skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost entirely Saudi money. Although the new vision fund is supposedly Saudi free.
Other than it just lacked a couple of features every other phone had as standard feature by then.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphones-missing-features/
Really? How about an Islamist with Islamic rule?

Shall we try it again, since USSR, North Korea, Cambodia and the likes "didn't do it right"? It's all fun and games until communists confiscate your iPhone and laptop.
We're completely agreeing! We are in an unbalanced society. So I'm with you, to work together to move onwards. That means not pretending that things aren't messed up, as a first step. Feminism has done a huge amount of work for this, as has post-capitalist and post-colonialism theory. One of my favourite theorists right now is Rosi Braidotti if you are interested, see for example the introduction on her here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy/home/thinking_ou...
> Experiments and dispassionate language are about gathering clear data and representing it accurately

And then you get into a philosophical discussion about what represents "clear data" (not to mention the "representing it accurately" part, which imho it's an issue we've been trying to solve for at least 2500 years and haven't progressed too much in doing it).
Google officially claims quantum supremacy
Inside ADHD
I genuinely don't get how one would blame others for something they don't even do themselves.
of course, it is https://phito.be/
Exactly. I actually have few ex Tektronix trigger tunnel diodes here[1]. Repairing the infernal scopes was a hobby of mine until I got fed up of it. By the mid-80s we had cheap ECL comparators which were much faster, required no bias calibration and lasted a lot longer.

[1] https://imgur.com/5ijmSh8
So Europeans and Asians using Symbian, J2ME and Docomo handsets weren't regular consumers?
If I remember correctly you need to enable it in the experimental flags? chrome://flags/
I'm running http://remoteleaf.com - Remote Leaf sends you hand picked remote jobs based on your individual skill preferences & location. We source best remote jobs from over 20+ job boards and tons of individual company hiring pages.
Whereabouts do you ship to (and if possible can you share a link or something)? I'm always looking for more Europe/UK plant suppliers!

I'm also trying to start up a small online plant shop but am finding it hard to a) get the growing space, and b) get the interesting stock - would love to hear about how you dealt with these issues when first starting up! :)
Incomes on social media are highly skewed power-law distribution. PieDiePie/Logan Paul make millions while everyone else makes pennies.
I could read threads like this all day <3
So posts that just point out potential condescension are not welcome here? Do you know if that would also apply if it was part of a larger on-topic post?

It's just irritating to see the condescension and repeated imputing of motives of other commentators go unchallenged. It's rude and disrespectful. Does HN have some other mechanism than peer commentary for dealing with rudeness?
You can use the gnome utilities for this kind of stuff, I use gnome's network manager to select wifi and gnome-settings with i3-gnome for other tweaks.
https://github.com/i3-gnome/i3-gnome

For screen management I use arandr.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? How will water cause a war? Do you mean freshwater access?
It's telling of HN's demographic bias that you'd think Windows "would become a very serious contender to macOS".

There are far more people using Windows than macOS, even among developers, even if you only look at the US.
The Face of the Franchise
I run Sales for Founders (https://salesforfounders.com) - a course where I teach (mainly technical) founders just enough about sales to find their first customers and grow to $10k MRR.

Since starting work on the course in May, I’ve been through 3 iterations and made about $40k.

The ‘final’ version of the course will open for sale in early November, and I expect it to continue to be my main source of income for the next year or so at least.

If you’re thinking about running a course (I was very sceptical at first) or want to hear more, you can check out my recent interview on the IndieHackers.com podcast.
I had to look up what ambient music was and I found out that listening to it agitates and annoys me beyond belief. So that is rather a big assumption about music taste you have there.
Millenials are the first generation to realize that they will be around for the climate crisis. In the circle of people I know, it’s a huge motivator to learn and hopefully do something about.
> I actually appreciate you pointing this out. I get rather tired of smug assertions that America can just do everything like it's done in Europe or something when the landscape and population density are so very different.

Ahem. The Alps, the fjords, the Netherlands, the Mediterranean coast of Spain, are all very different landscapes.

The population density of the combined regions is probably a red herring, too: nobody sane will cycle from California across Nevada to Salt Lake City, except as a fitness holiday. Even my 1080-km cycle along the Rhine (flat from Hoek van Holland to Switzerland) isn’t something anyone sensible would do to get from A-to-B, and I flew home instead of cycling back to the UK.

Instead, what will matter is the average journey time from where people live to where they want to go, and how much effort it is to get there. Electric bikes will help on both counts.
Console developers would like to have a word with you.
The Perfect Programming Language
There is no such thing as 'the right way round' when dealing with things that have been true for longer than the human species has existed and will continue to be true after the last human is dust. There are things that are true and things that are not, and we do our best to figure out what ideas get classified in which side of that hard boundary. We can agree on standards of evidence, but at the end of the day one can be scientific without being rigorous.

