skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love it love it love it if the richest companies had this little class solidarity. A nice change of pace.

I'd guess many anti-corporate sentiments are rising, and there's just some overlap in scheduling
> The people are smarter.

I’ll bite. Which other companies are like this would you claim?
As any cyclist who has been on cobblestones can tell you, the pavers used on Roman roads aren't friendly to bikes. This would be doubly true without a pneumatic tire. Amazing engineering but not suitable for a bicycle.
This is why we have IAP's disabled on all devices and avoid any pay-to-win games. Unfortunately an overwhelming number of game developers are focused around gamifying IAP's for max addiction to extract max revenue where I've basically lost trust in trying out any new games that aren't personally recommended.

I'm looking forward to Apple Arcade as we'll finally have a curated collection of trusted Games we can access with a single subscription so game developers are compensated and they can just focus on creating good content/game play instead of tweaking their games with Dark UX patterns to maximize IAP's.
Microsoft is solving their biggest problem by switching IE to Chromium. Right now everyone uses IE to download Firefox or Chrome. But now that IE will be Chrome they are hoping that enough people will not switch their browser and will start using the defaults (bing, outlook, etc). It's genius. In the past IE had the dominate browser it is not impossible that they can claw back some of that market share.
> Or I can donate to a church that is doing all of it for free.

People donate a ton of money to churches.
And other cryptocurrencies cannot? I don't like FB and I personally wouldn't use Libra because it seems to defeat a couple reasons for even using a cryptocurrency.

I don't care for the precedent this commentary would have on product introductions in general. "I don't like 'x' from company 'y' because terrorism!" Yeah whatever, unfair comparison.
I've been looking for Medium alternatives, but my audience wants me to continue on it.

123 votes to where should I publish my posts:

- 34% Medium

- 9% Dev.to

- 45% My company's official blog

- 12% LinkedIn, my domain, ???

This tells me that - even if Medium continues to annoy their fans with their new model, I should still consider it as a great platform for quick publishing.

Survey via Twitter to my 10k followers (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/1148334055689031681).

Disclosure: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google Cloud - and I frequently post on Medium and elsewhere.
Good steel would only be strictly needed for axles.

Bearings could have been polished and oiled wood. The frame, wood. The hinge of the front wheel, brass or another small bit of steel. Transmission could be a leather belt. Wheels, wood again.

Would such a device somehow emulate a modern bicycle? Very likely.

Would such a device be practical, reliable, fast, to say nothing of comfort? I greatly doubt it.
While I agree that parents should never give their credit card to their kids[1], note that this is not the case in some examples from the article:

> It was on his own phone and he managed to [...] enter his own children's bank card details and buy lots of in-game items.

> It turned out my wife had left herself logged into Google Play on her old phone that she'd given to our youngest daughter.

[1] I'm not sure if this is a cultural thing. At least in my coutry almost no one has a credit card (it's more common to use debit cards + virtual credit cards) so I find the concept of "giving your CC to your child" really weird.
Reminds me of Forgotify: a website that displays songs that have 0 plays on Spotify: http://forgotify.com/

Fun fact: if you listen to a song returned from the site it'll never be seen on the site again (as it would have >0 views)
Infrastructure is a huge one. Our transportation infrastructure is down-right third world and there is powerful opposition to doing anything about it. America is still run by a generation that worships the car and thinks any infrastructure other than roads is communism.
Tangentially one thing that I've pondered is the the Amazon Fulfillment Centers are typically on the periphery exurban areas such that they will have the benefits of the minimum wage legislation of the urban area but that wage will go a lot farther and they will have a lot shorter commute then if they were located in the urban area itself as a normal retail job would. That seems smart. For instance, $15 an hour goes a lot farther in Tracy and Stockton toward rent or a downpayment than it does in the Mission. Obviously Amazon were to pay more and that would be even better.
And therein lies the problem -- Google has been extremely successful at persuading itself and others that "can invert a binary tree on a whiteboard" is in any way synonymous with being "smarter". That's how we end up with at best people believing that ML will give us self-driving cars and at worst with all the societal problems that result from what these companies do, "but we just need to adjust that algorithm, train that model, and more, more, MORE of your personal data, and then we will lead the world to utopia" thinking. And they might even believe that.

Ed.: also appear to be very often very insecure about it.
It even goes beyond children. I was recently approached by a mobile gaming company that is looking for statisticians for their data science department. The large companies have entire task forces dedicated to figuring out how to extract even more money out of the ~1% that pays in these games. But of course they put it in slightly different terms.
Well...

There is no way to distinguish between an adult and a kid with their parents' credentials.

