skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agile, XP, insert-other-methadology, is a way to potentially take a developer who is a 2 or 3 and get them working like a 5.

Problem is it also takes the developers who are 8,9 and 10s and turns them into 5s too.

If you have lots of 2s and 3s this is probably fine. If you have more 7s, 8s and 9s it's a problem. For a start the better developers will end up simply leaving as working conditions are too hostile.

Most developers are < 5 / 10 skill wise, so these silly methadologies become stupidly popular.
“Intrusion attempt” as alleged in the article is more like an “intrusion attempt” by the publishers to exploit a bug in the user’s web browser.

Publishers have every ability to use some DRMed iOS app and bypass the web completely. Instead they want their cake (free SE & sharing traffic) and eat it too (paid or demographically tracked and ad targeted visitors.)
This sounds like complete joke. Next another bill will ban pagination?
Banning autoplay videos, with extremely severe penalties for offenders, would be a great thing for the world.
How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner
There does not appear to be any evidence they knew they were or were likely to be contaminating the site and ignored it at the time (i.e they did not act with negligence). The typical accusations, denial, lawsuit, wash, rinse, repeat cycle that tends to characterize instances when corporations act in bad faith (malice). By the time the site was identified activities that were contaminating it had ceased. It was cleaned up as promptly as a big lumbering bureaucracy (DOE in this case) can be expected to. They even expedited the cleanup at the request of the stakeholders.

This does not appear to be an example of corporate bad behavior because it is lacking in both negligence and malice.

If you want to be outraged over evil corporations go read about DuPont poisoning the water in various places. There's been a few longer articles posted here about it fairly recently and they seem to actually be acting in bad faith.
Apparently they're seedlings, not just seeds. Seems to be a large campaign; one company alone was boasting about having planted 1M. But I have no idea if it's verified in any way.
Its fine to leave gaps, the latest role is the most important. The .net work doesn't add much to a DS role so there isn't much weight in mentioning it and it shows you spent less than 100% of your focus on DS. If there aren't other candidates then that's fine but there are 10s of candidates that are more or less DS-only on paper.

If candidates could see the other applicant's CVs it would kick off an arms race.
"Solution"

Something something "... should..." something something "... should..."

That's not a solution. That's not even hope. That's dreaming.
It is more than just a waste - how do you know what might depend on what you are undoing? Other, that is, than by having a deep understanding of what the code does and how it works, which is the problem that this approach is supposed to solve.
Ask HN: For those of you who hated public school, how would you change it?
Currently enrolled in one right now, and I am curious to how public schools could cater to:

-autodidacts

-ambitious kids in mediocre environments

-fixing the college is the only respectable path mindset

-implementing more freedoms in terms of courses (I fail to see why literature would be useful to a math-minded student)

I strongly feel that the US public school system is broken for all of the reasons above being neglected. I'm curious to what solutions there could be to these issues.
If politicians could focus their efforts on actually solving problems instead of giving hand outs to their tort lawyer buddies, we might get a better system.

The lawsuits would include:

- autoplay of gifs vs web videos

- does Pinterest count as an auto scroll ad

- does an endless scroll populated with 50% real content count as non-ad?

The law will just create more headaches for the producers and less innovation thanks to having to fight lawsuits.

Example of the depths lawyers can class action: Godiva is being sued in court for putting “Godiva 1927” on the label; the lawyer is arguing that people believe that the chocolate was made in 1927.

*edited the content away from ideas.
Things like requiring accept and decline checkboxes to be the same font seem somewhat reasonable, even if I disagree with it, but banning autoplay videos and endless scrolling is insane. There are legitimate uses for autoplay videos (ex. Netflix playing next episode, YouTube playing next song when you are listening to music) which I personally use all the time and appreciate, and endless scrolling is great when you don't need to refer back to previous results, and don't want to keep clicking "next". I think people should have the freedom to consume content how they want, the government shouldn't compensate for their lack of self control.
Donation, no. But it’s a vote. You’re paying to vote for the type of “freedom” many of us here want to see.
Philip Morris is successful, that doesn't mean that their product is a positive on the world.
to be fair, they're not mutually exclusive.

It would be interesting to discover the stagnating effects of closing your doors to all but those willing to pay. Perhaps naively, I assume the majority of paying customers were dedicated readers before the paywalls went up. How are new users brought into the funnel of such an exclusive system?
No it wasn't. It doesn't even pass the sniff test.

Why do you think the slave-free north was much richer than the south, before the civil war?

If slavery makes a country rich, why isn't Africa rich?

Why wasn't Brazil, which imported ~4 million slaves (compare to ~200k for USA) significantly richer than the USA?

Native Americans had slaves:

> "An exhaustive search of some 725 late 18th/early 19th century ethnohistoric sources and 20th century ethnographic works indicates that predatory warfare, or preying on other groups for plunder and captives, was engaged in by virtually all Northwest Coast societies."

