skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a link? I tried to find out which GCP regions/zones affected were related to Apple, without any luck.

edit: Google Cloud Networking is indicating disruption at present: https://status.cloud.google.com/
Gatsby Themes Promoted to Stable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...

I was a little confused by that phrase, so for anybody else who was as confused as me.
512 nukes were detonated in atmosphere during the era of nuclear weapons testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing#Hist...
> This is obviously bad, but I think the deeper problem is with Android that it's impossible to turn off the long-home-button press behavior.

I set mine to search in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-replace-google-assi...
How come? They aren't perfect, but they seem to at least make Ada/Pascal out of C.
> Zip and ARJ both compressed at the file level rather than the archive level.

No. You may be thinking of gzip, a spiritual successor and replacement for the Unix compress/uncompress (and even earlier pack/unpack).

But both ZIP and ARJ, and the earlier ARC, all made multiple-file archives.

Or did you mean that the compression was “carried over” from file to file inside the archive?
Indeed very interesting, what's going on? Reading the article, the only phrase where "wave function collapse" occurred is:

> What’s more, this near-complete knowledge of how the system changes smoothly over time allows researchers to “rewind the tape” and avoid the apparently irreversible “wave function collapse” of the standard quantum formalism.

Please, answer this intriguing question, what's going on?
"Bird populations in steep decline in North America, study finds"

> North America has more than a billion fewer birds than it did 40 years ago

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-fi...

And then, "Lyme and Other Tickborne Diseases Increasing"

https://www.cdc.gov/media/dpk/diseases-and-conditions/lyme-d...
To me this reveals three possibilities:

1. There is confidential information that the damage is irreversible at this point (e.g. permafrost is melting three times faster and 70 years earlier than expected) and any attempts to break the layers upon layers of prisoner's dilemmas are completely futile.

2. The political caste does not care about more than 20 years into the future because most of them will have died by then (avg. age of the conservative parties is 60(!) [1]).

3. The dangers of a manmade climate catastrophe are being overstated.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/192255/umfrag...
The vast majority of USB accessories are still USB-A. Big manufacturers still use USB-A for everything. For example Logitech still has no USB-C mice or keyboard AFAIK.

The truth is that USB-C has seen a very slow adoption outside the mobile world.

If USB-C adoption surpasses USB-A in a couple more years it will make sense to call it "in sunset", but IMO that doesn't make much sense today.
We can rise up together and physically dismantle the infrastructure they have erected. We can move to encrypted communications and/or ditch our phones altogether. But that requires a concerted effort by large swaths of people, and as far as I can see, there is no collective mentality toward this end. Most people are hooked to their phones, and therefore are hooked to the surveillance state, and they would hardly dream of getting rid of the device that embodies their choicest addiction.
> That comment seems to imply that we should forgive (or forget) the sexual assault of a slave because she was assaulted by someone who deserves to be celebrated ...

I don't think it implies any such thing. It's a reminder that our standards of morality can change a lot over time, so we shouldn't be surprised when some historical figure who is usually praised for their positive accomplishments turns out to have very severe moral flaws from our own POV. It's not exceptional, it's what we would expect to see in the first place.
i love in tokyo, and when i graduated school in 2011, i used to get bitten every summer like mad by mosquitos, you could see bugs everywhere in the spring and summer

for probably the past 5 years i haven’t been bit once, rarely see a mosquito or other bugs... something very strange has has happened in the past 10 years
Unfortunately I don't think that's too much of an option. This is all on a decent grade and pretty dry.
> At that rate we will be at 95% solar in less than 20 years

