skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Facebook gets far, far more attention and negative attention around here than tiktoK.
I love iPads - I have used one almost every day since they were first released.

But.. they just aren’t great for the same kinds of professional software that works well on the desktop. It’s not about Apple’s policies.

It that the Mac is just better for desktop style apps for obvious reasons.

I do think that this can be overcome in the end by really figuring out how to design for the platform, but we are nowhere near that today.

I have bought various editors including Coda, and I also bought prompt (which Panic is still working on). I use prompt regularly for impromptu server maintenance or quick diagnostics, but I never use the editors. This is all about what the devices are good for and nothing to do with policies.
Dreadful article. It’s not hiring the ‘ideas person’ that’s the problem, the problem is not understanding people’s strengths and weaknesses and failing to build a balanced team.

Some people are better at coming up with ideas, others are better at executing. Doesn’t mean one is better than the other, they just have different things to offer.

A team full of people who ‘get things done’ is just as bad as a team full of ideas people.

Belbin states that there actually nine roles needed for effective teams. Most people are strong in a few areas, but it’s almost impossible to be strong in all of them.

This article seems like it’s written by a Belbin ‘Shaper’ unable to see value in other people’s skills and viewpoints.

https://www.belbin.com/about/belbin-team-roles
I'm sure other nations discussed it as well.
Privacy-first finance app should really have a self-hosted option front and center. That's not even negotiable.

That's because otherwise the privacy property of the app hinges on a trust in vendor and the assumption that they won't serve some funny JS on the next page reload. The one and only way to address this is to provide a self-hosted, completely self-contained version. There's really no way around this. It's not a matter of encrypting things or storing them locally, it's a matter of divorcing yourself as a developer from users' data. Right now, it's a packaged deal.

PS. Looks very nice though. Clearly lots of thought went into the design and UX elements. This part is really well done!
"Modularizing" the runtime sounds like a good idea, but also adds new constraints: they would have to document the interfaces between the various modules and then either keep them unchanged, which would hinder further development; or if they change the module interfaces, the modules will have to be updated nevertheless, so having modules won't be much of an advantage...
Agree, but also the issue with discussing UBI is a lack of data that is objectively applicable. Any study that tests UBI on a small scale is flawed from the get go, you can't have a placebo group, everyone knows they're in a study, and participation is voluntary.

So then the debate becomes impossible, because the pro UBI side can only talk in theory and hypotheticals, which is never going to swing anyone even slightly inclined to conservatism.
> Even though you could technically allow installing a complete development toolchain on an iPad, I can't imagine what the process would look like in practice.

Like every other computer ever.

> Imagine the customer support burden if you are the maintainer of some app that depends on external tools that can be used in a zillion different build/deploy configurations.

Microsoft and Google seem to work just fine. People seem to be able to ship when they have the tools to do so.

> They are policy decisions that kind of make sense for a device like a tablet or phone though.

They are strategic decision under the guise of policy decisions. Apple is "protecting you from dangerous apps" (read: dangerous apps = competition for Apple).

Apple is anti-competitive.
> Didn't you see the part where it's been designed to protect your privacy?

I'm probably getting wooshed, but this claim is just hard to believe coming from any company headquartered north of Antartica. No special gripe against Amazon, it's just the default assumption anyone should make these days.
> replying would be better, but not everyone can put their thoughts into words.

Exactly, downvoting as a way to disagree is the easy way, it’s childish, puerile, and ridiculous. But let’s put things into perspective. A comment is just an opinion in a sea of random opinions. Opinions, for the most part, are not even personal, people tend to borrow them. To think through something and come up with an original opinion takes a lot of work. A downvote is just an easy dismissal, in a sea of easy dismissals. That’s not a proper way to communicate.

Downvoting is imperfect, but that said, I understand how people can find it useful as a curating system. I never downvote comments I disagree with because it doesn’t accomplish anything. It also takes too much energy.
Trying to figure out how this would be of use to anyone else, in practice. You need a hacked up runtime and a privileged process to use the PMU. Compared to just using perf, it seems like a hassle.
I'm definitely making a moral argument, because I am a moral person, but for those for whom such arguments hold no sway, I am also making also a practical, economic one: We have ample evidence, from the way things have gone over the past few decades, that increasing inequality in an economic system is bad for the system as a whole.
Whoever will solve it, then the person with the best social competence, speaking abilities and promotional power would get the merit.

And the best placed individual is the POTUS whoever he/she might be.
How quickly?

