skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So then that brings a different set of questions. Like how are those things backed up? Is it client side encryption (I.e. they cannot access the data)? Can I point those services to a self hosted solution?

If they had the ability to make a self hosted back end for online services back ups, I would actually be extremely interested.
Ignoring the fact that it's EXTREMELY easy to find links showing Apple's commitment to privacy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+privacy+efforts&oq=app...

https://www.apple.com/lae/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989608/apple-data-down...

When you are the one making a claim refuting what is generally considered common knowledge, you're expected to provide SOME citation of your disputed claim... not to mention it's such a common internet troll tactic to spew BS just to make people do research to prove you're full of it that it's just kind of common courtesy to start with links (assuming you aren't a troll).
I think people have trouble telling the difference between tobacco, sugar, pesticides, plastics, and other “research” and the climate change research.

Part of science certainly is covering for big business, and is itself in business doing so.

But it would be stupid for people to keep trusting “science” blindly when it’s been used repeatedly over the span of decades to cover up deadly or otherwise dangerous things.
Checklists have been essential and efficient tools for both learning and sharing how to write good software. I find that the inconvenience is surpassed by the benefits, especially in the long run.
There is probably a sustainable rate of immigration. Go beyond the rate that can be assimilated and it seems obvious you are going to have huge problems among both the native culture and the migrants.
Looking at your alias there, I can imagine that possibly you don't like talking about your work herding goats?
That’s not just a question of loans. Schools can always discount prices down to what people can pay. So, they charge families making twice as much more money each year.
Find some way to engage with your hobbies publicly. Hell, even go to a (preferably small) bar you like alone and talk to people.

All my friends moved out of the city I was in and that's how I supplemented my social life until it was time for me to move on as well.
You might find Holochain to be a suitable replacement for IOTA.

https://holochain.org/
I can only speak to the minerals extraction industry (oil & gas, specifically), but they (we) are well aware that hydrocarbons are a finite resource. The industry as a whole is arguably short sighted, but it’s not because they think the supply of oil is endless.
Agreed. However I would totally believe there is a disorganized campaign lead by people who seem to have run out of track in the current model.
That's a tough question.

Distributed production offers some huge advantages, but in the nrel study above you'll find that utility scale is strictly more efficient.

I think Hawaii is a good case study. Customers are generally frustrated with the power company's poor reliability and high rates. Rooftop solar offers a substitute for what has traditionally been a protected monopoly, and there's abundant sun, so solar adoption there is crazy strong. HECO has generally fought to slow it down.

If utilities realize this threat, they'll become competitive on price and customer service. Reliability in some places.

If they do not understand this threat, then they will just try to lobby for more and more extensive penalties for those with rooftop solar who are still connecting to the grid. Like cable companies raising rates in response to the rise of Netflix.

The most extreme version of that would be the emergence of microgrids - cord cutting from utilities by entire subdivisions.

Microgrids are potentially really cool technology, but would require some pretty intense dysfunction to take off.

So while I hope utilities figure this out, regions will vary, and rooftops put a new sort of check on how bad utilities can get, even if they don't become ubiquitous. Rooftops will inevitably be the answer in some places, not all.

Oh and if you look country by country, to places where it has been harder to get a well financed responsible utility... Parts of Latin America or Africa could really be jump-started economically by rooftop solar.
There are possibly two misconceptions here.

Firstly, there is a possible misconception that gravitational effects can be transformed away under GR, since GR permits non-inertial reference frames as valid frames to view gravitational phenomena. The usual consideration is that a mass in a gravitational field is at rest in a free-falling frame (e.g. a ball in an elevator in free-fall). This is a misconception! For example, two such masses in free-fall around a spherically symmetric field will actually converge as they approach the centre of the field. This aspect of gravity is known as "tidal gravity". And the formulas of GR relate stress-energy with curvature precisely to explain tidal gravity. This aspect of gravity is the real physical aspect; if all gravity could be transformed away, there'd be nothing to say about gravity at all!

Secondly, there is a possible misconception about what a force is. It is not as simple as F = ma (or even F = dp/dt). We say there is a field that influences the motion of objects which couple to the field. For gravitation, there is indeed such a field (the spacetime metric) and it couples to anything that has mass, just as for electromagnetism, there is a field that couples to anything that has electromagnetic charge. Why then, would gravity not be a force?
>I don't see how server-side rendering is causing more work?

That's not what was stated at all. Razorscript specifically only works in a certain environment. Other templating langues have the ability to be rendered server side and client side, have a wider development audience, and work on a variety of environments.

>I only bust out a front-end framework if the app is sufficiently complex that it can justify the extra work.

