skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s overwhelming proof that an important segment prefers those advantages.

It doesn't even prove that there are enough such people to fill a single telephone booth. They could make a billion sales and every one of them could be people who don't want to be tied to Apple's store but grin and bear it because they want iOS or Apple hardware more, or because they think Google is worse.

When they don't have the choice to get one without the other, people buying both doesn't prove that they want both, only that the thing they actually want isn't a choice they have. To prove what they actually want you'd have to give them the option to have that.

> Why should they be deprived of the benefits of the walled garden just because you don’t like it?

Why should the people who don't want it have it forced on them?

If you want Apple hardware with iOS and to buy all your apps from Apple's store, why can't you choose that without forcing all the people who don't want that into an all or nothing choice between every one of those things and not a single one of them?
Well if you're actually asking... I do it so I can use Windows tools like Unity (Editor just runs the best on Windows) and good graphics drivers, as well as having access to bash and linux tooling.
There's these alternatives also, all privacy focused but mostly reliant on other engines for data: https://www.eu-startups.com/2020/09/5-european-google-compet...
The big draw for me is working on the iPad. If you attach the keyboard it becomes a pretty awesome 'do anything' device, now that you can code on it as well. Can't build native apps yet, but seems like a future opportunity. Web apps / PWA development works great, I can just have the app running in a hovering window / on a quarter of the screen.
Well, I think a lot of literature has a tendency to be read a way based on what the reader knows. So the notion of what is baffling is different depending on what you've built as an intuition for what the story is telling which depends on what other stories you've read.

Personally, I can recall having expectations eluded multiple times in East of Eden even though the narrative is actually fairly direct. It's just that the books I've read build for me the future path for where this book is going. I suspect that if I had read it as a teenager I would have had fewer moments where that occurred.

There is a beautiful space between being very predictable and providing no release to the reader. I think good writers are able to do that for the audiences they're aiming at.

Perhaps the classical authors are merely those who can do that for many.
> a few months later everyone can come out and play.

I'm not so sure. Governments can't admit that fighting such a contagious virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions is extremely difficult on the long run. You're just buying time for a cure (not necessarily a vaccine: drugs work, too).
Make a lid that goes over the top of the trash so it's contained when pulled out. Manually removing the lid (or however you modify it) will be less dramatic than opening the drawer.
If they didn't want people to be able to make changes that cannot be used upstream, there's a license for that. It's called the GPL.
Glad you liked it. ;) Closing is on timer for now, yes.

Maybe I will add an infra-red or sound sensor to make closing more intelligent. Good tip!
Almost certainly not, but on the other hand there are people who conversely enjoy proper boldface and italics, as Unix text processing tools encompassed pretty much from the get-go; or more than 256 different glyphs in use at once, with none of that faffing about with loadable Unicode-to-8-bit character maps; or MouseText. (-:
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Making Tokens 2: A tale of app revival and organic launch
> It would be better to first add evidence to the allegations you made.

Is there anything controversial in what I wrote? If so I am not aware of it, this has all been laid out in some detail by now - repeatedly - so I don't see why the burden of providing evidence should be on me, unless you think one or more of these items are controversial or contradicting evidence already out there.

> Mozilla donations never get used to fund browser development.

Exactly. But they should be.

> Instead the browser is in part funded by "frivolous" projects that actually generate an income.

I think the burden of proof is on you now.

> The other major source of income is from Google web search.

That is income that should 100% go to FireFox development, and never to anything else.

> Firefox's dependence on this isn't ideal and has been critcised by many, hence the search for other revenue streams.

Donations to the Mozilla foundation are one such stream.
> That makes assumptions that you have an outdoor space / back yard available for a compost bin and a practical use for said compost...

It made assumptions on using the compost (or disposing it), but no assumptions were made on backyards or outdoor spaces because those are not required for home composting. It can be done with just a little bit more space than what just one or two bins need, and especially with vertical stacking systems, this isn’t as big a problem.

Searching online for “How to compost at home” shows several such stacked systems that need minimal space.
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Mine really works fine. Ultrasonic sensors are pretty decent in presence detection.
Sure keep believing it, I love the Apple and Sony contributions to upstream.
Actually, you can self-host VS Code on a server and access it via browser: https://github.com/cdr/code-server
Note that even a single viron can cause disease, as per [1]. Maybe a trickle of tiny doses could help trigger an immune response, but there's always a risk of getting sick before then.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677602/
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Or just take out the trash more often.
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I planned to put my home in Birmingham on the market earlier this year. Terrible timing ;(. Fortunately the lockdown did give me a lot of time to reflect on the process of selling a home. FabHomePages is the result of that.

