skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was helping someone out recently with getting their iPhone set up to download apps. They had the phone for a while but only used it as a phone (they aren't tech-savvy). We couldn't even install the Kroger (grocery store) app because it said it required iOS 11, and she was still on 10.

She was not given the option to download an older version compatible with iOS 10 and the device is old enough that it does not support iOS 11.
< when I get full on credits I can just cancel my sub

But you lose the credits when you do this.
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>In my opinion, there should be an option in Mac/Windows to disable file drag and drop.

That would save SO MUCH HASSLE. Great idea.
I so badly hope someone invents the perfect cargo pants for me. Cool, sassy with multiple pockets.
Maybe asteroid mining is the real economic objective for the Falcon Heavy?
I've been bothered by the piles of partition books stacked on top of my piano since I was a child.

Same as you, I would want a large e ink tablet. Doesn't have to be responsive, just has to read pdfs, US legal size or A4.
Similar niche business keeping monitors going (catering to contemporary art) in London: http://www.the-block.org
Except apart for maybe "recycle bin" it was nothing like Mac OS. Central element of Windows 95 UI was taskbar and start menu, which don't have counterparts in Mac OS. Central element of Mac OS UI was the shared menubar, which doesn't have counterpart in Win95.
At lower end of the market it's more common, AFAIK, especially these houses where they've split them into 3 or 4 seperate units (multi-occupancy) and it's impractical to have 3/4 different metered supplies.

In my younger days I had a bedsit with a coin-meter even though there was a separate meter in the hallway. Landlord had it set to a crazy high rate so he was making a profit on it.

One day two guys forcibly entered the building to cut off the supply because he hadn't been paying the bill. According to them, my set up wasn't exactly unique.
I'm sure they don't use Chrome for Googlebot, that would be quite inefficient. My comment was about cloaking detection.
Critical for Atari-fans. Some of the old systems, without mods, need cable input or antenna screws.
Depends where you are? I'm in the UK and 189cm tall and I always wear medium.
At least with the Recycle Bin, one can joke that Windows is more environmentally friendly than other OSes.
What? No. The c in cpython was not meant to signal performance. The c was added after alternative implementations were created to mean "the original/reference implementation". Python's competitors perl ruby and php are likewise interpreters implemented in c and are equally slow.

Anyway, what alternative did they have to implement a bytecode interpreter? C is portable and fast enough, especially with computed goto extension.
I wish I could build a wardrobe using thrift stores, but I live in a smaller town and thrift stores rarely have anything worth wearing.
Not necessarily. They are just data formats that encode the different weights and layers of the neurel net. (That is an oversimplification, but enough to give you a basic grasp of what is happening under the covers.) Apple is obviously investing a lot into CoreML, so expect some speed ups just due to effort but I would not expect factors of magnituite difference in performance. (This might be wrong as Tensorflow Lite is still quite immature, but as it matures I believe it will be comparable in performance.)
MQTT and CoAP both support TLS. With TLS 1.2 you've got elliptic ciphers which puts it in reach of small embedded devices. So TLS with server certificates are enough to ensure confidentiality and server authenticity.

Client certificates can cover the client auth side although there are gotchas:

(1) dealing with revocation is more difficult as devices can more easily become compromised (physical access = extracting keys from flash/RAM.)

(2) assume a vendor issues a unique client cert on every device, and the chain reaches a CA. For multi-tenant cloud vendors, you still need to figure out which e.g. Philips Hue bulb is Bob's when Bob logs into his cloud portal. So there's a pairing issue that usually requires a one-time-pad or similar. Right now everyone does that differently.
> Once Prometheus flies

Sounds like they are not that committed to the project and if it happens at all it will be a long way off. Will it be worth competing with both SpaceX and Blue Origin?

