skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I think I'm making an arbitrary decision that isn't necessarily the obvious best one, I try to explicitly point that out to my coworkers. "I really like this idea over the others, but I am definitely biased for x, y, z reasons. Since I'll likely be the one doing the work, I'd obviously prefer to do it that way. Is that foolish in this case, or would folk generally be okay with it? I'd love it if somebody tried to change my mind."

Half the time I end up getting mind changed, and the final result, while still arbitrary, is better than any of the original plans would have been.
Awesome explanation! For a complete outsider (like me) it is very hard to understand the value creation process in these kinds of jobs. The argument of the tightest deadline makes most sense to me, as it also explains the comparatively large idle times that one hears about occasionally (“face time”)
What barrier of entry? We've already had notifications on the web for 6 years, and the experience isn't what you describe. It's far more common for me to run into a website asking me to install a native app than it is for me to see websites asking to display notifications. Nobody wants to be forced to install a native app to order a pizza or check their bank balance. It's better if we can do those things on a website without installing an entire application.

> The app experience is almost always better

Strong disagree. Even on iOS native apps are more invasive and have fewer privacy controls than a website does. That's why all of these websites want you to install apps. Facebook isn't asking you to install their app because it'll be a better experience for you, they're asking you to install their app because then they can request contact permissions.

> 0) [...] 1) [...] 2) [...] etc...

This is just nonsense. You're arguing that configuring a browser to default-deny permission prompts is a worse experience than getting badgered to install a completely separate application every single time you visit Reddit.

And to your point on advertising, this is a good reason to have an app environment that supports competent adblocking. Neither Safari nor iOS provides APIs to do that for websites or for native apps.

This all kind of boils down to, you have an environment with less sandboxing, less privacy, less granular permissions, and a longer install process (visit a site, switch apps, download and install a new app, switch apps again, then uninstall and clean up when you're done); but it's OK because the process of building an app is so cumbersome that a lot of businesses won't bother? This may not be the persuasive argument you think it is.

I mean, you can tell me all you want that notification prompts are worse than the current system of websites constantly asking to exit the website and install a new thing that gives them native file access to my phone, but... I browse the mobile web. I know what the mobile web is like from day-to-day experience, notification prompts are not the reason that the mobile Reddit website is annoying to use.
I appreciate the richness you bring to inference.
Prior to Covid, I visited former GDR several times.

Places like Hoyerswerda are the worst German-speaking communities I ever saw, the spirit of hopelessness permeates everything.

Even in cities like Görlitz that were restored to their original beauty, the loss of population has been so enormous that entire building blocks are empty, the windows blinded by years of dust. Ghost neighbourhoods, very untypical for Europe.

Zittau on the Czech border has lost like a third of population within thirty years. Many of the remaining residents are over 70.
It's strange to me that several references to Jackson, Adams, and DeBlasio's non response during the start of 2020 aren't paired with a similarly withering criticism of the then-chief executive who didn't even encourage mask wearing and pushed reopenings that we know are dangerous for aerosol spread, namely full capacity indoors restaurants and bars.

I don't dispute some restrictions are silly - closing playgrounds outside comes to mind, but they were reopened in my city once it became clear aerosol spread maskless indoors is far more dangerous than fomite transmission or masked aersosol transmission outdoors. Ultimately that is following the science.
I wonder, too, if it's susceptible to literally _any_ dust rendering the key mostly useless. This, coupled with the failed promise of innovation via the touch bar, were huge factors in deciding to ditch macbooks and bite the bullet of development on WSL.
The issue isn't nights or weekends. The issue is: constant lack of organisation (i.e. everything is urgent and last minute), and not hiring enough staff.

I don't think anyone has a problem with working at night or weekends. The issue is working at night or weekends when you also worked during the day and week. Again, just hire more staff. This isn't a hard problem.

Suggesting that this problem can only be solved by working junior staff 100-120 hours a week is ludicrous. Are these junior bankers so rare and talented that you can only hire one to change a title font size from 12 to 14 at 4am on Saturday? Smh.
The whole point of this research is to early study on unknown aspects of game's design and its consequence on user behaviors and game balance. AI should be able to find and exhibit game play unexpected to the designer, which is not easily achievable with a tight control given to game designers. It's more of systematic state space exploration, not making AI fun to play with.
If only there was a way to don't sell to miners, botters, scalpers... just to regular people who want to play videogames
Sometimes though one falls in love with these things young and it's a life long maturing and appreciation. When I re-read things I always find new things, or new perspectives. The nuances I understood at 25 didn't diminish the impact of a book on me at 15, the way reading it at 35 didn't make it seem like it was wasted on 25 year old me.
I had previously built a rails app using Shopify CLI and it failed review due to some endless cookies loop that I could not reproduce caused by their gem. In the end, I just rolled my own OAuth / user database / Billing - but talk about a waste of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Romance,_LLC
$9.99 a month..

