jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
you can't support <something negative> saying it would encourage people to develop ways to prevent it
I think their secret weapon is design expertise, not design itself. I have a 2014 moto X, and I like it. I switched from IOS due to bugs I was experiencing with IOS 8, and I liked the idea of a more open environment.

I can say with a high degree of confidence (but not 100%) that I'll switch back to iphone next year.

The reason centers on two things: Google's baffling lack of design sense (google's own apps look bad), and google's inability to filter out sham reviews on their app store.

The google app store and the apps are just awful. There are some diamonds in the rough, but they are few and far between and hard to find because nearly all the apps (good or bad) have 4+ stars.

There are tons of crap apps on the apple store too, but the good ones are easier to find because the ratings still have meaning on the apple store.

There is something seriously wrong with google's store. The AT&T app, which is a marginal semi web app, has 25,000 5 star reviews on google's store. It averages somewhere above 4, I can't remember the exact number. I'm sorry, there is just no way 25,000 honest people gave that app 5/5 stars. It's ridiculous to even consider.

It's barely a 3 star app on apple's store and that sounds about right. I'd give it 3 just because it is functional.

I think the real problem behind it is the concept of freemium apps. Apple has it too, but I think because of scale android/google are head of the game in terms of the damage caused by fremium apps.

I think the best way for either company to fix it would be to not allow in-app purchases on free apps. The reason I think it would fix it is that both app stores require you to have the app to vote on it, but with free apps it's no big deal to download-vote-delete an app. This opens you up to mechanical-turk type exploitation.

If it costs a buck to download, you've raised the cost of buying a vote, you've raised expectations of buyers. It has a side benefit of destroying the freemium market which in my opinion can only be a good thing.

My gut tells me that google could filter out sham reviews if they wanted to. I'm sure they can detect the download-vote-delete pattern easily, and if 25000 come in over the course of week or something, well, it just seems like it'd be obvious if the spent time mining the data.
Hey look, it's something Sam Altman suggested, but happening in real life
The stuff I work with has the option to pop up a warning/comfort page to explain the practice/policies etc every N hours - seems to be a good thing to use.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141228213056/http://manux.info...
The number of frameworks of any kind has no bearing on the willingness of more people to share their knowledge and experience with the open source community. I'd write 10 more CSS frameworks if it helped just one more person make something they loved on the web.
> Users of MCS traversed that proxy to get to Google, at which point the proxy dutifully generated a (fake) Google certificate to bypass TLS for that connection. Google noticed.

I'm curious about the mechanism of Google noticing - was Chrome side-channeling information about it's cert to Google? Because if it was a true MITM proxy, google would never have talked to the browser directly to know what cert the browser was being presented. That's kinda how the whole MITM thing is dangerous - it's invisible to both sides if done correctly...
Oddly I saw the opposite: my nephew and his friends using iOS only.

Yesterday he bought an iPad mini with his savings,
I suggested him to get an Android tablet "hey, an android will cost you 1/3", but he declined, because all his friends had invested a LOT of time on their (iOS) games.
It all depends what you consider scary.

There were the times when I happened to be the only person running the trading desk during the nights of the Bear Stearns, Lehman, and FNM collapses, having to turn over a ~$2B portfolio. It was all OPM, so not personally scary per se, but staring into the abyss definitely altered my worldview.

Then there was the time we thought a stupid bug I made cost the company $500k. Turns out it was only about $5k, but man I still cringe with embarrassment when I think about it. Guess I didn't learn my lesson though because I still make stupid bugs now and then.

The thing that really made me toss and turn at night though was being stuck in dead end jobs with no potential for upward trajectory or recognition of my contributions. That's the scariest thing that can happen to a career.
Possibly for Customer Success, Sales or Administrative roles.

But you simply cannot replace a workstation with a Chromebook (yet).

On the other hand, I am somehow uncomfortable with placing everything into the hands of one company.
Yes, we use Google Apps for Work, but also quite a lot of other tools. I am not sure how these would run on one of these machines.

Also, never fix a running system (from our point of view) ;)
They dented a steel door as part of the demo. It'll all depend on thickness, alloy, and treatment.
aesthetics are not secondary in graphic design.
Being accepting of failure is a good thing, but you have to wonder about the moral hazard that's being set up here. A person should be able to pick themselves up after a failure, but failure should not be rewarded. You should not be able to go to a conference and brag about your failures. You should not be rewarded for failure with an acquihire and a cushy job at a BigCo. This to me is a key component of the new bubble: the idea that your startup can fail without there being consequences or even be rewarded for failure.
I was in the market for a vacuum last year and followed the advice in that topic. I bought a used Miele C1 Compact for $80. Great vacuum for my small apartment and I've been very happy with the purchase.

