skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a family member replacing her grad school MacBook Air with an iPad Pro now that she's returned to the industry and has a work computer again for her programming/bioinformatics needs. And a lot of her workflow could be done in Jupyter Notebooks, honestly.

Programmer for over 15 years. Only reasons I bother to have any personal (non-work-supplied) computers other than an iPad or two (Pro + a Mini, if I had two) and an iPhone are: 1) I can't quite let go of PC gaming, 2) the Preview app on Mac (yes, really), and 3) frankly, piracy and related activities (setting up Kodi or Jellyfin stuff, emulation, major metadata-fixing sessions, that sort of thing)

On that last one, I'm increasingly unsure it's actually worth it. If that weren't the only (reasonable) way to get/enjoy certain things that I like quite a bit that point would probably go away and I'd have to seriously consider whether the other two were worth the cost, hassle, & space.
TIL kiwifruit is called kiwifruit.
On what exactly? The recovery OS bricking M1 Macbooks because of a bad update on launch day? I'm glad I dodged that bullet and have my data safe and sound.

If that happened on your first Mac (Like many others who went all in), well its back to the Apple store for you since you would need another Mac to restore it.

For developers, nearly everything is running in Rosetta since it is not optimised or still unfinished. For example, not being able to use Docker on M1 for 6 months until it became stable, Android Studio still unable to run VMs properly, Java was unavailable for months after Nov 2020, resulting in 'workarounds' to get it 'working'. Someone else mentioned that Vargrant (which uses VirtualBox) doesn’t even run. Very happy I missed out on that chaos on waiting months if I went all in on moving to M1.

So yes, I missed out on being part of the November 2020 chaos and also waiting months for the software ecosystem to catch up to Apple Silicon. Anything other reason as to why I should buy a M1 Macbook NOW rather than waiting for M1X/M2 instead?
There is always gamedev, where after a year of 80 hour weeks, the game is launched and… half the people get fired because they are no longer needed.
Clicked thinking this might be useful information; was mostly disappointed.
Don't cite the verge article. They failed to even set up the service properly and then complained that they didn't get good service. Every starlink customer complained that it was completely misreported. It's called "RTFM".
TIL, in my country the fruit's name _is_ kiwi.
I meant freedom as in liberty, not free as in 'free beer.'

In other words -- if you are free to write code any which way, complexity will result. Or conversely, in order to keep code consistent, someone would need to enforce rules.
If you like spotlight and living in zsh, checkout mdfind!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27169301
I don't understand why anybody would consider to be at risk if an alternate store, that nobody would be forced to use, and which could even be subject to identical or even better rules, exists.

And I'm not even talking about transforming an iPhone into a potentially open computer, but here too the same principle can be applied: if it is optional, it is something more, not less. The UX can be made good enough to actually have your cake and eat it, see Chromebooks.
Were they censored? IIRC they were only labeled as "not fact checked" - which at the time was true.

It seems lots of emerging stories should carry that label.
Don't compare global wealth to share of US taxes. That makes no sense.
> I can't recall Netflix really reinventing the wheel

Netflix has many private and public projects that have alternatives that could have been adopted. I'm glad they didn't, because Netflix releases quality product and I'm super appreciative of their contributions.

https://github.com/netflix
> The lack of internet coverage in the US is a solvable problem driven by idiotic politics

Starlink/OneWeb/Kuiper solve a much bigger problem than just rural US coverage.

> land based solutions will always be lower latency/faster if built right

Not necessarily true due to the speed of transmission in fiber vs. speed of light in vacuum (once the Starlink laser links are set up).
Yeah I get it, I mean I live in DC. I don't even have voting representation. But I still think our current system is pretty good. We just need to make it more efficient, transparent, and accountable.
Is it really a different perspective? This author is trying to do their best to give it a positive spin but the article is still a description of an unforced disaster that miraculously worked out for Uber.
> but most in the US (myself included) would say that the US Constitution doesn't grant anybody any rights. It codified inalienable rights that exist for all people merely by virtue of their existence

And many outside the USA would disagree with your position that a 200 year old document, written in part by slave owners, is the sole source of truth of our inalienable rights.

I for one disagree with the concept of immutable, codified constitutions entirely. I grew up in New Zealand, a country with no codified constitution, and yet somehow a country with a far better track record in human rights than the USA.
Why Python hasn't taken off on mobile, or in the browser
Solve it in software.

This really seems like a UX problem. We’re trained in the UX of long exposure film, and tools to do it differently aren’t built into the cameras these people use.

