skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google take 32% of the Adsense money so 30% sounds like a bargain.

I'm so tired of ad sprinkled apps. All I wanted was to play a cheap Tetris clone not look at some ad load screen. Any ad app feels like 90s ad-ware and you know it spies on you so atleast it is a good warning sign to delete it. I wish there was a filter option "no after purchase purchases, no adds" in the app stores.
So solar panels and cell phone towers are littering too?
Wow, I hadn't heard about that. If they were 1 or 2 years quicker they might have been out in the market before the pandemic presumably killed them?
They are not competitors. Antitrust law might not apply.
“Had he not been Native American, not one of those statements would have counted against him,” said his lawyer, Jonathan Aminoff. “Not one.”

Just US Government doing its normal thing...

This whole article infuriates me.
Believe it or not, the last couple interviews I did, I just came out and asked for, and got, this level of clarification as to what they wanted here. Some companies solve their problems differently, value different characteristics, and so run their interviews differently, and in my (admittedly limited) experience, it's not a faux pas to ask.

A few employers ago, giving a "best guess" rather than admitting you don't know the answer to a question was an instant no-hire. They wanted to be sure that you were sure when you put an idea out there without qualification, and so it was with the day-to-day SRE-ish work where short outages caused by speculative changes that weren't fully understood were wildly expensive events.

At my most recent one, I was actually encouraged to speculate if I didn't know the answer to a tech question, or was asked why I answered what I did if the answer was wrong; they were more interested in my thought process than the end result, even if the end result wasn't technically correct.
Apple added SKAdnetwork specifically for the attribution use case, presumably because they foresaw this.
> Why are we allowing a private company to ruin the night sky for everybody, and by everybody, I mean literally everybody on this planet?

They're not being ruined for everybody. There's so many misinformed comments in this thread. These satellites aren't visible to the human eye generally.
The ‘green’ milk made from cells
Yes. That is true. She passed away before the Nobel. Anyone interested in this topic should read "The Double Helix" by Watson. It is a real page turner and discusses how Watson and Crick kind of stole Franklin's research.
I think in this example Feynman was using the question to illustrate the levels of complexity in answering a scientific question. If you watch his actual lectures, Feynman does break the concepts down in order to teach them.

Also, documentaries and popular science books tend to dumb down and over simplify theories to such an extent, such as by removing all mathematics, that they just become either wrong, inaccurate, or misleading. I think it was Einstein which said make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
They should think on cosmological time scales, cheap access to space means cheap access to space telescopes (which in principal can gather less noisy data)
Cool, I was bummed when I googled Series 7 and saw I needed to be sponsored.

Looks like series 65 is the way to go since series 82 also requires sponsorship.
Parent is strictly incorrect and is being taken in by very poor and dishonest sources of information. Your comment is purely speculation, please don't muddy the waters.
HMAC Based CSRF Protection
TBF, not all Android phones are created equal.

There are Android phones sold in the developing world at low price points where ads appear on home screen, notification bar etc. with tracking deep within OS.

Then, there are phones like Pixel where with recent versions you have control of what is shared and you need to authorize access(single/multiple use) for things like location. Like iOS, not much can be collected unless you give Google/app permission to.
The low transaction limit is likely an anti-fraud device. I am able to transfer much larger amounts than that on Venmo. I don't know how they handle KYC for this stuff. I don't recall filling in many details.
Compare it to other big language websites, like Kotlin [1] or Go [2], this page really seems to have a poor signal to noise ratio. There is a lot of information on this landing page, and a lot of it is getting in the way. For a language, I want to know (a) features, (b) documentation / how to learn, (c) community. This website leads with this, but does so under playful headings ("jet-fueled") that just lead to more click-through links, and then immediately, on the landing page, jumps into advanced features (easy DSLs, IDE support, etc.). 2/3 of this landing page could be removed, and I suspect it would be a better landing page for it.

In addition, it suffers from a poor use of vertical space (you will see the word "Racket" in a large font with plenty of padding 4 times on the main page), poor usage and indication of navigation (it has 4 navbars, which are not apparently navigation but appear to be "selling points" until your mouse moves over them, due to their being attached to headings), and poor use of navigation (reflowing the main page nave when you click on nav items). Compare this to Kotlin and Go's sites, which state the name, gives a snappy summary of the language, and then links off to more information. In the case of Kotlin, which is closer to Racket's site, it presents immediate links to extensive, example-driven write-ups about the most-important features on subpages, uses the remaining of the "first page" space on a "try it now" box, and then proceeds along vertical space (free in a browser) to demonstrate the most-important features.

