skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amuzingly AWS started as an effort to restructure their own internal infrastructure, and when they saw how useful it was they decided it could be sold to other people as well. Replacing Oracle is almost the exact opposite direction.
Google the average length of a daily commute [1] and consider what "outlier," as in "statistical outlier," means. It's an outlier. You're not describing a typical suburban commute, you're describing a distance typical of a trip between major cities. Nothing wrong with it, but it's unusual.

If you wanted to go electic with a commute like that, you'd probably end up spending money on an electric car with a large battery or with quick charging capability (or at least a charging capability at work). On the other hand, driving would be such a huge part of your life that the comfort and reliability might make the whole thing work out well, depending on the local cost of electricity.

[1] http://www.visualcapitalist.com/average-commute-u-s-states-c...
In your app configuration, you register your app as needing background capabilities for one or more specific “intended purposes”, and screen time recording isn’t one of them. So I don’t think the wording is actually unclear.
Certainly it would be legal, that the First Amendment is incompatible with the First Commandment is not legally challenged. Lots of schools teach about the world's religions in some way. One cannot understand world politics without describing religion.

I'm not saying such a course would be politically viable, nor am I interested in interfering with the indoctrination by those parents already infected. I am exploring ways to protect those who have a choice.
"Wouldn’t it be great if we could all drive without dirtying the air we breathe? Alas, not everyone can afford an electric car."

These claims always bother me. Besides the obvious pollution from the generation of electricity required to run the car (in places where clean energy isn't available), there are also the issues of energy required to manufacture the car, energy required to replace battery packs after several years, energy required to recycle the car at end of life, etc. Driving without dirtying the air is really hard to achieve if you think about the whole chain of events that goes into that. Far better to live and work within easy travelling distance if you want to have less of a negative impact on the environment.
Many people conflate access to aesthetics. There is a difference between actual ease of access and perceived elegancy resultant from vane conditions.

Specifically regarding programming languages the primary concern is parsing, whether that parsing is from software or people reading code.

As a person who has spent 10 years writing language parsers and code beautifiers the vane notions of what a language should look like are highly subjective and not incredibly beneficial. The mechanics and syntax of a language are far more important for understanding what code says very quickly. Like with natural written language elimination of ambiguities and redundant meanings speeds learning and reading which has second and third order consequences for the simplicity of tool design.
I think open source is indeed the continuation of that.
The hole linux community, gnu/gcc, bsd etc. There are really very talented people working there making huge impact on how things work today and will work in the near future (at least).

And I think the key here is the community actitute and ecosystem. The hole 'huge communities driven by the goal of creating good/the best possible technology and code' and not directly (I know big companies are in, but they still have to play the community game/rules) by comercial or political agendas.
I am not sure if one should be taking a lesson away from here. Sure, a programmer was able to write software on paper with incredible clarity but in my opinion, that approach is counter-productive than useful in most contexts. Yes, it's unavoidable in certain cases (space rovers, critical health-related equipment), but in most cases, it's not.

Getting something on the screen is useful. It's motivating. It helps to expose the limits of the approach taken. The scope of the project becomes much clearer when have written a chunk of code. I have rarely felt that I should have spent more time dabbling with pen and paper, than firing up my text editor. After all, mistakes can always be corrected.

With the rising complexity of software, and of the whole ecosystem itself, does it make sense to know all the edge cases you're going to stumble upon beforehand? Not to mention that requirements can themselves change. And what about processes like code-reviews? You're not the only person working on the software. I am hard-pressed to say that seeking an extreme level of clarity isn't a great use of time.
Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”
HN and Reddit arent that different from other social media sites.

All of them in my mind are "All You Can Eat" info buffet tables.

This is just the current approach we have of dealing with a new world overloaded by info. It will change as we learn more and more about how it effects people.

In the real world nobody healthy visits an "All You Can Eat" buffet everyday. Same thing will eventually happen with information.
If you're referring to the boys, they found a sticky note on a guard's laptop containing the login details.

For general cctv, many are installed to allow monitoring while away from the house. Nanny cams for example.

Installing cctv to an existing network will put it online automatically.

The most important issue to consider is these devices - routers, cameras, alarms, locks... come with default passwords. And almost no one changes them. So anyone who knows which port (Shodan search engine, port scanner)
to look has a high chance of getting entry.
Oh I agree, inflation is nasty. This accumulation of debt will end in tears.
Occam’s razor: it’s not profitable enough to attract the capital it needs, and price is heavily regulated
No, it really doesn't. "Etc." just includes other services. But it's unambiguous that whatever the service, it must be used for its own sake.
Given the free choice, some people will drink, eat, smoke and otherwise drug themselves into oblivion. We can't solve this issue by simply banning the problematic substances, prohibition and other bans have shown this.

