skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. When you order something that goes through customs, it will be sent to a random SAPO (not even necessarily your closest one or the same one each time) for you to pay the customs fee in person with cash and sometime card. This is regardless of whether that package was headed for processing and distribution by one of the private post offices.
StackOverflow Feature test: Thank you reaction
It’s an awful metaphor once you actually look into the statistics.
In the commercial sense a ghost town compared to 20 years ago when I first moved here. But yes, I think it’s not the right word.

I don’t know any official figure but I’ve seen entire blocks half-occupied or even less than that (storefronts) about half a year ago when I ventured to Manhattan. I was shocked then and imagine it must be worse now. I was reading an article about the real storefront occupancy rate in Manhattan and it is not a known thing. Various realtors have their internal figures but they don’t share it with the world, so any figures may as well be inflated by them. The bubble is wobbly if you ask me
Keep at it, I tried the same thing. It's really hard to do both school and job at the same time.

I worked for a while and then quit to start my own thing again. It's great, though I do have to gig about half time to pay bill.
I mean they got pushed into it lol-- how do you know you can trust it anymore than say, facebook?
Streamlit is magic and I don't want this to come off as a dismissal, but it can be unpredictably unreliable. I keep having this issue if I run > 0.58:

https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/issues/1440

It's over a month old now, with multiple people reporting the same bug and iterating on the problem with no apparent narrowing towards a reason for why this happens, let alone a solution.
It sounds like the device does not have an internal battery so it depends on the capacity of the battery that you attach to it.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/features/

> For a light workload at 25% CPU usage, the device can run on a 65 W battery for approximately 6 hours.

The docs are a little inconsistent on wattage requirement. The feature page above says "60 W+ (20 V) USB-C power adapters", but in the docs:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/snowcone-guide/s...

> any USB-C power adapter that is rated for 45W+
You need to account data transfer OUT if you need to get your data from S3. _If_ you could download 100PB data, it'd cost you $1M.
Just think of all the “snow” products as a modern version of sneaker net (it used to be faster to run down the hall with a disk than transfer files over the network because networks used to be really slow).

The snow products solve the same issues. Despite fiber connections and such it just doesn’t make sense to transfer massive volumes of data over the network. It’s often literally faster and cheaper to ship a box of hard drives via UPS or FedEx.

Snowball was for big sets of files and is the size of a suitcase. Snowmobile is for petabyte scale and is literally a tractor trailer full of disks.

The use case here seems to be more towards remote situations with smaller data. You have something that collects a lot of data and need to get that into your cloud. Instead of running around with a bunch if portable hard drives and then having someone transfer the data manually to S3 over the internet you just dump your data into the snowcone and hand it to your local UPS guy and let AWS take care of the rest. Lots of remote data collection devices and such would fit into that model.

Clearly the use case is rather specific but for people in the business of collecting data on stuff and then needing to get it into the cloud this is actually a nifty little device.
There's a couple of things worth at least considering. The article states:

>"The two roommates were also given one month's rent free and did not have to pay a broker fee, which typically would have cost them 12% to 15% of the annual rent."

There was actually legislation passed back in the Winter that effectively did away with the whole broker fee system.[1] I know a judge temporarily blocked this as per the article but that was only until June.

>'"But, he said, more apartments are also available because people just up and left their leases. While many left when the pandemic shut down the city, others left later when the protests over the killing of George Floyd began, Gavzie said.'

Generally you are legally obligated for the rent for the duration of your lease. So while a renter can "just up and leave", if they don't fulfill their obligations they can be sued. So if by upping and leaving a tenants pay's the remainder of their financial obligation then it would make sense that a landlord would give them a discount since they may be collecting twice on the same place for some period time.

[1] https://ny.curbed.com/2020/2/11/21132836/nyc-broker-fees-law...
It would not surprise me to learn that the parser has special rules for the token "map".
Status is the decentralized alternative to Whatsapp [1] and cryptocurrency is the decentralized alternative to Facebook Pay.

However I think Status and cryptocurrency are nowhere near ready for mass-adoption. I don't use Status, because it hasn't implemented private payments yet. Unmasked payments on the blockchain can completely compromise your privacy.

[1] https://decrypt.co/25629/status-wants-to-be-the-worlds-most-...
Thanks for letting me know! I contacted support.
That doesn't appear to be true. Several examples here:

... and here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/08/t...

> Costello hired a local attorney to get the money back. After making a few calls, the lawyer told him to accept a deal from the government for half of the money. Costello agreed. But his legal fees were $9,000 — leaving him with only about $7,000.

