skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an Apple fanboy for 15 years. But they seem to be doing their level best to alienate pro customers. Over the last five years I’ve endured a comedic run of Apple Hardware failures (a catastrophic failure at least every 6 months). The response from Apple suggests this is nothing exceptional or that they simply just don’t care. I believe it’s the latter, I mean they’ve got billions of other customers. This arrogance that inevitably festers when a company is on top for so long.

But history has shown companies like this fall from grace once a critical mass of once devoted customers go elsewhere. I hope I’m wrong and Apple wakes up before this happens.

I thought there was no alternative to the Apple ecosystem that wouldn’t drive me crazy (Windows) or cost me in productivity. But with my 2017 MacBook Pro dead (again) and no access to Apple service due to Pandemic, I took out an old Thinkpad T420 and installed Linux Mint. It installed perfectly, the keyboard is epic compared to MBP and I’m productive.

Now I’m happy because I have an effective alternative to Apple. Once my MBP is fixed I will sell it. And wave goodbye to Apple.
Daily reminder that congress looked into the JFK assassination and found:

"Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the President."

and

"The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Com...

But then the conspiracy theory meme just kinda mopped everything up, and that was that.
It'll be a couple more months before we can say with certainty, but I think Sweden has done an excellent job of balancing economic, life and liberty trade offs.
Sometimes the flights are allowed to fly one way but not another.

Overall the flights are ~88% down year-to-year in European space.

https://twitter.com/eurocontrolDG/status/1245620098754207744

> skeleton schedules, cargo, repatriation & maintenance flights make up most of what's left
Even Faster Math Functions
You Are Not Alone
Iraq bans Reuters for three months over coronavirus report
Just following up to point out the subsequent publication of the existence of a report by US intelligence services indicating a massive cover-up of actual SARS-CoV-2 involvement statistics for Wuhan and across all of mainland China.

I submit https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ez13dv/oc_... as illustrating my earlier point.

I also submit https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594
Note: the OP heavily edited the original post which heavily downplayed the potential impact to startups because of some magical force that insulated them from all ill.
That's the default. For most of history that was how it worked; anyone who could afford to do so built a secured enclosure and hired military-grade defenses. We've managed to establish more peaceful norms, where most people's threat models don't need to include roving bands of soldiers or brigands on the highways. But these norms aren't infinitely resilient, and can be broken by sustained periods of disorder, as we've seen in many places around the world.
Hmm.

There are some science fiction tropes that become really obvious when you start looking for them. For one, check out Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Heinlein's Puppet Masters: that's "the Commies are among us", and it's not surprising that it became a significant thing in the 1950s. Although the idea that there are a group of people out there who look and act completely normal but who are actually out to destroy everything that decent people hold dear is a pretty common fear; demonic possession and all.

The Zombie 'Pocalypse is another. Charlie's right, it is the same fear as that of the owners of an antebellum Southern plantation at the mention of a slave uprising. The idea that all of the people you live with every day might suddenly turn into degenerate, savage monsters yearning to snack on your favorite nervous system is pretty scary, though. But it doesn't really have anything to do with infection or disease, and he is wrong to try to tie the two together. The infection isn't the important part.

Oh, and let's wait until the next time something like the current pandemic happens before we pass too much judgement on how people react. Consider the difference between the Northeast blackout of 1965 and the New York City blackout of 1977.
That book describes the same civil wars that happened for the hundreds of years before 1945 too.
Turns out I was wrong about that - might have been true in the past but it is e2e now.
Wait, someone besides me is using it? And browsing the same HN thread nearly the same time as me?
Many of us are bought in to actions that don’t include the death of millions of people.
Airbnb Costs Under Microscope as Travel Shrinks
> never again use anything proprietary or even non-human readable

100% agree with this. I have settled on a very lightly (headers and lists) formatted markdown file. I like how I can just click on bookmarked link from the rendered HTML file to load in the browser (vs. copy paste from text files).

I did write a script to parse this file to mark broken (non 200 response code) links but forgot about it till now. Time to fire it up again.
It's even moreso for Android because many types of applications are prohibited by Apple. Like what's the best BitTorrent app for iPhone? File manager? Remote desktop? Screen recording?

There are plenty of Remote Desktop apps for the iPhone. There are also screen recording apps for the iPhone - there is an API for it. It’s used by Zoom.

What policies are in place that don’t allow Signal to do backups using its own service - something that other apps do?

And seeing how Signal does “backups”. It’s not exactly user friendly (https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...)

And you’re worried about “security” but you want a File Browser to have unfettered access to your data? It’s a feature that third party apps can only access files outside of their own sandbox that you explicitly give them permission to.

