skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is so frustrating dealing with anti-wayland anti-systemd anti-anything that changes the 30 year old status quo and makes linux actually alive instead of bitrotting on old computers..

Wayland is a display server - xorg started out as one as well, but it got extended to such an extant that at one point it contained a printing service as well. Wayland goes back to the base problem - how to display a window on a/many screens - and solves it splendidly. And leaves the rest to the actual desktop environment because it is not display related. UNIX phylosophy is not all that sexy when it is actually useful is it?

But wayland developers were clever enough to add a proper extension management system so a client can query what is available and use what’s given.

Does implementing wayland by multiple DEs consist of some duplicate work? Sure.
Should we not refactor all the technical debt that accumulated over DECADES to the point where a new hardware was introduced? I think the answer is no.

And I’m not sure which group is tribalist, the ones who blindly hate on something because - surprisingly - without work there would be nothing, or those who make the new thing usable.
You're talking about the Apple Watch, right? That's peanuts of regulatory compliance stuff compared to the amount of regulations related to building a car in the US market. The FDA requires this big fat disclaimer:

> The ECG app is intended for over-the-counter (OTC)use. The ECG data displayed by the ECG app is intended for informational use only. The user is not intended to interpret or take clinical action based on the device output without consultation of a qualified healthcare professional. The ECG waveform is meant to supplement rhythm classification for the purposes of discriminating AFib from normal sinus rhythm and not intended to replace traditional methods of diagnosis or treatment.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf18/DEN180044.pdf
Founders usually own a different class of stock though - enough to have a controlling share of the vote no matter how much they’re diluted. This control that they hold ensures they will get paid extra during acquisitions (or sometimes even during fundraising rounds), proportional to the value of the company rather than their share of the stock.
I wrote a Goodreads scraper in Python
If you know a coin is biased towards heads, the most likely outcome is all heads. So you'd start by guessing all heads, then guess all combinations with one head, all combinations with 2 heads, etc

If you don't know the bias you can start with all heads, then do all tails, etc.

Basically, anything you know about a bias allows you to sort the possible outcomes by how likely they are in your model and then try them in order from most likely to least likely.
‘Only 1 in Stock ’ the Mystery of a Stolen Stradivarius Takes a Twist
Note that the most distant astronomical object we've observed has a redshift of 11, corresponding to a light travel distance of 13.4Gly. This means that if our models are correct and the universe is indeed about 13.8 billion years old, then we've seen 97% of the universe's history. Including the microwave background in that pushes the number to 99.997%.
The quotes on nutrition remind me of arguments about the health implications of MSG, in that the argument tends to devolve to "is MSG good or bad" rather than "how much MSG is good or bad."
It will be hilarious if far in the future we observe some totally unprecedented phenomenon with the Bullet Cluster that renders it irrelevant to this argument. Something like the gas clouds forming into a giant paperclip, mega-Dyson Sphere, or "2001: A Space Odyssey" style space fetus.
> As a company that is running mostly on brand status

They shipped like half a million cars this year! They own like 70-80% of every EV market they compete in. This is the kind of criticism you'd read about Tesla in 2014. The companies that "have been building cars for decades" are getting stomped by Tesla in this space, 12x more Model 3's were sold than LEAF's in the US last year.

At some point the established wisdom among some people that Tesla is failing is going to change, right? The ship has sailed on that, left the harbor, and is half way across the ocean by now.

And the weirdest thing here is that it's not an attempt to attack Tesla from the perspective of established auto makers but from Apple Computer, a company with no experience at all in the market and almost nothing to bring to the table but "brand status" (and a freighter full of cash, of course).
My G37x has one button per car function, as it should be. Perfect tactile feedback, non-modal, always there. You want it to do a thing, you push the button.

(Photo of someone else's dash: https://cars.usnews.com/static/images/Auto/izmo/323783/2010_... )
That's one way of interpreting it. I would venture that their public dabbling is indicative that that they do understand what it means to build a car, in the sense that car manufacturing shouldn't be underestimated.

Going all-in on something like this when you're not ready is just a waste of capital and nobody wants to be the next Fisker. Historically speaking, Apple has usually made sure all their ducks are in a row before launching something, whether it's going into processor design, audio, or launching a credit card. There's quite a bit of chess pieces that were put into position first, and a lot of that was done via hiring, acquisitions, and partnerships. That should demonstrate that Apple has gotten into other industries regardless of how much management or shareholders previously understood the problem. In other words, they seem to understand when they don't understand.

