skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to miss the point that each of us can choose how safely we drive, and this matters far more to potential accident victims than the weight of our vehicles.

I drive a heavy minivan chosen to protect my family from poor drivers. But I drive in an exceedingly conscientious way. Would you really prefer someone driving a tiny Smart Car in a wreckless manner through your neighborhood?
We need to stop that future don’t we?
These types of personal data access repositories are just asking to be hacked. If you're going to buy my personal data, at least try to protect it or else you're just putting salt on an open wound.
I have 8GB on my Mac and I'm constantly slowed down by lack of RAM. Built a Hackintosh with 32GB and it's a world of difference. I don't know how people survive with such little RAM.
It's possible that there're trolling attempts too, but there's a lot of real (and smart) people who're truly passionate about nuclear power as the best option - to the point that it looks like trolling. Solar vs nuclear is kinda new tabs vs spaces type of thing, very high emotional stakes on the both sides.
Atheists are going to have a hard time if it turns out the Universe is shaped like a giant Pikachu :-)

Some models suggest our universe is just one "foam-bubble" in a big ocean of universes. Hell, the mole on your face may contain its own universes. It really could be "turtles all the way down", or Pikachus all the way down.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yngp/the-universe-is-ma...

Because of our Earthly experience, we tend to assume there's an absolute limit to the quantity of "stuff", but perhaps that's not true: there is infinite stuff, we just can't touch most of it.
> de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever) MBA programs.

Isn't this a problem?
According to your logic then, if I use a service to store personal artifacts online, then the vendor providing that service can use or modify those artifacts in any way they see fit. My only protection or recourse seems to be to limit participation to useless or irrelevant information. How is that any different from the present day Internet?

Any digital bill of rights that doesn’t protect my rights to my own information is worthless.
> No I mean it is an option available to avoid undefined behaviour, not that this is what the JVM does.

Ah.

> But moving more of the implementation of the JVM (or all of it!) to Java is the real solution to all this in my opinion.

And what, ship a Graal binary to cut the bootstrapping/startup step?
Pigment liner and notepad, markdown files + Emacs. Regarding the latter: I used to use Org mode, but as markdown is more common I switched to markdown.
Some years ago, I recall there was a bug in iOS which caused alarms not to update correctly when DST started (or ended), resulting in lots of oversleeping as alarms failed to alarm when expected.[0]

Personally, I have a problem with my cheapish Android phone where it will suddenly and for no apparent reason decide it's been moved to UTC, and move the time ahead to UTC. It forgets about this delusion when I restart it. So far this has only happened in the middle of the day (and all it's done is mess up the period it's supposed to be silent during, when I'm at work, thus the downside so far has been a couple annoying dinging noises at my desk).

Also, I have a fancy alarm clock which alarms by gradually lighting up the room, instead of by blaring loud noises. I find this a more agreeable way to wake up in the mornings. I also like having a dim, but legible time display on my nightstand to glance at when I wake up in the night, rather than having to press a button on my phone, which is then way too bright to look at in my dark bedroom.

Finally, apart from software bugs, single-purpose alarm clocks are quite cheap and reliable. Although it is not in my bedroom anymore, I still have an alarm clock that was my bedside alarm clock when I was in elementary school. It's thirty years old by now, yet it still works perfectly. The alarm function still works (although it's quieter than it once was). The display still is flawless (although it's dimmer than it once was). It's a simple, reliable device. My phone...isn't.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/nov/01/ipho...
As much as I love Raymond I have completely run out of time for people who buy unnecessary "smart" devices then complain about them. 6 years ago I would understand, but by now we all know this stuff is junk. Yes, all of it.
This is an accurate explanation of the issue.
No. If the school assumes 10% of the risk of the loan, they still get the other 90% guaranteed.
I can physically do my work on a 13" screen. I physically can't do my work in 16 GB (well I'm exaggerating a little, but we're getting close these days.)
That's just for interactions with the company behind Tether itself. That isn't how most people exchange their USDT. The most common way to get rid of USDT is to exchange it on Binance, where the market for Tether is very liquid, and the going rate as I write this is right around one dollar. Plenty of other exchanges besides Binance too. See:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
So then it becomes a question of which is easier:

1. Set up a Siri Shortcut "when alarm goes off, play Spotify". Haven't done it, but having been knee-deep in Shortcuts this weekend, I'm confident that it is possible, and (on latest iOS) not difficult even for a Shortcuts n00b. (For Android, I know Tasker can do this.)

