skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they did they would be dead in a year. They sell a fraction of the >$1000 phones apple sells by the shipload. Their bread and butter is the cheap stuff.

The same way nobody wants to spent $35k on a honda when they could have a tesla.
Also, Palm's WebOS was fantastic - the issues were too little, too late; stupid carrier exclusivity, and underpowered hardware.

WebOS had some real potential, too.
It’s interesting that OP living in a midtown apartment thought a 195 dollar Kaplan subscription is too much money and skimped on it while spending a lot of their time (wasting) on subpar material. Doesn’t exactly bode well for good investment acumen does it.
I feel like I just failed some security test by clicking on a random standalone link because I believed it would lead to cat pics.
Nope, they still arbitrarily decide to "fold" big changes (file with a large diff), causing me to miss entire files when reviewing on occasion.

In all honesty, their pull request pages need a lot of UX work: too much stuff going on on the overview pages, jumping to unresolved threads does not work when they are in previous commits...

There's also that merge train confusion where merge trains get "cancelled" without an obvious explanation ("this was cancelled because it is included in a new one" would do). In a sense, I'd say that their UX is pretty bad, but the API is not much better either (you can't fetch pipeline log files with individual script timings that you see floating on the right in the web UI). If anything, all of this only goes to show that you don't need to be perfect to be good!

But I applaud the effort, mission and dedication they put up, and especially their open core nature.

Congrats on the IPO and keep pushing forward.
Show HN: Outdated world view is holding back the internet
I'm having this debate over and over with clients, and I've had to realise I'm not the kid pushing against the ageing adults that "don't get it" anymore. I'm a part of the problem...

The internet should be mobile & touch first. Desktop and laptop computer are niche products. Most people use touch devices.
Dying before you grow old enough to get cancer does the trick. Remember to reproduce before that.
Sample size of one shouldn't change your perspective on a whole class of people. There are bad actors in every group - and, while it is shameful his deeds, you can't castigate a whole class of people.
From Wintel to Goocomm.

Android OEM are (almost) commodity product makers.
Maybe we didn't! I recall reading about Egyptians using jasmine and rice-based sunscreen.

We survived winters without fur. Perhaps sunscreen isn't much different. Mud slathered on our bodies to avoid painful sunburns in Summer could've worked fine for 300,000 years just as animal hide and straw worked to avoid freezing to death in Winter.

But there may be more to it. I wonder if the intensity of the Sun and/or the strength of Earth's magnetic field could fluctuate more than current science has been able to determine.
Huawei went after Apple, including on quality. They were shot down right when their sales overtook Apple's (maybe a coincidence, who knows...)
Actions are close If not better than Gitlab’s CI. I moved from Gitlab to GitHub Actions because they offer OSX runners too, game changer.
I have created a product hunt for startups made with no code
Take a look at it: https://www.nocodestartups.in
The quote (referring to a presentation on surface disinfectant studies):

> I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light—and I think you said that that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that too. It sounds interesting…

And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds—it sounds interesting to me.
That book was part of my classes
Lawrence Systems videos are great! I've learned so much from them and have implemented quite a few things at $WORK or home due to their videos.
Came here to say this. Very informative, if somewhat laudatory, videos.
Do people want the Fold? (No snark - genuinely asking)
Im not sure this is a good take - most of the things you’re describing are basically an increase of administrative power; so too is letting the admin fire tenured professors. The story here is really one of metastasis of university administration
Bitcoin Killed the King and Now Network Effects Will Determine Its Future
Because:

a) sites go down and disappear
b) sites get censored / taken down by random acts of god

https://archive.vn/PNckg/c44096661a31c0014373b451c5ee308ecc0...
Chrome rolled out that update on mobile but for whatever reason they rolled it back.

It's a much better design choice imo when you get used to it.
Can confirm this is how a lot of the Xiamo Co.'s cheaper phones (brands like Poco/Vivo i think?) are able to sell hardware that competes way above its weight at such unbelievable low prices.
I personally know of several pilots who are using up their sick time in anticipation of a showdown over the vaccine mandates.

Southwest has been running with a pretty shallow pool of pilots for some time, and COVID made the problem a lot worse.
Furthermore pilots who opted (or were opted) to idle have to be re-certified before they can rejoin the pool of active pilots and training is overwhelmed and backed up.

Juan Browne does a much better job than my ham fisted attempt - and a WAY better job of going into detail than this superficial article too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO39nIcuPhQ

BTW he is an active commercial pilot so he knows a bit of which he speaks and isn't just scraping content from elsewhere and resummarizing.
>In Japanese society, historically, ritual suicide was accepted as an "honorable" way to die under otherwise shameful circumstances. It seems pretty natural that, with such a cultural legacy, Japanese people (including children) would be more willing to resort to suicide.

