skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's very sad to hear this staggering sum called a 'rounding error' and a blip on Facebook's radar, I'm still happy about this news. It shows that fighting back legally is possible so the day we all have to wear recognition-scrambling patches is not as nigh as it could be. Just wish other places would amp up their privacy laws so Facebook would get more than occasional slaps on the wrist.
Can that be true?? My mind is totally blown. There must be rather huge regional variations in this, though. In my part of the nation, the vast majority of people engage in outdoor recreation at least once per year -- and most much more often.
The FCC would like a word.

Damn those billionaires and their... global high speed satellite internet access, right?
So the plan is to build an underground reservoir, then dig deeper and build the lower reservoir? At that point, wouldn't it be easier to use the ocean as the upper reservoir, and dig down to build the lower reservoir, and pump seawater around?

How much water do you have to move to power a house, anyway? It must be a lot - a truck pulling a tank of water goes up a hill as part of a journey without worrying about running out of gas, and they could be carrying 40,000 litres or 40 tons of water. Presumably there is no way you could move enough water at home to make a hydro plant - pump it up at night with cheap electricity and run it down at peak time to save money?
Is there a practical use for this? I’m thinking if my 3d printer does I could repurpose it for this.
I'm not equating that to how much each staff member costs, i'm saying thats what each staff member on average is roughly responsible for spending each year!
The iPad made something like $19 billion in revenue for Apple last year. Such a failure
Except tunnels.
Manhattan is usually at 50% all-cash. Recently it softened to 40%+, but still much higher than intuition based on everyday-folks might suggest.
there's a reason the sub is called /r/wallstreetbets I guess?
> remember no killer moths have been spotted

We probably should know better and stop underestimating the capability of evolution and the planet to knit complicated nets and put nasty surprises in our path.

Nature has filled that checkbox long time ago. Of course there are killer moths and they are very efficient. There are reports of more than 500 humans killed by moths in recent times (plus another 2000 people sent to the hospital with a massive bleeding syndrome). Family Saturniidae.
If you're e.g. a retailer, you can maybe know your coins are clean one step out, but you can't know if they're clean for their whole traceable history without standing up a fancy Network Analysis OLAP cluster and hitting it with some really high-cost queries.

Let me put it this way: what would you do with your float if you run a convenience store in a bad part of town, and know that there are marked bills floating around in the local economy, and that the police might pop in at random one day and take them out of your till? Well, you'd probably deposit your float in your local bank at the end of each day, and then get new, guaranteed-unmarked bills from the bank. That's mixing! It's not money laundering, just mixing. You're removing the potential liability of being blamed for what your customers' employers' customers' employers did.
Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker
3-5% is unrealistic. in the long long term, housing prices can't exceed inflation (roughly 2%). and if we were to actually make progress in building houses/shelter, then it would be even less than inflation.
But this applies outside of SF too - I used SF as a relatable entity. Santa Clara and plenty of other cities without rent control are the same.

Subsidized housing is not very common within the bay area. I doubt 20%+ of people are living in that...
> why are you inherently valuable?

At least it's inherently valuable to feel that way, a sense of worth in yourself and others.

> does that mean my stupid or malicious acts are also valuable?

Even if you do something criminally stupid there's value for people working in prison sector /s

> if I have as many kids as possible, am I creating value with each one?

Plenty of value for your genes to maximize them in evolutionary terms
Take a look at the domestic manufacturers, such as East Penn, and you find that they have their own recycling plants and they charge their customers money when they don't receive a scrap battery on purchase of a new one. They also own most of the distributors of their batteries which run trucks to their customers.

The lead acid battery industry is incredibly competitive and prices unbelievably low due to this vertical integration and mechanized production. Pretty much the only way to beat the U.S. car battery prices is to subsidize (Korea) or pollute like hell (Mexico).

The U.S. is a net importer of lead, largely because all of the SLA batteries coming in from Asia end up in the waste stream as scrap, so there isn't very high demand for virgin (smelted lead concentrate) when all that scrap is sitting around.
"I doubt this time we will see Timothy Learys"

We almost did see another Timothy Leary. I think Terrence McKenna was almost a Leary, with his advocacy of using mushrooms in "heroic doses". That's really asking for trouble, especially when you know a lot of uninformed users will do so with some of the worst sets and settings.

Psychedelics have a tendency to induce messianic fervor among some people with oversize egos (like Leary, Al Hubbard, and Charles Manson). I think it's very likely there'll be others like them once psychedelics become more popular.

