skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I trust ublock well enough, but it's a risk - Adblock Plus on the one hand basically started collecting advertising data and selling whitelisting to advertisers, and plugins generally have an evergreen auto-updating system. It's happened hundreds of times that a plugin was bought and malicious tracking, ad-injecting and/or cryptocurrency mining code was injected without the user being made aware or the party responsible for delivering updates (Google, Mozilla) taking action against these practices or at the very least warning their users.

TL;DR: Blocker extensions are easy but they can be compromised.
Your workflow is very in-line with the author's recommendations though. His idea is to use something like pandoc to convert word-processor or markdown writing into latex, and then letting latex do what it's actually good at: Typesetting.
I have a theory that a major portion of the population in Seattle is always churning. Lots of people moving in and out (Like a college town). But if they can’t get people to keep moving in, you end up getting huge deflation.

The weather is a shock to lots of people.

I just sold my house in Seattle and will be leaving next month.
I feel like Facebook is getting more and more desperate.

There have been times I've loved it, but in the last year or two I've dialled back my usage to almost nothing. Now I get regular emails / (and when I log in a whole load of) red dot notifications - both things that used to be alerts about just _ME_ - that say things like "[friend name] just posted".

With an undeletable app, I wonder how far away we are from someone embedding Facebook notifications in the OS?
Projecting Unicode to ASCII
> why would the public require physical access if they have an online reading room.

Respectfully, I really disagree with this line of thought:

* Having digital facsimiles of your collection makes it more accessible and more available

* More people knowing about your collection means more foot traffic

* Some things about a collection can't be discovered from a digitized copy; having a record of the digitized copy encourages researchers to come in and see the real deal

* Maybe scholarship doesn't have to happen IRL? See Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad: a fantastic novel that was researched primarily online [0]

0. https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/grant-expand-digital-librar...
From other comments:

7) collaboration is almost impossible
how do you feel about app store commissions?
>anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

I'm not really sure if "anti-corruption journalist" accurately describes her work:

https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/09/hot-new-style-wroug...

https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/09/bottom-of-the-barre...

https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/oh-look-whos-here-m...

https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/
Huawei has had its own stand at my alma mater's[0] job fair for years now.

It's a pretty known brand around here, although originally not because of their smartphone business.

[0] Warsaw University of Technology
Why not get the perspective of all the tall/short people, barista's, and also left-handed people in his life?

Choosing a filter and then slicing a person's life by that filter will give you.... filtered results.

Idiotic levels of idiocy with trying to filter people's lives by whether they have a vagina or not. Disgusting obsession
The OP or one of the replies? Seems pretty civil what am I missing?
I never used Scala, Haskell or a functional language other than a small pet project on clojure I usually write small functional snippets within OOP for python (so my job colleagues can still understand most of my code/structure).

"Hate speech against functional concepts" was a metaphor for repetitive comments without foundation against some concepts and highly respectable design choices, where I often saw people pretending these to be dumb without really discuss the points properly, or exploring choices or constructs without acknowledging any single good thing from it. You can consider that a subjective, generalized opinion if you want.

Think that "that functional approach" has a lot to borrow from, even when still working within a mostly imperative language. Perhaps it is not a true red flag but in my eyes it was an involution. Totally subjective if the focus of the language is becoming a better and more advanced C (rival of Golang for example)
Nim is older than Go.
This sounds a lot like what I do with my personal finances and really doesn't take that much overhead and isn't all that complicated. Overall maybe it would take ~4-8 hours to set up all in?

If you are leaving 2M in cash in your checking account and could make an extra 2% on it annually that is 40k for that 4-8 hours. It seems like some pretty low hanging fruit to me.

I understand the point that you are making though. Unless what you pitched to your investors was some sort of investment vehicle it probably doesn't make sense to invest a lot of time trying to beat the market.
visually: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iP...
Humans aren’t obligate monogamous but our level of sexual dimorphism is less than polygynous species like gorillas. Against this is the difference in upper strength where men are about twice as strong as women. Also in hunter gatherer societies we’re familiar with most men do not have multiple mates at one time and from the varying patterns of inheritance of Y chromosomes and mitochondria which are passed down solely along the male and female line respectively ~40% of men leave descendants. That’s not compatible with polygyny. Humans are not obligately monogamous or polygynous but all evidence points to more of the first than the second.
Debugopt: Debugging fully optimized natively compiled programs
Ah yes, see my other comment about Foursquare ads in Samsung Gallery app (was not able to have Exodus Privacy analyze it).
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It’s not attention to detail, it’s vision. There’s no purpose to these devices. Sometimes it seems like there’s too much attention to arbitrary details. For example, the thinness and speed of the iPad, but to what end?