With BMW declining to be a partner all those years ago (allegedly), it makes sense to me that they would put their plans on the back burner. I'm still skeptical that they can (or want to) do this without a major manufacturing partner, but we'll see. Or, given how conservative they seem to be with their capital, maybe we never will. The AirPods Max project allegedly started 4 years ago, and those are just headphones.
Well this explains why the most difficult people to work with always write the most disgustingly large god functions
I think the biggest issue is that the "Facts" the fact checkers present, often isn't factually based. Not to mention, the fact checking orgs will cover factual, even if mixed with hyperbolic opinion articles in favor of their own news orgs articles (that are monetized to boot).

It's also less than ideal that they body-check facts from right leaning news sources far more than left leaning. FTR, I'm Libertarian not typical left/right.

I posted a humorous meme, and it was tagged with a couple different "get the facts" messages, which was just plain stupid and kind of funny, even drawing in comments to that effect.

In the end, it's hard to trust most of the media sources without getting news/pov from multiple left/right/foreign sources. I'm starting to think that anything that is opinion based over facts in news reporting should have a big red label of "OPINION, NOT NEWS!" on it in order to receive any protection from libel, including videos for a couple seconds. I also think that any social media org that has more than 25% of a country as its' users should probably have to comply with the same free speech norms as a government agency would.

I work in the elections space, and while some things seem really fishy, it's hard to take any of it without a grain of salt considering how many of the things I've seen being accused are purely BS from people who don't know/understand what's happening. I mean, I'm pretty sure there was some fishy stuff going on in at least some places, but I just don't know what to believe anymore... and that's almost worse than just picking a side.

I think having peer review opportunities would go a long way over some of the paid and algorithmic review options. Even if you had a hidden Karma like here and other sites and was randomly chosen to "review" judge/vote on content posts... maybe not private messages, but say public posts or group posts... just a general thumbs up/down.. and the quorum is comprised of say 3-5 randomly selected each of left/right/other for a decent mix. You get a 55% quorum for violation, the post then goes to FB for review/action.

Reviews are done by those in the same locality of the person posting. Private groups or message posts go directly to FB monitors... but there's no reason not to have a community judge for itself if something is over the line.
Thank you for helping clarify what I'm saying. You've definitely got it right. To elaborate, consider the difference between calculating the distance to a star in the Milky Way using parallax where the model is basically just assume your eyes work plus trigonometry and calculating the distance to other galaxies where far more assumptions are required.

Edit: response from cygx is completely missing the point about control vs selection.
What emails are you sending that cause this?
Start with a list of books and this python (Selenium) scraper with get all the data GoodReads has including difficult to grab stuff like reviews and alternative prices.
Nope [1]

Lord grant me the confidence of a HN commentor talking about economics :/

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=WTISPLC,
No innovative leadership? How can you say that after the Apple Watch, Apple Silicon, etc and their stock having grown so much?
I gave access to my camera and everything, but I didn't understand what this product does until I saw this screenshot in another thread: https://i.imgur.com/VVt0zCU.jpg

I think it would be really helpful if you could see your own avatar.
There is theoretical issues with the X way of handling graphics hardware.

Also, wayland also uses sockets..
Ok. I'll give it one more go, just in case you are sincere but struggling.

That is not in fact my basic premise.

My basic premise, is, as I said: "it's worth asking both questions: Is racism really at play? And given America's lasting, endemic racism, is there reason to think something makes it absent in a given case?"

If America's history of racism were somehow only limited to Black people, then perhaps we could dismiss out of hand the notion that said racism could have something to do with a fact-free hysteria about "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome". But that's demonstrably not true.

Note that I've never said the two things are necessarily linked. I'm just saying that we can't presume a priori that racism isn't involved. We shouldn't assume that it is, but we mustn't assume that it isn't.
Ok, but bigger screen being better isn't really a roadblock, it's just a QoL improvement. It's not actually a dealbreaker for your workflow, which is what was implied by the GC.
Good luck keeping it somewhere those musicians and artists can afford to live.
Yes, I understand. But if you can't install macOS in VM on Linux (on a Mac) then you most likely can't do it in a VM on macOS either.
> Isn't this kind of leap?

No. Here are two specific examples:

1. The Cross Bronx Expressway, which basically created the South Bronx[1]. "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro is one of HN's most frequently recommended books, and covers this subject (as well as other racially-motivated planning projects by Robert Moses) extensively.

2. I-65 and I-165 in Mobile, AL cut directly through the historic "Africatown" neighborhood[2]. Residents regularly complain about both automotive and nearby industrial pollution, encouraged by ease of access by the highway[3].

Most of these effects are more visible on the East Coast rather than the West Coast, since the East's older and denser cities had fewer "paths of least resistance" when building the Interstate Highway System during the midcentury. But it wouldn't particularly surprise me if the areas that are now expensive in the cities that you mentioned were originally cleared for highways under "slum clearance" or similar laws.

