skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting - I'll make sure we fix that. Thanks for reporting!
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https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/7c00d606-7b75-4d28-b563-d75f33...
Except for all their talk to the contrary, Apple's walled garden is hardly safe. Scam apps continually dominate the top grossing apps sales charts.

OBVIOUS scam apps. They aren't even that cleverly hidden - and yet Apple is slow to deal with them - if ever.

I too once was pro-walled garden. If the promise is realized, it would indeed be nice to have at least one platform that was a safe haven - not having to think but being able to just trust and use.

Except Apple didn't deliver their promise. And with the obviously political motivation to remove Parlor - screw them. I'm now firmly in the camp of there needs to be alternative app stores, and they need to be easier to install with less bombastic warnings than Google puts when you try to enable side-loading with Android.

I've been "side loading" on macOS and Windows for decades and the world hasn't ended. No sure why I bought into their BS with iOS initially, but after a decade of them failing to deliver it's now patently obvious that it was (and always was) complete and utter bull shit.

The last anarchism of Steve Job's control fetish - time to blow it up. If Apple really is delivering the best overall app store experience then they shouldn't have a damn thing to worry about. Path of least resistance and all that.

But they aren't. And they haven't had to care, nor will they ever have to care, unless they are forced to compete. When I think of all the apps that could be but aren't because of Apple's downright hostile attitudes towards developers (at least sharecroppers were often acknowledged for bringing landowners some value), inconsistent applications of the rules, sudden reversals on previous stances - it's even more vexxing. It's soured me so much on iOS I no longer invest any new time in it as a platform.

I've used Mac's since 1986 - and while I often wanted Apple to be more successful, I also feared what would happen if they ever got too successful. And sadly my fears seem to be justified when I look at the state of iOS.

Thankfully they haven't tried to "iOSify" macOS, and even with the new Apple Silicon machines they are open enough that you still have complete control and can even load other OS's on them. They aren't going out of their way to foster it, but they aren't actively or even passive-aggressively blocking efforts either. So there is at least some hope. But right now, iOS and its direction is an utter disappointment and I hope something or someone can snap them out of the path they are on.
It is no different from the "politics" you play at work every day. Your coworkers have to like and respect you (on some level) and you have to like and respect them or you will probably have a bad time. If you are new your boss probably won't give you the root password to the production database immediately, you have to work up to it and become senior within that company.

It's not clear what you want otherwise, if you want other projects that have a lower barrier for contribution, there are plenty of those, and they also have huge backlogs in their issue trackers. I mean just think of this from the other perspective. Say you are maintaining an open source project in your spare time. Somebody comes along and asks you to do something that would take up months of your time. And the fix is somewhat complicated so instead of spending your free time with your spouse/kids/friends/etc you would have to spend it all on that fixing that issue, for months, during which no other issues can be fixed. You could close the issue with an explanation, you could say you want it eventually and then leave it open, or you could totally ignore it and leave it open. But none of those options will ever be satisfying to the reporter, sometimes people just ask for things that are not realistic. I'm sure you can relate if you have paying customers at work that have ever asked for unrealistic timelines...
Tuvalu has been relatively unique among small, poor nations in caring about climate change for a while
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. People have the intuition that it's somehow inherently virtuous to use less energy, even if it's from clean and sustainable sources.
Pork is malinvestment by definition - if it served interests as a whole efficiently it wouldn't be pork, regardless of who benefitted. The cooperation also isn't guaranteed to be something where cooperation is actually needed or useful. A quid-pro-quo bill bundling of say "rural retraining programs to address unemployment bundled with urban housing availability solutions" would be a cooperative compromise example that serves both broad interests and wouldn't be pork. Overpaying for US Army widgets they don't even want or need as a lazy solution for rural unemployment? Pork.
The downvotes are coming because this has nothing to do with the topic at hand and you are both blatantly trying to start a flame war. You both have form on Apple threads. If they bother you that much, stop reading articles about them.
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426494
I could go to the grocery store later today and catalog about 400 items for you that have jumped 2 or 3 dollars like that. I am telling you it's insane right now.
Thanks for the great writeup. Can you clarify if Flutter is like QT in that it uses its own GUI library to emulates the native UI of the OS, or does it actually render the UI using the native OS UI library?
A truly fair punishment would require identifying when the unlawful behavior started, calculating all profits derived from it, taking it away and only then fining them.

