skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it’s worth, I use 3D Touch pretty much every day. The number one usage for me is moving the cursor around while editing text. I actually did it while writing this post; I decided I wanted to add a comma after “worth” at the beginning and did so easily with this feature.
Can you make this more mobile-friendly? It isn't really usable on a cell. The popup doesn't go ever away, there's no images that show the featureset. And the UX looks pretty dated. Seems like a no-brainer but maybe it's better on a laptop/desktop...

If I can't see what this can do in an accessible way, I'm not going to hand over a grand. Others probably would feel similarly, especially if they're more price sensitive.
Not OP, but 1500 years of hindsight can give knowledge that could make up for any deficiency in wisdom. Furthermore the rules were written for those who were already professing belief in the christian deity.
It was a PDP-10 at Harvard, and it was not just Gates, it was Gates and Paul Allen working on it together. Another interesting thing is that the PDP-10 was being paid for by Department of Defense grants, and when an auditor discovered how much computer time Gates and Allen (who was not even affiliated with Harvard) had used up, there was a disciplinary hearing, after which Gates left Harvard.[1] In his "Open Letter to Hobbyists"[2] Gates claims they used $40,000 worth of computer time. So basically Microsoft started with $40,000 stolen from the government.

[1] This is documented by Noam Cohen in The Know-It Alls.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Locked down was probably not the right word, I'm just a normal user with no root access. It is a linux problem because the admins are trying to do something pretty sensible, not let a single user screw up the machine for everyone and restricting users is how linux achieves this, HURD took a different approach.
But in that case, relationships at the beginning stages would not be the 'most' vulnerable.
Editing is not strongly discouraged, and adding a disclaimer is not rare.
I'm pretty sure they were just trying to be funny.
Search engine Baidu becomes first China firm to join U.S. AI ethics group
As I read the article I thought smugly about the three motorcycles in my garage with no more sophisticated electronics that the ignition modules - all run carburettors, one doesn't even have a tachometer... They aren't collecting _any_ marketable data on me (well, I guess the odo readings from the yearly inspections...)

But then I ride them around with a smartphone in my pocket snitching me out to the cell providers (and any nearby stingrays), slurping up gps signals and wallowing in wifi and bluetooth bands... (And with a license plate being snapped and OCRed probably hundreds of times a week...)
Dialectics of Darkness: On “The Myth of Disenchantment”
I spent two years of my professional career with Rust doing async web services and most of it with tokio/futurrs. First you finally get comfortable with Rust and then you do the learning again with futures... I did it. It paid off. Wrote some fast and stable services with it and it is not that hard when you get to the other side.

But for newcomers, be careful with references when using futures and be smart how you use the combinators. The errors can be tough and this is the only place in Rust ecosystem where they don't really help at all sometimes.
Taking the GuessWork Out of Picking Equipments for Your Next Hobby
we have been developing this platform for the past 5 months, it just launched recently. The purpose is give everyone and option to trial out gear they are wanting to buy in real life and get honest advice.

https://www.airsessment.com

Is this something you guys find useful ?
One thing I have come across in trying to explain phones to older people is that they have difficulty grasping the difference of cellular vs. WiFi and where they can and can't use data.

I have a parent who is terrified to use the internet while on WiFi because they don't want to get a huge bill at the end of the month. I have done some explaining to reduce that anxiety and I'd like to tell them not to worry about it, but frankly, iOS doesn't help at all, both in terms of managing data, communicating how much LTE data you are using, etc.

I know others who spend hundreds of dollars extra per year on "unlimited" data plans even though they have no need for it. But it's easier than trying to manage their data. Imagine how many people who don't understand data usage are spending hundreds of dollars annually on data plans they don't use "just to be safe" because the phone company might send them a $5K bill if they accidentally misconfigure their phone to allow Netflix access to cellular.

If iOS wants to be layman-friendly, there has to be a better way of handling data and communicating to a user what the status of their data usage is. This is just one example.
Adding more categories doesn't help. If A is the most P, then B can't be no less P than A is.
Bitcoin has been pretty stable around $6500 for the past month. And for six months has been way more stable than The Shitcoins (BTC has gone from 30% to 50+% of total market cap in that time).

Humorous summary of price fluctuations since 2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
I use it whenever I don't have a local shell available.

For example, when using an iPhone or iPad, or if I need to test something real quick in language X and I don't have X installed on the machine.
WorkstationOS in my case.
I played a game with a random PUBG streamer (less than 5 viewers) recently that I felt went fairly well, except for a few moments when he drove off without me and came back a minute later apologizing. He communicated very poorly and in the end, I had 4 kills and he had 2, i went down and he died trying to save me. Then he rage quit and muttered something or other as he disconnected.