Why would an app like this require a subscription and not a one off payment.

I think many small developers are taking cue from large enterprises on how to price products without thinking it through. There was another similar discussion about a YC macOS notification widget company the other day.
I very much doubt that. There is no serious movement with that goal.
China's new coal power plant capacity in 2020 more than 3x rest of world's
You seem to be labouring under some pretty egregious misconceptions. I am not signing into something from my phone. The flow is:

i try to log into gmail/google docs/whatever on my laptop's browser.
Google sends my phone, tablet, any other mobile device I own a notification.
if someone taps that notification, the laptop's browser is logged in, with no 2fa.

There's no such thing as a phone-wide google account on iPhones. There are google made apps, which completely fuck the security for your google account.
Considering most Germans alive today experienced the (1990) unification and the political climate during that time, it's a bit weird to ask four non-German historians.

This question would be better posed to politicians of that time, many of which are retired now, but still alive.

I can guarantee the answers would be more interesting for sure.
I don't think they are, although I'm happy to be corrected if mistaken. It seems to me it's just a poorly named machine. How is this different from a press?
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-e...:

After speaking with many of those involved and examining previously classified British and German documents in detail, SPIEGEL has concluded that there was no doubt that the West did everything it could to give the Soviets the impression that NATO membership was out of the question for countries like Poland, Hungary or Czechoslovakia.

On Feb. 10, 1990, between 4 and 6:30 p.m., Genscher spoke with Shevardnadze. According to the German record of the conversation, which was only recently declassified, Genscher said: "We are aware that NATO membership for a unified Germany raises complicated questions. For us, however, one thing is certain: NATO will not expand to the east." And because the conversion revolved mainly around East Germany, Genscher added explicitly: "As far as the non-expansion of NATO is concerned, this also applies in general."

Shevardnadze replied that he believed "everything the minister (Genscher) said."

Edit: https://books.openedition.org/ceup/2759?lang=en says:

In the session with Baker on February 9, 1990, Gorbachev discussed various forms of German unification and association with NATO. Although he could not accept it publicly, he agreed with Baker’s argument that the presence of U.S. troops in Europe was a factor in overall European stability, which implicitly meant accepting the idea of Germany’s eventual membership in the Western alliance. It was during this conversation that Baker offered Gorbachev guarantees (that is the word used in the Russian memorandum of conversation—garantii) that NATO would not “spread an inch eastward,” and the Soviet leader accepted the statement as sufficient on the basis of the trust he felt had been built between him and the U.S. leadership—never asking for a written pledge. Gorbachev’s reasoning could partially be explained by the domestic dilemma he faced: how could he tell the Politburo that he had asked for written guarantees that NATO would not expand to the territories of the Warsaw Pact while the Pact was still in existence? That would have meant he had already accepted the idea that the socialist alliance was on its deathbed. In this conversation, Baker was not trying to mislead Gorbachev in any way; he was merely expressing the official position of the U.S. government at the time, which was fully shared by other Western leaders, talking specifically about the NATO presence on East German soil, but by implication also about any future expansion. However, the Bush administration would change that position very soon—without providing any notification to Gorbachev.
Introduction to Dion – The How and Why of Reinventing the Wheel (2020) [video]
Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma
There are no horrible workplaces in Europe?
Your description is not of a genius but more a "commercial community organizer" who organizes people and then negotiates between a company looking for cost reductions and State&Federal Governments to subsidize.

This is not genius-level but is the blending of two skills, a charismatic Administator, who can temporarily suspend disbelief, and a Fundraiser. Each of those takes a ton of work. I'm not minimizing Musk's dilligence in any way, but there are lots of people who can do those activities at high levels. The difference is that most people can't survive their tweeting SEC violations while stoned.
Easy solution. Fat finger a couple of 0s into my account please and tell them to Foff.
No, it doesn't. That's exactly the problem. You can make CVSS say whatever you want it to.

You can see the problem on this very thread. Josh Triplett points out that (unlike the screen variant of the vulnerability), the xterm vulnerability requires user interaction: you have to select the text. And yet it has practically the maximum possible CVSS score. What does CVSS even mean if the difference between a zero-interaction drive-by RCE and one that requires an idiosyncratic user interaction is just 0.4 points?
Here's an interview with James Douma. I found it very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSS_OJJ65cY
Ahh, that makes sense!

I’m not used to the term “subsidy” used in this manner (is this a common British English usage for “fee”? In the video you use the term “fee”), but if you’re basically charging ~10% of the invoice then that’s a very different story.

