skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Android, Location needs to be enabled for an app to access ambient wifi (scan of all nearby APs). On iOS, there is no API for ambient wifi, though their location API does use it behind the scenes.

On both iOS and Android, an app can access connected wifi even with location disabled.
Where are all the Native American restaurants?
In my experience BeOS had much better single, full-resolution video playback or editing experience as well. Editing DV footage on BeOS had a no-stutter experience which took MacOS and Windows another decade to deliver, especially since it was rock-solid under multitasking – not just not needing to close your email client or browser but even things like compiling Mozilla from source didn’t cause a dropped frame.
Looking at the screenshots, I really still like the look of the windows and icons, but the system font is really holding it back. I didn't realize how bad it looked compared to modern system fonts. I get the feeling a font switch would really improve the look.
Amazon sell thousands of things under their own brands that they cherry-picked from their vendors' products and sales data. It is unlikely to matter if your software is open source, it just means making an alternative which they've already done for everything from chairs to Java.

If they're going to compete on $1.28 shower hooks there's no proprietary SaaS with millions in MRR on AWS that will be too hard to copy.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011
the platform is incomplete. It's pretty obvious nowadays that any platform that makes free speech its main selling point will be ousted by every payment processor.
I use Facebook and Instagram regularly and I am very happy with it. I like to share my pictures and my thoughts there and so do my friends.
Yes, when I’ve left social media it’s isolated me from people. But that makes sense, as I hadn’t seen them lately. What do you mean by ‘real’? Just about any relationship withers when you stop being in regular contact. Since you quit social media, but wish for your friends from there to contact you, do they have a comfortable way to do it? Leaving a phone or email isn’t the same since the importance or priority level of an e-mail or phone call is different than the casual contact of social media.

Yes, i have heard of and been an online friend who helps people offline. Fund raisers, contact with nearby relatives when concerned, checking on people, plus the fact that this IS the real world and emotional support online is the same thing as ‘offline’. L If something bad happens online, your online friends can help there, too, but your ‘real world’ friends by definition can’t really.
I’m not sure it holds more true now than in times past, but I believe the argument generally goes that the older, richer generation has exploited the land and taken on huge amounts of debt, all while jacking up the prices of the things that gave them their advantages (education and housing brings the initial arguments in this vein). And, further, that the older generation will die before needing to address all of these various natural and societal debts, leaving the younger, poorer generation on the hook for their excesses.

Edit: just want to clarify that I’m only vaguely familiar with the arguments that I am parroting here
They were on their feet most of the day.
I actually feel like the mobile app has some limitations as well to try to keep users in the app. They limit usage of URLs and such.
Modern servers have a lot of compute resources and memory compared to 15 years back, before doing any optimizations I would start out with a naive full text search, which will most likely be fast enough. A full code search using regex is also more powerful for users. Imagine if you could use Regex when searching on Github or Google!? Source code use relative little space, If you strip out the markup/JS from web sites, they also take up relative little space. The only problem however is to educate users on how to do effective searches.
The Nuclear Novel and Language (2015)
> In short, the organization's data is useless

No, you think the data you used in your comment is useless. Doesn't mean the data the organization has and their conclusions is useless.

Also, kind of funny you linked data you think is useless, but then drawn a conclusion from that data. Given the graph, the uncertainty is high. They added sites but the numbers stayed the same. What's more likely, the sites added were in antartica? or were in places that are expected to have butterlies? In other words, it could be worse than what the graph shows.
You can configure most Debian variants to boot in seconds from a decent SSD. Ubuntu Server edition was really pushing this for a while, the desktop editions don't seem to prioritise boot times quite so highly.

Hell, even Windows 10 boots from an SSD these days in less time than my BIOS takes to start the Windows boot process...
That's for direct to consumer mail shipping (USPS) that like DxExtreme, Wish, Aliexpress, etc use. FBA shipments are usually sent directly in bulk to an Amazon warehouse from China thru normal commercial shipping companies and wouldn't be affected.
"Overwhelming mediocrity"
Yup. The current minister of interior has already been in jail once, for offenses committed as the minister of interior (10 years or so ago).
I have a feeling he was trying to touch upon the arm chair psychology involving mirror neurons. ..or maybe just trying to say it's more effective in person. But that seems self evident.
yet they all eat at mcdonalds, shop at 7-elevens and have thanksgiving parties. Here is another test: do you see many satellite dishes in immigrant neighborhoods?
Uh, the font is modern, it's "Noto Sans" from Google's new "Noto" family of fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/

Previously the default font was DejaVu Sans, which really looked a lot worse.
Wow. The UK link you provide is running at about ~$7.65 per watt. That's extreme/exorbitant plus their tiles look ugly and I doubt the resell value on the home will be as high as a Tesla Solar Roof (since aesthetics are king on homes).