Making unlawful business decisions shouldn't be a calculated power move for them. It should put them in a worse position than they started. Like a chess game that gets rewound all the way back to the last legal move, but it costs them a rook or queen as well for the trouble they caused.
Fred Plais Talks Commerce in Drupal – 20 Years of Drupal Series – Tag1 Team Talk
Even if it's transitory, what's the reason to keep injecting cash _today_ via buying agency mbs and other securities?
Sorry. Fixed. I blame Windows Calculator.
With three detectors, it becomes possible to measure the polarization of gravitational waves. https://ligo.org/science/Publication-O1StochNonGR/index.php

Some quantum-gravity theories predict additional polarization modes that general relativity doesn't, so such measurements may start ruling particular theories in or out.
I remember plenty of numbers. The ones I dialed in the 90s. Friends I haven't seen for 20 years, who no longer live in the same country - I know their number. My phone number I had from when I was 6-10? Yup.

My landline number now? No idea. I use it a lot (no real cell coverage at home)
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/no-more-mobile/
I think bitmaps are often used in 2d games for level definition or various other sorts of mapping (height, for 2.5d games, et c.)
Maybe a stupid question, but if the velocity goes up, couldn't/wouldn't the Fed contract the supply?

It seems like having large supply is desirable/correct when velocity is low.
I used to spend an average of $50 a trip and now it is $70
> Tuvalu exists as a state because the international community decided to let them.

This is true of every state. If no one recognizes your claims, and then acts with impunity against you, you’re not a state.
Could this be a hardware issue with your M1 Air? I've had one for about 8 months, run it pretty hard (memory pressure is usually in the yellow, lot of applications and server-like processes running for both web dev and media production) and it hasn't crashed once.

Not contesting your experience at all, but if you're having crashes every 2-3 days it might be hardware-related?
>Does anyone know why this is the case?

They want people to think of iPads as personal devices like a phone rather than communal devices leading to buying one for each member of the family.
It’s like Apple has started listening to customers again.
>They are starting to get profitable.

No. They posted an adjusted Q3 profit of $8M, with an actual Q3 loss of $2.4B.
Sorry blockchain literally does nothing to this problem except maybe get some naive VCs to up the valuation. Which perhaps is the goal anyway so hey..
The last shock in the 70’s caused large scale socio economic changes and power shifts, and the ‘currency’ was brand ‘new’ at the time (less than 20 years since Bretton Woods, still riding high on post WW2 prosperity, etc)

The demand collapse and now demand spike we’re seeing only started occurring very recently (less than 6 months ago for the spike), and we don’t know what will happen. We’ve never had anything like it occur in a modern economy at this scale.

So probably not going to end the world or anything, but we really don’t have any precedent for this situation.
Also the issue with aggregates indicators is that some expenses can be more easily adapted than others: it’s easier to buy a less powerful smartphone/TV/GPU than to heat or eat less.
Mcafee is turning around in his grave... to give you a chuck norris thumbs up!
we actually have a lot of users that use both Obsidian and Dendron. Dendron is mostly compatible with Obsidian (wiki links, note references aka obsidian embeddings, etc) and we have a lot of users that use Dendron's desktop vscode client and Obsidian's mobile client on the same set of notes to get the best of both worlds.
This opens the door to bad-thought-monitoring. Of course it will become required equipment for all citizens. Mark my words
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Hi, thanks. I guess this won't let us define steps based on Kubernetes manifests?

Part of our challenge (though not all of it) is that apps need to be defined twice: A single app needs configs, secrets, usually multiple "daemon" processes and background jobs, and then you of course have things like databases. We have the Kubernetes manifests for production/staging, and then the end-to-end tests have to define everything all over again. A single end-to-end test may end up using a dozen apps, so this is a lot of duplication.

Last I checked, CircleCI did not support running a single job across multiple machines? Some of our end-to-end tests run some very big things that require multiple machines.
Ask HN: Is genetically modified trees to capture CO2 possible?
I had this idea going on in my mind for a while. Is there any research or startup or company that is working on trees farming. I mean maybe genetically modify trees so they grow in a few years to an usable state and we could start cultivating them like any other agriculture good.
Why I am interested is that this could be amazing to the planet. First it would make wood very cheap and we could start using a lot more. As I understand trees and wood in general captures a lot of CO2 so if we build stuff from it (houses, furniture, decorations etc) it would lock that carbon. It could also reduce usage of plastics that we need to extract oil to make (and it's much nicer too, we usually buy plastic stuff because it's so much cheaper). Cheap wood plus stricter regulation would protect natural high value forests as it would not be economical to compete with wood farmers in most of the cases. This would further increase carbon capture and protect our nature.
Is this idea crazy? What I am missing? Or is it tried but couldn't be done yet?
I'd like to see a mention of FIF, fractal format from Iterative Systems, something quite different from other approaches to store images.
And Libraries

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-03-12/parish-council-...

