skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here, agreed, and using something like that to stay lightly in touch with people ideally would have potential. Strangely I think it could have possibly worked in Facebook better if they hadn't named their "notify someone without a message" feature _Poke_.
And then demonstrates how the VC's greater leverage was used to strongarm a startup founder, after the deal was done, to pick up the costs despite an explicit cap as the only thing they insisted on.

So it's predictable if you can factor in the risk of whether your VC will attempt to do that I guess. Though if a VC did that to me I think I'd be more inclined to do what one of the examples in the article did and just say, "Nope, nope, if you're trying to screw me over before we even start, we are not starting."
> I would happily use an iPhone if iOS was even just as "open" as macOS

Oh don't worry they are diligently working on this... from the macos side. It's getting more locked down like iOS with every release.
Who knew it was a tracker?
They also did Visual Basic for Apps, which inspired the similar Google Apps Script.
Is there any more about of how extensive the data collection is on this phone is (it mentioned being able to read text messages and iphone passwords but I feel like there is more), and whether or not it can be used to tie in with data collection schemes of other more mainstream software coming from China? Doesnt that cross the line between counterfeiting and and espionage/surveillance techniques?
True. Say or think what you want about them, they know how to build, deliver and maintain good end-to-end products.

Google, otoh...
The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE
> So Facebook, Twitter etc are being prudent and not allowing misinformation

Do these censors have the means to determine what is and is not "misinformation"?

Do we have comprehensive insight into to what volume and types of censorship are (or are not) happening behind closed doors at the various social media companies?

> And I've yet to see any fraud analysis that is coming from reputable sources i.e. not Gateway Pundit or 4chan

Do we have comprehensive insight into to what volume and types of censorship are (or are not) happening behind closed doors at the various social media companies?
Sure, but 25+ states are using the same hardware/software from a single vendor (Dominion).
One strategy is to ask questions in a more positive/balanced way. e.g.: "Do you unit test?" is a yes/no question, and if the answer is no, it doesn't leave much room to give a positive answer to the question. Compare this with "What is your testing strategy; what do you think you do well, and where could you improve?" gives you at least a set of tradeoffs.

Basically, you want the interviewer to highlight potential problem areas, without speaking about their organization in a way where they can't say anything positive about what they do. You can find these details out without giving a laundry list of explicit red flag type questions.
No, the fundamental error you are making is you, the developer, are incorrectly assuming, that I, the user, cares about whether Apple lets you make money or do whatever they want on my device.

Even the way the worded your response you are making a plea as a developer to a user "hey take your app own to the gallows and kill it.". I don't have an app. What I do understand is; given the last 20 years of computing is that developers broadly cannot be trusted to run software on my device and I don't have the time to inspect the source code of every app. What I have decided is that I can trust Apple to be the gatekeeper to my device and if you can't play by their rules you won't have access to their official distribution processes.

If I, the user, decide that Apple isn't in my best interest then I'll switch devices. But I have no incentive to adopt a more developer friendly workflow when it's been broadly anonymous developers that have been sucking up and spying on me every chance they get. If some innocent apps get caught in the cross fire, it's unfortunate.
> Do you own an Apple device?

Yes.

> Have you ever lived in a communist dictatorship or even visited one?

Yes. I spent a year studying Chinese in Shanghai. My partner is from Vietnam.

What's your point? I stand behind my analogy.

Apple is a horrible company and is ruining our industry.
Down voting is a very blunt tool. Enough down votes can hide a comment. This means you aren't just saying "I disagree" but "this is so wrong no one should read it." It has its place but there's a reason you don't get to do it until your account has received enough upvotes.
And there were times countries had lines of battle of these missile targets spanning the horizon - imagine that! :)

Somehow these just look so much more elegant than just spamming more bombers and nukes. Maybe because they usually only caused death of the sailors crewing them and other warships in battle rather than city populations like bombers and nukes often do ? (Well, unless you live in Yarmouth or on the River Plate.)
> it does drone a bit in 4 cyl mode

sounds like a 4-banger subaru outback...?
voting on issues is not the only alternative to the current system.

the problems today stem from the way parties work. their only function seems to be to pit candidates against each other.

consider just abolishing the parties and making each candidate independent.

toeing the party line would no longer happen, and elected representatives be free to really represent their constituents instead of being forced to compromise in order to not loose their party affiliation and their chance at being reelected.

members of the house and senate (or your countries respective bodies) could collaborate on issues based on their own choices and not influenced by some party cabal that is pulling strings in the background.

another issue is lobbying. that should be completely outlawed, and any gift to an elected representative should be sanctioned as bribery.

there are more things that can be done to make the system more fair and actually represent its people, but start with those two and things will already improve dramatically, because energy no longer goes into parties fighting each other.
Hey iptrans, instead of just saying "octoberfranklin is wrong" over and over, how about posting a verifiable link with pricing information? You know, like I did here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030968
Both of these factors are less relevant than the fact that almost every internet connected Indian uses Whatsapp.
What a fun thing to say.
> I don’t want my non-technical family members being persuaded to install other stores.

