skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to switch to Apple Music a few times because the integration would be nice (and I think Spotify's attack on the federated podcast ecosystem is harmful and something I don't want to support).

I haven't been able to make the switch for a couple of reasons:

- Spotify Discovery weekly playlists are a differentiator and nothing on Apple Music comes close.

- Apple's UI was terrible, maybe this has gotten better - but it was really bad. Spotify isn't great here either and often changes things for no reason. I'm not sure why it's so hard to just be able to add songs to a library and then make playlists? Spotify's current UI has this now, but didn't have it for a long time.

- There are apps that allow you to sync your Spotify lists to apple music to make it easier to migrate over, but there would often be stuff missing.

- iTunes was bad, but since that's gone now it might no longer be a problem.
The Ex-Facebookers Working to Turn Trump’s Social Media Strategy Against Him
Is that 2021? We're already past July 20.
This seems like a good use for AR -- Epic was showing off an app a few weeks ago where Unreal Engine devs could use the front-facing cameras on iDevices to capture skeletal animations, and I could see a fitness app using this tech to detect bone positions and provide guidance.
Who's doing machine learning on an iPad? Unless they mean running the already trained algorithm which I think is a stretch to call machine learning.
I try to give away 10% of my income, after hearing about how some Christians I know did it (largely but not only to their churches). I don't give to religious institutions myself.

You don't have to be rich to do this. Although yes, some people truly can't spare 10%, that's fine, nobody needs to reply saying so. Anyone can spare what they can spare, whether that's 0 or more. For a lot of people 10% seems about right to be enough to feel it without being a hardship. (I calculate 10% of take-home, post-tax. It is still enough to feel it).

I give about half of it in automatic monthly contributions, the other half in spontaneous one-offs. I (in the USA) don't require to be tax deductible, but enough of it is that I reliably increase my tax refund every year.

It definitely makes me feel better about what I'm supporting and doing with what I'm lucky enough to have. Although of course "making me feel better" should not be the goal if I want to maximize impact, but nobody would do it if it weren't rewarding in some way. I don't give enough to get any kind of 'public recognition' (and wouldn't want any), my reward is feeling like I'm putting my money where my values are and hopefully contributing to what i want to see in the world.
To be fair, I thought it only supported 1st gen pencil and was disappointed.
>when you can cycle outside with a Fitness+ instructor

Please don't do this. Its not safe.
That depends on many factors. If the fires burned a significant portion of the places where fires are likely to start, say, forested hilltops which attract lightning or areas near where humans start fires, then it could slow things down for a few years.

It also depends on the fuel source. Grasses and certain vegetation can build up fuel loads in a year or two. Trees are obviously slower.

The fires really didn't burn much total land though, so it's very likely we can see big fires next year. We regularly get fires all over the west, this is just a bad year.
It is probably because a billion? people still use open wood fires indoors with poor ventilation. Visualize a fire in the middle of a hut with a pot on it and a small hole in the ceiling. AQI in that hut is going to be very bad. Creating systems where people can afford to use propane or other gas stoves are a huge win for the health of humanity and ecosystems.
Definitely a bit confusing, but I imagine consumers like having options at almost every price point.
That would probably be a huge boon. I've enjoyed my watch for music and notifications, etc. But if that was available I'd probably opt for it in the future and wear a decent mechanical watch instead.

I'd like that option.
For Peloton, I would worry about this becoming a platform like car play for OEM fitness players.
Pattern matching is available as a preview feature: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375
I find Apple Books to be the only way I can read ebooks consistently. It seems dumb but I think the ability to freely fiddle with the "page" without turning it is what does it for me. I've got an e-reader but I kind of hate reading on it. Paper or Apple Books, specifically, for me.
Mutability, in this case, can be pretty unexpected.

Just like you don't expect the expression a + 5 to change the value of a but to return a new number, most people don't expect myDate.add(5, 'days') to change the value of myDate.

I know that moment values are mutable, yet I often forget it while writing code and make dangerous mistakes because of how unnatural it is to see an arithmetic expression that is not immutable.
Sattolo's Algorithm (2017)
> some of Newton's novel features have become commonplace

Was that because of the Newton project, or it happened independently?
Sorry you're getting down-votes, because I think you bring up a very important point. We as a society should understand the trade-offs involved when we allow individuals to accumulate truly vast wealth. In general terms, this increases the variance in how the money can be spent. One guy might give it away, another builds rockets, another buys gilded toilets for his estate. Individual decision makers can do much better than government (the benevolent dictator...of their own money) and much worse (irresponsible or even damaging use of it). Government use is less efficient, but also has less variance: it will be spent on a similar range of things, but closer to the middle.
Imagine believing this after seeing Apple's consistent lying about iMessage being "end-to-end encrypted": https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
> When given criticism, banning the critic from ever contributing is a ludicrously adolescent response.

