skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This point hit home for me:

> but people that have experienced being embedded with Really Care workers are going to be appalled at the relative effectiveness.

Unless you've experienced the Really Care type of team and situation, it's difficult to understand.

I don't mean any disrespect to the Just A Job people. There is nothing wrong with keeping your head down, getting your work done, and checking it at the door when you sign off at 5PM Monday through Friday. Frankly, that's the correct approach for most people.

However, there really are situations and teams where people won't stop until they can get the outcome as close to their vision as possible.

In my experience, this is far more likely to happen at small startups where members have reasonable equity to work with, as well as significant career upside for accomplishing the big tasks. Large companies like Google are so big that finding upside or even a niche to influence can seem impossible. Combine that with guaranteed high income and the motivation to do work that goes above and beyond gives way to a motivation to be associated with the right projects at the right time, regardless of your contribution.

When I look back, the happiest time of my career was when I was embedded among people who Really Care, trying to accomplish a goal that was likely to fail, working well over 40 hours a week (my choice), and not getting paid much. I've since moved to much higher compensation at bigger companies, but I'm often tempted to give it up to get back to a situation that sparks that kind of motivation and happiness again.
I saw that too in, for example, Lower New York Harbor.
I have no goddamn problem with that. Please do. But that isn't what the article in question is discussing. It's about Epic suing Apple under anti trust and the implications of that decision. For more reading just check out what happened to MS after their anti trust with regards to laptop manufacture bloatware. Except understand that the carriers will hold much more power.
There is more than that though. Sure with a challenge trial you know that the vaccine works much faster. However you still need to vaccinate tens of thousands and then watch them for a few months to ensure that nothing else bad happens. At least one covid vaccine trails has already failed because the vaccine wasn't safe (in the case I know of because you show up HIV+ even months latter which makes those tests worthless - the vaccine might have worked against Covid for all I know). There have been a lot of other vaccines trials over the years that have failed for safety reasons.
so ollld...... possibly (2000) just been copied and moved around from domain to domain

http://super-memory.com/articles/sleep2000.htm#Alarm%20clock
You're looking at this backwards. While their market share might be 14%, they control 66% of app revenue.

As a developer I'm restricted from accessing that 66%. THAT is why I want an open platform. Access to those consumers.

That has nothing to do with my choice of platform. It has to do with access to a large market which I am being restricted from.
I understand that concern, sadly tastemaker can not work without that access: It creates a new playlist for you it has to update every night.

Maybe you find some interesting public playlists you can follow: https://tastemaker.cc/public

(All the producer power playlists are on there)
> or a real vaccine trial you also need to know if it works in older people

No, it really doesn't. Most vaccines don't. Maybe one could argue that a COVID-19 vaccine should. But if you had a vaccine that worked on everyone under the age of 60 but worked zero above that, it would still be a 'real' vaccine and we'd be using it everywhere for the cohort it works for.

In fact, I can't even imagine what train of thought leads to this statement.
“Yes and” doesn’t always mean literally saying yes. It’s about accepting the premise, not the proposal. The way it was taught to me, if you offer me a live hand grenade, I can accept the premise by saying “oh god he’s got a bomb!”, even though I’m saying no to the concrete offer to take your hand grenade.

“Let’s change everything” - depending on context - can be a no to the premise. It’s the same as the Pixar idea - improv is about making your scene partners look good by supporting their choices, and building on them in turn.
Europa Decision Delivers Crushing Blow to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)
The thing about network effects is this:

When you're making a new technology to interact with existing technology, and following the specification results in your new technology failing to work with what's already there, nobody will care if you blame the standard or everyone's mis-implementation of the standard.

They'll consider your malfunctioning tool as damage and route around it... Until you become big enough that you can be the existing implementation other people have to adapt to.

Every commonly-used browser either has something like this buried in its implementation or has a date-stamp of first release older than everything else out there.
That’s the thing, there is no such phone. And frankly, there will not be more mobile platforms because even the current two is already much for companies to develop for. Free market doesn’t work that way. Linux phones might rise, but only if they gain a good android compat layer.
Yes, and then Apple convinced them to go DRM free.

iTunes has been DRM free for more than a decade now.
I would like to have this version of Facebook too, thank you.
My wife went away for Chinese New Year and I'm a freelancer so have a little bit of flexibility in when I work... my sleep pattern shifted the entire 24 hours in a week.

It's currently 6am and I just got up. It really does a number on me, but without that 'grounding' into reality my sleep goes into a 30 hour cycle
It's one thing when you help your friend prepare for an incoming hurricane and that bonds you together, it's another when your team lead's ass is on the line because someone higher up the chain set an arbitrary deadline deliberately to squeeze you to work harder in a dark pattern of employee manipulation based around guilt and emotional appeals and intangibles like "we ride together we die together" that are a poor substitute for money.

