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Ask HN: Best caching techniques for mobile apps
People who have worked on complex mobile apps, what clever caching techniques did you use to optimize/speed up the app as well as provide limited offline usage?
no wonder why their app sucks.. free is never great. imagine if amazon or google never changed their business models, they would've never become the useful things they are today, would they? if you pay, you get a better service, period.
Coronavirus Vaccine from Moderna Shows Early Signs of Viral Immune Response
I know it has been reported in the news. Does not make it true.
And today, in the same area (Grenoble, France), people are burning antennas used for mobile phone networks.

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes...
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HN has the "showdead" option to reveal those comments, though. And the ban gets reversed altogether once enough users have "vouched" for them.
I'm not sure what you mean, EuroMomo is showing a distinct rise in excess deaths compared to previous years?
So then first sale has nothing to do with Doordash’s food delivery service right?
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Yeah. Even in Western PA a large will set you back $20.
Why we can ignore reviews of scientific code by commercial software developers
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First rule of HN: don't talk about HN.
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it's the effect of trying to avoid regulation by self-regulating. after trump got elected, one of the big media narratives was that it happened because of misinformation ("fake news"); the response has been censorship by platform owners to avoid the charge in the future and any potential federal action
Devices are cheap. If you can't live without certain proprietary apps, carry two phones. If you don't want to do tethering for battery reasons, a second cell plan is under $10/mo.
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There is always Medium for the 200 things I do every morning for a happy and productive life type of stuff.
I agree that IP law needs an overhaul and I am not a fan of granting IP monopolies.

I think the rapid change in poverty levels may actually be due to globalism and off shoring. If the most basic of jobs are now done by overseas workers or immigrants, suddenly the quality of life in countries that are beneficiaries of that work increases. Imported food, mass production of goods on a grand scale. Cheap Walmart products made in China that even people on the poverty line can afford. This would not be possible without globalism. You could argue that capitalism and globalism go hand in hand, but again, I don't think capitalism necessarily leads to globalism.
Yes, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221497
Yeah, it sux. The moderator for HN is a censor, practices censorship, the First Amendment does not rule at HN.
People claim that internet platforms present a novel problem but telcos are a very good model for regulation.

Governments should ban large platforms (>10M users) from editorial discretion.
All of the quantum choice theories seem to be based around an incorrect answer to the measurement problem. They can be forgiven, as many of the smartest scientists in the past 100 years have fought hard for their own interpretation. I suggest watching this episode of spacetime (and a few before/after if you have time).

https://youtu.be/CT7SiRiqK-Q
This comment received +7 and -4 in just 7 minutes since publication. This makes me think that (1) the issue is important and (2) there are clearly people here, who don't want it to be discussed openly.
Good move for China. Time to spawn our own IC industry
This is also my (limited) experience, though one does find... less than welcoming maintainers. :) It depends a lot in how you approach the project though. Being humble and careful not to waste maintainers' time more than necessary goes a long way. Remember, it's their free time they are donating to you, so make sure that you went extra mile to really prove that the bug is in the project and not in your code.
Resistance training. And it doesn't need to be endless hours in the gym. Try following @Mangan150 lots of useful stuff.
> huge part of why the dollar is THE global currency.

That is highly questionable.

The doller was half way to be the dominant currency before WW2.

> The dollars for military budget and the dollars raised by a school fundraiser are not even the same currency.

They are actually.

> And we can print dollars, hell we just printed 5 trillion in a couple weeks.

That's true in a narrow sense. When monetary demand changes you increase supply, with that money however you can not simply finance arbitrary expenditure. If monetary demand decreases, the central bank will pull that money back out.
Can confirm, moved from London (while it was still EU) to NYC and literally doubled my pay
"Classless" also made my brow furrow when I realized they didn't mean, say, CSS components styled without a bunch of classes (a la Twitter Bootstrap) but rather, it just has no components. It's classless because it only styles some basic html elements.
I am not talking the US in particular here. I am saying these decisions should be made by courts not by private institutions, that have stakes in that game.
Personally, I feel the YouTube comment section is vastly better than it used to be in the early days of the site. I watched a music video by an artist and the comment section surfaced a comment that the artist had died last year, a piece of information that was actually useful, rather than "FIRST!" or whatever tripe I used to see.

It's not perfect, but progress has been made here, more often than not an overly aggressive moderation that yields better more informative comments is better, even at the risk of the legitimate ones being removed.
Please stop. The more we play this tit-for-tat game of political point scoring, the more it causes the whole system to degenerate. It is corrupting every facet of our society, to the point at which we're no longer able to be objective about life and death matters like the current pandemic.
More likely ignored because there's things that draw more views happening elsewhere.

