skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Any student who is unable..." this is a sink or swim mentality that is just wrong imo and doesn't account for students' workload. Most everyone who started out had difficulty understanding software tools and the paradigm they operated in, and college students taking 4+ courses have 4x the material, not to mention the ramp up of 4x the tools to use, documentation to read, etc. If you're going to throw 40+ hours a week of course work, and then the responsibility of learning git, gdb, python, LaTex, fundamentals of the Linux terminal, etc without extra time or assistance, then most likely you're going to have a lot of pragmatic young people throw their hands up and say, "forget it, I'm gonna study business/physics/x engineering" instead
Higher level building blocks still need logic to assembled just the same. If they don't, they are just configuration. That's why in every one of these use cases of these "no-code" projects, they ended up hiring programmers to build it/keep it. And then the programmers spend the rest of their days cursing whoever built the system which ties their hands.
Isn't that kind of what agreements like the Paris accord are supposed to accomplish? Individual nations retain sovereignty and can set their own precise laws, but as long as everyone's above some baseline you can't arbitrage by moving the polluting part of your business to Asia or Africa.
I have bad news for you:

Switzerland is a close US ally. It is even a second-tier partner to the NSA as we know from the Snowden leaks:

https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2013/10/30/5270985d63fd3d7d778...

Geneva, the home of ProtonMail, is a major international spy hub thanks to the UN. Snowden was even working in Geneva for some time.
Yes, I know about Arel, and I’ve used it a few times to do hairy queries, but honestly it felt like swimming against the current and I wouldn’t recommend anyone write Arel queries by hand.
That is their 2015 10-K interesting to see that:

"New technologies could block online ads,
which would harm our Google business."

has been amended to

"New and existing technologies could affect
our ability to customize ads and/or could
block ads online, which would harm our
business."

So clearly Google now considers existing ad-blocking technology to be a threat to their business.

https://seekingalpha.com/filing/4328532
Congratulations on the release and thanks to core team and all contributors for their work!
Reddit did the same. I was a paid user of Alien Blue (no ads), then Reddit acquired it, killed it and now we have the new Reddit ad-rich app.
What a world you live in: human compassion is a labeled a crime, and your response is "that's fine".
Plus, if you're already spending >$1000 for winter tires/wheels, it's hard to justify TPMS on top of that.

And if you're paying that much for the added safety/performance, you're not the kind of person who needs TPMS to nag them into inflating to the proper pressure.
That would be more in line with drivers being independent contractors instead of employees.

But, based on the article, it sounds like getting banned from Uber will be a very rare occurrence.
totally believe the earth is getting warmer. never said otherwise.

weaponizing weather for political gain is disgusting and not scientific. skepticism is a fundamental pillar of science but the we are told to call them "deniers" to swing sentiment and get votes. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-...
It depends on the audience. Many businesses don't want to restrict themselves exclusively to the subset of UK banks that follow that initiative. And government intervention is hardly a pragmatic solution (how many companies can afford to lobby every government in which they'd like to do business?).
Man, if only there were an alternate app store or another way for people to get his app on their phone...
This is just another way of saying "Apple doesn't give a f*ck about indie developers." Might be true, but it's still shitty.
But then the routers would have more compute power than your server.
I wouldn't call it "thriving", there are probably lots of animals dying from radiation poisoning, having birth defects, etc all the time. On the other hand, being mostly undisturbed by people is certainly increasing their population.
>harboring, sheltering

Harboring someone who is actively breaking the law doesn't seem that controversial.

> leaving food and water

Littering and providing assistance to someone breaking the law.
it's not quite true - on latest macOS (10.14.5), on openssl based on LibreSSL 2.6.5 there's complete man page available - but, the funniest thing, it's dated on... today
I think it's just an ALPR system. The car is registered in my Dad's name and since his license is suspended, the machine in the cruiser tells the officer to stop the car.
Warren v. District of Columbia is a good example of that not always being the case.
The threshold for banning needs to be scrutinized for essential services. There's potential to really hurt people's quality of life, particularly people that are already disadvantaged. An arbitrary star rating scale with no clear definitions is definitely not appropriate.

Public transit doesn't ban you if you're loud or smelly. Private rideshare may. As rideshare takes over ridership from transit, mobility is removed from loud and smelly people.
I don't agree that you should restrict the number of people who are capable of attending college just because it overwhelms the market, but for the sake of argument, let's assume that this is the right thing to do.

Even then, the way to implement that restriction should not be done the way it is done now: a system that either requires rich parents or saddles new graduates with a lot of debt. I don't see how anyone can make the case that money should determine which kid can go to college or not.

