skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I did read the entire article. Neither you nor the article (detail light) listed anyway that the third party apps were better than iOS built in features.

Until you do, I think it’s safe to say that your unsubstantiated opinions are just that. Again, can you cite any feature that the third party apps have that Apple didn’t either include recently in the screen time feature or the parental controls that have been there forever?
Fusion power startups go small in effort to bring commercial reactors to life
Jesus Christ. Sometimes you get downvoted. Sometimes you get upvoted. Either describe the damned concept or stop wasting our time lamenting how much we'll express our dislike.
cached page: https://web.archive.org/web20190428003002/http://castel.dev/...
"Consulting doesn't work because you can't sell consulting to a competent organization and you can't deliver consulting to an incompetent one."

Hale's Law*

*i.e. me.
By my experience, the language being used is orthogonal to companies willing to hire such low level devs out of the street.
Laser printers economics:

The more expensive the printer, the amortized cheaper the cost per page and the more repairable it is. I worked at nuclear engineering firm and a Pac10 university in IT on the budgetary side. The cheap laser printers were almost always unrepairable. I remember this one laser printer, an HP 5si, that had a page count over 1 million pages.

At home, I had an HP LaserJet 4 from mid 90's that worked for around 25 years. I think I changed the toner cartridge once from Laser Monks.

People who buy inkjet printers keep throwing them away because they dry up or their cheap displays stop working, and end up buying another cheap throw-away printer and set of cartridges. The razor-blade economy is in the cartridges and almost giving away the printers. And they never last, and people keep throwing the old ones and buying new ones.

ProTip: home gamers should buy a repo big name corporate laser printer, preferably black&white or maybe the medium/higher-end color mopiers. Never the entry model because they're cheaply made.
My new office is full of people with wireless noise-cancelling headphones. Which sounds pleasant until people start firing up conference calls with other remote workers.

The lack of auditory feedback to the ears results in people talking 2 or 3 times louder than if they were on a wired telephone (and we have none of those).

I complain about the noise level and the response from management has been “well, maybe you should get some noise-canceling headphones”

This is fucking madness.
Ignoring C++ and Assembly completely. C++ is more important than C, especially for Swift's use cases, like multi-platform phone and desktop apps, video games, etc.
In the UK this is illegal, since 2013 police can fine up to £100 and three points on your license however I don’t think it has made a blind bit of difference. Aggressively moving to the slow lane after overtaking sometimes helps..
I'm surprised how these traditional organizational structures still exist so strongly today. It sometimes feels like the whole agile/lean revolution (with self-managed teams) never happened.
> The pay is capped at 1800 EUR / month, so if she earns well she'll lose a ton of money.

Uh, I haven't had to use it but from what my siblings told me it's always a massive pay cut. You supposedly get 60% of your normal wage... Capped to 1800€
isn't that the same as many languages? Everyone just defines the functions that matter with __cdecl and moves on.
This. I've had this discussion with many people who think they're entitled to use the left lane if they're going the speed limit or above, because they see themselves as enforcing the speed limit for the people behind them. I ask them to show me their badge, and when they cannot I explain that they have no authority to enforce speed limits without one. Most of them still don't get it.
To twist this slightly more positively: standups where remote or wfh people can join in and watch silently, and instead of forcing everyone to say something, just let people share what they want. And have a doc of notes for people who missed it and care. Way better than traditional standups.
> I wonder though, are there any alternatives to inscape in which you can draw graphs quickly?

yEd [0] might be one. There's also an online version with (currently) a tad reduced feature set [1].

[0] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
[1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed-live

There are a number of other applications, though. I still like Graphviz for quickly creating a graph structure, but tweaking its layouts can be cumbersome (Note: yEd Live supports rudimentary Graphviz import as well). There's also dia, draw.io, Gliffy, LucidChart, OpenOffice Draw, Omnigraffle. And PowerPoint works to some extent as well.

(Disclaimer: I work for yWorks.)
Yeah, in the modern era, I can't understand how on-ear headphones made it out of the lab. Walkman days: sure. Today? DIWhy?
> using Python for building a complex application with large numbers of rich data structures.

Eh, you don't need to though. Python can be the glue for your tools, if you will. Writing the meaty parts can be done in C/++, while you glue everything together in Python, giving you the best of both performance and ease of writing.
I am not sure why wealthy people donate to universities run by maxists.
I don't think they said it was legally required, just that it would be very beneficial. They didn't offer a price, nor were they ever asked how much they'd pay. But I'm not aware of any platforms that charge extra for their accessibility features. Are there any?

