skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Nest seems to have only improved under Google? They were floundering before the purchase

I think OP is referencing that Google itself is the lack of improvement. Who cares how the company is doing if buying its products are out of the question due to privacy concerns.

I’m in the majority here who would never use or buy a product attached to Google.
You criticize their rabid fans but aren’t you just as irrational? You have made claims that are so bizarre they cannot be supported by evidence. You are making emotional attacks that sound like someone talking about their high school bully. I don’t know how you convinced yourself that Apple is more interested in being aloof than in making changes that would help them make money but that belief is just as ridiculous as the belief that they are altruistic.

“Apple” has become a trigger word for many people. It is strange that one would allow something they claim to dislike to have such a profound impact on them that it compromises their reasoning.
The 10 sites that have a genuine reason to listen to selection events and force you to copy invisible text can ask permission to do so, as suggested in the thread.
Ask HN: Favourite Long Form Blogs
Hi readers, I love long form blogs/online magazines, that go into some depth and provoke thoughts, and now we’re working on a startup that we hope will improve the reading experience and boost the readership.

What are some of your favourites? Could be either magazines, like Nautilus (nautil.us), Quartz (qz.com) or Atlas Obscura (atlasobscura.com), or individual bloggers like https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/, https://mondaynote.com/ or https://www.profgalloway.com/, technology or other subjects.

We’re looking for as much material as possible to test our hypotheses, and to provide free trials to the best bloggers!
IMO, speculation isn't the dominant use case for Bitcoin is store of value (not claiming it's small).

With a major, major recession looming, with negative interest rates, and at a time where owning govt debt instrument actually costs you, where will you park your wealth?

Well, parking your wealth in Bitcoin starts to sound like a really good idea:

- in spite of the crazy volatility: if you average out Bitcoin value over - say - a 2 years window, it's a pretty safe bet.

- it also happens to be pretty hard for governments to get their grubby little paws on your Bitcoin stash (short of torturing the password to your private keys out of you).

- it can be moved and spent quasi-instantly anywhere in the world, so no border headaches.

- no other financial instrument has the dual property of being limited in supply *and* infinitely divisible (or almost). Most people focus all their mental energy on the first and completely avoid thinking about the second.
Again, to me the OP is talking explicitly about places where you have to enter it in. What are the other mechanisms? Let’s forget about situations where you can copy/paste or use DHCP.

My answer would be to use my phone to take a photo of the address (if not easily accessible via web browser), and then use that to manually enter it. Probably not a situation where you can rely on memory, unfortunately.
And New Yorker article submitters don't understand that the HN crowd tends to prefer the Register style, at least for providing a focal point where everyone can get up to speed quickly for a productive discussion.
Remembering to click a button that strips the fonts/CSS out every page I read seems a lot harder to me than remembering to always paste into a blank document before my terminal. Reader mode isn't even available for every site.

That being said, yes, stripping CSS, fonts, and Javascript would fix the issue.
Or you can host your own dns. Or you can get a decent dns host. It doesn’t need to be your domain registrar, much like you don’t need your website or email hosted with your domain registrar.
I feel like this pricing is too expensive. At this $249 price point, this is now competing against a used Bose QC 35 II and Sony WH-1000XM3. I guess if you really want an earbud.
The prices seem pretty hight to me, certainly not cheaper than the national brands.

If you rent the car for just 1 or 2 days, its pretty comparable to the national brands (but certainly not 30% cheaper). The cheapest car they offer is $45 per day, while the national brands seem to be about $55 per day or $90 for 2 days (in the city itself. Airports are much cheaper).

Any periods longer than that and the pricing breaks down. For a rental of 1 week, you can get a car from Alamo for $200 in downtown SF, but its $315 from carve.

Also, I've rented a lot of cars in my life, and the quoted price is always what I pay. They try to upsell you on two things - the insurance, and the prepaid gas, but as long as you say no to them, you shouldn't be charged any more than the quoted price.

That being said, depending on how smooth the pickup service was, I would consider using this. The worst part about renting a car is going to the office, watching someone type into a computer for 15 minutes (what are they typing for so long anyways?), and trying to upsell you on a bunch of crap. If I don't have to deal with that, and the price was comparable, I would certainly go for it.

2 questions

1. how do you handle paying for gas?

2. are there any mileage limits?
This assumes that there isn't already a supply of 4 bedroom houses. That assumption is wrong. In fact there are far more large houses that younger people don't want than the market needs, and old people who bought them as investments to sell so they could retire and live off the equity are finding that a big problem - http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-b...

