skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends. I believe that regional feeder connections, where fuel cost is a lower fraction of total expenses than for longer distances would still have a lot of unexplored fuel economy improvement opportunities left. Even speed isn't terribly important there. Unfortunately, due to bigger picture economic incentives, feeder connections would likely be the last to suffer taxation/loss of subsidies.
System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys button on the bottom right

click the "Caps Lock" dropdown and set to escape
Hah, no. They get rich, because the more wealth you have, the easier it is to increase it. Why? Because this is how the rich and powerful have set up the rules of the game.

Personal wealth does not correlate with any sort of "value" you have personally created.
Fixing Random, Part 38
I was skeptical of the move to Firefox Quantum originally because of the extension-breaking, but after it happened, I can see the motivation: after upgrading, Firefox got a lot faster and less prone to memory leaks for me, at least on macOS. As I understand it, the performance improvements in the new Quantum engine were incompatible with the way the old extension API worked, so a new one needed to be introduced. To me the tradeoff was worth it, because the increasing sluggishness of FF compared to Chrome, pre-Quantum, was making it harder to stick with.
Amazon desperately needs to fix their completely broken third-party marketplace. There are entire categories of products I simply won't buy from Amazon as its near impossible to find anything that even approximates an authentic listing with genuine reviews. Yet Amazon does nothing. Amazon genuinely doesn't care that their customers are regularly getting ripped off, given they get their cut regardless.

The depressing thing is that there's probably some Amazon employee sitting at a desk in Seattle or somewhere, who keeps a meticulous model that tracks and compares their losses from returns on fraudulent listings vs. what it would cost them in effort and what they'd lose in commissions from actually doing something about the issue, and Amazon execs have basically decided that since they're making more money from running a marketplace that enables fraud, its somehow justified to continue enabling fraud.

Its basically the same situation as that Ford Pinto case from the 80s where Ford used a cost-benefit analysis to decide that it would be cheaper to settle cases where people were injured or died as a result of a faulty fuel-system, rather than redesign said system.

Hopefully at some point another marketplace with much higher standards and far greater customer protections will emerge and eat into Amazon's market share forcing them to take the issue seriously.
I'm using Debian 9.8 Stretch, released in February.
Checked it, TextEdit has a slightly unusual modal window, generally it works throughout the system.
I might be naive but I do admire what he did to save his employees held hostage in Iran.
There is. You just don't want to spend the money or use the phones/tablets from said competitor.
Hydrofluoric acid. Nasty stuff. I wouldn't want it propagating on the west or any coast.
IBM does not integrate companies beyond putting their logo on stuff. Look at the weather company and Softlayer.
That's an interesting filter.

(tech, econ, whatever)

So if it's "whatever", if you asked me if "Do you read?" and I replied "I read several street signs on my way over here", would that count?
Was about to post that. Our family always visits the museum when we are in Dallas. Amazing place.
Start with them defining, "What is privacy?"
- Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. - source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy

- How does the average customer know they have achieved "privacy". I have a feeling that they have many privacy features, but turned off by default.

- If you start with the end in mind. What does success look like?
Once they start deleting this data because of the potential fines they will wonder why they were collecting it in the first place.
Lol, is this a paid account? This seems to ignore just how bad this issue is.
I would say yes, of course there could be edge cases but I guess if you have to train some ML model you hopefully will have access to some machine with a proper graphics card. The average programming project will be handled just fine by an Air. (I did professional iOS-development on a 11-inch MacBook Air for a while)
Watch the first televised debate, Kennedy/Nixon. It’s an hour of substantive policy discussion.
He only uses a 2018 MacBook Pro because work supplied it.
I've seen this happen in orgs where co-workers are expected to have lunch together, and to go out for drinks after work. Is there something wrong with wanting to have some alone time during lunch, and get away from work for a short time? How about just wanting to go home, and maybe spend time with your family after work? You see your colleagues more than you see your family already, so why make the imbalance even worse?
Why was this honest opinion down-voted?
All of this has been studied and modeled extensively. It's called elasticity of demand. The fact that professional trading firms are selling airline stock, pushing the price down, shows you that yes, this will indeed have an effect.
While I really appreciate their efforts on backwards compatibility support, they also have/had a horrible track record of supporting anything outside windows for more than 2 versions then dropping it entirely.
IIRC the news outlets at the time weren't painting an especially flattering picture of him either. I have a vague memory of stories where the implication was that he was a nutjob with no chance of winning. My local newspaper was pretty conservative leaning though.
Papers have already been written. This one implemented posits on an FPGA: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02131982

The summary:

These architectures are evaluated on recent FPGA hardware and compared to their IEEE-754 counterpart. The standard 32 bits posit adder is found to be twice as large as the corresponding floating-point adder. Posit multiplication requires about 7 times more LUTs and a few more DSPs for a latency which is 2x worst than the IEEE-754 32 bit multiplier.
It's already been beginning: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/realid

A quote:

> If you fly within the United States or enter secure federal buildings and military bases, you will need a valid passport or other federally approved document, such as a REAL ID driver license or identification card, beginning October 1, 2020.

