skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those things developed out of necessity by people who either needed the functionality, or didn't want to pay someone else for it. The demand was strong for open standards because the supply for software couldn't keep pace with demand. Open source didn't really eat away at large software companies for a long time because those customers were never going to buy that product to begin with.

Now that computing has been commoditized to the point where just executing code is a commodity itself it would appear that the supply of software has outpaced the demand for software. Open-source is now eating away at somebody's lunch, and will be dealt with in a competitive nature instead of a passive one.

Buckle up.
That disinterest is part of what drives the issue of poor electoral choices. The most radical candidates can draw the most support in primaries since the voter turnout is so low.

I also feel the disenfranchisement that you talk about. I think non-electoral civic engagement is also an important part. I try to write my representatives on some issues. It seems largely futile, but often times you get a more detailed response from them than you see I'm the media. I also try to right the wrongs I encounter in my community. For example, a police department was wrongly stating that a specific summary offense was a misdemeanor and I was able to correct that. I also encountered a state trooper that was doing things that violate civil rights, like lying to a judge. I filed a complaint and he was counseled (should have been fired but the investigator covered for him - only so far up the chain you can chase corruption before your life/safety becomes a concern).
I use icecream [1] for the same purpose while debugging. It's really handy.

[1] https://github.com/gruns/icecream
System 7 is better and not as taxing as 8.
Continue using coal and buying green electricity certificates from Norway? Because local green nuclear energy is devilish in Germany and can’t be produced locally anymore.
Yes, I'm using it for a month now.

It blocked most ads and I even made around 2€ in BAT with it. For that I got small text ads as a popup in the bottom right corner.

I switched from Firefox, which I used for a year, because using heavy web apps are my bread and butter.
I had a colleague once who has IBS, but also he absolutely loved pizza. So, while he never gave notice, everyone knew he would not be in on Mondays because he ate an entire Domino's XL pizza the evening before.
If the user still has to download and install an executable how is it any different than adware we have seen over the past ten years?
The impact of Brexit is so far reaching across so many things, and whenever I talk to a leave voter about their reasons for voting, I hear what is important to them. Everyone voted for reasons inside their own little bubble, and forgot the wider impact their choice will have.

I can't blame the individuals entirely, as people were left to vote with very little information, and instead got "Money for the NHS", "tighter borders", and "we will control ourselves" painted on the side of buses. Now a majority of people are surprised when they have to pay for a visa to visit Spain, or how much harder it will be to get imported goods.

I doubt 6 months will be enough of a grace period to properly address the issues faced by the three areas mentioned in the article. It sounds like it will have to be business as usual in some ways, as both sides have to permit the other to carry out their business, perhaps with different regulations, or tighter restrictions.

At least it's creating some job openings in other European countries
It's true, sort of.

> Bell’s palsy was reported by four vaccine participants and none in the placebo group. These cases occurred at 3, 9, 37, and 48 days after vaccination. One case (onset at 3 days postvaccination) was reported as resolved with sequelae within three days after onset, and the other three were reported as continuing or resolving as of the November 14, 2020 data cut-off with ongoing durations of 10, 15, and 21 days, respectively. The observed frequency of reported Bell’s palsy in the vaccine group is consistent with the expected background rate in the general population, and there is no clear basis upon which to conclude a causal relationship at this time, but FDA will recommend surveillance for cases of Bell’s palsy with deployment of the vaccine into larger populations.

https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
I'm fairly sure the downside is "they'd sound worse". Headphones like this are doing a lot of signal processing -- just hooking up an input directly to the driver is going to sound notably less good.

We can argue that it's a trade-off that you should be free to make for yourself... but it's very in-character for Apple to just take a strong stance on that kind of thing.

With a 20 hour battery life I'm personally okay with it. If it was more like 4-5 hours then the need for a passive mode would be more pressing.
Every article is going to have some statements not 100% true. Would you rather fact checkers flag mostly true articles or mostly false articles? If one grain of rice in the bag is bad, is the whole bag bad? How about 2 grains of rice? 20 grains? Where is the line drawn at which a fact checker should label the article as false or partly false?

What I've seen this last election on Facebook is partisan fact checkers hunting for that one bad grain of rice so they can use it to label the whole article as "false" or "partly false" in an effort to protect Biden/Harris. I'm having trouble finding them now because facebook isn't super searchable but I remember thinking a lot of them were really nit-picky, similar to this one from 2018[0]. It got so bad I started seeing various viral memes complaining about it[1]

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...

(Context: Trump tweeted that "crooked Hillary destroyed her phones with a hammer", Snopes labels his tweet as partly false because Hillary personally didn't destroy her phones with a hammer, her aide did)

[1] https://imgur.com/a/1Job9xX
I haven’t been following this but isn’t this a value gap that is more like a chasm that whoever underwrote this captured at the cost of the business?
The morality police are the police.

