skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LA basin supports over 10 million people. Cut its water supply and the missing water has to be made up somewhere. I know full well it LA is 6 hours away from Silicon Valley but make LA run dry on water and CA-wide water restrictions would only get harsher. Remember that Silicon Valley still has a human population to support, too.

Desalination has been the technological breakthrough of next Tuesday for most of my life. I’ll be happy to see an actual deployment. Until then we wait.
> If Google wants to go back to being a search engine

While I understand the problems with Google scraping content, as a user these snippets help me find what I'm searching for faster. If that's all you're optimizing for, Google is fantastic. There are certainly good arguments to be made for other models, but for search, stealing content helps. I'm not advocating stealing content, I'm just saying that it produces more useful results.
I as well was diagnosed with SSH about a year and a half ago. This was shortly after I fell on my head in a yoga handstand class. I went to an Audiologist/ENT and was classified as having Meniere's and ultimately there was nothing I could do according to the doctors. I accepted this as truth because that's what the experts say and my Meniere's wasn't so bad at the time. Over time, the symptoms got worse and it was unbearable. My quality of life was at the lowest point of my existence and I had to do something. I did some research and found an article documenting people with Meniere's and how a specific niche of Chiropractic has helped them. This isn't the original article, but it's a copy of it:

https://drthomasforest.com/menieres-disease-treatment/

I did my research and started going to this doctor and within weeks I was getting relief. Now it's been about 6 months since I started treatment and I would say my hearing is back to normal for about 2 months now. I'm not saying this would resolve your SSH issues, but it's an avenue worth looking at especially if the article makes sense to you.
How the heck would a TSA agent know the difference
Precisely, and in this mode Google is functioning as an (ad-supported!) ad blocker. I can see a conflict of interest here even if google's ads are less intrusive and more easily blocked than the dictionary sites'.
Ah, I've never seen the source video so that's why I didn't pick up on it.
I grew up on Disneyland. At one point, my family was going nearly every weekend because my father worked for a subsidiary of Disney, so we got in for free. Even for years after he left the company, we bought annual passes and went rather frequently. Everyone I knew had annual passes.

It's probably been 5 years since I last went. Over time, annual passes became less worth it. Prices kept going up and more dates kept getting blocked out. Even ordinary tickets got pricey. Eventually, the park got so crowded that it really wasn't fun to go. Then they added premiums to a bunch of things like Fast Passes. I just kind of said screw it and chose not to go back.

I'm sure that I'll go back for some reason, but I won't make an effort to. This is coming from someone who LOVED Disneyland and wanted to build theme park rides as a dream job. It ended up feeling like they were doing everything they could to squeeze pennies, which I know theme parks are designed to do, but it used to seem like Disneyland at least partly cared about whether or not you were enjoying yourself. Cast members, at one time, were pretty damned friendly, though they're still much better than most other theme parks. When I last went, you could tell that they secretly hated their jobs. I don't want to pity lowly employees when I'm there to have fun. At least Six Flags doesn't seriously attempt to make their employees act cheery(I was once an employee there BTW).

Above all, I really don't want to give Disney money. Sure, they became an Evil MegaCorp a long time ago, and have long ago slithered their tentacles through the news and entertainment industry, but they control so much now and pretty much have no regard for artistry or the cultural significance of their films and characters. Star Wars just took the cake. Why would I pay Disney for a bizarro facsimile something I enjoyed as a child where the characters I loved are losers only to be replaced by modern ripoffs? Maybe they could have attracted a new generation, which doesn't appear to be working out much for them, but as someone who grew up with the original Star Wars, what they've done only repels me from anything to do with them. I'm not even a Star Wars fan... and I don't think one has to be to respond that way to Disney.

I'm not angry at Disney. It's just that, looking at my own behavior, it's no surprise to me why attendance to their park would be in decline.
Yes, there is. But it isn't humans who first discover our galaxy's core explosion, but Pierson's Puppetteers (1). Fun stories by Larry Niven in his "Known Space" series.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers
Yes, it really is compared to other places. I don't have the time or energy to dig up a comprehensive list, but the tip of iceberg would be Berkeley & Stanford blockchain research groups, Blockstream (HQ in BA), Cosmos (engineering lead in SV), Dfinity (Palo Alto, SanFran, Zurich), Protocol Labs (IPFS, Filecoin, HQ in SV), O(1) Labs (HQ in SV). Just a small sample of some of the highest quality technical projects in the industry. And several of the largest cryptocurrency VC funds are based there - A16Z Crypto, Paradigm, Polychain, Metastable Capital, and a bunch of others.

