skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Jeff Bezos and Other Space Tourists Will Enter Sparse Regulatory Territory
Also, human vision is the single most important way we understand the world, the visual cortex is also proportionally much larger than other sensory organs’. It would be a downgrade to restrict our communication with computers to a more narrow channel.
That’s a great way to get people habitually ignoring the important notifications
> Having built a load-test tool as well.

Which tool. Curious.

To your other points,

> That sounds like throwing money at the problem and it probably worked (for a while anyway).

> Maintenance cost is high, especially in a features focused environment.

Isn't really just choosing which way to throw money at the problem? Hardware costs, vs. person-hours to maintain a thin client version?
Am I misunderstanding? Isn’t this already possible on iOS? You can either disable notifications for individual apps or just turn on Do Not Disturb mode and leave it on. Fairly sure there is a setting to allow phone calls.
report taxes. Stripe tax does all of that

It doesn't say they file the taxes for you. "Speed up filing and remittance with comprehensive reports" means they will help you with it, but not do it for you. Later on the website : "Stripe reports surface all the information you need for each filing location, so you can easily file and remit taxes on your own, with your accountant, or with a preferred partner.

US filing partner
TaxJar
EU filing partners
Taxually
Marosa"
When does Apple ever send push notifications other than software updates?
Wait what?! I thought this only applied to iOS / iPadOS.

You're telling me Firefox under macOS is using Safari's engine? If so, wow. Extremely disappointing.
We use both Testim.io and Playwright for performance testing.

I work at Microsoft but at a completely unrelated team and while I know some of the folks who work on playwright I have no official affiliation and my opinions represent my own and not my employer's.

Playwright is great for this sort of thing! All we do is run the same test with two variants (before/after the change) and run a student t-test (well, a welch t-test but close enough).

It's ±50 LoC and as long as you're fine with running the test enough times to get statistical significance Playwright works quite well for this
The metrics of "How long did users spend on this app on average" and "Did they think this was time well spent?" is a brilliant idea
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The next Venus missions will tell us about habitable worlds elsewhere
> Even Apple had their own MMU in the Macintosh II line before they switched over to the 68030.

You could add a 68851 to a Macintosh II, I didn't think Apple developed their own MMU for it. The Lisa had a custom MMU.
Hard paywall.
The only reason I have a reddit account is so I can disable all the junk in preferances and not have to worry about the subdomain. My reddit basically looks like HN. Old is good, but not as good as what you can get with customization for now.
I see that they still say:

>>> Please don’t use “win” as an abbreviation for Microsoft Windows in GNU software or documentation. In hacker terminology, calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do so in GNU packages. Please write “Windows” in full, or abbreviate it to “w.”

But they have removed some other guidance:

>>> Instead of abbreviating “Windows” to “un”, you can write it in full or abbreviate it to “woe” or “w”.
There are also trial notifications, which only show up in notification center. Every app can just do that without any permission.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
What is it that is slow, are you on OS X?
Skynet already hosts nearly 1,000 TB of data. At 100 TB, SciHub would be material but also comfortable.
I get it.

On a much smaller scale, I was in a similar position once.

Ran a very active online community. Each year we had a big (well, for us) in-person meetup. Everybody loved it, looked forward to it, etc.

In retrospect I'm not sure it was the best use of our extremely limited people-hours.

On the plus side, the gathering/convention was great the 0.1% of our active users that made the trek each year and I believe there was a harder-to-measure positive "halo effect" from it that benefitted the community in general.

On the downside, the "staff" for this site was basically "me working part time, plus community volunteers." The site's infrastructure needed major work and I lacked time to properly market the site, etc.

TL;DR --

Given our limited resources, a LOT of necessary work went undone, in favor of this yearly event that directly benefitted only a tiny fraction of our users. I suspect Reddit just came to the same conclusion.
Only the second one was disabled, enabled it. Thanks for the tip!
Seems very fair pricing compared to competitors
No, the parent is incorrect. This is only true on iOS/iPadOS.
I think this is a case of the “monkey ladder” type situation where people just bandwagon on and don’t know why. They just see the behavior, don’t know the cause, and emulate behavior.

I think this happens in fake internet point situations because people are more apt to get upvotes and avoid downvotes. Since thoughtful content is hard, dog piling is easy. I can get more votes by grammar nazi-equivalent for wrongthink.
Every time anything Freenode-related appears now I feel that everyone should be reminded to change your passwords if you used your nickserv password for anything else. Assume it has been compromised at this point.
I think you're thinking of Puppeteer? Playwright has stuff like automatically waiting for elements, selecting by text etc all built in - with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, none of the weird chaining syntax and debugger.

