skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often wonder how much entertainment news impacts politician’s decision making. I have to assume that they consider what the major news entertainment companies will say about bills they author and support or don’t. in some ways, they are not just reporting, but likely influencing.
Why would Sundar or Google benefit from this?
Yes, I am interested in your idea. I agree it is something should happen. However, who would host these sites? I don’t see the solution yet. Maybe you have put more thought into it.

Edit: you sound a bit rattled. I didn’t mean to instigate.
What's wrong with that? Hotels make money from people booking, not being on their website. If this helps people find what they're looking for and convert into a stay, that's great.
Vit C was thought to be helpful essentially based on the testimony of one biologist. All of the research shows that it has a minimal / marginal impact on wellness if you're getting a modest amount already.

All of the research on Vit D suggests it has a much stronger impact on wellness than most supplements. I remember a list of "supplements proven to improve performance by studies" and it was basically steroids, creatine, and vitamin D; everything else was marginal or not backed by research.
Their series D was in 2016, so the options would probably be underwater.
I _think_ I'd like this, but imagine if he turns out to be like Zuck. A robot that lives in his own Silicone Valley bubble.
Amazon Is Not Going to Rescue Fashion
I tried scratch with my 10yr old and he didn't like it. He felt it didn't look like real programming (or his idea of "real programming" from Netflix).

I then tried using Usborne basic books from the 80s, running on a BBC Micro emulator. I know, sounds like an odd next step... But boy, it DID work - he has been very interested in consuming computer knowledge for 2 months now.

The old Usborne books are amazing. 20 minutes of typing and you have a new simple game. I'd ask him to make changes (faster, easier, more lives etc) to the game and he learned a ton.

I held his hand in the beginning, also teaching him the problems with GOTO and some of the old school Basic choices, but he eventually became quite independent.

Now he wants to switch to Python after learning about its power so we'll do it next. But he has a much better understanding of basic constructs like loops, subroutines, variables etc.

Usborne books (bottom of the page): https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
something can be expensive even after subsidy. most people accept that cars are more expensive than bikes, despite having an incredible subsidy
If you are in pain, some part of your mind does not like what you are writing or doing. Instead of suppressing it, you might try to ask it why it is not happy with what you are doing. Pain comes from inner conflict. Maybe that unconscious part of your mind sees something that you can't consciously see. Maybe it sees something that it doesn't like.
It's a complex issue. There are some calculations and they can go both ways, depending in what and how you calculate. E.g. you could consider training costs - but training costs are one-off for a change, not eternal. Or you can consider coding costs, but they might vary massively from region to region and depending on how (in)competent the procurement goes and how the local market works. Estonia is a country that seems to have figures this out to an immense degree, creating most of the infrastructure themselves and then tendering small-scale procurements for small parts of the system and sometimes allow private competition - but always with government-set data standards and often more on interfaces etc.

To add one other angle: what is cheaper, paying 5 million to a company in Redmond yp provide licenses for opersting systems and officd software, or 10 million to a number of local companies to set up and adapt a slightly less refined open source tool for the local needs? In one scenario the money leaves the local economy, in other the city might spend more money but the money stays local and is used to buy houses or sandwiches, pay handymen or bus tickets or taxes. Where is the long term cost/benefit/ratio higher?
I think that you're assuming that the number of apps that can be reviewed by a human remains constant over time.

If Google hires programmers to do the review process, they can identify patterns, develop new techniques, and build tools to accelerate the process.

Additionally, I bet that they're expecting the value of the Chrome store to increase over time, which compounds on the effect above.
>That can't be async, because I need the other members of the team to answer.

Why can't the answer be async?
Until Google gives us a roadmap with what they're going to change about the review process and when, I'm not hopeful right now. I don't understand why they need to be this opaque about it if they want a healthy developer ecosystem.

It's currently expected behaviour that extension updates from developers can take up to 3 weeks to be reviewed and go live (same as before the pandemic):

https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq

> "If your item's status says "pending review" for more than three weeks, you should contact support."

Is it going to change? When? See here for all the developers waiting over 3 weeks for their updates to go live (that's not including what happens when they don't pass review):

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

All we seem to get back from the few people on the Chrome extension team that communicate with extension developers is along the lines of "I understand your concerns, I want it to change as well, and I'll talk to the team".

It's like the person from Google is talking about getting in touch with a team that work for entirely different company, as if what the team can't be influenced.

Who's the one making the actual decisions and why don't they talk to us directly?
So we should expect TikTok to either replace or phase out giphy right? I mean the historical analytics would still be good for a while but....
The equipment is costly (lithography equipment especially) but everything around them is also very expensive, including building. Huge Class 4 clean rooms, water purification, etc. There are lots of chemicals, acids and their processing involved. There are pipes moving liquid helium, nitrogen etc. Semiconductor fab is essentially a chemical plant.
My team has been testing out a hybrid of the two-- we use a slackbot to gather our answers to the three questions before standup begins. Then we use the meeting time to discuss anything that might have come up as a result of the slack posts.

