skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not my memory of it at all. I remember it feeling like something from the future. The massive screen, the accelerometer, the light and proximity sensors and the overall slickness of the UI were really clearly a step change.

I didn’t quite realise at the time that it was a whole new device category that would essentially eliminate all other personal electronics but I remember it being clear that this was more than just another gadget, definitely not a joke!
Interesting. Do you remember which apps are doing that?
From the article:

> Writing an application with typescript and infrastructure code in typescript means if you want to upgrade your version of typescript you need to upgrade both at the same time.

No, it really doesn't. I've been writing all my CDK projects in TypeScript for years and in the process I had to upgrade CDK multiple times,and not once did I had to upgrade TypeScript. Ever.

Also, CDK supports half a dozen languages, including JavaScript. Why did the author singles out one of the six as if it was such a critical step?

The article is a terribly uninformed and disingenuous read. I completely wasted a click on it.
I'm not sure there is. They're all separate projects, that just happen to be the standard linux tech stack everyone(Except the people who don't) agree on.

It would be cool to write a guide to Linux programming that went over all the stuff you should know to do it the modern way.

dbus is a message bus that lets apps communicate. But it's object oriented and corba-ish and really complicated. It's wonderful if you don't have to think about it and are just copying and pasting. If you have to actually think about it , it becomes just OK. I'm still a big fan though.

Also, it's not really a pure message bus, it also does stuff like RPC calls. It's not just an MQTT type thing.

Gstreamer is a node based audio framework. It is the second best way to handle media as far as I'm concerned, the best being to not do so at all and use existing stuff because media always seems to be a nightmare in new ways every time.

You mostly never touch any actual media. You just set up nodes with code.

glib is a utility library that has to to with the GTK and gnome people , like gstreamer. It tries to give C the things that other languages I'd rather be using have. I'd still rather be using them instead.

There's also gobj. They have this object thing for C and they can auto generate bindings for python with introspection. This is how gstreamer works in python.

Unfortunately it is totally possible to make resources leaks and such using those bindings, autocomplete won't work, you may get unhelpful error messages, or just annoying unpythonic things, and you will probably need GDB to debug any segfaults, should you want to do anything very complicated.
Somewhere out there, a project manager is going through this paper and adding JIRA tickets for each of the highlighted problems.
I don't get it if nobody used it, why keep it? Don't the stats tell the truth here?
I don’t think there is or was a lot of money to be made just being yet another Android OEM.
Who pollutes your prototype? Find the libs on cdnjs in an automated way
I can install on it everything I want, including a kernel that lets me do so. Don't rephrase my words, Apple does not want you to interfere with your own machine.

Are Apple laptops repairable by you?
The big reason why in this case the city of Berlin never added gates is a architectural reason. At least that’s what they claimed. Most U-Bahn stations don’t have a mid platform layer. They run directly under the road. You can’t create a universal system. If this argument is bullshit I’m not sure but it is what it is. But to the walking in part. You are only allowed on the platform with a valid ticket. Controllers can check for tickets outside of the trains but nobody normally does anyways.
To the free public transportation part. Germany has a surge in this topic with the short introduction of the 9€ ticket. A ticket that costs 9€ a month and allows German wide travel (limited to specific trains). The politicians hit a political honeypot with this idea. A lot of Germans want the continuation of this ticket even though it is questionable that it actually pays out.
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Well, to be fair, The Author has a broad reputation for authoritatively saying things about banking and is a HN celebrity, which does not necessarily mean he works at a bank or knows one from the inside.

I read the article, and the described model does not apply at all to countries with modern banking, e.g. for example Poland, which I know well. And this sentence: "The dominant engine for profitability of deposit accounts is net interest margin" is decidedly untrue here. Today, banks here do not want your money. What they seem to want (but I do not know this from the inside, just from observations) is a long-term relationship, so that they can sell "products" that involve fees (visible or hidden): cards, investment products from third parties, etc. Also, most modern banks have no tellers anymore here.
B of A = Bank of America, for the ones that didn't live in the US long enough to know the meaning of it.
Americans are so delicate. Frozen sidewalk oh my G-d! Tell that to Finns.
Roswell was not a balloon. It was the radar flight test of the Lockheed A12 [1]

[1] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lockheed_A12_radar...
All that's required is for the temperature of the waste heat to be higher for it to be a waste (assuming a close to carnot or reduced carnot efficiency).

Of course if your heat pump's efficiency doesn't scale with temperature ratio there might a way to use the heat to move it towards carnot efficiency.
> Source: I run banks.

