skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand how this is even legal at all.

A lot of the process is not legal. That's why it is a scandal when they find this kind of information. But the existence of this type of service is practically guaranteed for the same reason: a lot of the money in these accounts was acquired in shady, if not totally ilegal ways. Even if countries make it completely illegal, there will be a lot of clients for offshore accounts. You can think of this as a modern version of pirates hiding their illegal treasures in some Caribbean island.
As someone who lives in an area without water and sewerage services anything to reduce water consumption is a bonus, especially if it's biodegradable.

Sure, a flush is only 3-4 litres but that could make the difference in a dry summer.
Since the media won't properly cover the story, memes are the only way the public has to keep it from being swept under the rug.

> That the Epstein murder is our generations largest admission from the elite class that they not only exist but the rules definitely do not apply to them.

Couldn't agree more, thankfully the internet is throwing a wrench into the plan. Even if it's unclear that justice will ultimately be served.
I think it varies by country. In the US it’s 2 years on top of the 1 year included warranty, so 3 total.

You mention a mandatory 1 year so I assume you’re non-US and I don’t know what it would be for you.
Most of them are sales people. The OP is correct, banks increase the monetary supply through fractional reserve.
That's just a long way of saying myopic, no?
Many things are made with finite durability. Perhaps most. Paint chips, air filters clog, lubrication is scratched away, wood rots, tires and brakes wear away.
What's interesting about this perception is that PC vendors who do the same things don't catch flak. Presumably because there are still options for PC that are at least theoretically repairable and built to last.

I wonder what would happen in a hypothetical world where there were pro and non-Pro Apple laptops, but the only real difference between them were that the Pro laptops had replaceable parts, and were however much larger/heavier/pricier they need to be to make that happen, while the non-Pro ones are all soldered and riveted together.

My guess is that the ones that are soldered together vastly outsell the pro line because that's what most Apple consumers want. And then economies of scale kick in until everyone's just mad that Apple is charging $500 "tax" just to be able to replace the hard drive and upgrade the RAM.
It seems like they're making the point that this will be better for Google and for things like Google Pay/Wallet which can now operate at a bank level rather than at a customer of a bank level.

For the rest of us, I agree with your view.
> It's perfect for a server or FreeNAS but the ports for common desktop applications seem to be broken fairly often which causes usability issues and some very heavy frustration.

I briefly tried FreeBSD. Only briefly, because that ports thing was a mess. My trial lasted only a few days before my system was an unusable mess.
I can't find any information on the SSD flash chips; does anyone have any info on if they're MLC or 3D Nand? That would impact the wear of the drives considerably.
>> It’s not climate regulations. It’s economics.

In a simplified view this is true, but they are also irreducible; We'll never reach any meaningful action if we don't make it economically advantageous to pursue alternatives that "just so happen" to be climate positive. That would be akin to getting someone to exercise solely because "it's good for you".

This is largely if not almost entirely caused by natural gas prices that make variable cost close to zero; it's essentially a waste product in producing oil for much of the country. The challenge is getting it from wellhead to consumer, but power plants are different than individual consumers. It powers more than a 1/3 currently (vs < 10% wind/solar) and for much of current coal is a very easy substitute. If we could ever get to on-site electricity generation (with the byproduct of heating homes and businesses) we could make huge reductions in pollution and gains in efficiency. Increased nuclear would be a big win for the environment as well but is a social-political untouchable for a variety of real and made-up reasons.
But Canada shares banking data with the IRS.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fatca-tax-us-canada-1.53539...
Lowest score at ifixit is actually 0. Somewhat coincidentally, that’s the score the original Surface Laptop got: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Tea...
The whole "serverless" trend feels (felt? Did the fad die out?) like coming full circle back to (Fast)CGI.
I disagree. Regardless of what the etymology seems to imply, "hate crime" is understood to mean a crime where the victim was targeted due to their membership in a certain race or social group.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20crime
Nature favors balls over wheels, because wheels are much harder to stabilize.
Fair enough. These are obsolete for SMD and precision components, though.
All about AWS Cost Optimisation
Why shouldn’t it be acceptable? I for one accept to trade repairability for less footprint/weight. And I also admire my ThinkPad T420 that I thoroughly hacked.

Let the market decide what it wants. There’s space for all kinds os laptops and gadgets.
Not only IntelliJ, "Filthy Rich Clients" (http://filthyrichclients.org/) is a must read for anyone that cares about doing proper UIs in Swing.

