skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, he did have a choice. He decided to sacrifice an objectively better living to alert the public of what was happening in their names without their consent. He also decided not to go home because he believes it is best for his country. If he goes home, he won't be allowed a fair trial under the Espionage Act, which would set a terrible precedent. He has repeatedly voiced his intent to face trial at home if he's allowed a public interest defense in front of a jury.
The London store is on Oxford Street and a lot of stores in that area are flagships that don't have to make money directly. Not having to have stock or cash registers just saves money, the main mission of having an impressive presence need not be burdened with actual retail sales.

Some Oxford Street stores do make lots of money but there are many others where ten minutes in the store is enough for you to see what is going on. The whole range can be on show whereas in your regional town there is a fraction of the range. But you can experience the brand.

Adjacent to Oxford Street is Tottenham Court Road. This was legendary in the 1990s for computer shops with fairs in nearby halls where you could buy components for competitive prices, as if nobody was paying VAT. That scene went a long time ago for more flagship stores to come along. These flagship stores don't have to make sales to cover the rent. Microsoft are part of the theme park.
Congrats to the author, that's a huge gig.

Let's say one were 90th percentile level good, what is the out/endgame for how much money a writer can make these days? Like if you're the writing version of the most entry level pro player on a hockey or basketball team - in the big leagues, but still bottom rung of a tall ladder, are you earning average software developer income at that point?

Almost all the pro writers I've known (n=50) had one of a higher-earning spouse, independent means/inherited real estate, an editing/teaching job that they occasionally wrote through, or a grant funded position or fellowship.

Assuming it's Pareto distributed where the top %20 of writers make %80 of writing income, how much can a good writer expect to make?
The Onion's satire is generally pretty obvious. The truth is that some people just aren't very bright, and/or have a habit of reading and sharing news articles very uncritically.
>15x more chance of facing "prosecutable assult".

Several issues with that statistic.

1. Police are much more likely to report an assault than average citizen is. Just by the nature of their job, very nearly every single assault against a police officer is likely to be reported.

2. Once reported, an assault against a police officer is much more likely to be prosecuted because courts, prosecutors, and juries place much more weight on the testimony of a police officer than an average citizen.

3. "Assault" is a very broadly defined crime. Generally assault doesn't actually require a physical attack, so using it as a metric for "danger" is dubious.

Assault usually only requires someone to do something that makes the victim think they were in danger of being physically attacked. Police officers are trained to be hyper aware of threats, and they know that the legal definition of assault is different than the colloquial definition, so the police (and prosecutors) have a much broader view of what qualifies an "assault" than the general public does.
I don't know if it was the same, but this link [0] is full of people describing what the problems with these cameras (and others) were and how Canon managed it. I don't know if Canon used an in-house CCD or if it was from another manufacturer.

[0] https://www.fixya.com/support/t114938-canon_digital_camera_r...
I was watching an interesting video about this the other day [1] which suggested that one approach might also be a convoy of trucks, where the first one has a driver (even though it may be driving autonomously on the highway) followed by several autonomous trucks. The human driver can handle bad road conditions, mechanical problems, etc. It seems like a logical step on the way to fully autonomous, and significantly increases the capacity of freight per driver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPrAKtegFQ
Only the file manager -- not the whole desktop environment.

The desktop manager is called ROX-Session and provides an icon bar, a pinboard and so on as well as the filer windows.
"The words struck a chord with Mr Wantchekon. Now a professor at Princeton University, he was born in Zagnanado in central Benin. Some of the music he listened to in his youth—such as that of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou—had songs that warned against trusting those close to you."

I checked; The music is ... astoundingly beautiful. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hzzC6W1jnkn6x6RyutlB3?si=Zd...
Interview with entrepreneur, author, and artist Werley Nortreus
A Raspberry Pi with BMC64 is almost there. It feels like the real deal: you boot it up in seconds, and shut it down by unplugging it. But I want the C64 look & feel with its keyboard. If someone made a USB replica of a fully functional C64 keyboard I'd be in heaven.

(I'm aware of the TheC64 project, but it seems sold out at the moment, and not easy to get in all parts of the world).
I find it odd that they say "Prisma is ready for production", but "Prisma Migrate is currently in an experimental state and should not be used in production environments". Having a robust migration management system is one of the primary things I look for in an ORM/database management tool in general. The only constant is change when it comes to business requirements, and having the ability to easily and safely change the data model of your application is invaluable. Not having the migration tooling complete makes it difficult for me to seriously justify trying out the Prisma 2 ecosystem in general.
Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
"Relational algebra only runs on PowerPC!!!"
DAI is not backed by Usd collateral, the collateral is a basket of other crypto currencies.
> Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs.

