skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite spineless and revealing to abandon the standard smartphone screen size right after running those ads.

I guess they're doing product development out of fear instead of boldness, now. Just a typical committee-led US corporation trending back to the mean. Maybe they should get a new CEO from Pepsi, again.
I don't think it's likely wildcards will ever be implemented in /etc/hosts, but you could hack glibc to support it without too much effort I think (somewhere in this file https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=nss/nss_fil...)

(It's possible that you'll sometimes run into applications that do their own /etc/host parsing.)
This is what's currently got me excited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240
I actually don't want an edge-to-edge screen or FaceID, though, and 5S is already a bit bigger than I'd like. So no, it's not a clear upgrade. I'd probably grin and bear it, but it does feel like people don't sell phone's I'd actually like anymore.
The less said, the easier it is for a language model to approximate a useful thread comment for the purposes of mass propaganda.

“These graphics look terrible. I will never play this game.”

“$Candidate is a corporate shill and everyone knows it.”

“I can’t wait for $Artist’s next album! They’re sooooo good!”

Doesn’t need to be an extensive, well thought out comment to drive thought and discourse. GPT2 is good enough for that.
“...ethnic or female.”

It’s funny to me that you’re treating white here as the “presumed default.” White people have ethnicities, just like midwestern newscasters have accents.
Had the same idea 5 years ago but never tested it. The way I thought about solving it was more complicated, it involved a laser protector matching the absorption frequencies for each photochromic crystal (CMY) thus selectively heating each color. The only manufacturer of photochromic inks I knew was Zink but I didn't even imagine they would be willing to ship me some samples because they use them for their products. I could have asked my university for help but their policy was to keep 98% of the patent.
Amusing/sad how the announcement doesn't mention Joi Ito at all, even with a perfunctory "thanks for your service". Apparently taking a donation from an unperson is enough to make you an unperson as well these days.
I’m aware of the differences and as another reply pointed out, one is a broader term than the other. I used the broader term.
Everything Apple announced today at the iPhone 11 event
Capital one Spark has 2% cashback on everything. Combine that with Chase Ink which gives you 3% cashback on office supply, cable/internet bills.
What do you want from your presentation software?
I worked with a guy who worked on a ge defense contract in the late 80s that demanded ada as the design language. He worked there 2 years learning the language without writing any code before they laid the team off.
Haven’t we always done this though?

It seems like it’s more that social media has made the playing field 10^9 instead of 10^3.
The first hit is always free. The real question is how quickly they ratchet up the price. I suspect Disney will do so very aggressively - to keep the shareholders happy.
>Blind is one of the worst. Useful for information, but super toxic for comparison

Blind seems more like 4chan parading around as linkedin, and I haven't found much substance there at all. It seems like a bunch of recent college grads trying to one up each other even while being anonymous. Just a lot of thinly veiled humblebrags pretending to be questions like "I got an offer for $350k at google, but I like my current position making $320k at Apple. Should I take it?", along with extremely simple questions that would be better answered by google like "what does company xyz do?". I've only poked around for about an hour, so if anyone has suggestions for a better experience I'm all ears. My initial exposure did not leave a good taste in my mouth.
Well, I actually needed it. I jumped into a pool with my 6S in my pocket. Other than that, you make a fair point.
My experience is that "crunch time" never actually ends. It just becomes the new normal and expected over time. Its better to deliver under the maximum you are capable unfortunately. Think of it this way, is the company providing the maximum value they can to you?
It’s certainly the case for my company card. I wouldn’t be able to pay off the cost faster than I add new expenses.
That's awesome to see they are working on it. I haven't been able to find anything for Swarm.
I always thought of Electron as a way to kick out a minimum viable product quickly before writing native versions. But nope, I guess give a $16 billion company 4 years and 1600 employees and that's still not feasible.
That line about do they look as they should is just first line of the marketing spin they put on their layoffs. Obviously there was a clear order to cut a lot of staff to reduce payroll costs. And people here are saying there were way more staff than necessary.
The movement on a touch screen is unintuitive. Dragging the screen moves it in the direction opposite to what you expect generally, when you scroll.

Great job, nonetheless
For those worried they will become uninformed by disconnecting from news and social media. I highly recommend reading/listening to long-form history works. You can gain a lot of perspective and understanding from learning about what has happened in the past and you might be surprised by how useful such information is for being informed about what is happening at the moment.
Humans aren't very good at managing things. Just take a look around your co-workers some time and you'll see mismanagement. We're really bad at managing! You could say, scarcity is a management issue. If systems are managed by inefficient beings, well then the system doesn't really matter be it socialism or capitalism. I'll take my chances with capitalism and hope the best managers naturally rise to the top.

