skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you see is that Bangladesh goes from being a habitable city one year to one which is underwater 1/4 of the time, look at the massive floods there this year. Next year might be dry, but the year after that? It is already not sustainably habitable, but the people still live there.

Really bad example. Floods have always been a problem in Bangladesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh
Right, I meant consonants, not 'any letter'. (You could do examples like that for any consonant in place of 'w'.)
> I don't understand the point of electron for applications whose functionality is entirely dependent on being online

I’ve made electron apps that load a website I have no control over and added features to it, including new styling, keyboard shortcuts, and command-line flags.

I would have built a native app, but documentation on making macOS app is awful while electron’s documentation is top notch.
One thing I have realised is that most tools developed by big tech companies were built to solve their unique problem. Majority of applications will never reach scale of Google or Facebook but people still use whatever is being used or marketed by those companies.
On the surface, seems so. But then there's the other strange requirements they don't really explain.
Since all the drivers are indirectly paid by uber isn't this completely bullshit
I disagree with the cookie law as well.

>EU is looking for ways to make that illegal

I'm sorry, but what are you smoking? Willy nilly data collection is illegal, they don't say much about UI.
Yes, the bow of a ship is pronounced the same as taking a bow. At least, it is in my accent.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bow agrees indicating IPA baʊ for both.
I agree and it's the component I miss the most from working from home. Cooking is great for cultivating mindfulness plus the financial savings and health benefits.
MacOS's built-in Preview app can do this. It's fairly limited, but it supports text boxes and signatures, which I have found very useful for not needing to install custom software.
> "Somebody who had used an Alto in 1979 could travel through time and sit down at a modern PC and know basically how to do most tasks — they would think of a modern PC as a faster but less featureful stripped down Alto clone, like the Star was."

Could a part of this be that we have reached a kind of level of sufficiency of what we need from our interfaces?
having never been to burning man.. what are there lines for at burning man?
Bergen is a pos place, I wonder why tourists and Americans always flock to there. Source Norwegians for 40 years. Bergen is The pos place in Norway. Only tourists and locals haven't got the picture. The most pos place in norway. But keep it on, and keep it going, we don't want those kinds of tourists anywhere else in Norway. Bergen is a shit place, in any case, and all the tourists are blindly falling for it. What's the place the rest of norway hates? Bergen. Go there. Keep out of the real Norway. The less tourists the better. We got oil and riches, keep the fuck out of our country.
Ask HN: How Do InfoSec Pros Find Clients?
I've been running a cybersecurity services firm in New York working with FinTechs, banks, and software companies. We source our clients from my business school network and referrals.

What would make you want to share your contact information with a cybersecurity marketplace?
They might cut CO2 emissions as a side effect of achieving something that matters to them, like cutting particulate emissions. There's no reason they would cut CO2 emissions for their own sake.
So all of the Midwest :)
Look at her photo. Her stomach isn't empty to put it bluntly.

If she worked 15 hours/week part-time for minimum wage, she'd have more spendable income (about $6500), than the benefits she gets from $15,000/year worth of merchandise. Of course, if she turns around and ebays this for, say $5,000, she won't have to report the income and can still collect maximum food stamp and housing aid benefits, which no doubt she does.
The 3DS did have that issue where the lower half of the device could scratch the upper screen.

But I never minded much, because they kept replacing my 3DS because of the scratches, and back then, your 1-year warranty would reset every time a repair was done. So I just kept sending it in, and kept getting a brand new 3DS every year...
What happens when people tell you about problems that require experts in a specific area to solve, and you are not an expert in that area? Do you still try to help?

Like I will tell my friends and family about problems I am having at work because they are my friends and family and I assume that they care about how my life is going. If they are able to provide solutions, I will not rule it out for them. But most likely they are not because they have different jobs. When people attempt to give advice on things they don't know about, I assume they are more interested in appearing smart than my well being.
You could also frame it as Balmer was depressing Microsoft by $850b, that they were not reaching their potential.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589711
Since when did science become about predicting what will happen in the future? That concept is completely antithetical to what science is at the core (i.e. making repeatable observations to establish fact). It is impossible to measure and observe something that has yet to happen.

A computer climate model cannot predict the future. Believing so is magical thinking and clearly unscientific by definition.

I understand that observed trends tend to indicate future direction but this push, rooted in FUD, to make consensus of the scientific community equivalent to absolute fact is a reminder that all humans can have fragility in their logic and thinking in the face of fear.

If those in power who say they believe the consensus were really concerned with climate change to the existential degree they claim they would propose forcing India and China to curb emissions up to and including war if necessary. The truth is they see it as a means to their political ends. They see it as a blank check to expand the government's control over everyone's lives. If you don't believe me read the green new deal legislation proposed earlier this year. It reworks the whole of society around a certain political ideology using future predictions about climate change as justification.

