skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to lead a technical team or technical organization you should be technical. Developing people skills doesn't take a degree in gender studies. It merely takes giving a shit about improving and talking to people.

Non-technical leadership leading a technical company is why Intel is in the dire straits it is today. When you put a marketing person in charge of Xeon and they parrot about diversity instead of executing on the business it's obvious where the problem is. Notice all the competition is led by technical leadership: AMD is led by a PhD in EE, Nvidia a Masters in EE. Intel's former leadership was technical until they were pushed out by non-technical bean counters.
I Killed the Coding Test
Google does a 15% progressive fee for the first $1mil. Apple sorta does the same, though once you cross the $1mil threshold, you pay a 30% cut next year on all your sales.
I strongly believe that Nintendo, Sony, & Xbox should also disclose their rake. However, it's also well understood that they take heavy losses on consoles that are made up on game margins. The same cannot be said for Google and Apple.

Retailers have substantial costs associated with distributing products and physical shelf space is a scarce resource. There are, by comparison, no limits to the number of apps on Apple and Google's "stores" and we know that the costs of maintaining them are quite low because the respective business units are wildly profitable.

The points you raised are the rather beguiling false equivalencies that have been propagated largely by people with a vested interest in preserving this system and averting scrutiny.
I wonder if there's an efficient way of converting the latent heat in the air, even in places with high humidity into energy.
I was in a meeting the other day where one of the attendees had been working at the company for 20 years and another for 15. By my guess, I reckon people work here for about 7 years on average before moving on.

In my experience, people tend to be either lifers and stay for 10+ years, or bounce between jobs every year or two. Lifers tend to accumulate in companies that cater towards them (good work/life balance and job security) due to low employee turnover, so if you're in the other group, it appears that everyone in the industry only works for a year.
Carlson and Maddow are both polemics that tend to spew nonsense, they are both main personalities for their respective networks (and political spheres) and both lead in ratings. Maddow also shows a well-developed ability to mash up opinion and fact, and I don’t accept that her distortions are somehow less bad.

Whether the rest of MSNBC is slightly less awful than the rest of FOX is irrelevant to that point.
LinkDoc becomes first Chinese firm to shelve U.S. IPO after Beijing's crackdown
>Obviously we can’t go around updating open source code, just because the security team in our company told us.

This isn't obvious to me. Most open source projects accept contribution from others.
Most don’t but I’ve seen some blatant offenders in my search results every time I’ve put in an order.
Why would consumers care? Maybe for an indie developer they think is getting screwed, but if an app costs a dollar, the consumer's price point is a dollar. They know that if the developer makes more money they aren't going to decrease the price of the app.

Market forces produced consolidation, as they always do. Consolidation and capture of distribution, which happens in most industries, sets the pricing of products using cartel and gangster tactics. App stores aren't any different from the railroads of the 1800s or Walmart or Amazon inflicting all kinds of pricing tricks on suppliers.

The question we should be asking is: Why should the owner of a distribution network get to retain all that power to themselves? Distribution networks should be highly regulated, price controlled, or state owned. All else just yields completely unaccountable power to an unelected private entity that gets to control the material state of the world.
Why does Arduino fear that cheap clones from Shenzhen will supposedly destroy their business model if full design files are released, but Adafruit (for example) does just fine?

Maybe Arduino needs to focus on good engineering, better value for money, good support and documentation, good user experience, losing the terrible slow bloated “IDE” which lacks any real IDE features, make something like a VSCode plugin which is much faster and built on a real IDE, and focus on bringing down their uncompetitive high hardware prices.
I should've put it another way.

I imagine a hundred years from now, an overwhelming amount of the time, machines will cook food for humans just because it's easier.

But I imagine people will still occasionally cook for themselves, the same way people still play chess against other humans.
I have long suspected that OnePlus' toggles for their "RAM Boost" and battery optimisations are just for show. Disabling them still doesn't give you normally functioning apps.
Can you launch those mirrors into space on a rocket without them turning into very fine glass dust? Cuz I bet a lot of mirrors in land-based telescopes would simply shatter or break on a launch.
I'm not sure to be honest. It's a hard problem to solve. I don't know if it'll ever be solved.
This article [0] says the Play Store takes 15% from the first million but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year. But it also makes it clear that only a very small percentage of apps in either store make more than one million/year.

Another article [1] says 98% of developers in the Apple store would be below one million/year but also that that long tail generates only 5% of the store's revenue. There are a tiny number of apps that are enormous winners, games I assume, and there's everything else.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/data-shows-how-few-google-...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21572302/apple-app-store...
It has to be more -cost- efficient, not more thermodynamically efficient.
I tend to agree that most people wouldn't care about Google's cut. The only way to bring the fee down is to create more 'stores' where developers can sell their apps. Then the margin will completely collapse from 30% to near 0.
No, it doesn't; it just has to cost less, overall. Efficiency is only a weak proxy for cost.
Maybe I was being a bit too hyperbolic.

