skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The command prompt aspect is quite interesting. But it is going to be tough competing with OneNote (free), which is a pretty decent app.
Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I am familiar with wget, curl and some browser plugins that can scrape a site. A WordPress plugin should be able to give you some extras, especially when you start to think about things like responsive designs.
Huh from my perspective there’s a crap ton of houses being built...
Me to, then I just stopped. The enabling moment came when I found a free app that backs up Apple Notes in a portable format. I use the iCloud.com web app on my Linux laptops to access notes, and on my copious Apple devices, the Notes app is easy to use.

Some sad history: I spent years carefully making notes and organizing material in Evernote but realized that I spent much more time curating material than ever using it.
> Mintegral SDK uses a technique called method swizzling to replace implementations of the UIApplication openURL and SKStoreProductViewController loadProductWithParameters methods at runtime

Naive swizzling of system API's will be detected/stopped by App Review, right? Or perhaps only if it's private methods?
Hi,

One of the aito.ai founders here! :-)

We feel that the project was transformative, because the ML project was done end-to-end by RPA developers without data science team help. One of the RPA developer comments about Aito was 'that it was easy to use', which is a big thing in the machine learning space and in the context of ML democratization.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to help.

Regards, Antti & Aito
Class A CDL Driver
now hiring class A CDL drivers with 2 years of experience. Must be at least 23 years old.
I think this is English specific and could do more harm than good for someone with a different background. E.g. in my language counting anything > 1000 in hundreds would sound very weird.
For that there are always alternative body weight exercises to make the effort easier.
> Mintegral SDK uses a technique called method swizzling to replace implementations of the UIApplication openURL and SKStoreProductViewController loadProductWithParameters methods at runtime, as well it registers a custom NSURLProtocol class.

That's really clever. It looks like it uses ObjC dynamic linking to swap out calls[0].

When I read stuff like this, I'm glad that I'm a "dependency curmudgeon."

I'm not sure I would have figured this out, if I had vetted the dependency (Actually, I'm pretty sure I would have missed it).

I'm wondering if Apple would be able to detect this behavior, in their review process. There are certainly legitimate uses for it, but I like to avoid these types of hacks, in my shipping apps.

[0] https://nshipster.com/method-swizzling/
Show HN: HyScale – An abstraction framework over Kubernetes
I have no problem with any chat apps written in React Native. I've used Discord's mobile app and haven't heard of any complaints from anyone using it and the 4.5 to 5 stars from its users on iOS and Android show this.

Their Electron desktop apps however, just like the rest of the chat clients from Slack, Element, Keybase, Zulip, Rocket.Chat are a complete horror show. Feasting on my poor MacBook's RAM and disk space like an all-you-can-eat-for-free buffet until the disk and RAM is full. Waste of resources for a chat app on the desktop.

With Mac Catalyst, there is no excuse for this carnage on macOS. Other solutions are less mature but I would rather have React Native maturing on the desktop for Mac, Windows and Linux as an alternative to Electron.
I don't think that's correct.
They were threatening to block Epic's developer account, which would make future engine releases difficult.
Yes, I thought so too.

If they spread anyway, they could leave the generator away in the first place.
I don't understand this comment at all.

First of all, the first paragraph is about a suspicious plane fire - the plane literally burned in half sitting in a hangar. That should provide you some hint about what the fraud scheme is going to be. There's even an animated image of a plane on fire! Did you need the author to print "this is a story about insurance fraud" in big bold print at the top of the story?

Secondly, comments like this are really worthless on HN, it adds nothing to the discussion and as you point out, you didn't even read the article. Why even both writing a waste of a comment?
The issue isn't using it, it's getting it set up, working with all hardware, getting everything that's needed installed across different repositories, configuring everything the way it's needed, then keeping it running, survive updates, and fixing it when it breaks, which desktop Linux is still very prone to (apt dependency conflicts have wrecked beyond repair many Linux installs I've run).

At some point, you have to have a pretty deep understanding of how Linux and computers work to Google the right things, and then understand and apply a fix – or worse, you may have to work out one on your own, which may entail things like reading source code and patching stuff; I'd say I'm somewhat competent as far as running Linux goes, and I've had numerous issues over the years that I was unable to fix, mundane but non-negotiable things like "getting sound to work". Best case, that'll just require more or less heavy command line usage, which only a tiny minority of people have ever used before and which is highly non-intuitive at first.

That amounts to building a very comprehensive set of skills that is completely worthless to most people otherwise, and that you don't need for Windows or macOS, let alone Android/iOS.
> Apple will have those in their App Store, but users will make the trade off with privacy to play Fortnite or download a new social media app.

> Apple makes it so that trade off doesn’t have to happen.

