skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, they are a formerly great company that has decayed to... something less.

//dad worked there for 25yrs
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Ok, still miles better in terms of performance I am sure then. Thanks!
This seems like an increasingly common modern web pattern: load the article (no one cares about that), and all of the ads and trackers (which is what really matters), then use JavaScript to throw up a popover and do whatever you can to prevent people from using readability mode or killing the popup.

I'm fine with paywalls, but if you want to charge money for what you write, then just do it. Don't waste my bandwidth for something I'm not supposed to see. Put up a login page or something.
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The ML adaptive battery update is awesome. I got it on my Moto One Power and the battery life has substantially improved
the biggest barrier, in my opinion, is the ugly punycode links. most browsers still do not render them properly, and if they did, it would have false positives. (i.e. there is no way to tell if a string is intended to be punycode or not)
Is Google any worse than some "benevolent dictator for life" like other open-source languages?
If you're paranoid enough to wear that kind of clothing, you'd probably be paranoid enough to assume most drivers are distracted morons as well - and add accordingly.

(I still found the comment amusing!)
> How do we know that?

As the sibling comment mentions, companies are able to build large scale systems by engineers who got in through these kind of interviews. I am not saying this is the right way or wrong way, but it definitely works.

Of course when you do this, you miss out on some amazing candidates, but the big companies which started this can afford to do that because of the insane num of applications they get.
That’s pretty much the model of the gig economy. It used to be that in exchange for loyalty companies would provide pension, health care and other benefits. Pensions are already on the way out. Gig economy are slowly getting rid of all other benefits. And people are getting used to it. A lot of young workers know nothing about pensions and soon they will also not know about other benefits employers would provide in the past.
In Italy telephone companies customer service had (and still have) short numbers beginning with 1, so 187.it and www.190.it redirect respectively to Telecom Italia and Vodafone. Strangely enough, 190.it doesn't work...
Thanks, I had a completely different meaning for this word in mind!
As a big fan of online dating I can say that it could be useful. Thanks for the info!
If Revery makes use of react-native-macos like ReactXP does, it does infact use Cocoa controls, unlike Flutter.
Thanks, I've also noticed the two programs, but poor HTML support for both of those is kind of a bummer...

If I were just using email with developers I would not care about sending/receiving only text emails, but unfortunately the real world is a bit more complicated than that...
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Honestly, that's not even a problem that concerns drivers. If Uber can't make money without exploiting drivers then it's not not a good company and it should not survive.
Sure, but HN isn't a large part of the internet. Wanting some uncensored places doesn't mean there shouldn't be curated places.
> The STL was a last-minute addition to the standard library before C++98.

C++ without a standard C++ library is not really C++.

> No, it was because Bjarne wanted features from Simula whilst still generating fast code.

Yeah, but Simula is somewhat its own thing, before the OOP madness.

> Again, look at Qt. Look at CERN's ROOT. Java looks a lot like it does because that's how C++ code was written at the time.

Only because C++ was the only thing available at the time, so people twisted it into 'OOP', despite the fact that C++ was very a poor fit for 'OOP'.
This would probably have a huge impact if Uber had already done its IPO.
Sure, I suspect "qualia" will be there, though there won't be a definite moment they arise. Imagine a simpler example: using person as a representation of a water molecule, you reproduce fluid behaviour in a crowd. At which point in this process waves arise? I suspect the question about qualia is meaningless in the same sense that asking when do water molecules (or humans) turn into waves is.
FB started with snopes, which is a very well known left-leaning liberal biased 'fact finder' who in Feb stopped doing this for FB. I dont know about these others, but if anyone trys to get 'facts' from FB, you're doing it wrong. </rant> Thank you, and have a great day!
If the chance really arrises, I would prefer to commercialize it myself

FWIW, there's no hard rule that says only one firm can commercialize a project. How many vendors, for example, offer commercial Linux distributions?
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We use proton for our business mail (small startup < 10 people). The app itself, and web interface are great. However i wish they'd stop dicking around with crypto and actually start working on some features that are outright required for businesses to operate (mail flow rules, signatures using html, group setting/enforcing of signatures, 2fa, password policy, tagging mail as outside of the org/inserting headers, making bridge better).

