skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will just ensure that all news is transmitted via memes, screenshots, and unsourced copy-pasted quotes.

It won't be an improvement.
Great idea on the slack bot. Would you prefer using a slack bot instead of an app for scheduling?

We only charge for active employees who are scheduled in office (excludes remote employees). Customers have responded positively to this pricing model so far. But we are still learning.
Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That guideline is there because this is such a common, tedious, and reliably provocative form of flamebait. Please make your substantive points without flamebait.
The most interesting thing about this ruling, to me, is the judge's reliance on the timing of piss-taking in chat messages.

As per Matt Levine's article [1], referenced by Ars:

Much of the dispute in this case is about whether “the recipient[s] did not have notice of the mistake,” that is, whether the lenders should have known, or did know, that the wire transfers were a mistake when they got them. They argued that they had no idea anything was wrong, that the payments were the exact amounts they were owed, that they assumed Revlon was intentionally paying down its loan ...

Once Citi did send the recall notices, of course, the lenders knew it was a mistake, and they all sent each other chat messages making fun of Citi. ...

... the judge points out that these chats only happened after the recall notices went out, and “the number and nature of these communications reinforce why the absence of such communications before the Recall Notices is so significant.” That is, if the lenders had thought the payments were a mistake when they got them, they would have been unable to resist hopping into a chat room and cracking jokes about Citi, as proven by the fact that when they got the recall notices they did all crack jokes about Citi. The fact that they didn’t make any jokes for almost a full day proves that, when they got the payments, they thought they were legit.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...
This argument doesn't pass the "Would it work just as well as a defense of late-'90s Microsoft?" test. I would be willing to concede most of the facts you brought up, but none of that in any way mitigates the amount of control Apple holds. Nobody's saying it's Apple's fault that they're in a duopoly position in the phone space, but that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility that position holds either. What is Apple's fault is that they're using their position in one market to force out potential competitors in other markets (e.g. in-app payments, and app distribution in general).
They didn't. It's x86_64 if you look at the startup screen.
I think you mean from "something you can forget" to "something you can lose"
Egypt: Archaeologists unearth ancient beer factory in Abydos
I call b*llshit on these claims. Where is the extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims? It isn't there. 20 years ago people were saying it'll be all over by 2010. Kyoto did nothing. Computer models don't tell half the story.
Notifying the user isn't graceful.

"Hi, we can't handle any version skew so please interrupt what you are doing to click this button and reload the app."
"The would-be plaintiff representing investors in the case, Christian Iovin of Washington state, sold $200,000 worth of call options on GameStop shares when the stock was below $100. The stock quickly eclipsed $400 a share, forcing him to buy the calls back at elevated prices."

He's being sued by someone who sold naked call options and got burned. This case is going nowhere.

I'd love to start suing people for every time I take a loss while trading.
> I used to believe that the employment and vocation should align.

> If your employment and your vocation align, it's a nice bonus.

That is the meaning of "should", isn't it? And even if they don't align 100%, you can always strive for a maximum.
Just curious, what things did you want/expect FB to be more hands-on about? General things like company organization, or more specific product decisions (I'm thinking of one particularly controversial product decision but I understand if that's a sensitive topic)?
The lead plaintiff of the lawsuit sold $200K in call options with a $100 strike, and got cleaned out by a margin call when the stock hit $400.

There is no cure for stupid.
This is great, really interesting visualization.

Surprised at how unlit China is, due to restricted data?
This, exactly this. And the guidelines re: masks changed pretty quickly.
FB is always going on justice crusades for those “unheard” voices; their exec team, board members, lobbyists, etc.
The best developers are selfless and put the interests of users first.

Those "insane rules" are an example of that.
the recent "the best story wins"[1][2] is a different angle but kind of suggests a similar thing, that our based instincts win, that whatever fits our current context best is easiest to adopt & will be adopted.

[1] https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/story/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115902
Car registration helps primarily by assigning vehicle ownership / plate issuance, but indirectly with insurance, taxes, inspections & maintenance logging, crash records, ticketing, tracking stolen cars and parts, and more.

Cars are expensive, deadly and ubiquitous and much of the regulation around them was written in blood. When you write "bike" I'm not sure if you mean bicycle or motorcycle. Most places, motorcycles which will be driven on public roads do require registration. I expect that bicycles don't require registration because they don't kill as many people who are not the rider, so nobody has really called for it.
Build SPA Without a Framework
Because all of them take a 30% cut (*some exceptions to certain apps apply)

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...