And being aware of component libraries like JGoodies (http://www.jgoodies.com/).
Except, it isn't clear. The user didn't type the word "Germany" on accident.
This seems organized around the work of the radical psychiatrist RD Laing. I've admired some of writing in the past, but his theories of psychosis are considered nonsense these days. From the website:

“Legacy of R.D. Laing,” Michael Guy Thompson, on Madness Radio. Is psychosis a journey and a breakthrough to somewhere more authentic? Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing was a fierce critic of the mental health system, and saw madness as a rational adaptation to irrational family and social constraints. How are Laing’s provocative insights about politics and culture still relevant today?
Until you are more experienced. Then you should ignore tutorials and read the manuals.
Well put. Software is largely built of contracts; so are laws and any other interfacing agreements (as cold as that sounds).
This is exactly what Apple said they did.
I feel you. I recently changed jobs from an office environment at max capacity and open to the extreme, to one at 1/3 capacity and a lot of nooks and crannies designed for those who need a little space. It's amazing how much less fatiguing the latter environment is.
Yeah of course. As I understand it we all checked boxes basically agreeing to be on the bleeding edge of software updates so that issues like this can be identified fixed before general rollout. Yes it's crazy.
fyi, btrfs as /var/lib/docker/btrfs has a disadvantage under certain circumstances: running commands (du,rsync,..) on the subvolume folders altering the access time will incur a storage cost if the filesystem is mounted without noatime option: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/39815 - not sure if it applies to ZFS as well (see https://lwn.net/Articles/499648/)
It certainly depends on the contributors having an alternative source of income.
The Mac Pro has similar proprietary, non-upgradable, non-replaceable modules to the iMac Pro.
+1. The serviceability of ThinkPads had always been a great (if not hidden) feature, almost allowing Ship-of-Theseus-ish rolling upgrades like a desktop. Even though the build quality has generally declined since the T410 era, this at least has been preserved (I have a company-issued P50 and it's still a few screws away from changing RAM and SSD).
So much agree. The web is very large and there are tons of use cases. So when people start talking about it being so difficult to setup a website because of all these things I just can't understand where there head is at.

It's like complaining that they built a rocket destined to go the moon, handled all the requirements to do that, but their use case would have been handled by a weather balloon. Of course they are going to complain about it being overly complex, because it was for their use case.

Things aren't helped by companies have dev relations pushing out articles about using their complex stack with simple examples (to get you interested in it for work), or people writing their own blog posts to get familiar with some new/complex stack, and devs reading these thinking they must be using them. Analyze what is being used and why, then decide to use it.
It depends on how one defines intelligence and what specific things are considered material to the measurement. IQ tests measure the things that IQ tests measure. The challenge is that the things we often want to determine in trying to assess "intelligence" are multi-dimensional, multi-variate and have complex interactions.

Personally, I consider most typical assessments of a person's general "smartness" to approach zero utility.
Apple will never give you a modular, easy to repair system. It just isn't going to happen, time to move on.
Tangentially related: are there any good solutions for shipping data with containers (for which the CoW mechanism is not suited particularly well)? Is there a "hub" for volumes?
The coal plant near where I was raised is being phased out around 2030. To be honest I've always been awed by it's size and presence. Such a huge chunk of concrete and steam.

My grandpa helped built it back in the 80s. My grandma's front porch is supposedly made from the excess concrete. I got to take a tour of the outside 20 years ago and I was amazed by how massive everything looked.

On the one hand I'm glad it won't be polluting anymore but it holds a special place in my childhood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Power_Plant
So, I grew up drawing, writing, doing acting/improv, and work as a programmer (but mostly have worked on R&D teams). do you want to trade convergent/divergent thinking tips? My programming colleagues are always telling me how to streamline code, remove unused bits, make better class names... and I'm all... but I keep inventing algorithms is that not enough?

Anyway totally willing to be part of a imaginative/practical HNers coaching group!
It's 3 years for me (US), but it might be worded differently if you get a mandatory 1 year.

https://www.apple.com/support/products/mac/
>The X-rays make it even angrier! Run away! Luckily our friends at Creative Electron are taking all the risk here—we'll resume disassembly after things calm down.

Not sure what is the allusion to here, but anyone else noticed static discharge you get after airport xray scans your macbook?
Was Bob logging his actions to a recording device?
Of course it isn't any more professional than an older thinkbook.

But the name does lubricate the purchasing decision for many people.
> RCU in userland is not portable

Portable implementations are possible by using thread-local integers. There's one in Folly for example.
Below is a great example of a model to soften the blow to those impacted by these fossil generation closures.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/judge-oks-vistra-coal-plant... (Judge OKs $8.6M Vistra coal plant closure settlement seen by NGOs as model for helping impacted communities)
In a former flat I had a plumber over, we got to chat a bit. He said that in they often get called to subsidized housing, as the amount of water used in toilets there is often set to a low setting in order to save money.

