skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long has Google been selling their own phones without making a dent in the market?

It’s estimated that Google sold between 10-12 million Pixels last year (https://www.zdnet.com/article/pixel-3-by-the-numbers-googles...)

It’s estimated that Apple sold four times as many in one quarter (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-11-2...)

And Samsung sold twice as many as Apple.
I don't think that the videos contain the information necessary to make this judgment.
Quick question: if you summon Model 3 and car gets in an accident, would Tesla pay for the repairs?
Yes, I was referring to the file version history. Sorry I couldn’t recall if it was introduced in Leopard or Snow Leopard.

I totally agree with the comment from dreamcompiler, the file history feature is a great idea but the execution needs a lot of improvement.

The main issue to me is not the change to Save as.. behavior. To me the problem is that most of the apps didn’t adopted it. In particular cross platform apps ignore it.
So you never get used to the behavior change.

The version history UI, is also too “heavy”. It has a slider to go back in time, but surrounded by a faux app window simulating traveling in time with your app state... sounds cool but is distracting and not so useful to find differences.

And yes, it works with iCloud, but only in apps that use auto save APIs: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
A average CEO pay in the Fortune 500 is 14.5 million: https://aflcio.org/paywatch. That’s $7.2 billion total. The Fortune 500 employs 26 million people. If you paid CEOs zero and redistributed it all, everyone would get a raise of about $277 per year.
Ask HN: How can I tell *why* a news item was blocked?
I submitted a story that was flagged. I would like to know why so I might better evaluate the source. Is there any way to tell?
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Thanks. That's insightful.
It’s not something you could use from a command line but Microsoft Word already does very good dock comparisons. The feature is called “compare”.

Not sure why we would need this at a file system level. You’d need diff tools for all sorts of file type.
Guy on CNN was reporting that the app “doesn’t work” and had been on hold for an hour waiting to phone in the results.

While he’s on air, a lady finally picks up, but as he’s telling CNN he’s got to go (which he dragged out far too long), the lady on the other end says hello three separate times before hanging up on him. You can audibly hear the click. He then says hello and just goes....she hung up on me.
Not so much! Vancouver isn't cheap either, and a lot of stuff in the US is just cheaper.

And whenever I'm making more than I'm spending, I'd happily multiply both numbers.
The CLI and SDKs are fine.

If you’re spending a lot of time in the UI, you’re doing it wrong.
I have to say I'm a bit amused at the insistence on tabs/mice/telemetry :)

In at least one project I worked on, there was a lot of survey data entered from paper surveys used in the 90s and early 2000s. The structure of the survey included pass-through questions: "If you have ever smoked a joint, please check yes and answer questions 42 and 43. If you have not ever smoked a joint, please check no and TURN THE PAGE."

One can certainly build a logic to process these replies (check answer to question 41, tally blanks in questions 42, 43 according to answer to question 41) but since these questions and answers were also entered into the computer in the olden days, NULL was used if questions 42, 43 were passed through, while blank was used if questions 42, 43 were left blank (and 41 was yes).

How times have changed.
At the time sandcats took some of that burden off, so you could still self-host without having to wrangle with the cert stuff yourself:

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/sandcats/

...but yeah, now that let's encrypt does wildcards it'll be easier to do it on your own domain. I'd like to see sandstorm have some nice integration for this in the future.

(sandcats still works of course, and is still a good option to get started if you don't want to mess with DNS and certs right off the bat).
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Parkinson's Study Finds Blood Urate Levels Help Protect Neurons in Men
Correction: 1890 census.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census,_1890

Though antecedents existed dating to the 18th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
This documentary (as with so many on the NFB site) is a quiet and thoughtful look at a co-op elevator in operation. https://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/
AFAIK many audio dev companies still recommend its users to not upgrade to Catalina.

Ableton: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009770040-Live...
My ground control systems are sitting in a hosted datacenter with an entirely-unlike-UTC timebase.

My satellite is synchronized to TAI via GPS time.

I coordinate with a third party who manages the ground-based radio to coordinate contacts with my satellite system.

If something goes wrong, it would be nice to compare the logs from the three systems after a contact to see which node thought what was going on.

The fact that one or two of those systems gets its time from a not-UTC source makes this problem harder than it needs to be.
GP's attitude is fine - there's nothing offensive about stating "You're wrong".

