skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: I shared a link from Reddit with a non tech-savvy family member. The next time I saw him, he had the Reddit app installed on his mobile. I asked why and he said basically "it told me to install the app so I did". I no longer send him Reddit links, I save the image/video and send via text message.
In addition there is a key qualitative element: are all uses equal? Is watching Teletubbies or Paw Patrol equal to nature documentaries? Is playing addictive repetitive games different than those solving puzzles or following a story? Is videoconferencing with grandma the same or better or worse as doing a math training game?

The key issue often is the parents' role and guidance. Let your kid aimlessly click through YouTube? Or are you fostering their skills and challenge and motivate them to learn something new?
I've run this for a while, but Kodi seems to be focused on the "old" way of having your UI run on your TV, whereas I would like to be able to browse through my content on my phone.
Yes, Kore can do this, but it feels much more like an afterthought.

Prior to this I was running Windows (Vista I think) MCE with a dual channel analog cable capture card. That was truely the pinacle of home theater. Easy TV recording + easy local content.

Raspberry Pi + Kodi (+ NAS) feels underpowered, and a bit dated.

I haven't properly tested something like Plex.

NVidia Shield seems like it would do, but now ads might be coming...

Are modern smart tv's somewhat capable of local content browsing? Or is it like very basic file browsing?
A good first step in that direction would be writing a solid PEP. But I'd say that it would be helpful to have a common standard ready first.
Maybe because it shows that people value the product more than they value the stock.

Aramco's value increases by convincing people to buy more of its product. Apple's value increases by selling more products, but also from its stock value going up. That second part is important because it could be hype or a bubble or something else. But with Aramco, you know it's all about a tangible product.

My wife has another measurement that she uses. She increased her Apple holdings when the pandemic started purely because of Apple's cash. Her logic is that with all that money to burn, it has a better chance than most of surviving this crisis.
The solution generally employed is to separate humans and robots if the robots are moving at speeds or momentums that could harm a human. There are safety regulations to be complied with and the general idea is that your robot should not be able to harm a human no matter what error your software suffers from. This is sadly impossible with self driving cars but applies to most of robotics.
Plenty of brutal poverty in the USA, even California. Or haven't you smelt the stench of human shit rising off San Francisco? The First World pretty much consists only of western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Canada, New Zealand, and maybe Australia. Those are the countries in which the average citizen can expect a reasonable level of government service and public infrastructure without excessive corruption or partisan obstructionism -- table stakes for being considered "developed" in the 21st century.

The USA is distinctly, profoundly third world. Just because your rich ass is enjoying a pretty good life in the USA doesn't make that not the case; the rich enjoy good lives in many third-world countries.
Yeah, right. “Kids who spend a lot of time on tablet are better at playing a tablet game”
Inflation is a tricky topic because it all depends on what you measure. Multiple government measures of inflation are almost disingenuous because they don't measure some key items.

Inflation is fairly low when it comes to sustenance foods, cars, telecom, and technology -- however, that is not the story for things like: fish, fresh produce, textbooks, healthcare, rent, home prices, executive MBAs, some imported goods.

It gets even more complicated. Some things cost one for some people and another for others -- e.g., college tuition has skyrocketed if you don't get a scholarship/aid but is flat or down if you do get scholarship/aid
In a similar vein, I use Apollo for iOS[1] and it's also magnitudes better. The official reddit app is starting to catch up, but it's designed with advertisers in mind, whereas you can use a different app and pay for ads to go away, or use the old, web version with a blocker.

[1] https://apolloapp.io/
But in either case you need to acquire and mount a physical doodad to your house (or vehicle or office or whatever), right? Entering a credit card number again seems comparatively inconsequential in either case.
Same thing in California. I've been doing my DMV business at AAA for more than a decade.
Yep, and the transaction flows the other way too. The government also buys data from databrokers who get it from companies like Facebook, Google, and the data you mentioned.
What's funny is how much friction and persuasion it took to get them to actually do the App Store. Steve was hellbent on WebApps and I hope the history books recognize how much influence jailbreakers had in shifting the discussion to native apps

https://youtu.be/8Vq993Td6ys?t=32
> Again, by describing the choice as bad job (walmart) or no job, you are ignoring the fact that walmart did not CREATE jobs - they merely consolidated jobs from many small businesses.

Driving up the minimum cost of labor isn’t going to bring back smaller, less-efficient businesses, it will make them less viable, too. Higher minimum wage actually reinforces the advantages of scale, since smaller acheivable average returns means the importance of being able to internally diversify (e.g., against regional problems) becomes more important to survival.

> It’s a choice between an exploitive business model, or non-exploitive business models.

