skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would never subscribe to, for example, HBO NOW if I thought I’d have to go through HBO (owned by AT&T) in order to unsubscribe. I want the guarantee of easy cancellation.

Maybe it is just me but as long as I can cancel the subscription on a mobile website or a desktop website without talking or calling anyone, I really really don’t care.

Also the fact that I rarely have to do these subscribing/unsubscribing.
*for a very specific use-case where you have an ungodly amount of data to insert

Still, it's interesting that there is something to be gained under these circumstances. I'm typically skeptical of this sort of thing because the standard library is written in C++. One time I thought I was very clever and hand-wrote a more appropriate sorting algorithm for a specific use-case only to discover that, no, Array.sort() was still faster by sheer brute force.
Whenever it's not obvious from context during spoken language, the traditional way of being clear is to say "small-d democratic ...". It's always clear from capitalization in written form.
When you are trading options on some of the more popular underlying, e.g. weekly expirys, there are strategies such as iron condor, credit spreads, strangles, straddles, etc. This doesn't seem to appear on the web application and only the mobile.
> That's kind of a non-response isn't it? The way things are is always determined by the events that came before. It doesn't mean you've correctly identified the right events.

Then name the events.

I happen to think that slavery shaped American culture and American history. I find it improbable that a country would have race-based chattel slavery for several centuries but no significant cultural baggage. If that were the case, why then did the South fight Reconstruction? What was the purpose of Jim Crow? Those were concerted efforts to undermine the freedom of black people in particular. If there were no baggage, why didn't everyone just let bygones be bygones?

> Europeans had no issue looking down on blacks before they had the idea to import them to the new world as slaves

Even if that were true, it would not negate my claim. Europeans could have generally "looked down on blacks" before and then created specific slavery-justifying stereotypes about blacks as slavery became profitable.

> Europe adopted similar attitudes toward blacks with no slaves present

There were slaves in Europe. In fact, the British empire didn't abolish slavery until 1833. But even if there weren't slaves in Europe, that would not have precluded intercultural transmission of negative stereotypes about black people. There was little black slavery in Asia, but you'll find many of the same stereotypes about black people there. Countries don't exist in a vacuum.
Apple knows that they have more to lose if they suddenly remove Microsoft Office or any long-standing apps that lots of people know about and rely on.

With a new player however, there are not enough users on it to even make a dent in Apple's reputation - the masses don't even have a clue as to what "Hey" is and won't suddenly consider Android because Hey is not available on iOS.

This behavior is nasty and regulation is more than welcome here, but makes sense from a business point of view.
Poor kid. Even if the ending balance was -730K he could declare bankruptcy. Most college kids don't have a lot of assets so it's not like starting from 0 will set him back 10 years, although maybe his situation was different.

Either way, this is really unfortunate. The way we treat debt, especially in regard to our younger population, is kind of despicable. But hey, whatever keeps the wheels turning, right?
I feel weird playing the jingoism game, because it doesn't even vaguely reflect my feelings on the subject, but here we go:

SpaceX, a privately-held American company, is the only source of innovation in rocketry at the present time. Their reusable launch platform plays in its own league; everything else is steam power, Falcon is internal combustion.

That's just a fact. Unlike insisting that China, Russia, India are incapable of innovation more generally, which is risible.

My vague impression, in fact, is that jet turbines are quite a bit more difficult to manufacture than rocket engines, even if the latter are thought of as 'higher tech'.

I'm fairly certain we'll discover, in the next ten years, that China is quite capable of making cutting-edge computer chips, and just hadn't gotten around to it yet.

I've never shared my countrymen's obsession with insisting on being 'the greatest'. This country is great in its own right, along many dimensions; it is, in fact, right at the cutting edge for medicine and CPUs; denigrating the work of other nations only detracts from this.
As I said, that's for scanning a petabyte. Selective queries would be much smaller and faster, costs can be handled with flat-rate pricing, and there's the BI Engine (in-memory cache) feature too.

The details in the article (1.5PB logical data, 3x replication factor, only 2% of metrics ever read) and the fact that Twitter already runs infra in Google Cloud seem to align well with BQ in my experience (10+ years in adtech building even more complex backends).

Please tell me what assumptions are incorrect so I can reconsider.
> In fact a screenshot from Kearns’ mobile phone reveals that while his account had a negative $730,165 cash balance displayed in red, it may not have represented uncollateralized indebtedness at all, but rather his temporary balance until the stocks underlying his assigned options actually settled to his account.

This makes it even more sad, better UI could have saved a life. Putting a notification with a link to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on an account that moves that far and fast into the red might not be a bad addition either.
> The default software that comes with the Dell mentioned above handles everything.