What’s the growth rate for energy storage technology that can keep the lights on when it’s cloudy or night time?
"55.5555555% ("nine fives") "

downtime per year: 162 days
Let me grab this occassion: is there a Elecom WRH-583BK2-S sized similarly dual RJ45 dual band router -- with OpenWRT compatibility? https://twitter.com/ysks/status/773135671057784833/photo/1 it is not OpenWRT compatible. Specs at https://twitter.com/ysks/status/773141289197981696
I don't know about keyboards, but my wireless Logitech mice that charge over USB can be used plugged while charging.
How do you do that? I normally use the keyboard preferences to change the capslock on my MBP to control. I'd like escape there too, but I'd like to avoid running additional software to enable it.
If one country destroys their economy and no one else follows, climate change due to increased carbon levels still happens.
Wide Sargasso seaweed: 5,500-mile algae belt keeps on growing
I feel like this would be neatly implemented as a Redis Proxy, keeping the same semantics but removing that concern for simpler clients.
Is there an advantage to turning it to charcoal? I mean the process would expel co2, right? Does charcoal sequester co2 better than raw dead wood?
https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died
Using air bridges or ramp stairs costs money and takes an extra bit of time (and another level of interaction with ground crews which may delay the slow turnover of Ryanair planes during the day).

All Ryanair flights I have witnessed have used the airstairs.
Not everybody’s a fan of C++, yet still...

YAML has its detractors and many of the criticisms against it are valid. It’s ambiguous and confusing and deeply nested significant white space, with odd indentation rules and optional syntax, is incredibly hard to follow as a human.
Do you know some case of a foreign company outside Europe being fined about GDPR?
AMD has been shipping their new Epyc Rome server CPUs to hyperscalars for a few weeks now [1]. It seems to be a very appealing chip that a lot of them are adopting. They won't be the same as whatever they were using before, so it could be that major updates are needed to include them, meaning that it's just a risky time right now?

[1] Second question in https://www.anandtech.com/show/14568/an-interview-with-amds-...
They can afford it. It's a good idea to buy in to such a big economy as India, even if they'll lose money on it for a while.
They control the pathways of modern speech. It's not like a baker where you can just get your wedding cake somewhere else. If Google doesn't like you they can damn near erase you from public view. If you have an internet business they can ruin it. There is no way to escape their influence.

Because of this, they have a responsibility to uphold people's natural right to expression. In many ways Google now has more control over speech than governments historically have.

If there was a viable competitor this would be different, but there is no such competitor.
It would be pretty cool if there was a way to add tasks straight from Alfred
While it may not be great for vehicles, it's still one of the most promising choices for stationary power production. Plants are self replicating solar power fuel sources, and by converting them to syngas you can produce electricity, heated water and air, and biochar. The biochar is wonderful for the soil when properly used, and locks away carbon that used to be in the air.

There are any number of cogeneration plants that use waste wood chips to run their kilns and produce electricity. All Power Labs (www.allpowerlabs.com) produces small scale (10-20kWh) generators that fit on a 4' pallet and thus can be transported to a fuel source.
What exactly are the benefits of having Openwrt installed on your router? What additional functionality does it provide the average HN user?
Having used most of the competition, none can consistently compete. While they may have some better numbers, configuration complexity and user experience make achieving them in real-world use difficult
I choose my routers based on if they are supported or not by OpenWrt. And for everybody that asks my opinion, too. Because they might not need/want/know/have a desire to install OpenWrt now, but it's good to have the door open for the future.
Wealth nowadays is not rare resources but information crystalized as products and knowledge not easily transferred to other places.

A computer is made out of worthless silicon but it is not the silicon that gives the computer value, it is simply the way that silicon is configured and the knowledge on how to reproduce such a configuration. War nowadays cannot transfer such wealth across national boundaries.

We live in the information age, but it is not just about the internet. Information is about low entropy configurations of what is otherwise cheap materials into these things called technology.

If china wanted Americas technology how would they retrieve it? Not war, but through espionage. The cold war beginning with Russia has largely replaced actual physical battle.
Perfect! After you..
The sharp dividing line here is between those (A) who think "we just need to get the regulations right the next time", and those (B) who think that is inherently impossible, based on Public Choice theory, experience and/or general cynicism.