Staying late, with the boss who is also working on the same project, to deliver for the customer, is quite different from staying late, to deliver for a deadline, because some team didn't make any decisions sooner, while the boss reminds you from far away that you should be grateful, and then sets things up so another avoidable crunch is inevitable.

Reminder that you're not actually trying to build strong bonds, you're trying to build software (or whatever). And said "strong bonds" won't stop the company from deciding your team is splitting, or your coworkers from leaving for promotions or other companies.
Light that kills bacteria: Alternative to antibiotics
Also HL&P changed to numerous versions of "Reliant" as it was heading toward "spinning off" Centerpoint:

>Reliant Energy Inc.--formerly Houston Industries Inc.--operates among the top five power and natural gas marketers in the United States. With over $32 billion in assets, the company serves nearly four million customers in the southern United States and Minnesota. After the Texas Electric Choice Act was passed in 1999, Reliant Energy rolled its non-regulated operations into Reliant Resources, a majority owned subsidiary with power plants it the United States as well as the Netherlands. Reliant Resources also markets and trades energy in Germany, the United Kingdom, and in the United States. Reliant Energy Communications, an Internet-related division, provides Texans with Internet, data, voice, and other telecommunications services.

https://investors.centerpointenergy.com/corporate-transactio...
The audience for this tool is used to paying bills with commas in them without flinching. It’s not an office catering case where people have a firm anchor to some high-single digit price that includes the food. The office drinks bill might have a comma in it, but the water and electric bills almost surely do.

My gut is people are responding positively because they see it as so insanely underpriced as to be not worth worrying about.

For one thing, no one who sees $6 of value won’t see $10 of value, so you could raise prices 67% right there. (Maybe there’s an odd person who sees $5 and is willing to pay $6.) You might even find more takers at $100-200/desk/month than $6/user/mo. It’s easy for them to budget; it solves a problem they have; you might look more credible or easier for the office manager/harried HR person who doesn’t care if they pay $120/mo for 20 users or $400/mo for 4 desks. Those numbers are “the same” for office managers.

Look up patio11’s general advice (tl;dr: charge more) and take it to heart. Best.
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> Having trouble scheduling meetings because “it's the new Yoga instructor lesson I cannot miss” or “I’m taking a personal day” drove me crazy. The worst thing is that this was inline with the policies and norms - I was the weirdo who wanted to push things fast and expected some level of personal sacrifice when needed.

As someone who originally worked 3 years of retail, I can relate to this feeling. To be clear, I don't (and did not) advocate for working on weekends or any crap like that but I had that feeling of looking over my shoulder in fear for quite a long time.

As a bit of context, retail has slow creep to it where it can slowly consume your life if you're not careful. Everything is always understaffed so "Can you please just work another day" starts out as a feel good "I want to help" but quickly turns into an implicit expectation. If you start turning it down, nothing happens but socially, you feel like you're letting the team down.

A lot of it comes from the feeling of "We're the underdogs", even if it's intra-store such as the storemen (people who work in the loading bays) being understaffed and feeling like the underdogs compared to the grocery/longlife department.

Anyway, when I started out in tech, I was arguably pretty paranoid and couldn't understand why everyone seemed so nice (in comparison). What do you mean there's a gym? How can you just wander upstairs to the vending machine or to go for a nap without restrictions? I never outright asked these things and I understood it on a business and social level but I could never overcome the feeling that I'd get caught out one day and held up as letting everyone down in some way.

I suppose it helps to point out that at the bottom end, a night shift worker had doused themselves in petrol only to not have it in them to follow through. My manager (23 at the time as was I) told me the story in the morning, he ended his recount by chuckling and saying "I guess he couldn't even do that right".

While my current employer is more traditional (read: corporate) to some extent, I sort of wish I had taken more advantage of those opportunities, even if I didn't understand them. I'm sure having a nap every so often would probably help. I can confirm that, as someone who is simply an average developer, that not taking breaks doesn't really seem to be very effective, haha.

Beats me if this comment is insightgul in anyway but I guess something something work life balance is good?

One last thing: Something I found fascinating recently is that Dave Cutler (the NT kernel architect) always took his holidays religiously. That surprised me given my false assumption is that someone who churns out that much work (and is considered a craftsman) must surely be going all out. Personally I hate the idea of hustle culture but it's hard not to be affected by it.

If anyone can speak to the philosophy behind people who also religiously take holidays, I mean, on one hand it's clearly obvious that rest is good but I feel like it'd be helpful to read more about it anyway as someone who has struggled greatly actually relaxing :)
That's such a crap approach to marketing a product.
I live in Australia, so have a dog in this fight.