Maybe AI can remove the mismanagers from the problem one day. Or maybe, even with our woeful mismanagement, if two hundred governments weren't pitted against one another and we had a single world government, there would be plenty to go around even with humans mismanaging everything.
Replacement for a systems language? How are dynamically-typed callbacks, as in Node's fs library, in any way comparable with, say, go routines or good old procedural C++? Async is the worst programming model for building systems.
uh hilary won the popular vote

and far right really? did your life change at all? whats that make china then? what about the far left policing everyone on what they can say and do?

youre getting caught up in the news narrative
Some day, Stewart Butterfield will launch a gaming company that is successful in the gaming space instead of becoming the inspiration for an entirely unrelated startup.
Male USB-A to male USB-C cables are allowed, what's not allowed is male or female USB-A or USB-B to female USB-C. That is, on a USB-C to legacy cable, the USB-C end is always male.
It isn't extremely common to do so, but the most basic example I can give is incidentals at a hotel. The hotel room and some incidentals are reimbursed by the company, but other incidentals are not (ie some consulting clients do not allow the reimbursement of alcohol). It's typically easier to just put it all on the corporate card and mark some of the transactions as reimbursable and some of them as personal than it is to finagle a way to settle the hotel bill with multiple credit cards.

There's also the one-off situation where I really needed a new pair of pants while traveling (my only clean pair of business-appropriate pants split down the middle) and for some reason the only card I had on me was my corporate card. Obviously extremely rare, but I've heard of similar situation (but with a belt) happening to another colleague.
Why does anyone end up represented by any imperfect person? That question is just as applicable on both sides of the political spectrum. If you're American, why did you let yourself be represented by President Trump?
Why do you think NLP practictioners are focusing on self-supervision instead of dimensionality reduction?
Hence the separate brand. Lexus to Toyota, Infiniti to Nissan, Acura to Honda, Porsche to VW.
I can't talk about Firefox Send, but in this case, AIUI, an account is required to generate a token to use with the VPN (proxy, really) provider. Otherwise, the provider would just be providing an open proxy. Which could then happily be abused by spammers and whatnot. (Come to think of it, it's probably a similar reason for Firefox Send ; you don't want anonymous unlimited hosting)
My LG G7 has a two window mode (you can slide the division between the two windows up and down). Also there are now many apps that can run in small floating windows, most notably video players.
sigh Too bad this is now the special case. While I agree this is me just having a get off my lawn moment, I liked it better when you just talked to your friends on the phone. With lands lines, and all their beautiful fidelity.

But, can't be a Luddite. It's here to stay, like smoking, and I tolerate it as such.
Diffbot's Approach to Knowledge Graph
You should look at https://monte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and potentially add a new category for capability-based programming languages (other ones would be E or Pony)
Yep. The problem with social media is that it exploits and amplifies existing human tendencies, not that it creates new ones.

Bill Maher had a good "New Rule" on this very phenomenon a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGp-omDD3V0
Local bug men saddened because consumer life does not bring joy anymore.

More at 6.
If anyone is looking for a startup idea, there's probably some merit in setting up an LLC-as-a-service business so those individuals impacted by AB5 that do want the flexible work can continue to do so without much headache.
Massive forest fires dump large quantities of CO2 and particulates into the atmosphere. That is bad in the context of global warming where we (that is, we humans) have a crisis. Many ecosystems may require forest fires to be healthy, but the available "carbon credits" seem to have been stolen by those who use fossil fuels to generate energy. Is there anyone out there who can the numbers to reason about the positive and negative impacts of forest fires in today's context.
You’re presuming I’m not arguing in good faith. I actually do deeply believe that capitalism, being a system where a minority can accrue great wealth and therefore have significant motivation to do so regardless of the costs, is a system that directly promotes environmental destruction. Anarcho socialism or Anarcho communism are instead systems that have no privileged class willing to destroy for their own benefit. In these systems all the masses of people are deeply democratically organized in the society and would only destroy the environment if they all agreed it was worth it. I believe the masses of people are less willing to destroy the environment (for less benefit to themselves) than a wealthy class which could benefit greatly from that destruction.

Perhaps it is easier to assume I am arguing in bad faith, but I think you ought to consider that I know what I’m talking about.
Radio Caroline too, from a ship in international waters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
Anyone can rename the garden shed. Can they code?

Everyone knows the UI on GIMP sucks and everyone can fork, everyone can set up twitter, everyone can spend a day virtual signalling a code-of-conduct.

Any real code written here to improve the UI or do they need the $$$ first so they can do it 'sometime' in the future?

Any evidence they can contribute to society or just steal from GIMPs good name?
>are really different and are people really being fired for it?

Absolutely not. The nice thing about being LGBTQPA+* is all the constitutional lawyers that will take your case pro-bono to persecute anyone you can speculatively accuse of discerning something about you.