I'm just frustrated at how much better cooking could be.

You're right. It's much better than it used to be.

I just dislike being stuck wandering around the Library of Babel.
> Fluency in the culture is crap. Are we really supposed to be glad our kids know all the Cardi B songs?

OP predicts your reply, just replace "bullying or emojispeak" with Cardi B in his original post.

Also, kids have known and talked graphically about sex since the days of Elvis. I've been told even the ancient greeks knew what sex was.
I mean I agree, but with how prevalent this is and how profitable it is, I would imagine there's someone selling the technology. Especially here. I really do want to hear their opinions and have mine challenged. Maybe there's something I don't see and I'm overly paranoid. Hopefully we'll see some dissenting opinion.
How is the copyright issue dealt with for more recent books? There are many from as recent as 2009.
You must mean:

https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI?t=214

I agree it's a great explanation, and the video format feels right for this. Still, it's not the video per se that makes this great, but the way the concept has been broken down into simple (almost unmoving) parts for you, and is then built up in steps.
Or how AT&T was broken up and has successfully acquired most of that back and then some. People don’t remember, and let these things continue to happen.
Exactly how profitable does a market need to be to require showing margins to the customer? Where are you drawing the threshold?
oh, i didn't mean to devalue native language classes in general. apart from the issue that the value of any class depends on how it is taught, i merely wanted to criticize the suggested dependency to other classes.

case in point, digesting information and thinking critically are things that should be taught in all classes.
i actually find it problematic if a teacher expects that it is some other teachers job to teach any skills that are necessary in their own class.
this is just an unnecessary division of learning, when, as i believe, integrated learning should be more effective. this culminates in the concept of project based learning where the whole concept of subject classes disappears and is replaced with interdisciplinary projects that cover all skills necessary to complete a project.
The analogy doesn't work. A more apt analogy would be to compare Google and Apple to car manufacturers who charge you a 30% markup on anything you buy from a store you drive to... But the stores have to charge you that automatically, and they're not allowed to tell you that they charged it.
Every school district can choose on its own what to do, so there's going to be intense variability and generalization is difficult.

For my school district, the general tendency is that you had a "core" of mandatory classes where your choice was at best "do you want the hard or easy version of the class", although math in particular was tracked somewhat more independently of grade level. In addition, there is a set of elective slots, and degree requirements might strongly push you to certain electives (in particular, foreign language elective requirements are probably pretty common).

Doubling-up on two sciences in one year wouldn't be normally possible, at least on the standard end-of-year sign-up-for-the-next-grade forms, but it is possible to do so if you bitch long and hard enough at a school counselor for special dispensation.
SQLite for Data Scientists
> I know where SpaceX is.

I mean, Musk may be famous for his "optimistic" timelines, but you completely misrepresented their progress. "Still trying to get hovering grain silo versions working" is not remotely accurate.

That's the only point of my previous comment: give credit where it's due, as I said. I agree with most or all of the other things you've said in this subthread.
This is a good one too: https://youtu.be/ef6z3MaLOrU?t=57

Remember, most of the gear they are using is home made. Complain about "illegal linears" all you want, but when was the last time you saw a ham build anything from scratch? Sure the occasional engineer does, but most are running appliances. I used to hate on CBers too until i realized how much engineering they were doing as well. You can't run 10k watts of RF power in a vehicle without some kind of skill involved.
> all communicating with a single database on the back end

Those aren't exactly what I'd call a microservice then... that's a monolith with tons of type-unsafe code and unnecessary infrastructure glue.
I don't think I'm conflating them at all. One definitely drives the other.
In the 90s they price gouged us. This time they're price gouging us AND trying to eliminate our ability to own anything.

30 years ago you could keep your head down, go to work, and today you own a house. It's not the same this time. In 20 more years there'll be 2+ generations of people that have worked for over 20 years and don't own any assets.
Hope do you make your builds hermetic and reproducible without package locks?
Some old recipes are really good, like shepherds pie. Maybe that’s why it stuck around though.
Meh. For a consumer with historical context it seems like an incredible value. Apps used to cost $49.95 at Egghead, and Egghead was certainly taking a bigger cut than 30 cents. Apple fucked ISVs by dramatically driving down the cost of apps, not by taking a cut for distribution.
This is really cool. I think it'd be interesting to model decarbonization in a similar manner, with social stability and debt and deaths.
It’s all good advice even if they’re a dog masquerading as a human.
Water Resistance Tester checks your phone’s waterproofing without water
Yes, W6NUT is still going. It's pure anarchy by HAM standards but it's actually kind of entertaining. https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25419
Nope. Heat is disorganized high entropy energy. We can't convert it into lower entropy energy like electricity or motion.

