skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the Taiwanese government has not renounced claims over mainland China because doing so would piss off China, who would view it as a step towards independence.

Aside from escalation of tensions, pissing off PRC would likely worsen economic relations, which I think would be more damaging to Taiwan than to China (according to Wikipedia, China is Taiwan's largest import/export partner).

Absent the political/economic ramifications, I believe only a very small percentage of Taiwan's population would mind if Taiwan renounced these claims. Even "pro-reunification" KMT has stepped a bit back from its reunification stance, e.g. setting conditions like "democracy, economic development to a level near that of Taiwan, and equitable wealth distribution" for China before reunification can occur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan).

So, for many, the only reason to support an "eventual reunification" stance is it'd strengthen the economy, i.e., they don't mind China playing its word games if it means peace and Taiwan prospering.

This doesn't mean "pro-independence" pan-green party ignores the economic effects. They argue for developing economic relations with other countries, to reduce economic dependence on China, and thus make independence more practical.
URL sharing website
Dodged a bullet here. I didn’t make it pass the first interview call back in 2016 lol.
I like that idea, but I think the real world implementation of that would be one huge monolith app (still owned by one company) like WeChat. Maybe if Google made an app which integrated all their services :P
Same here. When it works, it’s great. But a bunch of keys either don’t register at all or will stick. Unplugging etc. doesn’t fix so I’m mostly left with a $200 conversation starter.
So, as of the shutdown, is there anything even close to a usable software stack, or is it all just prototype stuff?

Why, if they had all that funding, and assuming that they had good reasons for a custom OS, would they fail to hire an experienced team to build one -- it seems that the time saved by experience would be well worth it?

Bottom line, is there any software of value that some other drone company might want to purchase?

(edit: add last line)
The credit card is on file in my Audible app too as with the rest of them on android. I'm not sure if the third party apps are explicitly banned from selling or if they just refuse to pay the Apple tax, I'm not interested.

Having to explain to my mother that the chromecast she got for christmas would only work on her phone if she first went to a website to buy a movie we wanted to watch and then opened the app to play, I feel like I am living in a bizarre parody.

I don't want to deal with that needless hoop jumping and my mother just won't do it.
Exactly. Destroying those drives was spun as "oops we made a mistake". It's a lot easier to believe that someone accidentally erased a drive, even three times, than that someone accidentally destroyed millions of sheets of paper.
Yes, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.

Even the Wikipedia article says that the correct diagnosis — the poisoning by polonium-210 — was made to a large extent due to a happy coincidence: there happened to be a scientist in the facility where Litvinenko was treated who happened to have worked with polonium. Were it not for that coincidence, it is very possible the correct diagnosis would not have been reached, and the very investigation that followed would not gone very far.

So I am not sure how Litvinenko poisoning is an illustration of an assassination attempt advertised as such to the rest of the world. On the contrary, it looks like a murder attempt that was intended to have never been solved.
I'd also like to echo that having a portfolio tracker would be for me a the killer feature. I have a mix of equities and mutual funds purchased at different times and different prices and I really just want to input the purchase dates / amounts and then have a single place to track performance. GF had this and now it's all gone.

I'd pay some amount of $ per month (or year or whatever) to just have a reasonable portfolio tracker. Yes, the brokerages all have this - and they're all pretty terrible.
Airdrop, if the computer is Mac.
> Apple sells ... products that work better and last twice as long as the competition.

