skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, cooling would be quite bulky and require lots of extra energy. But for an environment like Venus cited (instead of small sensors), I think it should be a good option. The Carnot efficiency to cool from a Venutian environment (462C) down to 50C (reasonable chip temp) is a surprisingly good ~60%. In practice you might get 15% (? plus insulation leaking), that should still allow cooling a chip of less than ~1 watt of tdp without too much hassle inside a robot.
Why does that page look so absolutely perfect on mobile? Perfect blacks, ultra crisp fonts.
How do you advance/scroll while in presentation mode?
God help any of us if the police can use this kind of "evidence" to make us a suspect in a murder:

'Suddenly, the very qualities that had endeared Joe to his community — his demonstrativeness, his warmth, his volubility — were cast in a different light. “Homo tendencies?” one investigator jotted down during an interview. Similar observations were scrawled in notebooks and on scraps of paper that litter the case file: “He gay?” “Feminine acting.” “Absolutely no homosexual advances but Joe is a ‘toucher’ when talking to people.” “Joe would bake pies & cook etc rather than fish, play poker.” One theory that investigators entertained was that Joe killed Mickey because she had discovered his dark secret.'
The listener-funded radio station that runs the archive, WFMU, is the single greatest radio station in the world.
There seems to be a fundamental dichotomy on HN that is either intellectually dishonest, or the result of hyperbolic reasoning. Everyone accepts that services have costs, and so someone has to pay for them. They're either paid for by user fees, paid for by ads, or paid for by charity (e.g. Wikipedia)

Every time a publisher converts to user fees (paywall), people react angrily. Yet, people complain loudly over ads too, and others complain loudly over ad tracking. Now, there's not necessarily overlap between these groups, but there must be some. So either people want to get away with paying nothing (one form of dishonestly), or they are virtue signaling over things they don't care as strongly about as they say (another form of dishonesty), or they are mad at something else.

I think it's a mix of both. Many people will say they care a lot of privacy and security, but behave in ways that show they really don't. From poor operational security, to bad passwords, to continuing business with firms that have already been hacked and exposed their personal information.

A lot of people complain also loudly over what they imagine is serious harm being done to them by ad tracking, but I would bet they are more annoyed by ads themselves, than by the theoretical and abstract (if distant background threat) of their info being harvested for harm. Because human being's reward system in their brain favors minimizing immediate pain.

Ads, whether targeted or not, are an annoyance, just like paywall dialogs, and people would rather see neither. I think this is the real nitty gritty, people unwilling to put up with the monetary cost of services, the hassle of signing up and paying, the performance detriments of ads, or the annoyance of having their attention interrupted by them and this is far and above the concerns over privacy.

No doubt, many people will say no, I'm wrong, they truly care extremely strongly about data mining, but I think the people who care that strongly as a small minority like the people who are rabid anti-vaxxers, or anti-GMO, hyperbolic fears of tiny risks, not shared by the mainstream.
> The fact that these aren't seriously considered makes it very clear that no one respects freedom of movement across national borders in the same way they respect freedom of speech of freedom of movement across city borders.

Because these are rights guaranteed to American citizens, not universal rights. The UK doesn't have freedom of speech and whether or not I like it that's totally their prerogative. There are also many cities in the world that are not free to move to (Mecca and Pyongyang come to mind).

I don't think there's any precedent for the rights granted via American jurisprudence to be globally, generally applicable.
logging them is pretty harmless in my mind. Geolocation for analytics purposes is also fine in my book.

Great, but that's not what the law says?

I think it's fine for sites to block EU visitors, and fine for EU visitors to go somewhere else, whether they're blocked or not. But that's not at issue here, is it? HN isn't blocking EU users, they haven't updated their privacy policy in more than a year, and they're likely collecting data that, while you personally may be OK with it, isn't compliant with the GDPR.

So it seems like you're willing to give them a pass even though they're not compliant? So why the hostility towards other sites that are in the same boat, but take the additional precautionary step of blocking EU users to show that they're really trying not to violate the law, and that they don't want those visitors since they're not compliant?
I think you mean that the NZ and US have both signed on to treaties governing copyrights.
Apple forces developers to use MacOS to develop for iOS on. Compiling code on iOS is banned (except WebKit). You'd ban all developers from having a portable development platform.
I remember HERO on an episode of Mr. Wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_C0bRgAJw
Yep, I longed to be the only 8-year-old in town that could have a robot fetch them a beer. (even though I'd never had one)
>Cash tends to fail much more rarely for me than cards.

It's the same in Denmark. The payment processing networks are really stable, just not stable enough to eliminate or not always carry enough cash to pay for groceries.

