skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be frank when people using "..., and that’s OK" they pretty much lost me. It implies the person thinks their value judgement on the matter is somehow universal - which it just is not.

I use sci-hub - others can decide for themselves to use it - but I'm not going to say others should think it is okay or not okay if I use it - the value judgements of most other people regarding my actions is not something that I care about a lot.
There is a bit of a case insofar that we have a (limited) form of macro-organization along songlines.
If their excretions create an aerosol then you could breath it in.
Deepnote seems quite interesting, but as a cheapskate grad student, I'm compelled to ask.

If this information isn't private, what sort of business model do you use? I take it you'll have a SaaS subscription model? I see it's free to use now, but how does your company plan to make money (especially taking into account the cost of the cloud hosting Deepnote requires)?
27th of January? Is this yesterday's? Quoting:

2741 confirmed
5794 suspected
461 severe
80 deaths

Compare to https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51275896 , on 28th:

"The death toll from the new coronavirus now stands at 106, with the number of infections almost doubling in a day to more than 4,500."

Can't see sitrep for 28th yet.
> Always more people, always more asphalt, always more buildings

London's population today (8.7 million) is only marginally more than it was in 1939 (8.6 million). For much of the 20th century the population decreased - there's no reason that can't happen again, especially if people migrate out of London for work.
With heavy enough tails even the mean might not exist.
An ex-colleague of mine who moved to Scotland from Spain was amazed when he first came here at how fast our clouds move!
This is a fun idea, and I am a terrible person as all I would think about doing is ways to subvert it and torment the family.
That works until you need to drive somewhere after 10pm or before 5am which will result in you getting bothered by damn near every cop you pass.
And last I checked it does not work on wine and there is no Linux version.
I think 2.1 ug/l is 2100 parts per trillion (where "trillion" means 10E+12)

A ug is 10E-6 grams, a liter is about 10E+3 grams.
Probably of dubious use but perhaps to have a comparison also have the time of some assembler instructions like ADD, MUL and DIV. Just an idea. When I saw: branch mispredict 3ns, I thought first, okay and how many typical assembler instruction is this?
Beating the heat in the living wings of butterflies
having a person follow you around is not the same as an AI. you're comparing apples and oranges. I think having laws to control how and when the data is accessed as well as a degree of transparency into that access along with safeguards/oversight is reasonable. to simply say that we shouldn't use the technology is luddite fearmongering.

should we have kept filing cabinets full of papers instead of databases for tracking criminals across state lines as well? see? I can make bullshit comparisons too!
You have to use IAM, but if you're feeling particularly rebellious then you can setup one Admin account and one API account with liberal permissions and never touch IAM again. For obvious reasons it wouldn't be recommended...
And now it's gone, why flagging, then taking it away? Why no infos? What's happening?
> Setting aside the issue of counterfeits on Amazon, this is really nice. Clear, simple, functional and allows you to explore the space not just comparison shop for a specific item.

yea and totally broken UI on mobile. not their fault though. is it time for browsers to adopt a sensible default CSS for mobile?
https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/...

I have this page open for the last 24 hours. It updates whenever the journos have tangible info. Dreadful.
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He meant UX and feature-wise capable, not hardware-wise.

He's right, if the OS itself was more advanced, than even if the same people who own iPads now wouldn't be interested in using those features other than their regular media consumption, it would still open up a new market for the iPad (new target audience). But with its current limitations, it can't do that.
Nice to see you're using my email forwarding service, https://forwardemail.net!

Awesome stuff!
Take a look at Standard Notes. It is privacy focussed with encryption but has markdown and code editors and can be self hosted
So about 3% mortality rate, I'd say that's pretty scary...
Everyone talks tough on the internet but when it comes down to it basically everyone will avoid an accident because regardless of who's fault it would be it's still a massive pain in the ass and the proliferation of dash-cams has much reduced the opportunities to be a dick and make the other guy pay.
You need to buy hardware specifically for hackintoshing. Don't just buy whatever's in fashion and try to make Mac OS fit.

If you do that it's mostly hassle free. Never had freezes, had stuff like sound not working when coming back from sleep (which i solved by switching to usb audio).

Of course, then something will come along and fuck you up, like Apple dropping nvidia drivers completely. Which is solved by getting an AMD video card. Admit it, it was time you upgraded the video card anyway :)
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Q: are there any uses for old Core 2 desktops without onboard GPU that consume ~200W when idle?

I'm wondering if I should just trash my old desktop, especially if it'll be cheaper in the long term to get something more power-efficient.
Yes, NVMe is on a 4x pcie pipeline right to the CPU, where SATA runs through another chip.
"if I could go back to the pre-split-screen, pre-drag-and-drop interface I would. Which is to say, now that iPadOS has its own name, I wish I could install the iPhone’s one-app-on-screen-at-a-time, no-drag-and-drop iOS on my iPad Pro. I’d do it in a heartbeat and be much happier for it."