That's the core of the discussion here: you seem to think that's in the interest of the user to have Apple taking all those decisions for themselves. I firmly disagree, I'm a happy user of an iOS device and do release iOS apps, in both case I would prefer to have more choice of trade-off, and to be able to decide for myself instead of Apple taking a decision for all their user base and developers.
Kubernetes complexities are often acknowledged. In our team, we experienced this first-hand while migrating a large PaaS application onto Kubernetes about two years ago. This prompted us to seek out a way to simplify and speed-up app deployments to Kubernetes. This pursuit eventually led us to believe that Kubernetes complexities deserve an abstraction, in quite the same way as JQuery over Javascript, or Spring over Servlets. The HyScale project was born out of this, to create an app-centric abstraction that is closer to the everyday language of developers and devops.

With HyScale, a simple & short service-descriptor allows developers to easily deploy their apps to K8s without having to write or maintain a voluminous amount of K8s manifest YAMLs. This enables self-service deployments as well as development on K8s with minimal IT/DevOps intervention.

We would love to get feedback, ideas and contributions.
It's controversial, to be sure. I did state "some sources" say this.

The article I would like to post here is no longer online, but here is a discussion of it with other sources cited and some people saying "That's utter BS" and others saying "Yeah, that's what I was taught ages ago.":

https://www.metafilter.com/156154/A-third-way-Non-violent-pr...
Have you got citation? I cannot find anything on google about Netflix hiding and enabling code. The only thing your link states is once the subscription ends the user is redirected to the browser to pay, so, not the same time.
You're kind of conflating two different types of career change - switching tech stacks vs switching the domain in which you work. You could switch to a different web framework if you think Angular is becoming irrelevant (same domain, different tech stack). Or you could look for companies that run their ML on Java (familar tech stack, different domain). Yes, those companies do exist.

With either of those your past experience carries over to some extent. But if you decide that you want to be a data scientist and use Python, then you're putting yourself at massive disadvantage. First, because your past experience is far less relevant. Second, because there's a huge oversupply of beginner data science/ML people who use Python.
Ask HN: Should I keep building a social media app?
Background: I'm CTO of a B2B startup running for 5+ years. COVID changed things a bit and the startup has gone from "potential large exit" to "second income stream but unlikely to exit".

I've been building a social media app over the last 8 months in my spare time. I launched a beta a few weeks ago and it was well received by the 20 or so people I sent it to. 9 of them still use it each day for 30 mins+. I know these are tiny numbers but I want to give some context to what I'm thinking about.

I don't want to accidentally fall into another startup without thinking it through properly. I'm starting to see the amount of work involved just on the development side to upkeep and grow a B2C app.

I'd love to get some advice from HN about this. I always assumed my next startup would be B2B because I understand the space much better. I have no idea what the landscape around social media startups are. I have no idea what the journey looks like with no paying customers. There's no real option to bootstrap since there's no income. It feels like it's hard to validate the app without a massive amount of up-front work.

I could write a lot about the uncertainty I have surrounding this but I just want to know if there's anyone out there that's been through something similar.

TLDR: I don't want to accidentally fall into another startup. What does the journey look like for a social media app in the early stages? Is it possible as a solo founder?
> "would you say you practice disruptive innovation methodology?"

My eye genuinely twitched reading this sentence
Actually, in Dutch there is quite some flexibility in verb ordering. Teachers actively warn against so-called pliers-constructions where a subordinate clause is wedged between subject and verb.

Example time!

Dutch: "De man die de vrouw die bloemen plukt kust."
Literally: "The man who (the woman (who flowers picks)) kisses"
Meaning: "The man who kisses the woman that is picking flowers"

The subordinate clause is sandwiched between subject and verb. However, Dutch allows the following order:

Dutch: "De man die de vrouw kust die bloemen plukt."
Literally: "The man who (the woman) kisses (who flowers picks)"

In this case the verb kisses has moved to the front. It is a transformation that allows a form of tail recursion elimination. After the main verb the parse stack for the main clause can be popped and all resources dedicated to parsing the trailing subordinate clause(s). This allows us to string together quite a lot of subclauses without getting lost.
Self-powered wildfire detector could help prevent deadly blazes
FreeBSD used to need a kernel module called opensolaris.ko in order to load ZFS (not sure if that’s still the case). So whilst ZFS has been ported to many OSes, it still relies / relied on a paravirtualized Solaris kernel.
Note: it’s not a critique; I love ZFS and use it to secure all my data.
Completely besides the point, but isn’t it unnecessary to use ”TFA” in this instance? Personally I’m not at all offended by strong language, but it just seems hostile for no reason.
Finally an Effective Ergonomic Keyboard
yeah that was my thought
Okay fellow f5bot gleam watchers - is gleam ready to start learning / using yet? It doesn't have to be ready for production code, but it seems like when I first heard about it, it was not ready for 'download compiler on OS of choice of big 2 OSes, follow this hello world, start shipping hobby apps'.