SV's tech industry is far from dominated by blockchain as it may be in other places, which may make blockchain seem relatively small there. But it's a bigger and more robust scene than most other places.

https://cbr.stanford.edu/

https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/proofs2019-boot-camp (berkeley has several sites, not sure which best to link, but their speciality is in Zero Knowledge crypto applied to blockchain)
I remember really enjoying paying around with rebol back in the day. Sadly I think it was open open sourced after development ceased. The bug tracker that was set up looks abandoned with nobody assigning tickets.
This is the better future. It opens the door to actors without favoring those that have "the look".

Physical features will be cosmetic and plastic, and they will be engineered to match the desired setting.
Or more like, the USD is extremely overvalued right now. In addition, the US makes travel to the US extremely risky and difficult, even for visa waiver eligible applicants. Many people are starting to not bother.
Why would they have to? Contributors do so voluntarily. This is no different than Quora or Stackoverflow which are both for-profit and don't pay for content.
charge a fee to the restaurant on leads?
The silent cartographer
Is the onus on the owner of the laptop or TSA? I guess both, but if you end up on a plane and something happens could you be prosecuted?

The FAA is an organization I would not like to get on the wrong side of
Not surprised, but the watch out for Google investors is that all the tricks for Google revenue growth to outpace general internet growth are all played out.

You can't "add more ads" above the fold when everything above the fold (for lucrative searches) is already an ad.

And dropping below 50% of searches don't result in a click is hard. Either for practical or anti-trust reasons.

So, get used to growth that's tied to internet growth. Which "ain't so bad", but also "ain't what it used to be".

This cow is milked, so if you want to go back to growth that exceeds expectations, you need a new cow. Search monetization has peaked for the near future.
Indeed, I don't think these boxes work at all when the question does not reduce to a single answer. Does google supply them anyway?

I did recently do a google search for someone's name and felt like I was presented with an anti pattern: a couple of boxes not getting to what I wanted (and not the wikipedia link) followed by a row of small boxes with thumbnails of other people goog hoped I might be interested in, a couple of more large boxes and then finally, after scrolling up, the text links. Yuck, as bad as altavista/Yahoo/lycos.
You mean like Robin Wright in The Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8
The Eye of Terror Pulsed... :)
I like all the things you listed :)

More seriously, from a moral standpoint, I would argue that what's at most a short paragraph extract from a website falls under fair use. I don't believe any site is entitled to clicks from Google's search results page, certainly not for such short snippets, which I believe don't exhibit the level of creativity that deserves denying the right to copy to others. By contrast, the other sites you listed provide copies of significantly longer and more creative works.

(Googler, though not in search or ads)
Dunno. I suspect the US and Canada are very different both from a policy perspective, i.e. many states are “at will” (Canada has more labor protection, including things like mandatory severance), and how they measure “temporary”. The numbers in this graph at least are lower overall [1], and similar to 20 years ago. Doesn’t feel sane though. Teasing all this apart is probably an economist thesis though.

[1] https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/2016/07...
Oops, I never ressponded to you, hope you check your threads once in a while.

I'm guessing that I would have been bored as a baker. My parents are both scientists, I was good at math when I bothered to do my homework. And when I learned programming in high school, it clicked for me almost instantly.

Granted, I took the test sometime around 1978, when the whole world was just about to change thanks to microcomputers, and I hopped onto that bus. Baking has probably become more of a niche activity, given that it already succumbed to automation when I took the test. (There is no way that the "careers" in the test were not at least 20 years out of date).
Exposing Arkadag and his propaganda will do absolutely zero to affect change in Turkmenistan. People don't follow him because they are lied to - people follow him because, as a general rule, for a little person it is almost always a safer, more lucrative decision to be on the strongman's side than against him.

The situation within Turkmenistan has been well reported on for 10+ years. It's not like the outside world couldn't know what was happening inside Turkmenistan.
Since light from that event has reached us, it is undisputably in the past. There is no reference frame in which it happens in the future.
> It really feels like the modern world should be able to expose dictatorships and their propaganda machines much easier than in the past.

We can't even figure out the difference between fact and blatantly false propaganda in free nations, where you're not going to be killed or imprisoned for talking about uncomfortable truths.

What makes you think that people in nations that don't take such freedoms for granted are going to be any successful at this?

The fact is that when it comes to the marketplace of ideas, lies have no difficulty winning. Whether or not the truth prevails is a complete toss-up, that has more to do with the charisma of the participants, or worse - which version of reality serves the listener better.
A fault or flaw in software that causes it to act in unexpected ways....I have been seeing some strange calls from my wife phone and yet am unable to locate her phone or even get the number that have been calling her. i was so lucky enough that i went online to hire a hacker who was gonna help me in tracking my wife phone and also giving me access to her phone. while i was searching i saw webmaster6099@gmail.com as the best and i hired him this hacker was so good that he delivered me with my wife call logs, deleted call logs, all calls where recorded from last year till date i also had access to her text messages and also deleted messages. all this i had access right on my phone just with a very cheap price. Thanks to you
So a government contractor subcontracts another government contractor's new acquisition to do some unnecessary, yet likely expensive, consulting work that has no net benefit to the project.

