skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey y'all again! I am one of the co-founders. Just wanted to highlight that our growth statistics cannot capture our impact. Countless users have reached out to thank us and describe Ameelio’s impact on their lives:

I can't tell you how much difference your organization has made for me and my loved one… my LO gets one 15min call per day... how can you keep a father-child relationship strong with that? it rips families apart... you have been able to help... it means a lot... thanks again.

— Steven

Thank u for everything it really helps cause money is so tight and I can’t afford stamps. I'm choosing stamps to talk to my husband or my heart meds that are expensive. I don't have insurance.
— Savannah

I live in Australia and my husband is incarcerated in PA, so obviously communication is a massive part of our relationship, especially in written format. One factor that most USA residents doesn't have to face, is a monetary factor of sending snail mail, for me to send a card or letter from here to him, it's costs me $3.20 AUD, over $2 USD, so Ameelio is such a cost saving thing for us. I love how informed we are of the status of the letter and that I can send a pic every single time. It's helped me hold things together for us as a couple. When the facility was on total lockdown, mail was still getting thru, but letters I'd sent from early April have only just arrived, yet letters I sent via Ameelio all arrived within a week (at worst). It gave hubby peace of mind knowing I was okay out here and that I was thinking of him in there. WIthout those letters, who knows what his mental health would have been like. Thank you Ameelio, we both appreciate this wonderful service.
I agree totally. It's wrong.
That's what I meant by, we can debate the merits of the History channel to begin with. I only took challenge to the notion that there is a world in which unbundling happens and consumers get to watch the same content for less money.

Whether or not it is "mis-serving customers" depends a bit on whether there's abuse of monopoly power, which is an argument one can make about the cable companies, but not so much about the over-the-top services like HBO Go, Disney+, Netflix, or Prime, all of which are structured as a bundle. I'm not sure Prime customers, for example, are unhappy or feel mis-served by being able to watch TV shows on top of being able to order items with fast, free shipping. Bundling can be used for nefarious value-extraction in a monopolistic market, but it can also bring consumers value, so we shouldn't conflate the two.

In many competitive markets, bundling is often a consumer's preference that does serve customers well. For example, most coffee shops don't charge for sugar, creamer, and other condiments, and you maybe have some aggrieved consumers complaining that they should get a discount for drinking only black coffee. It's likely that coffee creamer companies would go bankrupt if people had to pay for condiments at every coffee shop, and we can debate whether it's even a good idea then. But on the whole, I don't think that turns into an argument that coffee shops are mis-serving customers by providing condiments that are free of charge, that is to say, bundled with the price of coffee.

Personally I live in an almost perfectly unbundled world of content already, because I tend to buy or rent the TV shows that I'm personally interested in. This works for me because I have little time to watch, don't like ads, and have enough disposable income that I'm not thinking twice about cost, but I'm not sure that many other consumers would be satisfied with the kind of entertainment experience where they have to pay $2 per episode of their favorite show.
I'm starting to think RPi owners just don't want to acknowledge that there are other embedded linux-capable dev boards out there that can do all the things they want (eMMC, PCIe, multiple USB3, eSATA) without going through all of these insane hacks.

If it's for the adventure, cool. If it's because you are pissed at the RPi folks for not including it then holy crap widen your horizons....
There are two things happening - one is straight up bad UX, especially for users with poor internet connections. This is called out in the search example, and is fixable.

Another is a little harder - if were a professional who used a computer in 1983, you probably only used one or two programs. This means that as a developer, you could reasonably expect your users to become power users, and thus design for them. This is no longer the case for most programs, so you see slower, less information dense, but more intuitive software succeed.

Exceptions to this are software which only power users use - 3D modelling software, video editing, etc. These are still fast fast fast.
Rate limits, or discrete (in time) instead of continuous trading. An auction every minute or so, for three hours a day. That would be much better.

(When I started in equities in Hong Kong in 2007, the stock market was open for 4 hours a day... 10 to 12:30, two hour lunch break to drink and socialise^W^W^W have important business discussions with clients, then 14:30 to 16:00. Today it's open 5.5 hours a day. EDIT to add: "Reactions from both brokers and the restaurant industry were mixed." (1)

XETRA is open 8.5 hours a day without lunch break, while Frankfurt (FSX) is open 12 hours a day, from 8 to 8. WHY???)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Stock_Exchange#Tradi...
A man who saved a generation of premature babies (2016)
Here is the original Twitter thread that is screenshotted in that Reddit post: https://mobile.twitter.com/downdogapp/status/127804886274623...
To fill in slightly more detail, that's GS-441524 instead of remdesivir. It's closely related but a lot easier to manufacture. Here's a good article on that:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/14/gilead-should-ditch-remd...

