skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to offer guaranteed two-day shipping and a paid upgrade to one-day shipping; now they just have "Prime Shipping" as the parent said, and what "Prime Shipping" means varies from item to item and time to time. It can mean one-day. I don't think I've ever seen same-day shipping, but I'd imagine I just don't live close enough to a fulfillment center.
What is the legal status of these?
Oh, I thought he'd used a physical dial. You can still buy them, in new condition. I bought one and hooked it up to a pen register, to demo old-school wiretapping.
I’ve always thought of nuclear waste as a thinly veiled euphemism for Plutonium.

Plutonium is an unavoidable product of U235 fission - and can be extracted from the resulting “nuclear waste” by chemical processes.

Having seen stuxnet, I’m convinced that there’s a lot of investment in preventing people from gaining access to U238. Starting from Uranium ore, getting to Plutonium would be much simpler than getting to sufficient quantities of U238 and have the benefit of generating energy along the way. Additionally, Plutonium based bombs have a “higher yield” according to what I’ve read.

I wonder if USA and Russia agreed to limit Plutonium production- and that’s the real reason behind severely limiting nuclear energy.
Have you seen the posts on Facebook or the Courier Mail about the soon to be dedicated busway that's going on Gympie Road? Or around how the road is specifically going to be widened to open a 24/7 bus lane?

The public are vehemently against more busways while also complaining about how congestion on Gympie Road, Lytton Road and Wynnum Road are constantly getting worse. It all really beggers belief.

We continue to throw money on making roads bigger but it doesn't help, all it means is more and more people move to the other end before the status quo reaches equilibrium again, and the cycle of road works starts again. This of courst assumes the road works ever finish. I'm looking at you, Kingsmith Drive, Mudeergaba Exit on the Gold Coast. All the while we're saying there's less commuters using public transport year on year than ever before.

This is a surprise to no one if you notice busses take an hour to travel 8km when you're contending with gridlocked cars for the entire distance.

Less you purchase a moped or a motorcycle and join me and the 2 Wheel Nomads that Brisbane's starting to enjoy.

The article is behind a pay wall, I'm not sure how to get around it.

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2...
No, it's the latter.

In NSLocale, "region" is a subtype of language, as in a regional dialect, not an independent dimension.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nslocal...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
If you're looking for a great Windows remake that keeps the original style, check out Megaplex. Apparently the original website is gone, but archive has it as well:

https://archive.org/details/MegaPlex_1020

Supaplex is even on Steam, but probably not linked to the original creators, which have declared the game as freeware.
No serious digital asset still uses PoW or at least is on the way to ditch PoW. If you look at the most popular tokens/coins you'll see all the PoW coins are useless and no one is developing anything for them. They are just there to speculate and because people can't let go. TON uses PoS btw.
>I think the modern browser is technologically superior to what and how Flash did things

Depends on what you mean by superior. There are still things Flash could do and modern “open web” can’t, determining keyboard state (caps lock state and current input language) is one example.
This is where they need to sacrifice some computer security for physical security. By turning this off, a few people who don't follow good security practices might get malware. But no one will be sent to prison or "disappeared".
Why Facebook keeps going down
The last article I saw on that wasn't exactly encouraging:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/j...
Product leadership once again missing the point. They should just call it an 8C, really.
> A MacOS virtual machine is probably illegal.

true. And that is a very sad state of affairs. I use the travis osx hosts for that, but it's not ideal. There's no interface, but at least you can check that the code compiles, runs, and passes automated tests. That's already huge!

For linux and windows hosts, it seems to me that it is a solved problem, as pointed elsewhere.
Has anyone tested bright indoor lighting and its effect on their own sleep.

I have some LED studio lights for video work by my desk all the time. I'm wondering if I should just turn them on while I work each morning. From what I can tell:

1. LEDs won't cause sunburn/skin damage
2. There's no blue light risk of them if they're not rates above a certain level of light output and you don't stare directly at them.

I have to check the light rating, but it seems like there shouldn't be negative side effects to this. My new apartment gets little direct sunlight, so I've been feeling daytime darkness more acutely.
Angry birds was such a disappointment... I bought it, thought it was a neat game, and well worth the $2.

A few years later I wanted to show it to my kids, and the game I bought had turned into an abomination of ads, in-app-purchases, and dark patterns, and there was no way to get back the charming little game that I originally bought...
Singapore nearly solved this problem by making car ownership nearly prohibitively expensive. Especially driving during rush hours costs a lot. Even taxis pay up.

