skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what the GP is referring to, but the Apple TV does exactly this.

On my Apple TV I can search for shows on HBO, Amazon, ESPN, etc. All of my recently watched shows, regardless of streaming service/channel, show up on the main "TV" page. I can use Siri to search across all services, e.g. if I ask Siri to play The Office it will find it on Peacock and play it directly from there.

The large exception here is Netflix, apparently they don't hook in to the Apple TV API like the rest of these apps do (I imagine it's the same on the Google TV).
Bitcoin bubbles burst all the time. Everyone have the opportunity to buy "cheap". Why do you care if some people take the risk to "hodl"? You can still get in (and take the same risk) without buying _their_ coins.
Modern game consoles can do a lot... and have their own app stores. Microsoft would love for me to use my Xbox to stream Netflix.

I don’t think they are as far apart as you think. They are both walled gardens that are heavily controlled by their developers.

Not to mention — this all started with a game developer that wasn’t happy with the distribution of their game. Nevermind that they abide by the same rules and fees for Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo.

This isn’t about Apple. It’s about all of them.
What does "saying no" mean wrt the new law?
Facebook showed in their release the monetary value of they provided the news companies.

I can't see how you could possible argue they do not provide value to the classic media companies by allowing them to be linked and discussed freely on their feeds.
I thought this might be redundant following the RE3 discussion recently, but it seems this isn't a source port at all and actually wraps the official Android binary of this game:

"The port works by loading the official Android ARMv7 executable in memory, resolving its imports with native functions and patching it in order to properly run."
Hey, at least it’s MIT and others can reuse and commercialize it.
did not downvote, but

Dr. Fahrenheit was of course the famous European physicist who invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer.
Unfortunately I don't believe this is limited to Google. For example Yahoo lists the same best practices on their bulk sending best practices: https://postmaster.verizonmedia.com/best-practices
That's more of a dig at Confluence than it is in favor of text only systems. I've heard tons of good things about org-mode but Notion is also a pretty good wiki tool despite not being fully plain text.
I think it's a reference to Real Genius https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
I use zsh with this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Best of both worlds, fish-like autocomplete combined with bash-compatibility :)
I think your line "It’s also more fun" sums it up. Social media is about dopamine. As for the art of persuasion, while it might be marginalized in the current online environment, I'm encouraged when I hear people acknowledge that rational arguments have never been the best tool for changing people's minds, especially not in the short run. I think more often they come in handy after the fact, to rationalize people's feelings and memberships. But that's not to say we should throw up our hands and give up on reaching people. There's the alternative of delaying rational debate until a foundation of decency and emotional goodwill has been established--again, pretty tough to do online. There was an episode of Yascha Mounk's podcast from 9/4/20 where these two approaches are discussed. Elizabeth Anderson offers this critique to Mounk's project (called, oddly enough, "Persuasion"): "This is why I think I have some slight reservation against your Persuasion project, because it's all about argument. I don't think Americans in general are ready for argument, what we have to have is testimony. That's where people just sit down and talk about their lives, and open up in ways that other people can actually listen, and hear what the experience of others is like. Where people are speaking from the heart, about their experience. It's not about larger scale, policy arguments about principles; it's just about experience."
Antitrust Is an Answer–But Not for Journalism
Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say
No good deed goes unpunished.

What's really nuts is I'd wager the majority of the "moderators" have contributed zero technical knowledge to the conversation.

Content moderation is very hard to do, and if you try to outsource it to the crowd this is what you get.
Even assuming the only reason App Store revenue is that high is because of the store itself, we shouldn't treat the policies as one indivisible work set in stone.

You can have a properly curated store with 10% fees, for example. And you can block malware without blocking alternative web browsers or game streaming apps.
I have same experience with you, when I tried to deal with a c++ library that was co-developed with the main project.

In lieu of an ubiquitous package manager / module support what other options are there for c++? Keep a text file in the main project with the version of the library you need to compile it ?
Part of the Apple sandboxing model is to run a check on binaries to make sure internal APIs are not being abused, or other shenanigans. I would not trust the Apple sandbox at all, especially with the privacy in place which prevents any sort of auditing of what people are doing to their devices.
The link you posted states that bioweapons research stopped in 1969 (including at Ft. Detrick) as the grandparent stated.
I think they're suggesting something much more simple than that:

SELECT lat, lon FROM tower_list WHERE tower_id=${The one you're connected to};
Is 5G subsumed under 4G for this visualisation?

