skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
about damn time! this "internet" thing--letting ordinary dummies all over the world (even the ones in shithole countries) talk to each other--is, was, and always will be bad news.

only way to protect these fools from "fake news" is to filter everything through the pure and blameless mouths of demographically-targeted, perfect-haired multimillionaires reading teleprompters. it is the only way!

in light of this glorious victory--thank you Lord Jesus!--we are only a few years away from setting things right.
>Every minute spent not fighting climate apocalypse is a bleep waste of time.

Are you being serious? I genuinely can't tell.
Huh. TIL regarding Google Photos.

That sucks; glad I'm in the US because I use that feature often. It's great for when friends ask for the photos I took of them.

In any case, I predict the Steam situation will differ because privacy and retail goods are valued differently. Americans are going to want that feature if Steam has to implement it, and they have options regarding what game store they use; it becomes a point of competitive advantage for Steam to switch it on in the States. They'll have to do the calculus on whether they lose more potential developers if they do vs. lose more potential store users if they don't.
Years and years ago (~2006-2007), after one of my many Wikipedia rabbit-hole nights, I stumbled upon the CD-i, and consequently the Zelda CD-i games. I immediately had to find an emulator, and play Faces of Evil, and I couldn't stop laughing once cut-scenes started playing.

I took my video camera, pointed it at my monitor (my computer was too slow for desktop capture), and sent the video to my friends, and it became a bit of a meme that we'd send each other. If I had only had the foresight to upload it to YouTube, I could have been the person responsible for the "My boy!" memes.

The games suffer from awful controls, but I actually did manage to complete Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon...there is a bit of fun to be had playing them, though you'd be better off finding one of the Link to the Past romhacks at this point if you want some more Zelda action.
Oh man, I wanted the CD-i so badly because they had this infomercial and showed watching movies on CD, which was very exciting to a 10 or 11 year old me.

Very grateful my mom ignored me and and my protestations that we get one because if we had adopted this thing, I know the battle to get a DVD player in 1998 would have been way harder (even then, I had to get it as a DVD-ROM on the computer I got for Christmas and had to buy the stand-alone player myself in 1999 once I turned 16 and had a job).

Also, these games are complete trash. But this partnership was historically very interesting.
As opposed to real estate companies sounds like one rule for the "little" people and another for companies.

Penalises accidental land lords when you inherit property from your parents grand parents.
> Yes, I understand that wealth is not income, but in Ukraine there are plenty of oligarchs worth multi-billion sums. Dividing that wealth over whole Ukraine population is definitely more than 40$ per person.

That's the arithmetic mean, not the median. The median is computed by sorting all the values from low to high and then picking the middle one. That's why it's a better measure for ordinary people. The few outliers at the top are not factored in.
Of course it will be, but isn’t that totally irrelevant? You can’t release a new type of used car!
Trust is everywhere in computer security. You trust Google to not deliver a backdoored version of Chrome to your machine when you download a binary instead of building from source. You trust them to not break the law and leak your personal data to third parties or discriminate against you based on the content of your emails.

I trust Raymond Hill more than I trust Google.
The NYT tried very hard to prevent one of their journalists from publishing a story critical of the CIA and the Bush administration - https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...

It's been a while since I read this article, but I believe James Risen also talked about government employees working with the NYT to publish pre-approved "leaks".
Blog Writers, Check Your Egos
In the UK, there is "economy7" pricing, where consumer electricity is cheaper during the night.

In high solar output countries, I could see the opposite happening, that you start seeing tariffs where energy is cheapest around midday when solar output is high.
Not to forget there's offshore wind on the West coast, and around Scotland too. Not so much yet, but still. The chances of no wind around the whole British Isles, encompassing Western Approaches, Irish Sea, Northern Isles and North Sea is slim. :)
I'd recommend reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. For me, creating habits and using a paper todo list have made a big impact on me. That said, i think everyone occasionally feels that they are slacking performing less than they could do. I also wrote a bit about what works for me in my blog post A Decade of Remote Work [1].

[1] http://blog.viktorpetersson.com/remote-work/2019/05/18/a-dec...
> It's probably a sign of good mental health if someone is disturbed by violent imagery. I am worried about people who aren't disturbed by violent imagery.

idk, some people lose their shit at the slightest sight of blood or violence, you can't count on them to save the day when things go south. And I'm not talking about getting robbed at gun point or the like, simply cutting a finger while cooking or breaking a leg while hiking. I saw people get in worst conditions than the victims just at the sight of blood, emergency services had to treat them before the victims.

