skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a large online retailer in NL that got told they needed to change their delivery promise because that’s not a promise you can actually keep.
So it does happen, but probably not often enough.
Just-in-time manufacturing came from automotive, which has a long history of the major automakers exerting tight control over their suppliers. Really tight control, like the ability to send in inspectors for a no-notice quality audit, and the right to look at a supplier's financial records. That control has loosened in recent years, as suppliers have become bigger and not totally focused on automotive.

If you have a just-in-time manufacturing operation and your suppliers are more powerful than you are, you're very vulnerable.
Ask HN: Did HN text attributes change this weekend?
Or are my eyes just getting old? Seems like the front page is much more dense than previously.
Do you happen to have an address in California?
That what I refer to as the "Turing complete" argument. Yes, you can definitely do all of those. But almost no one does - and those that do, usually silo themselves from the ecosystem.

Yes, if you like Java, you can definitely implement a Java compiler/interpreter in C and get everything you like about Java using C. But no one does.

Thanks for the reference, I'll read about annotation processors later tonight.
This is awful. If anyone from California could verify it would be interesting.
Is it more or less exploitative than eBay watchers? Why so?
Programming a MessageBus in Common Lisp (2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013865
Like many technologies, FSD is a long hard road of complex technological development; alas, customers think it should work perfectly out of the box right now to meet lofty flippant expectations.

Your $10k got you the hardware needed to self-drive to some degree, with improvements trickling in indefinitely. Can it drive you from here to there with very little (and decreasing) intervention? What did you actually expect (serious question)?
That convo should happen.
I think this falls a little below the level of what should be a federal crime. It's an annoying usability issue, but ultimately which devices are supported is up to individual developers and not Apple. (It cuts both ways: there are some apps that aren't updated to run on the newest devices. So you could take that as Apple encouraging you to keep your old device and to NOT upgrade.)

Think about it this way: you want to haul Apple into federal court because they poorly cache app store search results on a CDN. The DoJ will have to hire new expert attorneys to prosecute this, and it could take years. That means they either stop prosecuting other federal crimes while working on that one, or your taxes increase to pay the new attorneys necessary for this case. The ultimate outcome for Apple will be paying some tiny fine that probably is less than a year's salary for a software engineer and being forced to fix their CDN setup, while the taxpayers pay millions of dollars. Best case. The worst case could be years of legal costs for the government, and absolutely nothing in return for the taxpayers.

I think you have to choose your battles, and this isn't the pick. Consumers aren't getting severely fucked, it's just kind of annoying to some people. We can use our limited tax dollars more effectively.
twitter randomly deciding that the account you created 5 minutes ago is suspicious and they will block it until you provide your phone number.

also all of medium and linkedin
They way to do this is to run the subscription though something like Google Play. Then you cancel it on Google's side.

Be wary if a company avoids Google. For example Tinder started forcing users to subscribe directly instead of using Google. This is because most people cancel almost immediately since once you subscribe you find all your matches are bots.

The entire purpose is to make it just hard enough so you think ohh it's only 10$ a month. Another trick is to offer a month free. Hulu does this. If you cancel on their website you get several pages which try to convince you to stay.

Google also makes it easy to manage all your subscriptions in one place. What is all this crap I'm paying for, I can quickly see what and delete it. Also I'm much more likely to try a service ( I'm studying Chinese right now and have used various apps) if I can do it via Google Play .
Why did you pay the $10k?
Source: https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles-in...

Apparently, drivers are given plenty of break times and are allowed bathroom breaks, but this behavior continues. I wonder what the economic impact of putting a portable toilet closet in the truck is? Each truck would have 30% less capacity? Would employees get less breaks then?
In my experience if the designers of a technology felt the need to put the words "simple" or "lightweight" in to the name, it is usually the opposite.
That should be the default, signup and cancellations should be available via the same channel.
Nope, don't think so, at least not when viewed from Firefox or Safari (iphone)
What would the scam be behind eating less meat?
So assuming no country has a name longer than 98 characters and that all country codes are 2 characters, that is over 500% overhead? Are you missing a /s in your post?
I'm guessing they mean rather than build a static Next site that generates 10k+ pages (or whatever large means in the given context), it instead creates one page that just queries the data from the client.

I have one Next static site that has about 20k pages and takes about 20 minutes to build and deploy. I think that's an acceptable build time. But I do know of other people around the net who have mentioned having sites with 20k-ish pages taking an hour+ to build. For them I could see the desire to try this sqlite trick.
Microsoft wants to reduce its Xbox store cut and shake up console gaming
"When you have root, everything is a cron job."