I used it myself to share the news of my plans with friends and to get feedback. Will soon be adding features to help people plan the process of selling and to connect with service providers.
Show HN: Found a coding platform where you can learn, practice, manage and more
I was looking to learn programming a few weeks back when I had realized that I have programming classes this year in high school so I decided to learn a bit of it beforehand. I was going through YC HN and found this - https://domecode.com/
I'm not sure about the other users but I'm in love with whatever this is. There are programming concepts to learn, problems to practice ( 6 languages including Rust, Go, Java, C, C++, Python ), forum to discuss, and a lot more but those are the features I liked.
One, in particular, is something called "Fusion" - https://domecode.com/fusion/
It allows you to choose any front-end tutorial of your choice and fixates the video in a layout that allows you to code, see the preview and watch the video in a single tab instead of a lot of windows. Thought might post it here.
You don't seem to think very highly of other people. You could also phrase it as "if you have any possible risk factor, you should lock yourself away so me and my friends can build up herd immunity so you don't have to", just as the article said.
Yeah I'm still on the fence but decided i'd take them up on the 30 day free return and evaluate it directly
I chuckled at the "Go Premium" button. I wont spoil it for you.
You seem to be assuming that everyone uses Java or .NET and C++. That seems wrong to me.
https://youtu.be/rxgWHzMvXOY?t=17
No paywall here. But also no pictures. What use is an article about photos, without any pictures?
>but legally speaking that would all still be owned by Oracle, hence why I didn't make that same distinction myself)..

The reason the distinction is important is that Sun released that code under the CDDL. If Oracle wanted to somehow claim it couldn't be used, it would require a massive lawsuit that would basically be against the concept of free software.
I still don't get it. Let's say you jump on an airplane with an atomic clock, and fly around the earth. According to the theory, your time will go slower. So the clock on the plane will be behind the clock on earth.

But what if you fly against the turning of the earth. That way the clock on the earth goes slower, and so when arriving back, the clock on earth is behind?

Every time I look this up, I never seem to be able to wrap my head around that.

EDIT: Found the answer to my question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Reciprocity . Basically when you accelerate and decelerate, your time gets influenced, and so the person experiencing the most acceleration will have the slower time.
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Berlin is disaster and running joke on so many levels.

If the city was competent about the project, they would have actually hired people who knew what they were doing. While new terminals and airports are not as standard as Holiday Inn, there are plenty of constraints in most cities [1], that do not allow a lot of room for radical change, and design usually come out not widely different.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZ3eozyQfU
I didn't see a question mark in there.

If the Unity Editor runs best on Windows then maybe petition the authors to improve it? Otherwise you might end up in a Photoshop/Apple situation and we all know how that ended.

Good graphics drivers are available for Linux, and have been for years.

Access to bash tooling is the norm on any Linux system.
CockroachDB sounds like it has a target market of a couple of hundred to low thousands companies though. How many people are in the market for a "[A] SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters." [0]? It sounds like a pretty good product, lots of potential, etc. But there are not that many people who need to run their own cloud and maintain uptime in the event of a data centre being taken out. If I ever use CockroachDB it is probably because some cloud provider decided to offer it and not Postgres. Those core features are targeted at problems that only a very small subset of people have.

Compare that to embedded/immutable/syncable/relational. Everybody in software has dealt with software where that would be a compelling feature set in a database. These are solutions to problems any developer has encountered. It is, in that sense, a much easier project for people to understand and get behind.

OP probably doesn't have useful opinions on how his software should handle a direct nuclear strike on his production machine. He probably does have useful opinions on when he should cheat and let a little bit of mutability into the otherwise 'immutable' system.

[0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200901074527/https://www.hacke...
I’ve been developing for a decade and have never used tmux and have use vim for probably ten hours.
You've done all the work to commit a setup that already works for you, for the sake of avoiding having to manually create one whenever you need to setup a new machine or vm.

It's one of those things that repays itself by the second install or so.
WebObjects has been fully Java since version 5 was released in 2001:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects#WOWODC

Apple's server stack has been primarily Java for about 20 years.
Databases we have today aren't designed for the kind of consumer applications we use today. They are designed for banks, Amazons and their smaller counterparts - where a central entity (the business or corp) needs full control over the data.

The most popular consumer apps (FB, LinkedIn, blogs, photo sharing, goal trackers, slack, basecamp etc) shouldn't be centralized in this fashion. Data(bases) should be owned by users, and synced with friends and colleagues. So instead of a single centralized database, we need a million tiny little databases which are synced with peers.

