skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better safe than sorry?
This hardly seems like an issue. People’s iPhones aren’t generally going to be falling going 60+ mph.

Nice fodder for an article however.
$38 billion is $100 per person. People eat a lot more than 4 pounds of meat per year, so this doesn’t compute, or it’s singling out some category of hamburger meat, while ignoring all others.

Average meat consumption per person is 260 pounds, which would come out to about 40 cents per pound in subsidy.
I manage a couple of developers that are in their late 40s. It's great. I just say, "hey, can you handle this complex, ill-defined task?" and they get it done right, the first time. No real management necessary.

An older, grizzled, battle-hardened engineer is one of a manager's best assets.
For engineers the foremost value is safeguarding human life and the second might be protecting the environment. If anyone is developing software that can cause loss of life or damage the environment then I think the engineering ethics and processes you mentioned are a necessary load. Of course then the output of the
Programmer is reduced, but that is the tradeoff to make for the type of code flying airplanes or driving cars
Why? Apple's implementation is clearly suboptimal. Motorcycle crash sensors aren't new, and they work differently to this for very good reason. Sensing whether the phone is on or off the motorcycle at the time of the crash is a really basic feature, because phones fall of bicycles and motorcycles almost as often as there are crashes to begin with.

A feature with that many false positives can be actively harmful. It's not responsible engineering to ship it. Especially if you lock it to specialized hardware, then you have no excuse not to go all the way and at least have a proximity sensor at the back.
Is this a political post on HN?
I'm out of the loop on privacy practices for social media giants such as TikTok. Should I place the same trust I have with Google, Facebook / IG, Twitter to TikTok? In other words, bleak?
It isn't. The person above is trying to browbeat you for holding an opinion which is not advantageous to the election prospects of their preferred politician.
Much of this is simply unknowable.

Saved you a click
I didn't ask for Noam Chomsky's opinion I asked for an example.
A Little Math Conundrum
Don't worry web developers will come up with more ways to over-engineer a form with 2 inputs.
If it doesn’t cost then anything, why would they care?
The idea of a highly integrated ecosystem is all about providing elegant solutions to corner cases.

If you don’t have a cellular watch it’d just keep on working like it has been. False negative and all.

But if the watch was there… Crash detection could just use the “everything is fine” feature by pushing it down from the cloud to both phone and watch simultaneously.

I’m actually surprised this isn’t how it works.
As you hold your finger down the button grows. The designers considered that to be an affordance, whether successful or not (the swiping between tabs mentioned in the OP also has a fairly obvious affordance IMO)

The search discoverability nfw2 brings up is fair but has been entirely fixed in iOS 16- a prominent search button was added to the Home Screen (thankfully can be disabled if you prefer the old way)
Even the basic spotlight search is pretty hard to discover. I'd say about half of the iPhone users I meet have never heard of the feature, and are surprised when I swipe down on their screen and show it to them. With iOS 16 though, they've finally added a button, so that should help on that front.

Another feature that isn't well known is swiping between recent apps by swiping horizontally along the bottom of the screen. I didn't know about that feature until somebody posted about it on HN a while back.
Individuals have a right to self defense, not to initiate violence. Government, having granted itself lawmaking power, grants itself a monopoly on the use of violence to enforce its laws.
This sounds fine for a contractor sending out one bill per month, but would you recommend it for a larger entity?

I couldn't fit all of the transactions in a given month into Excel for my business. There are more than 1m rows. We are only an SME.
Why would we assume the only possible states for the phone in a motorcycle crash would be attached to the motorcycle or attached to the rider? It's perfectly within the realm of possibility for the rider, cycle and phone to all be separated from each other.
Feedback on commands:

> jt note newnote

> jt folder newfolder

I have to type "note" or "folder" twice, just to create a new one. I prefer the convention that most other tools follow whereby "new" is the base command, and then the thing you want to create is the noun. Eg

> jt new note

If you really want the noun to be first and the verb second, at least simplify it to:

> jt note new

Though I much prefer the verb first since it reads more like an action sentence.
And how different will it be from what happened here? Will it be substantially different versus a one-vehicle accident where the driver spills on a gravel road?
Good point. My brother bought a house with a 100amp panel. Barely sufficient even when your running a gas furnace and stove.

He paid something like $15,000 to upgrade to a 200amp panel.

Not cheap.
Are their products usable without web-accounts? I'm thinking about buying a watch.

