skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of repairability and fragility of recent models has driven up the repair price and the need for repairs so much it makes AppleCare vital now. Apple outright lied in Europe for years about warranty duration to upsell AppleCare and went to court multiple times before they stopped, these "replace most of the computer" repairs might be nothing more than a dark pattern sales optimization. During iFixit's live teardown of this device it turned out there was plenty of space for socketed ram and storage, as is consistent with devices much smaller.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/253151/eu_law_forces_apple_t...
> I still can’t believe it’s legal to move from SF to Texas if you were born and raised in SF. You owe the good people of San Francisco repayment for raising and nurturing you. Leaving after all that education and local services is a corrupt tax-dodge into a state without income tax.

Lol you again. How many times must you hear this to understand: Total freedom implies freedom of movement. You do not own people. You never will. You have no moral basis.
This is still not very different than TV. Cable channels know what demographics of the people that watch their shows and sell their eyeballs accordingly. Hell, entire shows exist to specifically attract certain types of eyeballs.

If I pay you $5 to show an ad in front of a certain type of person and you come back and tell me that you did it I haven't really learned anything about that person. It seems hard to say that that is the same as selling people's data.
I don't believe that NYT is trying to inform you about some obscure tax bill because it's interesting. It's no more interesting than my tax bill, or any other random corporation that happened to have a non-zero tax bill some year. The only reason it's interesting to you is because you have a particular political interest in this. That's perfectly legitimate for you to have that political interest. If they were just trying to inform you, they could inform you in a way that doesn't have any emotional framing. You could find it easily in their stock report or something. I believe NYT is trying to induce an emotional reaction in you for purely political reasons in order to influence the population towards a particular end goal. That is why they are acting like a PAC and not a newspaper.
Yeah. I agree. Sometimes the trade-offs are balanced in favor of human factors more than the technical ones and it can skew the results in favor of solutions that aren't exactly a perfect fit, but they're deemed workable because you can find warm bodies willing to work on them .
The Unhappiest Subscribers on Earth? Disney+ Accounts Hacked and Hijacked
I spent my high school (~2006) lunch and free periods teaching myself web development on the school computers in the library, running Portable Notepad++, Portable Firefox, and Portable XAMPP, off my third-gen iPod's hard drive. Very good times. XAMPP made LAMP on Windows beyond painless. I miss that old stack.
The following are all simultaneously true:

* There are racists who want to curb immigration

* There are immigrants exploiting real-estate laws to launder money

* There are non-racists who want to curb immigration

* There are immigrants who move to Canada and contribute to society there
I had a Dell keyboard with a similar design years ago. These individual scissor keys were painful to clip replacements (or just popped off keys) on. Dell themselves just replaced entire keyboards.

Assuming given the extra decade, Apple's keys are hopefully more durable, but it's still no pain free job either.
Tianfu Cup Round-Up: Safari, Chrome, D-Link Routers and Office 365 Hacked
I think I'd like to know how this does without the second layer. Reapplying every 500 flushes doesn't seem practical. For a family of four and two toilets, if everyone goes four times a day, you're talking about reapplying every 2 months.

Permanent nanohairs sounds very ... permanent, if this doesn't work well without layer 2.

I'm also curious about durability on a car, with windshield wipers and all. How permanent is permanent?

I'll mention:

1) The price and quantity is a little bit off-putting. I'm not sure if that represents real costs (for many business models, the cost is a pennies, but the price goes way up to account for R&D, shipping, marketing, etc.). If this is expensive to produce, keep things as is. If it's dirt cheap, you may consider keeping price fixed, but notching up quantity a bit. If I can coat my whole car (rather than just windshield), or sink+toilet rather than just toilet, or even share with a friend, the economics become very different.

2) You really need online reviews. Few will risk a product like this unseen. Use Amazon or send review copies to someone.
I think it's more like 99% on particularly bad days, because where I live over 100 ug/m3 is common during the fire season (which is apparently now November to April)

But if you live in places where the particulates are normally low then yeah, cutting from 50 to 5 is hard.
Bubs: An open-source Keras implementation of Flair’s contextualized embeddings
This is not a hill that I am willing to die on, but when was gender decided? Everything I've read up until now has kept it ambiguous:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/119621668503812...
Wondering where the optimum place for humans to live is, assuming around healthy agricultural practices (away from BigAg) without to much wood smoke pollution
I even rather like an ambient social environment like a coffee shop. But I’m pretty sure working in close quarters with inside or recruiters would drive me crazy.
I read an article this morning that South Dakota has become a tax haven as well due to their trust laws. An interesting read.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
I'd argue that talking about waste exposes the complexity (reality in simpler terms), while ethics or morals obscure it.

When I say waste, I mean the waste in the widest sense: potential, future, life, etc.