The XKCD comic isn't making a judgement on whether the characters in it are or are not scientists - in fact, it calls them scientists - it is pointing out that statistical significance is a low bar of evidence and best treated with suspicion.
Still the same answer, I develop the firewall app Radio Silence (https://radiosilenceapp.com) for macOS.

It covers all my basic living costs. But I kind of got bored (again) of being happily unemployed (for the second time), and started a small consulting business on the side. A four-day workweek in addition to the Radio Silence stuff keeps me quite content.
strange, I haven't had that issue. I have 4 devices connected to the TV; A Mac Mini (running Ubuntu), An Apple TV, a PS4, and a Switch. If I turn any one device on it will wake up the TV if off and eventually switch to that device's input. But I haven't had any device switch the input to the TV out of order that I remember. I wonder what the issue is. My Apple TV is only used for 2 things, Kodi and Amazon Prime. I wonder if it's a particular app? I'm using the Apple TV 4k (not sure if that's the newest model or if there is another since)

Frustrating that this stuff is so finicky. It seems as simple as a USB keyboard which seem to generally work everywhere so why is it so hard to make work and keep it working.
> What do you take issue with M mode?

As you say, it's similar to x86's SMM, and like all firmware stuff that survives beyond the kernel entry point, is something that I don't trust, and where experience tells me that it's a venue for vendors to mess things up.

One of the hardest issues with real time computing on x86 is... SMM. One of the easiest ways to bypass security on x86 is... SMM. The workaround for "securing" SMM is to sprinkle virtualization on it (STM: because more virtualization is always better), which only adds more complexity (and messes up real time computing even more).

And all that closed source because SoC/firmware vendors quickly and happily assume that such modes are owned by them, to the detriment of whoever wants to know what their machine is doing.

Not having such a mode helps keep vendors honest: if there's a need for a workaround, document it and kernel developers can implement it (and they will). None of that "install this firmware update that we don't tell you anything about in order to hopefully be slightly more secure than yesterday" crap.

> And they removed H mode.

Well, that's an improvement. Thanks for making me look it up again. One down, one to go.
Real AI, i mean making machines make decisions will be interesting
URL doesn't work
I agree, the question is more: if that’s the culture historically, and accurately how did it ever work?

This release something is different, which either vastly exacerbates the issues listed, or causes other problems.

...I am interested in what the root cause of it is, but this is just a list of symptoms, and perhaps the output of the issues listed by the OP without whatever the magical Q/A process that historically somehow got things across the line in the end.
I commute daily in London on a bike. I wear a coat and gloves. Waterproof over trousers are also an option
Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output.

HFS!
Remote Backups with Restic and Backblaze B2
With the Chromification of the Web that slowly matters less and less, sadly.
> One problem I can see (no pun intended) is that many LED lights actually use a bulb coated with phosphors, and the LED in the bulb is used to excite the phosphors which then glow giving off the light that we see. I'm not sure how quickly the phosphor stops glowing when the driving LED turns off.

Unfortunately this is how all white LEDs work, and the retention time is tens of miliseconds. It's an interesting idea though, based on the old shutter 3D goggles. Since it would rely on the eye adapting to the flickering darkness, it would be very dependent on how good the light seal round the edges of the goggles is.
Anyone knows which companies offer simple solutions that are easily accessible for smaller companies?
Not if you don't spend time alone with said person otherwise.
I wish you had a blog where you share "behind the scenes" stories running this business
What our quantum computing milestone means
When you can get Office on a Linux desktop I'll believe that.
Lanterns Online
Lanterns are much convenient to install and use. They are great when it comes to adding oodles of warmth in the aura around without having to make major alterations in the overall decor arrangements. Avail chic and trendy lanterns online at some never like before prices.
Large majority of Apple users do not need anything else than what Apple already made.
Can we see it on

https://www.home4u.in/home-decor/candle-holders-votives/lant...
The core argument seems to be that, since scientific analysis isn't a perfect tool, we ought to hedge our bets by also acting based on emotional reasoning.

> The time has come to pause the second phase of the scientific revolution — to recover a more humble and skeptical approach to what the scientific method can achieve, to unite the emotional, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of life, and to find our way back to our humanity.
> Newton discovered calculus and used it

Calculus is maths. Different field, and frequently classified into the arts or astand-alone discipline as opposed to a science.

People have lonog been suspect about classifying math as a science. Mainly, I suspect, because it does not rely on data as a form of evidence instead using logical proof as a foundation.
A ground driven into rock or buried in dry gravel isn't going to be of much use. Typically electrodes are buried in a mixture of bentonite and gypsum, which is pH neutral and provides low resistance. There are also chemical (salt) earth fills which work well but require thicker copper electrodes to deal with corrosion. Various conductor arrangements are used, but in shallow trenches there is always the problem of the wires being cut. A radial or cartesian mesh burial over a larger area would be typical. You can buy electrical mesh and ground enhancement fill for this purpose. Note that you still need it to be below the frost layer in your region -- which varies from 15cm (California) to 300cm (Canada) depending.