The idea is great, works well, and we support it as best we can. However they REALLY need to step up their game in terms of making it easy to manage as opposed to just "moar security!". I put in tickets for each of the aforementioned pain points 6 months ago, and heard nothing back really. I doubt the developers ever got to see them. If they want more money and more users, which i'm sure they do, they need to really step up their game in terms of group management and onboarding.
SOC as in, System On Chip? Google Summer Of Code? Sorry, I need more context.
" the company won't hire unless you have experience in a big bank"

Seems like this is the requirement the candidate doesn't meet - although its unstated.

If the issue was sex, race or age it would me a legitimate "study" but in this case, it'd be just lying about experience to get the job.
Pretty sure scotch tape (or any other consumer product) is a tiny fraction of their business. Their main gig is selling industrial solvents, additives, adhesives & abrasives to mining & manufacturing concerns.

Building up production facilities for others & the engineering involved in all that is a lucrative line as well.

Patent licensing too.
This version. It isn't ready yet. If they do a $2k robot that finds my dirty clothing on the floor and puts clean clothing in the correct closet/draws (my kids, wife, and mine...) and I'm interested. Laundry takes a lot of time, and paying someone isn't really cost effective.
How can this happen? I thought Trump's tax cuts were guaranteeing prosperity for all?
It makes a certain sort of sense - if a person's torso isn't connected to their legs, it's not very person shaped, is it.

I'd agree it's surprising, just that thinking about it you can see where it goes wrong. I imagine combining this with some kind of makeup to change the contours of one's face would work wonders.
I just checked out a couple of Flutter’s showcase apps on iOS. The scrolling in the Hamilton app was atrociously stuttery, just really broken. This is on an iPhone X. Then I opened it again and it was fine. Seems like it was doing some initialization work that was blocking the main thread. Not sure if it’s Flutter’s fault but I never see broken scrolling like that on native apps.

The other app I tried was some journaling app. Both of them used unconventional UI. Are there any good examples of native performing and looking Flutter apps?

EDIT: Apparently somebody downvoted this? What’s up with that?
You could try Tutanota. Their Android app is even available on F-Droid and doesn't use Google Play Services.
This style retcons all those cyberpunk fashion accessories beautifully.
> Likewise for big companies. If a company is acting badly, you need to figure out if it was intentional.

I disagree that it's likewise for big companies. Corporations like that don't really have intentions; every intention is fundamentally about profit. Profit is in fact both its intention as well as its reward/punishment.

It's really the only way to properly "communicate" with an entity like that. A corporation is not a human being. And just like it's not useful to try to reason with (or attribute human-like intention to) a cat, it's basically futile to do so with a corporation.

Any time that human-like reasoning seems to apply with a corporation, it really only happened because the reasoning happens to align with its profit intentions.

Edit: this is less true for smaller companies, but for a multinational it's pretty much a given.

Also, there's something in the way that large companies are structured, that actual accountability (like you'd find with humans or small groups) seems to disappear and slip between the gaps of hierarchy. Lacking accountability, attributing intent becomes guesswork.
The done thing in Java now is JavaFX, and the last time I bothered to work with it (more than a year ago) I remember really liking it. Of course, to me any kind of web tech is a complete non-starter so I am comparing this to using Tcl and WxWidgets.
> Revery is like flutter in that it does not use native widgets. This means more work for us, but also that we have more predictable functionality cross-platform!
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/22/18511066/stop-shop-workers-uni...

This article is about a recent supermarket employee strike but it also makes the argument that there's a larger labor movement that's sweeping across America that started last year. Importantly the general public is overwhelmingly supportive of the labor unrest. This Uber shutdown furthers that argument.

So expect to hear about more worker stoppages, protests, walkouts, and strikes in the near future.

>The [positive response from the public for striking supermarket employees] echoes the support for public school teachers who launched major strikes across the country in 2018 to protest low pay. It also suggests the labor unrest, which swept across the US last year, is nowhere close to dying down

>Within 24 hours, the stoppage became the largest private sector strike in at least three years, showing that last year’s spike in work stoppages across the country was not an isolated phenomenon.

>A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to data released in February by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A total of 485,000 employees were involved in major work stoppages last year — the highest number since 1986.
Older Americans are twice as likely to work now as in 1985
but toxicity != allergic reaction
"Pinterest is a visual search engine"

Aaah, ok kinda make sense now. Been hearing about this site for years, and I still don't 'get' what it actually is.

I think the part of my brain that understands social media is broken.
I was only asking, hence the question mark. Good to know there was a genuine quest for knowledge.
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That's why I use the EurKEY [1] layout on all my machines!

