skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mistakes New E-Commerce Startups Make and How to Avoid Them
Humpback whales have mirror neurons (the ones implicated in "theory of mind") so they might show "compassion". There is so much we still do not know about marine mammals...
Ironically, Waze is owned by Google and not available in China because they did not capitulate to the Chinese government, so maybe that's a bad analogy.
There's an 881 page thread of people ripping this "Atari" project to shreds on the AtariAge forums. People could smell the BS even back in 2017: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/266480-new-atari-console-t...

At some point in that thread around summer 2019, a photo of their "prototype" hardware was released, and it's just a stock embedded Ryzen dev board - not custom hardware at all. After 2 years, they had nothing done. It gets even better: They realized their original case design from 2017 was too costly and had to redesign it in Spring 2019: https://medium.com/@atarivcs/atari-vcs-structural-improvemen...

Even in 2019, all they had were renders of both their old and new case designs, and that blog post really goes to show how unprepared they were. Any moron with CAD experience could have told them their original design would have been a nightmare to manufacture/assemble.
FBI worries Facebook’s privacy first policy will be a ‘child predator’s dream’
You’re supposed to play trivia on no sleep! http://www.90fmtrivia.org/

School was quite empty the Monday after.
Right. But of course the Chinese government has asked Apple for a backdoor, and (to our knowledge) Apple has not provided that. So long as that's true, an iPhone really is one of the most secure option for Chinese residents.
Excellent resource. I also recommemd: http://howdoeshomeopathywork.com
Three take-aways for me:

1) Android users win this round.

2) Would be great to have some kind of whiz-bang P2P decentralized federated mesh-networked version of Hkmap.live.

3) My opinion on Apple has not improved.
Windows ransomware: when will people in charge ever learn?
New Stack Overflow Code of Conduct
Everything on the thinkpad x201 works out of the box with alpine Linux. Considering that’s one of the smaller distros I’m sure the other ones work great (unless of course you run chrome on gnome3 but that’s going to suck even on recent computers.)
No. We've seen touchscreens replacing knobs, marketed as the cool new thing but really it is done for cost reasons - touchscreens are getting incredibly cheaper and automotive grade rotary encoders, buttons, switches are getting more expensive as the demand is falling.

It is sad to see how adding more features is degrading cars. Stop fucking with things that work. I hate touchscreens except for my phone. That's the only place where it makes sense and it has worked well. I hate using an iPad and I hate literally anything that has a touchscreen. Old ATMs were so much better than this touchscreen bullshit.

Cameras instead of mirrors is how upper management wants to do cool things for the sake of doing cool things - aerodynamic efficiency takes a back seat where I have a risk of not being able to see things clearly, or if the camera breaks or if parallax becomes a problem.
I think there will be fatigue over time focusing on the closer distance. With traditional mirrors, your focus is far away all the time whether looking out the windshield or mirror. If looking at screen instead, must focus to closer distance.
Blocking Google and Wikipedia didn't cause an exodus of internet companies.
Mgrs is also a perfect m-ary tree, it really has so many useful properties for doing spatial machine learning.
This is why you have the right of discovery in court cases. He could simply show that she was lying by demonstrating that she got sperm from the sperm bank. (Alternatively, he could have proven that he had a vasectomy before they dated). Both of those two things leave hard medical records.

Like I said before, either your friend lied or he needs a better lawyer. Given the story that you stated, the law is definitely on his side.
Applying AI to Enterprise Integration: How Ready Are We?
To Upgrade Your Leisure, Downgrade Your Phone
Ripples Launches Revolutionary Media Platform
I’ve learned to love the expression “let me sleep on it”
Here's the first part of Peter Attia's three part interview with Matthew Walker (6+ hrs total listening time!). Most of the content of the book is covered; it's very motivating insofar as prioritizing sleep quality.
https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/

Matthew Walker's main site:
https://www.humansleepscience.com/
If it's just "hello world" in this day and age of good frameworks, great open source tooling like Terraform and SaaS offerings that's not too tall of an order.
woah I hadn't seen that.. sounds like PySpy but implemented in BPF. That's crazy and cool:
https://github.com/benfred/py-spy
Twitter for macOS
Twitter desktop app returns to macOS
When something is not merely wrong, or foolish, but seems so indicative of failing to comprehend the article, it stands to reason that it may not be in good faith.

