skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're doing the same in the YouTube app, and even if you choose "Safari" they're not opening Safari, but showing an in-app webview to siphon every last bit of your browsing activity. Truly disgusting.
> people are more likely to open a Medium url when it shows up in link aggregators. People trust the familiar url far more than www.mypersonalblog.me

I know this is just anecdotal, but I assume anything coming from Medium is usually less worthwhile. First, the author isn't important on a Medium article. Medium is the brand, the other is someone that doesn't matter. Secondly, it's not easy to follow the author, so even if I did read the author bio at the bottom, following the author is a pain. Finally, everything the above article mentioned. Medium articles are all about playing SEO games and "Growth hacking" before good content (literally). I'll ready Medium articles, but personal blogs are far more credible every day of the week in my book.

That being said, I would be interested in how you reached the conclusion that people are more trusting of medium articles?
> $48k/job in NY

That is over 10 years, so is like $5k a year.
Google denies SMS and Call log permissions to an offline app
Recently Google announced the following policy change.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9047303

It limits developers from using SMS and Call log permissions unless they have written approval from Google.

This policy looks good and a positive point for user privacy I thought. So, I have applied for my main app which is a call recorder.

It uses Call log permission to get the phone number of the call to save the recording under that number. It also uses this permission for recording modes and filtering.

Permission request denied twice because apparently, it is not part of the core functionality.

OK, I get it, although it will cripple the app and make over 50% of features useless, it can record without number.

Besides, they denied these permissions to popular automation app Tasker too.

I then, submitted my other simple app for review. It is an offline call and sms announcement app.

They denied permission request for it to. Apparently accessing sms and phone number is not the part of the core functionality of a call announce app. It is considered as privacy risk, even though it does not require Internet access.

I fail to understand reasoning behind this.

I post it here in the hope that it would get more coverage.

I have been following HN for over 3 years without any account as I did not have anything important to say. I hope modes will not delete this post because it is from a new account
I don't think it's so much saving on office expenses. They also get access to a lot of talent, and yes, sometimes for less than if they were in the Bay Area. This isn't an especially original story; it's been written about before. But it is still interesting for those not already in the know that you have fully remote companies.
I am not sure those arguments hold so much water.

Classic regressions allow you to explain the marginal effects very well. It doesn't matter much how variables are correlated. If you saturate the model with interaction effects, you can get an accurate (in the sense of the model) prediction of the marginal effect of any variable as a function of others. This is very interpretable.

Furthermore, nowadays a lot of techniques are about estimating the causal effects based on assumptions in your data. You could use things like DID or synthetic control, use natural experiments, and so forth, to get a good idea of the causal "treatment effect" of your variable of interest, and you can even do this in a semi-parametric or non-parametric approach.

Often, estimating the linear approximation of the marginal on a conditional expectation is "good enough" to learn how things are connected within your data.

And in the end, getting this sort of causal effect of a variable is what we are really after in environments where the DGP process isn't simple. In that sense, this type of research is very compelling.

Scaling and other issues are of course important, but taking them into account is rather simple...

To be sure, a lot of work (for example in econometrics and elsewhere) is proceeding on causal inference of deep learning models, but it is probably also fair to say that right now, classical models are far easier to interpret, especially if you are interested in answering qualitative questions.
Sure it's sad. Well, here we are.
Medium also gets you really good seo
It is not too bad, but is not 'Maelan' but 'Meelan'.
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I see humans but no humanity.
You're confusing red light cameras at intersections with speeding cameras. There has been no research showing that speeding cameras increase accident rates.
Ask HN: How do I start thinking about load handling?
I have a website running a flask webserver, it works on my local machine. But how do I decide if it'll perform in the real world. Stuff like how many requests it can handle at a time. I know this is a very vague question, but I don't know where to even begin on this topic.
What do you mean by "hurting local businesses"? Wouldn't more highly paid workers in the area be good for local businesses?
I think this is actually a reasonable point- there are nuances for which there is no imagined amount of evidence to sway some opinions. For example, I highly doubt many scientific studies that suggested benefits to high amounts of lack of response to scientific studies on opinion in the population is a good thing would actually make you less terrified.
If they do that, that is eventually going to be used as ammunition for dismantling them.
Nice list! I love IBM Plex
Chess Is the Killer App
How Netflix destroyed Blockbuster. Who's laughing now?
How is gentrification negative?
Yeah, I think you're right. I suspect the Italian pronunciation is like 'me-lan' rather than 'mil-an'. As for the general sound, I thought it was pretty good. I was impressed that Polly even adds in inhaling of breath. Subtle, yet effective.
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These sorts of articles always excite me that more places will be moving towards remote work, and hopefully using Gitlab as an example. In the past I've had some not so great experiences with remote work.