The reason there isn't much competition in the space is that OverDrive has a huge lead, and it is very complex on the back end. NYPL is doing good stuff with the SimplyE project, which they are offering to other libraries as well. Hopefully this will spur innovation in the space, in many regards!
Does Swift have "better documentation"? Because I've always found Apple's developer documentation a bit lacking.
C yes, C++ no. I'd say C++ is way more commonly used as the common application logic, for cross-platform phone/ desktop apps, so this represents a significant roadblock.
I think Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electrical Sheep" (Bladerunner's inspirational material, yes; but very, very different) has an impressive walkthrough of these predicaments.

AFAIK Dick always wrote about "what is actually real?", and in this book, it's about empathy and wanting things to be real. He manages to incorporate several levels.

Animals, replicants, spouses and God. What about life-affirming replicants, what about deplorable humans? It is impressively thorough!

It's not an easy book to grasp (for me at least). My interpretations is that the "other's'" status is about our recognition through wanting other to want something and how difficult that is to accept and align.

If "the other" isn't going to want to recognize itself in your desires, the relationsship isn't real.

At that point, I think the subject has transcended robots.
In this case, "better" might mean none at all. EU countries with lots of maternity leave are really lacking in children.

Without maternity leave, of course there is a disincentive to have any children. Once you do have a child though, you might as well have a bunch of children. You've already blown the career. This probably explains the odd result of countries with more maternity leave having fewer kids.

Another factor may be that the cost of maternity leave is passed on to everybody. Depending on legal details this may be via higher taxes, lower pay, and higher prices. It obviously isn't free. People often react to higher costs by having fewer kids. The policy may thus have the opposite of the intended effect.
I like how this is a trend now, fake popups, fake url bars.

Maybe _unique_ browser designs would help users.
I googled this and it was a complete waste of time. Charles Murray essentially argues that heritability plus assortative mating makes it so that the gap between the smart and the not so will grow larger. The smart will come from the upper middle class who are already going to college because they're going to marry other upper middle class people who go to college and make kids who will be upper middle class and go to college.

He also strongly argues that your ability to succeed is a measure of your innate intelligence. (perhaps this is the part that user/yasp thought would be considered abhorrent?) and that combines with the earlier parts to say that there will be increased stratification and it will be on intelligence as well as on money.

This whole thing is a waste of time because I gained nothing novel from having chased this vague-ass comment. Ugh.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...
The solution IMHO is not to substitute the emotions, but to understand, control and channel them by equanimity, concentration, meditation, investigation and mindfulness.
My boss is engineering manager at our company of 60 people (he leads 16 engineers) and still finds time to get down in the weeds solving tech problems in addition to managing us. I’m his number 2, based in another country and am responsible for managing/supervising 7 engineers. I too am expected to do development work AND management of the team.
Swift can be pretty bad due to how much the compiler wants to guarantee. Doing certain things can also really make it take a long time (like doing a ton of casting on a dictionary). I personally think it’s worth it and saves me a ton of time other places but I do have warnings for most of my projects for if a function is taking too long to compile.
> Supposing you literally “just write code,” there’s a ceiling to how much impact you can have

I'm don't see why a single person can't have a ton of impact merely as a coder.

I mean, this whole website is dedicated to (mostly) discussing tech startups and how (mostly) software disrupts and help scale outdated business models. Isn't the software-making business model also ripe for that disruption, at least in a smaller scale?

Couldn't a single coder (or a small team) help an organization get some competitive advantage when it comes to tools. Or even programming languages? Why does ALL the innovation has to come from outside in our industry?

Fred Brooks talks about "The Toolsmith" it the "Surgical Team" chapter in Mythical Man-Month, and how "the tool-builder will often construct specialized utilities, catalogued procedures, macro libraries".

Facebook made React, Apple made Swift, Google has dozens of those. And the teams doing those tools aren't that huge. Why don't we try new things instead of letting good coders go away or making them stop coding?
The love you have for a lover is exactly equal to the love you have for jewelry? I would hope these refer to entirely different concepts.
Subtractive synthesis is sort of like the OOP of synthesis methods. It may not be the most flexible or interesting, but it’s predictable and ubiquitous and something any sound designer needs to learn.
Show HN: Rapidmail – extremely simple transactional email sending
Hi all,

I just released the first version of rapidmail, a simple Python library that lets you generate and send transactional emails with the minimum of fuss:
https://github.com/chris104957/rapidmail

Rapidmail lets you send messages with an extremely simple Python one-liner:
rapidmail.send_mail('# Hello, world!', 'subject', ['christopherdavies553@gmail.com'])

Where this differs from using something like the AWS SES CLI is that rapidmail supports markdown syntax and placeholder insertion right out of the box.

Rapidmail actually uses the Maildown API - a startup that I posted about here a few weeks ago. You can see that post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590646

Thanks for looking
Chris
this was PayPal USA, i'm an American.
ImGUI is the past of GUIs.