As for progressive taxes: the article makes the case that higher progressive taxes result in the rich finding loopholes to avoid them, and that the whole society should contribute to the welfare state. That's fine: I'm not an expert on the subject and I'm very much willing to consider whatever option works best. The low level details are not nearly as important as the end result: one that gives young people to chance to study start their professional life without a debt millstone around their neck.

But I have no illusions that this will happen in my lifetime.
I tried very hard not to name a specific language so that the point is not cancelled by some lang war.
For values of serious work. Dedicated embedded devices may still run 32 bit CPUs. Much SOHO network kit has ridiculously small storage and memory (8 MB flash, 64 MB RAM), making memory-intensive operations, such as, say, deduplicating a 250,000 item spam and malware domains blocklist, challenging.

These also have awk, almost always via Busybox, though using OpenWRT other versions are installable.

BusyBox v1.28.4 () built-in shell (ash)

_______ ________ __
| |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_
| - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
|_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
-----------------------------------------------------
OpenWrt 18.06.2, r7676-cddd7b4c77
-----------------------------------------------------
root@modem:~# uname -a
Linux modem 4.9.152 #0 SMP Wed Jan 30 12:21:02 2019 mips GNU/Linux
root@modem:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 59136 38484 20652 1312 2520 13096
-/+ buffers/cache: 22868 36268
Swap: 0 0 0
root@modem:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 2560 2560 0 100% /rom
tmpfs 29568 1268 28300 4% /tmp
tmpfs 29568 44 29524 0% /tmp/root
tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock5 3520 1772 1748 50% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay 3520 1772 1748 50% /
root@modem:~# which awk
/usr/bin/awk
root@modem:~# ls -l `which awk`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 30 12:21 /usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/busybox
root@modem:~# opkg list | grep awk
gawk - 4.2.0-2 - GNU awk
root@modem:~#

... though in this case, adblock runs on a larger and more capable Turris Omnia (8 GB flash, 2 GB RAM). The hourly sort still shows up on system load average plots.
WHY should one pay any amount to Apple, to develop software? Apple artificially props up obstacles to development, and then "sells" tools to overcome them!

And WHY should Apple even review and approve apps that run on hardware YOU own!! When you buy a fridge, does the manufacturer review and approve your groceries?
'Mario Maker' Level Has Been Played 2.6M Times and Never Beaten
I found that sans-serif body face to be quite difficult to read; the letters seem too 'fat' or the kerning is slightly too wide, I cannot decide which.
Err arn't current moth-boards modular? I can put various things in PCIe slots.
Seriously Apple, you are still charging 99$ a year each developer that wants to publish on your store.

Is this how you support developers? Is this how you favorite competition? Is this what you call a developer experience at no additional cost?
Companies domiciled in the PRC also has to follow PRC's laws and regulations (whether they are compatible with our values is another question). Using the same ridiculous logic we've seen throughout this whole saga, we can also conclude that IEEE is "literally the US government".
Isn't the cost $99 per year per developer account, not $99 per year per app?
Seeking asylum at a port of entry is not a criminal act. Running across a border is not seeking asylum.
> Mercury is designed, first and foremost, to be an experience inclusive of people with limited executive function and cognitive load. People living with ASD, ADHD, and other neurological differences who are frequently overwhelmed by the flood of sensory information we have all come to expect in conventional operating systems.
> when the store responds to a block write, it's going to be stable.

That's the thing, you are communicating with your storage controller and these are just promises from your controller, not guarantees. Once you try to read the data back sometimes in the future there is no guarantee that you will succeed. A lot can happen between your controller reporting successful write and you retrieving the data: software bugs and false promises, hardware problems, operational problems, disasters, etc. There is a limit of how high of a probability of data retention a typical single server in a typical server room can achieve.
I find this surprising - I was a fan of BBcode, but Markdown ruined it for me !
You can develop iOS apps with React Native without an apple computer.
I fully agree; a neural network can be continuously trained. Software can continuously perform A/B testing and change its mind when its current procedure proves inefficient.

The human mind tends to be set in its ways.
14,000-year-old footprints record an underground Stone Age family outing
Teller does not use screen scraping. They reverse engineer each banks mobile APIs.
> would be groups of banks or local regulators trying to define common standards

Why 'would be' just out of interest?

AFAICT Open Banking is an organisation that has been given a mandate by the UK government, through the competition and marketing authority, and is funded by the nine largest retail banks. In the UK it is the defacto standard, and compliance of the CMA 9 is mandatory.

While there is so far no consistent standard across the EU, at least within the UK this one is set and pretty much non-negotiable.

(Disclaimer - I have consulted with Open Banking and continue to do so, but of course I do not speak on their behalf)

-- edit --

I'm particularly interested in this -

> Third-Party Providers or Aggregators (Plaid, Teller, Tink, SaltEdge, Bud...) - would essentially provide access to the accounts of multiple banks via APIs.

