skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a usability aspect to this.

If you disable location services for Yelp, it's pretty unfriendly -- it chooses to make it as difficult as possible for you to use the app to get you to turn location back on. The Google approach for Maps is more pragmatic IMO -- lower resolution location data makes sure I don't get a McDonald's in Finland when I'm in Kentucky.

The hard thing is that I don't want Yelp, Google, etc tracking my movements in a 10-meter radius forever, but I want location from a contextual perspective. I don't think you can do that without meaningful policy controls outside of your local computer.
To be fair here, I just want to reiterate I think the app is amazing, and I'm going to be a customer, full stop. I don't want you to think my criticisms are meant to be particularly mean.

The only time a response of this nature is ever elicited from me is when I actually want something to succeed and I think its a really good thing that I'm willing to pay money for. $100 USD for me for a tool like this, which I have always conceptually wanted but never had the time money or skillset (I don't do native mobile development, alas, and I haven't been able to break into it in any meaningful way to gain more expertise) is why I'm so fired up. I want to evangelize this app within the first few moments of firing it up and playing with it. Its that good.

I just really care about good touchpad and keyboard support. I want first class for all available inputs.
I'm going to use a political trigger word but please give this a moment to consider because I found it fascinating when someone suggested it to me.

We hear a lot about the social/cultural aspects of fascism, but we don't talk as much about the economics of fascism. Think about all this talk about acquiring TikTok in the context of this definition:

> Fascism is an economic system in which the government controls the private entities that own the factors of production… A central planning authority directs company leaders to work in the national interest.

https://www.thebalance.com/fascism-definition-examples-pros-...
I don't know about production aircraft, but NASA uses X-Plane pretty extensively for all kinds of research, including modeling flight dynamics for small UAVs. It's used often enough that several years ago I developed (and released on NASA's GitHub) a tool to simplify programmatic interaction with the X-Plane simulation engine. It's not nearly popular enough to make maintaining it a full time job (thankfully), but I do get pretty regular comments from NASA researchers and members of the public.

I have never heard of anyone using MS Flight Sim in the same way, although another fairly common use case for my library is to disable the X-Plane physics completely and just use if as a visualization tool. If someone developed a library that made that equally easy for MSFS, I can see it taking over that role. It certainly looks better the X-Plane IMO.
On many Mobile Apps I also found that the scroll bar is just a small dot and it only appears when I do scroll a bit, so it's very difficult to see how much is left to read. This is particularly annoying because I have to scroll down to estimate how much is left and then scroll up back to where I was.

I have on idea what school of thought has brought forth the no-UI UI but I absolutely think they are idiots.
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The one that always got me was the feature on OS X where if you move your mouse to another screen and move down, it moves the dock to that screen. It is possible to do without meaning to and it is fairly loose with how it determines that you've done that, and so the first year or so I had 2 monitors, I'd do it once or twice per month without realizing how it happened.
This tutorial, along with the hundreds of other examples we maintain on Observable, are kept up-to-date with all D3 releases.
The monthly fee pisses me off. The only apparent differentiator on launch day is mood analysis and fancy BMI which I get from a WiFi scale. Not worth $4/mo.
I feel like a good touchpad (meaning Apple) is superior to most good mice for general desktop usage. What pushes touchpads clearly ahead is when you make good use of multi-touch gestures. Using third-party tools under macOS, about half of my most commonly used keyboard shortcuts can be replaced by gestures that are quicker and easier than reaching for the keyboard. The handful of apps with native multitouch and support for haptic feedback through the touchpad are also really nice.

I still use a mouse for gaming, but I have to replace it every ~3 years because the buttons start to wear out. That has yet to happen to one of my Apple touchpads.
You propose that people should look after themselves, and their belonings. Presumably some of the things people need to do in preparation for a hurricane benefit from economies of scale. Temporary shelter, preparing for rescue operations, structural engineering, stocking of supplies. People would probably be well advised to band together in some sort of emergency management cooperative to share expenses and increase efficiency.
Try to do some graphics programing with thr backend of your choice. There is also this cool nanovg port https://github.com/cytecbg/gpucanvas. Run the demo in examples to see the nanovg demo.
The lack of a free tier certainly makes it difficult to consider making the jump; which, again; most of the applications in this similar space do as well. It's food for thought.

I have difficulties with comparing a luxury vehicle to a piece of software. :3

I wish you luck; I certainly have difficulties understanding this model but I guess that's why I'm not in business. It just looks like great software and I wish I could recommend it to friends.
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Money is how we measure the worth of time spent. In that mindset doing hard, innovative work and failing is worse than doing nothing at all, because you lose both your time and money.
I thought show HN was for original authors.
Terran's face recognition meets Streamlit Components
I am no more willing to provide my biometric sleep, voice, and body data to Amazon than I would to eBay or Netflix. However, if you'd like to help Amazon train their human being analysis models and get no payment in return, this is your chance.

