skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extremely awesome that JavaScript has conditioned a ton of the world's programmers to think that needing to compose your function with the identity function to achieve the desired result is not surprising or bad.

I will not be convinced that an implementation of map that gives different results when there are identity functions in the middle is doing the right thing.
Why not? Won’t the laggards go bankrupt and then get recapitalized without their existing debts, making them competitive again?

That’s how it works in the west. At least it’s how we got great non-last-mile connectivity.
The Kitty Genovese story is a myth? I've never heard that -- I'd love to see an article or something about this!
I do (rarely) take Uber or Lyft instead of renting a car these days on occasions where I'd just prefer not to deal with renting a car and the prices are roughly in the same ballpark. If the deltas were bigger in favor of rental (incl. parking, gas, etc.) I'd probably go back to renting more.

That said, at least for my travel, I mostly rent when I want the flexibility of renting a car or Uber/Lyft just isn't practical, not based on which is cheapest. And I take ride-share/cabs/private car when rental is inconvenient and doesn't buy me anything. (e.g. just going from airport into a city).
I know people who have taken photos of protected documents with their phones to send to their team, because IT couldn’t get their permissions working properly. It seems like it’s not worth the risk to break an obvious rule like that, but when you’re the manager the responsibility lands on you to get your team the info they need.
Banning guns worked so great in Chicago and Baltimore that they're considering investing in mass-surveillance to top it off.

I agree with you about educational programs but anything that shifts the power balance away from people and to the government (or "society" as the proponents of these things will say) is not going to help, it will just create a rift that makes full time criminality more attractive to marginalized people (e.g. London) or a dystopian nightmare (e.g. Xinjiang) that may have low crime but is a terrible place to live your life.

Whenever people start proposing things like mass surveillance, banning guns, or other things that are completely incompatible with cultural ideals (which those things are in the US) in order to solve a problem that should be a tip-off that a metric has become a target.
But then that's silly. Would it be better if they were doing the school-runs in sedans? Hatchbacks? pickups? We can argue that a small hatchback would have marginally smaller emissions than a modern SUV, but then it's the wrong thing to focus on, we should be trying to get these people off the road, not pondering about SUVs.
What it looks like when it happens:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pr...

Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359
Unfortunately, that still doesn't prevent a large number of them tracking you using permissions you've granted, or permissions it doesn't need to explicitly ask for.

There have been a number of articles recently about iPhone apps phoning home regularly without user knowledge.

iOS is arguably significantly better than the alternatives, but lets not kid ourselves as to how far that trust should go.

Services like Guardian Firewall for iOS[0] wouldn't be in continued active development if the OS or review process was sufficient. Of course, there'll be plenty of snakeoil as time goes on, but at this stage, there's a lot of credibility behind the need for these services.

[0] https://guardianapp.com/
Rail is an option in less developed countries, or places like Europe and Japan where the easements have existed for centuries. But building a new high-speed rail line in the US is basically a nonstarter at this point.

Electrified aviation will be more than 10x cheaper vs turbine based. Practically the entire cost of aviation is in the engine, with its' associated fuel logistics, maintenance requirements, and pilot training.
So they do, that'll teach me for not reading twice
It’s possible with native messaging. You write a content script that injects some JavaScript to check the page that then messages with background page that then messages an external application. Though I likely would make it a page action or a context menu action.

I think if you’re on OS X that it would be easier to write a small automater action that you register as a service that after you select some text and right click it it parses the text and calls the shell command.
Sorry I did mean cohesion, not coercion. I'm happy that my context mainly made that obvious, but that is quite the typo. (It's too late for me to change it in the original comment.)
Banks reported no weakness nor degradation in his Nitinol engine after 20,000,000 revolutions. Any idea why there's such a big difference between the numbers reported in each paper?
What laptop is this? A Lenovo?
In the US, if you're not on prepaid, you're paying too much. T-mobile and Verizon have reasonably priced options in direct prepaid. Although, you won't get much cheaper than $35, you should have more high speed data for that, along with unmetered slower data.

Third party (or wholy owned subsidiaries) MVNOs are often less expensive as well.
Nordic countries are pretty much excluded from being able to participate, because Midsummer weekend is a big holiday here. Like if you placed this on Thanksgiving, most Americans would be excluded.
Are the local time servers stratum 1, or do they have some central stratum 1 source that they then distribute out to the edge datacenters?

What's the value over just building your own stratum 1 source? (Shameless plug: https://github.com/jrockway/beaglebone-gps-clock/blob/master...)
That's natural chalk, not blackboard or sidewalk chalk.

> maybe it's a tactile version of trypophobia?

