skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see some data on how much of Apples profits come directly from selling dongles.
Their hardware nowadays is probably designed to facilitate a certain amount of dongle sales.
They will mark-up the sale price of an intel cpu by 3 or 4 100%, but the markup on the dongles is even greater, 800 or 1000% it seems to be comparing the prices to similar cables.
I feel that with 5 kids special provisions and certain difficulty will be necessary no matter what. You would be moving around with all children a lot less in any case. But I don't see why it's impossible to go car free; specially considering some kids will be older than others (not 5 toddlers simultaneously).
The article provides no evidence that racism had anything to do with it. It links to a social history "study" which simply asserts it based on the existence of racism. It is disengenous to assume racism when there is no evidence of it being a causal factor.

Additionally, the implication in the comment I replied to was that the commentor must have hidden motivations, probably racist ones, for denying the influence of racism. That is a piece of obnoxious mind-reading that stifles reasonable dialogue.
Perhaps shoes that don't explode and planes that don't nose dive?
You don't get it. If we hit our children more, we can solve global warming. See?

Also, this is why you should be a patriot and subscribe to Science rather than Nature.
Kinetic energy is a hell of a thing. That squared term really adds up quick
I agree with the author that the public perception of science today is in a sorry state, but I don't think that a heightened reverence for authority (of any sort) is the way out.

We design our scientific curriculum based on the philosophy of Popper, who was all about the scientific method. We teach that there are rules which lead to progress. There are counterpoints to Popper that don't appear in the modern curriculum.

There was Lakatos, who said that scientific "progress" was more about regime change, and Feyerabend who thought that science was a fundamentally anarchic activity.

If there were a little more Feyerabend in our curriculum, and a little less Popper, I think we'd be in a much better state. It's a scary step to take--to admit that all facts are alternative facts--but once you take it you find you're faced with the same old problem, just without the authority: which facts to use? Well, that depends on theories are available for the combination and utilization of these facts, and as it turns out, the theories that the "authorities" champion happen to still be the better ones.

But we don't teach people to evaluate competing theories, we teach them to settle down and apply the right theories, because we have the authority to do so. It is that very attachment to authority that is undermining our ability to educate people about science.
A similar situation happened in 2002 during a time of Indian-Pakistani tensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Eastern_Mediterranean_eve...
>But I can't read the full text.

append the link to sci-hub.tw/

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21372...
XML is not popular because of JavaScript developers.

Coming from .NET, I do not care using JSON or XML, because the APIs System.Xml.Linq, Newtonsoft.Json and the upcoming System.Text.Json are a joy to use. I think the lack of good native representation of XML in JavaScript made it a unwanted choice.

Regards SOAP I tend to agree to you. Beyond the Basic profile it was a hassle to interop.
I welcome your take! And thanks for adding it here so people can contrast them.

One thing I think it’s important to remember is that Apple today isn’t the same small, quirky company it was in 2007 when the iPhone came out.

It’s now one of the largest companies on the planet with a global customer base of over a billion people in hundreds of countries. They need to run a different strategy and they need to have more product choice at different price points. I think they’re navigating it the best they can - and obviously no business is without mistakes. They will make mistakes (iPhone 5C) and that’s OK.

However, trying to pattern match Apple’s decisions from the 90s and comparing them to decisions today is just poor thinking imo. That’s what people in this thread (not you @tolmasky, I’m just on a tangent now) seem to be trying to do. The Ballmer comparisons are poor as well, imo.
Thomas Kuhn would disagree.
Kids are smarter than adults and AI at learning and problem solving
I have an iPad for reading. It works better with PDFs than Kindles since it's larger, and the pencil is great for highlighting and taking notes.
Ask your doctor about it instead of listening to a Facebook group.
EU is developing a vocabulary editor called VocBench [0]. UK is making something similar: registry-core [1]. Here in the Netherlands there an active group exchanging RDF user stories [2].

To get a good start with RDF etc, I recommend 'Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist' (second edition or later!) [3]. It explains how inferencing works by doing inferencing with SPARQL queries.

RDF is a powerful technology, but takes time to get acquainted with.

What I dislike is that there's not many libraries (that I know) for working with it. I started a Rust library (Rome) for working with Turtle files and would like to have time to make it into a SPARQL engine.

[0] http://vocbench.uniroma2.it/
[1] https://github.com/UKGovLD/registry-core
[2] http://www.pilod.nl/wiki/Platform_Linked_Data_Nederland
[3] http://workingontologist.org/
Well, honestly that's because a lot of employees in jobs like that do steal stuff ("a lot" meaning enough that it's noticed and is a problem).