“We could replace Vulcain 2.1 by Prometheus,” Bonguet told SpaceNews. “Or Prometheus can be the first brick to build the next generation. We will see where we are in 2025 or 2030, and then decide on the right time whether to go one way or the other.”

http://spacenews.com/ariane-6-could-use-reusable-prometheus-...
That'd be survivor bias. My average jeans a decade or two ago would start tearing off at the buttonhole or taint seam after a year or so.
I've been there! Having been there, I've wondered whether this hypothesis is true. Nice to see people attempting to quantify this.
Rene Girard comes to mind
Seconded. Runner up was the Pixel Qi style screen that was in the OLPC, but everything about that appears to be dead.

The OLPC’s screen was pretty cool in black and white and was quite usable in full sun. It also was fast in a way that epaper wasn't.

In color mode, it was pretty muted, and the resolution was... commensurate with those of the time period. But, I imagine that things would have eventually improved. Kind of a shame the whole thing seems to have dead-ended.
If you fly, be sure to take enough time in one location so that they can do a second and third measure. Also get enough suits at once to offset the cost of the flight.
The problem here is the market distorting the incentives to the point that car-manufacturers have a interest that thieves create artifical demand backed by insurance money. Which the insurarers then transfer to the consumer, a circle that amounts to a hidden price raise for cars via insurrance, and contains nothing of value for the user of the product.
>These seem very poorly targeted towards me

Why would you want their ads targeted towards you?
That means Snapchat would need to capture and analyze your information at the risk of your privacy. I'm totally fine with Kylie Jenner ads as long if it means my privacy is respected.
>You can put Folders on the Desktop, but there's also a "Computer" icon on the desktop which allows you to browse into other folders.. including the desktop?

That's a specific failing of Windows, not something inherent to the folder metaphor, though.

It's one of those absurd things that happen when nobody pays any attention to coherence. That particular thing has driven me BATS for years.

I'm encouraged, though, that my Win10 machine here doesn't seem to continue this foolishness. WinExp used to always show the Desktop as the "root" of everything, but it doesn't now. The quick access pane shows This PC as the root, with quick links below it for Desktop, Documents, etc. It's almost like MSFT is learning.
1) Subscription service is what makes the books so cheap for the really expensive ones, but I regularly purchase books that are $30+ when they are first released.

2) Kindle book included would be great however I think the cross licensing would be difficult and distribution of income would cut their margins considerably.

3) UI improvement is a must! I have over 200 books and it is a nightmare to find anything on the mobile app.
Not even Demo Jams available...

#Winning!
Win7 is nice too, but I admit I didn't use it much (as I was a Linux user almost exclusively when 7 was released). I got Windows 10 on a new laptop and gave it an honest try (along with the new Linux subsystem), but the little annoyances and inconsistencies piled up, and back to Linux I went.

I spent a lot of time with Windows 2000 back in the day.
Windows 2000 was the first OS I bought retail -- my new PC came with Windows ME and it was so terrible I ran out and actually paid for an OS ;)
> You get this fancy 8.1 sidebar configuration screens that may solve 80% of a average users tasks, but once you start digging you'll find configuration Windows in the style of W7, and if you dig even harder you'll even find stuff that looks straight out of 98.

Yes. And another really mind-boggling example is the Control Panel. There's actually two of them (or more, depending on how you see things). We have both the old Control Panel and the new Settings user interfaces for configuring various settings in the operating system. Some configuration options are in Control Panel and Settings, and some options are only available in one of the interfaces. That's a UX fk up if you ask me.

Imagine that situation in macOS, there being two System Preferences apps with completely different looks. They would both have some commonalities, but many options would only show up in one of the apps. Would. Not. Happen.
There are things from earlier Windows I wish they'd kept. Like the perfectly functional (actually more functional than their replacements) settings panels.

But I think the biggest thing I miss is the start menu being just a view of a folder hierarchy. The Windows 10 Start Menu is tied into the appstore and uses some kind of database that can easily get corrupted and cause it to stop working seemingly randomly. Sometimes performing the right voodoo magic can fix it, but usually it means an in-place upgrade (aka reinstall). Go on, look for "Windows 10 start button doesn't work" on google. Fun reads.

