skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me about it. My company gave everyone a Doordash gift card because we normally do quarterly meetings with a catered lunch, and it was $55 for 2 drinks, two burgers and 1 fry from Five Guys. Plus it took over an hour for it to be delivered.
Do you have any resources or examples you recommend for this? My front-end knowledge is over a decade old. I would still be assigning all these colours individually in CSS!
Yes, at least for me. I use it as handy / always accessible notes for future self. Usually I end up with 'what was I thinking back then?'.
I prefer smaller stores. Probably not going to miss them. If I can't get something local, for some reason Sweetwater has been my go-to for the last 20 years.

What I don't understand is "filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy" == "Guitar Center, which owns nearly 300 stores across the country, said business operations will continue without any interruption."

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Nope, Vivaldi.
> unless the system reliably impoverishes the idiot children of the wealthy

While I agree that the idiot children of the wealthy should not get to wield any significant influence on the society, "impoverishing them" doesn't seem like the right goal, since that might provoke a reaction from their wealthy parents who are driven, connected and talented. Rather, such idiots should be managed out on a safe landing, where they don't influence society at all but their parents are still not worried about their future.
The flip side is, if you’re indenting you’re code anyway, as you probably should, then you might as well combine the style and meaning.

It works in practice, same difference to me tbh.
SF politicians and the voters who keep them in office have "ruined" SF in the sense of driving up housing costs by restricting supply, and failing to build adequate transportation infrastructure expeditiously: https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget or https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/, to cite two examples.

Any time SF wants, it can allow the supply of housing to rise to meet demand, which will drastically improve the city's culture, diversity, and affordability. SF voters don't want that, though, and they've not yet been overruled at the state level.

Let's get the diagnosis right first.
The companies hosting an intern pay Ada Academy a fee. Those fees support their program, including the stipend they pay students while they're in the classroom and internship parts of the program.
WHO: Lockdowns wouldn't be needed if mask use reached 95 percent
They had a very strong engineering mindset - how many times have you seen in HN about how someone can write an Uber in a few weekends and literally replace Uber. We tend to think it's about the codebase, but it's not. The market position isn't gained by writing a loop and displaying content you're storing. It's literally 0.00001% of the total cost of acquiring customers.
>while the silent (conservatives) are silent because they don't seem to care as much.

Most of the conservatives I know are silent because they are busy. Busy raising and teaching their kids. Busy taking care of their property. Busy making their own life better. It doesn't mean that they don't care. They just believe that each person should be first and foremost responsible for their own well-being. If someone asks for help with a specific quantifiable problem, they will gladly help.

Most vocal liberals, on the contrary, are priced out of having a large enough property to take care of, or a large family that takes a lot of energy. Because they have extra time and energy, they tend to spend it on the causes that the media presents to them as important. Note that their salary expectations will be lower, compared to conservatives, since family, property and retirement plans are one's biggest expenses. I would dare say many of them feel jealous towards the conservatives and believe they got an unfair advantage.

In short-term, it's beneficial for companies to support political activism, because it keeps the employees busy with projects that don't increase their monetary demands. In long term, this ends up with tribalism, where people spend most of their energy attacking their peers over growing number of differences.
Plenty of companies reject a large portion of their DMCA complaints that they believe don't represent infringement. Look through some transparency reports.

In the absence of the safe harbor, companies would be taking down far more content, not less.

Same if section 230 was narrowed.

Can you propose an actual law that you believe would be constitutional and would have the effect you're claiming?
Maybe there should have been a unified api for things people have been wanting to do for 30 years instead of people figuring them out 12 years into development.
lots of things can be said when prefaced with, "if everyone would just...". i'm more concerned with reality.
Is it that they're conservative, or that they know how their ideas will be received?

I've seen conservatives support things like trans rights, marriage equality, antifascism/antifa, and Black Lives Matter from conservative first principles. They would say the same about not feeling like they can share their views in places where a certain kind of conservatism is rampant.

Bigotry is not something inherent to conservative values.
You can also try this: https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing
If people rely on food stamps to eat and you cut food stamps, what happens?
Everyone is so focused on making money that they're missing the foundations of that money-making collapsing underneath them. When the society no longer operates on rule-of-law, and people are impoverished, there is no market anymore.
> I don't know if you could even use Netflix CDN tricks since their content keeps changing constantly.

Netflix CDN tricks like preloading content during non-peak hours probably doesn't work for YouTube; afaik, they don't have the same sorts of content available before publication date.

