skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "wanting to go for a beer" is a pretty bad metric for many reasons, not the least of which is that I don't like drinking beer. A better metric might be: "If I need help would I regret asking this person?" or "If I had a disagreement would it be an overall positive experience?" I have worked with people who excel technically but that skill is largely offset by the negative effect they have on social interactions.
> It will be focused on areas that those companies focus on and into areas that those individuals care about.

I think it’s not about what anyone cares about. It’s about what’s competitive. Even those at the top of the wealth pyramid are subject to these forces.

I think (extreme) wealth inequality is partly a consequence, rather than a cause her.

Creating a global competition through literal economic globalization and the collapse of distance brought about by the internet means we have the entire world competing in a small number of linked domains, rather the than many independent competitive realms that existed before.
Have you seen the entitlement some end users display towards developers? The vitriol hurled at them through twitter, etc?
I just have to say, as an observer of this thread, that I am extremely grateful not to be any of you. Some dystopian shit going on in here.
Fuel Cells are the scam. The cheapest way to make hydrogen fuel is through fracking. It's dirty under the top-level.

So it's "no emissions" but still relies on the planet-killing petroleum fuel chain.

If you think PHEVs are somehow constrained by EVs - you have no idea of the patent forests Toyota and others have built on hybrid tech. It's not the lithium that's stopping PHEVs.
I used Quill for a project and was fairly impressed with the user flows. Kind of like a slack/discord but with better threading like bbforums. Curious to see if Twitter ends up doing anything with this but I imagine they won't.
China is not a democracy
You won’t short-circuit the process but you’ll probably get a leg up. A colleague’s recommendation is another piece of data for the folks involved in the hiring process, and maybe it’ll tip the scales.

Your colleague may also let you know of upcoming jobs, or steer you towards a particular job that you’d be a great fit for.
You are talking to the wrong people.

The delusion of ethical corporations instead of ethical regulation is rediculuos.

If you don't think the government can manage this problem, a corporation is even further into mismatched interests and agency.
Remember when the Facebook API went down and it caused iOS to brick?

I do, and Facebook no longer has native iOS support
>For the few that would, money clearly isn't a huge problem.

That's not really true? A lot of people will refuse to sell their house even for a multiple of the 'market value', because that's the place they lived and want to continue living.
That's about 1/3 of the story of the battery swap experiment. Tesla put engineering behind making the battery easily removable in all Model S cars, but actual customers (like me) didn't want to use battery swaps. I'd rather supercharge.

p.s. can you stop name-calling?
I trust the FBI less. They're too busy running around creating fake white supremacist groups to deal with real issues anyway.
A bit of a tangent but I wish more than anything that App Store/Play Store allowed for more advanced search. Some of what I want I know will never come but I'd love to be able to filter out any games that have any type of coin/gem/currency for sale through IAP. Normally I have to rely on reddit posts or random blogs that I find with search terms like "$gameType game with no P2P/P2W" or "$gameType game with no IAP" but even that's not perfect. I'm perfectly fine paying for a game and I'm fine with the game having IAP for extra things like "No Ads", level packs, or similar but I despise games that have any sort of P2P/P2W, they always optimize for the wrong thing (making money > fun/interesting/etc).
I was only explaining how things are, not whether they are good or bad.

The EU is a single market consisting of many sovereign states. Sovereign states are naturally protectionist. Each member state wants to support domestic businesses over their rivals from other member states, but a single market can't work like that. To overcome these natural tendencies, the EU set up a regulatory environment that undermines the advantages established businesses have in their home markets, in order to allow businesses from other member states successfully compete against them.

That same attitude bleeds to dealings with businesses outside the single market. EU regulators see large profits and large market shares as signs of insufficient competition, and they see insufficient competition as something inherently negative.
You get dividends from stocks, so new investors is not the only way.

Stocks that don't pay a dividend have promise of paying one in the future as their cash flows grow. That's the fundamental basis to all stock valuation. It's why people talk about P to FCF, PE, PS ratios. For growth stocks, hypothetically, how much in dividends could I get 30 years from now?

It's true that many investors don't consider what the fair value actually is, but that's how you end up in a bubble and the price disconnecting from the fundamentals never lasts forever.

Real estate more obvious and direct via rents.

But yeah, pump and dump kind of stocks where they far exceed their fundamental value are similar.

We can argue semantics and what defines a Ponzi scheme, all I'm saying is that crypto largely has no intrinsic value. Any value that's explained is always self referential in terms of other crypto.

Bitcoin has some small intrinsic value for illicit payments, or hedging inflation in countries without capital markets. You could argue the net intrinsic value is negative due to the environmental costs though. But outside of edge/fringe cases, all valuation relies on a greater fool effectively.