It's a choice between a government model that chooses to actively harm the employed, the unemployed, and employers irrespective of business model to express moral outrage at certain business models and one that wants to use the power of taxation and spending to reduce the power of business models to be oppressive.
I have been using Sync and joey on android for years. Never used the official app. I dunno if eventually Reddit removes all api eventually that makes these app not work anymore. If that happens I will probably not use reddit again.
I often have this thought about research and usually assume that the answer is cost/resources.

Research seems poorly directed, like lots of ad hoc studies without cooperation and planning for how it will be used for the sector overall.

Not a research scientist; probably a very naive view. Maybe there's more higher level cooperation/symbiosis/planning/whatever than I perceive?
IANAL but my guess is that you could structure it in such a way that every user affected by the breach had standing to sue for some specified amount of damages so that collectively it would have been worth some lawyer's time to take the case on contingency.

It's entirely possible that FB would have balked, but that in itself would have been a useful data point that indicated that they had every intention of bundling the two products together.

In any case, the topic at hand is not so much whether such a deal could have been structured to work, but whether there are any circumstances short of willful ignorance where the founder could have made the promise he did in good faith. I don't see any.
I would imagine if we compared literacy rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, median net worth, retirement age, etc, we'd start to find some stark differences between california and a "developing country," though I'm curious what we define as "developing country."

This from my time living on the border of Mexico. Everyone always talked about how the roads on our side were as bad as on Mexico's side as a criticism of texan infrastructure. It's fair, by the way, American infrastructure is a mess. But then the life expectancy was like ten years lower just a couple miles away because of an invisible line (and a fence you could easily hop over with a ladder).
Kodi runs fine on a Fire TV Stick.
You're basically asking how to convert assets (market cap) to income (GDP). But there isn't a fixed conversion: it depends on your discount rate (how valuable is future money compared to current money) which itself you can loosely think of as related to interest rates, which themselves change over time. Alternatively, think of the P/E ratio, which also changes over time. There's no bound. If you think humanity will exist forever, and you're willing to wait forever, and you think Apple will continue selling iPhones at a large profit forever, its value is effectively infinite.
Apple made apx $115B in net income over that two year period and paid out around $30B in dividends. So... yeah.

In case you're wondering how much $115B is in terms normal people can understand... if that was in $100 paper notes...

- Stacked up on top of each other, it would reach 12,000 km high (the ISS orbits at about 400km)

- The notes would weigh around 1,150 tons

- To ship them, you'd need over 1000 4'x4' shipping pallets, each weighing a ton

$115 billion is an absurdly huge amount of profits
I don't think this is right. You leave at t=0 and arrive at your destination at t=1 year. It then takes two years for the image of your arrival to travel back to Earth, where it can be perceived at t=3 years.

However, when you arrive at your destination, you can look back at Earth and see an image of yourself 1 year prior to your departure.
As the study notes:

'Dr Ana Maria Portugal, main researcher on the project points out “We are currently unable to conclude that the touchscreen use caused the differences in attention as it may also be that children who are generally more attracted to bright, colourful features seek out touchscreen devices more than those who are not.”'

This is an important confounding factor. My opinion is that toddlers often spend time with media that are brighter and more colorful than the surrounding environment, e.g. animated videos for children or educational apps for young children. A better study would take that into account.
About number 5. I think that was only true for a short period: From the time the LP was invented until music streaming hit the mainstream. Before the LP, it certainly wasn’t true, and we seem to now be moving away from that format.
Smart TVs are the worst thing ever invented. Every TV I came in contact started lagging after +/- 2 years (I live in a 3rd world country, so they may hit the market already outdated). The user experience is terrible. And some of them stopped supporting certain apps pretty early as well.

I'm very satisfied with a Chromecast, but I'd prefer to plug a TV box or even a laptop over having a Smart TV any day, and I advise everyone I know to do the same.
I completely agree, government is primarily being used as a way to make transfer payments from one group of people to another these days.
I've seen that many people are concerned that homeschooling would be less diverse than a traditional school environment.

I've observed the opposite to be true, especially in secular homeschooling communities I've been a part of in NYC and San Francisco. Parents are homeschooling because they want to expose their child to a more diverse community - or they are joining a more inclusive community because they experienced discrimination in the school community they were a part of.

I think that many families feel that designing their child's learning has paved the way for them to meet families from more diverse perspectives and backgrounds than they would in their school, join a more inclusive community that has space to be more conscientious about how they relate to each other and paves the way for them to include historical viewpoints that are not incorporated in many traditional schools. Of course, the opposite can also be true. It mostly depends on the parent's intention I've found.

