skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the app turns out to be sticky, he can explore proper monetisation. I don't see why the negativity, after all the codes are not written into a stone.

I don't see a problem. There's always a joy in having people use your product, if it is not a capital intensive project the money can come later.
That's a cool app. But just having a cool app and posting to social media doesn't work 99% of the time in my experience.

For instance, I made a free open-source iPad calculator app with no permissions, no ads, no in app purchases, nothing. If you search "calculator" on app store, you get garbage calculators w/ popups or big ad banners, and limited functionality. So surely this one would do well. So I did the social media thing.

Not only did I get very few downloads, but I usually can't even find my app on the app store if I search "calculator". I get apps that aren't even related before I see mine! Although I did get ~1k downloads a few weeks ago, because I think someone influential blasted it.

Anyway, app store is a shit show for discovery, but I guess sometimes you get lucky.

Here are my PAGE VIEWS for the first week or so:

Date Product Page Views

6/27/18 1

6/28/18 7

6/29/18 4

6/30/18 4

7/1/18 9

7/2/18 7

7/3/18 3

7/4/18 6

7/5/18 2

7/6/18 6

7/7/18 2

7/8/18 3

7/9/18 0

[0] https://github.com/breeko/opencalc

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/opencalc/id1403173317
Do you have more info on this? What's the specific mechanism used here? And do you have any links about the legal issues?
Oh my gosh- you will not believe this: THAT IS THE SITE I WAS TALKING ABOUT!
Oh boy, be prepared to rage. Just check r/redpill
Not easy watching, interrogation of a young man who took it to the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFWovUuWak
His book was relatively well received. I think the key issue at play here is that he presents the book as a biography, but it's clear both reading the book (and from the author's own statements) that the literary persona and real person are different. I'm not sure if Apple understood that people would not make this distinction, and a massive group of people would take the writings as his own real opinions and start a massive petition calling for his firing.
I bought an Akko 3108v2, best mech keyboard I have ever owned, for $95 new.

no LEDs, no hub, true. don't want LEDs in a keyboard (I am not this desperate to see colored lighting while staring at a color monitor) and I use a wireless mouse; no hub needed.

$285 is insane.
"A lower level engineering role" doesn't sound like a good description of a position for Facebook's "former director of Ad Exchange." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Garc%C3%ADa_Mart%C3%AD...)
Backend dev here. How can one learn these types of skills? Recommendations?
Did you know Hacker News has a cookie too?

There's a difference between being logged in to an account on a single site, and letting Big Tech track you across most of the Internet.
There's a legal theory known as "promissory estoppel" or "detrimental reliance" that probably applies if Martinez's story is accurate. Apple promised him a job, he made some major life changes based on that promise, and now they've withdrawn their promise without any relevant new information or new bad conduct on Martinez's part.
There's a sub-culture of men who identify as "The Red Pill" who harbor some, uh, non-mainstream, ideological beliefs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/
Another possible reason is that newer game engines tend to have dependencies on external libraries that aren't easy/legal to open-source or reimplement.
I had the same experience with my app. Once I started running ads in the app store I jumped up to the 4th or 5th position within a couple of days. shrug
> If this is the hill anyone wants to die on - holy cow

Which hill do you think is appropriate? The line has to be drawn at least a standard deviation below average behaviour or there will be a lot of unemployed people. Especially with the context that nearly everyone has socially unacceptable views, most just usually try not to talk about them.

I'm sure it'll come out in the conversation, but none of the commentors are rushing to accuse him of doing anything. It takes 2 to get a woman pregnant.
He's Cuban
Dropbox is software; their office machines aren't their secret sauce. Their secret sauce is not demanding OS lockin.
Search just for "preg" or read at maximum 3 sentences from linked posts. "pregnant" is the 60th word.
An ordinary contract transferring ownership from owner i -> i+1 does not demonstrate that ownership was transferred from i-1 -> i.
Like Diem?