Sure, everyone should have the presumption of innocence, but these things aren't just happening out of mean-spiritedness.
Yes, iOS.
People use shock collars(physical pain as punishment) on their dog all the time and there are large dog training companies built around this modality.
Also I'll tell you why sprawl exists: Sound. Whether that is a car driving by or a neighbor having a party. Some people just don't want to hear shit from you, ever. It is easier to justify making work far away from home at the expense of our kid's future air quality when in one case you hear chirping birds all day, in another you hear BUMP BUMP BUMP every 2 minutes. Sound is the number one cause of stress and people don't understand that - it's actually invisible and I wish it was taken into account more than anything on this planet.
You have to admit they were vastly different products, both in appearance and functionality. A random person could understand quite easily their differences without going deep in technical details: the classic was bulky, with lots of storage and the original interface; the touch had a touch screen, the nano was small and compact, while the shuffle had no display and no way to select music.

What really characterizes the two different iPad lines? Numbers and technical features. The Pros support USB-C, have different pens which do the same thing as the old ones, but are not compatible, plus a slew of other features that a total noob won't and does not want to understand. I don't see how this is not bad; it's arguable that Apple wouldn't have done this a decade ago, and that it's getting closer to the disastrous naming schemes used by companies such as Dell (and in some ways Apple itself in the nineties).
I did about a week ago. I wanted to get a 'share on myspace' widget for comedy value.

What I found disturbing was the login screen that had more than the usual cookie notice:

> I understand that if I choose to post or share any sensitive data (defined as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning my health, sex life, sexual orientation, or children’s data) on Myspace that Myspace will process that data in connection with making the Myspace services available to me and expressly consent to such processing.

I can understand them wanting to ban my far-right-wing-neo-capitalist ramblings about Brexit, my racist 'jokes' and my Heaven's Gate religious rants but 'trade union membership'? Is collective bargaining in the workplace forbidden already?

What I found even more disturbing was how I was one or two clicks away from getting a prostitute. I don't ever get that on the normal internet I know.

I clicked a few other profiles, seems there are marketing losers who didn't get the memo and that is about it within the several astronomical unit search radius.

There are also the 'stars' on there and you will see the same faces. Katelyn Ryan is like the new "Tom Anderson" but I have no idea if she is a bot or if she wants to have my babies. There is no way of finding meaningful information out for that 'connection'. So to 'connect' with a zombie on myspace you would have to Google them.

It is a very bizarre website. It is built by zombies for zombies. And to think there was a time when I could find people on my street and say 'hi' to them via myspace, for them to be real and communicative.

Why they don't just pull the plug I do not know. Presumably they prefer paying the bills. It is shocking to find such a soul destroying site when you think how much time and money has gone into it.

I think mySpace is worthy of study. Boring Facebook blue was what people wanted, design and redesign didn't keep them on mySpace. Adverts were another thing, by the time it had to pay the billions the likes of Murdoch had spent on it the adverts had to be laid on way too thick. We get told the failure was in allowing user generated themes but that was truly creative rather than selfie-narcissistic. People were engaged in something, not zoned out scrolling through empty lives.

I didn't get my myspace share button. Which is stupid. how hard can it be for a social media site to have a 'share on service x' button? I only wanted one for retro comedy value - the old Twitter 't' logo instead of the bird, the aol email address etc. - just needed that myspace link to complete the set.
> I remember reading "Das neue Universum"² in the early 80s where they proposed large skyscrapers connected by tubes. No cars in sight.

This reminds me of the pedway scheme they tried to do in London, even going so far as to require buildings in the city to prepare for these bridge walkways between buildings. Here's a nice little documentary about it: https://vimeo.com/80787092

For anyone interested in architecture visiting the city of London, I highly recommend a visit to the barbican as well.
what kinds of ways have you been applying TLA? I've been considering whether it's worth learning for practical purposes.
XMPP is different from Matrix.

On Matrix practically everyone is matrix.org. The other public servers I tried are relatively slow and suffer hickups when joining rooms.

On XMPP, many people run servers in their companies, projects, or homes. Which are the "top 3-4 XMPP servers"? I probably do not even know them.

But you are right: XMPP is used mainly for IM, i.e. one-to-one dialogues or smaller, non-public chatrooms. I'm not aware of any huge, public chatrooms in XMPP, and for that I'm on IRC — via a gateway from XMPP called biboumi.
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> We could have gotten MacBooks with touch-screen by now

I had a touchscreen laptop before and to me it was just incredibly useless. I am quite happy that Macbooks do _not_ have a touchscreen.

If I want that, I get an iPad Pro.
Moving requires a significant amount of effort, time, and money. It's not something I would do lightly.

Once the new LRT line is up and running I'll adapt to the differences. Yes, it will be worse than what's currently here, but adapting to it won't present nearly the same hardship that moving would.

It's the unknown time between the bus routes changing and the LRT line opening that I'm most concerned about. If this is just a three-month gap, I can deal with driving for that period. If, like other LRT projects, this three-month gap turns into a year and a half then I'll have to think about other options.