Some really great examples of diverse, inclusive homeschooling communities to give you a flavor for this are:

SEA homeschoolers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/seahomeschoolers/

San Francisco Homeschooling and Unschooling Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/166286810672946/

HUGS SF
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1931740383552142/

New York City Homeschool Support
https://www.facebook.com/groups/262047073979701/

Wildschooling
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildschooling/

Bay Area Homeschool Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1537398423139116/
Interesting that this was before the most recent Chinese funding round. I wonder if an IPO is still 3 years away.
Your "better" study is not an experiment and its conclusions are not supported by empirical evidence. If it were true that usage of touchscreens cause lower intelligence test scores, we would have seen this show up as a population-wide reduction in scores as touchscreens became widely available. No such effect can be observed. Instead, the children who were neglected with random household items to play with by themselves or TVs to watch by themselves are now neglected with touchscreens to play with by themselves, and studies such as yours misattribute the effects of childhood neglect to touchscreen usage.

I agree that this study doesn't measure anything useful, but in my circles, I have heard of and seen children younger than 2 years old learn to read by playing touchscreen games and children younger than 3 learn the names of states, capitals, and other trivia from playing touchscreen games. Achieving that is possible without touchscreens, but it would require an incredible amount of work from the caretaker.
Uber and Lyft Threaten California Shutdown
Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
"Refuting" works best here.

It's mind-boggling to really look at the size and power of colonial trading companies. I've been meaning to re-try reading the Baroque Cycle -- started once, but gave up a ways in.
Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
I am trying? For example I like to work on Nixpkgs because I think it is the Wikipedia of the software commons. I am doing some things with Nix and IPFS at the moment for similar reasons.

I share my doubts here because HM tends to overly romanticize small organizations. I don't mean to tell people to give up and work for FAANG.
Wait, you are saying that they redesigned their web experience for mobile usability to then show users a popup that they should use the app?
Building Private Ledgers
Right, Google doesn't play in the "luxury" space, they decided that strategy early on, allowing any smartphone maker to ship the Android OS. This won them the market share for operating system - currently 75% to iOS's ~24% [1], but they are unable to capture a fraction of the value that Apple did with their luxury mass-market strategy.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
I don’t think that’s true. As a parent, all my decisions are made by balancing a host of factors. Pre covid I limited screens because they should be talking, reading, playing with other kids, being active, etc. with covid, many of those alternatives were taken away so I’ve had to be flexible in the short term to again balance everything so my kids can interact with other kids and get access to learning opportunities. Post covid, I’ll do my best to limit screens again.
Ask HN: Is There an Alternative to Facebook?
With Facebook having an iron-grip over personal social networking. I wonder if folks out there have considered using other alternatives?
Its a better metric than marketcap. Marketcap is just what a few people are willing to pay for shares, literally the one person at the auction house that bid higher than others and got SOLD to, except in the stock market everyone pretends to multiple that 1 share by the other 4.28billion and act like its an indicator of value.

Whereas net income shows what MANY people bought, and how the company is able to keep a bunch leftover.

And regarding "good", it's a good metric for value creation and the infrastructure for independence, as this has been unachievable before and always required a monopoly on power derived from the entire social contract of society and force. So it is merely interesting for it to occur in the absence of those things. It is not a comment on "good" in terms of society and whether the social contract should include a way to limit them, it doesn't factor that in at all.
> For instance, there's a restriction at my workplace (not a software company, a regular old industry fortune 500) which prevents git installs from pushing to any non corporate GitHub repo from our work machines.

Oh my! As I have struggled with security incidents caused by people either accidentally publishing GitHub repos that are "public" rather than "private", or pushing corporate code to their own repos (that are... you guessed it, "public"), I have long looked for another IT department that has grappled with this problem. GitHub Support hasn't helped, appealing to public forums hasn't helped. But here, a sign that my problem isn't unique!

Of course, the solution sucks. sigh
Also worth mentioning that there is no official API for Reddit's chat feature. You have no choice but to use the website or official app if you're on mobile and want or need to use their chat.

Also the chat feature is extremely watered down and doesn't even have support for attaching images. But that doesn't matter if someone on Reddit chooses to contact you via chat and you want to respond. It compels you to use their platforms instead of a third-party client.
Can anyone explain what the benefit of Erlang is with respect to microcontroller development?
The New Twitter Transparency Center
I second this (as a musician and as a voracious listener). It's daunting at times, but once you narrow in on a genre (or region) that interests you, Bandcamp is a wonderful tool to discover new music. Someone else here mentioned that just listening isn't always enough, and i second that too. I liked Miles Davis, but after reading his autobiography, i felt connected to his music in an entirely new way. Same goes for Townes Van Zandt: brilliant songwriter and poet, but reading "A Deeper Blue" (by Robert Hardy) gave me a new appreciation for his music and voice.
Apple Maps rolled out a v2 version in the US that was way more colorful, and changes shades a green and yellow depending on the vegetation. Just because it isn't global doesn't make it a weird thing to say
It looks like a nice product, but I was not able to try it out due to accessibility issues.

