skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it on my old iPhone 8. But it doesn't work that great there, since the spacebar is at the very bottom of the square screen, and therefore there is no further space for scrolling down from there.

On my new iPhone XR it's far more convenient to use, since the spacebar is not at the bottom, and scrolling down (e.g. in order to edit a message) works more reliable.

It still doesn't feel as good as 3d touch on the old thing, e.g. it sometimes doesn't go into touchpad mode when pressed directly after a word and doesn't feel as precise. But it's good enough that I don't terrible miss it.
Weak reference counting is still reference counting.
Just thought I would share that lately I vape marijuana via my PAX3 vape roughly twice a day. I am going through a stressful period, and probably don’t consume it as often normally. But once a day has been typical for me for the past few years.

Something I have observed is that I used to drink alcohol daily. Now I don’t. I’m not sure if it was personality changes or my brain just wanting something, but either way the vape feels way healthier for my body than drinking. I can’t believe I used to drink every day, alcohol is crazy bad for your body.

I think marijuana helps me cope a lot with life. When I don’t vape, stress builds up in my life. I think I do have ways of processing stress without the help of any substances, but I’ve found that even when I’m using much less, some marijuana on the weekends helps me process my stress, chill out, sometimes cry, and get past the hard parts of life.

For everyone out there that still believes the crazy stories about marijuana that many of us (myself included) were told, don’t believe that stuff. Like alcohol, marijuana offers the potential for abuse. But it’s not the devil substance so much propaganda has taught us.
I enjoyed reading your perspective, thanks for sharing. What are some of your go to vegan recipes, say for dinner? I've yet to purposefully set out to make vegan meals and I'd like to change that.
I'd like to read it. Of course, there's the Enchiridion:

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

Which is quite short.
A deep dive into the issue has secreted the secret.
This is a normal camera, a normal radio that transmits it, and a large radio telescope (once, over half a century ago, the largest in the world, but now amateur operated; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory) used as an antenna to receive that broadcast.

I expect the data to be transferred one pixel at a time, but possibly, it’s losslessly compressed.

It’s “Dutch radio amateurs image” because they controlled the camera.
An interesting fact is that it's actually a Post 3D touch feature. It should have been possible to do it all the years. But the feature only had been introduced with iOS 12, after the first phone without 3d touch (iPhone Xr) after some years had been released.

I would have been useful for devices like the iPhone SE too.
Peking, the spelling, 'Pe', well 'Pek' with a glottal stop on the 'k' comes from Cantonese from over a century ago.
I'm going to refer you to the proposal, which explains the rationale behind the change better than I possibly could: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
Actually, what did VC give this company that supported their growth (actual question)? I'm a little bit surprised (having not ever looked into it) that it isn't bootstrapped. I mean, you take people's money upfront and then distribute it monthly, taking a cut. All your operations costs are covered because you are paid upfront. In fact, you should be able to squeeze out even 1 or 2 percent more because you're holding on to people's money in advance. It's recurring credit card charges, so relatively easy to manage expectations of operating expenses.

Is it mostly the social media side of the business that's eating up the money (i.e., the services for allowing the creator to interact with their patrons)?

How is Librepay doing? As they are a non-profit organisation, I suppose that probably means they are boot-strapped (barring a sugar daddy somewhere). I've barely ever heard of anyone using them, so I guess growth is slow, but are they able to fund themselves without volunteers yet?

It seems weird to me that this is not a more open playing field -- especially since these guys aren't even doing payment processing internally.

Edit: As usual, I can answer some of my own questions right after I post. Here is a statement of the progress of LibrePay: https://liberapay.com/about/stats They are distributing about 1400 Euros per week now. Interestingly as of the middle of last year, they were distributing up to 4000 Euros a week, but then it precipitously dropped off (presumably because they blocks donations from certain donors... I seem to remember hearing something about that). So, it's not big enough yet to pay anybody a salary.
For me it somehow shows a good point: Your architecture can be super weird and clusterfucked, but if it just works, people will use it neverthelesss.

