skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real damning thing is:
> When Bell customers sign up in advance for unlimited Canada-U.S. texting, they pay only $12 a month.

which I think shows charging $2k for a few weeks worth of texts is pretty unconscionable
I'm confused about the return policy, on the glossy ordering web site it say 7 days / 1000 miles, but on the T&C page it says 3 days / 500 miles.

It's an interesting policy regardless. In sounds like it's pretty much 'no questions asked'. Any experiences with this?
Not sure about any apps that take advantage of that yet

All iOS apps essentially do, if they store things in the keychain or even the filesystem.
Some of these are ambiguous without the function signature. calc? hypot?
I disagree that this is a problem with giant corporations. I think the problem lies in the public that demands blood on everything. There is no solution to the problem that youtube is being asked to solve other than simply banning all videos with kids in them.
You haven't refuted my argument that super low-friction reach is valuable enough to preserve.

I have pretty decent karma in HN and there are much better filtering mechanisms in this community to remove bad actors and posts than there are on youtube. That's the context of my post that, while hidden, is nonetheless present in this community. There is no community for many youtube comments - its driveby comments that get free reach.
How do they control for overfishing? It is certainly concerning that fish population is in decline, but it doesn't seem clear that water temperature is the only or primary cause.
California mandated solar on all new homes so this number should jump up. Whatever happened with Solar City's solar roof?
Sorry, your phrasing seems to imply it isn’t, or am I misunderstanding you?
The rumor mill says the Model Y will start at 35-40k.
> A lot of young people think that the people who wrote software 30 years ago were just plain stupid and all wrote crappy code.

Stupid, no. Crappy code, yes. Part of the reason people wrote crappy code then is because programming techniques and best practices have come a long way. The other part is most people writing code then were inexperienced coders.

Of course, plenty of crappy code (most?) is written today, mostly because of inexperienced coders. It's not because they're stupid. After all, who would make a 20 year old a general?
Also, personally, Youtube should not show ANY ads on kids content.
This seems like a ham-fisted solution does it not? Channels like ChadTronic play on the nostalgia of being a kid back in the '80s and '90s, yet AFAIK has been unable to enable comments on any of his videos. The weird, funny comments are a big part of the experience in those kinds of videos. Some tropes of the show itself have been built around the comment section.

Would it make more sense to instead target the patterns used by predatory commentators rather than shutting down the system completely? This is Google, the company of bringing meaning out of arbitrary data, is it not possible to build social graphs of what people like, scour, and activate these time codes? Couldn't you restrict the features that enforce those patterns?

Lastly, does forcing these comments off negatively impact the rankings of these creators? Comments have traditionally played into the engagement of any said video and had an (understood) impact on how a video ranks on release. Are these channels now just permanently stunted in their future growth?
The debate isn't whether we can do any sort of "good" censoring, but whether we should do any censoring at all. (Just to be clear, I'm narrowing the scope under discussion to ideas. Of course things like child pornography should be censored due to the direct harm.) I reject the idea that society should welcome some authority having control over ideas such that ones deemed "bad" enough by a large enough majority should be actively suppressed. The "good" we presume can be done by shielding people from bad ideas does not outweigh the fundamental right of expression and communication.
1) Why can't the cellphone connect to a bank? Or ANY central database?

2) How exactly is it a good idea to have your wallet on a cellphone?

As for homeless & Bitcoin ATMs. Yes:
3) That's how I'd launder money too. Pay off a homeless person to go to a bitcoin ATM.
4) That's how I'd conduct drug deals too if I were homeless and in the drug trade as buyer or seller.

You can't just say "homeless people use bitcoin ATMs therefore bitcoin is good for homeless people".

(no, I'm not saying homeless = drug related, and you know I'm not)
Sounds like Apple sent a warning, presumably giving people time to delete accounts.
Monopoly status in a captive market to make a certain number of individuals very rich at the expense of employees who are outsourced to third world countries and the public which pays obscene amount of money for a product that costs literally less than a penny per unit/message to produce. This sort of capitalism rustles my jimmies.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I recommend submitting this to: https://darkpatterns.org/

This is shameful and should be called out. Price is not the same thing as cost of ownership.
Est. 6-year gas savings = - $4,300

This is terribly misleading to include as a discount in "price after est savings"
They are referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19275305
Lol, they can do anything through software updates.
This is basically the same as Genius' old mission to annotate the web.

Except it's Gab.
"I only accept bitcoin" is the biggest fraud marker there is, though. :-P

What I mean is that this is a non-solution to that problem.
My experiences with other cars are the opposite. I've seen a lot of advertised prices that are not really what they want to charge you when you make it to the store to purchase.
When you're focused on immediate problems that are right under your nose, you tend to produce solutions that are band aid solutions.