There is a purpose to every device that Apple makes and I would dare say that they are doing it more successfully than any other business when you define “success” by profitability:

- the iPhone - no other manufacturer is making significant money on mobile phones except for Samsung and estimates are that even they make around a fifth of what Apple makes. The “vision” of the iPhone hasn’t changed. It’s a pocket computer and a good camera.

- iPad: the high end Android tablet market is dead. The PC 2n1 market is doing okay when it comes to volume but profitable it’s not.
The non Pro iPad is a consumption device mostly, but the two largest software companies - Microsoft and Adobe are taking the iPhone very seriously and just because it isn’t great for developing, it’s becoming a lot better for other Pro users.

- the Apple Watch - I don’t need it but it’s better in execution than any other smart watch and it’s allowing people to leave their phone at home and of course health and fitness.

- AppleTV: Unlike the Roku (and I have three Roku TVs), they make money the old fashion way - I give Apple money and they give me a box with much better performance than any other settop box without trying to monetize me with ads and without a remote with buttons that go to the highest bidder - unlike one of Roku remotes that have a hard coded button to RDio.

- Mac: a well built computer that I can open up without it looking like a NASCAR car with stickers and crap wars.

HomePod: I got nothing....
The article author should have tried LyX [1]. It's a graphical editor but still uses LaTeX to produce the output. (Its main downside is that its LaTeX import functionality is very patchy.) It has support for a large common set of LaTeX functionality, and there are a few ways to extend it e.g. user macros and modules. If all else fails you can directly insert raw LaTeX in your document; obviously this defeats the point so is best avoided where possible, but it shows that it can ultimately do everything LaTeX can.

The graphical representation shown on screen is somewhat approximate e.g. fonts and sizes are approximate, and line wrapping is totally unrelated to the final output. But it's good enough to understand what's what, and most importantly it's free of all the markup clutter, and that's what the author objects to. It's especially good at this for equations, but it makes a different even just for regular text. Plus it has autocomplete for LaTeX commands (I realise that there are LaTeX editors that do this too).

A lot of people mistake LyX as being a beginner's tool to avoid understanding LaTeX. I would say it is almost exactly the opposite: you still need to understand LaTeX to use LyX effectively. Rather than the markup being right in front of you it's hidden by a layer of indirection, which of course is the whole point, but it makes it harder to understand what's going on when something breaks. It breaks less often (e.g. you never get mismatched close braces) but the hard errors still crop up (e.g. incompatible packages giving really obscure errors about macro expansions).

I've written numerous mathematical documents of various lengths in LyX, and prior to that a few documents in LaTeX including my MSc thesis. When I first discovered LyX I was partway through writing up notes from a lecture course I was attending. In LaTeX it took me about three hours to write up notes for each hour lecture; in LyX it took me one hour per hour of lecture. A factor of three speed improvement! I can hardly imagine how long my PhD thesis would've taken without it.

[1] http://www.lyx.org/
It seems to me that tools for creating large scale projects is a big opportunity. Not everyone who creates a "little Rube Goldberg machine" is a hopeless idiot who is pleased with their creation. Some of them will aspire to create bigger, better machines, and will prefer to spend their time trying to build them instead of setting up a meeting with an incumbent salesperson.
Far from home, NASA grabs stunning snap of Earth from 70 MILLION miles
Disagree. I dislike coding at work, because it's boring infrastructure stuff I have to code. I am 26, I work 32 hours a week and work pressure is very low and there's just no way I'm burning out. A lot of coding is just boring, and if you have been programming for over a decade, you see through the fads that commercial companies hype.
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
Analyze a Soccer Game Using Tensorflow Object Detection and OpenCV (2018)
> I too write scientific papers

With references? The reference management in Word is atrocious and does not scale.
It is difficult to cramp everything into a 3 minutes video that's why. The first part is just the summary so it might be really fast but the next part should be slower.
Metafont does produce bitmap fonts yes. However, it's quite good at generating these for arbitrary resolutions, so I don't think this is actually a problem. Though actually using a non-bitmap solution might work better nowadays since the computing power is available now, it's probably good enough as it is.
The problem is that public figures are exposed on social media to everyone. And even though 95% of the population might be reasonable and decent, you have those 5% who are simply not. Then you catch them on their worst day and so I am sure Matz gets bombarded by all kinds of garbage.

I have noticed this problem in other places where people have to deal with the public at large without a filter. For instance, a retail or waiter might encounter all kinds of rude people on a regular basis.

I wish there was an AI quality filter on social media. Sort of like what @dang does here.
In college I sometimes livetex'd a class, i.e. wrote (full, not terse) notes for a course while the professor was drawing on the board. The above is all necessary, but this is easier than it sounds because speakers pause to let words sink in and to write on chalkboards.

