skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much more “partnering” can you have than Netflix being one of the first streaming apps on the iPad and the third Gen AppleTV - which didn’t have an App Store.

There isn’t quite the integration between Netflix and the TV app as there is with other providers only because Netflix didn’t want it. But if you search for a movie in the TV app and the movie is available from both Apple and Netflix, they will show you it’s available in Netflix instead of trying to get you to buy it.

Apple sells hardware. You can’t sell streaming hardware that doesn’t work well with Netflix.

I doubt Apple sees AppleTV+ by itself as a profit generator any more than Amazon sees Amazon Prime as a revenue provider. It just makes the bundle more attractive which gets more people into the ecosystem.

Apple and Amazon have all types of bundle deals/discounts if you buy other streaming services within their apps.
If you can spread it out to the point where you can develop a vaccine then it will absolutely save lives. Or at least flatten it to the point where you're not overwhelming hospitals or running out of PPE/cleaning supplies then you save lives in the long run.

And remember Sweden has first class healthcare. A similar strategy in the US would have been absurdly expensive and resulted in mass bankruptcy in addition to mass deaths.
Ask HN: Does school district matter for intellectual/academic ability
I did my primary education in India and now experiencing US schooling through my kid. After having watched documentary "Waiting for Superman", I have to say I am worried.

Right now I am in an average school district and wanting to move to a good, by buying a million dollar house. Before I pull the plug want to know if there are any resources on how the kids succeed.

Most people say schools don't play role its only parents. But I amn't convinced.

Wondering if someone can shed some light
> In the “truckload of dependencies” they fail to ask why those dependencies are really there, and in that required JS they fail to ask why its really needed

Yes, this is what I meant when I said the post is too snarky, but I don't think it's fair to take that as representative of all "webcomponents supporters". That JS exists to fill a gap left by the platform, and it's a gap that should be filled by the platform, but it's also a gap that isn't filled by the platform.

> I actually hold the opinion that it was never even a good idea, because it’s simply the wrong abstraction layer to be extending on

I disagree. HTML is a profoundly intuitive and accessible standard which reaches far outside the normal bounds of software developers. This is evidenced by the thriving diversity the web has experienced (before everything moved to closed platforms, that is). For static content it already provides an exceptional balance between expressiveness and accessibility, and the dream of web components was to bring that over to apps as well. And I really do think that idea is still a good one.
Amazing. Now imagine that combined with something like

[1] http://www.cargocap.com/ or

[2] https://www.smartcityloop.de/ or

[3] https://www.cst.ch/en/

maybe even extended right into your condo via elevator!

edit: Surprise, Surprise! [4] https://www.four-parx.com/en/four-parx-smart-city-loop-for-u...

in my hometown! Yay!
For comparison with the US, Massachusetts might be a better choice. World class healthcare, highly educated population, average life expectancy of 80yrs 8 months [0], and a similar-ish sized population (6.8M in MA vs 10.3M in Sweden).

Despite a lengthy lockdown, excellent social distancing and fairly high mask compliance MA hasn't done so well. As of Sept 29 MA has recorded 9423 deaths vs 5893 in Sweden [1][2].

Unfortunately, like Sweden, MA was not able to prevent COVID19 from spreading to nursing homes with over 64% of deaths (6K+) occurring in long term care (LTC) facilities alone. In fact MA was #1 in the US for deaths in LTC homes with 12.35% of the _entire_ LTC population in the state dying from COVID19 and #3 in the US for COVID19 infections in LTC homes with 35% of _all_ LTC residents contracting COVID19 [2]. This is really a terrible, awful (and avoidable) failure on the Commonwealth's part.

[0] https://www.mass.gov/news/life-expectancy-rises-in-massachus...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/massachusetts/

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[3] https://data.cms.gov/stories/s/COVID-19-Nursing-Home-Data/bk...
Exactly. That’s why I’m flabbergasted that you are arguing for pretending as though it has no value.

If it’s hers...

and if it is valuable...

or even if just her ability to choose what to do with it is valuable (ie letting her choose how much to value it)...

then it is appropriate to teach her how to protect it.

If it is inappropriate to teach her how to protect it (because some feminist somewhere declared by fiat that it would be victim blaming to do so), then the only conclusion that can be drawn is that it has no value. She must never be taught to value it. She must never be taught to protect it. And thus, her choice is made for her: it has no value, and as long as those exist who choose to take it by force, her desire is meaningless. Society has decided she may not value it out lest other people have their feelings hurt because they lost theirs.
I hate to be the one triggering Godwin's Law at this depth in the discussion, but oh well.

> Imagine having employees who refuses to do work because 'they feel they shouldn't'. Or organizes walkouts, protests and are actively lobbying for changes in company policy to reflect their own personal values. Or protests against certain customers of the company, because they are evil in some perceived way or form. It's smart to do what one can to get rid of these types of employees basically because they are only trouble, they add nothing with their activism in the workplace.