Hong Kong protests took over the news for a while, but then there was the Coronavirus and suddenly the Hong Kong protests seem to no longer be a thing and the people forgotten.
I don't know your relation to migen but to me it was completely new.

There are a large number of similar tools available, with MyHDL being the most popular one and Chisel the most hyped for now. They all have the same idea: instead of learning digital design you can use your sw development skills (while using this extremely awkward syntax) to design hardware.

None work well enough to be used outside some niche area. Intel and AMD are using systemverilog and don't plan to change it. Even chisels posterchild RISC-V was eventually ported to pure verilog and that's what most people are using now.
Is America an authoritarian state that would prevent YouTube from doing business in its country if people were allowed to post anti American comments?

Should it be?
Well, things can always get worse!
Or, this information can be thrown in intentionally to divert attention from the real mission. Make it plain and boring so that people quickly lose interest and switch to next topic in the newsfeed.
Doordash is buying it, but I think it makes more sense as "a pizza for Bob" than just "a pizza". I think it would be strange to ignore everything Bob says if he calls in asking for the pepperoni to be on one side.

Though none of this matters if there's a 'special instructions' box. Have a code word for bread pizza.
This year I made it a goal to try to make my OSS work more sustainable. I still have some steady contract work and a couple side projects that make up the majority of my income, but I've started devoting regular time to reviewing code and working on docs and YouTube videos, and so far it's shown some positive results.

I was getting maybe $10-20/month from Patreon and GitHub Sponsors, but in the past two months I started asking people directly to support my work if they could, and to my surprise, a number of people have! I don't know if I'll reach a 'sustainable' level anytime soon, but if I can, I'll be able to spend more than a few hours a week on pure OSS work.
> we'll gradually enter an equilibrium in which things won't change much

Why?

> The year 300,000 will look similar to year 301,000

Why?

> You can't keep inventing novel technology and art at current pace for a million years.

Will we run out of technologies to discover and art to create? Why? When?
They are all considered “natural monopolies”. They are also regulated on the municipal level. Do you now want each city to regulate apps? Why stop there? Why not regulate what console makers can sell? every physical store can sell?
Nice :) I did expect that much, if only because working on free softwares feels way less pointless than working on yet an other e-commerce company or b2b app fighting to get users through advertisement.

Would you mind telling us more about your recruitment process? I'm not in a hiring position myself, but I guess it would be of value for a lot of people here, giving how turn over is a serious blow for everyone.
Yet another example of the dangers of handing Google a monopoly on Android app stores. If you control the means of distribution, you can control the content of what gets distributed. It is time for some anti-trust action here!

In the meantime consumers should support other app stores like https://f-droid.org/.

I highly recommend the open source AntennaPod podcast app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/
When I used to commute via mass transit, my train load of people would all rush down the platform, into a plaza, and down only one escalator. You had people who would rush forward, people who would take a steady pace, and people who would hang back. I often times looked at the flow of people and it seemed to me it was extremely similar to a flow of particles.
> I will very much agree though, that GCHQ has been in bed with NSA for far too long and it's disgusting.

It's wider than that. It feels like UK politicians have always been the loyal pets of US presidents/decisions/agendas, and that is more obvious when EU has a different approach, and the UK just moves on its own. UK has been in bed with the USA (practically USA's little pet) for a long time now. Jean-Claude Juncker said (and apologies, but I cannot find the quote) something along the line (regarding the Brexit-divorce) that "it wasn't a very good marriage to begin with".

UK is the foothold of USA to disrupt a strong, united Europe. I say good riddance. This hurts me since I love the UK (but not what it stands for lately) and I am making my living here, but this shitshow has to stop.

I sincerely hope that Boris won't burn the country down. So far he has done a pretty bad job all across the board (COVID deaths per 1mil, economy, Brexit 'negotiations'-hahahahaha).

