skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you donate to charities that help pay for people's HIV treatment, then no-one is being forced to pay

If I feel you brought something on yourself why would I help you and not an innocent victim? And how would charity help resolve the issue of you dumping the cost on others, it would just be me instead of all of us, but still subsidizing.

> It would clearly be a moral obscenity to systematically allow people to die of treatable diseases because they can't afford treatment.

No, only if that money couldn't do greater good elsewhere.

> And if it's a question of 'blame' or 'risky behavior', then we should be refusing treatment to anyone who's ever eaten a donut.

In some proportion to the number of donuts, yes. Of course. Or at least they should go to the back of the line after we've helped people who didn't self-inflict.
Holy crap what an awful way to present information.
how does one search telegram? Isn't it just a person to person messaging app?
A big part of writing is getting to "the zone" or "the flow." Many writers use typewriters to ensure that the writing mindset is not polluted by other uses of the same devices. For example, reading news articles on their computer instead of writing, etc. To me, it makes sense for him to use an older computer that is not connected to modern distractions.

It's not just about the choice of software. It's also the feel of the hardware, the way the screen shines differently, the position of the machine in your home.

Some things just can't be replicated using retro-style interfaces on new computers.

It is a question of compartmentalization.
What kinds of things have you made with your setup?
> Samsung versions of all the core Google apps

Because everyone wants to own as much of the stack as possible: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/owning-the-s...

Samsung doesn't want to become a yet another interchangeable and disposable phone body manufacturer for Google.
Show HN: 'Who is hiring' jobs in a Gmail-like interface. A weekend MVP
I think many web apps should borrow Gmail's simple UI and experience.

This is my attempt to improve user experience of monthly 'Who is hiring' HN thread.

Any feedback is much appreciated. Could you tell me one - a single one - feature/improvement you'd like me to do next? Thanks!
Or maybe they've found walking alone in nature has helped with their own depression. It's certainly helped me.

Stop with with "you aren't qualified" crap. This is an internet forum where anyone can contribute their own thoughts. Do you actually want only certified mental health professionals to be able to comment on these threads?
OK after reading your comment I get what you mean, yes it’s possible that that’s what parent meant. However I still think that MS should spend some effort fixing the avionics, because in their current state, they are not up to scratch, even considering the different focus as explained in your comment.
Xiaomi comes with essentially plain Android TV and just adds an extra home screen that is even simpler than the normal one. Can’t complain there.
The story you linked is a bit more complex than the headline. It's kind of appropriate for the deeply confusing and paradoxical experience of shopping for a Sony phone.

And it confirms the GP's thesis that Sony is committed to keep making excellent phones while redoubling its efforts to ensure they're ignored.

What the article really says is that Sony is going to stop marketing and selling their phones in many regions, which means if you want one you might have to order it online from a reseller in Hong Kong or something. And then it may or may not be compatible with your local wireless spectrum. If it is, you'll have an excellent phone, and if it's not, you'll have an expensive pocket camera.

Probably what they've found is that outside of Japan, they can't compete against Apple's and Google-Pixel's mindshare (despite having far superior hardware than the latter, in my opinion).

> Xperia is by no means dead to the world and the company is actually redoubling its efforts with that brand in a bid to grow amid the spending cuts in regions where it will now be appointing its focus. The Sony Xperia 1 marked the start of that and is actually the result of those cost-cutting measures.
X.com, not PayPal. That was Peter Thiel.
The question is, why are we dealing with cross-core cache invalidation at all. When core A writes to memory location X, then core B reads from memory location X, why do we insist that core B reads what core A wrote? Almost by definition, the only reason to make such a requirement is that we want to use main memory as a mechanism to communicate between cores.

An alternative architecture would be to say that different cores should not be using the same region of memory. If they attempt to do so, it is an error and exactly what happens is undefined. We only need to worry about cache invalidation when we transfer ownership of a region of memory between cores.

If we had a non memory method of cross core communication, we would need to pass memory between cores far less often, which would greatly simplyfy the problem of memory cache invaldiation.
> I just keep everything in memory in native data structures and flush to disk periodically;

Can you expand on what you mean by this? I am interpreting that to mean that you are actually writing to a file and reading from a file rather than using SQL?
Can anyone speak to how this compares with something like wkhtmltopdf? That's what I've been using, and this is my first time hearing about PrinceXML too.