Does it really handle everything? Does it handle all (or even just a single one?) of the use cases I mentioned in my comment and that I care about. Can I turn of part of the screen, if I actually only need smaller space? Can I position a 1920 default width space right in the middle in front of me without it looking weird (i.e. symmetry of screen hardware borders)? Are workspaces working correctly (in unix, windows, macos, all of them?). Just splitting monitors isn't everything, I heavily use workspaces to switch between context.

If all of this works (except the obvious middle problem that's phyiscally impossible to solve) I might actually consider it.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. I lived in Germany for a long time, and here "political education" ("politische bildung") is something you get in school (e.g. as part of history lessons). This is probably a result of experiencing the decline of democracy, and the rise of fascism. Note this is not about partisanal topics, but about how the separation of powers work, federalism, what happens with your taxes, and even complex things like monetary policy (if you take certain classes).

I think the idea to educate the people on general political issues is not too foreign to the US, at least I've seen many PSAs there, which they don't have over here.

The idea is not to force anybody to watch anything. My idea would be akin to putting up an informational poster next to an advertizing poster outside. But I've made the experience that in many places you literally can't put a billboard up or run a radio ad if it has political / "world-view-based" content - such as talking about unions, rent control, atheism etc. - whereas it is fine to advertize beer or dog hair brushes or any other product.

Conversely, now many platforms actually "force" you to sit through an ad before you get to your content. Tell me, why is it OK if that clip is an ad for some random beauty product, but sinister if it is about the pros or cons of wind energy?

What I'm envisioning is not "forcing" anybody to view anything, but for example changing the display algorithms of social media. Let 10 percent or so be an unbiased selection of posts showing different world views. I'm sure the text analysis algorithms could provide that.

But yeah, I'd find it beneficial for society if I could get more eyeballs on non-commercial, important-for-society topics. This is the same reason I occasionally hang up a poster in a public place. And I honestly believe it is good if someone passes by my poster and reads it on their way to work. (They are also free to ignore it!)
It was a village next to an inland lake[1] in Cameroon in 1986. Thousands died.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
It’s worth noting that ‘force Apple to allow other stores’ is equivalent to ‘force indie developers to support other stores’.

And also paradoxically allowing other stores with fewer restrictions actually means more restrictions for developers.

This is because if you are forced to support all the stores, your app must comply with the superset of the restrictions.

Apple must improve the store policies to support developers, otherwise the web will just win in the end.

However requiring them to support multiple stores will just kill off indie development even more.
Thanks, that is massive but surprisingly readable even at 27"/1440p. Nice cowsay btw.
Seems like the Newton email app is not being enforced through the rule.
Twitter: Add audio recording to tweet (up to 140s) on iOS in the coming weeks
Original title lacked context. It was:

Your Tweet, your voice
And yeah, and then a new team member doesn't know certain fields are mutually exclusive, and neither does the compiler because of the lack of sum types.
As someone who built a habit tracker, I like it. It looks elegant and easy to use and you seem clear on what you are optimizing for.

A couple of thoughts.

I think it's important to be clear whether you building an app that is optimized for tracking for insight or for change. That is what explains why I took a different approach to designing a habit tracker than you are taking. My primary was for change. Yours sounds like for insight.

The reason to be clear is that it can help you filter out feature requests.

There's only one other example of what you're building that I've seen and thought was well done.
http://reporter-app.com/

If you are planning to charge, I would want to know that before I sign up for a free version. "Free until 2021, then $5/month."
Kearns may not have realized that his negative cash balance displaying on his Robinhood homescreen was only temporary and would be corrected once the underlying stock was credited to his account. Indeed it’s not uncommon for cash and buying power to display negative after the first half of options are processed but before the second options are exercised—even if the portfolio remains positive.

“Tragically, I don’t even think he made that big of a mistake. This is an interface issue, they have slick interfaces."

I think this is the saddest part. This definitely is entirely Robinhood's fault. Saying so is basically saying a casino is at fault for somebody committing suicide because of a gambling loss. But a better UX could have helped in this case.
Here is what I don't get about this product line. The docs say the encryption is done on the attached workstation. Which means your network transfer speed is going to be limited if you don't have a pretty high end machine with at least AESNI. What is the point of having the processor and all that in the device itself if you end up needing a high end workstation anyways to get the maximum performance out of the thing?
>I am also fine with Apple collecting a modest fee for providing that service. That fee should probably be somewhere in the 2-3% range.

Apple's cut isn't for payment processing, even if developers insist that's all they do. It's for access to their marketplace and their very large user base.
War in drugs. Love the typo.

From the other side of the pond, the US fixation on wars is ... remarkable. Marking these policies as wars wouldn't fly in the EU.

