skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note to self (and anyone else): check out https://grokbit.com after all the traffic from this post gets handled.

Looks like it (attempts to) serve a very popular need. Time to bring my side-project up a couple of notches.
It’s a mistake. We’re paying $1000+ for this tool that presents itself as a versatile information slinger, well I hope it can do more than Facebook, Instagram and Gmail. This is an amazing platform, completely damaged by its limited IO. Apple is moving away from its roots. Not good. Creators will go elsewhere, their desirable creations will become native elsewhere, and the sheep will follow.
I've been using the gmail website since beta (20 year beta, I know, but this was extremely early, when it was invite only) for my email and I just switched to Thunderbird about two weeks ago. It really is that bad.
This isn't just an iOS bug. The affected CSS property is just not available on most platforms.

Sinfe I do not have access to any apple hardware, I tried turning on the experimental web features in Chrome Canary on my phone and it managed to freeze Android as well. The Chrome browser crashed on Windows with this setting on. Microsoft Edge, the only browser other than Safari to have support this property without messing with config, just showed a generic "this page can not be displayed" message.

I think this problem affects the entire WebKit/Blink code base, the only reason the crashes are not being detected on other platforms is that most browsers just don't support this feature yet.
tmux was an absolutely game changer for me. At first I thought I was fine just being really comfortable with shortcuts and splitting commands with my favorite terminal emulators but tmux along with tmux plugins ecosystem[0] is really a world of difference, and much better.

I haven't gone so far as to change my default shell to tmux in the terminal emulator I use, for the sole reason that I imagine that I just don't need tmux every single time. In reality, 99% of the time the first thing I do when I restart my computer and open a terminal and run `tmux`, and start setting up my workspaces based on what I've been doing, naming windows, etc.

The top two features I use every day:

- keyboard-only selection + cut & paste between panes (yes, piping to xclip is good, but it's nice when you can just enter the right tmux mode, use emacs/vim keybindings to go up and copy out some text)

- easy/instant resizing and organizing of panes

- naming/breaking/moving/combining panes, to focus my efforts (something as simple as naming a window appropriately focuses my efforts inside that window)

An example of this is working with tools like `kubectl` that generate randomly named components that I have to list out @ the command line and do operations on, most of the time when I watch people deal with this in talks, they have to go and double-click-select or type things out.

[0]: https://github.com/tmux-plugins
>What was once a universal healthcare system is actually no longer: In England, General Practitioners are required to write to patients and remove them from the register if they do not confirm receipt of the letter. This means being homeless without an address means emergency-only care, at least according to policy. [3]

I think you are misinformed

per https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/doctors/Docum...

Message to the GP Practice

Thank you for helping to register this patient. We hope the patient was able to show you relevant documents. NHS Guidelines say ‘If a patient cannot produce any supportive documentation but states that they reside within the practice boundary then practices should accept the registration’.

Please be aware that a homeless patient cannot be refused registration on the basis of where they reside because they are not in settled accommodation. For safety reasons they may need to change the places where they sleep rough on a daily basis. There is no regulatory requirement to prove identity, address, immigration status or an NHS number in order to register as a patient and no contractual requirement for GPs to request this.

Those who are homeless, vulnerably housed or ‘of no fixed abode’, asylum seekers, refugees and overseas visitors, whether lawfully in the UK or not, are eligible to register with a GP practice even if they have to pay for NHS services outside of the GP practice. The patient MUST be registered on application unless the practice has reasonable grounds to decline. GP practices have limited grounds on which they can turn down an application and these are;

if The commissioner has agreed that they can close their list to new
patients.

The patient lives outside the practice boundary.
I use the belkin adapter in my car and it works well.
I think you are just reading too much into some colloquial English. If I say that "Aunt Elsie coming to dinner means trouble", I don't literally mean that "Aunt Elsie coming for dinner" is a synonym for any kind of trouble. It is clear just from the context of the sentence you quoted that this non-literal meaning is intended, since "difficult to analyse" is very obviously not a mathematical definition. And in case this was not clear to anyone - which I already find surprising - they inserted the word "basically" which is another colloquialism that can mean "not literally" (depending on the context).
I find both tmux and Gnu Screen difficult to config (haven't taken the time to learn) but I love the concept of them so I use Byobu (http://byobu.co/) on top of tmux/screen to set common configuration for you. Byobu really lowers the amount of config and barrier to entry because Byobu uses common hotkeys. For example F2 for new window.
I remember reading a post that entropy increases because we classify higher entropy states as essentially the same and there are more of them. Is there a good explanation of this?
What other apps do you have on your phone that are executing what is essentially an enormous amount of untrusted code?