Is that supposed to be a reason against? Enabling further progress sounds more like a reason for, not a reason against.
Satire is an important and effective tool for getting people to think critically about mundane things we often accept at face value. It lets us challenge the status quo in a non-threatening way because who doesn’t love to laugh? Satire makes people think and that should always be encouraged.
Why not? I'm pretty sure I and my friends used it at that age. Besides, even if they've never heard it before, the meaning is clear from the context, and that's often how kids learn words.
Rex has been talking about buying some bigger jets to try and grab market share while Virgin and Qantas are struggling.
They should put BSOD in the windows when they close.
> Reimagined as experience centers

Ugh, I wish we lived in a world where they could just say “converted to showrooms”.
no. all explanations must make some assumption about what readers already know, or else every explanation would begin with teaching english.

also, mansplaining generally refers to assuming people (women, usually) have less pre-existing knowledge than they actually do.
In current times with digital drivers, enormous TVs, triple-buffering, and wireless controllers, I very much agree.

Would you know what contributed to the ItD latency discrepancy back in 2004? I would imagine a CRT TV vs a monitor to have much more similar latency, as well as a wired gamepad versus a wired KB+M. But I'm far from a specialist in this kind of thing.
Seems senior management wants the same amount of synchronous meetings rather than investing in more asynchronous communication. If they're just mimicking in-person approaches then that bodes ill for the whole initiative in my view. I say senior management because they're usually the only ones who have 6+ hours of meetings per day.
It's been a long term issue -- I think the situation has been basically the same since the 1970s.
It's ok. Macs are useless outside of webdev/gfx anyway.
You're missing out then. What you're describing is true much of the time, but in others the content is just amazing: https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-...

> "Although we've traditionally dedicated 97 percent of our resources to other important services such as contraception distribution, cancer screening, and STD testing, this new complex allows us to devote our full attention to what has always been our true passion: abortion," said Richards, standing under a banner emblazoned with Planned Parenthood's new slogan, "No Life Is Sacred."
It's US so mobile providers, ISP very likely have such data from being voluntary provided by customers.
> What would we replace those things with?

Religious freedom is also an Indian idea, not just a Western one. And Indians are also exporting new progressive ideas to the West, such as the animal rights activism struggle of India's cow protection movement.
By and large your arguments are that of every entitled spoilt brat ever, who wants mommy & daddy to come rescue them. Get over it! One way or another this is going to happen, the workers you refer to are unemployable in every sense of the word. If not h1b then offshoring or relocation of businesses.

America can't have the taxpayer keep bailing out these "American workers" incompetence, lethargy and overriding entitlement. IMO these "American workers" are trying to sell a bicycle without wheels, for the price of a Rolls, and playing the "buy american" card. Ha! Now why didn't we think of that before?

So you can profit now from it.

"the devil quoteth the scriptures" - shakespeare

-xo
Those are influencial in local culture, but probably don't mean much for foreigners.
"Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel" in other hand is good international film.
I had a look over the quick start guide and the syntax looks almost indentical to Mongoose. Why is it "next generation" compared to Mongoose?
I know Nick, Bob, and Strader from early Uber Boston days - they are great people and very hard workers. I'm really happy to see ex-Uber folks going after an opportunity to strengthen local communities vs. so many others who tried to hop on the next scooter / marketplace / fintech 'rocketship'

I don't know enough about the investment model they support, but any company that is trying to help grow important community businesses like Great Scott in Allston deserves attention.

I also thought Nick's message on internal diversity was one of the better takes (blunt & honest) I'd seen from a CEO: https://medium.com/@nick_97468/our-team-is-all-white-and-its...

Wish them the best of luck!
Do hashes in PHP still break if one of their keys starts with a number?
The MS store in my city looks really nice. Just don't know why I would ever go in there. I don't particularly enjoy going to the Apple store either, for entirely different reasons, but maybe once or twice a year I need to.
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Aye, this. I need to fit 250 people in a single floor in a big city. One floor is already expensive as hell, and I'm not going to pick up 2-3 more. Hell, even my managers don't get offices.
lmao.

diversity-hostile
I remember that there was some protest survival guide, and it mentioned to either leave the smartphone at home, or bring a dumb phone w/o contract, so you can at least call an ambulance if need be.
Ask HN: How to Detect Snooping in iOS Apps?
I have the official Instagram app on my phone. Today I received a text message from a friend (SMS) wherein he suggested I joined a certain organization which isn't relevant for me at all. An hour later I open Instagram and see an add for this organization.

Seeing how Im not at all their target audience, it made me suspicious. I know full well that one example does not make a case, so Im wondering if there are any tools I can use to learn more about the inner processes in Instagram?