I wasn't really thinking about toughness in the "tough guy" sense. You can be tough and emotional, I don't see how these are mutually exclusive. ISIS victims' stories hit me way harder than the images.
I have a dream that the powerful take the climate crisis seriously (G. Thunberg)
Go drink some beers with your friends who don’t work with you. It’s cheaper.
And while we endlessly debate whether we should slam the brakes or take control of the wheel we are ruled by people that are hell bent on taking away the wheel and the brakes all together...
Why should? The whole idea of copyright is that only the author (or otherwise copyright holder) can profit from making copies.
Just because you purchased a copy yourself shouldn't automatically result in a right to making another copy for someone else as long as you promise not to use yours.
> This might be one of the very few instances in which I’d recommend SFMC

What is SFMC?
Perhaps.

I do feel like the universities are desperately trying to redirect issues into social justice, away from big dollars, widespread data fabrication, or other issues like this one.

Once social justice activists come in, the landscape becomes toxic for anyone else.

I'm very glad to see this sort of reporting.
1. you really don’t think in 100 years we’ll have better technology? look where we were 100 years ago.

2. once again it seems like they’ll just adapt as humans always have.

my point is this apocalyptic behavior by activists is counter productive and offputting. it means we can’t have a reasonable discussion about solutions and trade offs because “the world is ending in 12 years”. this led to me just giving up because we can’t have conversation
Parsing Apple Health Data
It's open access.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00125-018-4...

>Physical activity was assessed in participants’free-living envi-ronment. A mean daily step count >10,000 was required forparticipants to be eligible. Screening was blinded and consistedof monitoring from midnight to midnight on 4 consecutivedays, including 1 weekend day. If eligible, participantsunderwent their initial assessment visits before being instructedto reduce their activity to ~1500 steps for 14 days

>Mean daily step count was similar between the two groups at baseline: FDR+ve, 12524 ± 2137 vs FDR−ve, 13036 ± 2481 steps (p= 0.391).

>During the step-reduction period, average daily step count decreased by 10285 steps(95% CI 9389, 11182;p< 0.001), a reduction of 81 ± 8%. Inparallel, daily sedentary time increased by an average of223 min (151, 295;p< 0.001) and daily total energy expen-diture (TEE) decreased by an average of 2697 kJ (3008, 2385;p< 0.001). All activity >1.5 METS (i.e. light, moderate andvigorous) decreased during the step-reduction period (allp< 0.001).
There's an 8 year old issue in Bugzilla for this.[1] The Firefox team has finally put some resources into fixing it, but progress has been slow. I'm not holding out much hope -- Chrome has had this feature for a long time and it's never worked quite as well as Safari's.

A Firefox multi-touch zoom extension also exists[2], but it's not smooth enough to be useful to me (admittedly, this is on my old and slow 12" Macbook).

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688990
[2] https://github.com/haxiomic/firefox-multi-touch-zoom
Switch to Android and get a rootable phone. I never see any ads. I can tether and hotspot without my carrier's permission. I can change DNS servers. I have a Linux shell in my hands.
Presumably most people who're going to watch the music video are already aware that fraud is illegal etc. and if they don't act as virtuous as the role models presented to them, it's because they feel the alternative is worse.

So it would be interesting to find out whether the PR campaign actually changes anyone's behavior.
I think he can say that.

But yeah as far as a legal mechanism the jury can't say "well he met the requirements of public interest and the law says that means he's innocent / should go free".
Someone needs to tell that guy to choose his words a little more carefully after dozens of his neighbors are killed.

I think the person I was responding to was implying that the wording was chosen to downplay what had been done. I don't think that is likely, given the identity of the only person quoted in the article to use that choice of words.

> Small change, large impact on the takeaway.

Meh.
I'd be more impressed if you used a real language like java for java applets. You can't seriously program in a toy language like javascript. And you may wish to consider adding in some Flash for animations to spice up your site. /s
> - users could always install an adblocker if they dont consent.

- To consent, one must be informed, so the sites would have to advertise adblockers, why they exist and how can they be used.

- Current adblockers rely on volunteers compiling lists of ads, and sites trying to evade those lists. That's not a reasonable way to ensure a legal right, so sites / networks would have to publish those lists themselves.

- The GDPR is about way more than website access tracking, so you'd still need all the same rules about the rest of the use of personal information. Seems like a duplication of effort and complexity.

> - users could consent once for each tracker if thats what the law cared for.