> In one respect, Guerrero was lucky. His construction firm paid a small amount to make his legal struggle possible, and Stone had agreed to do much of the work without pay. Given the time involved, the legal bills would have been $50,000, Stone said. But he agreed not to press for his fee from the government as part of the settlement.

> He wanted to get his money back, but he had no idea how to sort through the intricacies of the federal civil forfeiture system, an arcane corner of the American legal world. Though he was never charged with a crime, he would have to prove, in effect, that he made the money legally.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/how-p...

> In New York, the multi-step process required to get the NYPD to release possessions can be opaque and circuitous. When the Bronx Defenders circulated a questionnaire in 2014 among its clients who had possessions taken from them at the time of arrest, nearly half said they were never even given the itemized voucher that Clavasquin received.

> Even with that voucher in hand, petitioning the district attorney’s office for the necessary forms to release items categorized as evidence can be fruitless: More often than not, requests to the district attorney’s office—whether phoned in, written, or emailed—go unanswered, said Adam Shoop, a Bronx Defenders attorney who helped bring the class-action lawsuit against the city. The only reliable way to force a response is to file an administrative appeal, a legal tool that the average non-lawyer almost certainly wouldn’t be able to use on his or her own, Shoop said.
Nuclear is not cost competitive against renewables and storage, correct. This doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a role in the generation mix as a small baseload component, but that role will require subsidies based on nuclear’s low carbon footprint.

https://www.lazard.com/media/451086/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
You absolutely can, but this leads directly to vonquant’s point (and antris’ follow-up)[1]: without the source, how far do you trust Facebook to not just pull a UI trick? It’s paranoia all the way down ;)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554909
Nano-motor of just 16 atoms runs at the boundary of quantum physics
Rwanda is a small country, about the size of the Massachusetts state in the US, but with double the population. It's in the mountains, lots of forests and lakes. No deserts. Not a lot of unused land where you can mount solar panels. Nuclear makes sense for them.
Facebook, show us your secret recipe
> That's how Apple supports and pays for its work on the platform.

Oh, really? Then what's the justification for not charging a single cent for free apps? It costs Apple just as much to host the Facebook app on the App Store as it does Hey (or any other paid app). This has always been such a disingenuous argument, and there's no justification for Apple's tax to be a percentage of the app price anyway. All this does is punish developers of high quality apps. Why should a developer of a $30 app pay $10 to Apple, but a 99 cent app pays only 30 cents, and a free app pays nothing? That's an insane pricing policy.
The idea that you can't attack someone's behavior is ridiculous. If you want to consider what i'm doing virtue signaling then go right ahead I guess.
My biggest challenge with immer has been that my code aesthetic taste leans functional, but immer makes code look imperative even if it is ultimately functional. Always looks a little wrong to my eye!
A majority of the alternatives put up vs Zoom here outside Jitsi come from Verizon, Microsoft, and Google. Seems more like the routine of being super anti something specific. Like Facebook before and now. Among others.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a single state-run company in South Africa that isn't bankrupt or on the brink of bankruptcy.

The key factor has been unmitigated corruption and ineptitude.
Because not so clearly fake users still make it through. The server side is also fairly quick on the trigger if you accidentally send anything that doesn't make sense, you're kicked off to "re-verification land"
> Good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor.

A 4k monitor is now $300 (new). Used are even cheaper.

> Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming. I use i3 and it adds way more productivity to my workflow

I use Gnome 3.36 and many HiDPI issues I was having before are now gone, without any extra configuration.

> My argument in favor of 1080p is that I find text to just be... completely readable.

It is readable but fonts are pixelated, unlike 4k.

My only problem is that macOS has some artificial limitations when it comes to using non-Apple monitors. Like a lower refresh rate. My solution? Use Linux.
Quality Competition in the Security Software Market (2014)
Which statistics? Rate of unintended explosions?

I believe the "steel man" argument is that living next to a nuclear power plant exposes you to unknown tail risks.
The endgame for SpaceX (and us) is not building and launching rockets (or satellites).

The endgame for all of us is large-scale colonization of Solar System.
It's kind of a pain, but possible. You have to redirect it as a generic USB device. I wrote a guide here:

https://queensidecastle.com/guides/use-a-yubikey-remotely-ov...
Is there no way to sync files with the remote environment so that you don't have to actually use notepad.exe
I think you’re being too negative here. I’m not an expert.

My understanding is given that there is a pre existing T cell response that doesn’t mean that you will not be infected or that you will not have antibodies if infected. However it could totally be possible that when infected you are much less likely to show symptoms,die or spread it to others.

It’s a tough hypothesis to completely verify but the dip in deaths and infections in many places in spite of lifting lockdowns lends some support to this theory.

