skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind the weather in Copenhagen where the amount of people who bikes every day exceeds the amount of people who take public transportation every day by around 50% (1). Weather in Copenhagen is rarely very cold or very warm. But Copenhagen weather is not "startlingly good all year-round". It rains quite often and temperatures are often close to zero or sub zero. And it's windy all the time. It even snows a few days a year.

I don't think it's a question of either or. It's a question of prioritizing both bikes, and public transportation, and electric cars and scooters.

Sadly, even in Copenhagen, where there are dedicated bike highways, elevated bike bridges, and generally very good biking conditions (mostly flat city), the amount of people who use cars every day far exceeds the amount of people who bike.

1: Page 11: https://www.regionh.dk/til-fagfolk/trafik/Analyser-og-rappor...
I’m a former product manger, currently running a successful marketing agency. Agency mostly runs itself so looking for new opportunities. If anyone is looking for a non-code-writing-but-understands-tech co-founder that can handle business/operations/sales side of things I would love to chat.
When I interviewed at Apple last year, they emphasized their use of various robotic contraptions for end-to-end testing over unit tests. One engineer remarked that 20% test coverage was considered on the high end for his team.
Indeed. I had a cushy government job for years and remember reading about FIRE. But at some point, I decided I'd go freelancing and although you earn better, it definitely put the fear of recessions in me, and I've seriously started my FIRE journey. Including, like you said, a hedged investment portfolio.
That's great, but I prefer to work with people who can teach me new tech knowledge.
As I understand AppStore is mutual platform. It should be beneficial to both user and devs.
Shadowsocks handles all of the use cases of a VPN. When all of a device's internet traffic is routed through Shadowsocks, there is no functional difference to the user. This is the default behavior for all Outline clients (desktop and mobile).
If you have time, you may want to read the article Database inside/out it gives a bit more background: https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...
Three reasons you have neck pain – 'bad posture' probably isn't one of them
Must-Have Free File Viewers for Windows
I mean "need" is subjective, I was trying to insinuate that I didn't know I 'needed' what was on offer until it was displayed in front of me.

For (a good) instance of what I mean was Airmail. Standard mail on OSX was "good enough" but Airmail was just all around better (from a UX perspective) and the popularity of it made Apple turn their head.

Another was 1password; before 1password I was using the macOS keychain, but 1password is/was all around better.
Here's a Seeker video regarding Google's leaked paper, that makes it easier to understand IBM's blog post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyuf1zt-TpU
Came to write exactly this. When we start to feel the real effects of climate change in a mass scale, our survival instinct will kick in and the world will be in a chaos. With all the weapons of mass destruction, guns and deteriorating social fabric, entropy might and probably win against our human order. Once the population numbers reduce through war and famine we could recover like the world did after ww2. Who knows.
Some apps can’t do parallel features because of rules on the App Store. I remember several years ago a commercial AV software sold an App Store version that was nerfed for true AV scanning which it’s non App Store has the full feature set. Apple requires (or maybe they don’t have that limitation anymore) that an application not touch system services if it’s sold in the App Store. Which for AV that would fit the bill.

Personally for a while the macOS App Store was riddled with sketchy Chinese apps that looked like knock offs of the real apps. Or there are apps that do the same thing as a more expensive commercial one.

Personally I’ve found a few gems in both App Stores. Hands down I love Pixelmator on iOS and macOS. I’d gladly pay for more apps built with good quality.
Because Linux developers have mostly used the Win32 layer instead of the POSIX personality?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
For 2. That's funny, for me mac screens look like a blurry mess while Linux are the sharpest thing around with infinality patches.

For 4. There is kde connect (you don't need to run kde to have it). Works only with android though afaik.
I agree with all these points. However, you can't leave behind the AppStore that matters most: for iPhone and iPad.
IRV has potentially multiple vote transfer steps and passes whereas all the other mechanisms are a single pass sum. IRV is easily the most complex to both compute and understand compared to the other alternatives (AV/SV/FPTP).

Furthermore, doesn't Australia use it only for House elections where you don't have to compute across a particularly large population?

Your tone is rather dismissive here.
Been in these temps. Not in Australia though so can't talk about UV protection. Sunscreen helped me in other environments though.

Doesn't 'Tour down under' happen during Australian summer months? Somehow they manage, too.
I guess you've never experienced a 40-45c day. You sound like one of the regular tourist types we get who dismiss how seriously we take summer conditions and then end up with heatstroke and skin peeling off from sunburn.

The 'self-created airflow' INCREASES the rate at which you gain temperature. Windchill is only 'chill' when the ambient air temperature is lower than your core temp.

