skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are excellent conversations carried out by Twitter. They can also act as comments to the linked content. Sometimes you get more from a 20 word comment than from a full article.
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Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
Thing is, we are naturally not diverse at all (in part because our nearest ancestors with whom which we, at one time, did have reproduction compatibility with, are no longer here): https://www.ashg.org/education/pdf/geneticvariation.pdf

Specifically, modern humans have, on average, less than 0.1% of differences in their DNA amongst each other:
"How diverse are we?
Perhaps the most widely cited statistic about human genetic diversity is that any two
humans differ, on average, at about 1 in 1,000 DNA base pairs (0.1%). Human genetic
diversity is substantially lower than that of many other species, including our nearest
evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee. Genetic diversity is a function of a population's
"age" (i.e., the amount of time during which mutations accumulate to generate diversity)
and its size. Our genetic homogeneity implies that anatomically modern humans arose
relatively recently (perhaps 200,000 years ago) and that our population size was quite
small at one time (perhaps 10,000 breeding individuals).
To put the 0.1% genetic diversity estimate into perspective, it is useful to remember that
humans have approximately 3 billion base pairs in a haploid cell. Thus, any pair of
humans differs by approximately 3 million base pairs. These differences contain much
useful information about the evolutionary history of our species. In addition, the small
proportion of differences that occur within genes can lead to critical inferences about the
effects of natural selection. "
"Contacted Amazon and they refunded. Still selling them though!"

That's the most annoying thing about Amazon. Even if you report obviously counterfeit item, they still continue to sell it. I don't get it, how this can be legal and why nobody sued them yet? Compare that to draconian DCMA actions, where the slightest suspicion can get your site blocked for good..
Australia refuses to connect to undersea cable built by Chinese company
Depends on the provider. From some quick Googling Lastpass at least requires email verification before disabling Yubikey support.

https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=2546

Even for providers that do provide seamless failover, the inevitable "we see you requested an account recovery" email would serve as useful canary to know you're being targeted.
It's not modal (like `alert`), it doesn't steal focus, at least not on any browser I've used.
I understand your frustration. Messages should come with a priority level so you can decide to filter out automated messages or gif bots, while still seeing important messages from your team.
> Cool so then it just comes down to leverage. Developers who wants this have almost none and Apple has all of it.

You are definitely right that Apple has a lot of leverage for now. I love my Apple products, as a user I have no intention of switching away from them (I stuck with them through their worst period, '96 - '00, because I was so excited for the coming of Unix). Again as a user I want them to succeed because I love the products.

As a developer though, I want my favorite tools and languages available. And I want to spend the least effort in targeting users...
Yes, I agree. I was agreeing with you before as well. Setting up a Mac, learning a new IDE, and getting your tooling/builds set up is a far bigger pain point than actually learning the new language.

At least that's the case if it's logically similar. C, Java, JS, etc are mostly transferable. I might not say the same about something like Haskell.
But it means learning something other than JS!

It feels like many developers are adamant to never leave their comfort zone. Hence, JS everywhere.
Commoditisation of deep learning
Agreed -- squeezing these native app elements into the document-based paradigm of the web is a horrid, Frankenstein's monster of an idea. It's like doing app development in Excel.

If native web apps are to be more of a universal thing, I believe there ought to be a blank-canvas "meta-browser" layer that sits above the browser and that all web apps (including today's browsers) are built on top of. Basically a lightweight, sandboxed pseudo-OS that offers a robust standard library, a URL scheme and easy networking support, some sort of bytecode, maybe a UI toolkit, etc. Web apps would still take up the same amount of space and would still be able to run without installing, but they would now be endowed with native performance, app-specific features, and a consistent, functional UI. (Quiz: how often do your back/forward buttons fail when using, for example, your bank's website? The fact that these two ubiquitous controls simply break the web more often than not should be telling.)

Shoehorning all that stuff into a hyperlinked, navigable document browser is insanity, and you can always feel it unless your web-app has basically reimplemented the DOM from scratch[1]. The web is currently layered upside-down and I think web apps won't lose their reputation until this is fixed.

[1]: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web
Microsoft Announces Updates to PowerApps and Flow
Considering the hassle I had when getting a laptop repaired that was not bought on Amazon (Lenovo refused to repair a display that no longer turned on because the plastic guide of one USB-slot fell out as well, and the vendor tried to to fuck us over by not taking it back/exchanging it; until I made a stink on social media), my next laptop will almost certainly be bought from Amazon exactly because of the service I saw them provide in similar cases (and it will certainly not be a Lenovo laptop. Never again). Only not if it is a special model bought from the producer, like System76 or something like that.