That's nice that you have such constraints, but it doesn't negate the fact that when the time comes you now have to work with two different systems instead of just using one. This by itself means you'll have to write more code, and finagle your data to work with two different frameworks and paradigms, AND you'll inherently have a split team.

It's pointless to use Razorscript when you gain nothing from it and it actually ends up hurting your code and your project.
A live look at global sales on Shopify
The problem with the externalities argument is that nobody really knows what they cost. A market solution would be based upon true supply and demand and agreement on price in buy / sell transactions. A tax representing the "externality" is just a politically made-up number. So it's sort of free market but not really.
Yeah, you’ve clearly never had bad neighbors. Be grateful for that, but it doesn’t give you the right to tell others that the real problem is their frustration.
Ask HN: What Habits Are Unequivocally Bad?
We talk about productivity and optimization on HN a lot. The more convinced you are something is bad, the less likely you are to do it. So post habits you think EVERYONE would benefit from breaking. Also, post your excuses as to why you / people you know haven't broken them so we can learn something.
I will start with the obvious:

1. "Microbreaks" from work - grabbing a snack, browsing random things, checking the news/stocks/how far below $4000 BTC fell, etc. This is mainly harmful because it keeps you from doing work fast. The, arguably, worse part of it is that you get nothing done in a long time and then feel like you "worked all day" for nothing. So you waste time doing something that isn't pleasurable, but you get far reduced benefit, making it seems like the productive task wasn't worthwhile at all. The excuse is that it breaks you out of being stuck in a rut - a lot of the time while coding, I will stare at some problem endlessly, when I should have stepped back and changed my approach. Herein lies the conflict between "deep work" and "stepping away to get perspective" for me. It seems both have merit, and it takes experience to know when to do which. With that said, switching context constantly does NOT give your mind that break it needs, because the mind becomes engaged with something else, rather than continuing to work on the problem.

2. Sleep 7+ (preferrably 8) hours. At this point it's well known that sleep is essential to memorization, concentration, testosterone production, and athletic recovery. "Working hard" by avoiding sleep undercuts your efficiency and quickly starts to have negative effects.

3. Eating sugar. Rots teeth, makes you fat, spikes blood pressure and increases the likelihood of heart disease (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-su...). All for no nutritional value. The twist here is that "it makes you feel good" and "gives you energy". The "makes you feel good" part is definitely a habit that can be broken. The "gives you energy" part. Well, that's something that I actually think happens. If I drink a KickStart, I can stay awake through sprint planning, which is quite a feat. I haven't found the blood sugar spike & drop to be true in my experience, which makes this a difficult habit to fully break for me.
Where does AJAX come into play with anything I said?
If by modern you mean a node_modules folder with several thousand packages, then I rather stay with server side templates and vanilajs.
> You will "pay" the same for your house (total payments) regardless of interest rates.

There is a missing branch in your procedure... step 4b) Banker refuses loan because combination of interest rates and house prices are too high for person to afford with current income:

> In 1991, 67% of British 25- to 34-year-olds owned property; today only 37% do.

I suspect this varying cut-off threshold of a substantial portion of the population is largely responsible in the apparent non-simplistic relationship between the other variables.
> just port the damn software.

That's what Open Genera does. Symbolics wrote an emulator for the Ivory architecture, which allowed people to use much of the OS on a DEC Alpha under Unix.

> I maintain that 90% of those who irrationally praise that old system this much did never even work a single hour with one of them

Possibly true, though I have. I know both its pros and cons (and it conses a lot).

> They don't, but they just can't keep from creaming all over any forum where the LISP machine is mentioned at all. Darn I need my morning coffee, I'm cranky.

I think you have a point here.

I think its useful to have alternative approaches preserved and some people have influenced by it and implemented slightly similar stuff on current software (see for example MCCLIM for Common Lisp, which is a portable reimplementation of some of the UI management and graphics substrate of the Symbolics Lisp Machine OS). It did not catch on, since much of that is very exotic and complex at the same time. But those have probably never had the opportunity to format a disk in Lisp, read a Unix tape via a Lispm tape drive or copy a file via anonymous FTP onto a Lispm. It's not the fault of the current generation - they haven't had the chance to actually work with such computers (since the whole thing was mostly dead after the early 90s) and all in all they were very rare (roughly 10000 Lisp Machines in various forms were built) and the whole experience was very expensive - thus only affordable to companies and well funded research. This makes it more mythical and mysterious. Then also the commercial systems have't been 'freed' yet - their source code is not available under an open source / free software license - only the old MIT code has been made available - but that is really ancient.

