skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange that an NYT got facts about NYT wrong:

* You don't have to "talk" with a CSR online, it's a chat window

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Partly Yes. If they are used correctly, then they are fine, but often they are used to create all kinds of hidden side effects - sometimes even global side effects.

The other issue is that macro authors tend to create embedded DSLs. That makes the code hard to understand, unmaintainable and write-only-once in the long run.

Strangely, I find the Scheme and Lisp community to be pretty good at creating reasonable macros. (With exceptions, I'm not a fan of the LOOP macro.) Maybe that's because they use them less for syntactic sugar and more for really expanding the language. Still, there are too many DSLs and you can be lucky if you understand your own CL code ten years later.
We're not dealing with random defects, we're dealing with agents and their agendas.

That's a reasonable point, but people mostly don't tell me "It's a trust issue. I would pay if I believed I could trust the motives of the author/source."

The overall attitude expressed is consistently "I'm simply not going to pay for writing. If writers want a middle class income, they should get a real job."

Once in a great while someone will agree with the general point that if you want to be able to trust what an author is saying, you need to pay them for their writing and not expect them to monetize with ads or sponsors because that introduces a conflict of interest. One person cited Consumer Reports as an example of this model and why they pay for a subscription.

But that's the exception, not the rule. Most comments here consistently express the attitude that they simply will not pay for writing and writing is not a real job.

At the same time, journalists get attacked for not doing their job adequately well, etc. It mostly falls on deaf ears to point out that journalism simply doesn't pay what it used to and there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the lack of adequate pay and the lack of quality writing.
What is easy for you is a months salary for someone else. Keep in mind that HN is read all over the globe and that if $129 is 'pocket change' for you that you are the exception, not the rule, and a lucky one at that.
I would argue that a far better solution is community maintained software like what’s used on many open source OSes. Occasionally these end up with backdoors inserted by large governments but it’s no where near as bad as what happens with smartphone apps.
I agree with this too but this problem can be addressed by caring. I care. You can find a bunch of non-native interactions in my app but every time I work on it I make it better and implement more of a native feel (like disabling selecting text when you shouldn't be able to, etc).

It's a balance - personally I think apps that focus on a specific platform is exclusionary. So accepting some non-native feel means more people can use my app.

I agree that browsers make it hard though.
Don't know how good it is, but there is Heliborne available on steam, reviews seem decent.
There are no end of ESP32 dev boards but if you're new to working with MCUs I'd always recommend starting with something from Adafruit or Sparkfun. They just have way more documentation and support.

So I'd go with something like an Adafruit ESP32 Feather [0]. Sure it's super impressive that one can pick up a perfectly functional anonymous board on eBay for almost nothing but, for getting started, $20 for something from Adafruit will save you a lot of initial hassle.

MicroPython on ESP32 [1].
MicroPython specifically on the Adafruit ESP32 Feather [2].

[0] https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather?v...
[1] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro....
[2] https://github.com/pvanallen/esp32-getstarted
I wonder if hospitals will also start to sue over the EO to provide costs up front? On one hand this seems super helpful, but on the other hand, it seems pretty impossible with our healthcare system.
Kaiser's cool until you try to get mental health treatment through them. Then they become a comedy of cynical errors.

First, they make you get evaluated by one of their psychs. Take depression for this example. Unless you're having suicidal thoughts, according to Kaiser, you don't have depression. So no, therapy is not covered.

So, you say "no really, I am demonstrating every symptom of depression other than suicidal tendencies, I just want a therapist." ok fine we've got a troublemaker over here demanding the healthcare they pay for, stick'm in a room with 10 other patients and an unconcerned therapist, call it "group therapy," done.

"But I don't want a room full of random people to know about the shit I go through in my life or my past abuse. I have depression, I want therapy." Fine, you have overcome the requisite 3 months of phone calls and bullshit that filters out 90% of our insurees, so you get to be on the waiting list for one of the five Kaiser approved therapists in the bay area. Next appointment: 2021.

Of course, you could always just pay out of pocket, between 100$ and 200$ a session...
Using 2Mb with MSVC instead of 1Kb with MASM. Such a wasteful world.
> Accessibility is important to us. Whatever your abilities are, if you want to fly, we are going to do whatever we can to make that happen. Yoke and pedals, mouse and keyboard, controller, etc. No pilot should be left behind.

Although not needing it myself, as an interaction designer I was really impressed by the accessibility support for the Xbox One[0]. Glad to see Microsoft keep up their commitment to this!

