skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way of understanding why complex differentiability is so strong is looking at a complex-to-complex function as a real function of two real inputs and two real outputs. The fact that h rather than |h| appears in the denominator of the complex derivative causes the derivative to be “aware” of the rotational nature of complex functions: this turns into a differential equation which must be satisfied by the real function (the Cauchy-Riemann equations).
Haha, I love reading other people's code :)

# TODO fuck. why doesn't that work???

Seriously though, this project looks great. I've been tossing around building something similar for awhile, and frankly I'm glad somebody else did it first (and from the looks of it, probably better)
It seems sensational because the media has purposely done so just like this NYT headline. It’s almost as sensational as saying “people are going to die over it.” Of course they are. They already have.
Pictures + snippets = so much better than HN's default, for me anyway. Hopefully this will inspire HN!
I've often wondered if there is an equivalent of the magnetic field for gravity. The magnetic field seems to be a consequence of resolving charge interactions for relativistic observers, and the same could be true for gravity.
I use them whenever possible in place of checks. I have a hard enough time managing my finances without waiting for the money to come out of my account. Just my two cents!
I think people over-estimate Apple's success. As a non-American Apple was never really popular until the iPhone came. The Macs never made it to the East, most of the world was dominated by PCs. Even with the iPod, most saw it as Walkman 2.0 rather than a completely new disruptive technology. Here in Japan, where iPhone has the highest market share than any other country on the planet, Macs are a rare sight, Airpods are not as ubiquitous as they are in NY, and I only started seeing Apple watches after they launched a tie-up with Suica.
If you eat the same food over and over and over again it eventually tastes bland.
There are tons of 45 and older American software professionals looking for jobs. Immigration specifically related to tech labor is promoted by big tech to dilute the labor pool and reduce their labor expenses. This group is the last of the good paying jobs in America.
The pics add a nice touch . . .
My ultimate goal (like many) is to have a lifestyle business, or at the very least, be able to work full time on my project.

I think thinking that people won't pay for it has more to do with self doubt and lack of confidence in myself.
Epic paid obscene amounts of money to studios to force them come to their store and force exclusivity on them.

They basically exploited their Fortnite money-making machine to try to become a monopoly on PC.

How is that not anti-competitive?

For reference, Steam has never forced exclusivity on partners to distribute their games.

As for cheaper, Epic didn't become they couldn't charge the same. As simple as that.
On mobile it's really easy for me to read. Don't is at a natural size and lines wrap appropriately.

[edit]

Oh I see it looks bad in Firefox on mobile. Fair enough.
Some follow up info from 1Password:

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/68850/will-you-...

It looks like Apple doesn't allow disabling of just the universal clipboard functionality, instead the whole "Handoff" feature needs disabling:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7678939

That being said, as least it can be turned off even if that means other stuff needs turning off too.
One big limitation is that you can only capture the value created on your own farm, but not the downstream effects.

There are lots of “prisoners dilemma” food production methods where everyone is better off if nobody exploits (eg: salmon runs are not owned by anyone in particular, so maintaining them is a matter for underfunded parks departments, but properly maintained they produce astonishing amounts of delicious food).
Cool hack, SX 64 computers are expensive and they don't make parts for them anymore.
If it had an SD card slot, I'd be likely to buy one. But without expansion, I don't see the benefit compared to my iPhone 4S + Third Rail case.

https://palmsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600345300...
>I mean if I need to run some reports it had better be called "runReports()" not some janky update of a state of some 'report' object to change it to 'running' state. So silly. REST is so jank.

I fail to see how that's janky, it sounds like a great abstraction. I would have a 'createReports()' method that returns an array of Report objects that all correspond to a record in a database. Easy to query for the state, id, or any other details I might need. Doesn't get any cleaner than that in my opinion.
SV is largely white and male, with a lot of strange crossover - but mainly, white, and male, Trump's biggest supporting demographic. There is also this demographic of "bro-science" white males, listening to Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, these "intellectual" type conservatives, and believe pretty much anything they hear out of them. This article is inline with that - and because it is "high-brow", it particularly works on here, unlike, say, a Rush Limbaugh soundbite.

Having said that, I liked the article. It makes some good points - I think there is dissatisfaction in general with our current time, from both sides. I think both are trying to identify that problem, and it's important to see how it is viewed from both sides. There's just a certain, "schizophrenia," of our time right now, which I think the article highlights.
Hey @shostack, thanks for reading!

From what I've observed this does not tend to get looked down upon severely, and if anything it's usually the opposite. If someone sees that you took X from 0-100, they'll already be impressed even if you struggled at 100-1000 (unless that's very specifically what they need). It's also not that easy to do the forensics to realize that someone had trouble scaling, and most resume readers won't care enough to uncover that relatively minor detail.