Tiny databases fit well into today's hardware capabilities landscape. We have plenty of fast storage, and powerful CPUs on computers and phones. It's time to stop building as if the server is the only place where queries can run efficiently. Truly serverless, that is. This also improves data security in general; there is no central place to hack.

Happy to talk about this in detail. Please feel free to email me.
Yup:

> Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, R. Todd Marshall and Larenda R. Delaini, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Richard A. Levy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.
The specific tools are not really the point. The same applies whichever tools you need - sooner or later you'll need to cleanly set up a new machine, at which point committing your configs pays for itself.
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With those priorities in mind I'd probably start with RocksDB and build SQL engine on top. I'm really impressed with RocksDB performance, space requirements and feature set.
In emacs, use pyvenv-activate. I think it's part of elpy.
I'd say communicating outside normal means would be "using a covert channel", and reserve "steganography" for such communication which has been whitened to resemble noise[1].

Ah. I think I see where the confusion is coming from. You're saying this isn't steganography because the information isn't hidden in the image data. It's there in the 'plaintext'. I thought this is steganography because the image is hidden in the file data by exploiting the fact that PNG renderers don't display it.

I'm going to change my mind and say that your definition is actually better than mine. The information itself isn't hidden. You don't need a trick, or a key, or any special knowledge to view it. The fact that common PNG libraries don't display it isn't really enough to say that it's enciphered at all - you can't really say a message is definitely hidden if you assume something about the PNG library the attacker is using to view it. I don't know what the right term is, but it probably isn't steganography.
Or on the Oculus Quest :-)
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what does hiding information in images have to do with CTF-style challenges? Does that term not refer to "break into server X and retrieve file Y" sorts of tasks?
This story is kinda like:

"I got pickpocketed once and lost all my cash. This means that cash is inherently unsafe and should not be used by anyone ever."
The pico8 console stores the entire game in a png file in its data area.
Is chatbots a bad idea for customer service
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

https://web.archive.org/web/20070405032412/http://news.ycomb...
ZFS was proprietary for several years.
They don't upstream what they never would be up streamed. But they probably they upstream a lot which they wouldn't have, if they couldn't use the open source tool at all. Also, a lot of companies reduce their development costs by using open source software, gpl or other, without ever upstreaming. So "saving development cost" doesn't sound like an argument to me.
Aren't there captcha services that are less creepy than Googles?
> so I can use Windows tools like Unity (Editor just runs the best on Windows)

Wasn't Unity a Mac exclusive tool to start out? I know they have support for Windows at this point, and would understand if they've refocused on Windows since then.
Mind Sharing the reason for downvote? That is what Apple state in their reply in multiple outlet and emails to developers.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

I'm curious as to why you didn't use sqlite's changeset / patchset API?
I tried a "EPIC similator" at a medical museum, it was a bunch of drop down menus combined with slow loading pages I could navigate between.

I get an impression that hospitals are wasting many expensive workhours from highly trained professionals to operate these types of systems.
I really wonder if it could make economic sense to let MDs have personal assistants for these purposes.
I also just got access to the beta. It works very seamlessly. You can install all the VSCode extensions you want.

It came preinstalled with some Python 3.8 venv. The venv was put into the Git repo root directory, which is a bit strange, as I first needed to modify my gitignore to ignore that.

Git push directly from the VSCode menu directly worked and pushed the change back to GitHub, without further setup.

I did not expect that I get a full virtual machine, but it seems so. I edited some Latex project, and pdflatex was missing, so I did `sudo apt install texlive-full`, it installed 4GB of packages, and then all worked fine.

I also edited some TensorFlow stuff, and `pip3 install tensorflow` also just worked.

The side preview (eg. for markdown or Latex) somehow is broken. It stays blank. However, e.g. you can open the Latex PDF preview in a new browser window, which works.

The speed just felt native. There was no latency. It feels exactly like native VSCode.

I very much like it. I guess the side preview will get fixed soon. I will probably use it for a couple of smaller projects, of different kinds, like Latex, Markdown notes, smaller Python stuff, or other smaller code projects where VSCode is fine.

Otherwise, for e.g. Python, I still prefer PyCharm, which has far superior code browsing and auto-completion. Codespaces with PyCharm would be really nice! Or maybe VSCode can improve on that. Or maybe VSCode can even reuse the language server from VSCode. Or at least the inspections. I think this part is open source, right?
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Magician's assistant who knows JavaScript and video editing
Hi HN! I invent and perform high tech magic exploiting holes in our technology and holes in our models of the world. (I performed a show for a bunch of YC peeps in MTV while working at Bump many years ago).