I mean, you don't have to care about the architecture at all. You just throw some simple bits and characters at the screen and it displays that for you. I think the simplicity of that got these displays to the point where they are now
Databricks raises $250M, valution at $2.75B
> This app is cool and useful, but a major piece of the puzzle is missing

While I agree pieces are missing when sign communication is needed, just this piece can still life changing for the hard of hearing (who vastly outnumber the deaf). This is for my mother in-law who stopped going to group lunches because she felt so left out, even with hearing aids. If this app works as advertised, there are going to be tablets mounted on the walls running it. And maybe a phone adapter.
Everything from Yuval Noah Harari
Culture and Empire by Pieter Hintjens (he also created ZeroMQ, among other things and titles).

That book offers excellent insight into the stupidity of crowds and how that plays into geopolitics, and more.
No, thats not what he said.
Ok, we changed the title to that from "Programming Z3".
I did not expect OLED to be this much better than LCD before I got the X. It makes an absolutely enormous difference when you use the phone in a dark environment, say to check the time if you wake up at night.
It should be up now
> Sitting in a 2 people office all day is also not great, is it?

Why isn't it?

The only better thing I can imagine is a single office.
Closely followed by home office.
Ah sorry. Second point was Windows.
I almost closed it right away when I saw buzzfeed but read on and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this article. Of course I kept saying in my head “who cares what these idiots say, do the forensic work to put them away for life” every time the article went on and on about the lies these dumbasses spawned to cover their asses.
Appeals to justice and the dignity of all things form the basis of an intellectual revolution. It’s just not televised.
> A lot of those things are conscious choices... I suppose getting good grades is tough if you are not intelligent and were born with a bad brain, or paying attention might be tough if you had ADD.

Or you were surrounded by such people, or the teachers and your parents didn't successfully convince you that school is important. Or the teachers were plain bad. Or you had too much resistance to bullshit.

> I guess if one is looking for an excuse for their shitty upbringing, your parents are the first place to start, not society.

Yeah, probably, and they could recursively pawn off half of the blame to their parents. My point here wasn't to assign blame, though, but to point out that the factors most impactful in one's economic prosperity are essentially beyond one's control. Blaming people born into poverty, or set on a course for poverty early in their childhood, or thrown into poverty by totally random factors, is not fair.

I believe that society has a duty to reduce this variance that's beyond individual control. To an extent, it does already, but we need to do more. It's in our own best interests - happy society is a stable society, and the more opportunities people have, the more productive and innovative the whole. There will be poor people and rich people for as long as you can rank and sort people by some attribute - i.e. forever. But that doesn't mean the poor must suffer.

> Maybe people shouldn't be entitled to raising their kids automatically if they can't demonstrate they'll be a good parent.

That's... hard. Right now, I think it would lead to much more suffering than it would help.

> It may be the only way to solve the problem of poor and underemployed people breeding out of control and creating more poor and underemployed.

That's not how it happens, though. It's not the individuals, and especially not poor people, that create underemployment, it's the market that does. Gainfully employed people end up unemployed, because the job market moved in some direction, raising some people to prosperity nearly by accident (like me and tech; I learned to program out of my own intrinsic drives, I didn't even consider profitability of this until way into my university years), and grounding others.

Also, if we want to create a society of people successful in the market, then there's a whole disconnect between choices they need to make, and the choices society teaches them. What society teaches is: be helpful, be hardworking, conscientious, moral. What to do to succeed on the market: always look for reward, cut corners, be comfortable about scamming people and making the world worse, be amoral. The question is, if we're blaming people for making poor economic choices, are we really willing to entertain a society in which people make right economic choices?
While 'naive' translates to 天真, 天真 doesn't just mean naive. Baidu Baike [1] lists three meanings. Going by the cited references, <<庄子·渔父>> is the oldest and my guess is "真者，故受於天也，自然不可易也。故圣人法天贵真，不拘於俗" is the etymology of 天真.