However, Google has a CDN appliance program too, and read-through caching works pretty well.
Hey, some of us old-timers fondly remember the natural warmth, presence, and low syscall latency of operating systems booted from vinyl.
I think you are highlighting the main issue- either these companies like Shimano are subsidizing artificially low prices abroad with US MAP/wholesale prices or they are behaving in a dealer hostile manner. The net result is US brick and mortar retailers are screwed.
Hahaha guilty as charged, and now I'm outside the HN editing limits. That's what happens when you try to type at the speed of thought. Serves me right, I guess.
Ha, indeed. I had no need to use it with either, so I didn't bother to check. MSVC was the compiler.
Best feature of BBS software (WWIV, Telegard, etc.) - the "fake line noise" button, which feigned data corruption as if someone picked up the phone. It displayed garbage characters to the logged in user, and then you could disconnect them.
Politics not software is eating the world.

I will never turn my company into a political cause.

I don't care what the cost is and my guess is that in February next year companies will realize that this is a bad move as their sworn enemy the big bad orange man is gone and all they can now do is turn on each other and they will finally start eating their own.
If Youtube was profitable I think Google would have broke out its earning. If it isn't profitable now how is it going to profitable in the future and if it is how profitable will it be? Will it have have 90% margins? Same with netflix. These aren't software companies they are television companies, but with software company like valuations.
Twitter and Zendesk and more have volunteering cultures and do their best to support the community. Nobody cares, except to criticize them as being insufficiently charitable when it happens to be noticed. I think Benioff gets a pass not because he visibly cares, but because he's got that local boy made good story.

Being a good neighbor in SF (or any other city in the inner Bay) is next to impossible. Anything that happens becomes your fault no matter how unrelated you are, even if it's fully self-inflicted. Like the tower, MUNIserable buses, or the housing shortage. Or SF General's billing practices, blamed on Zuckerberg after he gave... I don't even remember how many millions.

I've struggled to care about being kind to, and contributing to, a community that seems to not want me. There is, as far as I can tell, nothing I can do to gain welcome. The best I can hope for is a grudging sufferance, so long as I hate myself enough for being the wrong kind of different.

And why should I care about a community that refuses to grant me membership? Whose life will be improved by my misery? Will I be thanked and appreciated for my generosity and sacrifice, or just attacked for not giving more?
I started to feel bad (for making fun of someone who might be having mental problems) but then I realized that being CEO of Soylent is consistent with my mental model of him as a brilliant performance artist/comedian.

(If he breaks character now he could be liable for some lawsuits, I imagine, so we may never know.)
No one.

I'll shame everyone who tips less than 30% with the usual arguments. You can google those arguments; it's something like they don't make enough money and etc.

In reality, I tip only 15%. For delivery, I don't tip if there's already a service fee. I only tip because I'm scared I'll be assaulted. Yes, some people got assaulted (or verbally assaulted) because the tip less.

Also, I don't tip if I won't see that person in real life.

That's how tipping percentage is determined. The person who screams the loudest win. It's stupid.
Maybe the fact that EU has VAT? The final consumer price might be the same in US and EU but manufacturer can charge US retailers more because the sales tax is small compared to VAT.
I agree with your skepticism of referendums, because they do seem to be influenced more by cultural battles than policy outcomes. But I don't follow the connection you're drawing. If survey polls both before and after the election showed a different result, that just indicates the survey polls were flawed - any opinion changes Cambridge Analytica was able to create should be present both in survey polls and the election result.
Is the second sentence that starts with “The latter” a typo for “The former”? Or am I misunderstanding the paragraph?

>>There has been an attempt ongoing for some time to harness the respectability of science and conflate it with an increasingly popular philosophy known as scientism. But scientism and science are different things. The latter is a powerful method of obtaining and applying material facts and information. The latter creates a subjective world view using the pretense that science has the capacity to tell us objectively right from wrong, the ethical from the unethical, best from worst, etc..
GC owns musician's friend, fwiw
I came at this the other way. KnR was my first real book about programming. Next were Bentley. Most O'Reilly and like books are overly wordy and don't get to the meat of the issue for me.

I don't think KnR will make you a much better engineer. But it will give you a really strong boost into being a reasonable c programmer. And it does that well because it focuses on that.
Reflections on Having a Bad Idea
There's a video of it playing at the bottom of the article.
That's interesting, and after investigating it seems this is true. I'm sure my recollection is correct, which means the recruiter with whom I spoke was perhaps misleading me, whether purposely or not.
Not three middlemen in every transaction. At most two. Everyone needs ~30% cut. 1.3 * 1.3 * 1.3 = 2.2
So does this mean you are effectively writing OCaml-looking erlang? meaning, you are using Erlang libraries (not OCaml libs) to perform any IO or iterate over a list?

Where does OCaml end and Erlang begin?
> Yes, but it is worth pointing out that COVID is killing already-sick businesses.

100% agreed. I should have written that COVID-19 has been a killing blow for many already-sick companies.