(Really pretty, by the way.)
Of course. I have been pirating software 1985-2004, and at the tail end of it I was sort of an admin (more precisely, a helper of an admin who didn't speak English well) of one of the largest scene FTP sites in Central Europe. Which makes this all the weirder -- for once I wasn't pirating LOL.
I like the part that says 'One morning as I was lying on the mattress (without bed frame or sheets) I had an idea that made me sit up like a capital L' very much.
So glad you told this story. We have analogous arrangements in Canada. The investment visa is one side of it, but we have a massive money laundering issue, to the point where casual BBQ conversations are about how many of the retail businesses in Toronto are obvious fronts and it's a significant factor in retail rents. Normal people think their politicians are paid off by foreign gangsters to turn a blind eye to the laundering operations.

The problem is that local politicians can stay in power using "donations," from this grey/black market foreign money, laundered through the R&D credit system, and they don't need the support of the local citizens or businesses.
The R&D credit system risks being more than just a public spending problem, it's a corruption problem.
My Thunderbird doesn't. Is it no longer in the top 10? (Was it ever in the top 10?)
I learned something new, a creature called the Numbat.

I thought it was a pun on "wombat"
Hard skills in eng management are underrated. If you do not have hard skills, you cannot recognize talent among your developer team.

Likewise, your developers will feel they cannot learn much from you and have a meh attitude towards your advice.
Also: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon
Except its obvious that posting news articles drives readership towards the links. You get very detailed statistics from Facebook on clickthrough rates and its not hard to see who clicks through that already has an account for your site (and is likely already a regular reader).

Some simple business analysis would show that having a strong presence on Facebook drives value to the company.

Look at a company like the American Right Wing outlet DailyWire. They have a massive presence on Facebook and they do a good job of getting people to comment and share articles and it has caused the valuation of the company to explode. (see Now This for a left wing example).
What would a provably adversarial comment system even look like? Maybe my uncreativeness is showing - but I can't even imagine this.
If its not on steam/ps4 i don't play it. if its not on the mac store or in homebrew i am very unlikely to install it and will seek an alternitive.

If it won't be on the ios apple store i won't install it.
Is there way to keep it as text, but make it uneditable? Ohh.. wait!
It is funny, because those kinds of arguments are totally meaningless. Languages are tools and a true craftsman would master many of them and use them when they are the right tool for the job. Instead, people who know only one tool try to convince themselves and everyone else that the tool they have is the only one they need and thus have it all backward.
Do you share credit? Can your reports eat what they kill?
> Had the clinical trials run in a "less ethical" way, say by taking young and healthy people like myself

And what exactly would that have told you about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for the people at risk, those who are neither young nor healthy?

And how many people would you need to challenge to show that the vaccine prevents deaths or even serious disease? The young and healthy rarely get the full brunt of the disease.
You could always just not play Game A?
There is also a risk of health problems. If at some moment my spine decides it is no more acceptable for me to spend so much time sitting by the computer, or my eyes decide it is no more acceptable to spend so much time looking at the screen... I won't be able to work as a full-time software developer anymore.

I want to make sure that when that happens, my family will be economically okay during the following years.
> People build huge programs in untyped languages

So? People build huge programs in typed languages as well. Whether people do something one way says nothing about how that approach compares to others.

> The cost of not having null is that all initialization and generic code gets much harder to write and work with

Could you provide examples of how lack of a null value makes these so much harder?

> the benefit is that once in a blue moon you get a hard to debug null pointer error

This is like saying that the only drawback to not having smart pointers in C++ is that once in a blue moon you get a hard to debug segfault. Sure, segfaults may be more common when working with raw pointers, but there are also substantial drawbacks in terms of mental overhead due to potential uncertainties about ownership/lifetimes.

In that vein, NPE/NREs are not the only drawback to a type system with null; the additional state space means mental overhead for the programmer and an increased risk of mistakes.

In addition, introducing universal nullability into a type system entails performance penalties. Null increases the state space of a given type, so if a type uses all of its bits (e.g., int) you need to introduce indirections (java.lang.Integer) or increase the size of the type (C# Nullable<int>/int?) to shoehorn in a null value.

> Instead of just cleanly solving a few key issues they recreate a programming language in their types and even worse they force you to use said programming language if you want to code.

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. This seems to be a criticism of generics/similar mechanisms, but you seem to be fine with C#/similar type systems, which has generics and makes use of them?

What's especially confusing is that type systems with generics and null are precisely equivalent to type systems with generics without null, as all instances of nullable types can be replaced with Option<T>/Optional<T>/Nullable<T>/etc. (with appropriate sugar for other operations, of course). So I'm a little lost as to what the problem is.
I’m really curious how much space a png rendered set of tiles would be. He mentions that the oceans compress well, but the usual method is to simply not render detailed tiles in ocean regions.
Some people love the text from an aesthetic view. I don't think we should be against that but rather to advocate the improvement of accessible technology.
>It was of no value to them anyway.

