skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't develop for my own device without rebuilding weekly.

Well, unless you pay, or use Swift Playgrounds.

> I can't create restricted accounts for my kids.

Does the standard set of restrictions not do what you want?

> Google will still get my location on iOS if I use Google Search, exactly as it does on Android.

You don't have to use Google…
As was mentioned in an article [0] linked in another comment, men who are unemployed and have given up are typically low self-esteem and susceptible to depression. If you've met one, you won't hear them say they've given up.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-a...
You could also use "net promoter" scoring: fraction of likes minus fraction of dislikes. I don't think it has any theoretical basis but the NPS system [0] is fairly popular.

[0]: https://www.netpromoter.com/
I run my dog in the morning. I walk her when I get home. But she's an active dog and it's recommended she has an additional walk during the day when I'm not home.
Staggered keys. Seriously?

I'll never stop being amazed by how conservative these designs are.
Multivolume rendering in Jupyter with ipyvolume: cross-language 3d visualization
ANU touts tiny camera lens for quantum information transfer
I doubt they end up looking much like this aside from the front wing and sidepods. Just from first glance the halo looks much too thin to have the same stability as the one from this year. The power unit regulations are also still up in the air to my knowledge, and that's more important to the overall health of the sport IMO.
Cool. The hard part is collecting the list relevant talks, the easy part is ranking them. If there is a way to get the right set of academic history talks it wouldn't be that hard to go from there.

I haven't watched much historical lectures, but I do enjoy documentaries and historical fiction. Another idea I've kicked around is a site that organizes a bunch of historical documentaries and historical fiction into a geo-timeline visualization. And include the ability for people to comment on and discuss the historically accuracy of the films. But that's a different project...
I use the Freestyle2 Blue, and absolutely love it. Enough that I have one for home and work. I don't have the gaming one yet for my gaming PC, but I'm seriously considering picking it up. The difference is I don't use my gaming PC for typing much, so it's less of an issue.

Still, It's a wonderful keyboard.
You might like Topre switches (I do, my daily keyboard is a Novatouch), but I'm not aware of "ergonomic" Topre boards.
a > b is not a consistent comparison function. The behavior of sort() with such a function is implementation-defined.
Considering how sensitive piece of software browsers are these days, I would think that security should be the priority.
I'm buying the product from Apple. If some of their suppliers screw up, I'm blaming Apple, not Intel or Qualcomm.
The cutoff is about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
>I can't route all calls through Google Voice.

This is on Google now. Apple provides ways for app developers to use the native phone UI now. If I set up my number with the Google Hangouts app, I can get calls from my Google Voice number via the Voice app or the native UI. You can't do this with the Google Voice app but I have a feeling that's because they haven't updated it to support this API.
This is, not so simply, wrong.

Open software means that it can be audited by more than just the authors and/or owners.

It's not about this philosophical discussion that "you" haven't gone through every line of code yourself.

It's the difference between trusting one party of people who are keeping secrets from you, or trusting a diverse group of people who are not keeping secrets from you.
DHS S&T Awards $11.6M to Defend Against Network/Internet Disruptions
What's the drug of choice out there?
It’s true. And it’s also a risk for Apple.
If we actually want to encourage people to bike instead of driving, they need to be able to cover reasonable distances in a car-comparable amount of time. Expecting cyclists to dismount every block to cross on foot in a crosswalk is not the way to achieve this goal.
>If someone in disfavor was killed, everybody would still know that it wasn't some random "criminal organization" that did it.

If Skripal had been shot, it would be difficult to be sure that his death had been ordered by the Russian government. In that scenario, anyone with a grievance against him might have done it.

>There just wouldn't be direct "evidence".

Yes, that's the point!

>That's the problem with people watching too much movies like "The Dark Knight‎" where supervillains do anything just to provoke, and then apply this to states which have tons to lose, and don't just provoke for the sake of it (or to scare some third grade targets, as if they couldn't achieve it otherwise).

Nonsense. I'm just inferring from Russia's previous actions. In particular, the Litvinenko murder, which could equally well have been carried out using more conventional means.
jottit.com was the original Aaron Swartz project
puri.sm Librem5 .. almost there.
I think the main difference is that in University your assignments have negative economic value. Even doing an oil change is beneficial work to the company, but in University you need to pay a TA to spend time grading your essay which has zero value.
> 1. we aren't all rich ...

