skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look no further: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/apple-q3-cash-hoard-heres-ho....
Note to self: don't piss off politicians by turning a blind eye to politicization at the workplace when you're a near monopoly doing shady things.
The visuals are already a big improvement, but I think the big difference will happen once 90HZ unlocked with Quest 2
Exercise is one of those discipline things, that are more emotional than physical or logical (along with food and sex). Sure its 'easy' to just to the right thing. But there are emotional hurdles, and a mentor/trainer/group is the way social animals like man-apes deal with that.
>according to a lawsuit filed by 10 states led by Texas.
The Sherman act does not require harm to the end consumer. That standard was instituted relatively recently (Reagan administration, if I remember correctly). Interpretation before that (which the Trump admin has leaned toward) would encompass broader monopolistic behavior, such as collusion that prevents competition even if it does not directly result in a price increase for consumers.
Aren't you missing the biggest point of the Act? The free market equilibrium that you mention is what it seeks to correct.

It's not about the prices but the monopolization it attempts to break. If there is only a single entity dictating the prices in the market, then it doesn't matter what the price spectrum is - the motive is anti-free market
Before we lend your comment any credence, do you mind listing the projects you've worked on?

Groundbreaking software engineering projects that advance the state-of-the-art, like Google's Map-Reduce-based scaling architecture back in the day, or ones that provide some non-trivial edge or advantage, like the tight integration of hardware and software in iPhones (and the resulting responsiveness and battery life), or ones that provide high-assurance and provable correctness (Rust, Haskell, etc) actually do require CS knowledge.

Whenever someone makes a comment like this, I just assume their work thus far has consisted of linking together pre-existing building blocks to make web or mobile apps, rather than anything completely original or state-of-the-art.

And it's good that the industry has gotten to a point that such a job opportunity exists for so many people. But keep in mind it was only possible by decades of development of layers upon layers of abstracting away most of the CS into easily composable libraries, APIs, and other components. You many not need to know algorithms and datastructures yourself, but you're definitely using them by building on them and with libs that encapsulate them.
> Do you think that working out entirely alone vs. with a trainer is the same thing? Do you think there are some people that would derive a differential benefit by going with one vs. the other?

Honestly no. It’s just a symptom of being a weak minded person who can’t commit to self improvement.

> Do you think that working out entirely alone vs. with a group is the same thing? Do you think there are some people that would derive a differential benefit by going with one vs. the other?

If you say ask it twice it doesn’t change the response.

> Do you think that emulating being with a group would have value for those that would otherwise value working with a group?

Of course it has value. But it’s the workout equivalent of hiring a prostitute. Find some real friends to work out with. Or just play some music and pedal.

> Do you think that anyone who falls into the "works out better with a group and a trainer, or an emulation thereof" must be an idiot? Or do you think that category simply doesn't exist?

A group, a trainer, and a spin class instructor that just yells at you on a preset rhythm are three different things.

> From my experience in competitive powerlifting, working out by myself, working out with others, working out with a coach, working out with an app yelling at me, are all very different endeavors, with different outcomes. Maybe I'm just an idiot.

I didn’t insult having a trainer or anything to do with powerlifting with a group. Hell, a spotter is all but mandatory in that situation.

I’m specifically referring to idiots paying someone to yell at them to speed up or slow down while riding a bike. You could record one session and play it back on a speaker and it’d be the same thing.
Not necessarily. You can also tie algorithms to keys. For example, if you want to verify a signature, it’s perfectly reasonable for the public key to actually be (algorithm, private key as defined by that algorithm). What you don’t want to do is put the algorithm in a message that is potentially controlled by an attacker.
> Forced commoditization of marketing data for sale to any other advertiser.

This would be horrible for consumer privacy.
I only skimmed through the PDF, but didn't see any mention of its behaviour in regards to constantly churning the web "standards" and unnecessarily increasing their complexity so much that any competing browsers would be unable to keep up or even begin.
Ask HN: Is it ok to monetize an app built on top of other's content?
I have an idea to build a kind of RSS reader app where user can view news, say Hacker News and other bunch of tech news. I plan to monetize the app on subscription basis because I see there's an added value in this app. But the question will be is it ethical to do so? How should I approach this?

For me, It's like a marketplace problem where you need to find seller and buyer. Sellers don't want to place their products in your website if no visitor, and buyer will not even visit that much when there's no seller to look on.

The same like this, I don't have content to show to future buyers, buyers don't want to use this app. But, using other content providers seems not so ethical.

If you have any advice on how we should approach this, would love to hear it.

*Edit: I don't scrape website. I'll use API/RSS provided, in hope will reduce the risk of the ethical matters.
> This reminds me, does anyone here know how to get PGP paper keys that use only english words e.g. "brunch pineapple house crow ..."?

maybe BIP39? (afaik it's used for paper keys in bitcoin-adjacent things)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
>Microsoft is likely to take over Canonical.