You can't sense the individual chalk particles.
you don't need an aadhar card to open a bank account only a pan card(no biometrics) issued by tax dept, which you can link with your aadhar card by your own choice. The govt wants you to do this but the caanot force you as the supreme court has said.
>I always liked the Foursquare approach of asking their users.

I have never used Foursquare, can you say a bit more on how they do it.
As of ES5 010 must be parsed as 8 if you pass in a radix of 0.
Older laptops left space for the batteries so they could swell slightly without damaging the laptop. Apple's design leaves no such space.
True, but it also means that wireless networks are physically capable of replacing physical infrastructure, but aren’t in developed countries because of artificially high per gb prices.
If the service is compromised, you can't trust your TOTP secret (the little binary string from which your TOTP codes are generated) either! The protections TOTP provide in this scenario are all based on magical thinking; that it "feels" secure. But really, with respect to a specific service, if they're compromised, your credentials are worthless and need to be reset wholesale.
Iran's Cyber Army Under Attack
Crappy indeed. $7/mo for 15GB/mo is a current standard in Poland. I'm at 10GB/mo, $7/mo because I'm lazy recently and never used that much.
The radix can be either an integer between 2-36 or false|null|omitted. 0 is falsey, so it's cast to false, which is a valid param equating to 'auto'. 1 is an invalid param.
Taxi driving is not skilled labor. It simply isn't worth much; certainly not what its full-time drivers are demanding.

Can we also complain about Mechanical Turk? I'd like to earn first-world wages classifying pictures of cats full-time.

Neither scenario is what the gig economy is supposed to be about. If a job doesn't pay sustainably, don't do it.

We tried to regulate taxis such that driving one paid wages on par with costs of living, but then some asshole company undermined that with a populist smartphone app.
If you’re concerned about performance then sftp or SSH tunnels simply aren’t the right tools for you.
This feature is coming to Gsuite next Tuesday.
Well, sugary drinks/other crap, healthy food and food in general, has a label with their nutritional facts. Maybe we will benefit from a a similar label next to every piece of info we are going to consume.
“This newspaper is high in doubtful info and low in facts” probably a third party should label all the content
> I can even imagine cities in the US would trade privacy for safety.

Several already have, working with Palantir and Amazons Rekognition. LA, Chicago, Portland, New Orleans, Tampa and probably more.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2019/05/amazons-...
I'm a totally blind developer and I find the easiest way to do code reviews is to use git format-patch on the branch containing the code. I read the patch files in a text editor. Perhaps comments in the pull request referencing a commit and line would allow the developer to get the required context from the patch files?
Sure "otherness" is universal, but in a world where e.g. people of Irish descent used to be considered "other" by "normal" white people, I think there's empirical evidence we can still make progress.
> don't assume it's similar to the same named function from every other language
I think this was absolutely the case. All the cities that bid got played.
Because the onion said they're scary, obviously.
You said attackers need to be "extremely sophisticated" to pull it off, and I've spent a year seeing nitwits – clumsy and trivially detected nitwits – do it without much trouble. You were wrong, and wrong in a way that's important to correct so people know that it's wrong.
> Recipients who have malicious programs on their computer may still be able to copy or download your messages or attachments.

Even this is really poorly worded. You don't need a "malicious" program on your computer, you just need to go to your browser menu and hit the print button.

This still makes it sound like the average user won't be able to save your email unless they're doing some kind of tech mumbo-jumbo -- that your real risk is if an IT person gets a hold of it. But printing or saving a web page are basically the first thing I would teach anyone to do if I were mentoring them on how to use a computer.

Probably every secretary in your office already knows how to get around this restriction.
a lot of people are using JavaScript without understanding the method signatures of commonly using methods because JavaScript is such a weird and confusing language that has nonstandard method signatures for standard functions.
Is it just me, or is "money" the odd one out here?

Snacks and drugs both have direct, obvious 'value' to the body - food is about the simplest evolutionary case imaginable, and a host of animals will get drunk given the chance. And it's easy to make a case for 'information' as something any reinforcement learner will value and seek out, since it's essentially a prerequisite for all other learning and decision-making.

Money, though, is exclusively a proxy for some other future benefit, and lots of other examples imply we haven't made it into a strong first-order feedback loop. Money v happiness studies both show weak happiness benefits from money (once you're not in dire need), and find that "how you spend it" strongly mediates the effects. Slot machine design is devoted to the idea of intermittent reinforcement and works very hard to create non-monetary, directly limbic rewards to keep players engaged.

