skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have Cannabis concentrate sold in single use 'pods' that attatch to any vape battery with a 510 connector.

I don't think legalization had as large of an effect on the perception and availability of cannabis as you say, part of the reason Colorado was one of the first to legalize is likely due to our already 'positive' image of it. Colorado and other states that legalized all already had medical programs that were commonly abused; either by little restrictions on access (Red cards) or allowing more growing & cultivation than the actual medical population could theoretically consume.

Being from Colorado, I have to say, anecdotally, that usage is up in young adults 18+ is up since it's never been more available and 'tolerated' at Colorado Universities. Dorms are pretty strict if they can smell it but concentrates are much eaiser to conceal and cheaper than edibles & flower. I can comment personally on its effect on minors (<18) but some reports did show it declined in that specific population following legalization (I don'r recall if they reported on the 18-21 population).
This was because the third party batteries didn't reset the calibration. They're literally missing a sensor that sends back the all-ok to the phone. Since Apple never intended on third-party batteries, they didn't program in that scenario. It was added in an update shortly after.

You're acting like an oversight for a situation that shouldn't have happened was malicious. If third-party manufacturers had just put that sensor in the battery, it would've behaved the same way as an Apple battery.
I disagree, wireless charging is the best thing ever.
In-browser PDF support is what finally cured the internet's allergy to PDF links.
Which year? My 2015 Mazda 3 Grand Touring has a kind of slow system. Boots slowly and a bit inconsistently. I've had lots of problems with Bluetooth (with three different phones, 2 Nexus and a Pixel), and often have to hold 3 buttons in to reboot the software. I've also had it black screen and reboot on its own. That being said, I used Mazda AIO Tweaks software to install Android Auto, and it's largely reliable. It does stutter when switching between music and navigation, and the music even stutters while turning if maps are on... but for the daily commute, it works fine.
Apple Card Partnership Sees Goldman Sachs Lending to Subprime Borrowers
I don't want faceid either, I think the fingerprint recognition is fine.
Seems like it's federated and if you really connect with someone you meet, you can probably choose to become "friends" and store each others' directly, bypassing that federated/centralized server.
This sums it up really well. I could get $400/month easily from thousands of users via ads, by just putting a simple piece of JS on the website.

But getting those users to use a debit/credit card or paypal to give me some money, even if it was less than $1 would’ve been very difficult.

As I explained to the parent commenter, on top of that this website became very popular in India, which made that option even more difficult...
I always wonder how they think AGI is close when neuroscience is still scratching in the dark with brain scans, and we don’t know how digestion works 100% nor how to build a single cell in a lab then and have it skip millions of years in evolution to make a baby in 9 months. The AGI will definitely be different in structure than a human brain. Will it have a microbiome to influence its emotions and feelings?
> the entire point of this article is that doing something to solve the traffic wave problem still won't fix congestion

The problem here is that the article (and StrongTowns, and most urbanists) are simply wrong. Demand simply does not work that way. They have a fundamentally flawed understanding of Induced Demand, and are incorrectly applying it to gain incorrect results.

By StrongTowns logic, we should never build more hospitals (it would just induce demand for more sickness), and we should never run new sewer lines (it would just encourage people to poop more often), and we should never run fiber lines (because it would just encourage people to "waste" internet bandwidth), and so on
Did you read the post? They're using Firebase messaging, but that only covers a part of their workflow.
Your information is very much out of date. C++ makes a few important changes that make most c code incompatible. #1, implicit cast between void and non-void pointers is not allowed, so something like:

int *x = malloc(sizeof(int) * 15)

is legal c, but in c++ you would have to cast the malloc call. Also, type of character literals is int in c but char in c++. String literals are const only in c++. Functions that take no arguments must be declared as taking void (as in void func(void)) in c, but simply () in c++.
That's a problem with the people who wrote the script, though, not the language itself.

That's like the folks who say "the problem with C (buffer overflow, UB, etc.) isn't C, it's the people who write C". Which leads to at some point contemplative folks deciding either "this is happening so often, maybe it is the language" or "the majority of people writing this language are incompetent". While I've heard plenty of people in the C community espouse the latter view, having written C since K&R days, I think most people acknowledge it's a problematic language. But I don't have empirical evidence of a ratio.

I wrote a ton of Perl <=5 back in the day. I'm pretty sure I know why I thought it was a good idea at the time. I know where I fall on the above. I know why I, and virtually everyone I know professionally, don't solve problems in Perl any more. But hey...maybe I'm just incompetent.
That's basically why you might buy a Volkwagen - they even kind-of look the same internally. But there's a noticable difference in driving experience, performance and handling.
I had a really awesome boss who probably overshared about stuff like this but a lot of it also comes with general distrust in the business world. People are out to make a buck and they'll do it anyway they can. Every time you come across a business, consider how it works and where their profit comes from.

