skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tolerate most audio/video information except for very narrow fields of interest (hobby stuff on YouTube, mostly). I find the pace and editing irritating, and the format distracting and long-winded.

I don't see how the use cases of podcasts and Wikipedia, as described, are at all similar. For "informal information", someone mentions a topic and I look for it in Wikipedia. This takes me a few seconds, more if I want to delve a bit deeper. How would that work for podcasts? Google a podcast on $TOPIC, pick one that looks (or is it "sounds"?) promising, then fast forward it until someone mentions what it is in few words? I understand an in-depth, long-winded description of $TOPIC in a podcast, but that's very different from quickly looking in Wikipedia to get the gist of it.

So no, podcasts cannot be my new Wikipedia, even if I tolerated audio/video explanations better than I do.
Ask HN: How to force myself to write maintainable code?
When working on one-man side projects, I easily get into the prototyping mindset, and do minimum amount of work to get the code working. It's ok for actual prototyping, but obviously I suffer greatly after the product is shipped, as the code is neither maintainable nor testable. I tell myself every time: "Next time I'm gonna write better code and thoroughly test it", but it never happens.

I think I'm capable of writing better code, but just so deep in the habit of "hacking" that I can't be bothered to. What are some ways to force myself to write good code from the beginning?
How so?

Google is infinitely worse than Amazon and Facebook put together.

They just so happen to be an advertising company so they internet doesn't know about it yet.
What, you mean go after their friends? Are you crazy?

It’s complete nonsense. Telecoms have been fucking people over for decades and yet we still see mergers resulting in 3 providers going to 2 despite it being downright impossible to start a new one (see: Google Fiber), that is if you’re even lucky enough to have more than one in your region.
I started a company while also learning Rust. It seemed like the right choice given that we needed something which emphasized memory safety and was also blazingly quick, but I was essentially forced onto it while dealing with the pressure of having to deliver on tight deadlines.

Our core tech is in pure Rust and I have to admit that coming from Javaland it's refreshing to deeply trust your code. It's hard to convey this idea of 'if it compiles it works' but I no longer worry about showing off prototypes to people. If they compile they work.

There is a learning curve as you are introduced to new ideas and design patterns but it's worth it! Rust has made me a better programmer.
As a JavaScript developer this is limited only to everywhere.

As for myself I like coding, but what I really mean is I like writing original software to solve automation problems, which clearly not the same definition some of my prior colleagues have used.
Big Tech has a corporate sophistication problem. The other industries are far more savvy when it comes to optics and fixing image problems. Remember Monsanto's reverse merge into Bayer that cleverly sidestepped the bad PR trail it received? That never caught up with them. It likely never will.

Sadly, I imagine that big tech will catch on. It has the resources. It's just still in the process of developing the playbook.
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>>> We know they don't have full reserves because we know 30% of them were seized. [1]

You suspect they don't have full reserves because you know 30% of them were seized. Presuming "full reserves" means 1:1 backing (what else could it mean, here?), your statement assumes they had exactly 1:1 reserves before the seizure. If they had more than that, your assumption could end up false.

So sure, you suspect. From what I've read in this thread, I tend to agree. But I fail to see how you know.
Giphy wouldn't be banned on the App Store, though.
Ugh. I had those nasties in my early 20s. No idea why, but they just went away one day. Good luck!
Just consider yourself a failure if you stop the program.
Barotrauma or Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time are two very different "sharing a spaceship" style games you could try.
Only thing I still miss is noop functions are two characters. Everything else I liked is in JS now that nullish coalescing landed.
Shame we can't prove it until they start randomised testing.
> Are they charging too much?

The total ownership of virtually all the data for a huge percentage of the population could be argued to be a high price, depending on your perspective.
How is Google or Amazon or Facebook a monopoly?
Much more regulated. And the T-Mobile + Sprint deal did get a lot of scrutiny, much more than any tech acquisition has ever gotten.
Alternatively, DoorDash could change the landing page so that it points to their menu page for Saddleback, which would also cure the problem.
I see readability as a key advantage of TS. Once you are able to comfortably read type signatures, it is trivial to see what a function is supposed to do, or what a library is supposed to provide. When things don't work as expected, then it's just a matter of hopping into the debugger to inspect data inflight to find where the typings aren't matching up with reality.
I mean, your choices for flying somewhere are what - Delta or United? Some small regional carriers? What about for internet service - just a single ISP in most areas. Sometimes a monopoly by law, where no one else can lay fiber and they're free to charge as much as they want.

Your choices for searching something on the internet, hosting a video, doing email, etc. are innumerable.

