skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES!!!1!

At least, I would love it if there were. Personally, my favourite device was a Palm, my brother's was a Psion, but the basic idea is the same.

How often do you hear people complain or worry about their battery level? All the time. How often do you hear people complain that their 5-inch screen isn't 4K Ultra Retina RGBA OLED goodness? The race to thinnest form factor has always confused me; what is really the use of having a razor in your pocket, rather than twice the mAh? The race to thinnest bezel has always confused me, too; what is really the use of a device you can't hardly touch without simultaneously operating it?

I think it would be very, very welcome to have a device that did the "standard PDA thing" extremely well (unlike modern smartphone OS'es), had "just enough" features, and oodles of battery life. Just the fact that there are modern crowd-funded initiatives to make "something like the Psion Series 5" shows that there is indeed interest (if not enough to wake up Samsung and its ilk).
Yes. The government is talking about making it a civil, rather than a criminal offence.
The Online (Digital) Economy – How Does It Work?
Nah we always wanted an improvement over dial up - I recall seeing the write up of the trial Martelsham (aka UK Bell Labs) did with adsl.

The tone of the article was "F^$k me it works"
Wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore
They had a few issues over the years: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4...

While some problems should have been found already during testing the comment still is indeed overly dramatized.
Dash docsets can be used without Mac e.g., in Emacs http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/01/ann-helm-dash-docu...
Could you elaborate a bit on what other vendors screw up?

Here, in Hungary, ordering from Amazon is problematic, because it's such a beast. No human in the loop, and they pass on your package to some delivery vendor anyway, which usually doesn't provide much tracking. So we get no* benefit of the machine at all.

* - sure, we get an interface that's at least consistent and usually available in English
We must have a different definition of advanced attackers because I can think of numerous countries that use zero days. A handful more that use COTS malware (i.e. NSO) that employs zero days.
> Vietnam has basically gotten the outbreak under control with only 16 cases despite being right next to China

Is it like almost everywhere else where they refuse to test people unless they have severe symptoms and can be traced back to China?
“Network in the language” has to be a deliberate reference / kudos to Sun’s famous slogan “the network is the computer”.
Another key tenet is the universality of the fee. Everyone pays the same rate regardless of background, so there should be no preference/bias to creating content for a wealthier demographic that may pay a greater proportion of the fee.

The funding is equally shouldered across the population, so the content should be created with equal consideration too. In practice doesn't always go that way, but that was the principle.
https://startmail.com is pretty decent, affordable, and based in the Netherlands (so, better privacy than US/5 eyes countries)

Too bad they don't offer calendar services with their email though. It's really a choice I can't fathom.
But what should I use if I am a politician and fundamentally believe that the government should be able to read my communications?
A Retrospective on PAIP (2002)
Did these parts come from a T-33 crash?
Does such a person exist? And if so, then just do all your communication using existing means like email and blogs.
First step is to figure out whether you actually need a datalake.

I’d recommend starting off with an OLAP database and going from there, reaching for a datalake once-and only once-you’ve reached the limits of the OLAP db.
The specs for furniture and home appliances do use mm to specify dimensions. Also any 5m measuring tape in Europe has mm.
Does anyone know a good historical approach to maths? Like, start with Pythagoras?

Even something purely in the modern era, learning about Fourier and Weiner, harmonic analysis, etc.
Depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, probably Facebook Messenger.
No, it wasn't the mental model, it was literally this picture, i.e. the image, down to the colours and everything.
Safari will soon reject any HTTPS certificate valid for more than 13 months
2x3 – Comienza Un Proyecto
Aren't keyless fobs more expensive in general? My Honda dealership also sell keyless fobs at that price. Is there any manufacturer that sell keyless fob relatively cheap?
It’s not an ‘abuse’ of virtual memory and it doesn’t need patching - virtual memory is designed to map multiple times and this functionality is used for basic things like malloc.
China's January phone shipments down 38.9%
The best historical treatment I've yet found is the Time-Life book on mathematics. https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-David-Bergamini/dp/B0007G...

I know that Freeman Dyson attributes his proficiency in math to his love of math, which he claims was kindled as a teenager by reading Bell's "Men of Mathematics"
> Huge selection

Agreed. The problem is that generally the descriptions are so useless it's hard to know what's actually what. (For example recently I ordered a case for a Kobo Forma e-reader, and it was impossible to know how it would actually fold, because there were a few pictures, no video, no schematics, nothing. And the description was similarly unhelpful. It worked out okay though.)

> great customer service

I found it impossible to even get in touch with them :o (I wanted to ask where my package is, but they just kept naming the shipping vendor - "Deutsche Post", no tracking ID, no link, no actual contact to the relevant department.)

> saved credentials

Every webshop so far does it, and usually smaller ones provide ability to use PayPal.