I would place just as much blame for climate problems on those in the democratic party using climate change to further their ideology as I do the outright climate deniers.

Everyday people commenting on reddit and HN may be pure in their intentions but the average politician on either side just uses the topic as a leverage for their own political and monetary interest.
There’s no greater of destroyer of world than Chinese CCP right now.

- greatest polluter of air via coal

- greatest polluter of water via plastics

- greatest polluter of disease via swine flu, pig flu, and now recently, contagious Black Death

- greatest supporter of dictatorships around the world. Umbrella for Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc

- greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, France, Spain, UK, US, Japan

- greatest tech surveillance exporter to the dictatorships around the world

We need to decouple from this evil regime as soon as possible.
iOS 12 is fine for phones maybe, but iOS 13 (or iPadOS if you prefer) is a pretty big change for iPads in terms of power-user features.

USB storage support, network drive support, multiple instances of apps, multiple apps switchable in slide-over, major improvements to Safari.

I've run into some bugs, but I wouldn't switch back to 12.

EDIT - Forgot to mention the contextual menus, which are new to iPads this year as well. I think iPhones with 3D touch hardware had similar actions available in some places, but it's a big addition for iPads and the fact that it's supported across all devices now means that 3rd party devs will bother to implement it.
I think as a business idea it's a good idea. There would actually probably be a market for it.

And that's the problem.

Instead of having time to make friends who can give us dating advice, we instead spend our time making money, then paying a business to give us dating advice. Then we turn to another business to introduce us to potential romantic partners. Almost everything that we do these days is making someone money, which is great for the economy, but not so much for happiness. A business can't replace actual friends and an actual community in a truly fulfilling way.
You shouldn't trust any large _institution_ to prevent "obvious lies" from spreading. Institutions are just collections of people, and there's barely a single one out there that's managed to completdly avoid the fact that people are, generally speaking, dishonest and dumb.
Almost 30 years of nonsensical alarmism, failed prognostications and fake science.

Will this ever stop?
Paying someone is speech. See Citizen United v. FEC.[0]

And before you claim it’s a bad ruling, think about all the times you’ve used your money. Are you not supporting the EFF in some form of speech by donating to them? Are you not supporting a product in some form by buying it? I don’t like it as it allows money in politics, but it’s a ruling that makes sense.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
I googled "splc men's rights promoting hate", and it looks like A Voice For Men is what alexis_fr is referring to.
It's certainly possible I've become numb to the idea of paying $2k+ a month in rent, but as far as I'm aware this is the cost of a typical 1 bedroom in LA or Seattle and cost of a smaller studio in NYC.

The difference is the salary you can command in SF is well above the difference in cost.
Less than 150K is cash or gold.

Pretty easy to put coins in your pocket (or several pockets) with change.

Carefully thought through, I'd bet you can put $100,000 into the change cup at the airport security line and nobody would have a clue.

For instance, the Canadian Loonie [0], and the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin [1] have similar color the same face on one side.

You can get more esoteric if you go with collector coins. Take a 1932 US Quarter, with a value up to $15,000. [2] I guarantee you could put ten of those in your pocket and nobody would notice!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie#/media/File:Canadian_Do...

[1] - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Canada-1-oz-Gold-Maple-Leaf-9999-...

[2] - https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/washington-quarters-19...
Bergen is the most piece of shit place in norway, bar none, and only the tourists and locals haven't yet got that. Downvote me as you will. Won't change the objective truth.
Out of curiosity, what happens when you buy a movie on YT? Do you download a physical file in a DRM-free format? Or is it something you can only watch inside the YT app, and only when you're logged into your account?
Actually, Ballmer did quite well at MS. He consistently increased earnings via Windows and Office during his tenure as CEO. He was a very good businessman.

He was not, however, a product guy. Witness their failures with the Zune, mobile, early cloud computing. His problem was that he always tried to do what would be best for Microsoft and not the customer. You can get away with this if you already have an install base (windows/office), but with net new products people will look at what's best for them first. Even with developers developers developers he tried too hard to get people to use pure MS tech and made developing for the web on MS ugly if you using anything other than .NET. The result is a generation of developers on Macs and to a lesser extent linux.

Funny enough, thinking of the customer is what MS did with the xbox and it worked out well enough.
I am specifically asserting that there were people in my college freshman class who had a handle on what the statement meant, its implications, and a whole lot more on formal automata than you've talked about here. Mostly because they had an interest in it before arriving and were exposed to it in some way beforehand, be it through an actual textbook or practical experience. What I'm trying to say is that there is nothing that can only be learned in a class; it just often provides a decent framework for getting a well-rounded exposition to a topic.
I agree somewhat, but as someone who stopped eating meat two months ago: The reduction of cognitive overhead is definitively a huge plus: "Has it meat in it? Don't buy" – this is a way simpler rule than trying to figure out the question "is this meat on auto-pilot or is it not?"