A tactic I've used in the past is buying a burner number (prepaid sim), called recruiters with a fake name, number and resume and asked them to provide details about the job which many of them name completely. The ones that don't generally indicate that other recruiters do exactly what I'm doing to them in order to steal clients.

I don't feel bad about screwing over an industry which has no place in the modern world, particularly when they're opportunistically trying to make a buck from me and/or my future company while adding very, very little value :)
Yes, exactly. The cone is as accurate as it can be, by which I mean: accurate but with a huge degree of uncertainty. The challenge is that some readers tend to read it as deterministic, and get it wrong by:

1. Thinking "If I'm inside of the cone I'm in danger, if I'm outside I'm good" (wrong! 1/3 of the time the storm will be outside of the cone!)

2. If I'm inside of the cone AND under its center line/dots of I'll worry a lot, but if I'm inside and in between the center of the cone and its boundary, I can relax (I'd be VERY careful with this, as it isn't true either).
Relying on modern day 'journalists' to interpret weather (or anything else requiring domain expertise, for that matter) -- is very questionable.

Why not use windy.com pick a model (the exceptionally well designed UI, makes it easy), and let it play out the tracks.

https://www.windy.com/22.837/-67.544?27.897,-66.753,5

They have 4 models, and it just as easy to use as posting stuff on Instagram or something..

Meteorologists covering those events, are not journalists, which is good. I trust their coverage more.
Or you smoke it because it ameliorates your symptoms.
I think so. I regularly use JS and Java in daily life and used to use a whole host other languages in the past.

Perl 6 is actually a joy to code in, as weird as that sounds. It's fairly straightforward to begin using, but the deeper I go the more I see the huge benefit to its long development which was mainly in spec-writing. The two killer features (for my work, at least) have been the grammars (a sort of regex on steroids that is actually readable) and the multiparadigm approach. I mean you can do functional coding with Javascript sort of, but you end up with a lot of extra line noise compared to P6 where it was contempalted from the beginning (and multisubs clear things up even more). All the typical paradigms are integrated fairly seamlessly to let you choose the best tool for the job for whatever block of coding you're working on.
> "Browser" is short of "Web Browser". They're meant primarily for HTML pages.

I don't see how you get from the first of these statements to the second. Web browsers browse the web—an interlinked set of hypertext documents. A "hypertext document" being anything that embeds URLs you can tell the browser to navigate to, usually by clicking. A PDF is a "hypertext document."

> There's no reason to concentrate everything into a single program.

An ePub is also a hypertext document, though. And one that is made out of HTML and CSS files! Would you suggest that a web browser shouldn't be able to open an MHTML archive? Because an ePub is almost exactly the same format, just with a different base CSS style + media selector. (There are some restrictions on scriptability, but from what I recall those are ePub UA restrictions, not restrictions in the standard.)

> Shifting between specialized applications should be seamless.

What if you could shift between specialized applications... inside other applications? Remember OLE? That's how web browsers have traditionally displayed most formats. The whole need for special plugins for QuickTime, Flash, ActiveX, Java, etc. was just to allow those formats to be embedded in HTML pages. But if you're just opening a URL in the web browser and handing the viewport over to a COM component to render—browsers (and many other types of applications) do that just fine, without any need for "concentrating everything into a single program."
Erring on the side of not calling the wrong number.

Somebody somewhere made a judgement call: we'd rather annoy people by double-asking them about almost every call, than accidentally dial and ring the wrong person or the wrong number for them.

I think Apple/Siri gets this balance right.
He was probably already addicted.
Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence That They Dislike
English also has the word "but" with only one t. So actual English speakers aren't automatically triggered when they hear the sound of "b-u-t" together.

"Scuttlebutt" sounds like a hokey old timey word and it has only one definition.

As an English speaker, it's also miles better than "toot"(Mastodon) which has multiple definitions and the most common is "to fart".
Oh, it could do that? I still use Calibre and Sigil. Then again, how can any browser not in some way support ePUB? It's just a bunch of hyperlinked XML files in a container. Rename it to a .ZIP and you're good to go.
My refurbished 2015 Macbook Air ($500) works just fine. Updated to Mojave. Even got Picasa to run on it (have to click an error message five times, but then runs fine).
Jovian Moon-Naming Contest Winners Announced
I have a 2018 Subaru. It's still terrible. The built in infotainment system basically serves as an Android Auto launcher for me. The dumbest feature is that it insists on turning the radio on every single time I start the car, even if I've pressed in the volume button to mute it.
Forecasts are getting better and better, but they still have large uncertainty. The piece explains the cone as the NHC itself explains it. Scroll down here: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/204603.s...
I didn't realize that this was a special skill. I've always been able to see underwater, as long as the water is fairly clear. Depending on the pool I sometimes got irritated eyes, but it never really bothered me to have water in my eyes. Maybe that's why I never really had issues with my contacts either?
Denmark scores 1st as best country to live in so they must do something right.
This actually isn't the "all your base are belong to us" situation. This is "we will stop employing you if you do [x]", not "we will own [x]". That's a much, much, much lower bar. They are legally not required to have cause to fire me, so being right doesn't help.

