skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On recycling we're mostly on the same page, only you may have missed the part where recycling paper is not just pointless but harmful - when paper hits the landfill it sequesters the carbon out of the air and into the ground. Recycled paper remains in circulation, thus reducing incentive for tree growers to plant more trees [3].

Medical errors kill a huge number of people [1]. It's less of a problem for you of course if you don't have a need to be near a doctor. Flu kills tons of people too, mostly those with immune system problems, mostly the elderly [2]. Agree on car deaths. Everything else on that list is much smaller. Of note, police killings (both justified and not) are on the same plane as bathtub drownings (less than 2x difference).

Crime is way down, as you noted. It wasn't an euphemism though, it's a question of whether one would allow an unsupervised child outside. There was never a safer time.

Civil liberties are on the march. 10 years ago gays could not marry, 20 years ago they went to jail for having sex, 70 years ago they were mutilated, earlier still they may have been killed. Black kids today face injustice, 50 years ago they were not allowed to enter school (or bus), 100 years ago they were facing the klan, 150 years ago there were considered property. Women today have higher earning power than men, 50 years ago they were chased/laughed out of any medium-to-high-paying job, 100 years ago they could not vote and they employment prospects were worse still. Divorce was an option for women 100 years ago. Protesting against the war 100 years ago would send you to jail for sedition, that is to say 100 years ago we did not have the freedom of speech. The progress is dramatic.

Zimbabwe shows us that fiat can be messed up, but does it show that it is inherently messed up? There is a small number of conditions that allow fiat currency to be rock solid. Detractors usually point out fiat is only viable due to trust (unlike gold) and people may just stop wanting it one day. They forget that fiat is always in high demand by the people who must have taxes, and this captive audience cannot stop wanting.

Well, that was fun! Would you like to go on? I might have messed something up here, and surely have some hangups of my own.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading...

[2] https://www.verywellhealth.com/deaths-from-flu-2633829

[3] http://www.paperbecause.com/paper-is-sustainable/paper-truth...
Right, so smuggle my Californium inside a rare shark swimming in a tank of water. That would make for an interesting news story!
You spend a minuscule amount of time with Dialogs. You spend Most of the time in the project window itself, the mixer, transport, and all the plugins. None of those use standard controls. If they did, they would've pleased all blind users (assuming they do implement the accessibility features you mention), but turned off everyone else because of the bland, ugly and difficult to use UI, not to mention that there are only a very limited set of standard controls. I doubt Reaper would be the success it is now, if it were so.

Having said that, hey, this is Open Source! Like Reaper, I am willing to support accessibility if you, or anyone else is willing to do the extra effort.
Wheat prices don’t seem to be particular affected;

https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-cha...
So if I borrow money from a bank and store it in an envelope labeled bank’s money, and then get robbed. Did the bank get robbed ?
I wonder if water export can become an industry in the same manner as petroleum or natural gas? With solar power getting so inexpensive I wonder if we could fill a very slow solar power tanker and ship it to the middle east at costs lower than desalinization? Thoughts anyone?

It might not be so crazy. At one-time shipping ice around the world was a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade
Could easily be placed at the top of a magic trackpad, even if it's two rows or something. IMO it's a much more natural fit that way and could be easily added onto any machine for the, I want to say 10, people who find it useful. Or, get this, above the row of function keys on a magic keyboard.
Slight nitpick. OpenShift, since its latest major version (3?) is Kubernetes. It's mostly a repackaging/distribution of k8s. OpenShift can run on top of AWS/Azure/GCP, but also, most importantly, OpenStack.
Humans are bad at distinguishing small but close from large but far away for abstract ideas like climate.
They are both in portage should you want them.
I think it's hidden very well because if "you" are aware of it, you will influence it, which means it will be unreliable, and that is a major malfunction which we colloquially call "insanity".

