skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We actually had a pretty decent truce with ads in the pre-commercial-web days of the 80s and early 90s. Newspapers had some black and white ads next to the articles, which didn't flash or move around. They also sometimes had a pure-ads color insert, which you could take out and throw away with hardly a glance. Magazines sold their subscriber lists to junk-mailers, but sorting junk mail was similarly painless, and delivering it helped fund the postal service. TV had commercials, but we had VCRs with a fast-forward button that couldn't be disabled.

In other words, the ads were easy to ignore if you weren't interested, everyone understood that, and they were priced accordingly. There was money in advertising, but not enough that the CEOs of ad companies were competing to see who could be the first to shoot some poor human sucker at Mars on a branded rocket. Then advertising turned toward all-out war, first with annoyances like animated GIFs and pop-ups, then with surveillance-based ads that started with DoubleClick (a.k.a. Google, a.k.a. Alphabet). Advertisers became some of the richest men on the planet, somehow convincing people that tracking every single mouse movement on every webpage made advertising unimaginably valuable.

What really scares me is what the surveillance companies turn to when slinging micro-targeted ads doesn't make enough money. Google+23andme health insurance, anyone?
"The five metre (75ft) vessel..."

Perhaps fifteen feet?
I thought Belgium had the equivalent of school vouchers: public funding that can be used for any school of the parent's choice. That's what Republicans want here.

Instead, in America, public school students are told which school they will attend. Usually, but not always, the closest. The Democrats are responsible for that.
We all know somebody has to be obtaining these boards, finding the alleged malicious grains of rice and testing them to see if they are in fact just passive components?

Where are they? Where is their presentation of finding nothing?
Yes, I believe that. I don’t take it on faith, I take the “we” part from the fact that religious and racial discrimination tend to be found in the same lists in the laws that outlaw discrimination against certain classes.
Really? I can't think of one single commenter who thinks this wouldn't be a big deal if it were true.
You can skip this ad and start your car in 5 ... 4 ...
Thanks. We've taken that first-time business out of the title above.
Could just be a cheap crutch for mood. Can it even be a crime noir without a trenchcoat and a smoldering cigarette?
It's actually going very well for the US. Inflation has been been low and stable. The real economy is larger than it's ever been. Unemployment is very low. Out of all the countries and currencies on Earth over the past 100 years, the US and its dollar have had a better track record than almost any other.

A few corrections to some possible misconceptions:

(1) Fed is short for Federal Reserve. It's not an acronym.

(2) The goal of the Fed is not 0% inflation. Because downside risks are worse than upside risks, the Fed's explicit long-term target is 2%

(3) House prices aren't great to use as a metric of inflation. A house built today is far, far better than house built in 1913. According to the consumer price index, $3,400 in 1913 has the rough buying power of $88,000 today.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

In my opinion, if you want to make a serious argument against the Fed, you should (a) do more work than rhetorically asking how the past century has gone for us, and (b) at least be familiar enough with the thing to spell its name correctly.
https://rocket.rs/
Personally, I do it with docker. I don't bother with venvs, because python is just not designed to be self-contained (or maybe it's a failed implementation of such design). As to lambda - using serverless and this https://github.com/UnitedIncome/serverless-python-requiremen... may help you.
A Yahoo! contractor invented Hadoop, and the company adopted it for internal use and greatly promoted it:

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/how-yahoo-spawned-hadoop/
Love the sarcasm. 6/10 in a year? Look at the stats, it’s more like 5-20% a year of ppl get the flu. So the OPs sample population clearly has hygiene or immunological problems.

And yes, washing hands is very effective. It’s probably the single most important health advancement since the industrial revolution. Aside from getting sneezed at what other mechanical vector is going to be as effective as hands?
You're right on both points. Safety has seen major improvements since 2003. I would urge OP to upgrade for that reason alone.
Yeah, and any developer making less than $14M (which is...like all of them?) continues to grit their teeth from rejected updates over minutiae and the virtual impossibility of browsing/searching sensibly on the App Store, among other issues.

I mean, each passing month makes it more of a labor of love than a serious development platform. There are so many extremely obvious ways to scam money on the store, and yet you go through the wringer if you spend months or years meticulously crafting a well-designed app for peanuts.
It sounds like you have no clue what "left wing" means when you refer to capitalists as "left wing". Because generally, it refers to anti-capitalists (socialists, anarchists etc).
There's a whole interesting dynamic that leads to this sort of press release: whenever someone publishes a high-profile Nature or Science paper, they usually have a chance to work with the university communications department to make a press release which goes to out sites like sciencealert. The writer from the communications department usually wants to hype your paper beyond belief, so it falls to you to talk them down (sometimes repeatedly). But if you talk it down too much, then maybe they won't want to do a press release for your next paper, so less press coverage to cite in your tenure case :/ It's a vicious cycle
Developing on an ESP8266 is completely different than a RasPi Zero. If you want a challenge, and want to write code that can run in 80KB of RAM and have the code and all of its dependencies fit in 4MB of flash, then that’s part of the reason why microcontrollers are popular (also because a lot of them are easy to get going with).
The WiFi thing is made more complicated by how the Apple Watch works. It uses an adhoc WiFi connection to your iPhone, so you don’t want the toggle to disable that. And it would be confusing to have different behavior depending on whether or not your watch is nearby.
Adding two fields to iOS to enter your billing cycle date and your monthly data limit seems trivial in the grand scheme of things. I believe Android does this? Perhaps I’m wrong.