It's an example of how complexity meant to make things easier often just makes them rigid and unfixable when shit inevitably goes wrong. The original start menu was so stupidly simple that it was almost impossible for anything to go wrong in the first place, and if it did, it was easy to reason about because it was simple. I miss that kind of design in my software.
This is a pretty sloppy article, with a bunch of conventional-wisdom-as-evidence and no critical analysis of potential cause and effect. H&M as a stand-in for "cheap clothes", ignoring any number of other cheap clothing retailers that have come and gone for decades. Using only three datapoints for Levis 501 prices going back only to 2009 when claiming trends that go back 30 years, and when Levis 501s have been available under that name for 130 years and have been a common fashion for almost 70 years.

I do think some of the trends they call out are contributing for sure, but I don't think this piece really explains anything. They never really discuss whether people actually have fewer clothes or whether it's just that the clothes are cheaper. There's no real analysis of how fast fashion is changing.

And the whole idea that we _should_ be buying more clothes because "the economy is growing and wages are rising" is delusion. Wages have only just started to show signs of rising after decades of near-stasis, and the Fed reacted with big interest rate hikes that sent the stock market plummeting. A "growing economy" doesn't help an individual buy more clothes. Only rising wages can do that, or cheaper clothes prices. In the absence of wage growth, it's no wonder we've had a long-term decline in clothes spending. And because they overlooked this, the article also fails to consider that the fact that people feel they can't afford to spend as much on clothes is more likely a driving factor in the increasing casualization of work and society than the increasing casualization is a reason why we spend less on clothes.
I use (and develop) Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.org). It's dead simple, but that's good enough for me. I use the task editor to keep track of todos for updates and other projects.
We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters
Microservices in Golang – part 6 of 10 part series – user interfaces and clients
The deceleration in healthcare costs preceded the ACA, and can mostly be attributed to a slowdown in economic growth (1,2,3).

1 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25092842
2. https://economics21.org/html/sorry-nyt-medicare-cost-problem...
3. https://economics21.org/html/obamacare-not-making-healthcare...
For point 2 - if you buy the kindle book first, you can add the audio book for a comparable price (not universally available, but it's still pretty broad). In fact, this kinda takes care of points 1 and 3 too, since there's no subscription needed, and the audio book is directly tied to the kindle book in the reader.

I just wish audio books were cheaper. I understand the price - voice acting and audio mixing - but it's still in the realm of too expensive for a few hours of one-shot entertainment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312989
All of which illustrates how stupid management types have been all these years regarding dress codes, remote work, everything. The MBA is an echo chamber degree that has held America back.
> For small/solo projects I prefer to use a notebook with the first few pages reserved for an index.

You might consider starting your index on the back page, and let it grow "backwards" toward the content, sort of like stack and heap do in memory.

I think I first saw this suggested by the Humphrey/PMP people, where a notebook is (used to be?) a prominent tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
I'm a regular audible user with 72 audio books. Yes audiobooks are expensive, but I find them to be the most intellectually stimulating audio source. I have gathered these books over the last 30 months, with more heavy usage in the last 18 months.

Changes audible could make to increase the amount I consume audiobooks.

1) I'd really enjoy a "pause at the end of a chapter" button. So many times I would have pressed this and consumed more audiobook in a session than just pausing in the middle of a chapter. I think it would also improve reading comprehension and enjoyment.

2) Let me buy books on the app. I once spent a week without listening to audible because I kept forgetting to browse books when I was at a laptop computer.

3) The UI could have better grouping for series. I've read books without knowing they are series until I talk about the book with someone a few weeks later. The UI should let me know and suggest I buy the next book.