This way I can use all the default US-based shortcuts for emacs/vim/... while still being able to easily type the special chars for my native language, e.g. pressing AltGr+o results in 'ö'.

This method is slightly inconvenient for typing long texts but for me it's still the perfect solution to such problems.

[1]: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/start.html
I love that story, alas it doesn't give me any additional insight on these questions.

Plus, the state of the art has progressed much since then. I'm curious what the latest science says about when the universe is only empty space in thermal equilibrium, would the space itself have any mass, and would that mass be self-attractive? Would there be an even distribution of particles that don't decay (proton?), or if all particles decay, then an even distribution of energy, which also has mass?
Snap had 191 DAU last year so declining DAU
it was at least my expectation that they are not able to read your mails after storing them. But apparently i didn't get that right.
Marie Kondo's folding method is not the common way of doing it, the 3-way folding is not easy to master at first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpc5_1896ro

But yeah, 8 million views already.
And also to be careful when doing benchmark on a laptop since the OS / governor is throttling CPU...
As another comment said calling this 'native ui' might be misleading. It's native performance, but the UI will (probably) look non-native. It's a move in the right direction, but just understand what you are getting when you sign up. I have some experience using Xamarin which is true native controls for each platform, but has other drawbacks.
Driverless cars will take at least another 20 years.
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>Is it safe? The internet is where we could live, love, learn and communicate freely. To be ourselves, we need to be able to trust the systems that protect us.

If the system protects you then you can't be yourself, because invariably these systems that protect people also censor people. Nowadays we hear about it quite often how the people that advocated for hate speech rules online are getting screwed by those same rules.

>The internet is transformative because it is open: everyone can participate and innovate.

Except those we (you) disagree with.

>Who is welcome? It’s not just about how many people have access to the internet, but whether that access is safe and meaningful for all of us.

If you find that it's not welcome, then why not add a place that is welcome for people like yourself?

The most amazing and important thing and the internet is that it lets regular people share things with the world with little interference. Their opinions, thoughts, experiences etc.
Kotlin native/multiplatform projects is the answer
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for me there were only some syntactic sugar things I had to learn.
Reading this on a Nexus 5X running Oreo 8.1.0. Formerly happy owner. Now, after accidental pocket-tap on "Update All", seeing glacial performance in core apps e.g. Gmail, Maps. No "revert" option in GUI of course. Maybe possible with ADB ...

Where you write "stopped upgrading", do you mean hardware only -- allowing Google system plus apps to push all software updates?

How do you assure yourself that your Nexus 5 has gotten adequate security fixes?
Huh? Losing weight requires less resources (money) than maintaining it, you just simply stop eating and fast. Proper nutrition and hormone regulation to maintain your lower body weight is a different question, but even that should be cheaper or the same amount of money given that you're reducing your overall caloric intake, even though the food you purchase may be slightly more expensive.

Also, the root causes are fairly well understood at this point. Yes, genetics play a role (sometimes a large on), but if an individual eats a balanced mostly plant based diet, exercises, and gets enough sleep (minimum 8 hours), then the likelihood of getting T2D reduces significantly. If someone has T2D, they are almost assuredly lacking in one of those three areas.
As an extreme example about what people believe based on authority arguments, consider the case of a deep mathematician (Dan Barbilian) who was also a great hermetic poet (pen name Ion Barbu). I used Google Translate :) (and some pondering) to turn one of his most famous poems into English.

The literary authority claims that the poem is about the poetic art, while a mathematician would think it is about a Fourier transform (noncommutative, see the "groups of water", SL(2)?).

Here is the translation of the poem Ion Barbu, Din ceas dedus:

From the clock, down the depth of this calm peak,

Passed through the mirror into blessed azure,

Tailoring on the crushing of the aggressive herds

In groups of water a second, purer game.

Latent nadir! The poet raises the sum

Of spreading harps lost into reversed flight.

The song exhausts: as deep as the sea bears

Its jellies, from under the green bells.
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I'm seeking collaborators for my social deduction game, Spy Thriller :)

Current status: the good

- minimal release on the Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.tropic.espionage

- tutorial vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxaSwbv7y4k&feature=youtu.be

- extensive playtesting has taken place with multiple groups

- have offer of featuring on prominent podcast

The ugly: interface needs attention... and the interface code is messy as hell... but this is genuinely a case of “make one to throw away”, as feedback from gaming groups suggests the interface would be better structured around some sort of narrative using photos of players/objects/locations taken from the device camera, rather than text entry.

