skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that would be a disaster. We would be like Samuel Beckett's wife when she heard he'd got the Nobel Prize: "Quelle catastrophe".

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/03/22/beckett-storming...
this may be a naive/dumb question, but I'll ask anyway:

is the third option (support "Sign in with Apple" on iOS, but not on android) really that unappealing to app developers?

it kinda seems like only a really small fraction of an app's user base would have an Apple account and an iPhone or iPad and an android device anyway. and since this new "Sign in With Apple" will require additional android dev work to roll out, and since it prevents app developers from getting all the info they want about their user, wouldn't some of them just omit it from their android apps?
Setting aside possible hardware differences between the two, try doing a profile refresh, because that's messed up.

I've also got a Firefox 52 installation lying around and the new version is noticably faster.
Whisper Real Estate
FBI, TSA use of facial recognition tech needs cleaning up, say lawmakers
Uber "conformed to laws" is rich considering HN commentary on that company over the last 8 years...

(To be fair, the SEC is pretty much the one government agency that Uber did not piss off - it's just the IRS, FBI, DoJ, and almost every local government in America that they're in trouble with.)
Von Neumann was definitely a modern polymath
Seems to me that with a new protocol one could also offer an alternate domain name system as well, and presumably it would be free. You’d want each browser to offer a little time slice to domain name resolution, but you’d also have people like me who would be willing to pay for nodes on the network that did nothing but peering.
ReCAPTCHAv2 is basically already there. It's easily the greatest pain point for disabled javascript, third party isolation, etc.

It never actually gives you harder problems to solve, it just starts rejecting a greater number of correct answers. Eventually it will let you correctly solve dozens of problems in a row without letting you pass, but also never telling you that they've made the decision to keep you out. They also add in a long fade animation for each tile, just to punish humans (bots wouldn't find it annoying, on account of being bots.)
I found my last co-founder on CoFoundersLab. Always open for new adventures btw.
No no no.

You have to separate these two ideas, because I guarantee you lawyers and judges will. Is gating the anti-competitive practice? Absolutely not. There are a good many legitimate reasons for gating at a retail establishment. Quality, stock levels, etc etc etc. (In fact, you can even gate customers if you want. It's your right. Though it's rarely done except for issues like, "This guy is only dressed in a thong, he can't come in my store.")

What I said might be anti-competitive, and what you are talking about in your first two examples, is banning apps. If Apple bans a shopping app, is that anti-competitive? Again, the judges would look at a lot more than just the act itself, but I was saying that I believe the act itself to be anti-competitive. But it's completely legal under current law, and our economy has grown around the idea of marketplace owners participating in their own marketplaces. (Which is what I believe to be the root anti-competitive practice here. Again, a practice completely legal under current law.) Since so much of our economy has become dependent on this sort of practice, I'm suspecting that's the reason there is little political will to try to change it.

But yeah, Apple or Android, or even your shopping app telling me that I can't put my shopping app on your shopping app is anti-competitive in my eyes. (But probably not in the eyes of a judge or legal scholar if there are other reasons at play. For example, quality.)

I think the integrate with Apple Sign in thing is a bit of a stretch, but we could try it I suppose? I'm pretty sure that one wouldn't go anywhere though.

The best bet in my mind is the "marketplace owner participating in its own market" angle. But, again, even that one would be a more sure thing if we could change the laws so that even the act of doing that is a violation. Instead of what it is now, where if you have a good reason, ie-that manufacturer's dog food simply fell short of quality standards, then the courts have to defer to that judgement. Currently, courts can't force Walgreen's, for instance, to carry Bob's Bargain Basement Garlic Flavored Mouthwash simply because Walgreen's has its own mouthwash brand in Walgreen's own stores. Walgreen's has the right to say, "garlic flavored mouthwash sucks, and none of my customers will buy it."
I was hoping that the last link to the source code would open the actual HTML source code (instead of the link to github), just to show how it is exactly the same as the page
Any unwanted, unrequested connections to 3rd parties counts as a privacy concern. If I don't explicitly click a link or enter a URL in the address bar I don't expect traffic to be sent anywhere or any content at all downloaded.
> If so, just visit the inside of any government agency.

How is this still a retort? OF COURSE MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUCK. That is the direct result of fifty-plus years of "government is terrible, elect us and we'll prove it." Even some of our more popular agencies are so underfunded they can barely do their original mission, much less the aspirational stuff we want of them. NASA says it'll take--pulling numbers out of thin air--$10 billion to reliably go to the moon. Our electeds' response is "you can have $3 billion" and then we complain that NASA hasn't sent anybody to the moon yet.

