skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use OSM all the time in the form of the app, OsmAnd. Fantastic app, gets me where I'm going, has most shops indexed: the few times it didn't I added them myself and benefited everyone.

I especially like that, as a cyclist, it always picks the greener path for me to get through Copenhagen. Huge feature over Google Maps for me.

I'd really like to see better transit directions. OsmAnd does have them but not stop-by-stop.
Yes that would be perfect use of it
I get the feeling that your own post is very much political.
That you aren't using floating point.
Only if you use just a mouse. Usually I'll just hit a windows key, type a keyword related to whatever I'm looking for and it's there.
99.95% that is.

Source: https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-enterpr...
Hopefully you don't have micro-USB chargers, but USB chargers and micro-usb cables.

I don't use Apple products, but reducing waste like this is great. Most people should have buckets of chargers by now, and even if they lack the cable, it's better to buy when needed.
Dont Naughty Dog still use some type of lisp for their scripting?
It's pretty uncomfortable to read on desktop, too - at least on my large monitor - since there are no margins.
Even fees and price caps would not be considered capitalist or free-market - they both interfere with the market dynamics. In all cases, we need to interfere with the free market to improve goodness for society as a whole.

But we don't need to attach moral connotations to this – the companies have done nothing illegal, and the executives are doing their jobs. The issue is when technology is applied to natural free markets, a monopoly logically results, which kills the market if left unchecked.
maybe I've missed something, but `catt` supports youtube natively.

$ catt cast https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxx
$ catt add https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxx

the latter will even add to your existing youtube chromecast queue

(it's using youtube-dl in the backgroud, but no need to mess about with pipes)
Ask HN: Examples of Good Landing Pages?
Hi HN I am trying to optimize a landing pages for google ads - outcome is either telephone call or online booking - any good examples or best practices?
> For instance, you can not make an objective assessment on whether prescribing a pain drug to patient is the right thing to do, because pain and suffering is a subjective experience.

Yes, pain and suffering are subjective experiences, but they are also objective phenomena. We know, to some extent, how pain works, and can see it happening on brain scans.

I think the core of our disagreement here is that you seem to think that experience is somehow supernatural and therefore can't be studied, but it isn't: experience happens in the physical world, via physical and chemical processes, and can absolutely be studied via normal scientific means.
I personally find uses for these extra chargers, I would never give one away; and USB-C chargers are especially rare in my house.

Allow me to personally offer to take any off the hands of anyone who feels they have too many.
>how long will the West wait until they take action?

I think most people in the west are simply ignorant of the situation.

I've been told by Taiwanese people living in the west that most westerners don't even know of Taiwan, or think it is Thailand.

Many western governments are addicted to Chinese money. The EU will never do anything concrete with regards to China since someone will probably veto.

Quite a few activist type people I know/knew (like the "occupy" anti-capitalist crowd) are pro-China, with a bunch of set talking points either justifying things the CCP did or calling it fake news.

I think "sinophobia" is on track to become the new "antisemitism", whereby it is a legitimate issue that quickly gets hijacked by nationalists who want to discredit anyone who criticizes Israel (or China).
Not sure what tree you think I'm barking up. I do think the issue of local production and less transportation is an important issue; not everything is just about Amazon and Alibaba. But even if you just focus on those, Amazon at least has to obey local standards for the country in which they sell. Products from Aliexpress only obey Chinese standards, which are very different. And sometimes they ship with misleading logos which could suggest to European customers that they obey EU rules when they don't.
I hate Microsoft. I've seen a lot of unicorn lately.
Years ago, it was too complex for me. I recently switched to Gogs and I'm satisfied with that. But that's Git only.
Double precision isn't floating point? I'm not sure that's his point.
Not Arduino, but there is an open-source fingerprints reader for RPI: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspireader-fingerprint-sca...

Is it that much worse in smaller form-factor? NDA only?
No. I don't think this is about that though.

This isn't about a policy that costs money, and creates benefits. It's not even really a policy. It's a side effect of quasi-diplomatic arrangements created decades ago... with no relationship between original goals and current outcomes.

Maybe it makes sense to subsidize a national package delivery. IF so, they can make a policy that does this, but this one isn't it.
> Apple is selling a phone and a computer.

Even if this were true I don't think it would matter because Apple sells a lot of phones, but anyway this is a gross oversimplification of what Apple is in 2020. The services business alone - App Store, iTunes, etc. - is almost $50 billion a year. Apple nets as much money selling digital goods as Samsung does from its entire line of business.

They also make the only smartwatch consumers care about, headphones that have become status symbols, the canonical tablet (everything is an iPad even if it isn't), one of the most popular STBs in the world, and a metric ton of accessories and peripherals.

