skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the sad result of contributing to rent inflating well beyond peoples' means. We are in the midst of a pretty grim housing crisis. Almost 70k homeless in LA. This doesn't make anyone involved a bad person, but we must recognize how this company has contributed to a structural crisis. Can't say I know the solution myself, but.
Fast Feedback Pyramid
Much like a testing pyramid, a fast feedback pyramid will surface the frequent problems fastest and the rarest (hardest to catch) problems later.
A quick check didn't lead me to a single reproducible iOS app. What are you currently using?
Torrents!
I pay $38/mo for 50mbps in Redmond, WA. I've never felt like I needed more, wife and I stream netflix, I download stuff occasionally. it's reliability and latency that matter more to me for sure.
Huh, that was one of their original pitches, but I guess they changed their implementation at some point

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...
So you have to pay for the hardware, and to access all the data generated by the hardware you then need to pay a service fee.
Just don't go all-in on them at all unless you're spending someone else's money.
The GGstack Google Sheets + Gumroad
There was a time when Java was a niche language for web applets. There was a time when Python was a niche language you tossed into your "real" program so users could extend it. There was a time when C was a niche language for Unix development. Likewise C++ was this niche object oriented thing that didn't even compile to object code... it compled to C.

And developers would look at the niche language devs and go, why write in C? I have my COBOL and most production code is written with it. Java? Why? I have Powerbuilder and Delphi.
Most of the developers with any new language are creating CRUD apps, because well, that's what most computer programs do.
This is not a social network. It's a way to deliver content.
In the early 2010s, I used to be an Couchsurfing user - as a host, guest, and even just meetups for tours/recs while traveling internationally.

> After all, why do something for free when you could get paid instead?

I really doubt the Couchsurfers were the ones who were converting their listings to Airbnb spots initially. Rather I think Airbnb enabled previously unwilling (or unmotivated) people to start hosting others for a cost.

The type of people I would meet were from a different cut of cloth than Airbnb folks. One picked up my friend and I from a Megabus stop and later we ended up going to our host's second home on Martha's Vineyard. One let us try out his expensive cycling bike out for a bike ride. I've attended a yoga session with my Couchsurfing host before on a trip. When I hosted, I took my guest (a cadet at West Point who hadn't had drinks in forever) on a spontaneous bar hop with my group if friends.

There was always a mentality of paying a good experience forward and a sense of community - which is tough to preserve when it becomes a transactional experience.

That being said, I agree Airbnb likely led to the downfall of the CS community. There were some sketchy ppl in that world. After running into one of those, I slowly found myself preferring to pay for the security and safety although deep down I knew I was going to miss out on all the fun that I couldn't simply pay for. As for hosting, I just wasn't interested anymore knowing that if someone were paying to crash at my place, it would be less about hanging out or getting recs but more about just needing a reliable roof to cover... where's the fun in that for a host?
That's why I prefer to use the term "incompetents". Incumbents are always incompetent. We need to merge these two words.
"Today they’re against it for political reasons"

Actually it is for a much more worrisome reason: religious fanaticism and theocracy.

Turkey is quickly becoming the sunnis version of Iran's ayatollahs.
Do you really think Android popped up a year later after the release of the iPhone and nobody knew about its development?

Android didn't start at Google. Google bought them in 2005, three years before the iPhone was released.
Agreed but if they work fast in chrome just use chrome for that otherwise keep using firefox

I left using chrome 3 years ago and I haven’t really missed out and I honestly love firefox
You probably shouldn't try to use Messenger over a shortwave connection.
> Your actions on the ledger are mostly permanent, and one opsec mistake and you're screwed.

Which is precisely what's motivating the ongoing rapid development of various privacy preservation strategies (Monero, Zcash, Wasabi Wallet, ...).
I use Bing... sometimes. They literally give you rewards points (that can be redeemed for Microsoft/Xbox gift cards) for searching. Pretty funny, the lengths they go to get you to use Bing...

https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/
Sentinel and HCL are two different things
What wisdom, exactly? This is neither an original thought nor a particularly good phrasing.
> What happens when the dictates are not as benevolent?

I buy another phone.

Because there is plenty of competition in the smartphone market and companies willing to take my money.

But I stay with Apple because right now their walled garden is exactly what I am looking for.
Theory: each internet user should be able to host their own content and be an equal citizen of the web, so to speak. Our own web, media, email (though blocked by ISPs) etc.

More real: Cloud backups of data in quick time (uploading), realtime video streaming, and quick file downloads for things like games and whatnot.
Wow - just wow - such a great resource. This is what I love about www - exposure to such enthusiasm and expertise.
Do you have any examples of your hate comment?