Still, if you're running a distressed company, your attitude must be, "we are not dead until we're dead." Channel your inner Dylan Thomas and rage against the dying of the light.

I have a mid-60s relative who teaches music privately, via Zoom. Her business is more active now than it was when she was teaching in person, due to fewer costs for transportation and less downtime between lessons. I'm not sure how sustainable that surge in activity will prove to be, but she has at times asked me to help her buy musical instruments online for new students. It's anecdotal evidence that suggests music education isn't going away just because brick-and-mortar retail is under pressure.

School closures aside: if someone is going to sell guitars and drum kits, why can't it be Guitar Center?

Amazon has put retailers in the position where they have to compete on price, information, ease of returns, and shipping speed. A dedicated retailer (music store vs general store) should be better at competing on price and information. A local store should be better at competing on ease of returns and shipping speed.
> When conservatives listen to politically-left company seminars, see liberal company statements, etc - they mostly just ignore and move on with their day.

Trump signed an executive order banning the government from doing business with vendors that do racial sensitivity training.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/22/915843471/trump-expands-ban-o...
Just want to add that parents play a major role. My parents, being highly educated and well off financially themselves, put enormous pressure on us to do well in school. We grew up with the idea that nothing surpasses the importance of performance in school. No (or little parties), no clubbing, no going out, we sacrificed our teenage years studying and as a result, that hard sacrifice paid out. It seems to me that the huge sacrifices we made are not accounted for at all (as if they don't exist) and the article only focuses on the parents financial status as a driver of success when in reality, talking with many or these students, is not the major driving factor, but the family culture and pressure from parents to perform in academia.
Doordash can take an arbitrarily small amount, since their marginal cost per sale is very small. And restaurants and drivers both get paid in existing models of delivery food, which work fine.
Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin's latest bubble?
Show HN: Native YouTube App for macOS with Pip, Built-In Ad Blocker, and More
You can use Wine to play a lot of games on Linux. Good luck doing that on macOS due to their refusal to support Vulkan and 32-bit. macOS doesn't offer any benefits in comparison with Linux, only disadvantages.
It sounds like the majority of that rate is for knowing how to navigate an organization still using cobol. A fortune 50 using such a system as its backbone may be less cost sensitive than a FANG with only a small number of engineers responsible for holding the whole thing up.
It's a number of different things that contribute:

- It's common for global manufacturers to sell products at different prices depending on regional market conditions. So EU distributers may get better pricing than US distributers.

- Some retailers may be able to purchase products cheaper because of volume or preferential relationship.

- Most commonly, the products beings old are actually OEM products originally sold at a significant discount to a bike brand (who have massive minimums, arbitrary product mix requirements - think a mountain bike brand buying road parts because that's the "package" Shimano sells to get favorable pricing, and big incentives to prevent them from purchasing from SRAM or some other parts manufacturer). The bike brand takes its excess parts and sells them "under the table" to a retail outlet (that they may have actually discretely partnered with at the outset).

My opinion is that yes, Shimano, specifically, doesn't care about brick and mortar retailers. Shimano considers it a relic of the past and are partially unaware (or apathetic) of the reality that their actions and distribution model is accelerating the death of the brick and mortar shops. That said, Shimano USA might care about US brick-and-mortar retailers, but they don't have enough influence to prevent Shimano Global (Japan) to affect any real change.

Shimano has seen steady growth, so they have no incentive to change. But that growth has been at the expense of the very partners that played a significant role in helping them gain market dominance.

I'm generally of the opinion that, at least in the bike industry, the shops and online outlets selling massive volume at discount aren't really in any better financial shape than their mom and pop competitors. When I first got into the industry I was regaled with stories of success of competitors like The Clymb and how they were 'killing it'. Turns out, the only thing they were killing was themselves. The Clymb, despite assurances of their brilliance, sold back in 2015 for $100,000 despite millions and millions in sales (the buyer assumed 18.5MM in debt) - https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2016/01/the_clymb_...
I clicked on this expecting it to be yet another reductive view point over-indexed on one particular aspect of a narrowly defined role, however I was pleasantly surprised that it does a pretty good job highlighting the nuance and context that plays into making good product decisions.

A lot of people (maybe most people?) want a playbook and roadmap for how to do their job. For a PM it might be: identify a problem based on data or customer feedback, conduct user research, ideate with design, get input from external stakeholders, build with engineering, run an A/B test and rollout successful variant. All of these things may be necessary activities in different contexts, but it's also very easy to lose the forest for the trees. The bigger and more complex a company gets, the easier it is to get lost in the process and over-index on the wrong details. I can't count the number of times I've heard lip-service played to "being data-driven" as an excuse to avoid tackling the bigger but less quantifiable problems of how a product is failing to meets its customers' high-level needs.
I'm not so sure. About ISA there is this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24958423
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A single second is a very small amount of time, but in a race it can be the difference between winning and losing. When you're in a competition with a thousand other people whose scores are almost the same as yours, 30 points can be huge.

