skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of us without macs or ios - what would you recommend (if anything) for replacement of Alfred for Windows or Linux?

Or is there another kind of application you'd like to be able to use (that may or may not exist yet) in place of Alfred?

Would any search system work for that matter? Could a command line system be used (ie - some form of grep perhaps)? What about something like a "google appliance" style search system (a couple of these exist - both open source and otherwise)?
> But the biggest reason to RiiR is safety.

100% agree. We had a C++ service that made heavy use of libcurl. A particular release of libcurl introduced some memory safety problems that caused frequent segfaults for us. These memory safety bugs were eventually fixed in another release, but it scared us enough that we investigated rewriting the service in Rust.

After successful experimentation with some prototypes, we eventually rewrote the service in Rust, auditing the unsafe code in our dependencies (of which there was very little). No segfaults ever since.

Side benefit: Since Rust networking libraries tend to have strong async support, and since some of our C++ libraries performed synchronous networking operations, we saw a big improvement in performance. The number of threads needed dropped by 5x.
I love that you are helping creators to defend the value of their work! have you considered investigating partnering with legal startups such as legalzoom, legalist, or someone else to help time strapped creators send the nastygrams as well?
Urgh, trying to fix this now :(
Ya, but it should be classed in that bucket rather than to alleviate other problems. E.g. there are some nice new recreational bike trails here in Washington and Idaho along old rail road routes. They won’t do much for rush hour traffic, but they are nice to have.
Scott Aaronson's post on the latest announcement. Also covers the IBM and Gil Kalai objections.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
I see these false claims about size a lot, especially spread out huge Texas cities. A lot of people claim Dallas is bigger than DC but DC has way more people, especially if you add in Baltimore and or the millions driving down 95 every day.

I was recently in San Antonio and Austin. Both seem rather small compared to DC or Boston.

DC and Baltimore should effectively be added together into one hub and that puts it well into 3rd place and ahead of Dallas for actual urban areas.
I would expect "How not to RIIR" to be some study of RIIR gone wrong, and "How to not RIIR" to be a guide.
How did Stripe hire you?
Maybe the stress of the workload isn't good for the employee either.
IMHO:

'How not to x' articles are typically self-deprecating articles that do x, but are critical of how they approached it and lessons learnt

'How to not x' is more explicit, i.e. How to avoid doing x
This is the last thing these companies will allow because it would destroy their business model. This would allow federation of different competing sites and users could pick the company/interface they like most and still have access to all their friends/pages/connections on FaceTweet.

I love it.
Sounds like the constitution free zone really is a constitution free zone. And most people in the USA live in it.
SwiftKey has been working wonders for me for years now.
I wouldn't call them fine if you consider general progress of the Linux desktop. Their integration with the whole stack is simply broken, due to Nvidia refusing to upstream their drivers. It's the reason they for years couldn't support PRIME (Optimus) and Wayland use cases, and despite their very slow efforts to address that, a lot of it is still broken for their blob (like XWayland use case).

Basically, if you care about the progress of the Linux desktop, don't use Nvidia, since it's only holding it back.
> Competition in the marketplace is good, but people are a society's priority. We can't lower the barriers to access on a user's private data in the name of, "this is good for business."

That's a reasonable position to take in the two joint discussions, but that's not "keeping the discussions separate", that's defining your priority and optimizing for it at the expense of other concerns. Dismissing those concerns because they are not important enough is fine, dismissing them as if they didn't belong to the discussion is dishonest.

I contest that the discussions are separable at all. The same regulation can be very good disregarding its effect as a barrier to entry, and very bad not disregarding it.
Whether or not any particular regulation is good on net depends on pros and cons analysis that actually takes all relevant cons into account.
Don't forget the key ingredient in this recipe: they show a small burst of greatness or give a couple shining glimmers of hope and then capitalize on that small sample size.
I mean, it would be one thing if Google stated that as a reason. I really hate this in-app purchase model, and now being applied to something as stupid as a keyboard, something that can literally monitor all your data and send back your most common words to advertisers ... ugh.

