skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really isn't. My girlfriend is a committed iOS user, I'm not. She recently got a new iPhone. Her apps and info transferred over through iCloud, kind of (certainly wasn't as smooth as setting up a new Android device, but it mostly worked), but she couldn't sign into email through Apple's app. There was no setting in the app itself to manage accounts. So we went to the settings app, searched for the email app entry, no dice. Eventually through trial and error, we discovered some obscure entry in the settings app to manage accounts. It makes no sense at all. Literally none. Why not just manage email accounts through the email app? In the Gmail app, want to add a Hotmail account, it's in the fucking Gmail app's settings, where it makes sense. Not in some god forbidden obscure entry 4 layers deep in the OS settings app. No, it's in the email app, where is the first place every sane person would assume.
Here's the Wikipedia on St. Lawrence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence
You forgot the /s (I hope).
For over ten years I ran a consulting business that specialized in replacing key people immediately. If you were funded by someone who knew of me, or were insured by a company that regularly hired me, or placed by an agency that supplies workers, then I would get a call. I stopped when the unicorn employees became more common and easier to replace.
Speaking as a direct competitor of Mailchimp (CEO of EmailOctopus.com), I strongly disagree. It's an enormous market and there are plenty of ways to differentiate yourself.
Thanks for the writeup. I think you're right: the idea of external validation / accountability is definitely involved here as well.

And I think it's easy to read what I wrote to mean that "shame is objectively bad," but that was not my intention. The intention was more to question (and possibly reevaluate) our own relationships to it.

> I find happiness from productivity because I try my best to work on projects that I find meaningful

In the end, it comes down to what makes you thrive, and only you can answer that. Productivity, in its most general sense, can be a way to achieve that. At the same time, for me, it is healthy to question these assumptions every once in a while.
Interesting set of pointers. Another point, that I am not sure whether would qualify as an anti-pattern: asking for forgiveness rather than permission. Basically, using "try... except" rather than "if hasattr(obj, attribute)" etc.
Not true. There may be people looking to get into that field who hope to have the chance to leak information. Imagine someone inspired by Snowden who wanted to unmask some other clandestine program that they didn't agree with or viewed as immoral.
Do you have a deposit protection scheme like we have the the UK? Our refundable deposits don't sit with the landlord or letting agent, they go to a separate company. At the end they release the funds unless there is some sort of damage in which case they investigate and decide whats a fair payment to the landlord.
>* For me, By reflectively using your pre-reflective feeling of shame as a tool for productivity feels wrong*

Well, with that I agree.

For one, it cheapens the quality and utility of shame.

Following this to the end, could end up with cheating on one's spouse or killing someone feeling only as bad as checking your Facebook page when you should be working...
Patagonia embodies these principles far more than Apple
You have to hunt here too, unless you like seeing the same people get into the same fights every week. I’ve found many of the best comments nearer the bottom than the top. Meanwhile Reddits like /history, /compsci, /science, /math, /space, /physics, and /chemistry are all extremely well moderated, informative, and frankly tend to be less of a monoculture. I like HN, but it has some obvious issues that are baked into its dna as a VC-backed board.

Of course if you compare HN to /politics then HN is vastly superior, but then if you compare the average non-technical thread here to anything in /science HN comes off the worse for it. Even putting aside ideological pissing matches bikeshedding, semantic arguments and language wars, you get a lot of weird self-help stuff here that would be funny if people weren’t so desperately sincere about it.
> neither Java nor Go has LINQ-like capabilities).

Not true since Java 8, with the introduction of streams and functional interfaces, which keep being improved with each release.

What Java doesn't have are expression trees, which are convenient but not a requirement for LINQ like features.
That was a high end phone when you bought it. Samsung still sells the S6 and the people buying it today have less headroom to keep it 8 years.
Are PWAs the next big thing? I thought the hype for PWAs had for the most part fizzled due to lack of user interest.
If this is a problem you're having, I recommend checking out a service that integrates with Amazon SES. This is what we do (EmailOctopus.com) but there are plenty others out there. You'll generally save up to 5x on Mailchimp prices.
The reason I want to be able to have different files for different machines was to make slight variations to some of my dotfiles. I used to use branches but it was too much error prone work keeping all my branches up-to-date. I switched to a system where I template my dotfiles, but now I have to expand those templates for them to actually work. I do have leverage when to expand the templates and how to install them. There are a bunch of different ways to do this depending on what you want but what I ended up doing was:

1. Template files using a syntax that was easy find / replace using a regex. You could use an existing one if you like.

2. Generate a bash install script with all the file variants embedded as base64 strings. I can build this script locally, but I also have a travis ci build that pushes up the install.sh script as a gh-pages like branch.