Edit: This is anecdotal, but I figured I'd mention it anyways: I grew up in Manhattan, and virtually everybody I grew up with has (or had) asthma. Some of that is to be expected from other pollution sources (in particular, NYC used to burn very dirty heating oil), but I also went to public schools that were directly alongside major state and interstate highways.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Bronx_Expressway#Urban_d...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/733996699/alabamas-africatown...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/26/africatown-s...
Private Permissioned (Flexible) BlockChain
>One can say many things about Tim Cook, but not that he doesn't understand "business".

He understands business perfectly, but does he understand product?
I can do that in my American city too.
I'm guessing you didn't read the post? It covers the Von Neumann trick, why that doesn't work in practice, and then it also explains why using biased coins to generate random numbers results in real security when done correctly.
I cook costco basmati in my zoji on the 'white' and 'harder' setting and it comes out fine. Less aromatic than my preferred jasmine rice but still great, distinct firm grains.
If you're asking this question seriously, I have to ask a clarification question: what are we actually talking about? Are we comparing just certain aspects of production of the whole thing? If you think about this from an engineering perspective for even 30 seconds there are so many differences that come to mind.

- Pack has to go through an order of magnitude more charge cycles than a phone

- Must operate in a much wider variety of conditions than a phone

- iPhones don't need to drive themselves

- iPhones don't need to pass crash tests

- Brakes don't exist on iPhones

- Suspension does not exist on iPhones

- iPhones don't propel themselves at 100 mph

- iPhones weight orders of magnitude less than a car

- Regulatory requirements are way less stringent for phones

- Lights

- ...

I'm sort of dumbfounded by the level of conversation here given this is HN and the reputation is one of very thoughtful discourse on current events relating to technology and engineering.

EDIT: line breaks, looks like I'm further contributing to the downward spiral here.
Should you do your own accounting for your startup?
That's not a realistic goal. Even at 20 MPH, a well timed jump from between parked cars could leave someone closer then your reaction time.
Unfortunately, even if it were still a thing it wouldn't apply to online, print or cable news sources more than likely.
No. This graph puts it in better perspective. Why comment with so much certainty when you clearly didn't check? God I hate this place.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=WTISPLC,
I’ve used Mibo for a bunch of department meetings at it was very well received! One of the great things is that it allows you to have serendipitous meetings with people you haven’t spoken to for a while just by running into them on the island.

Great team as well! They helped us set it up in a way that also worked for the corporate firewall.

I believe they use Jitsi as their backend, combined with some cool engineering to make it all work on k8s.
> Could it still be that this variant is as infectious as others, but just happens to be the dominant one in the regions where the virus circulates the most, for reasons that have nothing to do with the genetics of the virus?

Yes, but one assumes that confounding factors like that are fairly easy to isolate. At some point, especially as the growth continues, statistics pretty much rules out other explanations. General consensus is that this is almost certainly more infectious. But sure, there's always more science to do.
It’s not impossible. Mandarin has four tones and Cantonese is more difficult with 8 tones. But over one billion people speak it. So..
I really hope this isn't the ultimate answer, because if so, that's extremely disappointing.
This is my least favorite programming advice. Splitting functions for no reason other than "it's too long" is a bad practice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263488
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25499337
Wouldn't it be less suspicious to hire a crack addict and have him shoot him?

I don't get the obvoius connection to the government. Surely there are alot of potential perpetrators.

"ChEIs may be used as drugs for Alzheimer's and myasthenia gravis, and also as chemical weapons and insecticides." - Wiki on the poison.
"a bicycle for the body"
I can imagine lots of people like this inspired by Bernie Madoff. Hope these people go to jail.
Show HN: Feature Processing in Go
Maintainer here: I thought it would be interesting to optimise for latency and convenience of feature processing in Go, since many companies have their backend services already in Go and most of business logic happen on single sample granularity. I would be glad if someone find it insightful or even useful. Cheers,
I can see how it would have been useful in a small community. But I guess being here..I can’t help wondering..isn’t that a privacy/security risk?
F-Droid (the Android "store" for FOSS) has two period-tracker apps available.
Because they have big heads?
I've been waiting to see how the scraping space moves forward in a post-selenium world. I cut my teeth at startups writing scrapers that walked private facebook groups. It's been curious to see a few interesting innovations that you can read publicly - like containerized "workers" and clever networking hacks to scale. This guy who wrote an only-fans scraper to judge the income disparity of OF creators was pretty interesting [0]

0 - https://www.xsrus.com/writing/explain/onlyfans/
Arrested for Selling “Illegal” Amazon Fire TV Sticks
Why is that a worry? I find it absolutely beautiful.
> If there was no repercussion to defaulting on loans why would anyone ever pay off a loan?

