skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Test coverage is almost the perfect illustration of Goodhart’s law. Good programming practices do result in high test coverage, coverage is very easy to measure, but very easy to fake with useless “tests”. So, when the coverage is measured, the coverage goes up, but stops being meaningful.
Google scares you after you download them. And you have to enable the setting.

This should be as seamless as using web apps, and permissions dialogues should come up when the app attempts to use certain device features. (No different than App Store downloads today.)

All of this to say that web-downloaded native apps are not first class on Android. They should be.
Yes, you have linked to "Bandcamp for Artists and Labels", which is not the same as the plain Bandcamp app. I had Bandcamp installed on my phone via Play Store. I can still use it, but the app is missing from my list of apps on Play Store.
Importance of Requirement Analysis Process in Software Development
Does heightened levels of carbon dioxide hurt? Everything we know about heightened levels of carbon dioxide in buildings says, "Yes." Why would masks be any different?
FLoC isn't needed to show ads any more than cookies are. If we hadn't gotten everyone used to the gravy of personalized ads, this wouldn't be an issue. But going back to placing ads based on, say, the website or the expected audience in general is like getting the camel out of the tent[0].

[0]: The Camel's Nose - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose
Some former M1 designers are now at Qualcomm, working for PC OEMs:

https://medium.com/silicon-reimagined/performance-delivered-...

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2021/03/16/qualcomm-c...
Funny my managers often wanted me to be more "flexible" to meet absolutely non-flexible deadlines.

I certainly won't mind if my manager has to adapt for once (and don't tell me they adapt to each of us and all situations and that's already taxing)

I'll happily turn the tables.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/evidence-mounts-for-effecti...
And so instead of the managers adapting, the engineers have to adapt to the 56k equivalent by being in the office?
Yeah that was my first thought too. I want the LaTeX so I can re-typeset it.
The medical field uses masks in the environment they were made for. And they are changed regularly. In the non-medical world, people don't do that.

If people used masks properly, I wouldn't have much of an argument, but they don't, so I do.
At least credit Blind ;)
How do they know his wife worked for Amazon? Is this recorded? Or do you need to declare stuff like that?

I don't know anything about trading; in naïve view would be that unless they have quite a bit of information about you that's not necessarily all that easily obtainable, it's not always so easy to detect?
Since Google Cloud service are included, others may pay to use Firmina 'indirectly' ...

> the cable will carry traffic quickly and securely between North and South America, giving users fast, low-latency access to Google products such as Search, Gmail and YouTube, as well as Google Cloud services.

See also: Internet transit agreements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_transit
I really really really want rss to become mainstream again.

It is the best.
Majority I would say is anecdotal. People have other lives and priorities. I would rather see my family 40 hours and work.
Dementia is a symptom of multiple different conditions, not a disease per se. Sometimes the symptom can be cured by treating the root cause.

For example, an elderly woman I know was experiencing dementia. Her physicians ran a series of tests and diagnosed a bone marrow disorder. The dementia was caused by lack of oxygen to the brain from insufficient red blood cell production. So they cured the dementia by administering periodic blood transfusions.
As long as managers are called 10x employee or force multipliers and treated as a progression for an engineer, this discussion can never be on equal terms
> Like many "tricks" in people management, it works until people figure it out [...]

"Good strategy works even when you know it's coming" - something like this from "Sanctuary for all" :) One example of that was mentioned here few times: features need money. And resources and time.

But sometimes features can be crammed into project without bigger investment - just talk to devs and and often they will find a way. Sometimes it works perfectly, when overall architecture is good or extendable. And often it make total mess in codebase. But cost nothing ! ;)
If he were smart he’d just run for Congress, where insider trading is allowed.
How the hell can they get all these bits of humans for so cheap? As much as I love high value chinese stuff on amazon this one sorta creeps me out
Because for many people it would probably be too much of a culture shock. (Not saying I personally agree with that).
This site might have an alternative copy that's been updated more recently: http://mathscheats.weebly.com/2019-downloads.html

I still wish there was LaTeX for it.
The carbon dioxide is only replaced in the volume behind the mask. If that is not a big volume compared to a full breath (and it isn't), then the carbon dioxide you're breathing in isn't 10%. It's (v_mask * 0.21 * 0.5)/V, where v_mask is the volume behind the mask, and V is the full volume of a breath.
You should definitely handle the crash at a high level, but that’s not the same as punting on it!
> You have to insider trade a billion so that you’re untouchable.

Some source of that? I believe that is not true. Other shareholders don't really want managers to profit from insider trading.
Permission dialogs are very ineffective in desktop OSes, with users effectively being trained to just click through them to "get things done". Is there any research showing that they fare better on mobile?
While somewhat unlikely, for those who do not know what bandcamp is it's essentially Shopify for musicians:

https://bandcamp.com/

It is by far and away the best way to support artists that I know of, outside of going to their shows. Buy stuff from bandcamp (music, merch whatever) if you can afford it.

