skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally for me, phablets are an uncanny valley. I had an iPhone Plus for a while and it never clicked. It was too big to use with one hand, but the screen size didn't warrant using two hands like an iPad does. I switched to a smaller phone and just use a tablet when I need a big screen.

Real work gets done on a laptop, but there's a lot of space between "phone" and "real work". I do wish I could get an iPad Pro with a mouse and the ability to run VSCode though...
Yes, but it's still highly likely that making a huge source of carbon energy in the ground economically viable will be a big net negative for climate change in the future; I think the likeliest outcome is you've just delayed the use of those other more polluting resources by some number of years.

Now, the delay could be a net good thing if it gives non-polluting sources like solar, wind and nuclear more time to become cost competitive, but at the end of the day fracking has enabled billions and billions of barrels of oil to end up as CO2 in the air where previously it would have been left in the ground.
Yes, it is certainly possible.

Everybody speaks English quite well. Many almost fluently. Often high-tech work-places will switch to English if there are foreigners around. My ex-girlfriend and a large number of her friends managed to live and work in Copenhagen and other parts of Denmark for many years without using Danish much, if at all. I often meet restaurant waiters that speak English because they cannot speak Danish.

I also think there is a rule at the University of Copenhagen, that if just one foreign student attends a course, it will be held in English.

You can definitely live and work here for years, possibly decades, without learning Danish.

It is actually quite difficult for foreigners to learn Danish, not just because it is a difficult language, but also because Danes generally automatically switch to English (to help).
ya and it will happen every year... those in power have been trying to take control of people's lives forever but so far they have been unable since it requires physically being present. but as technology becomes seamless and is woven into the fabric of society, eventually our thoughts too wont remain private. the only thing protecting us is we are just one data point in billions...
This would be one way to write in Perl 6:

for @numbers -> $number {
next unless $number > 10;
next if $number %% 2;
work($number);
}
Apple has been signalling to do the opposite, iOS 12 has been great in my experience on their 2013 iPhone 5s model.

I think it makes sense for them to cultivate the reputation for long-lasting given the new price points.

I'm slightly hopefully the 5s will get iOS 13, it was the first 64-bit phone and also has the secure enclave, I'm bet they could pull it off.
You beat me to it. :) EccoPro was an incredible tool. I loved it the way that people slightly older than me loved Lotus Agenda, another legendary PIM.

These days I get by just fine with Emacs + org-mode, but Ecco had some amazing usability features that I've never seen matched in another product.
Actually, there are two ways to win here: Follow the OS theme or follow the website CSS. But don't mix them, that's just stupid.
It depends. Sativa variance have a real calming affect when it comes to the anxiety that’s induced by my ADHD. So for day-to-day use, I stick with sativa’s. When I’m trying to settle down and go to sleep, I’ll switch to an Indica
So what? I have a Huawei Mate S, from 2016. Quite good at the time, it's still totally serviceable. The lack of a replaceable battery is the only reason I'm starting to consider a replacement. I know, I'm not getting security updates anymore, but the average consumer doesn't care about that. I don't feel I'm losing much in terms of functionality from having an older version of Android.
I’m one such user. I’ve been using Affinity Designer since the first public betas, and I curse it every time I use it. If you do any kind of precision work, it’s an abomination.

It can’t expand strokes correctly; it’s imprecise as hell when using boolean operations; it can’t do vector patterns (nor are they planned); it can’t even correctly join two specific points from different shapes!

I stick with it for the price point and because I ethically dislike Adobe, but the software as is is utter junk if you care about precision in your work.
I believe we have more trees in the northern hemisphere than before...
Difference between management and leadership
To be clear, I don't think it's important to find an arrangement that benefits advertisers. I'm not trying to evolve online advertising like Brave is; I don't care about finding a solution where everybody wins. I use an adblocker everywhere, even on sites that don't track me, because I actively want to see the ad industry crash, burn, and then mostly die. I want them to be unprofitable.

I just don't think it's fair to ask advertisers to voluntarily help me with that.
I tried building something with xulrunner a while back and the experience was awful, IMO. I was up and running with Electron within an hour.

xulrunner may be a superior technology, but if it's a PITA to work with, then nobody is going to want to use it.
While I understand why they didn't mention this (because it's not clear if this interpretation of the bill is correct -- given there is currently no common law around it), I would like to point out what is the most concerning thing (to me) about this legislation.

It potentially allows the government to turn employees into saboteurs. According to s.317C(6), a "designated service provider" can be someone who has developed software that is likely to be used in an electronic service that has one end-user in Australia. This is a very wide net and immediately includes effectively every free software developer, and the employees of every tech company. Now, there is an argument to be made that employees don't qualify (because they're acting on behalf of their employer), but that's not clear at the moment. It also includes sysadmins (or even ex-sysadmins) as people who can be "activated" as saboteurs.

