skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen reports of people successfully Hackintoshing Thinkpads, so you wouldn't necessarily have to ditch macOS (though there are better options for Thinkpads anyway, IMO).
My mum is 68 now. I first got her a windows phone. I taught her how to make calls. That was it. Then a month later I got a string of text message.

Hello

Son

Is

This

Working

?

She worked out how to send texts.

I upgraded her to an old iphone. I sent it to her in the mail. She worked out everything including how to take photos. I told her about LINE and she found the App Store and downloaded it.

Her phone died so I bought her an android cos I couldn’t afford the iphone.

She can’t figure it out at all. She had to go to the store to ask how to connect to wifi. How to use the play store, etc.

I thought cos she went iphone > android she would be able to pick it up. That isn’t the case.

iPhones may have hidden features. But they are a lot easier to pick up than an android phone by a Long shot as far as I’m concerned.
Citation of what? That seeds grow if you plant them? It isn't a crop, it is vegetables. You would hopefully plant things you want to eat, but I do potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips (rutabagas if you are american), celeriac, broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas, corn, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, melons, onions, garlic, leeks, beets, and some salad stuff. I'm sure I'm forgetting something but you get the idea. Plus there's the perennials which obviously you don't have to plant every year like asparagus and most berries and herbs. I spend precisely two days per year on all non-harvesting activities but that's because I start everything from seed instead of buying started plants so one day to plant the seeds and one day to transplant them 2 months later. It is cheaper and lets you get a lot of heirloom varieties your local nursery probably won't carry, but it is more work. I use only four simple non-powered tools assuming you count a popsicle stick as a tool. If you are going to grow your mulch because you don't have trees or neighbors doing it for you then you'll have to have something to cut your mulch crop with too.
Also nice:

Erik Meijer Explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMP6gI5mLHc (check out FP101 on edx)
Statebox guys doing stuff with category theory, blockchain and petrinets: https://www.youtube.com/user/wires0 https://statebox.org/
Graphical linear algebra: https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
Jules Hedges working on game theory : https://julesh.com/
Accepted answers are not necessary at the top. Here is an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6121203/how-to-do-fade-i...

The chosen answer was not the best, so my answer ended up reaching the top. But note that after 7 years, my answer, although still correct, is no longer the most efficient way to do things. Better alternatives are rising up.
Great to see. Any javascript project of reasonable size quickly eventually collapses under its own weight.
I attended a sports event (SkateAmerica) recently. I was shocked that they played commercials. At the arena. Not just before things started, but in between competitors while they totaled scores.

And they weren't even topical commercials. Just...commercials. I'm a cord-cutter so I've been fairly isolated and I found the whole thing jarring. It did not encourage me to spend more time or money to give people more chances to advertise to me. (Though the event itself was otherwise great)
> and is probably more likely to go down.

People often say this but I wonder if it's true. Your replication wouldn't be handling the same load as GitHub itself, so perhaps the issues that GitHub experiences would rarely happen to a self hosted version.
I'm an avid apple user and honestly had no idea that manual existed. They could do a better job advertising it. Is there anything in the box mentioning it?

Edit: and according to the article, the manual doesn't cover a lot of the hidden features described in the article.

I learned at least five new things: select multiple pictures, announce calls, swipe right for forward, and a couple others I don't recall. I would rate myself as an advanced iphone user. I've made very complicated Siri shortcuts. But a lot of stuff has been rather hard to discover.
A couple of things I absolutely hate about Apple's products:

1. Whenever switching an app in iOS and going back to the same app I don't know if I'll find it in the same state as before, even after only few seconds. It's unbelievably annoying to read an article opened in embedded browser in Facebook app, check something quickly in Chrome and be forced to look for the same article again.

2. Some apps don't allow me to open a url in Chrome, for some reason I have to do it in Safari. And why can't I delete Safari altogether? How's it's different from Microsoft and IE in the 90s?

