skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apple Music app on Android is incredibly infuriating. What's even more fun is that Apple doesn't have anywhere to report bugs for it, and what's extra fun is that their bug reporter doesn't work on mobile (at least not with Firefox or Chrome).

My favorite bugs:

When connected to wifi that doesn't have internet access (like on a plane), some UI actions have a 60 second delay. So you tap a song to play it, wait 60 seconds for some network thread to timeout, and then the song plays

There used to be a bug where certain "smart" playlists would auto add every song you listened to (this has since been fixed)

Adding an album to a playlist straightup doesn't work

The button for downloading a playlist for offline listening doesn't do anything, you have to get each song manually
There's a difference between programming a scraper capable of scraping 500 million records, running it and storing the results without getting caught by Facebook and downloading a file.
Note: the link in the post to the pdf doesn't work.
"Bears" by Void in the Amiga 64KB Intro comp just now was incredible, a true piece of art. This is great!
OOf, yeah, expected value is a very misleading metric. Hard for me to wrap my head around it.

After 2 tosses, the probable outcomes are 25% 2.25, 50% .9, and 25% .36, giving an expected value of 1.1025 interestingly enough. Overall a 75% chance of losing money.
Its been a while since i've done windows stuff, but i thought you could use IP addresses in addition to netbios names for smb - \\1.2.3.4\share\file
Bitcoin doesn't fix this at all. In any way. Bitcoin's value fluctuates wildly.
Can only speak to my experience, but I am completely indifferent to their choice. Either of the 3 tend to be relatively substantial in equity, so everyone is invested in some regard. I also believe that in the long run, unvested options aren't the best retention strategy and that a challenging and rewarding work environment coupled with competitive compensation is the way to build an invested team.
personal heuristic of mine, never read something that even remotely reeks of self-help.

when it starts with "popular science person xyz charts a map of the most important scientific breakthrough of the decade" etc just put it back and pick something from the fiction section and you'll have a better time.

Life isn't lived in the aggregate, you don't need "sleep science" to figure out how much you need to sleep. Are you tired? Sleep more, no? you're fine. This emerging health industrial complex has just one purpose: create neurotic people who try to optimise their life and then sell them answers.
Six five oh two install gentoo!
Did you try contacting their support team?
Aha. Feeling dumb that I didn't know that. Of course they're directories with some metadata. Duh.

I always kinda guessed that DMGs were something like a ZIP file. Well, not really:

"3. Mounting DMGs

DMGs can be mounted, just like any other file system, though technically this is what is known as a "loopback" mount (i.e. a mount backed by a local file, rather than a device file)"

http://newosxbook.com/DMG.html

Pretty cool. Thanks for the tip.

Now wondering about differences between loopback mount, FUSE, potential for seamless Finder UX integration...
Nope, calm good 'ol boy having a mini gin and tonic. Lots of interesting folks out there waiting to be met.
It goes so much further than this and it is absolutely frighting. The following sketched situations applies if you don't use Facebook at ALL.

