skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designers: "Let's make it avant garde"

Business People: "Let's make it fast"

Developers: "Choose one"
That one costs money. Is there a free blocker? I use Firefox Focus, but it does not let me add custom elements.
Really only 2 grocery stores in the world! The other stores are rare places that not many visit.
Ask HN: What does “Less is More” actually mean?
I don't get this saying at all. What is desirable? More or less? Is "More""Less" or "More" is "More"? Do we want more or do we want less?
This is why the fee is charged: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm

Ones near urban areas are usually busy. I’ve lived close to one and there’s usually a line on the weekend in the middle of the day to enter the park. It gets especially worse during holidays or when school is out during the summer.

So I always make it a point to go during weekdays when school is in session.
> at a certain point the consumer doesn’t want to buy an apple the size of a grapefruit

Um... yes I do. Is the Honeycrisp itself not sufficient proof that apple growers have had absolutely no clue about what consumers really wanted, for decades? In the same vein, where have all the honkin' big seeded watermelons gone? You remember those, back when they had big black seeds, and actual flavor? Don't blame the consumer for not wanting to buy things they can't find in the store any more. The truth is that the apple infrastructure cannot pick and ship fruit that size, so they refuse to try, and then they blame the consumer for their choices.

It bears repeating that the first Honeycrisp tree was thrown away, without anyone ever tasting the fruit. Even now, remedying that error has basically led to just one guy tasting all the apples, to the point where he has to use special toothpaste to save his teeth from the malic acid, and making the clone or cut decision based on that one bite.

> The demand for this one apple exceeds supply—it’s all consumers, and therefore supermarkets, want.

This is patently false. I frequently pass up Honeycrisp for other varieties (Fuji, Gala, Pink Lady), because the latter are $1.29/# and the former is something insane, like $3.59/# . I like Honeycrisp, but not three times more than other firm, tart apples. And I don't want Honeycrisp to be my only option for table fruit.

How often do we have to remind growers that monoculture is stupid? Stop cloning Honeycrisp everywhere just because it's a sure sale, and try out some new varieties. If it fails as a table variety, you can always make hard cider, or applejack, and sell it to Millennial hipsters.
A lot of them are. OTOH, we have a lot of other public lands that are free to use. This one's right near where I live, and clocks in at 7,300 square km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschutes_National_Forest
I'll second this. Recently I moved back to my home state and decided to have my more serious mail sent to my grandparent's permanent home address instead of my temporary new address. I signed up for this Informed Delivery service, and now I get a scanned image of every piece of mail entering my grandparent's mailbox. It's a security nightmare.
In a world where most people can do almost all of their computing activity on a tablet or ultrabook, not too many people are worried about that.
Out of curiosity, how much does it drain the battery to use this API? I remember a period a few years ago where my battery was draining much faster than normal, and eventually I realized it was because I hadn't properly ended a workout on RunKeeper, which was tracking my location.

This was years ago, and probably on an older phone. Perhaps the newer phones handle this more efficiently? I ask because I'd love to use one of these apps but am wary of the battery impact.
Microsoft’s attempt to fork Kubernetes via AKS will fail
“Envy” is my personal favorite.
The alternative is centralization of government which changes nothing except ensures that once corrupted its scale would affect what, at scale, could even be the entire world. It also gives bad actors a single target to focus all their energy (and influence) on. In my opinion the solution is to go in the opposite direction. I think the 'closer' to the people, both figuratively and literally, a government is, the more they tend to be held accountable. Romania's revolution against Ceausescu was a very clear, and quite literal, illustration of this.

As an aside, "nation state" is not a fancy way of saying country. It has a specific meaning denoting a mostly ethnically homogeneous nation. E.g. Belgium is most certainly not a nation state.
$2.20 is not a bad price for Honeycrisp, If I saw that price and the apples looked good I would buy a bunch. They seem to come in two prices in Minneapolis just under $4 dollars a pound or just under $2 a pound, depending on the season and if they are on sale or not.
Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 3 of ∞)
America's national parks got 331 million visits last year. The most popular parks get very busy.
What a wonderful thing the US national parks are. They are remarkably cheap, with a single pass you can visit all of them, which is a perfect way for tourists to roadtrip the US.
Yeah, except for the most popular trails, you see hardly anyone. The dropoff from the visitor centers to half a mile on the most popular trails is shocking too.
Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now is a great read supporting the arguments you're making here (among many other things).
This is awesome. Would be even better if the cpu time could be increased. Right now it’s 5ms for smaller accounts, 50ms for business accounts ( ~$200/mo ), or custom for large customers.
At no point did the author argue that your local bank's website should resemble one of the examples. It is an article about unconventional designs on the web, of course he is going to show the most out-there examples from his students.

