skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several apps with always-on location permissions and I must have seen maybe half a dozen of these alerts since I installed iOS 13 back in the fall. It's nowhere near "constant unwanted nagging".
If you want more power out of your ICE car you have to pay for a tune and additional parts. Those things cost money just like software development costs money.
> Video games and Netflix, for most people.

"Most people"? Even if that's true (which I don't think it is) you have to admit that there's a significant portion of the population for whom that isn't the tradeoff.

I probably spend 1 or 2 hours a week on Netflix, and I haven't spent a significant amount of time per week on video games in years, so your proposed tradeoff isn't the tradeoff in my life.

> I really don't think the trade-off between Netflix time and house cleanliness is a false perception synthesized by advertisers.

Really? You haven't seen any ads for video games or Netflix? I go to fairly extensive lengths to avoid seeing ads and I have seen both.
IMHO, this is a failure of the copyright model. All information required to build software should be required to be escrowed at release.
Primary care doc is making 10x 55k? Doubt it's even 5x
Many years ago I worked for a lab that was bought out by Novartis. We started running lots and lots of tests for chronic myelogenous leukemia for free, since showing they had a particular mutation indicative of CML would qualify them for Gleevec.

I don’t even know how I feel about that, but Novartis as a whole is a shitty company. Quit a year after their buyout because they completely ruined what was once a great place to work.
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Nah.
AFAIK the "retenciones" tax is for employees, not when paying for a service/good and you receive an invoice from a freelancer or another company.
I think this is correct. The non-milk-drinkers had telomere lengths between those of the reduced-fat and the full-fat groups, which leads me to conclude that among milk-drinkers, those who go for the reduced-fat milk tend to live a healthier overall lifestyle. Those who go for the full-fat milk tend to live a less healthy lifestyle. The non-milk-drinker category is a mixed bag, since the preferred-fat-percent variable is lost.
"Web coffee protocol" -- I'll admit, this one surprised me.
I love firefox too, it's my go-to browser at work on Linux and at home on macOS. It really isn't as well integrated into macOS either though, especially compared to Chrome and Safari. The trackpad support (or lack of it) would probably have been a deal breaker when I got a mac if I wasn't already a long-term Firefox user and quite Google-sceptic.
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Love it! People are always telling me to "git a life" anyway
Studies on ego depletion have nothing to do with the post you are responding to.
Administration, primarily.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08061...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/the-real-reason-medical-care...
I agree, it's a great doc. Some more concrete examples.

For number 1, administering a Windows Active Directory domain controller from a desktop that is also used to browse the public Internet and check email.

For number 6, networking groups use this a lot as the reason to not patch routers.
800MB textbook??? What kind of textbook is that and how many pages does it have? Or page dimension/image resolution??? That is a very very large size for a pdf.
Massive for corporate, since it supports Enterprise Mode lists for IE11 backwards compatibility. We can all finally use one single browser, with single sign on to our apps, and support for new technology.
When you say 'first engineer' do you mean literally the first employee, or early (say 1 thru 5)? If the former, what do you think would be appropriate levels for, say, employees 2 thru 5? If the latter, are you arguing that the first 5 employees should be offered 50% of the company?

Just to be clear, I'm not disputing the point and don't have a strong opinion. I'm curious where HN users—who include many prospective early engineers—think the market needs to go. The comments about startup compensation are routinely so negative that it seems clear it needs to move; the question is what range would start to be fairer.
Chromium is not the same as Google Chrome. Chromium is open source and vendor neutral. Google Chrome adds the Google stuff on top of it.

Both chromium and Firefox can be customized and vendor branded (see the countless privacy oriented browsers built on top of Firefox).
At some point, I think around the mid '90s or early 2000s but maybe earlier, though, seek time was fast enough on widely available drives that on average for random access you spent about as much time on the right cylinder waiting for the sector you wanted to rotate to under the head as you did on seeking to the right cylinder.

You could get some decent gains then if you made your scheduler take rotation into account. A long seek that arrived just before the target sector came under the head could be faster than a short seek that would arrive just after the sector passed the head.

On the other hand, taking rotation into account could make the scheduler quite a bit more complex. You needed a model that could predict seek time well, and you needed to know the angular position of each sector in its cylinder.

I don't think that there were any drives that would tell you this. SCSI drives wouldn't even tell you the geometry. IDE drives would tell you a geometry, but it didn't necessarily have anything to do with the actual geometry of the drive.

At the time I worked at a company that was working on disk performance enhancement software (e.g., drivers with better scheduling, utilities that would log disk accesses and then rearrange data on the disk so that the I/O patterns in the logs would be faster [1], and that sort of thing).

