skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> acquaintances who aren't as tech literate as myself that one of the major reasons they got rid of their iPhone was not being able to install applications from outside sources

Which applications did they want to install from outside sources? Which sources?

Where does something advertise itself as an iPhone app but not available on the App Store?
Is this the longest Chess game? [pdf]
Nice that they actually published the transcript.
Yep, it's the shareability that makes it work so well on FB.

YouTube views are driven more by people seeking a particular personality or topic (e.g., Joe Rogan), and algorithmic recommendations, but Nat hasn't been a big deal long enough to get so much of that kind of traffic.
Same, but there doesn't seem to be a SSO with WSJ website or app. I have to share a link into the News app in order to view it through the Apple News+ sub.
the hug of death says it all: we wish!!!
FB is company D or E. FB you could have a linux laptop though, and could install linux on the mac. Not officially supported, but lots of people installed linux.
> Are you a developer interested in working for $50/hour to improve life for a bunch of Linux touchpad users? Here are the job requirements:

> - Has access to a modern Linux laptop

> - At least a couple years experience with C/C++

> - Proven track record of delivering projects on schedule (please provide examples)

> - Strong English skills

> - Self-starter, able to make progress toward high level goals with minimal oversight

> - Positive, solution-oriented collaborator

> - (Preferred) Has personally struggled with Linux touchpads.

These requirements are much much lower than majority of programming job descriptions out there...
Agreed. The Mac Touchpads are light years better. I’m not a hardware not drivers guy: so my naïve gut feeling is just: ‘how hard can it be?’.

I’d love to contribute to this project, but I’m not sure how.
Personally I see this a lot in normal interview style questions. They are geared towards an imperative approach, find this thing in a 2d matrix based on some way of manipulating the indexes is a common example. If you try a functional approach it is possible but often times akward or super dense looking code much like the double linked list example above.

I feel like this comes from the fact that while languages are extremely easy to bend into a shape that fits the problem and take a long time to learn so it's often easier for programmers to put out a bad solution instead trying to get the problem and the language to meet in the middle.
He might want to check the upcoming HN hiring threads for May (Who is hiring? / Who wants to be hired?). I guess those will be posted within 12 hours or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Stabilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces
The Shop for Developers (Merch)
Building a secure DNS infrastructure like SecureDNS.eu
I'd think a refreshed Common Lisp would still have a chance. It's a great language with some really solid open-source implementations, but it got standardized at the transition point in our industry, so the spec doesn't even consider (now-commonplace) things like threading or networking, while exposing you to some abstractions over systems died out.

The problems of CL wouldn't be unsurmountable if the community was larger, though. All the important stuff that wasn't standardized gets added by each implementation anyway, and then portability libraries get created that ensure consistent interface. But the state of most libraries is... rough at the edges. I contrast that with Clojure, with which I spent some months over the last two years. The library ecosystem (not Java-side, but Clojure-specific) is great, and a lot of care goes into it. I particularly remember being in awe of just how thorough Liberator is[0].

--

[0] - http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/tutorial/decisi...
This may be the best post you can't believe how useful this is
I’m in the camp of people who won’t pay for content - it’s just not worth it to me.

Journalism began to die with the repeal of the fairness doctrine.
Does Linux on a MacBook make the touchpad feel worse?
In what ways is it ahead? I'm quite satisfied with the touchpad on Linux, so really wondering what I'm missing.

On the other hand touchscreen is really disappointing on Linux (Ubuntu), just not a smooth experience at all for me.
People don't want to research themselves. How can they think that a news-feed thinks the way they do?
As in previous discussions on this, some people seem to have some strange utopian misconceptions about .ORG.

Likewise whoever wrote this false statement on Wikipedia: "The domain [sic] was originally intended for non-profit entities, but this restriction was removed in August 2019."

In fact registration under .ORG has been unrestricted for most of its existence, even before it was taken over by PIR around 20 years ago.

The complaints about potential price rises are also totally bizarre when .ORG has been for years one of the most overpriced and price hiked extensions, significantly more expensive than .COM, and popular country code TLDs like .uk, .nl, .de.

The "non-profit" aspect is a total red herring.
That video at the end is pretty amazing. In the video, they mention that the press runs at 15 m/s (54 km/h, 33.55 mph) and that it operates 24 hours a day.

Doing the math, this machine ingests over 800 linear miles of paper per day. Crazy!
The article is interesting, but the title is clickbait in that he never really tries to make the argument claimed in the title. Instead, he looks at both GPUs and printing presses as generic image formation devices and compares them on those terms.
Ha! As a Chinese myself, when I buying a new phone, the first thing I do is to Google whether or not the phone can load custom ROM.

Buying a phone that allows custom ROM is really beneficial. Not just it gives you more fre<Censored>edom and choose, it can also expand the lifespan of the device and thus save you a bit of money.