What I mean is, if Apple's cut was lesser / we had different app stores, prices could potentially be up to 30% lesser.
I get why it's great for developers, but why for consumers? You'll almost have a situation exactly like the one that exists on Windows for gaming, where you have to install any number of stores to get the games that _only_ exist in those stores. You may think that it will give you or other consumers more choice, but it's a choice only for developers and it's at the expense of consumers.
Reminds me of the inverse of this map:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825390
The weird bar is "on local TV". Keystone sports are mostly on national TV anyway.

But it just highlights that team sports are light entertainment dressed up as something more admirable.

If the media wanted to skew the balance they could concentrate more on individual amateurs.

Someone who goes from barely being able to run to a marathon is going to have an interesting and inspiring story. I'd be more interested in hearing about that kind of victory than the weekly/annual filler round of Famous Team A vs Famous Teams B-Z.
I think the is rather that there's no pre rendering of the tiles serverside, even dynamically. Its all client side. Ie, updates should just require a dataset update, not a regeneration of map tiles for a tile store in the case of pre rendering. And no need for a spatial server.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166493 since it's taking the thread on a generic tangent that's been argued to death and back many times recently.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> giving an adversary a single device to target

Technically, yes, but how do you target it? This is impossible to extract the private key from it.
MIT's introduction to computational thinking Spring 2021
Who in 2021 thought naked calls are a good idea?
FTA:

Intro:

> to restrict the availability of news

Outro:

> I hope in the future, we can include news for people in Australia once again
A mapping application that frequently diverts traffic off the freeway into narrow residential roads, probably does the opposite of saving lives. In my experience, it doesn't even save time, just gives you a more complicated route
Facebook won't take any action when its product is used to facilitate genocide, but they absolutely will take drastic action when you threaten to regulate them or threaten their profits in any way:

https://twitter.com/max_fisher/status/1362116659977281538
Also see RainbowForth in the browser http://rainbowforth.appspot.com/
News Corp & Google made a deal: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/google-news-corp-dist...
Exactly why people buy consoles.

For the same experience as you get with an iPhone.
> In what way is Uber not a rent-seeker taking advantage of often poor new immigrants?

Doesn't trap them.

Used cars are a liquid market (with a lot of transactions) with well established pricing. It's easy to buy and sell at the blue book's price and get cheap financing. This makes it easy to get into Ubering and out of it, as at any point you know exactly how much money the car is still worth.

Compare that to a taxi medallion, often financed through "alternate means" (no banks will touch them), completely opaque pricing (there's no market place, transactions are often done privately) and at the mercy of regulators (tomorrow the city council might create 10x the current amount of medallions out of thin air, thus crushing the price of existing ones).
Only half joking - "x86" refers to 32 bit, and:

"Since the stack and static data on x86 is still allocated in 32-bit address space, a 32-bit pointer is sufficient to point to them."

It seems they're still expecting a lot of VAX users to migrate.
That's like saying Nintendo has an artificial monopoly by allowing only allowing Nintendo approved games to be distributed for sales on their consoles. Or TV channels have an artificial monopoly for shows they buy the syndication/distribution rights for. At some point, someone decided to commit to a certain path. Calling the choice "anti-competitive" cheapens the word.

>>People who decided to purchase an iPhone with an iOS license should have the right to use the device to it's full extent

The US Copyright Office has already made it clear that jailbreaking is legal. That does not imply upon Apple an affirmative obligation to fix a jailbroken phone or create a open/fixable hardware and software platform, or make either of the two easy to accomplish. Only a negative obligation to not interfere with those who take such risks at their own expense.
Wanna change it? We curated the themes to make it easy to use. Maybe some small/medium/large setting for fonts could help.
I haven't been able to find a source for this (apologies), but my recollection is that before threatening to leave Australia, Google threatened to simply stop linking to news sites in Australia. I believe they were told this would be illegal.
we all know what happens when companies sacrifice everything for profit - not good!
You can, this is America :)

You may not always win though.
Any publisher already had the option of blocking their content from being linked on Facebook and Google, they chose not to do so because the traffic they get from F/G was valuable.

Ben Thompson has a nice analysis of the situation: https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...
Hands on Review of the Pocketbook InkPad Color E-Reader
Is this why people want to be able to stay anonymous on the Internet, I wonder?
This is a bit of confirmation bias, I think - successful newsletters have enough reputation that the reputation loss from low open rate or higher spam flag rate is offset.

Newer newsletters don't have that reputation, so they are more heavily penalized for low open rate or higher spam flag rate. Thus, they need to react more quickly to users invisible actions or risk damaging their reputation. I don't think this is a growth hack, I think this is a necessary action as a new entrant in a very unforgiving space - see some stories upthread from legitimate newsletters.