According to this: https://christine.website/blog/series/v it was a year between first post and the last. It was more than enough time to make at least some contributions.

This timeline convinces me that Christine did not intend to contribute at all.

> Well, in the adult world you will face criticism for what you produce constantly.

Criticism is natural. Banning people who don't help, but distract and demotivate, is also natural.

> You need to develop a mature response to all these scenarios.

It's not that simple. Too much criticism can kill will even in strongest people. Sometimes the best response to non-constructive criticism is to just ban, and focus on what's important.
One interesting thing is that the iPad (8th gen) only supports the Apple Pencil 1 but the iPad Air (4th gen) only supports the Apple Pencil 2.

Both of those iPads were just announced today.
Why can't governments receive these donations? Do any benefactors currently give to governments (not via taxes, actually just give)?

I know Ted Turner did it with the UN Foundation, although that isn't technically the UN itself.

Are there other examples?
> The FAANGs practically (sometimes, actually) give you a study guide, at least.

The study guide is hundreds (thousands?) of pages. How is that helpful?
Thank you. I still might hold on for an updated iPad Mini because I know I'll get the itch to set up Blink and Working Copy.
It doesn't have strings attached that concern users - that was my point. It's also not just "getting the revenue limit wrong" if said limit doesn't even apply to individuals and small companies.

As soon as a commercial organisation enters 250+ IT workplaces and >$1M annual revenue, license management becomes relevant in any case and isn't exactly "strings attached"-territory. Feel free to disagree, but I still think your argument is pretty weak.
Founder of EvolutionIQ Hiring senior full stack developer
I left Google / Google X last year after an 8.5 year career as a staff engineer to start EvolutionIQ and bring Google-scale machine learning to the insurance industry.

Insurance carriers have mountains of data (millions of claims annually), majority of it still siloed, and majority of the processes still entirely manual and done by humans.

In the first year of the company, we launched two products that unlock this data and we use it to advanced ML models for automation and soft fraud detection. In year one, we brought in 1MM in ARR, on track to do a multiple of that in year 2.

We're hiring a talented full stack / web application engineer. You'll be joining the founding team and get to design and build greenfield products receive early stage equity.

My internal view on the ideal person is outlined here:

Who are you? A rockstar senior full stack engineer responsible for the entire life cycle of designing, building and launching state of the art enterprise applications. You thrive in autonomy and do your best work in greenfield projects where you have high levels of ownership. You’re extremely creative and often bring new ideas to the table spontaneously.

You’re a natural-born hacker who can rapidly build prototypes to prove out ideas, but take pride in holding extremely high standards when developing production level code. You design highly modular architectures, understand the value of code reviews and take pride in writing professional technical design documents when input from others is needed. You exercise state of the art engineering practices in testing and deployment and know the right balance between moving fast and breaking things.

You love working directly with the head of product, data science team, UX designer, and occasionally non-technical end users. You’re a great listener and enjoy presenting technical ideas to a technical and non-technical audience alike.
Oh I know the pain, I did the same back in 2015. That was my first scientific paper ever. Then "never again" said to myself. Now I use pure latex. org-mode is only good for quick exports should not think it as an alternative to latex.
They could just buy Peloton. "Apple Peloton".
This argument strikes me as bizarre.

1) The distribution of income has been different over time.
2) If it had been pegged at 70's levels, and wealth generation had been unaffected, incomes would have grown more.
3) But this hypothetical didn't happen.
Ergo
4) You're being robbed by the enemies of the proletariat.

Also, the data on offer strike me as odd. There has been far more than 8% wage growth since the 70s. This Pew Trends article, which controls for factors like household size, indicates that household income has risen 49% since 1970.[0] Note that incomes have risen significantly since 1990, even as the number of dual income households has remained flat during that period. [1]

[0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-2...
Peninsula proper or more like La Honda? I don’t hear of people in San Carlos or Menlo Park losing power for a week.
Especially considering all the competition have to manage by making 30% less money.
it will usually be a lot more effective to put in some more time at work, and give away some of the resulting income.

I'm paid salary. I'm of the opinion that it is usually the self-absorbed that think that after they leave the office they are still worth what their employer pays them.

