skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading a terrific book -- "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing"[1] -- that reviews the literature on this exact topic. Recommended.

1. http://a.co/hY8eixX
Extinct is click bait, but it could definitely harm us. It also makes the world less interesting.
I've been coming around to this way of thinking more and more lately. Apple has a clear business model that involves selling high-end phones and other hardware and taking a percentage of app sales, not selling me to advertisers. I've found at least 5 different privacy settings buried in various places around the Android menus in a confusing way (instead of just having a single switch in the privacy settings menu), and for years iOS has had a much better security track record. The only real down side I can see is that it's not open source (not that Android is either, but there are Android based alternatives that are), but on balance I'd rather use something where the economic pressure is to do right by their customers, not something where their customers are the product.

Apple has serious problems, but on balance it seems to be the better choice. I also tend to agree with the OP that the iPhone SE is a reasonable size, unlike every Android phone on the market. I just really wish there were a decent chat client that supported XMPP-based services, that's really all that's stopped me from moving over (my carrier lets me receive SMS/MMS messages to an XMPP address and receive calls via SIP, so it's rather important to me).
This guy was a saviour. I was poking round his blog after reading this, and found his review for elementaryOS where he mentions how to get the system tray working. I've been searching for months to get it working.
Probably more than anyone can summarize here, but what has brought me moderate success is focusing on the business rather than the code.

I have been able to work on a few cool computer science problems, mostly due to performance concerns regarding larger datasets, but there are often a lot of ways to solve issues like that and often none of them will be objectively the best.

If you don't focus on the business problems you're likely solving a problem they don't have. Problems have value. If you solve a $100k problem for the business it doesn't matter how much time you spent on it if it brings them value.

If you're solving $100k problems every day you best ask for a raise :)
What if we instead gave them means (technology) to grow it themselves and encouraged them to group in small communities that grow together?

Aquaponics is getting more and more popular and can be very cheap. I imagine that a good "how to" guide and a small monetary donation could help a lot of people.
If you still know people working over there please let them know that the slack wannabe messaging app is a dumpster fire. I struggle with it every day at work.

Edit: I realise I came across a bit too aggressive. Apologies for that.
Or they do dogfood, but the (flawed) engagement numbers support their next promo case.
The flir stuff was debunked but I don't remember the details.
No argument, and it wasn't meant to sound simple -- just depends on how deeply you are aligned with the goals of the platform. I agree from painful experience that platforms can be capricious and even disingenuous. But that's also part of how they adapt to a changing world and business. Still boils down to: nobody said it would be easy (to get others' attention).
> We have not had inflation for a long time, but I remember the Carter years where we had inflation and people who rented were in a world of hurt. Owners had no such problems.

I could see how an owner with a mortgage benefits with unexpected inflation, but why our renters hurt? If their incomes rise with inflation, shouldn't it be neutral?

> The 2008 crash hurt owners, but only if they had to sell. At least where we are, prices are more than fully recovered.

You can't ignore opportunity costs. The question is how would an owner on a mortgage performed if instead they were renting, had lower payments, and directed additional savings into the stock market?
Someone who can turn a real world problem into a set of steps, and explain that to a team of other people who can implement it.
I have the same problem with my android, I generally find the notifications less reliable than when I was on iOS.
simply because of battle-tested jvm.
>Do you think a privately run system would not have been fined to death over that?

Yes. We have a big problem with accountability in this country, especially when profits are involved. The issue is not private vs. public. The issue is we sacrifice everything in order to make a buck.
What even is a world-class software engineer?

We know people like Martin Fowler, not just because of their technical excellence, but because of their communication / public speaking / books they wrote.

We know about about Larry Page and Sergey Brin because they created a hugely successful product and company.

Would we call somebody a world-class software engineer if they had the technical excellence, but nobody heard of them because they work in internal projects in some big corp, and they happen to not talk much about their work?

Some factors include: Technical excellence, knowing what to build and what not, knowing when there is a simpler solution than writing software, communication skills (and social skills in general), leadership, grit.

I have no idea if this answer has helped you. A more specific question might elicit more helpful answers.
Be careful, this is not correct and is a common misconception. You cannot turn mass into energy or energy into mass. This would violate not one, but two fundamental laws of physics - conservation of energy and conservation of mass.

A more appropriate way to think about this is simply that all energy has mass, and all mass has energy, and these amounts are related through the famous E=mc2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc...
How would it harm us? It's never made clear.
Alternative: keep it one tap, but hold it for a couple minutes while an "undo" option is visible. Possibly also a "confirm" option for those in a hurry.
It will be supported for another year or two so there's time to wait a bit to see what Apple does. An Xr Mini would be an instabuy for me even if they would price it around US$700.
IoT Security questions to ask vendors before bying seasonal gifts
Or it can come out behind if alternative investments have higher returns.

