skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to Gorongosa for a field biology course in 2016, and it was absolutely amazing. Greg Carr gave a talk to us about the park and it's mission, and it seems like they're really working hard to incorporate the park into the surrounding communities so that the locals have a sense of ownership over their park.

The megafauna are recovering at a good clip, and there's thriving bird and bug biodiversity if you're into that kind of thing (seeing Oecophylla nests was a particular highlight for me, but I'm probably in the minority there.) National Geographic did a video series about the park's recovery that I highly recommend[1], and last I heard they're working on a sequel.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/gorongosa/home/
Toilet paper and drinking straws are not equivalent. TP is biodegradable and EVERYBODY needs it. If stores were to stop carrying TP, then everyone would need to carry it around and that's silly.

Disabled people aren't helpless, they generally will do everything they can up until their disability stops them. I'm really struggling to think of a disability where someone would be prevented from putting a straw on their persons.
>I am skeptical there will be an 'Event', something more like a gradual decline seems more likely (so, more British Empire than Roman).

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The (Western) Roman Empire's decline was not caused by "an Event" either, it was a gradual process with many causes over several centuries.
Mostly subsidies and keeping things running. The EU budget is only about 140bn/year (or, 280 euro per person per year).
Yes but there will still likely be a market willing to pay the near-2018-public-transit price for a private ride in 2028 -- even if that represents a premium over 2028 public transit rates.
Miami has the highest income inequality [1] in the US, and the ultra pristine neighborhoods you'd expect due to that.

It's also generating jobs faster than almost anywhere else, with virtually every neighborhood getting better. That's more due to Latin American immigration than taxes though.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...
All mature markets become cartels. The illusion of a free market is maintained to ensure monopoly are not formed but almost all mature markets are some form cartel.
my wife is a stay-at-home mom except for working at a non-profit for 10-15 hours per week. The stay-at-home mom crowd is about the most vicious group i've ever seen when it comes to status and who is viewed as the best parent.
An update from the Reddit comment that's not on the first page of the macrumors thread:

[Edited to add note: From messages others have sent me, it seems that this MSR is actually not Intel's default, but rather this is what Apple has been setting the MSR value to on all intel chips in Macbook Pro and Macbook Air for a number of years ... This is just the first chip to actually be capable of drawing enough power for this to matter. Previous chips just couldn't draw that much power, so they never hit the VRM limit before]
I don't understand how this happened. Apple is a company that built it's empire on paying a premium for reliability and ease of use.

There have been mistakes in the past, but this is something that should have been caught immediately, which suggests that they were aware of it at release.

Is it just nostalgia goggles telling me that Jobs would not have let these out the door?
Why is Puerto Rico marked as a country at the bottom?
It's a lot like Libcloud for Python: https://libcloud.apache.org/
What is an "illegal importer"? You shouldn't need Apple's permission to import anything.

If I steal something from you, can I then run around declaring I shouldn't need your permission to use it or to take it where I like?

Or -- since it's legally yours -- should you have some say in that and the opportunity to get it back?

At best the stuff he was importing was in the realm of really good counterfeits, and included trademark-violating logos that he or his accomplices did a bad job of covering up. At worst (and seemingly pretty likely) the stuff he was importing was legally Apple's property and had been stolen from them.

There is no chain of argument here that turns this guy into the narrative you want him to be.
that was kind of the Polk mo

guess who owns them now..
not to diminish this creation in any way, but if you had to create something like this might awk have been an easier tool to use, and equally available? Obviously this is just for.... i dunno someone desperately wanting to chat on a production server or the result of a geek finding an interesting challenge (maybe both) but... if you DID have to...
> I don't want to get overly enthusiastic

Ok, we can help with that. :)

Windows only. VR in general is still Windows-centric, followed by Android, and bit of Mac. The WebVR spec, even for W3C, was... notable. Example: to get new data, pass an immutable object to the api... which then updates it. But perhaps WebXR is now better? Very not "Just Works" - sensitive to hardware and firmware, and still crashy. A community that's better at posting "yay! it works!", than at describing just what definitions of "it" and "works" were needed for that to be sort of true, and at clearly characterizing state of play.

Remember Angular 1? How its PR was full of red flags, "you'd be nuts to invest in this now rather than waiting" red flags? And that the authors didn't realize what they were waving, was yet another big red flag? A-Frame, at least early A-Frame, reminded me a lot of that.

VR/AR will be awesome. But it's still rather a mess. And there's a line of bodies of people who burned time struggling with ephemeral problems. There are many explorable opportunities, including ARKit. But it seems we've a ways to go before something like a VR geocites becomes possible. Though skimming WebVR outreach might leave that non-obvious.

