skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s sort of an academic answer. Perhaps Google should go straight for creating the Singularity?

Business works by creating a product that someone will pay for. Then they reinvest those profits, grow the company, etc to improve that product.

Maybe we’ll eventually get the robotic butler that consumers will pay for, but in the meantime the Apple II robotic/AI revolution has been a little slow to materialize.
I've never understood this argument. It completely ignores the locality of pollution effects. In an ideal world, the entire grid would be powered by renewables, yes, but I would still prefer that the cars whizzing by my face every day produce no emissions even if the power plant 50 miles away does.
Oh no, it's the 90's: we need classes, right now!
Very exciting. I've been looking more and more at NixOS infrastructure and have been wondering how to gain practical experience in using it. I'm glad to see another option in that space arise, and likely will be using Cachix.

*Note: I do not recommend performing Step 1 with a laptop on just battery power. The compilation process used a lot more of my T420 battery than I expected. Fortunately, Nix is so well designed, that a power failure during installation is easily recovered from.
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95% of debit cards in the UK are Visa according to the FT.
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This was interesting: "However, it was only available in five countries and accounted for less than 1.5% of clicks to news publishers on average. From research we found that over time people found the product to be less and less useful. "

I've found it to be somewhat useful on Facebook - and LinkedIn has a very similar feature as well. I wonder if the clickthroughs on LinkedIn are somewhat similar.
Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper (which was originally provided freely to Linux kernel developers under the agreement that they not develop a clone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper
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The environments I work in are pretty analogous with schools in terms of what the environment and userbase looks like.
This isn't just a competitor with Nextdoor. It might also compete with Quora, or at least fill the local need that Q&A platform can't address. Might also be a less scammy alternative to Craigslist.
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The legal climate here is different. If you accept responsibility, you will be sued, by victims for possible monetary losses and/or by prosecutors for possible criminal liability. If you stonewall, you might get sued for (see previous) but you might not if it's too expensive.

I don't know if it's a social thing or a legal thing or some combination or what, but apparently it's harder to sue in other parts of the world.
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We have an L3 DC-Fast charger at my work - I take my 110mi range Ford Focus EV from 10% to 95% in 30m.

From near-zero I can get enough to drive home (40mi) in 20m.
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Google buying GitHub over Microsoft would actually be arguably worse for GitHub.

If Google actually bought GitHub, I would be thinking twice about using it.
I too miss the days when only landowners could vote.
European law tends to talk about the maximum available penalty under the worst possible situation. It then gives a list of factors to be taken into account. I'm not sure why that's a bad thing.

Look at the US COPPA, with potentially $41,000 per violation. Why isn't this more scary for American website operators? https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...

> A court can hold operators who violate the Rule liable for civil penalties of up to $41,484 per violation. The amount of civil penalties a court assesses may turn on a number of factors, including the egregiousness of the violations, whether the operator has previously violated the Rule, the number of children involved, the amount and type of personal information collected, how the information was used, whether it was shared with third parties, and the size of the company. Information about the FTC’s COPPA enforcement actions, including the amounts of civil penalties obtained, can be found by clicking on the Case Highlights link in the FTC’s Business Center.

I mean, any US website that's compliant with COPPA should find GDPR to be a doddle.

https://corporate.findlaw.com/law-library/ftc-imposes-larges...
Indeed, there is no Windows laptop worth switching to. But the XPS can run Linux well, can't it?
My dad actually can't fly economy on a certain SE Asian carrier - because the seat-to-back distance is shorter than his femur.
> But what diseases only target males? Dunno. Maybe the early domestication of livestock introduced some kind of chickenpox or dogpox that killed (or sterilized!) males dramatically more frequently than females.

Wolbachia is a parasite that, as I understand it, kills male infected at a very young age. Now, this only affects insects, but it does show that something this level of sex-selective is possible.
Dell XPS 15 9560 model, with Intel's quad-core i7 7700HQ processor, 32 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GTX 1050 graphics chip.