I generate some HTML for the user, they can edit it with a rich text editor like TinyMCE, and then we export to PDF on the server side. Wkhtmltopdf is pretty barebones on the style/feature side though, so this looks worth investigating.
Huawei is absolutely writing their own kernel, see https://github.com/LiteOS/LiteOS.
Try using a deflationary currency for daily exchanges and see how it works out. Coins issued on top of a smart contract blockchain are a different story because they can be inflationary. The way it's goin, Ether will soon be just for gas. Crypto's real strength might just be the fact that we can issue tokens on chains that follow either a fixed inflation or adjusted for growth, essentially achieving what modern economic theory recommends, bur backed by code and thus not affected by corruption.
Deeper Blue was not a general purpose computer, it had loads of chess-specific hardware. So it's tricky and not very meaningful to compare it to modern computers.
Serious question: the initial leak misspelt "Austria" as "Austriaia", and chaos has ensued... the initial forum leak along with all ufile references and telegram groups I've been able to find all seem to have this "bug".

So I'm very interested about any insight you may have.
“Seem” is the key word here. I’d be fine if they stopped at the scenery, but this quote is just outright misleading and makes it look like a paid hype piece:

> “All aircraft have been reviewed with professional pilots who have many hours flying these aircraft or test pilots from the manufacturers to make sure they are controlled exactly like they should.” … In other words, when sim-pilots try to yank-and-bank an A320, they will get the exact same response as if they were flying the real thing.

For contrast read some takes by professional pilots, here’s one[0]:

> I’ll confess that I don’t know that type of modelling FS2020 is using. But given how it feels, and how it’s the child of FSX, I’m inclined to think it’s using a lookup table. This isn’t necessarily a problem — a good lookup table with many data points could be just as good, if not better than, a blade-element model. Unfortunately, FS2020 doesn’t seem to have a good lookup table. The the linear behaviour unrealistic and the non-linear modelling is terrible.

> Maneuvering is laughably easy — and not because the aircraft handles nicely. It’s easy because the aircraft feels like it has no inertia. Yes, the real plane is very maneuverable and responsive, but there’s a “weight” to direction changes which is completely missing. In FS2020, you can instantly pull 60 degree or more turns, and exit them just as quickly. In XP11, there’s a residual tendency to turn that you have to arrest when exiting a maneuver.

If you care about how the world looks, get MSFS. If you care about the physics of flying, get X-Plane—it’s an excellent project developed by a smaller company and sold for a fraction of the cost of Microsoft’s product. XP strives to provide the actual fine-grained simulation of flight surface behavior based on weight, shape, etc. (Yes, this means your computer will spend most of its resources simulating rather than painting a pretty picture.)

If I had to draw a parallel, X-Plane is more or less the iRacing of flight sims, while MSFS2020 is closer to something like F1 2019.

[0] https://medium.com/swlh/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-no-c...

Bias statement: I own a copy of XP11, otherwise not affiliated.
Tesla owner with Mustang Mach-E reports threats on social media from Tesla fans
I would pay money for just the “self cleaning” feature set.
Shoe me the html document where I can search through a 60 page text. That's actually the thing. Html is fine if you only read text that would be maximal 2 pages on print. But if you read longer documents you want pagination which destroys the ability to search (unless the author implements a separate search or you use Google)
Does this fix the security problem that was revealed a day or so ago?
What happens when your wine types are dynamic? How do you typically bridge the gap?
No, the ones with nuanced humans are much better. Or at least the ones with tiny bit more nuance then story for 3 years old.
That idea reminds me of the chemistry simulations of filmulator (yet likely much less complicated). If you make something be sure to share it on HN, I'd be curious to see!

https://filmulator.org/

https://github.com/CarVac/filmulator-gui/wiki/Basic-guide-to...

https://github.com/CarVac/filmulator-gui/blob/master/filmula...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25885760
>And once this gets popular (eg a one-stop website for submitting your arbitration claim), the company is going to be stuck paying all of those separate arbitration case fees as they promised.

Almost exactly a year ago, the article below was published talking about this exact thing. Since companies tried restricting class action lawsuits, there are now instances of death by 1,000 arbitrations.

Judge William Alsup, who also handled Oracle vs. Google, is quoted:

"Your law firm and all the defense law firms have tried for 30 years to keep plaintiffs out of court, and so finally someone says, ‘OK, we’ll take you to arbitration,’ and suddenly it’s not in your interest anymore. Now you’re wiggling around, trying to find some way to squirm out of your agreement. There is a lot of poetic justice here."

The companies made this bed, and they don't seem to like laying in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-over...
I am so glad I left Portland. It is an astoundingly beautiful city, set in world class scenery, that is being driven into the ground by absurd and dogmatic ideology. You reap what you sow.
If you look at the below thread by Hickel, Roser is very uncivil (for an academic), childish and misdirecting. He also does not answer Allen's criticism. Hickel on the other hand remains very composed and courteous.

Roser also keeps constantly misrepresenting degrowth with a straw man that the global South needs growth. He has been told time and time again that every degrowth demand is only for the rich countries and everyone agrees the poorest countries needs growth, but still he makes the same claim over and over.

