skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect, and I don’t have any numbers, the occurrence rate of encountering a concealed rocket launcher when performing a traffic stop is quite low.
You mean *this year? Because MS has been unfocused in whether they are a consumer brand or not for many years.
Looks more to me like they are giving up on their Surface line-up specifically, rather than all their consumer focused products. The Microsoft stores & Surface line was Microsoft's attempt at copying Apple with expensive devices with solid build quality and good support. It saw some success but apparently not enough.
Processing != complete. A credit card transaction generally takes 1-3 days to process. Bitcoin is start -> complete in < 10 mins on average.
I chose "oblige" carefully. Basically the ISPs AIUI/IIRC were given the option to voluntarily abide by a blocklist of domains - like thepiratebay - or have legislation made to force them to comply.

I'd heard A&A were an outlier here but didn't know they actively stopped users from choosing their service if they want filtering. That seems weirdly fascist: like a supermarket that won't let you choose not to have Coca Cola on your shopping list, if you don't want it you have to actively remove it yourself.

Porn, yes to some extent, but super-violence, torture, malware, gambling, prostitution, ... these are all things I choose to attempt not to pipe in to my home via OpenDNS/pihole/uBlock/direct instruction to local users!
Supreme Court of Canada dismisses Uber appeal $400M class-action lawsuit
American Colonization Society
Pretty neat, it shadows the `w` command however. Not that is that much useful in a personal computer
PHP Considers Renaming T_paamayim_nekudotayim
Interesting. So the city's tying its own hands. I assume private companies can still use their own resources to do their own individual identification, though.
And at least with SSD there is the risk of the drive wearing out. One should not have to throw away the CPU and GPU just to fix a broken drive.
It is a shame, but not unexpected. I visited the one in the Mall of America, which was ironically directly across the Apple Store. The Apple Store had much more foot traffic every single time.
How to Nail the Local Lead Generation Game
> How much of that is an actual difference in the camera tech and how much of it is subjective perception?

The out of focus area is a dead giveaway for anyone who's even remotely into photography. Phones are very good at taking snapshots but they're extremely limited by the sensor size and the fact that the lens has a fixed aperture, no amount of computational photography will solve these physical constraints. You can't escape physics and optics laws
RE: creativity as a muscle, I think this is a powerful shift in framing. A lot of folks treat creativity as this lightening strike that you must passively wait for. And while some creative ideas are like that, many creatives, including some of the greatest artists in history, forced themselves to work for some unit of time with regularity, and were able to train themselves to be consistently creative over time. Sometimes a great idea feels like the firing of random synapses, but perhaps the priming of that firing happens through habit and dicipline.
I’m not seeing why I’d use this over sql. Can someone please enlighten me as I find this to be much more gobbledegook than sql.
“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
Internet services are regulated by the state, and it's not unheard of for states to turn off access during periods of mass upheaval, or block websites wholesale. What then?
It's true, but I think we paint an overly-rosy picture of what that was like.

Outsiders were shunned for a reason. Because one didn't know if they had left their previous town because they were too antisocial to coexist.
Watch this

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-epis...

“Humming birds have the highest metabolic rates of any invertebrates”
I found it disturbing to discover that my local cemetery has a memorial already up for local officers killed in the line of duty. The only name on it is a police dog. There is a lot of empty space.

I'm sure this came from a salesman at a law enforcement expo who has been selling these to every community in the country. It suggests a national narrative where the police are convinced that people are plotting to kill them at every moment, and even if none actually have, it's only a matter of time.

Every encounter with police begins with hostility. You know they're armed. You know they're assuming you are, too. I can only imagine how that's magnified for people who "fit the profile" solely because of the color of their skin.
Something that’s surprisingly tricky to get working well in Unity is to have the player hold an item in first-person perspective and still make that item a physics object. The camera will update at one rate and the physics objects will update at another. It’s easy to end up with an object that jitters horribly as you move it around.
> Datta [Mobilewalla CEO] said Mobilewalla didn’t prepare the report for law enforcement or a public agency, but rather to satisfy its own employees' curiosity about what its vast trove of unregulated data could reveal about the demonstrators. Datta told BuzzFeed News that the company doesn’t plan to include information about whether a person attended a protest to its clients, or to law enforcement agencies.

> Mobilewalla does not collect the data itself, but rather buys it from a variety of sources, including advertisers, data brokers, and internet service providers.
Most of this country is owned by land baron families with multiple hundred thousands of acres
Gaming companies are responding to a wave of sexual misconduct allegations
I love that permaculture is getting so much interest here. (I shared a link to Bill Mollison’s book early during shelter-and-place and it seemed to really resonate.) Cool to see people wanting to apply its principles to areas like technology.