Even gold is still majority used for industrial purposes, despite also being seen as an investment vehicle.
> Is there any reason to think this isn't going on right now?

The alliance between the corporate media and the intelligence community could not be any clearer.

Looking past the endless barrage of yellow journalism in the traditional press, let's take a close look at Twitter.

Last year, Twitter manually added tags to accounts deemed "foreign state media". Mysteriously, accounts like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, which are CIA cutouts directly funded by the US government, do not get such tags [1]. Look up RT, CGTN, etc for examples of this tag in action.

Also last year, independent journalists dropped a bombshell report [2] on leaked documents detailing an anti-Russian disinformation operation that involves Reuters, BBC, and other "independent" news media groups.

If you try to post [2] on Twitter, your post will be permanently marked with a visual warning banner about "hacked materials". AFAIK it is currently the only link that generates this response from Twitter. Ironically, this virtually guarantees its credibility, rather than simply dismissing it to the trash heap of crazy Qanon theories, etc.

Finally, over the past few years Twitter has been officially releasing information on "disinformation" operations that occur on Twitter. Most recently, Twitter endorsed a report from the """independent""" (read: entirely funded by weapons manufacturers and Western governments) think tank ASPI which alleged to uncover a massive Chinese disinformation operation. I won't comment on the veracity of that report and encourage you to read it yourself and judge the quality of their "scientific" method. Regardless, it shows a clear alliance between Twitter and these special interests in the intelligence community.

The related blog post from Twitter [3] is more worrying, because it suggests that your account can be removed if it engages at all with what is deemed to be a "disinformation campaign". Which might include liking or retweeting an apolitical tweet from an account marked "foreign state media", etc.

[1] - https://twitter.com/RadioFreeAsia?s=20

[2] - https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...

[3] - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/disclosin...
Exactly! Scientific papers are not meant to stand on their own -- they are pieces of a much larger jigsaw puzzle. In order to make heads or tails out of a paper, one really needs to have a sense of where the paper fits into its larger picture. Building up necessary base of knowledge to develop that sense, both in terms of explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge, is part of what a PhD student is actually doing while they are working on their PhD, and is part of why the process takes as long as it does.

Also, the mechanical process of effectively reading a paper is highly non-linear, and is a skill in and of itself. In a lot of ways, it is more akin to high-level pattern matching than it is to more "normal" reading. At least at my institution, it is something that we actually teach our students to do in formal ways (the obligatory "How to read a scientific paper" lecture during the first term or two) and then make them practice over and over again for years (journal clubs, etc.). The original author eventually figured this out, which is to their credit.
There are indeed Nations that are a "Rechtsstaat" or a "state of law".

Also you don't need to compare something to the worst of the same category.
This is easy and lazy.
Compare things to something better, or there is no progress.
In my experience Americans largely are ignorant about the rest of the world. I believe most Americans think the U.S. is the freest country in the world. It’s a myth. It is this myth that question. I don’t question that we are freer than many counties.

I grew up in an American colony in Panama called the Canal Zone. I remember when my home town was given to Panama and we were patrolled by Panamanian police. During the Noriega troubles the police were openly hostile to Americans. I remember what it was like to deal with Panamanian police. My attitude with dealing with police in the U.S. is essentially the same as it was when dealing with the police of a dictatorship.
I wonder if no-аds would work. see I used Cyrillic a here.
> 2. Isn't the intention to allow passengers to use the screen?

If it were a separate screen in front of the passenger, this would be a good argument. But since it is the screen the driver is supposed to look at for driving-related information...
> media cover current politics objectively

Any person with half a brain knows that corporate media are just propaganda machines with political agendas at this point.
I use e.os from the e.foundation. Good if you can live google-free. My app store I use is f-droid. It has instructions for reproducible builds of apps and, for each app, it clearly indicates its license and if it has anti-features.
> I see, and this is why the US is enforcing so many global trade embargos?

You're not getting it. Embargos are neither here nor there, what matters is how they treat the domestic economy. They've let important bits whither, get outsourced, or slip out of their control through foreign acquisitions (which are default-allow), all often with great negative effects for the actual citizens they represent. That shows you where their commitments are.
I think it's important to remember that tobacco is highly addictive. This makes it harder for individuals to make an informed decision which I think should be a factor in deciding whether to control a particular substance.
Which point you don't undersand? I'm glad to help.
Listings show whether they have ads, in-app purchases etc. on a separate screen
Calling him a conman given what he has achieved with electric cars and rockets is absurd. That's coming from a place of envy or resentment.

