skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opinion: Is FB guilty of news paywalls?
FB has become the main source of news as everyone is on the platform 24/7 and everyone follows news sites on FB.

Now, FB doesn't revshare (to my understanding) on page posts, only on videos.

This has caused news organizations and quality journalism to lose valuable page views and with that, ad revenue.

It's crazy and sad seeing how quality content MIT, NYT, etc. is paywalled.

Isn't FB guilty of this? Shouldn't FB rev share? They are basically profiting off of other organizations hard work and journalism, while they are simply "the comment section".

We all talk about free college education and how we should strive for that and I believe journalism is just that. It's crazy seeing good news sources not available to the general public freely.

Rant over.
Yes, that was the point. They don't want to use Clojure because Java made them hate the JVM.
Linkers must run in polynomial time for certain things; this is a problem independent of Swift.
Lerner? Is his name also a joke?
A user-agent should do what it thinks is in the users best interest. People don't want to have to micromanage it. If it needs to be set up manually it's undermining itself and preventing it's own success. Ultimately it was not a good offer, and Microsoft, not being in the ads business, was correct in rejecting it.

EDIT: Removed wording about the intentions of the inventors.
You can use :terminal in vim.
You do no know that you can disable notifications on iOS right? Ever since they first added them.

Apps should not die. They provide an infinitely better user experience, battery efficiency and many more capabilities.

To the contrary, web apps should die (or maybe move to a separate medium) as they go against what the web was designed for - web apps are horribly bad for search-ability, archival and accessibility.
To be clear, I never forced you to do anything. You just got angry at me.
Amorphous Computing
Why should they subsidize home usage. If they are paying to pump their own water, and doing so in a sustainable matter, why do they own anyone anything?
We used to pack entire operating systems with userspace in a couple dozen Megabytes. I bet they had more screens than the Uber app.
Yeah, they're not criminals, they were framed! They're definitely not random, and while they're technically freelancing, they don't take any money in the end. You're also talking about the A-Team, right? :)

Jokes aside, what do you know about the circumstances of this theft to make such a judgement? For all we know, security might have been quite lacking for reasons to do with incompetence and/or corruption.
We definitely had simplicity in mind when we set out to create AirSend. Thank you for trying us out, and we look forward to your feedback!
They clearly see that member account was created with an API call from verified account I opened support request from. So in a sense member account in question belongs to my account and I keep paying for it.

It is not that I opened request to close another, completely unrelated account.
It's not fair to point to specific overengineered libraries and say this is the language idiom. Clojure is a small, stable language (few changes over the years) that encourages creation of DSLs through macros. It provides solid ground on which to build the abstraction you want, so it's possible to build these EE-ish indirection nightmares if that's what you need.

Clojure's design allows it to serve the needs of both hobbyists and enterprise, but the latter requires strong, disciplined developers who understand to avoid loose, hobbyist code that the language allows, and who will agree on which patterns to use in the codebase (something the hobbyist gets for free mostly). It's a punishing language for a project with high developer turnover.
That is true, but what specifically is the iOS app getting in that extra quarter gigabyte? What couldn't they throw away to get under 200 MB at all?
Looks like the author works at Apple:

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/bartosz-ciechanowski
Yes - that's the real problem, too many restrictions on what apps can and can't do. This is not something Apple should be able to do - this is itself anti-competitive, as of course Apple are able to do all of those things while competing with other developers.
We seem to have come full circle back to the original point.

Amazon chooses which products to stock and sell direct based on the risk/reward ratio of each individual product. They determine that ratio by analyzing their 3rd party merchants data.

See the problem? Amazon can eliminate/minimize their own risk based on data from their supposed "partners".
>has the legal right to install whatever they wish

Absolutely. But people buy the devices knowing that that's not an option. It's not like Apple locked down these devices and changed them after people bought them. You can absolutely jailbreak your device and put whatever you want on it and I fully support that. That doesn't make Apple's behavior monopolistic or an anti-trust violation.

Your Keurig example isn't relatable or similar at all since Keurig both did have a monopoly on single-use coffee pods and that was the single purpose of the device. An optional App Store is not the same thing at all.
What are you writing with it? I've been wanting to give it a try too, but I'm unsure what kind of project is best suited.
This is really scary. It's so unpredictable what one actually has to pay, especially for a small business moving to the cloud is much more challenging then it should be.

When creating resources it's really unclear what one might be charged, then there are saving plans and pre-commitment options and so forth.

