skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOJ declines to investigate Cuomo's handling of Covid-19 in nursing homes
iOS purchases require an Apple account. iCloud uses Apple accounts too. But purchases don't require iCloud.
Following the links to Hubert Horan's reports, it looks like Lyft is even worse financial shape:

"Uber’s continuing operations had a GAAP net margin of negative 38% while Lyft’s was negative 49%." https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...

I guess Doctorow doesn't want to waste space commenting on the also-rans.
TikTok is mainlining Instagram. I'm sure whatever malignancy Instagram causes will be an order of magnitude worse after this generation consumes the firehouse of TikTok.

I created an account when my wife went to run an errand. After two hours she returned and I was still using it. Immediately deleted. It's flawlessly executed and addictive, but so is fentanyl.
Ok, but please don't break the site guidelines like this. Maybe you don't owe Uber better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

"Please don't fulminate."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Opinions may vary, but I think it's nice to keep the developer experience concise and simple, and for continuous intregration to perform exactly the same steps.

That could distill down to as simple as the single-word command 'pytest' or 'tox' for a Python project, or 'jest' for Javascript (with all configuration bundled in the repo).

Then a platform that provides a straightforward transition from a command-line step to a pipeline job; both GitLab and GitHub offer that through their respective YAML configuration languages.

The nice thing about this - if you're careful - is that it avoids too much vendor lock-in. If needed in future, you can migrate to another service that allows running simple command-line scripts.

Some of this applies to continuous deployment too, but in practice that depends a lot on your infrastructure and service/process management (kubernetes, systemd, etc). It's possible to design that to make command-line CI/CD straightforward too, but a lot easier if you plan for it up-front, and more challenging to migrate to from another architecture.
The tinted one is nice too, if iron oxide seems acceptable.
> In other words, no doughnut is a minimally processed food.

Will someone please let me try a minimally-processed doughnut?
Every social media entity took its position from an entrenched giant.
Will really be impressed when one could say: “here is this codebase, modify this function so that it would preduce [insert desired efect]” and also other functionality of project would not crash thumbling down…

Because writing code from scratch now is i think much rearer than improoving existing codebases. Aka bugfixing.
Honestly, I'm pretty anti-Uber for a variety of reasons, but having experienced the cab services in SF a bunch of times, I completely understand why so many people there like it.
And more importantly, in the amount of fiber ingested.
Right, a feature which will be very limiting for their store as a business.
None have products that "you can only get it here". They have experience but no product that is competitive, if not protected by government action
I'm not at all implying that. 600,000 people is a tragedy, I can't think of anything 100x worse than that, especially when given a list of "evictions were prevented for a year" and "people got stimulus payments that were maybe too generous". In your mind, what specific outcomes are 100x worse than they would have been without intervention?
I thought fb had moved on from being downloaded, to taking over whole countries, by co-opting their internet access?
Arkansas's Governor Tweets Alarming COVID19 Numbers
Reddit is wonderful compared to Next Door. Next Door's feed is pure trigger content and quickly escalated arguments. Super toxic.
That’s primarily a YouTube thing from what I’ve seen. And more recently I’ve seen it on Google News article thumbnails.
Show HN: Wedding Planning Assistant
Hello, hackers, geeks, and other diversity of HN readers.

I built the service Wedding Planning Assistant, a set of tools "Wedding Projects" that aim to organize the wedding by yourself or with your wedding planner, coordinator.

I'm trying to automate a lot of things related to the wedding preparing process. Now completed a group of primary features - such as:

- Guest list
- RSVP management
- Wedding website builder
- Checklist
- Budget tool
- Wedding day itinerary
- Notes
- Ceremony layout (builder)
- Reception layout (builder)
- Vendor search and management
- Table cards (builder)
- Table numbers (builder)
- Name cards (builder)
- Reception menu (builder)
- Post-Wedding photo storage

Stationaries are generating base on the guest list and seating reception layout.

Also, I use an approach when newlyweds-to-be can use the platform without signup. Later, when the User creates an account, the wedding project is attached to this account. This flow works smoothly.

One more cool feature, it's real-time. The "Wedding Project" can be shared with everyone who is involved in the wedding planning process. Just copy the link to Wedding Project and send it. Then, if someone changes something inside the wedding project, all those updates immediately reflect for all those users.

Many things are still in the backlog, but I constantly work to make them live.

If someone from your circle is planning the wedding, please share my tools. I'll be grateful for any feedback.

Thank you!
If judges have the last word on who owns how many bitcoins why are you wasting all that electricity for? I thought it was to avoid relying on an authority...
Looks like we found the Uber [vc, engineer, shareholder, intern].
Oh - why it always needs to be so one-sided? When we don't like something than everything in the article needs to be a condemnation if we like the subject than there is only prise.

