skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that individual subreddit moderators each control hundreds of subreddits with millions of users. If 10% of the top subreddits ban anyone that participates in /r/Judaism or /r/Israel, that's a much bigger impact than a ban happy Discord mod.

If one friend group is racist and you can't eat dinner at their house, that's qualitatively different than systemic discrimination by the restaurant industry.

In this case, Reddit's platform has enough systemic discrimination that you have to choose between full participation in front-page posts or participation in Jewish communities.
You would be correct if they only published letters that were on one side.
I guess most people that think section 230 is excessive are not advocating for its complete removal, but more like for adding some requirements that platforms have to adhere in order to claim such immunity.
> Flutter in Kotlin instead of Dart would have killed!

Killed the framework for good, true. No pattern matching, joke destructuring, static delegation, reliance on Gradle (puke).

I don’t understand how Dart still has bad reputation when it leapfrogged this joke of a language long time ago.
You can say that about any new standard. With that logic we'd all be stuck with knob and tube wiring.
I'm assuming that "this years massive Windows outage" refers to the Crowdstrike thing, which wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had been able to lock down the kernel, which antitrust regulators prohibited. (The essay extensively deals with antitrust, I'm sure you have thoughts on this.)
Financial data, as in a time series of prices? It really depends on your budget, desired overhead, and amount of data. Some funds store data in flat files (broken down by date, instrument, ticker, etc), others use time series databases, such as ClickHouse or Kdb+. Using flat files is probably the simplest and most cost effective while still enabling you to store a massive amount of data, but using a database obviously enables querying and analytics.
It's never too late to grow a spine.
the author used the phrase "some wacky continuation thing" to describe that alternative. I agree, but I also have used recursion here, and struggle to find why given the text the author finds it so problematic. the simple mapping binds the evaluation order at compile time - maybe that's the real problem they are identifying.
A rare miss by Mr. Luu.

> Ballmer wins... 2010: Microsoft creates Azure

The Azure project was run by Nadella before he became CEO. And it succeeded despite Ballmer. Azure was seen as the Microsoft cloud, where people ran Windows Servers. But Microsoft had long lost the battle for the server space to Linux.

When Ballmer stepped aside, only then could Nadella drop the limiters and push the Microsoft <3 Linux perspective to get the message out that Azure is a home for Linux workloads too.
>I know folks, including some successful ones, who legitimately believe that anything that commercially hurts them is illegal, and when a judge sides against them, it's due to bias and not the law.

Sounds exactly like one of the candidates running for POTUS!
I’ve seen his stuff referenced many times but it’s paywalled, right? Is there an email sub without the paywall?
It used to have much funkier icons as well! Sadly not anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_for_Mac_201...
My mom is happy with LibreOffice. For myself, I try it every few years (usually when there's some big announcement) to see if it's improved. There's some kind of latency in the UI that makes it laborious, if not painful, to use. And recalculating a large spreadsheet, or reformatting a graph, takes an eon. I found that out when trying to graph data sets with thousands of rows. Now I use Python.

This may be a place where the major paid apps still have an advantage. I think that MS sweats the details of Office the way that Apple sweats the details of the iPhone, and it's laborious work that can only be done by hiring a huge army of programmers and paying them a lot.
14-year-old Instagram account stolen and why it was an inside job
> admit I don't fully understand what the advantage of this project is against other work

Replying to myself here; seems that the combination of being ex vivo and 7T means that the resolution increase over a typical in vivo patient scan is really really tremendous since your dead brain is happy to remain completely still through multi-hour sequences. The resolution you can get is primarily dependent on field strength but like many things in signal processing, you can trade integration time for higher resolution to a point. So this dataset is at about 100micron while 7T in vivo can only get down to maybe 300-1000micron (best case depending on patient movement)
> Whats your beef with BRICS? There should be competition in the world against the US dollar.

Well, there's the EUR and JPY, and to a certain extent the GBP.

As for BRICS:

> Pretty straightforward really. You combine Brazil's history of monetary stability, with Russia's respect for property rights, India's domestic tranquility, China's financial transparency, and South Africa's investment opportunities - and hey presto, you've got a new global money

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1665053372402081792
He was a good CFO type of a leader. Unlike a lot of other companies like Intel or Boeing, that were run by CFOs, he did not last long enough to run MSFT into the ground due to being too late to modern trends.

Sure he build the foundation, but he was not smart enough to lead the path forward. With him MSFT would have never reached top 3 most valuable companies - I would say it would be at 500-600b maybe at best.

Even with Azure and Office, he was too much into "bundle with Windows" type of guy. Similar to how he was saying that touchscreen would never work as businesses needed buttons to type. I think with Satya, they would have tried multi touch screen at least for sure.