Its hard to discuss any of the things you mention since it all depends on what particular system you are looking at. If we constrain ourselves to the US system we're still going to have massive differences even within states and within counties within states. That doesn't mean many of the subjects you mention aren't issues, but you're confusing a state with a cause IMHO.

We could make ourselves all almost perfectly equal tomorrow by destroying all wealth and living as hunter-gatherers again. That wouldn't solve any of the problems you mention though. So clearly, inequality is not a fundamental issue underlying all these problems.

Personally, I think the major factors will vary depending on the context and problem domain. For access to healthy affordable foods, it could be something as complex as subsidizing or taxing various agricultural products, or as simple as removing all subsidies and tariffs and letting cheaper foreign made produce flood the markets.

With your third point, that certain people attempt to use power - which is a function of many factors not just wealth - to manipulate the laws and the system to their own advantage is something that is remarkably well documented in the political science and sociological literature. I'm not sure what the best approaches are towards mitigating this. Certainly, high degrees of transparency and accountability as well as a swift and well functioning judicial system would be my first guesses at the largest factors, based on my experiences with South American and European economic data. Personally I think the more checks and balances i.e. decentralization of the concentration of power mechanisms (i.e. ability to tax, ability to imprison, etc.) the system allows for is another key factor.
I don't bike in winter, but 'Fat Biking' has gone way beyond fad here in Northern Michigan.. You see people commuting around town in them all winter long... a foot of new snow is not a problem for these folks. But it is a smaller city.
I love that youtube channel. I remember coming across a random video once on Youtube then spending a couple hrs over the next week watching them.
By breaking the seals that make the phone waterproof, removing a housing component, and breaking the Taptic Engine. He did nothing of the sort.
Honestly, that's pretty much any app I have ever worked on.

The mobile industry has moved long ago to a model where the app is a service and analysts look at user data to determine how the app is used.
trace: used for visualizing flow of program, extremely noisy and never on prod

debug: low level flow of program, inputs/outputs

info: what I want to see at runtime in prod, high level flow of program, details about operation so I know what's going on if I want to look

warn: things that may indicate errors or other unexpected situations to be aware of that may be relevant to problems elsewhere

error: something serious or unexpected that probably indicates a defect.. issue that needs to be looked into... unhandled/unexpected state
Yep, culture eats process/tooling for breakfast.
https://rwtxt.com/public/related
>If you didn't think we were in the dot com bubble 2.0 and the re-emergence of the Pets.com strategy won't show you, I don't know what will. I wonder which one will get the superbowl ad.

This is a silly, meaningless analogy. Every grown adult on earth was not walking around with a computer connected to broadband internet in their pocket in 1999. There were less than 500 million internet users total.
I'm pretty biased but I super love Pastery, the editor plug-ins and single-keystroke publishing have changed the frequency with which I share code/text from "never" to "all the time". Plug-ins are great, is what I'm saying. And so is Pastery.
People who have some kind of weird hate for Apple always assume that everything Apple does is out of spite.
If your are referring to the physical CPU itself, then you are correct as they would lack the technology to even see the circuit paths (much less measure current).

But, if you are suggesting a smart human from 500 B.C. couldn't grasp 'The Art of Programming,' I'd respectfully disagree. Logic and reasoning haven't changed in recorded history. The ancients were no more or less intelligent than the moderns.
Whenever I'm tempted to think otherwise, I sit down with my Euclids Elements and see how far into it I can get before I reach the "WTF... How did he figure THAT out!?"
An even better cure -- although more recent -- is to see how far you can get through Newton's Principea.
Nicely done! Finally a proper aid for learning the fretboard.
So if you rebuild every week or pay Apple a yearly fee for the privilege of blocking ads on your own phone.
It's not the documentary I object to, it's the baseless assertion that things like that never happen in the UK (maybe they don't, but some evidence would be nice), and that a single incident in rural Tenessee (which I know something about, as I also do about developing countries, having been to several) is enough to judge the entire country.

I'm not sure what you're calling "generic ideology"--my comments about the definition of a "right"? Most of our founding documents are based on that understanding of rights. Agree with that definition or not, that's how the founders defined it and that definition still frames much our national debates. I don't see how that's an ideological statement.

Yeah, I admit I got snarky. That was because I tried to calmy explain my position, and the response I got for my troubles was that I must be acting in bad faith and/or be morally lacking simply for holding the views that I hold, regardless of my rational arguments for them. Frankly I don't understand HN's fixation with "snark" as if it's the only kind of rudeness that's capable of derailing a conversation.