To us from school (B), the school (A) thoughts are hopelessly naive, but it's impossible to convince anyone of our wisdom who hasn't found it on their own, and it just comes across as infuriating "you'll understand when you're older" condescension.

And so life goes on :)
Shannon Wheeler shared this really excellent round up of Mad's decline written by Tom Richmond, a long-time MAD Magazine contributor.

https://www.tomrichmond.com/the-end-of-the-madness/04/07/201...
Windows 1.0. Out Soon. Radical
Knight of Apple’s Old Republic (Between the lines of Jony Ive’s exit from Apple)
As a fan of TOML, I want to be clear on the downsides.

TOML is good for data layed out with TOML. Representing arbitrary nested arrays and tables gets messy.

Also, the constraint on homogenous shallow types has impacted me in some cases. Originally, I was all on board. Arrays should be homogenous. The problem is logically homogenous vs syntactically homogenous.

Cargo uses tables to declare dependencies. The values are logically homogenous, they are declarations. Synatictically, some values are strings while the rest are sub-tables. The string is just shorthand for a table though.

This feature can't be implemented in arrays like it can with tables.
1080p is not fine enough? How much information are you used to having on screen at a time? How much text, for example?
Yes.

One example would be SDL, although they use a mix of JNI and messages (search for SDLCommandHandler).

http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/abb47c384db3/android-project/a...

http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/abb47c384db3/src/core/android/...

EDIT: Sorry forgot about the C side (counterpart is Android_JNI_SendMessage).
Couple of contenders:

- Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) - simpler syntax and less concepts to learn, just an extension of JSON. But no type checking. An open source offspring of Google's internal config language (GCL/BCL)

- Cue (https://github.com/cuelang/cue) - a more ambitious attempt to fix GCL/BCL by replacing inheritance as the fundamental compositional primitive with constraint unification.

Great thread comparing them against each other by the authors of both: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/33

Cue seems kind of similar to Dhall on first sight, but I haven't used either enough for an informed opinion yet.
I don't mind ads on SO so much since they're not trying to get you to buy stuff. I might enjoy YouTube but it's definitely overrated as a platform.
Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?
After reading the ZIP bomb article also linked on HN, I have copied the largest file to my iCloud drive for fun.

And an hour later, I'm reading that most of iCloud is down. I really hope this is a funny coincidence. And if not, then I'm terribly sorry.
I believe the green text is also taken from a recipe book but the designer won't reveal which one.
There's a lot of multi billion dollar companies still coming to terms with one provider, let alone redundancy.
And all Windows’ Instagram posts are deleted and replaced:
https://www.instagram.com/windows/
Although classical physical trajectory is one if the possible states QTT helps us predict. It’s more than that, not less.
Okay that makes more sense. How far does that stretch though? Will the CBD industry really get so large that their waste product truly competes against cotton or synthetics? I can't help but feel hemp is destined to be a niche material for nearly all applications.
Ask HN: Hobbies/Activities with robust online communities but no Reddit presence
There are certain activities and hobbies that have relatively large online communities, but are nearly nonexistent on reddit.

I've recently found a good example. One of my hobbies is surfski, and the surfski subreddit had less than 10 posts ever. On the other hand, the surfski.info forum has a ton of posts weekly spanning more than a decade.

I think it's an interesting phenomenon - and I'm curious to see other examples - because these communities are worth looking at for many reasons.
I felt this (near Caltech, Pasadena). I spent the entire duration trying to figure out what was shaking my desk.

I hope this doesn't trigger anything larger. Does anybody know if this was close enough to the fault line to possibly affect anything?

EDIT: I see they have updated the article to a 1 in 20 chance.