By and large, Ballmer was not the very open minded person. And his attempt to buy Yahoo...Oof.
Once again proving that the OSI is a fringe organization that is almost entirely ignored in practical prosecution of Open Source licensing.
Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
For better or worse, my last Excel use case involves a VB macro that I don't want to re-write, and printing to a Dymo label printer, for putting serial number labels in my product. For anything else, I now use Python.
You also need the skill of lightning-fast LaTeX typing, and the skill of drawing and drafting with a speed comparable to that of a chalk. You need a canvas-driven tool for that, and your eyes would be on the screen for long periods of time, not contacting the audience.
I am going nuclear on Bezos. I am cancelling Amazon Prime too. I had it with these technocrats and their ego-driven quest to rule the world.
Pretty sure most large succesful apps have their own UI and UI design teams. Cant remember the last time i saw anything cupertino in an app. Even Apples own 'Home' app only loosely use cupertino. Id say the most noticable effect is the bottom modal sheet slide up effect. on ios the original screen animates into the background a little bit. Apps that dont implement this can be spotted but thats not unique to flutter at all and flutter even offers a pretty good cupertino scaffold package that does this animation.
When you’re filing a legal claim against someone, they get to know who’s accusing them. That’s only fair.
Indeed, MacOS was where I first experienced Excel with VB macros, which is when it came alive.
That is incorrect. She got the same results from both her followers and from spending $1057 on Positly surveying people who are not her followers.

Sometimes people are right on the internet.
> People in the third world work harder than the first world, and are 10% as rich, because no one in their societies care.

typically they "care wrong" and the first world comes in and dismantles everything to keep raw resource prices at a price point that they like. advanced third world economies are a threat to first world prosperity.
Flutter founder here. We use Flutter to build Mezzi (www.mezzi.com). In fact, we've worked with the OP (Matt) on our app. He's super knowledgeable about Flutter and it's inner workings. A great dev too.

Flutter is awesome, but there are definitely bugs that lie unfixed for an uncomfortable period of time. This is not unique to Flutter ... with any open source project there's a lag between bug reports and bug fixes.

The thing I worry about is that its going to be really hard to get a large number of PR reviewers up to speed for this fork, while also maintaining reasonable quality.

I think it's going to be difficult to maintain a separate fork without diverging from Flutter, because over time, the fork will accumulate bug fixes and features that the Google version will not accept (by definition, since the proposal is to be more accepting of PRs). How are we supposed to go back to the Google version of Flutter as the fork diverges more and more from the original?

Or is the proposal that we should stick with the fork, and the fork will over time pull in the new features and PRs from the Google version? But how will that work after say 12 to 24 months of divergence? There's going to be a hodgepodge of new features and bug fixes on the fork, and then Google will release a new version of Flutter with a whole set of new capabilities ... and we'll be stuck having to choose. Or we'll have to do a really hairy merge between the Fork and the new version from Google.

This just seems scary to me. Especially since for any given team, there's usually one ... or maybe two things we want to patch into the Flutter tree. Its easier for us to just apply those fixes onto a new version of Google's flutter tree than it would be to patch a whole community's worth of bug fixes and features onto the new Google tree.

I think the preferable course of action is that the community should work with Google to see if there's a way to improve the speed of PR reviews.

I'm worried about the chaos that forking could cause in this community that doesn't really have a huge number of contributors yet.
flutter's custom canvas render on web means so much of the web stops working or is slow. type anything non ASCII like an emoji or CKJ and eat while it downloads a font. No other pages do this. Text fields are missing all the standard context menu options like define, translate, etc... Things that would be selectable on any other page are not, etc....
The key detail here is that the endorsement was quashed by the billionaire owner of the paper and not the editorial board. That undermines any sense of independence that people might have felt they were paying for.
To be fair, in at least some movies they only say “asteroids” instead of “asteroid belt”.

The aftermath of a recent collision between large bodies might be attractive to future spacefarers because it could expose the differentiated insides of planetoids in a convenient high-density but accessible form for mining. So it wouldn’t be entirely unrealistic for “future stories” to be playing out in these rich and dense regions instead of the space equivalent of the middle of a barren desert.

A statistically representative locale for a story on Earth would be in the middle of an ocean, but that’s not where most stories come from.
I'm still somewhat bitter about the failure of Windows Phone and can't believe it even happened. The iPhone wasn't even that good at the time and Android was a total mess. Microsoft dropped the ball on their first party app dev, and several flagship phones had great hardware but terrible driver support.

Microsoft clearly wasn't interested in the consumer market anymore and it shows through to today.
Ballmer's tenure started with XP and eventually gave us Windows 7. Nadella gave us 10 and 11. Though 10 was largely developed under Ballmer before its initial launch, it's been under Nadella's stewardship ever since. I'll take Ballmer, thanks.
> I don't know how to fix the showcase problem.