To cycle on a summer day, you need to slather yourself in SPF-40 sunscreen including underneath clothing, wear SPF clothing, and make sure to be constantly drinking water. And when you get to your destination you're definitely going to need a shower. I'll take public transport over that, thanks. So does the majority of people.
Denmark and Netherlands does not have "comically bad weather" for cycling. Rather they have temperate coastal climates without extreme heat or extreme cold or heavy snowfall - ideal for cycling year round. Yeah they have rain, but you can easily protect against that. Wind is not a big deal inside cities.

It also helps that Copenhagen and Amsterdam are really flat cities.
GithHub uses S3 for artifacts. If your typical S3 download speed is ~80KB/s, I suspect it would be a similar story for Cloudfront, in which case a huge part of the Internet would be painful to use...
Instead of getting hung up on the exact percentage; perhaps I meant more like 0.000002%?

MacOS/iOS application stores are likely in the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of applications, however I see the same 20 when I browse without using the search field.
Would love to chat. Ping me (email is in profile).
GitHub has already dropped support for Mojave. The whole site is now broken in Safari 12 because it’s no longer the “current” version of the browser.

Is that a message Github have put out, or have they accidently rolled out a new feature that has a bug in Safari 12? That seems more likely to me. Github's browser support is usually very good, and it'd be incredibly disappointing if they've broken something intentionally.
This is very nice. How kind of algorithm do you use to split the rapidly growing trends from the rest?
This is clearly the big struggle of today. Will democracies survive in the face of rising authoritarianism?
It's not. I know of several instances where IP is at least used as a filter. Esp. the combination of user agent and IP require no JS and can help you to track users across domains easily for small to medium sized websites.
My car gets parked across the street from my apartment building.

Doesn't get stolen and doesn't care about rain.

My bike spent a single winter out on my balcony after we needed the space inside the apartment for baby stuff.
It's now rusty in multiple spots.

My previous bike, I left on the small back yard of my last apartment, locked up. It got stolen a few months after I started doing that.

So again, this is not feasible for a lot of people, myself included, and it's very privileged to think that everyone has access to a garage next to their home.
“Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.”

This is deathcult type rhetoric which has no scientific basis whatsoever.
Sorry Mozilla. You cannot beat this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tob6ZnDKti621gX27

Google Meta-translator finds the meaning not the words.
Sandbox VR Raises $11M
Personally I think languages with tracing GC are much more productive for those kind of scenarios.
From A2: overall description:

> Advanced phased array beam-forming and digital processing technologies within the
satellite payload give the system the ability to make highly efficient use of Ku- and Ka-band
spectrum resources and the flexibility to share that spectrum with other licensed users. User
terminals operating with the SpaceX System will use similar phased array technologies to allow
for highly directive, steered antenna beams that track the system’s low-Earth orbit satellites.
Gateway earth stations also apply advanced phased array technologies to generate high-gain
steered beams to communicate with multiple NGSO satellites from a single gateway site.

Details of the downlink beams is found at A3:

> All Ku-band downlink spot beams on each SpaceX satellite are independently steerable over the full field of view of the Earth.

Just read the entire A3.1 for more details.
The ecosystem has collapsed, humanity's last holdout - the salesforce.com trailhead Antarctica bunker is lifeless and silent, but hope is not lost - the probe holding Elon Musk's semen journeys onward to alpha proxima.
People get hung up on apple having a 30% entrance fee, but that didn't come out of nowhere.

I work in the video games industry and access to steam or other first parties (Sony/Microsoft) is 30%, no negotiations.

You could argue that first parties such as sony/microsoft have subtle costs involved such as printing of disks, but that's paid for before market by the publisher.

The thing you pay for is: content distribution (in the case of digital downloads such as steam), 'signing' and access to market.
>Bringing up comparisons to Steve Jobs must be the tech equivalent of Godwin's Law, but if there was one thing about him, it's that he actually was a user of his own products, like us.
It feels like there's no one at Apple (or other companies) like that anymore. They can only try to guess at what it must be like to be a user, so they can't nitpick all the little things that annoy us.

Exactly this. As he famously said on stage he was the low paid beta tester for Apple. He was also sensitive to certain users opinion. I could only wish he was replying email on this latest MacBook Pro and decide to throw the damn thing out of the Window. Calling up Engineers at midnight and demand this to be fix or redesigned ASAP.

Without Steve we have been stuck with this butterfly keyboard for 4-5 years now, because Tim Cook decided it is a small problem and they need to amortise the cost of R&D.
> Those still living in extreme poverty today probably don't care about our worries of climate disruption.

No doubt about it. At this point it's probably a better idea to start preparing for the changes rather than stopping them, unless we somehow manage to achieve some magical global unity around a single goal.

> I don't see why civilization would collapse any time soon

Civilizational collapse is a slow process. I doubt the people of the later stages of the Roman empire felt their society collapsed. It's more likely they simply experienced slowly decaying infrastructure as maintenance was neglected, social unrest, and the absence of the advantages we get from a large centralized authorities, all in a span of many decades.