Consumption taxes are also implemented in many countries, but these have issues as well. Namely in regards to lobbying and how the taxes are chosen, and how they disproportionately affect low-income segments.

Personally I am torn on this subject. I highly appreciate the public smoking ban that has been implemented in restaurants, bars and other public venues, as well as on public transit and related facilities. I do respect smoking as a personal choice, just as I expect teetotalers to respect that I enjoy the consumption of alcohol, or vegetarians/vegans to respect that I enjoy consuming foods with meat in them. All of these have proven generally negative health effects, but I choose to partake in some of them, as an informed choice.

I also recognize that all of these activities have some negative effect on the world and society, in one way or another, yet it would be counterproductive to ban them outright.

What I don't like about smoking in particular is the stench and effects of passive smoking, and especially not being able to escape it. At least the public smoking ban did alleviate this, which certainly can be spun as a net societal gain.
D with -betterC flag:

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
Just remember that being an iOS/AppStore developer is a lot like being a driver for Uber. Your rights are close to zero.
...according to the people who sell cigarettes

Smoking related illnesses in the UK cost the NHS (taxpayers) around £5Bn year, and taxes on tobacco raise around £9Bn. So it's pretty close, but that £4Bn gap will need to be made up from somewhere. Personally I'd legalise the wacky tobaccy and tax that, but there really ought to be equivalent taxes on vaping too.

Also if life expectancy goes up, there will be an even greater shortfall in pensions too.
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That sounds more like a poor choice of font than anything.
+1 to this. ATS (applicant tracking systems) like Bullhorn integrate with LinkedIn allowing a one click import of your profile. If you weren’t a first degree connection or didn’t have a public email listed they most likely used some software that grabbed your info from a social profile.
Pretty good description of what debugging code is like, too.
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Exactly this. App developers are constantly saying, I need all your location data for one tiny sliver of a reason or another.

If you are a map app, location data is fine.

If you are tracking screen time, then no.

Apple's is targeting folks like my parents here. They love that apple just works, no crazy secret battery drains etc. Even the subtle prompts apple gives (the little arrow outline etc) is NOT ENOUGH for folks like my parents. It needs to follow logically from what they are doing (no buried menus / advanced features). Apple largely delivers on this. Check out an older person using an android phone with a total ton of apps (and android 3-5 years old, older folks upgrade MUCH more slowly). It's a honking mess. Seriously the battery life goes into the trash, the phone has got a billion things running on it.

Apple is making BIG money focusing pretty strictly on privacy. The idea that they are doing this to avoid competitors to screen time (which they make no extra money on) is ludicrous.
Ask HN: What will future browser be like?
Be it web browser user or web developer, modern browsers definitely don't have everything we hoped for.
What will the future browsers look like, be it look wise or functionality wise?
Do we need to rethink the way we perceive browsers?
They had computers to hack legally at home. One of them was building mining computers, so apparently he had also access to money to buy hardware.

It was not lack of access or lack of outlet. It was lack of boundaries and access to school network was not the only behavioral problem mentioned in the article.
http://homoglyphs.net
Might also be source for inspiration:
https://github.com/epiphone/routing-controllers-openapi
But its not wrong, hes just arguing poorly. Explain to me why I should not have ultimate control of what I do with my body?
> There are too many people on the planet already

I feel the reaction many people have about population decline in NA and EU is understandable (one may or may not share the concern though, that's personal): your tribe is making less children, the others do no seem to care. And they will replace your tribe in the future if you don't make children, it's a game of numbers in the end.

NA and EU count very little in the great scheme of things from a population perspective [1] anyway - there are 5+ billion people in Asia and Africa (many in places that will be devastated by global warming), and those people aren't going to stop making babies any time soon. Are we going to force them to stop? How?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:P...
As an Emacs user I'm ALWAYS struggle to find a good keyboard for my setup. Actually I'm using a K550 Yama simply because it have enough extra key to have many things work's at a single keypress (and does NOT require any software to program/use those extra keys), I'd like some Maltron keyboards but they are (IMO) too expensive and without backlight, other "classic Emacs user's keyboards" feature simply too few keys to be comfortable.

Perhaps I'm looking for something like https://i.redd.it/z5knt99vpbsy.jpg but...

