skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author indicates it would be good for data to flow around but sometimes data pre-population is annoying or uncanny.

If I'm 1500 miles from my home visiting a friend, populating my home zip code would be frustrating. The fact that LG knew my name when I went to register even though I had not logged in, that is unsettling.
Bicycles were heavily used for transportation before cars at least in those countries where they were available at reasonable cost. Anecdotal, but my grandpa and his pals ride bicycles their whole youth and even later, got his driver's license when he was 50, and didn't give a about any environmental issues (though he was no fan of consumerism and made pretty much everything he needed himself and overall preferred simple life, but also deeply hated "those hippies who can't actually do anything useful with their hands", which still characterizes 99 percent of the so called environmentalists...). Back then the distances were smallish, usually under 30 km which made bike the most convenient way for travelling.

I see nobody recognizing that bikes need pretty good roads to be efficient. That was the main reason to prefer walking in some areas even if you had a bike.
This is not new and on it's face a great thing for Google to do, but.... the cynical side of me wonders how much does Google actually benefit from this free money inflating ad prices on their platform for the larger players that will pay more. If the market is efficient then it is just a transfer from the larger ad buyers to the smaller non-profit ad buyers but also not seemingly a horrible thing. But one does still wonder...
> Maybe any transaction should have a 2FA style system

It does - at least on Apple devices, IAP need to be authenticated with a physical interaction, and Touch/Face ID.
What makes you think other retailers will treat the employees better than Amazon is right now?
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Oh, don't forget the sort of weirdo micro-USB 3 connector: https://www.droid-life.com/2013/09/26/yes-the-galaxy-note-3-...

It is admirable to try to maintain backwards compatibility, but still it is pretty strange connector for mass consumer market.
For low volume production items, the plastics are more costly to design than the electronics. Therefore laptop docking stations are expensive to manufacture, especially as they are in use by only a subset of users.

By converting to a docking station that requires a simple small plug for everything, that makes them much cheaper. Instead of making a huge chunk of plastic that the laptop has to click into.
I'm right there with you. I've noticed a terrible regression in quality on the iOS side, and general slow down on their Mac client. This is one product I wish Apple would Sherlock.
I mean, I would broadly agree, but you don't need to have a million dollars to buy shares in a robotics venture.

However, I still contend that, even with millions of dollars, most people would not have the foresight to invest. As evidenced by the fact that those who suffer from windfalls of money typically lose it very quickly.
> Use any current OS you want … as long as it's from Microsoft.

..or Google or Apple. Or Nintendo. Or Sony.
The reality is appeal to empathy is imo ineffective.
It's dangerous in a curve as you can't lean.

But a trike with a big front wheel could have had a decent speed with direct drive and yet be less dangerous than a penny farthing.
You don't need steel tubes for a bicycle, you don't even need steel at all. In fact there were (and still are) wooden bicycles and they work fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_bicycle

As for ball bearings these are incremental improvements not a necessity (see horse chariots and carriages with wheels used for millenia before we had ball bearings). For another example see medieval wooden windmills - all cogs and bearings made from wood with some animal fat and skin for bushings and lubrication - worked well enough for centuries.

https://ethw.org/Wheels

> Tutankhamen's chariots give us an opportunity to study the details of wheels and axles. The aspect that is most striking to a present-day engineer is that the axles were made of wood and the wheels bad wooden journals. The favored materials were elm and birch, which were imported because neither wood was native to Egypt. Anyone accustomed to modern practice finds it hard to believe that wood-on-wood could function as a bearing at all. This primitive arrangement was improved in a few cases by the addition of a leather bushing. Lubrication in the form of animal fat or tallow is known to have been used, although the exact composition has not been determined.

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/course...

https://vimeo.com/14166672

First mass-produced bicycle (velocipede) had no ball bearings until a few years later.
IIRC USB4 is planned to be exactly Thunderbolt 3.

What is needed is an easily identifiable branding, which I have some hope left USB4 will finally provide.
Yes. Disagree.

I think in many cases the right candidate for a non profit is someone who cares deeply enough to take a pay cut to work there.
Can't say I blame them.

Linux is ridiculously powerful & versatile as I'm sure we all know...and having that much opportunity to mess with all the net/visual/input subsystems in a way the game can't even see (since it's trapped in WINE) is a major issue cheat wise.

Not ideal but I can totally see why a company might from a practical/commercial point of view just block it outright. Especially given player numbers of WINE players vs upsetting your entire user base due to cheaters.
I think this is fine. As other have said, if the price hadn’t changed and this happened, that would be annoying (even though the typical MBA customer won’t notice), but since the price has decreased, this is a fair trade-off.