Is it really a hardware issue though? Seems more like a MacOS vs Windows problem.
Centralized natural gas production is cleaner than driving around a gas or diesel power plant.

You shouldn't be upset about solving several problems in parallel.
The other two are Marathi and Hindi, both also spoken in India.
tl;dr: The Dell XPS 15. And yes, he's running Windows 10 on it.

Like probably a lot of other people, I buy Macs because they run macOS, and not because the hardware is great. (Although most of the time, the hardware is also great.)
All of the Frontier planes are fitted with the thin-profile seats now. American Airlines is in process of retrofitting its planes similarly and calling it "Project Oasis."

Separately, that's an interesting insight you brought up that sight lines definitely increased passenger comfort in any given seat. Like sitting with your back to the wall in a restaurant, vs. facing the wall.
I beleive it's not in the SEC's mandate/scope to pursue civil cases. They simply enforce Securities laws.
This is a perfect example. I have had the same car for 6 years which I bought used and am hoping to squeeze another 5 out of it. Cars are one of those things I hate spending money on.
"Removing fingerprintability" amounts to the browser just NOT sending all the http request headers that it sends by default. How hard can it be to "comment out" these lines?
One way to reduce sound is to increase the distance from the sound. My equipment is on a separate floor.
"anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh?

AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matched by an acceptance of all, save, perhaps, the terminally censorious. I'm looking forward to seeing him teach his daughter to weld.
Oh! I thought you were the CEO of an ISP. I'm curious about starting my own someday so I take notes of smaller operations as inspiration.
Nor is Microsoft or Amazon. There aren't many clients out there the size of the DoD and the cloud business is all about locking in large clients.
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While students may be especially fortunate to live in California, my understanding is few even in other states at the $75k family income level pay sticker price. Note also that median family income in the US is around 60k. For example, at UW, CollegeSimply reports the net price for a family income of $48,001 to $75,000 is $10,231: http://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/washington/university-...

Average student debt of those who borrow is in the 20s-30s of thousands at most schools. $75k of debt for an undergraduate degree would be an outlier anywhere. https://lendedu.com/blog/student-loan-debt-statistics-by-sch...
The criminal investigation is still underway. I will be shocked if she does not end up in prison.
I was wondering when something like this would come out. My community uses a Facebook group, and I've seen others do something similar (or even email listservs)
can you provide a citation on the potential rolling blackouts this summer?
This is actually a benefit because it subtly counteracts inflation.
Could you link/cite where they insist that it's the Right Thing?
>The only place owning an EV is actually environmentally friendly in North America is Quebec since 95% is generated by Hydro.

A quick check on the DOE website shows 95% of power generated in Washington is 0 CO2. And we export it to neighboring states.

Not to mention, power generation has benefits of scale. One stationary 10,000hp engine is more efficient than 10,000 mobile 1hp engines.
Looking it up, I think the more accurate term is actually "partner repacks." [1] They're versions of Firefox shipped with different default settings and/or an extension included by default at install time, IIUC. Though reading this rather opaque page [2] it doesn't seem to explicitly preclude patches to the compiled code, though it seems like they would forbid that.

The key config file is distribution.ini. [3]

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/build/partner-repacks/file

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/partnerships/distributio...

[3] https://brashear.me/blog/2017/12/07/how-to-deploy-firefox-wi...
They do. But why would they pay for charging stations when they can get the tax payer to cover it for them and keep all the profits to themselves?
> then jack up the rent

But can they really do that? Another VC-subsidized startup can then come in and apply the same strategy.
exactly, most of culture changes fast and for there to be a sexually selective pressure on testicles for a long enough time to make a difference, it would surely persist into recorded history. Either human mating practices are cultural and transitive so they would not exert continuous evolutionary pressure, or they are somehow more ingrained and thus could exist long enough to trigger noticeable evolutionary changes.
Which fields have artificial gatekeeping?