For what it's worth, since you mention it, I don't think that capitalism isn't compatible with an ecological society. It's just that if you're gonna replace all values with a price tag, you have to be accurate with your pricing. For example, the price of diesel has to reflect, among other things, the full effect on the environment.
Ask HN: How much should I charge at least for my SaaS?
Hey,

I just finished a project which has big potential to be used in many branches of a company. How would you do the calculation for a pricing plan? (given server costs are negligible and programmers are not paid monthly)

Greetings!
Not sure about the stack Stripe uses, but if they do use Mongo, then they I presume they made it work well enough with a sheer force of will and reimplemented many ACID guarantees in the application layer themselves. That is of course assuming, that they started with Mongo early on, when it was still a bit wonky. I would love for a Stripe developer to jump in and share some background!
Why? All that assumes a home network is setup correctly, which is almost never the case. One huge use case would be all the shitty SOHO routers that don't/can't bridge wired and wireless networks so broadcast and high level discovery/advertising are completely useless between wired and wireless segments. In some cases useless between cells in a mesh, even with 'enterprise' gear this is not as reliable as it should be.

Nintendo made an informed decision and their hardware is welcome on my networks.
There are pretty much two ways to do this, neither one works well:

1) Overlay multiple transparent keys on a single display. This works OK in concept, but is hard to do mechanically gracefully. You would also end up with parallax issues with the touch functionality, if you could even get multi-point touch functionality working on key-faces like that.

2) Keys with small displays and captouch sensors in them: The display tech isn't quite there yet for this, AFAICT. I've seen demos of small, single-color OLEDS embedded in buttons, but none with touch overlays and nothing with a higher end display in them. Additionally, due to the bezel and gaps between the keys, it would be very difficult to get a consistent image across multiple keys/displays.
I thought it was puerto rico

https://www.gq.com/story/how-puerto-rico-became-tax-haven-fo...
I think it is a mistake to think that relations between sovereign nations is based on "rule of law". Yes there are legal principles involved, but mostly, sovereign nations deal with other sovereign nations via realpolitik.

On the other hand, I think that within a sovereign nation the adherence to "rule of law" has a more substantial meaning and relevance.
At the point where it's already waste, you don't really care about the energy that was produced from it, possibly years or thousands of years ago.
Uhhh....no
So, should he have shipped it or dropped it off at the police station?

I wonder though, could they have charged him with destruction of evidence?
In case you haven't noticed, the planet is burning.

Don't buy a laptop with a repairability score of 1.
Ask HN: What causes 'Sorry, that story was previously submitted.'?
I sometime make HN submissions. If the URL has already been submitted by another user, I am taken to the existing submission page, and I think the submission might also get an automatic upvote from me.

Today, I tried to submit a story and got a message:

"Sorry, that story was previously submitted."

I couldn't find any previous submission via hn.algolia.com, and it seems a few other folks have asked about this in the past, without any answer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12104077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15445090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404588

I hadn't previously submitted the same URL or any URL from the same domain.

The URL returned after submitting the form included 'deaddupe', which offers a clue, but it would be great to know for sure what causes this.
Also, its not like they are saying child seats are ineffective. They are just saying the effects are from many things. Look, I read that and drove my kids around in car seats.

It's amazing how hostile people are to that chapter. It's just a book talking about statistics, I really doubt it influenced anyone's behavior
Right you are, consider me corrected.
GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Site's Donations Are to Cover Medical Costs
The tech companies aren't even underwriting the accounts. They are just resellers of accounts from actual banks, throwing on a fancy web interface and then data mining your transactions.
Ah yes, it's so simple when we can describe everything in terms of false dichotomies.
Usually door closers have a setting to slow down just before the door really closes, it can be adjusted to slow down the door further.
This is great news. If we are going to save the climate, it is absolutely essential that people move to ev's. The problem so far has been that the legacy car companies have not been producing ev's in a big way, much less working hard at selling them. And because of that, the public thinks that ev's are not good enough to buy.

Having one of the main American car companies producing and selling an ev will do a lot to help educate the public and help get the ev revolution off the ground.
Speed tooling evolutions: 2019 and beyond (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)
It's huge. Big reason why China has polluted air. There's a world of difference between summers and winters due to heating. You can literally see when they switch off heating in Beijing.
This seems to have been part of the Apple Heart Study?
Sam- thank you for this link. It is very helpful.
correct its per point in time. Either way the overlays are a TON faster. :)
Then get a mechanical keyboard and type louder. That's how you assert dominance.
There's been studies done specifically on people cycling to work, and IIRC the conclusion was that the overall QALY result was significantly positive. But that does depend on your baseline - for someone who is fit and active anyway the marginal gain might be small, but for the average person the 10+ QALYS you get from being active vastly outweigh the combined (run over + pollution + injury) cost.

https://eos.org/articles/novel-air-pollution-study-gauges-in...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920084/
>declare annually NO-ACTIVITY. In other words, they cheat a bit,

That's just straight up tax fraud. You don't need Canada for that. If you're willing to make fraudulent declarations to tax authorities you don't really need all these complicated things.
> If legal regulatory arbitrage (through tax havens) is unfair, then the corollary is that any kind of business profit arising from utilising uncommon knowledge is unfair.

