skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, it doesn't matter, carbon doesn't care about your rhetorical exercises. We're heading towards an extinction event and once this realization reaches critical mass, it's going to get ugly.
Yes, I realize that all companies crave predictable revenue, but only snide academics classify that as boring.

If you ask me, most PhD topics are hopelessly narrow and overfocused, if only because that's the only way to finish them in a decent amount of time. That's boring to me.
I'm pulling in trips (when does an agent leave, where do they depart from and go to, what mode of transport do they use) from https://www.psrc.org/activity-based-travel-model-soundcast, which is a very fancy model that uses land use, census, vehicle counts, etc. This is the most realistic data that's public, from what I've found.

Map data comes from OpenStreetMap. Aside from the problems I mentioned with inferring good geometry for some intersections, it's pretty solid.

Drivers in A/B Street have to find parking, and walk between buildings to parked cars. So the amount of on- and off-street parking in an area is pretty important; there might be lots of congestion in the sim if I don't know about parking. I'm inferring on-street from http://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/bloc..., which is extremely inaccurate, and I have no data source yet for private parking attached to individual buildings.

Until I have some of this data, calibrating the sim against reality is pretty tough.
We have used Apple Music for over a year, and it works great for our use case “I want to listen to song by such and such” — with kids you do a lot of repeat plays.

Integration with Echo devices was a nice plus, but we had been gifted a Google Home which does not play Apple Music.

People rave about Spotify, so we took the plunge. It did link with my Google Home and Echo devices.

Everything else was disappointing. The interface was fine, but seemed to not work as well, there were no lyrics and we found many artists just missing.

But the worst was Alexa integration, we would ask for some mainstream song and get some random Muzak cover, no matter how carefully we specified the artist and song.

And CarPlay integration did not allow access to library or song selection.
Well, it depends on what citizenship you have. The point is that if it's expensive in the US now then perhaps in the future it will be cheaper and available elsewhere.
Shopify's growth model relies on bringing people into an app dependent ecosystem. They're not looking to be a one app company. They want users to locked into having many Shopify apps. When people are using mobile sites, the sense of dependency just isn't there. Not to mention it feels terribly inconvenient and the tracking can be stymied.
Defined benifit pensions can utilize the same investments as defined contribution pensions. The actual difference is who gets the surplus from early deaths, either other pensioners or children/charities etc. Equivalent investments are thus safer in defined benifit pensions at least in terms of a safe retirement.

Of course this is all rather dependent on good regulations and equivalent funding. Allow companies to issue dividends or stock buybacks with under funded pensions and you get seriously perverse incentives.
Any way you can add a "choose your amount" box on patreon, or a lower amount? I try to drop micro-contributions with creators via patreon and $15 is above the current budget for something I don't (yet?) make much use of.
What It’s Like Living Without Health Insurance in America (2018)
Oh, I was well aware. I only accepted because this was presented as a one time purchase. The fraud was when they presented the signature pad as your standard payment authorization and then transparently forged my signature on documents I never saw or was made aware of before signing.
I really can't wait until "everyone is doing it" ceases to be an excuse.
Link also exists with r/apple and r/ios (but not r/windows or r/linux).
Agreed, but otherwise no.
Worries about Automation and Manufacturing Job Loss from 1940
Monday.com Is Down
You could have different clients for different kinds of users. But then you would almost certainly have users complaining that they need more than one client to do what they want.
That's still cost at the source and not cost to distribute, though?
You know, dropping f bombs is not a very mature way to engage in discussion.

