skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of analytics data that can be pulled from mobile is insane. They want to track everything you do. It's also less bandwidth as API calls can just pull the necessary data to hydrate the screen.
> But other phone with physical keyboards have been promised and never come to fruition

And others have; I'm typing this comment on a Gemini (Planet Computers).
I'm guessing it's not possible to just write an app that replaces the homescreen? :/
I have a Unihertz Titan and it feels like a better Blackberry than Blackberry ever was. (I only ever used Blackberries since BB10 and later.)
> EUR/USD.

EUR is up against USD for the last 5 years or so, by a fairly small amount (~10% max). It is down against the USD over the last 10 years, by a larger amount (~20%).

10-20% is not much when it comes to currency fluctuations. When we were in the US in the 80s, USD/DEM went from around 1.70 to 3.50, so 2x fluctuation.
Not to mention analytics. There are a ton of third party frameworks that make it very easy to see where the bottlenecks and friction points are in your app. It's standard practice.
Actually textbook rentals are probably even more used now with higher costing textbooks. Yes you can still rent textbooks.
I bought a Mi TV 2 months ago. Worst thing ever. I was much better off just using my chromecast. I was hoping a much richer ecosystem of apps for android tv, but they pretty much suck. Dumb tv + chromecast is perfect, or plug a pi for something more complex.
The Cray designs and the IBM mainframes were built for different requirements. The Cray machines were designed for the highest possible processor speed while mainframes were much more geared towards business needs, where you do a lot of IO and just a little bit of processing on the data, before sending it back to tape.
All signs point to herd immunity happening in parts of the U.S.
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I can't help but chuckle. Soon mob will be running speak-easy gym you will need password to get in. Feds will start running sting operations. Fat Americans will become heroes of the pandemic.
The CA Secretary of State also sells voter information, per California Elections Code section 2194(3). The cost is $1 per thousand records, up to $30 (unclear if that's for the whole state, or if you can't request more than 30k records).

The information is only supposed to be used for political, scholarly, or journalistic purposes. There doesn't seem to be a way to opt out.
i live in California and collect old (literally: project, mostly european) cars. The Cal DMV are a nightmare to deal with despite the vibrant local car culture which is slowly dying for all but the rich due to the DMV and other bureaucracy. There is a fee and a form every time you exhale, it's getting worse and you have wait hours to be charged at their offices.
While trying to buy workout equipment off craig's list I was solicited twice to join "speakeasy" gyms. They had ads for a bunch of gear and when I inquired they sent me a detailed response on working out in their private gym. One was a large neighborhood garage that offered solo time by the hour, one was a shutdown normal gym. Pretty expensive too!
"In a subtle and deadly way, the dictator can dirty enough people up to make them all complicit in his rule, or I suppose her rule". C. Hitchens (2005). "Why Orwell Matters"
No need to question that, it clearly has not: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/financials?p=AAPL

It's just more in favor now than it was a year ago in investor sentiment
The last puzzle I solved actually had a small table with the advertised and actual number of pieces.
> TypeScript caters to developers who are not good at coding and thus lack confidence in their coding ability

Any text editor besides notepad caters to developers who are not good at coding and lack confidence in their coding ability.

In fact, a good developer doesn't even need to run the code to test it works, they just know.

So basically, unless you're writing your production apps in notepad and shipping it without ever running it, you suck.
This really isn't that shrewd. The outcomes are either 1) to drive up MSFT's TikTok acquisition price 2) to disrupt the sale process and harm or destroy TikTok 3) to ingratiate themselves with the current president or 4) the gambit is sincere and they successfully acquire them.

None of those address Oracle's core challenges which that they are getting hollowed out by competition in their core database market, are being outcompeted by Workday and SFDC in CRM and ERP verticals, and one just has to look at the comments here to see how they are perceived in the market. This may be temporarily gratifying, but is ultimate a distraction for them when they should not be distracting themselves.
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Agreed, that's correct for public market prices in general. I'm not commenting on the valuation of the business, merely the business model that "succeeded" (one definition is valuation). I would have said the same 2 years ago when they hit 1T.
Provocation: if I ever do another (tech) startup in the future, I want to only hire that have played Factorio (I haven't). I would be curious to see if the company can be wildly successful solely based on this criterion.
Yep, also interested in this. I'm writing and managing (among other things) the team at https://dvc.org/doc and had a lot of discussions like "How do we name and structure the high level navigation items"? From what I read in the blog post (and even considering how much the need to explain the change) this split `Tutorials, How-to guides, Learning` is still confusing to me, to be honest. So, would be great to get more opinions.

