skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada: Illegal cannabis getting even cheaper, as legal gets costlier
When the Switch was announced I thought it was trying to be too many things and wouldn't be able to do any of them well. I was right. However, what I underestimated is the Switch's ability to do each of those things _well enough_. My PS4 is a better console. My GBA was a better handheld. The Wii was a better party system. But the Switch is pretty good at all of those things, and since the "better" systems could only do one thing - the Switch has turned out to be pretty awesome!

If you're considering one, definitely think about a buying a second used dock, being able to pop it in a TV in another room with ease is pretty neat.

My biggest complaint is that in hand held mode I can only do turn-based games because otherwise it hurts my hands. (The joy cons cramp my thumbs.)
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Breaches was probably the wrong term to use in my example, as it brings attention to the wrong issue. The point I am trying to make is not that we shouldn't trust large companies to be secure as you say (although based on my experience with enterprise infosec I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of companies handling/storing personal data don't have appropriate security controls enforced).

The point I am making is that many large organizations such as Google and Facebook are performing worldwide, largely unchecked mass surveillance with data collection and analytical capabilities far beyond what is available to the majority of the world, and people simply don't care despite how knowledgeable they are about technology. There's also little to now way to escape it as Google and Facebook technology is so ingrained in the existing internet. While Google may not have poor security practices and may never experience a breach where data is stolen (although again I highly doubt that), as far as I'm concerned Google itself, as well as Facebook, are malicious actors in my own life and personal opsec as a huge portion of their business model is based on collecting and monetizing user data by any means possible with little to no concern for the negative impact on users such as mental health problems.

Frankly, I don't like companies that make money spying on people, particularly those that abuse psychological techniques that make it more difficult for people to make informed decisions or choices about the technology they're using.

Beyond that, these technologies are sold/rented or otherwise provided to governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, dictators, authoritarian regimes, and others that can and are being for personal gain.

So no, I don't believe we should trust Google, but not because other companies have experienced data breaches. That is just one of the many reasons I believe people should value their data and personal privacy far more than most do
Really great suggestion, definitely something we could do in the future. We just rolled that service fee out this week, so we're watching it closely. Right now, we offer 5 free purchases regardless of how the user pays, but something that's already clear is that we'll need to remove it from the stored balance reload.

As we add payment options like ACH, PayPal, etc. we'll have more wiggle room to adjust the fee based on the final payment method, and establishing a running total like you suggest could increase that variability even more.
Agreed, it's just a matter of time before the FB going to tweak the algorithm to address the issue
DL built one of the most powerful supercomputer using only $5k and AWS
It could just be random (or at least as random as this world can be). A situation where Cloudflare, Google, and Stripe go down is just as likely as any other situation. Just appears like a big deal because humans latch on to pattern matching.
This is related to one of my 'scary emergency solutions' governments might adopt if they wake up to the emergency too late: Detonate nukes in shallow bore holes in silicate heavy regions and launch enormous quantities of the stuff into the atmosphere that way.
Local governments (at least in the US) seem to systematically underinvest in experiments like this. Things like traffic congestion have a ton of weird, largely unpredictable positive and negative feedback loops.

Seattle removed its waterfront viaduct from service for a couple of weeks before changing over to the new $3.3B tunnel and traffic was mostly fine, despite apocalyptic predictions of gridlock. It's not entirely unfair to claim that they could have saved literally billions of dollars by just closing the viaduct for a month or two and observing what happens to traffic patterns.

Or businesses that predict their imminent bankruptcy when a few parking spots are removed to create a bike lane. Why not put down a few traffic cones to delineate a temporary bike lane and observe what happens to traffic in and out of the businesses?
Aren’t coffee shops just seeing this as yet another PoS or interface to manage? How are you making this easy to integrate into mom and pop shop processes?

Struggle to see how you can scale without nailing that!
I believe contracts are checked at runtime, so not really.
The cookie notices are the true face of the modern internet: what should have happened is that there should be no cookies until needed - so not until you log in or do "add to cart" and similar things. No cookies at all. Nothing.

Instead the notices happened.
What a respectable comment. It’s so easy to just gripe about downtime. Stripe is one of those comments that does take uptime seriously but alas as long as humans are at the helm there’s always room for mistakes. As long as we learn from them.
Or the slow death of both. After Mad Men and House of Cards, I just kept Netflix around but not usually impressed since anything I found that was any good got cancelled on the second season. I had no idea this was intentional until reading this article.