Hopefully the city will do a phased implementation where they implement the new bus routes but keep the express routes that are being replaced by the LRT until the LRT is ready. This seems like the obvious solution, but for some reason the city is keeping quiet on what they're doing for that interim period.
Nice clickbait, he is Jordan Peterson.
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> Measuring several metres in size, the space rock exploded 25.6km above the Earth's surface, with an impact energy of 173 kilotons.

What causes a meteor to explode 25km above the earth? Thermal expansion of internal gas?
I have a genetic/hereditary disability which has progressively deteriorated over my working career. I took the decision 10 years ago to quit my senior role at a FTSE100 and do a startup instead so that I had full control over my work load and work environment.

Fast forward to today, and I'm now only able to work for a few hours a week. The business I founded is mature, and largely manages without my input.

It's hugely frustrating not being able to do more. Given the limits I have on my output, and that I have no sensible idea of what the future holds, I almost exclusively do stuff that (a) really interests me and (b) is rewarding for me personally.

Inevitably a chronically ill person is likely to be/become depressed: I found anti-depressants really useful. I had no idea I was so depressed.

I've tried counseling, it's just not for me.

I'm actively engaged with the experts in my condition, and have gained an expert knowledge. No one else will do this for you. Neither will anyone else will take a holistic view in terms of your care.

I have a fantastically supportive SO and rarely stop to consider myself as disabled -- this is a doubled edged sword as it leads to boom and bust.

HTH in some way.
(Edit - formatting, clarity re startup)
I thought the race to suburbia was a deliberate attempt to spread out the population in case of Soviet nukes?

Though I guess there is likely more than one cause.
I'm sceptical but more than happy to be wrong. Fonts are surprisingly complicated software and my suspicion is that the market of people who casually want to make them is small.

If someone interested in learning how to make fonts asked me for advice, I'd recommend he invest his time in FOSS software rather than proprietary tools which can (and do) fold and disappear. I've worked through FontForge's Beginners' guide and I'd recommend it to people with even a minor interest in type. You'll learn a lot beyond how to use the software itself:

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html
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Food Aggregators Served Notices for Delivering Non-Vegetarian Food
My car makes noise
Oh, well, as long as it was sorcery. Burning those books is a completely normal thing for completely normal people to do.
The new pencil uses inductive charging (and magnets). Adding that to the mini and the non-Pro iPads would drive their prices up (assuming Apple would insist on maintaining the existing margins) when these are supposed to be more budget oriented models.
An alternative possibility is that spending most of your time in childhood indoors reading and using computers leads to myopia and later a career in computers. That makes more sense to me because by the time you are adult and have a job, your myopia probably isn't just developing.
Therein lies the difference. If I’m on my ass, I’m horizontal. I only lay on the couch. Never sit.
I do not understand the:

"don't customize your VIM, what if you have to use vi/vim on a server?" trope.

I submit that if you're having to log into individual servers enough to make those kinds of changes, you're already engaged in a systems management anti-pattern.

Code up some CM/automation to handle that.

You can probably write that code from your workstation, with your more customized Vim. :-)
Mobile telecom prices are just a pure licence to print money. The cost base (infrastructure and regulatory costs) is insignificant and the asking price maxed out - depending on the market.

Prices could be mitigated by competition but usualy we have oligopoly, by regulators (EU and roaming charges) or by taxation (licences to operate).

I always laugh when similar company with similar shareholders charge 15 times more in one country then in another.

Digi Malaysia extending prepaid for 1 year 68 ringit 15$, dtac Thailand 1$. Both owned by Telenor.
(Not knowledgable about formal proof systems here.)

Does it have something like a "test suite" or a "build status" constantly verifying that the various claimed implications and equivalences are valid, and/or that the translations into other languages are valid?
Large crypto funds: Facebook Coin is the “most bullish thing” for the market
On-call where the stakes are high
all of that sounds so scary. One corporation controlling what you watch, read and listen.
"The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Written by Albert Einstein
Is the scattering probability a function of flux density or simply of photon energy?

If of photon energy, then the device is clearly impossible -- you would need to use invisible (and harmful) gamma-rays for scattering.

If of energy density, it still may not be theoretically feasible. For instance, you cannot make monochromatic pulses arbitrarily short -- eventually they will become spread in frequency (more and more energy in higher and potentially harmful frequencies), such that the total dosage necessary to get the desired visible flux is too large. (some calculations would need to be made...)
Can't compete with that guys job title at the class reunion.
What is so controversial about this comment that it is down-voted several points? The whole thread is dominated by Slack apologists.
If you want anything approaching science when discussing food, serious eats is the place to go:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/01/ask-the-food-lab-the-tru...
> not sure why OpenTable believes they own this information.