An earth connected via a distant cable isn't going to be effective against lightning (transients are high frequency and hence conductivity is constrained by the skin effect, and long wires have high inductance even if they have low DC impedance), and additionally is poor practice as it is more lightly to be cut without someone knowing in the future. I doubt any EE would approve it when other methods are available.

https://blog.nvent.com/erico/erico-what-is-soil-resistivity-...

Cf IEEE 80 & 81
This is in contrast to this ex-Apple engineer. He recently quit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGg_12gn-s I also read on twitter that it's the Interns who deal with "fun" bugs -> not professionals! https://twitter.com/meteochu/status/1186701883429273604
I have a consumer app with a subscription model. I'm a single developer with no employees. I work between 10-30 hours per week. Last year, my EBIT was close to 300,000€. This year, it's going to be around 370,000€ (and since I live in Germany, my income is in the top 0,5% or so). In the first year, my EBIT was merely 30,000€. It's been going up steadily since then and my product has been around quite a while.

Please don't ask what my business is. I rather share true numbers, but don't link to my product. I see no upside in being super transparent about the financials in a non-anonymous way (although I enjoy transparency from others ;)).

What I think makes my product successful (and I keep this short, because luck plays an important role. Most startup stories suffer from survivorship and hindsight bias):

- It serves a niche and does so very well, better than all others. I have clearly defined my niche, although it took me years to exactly pinpoint it. There's a tendency to want to grab a "bigger audience". Since I make more money than I ever imagined, there is no need to grow bigger or reach a wider audience. This would also make the product less focused on the specific niche.

- Start working on something, release a prototype after 2-6 weeks. Don't invest months or years in something without users.

- For me, marketing = SEO. I never really got into social media. But I have to admit that nowadays, my SEO rankings dropped a bit and people talk about my product in Facebook groups.

- If there are two books I'd recommend: "Rework" by Basecamp. It helps you to focus on a minimal set of features and think about what's truly important. Couple this with "This is Marketing" from Seth Godin, where he explains how traditional marketing is dead and how it's important to find a niche. Don't read more books, interviews or whatever. Get into a "starter mindset" by reading and then do.

- The subscription model helps you to stay afloat. People will pay for a product they use every day (and thus, derive value from every day). If your product is not used every day, but only once per month or so, expect way lower revenue.
> Also, it doesn’t help that they can’t directly benefit from the general progress the industry is making in virtualization and container areas without rewriting for their own platform.

Can you expand on this? Are there limitations on MacOS that prevents them from doing so?
I'm excited about BLE for the browser. I'm not sure what multiplatform (mobile & desktop) alternatives there are except for Qt, and even Qt has bugs and open issues you have to work around.

For instance, only Qt 5.13+ has support for discovering and connecting BLE devices on Windows without pairing first -- if you are stuck on an LTS version (5.12), BLE is awkward in use.
It's a fixable problem, long term. Bikes aren't super dependent on high density like a subway, even the relatively low density of many US suburbs can work okay if the infrastructure is good, and you allow POI (like shops/restaurants) within a reasonable distance. That would necessitate zoning changes, but it's easier to achieve than overall density changes.

If you look at cities that DO have good infrastructure, they have relatively high bike rates even without being particularly high density, like Davis, CA, or Portland. The idea that it just can't happen in US cities is not borne out by the facts.
Not to mention, that the burnout rate is VERY high. People should not underestimate the pressure of producing interesting content every couple of days for years without being able to take a break.
Would shading all (/the majority) of the bike lanes be prohibitively expensive or doable? Encountering a problem should not make us come to a full stop and give up.

edit: Or bicycles with roofs, similar to the car solution?
I doubt that. At least not "an order of magnitude more". Bare in mind AMD64 is used heavily in servers where Linux also dominates. Even in cloud providers, most of their services will be Linux under the hood.
I forgot
Ping pong the animation
Pretty much this ^

All these rants about XCode/iOS/UIKit/ObjC somehow being a terrible environment to develop for are presuming there is something significantly better out there. There isn't, it seems. You will find developers bitching about literally any development platform out there (except maybe Haskell when you are on HN ;-)

My personal experience is limited to C++/ObjC/Java/Python on Linux/macOS/iOS, and I can only agree that ObjC on Apple platforms is by far the easiest and most productive environment for me. I've only dabbled in Swift a tiny bit so far, but my feeling is that it's also a lot less hostile than C++. In terms of toolkits, Cocoa/UIKit is at least as good as Qt, and much better then e.g. GTK or the abominations you have to deal with if you develop Java applications. Don't know about Windows platforms but considering the endless list of technologies and frameworks that are supposed to supersede whatever came before it, it's likely not much better over there.
I'm not sure this is true. I average faster than the maximum speed of electric bikes cycling my commute, and I do not feel remotely safe in city traffic. Drivers don't have a problem with slow cyclists, just cyclists in general.
Yes, and this is likely why Youtube now periodically pauses in the background on current macOS/Safari.
Maybe unusable for those that think macOS is GNU/Linux with a pretty UI.