3. I can now curl the install.sh script from any machine I want and bootstrap my dotfiles. The only install time dependencies are bash, curl, git, base64, mkdir, and echo so it's a very portable self-contained script.

4. During install time, I use a case on hostname to determine which files to use and I use git to put them into my $HOME directory using a similar strategy described by the article.

github: https://github.com/djblue/dotfiles
install.sh: https://git.io/vxQ4g
Have you considered using the chat feature for asking questions? Then you could just work your way down the chat log.
Right, because if we hide the information then bad people won't have access to it. One of the first uses of the public Internet was to distribute text files with bomb recipes. That and porn. Cat pictures came later.
I've seen virus alerts for programs that I have written and compiled myself so many times that I don't trust antivirus by default. There are a number of API calls that trigger the alerts without further consideration.
> Java's newly gained native/AOT compilation feature

A feature that exists since around the mid-2000's.

It was only missing from the gratis version of Java, the large majority of commercial JVMs always had AOT support.
But maybe you weren't also a C++ developer, because if you were you'd not made such a ridiculous comparison.
I have no major debts and gave up smoking, where do I sign up?
I don’t think it has anything to do with old age.

I’m in my early 20s and most of my friends’ tech-literacy (or lack thereof) is appalling.

If anything, I’d say it’s worse than in old people - the latter group might not be tech-literate but they at least have a lifetime of experience and some kind of common sense. The younger group is just as bad when it comes to tech but doesn’t even have experience nor much common sense to save them.
Show HN: Image generator in Go with no external dependencies
They have a section on their Website about the AV issues.

https://blog.nirsoft.net/category/antivirus-issues/
Hi,

I'm in the process of improving my Go knowledge by making some stuff. This is just a simple image generator (running as a lambda on Now) that can be controlled with query params. Can be used for placeholders or in Markdown files.

Idk how useful this is for anyone else but I needed to display some colors in a Markdown file and couldn't find much out there to do what I needed – so I wrote my own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

View the code here: https://github.com/br0p0p/imagen-go
There would be no real benefit to Google in doing that, only downsides. Developing the YouTube app cost very little, in the grand scheme of things, and non of Apples offerings are really a threat to YouTube or even YouTube Music.
I wonder if live streaming your work to the whole internet, potentially allowing others to comment, i.e. to help you to spot mistakes along the way, would also work. This wouldn't be applicable to everything, but for open source side projects or open companies like GitLab, that could be amazing. It would also be extremely valuable for other people, particularly in junior positions, as they could see how other people work, that they're not omnipotent, they make misteaks and sometimes get stuck too.
coudn't that be solved with standardized testing procedures, mandatory compliance inspections, and criminal penalties for willful negligence?
The series of videos from Scott & Nate Wadsworth,
aka "Essential Craftsman" with several featuring Cy Swan,
are good example of some of the best YouTube has to offer:
great content for makers and DIY folks,
well produced, well shot and edited,
and they have very little extraneous framing - don't start
them with the sound muted, because whatever they are talking about
starts right at the top. That they (probably Nate)
time-lapse/fast-forward through most anything repetitive
shows just how to save the viewers' time while still showing
the work.
The solution for this is to give them locked down devices like iPhones or iPads.
Re: your edit, Yeah it can! Set up a folder, say 'vim' for your example, and then inside of that folder you have a '.vim' file and a '.config/nvim' file.

Then when you run `stow vim` from the parent of the original 'vim' folder it will symlink everything in there to ~.

You can even have more folders that have a '.config/foobar' inside of them, and when you stow those it will all work itself out nicely!

Edit: You can find examples of this in my dotfiles https://github.com/AnthonyWharton/dotfiles/ (I use stow if you didn't guess :P). For example look at the 'i3' folder and the 'polybar' folder, they both add things to '~/.config '
I haven't, but a friend of mine has. He had a single developer who built the whole product, and had all the code on his laptop (as far as I know, nowhere else) and was in a car accident. Months later he's still in a coma. Killed the project, lots of angry customers and damn near killed the business.

There's ways to mitigate this though, he should have been using source control and someone else should have at least had access.

From the business angle, you can also get "key man" insurance, to provide some financial safety net. I am key to 3 startups, and all of them have key-man insurance against me.
I honestly thought this was going to be a new business slang for reducing workforce numbers.
I watched a video today or something where you can see human beings testing a kids toy. You know that those humans spend there life building or testing plastic toys for kids in europe etc. which will play with it for a short time and wouldn't care for the world if that toy would be something else.

I feel sometimes bad hiring someone to do something i can do. I do know that a professional painter can paint my walls better and quicker than i can and thats probably okay but it still feels weird.

