skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with all that time on their poverty stricken hands

No offense, but this screams of ignorance. If you take into account the poverty tax [1], poor people pay more for many goods, have worse access to many services, and encounter much higher transaction costs to accomplishing normal life.

For example, if you are a single mother in Southside Chicago living in a food desert and far from the main L/Subway/Metro lines, then you take longer to commute to work, to go grocery shopping, to pick your kids up, etc. There are many additional costs to being poor that easily explain why they don't focus on "making their beds" or "organizing their place".

The Atlantic has a good article on decision fatigue and poverty "Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions And why their "bad" decisions might be more rational than you'd think" that is worth a read [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_tax

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...
I think a big problem is that economics - as defined by culture from the enlightenment to about 1980, with markets created by locally rational transactions - isn't as important as the culture that defined it made it to be. For example, the market and the function of the market was seen as an absolute / starting point for an economy. In China it was not possible to simply establish a market, but instead what has happened is that the state created pseudo private enterprises outside of a market system / in the absence of a market system which then underpinned further economic activity. The market of ideas - which is the construction that we put on democracy has been further challenged. The Chinese government employs more than 50m people, and this wide participation in a structured and hierarchical mechanistic system provides another way of managing and legitimising capital allocation.
Not to mention the Eco impact of building a Tesla but that's off topic for this.
This is basically 3,485 nested <div>s (balanced; same number of </div>s) with width and height both set to 10,000px.

I have no idea is this is an internal DOM overflow or it's because of the tiled background-image. (I don't have an iPhone to test against.)

EDIT: I actually read the article properly :) all 3,485 the <divs> have a 10px backdrop-filter set on them.

> He explained that nesting a ton of elements — such as <div> tags — inside a backdrop filter property in CSS, you can use up all of the device’s resources and cause a kernel panic

Fun trivia: ^F for <div> on the GitHub gist page, and Chrome will inch... forward... so... very... slowly... finding... matches. You have to search the raw file if you want it to complete this century.
Anyone who has felt a tug at their head from headphones getting snagged by something accidently is quickly sold to the merits of wireless.
This is a kernel panic, as per the twitter thread.
Indeed. It is the same as saying that one should never go out for a walk, because you can easily walk some rounds around the table in the comfort of your own house.

It's the 'out' part that is important!
Carsick?? Why would 1 to 1 movement make you carsick?

Are you talking about gearvr? Or other “not really vr” headsets?
OnePlus did a poll that got the answer 88% of customers wanted them to keep the headphone jack. Which they then got rid of anyway. Presumably the poll was hoped or expected to reinforce a decision already made.

It's very clear consumers aren't clamouring for losing the jack. There are a lot more dollars selling wireless and they have an inherent limited life thanks to battery lifespan.

The SE, with a headphone jack, is roughly the same thickness as the new XS without. They both have bluetooth for those who might like wireless.

That's not Apple or whoever listening, that's them imposing.
I tend to leave my headphones in my backpack or jacket pocket. (well, actually both, they are so cheap that I have a half dozen sets of earbuds scattered around different places - I have a nice ~$150 set of earbuds at my desk at work, and cheap < $20 sets everywhere else)

If I have to charge them then I have to remember to take them out and plug them in, and also then have to remember to take them out of the charger and take them with me.

I'm not super sensitive to sound quality, but charging is a deal breaker.
Because web browsers are trying to sandbox executable code from untrusted (and frequently malicious) sources, I would guess. WebKit/Nitro are trusted to keep that executable memory under very tight control, and if they're crashing they may have failed to.

IIRC it has special privileges that allow it to run a JIT javascript engine.
Great Explorers
Check out http://levels.fyi and see if you'd be happy with the progression of leveling up / compensation at Google. At a startup, while the risk is higher, the prospect of receiving compounded gains on value that you've created early on is hard to overlook. And the linear loss you are taking for both is basically just the time you spend there. Are you comfortable doing that right now?
David Friedman (anarcho-capitalist)'s comment on market failures is that they do happen, but what might be called government failures also happen, and are probably a worse problem.