I agree, though, that it should also become harder to get patents. If a useful invention depends on more than one or, at most, two patents the patents mainly serve as friction to innovation. A corrollary of this is that software patents should not exist. Perhaps there could also be a process where it is asserted that a medicine can only depend on one patent. Whenever it depends on more than one it should be adjudicated which of them is the innovative one and the other ones should not apply. This will solve the cross licensing problem that you notice.
Simplified Explanation of Linear Regression
This is totally on my radar. I want to compile to wasm and target WebGL. I'm using https://github.com/glium/glium/ to target OpenGL on Windows, Mac, and Linux right now. I've been meaning to check out https://github.com/grovesNL/glow/, which also supports WebGL.
One of the selling points for Kindle is that if you switch devices partway through (e.g. switch from reading on your tablet to reading on your phone, or switch from reading the ebook to listening to the audiobook in your car), it remembers what page you're on, so you can resume exactly where you left off.

Amazon actively touts this "Whispersync" feature in their marketing. (From the Kindle product page: "With Whispersync, switch from Kindle to the Kindle app without losing your place (requires Wi-Fi).") One would presume that Amazon achieves this by tracking whenever readers tap the screen to advance to the next page. (And having a timestamp for that tap matters for resolving merge conflicts.)

Also worth noting that in the case of Kindle Unlimited (Amazon's "Netflix for ebooks" program), authors get paid per page read. (If a person reads the first 5 pages of your book and drops it, the author gets paid less than if they read the whole thing.) One of the things that Amazon has to deal with is fraud prevention, to detect when authors are finding ways to game metrics: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/11/notorious-kindle-unlimited...
The country of business is pretty important, but the point I'm making has less to do with that and more to do with control over a country's TLD.
Yeah, it depends on the circumstances though. We were unable to start a fire once using freaking flares and lighter fluid. Everything was just too wet.

That said, I agree with OP(s) post, in general. A fire isn't really that difficult to make with the right tools (a flint would be great) "Friction fires" are indeed much more difficult, but if it's important to you, it's relatively easy to learn.

Also, once you get a good fire going, there are ways to mitigate these issues. Coals can be re-used, and wood can be dried. This is basic wilderness survival. I wouldn't necessarily count on an encampment running out of wood. Some areas have (or at least had) plenty.

So the question of whether a fire is easy to make isn't really a yes/no thing. It depends on your access to materials and level of experience.
I would be very surprised if certain agencies wouldn't have a nice search box for any content on ProtonMail (as it is for Gmail, etc if we believe Snowden).

Remember Lavabit.
I've been working on a video editor (https://phot-awe.com), for more than 1.5 years.

Biggest challenge has been speed: first proof of concept was a prototype that was kinda' slow (C#/WPF/Windows). I've re-written it using the lowest level possible stuf from WPF, and that took me a looot (roughly 3-4 months, to also make it easy to extend/modify). That was an improvement of roughtly 3-4 times, but for non-trivial stuff, it was too slow (and especially saving the final video was insaaaanely slow). So, I did another rewrite in UWP, and this took another 4+ months.

Now, I'm really happy about the speed - it's 3-4 times faster than before, and at saving, it's 10-12 times faster.

In order to make it happen, I've worked insane hours (and still am) - but that's that. Right now (the following 2 months) I'm focusing on stability and some improvements. Hope to have apretty cool new feature ready in roughly 3-4 months, and we'll see.

Challenges: countless, probably I could write a book ;)

1. Parsing existing videos - in WPF that was insanely hard, and it took me a lot of time to come up with a viable solution (which when porting to UWP, I ended up throwing away)

2. Estimates - I was pretty good at estimating how long a task would take. But due to the fact that everything was new to me (basically, animating using low level APIs was close to undocumented), so pretty much everything took 4-5 times more than I expected. This was soooo exhausting and depressing, since at some point I just stopped estimating, because I knew it would take me longer.

3. Changing the UI due to user feedback - basically, I ended up redesigning 80% of the UI to make it easier to use. What I thought would take me 1 week, ended up taking me 1+ months.

4. Tackleing everything at once: trying to implement a new feature, while dealing with bugs people would find or dealing with issues that would come up when trying to implement the feature. And dealing with issues that came up from the photographers I collaborate with (those that create the app's effects/transitions).