Given all that, "food, drugs, and info" actually sounds like a much more natural grouping to me than "food, drugs, and money". I don't know of any research here, though. Could you take a well-known study like prisoner's dilemma or the ultimatum game and get different results with non-monetary rewards, or prime people by discussing certain things they could do with the money?
Event movies for teenagers sell lots of popcorn and candy. Sophisticated indie movies for adults don't. A huge amount of the profit margin at the theaters is driven by the concessions counter. This drives which films the big theaters want to show.
"You don't have to know if you don't use implicit type-casting. Make it explicit and you won't really have to worry about it.
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Correct. Unfortunately a lot of people use implicit casting a lot and have no idea that that's what they are doing.
> Just theoretically if surveillance was good enough to catch every single crime in public, would this be "worth it"?

But you also have to remember that there are good crimes and bad laws, there are bad cops and bad use of force and general abuse of power. Would you want to give them more power, give up a possibility to organize and fight against anything in public?
autoplaying videos in the 90s? on 56k connections? i think autoplaying videos on CNET is definitely more of a 00s thing
check your serial number: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
If someone wants to use Windows applications to interact with other users, using a 15-year-old version is really not going to cut it. Office, Photoshop... all of those big ticket Windows apps have added a lot of things in 15 years. You could get that level of compatibility from Libre Office and GIMP.
Console.group() in JavaScript
I think there’s a difference between scanning all incoming mail for spam and keeping a details list of my purchase history by scanning my inbox for receipts somehow... If they aren’t using this data for context ads it must be being used for something else otherwise why would they do it?
David Gilmour's Guitars Fetch $21.5M in Record Auction
This is a bit of an opinion piece, but that said I disagree. We are already being surveilled by private companies, whether we like it or not, I don’t think it’s possible to really prevent the government from using that. I don’t think we’re there yet. I don’t want the government to get that data to watch us all the time, but I don’t see any way to really stop at anytime soon. It will take major events and major public exposure before that, but it will only take one terrorist attack to take us all the way back to the beginning
It would be helpful if there were a few sample cards added to the blog post.
I’d go with no 4.

Grant voting rights to enlistees who entered early as well (those with parental/guardian consent), if we think about it logically. Even if in this case it’s voluntary because it’s obvious they’re willing to take the call of duty whatever that is and that contributes to our society’s continuity.
It's weird. I'm an American living in Russia. Here, we have many more choices for cell phone plans. And they're all cheap and innovative vs even the cheapest US plan. Competition really does work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_industry_in_Russi...
If you need flashcards to remember syntax, you're probably not writing/reading enough code.
Does Gmail give away your data to the Swiss government, though?
Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Definitions, Variants, and Benchmarks
Towards Better Serialization
This is what I've got my crew running. Tidyverse is basicly worthless once you hit a certain scale of data. If you've got datatables representing.

List functionality within datatable is blazingly fast. Faster than anything else I've seen in python or R.
I consider my information addiction as one of the top 2 personal problems that are holding me back in my life.

The only thing that works for me every once in a while is going cold turkey and blocking off as many websites as I can in my hosts file.

I'm surprised there isn't a serious accessible product that helps people manage this addiction, because unlike drugs you can't realistically not use the internet ever again and nowadays it's SO easy to go down the rabbit hole even from innocent and serious sites.

Every once in a while I humor myself with a building such a product, but I really don't know what features would work. Any suggestions?
What gave so much confidence to Jio to discount that much? Did their flavor of party come to power during that time?

Also, India would have better date quality if market was open to foreign players without requiring Indian stakes.

India has very high density in many areas where these kind of data rates are possible and we all would be on 1gbps connections
It's been interesting to watch (from way over here in the US) as Jio totally changed the Indian market.

For anyone reading this from India: is there any negative sentiment about Jio or is everyone just really excited to have cheap reliable data access?
This is getting pretty close to special pleading. No matter what fact pattern we establish, I concede that there will be some narrative you can generate that will put the weight of the honey bee die-off on neonicotinoids. It's just unlikely to be a true narrative.
Simply not true. The ssd can be removed / swapped. Only the ram is soldered.
> When I consulted the apple store (Berlin) about it they told it I need not to worry about it

Those people are assholes. Literally.

> Once you notice the battery is swollen or compromised in any way, you should immediately stop using the device. Turn the power off, and above all else, do not charge the device. Once the battery has reached such a point of failure that the battery is swollen, you must assume that all safety mechanisms in the battery are offline. Charging a swollen battery is literally asking for it to turn into an exploding ball of noxious flammable gas right in your living room.

https://www.howtogeek.com/244846/what-to-do-when-your-phone-...
I didn't repost this but please don't flag! it's a serious safety issue that users need to be made aware of.

I think this keeps getting reposted because it falls of the front page very quickly for whatever reason.
The Norwegian island that abolished time
WSL 2 supports Docker now.
Anybody know if these chips require anything like Intel's IME or AMD's PSP? Could this be the answer Libreboot has been looking for?
I'm here w/ my Mid 2012 MBP that's maxed out w/ everything--no problems ever.
The 2012 13” at least didnt have a discrete gpu (iirc earlier years did).
So your argument is allow economic abuse instead of regulating against it? No thank you. I like regulation; with it, we get a better society, not Mad Max Race To The Bottom driven by apathetic consumers and psychopathic businesses.