I've had two remote gigs thus far and the first was pretty horrible. On-boarding took a month (to receive a machine), and I frequently went days without hearing from anyone. There was zero communication even when I attempted to create meetings to talk (since pings were never replied to). It pretty much felt like being on an island - especially when most of your co-workers had worked together for anywhere from 2-10 years. Remote culture didn't really exist at this job.

At my current job it has been great - we use Slack to communicate and there is hardly any radio silence. Before starting, I was told we work to live not the other way around. I received my machine and ~actually~ had an onboarding process. It feels like I'm a part of a team (albeit small) and that makes a world of difference when working remote.

The one thing I haven't fixed yet is being on a routine/schedule. It isn't the best to work, sleep, and relax in the same room every day, but I've been working out of the house more lately which has seemed to help.
But they won't be. Can you imagine Amazon hiring 25k employees for just one project like Alexa?

Also, the whole point of the new offices is to aid recruitment. Limiting particular offices to just one skillset goes totally against that.

No, these offices will be smaller than the Seattle HQ, but at half the size, you can expect them to be quite diverse.

They will not be a "single project" office.
That is kinda messed up, though I’d want to know more about his exit terms.
There is no such thing as "legitimate hate speech" in the US, only speech which is likely to incite imminent lawless action (Brandenburg v Ohio). I'm sorry you either live in a country which will throw you in jail for words, or have been mis-educated about US law and the freedom of speech.
They're doing the community a service by creating high paying jobs? The people will be shipped in from all around the world and displace the current communities. This destroys communities. This segregates poor & lower income people out. Only already rich people get to experience the benefits of this.

The subsidies and tax cuts they got are an embarrassment to our system and a wonderful look into how this country isn't working for lower classes and small local business that actually build communities. Amazon doesn't need subsidies, this is just a race to the bottom.
The "interesting" thing about that location is that it actually isn't especially especially convenient for commutes to/from places where young well-paid techies would normally choose to live.
It's worth pointing out that Gitlab's hosted service has suffered a myriad of pretty disastrous outages and problems over the past 12 months. In my experience, it's been totally unreliable compared to it's rivals. So I wouldn't say that they are a leading example of success just yet, although they certainly have a good shot.
There isn't a generally optimal remote working setup because every remote worker and their situation is different.

My "remote office" is in a corner of my living room that also doubles as a kitchen. It's in the middle of everything, which some people might find distracting, but is just right for me. You see, I've done my time in high-pressure, low-focus, fast-paced financial environments, so being in the middle of my family while I work is stimulating and rewarding.

I normally go to the office (a few miles away) when I have more than one meeting to attend. This allows me to keep my work chatter away from home, where others might be distracted by it.

All this to say that the onus is on you to make sure that our setup fits your personality. Look within yourself for clues on how and where to work, then make it happen, and be mindful of changes over time.
On what is it based then? There are computer simulations ("hypotheses"), which scientists compare with available data ("verifications"). Then verified simulation tools are applied to predict what happens depending on our behavior. The latter part is a hypothesis without a test, but if it turns out to be true, we are in trouble. It's better to trust it and take action...
Other things that influence the gender pay gap is that women are typically the ones to stay at home to raise children or work part time, they're the ones to stay home from work to tend to sick children, etc. which lowers their average pay.
I assume this is a big incentive to improve those lines and Amazon will hopefully lobby for such. Similar to their support for public transportation in Seattle.
Nutjobs agreeing with someone doesn't mean they're wrong, but it's strong evidence they might be wrong. I mean, why are the nutjobs agreeing? That's worth thinking about.

This is especially important because clever politicians can say things that seem reasonable on the surface, but aren't really.

What I'm talking about here is really an application of the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule. Support of nutjobs is 80% likely to be evidence of nutty ideas.
But there was enough high-intensity conflicts (France-Prussia, Spain, Italy, Crimea, Balkans...) that saying "long peace" is a stretch.
Mostly in the US, now, you can buy an 'ant farm' that comes with 10-20 little ants, no queen, and no real way to propagate your pets. One of the most disappointing memories I have as a child is that my ant farm was a dead-end street.
I think what your parent comment is saying is that the Apple policy rejection would be exactly the same whether the app is native or HTML5.
Engineering biology, for real?
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I've never heard anybody say that anti-vaxxers are anything but mostly conservative, and those opinions seem to match my own experiences, so this comment is a genuine surprise for me. Is there really a belief in the opposite in some circles?
There's also Pocket that'll happily keep a nice formatted copy of the article from that site, regardless of the current ugliness, making the reading experience on mobile quite pleasant.
So you don't consider astronomy a science?
You have to admit that open-ended free speech that allows one to say, "Your culture/people are inferior lazy violent criminals" is disturbing. Such is rarely constructive and just stokes sectarian divides. The worse wars often start that way, and Europe had the living daylights bombed out of them because of such. I can understand why they'd ban it. It's pretty close to yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre. A slow fire is still a fire.