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9C%9F/1419
I’d bet on insecurity since the guy was trying to overcompensate. I know his type well, gamer background, early teen dabble in illegal, uneducated, turned criminal with zero morals.
Python Foundation's Inaugural Steering Council Election Results
Can AltSchool Edtech Startup Save Itself from Failure?
Are you able to read 2000 characters fluently?

I'd be interested because so far I mostly hear from people trying this approach, but not actually succeeding.

I would agree that the value of writing characters diminishes quickly after the first few hundred.
Just saw the EdgeEngine post recently too, looks like some good competition to Cloudflare along with Fly.io.

The pricing is higher though and some early testing showed inconsistent performance, might have to wait until it matures a bit. Also missing IPv6.
فروش ویلای 400 متری در خزرشهر جنوبی and تصاویر (کد 2): املاک مشاورین خزرشهر
For one week in November, the majority of California had “unhealthy” air quality
> They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well.

What really grinds my gears with this is the fact that you cannot see quarantined activity via the API. If you browse a user's overview on the website, you'll see comments/posts in quarantined subs with a "quarantined" label. But if you fetch the exact same data via API, the quarantined activity is simply not returned at all, even if the account is opted in to the quarantined subreddits. There is no way to retrieve this data, and as a result, my bot can't block users that hail from these cesspools...
Humans are so superior in our intelligence we have figured out how to make knives and cook food.
Interesting article. The worst combination is when people lean on the weight of history, but in an uninformed, cargo cult way. I feel like this is done in American discourse regarding World War 2 a lot, as stunningly exemplified in this clip (Chris Matthews vs. Kevin James on Appeasement): https://youtu.be/YK0d8ENS__c?t=240
Using Artificial Intelligence to Protect Endangered Forest Elephants
The bible is a great book for anyone in doubt about their beliefs.

It made me turn from an doubtful agnostic theist into an agnostic atheist 1/4 through it.

Amazing read. Will definitely not read it again!
Show HN: Fuzzing Go Crypto
Great. I'll have to update my wallet again, fantastic.
GovChat introduces a virtual wallet for their civic technology platform
I can read about 6000 Japanese words. I can read NHK News articles with moderate effort if I have access to a dictionary. I'm not sure how many characters that is and I would be hard pressed to give meanings or complete lists of pronunciations for most characters in the words I recognize. Most sources I've read recommend against the study of characters in isolation. Some recommend ignoring characters completely until you're somewhat fluent, but I prefer reading real texts for self-study over working through textbooks.
That is not amazing battery life, that is "low end smartphone with a decent battery" battery life. My moto g6 plus delivers that kind of battery life. So did my previous phone. Granted, it is not the iOs experience, and the performance is not that of a phone for 3x as much, but I am over all very satisfied.

Not only that, Motorola has pledged to provide official parts when the devices become older.
Show HN: Bitcoin Price Prediction with Tweet Analytics
My GF would complain a lot about me smoking and found study saying smoking cannabis reduces speem count. In return I found study saying smoking pot doesn’t impact conception rates.
There is a huge difference between being downvoted and not being able to express your opinion because of censorship

IMO you should be able to express any opinion, and of course you'll be downvoted if you are a bigot or a religious nutcase

Right now Reddit is going full censorship, which I hate
For personal media libraries, patents don’t matter while quality, size, and hardware support do. So HEVC > VP9.
Cambly (YC W14) is hiring engineers to build a global tutoring marketplace
It took me way to long to listen to my dad's advice and read that book. It has a very bad title and will probably cause immediate social ban if caught reading it at school as a teenager (also kids/teen dynamics are sometimes 100% opposite than adult dynamics, being nice and non critic as a teenager can be super risky in some social settings, it's all about not caring and being sarcastic, thank god this period ends at some point, to most of us), but nevertheless, it's the must-have book to transition from the annoying, hot tempered, emotional, entitled, short fused, sarcastic and boasting teenager I was into an adult.
Yep, giving one the opportunity to work isn't good enough, so State has to step in and create _less_ prosperity (considering that more jobs would be available, or cheaper services and products would be created with the same resources, were it not for the cost of taxes).
"Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" by Zen Master Seung Sahn.

