skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he produces ceramic plates for body armor, but he could very well be making weapons too. Either way, he profits off of war.

So, yes, he sees the sugar industry as worse and as something without any sort of utility. Militaries bring security and are necessary, at least in his view, and thus he sees them as a net benefit. Personally, as a software developer, I would not build software for the military especially not anything based off of machine learning because it would be against my ethics, and I think that was his point too; don’t ape his morals, but do at least think whatever you choose to do through.
I like this analogy better than comparing it to a bunch of light switches. Gotta keep this in my back pocket.
Lowest death toll including Chernobyl and Fukushima. Those are arguably not representative of the safety improvements we've made over the last 50 years since those plants were built. As bad as those were, solar, wind, and hydro kill more people per TWh produced.
How is that subpoena "unlawful"?
Are there really that many empty apartments? I am sure they exist, but are there really enough of them to make a dent in the market? Having lived in the city for years, I've never actually seen one.

I also wonder if you have enough cash to buy and hold NYC apartments, wouldn't your money do better in some sort of a REIT?
Lessons from a Rookie Entrepreneur
You can already use phones without CDMA radios on Verizon, they're requiring all new phones to support VoLTE and axing the CDMA network entirely next year.
Sorry, poor choice of word. I meant short term, will it even be a stable source until it is finished being tapped or will it increase in instability to communities around it.
How did you loose $100? The upgrade gets you an additional 2%. So you'd have spend something. Like 3k to make it back.

Furthermore, they offer a full guarantee. Don't like it and they will refund you.
I don't understand all the love for Costco here. I recently rejoined and now remember why I canceled in the first place. I recently had a baby, so I joined for the diapers. Well, on my first trip, I learned they don't carry P or N sizes. Now that my baby is big enough for size 1, of course they are out of Huggies in size 1. But they have the Kirkland brand, which is a crapshoot in general.

I used to love some canned mushrooms they had, then they just stopped carrying them. I loved calzones they stopped carrying 5 years ago. Sometimes you can get Tide or kombucha there, sometimes not. Kirkland products can be great, then they suddenly change them. And nothing makes my blood boil like a line to leave the store for the receipt check while you have to fight off the Lennox, phone, and solar sales people.

At least my neighborhood King Soopers is consistent with stocking products and keeping their store brands the same.
Android kernels are routinely provided by the OEM and are usually an unholy cocktail of old Linux, with fixes backported from upstream. These kernels are checked into the Android source repo as binary files.
It’s not necessarily known mainly as a PC game, but the most common 80s game where you play a barbarian with upgradable weapons in Rastan, originally for arcades in the late 80s.
> while Masayoshi Son is in the middle of raising money for Vision Fund 2

I just can't imagine why anyone would put money into the Vision Fund 2 after watching what happened with the Vision Fund 1. I don't have billions of dollars to invest though, so I guess I'm not his target audience. The man is even famous for losing the most money in history, and yet people seem to be rallying for him to do it again.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/how-s...

Apple and Microsoft signing up as LP's for the new fund seems weird to me. I realize they are sitting on enormous piles of cash and want to find new ways to invest it, and they can comfortably put billions behind extremely risky assets, but even then it makes no sense to me.

I just don't get it, but maybe that's why I'm not a billionaire.
Do they not talk to you because they gave you money? Or because somehow you bright the family shame for asking others for help? Or something else?
I'd go one step further and say that most people don't want updates, precisely because updates will potentially break things they rely on, and the Android ecosystem moves so fast that it's almost always the case, at least in my experience. I never had an Android update without having several apps breaking.
Where is this supposed "should"?

From the spec - The autocomplete attribute represents either:

a) autofill expectation mantle

b) autofill anchor mantle

If the input type is "hidden", then it is wearing the "autofill anchor mantle". IN ALL OTHER CASES (emphasis mine) it wears the "autofill expectation mantle"

And what are the rules on "autofill expectation mantle"?

"When wearing the autofill expectation mantle, the autocomplete attribute, if specified, must have a value that is an ordered set of space-separated tokens consisting of either a single token that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "off", or a single token that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "on", or autofill detail tokens

...