We've really liked it so far. It cuts out a lot of the bad parts of synchronous standup like trying to remember what you did yesterday on the spot, but still leaves us with the opportunity to share ideas in depth when it makes sense.

I think completely going to an async standup right now wouldn't be good at all for our team dynamic. With the whole team remote, standup is the one time a day we're all on a call together. There's a lot of value that comes out of that even if it's inefficient at times.
I started learning kernel internals from these books, I highly recommend all of them.

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (free online) - Arpaci-Dusseau

Linux Device Drivers, 3rd ed (o'Reilly) - Jonathan Corbet

The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd ed) - McKusick, McKusick, Watson

Solaris Internals - McDougall, Richard, Mauro
It reminds me a lot of Malcolm Gladwell. I have mixed feelings about MG but there has been a fair bit of controversy [1] over his true nature as a journalist while he projects and speaks as a scientist or intellectual.

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/column/behavioral-economist/artic...
The transitions happen efficiently, but the packet still has to spend cpu time traversing the network stack at all 6 hops. So the packet moves all the way through the routing / natting tables of the host, and then very quickly ends up in the VM. Then has to traverse the whole routing / natting tables of the VM.....
Petition to access Mitch McConnell's browsing history
Mitch McConnell recently added an amendment to the Patriot Act, making it legal for the FBI to access citizen's browsing history without any warrant.
I say we should reveal Mitch McConnell's browsing history, because if he has nothing to hide, he should have nothing to fear!

Sign here: https://www.change.org/mitmconbrowsing
it depends. mostly on team size and workstreams. when the team is working at different unrelated things the standup is near to useless and it's used only to micromanage people. if you are a close-knit team working on the same workstream/feature then yes is beneficial even then in my experience daily standups are overkill. most of the time bi-weekly is more than enough
Google as a company seems evil to me pretty much every dev I've worked with. Taking Jack from Twitter as an example, if the leader of the company is not evil, the company seems less evil.
Why not both? Why can't something technically and ethically complex be fun?
So why would the rate of hospitalizations be comparable if we are having lockdowns that reduce cases of covid a lot?

In fact, the fact that the rate of hospitalizations is similar even with broad lockdowns is proof that covid is much more dangerous than the flu. Imagine the rate if there were no lockdowns.
Rick and Morty: Prop Process
The Gibbs phenomenon is an example of this intuition being useful. Wanna make a wacky function with weird features? Fine. Wanna make sharp features? Sure... but the more points you specify, the wilder the behavior you'll see! Is there an electric force pushing the unspecified regions into the undulations? Hell no. Is it useful to think about there being an energy level that depends on how close the specified points are? Yes.

When you say "actively harmful" -- do you mean that it's doing physical harm to something, or are you using an incomplete metaphor of the kind you're railing against? Because I'm speaking as somebody with some training in number theory and teaching advanced math and I think you're way off-base.
This is a first world solution....

Buy two consoles....

My sons both had one when they were both at home. The older one bought one with his own money.
Just out of curiosity, how much does she make?

(I totally understand if you don't want to answer)
Thanks for your efforts. I often wonder how many teen boys get recruited into declaring a chemistry or chemical engineering major due to those classic books. I know it worked on me and several other people.

Chemistry is pretty cool. A little harder to do at home as an amateur than something like computer science; maybe that challenge makes it more rewarding?
Engaging with their future talent pool? When communities like HN and other tech hubs start thinking adversarially about your company, it has major consequences. People in the talent pool aren't stupid - they're trading off their time for a salary, but also trading the opportunity cost.

Given a choice between Google and say... Stripe - where would you work?
The Eruption of Instagram Island
I launched a new search engine a few months ago and have been looking at several alternative ways to fund it, but none of them seem to be a viable path.

The best balance of privacy and user experience seems to be display ads related to search term context that don't do any tracking (like billboards in the real world). But even that isn't an easy proposition and will need a custom network built to generate those type of ads.

A lot of people say they will pay for a search engine, but it is such a small niche that I believe the cost would be prohibitively expensive, and the search engine would probably still be subpar to Google in many respect. Would you pay $10/month, what about $29? Those are most likely where the monthly fees would have to be for this type of product.
Agreed. It seems like most of these problems arise from cargo culting the habits without understanding the purpose behind those habits.
> An alternate phrasing might be "it's up to DoorDash's leadership to choose which of their customers they optimize for." Giving preferred treatment to partners that are strategic or have higher margins is not screwing your other customers.

You're polishing a turd. Call it whatever you want, but if I'd prefer not to be a customer of a company who prioritizes competing interests over me.
> Even if you’re not thinking about selling your SaaS business just yet, getting operating procedures implemented as if you were will help you to succeed.