I pre-ordered a Purism 5 from the next batch in anger a few weeks ago. I want off this Android/eyeProduct bullshit. I want full control of my mobile device again.
I still prefer reverse-pedal brakes (terugtraprem).

Of course, even then, as a teenager I still managed to get myself into some interesting situations a couple of times. But never went over the handlebars :-P
> Your data remains your data, even if you allow someone else to look at it. You should be able to allow others to look at it, or even delete it after having allowed others to look at it.

So you would argue that it's fine that Apple was deleting people's email the other day, because it's not really their data?
just a curiosity: did style transfer services had an impact on your traffic?
Being a dick in influence is what I observe more often from my (biased, certainly) sample of McKinsey alum. We both agree that salability of work product is an important and underutilized skill.
Honest question, which of the two kinds of managers are the ones that get promoted more often?
6 years later and nobody has been harmed. What's your problem?
I had a similar experience with ESP32 + Web Bluetooth. Ran into very weird issues, code that previously worked and then stopped working, even after restarting the device. Eventually figured out that the issue was on my laptop side (somewhere between the hardware, Ubuntu and Chrome), and it worked perfectly from my Chromebook and Android phone. For a long time I never even considered that the issue could be on the laptop, since I expected it to be the ESP32 that's buggy.

What I did find is that it can give a very good UX when it's working: connect directly from the browser to the ESP32, without requiring any WiFi setup or other hack to find and pair the device.
Probably around 60% of that.

But as I said if professionals are willing to happy then no point in being shy on pricing
Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious
Gdp is a imaginary number madeup by economists using mg outdated pre computer methods.
Gdp will break down under climate change.
Heat causes discomfort, toxins cause mental illness.
Your great America capitalist machine cant even stop mentally corrupted children from shooting their schoolmates. Wake up.

Egyptians lasted for 5000 years before christ was born, their civilization had expired completely during the rise of rome.

our modern society requires (depends) on specialization. It is not good at adaptation.

Our brains principally stopped evolving 50000 years ago. We're still learning how to use them and enhance/repair our bodies.

Gdp is 100 years old.
We're not using gdp for anything in a ClimateChange multiple species foodchain collapse. Capitalism is 150 years old.

We probably aren't even using money in 100 years.
A quantum supremacy machine has broken bitcoin satoshi blocks.
Elons neurAlink connected by starlink allows us to communicate telepathically.
If his hypermind doesn't build it by that time then mine will.
Cheers.
If that is the reason they should probabbly do a better job of telling them (granted it's Google, they're terrible about communication in this way).

I think that is a valid reason, but it should be clear that is the reason.
what is the difference
anecdata but I've only had terrible experiences with companies looking for specific technologies (e.g. a job listing of "$LANGUAGE Developer").

Mostly good experiences when it's a specialist gig that happens to require a specific technology. Like some parts of a stack aren't interchangeable and aren't easy to pick up overnight.
For what it's worth I really enjoy the design (and content) of your wiki. :) I'm also on macOS, using a decent 1440p Dell monitor.
This isn't Nürnberg by any chance?
I'll look into this, but I don't believe they have an image license specifically for Instagram reposts only
Yah I think so maybe like that but more in a way that it was setup for existing workflows in that marketing people could actually create some video mockup demonstration then an AI could look at that video then produce a working product from it, similar to how a developer would. But this is shooting developers in the foot obviously as those that are not AI programmers would be screwed.
Tracking the 'Vibe' of a Soccer Match
I don't trust anything IBM says. They have a long history of lying and misleading that continues to this day. It's about as trustworthy as Facebook saying you shouldn't be concerned about privacy on Facebook.
The parent (unless we mean further up chain) didn't call them advertisements, but stated that they are store apps that auto install. There is certainly a placeholder there so they are for sure advertisements, but I don't believe you could take this fresh install, take away internet access and click on Candy Crush and start playing it while on a flight. You'd need to download the actual app first.
Start-up and entrepreneurial related questions like these don’t get asked enough here. Thank you
Thanks for sharing.