If you want evidence, read Kafka, read Incompleteness (about Kurt Godel), read Schreber's "Memoirs of my Nervous Illness".
The title says "Wozniac" but it really should be with a final "k", as in "Wozniak".
Does the US have laws against this type of negligence?
"It has a fan, but the fan is useless" is worse than merely having a useful fan :/.
"hey, joe, that family saloon is dragging its fat ass across the floor: do you think it has a lot of depleted uranium inside it?"

I guess the cost of uprated springs is worth it, to the dedicated smuggler.
It was only declassified in 2015, but WMDs were discovered in Iraq circa 2005 by Operations Avarice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_des.... There are counterarguments against the validity of Operation Avarice’s discoveries in justifying the Iraq War, although I admittedly don’t know much about the topic.
UAC is not a security boundary, unfortunately :(
Obviously it had to be public research, because big pharma is a lot more interested in managing chronic conditions...

Pretty glad my taxes helped pay for that research...
The "catastrophic climate consequences predicted in 1980" is pure propaganda.

Even as far back as 1970, climate predictions in papers were overwhelmingly for warming, not cooling. And those which predicted cooling were focused on the effects of smog. However smog has largely disappeared thanks to environmental regulations enforced by organizations such as the EPA, and with it its localized cooling effects. By 1980, predictions of cooling were essentially gone from the scientific literature.

However every last report that can be found of someone predicting cooling in any context (eg nuclear winter) gets press along with the message that those darned scientists were wrong again. The fact that they were always a minority view doesn't.
Hard to beat, even for Apple:

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
I think they're all valid points worth debating but wrt this article's framing, the contents of the AirDrop don't seem to have anything to do with the Hong Kong protests. Infant milk powder, train ticket score etc could just as well be in random Falun Gong pamphlets you get in Chinatowns abroad.

At this point, I'm not even sure the protest (communist black helicopters will come pick you up to CCP black sites where you'll get waterboarded for criticizing China) has anything to with the thing being protested (extradition for crimes punishable under HK laws with 7+ years in prison (which criticizing China hopefully is not)), but that's a different story.
I hear that's what many saw, the message they got. And it's clear many still see and hear the same. And that had and continues to have a real impact.

But to do Larry justice it's important to acknowledge that he specifically did not move onto a different project. He was pushed by the Perl community to start on a new version of Perl and he did so. He then dedicated a large chunk of the next two decades of his life to it, to Perl, and continues to do so, despite misunderstandings like the ones you're expressing and outright hostility from some in the Perl community. And all this while arguably he's done the best thing that could be done for Perl.

In 2000 he said:

> We have to be better, not just get there faster. ... We are determined to do the right thing by everyone. To this we pledge our lives

When asked in 2018 "Why didn't you pick something different?" he said: [2]

> Because I wanted to go to a Perl conference. I didn't want to go to a Perl and something else conference.

> You guys are Perl people. All of you.

> You know at the beginning we thought that [Perl 5 and Perl 6] might be a little closer together and they did diverge a little more than than we thought they would but by and large you know I think of Perl not as a particular syntax or engine but as a a set of philosophies of language design that you don't find any anywhere else in any other language. And both Perl 5 and Perl 6 follow those philosophies so on that level they are very closely related languages. They're both how I think.

> And the third leg of that is you know one can look back and say well you know maybe it would have helped the marketing of Perl 6 if it had had a different name but I'm not sure that it would have helped the marketing of Perl 5 to have a different name from Perl 6. I don't think that Perl 6 really stole any mindshare from Perl 5 at all.

[1] https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJNPOs-Q20&t=44m
16th-Century Poison Cabinet Created from Hollowed Out Book
Swore I'd never buy another Mac but bought one this week (had a Dell XPS15 for a year and a half) to supervise a cross-platform app development project and many things were annoying me with NixOS (clean but not quite there yet for desktop use and may never be: too many missing packages) which had replaced Gentoo (~biannual reinstall required due to portage rot), neither of which work perfectly on laptop hardware. (Also much of my Linux work is now embedded or remote and banks here in China require Windows VMs.) Wound up just going for it, not disappointed but fairly expensive as always.