I'm not saying that it's happening, or not happening -- It's just that you wouldn't know until it's happened.
The author used to work at Apple, but no longer does, so they probably can’t comment accurately on anything super recent. I agree with you, it doesn’t really deliver on the title, but I still found it an interesting read. But yeah, a more accurate title would be something like “common causes of quality issues in Apple software.”
So how did you manage to stay afloat in your home country? Could you live with your parents or something?
I expect the number of the new security vulnerabilities to be a lot more than the bugs visible to the users. Considering the MacOS track of record in the last year ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 ), I am pretty worried.

When I see a weird behavior I always wonder if it is a Apple's bug or a bug introduced by something trying to exploit a vulnerability.
Yeah, but when there are other languages that also AOT compile to native code, with faster compiler toolchains, it is already a deciding factor when choosing languages.
The opposite of that is the stereotypical Soviet style, shoemaker working as a mason, carpenter working as the prime minister. There's a room in between for something sane, but anything sane will also be discriminatory with respect to skills.

It seems to me that this pileup against meritocracy is primarily about personal rewards, and not about utility to society.
How you are going to define euclidean space without the pythagorean theorem? That's basically the definition of euclidean. But the advantage of the pythagorean theorem is it allows you to measure how you deviate from flatness by comparing the difference of c^2 with a^2 + b^2.
Thanks!! It's based on regression analysis of the topic's data.
"What could have been a much cheaper nice looking normally-designed bridge (which would be open today) ballooned (or you could say, was hijacked) into a $10mm+ bridge disaster..."

This exactly parallels the disaster that is the new span of the (SF-Oakland) Bay Bridge. What would have been a $400M fully-functional replacement instead became an $8 billion art piece that is less safe and needs far more maintenance.
They could simply decouple the apps from the OS, like Android. Safari and Mail.app do not need to be tied to OS releases.

Android OS releases do not get nearly as much fanfare because a lot of core functionality is decoupled from the OS: app store(s), mail clients, browsers, todo lists, even the text messaging apps and some security frameworks.

Which of course is exactly why Apple keeps everything in one big release. They want lots of press talking about the brand new features.
Publishing of news, the same as the newswires that report earnings. The numbers don't come straight from the company but are usually scheduled on various services for the reporting time.

There are plenty of people involved in handling sensitive news of all kinds. It's not really a problem. The risk of insider trading is rather low because it's easy to catch and has harsh penalties.
I am sure that highly fit 20-30 year olds who train for marathons can manage.

I am not sure how that translates to everyday commute for tens of millions of people of all fitness levels and ages.

This 'if I can do it then surely everyone can do it' attitude is incredibly myopic given the scale of the issue. You represent less than 1% of the population (A total of 1% of Aussies report cycling to work once a month or more). Your views don't matter or don't apply for the other 99%.
For steam games enable proton for all games. For all others try Lutris.

Proton is very good default option because valve worked to make a lot of game playable with it.

Lutris have specific profiles for specific game/software release so it can install required wine version and winetricks and sometimes even patches.
For 1, Xournal can open PDFs, insert text, images, and annotations, and export back to PDF.
The "hardware as commodity" is an ideology that I've been playing with for a while. I have my personal cloud that I can access via VPN, including a Windows desktop running in a VM, personal photos and home videos sync'd to a NAS using SyncThing.

De-coupling the portable device (which, due to its portability, is much more prone to breakage or theft) from the data that it captures or has access to.

My journey to this ideology was close calls with data loss due to both hardware failure and theft. Rather than backing up to a central location, have the data "live" at the central location, then back it up off-site somewhere.

This can also have both negative and positive security implications in the even of a lost or stolen device, but those scenarios are likely not quite as bad as if you've got a whole whack of data on the device as well.

This can be done across platforms too, as far as my experience goes. It's unrelated to the author's transition to Linux / Ubuntu. My stable consists of android phones, iPads, Chromebooks (which don't really count because they embody this ideology already), laptops running both Linux and Windows. Although I'm also most of the way through transitioning away from Windows (but RDP is just so good for controlling a remote GUI).
No permanent human base beyond leo.
That was my point upthread (any proof of the Pythagorean identity is somewhat circular, since it is inherent in the structure).

The way Euclid does it is to set up various axioms which imply flat space without explicitly declaring the Pythagorean identity to be an axiom. But you could easily do it the other way around. Euclid’s axioms (and other alternatives proposed over the years) were chosen specifically to make the Pythagorean identity true.

Cf. Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxKw4xEEFHQ (proximately relevant bit starts at about 22 minutes)

Also Lakatos: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kpmann/Lakatos.pdf
I think we should not conflate SDL and long term product and feature planning. You can have both agile SDL and long term planning.
Not sure about the App Store, but I think the parent was talking about steam.