On Android this isn't an issue, you leave sideloading disabled. Apple could use the same method. Apple could even make you use XCode to unlock the ability. But locking it entirely is obnoxious.
Can't find production numbers but they recently made a statement that they have 40k orders which seems like less than they anticipated (blaming it on software issues) and expect the line to fill the emissions gap in their fleet [1] and deliveries have started. I should maybe rephrase my statement to say ID line is ramping up to mass production - I don't know what's their status but I've noticed them pushing ID.3 seriously around here (unlike say e-golf which was a half-assed "we have an electric car" thing) and they committed to a bunch of full electrics across the group (Škoda, Seat, Audi).

[1] https://todaynewspost.com/auto-news/vw-braces-for-eu-fine-fo...
'The Great Hunt in the Sky' is an ancient European myth which has existed perhaps since the pleistoscene. It has manifested in a lot of interesting ways; Johnny Cash's 'ghost riders in the sky', santa and his reindeer, Wagners ride of the Valkyries,

Note: most of the etymological research on this was done in what is now modern germany, but this myth was equally prevalent in france, british isles, scandinavia etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
Sadly it did. But most of the Czech MPs voted against it & some looked rather knowledgeable about it from their replies.
Do you have any insight into how AltStore copies apps in the background over WiFi? Anything you could point me at would be most helpful
Scaleway STARDUST1-S Price/Performance benchmark
We compare this new flavor with equivalent products from hyperscalers and medium competitors.
Recently I scored a Packard Bell M7US02X-20 keyboard. It's switches are a simpler design than the Model F, but typing feel and key placement are very similar.
Sounds like you/your projects should at least be mentioned over at https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore, I’ve seen READMEs give credit for much less.
Slightly off topic; I've been reading about putting dispersal disinfectants like Tea Tree Oil [1] into ventilation shafts so they spread around the building.

Works similar to O3, but is safe around people. I'm wondering what sort of concentrations these dispersals need to be to actually make a difference.

[1] https://www.pathology.uwa.edu.au/research/microbiology/tea-t...
My book https://www.handsonscala.com/ covers how to use Scala for all sorts of purposes, explicitly no big data included. If you're interested in the language, check it out :)
Couple of minutes of looking I found production was delayed till Sept 2020. Looks like they shipped about 2700 units in October.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/jq8u0c/ev...
We are losing the war because those who are supposed to fight for general computing are ceding ground to the duopoly due to a myriad of reasons(convenience, "security", ease of use, etc)
Bingo!

This option doesn't open a black hole that suddenly swallows your grandparents.

Where are all the people begging for Google to close this?
Because they are all states that should have an equal say in what president is elected. A republic of states is beholden to the states. Each state is beholden to its population.
When I was young me and my family would gather around the TV to watch Jeopardy every night. We would pretend to be contestants and try to give the questions before the contestants on TV could. It's definitely one of my fonder childhood memories.

Rip Alex. Thanks for the good family times.
> being incredibly negative toward another project while pretending to be respectful

So you don't refute any of my points about the available information on Jai, but you instead dismiss my entire argument a priori, classifying it as a farce. Ok.
> I don't really see the difference between downloading Firefox from the play store or downloading a porn app. In either case, I downloaded an app from Google's servers that allows me to view objectionable content.

Congratulations. You may see it like that, not many others will.

> The only difference I can think of is that a browser has other functionality besides adult content.

Yes. Same reason why the reddit app exists in the play store. There is some other content other than porn on reddit.
Except that you need to support peak demand, not average demand.
If you have to rebuild and reinstall your app every 7 days, it doesn't meet a reasonable definition of "runs any code you like". You are being technically correct, but disingenuously so.
> It is caused by stimulated emission in the lasing medium, when electrons drop from a higher to lower energy level.

In a typical green laser pointer a 1064nm light is produced via ordinary laser mechanisms, then 1064nm light is upconverted in a non-linear medium to 523nm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-harmonic_generation

Yes, in a medium. You also don't see a lot of conventional computers constructed without semiconductors. :)
> RBI doesn’t want any single payment app to have more than 30% market share

Got it, but how do you limit an app? Does google pay simply stop onboarding new users at some point? Do my transactions start failing after a certain day of the month? Both of these are horrible UX and unfair to google pay who has developed their good user experience.