2. Fiddle with buggy and not-maintained-as-soon-as-it-shipped application to set alarm clock. Application must run on a computer that, coincidentally, can serve as a full-function WiFi-enabled alarm clock and can set its own damned time.
Interestingly, if you have a 4K display, text in Windows looks much better than MacOS (which requires scaling). Unfortunately that only applies to the OS interface, it still looks like a monkey’s ass in the browser.
And ignores the move away from nuclear. Europe alone is shutting down lots of nuclear. Since they are not going to do coal natural gas is very likely to be needed.
Probably a true meme, I drive an SUV just because it is worlds easier to get young kids in and out of car seats in a higher suv. Had a rental car the other day and it was just unpleasant, constantly hitting my head on the interior ceiling etc.
Yes, rewrite all of the JVM into Java and ship an AOT-compiled binary.
my cousin has autism that will require lifelong care, and his parents have passed. He turns 18 soon, and the plan for now is to keep him in school with the "no child left behind" rule as long as possible.
> Apple’s plan includes making available land it owns in San Jose, Calif., which it said was worth $300 million, for new affordable housing

Question the efficacy if you like, but here's how they're addressing the other side.
2019.44 Comma and Cro – Weekly Rakudo News
OK I'm going to be the contrarian here.

Now I agree, having to make an account to use your device absolutely sucks, why on earth would you need that?

And it sounds as though the user experience of connecting to the clock also sucks.

BUT, if this is done correctly (eg wave nfc phone near your clock, and the appropriate app fires up and connects automtically etc), then I see this is a good future. In this clock example, you wouldn't need to 'advance the hour' for DST - the phone would just set the correct time automatically with a swipe.

My phone becomes a universal remote. No longer those crappy LCD screens (or just LED lights), and weird buttons on every applicance that I have to learn to use. Not to mention they are expensive parts of the device, and take a lot of development effort.

Also those screens and buttons are always the first to break, and are totally unrepairable except by ordering a spare from the manufacturer (if they still make them). Unlike say a broken valve in a washing machine that can often be repaired or replaced with a commodity equivalent.

So, I'm going to say that using phones as a standard appliance interface is potentially a huge UI improvement,
cost-saver, and reliability/repairability improvement - if it's done well. Or of course a dystopian nightmare if done badly.
Does some of the harder change mean having a harder idea of how population growth should work? Perhaps discussion of informal logistical caps?
I second that. I own a XPS 13 9380, running archlinux and it is pretty much the only thing I am missing from Windows.
I bought the Windows XPS 13 version, just in case I had issues with Linux.
There are currently no drivers for the Goodix fingerprint reader under Linux.
I miss that it is quite useful.

I tried the Linux equivalent of Windows hello, i.e, howdy with the infrared camera but it does not work well for me and is not as secure.

Dell must fix that situation.
Look at South Africa - NO CHANCE of coal going away.
We recently got a new fridge and my friends and family were all amazed I didn't choose a "smart" fridge. "But you're in tech, why wouldn't you want a high tech fridge?", "Because I'm in tech."
Every problem exists until it doesn't. Saying that a problem has not yet been solved and therefore cannot be solved is a fallacy.

It's not a question of whether the human race can solve this problem, it's a question of whether we will solve it. There are no fundamental physical or technological limitations that prevent us from running the world on 100% clean energy, it's just a matter of overcoming our species' collective political apathy on this issue...and the kind of blind pessimism you're expressing tends to lead to more apathy, not progress.
> When folks want to dump Tether, they generally cannot dump it directly into dollars. They have to dump to Bitcoin, move it off-exchange, and then sell the dollars on an exchange with fiat currency.