4) The UI should do a better job of highlighting the cheapest price. Sometimes it's cheapest to use a credit. Sometimes it's cheapest to buy the audiobook without a credit. Sometimes it's cheapest to buy the kindle book then buy the audiobook.

5) The books need better production quality. Books with multiple readers are significantly better then books with one readers. The reader has a large impact on the tone of the book. This isn't Amazon's responsibility now, but if they wanted to increase sales of audiobooks they could approach it from this angle.
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I have to think that the common anti-pattern of naive users storing files they mean to keep in the Recycle Bin wouldn't happen so often if it were still called Trash.
I know that Paris had similar restrictions on cars a few times recently. If your car had an even number it could be used on one day, odd on another. If I remember correctly they also made all public transport in the city free for them days too.
I think there's an unexplored niche in searching and reading aloud web content, at least on Android.

There's no easy to find app that lets me easily search and play interesting articles , easily. There's also nothing that fits the context of doing something else and wanting a stream of interesting stuff according to a search query.

And recently there were big.leaps in quality if machine speech.

And maybe there's some role to play for hands-free dialogue with the machine.

And because it is a tool for learning , not just enterntainment , you may be able to justify a reasonable monthly subscription - if the app is effective.
dask.dataframe might not help but dask.distributed could in that case.

I've had success using it on non vanilla stuff (i.e. code that could not get converted to play natively with numpy/pandas structures)

As a bonus, the nice profiling tools (built within dask) have also helped me improve the performance of the code.

See https://distributed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>In the National Security Letter dated May 19, 2017, the US Department of Justice withdrew the request entirely rather than proceed with judicial review.

if the DOJ would rather not get any information at all rather than have their request for information scrutinized by a court, there is something seriously wrong with the national security letter process. people who have had a pulse in recent years will chime in that there are many other problems with the NSL process.

but this one is a bit different, because shows that the FBI is explicitly avoiding the rule of law as a policy. aren't they the ones responsible for upholding the rule of law as part of the department of justice? why yes, yes they are. they have dirt to hide, and they are not good at deflecting guilt. they know they can consistently over-reach with these NSLs to violate the rights of companies and individuals. so they do it.

this behavior implies ongoing abuse that they would rather have covered up than accomplish their agency's goals, even if those goals are wrong.

i guess my solution would be to clean house. fire people (and revoke security clearance) starting at the top and work your way down while promoting people who weren't abusers. at the same time, start firing from the bottom, targeting those who complied with bad orders from above. replace them with new recruits who can be trained to have their heart in the right place. the agency is back to citizen-friendly operating order within 5 years or so. a blink of the eye in the timeline of the twilight years of a former empire.
I went to Chicago and was really surprised. Nice coats with a huge patch. I thought everyone had added them themselves.
Probably inertia. Windows 3.0 and 3.1 didn't ship with a TCP/IP stack. You had to either have something like Trumpet or install Internet Explorer 2.1 (which, AFAIK, was a separate purchase) to get Winsock. Or you could try to use DOS drivers. Even Windows for Workgroups 3.1 only shipped with NetBEUI and IPX/SPX. It wasn't until Windows for Workgroups 3.11 that the OS shipped with TCP/IP.
Depression and Anxiety in programming
Side channel attacks on your phone can let apps track you without location data
Sure, but London is not really known for it's forests.
Something that's I've always found striking is how long lived ancient peoples were, if they made it to adulthood. Early life deaths is what really used to bring up mortality rates. If one out of 3 children make it 20, but the child that does lives to an average of 80 then you have an aggregate life expectancy of something like 30-40 years - but that's obviously quite misleading. When you look at those that did make it to adulthood and died of some natural cause (as opposed to human caused things like warfare or famine) the longevity of people does not seem to have really changed all that much.