This is trivial for any team that provides a framework/platform and spends any amount of time engaged with their customers - you know who your prestige customers are and you show off examples of the products they have built with it. The state of the showcase is just reinforcing the points made by the OP.
What a silly question. Being an excellent writer is hard! Why is there only one Joan Didion?
This is how AI will make money
What's jwz's problem with HN anyway, did pg kill his dog or something?
“So you have a filter with many layers: you need areas which fulfill a stringent set of conditions for such an educational newsletter, and you need a very unusual sort of individual, someone who is expert in the area and has preferably gotten their hands dirty, who is good enough to work professionally in it, but who also is capable of explaining it well, at a beginner level, many times, endlessly without burning out or getting bored, because of their intense interest in the area (but again, not quite intense enough to make them go do it instead of write about it).”

I think the first filter is a much bigger factor, but for a reason that’s not mentioned in the post: $$$s to be gained. A large number of people read finance blogs because they think they themselves make money with the knowledge therein.

This is hard to replicate with other examples given: for purely abstract topics, eg Greco-Roman philosophy, the prize is purely intellectual. For others, eg fracking and drug discovery, you can make tons of money but pool of interested people is much smaller.

The only combination of general appeal and personal gain that could be interesting, I think, would be dating. You have recurrent patterns, clear outcomes, and pretty much everyone is interested and want to learn how to get better at it.
Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M
No. Angular 2 wasn't a drop-in fork for Angular 1.
The SDET role at Microsoft was eliminated under Satya and it shows in their products.
The equivalence principle only applies to uniform fields and uniform motion. A charged particle in orbit is not in a uniform field and is not experiencing uniform motion.
Yes. The weirdest example of this ( and most personally applicable ) is the DNA data shared with 23andme and the like. I did not subscribe to this. Neither did my kids ( or kids of the individual who did subscribe I might add ), but due to some shared geography and blood ties, whether I want to or not, I am now identifiable in that database.

To your point, there is something in us that does not consider what information could do.
This is all purely anecdotal as I've noted at the beginning, because there's no studies on this or anyone looking into this at all.

I don't mean myself, I mean the heterosexual women and men I know. I'm gay, almost all my friends are women and it's just what I've observed.

And, to be clear, I'm not blaming women. Because relationships, too, are a performance.

This part is really important:

> Women want to deal with things like grappling with the shame of dating a man who paints his nails and the social repercussions of that

It's not just men who lose respect when masculinity isn't performed to a high enough standard, women associated with them lose respect too. Women have a lot to deal with, it's unreasonable for them to also take on additional emotional burden when they already have to manage the appearance of their relationship to outsiders.

As for how I know how they "feel" - well, I don't. But I see their actions and what they choose to tell me. From what I've seen, it's extremely risky for heterosexual men to be vulnerable in their relationships. The odds are incredibly high that will come back to bite them, often immediately, sometimes much later. And, women seem very hesitant to talk about any perceived feminine traits in the men they date. Typically, they do the opposite, almost talk them up. I think there's some perception management going on.
Stating a fact is not advocacy. I'd love to see other candidates get more attention, but that isn't going to happen.
Show HN: Di-wise: dependency injection with wo ECMAScript decorators
di-wise: Lightweight and flexible dependency injection library for JavaScript and TypeScript, w/wo ECMAScript decorators
If you trust the article, then Azure and O365 are each, independently, easily Fortune 100 companies if separated. These "couple of wins along with many many losses" are some of the most valuable products in the world.

Imagine a VC fund that invested in a few dozen product companies, two of which were Azure and O365. Is that a 6/10 VC company? Why is the logic different for a CEO making bets for a company's next several decades?
The original iteration of passive income was feudalism. It itself was a set of interconnecting passive income schemes[0], ultimately derived from your ability to own the most economically valuable land. This scheme hinges upon your ability to enclose and exclude access to that land by force - not prior labor paying off over time.

Of course, the only passive income schemes that work today are the "prior labor" type. But that's because of copyright and patent law, which exist specifically with the idea that you can make something valuable now and charge the public for it later. A creative work or an invention is itself land being excluded by force, but this is a magical abstract land of nearly infinite size[1]. It's enclosers are empowered not through direct force, but through the blessing of a legal priesthood.

Ok, I suppose if we're including force and feudalism, we probably should also include, say, organized crime. But in that case the labor isn't stored, it's slaved: you find suckers and scam them into doing crimes to your benefit, then get them to continue working for you, because if they ever leave you can just kill them, or sick the Feds on them.