Not sure where you got that from, but that's not true whatsoever; USDT/USD is a thing in a bunch of exchanges with really healthy volume. Other than a few months ago (perhaps the run you mentioned in May) there's normally no premium and the peg is down or up by perhaps 0.5% or so.

Maybe you are saying that because Binance, the largest exchange doesn't have a USDT/USD pair (they don't have any USD pair afaik), but you can easily withdraw USDT and sell them for USD directly in other exchanges.
Guessing you've never coded with a robust IDE before...
What business is this? I'm really curious how well you do the accessibility side.
USDC from ycombinator-funded Coinbase is doing fine https://www.coinbase.com/usdc

But the same old tropes about crypto always get the upvotes.
Exploring JavaScript Console API
I use Ryzen 5 2400G APU for my media box (Archlinux with Kodi) and it has been quite bad. I am disappointed that I spent money on it but I'm living with it and waiting for the software to improve.

With 2400g a year ago I had frequent GPU driver crashes (daily). Now it crashes once a month or so. Running Steam and some light games was not possible at all (haven't tried recently) because it had terrible frame rates, shader and geometry glitches. Meanwhile on Windows it worked just fine.

At the same time my experience with Nvidia on Archlinux has been very good. It has good performance and overall it works as it should.

I had similar experience with AMD GPU drivers 10 years ago when I started using Linux so I stick to Nvidia. I would like to use AMD cards but the software seems to be absolute garbage.

A have also had very good experience with Intel GPUs on Linux in laptops but they are not meant for gaming.
If you think the banks keep 1:1 reserves, you are in for a big surprise. Ever heard of Fractional Reserve Banking?
You do have to trade it on an exchange to get the value, I just mean that right now one USDT is trading for right around $1.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Bingo, and when it becomes too expensive there, you just do your typical political corruption/bribery dance and get the rules to change here so you can continue to profit from environmental destruction.
I created this chart which shows change in real house prices in the USA (and Belgium) with 2015=100, from 1970 till 2016

https://data.oecd.org/pinboard/4sxE

Prices doubled,while real income rose 66% in that period.
Household size shrunk from 3.14 to 2.53 during that time.

Sources: https://www.multpl.com/us-average-real-income
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
As a manager, it's extremely difficult to figure out how much work can be reasonably and sustainably achieved by a particular person/role. Performing this estimation and planning is part of the inherent transaction costs in working with contractors.

The perceived benefit of hiring a full-time employee is that they will strive to be as effective as they can be in achieving the firm's goals filling the entire work-day. Obviously this is not quite as easy as that, but if you hire good people who share your vision and treat them well, then it gets quite close. And this is equally true for remote employees.
> The biggest limitation of the current Sponsors implementation is that only individuals can become sponsors.

Interesting.

Wonder what was github thinking around this. Seems backwards. Stripe should be your sponsor not Patrick.
Self-reinforcing arms race to sit up high and see over the top of traffic. If people could be trusted to reliably signal, merge, etc. the perceived need to see 300 feet ahead to predict behavior of immediately adjacent drivers would diminish.
The aluminum enclosure is gorgeous and the hardware is great.

I wish they would ditch the chintzy plastic interior tho. I would pay double for a new MacBook Pro if it supported Ubuntu and had a reasonable keyboard. I miss my old 2011 model.
Nytimes did a piece in 2017 about a similar situation [1] about studying the Tsimané [2] and the Tsimané Project [3]; it's a different slant on Alzheimer's but, with such a complex issue, we need to federate and examine all such views.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/alzheimers...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiman%C3%A9
[3] http://tsimane.anth.ucsb.edu/index.html
Observables, Disassembled [pdf]
Skimming this rant left me with the assumption that it was about "the Microsoft alarm clock" and including some more specifics would have fixed that quickly.
> Transportation within a city features many "natural" monopolies (i.e. train tracks), and the promise of an emergent overarching monopoly: providing one-App entry into multi-modal transportation.

