skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now we are talking. The thing is, only few work on those big projects. The rest are doing god knows what and have to jump ships often. If your resume says you spent 5 years maintaining a smallish noname project, your career is at risk. I don't believe that Google keeps all its 100k employees busy with complex and high impact projects.
Speaking from experience: the USB-C Yubikey will snap right off, without damaging the port (at least, on a ThinkPad X1).
I agree with you both. I'd be worried if Vanguard suddenly became like Robinhood.

There's a new version of the Vanguard app on the App Store called "Beacon" that includes a very useful visual overhaul (account balances & performance are front and center) but keeps that wonderful Vanguard focus on, well, staying the course and not much else.
Please keep generational flamewar off HN. It's not what this site is for and it's particularly toxic and avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An update: they're now going with a scheme whereby students get to keep the better of the two grades given by two different methods, with teachers' predictions on the one hand, and the 'standardisation' system on the other.

Presumably this will lead to grade inflation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655

See also Wales seeming being the first to switch to this approach: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53807854
We have released LibreSSL 3.1.4
Years later, and I've had a ton of problems actually finding an Independent Repair provider. As far as I can tell Apple does not actually maintain a directory, and it's left for local repair shops to market/advertise. The later, then is highly dependent on their Google ranking skills.

I went to a local repair shop for years. I went in a third time in a year to change a battery on an iPhone 8. Each time they apologized, blamed it on a bad shipment of batteries, and repaired it for free. However, on that third time, I chatted them up about the IRP. The guy got extremely hostile about the program.

Screw that place. Took me a while, but I finally did find a IRP after much googling and asking around.
Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on Covid-19 – Mises Wire
It's not amazing. If the regulatory and govt moves against apple succeed apple will be shipping devices with back door / root access for intercept purposes within months. The idea that the govt is going to do more to protect your privacy than apple is is a joke.

If you are the out group -> govt will be after you (depending on which administration is in power the out groups may change). I'm all for subpoena's and access to records, but there is a whole secondary national security letter / secret process you never get to challenge. And yes, there are agents harassing ex-girlfriends using their existing tools.

So what's amazing to some of us is that there are folks looking to gobble up whatever garbage is coming from the regulatory movements against apple.

There is a reason Apple get to charge so much. They are TRUSTED - trusted FAR FAR more than tump admin political appointees running DOJ / FTC etc despite the fact the govt spends trillions and should be most trusted player out there.

Heads up - look to australia to see govt "succeeding" - pretty soon we will all have to pay a mandatory murdoch license fee if the regulatory lovers get their way.
Oh god...Marin NIMBYism is really crazy when it comes to that stuff. And there's a lot of conspiracy theory / 5G type stuff that goes on as well. Strange to think that many of the folks who live there are in charge of a lot of the companies on HN (or are senior execs there).
You're not seriously trying to equate Xbox and iPhone usage in the same category
Let's not forget how much bigger iOS is now compared to 2007. I doubt it would run smooth on a 128MB device in 2020. Phone companies have to keep up with software's requirements.
Cool! I don't have much data on how many companies are using events for key workflows, but I do know that many, many companies would _love_ to replay HTTP requests!
Robinhood cannot easily expand its product base because a majority of their current revenue is from selling order flow. Most of the products you listed as well as other seemingly easy to offer products are going to be tough to sell to someone because there's no easy way to offer free/cheap transactions. It's very tough to convert a non-paying customer base to a paying one. Additionally, at least for mortgages and bonds, I don't see how Robinhood would ever be able to be competitive in either of those spaces.
What do you mean that FN is closer to the "metaverse"?
it is a google employee picking a winner of an algo update
> Why do you care? If you don't want to install a third-party app store, then don't. The games available on Apple's store will continue to adhere to Apple's rules, and if you want that curation, you still get it.

Apple users care because if non-App Store distribution methods are banned, then developers are forced to go through Apple's process to get access to them. You can see complaints around this thread about how bad Epic's store on PC is. On iOS, they're forced to use Apple's purchase UI, subscription rules, privacy rules, etc.
Nice to know, so they can happily charge 95% from your app?
I think we are slowly coming to the consensus (as a society) that security is preferable to freedom because it maximizes harm reduction (harm reduction being the ultimate metric by which to measure the value of something).

I don't agree at all, but the way our government is, it's a one way ratchet to get new laws passed. Speech laws only get stricter (one inch at a time) over the years, never looser. Gun laws only get stricter (one inch at a time) over the years, never looser. Intellectual property laws only get stricter (one inch at a time) over the years, never looser.

