skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also revamping my website (zola->hugo) and I was debating on whether to have a chronological list, or to separate my posts into cohesive groups. Such as Programming, korean, Self, etc. See [0] for an example.

> Seriously, who cares when anything on my site got posted.

One could argue it depends what the subject matter is. If it's about a javascript framework, I do need to see that date. What I have now is a boolean I look at for each post, which controls if the date is shown in the post listings (it is always shown on the post itself).

Another argument is the date is relevant because it gives context to the discussion. Of course it would matter if a piece was written in 1829, 1929, or 1931, or even particular months in a year. Posts (and people...) don't exist in a vacuum.

[0]: https://os.phil-opp.com/
SEO distracts writers from writing. It's a rabbit hole of unproductive efforts when the goal is to write. The hard part of writing is writing something good. SEO doesn't make writers write better and this piece of writing isn't here because of SEO. It's here because it is intellectually interesting and because an actual human submitted it to Hacker News and because other actual humans voted it up.

What matters is the writing not the web page. Once a writer thinks about the web page their writing suffers.
Not to mention that the Register being from the UK, undoubtedly they have attended every single one of the mentioned tech shows. Their grumbling is not only in character but also likely justified.
Plenty of people still working, and this is a budget iPhone; this is the perfect time to launch a cheap phone.
Ask HN: What are you doing to prepare for the recovery?
We don't know when, but eventually we'll recover from this and now is the time to think about how to be prepared for this.

Personally I'm SE in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We were on a sort of economic crisis before the Covid-19 so we're in a tough position. Our currency (argentine peso) is being devaluated again against the US dollar so I'm earning (in dollars) less than half what I was earning several years ago for the same kind of work.

I've savings and some AI consulting projects on the horizon so I'm thinking about decreasing my regular job to the minimum hours as possible (4hs a day I guess) and think about the salary as "survival money".

With the rest of my time I'm improving my Deep Learning knowledge and practicing on some medical imaging problems (I have a possible consulting project on this topic). With the money I've in savings the idea is to wait a little more and then look for opportunities in Real Estate and businesses related to children education (my family has a k-5 school).

What are you doing?
Physical button and massive bezels, pass. Feels like buying a device from a tech era ago
It really depends, newer Toshiba and HGST drives in "massive" (ie > 8TB) sizes are almost all 256MB cache for improved in-memory write reordering, but HGST calls out at least some of their drives as not only being PMR but also being better because they're PMR [0] (it's just the most recent one we purchased for our ZFS pool). We haven't had any issues with it (first order of business is writing random values to the disk then reading them back to verify integrity and check SMART values afterwards) and had sustained write speeds the entire time.

"Designed to handle workloads
up to 550TB per year, the Ultrastar DC HC520 is the industry’s first 12TB drive and
uses traditional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to make it dropin ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment."

[0]: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library... (search PMR)
You're talking about an industry that has no problem shipping known-unreliable drives for decades at a time.

They likely rebate / warranty their important hyperscale cloud, enterprise, & OEM customers. According to whatever custom contract they've negotiated.

And don't really care about the retail segment, given the margins. Most people probably won't notice. And those that do won't be able to do anything.
You might consider the impact it has on potential customers. I can see how it's an in joke for r/wsb, but unless your target audience is only that community, it raises a red flag.
I got the fastest CPU my motherboard could handle. But looking at the performance charts, there were AMD CPUs with 25% and 50% more performance costing hundreds of dollars less than what I spent.

I could have spent that money on a motherboard and some extra RAM, but didn't feel like doing the work. Meaning this was an upgrade from an under powered CPU to a newer chip that was not available when I did the build originally.
No doubt cheaper to reuse the existing iPhone 8 chassis. Probably a fair bit cheaper to manufacture at this point too.
Apple's New $399 iPhone: Long Live the Small Screen and Home Button
I understand what you are saying and am grateful I can afford the monthly cost. The cost I pay is worth the value I receive.
The question is if the stewardess cares as much as the airline.

Realstically speaking there is virtually no difference in service for them.

Assuming that I get the usual economy food and I'm really the only person on the flight.
Tragic. Hope you live your life to the fullest Lee. And thanks for making the web safer.
From Apple’s perspective, this is a good time to have a more affordable phone available for people who need to upgrade (broken, damaged, or lost phone) or are getting their first phone (kids).
It isn't THAT bad. Investors definitely care more about model and growth potential. But you will certainly run into those who ask "How are you integrating AI into your platform?" without any real idea about what that means.
> But they certainly could make a good faith attempt.

