skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really, in your heart and hearts, believe that writing an app for the number of markets Facebook has, with all their weird quirks and all the features they support would have 50% of the constraints imposed by Apple?

Yes I do. The client functionality is relatively simple, even with all these per-market quirks and features combined.

And Apple did excellent job providing stable hardware & software environment, and deprecating old hardware. Per-user quirks are almost non-existent on iOS. This is unlike PC platform, for that CAD app I had to spent significant time implementing various workarounds for users on old PCs, Intel breaking GPU drivers, and many other strange things.

> I hope you can see how patently ridiculous that is.

Scaling web apps is relatively hard. A system running on 1M servers is way more complex than similar system running on 5 servers.

An FB user however only has a single iPhone in their pocket, with 4-6 cores and 2-3GB RAM. The mobile software doesn’t and shouldn’t care how many servers FB has in their datacenters, or how many petabytes of data are stored on these servers.
Here's the real 'less annoying' hackernews:

https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content

This generates an RSS feed with the contents of the articles inlined and available at https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

By-passes most soft paywalls. No Javascript. No Tracking. No 'social' media buttons. No modal dialogs. Just text you can read in a terminal based rss reader like canto.
Android One has at least helped expand the options for phones with no crapware and a reasonable update policy. A decent number of them still have jacks.

LG G7 One

Xiaomi A1/A2 Lite

Moto X4

Nokia 6.1/6.1+/7+
One issue I have with tmux is that you can't resize the window to the current device. The developers seems to be very adament that it isn't implemented.

Currently tmux will adapt the size to the smallest (on each axis) client. This doesn't work well with persistent connections from a phone and PC since they typically have quite different window sizes.

In screen I hit ctrl-a + F to resize to current client and I miss it every time I use tmux.

Unfortunately I still prefer tmux, worth trying out if you haven't!
I sure hope that it won't take seventy years for cities to ditch the private car as the primary means of transport. The future belongs to a mixture of public transport, bicycles, electric scooters, and, once the technology matures, shared autonomous cars.

Imho the lever that needs to be pulled first is internalizing the costs of parking space. Free parking in cities must go. A parking spot should cost about as much as a small apartment. That's because it consumes about as much space as a small apartment if you put a couple of stories of housing above it. Abundant parking aggravates sprawl and makes all forms of transportation more expensive.

Tokyo is already ahead in this. There are basically no surface parking spots available in the inner city.
It's huge considering the difficulty--assuming you're talking long term and not just short term OPT.

Student visa to H-1B is difficult even for a software engineers. Outside of software engineering, it's much more difficult without a PhD or a high demand masters.

For the vast majority of graduates an H-1B is the only real option and there are only 85k of those given out per year total.
People who are mentally strong and competitive love working in that kid of environment.

You need different recruiting and different 'back office' jobs for fragile people (60-70 percent of the population - and increasingly young males).
>I live 12 miles from work. I live closer to work than 75% of my colleagues. Some live 30+ miles away.

That arrangement precludes walking as a practical form of transportation. Build things closer together. Your typical destination could be 12 minutes away on foot, not an hour. When you want to travel to something that is an hour's walk away, you can bike instead. Bikes work fine in places that are walking-scale. Walking doesn't work in places that are biking-scale.

Not sure what else to say about the temperature. The design of a place can be altered to make it more bearable, like having plentiful street trees and awnings for shade. In the end, some people cannot bring themselves to exist outside of artificial cooling and heating. It's largely a cultural thing. People walk in other very hot places, and in other very cold places. Dress for the weather, endure some discomfort, and take some judgement from the weaker people.
> a split pane to show the list of command options with descriptions as you start typing

https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-shelldoc
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Yes! goddamnit Apple. What’s with lighthning ports in iPhones when you make all this huzzy wuzzy talk that MacBooks are all usb-c because usb-c is the future.

Please be consistent. USB-C everywhere in all your devices. You’re a trillion dollar company now, get your shit together!
While everyone is of course free to start his/hers project there is a whole bunch of projects which basically does the same thing like: deduplication, client can append backups only, server side client backup rotation / pruning, etc.

For example restic ( https://restic.net/ ) does everything the author describes in the ideal feature set ( https://packnback.github.io/blog/work_begins/ ) except for asymmetric encrpytion. Though there is an issue open for that and iirc they are working on it. Contributing to that project would probably be easier?

Another existing very interesting project to contribute to is rdedup ( https://github.com/dpc/rdedup ) which is written in Rust.

There is a whole list over here of existing backup solutions: https://github.com/restic/others

Judging from the comparisons made in the introduction blog post by the author I think he / she missed the existence of a bunch of existing solutions.

