skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is partly why Epic made such a big move trying to put an Epic store on IOS (to the point of sueing Apple).

They managed to get Fortnite to run at 120FPS on Ipad Pro just this March and probably realized that high performance gaming on IOS is here and will only get better as CPU\GPUs improve on mobile, and sued Apple by August.

What better way to monetize your immersive, high performance, addictive game when it's in everyone's pocket all the time ie no need to sit at your console or PC.
Can you expand the example with consumer electronics - because it's not clear: who's gouging whom? You mean Big Tech selling expensive smartphones to people who can't buy a house so will buy an iPhone instead?
I'm going to go with an unconventional response. Probably important enough that humans mutated relatively quickly [1] towards low pigmentation/melanin when they migrated towards northern latitudes. This lighter pigmentation must have had provided a significant advantage in the northern latitudes.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-european...
This submission is a link to the bitcoin sub-reddit? SERIOUSLY?
I'm a klutz and even with a case I break my glass every other month or so.

The glass repair guy down the street must love me.

If it really protects the phone like they said it will (even 2x, not 4x) then this would be a revolutionary upgrade for me.
It's funny how we're only getting this Vitamin D info just now.

Do you know when FearDept first mentioned it on their Twitter account?

2020-04-09.

https://threader.app/thread/1248430652409569287

https://twitter.com/@FearDept/status/1248430652409569287
Also—I just found this out a month ago—a "nutritionist" is not the same thing as a dietitian, which is licensed. I had assumed these were one and the same.
The stereo pair feature was hobbled at release (only iTunes on MacOS, but from any app on iOS), but subsequent MacOS updates apparently solved this. But beware if you're running and older MacOS and don't want to update just to get stereo pairing!
The summary of the paper recommends:

"...8000 IU [International Units] for young adults and thereafter"

For comparison, the NHS (National Health Service) recommendation in the UK is just...10mcg (400 IU)

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

A massive difference with what this paper recommends. How will the public know which vitamin D guidelines to follow when the guidelines differ so wildly?
This. The elegance valued by so many in discussions seems so redundant when you think of how 99% of the machines that consumes the code will fail to appreciate it. The machine couldn't care less whether your actual header was a header tag or a div tag, and to then optimize for the things the machine does care about can result in horribly ugly code. And the reader of the page sees none of the code.
I had a card case for my iphone and my cards would routinely get corrupted. I couldn't figure out why it was happening, there wasn't a magnet in my iPhone 4s at the time.

I eventually figured out that it was happening because I'd been routinely laying my phone on my iPad, and the magnets in the iPad would, over time, murder my cards.

The new phones will absolutely corrupt your cards, I don't care what Apple marketing says.
... what a surprise. People seem to think that Google didn't anticipate data hoarders, but in fact, this just seems like a standard hook to get people using a service. (Or a bait and switch, if you're less charitable).

If anyone here is looking for a Drive alternative, I highly recommend the open source, P2P https://syncthing.net/. I use it to synchronise files between Linux, Android, FreeBSD devices including my home NAS.
You're basically talking about customers who have not bought a single USB device before. Is this a large segment?
> RDA at least three-fourths of the levels proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee as safe upper tolerable daily intake doses.

That seems like a dangerously low margin between recommended and unsafe, no? And they say "at least" like maybe the RDA should be even higher than three-fourths the maximum safe daily dose?

I mean, maybe the human body really does have such a tight tolerance, it really needs 75% of what would be dangerous to maximize health. That would be surprising to me, but could be. It still seems like a recommendation like that is likely to lead to many people exceeding the designated maximum safe daily amount.

