skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the trending searches after the debate, Google's systems singling out Tulsi's account for flagging seems suspicious, and Google's robo-responses to press inquiries specious. I'm sure other candidates upped their spending, so let's have the ACTUAL numbers Google!

Also, it's a little surprising to see parroted defenses of Google here - they operate behind an opaque cloak, designed from the ground up for plausible deniability on every single one of their actions. Their P.R. statements cannot be believed. Tulsi's criticisms do not seem unsubstantiated, and the fact she's suing a corp. with unlimited funding indicates her campaign believes they have some evidence of malice. Between the two, I'd give Tulsi the benefit of doubt, and wait for the discovery stage in this case
It's also the default, so some will just click through
> The lawsuit accuses Google of violating the First Amendment, among other offenses, and Gabbard is seeking $50 million plus assurances that Google will refrain from “censoring or restricting” the account.

Isn't it common rhetoric that Google _can't_ violate the First Amendment, being a private company? They have the ability to arbitrarily close or censor any account they choose. Politicians don't get special treatment, especially while saying it's fair for Google to close accounts belonging to people whom they personally find objectionable.
I asked the same thing about the engineering offices where I worked, and found that the reason why was because the offices didn't matter much for the people in them- we move around a lot, and the only time you're in an office is when you're figuring something out in CAD or the like. The people who work all day long in offices understandably have better furniture- we just don't need all that much.

People- interactions- matter more than places do- the happiest family I've ever met lived in a poorer neighborhood and their house was obviously not doing well.
Based on benchmarks (take them at face value) [1], Apple's A12/A12x processors are roughly 80% the performance of current-gen desktop CPUs (and on par with some mobile ones) in single threaded performance. I think a bit of that is power concerns, even with the 8 core chips.

There have been rumors floating around that Apple will switch to their own ARM cores (based on the A12, probably) for a future generation of Mac computers. I think they'd have to meet or beat x86 for that to happen.

Interestingly they're manufactured with TSMC's 7nm process, just like the new AMD chips.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
Fragmented REM sleep can harm the amygdala’s ability to process emotional mem
The Pocket Operators are just a generic DAC+amp chip, the Cirrus CS42L52. The DAC is driven by a 48MHz MCU with just 32K of RAM. If it were purely a question of technical / hardware capabilities it would all fit into an app ten times over.

http://hackingthepo.weebly.com/ has a terrifically detailed teardown of a PO-16. Or SiLabs (the MCU's manufacturer) did a marketing video / interview with one of the Pocket Operator's designers about the hardware design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjrOnlMkJHU
Tangentially related question: How much money will be spent by all these losing campaigns?
DirecTV, Comcast, and Netflix are all losing customers. Are there winners in this space or are people finding other things to do with their time?
We went through this with our daughter[1]. I used to laugh at all the incredibly poorly targeted ads that'd show up in the middle of the ABC's song for like car insurance or whatnot. But that was mostly an annoyance.

What's more dangerous, IMHO, was the tendency for YouTube to queue up stuff that's increasingly dubious. So, you might start out with something that was high quality (see note below) but up next would be some weird apparently mass produced garbage with like people opening easter eggs, and it'd drift off from there. You really have to work to curate your own youtube content, and they don't make it easy.

[1] Incidentally, Super Simple Songs was our favorite. High quality, clever, instructional videos that we felt good about letter her watch.
This is why the corner solution of free speech as a cultural meme was started, which was a precursor to its formalization.

The corner solution essentially 'solves' this issue by realizing partial censorship is a non-stable equilibrium.
Most places in the Northeast have an abundance of water, and water rates mostly fund infrastructure. For example, NYC only began metering water usage in 1986.
Just jump on CL or your local equivalent and grab something < $100. Its not like your 5yo is going to appreciate the difference much. They'll pick up whatever you throw at them.
The Snapchat UI is exceedingly weird. The navigation make no sense, and you can easily get lost in a feature you didn't know existed. Why don't they fix it?
Artificial suppression of water prices is equivalent to a direct cash transfer proportional to water usage. The more water you waste, the more money you get.

The exact same thing (making the poor able to afford water) could be accomplished much less destructively by making the cash transfer a flat constant (thereby not incentivizing gratuitous water wastage).
Now now, we can't let facts get in the way of the victimhood Olympics.
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So in america, if something is on my private property, it becomes mine?

It sounds like the only reason they can hold the scooters "ransom" is because they were found on private property.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10220487
Wren – Scripting Language for C++
Based on their (lack of) interactions with local governments, goodwill does not seem to be one of their chief concerns.
The number one commercial tool used is powerpoint...
It's being overdone. A solid wall of railroad flats (cheezy "luxury" condos) is going up for miles along the Caltrain tracks. Those wooden multistory buildings are the slums of tomorrow.

