skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To a certain extent, yes, let’s defend and embrace greed

No, let's not do this. That's literally the root of inequity that is rotting western culture. Put down the Ayn Rand and starting thinking about more than your /r/wsb fantasies of become a wolf of wallstreet or an elon musk. Cultures, cities, and nations' people are dying because of this callous attitude.
They are nowadays competing with cloud services for users. Increasingly, being able to manipulate data on a machine other than the one I'm currently physically sitting at is table stakes features.
No OP but personally I don't like to nuke things. Not because I'm scared of microplastics or radio waves or any nonsense but precisely because I value my time - the time I spend cooking and in the kitchen is some of the best time of the day.

I much prefer to spend 5-10 minutes bringing leftovers back to life in the pan, maybe adding some extra water or balancing the seasoning as I do so than chucking it in the microwave and hoping for the best.

Essentially instead of being time I minimize it's time I value more than what I would be doing otherwise (usually coding).

Mind you I work from home and have the luxury of plenty of time to prepare the majority of my meals and am definitely a "foodie" so it's unlikely this is for everyone, just my perspective.
Mnn, somebody didn't read the rest of the thread! Oops!
I think the point is that it seems like these days every time someone get's lucky with a couple SAAS / Apps they've released they've got to author a blog post how how they climbed the mountain. At some point the playbook seems more like self-promotion than it does anything else.

And that's fine, no one should be ashamed of their success. But it is also OK to point out what's going on and that's what the OP is doing.
Wow! Congrats, this is an amazing project, it makes me interested in developing something just to use it!
I believe the NAG Fortran compiler does check for some aliasing scenarios if not all. The argument intent is irrelevant.
The comment has been flagged, so you can't see it without turning on the showdead option. The line in question is:

> If you're promoting research into quantum gravity that doesn't respect special relativity, you're a crackpot.

Using the word "crackpot" apparently went too far for some people, but it's not controversial to say that a theory of quantum gravity needs to respect special relativity: quantum gravity is about trying to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity, and general relativity is the generalization of special relativity to include gravity.
No it doesn't? They just chose to write a tight, focused post. Rather than an autobiography. If they had written a larger sweeping piece focusing on all their hobbies and aspirations and well as their successful business people would still be salty in the comments.
So many software devs seem to have this attitude that the customer (internal or external) should just shut up and be happy with whatever they've been given.

I've often felt that many devs could benefit from a stint waiting tables — where the customer is always right and your income is dependent on being helpful and responsive.
But isn't that exactly why a whole book on a small subject would make sense? It would be able to show that whole vast array of options, and when to use one over the other.
Can't export, latest Firefox & macOS

09:35:23.788 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: navigator.sendBeacon is not a function

beacon https://cdn.usefathom.com/script.js:1
Thanks for the tip, I should try that.

I was using https://nuke.build for one or two projects. It's in .NET and probably not so useful if you need to build non .net code bases. Stopped using it because some of their code is proprietary, and it's not as useful as I thought.
I only got part-way through the survey before moving on, but based on what I did see of it, it doesn't look like an alternative HTML-only/non-JavaScript version should be that hard to put together at all for future surveys.

Just do it on a single page, in one big form that's submitted at the end. Don't even bother with styling it.

If a version like that were available, I probably would've completed the survey because I could have more easily judged how long it would take to finish it.
This is not true at all as a general rule.

It all comes down to whether or not there's enough demand to fill the venue.

If there's plenty of demand, StubHub prices will remain much higher than face value. They absolutely do not ever become available at good prices.

On the other hand, if the venue is larger than demand, then yes -- you can easily score half-price tickets a few days leading up to the show.

But good luck trying to figure out which one will be the outcome. If you delay purchasing, prices are just as likely to keep going up as they are to go down.
IMO, Comic Con has done a pretty fine job at eliminating scalpers. They do this in a few ways:

- Random selection over an hour at ticket sale time that is unique per device, with some 'are you human' checks along the way to make it more difficult to bot.

- Requiring physical delivery of the badge with a maximum number per address, or government issued ID to pick it up in person.

- Random ID checks during the con.

- The first round of sales goes exclusively to people who had a badge before. I.e. you need a code from the back of the badge. So even if you bought it from a scalper, you would now have the code for next year's presale.

None of these are perfect, but it's still the best ticketing process I've seen in recent years.
In some Asian countries, microwaves are not common. They use a steamer with either metal or porcelain bowls inside.

Maybe the data can be used to compare between microwave SV non microwave life.
It would be a good idea if biology along with most other sciences weren't rail-roaded down a dead-end. There will be no meaningful medicine to come from this sadly.
Exactly! And now feature X and the feature flag that governs it is in your code base forever.