What benefit does Amazon derive from having such comprehensive biometric data about Amazon consumers? They're offering this device at a significant loss vs. the investment that goes into it.

> The innovative Tone feature uses machine learning to analyze energy and positivity in a customer’s voice

Will they start charging people more for a product category when Alexa overhears that they're talking about it excitedly? Will they 'invite' you to install a Nielsen ratings integration that lets them listen for content and measure how you feel about it? If your pulse rate jumps during a Clorox bleach ad, will you start seeing ads for the Amazon Basics product that competes with it?

> Body scan images are automatically deleted from the cloud after processing, so only the customer sees them.

> Speech samples are always analyzed locally on the customer’s phone and automatically deleted after processing

"Processing" permits them to train models and transmit training outcomes that are derived your body data, as they only commit to deleting the raw data, not the training outcomes that result from it. They can claim correctly that the raw data cannot be extracted from the processed results.
This isn't unlike SMTP tarpitting. No monies are exchanged, but a cost incurred.
That's what he's saying. They do create money effectively by loaning out deposits, but that's far from literally creating money.

If they have a deficit on their sheets they can't just create money for themselves like a central bank could.
We often can't learn from the highest performers in the field, they either have a sub-lingual understanding of their craft or there are so many competing variables to optimize that they can't teach others.

You can learn more from someone who had to toil through a subject than for someone to whom it came naturally. The journeyman with scars can transfer more skill than the master.
I believe in a talk[1] it was mentioned that Rust's const eval will support heap-allocated values (accessed as references). A quick search suggests that C++20 will also support this, although it may be safer in Rust as it can give a stronger guarantee that the static memory won't be written to.

[1]https://youtu.be/wkXNm_qo8aY?t=888
I see this so routinely with USPS delivery that I now assume "ah, this will arrive some time tomorrow" when I get the "Delivered" notification.
Guess it depends what you value! Personally I value deep thinking, making good decisions, and doing research higher than entertainment.

Now whether the product is helpful enough with those things to be worth the price, well for that the market will decide :-)
I think that's fair. As a shorthand 'why' is very succinct, but is definitely ambiguous. Even expanding to 'core purpose' I feel that many companies or movements mistake having one to having a catchy mission statement or a set of 'values' which could have been procured from a PR agency but ultimately don't trace fully to product offering or even justify the ongoing existence of the entity.
> Surprise - technology evolves

Evolution != constant re-implementation to fit the latest UI trends. (Neo)Vi(m),
emacs, terminals, REPLs, email, etc. are still common because they’re the best tool
for the job. Hell, even IRC refuses to die because enough realize its advantages over
modern “shiny” alternatives.

All the tools I mentioned have improved and evolved without being reimplemented into
obsolescence. The closest thing to “reimplementation” is Vi -> Vim -> NeoVim,
but everything in that chain built off its predecessor without intending to replace
it.
> It is remarkable how big these companies have gotten over the past few years.

Walmart hasn't gotten much bigger in the past few years. They've lost position in terms of scale & power versus other large companies and Amazon has been taking a lot of retail market share. Walmart has also lost a big chunk of their profitability, their business has become less profitable (a business that was already operating on tiny margins). They've only been growing their sales a few percent per year the past five years. Their operating income is below where it was four years ago.

On an inflation adjusted basis, Walmart is lucky if they've been standing still the past decade. Their peak was circa ~2000-2010. It's unlikely they'll ever exceed the position of dominance they held at that time.

I'm not sure how Walmart - a $524 billion sales global juggernaut - eating a comparatively tiny social media company, reminds of the AOL Time Warner merger? The AOL merger was a merger of near-peers in terms of valuation, AOL at the time was booming and massively profitable. TikTok isn't profitable, and they're barely a rounding error compared to Walmart in sales.

AOL was somewhat in the publishing & media platform business, they were both in the ad business, and both AOL and Time Warner were in the connectivity business.

Walmart's business has nothing in common with TikTok, there's no sound synergy at all (even theoretical). About the only distant reach, would be the idea of trying to appeal to younger consumers, to use (abuse) TikTok for that purpose. It would of course end disastrously for WMT shareholders, Walmart would take a giant write-down eventually.

There's nothing new about it of course. GM bought Hughes and EDS for example. Giant companies do this type of thing historically.
Middle click "open in new tab" breaks on lots of thing using fancy web frameworks because someone forgot to code-up support and thought "why bother with A tags. I can use divs and spans!"
It's called your email client.
To me the main differentiator is the body fat percentage measurement that claims to be more accurate than smart scales.
Requires monthly fee

Amazon level of privacy (expect none)

Requires pictures of you to provide body readings

This may be good for some buy this is a serious no go for me.
> The VCs and record labels must be madly trying to get their investment back out of this.