The money doesn't come from accounting fraud or tricking people; it comes from making really good stuff that lots of people want to buy.
But maybe Apple consumers will? I have a number of USB-C cables. Anyway, I agree that reducing waste is good, but this move isn’t about waste. If Apple cared about waste, they’d come up with some way of keeping old devices out of landfills.
I had exactly the same thoughts.

"Simplicity. From the creators of <<in order to create a text editor, let's create an OS first>>"

BTW, I love and hate emacs at the same time.
I was just thinking that Github stayed fairly consistent and Bitbucket didn't really challenge it on features, and then Gitlab came in, shipped loads of popular features and lots of CI functionality, and Github has been delivering a lot of new features a lot faster ever since really, so I think Microsoft acquisition is quite possibly not a root cause of downtime changes.

It's also worth noting that downtime and issues caused during updates in self-hosted Github are significant. I have experienced them, and I guess the main difference is actually that you can schedule the risk, rather than accept it arbitrarily which has positives but comes at significant cost too.
I can't wait for the end of this era of whitespace obsession. I'm convinced it was never about design aesthetic, but just a ploy to expand the scrolling distance for legitimate page content within which one can place more advertising.
The Antic Cyber Graphics Software (2002)
It could also mean that they are more active and creating more chaos due to more changes.

shameless and useless advertising.
I think we are passed the point where we can win a war against China without major causalities.

It's much cheaper and safer to (1) stop buying stuff from China to create economic unrest and (2) support forces that fight for a more free China.

(Purely hypothetical, I don't really condone any of this)
Aggressive stances towards deportation are the consequence of inaccurate arguments that immigrants are on average unwelcome freeloaders and destroyers of job value rather than making the future of the country more sustainable though. It's entirely possible for immigrants to have security of tenure and actually more desirable given declining birth rates: it's the assumption that our current society would be more sustainable in their absence which drives governments to make it as difficult as possible to obtain/retain.

All the rhetoric which drove repatriation of the Windrush migrants [a much more representative case than Begum leaving the UK to join ISIS] was based around the popularisation of the idea that the UK was 'full' of 'unsustainable' numbers of migrants. So it certainly doesn't help immigrants to pointedly refuse to state reasons why this is incorrect.
Your source is the OECD, which is basically just Western, developed countries.

If you look at the entire world, the picture is different.
[With regards to waste;] 3rd party chargers have been ridiculously unreliable with the lightning connector. No idea what is so hard to get right, but I've never had a ~$10 cable last more than a year, sometimes just a couple months or a week.

I'm not particularly rough with them, just plug them in a couple times a day at my desk or bed.

Sometimes my girlfriend's iPhone uses my charger as well, which can seem to expedite their failure. We have one which chargers hers fine, but only mine when plugged in a specific side up.
I quite like the idea of a 'context' file that lists what you were doing when you stopped.

I tend to check in code that's broken on purpose with a message: "BROKEN... " and then roughly where the project was.

Also, I tend to check in code with links in the comments to anything I was using so that I can find the links again.
> gangsters've made some terrible decisions (from economic perspective) and now the only voters they only get old people who only have TV access.

In America, that's an electable majority. Bit of voter suppression and making sure that it's difficult for working age people to vote just helps to push it over the line.

Even more so in the UK, where 44% of the vote share gives total control.
Try cleaning it. I’ve had dust accumulate in a lightning port making it unreliable. I thought the port had failed for the longest time but it was just dust.

And I don’t think lightning cables wearing out has anything to do with the standard and everything to do with Apples poor lightning cables.

I also can’t see how people think USBC is more robust. There is a tiny little wafer in the port... I get nervous just looking at it. At least with a lightning port it’s large enough to get something in there and clean it out. USBC just looks so delicate.
Ag nee ouens !
And government makes boatload of cash by changing tariffs, port clearance, and tons of other fees etc... If you remove all of them, we can get wayy cheaper price than what we get.
Seconded, Nostalgia Nerds video on it ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs ) is an excellent breakdown of why we have two pipe chars: | and ¦
Yeah really. I feel the same thing. Can't comment anything right now and Ive been trying for the past hour.
It dies every three weeks.
Megadesk
Strings have nothing to do with the issue that there is no widespread lossless text exchange format for FP. Instead we round FP numbers while encoding (like "0.3") and then "deround" it while decoding.

(Lossless base10 encoding of 0.3 single precision would be like "10066330*2^-25"..not very readable).
Can we make this thread a sticky?
It'll be a shame when the Government starts building the road tunnels underneath Stonehenge to allegedly ease traffic. Sacred doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary.
Keep Your Stuff, for Life
[edit: re-read your post; you're well aware what handoff is, so sorry for the overly vivid explanation]

That's 'cell planning'. Roaming is different:

Let's say you're moving from your bedroom to the kitchen. The bedroom AP's signal suddenly drops. Your smartphone needs to find the kitchen AP, re-connect, and re-transmit all the packets that might have been lost.