99+% of every single person you meet has either FB, IG or WA installed on their phones and shares their phonebooks with them (assuming you live in [insert western country here]). There is also a very big chance at least some have your full name and address in their phonebook. Facebook not only knows who you are, but also who you are in contact with, when you meet new people and who they are. They also collect phone and text records with their apps so they also know the frequency that you have contact with them and they can even read the content of text messages (most people these permissions to the apps because it will automatically verify the associated phone number). Add all the location data, ssid/mac address collection and countless of other datapoints to it and they can draw out your entire life even when you don't use anything from facebook. There is no escape.
Thanks. I'm just getting a "Please open Telegram to view this post from @freedomf0x" message. Any way to access this without signing up for Telegram? The irony of giving my personal info to another 3rd party just to check if my personal info was leaked by a different party is too much...
You don't waste your budget on either. You build solar/wind with natural gas combined cycles. Then you shut down the existing nuclear plant that is hemorrhaging cash and never build the new nuclear. The only new nuclear power plant under construction in the US is Georgia Power's Vogtle 3/4. As described above it is incredibly over budget. What investor would seek to try again? It is not like we build 1,000 of these a year and the industry get more adept. We are building 2 units over 10 years.
I wonder who keeps submitting this thread. Could it possibly be the same person who wrote the critique?
An interactive, accessible way to build maps
Impressed with SmashStash by iNSANE.
There's a lot of variation in the US depending on where you live. In California the car can be so old the paint has all come off but there's hardly any rust on the car because the air is very dry, it doesn't rain much, temperature variation is low and salt isn't used on roads. On the other hand you can be places like Canada or the northern midwest where Temperature swings by 100F between summer and winter, salt is used heavily on roads to melt snow, rain is common during the warmer months, and humidity levels in the summer are high. This causes cars, especially those not in covered garages to quickly rust and not last more than 15 years or so before too many components and body frame have rusted away.
I'm familiar with Camelot, it is used by UI called Excalibur. It is more intended to scan invoices or bank statements. It is perfect for tabularized data. It can handle tables without explicit column edges.
Mandrake was slow to boot on a 90's class machine compared to damn small linux. Also "run mandrake and send drakconf and KDE to the trash" doesn't ticks the "easy to use" box.
Lua does have semicolons!

It even has semicolon insertion, but because the language is carefully designed, this doesn't cause problems, and most users can go a lifetime without knowing about it.

Our coding style requires semicolons for uninitialized variables, so you'll see

local x;
if flag then
x = 12
else
x = 24
end

As a way of marking that the lack of initialization is deliberate. `local x = nil` is used only if x might remain nil.
So how do i, a regular person without a neuroscience or sleep background, know who to trust? The about page on this page doesn't lead me to believe that this is another expert in the field. Maybe Guzey got it wrong, maybe they're both wrong? Why should I take this page at face value?

I guess this leads to a bigger philosophical leaning question, how do I pick out good information when I don't know the field. This has been a struggle for me, I have a recent interest in neuroscience and how it relates to consciousness. This topic seems to have a wide variety of science based, philosophy based and some real out there stuff but it gets pitches as reliable. I really don't know how to pick good books to read. I don't know how to filter out the equivalent of like being antivax in a field i dont know about.

To try to answer my own questions, I guess in some way, you can't ever know the truth? But relying on one book, blog, article, view point to base your understanding will definitely lead to being uniformed unless you are lucky enough to stumble on a god source the first time.
Well of course, if you look at "mathy" operators like +. If you look at operator[], the use cases are all "collectiony" objects instead.
Ah okay, thanks - then my take was a bad take.
Road of Life
If you look at some people dedicated to testing EV’s - Tesla’s phantom braking has become huge driving factor away from their cars.
What to use for concatenation is a problem. PL/1 used "|", which was originally drawn with a break in the middle. But C took that over as "or", and that's now the accepted standard. ".." is accepted as a range operator now.

Moving deeper into Unicode is probably not the answer. Although, if a language needed a concatenate symbol, ⊞ (Squared Plus) might be a good choice. It's not used for much else.
How much do you space out the three variants? Have you gone beyond the endpoints? (But followed the same curve)
Google launched an Android app called Stacks. It's out of their area120 so it's not a fully supported product. But it scans and upload to Google drive and does some ocr. It's been pleasant to use.
In the US, the average age of all cars is 12 years, so a 10-15 year lifespan is pessimistic.
Strange how democratic societies have taxation while dictatorships have shake downs and bribery payments to local officials.

I rather appreciate paying a regular, well known, fees instead of having to hand out bribes left and right to get things done.