It's about time for the next Bay Area recession. Some of those buildings will never be fully occupied. Remember 2008? 2001?
Having looked into it only briefly, how are these "owned" acres policed?
It's banned in our home. It's awful.
Except GitHub seems to be handling it a lot more professionally. A clearer written policy and process for appeals - as opposed to Slack that did a behind the scenes change and borked a bunch of accounts.
Backstage 6: Dwayne Johnson’s movies are educational
That is a fair viewpoint. I am just a little cautious of only hearing one side of a lawsuit, especially when that side is a political campaign and therefore is very concerned with spin. Gabbard's account has a lot of political grandstanding in it that you wouldn't find in a independent article.
On a first principles level, this highlights the core issue of bans/blocks/suspensions being handed out immediately rather than after a series of strike-based warning messages or something to that effect.

YouTube creators come to mind as some of the most blatantly affected by this, i.e. when YouTube automatically demonetizes videos, losing the creator revenue from 75%+ of the video's viewers, and then remonetizes it after an appeal.

At no point should any algorithm have the ability to block any account or perform any other such drastic measure (demonetization, etc.). It's just absurd.
I have been looking through it, and examples, and code, and I guess the main question condensing in my mind is one big "Why"? Why use this, why yet another scripting language?

Why not just use Lua, one of JavaScript engines, Python, etc? They all have C++ bindings, all relatively easy to use. All are already used in many C++ apps for this exact purpose... (I guess it's not commonly known in all coder circles, but all those languages can just as easily be embedded in a C++ codebase as this.)
OP here. This article is a follow up on original article that was posted a few days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20505952

This was my first HN submission, so maybe I should have clarified the title instead of keeping it same as article itself?
By comparison, here's somebody who sued them in small claims court and won $8000:

https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-...

an update about winning the appeal afterwards (edit: apparently they got it reduced to $5500):

https://blog.legalist.com/i-fought-equifaxs-lawyer-in-court-...
Fair point, but like a sibling comment already stated: I cannot convince my uni to stop using AC in the short-term. So then better use it.

The climate change issue in the long-term is gripping me. What are we — as mostly programmers — doing about it. Why isn’t FAANG doing something? For pure problem solvers this seems like a juicy problem to sink your teeth into.
The way you remain both righteous and impartial is to never do anything consequential. That way, you can have the same effect for all parties while never doing anything you would find morally objectionable. It's essentially the trivial solution (magnitude of impact = 0), but is often implicitly advocated for in many debates here.

It occurred to me after writing this that there's a fourth variable: integrity, defined as your willingness to have principles and critically evaluate them against others' moral conduct. You could conceivably satisfy all of power, righteousness, and impartiality by assuming, in your value system, that everyone's values are morally acceptable and mutually compatible and hence there is no conflict between your values and everyone else's values. This is a position actually advocated by some philosophers, venture capitalists, and scientists! (There's a Tom Lehrer song in there somewhere: "Once zee rockets go up who cares where they come down / that's not my department / says Werner von Braun!") It's not a mainstream one within the general population, though; most people do actually have some feelings and pass some moral judgment on other people.

And yes, I was very deliberately trying to highlight the tension between objectivity and subjectivity here. (There's a lot of complexity over whether power is objective or subjective, too - power is your ability to enforce your will [subjective] over reality [objective], so it has elements of both.)
"Check. It. In. Anyway."

It's consistently a source of sorrow to me how many bugs exist and how much inefficiency there is because people don't want to be embarrassed by the code they quickly wrote.
I think some of it could be subscription burnout. All these networks are fragmenting and offering a subset of shows that I want to watch but don't want to pay or keep track of. Plus, I think people get a lot of content via other internet sites too.
Every house I know has blinds in Belgium. Are you perhaps talking more modern like Sweden?
I am not a PHP developer but the introduction of Laravel Vapor looks like a pretty big deal. Someone providing a cached cloud backend for $39 a month plus AWS charges looks like a screaming bargain to me. As a solo founder being able to outsource my backend to someone else would a pretty wise use of time.
Since when code coverage is accurate enough for you to make that judgement?
It should be noted that human infants don't drink a drop of water for the first 6 months of life.
These smear pieces against YouTube keep coming, and YouTube execs seem to think they can help it by appeasing the media; it only alienates their audiences, and paints a target on their back.
I never quite understood what people love about lifting but this comment makes me want to try it.

Cycling for a long time tends to completely clear my mind, but I don't know the feeling of "learning to coordinate" that you're talking about.
> Art is hard and people line up to take advantage of them

Correction, Art is a lifelong dream, and people line up to be taken advantage of.