Just because I'm OK with a network knowing I visit nytimes.com doesn't mean I'm OK with them knowing (and using the information) that I visit pornhub.com. Consent per site is crucial.
Estimates for Safari marketshare range from 15.15 - 24.9% across all platforms [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
My concern originates with this statement [1]:

> If the Department of Homeland Security determines that the renunciation is motivated by tax avoidance purposes, the individual will be found inadmissible to the United States under Section 212(a)(10)(E) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(10)(E)), as amended.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
The result is pretty simple. The intelligence agencies become a fourth branch of government and likely the dominant one.

It would be interesting to better understand the dynamics between the military and the NSA/CIA/FBI/etc..

I suppose that one good thing that came out of the 2016 election was that it become more obvious that the intelligence services run their own domestic policy, what I don't understand is how monolithic that newish branch of government is.
I believe the Rockefeller's General Oil was dissolved as an illegal monopoly.

It used it's massive, over 90% share of the market (and it's vertical supply chain) to deter competition, and made deals with other suppliers to make the inertia of competing a herculean task
It's a toss up whether I want money going to the dev or publisher rather than someone selling their game. With the way that prices drop drastically, sometimes not even a few months after, I'm fine with the current model. The only thing I'd really want changed is a more permanent way of keeping games like GOG.
Of course every mature product has is more than 10 years old: it takes 10 years to get to a point when the product itself is mature.

Google is the first company that started to spend money on productionize self driving technology. It takes time to get to market, because the problem is super hard.

If you want something newer that probably won't go away any time soon, Tensorflow is a few years old, and TPUs are also just a few years old. Google has many of the best and biggest number of AI researchers, and it's not shy to use the AI infrastructure in production.
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The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. Ding A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. Ding Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, ding
Local code execution is also a significant privacy vulnerability. Should Apple take away the ability of their users to install non-app-store programs?

Some security vulnerabilities are acceptable in some situations in exchange for user freedom and/or other benefits, such as blocking ads, which are essentially malware for your brain.
Sure. All "generation $foo" is supposed to mean is "the set of people who grew up in the 15-year era $foo". Saying things about a "generation" is saying things about the effect that that era had on the people who grew up in it.
Mine is https://github.com/some1else
How Unlimited Vacation Went Wrong and What I Did to Fix It
Instead of repurposing top bits you can also repurpose the Bits beyond alignment. E.g 32 bit integers are aligned to 4 bytes, so you can use the lower two bits of pointers to them instead.
How is the user to know if it's the AdBlocker or the Browser though? It's a he-said-she-said kind of situation with the AdBlocker and the Browser potentially pointing the finger at each other.

This setup gives the Browser/Maker plausible deniability when they act badly.
How “Empowering” Your Team Is Stressing Everyone Out
Thank you for the kind words!

I started coding long, long ago in order to build my web portfolio (back before site builders were a thing). As a result I saw how empowering coding can be.

I've always felt being able to code software gives you an ability to solve a lot of your own problems with technology. e.g. I have a lot of private tools I've designed and coded to help me in my day job (such as this simple one I recently open sourced: https://tannerchristensen.com/spf).

If you're a designer who works on digital products, I think it's only advantageous to know some programming. It gives you empathy for your engineering peers, gives you more insight into how what you design will actually get built (and the constraints/advantages of the technology), and helps you see problems in different—often more linear and logical—ways.

Learning to code is not for everyone, but learning a little can go a long way. At least learning the basics of code structure, loops, memory allocation and management, etc. would be my suggestion.
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The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. Ding A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. Ding Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, ding
It makes sense if you confuse electrical fields with current. Since the exponential increase for transmission is geometrical essentially - which is why we prefer wires for transmission so strongly.
oh! very sorry... bad assumption on my part based on the lisp comments
I tried to assist Hazelcast persons redirecting them to my colleagues in order to configure Redis properly, since I was in vacation, but they no longer replied and published this article where, the main point is that they don't know how to configure Redis properly. I think I'll stop forever to collaborate with Hazelcast about benchmarks and let them publish whatever they want: fortunately people chose systems according to other standards, that is, real world testing of properly configured setups and past experiences with other deployment of the same software. They even managed to get stuck in a problem that is not really common when configuring Redis with high load, it is not common to have replication problems because the default output buffer size limit.
People are raised in bubble wrap compared to the past. We used to live on less than a dollar a day, surviving plagues, wars & reasonably extreme religious/political doctrines. It was rough.

We have the luxury of living in a time and place when getting fat is more likely than starving and the most challenging conflict you might have is being excessively lonely or fighting an ideological fight with a university professor or managing bills and relationships over a pay packet.

