skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Of course you got downvoted...)

How can Apple be,

1. An operating system and business software company

2. A cell phone company

3. An exclusive marketplace for apps

4. A movie studio and streaming service

5. A music studio and streaming service

6. A hardware company whose products predominantly work with and favor other Apple branded hardware

7. ...

How can Google, Amazon, and Apple all do this? Pretty soon they're going to be providing us insurance, doing our dentistry work, and selling us caskets and cremation services.

These monopolies are sucking the air out of so many industries. And they honestly do a lackluster job at the random spaces they enter - they just happen to have the money and weight to push out the smaller players and not have to worry about actually competing.

I don't want America to have three Samsungs. It's not healthy. I don't want the arts to be dominated by advertising, grocery, and luxury computing/accessory brand companies.
Do you have a reliable reference about cable boxes having microphones in them?

The only thing I could find about this was a claim that it was a hoax: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/camera-obscura
My Bose headphones are miles more comfortable and more effective at active noice cancellation than the best Apple Beats. Will that change? Maybe. I mean...I hope so. It's hard having only Bose and Sony credibly competing in the wireless over-the-ear ANC space. It would be really nice to be able to get away from the crap bluetooth scourge like AirPods kinda sorta started doing with their W and H series chips.
Totally sounds great for that use case
The reality is that most people doing diy work wind up working until 4am in the morning drilling and hammering away at things oblivious to the fact that is past bedtime and that their neighbors are trying to sleep.
We had a telco vendor use excel to manage all their configuration.

It was a weird dual source of authority system, where the excel configuration was used at install / upgrade time, but you could change the config after the install at runtime. So you had to merge the active configuration into excel, upload the excel document to some server that customers didn't have access to that turned the excel file into a config file, then you could use that config file to upgrade the system.

It was as problematic as you could imagine, lost configuration, lots of macros, etc. Eventually they made some improvements, but I left the industry so don't know what the current status is.

Enterprise / Telecom solutions at their best.
Raising global education levels is a start. Not just formally, but even basic understanding of multiple domains could help.
People like you are why I don't live in cities anymore.

Seriously, everytime there is some kind of pro-urbanist post here on HN, I think to myself "sure, but noise". And people who don't value peace and quiet.
I was just thinking that squaring an imaginary number results in a real number - that's a pretty crazy thing for a type system to handle, no? I guess that means the correct annotations would be more along the lines of:

def square(number: numbers.Complex) -> numbers.Real: ...

T = typing.TypeVar('T', numbers.Real)
def square(number: T) -> T:
return number ** 2

What a rabbit hole!
I got a bed laptop stand from AliExpress, used it when I had back problems and had trouble being in any position except lying down. $15 and worked fine with my laptop. The same item on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Adjustable-Ergonomic-Aluminum-...
This also reads like a complaint. I don’t see anything in that definition that distinguishes it from other dark triad personalities.

But I have been looking into this a lot, and I think the way to understand it is as an intense insecurity. Maybe about something that was their key to receiving acceptance and affection as children. These are people in pain; they don’t see yours. It is the most benign of the dark triad in that the others begin deliberate manipulation and harm.
> I don't see how you can even disagree with this, regardless of how you want to define 'extreme poverty'.

I don't disagree that this would be an improvement, neither did Hickel in my first quote. However it's very much not at the jubilant level that's being spouted about by you among others - hence the suggestion to be a bit more humble.

> Can you rephrase the question itself?

Why should we accept that the only way to lift people out of poverty is by exploiting their cheap labour for a century for our own benefit when the resources are already available, just locally scarce? This is a sociopathic "what's in it for me?" state of affairs.

> Yes it does. This part in particular makes an assertion about the proportion of people who are in extreme poverty:

What? No, it doesn't! That's just listing a number of countries, not the amount of people in each country.

> This conspiratorial view of Economics is no different than the paranoid view of Medicine exhibited by anti-vaxxers.

This is both incredibly naive and unsurprisingly dogmatic.
Crouching T2, Hidden Danger
Yeah no, I'm getting on your ass to shut this down, or you are going to enjoy trance music at inconvenient hours in retaliation. Be considerate.
1) You can put on "Dont Disturb" mode and that way you won't be distracted by notifications.

2) I don't think you can just print out other people's content, especially if there are ads.
A simpler solution would be to use a 4K laser light project and point it at the ceiling. Learn to touch type.
They’re useless to everyone I know until they add support for functioning as a standard Bluetooth speaker. I don’t understand why Apple is so opposed to this.
They can even give you Toxoplasmosis!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
> squaring an imaginary number results in a real number

However, in general, squaring a complex number results in another complex number.
Polymaths want to know everything – but ‘everything’ isn’t what it used to be
Add on sram, expansion board, usb hub, and it gets to be a bit more than $140.