EDIT: I do see the problem, and still believe regulation is the answer (in this case, California legislation [1]).

"If signed into law, the legislation will codify a landmark April 2018 California Supreme Court ruling, which introduced a three-part test to determine which workers businesses can reasonably classify as independent contractors and which must be treated as genuine employees. Workers considered employees are entitled to key labor protections and benefits—such as a minimum wage, overtime pay, and protections under antidiscrimination laws—which many gig-economy companies have long resisted."

This will decapitate gig economy companies in California.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/california-lawmakers-move-protec...
I do whenever I see cables sticking out.
This is not really a "recall": you keep the machine (turnaround time notwithstanding), they're just replacing an old battery.
> Movers usually cost me 5-10k

For me, moving about the same amount is going to cost $1000 including storage for a month. I guess if you are also having the movers pack everything, it might cost that much, but I've heard of people moving across the country for less money.
I'd love to learn more on your opinion about these REITs.

Looking at the lastest financials report: https://s22.q4cdn.com/758587962/files/doc_financials/quarter...

They are reporting a leverage ratio of ~7. My initial hot-take: That's a leverage multiple; not a ratio. Yet reading their formula they are reporting that 7 as DEBT / PRE-DEPRECATION-PROFIT. Thus such a formula is not an LTV but rather a formula one might use if one acknowledged the underlying assets only had cashflow value.

Using an LTV formula they look more reasonable at 0.7LTV. Which indeed is high, about half the equity common to the REITs I've looked at. Yet with a 10% return on invested capital it does not seem the infrastructure was overvalued.

Now this is not an area I know much about so I'm mostly hoping you can show me where I'm wrong and thus I can learn more.
That's my point, Julia's interop is unparalleled. Like it legit takes one line to call a python library. You get back a result in native julia type.
That sucks. Anecdata is a funny thing.

I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either.
It's bewildering to me that one can look at the sheer volume of confusion generated by things like this and insist that it's not confusing.
From an information theory viewpoint, information means something in particular. For instance a black hole event horizon has the highest area information density in the universe but it like a frame of television static.

In particular, once you are exposed to information it ceases to be information anymore.

I think the behavior of "scanning" where you reload the front page of Hacker News or Google News or look at the newspaper over and over again hoping to get something new is particularly pernicious. You are exposing your brain to "information" in once sense but not real information in the sense of learning.

Contrast a compulsive reading habit, where you are getting new information that you need to incorporate into long term memory as opposed to a compulsive video game habit for something like League of Legends or Advance Wars where you are recombining the same elements over and over again. I found that switching from the first to the second helped me feel less anxious, but I still read plenty about topics like 1970-era mainframe transaction processing or whatever I am into.
I wonder which ones, my Windows boxes are pretty much 32 bit free, except for when there isn't an alternative.
Typed languages can still have overloaded functions and optional parameters. You could easily encounter a similar issue in many typed languages.
It's a fair point. I'd say it's helpful if you for some reason have an extended period away from the language and still want to remember it.

Also, when you're just starting out it's helpful, you've got the information collected in one place and won't need to hunt it down via google.
Single-Cell RNA-Seq for Dummies
Isn't AMD's encrypted memory meant more for the case of someone with physical access aggressively cooling a running system, then cutting power and removing the chilled memory for analysis (which will preserve contents much longer when cold than at normal temperatures)?

The case of an attack on the SSH Agent would take place within the CPU, perhaps even in the same core on a separate HT/SMT thread, where the memory would be cleartext.
Except the whole article is about how Virginia won despite offering less "corporate welfare" than other places.

> All told, Virginia offered Amazon only $550 million in tax breaks and $195 million in transportation improvements. But it pledged to plow $1.1 billion into tech schooling. According to Moret, it was the only place in the nation that made education the centerpiece of its pitch.

More than 2/3's of Virginia's investment into Amazon was in education and transit, which benefits everyone.

Philly, by contrast, offered $4.6 billion in subsidies, just $100 million for transit, and nothing for education: https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/amazon-hq2-incredible-i.... Chicago offered $1.3 billion in tax breaks and $450 million for transit.
Walmart got a $2.2B tax cut. Now it's laying off workers
I think it would have been important enough for Google to be worth fighting no matter the cost, since it would have been the only viable way of replacing Facebook.

The user would be consenting, initiating and running the procedure on his own machine, so there's a plausible argument that it's fine.

Regarding the antitrust argument, you could also argue that Facebook is a monopoly in social networks and that preventing such a data transfer is anticompetitive.