At the same time there isn't enough supply of smaller properties that young people ~do~ want. This is another, separate problem.
Fair point actually, it is closer than I thought my apologies.
Garmin makes a lot more money per unit. (Avg selling price of likely over $300) Fitbit sells many more units per year (@~$130/unit), which is scalable.
Yes they are. Who owns the buffers needed to store the async messages?

1. If they're booked to the receiver, then clients can easily DoS receivers by flooding them with message.

2. If they're booked to the sender, then receivers can easily DoS senders by blocking indefinitely.

3. If they're booked to the kernel (which is most common for true async message passing, unfortunately), then senders or receivers can DoS the whole system by the above two mechanisms.

And that's only the most basic analysis. I suggest you read the paper I linked and its references if you want a more in-depth analysis of IPC vulnerabilities and performance properties.
That is a straw man socialits try to make. Conservatives do not have a common voice. That socialism doesn't work is but one (there are some complex arguments for why it cannot that you are ignoring - though to be fair they are too complex to put into a short post)

Conservatives often point out that we don't have a free market to start with. We have a strictly regulated market (designed by socialists) that cannot help but increase costs because nobody who cares about costs gets a seat at the table. Wanting to get rid of the regulations and allow an actual market is a small point a few conservatives makes.
Well this is, as far as I can tell, an intractable problem with automotive because of the nature of the whole market, from OEMs to dealerships & dealership groups to consumers.

Dealerships live and breathe leads. People renting cars definitely do not want to be sales leads for dealerships. So I think this may be a pothole along your way to the success I hope you achieve. :)
TS 3.7 adds it.
Perhaps, but Garmin's core business is GPS technology, not smart watches. Buying Garmin for smart watches would be like, I don't know, buying Google to get YouTube.
>contractors as some sort of second class citizens, which they aren't at all, at least not in the software industry

Perhaps not from your experience, but I don't believe that's generally true. The difference in benefits, bonuses, salary, tax burden, etc is pretty large.
I taught myself to code and got into Y Combinator
And since most of the mass of the AirPod + case is the battery, how is it really helping with the environment if the battery is the most toxic part?
Scott Aaronson, co-author of the comic, is the director of the Quantum Information Center at UT Austin, and has a number of publications about quantum computing. His website has more qualifications: https://www.scottaaronson.com/.
Makes what worse? Nobody is arguing here that gross inequality is good. The question here is whether "70% of current income" is a reasonable metric for individual retirement.
This is like...two decades too late. China has their fingers in everything now.
If you think she didn’t care about the answers, you missed most of what’s going on. The process is similar to a trial: she knows full well what he’s trying to avoid admitting and was very carefully inching him into a situation where he had to either answer honestly or admit that his previous answers had not been correct. Each time he gave their usual spin rather than answering she recognized it as such and moved him on to something which highlighted the inconsistencies in his answers.
> Your friend is mixing together some stuff in telephone game style.

Are they? They said:

>> developed Buran to match what they saw as the space warfare capabilities that USA gained with the Shuttle

"what they saw" being the important part. Everything that follows is a seemingly legit interpretation of what the Shuttle can do, if you (reasonably) assume the U.S. wasn't fully disclosing all capabilities and purposes.

Even if they were wrong about the capabilities of the shuttle (I'm in no place to say) that doesn't mean that the friend was at all inaccurate in what they reported.
I have been on Apple devices since the early days of the shift to Intel, and regularly use a PC for home projects.

Windows 10 has refined the usability while Apple has stagnated recently trying to bring iOS apps into the desktop mainstream. Even though both have plenty of problems, the biggest issue right now is that Microsoft seemingly wants all of your metrics, whereas Apple is marketing heavily that they are building everything around privacy.

I am looking forward to seeing how well the Windows Subsystem for Linux works with the new Console. That is the main reason so many engineers went to Macs in the first place.
Entire city centre of Mechelen becomes bicycle priority zone
My $10 Chinese smartwatch actually does more than my wife's fitbit. The fitbit app syncs with her weight-watcher's
account, which is the only reason she bought it, and is the only thing it can do that mine can't.
Facebook employees speak out on political ads
If you want inexpensive, SE 215 is what you're looking for, for $99.

I have the 535's, which are a step up in drivers, and I love them. They aren't reference quality (which I recommend Etymotics for, and you can buy the isolating sleves for them), and are a bit on the warm side. The 425s are fairly similar, but the 535s are a bit clearer in the high-mids.