I thought I must have said something to set him off. We seemed to get along fine, we had decent team chemistry but I figured I pushed the guy's buttons. It really bothered me so I sought out his videos and luckily he had recorded it.

I expected to find I wasn't nearly as pleasant as I thought I was. Nope, he was just an asshole. He was talking to someone behind him for several minutes and was on mute for about a quarter of the game, which explained a few moments of tension where he wouldn't respond or communicate at all in crucial parts. I watched a few other games of his with random people, and he'd do the same thing: be pleasant at first, die, rage quit, repeat.

Sometimes it really is the other people.
I don't know that this is an incorrect statement when looking at how they act. They are only a tech company in that they have decided that tech is their competitive advantage for the ads business.

If google found out tomorrow that focusing on underwater basket weaving gave them a 10% bump in ad revenue over focusing on tech, does anyone here really think they would stay focused on tech?
Not really actually. Originally he started doing all that mobile stuff mostly because of Zenimax's lawsuit.
Excellent! Five man years of call centre staffing in every team member's shift! Think of how much more outbound marketing we can afford to do now!!!

(BRB, calling my patent lawyer...)
I've read an opinion piece that theorized that HTC is catering to businesses (mainly VR-gaming cafes), so not quite enthusiasts, but the same idea of higher price lower volume. The evidence being that stuff like the Vive Pro and wireless headset are really expensive, but the purchase makes sense if you're making money off them. I can't recall the source.

Another piece of evidence would be that "Enterprise" is featured prominently on the Vive website.
I contend that doing a course or learning how a computer works at a fundamental level is a skill just like touchtyping that will remain even into the next generation of phones.

For example we bought my gf's mother a smartphone and she has a very limited understanding of what the difference between her plan data and storage on the phone is, which causes a lot of confusion.

She uses it mostly to take photos which eventually filled up the storage on her phone, so she became unable to send or receive photos from her children.

She was confused by the error messages coming up that the phone storage was full and thought they meant that she had used up her phone plan data. Because of her limited understanding of how it works, she was unable to deduce that those two things might be connected, so she was expecting the phone to become properly functional again at the end of the month when her plan data resets.

That's just the first example that comes to mind, but there have been many others.
A history of cities in 50 buildings
Gruber doesn't get posted on HN much for some reason but he found a great tidbit on this: The reporters were flippantly dismissive of the (strong and repeated) company denials.[1]

Jordan Robertson was on TV saying companies have no "advantage" in "confirming" his reporting because "no consumer data [was] stolen." He seems to take very casually the distinction between "not disclosing" something and outright lying and engaging in an industry-wide conspiracy about it. He later tried to walk back that line but it's an interesting window into their mindset. It doesn't strike me as particularly strong journalistic reasoning.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/22/jassy-bloomberg...
Along with most stocks. I think the key isn't whether something is/isn't a KBC, but how much other stuff exists that helps anchor it to some kind of objective reality.
I do not assume anything. I'm taking the beginner seat almost daily, in some context or another. But he who shell instruct his children to start with installing docker, rather with installing "python" (which is an ill-defined term) - will have much, much sooner, a class running predictable setup. And, speaking of assuming things - it will keep running even without network connectivity.
IEEE Robots Catalog
Since iOS12 you can do this by holding the spacebar on devices without 3D touch
Libel and defamation lawsuits are tricky because one would need to prove that Bloomberg ran the story knowing it was false or ran the story with "reckless disregard" for the factual accuracy of the reporting and prove that the article resulted in damage to the plaintiff.

Many dubious articles go unchallenged because it's often not worth pursuing legal action.
Many have their first clash when investors push for some direction. However many of those "startups" never are profitable. A new owner not only wants to change that, but also integrate with their remaining company to improve synergies ...
There is a powerful entity (the Fed) focused on keeping it stable in reference to consumer goods and services.
Worst-case they can sell that data to major advertisers for better tracking of ads (especially if they know what the customer bought).
Perhaps there just isn't enough of a market for halal beef fat to make it worth the while of the carcass processing plants. They might sell it to be mixed with other beef fat.
Not the OP, but I'd just point out that all you should need to do is get the stem above the boiling point of water, which is well below the combustion point.

What wavelength to use for that could be an interesting discussion. Makes me wonder whether you could use masers (microwave lasers) rather than optical lasers for a more efficient "heating the weed from the inside" effect.
World's longest seabridge: $20bn Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge opens on Tuesday
Very accurate, I agree with markab21
I'm not complaining about the implementation. The problem isn't just how features are implemented, it's that many users lack the mental models to successfully use these devices at even a basic level.

Sure someone can Google "how do I copy paste on an iPhone", or maybe Apple could somehow make the feature more intuitive (they probably can't as you say), but fundamentally the user is required to understand that:

* The iPhone is a computer underneath

* Computers have standard sets of features for text manipulation, one of which is copy paste.