Arbitrary bribes to keep government running is insanely inefficient. Taxes are a much more efficient system that lets civil servants get paid (a transparent wage!) and let's me get things done in my day to day.
You can check the poster accounts, all very different. Likely just something people keep coming across.
Why do people need reasons to do things now? Whatever happened to freedom?
How hard is it to change phone numbers? So say I release my old number and take a new one, how do I make sure I am not forgetting any 2FA services I signed up for?
Have you registered your company name as a trademark? If so, you may be able to sue for trademark infringement (consult a lawyer).
4k miles per year isn't really anything, no point in getting anything more than the bare minimum.

According to most studies EVs are more eco-friendly after around 50-100k miles depending on each individual country's energy production profile.

At 4k miles per year you'd need to drive a brand new EV for over 12 years to break even CO2 wise.
According to wikipedia it's also sometimes called operator ad hoc polymorphism. Better?
Monero, actually.
No, I meant iTunes. Their willingness to make that was a harbinger of Bad Things to Come, ala the review you linked.

Apple had some good UI ideas in the past. For a fleeting moment, they were the best. But eons ago they sold out the user to sell him a lifestyle/subscription system built around keeping people from leaving. This vastly compromised their UI designs to the point of making them frustrating and sometimes futile.
Has that ever been enforced, in any shape or form?
Adding on to what others have said, I have one set up that's also used as part of my backup strategy for the important stuff on all the other boxes around here.
Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs
This Nadia Bouras person has cheering on red paint 'attacks' on an elected right wing politician's home address front door a while ago. Something something black kettle.
Hi, I think discovering blogs and articles by other engineers is quite hard. Particularly non-commercial content.

I made blogosphere last Summer in order to improve discovery. It’s seeded with personal blogs that have at some point appeared on the HN front-page.

The intent of the site is to recommend blogs and articles to you, with the objective that it’ll get better the more you use it.

The site uses a co-occurrence matrix to recommend articles and bloggers to you based on the articles you ‘star’ and topics you follow. If you’re not logged in, the site will show you popular articles. It doesn’t track what you read, and doesn’t have google analytics. I have some ideas for improving recommendations (i.e. people like you also like.., and improving the auto tagging of articles), but I thought I’d get feedback on whether people want this first.

The site is at an MVP stage, there will be bugs and missing features, but feedback on whether this is interesting to you would be useful.
Blowing out an underinflated tire at high speed is probably a reasonably common cause of accidents.
You can't start a group chat, only individual chats.
Depends on the role/level, but ~10-15k annually between each tier. I have gone beyond the endpoints (within reason) by just linearly extrapolating, though that tends to be pretty uncommon.
> It's a bad idea because ASCII already includes dedicated characters for field separator, record separator and so on.

ASCII is over 60 years old and separators haven't caught on yet; what's different now?

> These could easily be made displayable in a text editor if you wanted just as you can display newlines as ↲.

Can you name a common text editor with support for ASCII separators? It's a lot easier to use delimiters and escaping then change every text editor in the world.

> Anyone who invents a format that involves using normal printable characters as delimiters and escaping them when you need them, is, I feel very confident in saying, grotesquely and malevolently incompetent and should be barred from writing software for life. CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, all guilty.

All of the formats you rant about are widely used, well supported, and easy to edit with a text editor - none of these are true of ASCII separators. People chose formats they can edit today instead of formats they might be able to edit in the future. All of these formats have some issues but none of the designers were incompetent.
Show HN: A peptide design tool for cancer vaccine
Dear HNers,

I have coded a tool that hopefully could help oncologists to design a peptide vaccine for personalized medicine.

https://padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/target_TSA.html

Some peptides are specific to cancers. A peptide vaccine is a way to train our body to eradicate the cells that harbor these peptides on their outer membrane.

Peptide vaccines are notoriously ineffective but safe, so they could be a second line of defense against cancer after traditional drugs and therapies.

A tumor develops many mutations, over time. So there is no standard medical answer. A peptide vaccine will therefore be composed of a set of peptides, which may vary over time. Because peptide vaccines can be designed very quickly, they can help respond as soon as drug resistance develops.