> "Source after source notes, either through specific instances or in general terms, and with almost monotonous iteration, that within this large area a prime motive for raiding was to gain captives for enslavement."

(From: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773392?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...)

Why weren't those people rich?

If you think slavery was instrumental to any rich nation getting rich, I suggest you read a lot more history, and look at who had the most slaves in history, and who has the most slaves today.
> Here’s the thing: If you’re a developer for iOS or macOS and want to charge customers money, the Apple-provided payment tools, which demand a 30% cut, are the only ones you’re allowed to use. It’s not even a discussion.

Why does macOS keep getting offhandedly roped into these discussions? Not only is the Mac App Store not a requirement, it's rarely used.

Maybe Apple intends to change that some day, but that's speculation, not reality. And frankly, from where I sit, people have been predicting the demise of macOS sideloading for nearly a decade now, and they're still waiting.
Gads I hate David Brooks. Here I am, reading moral and life advice from an asshole who traded his wife in for a 23 year younger model, gives war-mongering neocon goon-policy advice to America in various thinktanks and NYT columns, despite being a Canadian with a son in the IDF. He tells me to shape my life like a pentagram, and is bragging he goes to conferences with liberals AND conservatives, lookit how alternative he is, woo-woo.

David Brooks (like Arthur Brooks who inexplicably gets linked here sometimes too) should be a cautionary tale of how you can make shitty choices and be a lousy human being, but you'll be taken care of if you fit into a certain social milieux and regurgitate the correct oligarch pieties for the peasants. Bleauch. It isn't even a well written article; what's he saying at the end? Go to more conferences? It's OK to be old as long as you're well balanced? Don't get too good at anything?
Link for the lazy: https://twitter.com/arcalinea/
Planting seeds is not "planting trees", thanks for the mention of seedlings -- that changes the complexion of the effort considerably.

Personally I'd expect a sapling to be the minimum developmental stage to qualify as "planting trees".
Yea I've blocked via the hosts file. And it's a little difficult because I just undo the configuration.
This seems like yet another „serverless platform“... why would I put my production logic on your platform if you might not survive for another year?
"death of the metered paywall."?

I understand this is publisher-centric newspaper, but it's not like it was that hard to bypass it.

If I remember right, Chrome had "open guest window" functionality forever, which bypasses the detectors as wll -- and it only took 4 clicks (select all, copy, open guest window, paste-and-go)

Sure 4 click -> 1 click reduction is a big change, but it is hardly "death of metered firewall"
I've never heard of him before, but I looked it up and it would appear the condo claim of being unoccupied for a significant period of time after construction and bulldozing peoples homes (possibly not thousands but apparently including an orphanage) is true.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
Identity theft is an amazing PR term, not-so-subtly shifting blame onto the individual whose identity was fraudulently used.

* The PII wasn't stolen from me, it was negligently exposed by services I contract with (and pay!) and others that I have no formal relationship with (like Equifax).

* It wasn't defrauding me, it was defrauding services I contract with (and others) who failed to verify my identity.

And yet somehow I'm obligated to do the cleanup myself.
I think the author is upset because publishers want to have their cake and eat it too: It has long been google’s (and all other successful search engines’) policy that sites should present the same content to the web crawler and to human beings.

Soft paywalls are essentially a loophole in that (at least superficially) pro-consumer rule, and incognito blockers are apparently taking that loophole one step too far. This move will fix the issue by changing the browser instead of page ranks.

Here is an unfounded conspiracy theory: People noticed that regularly clearing cookies works better than incognito mode, so they were switching to that because of incognito blockers, and that presents an existential threat to Google’s cash cow.

I don’t believe the previous paragraph, but I really want an extension that nukes all browser state if my computer / device is idle for more than 4 hours. The only exceptions would be bookmarks and password management.
It's a lot more verbose than _.mapValues() is, but it's nice to have a relatively simple solution without using a library.
As a publisher, there's absolutely no way I'm letting Google, Apple or Facebook manage the identity or control the authentication of my readers.
Any system is constrained by energy usage.
The mobile app markets are operating at such scales, that there's a literal avalanche of scammers and assholes waiting to take advantage of you.

There is zero chance that I would send personal info or payment data to some no-name app and even most of the other well known apps.
The paper money of Genghis Khan has little to do with the Bill of Exchange. Most notably, bills are issued by private entities, and their acceptance as a means of payment is voluntary.
So many people express such opinions straightfacedly, it more readily registers in my mind as tiresome than ironic.
"Internally accessible only" just means you have to have credentials to access it.