The mainstream media, which bears a large share of responsibility for ushering in the moral panic which led to the Drug War, hasn't gotten any less sensationalistic since those times either. If anything, it's gotten much worse. So the potential for the psychedelic renaissance to get nipped in the bud is in some ways worse now. We're just lucky (or unlucky) that there isn't a massive anti-war movement and countercultural revolution at the moment, but that could change as psychedelic use becomes more widespread.

This is why it's critically important that the rest of us educate people on responsible ways of using psychedelics, and on their risks as well as benefits.

Someone needs to keep their feet on the ground while others are flying away in to the sky.
What's really amazing is that people would probably OVER estimate the amount of time they spent out side recreating, so the number is probably actually lower. (I'm assuming the report is true and survey was well designed enough to get a decent percentage that's even close to accurate)
>> Computer power users like composability, interoperability, "unix philosophy" / "do one thing well" -- whatever you want to call it -- because it's a powerful tool.

Which equates to a fraction of computer use globally. I'd be willing to bet large amounts of money, most people who use a computer couldn't even tell you what composability is. They just don't care.

You're frustrated because the iPad is not a replacement for a laptop.

Er, yeah? So what?

That's not what it's designed for. You're complaining that a Tesla Model 3 is crap off road.

FTR, I have an iPad and I wouldn't even consider doing my day job on it. Could it be redesigned to fit my workflow? Of course, but then it would be worse for the things I actually use it for.
Doom Emacs – An Emacs configuration for the stubborn martian vimmer
For anyone wondering how these price multiples translate to a fraction of median annual income paid on mortgage..

Briefly poking around a mortgage payment estimator (assuming 20% down, 3.75% 30 year fixed rate), annual mortgage payments come to roughly 7.2% of purchase price (including tax and insurance). Slightly higher towards $100k price (7.8%) and slightly lower towards $1.5M+ (6.8%), but lets say 7.2%.

So, for a house priced at X times median income, you're paying 0.072X of annual median income every year into mortgage payments. 2-3x in the chart means 14-21% of income spent on mortgage. 8x means 57.6% of median income spent on mortgage. (Quick reminder that 20% down on an 8x house is 160% of median annual income in the first place)
> Is Qualys getting paid for this excellent
> work, and if so, by who?

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualys

My guess is they use OpenBSD and this is part of 'give back'.
How exactly do I transport a 10 foot ladder on a motorbike?

Of course that’s a silly analogy—there’s no technical reason why Visual Studio couldn’t be ported to run on iPad.
The One That Got Away
And what happens when people live longer and longer, so that people have lived a longer percentage of their lives without that influx of assets? It is perfectly common for 60+ year olds to still have their parents living. That will stretch to 70 year olds, and so on. There is a demographic concern that needs to be acknowledged in order to develop societal solutions that provide even basic opportunities such as home ownership at an age when you are raising your own family.

One potential contribution to a solution would be to tax investment properties/second homes at a very different rate than primary dwellings (which should be taxed at as close to 0% as is practically possible). This would help reduce compounding the effect of demographics with investment portfolio concerns. If governments are to be at the service of their citizens first and foremost, it makes sense to me that they also have a specific tax rate or other restrictions on property ownership by foreign investors. If those things are not legal, then laws should be changed. They exist in some form in many countries, but not all. I doubt those opinions are popular, but at least they are worth thinking about.
of what? Stock? If so, the company performance is irrelevant as people might buy the stock for any reason(some might consider the company performance too, of course).
The Army That Never Existed: The Failure of Social Bots Research
Was there real consequence for this though? Getting the cops called can be essentially a no-op sometimes.
At 500k per year they were still nowhere near meeting global demand, and they decided to move sales away from markets they were already well-established in, and into new ones.

The nice thing about this disagreement we are having is it will be settled by what happens in the next year. I say Tesla's sales will go up strongly now that it has another factory. I take it you think they won't, and all that new capacity will go unsold.
People have been saying this for years, especially ones who don't realize FB is not just Facebook, but Instagram and Whatsapp.
The dev is also active over on reddit.com/r/pidgin and the website has a link to the discord as well, ironically enough.
I would assume that cell towers will absolutely love Starlink as a backhaul.

Think how much easier it gets to stand up a tower when all you need is electricity on-site.
The obsolescence of life cycle analyses is a topic in itself, and the lack of accessible data is a problem for anyone who tries to investigate high-tech products.

For the solar powered website article, it's the order of magnitude that matters. You say I overestimate the energy use of solar panel production, but in our configuration it corresponds to just 1 liter of oil per year.
This is an issue as there is a large sigint site at the Truman Annex. Makes me think they are seeing what antennas and other items exist there watching Cuba. Maybe China has some interest in Cuba now? As far as sigint sites go, this one is the most accessible due to being the southern most point in the USA. We always had problems with tourist wandering up the beach and around the fence.
You need a newer JVM. It needs to be at least Java 11.
Lithium-cobalt can be profitably recycled due to the value of the Cobalt, but nobody wants to pay the price for the batteries at that size.

