skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Samsung Galaxy S turns 10 this year. It runs the latest compatible version of Cyanogenmod. Despite the obvious security drawbacks, I am still using it as my day-to-day smartphone for these reasons:

* These things are seemingly indestructible. In 10 years, the only problems I had was a deteriorating battery (which I replaced once) and a broken back cover (which I replaced by a 2,99 EUR one from eBay). The screen is still unbroken, fully working, and without scratches

* They are small, handy, and slim (thinner than many modern smartphones)

* Browsing is so slow that I cannot do anything except checking Hackernews and reading the local news. So it is definitely not a procrastination tool for me

* The camera still works great, and makes good pictures

* I don't care about security holes. I have no important passwords stored on the phone, I don't use it to check my mail (for the reason above). The only password stored is the ical service password on my private server which is used to update the calendar app. I couldn't care less if anyone had this password, my calendar is really not interesting.

* Osmand (for OpenStreetMap) and the national route planning app for public transit still work

So basically, I have an extremely reliable pocket machine which can be used as a telephone, to send SMS, to do route planning, to check the news, to check my calendar, to provide a Wifi access point for my laptop and which is also a world wide map. I don't need anything else, so why replace it? During these 10 years, I saw my then-girlfriend and now-wife go through 5 new smartphones, which regularly broke. I used it to make pictures of all our vacations, our engagement, our wedding and our child as a new-born. It has accumulated an amount of experience-patina which is very rare for physical things these days, so I also cling to it out of sheer nostalgia.
I think this was truly the most amazing thing about learning Rust. After having experienced the pain (the issues brought up in the linked slide deck) of threads in C, then C++ and Java, it was wild to work with a language that provided some significant safety rails for working with data across threads.

Now async/await gives us even better options on top of that, but it’s truly what made me enjoy the language so much. This article is what resonated with me and got me to invest so much spare time over the last 5 years in working with Rust: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.h...
I use a remarkable tablet[0] in order to mark/highlight/read stuff, and the send to remarkable extension[1] to print pages and pdfs to the tablet.

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Cisco "IOS" with a capital I, the operating system that runs Cisco hardware.
A lot of jobs I have seen recently say a PhD is highly desirable while a Masters is essential. Obviously I don't suggest people start doing a PhD for the money, however I'm surprised to think that you can't out-earn your alternative self with a Masters seeing as the difference in study time is 2 years but you'd be entering industry as an 'expert'. Especially if you target your PhD at something like computational finance, autonomous vehicles, etc.
https://maps.org/research

They don't seem to have any current psilocybin studies, but they do have an MDMA study.
I have heard very good things about Iran and had a friend who was a software developer from Iran. He hated the government/establishment though and had left for good in the 80s.

Friends that have been on expeditions there kayaking and trekking have been shot at and robbed, but but the pictures do look pretty. I did a self supported kayaking trip to the far east of turkey near Erzurum which is pretty near the border and I assume it would be pretty similar. Very friendly people, great food and scenery.
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Their existence doesn't do much to alleviate privacy concerns circling the closed-source bits of the versions of those apps that basically everyone is using, though.

In short, this seems to be one of those spots where all the FSF has is a hammer.
An incredible book. Changed my life.
My daughter is vegan and sometimes I worry about her diet. A diet is what you do eat, how much, when, etc.; but being vegan only tells you what you don't eat.

Surprisingly little about vegan promotional stuff gives practical advice. It's mostly talking about how wasteful meat is and how foolish meat-eaters are.

Where is practical material about daily eating habits? Like, what should an athletic teenager eat, how much, and how often? Preferably with pictures of actual normal daily food, not "here's an arcane recipe requiring twelve ingredients and ten steps that you will eat once and forget about". And preferably with approximate nutritional value.

For adults it's probably pretty easy simply because adults don't need a lot of food to be healthy, and can skip meals without much downside. Adults are also in many ways less busy. A teenager needs food in the morning rushing to school, and probably needs to pack lunch also because there probably isn't a real vegan meal available at school to buy.
I'm not sure why this is getting voted down except for maybe your tone because this is my experience in so many different things. I've worked for several marketing firms in the past and the quickest way into investors' hearts is to pitch them your idea reframed as a combination of things that are already successes. For example, we worked with a video game developer and their pitch was "It's like GTA mixed with Call of Duty" or for TV show pitches it's always "It's like The Good Place meets Dexter" or some permutation of already existing properties. Investors don't ever (or at least almost never) want to go for the risky ideas. They want to go for the things that will make them money and the easiest way to win them over is to compare it to something that's already made money.
My apologies. It’s not exactly like “take this amount and you will experience this trip”. It’s like how one day you may only have a few drinks of alcohol and yet feel way more drunk than other times you’ve drank a lot more. But to roughly answer your question, I had a breakthrough experience on about 5g of magic mushrooms. I’ve also had it on 22g of magic truffles.