"A community library in a small Hampshire village has caused a stir after a number of adult fiction books were discovered."
Maybe OSes could do that but they don't today.
One problem with these non-Google price comparison sites is that they don't always show the best or cheapest products but the products that give the best affiliate commissions to the sites.
It is most certainly not true of every state; if no one recognizes your claims, but you can still feed your citizens and defend your borders, you are "a state".
"We're worth 5X what the investors put in despite losing all that money so far" strikes me as an argument for it being a bubble, not against.
Edit, I was misremembering his name, it was Thomas.
Inflation is a rate. If the rate is transitory, who is being deceptive?
The land area of Fulafuti is 2.4 square kilometers, but the total area of the atoll is 275 square kilometers: it's a ring of islands surrounding a lagoon. The lagoon is 120 feet deep. The atoll is basically the tip-top of a vast underwater mountain that drops away precipitously: there's nothing to build a dike on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funafuti

https://tuvalu-data.sprep.org/system/files/Rapport_de_leve_C...
Can we write FLIF off, or does it still have a chance at wider adoption? I remember quite a positive reaction on release, but don't see it in the wild, unfortunately.

https://flif.info/
More opportunities - yes, more risk - not necessarily. Interested people already know how to build a nuclear bomb, there is very little mystery there, not much need to steal designs. The greatest risk here is someone stealing enriched fuel, because getting it is the hard part of building the nuclear bomb.

If a big country like France can handle guarding hundreds of small nuclear weapons, they can certainly handle guarding nuclear fuel in small number of additional NPPs. We are not talking about building NPPs in every small town guarded by incompetent local volunteers. Trained armed personnel and accountability of processes and personnel in few facilities can prevent this risk.
Some states can assert their claims. Tuvalu is not one of them.
Politics. Rates had to go down for the re-election effort.
That will be because SMS doesn't support group messages and MMS is a different protocol entirely (believe it or not MMS content exchange is done via HTTP, using SMS only for pushing control messages[1]).

So unfortunately group messages are one of those occasions where superficially easy problem becomes a non-trivial feature to add.

[1] > the content is extracted and sent to a temporary storage server with an HTTP front-end. An SMS "control message" containing the URL of the content is then sent to the recipient's handset to trigger the receiver's WAP browser to open and receive the content from the embedded URL. Several other messages are exchanged to indicate the status of the delivery attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#T...
Seems values like sustainability and privacy are at least a little higher priority outside of the United States. I, too, can get behind that.
And previous well functioning economies get destroyed in the process
Matlab is an excellent language. With great packages, C/C++ interoperability, seamless GPU support, and JIT compilation. Arguably it w
is easiet than python for this purpose.

But. It's commercial. And thus prohibitive to the hobbyists and enthusiasts who are ultimately reaponsible for this kind of network effect.

And while I have a lot of love for octave, without the slew of proprietary packages and functionality available to matlab, it is hard for it to compete in such an ecosystem, despite some nice courses out there that use it (notably Andrew Ng's ML course).

If more people contributed open source packages to octave I'm sure it would become as big a player as python.

(inb4 julia: yes, but julia has other problems)
I didn’t specify a time frame or the specific companies. I’ve provided enough evidence to indicate this is true.

The larger point is also unequivocally proved: the EFF has massive conflicts of interest that it apparently thinks are fine, which makes it untrustworthy. If they accepted $100,000 from Google that would be just as much of a problem — it’s a huge amount of money. Extrapolating out from the sample data that’s easy to find, it does look like millions. If you want to conduct some in-depth research to prove that wrong please do, I’d be interested to see a full qualification for their horrible conflict of interest.
No, not heard of mainframes or VMS? Unix?

Next-gen NT 3.X was rock-solid (from memory).
Thank you! I can't imagine myself clipping something more than once 5-10 seconds, so I can set the interval to that.

I want to take this moment to remind you that the Web includes http, not just https, and ignoring it is a failure at accessibility and compatibility.

For myself a week from now looking for this, here is the version which works for me:

while true; do xclip -o | uniq | grep ^http > ~/url.txt ; sleep 5; done

Thank you again, this will make my life much easier.
"There’s a few headlines talking about backups - does apple finally have a cloud based time machine replacement?"

Apple doesn't, but we do.

You simply do a "dumb" 1:1 mirror to an rsync.net account with 'rsync', which you already have.

Then you set up an arbitrary snapshot schedule in your account. rsync.net will then create, and rotate, immutable snapshots of your dataset. [1]

The only difference is that our ZFS snapshots are bit-wise efficient whereas the time machine snapshots are still (I think) file-wise efficient ... which is to say they are less efficient.

We used to advertise this ... the notion that you could clone your time machine config to rsync.net ... but we came to the conclusion that there's a pretty insular hackers-on-osx bubble and, in reality, 99% of mac users don't drop to the command line for any reason.

Which is too bad ...

