skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of major reasons why new nuclear is so hard is NIMBYism and irrational fear of "radiation". People discount known risks and exaggerate new ones, so risks from coal are ignored (even if statistically they are more serious) and risks from very rare nuclear issues may lead whole countries to just ban nuclear energetics altogether. Unfortunately, I don't see a good solution to it - with more environmentally-conscious countries swearing off nuclear, all living nuclear stations remain in less environmentally-conscious ones, which will increase the number of issues, which will reinforce the idea that nuclear energy is too dangerous.
There are professions that have 12 hour shift. There are also companies that allow their employees to work 9 hour days and take Friday off every other week. Employees may even prefer these schedules for personal reasons despite potentially increased health risk.
I mean it's an argument against a federal system in general, when you think about it. Any regulation California passes is going to affect what is sold all over the country, because businesses can't afford to ignore it and making a special California version is more complicated than just complying in the base product.
Chemistry: Cody's labs

Math: Matt Parker, 3blue1brown

Electronics & Computer architecture: Ben Eater, Computerphile

You can never forget Crash Course, and SciShow from Hank/John Green
I think you are downplaying the complexities of these regulatory jobs if you think they can be adequately done by any intelligent person regardless of their knowledge of the industry. That admittedly may be less important for the FCC compared to other agencies, but would you be comfortable if the head of the FDA was a lawyer rather than a doctor or scientist?
You can simplify freenet's behavior to storing only cached files, though.
Having fun. Making friends. Play sports.
This is persuasive, but I wonder why they didn't test the SE. Maybe because the 5S is older but quite similar/appeals to the same market?
I have definitely experienced dizziness and feeling faint while fasting.. I'm not sure it's safe to exercise.
This all makes for a great argument for REALLY knowing your numbers. I'm amazed sometimes at how little grasp of both unit economics and OpEx some clients have.

I'll just say that for us an agency (with the strategy I outlined in this post or really any other at all), the better a client understand their numbers and has clarity about goals, the better we can build a strategy (including the discounting strategy, which you bring up here) that makes sense to meet those goals. From there it's just a matter of tailoring the strategy to the best practices.
Side note on the design - Absolutely love how well they do with keeping depth on flat design elements. Stripe design team always does such good work.
In general, if someone is trying to sell you something, treat them as a potential advisory. (That includes real estate agents.)
Elon Musk sued for libel by British Thai cave rescuer
Why are people so sure that this effect is real, and not just a cognitive illusion caused by Sturgeon's Law?

It's really easy to cite counterexamples to it. Even in our field, and in very mainstream press outlets.
Complicated topic with lots that could be said. Keep in mind if this is a Series A company, they most likely do not care about your ability to actually develop their tech. More likely they are looking to enhance their credibility by adding your name to their sales pitch. (Especially in “AI” businesses which are mostly snake oil.) So you need to consider your reputation and whether you want to attach it to this venture.

Very rich people trying to convince you is a good sign - will you still have a good relationship with them if this startup fails? Will they help you find a soft landing? On the other hand, very rich but bad at convincing you - to the extent that you’re asking a random message board - is a bad sign.
Yeah I'm hoping 12 delivers on the performance improvements it is promising. iOS 11 all but bricked my 6 plus.
This. They keep acquiring competitors and doing massive mergers and nobody bats an eye.
Also, they have real monopolies in some cities where you can only get their services with no other options.
With Amazon, you can always go to Walmart or Target or whatever.
I have lived in places where my only option as a customer was Comcast or Spectrum. How is that fair for customers?
Yes, this problem exists on both sides of the aisle. Loud, crazy people who the other side assumes is a stand-in for the entire group or at minimum has the support of everyone else since few are calling them out.

It's a problem.
> Not anytime soon.

What is "soon"? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/05/uk-coal-fir... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwe-coal/germanys-rwe-say... Especially considering nuclear waste. (see how desperately I try to get back to the topic?)

> And yet, you're making comments about coal killing a "handful" of people

Because _accidents_ just do that....

Nothing anymore on the topic? Nuclear power you remember? Waste, accidents?
The "State's Rights" crowd is also generally synonymous with the "Rule of Law" crowd. I don't see hypocrisy in supporting the application of law as it is written while opposing the existence of said law itself. Laws are not immutable and there's a process for changing/repealing them (legislation) as well as a separate process for invalidating them based on constitutional merit (judicial). Until both those processes have been tried, I don't see this as an innately hypocritical viewpoint.
I don't think so; I set up all my sound stuff before AirPlay 2 was out. I have an Airport base station with two different receivers (one Sony, one Denon), an Airport Express, and a Raspberry Pi running Runeaudio, each of which is connected to its own pair of speakers (or, in the case of one of the receivers, a surround setup). When I stream (from either iTunes on my MacBook or my iPhone) to any one of those, the music will have pretty frequent interruptions; it really shouldn't, either, because my MacBook is typically about five meters away from the Airport Express in the same room. The problem is significantly lessened when I play MP3 music instead of ALAC, and significantly worsened when I play 24-bit audio files, which suggests that bandwidth may be the problem.
Because it directly impacts the residents who live there full time and pay all the taxes to that city and state? Every day that you don't live in the city and make a purchase outside the city is a tax-dollar that city is missing out on and that someone living full time in the city is paying.

