skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I thought that only happened to me. There was only one specific project I was on where I would have the not so practical fantasy solution like you described. Others were like the parent, a good sleep discovers solutions, I wonder what my subconscious was saying about all of this.
Shoulda raked our woods like them Finns.
I have been using react native for 3 years and it is amazing! To my knowledge there are no equivalent platform allowing to develop cross platform apps in Typescript.

My react native app does some advanced stuff like displaying 3D stuff with openGL, running separate threads, interacting with drones and running neural nets (hence why I am happy about this news!). I still have to think how to upgrade to 0.60 while supporting threads though.

While it was not always super easy to configure all this, it has stayed unbroken for all this time so again this is something I am thankful for.
Good article, but some quibbles:

>The Persians were meticulous record keepers; but no Persian source has survived

Eh, they weren't particularly big on record keeping. The Babylonians (who were part of the Persian empire) kept decent records, but not the Persians.

>Modern guesstimates by different means arrive at around 200,000.

Those are just people throwing out random figures. In reality it's highly unlikely that the Persians had the logistical capability to field an army that large beyond the fringes of their empire. Tens of thousands would likely be a more realistic number.
All this China censorship made me think. Starting to get this feeling that more and more choices made by me (to buy/to use/endorse) are becoming more like a political votes. Just happy there are things/ideas free from politics
TCP over UDP seems rather silly to me, but congestion control and segmentation in userland is pretty useful. Especially so, since Google and partners have made an ecosystem where kernel updates on deployed devices don't happen.
> The overt sexism that I’ve been witness to in iCloud management certainly doesn’t help either.

Yikes! Is this something you could share the nature of?
USB-A is only out of date for Apple, and if the actual connection is USB 2 or 3 (not, say, thunderbolt) there’s little reason to choose USB-C. Desktop? USB-A only. Raspberries Pi? USB-A. Older MacBook Pro? A. Every console for the last couple generations, except sort-of the Switch? A. They should have had a couple years of a transition model rather than going all-A to all-C at once.
There's a community at https://openland.com, I like it a lot.
Lots of smart people and very good SNR.
Popularity means that it's a bigger target for malicious software authors.

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/10/01/google-play-android-m...

> On the bright side, most of the harmful software appears to have been purged by Google. “If not all of these apps, then definitely most of them are not available on Google Play anymore,” Stefanko told TNW.

This is a trade off of having an open ecosystem. I only install well reviewed and well known, quality apps so I have never had any malware on the dozens of phones I have owned over the years. I prefer having a small chance of being infected by malware by my own actions over a closed ecosystem and only being able to install what Google deems worthy on my device any day.
What about 1920x1080 (16:9) vs 1920x1200 (16:10) and 2560x1440 (16:9) vs 2560x1600 (16:10)? I have seen it as the norm that height gets added rather than width subtracted.
How Search algorithms work
Similarly pauses allow for other skills to grow (stop playing music for a week, a month, and you'll often feel more apt when you return). We're probably full of phasors and delays. And letting time for everything to mature/settle seems to matter.
The Switch dock had some implementation issues but they didn't break anything.

The only time things break is when you attach a broken charger that outputs 9 volts onto a wire that's supposed to be doing 2 volt signals.
The entire point of claiming USB-C has come into it's own would mean I don't need a bunch of non USB-C cables and adaptors.

As it is I have a USB-C to USB-C cable for my Macbook for it's power supply, another for my Mifi, another for my Pixel. But I have no power supply that can charge all 3 so instead I have to have 2 cables for every device. One when use it on it's own. Another for each when using a single charger. If I hadn't sold my late 2018 iPad I'd have 4 USB-C devices needing 8 cables.

That's not "Come into it's own" that's "Still in frustrating transition from USB-A era"

I could list a bunch of other cables and adaptors I need because USB-C is not yet "come into it's own".
I have to ask. I recall reading that Sun Tzu suggests the value of giving a formidable enemy a route to flee, lest you accidentally force them to fight despite being ready to rout. Is that practical advice in modern warfare? From the cheap seats that I occupy, it seems like the goal is to kill or capture and allowing an enemy to flee is a failure.
Perhaps the reasoning occurs at a more primitive level. For example, the whale may have had a previous fearful experience. Sensing fear in the seal triggered that feeling in the whale. By helping the seal, the whale may have been helping itself.
Yes, a Chinese citizen can register an US or any other country’s account to avoid using GCBD data center. In fact, before Apple transferred all Chinese iCloud account data to GCBD, it sent out emails to warn related users, and instructed them to change regions if they don’t want to store personal data in China.