There are also tools that give you pretty much any feature Cypress has on top of Playwright.

(Not saying which is better - only that they're both sort of the same slot)
If something were truly basic and elementary, you should be able to do it after reading a book or passing a multiple-choice test. Now you're saying "if your team isn't experienced, get a more experienced team." Seems like we're moving the goalposts here.

If it were so basic, the DevOps person they hired should've been able to do it after taking a 6-7 hour docker course.
Blender-OSM Add-on: Current state and ongoing development
For Apple Music: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/18/18229492/apple-music-push...
Linux behavior under memory pressure on the desktop has been a problem for a long time[0]. Although not aimed at the desktop, I hope this combined with zram, cleancache, frontswap and all the infrastructure required to support systemd-oomd finally fixes this.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15
You’re thinking of iOS. On macOS third party browsers can and do implement their own browser engines. Firefox is not running on WebKit.
Urban geography: In 1947, the US started to build very low density, cheap, mass produced suburbs. Along with this, most American cities have very little mixed use zoning, and large parking requirements, both of which increase the typical distance a person would have to travel to live a normal life, and make each theoretical train station/bus stop less economically sensible. When in Spain you might have many tens of thousands of residents within a 1 km radius of a subway line, you will not not get one thousand in a deep suburb. Therefore, for the same total population, a US public transit system (outside of NYC, and maybe Chicago) is going to be far worse than the equivalent on most European cities.

This is self perpetuating: Changes in urban planning that would allow most homes in the US to be good residences without a car would involve not just demolishing most cities and starting over. This isn't even just about demolishing suburbs: Even downtowns are built in ways that optimized for the car. Go to your favorite mapping app, and look at, say, St Louis. You will find many buildings are just parking lots, very few storefronts, very wide streets designed to be driven at 60 km/h, and with very few pedestrian crossings... All the infrastructure that makes it easy for most workers to live 20-30 of wherever they work just makes building a useful public transport system unfeasible for a city, and even more so when most voters would be unable to use it.

The same problem is there in small cities, and even villages. A small town in Italy that lives from summer tourism is going to be easy to deal with even without using public transport, and just walking. The American equivalent is unmanageable without a car.

Those that want to avoid driving in the US end up either paying people to drive for them all the time, or live in the pedestrian friendly parts of a handful of cities. And if you haven't visited the US, you probably also haven't seen how expensive is to live in those areas. So, if anything, it's much easier to live without a car if you are a pretty wealthy tech worker than if you are a server at a restaurant, or work at a retailer. The less your job pays, the harder it is to not drive a car.

Imagine a couple of a bank teller and an insurance agent. If they need to move to Madrid, it's very likely that they will find living arrangements where it's easier to go to work via public transport, as most places do. If you do the equivalent in Houston TX, it's almost guaranteed one of them will have to drive to live a comfortable life, and most likely both.
That is not designed for mobile and does not have a mobile app.
Playwright is fantastic, but having used a lot Robot Framework in the past, I would not recommend it even to my worst enemy. The experience he continuous from string / to string conversions that you need to do with the content of the steps and the orrible structure of the directories and the amount of glue code to share some common methods around, brought me to don't even take into consideration job offers that have "Robot Framework" in them.
On macOS all browsers are distinct engines, just like on Windows and Linux (yes, and on Open/Free BSD, Haiku, etc. I see you). It's on iOS that all browsers must be skins over Safari.
That certainly doesn't seem quite right, have you got any sources for this?
>I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior.

This is exactly what the Android notification channels allow you to do, and it actually works really well.

For UberEats I have the Delivery notification channel enabled, but the Marketing channel disabled. It's really the best of both worlds. And even more surprisingly it seems most apps support this, instead of putting all notifications under one channel.

I'm surprised Apple hasn't followed suit; NIH syndrome maybe?
Or that managers find out that extroverts create distraction and ruin productivity thus the numbers and their bonuses...
Yes. Often times pages load very slowly, we're talking 5-8 seconds. I am on a gigabit connection (yes, that doesn't guarantee that my ISP has fast access to that particular page, I know) and Chrome is always loading those pages at least twice as fast.

Can't describe it perfectly. The UI is responsive but page loading is just severely slowed down -- not always but often. I have a bunch of privacy extensions but again, they don't seem to make Chrome sweat.
Would pay zero for that. Actually I'd like to be payed to use that because I love driving myself.
Same can be said for all manner of Google related posts. Not all of them are necessarily negative.
Publishers want to keep the papers relatively private.
Similarly, DeepMind's software might be able to drive a car, would it have a similar neuron count, connectivity, perception systems and training you received.

