skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ultimately for the developer not even development wise

Ehhh I'm not sold on that one, as someone who has done a lot of web dev and then transferred to doing some iOS and Android work. The languages you can work in (Swift, Kotlin) are fantastic, and the APIs and frameworks are great. But XCode and Android Studio are a hot mess and have been for years. Plus, compilation delays every time you want to do so much as run a test, waiting for app store approval before you can push out a bug fix....

IMO the developer story for native apps isn't that great. The web has a lot of wrinkles too, but coding with Typescript using hot-reloading and instant deployment of code to users has a lot going for it.

> No PWA competes with a native experience.

It does in one key area: it loads instantly. I know Android Instant Apps are out there too, but having to persuade your user to go to an app store and download your app before they can do anything is a huge lift. The web always, always wins on that front.
>They were saying it's difficult to get people to even install for a test run

How is it difficult to get someone to install something for a test run when like 90% of app installs are test runs? So you're saying it's difficult to get someone to install your app at all, and that has nothing to do with your product or your marketing, but it has something to do with the technology?

And the PWA experience of pinning things to your home screen, which we have absolutely no reason to believe is widely done, is a better option?

There are 200 billion some odd app installs per year (primarily for test runs), there are ??? mobile PWA app home screen pins per year.

I'd like to see you try and support OPs claim rather than argue about my comment.
At the moment, there's nowhere near enough research yet to know the potential downsides of using psilocybin to treat depression. So far, there's only been one study with 19 participants and no control group. It could be hugely successful or, as with any drug, it could come with possible side effects.
iOS doesn’t support push notifications for web pages.
That could well be. Some aspects of culture are quite subtle. There was this thing where, whenever some driver in traffic made me brake hard, my Chinese born wife would shout, "BE CAREFUL!" Well, here's the thing: I am very careful. I couldn't be blamed for any of those incidents. It's precisely that I'm careful that I was able to avoid a collision. It seemed very unfair that I should be blamed for any of these incidents. (Example, the car ahead of me spots a parking space at the last minute, then slams on his brakes to get the parking spot.)

So after about the 5th time like that, we had the argument. It turns out that she was just being scared and telling me to be careful, not knowing how an English speaker would take that contextually.
the article is basically an edited transcript of the radio interview, where the quotes you mentioned feel much more natural.
“Therapy” is the biggest legal scam in the US.

Feeling depressed? Here have whatever chemical psychologists happen to be playing with today! Take some mushrooms, no wait, exercise, no wait, take this, no wait that doesn’t work and is dangerous so take this instead.

“Prior to founding Compass, George Goldsmith and Ekaterina Malievskaia, a married couple, did not have experience in psilocybin research or working in the pharmaceutical industry. They’ve made headway thanks to tens of millions in dollars from investors including Silicon Valley libertarian Peter Thiel and former Wall Street-executive-turnedcryptocurrency-investor Mike Novogratz,”

Can’t wait until they get into the chiropractic and homoepathic industries too.

Queue every pot smoker to tell me psyilocybin is a wonder drug and every square that it’s the end of civilization.
It is amazing to see how we declare something as too obvious or natural. Like trunk based development, so obvious that questioning it makes one a fool :-)

Git and its model was the best thing few years back. Now since google is doing all its dev in the main trunk/master, it must be correct and more intelligent.

Wouldn't it be a case that they went with what they had at a certain time and continue to use it as everyone is used to it and it still works? Not sure if google analysed if branching was bad and then chose trunk based development?

I cannot understand how a company that has a well defined process doing branches, is doing it wrong? or how it is so not optimal etc. I guess it is a matter of processes and culture. None of the great companies are great because their source control strategy (or code) was excellent.

We developers always over analyse everything and come up with excellent logic and some of us are gifted with words more than others.
For those who can't stand javascript, typescript was made for you
I don't have any serious qualms with psychedelics. I have a problem with someone arguing that they should be legal solely on the basis that risk is acceptable. By that argument, I should like to wave a loaded gun in your face.