Great job title, I guess. Could you tell us a bit more about your job / occupation?
This sounds like something that should have its own entry in the DSM V.
I don’t know if it’s been done for home heating, but there is such thing as gas powered refrigeration (Fun fact: early air conditioners from the 1930s and 40s ran off of gas). Since an air conditioner is just a heat pump in reverse, in theory you could use all that heat energy to drive a mechanical (Not electrical) heat pump and achieve a COP greater than simply using the gas to heat a house directly, and really juice the efficiency out of this thing, maybe even with some kind of hybrid electrical/mechanical heat pump.

The thing is, gas is so dirt cheap that we burn the stuff in furnaces, so I wouldn’t be surprised that this hasn’t taken off. Even electric source heat pumps in homes are a fairly new thing from the last 5-10 years.
Lenders are "encouraged" to check the password. In your experience, how frequently do they do so?
Because later business treats people in a way where "everyone can be replaced" but interviews are like "we are looking for someone who will save our company".
Read the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
This is about removing such statuses, so they’re on their way out as well.
Static streams for faster async proxies
private ones are often available as a little more efficient as the power/area and power/weight matters for things like RVs
https://imgur.com/a/b7Bw7HB

(padded with 1 s of the final frame)

No way to prevent Imgur from reencoding... whatever
Steve Jobs said on stage at the iPhone launch that the killer app was the phone app. IMO that was wrong — the killer app was Google Maps, back when GPS navigation devices used to cost $200+. This made the economic value of the iPhone a lot more solid and subsequently destroyed the entire device category.
> The main limitation here is there's only one possible tree, and it's the privileged view.

Mainly because inferring a different "view" over gigabytes or even terabytes of data (current collections of publicly available "general purpose" datasets can run in the terabytes) is really, really hard and computationally expensive.

And our current data models don't even include satisfactory ways of representing the kind of "common sense" data that would be reflected in a HN comment, an e-mail thread or really any kind of textual source. You can kinda get there by marking "named entities" of sorts but that's the tip of the iceberg, all the structure and semantics is still missing. It's something that's very much being worked on, and has been for decades (with "frame structures" and the like). But it's still hard.
UK Slips Behind India to Become World’s Sixth Biggest Economy
I’d argue it was the iPhone 3G.
Cheaper, had an App Store and had the data speeds to combine with that burgeoning app ecosystem.

It’s arguably the phone that made GPS navigation popular for everyone, and consuming media on your phone on the go. It kickstarted an entire economy with the App Store.

Coming from Symbian UIQ (on a Sony P1), that was night and day. The first iPhone wasn’t that interesting other than the multitouch capabilities for people with high end smartphones.

The iPhone 3G made everyone sit up and take notice. You could get apps to do all the stuff you’d buy one off gadgets for , and it was way easier than downloading and installing jar files, hoping they’d support your phone.

To me the iPhone 3G was the point where it went from “okay this thing is a weird luxury statement” to “why would you buy any other competing product?”

it took quite a while before Android really found it’s footing too. To me the Galaxy S was the first real competitor to the iPhone , partly because Samsung saw what made the iPhone great and honed in on it. It’s the phone that made me switch to Android before switching back eventually to the iPhone X after a string of Android phones getting no updates in Canada, and a huge run of hardware issues with no easy way to deal with them. Come to think of it, my first Galaxy S had to be sent back because an entire SKU had bad memory.
This has one glaring problem (only works for one feature). The article mentions it, says “wasn’t a big problem for us” and that’s it.

The real solution might be to create an after the fact feature branch and cherry pick all the relevant changes. That has some risk of breaking under high churn, but the feature branch doesn’t even need to build or pass tests, only convey a design, I suppose.

But in the end: why not just use feature branches? As soon as the number of developers become big enough to worry about passing knowledge around, waiting 12 or 24h for changes to land in master is a tiny nuisance compared to broken master builds or reverse PRs.
The post you’re replying to is talking about drivers of intrinsic motivation. Paying off a debt and getting paid money for your work are examples of extrinsic motivators. Intrinsic motivation is generally thought to have a larger impact on the quality of output, although the line can be blurry sometimes.
It's called combined heat and power or CHP. Usually used in district heating on a larger scale.

For example Helsinki gets some of its heat from the waste heat of coal electricity plants. The electricity produced is also of course used. There are a few plants and the hot water is piped underground to the district heating grid that spans the urban areas. Further away with sparse housing it doesn't make sense.

Basically, a heat engine needs a high temperature difference to make electricity. After that, there is still a low temperature difference left (100 C). That's still ok for heating houses.

There's a lot of discussion how do you calculate the efficiency or climate effects. You can say the heat is waste and free and no climate effect. Or then that it's 100% fossil.

CHP is an alternative to heat pumps. If you use wind or solar, they don't produce waste heat so CHP is not usable. Nuclear on the other hand would be a great fit for CHP, and is used for that in Russia.