not a chance. my original black macbook had the dvd drive replaced like 4 times before they replaced the whole computer, because it never worked in the first one. my 2011 macbook pro was never able to use bluetooth audio due to known and common bluetooth audio buffering problems, it struggled to age, even after upgrading to 16GB of ram where mac os x seemed to just say "thanks, i'll take all of that now", and eventually petered out as the trackpad diminished and the wireless card stopped working, rendering it useless as a laptop. my 3 year old ipad air has been having random reboot issues and recently just stopped turning on. apple will "repair" it for $300, which is around 50% of the original price. my brother, who buys nearly every iPhone and iPad version, has the same problem with his iPad air, and his iPhone 7s plus completely stopped working literally one day after the 1 year warranty ended. apple would do nothing. i don't own a single apple product that still works, and i take good care of my stuff. meanwhile, my lg phone and surface pro, which take way more abuse in that they actually leave the house, still work. i have never owned an apple product that just works, and i don't know anyone who has.
Oh, yeah, it's supported. But it's also slow.
Show me any research about those subjects, especially the ones about diversity and I will show you 100 different parameters that the research didn't and can't control for. Also I will challenge you to reproduce those results and and I am willing to put my left arm on a bet that you won't be able to.

On the other hand I can show you very homogenous and successful environments, first and foremost the silicon valley itself. Isn't the common complain is that there are too many cis white males there? So how come it is maybe the most successful part of the economy in the last 40 years or so? What about Japan and Korea? What about almost every sub genre in are and music which was developed usually by homogenous group? You bring me some theoretic algorithm in a computer, I show you huge entities of innovation and success in real life.
Yea. I find it incredible that when news hit that Thailand was cracking down on food trucks, same as has been done in America, it was a big enough injustice of personal freedom and free markets that it even hit the front page of HN. However, criticize the same thing in America and my comment was extremely controversial. I think that says something about how much faith people put into precedent and authority.
R is the new SE.
The profitability was too low on SE or was not shouting enough ´luxury´ so they retired it for a more expensive yet still value targeted new model.
I am guessing the comment was more about how geocities closed down one day and whatever interesting content it contained (alongside uninteresting parts no doubt) disappeared with it.
Faux-science?
Uhm you can? As I said if they’re not using HSTS or Certificate pinning you just need to use an MITM proxy like Charles or mitproxy with a trusted certificate. You might not be able to intercept traffic for FAANG apps but for a vast chunk of apps it should be easy.
It's not API compatible, so if you use Joda and you're thinking of using java.time, it's going to be a lot of refactoring.
That's disgusting. I wish this were illegal, because people deserve to be in jail over this.
sorry, i shouldn't have mentioned caching. the emphasis should have only been on connection speed
It's conceivable he had a non-CS Bachelor's, and could either take a second bachelor's or try to go straight for a CS Masters. Second bachelor's programs often, IIRC, have more minimum coursework than Masters programs (though that can be offset by needing to take undergraduate courses outside of the minimum to meet prereqs in the Master’s program that someone with undergraduate CS background wouldn't have to.)
> universal USB C charger

This mythical device does not exist. USB-C PD includes 5 different power profiles[1] and even if your adapter is big enough subtle compatibility problems still pop up - my colleague's laptop complains about his adapter every time you plug it in for some reason. The situation is better than when every PC product line had their own power connector, but if you were in the Mac ecosystem you already mostly had the same thing because every laptop just used the same of Magsafe connector.

USB-C also brings back the problem of tripping over the power cord and sending your $3000 laptop careening towards a wall or the floor.

> As for removing the headphone jack from the iPhone, they did it because you can send audio over Bluetooth or lightning. No reason to include a redundant port that does only one thing.

What if I want to charge my phone and listen to music and own really nice headphones that don't need to be upgraded every year? Oops, can't do that anymore without this monstrosity: https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAH9D7KY71...

I've been using the top rated "budget" Bluetooth headphones from The Wirecutter for a year now (Jabra Move) and they blow. Like most bluetooth devices, the connection only works "most of the time", sometimes they connect but don't identify as headphones (?) and I have to power cycle them.

They also weigh noticeably more than my previous favourite, portable, wired headphones (Sennheiser PX 100-II) with worse sound quality to boot. I only noticed this when switching back to my wired headphones after I forgot the Bluetooth ones at work and realizing that the wired ones felt almost weightless by comparison. If this is the best that Bluetooth headphones in the ~$100 range have to offer, I don't want it.