Circling back, the use of 'war' for civil matters normalizes the word, making real war easier to swallow.
As always with facial recognition, the use case is total surveillance & tracking of a population.
FinalKey – Open-source External Password Manager
We tested it at my org, it doesn't scale past 15 users
That's the thing, it's perceived and not real. Media outlets driving that narrative are lying to their viewers for clicks. If someone refuses to drop their bias in face of contrary evidence or that evidence isn't even presented alongside the initial claim, they may be watching an entertainment channel, not a news channel.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/440703-evidence-contr...
Starburst Data announces $42M Series B funding round
It’s not just one app. Considering that it wants 15-30%, it really conflicts with the financial interests part.
For a sense of scale, my company used an AWS Snowmobile to transfer 100PB of archived satellite imagery to AWS.

More details here: https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2017/digitalglobe-...
Where is the "can't be identified" line come from? The branding is, word for word:

> Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won't see your activity

and

> Your activity might still be visible to: Websites you visit

Where does that piece of branding you mention come from? I don't see it anywhere? Did Google remove it recently? Or is it just what people, through the telephone game, have come to think it means?
Unlike carpentry, the quality of our tools (keyboard and monitor, specifically) don't affect the quality of our output.

I think in many cases, people hide the fact that they're not competent with high-cost professional tools, because laymen use it as a proxy for talent that they cannot evaluate.

I think that's also why many exceptional programmers just use a 5-year old laptop -- they don't need to compensate.

A day-trader having 12 monitors mounted on the wall doesn't make him profitable.
I think we're having two different conversations here. 1). Are police killings worthy of worrying about? and 2). Do we have a problem with police killings; at large, in the in the ethnic communities, and are police held accountable?

In regards to point 1). The parent comment is expressing worry about a statistically insignificant event (framed properly (unarmed, non-justified, non-suicide)) and the following response frames the fear as statistically insignificant. I think this is undeniable and the reason why data is important. Again, this isn't a conversation about whether this is an institutional problem; it's about whether we should live in constant fear of airlines because one airline crashes.

While 2). is a bit more difficult to breakdown. Yes, I think an easy case can be made about cops needing more accountability (for the sake of police generally and society). but do we need institutional change broadly (accountability +) because the police system is racist against people of color? ....Well, that's a claim. That's where data is important and feelings are no longer relevant.
Skype was never a real player in the gaming community, it was really just Teamspeak, Ventrilo, and Mumble
> Plus, if you use a real lock, they have the right to clip it off, which is trivial.

Life hack: you can pack a stripped AR lower, and it's legally a firearm. You must use a non-TSA lock, and the TSA (nominally) is not allowed to open it.

Though your core point is valid: your nylon luggage isn't going to keep anyone determined out.
Things a Design Enthusiast Should Know
Kudos FairPhone for sticking to its ideals.

I would sincerely suggest FairPhone team to look into officially supporting pure Linux OS (PostmarketOS, PureOS, Ubuntu Touch) both from consumer/business perspective.

Because, those who are ordering Librem5/PinePhone are doing it for open/ethical/privacy features offered by the pure Linux ecosystem; but the hardware being used is far from that philosophy (Although Purism team seem to have taken great effort in choosing vendors).

Fairphone Linux phone would fill in the need gap nicely!
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This could be the case for literally any E2EE service that controls key distribution (including WhatsApp, Signal, etc.), especially when there's no way to verify key fingerprints (here Signal differs because it does have a way, and it's open source so you can be more confident that it's not BSing you).

It's shocking to me how often this is glossed over when discussing E2EE services: you still must trust the platform.
Also, TimescaleDB is a general purpose time-series database, which means that it not only works for metrics data, but also many other datatypes (strings, arrays, JSON, etc). You can also create indexes on any of these fields.

Because TimescaleDB is built on Postgres, it is also a relational time-series database. Ie you can store metadata / business data alongside your time-series data.

(Note: I work on TimescaleDB.)
I've done Startup School for the past two iterations. I really enjoyed meeting so many random founders in each meeting, but we spent more than half of the meetings just getting to know each other. Some of my meetings had 7 teams! And then the next week, you wind up with new founders and you do it all over again. As time went on, I got less and less from the group meeting, where they were my favorite part at the start. Having the same group over and over would be fabulous, since we could really talk about what we did last week, whether we did it, what's up for next week, continuing talk about issues we're having, etc.
> The CCP can and will exert pressure on family members to get expats and former citizens to do what they want.

Could you give a few such cases?
Why would Google be unique in that respect? You're not assuming you can only file a lawsuit against a company if they are the only ones who break the law, do you?
This is about as evil as it gets for a software company. Using your technology to put people behind bars for victimless crimes

Microsoft products are generally such low quality that I avoid them anyway, but I'm going to try to disable all my Microsoft cloud accounts after this revelation.
Looks like they do https://ubports.com/devices/promoted-devices
>But even today you can peek into the future, if you have extra $4,000 to spare. This is Dell UP3218K, world’s first and only 8k monitor:

Note that the UP3218K isn't the brightest monitor in the world. I've read some reviews that claim you need a darkened room to see the full color gamut.
You're using the term "alt-right" like it is a monolithic thing, but it's not. The person I was replying to obviously wasn't using the term "alt-reich" as a nuanced description. It was a bad-faith smear.