It's true, the touch bar is annoying, and I am a vi user so escape is critical. But it's not really any more annoying than adjusting between apple keyboards and PC keyboards: a bit of muscle memory. I just wish you could disable the whole thing entirely, at least the lights, while keeping the escape key. Haven't figured out right click on the touchpad yet, it's currently quite irritating. The press-to-drag brightness is kinda cool, and the fingerprint lock is also cute. The Mac is about 1/2 the weight of the Dell, although the Dell was last-year's model on sale 1.5 years ago so that's to be expected. My back will thank me on business trips. USB-C is the biggest physical adjustment, and I'm all for it. Yet to select an appropriate external keyboard (might buy Apple) or HDMI adaptor (won't buy Apple), happy to take recommendations.
But not whether its going to be 3 degrees hotter in 50 years and not whether its because of humans or natural patterns. This is the part of the story we somehow always forget.
Except the US really, really, really needs it. Just in different parts of the US.
My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 4: Analyzing the Cul-de-Sac
The last Nexus was released 4 years ago. The two pixel models and the OnePlus 7 make 3 choices of currently manufactured models.
I think you are exaggerating how confusing the apple product stack is. I'm no apple fan and I know roughly what to expect from each model.

the air is the low end model (for apple at least); you get this if you want the cheapest possible apple laptop. if you want to spend more money, you pick between the ultraportable macbook or a more powerful macbook pro.

I couldn't tell you the difference between all the iphones and ipads off the top of my head, but if you're having a hard time deciding what you want, it's probably because you're not thinking about it the way apple wants you to. it's actually a pretty simple process. 1) look at and touch the different models and pick the form factor you want. 2) increase the specs until it costs as much as you're willing to pay. if the base model of your chosen form factor is too expensive, go back to 1) and pick a different one.

if you care about the fact that macs tend to lag the latest processor skus by one or two generations, "you're holding it wrong."
Not in the Southwestern United States, where recent studies indicate that the odds for decades-long "megadrought" are as high as 99%.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600873.full
> What does the future hold for Pinboard? Death! The bus that one day comes for us all! The skeletal, icy hand on an unprepared shoulder! Pain, a flash of light, then numbing darkness. So back up your bookmarks.

I love this sentence, and the spirit of it.
Make it possible for me to restart with space-bar! So I can play, play, play, play without having to switch my right-hand to mouse.
TBF there had been a programme. It was defunct, and the evidence of continuance was weak, and it was a totally manufactured crisis, but they had been on the hunt. In no way does this justify the war, and subsequent events.
To be fair, the UK is not in the US, no matter how many high school students might guess that it is...
Right. You want to see my papers? I'm flattered, here you go. Oh, I don't have them? Then I'll just throw a hissy-fit like any self-respecting American would and then move along my way.
And you know there wasnt something wetter 150 years ago how?
Startup Lesson #7: Your first (and only) goal is product/ market fit
I also received a touchbar Mac for work and within a week handed it back in exchange for a slightly older Mac without one. I realized I need a physical escape key. Getting the buttons back felt like an upgrade.
Compliance with article 7 section 4 in particular (provision of service must not be conditional on consent for processing of personal data not necessary for provision of that service) is blatantly ignored by many actors

In fairness, that's because it's a legislative over-reach that the EU wants to enforce extra-territorially, but a lot of businesses outside the EU's jurisdiction have declined to undermine their entire business model because a foreign government decided they should.

It is reasonable to say that people should have a choice about things like being tracked, and that such tracking may only be used with the subject's informed consent. This protects the privacy of those who value it by default.