It's a different scope. Porn shops sell product in one place and local authorities deal with that. A bigger entity with interstate impact is a federal matter and penalties are much more severe.
That is right, its free to post for now. Limited time offer, then I plan on monetizing more with additional features such as "featuring" or so. Dont want to to be so expensive like a lot of these jobboards that i feel overcharge. Basically I need enough to pay the bills :)

But lets see what happens. Just need to continue gaining traction and figure that all out.
Consolidating Identity-Based Access
> The western nuclear family is exactly what you get in agrarian societies of the past.

Absolutely not - and I have direct experience of this.

First: multi generational households are extremely common.

Second: people, including children, spend tons of time with other people outside of the parent-child relation. Relatives, often cousins, granparents, and neighbors.

This is still the case for most agrarian societies outside of the English-speaking world.

The obsession with the hyper nuclear and exclusionary family is very american.
Places CAN change, but there is a lot stopping suburbia from becoming more walkable.

In the case of American suburbs, places will need to change by basically tearing everything down and rebuilding differently, either a piece at a time or all at once.
Brexit is in a constant state of happening and not happening. You can think of it like a qubit.
Polish person here.

Likely nothing until the current deposits are depleted, which is poised happen in the next 20 years:

https://wysokienapiecie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wegiel...

Brown coal is only commercially viable if it's not transported too far, so it's been in steady decline for years now(yellow line - brown coal production in Poland over the years):

https://wysokienapiecie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wydoby...

To my knowledge no large new mines were opened in the past decade.

All this brown coal will likely be replaced with imported hard coal, gas and electricity - currently 8% of the electricity consumed in Poland is imported - mostly from Germany and Sweden - at an average total rate of 1.2GW.
I was going to uncharacteristically rent an AirBnB in January because I wanted my own place I could cook in rather than have to go to restaurants, at least for every meal. (As a base for hiking.) I ended up canceling because the situation is so fluid/crazy but it made more sense than staying in a hotel.
> That in itself isn't a problem but Cypress seems strongly designed around the idea that you never leave the domain.

Same here with PayPal or 3d-secure. I am actually baffled by the decision - what kind of applications did they thought was going to get tested - Todo apps?

Last I checked there was GH issue and they said that it will get addressed, I hope.

What they are also saying is that it is bad practice, you should send API requests from the tests that simulate the payment, for example. I find this BS, IMO the automation tests simulate user and user would not send API requests but click buttons on the screen.
A052200[1] lists the number of possible Turing machines and it agrees with you.

I found no sequence containing 6561 and either "Turing" or "beaver" that illuminated me to where that number came from.

1: https://oeis.org/A052200
Yeah, so?

Native performance doesn't mean anything aside from the same program/OS running on the same system. In other words, "native performance" is the baseline for a relative speed comparison, not some absolute value that makes sense in itself.

Thus, "Near native" on the M1 could be faster than native on an Intel machine. Or on an ARM, for that matter: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple-m1-runs-windows-faster....
> Given that they claim to individually review each app within a short timeframe, a bulk upload would make it impractical for them to provide this service.

And they do a super good job at reviewing apps, right? /s
Maybe go out to a high end dinner in Miami and meet people before assuming I’m a drug dealer.
Corporate IT endpoint security should be respectful to employees
Not in Spain.
I've seen a few people say this, but looking at the repository and documentation it seems more like an alternative to puppeteer for browser automation. I don't see anything in particular about testing?
Yes, I understood your larger point. What I don’t get is the relevance of the polygraph line, which essentially amounts to “but they think they’re telling the truth”. Well, yes, I sure hope they do and are arguing in good faith rather than deliberately lying.

That sentence appears to argue that you think them passing the polygraph is a bad thing—why make the comment otherwise—which doesn’t make sense to me. It doesn’t affect your larger argument, but it doesn’t support it either and thus stood out. It’s as if you had ended your post with “bananas are radioactive”—true, but I’d be left wondering why you had felt the need to mention it.
This could be said of using the cloud in general though.

But people still use the cloud.
>Airbnb experiences are supposed to subvert this and create an industry of tourism that is more serendipitous and less standardized.

Although the experiences I saw were either around (vegan) cooking and stuff or the general stuff that you can book at a normal tourist agency, just a lot more expensive.

Nothing too interesting, just expensive but YMMV.
Aswath Damodaran's analysis.

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-sharing-econ...

TLDR;The per share value based upon the latest share count is about $54/share.
You can do it without hash tables.

