skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you shrink the website to half your screen width, the "Sign In" button goes away, and there is only "Sign Up".

Interesting, I don't see that here. I wonder if they're A / B testing layouts and my IP is locked into a specific choice.

If I open the page in Chrome or Firefox I see both buttons side by side and then if I slowly make the window smaller (starting at 2560 width btw), it eventually gets to the point where both buttons disappear inside of the hamburger menu when the buttons get too close to the left nav. The sign up button is never visible on its own.

Which browser do you use?
wow I just learned about Samsung Fold. That thing is wild. They even managed to put front facing camera behind the screen.

https://youtu.be/kMJEYDZT_JE?t=230
it took me until right now to realize that this happened to me, and that I've been using the wrong account for the last six months and I actually have two accounts... so really, at this point my "wrong" account is my real one.

The reason it happened is b/c I use email aliases for stuff I sign up for, and sometimes I forget them...
In the past few years I've come across several businesses (landscaping, home repairs, etc.) that have been communicating with me using Yahoo email addresses. Many people forget that Yahoo mail was the "Gmail" of its time, and many of those users are still around, especially non-tech oriented users and businesses who have no incentive to switch to anything else.
Rockley Photonics is the wearable-sensor company that announced Apple as its largest customer (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/05/01/apple-watc...), and is rumored to be used in a future Apple Watch that monitors glucose, blood pressure, and other biomarkers.

Slides 25-28 are mostly about their product roadmap and existing alpha customers.

(I do not have a position in or relationship with this company. This PDF is linked to from https://rockleyphotonics.com/investors/)
The most important lesson I learned in my university course on argumentation and debate is most of us have the same values, we simply prioritize them differently - and that's where most arguments stem from.

Apple provides convenience and simplicity at the price of freedom. If those align with your value priorities then you're going to like Apple. It's really as simple as that.

The fact that different people have different value priorities means there will always be multiple competitors filling those different market segments. That's why I see this Apple/Android/Linux/Windows "debate" as silly. Different people are going to make different choices based off their preferences and priorities. There's no sense in being a fan boi and defending your personal choice at all costs.
If anything it's more amazing how much it hasn't changed lately. The early days were a wild west full of market share battles and failed startups/ideas. Now the market appears mature with a few companies with strangleholds on it until perhaps a technological sea change catches them off guard.
My problems with AMP are:

1) Google clearly leveraging it to take over more of the web,

2) The scroll hijacking that made it feel worse-performing (plus just otherwise unpleasant) than middle-weight websites normally do,

3) That some of the sites I most commonly accidentally end up viewing through AMP are useless in their AMP version, so it just adds a hunt-and-click for no reason (Reddit is a big offender)

Google is one problem, one is a technical implementation problem, and the other is an ecosystem problem.
They definitely squeezed a better deal than with the sale of Tumblr last year (which went for 3 mere millions)
I believe Apollo has a big stake in several casinos. Yahoo’s sports/fantasy data is probably their most valuable & viable site. The regulatory environment surrounding online gambling, sports gambling, and daily fantasy gambling in particular has been changing rapidly and, despite being well situated from a technology standpoint, Yahoo hasn’t made much of an effort to capitalize on it. I’m guessing Apollo plans to find a way for the Yahoo sports data to work with their casinos to get on the legalized gambling gravy train.
>In addition to this, recent administrations have been actively dismantling their infrastructure.

I know it's the norm here to avoid calling out one political party in particular, but it's way past time to point out that it's overwhelmingly Republicans who are crafting regulations to ensure the post office fails and turns from a world-class institution to something that can be pointed to as an example of government failing.
When I worked at the YMCA, I remember receiving my first paycheck in the mail. This was because my bank account wasn’t all the way into their system for direct deposit yet.
I’m willing to bet for many places of employment, a physical paycheck is also the default. 6.5% of Americans don’t have a bank account, so they can’t do direct deposit at all. There is a good number of people who have always received a physical paycheck who haven’t gone through the process of direct deposit, such as my grandparents.

https://apnews.com/article/8b2b93d4e9474c418853e0f20e79aaa8
Some people don't even earn $10,000 per year, so that's probably an exaggeration. I agree that it'd be unreasonable to spend a year or even months looking for ways to save money, but if it's a few simple choices that you can make while researching what to use, it would probably be worth it! Besides, if you intend to keep a project alive, it makes sense to minimize the expenses that it'll passively incur.