I live in downtown Toronto and here are some of the issues i face due to Airbnb:

i) Some of the residents make living a hell. They come to party, don't respect the neighbours, are loud till late, trash the place and some have even gone to break the buttons in elevator.

ii) With Airbnb, new owners and renters are priced out of market. People with more money but new units as secondary investment and just Airbnb it instead of renting it, thus creating artificial shortage of available units to full-time renters.

One of the fascinating things about NYC is it's vast array of local businesses. Guess who do these local businesses need? Full time employees who go to work every day and not for 3-11 days.
Where did he say that it’s for productivity reasons?
SO has a horrible tendency to mark questions as already answered, when they are in fact subtly different questions. It’s infuriating when you are deep in the weeds.
I haven't worked at many places that don't argue for more work - doing extra stuff on the side, on-call shifts, there's always something.
Now we just need a browser extension that does all that.

If pinning was a button press away it would be much more attractive than making a dns query, resolve the result and pinning that.
Well just the other day there was a bug that causes iOS to restart if a webpage is structured in a particular way

Edit for more information: I've been using iOS 12 on my SE for a while (beta) and while in all honesty I've not really found anything particularly great, more importantly I've not had any non-beta-related issues - slowdowns or otherwise

I am looking forward to playing with shortcuts, but have yet to
>oddly philosophical

Well, I'm a logician, so maybe that's inevitable :)

>I'm the rich one, not the merchant

Saying "I'm the rich one" is appealing to the fallacy of money as fixed natural resource. Try this: instead of picturing yourself as rich, picture yourself as a renowned hero, maybe you've cured cancer. Does the fact you've cured cancer place on you an obligation to use your celebrity status to convince the merchant to give the homeless man bread?

No! If anything, people should have an obligation to give YOU bread. Why would it be an axiom that "whoever has done the most to improve the world, is the most obligated to improve the world more"? That's essentially what you're saying, except it gets all confused because you replace "done the most to improve the world" by "has the most money", and treat money like a fixed natural resource.

>If Bezos buys a movie ticket, is he dictating how people act?

Yes, on a small scale.

>He can buy a near infinite number of loafs

No, as soon as he started buying on super-industrial scale, he would drive the price way up. He probably couldn't even buy all the bread in one city, at least not all at once.

This again illustrates the money-as-resource confusion people have. If it were a video game and the bread vendor were an NPC with an unlimited amount of bread with a hard-coded price, then yes, Bezos would be able to buy a practically infinite amount. (In which case, the vendor would be more of a force-of-nature than a person, and the ability to exchange dollars for bread would be a fundamental law of nature. When you think of it this way, video games have very, very, very weird physics :)

>I can instead just say everything I've said with the words "convincing tool" used instead of "money"

Yes, now you're starting to understand :) And so, when you say Bezos is obligated to donate money, you're essentially saying Bezos is obligated to act as a benevolent king/dictator. The act of choosing which scientist to give the money to is no different than the act of a king/dictator deciding which scientist gets a royal commission, etc.
If you look at the data, in general America's youth has been "doing better" compared to the 80s and 90s. High school graduation rates are up [0], juvenile crime is down [1], teenage pregnancy is down [2], tobacco use was down for a long time but is seeing an uptick due to e-cigs [3]. Generally the youth population is doing better and I think that all reflects in the detention rate.

0: https://www.usnews.com/high-schools/best-high-schools/articl...

1: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05...

2: https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/reproduct...

3: https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/substance...
Though I believe Apple bowed to China to give them access to Chinese citizen's iCloud data. But you can operate an iPhone without iCloud fairly easily, which is definitely nice. Doing more on-device helps them here.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...
People with HN accounts are in like the 99th percentile of internet users. There are a lot of non technically oriented "ordinary users" out there who do blithely click on things and buy.
Thanks for the reminder about those! I helped change brakes on a friend's... Accord (I think) and remember being delighted to find those bolt holes. Unfortunately haven't encountered those since then on any of my vehicles.
Outside of being a 2FA/fraud prevention measure, what's the benefit of facial recognition here (I also imagine a lot of your customer base would be opposed to the idea of someone storing facial data for this, but I digress)? The card data should be sufficient for the purpose of linking purchases to an individual account if one is inclined to do so.
Does a Privacy-Based Search Engine Exist? – Decentralize Today
The card brands are nothing more but a network. That's it. They have no skin in the game. All fraudulent charges move like this

card issuer(bank) ---> processor (square) ------> merchant
In SF I've seen first-hand groups of youths filling up their backpacks with store items and running off laughing. They don't even run more than a block before slowing down to walk because they know nothing will happen. Thousands of dollars of items are taken but because of the new law where theft under $1000 per person is considered a misdemeanor, nothing happens. I talked with the merchant and she said that the police in SF don't even respond. It's shocking to me, maybe I'm naive, how quickly the changes in law get exploited to the maximum.
Marketers are just doing what they can to make money at the expense of everyone's problematic psychological tendencies.