People's search (need?) for offense is becoming pathological.
Most of the times I've had to use $100 bills at real stores even they didn't check the security features or use a pen. Something like $500 would warrant more checking.
there are about a hundred layers to that onion

short version: they're a pirate-ship/skeleton-crew management team sent in to do a "turnaround" (or flip) on the former gawker media by a private equity firm.

the way a friend put it is that they adopted a rescue pit bull that has already bitten its last two owners and they started slapping it. absolutely breathtaking in terms of how they loaded the gun, carefully took aim at their foot, and pulled the trigger 3 - 5 times.

you can point to any one fight they got in and think it seems like the staff are pushing their luck, but the pattern of over and over again proving mgmt had no idea what they bought and have no idea how to handle it just serves as a shining case study in what bullshit artists most of these "turnaround management consultant private equity" firms are.
You say that, but just wait until you try using anything else.
It's a one time conversion. Why not!

Fix 5% per year, it'll be done soon enough.
Ancedote: this evening in Mountain View, the driver of one of Waymo's test vans had to take over (I watched her grab the wheel).

The van had come to a complete stop with room to pass a USPS truck (it appeared safe to me from 25 feet away), and didn't begin moving again for a few seconds. She then took control.
PostgreSQL will happily use an index when looking up nulls. Given an index over an integer column, a query for a constant non-null value appears like:

QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Index Scan using foo_b_idx on foo (cost=0.29..8.30 rows=1 width=8)
Index Cond: (b = 333)

The exact same query plan is generated for a query looking for nulls:

QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Index Scan using foo_b_idx on foo (cost=0.29..8.30 rows=1 width=8)
Index Cond: (b IS NULL)

(That is, the condition on the scan is the only thing that differs.)

(I would heavily suspect that both MSSQL and MySQL have similar behavior here; this is an easy optimization for a query planner.)
There’s a guy in NYC who does this and shuts small businesses down that can’t afford to make the required changes. It’s usually a small restaurant with a bathroom down narrow stairs that would cost a fortune to renovate to modern code. It feels like an exploitation of the law.

There’s another guy recently who has been trying to shakedown small businesses by threatening a huge lawsuit if they don’t pay him 50k to go away. He uses a wheelchair but it’s a prop as he was found out to be able to walk.

Anything new, sure it should be accessible. Old building’s where it would cost a fortune? It’s not practical.
The Internet is a toxic hellscape - but we can fix it
The vast majority of CEO positions are nowhere near the 8/9 figure ranges. The ones that are involve making decisions that affect thousands or millions of employees and their families, numerous vendors and suppliers, entire secondary industries, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in business value.

In that case, the pay is a tiny fraction of company earnings to get talent that's capable and willing to shoulder that responsibility and also accept any potential long-term reputation hits.

Companies aren't looking to waste money. If they could find a magical CEO at 1/10th of the price, they would. There's a reason those jobs are worth that much.
Problem with those systems are the forums full of completely innocent people being banned
The point isn't whether a word fits a definition, but whether that word already has a definition with which the new definition will be confused.
Increased property values are not really a benefit. That is more concisely restated as increased cost of living and higher costs of doing business. Retail costs rise in turn. Traffic gets worse. You feel like you’re making progress on paper, but it all just becomes a lot less livable.
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Are we talking about the same Canada? Besides food, almost everything else is more expensive in Canada, diapers cost twice as much for example.
I'm moving from San Francisco to Toronto soon.

Staying at the same job, my salary will go from $180k usd to $128k usd ($170k cad). (Equity comp remains the same)

That's a pretty big cut, though at least for me it's worth it because of non-monetary reasons, like being closer to family, not dealing with immigration anymore, healthcare/education.

The money stuff isn't so bad. A downtown Toronto condo is a lot cheaper than San Francisco. That alone makes the pay cut easy enough to swallow. Either way I can comfortably live on a tech salary.

Starting prices for:

3 Bed SF condo: 1.2M usd

3 Bed TO condo: 0.7M usd (900k cad)

No rigorous comparison, just from me house hunting in both markets.
> Assuming there are at least some things that require a minimum effort that is uncomfortable before allowing you to see their benefits, you will discover more guided by qualified people and well-designed curricula than on your own.

Perhaps, but sitting in the lecture hall isn't the only way you can get thorough instruction from professionals. Books exist, and they don't suffer from the same monetary, timing, and pacing issues that classrooms do.

The primary historical disadvantage of books- that they weren't interactive and you therefore couldn't get help if stuck- is no longer an issue with the internet. It's possible that the internet is too disorganized and low-quality to be one's primary teacher, but its amazing supplementary value makes other media tenable.