(@kaycebasques cool stuff with Lighthouse and other docs, btw!)
I think the only truly dumb screens that you might be able to buy are designed for commercial use. But yeah, consumer oriented TVs all have their own smart features.
Even one of their few products useful to sole traders and very small SMBs, VirtualBox, is impossible to purchase in individual license (in the UK at least). They're almost openly hostile to anything smaller than Enterprise.
Back in 1997, Michael Dell famously said that if he were put in charge of Apple, "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

Good that Apple didn’t hire you then.

Where is Dell now?
Hm. OK. thx.
It's cognitive dissonance. America is supposed to be the good guys, but on American social media everyone is toxic and hates each other and it's all full of political and corporate AstroTurfing; China is supposed to be the bad guys, but on TikTok everyone's happy and enjoying themselves and the content is organic and largely apolitical.

The easiest way to get rid of the cognitive dissonance is not to fix US social media, but to get rid of TikTok.
This statement seems to assume wealth is a fixed constant, which it isn’t. Theoretically if it was believed a company will create a thousand trillion in wealth it could be valued against that.

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
The headline is a little misleading - from the article itself.

"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.”"
Nope. :-)
I think it’s just a group dynamic pushing this stock up buoyed by developments like Apple silicon.
When I was working in Oracle, there was a running gag that there were more full time attorneys employed by the company, than there were engineers.

Maybe that is what you need to run a business like that?
Uh, what? In the US, the NHTSA and DOT enforce rather rigorous safety standards, and this requires automakers to front relatively expensive R&D and certification costs. It's a huge (and given the history of motor vehicle safety, necessary) barrier to market entry.
To be a bit pedantic, GDP is not "value created per year". GDP is a measure of economic activity. That's it.

GDP = private consumption + gov expenditures + total investments + net imports/exports. IOW, it's a measure of the $ value of things bought/sold. IOW, economic activity.

That said, over short time horizons, GDP can be used as a rough proxy for many other economic metrics. But only because the structure of an economy doesn't change drastically in just a few years. As you increase time horizons, the structure of an economy changes and GDP becomes a poorer proxy for other economic metrics. If this is so, why do so many people use GDP? Because it's easy to measure fairly accurately.
Well, maybe that's also a relieving result that use of tablet is not causing harm at this area, if not helped. Which I believed strongly as long as the material is carefully curated for education not just youtube Kids. Even science channel video is better than youtube kids.
> Why do you suppose these hires aren’t good at learning engineering best practices?

I guess what I was trying to convey is different: being good at algorithms doesn't give much of a signal (positive or negative) about other things I think really matter more on the whole.

(Of course, having enough people being aware of algorithms subtleties is important ... everyone, not so much)
It's a more salient feeling. I worked at a school for a while, and you can have deep impact on a handful of lives. It doesn't scale, but you can really feel the effect.

On the other hand, if I submit a patch to Chrome that makes it 0.00001% faster, it's a much bigger impact -- millions of hours saved -- but it's an impact you can only see in aggregate statistics. No individual will even notice the effect, so it's much harder to see or feel. It's more abstract. You have to be pretty analytical to get the same level of satisfaction, even if you've done more to benefit people overall.
> The DPPA law allows debt collectors, repo men, and other neccessary societal systems to function

You're wrong. They can function just fine without data from the DVM. Therefore, anybody being harmed by the sale of this data is one too many because there is nothing to offset this harm. Some harm is acceptable when it's offset by something else, like the utility of cars. That is not the case here.
I was working in a throughout computing problem domain. About the time I got there, some asshole in HR had everyone’s (current and former employees) tax information on their work laptop and lost it. Tens of thousands of people, because there was no policy against putting such information on portable equipment.

And as far as I’m aware there still isn’t. No, within the year (might have been a lawsuit, I can’t recall) new policy became everyone’s machine has whole disk encryption. Including engineering. So my software was instantly 30% slower, and a half a day added to setting up any new machine. I don’t know how many times I had to explain that it’s not our code that got slower, the whole company got slower. It took me months of work to get us back to zero.

That person should have been run off and anyone in their dept caught doing the same should have been put on probation. I don’t know how you figure that it’s “fair” for everyone to suffer for the mistakes of one member. In a small team setting? Perhaps. But not for something like this.
Also not the OP. But my dad brought home Datamation magazines from work when I was a kid, and I remember seeing a fair amount about the 3033. It was the new hotness once upon a time.
Maybe the goal is just to get people to skirt the law and accept the legal ambiguity hanging over their head that comes with that? They're basically saying "fine, be a small time car flipper if you want but know that you are giving the state the authority to destroy your life at any time on whim". This is what police states that want to have the power of arbitrary enforcement do.