The choice between using SaaS platforms (any of the managed DB services, Auth0 etc.), PaaS platforms (like Heroku), the big IaaS vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba) and just hosting most of those yourself in something like Docker containers on cheap VPSes (think Hetzner, OVH, Contabo or Time4VPS) can result in an order of magnitude less or more expenditures.
I haven't heard of anyone using yahoo for anything except to check ticker prices in years.
That's deliberately misleading. It's impossible to mine bitcoin without burning up cpu time which means energy. And every year it gets harder, by design (to control the volume of new btc).

But of course you know that. I wonder why the trollish comments.
It’s still unclear to me what exactly AOL is anymore.

With Yahoo, I surprisingly still use there Fantasy Football app along with my friends as we still find it better than what the NFL and ESPN offer.
1Password manages to handle this just fine, even without the hidden password field trick. Perhaps we just need better password managers.
I think this is not just because of viruses, but also healthy autoimmunity. Finding even your own cell internals in the bloodstream would mean there is work to do for the immune system. E.g. auto-antibodies may increase with tumor burden, as cell rupture caused by apoptosis, or necrosis attract immune cells and cascade recruitment of more, which is usually a good thing.

Anyway, AFAIK the mRNA breakthrough wasn't with the mRNA itself, but rather the delivery vehicle to avoid said immune response. I don't think your example of cystic fibrosis, and generally chronic illnesses, are prime targets for mRNA based therapy, as the genetic defect isn't causally targeted by mRNA tech. You would force all cells (with non-discriminatory vehicles) to produce the missing protein repeatedly. Much better target for gene therapy.

I don't think people see the future of mRNA in substituting into the delicate machinery of the cell continuously. I think the possible therapy target are of the type raw, simple one-hit wonders. Very much alike traditional medication approaches, with the twist of excellent drug delivery avoiding extracellular pharmacokinetics, e.g. vitamin C has very different, even antagonistic roles in the intra- vs extracellular space, and of course liver-fistpass and immunological clearance. mRNA tech is not gene therapy (although, there is of course effective overlap).
I don't really blame anyone for leaving one of Elon Musk's portfolio of companies. Reviews of Muskian company culture on sites like Reddit and Glassdoor make it seem like a very poor work-life balance.

You must be over-enthusiastic about the product and willing to work brutal overtime hours for little more than a market rate engineering salary. Hard pass.
> Are non tech companies really that foolish to think they can salvage a brand that was relevant 10 years ago and revive it?

Sure you can, though branding isn't the only way to make a successful business. Kleenex knock-offs thrive even though nobody ever says "please hand me the Generic Tissue Paper". Assuming there are professionals involved (not just rich techbros that have held on since founding) tech companies should be operated the same as non-tech companies. Build a good product, keep costs down, drive sales, put away cash, grow your market.

Once AOL and Yahoo were acquired, it should have been possible to convert them into factories for generic content and services, and service many small brands. But you need an experienced executive and management class that can do this efficiently. It's much easier to turn an acquisition into an poorly-run independent cash cow, or plunder its IP and eliminate it.