And a fascinating tale how cat owners are buying the black market version to treat FIP:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/remdesiv...
Memory speed does not increase as fast as CPU performance.
The United States is not much better in terms of this. We have a free press in name only. If you are saying something that certain people don’t like, you are canceled. Your tweets will be taken down since you violated weakly worded community standards. You will be flagged on HN. Etc. Ultimately we have a dictatorship of ideas. The best answer so far is to go make a freedom platform with blackjack and hookers. Essentially we’re told to build better echo chambers.
Lego pulls ads on Facebook over 'hate speech'
Is this an attempt to fill immigration gaps after EU immigration collapses? I don't believe the government actually cares about anything that going on in HK.
Ask HN: Do you follow anyone interesting on Goodreads?
I have been slowly culling down the number of social media accounts I have and have been spending more time on Goodreads. Do you follow anyone interesting that perhaps has good reviews or reads widely?
Creating drugs is usually not the big cost. Regulatory compliance is.

Reforming the FDA process could save an large amount of lives and money.
They use some medical mumbo jumbo to show that patients spend less time at hospitals compared to other drugs and therefore Remdesivir works. They know how to lobby the scientific community so we will never know the truth. Sick patients will use and pay out of fear. I would love to see an unbiased study at some point if at all that shows the relative efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine with and without zinc and Remdesivir and other drugs.
Do it for the lifestyle.

Entrepreneurship is said to be long hours, lots of sacrifice, total devotion to your business and nothing else. That sounds a lot like marriage and kids. That sounds a lot like an extreme hobby. We're born too late to colonize new continents and too early to colonize planets. Entrepreneurship is the closest you'll get to an adventure.

As for what I actually got, we sold the company for about a year's salary for about a year of work.

My co-founder went to lead a much bigger company and still runs it, and they're one of the top media companies in my country and ranked regionally. I got a job offer from a VC we pitched to, doing corporate training. It led to two months of road trips teaching at educational institutions all over the country (with free food and hotels!) Me and my wife put on a lot of weight from the buffets, lol. That led on to plenty of other projects, consulting and training mostly. One was as technical management lead for a project with millions of daily active users. I took on numerous CTO roles for startups that didn't survive after that, got burnt out from the lack of control of managing low budget teams, and went back to coding.

I got on at least 8 newspapers (the ones that people read and are in print). Some covered me and similar startups in two pages even. It felt a little hollow; the papers were top of the iceberg for all the work we put in. We got something like 1000 users from the papers, but it was dwarfed by the 3000 users organic growth spike around the time, and the hits weren't as relevant. But my mother-in-law saw it and was impressed - she had been a wet blanket about the whole entrepreneur thing until then.

The government would sponsor us for some things and educate us too. We got offers to flights to conferences and 5 star hotels, which was really nice of them, but it was awfully distracting to the mission, which was to build a better product, reach more users, and raise money to do that.

The tl;dr of it is we had a lot of fun and was a positive experience. But only if your idea of fun is spending 80% of your time building and talking to users.
Their opinions on Turkey might be fair, but beware that Freedom House is basically an arm of the US State Department.
What's the high cost to develop a native iPhone app? Having to learn the language?
I think the "spirit" of the RPi is what encourages this hacker/maker mentality....which is perfectly fine by me.
AnyCable 1.0: Fast WebSocket for Ruby, Powered by Go
The case for the private technical interview
Martin Gardner's Hexapawn Simulator in Python and Excel
Dwebox Email Group Manager
I am Turkish and I feel like the culture difference is just too massive to be a member of EU right now. Economically, it would be an nice addition to EU, because Germany and France would very much enjoy the free access to the this huge market, so the current situation reflects that: EU has nice access to Turkish market with the current agreements, but they do not allow Turkey to be a member.
That is so true, but for gmail/hotmail try that:

Gmail:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en

Hotmail (register as sender):

https://sender.office.com/

And a good spamtest:

https://www.mail-tester.com/
The title is tongue-in-cheek. The book itself is not superficial.
As you "program" in React Native, are you really qualified to speak on who "at least half" of the issues are attributed to?

What do you mean when you say that the problem is half Apple's fault? Or, like every other comment your account hasd made in the last 24-48 hours, is it just an attempt to start an Apple flamewar?
Ah, right, that’s obvious now you point it out.
You're right: this post would make more sense if the author had gone for 1997 or so. Not too many bathroom breaks needed for various operations.
I thought this was going to be a rant about how slow modern keyboards are with long debounce cycles and waiting for the USB poll interval. Or if not that, how every change to the screen is buffered and waits until the next vertical sync before being drawn. Those things are quite noticeable once you start looking for them (you can thank me later!)

But instead it's "when I write an email to someone, the software looks through every person I've ever corresponded with and suggests an email from that list". The 1983 version of that was waiting 5 minutes for a bounce because you typo'd the address. Now it's taken care of for you in a few hundred milliseconds. Not that bad.