The "off" keyword indicates either that the control's input data is particularly sensitive (for example the activation code for a nuclear weapon); or that it is a value that will never be reused (for example a one-time-key for a bank login) and the user will therefore have to explicitly enter the data each time, instead of being able to rely on the UA to prefill the value for them; OR THAT THE DOCUMENT PROVIDES ITS OWN AUTOCOMPLETE MECHANISM AND DOES NOT WANT THE USER AGENT TO PROVIDE AUTOCOMPLETION VALUES. (emphasis mine)"

Per: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...
Transmission is not being localized. AFAIK, PG&E still owns the vast majority of lines.
That used to be the case a while ago, nowadays only 30min is needed to adjust the production.
Just a quick note about the passwords. If a bad actor steals your Facebook password and then messages all your contacts saying he (you) is on holiday and his cards have been stolen, but PayPal is accepted at the local restaurant...could he lend you some money until you get back. Are you bothered now you know that your friends are protected by that password too?
Apple is a hypocrite (and so are we)
I think it has to do with the commoditization of image. In the early Internet we didn't have centralized social media so going to a new place and experimenting didn't have ramifications across your social circles via platforms attached to your real name. You could make "bad" stick figure cartoons by night while working a "respectable" career by day and nobody would know who you are either way.

I feel terrible for kids today - they grow up into social media not knowing what it is, and by the time they can comprehend it their creativity has been stifled for years by the implied pressures of conformity and a cultural disapproval of failure.

But theres some nostalgia in that too - its not like every 80s and 90s kid was sitting in a computer lab inventing the next tower defense game. It has always been a tiny minority of kids that get creative from a young age, and if anything the continued availability and quantity of entertainment can serve to keep kids occupied with consumption rather than creation more today than ever before.
Most things are OK to buy in bulk from Costco or elsewhere: flour, rice and other grains (quinoa, lentils), oil, cheese, toilet paper and paper towels, potatoes and onions, frozen veggies and other frozen foods, coffee beans, tea, yeast and other baking ingredients. Eggs are good for at least 2 weeks after their sell-by date and even without that, it's easy to get through 2 dozen eggs in 3 weeks. Dry pet food, treats, and regular pet medication (e.g. heartworm, flea protection) don't expire before they are used and far cheaper than elsewhere. Beer is good for months, wine and liquor for years.

Large families (4+ people) can easily get through Costco sized bread, milk, cereal, snacks, fruit, meat and veggies before it goes bad.

For a single or 2 person household, pretty much the only things from Costco that it doesn't make sense to buy are fresh produce, meat, and seafood, and bread.
I remember Flash being slow and buggy on Mac and Linux at the time, and updates lagged far behind the Windows version (on Linux in particular). And then I saw an article from a Macromedia/Adobe dev saying that it was heavily optimized x86 assembly code targeted towards Windows and very difficult to port to other platforms... given the IE6 monoculture at the time, it made sense, but I felt like a redheaded stepchild for daring to use a minority OS.

I don't think it was 64-bit clean, either, so now no modern device runs Flash "natively."
I'd be fascinated to know why he didn't sue Amazon, if they're refusing to process DMCA takedowns. My experience is that if anything, it's too easy to file a case and brands abuse this to get rid of grey market sellers that are selling authentic products.
I think a union is a different structure than LLC and plays by different rules. Regardless, the first step should be talking to a proper attorney who can explain what requirements need to be met to make this organisation a union.
Occasionally I keep replaying Apple ][ games :) - like Karateka :) - Love the site!
We will forgive you if you can turn a hook on a scraper :)
It happens to a lot of successful products over time, but it's not inevitable by any means. It's possible to make software that is viable long term. But, there are many ugly realities regarding the current state of Corporate America that encourages this cycle.

For example, the fact that most engineers need to job hop in order to get promotions and raises. That makes it nearly impossible to build up long term institutional knowledge at any one company.

Another example: everyone in a publicly held company, from the rank and file programmers to the CEO, are rewarded for short term sales at the expense of long term stability. We had a thread here not too long ago[0] about how being a "maintenance engineer" was career suicide.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224188
Ditched My MacBook Air for a Thinkpad X1 and KDE Neon
> BTW, if you’re a member and haven’t tried the Kirkland (Costco’s house brand) wines, prepare to taste an $8 bottle of wine that puts every $100 bottle you’ve ever tasted to shame.

The Kirkland Sangria is however awful.
> There are so many people who are trying to tell everyone how to ‘make it’ in this world but how can you do that when it’s not the same for everyone?

I think some general principles apply to almost everyone. Surround yourself with smart people and show them your work in progress. Iterate fast, whatever iteration means in your context. Be intellectually humble and ready to realize you were wrong about something. And many more.

Most of them bear repeating because they're hard to actually do every day. If it was easy to show off your half-baked prototypes, you wouldn't need 1000 blog posts encouraging you to go do it right now.
The bubble inflating money coming from private markets rather than public like 20 years ago is a pretty huge difference. Vision Fund’s collapse is bad news for SV techies but ranks far below other things like trade wars in terms of reasons for concern
It would not surprise me if that was the case.