On a more upbeat note, with most everyone focusing on "immersive" video games, there isn't yet much awareness of how bizarrely psychedelic non-novice/expert UIs in VR can be. Imagine stumbling into someone else's customized environment - sort of like dvorak "huh?", plus vi macros "what did I touch?! what did it do?!", plus blender "what? where? how?", plus geocites "bling! shazam! awesome." :)
This is getting way out of hand, and I don’t know anybody who hasn’t the same observation, and has already changed their behaviour to NOT answer the phone by default.

If the major carriers don't soon understand the magnitude of the telephone spam/scam problem and treat it seriously, They will soon be crippling their business. While this is been likened here to the email spam problem in 2000, back then, everyone in the computer industry took the spam problem much more seriously telephone industry does now. E.,g., Verizon gleefully offers a blacklist where you can block 20 numbers (nevermind that the spam calls typically have spoofed caller IDs) -- they think they’re good, and it’s utterly useless.

They really need to implement a true Source ID (regardless of the presented caller ID), and a way to instantly flag calls as spam then do targeted tracking and prosecution. If they fail to do this or implement another effective solution, I expect they will lose a century-old line of business to new habits that work around the established habits.
I mean, yes, but part of the reason why it runs at a loss is because how it subsidizes the rest of the state. For example, when the MTA wants to issue a bond, it has to pay NYS a bond issuance fee. This has added up to about $105MM since 2006.
I wouldn't trust every teacher to teach well. The simple fact is, there are good teachers and there are bad teachers. Ultimately, it's the parents job to make sure kids are brought up well. That means helping teach during some years and stepping back more in some years. Parent involvement is a must.
After Intel Spin-Out, Wind River Systems to Begin Layoffs
Why would you use something like this over, say, Google App Engine Flex?
It was only a failure if you think a strong federal government is a good idea. I offer the current situation as evidence against that.
It looks like Apple has already released a software update to fix this.
Turns out a lot of the scheduling software out there was written by people who without formal training or who weren't paying attention in their algorithms course.

E.g., one year:

Me: requests A and B

Friend: requests A and non-honors B

hour 4: Me in non-honors B; friend in gym.

hour 5 (only hour honors B is offered): Me in A; friend in honros B.

Based on a few years of observations, I'm almost certain courses were filled using some variant of this algorithm:

for each student s sorted by student number:
for each non-filled course c in hour 1..n:
if(s wants c and not in c): assign s to c and continue to next hour.
for each non-filled course c in hour 1..n:
if(s wants c' and not in c' and c is like c'): assign s to c and continue to next hour.

because students with lower student numbers tended to get their choices (correlated with when student joined district far better than class status) and courses late in the day were always half empty while courses earlier in the day were always filled to the brim.

Things got better each year but never in a way that would suggest someone finally decided to pick up an algorithms textbook.

I suspect by now they've purchased something that works or else managed to prove P=NP and the solution is billions of if statements fixing special cases the teachers/students complained loudly enough about...
I was thinking more like parking them in orbit around each planet. A couple of new Mars rovers, etc.
Out of the 4 trillion dollars the US Federal government spent in 2016 (the last year we had a full budget), 0.631 trillion of that was for the military. An almost infinitesimal part of the New York state budget is for the state national guard.
In my experience, Extreme sleep deprivation defeated any wisdom and perspective that I might have otherwise had.
Such delays in shipping and yet the hardware designs are rushed. I'm switching to Linux laptop with 64GB RAM. There might be some pain for a bit, but IMO totally worth it for Apple to have viable competition in the 'pro' space.
Manufacturers usually see this as a boon. In the premium cigar industry, for example, there were three gigantic mail order companies that ate up most of the action in the 90s: Thompson, Mike's, and JR. JR would DEEPLY discount a lot of their merchandise, squeezing both local shops and other online retailers in the process. Some manufacturers proudly proclaimed that they were not in the business of discounting their product, and there were even entire lines created to sell solely to offline realtors aka the local shops.

When the USSC ruled that manufacturers had a right to set the prices for their products, suddenly there was a lot more competition in the online market. The big discounters still got a lion's share of business, but it wasn't impenetrable like it used to be. The flip side is that some of the smaller guys came up with the idea of password protected member's only sites with discounted prices which were impossible for the bigger guys to duplicate because of their volume.
I'm a little bit concerned because the last package that Google seems to have purpose-built for Go+Google (AppEngine?) was context, that gave us things like context.Context, a generic KVS that needs reflection, heavily relies on convention and doesn't work in linear time and "just make every function take a context and use context.TODO if you don't need it".