Pretty sure the iPhone’s long exposure doesn’t amplify moving objects

That said, let’s tax satellites and fund, I dunno, space cleanup or astronomy or some such. Maybe treat space more like an earth wide resource and less like the Wild West.
Can you expand upon the team in Amsterdam locking down Uber for people in Russia?
If we taxed expenditure, rather than revenue, they wouldn't have a chance to hide a damn thing.
https://youtu.be/gKAIazAJuzQ

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
This is unrelated to SQL. We are using SQL as examples - but it is not important to the argument.
At-will employment. If you don't like, go do something else.
Or to get engineers promotions.
... You should look into what Stratum v2 is. By "running your own block creation infrastructure", do you mean running a pool? No infrastructure is needed. Creating a block is very easy and cheap. What's expensive is repeatedly hashing that block enough times to mine the block.

Stratum v2 doesn't get rid of mining pools, it just puts the block creation in the hands of individual miners. Pools still get a cut, and pool miners still share the rewards. This is because Stratum v2 makes certain requirements of blocks created by miners such that when they mine a block, the pool and everyone properly gets paid along with it.
The Problem is not Vimeo, the Problem is that YouTube has established the expectation that Video hosting on the web should be free. No other Video CDN can compete with that outside of a specific niche. Google owns Video.
Xbox Cloud Gaming, unfortunately, it's far from ideal. For several games, lag kills the experience. And I'm not talking fast paced FPS. Even platformers can feel weird or unplayable when you add latency.
The strategy behind the Coinbase announcement
With launches getting cheaper and cheaper, just launch an orbiting telescope.

Also, the picture shared seems pretty clickbaity. Not sure who took it but they must be amateurs if they can't mask objects obviously moving on known orbits between frames.
Or we could use a tiny fraction of the economic potential enabled by global, ubiquitous high-speed internet to put a few more telescopes in space? Laying cable across the globe also seems like it would be a whole lot more expensive and environmentally harmful than a few extra satellite launches.
Ask HN: What’s your most recent “this didn’t need to be a SPA” experience?
Clickbait journalism. Its a race to the bottom to get attention of reader using raunchy titles
>Historical data further shows that taxes keep rising but so does inequality.

I don't know if you're aware of this, but taxes in the west are significantly lower than they were in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The top marginal income tax rate in the 60s was 90% in the UK and 91% in the US. Currently it is 45% in the UK and 37% in the US. Corp tax is currently 18% in the UK and 21% in the US. In the 60s it was 45% in the UK and between 11% and 55% in the US.

But you're right about inequality rising
One of the biggest differences between Swift and Kotlin in my day to day is that breakpoints/debugging in Kotlin are glacially slow compared to the same in Swift (which itself is a fair deal more slow than debugging Objective-C). I'm not sure if this is due to JVM baggage or what, but it can make chasing down bugs in Android rather painful, slowing methods that normally run in a fraction of a second to take several minutes.
Yeah, on my team (payments) we completely underestimated the backend complexity, assuming there would be little to no effort, and pulling in a backend engineer “just in case”.

We ended up scrambling as it became apparent how many things changed (from polling to push notifications, thrift changes etc etc) and making the backend ready became a heroic effort itself... especially that we had very few backend engineers in Amsterdam at the time.

You should write up your experience!!
Speaking of.. is there an article about writing Pythonic python? I think that would be extremely useful to various team members. Sometimes the official documentation is too verbose.
you know..."it depends" if a famous (non) answer among (good) software architecture
Serve notice of what? This didn't seem to be mentioned in the article.

Also, is that a thing police in India do? Here in the US, if documents need to be physically served, it's usually done by a single representative of the court, not a policeman, let alone many police.
Not spreading FUD, just pointing out inconsistency.

"Yes, Apple devices do collect some data" should be the end of that sentence. Any data that is collected on the device and sent to apple is not private. It doesn't matter if Apple doesn't share it with other advertisers. Apple does advertising itself. There is no difference between it an a 3d party advertiser in terms of data they have access to.

Once you get past that point and accept that there is no privacy, then its just a matter of how much you trust companies with your data. If you wanna claim that you trust Apple with your data, that is your own personal choice.

As far as what Apple does or doesn't with that data, it's laughable that the argument for privacy is them refusing to unlock a phone. Security isn't determined by what computers/users/companies do or don't do, its determined by what is possible. And when it comes to data, its very possible, as proven by real life events, for them to turn over your data to law enforcement.

Again, whether or not you care, thats a personal choice. But saying that Apple cares about privacy is just dead wrong, you have either ironically fallen victim to the Apple adverting about privacy, or you have an intrinsic bias towards Apple because you like their products which leads you to discount basic facts.
> world where this is deemed reasonable

I mean... the world where uber engineers are getting paid 300k a year, is probably that world where people might think that this is reasonable, given the compensation at companies like uber.
Folks give endless crap around apple's lack of repairability. Bottom line however is that Apple's phones get a ton of use and re-use for a number of reasons.