I'm hoping someday we can get something like mister on the pano logic boards. You can find 2nd gen ones on ebay for $15 or so and have usb, dvi, audio, and I believe a more powerful fpga. All in a solid metal case.
Why's the tool driving the car wearing a mask as the sole occupant of the car? Is that the new political correctness?
VR hand tracking is already shipping. You can see your hands in VR using capacitive tracking such as the Valve Index or via pose estimation on camera data such as in the Oculus Quest.
> they will transform law-execution into present-intent-execution, something we do not desire.

Are you assuming present-intent is clouded with short-termness?

In general, people want government officials (like judges, here government is in a large sense) to do what they, people, want. Maybe not immediately - though it's a complex questions, with assumptions and counterarguments, but not clearly leading to your conclusion.

We also see that modern state - where laws are complex and judges have leeway to interpret them how they present-intently want, has drawbacks. That's the problem which we face - and want to fix. How's your problems bigger than this one?

> We need the human here to disambiguate and match against statement and then intent. And adding political necessities to that process hurts it.

We somehow don't have mechanism to ensure the intent of a judge is as we expect it to be. Sometimes honestly - I can imagine e.g. a conservative judge who really never imagined a marriage for couple of the same gender (not a very good example, sorry).
Yes, it would be wasteful to run multiple fibers all over the place, just like it would be wasteful to run multiple water, sewer, electrical, and gas lines.

Hence fiber internet should be a public utility, like water, sewer, gas, and electric.
Which to me speaks to Electrek wanting to write a clickbait piece about Tesla rather than analyze the market.

EV sales are up 4x YoY in September, due to new incentives. What is the structure? Do all Model 3s qualify or are they too expensive? How are other existing models impacted - are new entrants responsible for the growth? How would the Model 3 have sold if Q2 were not impacted by Fremont shut down?

There's a genuinely interesting article that could be written about it. I didn't expect much when I scrolled down to their Electrek's take section but what's there is poor even by their standards. It's because of Gigafactory Berlin? Really?

The sad truth is that there are three stories that are easy to write and generate the vast majority of clicks in the EV space. "Tesla's record sales", "Tesla fucks up xyz" and "Future Tesla plans". Why write about anything in depth when you can knock out one of those in an hour or two.

Even on HN, the entire ID.3 launch got about as much attention as this story has here. When personally I believe it'll go down in history as having comparable significance to the Model 3.

Finding decent in depth BEV news stories is so hard I almost want to bite the bullet and start doing it myself. It's one of the most interesting technical transitions in our lifetime, like living through the Mainframe -> Desktop era. I've been glued to the news since the Roadster.

Yet almost everything written about it is braindead spam written by unashamed Tesla supporters with their thumbs on the scale and bizarre Tesla haters who seem to genuinely believe they've found the next Theranos.
Have you used it by chance with .NET Core 3 or .NET 5? I was considering using it for some tooling during the build process without using Node.
Do you know people who use iPhones but require their smart speaker to work as a Bluetooth speaker? I think it’s pretty clear the HomePod is only intended for iPhone (or maybe Mac) users.
Now, that's very interesting. John Carmack said in an interview couple of years back that simulation sickness is the foremost problem to solve in VR, perhaps they have addressed that in Quest?

Thanks, now I'm intrigued. I'll have to checkout Quest soon.
Others seem to disagree with you:

"Venice and MOSE: story of a failure. After scandals and cost overruns, will the flood barrier project be dismantled? Inspections show that many of the gates have been eroded by sea-life. And the hinges are at risk of cracking" [1]

"But the project, known as Mose, has been plagued by the sort of problems that have come to characterize many major Italian construction programs -- corruption, cost overruns and prolonged delays... The good news is they will discover that the building work is almost complete. The bad news is no-one is sure how it will cope with the growing phenomenon of flooding and whether it might prove too little, too late." [2]

"MOSE Project: Criticism, corruption, and court cases" [3]

[1] https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/la-stampa-in-english/2017/10/...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-weather-venice-mose...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project#Criticism,_corrup...
There is a chinese thing called Fung Shui. Which says this is very bad Fung shui, it doesn’t make you feel good when you look at it, and probably will hurt you
That's really interesting. I can't use in-ear anything anymore, and I'd really like to try their over-the-ear stuff if they end up more like Airpods quality than Beats quality.
They may gain from it mentally (psychologically) feeling what they have done may well save someone.
> One reason was so the type system could be backported. You can install the typing module all the way back to Python 2.7, where list[int] will never work but nothing prohibits typing.List[int].
The system has been rolled out slowly in general, without hasty changes to the core language.