While your actions are invisible to the sender, they are _not_ invisible to your email provider, and ultimately they are the ones who make reputation decisions that can destroy a newsletter.
...and suddenly Australian politics shifted leftwards.
I have concluded that nothing is easy. Being a manager (at least a good one) is definitely not easy; being a good engineer is definitely not easy. They are both difficult in their own district ways.

The most important skill to have in the workplace, management or not, is humility. This absolutely does not mean that you’re a pushover, but it does mean that you should never deceive yourself with the notion that you’re infallible.
... or worse - government approved news only.
Who is Parkor? Tried googling but couldn't find anything about that?
The Android app store treated us as a 3rd party, there was no pre-installation option and no additional distribution. We did have a lot more marketing dollars to spend but had to spend them like any other company, except we were constrained in what we could do and which 3rd parties we could work with due to corporate policies. All of our growth at Waze post acquisition was from work we did, not support from the mothership.

Look for this blogpost to be quoted by Google in one of their antitrust defences.
I'm not sure this is about Engineering documentation. I mean is that the purpose of the site? I agree Documentation should put function first but this is more about Aesthetics then documentation. A form of art if you will.
I think the intention is to fund riskier investments that traditional VC would turn its nose up to and say "come back with an MVP and a customer".

The internet is probably a cliche example, but it came out of DARPA as a resilient control network for the military. Nobody at the time envisaged the impact it would have - it was an interesting technical piece of work that scratched an itch. Funding it resulted in a huge economic and strategic benefit for the US. It makes sense for other countries to attempt to replicate this model.

Being able to strategically fund technically interesting (but highly adventurous) moon-shots is not really attempting to out-perform VCs - the goal is to evaluate and fund a portfolio of crazy (but credible) ideas, accepting they may fail, and that they won't run according to nice quarterly deliverable schedules, as things will go wrong.

Academic funding is very broken to begin with, as it focuses so hard on reducing the risk of projects that non-delivery (i.e. negative outcomes) are frowned upon or not tolerated (depending on the field) - this is a very unhealthy set of incentives. We should allow research to fail and return negative results, and not penalise the researchers. Not everything will work. Especially for early career researchers, they might be over-optimistic about how long something will take.

Researchers are trained to be so risk-averse that they are often seeking grant funding for work they've already done, in order to reduce (to near-zero) the risk of non-delivery. They then use that grant funding to tide over doing innovative research on the side, or doing the majority of the de-risking of it, in order ot be ready to bid for future funding for that idea, keeping the conveyor belt moving. But you have to find a way to get onto the conveyor belt and get started running on it.

Hopefully this research approach will embrace failure and delayed delivery for good reason, and focus instead on what can be learned, rather than on having low-skilled box-tickers focused on managing other people's projects - the two hallmaks of current govt funded research.
I've been using openpilot for about 6 months and this is exactly how I feel.

Even if it did do something erratic (which it hasn't so far) the torque limit means there's just no way the car's going to do anything so fast and aggressively you couldn't take control.
The article is interesting because it seems to be an example of just that.
We wanted to achieve some native looking windows therefore the three dots. Though, it's very macOS specific. We want to keep the configurations to a minimum to get quickly good looking results. Maybe some minimal theme could work where we strip away most of the stuff. Just thinking out loud...
It would solve a lot of the problems I have with Facebook if they applied this policy internationally.
I was browsing the forum of the data source -- looks like there are some users expressing that the China data is significantly out of date. I would bet that the applications which collect this data are not common on the other side of the firewall.
I'm not saying we should reject anything if it isn't intuitive. I'm just saying the statement Is Spacetime a real thing like an atom, or just a mathematical construct that is used to describe how mass 'generates' gravity? is not a false dichotomy
Who's using VMS these days? (not a dig, I'm wondering)
> constantly at odds

Provides an article from 3 years ago during which time the sign-up flow has not changed and Netflix has exploded in growth.
He wasn't exactly wrong, as not wearing masks was still the general scientific consensus at the time, right? It was a WHO guideline, if I'm not mistaken.
But if I’m using IMAP I’m downloading all messages and potentially interacting with all, some or none of them.
John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
Show HN: Minimalist Open Source App for Backups to Any Storage
I would be interested to know what would happen if Apple said “sure — install whatever you want, but your warranty is now void.” How many people (especially the EU) would have a problem with that?

I mean, that’s effectively where this whole argument leads. You could imagine a scenario where using external software could damage things like your battery, so now the user is on their own.