In my understanding, court orders are not a polite requests. They are demands, with the force of law standing behind them. You don't make good faith attempts to comply with them. You comply, or risk severe consequences (in this case, 1M euro/day). If Amazon can't comply in the time frame allowed, shutting down is probably the right call both for their business and from a public morals perspective.
Show HN: Plato's Protagoras Highly Abridged
For no wise human...will allow that any human being errs voluntarily, or voluntarily does evil and dishonorable actions;...

And do you, Protagoras, like the rest of the world, call some pleasant things evil and some painful things good? - for I am rather disposed to say that things are good in as far as they are pleasant, if they have no consequences of another sort, and in as far as they are painful they are bad.

But are you aware that the majority of the world are of another mind; and that humans are commonly supposed to know the things which are best, and not to do them when they might? And most persons whom I have asked the reason of this have said that when humans act contrary to knowledge they are overcome by pain,or pleasure...

Then you think that pain is an evil and pleasure is a good: and even pleasure you deem an evil, when it robs you of greater pleasures than it gives, or causes pains greater than the pleasure...You call pain a good when it takes away greater pains than those which it has,or gives pleasures greater than the pains...

...if you are unable to show any good or evil which does not end in pleasure and pain, hear the consequences:...the argument is absurd which affirms that a human often does evil knowingly... And that this is ridiculous will be evident if only we give up the use of various names, such as pleasant and painful, and good and evil. As there are two things, let us call them by two names - first, good and evil, and then pleasant and painful. Assuming this,... a human does evil knowing that they do evil...Because they are overcome...By the good... Is not the real explanation that they are out of proportion to one another, either as greater and smaller, or more and fewer?

Then, I said, no human voluntarily pursues evil... To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a human is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when they may have the less.
Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyRdJr4LSc

FYI, the reason that song means something is because this is the train line that Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create and has been running daily service almost uninterrupted since the end of the Civil War.
You certainly can make noodles with cake flour, but I think decent noodles need at least 50% durum flour even when you're using eggs.
I mostly agree with what you're saying. But high housing costs are largely a result of policies designed to intentionally restrict supply. Not necessarily density itself.

As a counterfactual to the NIMBY West, Tokyo has very high density but surprisingly affordable housing because it places few restrictions on building and land use.
Oh no I agree, that was just a comment recognizing that my experience is different because I'm in a more ideal situation than other developers are surely dealing with. I still passed along the feedback to our product team!
> Which one seems like a smarter response?

Obviously the one that makes higher profit. /s
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What's interesting to me is that some users seem to "imprint" like this on the first serious editor they use.

I certainly did with vi. I've jumped editors a bunch of times and still use others for specific tasks, but always come back. I'm guessing it is some combination of learning something complex - the first thing in a new area you study tends to inform how you look at other things in that area. And muscle memory.

FYI, on the Mac, BBEdit handles huge files like a champ.
They've already manufactured them. This rollout was all planned far, far, far in advance of COVID-19.

What are they going to do? Not sell them and let them just sit in a warehouse?

A ton of people are looking to upgrade their original SE and a lot of people who can work remotely and haven't been laid off are likely doing fine.

I think that's all the insight needed.
That's a taskbar. You can make it as large as you want on Windows.
Glad it retains the fingerprint reader, sad that Apple is so deadset against including the microphone jack that the iPhone 6 had.
Thank you. The daily email is missing a closing quote in the "Buy high sell low
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One advantage of using neutral names is that when somebody deliberately uses the wrong name, their political motivations become very clear.

And it may be a matter of degree too; calling something "swine flu" versus H7N5 (or whatever) might result in increased negative associations for the industry, even if the industry can measure effects both ways. I start with industry because there are clear measurements (revenue). For racism, where we have few quantitative measures that we can trust without doing in depth studies, it may be harder to see the effects of better naming policy, and the experience of individuals affected is still the same. Also, a lot of the way that racism works is terrorism, and whether there are 6 people terrorizing or 24 people terrorizing, the effects are going to be fairly similar.
I'd take any kind of upgrade to be honest.

Right now I'm in premium economy as for some reason the ticket was cheaper than economy.
Hooray, no notch! The only recent iPhone that is not ugly right now.
We orchestrated a 55 speaker virtual summit in just 10 weeks
Because phone are essential item these days. Can't live without.
> And never, ever fly any drone outdoors without model plane liability insurance.

Or be able to run fast ... ;-)
I've been waiting for this the past few years. I'm probably switching over to this line whenever I feel like I need a new phone.
Why does he owe you an explanation for a product that was free? Its posts like this that convince him that open source isn't worth contributing to.
Now why can't we convince Android OEMs that decent specs in a small design is a worthwhile endeavor? The Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact is the last one that comes to mind.
This seems like an issue which is heavily skewed towards start ups and tech companies, which are ironically generally viewed as the most attractive companies for tech workers to work at.