* Being a computer, the iPhone should likely also have this functionality implemented in some way.

If you don't understand these three things then why would you assume that there would be ANY implementation of copy paste? My Mom didn't understand that copy paste as a concept was a thing

This is why the educational programs that the grandparent poster was talking about are important and it's a shame that they're gone.
That’s odd. On my iPhone, moving the cursor is activated with long touch, and 3D Touch does nothing...and yet I do have 3D Touch
I've literally never seen the Tips app. Granted, I haven't had a new device in a while; but I don't recall this being present when I bought my iPhone 7, and it certainly didn't show up when I upgraded to iOS 12 over the weekend. And as someone who has had iOS devices for a while, I'm not sure that I would ever get it, since my first thing is usually to just transfer a backup to my new phone.

The point is, devices used to come with a manual that had at least some guidance on how to use a device. It may not have exposed everything, but it told you the basics. Apple, anecdotally, has outsourced this to Google and the kindness of strangers like yourself, to tell me how my device works. And that's the biggest CX failure for me.

I've honestly considered switching to Android many times because the iOS premium no longer seems justified in terms of hardware or UX, and at this point the only thing stopping me is my suspicion of Google.
yeah, until you build it into a product that is used by developers and then when the Marvel API is down you can't work.

Looking at you, Elastic. Whatever shithead developer decided that was a good idea should be fired immediately. ESVM is the worst product you've ever made.
But I sold a business for 6 figures last year that was parimarily automation scripts in PHP. Figure that one out.

I'd be keen to learn more, can I reach out? I'm not really looking for guidance or ideas to do the same, I just genuinely enjoy reading these kinds of stories-like a weird Reader's Digest sort of thing but for entrepreneurs.
Amazon Wants Alexa to Do More Than Just Play Your Music
The "Friedman vs. Keynes" split exists to a small extent, but the imagination that's a deep divide between neocon and neoliberal (or whoever) is almost entirely a fiction of op-ed writers and armchair economists. Both are considered foundational to modern economics. Liberal economists took a lot from Friedman and many prominent conservative economists (Mankiw for one) consider themselves Keynesians. And "supply-side vs demand-side" is not at all the axis that divides the two; that's another fight far more fascinating to the armchair crowd than practicing economists.
Paystopost – Social Network
I've been doing my best to try and support JRuby but in actual fact, JRuby simply isn't that compatible with MRI where it matters. I hope we can fix this but honestly I can only do so much. I tend to focus my efforts on MRI since that's what I use day-to-day.
Oculus lost its way by been too serious. Nintendo has shown that fun simple can win. JavaScript has shown that simple to use is a win. Oculus should have focused on great and tooling that made it easy to build VR. They should have provided asset library, JavaScript, so easy that middle and high school kids can do it. At first it will be shitty and a toy but it will find its way. I bought the dev kit because it had Linux support, they dropped support and I tossed the kit
It's great for power users. I personally really love it.

But there goes the discoverability. The three nav buttons were simple and effective.
Many people, me included, disagree with laws preventing the open consumption of alcohol. I just don't see it as much different than a nice cup of coffee. Sure you might get drunkards in the streets, but to me, it's worth it for the additional freedom.
Yes, but I'm not going to debate this, because I'm already appalled that this comment got +3 while my remarks on the Bayesian brain theory in another thread were ignored.

#MakeHNTechnicalAgain
Yeah, the Tips app is new in iOS 11. It might have been relegated to some "Preinstalled" app group somewhere or pushed to one of the last pages. It's definitely front and center on new phones now.
I've never been able to understand why mail apps insist on the word Compose. Is it an American thing? I've never wanted to compose a piece of text, and never heard the word used in that way.
It is? They're both public companies. If they get caught having strongly denied something that's true, that's worse than no comment, and the inevitable stock market motion and shareholder lawsuits that will result.
That would’ve been awesome, if he made the contribution in actual silver.
Nice.

I've been watching efforts to port Lua to WebAssembly (the official VM looks simple enough, but luajit won't be easy) because I want to have an app that shares code with the browser, and it would be awesome to play with WebAssembly as the plugin system of choice on the backend.

I'm also super excited for nebulet[1], which is a micro-kernel experiment using WebAssembly in Ring 0, which is pretty neat.

I'm really excited to see where WebAssembly can go. I know many of these projects will peter out, but it's exciting nonetheless.

[1] https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
I'd call that a good thing, really. Not needing ever more dependencies.

I think this is a solid direction to go.

Let's just say I give the React devs... props.
Um, that isn't flipping the logic at all.

It says 'love God'. It doesn't say 'acknowlege God exists'. The latter may be a prerequisite of the former, but the explicit rules are distinct, and have different flavors.
This is controllable, but by default it makes one process per core.

