skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, but normally it takes a lot of noise to make so that Apple does something like this. I personally have not heard any "multiple reports" news.
I've had the opposite happen. Someone tried to smash my head in with a cinder block because he thought I might take his picture.

He was never caught.
The only technology needed for this to happen was a common understanding of language. The only people you can't trade with are those you can't communicate with. And cities can issue their own currency; they just can't convince anybody to use it.

I would argue that the trade system is far less restrictive because you can easily trade globally rather than only locally. You also can't get away with pillaging/defrauding your neighbors and calling it 'trade' anymore.
Damn. We’re paying too much in South Africa! It’s way more expensive here. But I guess the carriers charge what they can get away with. Data is also a lot cheaper in Kenya for the average person. Here in SA its still out of reach for many people.
A few questions from reading this:

It says that this provides water for 2 billion people. How screwed are they when it runs dry?

It says human waste in the highest peaks is a contamination problem... I’m not clear on why this is. Doesn’t feces break down cleanly in running water?
I work with a blind developer. We create personal feature branches, file a ticket for merge requests in our ticketing system, code review them directly in the ticket or via email, and then rebase the feature branch onto master. We don't, but you could plausibly do reviews directly in git via editing the file with any comments.

I've been wanting to try gerrit however: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-des...

Please report back on whatever you end up doing.

One caution I have is that long term you should consider moving away from the gitlab tools if they are unable to fix accessibility concerns, so that everyone is on equal ground.

I also don't know how flexible he is on which browser or operating system he uses; he may want to try some others to see if they work any better.
Turning it off isn't enough. Instead leave it on until the battery is completely drained, then mail it once it shuts down.
No, I'm for regulation, but Uber drivers themselves are actually the problem here.

We had a regulated industry. Its labor force had collective bargaining power. Its labor pool was capped to limit surplus labor and everyone could get paid fairly.

Uber came along, organized a bunch of scabs willing to work for pennies to undermine all that, devalued the labor the existing industry provided and now those scabs are complaining they're not paid enough.

Do you not see the problem with this?
This article reminds me of tracking corporate jets and seeing if they were doing tarmac M&A talks. There are a lot of interesting opportunities for 'corporate information side-channel' attacks and it would be a great opportunity for a new information based corporation to corral this information and sell it.
You lost me with the millennials bit - how do they come into play?
If Rust had ergonomic support to pass multiple arguments to a functions you would still not be protected from this bug. Even the type system wouldn't help you there because the index would be of type usize and so would be the radix argument in parseInt (although in reality this would probably be an enum or u8). But this is caused by the interaction of two bad APIs. Even if we have the restriction that it confirms to the over two decades old signature, map should only yield each element of the input and yield back the result of the closure. If you need the index you could chain a call to enumerate before the map and get tuples of value and index. This is what you'd have to do in Rust and Python, for example.
As a counterpoint, I think it drops the signal to noise ratio and makes HN less useful.

If I want to read a random Wikipedia article I can use the "Random Article" link on their website.

I don't think it's too much to ask for people posting random wiki links to explain why the article is worth reading about and discussing. Especially in cases like this one, where the linked article (apparently?) has little or nothing to do with the usual content posted.

I have no idea what the poster wants me to get out of this article.
> This isn't strange or surprising.

> You just have to know this

Hidden, silent, unintuitive behavior that you "just have to know" (and remember each time you might read or write the code) is absolutely strange and surprising in an engineering context. Javascript's deadly combination of unnecessary unintuitiveness (map's ludicrous API) and permissibility (ignoring extra arguments) strikes again.

The permissibility of guessing what malformed code means is actually somewhat defensible in Javascript's case, since the incentive ecosystem of the Web is complex and frontend parsing has long had a tradition of best-effort parsing instead of throwing an exception. But the absurd signature of map here is half the problem, and there's really no good explanation for that than yet another instance of "Javascript is a dumpster fire that should only be used when forced to". Similarly "easy-to-use" languages like Python can afford strong typing and rejecting extra args when not specified because they're not bound by the Web's permissibility. But Python also, for all its flaws, has adults making language decisions and does the sane thing with APIs like map without loss of expressiveness. Adding loop metadata like indices requires an explicit call to enumerate(), trading off an iota of verbosity for intuitiveness, which is one of the most important things in writing code that can remain productive and bug-free.
man(kind) has been created to carry forward an ever advancing civilization

this is what i believe, and this is why i am a Free Software advocate, as that is my way of making a (meager) contribution. i believe that humanity is destined to advance as a society and technologically. the technical progress we achieved in the last 150 years is just the beginning. our global society too will progress to the point that we solve all the problems we experience today.
Dark Mode uses almost less than 3X Battery
Yes, you'd need at least enough battery power to power not just the drive wheels, but the other things that engine power provides for like air conditioning. I wonder how large a pack would actually be required (of course there are huge differences between airports - some of them youre in the air only a few minutes after leaving the gate, some it can be 20-30 minutes).

