skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what marketing does. It doesn't influence the decision. Marketing makes sure your company is top of mind when the customer decides to make a decision.
How is this going to work for businesses in the EU where customers are allowed to refund for no reason when buying things at a distance?
>Setting aside this specific case, what is a business supposed to do if a union's demands are unreasonable and make it infeasible to keep the business profitable? If they try and replace the unionized workers, that is frowned upon and in some cases illegal. If they shut down the business due to no longer being viable, that seems to also be legally murky.

Don't sign a contract that's unreasonable and makes your business unprofitable. That's what the company is supposed to do.
X-ray is not that unusual to check for contraband at customs, although it depends on the country whether or not it is a routine practice or requires suspicion. Perhaps the UK does so on domestic mail as well but that would be surprising to me, it's pretty high cost to do at large volume. These X-ray machines are the same type used at airports and usually produce either a synthetic isometric 3D-type image or two 2D images at 90 degree offset. The resolution and sensitivity are both nowhere near high enough to read text on documents, they're primarily oriented at recognizing firearms and very dense objects typical of drug smuggling. Much of the data modern X-ray parcel scanners produce is synthetic as well, based on machine vision and multi-exposure methods, so the display tends to suggest that the data they collect is of higher resolution than it actually is.

You would struggle to determine whether a page is folded A4 or A8 with one of these machines, reading text is far beyond their capabilities.
The typo you corrected in the title when you posted this was intentional.
Without commenting on the ramifications of Twitter’s decision here, except to say if I had been in their position, that’s not the business decision I would have made, I have a few observations on this.

1. These developers are for-profit enterprises. They are small businesses to be sure, but if they been acquired, would they have shared the proceeds with non-stockholders?

2. No one forced them into a subscription model. Seems to me like they had a choice between choosing an ongoing revenue stream and booking some multiple of that up front. Seems like, in retrospect, they chose poorly. But again, if that model had led to an exit event, I presume the upside would have accrued to equity alone. This is called capitalism.

2a. What am I missing where pro rata refunds are not the obvious, fair, elegant solution? That just seems like an appropriate outcome for everyone involved.

3. They built a business on someone else’s platform. Why should their customers bail them out of that decision?

I am truly sorry for the affected individuals. This must be gutting. But I don’t really see how placing this burden on people who paid for a service they didn’t receive is the right outcome.
> if a union's demands are unreasonable and make it infeasible to keep the business profitable

What a strange hypothetical! That's certainly never happened, and given the current power dynamic, incredibly unlikely to happen today.

Whatever regulations there are to protect workers were created because of unions, not instead of them. If employers had been given the choice, there wouldn't be unions or regulations.
> They may be wrong, but it’s for them to figure out if they’re wrong.

You clearly buy into the idea that because salesforce has, within our current economic system, managed to gather to itself substantial economic resources, then it should be the entity that gets to decide how to deploy those resources.

If Salesforce is wrong (and there's a very, very good chance that they are), they have mis-allocated resources, but will face little if any penalty for it other than some opportunity costs that are of their own making.

> There’s no possible way for an outsider to know what the value of having McConaughey sit around is, what the contractual details are, what the cost, both monetary and otherwise of splitting from him, etc is.

The actual question is whether there is actually any way for an insider to know this either, and what penalties would be face if they make a mistake.

I'm fine with companies making a profit (I think). But I want them taxed in a way that removes their control over the bulk of these resource allocation decisions. Salesforce might (or might not) be very good at what they do, but they, like every other corporation (and essentially all individuals) have no demonstrated competence at resource allocation that benefits all of us. US$10M might not seem like a lot if it is roughly your annual salary, but there are huge numbers of people and communities that would be substantially aided via US$10M.
I believe the author when he says he feels gaslit into accepting JS SPA as the Only Way to Make Web Apps These Days. I have noticed a similar trend (though my particular neurodivergences have likely shielded me from most of the impact those pressures might have had on me).

That said, this whole JS SPA stuff in general and React in particular was not propelled solely by these gaslighting influencers. There was at least one other thing that helped them to their current dominance: it turns out to be a really good idea to represent an app (i.e. business logic + UI) as a just-in-time data structure that is incrementally recomputed in response to changes in state and is shaped like a tree so as to track state dependencies via parent-child relationships. This kind of “reactive state tree” approach is genuinely powerful and brings significant and real advantages over model-view-controller approaches. It’s like a web-flavored microcosm of object-oriented vs functional programming. JS SPA (e.g. React) had this and server-side (e.g. Rails) did not. That difference, _alongside a tsunami of bullshit_, drove React’s supremacy over Rails.
I am perplexed by the focus on this. Clearly there are excellent devs working on Deno — but what setups are you running that the actual build is holding your productivity back? Developing in node/ts or rails I don't think it would move the needle in the slightest for me. It's simply not an issue outside of my brain finding beauty in any kind of optimization.