Which category your apps have? Do you think the current situation of appstores(google and apple) apps can earn money?

Any advice for app developer who want to make and sell apps?
How does top 1 code for 13 hours per day? o_o
genuine question:

How is a developer, complaining about "The Catalina Disaster", not an attempt to distract attention, along with other developers, from years-long procrastination?
M8, Spinoza had some wild ontology to justify his claims
You are perhaps confusing the sport of cycling with cycling-the-mode-of-transport. When I lived abroad, it seemed very difficult for people to understand the nuance, and difficult to see how missing the nuance was holding back bike-usage in commuting.

In NL, the average is ~20kph for muscle-powered bikes on bikes like [1]. Sports bikes like [2] are not usually used in commutes and considered as dangerous as scooters if used at speeds of 20mph. E-bikes legislation takes 25kph as the limit above which the cyclist is required to follow certain extra rules, and of course muscle-powered cyclist reaching that speed should perhaps also be legislated accordingly. The reason it isn't is difficulty of enforcement, but there are people advocating a maximum speed for bike infrastructure [3], at 25pkh.

[1] https://omidbikes.nl/wp-content/uploads/mat-zwart-7.jpg
[2] https://s3-wielrennen-xjspucykgif.netdna-ssl.com/welke_wielr...
[3] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/een-maximum-snelheid-op-h...
It should be obvious but, limitations, whether they be related to time, budget, or other resources, make stock assets desirable.

For instance, commissioning a custom icon set rather than picking one off-the-shelf is a luxury only some projects will have access to.

Additionally, oftentimes stock assets function as good placeholders until a larger budget comes into play. Suppose you are working on a video game and waiting for environmental assets to be complete; in the meantime, a sample texture may do.

In a perfect world, perhaps every font, icon, illustration, photo, or texture would be bespoke to its exact application. In the mean time, we have stock assets.
It's a german dev using EU-english which at this point has developed into almost it's own dialect of english.
RocketChat maybe? https://rocket.chat/

Or Matrix? https://matrix.org
if a plugin can read what's in a field, it can read the passwords therein, I'm not talking about the password file.
Amazon didn't join because it would be nearly impossible to police their third-party sellers and their use of these factories.
I suppose you could always go for semi-transparent - so not reflect but absorb a fraction of the light?
How do you drive traffic to the website?
I didn't provide links, cause they are well known and easy to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Observation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Camelot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Abandoned_military_pr...
If I had to guess I'd think you are talking about Catcher in the Rye.

The thing is, the other books are a set of tales all about or written by someone of the Glass family. So all three other books work as a sort of programatic novela as a whole.

Which is not only ingenious but revolutionary for the literature itself.

The misticism about his (and his character's) unpublished work is a amazing too.
The ol ReverseDoubleWat ! A native app to shim a browser feature so the web will work on mobile. Bringing the web to native mobile.
Why not look at this from a humanity perspective? Imagine connectivity being extremely fast, reliable and cheap for all? Isn't that a good thing? Why is this even debatable as not a good thing? It's like debating if electricity is a good thing or not for all. Yah duh it is. I guess if its improperly used maybe. But that's the only argument IMO.
An old rusty stations-fiets costs Eur 30, too. So then that helmet is looking a bit overpriced?
How could you be a member of any standing in the elite media if you don't have access to "leaks"? If something leaks that wasn't actually approved by the agencies, what do you think is going to happen to the leaker?
I'm not sure which is more likely: threecoins is pointing out how poor the proofreading is on the NIH website, or he himself is careless like so many who post on Hacker News.
Worst case scenario, my password is going to be about 24 characters long, and we’ll all be switching to 4096-bit encryption, right? Is this technology really going to functionally change encryption or is it just going to be like the switch to 64-bit computing, mostly a side-story?
>CPU of a computer system does not contain:
(a) Main storage
(b) Arithmetic unit
(c) Special register group
(d) None of the above

Well I would have gotten this question wrong if I hadn't read this article.
$14 million for 375 feet in CA is ~$37k/ft

A 620 ft concrete suspension bridge [1] in Chicago was $23 million, or ~$37k/ft

A 1470 ft concrete and steel bridge [2] in Chicago was $33 million, or ~$22k/ft

This ugly monstrosity in Florida was $9 million for 174 feet, or ~$51k/ft

It's awfully pathetic.