Does it really? Do you feel the same way about western society and, say, duels to the death? The many old practices regarding marriage and the church all around?

I don't think suicide as an honorable death is any more of a real thing in Japan nowadays than ninjas are.
As a brazilian I don't believe for a second that these are actual efforts unless Brazil (holding 1/5 of all planet's biodiversity alone) is held accountable enough to see economical sanctions being enforced by more developed countries. I can't think of other last resorts efforts other than economical ones and Brazil would surely listen to those if they were enforced right.
Latent Effects for Reusable Language Components
Same topic but it's a diff investigation of diff sources.
If it was that easy they would have already done it. You are drastically oversimplifying the market, network and ecosystem effects. The market has shown that it will gobble up $1000 phones, why sell one at $300? Apple has built a network that encourages people to stay in it (iMessage for example). They have also built an ecosystem of products that harmonize well. The market seems to enjoy this.
Bullshit. The FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive a week and a half after the first crash, and grounded the entire 737 MAX fleet three days after the second.
I'm pretty sure that this is deliberate. The URL bar isn't really under the site's control (although Web sites have more access to it, these days, than they used to).

If you can get users to interact with the elements directly under the site's control, then the site has ... more control.

Also, it's actually not a bad idea to have a "Swiss Army Knife" text entry. It's sort of what users expect. Couple that with advanced language parsing, and you can actually give users what they want.

My wife says I have "Google-Fu," because I'm so good at entering search queries that return relevant results.

Really, all I do, is enter a natural language phrase into the URL bar, and I get good results.
Newspapers had a lot of reach. Look up yellow journalism...
So, the chinese will get a better linkedin, without facebook-like stuff? that's it?
Ok, where do I sign up?
How did that work?

In the Netherlands, in the 80s-00s at least, hanging up cleared your line, so picking it up again would get you a fresh dialtone even if the other side didn't hang up (and the other side would get a modified "busy" signal if you hung up on them).
On phone support calls I usually can't even get people who know what a URL, URL bar, or even a search bar, is in the first place.

"The box at the top where you type in websites you want to go to."

"What are you talking about? I'm computer illiterate, I can't learn any of this fancy tech stuff. I just click my facebook icon and it comes up!"

These people get all sorts of confused when something happens in their browser and the new tab page's recently visited list gets cleared out...
Probably it is overblown, but I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happened somewhere (certainly not regular though).

That said, I'll say that bullying in Japan is different in that it is orchestrated. Peer pressure is enormous in Japan. When someone is being bullied, very few of us can raise an objection because doing so would make you the next target. So everyone is becoming an enabler. (Actually, this is not just kids' matter. It's pretty much how the whole society functions here. No wonder adults can't stop kids bullying - they're just imitating adults!)
Nah. Half the reason people buy iPhones is to show other people they aren't poor. Buying a sub-$300 phone doesn't achieve that goal.
Are you using enterprise Gitlab?

I don't think Gitlab is a serious player outside of enterprise clients. But that's where the money is.
> It's a guarantee that someone has been teaching the same thing for years can continue teaching the same thing when political winds shift.

Yeah. Seems valuable. A privilege, almost.

> It's there so that people such as yourself can't replace them with those whose views they prefer.

Gratuitous personal attack.

> You classify professors as if they are all the same, which means you're creating a straw man to weaken the position as whole without actually providing any sort of specific point to argue about.

What?

> How else would you consider professors to be privileged?

How else? So you admit that they are privileged in one sense, in the sense of having tenure, of not having to fear getting fired for speech, and you're asking me how else they are privilged?
Of course this would happen in Georgia.
The slippery slope argument is not a fallacy if there's evidence for it, and in the case of censorship, there is.
Shitposting about child suicides now? Very mature.
This is pretty subjective. I find iOS pretty aggravating and lacking after using Google's (Pixel) variant of Android for years.

Agree that many manufacturers stuff bloatware onto their devices, but the Pixels don't have that problem.
For me it gave one result - this page.
The Ashley Book of Knots
Or an Integer Programming solver
because after a few weeks at the beginning of summer getting horrific burns you would tan enough for it to stop being too bad (and the eventual skin cancer would historically be the least of your concerns)
Some of the more recent judgements are outlined here:

https://www.mondaq.com/uk/financial-services/1056304/uk-high...

But it goes all the way back to common law. Basically the bank is a customers agent and must obey instructions to the best of its ability. It must exercise reasonable skill etc obeying those instructions. But unless it suspects fraud it cannot disobey. To quote: a bank is not required to act as an amateur detective.