Taking your statement in its literal form, there's nothing wrong with marketing in itself. It's wildly successful in getting people to buy more and pay more for what they buy, which is the entire point of it. What's wrong is how marketing, unregulated capitalism and free corporate speech, and human psychology interact. But addressing those other things is difficult.

Yes, marketing is a problem and bullshit, but saying that won't change anything. The levers to change how marketing is done have nothing to do with marketing. They hit the third rails of free speech and free market capitalism, which mainstream culture is loathe to question.
iOS 12 will likely not be iPhone SE's last update, since iPhone 5S got the update this year. And iOS 12 specifically focuses on performance for older devices.
iOS 12 Security [pdf]
> Nobody on either side believes this; the right judges the left as communists destroying America and the left judges the right as Nazis destroying America, that's the nature of politics.

This attitude is the exact sort of attitude causing all the problems. And, no, not everyone has it.
Been using it for months on my 6 and it’s great
Maybe it depends on the country you're in, but you can definitely use methods other than PayPal. When I donate to projects with foundations in Europe, I usually just wire the money directly to their bank account. (I'm in Germany.)
In all the workplaces I’ve seen it seems like everyone is on Facebook or reddit half the day. Why not give some of that time back to them?
Macros, perhaps?

Tracing JITs actually can have a hard time with map and reduce because they can't always tell that different calls to map should be compiled with different traces. If you try to use the same trace for map(f) and map(g) you are going to fall out of the trace often.

For an example of this issue coming up see https://github.com/luafun/luafun/issues/32
I don't really know how food stamps work as I'm not in the US.

But, having lived in a few different countries, I can tell you that if a loaf of bread costs 50c then left on its own the market will tend to pay only slightly more per day for unskilled work.
People can live in a cardboard box but they have to eat.
Putting a kid in there almost feels like a purposeful reinforcement of the same behavior. It feels like society is saying, "Oh, you're looking for a career in crime? Let's put you in crime college for a few years so that you'll be better prepared for your new life of crime when you get out."
If I was in charge of Apple, I'd refresh the Mac Mini (it's embarrassing its sold with a 4th gen CPU). And slowly build private cloud capabilities.
I've never seen anyone work as hard at being an ass hole as Linus Torvalds. He has literally made speeches celebrating his rudeness and insensitivity. His change of heart doesn't make up for decades of really shitty behavior.
The IPFS network works in a pull-model, not push. So when nodes add content, they only add it locally. It's not until some other nodes request it, as it actually transfers.

So if you start a IPFS node locally, it won't get content pushed to it (well, some DHT data which is basically routing information, but not the content itself).

> ultimately, how can I know for sure that CloudFlare won't play the game where as acting as a proxy they will modify some of the files served?

You'll have to add some checks on your end for this as HTTP/browsers cannot provide these guarantees currently (maybe in the future?). So, download file A and add it to IPFS from your end. If you end up with the same hash, the content was not modified.

> isn't p2p file system like this all about trusting the network and not 1 server

Yes, IPFS <> IPFS is trustless as this verification happens automatically and the clients can verify content locally when it gets fetched. IPFS <> HTTP is harder as there is no functionality for doing this verification.
Neruda's Voice
I did use GEOS on a real C64 back in the day, and what I remember was that every click of the joystick button led to a disk seek to find the graphics for the next screen. If you knew the commands to display a directory, etc, GEOS made things maddeningly slow. I remember similar sentiments being expressed back in the DOS to early Windows days.
HardenedBSD Foundation Announced
(I work at Stripe)

Yep, please tell us as much possible in the form. The Beta is open to all business in the US.
Along with more cameras.

Along with DNA analysis.

The poor, and disenfranchised can't commit crimes. It's a negative sum game. Only the very stupid, or very despirate can take the risk.

Now--the wealthy can run their white collar crimes without too much risk. It's not just white collar crime either. They can afford to drive drunk, speed, and pretty much do whatever their id spits out? They cannot pay taxes, and use that professional degree to fleece the poor, and uninformed?

Hell--they can pretty much do whatever they want? They own the regulators that control the system.

