skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand I agree that it sort of did never really cut it, but on the other hand, culturally, it really felt like that before the whole reproducibility crisis went mainstream that science, while not infallible, was at least good and it worked and so could be trusted to some degree. And I think in that case yeah, if you wanted to poke further into things then you could just go hunt for the information.

There really has been a three-pronged breakdown in trust over "studies" over the last few decades. First we learned to distrust the phrase "studies show" after we learned Big Tobacco paid for studies to show what they wanted to show. Next we learned to be more skeptical of studies show after the whole anti-vaxxer crowd latched onto fraudulent research. Finally after the reproducibility crisis went mainstream we are now facing the reality that the economics of the industry is bust and is driven it into a pathological state and there are massive systemic failures.

This is a huge problem. Science is a really important part of our sense-making apparatus. It's social science in particular that so many widely accepted beliefs that came from research that turned out to not replicate. So what does it even matter that something is widely believed anymore?

To quote Nietzsche "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

Culturally, we've turned a corner and we need to toss the phrase "studies show" out the window and push back when we hear it in isolation like that. We need to shine a light on the claims being made so that bad and/or incompetent actors can't hide in the shadows. It's one small step on the journey to mend our most important sense-making apparatus.
Ok, I read through sections I and II, and no further. Sticking my neck w-a-a-a-y out there, I would loan the francs on my table to Congolese who could convince me they can make a business, provide a product or service, grow the business and employ other Congolese.

Essentially, become a bank that makes only business loans. Perhaps charge interest, perhaps not. I'd recycle loan payments to make new loans to new entrepreneurs. I'd meet periodically with the borrowers to learn what is working for them and what is not so that I can select better candidates over time, hopefully before I run out of francs...
It depends. You might get away with just adding a Global Secondary Index or you might be totally screwed. DynamoDB sacrifices flexibility in favor of scalability.
Ted Cruz introduces Constitutional amendment for term limits in Congress
Just want to say thanks for this diligent and extensive piece of journalism, as someone who has encountered these people before and felt something was up without knowing what.
I'm for it. Just like home brewing and distilling and vinting, growing your own weed or shrooms, you can still do it at home if you have the time, energy, expertise, and equipment. The corporations will hopefully make it easy and accessible to get good quality, safe stuff in a store front. Both options are good for freedom IMO.
> If you are an Apple engineer and can help get that shipped, I will buy you a nice dinner. If you're an Apple recruiter, hire me so I can help ship it! :)

Not that I know anything not known publicly but I suspect the reason Apple iOS Safari does not have Web Push API is not because they lack developer resources to write the code to get it done. Apple is under tremendous pressure to increase revenue from its "services" right now so it seems a bad time to strengthen PWAs.
What are you using? Between the demise of CNBC and Bloomberg, I’m getting to the point of tuning out of most business coverage.
One day these young workers get old and need social security. You can't rely on a constant influx of young people forever.
Why would you be removing it from society? Presumably you will be using it in the future.
Do you not think I know this? Sometimes less precision for the sake of flowing conversation is worth it. HN can be absurdly pedantic some days.
Gotta get the manure from somewhere.
> So, we built the web’s first video meme generator. Within weeks, Kapwing had hundreds of meme creators using the website daily thanks to the magic of SEO.

I want to learn this magic too! OP can you give us a brief overview about your SEO strategy?
This article is an interesting thought experiment, but I can't help but feel that the statements made are in such opposition to understood economic principle and call into question basic moral precepts. That doesn't mean it's wrong, it just feels alien to read.

As an example of what I mean, the idea of consumption being a net-negative destructive action goes against the economic concept of velocity of money and how that drives economic engines. On the other hand, I can understand because the net value is perhaps negative of a grossly consumptive action like buying a yacht, simply because of the natural resources consumed to produce it. Economics rarely accounts for the externalities.
i've been noodling on an idea about price transparency to lessen consumer information asymmetry, and this case might be a neat application: any ads should be accompanied by at least the highest all-inclusive price for the product in the expected viewership area. in this case, the mere inclusion of a price tips the viewer off that it's an ad.

this price would include all fees and taxes to get the exact item shown in the ad. in cases where the fees and taxes vary for the viewership, you show the highest possible price. you can show other price variations, but the highest must be the most prominent. not only would consumers get better information but markets would be more competitive and ads would be better targeted (so as to show the lowest price to each viewer).
I found your article very interesting. Thank you very much. One question I had is what and how COMPASS obtained their IP. Surely “distillation” of the psychoactive substance is widely known? It would be a bit like me trying to patent pancake mixture.
Most of the points in the article are for the benefit of the developer (easier updating, lower dev cost, fewer platforms) and not for the benefit of the end user. If the goal is to make a product better for yourself then make a web application. If your goal is to make a product users will like then make mobile applications.