So I cancelled when they raised the price and shared an account with a friend since I rarely used it. They raised the price again and he cancelled, but I don't miss it. Amazon Prime has enough content for me.
Slightly pedantic correction: This is a performance optimization in CPython. I wouldn't be surprised if other implementations have something similar, but to my best knowledge, this behaviour isn't part of the standard.
it's written in 2014 so not that old I think
Just require a tiny amount of rent, payable to the city, for correctly parked scooters. (This would be part of the scooter registration cost.) Then, if the scooter is left outside the approved sidewalk furniture zone, the company is issued a small fine (which is easy to enforce since the scooters must be registered and labeled with a barcode) that is designed to reflect the actual tiny cost of misplaced scooters (e.g., $5/day, not punitive) and incentivize the company to find a way to get their customers to leave scooters in the correct place at a reasonably high but not perfect rate.

Forcing each company to rent a million tiny places around the city from private parties is just highly inefficient. The transaction costs would be prohibitive.
"massive application of olivine in agriculture may cause imbalances in plant nutrition, notably at low Ca availability, and will bring Ni into the food chain."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415406/
Presumably if the expected number of bikes it contains is greater than N, where N is some number between 0 and 10 decided on by someone in control of such infrastructure.
The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
I believe a lot of it can be attributed to shopping behavior. For instance I personally never "Sort by: Price: Low to High"; you are almost guaranteed to end up with a fake product at the top. What's more subtle is that when I watch other people (as part of a group project) order stuff on Amazon they seem to not pick up clues about the quality of the product. They purely focus on title, picture and of course price.
I'm vacationing Ireland at the moment, and it really hits me how car-centric it is, and I found the Scottish Highlands be very similar. Quite narrow roads, with hedges or stone fences and very little space for a pedestrian or cyclist.

Southern Germany too, although at least they usually don't put hedges/fences right up to the edge of the road.

I would hate to walk or bike on those roads, despite the beautiful landscapes on display.

Initially I thought there was a pressing need to widen the roads, but then I realized that the real problem is the size of modern cars and how fast most people drive.

While car ownership and driving is currently vital to a lot of rural communities, we need to reclaim the roads for shared usage, and break the imagined car/driver ownership and privilege over them.
Also known as the "Struct of Arrays" approach.
From the pictures it makes the beach look like its covered in algae or seaweed. I don't think people will be very receptive to the idea if it looks like that.
would be curious to see what was the main reason behind this partnership
Tenured faculty who are teaching students who can't afford their class are doing something wrong. They are advising students and should be advising them to switch to a more affordable college. It's a fundamental dereliction of duty if they don't.
One Month Left to Opt Out of Chase Binding Arbitration
What do you suggest we use to replace DNS?
Will olivine-covered beaches be still good for recreation? Will olivine sand produce fine dust that would muddy the water?

I bet the first few green beaches would just look cool enough to increase he stream of tourists — as long as walking over an olivine beach feels safe and not unpleasant.

Also, is dumping olivine on rocky but flat enough shores an option? That is, may it not replace existing sandy beaches but form new olivine-only beaches?
Privacy is not a Industrial Age stuff... I could be private in Rome, just as I'm now, just a random dude working... A small cog, no one gets to know me, no on cares to gossip about me... Be it now, be it on Renascence in Venice, be it on Rome just before the senators kill Caesar, be it on Luoyang as the tensions rose between the Warring States...

At any point in time, I could have a private conversation, write and hide a document, like some stuff that was socially unacceptable and keep it a secret, meet someone in secret, and, in general, lead a private life... Stop comparing urban life as if it is something modern... Of course it is much more prevalent now, as the ratio vs rural residents shifted, and sure, it is much harder to hide something on a small village of some dozens of people, or at a farm with a huge family, but in any major city of any era, you could be as hidden and private as today, if not more...
you can build your own reactive editor or content with data streams using TagleJS: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ and it is open source. :)

Not just calculator.
Because $ brew cask install soulver # is convenient

How does Soulver get the data for the USD conversion?

There's Alfred workflows for both Soulver and Numi. Soulver even has a CLI version.
> The avarage bike around here retails for about $1500

Average bike on the street? Do you have any source of similar claim?
> The avarage bike around here retails for about $1500, so $15000 in a single swipe isn't bad.

The realizable value of stolen property is vastly less than the new price, even when stolen new. More like 1/10th.
Forests are helpful but not sufficient. The world was once covered in forests and all the oil/coal etc was in the ground.

Now we have reduced forest cover and burned underground carbon. Reforestation only solves the former.
We can have a sea of garbage but if sites would restore the practice of linking to things they find interesting or relevant, we'd be able to navigate islands of interconnected non-crap once we find something decent. That's based on the notion that what I think is interesting is produced by people who have similar opinions of relevance.
https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/in-de-stad/verkeer-en-vervoer/fiet...