Y'know, I'm starting to think passive income is actually just a funny way to say theft...

[0] The two schemes I'm thinking of are manorialism, and something akin to modern rent extraction or "chokepoint capitalism" in which you own a road or river and can charge money to people passing through your land. I forget the name of the latter, and there's probably additional relationships I'm not counting. I know the Holy Roman Empire was lousy with the latter kind.

[1] Since there's far more of this creativity land than there is land on Earth, it's far harder to find land that people want or have to pay for. That's why entertainment is such a ridiculously hit-driven business and why entertainment companies hate rights reversion so much.
What does "one side" even mean in this context? Do you think editorial boards at large newspapers are homogeneous?

By way of word count, I expect the average editorial board is much more evenly divided than the crank letters that they choose not to publish.
Why don’t we have a Matt Levine for every industry? Where is the Levine of, I don’t know, petroleum refining or fracking, of shipping containers?

this would be a consultant. the market for 'shipping container experts' is tiny . not enough to support a columnist
https://archive.ph/js7O4
> Unlike a lot of other companies like Intel or Boeing, that were run by CFOs, he did not last long enough to run MSFT into the ground due to being too late to modern trends.

How can you right this in good faith while replying to a comment laying out to you that Microsoft most successful investments a decade later were all started by Ballmer and that he took a lot of risks with R&D?

> Even with Azure and Office, he was too much into "bundle with Windows" type of guy.

Seriously? Ballmer started Office365 you know. Also the Microsoft Phone with, you know, touch screens. The sheer amount of historical revionism in this thread even in the face of hard facts is mind numbing.

Honestly, even discarding all the rest, Ballmer would deserve more respect than he gets there for getting Microsoft out of the antitrust lawsuits alone.
It’s perfectly possible to still have a unique look and feel without completely forsaking all the platform affordances. You get a lot of stuff for free or very cheap building using the platform toolkits: stuff that people internalise and expect to work without even realising it. I think it’s a bad idea to throw that all away.
> "I think it's extremely overestimated by the technical crowd how many people would ever upgrade their RAM or SSD in their Macbook."

Back in the day when this was possible (iBooks, Powerbooks, early-model MacBooks), I'd say that a large percentage of Mac laptops eventually did get upgraded. I certainly upgraded 100% of the Macs I owned and also did many for friends and family. Some models made upgrades quite easy: the RAM slots, especially, were often accessible without special tools. It was common to buy the base model Mac with the fastest CPU, then install your own RAM modules and big HDD/SSD to save money. Swapping HDDs out for SSDs was also, of course, a huge performance upgrade for a while.

Even non-technical users who wouldn't upgrade their Macs on their own would often trade them in to dealers/resellers who would refurbish and upgrade them for resale.
Prolog was introduced into general public in 1972, 4 years after Hindley's algorithm that used unification and substitution.

In any case, what was suggested is, frankly, a development of the (tailored up) type system.

My experiece suggests that this development will not be without caveats, especially related to performance.
In London, we had I-Plus Kiosks, a long forgotten waste of money. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3058209.stm (2003) and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1691434.stm (2001) . IIRC, the council thought it'd be a good use of taxpayer's money.
> Steve Ballmer: developers developers developers developers developers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

If you haven't seen the remix, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gI_HGDgG7c
> Deep insights in finance are typically not useful once everyone knows about them.

By that logic, it is right and good for the American public to be financially illiterate.
I don't think you want to hear my opinions on what the left wing thinks is obvious :-)

Also, I am neither left nor right wing, as I'm a libertarian. I believe in the principles in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the system of checks and balances set up by the Constitution.
This sounds fun! Great idea, thanks.
Thanks for sharing. Your library seems to be a bit more extensive, including not only definitions but also modeling. Might be useful as a reference point if I integrate other functionality such as pricing.
>"I mean young engineers in my company get paid nicely in comparison to their older peers."

Yeah, because they're 10% of Gen Z (and I'm part of that 10% Gen Z). Most of my peers, my former classmates, and friends are struggling to make ends meet in an increasingly antagonistic status quo to present-day starters, the likes of which are not comparable to any other contemporary time - both through anecdotes and data - excluding 1971-73, and that was quickly rectified (and you STILL have people who joined the workforce in those years complaining about it 50 years later). And as for kids, they can't afford them. Young engineers probably can, old news - but that's not the bulk of the generation. If you want a functioning society, you must account for options and outcomes for ALL sectors of the bell-curve. Not just people from the sectors you associate with.

This comment screams myopia and a lack of perspective, and an obvious lack of interest in trying to amend either.
"When Ballmer became CEO in January 2000, Microsoft's stock was around $53. When he stepped down in February 2014, it was around $38."

By that metric, no he wasn't underrated.