skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there was a viable competitor phone. The choice is iPhone or some flavour of Android. Even if Android had E2E encrypted backups, it leaks is so many other unpleasant ways that it's not even a choice.

For me it's a vote for less tracking, or at least less invasion. It's not saying it's perfect or even close. There's a ton of things I'd change on iOS if I could.

So yeah, I 'vote' Apple because the alternative is a dumb feature phone.
The Future of Blazor Is Native Apps
This isn't a pre-canned response. I'm not arguing for or against the current tax regime. Here is the theory: Assume a normal corporate tax rate of 20%. If a company makes $100 of profit it will have $80 of after tax profit. Let's just be very simple an say that $80 of retained profit makes the value of the company increase by $80 and no dividends are paid. When you go to to sell that stock assuming you hold it long-term then you pay another 20% capital gains tax on the $80 profit so now you are at $64 of after tax profit as an investor from the original $100.

Compare that to $100 of income taxed at 35%. You end up pretty much the same place of $65 retained earnings. Prior to the Trump corporate tax cuts (which no I don't agree with before I am downvoted again as a right-wing corporate shill) the difference of double taxation was more stark. At a 35% corporate tax rate and then a 20% short term gains tax the double taxation led to an effective tax rate around 50% on investment profits.

One can argue the tax code should disfavor capital income vs. labor income etc but that is a different matter.
It didn't block me, and I don't have a Medium account. Firefox 72 on Linux, ublock origin, Germany.
Twitter didn't told me more, but at least I found https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ although it's way less comfortable to read.
Looks like there is no availability at all from now until at least a few months in the future, so most likely the owner blocked off all the time to lay low for awhile.
How We Implemented Idempotency in a Billing System at Scale
1. Nameless icons in the bar of most visited pages.

2. Folders of topic/ project specific info pages.

3. 'Reading List' Chrome extension for one offs and things I want to come back to.

Biannual pruning of the folders.
It does kind of look like a joke doesn't it? A demo/how-to masquerading as a shop page.
Don't sell things from untrusted random individuals. End the marketplace program and commingling.
Ftcode ransomware is now armed with browser, email password stealing features
Analysis Paralysis – A Common Issue for Product Managers
A common issue many Product Managers and teams face: "Analysis Paralysis". This question was submitted by Ray Wu, a brilliant YC Alumni. He asked me about my thoughts on a common issue many Product Managers and teams face: "Analysis Paralysis".

http://www.heyitslloyd.com/Analysis-Paralysis.html
Yes, bash scripts have their places like running a repeating task on a machine but deploying an environment on multiple machines is exactly what Ansible is intended for.
Cove is hiring engineers to reimagine the workplace
That's excellent, and I'm very happy to learn this. Thank you.
Omnieq: Credit Spread Scanner
I put them in Evernote together with other notes and papers and stuff, and it's searchable there.

For dynamic content I save a bookmark, but for various articles and posts I can save the whole readable content which is nice, because otherwise if I want to follow up a five year old bookmark there's a good chance that it's gone now.
Google (and related services, such as youtube) allows you to use before:YYYY-MM-DD and after:YYYY-MM-DD to only show results that were created before or after a certain date.
Shareware is back :D
That's an interesting study, but it appears to only study the plants' ability to filter out a few VOCs. HEPA filters won't help with those (you need an activated charcoal filter for that... or plants, I guess?), but they will help with particulates, and I'm not sure plants will do anything for those.
Viewing FICO Scores Spurs Better Financial Habits
No, by that logic Russia or someone else would hesitate to attack Germany because of the US airbase. Just like the EU and the US hesitated to defend Crimea because of Sevastopol.
yea but a bunch of stuff is a ton cheaper and we actually have enough housing... fuck city planning
I use a box fan with filters taped to each side. You want to do both sides or the air gets pushed/pulled around the edges of the blades, rather than going through the filters.
Ubisoft sues operators of four DDoS-for-hire services
oh wow my first HN reply! :)

this has been discussed previously: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/263

and here: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/157

I will put it to my priority todo list for the weekend :)

thank you!
Please stay off my systems.
If you deploy broken software that runs your business, no one has to wonder about any of the functions any more.
Stop commingling inventory. At the very least, stop commingling third party and Amazon inventory so that if I order an item that is "sold by Amazon.com" I can be reasonably sure I'm not going to get a counterfeit item.
I did the same thing on my upcoming mixtape, except I'm using Logic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They're royalty-free for a reason.
I use slack to manage bookmarks. I was using Toby Chrome plugin, but after 1000 bookmarks, its search is really slow. Slack is awesome for personal use because you can easily search for links you written, and organize with new channels. Discord may be a better alternative, because there is no limit to how many messages you have.