I doubt you can get PTSD firing an AR-15 but if you take the above person with zero framework for how truly horrible life can be and dump them in a warzone, it gets a bit much. Maybe if we teach our kids how rough life can be, a trade of guaranteed survival of a cow's species and a reasonable quality of life for an individual cow is worth it's price in meat. Are we as humans promised anything better?
> "I would hazard a guess that the most common type of new power plants being built in the UK (in terms of costs) is natural gas power plants."

Absolutely not. There have been almost no new gas power plants built in the UK since 2010 (the only new one is Carrington in 2016, a CCGT which replaced a closed coal plant and which had been under construction since 2008). Since several old gas power plants have closed, there has been a net decrease in gas capacity. And as far as I know, there are currently no gas power plants actively under construction anywhere in the UK.

All new capacity in the UK is coming from:

- Renewables

- Nuclear (although this will probably be a net decrease, as old plants will close. Currently only Hinkley C is under construction, with several other projects on hold or cancelled)

- Inter-connectors
Processes never promised to solve things like file system isolation or wrapping environment dependencies in a single distributable.
Steam's DRM isn't technical, it's the community and platform itself. Any technical restrictions are completely optional.
> and isn’t required to pay recurring payments in order to maintain access

Simple solution: make French users pay recurring fees. Problem solved?

EDIT: would be nice if I could prune my library and perhaps swap some games. But what about other marketplaces and other stores? Why only Steam?
30% in terms of power usage, electricity output, not capacity. I can’t remember the exact figure, but it’s plus or minus 5% from there. The 50% current figure for renewables and nuclear is also output.
While these games have become infamous for the hilariously bad animation quality, the studio that did them continued to do work for the videogame industry. They were contracted out to do the animation for the ill-fated Warcraft Adventures game by Blizzard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_Adventures:_Lord_of_t...

Though the game was never released, someone leaked a copy years later, and playthroughs were subsequently uploaded online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNFrbpOSTE
Have you tried the Edge[0] preview dev tools? I have not but I know it also has an extension[1] for VSCode that seems interesting.

[0]https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/

[1]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-edged...
I presume that the "under €30,000" price includes the 19% VAT, since IIRC advertised prices are required to include the VAT. The Model 3 SR+ is €44,500 in Germany. Subtract the EV credit and it seems to me that the id.3 will only slightly more than half the price of the Model 3.
Taken to the extreme, ONE lock in Python. :)
Could it be that the system is just too complex, with too many variables - that nobody can really make sense of the entire world economy? Sure, you can look at segments and smaller systems and maybe make sense, but are we not wanting to focus long term (which means the world, not just US)?
> But I'm still going to advise responsible owners to ditch Safari and pick a browser that will do a better job of blocking trackers.

Are the uBO alternatives like ka-block so bad?
Note that at least part of the lower TCO is due to the fact that they expect the id.3 to retain 43% of value, and the normal golf to retain 33% of value. Setting these to equal eliminates any advantage, either way, the 5 year cost difference is largely a wash out.

That different cars retain value differently isn't intrinsically a problem, however assuming a high resale value for an unknown car feels like stacking the deck. To be fair, the author does give a justification for this difference, it's up to you if you agree with it.
Without any context, if you said "a spokesman justified the censorship by claiming those involved were 'actively spreading misinformation and encouraging unrest in politically sensitive climates'" and asked me to guess who the spokesman was representing, I would say the Chinese government not Twitter. You might object that that statement is true when made by Twitter but would be a lie coming from China, but I don't think that's right. The protestors in Hong Kong are certainly "encouraging unrest" and probably some of them have made untrue claims at some point.

This kind of surface-level similarity doesn't necessarily mean much, but I still think it's a bit disturbing. Twitter have a lot of power to censor, and I'm not sure why anyone would trust them to reliably use it wisely.
It also doesn't allow contextual blocking.

You can't, for example, block all Twitter/Youtube requests on third-party pages, but allow them on first-party pages. Firefox containers help a little bit with this, but only for cookies/session data -- not for blocking scripts outright.
The AR Show: XR's Killer App Is ROI
The post is tongue in cheek. Haskell for backend and NixOS for deployment ... a rather exotic setup even by HN standards.
We are still debating if we should listen to science /s
Ask HN: What are the most well designed open-source codebases you ever seen?
What are some open-source codebases that you think everybody could learn something from about software design? And what do you think people should be learning and why from those projects?
Twitter is particularly bad. I genuinely cannot find a single positive thing about it. It just feels like a big huge bitch-fest of one complaint and antagonist after another. Doesn’t matter the agenda, it’s pure negative energy. I’m so glad to have dismissed it.