[1] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1453044746213990405
I definitely lean more towards the libertarian side of things, but in instances like this I do think the monopoly/antitrust arguments carry some weight. Apple and Google both DOMINATE the mobile market; and it's not an insignificant market. Unseated Microsoft from decades of dominating how the vast majority of computing power was used almost overnight.

I think it's LONG past time for both Apple and Google to be forced to offer mechanisms that are far less onerous for third party app stores than the hoops and fear mongering Google makes you go through on Android.

If Apple and/or Google were actually successful on delivering a fraction of their promises about safety and security in their app stores that would be one thing - but they don't even appear to be trying, despite all their bluster to the contrary.
So your solution would be to not participate at all, ensuring that what you want has a 0% chance of ever getting done? Can't you see how that is strictly worse?

And yeah, of course the number of people who can do it is limited, not everyone is an expert in this stuff or has an interest in becoming one...
A core aspect seems to come at the end as a tossed in aside but gets disappointingly little consideration:

>Real business flywheels do exist. Software makers have managed to lock users in and thus generate gross margins typically above 70%.

No, it's not just "lock in" it's the magic of minimal to zero marginal cost, near zero "stocking" cost, instantaneous reaction to demand, etc. Software and digital services firms face dramatically different scaling curves than traditional physical products/services. That they also in turn have been able to continuously add in ways not limited by IRL physical constraints and experience real network effects certainly helps, but I suspect one of the big foundational issues for a lot of these valuations is people naively applying software business lessons to businesses based around hardware and real world physical human interactions. It doesn't cleanly translate though, they aren't the same thing.
But all that is the natural and inevitable consequence of capitalism. It's baked into the structure of the system.
My entire life whenever I’m having a face to face with someone, anyone at all, I get this urge to kiss them. No freaking clue why. Don’t worry, I manage it effortlessly.

Same with my urge to break the tension and jump onto train tracks.

Same with just intensely inappropriate thoughts during formal events. Like wanting to stand up and scream the F word or something.
This is the best thread on HN. Thank you everyone for being so goddamn interesting.
How to Hire a CTO That You Won’t Need to Fire
I've heard that on the contrary, the US had some of the highest covid stimulus payments in the world across different metrics (% of GDP, $ per capita, etc.).

That's when considering "stimulus" as broader than the unconditional (but means-tested) direct payments--colloquially "stimmy checks." Following is from a quick search and to the best of my knowledge; I'm in a high cost of living area and fortunate to have kept a job past the individual cutoff for stimulus checks:

Direct stimulus was $3200 to eligible individuals across three checks. Some amount of that was banked for dependents too.

Increased refundable child tax credit was increased from $2000 to either $3000 or $3600 per child per year and the Democrats are trying to persist that in the build back better act.

The US also did increased unemployment -- $300 a week in extended unemployment benefits. Which totals $15,600 a year on top of existing amounts. The first $10k in unemployment was made tax-free. I've heard e.g. Canada had a high percentage of salary backed by the government in unemployment, however there was a total dollar cap that was fairly low.

US had PPP loans that lefties (disclaimer: I'm one) on social media (disclaimer: I'm not) complained about going to businesses, but very likely let some business keep people on the payroll in the first place as intended.

Mortgage forbearance, eviction moratoriums.

Freezing of payments and interest accrual on student loans that is still going on, and when (if?) it restarts will have stopped the accrual of interest for about two years.
> this guy is a fucking fake who would suck 2 dicks to get into FAANG in an instant and has no idea what coding interviews really entail.

The OP is here, is a part of the community and you should at least attempt to be decent to another human being.
Even Google shopping doesn't show the cheapest results. It's a paid-for service, and the seller who pays most places first. There used to be a free and paid tier, but now it's all paid.
> They are starting to get profitable

I don't know what you are basing this on but it's definitely not based on data.

$UBER EPS over the last few quarters:

-1.28 0.61 -0.06 -0.54 -0.62

$DASH EPS

-0.30 -0.34 -2.67

The only way they are getting profitable is on an "adjusted basis", in other words when they exclude most of their expenses. That's not a business, that's a game.
You don't need to do that because we have a whole team of people whose jobs it is to measure this in a more systematic way - by checking prices all over the country and in a large number of different stores and for many different goods. They report that dood prices have climbed from 260 to 277 over the last year (all items). Within that group, the biggest climbers were meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (+12%).

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm
> Which is what the Fed has been doing for 18 months

More like 13 years.
Please take this down; I own it.
Still, that specific article in the mises.org link is informative even outside of the context and knowledge of austrian economics.
This is also a standard LEO interrogation technique.

"Well, son, your buddy just told us you killed her with a hammer."

"NO! It was an axe! I mean... oh, damn.."
They tried making lignin free trees but they get shredded by bugs.

You can cut the branches off willows and have new branches come off the roots quickly, this is called ‘coppicing’ and is used in bioenergy. Beavers do it too.