skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the globe doesn't have the political will to enact harsh enough laws to really impact climate change. It has become too politicized at this point. I do disagree that civilization will die. When there is massive drought and food shortages, changes will happen then. At that point it will be very real. However, we have way to much scientific knowhow and money for our species to be wiped out. I'm not saying it won't be a very different experience and a different kind of life but we're too smart to die off. We may lose the ability to produce food at massive scale but not at small scale. I don't even think we'll get to this point in this century. But we likely will at some point. Maybe we'll do better the second time around with a more sustainable global population.
Why are we saying nihilism is bad?
Thank you! Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback.

One of the features we added is to do make the "magic" replicable (or deployable in production). So we keep track of processing steps and let you export Python code that that applies those same processing steps. This could be used to run the exact same steps in a larger version of that dataset later.
In the years I've been using it the fees have totaled 5.2% of the earnings over that time (current balance - invested, not total account balance). It's not nothing, but personally I place a high value on simplicity and peace of mind in my life, so it's worth it to have a simple and excellent user-experience in the app, as well as the ability to do things like withdraw and deposit with literally the tap of a button.
Self-improvement clickbait works as well on HN as anywhere else. I do think that all of the orthorexic diet stuff has been downmodded over the last year or two, though (or the OCD weather in silicon valley has shifted.) It's been worse.
Three months ago, I wrote a reply explaining my position in TSLA. Now that we all have the benefit of hindsight, we're in a position to have a much more sensible conversation than the one I tried to have in March:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22970810
(I encourage you to read the whole thread, of course)
There doesn’t appear to be any environmental damage yet, though it’s possible this incident will produce some in the future. Also, they are being penalized: they’re being fined for violating their original permit and being required to rectify the situation, either by removing the offending materials or coming to some agreement with Oregon to leave it there in exchange for as-yet-undpecified compensation.
Come on, I don't think anyone is pretending that this wasn't a deliberate provocation by Epic
If enough users agree with the parent comment that the app store is the best way get software then companies can weigh that user base against the 30% cut. Why should we force the users who don't like the App Store (or want apps that are incompatible with Apple's business model) to suffer on behalf of the users who don't?
My investing strategy has always been to just allocate a certain amount of money per pay period to high growth mutual funds through a Morningstar 5-star rated fund. I wonder what I'm missing out on with things like this.
Email opens aren’t enough to measure prospect engagement
Not related to the command-line JSON processor of the same name.

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
Here's my anecdotal account:

I've known a handful of pathological liars, one of whom is my nephew. My nephew's caregivers are not model parents. They are extremely hot and cold: either ignoring the kids for hours at a time, or screaming at the kids over every trivial accident and annoyance. Example: nephew was pouring a glass of water, knocked the cup on the floor, and his parents screamed at him and hit him until he was broken down in tears.

Newphew's day-to-day routine is an exercise in walking on eggshells to avoid triggering mom and dad's short temper. Anytime his parent's said a word to him, nephew assumed he'd done something bad again. He began lying at a very young age as a defense mechanism to avoid punishment.

He became very distrustful of adults. We had a family get-together once where my nephew was playing with toy dinosaurs. I walk up behind him and say "hey buddy what are doing over there" and he immediately startles and says "I didn't do anything!"

I noticed that he started lying habitually. And even lying about things that didn't even matter. If he had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, he'd tell everyone he had a bagel. If he got up early, he said he'd slept in late. If he watched Finding Nemo, he'd say he watched Spongebob.

I started challenging him on these things: "why did you just tell me ate a bagel? I was right here fixing the computer when you rolled out of bed at 10am to eat a bowl of cereal this morning." He'd double down, "well actually I got up early and ate a bagel when you didn't see me. And then I had cereal afterward." I'd say "why are you lying to me about something so stupid? I'm not mad, I just don't see why you'd lie about it. What's the point?" "I'm not lying, I swear!"

He's 11 years old and his lies are getting bigger, more absurd. He told me his friend's dad is the president of the Pokemon factory and he can get any rare Pokemon card he wants for free, and that he gets to ride around in his friends Lamborghini.

I literally think he's lying for sport now, like a game to see what he can get away with. He's going to have a hard time making and keeping friends if he doesn't break the habit soon.

I think all of this started from bad parenting. The kid didn't feel safe in his own home, and his defense mechanism became habit, which then became a pathological obsession.
I'm genuinely curious, are broken USB ports a common thing? I've been using a Yubikey with my MBP, and many years ago used thumb drives all the time with my computers. I've never had a port or device break in any way (either a failure due to wear, or a literal break). Admittedly, I use USB ports much less frequently these days (as in, I plug things in and leave them in for weeks or months at a time, I don't swap USB devices like I used to).
Am I comparing streaming video to streaming video? Why yes, I am.
the excitement of losing your money...
There's another side to this coin.