This is not the first time I've seen this prediction. What is its basis?
I assume most people have a vulnerable loved one, no? The issue is it's one order removed from self, and most people don't abstract that far.
Yeah I think the beatsaber workouts start to accelerate at expert+ with faster speed turned on. I never got anywhere close to that though.
The alternative would be never refactoring anything and allowing technical debt and complexity to balloon out of control, which would also be a strategic error for a small project without many resources.

The ticking clock you're referring to is real, but it applies to any open source library you're depending on that you aren't contributing anything to, not just GTK. It can't be avoided just by switching to another open source toolkit. If it really bothers you, start contributing and help out!
The store is available but its screening is a little strict (near to game console, rather than Play Store or Steam). Alternatively it seems that FB unofficially supports SideQuest.
This stuff is overplayed. My sister is super nutty about following every piece of guidance. It takes her 30 minutes to get out of the driveway.
This is at least the second time that Apple breaks Preview in this way. I outlined why this bug is something a lot of users could run into, and I even mention that I'm not necessarily holding it against them that it breaks, but specifically that they don't even care to mention it breaking. After the first time, which was a big deal at the time, they should have put safeguards in place so that they could notice it happening. If the fault is with ABBYY, then I'm okay with Apple breaking it for the sake of internally improving Preview, and blame for the breakage lies with ABBYY. But I expect Apple to tell me – because it happened before. That blame lies with Apple.

That is my reasoning, and I don't think that's too high a bar for one of the richest companies on the planet, priding themselves in the details and "it just works". You don't have to agree with that, obviously. Calling me an ass for that is extremely rude and uncalled for, though. I was under the impression that this tone was actually not acceptable here.
You mean scapegoat?
well it's literally just a tree of functions with extra metadata to make it extra powerful. Also have used both REST and GQL heavily and it essentially solves lots of problems I had with REST. I'm never writing REST again and when I see that something I'm consuming also have a GQL API it makes me so happy to be able to know every single field available to me.

The only use-case where it's annoying me is a CMS for building an entire site. It's recursive as A -> B -> A -> B and the lack of recursion as of yet makes it manual work to extract every level that you need.
I use spacemacs, all you need is here https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+emacs/org/README.html#...

Be sure to use the spacemacs develop branch
Why would users care? None of the blocking is due to technical issues, it's contractual. IPv6 wouldn't change anything except make it easier for both the ISP and for users who stay within the contract terms.
$600 for car seats that make a compact sedan as practical as a 3-row SUV for parents seems like a solid investment.
"... known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm."

CA does this kind of stuff routinely --- part of what Elon Musk described as "complacency".
Well yeah,
The people who are willing to spend money are on RHEL instead of a clone.
Many people are thinking tribally and assuming that Bezos's Kuiper must launch on Bezos's Blue Origin.
While I'm not sure what group ran the survey, the person who posted this on hn (steveklabnik) is a major reason for the success of Rust's community, which is likely a significant contribution to Rust's success as a whole.
another +1 for inoreader; its (premium) twitter RSS feeds enabled me to essentially go cold turkey on social media in general as far as the daily checking went.
I've gone back and forth between Apple Books and Acrobat Reader a lot.

Ultimately I currently use Books because I do a lot of multicolored highlighting which is far more consistent in Books, and because Books lets you set bookmarks (to go back and forth between main text and endnotes) which Acrobat inexplicably still does not support.

Ultimately every PDF app is good at some things and terrible at others, and you're just going to have to find the app that has the best set of features for you. It is pretty sad that all the apps have significant drawbacks for certain common workflows.
Yes. It's a Bubble. So What? (2018)
You can already write several paragraphs in the search field, and it will automatically search for all the words in all the paragraphs.
Sounds like some great ideas for SpaceX to implement.

... don't get me wrong, this is really great, but I have doubts whether this company will be able to financially accomplish this without an already-established revenue stream and no previous projects accomplished yet.

Who knows, maybe they will be able to accomplish this, but if SpaceX's success teaches us anything, doing so probably requires someone at the helm with a stomach for huge financial risk as well as unique financial and engineering savvy. It also requires a clear roadmap involving smaller, revenue-generating wins.
My wife & I swap our real bikes on a Wahoo Kickr. It takes less than 60 seconds to swap a bike. Then we get to use the same bikes we ride all summer as well - no adjustments necessary.
> "life begins at 40"

As someone who is mid-50's, everything turned around at 40. Health, physique (was at the gym 4 days a week), job (quit a loathed job and found one I liked), relationship (got a well-needed divorce). I feel like I wasted my 20's being anxious and my 30's being married to someone I didn't love.
A Book about Aircraft Scale Drawings Creating with Inkscape and Gimp
Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon (2000)
Yeah, the Diono is also just the most well-designed car seat, in all sorts of ways: e.g. they have the best-designed latch clips I’ve seen.
It might be more damning if the states were from both parties; there is a political interpretation in that Google employee spending is known and of the US$ 6.2M that is being spent 88% of it is on Democrats and only 12% on Republicans, so there is both serious money and serious skew there. But that's not terribly decisive, it'd just be nice to see a bipartisan lawsuit for completeness reasons.

