skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello Adobe marketing team.

Adobe replaced 600usd a piece software for 80usd subscription. The reason for it was because most people use like two pieces and upgraded once in 5+ years. Why? Because there are essentially no new features that have any value. Especially in print industry its basically ransom thanks to adobe's complete monopoly.

Btw it's not even monthly subscription. You can only get 1year contract that you pay of month by month. If you decide stop after two months you gotta pay rest of that 960usd. Lovely.
> You're conflating content targeting with headline writing. Those are two separate points.

No.

>Just because you don’t have a good metric for something doesn’t mean that what you can measure is better.
Certainly, if a metric is 'bad' in that it is not producing results, nobody wants to waste their time and keep using it. However, the engagement metric is producing results for many folks. Do you disagree with that?

This is meaningless to agree with or disagree with since the value of the results is what is in question.

>A metric can simply lead to bad results, and thefore be a bad metric.

> Anything "can" lead to anything. That doesn't really make for much of a discussion without data to examine.

So you agree that the metric could be bad.
I didn't suggest a national ID, I suggested optional 2-factor SSN. I'm well aware of the spectrum of concerns of a national ID system.
Yes, there are several Youtube videos with reviews of the device.
Can you share more details? Kind of cool to hear linux being deployed in non technical businesses.
Sure, it's an expense, but it's one that provides actual security. Instead of this "it runs on a phone and google says it's secure"-nonsense. Banks know people's phones rarely get updated.

When I started using online banking in what must have been 1997 or so, I accessed the bank using a browser, client side certificate and a passphrase. It seems like ever since then, security has steadily declined in favour of "ease of use". Which rubs me the wrong way, because we really should have increased the ease of use of security instead!
Where I previously lived, the geese ran the park. One did not simply visit their park. They often blocked the main road through town.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-15/riddells-creek-geese-...
Schools are required by law to file 1098-T tuition statements with the IRS for almost all students.

That requires collecting social security numbers.
Well, the top comment says they waited for 6 months until they requested a chargeback. The grand parent says they got theirs after 7 months. Not a contradiction.

The have been numerous such alternative phone and tablet projects during the last 12 years or so. Crowding funding or with a bit more of a commercial touch. All have failed to to deliver on time I would claim. Many if not most have failed to deliver at all. I would not call the founders dishonest. But whoever starts such a project lacks realism. It's incredibly complicated to make a phone, let alone a good one.

(I don't say the world would be a better place without optimists and over-optimists.)
Incorrect - you can mortgage them. You just need lenders that do it. Our community recommends 4 lenders that all do mortgages on these properties. The APR is higher than conventional, but it can still be worth it.
I’m not sure if rewriting applications in bash should be considered an improvement...
https://twitter.com/astarasikov/status/568825996532707330?s=...
Interview with Jeremy Evans, Lead Developer of Sequel and Roda
That video is bullshit (and Vox is a publication that in Feb 2020 was pushing the "just a flu" narrative).

The effectiveness is measured as 1-(Nnotinfected / (Ninfected + Nnotinfected)).

The video claims that when the study was done during the surge or in "other countries", the effectiveness might be different because Ninfected is higher, which makes no sense at all, since the probability of the vaccine protecting you shouldn't change based on how the virus is spreading in the general population.
For a set of 100 placebo and 100 vaccinated, even if all 100 are infected, the vaccinated segment should be as protected as possible. 95% efficacy means only 5 in the vaccinated are infected. 66% efficacy means 50 in the vaccinated are infected.
Is an SSN really "useless", though? The problem is that the heaviest costs of stolen identity are borne primarily by the individual victim, not by the company which got hoodwinked.
Sorry for breaking the snarky-rule. I guess I'm still too touchy about that issue.
Also: Big thank you to you and the other mods for keeping this place civil!
Could we also please specify how remote a remote position is? It's a waste of time for both sides when a position is advertised as remote but constrained within a specific country or state.
would be cool to team up with those duck localities and setup webcams somewhere there.
I think that it's closed so that you are forced to receive an invitation to join, and to send an invitation you have to give the app access to your phone's contacts (at least on iOS when I looked at it, quickly uninstalled). There were a number of dark patterns utilized to try and get elevated permissions and access to contacts.
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Not perfect but much much better than before. I can give you two personal examples of how even small stuff that used to be ignored now demand attention:

I installed a game that had a bug (opt-in to tracking wasn't working so tracking was always on). Lots and lots of users complained in the game developers forum but nothing happened. Not even a reply. I and a few others wrote emails to the support mail and nothing. Then I threatened with GDPR months later and two days later support was on my case and my data was deleted from both their system and the third party they used for tracking.

Here in Denmark businesses aren't allowed to receive updates from the CPR registry (like SSN) if you aren't a customer anymore. It's used for stuff like banks automatically getting your new address if you move. Historically sending mails to those that didn't remove you from their updates didn't do anything. Now they run quickly as soon as they read "GDPR".