In my opinion this all gets back to the way we build product and the expectations we have for our product managers. I have no doubt that their jobs are difficult in many ways, but the lack of actual focus on product specifically as it relates to customer sentiment always strikes me as lazy especially when that data collection is basically passed off to the engineers.
What a poor attitude honestly. He’s lucky enough to come up with hit songs that have been known for decades, he should be smiling anytime someone asks him to play one because that means he made it in a way the vast majority of musicians never do.
Git is an absolutely abysmal industry standard and as far as I'm concerned is further proof of my theory that tech is lacking (and actively discourages) much-needed creatives from the field.

With them having more representation we would have replaced it years ago.
My random reflexions on this topic make me think there is something deep about identity/equivalence in LLMs that is on par with the special status identity/equivalence have in homotopy type theory.

• GPT4 (and other LLMs) is some kind of generalized homotopy engine. You can give it any input, ask it to apply any "translation". Language translation, style translation, or even keeping the style but talking about another subject, or translating code to another programming language – and it gives you something different, yet identical. "Write something like ... but ..." There is some deep understanding of what identity is here, in particular with respect to the messy expectations of our human sign systems: you can throw any kind of equivalence path, and GPT4 will handle them just fine. It seems the limit is not in its ability to generalize to any kind of identity schema we throw at it, but in the complexity of these schemas.

• I'm not saying GPT has an explicit understanding of these schemas/homotopies. My point is that even though GPT doesn't know much about homotopy type theory, I think it knows them in a latent way: GPT would perform much better at translating a piece of code in one language to another than it'd be at explaining what it just did in sound terms what through the lens of homotopy type theory. That knowledge about identity/equivalence is implicit.

The rest of my thoughts: https://pastebin.com/zSKHKqw3

Note: I'm not claiming to have a clear view of what's at stake here, just that there is a link between textuality, identity, and the foundations of logical inference
Fwiw I don’t think those are “the great entrepreneurs”. They’re rich and famous, yes, but “THE great entrepreneurs”?. I’d prefer Tesla, Jobs, and even JCR Licklider over them.
Hydrogen aircraft: Fundamental concepts, technologies, and environmental impacts
Plastics in cooking has probably caused an ecological and human disaster. The teflon and other plastic coatings scrape off into food, release chemicals when heated, and break down when holding acidic foods.
No, it's an intentional ngrok-like tunneling feature.
Oh of course, I thought that much was implied and the confusion was why someone would have strong objections to this. The answer being that it's extremely hostile to innocent people in the event of a false positive.
> There seems to be some fundamental human dynamic at play here that I don't fully understand.

The dynamic is laws and standards of evidence in court that make expulsion of problematic kids too costly, for example IDEA 2004.

Video and audio evidence is the only lawsuit proof mechanism to prove the problem child needs to be punished. And this applies in the adult world too, see cops and body/smartphone cameras.

And with these kind of settlement amounts, everyone is going to look to minimize their liability and maximize their plausible deniability, including teachers, taxpayers, admin staff, and the school district itself:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-bullied-teen-die...
Sure is weird, after all the tech layoffs. Maybe they should audit existing h1-b visa utilization, and make sure that salary comps and job descriptions make responsibilitiea.
And yet the lunar lander and the astronauts on the moon did just fine. Did the lunar lander and the body suits have heaters?
Yep. A place I worked forked VSCode as it's recommended IDE. VSCode can prevent installation of all but allowlisted extensions by policy. They used an extensive review process for third-party extensions because some components are necessary to run remotely in the development environment instead of on the local machine with the VSCode UI.

Random thought: Since there are N editors and M languages, that's N x M plugins. Surely there's a better way to reduce the effort involved.
>You don't want to carry your leftovers to work in glass containers; they're heavy!

I'll never, never understand people. "I don't want to have to carry an additional pound of weight, so I'll trade that for introducing a very small amount of poison into my body." Carrying just a bit more weight doesn't even register as inconvenient.
> if I have a giant binary file in source control “I’m doing it wrong” so git helps me design better

Your VCS should not be opinionated, that is not its job
I find these stories somewhat inspirational but generally lacking anything actionable. What is far more interesting is the stories of people who detail the longer road. How they started, problems and setbacks they encountered, why business X failed or was shutdown, how they used the lessons learned to build the next business, how they recognized opportunities and which ones they were able to take advantage of and which ones they had to pass up, and so on...

There's someone on twitter (I think it's The Gas Station Guy) who talked about having to fire sale a business that was worth close to $1M for $60,000 to a competitor because he was out of cash and desperate. How you get to that stage and how you recovered from it is far more interesting to me than these "0 to $XXX in 18 months" stories.
None, wooden cutting boards don’t house bacteria for long. Plastic cutting boards also ruins knives.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for taking a look.
Artists do not get most of the money from Ticketmaster fees.
It’s important to keep health articles like this in context.