(Of course, it could also be that the safe upper tolerable daily intake dose is mistakenly too low?)
Apple Music over 3rd party music apps
That's not my point. My point is that if we don't agree in a definition of inflation, how can we have a rational discussion? And there is a clear textbook definition of inflation.
I think this is a futurist persons painting a sexy picture. In reality, it would be cool if - as we slowly approached a self driving world- the vehicles could relay real time road conditions to the cloud. This of course would enable the vehicle to be aware of upcoming road conditions. It’s not so much that the internet connection is doing the driving but it could aid it. Something simple like potholes. They show up after a rain and get fixed a few weeks later (if you’re lucky). If the car knew there was a pothole ahead and knew to drift to the left portion of the lane to avoid it that would be nice. The vehicle wouldn’t have to do real time jerky swerve reaction because it knew it was coming. Maybe next month a vehicle notices the pothole is gone, the cloud forgets about it. Something like this is the practical use of IoT on the roads.
It would be great if this was built into zip and tar.

I've been doing an awful find, xargs, and touch combo to get deterministic zips, but the cli args vary between unix distributions.

It would be better if zip and tar could just take a single timestamp arg, and use that for all entries.
> I've lived in a wealthy suburban community that used single-dwelling zoning to exclude apartments, townhomes and low income housing

I agree that such communities exist. However, that does not mean all communities that have some parts of them zoned for single-family dwellings are like that. Every community I have lived in that had portions of it zoned for single family dwellings also had townhomes and apartments, all in the same community and all within similar reach of whatever amenities were provided. (I have also been on both sides of the divide you draw, living in townhomes and living in single family homes.)
> we call public health authorities to consider designating as the RDA at least three-fourths of the levels proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee as safe upper tolerable daily intake doses.

Are there any other vitamins where taking double the RDA puts you over the safe dose?

Also: the switchover comes with the complication that people taking 1000% RDA now just blindly keep taking 10x after the switch...
“More than one in three long-haul truck drivers have experienced a serious crash during their career.”

A great opportunity for assisted driving.
Probably 100 years old, I don't remember exactly, but it is not recent at all.
Looks nice. My wife was waiting for them to remove the notch. I wonder how long she'll have her 6s :)
Yep, around here it's mostly the early afternoon hours during summer months that the UV levels even rise above the threshold of triggering cholecalciferol synthesis. For many people the summer vacation is pretty much the only time of the year that they have a chance to synthetize vitamin D on their own.
Sounds interesting, would you be able to share anything about the signal processing tricks?
It's not an "excuse". It's an affirmative choice, and it was the right choice, in the opinion of many.

Yes, some Android devices do manage to beat Apple to market with various specs or features, occasionally. Usually in a way that is compromised, half-baked, or results in other issues. If you prefer that approach, there are plenty of Android phones you can buy and use for, oh, maybe 6-12 months before their version of the OS is permanently outdated and can't ever be updated. Have at.
Here's a good review that helps explain what Vitamin D does and why it's much more important than previously thought for the immune system:

Hewison, Martin. “An Update on Vitamin D and Human Immunity.” Clinical Endocrinology 76, no. 3 (March 2012): 315–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04261.x.

Vitamin D supplementation has previously been shown (via RCT) to improve outcomes for acute respiratory tract infections:

Martineau, Adrian R., David A. Jolliffe, Richard L. Hooper, Lauren Greenberg, John F. Aloia, Peter Bergman, Gal Dubnov-Raz, et al. “Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data.” BMJ 356 (February 15, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6583.

So of course it's no surprise that there's been interest/emerging evidence of it's role w/ COVID-19:

Daneshkhah, Ali, Adam Eshein, Hariharan Subramanian, Hemant Kumar Roy, and Vadim Backman. “The Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients and Associated Mortality.” Preprint. Infectious Diseases (except HIV/AIDS), April 10, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578.

Grant, William B., Henry Lahore, Sharon L. McDonnell, Carole A. Baggerly, Christine B. French, Jennifer L. Aliano, and Harjit P. Bhattoa. “Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths.” Nutrients 12, no. 4 (April 2020): 988. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12040988.

Meltzer, David O., Thomas J. Best, Hui Zhang, Tamara Vokes, Vineet Arora, and Julian Solway. “Association of Vitamin D Status and Other Clinical Characteristics With COVID-19 Test Results.” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): e2019722–e2019722. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19722.