As AFAICT this would be explicitly disallowed unless all the users of said APIs are themselves accredited. You can't just get accredited for PSD2/OB API use, then expose that information to non-accredited entities. If this is what Plaid are doing then I wouldn't expect their accreditation to last all that long.
I'm slightly torn on models like this. On the one hand, the cost savings and potential to improve outcomes by scaling the impact of the best classes is obviously wildly important. At the same time, it does seem like there is hard to quantify value in the social aspects of a traditional school. As I write this, however, I realize that there are plenty of private and parochial schools where the class sizes are so small that you could probably replicate the social value pretty easily, since you wouldn't need too many students in the same place to do things like "class trips".
Welsh expansionism; the Welshmen need Lebensraum.

Joking aside, I also read the title as referring to Plaid Cymru and was very confused.
> Anything that is essential (to life) should be provided by the government. Food, housing, healthcare.

Agree entirely. I'll add transportation, education and utilities to that list. (K-8 + community college, train/subway transit, water+sewer service, electricity + phone + basic internet)

> Is there anything that should not be?

Everything non-essential to basic life? Hollywood motion pictures, video games, fasion-based apparel, toys, luxury furniture, hardware, collectable cards, privately-owned books, airplanes, etc.

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This isn't a crazy idea. All of the US has a "public option" for postal mail, delivered to nearly every citizen in the nation at effectively zero profit margin. FedEx and UPS can happily exist and be wildly profitable, but they can't go too evil with their pricing or availability, because people will just switch to USPS. It keeps these private companies from exploiting everyone too much.

Similarly, most of the US has a "public option" for water, which is provided by the government to every single person in the district (regardless of income), directly at their home and at zero profit margin. You can buy "luxury water" (Bottled Dasani, Nestle, 'Culligan Man', whatever), and those private companies can happily make massive profits all day long. But these companies can't exploit the market for water too badly, because there is always a public option to fall back on and opt-out with, when these companies inevitably become evil.

Nearly every part of our society that is currently broken, is that way because it's a required purchase critical to sustain basic living, and there's no reasonable way to opt-out.

If Hasbro goes evil and prices toys at $10k each, it's fine, because I can just choose not to buy them. I don't need toys to live. In this way, their greed can be kept somewhat in-check.

But if a hospital prices the ER room at $10k, I can't opt out, or I'll literally die. If local housing market charges $10k/day rent, I can't opt out or I'll immediately become homeless and unemployable and, effectively, dead. There is no "check" on these people's greed, because all humans are required to purchase these things, just to sustain their own life. So the price can just grow indefinitely, and none of us can really directly do anything about it.

This is why public services are so vital, why it's so critical that they exist and work well and grow.
The drop in altitude occurred because of MCAS activations retrimming the plane into a dive. MCAS is only active during flaps retracted flight regimes.

They couldn't redeploy the flaps to shutdown MCAS because

A) they didn't know it would work, and it was not documented in any standard procedure

B) the plane was travelling too fast for safe flap deployment

C)Flap deployment decreases the critical AoA of the wing, meaning that pilots would have to be extremely careful during the recovery, and may in fact not have been able to pull out fast enough even if they fixed the mistrim.

Also, remember that a plane flying straight at the ground is still making lift as it barrels toward the earth. Lift isn't something magic that guarantees the plane stays away from the ground. The force vector will happily accelerate you 90° relative to your lifting surface's velocity vector through the fluid.

If for whatever reason you decide that that vector should no longer be parallel to the surface... Well... That's on you.

Or in this case, a computer programmed with an insufficiently robust algorithm for safely doing what it was actually meant to do. As the flight computer had no way of understanding that what its AoA sensor was telling it could possibly be wrong, and therefore alerting the pilots that they were flying on their own now.

So while the pilots knew what they wanted, the computer, not being programmed with the possibility of being wrong in mind, did exactly as it was designed to do.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you kill 300 people without realizing that you're doing it.
I saw this via BBC Click, this weekend. There was a room full of IoT devices and they were showing how chatty they all were via wireshark. They specifically said floormaps had been found being sent back to servers in CN.
Include the Penrose source as a comment in the SVG, this can also be done with a PNG as well.

https://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/The_Metadata_in_PN...
The windscale reactors the UK used for Pu production were open cycle air cooled. Pull in air from the outside, run it through the core, and out via the chimney. One morning in 1957 operators coming to work noticed thick black smoke coming from the chimney and thought "this can't be good" (it wasn't).
Many places in the USA and elsewhere have NIMBY zoning policies that prevent new housing and / or dense housing from being developed, slow it down, make it significantly more expensive than it needs to be with 2:1 parking requirements, reduce property taxes for long term holders and so on.

This reduces new housing being developed in response to demand and thus increases the price when there is an increase in demand by an inordinate amount.

