skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Maps does allow any user to submit edit request for place details (opening hours etc) and flag suspect entries. I guess one could be upset about this attempt to get users to work for free, but personally I don’t consider exploitative because (a) verifying local business is actually far easier for local people compared to anyone Google could hire and (b) Google Maps is such a useful product that the distinction to, for example, Wikipedia is less obvious than the simple for-profit/non-profit designation makes it out to be.
Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones
Cities are key to saving monarch butterflies
Which one tastes best?

Only half joking. I used to nibble on chalk as a kid, was oddly satisfying.
There is a gray area there. First impression is important AND the first impression is not just the name or icon. It is the combination of many things. The value the specific product gives you as the most important one.

I'm not dismissing the importance of a visual or aesthetic. Just realize that there is more than that.
Yea but not everyone has money, and those with money are saying that corruption is in a lot of way better for them.

In some places, you can be drunk, or even kill someone and the cops will let you go for $$. If they take you in, it's not too late, just the price increases, the prosecutor and judge want their cut. A lot of mafia people have sentences cut or charges thrown out.
The distros are not being created by independent developers and then the state uses the distros, the distros are being made by the very state itself. The same organisation that will lift internet access and guide books and send their staff overseas to get training.
These should be free from the start.
Related podcast:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/12/epis...
If you're making it better, you're not "keeping it", per se (what I mean, is that "tradition" is never an excuse for anything).
At least in the UK, the highway code requires you to switch off your engine when you are stationary for a prolonged period of time. The fine is only £20 though, so I doubt it's really enforced.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/938/
New Performance Paradigm Needed: Why We Should Include Wellbeing
A 747 Carried 2 Beluga Whales from China to Iceland
I heard there is a fairly sustainable way to produce cellulose building materials. Pretty well-established too ;)
I live in zone 3/4 and getting around on the tube is not bad at all. There is a daily cost cap of around £8 depending on how far you go, but I usually don't hit it or get that close.

But regional trains I agree can be super expensive. So for those living outside the greater London area, that could indeed be rough.
Female academic applications are going to the top of the pile
How to Increase Cup Size at Home?
It was a different product from a photograph app. It was a product more similar to Facebook / Twitter.
The issue with Macs is that repairing one often isn't a straightforward process. My current MacBook Pro had video issues when I first got it; I was lucky to have Apple replace it on the spot, but often options for repair through Apple are very time-consuming and often costly.
Sea Nonecorn?
Report Says College-Educated Women Will Make Up Majority of U.S. Labor Force
Keyboards, batteries... what is wrong with you, Apple?
You could start sending fake results after they exceed the ~100 queries, they will probably stop exploiting it.
Not sure why you did not have any "Aha" moment, bu the visual explanation used for the principle of superposition and approximation of functions by Fourier series is very informative. I also liked the explanation about the proportional relation between temperature and space in the heat equation. I think in most higher educational systems, they only approach this type of problems with pure theoretical solutions/explanations.
Ask HN: Is tiktok reading and uploading user contact as it is doing in China?
A China user prosecuted Tiktok for it read and uploaded users contact without permission and it is not mentioned in its privacy statement.
The Tiktok claimed in the court that contact is not private. The information stored in contact is information of society members instead of personal privacy and should be allowed to use freely.
This statement is so ridiculous that I took it as April fool's day's joke at first sight but it turns out to be true.
I have heard that Tiktok has been unexpectedly successful abroad so I am wondering whether its terrifying claim is a result of China's poor protection of privacy or it is just such a terrible company.
(CNN, June 20) Apple recalls batteries in some older 15-inch MacBook Pros: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/apple-recall-macbook-pro...

For everyone who's involved, seems like it's not a one off.
guix sd is using grub to create restore points
Shortage of capillar dye. Nothing strange in war times. Mysterious "miracles" have simple explanations
Public Pension Moved into Riskier Assets and Exempted Themselves from Risk Rules
We use promiscuous pair programming which mitigates some of the pain in this scenario, but we can never transfer all the domain knowledge from one person to another so it would still hurt to lose that many people. We would of course hire like crazy, and search ourselves for why this would happen. If possible, hire back as many of the people who just quit as we could
Sure. Use grub to manage your advanced Linux needs, but you don’t need to use it to manage dual-booting of other OSes.
Yes, though at least where I am it tends to be a legacy system these days. So that means governments and large corporations might reasonably feature some use of it somewhere within their walls.
Just to clarify, ipad or ipad pro?
Of course, that doesn't show that people aren't "the worst", it just shows that humanism doesn't make much sense if they are.

Other philosophies accept a flawed humanity and find hope in other things.

