skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that "offline-ready" is a feature that's becoming more and more supported and prominent. I don't know anyone else in the power user community who doesn't have home internet, but since getting rid of ours, I've made that feature a high priority of all apps I've been dreaming up and selling.

I've even gone so far as to remove the concept of "live data sync" from all my apps, partially because it's so incredibly error prone and hard to get right, partially because it tends to make software seem laggy and slow since it shows stale data while loading live data in the background, and partially because usually it's unneeded as a built-in feature if you're just using files, which can then be synced with any of the many file syncing service (iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box).

Although it's very doubtful other power users will adopt internet-less lives, if more of us did, not only would we be more productive, but we'd all have more incentive to make "offline-ready" a much better experience and even move to "offline-first" like I aim to.
"studies" aka computer models that assume luck is a significant factor and then conclude luck is a significant factor
And judges never give out different sentences based race or affluence....
This looks promising. I wonder how much the subscription would be, but I'd rather just pay here than buy multiple subscriptions for a handful of articles I read.
I know ChargePoint stations in the US accept standard tap-and-pay, so are compatible with Google/Apple Pay.
I have to confess that I mainly use \LaTeX for almost all my studywork, because I have my templates for it, automated my workflow with scripts, and I don't think I ever want to draw an automata again without the tikz package...
Hey, your startup is really good and I'm pretty sure it will be a hit. I have been thinking to implement such a system myself and I have done plenty of basic research on this topic. The idea comes at the right time.
They sold off craftsman a few years ago; the warranties are still honored by new retailers, including Ace Hardware, Lowes, Blains, and Atwoods.
If all those families moved to Germany because there was no future in Turkey, it's highly unlikely that learning Turkish will do any good for them. I think the objective of a public education has to be to improve the lives of people, if they want to learn Turkish or Klingon they should pay for it themselves.

Also I can imagine that adding a new language choice is very expensive.
The bay area is a vast driving horror. I laugh when I see people say the word NIMBY because it's like let's double or triple the number of cars on the road here! Then you all claim these new people are going to live next to their grocery store and workplace and won't own a car. Oh dear. If you can't even control the nimbys what makes you think you can enforce that?
Is the video not playing for anyone else?
If you have any evidence that suggest that anonymity doesn't amplify harmful behaviors in people predisposed to them, I'd love to see it. But my long anecdotal experience says otherwise. As does internet lore [1] and a number of studies. [2]

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

[2] https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/who-is-that-th...
These sanctions are not unilateral actions by the US, so no, I don't "act that way". These sanctions we're passed by the UN, of which China is a permanent member.
This story (and from different outlets) is now all over the press, which is great.

Can I add another qualm in a similar vein? It involves Samsung TV's. I'm convinced Samsung is increasingly mean.

I only use streaming services (Netflix, et. al.), and for the past year I've been pretty pleased with "Smart TV" functionality, which makes life easy. That is, until the following happened. After a recent update, the TV:

* Now starts up automatically onto some broadcast TV station, I think it's some sports station. There is No Way to turn this off, because it's not an app, but a new functionality built into the TV. By "broadcast TV" I don't mean the old-school antenna or cable, I mean the equivalent of live broadcast TV streaming via the Internet. If I turn the TV off, for example, while the YouTube app is up, when it turns back on, I get that streaming broadcast crap again.

* The broadcast crap has commercials, and sound on.

* Ads have ALSO popped up in place of one of the "buttons" in the Apps menu.

You're not enraged yet? Let me save the best for last:

* When using the voice functionality on the remote during a search (either on YouTube or someplace), a popup jumped up telling me that I needed to accept THREE terms and conditions (three checkmarks), and click OK, or I could not use the voice functionality. The TOC involved aggregating my searches and data for ad purposes, and it said something about other Samsung devices. Luckily, I don't own any.

I went back to plugging my PC into the TV.

Folks, please do not buy any Samsung products.
I met Matz briefly once. The most striking thing about him to me was his calmness, and desire to listen. I never felt like he was just humoring me, and he had some good pointers for me too.

This thread resonates with that to me. He's just a guy, like any of us, trying to make something beautiful and good for the world. There may be issues, bugs, or even serious design issues, but we're all in this together.
The latter is how I discovered the former.
For something with a little more firepower, I like: https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate
In the US I hardly ever use cash.
I'm done with all Samsung products until they get their shit together.

- no upgrades
- flat out horrible bugs that are never fixed
- bloatware that you can't remove
- shoving their apps down my throat.