We had a program that could get the real disk geometry. It did so by doing a lot of random I/O and looking at the timing of when the results came back. If there were no disk cache, this would be fairly easy. (Well, it didn't necessarily get the real geometry, but rather a purported geometry and seek and rotational characteristics that could predict I/O time well).

For instance, read some random sector T, then read another random sector, then read T again. Look at the time difference between when you started getting data back on the two reads of T. This should be a multiple of the rotation time.

If the disk has caching that can still work but you need to read a lot of random sectors between the two reads of T to try to get the first read out of the cache.

Anyway, we had to give up on that approach because the program to analyze the disk took a few days of constant I/O to finish. Management decided that most consumers would not put up with such a long setup procedure.

[1] Yes, that could mean that it would purposefully make files more fragmented. A fairly common pattern was for a program to open a bunch of data files and read a header from each. E.g., some big GUI programs would do that for a large number of font files. Arranging that program and those data files on disk so that you have the program code that gets loaded before the header reads, then the headers of all the files, and then the rest of the file data, could give you a nice speed boost.

The flaw in this method is that, to use the above example, if another big GUI program also uses those same font files, the layout that makes the first program go fast might suck for the second program. If you've got a computer that you mostly only use for one task, though, it can be a viable approach.
"Trust but verify" is the standard term, scientific papers and so forth.
You open with a false-dichotomoy. Apple is not a monopolist in the phone market (your first proposed argument). Apple is a monopolist of the app store (your second proposed argument).

Those 2 positions are not mutually-exclusive.
Hah, yeah. I like my shitty car projects. I'd like to replace my current daily driver, but I just can't get excited about new stuff, so it hasn't happened yet.
This seems like FUD.
So as somewhat of an outsider to the 'web game' as far as most people here (at HN) are concerned, but a relatively aware patron of web browsing software, I'll add my thoughts on the 'web browser' game...

I feel like most people's browser of choice is chosen for reasons specific to their needs. For example: I think that Firefox gives me a bit of additional privacy. I think that Safari gives me that additional privacy as well. Some people may feel like Chrome just works. Some people just use what came with their OS.

When I do front end work, I tend to always test it in Chrome first. Their devtools make that part of my job (quickly finding issues with the frontend) a lot easier. Once it works in Chrome, I'm sure that the code is working, and any problems I encounter will just require browser-specific tweaks.

Anyway, long story short...I think that Microsoft really needs to pick something that Edge is best at if they want people to have a reason to use it (PS loading a highly browser-optimized page some number of milliseconds faster than the competition just doesn't do it for me, personally). Their niche has always just kind of been "well it's what comes with the OS" - and that's a fine way to get a userbase for sure. I'm not faulting them - but if that's their intended userbase, then I feel like they're putting a lot of effort into this whole browser game.

I guess at the end of the day, I don't trust IE or Edge or Chrome for my every day use. Whether that's poorly placed mistrust or not, I'm uncertain. But in either event, that's how I feel.
Of all the times I wish MS had written their own browser, this would be the first not in jest. The web is not open if only 2 orgs can hope to stay functional displaying it.
It's a more widespread issue than you say. Even mature professionals give me a look when they see that I use a 2.5-year-old Note8 instead of any iPhone, let a newer one. Some verbalize their antipathy.

"American society" is the environment in which status symbols dictate the character of interactions. Wealthier people tend to value actions or experiences over objects (Do you recycle? Did you go to a "good" school?), and judge based on that, but that's not an absolute rule.
Likely won't be banned, but limited in scope (so no autonomous firing, but yes robocop style visual field highlights, etc)
You're missing a key factor. It's not "knowledge of what they don't have" that advertising brings. Advertising is highly sophisticated psychological manipulation, refined over that lat 100 years, that invents "needs" and "wants" in the target subjects. Much of that manipulation is preys upon and creates in securities, inflicts unhappiness and other manufactured "ills". Then promises to relieve them if you buy.

It's artificial. If they just had knowledge, like say wikipedia or ad blocked internet. They would be wanting real things like education, health care, self-determination, not Nikes.
Almost everyone has some buying power and some unsolved problems, the issue is that most so-called problems are tolerable to an extent that people will not pay to solve them. I haven't solved this issue, which is why I use my trial and error approach.

As for finding people to share your product with, it's very easy. If you had any hypothesis behind your solution, you can guess where your customers might be - and if you just approach these people (whether online or in person, such as what the Pinterest founder did), very few will refuse to give your product a try if you offer it gratis. Getting people to pay comes after getting people to love your product, and the latter is difficult enough that if you really did it you won't have to worry about the money.
> "The nail that sticks out gets knocked down."

Ever since I first heard this I've kept both this phrase and the phrase "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" in mind at the same time.