> 5% back on purchases

How does that work? It's either priced into the price of everything or others pay for it, no?
Looks like it wasn't the transport method that was vulnerable. Doesn't matter if you use Signal if the "vault" where you keep the messages can be broken into.
As long as the people you are emailing with agree with that position as well.
12,000 shed plans and woodworking projects to start your woodworking business
Planning poker for online meetings, free app
I have received fake products from Amazon in France and Spain. It's not just the US.

But what's more common from Amazon is to receive an obviously refurbished product as new. The products people return are just sent to the next buyer, without check or cleaning.
Completely unrelated question but: how do you go about finding out that there is an opportunity to build a small business selling Microsoft teams and slack integration apps? I’m stuck in the mindset that software companies make billions of dollars or no money at all. I’ve not seen the right kind of indie hacker post that talks about how exactly people size their ideas and how much money is possible to make.
Boiling your water indoors will humidify the air.
I think that improving DX might be the most important thing of the future software industry. If a single developer devotes his live to a better DX, hundred of thousands of developers might be significantly more productive.

I really like to explore new DX approaches (just recently, I published an extension for VS Code enabling visual debugging [1]). But I find it hard to make a living out of it, as so many companies find it granted that everything is free. They would rather hire another developer than paying for licenses that might effectively increase the effiencency of the developers they already have.

[1] https://github.com/hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer/blob/maste...
Oh, wow, that sounds worse than bad. Thanks for elaborating on the "root cause" too!
Thanks again. Distributed systems are difficults. I think I should have gone with a old school PostgreSQL.
Carrying capacity is the natural limit on all life.

Lower birth rates (due to birth control, affluence) is the fundamental change.
It is Latin, no?
As an EU citizen I think that's a great decision.
Flutter or React Native for App Development
All the names are transliterated in Latin alphabet, when the passports are delivered I guess.

The system is already quite slow as is (the DB is distant and on an underpowered server) so I don't want to tax it even more. What I may do next change is to cache locally all names at the start of the client and hit the DB only when it didn't find the name in the cache.
HTML Replaced vs. Void Elements
This, 100 times. Mathematical understanding can only be obtained by doing, fighting with the concepts, causing that pain that you get behind the eyes. Just reading the text will give you a surface knowledge, maybe enough to impress at interviews or parties, but nothing more ...
I told my UX buddy half a dozen years ago that I was optimistic that there seemed to be a glut of UX people coming because we were going to steal a bunch of them to look at DevEx issues.

I spent some time nerding out over woodworking hand tools a few years back and it pretty well cemented for me something that I’ve suspected for most of my career: people down in the muck have very limited vision. That your output is only better than your input by degrees.

I’m not sure there would be much fine woodworking at all if the best woodworking tools were only as good as the best software tools. There is no Lee Valley of developer tools. You can’t make me stop using JetBrains (individual licenses were their best idea every), but it still doesn’t rate above a Woodriver, and if I’m honest some of their stuff is Stanley level, and not even the antique stuff. And their stuff is better than just about any other tool I use all day.

I suspect Harbor Freight could make better software than Atlassian, and I don’t even mean that as a metaphor. I think I could take harbor freight employees and get better requirements out of them because they wouldn’t be up to their ears in cognitive dissonance.
Not sure how C is related to A and B. Learning tech and doing is not the same. Plenty of actually useful things are made with old boring tech that was around for decades.
I'm also quite surprised that the symbols for "O" (capital O) and "0" (zero) are very similar, even in the monospace version of B612.
It's not impossible. But we're a small dev team with several active clients. So most of us are swamped with client work.

For the few frontend devs that need to deploy the applications it's way easier for them to just save the command to their notes.
I don’t think that makes sense. If everyone pays the same, most funding will come from the least wealthy, as there are more of them. Making the wealthy pay more would keep funding sources more equal.
Then post your communications to your official web page.
> What is the most minimal cellular automata that creates intelligent life earliest in its evolution?

Truely emergent AI is an interesting prospect.

Are big actors hurling resources at this now? How could the platform detect the emergent intelligence, if it did put in an appearance? Wouldn't the detection circuitry be way more work than the cellular automata modelling itself?
Gotta be a bit less cheap and solve your ssl problems if you want people to take you seriously when it comes to security... Use cloudflare or routepath.app.
Just use email. Or whatsapp. Or iMessage with backups turned on.
Wordpress.

Nothing stops you from explicitly publishing your communications. And whether you do it explicitly, or implicitly by using an insecure communication method, it's always a choice which you can revoke at any time.
Yes, they were wrong about that.

But they were right about it losing error context. Basically errorf can only help you bubble up the lowest level error in a machine readable way. You have to write your own error type if you want to let code handle the higher level errors.
I'm supprised they have not developed their own or at least, bankrolled the development of one via grants.