Finally, a smaller complaint: this website feels like it was made in Photoshop in the mid-00s, complete with text-image navigation bars sliced out of tables and drop shadows. I know someone put a lot of work into making divs look like that, but there are very good reasons why the industry has moved away from that design.

1. https://kotlinlang.org/

2. https://golang.org/
It took so long because the Sacklers contributed to many causes and philanthropies favored by the elite, and because the Obama Administration simply did not care about midwestern White people dying. And, the Trump Administration does not care about anything at all.
I think it’s a somewhat orthogonal issue. I think you can approach the design of a serious interface with the F-15 philosophy while also incorporating aesthetic sensibilities. Yes, some people may end up designing serious interfaces that suffer from too much unnecessary chrome (I’ve heard of a lot of frustration with touchscreens in cars).

But I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with sci-fi aesthetics influencing interface design. What arguments can actually be made against the functional effectiveness of that oscilloscope or the SpaceX cockpit?
You are right, thanks for clarifying.

I asked that question as the GP made the case that breaking GPL is equivalent to pirating (breaking any other copyright). But GPL ensures a resource is always shareable and anyone who tries to break it would be limiting shareability of the resource, essentially it would be opposite of piracy.
I really want to believe this. It neatly lines itself up with my worldview and afford individuals the agency of being smart enough to do what is right 99% of the time while also allowing for the freedom to make the rare "less than safe choice" in situations that warrant it. That is the world I want to live in.

-BUT- I think to get there, we are going to need some serious education on this matter that actually penetrates the politics that have grown to dominate the pandemic. I don't think most people see it as "containment vs keep clam and hope everything is okay." Opting instead to see it as r-v-l.

To be clear, I don't blame anyone for thinking in those terms, that is the narrative being presented. That said, I do ask that any theory hinging on "people are able to handle nuance" provide some evidence for the claim that can be directly applied to the now. In a world where individuals leer at each other for not wearing masks in wide open outdoor spaces, while others yell inside of Walmart about the constitution, it is hard to have belief in that claim.
YouTube video removals doubled during lockdown
HTMLified C standard ISO/IEC 9899:2017
Don’t assume I’m against that from the perspective of a netizen. I too grew up reading slashdot and idolizing the FSF. I’m just pointing out this well could be the death knell of SWE as we know it.

I will definitely miss the ridiculous TC fueled by the ad-laden web, but at least maybe I won’t work alongside physics and math phds on optimizing clicks....
This comment seems like Poe's law at work.
People who buy an Apple device often do so in part because Apple does a better job with privacy. The fact that this makes life harder for advertisers is kind of the point.
On 3, as much as I hope the trend is true (I'd love more cheap apartments in the urban core) I'm not sure it is. People are moving and changing but I haven't seen any data that conclusively proves any narrative beyond 'people move houses even in a pandemic'.

FWIW I currently live in comparatively non-dense socal and I'm planning on moving to Portland this fall. I plan to move into the Pearl district and work remote. I walk all the time (even when the weather is bad, it doesn't bother me) so I think it will be nice to have more than two coffee shops within walking distance. For context, my current city is just big enough to support a niche ice cream shop and some weird restaurants, but not big enough for there to be enough competitive pressure to force them to actually be good. It is nice when a market can be robust enough to force out poor competitors.

A lot of folks moving from real cities to rural areas may be shocked to find how bad the food, coffee, shopping, and arts scenes can be. There's nothing wrong with Walmart+Target, Starbucks+Dunkin'Donuts, Olive Garden+Outback Steakhouse, but it is IMO worth it to have more options, even at the expense of a large lawn and privacy from neighbors.
> Instead, the starving people were the peasants who had their produce expropriated, which was sold to acquire the imported materials and machinery that the soviets could not yet produce themselves.

That's kind of misleading, given how the average USSR citizen had more food on their plate than even in the US https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-food/

...are you thinking of the pre-WW2 famines?
> mutuality or extraction of rents.

bigger governments create more rent opportunities.

https://www.libertarianism.org/blog/introduction-rent-seekin...
I understand that most cities also have restrictions like minimum unit size and requirements for every unit to have it's own bathroom and kitchen. In the past people who just started out and poor people had the option to rent such rooms and that way afford to live in urban areas and avoid a crazy commute. To make that work now you have to find roommates and take over a unit that wasn't meant for this use case.

It's nice that we want minimum standards of living for everyone, but removing options we find appalling didn't create the options we want everyone to have
The funny thing is I get the warning almost every time because I only ever use Venmo with new acquaintances I'm eating with for the first time in a group setting.