Also, do you have an answer to my question about which topics would be different between trump supporting and non-trump supporting conservatives? I know trump supporters who could fit all three of these categories. Not to mention there are probably other categories and people who fit into multiple categories.
I don't fault YC for what they did and, to his credit, neither does Paige Craig if you read the full post. It's the kind of selling and deal maneuvering all VCs do.

But the idea that Airbnb was "on its last legs" and YC was their one last chance because "investors didn’t think much of the idea" isn't true.
A with „locally“ meant like personal email accounts on Personal devices. If you have a Saas platform and want to send stuff, this OP sounds more reasonable.

I just wanted to give an alternative in case someone wants to programmatically interact with their email inbox without setting up and maintaining a service.
I suspect it is common. And mostly inevitable. When you have 10^N engineers working on something, protecting them from each other (and themselves) grows increasingly important. At some point, it becomes your main priority, as without it you have a totally non-functioning system.

Which partly implies that the only solution is to not grow to that scale. Keep a smaller, more skilled team instead. In most cases I think that'd be better, and I think most people (and companies) would agree (if only they could hire those skilled teams reliably)...

... but sometimes throwing more people at a problem really is the best (or only) option, e.g. when you have to deal with a large volume of ridiculous external constraints. For example: my first job was at a company that aggregated loan providers, which entailed consuming hundreds of random PDFs per day and dozens of weird RPC calls. We had dozens if not hundreds of hand-crafted bits of automation to detect when things changed and handle the new format. Many APIs had hand-rolled XML parsers and producers... because the company we were calling would choke if your attributes weren't in a specific order, or if X wasn't within a specific number of bytes from the start of the request, or they returned invalid XML. It was absolutely ridiculous, but there's no way a bunch of banks were going to fix their APIs for us, so there's not much of an option but to do it by hand.
Fair point, but I have to believe Apple could come up with technical solutions to these issues. Or not - in which case we end up with a world not that unlike macOS. Which isn't that bad in my opinion. I'd still rather have that option than being told I can't do what I want with my own hardware.
Nasdaq Veles Water Indexes a Clear Solution for Water Price Discovery
Designing a Constrained Exploration System: Instagram Engineering
More than one person and one 4K TV in the same house?
Let me know if I interpreted you incorrectly, but I think you mean that VRBO has existed for longer and has a poor product/UX so they needed to be disrupted.

I think it may be easy to compare the two now, but back in the days they were fairly different. I was a fairly early user of Airbnb (they opened at a time when I was young and traveled a lot, especially solo). During those days, Airbnb was truly about renting out extra space in your own home. (Maybe not an "airbed" every time, but just a room in your house/apartment, nonetheless) All of my early usages of Airbnb (as a guest -- I was never a host) were actually renting rooms in these strangers' apartments, that they live in themselves. This was in France, Italy, Brazil, etc. It's not about vacation houses in popular resort places (Lake Tahoe etc.). In fact, I remember back in the days there was a lot of comparison of Airbnb and Couchsurfing. One is paid and one is free, sure, but both were very much about meeting folks locally.
One of the really cool DynamoDB features I love (at least in theory) is CDC / Streams. Also the fact it automagically hooks up to Kinesis is neat. Unfortunately, for personal projects, this can lead to runaway spending.

Does Fauna have strongly ordered CDC stream?
It is very easy to make a case actually, the equivalent would be no music besides iTunes store (no spotify). Same thing for games (no epic store, no steam, no GOG etc). Just because Apple provides a good experience doesn't give them the right to disallow competition. Don't fall into Stockholm syndrome.
This is valid point if the user is making a purchase. In that case, the user will likely need to be using a popular browser loaded with graphical features, with images, CSS, Javascript and cookies enabled. In practice, it would be impossible to make a purchase via web with only Host: and Connection: headers. (How many websites engaging in online commerce require neither images, Javascript nor cookies.) That said, there may be instances where web users are not engaging in commerce or other uses that require graphics, cookies and interactivity (submitting forms, etc.). It would seem futile to show ads to users who may not see them due to their client potentially not showing images or running Javascript.
Every industry gets unique rates so that is already priced in.
I'm still salty about Specter[0] not being ~officially recognised as a necessity when using Clojure.

[0] https://github.com/redplanetlabs/specter

Data driven languages need simple & powerful transformation libraries. `get-in` is repetitive and tiresome to use.

Specter and it's ilk make transformations clear and simple.

