skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The desktop matters less and less.

The only computer I own at home (other than ipad/iphone) is a Chromebook. But I lease a cheap VPS that lets me do "computer stuff" otherwise.
Probably faulty, since HP has a laptop battery recall for HP ENVY laptops from 2014. https://www.consumerreports.org/computers-internet/hp-recall...

This is just a good reminder people should keep aware of recalls for products they own, especially ones with batteries.
4.2.2.x (Level3) is one of those resolvers hijacking negative answers and redirecting your to their "search pages".
Inflexible workers will be separated from their jobs eventually, its just a matter of time.
Isn't that my argument?
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> It was also missing key immigration reforms that Trump said he needed to see.

"Key immigration reforms" is a great way to spin additional constraints on legal family-reunification, that exact program which allowed Melania's family to join her here in this country. He's closing the doors that he and his family used to come here and amass wealth.
Facebook reminds me of the story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - the story of the utopian city whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

At its heart, Facebook can't be honest with what it is. Mark Zuckerberg can't admit to himself that what's good for Facebook is bad for society. That's why he says a lot about "community" and "connection" but never talks about advertising or monetization. Look at his updates - they never talk about the billions of dollars they make (money talk - that's taboo!)

Facebook doesn't make money via advertising. Advertising is a billboard, or a TV commercial. Facebook makes money by selling your private data (oh you're showing signs of depression - try some prozac!). Facebook is a surveillance operation in a way that traditional advertising isn't.

I have a friend who worked on the newsfeed team at Facebook. Nice guy. Smart guy. But he's unable to consider the broader ethical implications of what he's doing. In the Facebook paradigm more engagement = good.

Facebook has contempt for the general public, and for that reason deserves contempt from the general public.
Check the video. It starts off as a fire, then there is a significant bang and pieces spray all over the room.
FWIW, Wirecutter (and sister site Sweethome) were purchased by NYTimes in 2016.

From the about on their site (https://thewirecutter.com/about/):
"Do your affiliate commissions make you biased?

Up front: Our writers and editors are never made aware of which companies may have established affiliate relationships with our business team prior to making their picks. If readers choose to buy the products we recommend as a result of our research, analysis, interviews, and testing, our work is often (but not always) supported through an affiliate commission from the _retailer_ when they make a purchase. If readers return their purchases because they’re dissatisfied or the recommendation is bad, we make nothing. There’s no incentive for us to pick inferior products or respond to pressure from manufacturers—in fact, it’s quite the opposite. We think that’s a pretty fair system that keeps us committed to serving our readers first.

The most important thing to us is the trust we have from readers. If we were to recommend something because we are biased or lazy, readers like you wouldn’t support our work. We also invite you to fact-check our pieces, which carefully outline the time, logic, and energy spent researching, interviewing experts, and testing the gear. Often, this takes dozens—sometimes even hundreds—of hours. Each guide plainly lays out all the evidence for why we made our picks so you can judge for yourself."

I think the distinction that this is affiliate marketing for the retailers -- not the product manufacturers themselves -- is an important one to make. Also, I think their path of separating business from editorial is entirely sensible for a NYTimes company.

That being said, reviews (and review sites) always fall under "buyer beware" in my mind (I once read a 1 star review of a DVD player stating that it gave it 1 star because it wasn't a VHS player...seriously).
It's as rare as high dpi laptops, which are less and less rare nowadays. If you have a laptop, you're gonna plug it to an external screen at some point, and regular dpi screens are very not rare. This shortcoming is indefensible and should've been fixed years ago
I used standard wooden forklift pallets in college and for years afterwards. I scrounged them somewhere. Not beautiful but free or cheap, and pre-made.

Also, dense cinderblocks make excellent speaker stands.

I don't enjoy my middle-aged 'grown up' furniture any more than I enjoyed that stuff.
It's fair to say that the majors (which are pretty much the only ones renting at airport locations) are optimized for the 95% use case. They work fine most of the time but, in my experience, are pretty much incapable of dealing with anything outside of the usual "system."

In addition to not being able to guarantee a specific vehicle--even with a deposit--I had an issue with Avis a few years back where they were utterly unable to extend a rental to bridge it to another reservation I had already made, i.e. they couldn't take two one week reservations with a week in between and turn it into a 3-week reservation.
Fair enough. That wasn't my intent. Just noting that the facade we see as consumers of this stuff is not the reality behind the scenes (and to ever expect it to be is careless). You're right, this is infinitely worse.
> You're sending data to a third party service when you host an app on AWS.