So, sure, I would own the videogame mod if I did it on my own time with my own resources. But I could also be out of a job. Being right but unemployed doesn't sound comforting - I like the job, and they've been up front about the terms, and I'd rather quit if I find them sufficiently unacceptable than risk being fired.

Edit:
It actually looks like moonlighting is officially protected here, but conflicts are still disallowed, so I guess it's possible it could end up in court debating whether programming is a conflict. I already have the opinion of one side in writing (yes, it is a conflict, they claim), but at least it might be debatable.

Still, not particularly anxious to end up in court arguing that somebody should be forced to continue employing me after I did something they told me not to do on the grounds that they shouldn't have told me not to do it... complicated mess.
Ask HN: What is your development setup?
What OS do you prefer? What toolchains, text editors/IDEs, and shell applications do you use? Is there a specific piece of your setup that has changed the way you work?
This doesn't make sense to me either. Most people would gladly spend $3 to save an hour of their life.
This one? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/27/us/hurricane-...

This is not the same cone map, the shaded area represents "50 percent or higher chance of experiencing wind speeds of at least 39 miles per hour" - ie. a simplified version of the map you recommend.
That's profoundly sad.
But I don't blame the drug, people need to figure out boundaries.
Right because every part of the OS consist of the apps. First you said that there weren’t any statistics and now that I post statistics from Google they are “nonsensical”.

Do you have any more reliable numbers or just more conjecture?

Because in your world, it is more secure to not be able to update the entire OS than to have to do a reboot.....
The only reason I can think of to justify a name change is that both SSB and scuttlebutt are terms used in sailing. Initially I thought it was a single side band radio based chat room system for sailors.
Google moves closer to letting Chrome web apps edit your files
It's a rational move in a crazy delusional game created by the marketing department of a diamond company about 100 years ago. By doing such, you are simply perpetuating the delusion.

Sometimes it makes rational, logical sense to play the game. It's a form of intentional stupidity. Forgoing your rationality to get the things you want. If you ever worked at a large enough company, I'm sure you understand.
Except they have to pay taxes on the new amount, if they only have the income to support a $200,000 house, that tax bill will be pretty brutal.
>>Some experts believe it is inevitable that fast food will be the first job sector ruled by robots.

Does anyone know of any companies that have mostly automated?

My local supermarket has doubled the number of self serve cashiers and reduced the regular cash registers by the same number. I hate using them but sometimes it's just so crowded that I feel I have to unless I want to spend a big chunk of my day there. If it's anything like that then it seems to me that the future kind of sucks.
Is this different from initiatives of the past, like the Open Software Foundation's ANDF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut...)?

The "soil-initiative.org" URL causes Chrome some heartburn when I try it: too many redirects.
I agree they do, but in my experience they also make them do aptitude tests like whiteboard coding or asking trick math questions. These tests overlook the actual (rare) skills the candidate has in favor of skills more often known only to certain types of engineers and CS majors.
Wow destructed fucking driver
Yup. Easily found in economy vehicles but not often in luxury cars.
While I'm sure that there are some adequate ePub readers for Windows desktops, I find myself doubting that there are many actual good ePub readers. At the very least when I looked from a Windows phone a year or two back there was nothing very good in the Windows App Store. Maybe Microsoft's push towards the Surface family particularly the Surface Go as a tablet means that there will be something worthwhile.

At least, that's the dream.
Those are sweet, but suffer from many of the issues of touchscreen keyboards (no tactile feedback, no ability to feel the keys blindly).

EDIT: But to be clear, they are great at having a full-size keyboard that takes up no screen space. Tradeoffs.
In Brazil the drivers would get better salaries than our doctors... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Exactly, you can smoke a joint and go hike/ride a bike or you can sit your ass on the couch and be toking up bowl after bowl!
That's what I wondered as well...
So a scientifically literate person who understands confidence intervals looks at that plot. How do they tell how likely they are to get hit? Keep in mind that the size of the hurricane isn’t shown at all.

You have to real about halfway through the fine print to learn:

Historical data indicate that the entire 5-day path of the center of the tropical cyclone will remain within the cone about 60-70% of the time.

It does not say the distribution is Gaussian, and I suspect it’s actually much longer-railed than a Gaussian would be.
Ubuntu LTS - what we deploy prod to, big monitor, happy hacker lite 2 keyboard, gigabyte brix desktop.