However, IMHO it is not reasonable to say that organisations that fundamentally rely on such data processing to be financially viable must then continue to provide service to users who choose not to participate. That's an entirely one-sided deal, and it's logically unsustainable to require businesses to operate on that basis. You'd never tell a bricks and mortar grocery store that if someone came in but didn't have any money with them then the store still had to let them take a chocolate bar and eat it, and I don't see the effects of the GDPR in this respect as any better than that.
That's a mystery. Maybe because of the same reason they axed obex
You ever see the movie Waterworld? Some people actually believe that to be a possibility.
Are you aware of a current model phone that is officially supported by lineageos?
“Focusing is about saying no.” -Steve Jobs, WWDC ‘97

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/focusing-is-about-saying-no-s...
"executives at YouTube began mulling, once again, the problem of online speech. On grounds of freedom of expression and ideological neutrality, the platform has long allowed users to upload videos endorsing noxious ideas, from conspiracy theories to neo-Nazism."

They're not "mulling" anything. YouTube, and Google's search engine, are engaging in effective censorship of non-mainstream political content (both left and right wing, by the way) - for a couple of years now.

See this report already in 2017:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/27/goog-j27.html

and everyone knows how for, what is it now, a couple of years or so, YouTube pushes mainstream news media items when you watch over political content - videos which used to have almost no views, and are now artificially massively popular.
> Maybe Ubuntu could pivot into this space.

Canonical is already in that market and has been for a long time. I work for Pivotal, we have a contract which gives us all-the-gold support for Ubuntu, because that's what we're shipping to our customers.

Disclosure: Pivotal competes with Red Hat/IBM in the cloud platform market.
I think you're right. In Europe macs are not used as tools for professionals, but as toys for rich kids. You never see macbooks in any company unless they are an Apple shop but if you go in the old town center, in the most hipster cafes, you only see youths with macs.
Interestingly, I implemented every mitigation listed in the article: kill the web server process, remove and add an empty directory at `~/.zoomus` to prevent it being re-added, remove Firefox's content type action for Zoom, and disable video turning on when Zoom launches. When I visit a Zoom join link or the POC link above, Firefox prompts me to open the Zoom client to join the meeting, and when I click "Open Link" the client opens just as it should and joins the meeting.

This seems to confirm that there is no functionality to create a seamless experience for the user that actually requires the presence of the web server. If you don't have the client installed the page can prompt you to download it the same as it would the very first time you download and install it. You can ask your browser to remember the link association and not be prompted for which app the link should open going forward. These are minor steps, even for a regular user, and ones with which most users are likely already familiar.

To me this further illustrates that the web server is truly just a ploy on Zoom's part to keep their hooks in users' systems, and have a way in that the user isn't privy to. Any other excuse they are giving about "enhanced experience" is dubious at best and deceitful at worst.
Have you tried Cadquery for FreeCAD? Allows you to build your models in Python
The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago (2003) [pdf]
I know little about modern web development, but I think WebGL is way more efficient on clients.

Even on mobiles, GPUs have much more computing power. They have architecture designed for transforming vertices and computing lightning, very fast and highly parallel.

In best case, SVG will take input triangles and submit them to GPU. Very small overhead (slightly more GPU bandwidth because lightning, when it’s that simple, bandwidth is often more expensive than compute). But in worst case, SVGs will rasterize on CPU, very slow in comparison.

If you rasterize on the server e.g. send jpeg images to browser, it becomes complicated, and depends on many factors like scene complexity and server hardware. Rasterizing triangles is much cheaper on GPU, but JPEG compressor needs data in system RAM not in VRAM, need to download back, relatively slow. Also on many public clouds virtual GPUs are expensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach
I didn't say go to expensive private colleges, I said TELLING people to go to expensive private colleges. And of course, "everyone" is an hyperbole in this context.
Thats safe transportation for avoidance of accidents. If I was smuggling this stuff, I'd use a mule, and I'd pick one who had no consciousness of how dangerous the materials were, and I'd avoid contact with them directly.

I probably wouldn't care about the crash risk: if the cleanup crew is decontaminating a border crossing down south, I can get through up north with the other 1g.