You buy music, you download it in whatever format you want, and you play it wherever you want.
Wolf packs do indeed.

There are of course dogs in Africa, and also the African wild dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog

Unless you were on safari, what you saw was most likely an African breed of Canis familiaris.
Two months ago I sold a dead-simple Toyota truck I'd driven for 14 years and bought a new, loaded Honda. The difference in the complexity is of course astonishing. The yota didn't even have usb. You could climb into the engine compartment and sit there. The Honda has pretty much everything a modern car can have, and you can't even see empty space in the engine compartment.

I _could_ get on your "just give me simple" bandwagon. A part of me was proud of the low-tech, rusty durability of the Toyota, I admit it. Still, I'll also admit I like most of what the Honda can do. I like the phone integration and that I can toss it down on a pad and it will charge while I drive. I like that the wipers, headlights and high beams all activate when needed without input from me. I like that it remembers my seat and mirror settings and restores them when I enter the car. I like keyless entry and remote start. I like the backup camera. I like adaptive cruise control, collision mitigation braking, and lane keeping assist. I like torque vectoring all wheel drive. Heated and ventilated seats are awesome.

Of course, if I were to try to keep this car for 14 years I might regret it, I don't know. Honda makes good cars but there's a boatload of stuff to break, lol. I think I might be better advised to trade it in at five years or so, but I do like the tricks it can do.
It seems to be a very domain specific solution, they are trying to present versions of words in customer requested domain names if already taken.

Like you type in “stargazer. com”, system sees it’s already registered, and returns a “sorry sir it’s taken” page, with similar words listed as “but maybe try these words: astronomer, observatory, telescope, shooting star...”.

So it’s not serious translation, more of an inexpensive quick dictionary search. I guess it’s okay for its intended purposes.
> This should be as seamless as using web apps, and permissions dialogues should come up when the app attempts to use certain device features. (No different than App Store downloads today.)

Web app sandbox is better than native AFAIK, which is a good reason to add friction (because otherwise you're asking for worms).
Which is strange because displaying the full URL is an option in the Safari Preferences (on macOS, not on iOS)...
That's what large scale Stage 3 clinical trials are supposed to be.
>Showing only the domain name was considered a good way to remove the extra chaff from a complex URL and only leave the core domain visible in the URL bar.

>showing full URLs makes it harder for non-technical users to distinguish between legitimate and malicious (phishing) sites, many of which use complicated and long URLs in attempts to confuse users

Why not simply make the domain name visually stand out from the rest of the url?
> the hidden URL is one reason for this

It's super easy to turn off in Safari Preferences though. Certainly easier than installing another browser.
That’s not what regulatory capture means in this context.

People were free to take any drug they wanted before the FDA was created, under your framework, it’s impossible for the FDA to exhibit regulatory capture, even if it’s simply a rubber stamp agency.
A quick twitter search shows that the App was removed as early as June 9. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=bandcamp%20app&src=typed_query&...
Good idea to record the conversations +1
Just out of curiosity, are all your Mac friends web developers or is there some reason a normal user would want to see the entire URL?
Is there a better way to get attention for a misleading title? Is flagging the story (or this comment?) appropriate?
Well. "medalerts.org" is the "National Vaccine Information Center", a notorious source of vaccine misinformation, pushing the thoroughly discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, and lately -- surprise -- being widely criticized as one of the worst pushers of Covid-19 misinformation. A substantial amount of their funding comes from Joseph Mercola, which, well, yikes. (Why I say "yikes" is left as an exercise for the reader.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Information_C...

But VAERS (the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System") is from the CDC, right? Great! Except that it's an open database -- anyone can submit a report and there is no verification. While this doesn't make it useless, it does make it ripe for abuse. "One of the main limitations of VAERS data is that it cannot determine if the vaccine caused the reported adverse event," cautions the FAQ on the VAERS website itself. A lot of information back in the vaccines-cause-autism scare days was literally being added to VAERS by personal injury lawyers.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/may/03/vaers-governm...
> puts, calls, warrants and other types of option securities

These are not stock. You definitely don’t need Amazon Legal approval to trade Amazon stock - otherwise all employees that get RSUs would need approval to sell their stock.
Archive link to full text of article: https://archive.vn/rAGZM
Sure, but isn't it the usage in a product that's illegal, not merely writing code that implements it in principal?
I really appreciate projects like this.
The FDA approved the use of OxyContin, including banning the original formulation when the patent was about to expire so the Sacklers could change a small detail and continue to profit from the massacre it created. Why was this the straw that broke the camels back?

The FDA serves Big Pharma, not citizens.
> How many politicians were sent to jail for covid insider trading?

What is covid insider trading?