It should be noted that it's very unlikely that this legislation would result in the Armageddon most people (including myself) are quite worried about. I imagine it's much more likely this power will be used against a few big players (Apple, Facebook, Google) in order to add features like being able to add additional devices to group chats (or something like that). But obviously the law gives them much more power than that, and that's a very big concern.

(And the fact that only 2 MPs voted against it tells me there's almost certainly some back-door dealings that resulted in this bill being passed.)
Interleaf word processor. It was like LaTex met a (zany) UI written in Lisp. Only word processor I’ve ever used that had a great balance between WYSIWYG and all the structure of the document.
And Apple seems unlikely to do this given their growth is focused on services now. They need as many people on their devices as possible in order to sell them services.

iOS 12 has a pretty long list of supported devices, and objectively improved performance on the specifically the oldest ones on that list.
Facebook, not fake news, is what’s destroying us
Yea, I'm done making calls to repair shops. Like you alluded to, the cost of a pro repair shop's labor is usually more than the cost of throwing the product away and buying new. But the cost to repair is often minuscule + my time which is free (since I wouldn't otherwise be working).
I'm really eager to push for use of rocket (and thus rust) at work, but while rocket being on version 0.x it probably is a tough sell. The benefits rocket (at least seems to) bring feels obvious and I notice every now and then at work that "hey, this would be so easy to do with rocket".
John Keats: [Isaac Newton] destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism.

In the article Haworth describes at several points the language of diverse people describing the heavens. The advances of science wipe away old romantic notions from our culture.

Here is an exhibition catalog with a similar theme. Artistic works are shown to shift away from imagining the heavens, because, the theory goes, science shows us the heavens so clearly--like photography's effect on painting.

Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde. Ed. Clair, J.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (1999)
https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtlPwAACAAJ
I believe LG Smart TVs are webOS based.
Thank you! I think that's about the best possible layman's explanation that I could (in the weird world of trying to think in higher dimensions) understand.
Via Wikipedia:
"Modern gasoline engines have a maximum thermal efficiency of about 25% to 50% when used to power a car."

Meanwhile, the average passenger car in 2000 created 11,000 pounds of co2 over the course of a year... I don't think I had seen that number before - no wonder there's a problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas
Thanks for the extra info. This summer in the BWCA we startled a beaver on the bank, the first time I'd seen one so far out of water. It seemed quick but clumsy, it decided hiding behind a small bush was its best defense. I can see why wolves would predate them. I wonder how forest fires play into this as well. We noticed in areas that were burned ~5-15 years ago there were tons of young trees there were so many beavers.
Get the Font
It’s funny that right after my post I was experimenting with Microsoft one drive with libre office locally. Thanks for the tip.

This looks selfhosted. I need to convince a like minded friend to host it for a split of the fee.

Edit: found this https://civihosting.com/collabora-online-hosting/
Senior Google employee says quest to stop leaks is now management's top priority
Depends on what you are doing.

An awful lot of energy consumption is just fine with waste heat, it doesn't need a heat engine. There you get 90% efficiency even with heating oil.
Final Cut Express and Color

IBM Lotus Symphony (pleasant and convenient GUI)

and ofc Google Reader
> compared to today's bloated apps that have difficulty keeping up with keystrokes on 8-core 3.5 GHz monsters

Seriously, I recently had to disable Thunderbird's spellchecking so that typing emails wouldn't stall for 5+ seconds at a time on my 8-core machine. Ironically, my older dual core machine has no such problems, and the same email accounts, OS and extensions are at play.
Yeah you're probably correct. Also the extra gas supply has made oil and coal cheaper which probably slows transition to cleaner energies.
maybe some people cannot get iPhones. Or use netflix or other items that depend on good encryption!
I haven't used electron, but in 2007 xulrunner was such a pain in the ass to write code for it wasn't worth the effort for anything where you didn't absolutely need an embedded browser, and even then there were better options.

Documentation was poor or non-existent and IIRC the API was based on the half-baked XPCOM because COM and CORBA were all the rage at the time it was created.
> This same moon was for the Japanese what held the waters of life (silimizi) and the waters of rejuvenation (bakamizi).

Those are two words I don't even know how to spell in Japanese kana, so I can't look it up. I'm starting to wander how much of this article was invented.
Java API to Create, Analyze, Update and Remove Document Metadata
Not the same thing. Someone who likes the sound of an ICE typically doesn't like fake engine noise.
I will definitely be rid of my 8 in the next year. I want to go bezel-less. It's just too big of a phone.
That's not necessarily true. For TCNs there is an explicit section that deals with compensating businesses, through an "Applicable costs negotiator". See s.317ZK(16).