Those are my anecdotal opinions, anyway. But I'm curious, what do you think physical teachers have to offer that Books/Online Courses/Podcasts/Whatever + The Internet don't?
Cost of living has been skyrocketing in Toronto and Vancouver as well unfortunately.
> But I really have no choice I do a lot of iOS and MacOS development, and its the only platform I can use for that purpose.

I was planning on working on a macOS product but I will hold off for a couple of years and see what happens with the platform. Depending on a diva like Apple that introduces breaking changes without notice is a risky business.

For example, Cocoa and OpenGL are clearly on its way out but nobody knows how long they will be supported. SwiftUI is probably the way to go but it's not supported by the majority of macOS devices.
The fact is online multiplayer games are fundamentally broken. It depends on trust and that's rare because almost no one knows each other. Everyone's a stranger. It's just random people playing together. People find ways to cheat even on trusted platforms like game consoles.

People should be playing online with others they personally know and trust.
> They don't seem to understand or care that much for PR and give off this hyper capitalistic vibe that turns off many people

Markets keep rewarding a behavior/product so nothing is going to change.

Amazon.com is convenient and fast for most people. Kindles are great for most people. AWS is default for most people. 2-day shipping is great for most people.

As long as most people find their products and services preferable, I'm afraid bad PR won't change a thing (see: stock performance )
AWS is okay. And your point is? We’re talking trilionaires visions, egos and intentions. Not claiming that Bezos is some idiot, but some guy driven by greed and not a net positive for the world. Musk is also deluded too but his goals and intentions are genuine. I imagine Bezos making a masterplan and impregnating half a billion women to spread his DNA or something outrageous as this.
I did a similar Unix course. It was on quarter based system so it only lasted 3 months. We learned Unix from first principles. There were programming assignments that started off as shell scripts. We wrote manpages for our shell scripts. Then we learned C with the expectation you figure out the hard parts really really quickly (we were a Java school). We implemented various different C and Unix programs. We even reimplemented some of our shell scripts. We implemented a custom version of ls(1) with built-in sorting features.

In the last 3 weeks we built a full-blown Bourne shell in C including background jobs, shell/environment variables, pipelines, i/o redirection, lex/yacc parsing, etc. A lot of the features were extra credit (e.g. single pipeline a | b, versus infinite pipeline a | b | ...).

The class is unforgettable in my mind. I now mentally parse everything I do in the shell and imagine system call tracing every program I run.
It's not the ads. It's that Google literally had a mantra 'Don't be evil' but it was removed and much of their questionable actions to appease shareholders and pursue a profit. Back then, they gave up on the Chinese market to stick to their values. Now we have Project Maven, Dragonfly, restricting employee discourse etc. It isn't the worst company around by a long shot but the difference is obvious.
The situation is much more complicated. Many go to school in the US, work here to pay off their debts for a decade, then move to Canada for citizenship. Arguably, the US still takes "our cut" of the global workforce.

It also depends on where the immigrants come from. Chinese and Indians have the longest wait list, and therefore its natural for them to look for better options. They are right to do so, imo.

There's also the weather and cost, the large cities in Canada can be insanely expensive, with terrible weather, and salaries aren't anywhere near US levels. If your rent is 2-3k and you're making 100k CAD a year, it doesn't feel like you're living the dream. Want to buy a home in Vancouver or Toronto? No big deal, just fork over 1-2 million CAD for a 1 hour one way commute.

The quality of immigrants is a factor too. The US still sweeps up the best and brightest of academia and business.

I know more than a few Canadians (from immigrant backgrounds) that moved to SV recently purely for the weather and salary reasons. I wonder if when they get their citizenship, many of those in the article will be back in the US or moving there.
> The bigger issue with wealth inequality is the investor class and favorable treatment of capital (low capital gains tax rates, carried interest, shady real estate business, etc.)

It’s not that either. Total realized capital gains income in 2017 was $660 billion. 30% of that went to the bottom 99%. So you’re talking about $462 billion to the top 1%. Even totally confiscating that income and redirecting it to the bottom 99% would only increase income for the bottom 99% by 5.5%.

People see eye popping CEO pay but divvying up a few very high incomes doesn’t go far. 60% of all income is earned by the top 60-99%. 40% is earned by the top 20%. A lot of income inequality is driven not by CEOs and billionaires, but educated urban professionals. College administrators, programmers, doctors, IT managers, etc.
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uMatrix does this for 4 out of 5 techcrunch.com articles I accidentally try to read.