Macbook Air for meetings, presentos, and remote hacking.

vim / tmux
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233769
Title is wrong, can HN or OP change it please?

Its nice if the title is the real one because most often it actually reflects the content better, otherwise its clickbait and hoping for random upvotes.

This is not about employees, its contractors for instance.
MIT’s boat robots can now shapeshift to form new structures
Probably learned like you can learn to wear contact lenses.
You and the article seem to be in agreement: It won't solve congestion.
This subject has zero to do with eye irritation.

The kids had to dive underwater and place their heads onto a panel. From there they could see a card displaying either vertical or horizontal lines. Once they had stared at the card, they came back to the surface to report which direction the lines travelled. Each time they dived down, the lines would get thinner, making the task harder. It turned out that the Moken children were able to see twice as well as European children who performed the same experiment at a later date.

With the exception, I suppose, that with eye irritation it would be more difficult to complete the tests in the first place.
Sounds like the life of a contractor. Anyone else work in consulting here? Any backup plans if the recession comes sooner than later?
Have you never been to old European cities? They’re beautiful and dense. Hell, even London has many parts that are dense compared to US cities yet are beautifully old and green (like Hampstead and Highgate!).

At the end of it, we live in a world where every bit of profit matters more than earning slightly less and having something better looking.

I mean let’s compare Los Angeles County vs Greater London:
4,058 sq mi vs 606 sq mi
Density 2,100/sq m vs 14,550/sq mi.

I mean the difference is insane! And ignoring the towers springing up all over London because of greedy developers, London doesn’t feel all that cramped or as if there’s concrete everywhere.

US cities need better public transport and more dense areas. Leave the rest to nature!
The article is simply wrong and is conflating 2 separate rulings.

The ruling at issue actually just says that VAT doesn't apply to crypto-crypto trades, like other securities-type trades. VAT still applies to transactions conducted in crypto, i.e., crypto in exchange for a burger.

I don't understand your capital gains comment. Crypto are not capital assets and so can't give rise to capital gains when traded. Exchanging a capital asset for crypto would give rise to capital gains, but the reverse is not true (you are constructively treated as exchanging the crypto for cash, which is non-taxable in Portugal unless part of a crypto business, and then exchanging that imaginary cash for the asset).
The Programmer's Guide to the Stylesheet
The more money Walmart customers make, the more they can spend at Walmart. As long as they don't make enough to forego Walmart altogether. So it's a double win for Walmart.
No. Every company including Tesla.

Tesla's system might be good right now, but they're unstable fiscally as a company and they have NO incentive to be excellent in designing software and maintaining old software far into the future. And Tesla might go belly-up, at which point their ability to maintain said software declines to zero.
> While it's true in human language that idiomatic expressions are a barrier to learners, they are also a means of enhancing communication between experienced users of the language.

Except that this is a computer language. Computer languages don't have nearly the same range as a human language, and there are very specific formal rules to be followed. If I want to I can speak English without any idioms. Another difference between computer language and human language is that there is a huge amount of duplicated information in a human language, whereas a computer language like Perl is designed to be as terse as possible. So if I want to know what an idiom means in English, I can A) ask the speaker what they meant by it, B) infer what it means based on the context in which it was spoken which includes the time and place and the situation, or C) look it up on the internet.

In a computer language, A requires either direct access to the language designer, code comments, or dialogue with the user of the idiom. B requires context information, which is simply not present. There is no situational analogue to the scene and people involved in an English conversation. You're conversing with a compiler. C is made difficult by the terseness of the syntax. So really having idioms in a computer language doesn't work at all without having someone to decode those idioms for you. And in the end if we all have to decode idioms then we should just make the meaning explicit in the code. If you have too many idioms then your code becomes unreadable without some kind of codex.

> The best Perl developers I know understand this and what you see as praise for arcane-ness is usually in my opinion just embracing the idea that jargon and idiomatic language is inescapable, and should be just another tool in the toolbox for expressive writing.

While I think we can agree that Thomas Pynchon is a highly expressive writer, I also think we can agree that he is very obtuse at times. It's fun if you get it, but it's infuriating if you don't. There's a difference between being expressive and having so many facilities that casual users of the language can't remember how to do simple things because there's just so much syntax to learn and so few mnemonics with which to do so.
We can all see underwater. The story is about how these children can see far clearer underwater than other people.

Do you mean that you can see with total clarity? From back when I had good eyesight, I remember seeing blurry when opening my eyes underwater.
Except that the vast majority of those OCRs are just a series of letters. They all parse as "a variable name, that's it", and it's not even weird for that to be a valid line.

It's the kind of joke that doesn't teach you anything, rather than the kind that does.