skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would I care whether my program is on one disk or another? Why would I even "install" something, instead of dragging/dropping a single "file" (yes I know it's a directory) like I usually do.

Answer to your second question is very similar to the first one. Why should user drag anything anywhere, and decide to which folder put the applications? It is much easier to click on the install button in the store-like application.

Many users are confused by dmgs and they keep launching apps they downloaded from their ~/Downloads folder.

> Do Linux applications all self-update using Sparkle like Mac-applications do?

Linux applications were auto updated by their respective package managers before Sparkle was a thing. I consider keeping a Linux system updated to be much easier, than Mac one; even if it is updated by multiple mechanisms underneath (apt/dnf, ostree, flatpak, fwupd), from the user's POV it is unfied in the form of Gnome Software or KDE Discovery. On Mac, you have Apple App Store, Sparkle, brew, Microsoft Update, Adobe Update, Eclipse updater, and myriad of other mechanisms, specific to each app.

> I input my apple-id on a new mac and everything sync perfectly without any issue. Do I get that in linux? One login and my mail, notes, calendar, photos, music, files, backups, keychain sync across all devices?

I don't get that on a Mac. But then, I'm not locked into their products.

> And also simpler UI-questions: Can I rightclick on a file/folder and it says "Compress to zip?"

Yes, you can. In Gnome (default for Ubuntu, Fedora), you can right click a folder and there is a "Compress..." menu item. It will give you a choice of .zip, .tar.xz, .7z. I'm sure KDE has something similar.

> Can I easily configure keyboard shortcuts system-wide?

Easily? There's no system that would do that. Some are more flexible, but more difficult to configure, and vice-versa. MacOS goes into the less flexible one, for example I've never managed to have the media keys controlling VLC instead of launching iTunes, or Apple Music nowadays.

> Can I have a photos-app that is as good as Apple Photos?

This is about the first time I see 'good' and 'Apple Photos' used in the same sentence.
Not open source; however, supposedly DaVinci Resolve is supported for Linux: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/. For most people the free variant should be more than enough.
While I love Python, and I love the idea of autocomplete everywhere for everything, I'm curious why not do the same thing, but for Java/TypeScript?

PS I really like the layout of your transcript. I would imagine that was done by hand? It would be especially cool to auto-generate transcripts like this. Suggestion - making the images clickable so that we can see the code frags better.
> the order was met with mixed reactions; a senior economist at the Institute for Energy Research pointed out that “Electric cars might not have emissions at a tailpipe, but they do have emissions at the power plant.”

> IER is often described as a "front" for the fossil fuel industry; it was initially formed by Charles Koch, receives donations from many large companies like Exxon, and publishes a stream of reports and position papers opposing any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. Thomas Pyle, president of the IER and its offshoot American Energy Alliance (AEA), was appointed to the US Department of Energy's transition team after the 2016 United States elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
Ah yes you're right, I did misread that.
In the UK white working class males (who received free school meals - an indicator of poverty) are the least likely group to go to university.
Conflating criticism of Obama with racism is a huge reason Trump ever happened. It is harmful to ignore (and downvote) that.

Yes, it takes some nuance to address racism as separate from opposition to a black president. I'd like to think HN is still capable of some nuance.
It's actually incredibly common. If a company has ever had an issue around reporting, they need to include that. See here how many companies use the same exact language:

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=%2522we%2520have%2520id...
Yeah, in my personal experience causality is not easily discernable. I definitely believe that for me a very regular sleep schedule helps my mood. But as you say, it's not a straightforward relationship. Bad sleep triggers bad mood when triggers bad coping behaviors that can disrupt my sleep, making it worse. Same thing for what I'm eating, exercise levels, amount of time invested in rewarding activities, how clean the house is, and I'm sure other things. It's a big causal snarl.

That said, I do think focusing on good sleep is one of the most effective things I can do to manage my mood, so if people are going to have a too-simple understanding of things, "more sleep critical for preventing depression" is probably a pretty good one.
Because it’s 2020 and there’s still no Linux distribution that doesn’t have some terrible pain point (whether it’s driver support, UI roughness, randomly not being able to boot to GRUB, etc). Also, as far as I can tell there isn’t really a laptop/distribution pair that has a support experience like Apple or Microsoft hardware either.

Ubuntu or Arch on a thinkpad is pretty close, but trackpad support still isn’t close to apple or surfaces and if the OS becomes unstable you’re on your own.

I’d definitely consider a Linux laptop if it had a Retina-comparable display, aluminum body, excellent trackpad, weighed less than 5 lbs, half-decent speakers, and commercial support where I could walk in same-day and have my OS problems fixed.
>If a furniture company gives you a contract to build them some chairs, do they give you the contact info for each person who buys a chair from them

No, you put your brand on the chairs and if the customer likes them they can buy from you again.

