skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sturgis rally could link event to 266,000 coronavirus cases
Hackerlaws – The Shirky Principle – Institutions try to preserve the problem
Whenever I am at lan parties my buddies want to play CS 1.6 and I don't understand the appeal. They only play de_dust2 too. I find it so boring. Everyone buys exactly the same weapons (m4a1 for antiterrorists, ak47 for terrorists). Everyone runs pretty much to the same spot, there's an exchange of blows, one team wins. Repeat. They don't even try any other maps or other weapons or anything.
Those devices never get upgraded to new Android versions so that's not something Android devs worry about. Hardware manufacturers just have to beef up the next generation of low end phones!

(Cue KaiOS eating away all the low end market.)
> Quite frankly, the lockdown of the OS and rejection of this is one of the primary reasons I'm on iPhone.

_You_ are neither the vendor OR the citizen in the parent comment's metaphor, trying to build or be part of a civilization in the middle of the ocean.

Please do not try to justify a restriction because you happen to personally be happy with the current offering, the world is larger than you. There being more freedoms for others will not stop you from restricting yourself.
> One aspect of sexual selection is that a disadvantageous trait needn't kill to cause differential outcomes in reproduction. If a deficiency results lower hunting success, diminished fighting prowess, loss of mental acuity etc. the individual will be disfavored in mate selection.

That makes sense, and it also supports my claim that skin cancer would likely not be a trait selected against, right? It's something that usually happens later in life and that would not be involved during mate selection.

> so I wouldn't call it artificial selection - artificial selection applied to humans is also known as eugenics.

Thanks for that distinction. If this attraction is happening naturally and unspoken, it's fair to include it as a part of natural selection. However, I do think some of it is cultural, is spoken, and goes beyond natural attraction. A common example might be the preference for lighter skin in mates that we unfortunately find in several cultures. Maybe we should start calling it eugenics instead of softening it to artificial selection.
I didn't mean to be misleading, and I've never used an iPhone so I have no idea what Apple does.

Interesting though, thanks.
AFAIK it isn't actually possible. This is from memory, but there's technical limitations to trying to listen for and process everything all the time, so there's a secondary processing unit whose only job is to listen for the activation phrase and activate the main unit when it hears it. I believe this was hardwired to only listen for the phrase itself and doesn't use the same speech recognition model
Isn't this a little ironic considering the backlash against Vue 3 and the creation of Svelte?
I suppose more concretely "doing something related to what you are writing about". On principle I have nothing against pure philosophers, who integrate old theories and formulate new ones. However, in my experience, writings like that of Marcus Aurelius are more compelling, who was a success in his own right before ever writing anything. Most modern "business" authors don't have any business (other than selling books to people). Taleb is just warning people to not take advise from authors who don't actually have "skin in the game".
> All obvious places may have hydro plants already, but not all hydro plants are reversible.

If a hydro site is convertible to reversible, chances are it’s been already. Most sites are not really suitable because regular hydro plants don’t need a lower reservoir or water source and so can be built in locations which don’t have one.

Meanwhile pumped hydro can be built in locations where normal hydro makes no sense because there is no natural downflow or upper reservoir e.g. Taum Sauk.
Hosting a blog using only Scheme
A character, both input and output.
3rded from a backend engineer. Vue.js just makes sense.
The change I like the most is the permission change:

"If you haven't used an app in a while, you may not want it to keep accessing your data. So Android will reset permissions for your unused apps. You can always turn permissions back on."

"Give one-time permissions to apps that need your mic, camera or location. The next time the app needs access, it must ask for permission again."
And happy Ruby on Rails veteran here with Vue at the front-end!
Samsung DeX, Huawei EMUI desktop. Both let you to use Android in desktop mode (if you own any of those android devices)
Theres no real "point" to address. The GP simply repeats an expletive several times before they build a strawman they can use to insult the author. This is the textual version of a temper tantrum.
Yeah, the old adage that "any PR is good PR"... however Ryanair are already well-known enough, so they don't need that aspect, and at least for me personally, any article like the one you mentioned only solidifies my decision to avoid them if at all possible...
While I do think he and others are guilty of leaking government secrets, it was done with the public interest in mind - exposing war crimes, for which I still hope the US will be held responsible for. Therefore any punishment should be mitigated.

Second, I do not trust he would be given a fair treatment or due process in the US - I mean he helped leak documents that prove that the US committed war crimes, a country that commits war crimes does not have any kind of moral credit left when it comes to legal cases like this.
Because app store should be an integral part of the OS, don't like it? Get another brand.