I've seen acquisitions go many ways. In some, the parent company may end up more like the acquisition because its business or product was more robust. Other times the point was to obtain some tech and absorb it into the parent company's products. Other times they just wanted a steady cash flow and a foothold into a new market. Sometimes they keep the acquisition fairly independent, because it already has a strong brand and products and they seem to be fucking up less than other acquisitions. Sometimes the companies' execs were literally just golf buddies and one just decided to help the other out of a bind. Sometimes they have no idea why the fuck they bought it or what to do with it, some moron at the top just thought "we need an X, we'll figure out what to do with it later". Sometimes
Why Power Is Getting Woke
I'd agree, if nothing ever changed and it was feasible to run them forever. But it's not. At some point (probably 2038) the whole thing will fall over and a new system will have to replace it.
I’m more so looking for anecdotal data to be honest.
Nobody argues it doesn’t exist, the take is always “there is a normal amount of inflation right now and it is good for the economy anyway”
> Is there any study on how this might change if we moved from dlls to statically linking everything?

Drew Devault did an informal one https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html

TL;DR - not at all substantially.
> and they're probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving

Absolutely no one actually working on the autonomous side of the automotive industry, myself included, believes this. Tesla is around the middle-bottom of the pack in terms of actual driverless operating capabilities. They're at the top of the pack only in marketing and reckless deployment before the tech is ready.
My "junk" e-mail address is a yahoo address.

I'd actually be a little sad to see it go, I have almost 20 years of random e-mails in there.
Is it programmer laziness, or insane demand for software due to many factors, mostly profit?

There's insane demand for games, and those programmers are able to optimise their code, insane demand for trading software and those programmers are able to optimise their code. But webdevs just don't care. I look at pages now that do nothing more in functionality than the same app would have done 20 years ago, yet they are slower now, and I have literally 1000x more CPU power. It's insane.
NFTs for Authors
The engines field is generally used for package consumers so when you do an `npm install` you know if the package is compatible with your local node version.

Pinning the Node.js version for tools like nvm is used by developers of the package or app developers who want to use the same version of node locally and in production, for example.
... because it's a colossal breach of trust. AWS has an entire staff of people whose job it is to convince clients that they can be trusted to be a safe custodian of data that includes heavily regulated types of data.

Doing this would blow a huge hole in that.

Do you really think banks are going to stay in AWS if this happens? Do you really think Salesforce is going to be OK with it? Do you think they'd ever do any US Govt business again?
The "SDC" in the article is presumably "Samsung Display Corporation", so I guess they R&D'ed the foldable display. I wonder why they wouldn't want to keep a monopoly of this tech for their own phones, and why they'd be willing to sell it to Apple...

But I guess it's clear, the iFoldPhones will sell a lot more units than the Samsung ones and Samsung will still earn that supplier money, and when Apple announces it, it'll be advertisement for Samsung's own fold phones for people who prefer Android.
> to do away with central banks due to a strange paranoia

It's not a strange paranoia. Do you know how many currencies go through hyperinflation and die?

The list is much longer than currencies that have lasted 200 years.
Lots of defense of the USPS because "important things get mailed" etc. Lets be honest: there are lots of choices these days, and the USPS is just one. One very old, very tradition choice to be sure.

It's entirely possible that the USPS could be obsolete. A few examples of niche purposes doesn't end the discussion. It just begins a new one around "How do we do that then, without the USPS?"
>Is there any real competition to USPS?

I don't understand. USPS is not a business. It's civic infrastructure. There is no way any competitor will agree to delivering a letter from one end of the country to another for $0.55.
How does the official 3.5% figure compare to your personal experience of the actual difference in price for a given item from last year?
This can happen already to you when products go out of stock, because the company doesn’t have enough capacity to produce, or they underestimate the demand, but after the company makes profit and reinvest in the next batch, they can adjust the price to balance the demand.

It’s not like you are already free to buy whatever you want, there are production limitations, and your budget limitation.