[0] https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessibility
I've got a Zero running my PedalPi guitar pedal from ElectroSmash and a 3 running with a USB dongle as a digital radio hotspot (soon to be upgraded to an MMDVM board with PiStar).
Are they beating PayPal by the length of that list?
Hyperdom v2 Released
I got this relay board [0], then took the power supply from an old sprinkler control system and spliced its leads in. From there, it's dead simple to control using the GPIO python library. I eventually want to monitor things like temperature, soil moisture, and forecast to determine the watering schedule, but right now I just have a cron job that switches the valves on and off a few times a week.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KTELP3I
Why will BTC price crash? People holding USDT will want to sell USDT possibly at discount. You can sell USDT for either USD or BTC. That will only create buying pressure for BTC, pushing it up.
As I remember the book it was the humans probing the neutron star with something (x-rays?) in order to survey/study the star that triggered the evolutionary advances in the cheela. So no, it wasn't curious timing, the humans precipitated the rise of the cheela.

Great book btw, hope I'm remembering it correctly.
Currently GTK3, because Qt is too large and bulky. It works, although the Go bindings are missing some essential features, Custom TextBuffer serialization seems to be missing and I hope I will be able to implement it myself or work around it.
i really loved xul form mozilla.
i build a lot of tiny apps with it, unfortunately it's no longer supported.

I also used it to build the kind of bridge you mention, it was for dynamically build gui for cli apps that did job processing (but it was a basic bridge with few functionality), and also some crud form from the database schema.
The individuals might not survive that long. Or might not quietly accepts the situation if the majority votes for Trump regardless. I understand that dying quietly would be less of a hassle but dying on easily preventable causes rarely is friction less.

I would also suggest asking yourself why you view protests outside of peoples houses less civilized then them condemning people to death to make a bigger profit.
Not only memory is the problem with electron, but also app feeling.
Skype left is the only electron app I'm using. And comparing to desktop messaging app (telegram):
1. Skype unresponsive. Opening chat takes up to few seconds.
2. I see how opened chat is literally updating -- messages, avatars, emoticons emerges from dust
3. Selecting messages as messages in native vs selecting messages as text with surrounding artefacts (chat is a html page with all what comes with it)

Summarizing, electron apps are just feels like foreigners.
are we talking the same thing, I am thinking of the pens I used to use that you would dial the dosage in and then push the plunger. In Canada, those pen fills costed about 70 vs 36 for the vials, but they also had 15mL of insulin vs 10mL. So about 1/3 more with the syringes and needles being about the same price.

The problem isn't their choice of insulin delivery, it is that there are no price controls and an incentive to increase prices without any significant loss in sales. This is an area that government need to be all over.
> not really caring about you or knowing anything about being alive other than the priorities built into its software".

Is that really "general" intelligence, then? I would argue we don't know today whether consciousness and agency are separable from general intelligence. You could say that "general intelligence" implies some degree of intelligence on any topic, which would include self-reflection and metacognition.

It sounds to me like you're describing something like a p-zombie[0], which we don't know to be able to exist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
It’s not going to remain that way.

The modern marketing campaigns against meats and dairy are designed to move food production into even more vertically integrated, easy to control and high margin businesses.

As climate change impacts California, you’ll see more upward price pressure on produce, which will drive more business to alternative manufactured food.

Basically, you’ll see that what happened to water happen to food.
I’m not a database guy and I only know enough SQL to get me through whatever task I need ro be complete. I used MemSQL at my last job and it seemed like an interesting idea.

Can open source solutions provide the same features as MemSQL, MSSQL, and Oracle. can one db provide all of the features as the three above? If so, are there any technical reasons to go with them? Or any proprietary database.

My intiution is that they are probably providing less and less value over time as the tech and knowledge diffuse into the open sphere. Is this true?

I would appreciate some answers to the above questions!
This is interesting. Could you explain this please?
From the links, it seems like his main criticism of Dawkins is actually merely the word "selfish" in the title of his book, and that the CEO of Enron liked it?

Yes, Dawkins is saying that "universal love" does not have an evolutionary component, which seems like a fairly uncontroversial claim.

It seems like your criticism of Dawkins is more a criticism of how other people have misunderstood him, rather than any criticism of the arguments in The Selfish Gene itself?

If you haven't, I highly suggest you read Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind". While it's at a popular level, it does a fairly good job at presenting a plausible framework for how moral behavior (like altruism) can emerge from evolutionary principles. [1] Haidt is probably one of the most influential moral psychologists today.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Relig...
It's a bit more than that. They did a lot of work to port the platform to 64 bit and modernize the rendering engine, content, etc. I'm an x-plane person myself as well but p3d is pretty impressive in its own right and probably still has better commercial content. X-plane is catching up rapidly though in that respect and e.g. the recent orbx scenery looks amazing. Also stuff like simheaven and ortho4xp are amazing free add ons for x-plane.
N dimensions can give you 2^N degrees of freedom.