There are big businesses that get away with things they shouldn't but by far the most problems can now be resolved, even small stuff that big businesses before didn't lift a finger to fix where the little man had no chance in hell. Now they (we!) do.
That's actually not what this blog post was talking about. That's a separate issue. My commentary can be found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26636227 , and see the grandchild as well.
Isn’t a better analogy to compare BTC to pets.com and crypto (the technology) to the web?
I'm very skeptical that schools are quite safe.

See https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1346362159446577154

Some key quotes:

Here is a study carried out across >200 countries that showed that among all interventions studied, closing educational institutions was the 2nd most effective. Importantly, the impact on R was similar for pre-school, primary & secondary school settings.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0

Another study of >131 countries showed that among different interventions studied, one of the highest changes in R (R ratio) between introducing an intervention & lifting it was for school closures:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

There are more good quotes and citations in that thread, it's worth a read.

Anecdotally, the amount of times I've been sick since my daughter enrolled in public school has been mind-blowing. The notion that kids are somehow impervious to contracting this, or don't bring it home to vulnerable family members, would mean this virus behaves very differently from all the other upper respiratory diseases commonly seen out there. That's certainly possible, but based on what I've observed -- for example, I'm 99% certain the coronavirus vector that got me was a child -- it just doesn't pass the smell test with me.

(Edit: Moved this from downthread)
"Go is one of the HN darling languages"

It's def not the case, I spend too much time here and on Reddit and people are always complaining about Go ( generics, errors, type system etc ... ), if you want the godly language it would be Rust, anything about Rust will be upvoted.

As for Java, it's a good language / runtime that is overly complicated behind layers of abstraction. Take Spring for examnple, magic everywhere, add an anotation there and it does x.y.z, you can't see it in the code but it does something.
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I wholeheartedly disagree with this.

Socialization is not the primary point of work , I very much hope I'm able to work remote forever after the pandemic ends. I've been able to save an insane amount of money these last few months, and I don't want to give that up so I can talk smack at the water cooler.

If you want to socialize go to a concert, go to a Meetup Group. With millions of people facing eviction, seems rather childish to complain that you miss the camaraderie of the office.
There is a comment further down saying they received theirs 7 months after the promised delivery date.

So not a scam, but certainly over-optimistic promises.
For anyone reading the above comment and thinking "Well maybe for your product, but my product is so great once people see it they will buy it"

You are setting yourself up for a hell of a sales problem.
Geese are pure evil. I would settle for swans though.
I wanted to add a location but I can't get the location on the website itself? Why not just coordinates anyway?

Too much effort.
Typosquatting is not illegal regardless, and trademark protections do not extend to every conceivable variation of a companies trademark. All they can do is throw lawyers at it and hope you don't fight. This is still theft of the domain, and at a minimum they need to be compensated for the domain if it will not be returned.
I almost hate to say it, but compare the benefit of silicon valley startups to broader society and the benefit of bitcoin to broader society. So, either way, lucky duckies get mega rich, richer than anyone should be, but at least the SV stuff usually actually does something.
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Samsung used to make these for their flagships, but stopped after the Galaxy S8 in 2017. I had the case for the GS7, it was pretty good if expensive at CAD 70.

After 2 years though it started missing keystrokes, and I needed to take it off and clip it back on to get it to work.
Front End Developer/Designer (6 month Contract)

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Per capita. Florida did anomalously well given its seemingly poor handling of the situation. It's likely related to the fact that California has 3 of the 10 biggest cities in the US while Florida has 0, but that doesn't seem like enough to fully explain it.
People learn differently. Not everybody can learn on their own, especially not when encountering something like programming.

I went to a bootcamp and the network isn't what I paid for. The network hasn't given me much at all. I had a mix of previous self-learning experience, and decided to do a bootcamp to get more serious about it. It was definitely beneficial and the investment paid of 5x within two years.
I clicked the link thinking of this SBemail and hoping somebody made a playable version of the game. It's a shame the easter egg on the end isn't playable post-Flash.
> the gold standard, for example, contributed in some ways to The Great Depression

Most people don’t realize this. A great book on the topic is Lords of Finance which outlines how the gold standard made the Great Depression truly great.

Even during covid, I don’t think people realize just how fundamentally important Fed actions were to basic things like keeping food on grocery store shelves.
"Google is limiting what apps can use the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission that “gives visibility into the inventory of installed apps on a given device.” "

Sounds like it already is. Google Play is simply changing its policy on which apps may request that permission.
The Standard Notes clients, server, and extensions are open source (AGPLv3 license):

https://github.com/standardnotes

There is an empty repo for Notesnook:

https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook

Will Notesnook also become open source, or will it remain proprietary?
In house developed builder in Reacts + Typescipt + JSON schema, we buildt is to be part of our SaaS offering to our clients.
My wife and I decided to take different vaccines. I got Moderna and J&J for her, primarily as a hedge if they have different efficacy against different variants.