No company wants to deal with the hassle and legality of bit torrent. Most people aren’t using to “download Linux ISOs”. I’m definitely not.

But before as far as bit torrent, my use case is starting and downloading things on my computer from my phone and adding them to my Plex library. I can do that by pairing my mobile browser to Vuze and going to remote.vuze.com.

There are plenty of Windows only consumer apps - especially games. Even from Microsoft, Access and Publisher are Windows only and are included with Office 365.
> Pre-crisis startup funding was largely decadence enabled by cheap money.

Arguably with current rates we are going to have cheapest money ever possible. On top of that a lot of traditional investment vehicles are contracting.
This looks great! I too have been working on a critter tracker[0], but writing it in C using kcgi[1] (no JS at all).

I have never done a web project before, so this has been a great learning experience. I still have some functionality to complete, but so far it has been pretty useful, even just the "available now" feature.

[0] https://xvetrd.tilde.institute/index.cgi

[1] https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/
The challenge is making a tool that's sufficiently ergonomic. It's the UI problem from hell. The problem is that people are much smarter than computers, so you can just specify the broad strokes and your audience can fill in the details as needed.
> get brits back from Australia

There is/was a commercial non-stop from Perth to Heathrow, and with how many people they'd be flying, you could also use a half-filled 787.
Data Structures and Algorithms Modules Collection
> The platforms are disincentivized to stop that, because anecdotally "number of hackers on platform" is a stat that plays really well in their sales process, and it's a drum they beat loudly.

Anecdotally, the "number of hackers on platform" number is a statistic that causes consternation within the bug bounty community, specifically the number spruiked by some players.

> They clearly do: companies pay out for (and H1 triage regularly fails to filter) complete nonsense findings to the tune of several hundreds of dollars or more.

I said this elsewhere:

> I think this perception might be because H1 didn't provide triaging for a while, but I think the situation is much better now.

I'm absolutely sure there are still issues. I can't speak to the H1 process because I've never worked with it.

I'm not here to wildly gesticulate at H1 like they're bad, though. I want them to do well. But have you tried Bugcrowd? I hear its laughable to compare them to Google Project Zero, but they've been nice to me, so yeah.

I don't think either you or your colleague are really owed any gentleness from me at this point, so:

I think you should both expect people to question your motivations if you get quoted in articles about another section of your own industry.

I think you're both incredibly naive if you think bug bounty providers are systemically benefitting from the reputational damage the perception, that bug bounty reports are automatically generated script-kiddie outputs, delivers.

I also think that you both need to cultivate a rudimentary understanding of how journalism works. Journalists are paid, almost entirely, by advertisers. Journalists get information from their contacts in the industry. Call of Duty gets great reviews in part because game journalists want to keep getting invited back to events, and because they know the ads for the game aren't likely to run next to a negative review.

Hey, perhaps you did legitimately believe what you said in the article. But the journalist involved was motivated by many other things, and you may have been a useful... uhhh... something-or-other in the service of their greater agenda, keeping their advertisers coming back. Who would advertise on a website called CSO online, you ask....?

I think we can both agree that people on bb platforms can be total amateurs. Gotta start somewhere.
Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform
U.S. Government: Update Chrome 80 Now, Multiple Security Concerns Confirmed
Why build an entire computer on breadboards? [video]
Like I said in another comment, you may not have been paid because of this article, but the advertisers on CSO online paid for this article in part. So even if it wasn't a paid piece, it was paid for by others in the industry.
Are you Doing your Part to stay Safe
Ted Chiang has a great short story in regards to #2, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
I highly recommend Remotix for an iOS VNC client.

(Totally agree with your take though—I have this problem with many categories of apps)
This is awe-inspiring. Thank you! It is so rare to see people who appreciate the late works of Schubert - even young professional musicians often find them too long and not "flashy" enough, which is partly why we rarely see them being played at any piano competitions.

I can see that Live Program Notes may be part of the future of classical music. Wishing you all the success!
They live in 700K houses with 3K a month payments. Mortgages will be suspended: banks don't want foreclosures. Again, the tech bros are in the top 5% by income and assets. If they sink, then 95% will have been underwater already.
I am very aware of the formal conventions in print but thats not the problem here. Especially in html those cases should be marked differently (like with span.class) so that can be understood by machine or screenreader.

There can any number things set in italic on page and none of them have to use <em>.

"italic doesn't always mean emphatic" is exactly the reason why i say think of it as emphasis not as italic.

Also emphasis/strong in html is mainly for general emphasis in paragraphs of text. It works pretty much like h1 and h2. The difference is that you have only two levels.
I mean they’re almost certainly targeting businesses for whom $20 for a lifetime license might as well be free.