So, we need a passport to go between states, or a REAL ID...
> My understanding is pretty simple: racism is deliberately treating people differently because of race.

That's precisely what I meant by a simplistic, distorted (mis)understanding of racism. I could refer you to wikipedia, but that would be leading a horse to water.
or Prototype... ;-)
Privacy settings:

Would FB be willing to work with a neutral third party group of user experience designers? Let's call them the PWHUX Board for Privacy White Hat User Experience. (Or maybe something else, PWHUX sounds a bit rude in English.)

This PWHUX Board would create standardized user interface conventions for disclosing and controlling personal privacy settings. This same group might work with other datahoovering businesses to establish multi-vendor standards.
Or... Just get a damn touchscreen and use existing tools
I touch type therefore don't look at my hands while using a Mac. It doesn't matter how much I can hack/mod a screen I simply am not looking at, because it distracts from the screen I am looking at. I'd find a customizable "touch bar" below the dock I can use with my mouse more useful than where it is currently located.
> They likely compared the binnary64 with posit16 using the accumulator (aka quire).

As far as I can tell, Klöwer didn't. He mentions around the 13 minute mark (slide 9) that he used the SigmoidNumbers software package for Julia. From the looks of the examples he gives, if he used the quire, it must have happened implicitly. Which IIRC is not how using the quire works.

He did rescale all his inputs to minimize rounding errors that way, and he mentions that this has benefits for posits that floats don't have (because of the tapered precision of posits).
When the parent comment said "they could set up an insurance fund", I believe they didn't mean a literal contract with an insurance company, but a straight up savings fund set up by Marriott to be used in the future specifically for expenses like that.
Not sure if related, but I do note that Amazon EC2 now has an Ubuntu stack option for their lowest tiers instead of their default, weird, not-always-well-supported fork of RHEL that they've been using since inception.

I believe this offering appeared in April.
A general carbon tax should absolutely be paired with a dividend of some kind to offset its effect on the poor.

However consumption patterns by everyone needs to change en masse, and a carbon tax across the board is a no-brainer to adjust individual incentives to achieve this.
http://worrydream.com/#!/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionD...
As someone who has been pregnant and had a baby, it's much more than feeling kicking "sometimes." It's all sorts of movements, and you can even tell which part of the body is where (depending on the position of the baby). They'll even do somersaults in there before they get too big.

The movement is frequent enough that a measure of health for the baby starting about 3/4 of the way through the pregnancy is to have the mother count movements until she reaches 10, which should take between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
You can't compare physical goods to software in relation to price parity. The cost to sell an iPhone in South America is higher for Apple then it is to sell one in the US so it makes sense that they cost more. For a game it costs the same, and costs virtually nothing for each sale.

Google play supports setting different prices by country.
> The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home.

There's UPnP to attempt to automatically configure routers, and failing that there's UDP hole punching to establish a connection beween two NATed peers with a few packets from a third host (STUN or similar). You can use the hosts where UPnP worked to coordinate the connection between NATed hosts.

It's not trivial to implement, but it doesn't look impossible, and for example WebRTC seems to do a decent job.
Opposite here, the magsafe was a constant nuisance, always disconnecting. I like being able to drag the cord with the laptop.
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I have the same problem with video courses. The moment I start to sit and watch, I feel drowsy. It's strange, because I never had it so bad in real life lectures. Did anyone experience the same and find a way to fix themselves?
I can't see how this is true. There are many works of writing that cannot and should be not be translated to convey the full intention of the body of work. Translations can come close, but rarely can they convey the exact meaning and feel the original work can. To call it a failure because people who don't understand the native language don't read it is a travesty, and I can't see how anyone who takes artistic work seriously could agree that an imperfect copy of a work would tantamount to success.

Don't get me wrong, I love reading works from other cultures written in different languages, but I know that what I am reading may not show the true meaning of what the author intended. Does this make me sad? Yeah a little, I'm still glad I read it, but I know I don't get to see it for its true beauty.
Check out The Power Of Now audiobook. As soon as you realize you are not living in the present moment, all of a sudden you are living in the present moment. It’s hard while coding. But stepping back even if you have to set a timer every few minutes to fully feel your body could help. Also, getting and staying in the flow state is very similar. That’s a worthy goal to start with. Hope that helps.
You can, in contrast, say a "p" in isolation, as it is the unvoiced consonant. But the English "p" is actually two sounds-- there's the lips-puffing-air sound, and the lips-stopping-air sound. The same letter is used for both, because context allows them to be coded correctly (subject to accents). Usually, the puff is at the start of a syllable, and either one can be at the end. This is one case where the teacher might not be able to distinguish the two sounds, but the student might be able to recognize them as different, because they don't already have the association that they are both represented by the same letter in English.

