skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person?"

This is about how it would end for the wanna-be blackmailers. They would get doxxed, then murdered.
Ask HN: Best Markdown App for iOS? (Also Android)
What are you all using to view and edit Markdown docs on mobile devices?

The App Store search results aren't particularly inspiring.

I currently use OneNote as my information repository but am moving away to plain text and Markdown. This works great on desktop but leaves me with a conundrum on mobile.

Features I'd like to see:

- Minimal/simple editing experience
- Some kind of support for folders/notebooks
- HTML preview
- Git support wins many bonus points (??? not sure if there is anything)

Paid apps welcome to be included.
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The radiation dose management market size is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2023 by P&S Intelligence.
I took Spanish at community college and it was a breeze. I rushed through all my assignments in class and spent the rest of the time spacing out. Felt like middle school all over again.
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Source code for the interpreter from the github link posted above (https://github.com/narke/colorForth/blob/master/cf2019.asm). Looks like decently well commented x86 assembly language written for a macro assembler.
FWIW, Figma has replaced that stack for me at this point
As an end user I _do_ mind the walled garden.

There is at least one App (ProTube) that I can't use just because some Company (Google) got Apple to kick it out of the AppStore.

I also can't download Torrents or use Emulators. There's no justified reason - Apple just doesn't want me to.

And there's nothing I can do, because the alternatives are far inferior (at least for my use cases).

I can only hope for regulation.
Yes, but once you replace "People" with "Corporation" everyone is more or less ok with it.

I'm willing to bet 90%+ of the people in the article complaining about this own, use or like Apple products. Yet Apple does this exact same thing!
> None of them allow you to make 'A' rated games for example.

The sad difference is that we don't care much about 'A' rated game, but we do care about useless 30% surcharge and more trouble on how to pay.

If you do care about 'A' rated games, I will gladly push your campaign and not argue whether it's a legitimate concern or not.

> I doubt Walmart would be particularly happy if a sign said you could buy X device cheaper directly from the manufacturer.

I agree completely, which is why I wouldn't expect Apple to accept on the app store (the market) to let description or screenshot talk about how it can be cheaper somewhere else.

Outside of the app store though, on the apps themselves, they shouldn't have any control over what the app say over where you can or cannot buy something. They don't own the device, it's mine. they may own their app store, that's fine, they are hosting it, but they don't own the device.

> a developer implementing their own payment system will be an immediate delete for me

Same goes for me and I'm on Android. The difference is the liberty to make that choice.
Isn't something about to be open source the opposite of vendor lock-in? Couldn't you just use databricks and then pretty easily migrate over to your own managed spark cluster if you so desired?
If you place a thermometer in space sufficiently far away from all heat sources, it will eventually reach 2.73 K, the temperature of the cosmic microwave background. I am not sure about the correct terminology but at least in some sense this is the temperature of outer space.
Millions use Earnin to get cash before payday. Critics say the app is exploitive
So this guy is a crazy braggart. This isn't the first time this has happened. Some other guy was taunting the FBI and left metadata in one of his images when he posted to Twitter.

It's best to not be loud in the first place.
You typical developer on iOS is targeting a broad spectrum of hardware (even within the iOS line, the software is able to run on various iphone skus dating back possibly 7-9 years).

Console? When I ship a PS4 build, it is THE PS4 BUILD. It has optimizations designed to maximize the memory buses that ship with the PS4 and the PS4 only.
To do this well, you have to take special care with how exactly you obscure them. If your browser refuses to report those values, or sends junk values, then you might actually make the problem worse. It's the internet version of this: https://xkcd.com/1105/
There's an argument that the Jasons have outlived their usefulness. They're mostly physicists, who were more important in the atomic age. One of the books about them indicates that they need more bio and social science expertise. That was written in the terrorism age.

That's not why Trump got rid of them, of course.
It's ridiculous to call this a "scam". I don't understand why people would be denied aid because of their wealthy parents. Wealthy parents have no legal obligation to pay for their kids education.
This is going to be another compiz cube. It looks cool, but I doubt it will be very useful outside of showing off some cool tech.

Also Valve tbh have dropped a lot of their more interesting tech. I had one of their steam links which isn't even sold anymore. The steam link was actually pretty useful for steaming anything on your desktop, I am sure you can do the same with a Raspberry Pi and some scripts but it worked pretty well if you hooked up a mouse and keyboard.
Your cup at McDonalds doesn't automatically refill though. It's more like actively clicking next.
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This is coming from a disabled individual: I do not find the practice described in the post offensive, as a disabled person, but many people in the disability community actually do find it offensive. I am talking about "simulating" life with a disability, such as from a wheelchair, when you do not have a disability.