But that is also because counterfeit goods are less of a problem with Laptops. For many other things Amazon has a real problem there. It's okay to be a bit more expensive if the service is good, it is not okay when I have to be one the lookout for fakes when buying there.

And for the site I have that links to Amazon offers, all the scam offers that are or at the very least were active there ("send a mail to cheater@scamcompany.com before buying") were a real problem as well.
Wasn't it renamed to Denali anyway? ;)
The anti-trust action certainly changed Microsoft, and Microsoft has lost it's Monopoly power, I'm just not sure how closely those two are linked and what the lessons to learn are.

I feel like the thing that really hurt Microsoft the most was the web, which made the OS far less relevant and has largely been their downfall. The failure of the mobile web seems to be largely why mobile OSs do matter.

Clearly, without the anti-trust ruling Microsoft was doing all it could to make the web proprietary, but the web wasn't pre-ordained to happen, and if it hadn't we might still be locked into Windows, regardless of what the anti-trust authorities did. Or maybe we'd be largely where we are today with the web having never happened and the focus shifting to mobile anyway.

And to look at Office, I feel like the real downfall of the network effects of Office was when PDF readers became ubiquitous and embedded in browsers, so that you could export a PDF from whatever editor you were using and send it to everyone and expect that they could read it.
What is Oracle's strategy for ZFS and Solaris other than continuing support for existing products ? There were quite a few stories about the imminent death of Solaris earlier this year. Wouldn't Oracle stand to benefit from an official ZoL product that they can sell with their linux product ?
Well at least they put it in the name.
This is probably happening already. The feed itself is no longer sorted by date (you get some highlights that you can dismiss but hey, here they are again), and then even content liked (not retweeted) by people you follow shows up. This makes absolutely no sense for the user, as it happens on Facebook. I assume it's a way to tackle the lack of original content generated from individual users / content consumers (e.g. friends you follow).
The issue isn't whether you can hypothetically contribute to the potential security's value but rather is whether the success of the venture depends primarily on the efforts of others. There's a lot of grey area between being a regular Joe small shareholder in a massive publicly traded corporation (no participation) and being the sole owner and manager of a closely held corporation (clear participation). Its worth noting that commodity market fluctuations don't count as the efforts of others (e.g. Noa v. Key Futures where silver certificates weren't considered a security even when sold by an investment firm which marketing the certificates as investments).

There's a trend in the modern interpretation of Howey toward something called the "risk capital test," which states that a scheme which raises capital to finance a venture should be considered a security. I'm not sure Ether meets that test and it's a minority rule anyway but modern Howey jurisprudence is quite flexible because scam artists tend to be extremely inventive in getting around the Securities Act.

Ultimately the decisive factor in court is likely to be the unfortunately vague but essential standard "Do the investors in the scheme require the protection of the Securities Act of 1933?" The lack of a comparable regulatory system to protect the public against Ether scams counts against exclusion from the Securities Act. Otherwise, I personally think the case for Howey is weak here, but that's because the case law hasn't caught up to the tech yet. So we can't predict how a federal court might decide because they very well may revise the existing standards.
I note that it says "You can achieve advanced camera perspectives with the Point of Interest, Follow Me and Waypoints modes (pending app feature availability)"

What does "pending app feature availability" mean?
I am based out of India. Here quite a lot of projects going into big service/outsourcing companies for some reason. Many of the projects fail but I have seen their customers still send their projects there. The pattern that I see nowadays is that most of the embedded companies prefer to have a vendor who has compliances and processes however stupid they maybe or whether they really follow it or not. It is as they say just to cover their behind.

Another lead that I see is Chinese SoC manufacturers who would like to have Linux/Android up. I see a lot of the produce their hardware but have very little support software. The problem is I do not have any idea how to approach them let alone convince them to spend money on development.

The big companies medical and automotive) in Germany generally give work to their vendors but again they give it to the German companies and very rarely to outsiders. The contracts are very lucrative as I have seen just 1 person companies there providing very average embedded software components. Again very hard to crack the market unless you know someone there.
I don't really value cross-platform in the sense that the code I write for platform A can run on platform B. At least for applications.

I think it's valuable for games. Unity and Unreal engine have demonstrated that.

Applications necessarily intersect with the underlying platform in a way which games do not. Accessibility, system-wide services (e.g., dictionary), system-wide interactions (e.g., drag and drop). There are reasons I choose macOS, and when applications embrace the design philosophy and features of the platform they become great applications. PWAs will not do this to the same extent (and if they try to, the effort would be so significant they might as well go native).

