skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You provide adequate public transport. I’m totally with you though that in many cases this isn’t feasible. I hope in the future we share our cars more often, but I can’t see this happening until they’re mostly autonomous.
This seems like a really good idea to me. Is it possible to do in a way that preserves privacy and doesn’t basically become a hidden “telemetry” system?
Are my biases deceiving me, or has the Overton window on criticizing “meritocracy” shifted? A few years ago (including in 2015 when I missed this speech) I believe it would have been unthinkable in my social circles.

I’ve become convinced that meritocracy as the Yale Law elites would know it has utterly failed 99% of Americans.
Is 1.1.1.1 a dependable VPN?
This is alarming, because the job of "newsroom security" isn't the same as the corporate security job. Smart organizational security teams rely on a meta-strategy of collapsing user behavior down to a smaller set of activities that they can track and deploy countermeasures for; this works well for employees ("get everyone on the same ad-blocking Chrome extension that we can vet"), but doesn't account for the journalist threat model. Journalists work in the field and deal with sources, who can't (and wouldn't, regardless) comply with corporate security directives.

What you're hoping a newsroom security practice is doing is building source protection systems, like secure dead drops, while also serving an advisory and harm reduction function for the journalists themselves, so that they can safely open attachments and follow URLs and communicate over social networks. In that environment, you can't just say "no, don't do that, do this other secure thing instead", like you can with company staff.

It's a specialized skillset, and one that security teams are not generally good at.
Getting further and further from the point... Du you claim that surgery could be performed under placebo-anaesthesia? Why or why not?
"Disk will be more of a cache layer." Do you mean storage will be primarily in the cloud?
Actually; now that I think about it, from a user perspective I also really dislike the App Store.

I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things, maybe there was some new shiny (often beautiful) program to do something really well. The experience was on the 'better than passable' side, nobodies favourite interface maybe, but certainly not terrible.

But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there (unless sent there by a company website in the case of iOS); this was around the time that Apple Music was being foisted down my throat. I'm not sure if there's a correlation there.

I always suspected there were dark patterns at play in the App Store though. Although every program is reviewed, probably only 2% or less of them become popular, and if you are popular, boy, are you popular. the design paradigm is self-fulfilling. ("most popular"/"highest grossing").
According to your calc An intermediate level engineer in sf makes more than a director level in Europe.
It should have a USB-A port or two. You cant' even insert a USB stick.

It would be nice if the keyboard had curved keys, like the first gen macbook pro. flat keyboards suck, they put the impact on a smaller area of your fingertip, and your fingers do not self-center.

(and I agree about the escape key)
It's actually still around, however on some pages Safari will go into some sort of weird state where scrolling is slightly broken (you can't overscroll and have the page bounce back is the indicator that you're in the broken state). When you're in that state, double tapping to zoom doesn't work either. I find that I mostly encounter this bug on Reddit.
Drones which plant trees seem pretty exciting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNdrTZ7CG4
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I was a homemaker for a lot of years. It's a thing I've thought a lot about.

When 1+1=3 and you divide the pie such that everyone gets more than they would have on their own, no, it's not all downside and it's not unhealthy.

It's all downside when 1+1=3, but one party consistently gets less than what they would have on their own. Then, why should they go along with this?

That's where you get bitter people.

Edit: For the record, you've done a lot of editing of both of your comments here, which potentially changes how my replies look. I did my best to not personally accuse you of anything and to only state that the way the comment was written was not coming across well.
I can point to other UI examples, like game engines written in pure Rust, using array indexes with clocks on access to invalidate possible use-after-free accesses with outdated indexes.
Chicken coops that are picked up at night by 6 heavy duty drones and flown to a new part of the field —- sign me up
They're a real bitch to drive into the ground, though, especially if you have clay rocky soils.

However, what I think he's saying is that despite blindly complying with this in hopes of a smooth project... the bureaucracy found other ways to make his project expensive, miserable, and slow anyways.
That's one of two reasons that I don't mind purchasing on the App Store - the other is licensing.

On the App Store, each app I purchase is licensed for 5 macOS devices and I can unlicense a device/reset the count at any time with a few clicks.

Licensing for other applications is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - sometimes it's a single machine, other times X devices, and other times unlimited devices for a single user/owner. And if the 3rd party licensing server is down, I can't activate my purchased applications - I've literally had this happen before. Purchase Paw from their website, licensing was down, I ended up re-purchasing it on the Mac App Store.