There are also some aligned reasons; like things like net neutrality are considered Democratic issues.

More broadly, the problem is essentially that there is this sort of civil-war-producing toxic polarization at play (and it will be at play until we change the laws to have a party-proportional House; it is caused by an abstract mathematical theorem). That the toxic polarization even exists at the state-executive branch of attorneys general is somewhat remarkable and an indication of how close the US is to something disastrous in the next 50 years or so.
Credibility is important.
"I wonder how the team adding in that extra delay justified it to themselves?"

A nice fat paycheck will often be enough to quiet a lot of people's doubts. And if it still bothers them, they can make themselves feel better by donating some of the money to charity.

Also, people who do things they know are wrong can mollify their consciences by comparing themselves to people who do even worse, and then patting themselves on the back for not being as bad.

They think things like, "at least I'm not literally robbing anyone", and the robbers think, "at least I'm not physically hurting anyone", and those that hurt people think "at least I'm not killing anyone", and then killers think, "at least I'm not torturing anyone to death," and the torturers tend to have some excuse too, like doing it for the greater good.

Unless you are literally the worst of the worst there'll always be someone worse you could compare yourself to and think that at least you're better than them.

There are already some examples of this kind of justification in this very thread.
Actually, it's for... his wife!
Modern smart trainers have an attached sprocket and are used with the rear wheel off the bike. Some models are fairly quiet.
how about this: https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/aleksand1975/intelligen... ?
I've seen it summarised as maybe a mile wide and an inch deep, that there aren't particularly interesting systems at play, there isn't actually much meat to the pretty bones.
Lots of better names are available:

"Originally proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903, the idea was expanded by Herman Potočnik in 1929."
I don't at the moment, but I find I feel much better (more positive and a clearer head) when I write. I wrote daily for a while and it definitely helped.
When our economy was less concentrated. Basically anytime before now.

The proportion income tax returns reporting "self employed" drops every year. The average number of internet service providers a household has to choose from drops every year. This has been going on for 30-40 years now, at various rates of speed.

Things were much worse at the turn of the century. Then we got Teddy Roosevelt and an era of trust-busting. It's time for history to rhyme a bit better.
Here's a great kit I've built in the past. It's popular with remote radio operators, campers and sailors.

http://www.cirkits.com/scc3/
Can you give any examples of coordination against competitors besides the Apple wage fixing scandal?
United Airlines plans to invest in carbon capture and storage
The rivalry disappeared when Google+ failed.
It certainly seems like a person oughta be able to opt-out... the data they need is all statistical anyway.
Sheesh, it seems like you would be against everything just because the information can be used for bad things... To use your logic (at least how I'm interpreting it), we should also abolish driver licenses as well, because look, there's a database of people! With addresses, etc!

And that would be a bad idea because untrained drivers may cause injury to others. The same logic applies to disease tracking, we have to know because someone might harm someone else. It's being measured so we know if prevention methods like lockdowns and masks are working. And just like a driver's license is not something you can volunteer to have (or not), neither should the knowledge of your virus status be optional.

Imagine running a country and being asked "So, how is your country coping with the virus?", and answering "I don't know, we don't have the numbers."...
But... It's not a lunch title for the new consoles. The only versions released were PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
300fy time :)
90% of jobs in software engineering require very little CS knowledge. Yet interviews for entry level software engineering jobs focus 100% on CS 101.

It's not that CS knowledge is useless, in fact it's great to know the theory. It's just not the top priority in terms of doing everyday work. Recommending an aspiring engineer prioritize CS (outside of what you need to pass interviews) is like recommending an aspiring pianist to master music theory. Nice to have, sure, but not an efficient use of time.

Also when people defend the importance of knowledge of CS theory in this industry, their seems to be this implication that CS theory somehow can't be learned on the job. As if it's super complicated and only "real" engineers have the intelligence to pick it up. A load of crap. For example, I once had to use graph algorithms on the job (probably the only time I've ever had to use CS on the job), and I didn't remember any of that stuff from school, so I took a day or two to read up on graph data structures & algorithms, and was able to get the job done.