Might be a good startup idea, basically just sell cloud resources via a simple, predictable payment model.
A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects
Isn't all of that server-side?
Likely "The one thing different about trump is that he purposely provoked the media" Generally, one does not provoke your sympathizers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/5297097/Google...
I worked in a partially Clojure shop for a while. I found the Ruby on Rails developers to be more professional, overall. The Rails devs certainly did not have the habit of trying to compose together 75% of a framework anew for each project.
A New Take on RSS
This is a point most enthusiasts miss, that if it does become pervasive, it will be run by the same people who run the system today.
This has been a very productive week indeed. Pumped for GATs.
Not PornHub.
You give a very simple question, generous time frame (like a 40 minute slot for a 5-minute question), and prepare set of discussions / more complex scenarios. Also don't require compileable code -- getting all the syntax errors out is boring and stressful. Do the thing on the piece of paper, whiteboard, or online editor without compilation functionality. Tell them you don't care about exact function names or typos.

If the interviewee does not work well under pressure, they'll have 30 minutes to do the question. Hopefully they'll worry less during the interview, and perform better.

If the interviewee breezes through your question, you give them next, more complex variation ("and now you cannot assume X anymore"). Make sure you have a few of those.

Basically, don't be a computer. Your goal, as an interviewer, is to get the candidate to show off their skills. Putting extra pressure does not help with it.

(and yes, this is pretty scalable. we are still having a single meeting for each candidate)
> There is no such thing as a free market without government intervention.

Maybe this is true with respect to global financial markets, etc. But it can't possibly be true in general. People have stably traded physical goods in literal markets (i.e. stalls where you buy spices and tomatoes and such) for thousands of years with no government intervention.
Never got the almond issue. Why not go after beef, or fruit, or wine, or any number of other foods.
I'm not spreading FUD. That decision was made in 2018. At the time of Cydia's release, in 2008, it was a violation of the DMCA. You can't apply a ruling that happened 10 years later to argue that.
> Benjamin Franklin, in between spending time flying kites and visiting prostitutes

What the hell is your problem with Ben Franklin, NPR? Can't you talk about any of the thousands of things he did before jumping straight to his sins?

Otherwise it's a good article.
Share photos to make the world more accessible
Single-user deployments are fairly common in the gnu lightblub crowd.
All of which need to be illegal years ago. France is streets ahead here.

Pointing to other shit companies that are known for anti'consumer practices doesn't help your argument.
Ontario to begin Covid-19 vaccinations next week in Toronto, Ottawa
How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?
"Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
Israel and Morocco to normalize relations, Trump says
What kind of return is Y Combinator looking at here? Probably more than covers all their investments?
This has been submitted to HN before, but I was inspired to post it again after encountering the digital equivalent of it in one of Fastmail's "features".
Universe may receive security updates. There is just no guarantee since they are not supported by Canonical.
A good functional language lets you clearly define, manage, and trace where your code meets reality, though.
That kind-of needs strict static type systems, rather than loosey-goosey dynamic tag checking, though.
That's IMO the main reason statically type checked languages like C++/Java/etc work much better at large scale than runtime tag checked languages like Python/Clojure/etc.
The github ceo contacted the youtube-dl developers through IRC...

Obviously not related to this case, but seems like a pretty good indicator that the Venn Diagram has at least some overlap.
Hmm.. In terms of alternatives, how can we be sure that Ubuntu sponsor Canonical will not get acquired and change the rules of how freely Ubuntu stable versions are available? This whole thing is making me rethink if it makes sense to rely on free unsupported software at the operating system level. I don't trust oracle and cloud linux also seems like a commercial company wanting to profit from Linux like Red Hat. Hmmm...
Show HN: Modern Memories – Letters written today. Delivered in the future
Modern Memories creates “kits” which contain stationery for the recipient to fill out and mail back to Modern Memories. Each kit contains four letters, which we will mail back in the future (6 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years later).

Modern Memories is a concept and product that I wanted for my daughter. I want to send letters to my two year daughter, Navia, so she can receive them as she grows older. Even better would be letters from her elderly grandparents so even if they pass, she will one day receive a letter written in their handwriting.

Everyone loves the feeling of finding an old letter and reminiscing about forgotten days and departed loved ones. That's what we hope to replicate.

The kit comes in a beautiful box and contains stationery to write the letters , a pen , instructions, and a return envelope . The user provides their information and recipient information (along with contact info for other people incase we can't reach the recipient in the future). The stationery contain guided and blank pages. Guided templates ask questions such as “Describe something funny involving you and your grandchild”. The sender can also include a few photos with captions and we send them with the four letters.

We will routinely reach out to the recipient via email to keep the most up to date address on file. We will send the letters at appropriate times. Soon we will have a dashboard so the writer can change information on their own.