You can also add IP address restrictions to a bucket access policy; this was obviously not done here because once she had the credentials, it didn't matter where she was accessing from.
This would have appealed to me before building a rather large side project with Google Cloud's proprietary Firestore database. There are loads of drawbacks that slowly become apparent the more I build and the deeper I dig myself into that hole. I loved how quickly I was able to get something up and running, and was super excited about it at first. But as I've had to add more and more features and turn it into a real project, being limited to only the tools provided by the vendor has become a real drag. Migration, testing, debugging, is all so much more of a pain. Can't even run my application locally without an internet connection. On top of all of that, there may be pricing hikes, or the service could go away all together.

With that experience, it would be hard for me to be convinced that something like Dark would be worth the risk. With things like this, you don't always realize the drawbacks until it's too late. Now, for my side project, I'm only really stuck with the database - locking myself into a programming language and even a text editor sounds like a nightmare.
> Meanwhile other, better forms of journalism are thriving.

Such as?
While I agree with your entropy model I think that for items like this there's more direct paths that are equally reasonable.

It stands to reason that the middle level important people who made strategic level decisions about things like military defenses, which roads to build up, etc, etc who's work was on the edge of the empire would move between the various points on its edge directly rather than traveling to/from Rome like a higher level person who reports to people in Rome would do. Some middle level political or military official probably bought the perfume around the same time they moved from the northeast to the northwest or had reason to travel there and brought it back as a souvenir or gift for their wife or something.

Sure, most rich people didn't travel or not that far but of those that did this is exactly the kind of place they'd wind up going to/from or passing through. The glass could have gotten there through a circuitous route as you described but I find it slightly more probable that it could have been transported there reasonably directly by its end user.
So, an article in the WSJ about a $25 phone sold only in India with a feature set rivalling that of a 2005 BlackBerry is a PR push for...what, exactly?
Most of them (at least on mobile of what I know) already have a "Click here to see full article" button. This is where the paywall should be.

You start to read the article, it seems interesting ? You click (and then have to login, pay , or whatever).

Of course it might result of some sort of redacting bait, but why not try that ?

There's a french tech website [0] that does that, some article are free to read (mostly brief content), but those where journalist have spent time on it, you can only see the begining, and if you are a paying customer, you see the whole content.

You can pay from 0.99€ for a 48h test, so you can see if the content is worthy for you.

(not affiliated at all, I just think they do this the good way)

[0] https://www.nextinpact.com/
Musk said (about an hour before you posted your comment) that SolarCity is hoping to manufacture 1000 solar roofs per week by the end of this year. [1]

Most of Musk's company goals are aspirational, and the means to the end often change. For example, Falcon 9 first stage was supposed to be reusable by landing it in the ocean with a parachute, but they found it didn't work. Instead, they lengthened the first stage booster dramatically so it would have the propellant margin to land propulsively.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1156005185656782848?s=20
A Novel Thermal Battery Promises Green Power Around the Clock
I would argue they are intruding in that they are accessing information from my browser that they shouldn't have access to. If their website allows me to read an article they don't want me to by going to "www.nytimes.com" that's not an intrusion, that's poor gating on their part.
It's not unreasonable. My team is usually in by 9, 9:30 at the latest. We take 20 minutes to get coffee and discuss issues, what needs to be done, etc. Then we set about completing tasks.

A startup I worked at in the mid-90's had people working in pairs: a server developer and a client developer. They didn't care what hours you kept as long as you didn't hold up the other person in your pair. I arrived around 9:30am daily. The client guy I was paired with came in around 8:30am. I always stayed later so I'd check in code before I left and leave a message for him about the progress. He tested stuff before I arrived and went over any issues when I got in. Then we'd work together the rest of the day. Other engineers came in at 10:30am, noon, and as late as 1pm. They worked it out with their other halves the same way I did.

I think wise managers work with the team, minding company-imposed limitations, rather than enforce personal preferences.
The author was deliberately trying to use incognito mode to view the paywalled content, so this is imho rightfully called an intrusion attempt.

Of course, if you're just using incognito mode normally and happened to visit the same page, then it is not an intrusion attempt but just incognito browsing.

The whole point is that news websites can't distinguish between the two.
I will gladly give a newspaper $25 - $50 a year for access

The regional newspaper in my state is $25/6 months, which includes the physical Sunday paper and DRM-free downloadable PDFs of the newspaper every day that you can view on any device.

About a year ago I looked around at papers in other states, and the pricing and benefits were similar. It's only the super-premium papers that charge much more, but even the New York Times maxes out at $40/month for physical Sunday + digital. I'm OK paying a premium for the New York Times because I understand it's expensive to pay reporters and editors and photographers to travel to and live in cities around the world.

I think if the people who whine about "I'd pay $xx if the newspaper only did $yy" actually put their money where their mouths are, journalism (especially local) would be in a better place.
I've had the pleasure of working on this:
https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo
was the cleanest I've seen
Wouldn't you be happier if prices were 25% lower?