Unfortunately the side effect is, the drivers feels entitled and drive like they own the roads (well, since they paid for it!)
IME people choose weak passwords because they need to be able to remember them and technical people seem to forget this. If they're complicated or too long then the forgotten password option becomes how they log into things, making the password essentially useless.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but longer and more complicated passwords aren't.
The entire design of password managers that hijacking the DOM is flawed.
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How to Find the Right Metric for Optimal Training in Generative Networks
I got serious about delegating
Just recently tried buying Addison Wesley, O'Reilly etc IT books in English (these are not cheap) on Amazon and gave up. First getting through the maze whether it's from a merchant or directly from Amazon, then tracing the comments and some people complaining it's a low quality print of a PDF from the internet. Not worth it.
Can't speak for client libraries, but for browsers 95% of real users in the wild support it: https://caniuse.com/#feat=http2
This is great. You gotta add audio to deliver those sweet, satisfying sounds!
That is not performance, that is resource usage.

As a game developer who has programmed in ActionScript3, I can tell you that Flash was very performant for 2D graphics.
Yes this specifically I bought the 4 pack and it was weird that it was packaged 3 & 1
Microsoft Surface Pro X
You're right, that was/is a phase. The FHRAI (federation of hotels and restaurant association of India) complained against some of OYO's business practices in July this year and it made a lot of news (mostly changing policies with regards to commission and also delaying commission) to the Competition Commission of India.

Currently, OYO is making news for 4 reasons:

* Protests from hotels (so called OYOpreneurs)

* OYO founder's buyback funded by debt against shares and Sequoia, Lightspeed exit

* OYO growing a lot and acquiring companies worldwide

* Possibility of OYO being a WeWork in the making
try to imagine a web page with 3 Unity banners
The big lessons from this article (which I love and resonate with)

- You discover more bugs with your shins than your foresight

- As long as you keep fixing it in code, you will eventually win - it's like a video game, as long as you can respawn, you will always defeat the game. Just keep buggering on.
There is a issue with sd cards that they can revert back to an earlier state.
NASA engineer invents physics-breaking new space engine
It should be named IPhone 6ssss
You can experience a recording of it (and even those may be taken down) but you cannot experience the game itself.
Amusingly, that is exactly the response in every Tesla thread on HN.
I do agree that layoffs don't just affect those who were laid off. I'm building a product now that I'm testing to work out any bugs and will do a release soon.

The platform isn't only those laid off; it could also be used by those still employed and worry about being laid off.

Early in my career, a company I worked at has a round of layoffs. I remember thinking about my stability. I was assured by those more senior around me that we would be fine. Three months later, our entire department was also laid off.

I haven't been experienced such a scenario since, but to your point.. I wouldn't sit around.
My dad use to fix telephones when I was growing up. I remember fiddling with them a lot. If you grab the disc and rotate it, even without the finger on the proper number hole, the number that would be recognized was the number on the "recognition" area. I tried to put that on my code. If you let go of the disc going outside or inside of it, it will activate the spring back movement.
This is one thing I really loved about subversion. I just used the VCS revision as the tag and version therefore avoiding this issue. Didn’t even need to create tags.

That was until the version overflowed the 16 bit field it was stored in the assembly manifest. Kaboom. :(

People spend way too much time arguing with semantic versioning when 99% of the time the only important thing is the next number is bigger than the previous number.
Government dictated shop fronts for all. Death to design.
It's the best of the worse, because that's what they needed: a reliable way to generate a pulse sequence with different number of pulses for signaling.

For 60s technology (maybe even earlier) this was the best they could come up with for the desired price point.
> The MCAS design should never have been approved, not by Boeing, and not by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

This is the line that stuck out to me. Basically, it never occurred to me that the FAA has to approve aircraft designs. And if that assumption is correct, who exactly would the approvers be, and are or can they even be qualified? It feels like they'd just be mostly trusting Boeing's judgment as not to upset the Juggernaut, which seems like a rather useless process.
Thank you for your comment but with all due respect I'm afraid that this is a unique case.

These are counterfeit copies. They're not coming from legitimate suppliers. Frankly we don't care who resells our books as long as they're selling legitimate copies. These are not.

I've been dealing with this issue with Amazon since 2017. It's not that what you're describing doesn't happen but if this is like previous cases this is something different.

In this and other recent cases as has been shared online, Amazon replaced our legitimate inventory entirely with counterfeit copies that it was sourcing directly from a printer that it works with for print-on-demand. That printer supplies Createspace. We receive absolutely no revenue from the sale of these copies because we're not the ones printing them. They're produced from stolen files.

Once again, Amazon is stealing from authors and leaving it to vendors like us to police them. Why should we have to police Amazon?

In this case the copies that I received appear to be from that same printer. They look just like the other counterfeits that we've seen over the years.

As with other instances we receive NO revenue from these sales and as a consequence neither do our authors.

In this case and in previous cases Amazon stopped ordering directly from authorized resellers. They fulfilled orders only with counterfeit books.