And I imagine Uber does forbid selling other services during rides. If not, I feel like Uber rides would be full of people pushing multi-level marketing.
Trump, by way of his family, was just shy of being a billionaire before joining the business world. Family money is a powerful thing for starting in business, and it can help pull up your bootstraps when you go bankrupt (6 times).

EDIT: Two minor corrections prompted by downvoters. 6 bankruptcies instead of 7, and his family wealth in 1980 was, inflation adjusted, a bit shy of a billion (~$900 million). My bad.
The cost of renting a small car (SUVs are double the cost) with more range (including the ability to refuel quickly anywhere) is more than expensive enough to make buying a gas car/SUV for everything if you do it even once a month.

A second electric car makes sense if you normally travel 50-100 miles a day. In this case you are leaving the other car/suv home while you go to work. Of course with this range it is starting to become reasonable to just use the electric car for everything. (When I did the math several years ago Tesla was taking about how great superchargers would be once they rolled them out)
I don't really agree. I've sold software both independently and by hooking into the AWS marketplace to reuse existing billing channels. It really didn't make anything better even though using AWS as a single point of purchase sounds like a good idea. The enterprise software purchasing process is just a slow one and the actual billing mechanics aren't really the issue in my experience.

Plus delegating control of your payment relationship with your customers to a third party is more of a pain than a boon.
I think the fake 'progressive voter guide' mailers may have contributed to the passage:

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Fake-progressive-mai...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/j8a8hx/i_just_g...

I was really shocked when I got one in the mail in Los Angeles.
NER CLI: Custom-named entity recognition with spaCy in four lines
I always found this argument quite funny. Do you have a gas station at home or what? A single charge of an electric car can last you many days in the city. You go to a charging station once a week, have some time for a coffee or some reading, you come back and it is charged.

Gas cars have to go to the gas station also, sometimes once a week too, and people do not complain that much about it. I think it has to do with how used we are to it that electric charging we tend to think it should be at home.
Yes, it's still rocket engineering. It's never trivial.

What would have been a more conservative design? Reusing the Apollo design was considered and discarded because so much knowledge and tooling had been lost that it was considered to be less conservative than the SLS design.
Presumably the requirement is subject to itself?
Companies who treat people like employees generally:

* do not allow them unlimited flexibility into when and where they work

* do not allow them to take days off, without notice, for any reason, for as long as they want

* do not allow them to choose which jobs to do and not do (see: trip destination filters)

but most importantly:

* do not allow them to work for a competitor at the same time.

If Uber is too driver-unfriendly, drivers can switch to Lyft. Or maybe Amazon Flex. There's a very, very real choice that you do not get with a traditional employer-employee relationship.

Uber is in between an employee, and an IC. I believe the appropriate treatment is also somewhere in between.
IIoT product development: lessons from past projects
Given the significant and well documented population of people that voted blue in '12 and red in '16, your claims seem beyond extraordinary and into the land of fantasy. A wise man once said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with President Obama leveraging the IRS to explicitly go after conservative groups.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama extrajudicially murdering an American citizen.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama wielding the espionage act to prosecute whistleblowers more than all previous presidents combined. Bonus points for him wiretapping dozens of AP reporters. Yet when Trump tweets a meme gif of him knocking down a pro-wrestler with CNN overlaid on the person's face, he's treated as if he's destroying the 1st amendment and calling to violence; yet Obama is putting actual intense pressure on newspapers for writing bad stories about his administration.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama's anti-semitism displayed in so many ways including paying Iran to continue building a nuclear weapon, legitimizing baby-wielding terrorists, or cutting the legs out from under Israeli led coalitions in the region.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama setting back race relations, found by polling data, to pre-Obama levels by propping up dirtbags like Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.

I'm sure there is some racism in there, but your claim that it is the pure and simple story is literally fantastical.

NOTE: There's also racism the other way, demonstrated by the number of black voters who voted for Obama but wouldn't vote for H. Clinton. Or is that too dirty a secret to mention? I haven't run the numbers, but my bias is that the number of I'll-only-vote-for-the-black-guy, as a percentage of population, is roughly equal to the I'll-only-vote-for-the-white-guy, as a percentage of population.
I don't even bother dual-boot anymore and just use WSL. Windows has basically become what OS X used to be except better because it's actually Windows and actually Linux. It just goes back to Apple not caring one iota about developers. Focusing on developers used to be Microsoft's strong suit and they've positioned themselves well for that again.
It has that now.
One of the PyPI maintainers noted:

> This is a great approach to detecting malicious code execution in Python packages.

