skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the app.

A 3d modeling package? Although Clara.io exists most of the time I'm dealing with 100s of megs of data so native wins. Creating a game? Mostly same though I can imagine some limited online game creation tool even the small sample 3D platformer for unity is 3gigs of assets so a game editor native seems to win. Photo editing, when I get home from vacation there's 100gig of photos so native wins for me. Video editing same thing.

On the other hand there are apps I have zero interesting in being native. WhatsApp, Line, Slack, Facebook, Office, Email, Discord, etc. I'm 100% happy with them in a browser tab. Native apps can spy on way more than browser apps (maybe less on Mac). They can install keyloggers, root kits, scan my network, read all or most of my files, use my camera, mic, etc.

I also use 7 machines regularly. Being able to go to any one and access my stuff is way more convenient than whatever minor features a native app would provide.
I don't know why, but it took me until about halfway through the article to realize it was micro-interactions not micro-transactions. My brain just automatically read it as the latter.

I was picturing this dystopian scenario where clothes would be paid for through microtransactions using some kind of network aware fibers that would automatically charge your bank account per use or something.
> I am amazed at how well these criminals from another country know the details of the systems in the US when we in the US have probably a handful of people who understand the end-to-end line they do.

It’s quite literally a criminals job to understand and abuse these systems, and there’s very clear link between their performance and their reward. Makes for a good motivator.

People frequently underestimate criminals because they don’t appreciate that these individuals are doing this work as full time job. I’m sure if you spent 8 hours a day for week, you’ll have an equally good understanding.
I agree that the potential for making mistakes could contribute to a social problem, but it's one that already exists. I also wasn't proposing to solve it - hence my earlier response.
Can we please stop with this false dichotomy of government surveillance xor corporate surveillance? Arguing against one by implicitly justifying another is a losing game. They're both independent threats, while also feeding off of each other. Power always coalesces, regardless of our categorizations of it.

Specifically, the other half of the subject of your comment is that there would have been no troves of data for the NSA to take from web businesses had web businesses not collected it in the first place. (And just in case it's still not abundantly clear, I'm not validating the NSA for collecting this data simply because it was sitting around!)

Regarding the original topic, I said "immediate" for a reason. I don't think the bona fide government is particularly abusing citizen identification right now, regardless of what it could end up doing in the future.
>Voter fraud is negligible

Well, how do you know this if there are no IDs?
This is what my doc told me, that prescriptions had to be via paper in my state. Another doc said he sent electronically but had to pay a high fee to set up a system to do it for him.

During covid, my doc all of a sudden started sending electronically.

I’m not sure if my doc was wrong, or lying, or just didn’t understand the stupid regulations around some meds.
Twitter sunk all those countless fail whales only to provide a perfect habitat and breeding ground for scavengers and bottom feeders. What a perfect metaphor.
Of course, you know that this system is able to exist only because the office workers have odd food preferences, and the delivery people get paid like shit, and there's tons of people willing to do the job for such low wage?

If the alternative to having this service is me just carrying a small tin box along with me to work, what are the odds I'm going to shell out $10 each time if it were implemented in any country that has a Western minimum wage?
The 300k-500k range is risky RSU paper money outside of FAANG. Uber and Lyft engineers know that now.

Pretend money met reality.
It doesn't matter how much other people care. It is that you want to have an informed opinion - for yourself.

If I make an opinion prematurely I see myself defend it while familiarizing myself with the topic. I go blind to what contradicts it and remember only what fits my preconceived ideas. This is why I try to avoid it.

Perhaps other people (you) are able to suspend their uninformed opinion but I highly doubt it.

But okay, I will at least try (and no doubt fail) to describe the taste of the soup before you try it:

The issue is that it gets so much better if you have a lot of subscriptions (sorted by pubDate) The experience is much like a search result but with everything you enjoy mixed together.

There are no notifications of course since new articles happen much to frequently. In stead you gaze over the headlines periodically and open a few articles (in the browser)

Because there are few people as interested in (the proverbial) antique silver thimbles as you those articles need to float to the top or live in a different folder.

I for example one time crawled a bunch of fortune 500 websites looking for feeds. The flood of press releases really gave me a sense what is going on. Lots of boring corporate speak but at least every page described a serious effort to accomplish something.

You really need to subscribe to every remotely interesting small weblog you can still find so that you can at least bother to read the headlines. The small blog really needs you. This is where the original content happens.

You will also find out that the rest of the web is a giant echo chamber with thousands upon thousands of websites recycling the same topics.

Trump is no doubt important enough to have thousands of articles written about a single sentence he spoke.

David Bowie was no doubt important enough to have a millions articles about his death.