When you're more farsighted, you tend to look at the root cause of problems and try to find solutions that cure problems once and for all.

They do tend to take longer to come about, for sure. But which approach produces the most utility is very hard to prove. Is it better to equip people with mosquito nets, or to create better malaria vaccines?

We probably need both approaches in the end, but only having the immediate problem approach is guaranteed to lead to local maxima.
But this is a completely separate point from the topic itself. The content curation of your kids is up to you as the parent. Don't let them watch videos like that if you don't want them to watch them.
Seems interesting, but I got paywalled. :(
I've often wondered why there aren't laws against predatory pricing.

Things like unknowingly racking up $2,000 in cell phone charges, or $3,000 in overdraft charges of $50 each for 60 different tiny transactions when you had no idea you were over the limit.

I get that it would be hard to craft a law that worked effectively in all cases, but something as simple as for any recurring billing relationship with a consumer, any time a period's accrued billing reaches double their previous period, the consumer cannot be on the hook for additional charges unless the account holder (not user) authorizes them up to a new amount? (And for the first period, whenever it goes over, say, an average national user's spending.)

It would be up to the utility to suspend service temporarily in the meantime or not... but you could never be stuck with a surprise horrible bill because you didn't understand your iPhone was sucking up data in another country without you realizing.

I've actually used a monthly automatic pre-paid SIM card on my iPhone for years (in NYC), because it's cheaper and I know it's impossible to accrue surprise charges.
In the apartment I live in now in Hawaii, the utility closet has the AC unit mounted right above the water heater.

They are not connected at all. And this is in a building that is about ten years old.

I have no words, it's so fucking stupid.
Honestly it's hard for me to feel very sympathetic to either side here.

If the unlimited CA->USA texting is $12, the phone company should ask them to sign up for it, and charge them $100 penalty and be done with it.

But on the other hand why aren't the parents keeping an eye on what their daughter's doing with her phone?
Lack of parameterisation of exception signature is not the reason why checked exceptions are a bad idea, though. Failure is a function of implementation details; runtime errors are fundamentally an abstraction violation. There's no escape.
The world's greatest art thief
I live in Minneapolis and see Teslas all the time. The AWD Model 3 is priced similarly to an AWD 3-series or A4, both of which I also see constantly. It's frustrating that Tesla tries to position the Model 3 as an inexpensive car when it's really situated as an entry-level luxury sedan, but the price and features are appropriate for the segment it's in.
Smarter on what dimension? Loans charge interest so will always be more expensive in the long run. If you're talking about the opportunity cost of "well what if I invested that cash in the stock market and made higher returns than my loan interest", I would mention that the banks obviously know about this (that's what they do with _their_ money) and it's a factor in how they set interest rates.
I wonder why Youtube has this problem, and not say Instagram?
I want a stackable battery pack(50 lbs) where I can add more batteries if I know I'm going on a long trip. Otherwise, they can stay at home and be a UPS.
It always makes it a good day when I get a note like yours. Glad it helped.
Founded a startup, worked for 1 year 10-14 hours per day, incluing 5-6 hours saturdays and sundays. After 12 months, I started to wake up dizzy in the morning, and having spontaneous nausea during the day. General feeling of wanting to die all the time. We decided to shut down the start-up (unrelated to burnout), and the disappointment made me to develop an "allergy" to working. My brain would stop functioning in front of my computer (very weird). I had to stop for a while, wind down hours, and it took me A WHOLE YEAR to get back to feeling good again and being at full performance again. Had to go back to doing sports, some meditation and deep spiritual introspection. I must add: I believe burnout has more to do with stress and nervousness and being pessimistic about the outcome than the sheer amount of hours. If you are super excited and happy with what you are doing, it's less likely you'll burnout.
Most likely yes, which doesn't matter, because Graal will eventually optimize bounds check away anyway, as it does for regular Java code.

The links that I provided go into detail about all of this.
Boys do better on tests?
Cool! That is a great offer. If you watch my progress SITREPs at [0] you'll get a feel for when it might ready. I'm behind on the SITREP updates but I'm in fact just debugging macro expansion (step 8) at the moment.

[0] https://www.non-kinetic-effects.co.uk/blog/2019/01/21/MAL-2
Because bitcoin.

The killer feature for bitcoin is buying drugs. It's essentially all it is for. That and tax evasion and speculation.
They aren't going to be any more damaged than the previous generations. Why? Because none of this is new. This kind of manipulation happened and happens all the time in all spheres of life. How do you think religion spread?
I don't use pass-otp but I do keep the private GPG key for `pass` in my yubikey and use touch-to-whatever, so whenever I get a password out of it I have to tap my yubikey.