One thing I’m reminded of here specifically is Steve Job’s idea that computers should be a “Bicycle for the Mind”. (Look up his talk from the early 80s on it if you haven’t seen it.)

There’s so much overlap in the early days of personal computing with ideas like Permaculture. Kind of a blend of hippie-utopian ideas.

I wonder if the Apple II was the closest thing to embodying what the author here is imagining. A bicycle for the mind, and a computer that enabled local communities. Something extensible, which you could hack. Would not be out of place to find an Apple II powering a little solar farm and water pump. Some would probably say the Amiga as well.

I love this aesthetic — a kind of retro futurism. Apple’s early advertisements of a computer in the kitchen, in the classroom, etc, really captured that ethos.
Scientists develop new way to get hydrogen from seawater
>His school is not part of efforts to “decolonise” the African academy.

So they're not interested in fixing colonialism, just writing about it. Typical angle for The Economist.
iPad OS does have mouse support actually. I'm really not sure why they haven't made it possible to develop on iPads yet, I know I would get a 13 inch iPad Pro in a heartbeat if I could develop on it and sideload apps onto it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211008
Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13092-7
I had a surface book2. I bought the accidental damage protection.
A year after I bought it, I cracked the screen.
Took me all of 60 min to get the problem fixed: 20 min to drive to the store. 20 min to get a replacement. 20 min to drive home. The store was remarkably convenient for me (for this and just for seeing the sb2 in action). Not sure if I would have purchased it without the store.
Oh, the Open Pandora, which is literally loaded to the gills with all of the emulators, is a regular treat. But the joy of sitting on an old machine and putting it through its paces is quite something else ..
The graphic under "Database tools are stuck with legacy paradigms" made me chuckle. Just because the tech under the "Legacy" column isn't the new hotness doesn't mean they're suddenly irrelevant or even a bad choice.
At the jail I go to, there is more concern expressed by the prisoners about the destruction caused by the drugs than the drug sentences.
I fantasise about sending a philosophy buff back in time to ancient Rome and setting them loose in the Greek schools. Those Roman senators will have their children return to them with ideas so advanced and so convoluted that they might as well be speaking another language
I feel almost ashamed to say that I don't think I've ever read past the headline on an Onion article.

They just absolutely nail the satire in that one-liner, time after time after time.
Government and corporation. The FAANG companies clearly have enough processing power to churn an entire nation's big data streams.

Although, if one's goal were a town or even an individual city, I bet enough infrastructure to sift the data is buildable or rentable by individuals or small groups of individuals.

It becomes an interesting world when non-profits can afford big data resources.
It's in Southpark
Given how many people shared Onion stories without knowing it's "satire" and the article mentioning "It was always some kind of dry, subtle joke"-

I think The Onion is bad for society.

It spawned numerous knockoff websites that would mislead people "because it's funny!".

If you are scrolling through a website, do you click on every article? Read every detail? And research the root website?

Or do you skim, read mostly headlines and occasionally deep dive?

How many "satire" website headlines do you subconsciously believe?

All for "humor", which is rarely found tbh.
I feel like current database tools don't really cut it! From my own experience, working with databases in Node.js and TypeScript has always been a painful experience – sometimes more, sometimes less, but it was never smooth or enjoyable!

With Prisma, we're setting out to build database tools that make developers more _confident_ and _productive_ [1] in their database workflows!

We're focusing on type-safety, intuitive data modeling, easy working with relations and overall simpler ways for achieving common tasks with your database.

We also wrote at length about what we believe the shortcomings are with databases tools in our documentation [2], would love to hear your feedback about our thoughts here!

[1] https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-2-n0v98rzc8br1/

[2] https://www.prisma.io/docs/understand-prisma/why-prisma
I run Mojave perfectly well on a mid 2012 Macbook Pro, a friend of mine even on a 2008 one (also well for his needs).

Durability has long been a feature of these machines, even sadder to be forced into hardware upgrades by what seems to be intentionally broken core features like wifi.
> people waiting for their appointments

Most Apple stores are located in malls and adjacent to other retail outlets. If you have to wait for an appointment, they take your number and give you a five minute notification when your Genius is going to be ready. Every time I've done it, they've encouraged me to go shop the rest of the mall (not linger).

> It makes the shops look like they're busy, most shops would not make people wait around like that for things to be fixed, but apple gets away with it somehow.

Apple used to get a lot bit of flack for struggling to keep up with Genius appointment loads. I'm not sure if their service has improved or people just accept that wait times are a thing. The few times I've dealt with them it's been reasonable considering the store was basically packed and all 4 Geniuses at the desk working with someone constantly.
unique concept with many possible applications
Is this meant for the average developer or for highly-scalable enterprises only? What is the problem with the current vast number of databases? I personally still use MySQL and MongoDB and don't have many complaints in regards to usability or performance.
That's smart! I wonder how'd it handle this :D https://vader.joemonster.org/upload/rik/18407862f6d8cffmachi...
> expensive devices with solid build quality and good support.