Personally I loved the cyberpunk feel of the Hacker News prototype, even though it's a usability nightmare. I like to view this stuff to engage my imagination and think about what's possible, not whether this design is ready to scale to millions of users.
> Since the compiler won't be helping you enforce the management of resources since, as you point out, it's out of scope, it introduces a new vector for error

It's not a new vector of error; it's the same vector that C has to deal with.

> resource management has to be grafted on top of a GC memory model

Only if this means "don't bind resource lifetimes to memory lifetimes", which is the solution that every tracing GC language implementation (that I'm aware of) uses. There's nothing stopping you from refcounting file handles just like you would in C. The compiler could even automatically add in the refcounting instructions for you, or the language runtime could have a special GC just for file handles.
I didn't see OPs original rant, it's been flagged. I'm assuming there was something in there about how awful Chinese people are because placenta?

As far as it being a thing.. I'm pretty sure historically it's a really big thing. Protein is expensive for subsistence farmers. Too bad OP lost their lunch over it
If enough people believe a given model and use it, it would actually tend to make the model over and under-predict. If a lot of people think the market will go up, it's race to buy before the others and eventually a race to sell before the others when either expectation shift or all the buyers run out.

Which is say, belief in a direction can make the direction happen but belief in a particularly shaped curve won't make the market resemble that curve.
In Julia editors these are written by e.g. typing `\sigma` with a backslash and using tab completion.
It's funny how both the "left" and the "right" love higher birth rates (they sell it as noble worries but it's usually for furthering their cause) when it doesn't make sense anymore in modern societies.

There are too many people on the planet already, and most of them don't have a good quality of life. And more importantly, there isn't a way of significantly improving it (with today's technology and social/ethics understanding)
Amazon to Start Selling Latest Apple Products, Excluding Speaker
Feed it 3 cycles of a perfect sine wave.
What does it predict?
>but they do not need to be OPSEC experts

This is evidently wrong.
>...and not force them by law to massively overfund their retirement benefits.

It sounds like the change in law was to have the USPS start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projected costs had exploded:

>...Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>Prior to 2006, the Service simply paid retirees’ health benefit premiums when they came due. The Service put aside no money when it promised the future benefits. Paying benefits when they come due rather than funding them in advance is known as the pay-as-you-go or unfunded approach.

>Early this century, Congress, the Administration, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), and a bipartisan presidential commission expressed concern about the lack of funding. Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>In 2002-2003, it was discovered that the Service was contributing far more than necessary to fully fund its pensions, and Congress allowed the Service to contribute less. Congress decided the pension “savings” could help patch the retiree health benefit underfunding. In 2006, as part of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund (RHBF) was established. Most of the Service’s contributions to the new fund could be paid using the pension “savings.” PAEA was bipartisan legislation with broad support.

https://taxfoundation.org/primer-postal-service-retiree-heal...
What government can be trusted?
>> The fee system is one of the best incentives to keep the parks in their natural state

Unless those fees are invested into things that draw in more people. "Improvements" like new roads, better amenities and advertising means more people. US parks are great, but many of them have moved away from wilderness. They are too easy to access. They have too many roads. They would do better without the money.
Some are that busy, indeed. My base of operations takes >20 million visitors annually.

The glitterati Parks like Yosemite, Yellowstone, or Zion are overrun. It’s a difficult situation compounded by lack of budget for staff and upkeep.
Sorry, I thought you were user “64738”.
Population decline also places a lot of pressure on young people for elder support.
No other data issue has been cited... There is no other data available on iOS to use for productivity tracking anyway. The app is best used as an out-of-band console / intervention / notification center, however getting a "total screen time across all devices" metric is a much desired feature for users.

As the APIs stand today, the only way the phone screen pick up event can be captured, is if the persistent location capability is in place. Of course, a users location is very informative for work goals and what a users hopes might be for screen time, so it also matters as a data point (think, office vs transit).

