skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it.

When I was younger we had an Amstrad (CPC6128) that had a disk drive, but not a tape drive. My cousins had travelled to the UK where they picked up lots of games, but unfortunately most were on cassette. Being desperate to enjoy the wonderful new worlds contained within, I had to come up with a solution. In my case, I cracked open my sisters ghetto blaster and wired it in to the port on the side of the Machine. Worked like a charm, and I too got to enjoy the gruelling wait on every game change.
Backup locally over IMAP

Use your own domain you can quickly update to a new mail server. (Make sure you never lose access to the domain or let registration lapse)
Completely agree. It works with media as well as text and it’s fantastic. It’s my favourite Apple feature.
Docker and Android emulators aren’t currently working, which is probably the biggest thing keeping me from buying. I don’t expect them to be broken for too long.

x86 windows virtualisation is probably going to be the biggest issue for most people, and I don’t see working (maybe wine + qemu, but not full os).
Does CCPA or GDPR allow for this?
I was going to mention that.

I have 2 macs for work. One for my employer, and one sent by the company I am contracted to work for.

Contract-mac is hugely locked down, requires all traffic to go through the VPN, and only allows non-VPN connections to the VPN.

Work-mac is fairly ordinary, not locked down except for anti-virus.

To get Magnet and a couple of other Apple store apps on the contract-mac, I signed in to the Apple store. Immediately, copy and paste started working across both macs. I'm not sure of the mechanism by which the clipboard was being "shared", but it felt like I'd get chewed out by contract-mac's security folks if I continued using it.

It's convenient, for sure, but could very easily be against security policy in larger enterprises.
“We as a society” write the laws. They can be changed.

The process, IMO, already has started, with the USA and the EU launching investigations against about all the big tech companies (I think Microsoft isn’t investigated yet, but in the context of privacy, they aren’t a truly big player yet. Any new laws will apply to them, regardless)
Uncool Can Beat Flashy Tech
> can't escape the compulsion of not even being wrong.

On the few occasions that the E has run stories on topics I know well, it has been remarkably accurate and insightful.

All of the regional reports are written by independent, freelance correspondents so they stand or fall on the quality of their work.
> It is my impression that straight up net metering is very rare.

Perhaps how it's done around here is different, but for instance this [1] caused a bit of an uproar among people we know with solar panels a few years ago.

I believe the way it works here is that if you install solar panels, you are allowed to net-meter an amount proportional to your annual electric usage in the period before you go solar panels. I think there is a bit of room for growth allowed, so something like 1.2x.

[1] https://www.midamericanenergy.com/nr-solaract
> performance-critical parts in carefully written and tested C

Is something that not even the Linux kernel with its careful and throughout patch review process is not able to achieve.
Or non-Google email
This is a list of points without much justification. It reads like the author is just pushing their own ideology and projecting it onto what's happening to the UK. Then around point 16 he straight up jumps into conspiracy theory teritory when he talks about "money's overlords". Kind of disappointing that this post somehow made it to the front page.
And what happens when they (or the most competent elements of them) leave?
You will need to do in a rush what could have been prepared before.

A whole business takes that into account as importantly as their disaster recovery processes (which is not necessarily something you focus early on, but you eventually do).
I think I finally convinced my wife to stop using Acrobat Reader for Mac, which performs and looks like a java swing app. I don't know why she refused to use Preview for viewing PDFs, but I think some people just get set in their ways. That said, these people should not be writing technical reviews for major news organizations.
Facebook should "do that".

I've been unsuccessfully trying to get my account back for 7 years after a "joke" went wrong and someone replaced my profile picture with that of a decaying penis.

I realize Facebook can't just "start doing that" at their scale, and that my best luck would be to reach out to someone high-up enough in their organization.

So I've been starting to send monthly postcards from France both to Zuck's house and to random executives @Fb Headquarters with a very compelling story explaining how happy I would be if I ever got my memories back, and not just their stupid account backup file.
I’ve used some non optimized stuff and it didn’t seem to hit the battery. I’d be curious if people are tracking this somewhere.
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>For example, we aren't using millions of mammals to sit and label machine learning models all day

Aren’t we? Look at Recaptcha
Autonomous Electric Tractor – Future of Farming [video]
Very similar to the sound of the Commodore data tapes when inserted to a regular cassette player. Tried it as a kid, I was convinced I broke something.

Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsY9PVIKsQ
I'd say Brexit is a change from one set of rules to the other, but I would not call EU or GB free markets or capitalist states, as major parts of economies are heavily regulated, including agricultural and money sector (central banking). I dislike decentralisation as war analogy, it is anything but war.
Apple shows no signs towards being interested in selling a touch screen laptop. They steer people to their iPads for that and have indicated otherwise for their laptops. Rightly or wrongly.
No, Facebook shared uaers' profile data (which now is banned by GDPR) in exchange for letting users take the quiz. The quiz wasn't the data CA abused, it was just bait.