If you are straight then there is basically no such free help available to protect your rights, and have fun trying to bring something up to the supreme court all by yourself if you don't want to be forced to express homophilic opinions.
Metronomes in JavaScript
> Somebody, somewhere, thought "hey, slack is way to expensive, we don't want to get 'locked in', and 'mumble mumble privacy cloud evil stallman' [...]

Like I completely agree with your overall point about reckless overengineering, but you also just listed three true and really good reasons to avoid integrating Slack.
Why Fry’s Electronics hasn’t been restocking goods in multiple stores
And I thought germans were the logical ones. Can we stop rushing to ban everything?
I didn't sign up for Facebook until 2007 I think. It was only to keep in touch with friends from the military.

Since then I've made friends with people that I know, but no one beyond that. So I don't fall into the trap that a lot of other people seem to fall into (including the author).

That said, I think social media is something all of us can use a lot less of.
Yep. That horrible feeling from this story stuck with me for DAYS.
It may be true, but my hunch is that discussions of capitalist market politics are fine and only socialism gets downvoted.
I love the SE because it has style, unlike every other later iPhone. I stopped using it because system font size of 9.3pt is too small to read without glasses. Apart from being unreadable it was great for form factor, battery life.

Apple is now in classic enterprise survival mode churning out incremental stuff. Their innovation is in hardware - i really long for them to bring some innovation to the user experience.

That said peeps should not reach too much into comments by HN folks about not liking ifobs....those devices are built for teenagers and people who want something that "just works". They dont want to mess with stuff under the hood and that is why iPhone and IOS now is as exciting as a bar of soap. Android on the other hand is a playground for folks who like to tinker, myself included.

Apple have nailed their market with perfection. I just hope that some people inside of Apple are working on something truly innovative for the future.

And onto why they canned the SE.....

The supply chain overhead of carrying and manufacturing a device which uses different tech is enormous. It can be almost as much as a seperate line of business - and that applies to not only Apple but also its component suppliers. If the business isnt big enough then it should be cut at some point. Given the FOMO around consumers using Apple and its software the SE became a niche device. It can have the 8/X/11 innards shoehorned in - everything, and my everything would need to be redesigned from scratch and one can imagine the cost of doing that and bringing to market. So i understand Apple's move from a commercial point of view. Very sad to see the brand axing the ONLY mobile product that had some sense of style and uniquess. The iFobs they now make are just boring. I much prefer Xiaomi because i get more phone for 20% of the price.
You mean breaking institutional policy and covering it up doesn’t get you a gold watch and a laudatory press release?
Hmm! Maybe I am mistaken about the noise as I was pretty sleep-deprived at the time. It sure did get hot, though. I'll attempt to re-enact.
What a cool visual. Setting up a small beacon like object on the ground, standing back a couple hundred feet, and then a beam of bright blue light bursts several kilometers into the air, sending a quick burst of data while the capacitors powering it can keep it alive.
Pacific Power (Oregon) also has fixed rates.
I was shocked when the author of the post said he had had twins and founded his business in the same month. I just had twins a few months ago and founded my business ten years ago. I couldn't imagine doing both at the same time.

I have massive newfound respect for parents, and especially for working single mothers. I have no idea how they do what they do. I am fortunate enough to have a nanny, work from home, and it's still very challenging.
Those things are on my mind as well, why are you just assuming they aren't?
Still getting used to HN, thanks for the heads up. Is that protocol or just how the users differentiate posts?
I suspect, right around the time this happens, a new "paradigm" will start, with new alpha frameworks and philosophies.
The fact that that number was "7 days" tells you everything you need to know about Uber's internal culture.
Yes. We often say "power strip" to better indicate that you plug in one end to get a strip of outlets to use. Ideally it's also a surge protector, so if something goes badly wrong, the things plugged in are protected.
Thank you for the link! I think that’s really helpful and those are good explanations for each rule.

Does anyone know of a guide for writing C code where you allocate a specific block of memory at the start and then use that for all data from then on? Avoiding malloc is one of the suggestions there and seems like a smart strategy.
I think it's possible that vision is closer to the real future than that sounds at face value. I also initially thought of lawnmower man era breathless predictions for VRML and mockups of the future 3D internet. But this is actually a surprisingly compelling experience. Is it wrong I kind of like that almost everything from the browsing experience of reddit is removed except the titles and the linked content? It's got a pleasing simplicity and the tangible nature of making the internet a physical place is appealing to my primitive brain somehow. Definitely not my new way to browse the web, but surprisingly charming.
This could be a mix of relevance (US-centric, startup centric message board) and confirmation bias.
omg like wow sooooooo much infrastructure i cant even lol kthx

really? it's called sarcasm people.
uChat is a fork of Mattermost, which looks like an exact copy too.

https://mattermost.com/
I don’t think this is an advantage? Work account can be accessed by your IT department, locked out when you leave, investigated for any reason. I certainly don’t want to have any links to my personal stuff at all!