No amount of planning or foresight negates the need for data transformation libraries.
I forgot. There's always IRC. Plenty of chatrooms to get into and move to private chat.
gimme smalltalk or gimme death
> I'd argue the product managers/developers do not understand their customer's needs well enough

The limited sorting options in AWS services seem to be optimising AWS’ costs rather than understanding customer needs. I’m often frustrated by the experience when I think I can click on a column and can’t.
DynamoDB doesn’t handle the use case of diverse user groups exploring data and slicing through it. That’s ok, every database has its strengths. But don’t dismiss the idea that unconstrained access patterns can be the solution to a customer need.
I think AR kit is the most under-utilized API available on iOS. Combined with the U1 chip, you could make a real-world tagging-app. Post a note on your favorite trail or maybe overlay In n Out's secret menu on their real menu. How about AR Zoom backgrounds?
I'm coming at with from a similar place as you; I think it's really cool but the benefits are somewhat fringe for normal web apps.

I'm currently writing a SPA in WASM just because I want to play with trendy tech, and the biggest benefit I have observed is massive code size improvement. A similar app I wrote using React had an uncompressed bundle size of about 2 Mb (ouch), which gzipped down to 400 kb. The wasm competitor is about 150 kb and 90 kb gzipped, which is a pretty good code size savings, although still a little bloated. I also strongly prefer the Rust development experience over Typescript, even though TS was perfectly serviceable and the WASM-browser interface is still a little unpolished (but still quite capable). Overall my experience tells me WASM has a strong future but we are house on the bleeding edge of usability at the moment.
You can have a walled garden and at the same time have an exit to that garden. Apple should have their appstore with all their security measures for payment but they shouldn't prevent a third party from making an app and offering it through side loading.

Most of people might still want to use the appstore because it has the reputation of being safe. I don't see how the garden and freedom are mutually exclusive. You just tell your mom to stay in the garden and this is what most non technical people usually do on android.
I see people recommending DuckDuckGo a lot here which is basically just Bing without personalized results.
> It sounds like you think such a thing would be scandalous, but that's how it used to be. There was a time when game studios would just give Nintendo and Atari the middle finger and produce a cartridge that worked with their consoles anyway. Back in those days, the computers and consoles weren't restricted to only running software signed and approved by the manufacturer.

You're partially right.

In the case of Atari, there was no technical enforcement mechanism. Third parties figured out how to make their own cartridges, but lack of control on the market led to a glut of new games in 1982. That glut triggered rapid price reductions (as retailers were often stuck with unsold inventory that couldn't be returned to the publisher), which eventually cratered the entire business, shrinking it by about 97%.[0]

For Nintendo, they did have a technical protection mechanism present in the NES (the 10NES chip). They were allowed to enforce market restrictions based on the presence of the chip.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_....
Are you sure about that? The current inflation rate for 2020 is 1.2%, which is almost half what's it been each of the last three years.
* lost it
That’s much better than Europe and at least a bit more like it. Nurse practitioner i think is about 50k at best in the uk.

I guess the rather different way that healthcare operates between the two regions has a lot to do with it.

Still not as optimistic as the lower bound stated on the parent post which was more like 240k (assuming 48 weeks).
Use the index, Luke! A guide to database performance
nice post, worth knowing though that I have heard through the grapevine that SceneKit is to be deprecated in favor of RealityKit. SceneKit also has abhorrent documentation that is just plain wrong in places.
Maybe people working in those industries _do_ share some blame. However, the linked article is not about any of those industries.
Only Gigabit? I'm holding out for 10G!

I've got 47 devices on my network and 2 roommates.
OPA for life, bossmang.
https://archive.vn/dtNqn
Game streaming services do exist on iOS via the web browser.

You can signup for Netflix on iOS via the web browser.
How is this possible? I saw a painting owned by a former client.

I was there when their collection was photographed and licensed to the Bettmann Archives, and you can be sure that they did NOT release the images.
> According to companies that draw large amounts of this data, the proposed limit will substantially harm the services they provide to customers. The possible negative effect on forecasts has also raised concerns among congressional lawmakers.

Well then maybe they should be paying for more efficient feeds instead of querying more than once per second for a sustained duration? Really? In what world did anyone think a good solution to ANY problem was "query a website over 60 times per minute continuously"???
Singapore’s corporate darling Hyflux and founder Olivia Lum fell from grace
I have. State government too. Also a couple BigCo orgs. I can confirm that all are absurdly wasteful. The incentives, culture, and flavor are different but the results are the same.
Seems like Yahoo just uses the Bing API these days.

> Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
They weren’t originally going after VRBO’s market; remember, these were originally literally airbeds.
This looks really nice and convenient! Nicely done.

Is there any way to add custom logic to the site once it needs it?
You are mistaking the intent of my comment.

I was explaining why banks stay well clear of anything which might be criminal. Whether that is how things should be from an ethical or societal standpoint is a separate question.