Nothing prevented them to do so, in fact that is what ChromeOS and FirefoxOS are all about.
What data are you looking at? Median home price for Chicago (where I live incidentally) is 229,000, for Dallas is 225,000, for Houston is 197,000 according to this source [0] and those are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States and Dallas and Houston have both grown a whopping 19% in the past decade [1]. Trick is, they all still have plenty of land to build new homes on to keep up with demand growth.

[0]: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/real-estate/t010-c000-s002...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...
You can ask the CBC and/or Sony. They have a better version, but I wouldn't hold my breath since they've never published it despite having it all this time.
Xiaomi Poco X3 Specs and Prices in the US and UK
Noor Inayat Khan: why was the British spy such an unlikely war hero?
It's more a matter of when (in the cycle) than what.

Trends come in booms and busts. Late into the boom, they're usually most devoid of originality. Then they die back. ATM, "productivity hacks" are in the "butt rock" part of the cycle.
Exactly! HN is a small subset of Apple customers. The largest piece of the pie don’t care about any of this stuff besides that it works.

I specifically bought Apple vs Android for these reasons. I run my life and business form my phone, I trust Apple to provide me with a working experience and support when needed.

Imagine having to use another App Store outside Apples control, and an app causes my phone to crash. Who will support me? I have to go digging to the app developer, or the App Store developer, or Apple?

Apple went this route to specifically remove the fragmentation of the PC market, and what you see similar in the Android market. The closed system provides better quality. That is why Apple is where it is today.
If you click on the link it says *for android One devices

which was already the case since ... android 8?

so i'm very confused
Generally this is a reference related with channel partners, who are usually contractually restricted from selling used products or selling new products to other companies that intend to resell the product.
For end customers, it is fine, except that enrolling in a new support contract from the manufacturer many have conditions or not be possible.
Vue just makes fun. Especially with tools like nuxtJS.
Given my experience with using modern software, I can say with confidence that had Final Fantasy been released 5 years ago, all of these bugs would have open issues for them but none of them would actually be fixed. Each new patch would only exist to arbitrarily change the interface, update the embedded adware, or add features no on asked for.
The Break-Down
Show HN: XML Fiddler – tool for quick XML exploration
Take a look at the following artists:

Zdzislaw Beksinski: https://culture.pl/en/gallery/selected-paintings-by-zdzislaw...

Frederic Edwin Church: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=421

H. R. Giger: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nightmarish-wo...

Frank Frazetta: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=693

Hokusai: https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/

Would you say photography has replaced any of them? Have you ever seen photographs that look like their work? I have not. There is more to art than a binary choice between photorealism and modern art (or whatever that collection of styles could be called).

An artist, even a realist one, does far more than emulate a camera.
Aptika launches its IDpack in the Cloud platform to print ID cards online
If you're going to go for the controversy, I would have gone with "Amazon's microphone". The 's will break the idea its a new device and emphasizes who truly owns it.
Maybe those complaining are not the userbase they want?
> If you want anything more than a static site

The problem, as always, is (poor) developers making poor decisions. Implementing static sites as a JS-required, JS-heavy pages is something that some poor development teams are doing.

Bungie, game developer, have been replatforming their site and they've turned what is mostly static content pages into purely client-side single page app which requires javascript to display anything https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/BeyondLight It's sad because there are extremely productive ways to build this out using their preferrred technoligies (react) but deliver the static content from the server in the initial page load AND continue doing SPA-style navigations if desired.

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There are lots of webpages out there, that means there's lots of developers making them. Some developers will be good, some will be average, and some will be bad.

The 'problem' with websites is that it's a lot easier to see when they've been done poorly, compared to say native apps.
A small group of U.S. lawyers pushed voter fraud fears into the mainstream
> Android takes care of your contacts

Google contacts.

, passwords,

Google app passwords.

> wifi settings,

Because you can't not use Google's app for it.

> browser settings,

Google Chrome settings.

> photos,

Google photos.

> etc.

(As long as it's in a Google app.)

> it's astonishing how quickly you can set up a new phone by simply logging into your Google account.

After ten years or so of using Android I finally bit the bullet and enabled Google backups to transfer stuff to my new phone a few months back, and I was astonished at how fucking nothing gets backed up that isn't already in a Google cloud synced app. What's the point? Every single other app I had to manually figure out how to transfer and restore, because all Google doing is to "helpfully" prevent me from backing up my data for "security" reasons.
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A 639-Year Concert, with No Intermission for Coronavirus
Although the article is pretty pretentious, it does resonate with a though I've had for a long time and also commented about earlier (it's not an original thought at all):

Why is everything a contest these days?