I agree with monkeynotes that you have to be mindful on how much time you spend collecting bookmarks, I felt consumed at one point and unproductive because you skim, you save, and you find other links to the original link you are saving. Probably set a time limit to how long you spend.
https://outline.com/wMXGZf
Of course; ditto any vacuum cleaner, AC with filtration, etc.

It's just airflow + filter, which is why DIYing them is so popular.
For the time you spent typing this comment you could have created a return and had UPS come pick up your package or in my experience, Amazon wouldn't have even required you to return the item and would have just sent you a replacement.

Also, I see your rationale and think you are really missing the point. You may have a small hourly rate of $60 and use that as justification but its complete garbage. I do better than that and I work with guys who literally make 10's of millions a year. Taking a preventable loss that only requires a phone call or a chat is foolish, even if it is $7.00.
Wait 10 years, I'm 51 and it looks great ;-)
Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics
Why is it always Medium that's blamed for this but not mainstream news websites? I'm pretty sure I've been paywalled by sites like NYT yet people keep posting links to them.
One could argue that you live on forever in memories and historical accounts.
Actually a lot of people point out that Amazon abuses it's storefront data as market research for it's own first party products on a scale nobody else can match. (And then, in turn, gives its first party products better placement in the store, to then crush the competition.)

The difference is, Amazon hasn't demonstrated a massive desire to collect and use health data, and fundamentally, isn't an ad company.

The other thing you're forgetting is that Google regularly changes the terms of the agreements it makes. When it bought DoubleClick, it swore that DoubleClick would never be able to access people's Google account data and that there would be a clear firewall of ad personalization information. Up until they changed their terms of service so that they could: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...

Google literally embodies the classic "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further." Just because they claim they won't abuse the health data they are zealously collecting today doesn't mean they won't change their mind tomorrow.

An ad company should not be allowed to hold your health data.
Here's an outline link, also works in private tab for me.

https://outline.com/wMXGZf
A rewrite that small is a refactor.
Just back up on your pc and select encrypt and not use iCloud, but that is a huge hassle
Credit Karma in particular has been awesome for me to get in control of my financial life, I do wonder if that (and other similar services) have made a meaningful difference in the U.S.
Man, what is that headline font?
I have no interest in deciding things for random internet strangers.
LOL. Isn't that exactly the reason why you want a Purifier .
systems like this can build starting points for composers

They are. See for example http://aiva.ai
Combine that with "Red, Green, Refactor" (write failing tests, fix code refactor) and we have another pair for the list of mutually contradicting proverbs.
Getting rid of the entire marketplace, which is more than half their sales, just to stop a relatively small counterfeiting issue seems overkill to me, but you're entitled to your opinion.
Yes but the large array needs to allocate that memory already.
Plausible, but not necessarily true.

Our fifth and sixth babies miscarried. Our seventh had his second birthday the other week, and it's still really hard for me to finish typing this comment and post it.
Betting companies given access to UK gov't information on millions of children
We need a “Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously designed title fonts.”
True, the body and the brain both rot and die. However, whether there is something beyond that that lives on, or not, is something that we are truly qualified to comment on only after we die, however scientific one may try to be.
So not even photos are E2E encrypted? Nor Voice Memos, notes... nothing that is not written in the second list?
Citrix rolls out patches for critical ADC vulnerability exploited in the wild
Microservice architectures, if you have the organizational scale to support them, are intended to produce services that can be rewritten and replaced.

I've actually done this on purpose, by getting a v0 API into production quickly (1 week), then getting a v1 with all the bells and whistles out with sufficient time. It completely replaces the the v0 microservice which is a separate deployment.

The first version provided a specific implementation of the functionality for a single, small user population. The full version scales to millions of users, globally. It is still small enough that we could rewrite it, if we had to. The infrastructure is actually harder to produce (as code) than the API functions themselves.

CD pipelines, extensive unit tests, automated smoke tests, automatically configured health monitoring... all of these things make it possible to replace a service with a different implementation that conforms.

It's a hard discipline to get to, but once you're there, it is often more economical to rewrite to move on. I guess that's not the case for the usual kinds of projects. We had to spend a year as an organization to get to the point where this was true. It's usually not worth the cost for small teams to do this.
Every "Agile" shop I've worked in was awful and has been doing it wrong according to Agile fans.

"That wasn't true Agile" is starting to sound about as credible as "That wasn't true Communism."

Best methodology: Self-organizing teams of experienced, expert engineers. Let them develop whatever process works best for the individual team and project.

That requires two things:

1. Hiring the right people.
2. Trusting them.

Most companies aren't willing to do this, so... we get a semi-unstructured form of micro-management hell which goes by the name "Agile." Regardless of whatever that term originally meant, this is what it means now.
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Intro to RealityKit, Apple's new 3D scene rendering framework for AR
To be fair to Apple, if you believe Apples privacy policy, being able to access it, theyliky won’t access it and sell your data to advertising Agencies.
Very informative. Does this imply that Brexit is the rational choice for the UK?
Voting is a very bad way to send a message, especially if it is 'voting with your wallet'.