Think of the bizarre number of topics handed down to us by Rupert Murdoch?

But is it what I should be filling my head with?

I tried lots of online aggregators. Around 1000 subscriptions they stopped working. How do I get my data out?

Ill just put https://danielmiessler.com/feed/ on the pile and ill be checking his headlines for years to come. Until the death of the website or the end of my existence. It's a perfect relationship. No need for a middle man - no thank you.
Real let down to see he's a T_D contributor, though. I don't mean to undermine his accomplishments, but it's sad to see smart people fall for that kind of rhetoric.

https://masstagger.com/user/__Augustus_
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The submitted title was "10 most common mistakes using kubernetes", HN's software correctly chopped off the "10", but then you added it back. Submitters are welcome to edit titles when the software gets things wrong, but not to reverse things it got right.
> Interestingly, it was somewhat common for Americans to have their SSNs - our now de facto national ID scheme - tattooed prior to WWII.

I am extremely skeptical of this claim. Do you have any sources indicating anything other than a few isolated instances? Not only were tattoos in general distinctly unpopular for most of American history, the Social Security Act was not signed into law until 1935, just six years before the US's entry into WWII. Not only was it controversial (though popular) at the time (being one of the reasons for FDR's dramatic showdown with the Supreme Court, where he bullied them into letting him have his way by threatening to pack the court), the effect of the Social Security program wasn't realized for decades afterwards, and at the time, SSNs had no other purpose.
Ask HN: Is there a service that uses AI to search HN?
For example I was just reading the latest Deno thread and an ORM debate popped up.

So I was wondering, it would be cool if there was some automatic way to see the 20000 other times that people started debating ORMs on Hacker News. Or maybe even somehow analyze the reads to be the most common type of argument.

Also it would be neat to find all the posts and threads related to Deno on HN so far.

It seems like something that cutting edge NLP can do pretty effectively, at least as far as sorting conversations and sub-conversations into keywords.
It’s like the Pale Blue Dot: one could mistake the one pixel of the Earth for some noise in the optics.
not mentioning that even this modest PE of 20-25 is unachievable for a non-VC tech company in the event of sale

I literally mentioned Panera Bread upthread which was taken private at these multiples.
It’s funny 90% the time people throw out the claim “blockchain is a good solution for this”, what they really have in mind is just an append-only database controlled by trusted parties. (Before someone tells me the story of Coca Cola’s supply chain, thanks, I’ve heard dozens of times.)
Keeping a diversified skillset so that you can reinvent yourself was the best advice I got 10 years ago.
Energy of photons is too low after a while. No gamma photons.
Android Update Bricks Thousands of Pixel Cameras
I make a living developing software only available on Windows and macOS. That said, if I didn't need to interact so much with the operating system, I'd be making a web app. It all depends on what you want to make though. Video editing software? Native app. CRUD app? Web app.

You may also want to consider pricing implications of both. Desktop software can usually be sold for a higher up front cost, but it's tough sell to make it subscription based. SaaS would make your life a lot easier if you have a webapp. People are starting to get used to paying monthly for a service anyway.

Pro tip: If you decide to make a native app, don't use Electron. Instead, use the built-in WebBrowser/WKWebView components included in .NET and macOS. Create the UI once using whatever web framework you want, and code the main app logic in C#/Swift. Although the WebBrowser control kind of sucks right now, Microsoft is planning on releasing WebBrowser2 which will use Blink. I think they might also have it where the libraries are shared between all apps using it, to further reduce bloat. The old WebBrowser component can be configured to use the latest Edge rendering though by adding in some registry keys or adding this meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
> I can understand google, facebook, apple etc. paying 300-500k salaries, but how can companies that don't generate that kind of cash flow afford to do the same?

You just explained it yourself. It's either pay 300-500k or the people you need to hire will go Apple instead. There's no option to pay less if you need highly competent people.
It's the supply you need to worry. When Gates and his ilk talk about an engineer shortage, it's baloney. Same thing going on in the trucking industry. There's a shortage of cheap engineers, which getting everyone and your mom into coding, will help alleviate.
OTOH, if you are using Slack, you probably deserve it :P

"The emperor wears no clothes" and all...
paying for threaded messaging, hmmm that's up there with To-Do MVC and Hello World in complexity... well, ok it's a bit higher. Not to mention their billing system lol...
> Voter ID's are discriminatory or pushed with discriminatory intent:

Your own link does not support your baseless assertion. The only claim is that so far voter ID laws have been crafted to exclude non-white US citizens from the electoral process.

Taken from your article:

> New studies suggest that the motivation of these laws is suppressing non-white voters, and worryingly, that they will be successful at doing so.

