jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What really bothers mr is the ad nauseum "Android 4 Eva!!!" [sic] opinions like this is that they treat Android like an homogenous product when clearly it isn't. The iPhone is both a brand and a product. Androi ids... A philosophy.

I've had 3 Android handsets now (HTC Desire, DroidX, Nexus S) and I still find them frustrating, inconsistent and illogical and not something I'd recommend to the non-tech savvy.

Many of the pundits don't seem to realize just how myopic their view is. Example: the ceaseless litany about how crap AT&T is and it is... In NY and SF where you'll find most of the journalists and pundits. Or just how much the simple and ubiquitous UI/UX of iOS matters to most users, far more than the ephemeral notion of an alleged "walled garden" at any rate.

The real story is that one product from one company on only one major carrier (in the US) at the very top end of the markets competes with Android at all. Don't underestimate that brand loyalty. There is an awful lot of unsatisfied demand for the iPhone that won't be realized until other carriers get it and/or the price comes down (which it slowly will).

The idea that Android allows carriers continue to screw their consumers is basically wrong. The carriers have far less power than they did 5 years ago and you can thank Steve Jobs for that. Verizon (in particular) is still kicking this dead horse but it's still a shadow of it's former self.

Fred Wilson is right: Android is good. It's really best for Google more than anyone else.

Scoble is wrong: Android won't kill the iPhone, at least not for the foreseeable future at any rate (but he is right that it is a superior product IMHO).

Predictably this post doesn't even touch on the biggest competitive advantages: the iTunes ecosystem and gaming.

So it is good we have Android to keep Apple honest but, to paraphrase, the news of iPhone's death have been greatly overexaggerated.
They aren't going to.

The industry has been pushing for copyright enforcement built into the hardware and OS. Windows 10/11 is the first client-server OS, aka the ultimate security risk since you all have been stealing software from yourselves with the rise of mmo's and steam, there's ZERO reason for any piece of software to require an internet connection.

Intel, MS, Sony and AMD are not going to give up on trusted computing. They want to remove control of our PC's to jack up software prices and force the public to pay for software and games.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Given the number of business users using iPhones, I'm going to say it's exactly what they expect now.
Sure, but if the reactor can go a week without cooling and not sustain damage, you've got a lot more leeway. Some of the GenIII+ designs we have now can do that.

The ultimate solution is probably the molten salt reactor. With liquid fuel you continually remove fission products, and with most of those gone you don't have decay heat issues anymore.
> Thank God. (Speaking as an ex-Microsoftie).

And the chairs breathe a sigh of relief ;-)

A happy chair makes a happy programmer ;-)
The question really is: who is the best to run Microsoft?

Its a hard choice: too much enterprise for anyone at Google, have to talk to folks outside of Microsoft (partners, enterprise) so that rules out anyone at Apple. So who then?
Bus error. (i miss those pizza boxes)
Most billionaires aren't in the countries that lack extradition treaties. The few that are can be assumed to be paying steeply for protection, in both senses of the word.
> I am just amazed that people do not turn this feature off.

I'm just amazed that you'd be amazed: it generally get things right (90~95% for me, I'd say) and this means it's very good at avoiding phone-typos. It gives the writer the ability to be slightly less attentive (since the phone will catch and correct most small errors) and to type faster and with a lower cognitive burden.
Heh. No problem :)
No, society doesn't become carbon negative even if everybody stays at home.
Apple has consistently been dumming down their products[0] for the past few years (decades?), in the name of ostensible usability and looks. If they continue along this trend, given that iPadOS is generally more dummed down than macOS, the former will eventually replace the latter.

As for having a single appleOS, we're talking about the company that owns (1) watchOS, (2) iOS, (3) iPadOS, (4) macOS, and (5) tvOS - I believe that's more than Microsoft and Google combined.