Are we at that point yet?
The feet are lying in bed and dressed suggestively
Well, China has Rockchip and HiSillicon, although HiSillicon lost the right to manufacture in TSMC sometimes ago. Not only VIA, both Intel and AMD has joint venture in China to produce homegrown Chinese x86 chips.
> I still think we need something open and decentralized that competes with the App store and Play store, but one that offers apps that use basically the same APIs and technology that the native apps use.

Take a look at Flutter(which is similar to swiftUI). I know Google is behind it but it's so damn good. The JS community spends so much time creating new tools on top of older tools to achieve simple things that should be trivial in 2020. Meanwhile, flutter is typescript+react+webpack+component library + a bunch of npm dependencies(because dart has a proper standard library) + advanced styling/layout and animation primitives inside the programming language + amazing IDE support + compiler that generates optimized AOT native code.

Flutter Web is a huge bet though because it completely throws away every web tech and builds UIs on top of <canvas>. That way you get the same API's you get on mobiles. The results are not good right now but alongside Microsoft's Blazor they are the only technologies competing with the broken web landscape.
From a comment by onion2k in another thread:

> This is a quote from the letter that Apple sent to Epic;

>> If your membership is terminated, you may no longer submit apps to the App Store, and your apps still available for distribution will be removed. You will also lose access to the following programs, technologies, and capabilities:"

>> [...]

>> - Engineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS hardware; optimize Unreal Engine on the Mac for creative workflows, virtual sets and their CI/Build Systems; and adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team

> That is a statement that Apple made saying they will stop all help they give to Epic getting UE running on all Apple hardware. With the other stuff in the letter it makes it very clear that the problem is not just one for Epic Games, but all of Epic.

> You can read it yourself - https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327.... (Apple's letter starts on page 51 of the PDF)

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269719

So they seem to be very specific and specifically call out work on the Unreal Engine.
Sodium bicarbonate shortage puts surgeries on hold
New thinking? Every single study about this topic, including for bird flu and diseases that would be vastly worse for public health, have condluded they don't work.
A few they mention are production systems at fairly high volume. The floor scrubbers from Brain Corp and shelf scanners from Bossa Nova are running in hundreds of Walmart stores, and the delivery robots from Starship are running in dozens of cities.
Super Seven is a new term for me.
Inspecting Android HTTP with a Fake VPN
another notes app people love in the beginning but eventually abandon
What is a Static Site Generator and how to select one?
Counterintuitively, the walled garden may make the problem worse.

The App Store is a single target. It makes "discovery" easier for malware. Imagine if these apps had to get users the "old fashioned" way, one-by-one, word-of-mouth, etc. It also requires less initial setup for malware developers, as opposed to having to develop their own software distribution infrastructure. Every claim about the App Store making things easier for developers also applies to malware.

Moreover, the App Store race to the bottom undermined the previous paid upfront software model in favor of everything being free, supported either by ads or by "cash cow" manipulative IAP.
No one really wants their legal identity linked to a messaging identity anyway. It just isn't a suitable concept. Identity in a messaging context normally has multiple instances. You don't want your work identity linked to your family identity linked to your bar identity...

Leaving off the question of how useful the transitive stuff is, PGP has a reasonable and simple framework. The terminology of key trust is terrible though. Few people know what it means to trust a key (my house key is OK but I think my shed key might be up to no good).

Messaging identity reputation is all about what you think of the other people's identities. Do you know them? What context do you know them from (e.g. a particular protest)? Why you think this messaging identity relates to a person somehow? How is this entity allowed to interact with you? This stuff can't be automated away.

I think the ultimate answer would have to involve generating a simple conceptual model of a messaging identity and then teaching people about it. If you solve identity then everything else is easy.
Air Force leaders watch 'flying car' take flight in Texas
A framework for Steering Software-intensive Acquisitions to Success (2011) [pdf]
Thanks for linking. The amount of content on here is astronomical, it is impossible to keep up with things you care about and have a healthy life.
As someone who finds passive language patronizing and insulting, this is a relief to read.
No, of course not. The best example is the hugely expensive big TV screen that still comes with all of this, and there isn't even any particular service it offers.
1984 here and buying. Spot on!
We might disagree on those two points (I am abivalent about the research integrity one, anyway) but I hope you can agree with me that whether Epstein has a legitimate interest in science is completely immaterial to both of them. That's what my comment was about.
Zfs does not work well on sparse volumes, it loves new blocks. That's why you don't see it much in a VM or on storage that is sparse (go nimble, NetApp, etc)

Also it's pretty much impossible to grow a zfs pool and there are no consistency check tools or repair tools. So when you actually do get corruption, you lose it all.