But most people don't think about it too much, I suspect. They love their dog, their kids, and a couple friends and that's good enough.
It's definitely not made in good faith but I did say that generating angst was more important than facts not that the articles were based on lies though clearly being economical with the truth clearly helps push the writer's agenda.

Take the quote from the parent comment:

> Most Americans’ daily routines depend on single-use items and throwaway plastic packaging,

What purpose does singling out Americans here serve?

1. It makes readers of The Guardian feel superior?

2. The paper wants to attract more American readers who want to feel they are concerned and environmentally conscious?

It's pushing a sense of 'holier than thou' with a readership who live in countries and cultures whose economic systems make widespread use of single-use plastic on a very large scale. It's a sanctimonious attitude that's great for consumers of these articles but never the driver of real change.
Sorry, I dismissed your claims because I was developing javascript single page applications in 2005 on IE6 (and on IE5 at the beginning, I think). That was before XMLHttpRequest, I was retrieving data from an invisible iframe populated with arrays. I was able to develop crud applications and dashboards with hundreds of objects with (almost) desktop-like responsiveness. Of course there was no jQuery, elements were created programmatically and I kept a pointer to each of them, as it's normal in desktop apps. Never thought of this as arcane, it was actually very natural.
Missing category to think about: software craftsmanship?
Brilliant idea! This is definitely not going to wreck communities and will not be misused. The proposal should include a band to be worn around one's arm, then the resemblance to soviet era civilian helpers will be complete.
Libra: Politically Correct Review
> Nearly all of those ads promise “$19 service,” or thereabouts, a suspiciously low sum, given that “locksmith”-related ads cost about $30 or so per click, depending on the area.

There's the weapon against them right there. If you're a crusader, don't be a volunteer mapper for Google. Find the fake listings (drive there and look, or street view?) and then click on them, costing the scammers every time. I imagine clicks could be automated once discovered? Or at least shared with other volunteers who can click.
I am doing something close. My main phone is iphone SE. The only apps in that is my podcast & my personal email account.

My rest social media including whatsapp in another device.
Juul’s New Marketing Is Straight Out of Big Tobacco’s Playbook
So gene therapy with extra steps.
Indeed. Some people never tried emmet on sublime or other syntax accelerators. You can write really fast HTMl without problem.
Narlugas Are Real
Your daughter is paint on ipad pro or ipad? What stylus was used?
I pay that fortnightly. Although I can usually get it for £220 with advance notice.
Thanks to sadistic khan for this effort :)
While I do appreciate Apple’s particularly literal approach to ‘halt and catch fire’[0] this is a good reminder to have my battery replaced as soon as I’m near an Apple store. I wonder what the statistical probability of this actually happening to _my_ device is?

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
> ...a locksmith in Phoenix, [...] wanted to know how many locksmiths were listed in Arizona. “There were 9,600 of them in the list I got from Acxiom,” he said. “That’s about 9,000 more than anyone believes actually work in the state.”

This is terrible. The honest neighborhood guy is also a victim along with the customers.
>what I mean, is that "tradition" is never an excuse for anything

Well, "progress" in itself isn't either, as it lacks direction (progress towards what? Why would new be better?).

At least tradition has the "tried" part working for it, and it's something you know the pros and cons and how to work with it (even if its a devil, it's "the devil you know"). It's also a good choice if one values stability over volatility...

So we shouldn't blindly follow it, but should throw it just because there's something new.

A better question (we seldom ask) is: do we want this something new. Many times the new is just imposed into us (e.g. just because it's possible or profitable).
Not to take away from their good communication, but they are still relatively small. If they keep this up while growing, then they might have some secret sauce.
> then maybe ESL or some advance course

> A few of my friends work on Data science and they said that maths isn't that important

Without the math you won't understand anything in ESL.

Which might be okay if the job doesn't require you to go into that much depth - some data science jobs are more focused on research (very math-heavy), some on ETL and/or engineering, others on business understanding and communication; it's a really broad title.
I'm going to read the references you linked more carefully, but after skimming, I already have questions:

> if he and his neighbor decided to rent their house to each other (with zero net change in income after rent), then he would pay the tax as a landlord

If I sold something to you only to immediately buy it back, we'd both pay a tax on the transaction. But this kind of transaction makes no sense anyway, why would anyone want to do it?

The Vox article gives an example of a cross-city house rent, but that's essentially tax evasion scenario. Is it worth trying to fight it by just making everyone obligated to pay the tax?

> If you own a home in the United States, it really pays to live in it rather than to use it as an income-generating asset that helps you afford to rent to live somewhere else.

This may be the core philosophical difference, and I may be wrong about this, but: isn't this situation good? Shouldn't people be encouraged to own a home and actually live in it?

> In my capacity as landlord, I allow myself to live rent-free in my own home rather than explicitly charging myself rent that would be taxed as income.