I feel strongly that the platforms you develop for should be the platforms you love using. And so the things you develop should bring out the best and most valuable features of those platforms.

I would rather encourage developers to embrace each platform's strengths. I understand that many companies might not care — they want as many users as possible as cheaply as possible. But I do not appreciate that attitude at all.
I understand code reuse can be a hassle, but not as big as some make it out to be. One way to reduce a bunch of work is to make use of swagger for your API. Which enables you to generate a client for your languages of choice.
And those are not all humans.
That's what amazes me as well. In a single day I got replies from two or three of the most important people in DL. How is it possible to get even one second of their time?
If Twitter's looking for a business model, I'll be the first to raise my hand to pay for filtering out tweets that have certain names in them.

>I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader.

RSS still exists even though Reader doesn't. I use Feedly although I admit that I don't carefully curate a large number of feeds any longer because, outside of a relative handful of people/sites I want to follow, I figure news will find me through Twitter and other sources.
TCP congestion control can be very beneficial for streaming applications (when combined with adaptive rate codecs).

With UDP you have to create your own feedback mechanism to find the optimal bitrate to stream to the far side at.
You would want at least a mountain on (or "behind" instead of "on", with its tip sticking out) the horizon as well. You could see a distant 6km high mountain from another 6km high mountain much farther, than flat horizon from an 8km high mountain (mt Everest)
Firefox/chrome is the new television. People don't want to read they just want to scroll and watch videos and get emotional.
PowerApps: the ‘power user’s dream’ transforming biz processes across industries
Full disclaimer, Swift is my favourite language by a long shot and I'd love to use it everywhere, but it really is very complicated in some places.

Consider, for example, the interaction between generics in structs and classes, and protocols with associated types, and why you have to make stupid type-erasing wrappers like 'AnyObject' and so forth.

JS barely even has types at all, let alone generics. There's a lot less to go wrong there :-)
IANAL but yes anyone can own a company or start LLC, even foreigners outside of the US.

However, on H1B you cannot work for such LLC, you will be in violation of your visa status. But I am not sure if non-income generating, administrative task such as filing annual reports count as working for your own company. You should check with a lawyer on this.

Finally, owning an LLC may create future issues with immigration. Even if you don't violate your visa, immigration officers may assume that you did. It might be easy to clear up with additional documentation but I would not risk it.
I'm pretty sure it boils down to "we're fancy iOS users who want nothing to do with those peasants over in the Android world". It seems like the majority of the comments opposing web apps oppose them because they're cross-platform and not written specifically for their chosen platform, which is a very silly stance to have.

There are some more coherent arguments in play, don't get me wrong (in particular, the argument that web apps are a bastardization of what the World Wide Web was intended to be for; I agree with that wholeheartedly), but a lot of the rhetoric around here really reeks of elitism.
You should start muting people who talk politics and Twitter also allows you to block tweets containing keywords/phrases[0]. Honestly, I've started to enjoy Twitter so much more now that my feed is void of politics and sexism/sjw arguments.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/878717797588762624
Twitter owns https://www.mopub.com an ad exchange too. I think its one of the bigger ones. Ad exchanges are the things that provide revenue to app devs. Basically, when you open a free(mium) app there is a market bidding for the right to show you an ads. There is all kinds of tech trying to characterize you based on your phone's id so you see relevant ads. Having an audience of 320+ million people and ad tech powering a significant portion of the app world seems like nice problems to have.
It's not clear that you can really cast it as a successful effort to save lives either, given that it's plunged Libya into violent, sectarian civil war.
I'm also sick and tired of bloated apps with loading screens
that quote basically sums it up. third-party cross-platform solutions are good for developers but bad for Apple and all it's users. The reason I choose Apple is because they make these kind of user-first decisions.
Get 5€ per month from French ministers. Serves nothing but make think
I mean - this seems like you don't actually use the service. I do JS development, and I can pretty reliably get someone like Dan Abramov or other JS 'rockstars' to look at/comment on an issue if it's required. Additionally, I can see these people interact with their peers and discuss ideas. Fundamentally, twitter has become a platform for idea exchange and conversation that has professionals on it, discussing things professionally! It doesn't really get more meaningful than that.
For me it's now Monero or nothing.
Hasn't Bill Gates mostly been focused on spending his fortune as effectively as he can on philantropy for the last decade or so? In that light it's more amazing it took that long.
Well, I can speak from experience that a well known UK broadcaster uses it heavily as part of a video storage network system (specifically ZoL, but ZFS also used with Solaris too)
I was surprised by this. Anyone know the levels of philanthropy of Bezos vs Gates? I've ready many times of the great work and resources (money and otherwise) that Mr Gates has contributed to many causes.
They are doing similar stuff already, not that bad, but it's getting worse every month. It was always a chronological feed, but these last years they just shuffle thing around when they see fit.
Why do in on human embryos instead of any other animal?
At this stage, it must be for publicity reasons alone. Tasteless in my view.
> I believe the noise problem is a huge issue in twitter.

