skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a person in 2020 is far more savvy about the risks than someone in 1920. For one, they're aware of crashes, bubbles, etc. and have probably even lived through at least one of them. They also don't have to trust the advice of a single broker over the telephone. The 2008 real estate bubble was driven by the same kind of speculation that drove the 1920s stock bubble. We are probably already deep into a stock bubble today, in 2020. And yet retail investors can plop down tens of thousands of dollars on stocks through Robinhood or a myriad of other apps, paying no attention to underlying fundamentals in the business.
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That's not what he's saying. He's saying the test should measure an externally visible detail. In this case that would be "is the list sorted". This way the test will still pass without maintenance if the sorting algorithm is switched again in the future. You can still consider the implementation to create antagonistic test cases.
"A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning"

'Ad' sure seems like a word to me :)

I actually think there are more people that would prefer contracts, terms and conditions, and legal documents be written more in plain English, not less. Things that reduce friction of being able to take in that information without reducing clarity seem to me like a net positive.
Thanks for sharing. This might be a good option for building a UI for a diy home automation project I'm currently tinkering with using a raspberry pi and 7 inch lcd touch display (official raspberry pi lcd). So far I've looked at Kivy and also JavaFX for the UI. But would prefer it being a web frontend. So might have look into this.
Not saying you should use it but to reaffirm GP points, the most valued company in that list, Stripe, started with MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-powering-the-magic...

And this is a financial company.
Do newspapers need to know what websites every subscriber visits in order to put ads in the paper?

The idea that privacy needs to be conceded in order for a healthy ad market to exist is false.
They had a bunch of blog posts about restricting APIs like this[1]. I think someone can look at the current APIs and see what related friends information they allow. The last time I used FB APIs was in 2012 and the last time I used FB was in 2014, so not up to date with them.

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/
Isn’t this the entire point of CSS? And perhaps Semantic HTML as well?
My pet theory is we're part of a simulation to understand whether 2 days is the optimal weekend length for the future of mankind.
Housing isn't seen an investment in Japan, homes actually depreciate! The dynamics are way different, so housing is more affordable, but you won't make any money on it.
Sounds like your lexer has a public interface to you.
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"But that doesn't mean they need to come first."

Curious - did you hold this opinion around 5-10 years ago, and did you voice it to any TDD advocates at the time? My experience was that a statement like this (which I consider immensely reasonable) could kick off really severe arguments, and could get you no-hired in interviews.

There may have been a bit of a Motte-and-Bailey argument going on, where TDD advocates would retreat to the value of tests when defending TDD, and then go back to insisting on TDD once the coast was clear.
> Some groups use the profits to fund terrorist and drug activity. Is that ok?

Some people use the profits from taxi companies to fund terrorism. Is that ok?
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(All of the below assumes that a bank is involved, as banks are the subjects of the relevant regulations. If a bank isn't involved -- which is rarely the case -- anything goes.)

> Swiss, Czech bearer instrument companies were a thing pretty recently. Cypriot trusts were a thing just a few years ago (maybe still are?).

Not sure about the bearer instrument part (especially with the Czech Republic being subject to EU rules), but I'm quite familiar with the Cypriot trusts, and (1) banks must know their Beneficial Owners and (2) those BOs do get reported to their home countries with FATCA resp. CRS reporting.

And of course, you're right -- there are still ways to get around them. But those ways have become increasingly difficult, to the point where many banks simply don't bother with that business segment anymore because the headaches outweigh the potential profits. Getting past a red flag, while operating legally is not impossible, but why bother.

> The whole subthread is somewhat meaningless in the context of the article, though, because it would be ridiculous to expect Lebanon to have the same level of insight into company ownership as say, Austria, Germany, or the US.

That's a fair argument. I have to admit that I interpreted the question more in the sense that someone (not necessarily Lebanon) should have this information.

> Offshore means tax optimization, and anonymous companies may be nothing more than an attempt at keeping competition from guessing your game plan. E.g. real estate investors. I suppose those might be red flags in countries with funny ideas about taxation (the US, parts of Europe).

Hiding something from the competition, or other nosy parties, is my best guess as well. There are legitimate ways of optimizing taxes, but it's become increasingly difficult to hide assets from your home government. (The running joke is that the United States is the last tax haven, as it's the only country not to share information with other countries.)