Do notice that the remarks refer to voters (thus, citizens with the right to vote) who, due to their race, are being excluded from casting their vote.

If that's the best source you managed to produce then I'm afraid that you were either lying or very confused, because your original claim has zero basis.
It's both factually and theoretically correct - the UK has left the EU, but laws are extended until the transition period is over.

Note the absence of the UK in the below sources:

https://www.gov.uk/eu-eea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U...
That article doesn't seem to be relevant?
https://feedly.com/ is a good free alternative. I too miss Reader and my experience with that and Google+ made me extremely wary of Google, I frequently back up my data in case they decide to abandon Google Docs or Google Photos or who knows what else.
Your edit got under my skin way more than your comment did.

Kiss of death seemed melodramatic at best though. Every CEO, CTO, and CFO I've worked with had kids. Guess they were the lucky few who didn't have their professional career ruined by those goblin children?
Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
I doubt it. For a lot of use cases node is fast enough.
You are conflating two things: a national/"universal" form of ID, and voter ID.

Voter ID is the requirement to show ID at polling stations in order to vote. That's what the left is generally concerned about. It's a separate concern from whether a national ID card ought to exist.

On the other hand, the existence of a national ID card is generally opposed by people on the right, which is the opposite of how they feel about voter ID.
I haven't read Flash Boys since it came out, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually inaccurately describe how latency arbitrage works the way you just did, it just blurs together similar concepts enough to create confusion about the details, which results in outrage.

The key part that you're missing is that latency arbitrage works only when there are multiple exchanges, and there is only one exchange in your example. Your example suggests that HFTs somehow see the buy order before it reaches the NYSE, but that is not possible. In reality it would be something like this:

- Buyer wants to buy 100,000 shares at $100, but no single stock exchange (there are 13 in the US I believe, soon to be 14) has that many shares available at that price.
- But there are 50,000 shares each available at NYSE and NASDAQ each, so they send orders to each.
- Their NYSE order arrives first, and the trade happens at $100 for all 50,000 shares
- The HFT notices, and seeing that demand is high for the stock, increases their price on NASDAQ to $100.01 for those remaining 50,000 shares.
- The buyer's order on NASDAQ does not trade, because the $100 is no longer available

The "information leakage" is from public information only - that a trade happened on another exchange.

Note also that no part of this example discusses the HFT buying a certain price, then selling back immediately at a higher price.
JavaScript: I made Pipeline Decorator for one who wants to use Pipeline Operator
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we figured out how to center HTML elements both horizontally AND vertically!
>The key to achieving such things is... surprise surprise... treating your workers fairly and paying them well so they actually give a shit about their job

Easier said than done.

Not that I disagree, but business models like these are difficult in more developed countries. It's the same reason you will find middle class people in many less developed countries with domestic staff. The wealth divide between the middle class and poor is so extreme in places like India, that you can afford to charge your regular customers enough money to pay poor employees a "good" wage. "Good" in this case is of course very relative. Relative to many other poor people that have no job at all.
Is this rejection a more final decision than withholding consent or is this the same decision?
Some places have tried to institute voter id laws that require ids that are difficult/expensive/time consuming to get, sometimes specifically making it harder for the most downtrodden segments of society to vote. That's really bad and so there's an outcry. Sometimes the nuance of "discriminatory ID requirements are bad" gets lost in the zeitgeist and circulates as "ID requirements are discriminatory and bad."
Dogs. Find a nearby shelter, volunteer there, be overwhelmed by the love you'll receive. You won't ask that question again.
Modern browsers these days are powerful things... just a curiousity, are there non native browsers?
You are getting downvoted but this is absolutely true. In Russia, college is/used to be free and easy to get in to (I think they are limiting that now at least to some extent).
As a result,

1) Most students coast.
From my CS class over the years, straight out of college I'd hire maybe 25% of the people in any CS/IT capacity. Not for a FAANG job, any job; most people wouldn't be able to build a reasonable PHP page or manage a 5-machine LAN for a retail store (or calculate a determinant of a 2x2 matrix) with their "Masters in CS". Not because they were not capable of it if they tried - in my impression, most never wanted to learn and never bothered.

2) More importantly, college diploma in Russia is/was an equivalent of high school diploma in the US, because of the credentials inflation. If you don't have one, in most cases there must be something wrong with you (which was true enough at least when I went to college).

You could even use going to trade school as an insult - PTUshnik, with connotations anywhere from being dumb/lazy, to being a chav/petty criminal.
The really toxic thing about the guardian is that they pretend to be a new source, and really they’re just Fox News for the left. Nothing but smug crap about evil capitalists...
I’ll never forget going on a test drive at a buy-here/pay-here used car lot in 2002 or 2003 and casually asking the salesperson how long they’d been doing it.