And there is no criminal liability for non-compliance. "Just" very hefty civil fines.
PFE - Programmers File Editor.

Was way more advanced then any of the editors available now. Could handle GB sized files easily. Had macro that can record your operations and playback. Was very nifty and virtually consumed no memory and was simply superb. I still use it though as it is available in 32 Bit version.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles....

Would love to see a 64 bit version and with some more advanced features.

Still loving it and it's one of my main stream editor which just works with just one executable and part of my big list of portable apps collection which mostly consists of single executable based tools for almost any task!!!
This is a pretty weird idea: "Much of the data that children would find in a library could be called canonical in computer terms, or simply 'correct.'"

Has the author ever read an old encyclopedia or textbook? Most supposedly canonical information gets revised.

At best we can have a immutable version of a file (such as when using git), but you hardly ever want a hard link to a particular version. Dependencies inevitably change and need to be updated.
AlphaZero used a few ( I think 4 TPUs) on top of the same or roughly same CPU Count, which is not that outrageous. I think the most fair comparison would be to pick a configuration for AZ and Stockfish which uses roughly the same amount of power and is best suited for each one respectively.
Starseige:Tribes - the slightly broken physics in that first of the franchise really made for a fast paced and fun game. Update the models and textures and it could be a great modern day esports game to play and spectate.
I think WP suffered from the problem (among many) that app statistics are based on people actually using them. If no one opens your app, you can't track if they're using it. So now it seems like no one is using your app on Windows Phone. Combine that with WP natively replicating the features of a lot of apps (you didn't need to install Twitter and Facebook because it was built into the People app that shipped with the phone), and it paints a picture of lower user engagement on WP.

There's a perverse incentive on other platforms for app makers to send you notifications that require you to open the app to view. It increases user engagement numbers, because no one really knows how to measure user engagement properly.
> This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen.

I see it both fast and slow. Ironically it's absurdly slow on my 8-core desktop and just fine on my older dual core laptop (both with SSDs and same accounts, etc). Definitely weird, but this behaviour has peristed for years, so much that I had to disable TB features on my desktop just so I could type without stalling.
I've never tried Rust or Rocket, but it appears to be gaining popularity, so I have the following questions for existing users:

What's it like to work with? Do you prefer it to JS/PHP/Python for web related projects?

Can you iterate on code quickly, or is there a compile step on every iteration?

Are there stable libraries for interacting with MySQL/Redis/Postgres asynchronously?

Is there good IDE support, for example in Atom?

Thanks!
You completely misinterpret what I’ve said. The way capital and power are shared is determined by economics. Not by us. The presence of AI will cause capital and power and etc to naturally shift away from humans in general. It is inescapable.
DabbleDB, this YouTube video gives a great introduction to this online spreadsheet-like database. Sadly they were bought out by Twitter, never to be seen again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY
I made the switch to a cellular tablet (9.7" iPad Pro) a couple years ago and it's been great.

It reduces the urge to whip out my mobile device at every moment of mild boredom, and collaborative apps like ported board games shine.

The one downside is that I look pretty silly when taking photos.
That's the best description of PowerShell I've ever read.
> Windows phone

The gigants buy up competitors and bury it, shot down the project.

We would have more freedom and viable options as consumers if not the big companies such as Facebook, Google buy up the competition. It should be illegal to do this. The world is a more poorer marketplace because of this.
Are ther plans to get to stable?
I don't understand how that's possible. My girlfriend and I deliberately switched from 4s/5s to LG Zone4 specifically because of all the throttling and horrible performance of every native/3rd party app on iOS.

The difference has been mindblowing. We no longer wait 15 seconds for an app to open.
Sure, but the point is that warrants already allowed for access to services that are insecure.
How to Create SDKs for an API in Less Than a Minute
A lot of people here are talking about how cats that go outside don’t live as long.

That may be true for the median but growing up my grandmother had a cat on her farm that went outside whenever it pleased.

It lived to be 21 years old.

It used to be normal to let both cats and dogs run free around the neighborhood. I understand why people don’t want to do that anymore, but it’s fascinating how quickly our culture has forgotten what used to be completely normal.
The number of moose is about the same as the number of wolves. Not very many.
I am using OVH since we stopped using our own servers in a closet and had to upgrade our services.

When you rent a server, or a VPS, you have 3 contacts. Administrative, technic and billing. Like for domain names.

That way, when a client wants to directly get his own server, they put me as technical contact (and can revoke me if ever they want).

The main contact is the administrative one. It can change the other contacts.

All is clear, and if problems like OP had happens, then someone did a really worse choice
Ask HN: What's the best and quickest way to build a basic web app for a novice?
I've been programming in Python and I would love to finally share something I made so others could easily use it.

It's a short Python script that takes in csv files and spits out a more optimized csv file.