Although register an account is easy, maintain such account is a pain. First, not all Chinese citizen can get an international credit card that support US dollars, so no way to purchase apps; second, for those who can get one, App Store may not allow to use it because it’s not a valid US card; third, even they can use that card for purchasing apps, US App Store, iTunes Store may not have those Chinese specific apps or music; last not to mention that the behavior of an US account using non US card outside US for a really lone time may trigger anti fraud protection.
Show HN: RiksRoom (iOS) Sandbox AR App
Quick Build and Install of PostgreSQL 12 from Git on Ubuntu Linux 18.04
Aaah interesting -- thanks!
I am impressed by how terrible that page is to use on mobile. Essentially every individual's wanted poster has unreadable text on the site itself, because the image gets resized. You can't tap on it to make it larger either or open in another tab, because tapping on it starts a download.
I had to fire up Epiphany recently just to do drag-n-drop graphics assets management in the Steam app admin page.

Both Firefox and Chromium were broken, when I contacted Steam's support they said I am the only person having problems.

When I dug into the failure a bit in Firefox the object coming with the event was always NULL, and searches turned up a bunch of results from web devs struggling with the same problem in various ways.

I'm glad Epiphany worked, so I could promptly forget it all and get on with my life. Presumably it's still broken for steam app devs however. It escapes me why Valve doesn't have a simple file browser button fallback for when this crap doesn't work.
> How do pictures of unreleased Airpods end up in recent iOS beta releases ?

By the OS Mastering team dropping the ball…
Machine vision has learned to use radio waves to see in darkness
shut up commie, extorting people for "social security" is stealing
There is no way this is true. This guy is trolling. China is not that vigilant. This guy is not the NBA, Blizzard, or a major TV network. Though this joke may ironically end up getting him banned in the end from the media attention. I would love to see evidence and be proven wrong.

Source: I’m a foreigner living in China.
I don't know what people expect from those silicon valley companies. They are all hypocrites especially apple but the worst thing is their classicism. They try to make people think that the main problem is diversity of race and gender but the way they discriminate is against classes and political views.

The whole apple messages system is an exercise in creating a walled garden where only apple users can participate. Kids who can't afford their devices are getting shunned from conversations, especially at young age when they are not savvy enough yet to install more global messaging systems that works across all platforms.

Apple hates poor people, they hate lower classes who voted for Trump and they hate the people of HK, they are tyrants and always have been, it is only now that people start to realise it because suddenly it hits something that they care about.
I listed 3 devices so 2 is not a solution. And I've had 4 before and expect them to go up so would prefer to get a 5 port USB-C power supply now if such a thing existed.
>Similarly if the "moral" thing for these companies to do is to divest from China, then HK will only be served by Chinese companies

Would it be possible to divest from all of China except Hong Kong?
While I understand why you'd write something like this, I think that this sort of thinking is the reason people get poor sleep nowadays anyway. This obsession with "efficiency" and "productivity". Even if it is more productive to get sleep, I believe that thinking about it in terms of hygiene or in terms of quality of life is much healthier.

Maybe you disagree but not every minute of life should be devoted to doing the most productive thing you can. Sleeping for sleep's sake or because it makes you feel good should be enough reason. I'd rather turn my attention away from all these life-hack, min-maxing ways of thinking and just listen to my body telling me what it wants.
South Park was right all along (ending speech of 201)
Not really. Perhaps for people that could be true, but not for businesses.

As a business, you absolutely don't have to declare your stand on the political issues in your country, let alone issues in some places half way across the world.

And especially declare your stand when you're not asked.
I would be very happy to pay $140 one-time price for a fully functional, working Linux desktop environment. Even if it's limited to way fewer hw configurations than a Windows OS. Btw. $140 is the cost of Win 10 Pro.
> Maybe there is no market for them yet?

Then I guess the title "USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own" is a lie.
Google Play store is a very small part of Android. Just the fact that vendors can ship modified components is a testament to Android being open. Even Huawei shipped a modified version of Android with Google services such as the Play store removed due to sanctions.

Also in comparison to iOS, Android is a heck of a lot more open. Apple can ship whatever they want and no one would be none the wiser. Plus you can't install whatever software you want on an Apple device, and are restricted to what Apple thinks is acceptable.
My own understanding of QM at this point is that it's sort of wrong to think of anything being exactly anywhere, ever.

The way I intuit it, QM systems seem to be described by their wavefunctions sort of the same way a bunch of sine waves together makes music. You could have a QM system that is spatially (mostly) at X, represented by a wave function, or at Y, represented by another, but the third option, a superposition, is the combination of those two wave functions.
At Edge of Solar System, Pressure Runs High – Greater Than Expected
A thousand times this. Desktop Linux is the smoothest and most user-friendly computing I've ever experienced.