I do get that "video paused" popup every once in a while, but I have never seen the looping behavior.

If this is happening to you a lot, a cool way to get around it can be using mpv/youtube-dl, they both support YouTube playlists:

mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThlnilAqSEtI9HNfZEEy...

or

mpv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThlnilAqSEtI9HNfZEEy...

The --no-video flag hides the mpv OSC (a simple GUI, which is not necessary if you're playing songs). To navigate the playlist you'll need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts (<, >, ENTER, p), and more:

https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#keyboard-control

This works very well and is multi-platform.

Unless YouTube puts DRM on the whole site, this should continue working as long as you keep mpv or youtube-dl updated. Sadly I don't think we can know for sure if they're doing this on purpose.
It’s a problem at the high end (which is most of what’s been built lately) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/realestate/new-developmen...
Huh. that's an interesting point I hadn't thought of; I always attributed the difference in quality to just, you know, the stricter housing code and better building tech in general... but that's not the only factor at work in Silicon Valley.

In Silicon Valley, sure, most of the housing stock was built rather a long time ago, yes, but it was also built to the expectations of people who didn't make a lot of money. The newer stuff around here is built for people who are in the top 5% or better of incomes, so it's likely they use more expensive construction techniques, too.
There's Conan for the Apple //e https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Conan ?
> Fun fact about Costco. More than 100% of its profits come from membership fees.

The backing analysis for this claim has none of Costco’s costs associated with membership, such that membership fees were pure profit. Yes, it's membership fees acocunt for revenue that is more than 100% of it's profit. It's merchandise sales account for revenue that is more than 100% of it's profit by a vastly wider margin, though.

The actual share of profits due to membership fees is a much more complicated question, but it's certainly not the full amount that treating it's membership fees as pure profit would suggest.
Yes, but to get those things, I'd have to make three stops, or I can make one stop and pay marginally more.
Shameless plug for BlockStudio [0], a programming environment for beginners, without textual code. It's free, and runs on any modern browser.

[0] https://www.blockstudio.app
Fortnite has been down for hours as millions of players stare at a black hole
Is it really "handing" if it's market priced?
> On a more personal gripe, a minor irritation of late is the number of students who want to do their OS homework in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, instead of even setting up a basic VM.

That's easy to solve, and can give the students a history lesson.

Give them some tasks that work with ~/con :)

Or you can have them work with files all named the same but differ with case. Windows based machines get "confused".
> It was much better (lighter, simpler, quicker to load) than Java applets from the mid 90s.

People often forget about those.
Wow, used to play so many of these with my siblings as a kid. My dad made us an 80486 machine with CRT monitor, IBM keyboard, and speaker all in one giant wooden box. The "white computer" must have weighed 60 pounds. Good times.
GitHub – hashicorp/vault: A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service
This is completely off-topic, but if you're not from Philly, where are you from? I see "jawn" so rarely online that I can't help but be curious. :)
Wow. Are they fucking serious?

They blame federal law for not prosecuting counterfeiters instead of themselves for allowing them to run rampant on their website? (i.e. They want the federal government to do their house-cleaning for them.)

I never thought I'd read such a dumb excuse from a company this big.
it's a beautiful country and people. Others have so much to learn from it about how to be civilized.
Besides proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, I’m surprised the more ecologically-friendly proof-of-space system isn’t being looked at harder. FileCoin uses it (it’s integral to the system to prove you have the space you’re selling) but it could also be used by other distributed Blockchains to prove that a node’s operator has invested in the ecosystem (by buying lots of storage) - I’d say I’d prefer to run out of HDD supply than destroy the earth through fossil-fuel power plant emissions.
GitHub – Pytorch/Xla: Enabling PyTorch on Google TPU
Nothing to add, but I really love his question. It's so pure and innocent haha
LXC 1.0 blog-post-series (2013)
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It was so special.

It was just the right mix of relative simplicity and power.

No wonder that all the creatives flocked to flash.
Funnily enough the first mailing list in the Arpanet (circa 1973) was about mailing lists. I have no idea why I jumped on it (freshman at the time using HARV-10), but it was loads of fun, and of course included flame wars from the start...
I know "wild west" is a popular analogy, but I fear people may forget it was awful.

Native peoples were slaughtered and forced off their land. Natural resources were mined and hunted with no regard for long-term sustainability. There was slave labor, sex trafficking, and endless profiteering based on speculation or downright lies. The rich got richer and maybe some poor people got a leg up? A whole lot of people ended up poorer, sicker, or dead.