I get tired of seeing so many threads turned into opportunities to demonstrate how backwards the United States supposedly is. Every forum has a political leaning, and HN's is fairly strongly left. That's fine, but it's irritating to see you mods claim to be objective but then suppress things like "snark" and "ideology" on only, or at least mostly, one side of the debate.
Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?
All things considered, when someone asks you this question which software comes to your mind immediately?
I think you see the wrong receiver for the 'Osama' terrorist messages:

The message was not intended for the general western john doe. Instead, it was a message for the average unhappy muslim. The message for them was:

* The west is damaging the muslim vision of the world

* We can beat them

* So join our cause

In some more detail: The whole world is being amerified: Culturally by Hollywood, economically by the WTO and comparable organizations, military by the American army, covert actions by CIA, by the NATO, politically .

Until recently, muslim-extremist terrorism did not happen in the western world. The planes, however, hit the most powerful western country, and hit the power centers of economy (WTC), military (PENTAGON), and politics (The white house, averted). Even if the actual damage was fairly minimal for terrorism standards, the propaganda value was enormous.

Join our cause was a way to tapping into forgotten muslim community. Before 9-11, muslim immigrants in non-muslim european countries were background noise. The attacks gave a way to channel, unify and organize these people. Our own news organisations told them where they could find interesting terrorism groups like ISIS. I remember how the Brussels-attackers learned Islam from a 'for dummies' book, and didnt know much of the basics.

Nobody around Osama gave any care about what a non-muslim would think. Maybe some of them hoped we would cower, but that's about it. I don't think any of them suspected we might destabilize our own power and values, and would help and legitimize their organisations in the process. We gave them far more than they could hope for.
Sony + Sailfish OS could also be an option since support for Sailfish is official.
When you are working hard -30 isn't that cold. I haven't biked in that, but I have ice skated - a light sweater was all I needed to be comfortable. Exercise generates a lot of waste heat.
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You can drop traffic you find fishy, though.
People glorify traveling way, way too much.

It's even trickled down into actual work. New grads from college somehow think management consulting's traveling every week is a fancy perk. What?
Jeff Bezos is putting $2B into homelessness and preschool
Apple has repeatedly and loudly talked about privacy up to and including Tim Cook saying the privacy is a "basic human right". Also it's quite easy to see what data is being sent from your phone, just hook it up to a proxy, ala Burp or Charles. It will dump all network communication from the phone and were it's going to. Here is a paper about the difference in data collection and how it's measured:
https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...
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JSON is a serialisation format. In cases where you're writing config, you'd surely be better pushing for something even more human-readable (I want to say YAML but it has some problems, so something along those lines) because the cost of switching from JSON to <anything> is the barrier to entry, so you might as well go for the ideal if you are committing to switch.

I guess I just don't see where this fills a gap.
Calling the Federal Reserve an arm of the government is misleading at best.
Brazil’s Museu Nacional Was More Than Just a Museum
Interurbans were actually very fast, they were like hybrids between trams and mainline fast trains. The 1930s "Red Devil" could do 90mph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Devil_(interurban))
Because it's an ideological propaganda mill that is only helpful (in terms of necessary time investment for any given level of confidence) in arriving at the truth on any issue, compared to ignoring them completely, when dealing with their admissions that are contrary to their overt bias, which are infrequent enough that reading their output is a net loss.

That said, it's still better than Heritage.
An important example would be a family with children where both parents could work but do not have to. From the GDP POV, it is a huge boost to have a second parent earning an income, even if most of the additional monies end up dedicated to the costs of outsourcing some parental duties. A stay at home parent might be producing as much or more value to the family, while not contributing to the GDP at all.
It's a lot harder to be part of a community when you move countries/cities every 3 weeks.
I'm talking about calling out, not receiving calls, which doesn't require any support from the phone as Google Voice can forward to any phone number.
Very neat, totally want, just with ortholinear keys and with a low profile.
It's my experience as well (though I'm starting to think my insomnia is very mild reading this thread). I find my insomnia tends to get worse the more I fight it. So I stay up later than I'd prefer, so that I'm more tired, and less likely to be awake in the middle of my sleep. I also will get up in the middle of the night if I can't sleep and just be awake for a few hours until I feel I can go back to sleep. But if I fight it at any step sleep seems to be harder to come by, regardless of how tired or lacking if sleep I am. I also can't use an alarm clock. If I do then the odds of sleep go way down, since now there's a race and if I don't fall asleep now, then 'I might not get enough sleep' or 'I might wake up in the wrong part of my cycle'. I've also neen experimenting with lighting. Blue lighting definitely wakes me up at night so I avoid them.