If this rule is not rolled back, I predict that India's digital payments landscape will be a barren wasteland in a year's time. There is no incentive for Google or Phonepe or Paytm to continue working on an app that is guaranteed to never grow beyond where they already are.

Personally, if gpay transactions become unreliable because they have to drop every 5th transaction to satisfy the quota, I'll switch back to cash.
Removing pieces of it is not within GitHub's power. ytdl could most certainly remove the pieces which RIAA has a claim against and re-upload it.
Why did you quote that 4 times?

We're OK with the phrase because the alternative was people's phones being infested with malware and viruses.

It's pretty obvious that's what happened. Apple built a phone you can let your whole family use without worries. Why are you confused by this?

If computing is your goal, then an iPhone is obviously not the device for you. Fortunately for you, there are tons of other platforms for computing.
SSH Tunneling Basics
I don’t see how that’s a problem when Chrome has translation built- in and the other browsers have plugins.
> Then the govt is not really that effective as people make it to.

They aren't. UPI was an exception.I'm still surprised it's this successful.
What is this? The readme is sparse.
My 2004 BMW did this mechanically: there was a tube connecting the passenger compartment with the air intake to pipe in that sweet engine noise. (There was a membrane inside to prevent actual airflow). Interestingly, the sound was actually too loud, so they stuffed some foam blocks in the resonator pipe to deaden the sound. But if you really wanted extra noise just remove the foam!
My question was what would happen to their phone.

You're stating the obvious that there would be some impact on credit, but that's not relevant here?
When I lived in Spain I could get a Tuna steak as long as my forearm from the local pescadería for €2. In the UK that would have cost me €15-20. However I live on the "Tuna Coast" at the time and was obviosly abundant.

It depends where you are.
... do you really expect a company, whose entire goal and motive is maximizing profit, to waste their profits? Because if so this conversation is not worth continuing.
> California has 55 votes, Montana and DC only have 3 each. Is that not enough influence?

No, California and DC always vote Democrat, and Montana always vote Republican. Individual Republicans in CA and Democrats in MT have zero voice - their voices literally don't matter. In fact, even Democrats in CA and Republicans in MT have zero voice - because these states' outcome is predetermined, no presidential candidate has any incentive to promise anything for them.

Not convinced? Just look at the map for 2016 presidential campaign - https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/campaign-events-2016

No places should control an election. People should.
Federal law impacts all citizens. It doesn't just make laws concerning the states.

Why should a man in wyoming's opinion on what federal laws I should live under count 70x as much as mine?

Why should a minority of the country make a decision that impacts the majority of people?
I periodically used to periodically take a day off work and sleep pretty much the entire day to refresh myself during periods when I was having trouble sleeping at night. I found getting yourself back to sleep when you never get to 100% awake is a lot easier than getting to your initial sleep, of course this was with rather mild sleep issues related to stress and anxiety.

This isn’t really an option anymore as a father of young kids
Any tips on implementing tail-call optimization when compiling to C? (or llvm)?
A new language for every new problem
Anyone can sue for anything.
> If you need alternate stores - buy Android.

And when Google decides to stop allowing that, then what?

There's a duopoly and history suggests that when one can get away with rent seeking the other will follow.

If we continue to allow this behavior now then we guarantee it'll continue on the future.

This is exactly what happened with the 30%. Google did it because Apple had set the standard. They didn't do it because they did the math and came the exact same conclusion as Apple ina vacuum.
South America.
Bentley is in a whole other tier of luxury, they're not really a direct competitor.

The first company that puts out an EV with ~250 range for about the price of a Civic will be the one to really take the mass market. That could be Tesla, but even if they hit their 3-year deadline, their history shows they're unlikely to be able to keep up with demand. If another larger company with more capacity gets to market even a year later, they could still take the crown on the first real mass-market affordable EV.
I think most of the improvements can be made in relation to voter registrations and rolls. How a state can keep people who have obviously died on voter rolls should be a red flag.
Presumably an implementation of the C math library based on the name (libm).
Defective system? What system sour have worked when it lost its entire work force?
Many things were short because no one saw the need for such a large amount (think hand sanitizer) or that the ingredients serious be required for something else.
Toilet paper is an interesting issue. There wasn't exactly a shortage of TP, there was a shortage of consumer tp. It took a few weeks to shift the supply chain.
Again, what you're talking about is the side channel. Shannon entropy in particular. Of course you can encode information up to the time granularity, but if you're talking about that then you're not talking about the content in transmission anymore--which we are--hence why you and others are confused why we're saying it's still 1 bit.