Or maybe it couldn't, because the software is not as efficient as the organisation of your brain is. Or because there's hardcoded routines evolved in your brain that it lacks.

What I'm saying is that just that because an AGI can't drive a car, it doesn't mean it's an AGI. For the same reason there's loads of people out there that are generally intelligent that can't drive cars for all sorts of physical reasons.
I was on one of the teams that refuted the claims of horizontal gene transfer in the original human genome paper. The bar for establishing a true case of horizontal transfer in vertebrates is high. It’s really improbable given the required sequence of events laid out in the article. It’s one thing for some DNA to get picked up by random cells in the organism (happens with viral infection all the time). Getting to the germline cells and becoming inherited is a whole other story given that vertebrates have evolved mechanisms to guard against this specific scenario.
Airlines would probably still be interested in more people on the plane, as that allows for more incidental charges like carry-on bags, checked bags, overweight bags, in-flight snacks, drinks, etc.
I absolutely hate useless management layers and unnecessary ceremonies but I've been on teams with no hierarchy and it was Lord of the fly until the most power hungry developers became the effective lead/manager.
Gmail proxies, but does make the request when the email is opened - you can track that it was opened. Apple says they will block tracking pixels entirely.
HN, as its name indicates, do not aim at a universal demographic. The demographic it does cater to is also very likely to use a keyboard heavily during the day, and so retains some good habits of longform discourse even when contributing via mobile.
Just fork Chromium and save yourself 5 years of angst.
Most probably Android will copy these features too, so sooner or later Google will be competing with Facebook too. It looks like the beginning of the end for Facebook.
Keep the SAT and ACT for college admissions
Yes seriously this is A level BS. I in fact own an ID.4 Max, and while it's a swell car you hardly save much buying this over a same class Tesla 3/Y where I live.

It's clear that the autonomous driving has to execute locally on the car, so there is no physical basis to any "cost saving" other than sales mechanism optimization. Boo.
Xiaomi relaunches chip ambition after being removed from US blacklist
Welcome to the world of saavy SaaS businesses. Smart/enterprising SaaS founders and businesses these days all know to tie their billing to whatever metric/KPI they are solving for customers -- per-seat billing, per-pageview, etc.

Why make a little money (even if it's 2-10x your cost) when you can make much more by taking a small-seeming percentage of every single <whatever> that comes through your business. When your customer wins (and when they aren't winning you aren't a huge strain on their wallets) you win, and if the 0-5% eaten up by their bundle of SaaS products never matters to them, then you get wildly rich doing it and no one is angry about it, since the incentives are aligned. Then you plow that extra revenue (that you wouldn't have gotten from the simple 2x-10x your cost) into expanding your service offering so you deliver so much value (or perceived value) that moving away from your service just doesn't make sense.

This is HN and just about everyone and their mother knows this at this point, and has been living it for longer than I've been writing computers but I'll say it anyway -- Stripe is the dream SaaS company, essentially a financial middleman that no one hates (yet?). The SaaS promised land is a somewhat close cousin of the dystopian everyone-is-a-renter-and-only-a-few-own-the-capital future. Maybe the hand wringing I'm doing is wrong -- maybe it should have been the case all along that solution providers should have extracted a never ending royalty on the revenue generated by the solutions they provide. Not only service providers but maybe workers should want that (no one remembers pensions, but they kind of were this) too. Who knows.

If you can sell a music single album to 0.3% of America for $1, you get $1MM. If you do that with a Stripe store, Stripe gets ~$30k, for infrastructure that probably cost them less than $300 to host (for a single customer) and an ever-decreasing amortized amount to build (assuming they eventually stop growing their development workforce for growth stake). The artist that just made $1MM probably doesn't care about $30k as a millionaire (maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't).

It's a win-win, and it's why Stripe's goal is to increase the GDP of the internet.
Ask HN: Do you have good tips for tech interviews?
I am starting the tech team in my company, and I will be leading the tech interviews. I was going for some Leetcode based exercise + some theoretical questions + experience debrief. I was wondering if someone had good tips to share with me? To give you the context: I used to manage larger teams where it mattered less when we made a hiring mistake. Now I am in a start-up, and I am much more worried about the selection process because we are building the team from scratch.
Interesting that the FBI guy pretty much outlined how to do this and get away with it. Just steal less than $1M from each victim.

I suppose the hardest part is recruiting the "money mules" to open the destination bank accounts.
You get what you measure and if you track performance and features individually you get less collaboration and gaming of the points.
I don't think they work for free, they have a salary, usually paid by universities I think.
We're going through this at the moment, company got bought, original CTO & IT Director left. Now the new bobble-heads try and introduce nonsense processes, much to the dismay of everyone already working productively.