A side note: Fairphone looked quite nice, but that €450 price tag pushed me out far far away :(
> Does taking down a video of a couple of charlatans

Having watched the video, the main things that actually stuck with me was when they mentioned the impact of isolation on the community. Explicitly he mentions how molestation, spousal abuse were "up" and suicides were "spiking", and that for those affected by these problems "will be with them forever rather than a season". He asked the question, at what cost does a few deaths outweigh all these other social issues?

The other impact that isolation had (according to the Drs) is that it weakens your immune system. One of their arguments is that a few months could have a devastating effect on the immune system of healthy people and they were worried about the effects on the hospital system when isolation ended several months down the road.

Whether or not the Drs have ulterior motives on re-openinig their hospitals, shouldn't be a primo cause of calling someone a 'charlatan'.

They also explicitly mention how West Coast and East Coast was very different.

They were very explicit in mentioning how isolation was a correct course of action: Initially the virus was unknown & there was fear of it's effects and that all they had were models available. They cited sources that changed their projections downwards significantly just a few days after initial projections were released (I forget exactly who 'they' were)

They were explicit in mentioning that the data was now available on the spread rates and the death rates.

They also mentioned how the Drs everywhere were being encouraged to add cv19 as a cause of death to issues of "Co-morbidity". That is, in their experience, that all the deaths they saw were with people with serious health issues already. Again, they were ok in mentioning how East and West were different.

They also mentioned how Lowes was open, but a coffee shop was closed, which to them made no sense.

So, I while I understand that other Drs might be mortified by the testament made in the video, people should have the right to be heard. At the worst, it certainly made for interesting viewing while isolating!
Not many it seems.
I use LinageOS myself but I would never use a smartphone for anything related to personal finance.

Without an extensive research project there is no telling what's going on under the hood imho.
Thanks for the contributions!

Unfortunately the state of Linux as a desktop OS in the past decade has missed entirely the hardware developments. No proper support for scaling for hidpi monitors, scrolling with precision mice/touch pads, no touch UI, UI is that still not deep enough and casually requires the user to spawn a terminal, graphics drivers that are still not stable and do not support the latest standards like hdr.

I wish there was a for profit company that would focus on making a polished desktop linux distro. There is only that much that the oss community can provide for free, but it is simply not enough.
Flattening the curve isn't about the direction of the slope, it's about the height of the peak.
You're right, and social media users' oxes are being gored, they just don't know about it.
I appreciate his very high production quality but I don't get the appeal either. I think it has to do with the intersection of movie fandom + food media
I don’t think it’s about gestures. I have two MBP (2015 and 2018), Lenovo cirka 2017 (stock Ubuntu), an Asus Zen (PopOS) something from 2018 and a Dell something cirka 2016 (Windows).

Nothing beats a he MBPs trackpads. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but I feel that on Windows the cursor drifts, when I lift my finger.
On Linux I feel the trackpad is very sensitive (I get more cursor jumping around).

Also, on both Windows and Linux it just feels like they are less precise.

I guess it is the ‘it’s hard to explain’ factor that makes it hard to replicate?
So basically, most talking heads would be better off playing The Sims. They'll have agents there that enter emotional states in response to stimuli. Even though it's just a fuzzy state machine.

Now, is A[rtificial] Life the correct term to use here? I feel it isn't - I'd expect ALife to be more concerned with implementing simulacra of bacteria or worms in silico, not with reasoning or emotions.
I'm sure because handshake is such a system and there are many ways to skin a cat, and it's not a problem that I'd classify as 'hard' in a technical sense, such as useful quantum computing or terraforming Mars which both may or may not be possible. The hard part here is getting people to use it, the network effects.

I do agree with what you wrote about the tradeoffs with the current solutions, but those are tractable problems, I believe.
check out Adam Ragusea as well. He's like Kenji but a bit more on the practical side of the spectrum
Citation needed. Microsoft's documentation says it includes "information about the websites you browse".

It also says that "data items collected in Windows diagnostics are subject to change to give Microsoft flexibility to collect the data needed", so even if they aren't collecting that data today, they reserve the right to take whatever they want whenever they feel like it.
but she says
> This way, if it sucks, people can see it as a warning and stay far away.

which implies she thinks companies should tell potential hires you won't like working here and should run away, which I doubt many companies will listen to that advice and think "sounds good".

That said what you said would be a good thing for companies who are afraid to tell what their dev experience is like to consider.
I find it hypocritical that developers preach "languages don't matter, a good engineer is a good engineer", while also being very specific to work environments. Personally, I want the environment thats most similar to my coworkers to create the least amount of friction during on-boarding and documentation based learning.