"In September 2019, Facebook announced that the reserve basket would be made up of: 50% United States dollar, 18% Euro, 14% Japanese yen, 11% Pound sterling and 7% Singapore dollar." [0]

Diem has, at this stage, halted tethering like this. They have since retreated physically (to the US) and ideologically (backing 100% by USD instead of a basket).

It is my understanding that they intended to operate Diem as you mentioned in your second point.

The primary issue with doing this is that, if its successful, and you have indeed created a more stable currency system (which is the intention of tethering/stablecoins in the first place), you will eventually be the mass currency, which will kill demand for nation state currencies (at least the ones not in the basket) outside of taxes.

This is why the Diem plan was shot down by global (banking) regulators, and also why stablecoins/tethering have never really operated outside of the digital realm (and to be frank, have merely serviced the pump and dump that is crypto today).

I 100% agree that the public record of these currencies has to be very clear and built into the process. Tether has repeatedly been misleading (weren't they originally 1:1 USD:Tether?) and even still, with these reports its hard to tell how the money is truly organized.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)#Curren...
Why Your One-on-One’s Should Probably Be Longer
You're being overly pedantic.
And that's why forks suck and everyone should use a spork. Having options that cater to different usecases is confusing. You don't really need to take big bites anyway.
> or that USDT:USD has never been priced based on fundamentals.

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
I know this is comparing to Linux, and honestly I would prefer my MacBook running Linux flawlessly as I can on my desktop. However, I was like you - wanting to do everything on macOS, and as much as I generally like macOS and Apple tech (e.g. Metal), I installed Windows 10 on my MacBook and it's just so much better with WSL. Things just integrate well and there's an upcoming WSL upgrade that lets you use GPU and integrated windows server - this will probably never happen on macOS.
I think it's also useful for legally running an Amiga emulator?
Safe spaces have made their way into the corporate world, truly sad to see freedom of speech and diversity of thought getting destroyed being celebrated around here.

But in a way is also refreshing, we are near the bottom (or nearer), corporations have real stakes, they need to generate real profits so unlike college campuses where the performance of a university doesn't really matter, a company like Apple has very little room for underperforming, and the minute revenue starts to drop they'll realize it's not healthy for a company to cater to the woke mob and hopefully begin reversing course. Let's just hope not much damage is done before that.
Is there a page this comes from?
> And all of that gets lost if I close a tab or even restart my browser to upgrade.

Or when you just visit a link and then press the back-button.

I remember 20 years ago you would press the back-button and your
previous page was IMMEDIATELY restored, no network request
involved.

It feels like today the browser cache isn't used at all. This is
especially disappointing with the new Firefox Mobil where they removed
offline-mode among other features.
Perhaps “lazeh”
Apple is saying that he can not be an engineer at their company, yes. He would have been required to work in a large organization that is filled with people he considers "useless baggage" no matter what their accomplishments may be.

He is free to be an engineer anywhere else if he manages to find a company that, for some inexplicable reason, doesn't care about that. I can't imagine any sane organization wanting to bring someone like that into their midst.
It looks nice! And I like the apps you've chosen to put there, especially, Minecraft and Minesweeper.

From the UX perspective, I'm used to opening the icons by a double click. I think it is what most of users are familiar with.
For the record though, I'm very pleased to see people explicitly questioning the UI status quo, esp one so widely assumed as tabs. It seems browsers are just following the 'dont touch anything or you'll drive away our base' method of development, and it's depressing... Can't be much fun for the developers either I imagine. I look forward to seeing what they come up with
> Every time I go back to macOS, I get frustrated with the inflexibility of it all. I get that it's a pain to feel like you have to customize everything to get something usable for you

It's great if macOS is what you want, or is close enough to it (which it is for many, many people).

I guess people's problem with Linux is that no amount of knob twiddling ever gets Linux's desktop and window manager close enough to what they want.