I don't understand what you are saying here, can you elaborate? What are you saying about Uber / monopolistic rideshare companies?

Related, I don't understand why cities/governments allow Uber to exist considering the reality that, as you point out, "Uber lacks a sustainable business model". Is it not transparent to all relevant parties that Uber could not and cannot maintain the price it has set to gain market share, and that down the line it had a clear goal of building monopolistic market share in order to effectively price fix against the interest of the consumers? I don't know enough to reflect on public transport and taxi companies of old, but how did we get to present day without consumer protection regulations sorting things out?

I see parallels with Amazon, and I have the same questions. Why are they entertained in this destruction of local economies by the entities which should protect those economies (in the US, local and state gov)?

I wonder if Barnes and Nobel's effect destruction of local book stores had a period of growth with lower prices then settled down and raised prices? If so, is this not against the interest of the consumer? If not, well I'm not sure. Maybe Barnes and Nobel is not comparable to these internet based companies.
I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us
Doctorly | Interim Lead Engineer | Berlin, DE | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/czioutas_interim-lead-enginee...

We at doctorly are hiring 3x tech positions here in Berlin!

-Interim Lead Engineer (Infrastructure & Services) - Excellent position for growth!

-Mid/senior Engineer (Infrastructure & Services)

-Mid/senior Engineer (Client Team)

On the `Infrastructure & Services` Team you will be working to enable our team with their infrastructure, architecture and DevOps using #docker #saltstack #azuredevops and ofcourse #dotnetcore

On the `Client` Team you will be working with Mike Fayer tackling our front-facing side using #blazor whilst maintaining a hands-on attitude to the rest of our system.
really? is itreally beyond belief that bullshit doodads exist?
Location: New York, NY

Remote: No experience, but interested in working remote

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, Node, React, C#, Ruby on Rails, SQL, SharePoint

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: On request

Github: https://github.com/Tsardines
> The most common way to get rid of USDT is to exchange it on Binance

Exchange it for what?

If you exchange it for a record entry for anything (whether dollars or Bitcoin) in a Binance (or affiliate's) account, you're exchanging one IOU for another. Given most USDT trades on Binance and its affiliated entities, this loops right back to the withdrawal problem.

A "stable" coin that cannot be readily redeemed and is not fully reserved is a Ponzi scheme with extra steps.
YC-funded Coinbase has monthly attestation reports for its USDC stablecoin, which is the second most popular https://www.coinbase.com/usdc
It isn't ridiculous at all. Human feelings are very easily influenced by sights and sounds and other external stimuli. Every company out there is fine tuning their brand, advertising, logo, colors etc. to trigger specific emotional responses from you.
That saying hasn't been true for a long time, if one is speaking generally. I have a house full of clocks, and only one will tell the correct time twice a day if it is in "stopped clock"[0] mode. The rest of them don't tell time at all in that mode.

[0] "Even a stopped/broken clock is right twice a day."
Fully agree, throw on top of your points a premium price tag for said flawed products and the sun has set on Apple hardware. It's not the same company Jobs ran.
Why are pick-ups so popular? I can understand if you are a construction worker, farmer, etc. that actually needs a pickup truck; but why are they so popular for other people? The vast majority of pickup trucks I see have beds that are so clean that it is obvious that has never been used to haul even one bag of cement or load of dirt.
What exactly does “robust” mean in this context? It’s not a given that a full-featured IDE needs to eat all your system RAM.
Do your radio clocks still work? The US government was reportedly going to turn off the transmitters this year, but came through at the last minute to keep them online.

I have 4 car clocks, 2 oven clocks, 4 wall clocks, and 2 bedside clocks that need setting manually. My phone and PC are automatic, luckily.
The marking system is ingenious as well:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickgray/378694469
I don't think this is a problem specific to autism. Schools, at best, are focused on preparing people for employment, or, more typically, on preparing students for exams. Neurotypical students are set up poorly to manage their mental and physical health, finances, relationships, etc.

Other forms of preparation for life: social skills; financial skills; political engagement; health, are rarely prioritised.