From this behavior, I've come to see Roser as a bad faith actor.

https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1376097068251541504?s...
I’ve never decided to take advantage of waterproofing, which made me all the more appreciative on the times I’ve unexpectedly done so.
Oh yes I love Foreflight 3D mode.

> an instructor could mix in other navigation skills

Yes you made me realise that my initial comment was not very clear, I said “VFR” but really I meant visual navigation.
And I Discovered that BQ get out of business like some months ago. Sadly... They make really good phones for a good price.
Adding in a service like a SQL database because "you might want that" in the future is not a good idea. Apps should do what they need to do and no more. "Future proofing" is almost always a waste of time - even if you definitely want the feature in the future it's usually better to add it in when it's needed than adding it early and have to support something that adds no value yet.

As for reports and transactions specifically, noSQL databases support both.
I bought a model Y with FSD a few months ago. It’s fantastic. “Navigate on autopilot” is game changing for highway driving. It’s 80% a useful as a completely self driving car.
It's the people who are currently the highest risks and paying the most who would be the first to switch to a self-driving car if they can afford it. The people with DWIs, etc.

Therefore the pool of people who drive for themselves would be getting less risky and their insurance premiums would go down.

Also, consider that right now, we have a minority of people who drive classic cars, which haven't got safety equipment, and their insurance is cheaper, not more expensive. Same with motorcycles, which have much higher accident rates than modern cars. So clearly a vehicle being more dangerous doesn't mean it's uninsurable or more expensive.

I'd really like to know if you or anyone can articulate what specific logic leads to your assumption, because people have been saying it for years. Obviously it's something people like to say. I feel like it might have something to do with a misguided analogy to health insurance.
It just feels wrong to perpetually owe many people with very little benefit for accepting that burden. I don't think there's much practical difference between forever and 2 years for a purchase like this, but for the business the difference is huge.
It's worth noting that every quote in this article, except the one from the Mayor, is from someone who works for the police.
For a long time stock android didn't have T9 contact searching from the dialer (and, astonishingly, iOS still doesn't), something present since the Galaxy S1.
RE: Fringey

It wasn't long ago that if you mentioned ID2020, vaccine passports or never ending lockdowns you would be derided as a crank.

Today people with concerns about vaccine passports are called conspiracists.

I observed the same with the Iraqi WMD debacle.

Maybe not everyone has time for deep dives and research, but IMHO that's much better than insinuation.
I still use Arc to write most of my websites, e.g. our TPU management system https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus

Arc's kind of underrated. It's nice to spin up a form to do arbitrary things without having to hook up any other boilerplate.
Not sure why you are being downvoted since the facts agree with you. Public transport has taken a massive drop all over the world thanks to Covid. Meanwhile demand for cars has exceeded rapidly.
Completely agree, and am hopeful they will add the missing features and have some sort of "realism" update.

Basic things like the inability to manually set barometric pressure - there's no option in the G1000 implementation, you have to press 'B' on your keyboard and it just sets itself. Little things like that add up and firmly take MSFS2020 out of the "simulator" category... for now.

Some others have mentioned that MSFS2020 might be more akin to a platform, upon which content will be added over years and years. Some enterprising individuals have already figured out how to add helicopters, for example, while officially there's no support for helis by MS/Asobo. So, I remain hopeful.
They're storing their data in native Rust objects and read or write them in server application RAM. In case data becomes larger than available RAM, they have set up a large swap, which is a file or a disk partition that the OS uses when no more real RAM is available, while acting like nothing is happening (and everything gets 1000x slower). They periodically serialize these in-memory objects to a file on disk, and presumably (they didn't specify, but I feel it's implied) they're reading this file and deserialize it during initialization/startup phase.
Xamarin Android College Campus Placement App Account Kit Part2-Huawei Developers
They may be working on other things but they also trumpet harmony as their own. Ars Technica wrote an article about how original it actually is: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-h...
It's not so strange if you visualize the actual weights of a model. Notice that most of the visualizations on https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/visualizations/2020-09-16-117m... are solid colors.
Vietnam was addressed as less successful. And Japan was treated like a colony after WW2, like Germany. Both lost most autonomy.
Top Trending Technologies in 2021 – Explained – MN Channel
I found that explainer at the bottom very helpful, thank you. (and I'm not even a part of the ML crowd!)
MVVM Architecture on HarmonyOS Using Retrofit and RxJava-Huawei Developers
Maybe it's a statement about how difficult it is to be profitable in the industry, and how much support/development effort it takes to keep up.

If this is true, I might suggest that people who wonder "can't we just make our own open source phone" inject some realism into their estimates about how much work is needed to make an alternative that people actually want to use.
How to Integrate Huawei Awareness Capture API into Fitness App (Flutter)
Members of the choir do not make those choices. The conductor does. The singers are the instrument in that case. Like a pipe in an organ. Their job is to blend and produce the sounds according to the interpretation of the conductor. Source: am a choir member. You will be fired if you interpret the music against the conductor's desires.
Isn’t that mostly you calling in and not the other way around?