Also simple would be intelligent alerts for data usage, including alerts for apps that are known to use large amounts of data. (i.e. “Are you sure you want to use Netflix while not connected to WiFi? This may cause you to exceed your data limit.”)
I'd like to know this as well. Not many can match the resources that AWS has so what actual checks are they doing of the hardware they receive from overseas suppliers?

There is going to be "don't tip your security hand" reticence to share so I doubt we'll get any straight answers.
"3D Touch seems to be the Touch Bar of the mobile world."

No, it is the right-mouse click of touch interfaces.
Self-driving school bus project shut down by the government
What about sitting your own baseband station atop the vehicle's cell device?

Is there a power at which you can broadcast such that nothing outside the car can detect it but the vehicle's cell device still registers it as the closest "tower" and therefore connects to it?

Then you could build your own little in-vehicle pihole and man-in-the-middle your way to an ad-free commute.
On the one hand, I agree with the author. A lot of iPhone features have serious discoverability issues, and I am constantly googling how to do certain things on my iPhone. After probably thousands of hours spent using an iPhone, I just learned today (from this article) that you can shake to undo.

On the other hand, my mother who in her 70s recently got an iPad and an iPhone and is able to engage more confidently with those two devices than any PC or laptop she owned in the 30 years prior. And my son who is 4 years old is able to move around between and within apps fairly effortlessly - without even knowing how to read.

So while there are definitely some things that could be improved in iOS, I think it's also important to recognize that the iPhone has ushered in an era of unprecedented usability for the general public.
How The New York Times and Washington Post Do “Poverty”
Can confirm OpenBSD works fine on Vultr. No weird install problems.
You're missing the point: why should I get a tax break for funding my rich neighborhood, at the expense of the rest of the country's neighborhoods (most of which are almost certainly worse off than mine)?

The addition of other subsidies is orthogonal to the capping of the state and local tax deduction.
Personally, I use the "Request Desktop Mode" features lots! I also moved it so it's the very first option listed for quick access. But I wouldn't do that on my grandma's phone...

While 'desktop mode' is super useful the HN crowd, I don't think most users would benefit from it.

A non-technical user is probably only minimally aware that mobile and desktop sites might have different features at all. And even when you do use it, it might not have the desired affect. I might have been browsing around on "mobile.site.com" for a while and repeating my request with a desktop User-Agent is still going to get me the mobile version. (this happens to me on m.facebook.com) To fix this I have to know how to modify the URL to point to the non-mobile-only version...easy for this crowd, but not for the average user.

Certain CSS @media queries also don't seem to be affected by "Desktop Mode". (It only changes the User-Agent I believe?) So in other situations, it won't work no matter what and that's pretty frustrating/confusing/inconsistent if you don't know the details.

Even if I do succeed, a desktop webpage on mobile can be a pain with all the zooming and zooming out needed. Sometimes desktop sites don't even work properly on mobile browsers! Now...we understand the constraints, but all these details come together to make it a pretty confusing feature for the average user.

I think most users wouldn't get value from this so it's obscure by default...but for the technical types that love this, it's not too hard to figure out how to move this feature to a place where it's convenient to access.

Overall I think the current design is a pretty good balance all things considered.

(though I do wish the ability to move the desktop mode button to the 1st slot was more obvious. Definitely took me a while to figure this out)
I feel the same. And when I learn how it works I get it but it doesn't rub right to me, I say to myself weird. I think it's apple without Steve Jobs super crazy attention to detail and the overall feel of it degraded over time.
I suspect most stolen parts would either be sold through Craigslist of junkyards. The old timers still rely heavily on junkyards for parts. I've been to quite a few, they tend to be shady.
I think you’re focusing too much on the price aspect.

What about the elephant in the room? Having to be tethered to a computer? That’s the real innovation IMO.

Moreover, one of the other popular usages for VR is social (and def on facebook’s radar). You can’t have much of a social experience without enough users. Easiest way to get users? Lower barrier to entry.

It’s not about making it affordable so much as it is investing in things that make VR more compelling.