Currently, even in Cali a solar system ranges at about $4-5 per watt. The cost to redo a roof depends on the size but almost certainly it would be cheaper than the extra $2.65-3.65 watt left over on using a conventional system and less long-term liability to homeowner to replace a roof and do conventional solar.
Only way to know is to get people who are actively using social networks and aren’t thinking about quitting to just quit for no reason. Chances are you probably won’t see any change in happiness, just a change in habits.
> Terrifying times out there for starting a software company.

- High free cash flow businesses that other traditional industries salivate over

- Unlimited rapid scalability

- Virtually no up front computing costs and virtually elastically tied to usage growth

- Limited vendor lock-in

Yes, truly terrifying. /s
We know the "real reasons" from first principles - the people tasked with upholding the law have taken that as a license to flout it. Everything beyond that is a window dressing of politics, unfortunately necessary to rally outside pressure for these corrupt institutions to be reformed.

These statistics shouldn't need to be publicly done by independent groups, but could easily be done confidentially by the police departments themselves to avoid having to pay out compensation for their employees' crimes. Alas, police forces find it easier to double down and shirk off liability for the damage they cause, so here we are.
It's the same issue any service or platform dedicated to freedom of speech has. The people you find there are the types who get banned or blocked elsewhere for controversial views outside of the mainstream.

But hey, that's true of any right protecting service or platform. The initial adopters will usually be the people who need that protection earliest, which often translates to criminals, extremists and nutcases. See also most privacy focused tools and platforms (like Tor) which attract the exact same audiences.

It's one reason marketing a service or platform based on privacy or free speech is usually doomed to fail.

But it's not an unsurmountable obstacle. These services just need to attract average Joes with mundane topics as early as possible, and build up communities about non political, non controversial topics as their main priority. That way, while the nutcases will still join en masse, you'll attract enough 'normal' people that people's perceptions will be of you as a neutral provider rather than crazy fringe community.
$100 DNA test imminent
> provide an XPI (that will only benefit the few since the side-loading process is made awkwarder at every point release) ?

This add-on is the first XPI I have ever loaded. I didn't find it awkward to do; it is simply:

Tools -> Add-Ons -> Cog Icon -> Install add-on from file...

The only thing I found unintuitive was the cog icon.
You’re missing the point. With concurrency handled in user code and (I’d add) reduced latency from SSD storage, do you even want the OS to be excessively preemptive? Doing so has large drawbacks in terms of cache performance, and the difference is no longer noticeable.
I really hope not, the fact that all of these services are based on OSS software is what will help keep Amazon in check as they grow, because at the end of the day if AWS starts to turn into Oracle and get abusive with their pricing/licensing then the customer has a lot more leverage to move to another cloud or self host.

To me, the fact that AWS is basing all their services OSS is a good thing for consumers. The thought of it all being proprietary is what would scare me.
Also, lagginess quickly turns into chaotic behavior. I’ll never forgive outlook for deleting dozens of folders during one of its spasms.
BeOS wasn’t hard real time afaik.
No your not. I'm always surprised that people's moods are so affected by these sites. If facebook disappeared tomorrow I cant imagine feeling any different. Id have to find a new way to share pictures on I guess. I tried instagram, and i never got into it.

maybe its more of an instagram problem, then facebook now?. i think facebook is just dieing off in general, there seems to be lower activity.

If anything I feel like facebook helps me realize people aren't doing epic things everyday, otherwise there would be way more activity going on on the site.

or reddit might be my real time waster and no one talks about it hah
> Twitter should significantly expand the features that let individuals and groups manage the visibility for tweets for themselves. There are already useful features such as muting a conversation or blocking an individual. These could be expanded in ways that allow for delegation. For instance, users should be able to say that they want to subscribe to mute and block lists from other individuals, groups or organizations they trust. One example of this might be that I could choose to automatically block anyone who is blocked by more than x% of the people I follow (where I can choose x). Ideally these features could be implemented at the tweet/conversation level and not just the account level.

These are not new ideas. [User] sovereignty in controlling one’s own view and being able to voluntarily pass control of what you see to someone else are quite literally the founding ideas underlying a democracy.

At the risk of belabouring the point that these are not new, I already have what he describes in production [1], by the way of moderators you can disable and enable as needed, coupled with community mod elections. See the docs here: https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_and_elections/

It does make me happy to see I’m not the only person thinking about this, though.

[1] Currently disabled, pending UI work
FYI, if you are looking for a community that is resilient (which seems a wiser course to me than loading up on medicine, guns, and seeds in a remote area), check out this list of transition towns: https://transitionnetwork.org/transition-near-me/
Perhaps I missed the case because I always look at my boarding card and confirm the flight and destination before boarding the plane?

