skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two things which stop me, and it's not "muh gps"! I'd be interested in how people dealt with a situation like mine:

1. I have a Mac, and carefully organised contacts. How do I sync them to a Nokia that has 4G tethering (so I can work on my train-based commute) without going through Google?

2. How do you deal with music? I have AirPods and Spotify, which I absolutely love to have with me while walking around. (I'm from the Walkman generation, and the idea of walking around with music in my ears is still magical, particuarly with wireless earbuds).

There's a part of me which thinks about a Nokia banana phone for calls / 4G tethering combined with an iPod Touch, but I don't really want two devices.
I'm fascinated by these downvotes. Is HN super pro-Trump, or are we just dealing with raging cases of "rationalist" enlightened centrism?
It's an absolute phenomenon, man. Recommendations, discussion, backstage access to celebs. And it's YC.
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> Some places, the 'code' is merely a tool for businesses or other organizations to avoid liability.

And that's important. You have to have some place to draw the line between "we did nothing and we're all out of ideas" and "what do you mean you didn't write your own operating system from scratch and hire fifteen security experts to continuously analyze it for un-patched zero-day exploits?"

That's where industry standard "best practices" come in. Once some sort of standard is issued (by regulation) or accepted (by industry), it becomes the thing that a Reasonable Person does. Meeting that standard is then usually sufficient to avoid charges of (or additional liability for) negligence.

> If the brakes go out on your car, and you smash into a building

In this case, you're liable because you carry strict liability for your actions as a driver. However, proof that you've kept the car in working order would be sufficient to escape any criminal charges (dangerous operation of a vehicle, for example)
Its the only place I've posted them, so unless someone's sharing the gif around, turns out a lot of people were interested in face tracking.
That's great but vine had and still has a great brand. Hopefully there is somebody competent at Elliott pushing for this golden egg to be hatched.
A former boss of mine said coding is just a means to an end.
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USA had (has?) sanctions banning trading with Cuba.
You’ve made a point without any evidence. If your point is that PWA’s could save developers money, rationally you should see developers saving money by only creating iOS apps and PWAs. Developers with real money on the line haven’t made that choice.
The best UI for Reddit is not made by Reddit. It's Apollo.
The benefit of Google maps (for me at least) is that although I know the areas I drive in, I am using it (Google Maps) traffic information, so if there is an accident, or there is he at traffic, I will take an better alternative road.
React has been able to use jsx without build forever, here is a modern take: [1]

The babel script is huge but it might be an option to get the ball rolling on a big upgrade.

1. https://medium.com/@to_pe/how-to-add-react-to-a-simple-html-...
HN is basically a Reddit clone (deliberatly so, it was created before Reddit has subreddits). Since the sites are so similar it kind of makes sense that they attract the same type of people.
Can you provide a solution that has less 1A impact about Chinese app ran on Chinese servers? I don't think that USG could achieve the goals of Chinese not being able to intercept US communication with anything less than a ban on some level.
Reddit was funded by ycombinator in summer ‘05, which probably explains part of it. Then the rest I would say is down to similarities between the two sites (primarily acting as link aggregators, although reddit has gradually diverged from this).
Analogies are usually not the correct way to proceed in an argument. Let me quote from [1]:

> Weak analogy

> Definition: Many arguments rely on an analogy between two or more objects, ideas, or situations. If the two things that are being compared aren’t really alike in the relevant respects, the analogy is a weak one, and the argument that relies on it commits the fallacy of weak analogy.

> Example: “Guns are like hammers—they’re both tools with metal parts that could be used to kill someone. And yet it would be ridiculous to restrict the purchase of hammers—so restrictions on purchasing guns are equally ridiculous.” While guns and hammers do share certain features, these features (having metal parts, being tools, and being potentially useful for violence) are not the ones at stake in deciding whether to restrict guns. Rather, we restrict guns because they can easily be used to kill large numbers of people at a distance. This is a feature hammers do not share—it would be hard to kill a crowd with a hammer. Thus, the analogy is weak, and so is the argument based on it.

In this case the distinction between cash and Bitcoin is exactly what enables criminals to benefit from their crimes.

[1] https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/
I agree. We're basically implementing the American version of the Great Firewall of China, which previously was heavily criticized.
I wonder, was the Roman "ruina montium" technique used for iron mining? I didn't see it mentioned in the article, but it seems like something the author would be very familiar with.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium
Are those phrases some kind of slang for drugs or fraud or something? Or is it just because they contain the words "Cuba" and "Iran"?
https://share.busheezy.dev/gVeb8W.png This is what I see.
That's because hn was modeled after it.
Users flagged it—probably because that article was not an original source. It just links to the AP report.
Absurdly wealthy inheritors looking to improve their public image on the backs of a slave labor underclass is how you get a "vibrant" expat community in places like Dubai.
You mean TSMC, a Taiwanese comapny, is taking the threat seriously.