The Ancient Greeks were pretty much clueless on medicine still viewing things through the lens of miasma theory, yet go search for any name you're familiar with and you'll find the distribution of ages to not be as low as you'd expect. Granted there is a bias in that people that died earlier in adulthood might not have had a chance to make their mark to the point that you'd know their name today, but I don't think that's the predominant issue. The names we know we'd still know even had they died much earlier. Aristotle was an outlier living to be only 61, yet he certainly made his name even well before that. Socrates - 71 (death by execution), Plato - 80, Eratosthenes - 82, Pythagorus - 75, Hippocrates - 90, etc, etc.

Modern medicine should certainly have enabled ancient civilizations to extend their lives substantially. What if it were possible to live the lifestyle of one such as the Ancient Greeks, yet given the availability of modern medicine in case of urgent need? And it's there that I completely agree with you. I think the goal should be to use modern medicine to supplement, not supplant, traditional life values.

There's certainly a concern of being a luddite, yet on the other hand I think people are at times too quick to forget that our level of understanding of things like human physiology is still quite superficial. We have no real causal understanding and while correlations can and do enable enormously beneficial breakthroughs, they are also subject to a never ending stream of unforeseen consequences. Decisions our species made for hundreds of thousands of years to survive were obviously not always optimal or ideal, but they did prove to be, if nothing else, sustainable and deterministic.
You might be right. However be careful, the graph doesn't suggest that all the decrease in clothing spending is siphoned into tech spending - it might be a coincident. If they draw more lines, you might see a similar increase in, say, books and education. Now what goes where? We don't know. All the graph says is that people spend more money on tech and experiences, and less money on clothing.
> More people are working from home...

Your office is not representative of the entire US workforce, dear.
or a cuda wrapper
I wonder what it says about me that I when I read "Absolutist" my brain replaced it with "Absurdist" and I got excited and depressed. I even got to the point where I was wondering what some examples of absurdist words were. And then I read it again with a higher font size.
> The c in cpython was not meant to signal performance.

I thought it was clear that I understood that: "Not knowing anything else, I might expect ..." I guess not.
That makes a lot of sense. The center core had to ignite for liftoff, then either scale back or stop entirely during the main lift phase, then re-ignite when the side boosters detached, then reignite for the boostback, entry AND landing burns. That's a lot of re-ignition!

I hope they post a very high quality video of that booster having its unplanned disassembly. May not be great for PR, etc, but it sure would be entertaining.
Check out how much of their $100bn vision fund they've already spent:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/07/softbank-vision-fund-over-...
This has definitely happened for me. In the dot-com boom I was a big clothes horse, and enjoyed it. Since then I've worked from home, and my biz wardrobe has dwindled to fairly crappy Jos. A Banks items I don't mind cramming into a suitcase for my rare business trips.

I still keep a suit or two for nicer social functions, but my everyday wear is increasingly casual. Since I lost a bunch of weight and became more active, it's also increasingly outdoor/athletic in nature -- turns out, Prana pants are super comfy, and cost a shitload less than Zegna.
I own the earlier Sony DPT, and I love writing on it. The only problem with its e-ink display is the really slow page refresh rate.
The quantification of life is a drastically reductionist approach.

Also, may lead to build fragile in the Talebian sense structures, that is, a lifestyle too dependent on the local minima.

What happens if they change and your life isn't as optimized as you wanted?

These are questions, but the answers are too personal for everyone to respond here.
I agree. The bigger question is which came first:

1. Absolutism led to anxiety/depression and was signaled in speech.

2. Anxiety/Depression led people to think absolutely giving rise to absolutist speech.

3. Absolutist speech created anxiety/depression circumstances.

I go with number 1.
I call bullshit. The car is a product.
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Expensive brands produce their clothes in the same factories. They just make higher profits.
Stallman would probably use GNU wget which is licensed under the terms of the GPL, while curl is licensed under a license derived from MIT/X consortium.
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I employed a seed-based deterministic random function in a WebWorker once, to noisily but predictably drive an animation. I suppose one could use the same approach to have a decent non-deterministic source alongside Google's patched seedrandom.