I remember seeing the Dyson Ball vacuum the first time in the store and being incredibly underwhelmed after all the marketing on TV. It was heavy, and felt like a bunch of cheap plastic that was going to break apart. Then I tried a few of those handheld Dyson vacuums in different Airbnbs I lived for a while. They were a pain to clean, hair would get caught in the spinning brushes, and the battery life on all of them was terrible (one would only last about 2 minutes, likely because the battery was aging). It always feels like marketing and "cool" gimmicks come first with Dyson products and the actual quality is second.
Investing money in productive enterprise is the thing that is in societal benefit. Investing money in a virtual asset that has no other benefit and massive ecological costs is not a benefit.
> Goatse as a Service (YC S21)
He got a NYT article. That takes some hustle.
It's not a necessity if you have the window open to move around the air,

If you live in an urban area or someplace else with lots of air pollution, the outdoor air might be a problem!

Of course, I don't think an air filter like this would be very effective with the windows open.
This is tracked here: https://github.com/ory/keto/issues/319

Basically the idea is to check the attributes before actually forwarding the request to Keto. That could be done through e.g. a OPA integration. This can scale much better IMO than just doing everything in OPA.
> What I don't like is when websites tell my browser to use a different font or different colors than the ones I configured.

The web must be a very disappointing place for you.
This is way too absolute. "Democratically" picked representatives can just as well exert force not in alignment with what the society of said democracy would want when the question would be voiced directly rather than indirectly taken care of. Or are we really going to be so naïve to believe representatives will stand behind every single one of their words their entire term, and pretend they don't pull stunts to bait & switch potential voters for a win rather than a loss?
> users don't have to install a separate authenticator app, which may require a Google/iCloud password

If they wish to use Apple then that is their own choice, but on Android it's quite trivial to download Red Hat's open source authenticator app[1] from f-droid (the website, you don't even have to install the store if you don't want that). It's quite bare bones on graphics and features, doing only what you need it to (the f-droid build is 0.5MB, frankly still large for what it does but consider that it's like half of a single photo).

And if people don't have a phone with support for apps, then you can still fall back to SMS. Doesn't mean you need to force everyone down to that level.

Fun fact: my grandpa can't use SMS either, your solution is not as universal as you make it seem. He never has been able to due to sight issues (it's not an age thing, though it doesn't help if you're close to illiterate and now need to start to learn how to use solutions for sight-impaired people due to this information age having onset). Does that mean we cannot support anything better than sending a letter, which is accessible to him as well? Can't we have the better solution as well as the accessible one?

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fedorahosted.freeotp/

> With SMS, all the user needs is a phone number.

No no, you got that backwards. All Facebook needs is your phone number, or whoever it is that pinky promises to only use your phone number for security. I get what you're saying about everyone having a phone number that you can identify them by, but that is also the issue: everyone has typically a very very limited amount of phone numbers (and typically linked to a government ID) whereas a throwaway email is easy to make and each TOTP code is throwaway by design. I think there's something to say for supporting this.
My infrastructure is $2,800/year.

There are two Servers load balanced with DNS.

Each Server has 3 jails (Nginx, App, DB) and 2 NICs

The internal NIC is for replicating the DB, and for the App Servers to target the Primary one.

Diagram and Configs:
https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/freebsd-jails-network...
Can’t upvote you enough. This is driving me crazy-curious. It must be eating at the HEP folks... unless it isn’t, hah.

If this becomes a quagmire nested with the muon quagmire within the new physics quagmire. I will surely have to find a way to renormalize my self energy.
"Relatively small" and "very low" are relative statements, and in a discussion of public-health policy like the present one, it is productive to consider them in the context of what the voting public is comfortable with.

In a number of countries, health ministers are complaining that the broad public is no longer observing restrictions, and the ruling party may even feel pressure to roll back restrictions because internal polling finds they could cost it reelection. If a voting public is unconcerned enough with those uncontroversially at-risk groups that have not yet been vaccinated, you cannot expect much sympathy for those relatively few examples of less at-risk demographics who end up with long-term symptoms, even if their risk is somewhat higher than a “thunder strike or an airplane accident”.
Yea, seems like it would center it without much fuss. That might be a bit too big for mobile browsers, so choosing that width might be a bit of an odd choice.
Any jobs available at your job board for job board jobs?
As an interested layman, I've wondered about this myself. Ecosystems take a while to stabilize around local maxima. So, although diversity may prevent you from falling into any particular deficiency, it seems possible that a well balanced diet that remained stable over time would allow your flora to really dial in.
I am not deep into analytics space, but I know from experience that the most popular ad blocker (ublock origin) will block the most popular self hosted analytics package (matomo).
And IE6 is challenging to develop for, but I fucking love using it. It feels just like the Windows UI (Trident, after all), it's snappy, has focus rectangles on everything, and modern enough to have a DOM with all the works like createElement() getElementById().