Musk over-promises, and often, but what he delivers is impressive even if it doesn't meet his promises. Therefore he's no conman.

The more interesting question is whether the over-promising is necessary if you want to achieve something substantial. Politicians certainly seem to think so.
It really depends on your domain. I haven't seen C# a lot, nor python, in some orgs.

For some (like me), it's more a superset of C, assembly, bash, maybe lisp, python and matlab.

For others, it's going to be JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML..

I agree though that a library is usually domain-specific, and that you can probably easily identify the subset of languages that you really need official bindings for (thereby making my comment a bit useless, sorry for the noise).
I double checked on this.

https://www.valuewalk.com/2016/02/tesla-model-3-price-consum...

No it wasn't. People thought theyd get $27500 cars after the incentive.
$300 billion for Evergrande bonds from foreigners.

$2T - $4T total from US capital markets, which funds BRI and the PLA. (Wall Street are literally traitors.)

91% of China's interntional trade is in USD, so cutting them off from US capital markets would be fatal economically in days.
This feels a lot like a headline that appeals to the prejudices of readers of The Atlantic. But, even setting aside whether I buy the statistics they gesture toward (without citation in most cases), they need to provide an argument that they are relevant. For example, might the lack of new colleges signal instead that colleges are less relevant in the age of the internet, or that existing colleges have expanded in size, or all the new college created in the last century were part of a post-war boom, rather than the baseline that the future should always be judged by? I'd also like to know why any of this is a uniquely American problem, and not a wider trend.

And, you can't get away with just saying "sure, CRISPR and mRNA and AI and solar energy and smartphones are cool, but if you ignore examples like that, there really hasn't been much innovation."
> Let’s start with a simple mystery: What happened to original blockbuster movies?

Cinema as the high form of popular theater art is done - for better or for worse - just like vaudeville et al. before it.

The new form is the epic, original, streaming TV mini-series - some of which are good enough to be considered very long movies.

As much as I also bemoan the disappearance of an endless stream of great popular cinema, something new and interesting and evolving has taken its place. And cinema will continue to exist in a niche, just like vaudeville and theatre still do today.
I was just going to comment with something similar, but more focused on the individual's inability to think creatively because they're just trying to survive on an increasingly inflated-away income. Poverty has a profound effect on creative thinking, and increasingly more of America creeps towards poverty. The author throws one sentence out there on this, then moves on to top-down excuses for lack of innovation.
It has the opposite problem. They intentionally don't disable steering while using the wheel to control the video game. The result is that your tires get ground down with a pile of black rubber dust on your driveway. I don't let the kids use the steering wheel for fear of destroying the tires.

I would be surprised if it is possible to disconnect the steering from the mechanical steering mechanism.
It used to be available at ditu.google.cn (only from within China), don't know if it still is.
I feel like you shouldn’t have given your company a name so similar to Docker
Hasn’t he been the richest man in the world at times? Why are we calling him a “populist”?
It seems like what you are describing is a code maintenance job. If that's right, there are answers to your questions in that context:

1. "Why agile/scrum is even a thing?" Mainly because new development projects benefit from Agile. If you are responding to tickets, all you need is a trouble ticket system. That's not Agile. It's just a bug list with tracking. Which is what Jira was before Agile became fashionable and Jira has to become Agile.

2. "What's with infinite tests? Why so much code is being written to do so little?" Because regressions suck and management would rather pay you to be belt-and-suspenders than have surprises. Good? Bad? Depends.

3. PMs? Project managers or product managers? Or product owners (Agile jargon alert)? Same principle as why so much test code: Management wants to have a documented task that is documented as complete. Dull and bureaucratic, but perhaps appropriate to maintenance tasks.
I am both a Tesla fan and a Tesla driver.

I am against PHEVs. When my parents recently went shopping for a new car, I tried to sell BEV. When I failed, I encouraged them to skip PHEV and just buy ICE.

PHEV are 2x the complexity and things to worry about and go wrong. You need to stop for gas AND plug in your car every day? You need to change your oil AND potentially replace your battery?

IMO PHEV exist because they are a compliance tool to meet green energy standards, but not generally a solid product. I see them vanishing very soon as BEV production capacity increases, and they will be a tiny footnote in the history of the automobile. In fact a salesmen directly told us that the PEV we were looking at (PEV XC90 I think?) was a joke, and we could just throw the plug in the trash when we got home and ignore that it existed.
Yeah, of course the culture could just obliterate the empire militarily. I think only a few civilizations (pre ascension) could hold their own for awhile.

