skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't breathe it. It probably won't kill you, but it won't be healthy, either. If anything, it would be like breathing the fumes from welding on galvanized steel.

Now - maybe you haven't done this; I'd suspect many haven't. Galvanized steel has a coating of zinc, which boils at a much lower temperature than steel melts at. So when you're welding on such steel, the smoke and fumes given off (which even when welding normally should be avoided) are particularly nasty:

https://www.bakersgas.com/weldmyworld/2011/12/03/side-effect...

A mild case of it basically feels like a very terrible cold/flu - but it can be deadly in great amounts. I'd suspect (but I'm not sure) that lithium fumes might cause similar symptoms.

And just for sake of completeness, because a lot of people aren't aware of it - if you weld, never, ever weld on anything that has been soaked with brake cleaner that contains tetrachloroethylene. It will release phosgene gas, which is deadly in small amounts:

https://www.brewracingframes.com/safety-alert-brake-cleaner-...

That's from a guy who survived such an accidental exposure - but he's now messed up for life. You can still buy this kind of brake cleaner in some states, but it's not for sale in others (I believe its banned from sale in California).

It's not so much that particular chemical, as it is the chlorine makeup of the chemical (the -chloro part); you could probably generate such gas by heating and vaporizing household bleach or pool chemicals that have chlorine in them, if you wanted to. But neither of those are likely to be used around steel and mechanical work like brake cleaner is.
It's not a "throwaway culture" that's the problem, that's blaming the victim. It's governments who shield business from dealing with externalities, and the fact that if you're not going to be responsible for the ultimate disposition of those plastics as a business, your only concern is for margin.

We don't have a nuclear waste problem because we have some cultural nuclear addiction, or chrome in the soil because we have a chrome addiction. What we have are weak governments where if their regulatory agencies weren't captured, they wouldn't exist at all; the only regulations that get passed are ones that force small operators out of the market, or allow massive companies to offload liability to subcontractors.

edit: How about stopping all of the sin taxes (which are done because they simultaneously bring in revenue and theoretically cut government health care costs), and introduce some environmental taxes. They'll get passed down to the consumer anyway, and they can make the choice with their wallet. Cutting sin taxes in proportion to environmental taxes would make it revenue neutral, but it certainly wouldn't be environmentally neutral.
Bit of a digression but check out qutebrowser, it uses a chromium derived library under the hood, it has a VIM like interface. And it's engine isn't massively insecurely out of date like uzbl and co.

However this has little to do with the discussion, I don't think qutebrowser does anything to stop fingerprinting and tracking like FireFox.
I trust the company who is under global regulatory scrutiny 24/7, and watched like hawks by every major news organization in the world for them to slip up.

If Protonmail fucks up, there's not going to be a NYT article about it.
It's loaded language; a cheap appeal to emotion rather than telling you all the facts and letting you draw your own conclusions about the story.
Obviously "learning" in itself is not dangerous, but the amount of time you spend learning instead of things that actually matter to you.
Taiwan is involved yes, but it's a joint venture between the government of Shanghai and a Taiwanese company. So certainly mainland China has the influence here.
Does it speed up development? Or slow it down because you are reviewing things you rarely need instead of doing useful work? Sure in the moment it speeds things up, but over time it slows things down since you spend time learning things you might not need again.
Protonmail's Android app still doesn't do threads.

Posting this just to embarrass them into fixing it.
Intel to Slash Desktop Processor Pricing Up to 15 Percent as Ryzen 3000 Nears
If ReactOS ever reaches the point where it can be used instead of Wine, I might as well just boot ReactOS and drop Linux completely.

I like Windows but I don't like the way it's heading. A perpetual XP/7 would be great.
Dell used to do next business day on-site tech visit as standard, and 4-hour for a relatively low surcharge on the purchase price.

That was a long time ago though.
> But, can't Wine just bundle any library dependencies itself?

Yes. Any volunteers? :)
You wouldn’t. But just because a prediction can’t be 100% accurate because of missing data doesn’t mean that the prediction isn’t useful.

Really, what they are likely comparing is the relative changes in parking lot occupancy over time. So it’s not necessary to have complete coverage of all parking lots. You just need enough coverage to make the prediction with a certain level of confidence.
Yes, for now.

Jio's rival Airtel owns satellite/cable tv platforms and even supplies wired internet in parts of major cities. No one with any ambition has really tried wired internet in India -- for a long time the only way to get it was via the government-run telecoms provider (who are -- surprise! -- not very good).

Jio's parent company produces a lot of movies in India and in Hollywood, including Arrival, Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell, Lincoln, etc. They know the value of a converged platform that serves data + video. And they don't have a satellite/cable tv network because the Jio vision was all-digital, all IP. And they have been building the backhaul to do this at scale across India (lots of planning applications are online) and are now slowly trialling Jio GigaFibre (a Gigabit Home Fibre service) in parts of India.