Is that all this is?
For mail to the U.S. president, it goes to a facility near the White House where it’s screened, sorted, replies are sent (usually selected from a set of pre-generated forms) and (depending on the incumbent) a handful are brought to the president’s personal attention.
They never wanted to ban memes. In fact, the so-called "meme ban" and accompanying "link tax" has already been approved in 2019, and implemented in several countries, including Germany. By now it must be clear that this directive does not in fact ban memes or tax links, and that that was always an exaggerated reading by internet zealots.

More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
Because he's full of it.
I was unemployed last year. It took me 6 weeks to land an in-demand tech job; mostly because of the layer of interviews. I think it was an average of 3 interviews for each job. I eventually had 6 or 7 similar offers and a couple bad ones. I also cut short several processes because I knew they were a month away from an offer.

Meanwhile, my wife tried to land a part time retail job. She got 3 offers, but all had slow an onerous background checks, so none started before I got the offers I was waiting on.
We buy face creams and cars and sodas and everything else under the sun because popular celebrities tell us to. You can find it "odd" but it works.
Businesses will increase costs to cover it, just like they do now.
https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/1739 just crossed 4 years. if they want people to do transpiling inside their own tool create an API so we can use our own tools rather than ones behind their black box.

Would be a much better use of their time than writing this nonsensical bs
+1, the deemphasis/degrading of average information density has been disappointing as user. Old site should be kept and used as their ideal demonstration for information-dense websites.
I can second this: spend a lot of time working with subtle color variations (not just frequency, but the various matte/shiny bits). I learned I LOVE highly saturated colors. Recent car paint was also a revelation to me (https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-lik...).
<style type="text/css"> ? what are we dinosaurs? You might as well leave out the closing <p> tags if you are going to be like that.

If the whole point of your website is to brag about code to accomplish reasonable formatting.... can we at least have code formatting? I think I have enough bandwidth to afford some line breaks.

Client side GA????
So are you saying, then, that you find it odd that marketing and advertising works? Nothing wrong if you do, I just wanted to be clear on that point.
For example:

An app to surface interesting new products from relatively unknown small businesses using gamified reviews.

Best French Fries in Bloomington. You start by doing a public poll and say, what's your favorite french fries in Bloomington? You narrow it down to ten places, ten products. That becomes the "product mission". You say, within this week, you need to go out and buy some french fries from these ten places. And then people go out and anonymously order these fries, rate them on some scale of one to ten: value, uniqueness, crispness, freshnes, saltiness, etc. You run ads and everyone who participates gets a share of the revenue. So the more they participate the more coin they get. Use ETH or something.
Always remember when reasoning about, and making assertions about, what AI/ML will be capable of, and hence how it will impact existing conventions, institutions, disciplines, etc.,

to account for the fact that what is possible and commercial today, is characterized by non-linear patterns of change in any dimension you choose. More capable, cheaper, faster, everything.

Consequently whenever you find yourself asserting what will be possible, or how we might be integrating, the systems of more than N months hence,

consider that you may be not accounting for exponential and generational change, not to mention disruptive black swan events from external domains.

TLDR modulo show-stopper from eg nuclear war, political dissolution, and climate crises, we are entering a moment of extraordinary disequilibrium, in which most of the world we inhabit will be upended and have to find new equilibrium.
> Well, I respectfully disagree, I'm a firm believer

You have proposed no mehcanism to keep monopolies in check. You are a firm beliver in what?

> giants that have the monopoly move way faster than governments

So governments should be even more agressive and disproportionate to be effevtive? That is the inevitable conclusion of your argument.
It's a common pitfall yes, especially bc of big libraries like gcloud (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32307019)

Build CI should be configured with a very aggressive upper limit to catch those regression but it's often forgotten; even I don't do it often while I have been bit more than once.
Developers creating problems they can solve later and call it progress.
Most of the world doesn't build their residential buildings out of light wood frame :/
Don’t know about others but Reagan used to respond to a lot of letters people sent. He complained that it usually took months through the bureaucracy.

