skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know where your "human wants are unlimited" comes from and is a pretty big statement to make to not back it up with evidence.

I don't want to be dismissive, but this is basically page 1 of any Econ 101 book ;-)

As much as we make fun of economists, it's basically the only thing almost every economist out there will agree on.
Indeed. And for people who assume USB's success was due to the iPod, remember that the first iPods were Firewire-only. By the time iPods adopted USB, USB was already popular.
That is an interesting use case: GraphQL API Management could help you during your testing cycle quickly identifying problematic queries
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It's more to do with existentialist crisis of computer science education, not status or pay for computer science grads.

Computing has become a part of every major industry and computer science by itself is closer to applied math and such fields, valuable but by itself not very useful.

Most professionals in most industries need to know quite a bit of computing skills to be effective.
I guess it´s because Android is not mainly consisting of Java code, unlike for example Minecraft. Correct me if I´m wrong, but isn´t Android made with mostly C and C++?
Every single statement you made is wrong.
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Today I learned that almost every IDE I have ever used is written in Java.
Good; and to those saying "why not just make it an opt-in pop-up". How do you feel about cookie pop-ups?

I bet you just click accept, I know I do.
The fact that I've never heard of it until now makes me highly suspicious they failed to market the service correctly.
Was this service promoted outside the USA (other way put, should I have heard about this in EU?)?

You at least heard of it, and used it.
I may use git wrong, but didn't use GitHub wrong. First, Github provides more functions than a git repo. Second, I haven't seen anyone or any company using Git in the way as Linus said in the video. I believe most companies are not either.
I've had detection issues with some (unpopular) Linux command line tools. No issues with Firefox on Windows and Linux, though.
> Magnetometer API - Allows websites to access data about the local magnetic field around a user, as detected by the device's primary magnetometer sensor.

I have never heard of this API, what's a use case for it?
This article was written by a former VP of software at Microsoft. You are simultaneously saying that MS is successful in some way that Apple is not and also saying that one of the folks that helped lead MS to success over the last 20 years isn’t competent enough to comment on just how competent and successful Apple has been for the last 15 years. Just drop the bitterness and read the dude’s writing, he knows what he is talking about.
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I originally learned to 3 balls from the Klutz juggling book as a kid, and still have largely fond memories of it.

I have a slight sour taste from the very end of the book, which discourages people from trying to go to higher numbers such as 5 balls. So after learning 3 balls, I set juggling aside. Much later, after meeting jugglers and seeing what people could do in videos online, I was inspired to learn a lot more... including 5 balls.

If you want people to excel, don't tell them they shouldn't expect to be able to do things, and that it's not worth the effort.
> Whereas, a lot of CS curricula today at least implicitly assume that you're comfortable with computer command lines, basic programming, etc. And, if not, you'd better get up to speed in a big hurry.

I graduated a CS program in 2013. In my program there was no assumption of familiarity with the command line. I specifically remember several lectures about how to navigate a file tree on a command line, how to run programs on a command line, what STDIN and STDOUT were, what pipes were, etc.
Jim Salter has been doing a series of Linux distro reviews, so the title ties into that, even if Haiku being a BeOS distro (or Haiku distro?) is a little questionable.
> Different endianness, different internal representation of floats, and so forth.

But this has nothing at all to do with floats. If you transmit 16 or 32 bit ints, or any image/video/sound datatype, or even raw bytes, there can be endianness shenanigans. Introducing endianness when talking about floating point numbers is completely offtopic.
This is definitely going to be downvoted.

Isn't App store apps (Not reserved to Apple's one, this also works for Google, Microsoft and many others) untrusted code too? It runs with even more privileges than your browser's code and have access to more fingerprinting information if that's what it is going to do.

As far as I see it, a PWA with these permissions has less privacy risks than a native application I can find on a store. I'd really like to understand how installing an app is not an issue but having the access from the browser is. Is it simply the permission framework that is broken and you don't trust it to not leak information when the API is disabled?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cast device list at the bottom.

When they went to the CASTV2 protocol it became very difficult to do anything unofficial as a server side implementation since official Cast SDK clients try to authenticate the server as an authentic device.
Yeah, too bad it is clear and straight down to business, readable by any version of every browser and since the text color is black instead of light grey one can actually read it.

The guy of Bellard's caliber does not need flying unicorns on a screen to attract people.
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I'm confident the community driven modding contributed to Minecraft's success in a massive way.
I missed my flight out of CMH around 10 years ago and found this book (that came with three balls) in the airport with a couple hours to kill. I remember the first instruction was something like:

Hold the three balls in your hands. Now, drop them. Get used to this.