Just about to buy a new TV and Samsung is explicitly excluded. Next phone won't be a Samsung either. I'm done.
Suspiciously similar to an article published by CNBC yesterday: "Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/facebook-culture-cult-perfor...
Why can't it be a common off-the-shelf VoIP server with a custom deployment? e.g. a Mumble server behind TLS with client authorization?
It might be difficult, as chinese is incredibly difficult to learn. It seems just like a way to appease the Chinese government. I wonder what how they teach english.
Ah, ok. Still, I'd vastly prefer a transcript.
I would imagine this is just a standard open source SIP server or something plus VPN, with encryption turned on.
It's not just in Word, it's Unicode in general. Unicode doesn't even have all of the letters available for superscripts and subscripts. I think q is one that doesn't exist as a subscript in Unicode. It's a good system but isn't math-ready.
> Is it reasonable to expect a 10 year old car to operate the same as the day you bought it?

Poor choice of analogy, with proper maintenance this is perfectly reasonable and fairly trivial to achieve.
Sometimes having parts of a business already in place actually makes it harder to do something new. The same way tearing a house down and building new is often easier than trying to remodel.

This is why I’m so fascinated to see which carmakers can transition to electric. Lots of people think it’s easy the automakers just don’t feel like it. I’m curious if that’s true or if there’s an inertia thing going on.
English is not mandatory in India. Just that virtually everyone chooses to learn it.
I posted this comment twice, which I thought should be ok, but somebody probably flagged it as spam? No idea ... could be Apple's social media reputation team ...
Yes you can. Have you never heard of someone having an attractive personality? People also have different tastes and different ideas of what is attractive. You can also become more attractive as you age. You can also have plastic surgery.

Your genes that set physical attractiveness have little to do with just how attractive you actually are, who else may or may not find you attractive, and your chances for successfully passing on your genes.

Eg, your genes aren't the entire story, maybe not even most of the story.
Programming Discord Server
Could it just be because he likes it?
I'm not arguing I'm favor of covert attempts to iverthrow foreign governments, but wanting to replace a regime and wanting to murder all _citizens_ is not even remotely the same thing.
And then you have Thumb instructions. If you don't know if you'll stay in Thumb or ARM mode, you can still have weird instruction mixing.
Keshi – A better in-memory cache for Node and the browser
There is a recent development that provides a much smaller subset: TinyTex by Yihui Xie (who has made many contributions to Rmarkdown). See https://yihui.name/tinytex/

One can add just the packages you need and it can be installed in user directories for people who do not have admin privleges.
My dad did the same thing and knew he had to stop when he turned around in his kitchen and his friendly squirrel was standing there asking for a peanut.

Be careful because squirrels can really do damage if they get into your attic or house.
I find the people quickest to go on about anthropomorphism tend to have the least experience with animals. When you think about it.'s quite the intellectual conceit to assume you fully understand the decision-making of another creature and that it is entirely dependent on food. Reminds me of certain economic ideologues who insist everyone, whether they know it or not, is motivated by money and self-advancement.
It's worse than that; that study only counts things that benefit American producers vis-a-vis Canadian ones. For example, American corn subsidies depress the global price of corn, benefiting both American and Canadian milk producers.
What does it matter who the author of the article is? Some random nobody raising interesting issues about Jackie Chan's autobiography -- what he says, what he leaves unsaid -- seems valid to me.
Reposting from below.

Eastern grey squirrels were deliberately introduced into city parks for the enjoyment of people.[1]

Also wild animals are flexible enough in their behaviour to accommodate interactions with humans.

If you observe them carefully, you can see them switch from 'normal' behaviour to the behaviour they use when interacting with people.

It's kind of like when you speak two languages and can switch from one to the other in an instant.

[1] The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States Etienne Benson J Am Hist (2013) 100 (3): 691-710.
I think this style would be much better suited for short haul trucking. If you had trucks going from supplier to distribution center you could just swap out for the return trips. If they weren’t running near round the clock it might not be feasible.
Yes, look at ROP gadgets, for example.
Cognitive biases don't work like that. Yes, you may believe in some fashion that the world isn't just. But that doesn't mean you won't apply the fallacy when it backs some previously held view.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/538/

No matter the technological sophistication, humans will always be the weakest link in any secure system.
Some info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote.
Apparently one of the trends is error establishing a database connection.
Missing since October 31st, this is horrible.
In python you can concatenarme strings using the operator plus, using templates, the method join, putting them in buffers or streams and many other ways just using the main python builtin functions just to name a few (no std library yet!)... the support for slicing is also very good and compare strings has a cost O(1) due comparing IDs instead of their content every time (optimize thanks to immutably as property).

