skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've contradicted yourself by displaying a pleasant alternative to Windows gaming - consoles.

Even as a game developer, for home brew like the Sega Saturn, as well as various Unity projects, I use a Windows XP VM maybe once a month for some obscure utility.

I never play games on PC's. I buy a console, it's good for ten or more years. I still play my Saturn and Dreamcast, whose emulation leaves much still to be desired.

If I want to purchase a game, I don't have to worry about if my video card is compatible, or if I have enough RAM, or, even if my OS will run it! I just play it.

You are part of a niche developer system, that, granted, you require Windows 10 for your very, very specific case.

Similarly, I am required to use a 2017 MacBook Pro with a touch bar at work, as I am an iOS developer. I would never, on principle alone, purchase such a unit. I use a Mac at home, but I use a 2012 model I have chosen to stick with for a number of reasons. I'm running the newest MacOS because it's actually offered me reasons to upgrade.

This has nothing to do with my personal preferences, or my point.

I'm not talking about the use of Windows itself, when I say 'why would anyone pay for this crap' - I'm talking about the "upgrade".

Windows 7 still more than meets my needs and the needs of most consumers.

Windows XP still more than meets my needs and the needs of most consumers, though it has security issues that make Windows 7 a better general option.

Windows 10 has added nothing, as far as I can see, beyond leaving behind some of the UI/UX disaster of Windows 8, the result being a slightly less usable Windows 7 (especially to the average Jane or Joe) - with baked in advertising and tracking that they know Jane or Joe, who got the OS pre-installed on the Asus they bought from Best Buy, is not going to disable.

In fact, they're counting on that.

When we pay for services, we expect no advertising, especially on services that did not contain it before. Cable television is an exception to this - what we pay for in that instance is more selection.

But can you imagine if Apple Music just suddenly started shoving ads in their stream? They'd lose two million subscribers overnight.

It baffles me that people have Stockholm Syndrome enough with Windows to stick with it through such obvious distaste for the users themselves.

Since 98SE, we've got a pattern of every other Windows release simply being an unmitigated disaster -

98SE - good / ME - awful / XP - good / Vista - awful / 7 - great / 8 - awful / 10 - at least not as shit as 8

What this shows me, is that Microsoft seems to not learn from mistakes until an entire version number later.

There have only been a handful of releases in MacOS/OS X's brilliant history since OSX came about in 2001 that have been shit. Since Tiger, we've praised virtually every release - and they are still adding meaningful and impactful features like dark mode. Now it's their laughable hardware options that is the issue.
Here is the definition of trademark infringement directly from USPTO [1]: "Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a manner that is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods and/or services."

I'm not affiliated with Postman in any way. But if I was, I'd already have sent a note to my lawyers to collect evidence, issue a cease and desist letter, get your project kicked off of github, and prepare for the possibility of lawsuit.

Given the nature of your project and the extreme similarity to the name "Postman", I would strongly urge you to change your project's name before you expose yourself and your family to potential financial ruin.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement
My ring camera caught a murderer breaking a door down last year and it's been a headache for me ever since. Even though I didnt actually see the murder,I've been called to several depositions and had to take three unpaid weeks off of work because of trial stuff. It's so frustrating. All I say everytime, is "Yes, I own the camera" I regret ever buying it at this point.
Wait what did the globalists of the 90s think a communist regime would do ?
the "cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable" came in the 80s?
At their height, about a half of Hong Kong's labour force (people aged over 15) hit the streets.
Hiring contractors to start, and, if the work-need is constant, hire
In the US, changing names doesn't require marrying someone. It's usually just some paperwork at the local courts and paying some fees.
Edit: actually, this is by request as stated in the article

A̶ ̶s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶s̶t̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶f̶o̶o̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶m̶i̶t̶s̶.̶

I would also not trust a system recording videos of my life and sending them on remote server that I have not access to.
Not defending surveillance at all. But I want to mention that China's CCTV network is an important part of the legal improvement on self-defense.

From ancient time, the law in most dynasties strongly discourages self-defense because it's unjudgeable most of the cases. And it also could be a tool of murdering. Modern China pretty much inherited this tradition. Although the self-defense is defined in the law just like most countries, in practice it's way too strict almost like non-existence for tens of years.

Until last year, a famous case[0] causes massive debate across the country, and finally justified as self-defense. The main reason behind this is the massive surveillance network makes legal apartments confident enough to judge.

[0]: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201809/03/WS5b8c877ea310add14...
India set to outlaw six single-use plastic products on October 2
Your reference material is incorrect (it doesn't understand how to assess cash & cash equivalents properly).

