skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other things that can cause E skip to stop working (solar activity is the big one) so while it is good to say "hey propagation just changed, what's up?" it isn't reasonable to say "Earthquake inbound!"

That said, there is interesting work in geology to more accurately characterize this mechanism. The last paper I saw was reference in Science News indicated that pressure on granite (which has a peizo-electric effect) might be the underlying mechanism. I haven't seen any follow up on that hypothesis though (proving or disproving). It would seem pretty straight forward for the seismograph sensor makers to add an E field strength meter to observe this effect if it occurs.
And then you'd get and arms race that leads to "USB C AVPDEFWXYZLGBTQ" cables and ports that are compatible with every possible use and eventually everyone would just use those thus fulfilling the goal that USB C had in the first place.
During the 80s there was such a plethora of keyboard variants, I learned never to trust where ESC would be; you can use control-[ on most keyboards to generate the same key. When the MacBookPro went useless for ESC, my muscle memory just switched over. (This is somewhat conditional on control being next to 'A', which is the only place it should ever be!)
I don't have a source for that but I'd say if the airlines etc wouldn't be so subsidized there would be higher focus on developing better engines, electric planes or other technologies than in the current state where losses will just be covered by the tax payer. They wouldn't just stop operating and the "business world" would most likely not collapse.

I've talked to a bunch of people that get flown around by their company for 2h meetings at airports within Germany every day. If these wouldn't happen and would be done via video conferencing or other means that would be an improvement. Business will find a way to make it work.
To be fair, why does any major political figure, celeb, influencer, or whoever waste effort/time to 'block' anyone on Twitter? Esp. with someone like Trump, they probably have too many mentions/activity for any real human to sort through, that they probably just ignore all that noise anyways. I can't imagine how you'd sift through the millions of @ replies he receives everyday. So, even if they can 'block' them, I don't understand the value in it. Seems odd they would even waste their time with it, and not just ignore that tab/feature all together in Twitter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He also flew into Iran during that time to visit the imprisoned employees to assure them he was doing everything in his power to get them out. If he had been spotted, he surely would have been arrested, too.

On Wings Of Eagles
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Behaviors of Sleep vs. Select in Go
Gray whale deaths are higher than normal this year
Yes. So if they track you after you delete their consent overlay, you'd have grounds to complain about them to your data protection agency.
> And an intangible but fictional object still of value is, say, A hat in TF2 or epic armor in some games

A TF2 hat, like other digital collectibles, is a nonfictional intangible object (which happens to represent a tangible object in the fiction), not an intangible fictional object.
Spotify Lite is now officially out for 36 markets around the world
I think I want to remap ` to ESC and ctrl-' to `
When you have a coordination problem, there are just two possible answers: either it's the government or some other government-like body.
> It is common to fail to distinguish running from run-in, or pin from pen.

The pin-pen merger is a reality for millions of people all over the country, and we are understanding each other and everyone else just fine.

Check the map: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/maps/Map3.html

Also, as a person who actually had years of speech therapy despite a very early mastery of reading, it's honestly a bit offensive to see you conflating the two subjects here. Mutual misunderstandings while reading between two people who each speak different dialects is not a form of speech pathology. Teaching someone else your dialect through reading with them does not correct genuine speech pathology either.
It is a problem. Here's [1] a talk from fossdem on the various issues, and a couple solutions.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ANcU1g7ZWdU
Ask HN: What does Pullrequest.com use for code reviews? a Custom IDE?
It seems from following post that pullrequest.com uses a custom IDE for doing reviews? Anyone can throw light on what it is? I am working on a side project(public facing code review site) and am looking for a good code review tool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15387134

>>We combine great backend tooling, a custom IDE, with teams of reviews to deliver first class code review.
This an unjustified conclusion if I ever heard one. YouTube was acquired in 2006 by Google. That's 13 years ago.

YouTube has existed for 14 years. It's been Google nearly the entire time it has existed.
I dual boot everyday. I want to have equivalent software for both Linux and windows, to not to change my workflow too much.

I am using Freda in Windows to read ebooks.

I was worried about what to use in Linux. The Calibre viewer simply doesn't have the same quality as Freda.

Foliate is great, and I no longer worry about this. Thanks for the heads up.
> It also prevents the user from making a wrong decision on a browser dialog which might permanently lock them out of launching meetings.

> This allows us to offer a new installation or launch the existing app based on the user's machine.