Peptide vaccines could be a way for oncologists to distinguish themselves from their colleagues in practice, and allow them to express their know-how.

This service uses its own MHC prediction service in PHP (derived from PSSMHCpan). So it is faster than NetMHCPan, but alas, it is currently hosted on a cheap VPS so it cannot take much load.

I wonder if you could suggest some business model for this kind of tool?

Thanks!
A single person will have $6700 a month after taxes on 120k in NYC. Manhattan studio rent is about $1800. That leaves almost $5000 a month in disposal income after housing, which is higher than the US median income before housing costs!

Sure rent is pricy in Manhattan relative to other places in America, but I just don't get how that type of life is depicted as such a struggle online.
2021 Hong Kong Policy Act Report
> How did this play out in the 737 MAX crashes?

They didn't follow the rule in the MCAS design that a single point of failure cannot lead to a crash.

> Was manual overriding the system not vital knowledge to the crew?

It was, and if the crew followed the procedure they wouldn't have crashed.
I learned to stop worrying and love the hamburger menu
How do you people leave out ESC - it saved my life at least once or twice and it’s obvious how well they work.

What leaves me even more fumbled is how easily RWD Tesla’s spin out and crash with regen and snow. Take the gas pedal of and you’re going off roading. With normal car you’d struggle to even trigger ESC, let alone loose it.
I think one of the clearest examples of this is London, where tech salaries are 20-30% lower than SF despite it being roughly as expensive.

My friends at Google say Zurich is a better deal that it might seem. Between lower taxes and moderately lower cost of living, your google salary goes a lot further in Zurich than it does in Mountain View.
Those references seem a bit circular.

And the author of those sites and I have very different views of what Spyware is. To me, spyware is software that spies on you without your knowledge.

The only thing that would even begin to qualify that is mentioned by [1] is telemetry, which Brave explicitly asks you about and which you can easily disable.
I tend to do this as well.

This is the way.
>> the widely-praised system of checks and balances is far from perfect

Close to perfect is a pretty high bar.

When a system of checks and balances lasts a quarter of a millennium, it got more right than it did wrong.

>> Legislation simply does not get passed

The Justice Department once tried to figure out how many federal crimes there were, they gave up and could only estimate. That was 35 years ago, they estimated something like 3000 crimes that were defined, it is estimated to be 4500 now. There are tens of thousands of pages of federal legislation. There are thousands of pages in the federal tax code alone.

Legislation obviously does get passed.
>Dutch law states that a hosting company cannot be prosecuted for the actions of those who hire its servers. It is impossible for a hosting company to know the content of every byte on those servers. But hosting companies are required to take action if they are informed of the presence of illegal content. The question is how quickly and how actively they do so.

Chucking a DMCA in the trash sounds like it's against Dutch law
Without Contact access in iOS, WhatsApp blocks you from starting a group chat, but allows individual chats.
Actually Android devices (especially older ones) are known for in many cases sending extensive data to the manufacturer on network connect. See for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/china-phones-..., https://balagetech.com/android-app-phones-home-china/
> S-expressions inherits all trouble with data types from json (dates, times, booleans, integer size, number vs numeric string).

Hm, not sure that's true, S-expressions would only define the "shape" of how you're defining something, not the semantics of how you're defining something. EDN https://github.com/edn-format/edn for all purposes is S-expressions and have support for custom literals and more, to avoid "the trouble with data types from JSON"
An you example I always liked: baggage fees at airlines. On average a $25 bag fee is the same. For 4 business travelers. For a family of four while the dollar amount is the same it effects the family much more.
Yeah I assume that the data is not actually hosted in Telegram so would be really nice with a direct link or magnet or similar.
It does, but in that case GitHub at least scrapes together a proper 404.
> This is why podcasts and longform youtube content form actual experts is thriving while traditional media is dying.