Also, recently I bought Polar HR10 heartrate monitor and was unpleasantly surprised by the fact their Android app is also "signup required", for practical purposes. I mean, it does let you use it offline, but I never found a way to actually export my data (I suppose it should be doable in their web-app, though). And I didn't find any alternative HR-logging app for Android that would allow me to do that, so that I could use the product I bought the way I want. Well, nobody promised me I will be able to, but I still feel kinda robbed.
Arguing the MMT line in the middle of an inflationary bust. It's a bold strategy Cotton!
New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO
I think when I skimmed it, I found:

- the module paths a bit weird (I’d find slash or dot separated more obvious)

- some values needed to be constructed with a call to list

- weird dsl for building was mixed in there

- it’s probably not obvious what should be string/symbol/whatever

I’m not sure anything should change though. It still feels a bit weird to me that it’s a program generating the package rather than a more direct ‘just data’ format.
Another shameless plug, then: https://www.ultorg.com

This one is another desktop app, with a slightly different approach: in the CSV file case, the data is parsed and dumped into a bundled PostgreSQL database, which you can then query with a visual query interface.
In your example, setup a per-department commission account for general use then move those balances to the company wide account periodically.
When you artificially limit what competitors can do on your device it means you can keep your prices high. You don't really have to compete on price when you've already crippled the competition to the point of being much less useful. The other user mentioned specific examples such as the Apple Watch and how it's able to do a lot more compared to competitors like Garmin. I'd even argue products like Tile are another example. Spotify is still fighting with Apple to get some more "fair" competition. Considering how tight margins are in the music world, Apple being able to dodge the 30% Apple tax is a huge bump in their ability to compete.

Overall the list could go on for days, I think you nailed it on the head that it would fit their pattern of behaviour. And they already seem to be following that pattern with their current line of watches and what they can do versus what a non-apple watch can do interaction wise with their phones.
Navigation purposes?

I keep procrastinating putting a mount on my bike, so now every time I go out for a drive I need to pull over, take my phone out of my pocket, check to make sure I didn't miss the turn (50/50 chance), put it back in, and get going again - only to repeat the process whenever I feel lost again.
The Institute for Justice keeps trying to send civil asset forfeiture all the way up the courts to the Supreme Court.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

Support their work to have a chance of restoring this right.
The absolute state of the free and open web in 2022.
How do they know who “stole” it if the paperwork wasn’t completed?
Make sure to click on the video link to get the full feel of how this performs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OmVhDgYuY
Seems like a great way for housing developers to increase their margins.
My Apple watch doesn’t have cellular service. Now can we find something worthwhile to discuss and flag this story dead?
> Perhaps in a libertarian utopia with no government
Under my house ( 1920's wooden home ) I see EPS pushed up against the wooden floor boards. This was done by the previous owner. The EPS itself is exposed. Is this safe ?
That's something that mechanics books do a lot better than EE books, as far as I've seen.
I started software professionally in 2008 and I honestly can't tell a difference between literally anything in this time period. I was using Netbeans and doing Java EE / JSF and the feedback loop feels about the same as it does today. I do remember going from Java EE to Play Framework and it being a little faster feedback loop. Sublime Text still works about the same as it did on Leopard. The only noticeable speed bump I've felt in this time period was going to an M1 from 2019 Intel MacbookPro. I think the reason is the 2019 Intel Macbook pro is one of the slowest computers to ever be released and while throttled (99% of the time) it was slower than my 2015 Macbook Pro and maybe even my 2013. I'm sure the M1 will be eaten up with React and Electron apps soon enough.
> breaks the known contracts with other units.

which either forces you to fix those contracts - implying you have to go understand those contracts too. Or, you un-abstractify the function by keeping the original, and add a copy with the modifications you needed for the new feature/fix. This keeps the original contracts intact, but you add "bloat" to code - a form of tech-debt.
This is absolutely not my experience at all. Books that don’t balance to the cent suggest a problem that needs to be resolved.

Electronic books that don’t balance to the cent are defective.

I’ve certainly seen lax accounting and reconciliation practices in businesses such as those you describe but it’s absolutely not been the norm in my experience.
I’m just a little farther down the road then him and this list hit so close to home. Really the only major deviation for me is my intense love for pair programming. Over the years I have come to accept that there are people who just can’t thrive in that paradigm, for numerous reasons, but also many who can and when I pair up with one that can there is no question that we are producing well in excess of 200%. Further, it’s just a nicer way to spend 8 hours coding with natural guilt free breaks to go down rabbit holes together.
Here's the fix: Secure your hardware. It's not Apple's problem if you do a poor job. He even stated his belief that the adhesive wouldn't be up to the task.. and he was right.

Apple doesn't even particularly recommend what he's doing anyway: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212803

Edit: to be fair that's an electric motorcycle so that's not too fair a statement.
I've definitely seen cases where existing code was reused for a secondary, seemingly similar feature, unnecessarily complicating it and creating maintenance headaches when business requirements between the two features later diverged, and at best you might be able to claim it would have been better to simply copy & paste the code and modify it first, then look at how to refactor to avoid obvious cases of duplication. But I wouldn't consider that an example of developers trying to stay DRY at all costs.

