skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course these types of articles were bound to come out, but part of why Karikó and others like her are successful is because they did not get showered with funds and success. The grit is part of the recipe. It reminds me of Alex Danco's Scene discussions (https://alexdanco.com/2021/03/19/how-scenes-work-with-jim-os...).
> Maybe his manager is a piece of shit, but I can't believe there's no one to report to above him that can see this for what it is and make it right?

PIP is a tool in manager's hands and above L6 no one gives a squat. They even encourage using it.
"Gravity" won seven Oscars.
> Reaching as many votes as possible forces parties to draw their discourses around the lowest common denominator

Education and social discourse have decayed such that even so-called elites are ignorant destroyers of civilisation.

"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." -- Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
Honest question: how to prevent abusing this system?
One piece of advice I always offer to younger software engineers about corporate politics is to ALWAYS try your best to make sure you have a relationship with your manager's manager. Cutting out links in the corporate telephone game is invaluable sometimes.
> For years, Apple helped by offering an “identifier for advertisers” (IDFA), giving advertisers a way to track people’s behaviour on its devices. (...) But last year, citing privacy concerns, Apple turned off IDFA by default and forced apps to ask people if they want to be tracked.

And everyone praised Apple for it. But if Apple really care about privacy, they'd never allowed for IDFA in the first place…

> Google will soon offer most users of Android, its mobile operating system, the ability to opt out of ad tracking.

I'll believe it when they pass some independent audits from EU countries xD
> The experience of being, and the experience of attributes like "alive" and in "somewhere in particular" are separate things.

Yes, you can have the former without the latter - it's a key component of attaining "enlightenment" or "stream entry", which is perhaps most feasibly achieved through vipassana meditation. This gives you a reasonably direct experience of anatta or "non-self" (where 'self' actually means something like personal identity and the attributes thereof, not phenomenological experience per se).
700 a day???

Why did you undercharge by so much.

I know the EU dev market isn't great but those are rookie numbers for "danger money."

Three of the "retired, then handed enough money to unretire" COBAL guys at my old place were doing 2500 a day.
I'm (unfortunately!) not 20. I'm describing the sum total of all interactions, not just my own personal preference.

I don't believe that "spreading the virus to people who are more vulnerable" is a meaningful concept for coronavirus. If you're immunocompromised (as, for example, my uncle is) then the outside world is now effectively a poison cloud and remains so regardless of what other people do in all realistic cases.

It's theoretically possible of course that if everyone else isolated as well the virus could die out, but post-April 2020 this became a 'frictionless plane' style scenario that couldn't actually exist in the real world.
What would that payment be for from Facebook?

Opinions aside, Google are paying for a thing, not just donating money. What would Facebook pay for? I'm not sure that them being a search engine makes sense, I don't think Apple would give up the position of iMessage in favour of Messenger.

(Disclaimer, I work at Google, but don't have any inside info or opinion on the Apple/Google relationship.)
> Facebook was only able to attribute about 50% of the sales to the ads, it should have been close to 100%.

Word-of-mouth exists. It's possible Facebook wasn't making it up. Did you use a Facebook-specific link in the ads?
I wasnt saying that they were mutually exclusive. I dont think that theres anything necessarily wrong with this either.

I was saying that it's more common for ideology to be an afterthought for most high level politicians rather than the primary reason (as you previously asserted) they get into politics.

You'd expect that it would mean less intransigence about policy in the face of democratic pressures, but it doesnt. Probably because money is the real driver.

I personally know one politician who was part of a mainstream party politics for years and his ideology was... fluid at best. He ran for election and lost and was almost immediately shunted into a safe, well paid job at a corporate NGO where he rabbits on about sustainable investment.

After digging into the personal stories of many other people in this "left" party I realized that his story was completely normal. The candidate in my area was a black woman pulled from a public relations company linked to the party elites. She speaks with the veneer of ideology (vaguely and on "safe" topics) but it's obvious that it's ambition that drove her.
Very few write cycles!
I don’t see any difference in prices between android and iOS. They are both expensive. But the quality of apps on android is definitely lower.
Unfortunately, my mom died a couple of years ago, so no I don't pay anything :)

I believe we have a fundamentally different world view, so I am not sure if it makes sense to continue debating.

I believe in meritocracy. Apple put hard, hard work into building an ecosystem of 1.8 bn active devices. I believe they are entitled to reap the benefits and not let any upstart compete with them as they wish.
Hm, does that mean they implicit accepted that 3% is a maximum price for a payment system to not count as profiteering?