Incidentally, I got my mom the 2018 Air (to replace her 2010 13” MacBook Pro) and she loves it and she LOVES Touch ID. She uses her iPad for most things but occasionally needs a full computer and it’s been great for her.

If I had any reason for a <del>third</del> <del>fourth</del> fifth laptop (I do not), I’d consider one just as something to play on.
And in the sense that Amazon generates tremendous profit for its owners, which has to come from somebody's labor!
After buying a screen which has only a USB-C DP-Alt-Mode input, I was recently in the market for a matching cable. My only requirements were “it should be as long as possible, at least 2 meters” and “it needs to support DP-Alt-Mode”.

Now I thought this would be easy, just ask Google what kind of cable I need, right...? Well... no. Not at all. I wasn’t able to find any information whatsoever what kind of USB-C cable is needed for supporting Alt-DP-Mode. I guessed (really guessed, couldn’t find information) a USB 2.0 USB-C cable wouldn’t be good enough. But is a 5Gbps cable enough? Or is a 10Gbps cable needed? Or maybe neither and I need to buy one of those really expensive USB-C Thunderbolt 3 cables...?

In the end I just bought a 2 meter USB-C 3.2 5 Gbps and just hoped for the best. And indeed it works. Yay!

The thing is... I’m a technical person, and even I can’t figure this out. How is a non-technical person supposed to navigate this?

And by the way: one piece of information I did find about USB-C and Alt-DP-Mode is that the current spec for Alt-DP-Mode doesn’t allow use of active cables, so length is limited to 2 meters. That’s another pitfall restriction.
No one in this thread made any jokes about the situation and characterizing the comments as such is disingenuous.
Yeah but the alternative in antiquity wasn't "whatever squishy compound", it was wood, perhaps with a metal strap around it, like a carriage wheel.
> Nineteenth century homesteaders could send their kids off to market with appropriate funds to buy what they needed. Now all of a sudden this doesn't work and kids by default have access to near infinite (at their scales) lines of credit because of internet purchasing.

Huh? The old model is working just as well as ever. Why would you give your kid your credit card? Have them make their internet purchases with a gift card, the non-insane way.
When I search for "USB C cable" on Amazon UK, 90% of the results are A-to-C cables. The first C-to-C cable is an Amazon Basics 2.0 cable, so you are right.
Is toggling a single simple menu setting before handing off your portable computer you use for managing your life to your child considered a legitimate burden?

>Why can't app vendors (and in particular their middlemen who manage the purchases) make even a minimal effort at not having this system be broken by default?

Apple put an effort into making it all locked behind a simple menu setting, which to me looks about as functional and non-broken as it can get. I don't know what more can one expect from a company, aside from being able to read the mind of whoever is using the device at the moment and automatically adjust permissions based on that.
I know Apple asks for Face ID or Touch ID when making in app purchases. This seems like a deterrence, but not sure about Android.
Writing LaTeX in emacs is faster
That explains why laptops should have a standardized "docking station" port, not why that port needs to also support literally everything that runs on electricity with the ability to also channel high-current power in both directions.
Pretty much all paper manufacturers are now require to plant more trees than they cut down.

Burying old newspapers in the ground is a form of carbon sequestration. Really it comes down to what takes less energy: cutting down the trees, or the transport, sorting and reprocessing of old newspapers.
I prefer:

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up."

~ The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605571h.html
Prague museum of technology has a huge collection of early bicycles. Side by siders, rod drive, front wheel drive, bamboo...
We literally can make any technology for anyone
Angola Cables launches cloud services offering
The parents should think of the 3000 pounds as the cost of a course in child care.
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Do you mind giving examples with links?
And that's the best bookcase in the world.
Your protip is naive.

I'm not saying there isn't any excessive pay in some charities. But the management needs of an organization are not determined by the goods or services being supplied by that organization so much as by the complexity of the organization. It's not somehow fundamentally easier to manage a charity than it is a product company of similar scale and size.

Now, there can be unwarranted complexity of course, but some of this is a natural outgrowth of scaling and reach. So just like in private sector, charity organizations have a huge range of needs. Running MSF is very different than running a local independent food bank.

From my limited personal experience, charity sector executives tend to be paid a fair bit less than they would in private sector work, but still at a reasonable scale for experience an skills.

This is exactly what you want: someone capable of doing the work well, who demonstrably cares enough about it that it as made a financial impact on them. Otherwise you are effectively suggesting that it is better for the organization to be inefficient and waste its donations, so long as the people heading it are also "donating" their time. You can hope for somebody good who is financially secure and doesn't need the salary, but it would be foolish to count on.