The video game industry CAN go on like this. Easily. For every 100 that burn out of an abusive industry, there will be 200 more waiting in line.
> Preventing is probably key here, and could cover a lot of activities.

Yup. Reading news about the breach. Researching credit monitoring options. etc.
OK, we've changed to that from https://www.tulsi2020.com/tulsi-vs-google. If anyone suggests a better link, we'll be happy to change it again.

The site guidelines call for original sources, but in the case of press releases, especially corporate ones, we tend to switch to the best available third-party article.
Methods – EU Ad Transparency Report
I have a friend who specifically makes content for young children. He is an animator but specifically makes content for young children. I asked him why he makes this content and he essentially summed it up as:

1) young children are more likely to incorrectly click an ad or to not skip the ad (because they can't really read or understand that the ads are skippable)

2) young children often do not have ad blocking software installed

3) young children are more likely to watch playlists

The overall effect is that young children demographic is the most profitable demographic on youtube. Also lots of parents are basically using youtube as a form of free babysitting. Next time you go to the grocery store, just look at how many kids are sitting in the cart tapping away on a phone or a tablet.
If you truly believe that these will net-dehydrate you, it should be pretty easy to prove - just survive for 1 week drinking only soda/juice/coffee. If you die of dehydration, we'll admit you were right :)
"You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?"

If RMS would worry too much about bothering others, he would never have started the Free Software movement.
CERN, and every other government lab, are highly involved in the PhD process and awarding degrees. I'd go as far as saying they are an integral part. This is where grad students do their research to get those degrees. This is where grad students get a significant amount of their experience. They are also where funding comes from to do the research in the first place. Without labs like CERN there'd be a big change in how degrees are awarded. Labs are also much closer to academia than they are you industry. Their primary focus is research, which makes them a public interest.

So if the distinction is "industry" or "academia" I don't know how someone would call labs "industry". I understand not calling them "academia" but that's definitely the classification if you restrict yourself to a binary choice.
>You cannot cool down a building without making the exterior even warmer -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. The Problem is not "solved" by producing even more energy and thus generating entropy (unusable heat).

I don't understand why this particular total misunderstanding of physics comes up in so many contexts (a lot of anti-evolution types claimed it too in the past). The 2nd Law states that total entropy cannot decrease in a closed system. Yet a bit of reflection should reveal that somehow we manage to decrease local entropy all the time. In turn one may, once or twice, notice an enormous sphere of thermonuclear fusion in the sky that provides most of Earth's primary energy input. And at other times you may have noticed an enormous inky void into which energy can radiate away from Earth. Which should reveal that we in fact live in a locally open system, not a closed one. What controls the local general temperature is the equilibrium between energy input and what is radiated away. That's what greenhouse gasses change.

So no, you're completely and utterly off, AC does not in any way cause any trouble when it comes to the problem of global warming. The energy after all would have been transformed to entropy regardless. What matters is the greenhouse gasses that exist in the atmosphere.
I like it quite a bit but the tuning has gotten wonky, and very sensitive to cold. I've got low confidence it will be working in ten years time whereas my ~18 year-old Nord 3 is a rock.
In my experience, in towns like Merida or Córdoba, some 400km away for the nearest coastal site, there’s not much of a sea breeze whatsoever. Also, most of that part of Spain is in a Mesa well over 2k ft. ASL. Finally, 1st. hand experience as of last summer, temperatures don’t drop at all at night, staying in the low thirties (Celsius) for the night. This year seems nicer surprisingly.
Lol, you are the guy that goes to a pub in London and orders a "Budwiser", aren't you? (True story, it happen to one of my former co-workers. They were overwhelmed by the choices, and instead of venturing, went to what they knew)

I think it might be better to get out of your comfort zone and find out that 'non-chain' food and drinks are often better.

While I get, "I want to try something like home" feeling, but having just that is a bit close minded.

As for a fact, Mediterranean Europe tends to have both better coffee and better food in general.
> Because we really ought to go that way (more proofs like Idris/Agda).

proofs are not everything in software. what do you do if you're handed a massive code-base in idris and are asked to make a change, a change that requires jumping through all sorts of hoops due to the type system? constrained type systems are fine but along some vectors of software development, they actually increase brittleness. maybe not brittleness at run-time but at develop and maintenance time.
In my experience, nearly everyone is a tech company, but the ones that admit it to themselves and others tend to be better at it.

FANG aside, I feel like purebred tech companies are more likely to deliver what people want as opposed to existing financial institutions that are interested only in keeping up (in the ultimate minimal sense) with what other companies show is possible.