These all sound like problems that can be solved by fixing the interface itself and by polling for a desktop client connection.
Show HN: Reveals Pixel Trackers in Browser and Retaliate DDoS-Style
receptor-mediated endocytosis (https://biologywise.com/mechanism-of-receptor-mediated-endoc...) is the process by which the body begins to ignore a persistent stimulus (notably, smell). i'm not sure if there's a long-term version of this, though.
>> There's no alternative to burning fuel by energy density on an airline

This initiative makes trains more competitive. Trains are greener and often quicker especially for intra-european continental routes.
By running a web server with the ability to circumvent installation? It could almost be considered a backdoor
Back then, they shown me CVS in maybe 10 minutes. I never needed to Google commands and somehow knew how to use it after. It was easy to remember. Never run into problem I would have to Google to fix.

Git takes more and people constantly ask questions or have to have cheat sheets printed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-2OVNt-eQ
Hopefully if planes become more expensive we'll see some investments in the train infrastructure. Going from Lisbon to Paris even without changes will probably still take a long time even with a bullet train but if I can schedule a trip by night and sleep reasonably comfortably I think I'd consider it over the plane.

Catching a train in the late afternoon in the center of Lisbon, working for a few hours, sleeping and waking up in the center of Paris sounds fairly pleasant to me. Of course at the moment that's effectively science fiction.
Building a POSIX-compatible file system on top of a database engine (Postgres, MariaDB) on raw partitions..

I could see advantages like being able to have indexes, relationships, run queries on files' metadata, import/export the whole tree or branches (folders), maybe easier managing of distributed file systems..

Aside from the performance overhead for the sake of experimentation, from my not-very-knowledgeable perspective, the idea seems to have enough interesting implications that I'm curious to see where it could go.

I also like other variations on this, like "file system as database", "Git repo as file system", and so on.
There’s nothing inherent to carbon taxes that need to be regressive. E.g., you can provide a dividend or set of benefits from the funds that disproportionately favors the poor.

But not taxing carbon is also “regressive”, in that climate change will disproportionately hurt the world’s poorest.
It’s a hotel thing. 99% of homes in Brazil will have a soap bar in the shower.
Same. I really don't know what I'll do now. I really don't want a fan in any of my devices, or a heavier device than the 12" MacBook, but require a macOS device.
> I don't understand the value in it

That's probably because you're not trolling.
“Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly quits after shakeup
J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs Private Bank. There are plenty of others. All of these have well-known brands and aren't accessible to the average person.

J.P. Morgan's private bank even issues the "Reserve Card", which is identical to the Chase Sapphire Reserve, except that it is made out of palladium to show off to anyone who cares and it has a higher annual fee.
Nationality.
Reading books is overrated. I don't read books, but read a tonne of papers and magazines.
I bet I'm much more in tune with current tech and econ, that someone that reads books released 5-10 years ago,
> tragedy of the commons is solved by regulation

Tragedy of the commons is caused by regulation. That's how you get commons in the first place—resources that everyone is allowed to use but no one has any investment in. It's solved by allowing the commons to be homesteaded and converted to private ownership.
https://quakewatch.net has a track record of predicting Earthquake risk based on solar activity, space weather, & "blot echos". They successfully forecasted Southern California as a major risk.
no it wasn't

there are references to an 8gb model already so no need to act surprised when they do launch it
Then you haven't proved a additional prime; you still need the (trivial[0]) step of breaking down 1+Πp into its one or more prime factors. And then you've constructed a (or several) prime not in the original set.

0: Trivial in the logical sense (try every number up to √(1+Πp)), but computationally impractical, thus left as a exercise for the reader.
Bolt Raises $68M to Help Retailers Perfect Checkout
Does "properly trained" include training to build buildings that cannot be brought down or otherwise compromised by sustained targeted attacks using the latest tools available? Most homes can burnt down with $20 of gas and a lighter; should we consider the builders of those homes to be improperly trained?
Fascism starts at the borders/ports of entry for a couple of reasons. First, these measures aren't meant to protect you, they are meant to keep you from leaving. See no fly lists, the Soviet Union, Berlin Wall vs Trump's wall.

Second, it's an experiment to test practices that are later implemented on American soil against every citizen. The public is acclimated slowly over time to the point that they will be completely apathetic once the same policies are officially dictated at a national level.
True, but there is a big difference in the quality of produced software between:

* I need to develop for this shitty platform, which I hate, because my customers are on it

* I want to develop for this awesome platform, because I just love it and my customers are also on it

If Apple loses touch & favor with developers, their platform will slowly but surely die out over a decade or two. Apple is expensive, the only reason for Apple to even exist is because they deliver quality products. If they ever go down the road of consistently failing this core value, they will die more quickly than reindeer thrown down a cliff.
Well right, but with the level of activity they get, how can they read any replies? It's like trying to use the live chat on Twitch or something, it moves so fast that there isn't anything valuable in there anyways. I don't understand why they wouldn't just ignore all activity and just use it for a platform to go one direct (out vs in).
It's a pretty clumsy system because it's putting a physical constraint on a digital product that's otherwise possible to get everywhere on earth, provided some asshole in a boardroom doesn't throw a fit (which is evidently what happened when region locking games became common). It's a physical constraint that doesn't even work as intended, in fact it probably harms the brand and the product more than anything.

