skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“They’re not a solution for most people” — I encourage you to come visit the Netherlands. You’ll see a society where bikes are regularly used by “most people.” Wealthy, middle class, poor — nearly everybody rides the same cheap black bike. And not just in the cities, but throughout the entire country.

Sit in a cafe near a busy street in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague or Leiden, and you’ll see all walks of life riding a bike. It’s a lovely, human thing.
Fujifilm’s new X-Pro3 brings analog ideas to a digital camera
On Windows and Linux, Firefox draws native-like (win32 or gtk) controls. On Windows (possibly Linux), Chrome draws custom controls (for <button>, sliders, and right-click menus).
Check it out, this is a different implementation that works!

"A new device that sits inside a shipping container can use clean energy to almost instantly bring clean drinking water anywhere–the rooftop of an apartment building in Nairobi, a disaster zone after a hurricane in Manila, a rural village in Zimbabwe–by pulling water from the air."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90253718/a-device-that-can-pull-...
Discord really annoys me, because it stole so many of my mumble/murmur friends who ignored it's anti-features and black box nature.

I still prefer the technical capabilities of mumble for voice, but so far the best foss alternative to discord I am aware of is mattermost. Anyone aware of any others similar?
Apple doesn't actually have a lot of engineers on most projects.
The difference is that Holland is entirely flat, has an average high of 71 in the summer, and rarely if ever gets icy.

The Dutch experience simply doesn't translate to most of America because of the terrain and climate. Elderly people people will die if you make them walk in the Florida summer. 7 year old children lack the leg-strength to bike up California hills. Both groups are likely to slip and crack their heads open in the icy Boston winter.
I don’t know if greed destroyed the open and experimental Internet. It has certainly helped shape it in both some good and some bad ways. I was in my 20s when the Internet became widely available. People published hard-copy yellow pages to help you find sites back then because there weren’t any good search engines. Animated GIFs would visually abuse your senses. 14.4k and later 28.8k modems were how most people watched the Internet slowly load in their browsers, Usenet clients, etc. I think things have gotten a lot better since then and entrepreneurship has driven most of those improvements.
The reason that flame war topics tend to become reiterative is that they tend to follow the same path.

Someone bring up the argument that "introducing people that look different magically automatically leads to better performing teams". Someone counter with "it's diverse views increase creativity". The naturally reply is then: No organization that promotes diversity care about diversity in views. One one care if an employee is nudist as long they follow the dress code, and if they don't they get fired. The wast majority of diversity seeking companies do not care about economic background. Universities do not want equal outcome in terms of political diversity in professors.

> One reason why females are being paid less overall is because they're leaving higher paying jobs, due to harmful behavior ... It's a boys club ... "not being taken seriously"

Which I always respond by saying that in Sweden about 85% of both women and men work in a gender segregated work place. Men leave the same rate female dominated industries as women leave male dominated industries. The same "leaky" pipe concept that people use to describe the tech industry is used in the teaching profession, with men leaving at a significant higher rate in all stages. By the age of 50 almost all men has quit the profession by either changing profession or moving to a more male dominated sector like after-school activities.

Reading the research into that you can almost substitute papers from the tech industry and just cross over male and write female. "not being taken seriously"? Checked. Toxic environment? Checked. Sexual harassment? Checked. Bullying? Checked.

There is a yearly survey here in Sweden over work safety, and last year the profession with highest sexual harassment and bullying rate for a minority gender was nursing, switching place with construction which went from being #1 to #2. There was a few news articles that noted the change.

Then we have the question of pay differences, the complete lack of census on how it should be calculated, employee retention, society reaction to choosing a low vs high paying job, and more.
As a long Time multi platform user I have to say sometimes Apple’s approach on centralized provisioning im thankful for the effort never to have to deal with buggy/suspicious apps.

On the other hand, no competition lead to a point where the Appstore became an authoritarian system where apple is free to play by the rules, or change them as it sees fit for it's bottom line.

Only judging Tho, never helped.
What would be the consequences of an app store where -
# alternative stores would be allowed like android
# Apple would lover prices
# regional pricing options
# free updates for paid content
# subscription for updates, distributed among apps user paid for already

Other ideas, comments are welcome.
Ask HN: Any Diabetics Around for an Interview?
Hi, I am Ely, a type 1 for about 24 years now. I am going to launch a website that tells the story behind the person that you are with diabetes. I am looking for people with diabetes that are interested to be interviewed and have an online profile created on my new website.

This website will also include topics like food and going out eating as a diabetic.

Thank you.

Greetings,
Ely
I don't speak danish, but according to that graph your claim is not supported

BTW how many people use a bike is a useless metric, how far they travel and for how much time is more important.