[0] They're slowly making everything more touchpad-centred and graphics-oriented, for example.
Agreed, but in the end what will make most difference is getting off of exponential growth soonest. If you don't do that, no country can care for the surge of patients. South Korea is the only country to shut down exponential growth once it got properly started without a complete shutdown of the country.
I ordered a nonessential item (a set of heat shields for a gas grill) from Amazon Prime today and they offered a $3 digital coupon for the slower delivery option. Normally it's $1. I guess they're trying to encourage slower delivery; makes sense.
To be fair, that's more of a JSON problem than a JS one. FWIW, JSON is also missing quote-less keys, object literal shorthand, non-decimal numbers, values that are non-simple literals, and probably a bunch else from JS object syntax.

Just `JSON.stringify` whatever object it is instead.
There's really nothing in American culture about breathing one way or another.
Pikaso is a tool for taking screenshots of tweets and this was probably done as a showcase of the tool.
Good for them for not bothering with the half-assed CYA nonsense Apple is doing. "Give us a moderation plan in 24 hours" is just such a ridiculously unmeetable demand (at least if they require that plan to be anything close to actually feasible) that it's just pointless. Just kick them off.

And to the people complaining about censorship, this is an app that was literally used to plan a violent attack on the capitol. Some things should be censored.
> "The Bank security guard would have never been hurt if they just let people steal the money and take hostages."

can you explain this analogy? What are you assuming the protestors would have done if the police weren’t deployed?

> I just hope people like you die out before this country is irrevocably harmed, and your children don't carry your sickness to a new generation.

This is a pretty radical statement. I’m actually a center left liberal and you’re wishing that I die simply because of a fact I brought up that refutes your narrative. Can you substantiate your claims that I’m causing harm to this country by citing facts? How did you get this radicalized?
What does illegal content look like? What jurisdiction? Does Parler need to hire a lawyer to make content decisions?

When Trump says "we need to fight hard!", is that illegal? What if he says, "Go back to the Capitol and start shooting!"? Is that illegal?

FWIW that was our policy at reddit for a long time too. There is a whole lot of nuance to it that is really hard to deal with.
Maybe this is finally the push needed for a free and open alternate App Store on Android. At least it's actually possible, unlike on Apple.

Unfortunately, Fdroid does have censorship policies (see Gab), but I believe you can add your own repos.
Completely agree. I don't know why you are getting downvoted, capitalism in its present form is clearly broken. The payout sum here is ludicrous, it is certainly not justified in terms of value created for society. This money has to come from somewhere and ultimately the common folk will be paying the price.
In his speech, Cohen said that 2/3 of millennials don't know what Auschwitz is [0]. Our public education system already failed (or so it seems).

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/auschwitz-...
Raptors at local dealers near me are all selling for $72-75k
I really like this quote:

“I think we could all agree that we should not be giving bigots and paedophiles a free platform to amplify their views and target their victims.”

To me that's a good way of looking at it. Censorship will bring nothing positive, regardless of much we may dislike the words being said. However, we don't need to provide the those with opinions we disagree with a platform to utter those words.

Of cause Facebook is free to provide a platform to who ever they want, assuming wish to be associated with those messages.

I'm also completely fascinated by the speed of which Facebook will take down a picture of naked breasts, but they can't screen the ads being run on their site.
If we are ruling it out on the first few trips, then we are probably ruling it out for at least a decade or probably longer. I would bet the Earth version of this truck isn't going to go a decade plus without being redesigned by Tesla.

All your points about the benefits of an electric vehicle apply just as well to something lighter that is specifically and only designed for travel to and on Mars.
Tips to get good answers:

- Add 'Ask HN' to the submission title. The submission will show up in https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

- Describe the issue in more detail. "is terrible [for ml/dl]" isn't enough.

- Punctuation, capitalizing words, avoid abbreviations. The message seems to be typed on a mobile phone in a hurry. HN has no 140 character limit and I presume you're not looking for short one sentence answers.