Berkshire Hathaway's cash position was sitting at an all-time high of $122 billion as of early August. Your source claims $44 billion. Buffett will be distraught to find out $78 billion in cash is missing.

"The result was that the company’s cash hoard -- a major focus for investors in recent years -- surged to a record $122 billion."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-03/buffett-s...

For further reference here is a chart of Berkshire's cash going back to 1996 from Reuters:

https://i.imgur.com/VzrG8lP.jpg
Quantum radar demonstrated for first time
Depends. If you want to work in research I would say go for it...
I don’t know about “typical”... the traditional sauce to put on falafel is tahini sauce which is vegan.

Some Greek places put yogurt instead of tahini which is not vegan, but I wouldn’t call that typical. I would call it a “too common aberration” and “a reason not to eat Greek falafel”.
> My fairphone 2 is running Android 7

You will soon be 3 major releases behind.
Imagine if the privacy policy simply said:

We will disclose your personal information if it benefits us.

Adding more words doesn't strengthen privacy one bit:

We will disclose your personal information to comply with a court order, or to save someone's life, or if it benefits us.
You can't zoom it either
I'm worried more about the safety. How are you supposed to see it in the dark?
I love these doubling and quadrupling statistical figures that are absolutely meaningless when placed outside the context of the percentage of the whole.

"We quadrupled subscriptions last night" is true when going from 400 million to 1.6 billion and also true when going from 1 to 4.
The Chrome profiler is a lot better (IMO) than the one Firefox ships. But then there is https://profiler.firefox.com/

The debugger/sources view in Firefox also seems buggier still. E.g. a lot of times while it correctly displays source-mapped locations in the console, clicking on those source links will not actually go to the right place in the source view (it will either end up in the packed source or it will not go to the correct line in the source-mapped file even tho the console link gave the correct line).

One thing I miss that Firefox does not have at all is the Layers view. Which would be especially important since such things are browser specific and debugging performance/memory issues and making sure the engine uses a sane set of compositing layers can be important sometimes.

But the feature I miss most in my tiny corner of the world by a large margin is the Websocket support indeed. This is the thing that always makes me go back to Chrome devtools.
Probably the most useful piece of software I've ever glued together was a tmuxinator script to bring up a dashboard that monitored system health using curl and displaying status of each subsystem in large red/green words using figlet.

Took me a night of work to get it right but it ran on a monitor in our engineering area, and one Quality/Ops peoples desktops for years.
But even then, "Set negative x values to 0" would be a more informative header than repetition of just one part of the statement
I second this. The most amazing thing to me is that they still keep many of those really old machines and peripherals: the Colossus and more, up and running.

It's one thing to see those historic computers on display, it's a whole new level seeing them running, producing heat and noise!
I’m not a Skype user or an Edge user so I don’t have a dog in this particular race but in general I can’t stand it when these “software barnacles” latch on and get bundled with the software I actually want.

We just had a similar article related to this kind of bloatware yesterday [1]. When you’re in a big company and your job performance is measured by something like “number of installs,” well by golly, you’re going to advocate for anything that juices that install rate. When you’re measured by “number of daily active users” you’re going to use notifications and spam to beg users to use it. And in the extreme case of your project being ignored by users and you need to justify it’s very existence, you’re going to pull out all the tricks and dark patterns you know, in order to force people to have/use it.

It’s a shame that success in software tends to me measured with these vanity metrics. It’s a big reason we have so much unwanted software that gets bundled with wanted software, and why so many apps beg you to use them.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20803817

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804737
There is a reason the Dalai Lama (nor any Tibetan) is not a vegetarian...not much arable land above 3k meters (well, you can grow some barley). Likewise, next door India has so much arable land vegetarianism makes sense, China on the other hand is in between, being fairly mountainous and lacking much arable land (so they have more vegetables but still rely on meat).

Worldwide distribution changes things up a bit, but barring that entire cultures fit their habits according to the land they had, not vice versa.
So, good for the user, who can't know what its session tracking cookie is used for, but bad for the server, who will have to come up with a better routing-and-whatnot scheme than relying on the user to willingly provide information they have a very real incentive not to provide.
It's highly likely this won't work as-is, unfortunately. Docker support is "experimental" at best and a lot more effort needs to be put into the Dockerfile.
Here's one problem. They don't have to do this directly. They could outsource to third party analytics firms who provide only "customer scoring" that turns out to be slightly more accurate than in-house, privacy sensitive models. Slightly more accurate turns out to be millions or billions of dollars. It becomes impossible to not use this information. And that behind the scenes information consists of analytics firms who can link not just your social media accounts, but various fingerprinting sources with varying degrees of accuracy.