So you'll have to qualify what you mean by "negative impact" before I can answer that.
This is just silly.

SaaS does not block innovation or discriminate against poor people.

The main thing SaaS offers is convenience. I cannot think of a single SaaS service that you cannot do without or replace with an alternative.

In other words, if you are cash poor, but time rich, you can always find or make an alternative.

In fact, I’d say just the opposite. SaaS is great for innovation and poor people. Most SaaS have a free or a low cost tier, or a pay per usage tier. This allows anybody, poor and rich alike, to get started without any of the heavy lifting or a large upfront investment.
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benefit is raising blockers, ideally resolving them or holding people to follow up, and reducing finger pointing (e.g. I'd have my UI done if jane just finished the API -- ok let's grab jane and ask her what's up).
At the moment, activists and hackers ("non-normal" people) are really the main audience for decentralized "censorship resistant" networks, since everyone else is happy with Youtube and other centralized services.

Regarding the instances page, it looks like they're pulling instances randomly, which would just be confusing to new users and in cases like you mention where the instance isn't popular, counterproductive.

The frontpage isn't much better - most of it is taken up explaining free software politics and things "normal" users won't care about, and it offers only three content examples - one video, one channel and one instance. Compare that to Youtube's frontpage, which is tiles and tiles of content, with a search bar right on top, basically choking you with content.

I understand they probably care more about the politics and philosophy but if they want to be an alternative to Youtube they need to do what Youtube does and present themselves as content first. The layout for the instances themselves do that, but the homepage needs to pull a bit more weight in that regard, since it's standing between the user and all that stuff. In my humble and unqualified opinion.
>Google isn't using monopoly power to increase prices for consumers.

This is whole reason for the criminal trial. If they can prove Google stifled competition in the advertising business, it is going to be a cut and dry case.
At least a delight to work with no lube and all.
The paranoid android, that's who wouldn't like a paranoid android. Particularly, wouldn't like being one.
Coffeescript tried to simplify the syntax, but it went too far.

- A statement such as f(g(x)) becomes absurd without parentheses.

- Indentation has a meaning, but it is legal to have inconsistent indentation.

Code is written once, read many times. Coffeescript got that backwards.

CoffeeScript is to JavaScript what Stenography is to Writing. Steno makes sense when you have to write something being dictated to you in real-time, but if you are not in a hurry, just write.
PPE-need timeseries update from FindTheMasks
Thanks! That's a lot more specific and helpful
thank you for posting this, I've spent the last hour pressing surprise me
I didn't say people wouldn't do it. Some people actually did! the whole Maestro team, for most of Q2 2017, for instance.

Part of my point though is that converting coffeescript to typescript was very boring, mostly mechanical work (which is more obvious in hindsight, since we actually automated most of it). Sure, you could make the code better while you are there, but that actually was likely to add bugs, which could significantly delay such conversions, or lead you to chasing around the codebase to figure out how to get typechecking to work with your attempt at better types. What you are describing - going through an old codebase and figuring out how to fix it - sounds a lot more interesting! though definitely there are plenty of people who wouldn't want that job either.

But really the biggest blocker to executing on the manual conversion strategy was management. They already had other commitments for their teams, and spending a few thousand hours converting coffeescript to typescript wasn't as high of a priority for most of them, than the things their teams were actually working on. This partly comes down to our incentive structure - doing work for other teams, especially in a migration like this, can often feel like a chore, and is often not really rewarded with anything. But prioritization for a large project like this also takes a lot of input from upper management, and they didn't want to sacrifice other priorities to keep the original manual conversion plan on track.
AWS, Amazon Studios, Amazon the online marketplace, Amazon the producer of goods sold on that marketplace, Whole Foods, Ring, Twitch, whatever else they own
This is all beneficial for the consumer, no?

Having a competitive advantage is not illegal. Someone correct me, but isn't the law's intent to protect people from abuse of monopolistic power? Which wouldn't be the case here.
> Like EU4. I've been playing it for many years, and I'm still learning new things.

I just learned that cavalry sucks. I probably have 1000 hours in EU4. Though Paradox needs to patch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-62B7GiwDw
That's... not how herd immunity works. If it was, all your dad's friends would have Polio right now :P

It's literally how vaccines work. The proposal (again, without opining on its validity) is the same as vaccination, but comes with much greater risk.
> Makes you wonder - was there even a problem in the first place?

YES.

> I understand they were using a very broad wildcard for permission on websites they could access

That is a problem.
You're right in your first para, wrong in the rest.

You can't lawfully squat a brands trademarks, neither in SERPs, domain names, nor in real world signposts.