You bring up a good point about shattering the view of the game though.
I don't see how this is relevant.
Why anybody would download it from a non-official website? Maybe this post is just a Minerva advertisement.
The problem (with both app stores) is there are really three types of apps: paid, free, requires subscription. Devs are having to use titles to make it clear which is which since the stores aren't letting them use categories. It's frustrating (for both user and developer) when a user downloads an app expecting it to be free only to find it won't work if you don't pay monthly.
There's a big difference between wanting personal access to the source code and wanting to know that the source code is available should the need or desire ever arise.

I've been developing FLOSS for several decades now, but I rarely compile stuff from source anymore (except my own projects). However, the availability of the source code for the tools I use is very important to me, even if I never exercise it myself.

In addition, general access to the source code is important as a learning tool for programmers, if only "to see how it's done". You may never build such code, but being able to take a look at it can be an important foundation in the continuing education of software developers.
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I was going to write up a devil's advocate post, but I think I'm mostly fine with people having the freedom to keep smoking as long as externalities are priced in. If smokers cost the country ~NZ$2.5 billion for their personal freedom, then the revenue produced by the tax should be ~NZ$2.5 billion. I think it boils down to if a regressive tax like that is palatable or not.

However, as the smoking population dwindles (due to costs, but also increasing public awareness) and you get less people paying in, but more people pulling out of the pot, you're going to have to bump the tax that much more, causing tobacco related crime. At some point, you have to pull the plug if the smoking cohort can't pay for themselves without causing widespread crime. I don't think it should be illegal to smoke or grow your own, but a ban on selling substances does make some amount of sense.
It's disputed. No real evidence either way, just one post.
By that logic, why not allow movies/video, ads as well while driving?
Try harvard's free CS60
There's definitely something to be said for short blog posts with snippets of info like this.

I very much appreciate the fact that this wasn't turned into a article three times the size, just the information and relevant code.
Not sure if any of these are used in private or public schools, but they are all top notch.

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Foundations-Scientific-Under...
https://www.touchpress.com/
https://mysteryscience.com/
https://pbskids.org/apps/play-and-learn-science-.html
https://www.pandiapress.com/real-science-odyssey/
https://www.terminaleleven.com/skyview/iphone/
https://www.tappityapp.com/
https://tinybop.com/apps/the-human-body
https://www.wildkratts.com/
I wish so much I could simply pay for ad-free versions of software, and I don't mean in-app purchases to unlock features, which I wish people didn't do and instead had a paid version in the store.

I use f-droid as much as possible, but there are a few things not available there.
Long Covid my ass.

If you didnt' get government handouts you'd apply for a greeter job at Wallmart.

There are plenty of unfilled positions for workers (allegedly) suffering from brain fog and whatnot. You don't need to be able to create Excel formulae or code blockchain solutions in order to be gainfully employed, regardless of what you used to do before.

This is just another "make (socialist) US government bigger" propaganda piece.
I found The Imposters Handbook - Rob Conery to be a fantastic overview of CS concepts. Taught me where my CS fundamentals were deficient and gave me enough of the proper language to search effectively and start filling in those deficiencies.
Yea, I joined the marketing systems in '94 and it was called PMI then, Promotional Marketing Integration.
Worse are the up and down arrows. They are truly made for ants.

I wish HN would borrow one UX person from its own portfolio companies to improve the overall typography and UX.
Huh wow, that's brilliant! I was expecting something super complicated with extremely high tech sensors.
When you play those games with the steering wheel it actually still turns the tires.
What information folks are allowed to supply is distinct from ensuring its accuracy, I think. Misleading app names are a problem regardless, but given that many apps have ads and charge for the ad-free experience, it seems odd the developer isn't allowed to highlight that in the title.

But Google can do as they wish: another reason alternative app stores have an important role to play.
>Am I
supposed to believe that all these media cover current politics
objectively

I cannot begin to comprehend how anyone can consume the current political coverage and still believe it's objective. Also, of course not, nobody has ever suggested such a thing.
If, while driving, the car gets into a wreck and it is found that the driver was playing video games while driving, then the car maker should be held at least partially liable.

On the other hand, if the driver decided to install their own game system so that they can drive and game at the same time - that would make it solely the driver's responsibility.
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If any site developers from HN are reading this thread -- please prioritize some of these quick wins to improve mobile UX and a11y. Some small CSS changes such as those suggested in the Notion post demonstrate, these quick wins that don't require a full-redesign do make a difference.

Obviously, understand that your team may be lean and have other priorities, but maybe hiring a contractor to resolve some these issues would be a way to address concerns for those with sight issues and those browsing on small screens.
Sorry, it was at an off-the-record conference. As a result it was a very candid talk!