If the precedent gets set that you can buy in-game currency and then reverse the charge on the grounds that that was your friend's kid, not you, what will happen?

All I see is that it becomes tougher to offer games that are monetized in this style, which seems like a positive effect. So assigning responsibility to the parent doesn't seem that important to me.
Companies do it because you make more money for less effort, it's called games as a service. Instead of having to develop a game from scratch every few years and hope the income lasts until their next release, they create a game that they can use as a platform for expansions and microtransactions to provide consistent income over 7-10 years. Young gamers are getting so used to it that I've seen them call people entitled and unreasonable for calling out the devs on missing features at launch. They'll say things like "The game just came out 2 months ago, why do you expect them to have already added feature X to the game?" As someone who started out with Nintendo games that had no possibility of having new features added, that mentality is baffling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_as_a_service
From the article: "A year later, Microsoft closed its German cloud datacenter, and schools migrated their accounts to the European cloud. Now, the HBDI states that the European cloud may offer access to US authorities; with no way for the German government to monitor such access"
Usually the beef is less than the fact that it exists and more to do with the loss of the Esc key.
Does this apply to Amazon too? I’m not sure what you’re implying here.
> in a community of Y-Combinator founders

Not all of us have any relationship to Y-Combinator and/or the companies incubated by Y-Combinator (beyond perhaps using this site). I sure as hell don't.

> I hope that there aren't people out there who just don't donate because of this.

Sorry to shatter your hopes, but this is the exact reason why I'm averse to supporting the Susan G. Komen foundation in any way (well, that and them suing other charity organizations for running fundraisers that sound vaguely like "for the cure"; also, for continuing to shovel money into "awareness" instead of actual research).
And parents will just put the kid on the touchid or put their card on the kids phone to keep the kid from bothering them a dozen times a day for a tiny purchase.
This seems to be the equivalent of buying digital scratch-off lottery tickets. So you could make the argument that in-app purchases should be regulated in the same way that gambling is.

However, you could also argue that it's the equivalent of buying a pack of Pokémon cards, baseball cards, etc. - which are not regulated.

My intuition tells me that given the addictiveness and how this disproportionately affects the most vulnerable members of society, the practice should be regulated much more tightly. Also, given that these are digital goods, a more relaxed "return" policy shouldn't harm any company that is offering in-app purchases in a good-faith / non-exploitative manner.
One thing to keep in mind when comparing DuckDuckGo to Google is that people do not use Google with an alternative backup in mind. When you DDG something and it fails, you can always switch to google.

But what about when Google fails? Unlike DDG, there is no culture of switching between search engines when googling. Typically, you'll just rewrite the query for google. And as rewriting the query is an entrenched part of googling, you are less likely to notice this as a failure. It is this training that's the core advantage nostrademons points out.
It already does that, just after graduation rather than before. I don't know how many non-Americans I've met who came here to study but couldn't find a post-graduation job fast enough to get a new visa.
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funny, for me it was tough hot work (middle of summer, Utah desert, trucks in the sun all day)
Growth for it's own sake shouldn't be a goal, yes.

But if growth furthers the mission of the charity, which it may well do depending on that mission, then absolutely it should at least consider it.

From the outside as a donor/supporter of that charity and mission, the logical thing for me to care about is how efficiently they can deliver, and are they getting better or worse at that. Which is why you have charity efficiency ratings. Those are hardly perfect, but that's what is important, not some limited information opinions on salary.

If they are doing a good job at it, they are demonstrably in a better position to judge how than you or I am; or almost anyone outside their area.
I was just having an internal debate about the merits of a spending cap. I'm not usually one for such blunt regulation, but there really is no way to justify spending +$100 on mobile games daily unless an individual is addicted, deceived, or in some other way psychologically manipulated.

Although society would probably benefit from similar caps in casinos, and I doubt that regulation will ever arrive be legislated.
New research about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
When I was doing my thesis I was a big fan of Mathematica's right click -> copy as LaTeX feature. It saved a lot of time entering formulas and copying tables from the notebooks I was using for analysis.
On the other hand, George R.R. Martin's first sentence of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is amazingly pithy; I was admiring it last night:
"The spring rains had softened the ground, so Dunk had no trouble digging the grave."
Maybe where you're from but:
[1] chicken breast 5.86/lb
[2] rice $.94/lb
[3] tomato sauce $.63/lb
[4] carrots $.99/lb
[5] bread $1.38/20oz
[6] butter $2.95/lb
[7] cheese $3.05/8oz

Which shows that it's multiples more expensive in Canada.

