skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was around when Flash had its heyday (~2005-2010 or so) and in those times it was the other way around: Screw anyone who doesn’t want to use Flash/who wants to use only FOSS software/who is using another CPU architecture than x86.

Keep in mind that Flash was not an open platform. Far from it. Adobe held it in an iron grip and it was their way or the highway. So no, I don’t feel sorry about the demise of Flash.

Edited to add: Also, on macOS you are free to run any browser you like. As long as the browser supports Flash you’re set. When it comes to iOS then Apple had good reasons to not support it. If you want to develop for iOS you can use HTML5 instead or build a native app.
What from the perspective of the police officer is reasonable grounds to fear for his life, is going to be a larger number of situations than those where someone is actually, with perfect knowledge, making an attempt on his life. Or put another way, people do things with (e.g.) the intention of injuring/obstructing/etc. and escaping, but that a reasonable person would interpret as being an attack on their life. If you wave a gun in someone's face, they are in their rights to shoot you, even if you had no intention of ever firing it.
> That is about Rosetta, not Apple Silicon.

It's about Rosetta... on Apple Silicon: "Rosetta is a translation process that allows users to run apps that contain x86_64 instructions on Apple silicon."

The original post pre-supposes that you're going to be able to run x86 VMs on Apple Silicon Macs. You can't: "Rosetta doesn’t translate the following executables [...] Virtual Machine apps that virtualize x86_64 computer platforms"
Ask HN: Braintree paid us $20K by mistake
I have an app that costs $18 per month [1]. Everyday, I get about 5-10 paying customers. Today, I got around 1000 paying customers with valid credit card payments in 1 hour. I wrote to Braintree and they have cancelled these payments as "Processor Declined". But, the subscriptions are still active. Will this charge the credit cards every month? Curious, why this happened? Anyone had similar experience?

[1] https://formfacade.com/braintree/pay/website/premium
A small thing: The title on the page says "Plan" rather than "Plain." Or, maybe that is intentional?
I tend to run into it with weird places where you might also see the java web start stuff. Like banks and credit card companies.
Impose a carbon tax and watch how fast renewables, nuclear etc. become financially viable and self-sufficient.
The role people have to play here is to get on to the same page so loudly that politicians can’t ignore our voices anymore. Switching off my air conditioner isn’t really going to accomplish anything.
It's beautiful how people get the latest and greatest smart phone, never read the manual, turn on all the features and keeps all setting at default, eats out of Google or apples ass, and then complain that their privacy has been violated? Really?
Can you imagine a normal user being able to go from “everything is broken", to “oh I just need to enable the restricted extras”.
> What if your laptop is arm but your production environment is x86 ?

Thats what CI is for?

> it means that dev and prod diverge

It just means you're using a different architecture for your local development. Your DEV & TEST envs and your automated CI/CD runs can still use x86. Sure its a bit inconvenient, but for most types of development it won't matter much, as the stack doesn't compile to native anyway. I don't care if Java, JS or whatever runs on x86 or ARM.
According to the link: they licensed the code and had access to it. But none of them wrote it and they couldn't justify the days of debugging that would be required when they had millions of other LOC to test and port.
Prisma supports transactions through the `prisma.transaction` API. This allow you to perform multiple DB actions in a single request and gives you an all-or-nothing semantic.
What if they "don't ask for it" but is made available?
How about the slow bleed of living your entire life knowing you're always one random police encounter away from being shot. The whole law enforcement system creates a slow bleed of stress and trauma on both officers and citizens.
It's great to see something from John Michael Greer come up on HN. I've read a number of his books, many critical of modern society and its ills, and while one might not always agree with everything in full including his predictions about the future, it is difficult to argue that he hasn't done a fantastic job backing up his claims and ideas, including providing many references to past societies, drawing though-provoking parallels between what's happened many times in history and what we're observing and living through today. As a bonus, his writing style is often lively and fun to read, while still maintaining the intellectual seriousness that such topics deserve.
A thing that holds incoming emails it thinks are spam and provides a web UI (usually) allowing you to review and release messages to your actual inbox.
It's quite possibly different people arguing either side.
Ah, never mind, don't bother responding to my comment above. I didn't realize that you are just trolling.
Yeah, I'll plan to toy with this on Windows over the weekend.
People can be taught.

Example of typical packaging of LED bulb in Denmark: https://imgur.com/a/J5PiGLb

It has: actual watt usage, "old watt equivalent" and lumen. It won't take that many years before people know the lumen value they want.
I can't help but think of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/795

The title is conditional risk. The characters reason that since very few people die of thunderstorms, they don't need to take any precautions.