Amazon neither receives nor requires access to the raw underlying data (in this case: data in your database indicating HIV status, or decrypted bodies of requests sent over TLS indicating same) when you host your web services on AWS. While, yes, it's possible for a dedicated attacker to intercept and snoop on this data, it's (a) not easy, and (b) very much outside the bounds of the scope of the relationship you have with them.

Contrast to the setup described here, where the third parties in question both received and required access to the raw underlying data in order to perform the services they were explicitly contracted for.

You may not think this is an important distinction, but legally, it is, and it makes a world of difference.
Donald Knuth developed the "quarter-imaginary number system" (based on 2i) for a high school talent search. It can represent every complex number with just the digits 0,1,2 and 3, without the use of a sign character.
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Although the London Review of Books is my favorite answer to this question, the New Yorker is a close second ...

I find it very readable on a kindle.

They are doing great journalism and I've been very impressed with their long form writing on topics such as the aftermath of the BP oil spill, the Ferguson shooting, etc.

I subscribe to the kindle version of the New Yorker (which includes the comics) and the print version of the LRB (which is a large format magazine).
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"The Myanmar issues have, I think, gotten a lot of focus inside the company. I remember, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call and we detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages through — it was Facebook Messenger in this case — to each side of the conflict, basically telling the Muslims, “Hey, there’s about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place.” And then the same thing on the other side."

Ok. So Facebook monitors Messenger (not just your public "wall" of Facebook) which has the appearance of being private person to person communication and detects that there are encouragements of violence in Myanmar (written I assume in some language other than English).

That is some impressive operation they have going on.

No wonders that the Chinese did not let get them inside their country.
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I'm just reacting against the use of "blockchain" as a mass noun. It's absurd to talk about a data structure as though it were a substance, like toothpaste or motor oil, and I have a hard time taking anyone seriously if they think this is normal.
Initially I saw an Apple logo and was genuinely surprised, but after realizing it was an HP logo I was much less so.

It would be really interesting to see what each company does to protect the health of batteries. I bet there’s a huge difference between them.
I suppose time will tell... Many companies will never do this.
I'm disappointed that the above comment got so many downvotes. It's an important observation in the bigger context.

I used to get most of my news from CNN, and the amount of "bad" anti-trump editorials they publish really scared me. CNN has a lot of anti-Trump articles that take a trolling tone.

We (me and CNN) didn't vote for Trump, and we (me and CNN) don't like him, but that's no excuse for bad journalism. Part of a democracy is getting along when you loose the election.
> 4K doesn't even get listed, presumably lumped into the "Other" category.

Could the chart be reporting CSS pixels rather than hardware pixels? Macs are only 7% of total Firefox users but the majority of Mac hardware has a "Retina" display with a higher resolution than these.

BTW, 2560x1440 is listed with about ~1% but it's not visible because the line and text is black on a black background.
A constitutional republic is a type of democracy. Trying to draw a distinction there is beyond splitting hairs.
What was it that initially made you think they are morons? Do you believe that AI should not be held to ethical standards?
How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically
>I think the NRA's published position matches with my account. I do not think it's a helpful or reasonable position.

The NRA's position is no more unreasonable than forcing Christians to pay for what they believe to be child murder.

>Bans on modifications that allow semi-automatic weapons to achieve >2r/s sustained fire rates

Actually, after the Las Vegas shooting the NRA came out in favor of banning bump stocks. [0]

>"Have always been here and are increasingly more exposed." Unless of course we ignore the continued defense of openly self-labeled neo-nazi groups right out of Trump's own mouth, this is a factual reading of the situation.

Yep, they've always been there and while there's fluctuations the general trend is there are fewer and fewer of them. The largest neo-Nazi gathering in ages was a year or two ago and they managed to get a few hundred people to show up. The outsized media attention on these crazy people is to attempt to associate them with the approximate half of the country which happens to vote Republican. In contrast you can look at the media coverage of Antifa and other far left groups that have set fires and killed people over the last few years. It's very different and it's easy to understand why.

It's also important to look at the big picture here. Rather than condemning the alt-right he said there were "good people" on both sides of a rally where someone was killed and one of those sides was the alt-right. But do you know what that allowed him to do? He was in a position where he was able to go to Congress with a position supporting a path to citizenship for dreamers in exchange for increased funding for border control and some stupid wall funding. And there was hardly any push back from the far right. Giving them a tongue lashing might have made you feel better, but it likely would not have helped the country in any way.

>All this is smoke and mirrors, and an attempt to deflect from the truly frightening admissions that folk who ran the Trump campaign's media have made. They're literally suggesting the use of human trafficking to run a sex entrapment extortion game on politicans and you're like, "Well the libs believe in a peepee tape." I'm sure some libs believe in UFOs too, but this doesn't dismiss or excuse the facts at hand.