This is not the case of commingling as you describe. This has nothing to do with FBA or other resellers. This is Amazon's supply chain sourcing counterfeit copies directly from a printer that they work with and selling them in place of our legitimate inventory.
Making Smart Decisions Like Warren Buffett by Applying the 10/10/10 Method
Greenwich Time Signal
M-x butterfly ?
This quote doesn't apply to this at all. That quote is making fun of centrists. You are applying it from a centrist perspective to a leftist argument about individual acts of charity not contributing to the solution of systematic issues.
So we shouldn't regulate these extraction practices because journalists don't use the right words to refer to these harmful practices?
Yeah, I was rounding up the cos and sin. Got rid of that.
We changed the url from https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1183207739675291654 to the article it points to. If there's a better article on this, we can change it again.

Submitted title was "Facebook's viewership metrics were inflated by 150 to 900%".
> can be done better (in several senses) with modern tools.

contestable. html5 games can be choppy in ways flash was not. even streaming video was pretty fast, comparing it to something like webrtc multi-party video. Hell even basic text-based chat like slack is a resource hog in html.
For those not using Gnome, gtk-redshift is great if using X11.

I use it on cinnamon all the time.
> Alright, you're talking philosophy and me more about practical usage.

It's very practical. I know we're talking Apple now, but to give an example of a thing that happened to me last week: I couldn't send my wife a PDF with transaction details via e-mail "on the go", from my Android phone, because there was no chain of sharing that would link my bank's app and Fastmail. I could open (not save, just open) a PDF from the bank app, and I could share it, but under sharing there was nothing that would allow me to save it to the filesystem, and Fastmail app didn't show up on the list either. This could be fixed on either app's end, but a better fix would be for the OS to just provide the "Save to filesystem" share target for everything.

> Your view of x-callback seems off too

Likely - I had very limited experience with iOS (briefly worked with an iPhone that was recent some 3 years ago). It sounds like something similar to Android's intents system. If so, that's a bit better, but if Android's experience is to go by, a lot of linking you'd expect to work doesn't, either because of misconfiguration or purposeful prevention.

> Anything on the local file system is obviously always available. For iCloud there's that status icon I referred to in my first post, but that's no different from desktop.

Sure, but there are voices calling for making cloud and local completely transparent; I'm strongly against that on the grounds I described.
Not too hard to surpass those with things like residential proxies, randomised user agents, headless browsers, etc. Bring on the anti scraping measures...
Let's Encrypt to stop working on Node.js and expressjs at end of month
Please don't take HN threads into political or ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for.
Lots of people who know how to run the WeWork model profitably?
I'll be playing the devil's advocate because there is a marketing department down the corridor and we get along (mostly) fine:

>> ”We had 100k new users signup in January”

>> “How many were still active a month later?”

>> ”... 17k”

> ...

Well, that's a retention rate and it's a useful measure (like engagement and reach are).

>> ”Our users read an average of 12 stories per day”

>> “What counts as a ‘read’?”

>> ”Spending at least 3 seconds on a page”

3 seconds might be more than you need to get your message on your audience's mind though. I am thinking of the catchy headline, the picture of the celebrity of the month (with that particular brand of headphones or handbag), the coke ad, etc. That 45second of vid. that isn't played ? The first still is the message.

Now from that, how do you go to prove that your conversion rate is tied to those measures ? I don't know. The consensus seems to be "we can't really pinpoint it but when we don't do it our conversion rate tanks and we get less sales/booking". Yeah, marketing isn't as clear cut as quadratic equation. In a way, it's not that easy.

edit: I was reading this article the other day https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/micro-mo... and it mentions steps taken by a traveler https://storage.googleapis.com/twg-content/original_images/l... before an hypothetical conversion. Few agencies have the horse power to analyze and prove those steps are taken for the products they help their clients to sell. But I am convinced it's doable, not in the price range of cheap agencies that boast only facebook likes though. /edit

> It never gets old the stretches people will make to try to pitch something that is in desperate need of legs to stand on, so whatever metric that looks the best is the one pulled out of the hat.

Which is fair game. Contract, commercial endeavor, etc. Information is always asymmetrical.

Now, in my 9 to 5, I have had that advice since day one: your $50 FB/GA campaign for a year or a month isn't going to fix a bad business plan :/. If your product is flawed, get out before losing any more money.

> [be] especially weary of companies espousing some kind of Golden Metric (big red flag if they don’t mention earnings/money) as a means to justify they are an awesome business

Solid, sound and gold advice. Most agencies are working on the basis of "best efforts" but it pays to ask them for success stories and check them out.

Now, what facebook did ? Pure, evil scam but I wouldn't hold my breath to see if anything changes in "the industry" (it hasn't when it was revealed and yet tomorrow I am attending a video festival dedicated to the tourism industry).
When I was laid off early in my career, I took a massive emotional hit. I was only making $35k a year programming at 20, but it was my way out of the poor living conditions.