If it was a large amount of battery, it would be cool if the batteries were in a small autonomous vehicle that disconnected from the plane when it was time to spin up the main engines and returned on its own to be recharged. Seems like a solvable problem.
let's work to bring back brevity the answer is that map is passing extra args just use an arrow func to pass args to parseInt explicitly there saved you a minute scrolling to the bottom
My take on the headline was that Intel's I5 was copied exactly. Not the case. "Performance on par with..."
How do they deal with underground parking in urban areas especially?
Size of Montana would be too big :-) But anything with at least 100m^2 would do, below that would be way too small for normal living
I'm sure the environmental folks would love it if even a small percentage of the human population started doing that on a regular basis instead of relying on agriculture and industry.
That site is hosted off-campus, coordinating obtaining the cert from the campus CA and then getting it into their off-campus host is probably just a low-priority. They should still do it, though, being off HTTPS is going to hurt their SEO soon enough.
I think a more apt analogy would be those hand trucks that come on U-Hauls, where it's already physically on the truck, but just sealed up unless you pay a little extra.

So if you don't buy the option it's not destroyed forever, but can be utilized by future users once you move on. This allows them to provide customers with instant access to extra value by charging them enough to support putting a sealed hand truck on every U-Haul, or extra terabytes in every account.
I didn't say that this product will "block" sites (traditionally speaking).

For example, if you need StackOverflow it can replace it's UI with only a search box and results list, preventing you from clicking related links.

When you go on reddit, it could asks you which subreddit you need and why before letting you in, reinforcing the reason you need to visit the site. I think it can be powerful - requiring active input from the user as to what his intentions are. If you need to write "I'm really bored" as a reason you go on Facebook, I think there's a pretty good chance you'll end up closing it.

I believe there are hidden patterns that you might be able to break when the product helps you see and understand these patterns.
If you're writing 'enough' Rust, you're probably a Mozilla employee.
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>Americans are going to be livid when they learn how cheap data plans are in India. The reason this works is free market, unlike the US where the likes of Comcast have monopoly in the regions they operate.

What does Comcast have to do with the price of cellular data?
Can confirm, had a huge "WTF?" on installing Win8 on an HDD and seeing the friggin' OS UI pause constantly for no obvious reason. It was like running Win98 on a 75Mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM. On my beefy quad-core Intel with 16GB of RAM. Added an SSD, problem went away. They're relying on the SSD to make up for some really lazy crap in their code.
They don't ship the laptop, they send a technician and do the repair on-site. I have personal experience with a Lenovo ThinkPad. Dispatching the technician may have taken one or two business days (I don't remember exactly).
Not to be glib, but going to your job is what is measured, and taken implicitly as approval for it all.

In the end it underlies their motives for finding ways to normalize the public to the social march we’ve been tapping our toes to: shuffling along to their businesses, propping up their immense gains.

Stop giving deference to aristocratic rhetoric if you actually care.
so apparently no one cares about the site then.
I don't have a aadhar card yet and I don't intend to get one. I have a pan card but I had it made a few years ago. I am not aware if things have changed, I'll ask around tomorrow for ground information.
> What proved conclusively positive was adding a discount to the checkout process ... Just to make the customer feel that they're getting a good deal.

Definitely guilty of this, if I'm on the fence about a purchase, finding a discount code (Honey extension is great) can often make the difference. Even knowing that the discount is probably baked into the price
I like Pigma Micron pens: https://www.jetpens.com/blog/sakura-pigma-pens-a-comprehensi....

Jetpens is a marvelous site if you like pens.
Fire at Oil Refinery in South Philadelphia Causes Explosions
Hi! I really only use Wine for games. I wouldn't use Wine to run any other kind of software, but that might just be prejudice on my part.

I can't point you to an exact tutorial. I usually just google "[name of game] wine ubuntu how to" or occasionally "[name of game] [problem I'm experiencing] wine ubuntu" :) I suppose you could follow the same procedure to install arbitrary software.
I remember reading years ago about similar data being used to monitor and track the recession (in the US) and potential recovery from.