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
[2] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38443095...
You’re not alone. I really love the butterfly keyboards and I really hope we are not forced to regress back to the old keyboards.
Don't fully remember why I prefer json5 to hjson but at a quick glance, bare values is one. Bare values are ripe for someone entering in a string and accidentally getting a bool or number instead.
I'm curious. What implementation is this? The only thing that comes to mind is ath10k-ct.

edit: Recompilation should not be necessary. opkg remove && opkg update && opkg install should do it.
No it wouldn't - at least to anyone with a triple digit IQ, and capable of effectively digesting a story before drawing a conclusion.

(Thank god our judicial system doesn't have the attention-span of an ADHD child.)
It's not the perspective, it's actually like that.

The drive mode "island" is a sort of "peak" where "N" is a regular button, and all of "D"/"P"/"R" lean away from the "peak" when pressed instead of going straight down. So the "R" button has a lip you press right next to that storage compartment.

That makes it easy to press by accident as you bump it with the edge of e.g. a can of soda you're putting into that compartment. If you had to press it straight down and it was surrounded by plastic you'd at least need something as small as the button (or smaller) to press it accidentally, but no such luck.
Don't give yourself too much credit
Would those people that like the TB actually prefer paying (hypothetically) $200 less for their MBPs without it?

To me it adds zero value so whatever it adds to the cost of the product is an extra I don't want to pay.

I think if Apple had given the option to get their MBPs without the TB I doubt very few people would have bought it.
It is still the same plant. „Marijuana“ is made from both, India and Sativa, or from a hybrid of both. You can even buy hybrids that are made from indica, sativa and ruderalis.
Also, in the EU, farmers have to buy their cannabis seed every year. It is not legal to use the seeds produced from the harvest of last year. Because over a few generations the THC content in the „hemp“ rises and to stay under 0.3% new seeds are required.
Please elaborate with examples.

Since most new cars are Internet connected and have whole hosts of complex safety features dependent on software correctness, I sure do hope you are wrong about this.
It literally says ”Sign up now!”
I have a 4K display. Mac OS scales things to look nice. 1080p looks like garbage in comparison.
Lucky in middle nowhere
A good source of information raw food is the Skeptical Vet blog (written by a vet who tries to take a scienced based look at veterinary medicine).

http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2013/11/raw-diets-for-pets/ (this is a summary page linking to all of his posts on the topic)

We tried a raw diet with our dogs for about six months, and while there were some minor benefits (less stinky poops), we ultimately switched back to kibble.

The Skept Vet also has a post on the FDA report:

http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2019/06/fda-update-on-grain-free-di...

His thoughts:

"Further data collection and research will be necessary to determine the precise relationship between diet and DCM in these cases. There are likely multiple factors involved, including the ingredients in the diet, the genetics or particular breeds and individuals, and others we may not yet know about. Pet owners feeding these diets don’t need to panic, since far more dogs on these diets do NOT have DCM than do. However, if you are feeding one of these foods, or a diet similar in composition, and especially if you are feeding this to a golden retriever, it would be a good idea to talk to your vet about screening your pet for DCM and considering a change in diet."
It was felt all the way out to the west coast (which is where the big fault line is). To answer your question, only time will tell.
Hey, at least it's as likely as some of the weird conspiracy theories being floated around.
More so the case these days of their router being artificially obsoleted via update support being dropped, locking them into the lottery of the next security exploit being game over.

So yes, definitely worth having the option of alternative firmware.
For that matter, why emulate a mechanical keyboard at all? If we unlearn the whole ”static” key concepts maybe there is even more to gain. Probably too late for me though. ;)
It's not about real estate, but rather about sharpness. At 3820x2160 ("4K") you can double every pixel, when compared to 1080p. That means that text at the exact same "size" is twice as sharp, producing less visual strain and improving readability (especially for fonts with complex strokes)

The difference is absolutely striking: I will never go back to a non "retina" display if given the choice.
Thanks for the references. They are a very good read.
The first gen Archer C7 routers kernel panic as Qualcomm decided to not support the 5GHz card in the driver they use (but later revisions of said card are supported). You end up needing to open the router and remove the card just to get it to boot.
There is nothing in the definition of "censorship" that implies it has to be government-mandated.