It is kind of sad that the "longform content" that you mention as the new thriving alternative to traditional media, is rather time-infefficient audio and video. I regret the dearth of longform reliable text.
The LEAF has a battery heater. It does suck for having only passive cooling.
Does being under inflated increase the risk? I always figured it was debris or just worn out tires?
By that logic the tax rate should be zero, and people can just send the treasury whatever amount they like.

Are we now done pretending we don't know about the tragedy of the commons?
often northern Europe is like this... or Switzerland. I have seen incredible stuff in Switzerland.
Ironically places where you have happily live without a car tend to be more expensive to live in. It's not just the moving costs; if you can't afford a car you probably also can't afford the rent in a place where you don't need a car.
Show me a bitcoin ATM where I can withdraw $82k cash.

I hear you. You can't get $82k cash from an ATM, you need a flesh and blood teller for that. Fine, fine, if there's a bank of bitcoin that will facilitate my $82k withdrawal, I'd be happy with that.
I had this idea a while ago, tried a number of libraries include Tesseract, and found all the results extremely poor. Be interested to see if one that works is suggested.
the telegram has a text file with links to links by country, I've just stuck that at https://pastebin.com/3SvG1FJ0
> That might be, as you point out, the primary thing for _you_.

I'd be willing to bet that most people would consider that the primary characteristic of Safari that reminds them of IE. The market share was important to the IE hate but it wasn't because "everyone had it" it was because "everyone had it and it sucked" (sucked~= lagged/slowed development/entrenched users with shitty and unique experiences). Don't get me wrong Chrome also shares some of those secondary (imo) characteristics but I imagine when people speak of "IE" it's because of the , what the parent comment and I, consider the primary characteristic.

> The web would be better if it wasn't dominated by a very small set of platforms. Adding 'a few more browsers' on a single operating system hardly helps.

Now that's a hot take. Can I assume you're an Mac user ? honest question
These are not the same kind of stupid. One makes the assumption that costs will always be the same, and the other makes the assumption that cost decreases are linear, or predictable. The former is much stupider.
Someone's Marketing team forced them to write an article!

But yes, tries are very cool.
Absolutely. I found similar advice to that in this book propelled my insomnia about 4 years ago.

My insomnia responded to CBT-I extremely fast. After 18 months, 2 nights of sleep deprivation (4 hours in bed) and the corner was turned. Now, if I feel my sleep is falling away, my solution is to cut sleep. It rebuilds habits too - what do I do at 6am except run?
No, you’re thinking of csrutil --disable for turning off System Integrity Protection. You don’t have to do that to run unnotarized apps.
Human beings are ridiculously diverse in behavior and no one should be asking "why would anyone ...?"

This is exactly the kind of thinking uninspiring politicians have when they try to or pass laws that curtail freedom for no good reason.
The funny thing is their electric vans do have thermal battery management.
I'd just add that Boston also just doesn't have a car-free culture like Manhattan in particular has.

So even if you're a middle-class/upper-middle-class tech worker who wants to live in the city:

1.) Many of the tech jobs are in the suburbs and you mostly need a car to get to them. (There are today more jobs in the city again but many aren't.)

2.) Many of your friends probably live in transit unfriendly suburbs so you'll probably find it hard to get together with them unless they come in to meet you.

Of course, people adapt to what is easier for them and just behave accordingly.
I actually like how conservative Java has been with making language changes.

People go nuts with language features because they can, not necessarily because they have a good reason. this it the big problem I have with Scala, for example.

Sure arithmetic operator overloading with numeric types makes sense. Even the parenthesis operator overloading in C++ for functors makes sense.

Then you have the Scala SBT build system and percent operator overloading.

I actually like how Rust does this. You don't overload the operators per se. You implement traits with named methods like Add that will allow you to use the operators. This, to me, is the best of both worlds.

I personally think Java has been just fine without operator overloading so there's no pressing need to add it now but, if they do, please follow the Rust model.
Normal?

No.

But the kind of "buy here pay here" places that use these devices are sellers of last resort. Basically the vehicle lending equivalent of a payday lender.
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