I once worked at an online college that claimed to "not be a tech company". I replied, "if your website goes down then where will people go to take classes? How will professors interact with students?" They didn't get it.
My mistake. Sorry about that: din't know this is against the rules.
Will never happen again.
Subtracting the 20% of water consumed through food
I don't feel the comment was made in an adversarial way. Just pointing out some reasons why Ada didn't become widespread. There are plenty of decent languages with great high-level constructs and features that failed to gain/maintain meaningful industry penetration after C hit the stage. I'd say Ada is just another victim of that success, along with the issues he mentions. It's unfortunate, but that's how it is. Maybe Rust can reach a wider audience in a way Ada was unable to, while providing similar safety guarantees.
Even despite the issues around A1 and A2, the read speeds on SD cards are just too slow, and will probably always be too slow.

What the RPI needs is a simple m.2 slot for a "real" hard drive, which are getting cheaper and cheaper.
Anonymity, presumably. That said, you'd think there would be no reason that whatever real-world authority is ensuring no one extracts more than their purchased credits allow would already have all the secret information and could just be the clearing house for the transactions.
This seems like great, practical advice. I usually get to step 2, documentation (however minimal) and command-line parameters. This inspires me to go the next step and add proper logging (instead of print statements) and unit tests as well.
daytime tv is now fully replaced with UGC. people now scrolls instagram/tiktok/etc for hours and hours.

so when the vestigial bill changes price, it's enough to call people into action.
Google has been shown to interfere with results that don't align with the company's political values. It's harder to believe that this suspension WASN'T politically motivated.
If the question is, what caused the Arab Spring? We can have a well reasoned debate with evidence and statistics and possibly say with some certainty whether or not climate change was a factor. There is no moral component in there. I don't like Hitler, I'm not going to blame him, unless the evidence leads there. I like puppies, if the evidence points to puppies then I'm not going to reject that just because I like puppies

If the question is, what should we do about the causes of the Arab Spring? That is a question with a moral component. We can disagree about whether addressing climate change should be a part of the solution, just like we can disagree whether we should be murdering all the puppies, we should really be on the same page about whether puppies are the problem before making that decision though.

You mention making wrong choices, starting with incorrect assumptions isnt going to help make the correct choices.
Would it be legal for Fox News to price political ads based on whether they agree with the bias?
> insinuates the initial suspension was politically motivated, which seems hard to believe

How is that hard to believe? We know for a fact Google does political censorship.

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/25/breaking-new-googl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ricI5t66cj8

(note these are fresh links just from the last 2 days)
PortlandWild is a fusion of GoogleMaps and city's Murals, Heritage Trees et al.
South Dakota Public Schools Add 'In God We Trust' Signs to Walls
Netflix is not losing customers. They have never had a quarter where they lost customers.
Mind using the NYT link? It's in my post above yours. I think it's higher quality than the Verge. (Although I still think in my heart of hearts we should link to Tulsi's blog post but I understand the opposing viewpoint.)
Command queuing is such a dangerous thing.

This is the disk equivalent of 'buffer bloat'[1] but with disk data. The question you have to ask is what happens when you lose power and there are 'n' writes queued to the storage device. How has the kernel marked that data?
Historically once the disk accepted the write and returned kernels would say "ok, data on disk" buffer clean now.

Of course if you lost power and that write never actually completed, well you now had file system corruption (possibly silent if it was just a data block).

Another problem that cropped up is "ok we can re-use this data buffer" so it gets fill with different data, and then the storage device says "oh hey, send me that data you told me write ..." whoops.

The third problem that crops up is that the computer on the storage device crashes (or watchdog resets) and it goes back and doesn't remember what commands it had in the queue. So some time later your kernel better ask "hey why haven't you acknowledged this write we sent 50mS ago?" and have the disk say "What write?" and replay it.

One school of thought was "Command queuing in the storage device is always bad, the kernel knows more, has more memory, and is ultimately responsible for what is and what is not on disk." So the kernel would 'hold' writes to the disk until the write was sufficiently aged or until enough writes had accumulated to do a "streaming" write (multiple sectors on the same track). But for non-spinning media there is no seek time so there is no advantage. Except for flash, you have to erase a page which can be a lot of data which then has to be rewritten with the new stuff.

I enjoyed the writeup but it really needs to start with a highly fragmented SD card (one with lots of random I/Os to it) so that it can measure the latency hit for page rewrites.

[1] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...
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How does flushing my toilet from water drawn from a river ... and then pumped back into the same river slightly downstream hurt anything?
It's totally reasonable for Google to draw the line somewhere in an exceptionally crowded presidential race. Imagine if anybody could get around Google's fraud controls by just declaring yourself a presidential candidate.