In this particular article: if Uber is losing money by subsidising rides - then people get cheaper rides than they could otherwise have. But that also article suggests that Uber victimizes riders. That does not compute. Yes - it is anticompetitive and possibly without Uber we would have something else that could potentially be better - but also without it we would not have all those cheap rides and all those valuable things that the riders did because of the cheap transportation. That all subsidising in bad in the sense of disrupting normal market forces - but it is a stretch to declare the riders to be victims here.
A "strong typedef" is not a typedef.
It would be really interesting if TikTok allowed users to make a sequential thread of videos, and added a scroll control to view "next video in sequence". Currently "part 2" videos are very tedious to find, if they could make a way to continue a sequence from the fyp with a simple gesture or button, I think they could seriously challenge longer form videos as well.
> every time I go there I feel like everyone is just in constant fear or anger

Hell, HN feels like this often.
I suspect the over-capitalization (Ponzi cash) of mainstream tech giants results in a brain-drain of the best talent from more sustainable/ethical alternatives (not just in tech, but also design, product management, etc).
Thanks! It's great to hear quantrix is this similar to improv. I will take a look at it!
Has this transfer of knowledge from one domain to another really been demonstrated by these models/learning processes? I know transfer learning is a thing (I have a couple books on my shelf on it). But it seems far from what you are describing.
>but by making it funny.

That misses the point, right? It has to be said with a straight face...
Yeah, I'm just saying in-general. You see plenty of exaggerated expressions in tiktok videos as well.
There is a time and place for everything. Connecting with all your friends and relatives (over Facebook) was a novelty but is cooling down. We are rather going back to the "celebrities model", admiring influencers on better suited platforms for asynchronous (fan>star, rather than friend<>friend) interactions: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok.
If Facebook was the end game for language then 8-O :-) ;-D
Many of those elements Tolkien took from older sources, which he studied professionally and know every well (including magic rings). Arguably, AD&D also used the same old sources.
Generically:

- shedding of responsibilities (no longer an expert)

- shedding of preconceptions (new people, new me)

- being new means that people are looking for you to bring your new perspective, which isn't always the case at an existing role

- working with all new people polishes management skills as you can't rely on built up relationships

And then there's the choices you make when interviewing about what kind of company culture/new manager/new team you're going to. Like, if I care a lot about DEI/4-day work week/etc, and my current company doesn't, do I want to work to make that happen (if even possible), or go to a place that also cares about that which allows me to learn and iterate on something that I care about.
Tiktoks video editor is by far the best phone based video editor I’ve ever used.
I tried to write a neutral headline for this tweet, so that people can read the tweet for themselves and make a decision based off of the data. The key bit here is 8 ICU beds left in all of Arkansas, demonstrating the spread of the Delta variant.

"Alarming" is the word that Gov. Hutchinson used himself in the tweet. So I'm not trying to editorialize here. Its surprisingly difficult to summarize a tweet into a Hacker News headline.

If anyone has a better title that they'd use instead, I'm all ears. I'm not completely satisfied with the title that I decided upon.
I assume when people talk about “ultra-processed” they’re talking about foods which 90% would agree are bad for you: foods with a lot of added sugar or oil, or almost everything else taken out. e.g. candy, fried foods, chips, pizza on white bread, fruit juice.
Is pasta ultra-processed? What about salami? Mashed potatoes? Cheese? Honestly, no. Actually, high-calorie foods like cheese or wheat pasta are very nutritious. Of course a diet consisting of pasta, salami, and cheese with a side of mashed potatoes is probably bad. But it’s better than the above.

I wonder whether kids are really getting fat off of even hot dogs, mac and cheese, steak and cheese subs, and corn. Or if it’s the added sugar and refined carbs - candy, soda, white bread, “snacks”. People say that kids’ diet in the 60s was the former, and they were fine.

Honestly “ultra-processed” can be misleading because it isn’t the processing which is bad, it’s the amount of fat and carbs vs. protein, fiber, water, and other nutrients. Maybe we could call it “junk” food but that’s even more ambiguous.
Lurking doesn't seem all that appealing to me either.

I just checked the tiktok homepage and the top two videos I saw were of a woman failing a sobriety test and a guy scaring a drive-through woman with a blow horn.

I realize this isn't the content you might see once your algo is calculated, but it's obviously popular stuff on the platform and it just doesn't seem like very positive content for me.
You're interviewing programmers for a job in operating systems programming?
All this about a headline? What kind of nuance are you demanding with respect to the impact of ultra-processed food on health in a headline?

> We all know this, we don't need a headline for it.

The headline doesn't communicate that. It communicates that U.S. kids are consuming an abundance of calories from those foods.

> mere act of processing something doesn't make the thing bad for you.

It doesn't communicate that either. That is prior knowledge on your part.
(E) I have COVID and am going into the office to screw the company over.