He was a bit more colorful, but in essence he said: With two liters of water you are not going to move 1kg feces far enough down the pipe, so it starts piling up. That's the reason why they get called there more often.

So no matter how you coat it (pun intended), what problem are you trying to solve? Also re-applying the lubricant after 500 flushes means I have to re-apply it after around four months with two people in a household using the toilet twice per day. With kids or more room mates, even more often? I think I'd pass and rather clean the toilet properly.
The Data-Driven Case for CI: What 30M Workflows Reveal About DevOps
That's because Apple is the only hardware provider for Mac OS X. If you just want Windows or Linux, you have a lot of choices. If you want OS X, there's no choice but to put up with whatever hardware Apple gives you.
What a bizarre statement
Ken White has been criticizing the Justice system for years. His point is that Epstein's death should be seen as a wake-up call to improve the treatment of people in our prisons, and not an anomaly.

I found sources saying that guards were working 16-hour days and cutting corners regularly at the MCC (https://apnews.com/39ca1eb755914af8b273966c268a0a9b).

I couldn't find a source for your claim that no one else had committed suicide in the MCC in over ten years. Cite?
Your first story, in turn, reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/420oa...
>Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

I'd take lower repairability over a spyware OS any day of the week.
Au contraire. The world wide web is justified by Scott's book. As is JavaScript and the crazy things we do with it. Worse is Better.
Understanding how distributed systems actually work beyond how we wished they work.
This is supposed to explain that it's orthogonal to CPU performance.
It's the "New Coke" maneuver.
Managed Kubernetes Node Groups for EKS
Paralegal, no answer from MPR -> Hanlon's Razor. In paralegals' defense my paralegal was outstanding. She was also my wife but I digress. Good on MPR for at least crediting the link to Naked Capitalism which is more than some of us do when submitting Yves Smith's great finds to HN.
I replaced the trackpad on an x240 and it took me 2 hours and a few broken spudgers. I would have been able to swap everything else out first, as the touchpad was buried under motherboard, keyboard, hard drives etc.
> There was a mercifully brief period in this country’s history where most people unquestioningly accepted whatever Walter Cronkite told them.

You know, it's before my time, but when Cronkite suggested in 1968 that the United States withdraw from Vietnam, I believe what he said was taken seriously. I do not believe it resulted in the country unifying behind the peace movement and immediately withdrawing from Vietnam, which is the sort thing that would happen if "most people unquestioningly accepted whatever Walter Cronkite told them."

> The mainstream media is terrified by the gradual erosion of this power and is desperately trying to convince everyone that it’s better for society at large for them to hold that level of implicit public trust. This is even more true for newspapers, which have always considered themselves of higher status than television anyway.

The less hyperbolic and more accurate way to state all this is, they believe their work is important and something the public should take seriously. Those monsters.
I checked Storz & Binkel app, and it’s missing from App Store. S&B makes vapes for dry herb, which are completely outside of the controversy. Fortunately, most of their models are perfectly usable without the app so no real harm for users has been done.

While Apple policy seems heavy handed and completely out of touch, I hope situations like this will bring back physical controls to devices.
I agree that all news outlets represent the world view of their reporting and editorial staff. I disagree that it is always accurate to call this a "false narrative."
Nvidia Keynote Supercomputing 2019 (Livestream)
Really? I thought governments had a lot more, like trillions more. I thought the quality of life for humanity has never been better than now? Do you mean climate change? If so how does rich people's greed fit in the picture.

I don't think they should hoard cash, there should be a limit on that but net worth usually includea stock value, wealth in form of stocks is far from hoarding. I think cash wealth limits and a legal limit on pay gap would help but I still don't see the rich do anything they haven't done throughout history. If anything, democraric processes and institutions are failing the people.
Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
Just noticed this on my last trip. Those poor bits never knew what hit 'em.
When I'm really cranking away at something, I like loud music. Like, really loud. I really don't like silence ever, to be honest, and I don't consider myself a member of the 'communicator' group.
To be fair I don't necessarily begrudge them it, especially not in cases where it's a medical condition. I mean even with smokers there's not much they can do, the damage is done. Doesn't make it any less irritating though, but I know no one is doing it intentionally.
If you’re talking gas tax in the US, I’d say that’s laughable. Using eia.gov[1] as a reference, the prices are half of what we have in the EU. We’ve observed a steady increase in the prices (mostly due to taxes). But it didn’t have the effect, people just deal with the higher price and carry on. There’s even more cars than there used to be. And the average living standard in the east/SE EU is lower of that in the US.