Weirdly there is just a setting and it is strange that Gruber doesn’t know about it.

Settings->HomeScreen & Dock->Multitasking->Allow Multiple Apps

“Drag applications from the Dock or Home screen to create Split View and Slide Over apps. Swipe from the right edge to reveal your last Slide Over app.”
Yes, lets talk about bandaids when we should be talking about the elephant in the room. That'll help.

The whole economy of IT thriving off surveillance and cheap tricks is sickening. I went into this field to try and help the flow of information, to try and address the likes of Murdoch; turns out we're a shitty species that shouldn't propogate.
> I honestly have not seen this, and the reason makes no sense. Your browser is not handling the data. The kernel is. I mean yes, if you try to load several GB of data in pandas, it's possible you will have problems if you run out of RAM, but this has nothing to do with notebooks.

This is true nowadays with Jupyter, because it is smart about truncating output. But it used to be possible to OOM the browser by e.g. printing in an long-running loop or displaying too long of a list/table.
Support for Ryzentosh is improving everyday, and more and more Hackintoshers are successfully going the Ryzen route. Latest Catalina even works.

However, there are some caveats. Because AMD is not officially supported, some things don’t work like Adobe apps, Android emulator and VMs. Fortunately ios development on Xcode works.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned what I see as the biggest failings of notebooks: poor handling of connection loss / re-connection. The kernel will continue to run, but a connection hiccup will often make the notebook UI stop updating (and lose any kernel output).
Slide Over is one of the best features out there. And it’s as simple as can be. You get what amounts to a mini iPhone available on command. And split screen is not only very useful, I think it’s a fundamentally better multitasking model that the traditional desktop OS for screens under 23” or so.

I agree that adding apps to multitasking seems to baffle people. But this seems like it can
Reminds me of how I was sad when the bridge for Shoreditch Overground station blocked the Tea Building, but that was before the first Street View image it seems: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5231608,-0.0776078,3a,75y,...
SATA2 is really old. The SATA revisions are:

SATA1 - 1.5Gb/s
SATA2 - 3.0Gb/s
SATA3 - 6.0Gb/s

SATA3 is often referred to as SATA6G although because of 8b/10b encoding overhead you a SATA6G link maxes out at 4.8Gb/s

There are many NVMe SSDs that use 4 lanes of PCI-E Gen 3 which is just under 32Gb/s

If you read this review you can see read speeds of 3500MB/s which is 28Gb/s or just under the 32Gb/s limit.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13761/the-samsung-970-evo-plu...

I am using lowercase "b" for bit and capital "B" for byte
Adding more capacity means more trips can happen at the same cost (time being the one we're discussing here) which is of benefit to society.
I would argue that vi(m) is more user-friendly by being more upfront about its learning curve.
200W when idle?! That's ridiculous! I'd personally just trash it, unless the upfront cost of something more power efficient is too high.
The who.int you see is the url.
I can kind-of see why some people think that more and more people coming to more and more jobs in bigger and bigger buildings is unsettling. But I think it is better than the opposite, which many inside London's prosperity bubble often seem to forget - remember the decay and poverty in some other parts of England, communities hollowed out by declining industry and lack of jobs, near derelict streets of houses up for sale at £1 each to try and attract people back, people turning to crime and drugs and yearning to return to some largely mythical past which the populist leaders have promised them.
> Which makes protests like this one even more important and noteworthy, as those people protesting are risking a lot more compared to the "privileged" professions I mentioned above.

The profession doesn't matter at all, because anyone can go to the streets and protest to defend public interests. But attacking your own employer is not a solution. Why not to look for a job at NGO, or get involved in a non-profit startup instead? Oh, it doesn't pay well enough? Then you have to come into an agreement with yourself.
I think you'd do a lot of money with referal links. I'd be a regular user. Please extend.
Depending on how the electricity is produced in your area and whether you use the heat for home heating, it may be better for the climate to simply turn these computer off.
When I see someone behind me I will switch to the right but sometimes I am too slow (=they are significantly above the speed limit) and the speeding idiots try to pass me on the right side even if it is illegal. When someone is going 200km/h on a 130km/h road you don't want to block their path by suddenly switching at the last moment.

This type of regressive behavior is disgusting. When someone tries to pass I now have to be extra careful about switching lanes because they may pass me on the right. This leads to even slower switching which fuels even more passing on the right.