So a number of apps have used both together, for the purpose of tackling digital wellness. The decision as to which is "primary" has been applied without consistency by the reviewers.
Space history: Space probe named Philae lands on a comet for the first time ever
Running a single tenant in a container or VM should have the same performance as bare metal. The problems come when you want to scale the number of tenants, incurring RAM and context switching overhead. On these measures, containers are quite a bit lighter than VMs, but still quite a bit heavier than isolates. When you're only aiming to split a machine 10 ways, this might not matter, but we're targeting splitting a machine 10,000 ways, which calls for entirely new tech.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
Librem 5 Development Kit Progress
I think you can actually write some decent, responsive CSS yourself, at least if you don’t need to support very old browsers. Flexbox and grid framework make it pretty easy to build nice, functional and solid layouts without using frameworks.
Indeed. I don't see anyone born in the 80s/90s dictating policies or in politics. I see the same boomers that sold this country's middle class up the river still doing what they do best. Gray and white hair, wealth from a career of servicing companies, steps away from the grave and they still don't want to let go of the reigns for the "new generation". It's like a sick obsession they have with trying to control the world. Never stopping once to enjoy what they have profited from their enterprises... Seemingly aiming to dictate policy until they take their last breath.

The state of politics in this country is at trash tier levels.. Even more insane when you think of the trillions of dollars tied up in this circus and what it could do for American society if it was actually put to good use.

I see this as a system that started off with good intentions, order, and promise that eventually just gets ran down with clowns. Interestingly, a good number of 1st world countries have governance of similar characteristics right now. It's like they lost the narrative as to what they should be doing so just engage in a soap opera on a day to day basis to keep up appearances.. Meanwhile squandering trillions of dollars of tax payer money.
AMD had enough time to learn that lesson. Let's hope they did.
Heh. For serious, as a private citizen i carry garbage bags to haul out the shocking amount of trash i encounter on the rare occassion i go fishing in NP land.
Open Sourcing the Transifex Engineering Manifesto
Almost as bad as levchins…
Are entrance fees for cars only? Can backpackers walk through a park without paying?
Nice. ;-)
A real business model for open source – the double-lag-license
Lady Alice > every other apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Alice_(apple)
Predictable outcome from an over-reaching law :/ Definitely some good parts to it, but it went way beyond what it needed to.

And I'm tired of clicking cookie popups. I literally do not care.
This is going to be huge.
DJI Mavic 2 , Engineering innovation for all your trips
Have you considered adding version control to this?
Thanks. Just tried it. Pretty awesome.
HN is basically a vBulletin forum from 15 years ago with less functionality. Metafilter and Slashdot are similar and their looks haven't changed much since they started.

The HN Redesign probably happened because the API was easy to use by students and they wanted to experiment with "cyberpunk" style interface, for which a text heavy site like HN was perfeect.
It isn't at all the type of site
Or Bohr:

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
I just did the same because of your comment. Thanks.
Worth noting in many cases the fee applies only to entering by vehicle, not bike or foot, and indeed many of the fees go towards accommodations for vehicles- roads, parking lots, traffic management, etc.
Except for Analysts, Managing Directors, and those at the Partner level. But OK, if that's what you'd like to believe.
Yes, wild red foxes and bats are the main infected populations. It's not very common, and the last human victim was in 2002 apparently, but it's there and you have to follow the rules if something bites you.
OCCRP tech here. The data exists in at least four different legal regimes. This is a legal issue, and whatever supporting technical work can be done has been done.
It is not recommended to enable this capability on iPhone 6 generation and older. Devices after that have on chip acceleration that makes it a minimal drain... it was one of the big hardware advancements a few years back.

You can go download Moment from the App Store right now and find out :)
I've been waiting for a graph view for Jupyter since it was called IPython. This is great!
Interesting article on the U of M apples:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theresabeckhusen/2018/10/06/tha...
They have to go in front of a judge. Do that the day after graduation, and the judge will not be inclined to approve the bankruptcy.
As laptop replacements, the iPad Pro and Surface Pro are worlds apart
This is wrong, the 2015 rules applied the exact same rules to mobile networks as landline ISPs.
Video: Plant-Based, Cellular, and Sustainable – What Is the Future of Meat?
> The relevant literature is famously contentious and obscure. I believe it will remain so until someone constructs, within the formalism of quantum mechanics, an “observer,” that is, a model entity whose states correspond to a recognizable caricature of conscious awareness … That is a formidable project, extending well-beyond what is conventionally considered physics

Wilczek, 2006. Quoted in a paper[0] that I like for its thorough stab at actually specifically defining the observer. It’s a tough task indeed!

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057...
Show HN: Artificial Intelligence Tools as a Service
Yes and no. GDPR only protects the data of natural persons, not the government. It's difficult to follow because the natural person in this case happens to be the leader of the ruling political party and the government's reason for using GDPR as an enforcement tool tenuous at best.