BSOH proverb
I gave a presentation last year on this for QConLondon (before the lock down) and afterwards for the LJC virtually, if people prefer to listen/watch videos.

https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit...
it's a little disheartening that all of the sites you link to include conglomerated tracking mechanisms, e.g., proprietary tracking for wikipedia (even if this is relatively benign), google for the latter two, plus wordpress for human-id.org.
Yeah, sorry, I saw that later. (May have seen it earlier too, but not connected it to your name as I was replying.)

But that still doesn't make my comment a strawman (because I was talking about this one specific comment), or AFAICS yours less of one: Why would you jump to "bloated Electron apps"? Sure, they may suck, but the comment you replied to was about statically linked apps; no mention of Electron at all. Unless you're saying there was, originally, and had been edited out before I saw it? If not, your reply was... OK, more charitably, at least a non sequitur.

If not, please explain how, and I'll apologise.
Ask HN: What are some examples of good enterprise software/websites?
Recently I've been using a lot of what I would call "enterprise" software. Instantly SAP and Salesforce jump to mind but I'm also talking about your favourite banking portal, insurance submission or government pages.

What are some good examples of well designed and thought through enterprise software/websites?
> there is no way to disable network traffic per app.

Latest LineageOS can do that in the same place you can restrict background data, it has options for restricting mobile, WiFi and VPN data per app.
> mRNA as a "programming language" for the body

Kinda. Programming but more like a browser JS.

You're not changing anything (your DNA) and whatever you're making is temporary and limited (especially because you can't have anything too complex or long as mRNA without that breaking up).
Interesting to Salesforce is trending in these times

Cannot wait to see “What’s Adobe?”
=)
Software devs in NZ are really badly paid.
In Canada at least, any contractor/constructing job.

Plumbers, electricians are educated specialists making very very good hourly wage but won't get same status as say IT manager.

Bonded cleaner with great references can easily be 50 bucks an hour.

Truck drivers, forklift operators have steadily been well compensated and need certified skillset but again don't get same perceived class status.

Note I'm not saying I don't / these jobs shouldn't have respect :). Question was which well paid jobs are seen as different conferring class status despite good pay and this is the general perception I've observed.
Anyone can cook ≠ everyone can cook. That distinction is the whole point.

(And Ratatouille is one of the best Pixar movies.)
Etsy users put things in their cart to bookmark them.

I haven't been there for six years now, but one of the problems I worked on at Etsy was getting people to stop using their cart as a bookmarking tool. While I was there I worked on the functionality to fave an item as well as the functionality to add items to a List of favorites. There was another tool called Treasuries for this purpose that we phased out, so there were at least three systems that Etsy built to try to help people keep track of items they like without putting them in their cart. I know when we introduced Lists, several colleagues and I worked on that functionality for a few months before it ever saw the light of day. Even so, users continued to put things in their cart "so they wouldn't forget them". It was a very frustrating result; this was the exact behavior we were hoping that Lists would eliminate.

It wouldn't surprise me if it's true that the item really is in that many carts. I would also agree that it's not useful or accurate information for you, another shopper, since an Etsy user "having it in their cart" is in many cases not a very strong signal that they will purchase the item in question. Inflating the number intentionally would definitely be a dark pattern. If that number is intentionally inflated or is known to be inaccurate or fictional, dark pattern for sure.

Whether the current functionality qualifies as a dark pattern or not is a lot harder to judge. Is it poor design? Yes. For sure. Is it harmful to the user? Again, I think yes.

Is it a dark pattern if you design something poorly unintentionally? Does that term measure intent or impact? In a legal context I would expect the measure to be intent, so in that context this is probably not a dark pattern, but HN is not a court of law, so in this context... probably yes?
> the average customer does not refill their cartridges

Yes, and this is why this rudimentary hardware DRM is sufficient for the current market. If the marketplace changes and the hack becomes easily attainable and widely used, SW DRM may emerge.
Like most highly successful enterprise software companies, their focus has definitely shifted to sales. They have the budget to fly executives around in their corporate jet and take them golfing and schmooze while using all the big talking points like "compliance". It's hard for superior, cheaper, but smaller products to compete because they have reached that "nobody ever got fired for choosing salesforce" stage.
Every single bit of Python relies on code written in C. What is it that you are trying to refute here?
Methane emissions do drop when feeding cattle grass. It's what their guts are supposed to work with.
For the experience of feeling like you were living in the future with the other cool kids.
It was only a 1/8" hole, you can't line it with much and still fit a keyring through.