By people, they meant the other non-Taiwanese people. I can assure you that the Taiwanese population takes this threat seriously.
While i agree these are "common" you now have to define what common flags are. It's easier for an organization to just have a blanket rule to use long form expressions

Also is typing that much of a chore?
Well the professor wants to use it for a research project. So I don't think it will be used by students. I went ahead and offer the service for $100 for the duration of the project.

Thanks for your input.
Which app, and what Android version? Do you use a rooted device? The current Android version disabled access to call audio and broke all apps. Have they re-enabled them since?
> Epic is making sure that they do everything "right" in the best interest of the consumer

That's highly debatable. If Epic really had their consumers best interests in mind they would cure the breach and put Fortnite back in the App Store while the lawsuit proceeded, as the judge recommended.
What do you mean 'fp'? Ember was quite literally one of the worst experiences ever. Not having javascript expressions in handlebars is literally excrutiating. I'm so glad I never have to use ember, ever, ever again.
I appreciate that. Economy of scale makes it possible for really amazing products, concentrating the efforts of many, to be spread far and wide. That is a great thing, but there are very serious negatives that come along with that incentive to scale when it's not tempered. Hegemonic industries disproportionately empower owners over workers and limit opportunity, competition, and diversity to the point where the "best" products can shove anti-consumer features down people's throats. You get unsteerable inertia.

It's not cut-and-dry bad the way we do things, but there is a lack of balance. There's a lot wrong that could be better if it wasn't someone's perverse bread and butter. Extreme wealth and power inequality, whether for people or companies, don't make for a just, healthy society.
As apps become more and more integrated part of people’s live and livelihood, it becomes very pressing to have collective voice of app users across the globe to deal with arbitrary bullies from governments ...
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Nearly. Some people do, but I get too much eye strain. Having said that, Oculus2 might be enough of a step up.

See this pic for an example:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/428916969861808130/...
Let's go through go through those links and see if they support your claim that "it is painfully obvious that unless you're making calculations about spherical cows there's nowhere near enough resources, surface, and specifically predictability to have renewables be more than marginal for a long time".

[1] No, that doesn't support your claim (and it's from 2007, an aeon ago in the renewable field). In fact, that abstract says "The negative effects on health of electricity generation from renewable sources have not been assessed as fully as those from conventional sources, but for solar, wind, and wave power, such effects seem to be small"

[2] That states "As a corollary, nuclear energy also occupies significantly less space / land than renewables (several hundred times less in fact)." But that doesn't mean the land area required by renewables makes renewables infeasible. And it also ignores the distribution network needed for nuclear; if that is included, the ratio of land areas needed is much smaller.

He also says "the debate is not about building new nuclear power plants but to retain the remaining ones for as long as possible." So that link doesn't supply justification for building new nuclear plants. I can accept that CO2 taxes (for example) would enable existing nuclear plants to keep operating, at least for a while.

[3,4] Ah, Shellenberger. He was the guy who was claiming PV was dirty because it used rare earth elements from China (spoiler: that's a lie). He fails to make any quantitative argument that land area or other inputs for renewables render it infeasible. And he repeats the tired nonsense about Germany having high energy costs because of renewables (as if that somehow justifies the doublethink that installing much more expensive sources would have led to lower costs.)

[5] And yet more irrelevancy.

Look, if you actually had a cogent argument to support your claim, you could have pointed to a real detailed argument supporting it. But it was bullshit all along, and you know that, so you spewed out a Gish Gallop of irrelevancy. And indeed, how could it have been otherwise? Your claim requires that all possible configurations of renewables, all possible configurations and types of storage, and all possible configurations of energy using activities cannot work. And how could you POSSIBLY establish that? You could have claimed there's a lot of work to be done, and that it's not CERTAIN that renewables could do the job, and for that reason nuclear should be kept alive as an option. But that's not what you were arguing.
They were basically the same. That front page could easily be today’s front page on HN.

One of the founders is still quite active on HN.

I believe it was Paul Graham who recommended them to create subreddits. They have some shared history at least.

Reddit still holds a ton of geeky subreddits but has grown into this monster on the outside.

I also imagine most HN’ers get they technical news from reddit and HN.

And honestly, I just can’t see what other platform HN should obsess about. Slashdot, maybe?
That seems very unfortunate... I can't imagine what it must feel like to be technically cutoff from friends and family in the digital age.
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Lol I love the sticker idea! But since this is a side project of mine I don't actually have the resource or design skills to create sticker. But really cool idea though.
If you know Vue 2, Vue 3 will be easy to learn, as well. There are some more advanced features you can choose to use if you want, but I guarantee you could pick it up really fast. This isn't an AngularJS -> Angular sorta change.