There is a simple (but limited) solution: simple binary classifier, trained by signals from the user. It would quickly learn what to exclude.
Discord is growing like crazy and their voice chat is easy to use and reliable for groups
From the article:

"Complaining about JS Fatigue is just like complaining about the fact that humanity has created too many tools to solve the problems we have..."

Um. No. (Full stop.)

JavaScript et al is evidence that the cone of ignorance expands faster, further than the cone of experience. Wisdom can never overtake, vanquish the chaos.

Many geeks thought rationality would win. Like a natural law. Alas.

Complaining is just stage 2 in the bereavement cycle.

With respect to JavaScript, I'm now in stage 3. Because I have to make rent.

As for the creators, champions, defenders of JavaScript, I relish the certainty that in a few years they'll be complaining about whatever garbage succeeds them. Payback. I hope it sucks.

https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/
That seems pretty bogus. You're telling me that you think if I operate a front business and help human traffickers launder their money (thereby helping them to cover up their crime), but don't involve myself with human trafficking itself, I've done nothing wrong, and prosecuting me would be morally indefensible?
You could also invest in your retirement, and be safe wherever you wanted to be.
Prime Day paid off it seems
This probably does not change Bill Gates' enjoyment of day to day life, or lack thereof, whatever the case may be. It depends on whether Bill Gates is obsessed by these kinds of facts, or whether he can enjoy life without a tiny hand size measuring contest.
Clickable, https://www.indiehackers.com/@patrics/i-was-excited-about-an...

The hard task for designers is finding good clients and good projects. Talking to designers might provide some insight into that problem, but it will never solve it because it is talking to the wrong side of the marketplace. It's akin to beginning a gold mine business by talking to jewelers.

There's almost certainly a market if a person can find a gold mine of design clients because there are existing markets for clay mines of design clients. The problem is that one of the things that makes a golden client from a designer's perspective is a relationship that spins off repeat business...and by it's nature that means a client gold mine has to continually find new high quality design clients. That is going mean very hard work identifying and talking and selling on a case by case basis (and not building a platform or really building much of anything at first).

It is also going to mean finding Tiffany quality designers. And that will require identifying and talking and selling on a case by case basis, too.

Good luck.
Hah, I'll remember that one, thanks!
At least on my laptop, the grub menu has a list of options plus a sentence saying you can click the arrow keys to choose an item. It also says you can click "e" to edit one of the entries there. Once you've clicked a key there, the timer to automatically boot stops and you can take your time.

On my laptop the default configuration automatically boots too fast to read all of the sentence there. That's bad, but the tradeoff is I wait less time for my system to boot for all the times I don't need to reconfigure the boot.

That's what I mean by self-documenting, which the "boot>" example you gave is not. (Nor do I see any documentation about why it's not self-documenting.)
Ask HN: How to legitimize your qualifications if you don't have a degree in CS?
I started learning how to code in my first job, but I have no formal education in Computer Science (I was a business/math major). How do I legitimize my qualifications so that I can get hired in the future in data science/comp programmer roles?
Part of the problem is the sheer amount of racism and harassment. How many times do twitter eggs and other hate speech peddlers get reported without anything happening? Why does Twitter drag their feet over this? Nobody will miss the neo-nazis.
>When the iPod came out, I never understood why I couldn't just drag the music files directly onto the device and I had to get iTunes and use iTune's tedious interface.

Because MTP is utter rubbish.

Really, people complain about iTunes? It's never failed me as slow as it is. Try using MTP...
I had no idea! As far as I can remember it says any keypress will take you out of developer mode.. I will definitely try this tonight, thanks!
> iOS app written by someone like OP

That's a business choice that they made, and will suffer for. If a developer and business choose to half-ass the native iOS application, there's no reason to believe it would behave any better on iOS when written as a webapp.

> the tools they need to write the best product they can

The best product that can be made will never be made with cross-platform tooling. It will always be lacking. My proof for this? Java programs. TCL programs. Electron programs. There has yet to be an application which uses the same GUI code across applications that is as good as a native application.
Video ads pay much more.
When reading comments I have to be very careful not to click outside the column because it gets closed and position lost.

That's also my experience - I have to be very careful not to click on anything, lest I lose my position on the thread. I don't understand how the developers themselves don't get frustrated about this, frankly.