The magic incantation to get the latter set up is something like `ykman openpgp touch aut on` (though I can't recall if it's `aut` or `sig` or `enc`).
Yeah, budgets are, in part, motivating the push for open access journals. But I don't think university-wide budgets are the most relevant ones to consider.

If you look more closely at university _library_ budgets, you'll usually see that journal/e-journal/database subscriptions have been eating up bigger and bigger chunks of the pie. The ever-increasing price of a subscription to ScienceDirect.com is directly taking away money from buying monographs (books), maintaining archives and special collections, and keeping university libraries open late at night for students to study.
I've downvoted this because it's clearly taking the piss, recontedtualising a comment for gainsaying. No part of the content reinforces nor advances the main thrust of your argument that I can see.
Yeah, that's really bad. I also think they shouldn't make you click to check each model to see what the range is. I should, at a glance, know that it's the $43,000 "long range" model that has as much range as my Toyota.
The point being that there was anticipation of something bigger, not finally following through on what was promised previously.
What's so bad about being exposed to the public id that you'd be willing to even loose a sliver of free speech to prevent it? You're already being exposed to the public id every moment, awake or asleep, because part of it is you.
I did the loan option. The Tesla associates were very, very busy and were incredibly bad about answering any questions about the loan. It was the only negative part about the buying process. I went to pick up the car (3 hours away) and they were still changing around my loan details when I arrived.

Negative part of their loan: they refused to cover the tax with the loan, which has not been my experience through any other car purchase. This means you must cover the down payment plus full tax amount when you pick up. They never told me that until the night before I went to pick it up.

If I had to do it again, I would have got a loan through a credit union.
Travis, why does your link url include your name? Is it for tracking or fun or what?
> The company says it is shifting all sales worldwide to online only, so you’ll no longer be able to buy a car in one of the company’s stores. By moving all sales online, Tesla says it will be able to lower the price of its cars by 6 percent, which is how it was able to finally get to the $35,000 price point.

> As a result of this change Tesla says it will be “winding down many of our stores.”

Buried lede here
Bolo was such a great game. One of the first I ever played multi-player in real time. Over Appletalk!

I remember downloading maps and whatnot for it over Gopher, with my 1200 baud modem. Good times.
Great recommendation, thanks
LibreTaxi – Uber PoC That Works
More than a year ago LibreTaxi was at the top of Hacker News. It was pretty raw, laggy, and lacking some nice features. But over this time it was improved, there are tens of thousands users worldwide, app was translated into 20+ languages.

It's still in its infant stage, but there are passengers and drivers in some areas. It was officially banned in Philippines after getting some traction.

Not too much traction in U.S., but I was able to find a ride back home from work in San Francisco. AMA.
Check out DTube (https://d.tube/) - it's effectively a decentralized YouTube built on IPFS. It's built on Steem to incentivize video uploading/engagement (https://about.d.tube/)
Unconscionable contracts are void.
If you make a wristwatch out of meat and post a howto video about it on HN, you will be front page within an hour.

If you make a parachute for divers that uses thermal currents to lift them up at the correct rate for avoiding the bends, then you’ll help them focus on underwater photography rather that dying, to their benefit.

If you build a doorstop out of iPhones, you might not get a front page, unless you do something more interesting.

You’re thinking along the right lines! Keep it up.
"To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capability will soon be extended worldwide. We are also making it much easier to try out and return a Tesla, so that a test drive prior to purchase isn’t needed. You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free. With the highest consumer satisfaction score of any car on the road, we are confident you will want to keep your Model 3.

Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores,"

Bold
Is there a generic Git client like gitk or qgit that I can just point to a remote Git URL, like so: `git-client https://github.com/user/repo`?
And do you consider that you turned out in some particularly bad way?
blog post: https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now

The interesting part is "Shifting all sales online, combined with other ongoing cost efficiencies, will enable us to lower all vehicle prices by about 6% on average, allowing us to achieve the $35,000 Model 3 price point earlier than we expected. Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores, with a small number of stores in high-traffic locations remaining as galleries, showcases and Tesla information centers."
Because thorium reactors don't produce weapons-grade plutonium.
I think you need to say what you are watching to qualify your comment about the comments.

The more intellectual the content the more intellectual the comments. If you do a lot of your learning of code and development things on Youtube and watch conference talks online (rather than attend) then you are not going to find drivel in the comments.

Same with music, if you go through the back catalogue of your youth and find that record that only sold 5000 copies the first time around then the comments are going to be overwhelmingly positive.

Youtube doesn't recommend me any of these videos with meme grade comments or whatever these kiddo videos are that now can't have comments in them. I think I am watching different stuff to most people here who have a lot of hate for Youtube comments or maybe I am just not that sensitive.