Lives are saved every time the ratchet torques an inch of freedom into security, so I guess that's the upside. I just worry that life won't be as fulfilling when we are perfectly secure.
Sure thing! I only meant to imply the relative ordering of considerations.
I suspect you’d quickly find that consumers don’t have much of an appetite for a third set of standards, unless it offers a substantially better UX than existing offerings.
Not enough people are willing to spend time at city hall community hearings and make the voice of reason heard whereas these other people will show up to make demands. Same thing happened here when the city wanted to install free wifi in public parks for students, all the nuts flooded the meetings making ridiculous claims and demands but none of the people who would benefit bothered to show up so they canned the idea.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24161104.
I do think the recent fires have nudged things towards more undergrounding. I'm familiar with some of the dialogue in similarly rural/affluent peninsula towns, and it's mostly a debate about safety versus cost to underground.

There's an effort to underground the utilities near Foothill College by tapping into Santa Clara County Fire's funds for improved fire safety, since they're allowed to use these funds in that specific location.
> Let's get real and either do something or enjoy the ride to hell.

Easy for anyone not on the Indian sub-continent to say:
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-3/3-4/3-4-11/figure...
Chromebooks might be the way to go if your district is using any kind of Google setup (Classroom, Docs, or both) for school lessons. Having a keyboard is a big help.

If Google is not a factor and you just want to set up the iPads so the kids focus on their work, you either manage the iPad or manage the internet traffic.

For managing the iPad, there's ScreenTime built into iOS and some third-party programs like OurPact that can shut off individual apps and prevent the kids from downloading new apps. Neither is 100% effective. ScreenTime is a dissapointment IMO and, as far as my experience goes, it's abandonware from Apple at this point.

For managing the internet, you can install something like Disney Circle that will interfere with DNS on their devices and prevent them from reaching certain domains thereby blocking them off net-required apps like Facebook or Snapchat. You can also try OpenDNS or some other gizmos like PiHole that can sink traffic for specific clients.

But remember, kids are smart. They figure out workarounds and trade them with their friends. It's a constant time consuming fight as you have observed.

(Meta-comment: there will be others here that will state that blocking kids from internet apps and filtering traffic is a bad thing and shouldn't be considered at all. What you choose to do as a parent is your choice, especially when trying to manage remote learning in this new era. Don't let anyone change what you believe is the best outcome for your own children.)
$10 billion in 1967 dollars? No wonder it never got built!
Honestly, making fun of old platforms like the web (which isn't even that old) suggests that the writer is the kind of wide-eyed business huckster playing into Americans' cultural affinity for new tech, and folks like that are a huge chunk of the reason why we have so much technology churn today

Old, mature technology is a treasure. Not something to make fun of
Yeah, but the technology used for all of the games is the same isn't it? It's just streaming.

And if it's about content, I doube Apple is pre-approving every Netflix show. I bet some of the offerings on Netflix even show female nipples.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-instagram-bans-freetheni...
My anecdote is the opposite. I lived in Santa Clara from 2002-2010, San Carlos 2010-2011, Belmont 2011-2014, Redwood City 2014-present.

Never had AC on the Peninsula. We have heatwaves every year. This summer has been remarkably mild, low 70s most of July and August until now. We got our heatwave. A bit more humid than normal thanks to tropical storm remnants, 70f dewpoint and 95f on Sunday, 65f dewpoint and spiked to 105f Saturday briefly.

It seems fractionally warmer than most heatwaves, and slightly longer, but doesn't 'feel' indicative of a trend.

Still no A/C, and I guess I notice it more now that I'm home 24/7, but still totally do-able.

Been running the house fan overnight to get the rooms down into the mid-high 70s.
Because they've just announced the next entry into a series of processors that by all accounts can take the fight to Intel and AMD's best (and has done so for some time), which requires huge investments and long term planning, roadmaps and funding commitments to work. Seems pretty committed to long term thinking to me.
I mean... yes? I think we should have the right to modify / tinker with things we buy, with the understanding that doing so voids any warranties or manufacturer liability.
Clarisworks was a successor to AppleWorks for the Apple 2/2gs computers. Don't recall when MS Works launched but they didn't have an exclusive on the name. IIRC Appleworks was launched alongside ProDOS.
Simplest compromise I've heard so far is for Apple's cut to scale with size of IAP/subscription.

30% cut starting at $0.99 purchases. As mentioned this barely covers processing fees.

20% cut starting at $9.99.

10% cut starting at $49.99.