Now, a heat difference (resulting in heat movement) can be made to do useful work.
The US and USSR didn't start ~40yrs of war in Afghanistan. Afghans have been at war with either invaders or themselves for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
This anti-pattern is called a “distributed monolith”:

https://www.gremlin.com/blog/is-your-microservice-a-distribu...
Yes, Apple is much more "clean." Apple and Google are both potentially abusing is market dominance in areas but Google is also in the slimy business of selling ads (and the tracking that goes with it). Google also catches anti-social media heat because they own YouTube which is criticized for not taking down bad stuff fast enough, taking down OK stuff in error, and radicalizing impressionable people through their algorithmic recommendations.
All in the credit processing and transactional costs and overhead (i.e. charge-backs) will be pushing 5%. If there is remotely any manual intervention for support, or even validating apps, that's going to be real money for any entity, then there's cost there. Then business overhead, marketing support, campaigns etc.. And then profit margins. I suggest a normal markup is going to look something like 8-12% for digital distribution. That's where I think the fee would sit if there were no Google Play and maybe 4 or 5 major competitors all specializing a little bit differently.
Who said anything about a requirement? It suffices to make it illegal to prohibit disclosing the fee. Businesses can decide if they want to do so. The point is that this 'invisible rake' model is being exploited to nullify free market forces in service of obscene profit. Many businesses (not just Apple and Google) have realized they can leverage this to make considerably more money than they otherwise might.
North Korean defectors are really fascinating. I just can't wrap my head around her claim that what I perceive as a kind of over the top righteousness on the campus of elite American universities is comparable to--let alone worse than--North Korea.

Her father was literally sentenced to a labor camp. How can that possibly compare to anything you'd run into at Columbia. Yeah, it's annoying that people wouldn't cut her a break with the pronoun stuff as she was learning english. But again, that's worse than North Korea?
That is ultimately the result of minimum wage. Because minimum wage is above the market equilibrium (since these jobs are unskilled and there is a surplus of unskilled labor in the U.S. due to illegal immigration and deindustrialization) and the market moves faster than legislation, there will always be loopholes through which the standard of pay (or associated benefits) is lowered below what nominally would be minimum wage.

If you ban DoorDash someone else will pop up to exploit the system. Or someone like Kiwibot or Serve Robotics will come along and automate the whole thing and remove the jobs from the market entirely.

Legislators should stop fixating on minimum wage and fix the root causes behind low pay rather than trying to legislate band aids.
I just love the thought of some silly human not putting the gas cap on correctly and whoops, we've allowed all of the hydrogen in all of the Earth's oceans to escape and now the atmosphere is way over-oxygenated and everything is always on fire.

It's like worrying that astronomers won't be able to enjoy the night sky after we've built a Dyson Sphere.
Honestly a lot of this is now just being done by Apple eg. bundling notifications, setting different modes like work mode on the new iOS without distractions, one app at a time this has always been the case on the iOS mainly ignoring iPad.
But then 10 years down the line you'll be scrambling to implement Master Data Management, where you'll try (unsuccessfully) to merge user profiles and data.

I'm very anti-microservices, and rather than implement them for organizational reasons (read: teams unable to work together), I think that the most important business objects need to be maintained at a single point. Managing user identity at a single point is a valid reasons for microservices; like Google does with gmail/search/drive/storage/cloud services/youtube/android/etc.
Ah. That's something I didn't mention that I should have. Survivorship Bias. So, you can still find recipes for a good shepherd's pie today, so I wasn't thinking of such things in my comment.
You're probably right - Uber Eats et al have already shown that there's demand for this even at high prices.

Yet another simple human pleasure sacrificed at the altar of efficiency...

(To anyone in Australia or with an Aussie VPN, there's a wonderful Bluey episode about this here:
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00)
$175k CAD. Not FAANG.
An unrelated note. Please feel free to downvote.

If the states decided to sue pharmaceutical companies for extravagant profits on life saving medicines, people would benefit a lot more. May be there a political motive behind Google being targeted.
Well, a lot of phones do have multiple sensors and lenses. For example, the iPhone's computational depth effect uses multiple cameras for a single shot.
This is why something like living at head is important. If npm audit reports something you should just be able to upgrade to the latest version. Being stuck with old versions is not good. Sure a vulnerability might not effect you now, but what if someone on your team uses that dependency again in a way that ran be exploited, or what if a new vulnerability comes out that actually effects you. You will be stuck on an old version and have to struggle to update.
It would rise a LOT if health care gets overwhelmed, as we saw in Italy.