A calculator: https://medium.com/@usaar33/an-up-to-date-buy-or-rent-calcul...
I am not an expert on anything but I can give the answer a stab. Let us make many assumptions:

Say plankton dies off, say animals eating plankton die, say humans eating those animals now have less food. Say all the fish die and we are reduced to land-based food. Now we have more space competing for farm land, we have to clear forest. Clearing adds to CO2 emissions, construction, more emissions, less CO2 being taken out. It's clear how this is all one giant feedback loop. Less biodiversity, more overabundance of something else, which leads to less consumption of something else which leads to collapse of ecosystems which leads to use trying to patch things up and doing even more harm.

Just zoom out and think about things that consume things and how that loops back directly to humans, environment, overproduction, overuse and eventually unsustainable usage of resources until there are none left.
The idea of impeaching mods sounds interesting, but unworkable. How do you stop hostile communities from brigading and removing each other’s mods?
We have these in NJ. Really cool little creatures. They swim upside-down!

I'm glad to learn we don't have to kill them to harvest the blood. Like with all things we'll probably not use an alternative until we absolutely have to. That is always unfortunate.
China used Huawei to hack network, says report
What about iOS being a walled garden? Moving to a proprietary OS isn't going to safeguard the interests of data security in the long term.

Also see the rich custom rom scene for Android phones, with highly active communities building rooms for even phone models long abandoned by their
manufacturers.
To state the obvious, I can't download—"You caught it before the launch. :)"

That said, I really, really appreciate the native client here and I'm excited to try it out.
Yeah, the SE was best value/price phone. I have hard time understanding why Apple stopped producing it. The form factor was the best as well, I can't stand bigger phones personally.

I told my parents to buy an Android initially but ultimately they moved to the iPhone because they thought it was simpler and better than Android. To me the fact that I can code my own apps with Java without having to buy a mac is a plus, but I understand people who aren't developers don't care about hackability if they can afford an iPhone.
It'd be nice if I didn't have to download an application to use it. Open to a reddit alternative, but I care more about convenience than any sort of encryption a client would offer.
Do some structured learning, there's lots of free quality courses/books/videos etc you can pick up. Structured helps because it fills in any gaps of knowledge that you don't know you don't know.

Aside from that just keep doing what you're doing and revisit your old code every so often, you'll be surprised by how bad it is and you'll always find ways to improve it.
identify the real customers, listen to their needs, solve their problems, verify the solution is better than the original problem, repeat
What would you do if your rent went up 10% - 20% a year? Rents follow inflation.

As for opportunity, there is immediate opportunity and deferred opportunity. You could chase the stock market now, and have no gains for 10 years, or great gains. If you buy a house and pay it off, you guarantee lower expenses going forward.

If you're the grasshopper, then by all means rent. If you're the ant, then buying probably makes more sense.
I remember when Ubuntu tried making a mobile phone OS( Ubuntu Touch ), but it never was a commercial success. I was extremely dissatisfied to hear about Google and their phone upload requests. It makes me question whether Android is a good choice after all( not that I agree with Apple, either ). That is the problem with modern-day tech, there is not enough choice in the market. Everything is either bought out or choked out by larger, dominating manufacturers, i.e. Google & Apple.
You could also use 'Send Feedback' from inside of the app and send in your issues to the devs. I've found that the developers are pretty responsive to feedback and reply back quickly. It has 4.3 rating on the store.
"I tried replacing Android with Lineage OS on a old phone I had. Whilst that meant I didn’t have any Google Apps on my device, it was still Android underneath. Also many apps kept complaining that I didn’t have Google services on the device."

An alternative is to install microG [1], which reimplements assorted Google services. YMMV, but I've been able to run ~70% of all Android apps with no problems.

[1] https://microg.org/
I think OpenBSD switched to its own CVS binary.

EDIT: So, not yet, but they will. OpenBSD has a long story of reimplementing GNU tools in BSD, see the bc(1), dc(1) history.
The ability to ask precise questions.
It’s just a white screen in safari.
"We're shuttering our API" (which kills your business model) is very concerning if you're the business that's just been torpedoed.

"We don't want your sort on our platform because reasons" ought to be concerning at a much wider level (and not just to the sort that apparently aren't wanted on the platform).
That could have a huge impact. For example if it affected random draws of a hyperparameter in a Bayesian model, leading to incorrect credible intervals ultimately in the posterior distribution. Or worse, if the RNG bug was affecting the variance of randon samples in some deep component of an MCMC algorithm like NUTS or even simple Metropolis. Depending on the exact nature of the bug, it could even cause the model to violate Detailed Balance, and entirely invalidate sampling based inferences or conclusions.
> If you increase rewards for uncovering bad science, it will just lead to false accusations.