Especially as it related to big-box retailers.
The obscure London startup that made Facebook's Libra possible UK
I don't think they were implying it would support Cloudflares goals, but it would be nice to see big companies helping to fund public services, especially when many companies profit from open source tech.
I'm a huge fan of Cloudflare in general, but sometimes I'm a bit uncomfortable with how much critical infrastructure is increasingly consolidated into a few single entities.
I'm glad for the sake of the future of electric vehicles that Tesla is retaining so much control, but as a customer/user I'd rather wait until more open options can come down the path Tesla's blazing.
Hmm. From my perspective, I've never seen a post like this that didn't refer to an article I'm already aware of. Which would tell me if you like this kind of thing, you could probably just spend more time on Wikipedia instead. It certainly wouldn't be very useful for someone like me to spam seemingly-random Wikipedia articles here.
Most Macbooks are going to show symptoms before catching fire -- which is thankfully a very rare event. For most people, it's going to manifest as a swollen bottom case. Here's what I look for:

- If you put your Macbook on a flat desk, does the aluminum on the bottom touch the desk? (The rubber feet should touch the desk; aluminum should not.)

- If you close the lid, does it seal all the way around? (You shouldn't need to apply pressure to make the lid seal. Closing the lid should not bend it. It should not pop open on its own.)

- Cracked trackpad is a bad sign

- Look along the edges; any warping is a bad sign too
It absolutely is a fair criticism of Jekyll, because I have experience with it. I want it to work without having to manually set some key – I want my posts put in specific subdirectories by ... actually putting them in specific subdirectories. Which is impossible with Jekyll.
I imagine solar would be a possibility for gliders.

They have high launch energy followed by zero propulsion very high-efficiency gliding afterwards.

Covering the large wing area could with solar cells and allow for range extension or possibly even continuous flight.

Solar panels are mostly structural, but the cells themselves are basically a thin foil.
I'm sorry. You are right, the community doesn't need name calling, but Mr. Luckenbaugh certainly deserved it. I would edit it out, but there seems to be no way of doing it.
You could create a SUID executable on your remote machine that gets addresses from an unprivileged account and creates the mailboxes, or a daemon that gets them from the network.

But I guess the easiest way would be to throw all the email into a catch-all inbox and filter it by mailbox.

Anyway, I've stopped doing that after I got locked out of a store because I couldn't remember the address I registered, and it would neither let me reset my password without I entering my email or create a new account with the same data of one that already existed. Luckily this one a shitty store so getting locked out was a gain, but the odds of this happening to something important are not low.
Another question in regards to tiktok (and other android apps) - I got an email saying that a kid I help mentor had given tiktok access to their gmail account (something like that).

Does this mean that a default install asks permission to access and read your gmail, and that would mean they could harvest all of your contacts, and emails sent / recvd, maybe calendar stuff too?
Maybe a digital voice recorder thing (like [1]) so neither of you has to take explicit notes but can still capture all the discussion?

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Sony-ICDPX370-Digital-Recorder-Built/...
Even tho I never use Safari I will always give its dues for blocking 3rd party cookies out of the box.
Reminds me of this article from Thasos Group that analysed smart phone signals at a Tesla factory to infer overtime work: http://thasosgroup.com/blog/thasos-data-tesla-wsj/
Any time you use anything non-native, you add layers of indirection and potentially lots of impedance mismatch between languages/runtimes. For instance, I know all of the ones you mentioned would be non-starters at my current job because it means we would have to wrap all of our JS libraries/APIs in the language of choice, which is a non-trivial amount of work. Plus, debugging becomes more challenging as you're basically having to do it at two levels simultaneously.

Even with all of JavaScript's deficiencies, it's still far easier to just deal with them than to switch languages entirely.
Nothing new here other than satellites. Years ago (1990s?) Peter Lynch - at the time manager of the largest mutual fund followed his daughters into a shopping mall for back to school - his daughters didn't go into GAP stores so he went back to the office and sold as his shared of GAP. His fund beat everyone else by a large margin because GAP stocks dropped a month latter when they announced the earnings drop.

This is better of course, but nothing you can't do in some other way with a little work.
It's permissiveness means you can hit the ground running more easily writing shitty but functional code, and web dev has long been the gateway for new entrants to engineering. People start programming, learn shitty habits from a shitty language ,and then the religious affinity for programming languages that many have starts to kick in.

This obviously doesn't explain every Javascript fan, but the tendency is strong enough to shift the dynamics of the community.