Just follow the damn rules.
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The iPad as a portable computer suffers from the same problem cameras do - the best camera is the one you have with you, and in that same way the best computer is often the phone in your pocket.
Excuse me, but who are these benevolent 3rd parties who freely exist to "serve" you? Do you mean sites like Expedia or Booking.com, who are, of course, getting paid behind the scenes to highlight specific hotels? Or "review" sites who select their winner based on top paying affiliate links (see Sleepopolis)? Or car review sites who glowingly praise some new model, right after the writer was flown to California and given an all-expense paid weekend to tour wine country?
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Unmaintained asphalt roads are still better than unmaintained dirt roads.
Mostly disagree. The camera progression on newer iPhones is a big differentiator [for many]. Also I don’t more or less always have an iPad in a pocket like I do a phone.
What do you do? The vulnerabilities don't apply to a vast majority of situations (meltdown was about the only one and it has been patched - more of a big).

Unless you are running untrusted VM from others, you're not making a rational, knowledgeable decision.

Most people are just using this to falsely justify their Intel hate, similar to Microsoft in the 2000s.
Those aren't lost sales. Nobody sane would pay $40 or so for a 20 pages paper. Even if Scihub didn't exist. Publishers know nobody pays that. There are other options free for academic, such as subscriptions universities pay for or inter-library loans. Non-academic clients may try asking somebody who has a subscription access for a given paper (I know I did provide paper PDFs a few times when asked).

Publishers don't prey on individual users, they prey on universities. They try to get them to pay for journal access. Non-academic clients? Not profitable enough for us, go away. Scihub threatens this business model, because universities may decide to stop paying that money because Scihub exists. It's much more convenient than bothering a random person to provide you a paper or inter-library loan which makes this an actual risk to them.
I move that PirateBay downloads can be a lot more secure than stuff from many commercial vendors.

In our case, the hackintosh community is highly technical and would notice any suspicious behaviour immediately.

Also, I think all the drivers are available on github? The TonyMac stuff is just a frontend that installs the same source available drivers...
Hm, good point. I'm sure there'd be a business model that could get around that, but everything I'm thinking of would require people selling the system to their friends.
Ask HN: Automating Staging Branch
I've been thinking for about 5 years about how much dull actions is managing staging branch when you're developing a project.

Just imagine you have to do it every single day:

- merge each feature

- resolve conflicts

- repeat it after each release because you need to reset it to the master branch

- don't forget to merge all features again and resolve conflicts again

- you never know how actual staging branch is

I did try to solve this with local scripts but my boiling point reached a year ago when I got tired of all this questions in my team "can I reset the staging branch", "how actual it is" and so on.

And finally I've build a prototype and we're happy using it for half a year. Now, all we need to do to keep staging branch always actual is just add "staging" label to the pull request. The bot will always reassemble staging branch after new commits and releases from labeled pull requests.
I'm wondering how useful this app will be for other teams. Will you introduce such workflow to your team?

Let's imagine it'll cost you $5/mo for 2 users with unlimited projects and $50/mo for unlimited users.

Is this a real issue or I'm just only one who seems concerned.
Thing is there's is already plenty of open source code out there written by people of very varied means. As far as I know patent troll like behavior is not a major problem for open source, so I don't see why it would magically become the case.
It is a great job to create an "starter" project.

However I would expect at this time of the JS to have one single import that does all the work for me hiding all the configuration files. Making good/best decisions for the default configuration. Also deciding how to do things like database connection, transactions, HTTP server, SSL, UI, ...
No, he said that it does not have a (worthwhile) GPU inside the case and made the unfortunate word choice "integrated".
Hence the need for an eGPU.

Your interpretation of what he/she wrote makes no sense for any non-server hardware. If it can show something on the screen it obviously has a GPU (it just might be garbage).
I feel the same, although in a sense it was an early taste of the probably-inevitable privacy landscape that faces our kids, and has allowed me to embrace that with slightly less panic.
I am a developer and have no problems developing Linux software on Windows desktop (namely C++ rest servers). It just works™ for me
Because of the form factor. iPad is close in size to the papers used before. iPhone is way too small and a Mac is way too big and clumsy. Also a Mac has a clamshell design as opposed to being just a tablet that fits nicely in front of the pilot.
I use a Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem56 (REM56G-100) PCMCIA card that has a packet driver for DOS and a TP-LINK TL-MR3040 mobile router that has a ethernet socket, mTCP does the rest on software layer. Yes, a lot of people install Linux on their Librettos, but I wanted something oldschool and be able to play DOS games.
The way I see it is that the existing road network is an enormous public capital investment that is permitted to woefully underperform due to political pressure to make roads cheap or essentially free. The idea that roads are "breaking even" when you roughly balance road spending and money raised from roads is artificial.

Given the huge historical capital investment states have made in their roads they should be making money; or if they are not, we should be acknowledging that we are choosing to not make money at market rates when we compare the costs involved with roads with other forms of transport (especially rail).