It also has a proper (native!) settings dialog with tons of configurability and security zoning. While modern browser's rendering engines and JS have gotten more featureful, I think the UI has gotten much worse in contrast, with everything going in the same direction of dumbed-down-Chrome-clones. My ideal browser would have the configurability and UI of early IE/Firefox, with the JS and rendering engines of current browsers.
Getting pandas to work was a pain. Otherwise it’s been great.
> Regarding software you openly state you don’t use on a daily basis

Perhaps I was too critical in some of the replies and should have phrased things in a more positive way but I did use Elixir / Phoenix / LV on a daily basis for a pretty long time.

Over the course of those 18 months I'd estimate putting in 250-300 hours of programming time in spurts while writing 3 applications totaling around 9,500 lines of assorted Phoenix / LV code. Not a lot of code by any means, but enough to put a decent dent towards developing the main app I was building which is where I encountered those issues at the time. I have no agenda or reason to make anything up. I want to see Elixir and Phoenix succeed in the end. I just decided to temporarily put it on hold until it gets over the early adopter phase.
FWIW Scala can do structural typing like Typescript, but it has a slight performance impact due to using reflection so is generally avoided.

Compile time structural typing like approaches tend to use typeclasses and implicits. Bit more boilerplate, but no runtime hit or risk of failure if reflection access is denied by the JVM security manager.
I worked on a better recipe site/product last year out of frustration with the existing options. I also wanted something I could earn some money with though, and doing that with a recipe website is rather tricky without resorting to this sort of bullshit, so I ended up shelving it for the time being (I still want to finish it at some point though, as it has some nice ideas IMO).

I could use a subscription model, I suppose, but I'm less than confident this will actually succeed. There's so much free content out there and I found that a lot of people are willing to jump through all sorts of hoops to avoid paying.
It looks like a great entrant into the EV market, though I still can't find solid information on how many they've built, how many they're building per month, and when they expect to really ramp up production to a sizable number.

There are a ton of articles online from late 2019 and early 2020 about massive ID.4 production numbers, but then they had that big software problem where they all sat around until fixed. They eventually sold those off... and now they're being very quiet about how many they can build per month.

Over the last ~5 years Tesla have spent billions building some of the biggest factories in the world to build batteries and they still can't make enough, which is currently why they can only make about 1 million vehicles/year (should hit that in 2021).

I realize VW and other big players have the required talent to build vehicles at immense scale, but they're all being very quiet about how they plan to make enough batteries to reach even 50% of what Tesla are already making in 2021.

Do we have any more up to date information on this?
Actually, having just observed a situation where a bunch of people who met in real life exploded into an immature email discussion full of insults and accusations, I don't think the civility on here is any worse than it is in real life.

I think the reason why it feels like "real life" is more civil is that you don't hear about people insulting each other in real life, because they don't usually shout it out on the rooftops (in my experience, after a particularly nasty discussion, both sides prefer to keep it quiet and just not talk to each other anymore).
5 billion. 22 billion. Who cares what number comes in front of all those zeroes! It's the zeroes that matter. Once you start getting up in to the tens of millions I can't even imagine how to spend it all.
I wasn't meaning that they had no CS backgrounds, but had a cross-discipline background. I've never hired someone without a degree in computer science, but the best had a multidisciplinary background (e.g. cs + english, cs + a biological science, cs + psychology etc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0FPkaMGrk - part two of the screencast.
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/ if you're willing to use a fringe browser.
Important points, but not what they were talking about I don't think.
I am not disagreeing with you. I don’t know all the numbers for your case and I don’t want to compute everything for your specific scenario.

But I’m just saying that there is a general assumption in most discussions around buying versus renting that buying is always better. It’s not.

It’s the general argument « when you buy you don’t throw your money out the window ».

In reality you do throw money out the window when you buy, only differently, and I’m highlighting the numbers people usually do not take into account when they make their comparison.

Comparing mortgage payments and rents is usually not the good way to do that, because the costs when you buy are only partially monthly based.

One other number I didn’t mention above: real estate agency fees.
I agree completely and I give Signal permission to use my contacts without the due diligence I wrote about. Just treating this more like a logic problem than an advice column, FWIW which isn't much I suppose.
> while cosmopolitan limits you to low-level C (and things built on it, like lua) at compile time

You can build very little with the C Standard Library alone, wouldn't you agree? Things like graphics, anything beyond the most rudimentary I/O, etc - are not a part of the C Standard Library.
They probably mean that you can search in n-dimensional cubes, but what they'd like is having a more general shapes of the grid, e.g., have restriction of the sort: a+b<1.
This isn't Elon Musk's fault.