Also, give it a few more months before building anything non-trivial. Some of the more popular libraries for Vue 2 still need to up updated for Vue 3 (vue-router, vuex, for instance).
I doubt projects like this would help. For big developers, 99.99% of the time they are already riding on existing codebases (even when they call it by different names for marketing reasons) - the last two AAA games i worked at have codebases more than a decade old, one actually two decades old. While technically they could add rust as an extra language, in practice this wont happen both because the vast majority of game developers are conservative in terms of languages but also because it creates extra barriers (most people who write C++ code in games barely know C++ - the wizkids that everyone has in mind when hearing about high octane game engines are a tiny minority compared to everyone else who touches a game's codebase) which make it harder to hire new people (unlike other disciplines in gamedev, decent programmers aren't as easy to find). Also everyone hates how slow C++ is to compile and last time i checked rust is even worse.

For smaller developers projects like this still wont help drive adoption since smaller developers have the freedom to decide on their own what language they'd use (assuming they aren't already using an existing codebase, some of the stuff above also apply to smaller developers) and they'd already be using rust if they thought it'd help. In general i believe that developers who have enough knowledge to make their own engine in other languages and be able to make their engine in rust, would be able to tell if rust is a good choice or not.

Or to put it in another way, i doubt projects like this will help drive adoption for rust among game developers because the developers have either already decided what language to use (be it rust or something else) or are not in a position to decide what language to use.

(yeah sure, there might be an exception or two out there, but there are hundreds -if not thousands- of engines... after all Remedy, a AAA studio, used D in their engine yet you do not see much of an uptake of D among game developers even though technically D would be easier to grok by C++ programmers, integrate with existing engines with its C++ interop and even provides features like compile time code evaluation and generation for features that i've seen C++ projects use overcompilated macros and external build time generators that rely on brittle code comments to work)
I did just this. I gave them a price that would cover the cost of running the server.
I grew up before the mobile 'revolution' and I miss the days when just getting a setup.exe from a friend on a floppy disk and running it to install a piece of software did not feel like high treason.
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I kinda love that while you can't make books with a lathe, you can make the tools (to make the tools) for a printing press with a lathe so it still mostly works.
No. The U.S. refuses to even process visas. Early on, the U.S. initially held her passport (a foreign one at that!) for over a month, preventing travel to countries she had valid visas to. When she eventually did once the passport was returned, the U.S. canceled her appointment, forcing travel back to China. Such foreign visas have now expired. The U.S. continues to allow appointments to be made at embassies and consulates and then cancels them right before. She actually falls into one of the conditional allowances that should get her back, based upon lawsuits from large employers, but the U.S. is not keeping appointments and not processing visas. So whatever they claim is allowed (which is not much), they are blocking that and more on a procedural level, just like they were doing since January before any bans were even in place. They don’t care.

H1Bs and others (at least from China) are banned at a minimum until January 2021.
Yes, basically all these low calorie entertainment activities release dopamine, giving you a constant high.

In other words you need to dopamine detox, sensitize yourself so you still feel rewarded from doing comparably "boring" activities!
From the progress China has done to their military, Taiwan might be today, but Japan, Canada and eventually the USA will be next.

While the US is paralyzed by incompetent leadership and money-hoarding billionaires, China's leadership puts everything back into their infrastructure and military. Their growth is only accelerating each year.
Potentially distributes the pain to US shareholders.
The dire warning is mostly for the 3A+, where enabling USB host boot mode (which allows booting from USB mass storage devices) will permanently prevent booting in USB device mode. (Maybe...see below).

Device mode is only supported on the Compute Module, CM3, Zero, Zero W, A, A+, and 3A+, so if you don't have one of those there is nothing to worry about as far as this goes.

It still deserves a warning on other models, but not a dire warning. It's still permanent, but it is much harder for that to be a problem. It will only be a problem if you are going to have situations where you will have a bootable USB drive attached at boot time, without a bootable SD card inserted, and you will want it to not boot rather than boot from the USB drive.

Although OTP changes are permanent, it looks like there is still a way to sort of work around the USB host boot mode one, albeit at a cost of losing access to 7 GPIOs or at least making them a lot harder to use. With another irreversible OTP change, you can tell your Pi to determine what devices to consider booting from by looking at 7 GPIOs [1]. Using GPIO boot mode, you could easily switch between SD card only, USB only, and SD followed by USB, and device mode, by just changing pull up resistors on the relevant GPIOs.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
And both are simple products available in free variants serving non-overlapping purposes.