I don't think we should necessarily do anything different with roads, but we should acknowledge that, well, pretty much everything at this scale needs to be subsidized out the wazoo - roads as well as public transport. I'm not arguing for some sort of dystopia where the government does some crazy user-pays thing on even public asset; just an end to the endless rhetoric about how roads "break even" while public transport "needs to be subsidized".
That's the entire point I think: Chinese cultural identity is broad enough to consider all those numerous competing kingdoms of its past predecessors in direct line. Contrast this with Europe, where almost everybody has at some point in time claimed succession to the Roman Empire but even something as small as a united Italy is actually a fairly recent invention, with forced language unification and all that.

Egypt, to take an example GP used, had numerous cultures and languages sweep through its geographic location so that modern Egypt has nothing in common with the one 5000 years ago except for the fact that some pyramids are still standing.

Perhaps the secret to perceived Chinese contiuity is (besides considerable geographic isolation) the non-phonetic writing system which should be relatively stable when dialects inevitably diverge when regions shift apart politically for more than a few decades.
What exactly would Apple lose if they offered A subscription service ($199/year? $19/month?) that allowed registered developers the right to install macOS either on bare hardware or a VM? I can’t speak for everyone else but the only reason I bought a MacBook Pro was for iOS development; I have to imagine there is a number where Apple would be fine with dispensing with making/shipping/selling/supporting the hardware and would just sell the software. Heck, I’d be fine if it was a developer-only stripped down macOS that only ran Xcode and tooling that required Xcode (Xamarin, Flutter, and Ionic development and IPA compile step). Seriously: what is the harm to Apple is allowing/selling this?
Hmm, maybe my disk is using SATA3 then, I have an Evo and a not-ancient motherboard. However, I'm wondering whether I'll see a practical difference in my day to day workloads, which is mostly web development and no gaming.
Devel branch updated on 2019-10-19 and uses Alpine Linux as sysroot.
I'm not sure whether I should envy or pity you. Writing code that is that obvious and boring cannot be very fulfilling. How long until a machine does that for you (after all, automating boring and obvious stuff is what we programmers do)? OTOH, on days where I feel lazy I can only wish my world were that simple.
We have no idea how old indigenous culture is in Australia

It is suspected that aboriginal stories about eg sea level rise, comets, changes in flora and fauna are based on historical events. Some of those events can be dated, suggesting on oral tradition that goes back 10,000+ years.
Makes sense, thanks for answering! :)
Back when Connecticut re-numbered the highways they struck a deal where they'd re-number the highways as the signs were replaced to save money. Massachusetts being Massachusetts they'll inevitably find a way to replace all the signs three or four times to maximize the number of favors they can do for the well connected people in the relevant industries.
I came across a Crosley Shelvador, mentioned in the article, the first refrigerator with built-in shelves, apparently.

Built in the 1950s, by the early 1990s, the unit was 1) still functioning, 2) in absolutely beautiful condition, and 3) as or more efficient than modern "energy-efficient" refrigerators.
Flu is an example of a virus that we cannot control and now comes back every year, kills hundreds of thousands and puts huge strain on global healthcare systems. One thing we are desperately trying to prevent is the Coronavirus becoming another seasonal virus on top of the flu.

There are also additional risks like a higher fatality rate in otherwise healthy people and the likelihood of the virus mutating into something that can spread like wildfire.
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I’ve always been too worried about catching a norovirus, to go on a cruise ship.

And plus, if I go on vacation, I’d rather explore, than be stuck on a boat for 7 days.
You may enjoy Common LISP's looping: it's a whole minilanguage where you can say stuff like

(loop for i from 1 upto 10 ..)
(loop for i from 1 below 11 ..)
(loop for i from 10 downto 1 ..)
(loop for i from 10 above 0 ..)
(loop for i from 3.5 to 7.5 by 0.25 ..)

It does much more than that, I should mention; it's a whole mini-language/DSL (like format).
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Force touching on the keyboard gives your finger control over the cursor more like a touch pad on a computer. It works really well on the iPhone, not sure if it's available on iPad. But yet again, one of those feature you just have to know about to use.
Money that would be better spend on super computers i think
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Which operation are you asking about? [1] is a sister comment which I posted that outlines how to do most of the operations I mentioned.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168494
What investments can you recommend? I'd like to invest but my savings aren't too big and I'm scared to loose them on stocks vs buying a house.
Autocorrect on the iOS from four years ago was nothing short of magic. It would understand the most confused babble and rarely needed any guidance. It even seemed to get used to my style of typing after a while. Today, it is a constant battle. It keeps trying to rope in my address book, different languages I’m not typing in, and arcane words. I correct it every four sentences at least.

I thought I wanted these features; boy was I wrong.
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Even if you boot kernel with EFISTUB or whatever way you decide, you still need something that will mount encrypted storage before you can switch to /sbin/init.
What software do you use?
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I think that is different from being “user friendly”, where “user friendly” means “the UI for this application is as intuitive as we could make it do that a wide range of nontechnical users are able to comfortably use this application with a minimum of formal instruction.”