skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>dystopia assertion without any text elaboration

I think 3000+ dead US citizens, whose deaths were dismissed as “inflated numbers” by a mendacious reality TV star at the head of a global nuclear empire, kind of speaks for itself on the angle of dystopia

>I don't think it in itself qualifies as unethical even - while uncomfortable to make money from the misfortune of others the alternatives are worse.

Economics doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Puerto Rico is for all intents and purposes a colonial territory of the United States. How ethical a given action is isn’t simply rooted in the action itself, but the history that preceded it and established the power relations upon which any given transaction are premised.

Crypto-currency speculators might not want to see themselves through the lens of colonialism, but that’s because they’re part of those who have benefited from colonial expropriation. You either respect the right of the Puerto Rican people to understand their own circumstances (of which anti-colonialism is a long-running, dominant narrative) or you mythologize away that history because it makes you money and you just don’t care. But the history is real no matter how you dress up your amorality in the narratives of economics.
I've been enjoying using Figma. I definitely wouldn't mind a non-Electron based app of it.
Amazon is letting developers make their own Alexa Gadgets
I'm starting to feel like I'm shilling Estonian eID (I'm not, just a regular citizen), but I think that system is the very least a cool proof of concept (if not a state of the art example) how public crypto can be used to sign and encrypt.
What Trump wants is "a win", which is an extremely subjective assessment on his part and doesn't even necessarily require any material change in position. Everything else is a means to that end, including the endless posturing and 1980s Wall Street-style hardball tactics.
I wonder how much space could be allocated to residential development though. Here (Portland Oregon) The park and ride infrastructure isn't that built out (Or maybe it is and I just haven't noticed it???). I dont believe you could move all the people that need to drive into the city to work, into the new residential development provided by that conversion.
To be fair, China doesn't really want "fair" trade either. China would like to become a high-tech autarky dominating modern global supply chains [1], is very happy to throw its economic weight around to punish countries for doing things it doesn't like [2][3], and has a habit of playing by international rules only when it suits them (America isn't great on this point either) [3][4].

1. https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-does-everyone-hate-made-china-2...

2. https://qz.com/1000541/norway-wants-china-to-forget-about-th...

3. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/asia/china...

4. https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/u-s-china-relations-the-hypo...
Looks like the BrowserWindow events at the js api level are unchanged for the past two years.

Here's hoping something deeper was broken about them that now drastically changes top-level api behaviour!
That would require actually doing work and delivering value and competing, while complaining is easier.

Same story with the Uber/Lyft vs taxis.

I don't like Amazon that much but I fully support them on this front.
I never understood the mindset of "oh, this person committed a crime, let's disallow them from voting in the future".

My opinion is, if society has decided that an individual does not get to exercise their right to vote, then they also should have no tax liability. No taxation without representation, and all that jazz. I guarantee you if they were forced to make the choice between the two, they'd immediately reinstate every felon's voting rights.
Yes, I had a comment in that older HN thread. I think this has me moving towards Fennel when compared with Urn, since I want a smaller language, but the examples of Lumen in this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958650

are swaying me to spend some time with Lumen this weekend to understand how it compares to Fennel. The Lumen examples were pretty impressive and it works for JavaScript too.
I remember a reprint of a MAD Magazine issue from the 1960s or 1970s that was making fun of magazines' extravagant promotions to boost their circulation. The cartoon showed a magazine publisher personally visiting a non-renewing subscriber and offering him a serious of inducements to renew, culminating in the offer of the publisher's daughter's hand in marriage if the subscriber would agree to continue his subscription for another year.

In the punchline, the publisher said something to the effect of "and that's how we keep our subscription figures climbing!".
Most of the car share companies operate this way near me. It's not "exclusively via app", but most people rely on the app and NFC to unlock/start and lock/end their trips for convenience.

That said ... you are in a car that can charge your phone too.
That could work too; without seeing the numbers it's hard to say. For example you might have a higher chance of losing your money due to theta decay depending on how far out you're buying. And the premium on the puts is going to be substantially higher than on the defensive calls unless you go significantly OTM.
If the rumor that programmers and even executives had to carry and use iPhone 6 Plus devices for a while so that everyone felt the pain of slowness, then I'm in awe. This is exactly what needed to be done.

This is a great release and I hope Apple continues in that vein. We don't always need "NEW FEATURES", but we do always need fast, responsive and stable systems.
Mayan EDMS 3.1 “Papercuts” released
I like it because it is lightweight and runs similarly on windows and mac. And it’s free so a good compromise for people I work with who are deep in the IDE wars. I haven’t used it on Linux so can’t speak of that environment.

I don’t code all day, so it’s a good drop in editor that doesn’t require paying a license, but has more functionality than vim.
Their about page (https://evolutionnews.org/about/) lists "Discovery Institute" as the copyright owner.

