with 7 hours of homework per week. Under nearly ideal circumstances where one's life is dedicated to the task. So starting point for consideration with self study is over 768 hours to reach a Spanish level you'll be moderately pleased with.

My view is that 800ish hours is the first point where you start to get a bit of reward for having studied the language & likely can keep your ability long term without forgetting it all. But it is more of a starting point for study if trying to get fluent/highly functional/professional.
How were Allo and Duo not bad ideas, considering Google already had multiple duplicates of those?
It sounds more like you’re upset about apples revshare model on their channel; Why do you care if all your competitors also have to pay it?

I don’t think the world got better because we got more channels on Tv, and I even think some of them might be dangerous and harmful to life…
I've always wondered why US cars are so expensive compared to the rest of the world. My home country of Malaysia has cars starting at $8000, this new EV is $11k, but the cheapest new cars in the US start at $18k, basically double. Why is this the case? Why don't we have new $10k cars?

Is it because of tariffs? Ford et al are politically powerful and managed to get vehicle tariffs? Union lobbying to make sure that you need to get American labour involved to make the cars, driving costs up? Regulatory capture to make sure that suppliers are US-based? Is there a good explanation?

Edit: a quick search found that right across the border Mexico has new $8-10k cars, why can't we have that here in the US?
They live in government-subsidized housing projects.
The CDC did as well [1]. In fact, the extermination of disease carrying mosquitos was part of their founding charter [2] which they achieved in the US with a smashing success.

Enough time has passed to show that the direct biosphere effects of exterminating disease carrying mosquitos are basically undetectable. For that matter, history has even showed that the biosphere effects of the eradication process via drainage and mass DDT application were relatively minor in the long run.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html
This was a case when following a trend was the good thing to do. But you don't make great companies by only following trends.
Shipping costs are probably higher than the value of the beer.
Apps Script is really powerful and often overlooked as a way to easily automate workflows that involves Google workspace apps.

I’ve built an app similar to this example but that takes things a bit further. It lets you send notifications to a variety of platforms and have them triggered based on conditions such as a cell containing a certain value or a date being reached etc

If you want to check it out the site is https://checksheet.app, happy to answer any questions about it.
Can't you have omega 3 with rapeseed?
Also, you make a lot of statements without scientific backup. Afaik balanced pland based diet is healthy
I loved Inbox and was so disappointed when they killed it, honestly
Exactly. "Improvise, adapt, and overcome" could be a definition of "Système D".
Marissa Mayer could code and I don't think it had a particularly helpful impact on her job as CEO. CEOs do not need to be technical experts, and most highly technical people, at least in my experience, do not excel in management positions and tend to micromanage too much.

Whatever problems Google has, Sundar's technical background has nothing to do with it. Which either way with an engineering and science background and 20 years at the company is in itself more than decent.
Feels like you could make a case either way, like how "freedom fighters" or "resistance fighters" might be used for some groups vs "illegal combatants" for others... or even the same group at different times.

The US toppled the government and had troops stationed there for ~20 years.

I think depending on your political leanings you could reasonably frame that as a) police action and support for a fragile government, or b) an occupation propping up a puppet regime.
Combining it with the referrer tag and you can make some pretty interesting graphs. With frames you can even do Floyd's algorithm.

I made a demo of this about 20 years ago but I think it just confused people. One of my early flops that I thought was cool. It was all in perl and I think there was some JS in there as well but I don't remember anymore. No idea where it is now.

Rewrite it and make a hyped up pitch page. People will call you a genius and I'll pretend not to care
Facebook and Wikipedia are two large companies which heavily rely upon PHP but use little to no Wordpress.
> The cool thing was I also wrapped the database lock under the distributed in memory lock so in the case of a net split the database’s lock’s got my back. In normal circumstances it made things scalable because the in memory lock would prevent the client from connecting to the database until the in memory lock was let go.

how did you coordinate this, since both are different systems altogether?

edit: I went through the video at 1.5x speed and I understand it now. This is the grand idea:

1. Use a separate distributed lock manager, get lock on the wallet. This lock is in-memory

2. Start transaction on DB and make changes

3. Release the lock

4. Other transactions wait at #1, since they can't get the lock. Thus this reduces the overall load on the DB.

This is cool though!
That's fine. I'm not arguing for more channels, I just want them to let me use it for things other than the pre-approved and Apple-sponsored channels. This is akin to your TV manufacturer removing your HDMI input to force you to pay for cable.
The pc predates all of your examples, so I don't think it makes sense to say "has always been the norm". Has _become_ the norm, perhaps, but thats the entire point. It's not great that it has.
I think the central question here is:

.) whether you buy a phone as a piece of hardware and then own that hardware - which gives you certain rights regarding the usage of that owned hardware

or

.) whether you are just paying some sort of admission fee to a tightly controlled service, and are basically "lent" a piece of hardware that you have no ownership rights over.

All the other stuff about walled gardens, monopolies and security is related - but still acts as a red herring when discussing what rights a person should get for a piece of hardware they bought.
Whatever you think about Elon, the push for innovation with Spacex has been admirable.

I've been more than a little disappointed with all the "they tried but it blew up" headlines that came in the days following the test flight.

The whole point is that this is bigger and more ambitious than any prior attempt - the failure is the most important part, it means you learn something.

Anything more than a failure to ignite should be considered a success in my book.
Decentralized Twitter Alternatives Bluesky and Nostr Experience Growing Pains
Now I know that one of the ways I do it in my head has been formalized and given name.
> how does someone learn from this?

Duolingo has brief explanations of the grammar for each unit. It's not even close to a textbook by any means but it's not impossible to learn. Now that I think about it, my mental algorithm works like this:

1. Observe the words
2. Observe the order they were used in
3. Have their meanings in english as reference
4. Use this information to puzzle out the meaning of the sentence

This is pretty much the same process I used to learn english when I was a kid. Only I used video games and natives on forums instead of an english course.
I was in South Padre for the first launch that got scrubbed. wasn’t able to catch the actual launch and explosion :(

The answer to the clickbait headline is obviously no :)

It was a tremendous success, and getting the rocket off the ground at all is totally remarkable.

For SpaceX, data might be the most valuable asset.
That’s really interesting actually. Has anyone tried training a LLM on e.g. whale speak? I wonder if we could end up translating it by interacting with the whale model, that would be very cool.
almost always it serves as purpose for other species, here many insects and small fish feed on mosquito larvae
So, basically, to avoid eating meat which is what we have been doing for thousands of years, we have to eat all kinds of pharmaceutical products to compensate the deficiencies of a plant based diet.

Are we accounting the costs of the production of these products in the comparison, and do we have conclusive, long term studies that suplements are as good as eating natural products? Apparently, the first suplements only appeared around 70 years ago.
Allo was basically an early (and of course much worse) version of what ChatGPT is now, it was a really cool chat bot, but most of the stuff was dumbed down totally and taken out by legal.

What you saw was not the original project that the engineers were trying to launch.
It makes no claims of being champagne, it just compares itself to champagne metaphorically like something calling itself “the cream of the crop”.