Making VR more realistic was clearly not the area with the most growth potential.
I'd be interested in the next few sentences to go deeper on why. Why should we delegate the prioritization of societal values to the wealthy? what about wealth-accumulation makes them better suited to choosing how we should solve problems for our society. And why are you and I not equally responsible for influencing the direction of things within our means?
While watching this fly by, all I can hear is https://youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk
Just to be a pain in the ass, I fired up elinks to type this response.
> Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc.

Right, just because you haven't bothered to look it up, it doesn't exist. Here are just the Xerox PARC work that was commercialized by Xerox I can think of off the top of my head: Ethernet, XNS, Interpress, the Star and D-series workstations, Mesa, Smalltalk, Cedar.
I get the impression that there's this one guy in marketing who keeps getting taken to lunch...
It’s not cheap. It’s not anywhere near high quality enough for it to be anything but a fad for the masses either.

It needs to be good before it can be cheap.
This is far and away the most annoying change for change's sake they did. Battery screen is a very close second. If I go to the "Last 10 Days" tab and click a blue bar, I can see my total hour usage. Can I click a green bar and get the exact percentage? Nope.
Why compare it to something much, much worse? It makes as much sense as comparing it to sugar - neither makes any sense.
Charles B. Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates, has died
It's not like these companies don't have the money or legal resources to do it though.
Yikes, US$95 or US$125. May as well make your own with strips of DOT tape.
> There's a serious market…

The personal computing market has already been divided between Windows, MacOS, and ChromeOS.
Do you have a source on that? It seems like a much better fit for his talents than the PC stuff. He's doing low level super critical performance optimization, and technical product direction.

Performance doesn't matter nearly as much on the PC side, because there's so much more headroom in the hardware, and the technical product direction can just flow out of what game companies need.

The mobile side is a true technical challenge where a person like Carmack can literally make the difference between go and no-go.
Ppl really don’t wash their hands. And yes, washing hands is extremely effective against most diseases, not just somewhat effective against a few strains

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hand%20washing%20restro...
During my time at University I was involved in some research studies, one was particularly aligned to this study.

Essentially I myself (Male) had to stand up in a small room, in front of 6 young women and talk about myself for I think 2 minutes whilst being filmed. At the end of the chat I had to rate how I felt I did, then I watched the video of my conversation, then I had to rate myself again. I had to do this around 2-3 times from memory.

During this time the "audience" could not smile, or reciprocate any emotion or discussion, they had to sit there blankly during my speech.

The result of the experiment was that I had rated myself more confidently after seeing the video of myself speaking. Adding to the fact that we generally underestimate ourselves when speaking to others.
Intel says 10nm chips still on track, despite report they’re canc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273708
Or the government told them to strongly deny the allegations and the fact that the government can do that is just one of the many powers that we already know get granted to intelligence agencies in secret by rubber-stamp classified court systems not held publicly accountable and already infamous for suppressing criticism of their practices under the guise of national security. If the three letter agencies don't want Bloomberg reporting on a hardware hack, they already have the power to tell Amazon and Apple that they can't legally confirm the story. I see no plausible reason why they couldn't get a judge to tell them they had to make it look sincere.
It would be fascinating to see this from the Apple designer's point of view. I'm certain that this is a political problem inside Apple: how much priority each feature/module gets, how many pixels they can have, and how much exposure they get at the website, etc. iPhone (or any product really) is the product of politics as well as its technology.
Exactly, compaction is the result of pressure. If you're at <~ 1000 psi and there won't be compaction on any soil type in dry conditions.
Finally, a React Refactoring Tool – Introducing Glean
Thanks. I am well aware of all the things you pointed out. I think we just have a different opinion of what stable is or should be.

I think a currency that has $1.00 worth of purchasing power when I am given it should not lose 99% of its value over the next 100 years if I do not spend it. I am aware that that is impossible due to inflation, and that is why things like gold are much better stores of value than the dollar.
The 110th Congress was during the presidency of George W. Bush.

During the 111th Congress, from the appointment of Al Franken until the death of Ted Kennedy, as well as during the term of his appointed successor Paul G. Kirk, the Democratic party held 58 seats in the Senate and caucused together with 2 more senators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress
"gave the Senate Democratic caucus sixty votes, enough to defeat a filibuster in a party-line vote."

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/us/politics/01minnesota.h...
"providing Democrats with something they had long hoped for: 60 votes, and thus at least the symbolic ability to overcome filibusters."
If you're going to use private and/or archaic definitions for common terms, please say so up front so we can avoid wasting our time. The term capitalism in common use today means a political and economic system which favors private ownership of the means of production, with strong implications of "laisse-faire" and "free market" policies. It is not a synonym for plutocracy, the vesting of political power in those possessing wealth. To the extent that owners of capital are effective in turning the power of the state to their own benefit, to intervene in the market on their behalf, what you have is a plutocracy, not capitalism.
As I tell everyone that tries to defend this, it's not about what the plugin did or didn't do. It could have literally been a copy of about:blank, it changes nothing.