But I consider myself lucky. I've mostly engineered my life such that I don't need to function before 10am (I think I'm genetically predisposed to a late sleep cycle, so far it looks like 2/3 of my kids may as well). I can afford to not use alarm clocks most of the time. And, it's possible my insomnia is nowhere near as bad as others'...
Any 70s/80s/90s talks?
Show HN: Typed event emitters for TypeScript
> It could be argued that private companies censoring you violates your first amendment rights

No it absolutely cannot be argued that. The 1st amendment clearly applies to the government, and there is no legislation requiring the same for private companies/citizens. There would need to be a law equating corporations to government (there is not) at a federal level.
Consulting companies here sell traveling as a perk. And the new grads lap it up.

Personally, flying and airports are just miserable. Traveling is nice but too much of a hassle to do more than once a year.
Emo2Vec: Learning Generalized Emotion Representation by Multi-Task Training
There is a notion that the highest level of success in the technology sector is achieved when you make the news for either joining or leaving a company.

I have really enjoyed her trends compilations. I don't always agree with the various weights she gives things but I love how widely she casts her net. I'm sure she will continue doing them in her new firm so I'm not very worried there.

What I find more interesting in this story is the sort of iceberg calving effect the rise of "incubators" and the lowering cost to first product, has had on the venture community. Where there were once just venture firms some of which were 'early' investors and some of which were 'late' investors, we now have three distinct sorts of entities;

Incubator/seed - a collection of seed investors who are providing both initial funding and initial integration services for startups. Clearly Y Combinator is the "big" one but there are Techstars, 500 Startups, and others that model this same sort of "more than money, we're your launch infrastructure" model.

High Risk money - this is the more traditional VC (but getting squeezed at the 'early' and 'late' ends) which dumps in a bunch of cash and rides it to the exit.

Late stage money - this is the 'time to go public' or 'buy out your competitors' kind of big cash influx that seems to be more and more operated by hedgefunds that are seeking a bit more alpha than they can get in the public markets.

All in all an amazingly complex set of players from what was, back in the dot com days, a pretty homogeneous bunch.
This is a very interesting link. Note that the strongest decline in energy intensity in the disaggregated graph at the bottom is in transportation. That certainly speaks for efficiency as an explanation.

As for the growth story, well. The ordinary person 10 years ago didn't have a smart phone. That's a pretty significant impact on our way of life. Whether it actually improves the quality of our lives is a different question.
There a lot of great software; but first thing that came to my mind immediately was Redis.
From documentation and SDKs to the focus and self-imposed constraints, I love pretty much everything about it.
I'd argue the main difference is that the infrastructure in the US is private, while it's publicly owned in Europe. This allows some amount of subsidy towards the infrastructure, like is done for highways, allowing passenger trains to exist.

Since then railroads have to be completely self-supporting in the US, they focus on how they can achieve the highest productivity: giant, slow trains on shoddy track.

It also means the infrastructures are competing with one another, so there are redundant, shoddy, competing rail networks, rather than a network for slow and heavy freight trains, and a network for fast and light passenger trains.
I got excited to learn about some novel aspect of working from home that I, as a remote worker for 2+ years now, might be able to incorporate into my life.

I cannot overemphasize how little I identify with anything written in this article. This guy's life experience is completely non-intersecting with my own.

It's possible what keeps me from feeling isolated is the fact that I've grown up on the (slightly more modern) Internet, and am able to draw energy from being in a chatroom/conference call with my coworkers in the same way I am when there in person. So many afternoons/nights/weekends forging friendships in the dark recesses of IRC/B.net/AIM/Ventrilo/Discord made me comfortable enough with the mediums that I know how to manage remote relationships as well as I manage in-person ones.
Pre and post conditions in TypeScript
If you can trivially replace it with something else overnight, the SaaS might be a bit too simplistic to use in the first place, no?
I agree with your first statement.

I find your second statement a little bizarre. People are going to feel varying degrees of attachment to their pets. Why would you care? You can think it's silly or weird, but who are you to take offense at something like that?
$600 million in venture capital... For dog walking. It's even more stupid than Pets.com because at least Pets.com was an ecommerce site so it could scale out. It doesn't really matter that Asia, Africa and Latin America have all come on line (I would bet that the 1999 internet was primarily Europe/US given its roots) if you're selling dog walking in California and New York now, does it?