I also visited a 1 Dollar Store in US because we were looking for some tweezers and found them there. Those have been so bad, they couldn't hold onto anything.
I also saw a cable adapter thingy which was 100% not functional as i was very aware of both plugs.This broken shit made it half around the world to be thrown away by me.

We should stop producing shit just because we can.
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I was certainly not a good programmer back then. But when I started writing java (1.1!) instead my bad code was a lot less bad.

While I’m sure it’s possible to write maintainable perl I’ve never heard anyone say “we had 10,000 lines of perl and it was a joy to work with.” Ever.
However cobalt isn't something you want in your garden!
"Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mucker Capital " guys might want to sort this out, the founder doesn't seem worried bout his rep but I'm sure those VCs are.
> The problem isn't that we don't know how to make more powerful batteries right now, the problem is safety.

No, this isn't the problem. The problems are weight, volume, energy density and cost, and the fact that there's no single catch-all battery solution w.r.t. dis/charge rates, capacity, and the aforementioned values. Safety, while very important and somewhat costly (engineers time--mechanical and certificates), is something the big battery companies understand very well.

> The more powerful your battery, generally the more dangerous/flammable/explosive it is when it fail

There's a concept called single-cell isolation that basically obviates this.
GPS satellites aren't in low earth orbit, though. I'd imagine taking out something 12,000 miles up is going to remain out of reach for countries like the DPRK.

There's some fear mongering over China related to this[1], but I don't think the capability has ever been demonstrated because of the implications.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-will-soon-be-ab...

Edit: I posted incorrect information. GPS satellites orbit at ~12,000 miles, not GSO at 22,000.
Another discussion from about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16851021.
It is useful to look at what it took for Nickel Cadmium to be replaced. (NiCd used to be the dominant rechargable battery tech which had replaced PbSO4). Nickel metal hydride came in and replaced the "big" negative of cell memory for NiCd (so it took out a big user facing 'gotcha' to the tech.) LiOn replaced the weight of NiMH which was a big user facing gotcha.

The next battery technology will have to be as light as LiON, have similar power densities, and be impervious to catching on fire I think (that is the current 'gotcha' of using LiON batteries today).
This is useful. Are they on Amazon or eBay yet? A backup phone for when you don't want to lug around a mini-tablet is useful.
I looked into it since commenting. Klipfolio might be able to do this, but it wasn’t clear how to get a gmail inbox count.

Then I remembered I use Numerics to put monthly sales on my apple watch. I checked, and it can get email inbox counts at least! They have a ton of data customization. Will see what other services I can add.

Ios only for now unfortunately. May come to mac once Marzipan happens: https://cynapse.com/numerics/

Edit: doesn’t have messages beyond email unfortunately. Though there is perhaps a way to jerry rig something using zapier and one of their supported services such as Trello or Todoist. Klipfolio does support Slack.
Most other OSes have the functionality of these tools as built-ins. If anything it’s concerning to see that Windows still doesn’t include features out of the box.
It is easy to demonize Shkreli when you look at the 5000% number.

Yes, it is. Very easy.

And why would a hospital buy so many pills if they knew they're eventually going to throw them away by the 100s?

And what supplier only sells low demand pills by the 100 count?
Thank. You. Elon. Musk.
The world is cleaner thanks to you and your battery research.
The fake media is "concerned" about global warming yet they vilify you.
That syntax was based on Oberon-2 (1991), given Robert Griesemer's presence on the team.

PROCEDURE (q : Query) GroupBy*(field: String): Query;
BEGIN
(* .... *)
END GroupBy;
This is amazing and exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I had trouble finding it because I was searching for "quadcopter" and not "quadrocopter," I think.
It was a really great talk, thank you for that!

One direction that I've seen a lot of game engines heading in lately is the Entity Component System model for a lot of the same performance reasons (cache locality of data being the big one) that you've landed on the Actor model.

I'd be curious to know if you'd looked into the ECS model at all, and if you have how you view the tradeoffs between that model and the Actor model proposed in the talk. At a gut level, I get the feeling that your model seems much better suited to the distributed nature that you accomplish in your talk, and that ECS might be slightly more effective at allowing composition in an effective way. You've got so much more experience with both, though, that I'd love to hear you take if you've got one.
It sounds like you are basing your life on negative emotions only. Just so you know, there is another universe out there, based on positive ones.
Will you be rewriting Cloudflare in rust?
*severe fungal infections in non immunocompromised patients would be new. Probably what you meant, just making it clear.
> Users get 1% for card use but 2% for apple pay

2% cash back on cards is quite common. Especially if you earn enough to be deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem.
For what it's worth SES has already been shown to correlate with methylation.