There is nothing different about browsers than other apps, but given how they work people are far more likely to discover these kinds of bugs in browsers.
First burn
Diabetes type 2 voorkomen op een natuurlijke manier, kan dat?
You seem to misunderstand my point.

I get that wires are better for serious musicians. I doubt that the number of people depending on their iPhones for low latency audio work is dwarfed by the number of people doing latency insensitive things like listening to podcasts or iTunes. iPhones are primarily consumer products, so catering to consumer and not professional needs first makes sense.

Heck, the stuff you mentioned appears to be purpose built audio equipment. How would that be affected by the iPhone ditching the headphone jack?
Preach!

This is exactly why I started this group though, to try to avoid this. I try to avoid this with a few tactics:

1. Every social event for developers or nerds like me has been awkward as hell. No one wants to stand in the corner with a beer avoiding people, or shouting over loud ass music. The lunch format has helped avoid that. I've really found that breaking bread and sitting down with food in front of you makes a big difference in the social interactions and the people that feel comfortable coming. You end up making high value connections with the 1-2 people sitting next to you.

2. Local captains are engineering leaders themselves, and they hand curate the group, and kick people out if they're being all sales-y. I curate the Boulder lunch, and it's all engineering leaders facing the same problems. No one except engineering leaders are allowed to come. The only exception to that is our first sponsor, name.com, who sends their 1 community outreach person to eat lunch, chit chat (not a pitch to the whole group), and picks up the tab at the Boulder lunch.

3. The email list provides so much additional value to the group, and because it's email (as opposed to group chat), people love writing long responses and participating over time (sometimes hours, days, or weeks after the last email in the thread has been sent), not just participating in the fleeting moment of a group chat discussion.
I didn’t personally care for Inbox anyway, but after the Reader debacle, I avoid becoming dependent on any new Google product.
There will never be a shortage of companies looking to hire you on the cheap. I'd try Google for a couple years.
I try to avoid the 5 minute intros, which is actually well received by the first sponsor I have, because it's less genuine.
https://www.raywenderlich.com is a pretty good site to point folks for iOS / Mac programming.

An aside, looking at the photo, I see she isn't into the touchbar either.
> Student visa to H-1B is difficult

Comparing to? There is no easy legal way into US (if we consider the 'marriage to stay' not legal as we should).

By the way, many other factors are there, from Chinese patriotism to cultural differences, students demographics and American colleges business on foreign students. It's understandable from American perspective to be sure US is the best place on Earth though. But reality is more complicated.

> One 2016 survey of nearly 1,000 Chinese students studying at Purdue University – a large public college in rural Indiana – found that 29 per cent reported developing a more negative attitude toward the US since their arrival.

> Forty-four per cent said their attitude toward China had become more positive since coming to the US.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...
Dear adventured:
I believe I asked the parent a pair of clarifying questions.

I'm not sure why you view mentioning that there are those who also decide to leave the parent's (possible) target destination as "attacking the US," but okay(?)

Re: and 'my' "empty claim" and your statistical screed--
1) I noticed you excised my source 'references', which is fine, I guess;

2; your list doesn't actually address the crux of the claim;

3) I think it helpful to think about how the stats are derived and what they actually measure;

4) here's a recent article from "the failing New York Times" on some of those stats you provided [1];

5) and another on the "recovery"[2], most of the commenters don't appear to share your sanguineness, but they're probably Russian bots or something;

6) I remind you that the stock market is neither the economy nor directly relevant to much of the US population;

7) you're probably right about GDP growth [FTR, I was one of few who argued, to seasoned economists, that Trump's targets were easily doable when they steadfastly argued otherwise], but I refer you back to article [1];

8) having already addressed your "renunciation" data in an unrelated HN post, I won't do it again; finally,

9) your econ stats are, pretty much, about the aggregate, which in my initial post, I acknowledged "look good";

10) even if everything that you've stated is absolutely correct, it doesn't explain, for me, why the OP wants to take such a drastic step, which was what my post was actually about*.

All the best...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/business/middle-class-fin...
Makes me think of Elon Musk putting the majority of his PayPal sale (>$100M) into new companies, which hired people and produced something of value that many are now benefiting from. One of which was motivated in part by eliminating carbon emissions.

Feels somehow ironic - this guy losing so much because surprise weather patterns filled up Northern Europe hydroelectric reservoirs, coupled with German carbon tax.

Perhaps karma builds up when you want to hoard and keep living with minimal risk.
They were found in 2016. How come this wasn't announced earlier? It seems like no research about the bodies was done between 2016 and today.
Bluetooth radios generally operate at an order of magnitude lower power than wifi or cellular radios, especially in LE mode.