Many disability related publications may be viewed as "radical" by the able-bodied, but you should take it for what it is. Many of us have lost some basic human dignity and/or respect from others due to just being disabled, and this is how some of the "radical" aspects come about in writing. Anyways, here is a good article why these "disability simulations" are offensive to some: http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/focus/wrongmessage04.html

Instead, one should be contacting the diverse disability community (via social media, for example) and consulting directly with them, and actually doing what they ask for, for accommodations.

There are many leaders who would be more than happy to help. If you look for them, you will find them, especially via places like Twitter.

Also, making apps completely accessible for the blind, from the start, ends up making your app logistically better for everyone too.

The same goes for making buildings accessible for various disabilities (curb cuts benefit not only wheelchair users and the mobility impaired, but people with strollers too). Captions not only benefit the deaf. The same goes with making events accessible for people with autism, epilepsy, etc.

A lot of this stuff really does not cost more. You just have to consult and ask the disabled community, such as via Twitter. A lot of them would be more than happy to help you, pro-bono.
I was pointing out passed law that I consider answers "When's the last time you remember high-profile federal legislation being passed with the intention of protecting or aiding constituents?"

The law has many stated goals, as set forth in the quote I posted.
This is backwards. The patch is something you're getting from the vendor that put you at risk in the first place.
It’s not sad if you can afford it and enjoy the content created by the streamer. I can see why one might call it sad though if you are donating significant amounts of money relative to your spending capacities to someone that you wouldn’t donate to if they looked differently.
Seems like there's been an explosions of startups trying to win B2B dollars for this.

There is an excellent open source project that nails this called sacred. It's not perfect, but it works, and as far as I can tell it has won the popularity contest.

Please join me in using and contributing back to sacred!
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I mean, I'm not taking a hard position on what they should do, but I know (a) it shouldn't be immediate, and (b) logically one would think the logic would be "never disclose unless you can provide a compelling reason for doing so". I'm open to hearing a compelling reason, in which case I would think they should disclose after waiting a while, but I need to hear one first.
> And then there is the issue with holding 3d pointing devices for prolonged amounts of time. This is taxing upper body strength if you do. The weight of the headset itself is also straining the neck muscles.

You could use a real mouse and keyboard, if you're presented with some kind of virtual workstation. And even for navigation outside the workstation, of your broader "environment", 3D video games have been using a mouse & keyboard to navigate complex interfaces & environments for a long time, with more than a little success. Granted that means you still need a surface of some sort, but I think non-touch-typing text input inside a VR space would be kinda hellish anyway, so you're at least gonna want a real keyboard regardless.
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The shattering noise is the sound of self breaking windows.
In the context of HN, I don't think that solves the problem. What are the odds that your 20 subscriptions and my 20 subscriptions will overlap? (To say nothing about excluding people who can't afford 20 subscriptions.) In order to have a meaningful discussion about a topic, we needn't necessarily have the same subscriptions. But to have a meaningful discussion about the article, we certainly both need access to the article.

Pay-per-article might make some sense, but every time I've seen that they've charged more than I think it's worth. They generally want about a dollar, and I'm thinking pennies. And, of course, I have to decide whether it's worth purchasing before I've read it; at which point it comes down to trusting the publisher - and then maybe I should just get a subscription.
Grubhub has been profitable literally since the late 90s. This article is terribly researched.
If you find this circuit appealing to consider, Shenzhen I/O may be of interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660253
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041538

I was reminded by the 4099 output -> input as a form of 'register', which is used in SI/O (and TIS-100).
Absolutely. We're fans of Figma too. They also draw the line in the sand at developer handoff – we see ourselves as the logical next step.
To be fair to them, while you understood my intent - I definitely could have phrased that better.
This is a common situation, I've known several people that ended up in it, myself included. Most of them ended up dropping out of college because working 40-50 hours per week at the same time as taking a full course load at university is a surefire recipe for burnout. It also makes for a pretty poor college experience generally. You can spread it out over more years by going part-time but that has its own costs.

It really is a very disadvantageous position to be in.
This is really due to software engineering as a cost center. When viewed this way, the business always attempts to drive cost to rock-bottom, which then means software that only incurs technical debt. Because business will never pay to reduce the debt, only to get new features. And yes, this is totally false dichotomy, because eventually that debt means that all those future features are more costly. But something about boiling frogs...

