skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the bigger challenge is that when you become bigger you launch more projects to handle the scale and each of those projects introduce new bugs for which you need new team of engineers.

Basically, once you hit scaling I think you end up with a super small team that managed to keep simple (instagram for example) or you end up with a huge team that explodes in complexity and needs to grow exponentially to handle all the extra complexity. Uber is very obviously in the later bucket.
No, that's not accurate at all.

Amazon made choices on how to do things, years ago. These choices are being remade just because the new hotness is containers and not using uncool java. They have a lot of tooling that works for them, and a lot of it is quite good.

They aren't hostile to new stuff either. It's just that why would you waste time and money trying to shoehorn some new way of doing things when the old way works just fine.

You will still get to do lots. maybe, depends on the team.

I would say don't waste your energy. Learn when to pick the battles. Accept that you will get push back that doesn't make sense to you.
Look, I'm not British, so I don't know all the details on the Brexit campaign. I just see a certain thing all the time (generally on the part of people on the left, though I am certain that the roles have been reversed many times in the past), which is to point to some disinformation (Russian meddling in the U.S., whatever happened around Brexit in the U.K.) and then draw the conclusion that the only reason people on the other side voted for Brexit/Trump is because they're just so darned gullible that they were taken in by the Russians (or Farage or whatever).

Frankly, it's just people being unwilling to consider that the opposition has legitimate and deeply held political grievances with the status quo. I mean, just think about the argument. People only voted for Trump because of Russian meddling. That implies a belief that media can significantly influence people. But the vast majority of the media hated Trump. So then you have to hold two opposing viewpoints simultaneously: that media is deeply influential (when it's paid for by the Russian state) and that it simply isn't influential (when wielded by the established media and every celebrity with a platform). I suspect that there are a lot similarities with Brexit.

So which is it? Does media matter? Or does it not?
This paper is from 2010, and as a sibling poster points out, it's just a clustering algorithm. I think you need to consider the 'dog that didn't bark' here: if the method turned out to be useful, where are the follow-up papers and the industrial applications?
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Hey Google. If you need an american project manager to serve as a proxy between Taiwan and headquarters, I'm your man!
The answer will always be, "more expensive than they are now". It's not like there will ever be a point at which more money, if available, could not in any way be used for some kind of drug research that might be useful. It's like saying "how much money do you need in order to keep from ever dying?" There will always be health problems, and there will always be some at least semi-plausible way in which we could spend money to try to research a way to at least ameliorate the condition.

So, this doesn't mean we shouldn't spend some money, or even a lot. But, it will never be enough, so at some point we will have to say, "we could spend more, and it might give us a little more life, but let's not."

I don't think we're remotely ready for that conversation.
"you must have broken the terms"

Is this attitude prevalent in Google: pure trust in automated systems? Engineers should know better than any that software is not perfect and it's insane to have blind trust in it.
"When ____[observation], I feel ____[emotion] because I’m needing some ____[universal needs]. Would you be able to ____[request]?"

The typical/traditional response to such a request is somewhere between "uh, no" and "absolutely not - and making such a request is itself an unforgivable offense; if you value your (job/career/life/relationship/etc.) you will never speak of it again."

The only exception is if the requester is a boss or another person whose "requests" are actually orders.
Looking into switching to Fastmail. Google hasn't been friendly for years and it's finally time.

Before I pull the trigger, anyone have a better service than Fastmail to recommend?
> that they are entirely responsible for changes in loneliness.

loneliness? The amount and richness of communication like the number of participants, number of parallel communications, number of the topics and the range of opinions, etc. is most probably much higher when using smartphones then when it is subject to the limitations of physical presence. Our species brain development is basically history of social communication, and the smartphones transcending those limits of physical presence is the next step for the brain development of our species. Granted the adjustment period may have its quirks, like absence of non-verbal parts of communication - face emotions, gestures, etc. - that our brain evolved to expect and not receives anymore and thus doesn't get the associated dopamine - may feel like loneliness.
Camera detectors are cheap (I purchased a combo camera detector (IR strobe type) and RF Detector (0 to 6GHZ, overly sensitive but works nicely if you retract the antenna and dial down the sensitivity) for the equivalent of $15.70 USD + shipping through amazon) and easily available these days - anyone renting an AirBNB or hotel room should get one and check the room before settling in.
And that in itself is the reason why k8s is hype. Too many tools, too much of an “ecosystem”. Too complex. Linux suffers from these issues as well.
MS Internal tooling fucking sucks compared to Amazon.