He's a true reverse Midas!!! He touches gold, it turns to shit.
Is it though? Until we have more information, all these explanations are equally unsubstantiated. If you're speculating without the data and I sight needed to actually understand it, then the proposal isn't any better because it feels less supernatural. The actual explanation will probably seem really weird and supernatural to us now since we dont have the data and experiments to understand it. Today, quantum tunneling is still weird, still hard to wrap your mind around, but it's a phenomenon that we understand well enough to work with. We try to avoid it when making a CPU, try to make it happen when we use a scanning tunneling microscope. But 250 years ago trying to explain how a scanning tunneling microscope that just appeared into the world would have seemed impossible without invoking some supernatural sounding explanation. We have consciousness, we dont know where it came from yet, maybe there's a consciousness field we'll find when we figure out how to unite gravity and quantum mechanics, maybe theres an emergent property we'll understand once we can map a brain's functions and do some data science on it, maybe there's some explanation that we cant even imagine yet, but until there's data none are less supernatural than the others
It was stupid on many levels. It would have been a lot smarter to invest in better relations with the islands: pay for people to study in Buenos Aires, subsidize vacations on the mainland, etc.
I mentioned then in another comment here. It was: Chinese trash wuhan tiananmen square

The comment below was that "Chinese trash" could have been blocked for "anti-harassment", but for a year old, low-viewed volume video giving a synthesizer demo, I'm not sure how Google could have interpreted it as harassment vs a comment on sanitation and recycling.
Do you though? Maybe there are users who only want the free product, to them couchsurfing for a fee is a worse model.
What should strava do? Ask each country in the world which areas they want censored?(nuclear power plants, parliament buildings, boarding schools for rich kids, ...?)
The only thing that needs to be constitutionally challenged is whether discretionary content filtering constitutes agency in publication under section 230 of the CDA.
A lot of people use http://www.hnreplies.com/ for that, it works really well.
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It's capitalism, many people have Bills that need paying and they don't have the incredible resources many of us on HN do.
It's interesting to compare Ripcord[0] to Slack. Ripcord is a third-party desktop client for Slack and Discord. It has something like 80% of features of the official Slack client and a simpler UI (arguably better, more information-dense), but it's also a good two orders of magnitude lighter and snappier. And it also handles Discord at the same time.

--

[0] - https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
"it takes all kinds."
Well search Google for "military secret plane" and you'll see this strategy exactly as described.

You'll get X-37 for half a page and then a bunch of click baity speculation
Thanks for the confirmation. Can you tell us what words you used?
In my country >90% of smartphone users have Android. Yes I would call that a monopoly. Yes I think monopolies should be regulated. Not at the city level since that's ridiculous and sounds like a strawman. That comment was just an example of monopolies that need to be regulated.
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Did you try posting an actual comment which referenced those terms in a meaningful way? Maybe it’s being blocked for being spammy incoherent word salad.
Just a note: it's not a tried and proven concept.

Predatory pricing hardly works in economic theory and is working disastrously for a lot of the companies trying it (eg. Ubers financials)
You seem to be confused between what you think should be true versus what actually is true.

If you think women can afford to take the same risks as men when travelling then I just really don't know what to say to you. That's just hopelessly naïve. Attractive girls learn very early on that every man wants to have sex with them. It's just part of life for them.

> Does that mean that if I couchsurf at a man's flat I should be expecting intercourse for my bed?

No, but if I were you I would at least consider that there might be a "misunderstanding" leading to you having to find alternative accommodation.
Ask HN: Any e-commerce firms that actively monitor themselves as real end users?
Ask HN: Are there any e-commerce platforms that actively monitor their platforms for end-user experience by actually purchasing stuff via real orders, at least the ordering and payment part?

Do large companies really monitor/test their platforms as real users, or is it just testing-inside-the-fence via simulated traffic?

If so, what could be the findings?

Just curious to know!
Because society needs their assistance.

The alternative is that you end up with nonsense like hungry grads working at FAANG to fuck the world.

Channeling people into useful pursuits pays dividends.
I tweeted about my first $1k/mo GitHub sponsor recently. https://twitter.com/excid3/status/1250428994303885313

A lot of the sponsors that do well are ones that offer things that the sponsor wants. Trading a couple hours a month consulting for $1k/mo in sponsorship helps make it worth doing to the donors. They want to support you, but they also probably could use your help.

Effectively you're productizing consulting and that flips it from a donation to a purchase. They get a tangible thing for their money this way. I think that helps a lot for making sponsorships more successful.
For the past two months, you’ve been frenetically posting about how Bill Gates planned coronavirus to institute some new world order. I think your posts are getting flagged because they’re starting to verge on spam.
I live in NL and have never heard of Threema, so it doesn't seem like a spreading trend.

Though it does look interesting. Not FOSS like Signal, but at least a step better than Whatsapp.
"Women’s representation is important because women tend to offer viewpoints and perspectives that are different from men’s, and these underrepresented perspectives are critical in addressing cyber risks."

cite please?

Anecdotally, I know plenty of women in cyber security -- it's the field I have one of my degrees in and I work in at times, and I see no specific, quantifiable difference in their "viewpoints and perspectives" from men's "viewpoints and perspectives" in this field.