I've heard this line of thinking before, and it always sounded to me like ridiculous mental gymnastics. Should I pay tax on my phone, or dishwasher, or clothes, or every other thing I own, just because I'm theoretically renting it to myself for free?

> So if we were to design a tax on hoarding scarce land, logically we would want to avoid the mistake that the US Treasury made in 1914, and include vacant landowners, rentiers, and homeowners in the same bucket. A normal property tax according to value gets this right by treating them all the same.

Again, this probably just betrays how little I know on the topic, but: couldn't we just tax land and housing separately?
you can use the "arandr" program to set any possible resolution. No idea what is "factorial" scaling, though.
I am an "expert" in static type systems (I'm familiar with Java, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, Go, TypeScript, C++ ... and keep up to date with latest type systems research like 1ML, MLsub, Liquid Haskell, ...), but I have a really hard time imagining how one would develop a statically typed library that would even approximate the usefulness and convenience (for rapid prototyping and interactive data analysis) of Python's Pandas (although if I was a betting man, I'd wager the best language to implement it in would be Scala, with it's advanced macros & almost-dependent type system).
There are refillable markers.
>TB3 dock never works properly

Do these even work on Windows?
> What does PWA stand for?

https://xkcd.com/1367/
On the after-checkout form I am already confronted with choosing which 3 of the discount vouchers of "partner" shops I want to pick up. But HURRY only 10 minutes remaining to claim.
Apollo Training: When Arizona Stood in for the Moon
Given that the author is "Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and Richards Professor of American History Emerita at the University of Delaware" it's perhaps not surprising that the article has a focus on the US?
Seems a bit miserly to leave out "good questions, good notes, and a positive learning environment" as ingredients.
Bewilders me too. Each has a distinct intonation. Also, the rules aren't really that hard to master.
Cops said it was meth – it was cotton candy
15 y.o. Bangladesh boys have better chance of reaching age 50 than US boys
"scale with factor 1.4" to increase the display size by 40%
Just because you have multiple partners doesn't mean that you have to be "constantly changing partners".

You are totally right, there are many people who run after the "new relationship energy" as other people are ascending the "relationship escalator". I just wanted to point out that there isn't one right way to happiness in relationships :)
For anyone interested in the analog front end design, there's a great chapter in the Art of Electronics 3rd edition that goes over the design of the analog front-end of an autoranging Fluke meter.

Pretty sure it's chapter 5.
I'm going to be honest, London's pollution can be felt (and seen) in one's airways. And it's a bit "different" than other polluted cities.

I don't know why is it so severe. Old cars? Trucks/Buses? Factories? High humidity?
The problem is cleaning. It doesn't happen. Compare how your former communist country tube stations look compared to what there is in London.

The whole lot has to be spotlessly clean for it to work, in London they clean the seats on the trains and do the maintenance work there, but the actual tunnels get cleaned once in a blue moon. The whole thing needs to be polished and polish-able. London Underground isn't built like that.

A fair amount of the dirt is from the streets above, so tyres that wear to also wear the road surfaces, that sort of cruft gets drawn all the way down into the Underground.

As for actual pollution levels then this depends on where you are on the network. TfL don't measure enough to give a heatmap of pollution, updated hourly. Your statistic from the Guardian sounds about right, generally speaking though the particulates are at 10x the EU max levels.

In a communist style country you could have an army of people polishing the tube stations and the tunnels as part of some National Service. But, in a Western Democracy where everyone has to pay a four figure sum for rent + travel no matter how they try and mix it, this isn't going to happen.

They have tried to create magic sweeper trains to hoover everything up but it hasn't been a success. Really that is what is needed as well as the trains being built to 'hoover as they go', using the air-con to filter out all the cruft.
No, he's quite right:

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

Most American and European plastic waste finds its way into landfills.

"In the chart below we see the global distribution of mismanaged plastic waste aggregated by world region. The East Asia and Pacific region dominates global mismanaged plastic waste, accounting for 60 percent of the world total.

There is a wide gap between East Asia and the other regions — South Asia ranks second but contributes around 5 times less with 11 percent of the total. This is followed by Sub-Saharan Africa (9 percent); Middle East & North Africa (8.3 percent); Latin America (7.2 percent); Europe and Central Asia (3.6 percent) and North America (1 percent).

If we aim to address the ocean plastic problem, an understanding of this global picture is important. It highlights the fundamental role of waste management in preventing ocean pollution; whilst countries across North America and Europe generate significant quantities of plastic waste (particularly on a per capita basis), well-managed waste streams mean that very little of this is at risk of ocean pollution. "
Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference
SAS is still used by companies who don't want to use open source tools and would rather pay a lot of money for an established product name and have a support line that they can call if anything goes wrong. Understandably, it's slowly dying out.
> What about the countries you're shipping your plastic waste to

Or ordering from. Their pollution is funded by you.
> 1. It makes readers of The Guardian feel superior?