And it’s not just COVID… if the hospitals are overrun many other things will have much higher mortality, like trauma cases.
I feel like you could expand this into a book translating Buffett into programerese
Slightly unrelated - anyone been using Tinder for gay hookups lately? Tried it recently and had great success, some of the BEST head I've ever experienced.
I suspect that this kind of technology is already in use by authoritarian regimes with more diverse and relaxed ethical standards when it comes to surveillance.
Apple recently changed their fee to 15% for the first million (with some complications for making over a million in subsequent years). This covers like 95% of developers (maybe more?).

Looks like Apple just barely squeaked by with the right moves.
I loved my paternity leave. After a few years I quit my fulltime job to take care of the child more too.

Unfortunately things didn't work out, and I had to go back to a full-time job, but I cherish the memories of that period. Babies are awesome, of course, but it was much more interesting and rewarding spending time as a stay-at-home parent with an older child, since we could talk and interact much more than was possible with a newborn.
I had an "I feel old" moment stood at the front of my classroom trying to figure out how to turn autoplay off on youtube (shockingly enough, after showing a carefully chosen video to my class I don't want it to start showing videos of Disney's Elsa).

I clicked the gear icon and went through all the settings looking for the autoplay option. Then my TA pointed out the option is on the video itself.

The UX is confusing because all the options there are specific to that one video but autoplay is global. I would have never thought to look there. Now it's right there where some sneaky kindergartener can switch it right back on when my back is turned...

This is one small piece in the feeling that's been growing in me since leaving the tech industry that tech is hostile to me and the best interests of the children I teach.
Depends on what you're counting. Very few apps in the Apple store are charged 30% but they're the ones that bring in most of the revenue. Therefore, the average app is charged 15% but the average app transaction is charged 30%.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21572302/apple-app-store...
I like this one: https://thisrecipedoesnotexist.com/58969

With wonderful instructions including:

- 1 banana - peeled, pitted and sliced

- Beat 2 tablespoons peach preserves into peach preserves.

- Cool and continue baking 25 minutes in the refrigerator.
Why do you think your analogy is better than the parent post? The parent post makes more sense to me. People to go stores, and the stores charge a markup. In your analogy, the mode of transportation charges the markup, which in the app store case would be the ISP charging a markup.
It's really disappointing to hear an important member of the javascript community not maintaining their library and then blaming npm when people rightfully complain about it.

This is like getting mad at the guidebook for showing which plants are weeds when your neighbors complain that your unmaintained garden is full of weeds.

If Dan says "npm audit is a stain on the entire npm ecosystem", maybe it's safe to say that Create React App is a stain on the entire react ecosystem. The best time to maintain it was every single month of its existence because that's how you maintain software.

Facebook has abandoned Create React App. Dan stated that he intentionally does not maintain the project. Rather than complain about npm audit, they should give Create React App over to the community who actually use it instead of keeping it shambling along as a zombie with their name on it.

And if Facebook doesn't want to give it up, the best thing we can do as a community is to move on to any of the other great tools available that are actually maintained.
This is not the first Arduino board that is not OH, I first complained about the Arduino Yùn 6 years ago:
https://squonk42.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/arduino-yun-what-i...
If States sue a company for ‘extravagant’ costs, should they follow-up in other industries?
One can claim that oil monopolies request extravagant fees. Health industry in the USA is riddled with extravagant fees.

I am not sure that the motivation by these States are well-intentioned.
He's the founder of the Center for Human Technology[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris
Dog ownership protects against loneliness during the Covid-19 lockdown
Is there tech yet where you can type out a transcript and it'll make a movie? That would be pretty wild.
Quantum laser turns energy loss into gain
> The difference with the TV is that TV didn't have individual, high granularity demographic and usage data to conform to its users' most exploitable side that ultimately drives mindless "engagement". TV ratings had coarsely sampled data at household levels and whatever broadcast was what everyone saw.

I agree. I fail to see how what we have now is inherently worse...especially for cultural minorities. Exploiting psychological weakness to keep people's attention goes back a long, long way. That's never going away.

I also find your analogy to be a bit of a straw man. For it to work, there would have to be evidence of mental "obesity" that somehow began with social media and did not exist before. I don't see it, and you'd have to give me more than anecdote to change my own anecdotal views at this point. If you're saying it did exist before, but now we've crossed some line and now it's too much...well, we're back to what our grandparents said about television again.
I don't think jupyter by default comes with real time collaborative editing.
I guess this is obvious but for the record: once one company using hot_tech_x gets significant funding, several more do. Then you have a bunch of ppl invested (literally) in hot_tech_x's success. hot_tech_x is then the answer to every problem. clogged sink? microservice.

Maybe a question is: what is today's hot tech?

Do we even care as long as we get paid?