But that would be a stupid and unnecessary risk, so obviously there is more to the question of regulation than what risks people feel like they want to take.
Would it be correct to compare this with airflow?
Don't need manure-- vermiculite, brown rice flour.
To me, you have to have a really damn good reason to start with an app. Distribution is hell.
I am moving towards "Windows app first"; Windows still has dominant market share among Desktop users. You might impress investors and developers with Mac and Linux support, but far too many people are developing for platforms where the users are not and wondering why their stuff isn't catching on.
Fixed:
Yelp accused of manipulating reviews to coerce small business into buying ads (2018)(2017)(2016)(2015)(2014)(2013)(2012)(2011)(2010)(2009)(2008)(2007)(2006)(2005)(2004)
Brings back fond memories of foraging in the Welsh Valleys every September October, millions of them for free (must be the sheep turds) - they were just as good fresh or dried, mushroom tea - amazing, despite the muddy fragrance, was particularly good for watching comedy films such as Steve Martin’s The Jerk or Airplane - used to be literally rolling on the floor with unstoppable laughter.
Of course our Idiotic UK government could not allow such fun to be had, so deemed this wonderful gift from nature illegal and now turds like this couple can make a fortune.
How would an asynchronous transaction work? If you're posting your side of the transaction publicly, doesn't that expose you to a MITM or spoofing attack?
Some people earn money by doing literally nothing but essentially clicking “Buy these stocks” and leaving it alone for years.

It seems more like a personal cry that they don’t find the work fulfilling, but it’s far and away from earning something for nothing.
In case you missed it, the code needed to load the Northwind database into DDB with appropriate indexes is here [0].

One fun thing: this was my first time playing with the new DynamoDB on-demand capacity features. If you do run the code, check out the CloudWatch metrics on the table. It's pretty cool to see the WCUs shoot up to 150 and back down to 0 with no throttling whatsoever.

[0] https://github.com/trek10inc/ddb-single-table-example
In theory humankind can persist indefinitely, so long as we don't fuck it up, but we are fucking it up, we're destroying the life support systems that sustain us. That's unacceptable risk.

Individuals on the other hand don't live forever, the risk of death is 100% for everyone, so individual risk isn't something we need to get uptight about.
Problems With Open-Source Business Models
Show HN: LiteCLI – A CLI for SQLite with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive rants to HN? As you know, we're trying for a bit better than internet default here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I literally do not understand what you are responding to right now.
politics and math. they don't mix :)
Can you give a blanket statement like that? Plenty of governments have fallen out faltered because they're military stood against them (eg a military coup).

Equally police/military have probably been used when there would not be democratic support.

Did you have some examples in mind?
Glad you like it! :)
Conversations reached a point where I can easily install it on my family member phones and they feel it's a "normal" messenger. This doesn't sound like a high bar to reach but surprisingly it didn't happen before (at least for XMPP).

Recently a spin-off of Conversations - Quicksy was introduced [0] [1] that makes the entry even easier as it offers phone number-based contact discovery. From my experience people are used to quick on-boardings and don't even want to think about things like "username" and looking for contacts.

[0]: https://quicksy.im/

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...
They assume things are easy, because they would be if CSS was a properly engineered solution. But it isn't. Having to wait for flexbox to be able to easily vertically center stuff proves the point.
"any programming language" is
* Golang
* Java
* Python
* C++ ?
I'm a structural engineer, so when I see forces I like to compare them to common forces I design for in buildings.

That engine produces 115,000 lb of thrust. If I take typical rebar, fy=60ksi, so I will need about 1.916in2, which is about 2 #9 bars.

Two engines per plane, so I could hold back the 777 at full power with 4 #9 rebars. Not bad!
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Like kyrra said. Releases are handled by independently by each team. Teams are in various states of maturity in relation to their release practices. Some are fully automated. Some involve manual QA. I've supported teams across that continuum as a SETI at Google.

I'm not as well-versed in canarying though I've set it up for a team or two. I've only ever seen a single canary version for any particular binary.

Canarying is done. I haven't seen canaries running multiple versions of the same binary. Though teams will often guard new behavior behind experiment flags.
I don't think that's really true, because Apple has strengthened PWAs in a lot of ways in recent iOS releases.

I personally suspect it has a lot to do with waking up a service worker outside of the browser lifecycle - given how aggressively iOS monitors apps no longer running in foreground I can imagine that being quite a hurdle to overcome (without compromising the reason for doing it in the first place).
So in the latter case, more humans do cause co2 to the extent we each need food and land uses changes to provide that food.

In the case of cows, it's the same calculus: land use change to feed us. Just, more land use change in the case of cows.

So, therefore, a cow raised on pasture that isn't suited for other farming wouldn't be especially co2 producing by that measure, correct? Apart from methane.