"B" is the voiced equivalent, but as voicing comes from the larynx and not the lips, you need an additional symbol to characterize that part of the sound. In that sense, "b" is the combining symbol for "p" and an adjacent voiced sound.

This is why Greek codes English "b" sounds as "μπ". Their "β" is more like partway between "v" and "b" than an English "b". Doing this language hack leaves a mark, so if your name starts with a hard "b", you might be able to detect a native Greek speaker still voicing an "m" before your name, or mispronouncing a "b" in your name as an almost v-like beta. I'd be "Log from Mblammo", for instance, and you might be "Mburfog". If someone teaches the phonics incorrectly, it might leave a similar residue in the student's speech.

Since "b" is not an atomic mouth sound, I wouldn't teach it before "p". I'd introduce it with other voice-added sounds, and use whispering and yelling (for some reason, my kids thought it was fun to yell) or normally-voiced speech to help tell the difference. Like when you whisper "cup" and "cub", they sound the same, but when you yell them, they are different. The "p" stops the voicing at the letter boundary; the "b" lets it bleed through from either side. That's why the "b" can't be by itself--a lone "b" is just a whispered "b", which is actually a "p".

Practice voicing boundaries with "pop", "bop", "pub", "bub", "tot", "dot", "tad", "dad", etc. It might also help reinforce that the written symbols are encoded speech sounds, and that means they have to describe what the lips, tongue, cheeks, jaw, and larynx are doing.

And you might as well tell the student that accents happen when some of the encoding rules get changed. Play a video of someone with a tough-to-understand accent speaking, have the student read a transcript, and then watch it again. One that immediately leaps to mind as kid-friendly is Merida in "Wreck-It-Ralph 2", who essentially says, "May your hearth stay warm, and your pantry full. Come back soon.", but no one else can understand the dialect. Somewhat less kid-friendly is the scene in "Hot Fuzz" that translates a very Northern accent in multiple progressively less-Northern stages, until it can be understood by someone from London.
it’s proof positive imo that profit motive doesn’t always work to the best result... perot’s warning about nafta (among other things) was completely ignored and instead just treated him like a clown because of his accent and looks... makes one wonder what we are doing to candidates today in the media...
>Cody'sLab - chemistry

NileRed is far better (in content, video/lighting quality and Editing). His newer channel NileBlue shows him safely cleaning up and what not.

And he's not currently going through what appears to be a mental breakdown. Cody had the feds come out to his property after he posted several questionable videos (like rushing through an airport talking about blowing himself up, showing all of the radioactive ore and yellow cake he has just laying around, showing videos of jars of poison next to his canned food at home etc) and had his girlfriend leave him around which time he started being super mopey on his channel and wearing chainmail everywhere and using mercury as mouthwash.
Facilitating global warming is a multitrillion dollar business, so that argument is kind of weak.
sexism is not the answer to sexism. It seems we are moving toward a more segregated society, which is sad.
Doesn't this just affect low margin businesses more then?
> "Paying for the damage" is this some kind of joke? What about all the other polluters? Shipping? Coal plants?

Right – tax them too, and distribute the revenue back to households. That way it's not a regressive tax, but a wealth transfer from heavy polluters to regular folks who are bearing the indirect costs of the climate crisis.
Exactly, months. Likes that's enough time to completely rewrite your extension using an half-baked replacement.
To name a few, Cookie-Autodelete [1] had to wait 7 months to get an API to clear the LocalStorage; noscript [2] lost tons of functionality and will probably never recover;

[1]: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issue...

[2]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/01/noscripts-rating-drops-aft...
Exactly. It's like recycling. It lets people feel like they're doing something, raises prices, but doesn't actually achieve any of the objectives used to market it.

If you want to reduce pollution, regulate it, cap it, and provide penalties for breaching limits that far outweigh the profits for cheaters. Simply taxing everything never changes behavior.
I am a developer. The Touch Bar is useless to me. I remapped Caps lock to Esc expecting to be annoyed, but still hit Esc nonetheless because it works. And I deftly adjust volume using the Touch Bar slider using press-and-slide (not tap then pick-and-slide), relying on the += key for tactile positioning (but the position itself is largely muscle memory by now)

I am also a musician. The Touch Bar is fantastic to adjust tuneables in GarageBand, without the gorilla arm or wobbly screen effect you get on touchscreens.

If it were annoying to me I'd just remap the two or three functions I use as a developer to some keyboard shortcut. After all I'm a developer, I think I can handle that fairly swiftly by myself if no tool were available (and I'm fairly convinced there is).
Sin taxes are pigovian taxes?