The part in the middle was definitely missing
This is completely wrong.

FixedUpdate can be called several times in one frame or not at all because it's designed to run a consistent amount of time regardless of framerate.

Don't put game logic that involves collecting input in FixedUpdate or you will miss inputs and get all types of errant behavior, definitely don't put AI in there...

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The rule of thumb: FixedUpdate is for per-unit-time, like X meters per second, Update is for per-frame.

(really that boils down to, FixedUpdate is for physics. If you want FixedUpdate for something that isn't physics in Unity, use a Coroutine/InvokeRepeating)

Things in Update will happen less often on a slow computer and more often on a fast one, you don't want your physics to behave differently on a slow computer
The parents I know who could do flex-time liked to spend the morning/afternoon with their kids and then work in the evenings. For younger kids that allows you to split-shift with your partner while for older kids you get to be there when they get ready/get home from school.
Sure, but there’s someone managing a budget and has to decide to either hire 2 good cops or 1 expensive bad cop.

The next step might be that departments have to publish their insurance rates, like the recent hospital bill law.
iPhone 11 on the iOS 14 beta and it takes me to realty.com as desired. Wonder if it's just inconsistency or something that has been fixed.
Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs. Abstractions on abstractions on abstractions.
It’s better to dump dead weight early than have it eat into your profits long term.
The reports showed ethnicity of the protestors. Is this inferred from ad preferences? Or, is there a database that keeps this?
> “It’s hard to tell you a specific reason as to why we did this,” [Mobilewalla CEO Anindya] Datta said. “But over time, a bunch of us in the company were watching with curiosity and some degree of alarm as to what’s going on.” He defined those sources of alarm as what he called "antisocial behavior," including vandalism, looting, and actions like "breaking the glass of an Apple store.” He added that they were attempting to test if protests were being driven by outside agitators.

Probably not the best defense to be made when people are concerned that this technology is being used to suppress and monitor protestors...
Same with the SF Westfield Center store. Great staff. It was a good place to check out various Surfaces in person as well.

I will say, the surfaces/laptops side of the store was usually empty. Some kids playing with the Xbox or people at the counter getting help seemed to be the extent of traffic the past couple of years.

They seem to be aggressively destroying any paltry remaining goodwill with consumer enthusiasts. I'm sure it's great for the bottom line, but is the ultimate goal to only be competing with Google and AWS on who can run the cheapest Linux VMs in the cloud ?
> Lets just try this experiment: dig out the old computer from your attic, dust it off

I would... but my dad sold it decades ago, in order to buy me my PC XT clone. It seemed like a good move at the time (and I learned to program with GWBASIC for the PC), but today I want to go back in time and tell my dad to keep the C64!

Of course I've used VICE and other emulators. BMC64 on the Raspberry Pi feels like the real thing, computer-as-appliance. But I really, really want the beige "breadbin" C64 keyboard for the full experience.

I'm looking into buying a used C64 from my local eBay clone (note: I'm not from the US or the UK). But I keep fearing someone will sell me a defective C64 or that I won't be able to plug it into a modern LCD.

Thanks for the encouragement!
Here is one idea along those lines, Constitutional small claims court: https://www.cato.org/blog/constitutional-small-claims-court
Indexing latency aside, when I search for something on Twitter it shows me results as I type

When I tap on the result, there is invariably something else at the tap location

What's the terminology for this? Flash of ephemeral search result?

Are there any good ways of avoiding this problem?
Visual storytelling for UI-UX design with examples
When I was talking about servicing a laptop, I was thinking about the usualy components, like battery, keyboard, SSD, fans. Things which can break or are going to wear out over time. By that count, a laptop has perhaps 10-20 "parts". Compare that to the complexity of a mechanical watch.

I don't know the going rate for a watch maker, it is probably not cheap. But I know what I paid for servicing my watches before and a multiple of that for having my dealer upgrade the disk in my iMac. Which still has an internal SATA port, but unfortunately is glued together. This is something which should cost less than a watch service, even at the same rate.
"Equations that can be evaluated numerically that shows the behavior of the EM field..."

it's called the Standard Model. You seem far too hung up on the deficiencies of QM, which have been well known for over half a century, so I'm not really sure the point you're trying to make. Every physicist knows that QM is incomplete so whether or not their forced conceptualization of that model agree or not is not really that interesting of a phenomenon.