The pay will be lower but there are opportunities out there where you can genuinely work towards helping people with technical solutions. Both the local research hospital and world class children hospital in my area always have data science openings and positions like that for instance
How many people are really buying "pallets"? It's probably more like people picking up another one of those big 18-roll packages even though they're not at the point yet where they would stock up under normal circumstances. And that adds up to a lot (of a bulky product) in the aggregate.
Study Satirises Measures of Social Media Addiction
What an ignorant I was.
March last year (2019), I wrote an email to Lee Holloway asking him how he could bootstrap such a great company. Now I know why I haven’t received the answer.

EDIT: I found an email:

Dear Lee Holloway,

Excuse my curiosity, as an Engineer I am not writing this kind of emails a lot, but I have read the blog series by John Graham-Cumming about the company, and it would really help me if you can answer my question about the constant flow of engineering innovations from your company.

I am a security engineer from Europe and would like to know how is it possible, that security team will start producing such a stream of innovative things like Keyless SSL, CFSSL, SIDH implementation, Red October key management server and many more your company already published?

When the "lift and shift" from the open source or vendor stops and internal building start to happen within an organization? Is it a cultural thing where only a small startup can succeed and scale later? Is it about the budget or is it a cultural shift that is non forcible upon them?
Is a prerequisite to the innovation, that almost everything is developed in house? That came to me as a contra productive strategy. I have read Skunk Works and other books, but I am still impressed how that happens regarding to the modern leading IT/infra companies.

Thank you for your time,

...
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The rumor mill suggests the next generation of flagship phones are going to have flat sides. So I'm guessing it's a way to differentiate and present flat edges as denoting "premium." The iPad Pro has flat sides too.
Things come and go.

At Revision 2015 to 2017, the PC 64k compo was absolutely insane, with production values exceeding pretty much every other category, including unconstrained PC demos. If 4k is the new 64k, 64k at that time became the new PC demo.

256 bytes is the big (hum...) thing now. With one ridiculous entry that managed to pack 8 different effects, with music and transitions https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227
I think the data has now proven Sweden right.
There's plenty of decent small Android phones. The problem is that they run Android.
Disputable. Are web browsers the sytem or web-technologies (html, css,...)? Emacs has also browers, but with limited abilities, does that make emacs more malleable than web browsers, despite offering just a subset of them?

Anyway, I think one reason why web browsers are so successful despite offering that malleable experience is that 1) it was designed for this specific usecase, and at some point even enhanced direction from document- to app-environment, and 2) someone else is paying the price for it, so the users don't care and can just consum.

If emacs would receive as much money and competence as web-technologies and browsers received, it surelye would be a first-rate environment with excellent support for all users on all skill-levels. But then it probably would be just a web-stack of different name.
It will come back with the iPhone 12 Pro as the "Pro" form factor, inspired from the iPad Pro. No one will remember the 1st generation SE by then, and everyone will be blown away.
How is Amazon overriding the sovereign decisions of a democratic republic in this case? AFAICT they are obeying the sovereign decisions of the French court. Overriding would be the "sloppy compliance" approach advocated upthread. The court did not order Amazon to stay open, and even if they did I doubt that would be a legal order according to France's own laws.
New Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro now available, begins arriving next week
Companies like that are relatively niche and usually already have all the talent they need. Not to mention, even if it looks good on the surface there could still be bad things hiding under the hood. A friend of mine works at a niche business selling network hardware, sounds innocent enough - and yet they are using creepy analytics to infer which companies visited their website and then spam them with sales calls.
Right. They seem to seriously be undermining their higher price point phone products. Although, this may be the time to do it given current market conditions.
This is pretty much a flagship at below mid range price. It's like One Plus and Apple just switched sides on this one.
> Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead of spending $1200 on an iPhone 11 Max.

I just continually finance the latest phone at 0% interest for ~$40/mo. Trade in every year.
This is unexpected since the ETA was May, and Apple rarely ships things ahead of schedule.
Calling that "similar" is absolutely ridiculous.
Propaganda is much less bad than wholesale banning unflattering speech.
No headphone jack?
Is this the original SE screen size, or has it been bumped up to an iphone 6/7/8 screen?
Does it supprot 3D Touch? I love that feature. It's the reason I never moved on from the iPhone 7.
> The tax receipts from this will help offset...

On the flip side, if “highest liquor sales ever” also means “highest liquor consumption ever”, I could easily see long-term health costs exceeding short term tax receipts.
The downside of being written completely in assembly language:
what if someone wanted to port Kolibri to, say, ARM CPU?