Was happily juggling by the time I boarded the flight.
This isn't a full explanation, but might be worth thinking about. CS bachelor's education track is unique enough it is hard to switch into. If you are electrical/mechanical/aerospace engineering you're taking a lot of the same classes until your 3 year or so. You can change your mind and switch majors within the hard engineering fields. It is similar if you want to switch from biology to chemistry etc. At least in my experience a CS degree starts and ends there. If you want to switch into CS you almost have to start your courses over unless you were computer engineering. So out of the average % of students switching majors, some switch out of CS, but very few switch into it.
besides the nfc api, which might be feasible with a good privacy the api's are simple not needed.

nfc would be a good idea to make authentication over nfc devices feasible or nfc checkout.
we basically developed a native app, just because we needed to access an nfc reader for "tag" authentication. it does not more things. printing works over ipp, server-side.

the app basically does two things:
- nfc reading
- barcode scanner reading (basically they work like a hid keyboard device, so it doesn't really use any hid device driver or anything, we just detect it by watching how much keystrokes per ms are coming in. (which would be possible with in a webapp, aswell)
>I guess the explanation for 2000 is that the dotcom bubble was still alive and well,

Storm clouds were on the horizon by late in 2000. But there was probably some delay, even maybe post 9/11, until the full scope of the carnage was obvious--and by then most students who entered in 2000 or even 2001 were more or less committed.
Almost every sketch comedy show in the US fits your criteria I think
I agree with the GP. I had a similar experience at SUNY Buffalo in around the same time.

I terms of working for a FAANG, in order to pass the interview, you have to first get the interview. If you attend Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, etc, FAANG's will have career fair booths, and lots of other opportunity for internships and networking. You will be at the top of the pile and you're almost guaranteed a look.

Contrast that to attending a school like SUNY Buffalo. FAANGs don't generally recruit from schools like that. When I worked for Google, I offered to help with recruiting from SUNY Buffalo (which they called a "long tail" school). Their response was, rather than send people to the school, they set up a giant hangouts/meet video chat with auditoriums of kids from 4 different schools. The especially irritating thing to me was that my alma mater was not even included in the session that I led.

I think this sucks because I went to SUNY Buffalo because they offered me a much, much better deal financially than the "elite" schools did. I could have attended one of the favored few, but decided that I'd rather graduate without massive debt. Some of the smartest people I know I met there. They definitely weren't the rule, but a lot went on to get PhD's from places like Stanford and Caltech. So its not like big state schools have no qualified candidates. Its just hard to get the FAANGs to see that.
I had the ikea one and this one:

https://smile.amazon.com/VIVO-Ergonomic-Adjustable-Controlle...

The vivo one has been far better in features and reliability. I had to replace the ikea one because it started only going down and not up.
They also didn’t try to build the product with in-house engineers, they bought the (very good) company BAMTech.
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/me looks at his collection of electronic parts: Absolutely :) However, there is only so much time one can spent on this. Reminds me I should continue working on some FOSS after $dayjob is done for today...
Well for our use case their caching infrastructure handles 63% of all our traffic and 70% of our bandwidth.

We'd have to basically quadruple our expenses without CF. Not to mention their available protections.
Honestly I would suggest stop looking at LinkedIn or CSCQ subreddit most people are just sharing there wins not losses and theres nothing wrong with that what is not okay is that it makes some people depressed that because we start comparing ourselves and that leads to depression. Honestly just focus on your goal keep motivating yourself
"Grams of flour" isn't volume, it's mass. You stick your mixing bowl on the scale, hit "tare", and add flour until you hit the right mass. Then hit tare, add the next ingredient until it hits the right mass, etc. Much more accurate, which is needed for good consistent baking. Also much faster.
I sympathise with the walled garden App Store argument. I hate it that Apple keep such a tight grip on the application distribution channel. At the same time, I really hate the trend where browsers are operating systems and I use native apps whenever possible.
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It's hard to say how Russia would look like without the Revolution. It could be democratic.
> It seem they tried to do Netflix "but short"

Sort of. Netflixe has huge ongoing multi-year investment in their own content. That library has value. Quibi content reverts to the creator after a period of time, effectively leaving Quibi with nothing for its investment.
>Some credit Minecraft’s early success to the fact that players could play in a web browser via Java applets rather than having to download and install the game.

I never knew this was possible
Yes! :). I've done just that the past couple weeks building a game with a friend for a game jam. In that case, having the latest version of the game up and running was the strongest motivator so I didn't need tricks.

I definitely recognize what you are saying. Things don't have to be black or white, and this is a good nuance
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I could not believe they wanted $5/month WITH ads!
It didn't help that the initial versions had no button at all and expected the user to know to click in the corner of the screen.
> I was with you until you took a shot at Dutch cheese :) What's your problem with it?