[1]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/boneless-skinless-fillet-remove...
[2]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/rose-jasmine-white-scented-rice...
[3]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/great-value-tomato-sauce/600015...
[4]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/carrots/6000191271746
[5]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/great-value-100-whole-wheat-bre...
[6]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/natrel-salted-butter/6000199418...
[7]https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/great-value-cheddar-cheese-marb...
The last sentence says "Subscribe now for a free 30-day trial of the new Praxis blog" - so I guess that's what this one is about.
There are 'non-sentient' animals like mollusks. I'd hazard insects are, generally, dumb enough that cruelty is further removed. We kill house insects all the time, for no reason other than they bother us.
Who spends the price of an iPhone (per month, for months on end) on some stupid game?

One (game dev) would have to be very much full of it, to assume this is legit. And, that they never responded to the parents tells it all.
I was thinking more as in, sending the approval to a separate device, but obviously that wouldn't work if you just have one device that you let your kids play on.
Bicycle was useless without paved roads. Horse was much more convenient. I have personal anecdote about these issues. As a kid in 1967 I made 250 km bicycle trip in two days. My father was amazed: "How this is possible? I made exactly the same trip in 1929 also in two days, but I had a very good horse galloping half the time."
We were both camping at the same forest at halfway point too..
I use a "7 accounts setup" for my finances. One of my accounts is labelled "Internet" and has no more than £50-£100 at any given moment. It is the card used for Paypal, Amazon, Spotify, etc. If that card gets compromised I won't lose more than that, and my bank will most likely return the funds (yes even if it's just a Debit Card). If the account runs low then Spotify won't get paid in time and I won't cry about it :)

I was inspired by this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=auzLhKvsxnQ

I always had multiple accounts but this vid and a discussion with friends (bankers and accountants) helped us all develop (each his own) 7 (or more) accounts setup. Imagine a "Dave Ramsey envelope system", but online.
Defaults matter. We say this all over the place when designing interfaces. None of these solutions being proposed are the "default". The "default" is to make it as simple and straightforward as possible to give the platforms and developers money.

Worse, all it takes is one mistake on one device to open up a whole can of financial woe when it comes to a child on a device.
Yes, there's a saying that "if a couple has 10 kids in America and 1 dies, it's a tragedy. If a couple has 10 kids in India and 4 die, it's good odds." It's plausible to assume some couples might be hedging their bets however morbid that is. I'm an American that visited India for a few months and would like offer a different point of view. Buying condoms in India is still an embarrassing task since you have to stand within a line crammed full of people, look a shopkeeper in the eyes, and ask him or her to rummage around for whatever condom boxes he/she has in his/her rubbermaid containers. Lol, YC2020 could be condom vending machines in India that accept rupees >.>. Just about all of India's problems stem from the Tragedy of the Commons.
> that driving or riding in a car is probably the most risky thing that most people do all the time. And yet, we accept the risk. So this seems like a good baseline for what should be considered an acceptable risk.

For cars.

I'm very glad the FAA and airlines don't think the way you do about risk. They have their own standards. And it's perfectly consistent.

I sometime commute by skateboard, but I am NOT ok with my airlines or car companies using this choice as some sort of "acceptable risk baseline" for me.
The hacker news guidelines specifically advise against this kind of comment.

'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."'

'Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most anybody is smart enough to understand anything, they just typically aren't knowledgeable enough to grasp it quickly. Stupidity, in the other hand, is misapplied intelligence. You willfully go the opposite direction from the proper one. AI is ignorant if it hasn't been trained, stupid if it is trained but has insufficient direction.
At least to my mind.
A three-years-old should not have an ability to spend money using a card, period.

Much like a three-years-old should not have an ability to light matches, or push a screwdriver into a power socket, or operate a chainsaw.
Yes, this does sound about right. Makes it feel like a drop in the bucket, though. The amount of ground that Blender is trying to cover is ridiculously large because they're deliberately trying to turn it into a jack of all trades (compositing, audio and video editing etc.). The result is that it is a true master of none.
In lawmaking, general support is meaningless. All that matters is what ends up in the law. If you're not defending or actively supporting a particular bill, you're yielding ground to the people who are attacking it.

This is a standard tactic for companies who don't want a bill to pass, but also don't want to get attacked for opposing it. It's often paired with opposition that is run through their trade association, which lets the trade association take the political heat (which is part of what they get paid to do). The article notes that Apple is a member of associations who oppose specific privacy bills.

