skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've left out a critical part, which explains the "minimize opt-in" comment:

> In contrast, Apple’s own advertising service looks to enable personalization by default, giving it a platform-level advantage over competitors.

And the language in Apple's settings is quite different as well, they claim that their "advertising platform is designed to protect your privacy". That doesn't sound invasive, quite the opposite, that sounds like they shield you from harm.
“Researched estimates” that in CNW’s case are virtually fictitious. To me, the scandal is Google enabling and boosting this SEO spam in the first place.
Emacs - eww
plus CD-Rs might not last a decade!
Can you explain, then, why "Routing and Traffic" is a system service with background access to location services, but iOS never suggests that I might want to turn it off?
I am CEO of UBER, i have been azzramming gig workers for years, now i hacked the system, don’t pay payroll tax or provide healthcare, and now i cannot afford it either because shareholders do not want to pay for it, so i need to create noise and find a bailout, and i think tax payers should do it since clearly we as a company are not willing/able.

Cherio suckers
If each entry was individually researched by a person that made judgements by weighing various sources of information against each other to arrive at an estimate, then yes I think they'd have a pretty strong legal argument.
If a power outage is long enough for the battery to go flat, I need to power on things gradually, or my UPS will act as if overloaded. The stuff I've plugged in barely amounts to 280W. It's a home lab, so no much harm done, but also, so much for unattended recovery from failure.

It's good for brief outages caused by thunderstorms, though, so still better than nothing.
UPSs, in my experience, quite often have or develop faults that defeat their purpose. We just threw one out that would cut power entirely during self-test, but only during self-test, not during an actual outage. I've seen their battery monitoring circuits fail such that they report a battery as good until power is cut and then die immediately. The other way also happens, reporting all batteries as bad even though they might be brand new, so you're never sure when to replace them.

I've come to the conclusion that if you are going to use a UPS, your equipment should always be plugged in to at least 2 UPSs, either via redundant power supplies or an ATS PDU.
If reports are often ctrl-F'd through for relevant information, it seems likely that many people consuming it are reading far fewer than 90 pages in total - and wouldn't have read the full shorter report.

Perhaps it is better to be comprehensive in government reports than concise, to accommodate a variety of readers who want to drill into different aspects of the report.

(Of course, a PDF may not be the best structure for this! A well-formatted HTML reference with appropriate hyperlinks may be much more useful.)
Understanding JavaScript closure, widely perceived as tricky-concept
"Slowly" turned into "slowly, and then all at once". And, as ardy42 pointed out, earlier than the deal said.
The bigger story in the article is how little security review the software on these planes get

> "Aircraft themselves are really expensive beasts, you know," said Lomas as he filmed inside the big Boeing. "Even if you had all the will in the world, airlines and manufacturers won't just let you pentest an aircraft because [they] don't know what state you're going to leave it in."
South Africa is in deep financial trouble
Maybe the Aliens will worships the Octopus like some old forgotten God and spare us from disaster or kill us quickly when they find out we eat them!
> Don't you think it's at least a little hypocritical that they don't extend the same privacy configuration options to their apps that they mandate for 3rd party apps?

Yes. I think Apple is playing an unfair game AND I am concerned about user privacy and how people are being tracked around the web. I'm not sure why other users are acting like both can't be true.
If you're spending $30mm+ on an airplane, getting specialized media for it is the least of your worries. Also... floppies work decently well. They're not fast, but they work. It's not like your data transfer speeds will improve with thumb drives either... the hardware doing the reading isn't going to be very fast.
> Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard.

Just curious: what do you think of the view that such superficial acts are gestures of respect towards one's fellow man?
Does Microsoft receive money from the government for Windows licenses? Yes, then MS is funded using public money. You mustn't forget that whenever you point a finger, there are three more pointing back at you.
But... sadly, for them, sex is a death sentence.
Thanks, this looks a little more accessible than other texts, I'll try to find a copy of it.
That's actually not true! PDFs can do all sorts of annoying stuff. Here's a PDF that I ran into that told me my PDF reader wasn't good enough: https://twitter.com/jrockway/status/1247153472895664128
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> What are you arguing? I recognize the tactic as one of the most ancient: You're scooping up handfuls of sand and throwing it in the air to try to make everything harder to see.

Reality _is_ harder to see, this is my entire point, to not quantize massive complex events into 0 and 1.
No no no. Electoral bond purchase won't get you you anywhere.

Before the electoral bonds, all political funding happened through cash. Which was more non traceable than the current electoral bonds.

But yes the ideology of the party matters.

Central government is pro business and they have proved it in Gujarat by making it a lot easier to NA land in Gujarat.

State Government (esp. INC) is communist and anti-free-market anti-business party which seeks to create as many hurdles as possible.
Because more apps than Apple Maps consume that information. Your “never ask to turn it off” returns to the complete misunderstanding of how permissions work. You are not prompted because you already granted it access during provisioning, and it’s not asking for background data.