> Are you joking? Do you not realize that any current problems were caused by the current system?

What's even more telling is how that all happened when I was in school, prior to my JR year defaulting on student debt was what most did when they got to the professional levels and secured a decent job--and this was back when university costs were much lower and more broadly available, too.

I've had several boomer aged physicians/surgeons/anesthesiologists/lawyers laugh about it when I was in motorsports and told us to explore it despite the stigma as it 'paid in the end.'

In many ways I think this predatory model of extracting wealth from the youth is not only short sighted its absurd; reducing the quality of life with underemployment/unemployment creates lost generations like they have in Japan, and unless the goal is to lower the population at all costs then not much 'good' comes out of it except Zombie banks, high national//coprprate debt ratios, mass impoverishment of Society as a whole and suicide as proved by the last 30 years of Japanese Sociological observations.

Then again, some study using Machine Learning was stated to have had 'break through' results identifying India was not in poverty, only to see that Apple factory workers were paid $7/month instead of the ~$100 and proceeded to smash the factory.

Are people still in doubt we live in a Dystopic Cyberpunk existence already? Its not just an overly hyped game, its clear to see we've been in one for over a decade now. Its just not all neon, robotic enhancements and flying cars; everything else seems to be lock step with the genre from an untouchable Corporate Class, decaying environment, to poor living standards, wide spread disease and poverty.
What if my cranium is extra large? Do I get to write bigger functions?
> I don't know what to believe myself. I live and work in Silicon Valley. I have Russian heritage of which I am proud, and the ongoing smear campaign is disheartening, even if not entirely unsubstantiated. I am not on payroll of any secret service.

And yet you repeat official russian propaganda word for word, including not directly naming Navalny and using the Putin's favorite "blogger/YouTuber", "The blogger in question".

Only forgot to call him "that berlin's patient" and you are ready to work on russian state television.

Also that "smear campaign" was watched over 10 million times in 10 hours in russia, because actual russians that live in russia care when the government tries to murder it's critics.
Good point. The theory is that mass is increasing not decaying. Here's the paper: https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2013-08-cosmologi...
Also nice that corporations don't run my government mainly for their own benefit.
Lucky that knife was there to break his fall. Twice!

Would the term 'Dead Cat Bounce' apply here as well as to the stock market?

I also heard an unverified account that he had also shot himself three times in the back of the head.
> In places with free street parking (or public lots), I suspect the population is sparse enough that the added land cost for parting isn't a big deal, most people have cars, and most people support having parking.

Of course they support it, because it doesn't effect their wallets. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a cost to it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
I have my debit account linked to Apple Pay too.

Cash back is pretty standard, if not below other rates (I'm not even sure what qualifies as 1 vs 2 vs 3%, seems random). The disputes aren't any easier or harder than I've seen through other apps for different banks.

The graph for expenses looks good, but I've had that with other accounts for years.

It's really not that different other than cash back being right there in the same app
Everything in powershell is an object, but sometimes the output format doesn't make it clear. Select-String basically returns a match object with some nested results, but the output formatting makes it awkward to see. Pipe it to

| format-list *

to investigate it, and you'll see a bunch of members. In this case if what you want is just the matched string, you want to expand the `Matches` property of the object, then expand the value property of each of those. In this case the term 'expand' is key: if you just use `select` it'll return you the property, name and all. Use `-expand` to return the plain array. So something like:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path * | Select-String $pattern | select -expand matches | select -expand value

which you can then use how you like. An alternate form is

(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path * | Select-String $pattern).Matches.Value

because the . notation for member access works on all items in an array (Matches in this case).
It's way worse. A prominent American news outlet's AMP pages have Google ads obscuring the text of the article. In the last week AMP added an additional click before you can get the actual URL of the article to be able to read the text. The additional click takes the form of a fake sharing menu in the browser. It's sort of understandable that they would want to add this given that Android's built-in sharing menu takes multiple seconds to load on Google's flagship phones, but the fake menu lacks "copy to clipboard" so it cannot be used to go to the actual article.
There is an alternate view of what microservices should be. Check out the sample chapter for Monolith to microservice by Sam Newman.
As described in this article, microservices seem like just a way to horizontally scale development and deployed implementations. Nothing like independently deployable network functions corresponding to business needs.
What is the point of this article? There is nothing new or interesting in it.
Facebook vs Apple
Most of the illegible code I've ever written was because I kept splitting functions up, thinking I was following good practice, but was really just making emotional/aesthetic decisions.

When you go back to edit your code, it's like calling a 1-800 number and getting re-routed to 15 different departments to finally find the person you need to talk to.