Who cares that I read 40 books last year, you read 120 and my neighbour read 2? Does that make us better or worse people? You can do 1000's of things in life or you can do nothing. No one asked to be brought into this world. No one will stay on this world forever.

Just do whatever makes you go through your day in the most content way. Life is hard enough as it is.
Chromebooks give you access to apps in a Desktop environment at least.
For journalism, they absolutely are. Do you know where national news outlets typically recruit their journalists? From local news outlets. The nationals pick up the folks doing the best work. By definition this means the people left over aren't quite at the same level. I distinctly remember we had a local guy who was active in the Twitter meet-up group in my area around the same time I was (many years ago). He was just starting out as a journalist for a local paper. He was great - his articles were well written, easy to understand, and he was prolific in his writing. He was picked up by the NYT within a year or two while the people who were less of all the above stayed behind.
> It is amazing how much we regress as software gets bloated with feature creep.

Yes. This week I set up a new Windows 10 laptop for an elderly gentleman, who wanted to continue to play the classic Solitaire game. I eventually found the edition that shipped with Windows 3.0 and installed that. I then tried some of the standard Microsoft free games you get now and had a poor experience:

Horribly slow to load. Advertisements in your face constantly. Demands that you "sign in" to Xbox Live. Not having internet connectivity is treated as weird. Noisy user interface; multiple clicks to start a game.

Compare this with the old-fashioned games e.g. Solitaire, Minesweeper:

Loads instantly, ready to play. No advertisements, connectivity requirements, or user data harvesting. Even the simple graphics add an aesthetic all of their own, but that of course is a subjective opinion.

I agree with you.
Somewhat of a side-question, but how would one go about about finding jobs where knowing Monte Carlo methods is a primary requirement? It seems most companies want a software developer that knows a bit of this, rather than a statistician/mathematician that knows a bit of software development.
VMS had four different file types out of the box: serial with carriage-return carriage control, serial with FORTRAN carriage control, random-access, and ISAM (indexed-sequential access model). Three of those worked as well from a bank of open-reel TM03 devices or TU-58 carts as they did from a cluster of DECNET drives.

You could, of course, extend those models by plugging in to the rab$, fab$, and xab$ layers or write your own from scratch using the sys$ layer.

Unix, in contrast, had only the random-access file model. You could use just that file model to build any of the other types in userspace, but to talk to a tape drive you had to use the tape archive (tar) utility.

It's just the usual tradeoff about where you draw the line between a solution and a tool.
There doesn't seem to be a trace of Vanessa Baraitser anywhere on the internet outside a couple of mentions of other extradition proceedings and the Assange case. There are only three known photographs of her[1], and only one including her face.

She isn't even registered as a practising solicitor with the SRA [2].

It's difficult to see how in today's world a person with a career in "public service" (and with such an unusual name) can leave such little trace online.

[1] https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser

[2] https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/
I think it's still supported, as far any software Samsung releases can be counted as "supported" in the first place.
I'll leave my anecdote until someone knowledgeable shows up. I don't they they've been doing nearly enough. I've been using a cheap Asus (MSM8916 + 2 GiB RAM) for about 4.5 years and have tried every version of Android from 5 through 10 (most of them via CyanogenMod / LineageOS). I always trim down the firmware on my devices as much as possible without bricking it, and still one feels the phone getting slower and slower with every version increment. 7 is the last one more or less usable on this kind of hardware, and 10 really struggles to run and leaves very little RAM for applications to use.

So, even if my vendor didn't stop releasing updates so soon, a less patient user would've tossed the phone right after Nougat was released.

(BTW, fuck you Asus, I'll never buy from you again)
I can recommend that article: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
Not really, Switch game cards are produced by Nintendo, it is still just one store.
My parents recently bought a Peugeot 2008 with a very crappy infotainment system but it doesn't matter really because it supports Apple Carplay so now it has onboard Spotify, Waze and Google Maps.
Why should it be someone else's responsibility to care for your child during working hours? I have nine children, my wife both stays home with them AND home-schools them (COVID didn't affect our schooling situation), and I'm able to work from home without it being an issue to affect productivity. This is possible because I didn't start having children until I was married and I married someone not only based on shared beliefs but that we both wanted a large family who would be educated at home.

It's not magic, luck, or privilege: it's called planning ahead.
>Another important thing is that I take long breaks (several weeks) whenever I feel I need to — which is probably harder to do if I’m a full time employee at a company.