And hence 27% is the price for the service of forcing you to use their app-store, sorry I mean non well working scam scanning, sorry I mean sup-par mac only build tools, ah wait I mean download cost, ... or maybe their sometimes abusive and often non-well working moderation, ah no that can't be it either. Maybe it's subvention the hardware cost as a iPhone only costs... wait... Why does it seem like profiteering no matter how I try to look at it??

Jokes aside, in app payments are basically only monetary processing. Now you can claim that in app-payments are subvention reduced up-front payments. But that only holds up up to some degree of average per-active-user payment. But at least the more revenue rich phone games to quite a bit above that.
Slackware was the 2nd distro i tried, almost ~22years ago. For 2 weeks I would schedule my dialup modem to connect to the internet for 2-3h every night when everyone was sleeping and the phone was not used to download the cd1 iso with the common packagesets (a/ k/ x/ etc).

Thank you Patrick :)
I author a Python data science focused newsletter https://buttondown.email/NotANumber , I've built it up over 4 or so years to a couple of thousand readers. I don't use automatic link gathering but hand-write advice in each newsletter (and yes, this can take some time). I've started to interview respected people which offers a nice chunk of value for my readers.

For promotion I've found that sharing appropriate ideas in a private community (e.g. data science slacks) where I'm known & trusted can be a good lead source. Tweets on particular topics help. LinkedIn helps with specific advice. Linking to relevant articles in another newsletter and getting a reciprocal mention helps (but the link has to be useful to the readers and the other audience has to care about my newsletter, else no point), that only works if you know the other author.

In each of my strategic client sessions I mention the newsletter. One chunk of value I offer is to do job listings - having your job in front of my curated audience who trust me offers much more value than e.g. LinkedIn (and a _much_ smaller reach).

In short I think try to find relevant communities, do not spam (obv.), share relevant links, offer to share something cool from someone else with no requirement for reciprocation (if it is good - share it anyway) and maybe they'll reciprocate in some way. It takes a lot of effort but is a sure fire way to build up an engaged audience who trust you.
I'm not comparing to those other cases because the question being asked was "what if Microsoft had been charging a fee", so it seems rather relevant that Microsoft has been charging exactly that kind of a fee for a couple of decades.

I hope we can agree that laws need to apply to everyone equally. For a long time, it's been fine for platform owners to charge e.g. licensing fees, for store owners to charge a fee, etc. Why is Apple different, such that they cannot charge such a fee while others can? If they're not substantially different, do we expect that going forward nobody can charge a fee?
I really like your analysis. I think the fundamental reason why is democracy so vulnerable is that in practice, there is a lot of socioeconomic inequality in societies, and that really erodes the core democratic concept that everyone should participate equally in decision-making.

So in very unequal societies with a semblance of democracy, like in South America (and it's slowly coming to USA as well), you get these right and left populist oscillations, as different classes (upper and lower) seek to gain all political power. I don't think anybody has figured out an effective way yet how to dampen these oscillations in a society, and equalize it, so it would return to the ideal democratic mode.
> What would that payment be for from Facebook?

To live.

This is Tim’s town and if you think you’re doing business and cutting Tim out then you’ve got $10b concrete boots coming.
It's worrying if these kind of articles are really reaching the top of Hacker News nowadays... It started out relatively promising and I hoped the author would describe some issues with funding in science, but it all went downhill really fast after he started going on about vaccines, memes and the comments regarding climate change.
https://gizmodo.com/google-paid-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-sea...
So M2s+ are expected to have empathy for M1s, but M1s are not expected to have empathy for engineers. And, M2s+ having been M1s prior to being promoted, have to develop empathy when becoming M2s+.

Have I described correctly the situation?

Legend:

M2 - senior management, has other managers reporting to them

M1 - first layer of management, has workers / engineers as direct reports
Only if they see the ads.
Also this is 54% of people who saw the prompt. The standard practice for this sort of prompt in products that are trying to _optimise_ acceptance is to pre-ask the user first, almost "If we asked you if we can track you, would you be likely to accept". So that's 54% of users who are probably ok with the idea of personalised ads or however the app pitched it, then go on to say "actually no".

Essentially this number is far lower than the total population.
If consciousness is not embodied that would imply metaphysics and body/mind dualism, e.i. something countrary what one might term the scientific world view.
Wait, so you didn’t buy the $60 ten year old game digitally? You went to the GameStop down the street and bought it used for $10? /s

There are alternatives there.
> Times Table Rock Star

When I was a child, the schools tried to get me to memorize the multiplication tables. At least through ten, teachers would say. I thought it was pretty silly.

