skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My roommate / cofounder and I released an iOS app that allows you to easily export your Apple health data to JSON or CSV. This is the tool for you if you ever wanted to do custom analysis or visualizations of your apple health data!

The idea for this came when I wanted to incorporate weight and water tracking data to my food diary website www.joelogs.com I figured I could simply export the data logged to Apple health but was surprised how difficult this actually was. A google search for "export apple health data" turned up results full of similarly frustrated folks. I even spent money and bought a few apps on the App Store that supposedly solved this problem. Only one of them worked but the number of taps to do my export was cumbersome for daily use.

Both of us have experience building apps but neither of us had actually released to the app store. We figured this was a well scoped problem, solved our own needs, and would be a great learning opportunity for using SwiftUI and going through the App Review process (definitely learned a lot!).

I use this app daily now. Wanted to share with y'all.

Direct link to app in store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1527110288
This is the point exactly. China brings in 10% of the NBA's revenue[1]. I am arguing alongside you that we can really effect change if we use our economic leverage and not merely our political leverage. We cannot stand for these abuses. I also really do not want to distract from the race issue we are working through today; it seems our news cycle can only handle one thing at a time though.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nba-needs-china-revenue-growt...
It's definitely not colonization, but I'd still say it's aggressive expansion. We just happened to make people think it was a good thing.

Looking back now, I'm not so sure it was the net good it was sold as.
Can you explain how conquest is necessary for people to come out of poverty?
Diversifying.

Simplified: If you spend $1 million each on ten projects, each of which have a 90% chance to fail and 10% chance to bring in $100m in profits, then it is absolutely worth it
Sweden's initial response may have been incompetent but they have been down at an average of about 1 death per day for weeks now. So whatever they're doing currently seems to be competent. Level of competence per country is not a constant.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Here we just call it class.
Google products are generally dependent on a whole lot of services which only exist within Google, so it'd probably have to be rebuilt after a sale.
I would guess the monorepo makes this very difficult to do
I have a similar practice too. For most projects I have *.cmd files such as

start.cmd
build.cmd
run.cmd
Not a complete solution, but hugely relevant: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/1...
With the recent Firaxis XCom, a common recommendation going around was to rename your soldiers with your closest friends names, for an additional layer of attachment with them.
"Complicated issues", ie outright slavery, which is very much on the minds of Americans?
Gnome - no. Okular the KDE counterpart works very fine.
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Older books, especially novels, often had illustrations. An illustration naturally causes the reader to pause and consider a situation.
I think it's rather self-evident that the lion's share of the blame lies with the administration that was proclaiming that Covid will go away in April, the CDC (whose failings are in large part, but not solely on the shoulders of this administration), and their regional equivalents. You're also free to blame some structural problems, if you're looking to assign blame. [1]

The civil unrest that followed made it clear that the administration is more then willing to use federal forces to interfere in state business - but only when it comes to putting down civil unrest, not to prevent the spread of an epidemic.

[1] I honestly don't think assigning blame matters at this point, everyone's already made up their mind on whether or not the man who claimed that sunlight and bleach cures Covid has done a good job.
Two days ago I heard a loud, "SQUEE! Bock bock bock bock." from our back yard. Two (Flicker) woodpeckers were fighting in the branches of a maple, our chickens standing around foot of the tree seemingly captivated by the spectacle. I assume the cause of the commotion was the tussle finding its way to the ground, startling the chickens.

When I realized what was going on my daughter and I crept outside to watch. The woodpeckers and chickens ignored us as we sat down at the tree. The contenders hopping from branch to branch, diving at each other, dodging, and trying to get an angle on the other. They landed together on the roof of the nearby coop jumped up in the air and locked together in a flurry of feathers. Again the loud, "SQUEEE!" right before they hit the ground, both of them alighting on their feet, one with two of the other's breast feathers in its beak. The apparent victor of the clash exaggeratedly held the feathers above its head and gently placed them on the ground before the two of them zipped away to a power line where they remained for a while, seemingly calm. My daughter recovered the two feathers, both a downy orange quill extending up to a stark black dot, and shared her experience the next morning with her class mates.