I will agree it may not be enforced evenly by the big social media companies. If one rants about "gun-crazy ignorant rednecks", that should be treated just as ethnically offensive as the usual culprits. The left can be hypocrites that way.

However, equal enforcement would require banning the Orange Guy.
Thanks for the quote.

As the sibling comment points out, be loyal to individuals. Also, if you are rank and file employee, caring for the industry more than the company produces better long-term results.
Living in the west side rail yards, and commuting to LIC would be a very pleasant commute in the morning and not so bad during the afternoon.

It is surprisingly convenient the largest private real estate project in the US is conviniently located to Amazon's new HQ.
As opposed to, say, astrophysics? Anthropology? Geology? Marine biology? Neuroscience? Paleontology? There are any number of scientific disciplines that don't have the ability to run the idealized repeatable experiment-in-a-bottle. In fact, I'd wager the number that do is probably smaller than the number that don't.

There's more to the scientific method than that.
>Compare that to selling music on bandcamp

The first I've heard of bandcamp - that's probably the difference.
A big company wants to bring some high paying jobs to a large, prosperous metro area that’s doing just fine without them: shower them with money!

Someone is on the verge of literally starving to death: make them pee in a cup before you give them any food to make sure they’re not an addict.

The Feds ought to use their interstate commerce power to put a stop to these races to the bottom to court individual projects. If some locality wants to be low-tax and business-friendly then go for it, but do it for everyone.
Why is this an app? seems to be a terrible candidate in the first place. Why don't you make a website?
It's not surprising that people on a fairly technical site recommend solutions for fairly technical users - that doesn't mean they mean that everyone should go there. There's tons of other hosted blogging platforms out there for people who don't want to take care of hosting, and which offer basic features Medium doesn't, e.g. the ability to use your own domain.
Please clarify. If global warming science is not based on hypothesis and tests, what is it based on? Where are you going with this?
> If you ever actually read the articles published from these media accounts, you'll easily see how "Not ridiculous" the claim is.

Rather than denying they exist, they said they are hardly "major" in contrast to what the the CCP is doing, which your reply completely ignores.
American corporate control of Cuba sure did it well during the Cold War. Oh wait, the Cuban government nationalized everything the Americans owned.

Focusing on the levers of control given by corporate control of strategic foreign sectors ignores the ability of host countries to unilaterally seize control of those assets at their own whim. China's hold over Africa is a very tenuous grasp at best.
I would guess most companies prefer to self-host GitLab internally. That's what mine does and we've never had any problems with it.
Yes, but I'm happy to see a ".github.io" domain which hosts a static blog site just fine and tells me the site is fully static.
Toronto dodged a bullet.
You say gentrification like its a pejorative term.

Maybe its your recurring assumption that fairness has anything to do with this. Just excise the prosperity preaching from your brain and you'll see that none of this is related.

They provide a perceived dollar benefit to the governing institution, the governing institution has the authority to catalyze that, the end.
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> climate change, vaccines, genetically modified (GMO) foods and evolution

On all four I happily defer to the experts in the scientific community who study the relevant fields.

On none of these do I suspect a breakdown of science because the sample of diverse specialists I have queried in each field reinforce the wider notion that there is a clear scientific consensus. Furthermore, the conversations I've had with specialists don't reveal any lack of consensus, while in my experience specialists usually seem quite happy to talk about scientific controversies.

On these topics let's call it "appeal to diverse set of authorities." Throw me a denier from any of the four topics and my only tactic will be to agree on a method of randomly choosing one of the thousands of experts to whom I delegate my opinion. The doubter must then either agree to argue with that expert or be forced to argue their position as the great conspiracy of the 21st century.

As long as you discuss these topics face-to-face, you'd be surprised how quickly even some of the hard core deniers' positions shift.

Edit: clarification
If you write about tech, you can cross-post your article on dev.to and set a canonical link for SEO. I don't know if Medium offers this kind of option.
So you have people reading your content while you keep your personal blog.
I assumed we were talking about someone buying gears from a 3D printing service. Then the cost increase for metal SLS seems negligible compared to the increase in robustness. If you're considering forking out $10K for a printer, OTOH, it means that you'll be running it for larger production runs, and then you might as well just get some molds made for traditional powder metal sintering. Especially when you factor in labour costs.
Cigarettes are awful almost to the point of incomprehension.