Might have been a breakthrough around 2000 but it's time for something new.
Automatic Scheduled SQL Server Database Backups: Supports Express Edition Also
You say ’lowest common denominator’ like it’s a bad thing. It’s not a bad thing to try to support all your users.
Ogg Vorbis is actually very relevant. I remember a lot of games used Ogg Vorbis for audio files.
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Warrior_2, it's basically that.
> At its core, "meritocracy" is eugenics: the belief that some people are just intrinsically better than others (that's why you often hear plutocrats boasting of their "good blood" – think of Trump here).

> As with all eugenics stories, meritocracy is trivially disprovable pseudoscientific nonsense.

Eugenics is not nonsense; it is immoral. It is possible to selectively breed animals for desirable traits; a monstrous regime could do the same thing for men. That something would be evil to do does not make it impossible.

Given that mankind has employed selective breeding for literally millennia, on both plants and animals, the burden of proof has to rest on those who claim that it cannot (rather than may not) be effective on men.

And it is trivially obvious that some people are intrinsically better than others: look at any professional sports team. Or any chess player. Or any artist. Yes, all of those folks have spent hours in honing their natural talents — but they had natural talents to begin with.
Nefarious Nefazodone and Flashy Rare Side Effects
I do think there's a problem where companies add ad network SDKs (or, on the web, ad tags) without considering the privacy or security risks, and instead think only "more ad networks will make us more money".

On the other hand, the two main options to this are (a) people only install SDKs/tags from ad networks with strong reputations or (b) a system like AMP, where ad networks can choose between running in a sandbox (xdomain iframe) and submitting their code as an open source extension for review. Option (a) has the major downside of helping existing players and players with non-ads businesses that strengthen their reputation (like my employer). Option (b) is better, but still hard to do well.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, on ads. Speaking only for myself.)
Preparing for the Vaccine Results
Emerging technologies shaping the future of cities
I use https://languagetool.org/ for that. I have integrated this Java program in Vim as well. Every time I think I finished a piece of write, I run the ":LanguageToolCheck" command to learn that my writing still leaves a lot to be desired.
> Moreover, the App Store race to the bottom undermined the previous paid upfront software model in favor of everything being free, supported either by ads or by "cash cow" manipulative IAP.

Microtransactions were a thing even before the App Store race - remember Farmville, MafiaWars and the other host of Zynga's Facebook games?
I feel like it’s been accepted wisdom for a long time that native apps are more secure than the web. In the last few months I’ve found myself wondering if that’s actually true. They both have their own, different security problems.
Recording the kernel profile with perf would be more useful, I think. strace would probably only show long "unlink" syscall.
FDA’s treating Covid-19 with plasma: critics see thin evidence–and politics
Yep. Do push-ups on an incline. Get rings or a suspension trainer and do exercises from a more upright position. Rest feet on the floor when doing dips. Tons of ways to scale exercises down if you can’t do the normal version yet.
People buy gas guzzlers because they want them and the dip in gas prices makes the TCO calculation something they can convince the other decision-maker in their household is a battle that's not worth picking.
That seems to fit even better, albeit it in a different way.
Rather than funding science to make a good contribution out of personal interest (and understanding), he could have been motivated out of a feeling of admiration, or intellectual inadequacy. Monetary funding would then appear to place him as a peer among these scientists, which would be a bit of an ego boost either way.

This would make claims about his "extraordinary group" of friends make a lot of sense. He might have associated with those people thinking that it made him feel and appear to be an interesting, intelligent, overall better person.
Seems like exactly what an "intellectual imposter" would do, more than someone trying to build a personal shield.

Besides, we all know scientists have no political influence worth harnessing.
Drugs vs. Chairs
> we have improved treatment methods significantly

Have they? I haven't seen anything in the news besides a few practices evolving (prone positioning, avoiding ventilation too early).

> we know ways to drastically reduce the spread of the virus using simple mechanical strategies

Masks, hygiene, disinfection, distancing, were all known and encouraged since March.

We are almost entering September, and my impression is that there hasn't been any new discoveries, other than trial drugs or confirming earlier findings, since late May/June. If anything, you couldn't take those risks earlier because of public opinion, not any practical reasons.
I have never seen someone decrying others "deplatforming hate" acting in good faith or coming from a nuanced mindset, but it would appear from your comment history (yes, I did check it... I will admit I was sceptical) that you're not a thinly veiled white supremacist. Perhaps I'll read points like these more charitably in the future.
What great features do Android users get as a result of being able to sideload apps which aren’t available on the App Store?

I believe the (weak) answer to the above is the answer to your question. Features are what matters to the majority of users. The ability to sideload apps itself is not.
News sites are dying, and can't afford to worry about "worthy".
why both? isn't that wasteful? which one wins if they disagree? do you sync both at the same frequency?