Charging that much is also a way to reduce support costs since anyone who will fork over that much for a VNC viewer probably knows what they’re doing or has an IT department.
It won't die until something else replaces it. I have ~5k rep there from answering >100 questions. I dislike how they've managed ... most recent interactions, but there's not a site that I could use instead.
I can't comprehend a 1 in a million per year event (brandishing, not even necessarily firing) being anywhere the top of anyone's list of things to worry about.
National coronavirus hysteria will lead to disproportionate suffering
> "In the real world people can always come together and compromise, share ressources and help each other."

That's starkly contradicted by the absence of toilet paper and other staples on store shelves at the individual level and the ongoing profiteering on and commandeering of medical protective gear and other medical supplies at the international level.
I was laid off last week (yes, it was a startup), do you have a link to a careers page?
I believe there are at least three issues:

1. My guess is that you're right, the main reason this is happening is a nationalistic wish to blame others for the spread.

But also:

2. As other commentators have noticed, it's difficult to socially distance in an airport. On the plane itself, there is extremely good ventilation and what limited evidence I've seen suggests that transmission is low, but in airports that might not be the case (I'm not sure).

3. Air crew may refuse to fly. Of course there are many other service professions in which enormous numbers of staff are being asked to expose themselves to a high risk of infection ... but almost all of those staff are (sadly) easy to replace if they refuse, whereas pilots are not.
There are theorems like that. (The classification of finite simple groups, whose proof is famously thousands of pages long, is like that.) But Mochizuki's proof is not like that. He creates a lot of definitions, and it's hard to figure out what the content of the definitions are.
Not FDA approved, and even by their own documentation has a degree of error (The validation data for the kits we use at RootMD demonstrate a 95% sensitivity (true positive) and a 91% specificity (true negative) rate.), yet they state: "With your results in hand, you will be able to confidently put those around you at ease by helping them know with certainty that they can’t contract the coronavirus from you.
"
> making people want more stuff is socially negative

I don't really think so in the general case. Personally I've eaten a lot of food I found out about from ads and wouldn't have known I wanted otherwise, and I'm glad iit happened.
English class in Germany told me to pronounce it the "k-ah-t" way because they were primarily teaching British English, but I think a lot of exposure to US Media brings people to pronounce it "k-eh-t" (and maybe overdoing it in trying to do so).

That's another thing I distinctively remember from English class in Germany, being taught the British pronunciation that, at that young age, was much less familiar to me than American pronunciation, and some slight confusion around that.
it's averse not adverse
Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
Sermo’s Covid-19 Real Time Barometer Study [pdf]
There are similar levels of abject nonsense in cricket as baseball. It's useful to have proper scientific analysis of these things to counter stuff like "all reverse swing is cheating because it's not scientifically possible" given that some of it clearly has been cheating. And yes various cricket commentators and officials have said just that. One umpire changed a ball on the Pakistan team with no more evidence than "it's swinging so you're cheating" resulting in a walk off.

Beyond that kind of thing it's no more useful to players than differential equations are to David Beckham when he finds the optimal path from a spot kick over the wall into the top corner of the net. He's solved that diffeq but he's not consciously aware of how he's done it and could probably have done so in the time of Roman numerals.
How would one acquire a 400 pound tractor tire?
I’m not an iOS developer, but the way Firefox and Chrome get around it is by using Safari internally. In addition, JITed code is not allowed, but interpreted is.
Skype introduces video meetings with no sign-up needed for a Zoom alternative
Firefox is available on iOS and even though it uses the WebKit browser, it still uses Google for search.

Or do you think that when someone uses Firefox on iOS that doesn’t count as far as monetization?

I’ve also been “told” that Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions outside of the App Store. That clearly isn’t the case.
Yes. :)
I don't even have a TV, I blocked news sites in my /etc/hosts about 4 years ago. So, I'm ignoring the news for more than years and have no idea why it is good for me to hear that, especially now. There is virtually nothing I can do to help and nothing good on that (watch news will give me anxiety) IMHO is a good idea to ignore the news, especially during the biggest global pandemic in a century
This comment breaks the Show HN guidelines. Would you please review them? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Please notice this, also, from the overall site guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Truly. Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply. And heck, let's shine a light on all the nonsense Wall Street gets up to? :D
Right, Qantas was getting people across via Perth (and also, briefly, Darwin) until recently, but now Qantas has stopped flying, and I don't think those routes are available to other airlines.
Yes and often times how they look will be out of your hands. You publish in magazine and their editor+designer will change your underlines to italic and your italics to bold because thats how it makes sense in their publication.