I'm an advocate for women in STEM, I want to see women represented wherever they want to be represented -- but articles like this are just bullshit fluff, and the person who wrote it has no expertise in the field to support his article anyway. He's a professor of "management" who writes blockchain articles.
So, slightly more specifically it was the College of Business and College of Engineering only that did this. And since the policy expires June 1st of 2020 unless it got extended (couldn’t find any announcement that it did), I don’t know if the impact will have hit yet.
25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud. The rewards are enormous - VideoLAN has a massive impact on human culture, more so than 99% of all businesses. Taking on VC to "grow" may be difficult, but is it something you really need to do? What you've built is amazing, and if you can sustain it at its current size, you'd be doing wonderful work. Endlessly chasing growth is a fool's errand, and you'll probably end up making compromises you never wanted to in order to get there.

I think one piece of wisdom I'd share about sustainable FOSS for this thread is: be happy with a smaller size. A FOSS business is probably not going to be a unicorn, but hey, that's okay, isn't it? If you're building software you and your users love, and you're putting food on your table, then you've got something to be proud of.
There is no reason to expect that the self-aware conscious mind has full access to everything that is going on in the brain. In fact, from both an evolutionary and systems perspective, that would be extremely surprising.
I don't think the video and its popularity matter, your comment looks like spam. It's entirely possible for Google to censor comments critical of China, but this is not evidence of it.
At a high enough density, crowds act like fluids. At a high enough speed, so does a person.
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Consciousness cannot apply to electrons, they have no life (no need to protect from cold, get food, learn), no senses, limited internal state and no evolutionary mechanism to speak of.

In order to be conscious a system must be able to adapt itself to its environment to maximise goals, the main goal being self reproduction. Also requires an evolutionary mechanism in order for complex agents to appear. Consciousness is the inner loop of evolution, they both optimise for reproduction.

This absurd idea of conscious electrons is the natural result of armchair philosophising about consciousness. Tononi et. al had a nice idea about integrated information, but it is an unfinished idea. For what purpose is this integrated information? How does learning occur? It says nothing. I'd rather look up recent DL and reinforcement learning papers for inspiration about consciousness.
I guess the key word is “unethical”.
No. I was in shock and then made this Ask HN post in disbelief, wanting to see if others had experienced the same thing.
Having your software interface in English also makes it easier to find help when you’re confused by something.
as someone who has done both desktop apps and electron apps, it is much faster to write some html/css and wrap it in electron than to do the same in qt/gtk/etc...

Not to mention, the HTML/CSS combo is possibly the best we've come up with for designing user interfaces.
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Yes. I believe that someone rich enough to move from Russia (and the correct ethnicity) had only $3000. In those 5 years you also spent $100,000 on an education so that you could get a job that paid you well? Was an education not part of the “$3,000” or are you saying the American Dream is to be very white, gamble with your life, and be very lucky?
Given the things I've seen exposed to the public internet from Japan, I really don't think it's wise to rush computerizing this system.

Even here in Canada, and I'm sure in much of the world, fax is a common tool used by doctors' offices on a daily basis. It has some definite downsides, but at the end of the day when you replace it, you should have to provide an alternative that doesn't compromise workflows, interoperability, or standards.

In fax-based systems, anyone who can prepare the paper document can, in principle, participate; because the fax protocol is built on long-expired patents and widely-published standards implemented by many vendors.

When it comes to other forms of document filling and transfer, the standards now vary widely; when they say the fax system is outdated, are they imagining the replacement is a straightforward cookie-based html form website backed by a database, or do the want something more "up to date" than that?
I guess most people don't know how Sauron uses palantirs.
Sure there is. But the vast majority of people have a normal sex drive. Every single person on earth is the result of a man and woman having sex. It's one of the single most important things in life for most people.
> So when the NHS revealed that Palantir was building emergency data mining tools to help Britain cope with the pandemic – for no fee – there were understandable reservations. What might be expected in return?

It has to be something more valuable than a 'fee', What could that possibly be? I'll give you a huge hint.

We can recall what happened when DeepMind got involved with the NHS ~3 years ago and the result was illegal [0] and now Google is taking over their contracts [1]. There is only one thing that Palantir wants from this which is more than just money.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139395-google-deepmind...

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2217939-google-is-takin...
Thank you. I try to live pretty simply, but housing is not cheap in our area. We haven't taken a vacation since our honeymoon and have no plans to. Most of my hobbies are low time and net positive for food or money. For example, vegetable gardening, beekeeping, and growing shiitake.