It's the same with the old Lispm keyboards - the layout is cool, but using it for typing? Who has ever typed with the old mechanical keyboards from the 80s and would do that today? There are only a few...
I'm hearing this complaint a lot about React Native in particular: That Facebook's "Move Fast And Break Things" philosophy is alive and well in the management of the project.

Most recently the stories were about specific controls that worked on Android but on on iOS, and then the new version arrives, breaks the Android behavior but fixes the iOS behavior...or vice versa, sometimes for the same control, in a later release.

I've heard better things about NativeScript; it's actually a more mature project than React Native, and has a lot of features that React Native lacks. And it's apparently a lot more stable.

But fewer people use NativeScript, so it's possible that I'm just not hearing as many of the horror stories. Also curious about Weex.

But I'm not making apps right now, so I haven't tried any of the above. People keep wanting to pay me lots of money to work on easy backend projects. Who am I to say no? :)
We seldom sing together.
Chess World Celebrates a ‘Sensational’ Move … That Leads to a Championship Draw
You don’t. You just enable ssh and connect it to network. Essentially ‘touch /boot/ssh’
Paving Over the Fossil Record (2016)
Principles  People  Product  Profit – Always in That Order
Instagram Account Management Organic Growth Service – Site Title
And you think you'll be able to find a cheaper house? No, sorry: sellers will raise their asking price to match (or exceed) the market average. So, your choice really is between paying the same price as everybody else or not buy a house at all.
I've always held that the David Lynch version of Dune was an underrated masterpiece. Tastes vary, but the film was visually stunning and I can't think of another director from the time that would have done justice to the novel. Obviously Dune is a big deal but I'm frequently surprised at just how little attention it's gotten in pop culture beyond the odd references to Butlerean Jihads and the odd pumpkin spice joke. What I wouldn't give for an expansive HBO season-length treatment of the first book.
>This is particularly useful for those who aren't born into wealth: Credit is practically the only way for normal folks to access productive capital

Look at studies on credit it results in bias against minorities. It’s one of the reasons behind the deregulation’s leading to 2008 real estate crisis, the fact that these biases were showing up in home ownership and they tried increaseing homeownership amoung minorities.

That “experiment” greatly failed proving your point, that in a credit based system, a credit rating based on factors such as assets, income, existing liabilities is necessary in determining how much to lend and the risk/interest. I definitely don’t dispute the way the system works, just I think it’s a bad system.

For every rich person who benefits with access to capital they can manage and payback, or normal person who gains a house they struggle with paying for 40 years or more; the otherside, is indebtedness an evil of society (put the 1M defaulted student loan people in this category - the will effectively be paying for that house for 40 years only not for an asset that at least historically will appreciate, but a sunken cost) and what I mentioned before which is a statehood of nearly second class citizenship where one will never gain access to banking services much less credit.

I see your point baby/bath water...why get ride of the system instead of fix the problems. I’d say the credit system creates those problems, and that’s definitely not to say the same bias in homeownership rates/percents wouldn’t show up in more of a cash/capital based system with no credit. But at least those unnecessary and IMO evil classes of society (bad credit/no credit) wouldn’t exist. At minimum I’d be curious about two such systems in the US side by side, and with all the talk/interest in startup cities maybe a non credit based city could be tried - though I can’t solve how it could be created fairly within the existing national system of credit.
This may not apply to your case but a lot of these conference immigration issues come from getting paid to speak. Depending on how you phrase it the inspector may treat it as “work” which is a big no-no.
I think the project is in pretty early days. You could get involved and help build (or at least request) the features you'd like to see.
New lander will add to humans' long fascination with Mars
In a previous company we built a Bluetooth Low Energy server app into the embedded Raspberry Pi-like system.

Long story short:

1. RPi broadcasts via BLE the wifi networks it can see

2. A ReactNative App lets the user choose the wifi network to connect to, pre-selected is the wifi network which the mobile is connected to

3. User enters wifi password

4. App sends it to RPI, still via BLE

5. RPi responds with IP address when successfully connected or with an error, all via BLE.

6. App can now talk to Pi via IP

7. BLE server on Pi shuts down. Done.

Advantage: user never needs to mess with changing to any ad-hoc wifi. Awesome UX.
I just wish for..yield didn't look quite so much like a loop.
Yes, `nnn` doesn't have file previews. It needs the user to explicitly open the file to view it. Or open a dir of images in something like sxiv.
Poisoned Wildlife and Tainted Meat
https://github.com/jasbur/RaspiWiFi
fairly stable light weight system that does the same thing, also comes as an etchable .img
one advantage here is that if the Pi goes offline for extended period it will flip on its AP broadcast mode allowing wifi to be setup again.

Code is highly modular and maintainable.
Well done on slamming the 18 yr olds first product. This is very clearly the first release of a product and it is definitely targeting a slice of the functionality, but that's just good sense right.