Additionally, many people transition out of scaling startups of their own accord – eg you get "topped" by an outside hire and bounce on good terms. People get it.

There are tens of millions of interviewers out there, however, so YMMV for any one case.
How about a more realistic example: a politician campaigning to abolish the electoral college? Thoughts?
Now we need data to determine what percentage and dollar amount are purchased by illegal immigrants sending remittances back South . . .
Woah, take's me back to late 80s computing when colors were few but paint programs all used to have patterns in them.

There's a really nice additive effect with patterns that can give a designer a way to show combinations of things together in a way that color really can't (bonus it's better for some visual impairments). For example, take a series of lines for one value:

\ \ \
\ \ \
\ \ \

and a series for another kind of value

/ / /
/ / /
/ / /

put them in the same visual space and simple add them together

x x x
x x x
x x x

You can also add in vertical, horizontal lines and even line width (and even line color over a baseline color) and you can encode a ton of different values into a single graphical area.
Cheddar refers to a place, a specific process in some kinds of hard cheese making, and to a non protected kind of cheese. You would hope all Cheddar has been through the cheddaring process. Many hard cheeses go though other processes.

Whilst I personally wish some kind of domain d'origine had applied, it is worth pointing out that stilton cannot actually be made in the village of stilton due to DOC rules: it's outside the area. Wensleydale is basically dead now, in the same sense. (I mention it because Wensleydale and red Leicester are both cheddared. I am unsure if traditional stilton is, but it has 'crumb' so it's very likely)

The boat has sailed. Cheddar is like aspirin or thermos, it's a generic. The American national cheese reserve probably is cheddared? Is pretty unlike Cheddar as I know it. If it helps preserve a milk surplus, feeds people on food stamps and helps farms, it has a role.

Cheddar gorge is lovely. They did paper making there due to water power.
Apple's AI Plan: a thousand small conveniences
The Bit Player, Claude Shannon Documentary, PW: Shannon-ISIT
I think going from almost bankrupt to a trillion dollar valued company would make Apple an unqualified success though no?

No doubt iPhone got them there more than any other product
Projects achieving their initial goals. Government keeps metrics on all grants, projects and contracts. The reason NSF is low is because they rely on universities who have poor quality control standards as they don't pay their researchers enough.
This is a bit late but those of you on the west cost might still have a chance to catch it. It's only available this weekend: https://thebitplayer.com/latest-information#special-online-s...
> "Not sure why this is downvoted."

The guidelines ask us to not comment on downvoting. In the future, if you find a comment that you think is undeservedly downvoted, you can give a compensatory upvote if you feel so moved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're wondering why you're being downvoted so quickly, you would be encouraged to read the article which addresses exactly your thinking (even the title does, but it provides detail!)
How rich or poor “America” is is something no one really cares about. The people who pretend to care do so to avoid saying the policy they propose will make themselves rich, often at the expense of a larger number of other Americans. That's quite obviously the case when capitalists support policies designed to constrain increases in skilled labor prices and thereby inflate capital returns.

This is not a knock on the article content, which is good (though not without problems), but the headline addressing an abstraction that is always a distraction from real interests.
Exactly. Comparing to a local cafe is ludicrous.
The big selling point of the Apple Mac computers line is that they are not Windows PCs. You can get stuff done without annoyance or tweaking the system.

The iPhone and iPad are so easy to use that a three year old can use them. Which makes them easier to use for ebook readers in schools.
I have long assumed that this language tradition has its origin in the fact that we are a diurnal species and naturally prefer day to night. However, I'd be very interested to know if this kind of metaphor is as common in non-European languages or if its usage changed as Europeans came into greater contact with other cultures.
Notion is mostly free now since they seem to target companies more than personal plans: https://www.notion.so/pricing.
Very cool. I wasn’t aware of this. I wish more energy went into ‘Support projects like PinePhone’ rather than legislate against Apple.
Post office banking would not be in competition with payday lenders. US Post office banks didn't originate loans. They just offered accounts and basic services.

But on a related note, is there any reasonably populated place in the US that is more than 15-20 miles from a bank or credit union? I really doubt it. People are acting like the only reason someone is underbanked is because there aren't enough banks. As a matter of fact, if you're a US citizen, all you need to set up a bank account is a smartphone or computer.
Hm that would be rather surprising. GBA was released in 2001; Thumb was introduced in 1994 with ARM7.
Depends if you want to sell it or not, plus your target platforms. IIRC Godot is not great at exporting to Switch or other consoles but maybe that has changed.

To add another option to the others, https://www.monogame.net/showcase/ is fairly popular.

It's probably worth running through a tutorial in each and seeing what clicks for you if you have no experience.
NYT hasn't met a story they can't spice up with some made up details.