As for github.com, our official IT recommendation that people don’t use their personal accounts, but create one just for work. This way there is no worries about personal data there.

(This is at a subsidiary of a large international company. I can believe small startups use a simpler methods)
> Apple is on a 3 year cycle now, probably to help accelerate development on their AR project.

If Apple has made that decision then there's a context which isn't generally appreciated. It's not just that you've stopped buying new phones so Apple needs something else to sell you: it's that AR/VR is more or less inevitably the future mainstream interface of mobile computing. The box-with-a-screen-on-the-side physical UI has hit its limits (this is Amdahl's Law of Mobile UI ;) ), which is also why there's so much interest in trying to make folding screens work.
Breaking policy, covering it up, and getting paid six digit amounts of money for it.

But no, this is obviously some kind of witch hunt. /s

Edit: six digit
From what I've seen of Loopback's verbosity I think the best comparison would be with Spring. For some reason every time the corporates get their hands on a dynamically-typed language they try their best to turn it into Java/C#. Facebook did it with PHP and now Microsoft are at it with Javascript.
What? You are crazy. At a certain scale, it is cheaper to run your own DC. But that scale is reached by a very limited few.
pre social media was 10^3?

I was thinking more "10 to 20". I suppose from person to person and at different stages of life the filter of who is appropriate for your playing field might change. . but even 10^2 seems high. I can barely name 20 critically important people in my life let alone those which are on my playing field. I have managed this, a bit unconsciously. Generally when my field is managed in line with my conscious values I'd only regard a person who I know and respect professionally. Further filtering on whether I actually feel like I personally (not just professionally) know the person.

curious what a different playing field mechanism might be described as
That’s my take. The bigger downside IMO is that the most successful people, i.e. experts, at something exist in the 10^9 social group, rather than the 10^3, and likely multiple experts exist in the 10^9 space.

A strange side effect is that the digital world also amplifies the outliers and makes the others in the large group of people seem non existent, leaving you to feel like you are majorly behind, when the reality is you are likely closer than most.
Finish the school day? In Eastern US time zone, it was in the morning, and actually started just before class, near the start of the day. Folks had arrived early, somebody heard about it from somebody else and rushed to get a TV so we could watch it live. At the time, it wasn’t entirely determined to be a “banal accident”, it was, well, it was live news more than anything. Everyone was glued to the screen as folks were trying to figure out what was going on. There were reports of a plane off course, and frankly what ran through some people’s minds were, “are we next?” The cellphone grid was strained to capacity not just in New York but just about everywhere, there was this palpable sense that the world had changed in some kind of fundamental way. It hadn’t, not really, but it was a shock.

You know on movies where they show the world ending, or devastation or even the atomic bomb’s aftermath, etc. It was that kind of “I can’t stop watching,” going on, where you know the likelihood it will affect your life directly in a negative way is pretty low, but you want to know more, see what happens next, or if it will affect you too.

It’s maybe a bit different now — we’re overwhelmed with so many information sources that... it’s possible the modern day equivalent is all being on the same Reddit thread or Twitter feed or live stream of an event.

Generally classrooms are meant to be a mixture of real events and things you can learn from them. If I recall correctly, this was an art class, or maybe an English class, but a humanities class of some kind, and so part of the activity was actually meant for conversation afterward. But... it unfolded in a much more dramatic way, and ... I think had there been more evidence that it was a criminal act from the start, we might not have—-ah, well, the use of airplanes as weapons was entirely new. What can I say, it sounds like any other event now, and somehow less shocking than people using IEDs, vehicular homicide, mass shootings or unjust violence, but... it unfolding live in the largest city in the world, the centre of finance, it... was still a horrendous act. The tragedy was only made worse by what followed in “revenge” and the changes to laws that we still live under today. I remember thinking a year previously that there’s no way 1984 could happen as I’d read it, and then I re-read it around a decade later and discovered it had already happened, partly thanks to Prism and other intelligence agency sharing agreements we’d been living under for years. The biggest shame is that folks knew about it in advance and yet we didn’t even have safely locked cockpit doors at the time. Who would have thought that hijackers wouldn’t simply want to send the plane somewhere else but to...
Thanks for sharing these insights. Gamification is an interesting suggestion I had not even thought about. In our situation we are having a hard time since money and integrity are not motivators so far.
Actually, as I said, it is legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in much of the country and the federal government had recently rolled back protections for LGBTQ people. Lawyers are not going to take pro bono cases because LGBTQ status is not constitutionally or federally protected.
The Media Lab does present a yearly Disobedience Prize, so...