Just atrocious. Though I wasn't in Azure so that might be better.
Social media is an excellent tool for publicly shaming companies

I don't think we should seek to become a society running on public shame. Didn't we used to identify that kind of society with "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter?"

"How did you know about that? A little bird told me."
Damn. I wonder if someone should make a website dedicated to this? What if someone isn't lucky enough to have their post percolate on HN, or doesn't use Twitter, etc.?
Not to mention, we've built our whole society around driving. If we were built like the Netherlands, it'd be one thing, but driving is a necessity in the USA. Take it away and people can't even function in most places.
But now: persistent homology. Same question as above.
I don't know - I kinda see it like the show stranger things. That's how I grew up. We'd bike, walk, or whatever show up to our friends house. Parents didn't have instant communication back then, so the expectancy factor wasn't there. All that mattered was that when the sun was dimming, we'd have to be home for dinner.. Any time after school and before the dimming was our time. Like the goonies.

Damn. Damn no really damn, the current generation doesn't fucking have the goonies. That's just so sad.
Hey, you're right. And my bartender always knows I want "the usual"! Just because the cookie exists in his neural structure doesn't make it any less of a violation of the GDPR :)
This is the only thing I use Twitter for also. Trying to get support from a business.
I assume "vert transmission" is due to HN length limitations, but it reads awkwardly and isn't an abbreviation commonly understood.
The frequent lack of due process by the app stores is another reason I've been trying to do Web-first, in some startup ideas I've been tossing around.

I did ship a complex HTML5 Offline app for a client, and it was more pain than it should've been, but I made it work. (Tip: the two big mobile platform owners seem to have an obvious disincentive for HTML5 Offline to work well.) If I do something Web-first, it'll be handheld&desktop responsive, and I'll be keeping a smooth path to HTML5 Offline in mind as a possible alternative to the app stores.
Agreement between big corps on specs hasn't stopped dominance by one player in the past.

Look at HTML5 for an example, with Edge now running on top of Chromium.
I think encouragement and all-else-being-equal preference for in-person vs. online is pretty much a non-factor, short of extreme cases.

As mentioned above, there's just no comparison any more. I grew up in the city and had very, very few restrictions[1] on where/when I was out from around age 15, and we still preferred online. Going out in person is expensive, not everyone had equal transit access (and no one had a consistently available car), etc.

Yes, there were people who didn't join up online, who I would've loved to see more of. Meeting up with them more often would have been great, but doing it regularly just wasn't feasible - we'd see everyone at school and maybe after for 15-30 minutes while people cleared out, but that was the only regular thing.

[1] Mostly of the 'tell us where and when' variety - if my parents knew roughly how to find me if needed, that was good enough.
No, you can say hey amazon might use this if they do a security evaluation first.

It's totally cool for your data though, don't worry about it.

Amazon fucking sucks at dogfooding.
What are you talking about? McDonald's has been.

They revamped their quarter pounders a ~year ago to be much fresher, tastier, juicier burgers. They serve more gourmet-style toppings now and a variety of cheeses. They're experimenting with new items like the morning "donut sticks" which are surprisingly good. The buttermilk chicken tenders are worlds beyond the old nuggets. And you can get breakfast all day, with eggs that are now fresh-cracked.

They still sell all their old stuff because people still love it. But if you think their menu hasn't been increasing in quality for those who want it, you haven't been paying attention. Some people prefer not to believe it.

But it's still McDonald's. People want and like McDonald's. They're not looking for fine dining.
I volunteer at STEM after school program at a Northern California suburban public school in a very affluent county. Engineers from the local companies work on projects with hacker kids.

It's a pretty dreamy albeit "canned" town, I never lived in a place that nice. Lots of cul de sacs and "mini malls" and "canned fun" places that are very walkable (unlike the poorer suburbs where kids have to cross 8 lanes of traffic to meet at a Shari's).

I noticed that before I show up at 5PM (I get to leave work early two fridays a month, yay!, the kids are sitting around on their phones. And when I leave at 7pm, kids just go home with their parents. First: few of them drive. WTF?! Then the weird part: there's a frigging movieplex down the street with a bunch of restaurants and TWO parks on opposite sides of the main E/W street... and they just ... go home. WTF.

Maybe they are lying to the adults in the room, but the parents claim they go home and text or play computer games all night.
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Sounds like you’re talking about two separate things, the upload part and the import part. The upload part is solved for most languages and frameworks. The import step; excel parsing solved, getting data into the correct format is highly app specific. Maybe you could clarify what you have in mind?
Monolith vs. Microservices
A 26% increase over 8 years is 2.9%/year annualized. Inflation in the UK over that same period was 2.9%/year [0]. It’s unfortunate that real wages have declined during that time, but that seems like a separate issue.