I had some work done on a device at one of these independent Apple-certified repair locations. There's a sign in the store telling the customers that they may be contacted by Apple to ask how their experience was.

It's a way for Apple to ensure that the shops flying its flag are quality operations. I'm OK with that. I specifically chose that store because of its relationship with Apple.

remove battery / screen from client device... etc...

That sounds like an extreme case. My repair took three days, and only because the shop was out of the battery I needed, and had to order a new one from Apple. The store said the work is usually done the same day.
TsParticles – New Big Circles Preset, easy to install, beautiful to see
I wouldn't bank on your assumption about how the conversation went after the letter was forwarded. My experience is that when the CEO forwards you something and asks for your thoughts you don't respond without doing the homework.

I suspect there was a fairly detailed conversation about how apps such as yours could be supported while simultaneously being able to detect and mitigate 'cram and jam' strategies where apps pay per install. Short of doing quarterly audits of your books, I'm not sure how those dubious business practices could be avoided[1].

[1] And even with regular auditing, criminal enterprises manage to operate successfully with multiple ledgers.
Fortnite isn't central to modern life.
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We could work on the wording. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

We don't let you manage your file system through API but we offer access to your database tables through REST APIs. It's not the same but you could hack it to work that way.
They retired base load power (nuclear) and didn't replace it with other power sources that can provide base load. Instead everyone pushed for renewable only and opposed the natural gas power stations.

Build 5,000 MW of natural gas peakers and this problem immediately goes away.
Implementing a BGP-free ISP core with Lisp (2012)
It doesn’t download executables, it streams your inputs to a server which streams synced AV back.
What executable code? The executable code running on Microsofts servers?
Google "wind power max efficiency". They knew the max capabilities of wind power in 1919. In other words, even if they improved the wind mill or turbines or the materials they are made from, they knew the upper limits or max value of this renewable wind power.

I believe the physicists that work for the Japanese and Korean car makers are aware of the limitations of battery power and have already mapped out its trajectory. With that knowledge, they have still decided for hydrogen power.
Example Robinhood ad:

https://vimeo.com/300397341
Games on smartphones are not integral part of people lives and livelihoods.
"Epic flagrantly disobeyed Apple's terms."

I keep reading this all over the Internet and it makes me so irrationally angry that so many people are so ignorant.

Seriously, it seems like a very large part of people online think this behavior from Apple is okay "because they set the rules".
> you can do better by using Robinhood and invest into S&P 500 tracking stock like IVV

That's an interesting idea I hadn't considered. I believe robo-advisers tend to beat the market by a little bit, but I could be wrong on that. I started investing in force at the end of 2016 and the time-weighted, annualized returns on the stock portion of my portfolio are 6.39%. So make of that what you will

> They put a lot of your money into bonds and similar sub-2% investements while in the last 50 years S&P returned 8% on average

Betterment lets you pick your percentage of stocks vs bonds; you can set it to whatever you want and your portfolio gets re-allocated to match. I'm young, so mine's set at 90% stocks. I imagine I'll gradually decrease that over time.
> Yubikeys are great for security, but not when you leave them in your computer unattended. At that point, anyone can take the key and use it for 2-factor authentication/SSH/GPG signing, so it’s not much better than just using a normal password.

Even after the edit at the top regarding PIN it still seems to not get the main point of a U2F token: It's physical. It's incredibly hard to extract secrets from it. It's local to where it physically is.

If I have a password then there are probably a couple of services and people that could reasonably get to it either by hacking the service the password unlocks (in storage if its a really insecure service or in transit the next time I log on), or can extract it from my password manager/memory/browser or whatever.

The point of a U2F token for me is to change the number of people who can reasonably authenticate as me from "everyone who has my password" to "everyone who have a physical key I keep within a reasonable distance from me that is incredibly hard to copy and has my password". U2F also validates auth origins quite a lot better than many other methods, although I guess that is not relevant to this argument.

A hardware U2F token is not the end-all be-all security, but it reduces potential attackers a lot.
If executed properly, those two seemingly opposed features could be achieved and make more people happy.

Make it possible to unlock iOS ability to sideload apps, either through a unique code, a security certificate, or a simple toggle and allows businesses to lock down (but not remotely enable) this ability using their MDM.

Of course, put the usual disclaimer that enabling this feature could weaken the device security, and don't simply enable it because an app or a website told you so.
Pretty much. Site still up, but only one part time publisher making very little to keep it afloat. Site is now loaded with Google ads (we used to have no ads on the site). I'm kind of embarrassed to show the site in its current form. It's 99% old content, and no maintenance is several years. It was the best time of my life in its heyday.