It also seems to be one of the biggest points of controversy for Go 2, with calls from "everything should have a context" to "context should go away".
This looks great! Are there any beginner friendly issues for contribution? Didn't find a related tag in Github issues.
Apple statement: Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we've identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads on the new MacBook Pro.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-addresses-macbook...
If the voltage regulator is overheating at high CPU load, it must be getting very hot at just normal load. That will seriously reduce it's life span, not to mention a hot voltage regulator means you're pissing away battery unnecessarily.
When companies charge too much or too little or the same as other companies FOR NEFARIOUS REASONS, the EU fines them. Intent really matters here.
Also worth watching: Louis Rossman posted his thoughts on this Reddit post as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjor24HO2HA
The fact that China's government moves so decisively in areas of technological advancement may have to do with the fact that many of their government officials have degrees in engineering, science, math, etc.

With so many of the Chinese officials having technical degrees, I can't help but wonder if the United States government could benefit from technocrats in Washington.
The article mentions in detail how two startups have been trying to hold their visitors hostage by not letting them leave their websites. (Calling this browser history hijacking)
I can't give a definitive answer as I'm not very familiar with Flex. But a lot of Google folks with App Engine backgrounds are working on Knative.
Audio Skipping on Roku Ultra (2016) After 8.1.0 Update
Apple put out a patch it looks like: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/24/apple-addresses-macbook...
The "newsfeed" is probably the singular feature responsible for Venmo's success where many others have failed to get traction.
Ask HN: Inventory Management software for a biotechnology startup?
I'm looking for suggestions on an inventory management system / process management system suitable for a medical device/biotechnology startup.
Ideally I would like to access that data using a REST API to integrate with some custom built analytics software
You know, this scam probably wouldn't have been as successful if the real IRS didn't behave like a bunch of shady scam artists themselves. Twice over the years, I've been sent very intimidating letters by the IRS claiming I owe back taxes on clearly erronous assumptions by them. These have both been cleared up by submitting documentation but I've had to spend a good chunk of time in doing so. I also cannot phone them directly, I must fax reams of personal info to some random fax number with no confirmation they even received it.

By the time I received the IRS letters, I typically had to respond within a matter of days or face additional penalties (what if I was on vacation). Even the most basic of cross checking my tax forms would have clearly shown everything was legit. And these were by no means unusual or complex tax situations, just very basic things that millions of Americans report on their taxes every year. But even though I knew everything was above board, the tax laws are so convoluted that I was in constant fear the IRS would still find some BS reason I owed them more money.
The federal Clean Air Act states the EPA shall grant California the waiver unless California fails to meet certain conditions. The EPA (and by extension the head of the EPA, and the head of the EPA's boss who happens to be a President who hates California) does not possess the power, under the Act, to deny the waiver on a whim.
Why not sold?
Any language runtime natively. Opensource. Run anywhere.
No - private company. No issues around that.

I've just been going back and forth between leaving something that I've poured my heart/soul into for the past few years and hoping that we could somehow repair the toxic work environment thats making me unhappy.
4K might be useful for a projector if you are using software trapezoid correction. I have a 1080p projector, but mounted it above the vertical centre of the screen, so I have to use the in-built trapezoid correction to make the picture rectangular. This means that only one line in the display had 1920 pixels, and the remaining 1079 lines each have some interpolation.

If I had a 4k projector, even with a 1080p source, the quality of the projection would presumably be higher.
Apple Addresses MacBook Pro Throttling Controversy After Working With YouTuber
...to elaborate, population is irrelevant because the national government is going to collect taxes nationwide for itself regardless of whether or not collecting taxes for the states is added to its duties.

The "this problem" that we are talking about here is the problem of the national government handling state taxes in addition to national taxes. For this problem the national government is dealing with states, not individuals, and so it is the number of states that it has to deal with that is the main factor affecting complexity and scaling.
Oh, I think you're right.

> Today we are announcing support for new second-generation App Engine standard runtimes such as Python 3.7

I'm still a bit confused what AppEngine 2nd gen is.
It's as if these systems don't emit an audit stream, which when combined with the least bit of monitoring would have set off all sorts of red flags during these obviously anomalous events.

Such negligence tends to make me wonder if it's to leave open the possibility of some easy insurance fraud. In this particular case, that seems to have backfired with supposed hackers arriving first, and the insurer sleazily wiggling out of their own obligations.

At a past job, we ran thousands of shared linux servers for web hosting purposes. This was back in the early 2000s, and even then we had replaced all the installed shells with versions logging all interactive commands via UDP to a centralized syslog server. There was a simple IRC bot filtering the logs and echoing suspicious stuff into an IRC channel we monitored. Things like attempts to gain root, looking at /etc/passwd, lines starting with "./", running known irc bouncers or other script kiddie activities would be clearly visible and someone would intervene.

That was just a web hosting company with a small team and quite limited resources. I expect better from these national financial service providers, this is just pathetic.
Wow, I am impressed. I didn't know you could simply use openssl and sed combined on the CLI to create a XMPP bot...