We are launching with 3 kits-

PARENT KIT - Geared towards parents and grandparents writing letters to their children and grandchildren

LOVE KIT - For romantic partners to write letter to each other

The above kits have letters delivered in 6 months, 1 year, 5 years and 10 years.

RESOLUTION KIT - Letters written to yourself to help keep track of your goals and aspirations .

Delivered in 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

COVID

This pandemic has been incredibly isolating for families. As healthcare workers ourselves, we have felt and seen the impact of this isolation. For each purchased Modern Memories Kit, we are donating a kit to patients in the hospital. In the future, we want to donate to schools so students can write letters to themselves.

What if we fail? We have already collected letters from family and friends and are personally writing letters to our daughter. If we fail, we will still send out everyone’s letters. If for some reason we cannot, we will mail back all letters. We are keeping them safe with forever stamps already placed on them.

Price? We are currently offering each kit for $19.99. No subscription or random hidden costs. Free Shipping in the US.
You're moving the goalposts. A day when everyone is trying to get their "money" out is the definition of a high volume day.
Phone cameras are extremely wide-angle so everything is in focus and there is no natural bokeh. To add bokeh, you have to separate the subject from the background, and then also determine how far different parts of the background are. This requires very advanced AI for non-trivial images (see the imperfections in Photoshop's "select subject" tool), which Apple is actually still doing (that's what portrait mode is). But if it's not perfect, it quickly becomes worthless, so in short, they are doing it, but only the most advanced companies can try.
Being able to test this and change on the fly when you get the data also makes a huge impact in terms of how much revenue you're able to generate during these critical periods.
I actually use Firefox to resist fingerprinting, but it's definitely annoying and not for everyone. For one, all times are presented to me in UTC now. I understand why Firefox doesn't present my real timezone, but it's kind of absurd to complain that the website is broken in that case and not the JS API.
I didn't mention any political parties though? I didn't say anything could be cut though? What are you on about?
The problem with inheritance taxes is that corporations don't have to pass their assets onto their children in order to continue existing. They're a half measure.

That said this is an issue that for some reason has a lot of poor people who would never be affected taking up the torch in support of the very same billionaires that are currently screwing them over. It's really remarkable the power of propaganda.
Disclosure: I work at Mixpanel

We updated our packaging/pricing a few weeks ago. Our Free plan allows for 100k MTUs now (100x more volume), and our Growth plan is cheaper. https://mixpanel.com/pricing/

We wanted to make a big improvement in both these categories for customers:

- "How far you can get without paying"

- "Paid Plan Affordability"

Just an FYI since that change happened since this Satchel review was published in May.
Depends on where they're coming from.
If all they know is Java, then surely not!
If they've done Python and C and Erlang before, the switch doesn't seem as hard.
In that case I can recommend the book the phoenix project.
Games can have their dependencies shipped with them with or without static linking. They aren't transferring data to another game that has to line up exactly.

CG programs and renderers need to have subdivision surface data be the same and image filtering be the same. They may be able to architect their way around standard library versions, but games don't need this same treatment because they stand alone.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336890442768547845.html
Reading the comments I get the impression that Clojure is competing with Java, and it seems that it cannot win against Java, for various reasons, and I am saddened by that.

What does it mean to see a rather promising Lisp-like language not getting traction, for the the future of Lisp(s)?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
no you can't, and that is part of the problem. even if you test negative, the test isn't 100% and you still have to ask as if you have it
I think their goal is to make the Spacecraft reliable enough that it wouldn't need the abort system. In the same way that 737s don't have one. However I think crew is a long way away for now. If they are launching 100 passengers it may be hard to do an abort system that isn't just the entire Starship itself. Maybe for smaller crew launches they will have ejection seats like Soyuz?
What is your process of learning it? Did you take the Pharo MOOC?
Feature Store as a Foundation for Machine Learning
The primary fear is getting kicked off because Apple said so.

The fees might suck, but the concern is spending a year on an app only to be denied or lose it once you gain popularity.
I don't know what sector GP is in but there are plenty of programming jobs (maybe even most?) where the company (usually one where tech generally is incidental to their operations) really isn't in a position to offer a salary that's competitive enough to hire this way. I'd say most programming jobs at US hospitals are this way, for instance.
you're not understanding. If I patent a process, I am required to publish the process. Then, a competitor can copy the process (because it is published). How do I as, the process patentor defend against infringement?

Because it is a process, I have to go on their premises and prove that they are stealing my process. You must obtain a warrant to do that (because otherwise it is trespassing), and because competitors could just willy nilly claim "you're stealing my process" in a spurious fashion to gain access to the premises (and learn about what competitors are doing), judges typically put up a very high burden of proof to issuing those warrants.