You shouldn't force memorization. It should come naturally as you use certain things many times. If you use 7x6 often, you will remember it. If not, you will forget it. That should be totally fine. Why should it matter if you memorized 7x6 or you had to go the long way and say 7x5 is 35 so add 7 to 35 and you'll get 7x6?

Imagine if you said, good programmers are often fast typists and some idiot decided to add a touch typing test to their hiring process.

» Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Edit turn asterisks to x. Please read x as multiply.
During log4j, I was a contractor embedded in a team that was 2/3rds fulltimers.

Guess who got called in on the weekend for log4j?

Guess who only heard about the problems on Monday at 9am?

You guessed it, the call was made to not pay the (documented) day rate for contractor call outs on weekends. Full-timers got "days in lieu."
QuickDown for even faster Markdown capture (iOS)
I'm not affiliated with the site, but this seems like something many in here would be into. Global pop-up for quick capture, locally saves md files anywhere on your computer (ie into your Obsidian vault), no need to open Obsidian to capture quick notes. Desktop only.
You don't care because apps these days have mostly sensible defaults (when it comes to visual design at least), and most often both light and dark themes.

If the YouTube or Twitter UI was bright yellow backgrounds with comic sans MS font, you might find it distracting and wish for a customization option.
Care to elaborate? As someone coming from France where racial studies are illegal and considered racist (by the actually-racist establishment who still deports/murders/exploits/pillages communities to this day), i don't see any relation between racial study and creationism or other pseudo-sciences.

You seem to be worried about a strawman: what you call the "far left" has really little power beyond symbolism of preventing an actual fascist of organizing a meeting. The actual power, political and economic, resides in the far-right who's very well established in society and has been relentlessly campaigning and organizing. And i can tell you their campaigns are otherwise more violent than those of the so-called far left.

As i'm witnessing the new rise of fascism here in France, i can tell you the overall ambience both in the streets and on campuses was much more pleasant twenty years ago when declaring sympathies for Hitler or Le Pen would have gotten you socially excluded from the group (except in a few fascist-friendly universities in the bourgeois neighborhoods).

The fascists are rising again: when you see dozens/hundreds of neo-fascist militiamen charging alongside riot cops (who are famously pro-FN for the vast majority of them) to beat down and send to the hospital anti-racist demonstrators (such as happened during the first Zemmour speech a few months back), it's time to choose which side you wanna be on.
For me this feels like a candidate to build on top of fmt instead of a standalone thing, with a custom formatter wrapping JSON data. I think that direction of extension might still be open, while keeping the current interface for convenience and compatibility.
Then, why does google pay big money to Firefox?
+1, perhaps a sizeable minority? It's probably a generational thing.

Personally I'd recommend writing a script and rehearsing it, instead of going on the fly and having to edit out the umhs, aahs and awkward silences. This might also raise the standard for excitement above the generic "super stoked".

Having said that, I think there's probably a market for this. Good luck to OP!
Is it just a warning? Mine explicitly teels me that if anything happens to the bank account they won't be liable because I used the app on a rooted phone.
This. I saw many non-tech savvy people just blindly hitting OKs to whatever dialogs shown on their phones.
Given that Burroughs OSes are still being sold as part of Unisys ClearPath MCP (naturally not 1:1 with 1960's), I doubt Unisys would be that happy.
This is nice, great UI too
NATO chief Stoltenberg named Norway central bank chief despite opposition
> A hospital manager that measures staff performance by incisions per day is clearly misguided.

Wrong analogy. I have two physicians on my staff. They both have the same years of experience, the same role, get paid the same. One sees 20 patients a day. The other sees 2 a day. That's not a red flag? I should ignore that and assume that somehow every single one of their patients is 10x more difficult, and not even bother to look into it? Because if you would agree I should look into it, then the number-of-patients was a useful metric.

A metric is just data point, no more, and not a complete picture.

> If someones LOC is very low, but they complete all their tasks on time, not only is there no problem, it is even beneficial as the work is being done without creating too much burden for future development. If someone commits a large amount of code without completing any tasks, that's clearly not useful.

I must not have been clear. I'm not arguing for bloated code. Lean code is good, of course.

I'm talking about the all-too-common developer who has some number of tasks to complete, and tells his teammates (and me, their manager) that the work is very complex, and so they land (let's say) one bug-fix a week, giving the impression that each bug-fix (or feature, whatever) was challenging. But on inspecting their code, the code itself is fine --nothing necessary wrong with it-- but the changes are all trivial and really shouldn't take a $180K/year developer two weeks or even one to crank out. LOC isn't the full picture but it's often correlated and if nothing else, it's an obvious red flag for me to investigate.