The only thing I've found missing from the Word equation editor is: 1) macros, and 2) the output just looks less nice than in PDF form. To be fair I've never exported but I still think Computer Modern has better glyphs.
Having a certain level of familiarity with it helps: functions and some level of syntax are easy to look up if you forgot them, but the "how it works" should be deep enough in your brain that it comes back once you look at code. The more languages you know, the easier it is to link knowledge to other examples and remember it better.

This is the one thing I find "cheat sheet" summaries of languages helpful for: really quickly refresh memory of syntax and/or common pitfalls. Along the same lines, quick access to documentation. Don't hesitate to write down your own if you trip over things repeatedly.

Have an execution environment ready since you can't as reliably reason about code. For many languages a REPL is a good start, a nice IDE with debugger helps too.
Send me an email via corememory.io and we can arrange a phone call or meeting.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announce they are divorcing
How does this tie in with Linus Torvalds, who himself is accused of being toxic and rude?

Personally, while on the one side it's toxic, rude, not very welcoming etc etc etc, I do believe it's an effective form of leadership - a dictatorship where he can keep the kernel from becoming everyone's party, and where he can avoid years of discussion with a curt "You are wrong, I am right, shut the fuck up" - and from what I've read, often with a list of arguments, so he's not just yelling at people to shut up but yelling at people to be better.

Mind you that's all my superficial interpretation, I don't know the guy, am not involved at all, etc.
Thank you for this wisdom. I am a little more than half your age (37), and I have had a similar path so far, started as IT jack of all trades, then neck deep in web dev and coding, databases, executive management, product management/development, customer solutions and then, to my surprise, back to web dev and coding.

I did this to get back to being hands on, and as a gateway job, and enjoyed it, but am also now starting to tire of that again.

I can see myself going through a similar cycle that you did. The only thing I find difficult is explaining it to recruiters when applying to jobs - they always ask, “why would you bounce around in such a way”!

It looks like perhaps you were able to avoid that problem by starting your own businesses and then getting acquihired, writing your book, and other pursuits which moved you back to a “traditional job”?

By the way, I love “junior programmer by 75”. I feel the same way, and not entirely that it’s a bad thing. Just reality, there is so much to know and learn.
Wait, @dang is an AI?
The interesting part about this that the servers had to be moved to the Netherlands tk make the wiretapping legal. Seems the Netherlands is not only a tax evasion heaven but also useful for wiretapping.
Yep, and Samsung allowing Vodafone to do that.

Also: I wrote that comment 6 years ago!
A better solution is to live IN the city and get rid of the car entirely.
Ask YC: Is old.ycombinator.com written in arc?
Is the Old YC site written in arc? Was the old application system written in arc? What prompted the switch away from arc?
HOW Not TO Launch a START
>After I realized about python was easily beating Nim in [speed]

It is certainly not generally the case that Python beats Nim in speed, not even close. I would imagine something was wrong with your implementation or you hit some weird Nim bug or edge case.
Great spot, the blue card is Barclays, black card is CIMB and red card is Maybank.
> Seems that too many people who discuss on the internet happened for some random reason to read a book, then (maybe) continue to read books in the same vein, and are subsequently unable to look out of the ideological pigeonhole they have jumped into.

They're like people who read only one side's arguments in an adversarial court case: it's the job of each lawyer to tell the most compelling story he can that's maximally biased on his client's behalf. They're not going to call attention to holes in their story or more probable theories, but rather paper over them. If they've done a good job you'll come out of with false impression thinking they're perfectly right (or even righteous), when in fact they may have been totally wrong.

A lot of books are the same way, arguing as strongly as they can for some point of view. People are busy, and like the righteous feeling of thinking that personally know "how it really is" and who the "real" villains are, so they'll often stop after reading one POV, because reading other POVs feels like a challenge to their new righteous-feeling ideology and therefore a challenge to themselves personally.
Goodbye, HMV
I would say your comment is more embarrassing than the author. Your comment smacks of "I know latex, so I'm chomping at the bit to drown out any voices against it!" It seems to me that you didn't fully read what the author wrote. Your entire comment is about your workflow, without much in the way of engaging with what the author wrote.

He is not arguing that latex is useless. Not even that isn't supremely powerful. His argument, in essence, is that a word processor is superior for writing and editing what you wrote than latex is, because there is nothing but text on the screen to get in your way. So, editing is easier.

He directs this argument in direct opposition to those who tout that the _main_ benefit of latex is that it lets you forget about formatting. The author is NOT contesting the typesetting benefits of latex. Nor is he saying "Only use a word processor, version control be damned". He is perfectly happy with markdown, for instance.