We have something of a natural experiment here on how much FB traffic is worth to news sites. We'll learn the results in a year if Australia repeals or maintains the law.
Citibank just got a $500M lesson in the importance of UI design
Wow, that's insane! My point of view is working at an east coast large research lab, that behavior here would for sure be noticed quickly and eliminated!
I don't know that it's entirely fair to say there is literally a single competitor. While Android is a single platform, you're free to get it from a range of vendors that all add their own flavor to Android. Some are really locked down, some are root by default. So you actually have a range of competing platforms even if they are powered by only 2 OSes.

And in the case of both devices (Apple and Android) you can still flash your own "competing" OS on the hardware. It's far easier to do this on an Android device than an Apple one, but the hardware is separate from the software you're running. But there are multiple mobile OSes not named Android or iOS.

What qualifies as a competitor, and what responsibility does Apple or Android have at creating new competitors? What actions are Google or Apple taking to actively stomp out mobile based OSes? Didn't Mozilla give it a shot? Didn't Ubunutu put out a mobile version of their OS? The lack of competitor for OSes seems like an odd argument to make. They exist even if they don't have marketshare, and there is no requisite business structure behind an OS in order for it to be a competing software. There are options. They may not be the single most accessible, and they may not meet your needs, but they exist.
If I could I wouldn't. I'm super lucky. Bachelor's degree in Computer Art. Been doing it since 1999.

If I had to maybe engineering?

VFX is such a great balance of art and math I can't think of any amazing alternative.
Tilt Brush has been ported to WebXR
Out of ~600 or some comments, this wins the award!

Thank you for really getting to the point of this article.

But I would add...

I left my job etc, but now I going to stand on soap box and write an article about and make myself sound so self righteous.
I’d guess that the OP is responding to the phrase “kill the newsletter” rather than the specific tool.
Cool. Now where's the guide to embed NFC enabled yubikeys in your hand?
Worked for the telephone system for 75 years....
If countries were companies, the Apollo Program would have got a large portion of its funding from the "Marketing" department. Because that's what it was.

It was still money well spent. Far greater returns than all the billions that are sunk in the military each day.

In this particular case, I think it started as a means to show off ICBMs (the Sputnik in particular) and I guess spy satellites. But then the race started and it got out of hand.

If the adversary has already managed to put a satellite up, you don't go and put yours as it would just get you to parity (at a later date even, so you are actually behind!). What you do is you one-up them. What can you put up there that's better than a satellite? People. But they did that too. What do you do then? Let's put people on the freaking Moon, let's see you top that!

Had the USSR managed to land people on the Moon too and this kept escalating, we would have orbital habitats on Europa by now.
Awesome map. Rural west of the US is still pretty spotty
XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate Offers Split from the X.org Server
Do people actually habitually load images in emails where they don't recognize the sender or don't have a specific reason to? IIRC the GMail default has forever been to not load images without an extra click. The only time I ever click that is if it's a personal email from someone I actually know, and I actually want to see the images.
>"Explaining something to somebody else is a great way to learn, too."

Indeed - I've become an expert at several systems by hanging out in support forums and answering other peoples questions. the harder, the better! Who needs video games when you can still solve problems, help others and increase your value/skill set too?
Is it really any additive value? News companies and consumption certainly existed before social media.
31.2˝ Color EPaper Display
Some of the things mentioned in the article are easy to measure.
How can "social justice" be "nonsense" if it's the opposite of Adolf Hitler's Fascist Nazism? Surely it's _sensible_ to diametrically oppose Fascism.
Agree with you that tooling was abysmal but all of those *nix had their bright flowering that subsequently pollinated other *nixes. AIX service management (SRC I think?) eventually saw life in Solaris as SMF. BSD jails reborn as containers. The HP-UX had batch job management that was very good. Solaris ABI/API compat between versions was exemplary, you can count on the OS upgrade not breaking your application. When the compiler was still being sold (thousands of dollars by the seat license), it was optimized for the SPARC processor and outperformed same code compiled by the GNU compiler. I wish we had all of that still.

Apropos of the "curated App Store" or "free-for-all" discussion currently active, I remember talking to a colleague in the early 2000s that Apple with its curated BSD-derivative OS was exactly what open sourced OSes needed. Users don't want to do more work than necessary; in retrospect, the selling point that users can do anything+everything with *nix OS was the wrong message.