Though it would be good if there was an open source communications platform that would allow the public to engage with politicians in a formal and constructive way. Alas, so much disparity in solutions that it often irks me.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/projects
Be great if the interface was better for that site, though google didn't find anything of note.
> Y'all are humourless philistines.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

But seriously, I think the intersection of software nerds and readers of Pride and Prejudice is probably fairly small. I appreciated it too, but can understand that 99% of people here probably have no idea what you're talking about. For the curious, the quote in question is It is a truth universally acknowledged...
Is there a list that inclines towards abstract math that can be helpful to solve programming problems?
I think it is a great decision, but it wil hopefully persuade other people in public bodies to follow suit - such as my friends who work in senior positions in a hospital and use Whatsapp - a practice that started when ransomware took down the NHS e-mail.
Yes, and it will also release the impurities/minerals into the air, which is what we're trying to avoid by using distilled/boiled water.

I live in an area with very hard water (around 300ppm), and the evaporated minerals are very visible in the air (and it leaves a white residue on the surrounding area).
The DVLA scams EVERY driver needs to know about
Yes! Can somebody please think of children?!
I hope nobody tells them that WhatsApp uses the same protocol. The argument for Signal would not be weaker but more complicated.
And how good the work is. In the Beeb, I worked on interesting projects, for a worthy cause, using a tech stack chosen collectively by the team. Many of the projects instigated by the team, rather than pushed on to us from elsewhere.

Since leaving, a lot of the work I have done has been boring and predetermined.

I might add - the pay has got much worse since you were there. The collective pay increase was 1% most years, which also applied to the banding so would have affected new hires as well. Since 2011, the pension has been no better than in any other organisation.
I’d say it’s another missed opportunity for decentralised communication apps and services. None of them are in a state to be adopted by mass and for critical use-cases.
Blockchain for Mobile App Developers
In mathematical history, there is a lot of discredit to Indian mathematics and their contributions.

Number System, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics
I don't think that DX is harder than UX because developers somehow have a more complex task than everybody else, and that there's therefore a richer "experience" to navigate than in other domains. I think it's because developers tend to be developers, so are more aware of and willing to accept the nuances and complexities that go into development. In other words, we've got a more detailed understanding of the developer experience because, as developers, it's what we experience.

We accept the heritage of developer tools - the keyboard-driven interface that displays to a teletype emulator, the edit-compile-debug workflow - and build tools that improve the processes that have built around those legacies. This is why when something comes out of left field like Adele Goldberg and colleagues describing Smalltalk, we find it easy to adopt the approach to code organisation on offer and hard to adopt the image model, browser-based workflow, debugger-driven iteration, and other changes.

Meanwhile, when we go out into other domains, we use a little bit of understanding of that domain, a lot of reasoning by analogy, and an intention to "disrupt" what already exists and "eat the world", and create something that works very well for the spherical user in a vacuum without all of the detailed understanding that comes from having grown up in the system and learnt from people who grew up in it even longer ago.
France developed their own matrix protocol based network called tchap. Great idea for a nation that wants to stay independent in an increasingly american/chinese tech dependent world.
You don’t have to become a manager to grow your career
What are Firefox Containers? How do they help us?
How to See All Your Saved Wi-Fi Passwords on macOS
Thanks for the FOSDEM link. I know the videos are out, but just looking at the schedule to find the interesting talks took more time than I wanted to spend on it. (The conference became so huge.)

Maybe Bjorn's talk has the answers, but would you mind explaining how histograms are easy to aggregate? Don't you need either fixed buckets or raw data to produce a new histogram over a different dataset? (I know there are tricks to get great estimates, but naturally every re-aggregation would add larger and larger +/- intervals, no?)
Well, given how one political remit uses Twitter, I'd counter that not everything should be written down in the first place, let alone read.
Is there no open source or European alternative?

Just keep relying on some Californian dude that insist i give him my and my friends phone numbers?

And harass me so i give him more info to “personalize my profile” !?
Diderot Effect
No, a swamp cooler would actually work.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that - https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-...
> 2. Most people think scrapping it is a political move, because there are weird power dynamics between Downing Street, the execs in charge of BBC News and the rest of the BBC who seem to have problems with the News division and their friendliness with Downing Street and the PM in particular.

The context here is that the BBC is legally bound to be politically neutral. The problem is that in this modern partisan environment both sides think the BBC is horrendously biased. Tory's think it's full of left wing Londoners (not entirely untrue) and Labour think it's full of upper-middle class private school kids (again not entirely untrue).

With the current political divide no one can agree what politically neutral means and criticising the BBC is an easy politic win, as it's easy to 'other'.