I think the world would have been collectively grateful if engineers at IBM and Dehomag would have refused to do some work because they felt they shouldn't [1].

Remember, politics is out there in the world. If a large enough number of people at your company are being affected by it, there's likely something wrong that's much greater than your company. History can teach us some lessons about this.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
In 1998, we had big banner ads that were relevant to the content on the page, instead of viewer's personal profile. They were generating revenue without invading anyone's privacy.

Companies always buy ads that are not personalized: on live TV, in stadiums, on billboards, on highways and so on.

So it is possible to have ad-supported business without invading privacy. But invading privacy brings a lot more revenue. So I don't agree with the argument that a privacy-respecting free services have to invade privacy.

Also in the report, it also says that many paid services like banks and others were also invading privacy.
I don't understand why people can't entertain the argument that a failure to lock down has greater economic cost than a lockdown.
Why would someone run a VPN client on Linux under Windows, anyway, as opposed to just running it on Windows?
https://caniuse.com/?search=webrtc

I think WebRTC is supported on iOS? Maybe it's missing some important features? I'm not personally familiar with what's going on there.

Web Bluetooth doesn't seem to be going anywhere fast, for better or worse.
And probably pay less as well as get casting feature on non-Apple devices.

Disc: Googler.
However if someone went around the office demanding that people self censor any speech deemed "political", that person would be celebrated.
> why did you assume it was a decision made solely by leadership and that employees or other stakeholders did not have a publicly held opinion?

Was my assumption wrong? Did the leadership of that company not make that decision?
What is a well designed component given current limitations of HTML spec?

There is no way around it. The author makes really good points but offers no solution. Just complains.

Would love to know more how we can do this better if there is a way.
Yeah, the initial scrolling experience was insufferable. I had to resort to using pagedown and eventually just grabbing the tiny scrollbar instead of my mouse scrollwheel to make any sort of useful progress, and even then it was made difficult by absurdly "long" animations and visuals instead of actual information. The thing that really got my goat is how areas shifted in contrast for entire pages for single sentences of text.

It feels like there were maybe two to three paragraphs of text total on that page. I want to read the text. I do not want flying, fading out images all over the place.

This low-information-density design trend is an incredibly user-unfriendly experience for desktop users.
And by racist you mean people that don't agree with your political worldview.
I think part of it is that many know that most companies under perform the market. So I imagine it's not hard to see someone justifying (correctly or incorrectly) that its worth paying more for a company you think is more likely going to be one of those outliers. and being that there is a limited supply of these companies, they can shoot up in value fast.

I never used snowflake, so hard for me to have a solid opinion of this company. I remember when facebook IPO'ed and people were like 'what? worth 100 billion? OVERVALUED'. and they were wrong in every way. so who knows? Though my gut doesn't tell me this company is the next facebook. coming out of the gate with a 70 bil market cap feels like all the growth is already priced in.

With facebook and on their IPO, I felt just their mobil revenue in 5 years time alone would be worth their valuation. But I had week hands. I think I bought them at 28 and sold at 22. I should have had more conviction because I truly did believe they were worth a lot more.
I still have the Sony TV with built in Google TV, which is a brick now, because I can't update it anymore and google has abandoned it. Not doing the same mistake again.
Usually yes.
>> Almost all the big companies I worked for had a "database gang" -- a database group which, in the name of centralization, forced you to bow to them to get anything. New DB? bow to them. More nodes? bow to them. Reboot? bow to them. The internal budget "prices" would be off the charts unbelievable.

> This still in no way answers why Snowflake is so valuable, though.

It explains it to a T! You have something you want, but internal company politics and territoriality keep you from getting it the way you want. An outside provider lets everyone get it for a bit of cash. It's basically the same play as Salesforce. It's not some kind of technical moonshot. It has to do with a modicum of technology delivered by a 3rd party who can avoid all of the internal friction.

The next founder who can think of this kind of play, then execute on it, will be the next Salesforce/Snowflake, and will probably have the ear of the same investors!
> It seems like everyday you wake up something has changed … Do you say Jew? Or Jewish? Is it a black guy? African-American? … You are on your toes because you never know what to say. So political correctness in that sense is scary.

I'm still struggling with the objection here, but this is ridiculous.

It's ok to say "black". Is that hard to figure out? Ask a black person and they will say it's fine. The term "african-american" seems more nonsensical than anything -- not all black people identify with Africa.

As to the rest, I don't care about popular opinion, that doesn't inform my world view. Still waiting to hear about the burden of "PC" because I have yet to hear a compelling case.