I completely agree that Medicare needs to be able to negotiate prices for prescription drugs. That’s one of the few places where there’s clear room for incremental change in US healthcare.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
How much do governments care about health outcomes?
> Social media is an excellent tool for publicly shaming companies

It's not though, a few rare cases get enough publicity to be dealt with and for every one of those there are a thousand left with no recourse.
Doing fine, as in, a tiny insignificant chunk of the userbase of the major consumer platforms use them. They are not serving most people, and are frustrating to use.

Left out of this discussion is simply some Chinese company, like Douyin/Tiktok just hosting a Youtube competitor, and hoisting a giant middle finger to the EU. The EU will have to erect their own great firewall to stop it.
Thanks for sharing! That is definitely a better link than the one posted.
Maybe we should separate infrastructure from service. A company may build the lines but cannot provide consumer services. My brother tells me that Japan is like this and service is quite good.
This is such a complicated issue, I'd highly recommend the following as a primer:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/13/four-r...

Also Derek Lowe is invariably awesome in this space, one highlight:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/02/05/ta...

Drugs occasionally need to be expensive, particularly on-patent drugs, to make the endeavor worthwhile. That said, it's a two-way street. Making drugs insanely expensive (as has been happening more recently) is breaking the implicit trust that those in the medical field must work hard to maintain. Traditionally pharma was careful not to abuse the inherent "your money or your life" dynamic, it seems these days that is breaking down. It's sad because for very powerful drugs (i.e. gene therapy treatments) the cost is actually quite high to even make the drug (I've heard quotes in the 100's of K even in the 1-2 M), which means the treatment has to be expensive. That said we need to work hard to bring that down, and there's absolutely no place for the kinds of shenanigans going on with insulin among others:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/opinion/cost-insurance-di...

With abusive practices like this, how can you ask patients to trust you when you say, "yes but this time I actually need it to be this high"?
even if you're using firefox, it uses Google safebrowsing to check URLs you're visiting -- even sending your URL data to Google.

The other corporations are only fighting small battles, but you can't compete with free, which is how Google gains its foothold.
Pay to win is a serious concern. There’s also the fact that not everybody gets improvement. For some players, some of the time, their default route is just fine. Would be a shame to charge those players $5 a month for something that gives them no benefit.
> That problem, stated as k = x³ + y³ + z³, is what number theorists call a Diophantine equation — a kind of algebraic structure whose properties have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. “They’re rich enough to encode [other mathematical] statements that have nothing to do with Diophantine equations,” said Browning. “They’re rich enough to simulate computers.”

You would certainly hope so, since every value a computer works with is integral.
All my past jobs underpaid, so even $65K or $70K (the average for a entry level job in my city) is higher than I've made.

Being simultaneously under-qualified on paper and over-qualified in practice is a thing with me. People must think I expect high salaries but I actually don't. I've always been paid roughly in the lowest 25 percentile.
Ah, that makes more sense. Good point, thanks!

I think that is a fair concern, but personally I'd much rather give my users unrestricted abilities to use my code, because I believe that any proprietary-tech built on my code will not be able to compete in the end game with any also OSS-tech built on my code. I also see the same that any OSS-version would outcompete (a)GPL-version, though I'm sure you disagree?
So Microsoft ol buddy the NSA could gobble all that data from a central point.
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"I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet free from regulation."

I think it's more likely that most people will forget that the internet was once wide open and will accept the locked down state as normal.
There's a long history in American publishing of wealthy people taking on an expensive publishing venture as a pet project, which in turn takes on the idiosyncrasies of the founder. It's easy to get distracted by startup speak and the fact that Medium lives online, but its trajectory fits squarely in a tradition that has been around for as long as we've had the printing press and intellectually vain rich people.
This is good for democracy. The EU is a fine institution that has prevented google from selling our search history to the government. I applaud this decision and hope that it is part of broader anti-piracy campaign that would create minimum sentencing for pirates caught and if necessary the use of capital punishment would be deemed legal under EU law.

This should help prevent fake news and foster a more balanced online discussion.
Yeah, but I've got a bucket of ominous adjectives here and a wheelbarrow full of otherism. What else you want me to do with it?
In my 1972 Ford Maverick, I could turn on the headlights and the lighting in the interior console would adjust accordingly.
Sorry, but articles about everyday political maneuvers just don't come close to counting as substantive on HN.
PwSafe (Mac and IOS only)

https://pwsafe.info/
It's the ultimate prediction problem. And short term, computational bio methods are driving R&D costs up, not down. But arguably, techniques like DeepFold constitute current best hope

https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp...
How about a new attribute to match what phones actually provide: keyboard=text|digits|url|emoji
Apple pisses when China growls. I personally think their claim of being privacy guardians is a bunch of PR & marketing BS. Didn’t they also handover the encryption keys for iCloud in China to the Communist Regime ?
Is this fresh copypasta? It has nothing to do with what I wrote.