If you're able to create a graph structure with references/access/pointer types or whatever COBOL uses you can have records with contents similar to:

record Bag:
string : Description
array of Bag Pointer : Children
array of Integer : Count

Where the indexes into the two arrays correlate. Since, as you parse, you don't know where the children may be, you can use an array to store the bags as you read them in. And in a second pass construct the graph proper. You may also want a set of pointers up to the bags containing a bag, but it's not, strictly, needed.

If I were doing this year's in C, I'd have done something like that since it, also, doesn't have a built-in hash table/dictionary.
Produce is the hard one. So far my local grocery stores have been doing a wonderful job of picking out produce for me. On the other hand I remember FreshDirect in New York City years ago being great...for a while. Then the quality of their produce dropped dramatically.

I feel like produce almost needs an adversarial process to keep quality up.
I don't mind open offices for the 5 man starups made of the guys who met in college and are trying their luck with blood sweat and tears, however I really do mind them in the nouveau wannabe pseudo startups where it's an open chicken coop for the developer plebs and private offices for the sales/marketing/management.

But it's ok, they give you a ping pong and foosball table. /s
I survived triplets using this book.
I am running the Bash script from the linked blog post on my local Raspberry Pi. Is your Lambda for pointing back to your home network? If so, that is awesome that you can do that using a remote service. If you don't mind sharing, how does it work?
Have you ever used a laptop with a touch screen for any reasonable time?

Did you really use the touch for more than a few minutes as a novelty?

I'm not talking of laptops with detachable screens here (there it does make sense).
I've had this problem on Mac. In my case a pair of AirPods sounded really muddy and low quality. macOS was setting them up as the output AND input audio device. The two-way Bluetooth communication eats more bandwidth, hence the lower quality. The solution was to set the audio input to something other than the AirPods.

Try setting your audio input to something other than the headset on the Windows machine.
They're still in restricted beta and only work on MacOS so far, but Replay [1] is really interesting in that regard, and would be fantastic to use for e2e tests: it not only saves a snapshot of the DOM, but of the entire execution environment. You can then replay it, add breakpoints, log statements and what not after the fact to investigate what broke.

[1] https://replay.io/
He is the exception to the rule in many ways and had some of the best engineers helping with the communication aspect. It's not really comparing apples to apples.
Judge not lest ye be judged
> When has this ever happened in the history of mankind?

It happened across the world this year, in response to the pandemic. People in several countries were given enough money to make up for lost income. And even in the U.S. people were given a (comparatively paltry, but not insignificant) stimulus check.

Beyond that: universal basic income has been discussed and trialed quite a bit. As a permanent fixture of society I'm not yet sold on it, but as a temporary measure to stave off some of our acutely-deepening inequality, I think it would be a simple and direct (indeed, maybe the most literal) form of wealth redistribution.

That's not to say I don't think the government can spend some of the money on society better than our billionaires will (who, with few exceptions, simply don't spend their money on society at all). But I also don't think wealth redistribution has to assume that.
How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?
AirPods which have transparency mode can work as low end hearing aids. Not a suitable replacement for people who require hearing aids, but for people who have light to moderate hearing loss they help.

https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingnewswatch/2020/airpo...
I had a 3-4 hour commute on public to my minimum wage job that was a 5 minute drive away. I can't imagine wasting that much time even if I made 2-500k or more a year. What's money without the time to enjoy it?
You'll note that the comment blisterpeanuts objected to didn't include any cosmetic features (unless you consider "compact" to be cosmetic I guess), but somehow that wasn't ok either. And note that he didn't object to the term being used, but to the term being used incorrectly.

But after a bit of googling I guess I found the missing context: "Assault weapons" being full-auto amounts to a US gun scene shibboleth to make it easy to dismiss anyone making the mistake of using the term without having to engage the substance, even if many people, including law makers, define the term differently.

"People call all kinds of things assault weapons based on stupid criteria, what specifically do you mean" would have been a far stronger point than this "haha, semi-automatics are normal guns and not assault weapons" game.
Very much no, any pattern of code is acceptable in computer science. You don’t need to have a specific class of computer compute the programs running on it. CS even has the idea of an Oracle machine: The problem does not have to be computable; the oracle is not assumed to be a Turing machine or computer program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine

It’s a very critical idea in CS. There is no specific BB(1, 2, ... n) that’s suddenly impossible to discover, however writing a program that runs on touring machines that can find arbitrary BB(n)’s isn’t solvable. Another way of saying it is it takes increasing complexity to solve BB(n) as n grows, a given program can only be of finite complexity.
Love it! I looked into doing something similar years ago. I had also considered selling boxes/redesigned vacuum formed inserts since a lot of board games don't come with them, or they are minimally designed.
Federated Learning in less than 20 lines of code
There are two million applications on the App Store. An extra few thousand wouldn’t be such a big change in volume that Apple would be unable to cope.
4 hours a day, 2 hours each way is probably a bus to caltrain, a decent length caltrain ride, and then a bus to the office. Plus idle time at the caltrain stations waiting for the next leg. Plus walking time.

