skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you cant use 5 seconds of any music without permission but the internet is trying to sell my long dead mum underware multiple times per day.

i cant wait for this industry to be abolished. right now is better than next week.
> Are Google products getting worse?

Yes. But _why_ is a better question. I'd attribute it to their killing off their best products [0], but they even slow down the products they have [1].

Also - why would you keep using their products given that it's common knowledge that Google is anti-consumer in practice? The days of "don't be evil" are unfortunately behind us.

[0]: https://gcemetery.co/

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_a...
Anti-aging: oxygen therapy increases telomere length by up to 20%
> I'm anxious for the month I can't find any new social platforms.

I doubt that'll be an issue for some time, there are so many startups out there either trying to be the next big one or specifically to address the needs of a niche set of users.

Once the project hits a certain level of public awareness new social projects will be contacting the author to ask to be included, there will be no "looking for them" involved (though perhaps some due diligence checking to make sure the platform isn't in some way a project they'd rather not be associated with).
Changing a default isn't banning a word.

The conference was called NIPS. It's slang for nipples and a racial slur. It isn't like everyone was mature about it. There was an unofficial event called TITS. People wore shirts proclaiming "my NIPS are NP hard". Funny but hardly professional.
Boeing's 737 Max gets FAA approval to fly passengers again
Sweeney has a net worth north of 5 billion dollars.

Most of that comes from selling in-game currency to children.

He wants a higher cut.

Does that make him greedy?
Thanks for the added context! That makes sense. I've debugged one or two hastily-assembled marketing sites in my time and I've seen some atrocious practices along these lines. At one time you could charitably write it off as maximizing browser support, but much of it can't really be explained that way anymore. It's a shame that sites like these drag down the web experience as a whole.
Interesting, I found the author so off-putting I didn't make it more than 50 pages. I'll have to try again based on all these +1s.
Still sad to find that none of the "infinite canvas" things correctly handles the various touch events. Some handle two-finger pinch zooming well. I've yet to see any which properly handle two-finger panning (H and V). Breaks my expectations every time I encounter it.
As a hiring manager, this program seemed pretty sketchy from a legal perspective. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that interns need to be paid for their work if they're working on projects that have some commercial interest attached.

Austen DMed me about this on twitter a while back (presumably in search of pilot organizations to work with Fellows), and my response was this:

> I am reasonably sure that’s not legal if they’re working on “real” client work since at that point, the company would be the primary beneficiary of that person labor. The DoL fact sheet doesn’t make it entirely clear (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/whdf...), but HLR’s article about Glatt v Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc summarizes it well (https://harvardlawreview.org/2016/02/glatt-v-fox-searchlight...).

I know there are some Lambda folks around in this thread. Have you done any legal vetting or anything along those lines? I like the idea, and I think it's worthwhile, but I'm not interested if it means putting the company at risk.
More like "UI design for web developers"
Apple has bought off small App vendors in order to protect the 30% rake they take from the big sellers: That you’re happy with the change is not exactly surprising is it? Who wouldn’t be happy being told they’re getting a 21% revenue increase for nothing!

Meanwhile, Apple continues to use their dominant position to extract 30% of the revenue of the most profitable Apps, whilst people like you go out to bat for them. Must be great to be in Apple PR :)
I won't hang in there cunt
>A "retired people child care corps" would be a nice thing to try.

I don't see how we can - liability. While older means wiser, it doesn't necessarily mean safer. We can offset the risk a lot by mandating minimum 2, non-related caregivers. In families, however, the vetting is so much more complete.

Regardless, I genuinely like and appreciate that line of thinking.
The Pfizer press release reported a week (or so) ago said the vaccine was "over 90% effective" in the preliminary data. They did not explicitly say the vaccine was 90.000% effective.
Unity is a bit like this too, they force you to upgrade from Plus to Pro if your previous year's revenue exceeded $200k.
It's not a contradiction to say both "sideloading makes banning from the the Play Store less of an issue" and "it's better to be on the Play Store".
The problem (IMO) is a growing distrust of Person B, because that guy keeps policing everything and everyone such that he appears to be using Person C's {race,sex,etc} to prop up and brandish his own moral authority in a way that Person C finds to be annoying and perhaps even actually offensive. Person B doesn't even care about the real issues affecting Person C or even the collective as a whole, and every time these issues are talked about Person B interrupts to speak on behalf of Person C or perhaps even accusing Person A (or whomever) of racism/sexism/etc for bringing up these issues which distract from Person B's personal crusade with respect to Person C's identity. By all appearances, Person B isn't acting in good faith, and his behavior in aggregate is causing a lot of problems and certainly isn't advancing his purported goal of "promoting a welcoming environment".
Well, us peaked because it’s a developed country.