Never mind this patchwork of responsibility where virtually everything is no one's actual fault or job. The much-complained-about Department of Motor Vehicles is, in various states, operated as an independent entity, part of the department of transportation, part of an agency that handles licenses for everything that needs a license, or simply just kind of happens. There's no one whose job it is to say "this thing needs to work well" and since everyone doesn't like it, it doesn't command any kind of respect for being paid properly.

And then speaking of paid properly, why on Flying Spaghetti Monster's Earth would someone go to work for a state or local government and get paid, especially in tech, on average about two thirds of what he or she could be making in the so-called "private sector," or go to work for the Federal government and not only have the same wage penalty but ALSO be subjected to random "well, we couldn't get our heads out of our ass so you're not getting paid for anywhere from one to one hundred days, sorry" instances.

"Just visit the inside of any government agency" my shiny metal ass; we MADE this problem and now we kick dirt at it as though decades of voters bitching about government haven't gotten us exactly the front-line government services we deserve as a consequence of those votes.
HBO's Chernobyl may yet become the highest rated TV Show ever
3. Lock-free cannot deadlock when one of the threads dies in the middle of an operation.

4. Lock-free will not stall all other threads if one of the threads stalls in the middle of an operation.
So here's a radical idea that's fun to think about. Usually we think of nature as "conditions before humans came along." And we figure that if humans disrupted it, then humans should try to undo the disruption.

But that's just fixing one intervention by means of another intervention, and the fix likely has just as many, if a different set, of poorly-understood and unintended consequences. So lately I've started to define nature a little differently - maybe "nature" isn't what earth looked like before humans, it's what earth would look like if humans disappeared. Or to put it less fantastically, a scenario of minimal human intervention from this point forward.

In that context, the blackberry, kudzu and ivy vines that we introduced, are the new landscape, the new nature, the thing that ends up taking over the sites we disturbed. Similar dynamics would presumably play out in the oceans and everywhere else.

The thing this definition of nature has in common with the more usual one, is that phrase "minimal human intervention." The difference of course is that it doesn't try to undo the recent past, which in general throughout the universe but also specifically in this context, I think is pretty much impossible. So this definition, and the course of action that follows logically from it, has the bonus attribute of being a bit more consistent with current reality.

Of course it'll never happen that way unless homo sapiens really does "disappear," i.e. suffers a dramatic decrease in either demand for intervention (read: population), or ability to intervene, in ecosystems. But it's interesting to think about.
no. we are lied to about north korea every day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Kore... it’s western propaganda and lying defectors that feed us false information. there’s no need for a deep fake. he’s just not dead.
Making a project that was Open Source, not Open Source anymore, is hardly a "good move". I mean, it might be a good financial move for Cockroach and their VC's, but I have a hard time seeing it as good for the world in general.
Presumably this needs it's own IP sockets, which means this needs root to run?
There are no in-flight gyms/casino/salons/creches but we have in-flight bed, shower, bar right now.
You're crossing the wires on two different points.

1. I'm not arguing that every job at FB is ethical, I'm arguing that most aren't so unethical that one would permanently taint one's soul by staying there. This is especially so if you consider that FB has a chance to change, no matter how slim that chance is. Perhaps these people believe in the stated mission of FB and think they can help.

2. It's not at all easy to leave a job - not every engineer is a 20-something nomad with no kids. Finding a gig that matches a AAA, SV company in sum benefits is a hard task on its own, even if you're not geographically limited due to familial sentiment or obligations.
"The floggings will continue until morale improves."

Unions brought us the weekend and labor rights. Rugged individualism and hustle did not.
50% of folks in Comcast’s footprint don’t subscribe. Those folks aren’t going without Internet access. For a significant portion of the market, those other alternatives are viable. That creates competition, though obviously less competition than an equivalent competitor. (I’ve been lucky to mostly live in FiOS territory, and now I’ve got two fiber lines to my house. But back when I lived in Wilmington, I had just Comcast. Instead of subscribing, we used a T-Mobile hotspot the whole time. It was fine. With 5G, that phenomenon is only going to increase.)
The problem is that now there's so much price pressure on the economy seats, they are subsidized by the more expensive options. If you want a first class seat today, that takes 50% more room on the aircraft, you will pay what, 2, 3, 4 times as much money? There's really no middle ground. I'm fine with that, cause I have a family or four, we're all short, and I'm cheap, but I guess that makes me part of the problem. :D
This is just purely my observations. I'm of the firm belief that it doesn't really matter what you eat if you exercise enough. Military (actual combat, outside the wire) live off MREs yet are in phenomenal shape. I train strongman/powerlifting, it doesn't matter what I eat - double cheeseburger, fry, and chocolate shake, thats fine because my body needs the calories from the morning workout. It doesn't lead to six-pack abs, but I'll trade that for my level of strength.
The angular change is negligible in either case. The problem is you're ping-ponging vertically. For example, a 3 degree bank correction in an aircraft with a 70 meter wingspan will move each wingtip by 1.3 meters vertically.
Certainly! I contemplated explaining a bit further about Google's footnotes but thought I might sound crazy.