5. Porting to a new technology (UWP/WinRT). This is something that I hope I never have to do again - I was forced to do it, because of the speed gains. I had to reimplement / retest every control I initially developed - that's one thing. The other one is dealing with the idiocracy of WinRT - which loves async stuff / and also loves limitations. Also, the UWP documentation is soooo bad compared to WPF - and there are very few resources, because most people are put off by it (not going to go into detail as to why, that's another book I could write). Not for the faint of hearted.
6. Compilation times - on the old technology (WPF), everything was insanely awesome. On UWP, compilation times are roughly 6 times slower. That is baaaaaaaaad. I'm doing all sorts of workarounds to make things faster.
After not using C++ for 15+ years , looking at it now makes my eyes bleed.
Fantastical calendar moves to a subscription model
> This is very common, everyone is doing it

If everyone pushed their customers off a bridge should Amazon, too?
> a bit flipping in an HDD from electromagnetic radiation or an SSD from electron leakage will not be caught by a journal

Isn't that what the scrubbing process is for? My understanding was that RAID is keeping parity bits to make sure bitrot hasn't happened and it periodically scrubs and repairs when bits do rot. Is the difference that ZFS scrubs in real-time?

Sorry if I'm being dense here, but I did a fair amount of reading about this, and I'm trying to understand what I'm missing.
Fantastical 2 was a great app and if you didn't mind paying about $25 for each platform separately, you got a great app worth the money. Now, the greediness of Flexbits reached another level and they are releasing Fantastical 3 which is basically Fantastical 2 costing you $40 / year... Even there is some grandfathering offer for the current Fantastical users seems to be very unhappy by this move.
Yes x100. Or press the 3 dots. Finding the repeat function is unnecessary testing. Each time.
> Other than health, energy and willpower, I suspect it has some solid psychological benefits

Wait, are we just supposed to take it for granted that there are any health benefits (submitted article provides none)? (As for willpower - that's kind of tautological...)
Good for them. Maybe if we fixed the patent system (government enforced monopoly) we'd be in a similar position.
Sadly, this sort of public PR campaign is surely related to an internal PR campaign. Often followed by a declaration of Totally Amazing Success, shortly after which the person who led the campaign will use the victory to move to a higher position, possibly at a new company.
"You have no available activity to show at this time."

Qubes OS with disposable VMs helps!
You're conflating ecofascism with activists who know that neoliberal tinkering with carbon taxes is a recipe for failure.
Following up on the "bombs and guns and explosives" comment:
1) protonmail should not be guilty in the same sense the bus drivers that drove the two buses where two terrorists rode, should also not be guilty
2) to orchestrate an attack it takes "a long time", you need plenty of money, guns/ explosives, you need the training, you need the storage, you need the know-how..

there are so many steps in that process where someone can be busted.. also keep in mind that most terrorist organisation are already infiltrated, and the "agents" are just waiting for the right time to bust them (not too early so they have enough evidence/they learn more about the connections/ resources) and not so late that there is a chance for the attack to go through.

This is why London attacks wete effective, it was lone wolves.

Every time I see in the news that "a bomb failed to go off and X arrests were made" I feel that the 3-letter-agencies gave "them" playdoh instead of <insert explosive>.
Is the Fama-French Model Dead?
In the unlikely event that Fuchsia ever makes it out without being strangled by the rest of the Android organization, or someone high-up waking up and taking a look at it (eye of mordor style)... absolutely nothing? For the next 5-10 years at least as Android devices are slowly replaced in the marketplace with Fuchsia through device turnover rates alone. You think Android version upgrade stats are abysmal today? And you want to replace the whole base OS? Good luck with that.
Hi, I am also working with the Mender project and we have been in touch earlier.

The device support for mender-convert will be drastically widened (actually, there will not be any limit as such) in the Mender 2.3 release, beta ETA in a week or two and final in March. But you can already test it with the development branch today: https://docs.mender.io/development/devices/debian-family

There will also be stock converted images for the most common development boards.