Funny I came across this article now, I'll have to share it with her when she returns from school.
already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24554592

and I think you are editorializing...
Indeed we did, which helps strengthen my point that Airbnb disrupts communities. I put almost a year into living there, trying to get to know my neighbors, establishing relationships with local store owners and employees, etc. I've now left, so now the community has one fewer people in it that actually gave a shit about the place.
Any idea when or if this will be available outside the US?
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Startup time is bad, yes, but I think it’s a reasonable trade off for the features I get and plus I tend to launch it once and then open files with the command line tools, which is basically instant. Granted I’m spoiled on my personal machine with a six core i7, 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD.
Discussing with sources and encouraging them to leak is standard journalistic practice. It has been discussed extensively during the hearing with the help of several expert witnesses.

> If it is criminal for Assange to obtain/receive/disclose the documents in question

If it's so, you have to virtually prosecute every investigative journalist.
You can't guarantee security of anything, ever. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent attacks.

Of course timescales and assets are important. For the movie streaming industry, it's a certain number of months before and after a stream is publicly released. After sales have been made, there are diminishing returns when trying to protect the content.

> I think it's wishful thinking that the technology you are relying on won't be broken in a one-year timeframe

It depends on what your assets are, your threat coverage and who you are trying to protect against. Some people are successful at doing this for more than a year's timeframe, which is enough to be overall successful. If you're developing something as popular and precious as an iPhone, it's far more challenging.

Nothing lasts years. The economical side of security is always to reduce the likelihood and impact of threats until they aren't worth worrying about.
> But the question I always wonder is what's so special about hotels that they get to build dozens or hundreds of apartments but don't have to put them on the market?

Your average hotel room (at least in a large city) is much smaller than anything that would be permitted as a habitable apartment in most jurisdictions. The hotel also insulates residents from tourists, and hotels often have planning constraints intended to further reduce tourist nuisance (for instance, they may not be allowed have externally facing balconies).

And planning authorities can consider local needs; if you give planning for an apartment block you expect it to be used for housing, if you give planning for a hotel (or aparthotel) you expect it to be used for tourism. Airbnbs tend to break that model a bit.
I understand, but in context, I feel this supports rather than negates my original post.

I understand the "decentralized hotel" problem. But, this seems to come up with fiery enthusiasm in the context of housing affordability constantly. Ultimately, affordability is a bigger problem then neighborhood character.

No one gets this fired up about sidewalks, business licensing, speed limits, parking and everything else that makes up neighborhood character.
> yes, I know..

Wait, I think I missed something, is uMatrix bad somehow?
Not as long as products are built on top of proprietary internal SDKs such as google3, borg etc. Google started to open source some of the internal projects (e.g. bazel), which, among other things, would make it easier to just donate / spin off a project they are no longer interested supporting.
it shouldn't have to be that way
I recently made the switch to gnome as the multi-monitor support, fractional scaling and general Wayland support is only excelled by sway. I sorely miss Okular!
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The sentiment for neutrality in the US was dramatically higher than Americans typically care to remember. Months prior to Pearl Harbor US destroyers in the Atlantic were engaging (and in one case being sunk by German U-boats.) That was considered by many to be a reason to get rid of Roosevelt rather than fight with Germany.
If I want to hire:
A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup

or

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop

my only path forward is H1. They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that makes any sense to anyone?
BTW Airtable is an amazing product, if this work then google will eat their customers
> sports, meanwhile, is well on its way to being the only reason to keep the traditional bundle.

Semi-side note but I feel this will go soon too. Amazon are starting to show sports, inclusive with Prime Video, in the UK.
Apple knows that trust in tech only becomes more important the more the tech interfaces with the human body. Other companies who have no trust have no future there.
Gotta make time for some recreation no matter who you are.
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There is a history command, with a way to reload, so this would be possible by writing to bash_history from bashrc, then reloading the history I think. Not tested.

This is a short guide that is an eye opener as to just how much can be done with bash history: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
No, but it honestly probably would have been if the Central Powers had won WWI. American entry into that war was made possible the sinking of the Lusitania, which was secretly carrying war munitions. There is some evidence that the British enabled the event although this is admittedly a minoritarian view among historians (last I checked). It was undoubtedly beneficial for the Allied Powers though.

The British Empire are pretty much the "bad guys" of world history insofar as such a designation makes sense. The punitive measures they arranged after WWI were directly responsible for the rise of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany.
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> It is common for affirmative action students to not do very well there.
Do you have any data at all for this?