When payment processing have 100% uptime for five years, then maybe we can debate eliminating cash in some places.
Not really. The main issue is software.

Add a Bluetooth keyboard and you can code just fine on iOS. The problem is that there are no native tools for it (that we have access to).

That’s actually a very minor hurdle, not a long way at all.
I think it was, but if most people who use them for work are sticking keyboards back on them then it might make sense to offer a clamshell or hybrid design.
RedBull got in some trouble for claiming that 'RedBull gives you wings'. Tesla should be in for more trouble than RedBull, considering a number of people have died as a result of their false claims. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
I tried desperately to sign up for a Simple account when it was brand new. I had an invite, I signed up, and I was denied. That was confusing to me, so I followed up and they indicated that something on my ChexSystem report was the reason. I was confused even more - I'd never written a bad check or did anything that I've heard would typically do this, so I ordered a report and waited. Got it back and read it over and saw nothing negative. I followed up again and asked what the deal was, and they gave me some kind of weird answer about how many accounts I have had (or had at the time? it was never clear). It was at that point that I kind of just decided that if they didn't want my business that badly, then maybe I should take the hint. :-)
It's not a pi clone, but google snickerdoodle board.
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> To the extent that "consciousness" refers to something meaningful, it refers to something empirical.

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

You are taking a very strong (and controversial) philosophical position without perhaps realizing it.
When is comes to technology, the music publishing industry is like the airline business. It is more intent on protecting its current business model than innovating for the future. All it is really capable of doing is copying competitors and throwing its legal weight around a bit. Therefore it does not attract future minded people.

This can be generalized. Example: The rocket launch industry was once more intent on protecting its current business model than innovating for the future. Fortunately, what that does, is to create a market that is dramatically misaligned with what the price could be from first principles.

On the other hand, network effects with proprietary tech might be the great fatal flaw in capitalism that Karl Marx so desperately wanted to find. Once the creative destruction stops, stagnation then oppression takes over. Once capitalism no longer has sufficient advantage over the oppression of centralized control, there is no reason not to fall into centralized control. However, that result isn't utopian at all.
Surely there's got to be something like that available already. I'm mostly dealing with low powered M0/M4 boards, but the selection in this range is massive.
I poked my head in to see what the fuss was about when Amazon purchased them. $8 for a dozen eggs when other stores charge $3. Pure insanity. I laughed myself out of the store.
Decide if you talk about not giving a flying toss doing business or visiting for fun and leisure.
The point would be the stronger anonymity offered by Tor, whereas with VPNs, you're basically at the mercy of the service providers not to keep logs. Also the developers needn't censor anything but merely build in a mechanism that individual node operators can use or not as they see fit. Like adblock lists, the lists themselves would presumably be made and circulated by interested individuals, and nothing to do with Tor devs.

Anyway, thinking further, I realised even a whitelist can be bypassed in various ways to do illegal stuff, so you'd still need to be quite prepared and legally informed before running an Exit node. :-(
The US has a problem of private industry infiltrating and co-opting government, and people largely normalizing it. The landscape for telecoms is simultaneously over-regulated with respect to allowing room for new players to enter the market, and under-regulated with respect to consumer rights. US regulations favor monopolies, and monopolies abuse their influence on regulatory boards to shut out new competition.

Regulation can mean different things to different people. It's just stupid, one-dimensional, shallow thought to try to paint all regulation with a broad good-vs-bad brush.
Fat chance of that, if you've seen just how forward-thinking, efficiency-minded, or capable most (all?) public transit authorities are.

You can recover lost cards without collecting personal data, by the way.
Google has a lot of data, which might be enough for them: anyone who can use google data should get better results because of that data.

Intel is taking a risk because what they release for free can also run on ARM and AMD.

Is either significant? Ask me in 30 years...
> My comparison is simply to show the standard laissez faire talking point of "oh, regulation exists just to protect incumbent market players" as bullshit: regulations exist to protect consumers from negligence and misbehaviour on the part of the companies.

You present a false dichotomy here. As much as the GP is wrong for boldly asserting the negative as fact, you are wrong for just as boldly asserting the opposite, without allowing for the panoply of options that inevitably arise from the point a regulation is conceived to the point that it is enacted. During the process of drafting the legislation, at least here in America, the existing players have a voice on the legislation's course, and the larger the existing player is, the louder their voice gets to be.
The dearth of WWDC rumors this year is really amazing to me. Apple really is taking leaks very seriously. We're 10 days away from the keynote, and absolutely nothing is getting out.

This speculation is the best that Macworld can do? No offense to them, but I mean, the rumors are slim pickings.