If you have 3 spatial dimensions x, y, z, then you can have 3 degrees of freedom by translation and scaling along those dimensions. You can also have another 3 degrees of freedom by rotation around planes x^y, x^z, and y^z. I'm not sure what degrees of freedom are represented by the dimensionless scalar and pseudoscalar x^y^z, but probably one of them is mana points, and the other is hit points.

Two spatial dimensions give you two translation/scaling axes (x, y), one rotation (x^y), and one stamina points (scalar).

A 4x4 transformation matrix has 16 values, suggesting 4 dimensions, but it doesn't have 16 degrees of freedom, because several values are constrained. Nine values have three degrees of freedom, three other values have three more, and four are fixed, with zero degrees of freedom. Those six degrees of freedom suggest three dimensions, where two of the potential degrees of freedom are ignored.

So a higher-dimensional mathematical space can embed a lower-dimensional model, if the constraints are clever enough, and map the degrees of freedom onto the right dimensions or combination of dimensions. This might be useful for generating smoother animations using linear interpolation, or avoiding gimbal lock, or attempting to unify gravitation with electronuclear forces, or something else.
All taxpayers should. They chose the government, and they're responsible for it. If you don't like footing the bill for a crappy policy, then do a better job voting.
Keep as little money as possible in the demand deposit accounts. Use cash or credit cards as much as possible.

Any extra you spend withing a year should be put into money market, or government bonds. Choose the maturity correctly.
Something I also wonder, but in respect of Ensemble Studios and the Age of Empires.
It's not though, typical VPN provider claims.

Network Traffic Encryption

Protect all passwords, communications, and other sensitive
network data with AES-256 encryption, mitigating any
attempts to monitor your electronic activity.
Stop staring at your phone (kidding)
Internet Archive Closed for Maintenance
Hire for Aptitude, Pay for Performance
Also they are exempt from state and local property tax and can reinvest their federal taxes... so their claim that they aren't paid for by taxes is kind of disingenuous because they also don't pay them, which is essentially a huge payout to them from the government.

I don't mind having the post office, because the government and the courts need a way to reliably deliver mail to anyone and have it certified and all that, but there's no excuse for them to have a monopoly.
My SO takes a drug that also varies wildly in cost [0]. Some insurances will price it at ~$3/mo, while others will price it at ~$10,000/mo. Yes, really. I've had to turn down a fair few job offers due to this issue with insurance. Once, after I told them that I had to turn down the offer I was told: "Don't throw your career away". Like, dude, it's the health of my SO, I have no choice, get better insurance.

The funny thing is that this drug is given to horses in their feed. Like how we just put Vitamin D in our milk or Iodine in our salt, they put this drug in horse feed. I've tried to buy it this way, but you need a vet's license in this state to buy it wholesale. If things get bad, I'll try to buy it off of farriers or something and then dilute it down.

So, to be clear, my SO takes a drug so cheap they literaly toss it into horse feed, but some insurances will try to charge us ~$1000/gram for this.

[0] It's not really a drug per se, it's more of a supplement in that it does not cross the blood-brain barrier. It interacts in a more digestive sense.

P.S. I've written before about the issues with CU-Anschutz and vaccinations here and it may be interesting to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19760317
Not true, the law applies to making it easy to opt-out of automatic renewal

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
While this doesn't answer your question, it indicates people on the team realize folks outside would ask - what happened? From the page:

"..Thank you for being patient enough to weather the turbulence caused by some of our previous missteps. Thank you for being willing to look to the possibilities of the future while asking us to be accountable for the past. .."
I think there's a lot of room between "we can't know their names lest any of them get inconveniently shamed" and "burn them to the ground".

But yes, I agree with the rest of what you're saying at least partially. Root causes are important, I just think there's a danger of going from that principle to never actually doing anything because we're looking for one more link in the chain and ignoring the assholes right in front of us.
Can it run Windows 10 with the 4GB RAM model?
But the temperature was 462K (about 189C), far beyond room temperature, or what we'd expect to store data at. This is just the temperature at which the expected lifetime is the age of the universe, which has no bearing on the technology itself.
Here's the script: https://github.com/benrad/pydydns

This is specifically for Route53 since that's where I handle my DNS records. I think it would probably be trivial to modify it to work with another DNS provider with an API, though.

It's quite old and probably ugly, but it's been working flawlessly for several years so I haven't really mucked with it much since I created it.
Companies eliminate each other all the time. Maybe--and I only say maybe--physical assault of executives is not an option.

But companies do things like dump product to drive a competitor bankrupt, and then raise their prices back up. After that happens a few times, people get the message that there is no money to be made competing with them.

Or they play patent games and litigate the competition either out of business, or strongarm them into joining a patent cartel.