Sure, try to mimimize risk, but if you’re feeling too anxious remember that human beings are, currently, living longer, healthier lives than they ever have.
I've always liked Python's "batteries-included" approach, and my take on libraries like this is that they introduce extra dependencies into scripts I write. And often, the juice doesn't feel like it's worth the squeeze.

For me, a little bit of syntax sugar (and maybe a line or two of code savings) isn't worth taking on the dependency burden, especially in production code.

Each and every dependency is one where I invite risk of requirements collision, or that the upstream goes away, or that the maintainer breaks compatibility, etc. It's more time spent installing dependencies, and more time spent processing lockfiles.

Why carry that burden when subprocess.Popen() exists and works fine?
I posted this elsewhere in the thread[0], but tldr I believe that concerts give value to fans and artists beyond the ticket price as a giant ad for the band’s brand and a community that forms around it, both pressures that put the optimal price for fans and artists below the market for it as a one time entertainment option. The optimal price point for the artist playing a repeated game is therefore lower than the optimal price point for an event venue or scalper.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=37624742&goto=item%3Fi...
I think regulation is definitely part of the solution.

The problem we're facing is that adtech is a multibillion dollar industry with the will and means to actively research and develop new and exciting ways to bypass legislation.

I can't control the legislation beyond who I vote for, and none of the voting options I'm given seem aware of how the internet works, so I am left with the avenue of "Angrily tell people on the internet to stop doing that" and try to encourage attrition as much as I can.
I have long wanted to get rid of all my plastic containers (On a fairly regular pace I look for glass alternatives).

But for me it always comes down to 2 things:

1. Sizing options, I have yet to find a good 2 partition glass container. They are all either plastic or a glass container with a plastic insert, which defeats the purpose.

2. (And this is the biggest) is storage. Plastic containers just stack up better than glass ones do since they are thinner. In the same space I store plastic containers I may be able to store a third of the number of glass containers.

Edit: Oh also storing them frozen. I have broken too many containers because I made a mistake trying to put glass in my freezer.

I honestly don't know a solution to the second one but not sure if glass lined would fix it.
discussion was about specific context: avoiding overhead from spawning millions of threads, in this case you shouldn't have any blocking code at all, all API should utilize epoll underneath or something similar.
No. Users are engaging in a barter transaction. It's not different currencies, it's the complete absence of currency. Barter transactions are symmetric. You could as easily say that Google is the user's customer.

Users are Google customers in the same way that (say) fish are a fisherman's customer. Fisherman engage in barter transaction with fish, offering them bait (food, or at least the prospect of food) in exchange for allowing themselves to be sold as a product to a third party who gives the fisherman actual money. That is what makes the third party the fisherman's customer and not the fish. Likewise, Google engages in barter transactions with users, offering them bait (useful information, or at least the prospect of useful information) in exchange for allowing their attention to be sold to a third party for actual money. The money is what makes the advertiser Google's actual customer and not the user.
Depends. You could be looking at the worst tab on earth, which is just lines representing strings and numbers representing frets, which pretty much require that you be listening to the song and reading the tab for it to make any sense.or you could be looking at tablature alongside sheet music, which is much more enlightening.

Some folks even have MIDI enabled tablature with sheet music, which is awesome [0], but is not merely tab.

[0]: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/metallica-one-tab-s444
Unwanted? You don’t have to use google products, right? There is a difference. Google isn’t a non profit or a charity.
Few people think it's good that this is how things work. It would be great if artists could set affordable prices for their concerts and anyone who wanted could come! The contention is simply that that's not how it works, that supply and demand is a law not a guideline we can opt out of if we think it's inconvenient. It would be great if we could all just flap our hands and fly wherever we wanted, but gravity has something to say about that just as economics has something to say about "irrationally" priced tickets. Inventing the aeroplane is a laudable goal but go into it with clear eyes, not wishful thinking, and don't think you can keep gravity at bay by shaming it.
What if the goal of these restrictions is to impoverish China? America competed with the Soviets and they spent ruinously, including in their war in Afghanistan, ultimately leading to their downfall.