There is very little room for them to decline a customer instruction once given. It needs to be pretty blatant fraud or otherwise illegal. Sending money to another account is neither on the face of it.
As a founder, you don't want tons of small checks because of legal complications (> 99 entities on your cap table) and not a good ROI on your time initially + ongoing. A workaround is bringing in someone to run a syndicate on AngelList or some other bundling, making it their focus vs yours, and condensing to one entity.

The result is, as an individual investor, you can focus on those syndicates. Two benefits are you can spread risk by doing a wide variety of small investments, and while following more experienced individuals.
> Ah yes, the "privileged elite class" consisting of underpaid professors, and the oppressed have finally risen up to turn the power to control speech back over to administrators where that power rightly belongs.

Pointless snark that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.
> Good design and OOP avoids using GoF patterns while coding for many reasons.

I'm sorry but this assertion is not only patently wrong but it also makes absolutely no sense at all. Whether you know it or not, design patterns are pervasive and sometimes even the central selling point of frameworks or even runtime environments. For example, one of javascript's central features and selling points is it's use of an event loop (a design pattern) and extensive use of callbacks (another design pattern) and also promises (another design pattern). Ever heard of a worker process? That's also a component of a design pattern. What about futures, promises? What about shared pointers? What about observables? What about MVC? Data transfer objects? Active records? All design patterns.

> The reason GoF got so popular is because for anyone struggling with OO principles it was easy to understand and apply.

No, not really. The true value of the GoF book, and others like it, is that it documented widely used design patterns and thus enabled an ubiquitous language to form.
it is to a very small group of people who somehow have the attention of the national media. it's unclear why their viewpoint is being amplified.
Special reenactor's edition comes with lifeboats, 1700 minifigs, icebergs, and a model Carpathia.
That's charitable. He was mocked (unjustly, as all presidents are), but criticized (justly) for taking simple observations (UV kills the virus, disinfectant kills the virus) and extrapolating medically in a way that the president should not do in a public statement, and that's even regardless of the sloppiness of his descriptions.
Hmmm, I guess it only affects discovery between phones, because I just recently re-set up syncing with two laptops, and it worked fine without entering the IDs or ips or anything—just clicked on the discovered IDs.

Of course, this issue still highlights how the ‘open-source’ and ‘customizable’ OS does only what Google allows it to do.
The retailers are the obvious targets here but if you've ever searched for a lawyer you end up in a strange world of impossible distributions of reviews. This decision is typically much more critical than what fidget spinner you order.
Ask HN: How long is your root user password
It goes without saying perhaps, but I'm not talking about servers or anything, just the root user of your everyday machine. How much do you type when you sudo? I have gone both long and short. Give reasons.
Isn't it pretty easy to to get a good phone? If people buy line A from brand B and are happy with it, I'd expect that 2-3 years later when they buy the latest A from B, they'd get a phone that's as good or better.

I mention this because most people are satisficers, not maximizers. [1] They want a good phone, not the best phone. So I suspect that for most consumers, this isn't particularly a hard choice. They're going to buy the same one or ask a friend or see a review or get the one the phone store person recommends.

The Android market is particularly hard for maximizers, though, because there are a bunch of companies working hard to have the best phone for a given niche.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/20150...
> Search bar is superclass of url bar?

And that is why inheritance and object oriented programming are bad. /s

Just because I made an error while copy pasting some internal address doesn't mean I want that address shared with every search provider that pays my browser for information on me. I managed to disable that in Firefox, which somehow also broke the search bar on its startup page.
You act like startups are some "keep poor people down scheme". It is because startups are incredibly high risk, and they will most likely lose their money. "Poorer" people can't stand to lose 8/10 bets they place in most cases. Only in the past 10 years with bubble money, and bubble VC exits are Silicon Valley startups seems as 2/10 gold mines. Before that, they were few/far between with a lot of failures. Startups are a failure game.... because their default mode is "fail".

Also note, outside of SV - the rate is nowhere near 2/10 billion valuations.

Making sure an investor has financial acumen helps founders focus because it is hard enough raising money from angels/VC's in $10k+ amounts - imagine if you only raised $100-$1k per person. Egad! Crowdfunding might be an exception to this - but it is fairly new.
if there is a way to game the system a business will try. The reason content social farms exist. You can hire a content farm to inflate your product reviews and increase sales and voila call yourself a growth hacker. My wife spends hours reading reviews before buying a product on amazon, we just bought a coffee machine and she spent hours. Who knows what review is real and what is fake. I suspect soonish there will be an AI to create fake reviews on any e-commerce platform and that platform has another AI to defend / spot the fake reviews. AI vs AI. - 2 cents
That sounds freakishly authoritarian. Why am I no longer surprised by this kind of stuff?
Since 3D TV's never got to a glasses-less state, they were always an incredible compromise. AR already works better than 3D TV's ever did, in that regard.