Pornhub itself could use a similar defense to what you suggest. Is it their job to police the content instead of the police? If they were hosting content with minors and rape (and it seems highly likely they were), they were profiting from illegal activities.

I'm on the fence. At some point the law should hold people who profit from hurting people liable. While Master Card (or PornHub) were not necessarily active participants here, they both profited from criminal activity.

Where you draw the line is tough.
No, the real story is that "we could slap a band-aid on it for $1.5 million, but that would only work for a little while, so why would we bother?"
Yeah definitely agree, currently it's just transferred size. But still 75 MB is absolutely massive. The largest site we've seen so far.
Precisely. Same space, distinctly different product and vision/goals.
I would not. I would run away, see my comment above.
You are the person choosing your own interpretation.

I believe in science, what I don't believe is that people will listen to truth when it is presented. They are two different things. Science has lost its power to object to a higher cultural malaise.

If you understood what it meant for the virgin mary to be contrary, you would understand the words I wrote on the page and my meaning.

You were not correct, you didn't understand my post. Stop dreaming. There are real truths being expressed here.
Is there a public postmortem anywhere? Your message points to 'no', but just in case.
There’s no “killer app” for a gigabit connection but it does speed up some things you already do:

- Backups

- System updates

- Game patches

- Torrents

Having all those things be 10x faster than a 100mbit connection is nice. It’s a luxury, but it’s a nice luxury.

For me it had the secondary effect of making me buy a decent home router and access point since my old Time Capsule couldn’t handle more than ~500mbit/s. As a result my connection is much better overall now.
> web apps are horribly bad for search-ability, archival and accessibility

And iOS apps are somehow better?

Also accessibility is quite good on the web, but I think iOS does a good job here too.
I've used both and end up writing much more Scala. There are a few reasons why this was the case for me:

- Scala is much closer to Java making it an easier sell to other Java programmers.
- I think static typing makes a lot more sense for larger projects
- I found a rich static type system easier to use and more generally applicable than macros.
Android was on track to be a Blackberry clone with no touch screen until they got wind of what Apple was up to.
Their platform, their rules. If you don't like it you can go setup your own global payment processor.
My apologies. I remembered it incorrectly. Here's what the developer said when I asked for this. (it's coming) https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/22
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved
Why do all of these landing pages make zero effort to say what the hell the product is
No. The news shows have weathermen so that they have a presentable face on the data they get from the NWS.
Downloading video games legally on steam, ps5, gog, etc. For example Cyberpunk 2077 was released today at ~100GB and this trend of triple A titles having massive file sizes isn't going away anytime soon.
As someone who lives in the US, but (pre-covid at least) regularly travels to the UK (where I am from), I wish regional listing was not allowed _at all_. It's incredibly frustrating to have to carry two phones with different App Store accounts to be able to switch between the UK and US versions of things - Uber is one of the (vanishingly) few that gets this right and why they have consistently been my default choice for rides.
APK is now more a delivery package format than a real executable format now.

On recent Android devices, the APK wil be recompiled to machine code on the device after a small number of runs (to gather code statistics).

So you are comparing an apple and a robot.
Why UPS drivers don't turn left and you probably shouldn't either
Well, we've managed to go several replies deep here and not get through at all to one another as far as I can tell. I see your position and think it's delusional and partisan. You either can't see mine or are being intentionally dishonest (I suspect a bit of both).

As I mentioned before, I'm not sure exactly what the right answer is here. I'm just sure it's more complicated than your pulpit would suggest.
I don't normally use Google.

I search for 'vi' and all of my links are about the editor.

You experience is clearly customized for you.

This is why I don't normally use Google.
I wonder if Google’s turnover is such that when this does inevitably get shuttered, those who worked on it are still at Google.
I worded that poorly.

I posted a link above which helps explain it above since a few people had questions about this. Fundamentally, if you perform banking activities for criminal activities you open yourself up to a landslide of legal bullshit. Banks want to be as far from that as possible.
I didn't say every opinion piece is fiction, I said you should expect it is. That isn't the same thing.

I have a counter example to your example. Say the New York Times on Monday runs a opinion column saying trees cause cancer by the Anti-Tree foundation . It is accompanied by a opinion column arguing trees prevent cancer by the Pro- Tree foundation.

(I'm trying to pick a silly, non-partisan example rather than a political one)

It's clear the NY Times opinion section cannot be trusted because the opinions are mutually exclusive and make claims on facts.

I am saying rather than chop down a tree (before it's too late and you get cancer) or plant a tree (to prevent yourself from getting cancer) you should assume both articles are fiction and ignore them.