So yeah, maybe cryptocurrencies are a bit like the wild west.

There are ways of taking risks, exploring, and pushing boundaries that don't put vulnerable people at greater risk. As far as I can tell the wild west and cryptocurrencies aren't it.
Except the way it's presented by Aho is farcical. Smalltalk is small and beautiful. Forth is small and beautiful. Scheme is small and beautiful. C is NOT small and beautiful. Unix is NOT small and beautiful.

Aho is going off the cliff here. To me this looks more like a no holds-barred whitewashing than a eulogy. Richard Gabriel (to say nothing of the MIT crowd) was absolutely right, and it's painful to see him so easily dismissed. We should lament C and Unix being so prevalent today, not wear them like a badge of honor.
I've found Jeff varasanos pizza recipe to be an excellent baker-nerd read, and is the basis for all my pizza (mis)adventures: http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
Some of the steps look like they'd be hard to do that for. Like for example the one about making sure the license is correct, and the one about testing parts that apparently don't have good automated tests / interact with the real world.
Escalators having two lanes is a thing in tons of places. Generally the larger the city, the closer to the cbd you are, and the more rush hour it is, the more likely it is to be a thing that everyone does.
Apple has done a lot for privacy in its products and its public statements. But I believe that if it has to have a better impact and be trusted, it needs someone dedicated to privacy who will (ensure that it will) publish details of its products, apps and activities in an honest form in an accessible place (and updated more often than a once-a-year OS upgrade cycle). This kind of commitment to more transparency will help the company be trusted and also held up to questions. Said trust is already eroding with recent events. Apple shouldn’t be complacent and stick to its old ways.

Sadly, Apple also has a history of brushing things away or ignoring uncomfortable questions.
Also, all of these gaming events are recorded for later viewing. I can experience Fortnite EXACTLY as it was when the event took place.
From a truly paranoid security perspective, all files can be dangerous. At one point, a computer could be infected by a virus from a JPEG image (thanks, Microsoft!).
See the comments at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183793, they address your question about satellite monitoring of CH4.

The OCO-2 spectral bands were chosen for H2O and for CO2. I don’t think they provide methane information. A successor mission concept, GeoCARB, can get methane as well: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/geocarb-a-new-view-of-carbo...

Meanwhile, there are in situ methane monitors, and in some areas, spectroscopic observations (ground based) that allow methane source localization. For very new results for the LA area, see: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018..., pdf at https://authors.library.caltech.edu/96023/1/2018JD030062.pdf

It is a very cool science/technical problem, with high potential payoff for identifying big sources.
Thanks! I'm not sure if I have just lost my attention span, or writers are just writing 10 times as many words as they really need to to get paid, but I didn't get three sentences into that.
I remember playing Prehistorik games.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prehistorik_1991

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prehistorik_2_1993

I loved the bonus levels in Prehistorik 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4IQ26Y2Zhs
Give me a man a fish vs teach a man to fish. The system in the US is broken, the Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless is only a flimsy bandaid, and the real reason it's pernicious is because now the volunteer can sit back in the warm glow of approval on Facebook/Instagram and think "There! Now I've done my part".
Costco actually struggles to purchase small chickens, which it uses for its $4.99 rotisserie.

According to this article published last week, it’s opening a $450M poultry complex in Nebraska because suppliers aren’t providing enough small chickens.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/business/costco-5-dollar-chic...
It's so frustrating to see people deny truths because they don't like them. I know what you say to be true. I have experienced it and have seen many other victims of medical malpractice experience it. Money always wins and doctors and their insurance companies lobby for laws and establish facilities in areas with a more friendly jury pool (higher financial classes and peers). But I constantly hear how "people are just out for a payday" and how "easy" it is to sue and win from people who have no idea. Medical mistakes are the THIRD leading cause of death. They ruined my life. But every time the topic comes up and people speak about it like you did they are downvoted, ignored, dismissed. The same as the victims. People are just terrible so much of the time. No empathy or ethical/moral center.
You aren't hallucinating, the quality of Safeway produce is and is increasingly shit. Last time I was in one, they had a pile of moldy ginger, and I have no idea how they managed it.
Why you ditched MacBook and went for KDE neon would be a nicer post than a link to KDE.org. I believe giving your reasons will educate the readers and see your perspective.
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I stopped buying books from amazon since 2016. Bought an 80$ technical book that came as if it was printed from a pdf. Equations are barely readable. I made a review with pictures and no action has been taken. I have been buying from the local retailer since then.