I read it when I was a teenager and it helped me to overcome everyday drama and widely extend limits of my personality.
They have ported their CLR, it's called .Net Core. If you need the legacy .Net Framework on macOS, Linux and the like, you still need Mono,which is not bad at all. It powered Xamarin and Unity for years.
I'm not sure if I agree with your conclusion of "all book interpretation eventually shows the ideology of the reader". It seems too easy to find counter examples.

I think in this case, it's far more likely that your friend is unfortunately not too bright.
Why Does Venus Spin Backwards?
Black levels are one attribute of a screen. However the Xr also has a few upsides: A higher brightness, and no display flickering due to PWM. I personally thought the Xr also exposed less yellow screen tint than the Xs and scrolled with less blur and distortion, but that might have been subjective.

The other thing that is often advertised as pro for the Xs is a higher resolution. However that is not entirely true, since the Oled displays use a pentile matrix, where there is not a full sub-pixel available for each pixel. Which means in other words the difference in actual resolution is not as high as the pure numbers might want one make to believe.

I think both displays are excellent, and won't disappoint.
My laptop can't decode 1080p x265/hevc but works fine with 2.7k x264
→ cat ~/bin/git-all
#!/bin/bash

# Exit on error. Append "|| true" if you expect an error.
set -o errexit
# Exit on error inside any functions or subshells.
set -o errtrace
# Do not allow use of undefined vars. Use ${VAR:-} to use an undefined VAR
set -o nounset
# Catch the error in case command1 fails (but command2 succeeds) in `command1 |command2`
set -o pipefail
# Turn on traces, useful while debugging but commented out by default
# set -o xtrace

help() {
cat <<EOF

usage: git all <any-git-command>

Runs the git command for all repositories in the current directory.

Examples:

What just happened?
git all log -1 --oneline

What am I doing now?
git all status --short --branch

What is everything I'm working on?
git all branch -vv
EOF
}

banner() {
echo -e "\\033[1m=== $1 ===\\033[0m"
}

main() {
if (( $# < 1 )); then
help
exit 1
fi

folders=$(find . -maxdepth 2 -name .git -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 dirname)
for folder in $folders;
do
banner "$folder"
git -C "$folder" "$@" || true
done
}

main "$@"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Little_Piggies

In his latest collection of essays originally published in Natural History magazine, paleontologist Gould examines diverse and diverting topics. The title piece refers to toes, and we learn that five is not necessarily the optimum number. Gould re-examines the work of astronomer Edmund Halley and 16th-century Irish Archbishop James Ussher, who pinpointed the moment of creation (Oct. 23, 4004 B.C.);

Edit: I see The Selfish Gene listed here quite a bit. It might be of special interest to you to read Dawkins "rival" on the other side of the pond - Stephan Jay Gould. His "punctuated equilibrium" resonates with me more than Dawkins take on evolution, simply because it involves something less "neat".

Plus, even as a child I found Gould made me laugh out loud sometimes.
I agree that they are ultimately separate and differentiable in a grammatic sense. Mostly I was taking issue with the sentiment in the GP's summary: "Mandarin introduces new grammatical requirements that English ... [doesn't] even have constructs for, like ... counting words." rather than the linguistic specifics.