In other words, the person you responded to specifically stated that the comment CANNOT stand by itself; it supposed things opposite of what was said in the article.
Why do you think there's a line? What is that based on?
How did you come up with that snippet?
> It is absolutely clear that the Mac is far outside of what the upper-ranks of Apple is focusing on.

This is so inexplicable, given that the Mac is necessary to continue producing the apps for the iPad and iOS ecosystems, yet I've never really heard anyone outside of developer community comment on this, nor does it seem Cook or anyone in Apple has contemplated the consequences to their entire company of squandering the buy-in from the developer community by neglecting the company's primary development tool. Mind-boggling.
It looks like they are leveraging Netlify for their website, Gumroad for payments, and Notion for wiki. This helps to make as much of what is not actually the product (marketing, documentation, financials) as easy and fast as possible. Most of that hour would be actually making the product (the web extension).

Given a talent for design, and some marketing, and some experience making extensions. This should be possible within a reasonable time frame.
With how much disregard for laws that Uber has shown, I'm not sure I'd trust Uber to actually be HIPAA compliant or to be committed to privacy.
They're certainly rare, but a few archeological sites have had minor traps.

Amenhotep III's tomb had a hidden spike pit near the hidden main chamber.

Baphuon had a sand trap to flood the area.

I believe one of the Mayan temples had an intentionally poisoned sarcophagis.
Spyware is routinely found preinstalled on Chinese branded phones, and Chinese border guards will install spyware on tourists' Android phones. iPhone users are much better protected from this stuff.

1: https://www.cyberscoop.com/android-malware-china-huawei-zte-...

2: https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/03/spyware/
SETI pointed at the sky, with intelligent species abound at home.
But the buses wouldn't need windscreens or wipers or chairs or steering wheels or pedals or payment/coin handling, and the drivers wouldn't need uniforms or eye tests or retraining on routes or overtime or time and a half for holidays. Bus companies won't have to insure the busses for human drivers.

So, yes savings. Nyah on your "unions defending humans against exploitation are the worst thing ever" narrative.
I mean, even the supposed top software product from Apple nowadays, iPadOS, is suffering from annoying bugs.

This will be the third time I have to reboot my iPad 6th gen today, the first two were because the keyboard would randomly close and not come back (if someone has a workaround for this issue, I would be grateful, it is a really annoying bug specially since it happened while I was writing a big text) [1].

Now, the app that I use for Hacker News (Octal) is broken on the dock, so the only way to switch to it is using the Expose-like screen. I already tried to force remove it from dock, however opening it again triggered the same bug. Also, force touching the icon shows a “Share (null)” (probably the cause of the bug).

I know, not a big deal (making the user reboot three times in one day, however, should be a big deal). But this is for their top product for gods sake. I don’t want to even imagine how Catalina is.

[1]: If this was Android I could at least force close the keyboard app. I didn’t find a way to force closing iPadOS keyboard, BTW, I tried to add and remove keyboard languages without success. Also annoying that I had to use another device to search about this issue since, you know, I had no keyboard at all.
> a dislike of, I guess, unofficial emulation, for whatever reasons that don't make much sense to me.

For a reason that might make sense, but which I rarely see repeated: standardized “first-party” products allow a level playing field for speedruns and the like. Whereas nobody’s gonna trust a run you did on your modded toaster.

A more likely reason, though, is that quite frequently now collectors are also content-creators (gamer YouTubers, etc.) and these folks need officially sanctioned games and consoles for the same reason professional artists need official copies of Photoshop: you’re way more likely to get sued as a business profiting off of piracy than as an individual just playing.
While I sympathize with your political position on free software, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that this point of view is idealistic[1] and short sighted.