Python 2 had several shortcomings, but not with strings I think. The transition to python 3 is more more a matter about a migration execution rather than a technical aspect related to strings (which I don’t find that terrible, especially given all facilities provided to make the migration easier to the new incompatible runtime).
I've been toying with Nim over the past few months and really like it and hope its adoption picks up post 1.0. I've been using Python for 10+ several years and Go for the past two years and returning to them after a good Nim coding session always feels a little depressing. My favorite feature is the Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS).
We have this tendency to look at successful people and think we can imitate them and have their success. I see Bill Gates is always giving a list of his favorite books of the year. Sorry Bill, if I read your books, I won't be a billionaire. Well Jackie Chan as great, talented, funny as he is. No matter what, I will never be him. Survivor bias and luck play a large role beyond what hard work and pain alone do.
What you're saying is that Android has undeletable apps because Android was created in such a way that it allows undeletable apps. Which is circular logic.

And the issue here is pretty clearly that users have to resort to adb to disable these apps. Why does Android force this? There is no reason, it could easily be built into the Android GUI.
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In theory services wages grow in line with product inflation. Plumbers make bank though.
I think you are confusing what the article means by clutter. You don't keep things in the third room that are unnecessary. It is just that spending time organizing them in a system that would appear visually de-cluttered would be a waste of time. Your third room might eventually need to be cleaned out once your cache gets full of things that, for one reason or another, you don't need anymore.
(as said in the other comment thread): you can delete many stock apps in iOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208094
I remember an article on HN about disappearing techs who were kidnapped by cartels to build them a custom telecoms network or something. Wondering how related this could be to that.

Edit - found the article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145003
So i have been working on an embedded project lately where i had to export the framebuffer to an sd Card. I used a raw Format first (netppm) and had to use vim in hex Mode to validate the header. So this is really neat. I was looking for an padding option in the readme but i guess i ll have to install it later
No one taught us how to work. Jake Kahana wants to change that with Caveday
"Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit."

Unrelated, but I suppose this is why there is so much controversy and disagreement as to whether Floyd Mayweather actually is the greatest boxer ever (which he himself has claimed multiple times he is), as he puts so much effort into not getting hit (and some say he runs away from opponents, only fights them before or after their prime, never during their prime). But he does have that 50-0 record.
It's especially ironic, given Prop 13 and the consequences it entails about affordability for incumbent residents.
Which kind of dog? Mine are curious when I get new shoes or clothes but seem to appreciate that this related to my fur deficiency.
You can think of clutter as a ratio of stuff to space... adding space is one way to deal with it. Just not one that’s practical for most people without major life upheavals like moving house.
It could be all sorts of things. But given your absurdly voluble dodging of points, and give that you're now on to "the anti-racists are the real Nazis", I think stick with my previous understanding.
> swim hundreds or thousands of miles

Some penguins can fly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4
It's the Insider's Edition "with handwritten footnotes and afterthoughts".
Sounds like facebook counts accidential clicks.

It often happens to me that I click on ads on my phone accidentially, but click back before the page actually loads.
Amazon is now the most valuable company on the planet
Ask HN: What do startups use for office seltzer delivery?
I'm interested in how other founders are solving for something like getting seltzer delivered to the office. We're too small to have someone in charge of it so it's on my todo list as a founder, which is fine but would love any services that currently handle this!

Right now using amazon fresh but it sucks for plenty of reasons I'm happy to get in to.

Any feedback or help would be great!
Zoom.us slow connection
This is fear-mongering. The app is a stub and it doesn't do any tracking. I used to work at an OEM - this is just an agreement that Samsung and Facebook signed.
Oh they turned him to their side. I was wondering how he could give away anything while they showed him the finger(s) :D
So what you're saying is that blocks of cheese are milk batteries. I like it.
Tangential story, who remembers when the US government "accidentally created a cheese surplus so large it had to be stored in a ginormous cave."

Great podcast on it from Planet Money:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/epis...
Would be cool if someone could just create infographic with all 2019 UI and UX Design Trends as single image.
XPS 13 here, it does happily accept any 45W+ charger but the "charging" light does not turn on and in Windows, does not display anything like "plugged in but not charging" for anything less. I'm not sure why this is or if it actually does trickle charge while completely powered off, just not showing it
It's cheaper to develop the app that authorizes you to charge and deducts from a balance ($10, for example) than the credit card transaction fees that are unsustainable at charges between $0.50 and $10. This is no different than how tollways charge your credit card on file to replenish a balance, and then deduct from that balance (or even how Twilio does billing).

TLDR Credit card fees are expensive, especially when your margins are thin and you are not yet at scale where you have pricing power to pressure processors to lower your CC fees.
If you're buying a 15+ year mortgage and haven't budgeted any slack in your monthly payments and you're not expecting any income growth for 15+ years, then you shouldn't be buying the mortgage in my opinion.
The way you describe investing "What if I have a dual income house hold and we can afford to do this because even if I lost everything my spouse would account for enough income to cover our expenses" is a lot closer to gambling.