Here's a bit more information on the things, in Dutch. They have 10 of them in Den Haag (The Hague), they are placed on a parking spot and left there for 3 months. Should there not be any complaints the thing will be removed and replaced with permanent cycle parking within another 3 months.

The device seems to be free-standing and to rely on weight alone to keep it in place so those of you who commented on the possibility of harvesting 10 bikes at a time using a flat bed truck may be on to something. Then again, in the Netherlands there are so many bikes around which are easier to steal that I do not deem this to be a real problem, let alone the fact that those who attempt to load it on a truck will probably not get very far.
Yikes... I know coral and other invertebrates are very sensitive to heavy metals like nickel.
At least in Amazon US, they comingle Amazon inventory with other FBA sellers, so even sold by Amazon isn't a guarantee.
As I was reading it I was thinking "is it even legal to have this many misconceptions about human history?"
You can monitor CO2 real time. And if we ever took too much out, which is vanishingly unlikely: just burn more oil!

You can buy a co2 sensor for $150 or so.
Have you told the developer> I've found him quite responsive to suggestions and comments.
Just How Divided Are We?
The destructor gets called on them. They need to be valid enough for that.
I have this gripe that shows DO NOT need to run for 10 seasons. Breaking bad was a great example of a show that didn’t drag on, caught itself when it was starting to and pivoted and finished it strong. Now it’s a classic. Should there still be shows with 10 seasons? Sure. But most of them should be like 3-4-5 seasons. People lose interest. But if they knew that the only need to pay attention for 3-4 seasons, i think the shows could be more successful (for viewer attention span and for creators to work within a certain time frame and constraints).
I meant that were the chips upgradeable, you would still spend the money, only you would do it later. With the components soldered on, you have to spend the money today, not 4 years later.

I'm also of the opinion that hardware today is going to improve rather little in the coming years. For instance, with the option of having 16/32gb of ram, I don't see the need to upgrade the laptop on account of the memory for a good 5 years, at least. Even the new SSDs have 2gb throughput, _much_ higher than the SSD you installed into your 2011 MacBook.

Finally, Macs have always had amazing resale value. You can always sell a 5 year model for a few hundred dollars and invest in something that will be much better.
I completely agree on density, it's the foundation of our pitch really - the more shops that are available on Cloosiv, the better the experience. It's exactly why Starbucks and Dunkin' have such high adoption on their apps.

I also like your example about the hand crafted experience, and I agree - in a lot of ways that's desired from the customers that seek out local shops.

That said, we've interviewed hundreds of people (customers, random strangers, etc.), and it's clear that they'd go to their local shop more often if this were an option. It doesn't mean that they'll use Cloosiv for every visit, but if we can be there when they don't have a lot of time, that's a win for the coffee shop and the customer.
First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission
How would you do this without suddenly becoming subject to PCI compliance?
"All this changed dramatically over the last two centuries. The Industrial Revolution gave the market immense new powers, provided the state with new means of communication and transportation, and placed at the government’s disposal an army of clerks, teachers, policemen and social workers. At first the market and the state discovered their path blocked by traditional families and communities who had little love for outside intervention. Parents and community elders were reluctant to let the younger generation be indoctrinated by nationalist education systems, conscripted into armies or turned into a rootless urban proletariat.

"The state and the market approached people with an offer that could not be refused. ‘Become individuals,’ they said. ‘Marry whomever you desire, without asking permission from your parents. Take up whatever job suits you, even if community elders frown. Live wherever you wish, even if you cannot make it every week to the family dinner. You are no longer dependent on your family or your community. We, the state and the market, will take care of you instead. We will provide food, shelter, education, health, welfare and employment. We will provide pensions, insurance and protection.’"

If nothing else, two centuries is an awfully short time to allow you to conclude that 100,000 years of the past are no longer especially relevant.
Several California cities are already spending millions annually to dump sand and rocks and to build/expand seawalls, to try to stave off the ocean taking prime beachfront real estate (and it's not working, in the long run).

Those cities (though not in the ideal location for this project, I guess) would likely be ecstatic to have subsidized assistance (though who subsidizes it?). They're losing the beaches no matter what they do, the question is how long will it take, what will it cost to push it out a few more years, etc. For cities that don't have the budget to dump millions of dollars worth of sand only to have it mostly wash away in the next storm, a green beach is probably much more appealing than no beach.
At first I got taken in by Rick Beato. He is terrifically knowledgeable about music theory and plays a number of instruments well.

But it didn't take long to notice that his presentations of music theory are not done to help the listener understand music theory. They are done to show how terrifically smart Rick Beato is. I suspect a lot of his fans know enough music theory that they nod their heads at the parts they understand and it makes them feel good that they can follow. But it is terrible if you actually want to learn.