I'm kinda excited to see how this pans out. I don't use FB for news, that's not what a "social network" is for. It's for keeping in touch with friends, sharing photos, etc etc.

Because I don't interact with news on FB, I already see very little of it, but I'm hoping this change makes FB the place for sharing our lives again, as opposed to just sharing links to media that I can find through other sources.

I somewhat wonder if FB is looking at this as a test subject of what happens if they were to block links to external content? What if FB only shared stuff from FB. Would that be so bad?
The ability to run arbitrary software on a computer is not required to call it bug-free. You can't safely run whatever software you want on the computers in your car, for example.
Remember when you had to rent a telephone from Ma Bell in order to use the phone service that you paid for? Yeah neither do I because the government broke that shit up like they were supposed to.

I bought this iPhone and I can't even run my own programs on it without asking for Apple's permission. This needs to be outlawed yesterday.
Nice! I googled the Android version and it's *#*#4636#*#*

But the CID from that screen doesn't match the website, there must be some kind of conversion required.

Edit: also escaped asterisks
Urbit: The Good, the Bad, and the Insane
I'm unfamiliar with their criticisms. Can you elaborate?
Doesn't surprise me. Doing a great job and making great progress does not guarantee success or security.

A team, program, department, or studio could be doing a great job - but if it no longer aligns with the organization's strategic priorities, it has to go.

If you refuse to axe things that don't make strategic sense just because they're doing well, you'll end up with a confused, directionless mass of expensive high performers. Not great for the bottom line.
The situation degraded so far that it actually gives me a benefit. Ubisoft and EA now offer cheap subscriptions, so I never actually have to buy a game from them again; I just pay a low price once a year for a month or two of access. Why wait for Assassins' Creed: Valhalla at 75% off when I can play it now for less (and it is still cheaper in the rare cases I want to play something a second time). EA even seem to be getting in bed with Microsoft, with the XBox for PC premium subscription thing gaining EA access, so I expect that platform may actually die sooner rather than later and get folded into XBox (which seems to use the built in Windows store distribution). I really can't fathom how the divisions at the big companies running these stores can justify their existence, where trying to maximize their share of the market appears to just be driving it into the ground.
MultiBrush turns open sourced Tilt Brush into a social VR experience
Maybe the whole mastery of storytelling is overrated per se. They were talking about how they build on their own experience, an epiphany - which is the essence of what they try to express. When I think of the great books and movies that I love I hardly remember the whole stories, but more a certain idea, scene or mood.

And thus doesn't that mean that the stories are merely vehicles, like mechanical means to transport.
> It has to do with access to a large market which I am being restricted from.

Wait - what App do you want to sell that won’t allow?
You need a lot of participants because the expected outcome is that you inject a novel foreign substance into billions of people. At some point, you have to test for safety too, and very small trials are not good for that.

And again -- the backup therapeutics that enable any challenge trial were not broadly available until a month or two before vaccines went into wide deployment. (You will note that nobody is volunteering for a challenge trial for any drugs or vaccines for our other ongoing pandemic, HIV. Lack of backup therapeutics is a big reason for that.)
>we have a decent batch of politicians come along that are both principled to want to do something beyond just pandering to whoever is loudest

I think this in turn can only happen if we abandon the idea that markets should be the main mechanism by which we regulate society (and by extension, politics). This kind of collective (ideally sensible) risk-taking requires a debate centered on shared values, rather than just material outcomes.

On another note, it is really nice to see that I'm not alone in having these thoughts. Thank you for your comment. :)
The fact that there is a reference to 'idols' I think the target market is tweens.
Wait but it’s trivial to record a Clubhouse session.
Except as soon as it becomes a remotely feasible action (with simple instructions) for the general consumer, a bunch of businesses will start requiring their users to disable "default Grandma mode". Imagine onboarding for Netflix including a pleasantly designed screen saying "Before you can use Netflix, you must Enable Third-party Stores. Go to Settings > Privacy..."

If that comes to pass, there will be no highly-guarded, highly-moderated mobile OS to choose from. Apple has tremendous resources and expends tremendous resources, under pressure of tremendous incentives, to moderate it well. Do you think Third-party app stores will be moderated better or worse on average? Not just with respect to content decisions, but privacy, security and the works.

There is a very reasonable case that having a solidly-guarded and moderated mobile OS as an option in the market is good for consumers. It may boggle the tech-savvy mind, but another way of reading the incredibly successful 10 year history of this horribly locked-down, oppressive OS is that the market has spoken. And it's happy.
Ugh. Powershell takes several seconds to load. Sometimes 5 to 10 seconds to load, which is forever, if you just want to run a simple command.
To be a little more precise, I think the conditions are

1. The job is incredibly rewarding, both in terms of money and fame.

2. There are thousands of pretty much equally qualified people for the job.

Here the "hiring manager" clearly has enormous leverage.
> just like what the parent pointed out about Java and it's memory safety promises back in the day.