3. There's no easy, automated way to disable background running, bandwidth consuming apps while connected to hotspot in macOS. This should be obvious I don't want to backup 30GB of data to Backblaze while on my data plan.
If you start it with the garage door closed that quickly becomes incredibly dangerous.
What a horrible idea... pocketsync pissed me off enough to rm -rf ...

ProtonVPN ... geeze
increasing the pixel count is going to mean needing a $2k gaming rig : /
https://xkcd.com/1105/

And now all the security people are on the lookout for the person in strange makeup.
Imagine paying reporters by how many people they got arrested. Sure would result in some terrible criminals being locked up, but it may well result in innocent people going to prison as well.
if which trend will continue? the one from the first chart? that one already hasn't continued dude.
Almost took a job with these guys about a year ago. Shame to see it falling apart
I'm with you. I hate being monetized, and there's increasingly no escape.

A suggestion. When it comes time to replace your Corolla, buy an older used car and use the price differential between your "new" oldie and the newer car you might have bought to return your oldie to zero time. New engine, trannie, new hoses & tubing, wheel bearings, retrofit LED lighting...etc. Or you could do this with the Corolla you have now.

You'll sacrifice newer bells & whistles and some safety features, to be sure. But you won't have to listen to ads unless you voluntarily tune them in on that FM/AM radio.

Edit to add: And your car won't be reporting on you to whoever put up a few pennies for your life data.
I'd be on board with this position if it was applied consistently. But it's not. Companies take political action, companies take credit for innovation, etc. The whole basis of a company is that it limits the liability of the people who own it.
You are not alone, python has been one of my two main languages for 7 years and I still am in total accord with you on everything you just said.
Do you mean fashion, or luxury? Fashion and apparel is 1.2 trillion. But that includes clothing, which is a necessary item.

The luxury goods industry, by contrast, is only worth 250 billion.

https://www.statista.com/topics/1110/global-luxury-goods-ind...

I feel your analogy is not very well founded.
Thanks, fair examples. How is home screen arrangement handled in android?
When iPhones first came out they were a dream to use - but I think that was largely because they didn't do very much. Picking up an iPhone 3GS (the first one I saw in real life) the interface was fast, intuitive and accessible.

However, as more features were added, Apple's desire to keep things appearing to be simple and clean, and their refusal to increase screen size, meant features get hidden away, behind swipes, long presses and double presses from different parts of the screen. I find iPhones really hard to use nowadays - even though they now have a lot of features which stopped me from buying them initially.
These 'fake' instrumends left behind continue to function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
I had a play with rust at the start of the year while I was evaluating if it would be good for the api backend for my new website. I was using rocket as a framework. The language itself seemed quite ready for use and the book was very helpful but I found all the libraries I needed were half finished and didn't have the features I needed or if they did they had docs that assume you will read the source code and work most of it out yourself. I spent ages trying to work out how to set up postgres with it and got stuck on stuff about connection pools and multithreading.

I ended up just using rails in api mode which is a shame because it chews up the limited memory on my server.

Most of these issues would go away if I was a rust pro and I could just write my own libraries and read the source but it really didn't feel like rust was helping me become productive fast like ruby did.
Government agencies screwing over those who are likely to take it and not cause trouble? Gasp! The surprise!
The Death of the First Amendment in Cyberspace
I've always owned 10-20year old cars, and frequently replacement parts aren't available; I have to find them on ebay or craigslist and I've no way to know weather these were scavenged legally or stolen.

I've also used Craigslist because new parts can be 5 times more expensive than used parts. You may buy all your items new, but most of the working class people on my block, who are constantly upgrading their cars, probably can't afford it. So, I have no problem imagining a large black market.
Ask HN: What do you put in the notes section of your contact cards?
I remember reading a book once that mentioned a specific thing to put in the notes section which made a ton of sense, but now I can't remember which book (I think it was Work Rules or How Google Works). Anyway, that begs the question: what do others use that for? Over to you.
Human ingenuity is amazing when applied to labour shortages.