Massage Therapy is one. This varies state to state in the US, but you have to have a license.
It's actually really interesting. Seems like internally, MSFT has kind of been let loose and no longer has to adhere to the more strict style Ballmer was a fan of. We've seen this with them hiring OSS talent (Miguel de Icaza, who was a pretty big advocate of trying to make MSFT less proprietary and locked down).

Externally though, the image looks completely different to those who don't really care for what's happening at MSFT - they just seem like an outdated Apple. That's slowly starting to change, I think the Verge recently put out a piece claiming they've switched positions. However, a lot of major consumer problems (Windows Update, Skype) have plagued the company tremendously. No amount of loving Typescript or VSC is going to change that.
The GOPConservative have engineered a situation whereby its too expensive to have a family. The US currently is a country where employers are allowed to not have to pay for an employees health insurance-- where health insurance companies are allowed to jack up prices for no reason knowing that their buddies in congress will not investigate and noone makes enough money to spend whats left out of their paychecks after paying nearly 60% of their monthly salary on the inflated rents they allow their Party donation REIT buddies set.

Want to know why theres less kids? Check out the price of just birthing one. Socialize the healthcare at least, and well have lots of babies.
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tl;dr Especially at the Federal level, cases can take a very long time, but they do happen.
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Probably because if you died young you by definition have no regrets.
Spending a night in a hotel and then skipping out on the bill will land you jail (or at least it will get the police involved). Avoiding tax is legal and does not.

> Why do you think you should get to live in a nice place full of nice things paid for by other people, and not pay your own share?

By definition, if you pay everything you owe, aren't you paying your share?
Sure, in some cases "speculative altruism" might actually be a better name.
Zipline's landing system is totally automated, so I don't think it needs anyone specially trained, but it does need equipment to land. They don't land at the receiving end, though, they drop the package via parachute, with a claimed accuracy of within two parking spaces. So, the origin point (where the packages come from) is fixed, by they can do arbitrary destinations so the routes aren't fixed.
Wild animal activity is relevant to some people. We've had mountain lions kill deer within 100 meters of our property. Better to keep the dogs in when they're around.

NextDoor and email lists are a terrible way of disseminating scares. I'd rather have a "apex predator weather" feature that tells me, day-by-day, whether to keep the dogs in.
Yes, and then they just wait until you show up on their soil (say, on vacation) and arrest you then.

Remember Assange? He's fine as long as he stays in the embassy, but step into the back alley for a smoke and he's off to the hoosegow.
What about Ontario's Nuclear/Hydro?

But more to the point, you are right for the moment in that the source of electricity in California is 35~50% Natural Gas, but that source/dependance will most likely change. There's no reason why provisioning for this outcome is a bad idea. Especially since switching to EV has other benefits than simply not burning Fossil Fuels.
You can stand against opiod addiction and the lives it has taken, working to abolish them completely. Or you can work to reduce the harm it does.
Politics is bad because the very object of voting is wrong. We are supposed to vote for people who will invent new laws. What if we simply do not want new laws?
There are also options for libc that affect this behavior that can be set in /etc/resolv.conf like:

options timeout:2 retries:2 max-inflight:768 max-timeouts:100 single-request-reopen rotate

There are man pages that describe these options.
Ask HN: Advice needed – Was my ISP hacked or am I being paranoid?
I was hit with a phishing attempt twice today.

Once using my Safari on my iPhone and once using Firefox on Elementary OS.

These are relatively secure, and I’m careful when browsing. It seemed very weird that I had a malware on both of them.

The scam is directed towards users of a very popular ISP.

Things got strange when I try to submit the url to phishtank.com - the website is blocked. I tried to access it over WiFi and 4G connections in my girlfriend’s phone and mine (all using the same provider), with no luck.

So I try to use my VPN. Phishtank works normally.

I know it sounds paranoid - but I’m starting to think that the ISP could have been hacked.