What I don't know is if they can turn these trials into a compellingly priced proposition Indians will pay for (and get rid of their cable tv subscriptions for -- and cable is very popular in India, even wired cable tv -- even in low-income neighbourhoods. So clearly India can solve the last-mile wiring problem if they want to). But they have been able to do it with 4G and I suspect they wouldn't trial a Gigabit fibre product if they didn't have a proposition in mind.

Incidentally if you're wondering: "won't 5G make wired internet redundant" -- India has lots of cell towers but also lots of people connecting to each of those towers. This means that often speeds during the daytime are pathetic. I personally used Jio and Airtel while visiting India recently in May, and even web pages had trouble loading (on both networks) in the afternoon^. I suspect the effective bandwidth available per subscriber in even small Indian cities (1M would be small in India) would be quite variable, and certainly small during busy periods.

Sorry if this is too much detail. I just find the ambition involved in bringing internet at scale to an entire country (especially one the size of India!) endlessly fascinating.

^ May is 'peak summer' in India, and the afternoon sees very few people on the roads and the bazaars are deserted as people rest or take a siesta. I suspect internet usage goes through the roof then.
Both Dell and Lenovo/IBM used to have (and still might for all I know) on-site warranty support provided by local licensed technicians.
U.S. Will Add AMD's China Joint Venture to Entity List, Cut Access to U.S. Tech
I think of (many branches of) knowledge as being like a web built on top of stakes stuck in the ground. Anki is really good at helping you stick those stakes in the ground, but it's still on you to build that web.

You can go either way; you can take a sort of vague, weak web you've already started building and use the stakes to fortify it. You can lay out a lot of stakes to help you build the web later. You can do any hybrid thing you want.

But either way, Anki may help you memorize things, but it doesn't really help you learn things. I think it's important to understand that when using Anki, so you don't accidentally convince yourself you're "learning" when you aren't. But it can greatly accelerate the learning, to the point that the memorization+learning time << learning time, depending on the circumstances.

(For human language learning, a common Anki task, I suggest an "all of the above" approach; some pre-made cards that probably are higher quality than what you can assemble yourself, some cards you make yourself based on your own learning and reading material, some raw vocabulary cards that doesn't much matter where they come from, non-Anki sources like textbooks, a little bit of everything. In most endeavors in life that's a recipe for diffusion of effort and a lot of wasted effort but it seems to me to be the way to go for human language. A single type of Anki card on its own may let you lay down a truly glorious set of stakes, but you still won't have "learned" much of anything.)
That's exactly how I still pronounce it. I still can't pronounce the Asian Ng
The question is what the chart would have looked like without the privacy scandals. By most accounts, Facebook usage among key younger demographics was already on the decline long before all the bad press started, so I feel like a significant chunk of this "actions while on site" decline is natural churn rather than privacy-triggered platform exits.
I'm going to say Apple no longer respects their customers. It's been a downward moving trend for the last several years. Keyboards, bad screens, batteries, etc.... They used to be able to charge the prices they did because A) it worked and B) was the best.... I can't say that anymore for them.
NYT had a really good article on it upon the death of her murderer in jail in 2016 (one of NY state's longest serving prisoners before he died): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/winston-moseley-...

That Witness movie sounds similar to this film which was good: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2704816/
His Army of Shadows is one of the most harrowing films I've ever seen, particularly a riveting, nail biting scene about prisoners waiting to get shot. Now I understand why he knew how to impart such tension about being in the resistance. This director is a true treasure of his time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows
They show a whole segment of street repaired this way.

But, as noted in the article, they didn't just fill holes with iron. They filled them with loose aggregate, and glued it all together and to the road by pouring iron over it.

Transporting molten iron by road (for some reason other than fixing the road) would have been even more silly then than it is now. How many molten-iron trucks have you encountered?
Those 5 - 10 business days will be 30 seconds and an aftermarket replacement battery if Apple loses enough of their fights against the emerging 'right to repair'.
Reliance (Jio's parent company) spent years laying down a fiber optic network in the country before they announced Jio. To get subscribers off their current plans they _had_ to provide extraordinarily low prices. When they first launched, they gave away about 4GB of 4G data per day for free for the first year to all new subscribers. This shook the market up so much that the congestion was in the process for procuring a Jio SIM as they were all sold out.

I think people on this thread are overstating the data quality problems. I don't live in India anymore but I still retain a Vodafone SIM card that I use when I travel back. On their 4G plan, I easily get 15Mbps, which is enough to stream full HD videos if you wanted to. 4K on the phone is not a requirement for most people as I don't know of any phones with full 4K displays in the market.