The Black Death, Brexit, the recent American Immigration Crackdown. All of these events reduced the supply of labour, resulting in increased wages and productivity.

Goes to show that arguments about needing migrants and refugees from poor countries to fill labour shortages in the West do not hold water.
While I love the idea/concept, the logo is horrible...
Drag space bar is new in 12, but two finger drag on iPad has been around a bit longer.

It’s a bonus for SE users without force touch. Seems obvious to include this, but I assume the reason they went back and bothered with it is the new XR taking force touch back out.
I'll echo this statement as someone who has published packages both to npm as well as pypi. There's no contest, npm is so much simpler as a maintainer. For anyone wondering why, no one should go beyond the confusing requirements.txt and setup.py parity madness. Furthermore, try uploading non-python files to pypi and explain to me why it has to be this difficult? The answer coming swiftly from npm: it doesn't.
One thing that I learned in a training at work is the platinum rule: Treat others the way _they_ want to be treated.
You shouldn't be downvoted for this. I was missing new apple features for years, until I started browsing the apple subreddit. There are a lot of hidden features.

Seems there is a good manual online, but it's poorly advertised. The new features are often mainly announced once when you first open a system app after an ios update.

I've seem my parents repeatedly close them in a rush to get to the app. There's no "show me these tips later" option either, so they never learn the new features.

There are many advantages to the simplicity, but it's not wrong to say that new stuff is poorly discoverable. For pros and casual users alike.

That said, basic useability is great. Both of my parents figured out how to use iphones for their day to day with basically no tech support requests. Same with a mac. I was impressed, they always asked for help on Windows.
This is the general trend that pervades tech. Using algorithms to automate business tasks is good, but using the same technology to reduce demand for unskilled, backbreaking labour is somehow bad.

I think its because it leads to uncomfortable future scenarios, like how the economy of the future will be completely dominated by skilled and educated workers, and there will be much less requirement for unskilled labourers.
Here ya go:

- Amazing Spider-Man: http://www.imjasonh.com/dump/1987.gif

- Fantastic Four: http://www.imjasonh.com/dump/2121.gif
The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built
All semicon plays.

I am reading the book AI Superpowers, China, Silicon Valley and the new world order by Kai Fu Lee. He predicts China will be the leader in this race.
Android certainly handles joining wifi better.
I agree that CRDT don't help with data-scalability (eventually all data converge on a single node), just wanted to comment on the following phrase

> CRDTs don't help in the case that you don't want to deliver wrong answers

Usually when people talk about CRDT they assume that a client talks to a single node and then a background process replicate data to others node. Before this replication is done, if a client contact the other node they get "wrong answers". But nothing prevent a client always talk with quorum of nodes and do replication on its own, in this case we'll get always only right answers :)

However we still need to merge if we do quorum-ing. Paxos/Raft-based systems basically take optimistic lock then they quorum (see prepare phase) so they suffer from contention and need a leader to serialize requests (leader in paxos/raft is for liveness not safety). But with CRDT we always can merge so concurrent requests are not a problem and we can achieve better level of parallelism (request-scalability).
Require them to carry insurance instead. Companies with safer practices would pay less.
> If somebody told you your Home button was going to wear out, hence you turned on AssistiveTouch, you were lied to.

Actually, this happened on my wife's iPhone 5. Granted, they don't actually exist anymore (or at least aren't buttons), but it very much did happen.
Hey- if you are the author, I want to say I support what you are doing. We need more projects like this. But when I read the source, looks pretty lean to me in terms of follow on functionality. Would love to help you expand on this.
Of the 12 recalls I found on that database, none specifically mentioned failure of a blowout disc/plug1.

1 depended on the rubber gasket itself as the blowout valve. Several could be opened while under pressure, and some were deemed structurally deficient, which I take to mean that the vessel wasn't (consistently) built to withstand the design pressure (and a margin of safety).

