skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people that work at these companies totally buy the koolaid. Many of them have no direct access to the underlying fundamentals, if they see anything odd at all, it's easy to write it off with 'Adam knows best'. Many of these folks would never have a chance to work at a regular high-end startup so it was a real 'chance of a lifetime' for them.

And then 'non believers' probably just didn't feel the need to speak up - the business was growing after all, and by most outside measures it seemed legit.

Most folks would not be able to evaluate the quality of acquisitions anyhow - and frankly, many respected CEOs make really bad purchases all the time.
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> I'm not into all this YC stuff, but does the YC20 in the title means that someone has funded this idea?

Yes, Y Combinator (ycombinator.com) is a top startup accelerator (and the owner of the site you are currently on).

They fund batches of 150+ startups twice a year. W20 means they were in the first batch of this year.
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I think the explanation is easier than that:

- Reduce and reuse are individual efforts that collectively mean a lot at scale.

- Recycling is something that we pay the city to do and then we don't have to think about it. Out of sight, out of mind, we've barely had to change our behavior.

But it turns out that when we abdicate individual responsibility to government and elected officials, we learn that most aren't recycling and never were. Oops.
Wow! So the OS frameworks are there for a reason? Who would have thought?!

Mind = blown!

One can only hope that Slack and other Electron apps reach this point eventually...
1. We will keep a free tier, some kind of pro version and mainly monetizing features for teams/organizations. We're fully committed on privacy!
2. The app is 100% written in Swift for macOS.
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A small business I worked at in a town with a population of 40,000 was approached by the local cable provider. We had 4x T1 lines at $1000 per month. They offered to run fiber to our building for only $1000 per month plus $4000 per year for three years installation fee. Given how many other places we could spend $4000 per year for three years, we opted to keep the existing T1 stupidness as the slow bandwidth was not a serious problem for a small manufacturer.

I found it interesting that during the sales pitch of their salespeople (new rep + her manager), they mentioned that they were "in good with the town council" and were proud of this fact.

Our building was approximately 150 feet from a cable box in a residential neighborhood that was immediately on the other side of a tall fence along one side of the parking lot.

I asked why they couldn't just run a cable from that cable box, and they told me that the city had a law that forbid them from running a single line across public property to private property that wasn't receiving service and then to another private property that would receive the service. The private property they were referring to was a 10' strip of unused property with bark ground cover.

I asked why they hadn't run cable throughout the industrial zone that we were located in. They said that they had plans approved by the city, but those plans required they use a PG&E substation on the opposite side of the industrial zone that was already at 100% capacity. They had requested, years ago, for PG&E to upgrade the substation, but this request didn't even have and ETA from PG&E, itself yet another government-mandated monopoly provider.

Now, why they could run a fiber optic cable anywhere they pleased, is beyond me. They certainly were excited at the prospect of offering us this service.

The problem here that I have personally witnessed has nothing to do with with anything other than a corrupted local government.
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For photos, I wish iOS would not require a permission at all in the case where I just want it to open an OS-controlled file picker and then give the app the one photo, akin to copy-pasting it. No reason to give access to every photo when only N are picked.
Honestly, I have a hard time finding any organized left-wing disinformation. Perhaps that's the evidence of left-wing disinformation?

Could you point me to some resources so that I might have a better understanding?
If you know exactly how you want your app to look forever, sure. But you don't. So you want a flexible app that can easily be redesigned. And that means prioritizing developer comfort very high. Which means bloated frameworks.
Yeah, that's how I am reading that.

Given the headaches caused by Apple finally barring UIWebView (the basis of frameworks like Cordova) from new App Store submissions beginning in April, I'm not surprised FB would do this. There is plenty of rumor-mongering that Apple is going to make it increasingly difficult for apps based on hybrid frameworks through the submission process.
I couldn't say it better :-)
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==The amount of false and misleading information spread about Trump has been staggering though.==

Much of it spread by himself, no?
Can you distill down what content in those links are evidence of Trump being controlled by Russia?
I think they went through a period (or still are, I honestly moved over to messenger lite a couple months into it) where they were seemingly intent on making messenger the WeChat of the west. It got real chunky real quick. It was around the same time everyone was excited about conversational ui and Microsoft announced their bot framework.

It may have been slow and bulky before that, but that's when I started to notice.
Removing waste, not "toxins". And unless you are severely dehydrated, they work fine.

From: https://journals.lww.com/nutritiontodayonline/Pages/articlev...

> Only a drastic reduction of total body water is able to impair renal function in healthy kidneys
tl;dr: It's underwhelming. A similarly-priced PC (expectedly) outperforms it, and more surprisingly, several professional Mac tools don't take advantage of the extra hardware making them run around the same speed they do on cheaper Macs. Also the display is largely unfit for the use-cases those $43k displays it was compared against are designed for, though it's also much cheaper so it lives in an awkward middle-ground.
A lot of these companies are filled with young "fresh meat" that just don't know any better. If you're just out of college and get hired at one of these places, why wouldn't you believe the spin? Everything is validating it. The media, the good salaries, the parties, the money is flowing, and your stock options are theoretically making you wealthy...