> What about the billions Jeff Bezos fleeced in taxes?

I believe Jeff Bezos did no violate the law, but that's really offtopic here.

> It's the rich man's world, where justice is only onto the poor.

Tell that to all the rich guys went to jail.

Or if you have some statistical evidence, I'd love to read it.
I am kind of amazed, because you are the first person I've interacted with who (a) claims to like personalized ads and (b) has actually answered that question. Those are interesting. I understand the Pride Lego set being an ad, but the comma2 was?

Do you know why the comma2 was advertised to you?
How China is responding to the tribunal on the oppression of Uyghurs
Door A | Door B | Door C |
—————————————————————————-
Car. | Goat. |Goat.|

Goat. | Car. | Goat.|.

Goat. | Goat. | Car.|.

The above tables shows all possible distribution of car and goats. If the initial choice was Door A, then you only have 1/3 probability. But after B/C door is opened the probability increases to 2/3 if switched.

The clue is that the host will always open the door with a goat.
Great financial advice from a poor guy.
I'm confused by the FDA. So last June, there were 3 COVID vaccines that passed phase I clinical trials and animal challenge studies. There was an active pandemic raging, and vaccines were almost certainly had 100x less risk for those over 65 (a statistical no brained)

But somehow, they kept all vaccines banned for another 6 months killing hundreds of thousands. Nothing.

But in the last week they approved an Alzheimer's drug that basically doesn't work (they have 9 years to prove it) and a smallpox drug with no human studies.

Why couldn't we have unbanned the vaccines long before we did? Those that said we can't possibly approve something without following an exact process this week we're just totally proven wrong.

I think the bar for "not banning" should be lower. The bar for "medicare must pay infinity dollars for it" should be higher.
Possibly June 8th: https://twitter.com/glitchgabi/status/1402290704316088323
This is a potentially dangerous direction to be taking the approval process in, though. It’s not meant to be for experimental treatments with at best inconclusive efficacy. Being an approved treatment is supposed to mean that an agent is efficacious against a disease.
@Syzgies When did you stop using APL as your black magic? Or when did it lose its lustre?
Perceiving anger where there is none reveals more than you probably intended.
The opposite happened in mine: people missed socialization so much that the number of pointless meetings exploded.

I just checked and I've been on the phone for 19 hours last week (out of a 35h work week), and I'm only attending like half of them that are actually related to work, i.e. skipping meetings that are just for coffee and talk, lunch break videogames, and whatever they do in the discord (yes, they created a discord to "keep in touch").

The best was last summer when we had a 2/3 office/home split, which left people happy in terms of social contact and at least I could work from home without nonsense for 3 days.
Good idea; it didn't cross my mind.
It's not a secret, the whitepaper and proposed algorithm is linked in TFA: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&sr...
They know everyone's trades. It's reported by all the exchanges. It's just a matter of scanning this DB and looking at the suspicious ones, which can't be that numerous. You can manually check for relationships at that point.
I just remember telling teachers to not be in such a tizzy when I was quite young, certainly before middle school. Generally their state was my fault; I was far from a model student.
> high beams all activate when needed without input from me.

Not a hard trick since high beams are almost never needed. Only to tell people it's their turn to go at the 4-way. They're only marginally more useful than fog lights.
The Russians poisoned wells in Afghanistan only a few decades ago. (They gave up on limited battles and moved on to genocide to depopulate areas.)

Fighting the Taliban is really fighting the Islamic ideology, so just shooting armed combatants is pointless.

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/international/story/19830...
It already does, but I guess they didn't think that was enough.
“UX MITM” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week
Amazing to see WebGL2 finally going to be turned on by default on Apple devices.

We will now as developers have an alternative, superior method to ship games and rich applications that won’t rely on Apples walled garden and outrageous 30% cut.
Good, now Safari next, please.
The drug only costs $56k because medicare can't negotiate. The parent was saying the bar for medicare paying for it should be decoupled from the bar for banning it. I agree.
"Amazone backtracks, open to work from home"
Yes! Bold out the domain and leave the rest of the URL in a slightly lower contrast color.
I felt this. My university has been using Respondus LockDown with webcam to proctor many exams and it feels like a violation of my privacy to have to use that software. Not only does it feel wrong to have such an adversarial application on my personal computer, it has caused my laptop to kernel; I found out I could check out laptops which I now use to take exams.

I feel significantly more stressed while taking an exam with webcam. I don't cheat-- I don't _need_ to cheat, and yet still feel more stressed on these exams because of how many things can go wrong. When taking math-heavy exams I would frequently get a warning from the software that my face was not in view... because I was working on my paper.