EDIT: This was supposed to be a reply to the comment in which marmaduke asked "why start a new project?"
Not for me as wireless headphones are quickly lost and cost more then wired which were less then 10 bucks. If you lose/lost them not a huge deal you'll can easily afford another pair.
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Regarding latency: although I love my AirPods and I do not miss the headphone jack, there’s one real application that I doubt will ever be adequate over Bluetooth: monitoring the audio while you’re playing electric guitar through an amp simulator on your phone. The tiniest amount of latency really stands out while you’re playing.
Thanks!

Since you asked, and I started this project simply to benefit the community, I'll dump my thoughts on scaling here (would appreciate any feedback!)

1. Each city has a captain, who is responsible for setting the time & place of each monthly lunch (and possibly for facilitating monthly local email threads / activity updates). A good captain is key to keeping that small, local community feeling going. <<< This is the main answer to your question.

EDIT: I think it's super important to reiterate that each local captain is an engineering leader themselves. It's not some marketing person from a dev-oriented company.

2. Sponsors -- we only have 1 sponsor right now (name.com), and it's about a month old. I met them while organizing Boulder Startup Week because they were volunteering to help organize BSW too. They're headquatered in Denver, so 1 person from the company comes to the Boulder & Denver lunches (they don't give pitches, they just eat lunch and mingle). I still need to talk with name.com if they're interested in continuing to sponsor the group world wide, which would be cool because they're great at video content and they hate timeshare pitches as much as we do. But if they'd like to keep it local, then I think all sponsors should be local. I know in each startup community there are small to mid size companies doing cool, valuable work and not being jerks about it. Those are the types of sponsors that would be valuable to the group, so that's what I'd help focus on.

3. Even more value -- I really haven't thought this through, but I'd love it if I could spend all of my time providing more value to the group. Outside of the time I've spent being a CTO & co-founder of a VC backed company, I love writing books, doing interviews (Kevin & I did StartupCTO.io, a podcast for a while), putting on events, and building little SaaS tools to help people. I'm not sure how to support myself financially to do that (maybe there's a paid premium membership that's optional for people? But the email list & in person event would always be free! Maybe sponsors help me with that?), but that would be amazing.

Oh and structure of the email list:
* Everyone
* Colorado
* Texas
* ...

where members can always email just their local group, but they have the option of participating in or starting discussions with the international community.
The main complaint is that manufacturers of budget phones are following suit, but damaging themselves in the process because they're misguided about what their users really want. Having android phones with 3.5/2.5mm jacks would keep the analogue headphone industry alive, but if the whole industry moves to bluetooth only headphones, we're worse off for it overall.
I wouldn't blame personal responsibility, but rather better laws allowing for folks to heal added with a bit of the "healthcare is a right" sort of thing.

When I had gall bladder surgery living in the US (my home country), I was told to take 7-10 days off work then have lifting restrictions for a bit. My boss would only allow for the lesser time because it was "my weekend" to work, and I had to work that sunday for a bit.

I most definitely wasn't ready to go back. I didnt' need the opiods the couple days before as it was merely uncomfortable, but being active made things hurt. I didn't lift, but was merely active. I needed pills that night.

On the other hand, I live in Norway now. If I am feeling sick, I can stay home from work for 3 days without going to the doctor and without losing my job. I'm pretty sure I could have stayed home the time necessary after surgery. Mothers have paid time off after having a child (amount depends on how long one takes, but it can be 100%).

Policies like these mean that people can actually heal. Other policies also mean folks aren't as stressed (especially when they are poor).

That's my reasoning for the rates being lower in some places than others, anyway.
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> Apparently it's their desire that creators use, what, iPad? Their ever-disappointing line of laptops? The outdated Mac Pro? I just don't know.

Or maybe ... none of the above? Content creators are probably a tiny fraction of Apple's user base at this point. I think they just don't care.
TL;DR: No conspiracy - it's (slightly) different movies.

At least for Cars 2 - Australian version (right at the start of video) is literally different from other English versions (around 3:30) - https://youtu.be/SaYmI7xANCg

Many other movies (and especially animated) have different versions with such tweaks so story/jokes still continue to make sense around the world.

Considering it looks like I'm the first one to point this out - it probably never crossed mind of Apple systems engineers that such things might need to be handled. And even if it did - feature probably got bumped by other things that impact bigger % of customers...
Same experience here, don't think I'll ever be able to go back to wired headphones. Especially in the gym / when running, the AirPods are amazing, they fit perfectly (unlike a lot of other headphones), never run out of battery and connect instantly to my devices.

I believe Apple made the right move, many other manufacturers are already following, bluetooth headphones are getting cheaper and quality is getting better.
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This would be a violation of Google’s anti-moonlighting clause, so only take this advice if you’re willing to lose your job at Google over it.
I do think it could be possible to use an EEG to get ahead of a mouse click faster than the hands and perhaps cut off some milliseconds in delay.