Will be interesting to see if this choice happens.
P vs. NP Proof Claims
I see, you're an EU federalist.

Your kind is growing more and more rare.
if you buy (from a bakery, probably not from the grocery store) or make bread made from minimally processed to processed flour, water, salt and yeast it would probably be considered minimally processed or processed. When I make homemade bread, those are literally all the ingredients. It has a very different texture, chewiness, and taste from something storebought. They're basically different things. And it doesn't last more than a day or two after cutting it open.

If you buy bread made from bleached white flour, sugar (in pretty much any white bread you buy from the supermarket), bread conditioners, preservatives, etc, it's probably considered ultraprocessed. It can also sit in your pantry for weeks.
So where exactly do the financials go south? How can taxi services survive but Uber can't? Does the same logic apply to airbnb vs hotels?
Sculpting, painting, dancing etc is creation. Watching other people do it is not.
Spending 20 minutes in any of those apps is 20 minutes you didn't do something productive. None of them are good for you.
>About the only quality graphic design app I've seen available for Linux is Krita. But it's more of a digital painting app than an image manipulation one. And, of course, no vector graphics.

Well there's the web based Figma, somebody even created an unofficial desktop app for Linux. Figma has plugins, tons of them for many graphic design tasks. It blows the Affinity stuff out of the water imo.
> The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and protectionist.

I don't think the only question is "who wins at having the most popular social network." The more concerning one is of exerting political influence through manipulative amplification/suppression (which is something the PRC has a lot of experience with). That could be both highly effective and extremely subtle and difficult to detect (e.g. activating one political tendency with relatively more call to action videos, while distracting its opposition with relatively more cat videos and relatively fewer calls to action).
A bread machine can make the "make our own bread...toast" less laborious. (Recipes printed in bread machines' instruction booklets tend toward the less-healthy, but with some experimenting...)

Commercial breakfast cereals vary, though the least-healthy are probably the most tuned to appeal to kids. Home-cooked cereal can be far better. And easy to mix nuts, frozen berries, etc. into.

If a bit of dressing up (squirt of mustard, bit of mayo, etc.) makes hard-boiled eggs acceptable to him, those can be made once a week and kept in the fridge.

An old friend perfected a fairly-healthy, filling stew recipe (some meat, mostly veggies, etc.) that he could make up in large batches and keep in the fridge. As a teenager, his son consumed an enormous quantity of that over time.
+1 for Ocaml/F# and also the new ReScript. Would you be open to support these on Deno?
this is so biased it has no place on hacker news
If anyone wants a book focusing on the purpose of calculus, check out http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html

This is significantly different style from Russian textbooks. If you want a nice one of those translated into English (albeit not the easiest to find a paper copy of), I like Piskunov’s book. https://archive.org/details/n.-piskunov-differential-and-int...
Any reason why I would use this over expressjs?
I can't imagine not having access to QuickLook. It's not really about how quickly apps open so much as the UI—in a large folder of images or documents, I can use QuickLook to see what's inside each one, whereas without it I'd have to open a window for every document.
Few global powers have their home made social networks spread in other countries, let alone in another global power. There’s a reason why Russia and China don’t let American social networks operate in their countries. They’ll protect TikTok, it’s valuable or will be.
I personally would set it up in Google Search Console for each subdomain and experiment to see how deep Google matches subdomains on subdomains.

And do 302 redirects (https://first.steps.for.planning.wedding ==> https://planning.wedding/first-steps)

Although I'm not sure what I'd do on https://for.planning.wedding, but probably a 302 to https://planning.wedding

The nerd in me would then automate any slug that ends in "planning wedding", set up the domain in Search Console and ensure its verified properly.

For the record, I really like this branding idea.
In a way, language has always been the comprise.

We only came up with words and writing to cover the gaps with facial expressions and motions.

Truly, from the dawn of writing we’ve been dealing with the faults of expressing ourselves via words. The issues have been worth it however, because communicating complicated ideas across time and space was impossible otherwise.

Now, video has progressed to the point where it is trivial to use as a storage medium of ideas. We are still in the very early days of “moving pictures,” and with any technology, the first iterations often look like toys. In the far future, we may look back at this very moment as the start of a surge of _better_ communication across all boundaries; time, space, country of origin, species perhaps?

This is all baseless speculation of course, but it’s fun to speculate.
I watched their 30 minute demo on Twitch this morning, really good!

I use their OpenAI beta APIs as a paying customer, I am still waiting for access to Codex.
On the other hand my family learned the opposite lesson (without assistance from me).

They essentially deny every such permission request and for the few they actually care about (getting notifications from 2 or 3 of the 50 apps that want notification access) they come and asked for assistance.