UBI will increase demand universally across the board in the form of cash for everyone, and inelastic supply constrained essential goods like housing will go up as a result.

This RE investment article explains it a bit more: https://www.nreionline.com/finance-amp-investment/why-supply...
Depends on your audience.

If you're marketing to tech savvy customers, probably won't matter much

Plenty of apps use .ly, .io and the like. No big deal

If the rest of your branding and marketing is good, probably not a decision to lose sleep over

But again depends on your audience
Right, online advertising sucks. Period.

There's already a solution to this problem though: subscriptions. The issue there is that people just don't want to pay for something that they're used to getting for free.

Your idea sounds like a service where people can request content on a given topic for a fee, without really knowing who's creating the content. What are the quality controls there? Who gets to write the content? How do I, the user, know that I'm getting a fair representation of what's going on?

If someone is willing to pay for news content, why not just buy a newspaper subscription and get the email newsletter from a company that knows how to create news content?

I'm just another internet rando, but I've worked for news organizations so I have some operational background here. Frankly, I just don't quite see the value in the service you're imagining, based on my interpretation. I'd have a really hard time trusting content written by a stranger catered specifically to my preferences if they weren't a bona fide journalist with experience at a reputable news organization. And I certainly wouldn't pay for it. Such a system would be super vulnerable to malicious influential behavior like we saw in the 2016 election.

If you hate online ads in your news so much, do you currently pay for any of your news right now? If not, then how painful is this problem for you?

We can't convince the public to spend on their news content the same way they spend on Netflix. That kinda sums it up right there.
> Which other viable store distributes iOS apps?

In which world is "iOS apps" an industry? The industry here is apps in general. In which case you have hundreds of other devices and tens of other stores, of which Apple is a minority player in both.

> The user should be able to control the product they bought, all the way down.

To what degree? Should the user be able to swap out the kernel code? Should they be able to switch out the phone CPU? Clearly the notion is ridiculous. To enable the user to customize this deeply requires implementing additional functionality to do so. It is not as simple as "not interfering."

> You don't have to enable anything, just don't actively interfere with it.

And in doing so, you compromise the security of your product. If I allowed my consumer to edit (compromise) my product arbitrarily, I can never make a secure product, and making a polished product becomes that much harder. Integrating against a generic interface always requires more work and thought than integrating against a known one.

> Apple prohibits you from doing that to begin with, which is half the problem.

This is why I phrased it as a thought experiment and not a reality. You are sidestepping the question.

> The one where it bears no relation to underlying costs and is that high only due to the lack of effective competition.

Just about zero storefronts have commissions that even remotely align with business costs. Walmart's 12-17% commission is far in excess of the operating costs. So is the Play Store's 30%, or Amazon's own commission.

> Platform monopolies are like regional monopolies. Android customers are not a substitute for iOS customers

How? Moving from Android to iOS or the other way is trivial. It is not nearly like moving from state to state. You either buy an iPhone with an App Store, or an Android phone with something else. There is no artificial lock-in besides your own wallet.

There is plenty of customer choice here.
For startups, take a look at "Salesforce Essentials", which is ~$25/mo and allows you to grow into the rest of Salesforce. https://www.salesforce.com/editions-pricing/sales-cloud/
seriously do the legwork and publish, then you won’t be a conspiracy theorist
No, to the contrary, the data we collect now would be used to verify that we are reading the carbon atoms correctly.
Plaid Cymru are unlikely to stir negative associations with anyone in Britain. They are no menace to democracy!
A big problem is solar installations aren't seen as equity items in homes through Texas and indeed the southeast US the same way they are on the west coast. I'm not sure why this paradigm exists though, considering these homes come with essentially free energy utility for the lifetime of the panels. You'd think that would be a major selling point, but it isn't.
End-to-end using server provided javascript code means that the code can be changed on the fly per user to enable lawful intercept. Plausible deniability only works if the client is encrypting the payload entirely independent of the provider. That would require the end user to be compelled directly and javascript would not be required.
I'm not sure I understand this reasoning.

Why should Apple or Google be responsible for promoting your app? If I walk into a supermarket and I don't see the item I wanted on their front feature displays (meaning I need to walk down the isle to find it), does that mean the supermarket is monopolistic? Does that mean the item vendor should stop selling their product in that supermarket?
The problem is that usually when a place decides to refuse service to a person, there is a single person making that decision who can be held accountable for it in the event an issue comes up with protected classes. What people “think the cliff will be” is irrelevant, the problem is lack of accountability. There is no way to show that they aren’t violating protected statuses, and there is no accountability if they are.
Why weren't independent butchers and bakers able to compete with supermarkets? I'm not sure, exactly. I suspect the answer has a lot to do with people having limited bandwidth for vendors in their life and that they derive a lot of value from being able to make one buying decision that covers as many of their needs as possible.