Like, you saw it in the docs when you were mildly interested and decided it wasn't for you? Or you started a project, had at least a "hello world" compiling, but then eventually gave up on it because you were tired of casting? In that case I'm curious what the project was since I haven't run into casting all that often, but it might vary by domain.
SMath Studio – A free WYSIWYG engineering math editor
Are you sure this is a millennial/gen z problem and not just a techie/non techie one?

Because this a really broad extrapolation.
At BlackBerry we had Aerosmith, Van Halen, and U2 on different occasions.
The 'V' in that V2 stood for 'Vergeltungswaffen' (something like 'retaliation weapon'.)
Acting is apt; however, at least in principle you’re doing a screen test given you want to ensure acting ability as well as photogeneity. But we also know the colloquial acting couch.

Strip clubs don’t care what your skills are, they mostly look for the eye candy their clientele seeks. Video is similar in that it doesn’t care about skills other than maybe being able to present yourself at the cost of all other attributes.
The funny thing is I think you’re overrating Blue Origin’s place in the space industry. ULA and Rocket Lab both provide commercial launch services to orbit. Boeing is part of the Commercial Crew program, though their capsule doesn’t really seem to work that well. Even Virgin managed to launch satellites to orbit recently.
Boostnote is still free and open source. They also have a paid version but there is no real reason to switch to it.
You're being shortsighted. For all you know these Mars colonization efforts might throw off some sort of miracle discovery or technology - like cheap energy or cheap carbon capture.

The problems of sustainability or climate change are about political will and priorities. They aren't something a single billionaire can solve. Focus on mobilizing, organizing, and educating voters if you want to do something about sustainability.
Why? Maybe they talked on video chat or a screenshare, or a messenger like slack. Forcing people to use a possibly less efficient communication method just to have a hard record of their contributions seems like the hallmark of an extremely dysfunctional and distrustful development organization.
Our original formatting was inspired by C#, this is inspired by Python. We stand on the shoulders of giants, as always.
Idea person doesn't trust the execution person, vice-versa (and for good reason). Capital offsets those risks, but reduces the market to only those with sufficient capital.

DAOs seemed promising to improve this, however "crypto" is just a [potentially uneccesarry] piece of that puzzle. The real innovations that will make a DAO work haven't been discovered yet.
“Someone that rose through the ranks”

IME, being able to actually do the work involved is the single best filter to reduce the risk of “idea people.”

People with “great ideas” who also previously did similar work themselves can be hugely valuable.

People with “great ideas” who lack first-hand knowledge of the tasks involved are usually not worth following. Usually.

The product management role comes to mind as one where we see this rule playing out far too often.

However, when I was at Netflix I saw a handful of notable exceptions. One of the Product Managers for recommendation algorithms was an expert at math but not engineering. That person had excellent ideas and was incredibly effective even though they needed a team to build their ideas. Another Product Manager I worked with also lacked an engineering background but was nonetheless very effective as a partner in projects we did together when I was an engineering manager. (In general, I think Netflix has some of the best PMs around.) Elsewhere, I’ve seen PMs routinely fail by promoting infeasible schedules, overreaching into the engineering agendas, or discounting engineers’ ideas—- the type of mistakes that are easy to make when someone lacks first-hand development experience.

The PMs who were the exceptions to the rule made up for their lack of first-hand engineering knowledge by years of experience “embedded” into software teams where they could build their sensitivity to engineering issues, which later allowed them to easily defer to engineers and eng. managers when those issues arose. They were also eager to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and get into the details with you to understand problems. Infinite curiosity but quick to delegate and defer to specialists. Those kind of “idea people” are awesome to work with.

BTW, I’ve also worked with plenty of great “idea people” who were engineers. They are awesome at creating ideas, refining them, AND building them. For an especially entertaining example, check out the Stuff Made Here channel on YouTube —- here’s a person with ideas great enough to attract tens of millions of views AND the electrical, mechanical, and software engineering skills to turn his ideas into reality. https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere
It'd solve a lot of problems and we're (in the US) already living with most of the down-sides of one but without any of the benefits; however, it's a somewhat unpopular idea among Democrats and a very unpopular idea among Republicans. Without a major shift, it's not gonna happen.
About 80% of my battles with the borrow checker eventually resolve with me realizing the code I'm trying to get working could lead to a bug in a case I hadn't considered. Of course, I could just be an abnormally sloppy programmer.
Being able to be an active member of a society has costs associated and without the ability to at least cover for them you will be stuck as a social outcast, because you will already be considered a lesser of a candidate while job seeking. Proper dressing, hygene, transportation, meals, able to crash under a roof with basic access (electricity, modern communication tools)...