[1] https://www.exp.com/project/35th-street-pedestrian-bridge/

[2] https://chicagocrusader.com/new-41st-street-pedestrian-bridg...
First, I doubt many people knowingly allowed Cambridge Analytica access to their data.

Second, slandering is not the same as legal liability. If people are slandering you, sue them. But people can't sue you and say FB gave some company access to my data unless FB actually does that without the user's knowledge.

Lastly, under this new system, no one would be saying that FB is legally liable for a user explicitly granting access to a third party. Vast majority of people would lay the blame for that at the foot of the idiot user. Again, we're just trying to verify that the legislation reflects that very common sense view.
You're also making the claim that bicyclists should be forced to wear helmets. That is what people are primarily disagreeing with.

And, yes, people are sometimes forced to take other steps that are primarily about their individual safety, such as wearing seat belts. I mostly disagree with those laws as well.
Mapping at Aurora
Oh wow, thanks for the reference. Any good histories of Roku out there you recommend?
I dunno. The App store for me on my iPhone regularly behaves like this. I sometimes see the cloud icon, sometimes not, sometimes it refuses to download, sometimes I tap the icon and it does nothing, sometimes it starts downloading, then every time the phone goes to sleep, it stops downloading... I guess I'm supposed to sit there and tap the screen to keep it from sleeping while it downloads. I dunno, haven't bought a new app for my phone in a couple of years now.
You mean custom benchmarks like Midori powering Bing for Asian requests, the ixy paper, Android GPGPU debugger, Fuchsia TCP/IP stack, ChromeOS and Google Cloud sandboxes.

Yep, really lying.
Not only that, but Mozilla deliberately continues to send telemetry about your network, browser, and OS even when you explicitly disable telemetry: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-...

When Microsoft is more honest and upfront about user privacy then you are, then you have a problem.
You can always use a CSS re-styler or a screenreader.

I believe the intent is for the user's focus on the article rather than the comment. Google Lighthouse reports are meant to be suggestive rather than to be treated as gospel.
Warm and wet is easy because I just change clothes at work. There's a shower at my office.
Electric bikes are not motorcycles. However, you're right that they're different from non-motorized bikes. And I agree with you that they can cause issues.

I got a eBike (Bionix brand, it's been great!) when I was commuting across town and got sick of riding the bus (these days there's always somebody watching TV on their phone without headphones. It was just a matter of time until I lost it and slapped one out of someone's hand, and I really don't want to be that guy on the bus, y'know? So I bought an eBike.)

I'm a very defensive cyclist and one of the first rules I made up for myself is, "Do NOT use the acceleration boost to catch changing traffic signals." I saw that people (drivers, pedestrians, and other cyclists) around me mis-estimated my trajectory due to the artificial acceleration.
Good ad for Garmin. I prefer Suunto - greeter precision and less bells and whistles.
I love Cursive! I’m glad to hear it is working out for your financially especially the Clojure community. Thank you!
So after several rounds on both sides of the table... (being fired and getting laid off / "selectively eliminated"):

- Communicate the bare minimum and hand the person off to an un-involved third party (HR or admin type) to handle the rest of the process. This is not a place for a running debate about the merits of the firing.

- For the sake of the employee, never communicate this on any kind of moralizing basis (eg. you lost this job due to your character failings). They will heal much faster if they can process this as a "lack of fit with the organization". The former can spark some serious self-doubt...