The article talks about how users don't install apps but signing up for a website (enter email, invent new password, wait for password vertification email, click link) is a far larger barrier to entry than just finding the app in the store and installing it.
Joshua Tree and Yosemite get trashed as shutdown continues
Picked it up long ago in a class on Eastern Philosophy. Given the vastness, variety, and history of Asia it barely covered 1% of it all, of course, so I only have a rough overview of the main traditions.
You can comfortably read and comprehend the Unix v6 kernel source code in a day or two. The printed form of Lyons Notes is about half a centimeter thick, maybe 150 pages.

Machines were smaller then, too. 64K of code on a PDP-11, small ROMs (hundreds of KB) for the larger embedded systems.

My belabored point: Systems were smaller. There was a lot less typing involved :-)
You can try out kiva.org

My problem with it was that most of the businesses were of the retail type (selling clothes on the streets). I’m not an economist but that seems to me to not have much potential for lifting many out of poverty.
It goes on to explain it in the following paragraphs:

> Don't get me wrong — this is far from the full picture. There are a ton of second-order corrections we need to make. We'd want to inquire how the money was earned, for example. If it's earned in free, honest, competitive transactions, it's going to be a better measure of value-added than if it's earned coercively, dishonestly, or in stifled markets. If it's earned in positive-sum games (like farming), it's going to be a better measure of value than if it's earned in zero- or negative-sum games (like spamming).

> On the spending side, we need to account for whether the goods we're consuming are rivalrous or non-rivalrous, as well as all the externalities from consumption, both positive and negative. If no one consumed anything above basic subsistence, we'd have a lot less economic growth, fewer innovations, and inferior technology (including medical technology).
What Microsoft thought the future would look like in 2019
If one increase went into effect in April 2015, and another went into effect in January 2016, that means you have employees whose minimum wage was $9.47 one day, and $13 less than 365 days later. Arguably, writing it as three separate years makes it appear more gradual than it was.
We've been hearing the same pitch for literally years. Heck, I've made some of them myself: "This is it, people! Native apps have been rendered unnecessary!"

No PWA competes with a native experience. Not performance wise, not usability wise, and ultimately for the developer not even development wise. It may still make a lot of sense, and there are a lot of arguments for web apps, but the enthusiasm in this discussion seems disconnected from reality.

Indeed, right now we're seeing a big uptick in Instant Apps on Android -- go to a webpage and it actually loads a native app -- and I fully expect the same to appear on iOS.

There is a bit of app exhaustion, though I'd say it's much more significant on Android where users have been taught that it's user beware. It certainly isn't a technical limit, though.
Supersonic passenger jet firm raises $100M, aims for 2019 test flights
> Most users will delete your app shortly after installing it.

Which is why it is so crucial to focus on the core utility of the app. If the app is fun to use, great. But the apps that stick around provide services that are essential to the user.
Web hosting will cost more than $99/year so not all the costs of the web application are factored into this article.
As engineers we spend wast amounts of time in constant search for a rival to "tabs vs spaces" debate
> As a user notifications are a problem, but as an app developer...

So do you develop apps but not use them? I can't think of a way the hypocrisy isn't shocking here. "Do unto others" and all that.
I'm curious to how US economists (or perhaps reporters) are able to ignore most of western-Europe when talking about labour costs. Shouldn't these countries be head deep in unemployment for the last 60 years or so if this was strictly true?

What also always seem to go unmentioned is the wage share. Surely it can go up, not just down?
There's some more background and vision for this software in this blog post talking specifically about the Rust ecosystem: https://dpc.pw/cargo-crev-and-rust-2019-fearless-code-reuse

It also has some nicer narrative examples.
They used to use Perforce and then actually outgrew it (!), implementing an initially backwards-compatible backend called Piper.

(It may still be backwards-compatible, but it's been years since they turned off the last real Perforce and I haven't worked there for years myself. So it may have diverged.)
> With a progressive web app if they like your app they can add it to their device home screen

Does anyone even know they can do that? I've never seen anyone do it "in the wild". Would love to see any stats around usage of pwa's added to home screen.
This is wishful thinking with no logical argument behind it. WebAssembly replaces JavaScript but the rest of the experience (a web browser) is exactly the same. What would compel users to care?
Nope, also the known CIA agents from left parties were spared.

And the German is too good to be from Russian agents.
> >you're going to be hard pressed to get people to install your app just to try it out

> In fact, the statistics prove[1] that this is false. Most app installs are to try it out, and promptly delete it. Most users will delete your app shortly after installing it.