It doesn't make sense to use off-the-shelf graphics cards. They're not designed for the environment of cars, and aren't made to have that reliability. The medium older Tesla Autopilot uses Nvidia platform meant for self-driving. The newer Autopilot uses Tesla-designed SoCs that have fancy neural network accelerators.

Everything important in cars needs to be high-reliability. Between that, the form factor, added redundant cost, and the reduced integration of having a separate PCIe card instead of something integrated in an SoC, it doesn't make sense to use a graphics card.
I was going to go full-on somebody is wrong on the internet fashion too when I saw "office space," but then I remembered seeing WEPAY plastered on a doorway in the office a long time ago.

So, in a sense, you get the ability to have an office (or at least the ability to lie about having an office so you can push through Official Srs Business Paperwork).
I've found that I keep coming across tradeoffs like this, though mine are more pronounced. My whole life I've been obsessed with music, I'm quite a good musician personally (studied it at University) and still really enjoy it. The problem is that I'm also really into business and startups and, through the former, have become quite obsessed with learning as much about web development as I possibly can. This has eaten up a whole bunch of my time and taken me away from my work as a musician and a recording engineer. I'm still trying to balance the two, and then within the startup side, balance being a dev and a business guy.

It's certainly not the easiest thing in the world, especially when my artistic passion is not so related to my startups - though some of the skills transfer. In the end I'm just trying to make sure that I allocate at least a few solid hours each week to just playing/writing and enjoying music. It feels like a relationship to be honest, but I guess this is what most artist's have felt at some point when they realised that they were also good at and interested in something that would help them earn money.

Are there any other HNer's who are artists (of any form) and running startups? How do you guys balance your time?
How does that work for streaming? Is it limited to one stream at a time?
That's a way to analyze it. But not all moral frameworks are going to yield to academic dissection. I'm not so worried about finding a chapter in my philosophy text to label it; we can instead explore our existing moral foundations and answer honestly.

If you must rationalize it, go ahead. But you can argue yourself into any number of conclusions. In the end that's a game with no winner.
Definitely subjective.

I find chiclet keyboards absolutely horrible, and Apple has been the pioneer of that horrible type of keyboard.

The keys are terrible mushy little islands.

Mechanical keyboards are just SO much better.
You could argue that it’s up to you to have a proper key backup strategy (ie not Google Authenticator). You don’t have several user names and passwords for one account, either.
Historically, the "conservatives" (if you're referring to the Republican party) was actually more tolerant. The abolitionist movement to end slavery, for one, and republicans supported the civil rights act more than the democrats did:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_...

Yes, in all votes, by percentage, more democrats opposed the civil rights act than did republicans.

Earlier, the progressive movement was founded on, among other things, eugenics (sterilization and abortion) of undesirable people, such as minorities and disabled. The progressive movement has since changed its tune.

Minority groups clearly aren't using history to pick roommates they would feel comfortable with.
It's an extreme example, for sure, but there are things out there that have right and wrong answers and where it's not all just some game.
The effect size of an intervention (deworming) on a measured outcome (test scores) is, almost by definition, its efficiency. And that's within economic's wheelhouse if you're studying paper clip manufacturing or schools.

But, ultimately, I think the researchers would probably answer with something closer to "I don't care if it's economics. I consider it both interesting and relevant", and so would the Nobel judges.
I believe the plan is to increase prices.

Cheap rides are to gain marketshare and customer acquisition. Not saying the strategy will be fruitful but it is a strategy.
As far as keeping focus, I've heard a few freelancing visual effects artists claim that bouncing to the next project as soon as they're stuck or bored on one is something that works for them.

You have to build in time up front to be able to afford that luxury though, and it still requires a ton of discipline either way.
Oppositions to China's human rights violations does not equal to a blanket opposition to cooperation or involvement with all things Chinese. Doing so only highlights a biased view that is highly prevalent in our government today that is precisely reminiscent of McCarthyism.

Indeed one does not need to look far for such sentiments:

"The Chinese aren’t smarter than we are. They don’t work harder than we do.

They CHEAT." -Lindsey Graham

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/11664531583082086...

"At one point during the dinner, Trump noted of an unnamed country that the attendee said was clearly China, “almost every student that comes over to this country is a spy.” " -Donald Trump

"FBI Is 'Harassing' Some Chinese Citizens Says Academic Group"
https://www.wvxu.org/post/fbi-harassing-some-chinese-citizen...
Could be, mine don't. And i consider myself sensitve to flickering. I just grabbed some from the hardware store while i was there and saw them on special offer. Some well known brand name. Guess i've been lucky.
This feels like we're watching bitcoin.
That just means you get to skip straight to using a levain! :)