The entirely justified outrage was its purpose for being put there (which boils down to advertising) and the lack of consent for its being put there. That's it.
Fantastic! Looking forward to diving into these.
You're missing many of the reasons why you buy a more modern car. Too funny.
"Form over function" is not "Apple's way". Apple's way is function, period, paragraph. And often, what "function" means is, don't bury the user under 200 options they will never use. Make choices. Be willing to say "no" to having every single option front and center.

Added to this is the obvious point that with a touch interface on a small screen, you cannot make everything obvious. It's impossible.
Jumping off the Google ship
That would be my wife.

Exchanging her phone for a new one meant we could not activate her new phone without creating a new account.
I don't know what your definition of "reusable" is, but I keep seeing things like, "We used the TCP/IP stack from NetBSD".
As it happened. At our little country school, there was great deal of effort to set enough televisions so we could watch the event live.

What I find amusing was seeing a video recently by a film producer/director talking about the difficulties of that time of faking the moon landings. What I took away from the video was that it was cheaper to send men to the moon than it was to build all the film and storage technology to fake the moon landings.
Code vs. Configuration
I have an 8-year-old ThinkPad i5 T410S, since 2010.

I tried to replace it in 2012 with an Asus Zenbook but that was not pleasing to me with its flimsiness in keyboard and build-construction.

I would like to perhaps buy a later ThinkPad model, but I really don't see any advantage whatsoever in doing so. My T410S was ordered with the extra-large battery which is still going strong, and I swapped out the 500gig hard drive for a 2000gig hard drive about 5 years back.
Both are supported, but it's not particularly heavy - it's only running at a monotonic clock of 25Hz (decoupled from display updates and deliberately chosen to not be evenly divisible with 60Hz to pinpoint animation issues).

Alas, the improvement that should really be made is to encode both n and n+1 in the same update and interpolate in the vertex shader, not hard here but I was lazy..
I get this way (paranoid, tired, etc) on one puff. It's all so strong now. When I was a semi-regular user in the late 90's, the potency was dramatically less. At least what I got was.

That said, I can tolerate low-dose edibles. And, I believe most people who are in my shoes could enjoy it that way. Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible for most of us on the Eastern part of the US. The edibles I tried were brought back from people who went to Colorado.
Opening up open-source to design better chips – MIT CSAIL
Two Kinds of Tech Debt and How to Pay It Down
seeing "Windows autism" in the middle of the blog post was hilarious
Please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle. We've discussed this before, but you've reverted with a vengeance. If that doesn't change, we're going to end up having to ban you again.
I don't care about the adoption of VR for the general populace. I only care about it for suiting my, and other power users', needs. The concern is that, like many other engineering-first projects, we'll be left in the dark on the very tech we helped to propel to success.
I have been using repl.it as my go-to playground to write small scripts to check how a particular implementation would look like. However, IMHO the new Repl.it concept looks astonishingly similar to cloud 9! Is it also going to be bought off by some giant corporation and then start asking money for playground ?! :(
Supermicro CEO Joins Cook in Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Story
Misc Fixed (size 7 / pixelsize 9)
That's amazing, thank you. I had no idea this was possible on my iPhone SE. I'm assuming that there is a lot of other things that my phone can do that I am completely ignorant of.
What aspects of your personality would be appealing to a partner even if you were broke? Cultivate those.
Apple has been known to use warrant canaries and other methods of communicating when they have had to cooperate with intelligence bureaus. They've never come out and lied because the government told them to, at least, not that has been proven.
Really? Where did you read that? I always thought that he worked on the mobile-first headsets because they are a more interesting technical challenge for him.
Radioactive decay of long lived elements in the core.

There's a square cube relation between surface area and volume. Smaller planets have much more surface area compared to volume than larger planets. So it takes a lot longer for heat to escape the core. While smaller planets can radiate their heat away relatively quickly, in the Earth it just builds up.

Venus is of comparable size to Earth. But we don't know very much about Venus' geology. We know that there isn't any active vulcanism on Venus, its crust is all approximately the same age, and is (in geologic and astronomical terms) relatively young. The speculation is that the hot blanket of Venus' atmosphere actually keeps something of a lid on things. The magna isn't so much hotter than the atmosphere that vulcanism is an efficient means of letting off heat. So it just builds up for millennia (hundreds of millions of years? I do not recall the timescale.) until it reaches a critical temperature where most of the entire surface begins melting/venting/erupting. We can't prove it to any significant extent, but it's the model that best fits the evidence.