I really hope that Apple fixes its laptop lineup at WWDC. It's a complete and total shitshow right now. And that's coming from a huge Apple fan.

Even before you factor in the keyboard issues, it's a mess.
The Air line maxes at 8gigs of ram, but you can configure for a better core i7 proc than the MacBooks. Of course the screen is awful.

The actual MacBook line has an anemic processor, but you can get 16gigs of ram and a decent screen. But by that time, you're paying MacBook pro money. Which at 13-inches, you can't get the top specs without the touchbar, and the midrange specs on the non-touchbar are stupidly overpriced even for someone like me who's willing to pay a premium for Apple kit. And still capped at 16gigs ram.

15-inch model suffers from the same problems as the 13-inch: You can only get the maxed specs with the touch bar and the mid-range specs are a joke for the price.

The only pro laptop worth buying right now is a 3-year-old mid-2015 MacBook pro. I was in the market for a new Mac a couple of months ago and literally could not find anything worth spending money to upgrade on from Apple. I picked up two 11-inch macbook airs for cheap on eBay because I adore that tiny form factor and use them as mostly dumb terminals for remote stuff. They are surprisingly useful and have great battery life.

Apple really needs to fix the laptops and give up the goods on the Mac Pro machine. I don't care if it's throwing a bevy of these chips in an ultra thin MacBook Pro-Air X Plus or what. But this situation is embarrassing. Reminds me of the mid-90s, when there were a ton of options if you wanted a mac, but nothing really worth buying.

My work ThinkPad is an ugly brick that gets the job fucking done. I'm about to buy one for my home if I don't just stockpile all the 11" macbook airs I can find and build a home lab cluster to remote into for doing real work instead.
Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs that have zero open-source support, a far ways off even from Nvidia. They are the absolute worst.

That's before you consider that all the stuff Apple did to that poor ARM probably means you can't even boot Linux into a terminal on it today.
Eager Evaluation is pretty cool! It will help me discover APIs a lot easier. I have two questions about this:

1) what happens when evaluating is going to take a lot longer that usual?

2) why the arguments list hint is using Flow syntax for optional (question mark before argument name)?
Originally PEP 8 had 79 characters. Now that was a weird choice so most companies went with 80 instead, including Facebook. You want a low-ish limit because it makes it possible to fit two files side by side on a typical screen resolution. Even if you don't edit like that, you look at diffs like that. More importantly, a low column limit is helpful to disabled engineers who don't have to navigate horizontally so much.

So we used 80. I always felt bad when the linter stopped people from pushing impactful changes because they went over the limit by two characters. So two years ago I set up a "highway speed limit" style warning in flake8 (code B950 in PyCQA/flake8-bugbear). What it does is it keeps your limit intact (for example "80") but doesn't trigger unless you went over by more than 10%. So the limit happens to be 88.

When I was working on Black, I was faced with a dilemma. Should the formatter stick to 80 or be able to "go over" a bit, too, as we would let humans do. I felt like the latter made more sense as the resulting code looks nicer (fewer occasions to break a single line into three or more). Then I remembered Raymond's talk "Beyond PEP8" where he mentions that experience shows "90-ish" is the wisest choice. So I went with it.
You do realize there's a difference between a law and a treaty and there are international treaties governing copyrights, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_copyright_treati...
I'm curious if Amazon will ever attempt something equivalent to a weekly neighborhood-wide prime grocery shipment receiving time.

Basically, every Tuesday at 10am-11am, my neighborhood will receive its weekly grocery shipments. If my other non-perishable prime packages happen to be in their holding warehouse by that time, I will get my non-perishable packages delivered to me at that time as well.

It would seem by bunching up the shipments it would save gas costs and last mile delivery costs.
Meanwhile I’m on the iPhone X and it’s the best phone I’ve used since the iPhone 4.

You’re using the model that was explicitly designed to be like the previous models. It’s not a shock it’s much like the previous models then is it?
A little bit of a catch 22 you think?

C++ has clangfmt.

Black has a good momentum right now it very well might be the clear winner in a few months
The biggest threat to YouTube is YouTube. Censorship is getting out of hand and demonetizing/banning sucessful tubers is making people ask questions.

Questions like: Should I continue to invest in this platform or start moving my viewers elsewhere?

Personally, if I had a following, I’d be getting my branded media site up and running. I’d continue to post teaser content to YouTube, but host my full content on servers I control.
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Yeah, a simple "Before and After" shot would tell the whole story at a glance—which makes me wonder if these writers are incentivized to not summarize their work visually.
> I don't know how many times I could not commit my code because I left a space at the end of a line, or an empty line contained whitespace, or I had only one blank line between two class definitions, etc.

