skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scary. What if social media leads to that sort of mob behavior?
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Holy shit, right after Trump said that "Apple may be exempt from tariffs".

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-a...
Yeah I don't know. I mean it's a textbox input field. How much maintenance can there be?
> I’ve lost friends over this

I've stopped helping, or even started avoiding, some "friends" because of this.

Of course some tact is needed, and I've sometimes got that wrong. You have to properly listen before making suggestions, perhaps you need to ask questions first too to make sure you actually really understand, and definitely watch for signs (or explicit mentions) that advice/solutions are not wanted at this point (sometimes people just need to sound it out, to help get things in order in their own heads), and don't give definitive sounding advice when you aren't as sure as you sound, and sometimes great care needs to be given to your wording/intonation (lest advice be confused for judgement), but if after all that I make a suggestion and get my face bitten off, I am not the dick in that situation.

An actual quote, yelled before storming off: "oh, that is just like you, trying to solve everything". Damn right that is just like me, the me you know well. If someone I care about has a problem in front of me then yes I'll try help them solve it. If you don't like that, then making me not care is not particularly difficult - screaming "oh, that is just like you, trying to solve everything", storming off, and not offering any apology at all afterwards, is an effective step in that process.

Of course I need to be aware that how I react to problems may not be what other people want, and I'm not afraid to admit that empathy is a trait/skill I am sometimes not as strong in as I would like to be. But accepting that other people are different should work both ways.
I think this is a misplaced worry. If you’re a high quality engineer than you shouldn’t compete on price. I do some freelance work but and have found it to be extremely lucrative. (Not in the mobile space though FWIW. Mostly NLP projects)
You have to find a niche and provide a ton of value. Being an IOS developer that just delivers features is one way to sell yourself. A better way be positioning yourself is as an IOS expert that knows intricacies which will save the customer $10,000’s in costs via lower maintenance costs, faster dev time, etc
Is this some weird kind of satire I don't understand?

Being read-only is the thing why we have PDF in the first place. If you want to do changes, go back to the program where it came from. It's simple as that! :)
There is no open source social contract
In a conversation thread that’s all about “UI interfaces”, feels a bit pedantic to me to harp on defining “API interface” as your only valid “interface” definition, especially as there’s a plugin (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack) for a popular IRC client to integrate with Slack’s “websocket interface”.
Those both sound like kinds of ways the real maximum load could be higher than what you've called your maximum load
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Criticism does not imply surprise.

For if it did, we’d have to assume that you are surprised by behavior you yourself describe as constant. And I don’t believe you are.
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I wouldn't have a problem with this _if_ this were configurable. Its not. This is two pretty good UI/UX screwups in a row by Slack (this, and threads)

Slack's good at engineering and development. They used to be good at UI/UX, but whoever over there in the text entry product design slot is having a case of the Jony Ives.
I'm obviously biased and would probably recommend what I was working on(CKEditor), but here are some observations regarding the various propositions:

CKEditor 4 excels in two things:

-Handling selection - especially tables.

-Editing for accessibility.

I would recommend v5 though, otherwise you'd be potentially giving my one good friend, who's already very busy maintaining v4, even more work. :D

https://textbox.io/ - these guys gave us a run for our money a few years ago with their paste-from-external-source (e.g. Word) capabilities, but I believe they've been since acquired by Tiny.

https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce - I think this one is slowly being cannibalized by TextBox. I remember them receiving a lot of funding at one point, but getting nowhere with it.

Froala - avoid. It's not really open-source, and judging how support for paying customers works you're not getting your money's worth.

Quill - we've never seen them as a threat, so maybe they're not that good? Especially given that Slack thing that's currently unfolding.

Edit: Formatting.
Frustrating to get such a definitive “not going to change it” response like that. At least with a company like Google they wouldn’t even bother responding. Why even bother offering to accept feedback if they’re not willing to take it to heart? Maybe it’s just an attempt to placate their users. I don’t see why they would have an issue offering some type of preference setting or inline selection for this. What would be the harm in allowing users to so choose?

Seems like it’s becoming another dark pattern whereby developers are forcing their decisions on users a la Chrome not allowing developers to disable the browsers built-in autofill.
The definition of "crime" in the USA was carefully chosen to primarily target undesirable races.
But they haven't stopped doing technology. If anything, they are bringing technology to banking.

I am not saying I am feeling great about those particular companies entering the finance industry, but it's not like it's a signal that technology is becoming unimportant. If anything it's just the continued expansion of technology.
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Scientists Beginning to Understand Mysterious DNA Circles Common in Cancer Cells
It sounds like fact checked news, but is it?

I would hate to give anyone mentioned in this article an example of the time they were falsely accused of something by an actual fake news source.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/10/correction_regarding_an_e...
So what?