Copenhagen is not a good example, it's very small, very flat and public transport is very expensive and it doesn't have to handle the same number of commuters many other cities have to.
For example in Milan everyday a million people come to work from cities around it, in Rome it grows up to a staggering 1.5 millions.

Bike is not favourite because it's better, but because politics made it preferable (less expensive)

Things are changing, Copenhagen had it's first subway only in 2002, decades later other major cities and people will start using it more and more, because the city has invested a lot of money on it and can't handle people not using it or, as it is now, prices have to be very high, which kinda defeat the purpose of a public transport.

Subway it's a good rival for bikes, because they use different paths.

If you increment surface transport in cities with a large number of bikers, they start to compete for road space and it create tensions that need to be resolved.

Bikes in Copenhagen and many other small/medium northern city are the effect of inertia (historically they usesd bikes because it's what they always used), much as the ridiculous number of cars in cities like Rome.

As reference, the Copenhagen subway is run by ATM, the public transport company of Milan (Italy), where prices are an half even though the city is much bigger city, but there are public bikes as well, bike lanes everywhere and lots of car sharing companies.

But the best feature of Milan is still walkability + public transport (subway it's much better than buses and very good on average) because much of the population cannot ride a bike for more than a few kms at a time.
This is no different from evolving an RDBMS with ActiveRecord or Flyway. It’s not technical debt (there is nothing to repay or maintain).
While we love our bycicles in Europe, if you go down to the southern countries you won't see much of them taking kids around either with trailers or kid seats.
What? where? no one was charging fees for using channels because there were no channels other than direct marketing. (Unless you talking about actually selling a physical box in retail, which is completely different)
Journalists trading on insider information can go to jail just as easily as accountants.
I'm interested in chatting and have emailed you earlier but never got a response. Our organisation (precisionag.org) also works in Kenya among other countries, we provide smallholder farmers with personalized agronomic advice over SMS and voice systems. We're always looking for partners and we use a lot of experimental economics to fine tune and validate our approaches. (One of our founders just won the Nobel prize for economic sciences.)
I am not sure if I understand what you mean with there is no 5K with a PC, but there are 5k displays you can buy. Also there are ultrawide displays.
I am the same, and the most recent place I had to give a phone number or gtfo was twitter. I've been monitoring the spam call rate to see if there has been any change, which I expected, but nothing statistically significant yet... (keyword: yet)
Wow that's really exciting, I need to pay more attention to nuclear.
it might be a good idea try a linux distro
Well maybe for non critical data. Multi regional Kafka clustering is not easy. There are much better and cheaper data storage options that can provide eventual consistency.
> billions of dollars to spare on huge transport infrastructure projects that aren't cars

Cycling infrastructure is almost ludicrously cheap. You can build pretty good bike infrastructure for a decent-sized city with O(€100m). A single metro line normally costs O(€1bn). The reason that bike infrastructure doesn't get built isn't cost - it's political. Car users don't like having lanes and parking spaces taken away from them.

> startlingly good weather year-round

Not _everywhere_ has weather suitable for cycling. However, a lot of places do have suitable weather and yet no infrastructure. That leaves plenty of room for improvement. Many cities could be suitable for cycling with some effort - e.g. clearing snow from bike lanes (see Copenhagen) or adding shade.

> disabled people

Cycling infrastructure is actually great for many disabled people. It makes safe space available for specially-adapted bicycles and mobility scooters.[1]

> spry Euro-oldsters

As far as I know, there's not much of an inherent genetic difference between the Dutch and the rest of the world. Perhaps having an active lifestyle is what _causes_ you to age into a 'spry Euro-oldster' - and is something everyone should aspire to.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/02/cambridge-dis...
That's because nobody uses the Microsoft Store.
>> that I only wanted to spend a month on blows up to a year as I keep going down a rabbit hole to learn new things.

And the fact that you are learning new things, those in themselves are new side projects. So I don't really see you being bad at estimating but the fact that you didn't have all the skills/tech required to pull off the side project.

So for the upcoming and existing side projects, why not spend a day or two just coming up with all necessary skills/tech reuqired and re-estimate?

- So you have not wasted time as you have still gone ahead and learnt new skills

- As others have pointed out, unless there are tangible outcomes you are looking at (new job, revenue, leading to startup) etc, what you are doing it right. Just go with the flow, learn new skills as that or sharpening existing skills are great use cases for side projects!

Btw, keep up the great work and it's inspiring to see fellow engineers pursue side projects with dedication.
I’d rather use a vm for that.
Qutebrowser is QtWebEngine underneath. (which is Chromium).

So if Chromium is out, then so is qute.
It just scrapes public trackers. If you don't use public trackers, you wont show up.
Hmm...

Took me a second to figure out what the personal attack was.

Editted post. Is it better now?
I never felt the need to reinstall OSX .. EVER. I was doing it very often with Windows and some times with Ubuntu (haven't used it that much personally outside of work)
Is it weird that I'm not comfortable installing apps on my phone that haven't been reviewed?