To think there used to be a time when the BBC had a complete roster of paedophiles presenting all their music and TV shows and nobody noticed. The UK's most prolific paedophile worked for them for decades. How the pendulum of stranger-danger swings!
I didn't say that ideas need to be 'approved'. I challenged the idea that the ability to reach a worldwide audience should be free and available to anybody, regardless of content therein.

Filtering mechanisms exist in all forums, online and offline. Some suck, like certain sub-communities in youtube. The discussion should be about what filters we employ to best balance the positive value of conversation against the negative.
Monitoring who I was texting would've been a huge breach of trust when I was a kid.
#!/bin/sh
# expects keyboard shortcut to be super+2
twof=`oathtool --totp mysecret`
xset r off
xdotool keyup --window 0 2 type --clearmodifiers --window 0 "$twof"
xset r on
sleep 0.3 && xdotool key 'Super' &

Shhh... (By the way real 2FA devices like yubikeys are great...)
I try not to consider things in terms of absolutes, so to answer your direct question: yes, I am pretty comfortable believing the vast majority of such links would be substantially factual.

Google already does this, I don't see the issue with it hypothetically happening on YouTube. If you search for a well-known person, place or thing, you'll be presented with information aggregated from trustworthy sources. Can they be wrong? Sure, and it happens. It's not sinister.

It sounds like you're envisioning someone manually tagging things. That would be odd and suboptimal. Instead, just tag helpful Wikipedia pages about the broad scientific consensus of things on relevant videos.
Read it in context, it's a reply to the last argument int he previous comment which is a general one.
Link to the website: https://libretaxi.org
> The “thread safe by default” property sounds interesting; I’d be interested in reading more about that.

This property is simply a corollary to Rust's ownership invariants enforced by the borrow checker. There can only be a single live mutable reference to any object, therefore two threads can never hold mutable references to the same object simultaneously. Similarly, all objects must have a lifetime at least as long as the objects which reference them. Therefore no thread can ever hold a stale reference (mutable or immutable) to an object. If code passes Rust's borrow checker it must necessarily be thread-safe.

The borrow checker doesn't need any special knowledge of threading, though AFAIU there are traits that permit the compiler to check that you're using the correct boxing type when passing objects to threads. Objects which implement these and other traits are responsible for maintaining ownership invariants using unsafe code.

TL;DR: Threads cannot share mutable references because no code can share mutable references in Rust. It follows that any Rust code is thread-safe, ignoring bugs within or induced by unsafe code.

This is also the normative approach to writing "thread-safe" code in Unix programming more generally. Most libraries that grew from the Unix culture are only written to be re-entrant--they never hold references to objects shared outside their encapsulation or execution scope. Therefore most such libraries claim thread-safety provided that callers maintain the same re-entrancy invariants for library-defined objects. Without needing to use mutexes such code is thread-safe, you just don't normally get compiler verification. Contrast that with Windows programming or, especially, Java, where the expectation is that objects are shareable and guarantee thread-safety internally. Depending on which programming culture you grew up in, Rust's thread-safety is either obvious ("oh, it's just enforcing re-entrant-safe APIs") or magical ("how does it insert locks in all the right places?").

Caveat lector: I've never written any Rust code.
Thanks for sharing! We think more about capturing reference feedback outside of the active job-seeking context.
Google App Engine SSL Subdomain Bug
Has anyone encountered this? It's gotten pretty annoying to the point where I can't add anymore domains yet can't find anyone that can replicate this as well as I have to fix this issue.

My second bounty on this question but no luck so far.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53135234/google-app-engine-ssl-dns-records-could-not-be-found
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but iirc, they make a projection based on how many are caught each year.
Thanks Posibyte! Here's a sample section about how to compile jq to WebAssembly: http://levelupwasm.com/sample-jq.pdf. But note that it's from Chapter 7, so some of the HTML portions might not make complete sense without reading the previous chapters, but hope it gives you a sense of the writing style!

Also, here's the table of contents in case it helps: http://www.levelupwasm.com/toc.pdf
India and Pakistan are like two chimpanzees hurling turds at each other in a cage of a zoo. Really cute. I wonder if it's ever going to end, though.
Yes! Here's the table of contents: http://www.levelupwasm.com/toc.pdf

And for a sample of the writing, here's the section on compiling the CLI tool jq to WebAssembly: http://levelupwasm.com/sample-jq.pdf (though note that it builds on previous material so it doesn't re-explain everything)

Edit: Also, if you're curious about using WebAssembly in genomics, check out https://github.com/robertaboukhalil/aioli/ and https://github.com/robertaboukhalil/fastq.bio, a tool to get a preview of DNA sequencing quality that uses WebAssembly to speed up the analysis portions.
I am going to start advertising all my products as free, with a hidden qualifier that it's only free in the sense that you won't be purchasing something of equal or higher cost and so you're effectively saving money.
> What's so bad about being exposed to the public id

I dunno, wake up and look outside.