I'm not saying CA is there yet but if you look at asinine policies from all the various states and their level of compliance it seems pretty clear that huge swaths of "perfectly fine when done reasonably" normal and common behaviors are more or less impossible to do while being legally in the clear. At what point does an unenforceable at scale policy become a backhanded infringement upon people's property rights?
It's good to know before the updated Oculus Quest comes out.

Personally it doesn't bother me immensely... however it's annoying that I'd have to review, check and double check all the privacy settings before using the device as I don't expect any of the defaults to keep my activity private.

I'll probably opt for using my Oculus account another 2 years, at which point I'll likely have bought another headset.
Good. They deserve each other.
What's even more frustrating is the dark UX design they implemented. If you make it past their "Continue" pop-up which shows you multiple versions with the options reversed (to work against impulse memory skips), if you touch ANYTHING on the page after that point, it will STILL open up in the app.

What's worse is that once it opens, that post is now permanently in your account's history. Reddit provides NO WAY to remove things from your account history.
Can you post a link to those? Maybe it's me, but I cant find them on the kickstarter page.
Exactly, we need to make the government well functioning and competent.
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Apollo is among the best. The developer Christian is super engaged with his user base, and the local animal shelter. He has donated $10,000s to them through fundraising!
I don't disagree with your assessment re: infection, but I'd point out that transportation overall is dropping, possibly permanently; and that the long term economic damage from the pandemic and the debt loads that we're taking on will likely hurt auto sales for a long, long time. I'm not sure that whatever shift away from mass transit to private vehicles will make up for the overall loss of transportation, and you have to have a job to go _to_ in order to need a car to get there.
Is there a way to hack a smart TV into a dumb one?
This must be one of the most 'HN' posts I've ever seen. Aiming to become a "music buff", to me, is missing the point of music. In HN terms, you could say it's 'orthogonal'. Just listen to some different kinds of music, and find out what you like. If you become a 'buff' along the way, that's nice I guess.
Anecdotally, we don't exactly practice moderation with screen time, and we've been constantly surprised at how much our kids learn from even the crappy alphabet/number/animals/shapes videos on YouTube Kids. We're also not big into milestones, but our kids have absolutely flown past every educational milestone for their ages. We are very present, attentive parents with above average education, but we spend (what we think is) an unexceptional amount of time teaching them things, and they have learned an exceptional amount.

What's funny is that everyone just assumes the screen time is bad, and that our kids are naturally very smart (with the implicit suggestion that they'd know more without screen time). That may be true, but it isn't borne out by observation in our case.

We've found a lot of parenting is like that - people are pretty sure about what's good and bad, and the child's behavior/response one way or the other is either expected or a fluke, depending on what confirms assumptions about what's good and bad.

Our oldest is only 7, but we have 4 and we've noticed no ill effects from screen time, the kids are all social, they love to go to the park and play with friends (which we don't get to do nearly enough now...), to go for walks and ride bikes, in short they all seem well within the bounds of "normal" development for their ages.
Hi there! Martin from Quell here. At this time, we don't currently have a separate release of the wearable planned. Though we're releasing it only as part of the full Quell system at the moment, we love VR and are keen to move into this space as well. Offering the harness as a standalone is definitely one option we've considered, so it's great to hear that people are interested in this! We're also exploring releasing a VR port of the game down the line.
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Right. They’re clearly not an income stock based on their dividend. They’re a heavily weighted future value stock. (Basically a tech stock but wonder whether there’s a more general term?)
I want to explain why you're being downvoted, why this happens in every HN thread like this (I've been observing it for more than a decade here), and why they're all wrong (every single time).

First, you did nothing wrong. You can very easily, very obviously, compare Apple's market cap to the total annual economic output of a nation, or the economic output of any thing over a given amount of time.

Apple's market cap of $2 trillion, is greater than the annual economic output of the nation of Italy's 60.3 million people ($1.98t 2019). You just got told that is impossible to do. I just did the impossible. Which do you think is more likely true? It's obvious.

It takes the 60.3 million people of Italy a year to produce enough total economic output to almost match the total value of all outstanding Apple shares. Oh shit, I did it again. A spontaneous blackhole may appear and we may all die. I just successfully compared two things everyone repeatedly says is impossible to compare.

You can obviously compare the two, and do so quite cleanly, have no fear.