This controversial thesis has support from some experts like Dr Sunetra Gupta who teaches epidemiology at Oxford.
Right, and that's the more compelling rebuttal. The public health effects of fossil fuels are broadly underrated.
I've been using findka for a few months, and love getting relevant recommendations every Friday. I've discovered lots of new music, books, movies and articles through it.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.

World War II and the US civil war didn't ended the violence, it just changed the way that violence manifests. If you look in many groups on Facebook, 9gag or redit , you will see Violence in protests are being used to create more hate in people who hates. I really believe that the society was improved by ideas not wars.
It's a chicken and egg problem. Input systems could be a lot better, and we wouldn't need (as much) a specialized IDE. E.g., in Linux, I can type « and » if I map the compose key (which I do, but it isn't the default). For really wild characters, OS X has a pretty decent character search dialog (^+⌘+Space) though it has a few usability shortcoming that I really wish Apple would address. (I wish I could get a decent implementation of this in Linux, and I wish I could get a compose key in OS X.)

(I'm not sure I'm convinced that using such symbols in a programming language is a good idea, of course, just that our current input tech is barely trying.)

Also, APL happened.
Business model seems to be broken. I pay a giant internet bill each month, basically insane margins based on what it should actually cost to deliver much faster connectivity than what I get, yet none of that extra money funds the things that I actually use the internet for. (Why does it cost that much? Part of the reason may be that our local cable company is a government-enforced monopoly, that it's next to impossible to get right of way for new fiber, and that wireless is currently uncompetitive. Perhaps 5G may change things, but I'm not holding my breath.)

Moreover, the internet makes distribution nearly free and allows a nearly unlimited number of people to access information and digital media from all over the world, but lengthy (70 years or more) copyright terms make it illegal to do so in many cases. Instead, thousands or millions of person-hours are spent on the impossible task of trying to make bits behave like physical objects in order to satisfy legal and business requirements. When an organization such as the internet archive tries to make a digital library whose collection isn't bound by the constraints of physical libraries, they are sued by publishers for copyright infringement and potentially liable for $150k in statutory damages per occurrence.
Not for options, I think it's only Robinhood, tastyworks, and webull.
I created and maintain an audiobook iPhone app, Bound. I’ve been meaning to integrate LibriVox as a source but the API leaves a lot to be desired. Has anyone had experience with this? It seems like I should just use Archive.org as the source instead.

If anyone wants to check out my app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bound-audiobook-player/id10417...
A testable hypothesis for your idea: do women age slower than men.
It looks like that's already been done, and there are tightly packed groups where the infection rate was 70-100%, as mentioned above. So, no existing immunity at all, probably. That was the claim in the original article, but the data does not bear it out.
So magazines, newspapers, books (written words) + databases and cloud storage are fine? But that sounds like the ingredients of EMAIL. So arbitrary.
Show HN: I made a minimalist YouTube Chrome Extension to avoid all distractions
The vast majority of these obfuscations (maybe except for the scratch arguments one) are done as LLVM passes, so it's done post-code writing, writing code like this would be unreadable and unmaintainable.
> Decriminalize individual possession of small quantities of (most) drugs.

But then you haven't ended the war on drugs. We need legalization, not decriminalization.
And do you feel rejuvinated?
Apple's secure boot destroys data when T2 firmware gets corrupted [video]
Show HN: New Tamariba
Tauria: End-to-End Encrypted Video Conferencing Software
The cheapest grid scale electricity generation option are dams in this case on the Ruzizi.
Why is this political piece on the front page but I haven’t seen one article about George Floyd??
I messaged his daughter Christina a few years back about what influenced his work:

Here are two key links to his thinking on what's missing in today's information technology that would be very important to integrate in a seamless environment:

About Open Hyperdocument Systems - http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/ohs.html short description and links to resources

Toward High-Performance Organizations: http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-132811.html A Strategic Role for Groupware. 1992 Engelbart article [print-version] (AUGMENT,132811,).
And here's a bit about what he himself pioneered and why: http://dougengelbart.org/events/1968-demo-highlights.html
Video highlights of Doug's 1968 Demo

And lastly his historic work is captured in this repository for your browsing pleasure: http://dougengelbart.org/library/engelbart-archives.html
Engelbart Digital Archive
This is true. But researchers are divorced from those realities. The day-to-day researchers almost never have to think like "If I run this, will it cost a ton?" Those kinds of agreements are usually made on a company basis, i.e. there's no cost to just leave a model running and see what happens. (Which is a huge advantage, by the way.)
I tried this on 1 or 2 small projects, years ago.