The only alternative I've seen without completely rethinking company structure, is having engineering management rebuking business and pushing for these initiatives. Which can be inadvisable from a career perspective, so usually does not happen. It's more politically savvy to push for a "new project" that will fix all the issues of the existent systems.
> So this guy is a crazy braggart.

Clearly not a guy
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It sounds to me like she got access to an instance running on AWS and used its role to access S3. How she got access to that instance hasn't been revealed but likely to be vulnerable software running on it that would have been protected by the WAF. All assumptions but my guess is that the particular vulnerability exploited is probably not that relevant to people in general.
Yes, you can: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
If people had the star trek holodeck around today what would one of its primary uses be
My son had an imaginary dog named Baxter from 1-3 yrs old. It was great --- we would set a plate on the floor with food for Baxter at dinner time. He's 9 now and I miss Baxter.
Well, you can install regular linux and run whatever you want: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
Backspace gets out of REPL modes, though I agree that that isn't necessarily obvious for people not used to this kind of modality. I'm sure the ThinkJulia folks would appreciate a note so they can improve the tutorial: https://github.com/BenLauwens/ThinkJulia.jl/issues.
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It's hard to say without knowing how much you make, or what schools your kids might go to, but it is certainly possible. Many schools use FAFSA not just for federal aid but for determining how much "need" your kids have for other assistance beyond what the federal government might offer. They look at how much they think you can afford, assume willingness to take on some amount of debt, and weigh how much they actually want your kid in their school. If you make so much that the schools are going to consider you able to pay full tuition no matter what, a 529 will only help you. If you might qualify for some aid based solely on your income, it could make a difference:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-feldman-529/dont-l...
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I believe vanity of some sort is an innately human trait, I doubt societal changes will eliminate it. Rather I see a future that the reporter was alluding to, where our bodies are just as customizable as a digital filter like the streamer used. Who knows, as crazy as it may sound, perhaps in a few hundred years most social interaction will be "assisted" by VR, AR, or some other reality changing technology where we do present ourselves as digital avatars.
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Not only is it encrypted -- in transit and at rest -- Google uses its own silicon and has its own fiber.
You can run real linux as well a ChromeOS: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
I am totally against generics, if you want generics, go to Python, or somewhere else that allows them. The beauty in Go is that it is static, and generics are not strict. I agree with wybiral [1]. This only serves to add complexity that gains very little, and opens Go to being less strict and there for less reliable and more problematic at compile time .

[1] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20555477)

edit: changed "strict" to "static"
That is a rather rare case. It's overwhelmingly the case that plastic gets recycled (if at all) into a lower grade and then can't be recycled again.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/almost-no-plastic-bottles-ge...
Same situation here, a bit earlier (36) but same path. You have all my support.

One thing that feels well-spent time for me is, fighting for men’s rights. Can only be done by suicidal people, because people will smash you for opposing feminism. But men need guys who can do it, so I do it, and I lose friend after friend, family, workplaces, NGOs (I used to help refugees) (well, I’ve done the whole charity experience, been everywhere, I’ve always donated a lot) and I’m kicked from social network after social network. Male feminists would dream of seeing me die in a mass grave, anonymously like a USSR political opponent. And that’s exactly how it will end up.

But it is really hard to take myself from the bootstraps and write another blog article, film another video or explain another thing about it. On the positive side, thousands of men have stunning words when they discover my work, like « I was sure, thanks for gathering the statistics » or « I’ve been looking for a channel like yours, who understands men, for 2 years » or « I’ve been watching your videos straight on for the last 72 hours ».

It’s cheerful, but what I wanted was, a (sane) wife, probably a sane world who cares as much for men as for women, a bit of love, and building something. And being millionaire doesn’t change anything to that. Suicide by defending men’s rights against the lies that feminists say.
As someone who thinks the wedding industry is already bloated/inflated beyond all practical measures, this takes the cake.

Interrupting/changing weather patterns for personal gain seems pretty narcissistic to me. shrugs
Instead of telling me I'm being "backwards" about what people should appreciate and what they shouldn't, it'd be more helpful if you could explain your own thoughts like I asked you on the comment above (not here): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567651 I certainly don't follow your logic.
Neuralink sounds more ambitious and more interesting to me. I'm very skeptical of the non-invasive brain scanning Facebook is talking about. It seems unlikely to ever work well enough to be useful to anyone except people who are completely paralyzed. But they will be first in line for the invasive brain interface techniques that will work far better, so they won't need the non-invasive stuff either.
Sadly we live in a post-ironic world.