Also, your comparison to chemistry and biology seem misguided. Chemistry, and the periodic table, are built on our understanding of physics and the constituent particles in each atom. Furthermore, comparing the difference in conceptual descriptions of QM to "but every chemist uses the periodic table" is ridiculous. Every physicist agrees on the accepted values for known physical constants, they all agree what the known fundamental particles are, they all agree what the known fundamental forces are... etc. It seems like you're bothered by the lack of conceptual guidance from physics but that isn't the point of the field. The point is to develop models that make highly accurate predictions about the physical world, from the unimaginably small to the unimaginably large (and they're the most accurate scientific models known to man!).
That doesn't separate out the non-justified killings that we're talking about here. Also, there's no indication that race is the primary cause of the killings.
OP here. As I commented elsewhere: this is not the title that I submitted to HN, and it's not the title on the target page. Someone edited it and I am not sure why.
One day we'll reminisce about the time when it wasn't illegal to let your machine be on the internet without a mask.
So really a whole load of different companies are tracking tons of people, and anyone can buy and aggregate the data, then query it for insights. It's good that they publicised it rather than capitalising on it.
Wonder what will happen to the products at these locations. As someone who lives very close to one (King of Prussia), I'd love to see a chance to pick up some display models on the cheap.
Do you consider Old Navy to be an industry leader for apparel just because they pump out huge volumes of crappy clothes?

The fact of the matter is that Apple is the biggest manufacturer of smartphones in terms of net profit, by far. It’s not even remotely close. That sounds like an industry leader to me.
I used MongoDB + Mongoose in TypeScript and the experience was ok. Just declare a Schema and it works, you get typings and everything. I think the problem was not the DB itself (MongoDB) but the tooling around it.
Oxygen isn't flammable: https://www.thoughtco.com/flammability-of-oxygen-608783

If the oxygen concentration was high enough many things on the surface would burn (green plants, metal, etc.), but the air itself wouldn't. Things would probably rust like crazy too.
I just triggered this myself - if I specifically type out the https portion, Safari won't change the URL, and from that point on I can get to wbay.com by just typing wbay.com.
They'll just do the usual thing when regulations pose a problem: work around them or not hire in that region. That's the tradeoff with regulations, you lose some potentials business.
I think people who fall for The Onion articles are bad for society.

For example: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/congres...
I don't believe any satire websites. Because I understand what satire is. The idea that satire is bad because people are lazy/dumb is much worse than satire itself, I assure you.
If it takes 10 at bats to hit a good article/picture/tweet/HN comment/whatever ... who’s more succesful? The guy who tries once a week or the lass who tries 10x per day?

Nobody remembers the failed attempts because they likely never even saw them. The good shit spreads.
They do, with signs, weekly in-place checks, and usually knocking the property owners front door first.

[PDF WARNING] https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-m...
It annoys me greatly when the ingredients list is not organized logically.

When I write recipes I group the ingredients by step. So for example I might have a "Sauce Ingredients" block, and the instruction will be "add sauce ingredients to the pan". It makes mise less annoying, I don't have to keep scanning the instructions to figure out how to organize my ingredients.
Same, it's a huge hike from the center of Boston
I believe this is normally called innovation :-P
I read this yesterday and it really stayed with me, enough to find this comment again. Do two notes an octave apart not sound harmonious in a particular identifiable way to you?

From another view, it may help to think about it like this: Tones have a certain relationship with each other, and we split that into octaves in Western music to keep track of them. Just like the number 9 precedes 10, and 19 precedes 20, 10 and 20 are "the same number" in base 10 since that's where the pattern repeates. We could count in another number system, but the underlying physical truth of the numbers would be the same.
Is the oxidation of nitrogen exothermic, and sufficiently so to sustain a chain reaction?
I switched to Windows 10 several years ago and don't regret it. Stay on the "happy path" and get hardware that's well supported and your experience will be just as smooth as any Apple experience. I use Lenovo laptops, which are built very well.
Has StreetShares maybe pivoted a bit since you worked there? I'm looking at their website now, and it looks like they sell bonds and then invest the funds in veteran-owned businesses, so it seems like investors aren't directly exposed to any individual business. Honestly I don't see much in common with Mainvest, either in design or concept.

If StreetShares used to look like Mainvest but changed their model, and Felix believed in the original idea and decided to quit and try it again, what's wrong with that? It's like the Vine founders starting Byte, or the Screenhero founders starting Screen. Not only is copying ideas a core part of capitalism, but it barely even counts as copying when it's an idea you yourself worked on.
The oxidation of nitrogen gas is endothermic though. It can't produce heat to sustain a runaway reaction.
I don't agree with this.

The Microsoft Store was basically a bad version of Best Buy that happened to sell Microsoft's hardware products front and center.

Why would a customer go to a Microsoft Store instead of a Best Buy? It has less selection, fewer locations, and likely worse prices, while selling essentially the same product categories.

The Apple Store, in contrast, is arguably mostly possible because it's a massive cell phone store, and before that an iPod store. They didn't exist before the iPod era. By now, Macs probably only account for 5% of the economic activity that takes place in Apple Stores.