You cannot require a developing country to reach peak at the same time as the developed one, can you?

Also, please consider the per capita number as well

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS768US768&hl=en...

Everyone deserve the good life enjoyed by anyone else. Unless China is 4x of us emissions, I would not consider them less responsible than the world leader.

Look at US track record in the past four years in climate control, and think about how US can lead instead of excusing for its own slack...
Let's agree to disagree. Imo it is very much comparable from a negotiation power point. The fact that it is not something you can change easily is orthogonal. If you want to be pedantic you can use religion as an example.
Spirit – A Configuration Manager for Rust
Almost no one buys milk at retail from farmers. We buy milk at retail from stores, which set their own market-based prices.
They do have Wacom pen inputs, plus a normal capacitive touchscreen, and are also compatible with third party pens.

I haven't inquired about GPL compliance.
It sounds like BioNTech did all the development work on the vaccine, but Pfizer funded the actual creation of the vaccine and runs the trials/logistics/finances/business stuff (considering how temperature-sensitive this is, logistics have to be fairly painful). Both should probably be credited (as they are in this article).
I think there's a big gulf between Minecraft, Roblox, Facetime and even Youtube when compared to TikTok/Snapchat/Facebook.

Not all screen time is created equal, and there are any number of ways for a child to be creative and learn and socialise in the digital world as suppose to the physical one.

The social networks are a bit different. What value is a child getting from them that they wouldn't get from a WhatsApp group? As other commenters have pointed out, these big platforms are engineered to the last detail to 'increase engagement'. To put it another way - they are purposefully addictive and I don't see the value that might make that worthwhile.
There is also a thread above with source links of him saying "it's not unlikely at all" it was influenced by Bitkeeper and he's "wished many times" he picked main instead.
In all seriousness, please enlighten me. Email isn't the best, but the other options are equally or more shit:

Slack, which has nonfunctional search and is miserable to navigate?

Github readmes?

Atlassian's wiki, which has even more broken search, and follows management's whims?

Google docs, which vary widely in format, is not easily searchable, and has no index?

Team documentation, which follows managements whims, gets moved around, deprecated and eventually stowed in unused lavatories?

Internal stackoverflow, which is piloted and then slowly abandoned after an intial big push my managers, who get promoted and then leave the company?

Facebook workplace, which suffers a similar fate to stackoverflow?

The problem is there is no global index or search- think Sourcegraph, and management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months.
Great. So if I kill someone on my walk to the public pool to save a drowning child I am not a murderer.
Indeed, the real value of the hamburger method seems to be in making it difficult for the recipient to engage in productive conversation about the negative feedback, which the giver may find difficult.
> How do you discourage companies from intentionally using these fellows to do "grunt" work?

Great question! A couple of ways:

- First off, we talk to them. We qualify every company through a conversation with the mentor, looking at the project the engineer will be working on, and assessing their onboarding process. It becomes pretty obvious when people just want "free work." We don't place Fellows at those companies.

- Our North Star for this program is delivering an amazing educational experience for the Fellow. Everything else is secondary. If a company is getting real work done that's valuable to them, that's great, as long as they're delivering on the educational experience for the Fellow. We have pulled Fellows off of projects where the company is not delivering on their end of the bargain.

- Finally, as you mentioned in your question "that isn't enough time to ramp up even a senior engineer to deliver a finished working product in that time." The 4 week timeframe naturally limits the usefulness for "free work." A company would have to be pretty desperate to try to get significant stuff shipped via rotating Fellows through. And companies like that would be found out pretty quickly via the above two points.

> A big reason that smaller companies don't have interns is because of the time suck in terms of ramp up and long term maintainability of the code.

Again, great point. Internships are not great, not because they _can't_ be great, but (I believe) because they haven't been thoughtfully designed to deliver valuable work, which it turns out, is also a superior learning experience.

Let's take your two points in order:

1. "the time suck in terms of ramp up" - We saw this as a problem from the start as well. To combat this, we built out a Mentor's Guide(https://www.notion.so/lambdaschool/Lambda-Fellows-Program-4c...) with checklists and docs that streamline the onboarding process. We've placed 40 Fellows at different companies over the past 8 weeks, and we see our average Fellow get their dev env set up by EOD 1, their first ticket pushed to prod by EOD 3, and a WIP pull request opened with the first part of their project by day 5 of week 1. It's amazing to see how quickly you can get to productive work with just a little intentional design.

2. "long term maintainability of the code" - This is exactly why we pair each of our Fellows with a single, dedicated Mentor at the host company. The Mentor is responsible for reviewing the Fellow's code, giving feedback, helping them get unblocked, guiding them towards the right type of solution, etc. This is not "hire some interns and stick them in a corner working on something semi-interesting." It's simultaneously a more involved process for the company, while also being more focused and valuable.