And it should be noted that they changed the tests before these studies too.

> Many of the key studies of coaching effects were based on kids who took the SAT or ACT in the 1990s and 2000s, Briggs told me. The tests have since been changed a fair amount, in an effort to make them more like statewide achievement tests and to minimize their similarity to intelligence tests.
There should be a topic-specific analogue of Toastmasters and it shouldn't urge you to exude false confidence.
That's kind of my (counter)point.
I think the biggest reason for a blog is to exercise your writing and thinking skills. Getting your ideas on paper really help clarify your thinking. I am doing that with my blog (https://www.virtuwise.com) and hoping to increase my output in 2021. Writing more long-form content. Consistency is key for sure :)
Door Dash? You mean the company that takes 30% on top of the driver fees and delivery fee?

That company?

The company that, when you call restaurants, they’ll ask you not to use because it’s so expensive for them that they’re losing money on the already thin margins of food sales?

That one can scale?

I believe it can scale, sure. But some company that only takes 5-10% cut will some day eat its lunch, I hope.

I like reasonably priced food.
Building a Site in Swift with Publish
I was about to ask if it was legal to dereference a null pointer and then take the address of it... I presume it is not, but I'm surprised compilers don't complain at compilation time.
Hi HN!

Drew here, founder of DBK Labs, with an exciting announcement - we are launching a YouTube app for macOS! Clicker for YouTube is a standalone macOS app designed with the goal of creating the best YouTube experience possible on a Mac.

Here's a rundown of the top features:

Launch YouTube right from your Dock
Picture-in-Picture w/ custom video controls
Built-in ad blocker
Like/Dislike and toggle Autoplay from the Touch Bar
Sleep timer w/ auto-shut off
Native push notifications
Quick access to subscriptions from the Menu Bar
 Native macOS design language
Truly Full Screen Browsing
Upload video from within the app
Auto-switch to Dark Mode
Written in Swift for great performance

My favorite feature personally is the sleep timer, which allows you to set your computer to go to sleep after 30 minutes (or whatever duration you select). This lets me fall asleep to YouTube on autoplay without worrying about my battery dying in the middle of the night!

To celebrate the launch, I wanted to give you a special launch discount - for the next 24 hours, you can get the new app for only $3.99 with code LAUNCHPROMO20 at checkout ($4 off retail!). There is also a free 7-day trial of the app if you want to try it out first :)

I hope you are staying safe during these difficult times and if you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them in the comments below.

Best,
Drew Koch, Founder, DBK Labs LLC

P.S. Yes, it does work on Big Sur and yes, it can stream at up to 8K HDR!
yeah, probably not the best choice in word sorry
True, I meant that they had to deal with all these rude customers so it just becomes a pattern.

It's not good to generalize, I concede.
There is only the one middleman, DoorDash, in two separate but related transactions. The restaurant is the company making the food for the customer, and the delivery person is the person delivering the food for the restaurant.

DoorDash doesn't provide any food-related service except being in between the restaurant/customer and the restaurant/delivery person.
Thanks for this comment. Very interesting.

I think Wiggle and Chain Reaction have now merged, but both are struggling.

I was wondering if you could explain why bike components are so expensive in the first place? For example, why can a bicycle, which is mechanically quite simple, cost as much as a motorbike or small car? Is this a patent situation?
I'm pretty sure the digital + cooking space is huge, just look at the recipe sites, these are huge simply because there is a lot of demand, and therefore advertising

It could be doing your own Youtube channel, a website to order "cooking kits" for meals, an app to request a chef to your place when you want to do a dinner at home
Well, if that page is accurate, it paints a depressing picture for the competition.

The CPUs listed in those laptops? Either the same or a slower version of the processors used in the Macbook. You know, that fanless 12 inch Intel thing which everyone complained about because it was too slow (and the keyboard was the worst butterfly one ever made, but.)

Taken with the grain of salt as they ought to be, the Geekbench score for the M1 Air is 2.3 times higher single-core, 4.9 times higher multi-core than the most expensive MacBook with a i7-7Y75, one of the "Kaby Lake Core Y"s in that list.

The only newer processor there is from 8th gen Amber Lake, which seems to be the only newer "fanless" CPU from Intel.

(the 9th gen "Y" designs were, apparently, only ever used in the (fan-including) 2020 macbook air)
Do I get it correctly that the only reason for the kernel module is to be able to show GUI popup live when an app accesses the network for the first time? Because otherwise I believe it's easier to mark the packets with selinux and then filter them with netfilter.
Good watch, I own one. But recently I started to wear fitness band instead.