Especially important since we have kids.
Indiana here, I can get Moderna at most sites nearby, Pfizer at Walgreens/CVS, or J&J by driving to Indy
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yeah, this makes sense, especially all the power they've consolidated, hope they unionize already.
Dark matter could be made of black holes from the beginning of time
It is, but you have to do some extra configuration to hide the type of GPU from the guest OS. It doesn't matter what you call the card, either, so I usually name it something like "fuckyounvidia"
Perhaps this example will make it more obvious:

boolean truthy = false;
truthy = null; // compilation failure, type mismatch

vs. the Boolean type

Boolean truthy = new Boolean(false);
truthy = null; // compiles just fine

The reason Boolean (and other boxed primitive types) exist is because it is an Object (a reference type) and that allows them to be used in things like collections that expect Objects and not primitive types.

Looking at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/401 it's not totally clear to me at the moment how you can use ValueTypes (primitive keyword) in Collections. Might be that you'll need to take a reference to them with Type.ref (but I need to read 401 in more detail to understand that).

Hope that helps.
What do you expect a bash language server to be written in? Bash?
You use the price of some common basket of goods. Most participants in an economy are chiefly interested in the price of goods and services, after all, not other currencies. Of course, choosing the basket of goods and adjusting it over time is a little tricky...
I guess the "pro"s I'm referring to are how bitcoin is revolutionary. It's still 1st-gen , so it's "old" tech . Sure it's been largely superceded by modern designs, but you were comparing it to the central banking system and dollars.
Are remote teams growing slower?
The results were that co-located companies tend to perform better in the 1M to 10M, and 10 to 75M range. the dealbreaker here can be the spontaneous collision of ideas. we’ve also seen teams struggling with lack of communication, delays in productivity, and isolation. We think that a real-time, frictionless connection can solve the problem.
Sorry, I meant "was the obvious choice". But the sad path is exactly that. Great solution. Too complex. Oblivion.
By this definition, the mRNA vaccines aren't genetic engineering. They don't manipulate the organism's genetic material. They borrow the machinery that the organism uses (downstream) when doing stuff with its genetic material.

When I borrow your kitchen to cook my own recipe, I don't alter or even look at your cookbooks.
> Well, there is the view that the “left” in America has always been the party of racism - in the mid 19th century the democrats were pro slavery, in the early 20th century they were promoting eugenics[1], in the mid 20th century it was the democrats that had to be cajoled/bribed/whipped to get the civil rights act passed, not the republicans

the Democrats weren’t, even relatively between the two major parties, on the left, until the partisan realignment that started with the New Deal coalition (usually characterized as the US’s Fifth Party System) and hadn’t really completed before being overlayed with another realignment triggered by Johnson’s 1968 move on civil rights and completed around the mid-1990s (the US’s Sixth, and current, Party System).

> People like to promote the idea that the parties “switched” at some point in time, but looking at the history of the US since the civil war, it’s hard to see where that would have happened in any meaningful way.

On economic issues, its pretty easy to pin the starting point of the major shift to 1932, though obviously there had to be some lower-level shifts to enable that from-the-top shift. Before that, the Democrats and Republicans were both on average more to the right than the post-1932 Democrats, and neither was clearly right-or-left of each other (they both had fairly broad left-right spans, which remained true for some time after the realignment started; they were more regional and less left-right ideological splits.)

On race, in the same way, its very easy to clearly pinpoint 1968 as the pivotal moment. (And just look over history at which major parties rallies are most likely to see people proudly waving symbols of the confederacy, or which party has intellectuals arguing that American slavery was good for Blacks, or which party is actively imposing voting restrictions with the overt intention of reducing Black turnout, and which parties presidential candidates have been actually endorsed by the KKK, and the idea that the parties have not switched on this is revealed as ludicrous.) Also important is that (unloke the temporary split of the Dixiecrats previously), the Republicans actively exploited disaffection among White racists from the Democrats after 1968, appealing to them and flipping them over time to supporting Republicans. This was an actual reversal, not the adoption of a new axis of differentiation, and is directly thr cause of why the South flipped from solidly Democratic to become solidly Republican, except where inroads in black voting later weakened that.

For both, the final major wave of shifts of members-in-government-office that can be viewed as essentially completing the realignment occurred just after the 1994 midterm elections.
Yes and even a bit more selection bias, in that it's more interesting to write about the weird (bad) places.

(If nothing weird (bad) happened, in a way there's nothing to write about?)
Java 16 Stream MapMulti
> If Taiwan is properly regarded as a domestic issue.

It obviously isn’s because Taiwan had long standing treaties with the US for its defense.

Your analogy implies that Taiwan is part of China, and has already started a civil war by making alliances with a foreign power.

If Taiwan was part of China and is not already engaged in a civil war, they would not have been able to make these treaties.
The biggest worry would be a new vaccine-resistant variant at this point, right? From my limited understanding, the big biotech companies involved can respond relatively quickly, but it may become a game of whack-a-mole.
There IS a lot of data even at the very first boot: unique device ID, IP address, MAC address, location, SSID, etc. It can be used to track you later on.
The complete disconnect from reality? How much of that money is going to be available to Gamestop to turn their business around? How is this different than gambling on horse races except that instead of horses you have corporations?