[1] 1 did reach 290kpa (42psi), nearly triple the typical pressure cooker. Not sure what happened on that one.
> in coastal cities

I've never heard this being proposed- most vertical farming startups with any true prospects tend to be just outside the cities, but substantially closer than other farms. The chief advantage in vertical farming has nothing to do with actually farming within a city and everything to do with shortening supply lines. Likewise, I've never seen any company propose that they could completely replace conventional farms, but it's worth noting that every crop that can be grown with vertical farms allows another crop to be grown on arable land.
> shouldn't BIOS calls like e820 be avoided in favor of equivalent UEFI functions?

Should, but can't, because they don't work in general. Windows and Linux get their memory map from e820, so that's all the system vendors test.
I've owned a pretty maxed out T420s. When I bought it back in early 2013, it had the standard HDD drive and 8GB of RAM. I swapped it out with a SSD and bumped it up to 16GB RAM, and I can say it still runs pretty well. Aside from not being able to do 4K or having to live with that ugly 1080p screen, it's been just as solid as my late 2016 15inch MBP.

Oh, no dongle anxiety too.

The ROI on it is pretty amazing. Back when repairability was still a thing.
Sorry, animistic here did not reference the fact that we are animals, rather that we used to worship them and other entities we saw in nature, like the sun, and that we might come to view computers/machines as also having a spiritual essence.
I guess it's memories week...

Once upon a time C++ was the newest, shinyist thing to be seen. A lot of companies jumped in with libraries and spiffy tools. Then they discovered users wanted support and while that was easy at first, then they had to deal with new clueless users and experienced, sophisticated users, and there was no money in supporting everyone.

Rational was, I think, the last one standing.
iPhone X with 3D Touch enables: the space bar longpress worked for me. This is actually more convenient as the 3D Touch hurts my finger and sometimes activates the alternate letter options.
Should GitHub have drained its queues backwards?
2080 Ti has a lot more power than the 1080ti, it just spends most of it on ray tracing.

Consider the 2080 Ti has 18.6 transistors the 1080 Ti has 12 billion. The issue nVidia saw is games are less limited by polygon counts and 4k is still not mainstream so they needed something else to keep the treadmill going.
If you replace alphabet with Google, here's a very catchy acronym: MAGAF.
Once you get used to one O/S, the other becomes harder, because instead of just not knowing any of the conventions, you've actively trained the wrong ones.
It's web ready. It's very web ready.
Honestly, less drama, fair enough...but sadly it's not drama, it's fact albeit in small numbers, this 100% happened as we found out from Snowden docs and other leaks! That wasn't really the point i was trying to make though, and if it's happened or not doesn't really need to hold true for the basis of my comparison to hold true as a basis of english arguments.

Also, I gave up hunting karma on HN a while back, i'd rather speak my mind honestly than be artificially censored by chasing a number.
And beaten and arrested and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline
A random internet stranger really can't answer this for you. I suggest you start a file and start collecting articles and other snippets that have meaningful information for you.

I have a strong-ish math background, but language is more my forte. I've picked up some HTML, CSS and I have a certificate in GIS. I'm currently the very part-time webmaster for a local nonprofit, though I'm not actually a programmer.

I also homeschooled my 2e kids and did pro bono professional work for an education oriented voluntary health and welfare organization. My son has difficulties with numbers, but I was able to teach him the concepts. You can always use a calculator or spreadsheet to crunch numbers for you, but not everyone gets the concepts, which turns into a case of garbage in, garbage out. He's gotten good at finding the math errors -- or logic errors in using math -- in games he plays.

So even if you really are terrible with numbers per se, that doesn't mean you can't learn important math concepts for purposes of analysis. You may just need to look for the right materials that present it in a way that works well for you.