The temperature in the district heating grid is higher than what heat pumps would prefer but they are still used to create district heat to reduce fossil fuel use.
Anecdotally, in Poland it seems that branches really are for "old people". There is an entire generation which will want to do most things with a human in a branch. Then there is a generation that psychologically needs a branch nearby just to feel better (secure), and there is a subsequent generation which simply doesn't care about branches at all.

On a practical level, once you open an account, you typically never visit a branch again, unless for a really major paper event (like signing a mortgage). There is simply no point.
schoen wrote a nice post here: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/peter-eckersley-may-his-...
>I don't think this is really a problem as long as they aren't being hypocritical.

There isn't a problem if the violence to women orgs start spending half their budget on building a good open source browser. Otherwise there is very much a problem.
WSL actually mounts over 9P from Plan 9 fame. fwiw I remember WSL1 being dog slow on file IO perf.
These kinds of sensors were the norm on smartphones already. Even Openmoko phones had them (and Neo1973 was announced before the first iPhone was), those were touchscreen-only too. Nothing the first iPhone did was revolutionary, you couldn't even use those sensors yourself as you couldn't develop apps for it (and there were Symbian games that used accelerometers already).

It had some exquisite marketing which tried to place it as a somewhat accessible yet luxury item and they succeeded. Then they pushed with their app store walled garden, and the rest is sad history.
Well, it does make sense - a controlled runtime failure is much better than a segfault, or worse, a silent failure corrupting heap. Pair it with decent performance even back than, increased developer productivity and the best observability tools, which is again helped by the VM-semantics.
> What was wrong with MeeGo?

The way I remember it was that at the time the management-forced merge of Maemo and Moblin to Meego and the sudden switch from Gtk to Qt were thought to be risky moves and it was well known that Symbian supporters are doing anything they can to sabotage other platforms. Later I was told that N9 was incredibly polished but Meego wasn't that great behind the scenes and would have required massive rewrites if development had continued (which isn't that different from stories about early iOS).
It is easy to imagine it’s more expensive to hire a baddie vs an empty role. Have you not worked with people who were a drain on the entire team? I rather have deadlines pushed back than a bad hire.
That is probably because Zcash is a privacy tool that just happens to be a cryptocurrency. Snowden was one of the co-founders of the project.

The users are people that rely on the security to stay out of prison, not crypto-bros trying to get rich quick.
I don't think the Switch is sold as USB-C in the US. (You can charge with one, but I think they tell you to use the Nintendo Power Adaptor and make no mention of USB-C.)
https://archive.is/RSICg
All social media plattforms that manage to fill their niche early and well, like twitter did, become natural monopolies. The main draw of the user to sign up for twitter, becomes the large user base, and people signing up for twitter enlargens the user base.

All social media should begin to be viewed through this lens if we are ever going to make any progress with creating better online tech, because each and every single one of these monopolies are currently levereraging their positions in the economoy to influence politics and society at large in a very toxic way.
Regardless of the author's reputation, the point does stand that branches often cater to specific needs of the locality.

For e.g. bank branches in rural areas in India often understand rural needs and work with local government administration to offer special loans that have no place in cities (like loans for water pumps, seasonal loans to fund the transport of produce to central market places, etc). In a small city that I worked in, bank branches were aware that they would get lots of account holders visiting during "lunch time" at factories. Various factories ended up collaborating with the bank branches to have different lunch times so as to reduce the load of visitors at the branch. In Industrial locations within that same city, branches unofficially specialize in small loans to help suppliers tide over payment cycles of the large customers.

In another distant suburb of Mumbai that I lived in for many years, the local bank and its branches within that suburb had higher credibility than even nationalised banks! The Bank officers would be invited to attend local industrial meetings, township planning discussions, merchant meetings, etc. They learn from the meetings, arrange for special loan and financial packages. There are business communities where reputation is everything. Such business persons sometimes do visit a branch and ensure that certain cheques by clients get honoured while they present cash or hand over their business documents for hypothecation. In many suburbs and rural areas, bank branches provide a "daily deposit" collection service where a branch officer visits various businesses in the evening to collect cash for deposit into the current account. These are not part of the banks' official services, but are arrangements and accomodations made at local levels.

As an erstwhile small business owner, I had learned at a very young age of the importance of having a great working relationship with the local branch officers (tellers, other officers, the branch manager). We would invite them to events at our business, and they would attend, too.

My examples are all from specific regions in India that I have stayed in, but I do think that other parts of India as well as in the world (including in the US) would have specialised needs that an "online" presence would not adequately cater to.
An Azure that was going to be Windows only.