Basically, both sides of this coin together ask you "should you speak up?" type of thing; substitute "speak up" with whatever the given situation is.
Yes, that is a great idea!
Needs a base npm library, that is not tethered to Angular.

https://github.com/SapphireDb/SapphireDb/issues/3
This is a really minor nitpick that I am expressing to help you market this better. Instead of saying (defunct) PEP 316 just say inspired which communicates that you don’t do everything of pep 316 also .
Yeah, my paranoid fears about being picked up by the police (as a consequence of my blog writing) were in part due to my prominence as the highest ranked woman on HN. I hit the leader board of HN (under my previous handle) about a month after I got back into housing.

If you're a big fat nobody, your online activities will fly under the radar and you don't need to worry too much. But being the most prominent woman on HN sometimes goes weird places and I have a very long history of attracting problematic attention for things that aren't a problem for other people.
Looks good! I’m going to try it out on a project. Do you have any ideas for hook designs to write/update firebase data?
Sometime, people choose a product/band over the alternatives solely because their choice is more expensive, so others will appreciate or jealous on them...
They probably can't, especially if the engine interfaces with proprietary code or is deeply linked to the kernel for example. It's likely part of the reason why they never got it updating as frequently as the Chromeium counterpart can, as this is entirely userspace.
Perhaps wireguard VPN as a low-cruft replacement for openvpn is a good illustration of this.
You really think that it only took “months” for Apple to create the Siri Intent for third party audio? Apple had been opening up Siri for years by adding new intents.

Apple has a long history of developing functionality and using it internally before releasing them publicly. The alternative is releasing a half baked API that it has to support forever. It’s a lot easier to change an API that is only used internally than it is to change an API which people depend on.

Yes, Apple produced a better solution than allowing random third parties the ability to record everything you do on your phone. Would you prefer that they never increase privacy and security?
This is a "get off my lawn" sort of comment, but:

Easy cars are making worse drivers. People rarely check their blind spot now because the little light on their sideview mirror lights up instead. People are less concerned about driving unsafely because their cars are thicker, heavier, and bigger than the other participants on the road. This has been especially troubling to watch develop from the bike lane, as visibility shrinks and auto manufacturers don't seem to test extensively whether their onboard radar can detect cyclists and pedestrians. It's created a very strange experience of driving where the person inside does not share the same reality as the outside except when their car is within 2 feet of another car. Cars are cages, not only physically, but mentally too.
Google does not restrict you from installing arbitrary apps or building your own App Store to compete with Google Play though.
Not sure why I was flagged, @fatjewish was popular on twitter/ig/etc. and was nearly given a comedy central show until comedians complained that he stole jokes.
This particular article may seem bizarre, but I believe we need to acclimatize to this.

As the oceans rise and Florida cities are inundated, Florida men will disperse, likely to other coastal areas. But we haven't yet felt the long lasting effects of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's "grow-oriented policies" that all but defunded Kansas' schools. I predict that "Kansas man" will become the "Florida man" of the 2030s, with "Nebraska man" and "Oklahoma man" as also-rans.
Yup.

You cannot install a 3rd-party app store on iPhones without resorting to strange hacks (which are likely outside the scope of the EULA and wouldn't be pursued by average users). Developers and users have no alternative but to pay Apple 30%. If you are an open source project, someone has to pay up each year for the privilege of developing software for Apple devices.

Windows, Linux and Android allow 3rd-party appstores. As evil as Google is, they certainly have that feather in their cap.

Apple likely wouldn't have been facing this lawsuit if they hadn't kept pressing their advantage and tightening the noose on developers.
Also if your heart rate is fast but you've been motionless for 10 minutes. It is so useful, if only it would let me veto exactly who has access to all the information it collects.

Apple may be a bastion of user privacy now, but medical data is much more valuable than other types of tracking. People spend a lot on health.
To add to this, there are a slate of classic mistakes noobs make while squatting that impact depth and cause pain:

1. Your feet should not be pointing straight ahead while squatting, regardless of stance width. This is by far and away the biggest noob mistake. Most people never hit depth / develop knee pain because they squat with their feet straight forward. You should set up with your feet rotated ~30 degrees outwards from parallel (ie your feet should be forming a V with the vertex behind you).

2. When you are squatting down, you should project your knees in the direction that your feet are pointing. Your knees should be out over your feet at all times. Your knees should not go straight forward.