Giving autistic children help with academic learning and disruptive behaviour is conventional, as it is for all students (albeit with special measures and allowances made). Other life skills are neglected, as they are for all students.
mo-th twice, then 6 days off
we-sa twice, then 5 days off
fr-tu once, then 6 days off
MakerDAO has overcollaterized deposits of Ethereum backing their stablecoin Dai
Works fine in Firefox except for the really nice brown iris design. I'm curious why that one part doesn't load (not that curious I would find out myself though :P).
Actually, it has benefits. Even if you have to launch something from Earth's surface, once in space, the fuel to move it elsewhere can be transported to meet it there much cheaper. The obvious uses are interplanetary travel, circularizing a parabolic orbit, refueling existing satellites.
With a up to 6 core 15W CPU. There is no comparison on the market right now.
Depends on your commute! Mine is a 15 minute bike ride.
>There would be nothing wrong with backing a token to a currency.

I don't know about that. Isn't the entire point of stablecoin to skirt existing regulations? Moving fiat currency isn't hard in and of itself. There is no technical challenge in Paypal sending $100,000 to my friend in Iran.

What makes it hard are the regulations combating money laundering, criminal and terrorism funding and enforcement of sanctions.
As I recall, WSL1 uses NT's built-in personalities functionality to provide a Linux-compatible environment, but it still used NTFS which is much slower in the lots-of-small-files use case.
They should put a lot of money into improving the touchpad experience for Linux. I bet that for many people that is the last sticking point to moving from a Macbook.
Except that they have negative brand value. Usually when I tell people Whatsapp or IG are owned by FB they start thinking about how to migrate off of those apps.
Look Before You Leap: Seeing what’s in front of us in portraits from the past
The success of the 1972 ban reflects that fact that by 1972 whale oil had transformed from an irreplaceable source of energy and lighting (as it was in the mid-19th century) into a niche additive with a few specialized applications -- many of which already possessed better alternatives that just needed to be scaled and brought to market. Basically, people were using it just because it was convenient, not because it was irreplaceable.

We're not there with fossil fuels, unfortunately. Before Congress can ban them, we need technological alternatives in place that make the transition about as painful as the whale oil ban was.
GitHub Sponsors is out of beta for developers with a bank account in any of the 30 countries supported by Stripe.

For folks with bank accounts outside of that list, GitHub Sponsors is still in beta, we're accepting applications, and we’ll continue to roll out general availability to those countries in the coming months.
As a billionaire your interests are a bigger target for well funded or well organised opponents as well. And you probably have a lot of other ways at your disposal to exert influence. So I don't see a net benefit of disinformation specifically for billionaires.
Show HN: An Exploding To-Do List
Why are these loans special? Other loans without collateral exist. Maybe private lenders shouldn't have the full force of the government behind them. Maybe they shouldn't be offering some of these loans.
Did you receive any information yet?
I made an exploding to-do list. The idea behind the app is pretty simple: get your tasks done before they disappear. After the timer reaches zero there's an exploding GIF and you can see stats about how well you did.
What is the Russian Revolution of 1917?
What is the Russian Civil War?
Frankly, pro-solar people started doing that first, but yes pro-nuclear internet warriors are catching up. I find it useful, how ever strange that might sound - it actually promotes the dialog. Unfortunately in todays highly populist politics the loudest group usually gets to shape the public policies, so fighting noise with noise equalizes the outcome, and thus increases chances that someone in the end will actually consult some experts too.
I cannot find Linux laptops on Dell's .com.au site. Never have in the past either. Has MS totally pwnd Oz?
I do all my development on a Mac with 8 GB of RAM. It’s fine for my needs; I’m just very picky about keeping Chromium from running in the background on my Mac.
A wifi enabled alarm clock doesn't have to have a crappy app or even an app at all.

Also, alarm clocks tell the time with a quick glance. I like to know what time it is in the middle of the night, just by looking at a clock.

You might simply like the look of the alarm clock more than your phone, but still want to be able to use some of those smart features.