Isn't that what this study suggests is already happening, in as much as false accusations are just more bad science?

> Some people think that the very existence of incentives is the problem here. https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work

This article is full of opaque generalizations about human behavior that more accurately describes the baser impulses of individuals attempting to game systems they don't understand (participants in psychological experiments) and don't so much reflect the actions of self-conscious professionals with any semblance of dedication to their fields.
OpenBSD on a Laptop
These are terrible examples. What has Martin Fowler actually built? As for google, I don’t think they are good software engineers, they had someone take the idea from prototype to production.
Death of insects means no honey and many dead birds.

No pollination means many fallow meadows and dead plants.

This means either weeds spreading or top soil depletion.

This also means many crops we depend on will not survive because various helper species aren’t available.

Earthworms dying mean no areation of soil, or the impact of other insects to improve the eco system.

So no those other species aren’t taking up the slack as you put it. Wasps aren’t interchangeable with moths for example.

But I too want to understand better how far this collapse impacts human beings.
The question of timing -- finding the optimal "when" for various activities -- is an interesting and useful one to study. I'm reading and enjoying a book[1] that does precisely that.

1. [When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing](http://a.co/hY8eixX)
New study finds drought-resistant native plant can irrigate food crops
My theory - too much information, out of sequence, without a good guide present to clear up misunderstandings.

I teach part time. Lot of the anxiety and depression I see in kids seems to be thanks to this constant info overload on the net. Reddit/Youtube/FB all contribute in different ways.

14 year olds busy reading about the problems 35 year olds are facing on the net, is like dropping off your second grader in a tenth grade classroom and asking them what they think about the problems on the board. The natural reaction is to feel overwhelmed. Everyday they get hit with someother issue, someone is depressed or outraging about.

The best solution I have heard is to allow internet access, not on a device but in group settings (class room/living room etc). This way when they do get hit by stuff above their pay grade, there is someone around to process the stuff with.
I can't figure out how to use the snap.
Deplatforming fuels polarization, so one thing I would look at the PEW research study that shows how the center has collapsed, making it impossible for moderates to win elections: http://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-pt-1/
I would say being able to solve problems even if you have to read up a lot and being able to deliver a solution that’s close to the optimal.
new life will emerge after humans die and earth (the planet) will still exist
That might be one way to do it. But that alone certainly is not enough. One will also have to have the political acumen to take credit and make sure the others' interests are taken care of as well. It's really a complicated game to play for sure.
I won't ditch Android for Apple. Apple is restricted, Safari is a tragedy for the web and prices are too expensive for the value.

Somehow I dislike everything Apple represents, and reminds. The design, the simplicity which comes from restrictiveness. Even the lightest Linux window manager like i3wn, is better than all of os/x does.

I will just wait till a true open source option comes.
I do not have any extra bloatware from any manufacturer, due to the fact that I run a Xiaomi Mi A1 as my daily driver, but I still would appreciate the choice to be able to manually install only the apps that I would use, e.g. Firefox instead of Chrome. I do have 64Gb of internal storage, but I obsess about every lost megabyte due to something I don't use( even when disabled or not used, Chrome still runs functions on the phone, so it runs in the background ).
It's because Safari doesn't support WebGL 2 yet. Even the experimental support for it doesn't implement enough of the spec for it to work on most sites/demos.
I’d imagine the hollowing-out of local IRL communities is a major contributor. Fifty years ago you would have gotten companionship and (what at the time passed for) emotional support from your church, or the local rotary club, or similar. We’ve witnessed an enormous hollowing-out of local support networks over the last decade or two for a wide variety of reasons; it makes sense that people would seek an alternative wherever they can.
Yea, thanks for mentioning. I believe those bottles only work when the neutrons are already at very slow speeds. They exploit the strong force and the residual electromagnetic "handle" neutrons have by virtue of being built from charged components (quarks), which leave them with a magnetic dipole moment.
The JVM?

What about the battle-tested Linux kernel? If you compile your racket apps to a native binary, you can run it directly on the Linux kernel, and benefit from 25 years of use in production! People deploy Golang and Rustlang apps everyday in prod using that approach it seems to work well for them. Note, both languages are younger than Racket.
Yeah, my stereotype of the distant past which I didn't live in - say, up to the 1980's - is that it was considered uncool to talk about your problems to strangers in a constructive way.
> Have a simple landing page asking for an email address when someone first visits, but provide a way to bypass it if they don't want to give it out.