Phones seem much more personal to me than computers. They have our location and are able to interrupt many of us at any moment.

I'd love to see an easy to install and use open OS. I don't know who's incentivized to build that and maintain it.
Your sunset post was my first introduction to GA. What a rabbit hole! It has been one of the most fascinating subjects I have got into in the last years, and very useful for my work. Thank you!
Blockchain Ventures Invests in Blockchain-Gaming Leader Enjin
If you prefer to listen the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCfe8VrCX4E
Good to know, thanks! Seems obvious this is the way to go. Excited to see growth in this space in the future.
I agree it’s grey-area, but I’d lean towards calling it a breaking change, as it’s not too hard to imagine setups that would rely on a particular stdout format (e.g. some kind of log-parsing to generate an HTML report from an e2e test orchestration suite). But this is a major update, so breaking is fine anyway.
Hehe, at least someone is talking about it. Online privacy is a dream in the 2010s
Exactly the main problem for some is that science almost never fully explains anything - it's a process.

People like to have solid explanations or at least excuses, and crackpots go further in this need than others.

As usual, if you have better method than experiment, measurement and observation, describe it in detail.
Science is not just numbers and words are quantifiable too, if not accurately. The condition is that the results have to be attempting objectivity.

If you have a beef with using statistics for particular cases, say so and propose a better approach.
(Many people feel they're special or above average. Wobegon effect also known as illusory superiority or inferiority.)
I don't think this would solve much. In the UK at least, side roads are plenty safe enough for bikes. The issue is the big roads that people want to actually cycle on (because they are the fastest route).
What do you use for your personal cloud?
Excellent course!

I have some difficulties to follow because of missing prerequisites anyway I like this type of course.
I managed to read the summary. Sounded like blockchain-sovereign citizen crossover fanfic.
I can't help getting the feeling that they should make two versions of iOS, one for the average user/teenager, and one for professional use.

Really they mostly just need to remove a boat load of features to make it a work phone.
There was a dead comment in this thread that I can't respond to now. It came from legitimate grievances but embodied what I think is a dangerous and now popular sentiment.

It seemed to have been mocking the language of the speech when there really isn't anything objectively wrong with the speech. The speech was in a high register but I thought it was very concise. The parody in the comment on the other hand seems to try to immitate religious language, and didn't attack the speech but the speakers and their values. It's as if the commenter perceives the academic register used in the speech as marking its contents unworthy of engaging with, the ivory tower ramblings of the elites as nonsensical and contemptible as religious rhetoric. This sort of contempt for everything associated with the upper class leads to the kind of cultural destruction we saw in Communist revolutions.

Hate the elite all you want but the culture they embody is also your culture; don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
With the way things are going ww3 will be about water. It’s easy to imagine half of Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia to pack and move as a whole.
Flamewar like this will get you banned here. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting?
>disconnect from the users, which often simply post bad app reviews, or return the app instead of reaching out to developer for actually support and fixes
This is so true. I am a dev and this is the most frustrating thing ever if you do freemium model. Yesterday I got reply from customer on the app store: "I DON'T have HOURS to look for free apps. You lie that you are FREE" PS: New Mac App Store has a label "Offers In-Apps" under button GET
Let's say hackers get info that Snap is about to miss earnings. They sell the info to someone who has the money to trade, that person shorts snap, makes a tonne of money but obviously moves the market. The SEC go "Hmmm... why did snap tick down before the earnings were reported, let's go arrest the guys who made that trade".
Apple stores are highly tuned to and responsive to customer experience in-store. The same is true with their AppleCare support online and via phone. The metric they focus on is Net Promoter Score. Maybe this same model could be applied to the OS, Apps and services. Apple user experience would be improved methinks.
Yeah I wish I could find a better picture bit this gives a sense of Edinburgh centre.

https://www.nfpplanning.com/uploads/2/4/0/5/24056719/taxi-tr...

Queues of buses, and during the day they will often only have one or two passenger.

Plus car drivers are advised to give a bike the same room as a car, so on mixed use roads a bike effectively takes up the same space as a car.
If you're curious, try googling for "SandShifter", here's an energy.gov profile:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/project-profile-csp-energy...

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1183706-solar-holdings-final-tec...
What does "just works" mean for you?

It is far from a guarantee way of making a living out of it.
Yeh, it's basically science fiction. But they can be light-weight, and thus less expensive then highways.
It’s definitely not impossible, but it’s riskier.