"Individual actors usually receive most of the benefit and pay most of the cost of their actions, making market failure the exception, not the rule. On the political market individual actors—voters, politicians, lobbyists, judges, policemen—almost never bear much of the cost of their actions or receive much of the benefit. Hence market failure, the exception on the private market, is the rule on the political market."

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Machinery_3d_Edition/Market%20...
This just shows how important is to buy DRM-free. And who is selling DRM-free video exactly?
Citation needed.

There is great tooling to pin down incorrect memory accesses when you are using the system allocator (valgrind, clang sanitizers). You're truly on your own if you access logically repurposed memory within a persistent system allocation.
It also crashes chrome on iphone.
I'm more angry at google for removing them from the pixel than for apple.

I want to vote with my dollars, but at the moment the options for phones with headphone jacks and no crapware preinstalled are exceedingly limited.
The underlying browser for chrome on iOS is still safari. The same is true for every other browser.
Wget with tor proxy  ie: torify wget url
I do not understand what you say... Yes, I use in the past GNU autotools and I see the enormous amount of text they produce, not much different by the amount of crap any RAD IDE produce alongside a project but you talking about PowerShell, an Windows IaC solution, not a software development tool to help portability. I'm respond: compare it to another GNU/Linux IaC solution, NixOS/NixOps.

If you compare them you may notice:
- they are both built-in in their respective OSes
- they are both a language and a framework to configure/deploy/provisioning systems, local and in LAN
- they have both a DSL for that

Well, NixOS realize easily a semi-unbreackable OS you can easily replicate anywhere, PS realize a MONSTER that only to learn in you need weeks, and even after so you can't really replicate Windows, you can at maximum provision an already deployed Windows instance. I do not see how GNU Autotools fit in that comparison.
Researcher devised new CSS/HTML attack that causes iPhone reboot/freezes Macs
One argument I've heard is that it's not a single person who leaves their phone turned on that's an issue, it's when 300 people have their phone turned on.

I don't believe that one either, but it's a little more believable than thinking that a single phone can cause enough interference to affect the plane.
Yes I know. The simulation of the ship is not accurate. I had code written for more advanced physics but I skipped it for the js13kentry. Time was running short and I was afraid the game gets too hard.
Actually you land on planets with an atmosphere. So you have some "dampening" from the atmosphere.
From the twitter thread

- This is a full kernel panic; I wonder if it's exploitable (...probably not)

- Someone's iPhone didn't ask for their PIN on reboot?

- It apparently crashes watchOS 5 too
Is not chrome just wrapper on iPhone ?
Inoreader is a very good alternative now imo. It lacks the way to share and subscribe to other people's shared articles, but i'd still give it a 9/10.

On that note, it boggles my mind that no startup has simply coppied google reader's features yet.
The author said in the twitter thread that this a kernel panic.
The space they could save if they removed the screen...
Just buy a separate blue-tooth screen.
They had a plan but it backfired when the theaters refused to give them a cut of concessions. Also backfired when their funded movie flopped.
One ray represents many photons, and those photons scatter off in many different directions when they hit most surfaces. To get a reasonable picture of where they went, you need a lot of samples.

A single raycast also only gets you one step of the light's journey. That means, for example, that following light as it bounces from a light source, to a surface, to another surface to your eye requires at least 3 rays even for perfectly mirrored surfaces.
It is, because when you are steering, you have much less sensory conflict. You hold the steering wheel, which gives you input about e.g. the cars motion, and even more, you are actively guiding or causing the cars motion, both with steering wheel as well as with gas and brake pedal.
One of the big problems now they’re making it near impossible to see movies during the cheap times. You’d think they’d incentivize people to go to the Tuesday cheap ticket shows.
Because it JITs Javascript code. That code comes in as data. So it has the power to override W^X.
> "Bezos has long been criticised for his glaring lack of a philanthropic arm, long after he became the richest man in modern history"

Bezos only just became richest person in the world this July 2018. It is perfectly reasonable for him to wait till he gets rich enough to claim the richest person title once before entering philanthropy. Also, he is only 54. Give him a break...most CEOs haven't even retired by them.