Oh yeah, and I have to charge the fuckers every day because what I needed was another device that's useless unless I remember to plug it in constantly when I'm not using it.

Thanks Apple.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_(Physical)#PD
I guess I don't know hardly anything about touchpads. Does it support multi-touch?
That would depend on the bytecode engine. Which ones are you thinking of?

And self-modifying code that takes advantage of the x86 cache and pipelines - IF it's running a W&X environment in the first place - is a wide-open opportunity to see what amazing things your newly fried brain can claim responsibility for causing to exist. :D
Please think a little.

If I am concerned about my safety and I'm in a car, then I only have to trust drivers not to do egregious things like head on collision at high speeds.

If I'm on a bike, I have to trust the teenage driver not to get distracted by a text message and swerve a little bit. In a car at city speeds this would be a minor accident, on a bike it could be life threatening.
I swear this language gets worse every time I learn something new about it.
Yep. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/live-unit...
I was, almost daily. It was a nice tool.
Try comparing to iPhone app instead of iOS app if you want to see what laypeople think
I upvoted you, because while I don't come to the same conclusions I think it's an honest point and logical chain of thought, and a truthful representation of Christianity.

I think many people on HN would agree that the point of prison is not revenge, but a mixture of punishment and rehabilitation that will hopefully deter the crimes of others and prevent future crimes by the convicted. We can't see into people's hearts and minds, so we must have standardized penalties. If we could really see into people's hearts and minds, and were sure we couldn't be deceived, we wouldn't let them out of prison until they were no longer the wicked person who would commit crimes, and we wouldn't keep them in prison once they had really changed.

In that case, the person who committed the crime is gone, and a law abiding, contributing citizen is there instead. We can't change the past, we can only change the future. This person is better in society than in prison. I think if we had the ability to successfully enact this system we would do it and it would be better than what we have now.

So the idea is God can really see into people's hearts, and doesn't want to just punish evil. He wants to redeem it, make what was evil good instead. So the story of Jesus is the story of how God made it possible for evil people to actually become really good, and once they have done so they can be in God's presence. And while they are still living on Earth, they will do good not because they are trying hard to follow the rules, but because they just want to.
I'm a North American who moved to France (not Paris) for a few years where everything is closed on Sundays even most restaurants.

At first, I thought it was ridiculous.

But only after a few months did I come to appreciate it very much. People are with their families, doing 'whatever'.

When 'everyone else is off' there's so much less pressure. It's kind of like being disconnected.

Living in, Germany there are many holidays wherein it felt like this as well - quiet.

After experiencing 'Quiet Sundays' as an adult, think the economic case for 'Sunday Shopping' is overstated, and I actually wish we'd roll that one back.

It's a difficult argument to make in a 'GDP-driven and culturally secular world' ... but it makes sense in ways that are just a little too nuanced to make a public case for.
I wouldn't call it a hard fork, more a downstream derivative. In a similar way, Ubuntu rebases itself on debian unstable every 6 months or so.

That is to say Duval based his product on whichever LineageOS release was 'current' at the time but plans to sync to the next available release when his next development cycle allows (which is Oreo, currently).
I also agree that OS X 10.6 was the pinnacle of consumer operating systems. Nowadays I use a Surface Book. Microsoft finally knocked off the Macbook successfully and stuck in a tablet with a pen and access to the full desktop OS. Windows 10 is not bad once you disable every form of notification.
This was one of my favorites. The style of writing made me rethink what is possible in storytelling and philosophical/psychological narratives.
I think he meant figuratively, like he took credit for his work or something. Not an actual stabbing with a knife.
The virtue of being Stupidly Determined
You are probably overthinking this.

