skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, you can't install other app stores from the Play Store itself. That seems pretty anti-competitive. Google also bans ad-blockers from its Play Store. Why? Because they interfere with its business model. Again, anti-competitive. No different than Verizon banning Skype from its network.

It's a shame the EC didn't hit Google over these, too.
That episode came out ~ a decade ago, wouldn't be surprised if technological advances have changed the economics of paper recycling.
Burning the stuff is only profitable if you get it sorted without contaminants. But only a fraction of packaging is collected properly.

As long as that crap is produced, people will throw it wherever they want, and nobody will collect and sort the plastic for free just so you can burn it "profitable".
Google struggles to contain uproar over China censorship plans
What Is QAnon?
Here's my website: https://praveen.science/

And here's my blog page: https://blog.praveen.science/
Does your superiority complex help you sleep better at night?
> > I have come to believe transpiling is the devil and many-languages syndrome is very counterproductive

> Why do you believe this?

In isolation it’s fine.

But when I look at the complete toolchains required to maintain “modern” applications it’s not ok.

There are too many different languages in a single application, too many declarative configuration surfaces, too many chained pipes.

I grew up in a time where you wrote code, compiled and ran. We are overdue for a major collapse of how deep tooling is tolerable for a simple roundtrip source change.

If you’re a pro developer (and I assume you are) then you can ignore this. You can afford to spend 40 hours debugging your toolchain, teaching through 5 different languages and configuration environments to locate a problem.

But tolerable isn’t good enough for me. Frankly, I’m tired of spending my time slogging though DSL after DSL and runtime after runtime. I miss just code.

I believe we are overdue for a resurgence of native languages that can be written just as pure compiled or intetpreted code without a stockade of bizarre executables propping them up.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/tinder-begins-testing-its-...
It looks like a standard x86 chip (or system-on-a-chip), with a beefy GPU and current-generation AMD processors, with enough on-package RAM to be a serious PC (8GB).

It seems like a natural evolution from the XBox One / PS4 processors, which AMD also makes, but which use previous-generation CPU and GPU. Should be much faster than them.

It could be the new cheapest foundation of a "good enough" gaming PC.
Is anyone going to develop custom firmware / jailbreak for the vulnerable printers?
But it does nothing. You load the link again and you are once again a member of the Pamstalt.
"have hard shells that make it difficult for alcohol to kill them"
It is likely that such adaptation has a cost. Is alcohol resistant bacteria more benign inside the human body?
I'm not sure it's so much a matter of picking negative consequences out of the blue sky of possible consequences, but rather wondering, "What happens if our software works exactly how we intend and we gain the ability to really manipulate people in a certain way?"

I agree completely that it's hard or impossible to just predict in general how society will react to technology. But in many cases, there are people designing systems specifically for the purpose of getting people to behave a certain way. This implicitly acknowledges that they believe that they can affect behavior in a predictable way. If they can make predictions one way and be correct enough to profit from it, they should be capable of making predictions about things that could go wrong.

I agree completely that predicting something like what Facebook will look like 10 years in the future is impossible, and there's surely a lot of research where the possible consequences are infinite. A lot of results in CS research are like someone developing a new material - "Like, sure, this could be used to make a new, extra deadly tank or something, but it could be used for literally anything." In that sense, it's not useful to make predictions, but I think there's also a lot of research going on at Facebook and Google that looks closer to what I mentioned above, where they absolutely have an intention to change people's behavior and so probably also have the ability to predict the consequences of their complete success.
> You can represent size or shape correctly, not both.

You can if you don't mind having a non-rectangular map border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
I think if you want the world to be this way you should just do what you want to do anyway. Life is too short to care what some random group of strangers at a concert thinks, anyway. You're not hurting anyone and I think you're normalizing good behavior. Nobody is going to call the cops on you for complementing their jacket.

I've stopped letting myself be bothered and it's actually done wonders for my social life. And most of them are staring because they wish they could be that open.
If the user didn't use Spotify, then the interaction data wouldn't exist.

It takes two. Perhaps if these companies had taken that tact (mutual ownership), then there'd have been no need for a law to specifically allow users to get the data created with their own effort.
My industry, vfx, isn't as ubiquitous as web development, but it is fairly large with commercial interests to motivate making the "right" decisions and not too odd of a use-case. I've heard some second-hand stories about Guido crashing on the couch of some guys at ILM back in the "early days" helping to spur adoption. However, we're still pretty solidly on Python2 with proposals to start adopting Python3 next year. Most of the commercial applications run Python inside them and the apps are very, very scriptable.

Houdini is a fairly ubiquitous tool for creating dynamics; fire, water, destruction, dust and has been around since 1996. In general, Houdini users tend to prefer Ubuntu and most medium to large vfx houses use CentOS/RHEL (Pixar, DreamWorks, ILM).