It was okay. It's cool that you can import data directly into Lua scripts, since Lua usually has poor library support for any other data format.

But I hit a wall with a limit on the number of tables in a file or something, that was specific to the Lua impl I was using. (Probably LuaJIT)

Sometimes I miss Lua. I think with only a few big breaking changes it could be a much better language.
I made a video explaining this paper if interested!
https://youtu.be/7rFLnQdl22c
ImageGPT Explained
Yes - dang, this is clearly a misleading headline. Please can we have it updated?
Wow, flashback to playing with various Mode-13h DOS paint programs as a kid.
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How (and why) Customer Success leaders are owning more of the product roadmap
I’d actually recommend Taichung as well. Much more affordable than Taipei, and more spacious.

Air quality has regressed though, because they shut down the nuclear power plant after Fukushima.
I've always enjoyed the famously small book "Javascript: The Good Parts", albeit a bit dated at this point
> However, you can double your income by thinking differently about LI.

How? I would love to double my income.
What do you mean "we weren't very productive"? People were plenty productive with the original Mac.

I was plenty productive on PC XT clone with a tiny monochrome CRT monitor and an Hercules video card. (I wanted to say I was plenty productive with my C64, but that'd be stretching it :P )

What I want to fight is this notion that once tech N+1 arrives, then tech N must have been unproductive. That's demonstrably false, a form of magical thinking, and not a healthy mindset in my opinion.
You and Your Research – A talk by Richard W. Hamming [pdf]
No. If you look at the map you'll see that there's an equally sized coverage gap at each pole. I don't know if any reliable source has stated whether they will put any satellites in orbits that can cover the poles, but I imagine it's a pretty low priority commercially.

There is already some polar coverage from the Iridium network, which uses orbits with higher inclination.
If you have data that you're unlikely to need to access (i.e. backups), not many providers can compete with Deep Archive storage pricing.

4TB on S3 Deep Archive: $3.96/mo to store, $360 to restore and download over the internet
4TB on B2: $20/mo to store, $40 to download
4TB on Digital Ocean: $80/mo to store, $30 to download

Yes, it feels almost extortionary to have to pay that much to get your data out of AWS. But depending how long you store data for, it can end up being the cheaper option: you're just gambling on how likely you are to actually need to download it.
What a delectable rabbit hole! My favorite from that thread probably Dwarf Fortress - a game that uses text symbols for graphics to create an enitre fantasy world. This article from 2013 talks about how Notch drew inspiration for minecraft from it.

https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/

There is something special about seeing someone commit an inordinate amount of time to singular focus. Following that thread to see who/what else follows...who inherits the obsession and how they evolve it...I could read all day about it.
They certainly live longer
I wish I could know how the position of each of them was chosen...
These statistics: http://origin.who.int/airpollution/en/
Their about page says that Archive.org hosts their audio files for free.
Why are you talking about screen size when the article is talking about pixel density? You can have a lot of pixels but low pixel density because your screen is huge, while my first 200+ PPI display was on an iPhone 4, my watch has a 200+ PPI display as well. I don't think many would accept phones or watches with lower pixel densities these days, but somehow the display we use for work is different?

You are right that there is a cargo culting going on, but it is going on both sides. There are a lot of strawmen out there as well.
I loved living in the city as a kid. Going to the suburbs to see my grandparents always showed me how miserable it was out there. The parks in the city are better, the food and culture is incomparable, and the diversity was incredibly important to who I am today.
Yes - dang, this is clearly a misleading headline. Please can we have it updated?

Actually even the full headline is misleading. The impression is given that Apple, Sony, and Samsung directly used the forced labor rather than simply buying things from suppliers who did.

This doesn’t absolve them of responsibility for preventing this now that they know, but it isn’t what the headline says.
Why is there so little competition for these? $50 for a key that maybe costs $5 to manufacture (yes, including software development, at their volume) is a little too rich for my blood.
Twinkle, twinkle little star, but not on our watch
There's one called charity entrepreneurship
the less-capable Unitree A1 quadruped is priced at <$10k
Do you mean they're helping their domestic peaceful nuclear energy industry grow?
How do you renegotiate? It seems like you need to be willing to walk to have any negotiating leverage, and moving is a pain in the ass.
Dams have their own consequences. Downstream flow change, deep water de-oxygenation, reduction in silt flows (they can be beneficial)

Not that anything is without its costs/benefits basically.
If you're in search of cure, get a job in government. It's an education both in brute force and ignorance.
According to the 2010 Census Cleveland lost 17.1% of its population at that time.
I don't think you would need user generics for this to work.
I'd say it's really hard to abuse sum types, I wouldn't say the same of generics.