- Proper submission title.
My opinion is based off the fact I just saw a room full of people cheer for the censorship of politicians.

I'm not of the opinion that reduced visibility and annotations will solve the problem. I just don't trust people like the above to know where the slope is, and so I don't trust them with tools for censorship.
Just a side note: Insomnia was recently acquired by Kong (the API gateway): https://konghq.com/blog/kong-acquires-insomnia/
Is the not-so-impeccable title "Impecabble grammar" there on purpose?

</grammar-nazi>
What if the rock's errors are all false negatives, the high-minded rationalist's errors are all false positives, and false negatives are 100 times worse than false positives?
For those unfamiliar with Forbes as a platform, forms allows for independent unpaind (by Forbes) writers to submit content on their platform. If you see a scummy crowdfunding campaign or shady start up claiming "as featured in Forbes,etc etc" that's how they do it.
That's two sides of the same coin. When authorities invoke their expertise or science for a position, but are really making a values-based argument, then people will feel misled.
I had no idea about the beta thanks for posting it. I do think whatsapp has a faster experience, I find media loads slower on signal as well as sharing content using the share sheet tends to have a slower upload time (upload has to occur for sharing a link seems strange).
> IMO, the M1 laptops are fairly priced, but the Mac Pros have been poor value in the past. I'm really curious to see if that changes.

I, too, am curious how the new Mac Pros are priced. I have a 2013 Mac Pro I paid around $3,800 for. Still using it. Last fall it had a significant performance drop, which I attribute to the Intel security mitigations (it was apparent after a security update to Big Sur).

The current Mac Pros are very much out of my range, but the processors in those things are so expensive. They might be able to lower the price a lot, to the level that the 2013 was at. Hoping, at least.
It's pretty much all the same to the unwashed "Trump Supporter." There is a populist movement in America that is somehow being missed for what it is. The populists will use and discard politicians on a whim. Whoever is perceived to piss on the establishment the most will curry favor and be elected at that moment.

This is what Roger Stone and Steve Bannon we're looking to do with Trump. Slam dunk.

This all arises from deep, deep mistrust and a perceived lack of representation on the part of the establishment toward the unwashed.

The establishment is on the ropes right now.
> The effect continued past the large effects of hygiene, antibiotics and child vaccination. You may argue that the curve is clearly asymptotic, and that a maximum age genetic barrier is clearly visible. You can't argue, however, that there isn't real progress after antibiotics and hygiene.

we are seeing a resurgence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, though, and we have no new lines of antibiotics to fight them. These advances may only be temporary.
wow your reply is as off topic as it gets...care to connect the dots?
Yes, in a few ways I am familiar with:

(1) Finance. They make so much "free" money that they can afford to just pay massive salaries and not blink. You just have to be okay with doing things that basically add no value to anything.

(2) As a very early employee in a hugely successful startup. But this is roulette, since most startups fail and some only succeed after so much dilution that your share ends up tiny.

(3) Working your way up to a CXO level (or near) role in a very large established company. This is hard and takes years of both work and corporate politics.

(4) There are some niches, like doing IT for oil and gas operations in remote areas, that I've heard pay very well... but these are almost like joining the army.

I'd say #1 and #4 are probably the most straightforward. If you want to pursue #2, you should approach employment with a super-early startup by thinking about it as if you are an investor. Would you take a small chunk in a seed round with this company? If not, pass, cause if you are taking a lower salary + equity you are making a seed investment.
I do agree they have had some successes against it, but there comes a point where the logistics of doing so is swamped--and I think Shanghai is past that point by now.

People are going hungry, they're going to slip out to get food.
I was hoping to catch past discussions ... oops

but this is fascinating approach -
Do you mean, “What things do you miss when writing documentation as a developer?”
I think the weekly post idea really applies to the reader, not the writer. Perhaps you could get around this with a "digest" style of posting. I.e. I can write as many posts as I want, but it will only be published once a week as a digest of posts. This might fit better with human behavior too as it lowers the cost of a single post while still achieving the goal of updating friends on what's happening at a spaced interval.