> I take it you haven't heard about the HSBC's drug cartel money laundering? From the perspective of a small business, stuff like that makes KYC/AML look like unneeded and annoying security theatre.

I'm familiar with that one, and many others. Wirecard in my opinion still stands by far because there were credible reports of malfeasance going back years, and BaFin went after the reporters instead.

As I said earlier, these laws can't prevent crime, they can only deter it. You're still going to have bad actors, at many possible levels (even at the C-level, as we saw with Wirecard).

It's just become increasingly difficult, with diminishing payoffs. Coming back to the original statement I was challenging: doing shady stuff post-9/11 was far more difficult than pre-9/11, and it's become even more difficult since (although admittedly, the recent development is motivated by taxation).
> The caveat is that once a drug is approved for XYZ, doctors can, and do, prescribe it for anything else in their judgement. The caveat is that once a drug is approved for XYZ, doctors can, and do, prescribe it for anything else in their judgement.

Yes, but pharmaceutical companies cannot market the drug for non-approved uses or discuss off-label use when promoting or selling the drug. That is illegal.

That illegal activity is exactly what the courts determined Purdue did - bribery, fraudulent marketing, and more. The issue is that Purdue broke the law (and that their sentences for breaking the law were way too light).
This is blade runner. I can finally have a blade runner interface of my SF dreams. Thank you
Not sure, but it is hard to deny that Elon's personal taste in building everything "sexy" has something to do with it.

I think you're delving into the details and you're making valid points, I am mostly talking about the philosophy and approach in an abstract sense.

It's fine to use this library. Otherwise, the world would be a totally unremarkable place. If you consider the central point I was trying to make, to re-emphasize is that I wonder how much of influence do things like sci-fi aesthetics makes in designing serious products [1][2] (I suspect that it is widespread).

[1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cGhQ0begL...

[2] https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*eW4danopMOoMxEr5GBRZOA.png
I think your title is worse because it mentions Tesla, which is extremely clickbate in EV news.
Yep, completely different system. Same attitude, though.
I appreciate author's quest for bottom-up understanding of all the things we depend on daily. The quote "We are standing on shoulders of giants" really shines here, and we all do a great service to them by trying to understand.
> this Indian-run website says...

It looks like Vedang Sati is just a regular guy on the internet who happens to be of Indian origin and his pick of his favorite people don't show any obvious bias[0].

On the other hand, I shouldn't even be defending him. The implied bias/nationalism here is in poor taste. This is no different from saying

> this Jew-run website says...

[0] https://www.vedangsati.com/p/about-me.html
Ok, fair enough. And what about TikTok then?
You could also try appshare.co. Free , open source and cross platform
The trouble with doing this in an artificial situation like an interview is that you're leaving the candidate to guess your purpose.

If they correctly guess that what you mean is "please engage in a simulation of a planning conversation, based on this arbitrary prompt", they'll do well.

But if they guess that you mean "please use this arbitrary prompt as an opportunity to demonstrate the depth of your technical knowledge", they'll do poorly (they're unlikely to ask clarifying questions, because that would look the same as stalling to disguise the shallowness of their knowledge).
Many people seem very keen on looking at the entire pipeline of EV, including mining the lithium and any other material, purifying the brine, etc, and also accounting how electricity is produced, making worst case assumption and so on. Which is a clearly acceptable viewpoint, to which I subscribe.

A few of those people, though, do not look at the ICE pipeline nearly as closely, and promptly forget how oil is extracted, refined and transported around the world.

The comparison should be fair.

Spoiler alert: Oil doesn't end up looking so nice.
There whole point was that's not off script but rather exactly what the whole "silence is violence" is.
Google is not the person who created the content you are consuming. That person or group of people gets nothing from viewers who "don't watch ads or pay a fee."
The China hypothetical is not really helpful, is it?

Because it didn't happen, people will just impose their own preconceptions on it.
The parent comment is saying that all cars, even ones that are small for cars, are unacceptably large. The implication of their conclusion is that they even think the same of bicycles and electric scooters, which, after all, still take space to park.

However I agree with the rest of your comment. My wife and I looked into plug-in hybrids (all the tax credit, none of the range anxiety) but there's no place to charge it so we just got a regular hybrid.
It's important to note that most popular 'sci-fi/futuristic' styles aren't based on any perceptual studies so may be quite bad choices from an artistic viewpoint of the UI itself. In particular, blue text on a dark background requires much more effort to read than white on dark.