A trend I noticed is however that substantially all new keyboards tend to have less and less keys than ever, while ancient keyboards tend to offer more keys in various fashion, like SUN type [67] keyboars or $I_do_not_remember with a full function key row + another S-function key on top etc. And that's IMO it's a bad sign: keyboards means production, mouses means consumption. Having big keyboard IMO means produce many thing, having mouse-centric UI means being a consumer of someone else service.
Why are you able to tell me who I hate? I don't hate anyone... My comment is a classification and some logic based on that classification. I would classify telling people how they feel - as you have done to me - as another leftist tactic. Also the flagging/censoring of my comment is a leftist tactic.

I'll say it again: how have you been able to substantiate that I am hateful? I didn't even imply that people should be made to wear anything (as you claimed I did)... If anything I wish people were not so easy to recognize in their ideologies! It is as if everyone is not only identifying themselves based on their ideology, but then trying to take away other's beliefs because they are so steadfast in their own.

Your comment is way less substantive than mine - it is utterly generic and implies you know my mind more than me. Why would I despise the ignorant? Despising them would not increase my ability to enlighten them, would it?

I find the way you end your comment to be hypocritical. It is easy to type "love is the answer" after smearing me and my comment instead of actual replying to its message: anyone who wants to destroy or erase traditional aspects of culture should have to cite what they will replace it with and how we know that will be better.

EDIT: I will reply to the other comments in time. I am not able to post more than 1 comment every few hours due to the rate limiting/censorship. Please note that the other two comments are basically libel as well; they make claims about my world views that I do not support or make. They are full of straw man arguments as well.
Most of your presidents were scams. Obama, for example extended the surveillance state much more than even Bush did.
This issue is very complicated.

Your average make-tiny-explosions-in-a-chamber based vehicle can give you about 250,000 to 1 million km (150k-625k miles). Then it's just done. The parts are worn down. It's given its all.

Your average move-power-from-batteries-to-engines based vehcile can EASILY keep on going for 10 million km or more. Yes, even the battery pack can get there, though it would indeed be by far the first thing that will fail. It is far cheaper to replace that, than to replace an entire combustion engine.

Given that, you could draw the conclusion that the energy required to make the chair, the radio, the dashboard, etc – can be divided by at least 10, probably more.

But your average person does not ride more than ~250000 KM in a decade, and for sheer matters of safety engineering, style, conveniences like supporting modern electronics – most people consider a 10 year old car pretty old, and a 20 year old one ancient, and want to replace it simply because it is old. Which, for combustion cars, is not a big deal: It's pretty worn down by then.

But for EVs? That's a real problem. A 20 year old EV with 250k on the odometer is a damn shame. Nobody wants it anymore but all the parts still work.

Solve this problem and EVs are _INCREDIBLY_ better for the environment.

I guess self-driving cars helps; you can share a car and just order it to drive to your front door. But to make that a success, you need to do something about the 9-to-5 culture; people need to go to work, say, anywhere between 7am to 1pm, work 6 to 8 hours, and return home, and any job that needs full staffing the entire time people are at the office needs 2 shifts. That's a huge social upheaval (but it also gets rid of traffic jams, creates jobs, and probably boosts the economy because it is easier to do stuff because things are still open).

At which point we're in 'change the world, man!' hippie territory.

But one can dream, I guess.
Hopefully they have a solution for connecting to RDS from Lambda without incurring the huge cold start time and other problems of having the Lambda inside the VPC. Ideally it would be something like PgBouncer with a security group that only allows connections from your Lambda instances.

GCP has a semi-hacky solution that provides the ability to connect to your managed dbs from your Cloud Functions; one would hope that AWS can at least match that soon.
I'm less interested in changing public policy than I am in developing a course that is targeted to children. A lot of explanations of memetics are designed for older readers. The problem is that marketing for politics and religion gets in well before children have a defense for it. I am wondering what a course in memetics designed for children looks like and how it could be made effective. Deployment/distribution is a separate problem. Certainly such a course/book would be illegal in many countries. It would be rejected in many places in the United States.
How fiat money hold value and exchange rates
How fiat money hold value and international exchange rates vary when it is only paper with trust?

https://www.timehubzone.com/currencies/converter
There is no need for constant stream.
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Apple's quality problems macbook iPhone x
Interesting, thanks for the info. I'll give it a more thorough look.
From the description of the bird, this sounds like a terrible idea. If they were successful in restoring populations of these birds to the current environment, wouldn't they immediately resume their role as an agricultural pest? Destroying crops and orchards and fouling vast swathes of the landscape? Not to mention their potential impact on modern life, if you think running into a migration of geese with an aircraft is bad, what about a cloud of similarly sized animals that take over an area for hours to days. They could completely ground all air traffic in and out of a city. Worse yet, what if they decide to take up residence in cities. Mourning doves and rock doves have already done so and are enough of a nuisance, adding their larger cousins to the mix would exacerbate the issue immeasurably. We'd have no choice but to exterminate them all over again.
Sprinkling a ton of micros around a board can create a small nightmare for the software developers though, just working out what version of the firmware is running on each chip on the board can become a painful task. (if the software is 'simple enough', this may not be a problem, but it does tend to grow...)
This is an open access article and the statistics are published. See p.41 for a per-country analysis of the effect on literacy.