By the way, ever since these trips, I can’t enjoy much marijuana in the same way. Marijuana feels like the start of that trip now. It’s very weird.
Bullshit. You just haven't figured out your own personal triggers. Expecting others to solve your problems (doctors, 'therapists', etc) will only teach you a new fiction.
I think you may be misunderstanding. It's a market-wide effect; there's no specific set of people who had an "opportunity to participate".
Do you have a source for this? Driving in city traffic can be frustrating, but I wonder if the antennas you see are for emergency vehicle signal preemption, or serve some other purpose.
> It's the music discovery engine,

Didn't the Music Genome Project / Pandora do this half a decade before Spotify?
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You'd be surprised how many investors simply do not do due diligence at all. There is a lot of dumb money floating around.
Why would you expect downvotes on ZH?

HN is more aligned with ZH than not in the sense that it seems most on here believe the stock market is rigged or a bubble or otherwise not a sound investment.
First, you know that CSAIL is not the media lab, right? Secondly, there’s nothing gimmicky about CSAIL. Perhaps nerds sitting around writing code or proving lemmas on a whiteboard isn’t so “cool” to look at as a high schooler, but that doesn’t mean it’s isn’t an exciting place when you’re old enough, knowledgeable enough, and creative enough to enjoy it.
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That's a small but hugely important distinction that I didn't see disclosed up front.

By that reasoning, the alcoholic who promises "to never drink again!" is on the right track even if he's at the bar drinking right now.
Which thread?
And not just to Windows 7. Enough of Windows 10 runs the same code that it would be more vulnerable. That said, there's no reason to think state actors don't already have the Windows 10 source.
Spotify acquired Echo Nest in 2014. Spotify was already wildly successful at that point, and were latest in a long line of music streaming services that came before them. They also already had recommendations. It was basically an acquihire and most of the team has already left.
Please cite the source of shutting down the internet. As a Chinese, as far as I read only physical movement are prohibited. Many people stay at home play online games now.
Wouldn't this same argument apply to laptops?
Not impossible at all. If you don't trust the https site from which you're curling, first curl it to a file and check it out. Once you're satisfied, run the curl|sh as documented, or run what your already downloaded.
A surface level bunker would be fine. I really don't see why it needs to be deep under ground.
I subscribed to NYT based on the number of interesting articles that get posted here and their consistently high quality.

I won't subscribe to Medium because the quality is very spotty, but I don't mind stories getting linked here. I can check the link first, and it doesn't ruin my day when I hit my Medium limit. If they don't want me seeing their content I'm happy not to waste my time on their site.
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The perniciousness of winky face is on full display here
Zotero is my go-to
> Your proposal would break it an order of magnitude more, easily.

Considering that the vast majority of links die within a few years, that isn't even possible.

> Also keep in mind that domain names are treated as property in most jurisdictions.

That's a policy that can easily be changed.
What other alternatives are there?
There are near-death drives being sold as new by third-party sellers on Newegg and all they'll do is step in and fix your order if you complain.
Very Kafka-esque. The whole thing is so bizarre.
The cbd from hemp is used medicinally as are these shrooms. The recreational use is a complicating factor, but medicinal thc use paved the way fo recreational legality as well. Seeing a state as conservative as TX taking even a tiny step in that direction is surprising. I'm not sure how I feel about it all. Alcohol use is up, THC legalized, nictone use is down. We are legalizing and using soma, things that make us lazy, content and compliant. Shrooms may or may not fall into that category. It might make people "woke".
Hey, I can speak for myself. No need to put words in my mouth. Thanks!

Design aesthetic is different from 'stuff that doesn't work'. I'm reminded of design students that create something that looks like a bicycle out of cardboard layers, and say "See! I've improved the bicycle! It'll change the world!" And what they have is a useless sculpture of a bicycle.