Once I'm actually friends with someone we stop splitting bills and end up roughly alternating (sometimes after fighting) about who pays. Might be an Asian thing though.
Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I
> (they're unlikely to ask clarifying questions, because that would look the same as stalling to disguise the shallowness of their knowledge)

This feels backwards to me. If you have comprehensive knowledge, you almost have to narrow down the question!

Or just talk continually until you've exhausted every single detail of every single aspect. The latter is rarely going to be what you want to do.

There's a level of "this is also a test of your communications skills" in every interview question, and it's a valuable thing to look for. So if you don't treat it as a 2-way street... you probably should.
> Much of the 5G progress happens in the core network and network interconnects.

It's a bit silly to wait for a completely different radio transport before thinking of carrier and backhaul improvements, which are almost completely orthogonal.

> Long story short: I think people are working on this

Given the specifics of the sorts of flaws in these network standards, it's hard to come away feeling that they were anything short of intentional. I get the impression that “working on it” more or less amounts to improving plausible deniability by making the backdoors less obvious.
Tesla’s have a touchscreen instead of analog controls, recently there was a case where a driver attempting to use the touchscreen wiper rate changer got in a collision and was deemed negligent.

Based on them taking arguably the single most important toggle in a car [1] and hiding it behind a touchscreen so that when you already are in shitty conditions and you can’t see, you have to take your entire focus off the road and navigate a touch screen interface, compared to every other car on the market where you can do it subconsciously while keeping your hands on the wheel... let’s just say I don’t think Elon’s companies care particularly much about creating interfaces that are easy and safe to use if it means sacrificing “aesthetic“.

https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/german-court-rul...

[1] wipers and headlights are the 2 “I’m driving a massive hunk of steel at 80mph down the highway and I can’t see shit I need to fix this immediately” controls, and wipers are more likely to be needed at the spur of a moment, so I’d say it is the single most important toggle in a car and replacing it with navigating a touchscreen seems like it ought to be grounds for not street-certifying a car.
The claim regulating the big players will actually hurt the little guys is the common cry of the big player hoping they don't actually end up getting regulated. As your comment points out, it really doesn't hold up to a cursory examination of what's being claimed and how they stand to gain. ;)
> If you look at past space telescopes, launch costs are not a large part of the budget.

Satellites are built to narrow margin to reduce weight because of the weight restrictions on satellites. Right now we have reusable rockets but the rockets aren't any bigger so while the cost of launch has come down the volume/mass that can be launched in one go has not gone up. If laser interferometry gets better then large telescopes can be launched as constellations. Larger reusable rockets are also being worked on. When that happens they can care less about mass margin and make cheaper lower margin telescopes.

Telescopes are also generally built as a one-off which also increases cost. I hope the technology for telescope constellations will improve.
Top greatest writer who never won a Nobel prize: Jorge Luis Borges.
Maybe not biology, but maybe biotech or biochemistry.

A fundamental understanding of the primary scientific literature and patents necessary for a technology to be viable, can all be used to determine if a new technology will be profitable for a company, beyond the scope of overall risk and investment numbers. Both of which are used extensively in graduate research.
We likely won't know for a while what DHH thinks of it. He's on hiatus until November https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1292784841444986880
Perhaps you’re thinking of source code?
I'd be more interested in failed startups vs programming language.
SKAdNetwork is severely restrictive. In my group we’re still forecasting a major hit to our ability to perform attribution or lift analysis.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Culture is not a fixed thing. The majority of present day US citizens do not believe slavery is acceptable, but in the past a majority were prepared to tolerate slavery. Yes, changes to housing will bring about changes of attitudes to housing, but so what? That has already happened---US houses have grown by 40% since the 1980s per the BBC article. Why could this not happen again?
Much of the value of Pollock's work is that he did that kind of work first. Though I'm not sure why he had to repeat himself once he made his first action painting.

I have a lot more respect for artists like Marcel Duchamp, who was always developing in radically new directions and did not like to repeat himself, in great contrast to one-trick ponies like Pollock.
Ask HN: Have you been successful in getting your coinbase account recovered?
I guess I'm so used to dismissing the "Play Protect" dialog I completely forgot about it, you're right about it, it is annoying. But I think asking the user to signal agreement before installing and especially allowing another app store is the right way, given how sensitive it is. Maybe it should be made easier, but it's far less onerous than the Apple case.