No. Only my observation from when I went to IIT for my undergrad about 2 decades ago. At that time they even used to have remedial classes for students who came in through the reservation system. Again, I would like to emphasize that not all of those students were having difficulties coping with the workload. In fact, it is not uncommon for the general category students to crumble under pressure as well.

> Then it is not a stretch to imagine that some of them may not be very good at their job either.

It's not right to assume that someone may not be good at their current job because they may (in your mind) have benefited from some "affirmative action" program far in the past (John Doe is 20+ years into his career). Judge people on current performance, not past history. Plenty of average students shine in the real world.

Yes, plenty of average students shine in the real world. Nothing you say here contradicts what I wrote above. To rephrase with an example, if GPA was the only criteria for accepting students into a university, and in a class of mostly 4.0 students you admit a few 2.0 students with affirmative action, it is not difficult to see how they would have trouble in class. If they also get demotivated and end up not getting much from that education, some of them may not do so well in work life either.*
> The cynic in me thinks this guy accuser in the lawsuit is trying to hide his incompetence

Why don't we let the courts work it out instead of speculating on people's motivations or honesty?

Agreed. That was uncalled for. But I did preface it with "cynic in me".
I have tons of such scripts for personal use, not just projects. Here's one I wrote a couple days ago called "jabra-stop-changing-volume-goddamnit":

#!/bin/bash
while sleep 0.1; do pacmd set-source-volume bluez_source.70_BF_92_CD_77_32.headset_head_unit 60000; done

Also, lots of scripts related to ffmpeg and other tools where the command line arguments are too hard to remember. For example, "ffmpeg-extract-sound-from-all-files-in-dir":

#!/bin/bash
find *.mov | sed -e s/.mov// | xargs --replace=qq --verbose ffmpeg -i qq.mov -acodec pcm_s16le qq.wav
How is this “exclusive” if the API remains available?
One of the best design write ups I've read in long time.

They nailed the fundamentals first, then moved on to the surprise and delight features. I believe that is fundamental for anyone doing UX/Design. I've seen way to many companies try to gamify or add silly features to improve the user experience, when in fact it ends up doing the opposite.
Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser has had this feature for ages.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-...
The only thing to break the duopoly is some third option that requires no additional last mile infrastructure investment - either a common infrastructure that decouples provider from physical wiring or wireless Internet that isn't horrible.
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"To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing."

The trap with AirBnb and urban STR's is the idea that you can live like a native, but the truth is you're not fooling anyone but yourself.

-DFW
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As a product, this looks super-cool.

However, I've got to be honest: while I'd play around with it while it's part of Area 120, there's no way I'd use it in a business until it officially became part of G Suite, as a core service. If Keep and Tasks are core services, then this needs to be too.

That becomes a guarantee that it'll stick around basically forever. So it's very exciting to see Google launch something like this -- but I hope they can align their internal politics and business goals here.

(Also, separate nitpick, but they're launching this as "beta", but with a paid plan. Since when is beta software charged for? What does "beta" even mean anymore then?)
One of the reasons, I assume, is that plenty of those making >$145,000 live in HCOL areas and after paying for housing, childcare expenses, etc, they don't feel very "rich". So they likely agree the rich should pay more, they just think they are one of them.
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I think the author misses a big point, and takes a lot of words to miss it.

A book exists as a subset of a language--it itself can be considered a language itself--the way the words interact and how they relate is more important than any particular within. Taking something out of a book doesn't meaning learning some particular order of symbols contained within--it's about learning the language and how all the symbols relate. You could even extend that to identifying that language in the future and generating it themselves as well.

So you get content where the information density is very low, which happen to be some books. I hate to compare this article to, but essentially it's identified the idea of information entropy and still misses the fact that knowledge and understanding are not a bucket of facts but rather a model. The author spits this out verbatim but it's obvious given the language the author is using his understanding of this topic is very low. The author seems to be quantifying knowledge, but really it's quite hard to quantify knowledge in and of itself but rather it's important to judge knowledge in relation to other knowledge--hence information density. I think a lot of people simply read a book for the journey and not to take something out--and just because there's no conscious summary in their head doesn't mean they've not learned or that it's not changed their entire lives, in fact, since understanding by definition is an unconscious process.

If learning well is simply absorbing knowledge quickly and retaining it then count me out--I don't want to absorb random facts and symbols which have no practical use in relation to the objects and symbols and things I use in this world.