And if you're contending they're different I assume one is supposed to cut down use.
20m seems to have suffered less, which is good to keep in mind.
Prediction rate is 98%Zorax crypto daily forecasts for 09.07.2019
systemd-was-init-replacement was not bad. systemd-as-kitchen-sink is where problems started. E.g., creating a binary log file format that is non-ACID, and corruption entails throwing the file away--instead of just leverage SQLite; and then not having a way to send logs remotely, so you have to run rsyslog anyway.
They were bad ideas that were ill-founded and have done far more harm than good, but he explained them with charts, so all good I guess.
> We need more people who are willing to try and solve problems, not just be critical.

New Sincerity is exactly the reactionary politics in which Facebook thrives.
I don't have any published sources about not using soap but I use Mother Dirt products and my understanding is that nitric oxide ("NO") on the skin has a whole bunch of important functions[1] and a lot of NO on our skin comes from ammonia oxidizing bacteria ("AOB")[2] that colonizes on our skin and eats (metabolizes?) our sweat. In theory, all of our modern hygiene products reduce the AOB (and presumably other "good" bacteria) on our skin and less AOB means less NO.

But all of my knowledge in this area came from someone trying to sell me something so it should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a microbiologist somewhere on HN who could explain the relationship between soap/skin microbiome much better.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15275864

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying_bacteria
Ever since I stayed at a Marriott hotel (over five years ago), I have received (and still do) telemarketing calls offering me a new deal on Marriott or another of their subsidiaries. It's always a new agency with a new voice and a different pitch. I wonder how many times Marriott has sold my data to third-party agencies over the years?
I'm in agreement with your eloquent response.

The touch bar is an unacceptable gimmick for me, a solution in search of a non-existent problem (my physical escape key is doing just fine). I'm also not going to buy Bluetooth headphones, just because they decided to drop support for standard headphone jacks.

The right to repair and extend my personal computer is another. It's common human decency, which apparently is not a priority at Apple anymore.

Sadly, this seems to be a symptom of a larger systemic issue among most large/"successful" tech companies - sheer arrogance and lack of respect for users ("useds").
The UK already taxes flights in a similar way.
Whilst this does feel like progress, it would be much better to tax the fuel instead of the passengers. Virtually all other fuel is taxed, so it's strange that jet fuel is exempt.
The problem with taxing passengers instead of fuel include:

- it doesn't encourage improving the efficiency of planes

- airlines can't fill their planes with really cheap seats, and empty seats seem like a ridiculous waste

- freight isn't taxed

If you tax fuel too much there's a risk that planes will fly in with enough fuel to fly out again, but that could be fixed by legislation or (better) by a standardised fuel tax across a large area.
If it is only NL and France, it will just bankrupt KLM/AirFrance. It needs to be EU wide imho.
There have been several papers and blog posts written about the more recent posits proposals.

https://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2019/02/06/Posit1.htm...
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01959581v2
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02131982

The bottom line is they are a tradeoff; they certainly aren't purely better than IEEE floats. Plus they seem to have a non-trivial hardware cost (one of the linked papers shows the adder is twice as large as the equivalent IEEE adder and has double the latency!)
It says right there in the article that business class will be charged more than economy.
Don’t get the 128gb. You will run out of it very quickly. Especially if it is your primary computer.
"E-marked cables are fully featured USB-C cables with chips inside"

That's um... awful.
I think that's likely true. But interestingly it doesn't, theoretically, have to be. In principle the combination of a multiple factors, each of which would move us significantly away from the global maximum (therefore constituting "problems"), might put us at a local maximum where removing any small number of them might leave us worse off.
We could virtually eliminate carbon emissions altogether if humans went back to living in caves and dying at the age of 30.

Resources were placed on this earth for the advancement of humankind. If someone wants to take it upon themselves to reduce their carbon footprint by not eating meat, living in a tent or staying in one place their entire lives then be my guest, just don't regress the whole of humanity by mandating it.
You can plug laptops in, actually.
Baltimore and BWI together have 1.7 million NEC boarding per year, only modestly less than BBY and BOS’s combined 2.1 million. Philly has over 3 million.
I wonder if this is going to encourage developers to finally make full use of the Touch Bar.

To date, support has been spotty, even within Apple's own programs. Now programs without Touch Bar support will stand out. It's not something that can be seen as a gimmick anymore, even if to many it is.

(Still, I think dumping the escape key was a mistake.)
I genuinely love my Touchbar. It's an extension of my macbook.

I use it to show my active TODO, time and date, when I am on break and soon current calendar event running + Karabiner profile.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os/tree/master/btt

People who like to hate on it, didn't invest time in learning that you can program it to show what you want. And as for physical keys, with Karabiner, there is no need for those keys as they are too far away from home row anyway.
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