The founders and dev team started a new company unrelated to apps. I tried my best to place our reviewers / curation team at other outlets. I had some success here, but it still pains me knowing that some of my previous team are still looking for something after all this time.
Amazon probed by German watchdog for being 'price police'
Do your students use any digital learning tools like Khan Academy, Math Tango or Prodigy? Is it the same experience having difficulty getting them to focus/respect boundaries as it is when they have to do school work?
That's contrary to my experience. I lived in south bay and the peninsula 2004-2010 and needed a/c every summer, for multiple weeks each year. For two of those years I didn't have a/c and had a lot of sleep loss those summers when daytime temperatures would break 90F, and occasionally 100F. Even when we'd "only" get mid-80F temperatures, I'd still want to run the a/c during the day if I was home. Feeling sticky while sitting on one's couch is no fun.

I've lived in SF since 2010, and there have been multiple weeks in the summer, during the past 5 or 6 years, where I've been unable to sleep due to heat. That sort of thing was rare in the 4 or 5 years prior. Just over this past weekend my inside temperature topped at just below 90F, with the outdoor daytime temperature getting as high as 98F. By the time I went to sleep, the indoor temperature was still in the low 80s, with windows open and fans on full.

If you don't require a/c at those temperatures in order to sleep well, lucky you, but then I wouldn't characterize you as typical.
Silverlight? What did you use it for? The only public Silerlight code I ever came across was Netflix’s client for Windows Internet Explorer around 2010-2012, then everyone switched to Widevine.
MacWrite Pro was a UI dream though. Slow as molasses, but so intuitive. You could do serious page layout on it with ease. One of the best designed pieces of software I’ve ever used.
"would be capable of a staff engineer role at Facebook"

Completely different skill sets. The founder can be scrappy with web programming, knowing a myriad of frameworks and some really good css. He's good at selling, networking, getting people on board with his vision. Maybe his real value comes from his domain knowledge, which lets him succeed where others couldnt.

Its a completely different job. The staff engineer could start a database startup, cofound some highly technical startup. But his highly developed technology skills just arent that valuable in an early stage company. Hes not worth 500k at a startup. He doesnt provide the same value he does at Facebook.
Options trades settle the following day, not +2 like shares.
So, Epic should get special treatment? They don't have to pay the fees? Just everyone else?
How is apple supposed to run the app store? They kinda know what they are doing or why else would so many people buy their iphones?
I would love to see a city like this built today, but with a little less emphasis on experimental and more on starting with the best practices we know today, and designing for a large scale from the outset like China does.
Things like being designed around pervasive rail-based mass transit, and that being cheaper to build when you don't have to put it in an existing city. Pedestrian optimized streets with much less parking than today's cities. Little-to-no single family zoning, replaced with missing-middle apartment and mixed used neighborhoods. Large parks. Plazas and outdoor dining. Buried utilities. Either rooftop solar, or green roofs everywhere. Modern underground trash collection. Cut-and-cover highway tunnels.

There's a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we'll need more space for population there as we have to migrate north.
So what I am hearing is that if I were to put a warning label and process around something that is potentially dangerous, it is no longer enough of a disclaimer for some arbitrary reason.

How is the process for enabling side-loading on Android unsuitable for consumers of Apple products? It is off by default. I don't think anyone is advocating for allowing iOS users the ability to run arbitrary executable images found in Safari without going through some process first.
That's some "cops kick down the door to shut down your illegal marijuana grow operation" level of electricity use.
Apple can can certainly limit the scope of use for the data collection for quality assurance only. But it’s probably worded much more broadly.
Thanks! sqlitebiter looks interesting!
I mind it in that I'd like to pay less, but I personally think Apple has every right to control their own ecosystem and charge whatever they want to be listed in their store, on their hardware.

I think it is a tough pill to swallow for larger corps who see much less value in Apple's marketing / support.
What's preventing a console being used as a productivity platform? Isn't it just the artificial restriction on where you can get software for it from?
I've had a ton of problems actually finding an Independent Repair provider. As far as I can tell Apple does not actually maintain a directory

Call AppleCare. That's how I found the one that I used.
I would understand Epic being banned from the iOS App Store, but why is their dev account being suspended for macOS development too?
A PR campaign geared towards kids... which is quite embarrassing
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The email wasn't complaining about Apple's cut of profits, but rather having their app being killed seemingly arbitrarily when Apple decided to kill a category of apps from the store.

Folks can have a good experience with the app store, until they don't. There's survivorship bias in creating an app unaffected by the ever changing app review policies.