They are two very different things.
Is there any easy way to list all installed packages for which I've customised options, and what the options I've used are?
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I have been doing a lot of reading about systems thinking and mental models.

The klaxons have been blaring for a long time now. All of these truths are inconvenient.

I have pretty much lost hope that we are going to fix anything. Let's hope these flaps of a butterflies wings do not lead to further ecological collapse and make our planet inhospitable to human survival.
Here is the list of closed issues/PRs said CTO made in case anyone was curious: https://github.com/coleifer/peewee/issues?q=author%3Akeredso...
The most effective crapware is ever-present, pervasive crapware.
Do you really think learning chinese won't be economically helpful in the coming decades?

Also, what makes you think learning a different language is just "learning different ways to say a word"? This only makes you seem uninformed on the subject. Do you speak more than one language?
Are millennials really that poor and struggling?
Xiang?
Particularly in the case of a minor, who has no say in the contract. Chan was sold into servitude while most of were still in primary school. The way I read it, he wasn't able to break free until his early-20s.
I think the lack of respect in the west is due to his political views and ties to China.
There are a lot of papers/research on the design of a traditional web crawler.

Basically you have a link rank build out your crawl frontier and then you have an incremental ranking algorithm re-rank the frontier.

The problem is that latency is a major factor.

Many of the top social news posts start from some random user that witnesses something very interesting and then that shoots up rapidly.

Our goal basically has to be to index anything that's not spam and has a potential for being massive.

Additionally, a lot of the old school Google architecture applies. A lot of our infra is devoted to solving problems that would be insanely expensive to build out in the cloud.

We keep re-running the math but to purchase our infra on Amazon web services would be like 150-250k per month but we're doing it for about 12-15k per month.

It's definitely fun to have access to this much content though.

Additionally, our customers are brilliant and we get to work with the CTOs of some very cool companies which is always fun!
Hi!

I used put all my ideas in a google doc, plain and simple. But then I started realizing that all my "great" ideas just rotted away because I never had the time or will to make anything of them.

So I started building a (very simple, and rather ugly) web page where I could put my ideas, and have other people (family mostly...) look at them and make comments etc.

To me it makes great sense to open source ideas, and let anyone comment and contribute to them. This way they can grow into something much more interesting.

If anyone is interested in having a look, feel free to do so at https://www.innoventory.com . Anyone can look at the current list of ideas, but to post your own, you need to create an account with an email address (btw, the "artwork" is not up to date with the domain name, but you will get the idea)
I wish it would work with less or have less like features, taking the first n bytes is okay, but pretty minimal.
Is squirrel a race now?
Did you read the research paper?

> Three experiments tested the novel hypotheses that orderly environments lead people toward tradition and convention, whereas disorderly environments encourage breaking with tradition and convention—and that both settings can alter preferences, choice, and behavior

Drawing conclusions from a single research paper referenced from an _opinion_ piece correlating messiness to alterations in choice and behavior in no way discounts the benefits of a clutter-free environment.
Well tuned and calibrated surveys, coded free-form responses (takes care to implement), net promoter scores, heck, at scale it might make sense to hire polling agencies to do this.
Someone probably expressed this idea, but why why why tech companies stay in SF area ? Their operations do not depend on being local to SF. It looks like the tech sector is the single driver of the SF economy. Everyone is quick to blame regulations or residents who support these regulations, but why not to press tech giants to move, even gradually, their operations elsewhere, or distribute it across the whole state/country/world, starting from depressed areas with no jobs.
This attitude may be technically correct, but it's not very productive. Why emphasize your own lack of control over your life? It's certainly possible for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, even if the inverse is not true.
You said nothing that wasn't painfully obvious. My point is to build the backend right so you don't have to rewrite it again later. The time investment in the beginning will pay dividends as you scale (unless you are just mocking up or making an MVP)
>I only ask because most of my friends have this perception that D&D personalities are a little "awkward" and would not give it a chance, but have no issues going to board-game nights.

The game only has as much awkwardness as you bring with you. If they like each others' company playing Settlers of Catan or whatever, there's no reason that will change playing D&D.

That said, it does take a little commitment and pushing out of your comfort zone to really get into role-playing. But in that sense, your D&D group shouldn't be any more awkward than an Improv troupe, music jam session, or Toastmasters meeting. Any time you're asking people to "perform" in some way it can be uncomfortable, but it's the good kind of discomfort that helps you grow as a person.