Given the complexity, people get lost in the numbers. That some people are intentionally blacklisted seems inevitable. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if there is any alternative or safety from it.
> The only decent alternative to my iPhone still seems to be a Nokia dumbphone.

Why? Some of the models featuring Android One are pretty great. As for the environment, I don't think there is much of a difference between most Android phones vs iPhone.
Exploring Pre-Votes and Pre-Commits for the Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus
Falafel shouldn’t have any egg in it if made properly.
New Government Documents: Backpage Was Helping Law Enforcement Track Trafficker
It's a great idea. It's unfortunate that it would get shot down almost immediately under the guise of "socialism", just like the the idea to nationalize the banks after the financial crisis of 2008.
There is growth in emissions globally. Because forced consumption of non-economical renewable energy doesn't actually work due to the same market forces you speak about. It just makes some rich people richer and others poorer. Resulting in more demand for cheaper products and services that subsequently create more demand for cheaper energy from places where there is no forced consumption of non-economical renewable energy.

> Every economy is based on consumption

I'm talking about buying a tesla level of consumerism, that's not everyone in every economy, but relatively few and they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
> Some people also gain a lot from plague and war, but we still fight them.

It's a good analogy. Though it goes both ways: some people make money (or preserve more of it) by preventing plague and war.

> Climate change makes atypical seasons and extreme weather much more likely.

Are people betting real money on this? I haven't seen any specific predictions predicting how many hurricanes there will be in 5, 10 years, etc. People are quick to blame every cat 5 hurricane on climate change, but if it were truly science than they would be predicting, not blaming.

My general point is our "scientific" tools are laughably bad for big complex systems. I work in medical research. It's a bad joke, and I'm dead serious. I don't think people understand how primitive our tools are (as far as they've come, still primitive compared to the challenges). So the OP might want to look at companies tackling that problem, the Observables or Wikipedias or Palantirs or NYTimes data team, etc.
As interesting as this is, it's just the takeaway sector.

As someone in the higher-end restaurant sector, I certainly haven't seen increased demand for vegan options. It also doesn't help that many vegans are very price sensitive, not to mention have a disproportionate amount of other dietary restrictions.
The title is misleading. Just to be clear, theory predicts that blacks holes shouldn't be created between 50 and 130 solar masses, but there are plenty of black holes >130 solar masses. This is just an observation of a black hole that falls inside the supposedly "forbidden" range.
The accurate headline would be: "So Medium-Sized It Should Not Exist"
>This seems very different from the normal forgery I would expect where the forger gets a large fraction of the bar's value.

The only way to make passable fake gold bullion based on weight is to use tungsten clad with gold, and even that is trivial to detect with any proper equipment (which can be hard commercially starting around the cost of an ounce of gold) if the cladding isn't sufficiently thick.

Silver is faked way, way, way more wildly.

I'm a mod of /r/silverbugs and I've been compiling a list of fakes members of the sub have found over the years, there's some really fake gold in there too https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/8/22/fake-silv...
From the article:

“Unfortunately, the organizers indicated they were not open to such an arrangement. According to them, they had only a single woman submit a session proposal this year despite having women present in previous years, and hers was a repeat from a local conference last year. They were also firm that the Call For Papers was done and over and they’re not open to reaching out to new people now. Sadly, from what the organizers told me, they actively don’t want to do outreach.”

*

So what are the organizers supposed to do? Have a second Call for Papers with a later deadline, just for women, if the initial gender-neutral CFP did not attract enough papers by women? I think the speakers who reneged on their commitments to speak did the wrong thing, since there is no evidence the conference organizers discriminated against women.
Agreed. I just replaced my wife's brakes, rotors and pads, at a grand total of $350. The old pads probably had about 50% left after 50k miles.

If you don't tailgate and slam your brakes all the time, they last a long time, even on an ICE.
To me, it's less about new products and more about people's tastes. People are eating very different things now because of new popularity in some cuisines (Indian, Thai, and Mexican come to mind) and the popularity of "superfoods" (Avocado, Acai berry... ever notice there are never any animal-based superfoods?).
Concepts of an Evolutionary, Temporal Database System
That isn't true, something being bought at the rate it is produced means that demand outstrips or meets supply. No excess, possible dearth.

Let's say I manufacture a million widgets and can only sell one of them. HUGE excess.