Let us know what you think!
> serious question - does a profitable private passenger railroad company that actually owns/maintains tracks, stations, etc exist without subsidies anywhere at all in the world?

Hong Kong, Japan. But my point is narrower than that. I’m not saying governments in general cannot run decent train service. I’m saying Americans cannot. We’re culturally defective in that respect.

> even if the trains were self driving, for the 10y or so I lived there before this, there was still a conductor, so not sure if this is really a good argument..

They had a conductor for safety. But the self driving trains made the ride very smooth and allowed tighter headways. Even after 10 years, Metro conductors cannot properly stop at stations. To avoid overshooting the platform, they stop way short, and then jerkily inch into position. When I was growing up, headways on the orange line were 6 minutes and the WMATA trip planner was accurate. Today, it’s 8 minutes, because they can’t sustain the 6 minute headways. And they had to revise the trip planner a few years ago to increase the predicted travel time between stations. If you look at Metro advertising from the 1980s, station to station trip times today are 30-50% longer.
Thank you for the suggestion!

I think when I created this tool there was no recommendations on reddit.

When it was introduced later on reddit I was contemplating about using reddit's own recommendations, but at that time it was missing a few smaller subreddits, so I just put it of onto the shelf of projects to try.
Ninth Circuit’s LinkedIn Decision Does Not Greenlight Scraping
Most emojis are automatically stripped out. Apparently that one isn't.

Edit: just tested, 🧐 is let through but others are not.
And I do take advantage of these benefits when I can do that easily, such as with a plain, DRM-free format. I'm just not going to use invasive DRM-based platforms that come with these blatant privacy concerns.
Without synchronous view layout, it's not really possible to have a truly recycling view without many warts. We've (Wix) been hacking at this for years, and it's not possible. You either block the UI or view flash for the user if fast enough scrolling is performed.

Facebook engineering promised synchronous layout will come at some point, which will open the door to that.
I'm curious how entities like https://www.omdbapi.com/ can continue their activity, get $$$ and not get shut down.
That just raises more questions. Are these "newer formulations" a meaningful improvement over everything else (in particular those for which patents have expired) created during the past 97 years, as opposed to ploys to maintain IP? The tactic involved here is using regulatory capture, near monopoly control of supply and IP law to limit what is available for prescription use to expensive products.
You can, you just can't publish it on the appstore.
I’m using an old Asus netbook as a home server. I installed Xubuntu and now I use it as a Docker host for Plex, a torrent server, and other projects. It works surprisingly well!
I've sen quite a few quotes around that very point, similar to "You'll get the teacher you need when you need them" or

"You'll read it again and understand it on a whole different level" or

"The people in your life are there because you need them now. Don't mourn the loss of an acquaintance, it's because you don't need their lesson anymore"
>You just lose playlist and ratings

Yes, so peanuts (most people don't even use ratings according to some article I've read - it's for the OCD music nerds, not the millions who just listen to hits and might or might not add some playlists - of which they don't really obsess over).

>Except Apple cripples features of the Kindle app (you cannot buy books through the app because if you did, Apple would demand a 30% cut that represents all of the Amazon profits) that are not crippled in Apple's own offering.

That would be Amazon's crippling it, as it's their choice. They could pay that 30% cut. They themselves demand a 65% cut from authors and publishers at worst case, and 30% (same as Apple) at best.

And again, both very ho-hum example of barriers to move platform.

If stuff like "I'll lose my playlists" is what prevents someone from leaving Apple, then that's the most open walled garden ever...
Whenever I see new C++ features I'm all the more impressed with how Zig manages to provide capabilities similar to -- and at least as powerful as -- type templates, value templates, constexprs, concepts, and conditional compilation (preprocessor), with a single feature and keyword, without any type/template-level programming, a preprocessor or AST macros (i.e. mini-languages different from the ordinary computation language that one has to learn and can make code quite opaque), all in a language that is about as simple as C and can be fully learned in a day or two.
React Native apps do not use web technologies.
Your setup won't save you from e.g. bad cables silently corrupting data, or drives simply returning bad data, etc. etc.