Excellent book has a collection of such letters.

“Reagan: A Life In Letters“
I think this is somewhat dependent on where you live. I've noticed that since I've moved to Ireland it's easier to get face-to-face interaction outside the workplace. Granted, it all involves the pubs, which is another issue, but it's much more doable because people go there just to have a pint and chat. I can go down to the one closest to me and just start chatting with any of the old people there, and they're usually happy to do so. Couldn't do that in America, sadly (except in my hometown one where I already knew the people).
That's what's *supposed to* happen, but some of the bad cables omit that and the charger is actually talking to the device, not the cable.
Sounds reasonable, since they don't seem to be viable as businesses.

And compensation to the current shareholders, for their evidently worthless companies, should be token at most.
The tech hiring build up in 2021 and 2022 was all about political appeasement.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

"Big Tech" could not maintain that forever.
The limit of 60 bytes of down link is really what threw me off. For IoT sensors out in the wild that I've worked with we've still wanted the ability to remotely update their firmware. A 14kb firmware is do-able for a lot of systems, but if that update fails you don't get to retry for a month unless your firmware is incredibly tiny...

For systems that I've worked with that have firmware that small or even smaller have had power budgets in the <50mA/hour range... This modem uses up to a full amp at 3.3V (presumably only while transmitting but I'd bet its receive mode still busts that power budget in under a minute).

I can't think of the use cases for these modems that use that little data and have that much of a power draw...
So my prior is definitely "it's the phones", and I am totally fine with being old-man-who-shakes-fist-at-cloud about what phones and social media are doing to kids (and all of us).

But this article does the thing that infuriates me the most about any kind of discourse in the US, across all political tribes: Ameri-solipsism.

How do youth suicide, depression, anxiety, and isolation trends in the US compare to other countries? Across countries, what's the correlation with smartphone and social media adoption? Is there a plausible causal link where we see these trends rise in each country a few years after wide adoption? If it doesn't always follow, what factors separate countries where phones seem to cause depression from those where it doesn't? How do political polarization, economic shifts, and different cultural norms correlate with these things across countries?

No idea! Because a space alien reading this article would come away thinking that Earth consists of precisely one country. Use comparative data to tease out other factors at play? Ha! As if America could have anything to learn from anyone else.

I expect this from jingoistic conservatives, but it's infuriatingly common even among progressives who supposedly reject nationalistic exceptionalism: dive deep into some big problem (which on its surface has nothing US-specific about it) without any curiosity whatsoever about how anyone who's not American deals with it.
Thanks for the update! I find myself in a similar boat for small projects.

One approach that I have found useful is to make sure that any stored data is in a form that is approachable from a portable standpoint, not coupled tightly to any one language. It's also helped if I want to try re-implementing some existing solution, because I have that known data as a starting point for comparing what I know with what I want to learn.
This is a tragedy. In an world of fiat currency and within the Modern Monetary Theory operational paradigm, the US Federal government can meet all its financial obligations because it is an issuer of currency. So, in this regime, the issue should never be about financing a future. Social Security benefits should be adjusted to provide a living income to the retired. The real question, as MMT literati have stated, is will we have the goods and services (ie Production) available to meet the needs of folks retiring ?
You say "along the coastlines" like that's supposed to represent a tiny sliver of the population.
In fact, depending on how exactly you define coastline (does the gulf of Mexico count?), probably the majority of the population lives "along the coastline".

As for the definitely landlocked populations, they have already been enjoying the benefits of self driving vehicles for many years in the form of autosteer on their tractors.
They do indeed talk to people in other timezones as well.
We may have online meetings sometimes, with at least three timezones involved.

I can't see how one would only contact in touch with people in a single timezone, unless one only wants to have contact with people in continental Europe (excluding e.g. Portugal and Finland), or people in a single timezone in the US. Timezones are everywhere. The earth is a sphere, so.. can't be avoided.
I think it could be possible to use ammonia in domestic refrigerators safely if appropriate measures were taken. Particularly, require that refrigerators be installed with vent pipes leading from a tamper-resistant enclosure straight to the outside. Such vents would be similar to those used in waste plumbing to protect people from toxic sewer gasses like hydrogen sulfide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drain-waste-vent_system

But jabl is probably right and something like propane would make more sense.
Please stop spreading misinformation. The population level infection fatality rate for SARS-CoV-2 was never as high as 1.5% at any stage of the pandemic.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114655
I’m not needing 5. I have a phone number and people can text me via that.
Remember, the 'S' in IoT stands for 'security'.
More people are getting care for depression.... this is terrible!
>It could also be argued, )I hate the argument but it is true) that he has to oppose any and all unionization efforts because as a publicly traded company they are required to look out for the interests of their shareholders.