And I have never once wondered whether or not I should call someone a "jew".
Curious what the shortcomings of Roku are for you? I'm not a heavy user but my ultra has been great.
Probably beats python and the continuous version idiocy - Python 2 vs Python 3, 3.7 vs 3.9 &c, p.p. If you have throwaway scripts in a startup, fine, but unacceptable when you are maintaining an OS that all the world relies on. You wonder - what does Dr Hipp use for sqlite? Never looked into that build system!
Shredder Machine vs Recycle Hard and Soft Thing Shredding Shreddingstuff
Density in Swedish cities is similar to density in cities in other European countries.
I know, but Europe is the only place that uses DAB basically and not universally so if they sell out side of there which they do having DAB is just a cost and no benefit unless they build different SKUs.
> It is now clear that the Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish governments do not care much about the stability of the Nordic cooperation and anyone might hesitate when choosing a job across the border.

So, there's literally a single country going against the grain here (Sweden) but somehow you are trying to blame everyone else in the Nordic Council for not caring about stability.

That's almost as ridiculous as the UK complaining about France, Germany, Spain and Italy 'not caring about the stability of the EU' because they didn't bend over backwards to accommodate the UK's demands over Brexit.
>> Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?

Yes. Unsuccessful products get cancelled.

The successful services get to stay but the customers get hit with "insane price hikes":

https://www.geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-go...
Generally, yes. What happened in New York could happen everywhere (Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo, Beijing). But in practice the virus seems to have somewhat slowed down. With the notable exceptions of France and Spain the second wave so far seems to grow much slower. That might be due to more tests, but I think the effect is caused by a general change in behavior. We are also better prepared, both in the effectiveness of treatment and the diagnosis of severe cases. Also, if shift comes to shove, there are several experimental vaccines already. They might not be very efficient, but they should be comparatively safe by now. So all in all, I would say the worst could be behind us.
A friend of mine has a bunch of them and his opinion is that if you are well-versed with drum machines, synthesizers, etc., pocket operators are fairly intuitive to use.
For my Mac, I find that EpocCam on my iPod Touch (and iPhone) is very good as a webcam, especially in low light.
For mounting it, this looks good:
SHAWE Phone Holder Bed Gooseneck Mount
It's been fun for me, for sure! I've always leaned more towards the generalist side of things, though.
I suspect that some things may be ultimately unknowable. But we might also well conclude that some behaviors that a lot of people feel very strongly about don't really seem to have mattered much.

Look how things have changed since even early March. I was at my last in-person tech event at the beginning of March, a few hundred people, and lots of care was being given to not shaking hands and wiping down surfaces but there wasn't so much as a thought of distancing or mask wearing (and who knows how important those things will turn out to be either).
Sweden would definitely be exporting more cases than they would be importing with international travel.
Speed of memory has been the bottleneck all along. More transistors are only useful if they are L1 cache, but to take advantage of larger caches we need to change the OS/languages we use. I would say 1 Gflops/Watt is peak 32-bit CPU, I think most people should try and work from that number and keep energy usage as low as possible. Raspberry 4 for desktop! 28nm is enough, going smaller creates more problems than it solves.
Would you like to provide an example that's in english?
Yes, I watched it and his “stand back and stand by” direction to the Proud Boys wasn't nuanced at all.

In fact, the media tends not to report on the added emphasis on the “stand by”, which served to minimize the “stand back”.
Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford,[19][20][21] a free school chartered in 1553,[22] about a quarter-mile (400 m) from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was standardised by royal decree,[23][24] and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors.[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#Early_life
Why?
In my opinion Linux desktop environments are terrible compared to Windows.

How's the display scaling these days? Is it still a better experience to run a 4k monitor at a lower resolution?
What's the Nvidia driver situation? Still janky because their drivers are doing their own thing?
What blows my mind is how humble and optimistic that post is. I think the author is still a little bit sceptic: he was well prepared and after initial success he executed perfectly but still: what are the odds? Good luck!
"To me, it represents a huge failure on the part of the developer community not to make publishing web components the standard."

How does "blaming the customer" help here?

It's not the first time that a standard doesn't fit the people it was created for...
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. This is priced the way it is because the profit isn't in the hardware, it's in the viewer data. It's very cheap only if you set the value of your privacy to some very low number.
You may be surprised to learn that cement production alone makes up 8% of global carbon emissions. Steel production is 5% by itself.
Can I have an example?
You're not wrong, but this has big "DropBox? just use rsync" energy.
We're on month seven of the lockdown in NYC. 87% of restaurants can't pay rent.

I am happy to entertain the idea that lockdowns are saving the local economy, but you'll need to back it up with some data.

https://thenycalliance.org/assets/documents/informationitems...

Edit: 87% of the entire hospitality industry, not just restaurants.
Thanks. Any philosophy trying to make “old age” into something positive is a cop-out. There is nothing positive about seeing your mind and body slowly decay.
What attacks is a malicious agent going to execute on a page of articles?