TikTok are suing the US Administration so they're not forced to sell their US operations [1].

From what I can see TikTok have only had a recent 3B funding round on Softbank (after becoming popular at 75B valuation) and could only find 1x 100M funding round for musical.ly (at 500M valuation). Considering the expected sale price for the US part of their business is circa 50B, even SoftBank are likely to get many times return on their investment. Early investors must be due for an insane return.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-au/tiktok-files-lawsuit
Oh not at all. I can come up with lame things like this all day long. No effort was exerted what so ever. =)
In a hilarious naming clash, Halo is the name of a medical bracelet in the SciFi show Continuum created by one of the main characters, who is the CEO of a very Amazon like company. The bracelet uses ai to monitor, track, and treat your health. Since the show is of course science fiction, the bracelet is quickly misused. See the commercial for the device from the show:

https://youtu.be/xfqaZ8_Z5aA
That's my guess. Also, I think there are some jumps in the severity of things in your examples that probably come off as bad faith.

Your list is not quite as bad as

A. Just helping the Uighurs, but maybe not in the best way.

B. Just killing all the Uighurs.

But I think a lot of people have issue with your list not considering the fact that there may be something between full killing/genocide and only some of them being killed (perhaps the more religious? the imams? those whose blood tests show they'll make a good organ donor?) and the idea of "demographic genocide"; or with your list not mentioning the fact that the brutality may not be policy but that it may be tacitly condoned; or your list not mentioning that it doesn't take obvious destruction of artefacts, buildings, or killing of imams to erase a religion or tradition and that it can happen in more subtle ways.

Many westerners grow up learning about the potential horrors of western imperialism and colonialism, and they are worried about the sinicization of Islam (and everything else).

I realize this comment may come off as rude, but I think that it is a real explanation of the downvotes. It's also important to realize that it's a lot easier for people to vote than to converse, especially when most people know about issues like this from headlines, skimming articles, etc.
You can’t point at intellectual property. The original intent of ip laws were to incentivize the spread of ideas, not to create a system of repression for profit.
But FEMA can't prevent attacks, they only show up after something happens so there’a no incentive for the agency to focus on terrorism from that angle.
Maybe. The sort of 'I see cool kids have skateboards so I'll get one too'. But surely this is backwards.

I guess when you are bidding against other people, the highest bidder wins. That means you have to, in a way, overpay for the product, and reap some special synergy bonus that other buyers can't get. This is what is missing to me, I can't see how owning a social media app enhances the rest of the business for either of Microsoft, Oracle, or indeed Walmart.
Nice Brautigan reference there, with "Machines of Loving Grace" :)
What it might need to do is index commonly searched terms and provide a reverse lookup to the location of the row... oh wait, that's called a search engine. :)
Flip the class and use breakout rooms.
Printer gerbil hungry, please load new cartridge of nuts.
But as soon as a Walmart or Oracle buys TT it won't be cool anymore either.
Basically, the interpreter interpret's rustc's internal IR, so it can theoretically support the entire language. That's not a good idea for various reasons, though, so its capabilities are effectively on an allowlist, that we expand over time as we're sure we want to enable a given feature.
Ugh, that kind of thing is the worst!
So Canadians would rather have Europe or the US take the lead (and make the profits) rather than Canada because the company is from Quebec? To me that makes no sense.
I'm sure it's some frankenstein abomination internally, but it is certainly using WebAssembly as of recently for parts of the application.
Did you look at this product? It has an e-ink display. That makes it very different from an Ipad.
He blew up a reef one time in a documentary in the 50s. Do you know if he ever changed his mind about the event? Or was he just a-dynamitin' till the end?

(I ask rhetorically because even a cursory read of his Wikipedia page would demonstrate that his actions afterwards undercut that sort of cavalier attitude to the undersea environment. I believe he explicitly repudiated that action besides but I can't find where.)

Moreover, what _else_ of his work is bad? That one thing? He produced educational films, books, speeches, etc. for almost four decades after that film.
It seems like the data brokers did most of the dirty work of collecting, storing and giving away the data to anyone who asked nicely. This guy managed to get access to all that sensitive data by just a single instance of social engineering. The data brokers' executives should be rotting in jail alongside him on much longer sentences.
This isn't a surprise. Google is a huge company with probably hundreds of teams working on these things. The fact that the privacy settings can be figured out at all is a bit of a miracle.

I doubt the privacy settings are "designed" as much as it is a bunch of disparate teams working on it together with maybe somebody coordinating it.
Anyone know whats the story on a color e-ink version of something like this?

That would be really compelling to me. Especially if you can get the latency down into the 10 ms range.
Nassaq 100 is trading at 36 p/e it was at close to 20 6 months. The future p/e is like 31. If you used discount cash flow analysis you really couldn't get to most of these valuations.
But it is not breaking and entering.
Agreed, one of the secrets of the iPad is that the "optional accessories" like stylus and keyboard are actually required to make it a powerful tool.