For Linux and macOS, Houdini uses your system's Python but it has to monkey patch parts of the standard library in order to work smoothly. You can set a flag (and on Windows this is the default) where it will use the Python shipped with the application.

At my current job we're using slightly out of date versions of everything, which is quite common in production. We're running CentOS 7.2, Houdini 15.5 (released Nov 2017), and Python 2.7.5. If you call "httplib.HTTPSConnection('google.com')" it throws an exception because of ssl library changes across 2.7. I haven't tried any other versions, but the requirements for the current version of Houdini says "CentOS 6+ (64-bit)" (among other OSes).

This isn't unique to Python, but it's very hard to properly support real-world clients and dynamic libraries among operating systems, commercial applications, and less well funded open source or independent efforts.

My M.O. is if a technology is core to your business, you should control it. Which means not using the OS' Python. Upgrading Python and OS independently makes so many things much easier when you have a large codebase.
Seems like a problem for philosophy of language... When we say "it cannot find the best pattern", what does this mean?

1. We assume "the best pattern" exists.

But what do we mean here by "exists"? If something is uncomputable does it exist? In what sense?
Totally agree with this. When was the last time you were in line at a coffee shop? Everybody staring into their phones. Compare that with sometime from like the early 90s where conversations would start up between folks inline. All these people staring at their phones it looks like the eighties equivalent of a Twilight Zone episode
stickier bacteria?
Perhaps not predictable at the outset, but surely FB developers had insights into the usage/sentiment data long before reporters got onto it?
This is true but on the other hand anyone making a serious effort to fix the raging dumpster fire which is PGP usability deserves some kudos. Most people who turn GPG signing on in Git seem to turn it off after hitting one of the many UX failures.
I agree it's hard to pick which games will be which, but it's not hard to predict that the more addicting a game is, the more people will be harmfully obsessed with it.
As far as I know google street view costs money from this month, and it's not exactly cheap, $14 for a thousand streetviews:

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/

I wonder if this tool stays free, lots of site owners are complaining about paying much more with the new pricing.
> Is Git cryptographically secure?

Not right now, because it still uses SHA-1. But apart from that, the answers are:

> 1. Can I reorder commits without access to secret keys?

No, because a hash of some commit data is what’s signed and the parent is part of that

> 2. What if one secret key is compromised, do I have to resign all my old commits with the new secret key?

No, just make a new commit on top with the new key explicitly explaining that you trust the old stuff

> 3. How do I ensure my list of authorized keys is the same as yours?

I don’t understand that question. Can you expand on it?

> 4. Can I easily detect that my code signing key has been compromised?

No, and the same goes for pretty much anything else that can be compromised.

> 5. How do you prevent a Pull Request that contains a unittest that when run exfils your keys, opens a shell, injects source code or backdoors git?

You read it before you run it.
True, and logins (along with browser games) leap to mind as the most widespread issue with general cookie-blocking.

But I probably sign into <5% of sites I visit, and even many of those are actively user-hostile, like Quora. I understand why Quora wants me to sign in, but from my end of things it's no more worthwhile than being asked to sign into Wikipedia just to read articles.

Broadly, I guess this is a gripe about how my web-use experience has become fundamentally adversarial. Cookies are one of many perfectly reasonable features which I cripple or disable even on respectable top-100 sites because they're used almost exclusively against my interests, but I'm not sure there's a good tech-level fix to that for users in general.
Where do you find a firmware updater for macOS? Only instructions I see require connecting the printer to the public internet, which I'd rather not do.
I wish more organisations just put an APK up on their website. Whatsapp does and it's a dawdle to set-up a relative's phone without having to bother with a Google account and Play Store etc
Honestly, I've never had problems talking to random strangers. Some of my best friends were random strangers at first.

IMO, the problem has nothing to do with the internet. Instead, the problem has more to do with poorly controlling marketing and homelessness. Political correctness also takes a toll.

When I lived in the Bay Area, most of the time I was randomly approached, "on the street," it was from a homeless person. Thus, I was less likely to be friendly to someone when I was in areas with high amounts of homeless people. If the Bay Area took care of the homeless situation better, there would be less people approaching me, and then it would be easier to interact with strangers.

But then, what about being in stores, malls, ect? I then need to put up defenses against aggressive marketing. That also makes it hard to be friendly. If we considered unsolicited marketing as insulting, we wouldn't need to keep our defenses up in places of commerce.

Even political correctness takes a toll. If I start talking with someone who has a different opinion than me, or is a difference race than me, faux pas get blown out of proportion. No one wants to make friends with someone who's going to scream at them for being a bigot because they lean a little right, or be labeled a libtard because they lean a little left.
To be fair, GDPR stipulates only that it should be available in a common machine-readable format. It doesn’t require the most convenient format conceivable.