In that universe, the monthly charge is basically your hurdle for support. Free / cheaper would give you more volume, but you probably don’t currently want folks who aren’t willing to pay even a few pounds a month for support. I’d still say there isn’t enough spread between those plans though.

Like the downstream comment, I feel like I’d want the fees more clearly spelled out on the pricing page. “Offer installment plans to your customers (11% fee)” or something. It would make it more clear that “oh, I’ll be using that, I should take the other plan for the 2% drop; even 1000 pounds of work a month pays for itself”.

The video makes it clear that in your UI the fees are more clear (though I might add a paragraph break when describing that the financing option is “cost to you: 11%” and the personal loan “cost to you: 0%” but then say “customers prefer the 0% interest, even with higher quotes” or something). So I think to improve your customer acquisition, you just need a bit more clarity in the pricing panel text.

P.S. thanks for the video! I think you had an editing problem though. The “let’s see the customer view” happens both at the start and again after we see the vendor-side view. (Unless that’s intentional)
The alloys used in most modern cars work harden too much to be able to bend them back into shape trivially.

Ideally, they would sell you a new front/rear casting and recycle the bent old one. I don't see this happening though as they have more motivation to hide behind "unseen damage" to sell you a new car.
Show HN: Chrome Extension Development Kit for React
Thanks for the links. I read the meta-study you cite. It seems to actually reinforce my points rather than rebut them. It does it so clearly I'm not entirely sure how you concluded the opposite.

It's a good study. They reviewed a lot of papers: 130! Despite that, the paper abstract clearly states it cannot be used to conclude anything because despite reviewing a lot of papers, ALL of them were missing critical study details. Literally despite selecting 816 articles post-dedupe and then whittling it down to 130 articles, and then whittling it down again to 49 for the final paper, none of them were usable because all of them had methodology problems! That's prima facie evidence that the medical establishment has absolutely no idea how to answer a most basic question: what actually is COVID and how accurate are the tests?

We can see the problems I'm talking about by reading further. You mention chest CTs and imply that calibrating the test against them is a common technique, vs relying on circular definitions or symptoms. That doesn't seem to be true. In fact only a single study looked at chest CTs and it had the following problem:

"Ai et al. compared the positive rate of rRT-PCR (59%) with the positive rate of Chest CT in order to draw conclusions about the accuracy of Chest CT for the diagnosis of COVID-19,7 ... In terms of quality assessment, the studies lack specific details as to how patients were classified as having suspected COVID-19 infection"

In other words, the study is useless. They calculate a false negative rate (not an FP rate) yet don't say what definition of COVID they used as the gold standard. This sort of thing seems to be totally rampant in medicine, it's ridiculous.

You said, "none of them, that I read, rely on symptoms or any other circular case definition". I don't understand that statement because the paper clearly says that virtually all of the studies did rely on circular definitions. For example:

"Eight studies ... attempted to determine the accuracy of rRT-PCR by comparing the initial rRT-PCR result to the result after multiple repeated samples from the patient submitted for rRT-PCR testing, which was called the reference standard ... Suo et al. considered a positive result of either repeated measurements of rRT-PCR or serology to indicate a positive test according to the reference standard"

That's a circular definition because the test is being calibrated against itself. The paper concludes:

"Clinical diagnosis by the case definition for COVID-19 used in the early period of the pandemic does not correlate well with positive rates of COVID-19 rRT-PCR"

In other words, COVID as initially detected (unusual pneumonia) is in fact a totally different disease to current COVID, which speaking very pedantically and technically does not actually exist at all: a disease defined as testing positive for the disease cannot be said to really exist in a meaningful, logically coherent sense.
Kids have died working these jobs. Nothing happened.
Brian Eno and Stewart Brand on Film, Music, and Creativity
Yes, they’re not stressing out the team, perhaps they have long term growth in mind.

> But we consistently did a solid day's worth of work everyday and there wasn't much juice left to continue after.

I find that a bit much, one is to expect some downtime so employees switch modes a bit, maybe do research on their own on the company time, say, maybe 4-5 hours a week. Squeezing up to the last drop, even if it’s paid and within the normal 40 hours a week, is not the best way to let your employees grow.
crucible of the moment. I like that phrase!
The post office wanted to send everyone masks, but this was nixed by the admin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp...
It's strange to me...

Not that strange. This is an article in an anti-science publication written by the editor of a right-wing paper.