By some estimates China has been overstating GDP growth and massively understating their military expenditure as a percentage of GDP. This means that for the past decade China may already have spent more than they can afford on a nonproductive area of the economy. One could rightly say that America is also spending like drunken sailors on defense, but the difference is that America issues the world’s reserve currency and can easily monetize its deficit, a luxury that few countries, including China, have.
They did, but they also left before the lunar night.
Woman loses over $44k after downloading third-party app to buy fish
I wonder how best to solve this from a software or hardware POV, rather than from a policy standpoint. It seems so easy to take full control of phones these days.
The root cause of scarcity here is the number of seats available. The biggest tours routinely book stadiums and arenas with tens of thousands of seats, and despite the scalping and high prices these venues usually sell out. It’s not like they’re all playing tiny downtown clubs. So how exactly are you going to make tickets easier to get?
In traditional musical notation:

hammer-on & pull-off: slur, notation is a curved line, sometimes dashed connecting notes.

slide: notated as legato, glissando, portamento, all different, in subtle ways, to "slide"

harmonic: notated in classical guitar with a diamond-shaped head.

percussive is tambor

bend: notated using an angled line between the noteheads at the start and end.

All those tab notations are borrowed from traditional notation. And yes, there are classical guitar pieces that use all these techniques. see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbc2yDvt8RM
Devils advocate, if the post was about building an open source non-profit with that level of financial success I don’t think there would be so much salt.
Tell HN: We don’t have to justify our jobs
If everyone overnight just refused to justify their jobs to management, no one would have to do that anymore.

Management justified the creation of the job so they can justify the continuity of it.
They're giving it away for free. There's not an implied contract that says you have to look at the ad to see the website. The website is free. They ask you to watch some ads voluntarily. It's not wrong to refuse.
For software documentation, “badly written” often means that it’s ambiguous, is missing information, and/or is contradictory. AI can’t really help with that.
I really enjoy reading /r/askHistorians. It’s a strongly moderated community with high quality content. Truly and example for what the internet can be.
I don't really do either on a regular basis...

I never watched TV growing up and by the time I got money to buy my own already developed habits that didn't include TV. I have a big TV for watching films and some occasional YouTube however. I really enjoy films.

I own a microwave but I rarely use it. I cook most of my meals fresh. I might use it for reheating something or melting some butter maybe once a month. Most of my meals are cooked in the oven or pan. I love to cook though so batching cooking up just so you can zap things throughout the week isn't something that appeals to me, etc.

So not really conscious decisions, just two things I don't really do. Am I really that weird?
> So even if you bought it from a scalper, you would now have the code for next year's presale.

i would imagine a scalper would record the code from the badge as well, before giving it to you. So this means they're going to be able to buy just as well, and may be invalidate the code before you get to use it!
I think both sides simultaneously have a leg to stand on. In terms of self-conduct, I try to skip past the noise and go for what I think is informative, and if complaining about a dentist's teeth is not informative then I skip past it. In this case I think there's more than enough value to skip past all the noisy complaints.

At the same time I understand there is a part of how human judgment works that cannot help but develop a story on why the dentist has bad teeth, and thus it is an informal burden on a proponent to also be an exemplar of what they say.
Great post, showing how these coding guidelines are showing their age. So much boilerplate comments, which clearly are not pulling their weight. A simple coding guideline like "eliminate all singleton variable warnings" would serve better, and it is enforced automatically to boot.

One thing we have learned is that if a coding guideline is mandatory, it just has to be automatically checkable and enforceable.
Glad to be the bearer of fun news :)
it's definitionally non-zero. control what you have control over.
If I understand correctly, this was the expected and most likely outcome. The planned lifespan of the lander and rover was only 14 days.
I just _love_ how the links to the "browsers which are helping scalpers" are marked with "?ref=404media.co"..

Just in case, you know..
A related concept is shame versus guilt cultures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fe...
I wish this had [podcast] or [audio] tag, since it's not a "blog" like the domain would imply. Clicking on the Transcript link just shows the same blurb as does the blog page, so I guess it's waiting for someone to transcribe it. Anyway, for sure "reading" a podcast is not the same as reading a blog post
> So, anyway, what is your definition of useful?

That's a good question. The naive definition would be something that someone uses to fulfill a purpose. I don't think a Bratz Doll on a Keychain in the store is useful, but my 5 year old niece will get a solid week of entertainment out of it. Sure that is useful, but do we want to compare it to a SawStop or iPhone? All of them are useful, but to different degrees, different people, and across varying lifespans.

You can argue that anything is useful if it is "used", but let's not pretend there isn't a spectrum here.
Yes you have to. They killed all their competitors.
> if you have large files in your repository, you have a design problem

Your workflow and use cases aren't everyone's.
The reason why artists don't sell all tickets to rich people is because they think poor people deserve nice things too, so they lower the price. But surely all poor people deserve nice things, not only your fans? Why not sell tickets to rich people and then donate the proceeds to help poor people? It seems to me that this way everyone wins: artists take the same monetary hit they would've taken anyway if they lowered the price, but the difference goes to poor people instead of scalpers.