Flagged. This isn't very intellectually stimulating and a poor take to say the least.

I wish HN just sticks to tech instead of politics all the time.
It’s nearly impossible to stay put in the sea where waves and swell are meters high. The boat actually does try to stand still, for which they developed their own positioning / thrust system, but the tolerance is something like 3m-6m with the rocket adjusting its path on the fly.

But there are definitely no “static coordinates”, it would have to move a lot more than a few meters for the rocket to miss, and it would be due to trajectory and fuel constraints rather than ability to maneuver.
Why does anyone (tech savvy or otherwise) need to bold or italicize anything.

In my mind bolding/italicizing are nice-to-haves alongside emoji. You wouldn't compromise the entire functional user experience of the central feature of your app for nicer emojis. (at least I hope not).
The kind of quid pro quo that happened when I gave apple money and I got a phone in return?
I happen to know the other side of this. I get the impression from your post that we were probably looking at the same thing, just from very different angles. I think there were aspects to it that you either weren’t privy to or just couldn’t see from where you sat.

I don’t think anyone involved in this from Apple still works there anymore, and it’s been 10-11 years now so probably not even Apple itself really knows all the details at this point. From what I’ve heard the same may be true at Google; these stories are basically folklore to the current crop of the Maps team there.

In any case, as I recall it, advertising data and location tracking absolutely were sticking points. It’s possible you weren’t part of those aspects or you just saw it differently than Apple did.

On the other hand, this was all before Apple had a public marketing campaign around user privacy. The antagonism in the relationship around Maps also predated any discussion with Google of location data or ads and it arose from Android. Jobs saw Android as an attempt to copy the iPhone, and this lead to mistrust of Google in all things.

With that perspective, maybe you can start to see the other side of it. Apple didn’t want to let slip any detail of upcoming iPhone features because the concern was about them being copied in Android. While the G Maps folks gave lip service initially to being separate from Android and the idea that features wouldn’t be held back from Apple to benefit Android (and this was true initially, eg with Street View), Apple folks didn’t believe that would last.

And I think it didn’t last. As time went on, the Apple perspective was that Google was asking for things that were anathema, just so Google could point to them and say this is why you aren’t getting vector data or nav, but only as a pretext in the larger war of being able to use Maps as a competitive advantage for Android.
Your story sounds like those of Californians who moved to Utah a decade ago. Before you know it, people in Little Rock coffee shops will be complaining about the influx of Utahns selling their modest West Jordan homes to buy mansions in Arkansas.

Utah has remained a hidden gem for years, but external market pressures are driving up prices, and supply is surprisingly constrained by the local geography (mountains and bodies of water constricting available land in the SLC metro.) Utah doesn't enjoy the same wide open space of many inland states, at least in the developed areas where people want to live.
Perhaps it will be revealed that he had an AI write this talk.
I remember when modems cost about a dollar per baud: 300 for $300, 1200 for $1200.
Some more notes from my experience:

If you're serious about large scale games, you should look into typescript. I'd start away from any other language, like coffee script, Ruby... See my next point.

Use node.js on the back end so you can do client side and server side validation with the same code. Another benefit is that you can also make your game single player much easier. I usually prefer to start the game multiplayer first and then do single player.

Another tool useful for game is pixi.js (or phaser if you need what they provide. Pixi just does the rendering part, phaser does a lot of game related things)

I'd use illustrator instead of Photoshop because you can scale your graphics without losing quality. Vectorial is better than bitmap.

For state management I use redux.

If you're interested here is my game https://bitplanets.com . It's a RTS game, where you need to conquer planets. You can play with your friends and people online. Of course no need to download or register and works on mobile. (60fps if on a decent phone)
I'm fairly sure SpaceX's engineers know 1st year mechanics.
User experience is vastly better in the vertical silo of Apple for 99% of my family members, especially the older ones and those who aren’t as versed in English or messing with their devices.

I have a mid 90s uneducated great grandmother who grew up and still is in a rural village in a poor country able to contact all of her great grandchildren and video chat with them for the past 7 years.
interestingly "jaguar speed -car"

returns the speed of a ship called Jaguar, not the animal's
I’ll remember this day when Zulip finally gets another wave of momentum.
Wow... to think the most authentic age has been ruined by some tools that have useful edge cases.

Maybe we can use block chain to encrypt these real moments so it can be identifiable as real or not. Then again, some super secrete society can try and change ledgers or propose ledgers for deep fakes that get through the cracks.
Thanks for this blast from the past. I bought the book in 1997 as a sophomore student at university. My favorite book at the time. Leafing through the PDF after all these years I came across some gems I hadn't appreciated back then:

On page 161 the author mentions in passing that Eric Schmidt had been working on BerkNet. THE Eric Schmidt. The Google Eric Schmidt.