> ... anyone want to fund making this part of
@pypi?

https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1327121326734241797

I think this is an obvious place that someone in the ecosystem could apply money and make their supply chain (and everyone else's) safer.
'Black Gay Guy' Viral Tweet from GOP Canidate Leads to Social Media Mystery
> What do you make of the fact that most Uber drivers advocate for prop 22?

That Uber was using their apps to shovel huge volumes of pro-Prop 22 propaganda at their drivers.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21517316/uber-spamming-u...
Can't take it serious because it didn't list the primary cause of our extinction in my eyes. Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria. I'm very sure some people who got ventilated for covid actually died to this, given its prevalence its a virtual certainty.

There are no new antibiotics coming and the half life on new ones before resistance is developed is less than 5 years. They want you to focus on the "virus," we know how to deal with viruses, they aren't the issue for long periods of time, only decades. Bacteria will cause extinction.
Any chance you use alpaca.markets?

You planning for some algo-trades on doordash? ;P
That's not a tough but to crack. It's pretty straightforward to build a feature that sets limits by team, business unit, etc.
Try yoga. The three week yoga retreat that the Beachbody app has is great to learn it without going to a class. I simply repeat the final week’s flow. It may teach you how to still your mind by using the distraction of body movement to achieve a meditative state. This may allow you to ultimately meditate without the need for yoga. In other words, this may be a path for you to be alone with your mind without needing distraction. Best of luck.
Patrick, Thanks for building a great product. I'm happy to pay for continued feature + new product development ...

... What I'm not so happy about is:
* we have asked Stripe to sign a contract for years (something requested by our institutional investors but have always been just pointed to an online MSA URL
* we are now being asked to sign a contract suddenly w/new line-item charges and no ramp-up or notice period

Most companies (especially those that are PE backed) have already done year end planning + budgetting.

Happy to provide the details of our timeline but so far at a high-level:
* contacted by a new account rep 11-days ago about signing a contract
* still have not received the proposed rates for billing, processing, rev rec, sigma etc ...
* ... but have been told that Billing charging needs to kick off 1/1/2021 (which is essentially 45-days away)

Thanks,
JE
Per kW - not sure, because power density is pretty low in this chemistry.

Per kWh it definitely is much cheaper.
You insist that progress towards a better society is too slow so you vote for the guy with regressive policies? The only thing that can prevent actual (slow) progress over time?
The entire SaaS industry already looks like a single vendor with many products for sale, accessible by search engine.

I wonder to what extent managers are defaulting to an AWS provided services just to reduce cognitive overhead (ie. thinking)?
That's the point. People deserve to be paid what they agree to be paid.

The value of money relative to a product or service is subjective. If Bob agrees to mow a lawn for $10, Joe doesn't have the right to object and demand that Bob be paid $20. That's immoral and not how markets should work.
Anybody that wants to sell streaming services that use copyright holders’ content will ultimately do this.
What is this, Bartertown?!
Valid point. Even if Apple wants you to have the most up-to-date information for "security reasons", it would be more effective to perform continual syncing of that database to each computer.

If your computer's internet is offline then Gatekeeper could use that cache of information to make decisions.

The downside is that Apple wouldn't get any information about who opened which app at what time... which is arguably a privacy violation in itself.

I wonder if desire for that tracking information influenced the design.
i think all they mean by entitled is entitled by the law. if uber is burning 4 billion a year and cant turn a profit, its ok for them to take on slaves?
Network effects, unintended side effects, operator incompetence, risk of information leak... GDPR should have me covered, but I won’t be able to remove myself from deep learning models they already have.
Argh! Package dependency hell of the second kind: mandatory requirements. It could be A Good Thing™ parts are being rewritten in Rust, but the costs, performance, and modularity of maintaining vs. ditching cairo needs to be weighed. Having two SVG rendering engines would have advantages (choices) and disadvantages (compatibility, security, code bloat).
Next year is just months away.
> Asian communities face less discrimination from the white community

I am based in Europe so I maybe things are different here. We still hear a lot about how minorities are discriminated against, but it always seems based on equality of outcome as the "proof", and it seems to be pretty selective where they are looking. I see little evidence of real discrimination in fact most people seem quite disgusted by it.
Lenovo is quite successful. I have to wonder, why did IBM sell its laptop and PC businesses to them, later its server business as well? Lenovo got not only the brand, but also advanced production lines, technology, engineering and sales teams. What did IBM get? A few billion bucks, and 18.5% share of Lenovo, which they've largely sold off.

Maybe IBM should have invested that money into fixing what was wrong with their profitability and management model. Hire Lenovo to manage the product lines or do a joint venture like GM-Toyota.