So the author misses the point of learning, and constructs a giant strawman (using a long-form argument, strangely) about how books don't "work" in the sense that they don't necessarily give you any knowledge at all! I agree, but I'll definitely still be reading them.
I got Peacock Premium free with my Xfinity internet connection which has ~175 LIVE English Premier League matches streaming in USA. No need to now subscribe to NBC Sports!
These only make sense when the signal to noise ratio gets bad, ie you get too many spammy applications.
AirBNB did not invent short-term rentals.
> We can't eat our pie and have it at the same time.

We can still talk about the pie, how good the pie is, that they don't make pie like this anymore - anything to distract from the fact that the pie has long been eaten.
Which is why I put the number at 50,000-150,000. I don't think we should have the exact rate as Germany, but I think it is obvious that demographics don't make up the entire difference between Germany and the US. You can see this by looking at the shape of the graphs for daily deaths. After the peak, the US has basically stuck somewhere between 20-40% of the its peak number. Most other countries were able to get their daily numbers down much further from their initial peak.

>And over time I expect death rates to roughly even out over the full span of the pandemic; unless a country can completely eradicate the virus and close their borders, public health measures only delay the deaths rather than preventing. Flattening the curve will only slightly decrease the total area under the curve.

What evidence is there for this? Which of our peer nations have had the sustained death or a secondary spike that would indicate that herd immunity is going to be the end result of this pandemic rather than societal change until a vaccine exists?
I remember seeing a tool that could be used to punch a hole in floppy disks in order to double the capacity. I didn't have such a tool, but I did have a cheap soldering iron. I ended up with a bunch of 3.5" floppy disks with holes melted through them.

Thinking back on it now, I'm surprised that I didn't damage the disk with the heat of the iron. Then again, maybe I did and didn't notice because I was 12.
> Still, we don’t deny the information could be a bit skewed – even with the weighting we give to our survey results – given that this is from the JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem survey, and one of JetBrains main products is IntelliJ IDEA.

They claim to have 72% of the market based on their own survey (given to their own users), and eclipse only has 13%. Can't believe they would even bother to publish that.
Possibly it has a mild negative effect, but it's positive for practically everyone who _lives_ in Paris. Cities are generally predominantly places for people to live and work, not theme parks for tourists.
They throw anyone who had any contact with someone who had covid in quarantine camps. Basically, the power of being an authoritarian government where people have no rights.

Probably also a fair bit of luck. Those tactics don’t scale. So they only work when you catch it early. The wrong travels visit a conference and it’s impossible to keep up.

There is some speculation Asian counties had some level of immunity from past epidemics, but it’s only a hypothesis at this point.
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Not the GP but I'm in a similar position. I run Hauptwerk[0], a software package that simulates pipe organs. It regenerates an on-disk cache every time an instrument's parameters are changed and this cache can be tens of gigabytes in size. 5 parameter changes a day for some of the larger instruments would put me over your 330 GB/day threshold.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptwerk
I'm conflicted on this one and can see both sides. The "if you visit some place, you do as the locals wish" is a bit of a slippery slope.

It's hard to understand the nuances of a culture. I've been living in Colombia for 5 years. It took me a couple years to understand the subtleties of Paisa Spanish and another year to really start understanding the culture. Visitors need years to understand what the locals want. And no, you can't simply ask them what they want... that doesn't work in indirect communication / "que pena" cultures.

Flipping this around, I'm from New York and certainly don't want tourists to do what I want when they're in my home town. They can do whatever they want.
To be fair, if Puerto Rico wanted it's independence, the current administration would probably give it to them. Likewise, had they wanted to become the 51st state, I have no doubt that in 2009 President Obama and the Democratic super majority would have been happy to make that happen and grab up two extra Senate seats in the process.

The fact is, a lot Puerto Ricans like the current setup. The are natural born citizens who have full freedom of movement within the U.S. while Puerto Rico has fewer federal restrictions and obligations compared to a U.S. state.
Which makes somewhat sense for Google (I mean, Gmail is the titular example right?). But Gmail is 16 years old, Gsuite is 14. Where is the next unicorn vs. the much more than twenty failed products to offset this?

And more to the point; are these projects "failing" because savvy companies are working out that the play is short term seeking either high growth or death...

EDIT: 205 https://killedbygoogle.com/
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I had a buddy who had this happening in rural vermont. He had to get a signal analyzer because nobody believed him and eventually he got the FCC involved which finally got the thing shut off.