Also, to those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/743/
kawaii desu ne.
There might be teams working on "secret" things that are better, but as far as I can tell the "we don't trust you yet so you can't work on anything until you do" is largely a myth.
Azure Spring Cloud: Managed Service for Spring Boot Microservices
I'm assuming that the website still works, since it's probably the source of data for the app anyway.

At the end of the day, Apple taking down the app seems like an expected outcome, and HK is outside of the great firewall, so anyone can still access the site. What's the problem?
It will impress your fellow engineers but management won’t care at bonus time. It’s the classic sysadmin’s dilemma: the better you are, the more the organisation takes you for granted.
Isn't the package.json default license "ISC"?
Does the body absorb collagen in potent enough concentrations if you eat gelatin?
Absolutely, it's just a way to schedule reviews. That is, I am not doing the same exercise every single day until I finally remember it.
That's what happens when the most important de-facto-public platforms are instead owned by private corporations.
Just realized that I never use the drag and drop I implemented in my application.

Wonder if it actually still works.
I used to skateboard in my youth, and have moved on to roller skating for reasons of accessibility of locations and lining up with my children's interests. I love it, I look forward to it, it's embarrassing to admit it to people I know, but such is the level of enjoyment of it, the embarrassment is far outweighed by the desire to share my enthusiasm.

I recently stumbled across the documentary United Skates, which was both uplifting and depressing at the same time. It does a beautiful job of, amongst other things, demonstrating the value of a pastime that requires discipline in order to achieve the adrenaline-buzz payoff, and the way such a pastime can get in the way of less-socially-acceptable alternative life choices.

I'm too old for it to seem appropriate to say this, but I fucking love roller skating. Going to a rink for a session is like entering another world, and "normality" is paused and disappears into insignificance for the duration. It's wonderful.

(One of the things that put me off skateboarding at a certain period of my life was a 'skateboard nose strike to the gooch' upon attempting a kickflip. Coulda been worse, didn't want to risk it...)
> I bought a cable for TB3 to connect an SSD to my iMac and instead of getting 40Gbps I only got 480Mbps... my fault for not reading the small print, but having the same connectors for different protocols is not a smart idea either.

It's very stupid that TB3 cables aren't required to support USB 3, but thankfully that should go away over time with USB 4.
What are the language and dev tools that you use that allowed you to freely transit from one OS to another again and again? Thanks.
By using OpenBSD as an AP I have never been able to get speeds above 10 Mbps even with excellent signal strength. Just by booting Linux on the same AP I can connect with 150 Mbps, but I like the OpenBSD way of doing things so much, that I choose the slower speed instead.
Apple Zero-Day Exploited in New Bitpaymer Campaign
OzoneAI wants companies to pay you for your data, upending the ad model
The author seems to do a lot of unusual and roundabout things with the software on their personal mac. It's cool to see somebody fully exploring personal software and customization, but what they're doing sounds weird to me.

From another post[0] on their blog:

>You’ll be able to upgrade to version 2.0 for a one-time purchase of $6.99 – no subscriptions here!

No subscriptions here, just me rewriting the app and deciding to charge for the new version every so often.

[0] https://tyler.io/reviving-an-old-mac-app/
To the best of my knowledge, no. It's certainly not behind the Great Firewall of China.
Actually makes lot of sense. From the blog..

..the app aggregates reports from Telegram, Facebook and other sources.
I think most recommendations are to get 4-5 sleep cycles a night, so the actual elapsed time will vary for individuals.

The problem with chronic sleep deprivation is that you miss one or more cycles, It's like if you washed your clothes but skipped the rinse and/or spin cycles. Skipping a whole night of sleep and you're still wearing yesterday's clothes.
Apple should've given some kind of overview of how exactly the app was used to target police officers. Knowing that the app was aggregating info on police presence, I can see a dozen ways to maliciously use this info.

For example, it could have been used to identify locations where police is about to withdraw to target last remaining officers. Or to identify a good place for an ambush with good escape options and no video surveillance and then lure police into the ambush by reporting a minor accident. Information about location and movements of the adversary is invaluable for exactly this reason - it gives the other side advantage in planning.

If something like this really did happen and if Apple has any specifics, it should totally release it down to exact location and time of incidents and the aftermath. These are very serious allegations that need substantial proofs.
Skype web doesn't work on Firefox and am still not able to fathom why
The venue really doesn't matter considering that the source is effectively unimpeachable. Sure, it might be proper for Apple to err on the side of caution when violence is involved, but in this case, there is definitely violence on both sides, and one side (the state) definitely has the upper hand.

Plus, the idea that the app could be used for specific targeting of individual police has pretty clearly been debunked.