But I don’t believe that Elon Musk’s Neuralink will ever offer anything of value to a non-disabled person. I only hope that in their attempts they create better interfaces for disabled people. Perhaps even get people waking again. For people who can already walk and use a mobile phone I doubt a brain implant will be much use. It’s hard to beat eyes and ears for getting information in.
Imagine you're looking at a ball rolling around on a complicated curved surface defined by differential (non-linear) equations, which can be a tricky system to analyze.

If the ball is near some sort of a saddle equilibrium point, the theorem says that you can simplify things by flattening out a small patch of the surface if you are (very) near that point.

This is a lot easier to analyze using simple linear algebra tools, and still gives good results for predicting what happens next.
> It's annoying that 50% of the die is allocated to hardware

Source on 50%?
Yeah, do people expect a small startup like Apple Inc. to be able to just say no? Do people think this is a trillion dollar company or something? What a ridiculous idea!
As with most decisions that Apple makes lately, you are correct, it is not a disaster for them. Just like when you stick your middle finger up at another person, usually you won’t personally feel offended by your own finger. And if you don’t care if that person comes back to speak to you again or not, then I guess you’ve “won”.
It creates more heat.
Discussed at https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672
In Paris, some stores started to open on Sunday. I find it useful, and I now prefer when stores are open on Sunday.

You can buy anything on Internet on Sunday, electricity and water are available on Sunday, telecommunications are available on Sunday, our cars work on Sunday. If we use all those (for those of us who don't observe religious laws), it makes sense to keep going the entire economy 24h/7, IMHO. Automation may help to have 100% uptime availability on more services, but it is definitely better when things are available on Sundays too.

Not having to plan for a day to go shopping is a cognitive burden freed from our mind. However I agree we should use automation to achieve that level of reliability, rather than make people work on Sunday.
This reminds me of how I was unemployed for a good chunk of the year 2001.

I was making a fresh start in a new city, and shopping my resumé to various graphics design firms. There was a prominent link to my portfolio site up top. After months of looking I didn’t get a single call-back.

Eventually I got a job in another industry, and noticed a bunch of Macs in the corner that they used for testing. One day I decided to load my portfolio site for fun... turned out there was a glitch in CSS support in Internet Explorer that would crash the browser, and since this was Mac OS “Classic”, that took down the entire machine.

Graphic design firms were all still on Macs with the old OS back in those days; I had been walking around crashing computers and destroying people’s work for months.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but if you attach to a tmux session with the -d flag, it will detach the session from any other clients and resize it to the window you're using.
See the slides example
Opening the door means you get the interview, not that you automatically get the job. It can also mean that you get the benefit of the doubt when your interview doesn't go as well as you had hoped.

For my current job, I was able to use my big company experience and contacts to skip the phone screen at least.
Pain is a signal that something is wrong and needs attention. Yet we also choose pain because it can feel pleasurable.

e.g. eating chilli causes pain, which is interpreted as pleasure

e.g. leaving everything to the last minute, which is interpretted as a 'buzz'

Even in such situations the pain remains a sign that something is wrong, that the personality may be out of balance. Why hurt yourself or make things harder? Like the dictator who deliberately creates hardship in order to remain in power...
Posted link goes to a two and a half minute audio playback interviewing two scientists doing beetroot juice research on it's protective effects on the heart. Some more detailed information on this can be found on one of the interviewee's pages here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/people/academic-staff/items/ahlu...

Aside from this, there's some really great research out there that shows a small performance boosting affect for strength training under peak conditions. Some research relating to that can be found here: https://www.biolayne.com/articles/nutrition/beetroot-juice-s...

In terms of anecdotal evidence, I'll drink a serving about 20 minutes before going for a new one rep max on one of the power three (squat, deadlift, bench press), do a little light cardio to get it in to circulation, and have had good results. Some of that is going to be placebo, the belief that it will do that, however, I derive that belief from the evidence presented that something is going on in some beneficial capacity.
That's true. But by the same token the owners of those agencies don't get up on their high horse about candidates that are "compensation driven". If a top talent interviews with a small town agency and asks if they can do 33% of Deloitte instead of 30%, the agency might say yes and might say no, but they don't say "how dare you even think about money when I am offering you a chance to do god's work on earth by helping to build venmo, but for dogs?!?"
Borg is not very much like kubernetes from the config or run side. Maybe underlying both are containers, but it's really pretty different.
It’s about worldview and which things are taught. Curriculums are biased. Think back: How many right-of-center professors did you have? How many were open Marxists?
Yes, and maybe that is the reasonable thing to do, but I don't want to detach.
I see another reason for Apple to exclude headphone jack from iPhone. Now third-party accessories makers can't bypass Apple's Lightning certification by using headphone jack for data transfer. For example, Square used headphone jack for their card reader.
Well, at least comedians seemed to understand the crisis several months before Lehman crashed: "Subprime Banking Mess"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g
"John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview."
I suspect the issue is battery life in the headphones, due to hauling more data over the wireless link. Now, with headphones, you could put in a bigger battery and none's the wiser, except maybe the cost accountants. But it might be more tricky with earbuds.
That's true about many of the specific tools you learn, but you also learn a lot of generic development skills that no one will take the time to teach you at a startup.
Make separated lanes for traffic that flows at different speeds.