On the other hand, it drives me nuts when I see stuff like this in our source files. I would love to have a commit hook that did nothing but enforce a minimal set of white space rules. Just requiring no trailing white space and no mixed tabs and spaces would make me so happy.

>Admittedly, Black works differently; as I understand it, it will just auto-reformat your code rather than yelling at you and making you go through your code and fix everything by hand, which is what the aforementioned approach did.

I don't actually write much Python, but surely you could have run the same tool (or some other formatter configured to match the linter) locally to have it do that auto-format for you?
As a normal merchant you are getting an off the shelve machine which runs on existing infra so no idea what you are talking about in point 1, 2 or 6. The other points, sure, but they are the same with cash and with cashless they are mostly automated. You hook them up to Xero or something and everything goes straight from PoS to there. Cashless is definitely less hassle for the merchant (life altering experiences like being robbed was not mentioned but anecdotally I know at least two wine merchants who sucked up the small costs of cashless after they were robbed) ; the only things they will mention as negatives is the % on transactions and being unable to do stuff under the table easily.

It might be good to know as well that charge backs in the EU are not as common or easy as in the US.
It's not tc39's job to dish out vigilante justice probabilistically for poor operational practices.

It is tc39's job to add js features without breaking websites, however likely they are to be compromised.
Me too. It wasn't much of a "trend", there were a few robots available that didn't do much other than slowly move about. I remember the robot "butler". Utterly useless.

Marvin the depressed robot would have been a lauded improvement.
There could be a win if the FPGA part is efficient. Power and heat are a limiting factor for rack density, and this could allow you to run more machines in a rack than you could otherwise support.

Pretty narrow still, but the market segment is possibly real.
This is what I do too. Provided it's easy to type out, I don't really care all that much what the code looks like - especially when I'm getting paid.

(It just wants to be consistent, something the computer is very good at enforcing.)
That's definitely on our roadmap, and we move things around based on need/interest of users. Shoot us an email to hi [at] parabola.io with what you're looking to do and we'd love to see how we can help.
> The USC education helped Mr. Meru earn $225,000 last year working for a corporate practice in Draper, Utah, 20 minutes from Salt Lake City

Cry me a river, you're making bank, bud.
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Theoretical Question, If I am a startup now and has an global audience, does that means I need to enforce GDPR from the get go? Or are there time limit before I have to comply?
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I would. It’s much more of a gross (and inaccurate) oversimplification than the sarcastic response to it was.
The problem is Amazon bought whole foods at the peak. The other retailers were already catching on that people will pay higher margins for some things and developing to serve that market. This brings out price competition, eroding margins...
> I don't know how many times I could not commit my code because I left a space at the end of a line, or an empty line contained whitespace

Trailing whitespace causes issues with git, editors, diff tools, and numerous other things, as well; keeping it out of a repository is a good thing.

> I had only one blank line between two class definitions

I certainly agree that that's the kind of thing a tool should help with rather than complain about and make you fix.
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I think it depends on the country. Tap to pay is pretty much everywhere in Denmark, smaller shops included. The limit for when a PIN is required is €40 and as for speed, I would say that your 5 seconds is of by a factor of 5 to 10, it is absolutely instant.
If 80s era home robots are your thing, here's a bunch of pictures and some information: http://www.theoldrobots.com/personal.html
This is a really huge issue but I think one critical component should be how much the university can charge you once you’ve enrolled. I think the university should be restricted from increasing your tuition after enrollment. It should stay the same through graduation, and no additional fees or anything can be added. You’re willing to make a commitment to the school, they should be willing to make a commitment to you.
> Also, non-targeted ads suck as they usually end up being like Viagra ads since they pay the most.

You can still have targetted ads without tracking user data. Show ads for gaming content on eurogamer/ign, or ads for technology on techcrunch, or ads for Viagra on WebMD
Only getting 8gb RAM in my 2015 13” Macbook Pro is one of my greatest regrets.
I've been experimenting with water fasting, intermittent fasting, and calorie restriction for over two years with good results. I gradually went from an "obese" BMI to normal, and reduced the symptoms of some medical conditions, especially after 3-5 day water fasts.

I think that if one is going to restrict calories, it's a good idea to eat a high-nutrient diet. Mine is mostly vegan + fish, and based on vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, and fruits. Almost zero sugar, low salt, no flour, and not a lot of grains.

A saying that helped me stay focused is, "Food is not a recreational drug."
You don't have full control over your profile. You can't download a copy of your entire posting history, You can't can't edit or delete comments after a certain window, You can't edit your username, and you can't delete your account. Full control over your profile would allow you to do all of those things without needing to contact a moderator or use a third party service.