Personally, I want macOS to be my window manager, and I want Linux to be my dev environment/command line. I can't twiddle either to be close enough to the other, so I run Ubuntu in Parallels on macOS.

Now if macOS gained the equivalent of Windows Subsystem for Linux, I'd be super happy.
Train company encourages staff to drop ‘ladies and gentlemen’
I think the question is: what comes after micro services/distributed systems? Whatever that is, will make k8s obsolete.

My bet: rich fat clients. Super powerful phones that can run your entire e-commerce monolith to process my checkout. I’m talking about hosting your backend (most of it) and DB on my phone. Cheap syncs from my phone to your “main” server is fine because I’m always online and I have 10G connection. This will also force a shift in the way we develop programs.

So you no longer need to deploy and maintain hundreds of services. You’ll only need to deploy and maintain one that gets synced to millions of devices (no app stores) rather fast (because, yes, a new compression algorithm will emerge and your whole monolith is now only a couple of megabytes).
Because there is an audience who will buy that book.
Quite the fan of Elder.js; I build my personal site using it (https://alexanderobenauer.com), where the entire site is built once, each time I push a change, then hosted on static hosting (Netlify).

The flexibility on how routes map to various files and templates is wonderful. Some routes are simply markdown files (copied directly from my notes app) that are then rendered into the right template file.
But how is someone supposed to justify running ads for a product with no revenue?
It's not really all about luck, it's simply that people are usually not very passionate about calculators. You'll have to find the those who are and that's marketing. You should try exploring math and engineering forums and other places where people who are into calculators spend time.

You can also improve your App Store Optimisation, write to the editors of the AppStore or publications that can be relevant for a calculator app.

"I wrote some code and made living of it" is only possible if other people are taking care of the rest of the business.

I also wouldn't be too focused on the aspects like "no tracking, no permission, no ads". These are popular topic around tech circles but they are not product but features of a product. Good to have them of course but they don't replace a great product.
That is not legally correct. There is no such law or precedent. If you disagree then please provide a specific citation.
Some people might find this interesting: https://refresh.study
https://www.amazon.com/2-Pack-Syntech-18Gbps-Ethernet-Compat...

2x such 6ft cables for $8.50.

Sure, it's prohibitive, yeah. ;)
I don't think that feasable from a security standpoint. Ideally, software would be open-source and authored under the supervision of a handful of trusted parties.

The metaphorical "chain of trust" is strongest when it's composed of a few strong links, and when its cracks are visible.

What you're suggesting is that we should use a model with many small links and invisible cracks.
Employment is a contract. Apple broke that contract without reason from the individual.

If he resigned from another job and relocated, there are damages here that are quite easy to document.

Yes, employees are nominally "at-will", but employers don't get to just do anything they want without consequence--especially in California.

I'm surprised Apple did actually say anything beyond "We have terminated his employment. No further comment." as they're on terrible ground here.

Finally, unlike most small fry, he's not going to have any trouble finding a lawyer for this. Lawyers will happily take this obvious a case on retainer. And, he's got lots of "wokeness crusade" lawyers who will be salivating over this case.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

If you want memory safety guarantees from the compiler, don't use Forth.

The paradigm in Forth is "correct by design", "fail-fast" and to fight complexity unguibus et rostro.

The paradigm in Forth is to increase the skills of the programmer rather than to increase the skills of the compiler. That's why it is a wonderful language for advanced training, IMO.
All those vaccines were also tested much more extensively and use techniques which have been widely deployed for much longer than the Covid vaccines.
Apple can claim the information was new to them, such as for example believing the book was a work of satire only to find (based on post-hire discussion with AGM) it was actually a manifesto.
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4D-yc-s-essential-startu...
wealth inequality means at the margins the rich dont have anything else to do with their money to try to "improve" it
You can never know whats in anothers heart. Yet you must try. This fella has given us ample reason, within and outside of the book, to think of him as a misogynist. His self-defenses are lacking wherever I've read them. I don't think this is a case of "the people are stupid". This is a case of justice.
> Apple

> Hoping the explanation becomes available eventually

Choose one.
Fair enough, I just wanted to find an article that explained NotPetya. But wikipedia does a fine job.
> to double your bill

Do you pay a variable amount for your hosting? How and why? All VDS and dedicated server offerings I've ever seen are fixed amount per month. And more often than not the network is limited by speed, not by data transfer.
He claimed the real person is different. Where is the evidence?