The point is of course, that the reason that so few people die of lightning is that people are sensible and avoid danger. And that if you are reckless then you will be at much higher risk than the average person.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case here. But it's a hypothesis that I think needs refutation.
Hypocrisy is an interesting thing because in your example the immediate reaction is yeah that guy is full of shit. However, there is also scenarios were the person knows better than anyone because they’ve been through something. A meth addict telling you never do meth because it’ll ruin your life isn’t being hypocritical, they are speaking from experience and regret that they did it.
Can confirm: it is.
If you have been watching live streams, you will learn many protesters don't understand what a "live stream" is, because the streamer tries to explain it to them and they still think it is a recording that can be deleted.
Browsers are IMHO the biggest culprit, I really wish Chrome had an option to have a longer memory of things like visited pages.

On the other hand, Chrome remembers some thing for far too long, sites that I haven't visited for a long long time still exist in chrome://settings/siteData?search=cookies+and+site which is rather annoying.
Yes, normally what you listen to get put up on a feed to your "friends" in the app.
Yeah, RtAudio. So it should be easy to port it to Windows and Linux. I'll work on that soon, hopefully this weekend.
Plus, it gave Apple the perception that there's higher demand for Apple products over Microsoft. Some average Joe thinking about a tablet walks by a packed Apple Store and an empty Microsoft store. It's pretty obvious how that influences their decision.

Microsoft set up a lot of stores in the same malls as Apple Stores. This disparity in numbers has always been the case, no matter how good the MS experience has been as others have pointed out. Seems Apple learned their lessons from the first time the battled Microsoft. Consumers don't do as deep of a research as the tech crowd thinks.
Patched Catalina at least runs flawlessly on my mid 2010 MBP (7.1). (Note also, upgraded to 16GB ram — officially unsupported — and 500GB SSD). The machine absolutely flies. Using it for home recording and as my daily development (C++ mostly) driver.
"Climate change activism these days is almost entirely a concern of middle- and upper middle-class people in the industrial world: people, that is, whose lifestyles are disproportionately responsible for the dumping of greenhouse gases; people who use much more fossil fuel energy, and many more of the products of fossil fuel energy, than the average human being."

100% Agreed.
You can get in serious legal trouble for a “booby-trap” inside your own home, if a criminal accidentally is injured by it.

Placing one in a publicly accessible place without even notifying the people living in the nearest homes? Failing to notify occupants of permanent residences in the area shows there was no meaningful attempt at all to notify the public.
Mislabeling is also an option.
It would be more accurate to say that it won’t be stopped because the US has demonstrated itself committed to the internal logic of its tribalisms over objective reality and scientific truth.
If you are using Tor for security or privacy reasons, and you would like to edit Wikipedia while using Tor, you can request permission to do so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption

This requires a Wikipedia account and an email address (which can be used exclusively for Wikipedia). Signing up for a Wikipedia account involves providing a username and a password, but no personal information is needed.

The "Advice to users using Tor" page has more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_users_usin...
Building Siev
For software dev I think this is the long term trend: run everything including the editor in the cloud, have just a cheap dumb terminal with you.

Audio and video on the ither hand are very latency-sensitive. Physics may prevent bringing those things to the cloud.
Writing it now in a high-level language is cheaper than writing it in assembly, the way we would have 60 years ago. Languages keep getting better (for the most part). If they don't, well, the old one didn't die; you can keep using it.

Writing it now with today's libraries is cheaper than writing the same functionality without the libraries, the way we would have had to do 20 years ago. Libraries keep getting better (for the most part). If they don't, well, you can use the old one or roll your own.

The result of those two paragraphs is that it's always less expensive to write the exact same functionality as it was in the past, because the tools are better. But the problem is that we don't want to write the exact same functionality. We want to add this year's set of must-have features, so the scope is bigger than it was last year...
I'd go further and say it's actual harmful advise.
If you don't drive a car, you just made space for another car and you just started paying for someone elses parking.

Appealing to virtuousness and living by example, is not going to replace regulation and realigned incentives.
>Amazon is an formidable acquirer and probably the only big-tech that knows how to squeeze from their M&A activity.

Not really sure how you're using "squeeze" here, but Instagram and Whatsapp were both, with the benefit of hindsight, phenomenally successful acquisitions.
Teenager drops out of school to do contracting
Is there any data as to how much climate change can be affected by personal lifestyle choices?

The biggest CO2 emitters are electricity generation and transport and these can be affected by government policy that encourages renewable sources.
The pandemic was also a crisis of government. It made / makes it blatantly obvious that poor leadership in the wrong moment has a (potentially gigantic) cost.