As for autocomplete being slow... there isn't really a good reason for this. I've seen PHP apps that add a solid 100ms to every request because they are built in the one-process-per-request model, and the framework does a lot of setup and teardown for every request regardless of whether or not the request uses those resources. Obviously, don't do that. There is no intrinsic reason that "AJAX" apps need to be slow -- you can do a database roundtrip in less than 10ms. Websockets and HTTP/2 eliminate TCP setup/teardown overhead.

Things could be faster, for sure. How much extra would you pay? Most customers wouldn't pay extra for a faster app, so apps aren't faster.

As for why people make mouse-based apps instead of TUIs... it's because the average person has to interact with tens or hundreds of pieces of software on a daily basis these days. If they all work differently, people will never use them. They ask for and prefer fast to learn but slow to use. So developers build on a common set of idioms, even if they are slow in the long run. You'll note that "power user" software is often hard to learn (think Emacs, Vim, Blender, Solidworks) but quite efficient once the user has been trained. People aren't interested in doing that much work these days.

Finally, business processes account for a lot of this stuff. I've been to stores that use a nice efficient TUI for their in-store pickup. But my question is: why is software with a UI even involved? You should scan my order number barcode, scan my driver's license barcode, and then hand me my merchandise. (Why even scan my driver's license. Just eat the fraud and save me 5 seconds! That's a business decision, not a software implementation quirk.) Having to navigate around to a bunch of fields and manually type that information in isn't efficient. The UI shouldn't even exist.
Slap Coding Principle
1) It's less likely to be abandoned.

Flawed assumption.

A $10 monthly fee may severely limit it's use --- and the less it is used, the more likely it is to be abandoned.

Personally, I think a $10 annual fee would be more reasonable but finding the magic sweetspot between users and dollars is a market research topic.
Why “don’t be a d****” as a company value works mostly
Meanwhile... I’m fairly certain I’ve read that the EU and both Visa and MasterCard are looking at ways to prevent auto-billing without secondary confirmation.
If I was China, I would love for the US and the UK to take the law-aware and dissident people off my hands.
>I gave your hand-wavy explanation of how Uber reduces congestion more credit than it deserves. Most evidence suggest that Uber actually increases congestion, not the reverse

Ok, well let me know if you want to actually address the point.

>There is no trip by Uber which is less than twice as expensive than BART or 3 times as expensive as a bus here in Oregon. A short hop on BART is about $2.00 versus the $5.80 base rate on Uber. If your Uber gets stuck in traffic which is common in the Bay, the math gets even worse.

(1) The BART may be different than my city

(2) You're looking at the fare and not the actual cost. What's the actual cost of providing those short trips?

(3) You're not looking at the cost to develop new service. What would the actual cost be of creating a new line in the heart of the city?
If you look at the job offers on linkedin, most of them have more than 50-60 candidates. That's my main problem with remote job interviews. How do you reach the actual interview stage when there are more than 100 candidates applying for the same position?
Or perhaps the $100 Developer account fee
Nothing. Macron's police forces were as bad and brutal with the yellow vests movement as the Turkish police was with the Gezi Park protests back in 2013, if anything some Western European leaders are taking notes. To say nothing about the very recent meeting between Macron and Putin which ended on a very congratulatory note from both sides.

As for Germany they have been in bed with Russia for a long time, and Austria is basically one of the main conduits for laundering money coming from "bad" Russian people (who steal from the majority of the Russian population).
There's also NSA COMP 3321

https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313
Because pixels
Anonymous Hackers Target TikTok: ‘Delete This Chinese Spyware Now’
It's weird we don't have psychometric benchmarks to capture this trend. How many times a day do you get frustrated thinking that your mouse has broken down because you clicked something and it didn't start spinning (it will be spinners of course, lots of them, and when they stop spinning you 're already fuming and banging at your screen)

Can anybody point out an app that has become better at perceived feedback over time? Everything is a horrible, slow mess. And the bigger issue is: due to the choice of language/UI libraries, they are un-optimizable

Incidentally, this may help explain the popularity of vim which was posted on another article. Console feedback is truly instant and, importantly, predictable. You can hit a bunch of keyboard commands on vi, and it will execute them 100% predictably even with a slow connection or high system load (of course, it was designed for that).
> I don't know what they think they're doing.

They are doing search. Specifialy, the monetizable variety of it.
Does it matter? The UK needs skilled workers and HKers need a place to live that won't try to kill them.
What VW did is similar to uber's greyball system in that they give a different experience to the regulator rather than giving everyone an experience that is tuned to what a regulator might hope to see
A quick Google would tell you the population of Hong Kong is 7,500,700 (2019 estimate).
Appreciate what you wrote here, made me think, basically people can learn a difficult interface and work with it as long as it responds. You never get over a ui that is slower than you are. There is no excuse, apart from to say that it's too difficult so we had to use electron and we know it's slow but what else are we meant to do?
Does the face recognition tech in China have big problems with european faces?
Or just rebrand it.