Nothing to see here folks, just the mold poking through the cracks of our public sector.
"best cheap wino wine local 3am open" :)
Short answer: no.

Long answer: nooooooooooooooooo.
They'll just scan the serial number when it passes through the x-ray machine, then use some OCR script to process the image and upload it to https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall /s
They have serial numbers on the outside of the cases.
Ask HN: Well Designed TypeScript Project
I’m looking for some Typescript projects that show case the language’s features and good TS/JS design patterns to level up my Typescript skills. I’ve had a little peek at a couple like TSLint but I’m not sure if these really showcase the language well.

Thanks in advance.
I can't tell if you both are joking or not but watch the whole video. The source video is of Bill Hader. Bill hader's face changes to Tom Cruise everytime he talks from Tom's perspective. And then once to Seth Rogan for that impersonation.
Perhaps you should ask every company testing apps on real iOS devices and the security researchers who need to automate finding bugs in iOS apps and in iOS itself. The iOS simulator is severely limited and is controlled by Apple so the need for a service that runs a full unrestricted iOS in the cloud is in demand and Corellium solves this.

Apple has maintained control of the mobile industry for a very long time and Corellium removes the need to buy another locked-down iDevice due to planned obsolescence to test your app. There is a reason why Apple tries to shutdown anyone who attempts to virutalize or emulate iOS/tvOS/watchOS and their apps.
I have an x570 board with IPMI, it's not unheard of.

Waiting 2 months for Threadripper would probably be more sensible unless you need it RIGHT NOW though.
It looks a bit like the CNN article was written after watching John Oliver's show (which aired August 11, the date on this piece).
Same creator as "Bill Hader impersonates Arnold Schwarzenegger", which I think is easier to see the shift in since there's less resemblance and higher quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhUhypV27w
Or, UC libraries could just publicly advocate sci-hub to their researchers. And then Elsevier would, of course, be forced to very publicly sue them for doing so, destroying themselves through the world's largest example ever witnessed of the Streisand Effect.
Ugh, I just read my comment, and I apologize for all of the typos. Wrote it on my phone, and it's too late to edit. Sorry.
Ask HN: Best design course(s) for people who already know programming?
Hello!

Does anyone know any good Web/mobile design courses that are aimed at people who are already programmers? Almost everything I've seen out there is about the basics of HTML, CSS, and JS, etc. but after several years doing Web, I already know the ins and outs of that.

What I'm interested in is learning the basics and theory behind designing user interfaces, UX, etc.

Obviously there's only so much I can learn without a design degree, but anything is better than nothing.

Thanks in advance.
In addition to the 432,000 Macbook Pros sold in the US from mid-2015 to 2017 being outright banned from flying, there will be all the other Mackbook Pros sold from about 2013 to mid-2015 that outwardly look just like the banned ones. I suppose all those lookalikes will be pulled out and have their serial numbers checked, which is in microscopic print on the back, which will definitely slow down Pre-check when you would otherwise leave the Macbook in the bag. That's a lot of hardware that has suddenly become much less valuable to travelers. Seems like Apple needs to do more than just replace batteries.

Edit: Can check serial number.
Late 19th century/early 20th century. It's why a number of the prison systems in the east coast are called "Department of Corrections", and the facilities themselves often referred to as "penitentiaries".

The Boston municipal jail was shut down a couple of decades ago but when it was built about a century ago it was intended to be enlightened, providing the prisoners with light, fresh air, and exercise and allowing prisoners some internal liberty while being observed. By modern standards it wasn't a very nice place but at the time it was intentionally much better than the contemporary standard.

That period was the most revolutionary of any in the US's history, with many things under experimentation. The "initiative" (i.e. referendum) system used in various western states dates from this period for the same reason, and which even the name demonstrates.
Distributed system with peers hosted by restaurants!
> The article neglects to mention the huge drop in international visits to the U.S. in recent years. Quoting a USA Today article from last week:

Part of this might be the ever-stronger US dollar. Five years ago, AUD$1 would buy about USD$0.94. Now it buys USD$0.68, making the trip to the US about a third more expensive.
We had an Apple II in the classroom, we were allowed to play with it in pairs for maybe an hour every fortnight.

Our teacher had almost no idea how it worked and there was no manual or instructions, so basically we sat in front of that green screen confused. I managed to make a star in logo, that was about it.

I still loved playing with it anyway, this machine that you had control of through arcane commands. It felt like you could make it do anything if you only knew the magic command.
TLDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

I served on an endorsement committee. We made recommendations (or note) to the membership to support candidates, initiatives, referendum, etc.

