skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the experience of "installing" a web page by visiting the URL is still orders of magnitude more pleasant than installing an app. No need to clutter your homescreen with an app that you'll use twice and then forget about. Alternatively, no risk of not putting on your home screen and then forgetting about the 600 MB it's silently occupying on your disk until you're midway through your sister's wedding and trying to quickly free up space for more photos. No permissions to grant. No contributing to the endless stream of update notifications. No running in the background eating battery or ferrying your contacts to their servers or listening in on your microphone to use your voice for training their machine learning models.

Mobile websites are easier to install, fine to use for anything that doesn't require specific hardware permissions, and then when the user stops using them they stay gone. Not to mention they work on my Linux machine and my Windows machine and my iPad and my Galaxy. Forget apps.
Interesting feature. However, I choose to date people who don't use facebook.
I spend 4-6 months at a time without logging in. I don't delete my facebook because I used as a kind of blog for years and don't want to delete all that content yet.
Right but if you're talking about restaurants, where people want to be (rather than the DMV where they have to be), I don't see why busyness isn't essentially the same as looking at lines outside.
Well, it's especially annoying with something like Yelp that you often use on the go and sometimes in stressful situations (somebody in your group is hungry and ornery).

Downloading an app can take an unpredictable amount of time and bandwidth, and once you download it you may have to log in, remember or set a password, deal with 2FA, click a verification email, etc.
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Change the system for professional program admissions, internships, masters, etc.

If they depend on marks and references so much, resourceful students will focus on acquiring those.
Not sure if joke about you choosing english and the machine being shit or just not knowing another language to make the job more authentic.
> Higher ed (paraphrasing Peter Thiel) is a mix between insurance and a tournament. It is _supposed_ to ensure a basic living standard.

No, it's not.
Ask HN: Senior devs: what are some tough programming problems you've solved?
At work I mean. What are the kinds of things that make a senior developer frustrated?
Any nontrivial component, which today does whatever its job is today, but is very brittle and resistant to change and is centrally located in the overall system architecture/structure, certainly can become tomorrow's untouchable 20 k LOC VB.net script.

Having something like that is like a pressure point for business risk. A small nudge here, and the whole shaky house of cards violently implodes ejecting all kinds of badness, monetary and otherwise, over those around it.

And it is not just the bad component, it is the overall system design which permits this and does not support change within the system ("modifiability", "extensibility", ...).

Point: it is not as easy as saying "oh, this is because of that incompetent asshat". The incompetent asshattery is a systemic phenomenon with many actors. Death by a thousand small bad choices; the 20 LOC of untouchable code is just a manifestation of the bigger problems.
Doesn't matter. You think the people who buy Ferraris race them around the track? Most of them sit in garages and get driven to the golf club.

But with Tesla, you can now own a car that's "faster than a Ferrari" for less than $100k. Kids aren't dreaming of owning Ferraris now, they're dreaming of owning Teslas.
This is particularly concerning given that GDPR specifically requires member states, in enforcing GDPR, allow exceptions for journalism and documents/data "in the public interest." Considering the funds at the center of these Facebook posts went missing from EU coffers its clear the information falls squarely within both exemptions. At least it's a civil case. The fines for non-compliance with the request will surely add up quickly but I suspect this will make its way through the court system and reach a just conclusion.
This is XML, Dark Reader works for HTML only.
While I think the redesign is bloated and slower its not unusable and you can opt out of it at present.

Being prompted repeatedly to open in app is certainly annoying but at present most mobile users probably use one of the apps. At least for android where 85% of your global market lives there are 7 different options nearly all of which are better than viewing in mobile firefox/chrome.

In short your experience is valid but since you probably represent a small percentage of the userbase reports of reddits death are still presumably greatly exaggerated.

On android I like Reddit is fun

Here is a thread discussing a replacement on ios

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/5w4885/ios_replacem...

On the lighter side old reddits code was open source and lives on in voat which at present is infested with a lot of racists and alt right. Maybe we can all move over and "voat" them out of their new home like we kicked them off reddit.
All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday
Apple has a very interesting approach to these type of app monopolies.

It "nationalizes" the monopoly app by creating a generic version of the same app.

The problem is, the generic app versions are exceptional in that they have much deeper access to the phone than a traditional independently built App Store app.

Seems unfair.
- pharmaceutical companies
> that's the problem with every language that isn't Java or JS.

Or WebAssembly, for which many languages now have a backend.
> 1. Network operators exempting an entire class of service, such as T-Mobile's “Music Freedom” which has the same terms for everyone who applies

Which is irrelevant as the terms themselves are discriminatory, plus the mere fact of having to apply is a major barrier to entry.