Optimistically, I'm coming to the opposite conclusion as you: Maybe more people will understand now that you can't ignore that just because it's politics.
It's weird for myself because so long ago the left was all about this alongside carbon taxes and now I'm hearing "carbon taxes don't work" and "the poorest will be hurt most by removing subsidies" from the same crowd - all of which were said by Republicans for years against climate change proposals - and to just directly target a handful of fossil fuel companies responsible for a majority. That's essentially using bonafide autocratic or fascist methods to approach climate change which opens the door IMO for the disintegration of the US completely literally into a cyberpunk dystopia. And furthermore, it misses the reality that climate change is a global problem that requires a concerted international response and that the US is less than half the world's emissions at the moment.

Who cares if US-centric emissions go to 0 if the rest of the world goes up 3x+ because developing economies go for the cheapest energy sources?
And if they just have to click some setting, the parts cost is $0, and the labor is already factored into the person already being there.
> Most countries managed to get the pandemic mostly under control.

How much of this is because of the points I mentioned though? The US and the UK took their time going into lockdown for example.

In contrast and largely because of the time scales of climate change, it would be even easier to deny the negative impact of climate change and deny the positive influence of preemptive action.
It’s obvious, climate change will not be stopped through individuals actions. People die because they can’t be bothered to eat a little less and this is a short term problem that has a direct impact on their life - no one else’s. Selfishness and greed is the reason for climate change and that’s not going to change.

Just like all the other world problems, climate change will be a problem solved with science and engineering - if it is solved at all. And I believe it will be because there’s too many people with a lot of money who’d lose out otherwise and we already know how they behave...
Interestingly for me it was almost the opposite experience. I got really excited about the Surface Book and was really close to buy one, then a couple days later I walked past the Microsoft Store on Oxford Street and saw one in real life and was extremely shocked/disappointed how huge, heavy and really really thick it is. It made me realise how unportable this portable device is and I never thought again of buying a Surface book. I think the latest Surface Book still has that monster big ass fist thick hinge and I'm not surprised that I haven't seen a single person with a Surface Book in a coffee shop yet. It's too big for being a portable device. So in some respect, the physical store has meant that they sold one device less in my case.
How Theranos Misled Me (2015)
Not that this isn't important but it's certainly not robust research by any stretch of the term.

This type of panic selling--which this article is a light variation of--have forced me to be less and less willing to believe it when I read it. The boy who cried wolf is in full effect when it comes to covid.

“Ground-glass opacities are very common — we see it all the time and there are many things that can cause it,” says Adam Bernheim, MD, a cardiothoracic radiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City

But go ahead and throw a scary headline on it to drive clicks.
> my MacBook needs a reboot fairly frequently for updates, I'd almost guess at more often than my win10 machines.

I call bull, unless you’re on a beta channel.

When was the last time you had to reboot macOS for an update, and how long ago was the second-last update?
That was exactly the goal of the project! Basically if the size doesn't allow to have detail, we need to "hallucinate it". This of course is not necessary if there's enough bandwidth available for transmission or enough storage.

On the other hand, in our paper we show that some generated detail can help even at higher bitrates.
and these same city officials, especially mayors, are politically connected to their police departments doubly so if they are unionized; not all police are unionized. politicians learn real fast to not go up against any organization backed by a public employee union. police and educators are the absolute worst in this regard.

I keep looking back at how many bemoan corporate money in politics and how references that Citizen's United was the cause but completely ignore that DNC platform while supporting that completely ignores these unions contributing; in fact one certain Senator's webpage is explicit in only using corporation examples. Hell that same person wants you to pay for the DNC and RNC conventions; its criminal we pay for their convention security as is

Simple reason, when people are paid by tax coffers that means their unions are and in turn it just becomes one giant slush fund for politicians who want to remain in power.
Oh nice, thanks! I wish more services would do that.

(btw there's a typo, should be --user-agent)
I'm absolutely certain the only way we stop climate change is via innovation in the form of carbon capture technologies.

There's no way humans are just gonna cut back on eating meat, demand a removal of single-use plastics, crack down on resource-intensive industries (almond milk is INCREDIBLY inefficient and only getting more popular, for instance), and fight to pass laws which force companies to get cleaner (thus increasing the cost of those products).

I've met a handful of people in my life who care enough to live a greener lifestyle beyond making one or two relatively convenient changes in their life, let alone overhaul their entire lifestyle.

It's absolutely down to the wizards working on green tech to solve the issue.
The most depressing statistic is the Corona one: the pandemic is projected to lower the 2020 co2E emission by about 7.5 percent (based on 2019 numbers). To have any chance of reaching ipcc's 1.5 degree goal we need to continue this development for the rest of the decade.

I never believed 1.5 degrees would ever be reached, but the message from so many politicians was that "we need to try our best to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees". Everybody must have known that it was bullshit all along.