But there are also people that see through it all, but just don't stay long. This leaves only the people being fooled. A lot of the Theranos book involved people like Tyler Shultz, who saw through the Theranos mess and he left with a lot of drama that included his freaking former secretary of state grandfather trying to convince him otherwise. As for the "higher ups", they just find people who want to drink the kool-aid and are willing to take a salary doing it.
We need foot pedals for Dvorak/QWERTY switching _in charwise situ_ … virtuosos of the finger arts, please stand up. And modes, obvi prose v code.

asking important question, can wha-wha be incorporated? Markdown, are you there?
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None of that is true, aside from maybe your first encounter with programming.
So, how long until Apple joins in and requires "_dontmapme" as the suffix?
> 6/96= 6.25%

Is 96 a number of (ongoing + finalized) cases or just a number of finalized cases?
Abstraction craze. React Native etc etc.
I use wireguard on top of udp2raw to power through UDP-blocking firewalls all the time

https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel

Added bonus: it's not TCP
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> they obviously would’ve been raked over the coals also. There is no magic solution here.

It’s weird that your defense comes down to “there was no way for Apple to avoid reputational damage so it was ok.”

No one is suggesting that there is always a win-win.

The “magic” solution here was simply transparency. Even if people aren’t going to like the message.
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Hadn't thought of that - good point.
> If you're building something in 2020, you'd be shortsighted to not put an FPGA between the engine position inputs, and your time-sensitive outputs.

Why? Without supporting information this sounds like cargo-culting. What are the timing requirements and why can't they be achieved with current microcontrollers?
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Assuming one hates notifications, is there _any_ reason why anyone would want to use app over m(basic[1]).facebook.com?

[1] to access messenger because fb stubbornly thinks I want to install their crap/spyware on my phone
That’s a workaround for a on purpose decision to cripple the mobile website, where the chat and messages worked flawlessly. Another decision against users was to use messages as notification in some cases.

I didn’t pull the trigger on canceling the account as from time to time I find news and event from pages that I follow, but there’s no way I’m installing an app that uses so many shady tactics.
It's general good practice in financial software to not have "naked" values without the associated currency. Even if right now all your transactions have a single currency, it's still useful to follow that practice because it might not be that way in some edge case, it might not stay that way in the future, to reduce the risk of accidental aggregation (adding multiple values without concern that they might be in different currencies), etc.

Two arbitrary edge cases with multiple currencies mixed in single purchase that come in mind; i'm not saying that they apply here, but they are relevant in some cases:

1) card txns with currency exchange - txn currency differs from card currency, the merchant asks for and receives some amount in currency A, the customer gets shown, confirms and pays amount in currency B.

2) tax-included payments (e.g. VAT where applicable) for txns in foreign currency; you might have a payment for 1000 USD but you'd need to calculate/indicate/store the VAT in the local currency.
I grew up in Ithaca, and it's not like a lot of Update NY. It's got multiple colleges, including Cornell, a global-tier research University. Meanwhile the rest of upstate is a lot poorer.

Great for a college student -- cheap housing and good local booze. Hanging out on the Ithaca Commons was great, and the gaming stores (like Magic Cards, D&D) were awesome.
Linking feeling good with drinking the right amount of water has nothing to do with "toxins".
The whole "Trump is controlled by Russia" thing, for starters.
Any time there is an attempt to specifically reduce plastic waste, such as banning or charging fees for plastic bags or plastic straws, people retort that this, too, is all a farce.

The argument always goes that people want to feel good while doing very little. But what I hear mostly are people who want to do nothing but still complain.
As in maximise to take up the entire window? cmd+shift+enter to toggle, I love this feature.
Man, I hope so. There has beens so much cargo cult built up around React Native that suggesting other approaches is almost guaranteed to kick off many rounds of contentious design meetings.

Fortunately, nothing quite takes the wind out of a platform's sails like watching the creator back away from the platform.
(Some of the comments in this thread, like this one, were originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467769, which explains e.g. why they mention the URL explicitly.)
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We have a lightweight extension for GitHub and more will come. What would you like to do with an extension for GitHub? Plan projects? Search code? Manage packages?
Thanks for the input. I was just quoting the parent’s phrasing of ‘invalidates’. I’d agree that science is absolutely an additive process. However with regards to the mind, we may be in the position of physicists circa 1880. I suppose we simply can’t know.
It's a bit like the "is trying to reduce food waste a useful endeavor?" discussion on here a few days ago—we waste a bunch of shit because it's so cheap it's not worth saving. If you put in extra effort to save it, probably that costs more than just buying what you wanted on the market, by the time you're done. If enough people do that and demand rises prices will go up a little and waste will drop a little, too.

So really if you want to effectively cut e.g. plastic use or increase its re-use you have to make it expensive, but that's kinda contrary to the whole point of using plastic in the first place.

Similarly, as industry's really gotten good at minimizing use of materials as a cost-saving measure (I assume CAD or something has enabled this? It's very noticeable since especially the late 90s) it's made re-use harder. I've seen those good, thick old department store plastic bags live for decades as a container for occasionally-accessed stuff in storage, and plastic bottles used to be so tough you could use them for all kinds of things that modern ones would be very bad at. Old plastic storage bins may have used a lot more plastic and been more expensive but they didn't crack if you looked at them funny like the modern ones. Stuff like that. So we got "reduce" in a way, but it just made stuff even cheaper so we use more of it, and made "re-use" much less practical.
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UIWebView was deprecated for years, everyone's had plenty of time to move to WKWebView, and it has nothing to do with React Native to boot.

Apple legitimately doesn't seem to care about hybrid frameworks, they've been there since day one. Any time it's seemed like it got difficult Apple has backed down. The lack of JIT in WKWebView is probably the only thing that you could stretch here.
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Yup, all too often support cases may have an X/Y Problem (see http://xyproblem.info/).

It's really import to clarify:

1. What they're trying to accomplish
2. The steps they're taking
3. The expected result
4. The actual result

A misunderstanding of any of those points can waste huge amounts of time and cause lots of frustration.