The vast majority of engineers don’t commit to switching to free software not because not enough hearts and minds have been convinced yet but because the entire economy and the basis of everyone’s material existence depends on a system that is at this moment market-based.

The popularity of proprietary software stacks is ultimately structural, as are the problems and caveats of proprietary software. Engineers are, in the vast majority, dependent on selling their labor to the commercial employment market for their livelihood, in many cases an extreme amount of labor in a highly competitive environment.

It is absolutely great that many engineers dedicate free labor to contributing to free software, and it is completely unreasonable to expect that anything at all could make the vast majority do it. Not an unreasonable expectation of an individual, but of the structure.

[1] in the sense of philosophical idealism vs materialism
Apple Balances Innovation with Sustainability
Any tips on how to enact problem solving during sleep?
This was my exact experience as well with the studies. We are similar in our sleep patterns.
How does one obtain a pass or ticket or invite or whatever to attend Hereticon? If its the same folks who will be curating topics and speakers at Hereticon as in:

https://foundersfund.com/anatomy-of-next/ then, count me in!

They had me at the "Sex in Space" podcast. Bonus points for having two parts.

Part 1: [..]Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of Next we’ve looked at every aspect of turning Mars into a habitable world. Now what about the changes in biology that are going to alter the way we populate our world? From artificial gametes derived from skin cells and genetically-modified embryos to artificial gestation – this is the future of sex.[..]

Part 1 is more interesting than Part 2. Part 2 beckons Heinlein. Two thumbs up!

I wish Quanta Mag and Nautilus Mag would have live events too.
You have an incredibly condescending, disrespectful and aggressive tone, one that seems to suggest that you believe that everybody you speak with here is utterly uninformed when it comes to China. It’s not a good look, and probably does more to damage your point than if you had just argued in good faith instead.
Is it me or does the content of the article not in fact support the headline.

Let alone the true facts, ie how the rich actually pay themselves (not just in taxable income), etc.
I don't think Apple deserves a pass, but removing an app from the store is not similar to creating a special version of the OS with a backdoor.
I run the real xscreensaver though (I was building it from the source until around this time last year, now I run the one from alpine but I don’t think they’ve done anything weird (I haven’t checked though))

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen what everyone is talking about and it’s bothered me a little too (granted, my machine is configured in such an undiscoverable way that just opening an xterm window is obscure enough to be nearly equivalent to a very short pin, and then you need to know bash. Now that I’m not in college and don’t have anything important that’s probably good enough even without xcreensaver.)
I've had sleep issues since I was a child and I have been interested in the area of sleep for a long time. One of the biggest challenges in this is that I know lack of sleep is very unhealthy in a number of dimensions AND the more I focus on trying to sleep and how bad it is to miss sleep WHEN I'm having sleep issues, the less likely it is I'll be able to sleep.
I have been using Linux on my home workstations for over 10 years. I use a MacBook Pro 1 day a week for work for 5 years. I occasionally use a Windows 10 machine if a friend or family member needs help.

Linux desktop is easily my most productive and least worse environment. It's so smooth to develop on. All other OS behave like an annoying authoritarian dictator. And Windows specifically is a kafkaesque dumpster fire of menus and windows all with seemingly different design concepts. MacOS is pretty consistent in design and performance but using the machine it's obvious that developer productivity is not their top goal and you can't develop using a mobile phone as your workhorse so desktops are all we got.
The Ted Talk that argues gaming is more profound than AI
the fact that GP is complaining about it may be an indication. by hiring good people who see the structural problems and work around them works. you can brute force work around poor management and a bad structure.

Edit: you can see this explained in one of snapples sibling posts.
Curious how Uber is planning to ensure the service 24 hours available? Anecdotally, it has been difficult recently getting rides before 6AM in the morning on a few occasions.
Well, you're pretty close here.

Yes, the iPhone has the best secure enclave.