I'm sort of amazed they haven't done that already...
According to the article 500,000 doses are the production of July, and 90% of August and September. Three full months would be 500,000 / 2.80 * 3 = 535,714 doses. A full treatment is made of six doses. There are 89,285 treatments in there. Less than 30,000 per month. Too bad for the rest of the world that all of them will happen in the USA but they are way too few to matter globally. Split them proportionally with the population and how many of them are going to be assigned to any European country? Maybe we need a x10 in the production or more. Better, local production, which I understand is neither quick nor easy.
You're augmenting the real data too.
Here on HN, we should easily be able to see through this trope. The government made a $37.5 million grant to study a range of drugs. How much equity should the government get for what basically amounts to seed funding for the $1 billion cost of bringing a drug to market? (Account for dilution and the fact that the “investor” here doesn’t put more money into subsequent funding rounds.)
Do you mind to name the brand/series of the products in the same price range?

*really wants to know, not trolling
Adobe Photoshop 7 took literally seconds to open on my 500mhz Pentium 3. On my brand new SSD iMac, 31 seconds cold, 7 seconds from a warm start (which honestly is WAY better than I thought it was going to be).
The speed-up for those is mostly about using a fast SSD today vs a slow HDD back then, not that much to do with the OS/software themselves.

If anything 90's software would run circles around today's software if it was using today's hardware. And I think that's the point of the article.
You should define and describe the concept of "binding", if you don't already. Telling me a const declaration is an immutable binding does nothing for me if I don't already know, or immediately find out, that binding is the general case of assignment, an association of a value with a name. Given that and an understanding of the differences between value and reference types, there are few surprises left for me in how Javascript handles names and values.

I sometimes find myself informally teaching devs less experienced with the language, and I've learned to cover this part of it very early. It's not made terribly obvious in a lot of resources people have mentioned using, and I've yet to encounter a case where developing that understanding failed to help someone better understand the code they were writing, and thus write better code. (Usually I'm also reviewing a lot of their PRs, and that makes the change pretty easy to see.)
Aren't they making it to keep consistency on the apps?

Let's say I'm a first time subscriber and it happens to be this app, then the trial finishes and I'm not charged. Then I go and subscribe to another trial and I get charged. I'd be very pissed.
At least I can says something against Trump or even the government and my posts will probably not be deleted. Free press and speech doesn’t mean everyone gets equal speaking time, just that the government is very limited in how it can interfere. It is just a restriction on government power, really.

And yes, this restriction on government power is much better than what they have in China, Turkey, etc... it is actually much better.
Dan Luu has some interesting metrics on this [1].

This strikes at a slightly different problem, the latency of actually showing things on screen, but points out that not all is going well.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
The 'liminal space' comes up all the time in self-reports, though, including literally the top comment on this page! There's no social desirability bias I can see there.
I have an idea about an alternative web browse/protocol that is faster. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb. .. although don't have time to code it.

Gemini could be pretty fast if they did not insist on TLS and new connections all the time.
That's possible! I've never had to teach it, good point.
Coc.nvim is awesome. Instead of trying to bring the UI of vim to another editor, coc.nvim brings the "backend" of the other editor to vim.

I tried using VSCode with the Vim plugin for a while but the latency and inconsistencies eventually got me back to proper (neo)vim. UIs are almost always more complex and subtle than people intuit, have a large surface area, and make lag and inconsistencies most noticeable.
30 years ago was 1990. I remember 100KB being fairly reasonable for a 2D game in 1990, even when having to download it with a 1200 baud modem.
As an American with an interest in South Asian culture, I found this ten percent number striking. A quick look at the US Library of Congress via Google search, shows these major newspapers of India in the 1940s.

https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/?all=true&dates=1940-1949&fa=...

I believe there were more than 15 languages in India with newspaper circulation of 1 million or more, in addition to English and Hindi, in the 1980s. Even illiterate Yemen had a literacy rate greater than 50% in the 1980s, by my understanding. So I am very sceptical of this ten percent statement about India.
> But if any of these countries tried kicking the US out... what do you think would happen?

It has already happened. Thailand asked US Air Force to vacate in 1976 after the Vietnam War. USAF closed its base and vacated.

But why would they kick US out without reason? The US has a military base based on either a deal or an agreement. It depends completely on the deal/agreement in place. If the military base was paid for by the US Government then US would definitely not vacate it till the agreement is over. If the base was as a result of an invasion then US won't vacate until it is absolutely sure that the Government in place will not fall into hands of Warlords again. These are perfectly reasonable in my opinion. But if a request is made and US feels that the request is legitimate it will definitely quit the base. It has already demonstrated it in Thailand.

Let us not forget that US vacated Japan too.