I can't say I relate to the religious fervor with which people defend programming languages. C++ is probably my favorite language to work in, but I absolutely understand where the hatred for it comes from. I readily admit that it's grotesque in many ways and my preference is likely for lack of sustained exposure to certain other modern languages.
On one hand, I understand how beneficial is to learn a new programming language. On the other hand, having to constantly beaten by mixing up simple language syntax, googling how to find an element in an array, or even create an Anki deck to revise from time to time is so funny to me.

The one thing that actually helped me to jump between languages and platforms is Haxe. Just use the same syntax and API for the basic stuff, and put the focus on actually building the program. I still have to understand and know well about the target (be it C++, JS, or Python), but the time and the mental effort saved from googling about basic syntax and standard APIs is massive.
tl;dr: I think the study's idea of 'baseline' behavior relies on a payout-maximizing model we know is incorrect.

Thanks, I'm well past the point of believing PR office summaries of studies on these topics. And sure enough, it looks to me like this is being oversold and also has some concerning gaps. Anyone want to help me understand that?

Press release: “To the brain, information is its own reward, above and beyond whether it’s useful”

Article: We observed that subjects’ information acquisition behavior was indeed largely driven by instrumental benefit... While we found no evidence for simplistic constant utility bonus, the utility of anticipation improved behavioral modeling.

Which is to say, subjects specifically did not place an inherent value on information independent of its utility. Rather, they adjusted its value based on its utility in a way which did not perfectly maximize payout.

More broadly and importantly, I think this is a worthwhile study, but I'm worried it's propagating a known behavior up through extra layers and calling it a new result. It's well established that people playing games of chance don't behave as perfect payout-maximizers, and specifically that they appear to be loss-averse and ambiguity-averse (e.g. Ellsberg's paradox). They also appear to place nonlinear value on the utility of money, changing their choices when all game outcomes are scaled with the same expected utility (Allais paradox). Given all of that, we can say that a player's desired outcome in such a game is not simply maximizing expected payout. As such, "perfectly rational" behavior at the information-buying step is not the decision which maximizes payout, but the one which maximizes their performance under their chosen utility function.

But the study works from the assumption that "Under standard economic accounts, agents accept the lottery if its EU is higher than the utility of status quo u(0), and reject otherwise (Fig. 2a). Furthermore, they purchase the information if its cost is lower than VOI and forgo if higher". A host of studies show that this is not how people actually play lotteries. As a result, the study concludes that anticipation utility is acting at the information-buying step, while ignoring the possibility of strictly-rational purchasing under an alternate utility function.

This could have been easily tested with a control in which players were asked to play the variable-outcome lotteries with perfect information, to establish baseline play against which to compare information-buying behavior. I'm still interested in the game results and the MRI data, but the press release tells us this result "could only be explained by a model that captured both economic and psychological motives". I'm not ready to accept that when the control is purely theoretical and based on a model we already know doesn't work.
It increases the information that makes its way into the markets and makes it more likely that the price reflects the what's happening in the real world.

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.
We're working on running 32-bit Wine applications on 64-bit-only macOS for CrossOver, but it's a huge and difficult problem.
The problem is there are more lines of telemetry than most projects have code. You should probably have it audited - or better yet - just remove the telemetry.
As an occasional retail trader, it doesn't bother me at all that other market participants are trying to be better informed. In fact, it means that market prices are more likely to be properly-priced.

We should not aspire to drag hedge-fund research down to the Main Street level. If there is a place for government in this context, it is to fund the education necessary to help retail investors learn a) how to take beneficial approaches to investing and risk, b) to appreciate the realities of trading against professional investors, and c) to understand how to conceive, test, and implement their own hypotheses in the real world.

In general, an informed market is a healthy one.
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The tone of the article seems like it has an axe to grind. Is it really that much of a surprise that very well capitalised investors have significant advantages of "main street" investors?

That's always been the argument for index funds for regular investors, you're never going to compete with hedge funds, why waste your time?
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Perfect timing.

Yesterday, I urgently needed to run a piece of software on one of my systems. I had two versions of that software on hand: One for linux and one for windows.

The linux version flat-out refused to run. In my desperation, I installed wine and (to my surprise and the surprise of my coworkers) the windows version ran flawlessly.

Granted, the specifics surrounding my situation was far from typical, but I wouldn't be surprised that the majority of wine usage is also atypical in one way or another. Measuring wine's relevance by your own (or my own) use cases will likely only lead to inaccurate conclusions.