I think the problem in large part is that most "managers" are brought in later on and then feel they have to go above and beyond to justify their existence/position/salary. In the end they do things just to be able to talk about all the amazing things they are doing and how their shiny new processes are helping everyone so much.

I have yet to see a successful founder introduce nonsense simply for the sake of it.
Whenever anything Freenode-related appears I feel it should just act as a reminder to change your passwords if you used your nickserv password for anything else. Assume it has been compromised at this point.
How often does your bank flag your transactions? I’ve been called once in a decade to authorize a tx.
Do you know if Paddle files taxes for you? And just send you 1099? Or it is similar to Stripe Tax, they just collect and you have to file taxes?
Thread on Twitter.[0]

JFTR, Blender-OSM Add-on source code is under GNU GPL.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/OSArchOrg/status/1400826200986165251

[1] https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm/issues/42
And what does a politically motivated case have to do with the topic we are discussing here?

The pertinent point I was making was that a newspaper associated with the freedom movement in India, against colonisation and imperialism, is drawing the same parallel with today's digital economy and comparing it with the imperialism that they fought against in the past.
Giggled like a schoolboy, what an unfortunate design.
Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design
This is going to be a sad day for Octobat (https://www.octobat.com/) which I've been using happily to automate this for the last few years.

Octobat may still be cheaper depending on your transaction volume.
> that three species should have a near-identical sequence coding for a near-identical protein suggests rather strongly that this version of the gene arose in one species and was then acquired by the other two

We'd strongly expect the amino acid sequence to be similar both by "convergent evolution" (each case evolved independently with the same motivation) and "lateral transfer" (one case evolved and then shared DNA across species), so this wouldn't typically distinguish those two cases.

The sibling answer about structure of introns and exons is a more convincing answer, in my opinion. I don't think we would expect to see that in convergent evolution, but we would in a copy-paste job.
Howso?

(Not on Twitter, can't run the experiment myself.)
In that case it won't make a difference I think, `gfx.webrender.all` should override `layers.acceleration.force-enabled`.
Yep, Stripe prices its products pretty competitively and talks to many beta testers before we settle on pricing. I think even adding all this up, it's less expensive than merchant of record providers like Paddle.
Thanks. Tried with Postbox on macOS with my e-mail address and nothing gets leaked, unless I enable loading of pictures. This is with HTML e-mail on by default (which is why its surprising to me). FWIW, I prefer HTML e-mail off by default, but I lost that battle some 10 odd years ago when I quit using Mutt.
As you guessed the source is biased. The question isn’t if pipelines are more efficient in use, the question is if the construction of pipelines + operation of pipelines over their lifespan is a significant net environmental savings. And that’s both much closer and largely irrelevant vs the environmental cost of the oil shipped via the pipelines.

As to being lower cost, again the lower cost isn’t a savings for the environment it’s a savings for the oil company.
There needs to be a replacement if they are going to have a diff moment. I’m open to hearing about alternatives.
Assuming you're already familiar with other programming languages, I'd strongly recommend O'Reilly's JavaScript The Definitive Guide. The 7th edition came out not long ago, and it is by far the best version. They've pared down the section on the JS in browser to focus on all of the new JS functionality and a bit on server side with node. It covers async, generators, and modules in detail. It includes detailed sections on JS's annoying type conversion behavior. It doesn't have anything on TypeScript however, oddly choosing to talk about Flow instead.
Ruby: The “Unless” Keyword
"Document your meetings" - ugh I'm still surprised 20 years into my career at the amount of times people hold a meeting and DON'T TAKE ANY MINUTES!!! I recently asked someone, "Do you not normally take minutes?" His response, "I just generally keep it in my head." I thought, "What about the other 10 people on this call? You (foolishly) assume they have the same photographic recall? I certainly don't!"

People - document your meetings! It takes a few minutes. And it will save your ass down the line when some inevitable squabble arises over what people "agreed to work on" but there is no paper trail to settle the argument!
Hey mate, thanks for sharing the previous launch link.

In this launch, i have improved the design and incorporated feedbacks and suggestions received from the community.

And i read that we can launch our product on HN twice, considering we are not spamming and should have some improvements from the last launch.

Happy to know more about it.
Old versions of sort: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/1/sort

Unix utilities in the old days weren't all that great. One example I've posted about here before is how mv would refuse to move files across filesystem boundaries (because it's not a 'move', it's a 'copy and delete', so you had to use cp and rm instead).
My Jeep has features I can 'unlock' for a one-time fee. $500 will give me navigation, they constantly email me with offers of $75, $150 off