Google actually takes the extra step of obscuring the footnotes to look like hyperlinks. For example, if you click "ads you'll find most useful" under "We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services" you'll see that it pops out as a footnote rather than linking you to a new site.

Because I often found myself looking for footnotes to find the begrudging disclosures and because I found more and more footnotes hiding as hyperlinks I made myself a little browser extension to highlight html elements that are probably footnotes as most are still pretty obvious from the properties. For example, from Google's privacy policy:

<a class="g1mG8c" href="privacy#footnote-useful-ads" data-name="useful-ads"jsaction="click:IPbaae(preventDefault=true)">ads you’ll find most useful</a>

I'm undecided whether this is a style decision or another attempt to hide the ball. Google used to publish a pdf version which made it much easier to see the footnotes but I haven't been able to find a current pdf version in years.
The Pokemon Company Wants to Make Sleeping Fun
It's called Propaganda and it's being perpetuated here in the US of A by our news organizations.

It appears that somebody in the US government doesn't want to make peace with North Korea. The fact Trump decided to open a dialog with North Korea and to remove the "bad guy" image of North Korea, is in my opinion the right thing to do. We, the USA and world, doesn't need "enemies" anymore. But I guess somebody or some thing is making a ton of money off of these bad actor/guys scenarios.

Too bad we cannot give peace a chance...

Peace
I helped run a TEDx event (I did event branding and ad designs) where Leslie Dewan gave a talk about this! Unfortunately it looks like the video from her talk at our event isn't up yet, but I will ask the team if they could have it posted.
Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows.

I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.
Venture Capital Landscape in the Southeastern US (2019)
Yes, it's called local franchising. It's incredibly common. That is why most/all cities only have one cable provider and one telecom provider over land lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_franchise_fee

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6309.html

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...

https://consumerist.com/2014/05/10/why-starting-a-competitor...

https://www.mackinac.org/10118

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_franchise_authority
Note that Amazon says that Amazon's Choice products are "Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated, well-priced products available to ship immediately." so that would go against the idea that these products are junky or expensive.
It's ridiculous that the SEC can't tell you what is and what is not going to work up front. My god, why should companies have to risk so much in this.

Either they provide perfectly clear guidelines or they can screw off.

Anything vague is extremely bad for business as it causes undue risk, confusion, lawyers galore.

Also - timeframes matter. This event took place quite some time ago, it's totally unfair that the process takes this long.

The briefing, roadshow materials, legalese should be presented to the SEC and they should 'approve or not', and if not, then they can be taken to the courts before the ICO so that everything is legal up front.

I'm not one bit empathetic to Kik's ICO, if find it all kind of shady, but that should be made very clear before, not after actions are taken.
> These iPhone price graphs would be better if they accounted for inflation

I started normalizing the prices to 2018 prices after reading your comment, up until I realized the title points out that the values are inflation adjusted.

Also followed the links to find the original posting if anyone was curious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/9v45n9/the_cost_of_...
Your neighbor on billionaire row where most Americans apparently live will gladly allow you to tunnel under his land, I'm sure. Since money isn't an issue, offer him a billion or two.

I do agree with you though: saying money isn't an issue when looking for alternatives is absurd. You can pretty much solve anything by throwing money at it. "You have an option if you consider it an option to pay 10x or 100x the price" misses the point entirely imho.
I can remember a great lot of people who managed to fail even on "hello world" level hardware businesses. Don't take this as some kind of discouragement.

The prime majority of successful small electronics businesses do very simple things like utilitarian "bare PCB" gadgets.

Olimex for example manages to get quite a lot of business despite being quite far away from Silicon valley's commotion (located in Plovdiv, a 350k people town)

I knew a teen who managed to spin a simple WiFi tester on ESP32 commercially. Also, just a PCB with a lipo battery and an MCU. He's doing great despite amateur level EE and it being a very niche product (professional WiFi installers are much the only buyers)

My own opinion, in electronics business you are always in between the Scylla and Charybdis of big and unprofitable businesses (commodity OEMs,) and niche/meme/fad products (hoverboards, vapers, and of course... the juicer)
And that option could very well be a giant media conglomerate who also happens to be a telecom.
Discussion fatigue is a thing.
> if I'm using CockroachDB and don't want to manage it myself, my only option is Cockroach Labs.