I’ll repeat: the problem lies with national governments asking for bad laws to be made, and then with MEPs for not voting them down (this one was very close, to be fair). That would have happened at any level. Do you know how many stupid decisions are taken at town-council level?

Democracy is difficult and imperfect, but it’s still the best we got.
Two things most surprising about this:

- Presumably you can get 90% of the value for 5% of the price. McDonald's isn't Amazon. They have 100 (?) menu items, not 1,000,000 products. Why are they spending $300M instead of hiring a few data scientists? Or just be a customer of the company?

- Dynamic Yield has many other clients, and it sounds like they'll continue to serve those. Is McDonald's the right owner for a high-tech customer intelligence product? It just feels like such a bizarre cultural and core-competency fit. Maybe invest partly in it, but buy it outright? I don't get it. Seems like you'd rather share the board with other experts?
"Pretty well. How about you?"
Right. Faith based randomness won't cut it. And how do you authenticate random? You'd have to prove it was fraud, in effect prove a negative.
From what I know, speeding up the whole "made to order" menu is one of the prime motivators of all this technology. The fresh burgers are a leap ahead in quality but an order of magnitude slower to make.

MCD will most likely spend half a billion dollars to get that burger on the grill 90 seconds earlier if it's possible.
there's pipeline.ai, airbnb said they'd open source theirs this year and also, TFX suite is getting there. Platforms are becoming popular
"The future, that's my present when was this article written--oh, 2017."
The reason this works is he's limiting the amount of working state to the minimum needed to accomplish his actions/tasks at each point in the process.
> So you start reading the news

not most teens.

Even with 1 year of economic stress, that's not going to suddenly make kids take a mature emotional perspective and feel less lonely.
Last time someone was let down by Java...
The job of customer service people is to actually respond to customers. You can't expect your customers to be perfectly clear every time they communicate with you and it is entirely your job to figure out what they really mean before blithely dismissing them.

Seeing yet another one of these stories hit the front page of HN is making me want to double-down on removing Google from my life entirely.
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Sounds like Qualcomm is just pulling its arsenal of patents out to fire some small shots...
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Peak for you was likely when you were a teen.

But overall? In 2001 computers weren't ubiquitous nor portable. Middle-class kids were on IM on their desktops and maybe laptops for max a few hours per day.

Now kids have phones for IM all day and night.
I can totally understand it in cases where the alleged offense is something like uploading copyrighted content to YouTube, where there is clear evidence and an audit trail saying "Here's what you uploaded, here's when you uploaded it, and here's the point where the rights holder registered it in ContentID, etc"

But this is a case where they thought my account was a bot. And I contacted the guy, as a very real person. At that point it's pretty much just sticking one's fingers in one's ears yelling "NANANANANA"
> Caldera collapse, like the catastrophic conclusion of Krakatau's 1888 eruption,

Wasn’t the eruption in 1883?
Calling Google search a monopoly is trivially wrong given totally viable and easily usable alternatives.

Ads, however...
Email hn@ycombinator.com and they will take care of it.
You know you can get anyone's google accounts banned by going to their website and setting up a bot to click their adsense. Or going to their playstore and clicking report. Or going to their youtube and clicking report.

You can pay to get your competitors banned permanently. That's what probably happened to your account and to my colleague's account as well.
startup returns are even less guaranteed. I think the main point is startup risk-adjusted returns are bad for non-founders.
Could this be considered a violation of net neutrality?
There is no excuse for Google mistaking one app for another. They have literally all the data, so they know which app is which better than any other party in existence. It's their Play store!

It bothers me greatly that not only can they shut down your app, but they can shut down your Google account (and any future accounts they might deem as being related...)

What are the chances that they might accidentally (human failure or algo failure) believe one Google account is related to another "bad" account and close the good account? It certainly seems possible given that obviously Google does not have complete control over its systems.
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Dumbphone texting was ubiquitious, though.
How marketable do prescription drugs need to be to have their R&D funded?
Are you imagining that someone other than the original recipient might want to verify the transcript? Unfortunately there's no way to do that with existing protocols; we would need something like TLS-N [1].

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/578.pdf