Regarding the pool size, I'd suggest that it should correspond more to how many simultaneous connections you think you'd have per process, so maybe just choose something like 32 to start with? Benchmarks would be required to find the sweet spot.

To achieve true scalability you should use something like https://github.com/socketry/async-postgres (/mysql) but this is a work in progress.
> Apple products, as far as I can remember, do not come with any sort of manual describing the nifty little shortcuts that they have

You would not have needed a manual in the past. Discoverability used to be a core tenet of the Apple HIG. Now that's apparently gone, and we're reduced to hunting through a "Tips" app or trying gestures until something happens.
If their sources are from the intelligence community do you really expect them to handover physical chips to the journalists they leak to?
100% agree. I'm on Android and it seems to be going further and further away from simple, consistent home/back/menu buttons that are always available.

The hardware Menu button was the best way to make advanced options easy to access, and it has been removed completely in favor of an inconsistent three-line icon that might or might not appear in any location on the screen, so you have to look around for it. Stupid.

I'm sort of waiting for them to bring those back before I upgrade my phone.
> We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

Most developers do?
Here's a counterpoint.

It's ok that you don't know what docker is.

It's ok that you don't know what a shell is.

What exactly is the nature of the dismissive attitude from others that has held you back from learning? Perhaps these are real opinions, but consider the source. If they are smarter than they are rude, and their opinions hold value, maybe suck it up and learn something. If it's not worth it to you, ignore them and walk away. Regardless, don't let other people's feelings hold you back from learning. And don't let other people's feelings about you dictate your feelings about yourself.

On the other hand, perhaps these attitudes are partly a projection of your own feelings. Use it as motivation to learn the things that you feel like you should know.
401k, IRA, 403b etc in the states
It sounds like you read the headline, and not the article. In fact, it seems like you didn't even scroll down, to look at the images. This one [0] in particular caught my eye.

[0] https://scontent-yyz1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/72c07367b0d95187...
We, the people of the world, acting democratically through our governments via legislation, courts, and law enforcement.
Hubble Telescope Set to Resume Normal Science Operations
Netflix accused of deceiving black users with manipulative personalised artwork
This is just silly. News flash: software UX isn't perfect, and it never will be.

When you have a phone that can do 10,000 different things limited to a screen a few inches wide, of course it's going to be harder to do some things than others. And there will be some inconsistencies and some annoyances.

It's not like any other phone is obviously way better. Yes there are plenty of UX things that could be improved... but "iPhones are hard to use" is a clickbait title, and the content is just a totally random laundry list of one person's annoyances. Doesn't really seem like HN material.
Given the context, I don't think they are mutually exclusive. It could be both a religious text and satirising other CoCs which are essentially religious in their own right.
We have mechanical harvesters in California but I haven't seen any that are gentle or use rubber flippers. Mechanical harvesters typically shake the trees/trunks a small amount but quite quickly. For grapes the shaking might move the top of the vine a foot or so at several hertz. The shaking is strong enough that most grapes are plucked off the stem merely because of the weight of the berry and the whip-like motion of the shaking.
The newer style bow rod machines use multiple UHMW rods bent into a question mark like shape. A large number of materials were tried but UHMW is the strongest material that could be found for the application. If adamantium or vibranium could be sourced I'm sure it would be used.
Are there no police in these areas to deter harassment/assault/robbery? If not, that's certainly a contributing factor.
I don't know that but it would make sense.
I eventually got something working, and it was stupid stupid fast, but it definitely took a lot longer to write than I would've liked.

Just waiting for the features and APIs to finalize and async/await for the ergonomics improvements. I believe in it's potential, but I'm in no hurry to use it again in it's current state.
If anything could make me go on a D-FENS rampage, that would be it.

Also someone needs to make a VR game jam "future simulator" that realizes all these terrible possibilities.
This is exactly my experience in Oregon. There are of course still people who don't partake at all, but I know plenty of non smokers who have now become occasional users. Having said that, they seem to use it in place of alcohol.

Seems like a wash, if not a net positive to me.
Defense Firms Battle Long Wait for Security Clearances
It makes a damned good router or ssh gateway
Re: like seeing a flying car advertisement

Ditto the feeling. I don't "get" WASM from a typical in-house CRUD development. Game makers, maps, movie editors; sure they need the speed. But some say it's gonna revolutionize most browser-based application dev, but I can't get specific examples that are relevant to us. And even for those domains listed, relying on inconsistent and buggy DOM as found in browser variations is a problem it probably won't solve. DOM will still suck as a general purpose UI engine.

WASM just makes DOM bugs run faster.
Feel free to come and discuss your requirements in https://gitter.im/socketry/falcon