Mobile networks assist the smartphone: it tells the smartphone that the kitchen AP will soon be in range. It already allocates and configures resources at the target AP. Then the handover is more seamless.

In theory, WiFi can do this too. But last time I checked, it seemed a vendor-specific mess.
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654297
Double precision is FP, Decimal is not FP.

Your software might confuse these two, but that notion isn't supported by computer science.
There is small UART biometric module https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=2304-100018754-...

The biggest downside - it's more that 3 times more expensive than the device I have now.
Ironically this link is down for me.
Well done! It’s not easy writing a book and it really tests your knowledge more than just doing the thing. I say that having written a crappy 20 pager!

Anyway was that 3months full time or part time?

What are your marketing plans? I hope it pays off financially too. I think you are on trend so there would be demand.
Definitely. I didn't intend my comment to be taken as a 'one trick to rule them all and make sure you'll finish your side projects from now on' :).

It's simply a dirt simple trick that helped me a lot because it keeps a 'live thread' between the project and me. This feature I know I have to finish, the low friction to start, ...

It's not a silver bullet, and of course at some point you have to finish stuff up to complete your project. Starting small is definitely a good idea as well indeed.
Definitelly by my perosnal experience.

Part of it might be due to covid, but it started happening before that.

On the positive side, github had tone of changes since then, all seem to be good ones, so its understandable that it has more problems now as well.
Yes.

Last time it was down was just 6 days ago: [0]

I think its time to look for alternatives or frankly in the long term, follow what some open-source orgs are doing and self-host instead.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23604944
They have. Trade in programs, recycling drop offs at their store, refurbishment programs, robots that take the phones apart for reuse (https://www.cnet.com/news/how-apples-daisy-iphone-recycling-...). Imperfect, but approached from many sides.
And many consumers already have headphones, cases, old screens lying around, why not charge full price for an empty box and allow you build your own iPhone from parts ordered separately. Fans will be more than thrilled.
Some oligarchs can't visit Europe/US anymore and spend their $$$ there.
Personally, I'd prefer some availability over sparkly features.
Corruption or incompetence? Hard to tell at the moment.
> But honestly they have no excuse to not adopt Micro-USB or USB-C.

The only reason for usb-c on my phone is the convenience factor. Otherwise I find lightening superior in every other way. And micro-usb, you have to be kidding.
I do not understand why would you ever round trip floats through text. That seems useless? In any case, if you really want to do that then you use a hexadecimal float representation (like C's printf has had the "%a" conversion since forever) , or simply print out the bytes. Representing a float in decimal is absolutely idiotic and the people who commit this atrocity and get into trouble for that have it coming.
E-waste could be reduced by offering charger for free, if customer wanted. The thing I always liked about iPhone was to open up the box and you have everything you need to use the device,
Well maybe if we had supported our local high tech businesses better the UK would be self sufficient and if Martlesham / Marconi had been better manged we would have our own 5g tech.
Ironically, Firefox tells me to stay away from your website. Which, I will.

update: the website is back and well now from my end.
On my team our downtime is very closely correlated with how much we're working and changing the product. I'd be surprised if GitHub is much different.
They are porting things over to ASP.NET on Azure.
Political Data Leak in Malta
Atlassian does SaaS like Java does terseness.
If it has, what is p?
Both the link and github comments are down for me too; I am unsure whether it has been down more since the acquisition but this is unacceptable to me. I have been trying to post a comment to an issue i made for the last few hours and every time it says "You can't comment at this time" which I find very misleading. It should say "Sorry, our system has a problem, please try again later". The implication of the current message is that my permissions are wrong or something else has happened.

This has bumped self-hosting all my repositories much higher up my list.
Yeah I'm in the same situation, my dream is to become an independent game developer, but that is super risky and I only have a small buffer.

Currently, avoiding homelessness > following dreams.

God, I wish basic income was a thing.
No, but the customer service is still unparalleled. I ordered a cable, and the one I got wasn't the one I ordered. I clicked three buttons, (link from the email to my order, return product, and chose "product not what was descrived" as the reason) and I had a refund as Amazon credit, without having to return the item instantly. If you're talking about the $/£5-10 phone case/misc cable market, ordering off amazon is significantly less hassle then the alternatives (going to a random "phone shop" on the high street, ordering from eBay, or ordering from AliExpress), and likely as error prone.
Roxi Music System
Who supplies music and voice activation for service? Are they operating personal data mining for revenues? https://roximusicsystem.com/privacy-policy/
Millions of non-Apple phone users have been doing fine for the past few years. Also by your logic, Apple would care about the potential damage to the iPhones and iPads but not about the iPad Pro and the entire laptop lineup?
Ironically, it seems your site is down? Hug of death?
Astute observation. Yes, I'm asking you to explain why the 2012 connector is better than the 2014 one, because that's the one I have doubts about, as opposed to the obsolete 2007 one.