I think professors caught on. Using LockDown seemed to fall out of style somewhat for my second semester. In classes where there was no monitoring software, exams felt easier just being allowed to take them in a comfortable environment. I don't have to think about keeping my eyes 100% on the screen the whole time and I don't have to worry about my laptop crashing or internet going out-- I can tether if I need to. Being able to listen to music during exams was just a cherry on top.
If you looked at the timing of his trades combined with his success, that alone could be suspicious, which could lead to a quick investigation determining he was married to the insider employee.
I talked to quite a few car manufacturer in China:

Shanghai auto

Changan auto

First Auto

As part of my research into automotive software and exploring opportunity for disruption.

They were all on the hype train of "software defined cars". Definitely not just a cost center. Of course they are still figuring out how to do software, and learning from people in the internet industry.
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I'm going to assume the article was in the context of software development.

Doesn't it ignore a large swat of people? What about all the other business partners, operators and users/customers?

Generally the managers job is to engage will all these other parties and identify their needs, evaluate if the team can help them with their problems or not, find out what possible solutions could be done and what the cost of it would be, justify if the team should grow or shrink based on what people would like the team to accomplish, and set expectations and priorities for what the team will deliver each quarter/year. At the same time, make sure the team can focus on delivering on those commitments, by both understanding well what the ask is, eliminating blockers they face, and keeping their distractions on tengential things to a minimum.

They also need to listen to each individual reports own career aspirations and desire, and see how they can support their growth, as well as evaluate their performance within the team and provide feedback on that regard, while also fighting for those that are exceeding to get promoted or receive raises within the organization.

It does mean they don't "do the work" of what is eventually delivered, but it doesn't mean their work wasn't impactful.

As a team lead, I'm exposed to that half of the world as I need to support the manager in this process, and I'm also involved in "doing the work". So I feel I can respect both sides, and you'll know when you have a bad manager, because more of that work will fall on the engineers and that'll take away from them "doing the work", and you'll start to feel like the team has no direction, no idea what it should do or where it wants to go, etc.

Edit: You'll also see that in companies where the lead engineer ends up doing this due to not having a dedicated manager, they can no longer contribute at what they are good at "design and implementation of software".
I have been on insider list and subject to blackouts just for being a mobile developer. I don't know if all employees were considered insiders but at least all developers were.
Ask HN: Would Spreadsheets with Lisps be much more powerful?
I'm a CS freshman who got obsessed with lisps after using Scheme in my intro class.

Tangentially, as a side project, I made a spreadsheet to learn how their update mechanism worked[0]. For the formula language, I implemented a basic lisp that does math expressions.

That got me wondering- would making a fully functional lisp the formula language add substantial power to spreadsheets? Of course, macros add power to anything, but I'm wondering if there's specifically new interactions that would be possible with sheets using a lisp as opposed to, say, JS.

An initial idea was being able to call (apply A1 B1) to apply a procedure from one cell to another, but that's not the most groundbreaking concept. Hence the question to those of you who understand lisps more than I do.

p.s: Not a pro. Go easy on me HN!

[0]: https://lispread.sarv.repl.co/
The problem here is that by “approving” the drug, the FDA implies that it truly works. People will take it expecting improvement, but their time will be wasted and their hopes dashed. The approval process itself will lose credibility, and that will hurt everyone.

By being devastating and long lasting, Alzheimer’s is not exceptional, compared to say cancer or even CVD.

This decision really changes the perception of what the FDA is there for, if not to ensure efficacy and safety, then what?
JPMorgan estimates Tether would be one of the largest investors in the US market
Not all the vaccines worked. You are taking for granted the knowledge we have now about the vaccine efficacy.

If there were no efficacy studies we could easily have wasted precious manufacturing and logistical resources in an ineffective vaccine which would have cost even more lives.

Not to mention increasing the vaccine hesitancy which is already a massive problem.
What law they violated? I'm curious, I really don't know.
>It is by far and away the best way to support artists that I know of, outside of going to their shows.

Ooh! An issue close to my heart.

A lot of artists and labels also have their own websites and will sell their stuff directly from there, often via PayPal. Definitely not all of them, especially the younger artists, but I usually try and see if that option's there before hitting Bandcamp.

But YES. Bandcamp is usually the best way to support your favorite artists/labels. Please use it as much as you can, and even pay a bit extra whenever you think it's worth it. If you find yourself playing an album more than once or twice via Spotify, go throw that artist some dough on Bandcamp.

And please, treat yourself to a copy of it on CD or vinyl. Own the music you love.
I don’t understand why disparities in expertise would have an effect on this? Some people take longer to complete a task, others take less, the task is a value, you pay for the work output. I suppose it’s different situations where people have a stake in the company, like ownership, who are helping to actually steward its direction. But for most of us that’s not really the case.
Not putting any explicit handling for failed requests and instead allowing the current process to crash, knowing that the supervisor's handling will do the right thing in that case, isn't that punting it? I'm not fluent in American but doesn't punting pretty much mean kicking something far away?