A "Patreon-funded full-time job position" and the ability to take weeks off at a time? What an amazing career path Evan has taken. He sounds so passionate about Vue and he is fully funded to be able to do it. And what a good project to fund, always moving forward but at the same time pushing for the features that users want.
HAProxy Load Balancing at Vimeo
YubiKey 5C NFC: USB-C security key with NFC
I stand corrected on this.
No, their "DeX" solution is still around. It's recently expanded to being capable of being used over both USB and Miracast

They had to can the part of it that would let you boot an Ubuntu image though, due to restrictions in Android 10.
Great stuff, waiting for Vue 3 release, then after a few weeks will start updating my current project.

As a former backend engineer, I'm really grateful to be working with Vue. I used Backbone, and a little React and Angular before. Vue was the simplest and the most fun so far.
I can't remember now, and there is a chance that it was the emails that were problematic. The behaviour of the import/export tool was just unforgivable though. It wouldn't handle the emails it couldn't import gracefully it would just hard fail.
Diffblue Launches AI Based Java Unit Testing Community Plugin for IntelliJ Idea
Nice! simple and intuitive, I like it!
> At this point what we call Android is about as closed source as Apple's iOS.

On iOS you can’t side-load apps. You can only run native code if it has been manually approved by Apple and acquired via their special App Store. There are a handful of exceptions but they have their own limitations.

Android is at worst as closed as Windows, but not more. Some perspective is called for.
>just means every first time buyer can now pay 15% more (approximately) for a house

Wait, what? Wouldn't it mean that a pool of prospective buyers that couldn't afford 20% but can afford 5% are now able to buy a house? That's a shift in the structure of the market rather than just a change being "priced in" for the same set of buyers.

>In hot markets, the prices rise quickly to reflect that and everyone is in the same position as before.

I would think this is the kind of question where we need data. I like to think I respect the exercise of thought experimenting more than your average person, but in this case, it seems to illustrate how thought experiments serve to answer questions by restating their core assumptions rather than exposing them to challenges in the way data would.
Impossible? Googling Apple ][, for me, gives 3 apple.com links, and then https://en..wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series, with preview text

Apple ][ from en.wikipedia.org

Models[edit]. See also: Timeline of computing. Early II-series models were usually designated "Apple ]["; later ...

Google does a bit worse for Apple //e, but the top item in “People also ask” is “What is Apple E”, with answer “The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The e in the name stands for enhanced, referring to the fact that several popular features were now built-in that were formerly only available as upgrades or add-ons in earlier models.”, picked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe
> at the end of the day you won't get promoted for not getting your own work done while helping others and people tend to be very inconsiderate if you let them.

This depends on the team. I’ve been promoted to manage a team because “we have observed that everyone that has a problem they cannot solve themselves walks over to your desk and you take the time to answer.” Your individual capacity for work may drop, but the teams efficiency can still grow at the same time.
Reading isn't about intelligence. It's about knowledge. Knowledge expands the mind but doesn't necessarily make you more intelligent. E.g. I can read as many theoretical maths books as needed but it'll always be over my head. But if I read a C++ book then I might get a job versus reading a Java book.
Quant teams in financial derivatives do lots of Monte Carlo and probably incorporating state of the art Math knowledge in their code.
std::future/promise is hopelessly inefficient, but the new executor framework being proposed for C++23 does provide for lazy evaluation of futures (or its equivalent). In fact lazy evaluation is the default. Executors can interface with coroutines (although the impedence mismatch is real) and the interface is powerful enough that allocation can be avoided in many cases (not via compiler optimization which I find too fragile), but via being able to inplace construct the coroutine frames in other existing regions of memory.

I was very critical of the C++ coroutine design as the extension interface feels very ad hoc and not built from first principles and because of the hard to avoid memory allocation, but people that know better than me seem to think that it is usable in practice with good performance.

I do believe that thread hopping is quite important in case you need access to remote data and want to avoid mutual exclusion.
It’s more than “software guys don’t care”

Think of all the abstractions in a modern system. From the USB Bus, to the Network Stack and everything in between.

We have just duct taped on duct tape and we should be happy it all works this well!
E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.

https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/...
There was a HN title generator done a few years ago:
https://veekaybee.github.io/2015/08/24/markov-in-python/

And one for generating (unrelated) comments to a title:
https://github.com/leod/hncynic
AMD Optimizing C Compiler 2.2
There's a Powder Toy subcommunity which focuses on building computers in-game. The state-of-the-art (subframe) involves exploiting particle evaluation order to create CPUs that can run at 1 instruction per frame. I even wrote a Forth implementation for such a 16-bit 8K RAM computer. Good times.

[0] https://github.com/siraben/r216-forth
The article doesn't offer more (even less) information than the original one : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-28/belarusia...