skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In California, anti-tax zealots have made it nearly impossible to change water rates, so it is not possible to keep water rates low for most users and put the cost of maintenance and upgrades on the heavy users.

https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gn...

https://lbpost.com/news/city-settles-lawsuit-over-water-rate...

https://www.sdcwa.org/adoption-illegal-mwd-rates-forces-four...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Millionaires-sue...
Chinese knock offs for 100 usd should be available soon. Of course if you pay so much for the screen you probably don't mind the cost of the stand.
That workflow to me seems like more of a hack begging to be improved than a comfortable daily driver. I've never had a problem running mulitple instances of mutt, either - and I run multiple instances of aerc sometimes, actually - but since aerc has ownership over your emails and mail accounts it only makes sense to me that it would multiplex them for you.
Yes. And then they were prevented from going into computers. Else IBM would have never had a shot.
Walmart expands education program for workers ahead of controversial meeting
It seems every new C-like has Rust's expressive if/else and implicit returns. And why not? They're strict improvements on the syntax. Makes me wonder why they didn't become prevalent many years ago.
> I find it surprising how we have a functioning society with such underfinanced and overworked police, even in the well to do urban areas.

At the risk of being downvoted, I feel compelled to offer a foreigner's perspective here. As a foreigner who has lived in Bangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai for 2 to 6 months many times, I have to agree with the other commenter that I did not find a functioning society. Things I saw during my visits:

- Cops refusing to file a report after a theft.

- No medical or police help during accidents. It's up to the untrained passers-by to administer some form of first aid and take an injured person to medical care facility.

- Motorcycle riders driving on sidewalks.

- Cars driving on the wrong side of the road.

- Drivers not yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks.

- Tuk-tuks refusing rides in gross violation of government regulations.

- Damage and pilferage of public property in Indian Railways.

- Eunuchs extorting money from unsuspecting people in broad daylight.

Some of these things are not exceptions but the rule. This does not consititute a functioning society per my expectations and standard of living. This is a total breakdown of law, order, civility, decency, and courtesy in society.
Interesting. Thank you for the suggestion.

Just took a look at 3D Sure. My only concern would be the drop in conversions.

I wonder what the typical drop in conversions is with this enabled.

I have a sense it could be high single digits to low double-digits (e.g. 7-11%).

In which case, that would cost quite a bit more.

I did see there is a way to trigger this as needed.

Hmmm...If we could figure out a way to identify high risk individuals in advance, that might mitigate the drop in conversion.

Hmmm... Maybe a fun machine learning side project.
> I remember something about increasing the emacs memory limit before garbage collection kicks in, too.

That seems interesting, I'll look at that. If there's one thing I have, it is a lot of memory. I would be okay if my whole Maildir was mmapped, as long as that made gnus faster.
Some apps depend on location information and that can change when the app isn’t running (think alert system or apps that track stuff). But even for these, I don’t see why they can’t wake up and go back to sleep after 5 seconds, and leave all the heavy lifting to a server in the cloud that can send a notification if anything more serious is necessary.
Yes. At that time many Chinese students got green card by taking advantage of the 1989-6-4 (Today is a special day) massacre. There is a special term for those kind of green cards: blood cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act...

It turns out, after a decade, most of those blood card scholars have no problem to work for the communist party government at all, as long as they can get paid.
I don't believe this to be true, and I don't know where this comes from. Their documented GPLv3 reluctance predated code signing on their platforms by many years. FWIW, GPLv3 was controversial even amongst GPLv2 advocates for all sorts of reasons, never mind amongst actual lawyers. No conspiracy theories required, even if you disagree with their position. The Linux kernel and many other non-GNU projects never updated to GPLv3 and it had nothing to do with enforcing anyone's walled gardens.
Try using a bigger terminal emulator. There's a ticket to deal with too-small terminals more elegantly but it hasn't been done yet.
As the other person said, if your scripts are executables with an sh or bash 'shebang' at the top, they will continue to use the same shell they always did.