A bit off-topic, but how much is the valuation of a SaaS affected by the platform/language used?

Would a SaaS worth something in a typical language (Ruby/JavaScript/PHP) with a typical framework be worthless if done in a less typical language (Haskell/Racket/Smalltalk) and/or a less typical framework?
Totally agree, that's why I love it. I guess it comes if you prefer a depth-first or breadth-first path in learning.
Define 'overlap'?
Gasp You Might Not Need Microservices
I think the Lumen full link thing is (at least in part) due to the fact that people were going to the lumen db to find the de-listed links to pirated movies (since the DMCA complaint submitter has already verified that those websites do, in fact, contain the copyrighted movie).
there was one article about how viruses are involved in sheep fetuses, when they took out the viruses, the eggs and sperm wouldn't turn into a fetus or something
The Hacker Manifesto

The Anarchist's Cookbook

Industrial Society and Its Future (the Unabomber Manifesto)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I think you're hung up on the interviewer and missing the larger point. Replace Joe Rogan with Lex Fridman or whatever...it doesn't matter.
Perhaps "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson. If nothing else, it introduces the reader to many of the pivotal people in the history of computing.
Building an ASN1 Codec with the Rust FFI
Async stand ups arent stand ups.

I do a form of async stand up at work.

Its mostly progress tracking for my boss.

Never get any feedback. Never share any woth others. (Itried in the beginning)

The real time nature of a standup a d implied time pressure has all kinds of effects that cant be duplicated in a lole for like way.

Im not fully of the belief it cant be adequately substituted im just saying dont call it async standup. It just sounds like youve never used one.
Show HN: Cashcash – Accounting app for visual people
Ask HN: A16Z valuing Clubhouse at $100m – what do you make of this?
Recently, A16Z famously came out with a blog - IT'S TIME TO BUILD[1]. Blog is mostly about how things that are fundamental are all broken and its time to build!

Then you read about A16Z investing in a product which has eight users[2] valued at $100 million [3]

[1] : https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/
[2] : https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1261357170580287489
[3] : https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/05/15/andreessen-horowitz-wins-vc-sweepstakes-to-back-clubhouse-voice-app/#550465486f2a
Unfortunately, information that helps the good guys get their extensions past the audit check is exactly the same information that helps the bad guys get their extensions in too.

This is just an assertion I'm wrong. It can't possibly persuade me or the people upvoting me. Would you be persuaded by me just asserting you're wrong?

In terms of Google already auditing every app, [e.g.] the source code for Dark Reader [is] fairly complex.

Firstly, Apple is able to do it, there's no reason to make excuses for Google. See anecdotes elsewhere in the thread about how Apple attaches screengrabs, explains rejections by phone conversation, even decompiles apps to point to exact methods/lines of code in apps they reject from the iOS App Store, even small free ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170498

And anyway, without reading a single line of Dark Reader's source code, I can deduce plenty of permissions it shouldn't need, e.g. "cookies" (which it doesn't ask for). Without reading a single line of PushBullet's source code, one can easily deduce it shouldn't need access to "https://*/*", and indeed, it doesn't, yet it asked for it.

Can you explain concretely (not just by pointing to unnamed "no-no's") how could harmful side-effects result from Google telling PushBullet that "https://*/*" specifically was in violation?

If you release a list of known no-no's, the bad guys just get smarter and avoid them.

Firstly, isn't bad guys avoiding no-no's exactly what we want?

If you're saying that there may be some, probabilistic red flags that Google uses to find possible bad guys—sure, that could be true, I have no idea and you don't either, you admitted it was speculation. But in this case, "Request access to the narrowest permissions necessary to implement your product’s features or services." is not a probabilistic red flag, it's a hard rule.

Again, concretely how could harmful side-effects result from Google pointing out the specific violation?
That's a great term. Sounds like a lot of YouTube channels and podcasts.
That’s not how you do stand-up.

It should more like:
I’m struggling to imagine how so-and-so particle gets the energy to reach the next quantum state. Anyone want to share a blackboard? This is gonna take us about six pots of coffee to solve I reckon.
> That's not simple, that's a big change which requires a bunch of work.

I feel like many of these criticisms of RDBMS come from a perspective of not working with a great database migrations system.

I've made changes like this (one-to-many switched for many-to-many) using Django migrations many times over, and I find it easy. But that's because I've built up the experience with the tooling over time.

Learning migration tooling in this way feels like a much smaller lift to me than entirely switching to a graph database.

(I'm a big fan of Dgraph, but I've not yet found the right project to apply it. I'm not interested in it as a replacement for RDBMS, I want to use it to solve graph problems that are genuinely painful with a relational database. Easier schema changes aren't that for me.)
Former Slice user here. They're focused on pizza only because they started as a pizzeria in Staten Island. They know their vertical. Part of the mission is specifically to help pizzerias.