I hope that helps clear some things up!
I quite like my Likebook, but I have the Mars model which doesn't have a pen input.
Yes, but the difference is that as an adult you choose to be there. You can make arrangements that fit what you want. Kids don't have that option. They often don't even realize that they themselves might've put too much on their own plate and might not know how to handle it. They just don't burn out the same way adults do.

As an aside, if school was preparation for adult life then it really should teach you to drive, cook, and an understanding of the law. There are few things that school teaches that end up being more important than those for adults.
The App Store is a lot more than “payment processing.”

If you sell 100 installs on the App Store as a small developer. How many would you sell if there wasn’t an App Store? You’d have to advertise — people just don’t show up at your website. PPC is expensive. And you have to learn how to do it. It’s hard for someone that doesn’t spend their time learning about PPC. It’s hard to get good ROIs even when you do know what you are doing. If you spend $0.50 per click and you sell your app for $3, and you have a 25% conversion rate (which is extremely high,) how much did it cost you to get that sale?

Then once they do get to your website, they have to pay. Ok, 2.9% + $0.30. Now they have to securely download the app. Where is your app hosted? Apparently that’s free and doesn’t cost you anything? Who maintains that system? How pays for that electricity? And updates? And security? Apparently all of that is free and takes zero time?

Chargeback? Uh oh. That’s a $20 fee while you have to fight and document the dispute. Maybe that takes 20 minutes, but more like 45 minutes by the time you write the challenge letter. Digital products, especially games, have a high rate of fraud compared to many industries.

Then there are sales taxes. Are you collecting and remitting the precise amounts to the various jurisdictions where you are selling? How about a sales tax permit? Do you have that?

And trust? I’ll buy an App Store app, but installing an app from some random developer without any assurances I am not installing something nefarious?

If you sold 200 downloads from your website but 300 downloads from the App Store but pay the 15-30%. What makes you more money?

Have you ever sold a product to a retail store? A $10 product in a retail store is purchased from the manufacturer at $5. If there is a distributor involved, that $10 product is purchased from the manufacturer at $2.50. Physical products are obviously different than digital, but the product distribution model for any product has markup across the chain. A manufacturer selling DTC has to have the infrastructure to sell to consumers, thus they aren’t selling at $2.50 anymore. Shipping 100 cases of a product to a distributor is a lot less work than shipping that same volume to individual customers. If you think of the App Store as a distributor — 30% is a bargain.

I think that many app developers don’t realize what things actually cost — when they do, they’d quickly realize they make far more money from the App Store than they would make selling it directly.
Is it possible for you, without sharing personal details that you would rather not share, to give a more concrete and detailed account of the value that your therapist has provided to you?

I've also always regarded myself as introspective enough not to be able to benefit from therapy. And, while I'm open minded to the idea that I am wrong about that, I just have trouble imagining or envisioning what I might be missing.
Yet anóther win for the prétend war on drúgs!
Special attention must be given to evaluating the morality of prenatal diagnostic techniques which enable the early detection of possible anomalies in the unborn child. In view of the complexity of these techniques, an accurate and systematic moral judgment is necessary. When they do not involve disproportionate risks for the child and the mother, and are meant to make possible early therapy or even to favour a serene and informed acceptance of the child not yet born, these techniques are morally licit. But since the possibilities of prenatal therapy are today still limited, it not infrequently happens that these techniques are used with a eugenic intention which accepts selective abortion in order to prevent the birth of children affected by various types of anomalies. Such an attitude is shameful and utterly reprehensible, since it presumes to measure the value of a human life only within the parameters of "normality" and physical well-being, thus opening the way to legitimizing infanticide and euthanasia as well. And yet the courage and the serenity with which so many of our brothers and sisters suffering from serious disabilities lead their lives when they are shown acceptance and love bears eloquent witness to what gives authentic value to life, and makes it, even in difficult conditions, something precious for them and for others.
— John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 63

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...
I keep hearing "they make money on financing" but I don't see how that's possible. I've bought three new cars financed, and every time the finance person puts my info in and gets finance "offers" from 4-5 big banks plus their in-house financing, and just lets me pick the one with the best rate -- usually most of the finance offers are under 5%, with the best one being under 1%. One time I went to one of the offering banks directly and got a worse rate than they offered me through the dealer! Maybe they're making commission on the sale but it can't be much.
I’m not sure about the US, but in the UK you would have to be legally paid for this work.
That you care more about some mean words on the Internet than the actions of a man like Koch suggests maybe "persuading" people like you is a waste of time.
Show HN: A simple asset tracking app
> If it was trivial they would not bring Fortnite to Play Store at all, but they did.