Anyway, love the idea. Good luck!
Page not found error 11 minutes after posting?
The best way to get more salary as a junior is to switch companies every year or two. Assuming your current company does not give adequate raises (most company's do not).
Local manufacturing only works if you're in a place where there's a lot of manufacturing, or your product doesn't really require much manufacturing capability. You many need to be in a place where there's someone down the street with a 20 ton press. If you need a 20 ton press, you need to be in a place where at least three shops have one.

If you're making things which are basically PC boards, manufacturing is not too hard. Making boards and soldering parts onto them has a well developed workflow. There are lots of board houses and board-assembly services. If you design for what a pick and place machine can do easily, things usually go well. Hint: production is surface mount today. This is a pain for people who are used to prototyping with through-hole parts.

Kickstarter-class startups seem to have excessive problems with making cases and panels. Tooling for injection-moulded plastic is difficult and expensive. Once you get it right, the parts just fly out of the machines at a few cents per part. The production process is just getting warmed up on a run of 10,000 parts, and few Kickstarters get there. Basic truth about manufacturing: most of the processes are really cheap if you're making enough items, and far more expensive for short runs.
Wrong article for that title.

http://codahale.com/what-makes-jersey-interesting-injection-...
Fortunately there's a way to resolve whether this is whistle blowing or mud slinging. Someone with some expertise in that area should audit the code to check whether the allegations have any basis. The original email makes some fairly specific claims, at least some of which are probably verifiable.
This blog post reminded me of Alan Watts' Music and Life, which is great food for thought when pondering your goals in life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
We support specific versions of Windows 2008 SP2 at present, with plans to add other versions and other OS's over time, with a focus on server OSs (as opposed to desktop).
I built AppSendr which distributes apps via this method. So far it's proven to be very useful for a wide variety of needs. I don't know why this hasn't been more publicized.
Well said.

I actually believe pride is a virtue if there is substance to back up that sentiment. I get a little miffed at the "aww, shucks, it's nothing " mentality from truly talented people.
If I send a HTML email to a group which contains an iframe, an img tag, and an input field of type "image", all referencing a remote URL, the process of viewing the email in the posterous interface automatically causes the browser to fetch each of those resources.

This is a privacy leak. You should remove references to these remote resources when displaying a message in the posterous web interface. You should then provide an option to "Load Remote Images". Much like most email clients do.
Out of curiosity, how do people currently build a custom new EC2 image? Spin up a base instance and then run a script?
Weird, I just searched medscape 2020 doctor pay in duckduckgo and it works for me.

Here’s an alternate search result with similar findings:

https://c8y.doxcdn.com/image/upload/Press%20Blog/Research%20...
Lamborghini started out making tractors.
Yeah it's not the best analogy, but I think the rest of the idea still stands. I don't think a person looking at a language and thinking that it could be their silver bullet discredits their analysis, and Rust in particularly does seem well suited for that possibility with it's ability to address both low-level and high level programming.
> Bitcoin doesn’t work, it’s a naked speculative bubble based on a technology that doesn’t scale can’t and can’t replace any existing financial service

Feel free to short Bitcoin in a futures market, and keep all your wealth allocated in assets associated with the US dollar.

We'll talk again in 5 years time.
When developing for iOS/macOS, I've really enjoyed using SF Symbols. In code they're handled like images, but respond to text scale factor and weight like fonts. Custom symbols are supported too so you're not just limited to what Apple provides.

On the web, icon fonts seem like the natural parallel since they also "just work" when matching styles with text. To my knowledge, SVGs can't automatically match text size or weight which is a significant weakness, particularly when the user has specified overrides for accessibility reasons. But as the article states, icon fonts are bad because they're nonsense to screen readers.

Is the only way to get an SF Symbols equivalent on the web, then, with SVGs and some JS wizardry?
>Crypto is a given at this point; fiat currencies are on their way out.