Cockroach Labs is not your only option; you can also use other providers that have a license agreement with us. Our first partner in this area is ObjectRocket: https://www.objectrocket.com/blog/cockroachdb/introducing_co...
Google meet works in firefox (at least dev edition).
Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year
Credit to Siddharth Shukla - used his script to get the IMDB ratings (https://github.com/sid8491/imdb-tv-shows-rating).
Take a piece of printer paper and lay it down landscape, fold the top inch down a couple times, then crease in half. A classic.
US Gov: Office of Management and Budget Releases New Federal Data Strategy Draft
Monero to Fight Mining Centralization with New PoW Algorithm
Have you checked lately? Automated subtitles on YouTube are getting ridiculously good. They're currently almost as good as I am at recognizing speech, including accented speech and in many cases specialized technical terms.
Okay I did, and I was right; you're wasting my time, possibly on purpose.
If Apple secedes control of the video drivers to Nvidia then they are beholden to Nvidia’s schedule and priorities.

Something similar happen with Google. They couldn’t update some of their Nexus phones because they were dependent on drivers they didn’t control.
Not unless you like pain. CockroachDB is distributed and uses Raft consensus under the hood, so you can't take a snapshot of just one node; you need to take a snapshot of all the nodes in your cluster, and you need to take those snapshots at the same logical instant. If the snapshots are from slightly different moments, when you boot the cluster up from the backup, the nodes will panic because you'll have corrupted the Raft state or otherwise caused the multiple replicas of the data to become inconsistent with one another.

There is one safe way to make this work: turn off your cluster, back it up with ZFS snapshots, then turn it back on. (Some of Cockroach's production tests do exactly this, in fact, because restoring from ZFS snapshots is so unbelievably fast.) But if you have the flexibility to power cycle your production database off and on in order to back it up... you probably don't need a distributed database, because fault tolerance likely isn't among your requirements.

(I'm a former CockroachDB engineer.)
if tube and wings design is to change, i think it will be some less radical changes than flying wing, more along the lines of transitioning the tube into the lifting body, while may be not the full way along the Burnelli http://www.burnelliaircraft.com/wp/ , instead more like the modern version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_D8 :

"The aircraft is designed to be over 50% more fuel efficient[1] compared to aircraft currently under production."
I'm always super excited to hear about Beaker, but I just don't feel safe browsing the web without extension support for the privacy tools I use.

I know that Mozilla is looking at getting low-level DAT support in Firefox so this kind of stuff could be handled through extensions instead, anyone know what the status of that is?
That would be interesting to see. I'll pledge $1k right now, I'd like to see something like this get off the ground.
The submitted article is about how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea, not about the North Korean story itself. That NYTimes article is about the North Korean story, not western media's treatment of that story.
You cant separate the App Store from the Operating System. The Apple Platform as a whole is one thing. As a whole Apple can behave anti-competitively, by banning competing web browsers, sign in solutions, payment solutions. By being the luxury, top tier experience, they have extreme market power, without having the majority of the market share.

The argument is, that by Apple being the Platform and the Gatekeeper Apple is both a foundation and a competitor. Its the same argument against amazon selling third party products and clones of those products. Im not saying its a great argument. I do think on the OS side, Apple has gone a little too far in what power it gives its own apps, and some of its default settings.

Another food for thought, is Apple being anti-competitive towards other major tech companies (towards google and facebook) more ok than them squashing startups at birth?
You certainly don't need the detailed stroke data just to "mimic" the appearance of a really simple typeface like this.
This is a great thing to see. When we were kids, my brother crawled into a dresser drawer when we were playing around. His weight on the open drawer caused the dresser to fall forward, trapping him inside a partially closed drawer. I barely got out of the way before it fell on me. And, being a huge wooden dresser, my mother couldn't lift it herself to get him out.

If it had fallen differently we both could have died, and there was nothing wrong with the dresser itself. We were just dumb kids who liked climbing in things. It's one of my earliest vivid memories.
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Github: https://github.com/privong (mostly side projects)

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It's worth noting that this isn't actually inconsistent. If your browser does security properly, blog.mozilla.org saying "here, have some malware" doesn't matter because it will be ignored. If it doesn't, one more website serving (functionality-irrelevant) malware makes it that much marginally more painful to keep using a defective browser.