Also as CEO, Bezos has a fiduciary duty to make as much money for the company, which might unfortunately mean paying workers market rates. However by starting his own personal philanthropic fund, he can spend money for that however he believes best helps people, without worrying about what is best for a company.
C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts
No, I'm not failing to understand that. If I weren't a big proponent of free speech and inclusion, I wouldn't be bothering to engage you. Just ignoring your complaint is the easiest answer here. I'm not required to stick my neck out. I'm not a mod. I can just flag and downvote and move on and that's the cover my own butt option that most people will take, which tends to help keep such things intractable because if the flags and downvotes worked to convince you to do something different, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Opening with an assertion on your part that I am failing to understand is borderline personal attack and disrespects the fact that I am choosing to talk with you and give some of my time and energy to you. Above, you say there is no need to insult your social skills. Now you turn around and insult my intelligence and character.

In other words, you are taking a position that I need to be civil and respectful and work hard to not inadvertently insult you, but you don't have to do the same, for me or generally. Expecting the same of you is framed as censorship and as a moral defect on the part of people who don't agree with you and are expressing that fact, whether with words or downvotes or flags. They aren't allowed to express their disagreement because that's censorship of you in your eyes.

I'm a woman. I'm quite open about that. This is an overwhelmingly male forum. I routinely deal with downvotes and such because I'm a demographic outlier.

I am unwilling to be broken. I am unwilling to be cowed and trained to not give my actual point of view in order to be able to stay. Staying on such terms strikes me as pointless. This disposition has helped get me thrown off of several other forums.

But I've worked hard at trying to figure out how to respect others while expressing myself here. I've worked hard at figuring out better ways to express what I want to say so I'm actually heard and not presumed to be some man-hating feminazi with an axe to grind.

For a long time, it was a hard row to hoe. So I'm very sympathetic to people who are frustrated with trying to participate here and feeling mistreated.

So I occasionally try to talk to folks who are having trouble fitting in to try to say "Hey, I get it, it's frustrating and a sucky experience. But there are things you can do on your end to make this work better."

And that's my reason for engaging you. But now I'm being lumped in with "those people" who are silencing you, never mind that I'm giving you ample opportunity to talk here.

At this point, I'm feeling pretty darn disrespected and like I'm a fool, "as usual", and feeling like only an idiot would reach out to someone under such circumstances and it's no wonder your comments get so many downvotes and flags, because ugh this is feeling like all down side for me. So I will likely be bowing out of the discussion because I'm aggravated and it doesn't look productive to me.

That's not a personal attack.
And that's the real point that's misunderstood by most respondents to this article. Because the guy moved, he could no longer re-download his legally purchased movie in the new location (= new movie rights jurisdiction). However, if he should move back to the original location, he should be able to re-download them just fine. Meaning, that while he is in a media-rights jurisdiction different to that of his original purchase, his movie is in limbo. In other words, the ability to download his purchase, comes with a geographic restriction. That point should probably be pointed out to prospective purchasers.
Probably so. At some point I won some maths-heavy economy textbooks in an undergraduate probability theory competition. It was last updated a few years before 2008 (I would guess no later than 2004), and it is mainstream enough to be a gift agreed upon by large-finance sponsors and financial-applied probability theory professors.