Your allegation that Google Maps is targeted with engineering and architectural decisions is not supported by public evidence and wholly refuted by internal evidence.

I helped build Apple Maps. Please consider yourself uninformed and ask more questions rather than draw conclusions that affirm your biases, particularly if you then come here to spread them.
I'm not familiar with Wikimedia plugins. In some plugin ecosystems there's an expectation that plugins need to adapt to deprecated apis, bump dependencies, etc. Is that the case for wikimedia plugins?

Regardless, 3 months seems like a very short time to consider something "unmaintained"
In that case it sounds like a problem with Word and not with PDF.

I wouldn't know – most PDFs I consume are generated by some variant of TeX. I gave a random 300-page datasheet I have lying around a go. It says it was made with Acrobat Distiller and "C2 Rendition". Feels just as spiffy as the PGF/TikZ manual.
That’s how broken the safety net programs are, and on purpose. There are so many stipulations, red tape, inconsistencies, and volatility involved that people in the US have no reason to trust them. The government (taxpayers) are always looking for an excuse to cut benefits.
The world may not have many options to help. They can raise a stink, and they can make things a bit economically painful for China. But China can choose to ignore both of those.
A personal productivity Chatbot inside WhatsApp
Java is GPL2 and LLVM is a BSD type license. So that appears to be backwards.
I believe South Australia has the most wind, solar and battery storage though.
For what it's worth op, I'd be happy to help script out a process for extracting your old content into a new format (something like markdown so you can use whatever site generator tickles your fancy) and it's one I've scripted a few times before. Feel free to drop me an email.
The comments in this subthread are talking about CEO salary. The point being, Bezos isn't rich because of his salary, he's rich because he owns shares, so adjusting his compensation isn't going to make a meaningful impact to the prosperity of Amazon employees. (Managing to effectively tax the corporation might though...)
The explanation of the failure was very strange to me. I know there are three main UPS types - offline, line interactive, and online. Offline types have the battery disconnected until there is a power outage and only use it when needed. Line interactive and online use the battery more often to absorb power spikes, brownouts, and other anomalies. These two types also use the battery more and need replacements more often than offline UPS.

I have been using the same offline UPS and battery for the last 7 years and it is still working fine - a few days ago it handled a 15 min power outage with 50% of the battery.

Can someone explain why offline UPS can fail if the battery dies? Is it by design or a manufacturer specific issue (e.g. only APC brand ones do this)?
The main aspect missing from these sentiments is risk adjusted return.

As another commenter said, if employees want the profits of shareholders they should also risk a total loss of their investment. Now, I do think more companies should pay with (generous) equity and the government should do far more to support this model. Such as supporting earlier liquidity, less accredited investor rules, mandatory public listings above a certain valuation etc.
No, this is a meaningless sentiment. Floating a feel-good idea like this accomplishes little in the face of how the world actually works. In the real world the hippocratic oath does not prevent malpractice, over prescription of opioids, or name your beef with the entire healthcare system let alone doctors actions.

Engineers are hired to make weapons systems that kill civilians. Engineers make software that enable ubiquitous surveillance by whomever wants to use it for whatever purpose. No a Hippocratic oath will have a hard time influencing individuals and their organizations that’s what laws and the enforcement thereof are aimed at. I have little hope for oaths or laws however.
Can confirm. I did some work on a TRS-80 in a Radio Shack store (inventory on cassette tapes!). The “trash 80” as it was called would interfere with the stereo equipment in the store, the manager would have to turn the little computer on the counter off to demo a receiver.
>a standby UPS where the battery failed, it turned off the UPS

I assume this would be because the power is always flowing through the battery/inverter? Wouldn't that kill the battery a lot faster? Although it'd make the switch from mains to actual battery power basically a non-event from the output's perspective.

Now that I think about it, going 120/240->low voltage dc->120/240->12/5/3.3 is incredibly silly. IIRC there are 48 (or -48?) DC power supplies out there, mostly for data center use. Does anyone make an ATX version that you could hook up to a UPS that has a DC output?
Dunno why this comment was dead, I'd love to see a good ELI5 here
Even if your coding style prohibits multiple declarations, you still don't escape the fact that in C, the asterisk binds to the variable identifier, not to the type. It crops up again in the function pointer syntax:

void *(*foo)(int *);

foo is a pointer to a function which accepts a pointer-to-int and returns a pointer-to-void.

( Taken from https://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/function-pointers.html )
Just realistic, not idealistic.
Blood Meridian is generally more highly regarded, no? Wiki states it's widely regarded as his magnum opus and a "Great American Novel".
GPT-3 Is the Sparring Partner You Didn’t Know You Needed
For some reason I really expected this to be an interview with Danny Carey.