I think HTTPS is all well and good, but I've yet to hear a compelling reason why pages of text and images need it.
Yes, he has done some amazing tracks
Stamp collectors push their stamp collecting ideologies onto all the non-stamp collectors who just want to do engineering. Stamp collectors set up meetings and socially shame/outcast non stamp collectors who don't attend. Non stamp collectors get tired of this and say they are going to make a job board where they don't have to worry about stamp collectors if they take a job at a place.

The answer is that there is nothing that unites these people except not being stamp collectors. If stamp collectors didn't exist, then no one would identify as non-stamp collectors.
I'm hyped for this; RustPython uses gitter as its main communication platform for developers and contributors, and while it's certainly worked quite well for us so far, I was slightly worried the slow pace of development and the deprecation of mobile apps. It seemed (to me, at least, and I don't follow the gitter changelogs or anything - edit: just looked at them now, so yeah, what follows is pretty unfounded. Anyway,) like gitter was sorta becoming a ghost ship, still running along smoothly but not much was happening at the helm -- this also might be because I mainly use the Android app, which is deprecated, so I see very few updates to gitter if any. Anyway, yeah, I think this is a great direction to go for gitter, if only so I'll have an updated mobile app :)
Could they be trying to make a point? About insurance abuses of this technology maybe? maybe not, could just be the algorithm failing. Or maybe they don't want to assume the liability of actually providing a number.
Sure and no doubt some bots pass as human.

But keep in mind CF has a lot of options for filtering traffic. Just because you got a CAPTCHA on a CF site doesn't necessarily mean considered you a bot.
I don't know if they are "worth" that delta, but I know I'm not buying a phone that lacks those two features.
Swede here.

> Yet without implementing any major controls,

Weasel word "major". Everyone who can work from home has done so since April. I'm basically isolated at home all day. The difference is that it's voluntary because the government thinks we are adults. Turns out we are!

> with significantly less social distancing among the population,

Than what? And citation needed. I have cut down my physical interactions by crazy amounts and this is extremely common.

> without significant mask usage,

This is true.

> the outbreak seems to have slowed substantially.

The most vulnerable have died already if that's what you mean.

Now there IS a good argument for Swedens approach being good for Sweden and that is that we have had lower than average total mortality a while now. Meaning probably that the deaths we saw were dominated by people who had their lives cut short by 6 months or less.

"X dead" is an obvious crap number if you think about it for 1 second. The actual interesting number is how many years have the disease cut from people's lives. Seems like not a lot actually. We took a huge gamble on this entire thing though.
Michael MJD has a video on Escargot, which hosts a server instance that knows how to talk to clients using the MSN protocol (official clients need to be modified, however, so connection attempts don't go to the now defunct servers): https://youtu.be/yrvNyvFwCJg

Source code is available at https://gitlab.com/escargot-chat .
Wisconsin is already heading in that direction.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/09/30/wisconsin-hos...

North Dakota has 22 ICU beds left in the state.
They last longer physically. Apple supports them with updates and security fixes for absurd lengths of time (like 5 years or something). So if you take care of your phone it's better for the environment.
Sure. They’re not going to sell your username and password. But they’re a marketing company, and my experience with marketing companies is that they view IT as a cost center (despite marketing companies being mostly IT driven these days), and don’t spend a lot of time, effort, or energy on security. When they have a breach, it’s going to cost you more than just privacy.
I don't see it that way. The phone skeleton shows inches everywhere for me. Display section shows both inches and mm for diagonal.

Disc: Googler.
Yup. Now imagine how many bot frameworks are smart enough to keep up to date with user agent strings.

Pro-tip in Google Analytics you can filter by some device color depth = 0 bits and find (what I assume) are all bots that way.
you can serve ads without mining users data. I am old enough to remember an Internet were ads were relevant to the content.
what's particularly wrong with a static page?

They sell fewer phones.

This is Google. The design used is driven by data. Everything on the site is backed up by billions of page views and conversion metrics from other Google websites and websites Google has access to.

Google knows exactly what works on the web to maximize sales. They don't care if you like it. They care about what makes the most money.
> new cases per capita

Why is this a relevant metric at all?? UK (where I am) has more confirmed cases than in March, yet comparatively negligible death rate. So the raw new cases metric is obviously completely useless and uninformative, there's clearly something else going on (better management of disease, more medical resources, less extremely vulnerable people, more testing, ...)
The best part is my fans revving up to max and getting noisy as heck.
A lot of free users also simply have no concept of how much effort something takes since they've never done it themselves, and by extension have no concept of what that effort translates to in zero cost labor. It's something I see a lot in the maker side of the world with things like 3d printable files.