So, we could reduce cows contributions to:

* Eliminating their methane (seaweed experiments, etc)

* restricting cattle to land suitable for pasture but not so suitable for crops

If cattle were only raised in those cases, that would effectively negate their warming impact?

This would still mean a massive reduction in beef and much higher prices of course.
I am not sure how successful they will be.. The big pharma guys can get into this game pretty easily. The issue will be establishing new FDA approvals. I don't think the chemical process / synthesis is patentable anymore. Even distillation will not be.
>I get what a spy organization could do with that information. What does a hotel organization do with it?...

Give it to the spy organization.

Not being snarky. That was meant as a serious comment. Maybe there is some kind of requirement to inform the appropriate organizations of the passport numbers of any foreigners in your hotel?
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Whenever this topic comes up or managing generally, I point to this Ask HN on the same topic from the end of 2011. I think it's gold and has served me well in my career:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643

Especially jbob24's comment:

Forget about all that "leadership" and "management" bullshit. Seriously. When you have direct reports your primary function is to serve them. I'm not kidding - I know it sounds all squishy and kumbaya-ish but if you think about what it means to serve somebody else you'll have a really good compass to guide you through your day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408082

I would also add to this: do 1-on-1's and do them well. I recommend reading through this post:

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32765/what-is-...

For me, a lot of what I have seen as failures of management (and organizations more broadly) seemed to boil down to manager insecurity and posturing. A manager thinking, "I have to look like a leader right now even though I'm not really sure at the moment what the right move is here," when they should be saying, "Hey, team, how can we solve this problem? What can I do to help you?"

P.S. It would be interesting to learn how things turned out for endymi0n all these years later and whether that post was helpful.
Well, it is actually a shame.

Asking someone to be ashamed of not having entirely elective knowledge isn't "live and let live." Nor would that strike me as being likely to be productive. Instead, you should describe how desirable and rewarding that knowledge is.
Similarly, on a game I worked on we had a “controller monkey” that would spam all possible player actions (move, jump, attack, special powers) rapidly and randomly. We then had the testers record multiple paths exploring through each level. Every few seconds the monkey-controlled player character would be teleported a bit further down the path to ensure progress and coverage. Dozens of people would set the monkey to run all night when they went home for the day. In the morning we would have a dozen fresh crash dumps.
I run a website where I get asked quite often to make it into a mobile app, and I reply by showing how to add it to the device's homescreen and not need an app. Never ever ever in the few dozen times I've had this conversation has anyone ever actually done it. In fact most responses to that suggestion have been overwhelmingly negative. They want an app, even though it'd just be a wrapper around the site with no added features, they want an app.
> Annette Schavan resigned two years earlier because of plagiarism-accusations, so his wasn’t the first case, even when only looking at recent cases.

Schavan resigned in 2013, two years after Guttenberg.
Matrix, a competitor to XMPP is 4 years old [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
This attitude is the one thing that keeps me from embracing universal government-provided health insurance. People are so quick to use it as a justification for legal restrictions on behavior.
> Wherever the money came from, if you dump it through the window, you'll be helping a few people, but at the same time causing inflation that will hurt everyone else.

On first read I thought that this was incorrect, but on pondering a bit more, I think it's sound -- the observation is that in effect you're creating new Congolese money, and you've not actually produced any value to add into the economy, you've just increased the numerator in the <currency/value> equation.

(Taking the example further, if there's 100 CDF in circulation, and you add 100 CDF to the economy, then you'd have to reindex and make everything cost 2x. The only reason this isn't obvious is because it takes time/transactions for this price signal to equilibrate through the economy, and so it's impossible to measure on the scale that the example considers. Perhaps this is more obvious if we reconsider the thought experiment with X=(Congolese GDP).)

On the other hand, if you were to hand over some USD from your pocket, those have "inherent value" from a Congolese person's perspective, in that they are fungible with goods on the international market and don't remove value from someone else's currency.

Anyone with actual Economics theory know if my intuition here is correct or what model describes it?
Slavish reproduction does not qualify as a derivative work.
not defending, but plausible reasons:

form of identity.

concierge service to lookup status/book travel for guests.
Nope. It's not a joke.

Unfortunately, not everyone works in such a simple environment as the one you describe.
Yeah I think it was Gladwell (shocker) who shoehorned himself into the concept and made up the 10,000 hour rule.
For one, you could simply hand the pile of cash out to the first person who comes by your window.
Or you might hand small amounts of cash to a bunch of different people.
Both of these seem like nice things to do. But then you wonder: what if the cash in your living room is counterfeit? More to the point — does it even matter?
Wherever the money came from, if you dump it through the window, you'll be helping a few people, but at the same time causing inflation that will hurt everyone else.