If only they'd had that idea a bit earlier in the Python 3 life cycle...
The Wikipedia page for GDPR says data collection for the following purposes is exempted from the regulations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

>>Lawful interception, national security, military, police, justice
No. Excel is definitely to blame. A simple error "cannot import/export more than 65k rows" would have done the trick. Not silently throw away rows.
Dealing with anxiety during technical/coding interviews as someone with ADD?
Video explaining it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqmMnjJ6GEg
This is what I ordered before the surgery and used it for a while when in bed. But it induced nausea after a while of use. But this is the most cost effective solution for those who are bit more tolerant to simulation sickness.
A fascinating little facette of this is that e.g. while command line applications are certainly harder to use for typical users, they are in a different sense also simpler, because a certain class of problems/worries is totally stripped away. Namely: where was that button again? Oh god they changed it again.

This is knife vs bread cutting machine stuff.
You are a bad driver. so am I.

humans are bad drivers.
Is there not some local disturbances in the circulation of cell contents that not all interactions are i.i.d? Some kind of repelling force on a large molecule that would keep similarly charged molecules at arms length. And in some cases act as a cell wide tidal force to diffusion?

I'm thinking of the atari pong ball where you can ricochet the ball between the top of the court and bricks repeatedly; is there some locality in the cell which takes advantage of positioning to increase likelihood of collision?
Eh they were essentially a monarchy by that point and power fell to the hands of a few families by the time of Marco Polo
Keyboard Shortcut Greasemonkey for ThruText
Handy Greasemonkey I put together to add better keyboard shortcuts to ThruText. Feedback/pull requests welcome!
I use AWK to do floating point calculations and copy the results to Excel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018450
Reminds me of this - https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/fv7qi7/b...
You seem to have removed the previous sentence which qualified the statement as "at runtime."
There's also dbdiagram.io that focuses exclusively on database diagrams. Nice thing about it is you can just write simple DSL code and they render the diagrams automatically. The downside is that they don't support collaborative editing yet.
> Accountable to the law? Absolutely

The country is the country of people, they establish all the mechanisms. Including law.

The "country of people" legally is written in founding papers, but here we're questioning on the level of founding papers. Constitution offers a mechanism to change it as a whole; but there currently are other mechanisms too. Working judges impeachment should perhaps be practical - or it should be clear why not.
App that helped me improve my maths skills
And there's a hypothesis that says toxoplasmosis can manipulate the behavior of their hosts to encourage risk-taking activities, including entrepreneurship, and cat owners are more likely to have an interest on startup companies [0][1]...

Which brings us to Hacker News.

Full Disclosure: I was a cat owner, but I'm on HN for its news and the forum, I'm not particularly interested in startup companies...

[0] Toxoplasmosis has been linked to a higher likelihood of entrepreneurial behavior in people who get infected

https://www.businessinsider.com/parasite-in-cat-poop-linked-...

[1] There's a Really Weird Link Between Cats And Entrepreneurs

https://www.sciencealert.com/toxoplasma-gondii-correlation-e...
What bothers me more is the lack of a way to ensure that the data is valid. Like always things look great in simple examples where it doesn't matter but fail when it gets tricky.

The main benefit of dedicated, encapsulated types is that they can preserve their invariants. Without that each function operating on "data" has to check that those invariants are kept. It's fine in trivial cases e.g. where this validation boils down to checking if a value is present or not - which might even be supported by the language. But I don't see this working in more complex cases.

In my experience many (most?) bugs are caused by the implementation assuming something incorrect about the shape of the data and I feel like this principle only makes it more likely to happen.
Boeing. Making coding mistake since 1997
5000 is not very many at all
I guess it looks better than the blocky low-bandwidth shots, but I get a bit of an uncanny valley feel with the "face photo puppets"; I'd prefer the more accurate image when I can afford the bandwidth. Avatars are fun though.
I noticed that with the ATM. And I've left my card in there before. Good change.
Is it as good as rails? When I run a rails new command, I can setup my postgres connection, nodejs and webpack libraries, rails core library in one command. Rails has database migrations with conventions i like - the timestamp and a file name that represents the action to be performed against the database (e.g. AddNameToBlogs) which that can also be rolled back.

I also really like the Rails restful router which is strongly tied to its controllers.

I could go on. I really like that Rails gives me strong, opinionated conventions but also allows me to configure things to be liking if needed.

I want to love .net core - I really like F#. Any other rails dev out there make the transition to .net core?
The very rich cheat the poor for decades and transfer trillions to themselves outright recently, but the cudgel government tools feel the need to imprison this little fish for not paying taxes on some ICOs. I can already hear the backup excuse along the lines of Those rascally, non-state currencies are terrorist threats to national securitah! if the undisclosed promotion charges don't stick.