This NYU project only collects data that the users want to share with NYU.
Americans moving to Tokyo largely give up cars and switch to public transport and walking. This isn't because there's a welcome committee of Japanese people shaming them out of driving; it's because driving works less well there, and public transit much better.

The point isn't to individually shame unwilling people out of their cars. The point is to make biking a real, viable transportation mode for short/medium distance trips for most people in urban or suburban areas. It's entirely possible to do this with the right infrastructure.

Once you do that, people will choose biking of their own accord, because it makes sense.
Those would have the same "we can shut you down at any time and you would find nobody at support to talk about it - will only get automated responses" result, the main difference being that you'd also pay for it...
not a 'favorite-c-trick' but, i really find this quite cool: https://ccodearchive.net/list.html
> Google Meet is a paid Google Workspace product

Nest was a paid, acquired, hardware product. If a product manager gets distracted, any Google product—apart from ads—will, if not fail, dramatically degrade. Google are a terrible company to bet anything important on.
This device, and the non-Touch Bar "MacBook Escape" before it, succeed or fail based on what you think "Pro" means. John Gruber thinks when Apple says "Pro" they mean "deluxe" or "nicer". (See https://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro for example.)

You can argue that this could have been avoided by calling this particular device the MacBook. But that might have made people think it was the default choice, where Apple probably expects you to start with the Air.

Naming is hard.
The pro is not any faster, it just has a fan that kicks in that prevents the machine from throttling as quickly. Someone who buys a PC with a water cooler isn't buying a machine that's faster than someone buying one with an air cooler. I realize there's a nuance here.
Pointing out that the laptop is missing features many peot want, is not "bad biased". It's especially silly to make this accusation moments before you yourself say "maybe sit this one out".

Macs cost a lot and promise long life. That's a long time to not have a feature with increasing desirability.
M1 enables merging MacOS with iOS. A touchscreen is an important aspect of that merge.
He seems like to be a highly skilled product manager than a developer, both are different roles and people should be motivated for the right track.
Thanks for clarifying. That seems like the right analysis. Good round up here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/swedens-covid-...

Been fascinating and disheartening to watch the elevation of the Swedish approach in the States as one of secret knowledge about “how to do it right” when even a cursory analysis seems to prove otherwise.
gen-1 device, marketed as gen-... 10 device? bearing the well known name of an established product.
I share the sentiment, for a while I was also big into Gimp, even bought books as means to support some of the developers, eventually as I went back to Windows as my main driver, I ended up settling in Paint.NET.

It does everything I need in a couple of mouse clicks without going through tutorials every time I need to handle some images.
I really don't understand all of the UI and workflow complaints about gimp. At this point it seems to just be something people parrot because it's the done-thing to do.

What specifically would you have issue with? I use gimp and ps 2020 basically interchangeably. The only real preference I have for ps is when I want some of it's smarter and more advanced versions of gimp tooling, or if I'm bringing something in from illustator (inkscape really is horrible).
Can you give examples in history of capitalist states?
The baroque harpsichord literature is riddled with 12ths and fast 10ths for this reason. The keys are smaller than piano keys, so it isn't be a problem to hit them.
Ask HN: Working on side projects, need some advice
Hi Guys,
I've been reading a lot of articles about budding/full-time entrepreneurs and their successful ventures. I'm motivated to start a few side projects to see if I've that streak in me, but I need some clarity , and wanted your inputs on the below questions :

1. Is it possible to build and sustain a SaaS business as a solo founder ? For a medium sized project (say something like asana/trello), how long would it take from start->finish (MVP which can be monetized) if one spends around 20 hours in a week?

2. Does one have to be super smart in the algorithms/data structures/programming language and/or a domain expert to take care of both development / customer requirements/support etc ? A feature like adding a new way of auth take at-least 2-3 weeks to complete at large enterprises with multiple folks working full time. What chance can an individual have against these large companies?

3. Is it a good idea to spend 2-3 months on learning the tech, and then start on the side project ? I'm asking this, since with a full time job , one can only expect some 2 hours a day and around 8 hours on a weekend, if most of that is spent on stack overflow,then the progress would be really slow.

4. Since monetization is tricky and not guaranteed, is it a good idea to simply work on the side project to amplify job opportunities? Or is it best to give it all as if there's no plan-b ?

5. Lastly, what's the primary reason to go and start your company instead of say spending the same 20+ hours on getting better at your current job/seeking a better job in the same field at a better company ? Isn't the latter more secure/stable option ?