Any Shure headphones will have better sound quality than Apple, Beats, or Boise at similar price ranges, since they're built for listening, not fashion.
I've already experienced some of this.. World of Warcraft had an issue a month or so ago whereby their servers got hit by an IPv4 only DDoS attack that prevented people from playing. My ISP had native IPv6 and I was unaffected as a result.
Bummer that this requires Catalina on the Mac. I'm not ready to take that plunge, so I guess I won't be getting Airpods Pro soon either!
More discussion of the relationship of the Space Shuttle to Braun here: https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
It was indeed a good educational comic, but if you're reading between the lines you're still probably getting things wrong. And there aren't a lot of lines, so if you aren't reading between the lines you aren't getting a lot, period. Probably the best thing to take away is what you don't know.

Scott Aaronson is one of the best in the field, though.
Google's recent actions are threatening the livelihood of open source developers.

It's worth noting that Apple allows free apps to link to their Patreon pages, and nonprofit organizations may also use Apple Pay to collect donations within apps.

> 3.2.1 Acceptable

> (vi) Approved nonprofits may fundraise directly within their own apps or third-party apps, provided those fundraising campaigns adhere to all App Review Guidelines and offer Apple Pay support. These apps must disclose how the funds will be used, abide by all required local and federal laws, and ensure appropriate tax receipts are available to donors.

> 3.2.2 Unacceptable

> (iv) Unless you are an approved nonprofit or otherwise permitted under Section 3.2.1 (vi) above, collecting funds within the app for charities and fundraisers. Apps that seek to raise money for such causes must be free on the App Store and may only collect funds outside of the app, such as via Safari or SMS.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I'm sorry I wasn't clear: I was clarifying that all end consumers pay sales tax in the USA (for transactions subject to sales tax; not every jurisdiction has them, or has them for all products).

However your comment is about VAT and the end result is also the same: the Vorsteuerabzug only applies to goods sold on to a subsequent buyer.

So the business pays VAT on everything it buys (that is subject to tax), but when it sells something it collects VAT on the sale. It can then deduct VAT paid on the inputs to that sale (i.e. the bolts in my example). This is central to the concept of VAT thus is basically how it works in every country with a VAT/GST.

This is explained in the law itself: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/__15.html
A classic New York Times introductory sentence.
It's actually educational and was cowritten by Scott Aaronson, who has a great lecture that explains the idea of "quantum mechanics as complex probabilities": https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
For those unaware, there's an extra "hidden secret" panel of the comic if you click the Red Button below the comic. :)
This one is kind of contrived, but a work of mad genius. Mandelbrot code that resembles Mandelbrot, in Python 2:

_ = (
255,
lambda
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j ='<QIIHHHH',open('M.bmp','wb').write
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T **9 ,T*i**(1-T**45*2)))(sum(
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https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/23423/mandelbro...
The problem is you missed the full comparison.

Person A has not the time to invest into building the product, so they invest money, 100k's worth of dollars.
Person B has not the money to invest into building the product, so they invest time, 100k's worth of time.

So if we compare dollars in the event of company failure, we have:

Person A is now at -100k

Person B is now at 100k

Person A is now at +1 years

Person B is now at -1 years

Again, this means they both invested equally. What is usually harder to see is the time investment. But Person A gains one year of work they did not have to do on the product (via their investment). Person B loses the year they invest/spend on the product.

Purchasing a product does not imply joint ownership. Consumers do not partly own the profit of the Producer. However, if A and B decided to build a pie product together then yeah, they'd split the profits. Which is what is at stake here in this overall discussion: how should profits fairly get split when two or more parties contribute the resources to build it.
Environments in Jekyll
> Haven’t even some L4 designs moved to async IPC for performance reasons?

I know only of async notifications, which I believe require no allocation of storage and so don't open up DoS opportunities.
I haven't used Fitbit since the first iteration of the product, but why would you want Spotify on a device that tracks your fitness level?
Well, as we all know, AI will kill us all - and before that it will take our jobs. Now true for copywriters and journalists as well ;)
As a matter of fact, we're on GKE for most of our stuff, having moved out about 6 months ago. There are some remnants left, however, and that's what's causing the issue today.

The site is online, via learning.oreilly.com. The anonymous pages and login were having issues, because the login was tied to something (not familar with the exact details) in the DC offline.

So if you were already logged in, you won't notice much of anything (hopefully!). But if your session expired and you have to re-log in or were trying to see an preview of a book, that's where the problem existed.
"The underlying technology and what it does is not new, and there’s nothing illegal about it."

Could someone explain how using one of these isn't illegal? The best I can figure is that merely observing and deducing a WiFi password isn't illegal because you're figuring out how to access the network without actually accessing the network... but then how are you sure you've got a good network password?
"Ten Thousand" https://xkcd.com/1053/

QUOTE

I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things. Because for each thing "everyone knows by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.

Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0%

Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ~= 100%

US birth rate ~= 4,000,000 year

Number hearing about it for the first time ~= 10,000 day

If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun.

Person #1, about to have a messy fun time: "Diet coke and mentos thing"? What's that?

Person #2, in a delightfully pro-knowledge mood: Oh man! come on, we're going to the grocery store.

Person #1: Why?

Person #2: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.

{{Title text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.}}
There's another thing about this article. They are comparing near misses with narrow wins. At that point, the near miss vs narrow win might be put down to luck, and people who had a near miss might learn from it and work harder. People who had a huge loss might drop out completely or change careers or so on but they are not being talked about here.
Well upvar makes porting harder.
ha!
i 'member this. hmmmmm

Stringly Typed. yes. yes.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

now that you put a duck in news. i call to remove it. thankyou.
Not enough people wanted Microsoft's in-house product when it existed, and it was even back then better than the competition in many ways.

I'm guessing they've learned their lesson after buying nokia...
Several Toyota dealers where I use to live offered rentals.

Most of the big players, have a small "fleet" they use as loaner vehicles (maintenance, body work, etc). Since new cars have pretty big markups, they run them for a year and basically take a small loss when they go to sell them.

It seems like this system provides the missing piece to easily rent idle vehicles from the "loaner fleet".
I think the legacy of this style of dressing lives on in boomer-generation men being hesitant to go outside when it's raining. They've formed a habit of keeping themselves clean, even when 21st century conveniences really alleviate the need for strict levels of care.
In that case all you have to watch out for is office politics ;)
I have never heard the lament of the no-coiner[1][2] put together so eloquently. You should have someone write music to these lyrics, you'd make a killing.

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nocoiner

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/the-problem-with-nocoiners
Team Trees
This wouldn't surprise me, Fitbit has been getting more and more "Googlish" in its slurping of data. My current irritation is that it refuses to 'sync' your device unless you have location services enabled for the app.

I get that some folks like a "track" they can refer to, for others it puts their life at risk[1], and for me its not something I care about. Steps and heart rate are enough for it to compute calories (when you've added in lean body mass and sex). There are no features "missing" when I only sync it to an old Motorola X phone (no sim) which is sitting at my desk. I noticed that Apple and Fitbit have also fought over this, where on iDevices enabling location was optional (it would still sync), then an update and the location was no longer optional (unhelpful "no device found" message, but turn on location and amazingly there is your device right there, turn it off and poof your device is no where to be seen), then with the iOS 13 update it was optional again. But on Android it has never been optional.

I interpreted that behavior as "profitability through data sales" strategy and they needed more data cows to get more money.
How to Code Neat Machine Learning Pipelines
>For Jobs to understand this and bet his career on it ... he deserves the place and high-regard in technological history he has been given

I'm sure Jobs was brilliant, but this kind of praise still reminds of this Enrico Fermi's story [1]:

During the "Manhattan project" (the making of nuclear bomb), physicist Enrico Fermi asked General Leslie Groves, the head of the project, what is the definition of a "great" general. Groves replied that any general who had won five battles in a row might safely be called great. Fermi then asked how
many generals are great. Groves said about three out of every hundred. Fermi conjectured that if the chance of winning one battle is 1/2 then the chance of winning five battles in a row is 1/2^5 = 1/32 = 3%. "So you are right, General, about three out of every hundred. Mathematical probability, not genius."

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0607109.pdf
What about entaglement?
You are correct (AFAIK) about the real military capability of the STS. But the Russians, when analyzing the program, came to the conclusion that the stated reason the shuttle was being developed was bogus. They believed that it would never be cheaper to launch satellites using the shuttle than using regular expendable rockets, and so if the stated reason is bogus they concluded it's a cover for a military program. And then they invented military applications that such a system can have, even if you need to slightly modify the shuttle to achieve them. And then they decided to build their own to achieve parity with the West.

The US military's idea of military capability of the shuttle was to covertly launch a spy satellite from California going south, release it over the pole and land without completing a full orbit. This would, hypothetically, evade Soviet radar. Because the Earth rotates under the shuttle while this happens, the shuttle comes over far away from the launch site (and from the runway), and so it needed the large cross range ability (1100 miles) and this required the wings, etc.

AFAIK, the Soviets said they booby-trapped their military satellites so retrieving them from orbit would be hard.

Shooting at satellites from the shuttle is weird - a first strike requires shooting down many satellites, so you would need your weapons platform in many orbits at once. Just shoot from the ground or use something like the ASM-135 ASAT.