And in the future, if they go out of business and the application needs to be activated with an online server, I'm fucked. If I purchase it from the App Store, I'm fairly confident I'm good to go for the foreseeable future.
It's the same thing that gets used. Just one little detail-- it has to get driven into the earth before use.
This may be because I don't live in a "real city" (population 100k, US), but I see people biking with kids all the time (typically in some sort of cargo bike that has had seats added to it). The big threat while biking with kids (or without kids, for that matter) is from cars clipping you as they pass or pulling out in front of you. It's the cars that are the problem, not the bikes. Creating the infrastructure to allow people to bike safely will allow people to do what they're already doing more safely, and it will encourage more people to try it themselves.
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I don't think the post should be flagged. They're asking genuine questions, not making harmful points. Without healthy communication and the curiosity to learn we don't grow.

Anyways, >the idea that introducing people that look different magically automatically leads to better performing teams.

It's a misunderstanding. It's not the skin color, it's diverse views increase creativity, and the tech industry is mostly problem solving, which is a creative act. So, for example, hiring someone from South Africa, despite them being white, can give more perspective and more ideas. Likewise, hiring someone from NYC if you're in the Bay Area can have that effect as well. It has nothing to do with skin color.

>women are paid less than men for the same work. If this were the case, companies would - because they could do an equivalent job to a man for less money - simply hire all women workforces which due to their lower wage bill would outcompete and destroy companies that employed men. Yet - again somewhat inconveniently! - the real world refuses to match the theory.

It's such a complex issue. Here is an example statistic that helps explain a piece of the picture: In their mid 30s, 44% of woman leave the tech industry.

One reason why females are being paid less overall is because they're leaving higher paying jobs, due to harmful behavior. There is not a lot of choice.

There are other complex issues too. It's harder for a female to get an upper management position at a company, short of starting the company themselves. It's a boys club. And for those who start a company, sometimes their company is restricted from doing business with other companies due to their sex. Usually they're "not being taken seriously".

There is another side too. There are jobs that are harder for men to get. These jobs don't pay very well.

There is so much more I can say, but if there is any take away here is that not all problems are simple and not all problems should be treated like they're simple. Some are multifaceted beasts and the more you look into them the more you start seeing nested problems within them.
A paid Apple Developer account is not required to have binaries notarized.
I remember at the start of my career selling portions of my GOOG grants like all the personal finance guides told me to do, and how shocked I was that when my coworkers would tell me they held onto all of theirs...

OTOH, it just as easily could've gone the other way, I suppose? Google truly is sui generis, and it's hard to fault me for not knowing that at 21
My earlier comment about files disappearing from Music.app: [0]

Just now, I had taken some screenshots in a game. One of the screenshots insisted on sitting outside the Screenshots stack for some reason (Stacks automatically collapse similar items on the desktop.)

When you open a book in Books.app, then view a different Desktop Space, the Books window automatically jumps to that space, even without the "Show on All Desktops" option.

Activity Monitor column widths randomly grow towards infinity.

Display Accessibility options randomly stop taking effect until relogging.

Widgets randomly rearrange themselves in the Notification Center.

Music/TV/Podcasts/App Store sometimes show no content, just blank views.

On the developer side, many bugs and missing documentation for SwiftUI.

I don't have the energy to type them all out here again after writing their bug reports.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21318159
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I did exaggerate (and said I did), but my point was that IRV makes it very obvious when a candidate loses badly on 1st order preferences but wins based on subsequent choices.

That can be argued as an IRV benefit over other systems (the winner knows s/he's on thin ice! The winner does have 50%+1 overall!), but the other way to see it is that the winner would be hobbled and would have difficulty governing effectively, and a voting system that emphasizes the ranking a bit less might have had the same result but with the winner having more legitimacy following the election.
can it work for a different country ?
Actually, sham acupuncture == acupuncture. The study shows no significant difference in effect between the two.
"20% of everybody" where everybody is somewhere between 4 and 9 percent.
Every .0 release for iOS and OSX has been buggy. Every single one.

I've run and tested every release going back to 2001 and it's been a while since a macOS release has been this buggy and caused serious data loss in some cases.

So even for .0 release, this has been pretty bad.
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As we are talking about grounding...

I think the greatest problem that troubles me personally is that the single-point grounding required by lightning protection is almost never implemented properly in the vast majority of installations.

I realized the existence of this problem when I wanted to install a mesh network in a school campus, so I started reading documents about lightning protections, amateur radio publications have good resources on it, and all of them indicate a correct installation should eventually bound all grounds, including mains ground, telecommunication ground and lightning protection ground at a single-point via low-impedance connections (even if they have their own ground rods), also, all metallic objects and structures, such as gas pipes, fire escapes, etc, should be bounded to ground as well. This is to prevent a voltage gradient developing between different grounding points in case of a lightning strike, and it's usually required or implied in electrical or building code.