3. Squat (and really all other powerlifting movements) are full body exercises. Your core should be tight; your back should be tight; etc

4. Don't squat in running shoes. If you must squat in running shoes, use a board as the OP stated. Running shoes tend to have a very squishy sole which is great for running but not so great when you are trying to establish a stable base to balance on and push off of. Try to squat in shoes with a hard sole.
Frankly I think this is brilliant and should be commonplace. Ok, perhaps not with swords or guns to the point that someone actually dies, but given the absurdity of my own legal issues, some kind of foam-noodle-whilst-balancing-on-a-moving-object-over-a-swimming-pool type duel would have been faster, cheaper, and more effective judgement.
Excellent, as that will prompt a reaction. First to push even more non technical folks to join most techies using no exceptions ad blocking. Second to provoke even more onerous regulations.
This fluff piece was written so quickly that the author did not correctly comprehend a two-word quote that he uses:

> Coming out of college, Warren Buffett wanted to work for Benjamin Graham to learn to be a value investor. Buffett offered to work for free, and Graham responded, “You’re overpriced.” What that means is you have to make sacrifices to take on an apprenticeship.

No, what that means is that, as a fresh college graduate, Buffet added negative value to Graham. (Hence, even at $0 he was too expensive.)

Blog posts are often a bit like code: They take more effort to read than they do to write. In this case, the author spends so little time trying to produce something worth reading that I couldn't finish the article.

Even for free, this post was overpriced.
Is it possible the social support structure, education, etc are creating a society where unfortunate people don't have to steal/pawn to make a living?
Rendering is likely blocked on mouse interrupts.
Your link was discussed @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21492345
PouchDB looks like the client side library.

Do you still need CouchDB on the backend?

I see from the mailing list it is still a very active project, which surprised me.
Is there data on this?
Their parent company, IAC, has been trying to sell CH for months now. I'm sure they tried shopping around Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. I'm skeptical that Sam on his own will be able to accomplish a more desirable deal than what IAC would've been able to get. (Skeptical, but hopeful.)
I'll expand this statement a bit.

All sources of information today may provide false, biased, or limited data which is used by the source to subvert the will of the person receiving the information.

Therefore, an operational and well trained bullshit filter is critical for anyone living in modern society.
In Materialistic you can hit the red round button that appears bottom right of the screen. That way you can zoom. It won't help you much with this article, but it can be handy sometimes.
> It would be easy to build an app that alarms when the battery becomes disconnected (i.e. someone walks away with your stuff).

Wait what? How does this work?
Life, only on earth as far as we know, has previously found a way. Much less catchy, much more accurate.
It's not quite at the level of Japan, but Aftenposten, which is a newspaper in Norway, conducted a test [1] (translation [2]) in Oslo where they "lost" 20 wallets. 15 eventually returned.

Personally I've lost my wallet twice and it has been returned both times.

It is nice to be able to trust your fellow citisens somewhat :)

[1] https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/zlOb/slik-gikk-det-da-a...

[2] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Do you think this claim is specific to TS/GraphQL? I've heard it from devs well before either existed.
Even tiny parties use eTickets over here. I looked one providor up. It uses Eventix.io
My comment wasn't supposed to be an argument against that. I agree, it should be fully reversible.
There have been entire TV shows build around the premise of not paying a cent with "borrowed" cars, clothes, etc. . Hell there are millions lost by people ordering clothes on Amazon and sending them back when they don't like them. Tesla stands out badly if it cannot even offer doing so one time.
Specialized video system used to observe sharks in very secluded areas
Perhaps, but trespassing and getting complained about is something that can happen fairly easily to a homeless person.

As a young (housed) person I once called the cops on a person sleeping soundly in the exterior stairwell of my apartment complex - a thoughtless decision on my part that I now regret. The cops who responded were unnecessarily brutal: kicking him awake, then demanding he stand against a wall and spread his legs to be frisked (when there wasn't any reason to suspect a weapon). The trespasser was compliant and meek throughout, but the cops nonetheless spoke roughly to him. I later asked myself why I had been so naive as to expect any other outcome. Since then I've learned better.

And this was in Seattle, where cops are reputedly much gentler than many other places.
Maybe i don't understand... what restrictions exist on multiple property ownership?
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Busting through NAT is really easy... The car could just ping home and open the tunnel by itself when it sees the appropriate signal.
"You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality." - Rob Brezsny
Totally. You have to work in Health IT to know just how fucked it is. Before being in the industry I was convinced it was low quality, shitty tech people.

In reality it’s massive monolithic slow moving orgs that data block, create black boxes, have poor documentation, and just generally don’t want to move forward.

Specifically I’m referring to EHR vendors and other legacy systems. Not necessarily providers or even payers.
$530 a month is like 85% of rent where I live in the midwest. I mean if I could only get healthcare through the marketplace, I would be better off working part time or not at all collecting unemployment and food from pantries than I would be essentially putting all my extra income toward health insurance.
I've found that "micro-reuse" is usually more successful. Break big components into smaller components. If a large-scale abstraction fails to fit, then one can probably still use some of the sub-components.

Design them in a way that the sub-components can be used stand-alone when needed. It may take time (experience) to tune such: your first attempt at a given component abstraction will probably be clunky.
Fwiw I found it hard to read as well (not dyslexic)