Gallagher was tried in a Navy court, not federal court. When they claim they "tried repeatedly to report what they saw", they may have talked to somebody, but they sure didn't report it to any of the people in their chain of command they could have. Probably they talked to their buddies and wondered why nobody did anything. NCIS handed the case to a Navy Admiral who signed the charge sheet, not a federal court.

There are a ton of things in that story that simply aren't so.

20+ year career on active duty, multiple deployments with NSW, and lots of experience with NCIS (clowns with badges) as well.

Yes, NSW is generally tight lipped about things. The claim that the SEALs involved in this were punished for it didn't happen.
>Chinese tree of heaven are everywhere.

Ghetto palm also attracts the latest chinese hell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_lanternfly
This is not how Apple works, unlike FB or Google people stay on their teams for a long, long time.

Based on my knowledge of the company, it's pretty heavily top-down led. That would be my guess on why it's able to execute against its strategy.

But I am not sure it's particularly better at it than other tech giants. My guess for the main reason Apple is so successful is its strategy, not their execution of it: Sell expensive top-class products (even if that means being late to market), and establish strongly walled ecosystems between those products.
Even better, don’t write the software at all. Just sell training for popular open-source software. Could offer a cut of sales to developer in exchange for advertising the training on the GitHub.
GNU COBOL also implements it, and I have to admit that it's kind of fun to play around with.
that's certainly another way to put it.
Previous discussions/posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399964

I thought this was pretty awesome when I first saw it posted here, but unfortunately haven't found a good use case for it yet.

Thanks for sharing this again, had been a while since I thought of this library!
Really sorry to hear this :-(. If nothing else, this should make everyone reading this a lot more empathetic to anyone who gets into an ICU and realise that the psychosis and suffering is real.
> I think people over-estimate Apple's success.

Leaving aside the unique qualities of the Japanese market, I think this depends a lot on your definition of success.

If you believe that a major consumer products company can only be "successful" if they have universal global penetration and a user base in the hundreds of millions, that's certainly a difficult standard to meet. It's also, I'd argue, a very modern standard - nobody would've thought that way in 1995 (or even 2005).

On the other hand, if you define "success" as repeatedly shipping good and innovative products that users love over a span of ~40 years and being (mostly) insanely profitable while doing so, then it's hard to argue against Apple's success.

Apple also has a market cap of $1.5 Trillion, with a T, so there's that.
> The keyboardist for Casiopea also composed all of the station jingles for the subway in Japan

This is amazing! I had no idea this was the same person. I love Casiopea.
While Roam isn't competitive when it comes to pricing, my main gripe would be 1. people are paying $15 a month for a _beta_ with not that great UI/UX 2. there have been past incidents of people losing all their work because persistence is still a problem.
Easy solution: Raise postage, make china pay for it, or stop delivering to China.
Wait, that is too good to reward only with an upvote! Than you for that gem!
Why aren't they asking the recipients pay for the loss ?Obviously people are so gung-ho for buying cheap chinese crap from ali-express or wish, they can pay the additional couple of bucks to hav etheir packages delivered to them or send them back to china.
Very interesting article! I'd recommend actually reading it :)

I'm a big cheddar fan and I had never heard of this:

> Aged cheddar, like other hard, aged cheeses, is very low in lactose.

Also, the snippet about cheddar growing in popularity due to its ease of transport (spoils slower due to less moisture content) is interesting.
Even for online bill pay, checks are still very much a thing. Payments to big financial institutions, like credit card and mortgage payments, usually go electronically and are more or less instant. But not everyone is set up to receive electronic payments -- when I pay my property taxes or dentist using online bill pay, my bank just prints out and mails them a paper check, and it takes a week for them to receive it!
I'm finding GraphQL very difficult to manage for a team of developers that is learning it as they go. Generally it seems that if we do what GraphQL wants us to do with the ability of deeply nested queries, the complexity increases so much that we have the dual pain of weird corner case performance bugs and highly complex QA scenarios. And if we start tearing apart the queries to force the frontend to make more numerous smaller queries, then we lose much of the benefit. I'm suspecting that the team is too focused on a false choice of a spectrum and that there's an entirely different philosophy we should be following to get the best of both worlds (predictability and flexibility) but we haven't been able to put our finger on it yet.
Thank you so much for your well written and well thought out answer.

If I'm understanding correctly, if the code is publicly available in source form, then it is a different situation then if it is sold as a product. As a result of this, you would be able to write whatever source code you wanted, and share it, but if you begin trying to sell it then you could be in legal danger.

If through some nightmare scenario it did become illegal to write software without a backdoor, then much of the existing FLOSS software that is affected would get forked and development would get moved underground.
I had the same experience in late Jan/early Feb.
You can see this in console games now too. Day 1 multi-gigabyte patches are common now that it's assumed everyone has a sufficient connection.
For want of a margin the kingdom was lost.