There is one other issue, which is the question of whether or not larger scale charity organizations are (or can be) more efficient at delivering meaningful impact than smaller, localized one. That seems like a good target for some proper research. If the answer is that larger organizations are better at it, then clearly there is a benefit to having them run well. And caring about the impact is nowhere near enough qualification to do that.
>Outdoor cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year, study says

those numbers are meaningless to say the least. I never said cats don't kill the birds. What i said is that that killing is beneficial for the bird population. What do you think happens in nature to the billions of ill and old dying birds? Do you think they happily end their days in hospitals and nursing facilities? Or you'd prefer those billions of naturally dying birds just slowly die on their own (from decease and hunger, etc. not being able to fly and feed themselves anymore) and just lie around as a feed for rats?

If it were undeveloped land untouched by humans the role of the cats would be spread around among the multitude of predators, and even more birds would be killed as the total bird population undecimated by humans would be bigger, and thus the same percentage of ill and old birds from the bigger population would mean even higher number to be killed by predators.
Yes, can you see that is ineffective ? you want to make me care, you have to force me to care.
Pretty hard.

China is not an immigrant country. If you don't look like Chinese/Asian, then you are an outiler.

Diversity isn't something China, or East Asia values in general, uniformity instead.
>I think many people do this not out of need but as a time waster that pays a bit. As the article mentions, 75% of 'Turkers' are American.

Been tempted myself. But then I crunch the numbers vs my actual job and go clean my apartment instead.

That plus a very real fear of RSI from all the mouse clicking. I mean I already click at work all day then on hn/reddit in afternoons...
Is your 'pro' tip based on either data or anecdotal observation?

My experience with non-profits (granted, not 'pro' since I wasn't being paid) is that organizations that limit their capacity to amateurs and volunteers also significantly limit their impact.
Kids can use gift cards, and if you do use a credit card for an account your kid (or spouse... or parent) is using then you can remove your card after the purchase.I've been doing it for years, on a few different platforms, with no issue.

That said I do wish there was an easier way to say "don't ever save my card info" It's clearly a dark pattern, and I routinely get furious about the loopholes I have to jump through .
Repurposed gas stations have most of what you need. Delivery of power to an array of chargers cheaper than reticulated suburbs.
I talk to quite a lot of Americans online and many of them really are not aware, as they are programmers they generally earn good (by UK standards very good) money but then you start talking to them about what good health insurance for a family of four costs and suddenly things start to look different.

I think in some respects the US has coasted on it's former economic glory - I mean sure Silicon Valley is a mecca for folks like us but then you look at things outside of the those types of Nexuses and its a very different picture.

In Europe the UK is often regarded (sometimes appropriately) as US-lite but we are still an ocean away literally and figuratively from them in so many ways.

Given a lever between moving our politics closer to Nordic countries or the US I know which way I'd push it, I'll take a more equal fairer society with better outcomes for more people over a decrease in the already tiny chance to be super rich - its not really something I've ever really thought about as an end goal anyway - the increase in freedom would be nice but I can't imagine I'd still work insanely hard for that second billion, I'd probably potter about the world learning about history and art and working on open source.
From my understanding, the biggest reason was that most buildings were not wheel chair accessible until after the late 80's. Once this started to be mandated, wheeled luggage became useful.
I was going to do some technical posts for medium, but i found as a user they were not surfacing good technical content. They were surfacing bubble gum articles better placed in cosmopolitan, even after i set my preferences and explicitly searched multiple times. My click history did have me clicking on articles like that, but only on moments of weakness, i didn't intend to not did i want an infinite list of vacuous content.

There is a classic problem in content recommendations, what someone says they want vs what they actually click, good systems ( from 2008 ) do a blend, then start balancing.

I cancelled my 'open paywall' and will probably start a WordPress.
Only 50% if you count walking around carrying a table as 100% the same as just walking :)

That said, my non-expert opinion is that a penny-farthing without ball-bearings would probably still work OK; a rover-style bike with a chain would be much harder. But the ability to make bicycle chain, and the ability to make spokes for wheels, I think these happened about the same time too.
At least the plane stuff is wrong. Planes do not need to be grounded and will not be, but the capacity of the system will be reduced as we once again crowd into the rigidly-defined airways between the VORs. Approaches will use ILS as many do already and it will be all ok. Airplanes were ok for decades before GPS and even now can function without it.
I think GitHub has a shot at becoming this if they added the right social features, I’m not sure if they should though.
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Simply TL;DR for the release notes
> I find it just as plausible a read of the thread that the root's take-away was "trust the government," as you seem to find "skepticism is good" to be "a defense of ignorant reactionaries."

Would you care to explain why?

> If there's anything in the world that warrants some extra skepticism, it's the well-meaning-ness of government and its penchant for unintended consequences...

I agree in general, but the root comment made a specific argument about why certain skeptics are not compelling. I don’t see how these hand wavy proclamations about how skepticism is good is in any way relevant to that.
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Kids shouldn't be armed with cards.