To put it simply: If you're a high-paid engineer, you can deliver big features slowly or big tough bug-fixes slowly (and the LOC doesn't matter if the problem was actually difficult), or you can crank out lots of small features and small easy fixes quickly. But if you're barely outputting any code, and trickle out a meager amount of code, and the few lines of code you merge into the repo are all trivially simple, that's not acceptable. That engineer can't cling to "Don't judge me by my LOC!" I'm not -- I'm judging by the small amount of actual value they're delivering.
Sarah Palin's NYT suit is about much more than defamation
To avoid a competition lawsuit from the justice department.
I agree with this. I think robots are probably where it's at these days.

Kids sometimes like the simplicity of the old computer games, but as mentioned above, the old excitement at having your hands on cutting edge tech isn't there with a Raspi, or an old retro computer.
No.

There is no need for further clarification.
Your comment is likely a rhetorical question. If you disagree to a statement please add some countering facts rather than simply challenging the statements with artifices and shifting the burden.
Why not just ignoring the email -- you're not supposed to be awake at 11:30pm at all.
iPhone users spend much more money on Apps per user - but the vast majority of advertising is not for apps. It's to buy real things.

Android Users spend similar amounts as iOS users on everything besides apps.

Even in-app purchases for games isn't "many many times more" - it's close to 2x.
Users have the same privacy options with Google's apps that they have with Facebook's apps.
That it works for you is fine. You obviously have no incentive to look further than what works for you and you are fine with paying 30% for a service that is not competitive but that is convenient.

If you were a bit larger that equation would change. Your first step would then be to use a commercial payment services provider such as Stripe, Adyen or any of the others to process the transactions for you (rates: 1 to 5%), possibly falling back to Apple in case their coverage doesn't perfectly overlap. Then at an even higher level of transactions you could choose to do the payment processing yourself.

It's pretty simple, really. And as for taxes: that too is something that you can arrange in different ways, depending on where your main place of business is registered.

My dismissive tone is because it appears that you want me to do a bunch of homework for you while at the same time arguing that there is nothing to be concerned about in 10's of comments in this thread. You have already made up your mind and seem to use questions as a way to argue rather than that you are really interested in the answers. I predict that as a result of this response you are going to come up with another set of questions for me to answer or a new set of arguments that move the goalposts away from your previous claims.

But the essence of my response is: anti-competitive behavior can not be argued for by utility to some subset of the customers. The phone company provides a lot of value. But if they behave in an anti-competive way, for instance by price gouging customers on something that costs them peanuts such as roaming then they deserve to be smacked down, even if some people will argue that you could of course buy a different phone for every country as an alternative, and so those roaming charges are acceptable because they are cheaper. That misses the point entirely.
Only when the users are clueless to configure JIT caches.

As for non idiomatic code, that is even worse for Go code, as it lacks many of the performance tuning knobs.
All Apple did was give users the choice. Users choosing to deny Facebook the permission to share their data? That's entirely on Facebook.
To mangle a Malcolm X quote: You don't stick a knife in a man's back then pull it out and say that that treating his wounds would be discriminate against those who had never been knifed.

Here's more of what Kendi says in the context of what you quoted, at https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/june/ibram-x-kendi-d... :

> As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in 1978, “In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”

> ... The most threatening racist movement is not the alt right’s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American’s drive for a “race-neutral” one. The construct of race neutrality actually feeds White nationalist victimhood by positing the notion that any policy protecting or advancing non-White Americans toward equity is “reverse discrimination.

> That is how racist power can call affirmative action policies that succeed in reducing racial inequities “race conscious” and standardized tests that produce racial inequities “race neutral.” That is how they can blame the behavior of entire racial groups for the inequities between different racial groups and still say their ideas are “not racist.” But there is no such thing as a not-racist idea, only racist ideas and antiracist ideas.

I take it you would have been against reparations for the Japanese and Japanese-Americans interned during the war, justified on racist reasons. I take it you are against any sort of reparations for those people still alive today whose lives were directly harmed by racist laws?

After all, both of those are remedies for past discrimination which require(d) future discrimination.
Sure, it is not the "academic" style of an article (and not even all detailed lament is defensible) which one can choose to look pass to note (at least for me) that conceptually it is characterizing the "science institution" rather accurately. If you one is really prefers an academic packaging (with more or less the same message than here): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3534816

I doubt anyone here wants to "take down science as a way to study nature".