This statement is false and backed by zero evidence.

>* Ease of dissemination has intrinsic value. Keeping track of gold/fiat/etc. and transporting it is difficult and error-prone. Crypto doesn't have that problem.

USD hasn't been gold backed for a while, argument invalid. Regarding tracking and transporting, I'd rather have the money in my bank than be the guy that can't remember his wallet password, or threw out the HDD that it was on. This addresses a problem created by cryptocurrency, not one people are asking to be solved today.

>* Cutting out middle-men. You don't need transaction services to send and receive crypto.

You don't realize you're just moving the middleman. You still need nodes, networks, and other operators that become your middleman and will squeeze you when it benefits them. Also no casual user is going to download the whole BTC blockchain just exchange a few bucks with you.

>* More transparency (or more privacy). We can easily see how much Bitcoin people are moving around, as we often see with the seemingly quarterly "whale sends $1 billion in Bitcoin to someone" reports, and yet no one can really know how much crypto you personally have.

You're welcome criminals and otherwise already insanely rich people. More on this at 10.

>* Smart contracts. You can make the transaction of crypto trigger events, or create second-degree value as part of the transaction.

This provides zero real world value, see above regarding rich people.

Here's the thing, a majority of the world's population doesn't have access to digital currency at all. 42% of Bitcoin value is held by 0.01% of holders. This isn't some grassroots, "screw the man", "by the people", or whatever slogan you want to attach revolution. This is just a replay of where we're already at, with different names attached to things. Instead of 'real estate' you call it 'cryptocurrency', and instead of 'high frequency trading market manipulation' you call it 'smart contracts'.

If you want to do something spectacular with cryptocurrency (and probably get rich at the same time), figure out how it can help feed the estimated 690 million people that will go to sleep hungry tonight.
In vim, set `scrolloff` to a large value.

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertic...
Your analogy brings up an interesting point.

A better example is the actual case of Microsoft buying Facebook stock to gain exposure to a burgeoning digital network https://www.vox.com/2017/10/23/16412108/facebook-microsoft-2...
Well, you would need a way to "tell" the compiler more about your intentions and maybe even explicitly declare rules for what you consider a memory leak in certain scenarios.

To provide an example for a different case: programs written in Gallina have the weak normalization property, implying that they always terminate.
Negotiate with terrorists, expect more terrorism.
Since Facebook bought Whatsapp I have been upset exactly because of this. I remember having read this post at the time and considered that that was exactly the right way to go. I started using Whatsapp and paying for it in that moment. I convinced many family members and friends to start using it because of this. Then, when they got enough users, they just decided that none of what they promised was important.

Since then, I have actively trying to convince my contacts to move away from WhatsApp, but it is really hard now. This clearly shows that no matter how much trust a company might inspire at a given time, nothing prevents that ten years from now, when everyone is dependent on their technology, they will not change the rules. And nobody will be able to do anything. (Next: Apple, maybe?)
"although my experience is still relevant because clients are still hiring developers that have gone through a bootcamp"

Historically, the clients had little choice who showed up for their projects when working with larger consulting shops. Has that changed? Clients weren't usually vetting Jen and Bill and Joe, but rather they ordered bodies and got "3 bootcamp grads".

Are you and your fellow bootcamp grads interviewed and vetted by clients before joining their projects, or do the clients get whoever the consulting firm decides should be on the team?
All these virtual banks have one major issue - you can't deposit cash and some businesses do have cash income, unfortunately. Withdrawing cash given the ATM limits is also an issue. Not all cash is bad! I organize festivals and although we heavily advertise that we take credit cards, checks, etc., although it costs us money, 50% of the people still prefer to pay cash. And with these virtual banks, what do I do with it? Deposit it into my personal account and write a check for the same amount to the business?!
I was thinking people like Steve Baker (who as it happens is also a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform - you might like him!)