He is merely saying don't write in latex just because you think it's better at getting out of your way.
This seems to have built on top of a lot of accepted ideas that were floating around in the academic peer to peer space in the early 2000s. Glad to see some of them getting traction in the wild aside from, you know, old school music pirating networks.
/sidenote

I've tried playing Eve quite a few times, and it just isn't my thing. Reading about Eve, however, has always been an absolute joy.

Even comments like this (which makes complete sense in hindsight) shows me how much (for better or worse) people put into a "sandbox" or game like Eve.

I swear some of the stories are much better than the stuff they toss in theatres.
Please don't stop surfing the web, that is insane. You are staying locked in your news aggregator sites like someone with agoraphobia, that is even more unhealthy than whatever beasties you think are out there waiting for you.
> I wish there was an AI quality filter on social media. Sort of like what @dang does here.

It's probably somewhat possible to implement, at least to filter most of the trolls, since they follow predictable patterns similar to spammers. On top of that, you could plug some sentiment analysis on comments to detect the most negative/rude ones and either block them or make them appear with a lower priority vs other comments.
I'm not going to argue for a cashless society. (Which I agree would be bad even though I primarily use credit cards for the convenience.)

I actually don't use taxis/Uber/Lyft all that much when I travel. If there are good transit options, I usually do that. Or I just walk around a city. However, when I do need to, making the ride higher friction, requiring me to have local currency, potentially being overcharged, etc. are not really a source of exciting travel experiences for me.

I'm somewhat with you on disneyfication and I don't do cruises, rarely go to a resort, and haven't been to a Disney theme park in many decades. But taxi rides seem an odd hill to die on with respect to this question.
Right, but isn't a third party app, is kinda a part of the OS, like deleting Safari.
I was just thinking about this last week. My wife has been looking at houses in the bay. Four years ago when we still lived there and we were looking, it seemed like there were very few options available. We ended up leaving the area and moving to Pittsburgh (which has been great), but we're looking at places back in the bay and there seem to be so many more options today.
No, it's a real person. As far as we know.
I've been programming since I was 8. It has always been to me what gaming seems to be to a lot of people.

It's always been a means to exercise my brain and solve interesting problems. An escape from the mundane triviality of life.

I've never been in love with programming just to program. I've always been in love with that "Oh! I get it!" moment when you finally figure something out. The next piece of the puzzle. Forever working towards the big boss of the next level - delivery.

Gaming never held my attention. Programming for me seems to be a never ending journey of discovery, forever chasing that moment of realization. Programming is just a means of expressing my solutions in one of a handful of languages I speak. It just so happens that the languages are technical rather than verbal.

Did you fall out of love with language or did you fall out of love with solving problems? "Solutioning" as you put it isn't any different than programming - you just feel like you need to express your solutions in a different form... a new language. Perhaps it's at a higher level now rather than being stuck in the details.
I haven't fallen out of love of coding. Instead I fell in love with buying real estate and renovating and earning $$$ passive income from rents. And I fucking loved coding and good at it.

After building wealth and now living abroad.... now I'm in love with having attractive young women compete for my attention.

Tastes change. What matters is that you are happy and your Net Worth is going up consistently and you defining and aiming for goals.
I think you mean privacy, not security, which there aren't really any claims about.

Google aims to provide security updates to all Android devices, but specifically targets their product lines (Nexus, Pixel, etc) and Android One devices as they have a little more control over the software.
for anyone curious about the 1719 financial crisis mentioned in the first paragraph, I recommend this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEVmQZ1QfM

or read about John Law's system:
http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/articles/70/john-law-and...

bonus point if you can draw frightening parallels with today's federal reserve system.
Paypal facilitates problem gambling
Many lenders in Bay area don't charge PMI with an 80-10-10. And you can also have the mortgage be a 30 year fixed loan.
Is it me or homebrew became slower recently?

I recall that some commands where much faster. It takes on average 2.5 seconds to do brew search.

$ time brew search mpv
==> Formulae
mpv

==> Casks
mpv
brew search mpv 2.34s user 0.59s system 67% cpu 4.348 total

This is not autoupdate — this is with set HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS to 14400.
When was the 6S's battery last replaced?

I got my 6S's battery replaced on New Year's Eve to take advantage of the discounted price. I wasn't actually expecting much improvement, because the phone was only a year old and the battery supposedly had 85% of its original capacity.

To my surprise, the new battery has in fact made a huge difference. It used to be that when I left work, my phone had somewhere between 15%-25% remaining, if that. Now, it always has a comfortable 50%-60%
I do all of my browsing through HN with reader view on by default. Have yet to see an ad, pop up or anything annoying. Gave up on desktop browsing entirely as some sites do not offer reader view.
There's a lot to be said for the off-grid lifestyle. Yeah, it's a lot of work, and some of it is a grind, but it is generally very rewarding.