This isn't exclusive to Apple's walled garden either.
tried to import csv from file, failed. there was CORS error shown in the dev console.
Fortnite isn’t as important as a Phone system that 90% of the teens in the US use and 50% of everybody in the US uses as well.

You cannot have a successful mobile app business without being in Apple’s app store.
So why doesn't a measurement and/or decoherence occur when double slits or a half-silvered mirror interact with a passing particle? Are they not macroscopic objects which interact with the quantum information?

Perhaps it's only a "measurement" if the (alleged) particle has nowhere else to go after the interaction. But how does the (alleged) particle know which macroscopic interactions are terminal and should be counted as "measurements" and which are part of the rest of the experiment?

There is no answer to this in QM. You can calculate the probabilities and you will get predictable answers, but there are still >20 interpretations of what is really happening, and they all disagree with each other in important ways.
Ha! That was pretty funny. :)

But actually, there is a big difference - I can buy jeans anywhere. I can buy Levi jeans anywhere.

If I had to go to Macy’s so that I could get a shirt (with no alternative), and then had to go to Nordstrom to get socks (with no alternative), and then..... then yeah, that would be crippling.

There is a reason amazon and Walmart are so powerful - you can get anything in one stop.

Bundling is important. It’s why people buy Comcast xfinity cable + internet or have all their family on one cell phone plan - it’s reduces effort, stress, and cognitive load.

Apple vs Android is good choice. Having to go to ten app stores to get my apps is not - it’s just a pain in the butt masquerading as “choice”.
Or tunnels that only your tesla car can drive through?

I mean, per-car roads probably aren't a good business model, but if it's a privately owned road you can probably make up your own rules, and there would be nothing to stop you doing that, right? And nothing to stop car owners using different roads.
Notepad++ banned in China after “Stand with Hong Kong” update
Have you hidden easter eggs?
I used to add them somewhat frequently when I was working as a developer and bored. It keeps crossing my mind, when I bored / stuck, to do it in my startup, but I worry people wouldn't find them.

Have you hidden easter eggs in your startup and has anyone found them? Or as a developer have you hidden easter eggs in code for a startup?
The issue that is causing the problems is peak demand hits around 5:30 pm....exactly at the same time when solar supply is dropping rapidly. We need natural gas peaker plants that basically fire up to bridge the gap during the night.

Every now and then we might get bailed out if wind is strong that day but that's not something you can build a reliable grid on.
> Please stop speaking for others.

Same to you and the GP here. And last I checked there aren’t a lot of customers really complaining about the App Store. It’s just big companies who, although they could have done this years ago, are now going against Apple’s customer protection because it degrades their crappy business practices.

> Then don’t install additional stores

Then buy a different phone?

I want any app that doesn’t follow Apple’s guidelines to be completely banned. Goodbye Epic. Nice knowing you. Don’t care. I don’t want apps spying on me, engaging in shitty business practices, scamming customers, and doing bad things. Apple is working to protect my privacy and safety. They’re not perfect, but that’s why I buy an iPhone and I want it to stay that way. If I wanted another App Store I’d buy a different phone, like you should.
That about matches this story, but some places had small drops and the hidden price reductions by keeping monthly price high but giving free months. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/renter-boo...

Maybe I was too much on the dropping side but the article says prices had been booming like you said for a decade and 10k units were filled and then prices stabilized.
FYI you can reboot every retail xbox into DEV mode and run your own games and code:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki...

Switching back and forth between retail and DEV mode is as easy as rebooting.
I'm not sure I see what you've quoted actually matches Epic's behaviour. They've certainly breached the agreement and failed to cure it, but it hasn't been 30 days. I don't think they've hidden functionality, the way their game engine works and lets games update without new review isn't secret. They haven't falsified reviews or committed payment fraud. The wording there is obviously super vague, you could argue what they did is "improper" in the same way you could argue literally anything is improper.

Can you be a bit more concrete? What exactly of what you quoted in section (f) do you think applies to Epic?

And actually on your first part, they broke the rules and their app is off the store. Is Apple’s usual policy that if you do that and you choose not to put the app back up in a compliant form within 30 days then you get permanently banned from developing for all their platforms?
COPY is the fastest method to insert data in Postgres. As another poster mentioned, setting table to UNLOGGED will help also.

Finally, you can drop ALL indexes and recreate them after import (been hit and miss in my testing but on occasion has helped).
This is clearly the main cause this year, but the lottery success rate has been climbing for several years due primarily to fewer applicants. I think this is probably a reaction to the political environment, along with the trump administration being actively hostile toward approving the visas that do make it through the lottery to the point they had to be sued over it.
Are you saying 19 full days of energy storage? Why do we need 19 days? Isn't it more like N hours per day, which can be recharged overnight and the following day? This seems like a very disingenuous presentation of this information.