Muse works great with pinch, scroll, etc gestures. We still need to work on pointer hover states. Other things you're missing in the app trackpad support, or just making a general case of its importance?
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I openly admit it these days. If I had a VCR today I'd be the one struggling to figure out how to record something with it, even though as a kid I loved that stuff. And I'm only in my 30's. It's not really about whether I'm able to figure it out (if 8 year old me could figure it out, 30+ year old should be able to as well), it's about whether I have the patience for a badly designed UI.

One of the common responses I see when I complain about a bad UI is someone saying "no it's easy you just do ____". It's frustrating because that's not the point - the point is that I had to do research to find the answer!

There are cases, especially with specialized tools for complex tasks, where you are expected to spend time learning how to use the tool effectively. Photoshop is a great example. Vim is a great example. Figuring out stupid stuff like whether that grayish light blue vs dark gray fill on the checkbox means "enabled" or "disabled" is not an example.
Horrific.
Hmm, dunno. Maybe. But I look at the current line-up of buyers, and I think they are just making themselves look silly. I can't see the benefit in even bidding, for these guys.
Just the body fat calculation using the app is a great standalone feature.
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I wonder why && and || are not allowed in const functions?

> All boolean operators except for && and || which are banned since they are short-circuiting.

I guess I'm missing something obvious but why does the short circuiting break const-ness?
If it does everything it claims to do with a very acceptable degree of accuracy (not expecting 100%), I wouldn't mind something like this, even with the monthly fee.

As far as privacy, I'm more trusting of Amazon than a small startup personally.
What are your thoughts on the vertical stagger on ergonomics, vs. just having the left and right side split? Does it actually help, or is it more of an aesthetic choice?

I notice carpal tunnel pain in my wrists when I tension or release the tendons in my wrist that curl my fingers to move them up and down. Moving them from side to side doesn't hurt at all, so I'm skeptical that there's anything ergonomically wrong with the normal staggered layout. Split still seems like a good idea, though.

How infuriating are regular keyboards after getting used to Ergodox?
Because it has an eInk display instead of a lcd. I ordered one while already owning an iPad Pro.
> from the comfort and privacy of home

There is no privacy in home, and that's exactly what you want, to track our every tap, thought and utterance when using Alexa or any of your spyware.

> Health data is encrypted in transit and in the cloud

I feel PR pieces like this have given up even trying, and they only add that entire section reluctantly. I'd respect technologists more if they just openly admitted that this data is tracked, collected, processed and used for ads or other metrics and possibly collected by law enforcement or other purposes.

I mean, there was huge backlash against Ring cameras for working with the police, so absolutely nobody can trust anything that even remotely connects to the internet.

What they should say:

Truly private and encrypted: All data is stored locally, on device, and will never be transmitted via the internet. Using a free, open source application, you can transfer all the data to your own, secure offline storage. No data will be transmitted to Amazon, the cloud, or any other third party. Not even us can access your data.

But, as we know, that is never going to happen as far as Amazon is concerned, they want to track every second of your life in billions of datapoints; how often you blink, how many steps you take, your every interaction within the world.

They won't be happy until as much of our lives is being recorded by them as possible.

Fuck Amazon.
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High density hasn't been an issue for me lately on Ubuntu, I rarely use a touchpad, so I can't comment on that. GPU support is absolutely garbage on Mac OS in comparison, both from a compatability and performance perspective.
Mistake? They made the decision to slow down devices without telling users and profited from that decision.

My iPhone 5 became slower after 1-2 years. If the battery was bad, I never noticed it (no shutdowns or anything like that). It coincided with a new iPhone and iOS version... I tried every trick, from formatting the phone to reducing animations. Then I found a thread on Apple forums about this and someone was suggesting getting a new phone!

I did buy a new phone (OnePlus One) and it's still working after ~5 years. The battery doesn't last as long, but it doesn't die when I receive a call or play a game.

Because of this, that iPhone 5 was my first and last iPhone.
Well, it’s $399, which is very different price point than an iPad Pro with Apple pencil.

They detail some other advantages, like the texture of the surface, though we can’t evaluate that without getting one in hand.

It’s a much more focused device, which is a pro and a con.

Personally, I’ll stick with my iPad Pro, but I hope this is actually good and successful.
https://archive.vn/tT5uG
Not being as familiar with shipping, how would one find the metrics for this?

Is there some kind of an initial "scan" upon drop-in to the box and then a second scan when they pick it up?

If not, then I imagine the metrics would only be discoverable from USPS themselves, which of course, they are going to muzzle.
"How it works" doesn't explain how it works. Is it basically just a Yubikey?