One of the nice things about the iOS ecosystem is that apps aren’t allowed to be nonfunctional if you deny them access to something.
Actions, in this case what someone uses their time on and fills their mind with, aren't in a place, they're in place of the other actions one could have taken. And hey, one could say literacy also "had its place" when the church ruled over the illiterate in medieval times, so that itself isn't much of a consolation.
It's not a problem! I predict flooz will make a comeback and with some clever accounting, those negative dollar amounts can be changed into positive flooz.
But they thought it was properly received.

This was a computer bug. Function updateDockingState() executed and returned exactly what it was supposed to, but it never properly updated the value of variable DOCKED, so function checkIfDocked() later returned False when it should have returned true. The exact nature of the bug and how it went unnoticed is yet to be determined, but the issue is not with the theory of operation. No integration is going to fix that. Are you proposing that a manual review of every line of code should be part of the docking procedure?

It is amazingly presumptuous to assume you know how to make a safe spacecraft better than a literal space agency.
Intact fruit tends to be high in soluble dietary fiber, which binds up a bunch of the sugar in a goop that passes through the small intestine to be consumed by micros in the large intestine. i.e. it makes you fart when you eat enough of it.
I don't known that "ultra-processed" is en especially useful label, but I am all for vastly increased food labeling in general. I'm often baffled by people who are opposed to increased mandatory food information (like animal welfare standards, GMO contents, country of origin, to name a few).
I wonder if this is because TikTok targets a younger demographic that is digital native and practices better internet hygiene.
Its too bad PHEVs are not modular to allow for removing the gasoline engine for the 90% of trips where you don't need it.

In fact, I have a vision for modular PHEVs where the gasoline engine is on a trailer you pull on trips, and all it does is charge the electric battery to keep the electric motor running. You wouldn't even have to own or maintain the gas engine, you could rent them at u-haul or some a car rental chain.

I would actually love something like this for my Tesla.
Aye this is done via train in the Boston metro area. Despite Bostonians love of MBTA complaints, it’s a completely viable means of commuting and few companies don’t build on major transit lines.
Rather than think "surface of a balloon inflating", think "surface of an (infinite?) rubber sheet being uniformly stretched". It does intuitively seem like if there is 0 curvature and no "center", then the universe must be infinite though ...
Time suckage... and suddenly, it's 3am...
How is this different from Jira Epics ? You can always run a report in jira to figure this out?
I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to be doing productive things 24x7. You're going to want a break at some point.
Yep. Combine that with must-be-open-source, and their platform is practically hostile to the average developer who needs to earn a living.
I know. Gusto just got a $10 billion valuation today. Indeed, billion is common place now.
I wonder what will it make when you ask it to make a good bot AI for a game.

"make a game with a formidable opponent that plays good enough to win with 51% probability"

and of course the inevitable "make a better version of yourself"
People go to museums to look at art. That's solely consumption that does not require being literate.
> How do you see them making a profit?

By raising prices. There is a point at which the market will bear the cost and Uber can make a profit. It won’t be as cheap as it is now, and likely will be down in scale/volume, but that point does exist - the existence of taxis and all of their medallion cabal bs over the years proves it.
The riders are the only ones that won hand over fist. I can get a cab anywhere within minutes. This used to not be the case.

Will Uber be profitable? I don’t really care, they improved society, period.
And here’s a research article pointing out that octocrylene degrades to benzophenone over time. is this the original study?

> Benzophenone Accumulates over Time from the Degradation of Octocrylene in Commercial Sunscreen Products

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00461

Use mineral sunscreen that had minimal additives and hats.
French EVs are over 70% nuclear powered. We just keep the nuclear generators stationary and use battery buffers in the car to save weight.

You might argue it's about risk, but that didn't seem like such a huge deal when we tried to make nuclear cars and planes back in the 50s. RTGs are just incredibly inefficient, and properly shielded fission reactors are incredibly heavy.
I'm going to have left the ecosystem 3 years ago and never look back.
I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media. I used to think my dopamine receptors were burned out by the constant barrage of memes I received from reddit, Facebook and Twitter but TikTok proves they can refine that product to make it even more potent.

When I visit reddit now it feels behind in the same way Facebook used to feel behind. Facebook's video feature (which they shove into my feed as the third or fourth card during scrolling) is 90% stuff stolen from and that I already saw a few days ago on TikTok. But absent their algorithm it isn't nearly as effective.

I often have to remind myself how good TikTok's algorithm is. After using it for just a couple of days I can tell it knows more about me than I am comfortable with, even though I just scroll the FYP (For You Page) without logging into an account. The unbelievably narrow category of content it serves me clearly panders to my personality in a way that almost lets me believe I have a majority opinion. It creates a nearly perfectly personally tailored media bubble.

A lot of people from my generation (Gen X) and even from the older Millennial's don't use it, thinking it is just for the kids. That is probably for the best. If you are susceptible to media addiction I suggest never downloading it. TikTok: Not Even Once.