Making it a requirement that your time donation be within your professional skillset is saying, "such work is beneath me". I'm not above ladling a bit of soup into a bowl or picking up the dog shit while at the animal shelter.
The best part of the article

> When I visited a few years ago, inkjet-printed photos of friends and family hung from the walls over a plain, wooden table. On the table sat a small Lucite plaque that read: “Congratulations to Chuck Feeney for $8 billion of philanthropic giving.”
I know of some highly profitable software businesses that operate like law firms with partners. Think along the lines of gambling and similar “on the edge” industries that won’t receive VC for what they do.
I was just listening to a McKinsey presentation last week where the speaker went through, among other things, their data about which activities that have largely gone digital are likely to revert.

Food-related (both online grocery shopping and home cooking) were one of the main areas their data suggests will stay but online fitness was right up there too.
Bingo! Balance is key.

Farmers working under communist rule in China who started private farming caused agricultural productivity to skyrocket and the number of starving people to drop [1]. Say what you will about human greed, but aligning a behavior you want with a natural economic incentive is a powerful tool.

On the flipside, some industries like healthcare don't belong in such a ruthless system, because "voting with your wallet" is sometimes equivalent to "voting with your life". Other industries like scientific research have too long a lag time for the the companies to stay afloat, or for the decision makers to benefit from the decision. These industries are the ones that frequently need help from government, nonprofit, donors, etc.

[1]: https://reaction.life/chinese-capitalist-growth-happened-spi...
I get it. This is for all the times I didn't want to go through all the set up to just to run a few containers. Backed by K8s gives me confidence in it unlike something more hobby like heroku
I've got the iPad Pro 12.9 and the keyboard portfolio which makes the back flat (and generally non-slip). On my previous iPad pro (the 10.5" one) the 3rd party case did the same thing.

That said, the bump in cost from an iPad Air 2020 and an iPad Pro makes the Pro a lot less attractive. You get wide angle, face id, and larger "top end" in storage.
Re: metadata: I suspect that it may indeed be already incidentally covered by existing licenses. I replied elsewhere with a link to this wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_orga...

The SSO of a piece of software is called a "nonliteral element". Just speculation on my part here, but I'd bet that version history might fall under this "nonliteral element" part of copyright law.
Raise the top tax rate to 90% and all billionaires can feel just as good in their own lifetimes.
For reference, that init.d solution is extremely dangerous, speaking from experience ;)

init scripts are run sequentially, each init scripts MUST terminate quickly AND leave no child process, otherwise the init sequence is frozen.

If there is a while() loop in an init script, it will freeze the init sequence. If an init script starts another program without daemonizing, it will freeze the init sequence.

High chances are that you missed either or both of that in the solution. The init script will work fine while you test locally in the shell but it will blow up startup on the next reboot.
That might piss off Samsung, just about the only good partner Nvidia has left.
That's how I do it. I don't have a 6+ figure salary, or tons of disposable income, so I can't afford to give 10% of my income without reducing how much I put into savings. One thing I do have is more time on my hands than the average person. So for things like open source projects that I benefit greatly from, I always try to give some portion of my time with things like improving documentation, always submitting detailed bug reports, or writing updated versions of tutorials that are out of date.
A benefit of that is that since it does not sit fully flat with its back against the table - it does not get scratched as much
Unless you want an appliance. Some people want to experiment with electronics and magnetrons. Some people just want to microwave their leftovers. There's nothing wrong with either type of person or product, and either type of person would be very disappointed if they got the product intended for the other type of person.
I don't know much about Singapore, but it tops the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom, which implies it has a fairly low tax burden.

[edit]

The top individual income tax rate is 22 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 17 percent. The overall tax burden equals 14.1 percent of total domestic income[1].

1: https://www.heritage.org/index/country/singapore
V is not vaporware - I use it daily, so do hundreds of other developers - see the commit log at https://github.com/vlang/v/commits/master .

Have you tried it yourself?

It takes just a minute to clone and build it, if you already have a working C99 compiler like gcc on your machine.
I always used to think this idea was a non-starter given the many incompatible UX patterns between MacOS and iOS. Then came the ARM announcement, including the mention that Apple Silicon Macs would be capable of running iOS apps, which would point to such a seemingly chimaeric device being inevitable.

How I think Apple will manage it is by keeping the two halves separate. No or minimal touch interactions in MacOS; no Mac desktop in iPad mode. Apple won't repeat Windows 8's fridge-toaster attempt at making a unified UI between desktop and tablet mode, but apps with Mac and iPadOS versions will automatically switch UIs dependent on context.

It will still be an enormous pile of design challenges, but for the first time, I think a Mac-iPad hybrid could actually work.
Here's the funny thing. I've worked with recruiters where the candidates they supplied needed the tech screen upfront and recruiters where the sell call upfront was useful.