While explaining the market models, the book had quite a few footnotes that briefly mentioned incentive structures at different levels (individual traders, groups inside a company, mortgage-issuers that unload all of the risk…) Sometimes it stayed politically correct («it remains to be seen how this incentive structure will affect market stability»), sometimes not (especially when there were enough historical examples of exactly the same incentive structure leading to the same problems), but it made clear that principal-agent problems in the then-current (and now-current) economy are well-known and easy to describe in mainstream economics.
Well, at a minimum, it affects all people that want to play video games.
More details from the Twitter thread: it's iOS 7 and up, and it also works on watchOS 5. In some apps like chrome or opera it isn't a full crash, just a "springboard crash".
It's because of the nested backdrop-filters being applied. I would've thought the css parser / rendering engine stops this from happening, but apparently not.
I added it. Thanks
In Perl 6 this is almost trivial:

sub sqrt($scalar is rw) {
Proxy.new(
FETCH => { $scalar },
STORE => -> $, \value {
$scalar = value ** 2
}
)
}
my $x;
say sqrt($x) = 12; # 144
say $x; # 144

I guess this could use some syntactic sugar, but the basic components to do this are readily available and simple to implement.
Ask HN: Would you use a RHEL-derived headless svr distro if it had new packages?
RHEL-derived for stability. I'm thinking Nix or Habitat userland with a core that's basically stripped-down, immutable running a container-compatible init like s6. ZoL ZFS, BeeGFS, DTrace, SELinux, Docker, Xen, KVM, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Kafka-MCollective, OFED, Chef/Puppet and multiple versions of modern software as first-class citizens. No desktop, only x11 libs for graphics packages.

Kind of like what was Container Linux but not built around containers for everything.
Not sure, I was born and live in Central Europe, it's my personal experience.
It's not something an uninformed person would reasonably expect, but neither is it Apple's fault that corporate copyright holders insist on Byzantine region-locking (to protect possible per-region licensee differences, maybe?)

If the fellow owns any movies on blu-ray or DVD and buys a new player, he'll be delighted to discover that those are also hosed.
Planning on getting your ears replace with a digital implant as well?
1. "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. Gave me a better perspective on how to tackle my bad habits like endless watching YouTube after work, drinking too much coffee etc.

2. "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy. Sold me on the idea of positive thinking, but generally I found the book crappy.

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. The only nover on the list. Definitely a good read.

4. "The Pragmatic Programmer". I fell in love with the idea of "the network" of views and controllers.

5. "The Software Craftsman" by Sandro Mancuso. Great one. Made me recosinder a few (quite a few!) things in my workflow and project.

6. "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. Amazing one. Can't wait for Monday to implement some at work. I even ordered 3 more copies for my team.
A functioning free market is the best system we've come with for capital allocation and benefits to consumers.

Even China tends to create competing corporations and to let them compete. In many industries they actually let private players create companies independently.
I am pondering if I should start the series. Was it worth it to you?
I'm putting it off as long as I can; everything I hear is that a properly working set of factory equipment works better than a cochlear implant.

Still, several of the older people in my life have gotten them, and they were a huge improvement for those people.
Why would Facebook build a CPU or a GPU? Custom routers generally use off the shelf switching fabric chips with custom software stacks, but it's board-level hardware design, not ASIC design.

Machine learning consumes a huge amount of compute, and GPUs waste a lot of power executing the workloads. Specialized accelerators for it pay back their investments quickly.
Not only audio, but now my selfie stick is irrelevant!
Theoretically if you got those new books from Amazon, they could contain a bit of configuration telling the Kindle to delete your old books.
It depends on what you wan't to use ray tracing for.

If you want to calculate global illumination with path tracing (which is a form of ray tracing) then you need multiple samples per pixel to get a noiseless result.

Most of the time at least 500-1000 samples.
I’m the author of hnconf and I personally find this meta thread rather annoying. It gratifies me to see that it’s ranked really lowly on my site! ;)
> It could be something related to machine learning, or it could be enterprise great switching fabric

These are the ones that make sense, and my money is on ML
A better product, delivered in a more convenient way, more reliably and cheaper. Piracy isn't going away anytime soon.
I used a Windows Phone for a week in 2018 – I will miss it [video]
> It is much easier to break a dynamically linked or interpreted script than a statically linked binary

If we’re talking about new code, why is this the case?
Of course consumers want the headphone jack. Nobody likes having any functionality taken away.