Too much rubber :) There are some good dutch (and german) cheeses, it is true. But I find that too many of them share a texture that I have a hard time appreciating. Fine, I guess for fondue or other melting applications, but the idea of eating it as doesn't do much for me.

Another side note: I was in southern Spain in the winter of 2016/2017 and was amazed that almost none of the cheese that I could buy there seemed to be exported, and likewise, almost all of the Spanish cheese I've seen in the US and the UK was quite hard to find in Spain (regular stores, not cheese stores).
Their The Most Dangerous game had a lot of potential, but I want to watch it on my 70” TV, not my 5” phone screen.

I know they recently enabled AirPlay, but seriously, if they would’ve just launched with a smart TV app they might’ve been better off
Same here. The ads seemed really pushy and corporate-speak instead of organic and authentic. Put me off quite a bit actually
Humans and monkeys show similar thinking patterns
> why can't I choose a shipping option that costs something less than 50 cents to anywhere in the US?

Not an American, but I believe there's a 2006 bill that prevents USPS from selling services below the cost. Learned about it in a John Oliver's video [1], mentioned somewhere else in this thread. I'd guess that Chinese epackets are part of an international agreement, so they are exempt.

> The system was illogical.

It would be illogical if USPS had flexible costs.

But the USPS costs are more or less fixed. The mailman will go his round every day and will get his salary, even if he has little to deliver. So, you may as well have him deliver Chinese epackets, for whatever price the Chinese are willing to pay. And that's a good deal for the public. Otherwise the $1 trinket for China would be $6 (if Chinese had to pay full shipping), or $10 (if bought through a US-based reseller).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
Yes! Star Wars was a SINGLE movie. No subtitle. And originally no "Episode IV", which, when it appeared, was VERY confusing...
"Would you rather stand nearby and do nothing when Hitler was starting to kill and occupy?"

What were you doing when the US invaded Iraq in 2003?
Nonethless we are building and operating complex systems.

Testing something 100% has diminishing returns.

Therefore -> you will never be able to prevent all issues. As you are not aware how many changes are happening, you don't have a value which could indicate the healthiness of it.

I personally think that when i'm getting older and better in my job, i still make errors, the amount and severity is going down though.
"Apres moi, le deluge"
There's an unintended consequence in this, though. Which is that if you don't use an ad blocker you'll see the lowest cost, and thus lowest quality of ads. So in addition to keeping a private presence you're required to use an ad blocker. And services which have built their business around being ad-supported will see you as a deadbeat. Which motivates them to be more aggressive in upselling you, or denying service if you don't whitelist their ads.
Wasn't Google docs written using GWT?
They are the SI unit of mass. He's just saying that because it's indicated by lines on the package that the actual measurement is done in volume, and the conversion is implicit by the scaling. Where he goes wrong is in thinking that it's implying that "grams of butter" is a unit of volume.
Nah, it sounds like OP was basically a ripoff artist- not smarter or more industrious, just more amoral. Pretty scummy way to make a living, hopefully it’s not viable from now on.
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This is why I got a BA (liberal arts and sciences) and a MS in CS. I wanted a traditional, classical university education not just a CS degree. I did not want to be stereotyped.
We are all the same species herded around imaginary walls that only apply to us as individuals; moreso if we were born inside the imaginary walls that mark us as hollow, dangerous beings. Immigration is a story we tell ourselves to know we are powerful and good. We are poorer indeed by our assertion that some humans are more human and require proper paperwork to gain access to our mythoreligious order of the West.
What primitive numerical type should languages have instead? Can you show us some sample code illustrating how this type would be used for tasks where floats are typically deployed today?
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The same as with native apps, sensing the device's orientation. For AR, navigation, what have you.
Biggest beneficiary from Galileo (during Britain's stain in the EU) was actually a small UK satellite company, Surrey Satellite Technology.
Sourcehut (hg.sr.ht) is supports Mercurial and can also be self-hosted. Not sure how complicated it is to do so.
This analysis has a significant comparability problem because of added features. The core git-repository service is almost never down, but GitHub Actions has had a lot of reliability problems (you can see this clearly on the status page). But GitHub Actions is new, so it skews the recent availability problems up. Unfortunately, as the post notes, the detailed status information is _also_ new, so it's not really possible to analyze the data accurately.
> major US tech company to outright crap on national sovereignity of an European country.

Isn't this just a modern version of merchants refusing to land at a given port of call because there is no navy defending from pirates, and the pirates know it?

I would argue that this is not anyone crapping on anyone's sovereignty.

Nobody would accuse the company of being pretentious for refusing to let their crews be preyed upon with impunity, it would fall to the local citizens to demand the pirates get gone, or they continue not to be able to get goods from that particular merchant?