From wikipedia on the Discovery Institute:
"Discovery Institute is a politically conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design."
Hot Streaks in Artistic, Cultural, and Scientific Careers (2017)
The product is very clearly a dud
I don’t know much about mkt or bizdev from the angle that you’re describing (software in SV ?) but what pops out from your post: you sound a lot more excited about bizdev than PM. Basically your post reads “I think I’ll love sales but what about the pay and status ?”

From that angle, what I learned (took me 10 years) is that you’ll be much happier doing what you love than chasing status. And that it’s almost always worth it to take a chance and explore a new domain.

Your longer-term goal is also somewhat unclear. You state that you’re a prospective founder (in which case: learn sales!) but then you ask “is an AM a step down from PM” which kinda implies you’re looking at it from a corporate ladder perspective. So maybe think about what your long-term goal is (but I don’t believe it should trump the “do what you like” advice).

Finally, to try to answer your questions. I’ve rarely met badly paid salespeople - in fact, they’re notorious for negotiating everything from compensation to company car to bonus objectives to other perks. Put it another way, if they can’t sell themselves they’re not going to be very good at their job...

The prestige of sales vs marketing very much depends on the type of company you’re working for. Sales / bizdev pull a lot more weight in high touch settings: large contracts, enterprise / B2B customers, complex products, bespoke solutions. In this type of company marketing folks are glorified copywriters. Sure they nominally define the roadmap and priorities but when a 1M$ customer rolls in with a bespoke requirement, you best believe the dev team will work on that requirement first, while the AM smokes a cigar with the CEO and the PM is left crying over their Gantt chart. More generally, if your business depends on a few large customers the sales team, as a proxy for these customers, rules the roost. In low-touch settings (basically when you have enough customers that you can meaningfully do stats on them and none of them really stand out in terms of revenues), the PM is the most credible voice of the customer and calls the shot; sales people are glorified car salesmen hawking a standard product and haggling on a 5% rebate. I believe it’s impossible to have simultaneously strong sales and marketing teams in a company, due to the dichotomy described above. So the answer is “it depends” :) but you can choose a domain where your chosen role has more power and status.
Consulting the internet it looks like they have 560,000 employees.. which is quite a lot, but only halfway to a million.

Technically you could say any company is "approaching a million employees".. some just slower than others.

The statement is true, but it's innacurate and misleading.
> 0,5 min to write 4 Gb at 1Gbps

By "install it", I thought you meant install Windows, which takes for longer than 30 seconds. It's not a straight byte copy. For one, part of the install process compiles code for your variation of CPU architecture.

> It’s always been a problem.

In fact, it's less of a problem now than it was 15 years ago. Google Docs, Office 365.

> Yet new languages (e.g. Rust) are still developed with terribly slow compilers

Slow compilers (Rust, TypeScript, Scala, Haskell) almost universally have complex type inference.

Languages with limited type inference (Go, Java) have fast compilers.

It's really a matter of choice of language design, rather than compiler implementation.

> Well, I meant randomly in a sense that you can hardly predict or control what will happen.

This is like complaining search engine results are random because they are complex. Does it really matter?

> Why do you need to reboot at all?

Usually my battery dies.
Sorry.. that should read tax cuts
I want to work at a company like that, where I can just blame the "stack" we're using and shrug my shoulders.
Are these assumptions, that throwing money at the problem characterizes US public school, and that quality children usually have rich parents, anything like justified?
The best engineers are not always the highest paid engineers, and the best performers do not have equal performance in all contexts.
SFCDEVS: Building price-stable synthetic currencies with Bitcoin and Litecoin
If it's a prerequisite then does it really matter if it's said.
The Future of Machine Learning Is Tiny
Just because it's a small visual update doesn't mean that there haven't been changes in system frameworks which now need to be updated.
> That is like 99th on a list of 100 of PR's problems

Look, I never said that the Jones Act was Puerto Rico's only problem. I said it's a major problem, and that it alone is significant enough to hamper Puerto Rico's economy indefinitely.

As a separate note, it's weird to frame it (as you do) as the aftermath of Maria and the federal government's apathy being worse, when in reality the two are heavily linked. The Jones Act severely hindered the recovery efforts from Maria. (Every other hurricane since Katrina has prompted a temporary waiver from the Jones Act in order to aid relief - including Harvey, which happened just before Maria).

Yes, keeping the residents of Puerto Rico in the dark for a year and without reliable access to shelter and clean water is obviously an immediate problem. I'm saying that even if the lights were turned back on overnight, that still won't fix the long-term problems either.
My no-frills, hardcore iPad mini 2 is alive and rocking again, thank you Apple for having allowed that on a 5 years old machine.
tsano, Zim ma1 people just screw each other! i'm from Zim too
In general, I'd agree with you. I still remember how a newer iOS release brought my iPhone 4 to near-unusability because of slowness. But this release is different (really). They really got it to be faster and better.
Anyone have any more infomation on what jobs exactly were cut? There's difference implications on whether it's a geneal whole company layoff versus laying off a single department versus discontinuing some expiremental side project and the staff involved therein.
This isn’t true. If the signal was below the noise threshold, and no mechanism provided for detecting noise separately (as twisted pair provides, for example) it would be literally impossible to separate signal from noise. That’s what the noise threshold means.