You didn't mention package management and network booting to be pain points. They were nightmares, which Linux eventually solved. I think that's where the race was lost.
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Came here to say this, and reference the pg article about “the submarine”. This reads like it was written by a PR firm.

As a Hey user, this is the least salient thing about the service to me, but maybe they think it is the best way to compete with Gmail?
Hello,
Interesting idea and decent execution, congratulations on the launch (A slack bot would also be an interesting add on).
But to be honest, I am flabbergasted by pricing model. My current assumption is that it is mainly just a scheduling software, so does it provide the same value as Gmail enterprise ( considering nearly same pricing ) ?
Yes, people are lazy, most do not even learn from SO answers. They copy paste, move on, no greater understanding achieved.
As a programmer with no ML/GPU experience, this reminds me of the Spiral language: https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language

I wonder if Nx will succeed due being "just" a library for a popular language (Elixir) instead of being a separate language entirely.

"Don't make a new language if your idea could be implemented as a library" is good advice indeed.
Startup so quickly growing team and less recruiting support. Stabler team in a large org would have less hiring but more meetings.
how is it 30% more expensive apps when the play store, ps4 store, xbox store all take the same amount?
I would not say this is a solved problem - Rust is too young in the industry; let's wait and see. Java claimed it solved all memory-related issues, and some even stated good security because the programs were executed in VM. Many years later, we saw you could make memory leaks in Java, and you can escape VM.

There is no inertia here but an expected outcome. C/C++ programs are often predictable, memory issues are easy to catch, and tooling is top-notch. Good luck with other languages, except maybe with JVM/.NET platforms.
What would be great is if it generated an SVG with the screen-reader accessible title and description built in.

<svg role="img" aria-label="[title + description]">
<title>[title]</title>
<desc>[long description]</desc>
...
</svg >
Neither futon nor kotatsu add any vertical space to the room as opposed to having a bed or a table with drawers underneath
I feel like these devices generally give the illusion of security while really giving an adversary a single device to target. As another user had suggested, using udev rules and some device encryption would likely be a much better option... if not as an alternative, at least in conjunction with something like this.
Arguably the stock price is a prediction of future success, not current revenue.

The fact that it sagged under Ballmer and is now up under Nadella aligns with how I'm framing things. I suppose you could argue that's entirely PR, but I don't think that's the case.

People thought MSFT under Ballmer was trending down, now they think it's trending up. I'd argue that's due to strategic shifts that happened once Ballmer left.

I've mentioned in other comments that revenue (while good) isn't the whole story.
Wow! That's the worst you were googling?

You make me look like a saint. :)
I'm sorry but this makes no sense. So what if he was invited to speak? Can we not hold people accountable for their actions just because they were invited to speak?

How do you know whether or not the things he said were worthy of reporting to HR? He didn't say what they were for a reason
This would make a neat piece of art on the wall. I love thinking of the intersection between technology and neural-pathways, this reminds me of that.
Getting a competitive edge in media sales and creative advertising
In some countries, Facebook has a monopoly in online distribution that publishers have no other choice aside from Facebook to get readers.
Or maybe a better question might be, how does one arrive at the pricing model for a product like this ?
Why more communities can do better (1)
Are the better at innovation or just better at monetization and support?
Cool project. I'd never heard of Zig, but it looks like an interesting solution to the need you've identified.

I'd definitely agree that it seems valuable to have an Nx version that comes with a smaller, simpler install for development purposes. XLA is amazing, but it's not obvious that you want to have that toolchain setup for local development in all scenarios.

Would be great to see several different backends created for Nx as a way of exploring what feature sets are really needed and ensuring that the integration mechanisms are sufficiently simple and general to support multiple solutions.
All very good points. However, if you do (1) (Look for opportunities at work), you don't have the time and energy for (2) and (3) with the regularity needed for making serious advances. At that point, you have a well-paid, non-stressful, truly full-time job. I would skip (1) and keep mostly (3) (well, that's what I do, more than advice. A pat on my shoulder, if you will). They are not paying you more, the more you do, the more troubles, stress, and annoyances you call in your direction, and when the tide turns, it is not that they are looking at some code review you did or improved documentation you wrote to keep you onboard.

As I like to say: there is no second life, the only one that was build was virtual and "failed".
Good point. Totally agree. SVG would be nice way out but it is also hard to make accessible in comparison to pure html. Another example are badges. Even shields.io SVG badges are hard to make screen reader compatible (personally gave up on this some time ago). In the end inclusive design will make the web better for everyone beyond the short wow effects.
> It needs to be injected,

There is an oral once-a-day version sold under the brand name Rybelsus. It is very likely that if they did a similar tests for it you would see similar results as for the injection version (Ozempic).