There are much better youtubers that present music theory that is conducive to learning.
Lots of this got me thinking so I wrote a bit of a piece on it: https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors
That may have been the first to combine steering, suspension, and powering, but I wouldn’t bet on it. “In-wheel” motors are a lot older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_hub_motor:

”Wellington Adams of St. Louis first conceived of building an electric motor directly in the vehicle wheel, though it was attached via complicated gearing. The Adams patent is U.S. Patent 300,827 in 1884.”

It even mentions an in-wheel Diesel engine.
Ada's ranges are runtime checked right? How would you do this in a compiler?
Climate activists turn to lawsuits to force action on global warming
New Orleans floods as Gulf Coast braces for rains up to 15 inches
Thanks for taking out the time to let me know! :)
Yeah, no.

Ultra-Local business - eg. ice cream truck - really don't need a google presence in any way.
I've long said that we need something like this for dockless bikes/scooters. Just converting 1% of parking spaces in the city would drastically reduce the "littering" problem.
"this int should only ever be in the range 1-30"

That's in all the Pascal-family languages - Pascal, Modula, Ada.

"Perhaps the future of software isn't "rewrite everything in Rust", but instead we end up annotating existing C/C++ with borrow checking information."

Trying to retrofit this to C++ runs into the problem that too often you're lying to the language to get something done. Like extracting a raw pointer to be sent to a system call. You have to break a lot of existing code to make this work. Which means a new safer C++ like language. There are about five of those to choose from, none of which are used much.

Rust was right to do a clean break. But then they just got too weird, with their own brand of functional programming and their own brand of a type system.
Typical HN comment. Always wanting to talk about the exact nature of the fissile material, the startup neutron source and even the colour of the reactor shield.
>My money is on the fact that their teacher was managing some other student doing something stupid.

But an ineffective teacher also happens in college where professors do not need to deal with any misbehaving adult students.

Surely many of us have experienced a college class (in USA) being taught by a TA that can barely speak English. Even though the students are all quiet and respectful, nobody understands the lecture.

In those situations, the advantages of on-site presence of the professor is overshadowed by the disadvantages of the ineffective teaching presentation.

That's why many Youtube mathematics videos have comments such as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly4S0oi3Yz8

+ 261 thumbs up: "Your videos are what college should be like. And isn‘t."
Do influencers really...influence? It seems like a lot of money is thrown at some of these folks but it's not clear that is directly leading to sales.
Do the racks get used or stay empty? Does it result in more visitors than a single parking spot would have generated? Does it encourage more people to choose less polluting ways of navigating their neighborhood? The whole point is it helps a business owner / district / neighborhood planning association test a change before making it permanent. It is a great way to counteract the "no one ride bikes, removing a single parking spot will ruin my business" argument we see in the US.
I also look forward to reading the postmortem. Stripe puts out a lot of high quality blog posts.
The text says "4K titles" now.
Ask HN: How to hide all submissions from a specific domain?
For instance, I'm not interested in clicking on anything that is account-walled.
Local governments are generally paralyzed by a fear of being liable if it somehow goes sideways. Of course they cling to the status quo for dear life.
I think what some of this discussion is missing is there are two continuous scales of wanting exercise. There is the axis the GP speaks of of wanting to exercise (for me, because of the endorphin rush) but also an orthogonal axis of laziness/busyness/inertia/etc that fights the first desire. I’ve found it common to both intensely want and simultaneously not want to exercise — and eventually one axis out-weighs the other.

It is similar to the HR principal (forgot the name) where employees can both intensely like the job but also dislike it — all because the continuoum is on a single axis one.
Thanks, I'm going to try this.

Just to be clear: "baking soda" is Bicarbonate of soda (aka. bicarb soda, sodium bicarbonate)?

Mix in equal proportions?

It's a dry mix, not with water?
> The biggest one is that copy semantics are default and silent

This is not true. The rules are simple: rule of three, rule of five, or the recommended one, rule of zero [1]. If you define a copy constructor, the compiler won't generate a move constructor. If you define a move constructor explicitly, the compiler won't generate a copy constructor silently. You have total control over how the language behaves.

So in summary, either stick to the rule of 5 or the rule of zero and you won't be surprised. If you don't mind expensive copies, rule of 3 is sufficient.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/rule_of_three
Well, essentially, once Google either:

A) Runs out of funds

B) Ruins its prestige by accepting lower quality people

I personally wouldn't bet on B), however once ad money dries up, it's possible Google we know will just be a Yahoo of future era.
Super exciting for someone like me who breaks out horribly when a quarter or a nickel belt touches my skin.
They are regarded as among the world’s best reporters. They can Google up their own privacy policy just like anyone else, no disturbance of the editorial/sales wall necessary.