Not everyone in Thailand is broke. There might be a lot more broke people in Thailand than in the U.S., and on average the sprawling land area of Thailand has less wealth than the land area of the U.S., but I bet there are a lot of people in the U.S. who, like their Thai working class counterparts, also can't afford a $60 game. Now the working class of Thailand gets a game that's right in their price bracket while the working class of the U.S. does not.

Averaging an entire countries wealth to set a price worked pretty nice for the people of Thailand in this example, but obviously burnt the poor in the U.S. pretty bad. If your goal is to get your game into the hands of the most customers, consider offering 'regional' pricing for all the homeless in central park who might live within a couple dozen feet of the most expensive apartments in the world. It turns out regional pricing kinda sucks because wealth isn't distributed evenly across any region.

The economy is global, not regional, there are rich and poor people everywhere in differing and ever changing proportions independent of how borders might be drawn on the map. If you want to make it affordable to an economic bracket, go ahead and lower your price or offer low income credit or something, don't make it so you can't buy your digital game while connected to the internet in an arbitrary country.
Apple ET: are customers actually surprised and delighted with the touch bar? I’ve yet to meet one who is.
probably because it similarly doesn't actually exist (or whatever form of it does exist has nothing to do with predicting earthquakes)
yeah, a ranked ballot solves this problem. The concept of a condorcet winner, is that the winner would win head to head against all non-winners and various ranked ballot schemes pass this condorcet criterion.
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This is flamebait, but way too subtle to be flagged.
> Have these video conferencing services never heard about External Protocol Requests in browsers?

Have you tried using them?

Then you would know they don’t do that for a good reason. I answered a similar question in the zoom thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20389310
Windows ME?
join.me seems to have solved this problem effortlessly, and taking a gander at procs, I only see a client running. The BlueJeans rationale here isn't passing my anecdotal sniff-test...
I didn't really have an issue with what you wrote. It made me realize there are several three-letter, starts-with-S, Unix companies.
What you can see from the high speed train to Beijing
If you qualify software that performs such a blatantly awful/wrong practice as fantastic, then you I'm afraid you need to redefine your views of what constitutes software.

This is a truly heinous design and should be lambasted as such
Private browsing was and still is mostly about hiding from other users on the device, not hiding from the people you are connecting to.

---

You’ve gone incognito,

Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity.

Your activity might still be visible to:

* Websites you visit

* Your employer or school

* Your internet service provider
That would incentivize planes to fly with as little fuel as possible. That could lead to some flights running out of fuel when unforeseen issues arise.

No matter how you tax the fuel, there are going to be some perverse incentives.
I get skin color, sex, gender, sexual orientation etc for protection, but including religion and excluding political word view has always been weird to me. Calling one of the two innate and deserving of protection and the other a choice and undeserving seems like a religious answer.

Narrow down what’s considered — Respondents said that “identifiable groups” was too broad, and they should be allowed to engage with political groups, hate groups, and other non-marginalized groups with this type of language.

And you didn't just tell him to just not de-humanize anybody, instead opting for "okay, that's fine, just don't mention religion when you do it?
> To be fair, why does any major political figure, celeb, influencer, or whoever waste effort/time to 'block' anyone on Twitter?

Blocking prevents blocked posts from gaining visibility due to their association with the account doing the blocking and it's content; public figures don't do it to manage what they see themselves (they have other methods of managing that) but to control what other people viewing their content see alongside it; it's a method of censorship. (Which is why it's a First Amendment issue when a government official does it in a forum which meets the legal standard for a public forum.)
Also, Touch Bar is located above keyboard, so your own hands obscure the view. It would make much more sense to put lcd display in place of touchpad, like Razer did in their concept laptop[1], or Asus in theirs [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/9/16866206/ra...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/05/asus-zenbook-pro-15-scre...
For me, the much lower TDP of the air series really limits its power. If you want to do a decent amount of computation actually on the machine then the 15 inch pro is much more compelling.
I have one the 13" non-touchbar, and am dissatisfied for other reasons, but actually kind of like the idea of it existing. I personally don't think I'd do anything with it, but as a developer, it seems neat to have another platform—or aspect of a platform—to build on and extend your apps into. Much like VSCode having extensions that allow you to order pizza while you're coding, the idea of it seems like something need to write code for.
For comparison, Paris-Marseilles is about a 1hr20 flight. Maybe comparable given airport hassle these days, but that is on what is perhaps the best route in Europe for showing what trains can do.