I only stopped using them because I moved away from NYC.
The only recent dead post of yours seems to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761370. Are you sure that you are shadow-banned?
If it's a totally static site it certainly doesn't need it.

But if you have any amount of interactivity (forms, widgets, etc) SSR makes total sense. Specially with component-level hydration which means the duplication of content would be lower than traditional SSR. AFAIK Marko is the only framework that has this feature.

See this article for more info on this topic:

https://medium.com/@mlrawlings/maybe-you-dont-need-that-spa-...
After using Dynamo for 2 years now the biggest problem I’ve seen thus far is the pretty extreme expectations it puts on your application code to manage things that have traditionally been considered the responsibility of the data store. We found it was a bit onerous to ensure all facets of modeling/validation/indexing were into consideration when writing that layer of the application. To address the constant bootstrapping you either end up with a crap ton of utilities that form indexes or create updateExpression strings, etc, or you end up constantly reinventing the wheel.

The JS landscape for Dynamo is a bit bare, notable options all largely ignore the indexing principles that are the real draw of Dynamo. This heartburn caused me to sit down and write a library myself (https://github.com/tywalch/electrodb) that allows you focus on the models and relationships while taking care of all the little pitfalls and “hacky” tricks inherent in single table design.

Alex’s book covers all these things and I honestly wish I had had it sooner before having to learn via foot shooting. It’s pricey but if you have a need for Dynamo on your project it really pays off knowing you’re swimming with the current, and Alex definitely gets you there.
Look at it as at a bad but addictive habit.

Hundreds of millions of smokers do harm their health, and through it their own and their neighbors' wealth. But quitting is indeed hard.
Another podcast player I quite enjoy discovering new shows is Breaker:

https://www.breaker.audio/

(though it can get a bit unstable at times…)
This is like saying that geometry is harmful because flat-earthers misapply it to convince themselves and others of falsehoods. Yawn.
And how many of these people are concerned about losing weight?
2.2- For co-op I recommend Terraria, it is a 2d Minecraft but much more focused on adventure and combat. Really cheap and has lots of content, and there are mods on PC.

I also recommend getting the Epic Store free games, since all your friends can get them. Not all of them are multiplayer though.
This week GTA5 is free, you might want to try the multiplayer with your friends.
Fair. The main problem is you’re thinking of these meetings as status meetings. They’re not about state, they’re about mutation to new state.
I'm not the person you asked, but I use https://feedly.com as an aggregator. Their mobile (at least on Android) app is great.
That was also one of my side project idea. But the concept should go further: with a time limit !

My idea was that you should not be allowed to speak about your daily task more than 42 second on a video record shared to all you team mates.
I'm in Edmonton, and was advised to take 2000 IU a day by my doc.

I don't tan either. Sun up here can still give you cancer, and the days are looooooong during the summer.

I've also found that the direct light-on-my-eyeballs has a big difference in waking me up and making me active.
and folders full of canned reaction images long before every board supported gifs....

and before that, plaintext emoticons...
ಠ_ಠ
That's good and all, but this site is for people to discuss articles after reading them. You don't need to link to the article if the discussion is about the title.
Ahhhhh - yes, totally agree with you.
That's funny, my experience was almost exactly the reverse of yours.

When I first got into model rocketry, I was inundated with technical material. NASA had a huge variety of short technical briefs on things like stability, drag coefficients, etc - I think they gave them out for free to anyone who asked - and I had a fair collection. Unfortunately the mathematics in in them was far too much for 8 year old me, and I wasn't really able to use them in earnest for anything. Rocket science - proper science - seemed unapproachably complex.

But a few years later I was given a copy of G Harry Stine's book, and it was like the doors were thrown open. Everything in it was hugely practical! And perfectly readable to 11 year old me. One great big book that said "you can totally do all this, and here's how". I credit the BASIC code in the appendices with helping get me into programming. I spent a long time painstakingly translating one of them into TI-83+ BASIC.

So the lesson that I learned was the opposite as yours - it's easier than it looks!
> Async stand ups are an agile smell.

That thinking is an agile smell. Teams choose their own processes.
Covid-19 looks like a hinge in history
> The internet could be "fixed" by regulating advertising.

Regulation always requires coordination, which is simply not possible at internet scale. Facebook and Twitter can't even regulate the content on their own platforms, and you're talking about regulation at an even larger scale against strong interests with large financial reserves.

What's needed is a secure/private by default browser sandbox so these interests have no say in how their content is consumed. Take a look the extremes Gemini has gone to ensure privacy [1]. Some of those can be relaxed without compromising privacy much, but a serious effort along those lines is what's actually needed.

[1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
I think it’s just turned from funny to depressing.