Previously BBC was viewed in a similar way to the NHS, a British institution and one of our greatest exports as a country. Trying to shut it down or limit it was politically dangerous. Nowadays less folk are fussed,either they agree it's biased or they're like me and haven't watched it (bar Christmas trips home) since leaving home.
Cornell OCaml Textbook
I think even complex products should have a linear progression from newcomers, curiously exploring the product for the first time, to experts, who want to do certain tasks as fast as possible.

It's simply not possible to learn vi by just using vi.

Also, the author emphasizes that just dumbening a product is not the solution.
You can buy systems like this already. Here's a video of one being opened with a hand-drawn number plate: https://youtu.be/box6dX44NoU?t=50
That's "Amazon's Choice", which is a label you pay for that gets plopped on random bullshit. Amazon Basics is a brand that Amazon itself has had people design and manufacture for them. Not the same thing at all.
Maybe a bit unrelated, I got used to Windows 2000, then window XP, then Gnome 2, then Gnome 3 came. So I stuck with Gnome 2, then moved to XFCE, and now with RHEL 8 I had to use Gnome 3 because there were no other options. Gnome 3 is an absolute horror show. I don't know who made it, for who, and what the theory behind it is but I don't see how it would be easier to use for someone non technical, my parents both understood how to use Windows 2000. It is just weird. It is harder to multitask as efficiently as I did in XFCE and Gnome 2. Gnome 3 is not simpler - it is just more convoluted.

And I feel this is a very similar situation with other tools. I edit code with vim, in a terminal. This is simple as dirt. I do it because it is simple as dirt. Visual Studio is incredibly complicated to me because to do the creating code part my job I need to understand the following:

- How code is built.

- How to build the code without using any graphical front end.

- But now when you bring VS into the mix I need to also understand visual studio. It does not remove complexity, it adds it.

Similar thing with debugging, I need to understand all the ins and outs of debugging but now bring VS into the mix and I need to understand it's stupid UI.

I like simple, my mind is simple. I can learn things, if there are rules and patterns it makes it easier to learn, but the less things I have to learn the happier I am. I don't have an option to not learn some things, like how to do build automation, how to debug code, how computers work, etc. But I do have an option to not learn something entirely useless like VS.

I think the lie being sold is that somehow you can be a programmer without actually knowing how to use a computer. And to know how to use a computer is not the same thing as knowing how to click on things in the UI with a mouse. To know how to use a computer you need to understand how to use it to do automation - and once you need to do this VS is just a nuisance.

Just a rant I guess.
Python features to look forward in 2020
Oh, I'm using Typescript already. It doesn't do any runtime type checks by itself though.
Hey guys, who else tried this framework? What are your experiences? Anybody interested in an neo.mjs meetup? I would love to see a community grow around this framework.
Funny, I've been looking for something like this, without knowing that I was really.

Unfortunately I am getting "Content rendering error
An unhandled error occurred in the application. We apologize for the inconvenience!" for the HTML, CSS and JS references.

edit: That appears to be a bigger issue which has been discussed for some time by a few people (https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/1155).

find ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets -name "react-main.*.js" -exec rm -rf {} \;

here's a fix that worked for me on Manjaro (Linux) for the time being.
Signal is open source
Of course. For those who aren't familiar with the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
We will get the first direct image of an Earth-like planet
Personally I believe that if you become an elected representative of the public you should become a public person where all your in-person meetings and all your phone calls and messages are public for the period you are elected. If you meet someone without disclosing it, it should be a criminal offence.

I know this will never happen in real life but I think this is the only way to solve the problem of corrupt officials and revolving doors / lobbyist problems.

Edit: the book "Haze" by L.E. Modesitt Jr. has a good take on this.
It's not a licence in the same sense as a driving licence, it's the name for the voluntary tax we pay to fund the BBC.
Very intriguing. Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like what M1 offers is indeed very close to the “hybrid bank account” described by OP. Official statements from their website [1] reveal their hybrid nature:

> Securities in M1 Invest accounts are insured up to $500,000 by the
SIPC.

> M1 Spend checking accounts may be insured up to $250,000 by the
FDIC.

[1]: https://www.m1finance.com/
I wish we could scrap the term experience again and just go back to interface.

I connect experience with hyped concepts that are already forgotten today.

That said, tendency to decrease choice seems to only serve certain users. Other feel just as restricted as developers, which are also users, so the dichotomy should be questioned.
No, not necessarily.
Of all the possible HN users out there, stating there is no way of assessing the credibility of this research is quite a big statement.

The point of journal articles is that the methods and data can be evaluated. Hopefully, someone with experience in this technique can give their position on this research and given it's a hot topic, I'm sure it won't be long until the broader scientific community has some input.
Yet some people argue against strongly typed language ...