Parallel evolution is amazing. Developing complex communication between human and octopus would be an amazing feat and would likely answer some of our questions about the nature of consciousness.
Very cool. Just curious, for your mobile version, are you thinking about Android or IOS? And are you going to develop it natively or cross-platform (react native/flutter).
Cameroon soon to accept customs duties payments via mobile money
As a person who has never bought a UPS, this behaviour of turning off power when the battery dies even though there is mains power is unintuitive, and I would have most likely hit the same issue. I see the post title as a PSA, in that if you happened to buy a standby UPS without knowing better, it might not be that useful if you very rarely have power interruptions but the battery keeps dying every couple of years.
"But the full-time drivers are the one stakeholder class that created much of Uber's value"

This is not a true statement. Uber is not worth $55b because they have performed a lot of driving work. Uber is worth $55b because they have constructed a system in which driving work can be easily scheduled and allocated.

The value is the system and the system was not created by drivers.

The system was created to serve drivers and riders together.

"yet receive very little of the value they created."

They have received all of the value from the driving work they performed, in the form of a 1099 paycheck. There is a fairly clear market rate for driving work.

They did not contribute to the construction of the $55b system.

"How much of Uber's value do they deserve? "

None.
Most of the time, they don’t ask for money explicitly at all but they will put procedural roadblocks so one pick up the cue and bribe them. Like Priority Shipping for a bad analogy. Pay to fasten and smoothen your experience kind of thing.

Of course it’s illegal.
The problem is macro expansion is not (potentially) what you think it is:

MULTIPLY(2+3,4+5)
that expands in

2+34+5 (and not into: (2+3)(4+5)).

To have the latter, you should define:

#define MULTIPLY(a,b) ((a)*(b))

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14041453/why-are-preproc....
Yeah, and my snarky tone is probably not quite fair given that fact.

Some of the "very influential companies" we're talking about are in aerospace, the automotive industry . . . the LoC numbers are truly immense, the standards compliance rules are incredibly strict, and everything moves slowly. I've never worked in an industry like that.

A more charitable view of the situation would include some representative of an industry like that on the standards committee feeling their heart skip a beat because they realize that what is being suggested would cost millions to implement.
On an airliner that can land in cat III approaches (ultra low visibility down below 100') then this data is critical since it's used in automated systems to help land the plane.
There are hardly any lands zoned as "industrial use" in India and all land is agricultural land by default because of the high fertility of land everywhere.
Non paywalled version https://www.google.com/search?q=ue4+archviz&oq=ue4+ar&aqs=ch...
Thank you! I may build a self-hosted version in the future.
The Step-by-Step Guide for Pairing Fonts (With Examples)
ICO probes Barclays’ staff surveillance software
Only after hours of linting. If you don't do preflight, colors will be off, some objects won't render, transparencies will be solid and maybe fonts will be missing. PDF is by no means idiot-proof in this regard. I've been burned more than once.

However, PDFs are still better than everything else.
There does appear to be a push away from globalization and towards isolationism. However, this may not last, and even if so, it remains to be seen whether the government will be able to effectively encourage corporations to move manufacturing back on-shore.
For a home setup you aren’t going to be spending the money a double or delta conversion unit costs, so line-interactive is the only sane choice.

You really don’t want line-interactive gear when dealing with larger loads either, as the transformer will just cause extra current draw during a voltage sag. This is why you don’t see (many of) them above 3-5KVA.
Re-reading I was thinking the same thing. Batteries don't just "die", they degrade in performance.

How did he also know power didn't go out too? That confused me as well.
I thought this sounded like a wccftech headline, and sure enough, that's the source. I'm extra skeptical because nvidia has been limiting memory (and cooling) on consumer cards specifically so that researchers would have to buy the marked-up pro cards for machine learning.
This is probably the biggest unsolved problem in the "corporate wiki" space. It's easy to create content, but it's hard to organize it properly, it's even harder to re-organize a large mess, and it's harder still to have a person or team who's job is solely to manage document organization.

IMO, the tools themselves are really failing us here.

I'm creating a new document? Give me some kind of super-powered organizer algorithm. Auto-suggest the appropriate tags & folder/space location based on the content.

I'm an admin and trying to clean up the clutter? Run that same algorithm across the entire space and auto-suggest a better layout & document naming. Make it easy to bulk move/delete documents, folders, etc. Surface old, unvisited documents with no edits & recommend for archiving.

Search indexes could also take into account age of the document, # of edits, # of days _since_ an edit, etc.

I could go on.
Google Maps also provides cooked geographic data to other Google applications (such as "Google" FKA "Google Now") but this fact does not exempt it from iOS scaremongering.
According to the Q1 reports, rides are actually profitable for the company. They just lose money on other segments, like Eats, and spend an absolutely massive amount of money on "platform R&D" (many hundreds of millions per quarter).