If you want to build a new streaming service of any kind (a niche radio station, say?) in a world with network neutrality, you need a server with an internet connection, so the barrier to entry is ten bucks a month or so and you can start streaming to a few hundred listeners. If you need to apply for zero rating, you now have to read and understand the requirements of a few hundred carriers around the globe, adapt your software so it can meet all those varying requirements ...

Also, it is inherently incompatible with many use cases. I have my own server, and I can stream my own music. What are my chances of success if I tried to get T-Mobile to zero rate traffic from my own streaming server? Do I have to allow them to listen into the connection?

And then, what if I wanted to sell a device for people to do the same, say? A home NAS that allows people to stream music to their smartphone? How do I get T-Mobile to zero-rate that?

> but I think it's alienated a lot of people who really don't see a problem with the first form (at least as long as it's really open)

But the problem is that if you don't fight the first, you effectively get the same result as the second. The long-term effect on innovation and prices is the same, as it is inherently not "really open". Also, carriers offering these packages is not an accident, it is intentional manipulation by choosing a misleading framing. But choosing not to fight the framing doesn't help you--while you might have more allies then, you would effectively also not have anything left that is worth fighting for. The idea of selling 20 GB/month packages to the public as "3 GB/month plus music traffic free on top" in order to then be able to correctly claim that "this would be illegal with net neutrality" in order to make people incorrectly think "with net neutrality I would only get 3 GB for the same price" is genius, but you really shouldn't fall for it.
Guess it's a matter of time before I stop using Reddit then.

I already ran to Relay as an escape from Reddit's astonishingly garbage mobile browser experience. Next stop is the door.
Why install a 20-50mb app that does exactly the same thing as what the site does in a browser window?

And that's besides the other objections that I've seen others write here.
I haven't installed a new app in like 18 months. I'm done with that song and dance, tired of my device always being the product, especially after I just spent $1000 on a phone.

You better have mobile web figured out properly or you're not getting me as a customer.
If a Robinhood user thinks they are getting the wrong prices when they buy or sell, then they should seriously contact the SEC because that is illegal (as far as I know the prices aren't wrong).

The reason guaranteed small-scale trade orders are valuable is because they are a way to avoid 'salami tactics' which involve slowly building up to a large order. By the end of a larger order the price will have moved, and the earlier 'sliced' traders will be disappointed.
Love it! Going to try it out at work on monday :)
In a minimalist design, everything has a purpose, so if you remove it, it breaks. That seems good.

And yet, brittleness is supposed to be bad. How is it different?
> The Yelp app/site is basically the same it was 5 years ago.

Out of context, that would be a good thing. I hate it when a company changes user interface every week, just to stay in fashion.
Points taken :P
Non-amp link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/heres-the-...
Your dating profile is not linked to your regular FB profile/network when shown to other daters
Lots of countries use the tax system to automatically sign up voters. Obviously this doesn't catch all potential voters - the people who don't file taxes because they have no income are likely a lot of the most disenfranchised individuals - but it gets you 90% of the way there. In Canada, whenever you file your taxes you have a box to tick 'automatically share my information with federal and provincial elections authorities'.
Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search [pdf]
There's a difference between having an account and using it.

I mean, I had a google+ account since the early days, but I used it about as much as I use facebook now.
Here is a text version:

http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html

Past discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10892293
Not only did they upgrade the original tires to track-oriented, barely street legal tires but also they upgraded to track-oriented brakes. Both of these have very large effects on track times. Adjusting handling characteristics to the preferences of the same driver who then sets the lap times is somewhat of a cheat too.

The link to is a blog spam article that makes is it appear as if the Tesla was faster than a current Ferrari model but in reality, it was an 8-year old model. I don't see a lap time for the Ferrari 488 but the Lamborghini Huracan Performante was much faster: 1:18.73 vs 1:21.49 with Randy Probst. The 2018 Nissan GT-R Nismo was also faster. (https://fastestlaps.com/tracks/willow-springs-streets-of-wil...)

The biggest problem is not mentioned at all - the Tesla can do only about 4 laps (4-5 estimated here https://www.motortrend.com/cars/alfa-romeo/giulia/2019/tesla... but the track tires limit the range further).
I'm very interested to read some of your blog posts related to strategy/code around DFS, but I don't know what your blog is. Would you mind posting a link to one of these posts?
IIRC the official app is from them buying AlienBlue, which used to be the best one on iOS. These days it's Apollo.

Apollo recently moved some push notification features behind a subscription to cover ongoing costs, separate from their "Pro" one time in-app purchase, so I think Reddit is at least taking a cut from API usage by other clients.
> The difference is often less than a penny. But it adds up for larger trades. Schwab, for instance, says that for orders of 500 to 1,999 shares of S&P 500 companies, the average savings from price improvement is $10.80.