Privacy seems to be a priority for Apple in its product design, marketing, and personally for Tim Cook. So far, it does not seem to be a lobbying priority. And Apple does lobby on some issues; they spent $6 million doing so in 2018.
> China’s tech sector has its own shorthand to describe the hours that employees work in the country: “9-9-6,” meaning from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

> “Our factories are still talking to us at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., sometimes well into midnight. They’re working on weekends, so things get done much faster,” Gui said. “Whereas back in San Francisco, after 5 p.m. people won’t respond to your emails and you can’t get anything done until the next day.”

If that is the price of fast innovation, I rather be a bit slow.
> Imagine somebody comes to the site for parts for their bookshelf, searches for "bookshelf," and...
...is presented with two major subcategories: "bookshelves" and "bookshelf parts". Problem solved.
One thing that seems to me like an impediment is the lack of a trusted counterparty to handle contract & billing mechanics. For example: subscribing to a channel on amazon prime video means that I know I can cancel effective towards the end of each monthly anniversary by simply hitting a button that I know how to find. I've done it numerous times, and as a result of the fact that I know how frictionless it is, I go around shopping for interesting channels quite freely.

Entering your credit card details into a generic payment system requires a significant level of trust which I may not be willing to extend to some blogger I hardly know.

Some people have very weird contractual structures in mind when they advertise "$10/month". They might mean: Yearly contractual term paid for on a monthly basis, but with a 3-month notice period, and contract renewing for another full year term if it doesn't get cancelled on time.

Sometimes it can be difficult to contact customer service (or anyone else willing to listen to you) when there's a problem with billing. Sometimes, cancellation can involve having to send a fax.

Sometimes they might sell your data to people who will spam you. etc. etc. etc.

For all of these reasons, the friction I experience when contemplating what is prima facie $10/month is significantly more than just that monetary value.

Here it seems to me that medium could play the role of that trusted counterparty (like amazon prime video) to make subscriptions frictionless. Or maybe someone should just do that as a generic paywall service for subscriptions. Or maybe that already exists, and I just don't know of it's existence yet (with the caveat, that, in this case, it doesn't really enjoy my trust at this point making it a bit pointless).
> As for ball bearings these are incremental improvements not a necessity (see horse chariots and carriages with wheels used for millenia before we had ball bearings). For another example see medieval wooden windmills - all cogs and bearings made from wood with some animal fat and skin for bushings and lubrication - worked well enough for centuries.

...

>> Anyone accustomed to modern practice finds it hard to believe that wood-on-wood could function as a bearing at all. This primitive arrangement was improved in a few cases by the addition of a leather bushing. Lubrication in the form of animal fat or tallow is known to have been used, although the exact composition has not been determined.

You'll notice that your examples involve a lot of power driving the mechanism - a team or horses or a windmill can overcome the kind of friction a wood-on-leather bearing implies. If you've ever ridden a bicycle where the fender was rubbing on the wheel, you'll know that human power is much more limited.
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> If a CEO takes 98% of the money but the non-profit ends hunger, is that a problem?

That's not at all what's happening, though.
No. HP is a measure of power. So is watts. Watts/second is not a meaningful unit.
Did you ever try a bike from a bike shop? This sounds like a department store bike experience. Multispeed bicycles are not generic widgets you unbox, hop on, and go. They need tuning, like a musical instrument, and a lot of the adjustments are interdependent on one another.
It isn't dairy, that is correct. Note however, that using the term 'milk' to plant liquids has hundreds of years of history in the English language.
If wages are not set by a market, ie not supply and demand, they will be mispriced. Mice-pricing represents a loss of efficiency in the economy, and makes everyone worse off over time.

If wages were set lower than equilibrium, obviously the workers would be lose out on this.

If wages were set above equilibrium, the consumers would lose out due to the higher costs being transferred over to them.

The market price represents the balance between the two interests that is the most efficient.

Inb4 some smartass posts "but perfect markets are only in textbooks and this is the real world". That isn't an argument that justifies as to why we should try to move away from the efficient equilibrium.
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Not a Googler, but a literal quote from this article:
"As always, I prefer using screenshots over gists in my articles to show code. I find them easier to work with, and easier to read."

https://medium.com/@greg.perry/a-design-pattern-for-flutter-...
The argument would be that they are rational actors and are choosing to be better off when they choose the job.
On-prem: Right now our IDE is only available as SaaS, although we will be looking at this in the near future. You can develop and test projects with the CLI and deploy them yourself but no tutorials for setting this up beyond the basics yet: https://docs.dataform.co/guides/command-line-interface/

Warehouse support: Athena/Presto and Azure are top of mind. I've not come across ClickHouse before but I'll definitely add it to our tracker!