Its at most 1 bit information, often even less, since it could be a huge number of reasons for each person to vote one way or another, or maybe not vote at all or just random.

You can boycott a company your whole life, and nobody not even the company will care.
> First, Houston has pretty strict zoning laws

Maybe in downtown. Get much outside of the tall buildings (which isn't very far tbqh) and you'll find fast food places, breweries, residences, schools, offices, and shopping centers all within blocks of each other. I honestly think this is generally a good thing.

> the metro system is pretty widely used where it is built out

I live in Houston and I don't get the impression that Houstonians understand where bus stops are (they're "there" but where do they "go" and at what times?). Moreover the only person I know who took the bus had to leave the office prior to a specific time: prior to when the bus route stopped. Otherwise she'd be stranded 15 miles away from her home. Everyone else avoids the bus because they don't want their schedule to be dictated by the public transport system and can't afford the occasional taxi/rideshare.

So in my experience: the metro system is mostly used by poor people and it's mostly not built out very much. There's light rail in downtown but the bulk of public transportation going into downtown from outside the 610 loop is via bus. That's a sliver of people compared to people driving by car.

> is one of the blue-est (and some areas are the red-est, to be fair) cities in the state, with a pretty wide spectrum of political opionons represented in between.

Being "one of the blue-est cities in the state" doesn't mean much when the rest of the state is very bible-belt red outside of Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

And being "one of the blue-est cities in the state" ignores the fact that we're gerrymandered to hell. We're so gerrymandered that we're made fun of on social media. Of course, the mockery usually excludes the fact that the gerrymandering occurred 20 years ago. But it's still a mockery nonetheless.

> 'https://houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/'*

I think there's an issue with Hacker News' autolinking. As-is your link returns 404. Remove your single-quotes and the link works.
Doesn’t that page show everything as end-to-end encrypted, except email messages on the server?

If “backup”, photos, messages, contacts, calendars, iCloud Drive, notes, and safari data (and a few more) are end-to-end encrypted what else is there?
A few years ago, I worked on a rewrite of a system that had been implemented in ColdFusion (yes, a few years ago - well into the 21st century). I can't imagine even Spolsky arguing that it shouldn't have been rewritten at that point.
not really. i'm absolutely addicted to audiobooks[0][1] -- to the point where 95% of all books i consume are audiobooks.

it took me a while to get "used" to them but now i can easily focus on them while doing chores (washing the dishes, walking the dog).

[0]https://i.imgur.com/w1EiD66.jpg

[1]https://i.imgur.com/oFj5fvX.jpg
How the Fight over a Hawaii Mega-Telescope Could Change Astronomy
It didn't ask me to sign in, probably because of ublock origin, but none of the pictures loaded. Crappy platform.
JetBrains Mono – a font for devs made by devs
How much do you charge your customers?
That's a way to allow people to pay more for a slightly lower chance of receiving counterfeit products. It's not a way to reduce counterfeit overall.

As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107150, commingling doesn't significantly affect counterfeiting.

My question above was "What policy do you believe would prevent new sellers from selling counterfeits while still allowing legitimate sellers?". Abolishing the commingling program doesn't do that.
Kill Switch for Crispr Could Make Gene Editing Safer
For sale: baby shoes, never worn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_...
I use libre office spreadsheets. You can export them to xhtml.

One column for the url another for notes. I have about 10 sheets organized by topic. I click on the xhtml file and it opens in the browser and my links are all there.

Very flexible, easy.
I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models
why using WordPad? So much FOSS alternatives without ads.
DID THIS BILL PASS??

It took me a moment to realize CGT was Capital Gains Tax.

Is this per country or summed over all countries? Is it per transaction? If per transaction, this is a pretty massive loophole.
GITS is largely post-cyberpunk, but dips into cyberpunk for ideas. Mostly for it's antagonists. The cyberpunk driver of the post-cyberpunk tank being an interesting take on things, at least.

Clarification for those who don't know. Cyberpunk spun off of a bunch of genres that call themselves $name-punk but ironically ignore the -punk aspect and just replace $name for the name of the technology they replaced magic with in what's otherwise a fantasy story. (Including literally magic as technology.) Because cyberpunk was taken, the cyber version of $name-punk ended up being called post-cyberpunk instead of cyber-steampunk for whatever reason.
Because Medium used to promise it would never do this.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-long-complicated-and-e...
Write out the whole thesis as headers and fill all the sections with Loren ipsums until you have the page count you want. Then, start filling in the real text
That was very much not what I was expecting - I was expecting another attempt at producing a more English-like language which could genuinely be read aloud.