Did his literary persona harass Heidi Moore?[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1392533753768128513
Wow, this resonates. Same experience in my prior hiring manager roles. Quick clarifying question from the recruiters perspective: they personally screened them out after a screening call or the ATS screened them out without/minimal human engagement?
Thinking different these days is punishable by joblessness.
Workplace injuries, in the league of "Agent Orange Syndrome", and "Gulf Syndrome".

The government will continue to blame adversaries rather than look at a payout of millions for Workers' Compensation claims.
If there's anywhere on the internet practicing sympathy towards Mac users, it's Twitter alright.
Biden revokes Trump's social media executive order
I'm stuck between "RocketMan" and a drunken Joe Mulroy lighting a fart in his dormitory room to escape a dead poker hand. Of course, everyone scattered, to avoid the persistent flame hanging onto Mulroy's shorts, if not the fart itself.
I disagree that the total number does not influence the usage of the term many.

In the middle of the desert outside of a population center, one might call a group of 6 people "many", but one would never use the same term to refer to 6 grains of sand.
You've lost track? The only 100% required vaccine for international travel I'm aware of is yellow fever, which poses an infection fatality risk hundreds or thousands of times higher than Covid.
Maybe you should. Autobiographies at least.
After 26 Years of FDA Delays, You Can Buy Genetically Enhanced AquaBounty Salmon
Normal Covid infection apparently causes cytokine storms as well, so maybe there was no escaping it assuming every individual would eventually either have Covid or get the vaccine.
I don't even expect people to be passionate about it. I don't care that it goes viral or not. I just feel that my product was superior than the terrible calculators on the market, and it was free, no permissions required, and small.

Maybe I'm biased or the calculator market has changed, but I don't think calculators should have pop-ups and its a shame that all the top calculators on the app store are spammy and terrible.

The value prop is huge. If I can't get this visible or downloaded, I doubt I'd be able to get any traction on my monetized app ideas.
The problem with all the retirement calculators is that they don't account for extreme drawdowns. You need to account for at least a few years where your savings give you a negative return.

In 2008 I dealt with a guy that had to come out of retirement because he would have run out of money if he continued to draw from his savings. Lucky for him he was relatively young and was able to find a job. What would have happened if he was in his 80's?
There's a difference between edgy social media comments from early adolescence -- which shouldn't be used to "cancel" anyone -- and passages from a book that this guy wrote and published when he was an adult (especially since he still hasn't retracted or apologized for anything that I'm aware of).

You make a good point about hiring, though. They could probably read reviews of his book, but I don't know whether the reviews would mention its sexist elements -- probably depends on when it was written.
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome here. Please don't post like this, regardless of which country you have an issue with. It only leads threads into hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I always tell my managers "I don't need a 'one-on-one'; I will reach out to you if I need help or your time to discuss something, and I hope you will too. This is simpler for me, and saves a lot of time."

Forcing these kind of recurring meetings is always for the benefit of the manager, not the managed. Instead, replace them with accessibility and communication. It's easy.
Cool, when will Alpine support the M1 thing?
An alternative interesting approach is an algorithmic stable coin like https://havenprotocol.org/ which also includes Monero style privacy!
> there's no reason to ever use gzip anymore

There is: convenience. There are many examples, such as Wireshark support reading *.pcap.gz directly.
Food labels, especially nutritional data and the list of ingredients must have at least an English translation. So even if the signage doesn't have to be in English, you can look at the nutrition label on the back for some clue.