Don't get me wrong, there are bad dev experiences that can be had. However, from my experience its definitely not mac vs linux vs pc, but rather intricacies that are unlikely to be able to be explained during the recruitment process. And if they can, why would they? It's not like applicants are being super truthful on their resumes.
I don't know if what I am paying for really is what one would call journalism. Maybe sometimes. But more often it's just better writing, more depth, more thought. An alternative to reading a dense tome but with the same relative degree of satisfaction.

Or in other cases it's amazing photography and in depth looks at things nobody else has access to with experts able to explain or describe things, etc.

I think this kind of thing is valuable and in a capitalist society the people who take the time to make it deserve to be paid.
I've found some places say localStorage is insecure, but both OWASP [0] and MDN [1] say it isolates by origin. Third party scripts from different origins shouldn't be able to access it, but a successful XSS attack could have access.

[0] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Session_Manag...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage...
can you bring your own device in? This sounds like the sort of company you have your personal laptop beside your work one and go to that machine to do things like check your email, buy lunch, listen to music.

All while trying to get them to improve their policy, of course.
Luckily my interests and Apple's interests are aligned in that regard. I already waste enough time on my phone every day without having gameboy emulators and spending time (too much time, if my teenage years are any indication) customizing the OS.
I once joined a company of couple of thousand employees (as software engineer). The interviewer assured me that employees can pick whichever laptop or PC they want. Ok, great, I thought, then asked for a Thinkpad.

A funny thing happened after I started to work - IT department was unable to procure me that laptop. After ~3 weeks they said that the company they order hardware from can't provide Thinkpads for the foreseeable future. So I've asked to just order from Amazon or similar. Nope, can't be done. My manager just shrugged and told me to ask for standard Dell laptop like everyone else in the company. Yeah, it arrived on my desk the next day. Later I found out that company works like that in many different areas. Lots of freedom and choices on a first glance, but once actually needing something, there was always only one way to have it done. Usually the most annoying and time consuming way.

So, the interviewer wasn't wrong in telling me that I can choose what I want, but the company makes sure everyone ends up with the same setup. Somewhat similar to Henry Ford's "you can pick any color as long as it's black".
And me thinking I was on the Dropbox thread.

Regarding Uber, one tree doesn't make a forest.
Afaik, medical insurance in US is not covering everything except for rather small group of people. People pay out of pocket enough to care about price, but don't have means to shop around or even know price in advance.

I see "everything is paid by insurance" argument surprisingly often, but whenever people talk about actual visit to hospital or doctir it turns out expensive despite insurance. Medical debt is primary reason for personal bankruptcy.
Actually my grandfather had friends who spoke of the telephone as 'the blower' and I'm from Michigan. These would be guys mostly born in the 1880-1900 range.
https://twitter.com/SamGuichelaar/status/1177685513807024128...
Well, while the FED is printing $, the ECB is printing €.

Who prints more is hard to say. One reason is the question, which definition of money we look at. Only central bank money? Or also private bank money? And there are many other forms of money.

Even if we only look at central bank money, it is tricky: Central bank money is not only created at the central bank. But also in private banks. For example in Germany, the central bank just announced they will back up 100% of loans that private banks give to businesses. So the private banks now can loan money without risk. Basically printing central bank money on their own.
Domesticating Kubernetes
Proves what? It could have been written in almost any language.
Interestingly, right after leaving this discussion behind I went to read the post about the scientist resigning from Google's quantum stuff or whatever. It was a Forbes link which is paywalled of course. It then hit me that Forbes might be part of News+ and yeah, it is, and I have access to the article.

I'd like it if this happened more often. I don't like the advertising-only business model. But there has to be some practical middle ground. I'll never subscribe to Forbes directly. It's really too packed full of click bait and inflammatory content to justify it. But this article was an interesting interview and I'm glad I got to read it without resorting to sleazy tactics of undermining a copyright holder's legitimate control of their content.

The UX of Apple News has plenty of room for improvement, but, the idea of an Apple Music/Spotify for quality periodical-type content is appealing to me.
This subthread made me immediately think of:

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a human face booting on a stamp forever."

(From the last story at https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/17/the-moral-of-the-story...)
Then watch the follow up video [0] to ItaliaSquisita critique and you’ll be safe. Not to mention your Ragù is going to be orders of magnitude better.

[0] https://youtu.be/oomJC1sWyfs
I realy don't get this fetishization (and I am using this in its medical sense) of macs as laptops/workstations for developers.