Also, CSV can’t easily handle nested objects. If the data model is even slightly more complex than a plain table, it doesn’t make much sense. I’d also argue that even if the source data is stored in an RDMS without exotic data types, a JSON with a nested object representation is probably going to be more friendly even to non-developers than multiple files with opaque foreign keys linking back and forth.
I don't see the map either (and I'm in US).
My startup is trying to solve this problem for older adults. Seniors often feel disconnected and isolated as their social structures change. Ayuda is an service for finding senior-friendly events. We bring artists, educators, musicians and more to an audience they may not have considered before. Events are curated to be social and accessible for older people, not your typical concert in a loud bar.

Check us out on www.ayudacare.com if you are interested in what we're about.
You can even get a professional level Wahoo Kicker for $1200 (no tire wear), have money for a mid-range bike and still save a ton of money month to month with Zwift over Peloton's monthly cost...

Or buy a cheap training wheel and a $400 power meter and spend like $100 on the trainer.

Why spend more for a spin bike when you can use a real one with just as good or better power controls and feedback?

Point is Peloton is expensive indoors or out...
One of the amazing abilities of most higher-order organism colonies observed in biology is the ability to self-regulate reproduction within an environment. If native population growth is low, it’s usually for a reason. Native human population growth is between -2% and 20% annually, excluding war, famine, and disease. If you have a population of field mice in equilibrium, and you introduce more field mice, the net population does not increase. The number of births drops dramatically, and the number of deaths by causes mentioned above increases from negligible to potentially 100%. It takes a special kind of westerner hubris to believe that we’re any different. Japanese understand this, and place blame for lack of growth squarely where it belongs: poor economic and social conditions for raising a family due to failed programs of social engineering from the 70s.
Tarantino is literally the only director and when his movies are talked about, they're elevated above their respective genres exactly the same way horror movies are as discussed in this article we're commenting about...
Well, there is Sechin Bajo from around 3,500 BC, though we know there were people in the Americas at least 8000 years before that, unfortunately their structures haven't survived (that we have found).
Also, with only my rudimentary understanding of microbiology, wouldn't just scrubbing your hands together vigorously, which is already recommended, overcome that?
Nothing. That's the rate I've had for the last three years.

Granted, not in the US.
In particular, if you find you cannot use vectorized functions in numpy or scipy and absolutely MUST index, then typing the array in Cython is a life saver. Indexed operations on numpy arrays without Cython is very slow. (eg https://stackoverflow.com/q/22239199/300539)
Google Earth VR is mindblowing.
Semantics.

When a for-profit company has money in the bank after paying all the expenses, they get to call it "profit".

When a non-profit company has money in the bank after paying all the expenses, they get to call it "reserves".

Executives in both sectors are tasked with bulking those up to ensure the long-term survival of the org.
Good catch! Also look at the submitter’s submission history to HN. Looks like he’s just pumping this page over and over.
Of course they were all geniuses. And the project as a whole definitely was done in as ethical a way as possible. They weren’t bad people and I’m not implying that they were.

But the point isn’t anything to do with any of that. The point is that without the public’s input, these weapons were developed and used in the very first place, without an informed debate to decide if this is how we want to conduct ourselves.

This kind of debate was as common back then as it is today and back then it lead to chemical weapons being banned after WW1 by the UN with the support of pretty much every country.

And since then, for the few years that the US was the only one with nukes, if not for the extreme restraint practiced by the higher ups, they might have happily used nukes more times (at the time, there was huge pressure to just nuke north Korea to end the Korean War).

Once it became clear that the “enemies” will catch up in the development race meaning that any future war would be nuclear, the public debate clarified very quickly upon the current philosophy: MAD is the only outcome in a nuclear war.

If this debate had been allowed to be fully conducted in an open and informed manner before nukes were developed, we might live in a world where nukes were outlawed at UN level in the same way that chemical warfare was, long before they were even developed in the first place.

Extrapolate that thought to aggressive data-gathering & storage by social media sites, genomic information ancestry services, tracking technologies and techniques developed in the name of marketing, facial recognition technologies by security firms, Three-Letter agencies recording and monitoring every web user’s actions, profiling techniques to identify depressed users etc etc etc. Right now laws are not robustly protecting the public from misuse of these technologies. In fact, a lot of the misuse of the above technologies is directly due to the fact that the politicians know that they’ve got a powerful technology at hand and decide to develop it. And when informed public debate happens, when the negative outcomes of misuse of these techniques becomes so obvious to the public at large that they demand political action en masse, laws with more robust protections for the public’s data will be forthcoming in future updates. But those are the technologies that we know about. (At least, we nerds!). What is currently in development that has similar potential to be weaponized or misused that none of us know about yet?
> friendly population

Is that really the case if you're not from Japan? I have read and heard a number of horror stories over the years [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/japan-racism-s...
> They’ll put ads up in front of your game. When you search for Fortnite on iOS you’ll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It’s just a bad experience.