Insensitive people seem to give all these costs for granted. If you don't have these stuff you are literally stuck, with a retroactive and compounding effect.
Biden’s Not-So-Clean Energy Transition
Where do you go to hire the ghostwriters, or did you find one that you go back to each time?
Potentially. But not in a team of 4.
Into the Mystical and Inexplicable World of Dowsing
Instead of RSUs, could I get Bitcoin instead?
Makes sense in hindsight. But I never thought I would have any issues running a relay. Also just got a raspberry pi v1 and was looking for a project.
Like you couldn't already in the age of LinkedIn?
privacy in what sense? the bank owns your data already, if you don't store any user data in the cloud, then is private by design, right? I was looking for something like this, but I do need auto import my transaction data, across all banks and brokers, etc. Offline first and only, ala Personal Capital, but secure and safe. Paying 20 bucks a month for the privilege of manual data entry is a bit much. There is a bunch of open source alternatives(GNU Cash, etc...), that let you manually enter your data. That said, this is my particular use case. I do wish you the best, and the app does look pretty.
Seems like the main things are

1) no more negotiation

2) switching to single year equity grants

Some more info about single year grants: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/lyft-vesting-schedule.html

Also comes as an opposite to the rest and vest culture.
What does "that's free in Linux" even mean in this context? You're talking about an IDE plugin that's "free" in an operating system?
Ah, I did misunderstand. That’s an interesting idea.
This is the irony of the NYT, it is like this in pretty much every respect.
A key difference seems to be that Xfinity/Comcast doesn't count that usage against your bandwidth cap and your monthly data cap. Whereas Apple's AirTags and Amazon Sidewalk use your gateway, your ISPs or mobile data providers will charge your for it and/or count it against your caps
1) you should have some contact info in your profile so that people can actually contact you.

2) I'll suggest you setup a website with info regarding this with more details and so on, again so that people can get in touch with you, you can measure interest and perhaps even build a few one off TVs for some people to kick start.

Rest will follow..
Hyperlog: AI-Generated Developer Portfolios
Maybe because younger people simply don't use the same platforms we do.

All younger folks I see use TikTok and Snap to communicate, interact and get their data feed.
Yes, zombie companies which are just profitable enough to stay in business can be a real long term drag on the economy. Increasing costs can counter intuitively promote economic growth by removing them.
Some of the disease names look so mysterious they'd fit great as lore in an RPG.
Facebook managed to optimize mercurial (Python) to be faster than git (C) for their huge monorepo use case simply because Python made it so much easier to implement more efficient algorithms.

If you have some fairly simple function/task, then yeah, a C version will probably blow the Go version away almost all of the time. But that's not necessarily indicative of real-world performance of a full application.

And of course, there are other interests than "maximize performance" too, such as developer efficiency.
Not sure why downvoted, this is an important point: utility is sublinear in most dimensions of product quality. For example, a desktop computer with everything the same but 2x the CPU speed is less than 2x as useful.

Don't tell Dudley though:

>>“Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,” he said.”You have to look at the prices of all things.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUST...
And I am not (at least, not here) attempting to argue that a) they do not do a worthwhile job, or b) they should not be well-paid. Merely that the relationship between their pay and the pay of their employees should not be so drastically out of balance.
Cholera is still the preferred name for infection by Vibrio cholerae.
Android TV launcher has dropped to a 1-star rating over homescreen ads
How do we square this with recent nation wide experience that increased unemployment benefits are causing people to sit out the labor market?

eg.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086861
In my experience, being a ”box-checker”, i.e. someone that’s known to get the grunt work done, makes it much easier to get your grand ideas accepted.
Another comment:
The article mention big "sign up" banners as a dark patterns. I don't think it is.

a dark pattern is either (i) getting the user to do something they don't intent to do, or (ii) preventing the user from doing something.

A big sign up banner might be poor/aggressive design, but as long as users choose to click on it, it's not a dark pattern
I wonder if that was actually a myth to hide the fact that he had inside collaboraters.

The priests of Marduk in Babylon hated Nabonidis due to his abandonment of Marduk worship and making another city his headquarters.

It may have been more acceptable to the population to tell them that the Persians diverted a river at night and entered rather than saying the gates were opened by insiders.
“We can’t add tryinto to the prelude, as a solution we’re adding tryinto”

What?
Hi folks — author/engineer here. Happy to answer any questions about this system!
I posted this link because it demonstrates that policies locally (in this case, a city) can make a meaningful difference, while efforts are underway (but take longer) to enable robust social safety nets at scale using public policy. It’s also a valuable datapoint from a behavioral economics perspective. For many, if help is provided, they can succeed.
10B in funding automated market making crypto exhange
Thanks for the kind words. I have my issues but in the big picture I'm no doubt one of the luckiest humans walking this planet and have zero illusions about it.
To clarify, I'm recommending you skip the battery and use something like a Sunny Boy w/ 2 kWh convenience plug.