1) Really hard now to do the fake replacement battery scams, Apple alerts buyer if a new battery was put in outside of apples approved ecosystem.

2) Fantastic duration on updates. Despite the claims of the more repairable androids, far too many NEVER update, AND ship with crap / older versions from the start. Apple by contrast has iOS 14 running on: iPhone 12
iPhone 12 mini
iPhone 12 Pro
iPhone 12 Pro Max
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro
iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPhone XS
iPhone XS Max
iPhone XR
iPhone X
iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone SE (1st generation)
iPhone SE (2nd generation)
iPod touch (7th generation)

iOS 13 and even iOS 12 are STILL getting updates that cover iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3 and original iPad Air.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212341 came out just this month for iOS 12.

3) Phone is pretty durable, everything is glued down and surprisingly waterproof.

4) Hard to root the device. When you buy a used phone / do a reset, you are less likely to be getting backdoored.

5) Resulting in fantastic resale and down market value which means the phones go and go and go.
Problem is and was stating ”lab origin” as a false narrative when we truly just don’t know.

Of course a Politifact that says ”we dont know” is useless and so they have to invent truths to be relevant.
They were expecting to harass Twitter employees and inconvenience Twitter.
I just wish you didn't feel the need to highjack comments and posts to fan the flames of a partisan conflict.

Surely there's a better place for this debate?
It's a little difficult to even understand what they're accusing the government of. The Army had a budget of $111 billion but spent $2.7 trillion and no one noticed? Really? That just doesn't pass the smell test. Most likely, they're misinterpreting something.

I will say that looking up the results of the more recent audits (2020), the summaries frequently talking about failing audits but also of uncovering zero evidence of fraud.
I guess we will need to find a way for telescope based research to interference with internet connectivity...

Lets say, maybe a couple of Astronomy PHds students whose thesis just got ruined, could start a new SETI project. Or more light and gravity studies of Einstein findings :-)
I would guess a couple of lasers randomly firing upwards from an Telescope site could not possibly cause issues for low earth satellites, could it ? ;-)
Eh i wouldnt support a hard rule.

Likely I'd appeal to moms after I got the cool kids though, social media style.
My SO is an archaeologist and I work in ML, so naturally we've discussed how the two could be combined. This is one of the applications we've discussed as well as sorting/categorizing bags of bones and bone fragments into animal types (zooarchaeology is her specialty so this is a common task). As the article seems to indicate, the main hurdle for these tasks is data collection and annotation, especially since even experts often disagree on the classifications. There have been a number of times where my SO had to discard the data she was using after getting access to the materials they were gathered from and realizing that the researcher categorizing the animal bones had no idea what they were doing.
That was the first time I've upvoted a comment whose raw message irritated me. You don't see many creative comments here. They seem to be discouraged. But at least we all have impeccable rationality!
The only reason you have for assuming that the IDF are trying not to kill civilians is their own word which is worthless to me and anybody outside of their alliance with the US.

They have lied repeatedly before about how their attacks did not hit non combatants only for later UN reports revealing that the majority of deaths were civilian. They even bombed offices for Al Ghazeera and AP News recently in Palestine, likely in retaliation for testy interviews and coverage. Am I supposed to believe that those were holding Hamas as well?

And you never said anything about Hamas's motivations in the first place. You just treated Israel's actions as being justified as a given so don't give me this bs about how you're somehow being fair in your coverage when you're transparently biased towards Israel.

And as for your question, while I do not condone any attacks on civilians or civilian infrastructure (which already makes my moral compass better than the IDF's), I absolutely support resistance by the Palestinians against their violent and illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing efforts by Israel. You don't get to cry about your right to self defence when you're the ones who they're trying to defend their homes against.
A nod. But if I know them, a greeting.

I just don't want to disrupt their work or impose that they have to respond back.
How big of a discount did Google agree to?

For a customer that high profile they can show to investors, surely SpaceX isn't paying retail for that.
Competition in the portable market would be rough, although I would love to see Sony give portables another shot. Especially now that smartphone gaming is its own segment entirely.

Microsoft's strategy seems pretty solid, especially given their stumbles last gen. They're buying in heavily into Game Pass and making games subscription and cross platform across PC and Xbox. XCloud streaming ties into their subscription model and allows for continuity to mobile devices as well.
I started with Ubuntu as a complete newbie - no idea about what a hard drive or RAM was - and had no problems. And very few since. Using Mint since Daryna, I've had almost no issues.

I even ran across someone using Peppermint who had no idea they were even using Linux and had no problem using their computer to do the everyday things.