The reduction of choices in restaurants, malls and grocery stores is actually liberating in a way. You should try going meat-free for a month, just for seeing how it makes things a lot easier.

The next step would be to go vegan, because the dairy industry is no better than the meat industry, but I haven't done this yet. This actually increases the mental load somewhat again, because you then have to pay a lot more attention on whether something has dairy in it or not (or is made with the help of animal products such as juice).
Sure. But what's not clear is how, especially you read further about "Main Street offices" and "MainStreet member." It's not clear if they're just remote-focused recruiting agency or something else.
I pinch, index and middle fingers, double tapping on a phone bugs me.

I run both os's, and a few others. It seems the more reliable behavior across devices ihmo.
this one drives me nuts. it's frequent enough that I have a shortcut to trigger `killall Dock`
Hoarding wealth at that scale -should- be vilified. It's a villainous and immoral position to take given today's level of wealth inequality.
Taking initiative is exhausting, especially if you are very introverted like a lot of people are in tech. This means that you are unlikely to try a lot of girls, so you'll go with the first one who says yes, thus very likely ending up in a horrible relationship.

There are of course some very introverted men who end up in good loving relationships, but I believe they are a tiny minority. Your odds could get improved if you were exceptional in some way, but if you are just a typical person then good luck.
Several things you just said are dramatically oversimplified.
For those who don't know, maybe add author to the title?

I thought it was about Kurt Russel, the famous Snake Plissken.
Have you seen China’s air quality? This has become a social problem it’s not about climate change for China.
I found OkCupid (where I met my now-wife) extremely easy to get to know people. Tons of filters and search options, the most amazing matching algorithm of any site (you answer questions from "Don’t agree at all" to "Agree 100%", then you can say what you want your match to answer and finally how important their answer matching is; this enables way more than more naive sites). You can mark-up any word on your profile as a keyword.

And people reply. Back then I was pretty overweight but almost every woman I messaged replied, including those with the scary "rarely replies" badge. The few times I asked they said it’s because most men who write them either just said "Hi", "Great tits", or showed they didn’t actually read their profile first.

But this was all several years ago, so maybe things got worse. I know nowadays the push to pay them is a lot more heavy-handed and OkStats is gone.
It’s already a public environment with a stranger listening in. I wouldn’t be doing anything secret in there.
Actually, I appreciate the places that don't take reservations for brunch. The number of prospective patrons is wildly out of proportion to the number of really good brunch spots. If they took reservations, you wouldn't be able to get in for a month to a place like Plow.

Instead, I can grab a coffee (or mimosa) while I stand outside chatting with my friends or wander around the neighborhood.

If you want convenience, there are plenty of places that take reservations or can take walk-ins immediately. Some of them are pretty damn good too.
IRC has many drawbacks not shared by more modern protocols. Slack works when you're offline, saves history, has notifications, search, etc.

IRC is not perfectly good or it would still be used.
What the F? I use it as normal I mean I use the ``` symbols as I'm used to without issues? Am I missing something ?
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> Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands

Name of the place or it didn't happen :)
Do you have women friends? Ask them.
More millennials planning to rent forever, can't afford to buy a home
weird. I've used firefox for years. I can't recall broken stuff really, unless the developer tried to purposefully not let me use it based on user agent (work around available for most). But random crashes did plague me for a bit earlier on.
>> I am in America and have yet to get screwed by a counterfeit.

> Well, how do you know?

> Maybe they’ve been good counterfeits?

Well, sure. I've bought SD cards (frequently mentioned as a problem category) off of Amazon without ever experiencing a problem. Maybe I've received counterfeits, but I still think it's fair to say I've never gotten screwed by a counterfeit.
DHS Privacy Office Releases 2018 Data Mining Report [pdf]
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> in western society (and in some eastern ones too), women who directly reject men are subject to male rage & women who seem too enthusiastic are subject to slut-shaming (which can also result in violence).

Perhaps he would have more luck dating in a less patriarchal society, with higher gender equality?
I was like that. Actually, I'm worse. I never got laid before I was 32. I've always been very respectful of boundaries, didn't want to impose, and due to social awkwardness, that meant I had a hard time approaching women. And to be honest, I don't really have an easy solution; in the end I met my wife and we've been happily married for 12 years now.