Prepaid cards maaaybbbee.
Fun fact: Chewing gums do not rot as they are rubber like car tires. And usually it is not allowed to throw car tires on the streets (learned that from a kids show recently!!)
Any gaming console today has the exact same issues, just hidden by it being a "gaming console".

FIFA, specifically, is not a mobile phone game. It's a console game with gambling-alike microtransactions.
Raspberri + Hugo (https://gohugo.io)

But this is 'easiest' only if you are of a dev\IT background.
The cost for a Bike is all in the little things like brakes, shifters, etc. As long as we're talking Steel/Aluminum frames (not Carbon Fiber) the difference in cost between bikes is largely put into these important parts. Hence the $300 bike not being great but the $600 bike will be so much better.

I bet if you were buying 50 bikes at a time you'd get a nice bulk discount.
I’m really confused why “maybe make it impossible for this to happen” is so controversial. People fuck up sometimes. Kids are tough. And as peddlers of technology the onus is on us to make people’s lives better, not worse, which includes having the tiniest bit of compassion and maybe using some of those VC millions to prevent these kinds of things. Do y’all truly believe that everyone that this happens to was being careless? Is there no room for an honest mistake?
Yeah, didn't tackle that one...

I highlighted the fact that ignoring OOP is a weakness for @foobar_ and their response was essentially "you force every problem into objects and you suck". Interacting with this person is like carrying an open bag of snakes.
Baffling, maybe. It's a good question, not because the answer is trite but because it's interesting.

The invention itself might have even occurred, or parts of it. If you pressed hard enough, maybe you might have gitten a decent prototype built in the bronze age.

History has to take its course, in a sense. It has to be.practical and economical to manufacture, acquire and use one. A major part of that is what it takes to build one that's good and cheap enough. Another part is the path (roads, good steel parts like hollow tubes). Then it needs to be invented in a way that can lead to some decent number being made, demand of some sort considering that it still sucks. Enough people need to learn to ride one... There need to be engineers around with an interest...

It's dense with trees, but forests assume trees are inevitable. Nothing here is really. Maybe the invention is, on some level. But things usually need to be invented into existence over many iterations, events and chains before they totally stick.
I am not defending EA (I think they are scumbags). But I remember kids back in the 90s getting hold of their parents credit card and spending money they didn't have.

Everything old is new again ...
Nearly all current photovoltaic cell production is polysilicon, which does not require any rare elements or any rare-earth elements. There are some PV technologies that use rare elements such as indium and selenium, but they do not use rare-earth elements either; and, in any case, they have been pretty much priced out of the market by falling polysilicon costs. There are many kinds of rechargeable batteries, but none of them, to my knowledge, use rare-earth elements. In particular, the lithium-ion batteries in current large-scale use do not even use any rare elements. (Nickel-cadmium batteries used cadmium, which is about as rare as silver, but not a rare-earth element.)

Finally, rare earth elements are not rare (a dozen of them are each individually more abundant than tin), and there is no danger of depleting them.

These are the factual errors in the first factual sentence of your comment. This level of reliability leads me to believe that you are commenting with no concern for whether your comment is true or false, even without doing a similar level of investigation of the rest of your comment.
Yes and since they are very thin they are quite useful when you just want to carry a tiny charger (my choice is the Mu One / RAVPower GaN 45W same Navitas charger except the Mu One has nifty folding international heads) and a lightweight cable. AmazonBasics is a reliable brand for this.
The evidence is in the article. It tells of a US company using 10.000 data points in a jurisdiction where this is allowed.

The article cites Turner, who a few years back wrote this:

> The non-financial data was found predictive in all three outcomes examined when no other
‘traditional’ credit information was used, strongly suggesting that alternative data would be useful to lenders in underwriting the so-called ‘no-file’ or ‘no-score’ consumer who have little or no payment/credit information available.

I think his quote about "laughing out" is taken out of context. No predictive modeler will throw away informative features, because she can not distinguish noise from signal after 26 variables. That's 10 to 1% of a modern credit scoring model. It may be the perspective of a regulator though (they start drowning in noise after reviewing 100+ variables).

Yes, all data that is legal to use and predictive, will get used, if not by you, then by your competitor.

And informative variables that can not be used in the decision to give a loan, are used internally to predict if the loan will be paid back. There is more to credit scoring than the initial yes-no.
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There's usually multiple ways. In the past I've purchased PDF ebooks from the InformIT site (linked to from the book site), but other ebook types are typically also available on Amazon.com.
How about the app stores classifying them?

I've tried looking for games I could buy outright. Try finding a game without ads or in app purchases. It is extremely difficult to search by those criteria.