Earlier the book mentions that Bill Joy was able to hire a developer with money they got from DARPA. That developer was Michael Toy and later Sam Leffler. There's a movie called Code Rush about the open-sourcing of Netscape's source code in 1998 (which begat Mozilla and Firefox) and Michael Toy was the project lead for the open source effort back then. Sam Leffler later developed TIFF.
Its not a real sound, Oona tried recording it with negative results http://www.windytan.com/2015/07/case-study-tinnitus-with-dis...
I did mention weed/hash, and explained the effects it has on life. Alcoholism is an option, but harder drugs generally are more expensive. A lot of poor folks don't do drugs simply because they can't afford them.

IIRC, poor folks do drugs at the same rate as better off folks, though. Sometimes you are more likely to get caught because of the situations you use them in... plus the businessman has more to lose so tends to be more secluded unless you are trusted.

As far as worse, I don't know, man. The depression was pretty bad. The 1800's were pretty bad. The US is worse than Norway, just because of the lack of safety net, and both of these places are better than anywhere facing near-famine or actual active war. And so on. It is really hard to say, "worse".
From the guidelines on what to submit to HN:
"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This does not fit that criterion.
Sure, but at least have this a configurable option.

Right now, they just basically blew away something that worked really well for alot of people and are demanding their captive audience adjust.

Whoever at Slack pushed this and threads has a good case of the Jony Ives going on. Thats two UI/UX changes that have met with lukewarm reactions to absolute dislike.
Like start Firefox? I have no idea why it takes multiple seconds to bring up a blank window when starting a comparably useful program like Claws Mail is absolutely instantaneous.
Check out https://bitplanets.com works even on mobile at 60fps. It's a strategy game using pixi js
I would suggest the boat is always moving to be able to stay in the same place
At this point, I like Azure Dev Ops more than the Atlassian suite.
Disappointing. Even beyond the question of malfeasance, there should be at least three policy areas I can think of off the top of my head that Cook should be opposed to:

* Constant disruption of international manufacturing and trade relations with a chaotic assembly of policies (as Paul Krugman has pointed out, each individual policy you can, in principle, adjust to. But policies changing on a weekly level are impossible to plan for: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/trump-economy.htm...)

* Anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric making it harder to hire from abroad (one can debate whether this benefits US workers—I would argue not—but it's certainly not in Apple's self interest).

* Anti-LGBT policies and rhetoric. It's admirable that Cook consistently avoid making things about himself, but I think you ought to draw the line at collaborating with politicians who question one's very right to exist.
The whole news model is becoming strange.
At the beginning journalism shifted from offline to online, and then because lack of solid business model and high competition, they began with paywalls which hurt the UX and also the site owners
I think most industries have become continuously more specialized. We've likely had fantastic innovations year over year, but they are in parts of the greater product, and by someone who was hired to do exactly that so they were really just doing their job. That doesn't make for a very good story, so we don't hear about the many innovations that continue to improve all of our lives.
Many content providers won't like handing over as much control as such a situation may imply though.

It also creates single points of failure that did not exist before. If the ad service is down, your content is (potentially) down too rather than just being served without working ads.
TIL, that's amazing! :D

EDIT: Turns out, I spoke too soon, there is no such option according to docs or from reading the code, maybe you have another plugin doing this?

EDIT2: found it: https://github.com/keith/edit-weechat
For mobile users:

>Thanks for sharing your experience with our new formatting UI. I'm sorry to hear it's been a little disruptive so far. There isn't a way to revert to the old formatting method, I'm afraid. We don't currently have plans to make the new formatting configurable though we are carefully considering all our customers' feedback.
Also, the wicked irony of them calling themselves Ethos Capital.
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I'm working full-time on a project without any monetization. I have a little bit of savings but live frugally so my runway is more or less infinite.
These appear to be different than "smart TVs" which offer Roku built-in as an optional app

Instead of spending all this time writing an article and on.the phone, they should have returned it and got another brand of TV
Fine, so don't call it "success!". It's a step on the way to (possible) success, but the hypersensitivity isn't helping anyone.
Interesting one. I wonder why it's hosted under mailchimp if the research is done by TYRO
Nice book. Nice suggestion.
Improbable expands existing partnership with Google Cloud
I myself use them sometimes to emphasize certain parts of the message. They can be very helpful. Many people like bolding certain words in an email as well to emphasize them.
But magically, if you know the right collection of real estate agent, appraisers, and mortgage brokers, the house always appraises for what you need it to in order for the loan to go through.
I misread it as edible PDF and thought wow! technology sure went a long way!