What Ballmer actually succeeded in doing was entrenching windows inside every enterprise Fortune 500 by basically bundling everything from Office, Sharepoint, SQL server etc. This business is still going strong and switching to a subscription model. Before Ballmer, Microsoft was a consumer OS company.
What I Learnt from the Founders of Zepto- Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra
Both, parent and author, are right ( in a qualified way ). The issue that I have with it is that the article attempts to generalize a little too much. There is definitely a business model built around selling ( opening accounts ) for retail customers and it is sufficiently common for a lot of locations in US, but it hardly the only one. Not to search very far, Chicago banking market is extra weird and congested so it requires some banks to specialize, which results in some boutique banks, which focus on markets other than pure retail.
Job boards can still give decent results? They just don't give you the best possible results and have a lot of real trash (sorry, employers, but offering 70k for someone with 4 YOE in software is a not-so-amusing joke and I shudder to think of what working for you is like).
The special cherry on top was the news there is a tanker full of fresh water parked in front of governors mansion. Dont worry about it, its not for the governor, its totally "on standby to assist the bank with water needs".

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/26900/fact-check-tanker...
All true, and then there was also the schizophrenic S40 or S60 development too.
The author of that extract recently wrote a piece [1] for the Guardian on his experience of the reversal of the doctor-patient roles, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I found his writing reflective and empathetic. Worth a read.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/13/brain-surgeo...
> I don't understand how you would prefer the N900 (except for the keyboard)

The keyboard made it. It was very usable too. I took it once to a hackathon and was able to follow along nicely.
You know what's handy about a Thunderbolt 3 cable? It has a thunderbolt and the number 3 silkscreened onto the plugs.
That’s not a fee-only advisor. A fee-only advisor will charge an hourly rate for time you’re actually meeting or a flat dollar amount. Never a percentage of AUM.
> UBS will, however, buy a $69.7 million note that is convertible into Wealthfront shares.

I wonder if this is the effect of a sort of acquisition equivalent to a 5% earnest money clause/agreement? 5% of $1.4bn is $70m.
Y'all can't enjoy watching a sunset without being "motivated"?
I think you are missing the heart of the issue.

Learning to use a lazy functional programming language remains relatively easy - we use to teach the basis in Ocaml in three hours when I was a student - and Git shows people can tolerate awful CLI tool UX.

I think your point 3 is where most of people issues with Nix lie except I wouldn’t limit myself at a lack of practical enough documentation. Nix documentation pretty much just doesn’t exist period.

If you want to use Nix, you will have to go through the packages or the implementation to understand what’s happening. That’s not very welcoming especially when you consider that’s the other Linux distributions which tried to do things differently in the past and could be a source of users for Nix OS, first of them Gentoo, have absolutely stellar documentation.
DevOps.

I didn't become a software engineer to write yaml or negotiate K8s resource allocation.
He might be laughing on screen, but internally he was panicking. By the next year he had dismissed Peter Knook and installed myerson and shuttered windows mobile 7 to completely rebuild from scratch windows phone 7.
“Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use”
2G has mobile data (via GPRS/EDGE) and the original iPhone absolutely supported it.

You could browse the web on cheap phones much earlier, but the rendering engines were limited (some mobile subset of HTML?). A big selling point of the iPhone was that it included a full browser.
Your phone has XLR outputs? Or how do you want to connect the speakers? And you want to do this plugging every time you come home and listen to music?

I mean, you do you, but that sounds like a very inconvenient "solution".
From the article:

> France relies on nuclear energy for about 67% of its electricity — more than any other country — and on gas for about 7%.

Also:

> At the moment, 32 of the 56 France's nuclear reactors, all operated by EDF, are shut down for usual maintenance and, in some cases, to repair corrosion problems.

And finally:

> In addition, electricity and gas trading with neighboring Spain and Germany will be strengthened this winter, she said.

In other words, France already has the bulk of the country's energy needs met with nuclear, but they had shut down a few reactors for maintenance. They are going to get them back online before the winter to help supply neighboring countries that have a higher dependency on gas imports from Russia to substitute their energy source.

Basically "FU Russia. EU peeps, France got you covered."
A big, three-volume report prepared by 30 specialists has been published.

https://straty-wojenne.pl/
I’ve used this a lot and it’s very helpful; way easier than looking up random converters online that may or may not be what I want, or figuring out what the terminal command for what I want is (if there is one)
What do you dislike about RN?

Some are using ClojureScript to write RN apps, like the folks at vouch.io … here is a talk by David Nolan

https://youtu.be/3HxVMGaiZbc?t=1015
This is one of my favorite science fiction short stories, simply by how matter-of-fact it is and how reasonable it sounds. A lot of science fiction requires jumps in human nature (global cooperation? An obvious "good"? Everyone has turned into a self-centered egotist?) but this one just moves predictably, if horrifyingly.
What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul
You're exactly right.

Index funds beat most other investment strategies in the longer term
Unless the thief gets their hands on my ID and personal ID number (similar to social security), they're not getting there.

Now if they do that, changing in particular the latter is rather hard.
I've heard rumors that Android was originally supposed to be an OS for digital cameras.