GPS is not below the level of background noise. Not is sonar.
To be fair its a hard problem to solve, especially with traditional search engine tools.

Take for example,

for(int i=0;i<100;i++)

And then a search for i++ Due to the way almost every search tool works that would be split into tokens "for int i 0 100" which are not very useful. Even if you include the characters = ; < + ( ) in the search you break the ability to do things such as boolean queries or fuzzy search term~1

Its totally possible to solve these issues using tweaks of the input into your index, which is what I did with searchcode.com or with a different approach which is what Google Code Search did. However neither have a requirement to be 100% in sync with the repository which I suspect is something that the github team value.

All the code search tools suffer from this in some way. At small scale its possible to just brute force the search. At scale you can do it by tweaking your algorithm and sacrificing accuracy. My feeling is that the github team chose accuracy.
How to keep up progress on global health
As a counterpoint, poor people are the ones who benefit from everyday low prices at Walmart.
Seconded. The depth and insight of the coverage reminded me of the Siracusa MacOS reviews that Ars posted years ago.
I thought the same, but according to Yubico themselves[0], it’s a Yubikey 4 with some branding. Unless that was a previous campaign?

[0] https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-ch...
Wow, congrats! I just posted above about deciding on Fennel over Urn. Have you checked out Lumen? What are your thoughts on it compared with Fennel? I want to choose one to work on my own type of game dev, live coding toy experiments.
Why do I need Evernote if I have Google Docs or Office 365? Both of the offerings have the mobile apps too.
Replacing the battery on my 6s resolved most instances of my phone feeling slow. So far this new update resolves the remaining lag and pauses.
Some days, I am just like a zombie - I still get work done, but just don't enjoy it. That said, my colleagues are nice and I have some freedom in my work (though the work itself is boring) which is more than what most people say. So I feel guilty complaining about it (I can't easily change jobs).

After working so long, I've come to the conclusion that the best way (and maybe the only way for most people) to enjoy work is just work for self. This is easier said than done.

Those "real cool places" you mention, there are very few of those.
> There are three configurations for this feature in the notifications section of the iOS 12 Settings app: automatic, by app, and off. It defaults to automatic. In this case, notifications from one app will generally be grouped together, but, for not entirely transparent reasons, iOS might intelligently decide not to in some cases.

This is transparent; it's decided the "thread identifier" for the notification so that threads are split out separately: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Why is it taking 100% CPU to play gifs?
Honestly, this is something we probably can all relate too, with the new scary AI tech, some stuff in the government, and the new space discoveries.
Me neither, but thanks for letting me know.
do you really though
Try "tens to twenties of 'top areas'". Just look at the housing market in any other city in the US that's started to build a tech hub. Austin, TX in particular is a good example where the average cost of a decent house has basically doubled in the last 10 years.
Gee maybe if you knew anything about Puerto Rico you'd know we're buying our own new electrical grid. Not like Washington is helping us much.

I kid you not, America spent more on Halloween candy in 2017 than Puerto Rico has seen disaster relief in the year since Maria. ($9.1 billion versus roughly $6 billion total.) So thanks, 51-day-old Republican troll, but try again.
Facebook allowed employers to exclude women from job ads, ACLU says
Swipe and comma button in a reasonable place.
Of Figma? There is the web version of it which is the same as the desktop app. Or did I misunderstand?
Ah, so exploitation of the middle class is okay because it's only temporary. Gotcha.
It's absurd.

It's the idea that ideas/customs/intentions "belong" to members of a culture, and that constitutes a justifiable monopoly.
And a return of the gate that they've made their living keeping.
Reminds me of that Sanford and Son episode where he wore that to keep from getting sick.
To me it seems all the work of the same spammer(s). In such a case, do some manual intelligence and wrap it up. It won't scale to all forms of spam, but if a simple regex can uncover 250k+ results in 10 minutes, a manual spam fighter can still block millions of pages a day (and warn the webhost, remove these flakey ads from their networks, etc.).

No doubt the recent machine learning hype has given spammers more advanced tools to avoid detection.
They are selling their sex appeal. Couple of video titles:

Scottish Murmurs
- Full body massage role play
- Ear to Ear sleep spa

Rose ASMR:
- Mouth sounds, ear massage
- Brushing your face, kisses

This is the first time I hear of ASMR and I quite like it but let’s not pretend this isn’t about their sex appeal.
I wish, we could do that in the few feets of Murphy's Square in Sunnyvale. It would be so pleasant to not have hot spewing smog vehicles park, one feet from your dining table.
VaporBoy – GB / GBC Emulator PWA Built with WebAssembly
Your public key is always clear text, or at a minimum your public key finger print (which can be used via a key-server to find your personal information and public key).