You can use trademarks for comparison but having a signpost - virtual or actual - that has another brand on it is tortuous infringement. Bait and switch is rightly unlawful.
Of course! I don’t use extensions, but I’m sure most of the big players you’d expect from chrome have a Firefox version as well. Here is uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

Apparently Mozilla vets add-ons with their ‘Recommended Extensions program’, not sure how you get an extension into that program though.

Here is Pushbullet for Firefox! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pushbullet/
Something side-project specific might be better, lest it becomes a list of pitches!
What's better-- the right project over budget, or a broken nothing that is under budget?
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Just a note, structured programming wasn't about structures in the data sense, but in the logic sense. Organizing program logic in a way that was more structured. Using a pseudocode:

function unstructured_summation (int lower, int upper):
int sum := 0;
label loop:
sum := sum + lower;
lower := lower + 1;
branch_neq lower, upper, loop;
return sum; // this is assuming there's even a return concept

This is short and simple, so that goto or branch is fine here for reasoning about. But it doesn't scale very well [0]. Structured programming discouraged these ("discourage" being a scale from: don't use unless it makes sense to don't use at all) in favor of other constructs that were more clear in their intent and easier to reason about (particularly in the days when you couldn't write a piece of code and test in in 10 seconds or less).

[0] I once inherited a Fortran codebase that was essentially written in an unstructured style, many gotos and computed gotos. The guy who wrote it (yes, singular) over a 20 year period knew exactly what it did. But that didn't help me, because he was 70 and retired with a nice pension. The whole thing had to be rewritten using the original as a reference for testing because it was unmaintainable.
Most people on this site couldn't imagine it back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817850
There are tons of companies (apps) that let you do this. It is the tradeoff between "bothering" your customers with verification process of going to their emails and clicking another link vs. letting them use your app right away. It only hurts customers when they sign up using emails that they don't own (unless they make a typo) so why would the company care for what happens to their accounts.
> Google is infinitely worse than Amazon and Facebook put together.

> They just so happen to be an advertising company so they internet doesn't know about it yet.

Could you share your reasoning for coming to that conclusion?
For those arguing in favor of this madness, think of how you'd feel if you typed in google.com in to your web browser or clicked on a Google link or selected a Google bookmark and instead of taking you to the google.com website the browser took you to a list of websites with Duck Duck Go at the top.

You could switch the sites two around, or substitute any other web sites and have the same problem.

Or how about if you try to vote Democrat and instead of registering your vote you are shown a list of non-Democratic candidates with Republicans at the top? Or vice versa..

If you're in favor of the one, you should be in favor of the other.

To argue in favor of this is to argue for less consumer choice and power.
Perhaps you should become a consultant, sounds like you can save these countries a lot of money by telling them how things really are.
Seems to me that the simplest solution is to give everyone the money, no questions asked, and then tax it away later. That way you naturally claw it back from people who don’t need it, because it boosts their income even higher.

I agree that people with six figure salaries likely don’t need the money, but it feels more unfair for a few executives to make millions than for the 2% to get a check for a couple thousand dollars.
This is what we need VR games for - to bring back co-op with the kids!
Why do you say Google is worse than Amazon and Facebook put together?
What are you even talking about. Boeing and United?
We are in a situation where pretty much every job in on the chopping block. I want them to give money to every one, but if you have earned lets say 150K in 2020, this amount is fully clawed back next year tax season.
The antitrust lawsuit is focused on Google’s dominance of search. The specific question is whether Google has a monopoly on search. I think the case is pretty strong that it does.
AWS needs to be spun. That's the largest enabler for a monopolistic company I can think of right now.
Google's dominant market position was achieved through market competition not through impairing the ability of smaller companies to enter markets. Even in Google Chrome you can pick DuckDuckGo and Ecosia as your default search engine. Most of Chrome users probably never heard of those two search engines.

For example would YouTube be successful as it is today if it wasn't Google's resources and knowledge to skyrocket it? I think not.
Dear lord, that's the tech equivalent of a Che Guevarra t-shirt.
Why would you wait until a specific time of day, if it's so important (blocker)? Why waste everyone's time, every time?

Either it's a glorified status update, or it's incredibly inefficient compared to just resolving issues on the spot or at appropriate times.
Should Twitter build and advertise a tool to let user opt in to suppression hyperactive users from their view of Twitter?

Should Twitter update their algorithm to give their judgment of a better content experience to users, or should they be hands off and let SEO spammers control the content experience?
False positives in law enforcement means innocent people are being punished. This isn't something that should ever happen.
Just trying to wear my skeptic hat here—how do we know this actually happened? The user didn't even provide a screenshot—not that a screenshot would necessarily be meaningful either.