Also, if the mule dies more than 72hrs later, I don't have to bother disposing of the mule.

If you publish the airport thriller, I declare my interest (c)
In 2006 North Korea had a nuke little better than a dirty bomb. These days, in 2019, they've got a 250 kt thermonuclear bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...
the weird ass product names

IME, Apple's product names make more sense than virtually any other computer maker, or auto maker.

Currently computers from Lenovo are:

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6

Yoga C930

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 5

ThinkPad X1 Extreme

Legion Y740

MacBook (RIP), MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro make complete sense comparatively.
"I don't always expose my production database on a public URL, but when I do, I put a 'Disallow' in my robots.txt for it."
So US-only warming instead of global? Confused. Admittedly I may not understand, is US is expected to be impacted differently by global warming than other countries?
I would rather them working on removing subsidies to airlines rather than them adding another tax.
Wait, so does this mean 192.168/16 means 192.0.0.168/16 rather than 192.168.0.0/16?
Teetotalism
And being "radicalized" is a bad thing per se? "radix" means root, in Latin. A radical approach tackles issues at their root. Even adopting moderation needs to be done with some moderation...
That's fine. I myself will continue to purchase from Lenovo, who tried something similar to the Touch Bar and removed it after listening to customer feedback.
I didn't realize Pinboard is only 10 years old. It feels like it's been around forever.
Macbook Pro "improvements" over the last 3-7 years:

* No more matte display

* RAM soldered to the board

* SSD soldered in

* remove all ports except USB-C

* make keyboard worse

* remove function keys, replace with touch surface that's redundant at best

But it's very thin!

And even thinner was the recent Macbook, and if the law of "diminishing returns" matters as little as the usual defenses of all the above tradeoffs in pursuit of light/thin imply, you'd think that that'd be worth keeping.

Maybe there is a limit, and Apple's actually reflected on that?

Or... maybe it's just a recognition that the Air and Macbook had come to a place where there was little distinguishing them. And that really, the MBP is less and less designed/deployed with actual professionals in mind and more and more meant for a prosumer subsegment. In which case reducing focus to two models (general purpose consumer laptop, light netbook) makes sense.
such a great post full of gems like this:

"… Tanja Lange pointed me to this study by Wouter de Groot, who performed actual measures on some Cortex-M3 devices, from which it appeared that a short cycle count could occur not only in the documented case (operands fit in 16 bits) but also when one or both of the operands is zero or a power of 2. In the case of MUL31(), this means that the underlying umull will complete in 5 cycles, except if one or both of the two operands are zero, in which case the umull will complete in 4 cycles. …"
The chargeback thing, plus most games are fiddly and complicated to pirate these days. (And many multiplayer games can't be pirated at all if you want to play online.) IMO, the #1 reason for the decline of PC game piracy is that Steam makes it so much easier to just buy the game.

But buying a G2A code is almost as easy as buying from Steam. And a lot of people who wouldn't pirate for ethical reasons don't realize it's not legit. So G2A turns loses you sales from people who would otherwise have bought the game legitimately.
Anybody run XCode on the Air? How is it? It’s pretty tempting as a MBP no TB replacement.
The answer is "it depends". Their main offering in this space is OpenShift versions 3 and 4. They have different underlying management planes. v3 is on a bunch of different clouds, v4 is still catching up but probably will within the next 12 months or so.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, a competitor in the same space (most directly through PKS).
Ask HN: What are your web dev podcast recommendations?
OpenPGP is unsalvageable. One of the core goals of modern cryptography is to eliminate backwards compatibility with insecure 1990s crypto; OpenPGP instead lovingly preserves it.
what kind of person still use chrome?
London Underground wi-fi data collection 'has huge potential'
I can't predict the cards in my next hand of blackjack, but I'm sure if I play all night the house will win in the end.
I give IBM two quarters before they start layoffs regardless how RH performs.