But if you did want to run them with zsh, most simple scripts that just set environment variables, string together commands, or redirect to files should work without any changes. The most obvious difference for basic scripts like that is that zsh doesn't split parameter-expansions on white space by default (so if you did something like `opts='-a -b -c'; mycmd $opts` it wouldn't work without additional, minor, modifications)
Source: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7486764?hl=en
What does this mean exactly? It is easy to say an electric car is more fuel efficient, the energy is expended somewhere else. Same with hydrogen fuel cells. I think the most likely thing that will happen is increased usage of the stored energy methods mentioned above, and smaller gasoline engines. It's not easy to just make an engine more fuel efficient. You think people haven't been trying to do this since the combustion engine was invented? Never mind that electric vehicles having smaller carbon footprints over their lifetime heavily depends on the electric power source (in some cases they produce more carbon). BTW, Japan has a great mass transit system that most people use so the actual carbon difference in the next 30 years from this law is highly suspect. I get it - we have to do something right? This is not the answer. We need something better.
>”However, it led to a computer systems crash.”

Reminds me of Bobby Tables
And the USS Maine definitely did sink in a Cuban port.
As a happy zsh user, I'm glad that this will finally force every application and software package in the world to stop assuming that bash is the default (and only) shell.
> yes, even China

Just going to leave this here [1]. That's at Peking University, top school in the country. Sure, if you're a foreigner, you'll probably be left alone, but your classmates are not allowed to be themselves, and that's part of your learning environment.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/if-i-disap...
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer; everything in this comment is my opinion and/or based on things that I have found on the internet or vaguely remembered from legal notices posted around my workplace. EDIT: Also this is only about things in the USA--I do not know how it works elsewhere.

Short answer: You can't go home early because if you don't put in the time your employer requires of you they can fire you!

Longer answer: The 40 hour work week is set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). All that the FLSA says is that depending on what kind of work you do, your employer may or may not be required to compensate you for overtime. Your employer is allowed to set your work hour requirements, but if you are considered "non-exempt" from the FLSA, then if you work more than 40 hours your employer is required to provide time-and-a-half compensation for the extra hours worked. Many positions in tech are, I think, generally "exempt" from the FLSA's overtime rule (software dev types, at least--I'm less sure about ops/IT services folks) and therefore employers are not required by law to compensate software developers for overtime.

The FLSA does not address whether or not an employer can require you to work more or less or exactly 40 hours per week; it's all about what obligations they take on if you are non-exempt and they do require you to work more than 40 hours per week.
Is this laser powerful enough to burn things?
Apple Pay, the market leader?

https://www.similartech.com/compare/apple-pay-vs-google-pay
I mean, I just checked and now the pin is 6 digits long, and there's a 10 second time out between attempts.

Your original comment implies there's some kind of fundamental flaw with GA that makes it useless, which apparently couldn't be further from the truth.

Even with a 4 digit pin it takes 5 seconds to change it if it's figured out, and if the child has enough time to brute force 10,000 possible combinations without you being able to intervene and rebuff that behavior, I'd say that's it's own problem.
Good point! That was a very fascinating read. I've never heard of Wardley Maps before. I really liked this quote:

> Most companies aren’t playing chess when it comes to strategy (despite what you read). At best, most are simply meme copying others or running on gut feel and highest paid person’s opinion.
I'm impressed you are willing to address a serious point deeply embedded in my downvoted comment.

You are correct - the market will match labor supply with demand. Note that this also cuts both ways - sometimes the market at the "top end" of labor is also constrained. Just because someone is highly skilled does not guarantee a high salary.
> was really the only possibility that IBM had while still holding to those earlier legal restrictions on bundling, tying, and license restriction.

How does that fit in with the IBM PS/2 design, which was carefully closed?
Actually no, Flutter doesn’t do the drawing. It’s done by Skia, much like Cocoa native controls are drawn by Quartz.

There isn’t much of a difference between Flutter controls and native controls, other than being a reimplementation in some cases.
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Google has been lobbying for at least a decade. These big companies didn’t “recently realize” anything. It’s just come to light now because there isn’t an administration in control now that is politically aligned with them.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review the site guidelines and not post like this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reddit style comment but I admit I laughed
At the same time, there are a fair amount of public examples of Chinese academics taking US research budgets and running with the results. Or intelligence agents posing as students and swiping everything from university systems. The Confucius Institutes seem similarly nefarious.

There needs to be a balance. Cutting out every Chinese academic is absurd and xenophobic, but more scrutiny is needed.