When I was in Göteborg, Sweden, I saw this system where the toll increases based on the time, and it’s highest (~30 SEK = ~3€) in the rush hour. There was no price in the off hours. Maybe if it costs more to drive in the rush hour, one might think about not doing it or finding someone else to split the cost.

To rely on the “tax system” to take care of the congestion/traffic pollution problem, we’d have to bump the taxes and tolls by 10x to see any effect.
EV is a step in the right direction, but only by a small amount. We need incentive to drive less, something that forces everyone to think before they drive. And by everyone I have in mind the person who is driving and also the person who is making them drive to the office to have their physical presence to do the same work they can do from anywhere. Make it more expensive for a company to have car riders and make them count commute as part of the workday. I believe remote work is a part of the solution to this and making it more expensive to get everyone to the HQ every day might make more managers reconsider if it’s necessary.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
The MBP goes hard on the trade off of maximising what it can fit inside while being portable.

You could make the cpu, gpu, ram and ssd user replaceable. But then you need bigger connectors, meaning you fit less stuff in.

There’s barely any unused space inside.

If you want something you can replace parts on, get a Thinkpad.

As someone who carries a MBP every day, the focus on portability is something I appreciate. So for me, I’m happy to take that trade off.
I see, I may have misread it np. Yeah dosage is always the key.
> "Exposure to CO2 and VOCs at levels found in conventional office buildings was associated with lower cognitive scores than those associated with levels of these compounds found in a Green building." – Allen et al 2016. The effect seems to kick in at around 1,000 ppm of CO2.

The last time this came up I bought a CO2 meter for my office. I was quite surprised how often it went over 1,000. Outside air runs around 450.

I increased the duty cycle of the house fan, and open a window when it reaches 800. Right now I'm at 505.

Buying the meter was a really good investment.
I think you may be referring to this publication: https://energyanalysis.lbl.gov/publications/co2-indoor-pollu...
This is the DAO pattern, welcome to 1999 Ruby.

https://www.baeldung.com/java-dao-pattern
The Supreme Court May Criminalize Immigrant Advocacy
I know this isn't a great solution, but could you try a lightweight pair of headphones, and some relaxing music? Not particularly heavy music mind, but just something you can leave in the background. Maybe a movie soundtrack. I use videogame OSTs but that's not everyone's cup of tea.

This would maybe make the headphone issue more bearable (lightweight - much less uncomfortable for long periods), and the goal isn't to block out all sound, but rather to give your mind something else to focus on from an auditory standpoint. I find, personally, that having a musical anchor makes the task of mentally filtering out the noise much easier; I end up subconsciously following the melody and grooving with the rhythm a bit, but because there's no lyrics, it doesn't pull me out of the task at hand.

Everyone's different, so what works for me might not work for you, but maybe give it a shot for a week and see how effective it is. Worth a try at least.
The hypothesis I suggested was specifically in response to that data. With improperly installed car seats resulting in preventable deaths, and properly installed car seats resulting in reduced injuries.

Otherwise it’s difficult for something to meaningfully reduce injuries without also preventing deaths. Unless you have a better explanation?
Traversing Solr response through terminal CLI
I recently attended a presentation of a company that is planning an eventual experiment with a birth aboard a space-plane. I can't imagine a medical benefit of this, yet they say they have already been approached by several candidate mothers.

People make decisions based on a lot of factors; being the first baby born in space or the focus of "the best photo of the 20'th century" has other (perceived) benefits.
> I couldn't find a source for your claim that no one else had committed suicide in the MCC in over ten years. Cite?

Sure, one successful suicide in 21 years:

https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/suicide-supposedly-nearly-impo...

Anyone leaving that bit of information out of their narrative is being willfully deceptive or is not informed enough to have an opinion they should be making public.
Where please? What model.
How silicon valley is massively under-investing in kids
From the article in the same paragraph:

> All the other images were either miscarried or terminated pregnancies.

Did his imaging cause these?
Part of that is, it's just a fairly steep learning curve. I did learn to stick with one way of doing ports. I used Portmaster then you learn not to troubleshoot too much as you can really make a mess of things. You need to let the tools work for you, but again... when the ports themselves are broken (i.e. not your machine/dependency .."heck") then you can't do anything.
Abstracting. Humans like to abstract things into manageable portions.
The use case:
A build system runs 100's of compile/test jobs that use the same underlying git repo. The git repo is massive so giving each process its own copy is not practical. Instead each subprocess gets a unique overlay to do it's work. After a subprocess finishes if it has any artifacts that will be used by a later stage of the build they are copied to a "common" overlay which will get mounted on top of the original lower file system used in the previous phase. So the system needs to be able to use multiple lower overlays (RO) as it moves through each phase. After its all over all the data needs to be quickly deleted such that the system is free to perform the next job.