Are there any other reports of this happening?
Yeah, because the government going after private organizations with vague mandates is a clear way to avoid corruption. /S

This is a continuation of politics trying to skim money off of tech and funnel it to thier favored constituents - it's straight up corruption.
Holy shit, we are STILL doing this? Less women are plumbers, professors, arc welders. Fuck.
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Oh, I agree that its easy to start out and even kids can start, but saying it in the context of getting a job feels very deceptive.

Facebook had a commercial where they said something like "we'll hire anyone who can code, it's as easy as learning multiplication tables!" I don't remember the exact quote but those outreach programs but it felt a bit ridiculous at the time.

If you say something is easy and a person fails at it, they'll feel worse when they fail. If you acknowledge it's challenging at first they're better fit to handle it with grit and keep trying. Programming is something you're going to have to fail at continuously before you get it. And if afterwards you say, "see wasn't that easy?" there's no sense of accomplishment.
Very cool! You did quite well in the video too, was that one take or multiple? :)
At least split off instagram. You're not supposed to simply buy up your competitors.
Yeah, wasm is offering something those others aren't. You could say that Coffeescript to Typescript is a lateral move. Try as you might, you can't do the things wasm is best for - say, graphics - in Coffeescript.
Both would be my preference
Yes, some finger combinations are interesting dexterity challenges (varying among individuals, too), which is why the hysteresis/expectation setting of what's up or down can be important when using it for communication (outside of 132 of course, which is usually pretty obvious). I vaguely recall having at least one drunken conversation with an electrical engineer about what the "voltage equivalent" was for various finger positions might be and what your finger logic gate would need to accept to properly determine finger binary state.
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But this does not correlate to how used the JVM actually is in the outside world. The JVM is huge. It's not a pariah. The perceptions of JVM slowness have been debunked again and again, and anyone who cares knows they are mostly a red herring and have been so for years.

Java and the JVM are mature, battle-tested, widely used technologies in the industry, easy to hire for and with multitude of libraries for almost whatever you want to do.

It may not be the latest shiny new thing, but that's different. Pariah means an outcast. Neither Java nor the JVM are outcasts.
DuckDuckGo has a better search engine than Google right now, imo.
It takes two (or more) to have a war, but only one to start it. One party may not have a choice at all. I leave it to you to decide "who started it".
It’s funny how Microsoft has learned that anti-trust has nothing to do with competition and is 100% politics and public perception. Just sell to other businesses and you can do whatever you want.
Ah yes, tech is the industry with the most insidious monopolies, not oil, telecom, or defense. And surely, the current government will enthusiastically move forward with the actual /legwork/ (rather than saber rattling) of killing its goose that lays the golden egg.

Let's be real here. None of these megacorps are getting broken up any time soon. We haven't had a trustbuster in office for a very long time. The megacorp/lobbyist/politico triopoly has ruthlessly, slickly snuffed out any perceived opposition for quite a long time.
Boeing's 737 Max debacle killed two plane-fuls of people. It's pretty hard to argue that either Amazon or Google has had negative effects on that magnitude.
Sorry, I'm not doubting that it can be done, I'm wondering about how you know it is done. Huge difference.
Here's another example of dark patterns: "Grubhub is still charging some restaurants phone fees, even if you call directly"

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Grubhub-is-still-chargin...

Relevant excerpt: "Grubhub generates a phone number for each restaurant on its platform, which redirects you to the restaurant's own phone line when you call it. However, they are able to charge a fee for that redirection. In some cases, Grubhub collects a fee even when a call does not result in an order."

"Grubhub phone numbers often appear higher in Google search results than the restaurant's own line, which can lead even customers who don't use the app to dial the redirect."
This.

Precedent is tricky. Democrats removing the filibuster for judges came back to haunt them.

There was a recent (last few weeks) SCOTUS decision that came out with numerous opinions by different coalitions. You could tell that they were all maneuvering around this idea of precedent.

Liberal justices who ended up on either side (majority or minority) were couching their votes as upholding a prior precedent, even when they definitely weren't.

Conservative justices ended up on either side of the case while subtly arguing that overturning precedent, or at least modifying it, was okay and normal.

Both are presumed to be setting up for the next challenge to Roe vs. Wade.

EDIT: mistakenly put that the democrats removed filibuster for SCOTUS judges, that was for other nominations
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> Amazon might divest Zappos and Whole Foods

Amazon Freight, AWS and marketplace, if one wishes to keep going.
FWIW the measure of trademark infringement is balance of probability, as it's civil law. So that would probably be the best way to combat it. Damages are probably less.