Sorry if some of the questions sound obvious / cliched. But I wanted a fresh take on some of the above questions that has been brewing in my head for a long time. Thanks in advance :)
Layered Architecture Explained
Because politicians are not at the liberty to adapt their opinions like scientists.
someone on reddit posted a screenshot of the complete article https://i.imgur.com/LBGtP4f.jpg
Ah yes the famous 1900 electret fabric factory industry boom!
One thing you can do is schedule a bimonthly download of all your Google data:

https://takeout.google.com

Setting up mail forwarding to another address you own might also help (assuming Google doesn't stop the forwarding when they lock you out which is something I heard but it's not confirmed).
Here is an assert that is static if possible:

#ifndef __clang__
#define assume(expr) \
__extension__ ({ \
static_assert(__builtin_choose_expr( \
__builtin_constant_p(expr), expr, true), #expr); \
assert(__builtin_choose_expr( \
__builtin_constant_p(expr), true, expr)); \
})
#else
#define assume(expr) \
__extension__ ({ \
static_assert(__builtin_constant_p(expr) ? (expr) : true, #expr); \
assert(__builtin_choose_expr( \
__builtin_constant_p(expr), true, expr)); \
})
#endif

Note that the clang semantics of language extensions sometimes differ from GCC.

I also like to use __auto_type very much:

#define var __auto_type
#define let __auto_type const

As in:

#define m_max(a, b) \
__extension__ ({ \
let _a = (a); \
let _b = (b); \
_a > _b ? _a : _b; \
})
It would very naive to believe extremely wealthy interests did not play a very large part in Brexit. One example of such dark money is the funnelling of half a million euro through Northern Ireland [1] to influence London voters.

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-connects-brexit-the-...
Setting Waits with SetTimeout() and SetInterval() in JavaScript
He seems pretty on point to me. And he offered more explanation than you just did. Care to defend your position?
Ask HN: Building community and Forum around my product
any general tips, books or articles I can follow?
MVP.css, right?
Yes, me too. You can track progress here : Consider providing a build for Wayland · Issue #10915 · electron/electron - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10915#issuecomme...

It seems only client side decorations are left for electron to support Wayland.
Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1
Two which I found very readable while also being very technical: "IBM's Early Computers" and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" by Emerson Pugh.
Wonder why they went with the barrel jack for power over USB, as the latter seems more prevalent...?
Not true at all. It'll only show some of the comments others will be hidden until you click on them, making the screen jump around the screen as gp said.

old.reddit.com alleviates this but not for much longer I'm sure.

Then the lovely firefox will periodically decide not to allow 'trusted site exceptions' disallowing you from visiting old.reddit.com. All in all I find it's too much work most of the time.
Lol. This guy sounds super salty.
unless you're posting names/social media handles i'm guessing you're a whitehat jr employee.

i pre-emptively apologise, don't sue me.
You should say "by not studying at WhiteHatJr, it enabled him to be a maintainer of Ubuntu Unity". ;-)
> Brexit is an opportunity not just to rip up specific rules, which it overtly aims to do, but also to tear down the uneasy truce between capitalism and democracy under which pro-social rules are set and enforced.

wut.

The EU may be many great things, but democratic it is not - particularly when compared to a democratic national government.
Old wisdom for our times.
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
- Edmund Burke
I've got a wild theory, so hear me out. Maybe Britain wanted to be governed by a set of law's made by British people?
Unfortunately, one can't see the code, without downloading a tarball.
> received an IPv6 address at home since a few years ago

Right, and the specs were more or less complete in the first half of the 1990s. So it took 20 years. And you are still a minority, global adoption is below 35% years later. Here in this country you can't really get fixed Internet connections for consumers supporting IPv6 at all. So I don't have it. (Although we have cheaper and better mobile broadband than nearly everywhere else and there the majority of the operators supports IPv6 by default. So when I want to play with IPv6 I just use mobile data.)

Wayland became somehow useable for those who really wanted a bit less than 10 years ago, Fedora bot not many others use it by default now.

That was my reference to twice the speed, 10 instead of 20 years. Of course it's a rough oversimplification, details are much more nuanced. My point was really lack of speed in both cases.

Edit: details added
>Being trustworthy is orthogonal to being “impartial”...
>Also I find Reuters to be pretty damn objective..

Reuters literally has a link to the 'The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles' at the bottom of every news story[0]. Which amongst other things state:

>Thomson Reuters is dedicated to upholding the Trust Principles and to preserving its independence, integrity, and freedom from bias in the gathering and dissemination of information and news.

Ironically, I started checking the news headlines each morning on Reuters instead of the BBC a few months back, as I was fed up with the BBC's increasingly less than subtle spin on things.

I thought Reuters being a press agency, as opposed to a news publisher might provide what I want from my news which is to present me with the bare facts; A or B happened, X or Y said this or that, without editorialising.