In the end its really just a question of whether you think Apple should be on the side of egalitarianism or unrestricted profit.
Ban "Waze" it shows us where police are !
If Apple Lightning ever does get replaced by USB-C, it will be a huge loss. I can't articulate all of the reasons why, but it is a delight to use compared to USB-C. Plugging in a Lightning cable is the only thing that feels half as good as plugging in a 1/4" TS cable. Solid and satisfying.
There are some comments here pointing out that some effects in the article (post 30 hours of sleep deprivation for example) seem out of proportion.

If you are comparing to times when you did not sleep and "felt" you performed well, please keep in mind that your "feelings" are also affected by the same lack of sleep.

You might be thinking you are driving great, but compared to how your drive when fully rested, you are probably not. But you brain does not process or acknowledge this fully since it is deprived of sleep.

Your mileage with lack of sleep will surely vary, but to think you are not affected (without formal tests) will be the exact result of lack or sleep - thinking/reasoning is impaired.
>every application asking for permissions

Only every outdated application asking for permissions. The author of that post already explained why he was getting so many of those prompts. He admitted that it probably wasn't reflective of what the typical install will look like specifically because he was purposely using older versions of software.
Australian aborigines had:

* A form of cryptographic key exchange which maintained peace among the tribes for 10's of thousands of years

* A formulated "do no harm" policy for its healing practitioners that was an analog of the Hyppocratic oath, long before Europeans had the concept. They also understood the healing nature of antiseptics, and had a knowledge of infection more advanced than European medicine at the time (1700's) of first contact. (We had miasma theory: the aborigines understood that there was a smaller world that would infect a person if they didn't bathe/take care of the wounds..)

* They have the oldest surviving oral traditions in the world. We in the west cannot keep our memes alive for longer than a few months - the Australians managed to tell the same stories among themselves for 40,000+ years.

* The Australian biosphere as it stood on first contact was a result of centuries of management by the aborigines. They were maintaining the land peacefully, and harmonically, for millennia.

* The oldest mason (Stoneworking) projects in the world are found in Gabarnmung. There is evidence that this technology was exported from there to other parts of the neolithic world.

I think they were actually a lot more advanced than we give them credit. Its easy for notions of European supremacy to blind one to this, however ..
They said it was neutralized.

--

I see now why your comment was so strongly worded...

"I know we would be interested in assisting System76 (or other prebuilt system OEMs) to start offering POWER products as true open source, owner controlled alternatives to Intel and AMD"

Although what you're doing is laudable, I think your form of communication might alienate the kinds of people who might support your mission.
Android phones can be incredibly cheap (circa $100).

In addition there is nothing stopping them for trading their iPhone for a more expensive Android.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a likely outcome.
The difference is government entities can be made democratically accountable which means effective pressure can be brought to bear on them.

It doesn't mean they are setup that way or that they (or the electorate) don't become captured by vested interests but it is the most effective way of keeping natural monopolies in our economy free from corruption (heavy regulation can also work).
Thank you for that! This one might be my favorite:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/2559/the-weird-wild-saga-of-gi...

It reads like a Hollywood script that would be rejected for being too unbelievable.
Basically controlled burns are the key to preventing a catastrophic wildfire but the US Forest Service and its Smokey the Bear slogan said "fire bad" which caused vegetation to grow uncontrollably over the years. Combine this with the high winds, extremely low humidity, and warm temperatures we see in the fall season in CA and you get a big fire.

Interestingly, controlled burning was a common tradition in native american cultures. Maybe we should've listened to the people who lived here for potentially thousands of years instead of oppressing the fk out of them to near genocide levels. But I digress.
Who’s in Charge in Peru?
They will say that you did a good job fixing the issue but most mid level managers won't give you a bonus for that. In fact, in the next breath, they will criticize you for not putting in enough effort into introducing new tech. Fixing the problem is an opportunity cost.

The only exception I have seen to the above is if you catch the eye of top level engineering management by your actions.

I have seen major problems lingering for years because management's actions have shown that they don't value problems being fixed.

Furthermore, when bugs become a priority, the metrics they care about are bug fix time. You are better off not being associated with a difficult bug because it lowers your close rate and lengthens your average time to close bugs. Perverse incentives.
Ramstein (Air Base)
As far as I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), every proper charger is supposed to support the exact same list of power combinations from 0 up to whatever its max wattage is.

The switch dock demands 39 watts, which implies 15 volts, but the switch itself will negotiate any voltage when standalone.
Haha, interesting theory. For some it’s a cigarette break, for others (all of us?) it’s bathroom break, shower (showerthoughts, anyone?), nap, meditation. A break of any kind, if we may generalize.