I'm really not following how this disproves what was being said. They were saying it's difficult to get people to even install for a test run, and you're saying most installs are test runs. There's nothing mutually exclusive about those two statements.

> Informed opinions are nice to share, uninformed ones not so much.

What a pompous response to make when you're not actually falsifying anything in their post.
Ok, but I have some formal training in economics and I wholeheartedly disagree. I'm mostly talkibg about macro, public policy and political economy here.

It has always been this way. It took the Great Depression to usher in Keynesian econ--theories riddled with previously crackpot ideas--and that had to be done by a well-connected and- respected insider, with trendy language and trendy, but to be fair elegant and clever, maths.

Most of the John List's in econ really do become truckers. It's not science or engineering where results matter. Almost alll the results dont matter.

And I never was able to question the min wage dogma in undergrad.
It's interesting to speculate on what would happen if some of these foundational assumptions of economics didn't hold. What if money actually became more valued than what you can buy with money? What if supply didn't create its own demand? What if people didn't try to make money to satisfy their own wants, but to one-up their neighbors in the pissing match of life?

You'd see a lot of strange behavior. Instead of consumption or even investment, excess money would be put towards speculation, trying to raise the dollar value of your holdings regardless of what you can buy (which you don't want anyway). Instead of circulating through the economy, money would pool at the people who already have their earthly wants satisfied and have no need to spend it. Instead of focusing their money on optimizing production, businesses would spend money on services or people that would help them convince others to buy their product. And instead of buying businesses for additional revenue, they would be more motivated to buy businesses that threaten to destroy the revenues they already have.

You might even get really crazy behavior, like people creating their own currencies that they then put lots of real money into, so that they can feel rich in their own little domain.

In short, it wouldn't look all that different from the world of today.
Hi Marek, great article as usual.

> (2) Pre-warm the disk cache with posix_fadvise(2) and hope for the best.

Just as an aside, there is also the option of mlock(2) to improve this technique as implemented in the flash webserver (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/full_papers/pa...). Also some people use vmtouch (https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/) for similar things.

Regarding this new interface, the LWN article says:

> AIO poll operations always operate in the "one-shot" mode; once a poll notification has been generated, a new IOCB_CMD_POLL IOCB must be submitted for that file descriptor if further notifications are needed.

Does this mean that in the (I think fairly common) case of wanting to persist a poll indefinitely until (for example) a socket is closed, with this new interface you will need to re-issue a poll after every IO operation? If so would that mitigate some/any of the performance benefit you described?

Lastly just wanted to point out the following research in case you haven't seen it before (and the various other designs it cites):

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc11/tech/final_files/S...

Cheers!
Google has 7 products with 1+ billion users.[1]

1. https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...
This is an interesting article for HN. It's spun as a negative, using terms like "threatening", "monopoly", "controversial", and "retribution".

You could write it the other way, where an immigrant-founded[1] startup is disrupting the mental health industry.

Frankly, most of this seems like par for the course. Of course the company is seeking to push their product to market and commercial viability--and the potential downsides to that rush. And it's (unfortunately) not surprising that the legal term pursued by the company are more onerous than standard--that seems to be a common over-step, and I'm glad attention is drawn to it. A good portion of this seems to be (and excuse my ad hominems) hand-wringing by crunchy-granola "psychedelic experts" worried about the "community".

([1] I'm assuming Ekaterina Malievskaia is Russian based on her medical degree from St Petersburg Medical Academy, and bring it up here because of similar discussions.)
National inflation is not the same as increase of local costs.
The substance of interest is psychedelics. According to what we know, they are pretty safe. Additionally, it is most definitely not "unnecessarily". Introspection, personal growth, and so on is not "unnecessary" to me and to many people. If it is to you, that is fine by me.

Not sure what you are referring to by "stupid things" though.
New mobile detection cameras to be turned on in Sydney
"Google use Perforce for their trunk (with additional tooling), and many (but not all) developers use Git on their local workstation to gain local-branching with an inhouse developed bridge for interop with Perforce.

"Branches & Merge Pain

"TL;DR: the same

"They don’t have merge pain, because as a rule developers are not merging to/from branches. At least up to the central repo’s server they are not. On workstations, developers may be merging to/from local branches, and rebasing when the push something that’s “done” back to the central repo.

"Release engineers might cherry-pick defect fixes from time to time, but regular developers are not merging (you should not count to-working-copy merges)"
I do agree that the "free lick" would lead to dramatically lower drop out rates, but think that the sites probably care more about "active users" or "course enrollments" as a primary metric of growth/market share.
This had me legitimately laughing out loud. Thank you ^_^
Utah soldiers to deploy in fight against cyberattacks
Signs your build system is never going to be adopted outside of people cargo culting you?