Hmm...
I see your point now, I was preferring containers because I have this scenario where I want the data separation it provides without the need of reinstalling add-ons, especially on a temporal container/profile. The shared window can be nice on some particular moments where I don't need to have a lot of pages opened and are continuously changing from tab to tab.

Thinking over about you said, now I think I like things from the two worlds, maybe better interface to containers or even better UI for profiles, with options to overcome the containers (maybe should be better for the average user instead of having both).

For the time being, I prefer to have both options (don't have it now) but I think both can be improved.
For all the "can't trust HGST because its owned by WD" comments: I don't think this is the case, as HGST is still selling drives that are explicitly declared to be PMR is the datasheets, e.g. here's the HGST Ultrastar DC520 [0] which includes PMR as one of its selling points.

[0]: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
at this price point it makes pairing with an Apple Watch more enticing. I would have gifted watches to my parents long before but it requires an iPhone to pair too and previously the price wise option was used.
Yes fair enough. QE was a thing in 2008, but it took them a lot longer to turn on the money printers. This time they were very swift.
That's the point of the SE. Lots of people loved this design. Not everyone cares that much about bezels (I like mine thin personally however).
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I understand a lot of the repatriation flights, but I'm still seeing multiple OAK-LAS/SFO-LAS per day. Who is flying between these cities right now...?
This describes a lot of software. No doubt. It's depressing and disturbing.

But not any of the systems I've worked on over 10 years. You may not get the absolute top salaries working on more meaningful projects, but there's plenty of them. Here are some examples that I worked on. To a fault, most of these places over-focused on the business and under-focused on exceptional engineering. Nonetheless, there's a lot of money to be made solving real business problems.

- Optometry practice management software

- Insurance benefits processing and customer service systems

- Professional soccer/football training iPad apps

- phone/pbx, Audio and video communcations, tie in with the web

- mapping systems to evaluate water scarcity and agriculture water use

- government benefits systems

Again, user Nextgrid isn't wrong. If you're willing to take say, up to 90% of the highest salaries available, rather than only the top 10% of salaries, there are huge amounts of non-advertisement problems to solve. Rightfully, this comment exposes the depressing cynicism which develops when building manipulative software.
I thought touch id was dead. Will this be the final time it is used?
They're considering putting iPhone 5esque body in the newer iPhones if that makes it any better
I think there are many non perishable sources of protein as commented below by others. What I am not able to find is non perishable sources of fibre, to be able to eat less fresh vegetables.
Yes, see this at least as one reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_structured_filesystem
Indeed. According to a newer article [0] on the same web site:

> Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But Seagate documentation does not spell this out.

---

[0]: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-ba...
> If I ever find a truly unsolved problem

Why do you think you need to find a truly unsolved problem? If all you want is a profitable, sustainable business, look at what companies are already paying for, and build a product that solves one of those problems. It doesn't have to be a carbon copy of an existing product. You can differentiate by price or combination of features. Or you can target a different niche. Competition is a signal that there's money to be made in the market.

It won't be easy, and you will have to learn sales & marketing. But it is doable. If there are X companies in the market, there's likely a place for another one (as long as this isn't a winner-takes-all type of market).
Most of this was developed way before the pandemic started. Not launching would be wasted effort and you might end up looking like you are lagging behind phonemakers that announced/launched before the pandemic.

Gadgets are seen as a status symbol in some groups, having the newest thing could be more desirable than paying rent to some. There is also still a large group of people that were not laid off, they still want that money.

I do not know about the logistics of manufacture and shipping, there might be a shortage after they sell though the initial launch stock.
Personal preference is not a reason to post unhelpful comments. This isn't reddit.

Edit : typo
I'm on a three year old iPhone SE that I recently had the battery replaced in (An incredible use of $50 if anyone is fining their phone dying all the time)

I am really tempted to get this. I love the small form factor of my SE but I have large hands and the bigger screen might be a bit nice, and I really wish the camera was bit nicer on my current SE
If the new one would have kept the design of the old one but added a full screen and updated cameras - that would have been perfect.

I get the feeling that I'm part of a large niche with whom the old iPhoneSE saw success by accident.
Old iPhone SE:

123.8 mm (4.87 in) H

58.6 mm (2.31 in) W

7.6 mm (0.30 in) D

Mass 113 g (4.0 oz)

New iPhone SE:

Height: 5.45 inches (138.4 mm)

Width: 2.65 inches (67.3 mm)

Depth: 0.29 inch (7.3 mm)

Weight: 5.22 ounces (148 grams)

(Copy-pasted from various places on iPad, sorry about inconsistencies)