That's exactly what is there. You can click View The Archive, if you don't want to give your email.
Non paywall archive: https://archive.is/3Jt9R
We had combustion engines for a couple hundred years. Then they wiped out the human race.
Blink Mobile Shell for iOS (Mosh Based)
”The project has also been searching for a chief scientist, with a pay package of $1.2 million, since late 2017. The post is open to qualified astronomers from any country but so far no results of the search have been announced.”
My go to example is if we lose insects which pollinate plants we would have a very very hard time growing certain foods. There is a certain unforeseeable complexity to these things.

Just a speculatory example, losing migratory birds could weaken the soil microbiome and seed biodiversity in the places they migrate to, from, and over. There could be a crop-critical organism in their path that relies on the regular influx of new bacteria or seeds from a certain place.

On what we have already removed: a building likely still stands if you remove 60% of the contents of the building, the last 40% is what is really holding it up.
For anybody who is curious as me:

> Aether is a product of Burak Nehbit (@nehbit). You can reach out at burak at getaether dot net.

> Burak Nehbit

> Burak is an ex-Google, ex-Facebook product designer and engineer. He specialises in end-to-end product experience, from product, UX, to API (developer) experience. He is an expert in the fields of distributed networks and monetisation (e.g: prior jobs at YouTube and Facebook).

> He was also the part of the team that built the next generation, material design AdWords at Google. (e.g: complex data visualisation, dashboards).

> He is available for consulting as a full-stack designer and engineer in distributed networks space. He lives in San Francisco.

https://getaether.net/about-contact/
> They rented houses (didn't have the down payment) to get the benefits of more space

This is just a statement that living beyond your means is bad. Even in markets where renting is cheaper (https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...), you have to ensure your savings rate is high enough to absorb any reasonable rent appreciation.

Realistically, you might be able to get 20% more house than what you can buy - I imagine your friends were pushing more than that.
Sort of, yeah. The natural cycle of the earth wouldn't be impeded by our meddling. Though in the event of an extinction level event the life at the time might be worse off since we are the only animal smart enough to be able to possibly avert whatever said disaster might be. However even in that event the system would likely rebound just like it always has, there would just be new life to fill the gap.
Yes, you're right on Alaska, although since they don't fly internationally, it's much harder to rack up the miles with 2 trips (as parent was suggesting). Incidentally, Alaska is my favorite carrier for many reasons, but only for domestic flights.

As for spending with the credit card, unfortunately that isn't an option for me since my company pays for many of my tickets. And they will purchase the cheapest ticket, which often means buying it on the partner airline (e.g. Lufthansa plane but cheaper if booked as an Air Canada).

Thanks for the tip on Aegean. I checked it out and looks like 24,000 miles on partner airlines without any other restrictions to get Star Alliance Silver! Looks like a winner!

Status programs are really in a sad state on airlines. They are supposed to be a reward to customers but many times end up feeling punitive. For the airlines like United that have the minimum dollars spent requirement, I wish they would just make that the sole criterion, which would at least simply things!
This is exactly what I was thinking about. :D

It’s been a while since I read it but I seem to remember Chia was able upgrade her system. It would be nice to see a System 76 offer logic board upgrades for the case too.

I mean you can get motherboards from anyone but if you get them from System 76 you know it’s got good Linux support.
Help others find your local blockchain community
Me too.

Medicare for All and universal childcare would lead to small business creation.

Since that's not in the cards...

Any jurisdiction wanting to vitalize their local economy should create a "buy-in" option to their health insurance pool. Eligibility extended to anyone who is self-employed, just started a business (with some minimum amount of capital / cash on hand / accounts receivable), or similar "sincerity" test.
Why is some random actor's opinion unusually important, let alone on a technical topic such as this?
Eliminationism
Here is a paper and demo describing creation of such codes: http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/...

Sadly, original online demo doesn't work anymore, but by looking for "halftone qr code" you'll find plenty of alternative implementations like this: http://jsfiddle.net/lachlan/r8qWV/
Ask HN: How effective are networking effects today?
My friend and I are having a mini debate and wanted to inquire into some expects. Please advise.
I'm currently in a similar spot, but am very surprised you did not mention MicroG, which is an open reimplementation of the Google APIs. There seem to be some issues with GCM (or, more precisely, the newer replacement - uhm, FCM?), but imho it's worth a try. If you already have a LineageOS-supported device, you can grab a prebuilt LineageOS+MicroG image from the MicroG site.

Disclaimer: That's pure theory. I'm still figuring out how to do a custom build of LOS16+MicroG for my device, since it's only on LOS14.
This is true. However, it does not point to an immediate solution.
Although probably not push itself as a mechanism, this interfering trend is so bad that for a time I could not find a timer or alarm that would actually ring at the right time. I have one now, but there should have been zero instances of failure to notify for a timer.
The last time I tried XFCE I found that HiDPI support was pretty much absent, has this improved?
It looks nice indeed. I'll give it a try. Thanks mate!