Anything could be argued, but this argument is not true. Plenty of publicly traded companies have unionized workforces and do not face shareholder lawsuits for it. Can you find an example of a publicly traded company losing a shareholder lawsuit for not running underhanded and illegal union-busting tactics?
That's interesting, a had an AC unit installed 2 years ago (in Europe), and then many units were marketed as using the new R32 instead of the traditional R410A.

Now that I look at the website of the company that did the installation, it seems all their AC models now use R32.
I have been writing some puppeteer/node js scripts to download invoices/statements and to scrap some data from different vendors/service providers. (ATT, Spectrum, Gas, electric, etc).

Pretty much all the sites are now a days single page or with tons of JavaScript with a lot of xhr requests. Those xhr requests are huge too. Loading screens everywhere. Some of the loading screens are 5-7 seconds long.

And I have no luck with banks sites. They put a lot of efforts to block access.
> I don't get why you would regulate such a thing.

Because there's absolutely no downside to telling Apple it can't artificially make its iMessage platform restricted to Apple devices. We literally have seen leaked emails where Apple deliberately does this as an anti-consumer platform lock in play. The slippery slope hypothetical you provide is not the reality. Nobody is asking governments to regulate adding cool new features to the <Open Message Protocol> and force everyone to comply and implement them. What regulators are saying is that Apple can't deliberately make Sneetches out of us and needs to allow interoperability on their human-critical messaging platform. In the US the DMCA actually makes it explicitly legal to reverse engineer a protocol for the purpose of interoperability. This idea basically extends that to "and you can't punish users for building applications that interoperating with it" but of course is framed as "just fucking stop disallowing it greedy asshats".

If I could install a 3rd party SMS app on iPhone (like how Signal used to work on Android) I'd be more skeptical about needing this regulation.

If Apple wasn't doing this artificially and iMessage actually had features that were innovative, and that other people couldn't reasonably be expected to implement in a way that wouldn't be a detriment to the protocol, I'd be more skeptical. (TBH they've probably spent more resources on preventing interoperability than if they didn't care and let it be open...)

> Isn't this going to kill features that only some apps have or offer?

No, degrade gracefully. If the feature is an improvement for everyone and should be required, we know how to have working groups update a spec and have implementers follow (even when one leads the pack and drives the spec changes in the first place as is often the case these days). If that doesn't work build a new protocol and win people over with your obviously better CoolNewFeature.

It's like you don't believe it's possible with the countless man centuries of resources these companies have to have software both interoperate and degrade gracefully when one client doesn't support all protocol features. I don't buy it; I believe we can.

You're spreading FUD.
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for relevant results
Feel free to use 1.5x, I just made up 2x. Either way, 125k/dev seems low.
No matter what your opinions on ChatGPT are, if a developer wants to make an app with it and a user wants said app, Apple shouldn't be able to say no.
And you never learn something so well as when you try to teach it. I can't count the number of times I've written something, paused, and wondered "well, does it really do that?" and gone off and investigated. When I return, I know more and the piece is better too (win-win!).
So people who have no dollars get no vote and deserve nothing?

Should we take the same approach with clean air and see what happens?
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I'd say another rule of thumb, which may not be specific to developer marketing, is to avoid the "used by" pitfall. I often see tools that were launched, like, a month ago claiming that it's "loved by teams at Uber/Slack/etc". What I imagine in those scenarios is that there's an intern who signed up for a beta using their company email, and the founders were like "hey good enough, technically we're now used by teams at [x] company!" I can see through it, and I'm sure others can as well.

It comes off as disingenuous. A better way is to tell a specific success story. If some unknown brand has a story to tell about how your tool 10x'd their productivity, I'm all ears.
I'm very excited to see a guide that focuses on the process of the interview itself related to system design. There are plenty of "how to design twitter" resources out there, but for many of us, we really need to better understand the system design interview process itself. Thanks so much for putting this together, can't wait to see parts 3 & 4!
Alternate title: I don’t understand why businesses have marketing budgets

Would at least not be objectively false, unlike the current title.

I’m surprised this got upvoted on HN.
That's what I was thinking, just have it as a presetting in my browser to reject all but necessary functional cookies as a header setting in requests and be done.