Not only does this fix the Epic, Netflix, Hey, etc issue where high value or high volume txns get unfairly middlemanned by Apple. It also incentivizes developers away from the "race to the bottom" effect that made everything a crummy $0.99 microtransaction in the first place.
This is literay a life lesson. No one cares of your struggles in general
Stranger, your links above were very helpful for me in formulating my company's strategy in 5G. we are a big well known player. How can I get in touch with you for a more in depth conversation?
It's a bummer and wholly unnecessary that such a partisan, politically loaded term as "fake news" wound up in this story. It forces anyone who objects to the usual usage of "fake news" to either swallow their tongue if they want to participate in the conversation, or more likely, opt out.
Customer discover 101 (including a Notion template)
Hi everyone! Decided to write a customer discovery 101 article (including a Notion template for the insights database), covering topics such as:

- Where to recruit users?
- How to structure interviews?
- What are the best tools to transcribe and store customer insights?
- How to find patterns in customer data?
- Turning insights into action

Enjoy and share your opinions ️
Nationalistic flamebait like this will get you banned here. No more, please, regardless of which nation you have a problem with.

Also, if you'd please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Little Red Riding Hood or Three Little Pigs, would be my first two guesses.
If the outlook was this ominous, why would VCs invest? It doesn't make sense. Surely they see something in the pitch deck?
Dead chinese = good chinese
You still have to replace that 9% with something that runs 24/7.
> is not intentional. It's an adaptation to a mistake.

Yes, that's what language is. Will you be complaining about "apron" as an adaptation to a mistake?

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-a-na...

> It's similar to how people say "irregardless", which is clearly an error.

It's an error that's been being made since 1795, though, and people have been understanding it which pretty much qualifies it as being incorporated into the language.

(I should note that I am strongly descriptivist and think that prescriptivists are silly people.)

> using "regardless" is strictly better.

I think "regardless" is better, yes, because it's a lot easier to say but that's just my opinion, not a Gilt Edged Rule Of English.
I wish I could say yes to all of those, as long as the risks of unintended behavior and damage are clearly explained.
Because they were not kicked from the app store for doing so.
I agree that Apple should be free to make their own rules on the App Store, but because of the lack of sideloading, some of the rules they enforce eliminate legitimate apps from the iOS platform, not just malware, and they can destroy businesses. OP is complaining about App Store rules because that's the only distribution platform for apps on iOS, but I agree that they should instead argue for the possibility of sideloading.
Among other things, trying to teach my offspring reminds me of how profoundly unqualified I am to be a father. It feels like I've thrown everything plus the kitchen sink at the wall to see what sticks. I do not claim to do a good job. They've maintained wikis for a while with us, and that has been something I hold in high regard. Feel free to HMU, https://philosopher.life/, if you want to talk.
The problem is not that Epic would be able to prevent other stores from being installed.

The problem is that if there are multiple app stores, it encourages a race-to-the-bottom for the app stores -- why go through Apple's store with all its vetting if you can release to the Epic store instead?

So, yes, the worry is exactly that another company might offer better terms to developers -- because sometimes, those terms don't matter to users (e.g. the cut between the app store and the developer), but other times, those terms are absolutely at a cost to the users.

If Epic has a way of offering multiple stores, while preventing that race-to-the-bottom from impacting the user experience, it'd be wonderful. But that doesn't seem to be what Epic is pushing for; Epic seems to be pushing for their own profit at a cost to Apple (which is fine, IMHO -- it's just business) and to the iOS ecosystem (which is much less fine, IMHO).
I don't think it should. Heat expansion should slightly increase the diameter.
Yes a hundred times!

Part of the fatiguing part is that you have to move frequently between big picture and highly detailed thinking. Trying to keep functional requirements, design, and implementation detail in mind constantly drains mental resources for some reason.

I'd love to see a study on the number of decisions made per work day for different fields. I have a suspicion that software development is near the top.
The fact that Apple is going to kill Epic Games' ability to notarize macOS apps does actually make their software unusable on Macs.
How come fb is not panalized of environmental disaster or pollution..??
Have you thought of maybe investing in real estate or something? I want to do this and get others to join and do it, then use the proceeds to pay medical bills for people. But, if you can get recurring monthly income from something, then that could fuel some endeavor like this.
Can someone give me compelling reasons for disallowing side-loading of applications on iOS?

Hypothetically, if side-loading were to be allowed it could be buried under a configuration+confirmation flag for security reasons just like with Android or Windows 10.

Thinking more abstractly about this, I already do "sideload" iOS applications when I sign them with enterprise/developer certs and perform OTA installs from systems I control. Presumably, there is still some communication with the mothership going on (certificate revocation checks), but the principles are very similar...
> If anything, the lesson to be learned here is that if your business depends exclusively on another company for its survival then it’s not your business.