The tools may be different, but without specific anti-monopoly and anti-cartel regulation that is enforced aggressively, companies will ruthlessly drive markets towards monopolies or cartels.
Wow!

https://www.memory-of-mankind.com/how-is-information-kept-le...

> The geology of the mountain will allow the MOM archive to fully close itself by a natural phenomenon: the salt “flows” with a speed of 2 cm/year into any void. This will protect the archive from the greatest threat; man himself.

> The pressure which results from the weight of the mountain and a hypothetical ice shield of 5 km thickness is approximately a fifth of the burst pressure of the used materials.
Yeah I have one of those too. They recently added sync (through your phone) to dropbox/evernote, which makes it even more useful. It's a great device - zero distraction digital notetaking.

According to one of their support agents, their sales numbers were low. Personally I think their marketing sucked - they seemed to be targeting kids rather than students/business users. Their styling reflected this identity crisis too.

They have a product coming later in the year which will "address some of the same needs", TBD though how thoroughly it'll be a fill-in for it. In the meantime I bought a protective folio case for mine and am babying it.
Yup. In some cases it's not actually the app doing this either. That is to say, the devs at Yoyodyne Inc, who wrote the functionality you're actually paying for, also had to include some third-party SDKs for ads or SSO or analytics or whatever as part of the business requirements. And this is the problem: that SDK has all the same permissions as the code that the devs can see and audit. Even if the app isn't explicitly passing info into the SDK for tracking, the SDK can do whatever the heck it wants. (And there are sneaky workarounds like IP-based geolocation, which isn't perfect but also can't be easily stopped.)

This is not to absolve the company that incorporated the SDK of responsibility; but it's also worth noting that in a lot of cases they're probably not doing it deliberately, aren't benefiting directly, and may not even know that it's happening. We, as iOS developers selling an app to our users, absolutely should know, but don't always.

This is something that I think engineers should be pushing back on the business side whenever we can. These leaks that we open up aren't worth the gain. I would love it if Apple came up with a way to expand their extension model and let us easily sequester third-party code. We'll see if something like that develops.
Where is the Visa press release? Where is the Uber CEO interview on Libra?

The Libra membership list is kind of meaningless, given that none of the partners seem to have any interest of promoting the project... mainly Zuck just asked these companies "Hey, you want to be on a list for a tech project for some free PR?" and until we hear more from the partners there's no reason to take this list seriously.
Why? The Forza games look that good, and Microsoft can just ask the Forza people for the code, they own Turn 10 and Playground Games. It's certainly possible to do that, although I shudder to ask what sort of a rig was required to do that.
That's a completely different thing and also not what the article is about.

But in any way, I don't understand that meme. When tether becomes worthless, there will be a lot of uncertainty and maybe some people will panic sell, but how does it actually affect the people who don't give a shit about tether?
There's also https://github.com/zserge/webview, gives you the system browser engine in a window, and you can evaluate Javascript from the native side, or call a native function from the Javascript side with a string argument (usually a JSON payload).

The "hello world" which opens a webpage in a window is just a single line of C code and produces a 26 kilobytes executable on macOS.
A Cool SQL Problem (and Why It Is Also a Bullshit SQL Problem)
Like everyone else's who prefers to have a GC. Go's GC is fine for all of my use cases and I'd rather not spend endless times musing about lifetime annotations and how to 'trick' the borrow checker into doing what I want. Technology should serve humans, not vice versa.
> If a company was losing money for the first 11 months out of 12, that's an expected result.

I dunno what you think you are trying to achieve. Revolut is not profitable
Author seemed to have some valid points - issues that are part of the normal healing process are being diagnosed & treated via antidepressants.

The part I'm not so sure I agree with is the "system is too jammed up so don't come," sentiment.

I think if someone is having a hard time & they want to reach out to a medical professional that's probably for the best.

Unfortunately that does shift the burden onto the system to train professionals to determine the difference between prescribing antidepressants or talk and time therapy. It's a lot easier to write someone that prescription than hear them out.
Thank you both for the correction!
As far as I am aware both windows and linux (several distros) use swap by default. On windows it will be a file on the C drive and on Linux it will be a swap partition.

Of course they are not going to swap unless they have to, but they will swap in default configuration.
We're not talking about what the law says, we're talking about whether it's misleading.

If the amount from which it was discounted is utterly meaningless, then why mention it at all? Because the seller wants the buyer to believe the item is more valuable than it really is. That's why it's misleading.

The fact that the deception is legal, doesn't mean it's not deceptive. It is deceptive. It is very clearly, obviously, intentionally deceptive. The seller wants the buyer to believe they're getting a great deal that they're not getting, because the product was never actually meaningfully sold at that original price. That original price only exists to mislead the buyer.
If you do end up going the 'learn piano' route check out 'pianobooster', it is the most patient teacher you'll ever have.