I'm kinda confused by this. Java is an extremely popular language and dominated web services for decades.

> you only ever hear about the rare, high profile mistakes.

It's more like we constantly hear about these mistakes. Rare? What constitutes rare? Monthly CVE reports from every browser vendor?

It's just so strange to me that you would say it's rare lol it's just... so wrong?

As for memory safe C/C++ code, again, it's just kind of so absurd. Think of how much time and effort goes into testing, fuzzing, and improving C++ code from companies like Microsoft, Google, AWS, etc, and how they're still finding issues all the time. Literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year are spent on this - cutting edge, new research and tooling are developed just for this problem and it's still there.

But you're saying it's rare and actually not a problem? How do you reconcile the very public, very frequent issues with this idea? How do you reconcile companies pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into this, still discovering issues, with the idea that someone somewhere is for sure just doing it way better and it's totally memory safe?
That just highlights the repercussions though - to speak freely you need to resort of mostly anonymous discussion (and maybe consider using Tor to make sure you're extra anonymous).
We can surely learn a lot by looking at the past, but it would be foolish to apply it 1:1 to the present/past.

I feel like all the big utopian ideologies that dominated the minds of people around WWI have more or less disappeared, replaced by money.
It’s a nice surprise to check HN and have my project featured on the front page.

Thanks polm23 for posting and everyone else for the nice words!
Just wear an airbag-suit or wingsuit when you enter a plane.
(2015)

from at least five years ago

here's some other discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735895
E-ink only actively uses power while it's changing the content on the screen. Assuming you want a static image, e-ink can outlast that easily while using virtually no power. Mine lasts for five years now even though it's "on" the entire time (because even when it's locked, it displays a wallpaper).
Not my cup of tea but just brainstorming of having a mixture of Last.FM with listening to 'someone's' recent playlist would be cool.

E.g.
'I am 60% similar to you in taste, I can now listen to the last 24 hours of what you've "publicly aired"'

Does Last.fm premium do that? I'm yet to find a music platform that you can rate music, listen, share and socialise effectively. Last.fm is too focused on scrobbling.
> Laws on the public record exist to serve the general good and skirting them is indicative of taking actions you know will be met with general criticism and can't be justified.

Well, the counterargument is that it's indicative of taking actions that you know will be met with general criticism and can be justified.
This sounds like an ungenerous interpretation of the parent. They are saying - all humans do good things and bad things. You are attacking the argument - all humans are the same. Those two assertions are totally different.
There are no ethical issues when the subjects are fully willing volunteers who have had the risks properly explained and emphasized to them. As some have mentioned, if people can volunteer to risk their own life for the army, then why not for this? (The experiment must, of course, fully quarantine the volunteers who are given an infectious disease (cancer is not infectious, ebola is) until they're recovered (or dead); otherwise they'd be risking more than just the volunteers' lives.)
Nice that's a cool idea!
Wow look at south korea!
It was a major issue around 2016, remember?
There are a plethora of examples. Republicans who disagree with Trump are getting labeled "RINO" and censured by their parties.
That’s fair. Maybe I tend forget a lot of the issues older Android versions had.

I always had Samsungs, never remember any issues with them getting hot, maybe that was an HTC problem? I think my first android was a Samsung Galaxy S3. Now that I think about it, I do remember a lot of weird bugs and restarts to fix some issue.

After that I had a Note 4 & 5, and I really have high opinions of those. I kept the 5 for over 3 years I think it roped out at Android v8.x and it was pretty good, but still not as reliable a iOS at the time I’m sure. I recently got one of those cheap Samsung tablets & I must say I’m impressed with Android v10.

I switched to iPhone a couple years ago out of curiosity mostly. It’s fine. Doesn’t blow me away, but you’re right. Super reliable. There are things I miss about my Note, and things it did better, but also things about the iPhone I would miss if I went back. Mostly the seamless and sync between my MacBook Pro/ iMac, and effortless wireless file sharing with airdrop are amazing.

As a dev, I do like to use a Linux box for daily use so I’m with you there :)
Classic false dichotomy. Do you really think that any software not blessed by Apple must be necessarily malware?
It's all personal preference. Some prefer to keep their email inbox strictly for personal communication, and the regularly scheduled third party content in one place in their feed reader.
You solve it by allowing sideloading (which necessarily means isolated islands can be created too, but that is not the point)
There is a big difference between signing up willingly to be a test subject for a specific disease, where you are more or less aware of the risks and accept them of free will, versus being experimented on without choice in the matter. GP was talking about former, you are judging the latter.