This issue isn't black and white; a more nuanced approach is required. To pretend that there isn't some merit to some of these ideas is just as absurd as saying that every academic is a spy.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/29/fbi-director-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-ch...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3007903/chi...
How Good Is “Good”?
I miss pine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_%28email_client%29
$2400 in 2006 is just over $3k in 2019. Not sure if that is consumer, more like a higher end iMac sans display.
Perl6 has a fallthrough keyword named `proceed`. It also has a keyword named `succeed` which is the default for `when` blocks.

given 1 {
when Int { say 'integer'; proceed }
if 0 ≤ $_ ≤ 9 { say 'digit'; succeed }
when 1 { say 'one'; proceed }
}

The above will print two lines `integer` and `digit`. It will not get a chance to run the second `when` block because of the `succeed` that gets run before it.

If you want the `given` block to return a value, `succeed` can be given a value.

my $result = do given $example {
when 1 { 'one' }
when 2 { succeed 'two' } # succeed is redundant here
if $_ == 3 { succeed 'three' } # acts like a `when` block and returns "three"
…
}

---

Perl6 is “supposed” to have a `goto` keyword, but nobody has implemented it. Mainly because of a lack of need.

One of the few good uses of `goto` in a higher level language is to have a portion of a function always run at the function exit.
Perl6 has `LEAVE`, `KEEP`, and `UNDO` which handles this nicely.

sub foo (){
my $fh = open 'example.txt', :r;
LEAVE $fh.close; # close $fh at scope exit

… # use the opened file handle
}

Technically it would probably be better to have the `.close` be conditional on whether the $fh was successfully opened.

sub foo (){
my $fh = open 'example.txt', :r;
LEAVE with $fh {.close}

without $fh {.throw}; # throw the error in `$fh`
# (This isn't necessary, as it will get thrown as soon as you use it.)

… # use the opened file handle
}
It smells a little like dart UI as code(flutterish may i say)
Hopefully they will understand that they’re hurting their own users. I use a MacBook Pro for a laptop but hackintosh for the desktop. If I start having to split my time between two oses (mac and Linux) then I may just switch completely to the latter.
Three kids, pretty sure each one had something related to the birth or pregnancy care end up in collections. We could pay it all no problem and the things that went to collections were usually tiny, medical billing's just completely fucked up.

You get low-hundreds (not an exaggeration) different documents, handed to you and via mail over the course of a year (9ish months + a few after, ends up close to a year), some of which are bills and some of which look like bills but say "this is not a bill" (so... why'd you send it?) and some of which are from your insurance referencing other things and blah blah blah, then you get a few that are clearly a screwup and you call the provider and they're all "LOL no your insurance got it it's fine, ignore that bill" (!?!?! seriously, dafuq, how many people just pay it and do you give them their money back unless they ask?) and of course one of those pieces of paper is gonna slip through the cracks.

Insurances companies get a lot of shit, but the whole medical billing complex is rotten, top to bottom.
A story about health care in Iceland
Google makes it obvious they make money from advertising. You are not forced to use google products. It’s going to be really hard to make an anti-consumer argument here when you’re essentially saying you want google’s product but don’t want to pay the advertising price.

That’s like saying McDonald’s is anti-consumer because they don’t let you buy a cheeseburger by singing a song.
Not with local backlight dimming it isn't. The contrast ratio is totally fake using that trick.
In one sense, China is only ~70 years old, and it was born in a horrific era that lead to yet more horrors. When a few generations live and die without hunger or war, it will be interesting to see if they are so willing to believe whatever the Chinese government wants them to believe.
Yah, CW is a joke. He has TrueCrypt partitions from, supposedly, Satoshi that have all of Statoshi's millions of bitcoins on it/them. He cannot (yet) decrypt any of these, but his claims of being Satoshi will be realized when he can decrypt. See?! I do have the private keys! Never mind it's 10 years later.

Just thinking about that is ridiculous. CW is worth $500m and some change and that's not enough..?

As for bcash, don't forget about Ver. While I get where he's coming from with having so much time and money invested in btc and such, along with wanting to have a 'cash' type coin, it's just not reality. Bcash has never stood on the solid foundation that btc has. It can't. I don't disagree with the btc people that the btc blockchain is too slow (as is) to handle massive transactions. And that being the case AND also the fact that is has not been hacked in over a decade, you just have to concede that it is what it is. It's the worlds oldest and most stable blockchain and the value is not in small transactions, but hodl.