There are two camps of people who either don’t believe in climate change entirely or see climate change as a means to achieve an ecofascist state.
yeah, it's always been the case. flagships were in the 100-400MB top, the rest was tutorials, massive docs, textures etc etc
Oh yes. #1 problem I've experienced at multiple places: delaying integration with tons of branching.

Usually the PM or PO force everyones to using some vague "product version" they track for public releases. Places that use monorepos well tend to have very few branches (like, maybe 2 or 3), which have nothing to do with your public product versioning scheme, and instead use "branch by abstraction" to stay integrated.

But what I end up seeing, is that the product team and middle management gets involved with dictating version control, e.g., "this will be version 1.2, and then that should be 2.3, ok let's cut those branches...", and then they change their minds as some team has to delay and before another is ready. And then bugs start rolling in from both testing and they don't know what to do, and they start asking people to just "get it done", and then, things really start falling apart. You add 10+ teams trying to use branches for their own work based off of god knows what and it becomes a mess of crazy integration problems.

I seriously think that a huge benefit of multiple repositories, is that is scares the pseudo-technical managers and product people into not bothering with trying to track or dictate usage of the version control system.
Sounds amazing. Anyone have code examples that integrate a lot of the newer stuff?

Dumb question. Why isn't omitting 'return' always an error in gcc rather than just a warning?
Nothing you said is easy; it's all a massive PITA and incredibly user-hostile. I do appreciate the advice, but I just want to do normal things without jumping through hoops. I don't even use iTunes; do I have an account? Don't know, and frankly don't care either (I've given up on it).

Here's how everything else works: I see a price for something, I decide I want it, I fill in my CC number, and I have it. No need to go to a physical store and juggle accounts and credit cards and whatnot.
I imagine your assessment to be more realistic, and the quote to be far too optimistic, even though I wish for the opposite.

I know women have an entirely different level of pressure in this arena and the idea of not wearing makeup or being fashionable enough has a larger impact on them socially...as a man I recognize the differences...but have still never cared about such things and not wanted to invest myself in those who would judge me or someone else because of shallow things. I will, as I mentioned in another comment, be respectful when it matters, and not say go to a funeral in pajamas and unkempt, as to not make it about me. But in my daily life I leave vanity at the mirror. My behavior defines me to anyone I care about and theirs to me, not looks or trends.
In fact quoted in the article itself. And very good it is too...
If you watch the opening credits of The Expanse, you'll see the moon is almost entirely populated, yet if you look closely at the Earth shot, Tibet is basically dark.

Even in a work of fiction we can't seem to make use of the entire Earth!
I thought I was going insane with all these videos auto playing in Facebook and Twitter. It truly is annoying.

I'm not sure if I am against endless scrolling, however. I would, though, accept the loss of endless scrolling if that would stop videos from auto playing.
I care more about vertical resolution, and vertical height, more than about aspect ratio. So with 3k and 4k getting more popular on higher end laptops, the 16:9 doesn't bother me as much. I can keep a code window on one side and documentation (or program output) on the other side of the screen.

The only other drawback of 16:9 is that in order to get an acceptable height, it makes the laptop too wide. My solution is to use clip-on reading glasses over my regular distance prescription, when using a high res laptop screen.
I once took a temp job to get some quick spare cash after a failed startup attempt that wiped out my savings, when I still wanted a bit more time before getting another coding job. I ended up helping with some general office work in a mortgage bank, in a department where some accountants would look at all the applications that fell in the grey areas where it wasn't automatically accepted or rejected. They entered the data in a spreadsheet, then looked at other pages of the spreadsheet to see if it was OK to approve or not. Ultimately, there was no grey area... just humans in the middle when it was close.

So I wrote a button (VBA, in Excel) for them that would just do the lookups, and send the correct email response back to the original loan officer. It worked well. They sent my button to all the loan officers, and that department was no longer needed, at least not for anything other than some basic communications asking applicants for more info once in a while.

I had a fun conversation with their IT department, too, when they found out that a temp had automated a department.
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

The words vanity and vain come from the Latin word for empty, or without substance or value.

When we alter our appearance, it's because we put value or merit in something that inherently has no merit.

We all want a reason to hold our head up high. Some look for it in athletics, others in academia, others in financial success. This woman looked for it by faking her physical appearance.

But the best reason is something we can't merit: we are made in the image and likeness of God. We are all little images of God, and if we truly understand that we have inherent dignity, then nobody can take that from us, no matter how poor or ugly or uneducated we are.

And then we won't feel the need to put ourselves high up. And we won't feel the need to put others below us. We'll want others to know their own dignity, so they might stand tall with us!