It's plain to most folks, using ordinary bathrooms in ordinary houses that the stuff is laughably awkward, dangerous and hard to clean. Try to explain it away all you like.
Thank you for providing a solid citation on public opinion. As someone who grew up in a heavily Persian neighborhood (mostly Jewish and Baha’i) I was rather surprised to see the number of Iranians who would not want a Jewish neighbor (guess that’s why my neighbors lived in America instead).
One thing to note is that the official policy of Iran is anti-Zionism - not anti-semetism. Jews have a long history in Iran and are afforded special minority rights. (The Baha’i not so much)
- Slack

- Macbooks

- Email, via the G-Suite

- g-suite spreadsheet with what everyone is working on

- realtime analytics via Parse.ly

- Polycom phones and OnSIP

- Wordpress for Content Mgmt (CMS) purposes

- 2FA via Duo for everything, if feasible

The "flow of work" stuff is more interesting, IMO. What's also mentioned -- but I think is critical and needs repeating -- is the ground-up remote approach, which means structuring things like that from the start, as opposed to a lot of orgs which are slowly turning remote, but still stuck in their old ways. I've been remote for five years now, and only one company had that approach, which was great. (their pay was not, however, so I jumped)

In particular this point:

> "Making a remote office feel like a remote office requires a sense of presence. For most people, feeling like you’re at work, even if your bedroom is just down the hall, makes a big mental difference."
cross-platform, yes?
Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'
As a US national, I trust China to spy on me far more than the US government.

China couldn't kidnap me - they'd get huge political repercussions from the US. China kidnapping me on US soil would be very risky for them too.

On the other hand, the US could totally imprison me on bogus charges constructed from spy data.

If I was a Chinese national living in China, all of the above would reverse.
The Windows Mail and Calendar Apps Were Written Using React Native
I've worked on a fully-remote team for over 5 years now and everything in this article is exactly on point. Constant communication (we also use Slack) is important. So is voice communication, since text breaks down really quickly if things are getting heated. Wearing appropriate clothing also helps... I found it hard in the beginning because I'm still wearing my pajamas and my Xbox is right over there. Getting dressed and having a dedicated work space really helped get me into the mindset. If you don't have space for a fully separate office, a separate desk or even separate tools can provide that little bit of mental differentiation. I have a work laptop and a personal laptop, and my work laptop has a keyboard and mouse that are only used for my work laptop. The two computers share the same desk, but I know when my work keyboard is sitting in front of me, it's professional time. I have to move my work keyboard out of the way to get to my personal laptop, which signals the ending of professional time.

I've also found that face-to-face is necessary sometimes. I work with clients, and sometimes things can get hairy on a project. Over email or even on a phone call, sometimes it's easy to forget that the person on the other end is a human being with their own hopes and dreams and life and desires. Getting to see them in real life, having little moments of downtime where you're on a coffee break and just chatting about life, those are important. That's easy to miss in a remote job, and it leads to a lot of stress.

Also something I didn't think of when I started working remote... the constant letters from my electric company about how I use more electricity than a normal house. Because normally people aren't home all day with lights and heat/AC and computers running.
We couldn't make it to do popular section with more than 220 votes
Today we launched out product on PH and we have more than 220 upvotes. But still we cloudn't make it to popular section. We reach to PH team but they don't provide reasonable answer. Is there anyone who knows what may cause that? Or PH don't play fair at all?

Here is our product.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/image4io-full-stack-image-management
Why Market Timing Can Be So Appealing
> It is 100% correct, based on the evidence they provide.

This is very wrong. The "evidence" they provide is nonexistent. The ZH link is typical ZH garbage. A bunch of assertions without basis with a few misconstrued quotes thrown in.
Whatever source code that might add is pretty small compared to what is already on Github, which Microsoft owns.
Fascinating, so China will be the #1 supporter of open source software?

All their code must be open sourced, in order to win foreign contracts. And all it took was a little trade war.
I downvoted for equating anti-Israel sentiment with anti-semitism. There are lots of other reasons to dislike Israel.
You're not wrong, but there's more than one side to this ledger. Often times, imported things are cheap in a large part because they have massive externalities. China, for example, can manufacture cheap goods because they have less strict environmental protections than the U.S. The "free market" has always struggled to account for the exploitation of our commonwealth. I think we're at a point in history where we're having to confront that fact, and the solution isn't an easy one.
You can do that with most executable formats: MZ/NE/PE (DOS, Windows), ELF (Linux, BSD). Not sure about mach-o (macOS) though.
I think any contributions are be welcomed.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

> Many apps allow people to shake the device to undo and redo certain operations, such as typing or deleting. When initiated in this manner, an alert asks the user to confirm or cancel the undo or redo operation.
It’s not a scheme. It’s how you pay for research that’s on the edge enough to not be a viable grant, because grants are all about incrementalism.
Tried to display a web demo, some custom diagramming, and a PowerPoint on conference room screen from the laptop. Unable to use the enterprise guest WiFi due to their security proxies, and the hotspot was too slow. Popped the same USB-C HDMI adapter in the iPad, and showed all the content over LTE.