Btw, journaling has nothing to do with integrity, though I believe it is checksummed these days.
Nope. This used to be quite common in the 80s (you would run a public fund, and allocate losing positions to pension funds) but doesn't happen today.
I'm working on an automation app https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp to make automation accessible to non technical people. I used something like that called tinytask back in time on windows (mostly to play automatically my Asphalt 8 airborne races :p) but when I switched to linux I noticed that nothing like that exist, so this is aimed to address that. Right now the practical use I saw is for automating live demos during conferences for example.
I really don't like overcast : ( I've tried to switch several times, especially since the podcast redesign and I just can't.
> Do you think you represent most people?

I've seen poor push notification quality increase uninstall and churn rates. I think the lesson is that many people are quickly annoyed with push notifications.
Sorry that was vague - Waiting for a call from an insurance company that's nationwide and I have no idea what number they'll be calling from, so it's not just a matter of screening for a certain area code, which is forcing me to answer and talk to scammers instead of just ignoring all incoming calls like usual.
vardbg is for Python, so rr isn't very helpful.

However, you could use RevPDB: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/07/reverse-debugging-for-...
It would be prudent to not be judgemental off of one sentence, particularly because the author was discussing something else.

Apple music has a station (radio) feature, which you can start from a song or album. It functions similarly to spotify's radio feature and is not what the author was talking about.

Apple's "radio" tab, not feature, shows you an advertisement for Beats 1 taking up half of the screen, then "recently played" taking up 30% of the screen, then things like "upcoming shows" and "broadcast radio". After a lot of scrolling, there is an alphabetical list of genres. I find almost all of this fairly irrelevant (I already have a podcasts app, as does apple), and the one thing I would expect to see ("Recommended for you") is absent. Is it so hard to give me some recommended stations before all of that other stuff?

Compare this to spotify's homepage which shows me music categories I actually listen to, and six daily playlists made for me which all reference different categories I listen to and make playlists of.

Compare these screenshots of apple music's radio tab [0] and spotify's homepage [1]. Spotify at least attempts to show me relevant content, unlike apple. So in ~6 months of usage I haven't used either of those tabs.

The author also makes actual points in the next sentence and the rest of the article.

edit: apple music does have "For you" tab, I had a brainfart when writing this. I originally compared it to the middle tab, which is "Browse" I think? (둘러보기 in Korean).

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/Pa6PKdM.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/DRCSOw5.jpg
I am always wondering what the difference is between writing three differents targets, iOS, Android and Web using RN (even Flutter is a better choice imho).

Basically you want to share the business logic between them. You still need to spend time to write UIs for iOS and Android which following interaction paradigms of the platform.

Personally, I can't stand iOS apps that look like Android.

Currently, I am happily working on a project where I write all the business logic in Swift and share between the web app (WebAssembly) and the iOS and Android app. The only bit that I customise is the UI part. I quite enjoy this approach.

(I have to admit for me writing native mobile app in JavaScript/TypeScript feels wrong. Guess, I don't like that language enough)
You won't die. I fully immersed myself in the Arctic Ocean at Barrow, Alaska, which was about at 0 C, and the air temperature at the time was about 2 C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkOVKu7Mvb4
Coding at early ages provides life-long benefits
> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?

Even if web scraping was definitively legal (this preliminary injunction doesn't mean that), that doesn't mean you can bypass the content creator's copyright. Non-copyrightable functional data is one thing, but copying all of Reddit, for example, would include copying https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/ and that would definitely be violating the rights of the authors.
You people all still use Facebook in 202? Yikes... hackernewsflash: You are the problem.
Software RAID doesn't work in linux with SSDs?

Remember that motherboard RAID isn't RAID if your motherboard dies. You might as well do software RAID.

Edit: Oh right, probably TRIM problems.