If you want to get into the topic of Shannon entropy, then that's another conversation.
Yeah, but you aren't an "end user". I've never met an end user who, when presented with something they want to do--like change the Safari icon to a picture of a dog--who is like "I'm glad I'm not allowed to do that because X"... they pretty much couldn't possibly say that as they aren't in a position to understand X. It is only some vocal minority of admittedly-informed software developers attempting to analyze the tradeoffs of how all this stuff works that are making that decision, and to be a bit frank about it, it just seems like they (you) are either being a bit snooty about the feature in question (being able to have a photo of something you care deeply about as your wallpaper can bring someone immense joy, and to just discount that feels weird) or a bit unimaginative (as there are just so many things you could get: in the jailbreak community we would routinely take suggestions and throw something together for small handfuls of people because it brought us and them joy to do so) with respect to "what they are losing" :/. Even if you can't just can't fathom anyone like yourself benefiting, how about this: we had a blind high school student get involved in jailbreaking as a developer who then built a bunch of software to make his ability to live his life more practical... should we just say that people with niche problems can only get them solved if they are important enough to hit Apple's radar, because no one is ever allowed to solve problems for themselves "for their own good"? :/
> the RIAA is extremely unlikely to sue them, whether this is covered by the safe-harbor provisions of Title II or not

Did you even read the comment you replied to?

Anyone can sue anyone for any reason.
Here's a better description: https://github.com/amd/aocl-libm-ose/blob/master/docs/Releas...
> Don't make an app that allows users to run unapproved software. I think that's a pretty clear rule.

Is it? Apple can one day decide that a web page with JavaScript loading in an app is “unapproved software.” And now your entire app/business is in jeopardy.

And what about apps like Reddit and Imgur that host tons of NSFW content, yet are allowed to be published in the App Store?

Apple has more blurred lines than Robin Thicke.
Looking for Another Earth? Here Are 300M, Maybe
Great quote! Where's it from?
I don't care what you think, honestly. (And don't misjudge my tone here - I mean this in the friendliest way.)

I care about the fact that the US government has let this gorilla grow into King Kong and start throwing us into walls and trampling on our industry.

If this trend continues, the giants will swallow us completely. Our industry has always been special, and the barriers have historically been low. Now that Apple enjoys a position at the top, they're putting up fences and walls for the rest of us.

Apple is shitting into all of our faces, and we're being told to just take it.

Meanwhile, you celebrate that. Please don't.
Nobody is talking about your "personal git" (I assume you mean your personal git repository). We are talking about two software programs: git, and GitHub. Both are ABSOLUTELY used by millions of people.
I genuinely don't understand how this is supposed to work in a real-world environment. Let's say someone near a fan is infected with Covid and sneezes. The airflow from the fan would then immediately push covid-containing particles around the space and closer to other people than if there were no airflow at all. Is it really possible that their magic "ion" particles would counteract this negative aspect? I'm extremely skeptical.

It seems like a much better solution would be to point the fan outside and have actual air filtration systems at inlets to the space.
An implementation of the “core” math function of the C standard library, colloquially known as libm.

Think implementing cos(x) using only pure C (so essentially addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of floats).
I appreciate that; and yet, it isn't our place as software developers to just assume we are smarter and know more than everyone else in the entire world--including other competing software developers--and both build and cheer on the usage of technological locks that prevent people from taking control of their own destiny. Claiming that people are opting into this because it is for their own good is disingenuous, as it was forced on them as a tradeoff they didn't understand.
Why should their voices be amplified while mine (in a rural part of NJ) is muffled? Why should the same persons vote be five times more powerful in Wyoming compared to if they lived in California? Why should we disenfranchise the millions of Trump voters in New York and millions of Biden voters in Texas? What about all the cities in red states and the rural areas in dense ones?

I don't see a single good reason for the electoral college. And you haven't explained what they're being protected from and why they need such protection.
This is a forum for nerds, and nerds get bullied by jocks.
Please let me know when you figure out what GitHub could reasonably do to make enough people sign their commits to change that default.
ICE is horrible pollution because (1) it burns fuel happens in people's faces instead of in remote industrial areas, and (2) it's not efficient to burn fuel in tiny little mini-generator in every car.
As a bonus, (3) the fuel largely comes from failing nation-states, which is geopolitically dangerous.
> The idea of a REST endpoint is to represent a resource, not a view

Resource is not what you think it is. The conflict you’re talking about doesn’t exist.
The world is so safe that instead of dying from war, famine or untreatable infectious disease, those in developed countries are dying from diseases of wealth and comfort.
The industrial revolution has irreversibly changed how society and we as individuals within that society perceive and describe things. Less analogy to lived and experienced phenomena in the form of tales and myths and more mechanical breakdowns of shape, size, dimensions, and scientific measurements needed for reproduction in a factory.

Makes you wonder how future societies would describe phenomena among their members
Are you an iOS developer?

Do you own an iPhone?