I'm not familiar with APL, but I can imagine that the test process for "how well can this language be read aloud" would be to have someone read out a short program over the phone and measure how long it takes and how many bugs are introduced. I wonder how people would handle significant-whitespace languages over the phone, for example?

(Yes, I know hardly anyone ever does this)
What data structure would be best suited to implementing this set of features?
You're welcome! Please note the "use Revise.jl" part. The includet function is not included in the base language, you need the Revise.jl package.
Just a reminder, Apple ceded control of its iCloud management in China to a state-controlled company, in addition began storing its encryption keys in China in order to "comply with local regulations". So whether or not your backups are encrypted is almost a moot point, given that the government can submit a lawful demand for your data at any time..

Apple will store some iCloud encryption keys in China, raising security concerns
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17052802/apple-icloud-enc...
I don't think so. The hippie movement was a reaction to extremely stiff social norms that are not at all applicable today. We have a lot to thank them for their disobedience to that.

Today, outside of your family and maybe some friends nobody really cares about your drug use or sex life. There are some prohibitions by law, but I doubt these are too relevant.

I often ask myself from which cult people have escaped or how old they are if they indict current society of being restrictive or even suppressing in some way. Frankly, I don't see that at all. Maybe it is a wish, since that would mean that society cares at least somehow.

Maybe I am lucky, but I don't really see restrictive norms anywhere. You see a lot of people not caring though. The internet is no reference here. You can save a puppy from its inevitable demise and certainly someone will be deeply offended by your actions.

> If everybody had sex today tomorrow would be awesome [...]

Always a better tomorrow... but I highly doubt that. Some might crave sex and some might crave intimacy. Anyone bragging in the office about hook ups would be suspected to seeking confirmation. The same is true for males since quite some time. Cultural suppression? I don't think so. Because if you would do that, I think the repercussions would be almost negligible. Some will judge you, but that will happen if you wear the same pants twice. Maybe not a bad choice of fetish, but certainly no fight for more freedom.
I've been using Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku) for some time and I really like it. Allows for tagging, and even visualization. I normally use the web interface, but there are browser extensions and CLI available too.
Not everyone is a young male with minimal obligations to take care of other humans.
Scientists breach brain barriers to attack tumors
"I have work to do, but I'll just check hacker news first... Oh, there's an article about how not to procrastinate... which is great, I'm trying not to procrastinate so much. Let me read that first before I start my work."

Seriously though, I agree with the approach. When starting a talk or writing a design doc, I'll sometimes just start with an outline or half-baked paragraph. From there, writing the rest comes down to filling out areas where more detail is needed, verifying statements, and so on.
I think I've been quite clear that I see significant issues within Boeing and the FAA and that they should be resolved.

If you ignore the shrill media and look at the actual investigative work going on, I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting that the pilots were the sole cause of the MAX issues, and certainly nobody is "blaming" them.

At the same time, I don't know anyone working in aviation who thinks it's 100% a coincidence that the first crashes happened with those two airlines. There are always multiple factors in play.

My personal view on it is: the MAX was a flawed design due to the expectations it placed on pilot training, competency and in particular, instinct in a surprising situation. That's it. The aircraft was still capable of flying if the pilots reacted correctly to the failure, and the reaction was one that they were in theory trained for, but it's not reasonable to expect an average pilot to be able to do that instinctively in the time available.

Talking about "cost-cutting" or whether a certain engineering decision was made to save money is irrelevant, because engineers make trade-offs every day - that's an important part of their job - and every single aircraft flying (yes, including Airbus!) has a design that involves trade-offs, even in safety-related things. For reasons that are now being explored, Boeing's engineers made faulty assumptions when evaluating those trade-offs, probably augmented by pressure to avoid mandated additional training of pilots, and the regulatory oversight didn't catch it, or didn't want to due to being in a too-close relationship with Boeing. Those are the problems that need to be solved on the aircraft side.

I'm sure that given enough time you would have seen MAX crashes from other airlines, but it's no surprise to me that the first crashes (and, in an alternate reality where the MAX continued to fly, likely the majority of the crashes) were with airlines that are well-known in the industry to have lower standards of hiring, training and maintenance. Digging into that might well find some problems that need to be solved on the human side.
It’s also called “we see what you are really doing”
Beyond HN and tech circles, is there any detectable groundswell of demand for privacy? When you talk with friends & family about privacy, does anyone care?

When average people care about privacy, the large players will respond. Until then, pressure from the state can be accommodated without irking customers, so Big Tech will play along.
> so obviously bookmarks also need to store the last viewed site content

Yeah, just save every page you ever open to disk. Just in case. Right? Also sync all of that data on multiple machines. But what if the syncing service disappears some day? Better ask for a self-hosted solution. But a free one. Which saves everything. Just in case anything ever gets lost. How much better life would be then.