Of course you are both writer and publisher you are also in control of the design. But when you are writing you shouldn't be thinking about how to present the text. These are almost always different processes (except rarer things like poetry or experimental prose that rely on whitespace). Write > edit > present/design.
Are you sure youre replying to my comment?

My comment was calling into question the viability & competitiveness of most restaurants that cannot weather a sudden change of fortunes. They are not be confused with long-lived, well-run and meticulously managed restaurants that stand the test of time because they offer something compelling. Most restaurants don't fit that bill and never had those ingredients baked into their DNA, to begin with.

Peter Thiel has opined on this in splendid detail:

In 2001, my co-workers at PayPal and I would often get lunch on
Castro Street in Mountain View, Calif. We had our pick of restaurants,
starting with obvious categories like Indian, sushi and burgers. There were more
options once we settled on a type: North Indian or South Indian, cheaper or
fancier, and so on. In contrast to the competitive local restaurant market,
PayPal was then the only email-based payments company in the world. We
employed fewer people than the restaurants on Castro Street did, but our
business was much more valuable than all those restaurants combined. Starting
a new South Indian restaurant is a really hard way to make money. If you lose
sight of competitive reality and focus on trivial differentiating factors—maybe
you think your naan is superior because of your great-grandmother's recipe—your
business is unlikely to survive….

The history of progress is a history of better monopoly businesses replacing
incumbents. Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even
decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate.

[1]
Peter Thiel Will Not Be Opening A South Indian Restaurant In Silicon Valley

https://dealbreaker.com/2014/09/peter-thiel-will-not-be-open...
Don't shoot! Let them burn!
It strikes me that if trust was a big an issue to most people as it appears to be to you, the US would have a different president.

I'm not knocking the need for trust, but trusting an closed source code served up by a central server is a bit of stretch for me. The temptation to monetise it is huge, and failing the governments around the world are give themselves permission to order the centralised server to decrypt it and send them a copy, and keep quiet about it. Finally there is absolutely no visibility to keep the vendor honest. They can silently update their code at any point without telling you, include switches that turn any feature off and on without you being aware of it and with little risk of researchers seeing it.

In circumstances like that any "trust" seems to me to be a huge stretch. About the best you can hope for competition is going to keep respecting the customers needs rather than their own need for money. It better to assume it's sent in the clear - which is what I assume with zoom.
Wow thanks for your reply.
So because it was used to talk to celebrities instead of other people some reason Apple rejected it? Does that pass the sniff test to you? Do you think there might be more to the story?
Laid off;1 day notice given; slight severance. Ive never been laid off/fired/whatever from a job, and now in 2020 I get to hopefully find a new job (soon)
Actions like switching to paper straws?
https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/fupzs...
Yes not alone but if you don't at least pretend you're the best worker bee and kiss the right behinds, you'll be put on by lowest 10% and the next RIF.
I often leave the window while waiting for something to build, and that’s when I get distracted. Would be cool if leaving the window started a timer, and if I’m not back within five minutes it pops a notice on the screen.
South Korea should be worried about the cost of such a reunification. East Germany was in much better shape than North Korea and the Germany reunification still took a lot of money and time to do. Building up North Korea will be very hard.
Getting a fast & safe Rust UDF layer that targets SPIR/CUDA/PTX would be quite interesting wrt enabling RAPIDS.ai (libcudf + python bindings) as well. It'd enable getting rid of slow & quirky numba etc - I remember Mozilla had GPGPU RUST codegen experiments here awhile back...
for most people who do this, id imagine the reason is because they are a computer engineering student and need lab credits
Earn 8 to 10 % on your investment
Worth appreciating that the author casually referred to their Italian operation as "the Italian job".
Brandless Ceases Operations
Just to make sure I am understanding you, are you stating that the top 30% of employees have 3-5 years of savings socked away that they can get to easily?

If that’s true, well, I guess I am not in the top 30% of employees of big tech firms.
It depends on the use case. For applications that experience a high frequency updates near the top of the tree, a naive solution would typically block user input.

Mithril's solution is very simple but using a setInterval(render, 16.6667) has its drawbacks that can lead to jankiness in the UX. React 16 from what I understand is almost a complete rewrite of React and does some smart stuff with animation frames to ensure an optimal UX.
Any other fun things I could build using my phone number on twilio???
Over under China will take over NK then slowly encroach on SK
It wasn’t diverted, it was stolen. They were goods paid for by Germany, and then stolen from the plane during a layover.
Unemployment putting people to work.
How hard is cobol to pick up and learn at the level needed to contribute? I'm sure there are many no longer employed programmers in the tri state area that might be able to help
A healthy adult should be able to get the necessary information from other sources than have to consume the news.