I've been watching this herd action for a long time here. People don't seem able to stop and think about the context beyond a primitive twitch action, they just reflexively downvote, and parrot the same responses ad nauseam (it's always the same responses without exception).

Second, you have to understand, you're facing off against many people's favorite "gotcha" Smart Person(TM) response. It's an arrow they hold in their bag, for times like this, that helps them feel smarter than you (that's why you'll see so many of the same response, unnecessarily; if they were right, one would be enough). They may not know much about economics or the stock market, however they know this thing, they saw it somewhere else, it sounded true, and they can feel good by downvoting you and by drowning you in one line responses. You deserve better dear user5994461, for your four years of HN dedication and contribution. I want you to know that what you did is perfectly OK.
Lack of this in the past is what led to the founding of Cloud Academy, several years ago.

I played an important role in giving shape to the company, and in 2019 we sold it to QA Learning. Great experience. Good $$$ outcome.
I do like the app, but the prompts are completely abnoxious.
A good study would be to compare how these screen-trained toddlers compare with screen-free toddlers (you might have to go rural to find those) in interacting and recognizing things in the real 3D world. My guess is that screenies exhibit a marked bias towards 2D perception and thinking, with weaker 3D.
I’d add another that’s nice to have:

3. The outcome we expect. (“What will happen if this is working.”)
It's bad enough that I set up my Sony Android TV on a "smart outlet" that power cycles each night. And I can yell at my Google Assistant to restart it when it breaks down on occasion
Many here don't get the big picture. This acquisition makes total sense for Oracle. They'll be able to milk those influencers by charging TikTokers by how many cores they have on their phones and video audience size.
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Only the founders, especially of bootstrapped startups, should take these jobs in the early stages of a startup even if team members can be hired or trained for it.
What's the N, is it a typo from an Avatar fan?
It is not what people call law enforcement today, correct.
How powerful does an earth-based laser need to be to temporarily blind any optical sensors without damaging any other part so that "innocent" satellites are unaffected? It probably will be standard to illuminate up all suspect satellites coming up the horizon in this way at sensitive locations and/or sensitive times in this way
If it could be done, also remember that in Star Trek the deflector shields are powered by the warp engine, so they so a lot of power.
tl;dr: Better ergonomics, faster, more reliable and more coverage of web platform.

* The Playwright API auto-waits for the right conditions on every action on the page (click, fill). This ensures automation scripts are concise to write and maintain over time.[1]

* Unlike Selenium, Playwright uses an bi-directional channel between the browser and automation script. This channel is used to listen to events from the browser (like page "load" event, network requests). These events enable Playwright scripts to be precise about browser state and prevent the need to rely on sleeps/timeouts, which contribute to flakiness of Selenium scripts. This is also exposed in the API, for more powerful automation[2].

* Playwright also has a wider coverage for modern browser features, including device emulation, web workers, shadow DOM, geolocation, and permissions.

[1] https://playwright.dev/#version=v1.3.0&path=docs%2Factionabi...
[2] https://playwright.dev/#version=v1.3.0&path=docs%2Fapi.md&q=...
Martin from Quell here—thank you so much for the kind words!
This is why we need basic certification and licensing for engineering software systems -- the same standards we have for building real-life buildings and structures. This was probably contracted out to the lowest bidder on some freelancing website.
This is really saddening to hear.

I am one of the devs who got attracted to Rust's advantages over C/C++ (no double free or use after free, guaranteed memory ownership, relatively fearless concurrency) and have been using it increasingly to the point of now professionally working with it.

But I never felt the need to degrade others for not using it. I do have my strong opinions about when and where it should be used but I almost never escalate them to flaming (sadly it occasionally happens even to the best humans).

I'd hate it if such an excellent technology's well-deserved adoption is held back because its core user base is viewed as zealots.

:(
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There was a PBS Newshour piece about this: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-a-virus-ravages-the-wor...
> Her work makes it hard for her to talk to reporters, so we're not using her last name

Surely if you feel it necessary to omit someones last name you should err on the side of caution and omit their first name too? A fist name narrows a search down significantly.
That's becoming old fashioned. An increasing number of people want to limit their time with a platform and want to use a website to interface with it to help themselves in that effort.

This is a thread with hundreds of comments, +95% of the people here have either stopped using or dramatically deceased their use of reddit, it drove shrink instead, vast, incredible de-growth.

They've certainly increased the number of children on the platform, which could be their goal but I don't buy that either, reddit is full of porno

Their Aaron Swartz days are long behind and they've become just another spammy internet property run by buzzword speaking dunderheads with PowerPoint slides.

The force the app formula is stale and lots are migrating away from it