Most of the design choices for UIs in movies are made to ensure they fit the overall aesthetic of the movie, and not because they are good user interface design.
>What other examples of laws outside of finance can you cite where individuals are restricted in order to protect them from other bad actors?

Pretty much any consumer safety or mandatory licensing law.

Even something as simple as buying a beer - we insist that legal adults are not allowed to buy a beer until they are older.

We insist that adults must be over 21 to buy a handgun in many states, or that (in other states) they must show that they are sophisticated gun owners by passing a firearms safety course.

We let people with special licenses and training (pharmacists) buy opiates openly, yet deny individuals the right to do so without receiving written permission.

We don't allow non-specialists to buy certain kinds of explosives, but we allow others with credentials to do so. The same applies to all kinds of things, up to and including varieties of river frogs (!).

We insist on documented "informed consent" for things like surgery, again to protect vulnerable people from bad actors.

We don't let adults buy many kind of fireworks out of fear that they will harm themselves or others, yet if someone can prove (through obtaining a license) that they are competent, we let them buy and fire huge commercial fireworks.

In short: there are an enormous number of similar restrictions. A lot of them exist because the previous state (no law) caused enough damage that restrictions were added.
What changes are being made in iOS 14 that are so impactful to FB's business?
VK is the Russian "social media and social networking service" so it tracks that there would be a lot of images, frightening as they may be.
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Advertisers are willing to pay way more for targeted ads. If an app is relying on advertising revenue, the inability to target ads will directly cause the app to generate less revenue.
Correct. And there is technically an audit for options trading that says you need to understand how they work before a broker lets you use it. Honestly, options trading is not exactly easy to understand to the lay person and there are generally limits on how much you can lever in them.
High Times (the weed mag, now media company) is doing a pretty visible RegA+ for anyone interested to see what that (mess?) looks like.
How will it burn WRT rioting? Its a serious danger in Portland.
Exactly. Work or die isn't a choice, its a threat.
Tests took work to produce and provide some sort of information.

It seems foolhardy to start off a process by throwing away information which could inform it.

Not having tests which cover the implementation makes refactoring impossible if the goal of refactoring is to preserve certain salient aspects of the implementation, rather than uproot it entirely.

Why not just start refactoring first. Then see what breaks, and then decide on a case-by-cases who wins: do you keep the refactoring which broke the test, and delete the test? Or do you back out that aspect of the refactoring.
The shortcoming of the AirNow data is the sparse sampling. If you search for your city you can see the caveat underneath with something like "AnyTown Reporting Area". When you look at the sensor coverage it's much more sparse than the corresponding PurpleAir sensor coverage.

There's also the fire map that includes both public and private sensors, the regular interactive map I don't believe uses all the available sensors.
https://fire.airnow.gov/
> Notice: The Sensor Data Pilot adds a new layer of air quality data from low-cost sensors.
My big issue with MongoDB is similar to this Potts quote

“I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.”

MongoDB works fine in niche situations of trying to store large blobs of JSON with extremely different elements. But for the vast majority of cases, data is highly relational. So Mongo is just a crutch that companies like because of the lower skill ceiling. Most of these startups can't be bothered to pay high enough to recruit people who payed attention during their databases lecture. In the long run, it just creates a jumbled mess of db code.
Honestly I've listened to it for years, I had no idea there was a longer version... That's awesome, thanks for sharing.
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Mauritius wants a word with you. :)

And there’s been a movie made on this little BP incident:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

Thats just two out of many.

Honestly, IMO, the “entire pipeline” puts EV so far ahead it’s ridiculous.

Without talking about what the ICE exhaust pollution is doing to the bodies and brains of people in dense urban environments.
How are fuel taxes there and do EVs have an equivalent tax?