Steam doesn't do the API review/sandboxing component of App Stores. An installed game technically has access to everything. Even Linux packaging has API review (due to open source) and modern packaging often has integration with AppArmor/SELinux. Steam are essential for Linux gaming, but I wish they improved their deployment to be more secure.
Don’t people already pay for music streaming?
This seems like a "conspiracy theory".
It this sarcasm? Wanting safety from crime is now same level as KKK or Nazis?
It's doubly annoying because Tesla had some real achievements and deserved the recognition he got for them. He's overrated now for the stupid Tesla vs. Edison myth that claims he was underrated and suppressed.
Care to cite your reference?
sure! write a few tests pretending your thing is already implemented, to capture what you want it to do. at this point it's a step beyond writing no test and just typing `YourThing.Do()` in a text editor. does it make sense? is it awkward? should it even be `YourThing` or `SomeOtherThing`? what the "unit" is of what you're testing might change, or its API might. you're basically just trying to get a sketch of what it's like for the user.

now, at the end of this, you'll have a clearer idea of the external API boundary, probably a clearer vision of how it should work, _and_ code you can test against. you've potentially just saved yourself the labour of writing the thing, realizing it needs to be redesigned, and rewriting it.
Firefox Focus is on iOS; I use it as an ad-blocker in Safari, and to view the occasional Instagram or FB page. It does a pretty good job of blocking ads, even though it's restricted to using WebKit.
I mean, at one time you could build apps on Facebook that basically downloaded all of a user's data when they used it. The Obama campaign built an app that you could use to find your Facebook friends who hadn't been contacted by the campaign yet, so you could call them on the campaign's behalf. I heard of other political operations that built a "wish [famous person] happy birthday" app solely so they could grow their database.

Eventually Facebook closed all that access down and basically deprecated the concept of FB as an app platform entirely. That is a way more dramatic change than what Apple is doing to Facebook here.
I'm biased, but I clicked through to Kotlin and it didn't have any mobile friendly media queries - whereas I like the look and feel of the racket page on my tiny android screen.
Airbnb extends employee work-from-home until the end of August 2021
> Maybe rocket travel yes, though, because you can scale that way more than the jet.

What?

Jets carry hundreds of thousands of pounds of payload - a 747 can carry nearly 250,000lbs of payload.

Rockets carry payloads in the range of thousands pounds at most. Simply making your rocket bigger isn't an easy solution, and you start burning a ton more fuel for marginal payload gains.

It also doesn't cost $90 Million to fly a 747 every time it takes off...
Regardless of their claims, I think it likely that their range gain is attributable entirely to reduced drag coefficient.
> There is no backyard where this isn't an issue.

These aren't visible to human naked eye. Just try and go see them. They already cover the sky in a grid with one of them above the horizon everywhere at all times but just with low density at the moment. I've tried several times and they are not visible.

> So, let's stop the clock for a bit until we have a much better idea of what the impact of all this littering will be

This isn't littering. These are controlled satellites that can be de-orbited at will at any time (and several have been already that had some technical problems with them).
Very cool series of articles. I wish there was more variety in household refrigerators, too! The one thing I always wished was on the market was a refrigerator where all the moving, noise-making bits could be mounted under the floor, in the crawlspace, with the connection to the box being plumbed up through the floor. They market these for commercial use but I couldn't find anyone who would install one in a house when I was building my house.
If you use GPL software in non GPL code, you are still “pirating” the code and using it in a way that the person/group didn’t give you permission to use the license. This is no different than sharing any other copyrighted content. The copyright holder controls how the content is shared.
Robot airplane takes off and lands with no pilot
Heh, I remember maybe a decade ago, some e-magazine in spanish which marketed itself as a truly cultural experience, with long articles on interesting cultural topics. It was so badly formatted for SEO that it was so painful to read which probably made people think that the cultural themes were more difficult than they actually were.
Happened to me recently. I had no idea what the person wanted.

Turns out this was the core problem for me.

I actually care about customer acquisition and marketing strategies. Product positioning is important to me and it deeply effects how the product is designed. The aspects are a conversation, not a dictation and battle between departments.

Business and marketing is how you wrap and present your technical achievements to communicate their value to the public. If this isn't part of the gestalt, then we're just a scattered swarm. Anyway, yeah, passion.

A company that thinks there should be 10 people and 500 miles between these things and who actually builds the thing isn't right for me. (Apple for instance)

This is how companies come out with spastic messes that only sell because of the existing momentum of the brand.

I would be eternally frustrated that not only me, but everyone else is in these stovepipes.

So that flaw, I realized IS the purpose. They aren't testing knowledge as much as boundaries.

It's Designed so they don't accidentally hire otherwise technically competent people who want to bombthrow their administrative apparatuses
> Only the original copy must be paid for.

We are only paying for the original copy, but distributing that payment over many people and over time so it doesn't hurt as much - which single person is going to pay $10K or $1M or $50M for a song or movie?