As for Vitamin D deficiency, it's pretty common. About 40%: "The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005 to 2006 data were analyzed for vitamin D levels in adult participants (N = 4495). Vitamin D deficiency was defined as a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations ≤20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L). The overall prevalence rate of vitamin D deficiency was 41.6%, with the highest rate seen in blacks (82.1%), followed by Hispanics (69.2%)."

Forrest, Kimberly Y. Z., and Wendy L. Stuhldreher. “Prevalence and Correlates of Vitamin D Deficiency in US Adults.” Nutrition Research (New York, N.Y.) 31, no. 1 (January 2011): 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2010.12.001.

That's about the same in the US as the current adult obesity rate (BMI >30) and estimated amount of NAFLD. Of course there's a fair bit of overlap between poor metabolic health and low Vitamin D levels, but the exact relationship is still not completely understood. Here's a recent discussion that's pretty readable:

Vranić, Luka, Ivana Mikolašević, and Sandra Milić. “Vitamin D Deficiency: Consequence or Cause of Obesity?” Medicina 55, no. 9 (August 28, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina55090541.
Siri is slowly catching up and my bet it will become really good soon. If you want to get this, get it for privacy and better sound quality.
The people who are working in the post-it note and makeup factories want houses too, you know.
Well, the Western intelligence agencies all have data sharing agreements, so it's not "tolerance", it's collusion. Funny how the US is the big bad evil one but even is in bed with the ideas and behaviors.

It's just a game Europe plays with its electorate. Points fingers at the US while making backdoor deals.
> I think what the poster is saying is that running a government deficit is printing money.

The government borrows the money from bond buyers, so that's also not printing money. (The Fed does buy these bonds, but not directly from the government because the government can't do anything with bank reserves. The Fed can only "print" bank reserves therefore it can only buy assets from banks.)
Pro-tip, they don't increase the cost by $3, $4, $5... every time they add a new component. Like, this year's high-end model has a friggin' LIDAR... and the price is the same as before.
Lets say you need an income of at least ~$30k to reasonably afford a $1000-2000 TV. I would argue that is a little low to afford a TV of that price, but at 30k that would be around a month's take-home pay. Doable I guess.

That's a tiny fraction of world population than can even possibly buy that TV, and only a fraction of those that can will. Even in rich countries, a large number of households wont have it. Dropping a grand+ on a TV would be considered a high-end luxury to the vast majority of the world's population.
You interact with the screen. Why does the design matter that much? What exactly is innovative about the rectangles from other companies?
So could you say that the Raft spec is an opinionated implementation of Paxos?
There are only two genders, how wide of a variety can you have?
Exactly charging by cable is basically out of date now. There's so many wireless charging options for nothing on Amazon, using a cable is the back up option.

The only place I could see this not being the case is in older cars which require plug-in for some features like CarPlay.

But eh, it's an expensive device. An extra cord (also for cheap on Amazon) isn't a big deal.
But you can't plug that into the iPhone. Because the phone has lightning port. And the other end of the included cable is USC-C male. And all previous adaptors (the white box that goes on the wall) are USA-A. So yeah... no cookie.
NATO is brain dead.
A bit of a meta-comment, but why was the year included in the HN title? I thought that was only required for articles submitted to HN in a later year than they were written?

I was a bit confused when I say the year in the article list - it caused me to doubt if this was still 2020!
For C++, I walked (halfway) the really long road of replacing std:: with std::pmr:: where I can, safely pluging jemalloc - and solve the performance issues we had with the standard heap allocator (Windows). But std::pmr::string now being 8 bytes bigger caused us slowdowns unexpectedly. Also tons of changes, different types, overall not great.

Then discovered mimalloc, which hooks at low-level malloc/free, and at the same time a coworker also did similar job and now I'm no longer in love with "pmr".

I wish it was success story, but it's not. It probably is, if everyone is on board with it. But hardly this was my case. Also libraries are not - Qt is not, and many others.

pmr is great for things like - try to alloc on the stack, and if not enough continue with heap (under the hood), but the extra 8 bytes, and the fact that do_alloc is virtual call is problem (last one maybe not perf enough, but still hard to sell to performance oriented programmers).