But this means it's nearly impossible to build a software business that's "your business". Do you really not see the problem with that?

The major platforms are iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and the web. Of those, the web is theoretically open, except that the browsers are made by Apple and Google, and both of them drive change to the platforms based on their business strategy (Apple hobbling PWAs, for example.) Firefox exists, but with single-digit market share, and with a substantial portion of their budget evidently coming from Google, it's not clear how much of a force they really are.

This is why I think even though these platform are not technically monopolies, some kind of regulation or oversight is warranted. The economic value of the software world is too great to leave entirely to the whims of private companies.
I think sag means voltage sag.
Really? Sorry, that is not what I think of at all regarding this situation.
As a Swede I think it is important to remember that Sweden is quite sparsely populated.
This is very cool, thanks for sharing! From the readme (https://bellard.org/nncp/readme-gpt2tc.txt), the program benchmarks very comparably to CMIX, which is the top algorithm on the Large Text Compression Benchmark
(http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html). I'm guessing that any GPT implementation would be ineligible for the benchmark because of its file size but impressive nonetheless.
Watch out trading options when you don't know your max risk and allow a platform to calculate it for you [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ai07ft/whats_...
Maybe have a hole in the top like a giant chimney.
I think most of it can be attributed to Not Invented Here Syndrome. Everyone wants to invent the next Great Thing, be in control of the protocols and standards, have job insurance—-so instead of using long-established international standards and time-tested tools, they invent reasons to go their own way. Can’t blame them: new is exciting and challenging, old is boring and practical.
So just add a manifest to a web app, like in KaiOS, the third largest phone OS?
A permission model isn't hard to implement
I think iWork engineering is (also) in Pittsburgh.
I'm sorry I should have been clearer.

My point was Google has a lot to lose and lie about, too. Frankly, this letter by Google Australia comes off as a scare tactic than a honest plea.
I’ll die on that hill— back when I was interviewing for my next frontend position I told all my prospects I wasn’t interested in working for them if they aren’t using TypeScript or at least open to migrating.

There really is no reason to use plain JS for anything!
Ask HN: Do you use Blogging sites or would you create your own?
hi HN,

So I was thinking, do you people use your own blog website or do you use something like Medium? Do you prefer barebones (basic) blogging sites or bloaty sites? If there is bare bone sites you like which one?
Thanks!
It seems like what you consider "understanding" is just accepting the police narrative that has been fueling the protests.

> You don't require someone to use force to control a situation

Protests are not something to be "controlled" with force. That's authoritarianism.

> Protestors absolutely do not care about the specifics, they're not even playing that much attention. They're not reading the research on relative levels of violence per arrest etc.. It's a mob

Simple dehumanizing. There have been plenty of protests that have remained peaceful when they're not attacked by police.

> someone provokes a cop by walking up to them and saying something, the cop pushes the person, they fall down

It is illegal to attack someone because you don't like what they've said. This is criminal violence and needs to be prosecuted as such.

> A cop shoots his paintball gun at a reporter - on purpose. Again, not appropriate. But it's a paintball gun, they're used on people - for fun - all the time

It is illegal to shoot random people with paintballs. This is criminal violence and needs to be prosecuted as such.

> You don't have the right to block a road every day because you want to

Roads are public ways. People do have the right to use public ways to peaceably assemble.

> If anything the 'real' concern should be around actual policing, i.e. unnecessary police shootings.

That's exactly what these protests are about. Instead of accepting the message and submitting to accountability under the rule of law, police departments are escalating the protests so they can paint the protestors in a bad light, just as you are doing.
For folks interested in this, Fernand Braudel's magnum opus "The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II" is an incredible work of history, studying the Mediterranean and the societies around it.
That's ... not great ... but only viable if methane itself doesn't move the climate past a tipping point to runaway greenhouse effects.

See "clathrate gun hypothesis", for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
The simplest compromise is to let me easily install what I need from whatever source I want on the goddamn hardware that I own. The rest will follow from that.
I'm another +1 for Modulo.app, our 6yo is really enjoying "Kids Club" as well as a number of zoom classes. We sometimes supplement with outschool too, but at this point we have built up a nice roster of instructors who work 1:1 over zoom.

It doesn't seem likely to me that schools will be able to safely reopen in the US anytime soon, so I'd encourage everyone to take a look at the emerging startups appearing in this area, like Prenda, Primer, Dexter [full disclosure, I'm an investor]