I’m here to ask for advice: what do I do?

I have no idea of how to proceed, and how to track the origin of the problem.
> I'm not even sure ability is the issue when it comes to grasping things.

I am pretty sure it is lack of ability. Some of the reported interactions between him and other world leaders is pretty alarming. For example, Merkel of Germany had to tell him 11 times that he could not negotiate trade deals between the United States and Germany because Germany is part of the EU. (http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-eu...)

He uses his gut instinct all the time because that is all he has.
NZ has, https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/ which looks like a local competitor with same name. Things might get a bit confusing here if Google's stars to pick popularity
I lived through the 90s, so I disagree. Anyone who feels perfectly comfortable with Microsoft's embracing of things they like is ignoring history.

Maybe it's different this time, maybe it isn't.
Please give this topic a rest.
it looks cool, is unique, is memorable, reminds me of when the internet was fun
As much as I love VSCode, you live in a buble. A communication app affects way more people than a programming language or a text editor. Even my mother uses the former, while only a fraction of all the programmers I met in my life use the laters.

And MS did messed up on other major products or companies

- Rare video games. They did freaking golden eyes and conkers bad day and they manage to kill it.

- they messed up Wn10, which is still not as good as Win7 after all those years but spies more on you and forces update at the worse moment on you

- the latest outlook is barely usable. Sometime mails can't be sent. Sometime it freezes or crashes. It's very slow, the search sucks and I never find the buttons I'm looking for.

- they killed Nokia and the windows phone despite all the investments the community did in it. And it was considered a good product.

- they are milking minecraft like disney is milking SW, so that all the creative community has moved to private servers.

I mean, we are talking about a company that had a monopoly on the media player and the web browser on the most used OS in the world. The player and browser, the most used software ever by the non tech saavy users.

And to this day, none of their versions is remotely as good as the competition.
this is so stupid. Meanwhile Chinese govt is going full steam head with AI. This will come back to bite Americans.
For every "you guys are just overreacting" post like this one, there is another face "oh this thing has bite we're serious" posting the opposite.

It's easier (and probably the intended effect) to geoblock the IP Addresses or have zero business requiring this new complication, like this DroneCI place is doing.
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But as he describes it, the GP is not trying to "compete" with Google (whatever that means), he is only trying to do some comprehensive searches.

He is not selling advertising.

He is not even running a public website.

Google is preventing you from using automation to create private (i.e. personal) respositories of information, even when that information is public and (ironically) Google itself relied on automation ("bots") to collect it.
I’ll be happy if the only thing that ships with 10.14 is a bugfix for the Preview.app. It amazes me that they have not yet unfucked the PDF rendering with a minor release. It amazes me even more, that this issue is not present on the linked wishlist. Do people not view PDFs on their Macs?
Some people did buy Macbooks for the hardware, and then run Windows. I never did but it seemed a somewhat popular thing to do a few years ago.
Surely US law also has fines proportionate to what has happened. E.g. EPA has hit large companies with multi-million fines for systematically polluting water over a long time, but if your small company makes a small mistake that's not the same. GDPR explicitly has a list of criteria to assess when determining the fine, and there's no reason to believe courts won't hold regulators to that.

For past experience with German privacy regulators (as an example, since our old law was fairly strict too), I'll quote a recent comment of mine:

From what I know, the German DPAs (they are organized on state level) hand out like 2 fines per month each, generally way below the maxima (under old German law, the max was 300000 €), and concluding the majority of cases without a fine.
E.g. from the Bavarian DPA (german doc: https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/baylda_report_07.pdf, page 151):

in the years 2015-2016 they had 173 proceedings that involved potential fines. 52 of those resulted in fines. 34 of those fines were <1k€, 13 were <10k€.
these talks are actually not new. the same rumor appeared back in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/07/github-is-raising-a-second...

imho, github feels a bit too slow innovating, which is kinda surprising since they are still "a startup"
Could be worse. It could be Oracle.