Unfortunately the most obvious use case of attaching it directly to your keychain so you don't lose your keys probably won't work because in your pocket the keyring itself will act like a lever against the hole and tear the case to shreds. You really do need the overpriced accessory for that use case.
What can companies do to ease the public's worry about mRNA vaccines?

I work with a number of people who will not get an mRNA vaccine until they are better understood.
> The employees were also the ones to create that negative

Yes and? This doesn't explain why you should then trust the CEO, who took longer to come around, more than the employees. Yes they both did a bad thing. One group began addressing it first. Why trust the other group more?

> I've seen one report that a person called Basecamp culture akin to 'genocide' when that person had been an active supporter in the 'genocidal' culture themselves.

Right so this isn't what was said. They posted a diagram that contained the word genocide as a potential (very) long term outcome of not taking more minor forms of racism seriously.

The CEO took this as this person accusing him of genocide, when that isn't what happened.
Audible does not allow you to cancel through the app, and cancelling via the web takes you through two extra pages of customer retention, "Continue Cancelling", or similar.

I haven't used the Scribd app, but cancelling the service through the web similarly takes more than one extra page of customer retention "special offer" pages.
How did Dick not get fired long before if everyone thought he was terrible?

Oh right, that company did not learn the lesson of the first one, coding is not as important as being a decent person when it comes to building a team.
Would it be possible to use a datasette frontend with this as a "backend" and statically host the whole thing?
Any sources on Tesla cashing in on revenue from FSD?

Edit. I've found it: https://seekingalpha.com/filing/5494291

> Deferred revenue activity related to the access to our Supercharger network, internet connectivity, Full Self Driving (“FSD”) features and over-the-air software updates on automotive sales with and without resale value guarantee amounted to $2.00 billion and $1.93 billion as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

> Deferred revenue is equivalent to the total transaction price allocated to the performance obligations that are unsatisfied, or partially unsatisfied, as of the balance sheet date. Revenue recognized from the deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $79 million and $57 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Of the total deferred revenue on automotive sales with and without resale value guarantees as of March 31, 2021, we expect to recognize $1.21 billion of revenue in the next 12 months. The remaining balance will be recognized over the performance period which is generally the expected ownership life of the vehicle or the eight-year life of the vehicle.

Oh well. The lawsuits will be interesting to watch. I'm sorry for the people who have been fooled into purchasing FSD.

IMO they have less than 50% chance that they will actually get a car that drives itself without babysitting before 2025.
This only looks like HN worthy because is about Zuckerberg, but the lands were for sale, so anyone with enough money could have bought it. Flagged
Moderna mRNA Development Pipeline
Oh are you talking about how you how certain things are hidden from search in the macOS app store? I found that annoying too. I had an old machine that I wanted to upgrade to Catalina and searching through the app store gave no results. Some how I found this link[0] and it magically brings me to macOS Catalina in the app store. Why didn't it come up in the search?

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
Labor unions work when a firm is earning economic rents, and there is a political struggle over who gets those rents. For example the auto-industry prior to the invasion by Japanese imports.

The issue is that when there are no economic rents, then labor unions no longer work and indeed become an added cost. A lot of people don't seem to understand that, neither do they understand that economic rents are something that dissipates over time as new entrants come in with cheaper products. Especially in the world of free trade where you are competing with China and other low cost countries (in China labor unions are controlled by the state and starting your own is illegal).

But the trouble with journalism is not that fat cat firms are swimming in loads of cash and only if workers could orgnanize and demand a bigger slice of the pot they could get that. So the job security that a union job can provide an individual in one industry is not generalizable to a dying industry where companies are going bankrupt and need to cut costs as their revenues shrink.

But, you object, what about places like Germany where basically every firm is unionized? Well, unions in Germany are very different. Germany didn't even have a minimum wage until recently. None. And pay in Germany is lower. So you can't look at, say, what an UAW worker or Teamster in the US makes and then think that's what a typical worker in Germany is making because they are all unionized. So again we have this generalizability problem, where the _real_ sources of high income for workers are not unions but increasing return to scale, high productivity jobs. That is why tech workers make more than journalists. And that is why nations like Germany or China that want a society of high wage jobs fight to keep their manufacturing sector and high value add sectors, while nations like the US that are focused on short-term GDP growth have no issue selling off their high productivity jobs and shipping them overseas, at which point no amount of unionizing is going to help bring those high wage jobs back. Similarly when your industry is going bankrupt and shrinking, no amount of unionizing is going to give you the job security and good wages the prevoius generation of workers had in the same industry. This is not a problem of labor policy but industrial policy, and no amount of labor policy intervention is going to solve the industrial policy problem.
Do people actually need to use these things? Maybe I'm weird, but when young, I had drilled into me Benjamin Franklin's "A place for Everything, and Everything in its Place". If I can't remember where I put something, then I suspect Bigger (medical) Problems are on the horizon... (!)
I suppose it depends on what you do or are trying to sell. I have always been frustrated with its search so I hardly use it. I am also curious if it works for others and how.
I just discovered that Oracle's founder Larry Ellison owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg heard about it and wants to achieve the same.
Interesting. I lived in Israel for a while, and there Rose farms shifted to Avocados due to cheap roses from Africa. You generally find Israeli Avocados here in Germany.