I doubt cost comes in to most train-flight comparisons and I'm not sure what the point of the tax would be if not to change behaviour.
> Swapping hardware buttons for touchscreen controls has been a huge success for Apple for over a decade, with the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, even the Apple Watch. The Touchbar is just another step down that path.

It isn't a step down that path though. With the iPhone/iPod/iPad the new interface completely changes how you use the device (moving to a phone without physical keys for example). The Macbook touchbar doesn't do that, it just makes things a bit awkward by adding an additional way to interface with your device.
I definitely agree with you. Thank you for taking a look at this objectively. I really do appreciate it.

A lot of this stuff is frustrating to me. I live with 2 rare autoimmune neurological diseases, with one of them being very rare, which changes the rules of the game, almost completely. I really should not be alive and I constantly worry about making a bad move medically because my care is complex. Even turning 30 felt like a milestone for me. I almost constantly have to worry about access to care, too, which is why I became a European Union citizen, in addition to being American. But, it is not due to typical things that people worry about like having access to insurance or paying for it. It basically is for logistical reasons.

My training is in electrical engineering. From my standpoint, I can tell the difference between a gimmicky medical device and something that is promising. With surgeries, I would definitely say to a lesser degree, but I am always skeptical about the consequences. I also do not know how things typically play out long-term, especially living with rare diseases. I am always skeptical in general, and for good reasons. I have always been careful about what moves I make medically. I am also extremely stubborn, and perhaps that is why I am still alive.

Either way, medicine in the past 10 years or so has started to change profoundly. I do think promising things will occur, perhaps on a timeline even. However, access to things, such as in the US, will be of a different story. That is another reason why stories like this bother me, even though it is far from happening logistically, in this case.
>Just about everyone embraced it because it was a kind of punk attitude in the face of stodgy enterprise development schedules. Everyone wanted to seem cool, so they went whole hog.

I think it's 10,000% more likely to be due to so much post-2008 ZIRP money floating around, so why give a shit about quality or consequences? As long as advertising and copyright industries are able to establish themselves as the fundamental arbiters of all content, anything else that happens to us or the companies are broken eggs for the proverbial omelet.

The people embracing MFaBT exhibit nothing resembling "punk attitude."
That's still self insurance, and it's still going to hit them for $800m next time they have a leak.

Will have to be a big fund.
Is “plans regulation” really the right way to describe something that is really, really far from having majority support? [0] It’s a suggestion by our current governing party, but none of its three supporting parties or the opposition want it, so it’ll most likely never happen. Especially because it’s already fading away from being “news-worthy” in Denmark by the time I write this.

0: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/minister-efter-fie-laursen...
I also like `tldr <command>` if a cached version of the internet's advice is needed.

Last resort is Google.
Everyone I knew was against UAC popups, including security professionals.

They were likened to California Prop 65 warnings: so prolific as to be ignored, and arguably causing more harm than good, because just as apparently since EVERYTHING causes cancer one can't make decisions about avoiding things that actually do, so to does EVERYTHING trigger a UAC popup and so who gives a fuck, one more thing to quickly ignore and click through.
So basically Type-C is like the F-35 of the USB world?
Huawei: Once Beaten Twice Shy
I wasted two hours the other night because of the touchbar.

I had turned my macbook pro's screen brightness down to complete black as I was using an external monitor only, and in a dark environment. Some time later I happened to restart my machine, and both the internal and external displays came up completely black.

The touchbar displayed only "Esc", without the normal brightness control. I had to figure out from memory how to log in without being able to see the screen, i.e. exactly how far I needed to move the pointer on the trackpad to click on my username, without any indication of what state the UI was in. There was no controls on the touchbar to adjust the display brightness and an external Apple USB keyboard which did have the brightness control keys was not recognised. Fixing it required both an SMC and PRAM reset.

I would pay a significant premium for a macbook pro without the touchbar. I've had other cases where the machine appears to be (but isn't necessarily) bricked and there's no indicator lights anywhere to show what's going on, even if the machine has power. I hope with Ive's departure they'll dial it back a bit and start building machines which might be slightly less beautiful but include some of the more practical affordances.

/rant
Why is this news?

A lot of desktop applications do this. The Spotify client used to do it to enable play/pause controls from any webpage. Dropbox also definitely used the same method for single sign on, maybe still does, I don't use it anymore.