Maybe you're not objecting because you don't know how much better the alternative could be?
The parent comment was of course sarcastic. However, your trip savvy list is seven countries long.

The US does not have the best tap water in the world, I think everyone here can guess that already. It does have extremely safe tap water overall however, save for a few examples like Flint (and fracking regions in West Texas or Oklahoma, both of which get bad ratings on water violations). Its rate of serious drinking water violations is low nationally going back over the last 20-30 years.
Totally irrelevant to the topic at hand - voice calling.
Opening with a Niall Ferguson quote doesn’t help the author’s credibility for people familiar with the history of that particular “historian.”
Not to mention it prevents piracy and it is significantly more safe than downloading off of random websites.
Man I am glad I missed all this. And not even sure how this would have worked. Back in my days at IITB we had about 350 boys and 7 girls.
Or work with a JS framework that compiles into vanilla JS, like Svelte[1].

[1] https://svelte.dev
I think the key is to be proactive, not passive. Narrow focus and go deeper.

Identify what you want. For me, my goal is to just have code that represents what it's trying to do as closely as possible, minimizing design patterns.

Yours might be something like trying to minimize latency as much as possible. It can change, but pick something you're excited about.

Now find books related to this. Hack apart some open source to see how it ticks. Indulge in related subreddits and communities. Find some academic papers on the topic. Set up a code sandbox, try things, break things. Maybe do something ridiculous.

After a while, you'll get bored of it. Pick something else, and focus on that.

This week I've been trying to optimize user experience during loading times, which led me down the path of CSS based loading dialogs, modals, empty states, messing with the loading order of things, such that it seems like the page is loading faster.

Next thing might probably be trying to build a CRUD dashboard as quick and elegantly as possible.
The next step is to make cat girls.
>On no other platform would we accept a scenario where the owner of that platform dictated not only the tools developers can use, but restricted the ways they talk about their products and pricing. We would call it unfair, monopolistic, and overbearing. But on our smartphones, it’s just a fact of life.

I am pretty sure game consoles have been doing this basically since their existence. None of them allow you to make 'A' rated games for example. (Considering the topic of the article, it should be obvious I am referring to "restricted the ways they talk about their products and pricing" here)

Retail stores keep some amount of control over signage, I doubt Walmart would be particularly happy if a sign said you could buy X device cheaper directly from the manufacturer.

In reality Apple is continuing a trend that is normal for store fronts, digital or physical.

However, the "walled garden" of Apple is largely why I stick with iOS. I don't want to be forced to trust every company with my credit card information (a developer implementing their own payment system will be an immediate delete for me, with very few exception... like Amazon for obvious reasons).

Also lets not forget that we keep seeing reports that iOS users are more likely to spend money than Android users. I would argue that the increased income from users makes up for the 30% cut.
Heh, didn't know that. Thanks for the tip :)
As a peer mentioned, species predates genetics. But even when you go for a genetic solution it's not clear. How would you propose this? For instance various studies using different metrics put humans and chimps at between 95% and 99% identical. It's the counter intuitive thing about genetics. But then to further confuse the picture is that genome-wide variation between humans can differ by as much as 0.5%. So clearly drawing a genetic boundary between species seems it's subject to the exact same difficulties as our previous phenotypical classifications.
I used to be happy, but now, not so much due to the increasing trend of subscriptions. Yes I know developers have a living to make, but when you end up potentially paying $50 a year for an SSH client it no longer works for me. Why not charge a realistic one-time fee for an app and then I'll gladly pay.
And I had to call to Croatia to cancel mine. There are definitely dark patterns these guys using. Which was very surprising to see from true-journalism-northern-star
Disagree. Every system has problems. Look at what happened with Zoom — unrestricted access to your entire user account on MacOS, for them to do whatever they want. Normal people should not have to even think about a virus or malware scanner on their system.

I like where Apple is going and I like the iOS model. Most of all, I know that people like my parents will be better protected from malware and spyware and crypto extortion.
As in the MDN article:

All major engines have also implemented corresponding trimLeft and trimRight functions - without any standard specification.

So ES2019 implements trimStart() and trimEnd(), which are symmetrical to padStart() and padEnd(), but trimLeft() and trimRight() aliases are maintained as not to break working code.
Sony has sold 100M PS4s
Matt Mullenweg, please sell your ~190 unused matt.* domains to us fellow Matts
I was able to create a full web app using Preact with no build pipeline at all. It was not the best experience mostly because of no concatenation.

I ended up adding Parcel for easy Typescript support.
Prices on the iOS AppStore are already almost unsustainably low.
It was an eBay bid, to be specific.
The air in the US is in fact as clean as Western Europe. Comparing it to individual smaller nations, then I'm sure there are many examples that are cleaner. Comparing the US to larger population regions however it does compare very well to the best.