This syllogism is so unsound that I’m not sure how to respond. I don’t think I’m arguing that, and I don’t think that using corporate tax havens is merely “using uncommon knowledge.”
It's steady to slightly up since 2016.
ideally, governments only need to know how much each person spent/earned. Not where and how. But , it seems there is no way to make even tiny amounts of purchases without a bunch of people sharing your full details with each other.

On the other hand, there's crypto
Any computer with usb ports has 'expandable storage'.
I’m not convinced of the existence of non-racists. I suspect everyone is somewhat racist in one way or another.
The endgame is I want to change programming. It's been too sucky for too long.

Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?

Quite frankly I'd be happy if someone else were to do it, but since nobody stepped up I reluctantly started (a) figuring out what was wrong and (b) fixing it.
The depth of the well is a huge factor, generally the deeper the well the harder it is to pump water out of it. There is also the matter of how fast the well will replentish. Shallow wells into unconfined aquifers in regions with plenty of rainfall are probably the best sort of wells. Those sort of wells get replenished every year (climate permitting.) On the other hand with fossil aquifers you're draining a finite amount of water that won't replenish in human timescales, if at all.

So in some regions pulling water from wells will be perfectly sustainable and essentially free, while in others it's unsustainable and expensive.
Maybe. Do we know how they exfiltrated it? They may have done it in a rate-limited fashion.
Here's Fox saying it's been 40 years with some more detail:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-new-york-lockup-suicides

Regardless, it seems as if suicide is not a common occurrence in this prison. Epstein was the highest profile prisoner on the planet. His suicide is not routine and it shouldn't be discounted to incompetence, especially while these reports ignore how difficult it is to actually commit suicide in this particular facility.
For me just running an evaporative cooler roughly halves the counts, but that's from over 100 to about 50 so it's a kinda of a mixed blessing. But since my rented house isn't airtight or even close to it, there's not a lot I can do other than move.
I am using 2016 as my baseline since it's reasonably recent.
Since this fabricated "15 year old" hardware claim is repeated for who knows what reason, I'm going to have to spam the debunking of it as well.

It's nowhere near to being true. Software is going to be gone for haswell generation,[1] boards originally released just 6 years ago[2].

1. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28295?product=7090....
2. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...
> You can’t do that with encryption.

Isn't the most effective way to get around encryption to compromise the endpoint? Obviously not after the fact, but I doubt a highly motivated and well funded police force would find ways to get eg video of a password being entered inside the house of nearly any selected criminal.
This is something I don't get. It would have been reasonable to design the keybord that it can be exchanged, even if it some effort. While I like the improvents of this iteration, it shouldn't be that unrepairable. A MB Pro is an expensive device, but that is ok, if you get the appropriate quality. Making the machine a write off, if there is a problem after the mandatory Apple-care runs out, does mean it is much less value than if it were reasonably repairable.
Everyone is a bank today for the same reason everyone was a social network in the 00's.

A few startups started encroaching into financial services territory, took all the risk (including regulatory), and now that it's clear it's something worth pursuing Big Tech is following, expecting to leverage their existing products/services/ecosystem to lock you in by yet another aspect your life.
The bushfires act as a counterbalance in Australia ...
Not sure what you mean by "Make does not handle multiple targets".

You can definitely do `make foo bar` and it will run the recipes for both foo and bar. You can also write a recipe with multiple prerequisites (which could be the result of a variable expansion).

Curious about the limitation; could be there's a way around it or that I never ran into it.
It isn't a "loophole". This structure, by itself, helps you avoid no tax at all. The issue is a combination of: concealing ownership, concealing identity, and (a big one) home countries not acting on information.

But yes: Canada, and the other places where this was happening like Scotland and the Caymans, have started reporting beneficial ownership. This will preserve the reputation of the places involved but, of course, it doesn't tackle the underlying issues.
There was a law adopted in 2018, and related regulations in 2019: https://www.blakesbusinessclass.com/revamping-canadas-anti-m...
The Smalltalk-72 model was extremely limited. Code in the language was viewed by the interpreter as simply a stream of tokens. According to [Ingalls 1983]:

"The first (token) encountered (in a program) was looked
up in the dynamic context, to determine the receiver of
the subsequent message. The name lookup began with the
class dictionary of the current activation. Failing
there, it moved to the sender of that activation and so
on up the sender chain. When a binding was finally found
for the token, its value became the receiver of a new
message, and the interpreter activated the code for that
object's class."