Some local jurisdictions do require translations on signs. The City of Doraville in metro Atlanta has a high Asian population and stores are required to have an English translation for their signs.
Big if there, Dan. You sound a bit bitter about meetings, that's not the case everywhere.
Yeah, just wanna echo the other comments. It was fun, and honestly, even if I don't profit from it, it was fun to build, I'm learning a lot, and it really is bringing people joy.

Would it be nice to be rich from my app? Yeah, of course. If that doesn't happen, that's okay too, though. I'll find another way.
Being different has long been punishable by joblessness.

Women, people of color and the LGBTQ crowd all see their income suffer merely because they are different. The LGBTQ crowd experiences high rates of unemployment because of it and women seem to manage to stay off the street often be sleeping with some guy who can afford to pay the rent, basically.

Edit:

I blog about homelessness. The LGBTQ crowd sees high rates of homelessness. Homeless people die on average something like two decades younger than housed people.

Do with that info what you want. I see it as not a good thing.
Why would anyone download a calculator in the first place? Doesn’t the phone already have one?
Apparently you won't even read the dust cover synopsis, either. That's the legendary "Apple pedigree" that you hear so much about.
I'd be surprised if it's profitable. Maybe a labor of love. I've been an Amiga fan since the late 80's. It was my favorite machine. Nothing quite has had the magic of booting up games like Shadow of the Beast or Blood Money. The Amiga was truly a quantum leap.
IBM Quantum Delivers 120x Speedup of Quantum Workloads with Qiskit Runtime
Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It only makes the community worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find that the more you use emacs the more you get frustrated that nothing else works the way it does in emacs. You either deal with it, try and hack some emacs functionality into your favorite tools, or end up living full-time inside of emacs--relegating your desktop environment to a glorified emacs launcher.
A colleague that once worked on the original AT&T billing system used to say:

“The first time you write, you’re learning about the problem, the second time, the solution, and then finally, you’re continuously polishing it.”

Or something like that. It was years ago.
Thanks for the answer. Do you have benchmarks vs meiliesearch (indexing/retrieval speed, retrieval accuracy)?

Are your SDKs (python) thread safe?

Asking as current user of meilisearch which is a great product and I would give it 8/10 because of some quirks. Considering trying typesense. Thanks.
Reconfigurable Optical Networks Will Move Supercomputer Data 100X Faster
non-amp link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/04/why-is-ja...
Less of this, please.
Exactly. Also not sure why everyone says Bitcoin is anonymous. It's as anonymous as how deep someone is willing to spend to uncover your address. If we are talking multiple nation states who are interested in tracking you down you are pretty much screwed.
> There's a whole world out there of "bad but works" code

That's what I said... But not the same can be said about a novel...
Have you tried fasting? I have found it an effective antidepressant and stimulant. There are also some interesting health benefits (mostly to do with autophagy, cellular and subcellular cleanup mechanisms).

But yeah, I am also ill suited to modern life, and I'm working towards being able to spend as much time in the woods as I need.
In that case then the service will just hang as it won't handle the requests caused by even a simple malfunction (not even an actual attack) like the one mentioned by GP.

Mind you, I see your point and I generally don't like the captchas either, but it is definitely a trade-off and I won't blame webmasters that use the DDoS protection.
The mental gymnastics here are incredible.

I'm a frequent "everything is political" commenter myself, but since when is naked self interest through theft a political action?
This is not AI at all. You could game it this way before AI was even a buzzword. This is deliberate. If they were smart (deliberate word choice here) they would not have “normalized” race. They just raised (or lowered in fact) the bar to pay blacks less. I would have lowered it equally for everyone if my objective was to pay the least amount.
I mean, have they looked at the current social justice landscape before deciding that nobody would care?

They must have had a lot riding on just not understanding exactly what would happen.