Really the Bluetooth protocol is mostly just a ultra low power 802.11. It has more channels but they are thinner bands are only 1-2 Mbit (depending on classic or LE mode).

That being said its not really a bandwidth limitation. One device can use multiple channels and thus you can easily get, say, the 6 Mbit that DVD quality PCM takes up.

It is more that being so low power means bluetooth gets pummeled with a lot of inference. This isn't much of a problem if you are using one channel and alternating to avoid hot regions but the 2.4 band is super congested. Trying to drive constant 6+ Mbit through Bluetooth losslessly would take way more power than most Bluetooth devices are capable of or willing to spend to accomplish it.
I like to be able to attach to my customary sessions quickly, or reinstantiate them quickly in case of reboot etc.

I use something like the following in my .bashrc:

alias f='tmux attach -dt f || tmux new-session -s f'

That way I can recreate or attach to my usual session(s) without even taking my hands off home row.
Show HN: Machine Translation with Sequence to Sequence Models
> Those numbers are laughable even for Beijing, I hear SZ is way more expensive still. 30k/month is junior engineer territory, and you are lucky if your one bedroom apartment is only 7500/month in rent.

In Beijing, junior engineer typically earn 17k-21k and that's before tax. His numbers seems quite right from my experience
I guess I'll give you one thing though: whereas what two people want from each other can be complicated, power is not a scalar value like electric charge. But in many cases it acts like a scalar, especially if it takes the form of money, which is abstract and transferable.
Smart. Modeling is not a great career except for those at the very top (the supermodels whose names you'd recognize). For every one person who succeeds and makes it rich, there's hundreds who never make it. It's like professional sports in that regard. And it's a very time-limited profession, too; you get forced out when other people's careers are just starting to pick up steam, and you're not left with much in the way of transferrable skills.

So it totally makes sense to working on a career in another field that will be more long-lived than modeling. And, hey, so long as you still have what it takes, may as well model too anyway. It's a good side gig. She's basically doing the same kind of thing as John Urschel, except he doesn't get shit for it because of his gender/appearance.
Well established company vs future unknown startup, if you are confident with the future of the startup then choose the latter, else choose the former. 6% could be nothing if the startup fails. So it's an easy choice comparing to choose between Google and Apple.
Is "Higher Education is not a good thing" a new trope among the financial elite? Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle had something along the same lines a month ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/imagine-a-world-with...
One of the selling points of Uber in their marketing, at least in chicago, was that Uber drivers would drive like “regular” people and not like cabbies; because cabbies in Chicago drive like crazy people. In a very short period of time Uber drivers all drive exactly like cabbies, which is obnoxious since there’s more of them.
I dont have access to the article, but I imagine 'high' is a relative term. In general, the density of primes arround n is roughly 1/log n; if you could do significantly better than that say 1/sqrt(log n) you could call that high accuracy.

Meanwhile, the actual probability of predicting a prime would still be very low. Note that I am only speculating here.
I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, but ironically Apple mostly did build faster horses (at least in the iStuff generation). They didn't really build anything revolutionary, but the things they did build were significanly slicker and more useful than the (similar) products that existed at the time.
How long do they need to soak?
It's definitely not too much to ask for people to pay their own bill at lunch, but my goal is to continue to add value to the group, which I think will become easier if there are more resources at the group's disposal. More cities, more engineering leaders to get advice from or make connections to, etc.
Tokyo also has no space, hence their continued reliance on mini cars. It will be much harder to convince LA to de-emphasize vehicle parking.
If you live on the east coast you can get a discount flight to London for only $200 round trip. When these sales come up a group of my friends grabs tickets and go together, it's become a tradition.
I'd agree about the email list. The lunch format is great for non-awkward socializing, but people are busy and travel a lot, and the email list gives a way for people to write out long form advice and experiences to give to the group.

That's a big part of what I'm trying to help scale for the group.
Apologies for the meta-comment, but I saw this happen on Twitter and thought it was a bit interesting so I clicked this article here thinking it may add something to the story. All it added were about a hundred irritating ads that kept changing my scroll position as they loaded. Increasingly, it isn't worth the leap of faith to click on an article that isn't from a well-known news domain. It's really a bummer.
If you're using a printer, presumably you might sometimes want the stuff at the top of the program to be last on the printout, so it's easy to get at without having to flip through a pile of paper?

Same might go for a terminal with no scrollback...

Come to think of it, this sounds actually rather useful. Had this been available when I was programming on the BBC Micro, I bet I'd have used it.
Show HN: Mixshake – Free personalized internet radio
It's definitely a tool that, once you get used to using it, it is hard to imagine not using it.
It’s not unless you’re just comparing Chinese food. The only thing consistently better is price
Segments of economics have problem deciding whether to be descriptive or prescriptive; a theorist will come up with a proof of what a rational actor would do in a given situation. When it's pointed out that no one does that, the theorist responds that he is uninterested in the economics of stupid people.