The market is actually doing very well, especially compared to North America (where I currently live).
Not a downvoter, but I'll have a go:

You might be a dev who isn't very familiar with Javascript, but you still need to fix it. Or you might be having an off day. Or you're writing a critical fix under a lot of pressure and simply forget about the issue. And I'll bet if this code was being reviewed, most devs would still overlook the issue.

There are many real world scenarios where it isn't so easy or clear cut. We're all human, and we make mistakes. In other fields, we try and reduce how easy it is to make these mistakes. Some things will always be dangerous like table saws. But a programming language?

Anyway, the "deal with it"/"get good" mentality just seems like a lack of empathy. Not to mention the arrogant in-group thing of "oh, you don't know <wart x> of my favourite but flawed language? you must not be a good dev". And the fact that fixing something like this could cumulatively save a huge amount of brainpower for current and future devs.
>A world in which nobody bothered to check whether a company was actually producing anything would turn the stock market into a collective guessing game.

This is kind of a thing in China.
Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors
Windows doesn't even support 16-bit applications (unless you use 32-bit Windows with NTVDM enabled).

There was another post on here a few months back about someone getting Win16 apps working on modern 64-bit Windows machines:

https://hackernoon.com/win3mu-part-1-why-im-writing-a-16-bit...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235259.
Well India has implemented ODF (Open Defecation Framework) where citizens can defecate on railway tracks, roadside or any empty lot openly. Millions of city dwellers are already availing these services.
Your post history tells me Vivaldi should really reconsider hiring 14 year olds to shill for them.
Are Apple using cylindrical cells or pouches? Cylindrical cells doesn't swell in the same way and have pressure cap before they crack the shell. Pouches probably has to swell abit before their cap pop.
Not to mention they are far too involved in politics, which tech companies should not be, at least not overtly.

I realize I'm likely in the minority here, but I grow weary of tech companies thinking they need to overtly champion causes, many of which I vociferously disagree with. If you make widgets, make them. Don't get involved in politics and then use your company to champion your beliefs, because this tends to alienate people.
Quite the contrary. The person making the original comment attributed it to his laziness, a far more personal comment than the reply which was "professional negligence".

It seems like you've gotten so far down the road of online "courtesy" and liberal non-confrontation that you don't know what's legitimate criticism and not a personal attack?
Protonmail is a fantastic service, I switched to an account with them in the last few years and have not logged into my gmail since. Can't say enough good things about their offerings. I'm glad to see them making arguments like these in public to out their competitors practices.
Panthers and typhoid aren't domesticated, fungus vats are.
This is exactly right. If you're upset about this then you should be upset that hedge funds can afford to hire smarter analysts than you, which is just silly.
Used this to run some Windows-only NES Classic / SNES Classic "hacking" program thingy (hakchi2? Something like that) to add more games to those two devices. Worked great. Wine was a no-go because the program itself did some stuff with (Windows) drivers when needed. VirtualBox. Worked great. I have a Win10 license and could have dug it out but this was easier.
I feel that shift would be a mistake and be conflating things that are not related. Teen suicide rates have to do with teens feeling terrible about life and killing themselves. The gun is just the messenger in this case. A belt and a tall closet works too.

I have lived in parts of the country where there are extremely high rates of gun ownership and 0 problems with gun shootings. Then there are areas with much less gun ownership and very high shooting rates. Those areas, to be blunt, are generally low-income PoC neighborhoods. The leadership at the country/state/city level won't admit they don't give a shit about poor brown people. They want to blame the troubles of the neighborhoods on firearms and take those away.

I have a theory that mass shootings are a similar situation, that there is a shift in the mental health of people that is causing them to want to go kill a bunch of people just to kill a bunch of people. It's currently fashionable in certain (typically) young white disillusioned male communities to go buy a gun and go kill a bunch of people. If there were no guns, would that problem disappear? Or would they just use the kinetic energy of 4000 lbs traveling at 25-60 mph to accomplish the same thing, like in Paris? I don't know.
HashiCorp Vault Is Overhyped, Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git Is Underrated
Isn't this true of every medium? When's the last time you went to a concert of a local musician, or a small theatre play, or bought a book that wasn't already a bestseller?

I work in the arts and I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of people I know who have been to a theatre to see something smaller than "Hamilton".

The internet is here so everything must scale. If you're not serving a billion people you're a failure.
>I'm sure there is some justification is for this beyond "we want you to buy a new one if something goes wrong", but I'm coming up blank.