Right now big companies are allowed to give 100x better solutions at fraction of the cost, that makes imposible to other companies to compete and your freedom to buy is just not real, as many times you’ll be obligated to buy from the big fish, being the only alternative.
In the other hand limiting them, they will have to raise the prices and then it would make sense that something 100x more convenient is also more expensive.
Right now we have convenience and low cost, but it’s at the expense of killing smaller business and creating virtual monopolies.
Yahoo still ranks very high on Alexa. At 11, it's above Wikipedia(12) and just one position below Amazon (10). Reddit is at 19. Microsoft is at 21

https://www.alexa.com/topsites
I like that it's a hedge against governments printing endless amounts of money that isn't backed by anything. That was why I bought it initially. I like that it's a way to transact value over the internet without a third party like a bank.

And honestly, I like that I got 'in' early (not early enough though!).

I don't like that it's not scalable. Bitcoin SV is seen a scam since it's headed by Craig Wright (who says he is Satoshi) but I like the vision that it has. In short, it wants to be a micro transactions chain. That's another reason I got interested in Bitcoin. I don't like what I have seen of the lightning network so far.
Exactly 33 days ago I sent 8 letters from Long Island, New York. 7 of the letters were destined for New York City (a 40 min drive from its origin) and 1 letter destined for Georgia. Within the first seven days 6 of the letters arrived, 5 to NYC and the 1 to GA. Letter #7 arrived in NYC 3 weeks after being sent. As of today letter #8 still hasn't arrived or been returned.
Hey, if you can only afford a 20 year old truck, nobody's going to fault you for only buying 20 year old trucks. But there are tons of brand new $60K trucks in rural areas. Many of those people should be buying EV trucks when they become available at the end of the year. But many won't because of FUD, which we need to combat. So if you can convince one of your neighbours to buy one, maybe you can buy it off them in 10 or 20 years time.

And keep that Honda, it's a gem. Great fuel efficiency, embodied carbon long paid off. An EV would be better, but that Honda is a close second.
>I'm not here to argue

No I didn't saying you were arguing (in the negative sense of the word). I meant argue as in, argue a case, which has a neutral connotation.

>One needs at least a moderate source of protein and fats with a plentiful source of vegetables to support a healthy metabolism.

How do you know?
Because research/science said so?

Empirically, infact many people have lots of digestive problems with vegetables.
Some health problems AFAIK believe can be reliably traced to excess consumption of some vegetables.

Do you see where I'm going with this?
Nearly every grocery store in the US has third party sellers. They pay the store for shelf space, provide their own stockers, etc. It's not as different as you'd believe, because you've 'heard' of the brand names doing it.
I'm about ready to unsubscribe from the LA Times for this BS. They seemingly invalidate my login every day, then when I get linked to an article, a huge pop-up obscures the article while reading it, and despite paying them for this damn service I can never even find a way to login.

And if you do this to people just because their cookie went stale, then is this really a customer that you want to remind that they don't use your service enough? A customer that is happy paying the bill every month but doesn't use a ton of resources?

It reeks of really bad optimization of metrics: do everything possible to increase conversions, at any cost to the rest of the business. That sort of desperation is not good for retention.
Which is at least a factor 10 too low under the assumptions that fines of that size are the result of a lengthy legal process and thus that such fines are not levied more than once every few years. 4% is peanuts for a massive tech corps that can afford to take such massive hits because their margins are so huge, and their fixed costs quite controllable. As long as the risk cannot be existential, this becomes an accounting question, and the inevitable rarity of the fine unfortunately means the optimal strategy is likely to skirt as close as possible to illegality and pay the fine and ask forgiveness rather than being too proactive - that way they only need to bother with behavior changes that really matter. 4% is just too little for large corporations, at least.