That is how we used to do it on 8 bit and 16 bit platforms, before frameworks like Turbo Vision, GEM and Workbench came into the scene.
This whole thing started when Apple banned Facebook's enterprise certificated because they were using them for consumer directed apps + directing the user's data through their own VPN. This was clearly an abuse of the enterprise certificates and not what they are meant for. This happened around January - the same time when this article's developers were also notified that they will be removed because they were using MDM profiles for something they are not meant for. I don't think this has anything to do with their own product. Apple's product is also 100% free, I don't see how they have any incentive to ban others. Apple doesn't ban other podcast, music and other competitive apps.
Huh naked browser doesn't even show the fake address bar
Aren't we also currently simulating intelligence? Isn't that why the field is called artificial intelligence? Otherwise, it'd be called something like real intelligence.

simulating emotions or simulating intelligence. It's all the same. Model it, code it, and see if it works.
What you aspire sounds close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_team

In one instance that I know, a Tiger Team of 6 delivered run away hit TV streaming product in 8 months. From conception to design to prototype to factory production to launch.

Another, albeit larger scale example would be Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
George Hotz once mentioned in an [1] interview; Managing people just another abstraction in making software. You can think of people kind of like an IDE that you can use to create things... I thought it was an interesting way to view management.

[1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...
The discussion is probably more relevant now than it was in 2008 re: expansion in the ridiculous 'gig economy' sphere since then.
Any file uploaded should be scanned especially when you are uploading something which is then downloadable by someone else such as this example.
Per this technical documentation link, the data is supposed to be current to 2018:

http://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-User-Guide-a...
I guess I have to use weasel words in every post now.

Let's pretend my previous post started with

"In most cases, "
> never

eh, you need to define what love is first if you want that kind of imperative, and there lies the core of the issue.
I beat it with "hashtag".
Mathcha looks awesome! Thanks for creating it. What's on the roadmap? Are there other options to export besides latex and PDF? Hmmm, just noticed, there's no one-time payment license for the desktop version.
Could somebody please ELI5 this? How is this different from traditional UI approaches and why would I want to use this?
Qt is moving into a 3D API agnostic backend.
Templates are not quite side-effect free, although it takes some effort to run into that. See http://b.atch.se/posts/constexpr-counter/ for a delicious exploit of that fact.
I'm not sure... in the old school enterprise Microsoft might be crushing them long term with O365 bundling.
> How do you define this?

Same as every tech company do with tons of other spam types.

> What?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/30/no-iphones-dont-have-a-spe...

>> This analysis generally happens inside a sandbox, and very little of what the systems determine makes it outside of that sandbox. There are special exceptions, of course, for things like child pornography, for which very special classifiers have been created and which are specifically permitted to reach outside that sandbox.

Unsure what is Techcrunch's source for this but it kinda makes sense.
Isn't this more or less what Google does with all their profitless projects? Giving senior engineers something to play with so that they don't leave for the competition or create new competition.

I guess it's nice for the devs at first, but creates a lot of waste. They're basically spamming the world with programming languages, libraries and products only to wind them down and start again.
Show HN: Uppy 1.0 – Your best friend in file uploading
I've read J2CL vs. GWT? in the readme but still do not quite understand how J2CL is different. Hasn't gwt transpiled Java to JavaScript for many years? What is meant by closure-style JavaScript? That it uses jsdoc type annotations and goog.require etc.?
Setting up a development environment on a new Mac
...or move into architecture or management. That seems like the more reasonable thing compared to playing the start-up lottery.
No it isn’t. The antenna is basically just a flashing light bulb for 5 GHz. 5 GHz transfers way less energy into your body than visible or infrared light because it’s not absorbed as readily and each photon has less energy. It’s like the difference between a blue lightbulb and a red lightbulb.
With Scaleform being one of the most common ones.
The scroll jail is easily defeated by grabbing the fake address bar and pulling that down, rather than pulling down the main content area.
Even though I believe we should have a TLD reserved to nonprofits and communities, doing this for .org is probably too late now. They should however push for as low a price as possible to nonprofits and communities, maintaining high prices for commercial activities if they want.
Parse_it – Python library for parsing multiple config file types, envvars, etc.
This would rule out such common mapping methods as word2vec, because unlike words, vast majority of 1 sec chunks of audio would be unique (or only repeating within a single recording).
>> They could have earned a lot more on than than than they do from me not clicking on the dumbest ads I know about.

> Then they would have - they are a for-profit company.

I doubt they ever considered me as a person, only as male 25-65 => show ads for scammy dating sites.

> How many news sources do you pay for?

2 newspapers, +used blendle a while ago, ready to pay for more when I can pay pr read.