You'll effectively never be able to enforce a process patent, so you're better off never patenting it and keeping it a trade secret instead, that way you have a bit of a moat.

By contrast, for a molecule or plant patent, the existence of the product is proof of infringement, so it's easier to enforce infringement.

For a molecule patent, you do not need to disclose the method you use to make it. IANA(P)L, You might be required to disclose one way of making the molecule, but it almost certainly doesn't have to be the way that you do it "in prod".
Because if there is one thing we know, government agencies are never captured and always have priorities well-aligned with the constituencies they serve.

I do understand that the peanut gallery normally has very skewed, ignorant views of what complex agencies do. I also understand if you don't question, audit, and occasionally yell at them, they go bad and (at best) stop serving the people they're supposed to.
>On the other hand, I'm not a free speech absolutist (obviously) because I don't trust other people to behave reasonably.

I don't either, but I still believe free speech is important, even if that means it certainly be abused, and cause some damage on a long enough timeline.

As a personal anecdote, I used to spend time on 4chan. (ie, within the last few months I finally blocked it.) I never picked up any of the crazier conspiracy theories that people might associate with the site. But, I was affected by reading all the extremist content. My intuitive sense for the likelihood of country-wide instability, as well as my sense for how bad that instability could be were well skewed. Having finally quit, I feel a bit silly now. I live in a very peaceful, suburban neighborhood, and it's the safest town in my whole state. I generally don't consider myself as susceptible to misinformation, but I think it's clear to me now that anyone can be affected, and everyone has a different blind spot for it.

Were I DO believe in censorship is in the home. ie, I believe it's ok to determine what media / ideas I ingest, since my abstinence won't prevent anyone else.

All of that said, I completely agree with you when it comes to facts and common ground. However, I believe that technology has fundamentally changed what it means to release and censor information. I haven't figured out a good way to articulate this yet. So I'll just say that pamphlets in the 1800s are obviously very different from youtube or social media now. I don't believe it's the same issues all over again, and I'm not sure what the right solutions are.

>If the government is malicious, the correct response is voting.

No doubt. The recent brush with populism has made me a bit nervous in this regard. It can be argued whether the founders really successfully produced enough bulwarks against populism, however I certainly agree with the intent of their efforts.
Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff Aware of East Bay Chinese Spy
It’s funny you quote that specific line because that one line stood out to me too. I agree that something extremely fishy was going on that couldn’t have been solely explained by “too many linked libraries”.

However, choosing a more mature technology like Java or C# or even Golang would have certainly alleviated a great deal of stress from their process.
Unless it's changed a lot recently, Ubuntu support for new laptops is better because Debian has slower release cycles & generally doesn't fast track fixes for newish laptops in drivers. Also there seems to be a bigger new laptop user community on Ubuntu so you can get better information on which laptops work 100% and workarounds for the rest.
Large Swift apps are easy to find

Sure, if they exist. I'm not talking about the world as it is today in December 2020 with Swift 5.3. I'm talking about 2016.
>I don't see why you can't do both.

Because we shouldn't allow people to have their pie and eat it too, at our expense.
Long form (700-1000 words): Brands Mean a Lot (brandsmeanalot.com)
Kafka lag monitoring for human beings
This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see.

With 150+ billion events per day, Kafka monitoring and metrics are crucial. Here's how AppsFlyer built a Kafka lag monitoring solution with time-based metrics, smart alerts, and decoupling.
In my 10 years of paid development, Elm. Because it's the only language of the 13+ I've used in production code where the compiler actually helps you.

I've written C, C++, C#, Java, JS ES5+, ActionScript, HTML5 and CSS since IE6, many various compile-toJS languages, many different frameworks and more. Elm is the only language where I can jump into a foreign code base or my own months later and feel confident that I can change something, push to production, and not break things.

edit: I've also written Perl and Ruby in production too.

edit2: How does it help? When you make a change that isn't valid, like adding a new argument to a function, the compiler can tell you everywhere you need to make a fix and sometimes even suggest how to fix things. Add on top of that the editor tooling in Intellij or with the elm-langauge-server in VSCode and other editors and it's just super smooth. Build times are also crazy fast. There's no waiting for the compiler. The whole notion of "If it compiles, it works" I find to be true 99% of the time.
I am by no means an expert in this space, but this was my first thought as well.

A government agency with bipartisan support and positive public image seems like a good entity for Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Microsoft or someone else with infrastructure and bandwidth to be a white knight for.
For those who haven't seen, here are some excerpts from AirBed and Breakfast’s Application to Y Combinator.

https://i.imgur.com/55yP1CZ.jpg

This is from the Harvard Business School case study on Airbnb.
For my own curiosity, what large, complicated apps are not monstrosities in your eyes?