It would be nice to have an open standard for 3D food printing though.
How to man-in-the-middle proxy your IoT devices – Robert Heaton
They compromised the part that you already said was not important, not the "entire functional user experience", though?
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You’ve described the pathology and first reason to NOT use chat for anything important. What am I supposed to do? Sit on the chat all day so I don’t miss anything? I’m on a team that does this now. I ignore the 100 to 1000 plus messages and memes a day and I have missed “important decisions”. It’s a net negative imo.
kdb+/q supports massive parallelism.
> How many times have I had the misfortune to die?

That's basically the plot to Planescape: Torment.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/planescape-torment
"A low moment in Apple’s proud history"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Criticism_and_contr...

I think Apple has done a lot worse in its "proud history" and is still doing it.
There has not been any change in how big tech companies deal with hard decisions. It's just people who ate PR, brand management and empty corporate speak about values getting getting deserved reality check.

Without a doubt Tim Cook is very strongly socially liberal and anti Trump as long as it's does not hurt business opportunities or the future of Apple.
You can find affordable housing, it’s just just the densely spaced spec homes that deteriorate quickly. We’d be better off from a value perspective if developers could only carve out subdivisions but had to sell the lots to, home buyers who could then choose the house style and materials. Get rid of the HOAs and their covenants requiring uniformity. The builder extracts a huge margin by using the cheapest materials. A home is the worst purchase to do this way, since the economic lifetime is 75 years but the actual lifetime can be longer.
True, but if my bad python implementation can do the job on one old single core computer with plenty of CPU left over what do I care - in fact because python is generally more productive for small programs it is a lot cheaper. Most programs don't actually handle so much data that they need every bit of performance.

Of course the minority that do need performance are where the real engineers are needed.
Spotify’s Daniel Ek Plans to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts
I've often needed to fill in PDF forms that were not using PDF's fillable form fields, or to paste in a scanned signature. This is an important use case for PDFs, and the people who send you these forms expect you to have a printer, nice handwriting, and a scanner. Instead you can do the whole thing in software, with only standard Ubuntu packages, but it can be painful for multi-page documents: I typically have to use a sequence of pdfseparate/edit each page in isolation/pdfjoin.
I've been using qutebrowser (which has a very barebones ad-blocker) for some time. So I can confirm that Youtube is awful without an adblocker;

It's very common to see: "Ad 1 of 2", the first of which is unskippable, the second of which needs 5 seconds to be skipped (if it's skippable at all). Then you get the content which is almost always sponsored and opens with an ad of its own "this video sponsored by squarespace" etc;

A deluge of marketing, and somehow "not profitable". I don't get it.
I think they are betting on managers and in this regard it's going to work out well for them. After all Slack is a company thing (slowly turning into corporate thing) i.e. the decision to use it will likely be made by those who like WYSIWYG but hate putting stars or backticks in their messages, or don't understand the concept at all.

So, in the end it's a very clever move.
Can we build a PS5-level PC for the same $499 price at launch?
> It's admirable that Cook consistently avoid making things about himself, but I think you ought to draw the line at collaborating with politicians who question one's very right to exist.

Does Trump really question the right of gay men like Cook to exist?
No, acquire/release is a much weaker model than TSO. TSO is basically sequential consistency (SEQCST) + a store buffer. I.e. stores don't go immediately to main memory, but rather via a store buffer. Loads first peek into the store buffer of the local CPU core before going to memory. The practical effect is that in contrast to SEQCST stores may be reordered after loads ("store->load" reordering more formally).

Acquire-release consistency allows many more reorderings in addition to store->load (load->load, load->store, store->store).

For more info see e.g. Table 5 in http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/whymb.2...
Honestly, the unsatisfying answer is simply because they (i.e. those of us who didn't grow up on IRC, like marketing teams) want to, and are used to being able to do it elsewhere. I'm sure the people who include images in email and set their own fonts and stuff are happy with the upgrade; I can especially relate to that since I used to do some marketing and sales work myself.

I also hate the new input field but I understand why they turned it on globally. But a strong enough want is often indistinguishable from a need.
Hey guys, you can remove the additional line by clicking on the "Aa" option (with 'Hide Formatting' title).
It seems a legitimate debate to me to what extent a company should acquiesce to governments of all sorts.

And it's a question that Apple, in particular, has to debate over and over again. iPhone unlocks for the govt? If so, what governments? Allow apps that facilitate protests in Hong Kong? Tolerate or even facilitate oppressive manufacturing or mining conditions?

These are not easy questions for a company that has so many world wide dependencies. And, for some of these questions (unlocks, manufacturing, mining), Apple has decided to take a stand on ethical principles rather than convenience.