"We want you to use our cloud storage for all data storage, and our cloud services for all application use."
It still doesn't make sense though. You buy a spatula, it breaks immediately, and you go out and buy the same one again? Nah, I don't think so. You buy a better one, or if you're poor, you buy one from a charity shop. Not many people will be repeat customers of stuff that breaks.
Good info; thank you. I'll check it out.
People unfortunately equivocate the idea of telemetry, and will compare the idea of a web browser sending version information with a web browser collecting actual web traffic. Both may be bad, but they're certainly different kinds of bad.

Do we have a thorough and detailed list of what information is possible in the default Firefox telemetry?
My $40 T-mobile postpaid plan has unlimited 4G/LTE data (non-throttled, but only 6GB can be used for tethering).
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I have had a MacBook Air Mid-2012 since... 2012. Last year I bought new batteries online myself for like 80-90$. Replacing them took like 15 minutes by following a webpage linked in the battery package; it was idiot proof.

The new batteries have like at least 20% more capacity than the old ones ever had, and almost a year later are still going strong.

Couldn't been happier.

This Macbook Air mid-2012 is the best laptop I've ever had. I've been wanting to upgrade to a new laptop but I haven't been able to find one that makes the upgrade worth it. Paying 2000$ for 30% better performance isn't really worth it for me.
Instead of thinking about code writing, think about code reading. Every organization has people who wrote buggy code, for a million reasons: they were distracted, they were hurried, they simply aren't that good (at either engineering or the language). Sometimes this stuff gets through review too, particularly in situations with deadlines.

But one of the safeguards here is that clean, intuitive code makes it possible for any engineer who's a little more thoughtful to catch little bugs like this. God knows I've done it dozens of times over the course of my career: while reading code for some other purpose, a block catches my eye as having something off about it, and I dig in and find a bug.

The problem with unintuitiveness,especially when it's baked into the language, is that you don't scrutinize every line of code you encounter with your full brain and attention. Without going on the hunt for "map and Javascript in general are horribly designed, parseInt has a rarely-used second param, root out likely bad uses", my brain on another task would skim right over a map-parseInt call like the above. It reads as if it's correct, and in any sane language it would be.
Librem 5 running a web browser [video]
Utility Functions and Immigration
Flights are cheap because airlines cram hundreds of people into a huge plane. That's the only way jet travel is economical; small jets are incredibly expensive to operate by comparison. The entire need for security arises from the fact that you are being put in a massive plane with hundreds of other people. If you make light aircraft travel economical, you get rid of the need for security as well.
@Keufran, I didn't see your email in your profile. If you email me at my work email in my profile, I'd be happy to put you in touch with our UX team directly.
Honestly, I'm not particularly impressed. There are a lot of other trading edges that could be found for a lot less hassle and money, but I guess that's also the beautiful thing about the market - more ways to skin a cat than anyone can imagine, and it's also not a zero sum game.
Regarding the direct listing, I wouldn't view that as a negative - sounds like they had no need to raise additional capital, but wanted to provide liquidity to their investors and employees.

They've raised a _lot_ privately, and some of those rounds IIRC were described as just "opportunistic" by the founder - i.e., raise money while it's cheap. Also given that they have a VC arm it sounds like they have more capital than they can actually deploy in their core business.
It can't, nor should it.

Why is it the drivers' responsibility to subsidize a corporate entity's existence?

How much of themselves should they give to prop up an unsustainable business model?

The money flows up, not down. When Uber eventually collapses, the CEO will fuck off with his golden parachute and all anyone else will have to show for their work is a heavily-depreciated Kia.
Well, it depends on how far the progression got. The waste products we are covering the earth with will be around for a long time...
Will these be banned from planes? (similar to samsung note)
The reason your free weather app asks for your location data isn't for "local weather forecasts". Well, it is, but that's a cost for them. The income comes from keeping that location tracking on all the time and selling which stores and dentists you go to. Someone can link the NYT story from a few months ago when this came to mainstream attention.

Hedge funds also fly cesnas over refinery fields to look at the levels of those big tanks you see off the highway... most of them have roofs that move up or down with capacity, and those that don't you look at with an infrared camera to look at relative temperature differences.
Since you asked, I have read the code (quite a while ago).

The telemetry bits can be disabled easily. A new firefox installation (or rather, a new firefox profile) will open in a tab: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ . That website has a button under the "Improve performance and stability for users everywhere" section that will bring you directly to the section of the preferences where you can disable telemetry and crash reports and such.

Did you read the privacy page?

PS: Firefox used to pop up a small notification bar at the bottom on fresh profiles instead of that privacy pge that asked you to allow telemetry data sharing. That seems to be gone now. The previous solution was more obvious about the stuff but also worse UI/UX. The privacy page could and should be improved to make the preferences button more visible or at least not-hidden in a collapsed section by default.
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You overestimate the average user :/