I also have paid other things like an tech/art channel on a video site etc.

(I guess I'm not the only HNer that does this?)

> but the media outlets have an extremely difficult time convincing enough people to care enough to pay even for their news - the most important thing of all.

Around here that might be because my choice is either a two hour drive to somewhere that sells that paper printed, -or to sign up for an auto-renewing subscription.

I could of course sign up and cancel but I already has too much on my plate (more than two kids, trying to be active in my communities etc.)
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You can force other people who have domains you want to turn them over to you in a trademark suit. Forcing a registrar to do it isn't quite the same thing -- the registrar isn't parallel to you, it's one level up -- but it's not quite different either.
We use Crystal for networking code, and it has nice C binding semantics. Haven't had to drop down to pure C much because Crystal just works, and doesn't have the learning curve or un/boxing hoops of rust. It's basically Ruby-like but with rudimentary type-inference, like what Ruby 3 wants to be but Crystal already exists... and orders-of-magnitude more performant.
Single network? All manufactures i've worked with in recent times have tons of internal networks and buses. Some are more isolated than others, eg connected infotainment and OBD often being behind some kind of secure gateway to not have direct access to engine network. If anyone is aware of manufacturers that don't do this please shout out.

But yeah, otherwise the data buses are kindof assumed to be internal and only contain trusted input, only recently some cars are now also starting to have cryptographically signed packets. It's really not such a big deal until you mix connected ecus with secure ecus or install cheap third party stuff yourself on same network, if someone could physically access the data bus there are other more dangerous things they could do anyway.
.info and .biz are not as valuable as .org in my opinion. I don't really mind price changes on those 2, but I certainly think .org has a higher purpose than providing a TLD in exchange for money.
Not true, designated initializers expect the same kind of expressions are variable initialization (which is limited at global scope, but arbitrary when initializing local variables).
The point of the article is that C99 initialization does the same.
The intel CPU situation is pretty embarrassing. I built back in 2009 a desktop with the intel i7-920 @2.66GHz (the first real quad core from intel) which I bought for less than $300. I look today and the cpu I can get for less than $300 is a 6 core i5 9600K @3.7 GHz. According to Passmark [1], this new CPU, is less than 2.5x faster overall, despite the additional 2 cores, and the much higher frequency. Intel just spent 10 years designing sockets and mobos and mocking ARM instead of concentrating on how to push the computing (mobile & desktop) technology forward.

(1) https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-9600K-vs-Intel...
Good idea!

One additional idea, along similar lines, might be to compare the results of standard DNS with Tor'd DNS for all DNS lookups and create a log file with any discrepancies...

In other words, if/when there is a difference, log that.

You would lose DNS privacy with this method, but, if you were say, in China, and your regular non-Tor'd DNS was blocked or re-routed (whether accidentally or intentionally) then at least your log file would tell you that something was up...

In fact, it might be an interesting experiment for an Internet researcher to gather as many domain names as possible, then look them up via both regular DNS and Tor'd DNS, and note any discrepancies...

And, the same experiment could be repeated in different countries...
'Artificial' means man-made. It doesn't mean it isn't real.

An artificial diamond is a real diamond, for instance.
I really enjoy audiobooks, but I dont think Audible is letting the medium flourish to its full potential.

My main concern is that audible is missing the long tail which naturally forms in any price sensitive market, where older products tend to depreciate to the point where they find a buyer. With paper books I can find an old book for cheap and that is great for a lover of words.

Audible distorts the audio-book market with its credit system: as far as I can tell they never discount older or less popular works, cutting off the long tail of potential readers. Why waste a precious credit on an audiobook who's physical cost is now fraction of its cover price?

More marketplace competition, and price / demand sensitive business models would be welcome.
Because no machine that currently exists even reaches the threshold where it's even debatable whether their feelings are real.

The only place where it could be a debate is in the fictional realm or when speculation about technology at least decades out.

So its hardly surprising that most people have that view.
Why stop at love? If you look close enough, there really isn't any such thing as life: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/why-life-doe...
> These companies don’t own the namespace. They are in charge of delivering a service that resolves the namespace.

Matt Levine likes to write about different concepts of business ownership, such as...

- You own all the company's stock.

- You are legally listed as the owner on a piece of paper somewhere.

- You know all the company passwords.

- Everyone at the company recognizes your authority.

- You have the keys to the office.

All of those are more or less independent of each other and give you different kinds of control.

In a very real sense, if you resolve the namespace, then you own the namespace.
Not really, it is a go back to mode 13h.
The driver in question is black.
Same with modern mobile phones. They may be a 'companion' in the sense that they're constantly with you, but they are in no way your friend.
I agree this seems low. Both housing and additional expenses. How do I know if I'm the victim of an hedonic treadmill?