There are obviously a number of mixups here. But if you want to discuss software errors one needs to rule out the human factor first.

Why did you board the plane, or maybe how were you able to board the plane with the wrong pass?
(I used to simulate classical mechanics for a living, so...)

It's pretty good except it runs a lot slower than it has to.

The default step size is too small for most cases so you have to wait a long time for the planets to move around.

When I tried increasing the step size with the slider I'd inevitably increase it too much and the planets would fly away.

Personally I always use RK4 and similar algorithms with adaptive step size, mostly because it is a pain to tune the step size by hand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods#Ad...

also if planets are passing close to each other you may need a shorter step when you are close and a longer step when you are far away.

RK4 or RK5 with adaptive timesteps will make your demo much better with very little work.

There are methods that use higher order derivatives and other tricks to take large steps, for instance I like this method

https://github.com/alexrudy/bsint

If you were integrating the solar system for millions of years you would want a symplectic integrator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_integrator

this might not be more accurate than another integrator but it will preserve phase space area which makes it possible that the long-term dynamics will "look like" the real long-term dynamics. (Otherwise it certainly won't!)

If it were me in cases where there is a central large mass I would integrate in spherical or cylindrical coordinates, probably I would use a predictor-corrector method.
attaching tracking links with your id for paid website by all definitions affiliate marketing 101. maybe change the title to include the word "Directory" or "Link Portal".
a vacum diode have characteristics more similar to a ideal diode that a semiconductor diode.
Whose morality?

You either enforce your morals or they don't apply.

Without a paywall access is free to all. Sites may pretend that there is some moral obligation that visitors have to switch off ad blockers, but that's only the site's opinion, clearly not one that others typically accept.

Build a paywall and sites can manage entry based on whatever conditions they wish. Users either log in for some received benefit or go away.

But put up a search engine bypass and they open up access and lose total control. Bypassers are unlikely to agree with the site's desires and viewpoint.

Sites either control access 100%, by login, IP, etc, and so enforce their particular morality or they have to accept that their world view is not shared by all.

Even should sites manage to get a legal framework to enforce this morality, those laws do not have global scope. Not yet anyway.
To what degree do frying pans have a role in this, if any?
The NewOS kernel is from what I can tell.
skimmed it and seems like < 2~3s is the expectation from AWS Lambda.

So I will go with AWS Lambda. But seems like having lot of dependency increases the lag, wonder if there's a way to put the source on a diet.
Amazon’s goal with this is to check the boxes. Enterprise customers don’t give a hoot about quality, just compliance.
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The way I use it it keeps channels open. But I'll check it once every few months really. Don't feel the need to quit because I'm not addicted
I doubt it's really an ageism thing, Google sometimes acts like an extremely immature company when it comes to product lifecycles. Even IBM when it cuts products usually at least publishes a EOL date to rely on. All of Google's shutoffs are abrupt, sudden, and generally with barely enough time to scrape what you need from them before they disappear. A startup of the week at least is hanging its hat on the idea that they are trying to turn into a business and even if it evaporates you at least know the focus is there. Google's commitment to customer has always been generally terrible unless you are in the 1MM per annum and up club.

Google's general radio silence when it comes to support/evangelizing these products is just crazy. I have more faith any day of the week using the latest and greatest toys from Amazon (AWS), IBM, and Microsoft compared to Google because they usually have clear EOL cycles and suitable warning periods for things going away if there is ANY level of interest.

The only products I feel like are going to be there in six years is Search (because it keeps the lights on) and Gmail (because it is entrenched, popular, and enterprise pays for it).
She is still doing a lot of approval-seeking in this very article, so I'm not sure how to handicap her odds of success at staying off Instagram for example, but I wish her luck.

Social media is a lot like every other popular idea that ends up being bullshit. It always ends up costing you time and money in the short-term, and of course some years often have to pass before you finally figure out it's bullshit. So, somewhat unfairly, I refer to that whole class of things as "rackets young people fall for." Like smoking. (Both.) Or drinking, or... weddings. Marriage itself (oh snap). Playing in rock bands. Bungee-jumping. Skiing? I'd better stop before I insult everyone. Get off my lawn. (Lawns also. Total racket. Fuck lawns.)
Then you're using magic machine learning wrong. I'm part of a small team who uses it exactly for the purpose of giving intelligent search to non-Googles and non-Wikipedias, and we have a very good track record.

The key is to use machine learning to generalize user behavior across multiple items in roughly the same category, rather than individual items. In fact, with tiny amounts of data you should pretty much never deal in individual items -- always in groups of related items.
I m sure paypal or patreon are doing business with many criminals or even terrorists who are unknown. The reason is the bad PR and negative publicity they get from these channels.
You seem to have it backwards: common dreams republished the UCS article.