Since isolation, magicians have been getting super creative with performing over Zoom, leading to perhaps the biggest creativity burst in magicians in a long time!

I've been doing my part inventing new tricks and donating them for charity COVID relief (see videochatmagic.com).

Now I find myself needing a magician's assistant. I need someone who is quick on their feet with math in their head, can code javascript (WebRTC is a plus ;-), and do video editing on the fly.

I can't imagine any other place where I would find the right person, so... let me know if you're interested. email is in my profile.
Yes.

Also, the fact that Chromium is a high profile security critical software with occasional emergency security updates for bugs exploited in the wild, doesn't help at all when you want to maintain your own fork.
Sounds like a key feature! ;)
> How can we change this culture though?

There are articles on how the early aviation had too much pilot egos and cowboy attitude, and how the aviation industry was able to change that and reduce human errors. And how medicine should learn from them, and maybe already is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/health/31safe.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_oXvXtQlBA
I believe the convenience of not having to charge your phones will beat everything, plus if the commercial prototype is deemed to be safe when tested with early adopters (military, space use cases), then the laggards will have no option but fall in line, esp if the economics mentioned in the interview hold true at scaled production. Psychological issues exist only until a critical mass adopts it :)

Also, the comparison with nuclear plants is a little inaccurate I feel. Power supply (as we know it) has always been centralised and hence comparisons are made with other centralised solutions such as thermal power plants. With this technology, we could be able to decentralise it - much cleaner and free from central grid fluctuations/failures.
The pívot podcast made a prediction that Apple will launch a search engine. Might be overlap in audience of hacker news and podcast
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That's why it's deviant.
Seems like a high signal to noise (noise included) ratio.
I don't understand sorry, I must be misunderstanding you. If setuptools doesn't depend on the stdlib distutils provided by Debian anymore, why is this a problem due to Debian? How can you have a problem due to something you don't depend on?
Some people don't want to use vim, they want to use VSCode.
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Flying invisible ships with catapults == win!

so long since i played that!
And even 5 bits was enough for a long time, across a few European languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code (which I just learned is also where "baud" comes from!)
Now we know which episodes are the most interesting. Also which guests reveal who/what can't be criticised or discussed.

That said, I'm not surprised that Alex "they're turnin' the friggin frogs gay" Jones is on that list.
At this point forking the browser and the foundation is the only sane solution.

The charter should be: we support the browser for dorks first and always, and work on technical problems for dorks second.

Turns out that I was right saying that any corp supporting diversity in tech is a corp that has no business being in tech.
Does anyone know if Joe Rogan allows for censorship on the part of Spotify?

Tommy Chong the comedian has managed to make the list of censored folks. Now I feel compelled to look up the others.
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It's a tad more complex now for sure:

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou
This is just as true for Human pilots as well, there are plenty of judgement calls and scenarios average pilots also will fail .

Are the autonomous systems better than our best, most experienced pilots? not yet. They are however likely already better than the average pilot. Updating the autonomous software to factor in new scenario is easier than grounding pilots and getting them retrained on the simulator

The expense and availability of type certification and simulators is one of the reasons the 737 MAX was designed to handle like the older model, although it was fundamentally different. After the fixes, if the FAA require separate type rating it will be very expensive and slow process for all airlines.

The autonomous systems will behave consistently under a given scenario, human responses and errors may vary. Fixing the former is easier than quality checking the later.

Planes already fly a lot on their own, they also crash on their own already too, due to software bugs or faulty sensors, 737 MAX is software bug from a faulty sensor reading on the autonomous system after all. It is a blurry line between what we have and a fully autonomous system. The risks are already there, might as well embrace it and test the software lot more rigorously than depend on the human to intervene and override as we do now.
Shouldn't it be the Terms of Use of ycombinator.com instead of Hacker News? I mean, the content of that ToU does sound like describing Hacker News, but it's under https://www.ycombinator.com not https://news.ycombinator.com (just like today's https://www.ycombinator.com/legal#tou ).
Oh, you can look at the device that the GOP instance is bound to and get the PCI device from there. At that point you just walk the BARs looking for one that's mapped in a region that covers the framebuffer address that GOP gives you. This doesn't require you to know anything about the device in question, and most of the time you'd probably get lucky by throwing glyphs in space that exists outside the framebuffer and blitting them onto the screen - up until you find a driver that implements blt() by using the 3D engine and mapping some buffer objects on top of the space you're trying to use.
Ask HN: What is the most ethical process for hiring someone?
I heard some people suggest to hire the employee as freelance for a week and after the week offer them stability of the contract? What do you think about it?