Someone should have told me that the day I was searching a simple Go XMPP client just to send a message from my server.
> The women taking part in the trial all had unborn babies whose growth had been severely limited in the womb. The children’s prognosis, given a lack of available therapy, was regarded as poor as a result.

Key point to be made. These aren't healthy babies dying.
Quite the contrary, a nanny will not just keep them nourished and on schedule, but also provide emotional comfort and educational activities.

It is less frequent now in the west, but in many countries kids are raised by nannies or relatives. Kids get very attached to their nannies- see Mary Poppins. It is a fictional tale, but it shows you how it was also the case in the West.

If your expectations are limted to keeping the kids alive and transporting them, your are thinking about a butler and a chauffeur. I would strongly recommend complementing them with a nanny. A good butler can help you select a nanny if you are not sure on which qualities you should hire.
Apple Says MacBook Pro Throttling Is a Bug, Fix Available Now in MacOS Update
Let me turn this around.

As a parent, I think that teachers should pay attention to research on homework that says there is on average no academic benefit, but there is a huge cost in family conflict. You have enough time in the classroom to teach and provide practice time. Free family time up for what parents see best.
They don't preclude it, but they didn't happen to include it in our particular history. In particular, in the evolutionary history of the brain as an energy-optimizing controller of the body, a "System 1" would have been selected against extremely early on, when it directed the internal organs to act according to "heuristics" that wasted calories.
I found CBT to be most helpful for me, I did try the mindfulness meditation but think I didn't do it consistently enough to get a lot of value out of it.
The link you provided is for Google Cloud Functions, not AppEngine Standard, though TFA does mention Python 3.7 for both. Looks like AppEngine doesn't have docs up for the new, second generation, standard runtimes (which, aside from the new language versions, sound fundamentally more capable.)
It's very complicated. Not bumping into stationary objects on the road is fairly simple with the right kind of sensors, but most obstacles you encounter in real life are neither permanently stationary nor permanently in motion, and are not always on the road.
I like this plan because if we make biodegradable plastic cheaper than regular plastic then it would even help in places like the DR and it's neighbor Haiti where there literally is no garbage collection infrastructure and it's easier to throw trash in the street thank to take it home and burn it.
2.5B Pounds of Meat Piles Up in U.S. As Production Grows, Exports Slow
Hi

Excellent job! We have been working quite a bit in UI/UX of VR editing. You might be keen to look at what we've done here: https://vrsketch.eu (it's a tool for architects, but shares a lot of problems)
Mexico City – React.js for Developers (part time on site)
> Also, as a consumer of your blog I want privacy, no need for ISP to know what I click on and read exactly.

In this hypothetical example, you're clicking on a video game guide. Someone watching you buy games from Gamestop would have more information than someone watching you click on "How Factorio Trains Work" or something else on this hypothetical example.

If the reverse DNS points to the IP address of the blog (ie: people see that you're browsing "FactorioGuide.com"), they're gonna figure out that you're learning how to play the game Factorio in any case. Even if all the traffic were encrypted.

The only way people don't know what you're doing is if the guide were on a shared host with many-many webpages on a singular IP Address. But otherwise, the typical website (ie: self-hosted on a VPS) would have a unique IP Address and a unique reverse-DNS entry. And people would figure out how long you've been browsing and what you've been looking at, even through HTTPS.
I implicitly meant for similar severity of crime. Different distribution of crimes is a different discussion.

Still testable, and I believe rejectable that race has no impact on sentencing.
They don't work in all browsers, hence, piles of JS. Also if you want your buttons to match the OS you need piles of JS as well. <button>s in Android Chrome look like Android 3.0 buttons.
The eventing repo provides a common pluggable model for managing events. The communication layer is currently HTTP, not NATS. But the broker is pluggable and includes support for Kafka. You can choose to use Kafka throughout your cluster or just for a single feed. You can add other implementations as well.

The three pluggable abstractions are your event sources, the bus over which events are stored/sent, and the actions which should be invoked in response to an event.
Intermitent audio after Roku 8.1 upgrade
Yeah - you're probably right. Just not easy to do.

I guess I was hoping someone would post some experiences on how they solved this differently or something.
The App Password you created for FastMail to access your Gmail account over IMAP cannot be used for anything other than mail/chat/calendar. Additionally, you have 2-step auth enabled so any access to change your account settings would require that.
Sorry to hear about your misfortunes. As more U.S. citizens abandon citizenship due to FATCA do feel the incarceration rate per capita will increase or decrease?
> Most of human history

Most of life, really. It's only recently (the last century) that we've hit upon such economies of scale, population and production capacity that our natural renewal processes can no longer handle the load.
SF Supervisors Move to Ban Workplace Cafeterias
Just curious, does Borgmaster use Chubby, or is it a completely separate Paxos store?