So GnuPG to a degree makes it difficult to hide metadata about yourself as many tools will send your public key + data to a key server as soon as they create your key-pair. This is so when people verify you, your easier to find.

This creates a chicken-in-the-box metadata problem where for people to very your public GnuPG public-key is really you that info has to be public, but for anonymity it can't be .
Ok so how's that work for a news site? Don't they need some kind of tracking to get relevant info on what their users are interested in?
Is writing native apps honestly still so hard these days?

I can appreciate the concerns about maintaining multiple codebases and dealing with different delivery mechanisms and their rules, but modern iOS/macOS and Windows APIs (at least; I cannot speak for Android and Linux) seem just as easy, let you work in arguably better languages, evolve at a faster rate, and provide a better experience for users and their machines.
OV was never really accessible in browsers. Even the vendors pushing these seemed to avoid showing how to identify one (when they would screencap the EV green bar), and probably for good reasons.

> You can purchase an EV cert for $80 a year from NameCheap

I've been through this a quite few times. The cost of the cert isn't the true cost. If I could pay $80 to Lets Encrypt to have every issued cert be EV, I'd do it just to avoid this bikeshed. Every single time I've done it, the validation process has been extremely painful. I feel like it's made up on the spot by whatever offshore person gets asked to do the validation. Documents accepted last year are suddenly not accepted at renewal time. Being denied because my Australian company doesn't show up on a UK business register for example.
Have you ever read about Prop 13?

Basically it set property tax rates at 1% of a property’s sale price and capped annual increases at no more than 2%.

The only time a house sees fair reassessment is when it sells...which means a lot of people end up sitting on land.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-friedersdorf-prop...

"Perhaps most perversely, Proposition 13 has made it harder, not easier, to become a homeowner. California has one of the lowest rates of homeownership (55%) in the nation, second only to New York and nine percentage points below the national average.

The pernicious incentives that led to these outcomes are obvious in hindsight. With property taxes near frozen, local governments began to see residential development as a liability and commercial development as an income stream. For 40 years, that perspective shaped which new projects cities approved. Homeowners, meanwhile, had a disincentive to move if they had a low property tax bill locked in. Finally, these relatively low property taxes made California an attractive place to undertake speculative real estate investments and leave valuable parcels of land undeveloped."
Linus Torvalds is doing a good and brave thing
Did the new emojis make it into this release? I can't seem to find them on my updated phone.

It's pretty minor compared to all the other things, but I was looking forward to some of them...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577288/apple-ios-12-new...
It's a bit strange though, paradoxical even. Someone publishes a book independently, because posh french publishers didn't think the book would sell. Now that Amazon is involved and being the only way to obtain the book the bookstore owners refuse to... what exactly? Acknowledge it as a book they cannot put on a shelf? But, no! It's not about the book anymore! It's all about defending bookstore owners from Amazon and publishers who refuse to publish books.

Also, the issue that it's available exclusively via Amazon is mind-boggling to me. Perhaps it's one of Amazon's exploitative terms and conditions? Or perhaps the author's vindictive reaction?

The only person that did everything right in this whole mess is the author who self-published a good book. Everyone else has lost their minds.
https://www.maven.com/us/en/ - unlike Zipcar, they don't have a physical card they send you to unlock your car, you can only use your phone.
Thank you for answering. Now let's discuss this answer.

The first question is: which specific time? This time will differ based on the timezone and geography. Because of timezones, sunrise time effectively makes a one-hour jump at the transition points, which makes this chart of yours look different for people living living close to timezone border vs. someone living in the center.

To that end, which time zone and which city was this chart made for? Because we'd need many charts like that to see the effect of DST on sunrise time. (Remember, timezones make sunrise/sunset times depend on longtitude (exact coordinates, actually) as well as latitude and time of year!).

Thankfully, some people have done just that[1][2] (note that [2] is interactive!).

As you can see by playing with [2], if your goal is to have sunrise before 7:00AM across the country on as many days as possible, then DST works against this goal.

Of course, one can always throw one's hands up in the air and say "it's an approximation". In the same sense, 0 is an approximation to any number -- just not a very good one.

The US foreign debt is approximately 0 dollars, if you don't talk about error margins.

Now, looking at the interactive chart at [2], do you really think that DST is a better approximation to "having the sun up at (your chosen time)" than doing nothing at all? Or shifting the whole timezone by an hour?

[1]http://mentalfloss.com/article/71521/heres-how-daylight-savi...

[2]http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...