You PC (Mac or Wintel) is just something to run your editors xwindows what have you like company C
The other promising factor is that their work is a continuation of a 10 year project to develop a coronavirus vaccine. They are just modifying it to work with sars-cov2. So it already had a lot of work out into it.
Ask HN: Will people use blockchain without knowing what it is at some point?
I mean if I take Internet as an example, no one cares about IPv6 protocol. Do you think it will be the same with blockchain? And what is the best way to go there?
It is shutting down and this is the first time I even hear about it.
yes, gestures and accuracy. I am using mac at work and reaching out to windows, scrolling, zooming etc is much better than my home ubuntu dell laptop.
It never even occured to me to lie on my resume. Surely I can't be the only one.
I could not see the sponsor button on the linked github project. Has it been removed?
Microsoft "enforces" nowadays a generic touchpad interface they call Precision Touchpad. When your notebook has one of these, the Windows generic driver kicks in and the experience is MUCH better. I never owned a MacBook but I never again will accept a Windows laptop without a precision Touchpad.

So, I have good hope that Linux users will enjoy this experience also one day. Microsoft forces the vendors in it.
Sure, that's the official Google line.

Meanwhile, everybody who actually tried to follow the launch was confused about why there were two, which ones did what, why there was no interoperability, why wasn't hangouts being replaced, "Mobile-first? More like mobile-only," and "Should we even bother? They're going to kill them both off in three years anyway."

It absolutely did hurt the adoption rate -- It would have gone much better if Google management had announced one communication platform and committed to making it their bet going forward.

They were hedging, and it was obvious. Nobody wants to pay switching costs to use a new thing if the creator isn't even confident in their new thing.
http://t3x.org/t3x/index.html#t3x9

If you plan to buy the book, you will have to go to Lulu.com and search for it, as order links seem to be down after a site redesign.
Since, I am here. I would like to take a small feedback about the general structure of the website and how it feels.

If someone has a suggestion on how I can improve the user experience feel free to hop in and let me know.
In Mojave and Catalina it is an option in Trackpad preferences rather than accessibility.

https://i.imgur.com/d0EeOG7.png
It's really quite difficult to quantify what's actually different. It feels really precise without being "flicky", using it feels very natural and you sort of forget about the touchpad and just will the cursor on the screen to do as you wish.
> You're basically saying that whatever the price is, the market is right.

No, the efficient market hypothesis states that asset prices reflect all current available information. OP is not defending that hypothesis in their message, they’re just saying stock prices reflect expectations about the future, a much weaker assertion. Those expectations might turn out to be wrong, for various reasons, but they’re nevertheless what motivated people to invest in stocks rather than doing something else with their money.
Probably a good thing for the market at large though. If the current x86 duopoly ever turned into a monopoly with Intel or AMD it would not be good for consumers.
I was young and immature and started doing that after I tried everything. I was also stuck with a "faulty" RAM which I couldn't replace that I thought was causing this. That situation occurred often enough and right when I really didn't want it to happen - like saving work - that it became irritating.
Large parts of this blog are straight copy-paste from “An introduction to statistical learning” by Gareth James et. al.
People with large social networks are more civil online
Whenever somebody uses % of budget as an argument I just shake my head.
How to Design a Perfect Cereal Box?
The most attractive feature of custom boxes is that you get to design each box in a unique manner
Until the chip prevents copying out the firmware…
And this is a crucial point. To understand git, you need to understand data structures strung from pointers. Branch then being a [pointer to a] single commit makes perfect sense, just like a linked list being a pointer to the first element makes perfect sense.
I don't know Arc, but it seems you're referring to 'continuation based web frameworks'? They have been around since the dawn of the web. Here's criticism from 2006:
http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2006/05/21/webcontinua...

Truth be told, the criticism is a bit unfair (you can solve the problems)
Most enterprise-scale companies are like that, only using a single source for procurement of laptops, desktops and monitors, and making it impossible to buy IT yourself and expense it.
Thanks to anyone who helped! That's great.
> Do they still pack that PoS Intel management inside the CPU?

Sadly AMD CPUs have something pretty similar too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
Great idea! Did you deploy a speech-to-text pipeline to achieve this? I always thought it would be relatively expensive to do podcast-to-text translation at scale (compared to the gains) but maybe I just didn't optimize it well enough :)
I dunno, I've found WSJ's reporting to be poor for years.
Having client cache a subset of data is very much needed for the most frequently accessed data.. but it seems the various clients will yet have to implement this?
(it could have been the best feature in the list)

Previously I had to implement this myself -> https://github.com/Munawwar/redicache
This sounds like a mostly separate issue which you should get help for. Operating systems, by themselves, do not cause people to kick things.
Thanks. I was still in the edit window and have corrected it.
This research highlights a sub-optimal behaviour in the average human.

You probably have this suboptimal behaviour. You can fix it easily. Simply look for something you do every day, such as commuting, brushing your teeth, booting up your laptop, etc, and try doing it another way.

For example, every night I leave my glasses under my pillow. About 10% of the time, my glasses fall behind my bed and take 10 mins for blind-me to find. I have now made a storage box for my glasses to save me time, but it shouldn't have taken me 10 years to come up with that idea!