But did the poll ask them which they want:
Thinner iPhone/No Headphone or Thicker iPhone/Headphone
Isn't it better to not teach something that is wrong than teach something just for the sake of teaching?
It also gets my Macbook Pro in an unresponsive state (using Safari).
> And people understandably don't want to double their grocery bills just to buy local

I think that could be the root cause. People are used to food not costing enough, a living animal should be costly. I don’t understand why food should not be important in a budget.

And since we need to eat less and better, it could even help making transformed products uneconomical and we would mostly stick to raw products, and get back some consideration for what we eat.
Connecting a kindle via USB and using Calibre to manage one's library is very convenient as well. It will also automatically convert any DRM-free epubs you may have bought elsewhere to a format that works with the kindle, etc.
Ask HN: What't the best restaurant website builder/service?
I've been looking into website builder/service for restaurant with online booking. Try Wix.com and several services list here https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24516/building-a-restaurant-site-how-should-i-implement-online-ordering, but wonder if there's any better
Would you happen to have epilepsy? My girlfriend also has trouble looking at first person shooters and third person shooters. It gets her dizzy and nauseous. She has epilepsy and apparently it feels similar to the post-seizure aura.
Only if the administrator has allowed Inbox. Mine doesn't. Maybe most of them don't and so keeping it alive can't be justified.
> Someone's iPhone didn't ask for their PIN on reboot?

That's because the iPhone didn't reboot fully. This doesn't deterministically cause a panic, sometimes it just takes down parts of the system.
> The basic difference seems to be in Canada

Maybe some other difference?

How is it you and the rest of Canada (not to mention Europe) aren't opioid junkies in a national "epidemic" when you can buy 100 codeine tablets for $10 in any grocery? Meanwhile, in Russia, with bans, it's an epidemic, while in Ukraine, even Russian-speaking Ukraine, this is readily available with no epidemic.

Something about personal responsibility instead of "someone made me do it" litigiousness? Or more related to healthcare as a basic right? US versus Canada suggests these, but Russia vs. Ukraine suggests may be something else. Nanny state vs. "sheeple"?

No answers, just find it interesting relaxed restriction seems to moderate so-called epidemics without catastrophic societal breakdown.
> turns out that if you are willing to pay more,

I don't think that actually refutes "peak oil" suggestions that there's a price curvature that's going to keep going up.
r-bloggers is a mostly an article aggregation site, that republish (with permission) other blog post, in poorly formatted versions. I absolutely hate reading stuff on r-bloggers.

Read the original article here https://datascienceplus.com/second-step-with-non-linear-regr...
Hmm.

perl -le '$A = "ABCDEF"; substr($A, 3, 0) = 123; print $A'
ABC123DEF
> Apple's fault that corporate copyright holders insist on Byzantine region-locking

Yes, it is their fault that they tolerate the behaviour on their storefront.
How the heck are you supposed to beat the last level?
Most of the Daily Mail's 'commentors' don't even exist
I thought the displaced inner ear crystals would cause chronic vertigo rather than paroxysmal positional vertigo. At least from my experience with my mother. Sudden falling sensation, and her trying to hold onto the arms of her chair as if she is free-falling even though she is sitting down.

What he is describing sounds to me more similar to how I feel when I often feel lying down on my back and under the influence of Cannabis. Turning to my side immediately fixes it without exception. It isn't necessarily a falling sensation but rather just nausea and the world starting to spin and accelerate, until you turn. And I do not have this when I am sober.
Some reboots on iPhone (including if you force it yourself by holding HOME + Power on iPhone 6) don't relock the SIM card, so that might be the "PIN" that was missing.