“I did it for about 10 years, then I took a couple years off to work as a programmer, then got back into selling cars about 2 years ago...”

The industry was snapping up anyone who could spell computer back in the late 90s. It seems less excessive than that in the current/just ended boom.
That doesnt explain the IRS lapses.
I'm told that CCOR doesn't plan on bidding in 2029 for .org (w/ or w/o Afilias) so this looks like a temporary thing at best. It doesn't look like there is a coherent alternative.

Honestly, ISOC was on this path after they eliminated trustee elections.
I think you missed his point. Requiring ID to vote is not inherently racist, what is racist is requiring ID while knowing IDs are hard to obtain for some groups.

Most countries require ID to vote, but in those countries almost everyone has an ID.
The thing that gets me about this is how hard they had to work to hire those people. Uber is infamous for hard interviews and not hiring people who turned out to be superstars. The amount of value being flushed away is astonishing.
Designing tasteful CLIs: a case study
All locations of Specialty's Cafe and Bakery to close for good
I'm not sure I've ever sorted an array or list. Rather I put things into sets or maps or built in index---I always wanted to access things later, or have an on-line data structure (which a sorted flat thing is not).

This whole field is a waste of time, and anachronism from when the master copy was paper/pre-computer and computers were just doing the analytics.
Every time our Government wants to help people with cash payouts, there's always massive fraud. You'd think they'd learn.
Totally, totally agree with this. I have a ton of respect for Dara Khosrowshahi, but if I were a good engineer, I would get out. The second the "we're going to move engineering overseas to save money" line comes out, the bean counters won. I'm not even going to argue one way or the other if this is good or bad for the company, but after having been through it before it is DEFINITELY bad for the engineering team. I wouldn't make it an emergency to get out in the current market but I would definitely leave as soon as I could.
I'm confused, this article is from may 12, is this the old news that Uber was laying off 14% of workforce or a new round?
> which getting everyone and your mom into coding

Are any of them any good?
As much as I hate citing blind for anything, the scuttlebutt on there the past few days from Uber employees makes it sound like this was an open secret.
It funny how people who will benefit greatly from success (like the founders) expect others who won't really benefit, to work just as hard as they do.
Microsoft admits being 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source
That just sounds like server latency to me or some kind of bad programming like relying on polling.

Obviously if you build a chat client in the browser and communicate between windows then it's instantaneous. Faster than human perception.

Certainly doesn't seem to be a CPU issue to me. I mean, we run videochat in the browser which works fine. Obviously text chat can be instant.
The problem is the delusion in the valley. Not everything is a tech problem and not everyone is a tech company.

I am sorry but Uber is just a glorified taxi middleman and I have seen a good enough alternatives in some local markets that blew Uber out of the water.

What does Uber bring to the table if they cant even win in some super small countries?
There's no way it's going to match everything, but regarding number 1 - it does look like you can drop in some node modules. A small example, but one that surprised me - React works. So you can do React with SSR with nothing else, eg. this demo is a pretty refreshing one to see how few moving pieces there are. https://github.com/brianleroux/arc-example-deno-ssr . It's just imported as `import { React, ReactDOM } from 'https://unpkg.com/es-react'`
I disagree with the author’s idea that blogs shouldn’t have a focus. I think the best blogs are these sort:

1. By an expert in a specific domain.

2. Blogs by someone in the process of developing expertise, documenting what they learned along the way. The idea is it really helps the learning process to learn something well enough to write about it cogently and teach others.
This is an announcement of an announcement, which is off topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... On HN there's no harm in waiting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: actually, the fault here seems to be that the submitter rewrote the title in an editorializing way, which is against the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for plenty of past explanation.

Edit 2: the article isn't buried for that reason but because of the hard paywall. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23214650
What specific measures do you think Japan took that were effective here? They've been able to do more contact tracing from clusters than the USA; but is that because they're better at contact tracing, or because the outbreak naturally grew slower there, and they had an easier task?

I certainly agree that stuff like Japan's existing mask culture (and general culture of hygiene/distance) is helping, and that those can and should be emulated. That's a separate question from their current government response, though.

And I worry about winter too. Everything about seasonality is speculative now (and it's shocking how little we know about why a cold and flu season exists), but I can't help suspect that many countries that think they've eliminated the coronavirus have an unpleasant wave ahead.

And thanks for the reasonable counterpoint--whoever downvoted you should explain themselves too.
Interesting. It's exactly the opposite. The guys I'm talking about are all running their own startups or at startups. So definitely not 9-5s.