Check out Misbehaving by Richard Thaler for the entertaining details.
Hey everyone, I'm Itay, the creator of Mixshake, a music streaming service that generates a genre-mixing playlist with an infinite number of songs.

Like many people, I love to listen to music - while I'm working, driving, working out and, of course, chilling with friends. My favorite way of listening is to explore and combine several genres at the same time. My favorites are: dance, alternative and pop. I've been using many music streaming services and, unfortunately, I didn't find a service that allows me to listen to mixed-genre playlists and to change the playlist dynamically, according to my current mood. I found that this feature is missing everywhere - even on the larger streaming services.

This is why I created mixshake, a web application where you can do exactly this - stream music from YouTube and combine all the genres of music you like. The user chooses his/her favorite genres and the application generates an infinite playlist for him/her according to his/her choices. While playing, the user can tune the genres, for example, select "more pop" and "less alternative" and the playlist regenerates dynamically.

I would love to hear your feedback! If you have any tips or suggestions on how to build my community and drive traffic/new users, I'd be very happy to hear it.

Thank you in advance for your time and great ideas.
I've only used Inbox since the very first day it was released, and I loved it; it's a simple mix of concepts that resulted in an experience that has made mail much more pleasant (and less of a hassle) to me. I don't think anyone that has intensively used Inbox in the last years may think even remotely that the new Gmail is a similar experience, because it definitely still has a completely different look and feel.

I think I'll switch back to Thunderbird on desktop for the time being, given that the hassle (and delays) of having several POP3 accounts configured on the Gmail website isn't really worth the effort without Inbox.
Does this mean that the app itself will stop working or just stops getting updates?
I replied directly above, but the other reason sponsorship is attractive is because it's hard to host a group of 20-30 people for lunch usually.

We've lucked out in Boulder & Denver where we can make a reservation for that big, but a lot of places I've talked to want event fees, so I'm still going to avoid that, but it'd be nice to have the option.
Cost prohibitive is relative.

Flying anywhere is cost prohibitive for a lot of families in the US. Buying 4 or 5 airline tickets gets expensive fast, even on low-cost airlines. The median family vacation in the US is probably a car trip to a destination within 4-5 hours of where the family lives.

This isn't as relevant for people without families, but many of them tend to be early in their career, so money and vacation time are bigger constraints.
You may be on to something here. It might just have been a control/money issue. Not a technical issue at all :-(

It may also be related to water proofing , eliminating another source of water risk.
I know what you're getting at, and there does tend to be a difference between corporate CTOs of non-technical companies, start-up CTOs and CTOs of large tech companies. However, they're all very much real (but different) roles. You can't just throw any developer into a CTO role and expect it to work. Certainly developers do move into CTO roles (myself included) but there's a lot to learn/do beyond writing code.
Which is unenforceable because it is a violation of the California labor code section 96 k. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
Vision. He has just done what should be done in the future.
apt-X is neat; it’s a bummer that, as it’s Qualcomm proprietary technology, only a smallish subset of wireless headsets support it.

Not to mention Apple’s beef with Qualcomm means we’ll probably never see apt-X support in an iPhone.
No, calling yourself "CTO" of a 2 person company does not make you a CTO. You might be a manager, a founder, or some other title, but you're absolutely and unquestionably not a CTO.
Fastmail, hushmail, and ProtonMail are among the better Gmail alternatives.

I'm not sure anything out there strictly replicates the exact feature set that Inbox or Gmail had/have
For those that are interested, I took a slightly different approach by making a “Hacker News Cleanser service that will periodically hide articles based on title keywords, site, and user.

https://github.com/barrowclift/hacker-news-cleanser
Left Gmail for FastMail a few years ago and never looked back. Well worth the money.
By the way, is that '9 out 10 white people you see in factory districts speak Russian' true?
The electric bike and scooter have been around for a while, but it seems that the price has finally dropped below a tipping point in the last year or so. They’ve gone from novelty device (e.g. Segway, home built e bikes) to something that I see dozens of times a day. Heck, a sizable percentage of the homeless people in my area have e bikes, that’s how prevalent they are.
>people didn't really go to Mexico except by cruise ships.

Cancun has always been a popular destination.
It was interesting for me to discover how the motorized scooter rental companies maintain a charge on the device's batteries:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/charg...
I'd say Vision. Steve is the great visionary of the future. He was able to see the future in his mind to build amazing products that the future wants, not something world needed today to run.

I'm always excited by the stories about the detail and time he spend on designing impeccable user experience.