It might depend on your country, but I can’t think of a single service where you’re required to make a call anymore, it’s all online. There might be a few services for the elderly and handicaped, but again that’s you calling in.
Downloading Huawei Drive Files with Network Kit
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics [...] Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
From my limited experience with wkhtmltopdf, a solution based on paged.js should work better

But maybe that’s because I didn’t fully learn wkhtmltopdf

PrinceXML is very good but is a paid solution. I found paged.js, at least for my purposes, on par with PrinceXML
Interesting, I didn't know you could do that. When I write "I'm not saving the phone number you enter" I mean to convey the idea that I'm not doing anything else with that number. As far as I know, the number and any derivative products of that number only exists inside the request context and are not stored in any way. There could be bugs, or I could be lying, but I'm not doing anything underhanded like that.
OnionShare also makes it easy to host websites over Tor.
Evergreen is also probably facing liabilities from affected customers if the cargo were to never reach it's destination. It would apparently create the need for whoever is receiving the goods to perhaps negotiate with Egypt separately in such an event.

My guess is that if Egypt decides to push responsibility entirely on the ship's owners and operators then it would open itself up to more vocal criticism from other customers afraid of also being sued for mistakes caused by Suez being unfit.
Software Spotlight: Boeing Calc and Boeing Graph
The studies seem to suggest the existing antibodies produced by some vaccine are not effextive against some strains, is there any evidence T-cells will do better given the variant looks like a completely new virus to the immune system?
As someone who spent five years in Facebook doing hardware after an acquisition, my advice is to save enough to be comfortable and then apply your passion and knowledge to a startup doing something you believe is worthwhile. Worst case if it fails, you get to move the needle a bit in a space, make useful connections, learn a bunch, and then bounce back to a FAANG job.
I invest $1M building a great new store for selling widgets. My first year I make a $1M profit. I want to build a second store, but I can't out of profits, because I only can net $700k because of state and federal corporate income taxes.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of what someone else posted. It just makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google Keyboard is the worst. It is so laggy and there is no way to adjust the keyboard keys for fat finger people.
Why would you need T9 on a touch screen? You can just display a full keyboard. That was the defining aspect of the keynote that launched the first iPhone, even.

There's nothing "astonishing" about it.
react-three-fiber with the new three-stdlib library. It's an approach that enables much smaller WebGL apps through tree-shaking, and the dev experience is really good (Typescript, fast refresh, no bundling step, etc).
I'm curious with what the motivation behind that rule is -- assuming there is one and the rule isn't a result of plain lobbying.
>removable battery
It's not really worth the extra few mAh for a battery you can't replace, considering that in a few months it will wear out and you quickly lose that advantage. User replaceable batteries allow you to put in a fresh battery every year, meaning you can take full advantage of the battery capacity regardless of how old the phone is.

>IR Blaster
The IR blaster is one of the most used apps on my V20. It can control anything from my circa-1980s stereo system to my modern surround sound AVR. And all without any proprietary apps which never get updated or having to connect to WiFi! I've put all my remotes in a drawer and forgot about them because I can do it all from my phone. I think this feature would get a lot more use if it was included on more phones, considering an IR LED is about $0.01 to include. Why do "smart" devices resort to overcomplicated and insecure Bluetooth/WiFi control interfaces when we had this problem solved since the 80s?

Waterproofing is a poor excuse. Most phones that removed these features are not waterproof. Samsung themselves proved that you can have all these things in a waterproof phone with the Galaxy S5.
No, they’re directing you to an engineering expert rather than someone in marketing.
Unfortunately there is a lot of bias that creeps in when you ask people whether their very expensive add-on is worth it or not. So it's not a particularly good idea to ask owners what they think.

The best thing is to be objective. Tesla's FSD implementation based on their videos suffers from one major fault: object detection. Why ? Because they rely on low resolution cameras and even the best algorithms we have today are very far from perfect. Without detecting objects 100% of the time you simply can't do full service driving.

That's why companies which have LiDAR i.e. Cruise and Waymo are so far ahead despite not having as much training data to work with nor the head start that Tesla had.

So my opinion would be by all means buy a Tesla but the facts are that FSD is not done and there is a good chance it will never be done without a hardware upgrade.
Please stop breaking the site guidelines, regardless of what someone else posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Copying a bad comment by a banned account in order to break the site guidelines yourself is vandalism, if not arson. Definitely not cool.
Why does the US need car ownership? wouldn't fleets that are constantly bringing in revenue be more efficient than everyone owning a car and driving maybe 2 hours a day?