I wonder what happens if there is an influx of avocados from Africa.
The vaccine causes a relatively tiny amount of spike to be produced compared with a raging infection.

A little bit of spike trains your body to identify it and neutralize it.

A whole lot of spike is toxic to your organs and damages them.

To downregulate ACE2 you need a whole lot of receptor activation and a lot of ligands floating around in your system binding to it to cause that. The dose of spike protein matters.
> How do you heck know how my programs need fixing?

You where the one complaining that sample one liners with void return types where bad code. In my experience shared_ptr is overkill in nearly all trivial code examples, so any one liner containing one is bad code.

> Any positive reactions to smart pointers on my side may be fuelled by over 30 years experience in using them.

Hope you never had to deal with code reviews that suggested putting scoped std::vector uses in shared_ptr s to avoid stack overflows. Or really any code that put objects into smart pointers because it could not because it should.
Cowspiracy. Seaspiracy, now this? What am I supposed to eat!?! Hyperbole aside, buying food that is actually sustainable and has no ethical concerns seems very difficult.
So do they really not do any development in house to speak of? Or do you just mean it isn't their core competency?
I think even if the motivations can have different origins, they can lead to the exact same thought process and product.

So yes, strictly speaking they are not the same and they can lead to different outcomes, but I am not sure how much of a difference it makes in terms of real world results. Sure, it depends on the cost structure of the product and a few other factors, but in the end many products will just break right after the warranty period.
Can a restaurant really afford to waste huge amounts of expensive meat every day? I thought their entire margin was based on minimizing expensive waste.
Rookie mistake. You gotta Math.random() that shit server-side.
Clearly this author has never tried to create a social network. It’s crazy hard, the network effect chicken and egg is really really really hard to crack. Unless you use basic tactics to reduce friction as much as possible, how else are you going to grow from nothing?

It’s also very strange to talk about SV and backers as if they’re some homogenous group. A diversity of skill sets, ethos, and methods exist. Many founders are going at it for the first time. And financial backers aren’t usually technically literate to warn about incrementing ids in SQL. They want to know how fast you’re growing and the business prospects.

If we start creating laws around these things, then it’ll only be even tougher for up-comers to challenge the existing big players. It would be great if the mobile platforms could proxy contacts to at least solve that privacy problem while also being reasonable in their usage, but all new companies have to find some way into people’s hearts and minds that easily will forget about a new app within 10m of existing their first usage.
It's almost becoming a joke, how much energy HN folks are spending being outraged at Facebook-related news.
Having dabbled in Bob Ross techniques years ago, that giant foreground tree was the part that ruined my paintings too. Why oh why did I add that?
And getting a new credit card used to be a reliable failsafe to stop getting billed for a hard-to-cancel service, but not so if the subscription agreement allows for automatic updating:

https://twocents.lifehacker.com/heres-why-everyone-already-h...
You literally picked exactly one disease and used it as argument why we are less healthy. And obesity is not even disease on itself. To can be obese and healtht. It just happen to have to do with the exact same disease you picked.
So if ACE2 is downregulated, and ACE2 uses zinc as a cofactor, why are they not looking at high doses of zinc as a treatment?

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9BYF1
Your link indicates it’s a hypothesis, and not a widely
-accepted PoV.
Let's use your analogy. Is it okay for a free ebook to remotely update (in a way that makes the version you previously downloaded gone forever)? How about a free documentary you downloaded? A textbook?

Would it still be okay if the update takes content away or otherwise makes the item less valuable? What if it introduces content you find objectionable, and don't want on you machine? Still okay?

No, it's not. That's ridiculous.

If you agree to give something away for free as part of your business strategy then you can make all the changes you want to future versions. You can even stop offering new downloads or updates for free at all. What you shouldn't be able to do is retroactively change the product you already gave me for free.

You made a business decision. If it later turns out it was a bad one then tough luck. I have rights as a consumer and as a human being. Yes, even if you give me something for free. To suggest otherwise is blatantly anti-consumer and morally bankrupt.