Unfortunately I've found that Reuters is just as guilty as anyone else, albeit in a more subtle way. I'll give you just one recent example:

[and let me preface this by saying I have no interest whatsoever in American politics]

After the recent US election Reuters ran several headlines saying that Trump had "falsely" claimed he'd won [1] and have used similar language when describing Trump's legal challenges to the results.

Now, whatever you think of Trump and his behaviour [and again I don't care one way or the other] I don't think a news agency which claims to have "freedom from bias" should be telling me whether or not something the US President says is true or false. That's for the legal system to decide.

[0] https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles....

[1] https://uk.reuters.com/search/news?blob=trump+falsely+claims...
Yes. MVP.css by https://www.andybrewer.com
Compaq cloned IBM, creating an empire
A couple years ago I came into possession of roughly my body weight's worth of bulk unsorted lego. The sort job took about 300 hours. I have never in my life put so much (unpaid) effort into something so mundane.
As another exception, many birds of prey, typically those who eat larger mammals, which would be able to bite them when still alive, first carefully kill their prey with their claws and beak, and then they start eating only when the prey no longer moves or shows any other sign of life.
Actually he talks about "money's warlords", which from context refers to those who would have control in a plutocracy.
Could you use a tortilla instead of the vinyl record ? I immediately thought of a video I saw where a tortilla was used as a record, and some music could actually play back, although it was very distorted.
A couple years ago I came into possession of roughly my body weight's worth of bulk unsorted lego. The sort job took about 200 hours. I have never in my life put so much (unpaid) effort into something so mundane.
> after a "joke" went wrong

I know you wrote this between '' but how does that even happen... For one I know 0 people who would find that funny (it's more embarrassing, including for the prankster) but the move confusing thing; how did they gain access to your account? Unless the entire account was a joke?
Outlook isn’t a weird software choice to be fair, I’ve never found another email application that comes close if you are a heavy user.

Adobe reader and edge... I agree have better alternatives that come shipped with Mac.
Nbdev: A Python library for Jupyter Notebooks to put code and tests in one place
> Existence of tooling in one manufacturer lab doesn't make something not "bricked".

I didn't say otherwise. Again you're attacking the idea that 'permanently broken' is meaningful.

You've shifted from attacking the term 'permanently broken' as unworkably imprecise, to attacking it as unknowable. Neither holds water. In real-word use, we just make do. It's not practical to give perfectly precise legalistic definitions.

We'd all agree that a severely water-damaged smartphone counts as permanently broken, and as bricked, regardless of whether it would be possible in principle for the device to be repaired at great expense.

> Releasing that stuff to the public makes it "soft bricked".

I agree that the availability of tooling can impact whether we consider something permanently broken. A failed hard-disk in an old games console might be enough to write off the whole machine, if the machine is hostile to replacement hard-disks and official repair services are no longer available (and their special tooling/software not made public). A failed hard-disk in a desktop computer, though, can easily be replaced.

> definitely somewhere murky on this spectrum

Again, of course there are edge cases. This is true of just about any categorisation we use, outside of mathematics. To refer back to my earlier example, it's not possible to give perfectly precise definitions of chair and table, but this doesn't much matter, the terms are still useful.
After reading this article I can't help wondering if the writer was "sponsored"...
Throttling means slowing down. Not-throttling means going faster.
> How did Banks use "whorls"?

Every atmosphere was whorly. The clouds on Vavatch—that’s when I looked it up. The air whale planet is the last one I remember reading it in respect of.
Does anyone know if the Rosetta issue described in the review would affect the performance of a Parallels instance running MS Office products?

Maybe this question would be better phrased, does Parallels fall into the category of software that runs poorly on the new M1 chipset?
I don't think this matters much for competition though? The existing classical repertoire will still be playable by a much larger percentage of women, bringing them into greater parity. Just let everyone use whatever size piano they want and it'll be an equalizing force, just like how reducing the height of the basket would be an equalizing force for height in dunk competitions.
That there is still not an LTE modem indicates some kind of market failure. Is this because of the Qualcomm patents?
> I know people who've kept Macs running for nearly a decade (e.g. 2011 Macbook Air)

It’s no longer my primary machine but my 2009 MBP is still running just fine (new memory and disk 5 years back, battery is a bit shagged at this stage) and I use it all the time for storing and casting media, light dev work, office apps etc.
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Of course wealthy interests played a role. And there's also evidence of foreign interference which was never fully investigated or disclosed. Those are seriously problematic. But they are different from implying (like point 16 in the OP does) that there is an organised global network or wealthy people whose goal is to take over countries and who have taken over Chile and Indonesia and are now happy to add the UK to their list.
Nitter – free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy
This was already the case before Brexit, via Parliamentary sovereignty.
Interestingly, these lyrics are now in the public domain. They cannot be copyrighted as computers and algorithms cannot hold copyright.