However, there is nothing stopping Apple from making separate builds with extra "features" for the Chinese market, and installing them. Same keys, OS version chosen by region. Boom. Chinese version acceptable to Chinese government, rest of the world secure. Easy.

From my experience in this area, I would expect the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to accept nothing less.
I have been dealing with computers since I started CS in school 18 years ago, and well my preferences have been changing since then.

I used to love playing with computers and being able to try different linux distributions even if I had to spend 5 hours to have a usable external monitor (actually spending that time was one of the best parts) but that changed mostly because of my needs, but also because of my economy.

When I had to start being more productive and I could afford it I bought my first Mac Book, and it lasted ten years! At that point I realized that maybe for me it was worth it spending that money and using that time to configure a keyboard doing something else.

I feel I was the target at that time for Apple with some of their products, maybe now things have changed and I am not anymore.

And I guess yes, marketing is what is driving them, but I think they are abandoning part of what they used to be their target and, hopefully, someone will fill that void with something that makes me as happy as when I bought my first Mac Book.

BTW, now I am using a Pixelbook and a Mac Book for my personal stuff and Windows professionally and although is getting worst and worst I will still keep buying them.
The breakdown of the body and will that sleep deprivation causes is well known to those who use "enhanced interrogation techniques".

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/senate-report-cia-torture/s...
Twitter doesn't allow static GIFs in 2019, and why animated GIF is a bad idea
When the Lion Wakes: The Global Threat of the Chinese Communist Party
Not a single one of those exploits has ever been seen in the wild.
Good thing then the rural majority is over 50, never been more motivated in life than to hold down a boring or body ruining job, and is heavily dependent on liberal economies to prop up those jobs in the first place.

Why not just let them live peacefully and automated truck deliver supplies?

Why the extra effort of tethering them to the global financial scheme when by all accounts they largely just want to live a basic life?

Oh wait right Wall Street profits and growth and disruption, I forgot. Capitalism!
Same deal here, same age as well - I often wonder if I did it to myself by staying up all night every night in my teens IRCing with folks in the US, never the less I don't get jetlag (currently in Seoul and adjusted that day) and I don't feel uncomfortable (prefer?) 4 hours sleep.
Do you sleep at all, or do you just sleep very little?
So the guy I was replying to was not engaging in Whataboutism?
Maybe they want to get stuff done, other than puttering around in the tooling. It's a nice option to have, but would be ruinous to productivity.

Also, design by committee rarely produces good UI. You can patch little UI bugs, but if you really want to holistically improve the UI it's a huge undertaking.

Just because you're developer, doesn't mean you want to hack on every tool you use. Software has gotten way too big for that.
If I were Tim Cook, I'd have said: "Sure, we'll comply with your demands" and then I would have immediately mobilized a covert engineering task force to push out an urgent bug fix that rigs every Apple device in the entirety of China to turn into a Winnie the Pooh brick on Xi's birthday
What place are you referring to that beans can't occupy? They're both savoury proteins.

Instead of broccoli, potatoes, and some meat, you have broccoli, potatoes, and some beans. Or instead of a beef burger you have a bean based veggie burger.

Ground beef on pizza? Beans!

Beef burrito? Beans!!
A litle bit insane, the article says: "Your number of immune cells begins to decline as well, as your body is deprived of its opportunity to make more".
More daily work, less health!
protest isn't always non-violent, so that point is irrelevant to me. without being concerned for that point, your whole argument is invalid (to me)
We can barely get people to clean the snow off their cars before driving on highways. Not sure the tech is the real problem with snow rain, and other weather.
They are wrong. The Switch console itself is USB-C standard compliant. The dock has a slightly smaller plug to make it easier to dock / undock the console. 3rd parties try to replicate the smaller plug but don't get the tolerances right causing a miswiring.
What is a "water rabbit"? Why is it never mentioned in the article outside the title?
Thats due to dynamic rate shifting - as you move further away and the signal strength decreases, your client and AP will negotiate new data rates. Data rates will get slower with lower signal quality in effort to reduce error rates. Signal strength is also not linear, essentially a loss of 3 dB is the signal strength being cut in half. Without know much about your environment, you can try putting the AP closer to the middle of locations where you use WiFi at or get a second AP. You can also try a repeater/extender, which is usually frowned upon, but hey, if it helps it helps.
I’m not sure the situation here, but I’ve always wondered why the disconnect is so big between creative work and what people will pay. You ask someone to do a bunch of work, and then people feel justified in only wanting to pay for the bit they are going to use (or not pay at all if they don’t want it).