I think you're taking "trivial" to mean "completely frictionless with no downsides" which is not the sense in which I intended it to be taken.

To quote myself above:

> It's not a contradiction to say both "sideloading makes banning from the the Play Store less of an issue" and "it's better to be on the Play Store".
In my opinion, Google Search is a shell of its former self and its results are becoming increasingly useless for me. It's like the switch to natural language search means that Google fixates on the most generic terms in my query and returns the most generic results - often shopping/blog-spam based. Adding insult to injury, advanced search methods don't seem to work anymore. I have little success when trying to be explicit with quotes and NOT operators. I also feel like I can't trust Google search results because they're trying to tailor them to what they think I want to see. It's troubling that when I tell someone to google something they probably won't be seeing the same results as I do.

And the worst part about this is the fact that other search engines are taking Google's lead and results from alternative engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo are also declining in utility. Does anyone know of a search engine that doesn't use natural language processing?
A good chair. If you're going to spend the next 30 years sitting 8-10 hours a day, do your body a favor and invest into a good chair.
My theory was that people who work in NYC commute via very crowded public transportation versus those on the west coast mostly driving alone to work. This gave a huge head start to the virus.
I think some of the replies that add "poorest" may have taken your comment too literally. Truly there is no greater treasure in the world than be able to spend that amount of time with your child. We have some neighbors who are not too well off that homeschool their kids, and they are the most engaged and loving family I know on our block. It makes me smile any time I see them interact.
Can we get a source on very little drug usage in China?

From what I've read over the years, there actually is notable drug use in China for instance among factory workers.[1][2][3]

Also I'm sure lots of people on HN who are more intimately familiar with the Tenderloin can opine better than I but from what I understand, drug usage in Tenderloin is more of a symptom - not the core problem. Similarly, the drugs being used openly in Tenderloin are not the ones that individuals normally tout as "mind expanding" or therapeutic.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30359871/
[2] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/26/c_138175718.htm
[3] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2015/0503/Break...
In your YouTube example there are are few people that have responsibilities:

- teacher

- video maker

- YouTube Devs

- companies

- "kids"

- individual

- school

- etc

YouTube (the drug) is just a series of instructions that make a slab of glass light up in a certain pattern and a speaker to oscillate in a particular fashion (depending on hardware).

It's an inanimate f----- object. It doesn't have "responsibilities".

That's the point I'm getting at. Why don't we, collectively, stop blaming the drugs/tech and start finding solutions to the actual problem?

It's easy to point the blame finger, it's harder to solve a problem.
First is to compare yourself to normal non-technical people. You know a lot more than a regular guy on the street, you are a completely specialist compared to them.

Secondly if you just different domains and languages over 20 years (like me) you probably aren't better than someone who has been doing one thing for 5 years. If you want to be like that guy, stick to one thing.
Same here, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 64gb.

I just realized I don't need that when I am seating in front of tv or while traveling, and as long as I can connect two external monitors to my laptop is enough.

Something "similar" to this in MacBook world is 4k, and you end up with a portable device with worst battery performance and always suffering that you are about to loose your life.

VS Code was definitely something that helped to decide for this configuration.
It looks like the subject has come up a couple times on the mailing list [1] [2], but in my (admittedly casual) searching I didn't find anything since 2017, with the most relevant answer being "not at the moment". Since it has been a couple years, maybe it's worth bringing up again on the mailing list?

[1] https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/standardebooks/c/JdVpCm3ckGg...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/osOEfs5HdLo/m/2...
i completely agree with that sentiment. even if the audience is familiar, acronyms and abbreviations put a cost on the listener/reader to "unzip" them. in code, in meetings, in communication generally, the priority should be on comprehensibility to the reader/listener, not the convenience of the writer/speaker. we read code at least 10x more than we write it. in a meeting, one person speaks and many people listen.
1 I’m sorry about your attempted suicide and I hope you’re ok now. 2 We are not that strict, my kids have limits but they are known and they know what happens if they break the rules. But you are right there is a balance and this parent seems to not be balanced at all and they’re blaming the phone. She said her daughter wore her down and she caved and allowed her TikTok—I’m sorry but as a parent that is on her. Limits do need to grow and change as the kid gets older but unfettered access to everything at 11 is not the phones fault.
Fully agree. There are therapists who also do coaching.
Uncle Bobs Clean Code class. In person class over 2 days, shredded a lot of bad habits I had.
I genuinely hope you die
I don't see any dilemma. Doing a simple thing can save lives. Why wouldn't you?
Learning to take a critique is the number one skill for someone out of art school. I wish that skill were more broadly taught.
I mean, as far as Apple computers go... yeah, these are absolutely entry level. And $700 (new M1 Mac Mini starting price) is really pretty reasonable even compared to other options, honestly.