Now let's say someone wants to buy a million widgets, but it takes me 3 weeks to build one. HUGE dearth.
Touche! Thanks for the link. Interesting.
Agreed on both points. If you want to help make Carbon Fee and Dividend a reality, check out citizensclimatelobby.org
At the risk of being glib, your headache and frustrations seem trivial in the context of the crime you're mentioning.
Worth noting, this landed a patch that moves some of the UI work to Core Animation on MacOS[1]. More work will happen that builds on top of this, but some reports in that ticket are promising already.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
Quantum has been out for some time but it seems have updated some of the dev tools as well as added in a new shape editor and fonts panel, something that is not available in chrome. looking forward to trying these out.
Once you include the data from Buffet's earlier career, total-market-cap to GDP makes more sense. For example: https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2010/7/23/98115-1279...

Edit: If it were up to me, I might work in monetary supply somehow too (The gold standard ended in 1972 or so). But maybe there's a reason they call him the Oracle of Omaha, and nobody calls me the Oracle of Santa Monica.
Stubborn minorities also lead to the "Tyranny of the Minority" and cause widespread anger among the silent majority of moderates who do not foist their preferences onto others. It leads to reduced freedoms all across society.

https://areomagazine.com/2019/04/02/the-tyranny-of-the-minor...

It's one of the root causes leading to the rise of populists like Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/trump-electoral-c...

In short, be careful what you wish for.
This lines up with my intuition. 60% of search > 90% of oil. Search obviously also has no physical upper limit like oil utilization.
Buying it for themselves? I don't know whether Ring is paying the various police departments for their "partnership", but it's been in the news locally here (an "at-risk", "high-crime" area, call it what you will) in the last few days that the local police department is giving away 50 Ring cameras and the winners are chosen by a lottery system.

Ticks all the boxes: "free" and entertaining element of gaming for the public, good police PR, field data for Ring. Much like the supposed value (and tentacles) of the Red Light Camera industry. Nevermind the constant barrage of ads through Nextdoor and other channels.
Somebody missed a conversion I think. 100 solar mass black holes are quite tiny.

Supermassive black holes TYPICALLY "[contain] a mass of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
response was to the fact that the comment said the method of format strings was one of “the best ways to go about it”

It’s obvious that PyOS_snprintf is not a standard library function
This didn't really strike me as a very profound story. I'm sure in a bygone era newspaper classifieds would have been used instead.
If you had a modern gold bar with a secure ID chip, wouldn't you transfer the ID chip to a gold-plated-tungsten replica [1] and recast the old bar into a pre-ID-chip-era bar?

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/tungsten-gold-bar.html
Teens These Days Are Queer AF, New Study Says
Then start googling how to do those things, and start building. Learn whatever you need when you need it.
Fun fact: floor(x + 0.5) rounds 0.49999997 to 1.0 (this is 32 bit floats, the same principle applies to 64). Most libraries have slower than ideal round conversion because of historical dross; modern chips have a very fast SIMD round instruction but its behavior doesn't exactly match libc round. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/55107 for a deeper discussion.
Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?
It has a maintainer: chrmhoffmann. The builds get updated every week.
This sounds a lot like you're trying to time the market, which is great if it works, but it's a gamble. Dollar cost averaging is generally regarded as the safer option.

Remember, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Also, how can you know when the market has bottomed out? Why not use that same strategy to invest now and figure out when the market has peaked and pull out then? Sitting on money loses value due to inflation.
I agree except the word "just". It's really interesting that it exists contrary to current theories.
The underlying libraries WTF is built upon use colour strings to define colours, so WTF does too.

But this is a cool idea. Issue #546 has been opened for this.
Guy is only clearly male in American English. Guy Fawkes was male of course, but the term “some anonymous guy” does not refer to anyone in particular. The word has clearly evolved differently in the states than it did in the UK which originated it.
Yeah the description sounded very ad-hoc and quasi-unofficial but should have known it would be actually pretty normal.
> But in 1967, three physicists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem realized that when the core of a dying star is very heavy, it won’t gravitationally collapse into a black hole. Instead, the star will undergo a “pair-instability supernova,” an explosion that totally annihilates it in a matter of seconds, leaving nothing behind. “The star is completely dispersed into space,” the three physicists wrote.

Does this mean that maybe the big bang was just a unstable pair that did what they describe?
Misleading indeed. And I’m surprised the article did not talk about binary black hole mergers being potential sources of such black holes, since that seems like the most plausible theory.
So your ICE car doesn't need any gas?
Nope. That and "property values" are the reason why the people of Palo Alto want it. Which is why it's relevant to the topic of "what can we spend money on to save lives." Here's a community of wealthy people most of whom will say they're for "social justice" who want to take billions of dollars of taxpayer money to _maybe_ save a few lives.

https://padailypost.com/2018/06/02/tunnel-idea-is-still-aliv...

> Councilman Greg Tanaka said the tunnel option would reduce suicides and air pollution, though city Chief Transportation Official Josh Mello expressed doubts about the city’s ability to pay for it.