I wonder if this comes from our interactions with large companies. We go in, we see a bunch of products that we are not the customer for, and then we pick one and buy it. We ignore the rest, but for each product, somewhere out there is another customer who will buy it.

But when we hire someone, we want something custom. There is no other market for the options we reject. They are dancing solely for our amusement. Whether we or amused or not, we are taking up their time.
I achieved what I can only describe as pure euphoria while going without sleep for extended months in my 20s. I've actually been thinking about doing it again recently. It really should only be done if you don't need to drive and have no worry about failing deadlines at work.
There’s good evidence that being in social situations, even with complete strangers, and even when you are very introverted and hate doing it, improves your overall happiness.
I am an Apple employee. I didn’t get this email. Something doesn’t compute here.
that's only because of folks like you cheering it on.
I've suffered from insomnia most of my teen and adult life (I am 37). I sometimes go up to 3 days without sleep (thus 2 nights, ~60 hours total; 'record' just shy of 80 hours), then sleep for ~12 hours. I usually work almost the entire time.

My "default" day seems to last 25~30 hours, give or take, which means that naturally there are more like 6 'days' per week for me. ('days' roughly defined as periods of wake time >12h between sleep times >6 hours) Sometimes, a 'night' just skips, well beyond 30 hours into the 40's or more — a no show, literally — and I simply go on for that time...

But knowing this, and being a workhorse in permanent training — I made a point in my early 20's to train myself to become able to work for 12~16 hours a day if I want to, because it seemed like a skill in demand — I've largely accustomed myself to my weird body rythms. It's OK. Not that I can do a marathon in the last 20 hours, but I can function intellectually, emotionally and socially normally 'enough' that people don't notice unless I tell them — goes like: “btw, sorry if I'm a little slow, I haven't slept in 40 hours...” “WHAAAT!?... couldn't tell, but please don't die right now!”

The best judge is quality of work, right? Well, on the next day after a good night's sleep, when I look back at it, I'm often amazed actually at the level of detail and attention, the elegance sometimes (think code, writing, making stuff/systems). Productivity is admittedly not great due to numerous breaks (coffee, eating helps a lot, just strolling for 10-15 minutes too), but not bad at all. 'Good' or 'deep' is more important to me than 'fast' anyway, so I probably geared for that along the years.

I know all the risks of acute and chronic sleep deprivation, biological, psychological, I know. It's just surprisingly easy for me, and my body / thought just won't shut down anyway.

I know I may die young — actually at any time whenever I'm beyond 40 hours awake... which may happen 10-20 times per year easily. Sometimes twice in a row (2 nights / 7 days). Nonetheless... it's proved impossible for me, for now, to just shut down. I admire people who can just go to bed and fall asleep 'on demand'. What is this sorcery?! Why can't I?

I feel like I have unlocked the 'intelligence switch' quite early in my life (not 100% but well enough), and recently around 34 I unlocked the 'happiness switch' (took two decades but I basically 'solved' mental states and happiness for myself, I hope others too when I write this blog/book). I just hope the 'sleep switch' actually exists, and isn't 20 more years down the road for me.

I'll say this: this condition is much harder from a social / career standpoint than from a physical one. It's easy on my body, but it's been incredibly hard and frustrating for my mind and heart to be out of sync with civilization for as long as I can remember. I mostly live in sync with NA, from Europe... (would that help a remote position? haha)

I really don't know what to think of it, I just cope basically, and make the best out of it.