Would you rather break a $10 cable or a $800 phone? I'd much rather the cable, though you seem to have different priorities to me.

The last point is referring to the cable tip? That's more to do with individual cable design than anything else.

So, it's not really better in any way, except for being on Apple devices, gotcha.
Non-paywall link: https://www.theguardian.com./science/2020/jun/26/satellite-e... (put a . after the domain)
There's no such thing as a Chinese Export or China Export mark, it's an urban myth (see your own link).
And not for the better, imo the new UI sucks, mostly my eyes have to travel much more than before for the same amount of info.
Did anybody else cringe at "the Sun and the Earth weigh different amounts"?
That's pretty much their conclusion

> [..] GitHub has been down more since the acquisition by Microsoft. But that could be all a part of coordinated effort to be more transparent about their service status, an effort that should be applauded.
I have had a few stints of trying out emacs. I used spacemacs, doom and rolled my own. It never gained any traction for me. I think the reason for this, is that the amount of time I would put into memorizing all the shortcuts and control / meta combinations, setting up all the lisp plugins (and then remembering their control key / meta combinations) is just not worth it for the time lost setting up and learning for the productivity gained. I am better to just use an IDE with all its bells and whistles and for general terminal work my old simple VIM set up easily does the job.

As far as org-mode, meh. I really don't see whats so amazing about collapsible to-do notes anymore. As for email, listening to music etc, I am sorry, but browsers do that job very well and with zero time needed to scour around blogs trying to get them to work.
200% agree. People are different, what works for one might not work for others. It's just one trick out of many others.

You seem to be using side-projects as something with an end goal, which I admire :). Most of my projects are more 'let's try to use this new thing to...'.
Interestingly, features have a very beneficial effect for me in the short term (few days / weeks) and a very adverse one in the long run. By building a 'feature list' when I start a side project it's almost like if I was removing half the fun and it start looking much like work again. So I try to not look ahead too much and enjoy the ride.

That's why I love doing side projects with other people as well when I can : you can feed off what excites others as well and combine different motivators :).
While Snow Crash has its problems (like the standard Stephenson 'ending? what ending?') everyone should read the first chapter. That chapter on its own is a work of art.
It's easy to see from the uptime history [1] that there have been many more incidents in April-June than in January-April.

Don't know if that has anything to do with the Microsoft acquisition, but it is concerning.

[1] https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=1
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I actually learned quite a bit of details for the tools & technologies I write about. Teaching / writing is the best way to learn!

It was 3 months part-time. Evenings and weekends almost exclusively though.

As for marketing, I am planning to write a blog post and/or video series where I explain my journey, what I learned, the tools I used, share scripts I wrote to make my life easier.

It's been a fantastic learning experience and I hope my story will encourage others.
Isn't this what Google's Spanner does?
Sorry but I entirely disagree with you here given the context - I am answering the question "Is there something substantial that Sublime users are missing?".

What I described is a substantial benefit of using emacs over sublime text.

If you are a programmer there are many benefits to total control over a system, and the ability to compose new functionality from a solid foundation of base functions. Now, you could happily use emacs forever without ever using that control, but the difference is with something like Sublime control you don't even have the freedom to make the choice as to whether you want to or not. It's out of your control, which is a downside when compared to emacs.

The OP wasn't asking why would anyone want control they were asking what are the benefits of emacs in comparison to sublime.
Probably, but that doesn't work so well for USB-C - you really need it end to end in order to get the best charging performance, and the rumour is that Apple will only include a USB-C to Lightning cable with no standard USB equivalent. Also, Apple's official cables cost about as much as a charger on their own last time I checked, and they've done quite a lot of work to lock out unofficial ones.
>Unless we significantly change the game, Putin will keep winning.

How we change the game - do these same studies on our own oligarchs. Treat the members of the CFR with the same interest in their financials.
I would not compare election quality of "Russia" with UK/US. For example, now we have a voting procedure during pandemics where nobody wants to go not to get infected with corona. But the old people get their voting papers home delivered by pro-Putin activists (Good targeting). It's also not rare for police to arrest key people from opposition and for us to see videos of voting stations based on the stump (literally) in the countryside.

In US you have whole war of Facebook not handling AI enough and your "branches of power" do somewhat work. For sure you have your own problems, but Russia is on another level.