I always said, back in the day - 'I'll invest in 3D when we don't need glasses for it' - and I guess enough people collectively said that at the same time that it shut down the industry and never matured to that level.
People lived up to reasonable ages if they reached adolescence.

The idea that everybody died young is a myth.
I don't think anyone is going to pay for K/D data from CoD.

Data can be if it's useful, this isn't useful to anyone outside the people playing the game.
Microsoft probably did the right thing. The alternative is becoming part of China's domestic spy machine, which is certainly not benefiting the people of China in any way. Doing so may violate US law, although no case has gone to court on this as of yet.
Reduce Your Response Time to Zero-Day Vulnerability Situation Using Social Media
People make fun of him, and I'm not going to go into whether it was responsible to phrase it the way he did or not, but in my mind the most likely explanation as to why he said it was that some scientists explained it to him and he just regurgitated what he heard without putting it into context (I don't imagine Trump is particularly technically inclined).
Robert Kiyosaki (Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad) Predicting Stock Market Crash
In an interview I had with GL the interviewer mentioned “people use GH for open source work, and GL for closed”.
Crypto's biggest problem is treating it as an asset, not an exchange medium, of course if it was widely being used as an exchange medium I think we likely would have already saw regulations to shut it down as governments will not allow anything to compete with their fiat money
This kind of makes me want to replace all my profile pics with NFT'd images. I suppose that would be petty.
Ancient Rome gives you something like a life expectancy of 50 years if you survived being a baby.

But I also think ancient Romans would not lay in a tanning booth, or be indoors for 10 months and then take a 7 day trip to Mexico and burn to a crisp on the beach.
depends on the mistake. if your widget designed for a certain task returns an obvious response when provided bad data allows for an easy understanding that this widget does not do what you think it does, then yes, allowing them to make the mistake is acceptable. they will learn not to do this. allowing things that teach bad behavior is something to avoid. in your quest to never have to tell the user "oops", you enable this bad behavior. little snow flakes are not going to melt because you told them "the princess is in the other castle". provide a proper/meaningful response (no, ID10T/PEBKAC does not count) so they know why what they did is not the correct method.
It may also be elevated self-doubt when doing something logically sound but overall risky over an extended period without social validation, and not patriarchy or misogyny.
I think that politically correct ideas about one of those groups are both illogical and harmful to society. Some might find my views repugnant and wrongly describe them as "hate-filled". Does that mean I shouldn't be able to hold a job, or that to do so I should have to hide my opinions and express them only surreptitiously? If not, your argument against tenure doesn't hold. If so, I'd love to hear more about your reasoning.
Have any of the finance minded HN commenters decided if the $10B valuation is justified? I'm usually pretty negative about high valuations, but given their enterprise penetration, this one seems almost reasonable.
I'm convinced. My bad.

Unrelated, are you the DoctorOW who sent me a password reset link today?
wonder when the police get theirs?
This is so off-base that I didn't even feel like responding at the time it was written. Anyone who believes that owning shares in a company does NOT give you partial rights to future profit distributions needs to go educate themselves on how the stock market works.
Effort to Bar Tech Companies from ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction
I think it's a question of whether we're playing a single round of a game or an iterated game; or, to phrase it differently, whether we're discussing single acts or culture.

Granted, any time that transparency leads to bad effects, lack of transparency would presumably have led to the lack of those bad effects, and so be good, at least indirectly. A one-time lack of transparency can perhaps be appropriate.

However, a culture of lack of transparency is not the opposite of a culture of transparency, and those are the two poles I really see us discussing. A culture of transparency can lead to problems, but can also lead to good things (or at least to the exposure of bad things so that they can be addressed); whereas a culture of lack of transparency always will lead to problems, and any temporary good results from its imposition will be overwhelmed by its long-term ill effects.
> The best days of Amazon are behind it.

I use Prime (free via ISP) less because their search is (intentionally, I believe) utterly broken.

My last Prime purchase used Google image search; item I bought never shows up on Amazon searches.
Some important context to actually evaluate the benefits, from the published article [1]:

- Only five patients were enrolled, median age 56 years.

- One of them died, so 20% mortality in the study group. We can't conclude anything from such a small sample size, of course.

- No causal link can be established at this stage between viral burden and clinical improvement, nor between treatment and viral burden.

In other words, this is just a study to check that UVA light can be further studied without killing patients left and right, and apparently it can. It isn't able to draw conclusions about the efficacy of the treatment.

1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12325-021-01830-7
> Nest (gathering best tools [...]

LOL. https://redd.it/lwje83