Simply being able to fly a high resolution camera with a bright light up underneath a bridge probably saves an enormous amount of time.
Nationalism seems to be very strong in China. Its kind of disturbing tbh
sometimes China is a dick.

actually, a lot of the time: consider Xinjiang and Tibet. the fact that we can't afford to shun them as they deserve doesn't mean they're not being very, very naughty.
Emitting toxic gases into the atmosphere is a crime against others. Therefore, using (most) internal combustion engines is a crime. We have a lot of criminals today.
You should check this out

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio
"It would be like saying you have a healthy relationship with smoking because you don't smoke at all for one day a week, but after that you can chain smoke 24/6."

What?

No.

You need food, but you can overeat.

You need exercise, but you can do too much.

It's not an irrational argument to indicate we need a day off, moreover, it's not irrational to suggest we do it at the same time.

FYI - have a look at your activity logs. Whatever business you're in, I'll bet a lot that it's down on Sunday. All our charts show a huge drop them. So we already are a little bit conditioned for this behaviour. It's worth considering nudging in a given direction.
> Cool, how can I afford to buy a house in an area of roughly my choice and not work horrible hours? Oh wait I can’t do both. And you’d probably say that’s my choice to forgo living in a nice house in a nice area.

Uh, no, I would say that I really, truly, seriously, do not care what you choose to do with the 24 hours in each of the days of your life. So please, don't try to tell me what I should or should not do with mine. I'm sick and tired of busybodies and crybabies who pine for new "societal taboos" for the rest of us to observe.

The majority of people on HN are not like that, but a sizable portion are. And I'm more than happy to incur the inevitable downvotes to call them out on it.
thanks, I need to start watching that show again :)
That is awesome. I like this name/pronunciation!
>It's colonialism plain and simple.

It's really not that plain or simple. Any population that might have a claim to being "indigenous" to Taiwan has already been colonized by the Dutch and the Portuguese, then the Qing dynasty, then the Japanese, and finally the ROC, which is the sovereign entity that governs Taiwan today. If anything, the transition from Japanese to KMT rule was rather brutal and colonial, although Taiwan is a rather healthy democracy today and the current ruling faction, the Pan-Greens, have historically fought against that legacy.
MagSafe is such an awesome feature. The newer MacBooks have usb-c but the cables don’t fit right. So you may think the laptop is charging, but it’s not. So annoying going to meetings and seeing the battery dead.

New Apple very much seems to optimize for their profit margins and gimmicky features at cost of usability.

I think Steve Jobs may forever be remembered as the CEO who legit gave a shit about usability.
First it was 500 dog owners out of ~1000 respondents ~= +/— 4.4%. So, Double that to 2000 people and you can get 3% accuracy on overall per ownership, assuming no systemic bias. But, slice that into 30-39 year olds and you have ~1/7 the data and thus much higher error bars.

Now, if they had sampled ~20,000 people then sure you can slice and dice like that. But slicing data always increases the risk of sampling bias as would anything that targets 30-39 year olds specifically.
I just can't believe Buang-Ly doesn't have his own Wikipedia article.
> I consider the ability to plug in DisplayPort monitors [...] a must-have

Out of curiousity, is there any advantage of DP compared to HDMI? I've never had anything that would use it, and HDMI makes more sense as a standard-to-upgrade-to, coming from DVI monitors. Quick googling suggests HDMI has twice the data bandwidth as well.

(not that Macs offer much in the way of HDMI ports anyway...)
The blog is full of much sexist bullshit comments everywhere. Incredibly, there seem to be people warning him about the exact same thing and he doesn’t seem to be paying any attention.
"In practice, to me it just feels really annoying and limiting."

As a Canadian who's spent time in Germany and France, I found it 'annoying' for about 3 months and then I got used to it. When I came back to Canada ... I found the noise and business to be crazy.