What's more important in this industry, or any field really (unless maybe you're doing something super special like nuclear physics), is knowing how to learn - especially at the junior level. That is way more important than any knowledge. Of course you need to have some base knowledge, but any junior engineer working their first job is going to have a hell of a lot to learn anyways, so for an entry level role I'd rather pick the smarter person who's dabbled in his own projects and is eager to learn than the CS major who's expecting to be tackling interesting CS problems all day at work - unless of course the job actually requires this which until now has never been the case for any of my software jobs.
Oh man, that was another nightmare with Books. I tried keeping syncing on for a year, but ultimately switched back to a local library.

It worked 99% of the time. But then every few weeks it would overwrite my newer-annotated version of a PDF with an older one, and I'd lose chapters' worth (in one case an entire books' worth) of highlights. It was infuriating.

It had to be some kind of iDrive sync bug. It seems insane that type of stuff passes QA, I can't even imagine.
All the car seats for my kids were chiefly composed of plastics. I'm sure there is quite a high factor of safety for car seat design, but there are quite a few time and temperature related failure modes for plastics (i.e. getting brittle over time as the plasticizers outgas, UV exposure, etc.).

https://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/ffs/dokumenter/se...

https://www.amazon.com/Plastics-Failure-Guide-2E-Prevention/...
> Many of the details of their arrangement are redacted from the complaint, including Google’s internal code name for the deal, which was inspired by a Star Wars character, the complaint says.

Wondering if the name choice was relevant to the situation itself. Is there a Star Wars character that got into a shady agreement with their rival?
I think I have proven my point and I'm not eager to discuss additional topics about GraphQL in this subthread.
Sure, the question is more about "why can the states do this by themselves, without the DOJ signing on"
If you want to do temp work then go to some contracting agency. Good companies want longer term commitments.
Maybe something where everyone can choose a person with similar values as themselves, and the person that's chosen by the most people will deal with all the details and day-to-day stuff. And it would be good if we had such a thing both for nationwide problems and for local issues, so we can solve problems both locally and on a larger scale.
Hopefully Apple for their anti-competitive practices when it comes to the App Store.
If the top-line goal is to make the page as responsive as possible, I'm a little stumped as to what the alternative would be beyond delaying the loading of arbitrary html and JS. Can you think of a way to load arbitrary HTML immediately and not cause any page responsiveness issues on, say, a three year old Android device?
> With terrorist connotations.

That went from a reasonable thing that might happen — you're temporarily prevented from boarding a plane while you are bearing a highly contagious, deadly illness that can spread to whoever you breath on — to... Now you're labeled a terrorist because you got sick? That seems like a pretty large leap. Especially since millions of Americans have already tested positive for COVID using the existing infrastructure (that reports to health authorities already) and none of this has happened. Why do you think having at-home tests will suddenly result in labeling every positive case a terrorist?

> Who wants to defend a group of bioterrorists anyway?

I feel like the main stretch of imagination here that I find difficult to believe is that everyone who contracts COVID (which will likely be millions more Americans) will be labeled a terrorist, because they took the test at home instead of at a doctor's office or testing site. The existing testing infrastructure that has tested millions upon millions of Americans, and found millions of positive cases, already reports to health authorities: why would having a more convenient test that does the same thing result in dystopian madness?
This is currently the #1 story on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718.

We'll merge (most of) the comments thither.
Yes, given recent events, omitting ", Texas says" from a title seems somewhat rash, all the more so when the lawsuit is announced by the Texas AG of recent notoriety, introducing it by saying "Texas takes the lead once more!"
Synthetic Headlines Using Markov Model on 1.8M Real Australian Headlines
Well now I want to know what character they used from Star Wars? I'm going to guess "Darth Bidder"?
Why would installing from source change things. Without finding/fixing the bug, you're just using the same compiled code as before
You're currently still an undergrad ? That'll be why. It's obvious you'll likely leave a job when you go back to studying.
>Section 16 of the Clayton Act [1] gives states power to bring federal antitrust suits on behalf of their residents

I think this is the key point I was looking for. There's a specific grant of authority here.
Rudy (pocket dialing a reporter, uploading wrong video clips, being locked out of his phone multiple times) Giuliani was his cybersecurity czar at one point. They clearly care about it.

This is the issue with the whole situation - Twitter is not an extension of the government. People can enable 2FA or not. That’s on them.

The fact that Trump uses it as his official podium is the problem, ultimately. I was worried that we’d see a declaration of war come from him announced on Twitter. The same service where I can see explicit porn right after it and where millions of keyboard warriors talk shit and troll.
Actually prior to governmental action the markets were quite fragmented. In the 70s in response to securities law they started consolidating. Then in response to further law they started fragmenting again in the 2000s.

I’m not largely a free market is the only solution person but this is a very bad example of ‘natural’ monopolies.