Ideally we'd just move to a carbon tax, to punish EVs a little bit and ICEs a ton, but I suspect that governments are going to aggressively pursue taxing EV miles in the near future once penetration hits double digits.
There's a strong financial incentive for the market to lobby for regulations that reduces the amount of competition it experiences when making investments. Keeping out mom and pop investors until you've extracted most of the growth is a very effective strategy to keep prices for good investments down.
So won’t the same people be screaming if Apple puts too tight of restrictions on a third party App Store? If Apple has to approve third party app stores, would people be happy?
The online ads business is collapsing. I predicted that some years ago and now the first signs become visible. First data collecting will be come harder and harder because people simply don't want that anymore. Then if targeted ads are no longer possible we have a level playing field again where everyone can deliver ads not just the big players. And finally if ads do no longer pay for everything on the net we will finally put a piece tag on commercial stuff.
DHH/Test_induced_design_damage.rb
The user exists to promote this site. The author of this site admits they have no expertise. This and previous posts make hyperbolic claims with little to no evidence.
In the city I live in (somewhere in Europe), there are no such restrictions. Every time someone sells their house they split the terrain in two and rebuild because it's more advantageous price wise. As a result terrains got smaller and smaller, we used to have a beautiful city with old buildings, tons of trees, large gardens, a really calm and safe place to raise a family, now it looks like shit and crime has gotten out of control. Now they're building towers downtown for low income housing.
Not a fun experience if you've built your life with your family there.
Good UX costs money and there's no incentive to improve it since the people who buy it don't use it.
European roaming is very different from “global messaging”. I assume you were trying to reply to the same person, not me. I don’t need global messaging either.

Also FYI it’s 4gb. I know because I just ran out of it.
This is neat, although I hate how contemporary UI libraries or pages often miss basic features I had in my old favorites, such as being able to adjust splitters.
Little known fact: Albert Einstein and Leo Szillard worked on refrigerator designs in the early 30s. They didn't find commercial success but the designs are revisited occasionally. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator)

(Leo Szillard conceived of chain nuclear reaction few years later and this friendship with Einstein allowed him to indirectly petition Roosevelt to start the Manhattan Project.)
I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?
Not so. Lumber costs have nearly doubled this last month for my shed manufacturing business, likely due to demand in the home construction market.

An 8' 2x4 is currently $5.32, whereas it was $3.12 in July (at Menards in Kearney, Nebraska).
> But they really did.

No they didn't. Choosing whether there is a walled store and choosing what gets into the store are two different things. And on top of that, you didn't even get the first choice independent of a hundred other variables like hardware, operating system, app availability, the network effect of peers with iMessage etc.

To really drive this home, keep in mind that the same argument could be applied to giving Comcast control over which websites and video streaming services you can use. If you don't like it, just choose to move out of their service area. So if you choose to subscribe to Comcast then you must want that, right?

> They didn't ask me to ratify their agenda, but they did require me to pay dues!

Actually they did. Union members get to elect the union leadership. Apple customers don't get to elect the Apple leadership. And if a union set your union dues at 30% of your salary, how long do you think it would take for them to get voted out?
We’ve sacrificed a lot of jobs for ideals across human history, and I’m totally okay with that.
YouTube doesn't care about that.
Public shaming of a developer is rarely the right thing to do–and I would expect most design paradigms do not include a section on it ;)
Ah yes, Joe Schmoe's One Weekend Online "Executive" MBA, no GED required.
SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA
Anatomy of a B2B Customer Interview Script
MIT CSAIL Model Identifies Manipulations Using Local Artifacts
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-14-privacy/

Facebook is getting scared of the prompt (shown by Apple) saying FB will track you, and whether you would like to opt-out. More importantly, they are putting the opt-opt right below the opt-in (yayyy!)

Almost every app will have to ask this kinda prompt now. Not just FB.

Good move by Apple
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It's my phone, not the developer's. I should absolutely have the right to disable this kind of tracking on my phone. If the advertisers/ developers want to track people, maybe they should start buying people phones or do what Google did and build an OS and give it away.
> "how do I know that this thing actually works?"

Agreed, but how do you know your test tests this? Or to re-phrase it: why would you even write a test that doesn't test this?
Ask HN: How do you keep mindful with YouTube?
I'm trying to figure out how to keep mindful in how I spend my time and I can't figure out how to deal with Youtube. With many potential distractions, it's very easy to just block them completely, e.g. getting rid of Instagram/Facebook. But I can't easily block Youtube, because it's often a great educational resource for many things. Unlike many other social media, it can actually be useful and beneficial. That said, I find it really hard to keep mindful when watching it and to not fall into 1 hour of watching random stuff after spending 10 minutes on watching the thing I want to watch. What's your way of dealing with this?