Honestly, the latter guys are absolutely fire to work with. I think recruiting is like security engineering: 90% of the guys doing it are total rubbish so you just assume that's what it's like. But that last 10% are super good, and the top 1% are really freaking good.

I remember when I first encountered a recruiting pipeline put together by a guy who was good at it. Literally every person I spoke to was a good engineer. We did tech-screen them, but only after the initial call where we talked to them about their interests and our company objectives.

Literally every one of these engineers knew:

* What sorts of problems they wanted to work on

* What stage of company they wanted to work at (seed, series-A, ..., big established company)

* What risk they were willing to take

* What sort of team they wanted to work on

This may not be scalable at Google/FB where you're hiring commodity L3-L5s a lot.

Anyway, I was very impressed. Also, the fact that almost every one of them didn't bat an eye at the tech screen. You read some of the comments on HN/Reddit and you see that these guys are a cut above the standard dudes.

Like, just the social nous. Way off the charts. On HN, people talk about an interviewer mis-sizing the problem: "Haha, so I told him I'd do it on a single SGI UV 300 with 3 TB of RAM. The interviewer got stuck. I got him.". These guys are like way better. If you mis-size, they'll just be like "Ah, okay, so you can get this done on a single machine these days, they have a lot of RAM, but that's trivial. AWS has the u24s for 24 TB or something. So let's say the problem is even bigger or that we want the other advantages of clusters" and they'll take it away. No chip on the shoulder. No insecurity. If some constraint doesn't make sense, they'll say "Okay, if we were doing this in prod, I'd push back on that, but let's say it's the case" and just go on.

We didn't convert everyone - not everyone wants to work in our domain or wants to deal with the quirks of our team or whatever, but that's life. It was way more enjoyable as an interviewer.
For me, the "which window do I currently have active" problem is primarily an issue on Mac OS X since it opens all windows that have the name "Firefox" and will select focus of one ... I guess the last one that was used? But that means that some random window goes zipping by and grabs my attention - but that's not the one that's open.

As for the swiping motion and "human vision can only see a little bit at a time", you're right, but I can see motion and changes in things pretty well on the edges.

Further, I find the animation experience of my whole world changing in front of me when I go to a different workspace to be incredibly distracting - enough that I might forget what I'm doing. Turning my head to the right (I tend to work on my left monitor) is a much less mentally confusing experience.

To add to that, right now, I have Hacker News open to the left-most, taking up half the screen, Slack in the center, and then the documentation for a new feature taking up the whole right screen. That means that my docs are a slight turn of the head away, and no distracting animations. When I close this window after completing this message, I'll easily be able to replace Slack and Firefox with my IDE (which will be split down the middle with two documents open concurrently), and I'll be able to go right to work, and my spec sheet will still be to the right of my vision and ready to be developed against.

If the coding gets really, really complicated, I'll be able to easily have 3 windows open, side by side by side, at the width of the window I like (around 120 columns), all in a comfortable range.

I am perfectly capable, also, of picking up my laptop and going off to the couch - I did it last night for a change in scenery - and working from there; but, I prefer the real-estate that a 1440p and a 1080p (of different sizes) next to each other provides me.
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Honestly, how? Face ID is simple: you show up. That's all.

My ultrasonic sensor on my Galaxy S10 is absolute garbage compared to Face ID on iPhones. It works 1/3 of the time and it's slow.

Realistically ultrasonic is the technology Apple would go with, considering how lighting up a patch of screen is just... Ugly.

There's another problem: FP sensors don't cover the entire display. There's a huge learning curve -- getting used to where that small patch of screen is -- and even today, months after getting my new device, I miss often.

We're only now having issues with FaceID because we're wearing masks all the time. It's intuitive and it "just works".
Never heard of this. We still have some old 5S, 6S and an iPad Air 2 being used as music and cast devices around the house and all of the 1st gen Touch ID buttons still work.

My problem is the placement, I’m using my iPad daily and almost only in landscape mode. That power button Touch ID seems very uncomfortable to use.
CPC464 for me. Colour! Built in tape deck!

I lost years to Elite. Loved it. Haven’t been as engrossed in a computer game before or since...
I wonder if philanthropy is used sometimes to garner narcissistic supply as I suspect a lot of billionaires are narcissists or psychopaths (not necessarily malicious but these qualities help in wealth building). If so, I think we should respond positively to these and provide the narcissistic supply (and hold off from criticism even if it's hard to) so this becomes a trend among the billionares.
it's ~$2000, or $2500 for the new "plus" bike.

I was a skeptic but peloton is a super compelling product, esp in the quarantine.