Honestly the biggest problem I've had with maintaining the principle of not duplicating code is when a PO and/or UI/UX designer think we should only apply improvements to one feature to reduce the amount of work, when in fact it should be less work to apply them to all.
People sample music all the time. Sometimes credit and royalties are given, but there are lots of popular music being made that samples without credit.

Against the law? Maybe, probably. I don't think the laws are as strong as they appear though.
I bought a a dell developer xps preloaded with ubuntu. It had issues from day 1, related to sleep, related to bluetooth, related to closing the lid and expecting it to do what I wanted. I fixed some of them after messing with it for weeks, but was plagued by kernel panics in the qualcomm wireless driver that was unfixable. Finally had enough BS and switched to windows.

Always kind of aggravating to see posts like OP saying how great linux is as a desktop, ignoring how horrible it is in general across a broad range of hardware. And apparently even direct from dell, in my case.

edit: BTW experienced dev using linux VMs, baremetal, and WSL for 15 years. I love linux as a dev, but I will never touch it again as a desktop OS.
And if its sitting in a cupholder in a car? If the phone is in loose in a saddle bag? In a backpack on the floor of a car? In a backpack on their back, out of range of a proximity detector? If the motorcyclist hits the phone on the way down and the phone goes tumbling and ends up hitting the ground in a way indistinguishable from the situation OP had?

Apple clearly chose to accept false positives in order to avoid false negatives. I'm pretty sure their engineers and lawyers have given this more thought than you have from your armchair in the one hour since this was posted.
You can manually configure the replication factor in FoundationDB and the client is intelligent enough to load balance across them.

Three data hall is R.F == 3

Three datacenter is R.F == 6

You can configure it higher manually as well, we have a few test clusters we configured to 9 and it seemed to work fine.
> Are you under the impression that the rest of FAANG doesn't do this?

All data collection practices are not equal.

>Google Tracks 39 Types of Private Data, the Highest Among Big Tech Companies

Google takes the cake when it comes to tracking most of your data. This should not surprise, given that their entire business model relies on data.

Twitter and Facebook both save more information than they need to. However, with Facebook, most of the data they store is information users enter.

Apple is in a league above Amazon in protecting user privacy. It is the most privacy-conscious firm out there. Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users’ accounts.

https://stockapps.com/blog/google-tracks-39-types-of-private...
"Good design is often invisible, if you skip the on-boarding process" -- Dieter Rams
Right but I think your theory of the case is backwards - it's not something clever or complicated HN is doing, the too-clever-by-half and weird things seem to come from mastodon/pleroma.

The original link leads to two separate redirects and then ends up on a very dynamic, js-heavy page which could have easily screwed up and not displayed fully for that other commenter. In fact, if you look at it in the Chrome debugger, the first warning it gives you is 'fix your code to not depend on navigator.userAgent', which it apparently does. The share/link thing on that page is the final link itself so the real oddity is the original link.

Maybe you remember where you got it because it's a strange one - it's a double-redirect to a shorter and more direct link, sort of like using one of those jokey URL longeners (elongators?).
How would you compare what you're doing to a prediction market and/or the so-called Superforecasters?

ex.
https://goodjudgment.com/
Huh. By that time I was on my last C64 (original case) and was busy accessorizing it; I had no idea the C64C even existed.
A good approach is to continually ask yourself: "Am I wasting the reader's time?"

In your initial request, there are disjointed references that go nowhere and don't actually form a coherent flow of thought towards an organized conclusion. You've mentioned the rambling nature of it yourself. So why not dig a bit deeper and ask yourself precisely what makes it so rambling?
Now that you mention it, faceid had to be setup... I don't remember how that happened, though.
This is unsurprising given that china is ocd about money(wealth) leaving china mainland.

The trick to remember is that china had set up government run shopping or purchasing unions, that allow everyone to buy things cheaper, but only Chinese products.

The Chinese government regularly boasts that Chinese citizens effectively earn 20% more due to these unions, and describe it like capital gains that will help everyone year on year.
FoundationDB is an open-source transactional KV store where you can write to any replica, and continue writing even if a certain number of replicas are lost. The transactions maintain strict serializable semantics, meaning that transactions happening at the same time against different nodes will be consistent. (You can't read bank account A's balance, add to it, and then write it back if someone else committed a change to the bank account balance, even if that happened on another node.) This is honestly a pretty rare property in distributed databases, and even in databases that claim to implement it, it is ridiculously easy to get wrong. (Reading the analyses here are fascinating: https://jepsen.io/)

One of the many things that SQLite brings is the ability to treat arbitrary storage as a relational database that can be queried (and mutated) with SQL.

Both of these things are generally rare in open source databases. There are very few multi-master distributed databases that have ACID transactions, and even fewer of them have SQL support. So marrying these two technologies is extremely compelling; you get the power of SQLite's relational data layer with the power of FoundationDB's distributed transactions. This is really high tech stuff for free!