Solidworks is just a random and insignificant piece of proprietary software. Its core component isn't even original, but relicensed Siemens tech. It's popular because it's popular, nothing else.

(Plus, anyone can throw together a jet engine with a welding station from aliexpress and a few car spare parts. Now, if you had said space rocket, it would have meant something, but that's an insignificant percentage of CAD usage.)
Many games like Beat Saber, in which you move with the beat, have been popular fads, but home hardware for those games (like Dance Dance Revolution dance pads or Guitar Hero guitar controllers) has never been more than a niche product.

VR needs more than that.
Several manufacturers offer endurance-oriented microSD cards. They're designed to store footage from security cameras and the like, so they should have the write endurance to handle most any workload you throw at them. Depending on the write endurance you desire, they range from only a few bucks more than a regular microSD card to roughly double the cost.
>That isn’t surprising since the poorest Americans are the least likely to vote.

And right there is the biggest reason of the state of the US. I wouldn't even call it s democracy with such a low amount of votes for the ones winning. But I don't see much want for change in the two ruling "families".
The announcement talk was nice to watch, however, it was technically void of any of the implementation details.

It's interesting to me that they did not consider the approach of pushing more work to the compiler and less to the runtime in the manner popularized by Svelte. I wonder what the trade-off between their current rendering approach and the Svelte-based approach are?
Growing a few acres of something seems like a very cool project. Did you / your dad already have the land before you decided to try it out? Do you think you would have done it again if you had made money? Would you recommend it as a project to someone else?
I'm somewhere in the middle but then again, that's a Cpp problem.
Pretty soon they will dictate how we should arrange furnitures at our own home ....
According to the vue discord where I asked a lot of composition API questions, pretty much people use ref exclusively. It's much more explicit in your `use*` composition files when you have to call .value. It's rare to me to export a very large object of keys, and I have yet to use it yet.
I've started leaving my phone out of my gym time as well. It feels like the right thing to do, but it definitely feels odd or like I'm different somehow. At the gym I go to everyone listens to music while lifting and it's almost surreal to look around while resting between sets to see everyone is dialed into their own little world.

I wonder what gyms looked like in earlier generations (I'm only 27). Did people talk more?
Censorship champions are really desperate for any hint of hypocrisy to distract from their own lack of principles. Oh, so you think the global forum you run should allow other viewpoints, but the internal forum for your company should be moderated? Incredible hypocrisy indeed.
I still don't understand what exactly your concern is. The TLD doesn't even contain any elements of the LGBT acronym, yet you seem deeply concerned about them altering it willy nilly and this having some widespread negative effect on the gay community.

This despite going through the unnecessary effort of making an entire, completely off topic top level comment announcing how confused and alienated you were by the gay community and how you wish they would just stop being so visible so you didn't have to think about gay sex all the time.

I mean, I'm sure the gay community appreciates your concern and apologizes for the inconvenience, but it seems like you're trying very hard to start a tempest in teacup without even any tea to stir. Don't worry, the gays will be fine.

Now relax and enjoy some Scissor Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHv0jW4p_xA
how does it compare to Athens?
Which is what the ACLU is saying.[1] "Selectively banning entire platforms violates the First Amendment and harms freedom of speech online." Expect a lawsuit in days, if not hours.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/dont-ban-tiktok-and-we...
I argue that 'very commonly used' is subjective, and someone new won't know all the ones you or I consider common. One of my goals in writing software is to make my code understandable to complete newcomers. I can't always achieve it. Sometimes other design goals take priority. But from my perspective this one is a no-brainer. I just don't see the down side. If it's too time consuming to type, use them for typing practice and get faster :-)
For some value of "capable": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/riscv/con...
That's exactly right and this is a much underrated capability and I think it's the point being missed by those saying "well if you do XXX you can include React with a script tag too!"
It could, but that type of mitigation can make the backend susceptible to a DoS. It can definitely be coded that way, just take a little extra care.
There's a just single agreement that covers development for all Apple products (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS).
If you don't have a oneplus, I suggest the "forest" app. Helps me tremendously. http://forestapp.cc/

(No affiliation, just a happy user)
> I guess the "modern" browser fixes this for everyone else not using a ("modern") proxy.

Only if the site owner wants it so https://hstspreload.org/
Yeah, my bad. But still nowhere near the 30% mentioned by the original comment.
Why should Apple and Google say no to this?

HN is usually in support for government interventions against big cos. We are told that the government is expressing the will of the people. Why should we encourage Apple and Google to counter the will of the people in this case?
Considering no one can get an app published in China from the US all Chinese founded apps should be banned until policy changes in China and US apps get approved.