GDPR does two important things: it gives natural persons rights over the data collected about them[1] and creates requirements for when/how/why a company can collect data about natural persons as well as what can be done with it (called "processing").

GDPR requires companies get affirmative consent from individuals in order to collect information about them and to inform them about how that information is processed. Importantly, the definition of processing under GDPR includes gathering, disclosing, and disseminating information.

From reading the demand letter and not knowing much else about the case it seemed to me that the government is taking the position that the data transaction between the source and the journalists was unlawful because the subject owner of the data (the politician) did not consent and that whoever provided the information (assuming they were permitted to possess the data) did not fulfill their obligation to protect it.

If you take the journalism/politician/embezzlement piece out of the equation the logic makes more sense. If you live in the EU and someone gets a copy of your tax return and posts it on Facebook the government would do well to figure out how that person got your tax return and make sure your accountant (who rightly has a copy of your tax return) is sufficiently protecting your personal information. Where the logic falls apart is that GDPR is expressly not intended to apply to information collected for "journalistic purposes," as is the case in Romania.

[1] https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/knowledgebase/8-data-subj...
Braeburns are perfectly cheap and taste great and crisp, imo. I've never understood the draw of $3+/lb Honeycrisps.
Most parks, yes. Some parks may require an additional permit, and I'm not sure if that's waived.
Why don't you think any of the problems you mentioned are worth solving?
Pack it. Pack it good.
I'm not 100% sure but I think something along these lines applies
> In an Isolate universe you have to either write your code in Javascript (we use a lot of TypeScript) [or Wasm]

Not really: There are many nice managed languages that use JS as compile target. You can use ClojureScript, Scala, Purescript, Fable (F#), Haste (Haskell) etc.
Every 14 or so years someone comes out with the one true 3D vision that fades about as fast as it came. They always forget the lesson: no one likes the glasses.
Try to enter a paragraph of text you didn't see before and close your eyes while it's "speaking". Do not read along.

It does not have a lot of obvious artifacts that plagued older TTSes, but it actually is remarkably hard to understand.
Could someone please recommend a cross-platform self-hosted alternative to ResueTime?
National Heritage Areas (NHAs), while administered by the National Park Service, are not National Parks. To quote from the NPS website[0]:

NHAs are not national park units. Rather, NPS partners with, provides technical assistance, and distributes matching federal funds from Congress to NHA entities. NPS does not assume ownership of land inside heritage areas or impose land use controls.

[0] https://www.nps.gov/articles/what-is-a-national-heritage-are...
How do you think the earth could support 15 billion hunter gatherer humans? Would that not require an enormous amount of arable space?
What autonomy does the universe possess?
I've got a 5 acre parcel in that area as well, wonder valley. I've talked to at least one other HN user who lives out there too. Perfect time of year to be out there, it's like beach weather.
Yeah I'm going on a downloading spree to get all the ones that haven't been yanked yet!

Related question: now that apps are not backed up when an iPhone is backed up to a computer, is it possible to keep a removed-from-App-Store app when upgrading from one iPhone to the next? Or will I lose all these apps (if they are removed) when I get my next iPhone?
The Brix uses a 15W processor while the Mac mini is 65W; that's going to result in significant performance difference.
The attempt at redesigning the web ends in unreadable nonsense, so I think that answers the question of "why" with "readability"?
Thank you. You have succinctly described why I prefer Pink Lady's to Honeycrisp.
reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145995
i completely agree. we could use a lot fewer people on this planet.
Hi, I'm the tech lead of Workers.

Note that the core point here is multi-tenancy. With Isolates, we can host 10,000+ tenants on one machine -- something that's totally unrealistic with containers or VMs.

Why does this matter? Two things:

1) It means we can run your code in many more places, because the cost of each additional location is so low. So, your code can run close to the end user rather than in a central location.

2) If your Worker makes requests to a third-party API that is also implemented as a Cloudflare Worker, this request doesn't even leave the machine. The other worker runs locally. The idea that you can have a stack of cloud services that depend on each other without incurring any latency or bandwidth costs will, I think, be game-changing.
Firing everyone who has any sort of policy infraction fails to note their humanity, and fails to account for the money the company has invested in them.
RAID 6 with 32 drives. All the things you would not do while the array is rebuilding.
#1 Does not violate TOS. At least the rep spoken to said it does not. It is permitted to apps to known when the screen is on / screen off, via the built-in notification it provides.
You don’t need a website
then you would need the wombs even more
Wallace Stegner, 1983:

"National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst."

Source: https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/npsthinking/famousquo...