I don’t think that’s a tenable option either.

This is effectively what Google does with Chromebooks and developer mode. But if you’ve enabled developer mode, can’t you go back? But when you get into trouble, you can revert back to the base install (and lose all other data). Again, that’s not a good option either as people would complain about that too.
What makes you think Android is a 'mini-IT' project? I have an iPhone now, but I used Android for years. It was always great. It always just worked, no 'fiddling' required. The idea that you have to do work to keep a Android running daily is odd to me.

Now that I've had an iPhone for a couple years, I can't think of single time where the app store 'curation' has benefited me. I'm not even sure what that means. I've released apps on both Google Play and iOS, and sure, it's a little more difficult to get an iOS app passed by Apple. But what does that really get us in the end? Maybe a little more protection from malicious actors, but not much more in my opinion.

I really think the idea that the iOS app store 'curation' is a feature that we benefit from as users is a myth Apple has made us all believe. It's mostly marketing speak & a 'placebo' effect for the end user, and a huge headache for the app developers. As a developer, app reviews take no less than a day or two to clear. And you have to sit there and hope they don't send it back rejected for some vague reason, or some random contractor in China doesn't reject it because they typed in the demo account password wrong (Yes, we had this happen at my job multiple times, and it wasted many days of our time).

I think app store 'curation' and the 'walled garden' get conflated sometimes. In the walled garden, where they have full control over the hardware & the OS, they have chosen to not allow any other method of distributing apps except through them. The idea that this is somehow making my life better I will never get. Either way, that in and of itself doesn't really bother me. What does bother me is that they think they are entitled to 3/10ths of every apps business in the walled garden. There is no way that makes sense.

They charge a yearly fee for developer accounts. I think this yearly fee system is how it should be handled. If their argument is that they are providing the servers and infrastructure and manpower to provide the app store service, then they could make more tiers. For bigger customers like Epic who use more of those resources they could charge more to cover the cost. But there is no way I'll ever be convinced that a 30% fee on every transaction across the board is fair or equitable.
News Corp Google 3-year deal to distribute journalism in exchange for payments
A lot of people who think that buying puts is ,,too expensive''.

Nassim Taleb made money by understanding that out of money call options were underpriced, not overpriced how people think generally. People don't learn from the past.
Why wouldn't people just visit news sites like normal? You go to cnn.com or nytimes.com or your local newspaper. Thats it, just don't allow it at FB.

People post so many fake stories from fakes sites, or outrage stories with headlines for clicks, stop incentivizing that behaviour. Just ban all politics/news and let people talk about other stuff.
So this would only dissuade that practice as it causes a DDOS against those who do because it causes additional requests and prevents caching.
How is Steam a “monopolistic player” when you say “almost every game on steam can be purchased somewhere else” and go on to mention Gog, MS Store, Epic Store, and “the list goes on”?

That Steam, and others you mention, charge 30% categorically undermines the whinging about Apple’s 30% being out of line.

I’m also curious about people’s thoughts on Sony pulling CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077 from their Playstation store.
Not sure why you're downvoted b/c FB was already caught doing something similar with enterprise certs.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/30/facebook_apple_enterp...
Looks like a solid textbook. Skimming the ToC, I thought it was mostly basic stuff...and then I kept going. It goes deeper into many topics than I would've guessed and that's before getting to the numerical analysis stuff. The code examples look solid for referring back to.

tl;dr: I bought a copy
Working Rust m68k port demonstrated for MegaDrive
Selling naked call options on a meme stock no less(assuming he sold them after the Reddit hype train started).

Also selling 200k worth meant he would have made it out like a bandit if the bet succeeded. I wonder what his net worth is if the broker allowed him to be leveraged so much?
East Coast and West Coast too. I've struggled there a fair bit myself, having East Coast parents.

I would love to work with some Israelis or East Coasters sometime. Be refreshing :)
CDMA is only in USA and Japan from my informal mousing around.
By stealing the device.
Fake the cursor if needed
I think you’re right. I must admit, the article isn’t one of the best I’ve seen on this topic.
The policies are more than fair.

People on HN get mad when others make money, but they never get mad when they want to make money too.

> You can have a properly curated store with 10% fees, for example. And you can block malware without blocking alternative web browsers or game streaming apps.

It becomes much more difficult and time consuming, and why 10%? The service is unbelievable - it provides great access to a platform and its high spending users. That is worth more than 10%.
It's surprising to me that your (former) title wouldn't entail more direct leadership, even as a simple messenger for "shut up and soldier."