Sometimes you're lucky and the bus and train schedules align, but in my experience, the bus schedule will come out, aligning to caltrain, then three weeks later, caltrain adjusts their schedule, and you've got 20 minutes between drop off and pickup again. It's better if you get a corporate shuttle to pick you up from caltrain, but still. Also, if you need to stay later than normal, bus and train service drops in frequency a lot, so you might be waiting even longer.

I was just avoiding traffic, so I drove to caltrain, which avoided the waiting on one end.
> I have no idea, but I also have no idea why you would expect me to have answer that.

I apologize for being confusing. I wasn't trying to imply that you in particular should answer that question. I should have written something like, "In the greater context of trying to see if Twitch's tacit reasoning is logically consistent, I'm also curious how they'd deal with ...".

> I am not even sure what disqualify the viewpoint is.

Sorry again for being unclear. Some background, if you're interested:

I'm working on the assumption that there are myriad things in our world that different people find offensive. There's (almost?) no ethical position on which 100% of humans agree.

When companies pick which particular issues on which they'll take public positions, they're implying a few things:

(1) That of all the issues that people have gripes with in the world, this issue is more important to the company than any of the issues on which they're not taking a position.

(2) The people who agree with their position are right, and those who disagree with their position are wrong.

To whit, when Twitch disallows showing the Confederate flag, I would say this disqualifies the viewpoint that it's a symbol primarily regarding states' rights. Sorry if "disqualify the viewpoint" isn't the best term.

>And I also think that trying to frame all these conflicts solely through lens of "offense at some symbol" is reductive.

I didn't mean to be reductive. My larger goal is to understand the implicit reasoning behind companies taking stances like this, and deciding at least for myself if those stances are internally consistent.

When I talk about "taking offense at some symbol", it's one of my straw-man theories regarding the company's justification for proscribing a certain kind of speech on their platform.

And TBH, what I truly suspect is that companies just try to accommodate whatever public sentiment / outrage is currently in vogue, and make public statements rationalizing that position rather than being honest about the arbitrariness of their posturing.
Semantics. If I buy your car for half its value guaranteed, you will regret it, and you basically handed me 1/2 its value.
OpenPKG
Yes this seems reasonable. I used to work for one of the main competitors of Airbnb and this was our strategy for growth outside of our core business of selling hotel "roomnights" until Covid hit.

The margins on flights and attraction tickets are tiny as you might expect, but the idea was this would lead to more growth in our core business since it could all be tied together in one platform. There's also the less well defined but non-zero benefit of data, marketing and so on that this extra visibility provides.
I honestly think smaller more stable groups are going to yield stronger relationships than ones that are continuously growing.

I've been on reddit for ~12 years, for example, and after five or six years still hadn't really cultivated any kind of 'group' or relationship with anyone, so I just started rotating my accounts regularly because the social aspect of the platform is essentially of zero value. HN feels much more like a community, and some of the forums I frequent are even more so, despite being largely undiscoverable and frosty to newcomers.
You're right I stand corrected.

Ignoring the Covid exodus, California had a .1% growth rate, which is in the lower half of all 50 states growth rate.

Texas has the number one growth rate in the country.
Could you tell me more about this firmware option? As a ThinkPad owner/Linux user, I'd be very interested!
> No, in rust as long as you don't use a feature you don't need to know about it.

I don't think that's a particularly good argument, since it's true for all languages. Even if you don't use a feature, you will use and read code written by others all the time and understanding that code can be pretty important.
I'm totally uninformed when it comes to Bluetooth audio. Is BT transmitting full "resolution" audio, or is undesireable compression being done? Does Apple have better control over that? Is it generally just better to use a wired connection?
Let's go see what Head-Fi thinks of them.
>It just feels like stubbornness to me at this point. I don't think there would be enough overlap that adding touch to the mac would reduce tablet sales... totally different experiences in a lot of ways.

Apple cannibalizes its own products all the time, it's not about reducing tablet sales.

It's probably more about not really making sense (at least, them thinking that), even where it is available (on Windows laptops).

It might be added at some point, but not because its actually useful, but after they have exhausted more useful differentiating factors to add to newer models.
"more walkable and friendly to the elderly" are very separate things, usually in conflict. The elderly face disability like arthritis, poor body temperature control, uncertainty about lower leg position or pavement contact, bad vision, bad hearing, confusion, and numerous other troubles. No normal or reasonable amount of "more walkable" is going to work.

They need family members who care. The family members need parking spaces. The fewer steps from bedroom to car, the better. A nice goal would be to have less than 50 feet from bedroom to car.
Self-driving cars have a long way to go