I wish it was designed in way where it could've been sold as such.
I tried a few months back to pair down as many cards as I could and just couldn't get under 7 (medical, CC, ID, Fleet Diesel Card, Insurance, etc.)

I don't know how people get it down to 3-4...
FED buys MBSes and bonds. FED does not buy neither lettuce nor stocks.
Wouldn’t the non-profit have to take a risk in developing the app, without any guarantee it will be successful? The game market seems super competitive
Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
Even a 2016 iPhone SE is significantly larger than the candy-bars of yore, though. I have large hands (my hand span, thumb to pinky, measures 26 cm). I have an iPhone 7 for work, and while it does fit in my palm, it does so much less comfortably than my SE. Going even larger is a non-starter.

Yes, there are people with hands large enough that phablets fit in them, but only if you loosen the definition of "fit".
Everything is so case specific. And at the same time most of the tools work pretty well for the scale of most companies to the point they it doesn’t matter when you chose what...

Because of those two I don’t know exactly what people expect apart from either specific use cases ( conferences , blogs , etc.) or generic fundamentals (the book).
I was under the impression that the double slit experiment with the oil drops does not replicate the quantum mechanics expected interference pattern.

http://math.mit.edu/~bush/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
> It sometimes feels like functional programming is the High Modernism of today, with the same issues.

I find it rather natural, myself; maybe that's because I spend so much time making pipelines in the shell. As I said, different languages fit into different minds.
Researchers at Hadron Are Confident to Make Contact with Parallel Universe
Apple does pay dividends, has for years. Is also buying back a lot of stock which is another form of investor return. Google does buybacks too but on a less systematic basis afaik.
Show HN: I created an app using a no code tool
Hi all, since my love for drawing has been rekindled, I'm constantly posting my drawings but also looking for feedback. So much so, I've scratched my own itch and build a little website that can do just that. It's extremely barebones but id love for anyone to check it out and let me know what you think of it. If your interested you can visit:
http://votemydrawing.bubbleapps.io/

Let me know what you think
> It's interesting that a reasonably sized phone is now a selling point in itself.

Sony was the last one in Android world to offer it to us. Now, even they chickened out.
As someone who tried buying Nintendo Switch, I can confirm that there were scalpers who bought up every Switch stock available during the COVID lock down and resold it for ~1.5x to 2x more than the MSRP price. This seems to have happened with the latest Nvidia graphic cards as well.
The High Stakes and Hard Work of the Seed Round
EU Bans Lighted Lady Hood Ornament on Rolls Royce Cars Due to Light Pollution
My problem is not with natural language in and of itself, it's obvious that natural language is extremely useful. I'm arguing one should be extremely careful, however. Natural language doesn't have deduction. It doesn't have definitions. It doesnt't have ways to restrict us from making vague statements. It is subject to non-unique interpretations.
This is particularly relevant when technicians and scientists speak to the general public. Let me quote one of your examples:

> "the classifier thinks this roadsign is a truck" everyone knows you mean "the classifier has labeled this roadsign as a probably a truck with a high confidence".

The fact that the classification is probabilistic is obvious to me and to you, but nothing in the natural wording suggests that, and it's a pretty important caveat.

It's not enough for us to understand the limitations of natural language, everyone in the conversation has to, for it to be a useful tool.
Hey downvoters, I love you. Care to tell us who you work for? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/cia-russia-wikileaks-pode...
I wonder if the hackers spammed a picture of Putin hunting bears from a canoe to all MOPs from the head of gov or something.

There is no way they can know that the Russian gov. hacked the Norwegian parliament without such valuable spies or bugging that NATO would not waste the advantage on something so relativly unimportant as the Norwegian parliament.
https://osxdaily.com/2017/01/05/disable-built-in-trackpad-ma...

My 10yo MBP's trackpad glitches so I do exactly this to keep it usable for kids light usage.
So the issue isn't in-work hours vs off-work hours (as that line is fuzzy), but who owns the copyright.