Many of the controls are labeled in such a way that my browser does not see them as clickable widgets. For example, the three dropdown selectors in the top left are not hinted. This is because they are built out of <div> elements, a big accessibility no-no. See here for more details:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

Also, in the console I'm seeing one 500 status code from your own API (https://api.outpost.co/api/v1/super-admin/check) and several requests to tracker services, something I wouldn't want on a corporate app.

As a no-mouse user, I had to resort to dragging the pointer cursor around with mousekeys several times just to get past signup. I would not be able to use your app on a regular basis.
> Two robotic hands that can work in co-ordination just as human hands do. Extremely difficult to solve, but money is there.

Unless real human hands continue to cost less.
Me too. I used to frequent Reddit occasionally on mobile web. I didn't, and still don't want the app for similar reasons, but also so I wouldn't get addicted. These days I just don't visit it at all because the friction is too high.
It would be only honorable thing for Oracle to do.
This looks like a copy of an idea we built a few years ago (https://github.com/tes/compoxure) - still in heavy use at my previous company, along with lots of other folks like Zalando (https://github.com/zalando/tailor).

We ended up deciding that with the move to component based front end frameworks (react, storybook etc) that the overhead of this wasn't worth the benefits - every developer needs it running, along with lots of services etc.

I'd love to understand what others are thinking about composition on the front end these days. I guess the fact this just got created means that the problem we were trying to solve in 2014 still exists - so perhaps I have my answer?
Abandon as in no longer contributing to the development of the language or as in no longer use it? I find the later incredibly unlikely and the former possible, but also unlikely.
> can be done by an amateur

Like the Average Joe who has a 3D printer, and knows how to use it to produce something that won't break when inserted into a lock and turned.
> One interesting thing I noticed is my kids who have grown up with touchscreens think that everything is a touchscreen

I've talked to teachers who said that they've started seeing young children with picture books doing the zoom in/out pinching motion on pages.
Putting the same agency in charge development and regulatory QA is a horrible idea. Way too many perverse incentives there.
While I do find VMS much more understandable than MVS (it's a completely different branch of the Tree of Computing, as similar to modern PCs as the extremophiles that live next to volcanic chimneys in the bottom of the ocean are to us), I have to say the VAX competed with the much lower end machines in the 370 family. Also, you don't measure a mainframe's capacity in MIPS - The CPU is a small part of the of overall system and a lot of hardware goes to the multiple IO subsystems that offload the main CPUs so that they can keep running your applications while the rest of the system focus on pushing bits in and out of the system. It was considered a "minicomputer", in contrast to a proper computer such as the System/370.
Slow compared to Rocket Lab; 11 years to orbit, compared to Blue Origin's 20+ and counting.

Slow compared to Orbital Sciences, who took 8 years in the 1980s.
This isn't the beginning, the beginning was years ago.

> It's very probable that the Apple store will be forbidden in China. This will destroy Apple in China (impacting 18% Apple revenue), and it will at the same time preserve the image of China as the factory of the world

China has already forced Apple to hand over iCloud to a local Chinese company. iCloud in China is operated by GCBD (AIPO Cloud (Guizhou) Technology Co. Ltd).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Or the mandatory 3h of lessons are better than no lessons even if it means kids are staring a screens? It's not all black and white.

That said, obviously the recommendations are not fully science based because the science is not clear-cut. One study will tell you about the spatial skills and reaction ability of ego shooters, another of the negative sides such as normalisation of violence, reduced quality of sleep, etc.
This service will operate in a similar band to Starlink, which requires a pizza-box-sized fixed receiver with a clear view of the sky. And SpaceX was only able to get it even this small due to development of new phased-array antenna technology, which, at least as far as we know, nobody else has replicated (at least at a consumer-accessible price point).

All of which is to say: current technology, and physics, probably won't ever allow this to be baked into a Kindle.
This is literally the exact thing you seek. Piero Scaruffi's website.
https://www.scaruffi.com/music.html
The Minnesota Experimental City and green urbanism
Which is also littered with ads and prevented side loading of kodi before iirc*

Like a few other people in this thread I tried roku, firetv box/stick and landed on an nvidia shield to get away from ads. At the time of writing (now that shield/androidtv are showing ads) I don't believe a decent ad-free box exists.
Is it the first US company or the first company ever?