Then of course there's the fact that the GDPR - possibly due to a bit of regulatory capture - very strongly encourages venue shopping, and with resources like that, bending a small venue (like Ireland) to your will even slightly is conceivably feasible, and valuable. Personally, I'm not too impressed by the implementation of the GDPR, even if the fact that it's finally on the agenda is a good thing. It may even exacerbate misuse of personal data, because the burdens it imposes are much harder to bear for small parties than for large ones; and that's a competitive moat that encourages centralization of private data, and that encourages shifting the balance of power toward the corporation away from the individual (who says no to google's privacy policy?), and the combination of "willing" users, a lax privacy policy, and huge centralization encourages misuse. Proportionally your local sports-club is likely more impacted than Google, which is absurd.
Wasabi is 5$ per TB and month.
this are theory on case of allergy rising, no? child in early times exposed to more, played in dirt, strong immune system. child today play with i pad, use school antibacteria soap, weak immune system, allergy.
Letters are a tiny insignificant fraction of the USPS traffic. Is it still important? Are there alternatives? That's very arguable (direct deposit; digital signature etc).
Pure Harvard Business School spreadsheet stuff.

Business degrees might be destroying the nation.
Taxonomy of a Web App in Go
There’s always been local politics and issues around mail delivery.

The GOP crusade against the post office is sort of like a weaponization of certain types of resentment in the south that worked it’s way into conservative media over the years at a national scale.

It’s an organization that has adapted over the centuries to new technology and needs. USPS fundamentally transformed most recently when rail-based mail sorting changed 50 years ago.

The difference now is that some people feel that government should not work.
Perhaps a cliched comparison, but Adolf Hitler didn't found the NSDAP either.
Simple Front Door Regression
> I do wish we had a "web lite" mode that we could turn on, if only for certain domains.

There are some options for activating reader view even before loading a web site[0]. I imagine it would be a pretty light lift from there, to create an extension that keeps a domain list which automatically prepends the reader view URL prefix.

The magic prefix is

about:reader?url=

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/268116/is-there-a-way-to-force-ena...
No sale unless the geometry gives vastly more screen area for 16:9 video when unfolded and is thin enough to be pocketable. Until then, iPhone Mini and laptop for me.
Linux Tool for Font Preview
This does not compute. They have the legal obligation to deliver to all addresses. Do you have an address that has been assigned by your county? Have you registered the new address with your USPS?

Your mailbox might not be at your drive way, or on your front step, but a mailbox cluster in a central location.

From the USPS (emphasis mine):
> We’re proud to provide secure, reliable and affordable service to every address in the United States, plus its territories and its military and diplomatic installations worldwide.
WordPerfect bought a little company I worked for, "SoftSolutions". Then Novell bought WordPerfect.

The combined company? NoPerfectSolutions
Before people go all ballistic, please remember that yahoo and AOL make $700 million from Mail and a billion dollars from search. AOL sells huge number of paid dialup based email accounts(for older people though). So the sale price is approximately two years of revenue. Apollo is getting it cheap!
How is that deflationary?

If the supply increases in perpetuity, that is inflationary, just at an increasingly lesser rate.
Anatomy of a Dockerfile
Downloading over HTTP also protects against data corruption in transit, because HTTP uses TCP and TCP uses CRC32 checksums.

Though those checksums are not extremely reliable and have tiny chance of being corrupted.
Maybe none? I think Netsuite is particularly slow though. Luckily I only have to use it for timesheets but even for that it should have its own job number for the time wasted waiting for it to load.
>defocuses for no apparent reason

I use Surfing Keys, a vim-like plugin for browsers. When inputs defocus unexpectedly while I'm typing all of the navigation shortcuts kick in and it's like "roll a d100 to see which random negative consequence you get." Usually I at least lose the page that I'm on and I have to start the form over.
People have done worse for less. It may not be a significant fraction of Amazon’s income but it could be a significant fraction of a sellers income or a significant fraction of sales manager’s sales.
Rural purge
Virtual Angkor (360° VR panoramas)
Mourn Geocities
Are you linking from within Facebook or Twitter? I think they have their own mini browser so your logging in outside doesn't count inside.
Ah, that's actually a significant loss. It's quite useful to be able to search for when you signed up for X or Y years ago.

Most of the time you don't need it but when you do it's really valuable - e.g. I recently recovered some tiny at the time sums of crypto that were worth a few thousands now that way.