(I'm just pointing out that cameras, and science might have played a big part in the reduction if crime. Only the wealthy, can still play fast, and loose. And yes--I'm hard on all crime. It's too bad we can't tie fees/fines to income? We just might have a further drop in crime?)
Product code covering Apple Watch, AirPods spared in planned tariffs
It did wonders for my 5S and 6 Plus in terms of performance.

Edit: should clarify I have been running the beta and upgraded to the GM last night. Performance during the beta cycle and release version has been fantastic.
You could also use it as a home-brew multiprocessor. I did that as a science fair project.
Did they get their TS clearance without being sponsored by a company who was already doing business with the government? It's my understanding that you need to get your start working for an existing government contractor and then you can branch out on your own. I don't know of anyone who went straight from, say, college into getting TS and starting a military contracting company. Also there are a ton of rules when dealing with the military that often require experience with those sorts of arrangements. Even my company, with extensive experience in that area, received a substantial fine because we bid on work which we no longer qualified for.
From the update description: Portrait mode improvements preserve fine detail between subject and background when using Stage Light and Stage Light Mono effects

I thought that iOS 12 would improve this for Portrait mode generally. I have an iPhone 7 Plus and sure hope that these benefits are available on my iPhone (which doesn't have these specific effects — just vanilla Portrait mode).

Has anyone see improvements in Portrait mode in the beta?
This is Adam Grant, who wrote a book about relationships ("Give and Take") and admitted in it that his own relationship with his wife was sometimes rocky because he worked too much?
Good answer. A couple additional notes: the 1401's backplane was also wire-wrapped by a Gardner-Denver machine controlled by punch cards. Field engineers could modify the wiring with hand wire-wrap tools (to fix problems or add new features), but most wiring was automated.

IBM was using CAD for their systems way back; the 1401's wiring diagrams were called Automated Logic Diagrams because they were computer-generated, originally using a vacuum tube IBM 704 or 705 computer.

I'm still not sure if IBM's solid logic technology (SLT) was a good idea, or if they should have moved to integrated circuits much sooner.
Can’t you just select US sad your country when setting up the iCloud account and use a VPN? Or are Chinese devices different at the hardware level and only allow connecting to the Chinese (compromised) iCloud?
Remember the cardboard cutouts that sat over the F-keys and listed what each did? Used by ex. Wordperfect.
Also, for anyone thinking of using iBooks with iCloud Drive (iBooks syncing via iCloud, or whatever it's called) and importing ebooks or PDFs from iCloud Drive into iBooks, be aware that they will disappear whenever your device is low on space.

I loaded up a bunch of travel books on a 32GB iPad for an overseas trip this summer only to have them all evaporate shortly thereafter. Every time I got on decent WiFi I would redownload and reimport them from iCloud Drive. Sometimes they would stick around for a few days and sometimes they would be gone in literally hours (gone from the device, not from iCloud Drive).

Incredibly frustrating if you have big reading plans for your offline time. My understanding is that there's no way to get the books to stay put without disabling iBooks iCloud syncing and then loading or importing them the old fashion way (from Dropbox, or via iTunes etc).
What an unnecessarily broad heuristic. I can only assume the author is trying to do (faux) wisdom signaling by making such a needlessly general rule.
Is IPFS really a store, let alone a store with any particular performance or availability properties? If I want to be sure a file is available, don’t I have to host it or pay someone to host it? And if I want to make sure it is geo distributed, I have to geo distribute it or pay a service to? What is the big change?
It's like a torrent. You don't host data that you haven't accessed. For content to stay hosted on your computer forever you have to explicitly pin it.

The number of people hosting it is the number of people accessing it.

CloudFlare can't modify the files. On IPFS you request files by a hash. If they give you a file with a different hash you know they gave you the wrong file.
As of right now, Yahoo Finance has the same watchlist functionality, but with more data than Google Finance including options and crypto and much more powerful charting and native mobile apps. You can even link your real brokerage account for real-time portfolio tracking and trading directly from their apps and site.

(If I sound like a shill, I work for https://trade.it which provides broker API functionality to Yahoo Finance, but I have also been trading and using Yahoo Finance for over a decade, way before I ever became technologically involved with them)
One quick bit of feedback - i'm not as likely to try it out if i have to register first. Create a demo area where i can play, but not save and use that as bait for registration.
Credit cards will never disappear as long as they offer the ability to chargeback if the goods are unsatisfactory, and competing systems do not offer that.
States' rights were first employed as an argument by New Englanders opposing the War of 1812. Their more famous Southern exponents were not troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law. I'd argue that there is nearly nobody who has a principled commitment to states' rights, rather than using it as an instrument to their true ends.
The ProtonMail mobile app on Android isn't very good. Swiping emails to archive is very slow and often messes up. Sometimes after archiving an email, it randomly reappears in the list until I manually refresh again. Just a lot of little annoyances such as these has turned me off from ProtonMail.

Also, if you want to have Calendar integration, there is none in ProtonMail.