For a while I did give up. Particularly in university, I wasn't very interested in the dating game. I did have the occasional crush, didn't know how to act on it, and when I did, it generally amounted to nothing. After 30, I decided to try this online dating, went on lots of dates, most of them amounted to nothing, then I met a woman I fell madly in love with, and she apparently with me, but we soon realised it wasn't going to work: she smoked, I hated smoking. I wanted children, she didn't. We broke up, and I soon met my wife on that same site. And I believe she was the one to contact me first, which definitely helps.

That site that got me two hits in a row, wasn't a normal commercial dating site, though. It was really cheap, low threshold, aimed specifically at Christians, and not just at dating, but also at friendship. And it supported blogging. Maybe that lowered the threshold somehow. I don't know. But I've become a strong believer in non-commercial, focused on special interest, dating-but-also-friendship sites.

For one thing, commercial dating sites are mostly scams. OKCupid used to love exposing those scams, but I believe they've been bought by the biggest dating scammer, so they're likely as useless as the others now.

Ultimately, all you really need, is a way to meet new people with similar interests to yours. Not identical, but it helps to have some common interest, whether it's a hobby, religion, activism, or whatever. It doesn't have to be a dating site, it can be a real-life activity. It can be an online game (I know a couple that met on World of Warcraft). Make sure you can talk about something other than dating. See if you can talk to them about other stuff than dating. If it turns out you can talk to each other, ask her out for a coffee or some other small thing. Or maybe do something hobby related together, see how that works out. I suppose you've got to become more confident at making the first move if you don't want to be totally dependent on the whims of the other, but the move doesn't have to be aimed straight at dating.

Though to be honest, I don't know how much my advice is worth. People like me never get a lot of dating experience; once we find the right person, we stick with them.
Nice. Are you satisfied with it, what's the most valuable feature for you there? Or maybe some features that you want to see but they are not there? I've built my app to be simple but effective :)
There's no reason code served from the "first party" can't also participate in cross-site tracking, just by using cross-site API's on the back-end to report user actions to a central tracker.

It is more technically challenging to implement. If it becomes necessary, I'm sure there will be plenty of money invested in making it easier for the content providers to participate in such things.
> Bangladesh goes from being a habitable city

Which city in Bangladesh are you talking about?
My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.
That does nothing to stop a "swift boat" style smear campaign that simply doesn't mention anything about the alternative.
This does not really apply to individual Americans. The American carbon footprint boils down to driving and meat. Individual decisions made by super-consumers can be impactful.
Couldn't they just be following the leader, aka your thought?
It would be great if there was a "billions above replacement" statistic for CEOs.
Jensen Huang’s SC19 – Fast Cars, a Strong Arm, and Aiming for the Cloud(s)
Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys?
You could be in a smaller city and have next to no cool places, and have an even bigger line at those fewer cool places.

Then leave for the smaller, but still not short, line at Waffle House instead because it turns out no matter where you are, meal-time rushes are a thing...
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Yeah he reads like the kind of person who will only send incredibly verbose self-deprecating messages - then be surprised nobody likes him when he spends most of his time talking about how awful he is
I guess that just depends on the axis orientation...

But there is nothing inherently wrong about removing pure garbage ads.

Of course, one might object that it would give more visibility to harder-to-discern bad ads, and make the consumer less wary of ads if they are less used to see them with obviously wrong information. Double edged sword as always, and I would certainly ban them. Or every ad, for that matter. But that's google, it is their business model, so what are you expecting?
> Sarah has summarized ARMv7 architectural requirements for running Windows. The requirements have changed a bit across years, so here is my new summary on this:

System processor: ARMv7-A compatible processor with VFPv3+VFP HalfPrec, VFPv4 is also okay
Memory: At least 256MB of RAM (can probably do less)
Peripherals:
- System timer (either architectural or vendor-specific)
- ARM Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC) or Broadcom Interrupt Controller on BCM2835/2836/2837, both CPU and
Distributor Interface. GICv2 or higher is required if GIC is present and declared.
- Framebuffer
- Supported UART, either NS16550, BCM283x or some vendor-specific IP (in the case of Qualcomm and NXP)
- Firmware: UEFI 2.3 or higher

What an absolutely magnificent and clever hack. I have seen similar ports like this for the Raspberry Pi 3 [0] also running Windows 10 (actual Desktop) and the Nintendo Switch [1] also running Windows too.

This is all due to U-Boot having support for UEFI firmware on ARM devices running ARMv7 and ARMv8 and allowing any other UEFI supporting OSes to reuse these UEFI compatible ARM drivers to load its kernel + the device tree. The moment you see projects like this, make you think about how things work at a low-level.

[0] https://github.com/WOA-Project/WOA-Deployer-Rpi

[1] https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/03/04/developer-tests-win...
Alternative title: Climate Goals a Threat to China Expansion

(also to India and other countries)

And I find this troubling. On what moral authority the west think it is ok to kick the ladder?