My point is that we default to easy and comfortable when given a choice, and cycling in -42 is neither. We won’t see mass adoption of cycling in these areas, regardless of infrastructure, unless we forced people to do it... and I don’t think pushing the majority of people towards enduring that kind of weather is something we should do, when there are alternatives.
Ask HN: Resource to learn more about plastic pollution and possible solutions
I'm developer with CS background. Recently, I'm reading a lot about plastic, single-use plastic ban, and all other issues related to plastic pollution. I would like to learn more on this topic. Can you please suggest the resources e.g. book, article, paper, video, documentary or anything that help to learn more on this topic. My aim toward learning this is to -

1. Reduce my contribution toward plastic pollution
2. To find possible solution to reduce the plastic pollution
3. Finally, if possible then do some profit work based on #2 solution.
So many untruths ("lies") in this thread, I expect it to be full of shills. At some point it gets really hard to attribute to incompetence, not malice...
Not the case in Southern California. Tech in the class but still mostly done on paper.
Indeed.

By the way, our product uses probes like DFM's. We don't have any users using that brand (from what I can see it doesn't support being connected to 3rd-party data-loggers) but other brands like Aquacheck (also from South Africa), Sentek and EnviroPro (both Australia) can connect to any data logger that supports the SDI-12 protocol. We have several users running EnviroPro and Aquacheck probes.

It's noteworthy that all the leading vendors of these types of probes come from South Africa and Australia, both of which are food-growing countries that have always had to deal with water scarcity. I've long felt it gives us a head start over places that have previously not had major water availability issues, but are starting to experience them now (e.g., California).
What do you mean by “US way of life”? Do you mean how US billionaires live? How the middle class lives? How people in New York live? How people in rural Idaho live? How people in Puerto Rico live? How poor people live? How people in Silicon Valley live? How immigrants live?

The US is a big country with countless ways of life. I’m not sure what you mean.
That’s a pretty disingenuous way to put it. Another phrasing could be “Apple enforcing their human interface guidelines”.

To borrow a phrase: haters gonna hate.
Sounds amazing. Are people typically familiar with the acronym?
> you could still bike and ask your employer to install showers at your workplace

Honestly I go to work to work, not to shower.
So I could legally stalk employees? That is a ridiculous back door.
Religious flamewar is not ok here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The federal government was picking up most of the cost. It's much easier to be wasteful when it comes out of someone else's budget.
Yeah, I realize I'm being rather eurocentric. The setbacks have been longer and more plentiful in Africa and Asia, but I maintain that the trend is also true there.
I cycle 24km to work across the city each way on an ebike. It’s the fastest mode of transport available to me, even limited to 25km/h.

The bike takes an hour, the bus 90 minutes because of its indirect route, and the car about the same with morning gridlock. You could do it in 35 minutes with no traffic.

When I take the bus I arrive to work tired and groggy. When I cycle I arrive energised. I don’t drive because parking on campus is usually impossible.

The problem is that there are limited shower facilities and the ones in my building are extremely grotty, so much so that some colleagues have stopped cycling. Appeals to facilities has only resulted in them locking one of the showers permanently. If more people cycle that’s great but it’ll have knock on effects on other infrastructure and organisations need to pull their finger out and make changes to encourage cycling.
Europe does not have some magical equation for drastically reducing car use. The number of cars per capita in the EU is only about one third lower than the United States. That's nothing to sneeze at, but it certainly means that the sizable majority of Europeans are still car-centric.

And even then that's mostly a function of lower incomes (vis-a-vis the US). The high-income European states of Luxembourg, Switzerland, Iceland, Monaco and Liechtenstein all have almost identical car ownership as the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
How to Do Machine Learning When Data Is Unlabelled
No it doesn't.

The efficiency of sweating depends on rel. humidity. Not what's being discussed here.

The fact that increasing airflow will increase the rate at which you heat up (and how much heat your body must shed) if that airflow is hotter than your core body temperature is just physics 101. Why do you think fan-forced ovens have lower cooking times or temperatures in recipes?
Unusable for you, maybe. But I'm sure the majority of people use MacOS without homebrew and find it perfectly usable for their use cases.
CTRL C / V works in the terminal?
The reason Apple charges the 30% is probably partly because of the whole infrastructure and services needed for the app-store, and mostly Apple's desire to profit.

The reason developers pay the 30% is probably because there's no other channel that offers access to such a huge market for free, and mostly because they still profit.

Every app could be cheaper from the buyer's perspective. Maybe even yours. Should or will they be cheaper? Probably not. The best price is the one everyone complains about but are still willing to pay.
This will never work except for the tiny percentage of people who are extremely confident riding with cars. You're never going to get grandmas and grandpas and 8-year-olds comfortably riding in car traffic on regular roads.

I don't understand why people keep suggesting this when bikes generally already can use the road, and this is clearly a failure as far as getting more people biking.

Meanwhile, basically everywhere that implements protected bike lanes and off-street bike paths aplenty gets tons of people biking. But we shouldn't do the thing that's proven successful, because...?
Is 2019 the year of the Linux desktop?