SENDER and stack of previous senders was retained as part of the message-passing protocol, which is problematical for concurrent systems.
unfortunately, the overlays are too big and would eat too much RAM. I have not figured out why they get so big as they are only modifying a small amount of files. Sometimes I think the copy on write functionality is not working properly.
I'm a bit disappointed by the plastic tabs in newer ThinkPads -- managed to break a couple replacing the RAM in my T480.
That's also a reason to make it less repairable. If you can replace parts with aftermarket parts, the gray area of applecare support is much bigger.

People who are using these computers "professionally" mostly don't want to fiddle with modifying them. They want a computer that will be reliable, and whose failure will cost them the smallest work interruption.
Hmm... how is Overlayfs and Unionfs different? From the explanation I can't find any differences...

Unionfs: A Stackable Unification File System[0]:

> This project builds a stackable unification file system, which can appear to merge the contents of several directories (branches), while keeping their physical content separate.

> Unionfs allows any mix of read-only and read-write branches, as well as insertion and deletion of branches anywhere in the fan-out.

> To maintain unix semantics, Unionfs handles elimination of duplicates, partial-error conditions, and more.

If it is the same thing (but maybe more maintained or has more features...) , can we implement something like trip[1][2] package manager on top of Overlayfs?

(Porg is a package manager where all files that are installed by make install is tracked and mounted on a Unionfs layer.)

[0] http://unionfs.filesystems.org

[1] https://github.com/grencez/trip

[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/packag...
> * There are immigrants who move to Canada and contribute to society there

And somehow this one point magically has more weight than all the others combined. It is a real stumper (not really).
42.75% maximum marginal rate here in Maryland.
> They can terminate your account suddenly for opaque reasons.

Isn't one of the requirements for being a "bank" that you can't do stuff like that?
Markets aren't perfectly efficient. Some trades are dumb. People with lower cognitive ability are more likely to place an order and forget to check fundamentals first, forget to check competitor data, or quiet frankly make whopper mistakes like confusing a ticker symbol. Think of the loons you see on /r/wallstreetbets and other spots. They live on a spectrum, and all of us have bad days.

People with impaired cognitive ability are more likely to make dumb mistakes. That seems pretty obvious to me. The only question is whether or not the effect is large enough to measure using a coarse statistic like this, but that's a quantitative argument.
If one power plant creates 1000t of waste, and another creates 10000t of waste while providing the same amount of electricity, I think we can reasonably say that the second generates 10x more waste.

"Well, if you pick just one ton of waste from either plant it's the same waste!" is technically true, but it's neither here nor there.

(Of course in case of nuclear vs. coal it's a bit more complicated because the waste products are not the same, but I still think we can reasonably compare waste per energy.)
Meanwhile Amazon pays $0 tax on $11B profit

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.h...
A refreshing view of AI, this excerpt I particulary enjoyed:

> I mentioned in my previous half-year update, Open AI came up with a transformer based language model called GPT-2 and refused to release the full version fearing horrible consequence that may have to the future of humanity. Well, it did not take long before some dude - Aaron Gokaslan - managed to replicate the full model and released it in the name of science. Obviously the world did not implode, as the model is just a yet another gibberish manufacturing machine that understands nothing of what it generates. Gary Marcus in his crusade against AI hubris came down on GPT-2 to show just how pathetic it is. Nevertheless all those events eventually forced Open AI to release their own original model, and much to nobody's surprise, the world did not implode on that day either.
Sure there is a lot of hype in AI/ML right now, but this post reads like there is an axe to grind with all ML. it ignores true progress made in a lot of areas and denigrates the whole field.

to me it did not read like an objective post, but more like just a "all AI is bullshit" style blog post
It might have to do with the retina settings that rescale after rendering. I had this issue when we were testing 3DC.io on some Macbooks. Play around with the scale and css a bit, there is some information on Stack Overflow if you search for canvas+retina.

Edit: Also check out devicePixelRatio, that might be causing the issue as well.
Thanks Chelmzy! We have a few data "modules" launching soon with a security focus, including abuse contact details, VPN detection, and full IP whois details. If you'd like to get early access and trial any of them (or if you've got ideas of other IP related data sets that'd be useful for your use case, or of any product feedback) let me know - ben@ipinfo.io
I know how to make gum and it would be a hassle and a half for this purpose. I'm fine with unflavored juice composed of compounds that have been used for inhalation purposes for decades.
Just wanted to thank you for the great work. Thanks!
If you're buying a classic car with funds directly from your emergency fund, then more power to you I guess but maybe you should be less impulsive with money set aside for emergencies.

Personally, if I'm expecting to make a large cash purchase I have more than a few days notice.