A different implementation of similar semantics is rqlite. rqlite uses the Raft consensus protocol to replicate the text of your database writes to each node, which commits it to a local on-disk sqlite database. I haven't actually looked at mvSQLite enough to know how different the approach is, but both should be on everyone's list to take a look at and poke at. (For most "work" you'll be doing, it's probably completely fine to not create a distributed system like these; run in one datacenter, run a monolithic RDBMS, and tell users you're down when a tornado flattens the server racks. Do keep some offsite backups either way, though. Your application code will always have bugs, and these databases will happily replicate an accidental delete to 5 data centers at the speed of light.)
Update: Spotify can sync to a watch for offline use too. Mind blown!
X1: Robotic Exoskeleton for In-Space Countermeasures and Dynamometry (2013) [pdf]
Even in an SME I would also need a system for accruals and prepayments as well.

Simple example

I need to know my profit this month. I have added up my cashbook for the month and it contains an entry for 3 months of rent in advance for my office. It is September and that is the rent for October, November, December. How do I get it out of my profit calculation for September and split into the correct months? This is important, my bonus is based on profit. My bank loan covenants are based on profit. My equity split with my investors is too, as is my tax payable. In double entry I would move this into my prepayments account and move it back in 3 tranches.
I think there’s some truth to this but there’s also the need to set up books well and to implement important practices like reconciliation. For example the way accounts are grouped together can be important, eg to be able to see COGS and EBITDA.

Mostly what I see is that an in house accountant does the books and an external accountant does the tax. But that might not be the case in all jurisdictions.

All of that said, I’ve seen a lot of P&Ls and balance sheets over the years and most of them are so overcomplicated that it’s difficult to understand the business fundamentals. I’m not sure if that’s because accountants make things complicated, but I suspect it’s because accountants aren’t asked to be involved when they should be.
Only if we invent new meanings for words.
I have considered that co-op’s, public utilities and mutual aid societies are excellent solutions to problems such as the one presented small towns, like Erie. It is possible to utilize private capital, such as the store purchase, for public benefit (the residents of Erie) and the mechanism by which that is accomplished is secondary. The fact that the city council was involved was a matter of convenience. It could have been accomplished by any means of group cooperation. For example, only half of the town (500 people) could have been involved, rather than the whole town. Palatability is in the details.
I'd argue the year was 2014, but I largely agree; there have been many improvements since then, but few of them landed for the average desktop user - partly because of the intense push to get people off of desktops.
I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (2015)
Oh, I forgot to add, I tried to load linux on a different older dell xps 13 laptop since it was nearly dead and useless. No wireless driver out of box for dell wireless. Found some random articles about how to get it working. None of them worked. I actually forgave that since I had a USB network adapter and didn't necessarily need wireless. that wasn't it tho I ran into other random issues. seriously linux is still terrible as a desktop OS. I won't even get into UI .
They gave the cost of two beef products before and after subsidies. There are a bunch of other types of meat that presumably are not as expensive per pound. According to this article, less than 1/3 of Americans' meat consumption is beef [1].

I don't know what the factors are, but there might be some reason in particular ground beef ends up taking a large share of the subsidies. I know what steak at the grocery store is quite expensive compared to ground beef, so maybe ground beef is targeted so lower income people can afford it while steak is not. Who knows. It would take more than napkin math to convince me that they're lying.

1. https://sentientmedia.org/meat-consumption-in-the-us/
Is there any advantage to running an ARM instance in the cloud, as opposed to a x64 one?
I’ve found a small hobby in restoring old Nintendo consoles in the last few years. I’ve repaired DMG’s, a couple of DS’s, and a 2DSXL. They made great machines. But the fun thing is programming for them.

Brings me back. Almost want to fire up Workbench and find a copy of Protracker. Or get Dosbox and Turbo C.

Except that modern computers, for all the pain points they have, are faster and more convenient. I think we can still learn a thing or two. Like rendering a page of text scrolling without any tearing or stuttering. But I wouldn’t want to go back to them.
Tiktoks search probably works better because the results are organic, unoptimized for whatever it is the Google optimizes for.
i don't really see why or how a generator expression is any easier to read than a chained call like the OP's example.

In fact, for people unfamiliar with python, this expression is even more strange - you read expression starting from the middle (the _in_ ... part), and then return to the beginning. It makes your eye dart forward and backwards on the text.
Yes, keep using natural gas. At least for now.

As long as 38% of electricity is being generated from natural gas, banning natural gas usage in homes is silly.

Heat pumps at least help, but simply replacing with electric water heater and electric stoves actually hurts the environment more!
There's absolutely nothing wrong with not sharing your last name before a dating app first date.