I think they achieved peak superiority when they organised their readers to send postcards to voters certain counties of Ohio in an attempt to influence the then 2004 Presidential election against Bush. But that was the good type of foreign interference in politics.
The amount of political posturing and grandstanding which goes in London is simply over the top. There are too many politicians seeking attention for dubious causes.

The fact is that pollution in the 70s and 80s was much worse and we are still living here. Traffic in London has greatly reduced over the years.

So where are these pollution concerns coming from? The amount eco posturing is just way over the top.
It might not be suitable in every scenario, but JavaScript or an IFRAME could be viable, especially now that Googlebot will render and follow links rendered via JavaScript.
Unwieldy as a phone, too small for really good web browsing.

What would convince me away would have been something like the Huawei Mate X foldable, before the US had to go all ...
I love the subjects they treat and the teaching style; however, a video is useless to me, i can't follow an argument in video format for some reason. If there were textual transcripts of the same words with static illustrations (or a few, non-automatic animations) it would be much more useful.
Up next: Writing machine code in machine code
>[..] has taken on an ugly yellowish hue.

That might be bromine, which was used as a flame retardant back in the days (and probably still is, but I'm not sure).

A lot of retro gamers are dealing with this issue, giving their beloved Game Boys, C64s or whatever a yellowish look.

Some folks got together and created a mixture they call "Retr0bright" [1], which consists of hydroperoxide, Tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED) as a catalyst, and finally uv light. It "reverses" the effect, though it might reappear after time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright
Having lived in Berlin and now living in London I asked the same.

The monthly ticket that is very common in Germany either doesn't exist here or is ridiculously expensive. Even if you go by tube on a daily basis you are better off paying for each trip.
Staring into the void: Primer for budding microbiologists
Here's another approach: https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/html-includes/

<iframe src="/images/includespost/htmlexample.html" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body||this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()"></iframe>

Given that Googlebot will render and use JavaScript now, I'd be intrigued as to whether this works with it, but client side it seems OK.
AU$400 per fortnight for train tickets! Astonishing.

No one one in fifty Briton's live in Australia.
The article says something about the legality of this, in the second-to-last paragraph. I'd be interested to know whether the laws of other EU countries would allow this kind of "positive action", as I believe it's called. It sounds to me as if it what they're doing would be illegal in England, where, as I understand it, you are allowed to encourage members of an underrepresented group to apply, but if you employ one of them instead of a better-qualified candidate then you have broken the law.
SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks
Shipping cost should be given before asking your credit card data. Doing otherwise is unacceptable.
Creating a Custom Carousel in React
It seems like you're taking this too personally... The article was published in the US News section and covers research of an American historian, so it's not surprising that it focuses on Americans. Of course this is a world-wide issue, but definitely related to the modern culture of consumerism.
The measurement methods for current and voltage are different. Current is usually measured by inserting a small resitor in the circuit and measure the voltage over the resitor. You would need at least three cables to measure both current and voltage simultaneously. And the SMT32 would need to do (alternating) measurements on two voltage channels.
What was the average size of those teams?
Prof. Matoušek [1] was arguably one of Europe's best dual scientists/textbook writers of his time. If you are a math/CS theory persond and you are interested in picking up a book of his, I recommend "Mathematics++: Selected Topics Beyond the Basic Courses" [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Matou%C5%A1ek_(...

[2]: https://bookstore.ams.org/stml-75

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Also, can't help myself but mention (in good spirits) that this is a repost:

> 33 Miniatures: Mathematical and Algorithmic Applications of Linear Algebra [pdf] (cuni.cz)

> 2 points by NotOscarWilde on Dec 27, 2013 | past | web
It's not just the high cost, but the absolutely baffling fare structures and restrictions on travel.

To go from London to Cheltenham in the afternoon you can pay anything from £21.50 to £50.10 depending on how far in advance you buy the ticket and what route you take (direct is cheaper than change at Bristol).

And then there's a mix of restrictions or no restrictions (and those aren't always tied to price, some expensive tickets will have restrictions).

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/YU
Driving in central London is much more expensive than the tube given the congestion charge and the ultra low emission zone.
Copying my comment from above...

I am an "expert" in static type systems (I'm familiar with Java, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, Go, TypeScript, C++ ... and keep up to date with latest type systems research like 1ML, MLsub, Liquid Haskell, ...), but I have a really hard time imagining how one would develop a statically typed library that would even approximate the usefulness and convenience (for rapid prototyping and interactive data analysis) of Python's Pandas (although if I was a betting man, I'd wager the best language to implement it in would be Scala, with it's advanced macros & almost-dependent type system).