I hate no margins and use the Goyo vim plugin to make my editing experience more pleasurable.
As far as low quality HN submissions go, this is pretty low quality
It's like calling someone you don't know, but over a secure line.
Rates are determined by the United Nations Universal Postal Union. The US was threatening to withdraw over this last year, but settled on the ability to raise rates on China starting next month. [1] This is covered in the article, too.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/business/universal-postal...
I wonder how many US tech companies wouldn't exist were it not for immigrants? Germany and Canada are probably taking advantage of the situation.
Yes, definitely. But the article seems to suggest that Apple has enjoyed continued success for past 3 decades. But in reality they only established themselves with the iPhone. Apple's model already has a proven weakness - Microsoft. Had Microsoft created good Mobile OS around 2008-09 iPhone wouldn't have seen much success IMO.

So Apple's success is more of lack of a good competitor more than anything else. High end Android phones + Fast, stable, long term supported OS from Microsoft + Developers would have done the same thing to iPhone that PC did to Macs.
Those constrained by this, note Canada's relatively new startup visa:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Tariffs are determined by international treaty.
it depends on how much "consumer effort" repairing costs.

Most people seem to replace their phones on a regular 2-3 year cadence. Much less so on laptops -- and surely Macs tend to get supported for long period of time; I can run Big Sur on a 6 year old Mac.

Same with iPhones -- iPhone 6S is going to run iOS 14.

As a consumer, if I were to buy an alternative to the iPhone -- which is practically _only_ Android -- then I'm looking at software obsolescence much earlier;

I mean, look at Android 11 & iOS 14. iPhones released in 2015 are still supported but Android 11 goes only as far back as Pixel 2, a phone from 2017.

So it doesn't seem like Apple is a company that is using "planned obsolescence" from a purely functionality perspective.

Sure, hardware degrades in quality overtime -- but that's a function of physical constraints -- not business strategy to get people to buy new stuff; well, at least for the _most_ (some?) part.
This is great! Sometimes I wish I took more analysis back in school.
Exactly. Inevitably some of my co-workers brought up the "points" in this thread too, that it feels patronizing & unfair.

I'm not suggesting anyone be patronizing. I'm simply saying
you should be aware of the fact a co-worker might be feeling a certain way, and then notice & speak up if you see, for example, their idea(s) being misattributed to others.

The idea that being an ally would be patronizing is comparable to people responding to "black lives matter" with "all lives matter". Yes, all lives should matter, but all lives don't matter until black lives matter. If you work somewhere where white people are being systemically held back, you should speak up there as well, but I doubt that is the case.
Ok. I think fine-grained parallelism is the established term for this.
Are you signing in with AWS users or STS AssumeRole? My company does the latter: there’s a user management account and then each project gets their own account. To access a particular account, we have to use a user in the user-management account to assume a role in the account we want to access. This makes the AWS CLI tooling annoying and it also makes the AWS console annoying to access: you have to generate a sign-in link programmatically and use that link in the browser to sign in. However, if you’re already signed into an account, this pops up a page that says “you’re already signed in, please click here to log out before switching accounts”. Then you have to logout and regenerate the link before you can access the account you want.

My solution was an app with a minimal embedded webkit browser, so that I can programmatically clear the cookies every time I login to a new account: that way, the sign-in link works first try. Since then, it’s grown the ability to list Cloudformation stacks and their parameters and outputs.
In grad school for Operating Systems class, one of our assignments was adding a system call to the linux kernel. I found that a useful exercise - both doable in a reasonable amount of time and also a way to learn a lot.
The title could probably be improved to reflect that changes to rates begin in three days:

> On September 25, 2019, the United States and United Nations reached a deal for America to stay in the UPU in return for being allowed greater flexibility in setting prices. In other words, the U.S. can now set rates for mail from China and other countries. The U.S. will be allowed to set its own postal rates starting on July 2020 and other countries will be allowed to starting in 2021. There will be a five-year period of phasing in new rates.

> The maximum annual increases for all countries cumulatively from 2020 to 2025 will be between 119%-164% (with China being on the upper end). This works out to annual increases of 15% in 2021 and 2022, 16% in 2023 and 2024, and 17% in 2025.
And if you're using the pattern element, you can drop in any svg element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/pat...
This is old news. I'm not a fan of Trump, but his gambit on withdrawing from the UN Postal Union is one of the few good things that came from his administration.
Also works the other way. Violence against peaceful BLM protesters and journalists counts as one example. To me it is simple, if all they have is speech, speech minus a call to action,it should be tolerated. If an action is taken or suggested then rules to regulate that action or intent apply. Conspiracy laws exist for a reason.
So is someone running the kernel on their Macintosh II... to do a thing (obviously as the article notes it was tested on a Centris 650) or is this just an awesome thing to do because it could be done?