- [x] Namespaces and the like without much security benefit
- [x] Giant Java dependency
- [x] Strange syntax and glyphs
If you were actually hoarding in your mattress yes -- but most of us will never probably have enough money alone, or even as a group to horde under a mattress that the economy or society would actually notice.

Now if you were hoarding the money by putting it in banks and various other investment vehicles -- then you are doing a great deal of good for society -- as the resource is not actually being removed.

I hear this argument lot, but just because you are not using your money does not mean somebody else is not using your money while you are not using it. The only case that might be true is if you were a real life Scrooge McDuck, but then you probably killed yourself the first time you tried to dive into your vault of coins.
In our universe, construct an object that is perfectly spherical, and perfectly reflective. Now glue it to a table somewhere. Put another 3D object on the table. It has mass and volume, and felt real when you held it. Now look at the sphere. The 3D object is mapped onto the 2D surface of the sphere.

Now turn reality inside out. Because of various symmetries, it looks pretty much the same as it did before. Mathematically, it isn't all that important whether the signs of various things are positive or negative.

Instead of placing a 3D object on the table, draw a 2D shape on the surface of the sphere. Because you everted reality, this causes a 3D object to be reflected onto the table. The math can't really tell whether the object causes the reflection on the sphere, or the pattern on the sphere causes the object to exist.

Now turn the sphere inside out. Put the entire universe on the inside, and all of the stuff inside it (that you knew nothing about anyway, because it's perfectly reflective) on the outside. Now that your sphere encloses the entire universe, you can draw a 2D shapes on the outer boundary and reflect them as 3D shapes somewhere in the interior.
Still makes me scratch my head when the car was billed as having "full self driving hardware" at the point of sale. This is the second hardware upgrade they've done already, although if it's free I suppose nobody but investors are complaining.
As a Windows Mobile user, you're too small and niche of a market to care about.
Six-Year homelab history in pictures
How to use the Atmel ATTINY10 microcontroller
Building Beautiful New Features with ZERO Lines of CSS
I’ve developed software all of my career that I personally have no use for.

I develop software to pay my bills. We are talking about notifications, not killing puppies.
Which of those addresses the question I specifically asked, about their use of government assistance when raising their chidlren? It looks like you kinda-sorta skimmed over my question, it reminded you of some other question you heard someone answer once, so you assumed it was the same as that other question and so you must have the answer to it.
Wouldn't you say though if that push notifications were allowed PWAs would cannibalize the revenue of the ios app store? It doesn't seem like apple would have much incentive to do this as PWAs would eventually compete with their own platform.
It does seem to be skirting an issue of intent. Glaub can't make a 'claim' because there's not a system in place for any such claim to be a real claim. His protest as such is that he believes such a system should exist. Does he have an expectation that somehow a payment will be made, or not? I do see the point that if the court says, well, the jury has to decide that point, and then refuses to direct the jury to decide that point, that's a problem too.
I think this is one of the most illogical aspects of the software industry -- the transition from developer to manager. In order to be a developer you need to spend years learning, studying, and practicing software development, but a lot of times becoming a manager is just some magical title change where suddenly you're qualified to take on some new role which you most likely have no training or experience in, and stop doing the role which you are qualified for, experienced in, and were hired for. Suddenly there is no way to measure or evaluate you (how do you evaluate a manager?), and you really don't have to do anything difficult; you can delegate anything hard or laborious. I've seen time and time again managers who don't do anything at all. They just fill their schedule with meetings upon meetings, and through some mental gymnastics and leaps of logic claim to have an essential impact on the work that is being done by others. The feedback in many comments in this thread seem to echo the same things: communicate, be a force multiplier, increase productivity, don't write code, coach. It seems like a bunch of unaccountable b.s. to me, but maybe I am missing something. I think instead there should be clear roles like Project Manager, Product Manager, Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, where the people in those roles can be actually evaluated, accountable, and hired specifically for the role that they will be doing.
> Isn't allowing immigration going to create an even greater demographic time bomb in the future?

No. This particular problem happens when there is a bubble of elderly people to care for, and not enough young people to fund/provide the care.

Importing a bunch of young families compensates for the declining birth rate among the native population, and helps smooth out demographic changes.

* * *

There are certainly also other serious global problems resulting from providing a resource-intensive “modern” lifestyle to billions of people.
>you'll be helping a few people, but at the same time causing inflation that will hurt everyone else

This is immediately troubling and betrays a naive understanding of currency and human behavior.

This article essentially writes off and lumps together all kinds of toxic behavior we see in private markets.