Steam does not refund the 30%.
I predict human level AI will come about. What comes after I'm not sure but I tend to be optimistic.
4% of national emissions is a lot considering the purpose here, and taking into account, as said, that the Netherlands emit quite a bit to begin with because of fossil fuels use (Wikipedia says they emitted twice as much as France per capita in 2014 [1], for example)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
There are “wall into a store” devices at far less than MacBook/XPS/X1 prices that have good performance, stellar battery life, good displays, and run the web’s default browser alongside Android apps and almost all Linux apps (direct USB access and audio is tricky, but the Android development kit is directly supported).

It’s true that after some number of years, you switch the hardware to a different OS, including a 3rd party supported ChromeOS system or a variety of Linux distributions.

I’m not saying it’s for everyone, but I will say that it’s at least in the same class of consideration as “you could buy an old Thinkpad, and replace at least the hard drive, keyboard, display, and battery to get something similarly usable”.
Be careful trying to forecast that far into the future. Historically, most people have ended up very wrong.
Changing attitudes to advertisements and the upcoming generation's obsession with "authenticity" will push all brands and ads further into "lifestyle"-type presentation. Every furniture store and potato chip company will have social accounts for sharing memes.

Brand loyalty will merge deeper into the human experience, and in the 50-100 year timescale few living humans will be able to conceive of brands and products as separate from their personal identity. Boundaries between socio-economic groups will become more strongly reinforced along product lines (I believe this has already begun - see the Chik-fil-A/Hobby Lobby protests and reaction, or the reaction from both sides to Nike's support of Colin Kaepernick, and other recent corporate "woke" behavior).

Much more of the written words we consume in any form (newspaper, online opinion articles, listicles, etc) will be secretly sponsored, written by and for the benefit of a particular product, brand, or interest group. Even seemingly unrelated things, like local news, will be used to manage global brand visibility at scale as ML's ability to write comprehensibly comes into its own and articles are produced algorithmically.

Similar algorithmic information delivery systems will be used to drive even more granular opinion influence for things like state and county elections. Exploitation of outdated laws and regulations, and things like gerrymandering, will become even worse than we could have imagined as the tools to locate and predict vote probabilities at the individual level becomes even more powerful.
What example do you have in mind? Compatibility updates ought to be free point releases.
> My car gets parked across the street from my apartment building.

Offtopic, but this has to end. I do not understand how it is socially acceptable to put huge pieces of your private property on the public streets. You cannot just put your washing machine on the street because you have nowhere else to put it! Why can you do that with a car?
Israeli Develops Piston Engine That Runs on Water, Alcohol – No Gas
Given how we used to teach C++ to university first year students back in 1994 - 2000, it still confuses me that there are so bad teachers keeping "C-with-classes" in active use.

Basically, even without the STL, the students would get our department C++ library with the usual stuff (strings, arrays, vectors, bounds checking enabled), and the teaching would be similar to the way that Kate Gregory preaches how to teach modern C++.
Done in plenty of times, Queensland and Victoria, unless you're pasty white and have never stepped outside you aren't going to get burnt in 5 minutes, let alone seriously. I've done it with my normal cycling attire of a wife beater and shorts, still no burning. That's without any protection, but some sun screen, a hat and some long sleeves will prevent burning and save you from the long term skin cancer risks.
Something I've appreciated after replacing Windows with Ubuntu on most of my machines is the ability for me to take its SSD out and put it in another computer. Really handy for travelling.

While I could get a small laptop for portability, its pretty hard to match the price/performance of a desktop. Also like how I can put together a desktop that is really quiet (PC has a NH-D15) even while under high load.
I agree on most of the arguments in the book "The Sovereign Individual" on what will most probably happen in the next decades. Summary: https://www.nateliason.com/notes/sovereign-individual
Self-driving cats
Libreoffice draw is amazing at PDF documents as well. It's something that feels like it should be advertised more, though I can imagine why they don't.
This. These folks are helping to shape new laws that set precedent for every other case. For example: the wealthiest now pay historically low tax rates [1][2]

[1] https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1181004566088814594

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...
Linguistic Analysis of Schizophrenia in Reddit Posts
Public companies are full of employees that know insider information. An upcoming roadmap by the newest hire can be enough to predict news.

Sensitive data isn't a problem. There are plenty of rules and processes with NDAs, especially in news publishing which often have scheduled stories under embargo. Also the companies are dealing with the news organizations who would vet and assign the proper journalist. I doubt you would get this info by claiming to be an indie blogger.
2/3.
They also involve the most costly resource of all - time. Time that you can’t spend supporting your parents or siblings. Most people simply don’t have the option of deferring income for 8 years and 80 hour work weeks.
All it takes is one eu citizen to file a gdpr complaint...