I would be ashamed to publish criticism about an open access scientific article without having any understanding of statistics.
The bulk of the problem is the linear-thinking brain. If we could devise a way for the brain to think exponentially (something computers are good at) - then we have a suitable way to deal with information overload. My only gripe with augmented brain capacity is that it could spiral away from us, and then lose touch with our original linear thought patterns. Something we have to eventually come to terms with.
I'm not so sure about Eve and Light Table, but I do love a transcript. Even a lousy, raw, automated transcript like this is faster to read and more memorable than a video.
I've heard that called "data dredging."
My current perspective is that I don’t want the government rolling in to hammer ban things they don’t understand, but I don’t want to have to carefully evaluate every single app just in case they’re shady. Having the platforms that the apps live on compete with each other on a number of metrics, including privacy, seems like a great balance to me. If I think Apple got it wrong, there’s always Android.
Look at it from a bigger perspective. We have a digital mail box for every citizen in my country. It’s safe and works very well, but people still have the option to opt out.

Opting out was meant for people who aren’t capable of accessing a digital mailbox, but because of the reputation of public IT some people opt out for no reason other than they don’t want to be part of it.

That’s their right, sure, but those 1-3% of the population are now costing the government as much as the other 97% times four.

The typical person to opt out isn’t old by the way, seniors are among the most happy users, no, it’s middle aged men who think they know better than the system.

Ironically around 80% of them would like to cut the public funding. I guess we could start with all the money they are wasting by opting out.
Social media is literally my only hobby and has kept me very happy and safe-feeling for years now. I love browsing and discovering random things. Interacting with people in person can be very taxing after a long day of work, aka, interacting with people.
You do realize an electric vehicle has a radiator, right? Gotta keep the battery and cabin cool. This argument is so overdramatic and persistent that it sounds like astroturfing from a PR shop. A modern car can run for a decade or more with even modest maintenance. My next car will probably be electric, and it’s purely an economic decision. I’ve never touched my cars crankshafts or mufflers, and it isn’t a hassle to own one. When my cars have issues, it’s the sunroof, the cheapo “luxury” interior finishes, the infotainment system controls. Rarely do I have a true mechanical failure. The IC engine is a modern marvel, not a horse shitting in the street, and an electric drive vehicle is also complex. To the end user, both electric motors and gas engines accelerate when you press the pedal, and my experience doesn’t really change beyond either I plug my car in every night or get gas every week.

From Tesla forum: The Tesla thermal management system is fairly complex, using a compressor in a standard cooling cycle to provide cooling for cabin air, battery, and motor. Each of cabin, motor and battery have their own sealed coolant loops, but are thermally connected together by heat exchangers and in some cases, by fluidic valves. Two of the coolant loops use radiators and coolant very similar to what ICE cars have.

(Edited this comment extensively for completeness.)
The ones they sold were priced at $59k on average, and they only delivered in the US & Canada. When they

1) start delivering in other countries (NB: demand for sedans is much bigger in Europe and China than North America)

2) start lowering the average selling price, with the Mediam and Short range models

3) get more people to see and drive the car

the market will explode, just like it did with the Model S.

Remember they expected the S market to be 30K units/y back in 2012, but it now exceeds 50K while selling the X (based in the S platform) and the 3 (whose performance, fully-optioned version definitely compete with the entry). While reviewing the 2012 plans, I found that they surpassed all their goals, early: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/191162940...
Do you explicitly get the user to consent to the use if background location data for this purpose?
I think it was bring back cash and also to win Uttar Pradesh state elections. A 100+ plus people died because of that and not many people cared. Sigh
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It's called the "file drawer problem" in which research is conducted but not published because it wasn't significant.

You're referring to "Type I error" in which a statistically significant result is obtained by chance, not because the effect is real.

This article does not appear to be an example of the hypothetical scenario you proposed. The trend line is not a "horrid-fit," as attested to by the statistical analysis published in the article - which is open access and may be read for free.

This is a scientific article - and unless you're a scientist, it may be difficult to understand the entire article.
Users complain that Apple is 'nickel and diming' them
> What's next? Private diaries as evidence that I killed someone?

Well if your diary contains perpetrator's knowledge then obviously yes? Even if not, it may count as circumstantial evidence.
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