US tech companies certainly do have bullying problems. I'm not sure this is one, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise.
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Electrical is fairly different from mechanical. Mechanical engineers do take some electrical engineering (and there are analogs between the two fields in areas like system dynamics although the examples are different) but there's quite a bit of fairly early-on coursework about fluids, material behavior, mechanical design, etc. Mechanical is closely related to aero and ocean but not so much electrical. (At least beyond basic core physics, calculus, etc.)
This only works if you can remember what you stopped in the middle of. I often come back to projects with no idea what I was last doing, so now I've got some half-finished bit to figure out rather than something that could be clearly understood.
> Outside of our peers also in the industry nobody cares that you're a staff engineer at Google. Absolutely nobody.

Not true at all. They get excited because you can build their amazing app idea. It's just like facebook but for... Oh no, you won't? Oh okay. Well let me give you my card in case you change your mind.
Why is accessing this via a native app better than accessing it via web browser?
I’m simply against the “let’s go kill all $nation_name” attitude. It’s totally fine to take action against scumbags. I don’t think it’s fine to extend the hate onto the whole nation.
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An app and a web client inorder to send text with just a qr scan
If you had access to the magnetometer, you could make a navigation compass. Or, you could animate a map to rotate as the phone rotates. It might be good for implementing a GeoCaching helper app as a website.
Thank you for clarifying that. That is interesting.

I think I first heard of Quibi from their superbowl ad. That right there is a red flag. There's a certain class of people who think the thing that they happen to do is the most important thing in the world. You have MBA types who argue "good managers can manage anything" (ie you don't need domain knowledge). You have marketers who think that any success is purely a function of the marketing put into it. Worse, any successful launch (eg Disney+) will be seen as a success for marketing.

Time and time again we've seen throwing money at marketing fail to sell a bad product.

The whole focus on celebrities for Quibi I find interesting, particularly in light of this comment about where the money came from. I'm imagining people who are just horribly out of touch in that they come from an era when celebrity endorsements can sell anything. Or maybe it's people who just want to hang out with celebrities. What better way than to run a "studio"?

I mean, Reese Witherspoon getting paid $6m to do a voice over for a show about cheetahs? Wow.

The more I see about Meg Whitman the more I'm convinced she's just an idiot who happened to be in the right place at the right time (with HP). Like I'm honestly shocked eBay went anywhere with her at the helm. Because what else has she done? Tried to buy political office (and failed). Quibi. RIP.
i am still trying to figure: how is that any better than having the stuff as indented text, or writing it downs as markdown?
Most motorized desks I've interacted with (including the one I own) do indeed have a resistance sensor and will not only stop, but back up a bit if they encounter something.
more fundamentally, no one focused on cross-platform input device 'standards' at that time, so the suggestion itself is a bit of an anachronism.

I'm pretty sure every hardware platform had its own standard, and there were more desktop/workstation platforms then (Amiga, NeXT, Sun, SGI, etc)
Meg Whitman seems to get a lot of undeserved credit for some reason.

If I had run eBay and HP I think I’d be trying to hide that from my resume.
How can I be "wrong" about wanting these features? They're features that I want. I literally can't be wrong about that.

> capabilities to perform sensitive operations in software which also deals with untrusted input from the Internet.

But native apps don't deal with input coming from the internet? If that's what you think, you're... wrong.
Can anyone explain or further expand on this statement

> plain C and ESP IDF are too difficult for the broad audience

My intuition is that most folks who hack on EPS32 and other microcontrollers have no problem with these things.
So basically everything that would allow web apps to become capable enough to provide a viable alternative to their App store.

If they really cared about privacy they'd auto-generate their new privacy labels based on a websites api access pattern, and put them in an easy to access place.

They should also simply ask the user for permission if a privacy critical api is being accessed, same as we do with the microphone and gps. Or if they want to prevent users from being bothered, they could make them opt in as others have pointed out. So you have to manually go to the privacy label, and select the stuff you want to allow.

I'd love to be able to plug midi devices into my phone.
Implement pwa games that use local bluetooth connections for gameplay with friends in the train.
Or be able to access my 3d printer from my phone without having to release a ridiculous App store app.
that's called changing your habits. In 6 months when your eyes remember where are the pertinent information, you will say the same about the old UI.

More information is displayed in a more concise way since the update.
The price point is around the same as Ray Bans, some of which are also made in China at a cost of $1-3 (if that). The parent poster's business practice is not unique. It all comes down to marketing and capitalism, which, I agree, could be described as slimy, but then the question becomes why single out the parent poster for being slimy?
> A lot is surely down to composited window management

....how? That's handled on the GPU, and by GPU standards it's a nothing task.
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