1. Perhaps he should've renounced his citizenship and put any US-held assets to trusts?

2. If he whipped out the mustard, sauerkraut, and relish, would that have helped?

I look forward to the legal analysis on LegalEagle and LawfulMasses.
Maybe there is no link between something being complicated and it's complexity.

One is entirely subjective and the other isn't.

Example: a typical CLI application might be incredibly complicated to my mother, while it is in fact much less complex than e.g. a GUI software she uses to make and order picture books, which to her is much less complicated.

Something being complicated to someone doesn't mean it is complex. Very simple things can be complicated, very complex things can be simple.
Perhaps some Pig Destroyer
this is anti-OOP
Upcoming Armory (YC W17) Webinar – High Yield: Policy-Driven Software Delivery
If Americans included sales taxes in prices, like virtually every where else, it wouldn't be a big deal, people would choose prices that were round numbers .... but instead every sales act (except petrol) requires math that most people can't do in their heads
The experience depends on context. In a lot of ways HomePods feel similar to Dubai (bear with me on this analogy). If you're a reasonably well off person from a first world country, Dubai on the surface is really impressive. Huge public works projects with insane architecture lead to a city that's quite impressive. If you're a migrant worker from a third world country, the city is entirely different. Hash working conditions with very little support lead to a miserable experience.

In the same way, Apple Music and other first-party ecosystem things sound great on HomePods. The sound is unrivalled at its price point. It really is amazing how good of a device they made. For third party music sources such as Spotify, the experience is quite different. The HomePod subreddit is full of issues with playing Spotify on the HomePod, even over Airplay[0]. It was detrimental to the point that Spotify filed a formal complaint to the EU last year[1], and support was finally added this year at WWDC[2] for non-Apple audio sources.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/search?q=spotify&restrict_s...

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/13/spotify-files-complaint-with-...

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/22/homepod-music-services/
Uncle Bob: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/06/16/ObjectsAndDa...
You seem to have built yourself a great setup, thanks for sharing. I'll keep an eye out for that stand.
"Developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.

As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes" --Oscar
> The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases.

It's almost obvious complexity can be created. So why it can't be destroyed as well?
need to step up production of the 5th element makeup applicator

https://youtu.be/eo4Ui53Ch1A
If you haven't heard the rumors surrounding AirPods Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXYxqL-dB8
PayPal increasing withdrawal fee to 3.0%
This. I like to think of luck as a function of:

- exposure (your own putting yourself out there);
- ability to recognise the opportunity (should it arise); and
- ability to convey your worth/utility/function to others so that they might reciprocate (e.g. communication skills et al)

I'm kind of parroting what you have said but I resonate with it. In some sense what we call "luck" is in-fact earned at least in part.
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU WITH THESE NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONES ON. HANG ON...

Okay, that's better. Yes, the GP r/woosh'ed themselves.
I don't think the technical issues are the cause of the uncertainty in large scale projects, it is the political, right of way, and permitting issues that make it impossible to plan and execute a project. Out in the middle of the water there must not have been many people to oppose the project! And everyone in Venice was happy not to be flooded out.

I've designed and programmed control systems for about a dozen similar inflatable dams although the largest one I worked on was miniscule in comparison at 3m tall and 25m wide. My projects used a product with kevlar bladders with stainless panels on top rather than pumping air in to enormous metal enclosures.

There must be one hell of a compressor station to provide the volume of air required to get the water out of the gate panels in venice. And since the use of the flood protection will probably coincide with shit weather I bet they have diesel standby generators to power the whole operation.
Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
Unfortunately even with Python 3.9 you might still need 10-100x as many servers as you would if you used C++. :(

disclaimer: I like Python and find it a lot more fun than C++, although C++/STL are getting better over time!
Ah, but a good carpenter would love the opportunity to see someone even better at their craft than they achieve the same goal with a novel approach honed over decades!
When autopilot stuff hit the news years ago, tesla would immediately shift blame and publicize the telemetry output of the person in question's car.
I think the biggest additional thing from that book is the concept of "affordances". Practically every UI related person I talk to talks about the concept intentionally or not and he put a name to it.

I would agree the book has little in terms of practical advice nowadays. It was brief and straightforward at the time, and age has only lessened the impact.
except where the people responsible for enforcing traffic laws (traffic police) are different from the people responsible for vehicle registration (state government road traffic authority).
Exactly! Is there any new interesting features at the least? Nothing stands out to me except the stats.
Amazing, I had no idea. This was only meant as a stab at Americans and their love for their love for inches. Here is a wikipedia article about bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_%28money%29
Celery 5.0