(did check app settings, it was mostly restricted except "Background App Refresh")
Thing is that those species like coyotes or raccoons or deers are problematic simply because their populations have grown too big. You want to put their populations under the control, but not exterminate them completely. And that second part is where ranchers are not very good at, and then you end up having to install external controls to regulate the hunting and the whole thing becomes a lot more complicated and expensive for tax payers.
Yeah, I fully agree. While I do not want government to have this surveillance I was curious about the problem with the tech itself. As in why was it being biased.
The report mentions ethnicity is inferred from browsing history, which they are also able to purchase from data brokers.
Simple Death rates?

Insurance rates are developed by financially-motivated actuaries that consider a whole bunch of variables in order to create market-efficient rates.
The services Apple provides are great for consumers. Making it easy to sign in and to pay across any app, being able to manage and cancel subscriptions in a single place, etc.

But the fee they charge is plain and simple price gouging. They’re leveraging a monopoly they themselves created and punishing companies large and small. Also doing so very inconsistently - many SaaS products don’t offer a way to pay with in-app purchase.

If they just dropped their take, I’m guessing lot of this controversy would fade out and they could still make a pretty penny.
They will keep a support team (not just salespeople) near big customers where it would be better to employ people locally compared to having to send support staff from Redmond each time a customer has a problem.
Why not look at decolonization as a step forward instead? Why not collect restitution from the colonial/imperial powers that have been extracting wealth from South Asia for centuries? Why not use natural resources for the local population?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00472336.2018.15...

https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/contemporary-bangladeshi-law...
Sounds like a kibbutz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Providing administration/liquidation services is a big industry. They come in to protect the interests of creditors and can usually be replaced by a vote of the creditors.
Adaptive Immune Cells
lol, a community of people who never go anywhere outside there house... sounds great.
Microsoft Stores Are Permanently Closing
Not particularly, Irleand is a relatively homogeneous country. There has been an uptick in the last few years in drug gang related murders due to a feud between two pretty brutal drug cartels (the leader of one now controls an international cartel from Dubai and rather outrageously is the promoter behind the Tyson Fury Vs Anthony Joshua heavyweight boxing fight). I think this has probably lead to an increase in gun carrying by Gardai (Irish police service).
It attempts to makes the left ear only hear what is coming out of the left channel and the right ear only hear what is coming out of the right - as if you are using headphones. Normally with speakers, both ears are going to hear both.
This is purely anecdotal. Take it with a grain of salt.

We have a "high-end" Simon mall, in a town near where I live. It's quite "upscale," with Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, etc.

It has an Apple Store near the South entrance, and a Microsoft Store, near the center.

The Apple Store is always packed. I haven't been there in a few months, so I have no idea what's going on with it at the moment, but it has always been jammed, when I have gone there; even at early or late hours. I have never found a time when it is not crowded.

The Microsoft Store, on the other hand, usually has more staff than customers, with the staff playing XBox in the sitting area outside the store.
Same. Wondering if it is a regional thing? Never in my life have I heard of or seen a Microsoft store.
Wait, I started reading through all the fluff on their description and it seems that Prisma is not a database but an interface/connector to more database solutions. So it's like Mongoose, but not only for MongoDB.
Does anyone know more specifically how a company like Mobilewalla gets location data? Is it from Google, or from apps people open on their phone, or from trackers on websites, or from cell data, or from something else?

Also, is there any way to prevent Google from tracking the location of my Android phone short of uninstalling Android?
Thank god for the Economist then. About 20 years ago, Mother Jones published an article about Bangladesh (my home country) encouraging it to not follow the World Bank’s advice: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/05/alternative-pro...

The article attacked the World Bank’s recommendation basically on the grounds that it encouraged westernization:

> In the words of Rahman, who co-authored the Bank report, Bangladeshis are now at a “survival” stage and need to make a “quantum leap” to some higher level of development, a leap that inevitably leads to urbanization, an export-oriented economy, more fertilizer, big electric power plants.

Mother Jones' pitch was, basically, stay poor but try to address factors like infant mortality and malnutrition through other means, like organic farming and indigenous medicine:

> Kerala, perhaps, the state of 30 million people in the south of India that has achieved Western levels of life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, and fertility on an average income per capita of $300 per year. But the World Bank and Monsanto don’t talk about Kerala; they talk about Thailand and Singapore.

The article has not aged well. Look at the article's baseline statistics from 2000:

> The average person dies at 60, and the infant mortality rate is 10 times that of the United States.

After leaning into capitalization and technological development over the last 20 years, life expectancy is up 12 years, to 72. Infant mortality rate has been cut by 60%, reducing the gap with the USA from a factor of 10 to a factor of 4. Listening to Mother Jones and “decolonizing” Bangladesh would have led to millions of dead children and sustained poverty.