However, who ever obey this rule in practice? I've seen various installations of outdoor/rooftop Wi-Fi networks, and all the lightning protection they have is a gas discharge tube and a ground connection of unknown quality, I don't think the installation is legal. Also, many buildings were in compliance of the code when they were built, but even adding an extra metal frame or a cable-TV box will invalidate the entire lightning protection, at least from a technical or legal perspective.

I guess the reason behind the non-compliance is that the likelihood of a lightning strike is already low, even if it does strike, it's possible that even a non-compliant lightning protection system can work to an extent. And if it doesn't work, most people would just accept the damage. As a result, it's a concern for radio hobbyist only, whose antenna increases the likelihood significantly.

But I was still shocked when I first understood the fact that most (low-rise) buildings don't have a technically sound lightning protection system and bet the safety of the building on luck. And its practical consequence is: if you want to put a rooftop antenna for amateur radio, with good lightning safety and in compliance with the code, in many cases, the answer is you can't - the building often doesn't even have a technically sound lightning protection system to begin with. I read many hardcore radio amateurs redo the entire electrical wiring at their homes to the proper standards.

High-rise buildings are much better, lightning protection is serious business, but you are not usually allowed to put a mesh network antenna on top of them. But if you are allowed, I've heard that some people even got a chance to have a friendly conversation with the civil engineer who's in charge of the building's lightning protection system and work out a solution together.
Yup, the magnifyig glass is gone. A horrible design choice to get rid of it IMO
The tweet itself directly addresses your concern.
That’s the new setting of the battery where the software fakes 100% at 90-80% of capacity based on the age and performance of the battery.

This can be turned off in the preferences.
Lol, Estonia is Russian infested shithole that will be annexed by the Kremlin in the next 10 years.
Quite ironic, given that Jobs' original intention was just that[0]

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
Here we see an AI actually writing something intelligent, much like a term or a research paper, based on a body of text input... fascinating!
iOS 13 has been pretty much flawless for me. However, I am waiting to update to Catalina until 2020 because support for 32 bit apps and OpenGL has been pulled.
Yeah, that's my best defence. Right to forget in the EU. HN is operating illegally. Even Facebook has a permanently delete feature now.
No worries, I wish HN tracked edits. I tried to keep my comments as non directed as possible to focus on ideas, not people.

Your comments stand on their own, and it has been pointed out I have made edits (which I’ve attempted to make in good faith).
That is one interesting and reductionist take on Chicago. The south and west sides of the city are cultural melting pots. The north side also has its ethnic enclaves. I am not defending Chicago but as the only other true metropolis outside of NYC, its more than the two things you listed. The architecture alone gives a great backdrop to any story.
So many apps still communicate with APIs over the Internet. You might not have to worry as much about specific kinds of attacks like cross site scripting but the attack surface is still present.
May I be Goldilocks? I’ve used basically every iOS beta. Beta 1 is always AWFUL. Then it gets better and better. iOS 13 is probably the worst, but only incrementally so. It’s hardly worth having a fuss.
If only there was evidence to support that assertion.
A mom-of-three friend of mine loves her electric Xtracycle. She mostly leaves the minivan at home, and neatly bypasses the morning school-and-office traffic. It zips along at 20mph surprisingly quickly, too.

While not everyone can be that active, a steadily increasing number of people are using these micro-mobility devices. It really does improve the suburban and urban environment over cars. It's not like handicapped-accessibility considerations are going away when we start to cater to these smaller vehicles!
As a user, I am pretty happy about most of the negative points listed in this article. Yes, manual reviews are my firewall against too much scamming. I dont want app providers to notify me about their upcoming company party. It is already fishy enough that some app providers use their own notification system to push ads. And dont get me started on paying for updates! What comes next, paying for firmware updates for devices I already own? I think the guys behind this article really have to rethink their attitude.
Sharing SSH Keys Between Windows and WSL 2
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Definitely want to take the time to throw out a huge recommendation for FBN (Farmers Business Network), a KPCB/Google Ventures backed startup that's doing really cool work in data analysis + aggregation + insights for farmers.

For the sake of clarity, I was an intern there, but I objectively think that their approach is very insightful and hits a lot of key points that many ag startups get wrong. Two of my biggest personal takeaways were that obsession with farm yields doesn't actually translate very well to increased profits, because there are so many other factors and costs (and risk) in farm operations. Furthermore, because of all these other operations (e.g. researching better seed varieties, buying inputs, loans in order to buy inputs and hope that they can be repaid later when harvest time comes), there is a huge need to address pervasive and complex issues with regards to the entire farming enterprise, not just the yield portion. FBN does a really great job at tackling the holistic approach, which I think really helps increase the effectiveness of FBN's product and makes it a really powerful tool.