What would be the best way to create a website that accepts csv files, runs my Python script, and then spits out the optimized file?

My friend recommended AWS Lambda.

I'm also wondering what front-end framework I should learn to build more complex things in the future. I'm looking for something that would be easy to learn and quick to deploy. I'm a huge fan of Fast.Ai's teaching method of chucking people in the deep end and learning by building.

My friend recommended Vue. Another HNer recommended plain javascript if possible. Another kind HNer recommended two courses on Angular and React.

Does anyone have recommendations or advice on courses/resources to get something up and running as quick as possible for noobs?
Google Assistant Action for the DC Metro
Bubble memory
THABO MBEKI – CARRYING THE BURDEN OF AFRICA ALONE AFTER AIDS
Unless you can't get another job and need that job to support your family. One of the many reasons politics shouldn't be injected into the workplace is because many employees have no option but to have that job and now you're subjecting them to political battles they have no choice but to endure. In the case we're talking about, the politics don't even have anything to do with the host company, they're a foreign agent in what would be an otherwise apolitical environment.
PFE - Programmers File Editor.
Was way more advanced then any of the editors available now. Could handle GB sized files easily. Had macro that can record your operations and playback. Was very nifty and virtually consumed no memory and was simply superb. I still use it though as it is available in 32 Bit version.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.....

Would love to see a 64 bit version and with some more advanced features.

Still loving it and it's one of my main stream editor which just works with just one executable and part of my big list of portable apps collection which mostly consists of single executable based tools for almost any task!!!
> It doesn't just connect the two nations, it connects this region of Sweden to the rest of the world too.

Indeed - I discovered Malmö when they hosted the Eurovision song contest in 2013, and after flying into CPH airport from Australia, the Oresund was my first experience of Sweden. It feels like such a significant symbol of Malmö life that I'm surprised they didn't sell tourist collectibles of the Oresund when I was there (much like the Harbour Bridge is a symbol of Sydney, and you can buy little metal Harbour Bridges in every tourist store there).

The Australians I travelled with to Malmö in 2013 & 2014 still talk about it fondly, especially Max Burger & also Emporia. I need to find a profitable/business excuse to travel back to Malmö again sometime soon.
Sounds a bit like airtable
What’s with the dichotomy here? Why can’t your cat live for the most part inside and you let it outside for a few hours a week on a leash so it can get some fresh air while not killing local wildlife?
Wasn't xulrunner based on XPCOM which Mozilla deprecated? I think this is one of the technical reasons for its decline, but I think the biggest reason was timing.

When xulrunner was being developed there wasn't the same interest in desktop software. It seems like Chromium reached a point where you could build desktop-class software, but the distribution model wasn't right. Someone then decided to adapt Chromium to solve the distribution problem and you have Electron.

If Firefox had evolved to allow the tipping point experience that Chrome did, then you might well have seen xulrunner be that thing. It was years ahead of itself, but perhaps you could question the focus of the folks on the Mozilla side who were spread across so many concepts/ areas compared to the folks at Google - but I think that's for a different thread.
I've toyed with various Rust web frameworks and I think rocket is one of the most promising. A thought out, high quality project. The person behind it strikes me as someone who pays attention to details, from the codebase, docs, all the way to the presentational website. Kudos!
Apparently load time is 1.5-2 seconds. I swear it often feels slower than that. shrugs That's not bad.

The rendering corruption/lag issue with scrolling only happens while scrolling a message while in split-pane view, not when the message is maximized in its own tab.
Knox, the macOS menu-bar encrypted DMG manager.
Yet the opposition won the largest midterm house victory in decades. All that liberal outrage may have been useful. Conservative elites who laugh at the whole process will have us to thank when we finally take a much needed check against an outrageously corrupt and incompetent administration.
80 or 160 Gb 5th/6th gen iPod w/ Rockbox!
I think you missed that chademo isn't dying anything soon in Japan. And China has a local standard of its own. Those two markets are sort of out of reach for everyone else
BBSes have a sense of locality in that everyone is either in your LATA, or is spending a lot of money on long distance (remember that?) to visit.

BBSes also were not primarily fedgov privacy harvesting honeypots (mostly...) and that had interesting social interaction effects when the sysop was just some dude down the road instead of some NSA spook or marketing droid.

I also remember door games like TW2000 were a lot more fun than the modern "you must send us microtransactions of cash because your friends do" modern social games. Inherently slow empire building is also more social than spending money on a fake farm or the tired old FPS model.
Yeah, the documentation isn't great. However,

> block everything, allow this handful of ports

This is trivial.

ufw default deny incoming
ufw allow 22
Well, I guess it differs from country to country. Here, people would consider me a paternalistic macho for suggesting women should stay away from this or that area.

Also, is Natalya a male name?
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