Ok and Schwab charges $4.95 for trades. So an investor ends up saving $5 per trade. S&P 500 companies stock price ranges from $20 to $1200 so to buy 500 shares of a company with $20 price per share would mean you spend $10000 resulting in a saving of 0.05%. On the other end of the spectrum you spend $600,000 resulting in a savings of 0.0008% assuming that when they say "average savings" they mean "average savings" per trade and not per share.

Just to put the whole thing in perspective.
Canada is the beta testing country of the USA.
Honestly, I was kind of surprised RescueTime was allowed to release an iOS version in the first place given all the permissions it required.
Do you interact on the wall or in messenger?
What exactly distinguishes a political end from any other kind of end?
Essentially all elements of civilization are path dependant.
WASM will probably make sandboxing across languages a lot easier. I wonder what would happen if you ran a golang wasm binary on a the golang wagon WASM interpereter [1]

[1] https://github.com/go-interpreter/wagon
Maybe the'll weed themselves out if the feature is not there
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's up to you, isn't it? If you're okay with writing software that actively harms people, then you're the one that needs to figure out a way to sleep at night.
Far too many examples of companies making perfectly functional websites for mobile for me to believe an app is necessary for anything.
Just a warning against Materialize, cause it might pop in the list: Most stackoverflow answers use jQuery, even though materialize does not depend on jQuery. There is a high reliance on a lot of JS code. Some basic things like italic and bold text do not exist. Otherwise, the column system and buttons are nice.

And bulma: I found some class names hard to remember and too many "has-" that could be dropped. Otherwise, very useful, many features! I used it for shadergif.
Re. strong feelings about not installing apps:

Speaking from the experience of my spouse (fancy iPhone user) and I (low-end Android user) -- both our phones are normally out of memory. We take lots of family photos and videos, which fill up our phones and are tedious to delete or back up. So downloading a new app means first we have to delete something else.

A secondary but lesser reason is notifications. I know that every app will require a minute or two of effort to locate the notification settings and switch them all off.
They could bully him into selling, same way as Twitter has slowly strangulated 3rd party clients.
If you were traveling at C you would not really see anything [external] at all. Length contraction would be such that everything around you would appear as a single motionless point.

Any incoming light would be blue shifted to infinity, or red shifted to zero, so if any actually touched you there would be infinite energy there. Luckily no light can actually reach you - nothing can. You would have no incoming sensory information at all.

Because of length contraction there's no distance between the start and and of your journey, so from your POV it doesn't take an time at all, since the distance was so short.
The thing that stunned me about mail forwarding in the US is that it's free. There's as little verification here in Canada as in the US, but it's a pretty pricey service (minimum ~$60 depending on length of time) which naturally rate-limits fraud attempts.
Influenza Virus Transmission Is Dependent on Relative Humidity and Temperature
The claim is that we can't do this study on humans:

> Mice yanked out of their community and held in solitary isolation show signs of brain damage.

Don't we do this to prisoners? Seems like we could study this within the boundaries of current cultural practices. Personally, I'm not a fan of this treatment, but this would give weight (or not) to the argument that we shouldn't be doing it.
I'm pretty sure Facebook users aren't more married than the average person. And kids aren't really on Facebook, not sure where you got that impression from.
you can't pass regulations requiring governments to protect personal data then get mad when a government goes to protect personal data. Who that data is about, whether a high-profile politician or an average joe, doesn't matter.

Either everyone is protected from third parties gathering data on them, or nobody is. Can't have it both ways.
Even if that were entirely true, which it isn't, the Constitution is not fixed (except maybe the part about equal representation in the Senate, and there's a two-step trick to change that, too.)
Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud.

Can you say more about the assumed security model here? We built gVisor [1] (and historically used nacl or ptrace) precisely because things like Isolates aren't (historically?!) trustworthy enough for side-by-side. Plus the whole V8-only ;).

Edit: But let me say, I still think this is awesome (and love seeing more people jumping into the "just run code" space).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/open-sourcing-gvi...
What you are describing sounds like a lot of work for not much payoff, and that's not what you pursue once you IPO. Yelp just became yet another "we sell ads" company, and that's not surprising considering that it was basically an online directory with reviews.
>> Dating apps live and die by their userbase

No. Dating "apps" live and die by their customers. The bulk of the dating app industry is powered by bots, false accounts and professional "trainers". Some are real, but the majority of the industry is a scam.
Kind of an aside to your points, but I opened Yelp on my iPod Touch (first gen) and was flabbergasted to see that despite being un-updated and on an ancient version of iOS, the app still worked! This is pretty amazing, given that most companies' API endpoints from ten years ago don't still work today :)
AMD’s Rome is indeed a monster
> its clear the information falls squarely within both exemptions

This is the problem with GDPR. Each member state decides what's clear and what's not. It may be appealable. But that's expensive, time- and attention-consuming and risky.