Also needs reworking to fit the newer Android permissions model.

With other commitments I no longer have time to do all that, so I'm willing to share future revenue with someone who is, please drop a line if interested.
Yes, it's very much like "adverse selection" in insurance; @pdimitar mentions some specific cases of it, but I think the most general might be "speciation" or "group selection".[1] I'm not sure of a non-biological term.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_(speciation)
> Digital well-being dashboard and limits

Whenever a for-profit company introduces a new feature, one must ask himself, what is the business case for it.

Personally, I see this feature as a way for Google to legally track which apps people use, and how often. Essentially, it does for Google what Onavo VPN did for Facebook.

From the data collection point of view, whoever came up with this idea at Google must have been worth a promotion. Especially, after GDPR came into force.
iOS perf on Flutter has been broken for a while:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/813

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/28113

I wish the team would prioritize this more, but I guess that's Google for you.
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hahaha :) you are funny
You're assuming that MCAS has physically/logically discriminated inputs, and that the electric motor driver is capable of filtering which ones to acknowledge based on a switch that no one knew would need to exist at design time.

Odds are, when looking at the avionics network traffic, signals from the trim switches and MCAS are indistinguishable. Running an extra wire to represent the input to the microcontroller would also be a hardware change, which likely means swapping out hardware boards, and running new cable/wire/etc, which will require new schemata, new boards to be sourced from the manufacturer, more paperwork and testing, more maintenance install/refurb procedures, so on and so forth.

From my understanding, Boeing is desperately trying to squeak by with just a software change to avoid all that.

Personally, I'd prefer they take the time to do it right and change the hardware. It's what should have been done in the first place.
> pharma sells pills to make money; they don't make money off of healthy people who don't take their pills

But insurance companies do.

American healthcare is a complex system of highly-incentivized agents. Zooming in on a single component as a synecdoche is like trying to reason how a car works by extrapolating from a fuel injector.
ReactXP (https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/) uses TypeScript and targets mobile and desktop platforms using native controls, not emulated controls.

While Flutter doesn't work yet for desktop or web, ReactXP already works for these environments, and is used in the new Skype for Web.

Windows support is done and targets W10, Xbox, and Windows Mixed Reality. MacOS support is experimental, but mostly working. Linux currently needs an Electron wrapper.
I have been a full time Android dev for past 5 years, and have really grown to dislike the work. UI development takes up so much of my time. And usually the fix ends up being some small attribute that only has an effect when combining X and Y UI parts.

Had the chance to do some Flutter work, and really enjoyed it. Could knock out the UI and later modify it with ease. Spent most of my time focusing on app logic, and not tons of UI work.

Happy Flutter is spreading elsewhere, I will try this out and spend some time looking into Hummingbird also.
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Unsatisfactory as the whole hiring process can be, I don't actually believe that throwing a pile of resumes in the air and picking up a handful at random would work as well.
> There is a huge amount of research about what causes inflammation so it is correct to say that inflammation is a symptom not a cause.

It is not necessarily just a symptom, that's the point. So no, it's not necessarily correct because sometimes inflammation is exactly the cause.
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This is the case for fine jewelry and e.g. diamonds, however, simple heavy gold jewelry (e.g. rings, chains) are generally sold at a minor (10%?) markup over the cost of the metal and would be generally included in the retailer's markup - i.e. buying a 100 gram bar of gold would cost about the same as buying 100 grams of assorted gold jewelry. Fine pieces of art certainly can cost much more, but the local jewelry stores aren't really selling that, they're selling pieces for which almost all of the value is in the material, requiring only limited amounts of inexpensive jeweler's labor. So there's some overhead, but in general it does retain the resale value quite well.
You can compile C++ directly to MSIL if you want...
Writing a browser extension hiding 'karma' might be a way to explore your theory without a dependency on anyone else working. A blog post or maybe a 'Show HN' could be used to share your experiences with the larger community. The dynamics would be opt-in. Such an experiment would clarify the problem of page position as a proxy for karma, i.e. the role of karma moving items up and down the page.
They still have production in the US? they started moving out in the early 80s. My dad was involved in the re-assembly of the pipework for a specialized glass production facility (specialized lenses etc) physically disassembled & moved from the US to Xian china in '86. Even in the early 90's, most of their mech engineering was contracted out. Surprised they have 2000 employees to lay off tbh.
Google has abandoned so many projects people (developers) don’t have that much of a faith in them anymore.
We already have something like this. It's called the web.