Definitely check it out! https://www.fbn.com
What you describe is, quite simply, not true.

To start with, most of science is not based purely on observation. Scientists will change things, to see if a change makes a difference.

Second, there's no such thing as "unbiased", and it would be unethical to do so. We could run experiments to deliberately infect prisoners with rabies and let the disease take it course.

That's unbiased science, but (we now agree) deeply immoral, to the point that we do not allow this sort of science to be carried out.

Third, nothing about being a scientist requires that people give up their humanity. If a medical doctor walking down the street sees someone choking, that doctor is likely to help. If a structural engineer sees signs that a structure is about to collapse, that engineer is likely to sound the alarm.

Sure, in these examples it's not "part of [their] job" to do so ... but neither was it part of Einstein's job to co-author a letter to FDR warning about German nuclear weapons, nor was it specifically part of Sagan's job to get people to worry about nuclear winter, as a consequence of nuclear war.

And no one seriously says that their political and cultural activism was contrary to being a scientist.

Lastly, scientists are part of a culture. Where do you think the funding comes from? If an organization wants to develop methods to help improve crop yields in the third world, as a way to reduce hunger, then that's political and cultural activism. If they then pay agronomists to do the related science, the yes, political and cultural activism was part of Norman Borlaug's job. He got the Nobel Prize too.
Eldercare for more serious ailments is pretty pricey if you stay aboveboard, but healthcare benefits in the US for 65+ are pretty great. Combine Medicare with their private plans, and as a person under 65 watching the medical care my elders get: it's mind-blowing.

I have to believe that a good chunk of Medicare-for-All folks are middle-aged people who see how the over-65s don't worry a whit about how much anything costs, because it's all covered, while younger folks are setting their own broken bones or dying over insulin or going bankrupt due to bike accidents.

Anyway, lesson here is: The +65s vote reliably and politicians allocate benefits accordingly. Dear everyone who is not 65+: please vote.
Hyperfine – like Unix “time” but with statistically significant results
I made same observation. Also, it became more easy to argue that world is not actually meritocracy.
I didn't say it didn't run on other OSes. But the big ones are mostly iOS and it shows in the targeting of the development. Blink is what's on most (non-gecko/servo) browsers people use now (chrome, chromium, Opera, the new Edge browser, etc).

> I'd actually guess that WebKit runs on more platforms than Blink does…

I'd say they're probably at parity, if not a small edge given to Blink since an entire OS is built around it. Which would be the only exclusive case of the two I can think of.

I'm actually curious which WebKit browser you're using. GNOME Web?
Exactly. The answer isn't public transport, but adequate public transport.

Of course if we ban cars we can't expect everyone to use a bike instead, or to rely on current public transport network. Train, tramway, metro, bus (, something new?) all need to be vastly reinforced (something between 10x and 100x maybe?) but there's room for that once cars are out of the picture (both from roads and parking space).

Cars are convenient, but not efficient at scale (and too dangerous, for now at least). We need another solution, and I think it has to be radical to really work. But then, banning or greatly reducing car use in cities will be a tough one..
Seniors minds are less flexible to change so a consistently exact OS with exact functionality is best even it looks out of date to us. I had to hire someone to exactly recreate my mom's desktop and and find and install her 15 yo apps. This kept her going with searches and email for another five years when otherwise she would just have given up. Also in-home tech people who are very, very patient. I'd happily pay $100/hour not to do that.
A Johnny English released last year. And there’s always Pink Panther.
Commercial greenhouse growers usually supplement CO2 up to Levels of 1000-1500 ppm and above.

The CO2 storage and distribution facility is one more technical component and there is one more dependency to the supplier of the liquid CO2.
You only get downvoted if the comment is broadly negative, lacking nuance, and making obviously disprovable points such as Apple's popularity being "manufactured by marketing".
Not the OP, but as I understand this project, the idea is that you can represent a pipeline that looks like it's operating on an entire collection of data, but in reality can operate on a delta.

That means that if you have a million items in your input, and you add another million to it, your pipeline only needs to run on one million, even though the output will be two million. In this case, the input is a collection that may be modified at any point, not a linear sequence of "events".

I've designed a similar system to ingest data that comes in the form of snapshots. The pipeline has many discrete steps and starts by splitting up the snapshot (e.g. a big monolithic JSON file) into smaller parts, which gets parses, transformed, split, joined etc. When a modified file comes in, the pipeline only performs actions on modified items; as data trickles through the pipeline, subsequent steps only run if a step modifies an item (relative to current state). It significantly reduces processing.

Pachyderm works on a similar principle, but using files in a virtual file system.