We need strong privacy regulation. One downside to a fragmented complain-investigate-fine regulatory structure (as opposed to strict liability or complain-mediate-investigate structures) is that these things happen, and when they happen they do so decisively.
Actually, I would say Yelp is far worse than it was 5 years ago. Not sure how much fault it is of Yelp's, but reviews aren't really worth as much today as they were in Yelp's early days.
Literally half of all Americans actively use either FB or IG at least once a day, as of Q3 ending.
yes.. and what's the url for this "serendipity" you speak of?
This also depends where you live and what types of bats live around you. I have little brown bats around my home all the time. They get in my ceiling and sometimes get confused and end up in the house. They will not bite a human unless picked up by one. They eat moths and mosquitoes, which is why I try to avoid hurting them when I release them outside. I just wear gloves and wash everything afterwards.
Fertility means "ability to have offspring", but the article says that the declining number of childbirths is mostly because of choice. I think we need a better word then.
Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years

FWIW, I find that the macOS' Tom voice is remarkably good. I sometimes wonder if it's what NPR uses for some of its on-air messages, or if Apple's voice was just based on the same guy.
Yelp is an unscrupulous business, however, I do find it useful. I don't read the reviews but I enjoy looking at pictures of food before choosing a restaurant.
"Profound."
> Nobody wants to see their friend of friends on a dating site. Tinder tried this already and it bombed. The current meta for dating apps is to exclude anyone in your contacts or friendlists.

If you exclude your contacts and friend lists and exclude friend of friends, who does that leave? Friends of friends of friends? Complete strangers? I wonder what proportion of couples knew each other directly or indirectly before they got together: "Oh, you know Jack! Yeah, he's by father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate!"

Obviously I have no hard data, but it's not too difficult to imagine that couples come together with all sorts of varying prior knowledge of each other's existence.

That the current meta is this, doesn't mean that is the most successful strategy for all people at all times.

I think dating apps suffer from the public health policy vs. individualised medicine paradox: what might be good policy for people en masse might be terrible advice for any particular individual.
I'm simply citing this email from Google themselves that I received in July, telling me that "To keep sending or requesting money, you’ll need to use the Google Pay app." This was within a month of receiving an email from Venmo telling me that "Venmo is phasing out some of the functionality on the Venmo.com website over the coming months. We are beginning to remove the ability to pay and charge someone on Venmo.com. Over time, you may see less functionality on our website." If Google has reversed course on that plan I'd be quite happy because it's totally baffling, but for all I know they're just taking their time with it like Venmo is. In the meantime, I went back to paying friends with cash and checks.
I wonder which part of the GDPR they are using to demand sources. I have read the thing a couple of months ago and as I recall the thing is mostly about not sharing personal information without consent, does anyone else recall parts that grant governments new rights to demand the disclosure of personal information?
All the regulation in the world won't do any good against a highly corrupt government like the one Romania is sadly facing at the moment.
The article suggests that these longevity phenotypes are not even inherited. For example, one trait that's assortatively selected for is geographic location. Another is socioeconomic status. Neither of these are encoded in genes, but they correlate with traits that may be encoded in genes. Silicon Valley draws a certain type of person, Flint Michigan draws a certain type of person, and a tech worker in Silicon Valley is far more likely to marry another tech worker in Silicon Valley than an unemployed factory worker in Flint Michigan. However, that double-tech-worker couple will have the money to tear down the old house with lead paint and replace it with new construction, and they will live in an area with the tax base to pipe in fresh water from Hetch Hetchy rather than drink polluted well water from the ground. As a result, their kids may have decades longer longevity than kids in Flint.

With this model, it's not so much that people are choosing to mate with people with genetic defects. It's more that that's who they end up with, because people tend to mate with others who have roughly equal resources to give their children a shot at better longevity. Some of that can be because of circumstance, and some of it could be that their particular genetic make-up is no longer adapted to the modern world. The article is suggesting that the portion due to genetic makeup is likely less than has previously been estimated, because people choose mates who are in the same general health & fitness bucket, and so any differences in genetic fitness gets magnified by your partner's (and other community members') fitness as well.
Pretty cool. Having visited salt mines in that part of Germany I think it is an amazing good place for the project, I really hope it survives changes in ownership if they occur.

I also like the idea of putting this stuff on fired clay tablets. I saw some tiles that had been laser etched (more as a home decor idea rather than an archival mechanism) and the clarity was spectacular. What I don't know is if folks have done the 'what this would like like in a thousand years' sort of aging/testing on them. It seems from the home decor tiles that the laser etching was not very deep so fairly simpler erosion would remove it. (unlike cuniform which is pressed a couple of mm deep into the clay before firing)
Title should read fertility rate.