The last big internal food fight was over a levy to renew K-12 school funding. These are usually narrowly won ballot measures. Because some people think taxes is theft, government is evil, yadda yadda. This time something like $100m / year was at stake.

Three board members strenuously argued against endorsement. They are local leaders in education policy. Our usual "go to" experts. Committed, knowledgeable, experienced, in the fight. The biggest education boosters you can imagine.

The sticking point was ~$55k / year that could potentially be used by charter schools. For something like vans to transport kids to after school care. I don't remember the exact details, but you get the gist.

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I had no idea who Mark Jacobsen is. Okay, he's an influential expert. Being called to task for a report first written in 2009. His cohort is in a pissing match with another led by Ken Caldeira. Some fun.

Going out on a limb here: There will be no new dam construction in North America in my life time. Like our current nuclear tech, the (financial) costs are too high, and the timelines are too long. (Wikipedia says we could maybe add power generation to existing unpowered dams, which could be cool.)

New Green Deal, or something like it, has to happen. Spoiler alert: You're not going to like most of it.

Focus on the positive. Please.

If you have to trade support for building some dams (that will never happen) in order to get the programs you support, please just do it.
Tasker: Swift library for task management, async/await, url interception
The TSA will clearly have issues managing this. All MacBooks look the same to them. They can't currently manage basic stuff like "baby formula might need different rules than our 3oz standard for liquids." Expect pressure on Apple to make it a non-issue.
I had nothing either way, then suddenly multiple downvotes right around 8 a.m. Beijing time. Maybe it's just a coincidence.

Edit: And very swiftly more downvotes and comment flags. Seems a little more stochato than a typical bad comment that gathers a few downvotes over time.
As someone who had one of the bad batteries, where it swelled up to an alarming degree, I see a major difference between a generic power brick with some small possibility of a problem and a battery with a known problem.
I literally said the nsa can hack the shit out of things so they don't need companies adding backdoors, what are you talking about?...A good friend of mine recommended Mekador to me when I had issues with my partner, he started acting suspicious and was on his phone at odd hours. I contacted smith and he remotely hacked into his device for me letting me have total access to his device without him knowing. I was shook and overwhelmed that I could read his texts, see pictures, emails and all that. This hacker is hands down the best I’ve hired. His email is mekadorsirdee7@gmail.com
And 600 years ago most people in existence were certain that the earth was flat. Just over 100 years ago we had no understanding of quantum physics and just over 65-70 years ago we had no idea that DNA existed.

The way you wondered your remark places you in that second camp. Irony can be a clever tool, but I’m left wondering if it was intentional.
This looks absolutely awesome. I had been toying with a similar idea in my head for a while, but I never even started building anything, and now it looks like I won't need to!

It had seemed to me that due to how web development has evolved in recent years, improving compositionality greatly by adopting functional programming concepts, designing something like this could be done relatively elegantly if you are just able to find the right abstractions. Seems to me that you have been able to do so, given what you support and are planning to support, though I can imagine it is an ongoing engineering challenge.

Kudos, thanks and good luck! I will definitely be trying this out, though I hope you decide to support typescript at some point.
That is really a horrible policy. What were they thinking?
Is the Navy trying to cover up a WWII explosion that killed 250?
I did a teardown of a Sonicare toothbrush that used an 8-bit PIC 16F1516 microcontroller. There's a lot more going on in the toothbrush than I expected. I expected a simple motor, but there's a mechanically-complex resonant coil mechanism, driven by an H-bridge. There's some expensive manufacturing in there. Another interesting thing was the toothbrush has a "pressure sensor" to tell if you're brushing too hard, but it's really a Hall-effect sensor.

http://www.righto.com/2016/09/sonicare-toothbrush-teardown.h...
Because stuff like this this:

> Additionally, Tumblr started requiring a logged-in account to view adult content some time before the ban (something like 9 months before it iirc).

Is only technically accurate; it's irrelevant to the user experience. The ban was implemented by enabling safe mode for all users, removing the option to disable it, then automatedly marking a huge number of accounts as adult (plenty of which that got caught in this step weren't actually adult).

Content wasn't actually deleted, and can still be viewed on your own dashboard for the accounts you're subscribed to, making it less obvious to users with accounts - the ban primarily affected visitors without accounts and the posters who wanted them as an audience. Those posters are the ones who have been forced off the platform, no longer able to grow an audience, but some have been slow to realize they even got caught by the ban because of how it was implemented.
They are both different levels of bad. At least supermicro is free. The whole low level bios and BMC space is stuck in some 90s parallel universe. coreboot+openbmc can't come to the masses soon enough. It would be like what linux felt like after windows.