"No helmets, no problem: how the Dutch created a casual biking culture"

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/28/17789510/bi...
What should happen for the smaller client then? Just show a cropped part?
My tmux conf: https://github.com/EverettBerry/dotfiles/blob/master/ubuntu/...

I especially like prefix + & to kill the whole window, prefix + , to rename window, and prefix + ":break-pane" to split the current pane into a new window.
The title of this article was poorly chosen. China's "Silicon Valley dream", if it has one, is much larger than economic development among the cities of HK, Shenzhen, Macao and Guangzhou. Problems linking those cities, which is what this article is about, are unlikely to block technological development in the country. The tech hubs in Shanghai, Beijing and other fast-moving Chinese cities aren't addressed here. Moreover, even if it's hard to link those southern Chinese cities, each one of them is huge, and booming in different ways. Shenzhen along houses more than 12 million people, while the entire SF Bay Area is around 7 million.
To people wondering, this is a 3 minute Corridor Digital video called "Early Access Matrix"
7 takeaways from barack obama’s latest speech to make you a better presenter
More "internationalization" examples of animated movies https://youtu.be/oB8Fr6Mm2zA
Everyone seems to think of Steve as a martketing only guy, but he was actually an amazing techie too
I am universally saying you don't need things like AWS.

But I can see how that phrasing might warrant a down vote.
Yes, anchored to the left-bottom. Still very usable for light work in many cases and you can follow along. And if it isn't a quick ctrl-a + F and you are all set.
Steve Keen's Debunking Economics has a good section on the problems with Marx's labor theory of value. IIRC, Marx's original sketch included a good model of the effects of capital, but he later neglected that to focus on labor alone and later Marxists kept that tradition.
You are downvoting me now, but realistically speaking its not that far fetched.
I mean you'll get a screen on some other surface (eye/glasses)
How is it that browserland always seems to impact the OS? Is it the browser's need for graphics drivers? Or are these browsers embedded at a different level compared to a traditional OS?
Timing. Compare General Magic [1] to the iPhone. Half the company came from Apple, they were almost there but they didn't have the patience to wait until technology was ready for prime time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
You missed the option we actually got: Thicker iPhone/No headphone.
> Apple saying “guess what, everybody: you love bluetooth”

I'd think Apple's trick isn't really Bluetooth which remains often “not great”. It's the W1 chip:

“As well as making pairing and switching devices a lot easier, the W1 chip also increases the range of the Bluetooth connection and gives headphones a better battery life. For example, the Beats Solo3 has a battery life that lasts 40 hours and a range of up to 150 feet. Those numbers are just insane for Bluetooth.”[1]

1. https://www.howtogeek.com/340290/what-is-apple’s-w1-chip/
I fully agree with you.

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Okay I will give another try. Elon was doing PhD and discontinued while he founded his first company in 90's. Since computers was not his main interest he used windows to the get the work done because windows is easier to learn and start getting output. From then on elon was crazy busy to do lot of other things and never got time to learn Linux . At the same time Elon wants control over everything which means at any point in time he wants to understand what the software is doing and even be involved in making changes to it if required first hand. Now with this background obviously Elon went with windows because he don't have to learn Linux and can use his already learnt windows knowledge.
Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?
This week I read google are closing down Inbox by gmail. Curious to see what alternative everyone are considering or is everyone simply going to use gmail.
No, it’s that it’ll fill your life with dread without giving you the power to do anything about it. Yeah, you can do some piddly stuff around the edges, but no action you can take will prevent you from suffering one of the worst diseases we know about.

It’s a bit like being put onto death row.

Also, feelings matter. So “it’ll just hurt your feelings” is dismissive claptrap.
And if we can't follow this, imagine the average consumer. I can't even imagine how much more successful Google could be if they could cure their insane A.D.D. problem.
I considered airpods with my s9. In the end, lightning charging was why I didn't. I dont want 3 kinds of chargers.
Works on Safari either on the iPhone or iMac/Macbook.
Whats the leading economic theory on the economic effects of minimum wage? (Theory- not empiricism)