Also, you're free to leave the country if you don't like what it is censoring.
>> I can't replace my YAML with Dhall and consume it directly.

Sorry I don't get it. Why not? Because your favorite languages do not support it?
That would have made more sense than the TB. You get a dynamic input method without sacrificing usability.
The app had a ranking of 50 in the productivity category June 8 and was out of the MAS US list June 11. Thats all for the last 365 days. So I guess not many is willing to pay. I salute the attempt fight the race to the bottom which the App Store has become, but I agree with OP, this app is probably not the standard-bearer. 9.99 for a TODO list (and judging from the video not very good) is too much. I mean, iStat Menus is 9.99 although amputated on the MAS.
this is one: https://edenprojects.org/

If you know tentree shirts, that's who they donate to.
Dictatorship
It depends. If it's a piece of software that never updates, a one time purchase makes sense.

But otherwise, why should you get access to all future updates and ongoing work?

I think Sketch has a good system - you pay once and you only have access to that version forever (bugs and all). In order to update/get new features, you need to pay again or have an ongoing subscription.
That file looks quite readable (ignoring the comments - which again looks very readable in color syntax highlighted documentation).
Yeah, it deviates from the norm and the expectations of most people, most of who are not even developers - lots of BAs today configure apps via such files.
Little off-topic, but lately i often find myself Airdropping files between my iPad & Macbook because iCloud isn't syncing newly added files for some reason (which can't be forced/refreshed on the iPad as far as i know.)
Do you have a source to support your claims?
Yes I know, but I thought Foundation does a lot of less-techie things outside of Corp?
How a Google side project evolved into Niantic
The simple clients just wouldn't enable client tracking, it's off by default.

It also wouldn't work very well as a proxy because then if any clients don't go through the proxy but change some of the data, there's no way for all the proxy-using clients to know.
Rational when considering economic theft across international borders. One cannot retrieve another countries GDP through launching a missile.

There is definitely a reason to start civil war internally though. Most of a nation's technological knowledge and economic worth is crystallized among masses of people yet the wealth generated by this knowledge is disproportionately concentrated among an elite few.

There is rational reason for this kind of war to be fought because such an attack on plutocrats does not destroy the economic value of a nation as it is not the plutocrats who hold such knowledge.

Even though there exists a rational reason for war to be waged based off of obscene wealth inequality I still believe it is unlikely to happen unless people start to starve.
Doesn't seem to have petered out if you look at freelance marketplaces—because you'll see a lot of chatbot writing jobs.

I wonder if I'm currently missing some slice of web life by not using any ‘support’ chat interfaces ever.
Some explanation/example of what this does would be helpful.
Running DD-WRT on my router, currently. Would people tend to recommend OpenWRT, these days?

I haven't been in the loop WRT open router firmwares in a while...
77.89.79.66 :-)
If there are any of the moderators reading this, I would love to know what this post did wrong to get shuffled to the very bottom of the conversation so I don't do it again. There must be some mod magic involved as it has a number of up-votes.
> Important: If you are looking at this profile because you thought something I posted was Wrong, dismissive, disrespectful, douchebaggish, what have you, I would really like to hear from you

This comment is not only dismissive, its basically wrong too. Their website is the digital equivalent of an information brochure - there is zero need for HTTPS there. The only page that needs it, partner login and the admin area looks like it does have HTTPS.
"Only 10 percent of California's 7 million plus homeowners have earthquake insurance – and the number has dropped by more than half since the deadly quake" (2014)

You can get an estimate for an earthquake insurance policy with the California Earthquake Authority.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/why-do-so-few-ca...
[2] https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/
It's not linked in the article but this is VPNpros post about it which lists the products and firms: https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2...