Kerala didn't listen to Mother Jones either. Over the last 20 years, it developed a modern services economy, and now has a purchasing-power adjusted GDP per capita of $11,000, 60% higher than the rest of India.
It is right next to Harvard and pretty close to MIT. There's a bunch of other larger stores in the area.

Beats the one closest to Philly, which was a decent drive out of town.
A breakdown of sales techniques used by a potato peeler peddler
This almost mirrors OkCupid’s dataviz articles they’d do for publicity.

The data is aggregate data. It shows mostly males, in the 18-34 age bracket, mostly white.

The CEO whose surname is Datta. Quite appropos.
In Redwood City, police officers start out at $120,000 a year (plus a pension). I know mechanical engineers in the Bay Area that start out making less than that and do not get a pension.
Being able to inspect hardware before buying is a good idea, even if you do put the order in online.
I think it'd be a good fit for Hello [0], AppDirs and AppImages being very closely related, but I don't think probonopd agrees, sadly.

[0] https://github.com/probonopd/hello
The main benefit of the GLM formulation is the observation that your model implies a particular probability distribution for the target, whether you like it or not. And that your point predictions are in fact conditional means. In my opinion, this is an important aspect of modeling that is glossed over or omitted by a lot of introductory material.
I can't imagine how much harder it must be now for Onion writers who have to compete with real-world headlines.
Don’t forget LinkedIn profile photo booths! (not kidding, I saw one when I walked past my local MS store)
Japanese startup creates 'connected' face mask for coronavirus new normal
The Nikon 1 AW1 was discontinued years ago and it is technically inferior to the Olympus TG-6. Lens options are moot anyway for underwater photography because you need special wet lenses that attach to the waterproof housing.
> Seriously, how about just giving control to users?

"Users" as you likely remember them—"power users by necessity", people who willingly learned the arcana of computing just to use the thing—don't exist any more. They died out in the 90s, when computers stopped booting to BASIC and dialing into BBSes.

You know how it feels to use a centrally-managed corporate workstation?

That's how people now expect all computers to work. They're using it; but "someone else" is the sysadmin. They don't have admin privileges; "the IT department" does, or "their phone carrier" does, or "Google" does (in the case of something like a Chromebook.)

Corporations can still be the sysadmin for their own enterprise rollouts of Windows (and if you're a real "power user", I'd suggest going the route of pretending you're a corporate IT department managing a one-machine deployment—Windows is a lot more "submissive" in that state); but now Microsoft themselves are the sysadmin-of-last-resort.

But don't think for a moment that before this, most users were their own sysadmin-of-last-resort. Again, that died out in the 90s, when computers stopped being "business machines" that hobbyists could do some pro-am work with (in the same sense that one might build a machine-shop in their garage); and began instead being marketed to anyone and everyone.

Before Microsoft assumed the role, the sysadmin-of-last-resort for most post-Eternal-September users was either "my nephew who knows computers"; or it was "nobody"—until things got really bad, at which point they'd bring the computer into a repair shop and a random repair-tech would be the sysadmin. (It's like having no family doctor, only a free clinic you visit in emergencies!)

As one of those former "nephews who knows computers", let me tell you that I'd much rather Microsoft have the job than I.

> Don't tell me users like it, you could just offer an app in that case.

People like the idea of donating organs, but that doesn't mean they'll ever seek out a consent form to opt into the organ-donor program. But in countries where it's opt-out, they don't bother to seek out the de-consent form, either. It's just such a far-away concern to most people, that there's too much inertia for people to change the default no matter what it is. (And if someone comes up to them and asks, they'll default to whichever option is less trouble—i.e. continuing be either opted-in or opted-out, depending—even if it's not the option that they'd prefer. They just don't want this time stolen from their day, for something they care so little about; and since changing things can often have unexpected not-mentioned-up-front labor-costs, they put negative expected-value on switching, even if they put positive value on the switched end-state.)
Agreed, it would be nice if HN was less opaque about such things.

Thanks for the clarification though, it’s much appreciated! As was the article!
The people breaking glass in an Apple store are violent criminals. Peaceful protestors exercising their first amendment right to assembly should applaud the ability to remove violent members from their ranks. Your pull quote describes a company concerned about criminals. The actions they are concerned with are not constitutionally protected.

Probably not the best attack to lump together rioters and protestors. And I thought all the rioters at the protests were white supremacists trying to start shit anyway; don't you want to track them?
How to find vulnerable IPs by CVE ID: CVE-2019-0192
nice article by Spyse developers
I use one every day for embedded development. They're perfectly usable for C/C++/Rust, etc.
Yeah, also an Econet implementation and some novel on-the-fly executable compression in the file system I think? the whole thing was slightly hamstrung by the comparatively huge page sizes of MEMC...