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...

(not I am using Q1, because Q2 has been an... atypical quarter for this sort of business)
The only downside is that this mindset turns the world into a steaming pile of dog-crap and makes the problem worse.

Think about what you're actually saying here. You're saying we should shift the "quality of life" compensation burden of THEIR EMPLOYEES away from businesses (who are making boatloads of money), and attempt to spread it out across a few subsets of the population. Taxing corporations or billionaires never works out as planned[1][2][3]....so how does it many any sense that the upper-middle-class gets stuck paying this bill? This is exactly why the middle class is disappearing....which is good for no one.

[1] - https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-...
[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
[3] - https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/
Don’t they have better negotiating power because their marginal product is higher (and their supply is more limited)? I don’t think you’re necessarily contradicting them
> It wouldn't have happened if, say, Cuomo was running the country

That's an amazing contention, especially if you look back at Cuomo's statements and policies over the course of the epidemic (Lunar New Year, nursing homes, etc.). He's so much wiser than 3-6 months ago?

How many of those 50,000 deaths throughout the country since June are because NYC was "the primary source of new infections in the United States" by May? (New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavi...)

I think you give the governors' actions both too much credit and too much blame and an apparent partisan difference on who gets which (apologies if that's not intended).

My view of the data is that NY's density as well as mistakes allowed unmitigated & rapid spread of the virus, until the exposure and immunity reached levels at which the transmission is less likely & the most vulnerable population has been exposed/infected/died/recovered, making our efforts to limit propagation more effective. See https://coronavirusbellcurve.com/estimating-the-herd-immunit... and https://coronavirusbellcurve.com/#statesherd

The virus continues to spread throughout the country, but the curve is flattened, minimizing the death toll from the infections (though it is still high!) More drastic interventions can slow that spread, but won't stop it.

And remember that the collateral death toll (as well as non-fatal cost) of the mitigation actions is increasing as well - CDC/NYT reported on approx 50k (37%) "excess deaths" beyond covid-reported deaths - possibly from delayed medical care, despair, etc., as well as possible misreporting. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronaviru...
Yeah, funny how the advice says nothing about the telcos. Best way not to be tracked is not to carry a mobile phone.
If you can learn pivot tables in Excel, you can learn markdown.
"More substantive" technically, but really it's just a few short sentences that boil down to "some people think strategic default is morally questionable, others do not." I would be interested in a more substantive exploration of the issues though. In my perspective as someone who hasn't thought about it too much: Morally because strategic defaults (which contain an intent element) end up being paid for by other people not parties to the transactions, it brings it into a morally questionable area.

Breaking a contract by itself isn't morally questionable, but if you perhaps contract to provide PPE for hospitals in a pandemic, and then choose to not provide that PPE for no reason other than you don't want to (or it's more profitable to just not fulfill the contract) causing people not a party to the contract to be harmed, that's morally questionable. It's a very fact specific inquiry.
The speed depends a lot on how the PDF is structured. If you export a complex CAD drawing you may have a ridiculous amount of detail that has to be fully rendered before the page can be viewed. Or you can have very simple PDFs that are just a few images.
Show HN: Jiang Has Had Enough
First of all, many pundits claimed they did change the outcome.

Second of all, I see few voices denying there's Russian bots trying to push stuff, my problem is not with banning the bots themselves, but with the collateral damage that's been done to non-bot accounts as a result of Twitter being very quick to ban nowdays, as a direct result of the pressure they were under after 2016.
Worst part about UPS that i didn't know was:

The constant humming (no fan, just electrical) so cant sleep in same room

The loud can't turn it off beeps when power is out.

And none of those come in the product description.
The opening of this article references Hokusai's "Great Wave" woodblock print. There's an easter egg in this print I never noticed, which is that Mount Fuji is nestled in the trough of the wave.

Learned this from a great NYT article on Hokusai focusing on another print from the same series: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/07/arts/design/h...
This is actually my coding philosophy. Burn it down and rebuild nearly weekly. The rewrites get smaller, less buggy and more flexible.
There are warehouses across the US including areas where houses cost $150k.
You didn't know about the controls before purchasing it?
No, I don’t, because they do. The entire thesis of the upstream argument is false. You’re arguing a falsehood. There are no special libraries to defeat privacy available to first party apps. They use the same exact methods externals do. The first party app documentation is literally the public site with very few exceptions.
Thanks for the question! Spatial chat is actually a really interesting product. They tend to keep the images small so you can drag or move your profile the room. By doing so, the focus is not as much on the conversation, but rather the shared links or pictures. Our goal is to encourage more conversation, and socializing, even while sharing a video or playing a game.
Same here, actually!
Sometimes you want more control over the low-res result than a re-scale will give.