When they laid off my entire team, I was upset, afraid, and angry. I told myself I would never work in IT again.

Then I realized how much I love coding and that I initially got into it, not knowing I could make a living. I got pulled back into it; like the mob :)
A valuable and profitable business.

How much did WeWork's brand help exactly? It just made the crash harder. Nobody cares about a brand, and definitely not when it comes to office space.
Doesnt that highlight that the problems is not CVSS, but a better quantitative measurement is needed? What other system is there that would let the 3 people agree on something? Security people seem to be the only once that use qualitative measurements and get away with it... because experts.
> Software "breaking" only happens if you let it

I don't think this is realistically true in the age of cloud services and forced, automatic updates.

Maybe it is if you painstakingly stick to decades-old software or FOSS - but this will mean you're missing out on a lot of progress made in modern software.

(edit:)

> ...and probably still have people with modern Flash installations be able to play it back?

Even if you got Flash running on your old PC, this is where things would break. Browsers deliberately increase the friction and technical expertise needed to enable Flash content, with the openly stated goal to drop Flash support completely in the mid-to-near future.

Learning Flash might still be a fun experience if you can keep it on the PC it's produced - but if you want your kid to pass their movies on to anyone else, Flash is nowadays a dead-end.

I agree though with the Doom thing. My suspicion is that in 20 years, many of today's games will be forgotten but people will likely still play FFIV on emulator - not because some artistic quality were better but simply because you can.
Do you have a link to the Tartine book? There are dozens of book by that name on amazon.
(SaaS) How We Got Our First Paying Customers
Winning Entries of the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest
It's been done for a century before and has 2 major profitable companies with sound and proven financials.

WeWork is absolutely nothing new, the industry already knows what the optimal numbers need to be and WeWork is nowhere near them to ever be a profitable business in its current form.
Reminds me of a Sega game, Shenmue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHqOVZ5JvE
JavaScript still hasn’t broken the Internet just yet
Flash was a cancer for the web (poor usability, incomprensible web interfaces, low importance to the real content, quasi-zero accessibility), no responsive, closed source insecure and monopolistic platform. I has never been a fan of Jobs and iPhone but I was very happy when the iPhone success signed the start of the decline and extinction of Flash tecnology.
That is no more helpful in terms of the extra explanation requested than the original response...

Kind of "is it possible to be more vague here?" "yes, yes it is'.
You could just keep the combined cycle peeking plants around for a while while figuring out the load cycle and storage. It's pretty simple since they are already built.
There's some old German food/nutrition researcher I read who mentioned in passing that co2 acted as a blanket in the atmosphere warming the planet. I can't remember the author or title of the book, it was something from the 1800s I was skimming from archive.org.

I remember being dumbfounded at the time and pasting the excerpt to some friends on IRC. People have known atmospheric co2 warms the planet for a very long time.

This book wasn't even about climate, it was about diet and evolution. It turns out if you want to talk about the history of evolution, you have to talk about the atmosphere and how it varied going through oxygen and carbon-rich periods.
Prometheus – A gentle introduction to the wonderful world of metrics
The FAA actually does keep engineers on staff, and the aircraft manufacturer will have to explain and demonstrate how their aircraft complies with thousands of different requirements. This is actually one of the larger sub-controversies of the whole MCAS issue; the FAA has been progressively delegating more and more of airworthiness compliance to Boeing's engineers and trusting their results instead of verifying it themselves.

With regards to the regulations, they're excruciatingly detailed. I encourage you to read 14 CFR 23, Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Airplanes, and 14 CFR 25, Airworthiness Standards, Transport Category Airplanes.
No matter what they call it, it will still be orders of magnitude less confusing than the camera lineups of Canon, Nikon, and Sony.

e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nikon_DSLR_camer...
Browser vendors get a kickback for each search.
In the Norwegian engineer paper (TU) from 1960 the main discussions of their time was that they had to get away from burning trees as energy source and use oil/coal or water fall to get the energy to supply the industry.

Lot of talks about deforestation with examples that we have not recovered from today (example Røros).
Not really.
I don't see ads on monitor (thank you UBlock Origin and Pi Hole) and don't see news either.

On monitor I choose what to watch, on TV I am forced to watch what someone else chosen.

I didn't own a TV ever (well, since I went to college), I see it only in my parents house when I visit.
Born with a penis = he/him/his. Born with a vagina = she/her/hers. It's genetic. https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html. The whole "science" thing. You know, women have eggs, can get pregnant. Men, have sperm, can impregnate. Perhaps this basic lack of understanding is at the heart of the gender pronoun debate. Some people simply don't know, and refuse to accept that there are specific biological differences between men and women. A bit like flat-earthers.
The term has entered the popular lexicon since the 2016 election and is commonly used to refer to the subset of Trump supporters who also broadly agree with his more odious statements.