Edit: policies that were once held by people like Bernie Sanders on immigration or Bill Clinton on crime are now considered "alt-right", but would have been considered well within the mainstream in 1995.
This seems hugely complicated. I make yogurt daily.

Warm up milk to lukewarm. Mix spoonful of starter. Bundle the vessel in a thick towel for insulation. Leave it overnight. (Or less, if you live in a very warm place).

If it is cold, I warm up the oven just a tad and turn it off, and leave the vessel inside.

Use a spoonful of that yogurt the next day as starter.
I'm also lactose intolerant and I'm sensitive enough to where different brands and types will yield different... results. Icelandic yogurt/skyr sits the best with me, it also has a more complex culture cocktail than most yogurt so it might be related to that.
You forgot "5. Zoom gets praised for developing features in response to criticism that already existed in other products that work better."

Jokes aside, with Zoom's track record, it's not worth using anymore regardless of what features they implement. Not having E2E encryption is no where near as much of a red flag as lying about it is to me.
agree with that. Also, detailling the pricing plan when leaving beta period would be nice
No difference to eye strain or comfort vs the LG 5k I used before, although a major improvement vs my old 1440p monitor. Width makes a good improvement in Xcode and the color is very accurate to the iPhone screen which helps. I prefer one big monitor now I have this.

I agree with your analogy, literally my livelihood feeds through this screen, and I find a good monitor lasts a long time.
Amazon's Distance Assistant Keeps Workers Aware of Proper Social Spacing
If they were forced to a flat fee, that flat fee (that would give store owners similar margins) would be unaffordable to most little players.
origin. I didn't realize that the original ublock even still exists.

I also have every built in list enabled except for regional lists.
AI Startup Covariant.ai Building 'Universal AI for Robots' – Synced
This is an interesting paper. But I wonder if their irreverent use of terms or expressions lowers the attention they get? Example: “Muppets everywhere” as a way to express poor performing startups.
> Person who actively dislikes 4k here

I don't think the reasons you illustrated support that conclusion. You don't actively dislike the extra pixel density of a 4K display. You seem to only dislike the compatibility issues relevant to your use case.

>No matter what operating system you're on, you'll eventually run into an application that doesn't render in high dpi mode.

FWIW, I can't recall the last time I has a problem with apps not rendering correctly in hidpi mode on MacOS. Unless you've got a very specific legacy app that you rely on for regular use it's a non-issue.

>Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming

Ah, I think I found the real issue ;-) If your linux desktop rendered 4K beautifully, seamlessly, and without any scaling issues right out of the box, I could all but guarantee that your opinion would be different.
Yes, he could only lose as much as he bought for the contract price. I don't see how someone's cash balance should ever be affected by the strike price of an unexecuted contract.

Can someone correct me?
The theoretical use case is that somehow it helps tracks suspects. Obviously that's only reality in a case where you either have broad facial recognition profiles across the population, or you have additional facial recognition cameras in an area of interest, both of which raise additional concerns.

In reality I suspect this is a solution in search of a problem. I was witness to a serious hit and run, caught video of the person who fled - clear pictures of the person, car, license plate. Should have been the easiest case in the world to handle but leos didn't even ask for the footage. Only group that has ever accepted dashcam footage from me is insurance.

Most law enforcement agencies have a lot more data than they can reasonably handle, but it's easier to complain about a lack of data than explain you can't actually analyze it.
It was for ProtonMail though. Inconsistency among app reviewers are going to be a reality forever because they're human. They just need to have processes for appealing it to someone higher up so mistakes can be corrected (which they do).

https://twitter.com/Abjurato/status/1273151302361649159
Company wanting to make money attempts to sell product!
US casinos post signs warning about gambling addiction and and post phone numbers for 24/7 help lines. Does this ethical obligation exist for trading apps as well?
You could've just said you haven't been able to find a solution.
Cookies are still stored and shared among other Incognito tabs. This makes Incognito more usable: you can login to an online store, open a few product pages in new tabs, add items to your cart from all these tabs and check out in the end. If each tab had its own cookie store, they'd have separate carts as well.

AFAIK, you need to close all Incognito tabs for the session to end.
Makes sense. I've composed screenshots of important pages here - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h6xg78lfc402k5/AAAwAYw3Yohsvp84c...

I understand if you meant to have it in the landing page, which I will get on it, I'm planning to have a demo account setup by end of this week.