But the best thing you can do to develop a career path is pick up a book like "What color is your parachute?", do the exercises and some informational interviews and sort this yourself. You are the person most qualified to recognize if some role fits your criteria for being in tech and also something you could comfortably do.
To be less reliant for their income source on a behemoth of proprietary services, which also happens to have eaten their cake in the browser space.
> but more and more functionality keeps getting hidden behind undiscoverable swipes and taps

I think the issue is that Apple keeps adding functionality to iOS, but seldom removes functionality. So all these "non-essential" features end up relegated to harder to discover actions.
Ask HN: In a bad spot right now in life, need advice
I am in a pretty bad spot right now, and I do not know simply what do with my life. I am from Spain, 19, and M. I graduated from HS 1 year ago and went to a what is considered a 2nd-tier Uni here in Spain to study CS, because my grades in HS and the SAT were bad.

I had never actually “coded” or had done anything remotely CS related before I went to Uni.

I chose CS mainly because I’ve always been interested in tech but just let’s just say in the “consumer-oriented” aspect of it, never really having acquired a useful skill throughout all the years I’ve spent in front of a PC being an introvert in HS, other than I guess ENG. And so, during my 1st semester I failed all of my finals.

I also don’t know how to study or actually learn things by the way.

I failed all of my finals because of a combination of reasons, but I’d say the biggest one by far is my own laziness and lack of will to actually work, and also me not being “smart” when it comes down to math and such, with which I’ve struggled all my life, which makes you think “oh, why did you go into CS, then”.

Now, after dropping outta Uni this last June, I’m staying at my parents’ home for a year, getting my driver’s license and such and preparing for Vocational School next year, which I couldn’t get into this year because in my region of Spain you could only apply during the Month of May and I fucked up.
I am planning to choose “Web Development”, but I haven’t done anything throughout this last summer and up until now.
During all my years in HS I also lied to other people about who I was. I even told them I made trailers for DICE and made money online, so now I have no friends I can speak in town where my parents live because other than the fact that they’re all in university I am ashamed of all of those lies I told and the false persona I created to justify my introversion. I’m depressed, in a way. I’m scheduled to see psychologist in 2-wa, so we’ll see.

Anyways, if you’ve made it this far, thanks in advance
Where did you go instead?
Earl Bakken, inventor of the wearable pacemaker, dies
I didn’t mean to knock Go. It’s just that when I ask people what they love about it, nobody usually expresses a “feeling” they have when they use it.
Rectangular 'tabular' iceberg spotted by NASA in Antartica
And rice is profoundly important in Chinese culture :D. But just because a restaurant has good bread/rice doesn't mean it's good. Good bread/rice is the baseline, not the goal.
I launched something like that as a side project https://www.quod.us (to let people report misinformation) and I was going to add an API to let people report things from anywhere, but I got busy with other projects.

What I found was that it's really hard to get people to report this stuff, I never really found my ideal user. A lot of people signed up, but only a few people ever actively reported things. I never finished validating the concept, but my general feel is that the only way to keep the project afloat is via grants and donations, and that's hard to do.

Email me if you ever want to collaborate.
Why no one really knows how many jobs automation will replace
> but two finger drag on iPad has been around a bit longer

Since iOS 9. Early in the betas this feature existed for non-3D Touch iPhones as well, but then it was removed and restricted to models with 3D Touch.
"In a prevailing atmosphere of anxiety, digital promised land has turned into a dystopia of surveillance, disinformation, trolling, and hatred."

The problem with social media is that because of its anonymity, it became so easy to spread false information and hatred by trolling, even though 95% of those trolls probably can't face the person they're bullying online in person. But you know what they said, as the technology keeps advancing, so is our privacy going away little by little.
Mozilla Firefox 63.0 Released
Never heard of reclaim the records until now. What they are doing is amazing!

I was even moved to donate, even though I have no US ancestry ("Donation Confirmation Thank you for supporting Reclaim The Records!")
You know what - I'm OK with that. Security people have been tracking other people since the dawn of civilization.

It's security robots I have a problem with.