This is my biggest complaint about Apple too. I paid you good money so my non-tech-savvy relatives can have one of your phones. When I ask them to install an app, please don't put ads in front of it and confuse them. You are not and ad company, please don't betray my trust in you and your products.
I met my wife at a meetup, as well as some of my closest friends. Definitely recommend it if you're feeling lonely.
Like literal survivor? Not sure I get your point
Reminded me of this comic.

http://ubertoolcomic.com/?comic=no-138
Schwab is kind of a PITA for opening a savings account though. I had to fax them a form to open it.
Actually, most people do.
at least lead has no intent, but western culture (and now even more than western) is all about making things easier and easier. That's the only metric. It's turning us into sick vegetables. And we pay for it.
Wait are you telling me that if i don't drink liquids for 3 days i'll die of dehidration? Big if true. /s

I was pointing out Islam is the only TOTAL fasting (food+water) major religion, versus food-only fasting happening elsewhere.
There's a certain irony that you're suggesting I disregard the opinions of strangers in order to go out and make friends with some strangers.

Until the OP mentioned it, I had no idea that Bumble had a friend finding feature. It's a dating app, its advertising shows dating as its function. So I can't say I'd blame anyone that did judge me unreasonably, to be honest. It's not necessarily that fair, but we don't get to make our own rules of social interaction.
There are several of these "what is QAnon" articles going around from the major news outlets, and I'd recommend reading a couple of them, just so you can wrap your head around the general concept of it, because it's bafflingly intriguing. The number of people who have latched onto it, the outlandishness of so many of the claims. It ties into tons of previous conspiracy theories, there's mentions of the JFK assassination, Pizzagate, all of it.
personally i've learned about IF on reddit. I think it's good to have diverse sources of information and to also apply your own filters on the info you get.

I sometimes will get into a heated discussion w/ other on hn or reddit or you_name it. And maybe lose "virtual points" for this. At the end of the day the way I look at it is this: if the other person learns something or finds out something new, even if they don't agree, or I learn or find something new it's a win.
Westerners, I think that is an overly broad class.
If you have hobbies, look for a meetup around them.

If you have pretty generic interests (wine, board games, and cheesecake), perhaps the best thing you can do is join a unitarian universalist church near you. It's all of the social benefits of church without the need to (pretend to) believe in anything specific.

Failing that, you can probably find another reasonable-ish religious community. There's a huge spectrum, and plenty of people do it casually just for the social aspect.
If you're avoiding a friend-finding app just because of what other people think, that's really sad. Do you go about everything in your life with that mindset? What does being married matter? If your wife wouldn't approve, then that speaks volumes about the quality of your relationship (i.e., you have no trust between you).
The App Store makes up about 5% of Apple's total revenue. The vast majority of their revenue comes from selling products to consumers. Their business model is not comparable to Google's, because Google gets most of its revenue from advertising.
How is it any different than a PC with a controller then?
Sure, but the maps being enumerable doesn't reveal a relationship between an address and a specific Hacker News account. The maps being enumerable doesn't seem to be noteworthy.
> Wealth is pretty much self-perpetuating

No it isn't, it just gives you an advantage. The idea that money makes money implicitly makes the assumption that you're investing in modern technology that drives growth. You won't keep that wealth if you don't invest in technology that enriches your competitors.
Apropos of nothing but this is a simple apparatus that makes for an awesome science fair project.
Can 8 GB cover 4K gaming?
> The "little black dots" or fake dirt on fancy astroturf fields are made from recycled road tires, which are a cocktail of all kinds of bad chemicals. And when they get lodged in goalkeepers' skin over time, they enter the body and cause some pretty rare and bad blood cancers.

If this is true it should soon show up in people who work with tires or live near highways as well?
This is true. All photos in Photos library are stored essentially in a zip(?) file that you cannot browser via finder or shell.

This is a major inconvenience for me since my photo library is spread around multiple SSDs and NAS. In Lightroom, I just tell it where different photos are.

In Photos App, if you want your photos to sync to iCloud, you need to copy them. This increases size of your Photos Library file. You can choose to Optimize storage but then you have one point of failure (iCloud).

Right now, I use rsync to backup my photos to onsite NAS. And then I use Google Drive and iCloud for offsite backup. Google Drive works with photos where ever they are, SSD, NAS, etc. But iDrive needs all photos in Photos app to sync.

BTW iDrive and Google Drive are not true backup solutions, so be careful if that is your only “backup” solution.