I just read it, and it appears entirely relevant to what the poster was talking about -- efforts to prevent NOAA from providing high-quality data products directly to the public.
This is an ongoing trend. Same thing is happening right now with Twilio with their Flex offering competing with longtime customers such as Talkdesk.
Around LA the map is off by a lot. "Nuts" in the National forest wilderness, "wheat" in residential neighborhood. But I think it shouldn't be too hard to fine tune this with some level of manual labor. I bet a lot of the models need regional customization. You can't compare dry areas in the West of the US with ares like Austria.
Too big for Excel is not “Big Data”
To (mis) quote TheMinimalists [1] they frequently mention that most relationships are born out of proximity and/or convenience. Facebook, with (many times) meaningless word exchange (I can't call these discussions) trick us into thinking them as friendships. This is the convenience part, combined with Facebook nomenclature ("Friends") also helps to that direction. I quit FB approx 2 years ago and Instagram 1 year ago. I don't miss any of the 250 'friends'.

For the 5 people I care to keep in touch frequently, I have installed Signal on my smartphone and my PC and we chat very frequently (when we don't meet)

[1]: https://www.theminimalists.com/values/
I feel your pain. I was the dev lead at a company and responsible for a decently complex new green field project. They decided to “move to the cloud” at the time I didn’t know anything about AWS and the “consultants” that were brought in only knew networking and the best they could help us do is a “lift and shift”. I was neither given the time to research, given good consultants that knew anything about the development and Devops portions of AWS or given the access to a dev account to experiment and do proof of concepts.

So so did everything like I would do on prem with a bunch of VMs.

I asked them to set up a dev, qa, uat, and production subnet. All with multiple VMs.

I used 7 VMs for Hashicorp’s Consul, 7 for Nomad, and 7 for Mongo. (1 for each non production environment and a cluster of 3 for production.) I also used Fabio. Between all of that I had my configuration key/value store, service discovery, job scheduling (Nomad), and data store. I also had build boxes for Team Foundation Server (or whatever MS is calling thier hosted TFS version these days with local agents.)

It wasn’t until after I was getting ready to leave the company that I realized how dumb this setup was for an AWS hosted solution. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t have done too much differently today for a self hosted solution.

I left the company, self demoted to an individual contributor role at a smaller company that was “cloud native” and I spent the next year learning AWS inside and out and taking advantage of reimbursements for certifications.

I’m still at the company now, but when and if so do decide to leave, I’m. It going back to being an architect for a company. Consulting is way more lucrative.
Lesser of two evils by one or two orders of magnitude.
Securing the JavaScript Ecosystem
How Did Indonesia and Malaysia Become Majority-Muslim?
I'm not missing the point. I want lightning fast response from software to my actions. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's when the input loop loses events, which happens very often on Windows and my Linux powered TV. I want to throw them both out of the window, it drives me insane.
the main ways to censor seem to be DNS, payments and hosting. I have not heard yet about cutting people's fiber. So, a platform that wants to be resistant to censorship should probably provide all 3
Autonomous vehicles will completely change how we shop
Intelligent people are quitting Reddit too, that place has become a toilet except for very niche topics.
I've found that remembering to add items to the root set in C (or C++) causes most gc difficulties. In my pet language Ivy, I ended up doing this: new allocations are automatically protected from collection until the interpreter executes the next branch (this limits the work of removing items from the protected list, vs. doing it on every instruction). This limits the number of accidental collection cases you have to think about considerably.

There are still a few cases to worry about. For example, during function activation: if you allocate anything between the time you switched to a new lexical scope, but before saving the old one somewhere in the root set you are in trouble. This is easy to do, because you want to just save it in a local C variable until you have allocated the thing where you are ultimately going to save it.

https://github.com/jhallen/ivy-lang

In general gc bugs (like all allocation related bugs) are a nightmare because the effect is always delayed from the bug.
It seems obvious to me that Valve should have a micro tier for the small indie space, by effectively making everyone else subsidize them. Something like 5% until crossing $30,000 in revenue.

This can be a life-changing difference for individuals couchsurf-hacking while trying to break into the game industry on their own; 28.5k vs. 21k. I highly doubt this would move the needle at all on Valve's end.

Do they already have anything like this or are the little guys paying the ~30% I see being thrown around?
How exactly would that work for the general population ?
All cars built 2014 or later are Euro 6, which is the standard for diesel, after the earlier cars were caught cheating.

All cars built 2004 or later are Euro 4, which is the standard for petrol cars.

These are increasing strict emissions standards for maximum quantity of various pollutants.
Never ending austerity keeps people poor and shrinks markets.