I firmly feel that, despite being distinct from measure words, they are close enough to English concepts that it isn't really hard to relate to and learn. Gendered inflections are far more inaccessible to me as a native English speaker than counters ever were!
Working USB stick found in leopard seal's year-old frozen faeces
If I had to bet on it they put up a fake service and scammed the btc by running away with it instead of hacking anything. Manipulation was the name of the game, not so much hacking.
"Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. The claims are hard to prove and I'm not sure how much actually is true (although most things sound plausible), but it changed the way I think about geopolitical events. I usually try to find out what the economic incentives there are behind an event (e.g. wars and oil).
Sounds good. I'll give it a try

Edit: hehe the reviews suggest its quite the polarising tome.
> people trying to get work done wear headphones, which is like a virtual cubicle (minus the personal space).

And strategic positioning of computer screens (+ books and fillers) to kill line-of-sight to other people. My last open-office job, almost everyone did that quite naturally, probably even unconsciously. Not always possible, and were we sitting in the ridiculous shoulder-to-shoulder setting I see in photos of some hip software houses, I'm not sure how long I would last there.
I think it was "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter M. Senge that described a business-style game (retail, wholesale, and production of beer) that in 95% of cases resulted in massive overproduction crisis, very much like what Marx has described. Of course, the cause was very much unlike what Marx suggested; the book is about systems thinking and this particular system was an example of a system with delays in signal passing.
Yeah, it's a starting point, but still the best one with the most clearest thoughts. Every other System Thinking Book is more specialiced to one domain and seem to drive additional agendas.

I can recommend everything else she has written. I go back to "Thinking in Systems" once a year and analyze my life, my projects again with her framework. There is always something new to discover.
About the benchmarks, SMT-LIB has had my instances for close to a decade now :) [1,2] We are now generating non-bitvector benchmarks, and maybe in the Fall we will submit newer instances.

Back in the day, I was foolish enough to implement my own (bitvector) solver. Hoping to outcompete with the assumption that I could encode heuristics informed by the domain (i.e., synthesis-specific). Turned out Z3's "general" heuristics were just faster. You could say, I let Nikolaj and Leonardo take it from there. For completeness, I also did experiment with a bunch of other solvers that were considered good at the time [3]. (Have to caveat with the fact that CVC3, now CVC4, has always been on my list of future-to-try.)

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[1] VS3: QF_BV (bitvector benchmarks) https://clc-gitlab.cs.uiowa.edu:2443/SMT-LIB-benchmarks/QF_B... -- apologies for the unimaginative name. VS3 stands for "(V)erification and (S)ynthesis using (S)MT (S)olvers"

[2] Example SMT instance: https://clc-gitlab.cs.uiowa.edu:2443/SMT-LIB-benchmarks/QF_B...

[3] Engineering for synthesis using SMT solvers: Chapter 6 of PhD: http://saurabh-srivastava.com/pubs/saurabh-srivastava-thesis...
What country? Here it is percentage of your pay (or more precisely it's based on how much social insurance you paid last month and this is based on your current pay). I am under impression it's implemented that way in all of Europe.
Yeah it surprised me too that "Ad selection" was listed as a required thing. Seems wrong.
Run Away
"It's humane to think that someone who had four kids wouldn't lose their job because they had four kids."

It might be more socially beneficial for someone who's going to have 4 kids in 7 years to simply not work at all, and mind the kids.

It's really hard to come in-and-out of most high performing jobs, and if it's a low performing job, well then it won't cover the cost of day care.

We can try to make things more fair, but we can't have everything we want as individuals or citizens.

Also - here in Quebec they have cheap childcare which I think is an even better idea than long maternity leave. Having kids in Quebec no longer totally 'breaks the bank' and basically the cost of rearing kids is kind of 'spread out' over longer period of time, like a kind of 'kid insurance' - you're probably going to have one, so costs are pooled early on.
Thanks for pointing out. Even though I don't share your take on this, I find it interesting.

I think the first example is just some innocent banter of a couple characters from long ago, who had a very naive understanding of the world because they couldn't begin to comprehend its true complexity.

I think the second example is something any cool person would have done, because witches are awesome.