Probably within the terms and conditions that no one reads.
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Tackling Bias in Machine Learning
I wrote a similar project many years ago: jParser. https://github.com/vjeux/jParser
Movies and TV. Cut the cable bill a decade ago. Got rid of the giant, heavy, expensive, fear-mongering TV. Now watch a small screen with a mount that is much closer.
I'm not sure, are you saying that cars promote diversity and prevent food deserts?

I find the opposite to be true. If there are lots of people walking, there will be lots of walkable services and businesses, so you tend to have a lot of choice.

Ownership of houses is usually diverse in dense walkable cities so it's really easy to just rent space at the ground floor to start a business. If you don't like it, move across the street.

Compare this to car cities. People drive their cars to malls. Malls are very much rent seeking. I've heard that they constantly increase rents of the shops so there would be churn - new shops to "keep it interesting" for the visitors.
Evidence for an Intermediate-Mass Milky Way from Gaia DR2
Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech's censorship expands
Yes, "passenger cars" and "light trucks" are different categories in the regulations, and have different formulas for their target fuel economy.
Labor cost is insignificant. More so the cost of building infrastructure - BTS towers.
This is just complete BS, drug tests are mostly required for mid-to-high paying jobs, not your typical low income job. I've never had to take a drug test for any of the sub $10/hour jobs I've worked, I've had to take a drug test for every single software job I've ever worked. In fact, I have an acquaintance who was talking about quitting weed the other day and how difficult is is. When I asked her what made her quit she said "I'm sick of making only $30,000 a year and any jobs that pay over $30,000 a year are going to require a drug test."

Having your work phone calls monitored is hardly something to get worked up about (you're using your phone for work...do you also get mad when your supervisors monitor your work in person?) and almost certainly not specific to low income employees.

CCTV is literally everywhere, nobody low income works in my building and everyone's monitored with CCTV. Big whoop.

Psychometric tests are very, very uncommon and not at all specific to low income employees, in fact, I'd argue the opposite (I mean... college is basically treated as a psychometric test)
Even with current airplanes, for most trips the hassle is all the stuff that involves getting on the plane in the first place. Once you are in your seat, you can either relax or by relatively productive with your laptop+in-flight wifi.
I totally agree. Prior to Christmas, my front door looks like an Amazon warehouse (we live far from all relatives, so all presents are purchased online). Next year we are just telling grandparents 1 present each. Instead each set of grandparents get each of my kids a few presents, and before you know it they each have 2 dozen presents.

As for timing, Christmas is an all day affair. They open presents as they want, we take breaks for breakfast and lunch. Seems to work well.
There are a few expected (or, better said, rumored) features that have been left out. Some of them will eventually come (views), some of them probably don't (like using the unicode symbol for sqrt). I was surprised when I saw in nsl a shift-reduce parser that took into account operator precedence, but it looks like it is not being used. I'd like to have lexical scoping too, but due to how function values work, I see it very unlikely.
State Codes Related to Wearing Masks
Facebook says service hindered by lack of local news
The Milky Way Contains the Mass of 1.5T Suns
Better (from a science perspective) and more recent article on the topic:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/01/ask-the-food-lab-the-tru...
And admins will update their deployments instantly? Because of monolithic core? Interesting...
That’s true, but the cell towers are probably going to be of a similiar cost in India vs US. Lower (because wages are lower) but similar because the actual equipment is going to be the same price.

PPP is only relevent for things that have different prices in different countries (housing, food, etc). There are many things that cost roughly the same wherever you are: oil, macbooks, cell towers, etc.

As a general rule, the easier something is to arbitrage, the less PPP matters. The cost of arbitrage includes transport costs, taxes, and depreciation schedules (vegetables would be cheaper in India vs US because they are hard to transport, for example).

Of course this is only relevent if the US companies aren’t making crazy margins (I don’t personally know, but I suspect it’s possible).
I just heard about the flooding yesterday. Sometimes I don’t get the news. I’ll see wall-to-wall coverage on some inane thing, but only learn about huge, destructive flooding from random people I follow on Twitter.

Maybe we’re just sleeping in the bed we made, but how do we get out of it?
There are also a lot of people who hit their dogs. Is this ok?
Art project in Sweden will pay someone to do nothing at Gothenburg train station
That is not what the encryption they are using is for, you are confusing end-to-end encryption with encryption at rest.

What they are most likely doing is encrypting their database transparently, so that if someone breaks in and just dump the database, nothing worth would have been stolen.

This is typical, and often required by different regulation bodies when you deal with personally identifiable information (PII).
Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016
I live in the country. I get mice in the house every winter. They can get in through the smallest crevice and they are attracted to the warmth.

Traps baited with peanut butter are effective. Mice are quite dumb.