- Either check up on them in a few days (purely personal call) or have a trusted third party check in on them.
Most of the stuff I learn, I try to keep it in my mind. Not perfect, but it has worked for people for a very long time, it's fairly portable, has low power usage, but retention isn't great, and i/o bandwidth is poor to say the least...

Ok - well, other than that it's a hodgepodge of text files on my phone and main workstation, some of which get moved to my small home NAS.

And a few notebooks. And some stickies. And scraps of paper.

Not a great system - well, let's face it, it stinks.

At one time I had a website/blog I had built, but my vhosting provider updated PHP and it broke my stuff; not so much I couldn't fix it, but I got lazy and never fixed it, and now I've been mulling over for a while how to do everything as a github supported static page website instead, since I am pretty tired of my crufty PHP junk.

I'm going to eagerly read everyone's thoughts here, though, as I think maybe they could help me become more organized in what I am doing and such.
NixOS feels great, I love it. The only gripe I have with it is the inability to just run a custom binary on it. For me the explanations on how to get it to work or write a ?Nixpkg? file was not very clear. Now I'm back on ubuntu and missing the simplicity of NixOS, everything was just so simple and light. I've used ubuntu, arch, manjaro and elementeryOS before, but NixOS felt the nicest.

I don't want to distrohop anymore, Arch was awesome and NixOS feels like the next step. But it doesn't really feel ready for a (maybe) less experienced user. It feels a bit like gentoo in the way that you need to re-link the libs for non-nixos packages or package a binary you just built yourself.

I think the thing I'm going to try next is PopOS with only the Nix package manager, it feels like a good middle ground between living in configs and no hassle with non-entry level documentation.
How would your ideal open-source smartphone ecosystem be structured?

Genuinely interested as I'm looking to explore this as a potential project myself with my team.
It does not even include the name of the citizen. How do we know this is not just fiction?
Why didn't the pilots just descend when they encountered a failure with the environmental system?
For me, The Catcher in the Rye was what led me to his other books. Franny and Zooey was my favorite book for a long time (although it's been nearly a decade since I read it) and I think The Catcher in the Rye is probably the weakest of his four books in my opinion (and very likely the most polarizing).
I'll just say the line between being unfairly critical and raising valid points seem to be a very thin one.

Especially when Peter Shore is disagreeing with the critique (and I agree with him).

Saying that a quantum computation does not qualify because it included (a short) classic computation does not seem a fundamentally fair criticism to me.
My team is mixed. We have two devs using Cursive, one using Atom, one using vim and then two using emacs. The two devs using Cursive love IntelliJ and being able to work in IntelliJ and do Clojure development is a big win for them
>but also in the absolute shit-show that is their foreign policy.

And releasing this data to foreign governments (which some are also potential enemies) is the way to do it? Yeah, bravo...
Parent claimed that media coverage was a sufficient criterion; I disagree. You've interpreted the discussion as concerned with a necessary criterion. That abuse of the idiom will come later, after the war media has moved the Overton window a bit further.
He does. [0]

[0] https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/slides/02-advanced... slide 3
Not sustainably... I've done that myself: it's hella fun but towards the end of the week the code stopped making sense and had to sleep for a whole day. WakaTime is very accurate so my daily average is only 4 hours of actual typing per day:

https://wakatime.com/a-look-back-at-2018

https://wakatime.com/@alan
Agreed, Hollywood accountants may be more creative than the filmmakers. But really, all they are doing is taking money out of one pocket and putting it into another. Their marketing division or others will simply massively overcharge the film for their services. Thus showing a huge charge against the film budget. This is to keep from paying royalties based on profit.

This is also why Keanu Reeves is one of the richest actors in Hollywood. He made a 15% on gross deal for the matrix. So no amount of shifty accounting could get the studios out of paying him.

One can only assume they made that deal at the time because they didn't expect the movie to be all that successful.
That's why a proper terminological database should contain a source and its date, so you can evaluate its currency and relevance.