But tar is the byproduct of all smoked leaves, including cigars and marijuana. So you can certainly have a less toxic experience avoiding cigarettes, but smoking is still toxic.
While I wholeheartedly agree I mean to focus on the perception of a problem and not the presence of any actual problem.

Regardless of where the logo is acquired from what is more important is where it is shown and what it is shown next to. This is what I mean by brand sensitivity. The article makes it seem (to me) like the reviewer has a problem with a specific aspect of the app but is using a somewhat broadly interpretable part of the guidelines as the reason for rejection. This is why I suspect that a visual change regarding the logos might help the app pass review.
Getting out of the house makes all the difference for me. Public libraries are a wonderful resource, most have quiet common areas and rooms you can reserve for meetings.
Yeah I think that's still true and they have a salary calculator somewhere. I don't know why you'd hire SV programmers when your entire company is remote. They're easily double the price of anywhere else and not twice as good.
I just wrote up a long response to this rather than in comment form:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442147

The main issue is - don't be a sharecropper. The problem is that many people can't avoid it and get sucked in regardless.
Since scientific consensus has replaced religion for many people, we're long overdue for Luthers and Calvins to question it (and I say this as a Catholic). It's intuitive that "the word of God" can and historically has been perverted by human beings who have been corrupted by power, it should follow that the same is true for "settled science." Even if you're not religious, historical religion is an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of man, why would scientific consensus be any different?
Kinda pointless to open a huge office for recruitment, where virtually all your top talent is trying to get to the US to benefit from far better employment terms and compensation.
It might not be a desirable behavior for some users but it shouldn't be forbidden… The client I'm using also leaves the choice of opening within the app or going through the native browser.
We have a lot of measurements in astronomy, which often proove or disprove our hypotheses.
> Teaching people they'll be successful as long as they're willing to "eat shit" for years may create a handful of winners but it will also cause a ridiculous amount of ruined lives (not to mention families and relationships)

Totally agree. Telling people to "eat shit" is terrible universal advice.

> if you lose the roulette, you're probably in no state to lament to anyone how terrible of an idea it was to play in the first place

Agree again.

That said, just because something depends predominantly on luck doesn't mean it is never worth it. Terrible universal advice can be decent advice to specific people. If, as you said, you are fortunate enough to have downside protection from family, it can be less risky than it generally is. On the other hand, if you are sure you'd be happier having tried and lost than never tried at all (and know just how bad this flavor of losing can be), it may be the only choice.

Most people aren't like that. But some are. My point is to avoid over-correcting. Don't "eat shit" because a shithead on the Internet told you too. But if you really feel that's what you must do, don't not do it because someone on the Internet told you not to.

Side note: anecdote comes to mind. Advice is a person talking to their younger selves.
It's not so simple. When you load HN on safari, it doesn't prompt you which links on HN you'd like to allow visits to. A tap on the link is what signals your intent. I fail to see how downloading an HN app is any different from visiting HN in safari.

There are probably links to websites that link to the wider Web too on the safari new tab page (though I haven't used a fresh safari in some time so I might be mistaken).
I have a small family, and a "home office". My wife works and I take care of the infant. My home has an open floor plan where the kitchen and living room are one in the same, and that's my primary workspace. I'm not a fan of a dedicated room, and I work solely on a laptop - long ago rid myself of elaborate stationary setups, I enjoy taking my laptop into multiple rooms, even outside. When the wife gets home, work typically stops. I'm a night owl and she's an early riser, so I'm not working when she's around in the morning, and I like work at night after she falls asleep. We also have two dogs, which are a JOY to have around during the day.

Having the kid and dogs around, combined with occasional errands and household tasks, provides the exact right amount of distraction and interruption I like to have. I typically only work in 2 hour increments, and then tend to another responsibility, or purposefully head out to do something for an hour. Breaks in the day keeps my mind fresh and oddly enough, allows me to focus more when I sit down to work.

As for what the optimal setup is - that's incredibly personal and subjective, and everyone needs to figure that out for themselves over time.

Some generic advice would be:

- set at-work time limits
- set off-limits hours where you do not work under any circumstances
- find a comfortable space (that can be anything from a coworking space, to the living room)
- find your perfect "white noise." it can get really quiet at home. having something in the background can help. I personally like to keep netflix running, or a movie streaming.
I don't think that's actually the same logic at all.