I don't have time to look at the source -- can somebody buy the paper, read it, and tell me what they did to control for mutation load? That would be an obvious potential cause, methylation processes are susceptible to that.
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No. We don't do that here.
Normal office environments already have managers that are plenty capable of watching and critiquing everything you do all the time, but at least in my experience, that's almost never how it goes. Good managers know that freedom and autonomy are empowering. I'm sure others have had much worse experiences, but I think it's mostly well-established that micromanagement is a bad thing.

Whether it's in-person or with a tool like this, if your employer is creating an unreasonable amount of pressure/stress, then that puts them in a weaker position in the job market than companies that treat their employees well. Give them feedback, and if they're not receptive to feedback, see if you can ask for a raise or find another job.
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Tools are so good malware started bundling it instead of re implementing functionality = virus scanners equal tool presence with malware, lazy.
Read between the lines, you twit. What he's saying is it doesn't make sense to place a schlub in command of exceptionally potent information, if they feel even remotely unfulfilled.

To wit, the nuclear launch codes. Do you want someone mildly depressed in charge of them? And yet, no questionnaire on earth can adequately quantify a propensity for depression, well enough that the authority for launching the missiles might be reasonably secure an any one person's hands.
What Is Wrong with Grammar Checking Tools: 3 Main Problems and How to Fix Them
Medical professionals say that a used razor can transmit infections and recommend even monogamous couples don’t share them. They wouldn’t re-use a razor more than they’d re-use a needle. You need to apply a little common sense beyond saying re-use everything.
> you need to have a well defined task, that you need not be bogged down by insane deadlines

Aren't these pre-requisites to all work? How does working alone solve them?

The thing that's often overlooked is that pair programming is a skill, and you need to learn it to do it well. Just putting two novice pair programmers at a computer and asking them to "just do it" will usually result in a lot of frustration.

I was fortunate to be pairing with a lot of seasoned pros in my first time.
What’s the rationale for not naming them here?
my original point was already a response to your quote from the article, what is there to expound on? the problem isn’t an AI problem it’s a malicious actor problem
When you take a walk and come up with clever solution to expensive problem wouldn't it be more valuable than proving you deliver keystrokes constantly?

I think you need to have some explanation, at least for yourself, what kind of value you deliver even when you are just around not so occupied.
Hmm. Re: "Apple’s evolving brand promise. The old Apple promise was that you don't have to worry if the tech works. The new promise is you don't have to worry if the tech is scamming you. Everything Apple showed was about curation, safety and trust. No tracking, no scammy ads, no loot boxes, no weird credit card charges."

The evolving brand promise thing seems right to me as a general principle, but it doesn't seem either new or particularly applicable to these services. Apple has always had a major competitive advantage in being relatively free of scams and attacks---much less malware than windows, zero OEM-installed garbage compared to windows or android, SIP and App Store curation, etc. etc. But I'm not sure how that point applies to the rollout of services that are competing with established and legitimate players. Nobody's going to choose Apple over Netflix or Steam or the like on the theory that Netflix/Steam is "scammy."
>Apple already has a strong ecosystem effect, especially in the US

I don't believe it's as strong as Apple would have people believe. It may be that I fail to understand Apples US reach, but I don't see that owning an iPhone makes customers stay with in the Apple ecosystem. I would be surprised if even 25% of Apples iPhone customers have an existing subscription to an Apple service.

The new products/service also seems like a failure to plan for beyond the US marked. Neither of the four service seem like something that would be enticing to customers in other countries. To me it seems like Apple has come to the end of the road, there are no new device or service, to they attempt to make a little profit in four niche markets.
Sometimes they do [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2018/12/18/she...
They have 3 investors in the first and only round: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homeshare#section-in...
From the linked article [1]:

> Transforming cells, via modules, into the whole battery pack typically adds 30% cost per kWh on top of the cost of the cells alone.

And to get a bit more info on what a module is [2]:

> A battery module is more than just a mechanical frame that holds the cells - it also includes bus bars to connect the cells electrically, a cooling interface and a sensing harness, which sends information about the state of each cell to the battery management system.

[1]: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/09/100-kwh-tesla-battery-c...

[2]: https://evannex.com/blogs/news/learn-more-about-tesla-batter...
This varies by state. I know at least some states do.
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not...
For sure. It’s not an amazing card from a cashback perspective. But, many people will get this card regardless (for convenience, for the privscy, for the analytics, etc).

And they will have an incentive to ask stores about apple pay: double cashback. That’s my point. Apple will be passively mobilizing these people to spread contactless acceptance.