In my experience using Linux, especially the user friendly distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Peppermint, has been dead simple.
I for one think the Supreme Court is the one who ruined everything. Verizon Inc v FCC (2002)[1] dismantled the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which had been working effectively to decouple physical infrastructure from internet service providing.

The Supreme Court sided with Verizon, who said basically "fiber is too expensive for us to be able to deploy, unless we get a monopoly over the infrastructure we build".

This has lead to enormous stagnation. DSL remained a competitive service, with a variety of competing entities, in the 90's & early aughts, because it still remained under the Telecommunications Act, of unbundled network elements, because of unbundled local loops. As soon as one company was allowed to own the infrastructure & every means to connect over it, the system of competition & innovation that had been working went away.

Now a days we have municipal service providers getting started. They too will exist in these same terms, as local infrastructure monopolies. They won't have a regulatory framework that systems like POTS / copper have, won't have any standards for cooperation / competition, since fiber as a whole has never been unbundled. Overall, I see this as a great potential weakness for municipal isps, and it's something I think the left & right might be interested in rectifying. It could be done municipality by municipality, with promises, but I for one think many people on many sides of the political spectrum have an interest in fixing this radical overreach & colossal corporate favoritism that was gifted by the Supreme Court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v....
> In democracies the judiciary is not at all there to decide truth. It's there to apply the law

Yes, and in this case. It would have gone something like this, the side which thinks it has been wrongly represented files a libel lawsuit and then facts are checked and the case is argued in a transparent manner.

What happened right now was action by a black box on commentary from another black box. We know before wars, stories have been carried by private companies("news" organisations) to set the narrative. They turned out to be false but did they ever answer for them? No.

> It is governemnt of the people, by the people, for the people.

But is this by people? I can choose to not believe in it but do you disagree the vast amount of influence these platforms hold and how they can set the tone of the discourse.

Wasn't this the exact alleged issue in 2016 elections? FB's targeting was used to selectively set narrative.

Are we fine with unchecked use of these all mighty tools?
I had also seen criticism of it here: https://screenfont.ca/learn/
What I think is infuriating that companies and countries can just put up as many satellites up there as they want.

If you put dangerous[1][2] garbage in the sky you should have some responsibility to keep it safe and clean up.

IMHO the risk of putting these things up outweigh any potential benefit for underserved regions. Musk could've also invested in ground-based communications infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1ibDImAYU
FWIW, AMQP1.0 does support Sessions which can be used to address this scenario :)
Dictators defeat themselves with their inability to administer justice. As bad as some people are, they still have their day in court and get a chance to make their case. The law improves. People strengthen. Innocent get a chance. Next wrung up, the just defeat themselves because no one likes them. It's possible to be just and still make things nice. The top of the heap are the obscure. They live simple lives in paradise with very little effort. No one knows about them.

Professional soldiers die first in conflict. Their flaws are the first to reveal. Everyone else looks inwards and fixes their flaws, asking what it is they have done to bring this on them. Those flaws get fixed, and the conflict ends. The purpose of action in conflict is to limit the violence on the return to a civil life of mutual respect. That's what it truly is.

Some nations think one may call themselves a journalist and get to do whatever they want and laws don't apply to them. They may fuel race divisions, increase the murder rate, burn cities, corrupt institutions created for everyone's benefit, and working with their commie friends to kill millions with a bioweapon just to win an election. This is wrong. Freedom of speech means the powerful cannot speak perfectly. If they could, we would all be perfect and have no need for them. Since they can misspeak, they can't punish anyone else for their speech.

Don't deal with animals. There's no talking to them. If there was, vets would prescribe bed rest.
Doubling the wage for the 40 hours of overtime still doesn't get you to $100k, and the people working on this were all making much more than that.
Belarus diversion echoes prior Ukrainian incident involving Belavia 737
I didn't realize it but I guess iOS doesn't support WebXR?
Also TIL kiwifruit is from China ("Chinese gooseberry")
Sure if you want to boil it down to a simple yes or no answer.
PS4: 115 million units.

Looks like Sony didn't forget something when they announced their new console.
> And it kind of explains why k8s is creating so many jobs.

Is it 'creating' jobs? I think it's merely making it easier to specialize.

A few problems are unique because of container usage, but by and large K8s is trying to do what's otherwise a difficult job. Try assembling your own distributed container system with scheduling and whatnot and see if you can build something easier to understand or that works better. Maybe you can, but there's inherent complexity.

The criticism of K8s should really be criticism of indiscriminate container usage and the attempts to ship a company's organization chart as microservices. Many applications should really be monoliths and would work better that way. Some should be split on different "services" (not _micro_) along obvious interface points. Just a minority should be architected as microservices from the get go. Distributed systems are _hard_