So, SV is a fraud, bcash is welcome to try its hand at massive block sizes, but will ultimate, just be a side show.

I keep going back and forth between POW and POS/DPOS... Some chains to think about in regards to their governance, txn volume and throughput: Tron, Eos, and Eth, and IOTA. (I personally, think Eth is already v1 tech..). These are the guys I'm watching through 2020.
I hope they will introduce support for Conan/vcpkg C++ packages as well
I guess a 8-core Xeon W costs a cool $1K by itself, 10Gb networking isn’t tremendously expensive these days so it probably contributes $300 to the cost at MSRP. Still, $6K is too much, $4-5K would be less outrageous and still turn a healthy markup.
There are two big problems with 12 miles: 1) not far enough for economic zones [0] and 2) once you leave a country, you need a visa to return, which can be problematic.

[0] https://www.theadvocates.org/2019/05/couple-could-be-impriso...
It’s still a cartel from a market perspective. They are colluding to control supply.
Quantum Proof Encryption (BB84 Explained)
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>But .2% of the time it assembles a playlist of content finely tuned to the tastes of a pedophile.

I knew about this stuff since pokemon go in the summer and I mean in 2016 What I used to do is search on YouTube something like "pokemon go challenge" and then look at videos posted 1 hours ago or today and then see videos of with children. Then if you looked at their channel you'll sometimes find gold because kids are bored and record themselves and put it online.

I don't think much has been done they just stopped the comments with timestamps of poses
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I've been predicting this since iOS 11! So good to see it come to fruition.

Apple SSO :)
Oof, that's where defensive cycling is important. Whenever I come up to a spot where a car and a bike cannot fit side by side (with safe clearance), I take the lane.
Survey reveals startling facts about what young Japanese think about the country
That line stuck out to me as well, but I got to hand it to them the filter probably works great.
"Hey, the Building, hey! What makes the Building stay? The Antibuilding makes it stay! Hey!"

I reread this periodically and every time am blown away at the paranoiac weirdness of that one. It's a nice balance of the 'zany' Lem (Futurological Congress) and the 'serious' Lem.
> every province does have its own government with some degree of autonomy

That's not a federal system as generally understood.

Generally, the distinction between a federal system and a unitary state with somewhat-autonomous subdivisions is that in a federal system, the powers of the subnational entities are constitutionally entrenched, whereas in a unitary state, the autonomy of a subnational division is at the will of the national government.

The overwhelming majority of countries have some form of autonomous regional government, because it's impossible to run any sufficiently large country any other way, but the majority of countries are not federations.
Not directly relevant but: boy do I love Apples marketing. They put so much passion into conveying their products, its ridiculous. Its almost like their marketing boarders on small art projects and "how its made style docs." I know that's a weird thing to say, but I find them very creative and interesting to watch. Sure beats the average commercial.
That API lets you say "don't suspend me yet, give me some time to finish my work before I go to sleep", but it's tied directly to an active session; once the app suspends, it doesn't wake up again until the user revisits it.

The new background task API is "wake me up in the background at some point when the device is idle, so I can do some utility work, such as training my CoreML model with recent data".
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When I was fresh out of college (about 6 months), I interviewed for a teacher's assistant in the computer lab. The job only paid $12,500 a year. The school was in a low income area and had a high rate of student on student altercations (they never told me about any student on teacher altercations). I really wanted the job (this was 2007 btw) but didn't get it. I don't know who could stand to work for that little unless they were really loved teaching children or needed money.
A cynic might say that the very same SF elite desire more brown third-world immigrants in order to ensure that their pauperized underclass doesn't look like them. People don't like to be reminded of the downward mobility of people who look like themselves.
The monitor stand costs $1000 so it still seems like they would splurge a bit on the base built in drive.
> In Spain, custodial sentences of less than two years are suspended for first-time offenders.

No actual prison time. Being banned from social media for 5 years will probably have more impact in this case.
No worries. I am at least glad the product is still alive. Despite being a competitor, there is a lot to admire about the offering. I am really bummed it didn't come out ahead of other competitors :)