Lithium batteries can explode when the lithium comes in contact for water. I'm not clear on what the waste stream is doing for all the non-cobalt chemistries (mostly manganese).
afk brb... heading to Santa Cruz for ... research purposes.
> But how can rent prices remain very far below the price to own?

I'm guessing you meant this rhetorically, but it relates to something I've been wondering for a while. in very expensive areas, you tend to see a very high price-to-rent ratio. even if you could afford to buy, it might not make sense economically unless you plan to hold on to that house for a pretty long time.

I've been trying to learn more about why high price-to-rent seems correlated with expensive areas, but it's kinda tough to google for when all the hits are just practical guides to help you decide between renting or buying. if there's some deeper connection, it may that rent stays well below the price to own for a long time.
> So, unpublished manuscripts are not necessarily in the public domain, even if they were written 100s of years ago.

This may well be the case in the UK, but this assertion would likely not apply in the US, for multiple reasons. For one thing, manuscripts that have been displayed in a museum would be counted as published. Also, in the US copyright expires 120 years following creation, at the very latest.
> You could always pay Mac Mini Colo $80 a month and develop remotely.

In my country, one of the electronics stores has this thing where you pay about 35 USD per month, each month for 24 months, to have a MacBook Air in your possession, but which you don't own. So I guess in a way it is sort of rent/leasing. But the nice thing is that after the 24 months are up, you will be able to exchange it for a new model.

It's sort of like how mobile carriers do with mobile phones also sometimes. Except in this case of the MacBook Air that you are paying to have in your possession, there is no additional subscription to anything (unlike with the cellphones that mobile carriers charge you in a similar way for, but where in addition to paying for the phone you also need a to pay for subscription to a carrier plan).

I looked at the deal, considered it, and took it. My reasoning went that, over the span of 2 years battery life will probably degrade to the point that I want to replace the laptop after that. (Battery life was one of the major reasons I was looking to replace my previous laptop in the first place). And for the amount of money that you'd sell a two year old laptop, it will probably have lost about as much in value as what I am paying these guys to rent/lease the thing. (Obviously not quite the same, since they are making money from this deal. But close enough.)

So I went ahead and took the deal. They tried to sell me on insurance for it too. Guess that is one way for them to make a bit extra on the deal. I am generally careful with my stuff and I do have some home insurance plan already that should cover at least a bit of it if I do end up accidentally damaging the laptop.

I was very happy with that decision and continue to be so. It might not be for everyone, but for me it was a very suitable deal.
If you live in Tokyo, you know that the statue of Hachiko-san is the default meeting place / hang out spot for many Tokyoites in Shibuya

I don't think there's any conscious symbolism around it today, but I wonder if the trend of waiting there started off as an ode to Hachiko's loyalty and extending that to a friend you're meeting.
I think the main concern isn't the modified genes being passed on, but the genetic results of selective pressure against a population with those modified genes.

Pulling this out of thin air, but what if a female had a mutation that allows mating with multiple males. Or multiple batches of eggs before they die. This trait would have a big advantage in a population of mostly sterile males, but also: You'd inadvertantly create a super breeder lineage.

Stealing from the obvious: in Jurassic Park, it's the equivalent of selecting for dinos that can change sex to reproduce. The scientists didn't insert that particular trait, but ended up accidently selecting for it, by pressure in the form of a single sex population. (I'm not suggesting spontaneous sex change in mosquitos, just inadvertent selection that might benefit their reproductive ability.)

Maybe I'm way off. It just seems like there's more than one way this could go wrong.
Depending on where you are and what infrastructure you have access to, going "outside for recreation" can be an ordeal.

For example, fishing and most forms of camping are relatively inaccessible to me. Public transit tends not to run to such places.
What is "JID" and how can I get one?
They are fun! I am no artist, but with one I can make a semi-competent drawing, sometimes:
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/xmas_trip...
This needs to be brought to the attention of legislators. Our digital health data needs to be protected like it is in a real world setting.

I wonder what Google is doing with all those health related searches I'm making...
The other replies answered most of your questions so I won't retread those.

>Dm-integrity sounds worth a look, but https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Dm-integrity doesn't inspire much confidence.

That wiki page is pretty yikes - I was under the impression dm-integrity was farther along.

Some misc other stuff I like about ZFS:

l2arc/zil on ssd/optane devices for fast read/write caching
Easy NFS/SMB sharing
zdb ( https://manpages.debian.org/testing/zfsutils-linux/zdb.8.en.... )

I don't think you would be disappointed if you checked it out.
I would call it more of a professional horse.
They can (almost?) always just be inferred, I think (it's been a couple of years since I programmed in ocaml daily).