The author intentionally focuses on federalism to avoid pointing any blame toward the chief executive you mentioned. It’s not an intellectually honest piece.
Mark Suster on Founder Types
Attempting to optimize the card generation process, or deck building, or just play itself seem like unbelievably difficult problems. Some effort at least has been made in the first part (see RoboRosewater) but the other two seem almost intractable, given the combinatorial explosion of possibilities in deckbuilding, the incredibly nonlinear interactions between cards (Splinter Twin is a 1/10 card, Pestermite is maybe 3/10, Splinter Twin + Pestermite literally wins the game on the spot).
“Steam have BANNED and removed Super Seducer 3 from the store.”
The iPhone SE 2020 and the iPhone 8 have the exact same screens. So it’s not your fault, it’s the lazy developers’ who can’t be bothered to sit down with the Simulator, click through the app, and fix at least the most basic glitches.

> The iPhone SE case is more concerning, because it's still for sale at the Apple Store. This means Apple is claiming it's fit-for-purpose for at least some use-cases. (Maybe that claim doesn't extend to "running apps from the App Store", though.)

Nah, Apple’s marketing copy [0] says:

> We put the brains of iPhone 11 Pro in the body of iPhone SE. Our A13 Bionic chip is built for speed. So everything feels fluid, whether you’re launching apps, playing the latest games, or exploring new ways to work and play with augmented reality.

(Also, a smartphone without third-party apps is quite useless for most users.)

[0]: https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
Problem is that the big corporations and execs pay far less tax than small to medium corporations and workers. They have extremely distorted view of money and at some point it feels they grow money effortlessly while it is a month to month struggle for workers.
This feeling of ease makes them spend money on a whim because it will grow anyway most of the time and if it won't? Oh well there is plenty of billions in the coffers.
I think once organisations that are supposed to fight corruption pull their heads out of their and start making politicians accountable and make them plug the tax holes.
When those big corporations get a dose of reality, how much effort it costs small business to earn that money, they'll spend it more carefully, but more importantly because of increased tax take it will be possible to lower the tax burden for everyone and level the playing field.
Here's a reminder: I was answering this:
"they've made HIV a chronic condition rather than a deadly disease, but I'd still like to see it eradicated with a vaccine."
note: HIV, no cancer.

There is an incentive to sell drugs for chronic conditions. Curing these conditions would cut into the profits for selling drugs for chronic conditions -- I hope it should be hard to misunderstood -- it is just a simple math (lifetime customer for chronic condition vs. a single purchase for the cure).
For sure, but most fake sounding stories online are actually fake. I would trust this if it's confirmed, by a reputable newspaper from example.
The same argument was made regarding moving from frame-on-body cars to unibody cars in the first place. It turned out that the weight and assembly savings and the increase in crash safety far outweighed the costs and risks, and that metal is pretty recyclable, so you just end up salvaging the parts you can and junking the rest.
Where do they claim to be "working productively for 95 hours a week"? And are these the "macho lies" you're referring to:

- “I can’t sleep anymore because my anxiety levels are through the roof”

- “My body physically hurts all the time and mentally I’m in a really dark place”

- “Being unemployed is less frightening to me than what my body might succumb to if I keep up this lifestyle”

It doesn't sound like this person knew the degree of abuse they were signing up for:

- “I didn’t come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm’s, but I also didn’t expect consistent 9am-5am’s either”

Nobody really signs up to be abused. They sign up because they're the sort of college grads who've handled every other challenge that's been thrown at them, and “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” doesn't sound any different.
the headphone jack is a nuisance, certainly. I've migrated to AirPods for a lot of stuff, but miss the jack and wired headphones. I did just learn about this 'reachability' thing in iOS, where you can pull down the top half of the screen to the bottom. this makes up for some of the stretching I was needing to do, but yeah, in so many ways the SE was such a good combination of qualities - size, features, etc.
Erring on the side of caution was always an option. Advising people to wear masks early on instead of insisting that hand washing is the only thing necessary could have helped. Also encouraging exercise to mitigate the effects of the virus in case you do get it is something we still haven’t risen to.
The issue with central planning has never been scaling. Back in the mid-20th century, the Soviet Union often managed to excel in scaling particular metrics that were prioritized by leadership. The issue is price discovery and resource allocation, and the ability of politics to interfere with or undermine the price discovery mechanism.

The internet has helped with market-based price discovery by acting as a source of legibility and homogenization, which allows for the mega corporations to extract a lot of the value provided by acting as monopoly providers of the platforms for price discovery. But if you look at their internal corporate economies, all of them have issues with substantial waste, resource misallocation, and politics.
Well that would be a mistake. Google should focus on acquiring as much corporate customer data as possible.
The future is in the data. Salesforce knows this, Microsoft knows this. I think Dropbox and Box know this... if they don't they should.

There are so many B2B products Google should build or enable partners to build. They've pretty much taken over the K12 education space too. My kids school day effectively runs through Google.

The main expense here is support and when you sell enterprise software you have to provide enterprise level support. Maybe that is what IT departments become now, first line Google support.