And that is why climate change won't be stopped.
Is there any evidence that someone dying in a car crash with COVID19 is being labeled as a COVID19 death?

Your claims seem rather hypothetical otherwise.
Orchestras introduced blind auditions to address this bias. Why don't we do that for other jobs? I say this as someone who would probably fall in one of the categories of people who would supposedly benefit from this bias.
Video: The Worldview Problem in Data Analysis
I also find Axler unbearable. If you are interested specifically in matrices, the book by Denis Serre is quite a masterpiece. And if you are interested in numerical linear algebra, the book by Tim Davis "Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Solvers" is also extremely beautiful and readable (the goal is not the software implementation in itself, but most of the presented algorithms are illustrated by pseudocode, and some of them even in C).
to give some context (depending on your rent) but anytime a landlord/PM has to place a new tenant, there are leasing fees/commissions (usually) that equate to between 1/2 to a full month's rent. so if your rent is $1000/month, at a $500 leasing fee to the landlord for a new tenant, they are better off just giving you a $40/month discount (minimum) if you just consider the commission.

they also have to deal with make ready costs, time, and potentially vacancy which any landlord who is objective would gladly say "you want $50/month off your rent? done!" - i would at least.

the only time this doesn't work is in a "hot" rental market where the landlord/PM can charge more for rent and/or have a waitlist (in multifamily scenarios)
Well said. I too find it disturbing that upholding Constitutional Rights has become a defensive position against people who have sworn to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Theranos 2006 Pitch Deck
> caring more about cows than untouchables. Definitely ideology worth emulating.

Replace cows with animals. Replace untouchables with African Americans. What do you get? Perhaps we all need to look in the mirror before throwing stones.
> I'd disagree with #1.

I'm sure we could agree that "what is a climate change death?" is going to be an even harder question to answer, and therefore even easier to purposefully deny, which is my core point.
This seems like a simple case of local prosecutors and juries not doing their work. The officers were acquitted in the Rodney King trial too. (And that's why currently people are bending backwards trying to argue against Quantified Immunity - in civil suits! These cases should never even reach that level. These should be criminal cases, and the police/city/county/state/country should automatically compensate the wrongly harmed.)

The federal level should step in and charge/indict officers. There might be obvious constitutional issues though. So the next best thing could be an oversight system that is actively against bias (racial, ethnic, and occupational in case of somehow the local system consistently siding with local police). Of course it's unlikely that such a law could survive for long and still be effective, so this probably some other solution is needed - maybe/probably something like tying federal funds to implementing better state-level oversight, etc.
Great work on this. I had to send 100GB files last year (1TB in total) and it was extremely difficult to send them as-is. Most clients that upload data choked while attempting it. Had to break the files up into smaller ones using a compression tool. It actually increased the file size overall but the transfer could then be facilitated.

Hope to see you guys add a feature like DocSend next. It’s like a missing puzzle piece from a utility perspective. I have no idea who downloads a shared file once a url is generated. Would be nice to request emails and get alerts when it’s downloaded.
After studying your recent comments on HN I'm inclined to say it's more you than me, man.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479436

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23458594
I agree with you that that is the point of the article.

But I think the article misses the point. In a classic Tragedy of the Commons problem, the participants don't need to abstain from feeding in the commons in order to organize a ban on it.

In fact, such self-abstainments are self-defeating because they cause the good actors to lose economic power and then have less ability to force systemic change.

I find that telling people to live with low CO2 footprints to be a whataboutism distraction to have them economically nerf themselves, hence silencing their economic power to force systemic change.

...now imagine that on a global international level. The ability to force change is correlated to economic power - which "good actor" countries are sacrificing, and "bad actor" countries are filling the void.

For these reasons, change can only happen with a global international accord that has an enforcement mechanism. ...and hence one of the reasons, I personally don't think Climate Change will be stopped.
(This is not tinfoil-hatting but mere elementary statistics).

As long as you keep testing, you will get a false positive (the farther away you test, the more striking it gets). So, it is: if you keep testing, you will find something.

It might as well have been "There were SARS-Covid-2 positive samples in June 2018", but it was March 2019.
Which candidate is that?

Well, I know that the answer is going to be "the Democrats", but the reality is, that isn't helping... I mean, sure, the upper middle class (high-skill workers) might be taxed a bit more, but the big money - upper class (non-workers) and multi-national corporations - have continued to avoid taxes. Arguably the Democrats have also caused a lot of lost wealth for the public by encouraging the expansion of financial services - Clinton's administration by repealing the Glass–Steagall Act, and Obama's by not properly acting against Wall Street after the GFC. And for obvious reasons - poor politicians are getting kickbacks if they continue ignoring this issue.