The key issue with this entire blog post is that it ignores the distribution of wealth within the hypothetical Congolese market. What if one person in the marketplace has 99% of the money, and everybody else has the rest evenly divided between them. Then under some moral/ethical frameworks it might be beneficial to distribute the money evenly to the rest of the population at the cost of inflating away some of the single rich person's wealth.

What you do with the money affects the distribution of wealth & goods within the society. What is a good distribution? You need a moral/ethical framework to decide. I won't make an assumption on which one we go with, but lets say we go with one.

Not spending or donating the money is making the choice that the distribution of wealth as it currently exists is the most optimal. Is this just? Depends on your moral/ethical framework.

Saying that earning is good and spending is bad is overly simplistic. You need an objective function on the distribution of wealth. Earning money in a way that warps the distribution away from the ideal can then be considered bad (and thus should be 'corrected' via taxation and other methods) and spending money in a way that warps the distribution toward the ideal can be considered good and should be rewarded (via tax credits etcetera).
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I’m all for it. But please don’t make it about gender. Contrary to what people think, constantly pushing that women are equal to men actually makes women seem less equal.
I'm a core dev in the project. Happy to answer questions.

Code: https://github.com/dbcli/litecli

It is based on the pgcli/mycli tools for Postgres and MySQL. It is the newest addition to the https://www.dbcli.com suite of tools.
I have been looking into building a XMPP server and client lately. Mainly cause the ones out there aren't super great.
What makes this different from a branch?
One thing that took me a while to "get" fully (and muster the courage to try) is that as an engineering manager it is perfectly ok to at times hand over stuff you might consider "your job" to members on your team. If you do, you should of course offer extra supervision if they feel like they need it.

There are a few great reasons for doing this. It makes your team less dependent on you, and it makes them feel empowered in that way. They learn your job is nothing magical and that they, too, can solve problems that they might otherwise just say "management needs to solve this". It erodes the "us vs them" dichotomy of management vs workers which has never been helpful in my view.

Another reason is that junior developers might not really know or fully understand what their manager does, and thus might not be considering it a valid career path for them.

Finally, it frees up some of your time, which you will find when you become a manager, suddenly becomes a lot more precious. With that freed up time, maybe you can spend some time coding, so you don't become too detached from what your team is doing.
> People who actually tried to use it for a number of things quickly realize that USB-C is just the name of the physical connector, which has nothing to do with what the device supports, which in turn has nothing to do with what the (unlabeled!) cable supports.

This is also true with USB A, B mini-A and mini-B, mini-AB, micro-A and micro-B, and micro-AB; also A, B, and micro-B actually have two versions each of the connectors, with compatibility in one direction, so you don't even always know that physical connectors are compatible from the connector name without also the USB version.
Learn to optimize moreso than manage.

Learn how to give context without accusing or instructing.

Learn about the different types of management.

Read: First, Break All The Rules.
American Kingpin was a really good read. It's the story of Ross Ulbricht, the guy that built the silk road.

It reads like fiction, but is a true story, and hits all the right buttons for me (technology, entrepreneurial spirit, understanding how to (or how not to) learn from your mistakes, etc.).

It's well written and hard to put down.

-----

The power of habit was also a really good read if you hadn't read it already.
Yeah it is massively worse user experience than installing an app from the app store. I feel like anyone suggesting it is better has an agenda of some sort. It's objectively worse in every way for the user. Suggesting the $100 is a barrier to entry is absolutely laughable. If you are going to talk about money talk about the 30% cut they take. That's really the only reasonable argument in favor of them.
Most people prefer the superbowl adverts to the actual game
> It was public knowledge that the owners of the corporation were TmarTn and Syndicate.

So was the argument here that they expected children and teenagers who were primarily consuming their content to look up the public ownership records of CSGO Lotto? Since they weren't particularly open about their ownership in the videos that they advertised the site in.
Passport numbers are the easiest and perhaps the only way for these hotels to uniquely identify and track their customers. A ton of jurisdictions also require hotels to store these.
You should read http://lucasmeijer.com/posts/cpp_unity/
I've been trying to find time to give Avalonia (a cross-platform desktop GUI kit for .NET Core) a try.

https://ptupitsyn.github.io/Cross-Platform-DotNet-UI/