I personally like using them anyway. If you've done something wrong I recall the parser can sometimes give better error messages if it has them around to orient itself. And for all the complaints people seem to have you really can grow to like them aesthetically - there's something pleasantly blocky and definitive about them I find, like the satisfying thock of a good keyboard.
How to deliver a technical presentation to a non-technical audience
A quick Google search shows you can buy a perfectly usable 2014 refurbished Mac Mini for $300 and you would still need at least one iPhone to test on.

How much would a PC cost that could hypothetically run MscOS in a VM well enough to run XCode?

Is it also “appalling” that if I had a great idea for a PS4 game I would have to pay at least $2500 if Sony would even let me buy one?

https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4553842/so-how-much-does-i...
So even looking around and following links, I still guessed wrong about what the hell it is.

Nobody asked for, or needs, a list of "all the features" in a release announcement. Saying what the project is (such as that it is some kind of "engine", and maybe even what kind?) would have been a completely different, and much shorter and overwhelmingly more useful statement.

What should motivate a reader who cannot even tell what it is to spend time groveling around to find out whether they might be interested in the thing? Hint: most projects are not interesting to most people. Forced to guess, the best guess has to be "no".

I am repeatedly astonished that such elementary reasoning seems beyond so many.

As it happens, for example, a game engine in C# is of zero interest to me, but one in C++ could be quite interesting. I dismissed it as a direct consequence of the failure of the announcement to give me any reason to pay it any more attention.
Hey, CEO of the company here. It's in our contract terms that we never sell your data to anyone. Aside, from the clear violations of privacy, it would completely fuck our business over night and everyone here would resign.
> you are giving the wealth back/forward.

But it's now much more concentrated. Over time my family and dad's best friends family have ~5 houses and apartments each. When they die there'll be ~5 places split between 3 children and 2 children respectively.

Easy to see how that's not rebalancing things much.
The great outdoors is now a 4 foot strip of grass between your outer wall and the sidewalk or your neighbor's house, and the suburbs go on forever. The outdoors isn't as accessible as it seems for a lot of people.

Doesn't apply in my area, but it's easy for me to understand.
I wonder if hosting images elsewhere helps out with reducing load?
Brendan and I are working on that :)
If you use "npm ci" instead of "npm install" there's even less chance of breakage.
I expect services for the taxes I pay. Paying taxes to my government is basically paying myself because I like living in a functioning society. If the government isn't doing a good job I'll try vote them out. Nothing like serfdom.
> David Wehner, Facebook’s chief financial officer, noted in an earnings call with investors that the settlement added to the social network’s rising general and administrative costs, which increased 87 percent from a year ago.

So he literally just framed this as a 'cost of doing business'?
this won't work on windows will it?
Is there a way to download the raw data?
I know people hate memes on HN, but the way I remember this story is the cops joined in with the fun: https://gfycat.com/evilwhimsicalaltiplanochinchillamouse-sno...
Ads? Fractions of a cent is not much, seems like the same order as the amount that could be earned through ad impressions.
If you give any VM all your cores and then your desktop locks up, you played yourself. That wasn't a good idea before docker and it's not a good idea now. I've personally had issues with using file-change-watchers on mounted volumes in some cases but because I limited my VM to half my resources, the underlying OSX was fine and I could still do whatever I needed to do (including killing those containers).
I love the form factor of iPad, and with a physical keyboard it's starting to be quite good.

But...

I can't design UIs on it (no Figma or Sketch - yes there are some vector drawing apps but they don't compare)

I can't edit high quality video on it (locked down codecs - only h264/h265, no prores, no raw codecs, no ability to install codecs beyond what the OS provides)

I can't use an iPad to write software for iPad (no xcode)

File management with iOS13 is better but still clunky compared to desktop OS's.

Yes there are many things you can do with it that qualify as work for many people, but compared to desktop it's still very much lacking in many areas, and not really progressing significantly either. I wish iOS was more extensible by users and it could have a better chance
For a lot of folks it's pretty terrifying to have the cops show up at all; especially, for something so benign as kids playing in the snow. Many people have been killed by police for doing less.
> USB connectors do not have the optical isolation of MIDI current loops; USB interconnecting will bring in noisy ground loops that will have musicians and recording engineers pulling out their hair.

Isn't MIDI... digital? What do ground loops matter as long as the signal decodes?

Or do you mean that they'll put current into the analogue signal chain?

IMHO, the correct response to that is to do all hybrid analogue+digital signal processing in the digital domain with opto-isolated pre-amp ADCs, no?