Some crazy right wingers have some crazy conspiracy theories like 9-11 truthers and pizzagate. Some crazy left wingers have some crazy conspiracy theories about GMOs, alternative medicine, vaccines, etc. But this isn't a discussion about who has the craziest crazies, this discussion is about how the mainstream media biases when reporting on all issues including the crazies.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/top-house-republica...
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Except if they go out of business at some point, and all those patents end up in the hands of trolls.
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ReadKit [1] for macOS is still pretty nice. You can pull in feeds from Feedly, Feedbin, etc and also send articles to a read later app like Instapaper or Pocket. I prefer the native app approach over a web app for this use case. It's also a one-time purchase. Reeder [2] is pretty similar as well.

[1]: https://readkitapp.com

[2]: http://reederapp.com/mac/
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> Don't try to claim these are in any way equivalent.

Not my goal (see comment on other reply here). Just pointing out that the media as a whole is not to be trusted in any way shape or form. Like I noted on the other comment above, this situation is far worse than what I saw in the newsroom; just not surprising having seen the machine at work.
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
MFN only obligates countries to not discriminate. It does not obligate them to set tariffs at a particular level (presumably to protect domestic industries). The particular tariff levels are negotiated separately, most recently at the Uruguay round. Since then tariff reduction effort at the WTO is basically stalled.
A friend was the chief fire marshall for a very large (1.8 million inhabitants) European city. At night he would go through all the rooms and unplug each and every charger.

He's seen so many fires and has gone to the root cause of them that he sees chargers and batteries as incendiary devices, not consumer electronics.

I'll send this video to him, not that he needs more examples but it is quite striking how fast this goes from 'laptop charging on a desk' to 'office on fire' and what little if any warning there was that this was about to happen.
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I wrote a tool called jsonsmash[0][1] that's meant for a more explorative view of the JSON files. It basically exposes the data in a minishell, complete with `ls` (with a ton of the standard flags), `cd`, `pwd`, `cat` (which outputs in yaml), and some others. My main use case was to read some json files that were far too big to load in standard editors (210mb+) and for that it has worked great.

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> My guess is that Grindr's agreement with Apptimize and Localytics asks for the strictest possible protection of that data. If anyone at Apptimize or Localytics has access to that data, I'd be incredibly surprised.

Honest question, are you in the SAAS analytics industry or is anyone else that can comment on this? I am not (though I do do data work) and I would actually be surprised if the SAAS company _didn't_ have access to the data.

That would require some kind of dedicated setup so that Grindr's data was not at rest with other company's data which is a) super expensive, b) no reason to expect that the SAAS company would not have access for maintenance/troubleshooting and c) kind of defeats the purpose of using SAAS.
Pretty much any MacBook connected to an external monitor falls in this "edge case". Or any modern MacBook-class laptop. They might not be the majority, but they are still a group of people counted in millions.

It's only an edge case on Linux because anyone trying to use such a laptop on Linux is met with pretty much unacceptable breakage and has to move away to Windows or macOS.
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> No, HIPAA binds only covered entities, which are (basically) care providers, insurers, and certain other parties in certain business relationships with care providers and insurers. If you give out your health information to a dating service, it's not protected by HIPAA.

This is correct, though it's worth noting that HIV status is actually protected under more strict terms than just HIPAA, and that may in fact apply to Grindr.

There are a lot of laws at the state-level which restrict the ability to collect, record, or pass on information related to an individual's HIV status even when none of the parties involved are covered entities (or business associates of covered entities).
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>To me, the hardware report shows technology is quite stagnant on display resolution and memory. 1366x768 is a resolution from 2002 or thereabouts. 4GB was common in desktop computers in 2005

I think there's a huge disconnect between what's you think is "common" and what people actually have. Steam hardware survey from 2009[1] says only 10% of steam (gaming) users have ram greater or equal to 4GB. I'm going to estimate that in 2005, that figure is less than 5%. Saying 4GB is common in 2005 would be like saying 64GB today is "common".

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20090415225520/http://store.stea...
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I mean, it doesn't make sense if everyone is playing fair. You can't negotiate without being willing to sacrifice something to hurt the other side. In war, that's soldiers, in trade wars, that's the consumer.

Ideally, everyone looks at their own tariffs and decides these aren't worth it, because, like you said, they hurt consumers. This means everyone lowers tariffs and life continues better than it was before.
Details are still up in the air. All we know for sure (decided at the Rust All-Hands last week) is that we definitely want to extend cargo in a way that obviates xargo (a plan which xargo's maintainer has enthusiastically endorsed).