It's a feature, not a bug.

Now I avoid TC at all costs, it's contaminated with vile ad trackers.
Picard -in the first episode- has given us a Starfleet that has failed to live up to its own principles. Do readers here honestly think that this idea is somehow an abdication of Star Trek's central conceit? - a project where morality tales about possible (fairly socialist, post scarcity) futures can and do help us think about moral issues and respond in more moral ways in our own lives.

Cold war Star Trek intentionally included a Russian crewmember, Civil-Rights-era Trek had a Black crew member as well as an alien race -Klingons- coded with racial tropes pointed at Black people and found ways for the viewer to gradually identify with the alien race. TNG had a Klingon crew member and gave us Ferangi (coded with some Jewish stereotypes), followed by the Borg (the 'looming threat' of Collectivism') and subsequent series are projects that bring sympathetic characters of each of these backgrounds (Quark, Seven of Nine).

Picard's anger at Starfleet in the new series stems from their moral abdication in the face of the largest refugee crisis Starfleet has ever seen. Today, we are in the second largest refugee crisis our planet has ever seen, and Western nations have responded less with sympathy than with rising anti-immigrant sentiment. I don't see how this is in any way "keeping the iconography to tell whatever kind of story they like"
The business is likely in compliance. The appropriate language of the ADA is:

> (iv) a failure to remove architectural barriers, and communication barriers that are structural in nature, in existing facilities, and transportation barriers in existing vehicles and rail passenger cars used by an establishment for transporting individuals (not including barriers that can only be removed through the retrofitting of vehicles or rail passenger cars by the installation of a hydraulic or other lift), where such removal is readily achievable;

Is the removal of the barrier of the steps in a 100 year old building "readily achievable" if it takes $100k in construction? Probably not.

But if you don't do it, and someone sues you-- the lawyer suing you has a chance of a $200k payday; the disabled plaintiff may get $4k; you will have to spend $100k to defend; and if you lose, you'll have to pay the $100k in construction or face the next person doing this too. The potential downside in litigating is too high to bear the risk-- even if you're right you're incurring a massive cost.

This is a big issue with qui tam statutes where private claimants can bring actions to enforce the policy. The upside is they often encourage enthusiastic enforcement at low cost to the state... the downside is they often encourage very enthusiastic and unfair enforcement at high cost to society.
Yes.

Applications talk via sockets to reduce coupling, thus fragility.
Article about dead project which doesn't describe what the project is.
I have no intention to upgrade any of my Macs to Catalina and neither do any of the Mac users I know. Even hardcore Apple fans will remain for the time being on Mojave.
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Weird - I've never had a problem understanding Ton (in fact he's one of the more entertaining conference speakers I've heard). Maybe I've just listened to too many FOSS talks with Dutch devs :P
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I don’t know... We’re they spared the wrath of the last recession?
I have some visibility to a small bank (quite a few branches over a large area but not a mega bank)... and basically they hire a company to manage their individual online banking. They're not provided a lot of options outside of branding and such. Having said that they're secure and that is what matters to them the most.

I have mixed feelings about your description of them though. I've found most of my US online banking to be "adequate". I don't feel like the what you describe is really the worst of what we see as far as "break the web" goes.
Historicizing the Self-Evident: An Interview with Lorraine Daston
The Fate of the 1890 Population Census (1996)
what is sandstorm?
No. You agree that you are in control of the car.
they're only redundant if it's actually working and they're not necessary. Nothing is actually working right now in terms of actually self driving the car. So little early to say redundant.
This already happened several times after they first rolled out the feature a few months ago (minor accidents). No, Tesla did not pay (nor would I expect them to).
Took a 9+ hour drive today, started offline and Google was able to navigate and plot it just fine. We had downloaded the maps for the area ahead of time.

Guessing maybe it outpaces what is downloaded when it starts having problems?
Why wouldnt you sue them for ADA violations?
Optional Chaining with React and TypeScript
Why won't use something like Visa Money Transfer?
Canada gets immigrants from developing countries; immigrants take advantage of the excellent education and healthcare system, after a few years get a citizenship, a TN visa, then move to US for a better salary and a lower rent. USA gets the cream of the crop from Canada and wins. Canada loses.
Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]
It literally says on the page "Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite.", and the landing page is 1 click away.
> If you have such an argument, you should make it to the airports that use private screeners today.

Sure!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
Would you have made the switch if it wasn't closer to family?