It's sad to see a once great company just give up the fight.
Twitter says it labeled 0.2% of all election-related tweets as disputed
Being able to run their iOS and iPadOS apps on Mac is something that matters to the consumers and that’s thanks to silicon (could’ve been done otherwise too, but that’s how it’s marketed).
I was once hired as a contractor to help a web shop build websites for companies like Toyota. I didn't receive the contact information for Toyota so I could continue my business relationship with them independently.
Seldon missed The Mule, pretty big failure of psychohistory right there.
I'm saying Obama is too simple when he calls his opponents his enemies. That is asking for more nuance, not oversimplifying.

Yes, Obama deserves some blame here. No, he doesn't deserve all of it. But he did run in 2008 on pivoting away from this sort of negativity and cynicism.

For the record, I'm not a Republican, don't consume Fox News, and never voted for Trump, so your rant about all that only reinforces my point about looking for enemies, I think.
My guess is that they are operating at such large numbers so rapidly that they're basically saying "if you tried to audit every penny we make it, you're probably going to find discrepancies, we guarantee it".

Going from $600M to $1.9B in revenue in a year will stress any system.
>Anything >1 and academia must grow exponentially to accommodate every single PhD student who desires a faculty position.

Isn't it implied that only the best PhD students will get a faculty position? How do you choose the best one if you only let one student enter a PhD program?
My iPhone X died recently, and I put my SIM card into an old iPhone 5. It's been great for limiting screentime. It has limited storage, so I can only put the most essential things on it. I can get spotify for podcasts, tethering, google auth for 2FA, and basic texting/phone/facetime functionality. It does basic web browsing, but rather slowly. Haven't needed much more than this.

The main thing I miss is the ability to take lots of photos/videos of the kids....
You just might. But who am I to judge. I leave all three browsers pinned to my task bar. I typically have about 3-5 windows for each. And there's always that one window that has 80 tabs open.

I do use "The Great Suspender" though to save some memory.
Successful Manifestation of One of My Biggest Dreams
I love the iPad. However, I wish someone would hurry up and invent the future where it is a better productivity tool.

A better voice UI plus gestures:

https://atap.google.com/soli/
Vitamin D is added to milk and butter in Sweden, even obligatory for some kinds! But that's because of our sad lack of sunshine for many months on end of course, so I expect the other nordic countries does something similar.
> You can make a similar argument about all labor regulations, eg why limit people to 40 hours if they're willing to work more for the same pay if their employer doesn't want to pay overtime?

Which is why all such regulations are ridiculous. You "help" someone by requiring higher pay for overtime, the employer responds by prohibiting overtime. The worker still wants more than 40 hours, so they take a second job, still don't get any overtime, but now they have the expense of a second commute and get paid less because the second job has to duplicate all of the employment benefits the first job was already providing instead of paying that money as wages.
"Always bet on laziness"
This is how it worked. The point of the tweet and others' experience is that this is now happening for apps that have already been launched plenty of times before. This is why nothing other than Apple's programs would launch during the short time that the OCSP was down.
Nice summary. Thanks. I might even skim read the book.

Sounds like a more rigorous version of Alistair Cockburn's post mortem on the non success of CASE tools. Forget the title, but the punch line is: Methodology, processes, and tooling are moot. Talented people are somehow able to make any given system work. He uses phrasing like "people are the first order determinant for success".

The book I want to read compares the folk theories and fads of software development with other democratized fields. Like education reform. How noobs, wannabes, rejects, and grifters fight over cheddar, slak, and fame. Where any consideration of form, fit, function, and ROI is ruthlessly punished and expunged.

Said another way, the only consistent thread in my career is an ever increasing number of people, who are constitutionally incapable of ever shipping product, telling me with complete certainty how I should ship product.
Other than all the software glitches and the increasing number of bugs with every release, Macbooks still have the best (& possibly the biggest?) track pad I have ever used on a laptop.
Personally, I am yet to find a terminal front-end on Linux that is as feature rich as iTerm. Also, if you're all in on the Apple ecosystem with a watch/iPhone/iPad, the Continuity features work pretty well too.
It’s not free: Only storage and egress, which are trivial.

Running the query in BQ is free up to 1 TB and the 16000 row download is free so I recommend that if necessary.
Apples to Oranges. Google replicate and have roughly ~ 3 copies of your data, your 1TB hard drive does no such thing, has zero redundancy, isn't available from your phone, can't automatically backup photos from it, etc.
I just found this post: https://shonfeder.github.io/themata/programming/notes-on-1ml...
I'd say part of being a contractor is setting your own hours. If you determine when or where you do a thing for a company, it feels like contracting to me.
This might be linked to the vitamin D levels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32753156/

The article basically concludes that while no reliable data about the influence of vitamin D upon COVID-19,
judging from its known positive effects on other respiratory illnesses and it attenuation of the cytokine storm (the deadly reaction to COVID-19 ) health officials should consider vitamin D supplements for at risk populations.