I've come to the conclusion that the 'annoyance' of limitation is better than the hustle and bustle of noise and business on Sunday and I prefer the Franco/Germanic model.
Hey, is there some sort of list I can put my email on to get updated for when an API is released?
Yes, and rather than the comfederacy who was trying to ceded, Taiwan holds that they are they legitimate Chinese government.
> I will never understand how "start killing people" becomes a valid solution.

It's always the solution. The reason a "civilized" world exists is there are people out there who are willing to commit extreme amounts of violence upon others if called for. The credible threat of violence is what puts negotiation and diplomacy on the table. Even something as civilized as a court of law depends on the existence of armed enforcers in order to be respected.
The (awesome) economics of open source
Business meetings?
Well, all programming problems become trivially simple if one is allowed to ignore the users. Just develop your own requirements, and they'll be happy with what they get!

Might not be the best choice career-wise, but that sounds like a business problem, not a technical problem.
Kata-containers and container linux kubernetes, almost
> Are you saying men’s pockets are a lot different in size when the waist size is 44” than the ones on a 30” waist?

Yes? Have you held pants up next to one another, pants that use more material have larger pockets to stay proportionate. If pockets remained the same size as the pants grew they'd visually shrink and look terrible, no item of clothing does this.

I've gained and lost weight, I know first hand this to be true.
And it’s somehow harder to go to the Google Voice app and call especially when you can import your contacts?

What’s the fundamental difference between clicking on Contacts and making a call and clicking on the GV app?

If the GV app has been updated to take advantage of the latest APIs, calls to and from the GV app will show up in your call history along with the native dialer.

If you like GV, why use the native contacts app at all? Any app that adds to contacts will automaticallly be added to GV.
Yep. All public property and govt granted leases forego capital depreciation. Since most of the planet falls in this category, it is being plundered while only accounting for the sale of the bounty, without considering the loss of real capital (old forest, clean river/ocean/lake, etc). And a dollar/franc/baht/pound is a mass measure unit of gold. And a BTC is debt (promise of future computation) without a creditor, which ultimately means it is worth nothing, when the price forbids the ponzi from going on.
shell is incredibly powerful when you interact with tools that use piping. Doing the same in python is much more verbose.
Or Dogee T5. It wakes you up at night with the noisy ads. terrible. It would be a quite good phone, but not. useless. One of the adwares is in the wireless update system app, others I don't remember already where are they exactly, but in system apps.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. I definitely have tried with a lot of browsers, I learnt about a lot of quirks of different browsers doing this project. I just gave up on Firefox because I ran out of ideas to try. It wasn't due to lack of trying.

Anyway, someone made a suggestion of what to try in another comment, and turns out it was really easy, so now it's fixed. Firefox just does software blurring which is super slow and so I just had to turn that off entirely for Firefox. So Firefox performance is now okay enough, although still not quite like Chrome.
Wouldn't it make more sense if it was called "Ponsh" then? Heck, now that I think of it, "posh" would be a perfect name for a Python-powered shell.
This is more portfolio tracking centered... https://stockdaddy.io/
Yeah, I'm confused about this too. It's literally just circles and lines, so I was surprised how much effort it took just to get it to this level of performance.
I have fired a gun and did not feel any strange emotions about it. To me, it is just a tool, no different from a knife om terms of emotion.
Keyword is obviously
> Wondering if I should go for a masters in CS...

That strongly depends on what you plan to do with it once you have it. Is it just for the credential? Is there some specific area of knowledge you feel you need to know to advance your career? Is it for the sake of personal curiosity?
"This thing has incredible utility and practicality, therefore I use it for most transportation because it allows for flexible planning - a necessity in an ever-changing world"

As opposed to a bike: "This thing has a very constrained set of operating parameters, therefore I use it occasionally when the situation fits best"
Why do people do this? It makes for dreadful UX. Reimplementing scrolling is already a sin; in this case it's even worse. The whole website feels slow, the scrolling is confusing and inconsistent.
Same thing with floating navbars and other fancy stuff, don't do it if you're unable to make it perfect.