Get it out there for people to try and give feedback on.

I appreciate the effort and thinking that has gone into a product like this.

Sure there are a whole bunch of features that I would love to see added but I'm sure that will come with time.

The fact that it targets PoC, LGBTQ+ and Women is a fantastic start. I remember an article that went around on HN a while back that analyzed the gender balance of twitter follows, and the results were not good.

Working on diversity in tech and on twitter and highlighting women over men is not sexist, it's pushing the needle back in a direction that it needs to go in.

Men are not default.
I don’t have diabetes (yet). I do have another rather more complex neurological disease. As part of managing that over the past year I’ve switched to a low carb diet, and completely cut out anything with added sugar. Yet for some reason my blood sugar levels over that time have been creeping up and up and are now always above normal (ranging between ~105-145). So I’m thoroughly confused by the low carb thing and hope switching to low carb isn’t giving me diabetes.
Do you have any experience with real estate or bonds, or is this just your pet theory.

While this sounds great to people who love to hate on anything financial, it is entirely wrong. You're basically arguing that more risk (larger loan) is cheaper.

But of course, if you were right, you could point to good data in this. (Remember to properly adjust for credit quality which is probably proportional to housing price.)
They will when supply is constrained.
Google+ has 3.3 billion profiles and 7.9 million Communities.[1]

If they stop showing up, it really doesn't matter.

MUAs are better than static profiles, but if the motivation is fear or guilt, rather than active affinity, the connection is tenuous.

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Notes:

1. I counted them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/9zx67d/google_com...
I'd phrase it that Google trials end user facing products more like Yahoo and Microsoft, and less like Apple and Amazon. Which is to say, with less than full corporate dedication.

In the engineering / GCP space, their open-beta -> GA flow seems to work sanely.

But I don't think anyone on the consumer side would have said G+ felt, at any point, like a corporate priority.

What I was trying to capture was the dedication and faith to push things with full effort... right up until you decide to pull the plug. A la iTunes, Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, or FBA.
Microsoft Outlook on Mac: it can teak easily 2000ms to close(!) a window, are you kidding me?

On my new 8th gen i7, restoring a Skype for Business window (from the task bar, so it's already running), I've measured at sometimes in excess of 10 seconds for it to restore. No other application I use exhibits such horrible performance.

I can see the typing latency in the latest version of Outlook, too, when composing an email. And don't even get me started on web-based Outlook, the performance is abysmal.

Not sure what's going on at Microsoft lately, but something very, very wrong has been happening for 3-4 years now.
> But cities provide you with a means to find a community if you really want one. It's a lot harder and/or less convenient to find groups that do what you like to do if you live in a suburb.

I think there's a problem with equating community with "groups that do what you like." That sounds like a definition that's been infected by the "personalization" the npunt was talking about in his first note.

Real communities have a lot more diversity than that, and they're usually not very personalized. It's often no so much about finding community, but forming communal bonds with the people already around you.
I've heard from Vancouverite friends that there has been a steady decline in common courtesies since the 80s, so you're not alone in feeling that. I've also had friends from Toronto who've found Vancouver socially somewhat cold, so much so that they've moved back to TO. Seattle (similar weather/people, i.e. cloudy weather, granola folks) is also well-known for the "Seattle Freeze" (where it's hard to connect with people), and I wonder if there's a similar phenomenon in Vancouver.

I hear you though. Finding a group of close friends you can hang out with is indeed a hard thing in most cities, and it takes a combination of effort and luck. One of the prerequisites of friendship is repeated personal exposure to each other, and cities do make that harder because they allow a range of individual lifestyles that are highly decorrelated. Unlike in smaller communities, in the city everybody does their own thing, and there are few central places where everyone gets together and meets regularly (there are a few exceptions, like continuing education classes, houses of worship, etc. I would recommend trying something along those lines).

Here's what I found though:

Friendships often start with getting to know 1-2 people, and it would help greatly if these people are sociable or are people connectors. If you can create a context where you can repeatedly meet with 1-2 people that you have something in common with (don't wait for invitations, reach out and invite them to stuff--there's a good chance that they will accept!), that will help to develop closer relationships, and from there, you will be slowly brought into existing networks. That's how it happened for me. I met this random couple who invited me to dinner, and then I invited them to dinner, and I gradually got to meet their friends and their friends' friends. It does take a bit of luck to find the right connections, but start small, and then try-and-fail a few times. Understand that there's a bit of randomness involved and accept that the process is not going to be as easy as in grade school, so sow your seeds widely and be prepared to say "yes" when opportunities arise, and to pick yourself up when people disappoint you. Best of luck.