Seems like a great argument for buying a Windows laptop with built in LTE, and/or pressuring Apple to add LTE to MacBooks.
That presumes constant growth of desktop computers (/computers running desktop OSes.) What if it's just mobile growing at the expense of desktop generally? I know that in e.g. education, computer labs have been replaced with carts full of tablets.
Well, my own prediction is a) that we will mitigate climate change and b) it will not be through any of the activism methods being pursued today. The reason we will succeed is because we are, luckily, converging on market incentives which will (as a side effect) fix climate change. Specifically, it seems likely that the next iteration of technology startups focused on energy should be able to create products that are both clean and radically reduce energy costs, and hence will be in-demand by the global markets. For example, small nuclear reactors, or solar products. These will be easily exportable, and as such will cause a virtuous cycle of iteration and innovation.

In retrospect, the advocacy of regressive policies like "everyone should fly less" will be just another chapter of the long serious of luddites thinking the only solution to problems is to reverse technological progress in the face of new, unexpected problems raised through the continual growth of the global economy.
I suffer from the same issue. I use KOReader, which does do sync, but uses its own zsync protocol, which basically nothing else supports.

I use Kybook 2 on my iPad. I think Calibre supports syncing with Kybook 3, so you could try that.

If you really want highlight syncing etc, it might be worth migrating to a Kindle-first workflow? But PDFs aren't there.

Why is this so hard :( Why can't everything use a standard progress sync protocol? (KOReader's is at https://github.com/koreader/koreader-sync-server)
I always wonder if we could heat large blocks of salt in the desert with mirrors and then make power at night extremely expensive. Cable it all up with huge direct power cables... once the infrastructure is built sure this becomes nearly free energy?
> What is stopping me from ...

The law, presumably. You need a license to re-distribute the Qt binaries, because you are not the copyright holder of them. You may have access to use them yourself, for your job, but you do not own the IP nor do _you_ have a license to re-distribute copies without royalty.

What you're proposing would be akin to borrowing copyrighted books from a library and uploading scans of those books, which would be copyright infringement.
Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift
Best green wave I have ever experienced is going north on 10th ave in NYC. You can drive for 100 blocks without stopping if there isn't too much traffic and you time the lights correctly.
God I hate the multitasking, all I ever did with it was accidentally open Safari links in a new window I couldn’t get rid of instead of open them in a new tab when I mis-tapped. I turned that right off about a day after updating.
There are conflicting reports about this. Some people with latent mental illnesses can have them triggered by psychedelics. But there are plenty of people who anecdotally report being able to deal with past trauma through them.

It's impossible to predict how you'd react, but it sounds like you're looking in the right direction. Find a safe, professional place, and start small. You definitely don't want to start with a high dosage.
> 1 & 2 are political decisions, fueled by "nucleophobia".

You say nuclear isn't dangerous because of all the safety measures, yet here you're qualifying those safety measures as mere overreaction.
It means continue buying and holding broad market index funds because the dollar’s value will be sacrificed to prop up equity’s (stocks, land, etc) value.
The article talks about two different things:

1) Whether the iPad is revolutionary, and how in this respect it compares to the iPhone and the Mac.

2) iPad’s split-screen UX

The two are not linked in a casual relationship imho. I personally never use split screen on my Mac (and of course on my iPhone), but this has not precluded it from being a device I use almost every waking hour.

So to address the first point, the reason the iPad is not as revolutionary is because being in the middle of the two revolutionary products, it’s shares the pros and cons of both, in a way that negates each other. So the iPad is not small enough to be truly portable, but not big enough to be the perfect work horse. It will never have the same success and impact on the world, no matter its UX.
In my life I must have written at least a few million lines of code. Probably more. How many of those lines have been explicitly multithreaded? A few thousand lines, at most.
What concerns me:

2008 Crash and how US Fed handled it means that they have to
pump money into stock market for the next 30 years(20 left) until all the mortgages that they hold fully unwind. What could go wrong?

Well, the US Fed track record for such strategies being successful over 30 years is vacant as it never has been done before!

ie at least our problem with real estate-homes outpacing income gets worse
Doesn't Lilypond already do this?
Colorizing stderr: racing pipes, and Libc monkey-patching
The problem here is that the hassle-free alternatives exist and are open to entities for which another namespace has been designated in the first place.
Eh, I run Linux on my laptop so my first association with entitled users are fellow Linux users who hate each and every kind of change to Gnome, KDE or whatnot, not my parents, aunts and uncless who express genuine frustration about being left behind.

Especially because a lot of interface changes that confuse the latter group are really, really hard to justify beyond "fashion", while genuinely causing problems for them, whereas with the former group it's often an annoyance that they know how to work around that is nevertheless blown up to epic proportions, like Sayre's Law in action but for the graphic design of an interface.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Making biking preferable and easier and faster is a great way to reduce fuel consumption by getting people out of cars and onto bikes. The best way to reduce fuel consumption is to make driving undesirable.