Depending on your electricity costs and whether or not your utility supports net metering, you should be able to build a system at a fraction of that cost ($20k before federal credits) to generate your power.
I really appreciate the "Get out your credit card" call to action. Just the right kind of humor for a personal finance site.

Super tiny nit: I might put the per-month cost next to the annual price (and maybe how many months/years next to the lifetime cost). It was not immediately apparent to me that the annual price is 50% cheaper, which is fairly substantial.
> I assume bf allows constants but like I said I'm not that great a programmer.

Key to being a good programmer: at least read a bit about the language before speculating about it. Not sure what you mean by "allows constants", but you're only given increment and decrement operators, and a promise that fresh tape is zeroed out.

Brainfuck supports iteration. Performing recursion in a higher level language will still look like iteration in Brainfuck.
That's only feasible if the platform is relatively stable. The problem, especially with 'modern' platforms, is that it doesn't even remotely work that way anymore. On iOS and Android, for example, they make breaking changes nearly every major release of their respective platforms. So for an application to look like it's standing still (i.e. just to keep working from release to release) takes a non-trivial amount of work.
Cats get hit by cars every day. Lab escapes of contagious diseases are extremely rare[1]. That doesn't figure into your analysis?

Imagine instead that you pointed to the squashed cat and demanded that I debate the Very Important Possibility that the cat was in fact killed by an illegal Chinese helicopter.

"Uh, dude..." I reply. "That cat was clearly run over by a car."

"But no!", you say. "There have been helicopter slayings in the past, right? And there are no track marks! And the Chinese are known to be developing helicopters that could totally do this to a poor cat. There is an airport just miles away! Look at all these other people who believe in the helicopter theory! YOU ARE SUPPRESSING THIS IMPORTANT EVIDENCE!"

Get the point?

[1] In fact recognized newly evolved strains of existing viruses outnumber "lab leaks" by a factor of something like tens of thousands. Pick any one disease and it's basically guaranteed that it's not a lab leak.
Rules for thee, but not for me.

The New York Times lied us into the Iraq War. They are a consent factory. We keep assuming someone is immune to the human condition because of their title. Journalists are human beings. They want to eat, drink and have a roof like all the other humans. Doctors. Scientists. Politicians.

We are all humans. We are all subject to the same laws of nature.

The NY Times is corrupted by the same laws of nature as medicine, science and politicians.

We are broken. We have to accept that before we can fix us.
Probably so they don’t have to screw around with FCC certification, or it’s equivalent in other countries.
Sure, but given that there are plenty of companies selling useless junk while offering sketchy perks for good reviews, it's kind of surprising that Aukey and Mpow got the ax - I have a couple of Aukey usb-c chargers, they have worked fine, and I use a pair of dirt-cheap mpow BT earbuds when I row, they're not fancy, but they work fine too.
Can you cite a source about republicans not wanting state IDs? The data would seem to contradict you.
I think I'm still confused - as of today (5/11/21), who do you think is doing more to solve climate change. VP Harris or E. Musk ?
The real question is how we pay for UBI. UBI, being universal, means everyone gets money. Where does that money come from, including over time and into the future?

How much do we spend on the benefits that are currently validated including the admin overhead? How much would be spent on UBI? I'm guessing that we don't spend as much on that admin overhead as we would under a UBI plan that includes everyone.
Of course. Text doesn’t care about looks, presentation, voice, speaking skills, etc. It does require forethought, ability to organize things logically, and present the best aspect of your work history, accomplishments and future potential with much less ability to judge and dismiss within mere seconds.
My first reaction was - wait, that's just an opinion piece - you can't draw strong conclusions from that. However, the author's byline says "member of the editorial board". So you have a point. And I'm sure nearly all of us agree with you about the NYT unsubscribe.

But there's not enough information here for a substantive discussion [1]. It's just going to be a generic thread, and we try to avoid those [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Serotonin Transporters Increase When Depression Fades
Display controller solves that part. If the demand is high enough, a custom controller can be developed to match controller on-board Apple Pro XDR while keeping the price point significantly cheaper.
PP-YOLO Strikes Again – Record Object Detection at 68.9FPS
> Competitors are able to treat them as distinct products, so there isn't a technical reason they must be unified.

This is faulty reasoning. There are technical reasons, and competitors choose a different set of trade-offs.

> there is also consumer harm in the loss of choice

There is no such harm, since as you have pointed out, competitors are available for consumer who want those things.