The above link [1] is for the automatic process where Google still owns the copyright (hence no AGPL or non-Commercial stuff). This works for 99% of stuff and is easy.

There's a second process called IARC [2] which lets the employee retain the copyright. It's not automatic but allows for AGPL, non-commercial, or proprietary contributions.

We also have a few AGPL projects that were whitelisted due to COVID-19 [3].

[1]: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/
[2]: https://opensource.google/docs/iarc/
[3]: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/#no-review
I don't think 8 is that many. I probably have a dozen unused charger cubes, in addition to another dozen+ in use all over the house.
The argument wasn't that they had to invent something to buy a house, it was that it's not a hopeless situation where there is no class mobility. Someone substituted ASSETS for HOUSES for some reason but its not the same thing. ASSETS are what allow some people to have an advantage over others in business.

So many babies on these forums whine about their inadequacies instead of bettering themselves. Making my imaginary number go down does change the fact that YOU AND ONLY YOU have the most power to change your life not some "system". If you can't afford to buy a house, get a better job. Sorry that's harsh. Who said life was easy?
As a steady 20+ year Linux user who doesn't directly code for a living (I do teach a few intro type classes) this resonates a lot. I never quite understood why "Docker" ended up being such a big deal in the way it was/is.

Now, I don't doubt or disagree that it is a potentially extremely useful technology, buut it seemed (and still seems) crazy and nonsensical to me that it is enough to power a whole "business model," of the size it apparently got. Somewhat similar to "curl" or "ssh," or even the Linux kernel -- it could sit under a lot of stuff and be very important, but would work much better as a free and/or open source without limitations kind of thing.

Not whatever it is now.
I have a production REST API endpoints backed by PHP on Lambda that are called 12k/sec on the high end. no problems since ~2017.

The best part is, I never have to worry about scaling the underlying resources, if sales brings in large clients. Worst case is I ask AWS for a greater Lambda concurrency limit.
You're off by an order of magnitude, because it's a max speed of 4Gbps. Not 4GB/sec. Bits and not bytes.

Your overall point is still valid, though. Most users will get essentially zero benefit from this and data caps or throttling will kick in hilariously quickly.
For real. Maybe, just maybe, a voice-controlled speaker doesn't need the latest cutting edge CPU.

I wasn't expecting new Homepod hardware until after they announce on-device Siri. That seems like the only thing that would warrant a better CPU.
Spotify has to drag it’s heels and blame Apple now to support its legal case.
I started using using Drive because Pop OS automatically mounts it when you enter your gmail.

Drive is the easiest thing to setup on Linux and my iPhone...
I never use any protection on my iPhones. I find cases ugly and bulky; I want to enjoy the device's feel, design and engineering.

The iPhone 8 with it's full-glass enclosing has been surprisingly sturdy, surviving even rough drops with only a scratch. Plus if it breaks, I get two replacements with AppleCare, and the process is ridiculously smooth.
For me it's that plus voice-controlled NPR or audiobooks while doing other things (often cooking) and weather for later in the day (while getting ready in the morning). It'd also be temperature control, but I'm stuck with a millivolt thermostat and apparently nobody's interest in selling to us gas fireplace people.
>If you have unlimited storage, the data hoarders will find out about it and abuse it.

There was a post about it from BackBaze. They know some people abuse it and put several Tbs on there, but they still make money on average as most people have 100s of Mb
The original 2011 report [1] was updated with a note mentioning that an official review conducted in 2017 [2] concluded the official recommendation probably wouldn't have been any different despite the statistical error, so they didn't change them.

[1] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13050/dietary-reference-intakes-...

[2] https://www.nap.edu/resource/13050/FINAL%20Vitamin%20D%20Pha...
reply, smug, just like that.

Commenting on HN is settled. Quarterback, armchair, they call it that.

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Have you talked to a human? One of the action steps is to not be a know-it-all.

Alas, sentences with two commas, is what you have.