I never installed any of those alternative UNIX toolchains. Apple SDK + native macOS tooling are more than enough.
In 1438 there was no supermarkets with huge parking lots that will lure away all your customers. It's not just that people will have to walk to you (so competition located closer will win), they will also have to carry the stuff they buy back to the car, so they'll probably not be willing to buy a lot, or anything heavier. If you're selling souvenirs or t-shirts it's not a big deal, but for people selling say wines or craft beer or olive oil, you probably want people to be able to buy a few bottles, so distance is a problem.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex as well.
I wonder if that is true in reality. I know at one company I interviewed maybe 80 people. Of those I think 3 or 4 were hired. The point being it was hard to find qualified people. You could argue they should offer more money and they'd get more applicants. Say they offered 4x what they are offering now. They'd likely just end up with a bidding war with the other rich tech companies and so in the end nothing would happen (if all the companies raise their salaries then it seems arguable that there'd be little affect on applicants).
Other solutions might be longer term like investing in education or hiring less experienced people and training. Others might be opening more remote offices hoping to find more talent in other locations.

All I'm really saying is as rich as Apple is I don't think hiring more engineers is as easy as just deciding to hire more.
My website is https://phito.be :)

I ship in the EU and any other countries that have trade deals that allows plant transfer without requiring phytosanitary certificates (Switzerland for example)! Sadly after Brexit I don't know if I will still be able to ship over the UK :(

Finding the growing space is hard, especially if your plants are big. Thankfully I focus mostly on the Drosera genus, which are mostly small plants. I can fit multiple plants in a 7x7cm pot. I grow the winter-hardy ones in a greenhouse, the tropical ones are grown inside under LEDs.

Finding rare species is not too hard if you have good contacts in the community (I've been part of it for more than 10 years, so it was relatively easy for me). The hard part is propagation. Thankfully for me, a lot of Drosera are really easy to propagate by leaves cuttings but for the species that are not easily propagated, I work with an university that propagate them in tissue culture for me.

Good luck with your project, it requires a lot of work but if you're passionate about it, it won't feel like work!
Roads always get crowded; broadly speaking, making them wider increases the number of people willing to use them until they fill up again.
Somehow, one involved Google+ staying alive.
The (approximate) rule of the thumb is that anything in reinforced concrete calculated by "hand" has an "implied" additional safety factor of 5-10%, mainly due to roundings by excess in the calculations, at least this has been my experience in the mid 1990's, when for a couple of bridges existing hand made calculations had been re-made with computers.

It is a small (but good) thing, though it would have IMHO not been enough to save this particular bridge, here the issue is evidently a wrong static model, or - less likely - a wrong assessment of loads.

Besides the initial (huge) calculation error, what is really preoccupying is that they didn't consider as serious the cracks, which as seen in the video/photos on youtube are the typical (severe) shear cracks, that should have been ringing all alarms.

The poor structure, as often happens, did all it could to "signal" the issue, what I find bordering being criminal is ignoring or severely underestimating those clear signals.
These kind of comments are very interesting, and I bump into them now and then when I express aspirations to do something.

On the other hand driven people comment the same way on people "just" taking a job working 9 to 5 and appreciating being able to not work hard (well, procrastinate, not motivating one-self, etc.).

I guess this is an area where empathy is really hard.
I found I needed music to keep me motivated, and after trying out Rock/Metal (my normally preferred genre), I cycled through baroque and classical, and eventually ended up settling on Trance/EDM. It ended up just being all about the BPM matching my typing speed (about 124bpm).
Associated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNEzzDcllU [4:42 mins]
Yes, this is much more accurate of our best predictions.

Bjørn Lomborg says[1] by the end of the century, climate change left unchecked will only lower the global GDP by a 2-4 percentage points of what it would have otherwise grown to, which is going to be 300-1000% higher than today. So basically, best case scenario 980% GDP growth, worst case 288% GDP growth.

This shows climate change is a problem, but it's too slow to cause a global catastrophe by 2100.

Even better news, I'm very confident it will not be left unchecked, in fact I think we can get to net-zero emissions by 2040 or so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyXduteiWE
The number of red flags when people mention "spiritual" in any given argument is about as bad as someone talking about the Earth being flat or vaccines causing autism.
Development on Windows desktop maybe dull, but pretty straight forward/stable/well documented in my opinion