skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto on Monzo and Starling. A friend works at Starling and from the stories he's mentioned, they seem like they treat customers and employees with respect.

Personally I use Monzo for personal banking, and Starling for business. Though starling has a personal banking product too.
Not a lot of newspapers standing up to the CCP right now. In fact, most of them seem to be more interested in carrying water from what I can tell.
Sad by Design
The sad part about what you said is that there is definitely fibre in your area. After all, there’s a 5G tower within spitting distance.
Agreed. I have travelled to remote places where this speed would have been a godsend, not just for internet but for telephony as well with VoIP. Imagine the kids living in such places finally getting access to all the stuff internet has to offer.

The only thing to watch out would be pricing. I hope there is more competition so the price remains competitive.
It's down. Not sure if this is the same, but there's this page to try DeOldify online: https://www.myheritage.com/incolor
Hosting a personal website free of charge and JavaScript
Was there still a significant speedup using the standard library json module?

For the DB requests Are you writing sql directly, using a different ORM, or something like sqlalchemy core that makes sql pythonic without being an ORM?
The captain of the ship had some interesting things to say about the whole debacle.

- The ship had to dock in Beirut because they found out they were short of the passage fee for the Suez Canal.

- They were going to raise more money to get through the canal by taking on a job transporting machinery from Beirut along with the explosives

- The ship would have been overburdened by the machinery and the explosives, so they couldn't pass an inspection and couldn't leave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53683082
Or yacht prices, once it works on them. Right now tho, with not much to go I'd say they should drop. I have a scraper, but analysing data is pain.
Some people are more profitable as customers. Other people are less profitable as customers. They are each and all equally valuable people because they’re people.

And I know you’re just using language in the way it’s often used. But that’s exactly my point. The author of the article is comfortable passing moral judgement on people based on their instrumental value to him. Valuing older people with money is ethnically and morally equivalent to valuing weight weenies.

There is nothing uplifting in the article. No bicycles for migrant agricultural workers. No bicycles for teen mothers. The mentally ill. Ex-cons. The unemployed.

Because the author doesn’t value them.
If it does become the cash cow, is 30% the norm? Or would it settle on something closer to 10% or 5%
Dude. This isn't complicated. We call them mail-in ballots and absentee ballots, interchangeably. Absentee is an older term and may be falling out of use.
There's a huge financial difference between going to school at a better school in-state than going out of state. I went to school an hour from home.

And if we're going to talk about out of touch, I'm not sure where you're from where you think everyone who goes to school has a university in the same town as them, let alone with the degree program they want to attend. Changing your degree to one that's 'good enough' so you can stay in town? That's setting yourself up for a lifetime of disappointment.

As far as I've heard, parking on campus at my alma mater is even worse than when I attended, so being 10 minutes off campus is more conceptual than factual. It's probably true that Uber is far cheaper than a dorm, even if you averaged 3 rides a day, especially these days, but there are loads of semi-spontaneous interactions that become stilted when you have to worry about getting back and forth across town. It's not doing your own laundry, it's the people you meet while doing your laundry.
I love C++ so much, and it has brought me such joy as a hobbyist programmer, but good grief, this one aspect of it (dealing with encodings & charsets) is so depressing I just want to cry sometimes.
It is huge - I had originally put the “only” in quotes, but removed them because it’s really not huge compared to 10x.

I do think it makes sense that the wealth difference stems from blacks having so little time to build wealth. The income also is a big factor for sure, but it’s hard to see it causing the 10x gap by itself. OTOH generational wealth is lost really quickly.
They could have used OSM if Google charged standard rates for maps
That's not how compression would work. Think about if they are adding a new level. The algorithm would have nothing to compare the files against except what is actually being sent. If the texture appears in each level, and each level comes in a separate update, there's no way for the algorithm to reference or incorporate the files that are already in your computer, so it has to compress it like it's a brand new file. That is unless you have a costume installer which duplicates the file once it runs, but that would probably be a ton more work for the developers.
> weight weenies can buy weight weenie gear at weight weenie prices

Do you really think mocking segments of their customer base helps the industry (and the public's perception of bicyclists)?
How does Google attribute a profit to Android specifically? Play Store cut? or do vendors have to pay for Google Apps which I doubt would be the case.
It is my understanding that physical addiction and withdrawal are both physical states, but the former depends on more variables.
I've been waiting for desktop video calling for years! This is the first official news I've heard of it, I will definitely join the beta test.
> that time spent looking for sales is not at all socially beneficial, it's human labor that's completely wasted.

A more "economically neutral" perspective (not that I claim it is a better perspective) is that there is labor that this particular human has available. Letting them choose to spend it on hunting down a sale is strictly better than removing that choice. There may be "better" things they could do with it according to you, but ultimately it should be their choice.

The irony is particulary deep here because hunting down a sale is surely no less wasteful to society than actually playing Factorio which is a pointless videogame famous for being an addictive time-sink. If the goal was to maximize societal benefit, we'd remove Factorio from the market entirely.

> If we want poorer people to have better access to the goods and services richer people buy, we should just give them more money.

I think you're jumping to a conclusion that these people are particularly poor. But my only claim is that people have different relative distributions of money versus time, and that is probably true at all wealth levels. There are both idle rich and workaholics. There are poor folks working three jobs and raising three kids and others that are couch potatoes.

Sales are a way to let consumers at any economic level reflect their relative priority between time and cash.
I immediately thought of storycreatorapp when I saw this, hope you're able to take them on and show them the power of a smart, hardworking individual!!!
Safari is still more or less the same engine as Chrome. Even after the fork.
I did, but not very closely. That snippet is out of date and I have updated it–tablets have been exempt since 2015.
what's really for sure is that covid-19 has changed the ability to tell truth from lies in 90% of world's population for good.
cool
starting screenshare does infinite loop of current screen
suggest a 3 second delay / visual countdown or something
It should come down to the credit card/PayPal range I think. So probably 2-3% as at economies of scale these are huge amounts.

There are technologies like UPI of India which have a 0% charge but I don't understand who pays for maintaining the common infra and how do UPI apps like Whatsapp Payments/Google Pay earn money.
Thermodynamic entropy is not really a physical property of a system, it is a property of our description of the system subject to some macroscopic constraints.
There's no need to appeal by lowering the bar so i can relate/understand. I have a politically progressive point of view, that goes totally against what we are referring here.

But lets not mix things up here. People that are conservatives and even homophobic in my experience have more to do with the cultural views of a giving period that they were raised and i think that in some cases, we must not take things lightly, but also give some time for them to rethink their values.

And im pretty sure that kicking these people on the teeth wont help them to get integrated at all. The only thing they will learn in to lie better and be a better hypocrite.

Here public/private boundaries are very important. So if the guy is tweeting about this point of view and damaging the image of the company, of course, this would be a good motive to fire him.

But if he believe this in private, dont force others in the company to follow his socio-political views and is good in what hes doing, even if you dont like his political views, we should not fire anyone because of this.

Pedophiles on the other way are people with very harsh psychological problems that may lead them to commit a very serious crime. You dont need to resort to this sort of rethorical trick to make me understand, as i already did before (you already have my empathy here as im on your side).

Really, with time we learn that we are all handicapped here and there, and by becoming more humble about that, we learn that we need to accept and work with people with a lot of different views, backgrounds and actions or else we are all getting cancelled.

We need to be more careful about social sidelining people, because we will just turn some people that were mildly into something to become real radicals and also at the same time losing good hands that would otherwise help us into build a better future.

What make the most harm to the society: A guy contributing in private, financially, to entities that lobby for policies that goes against gay people or a CEO and board with impeccable and fair social and political views but that end doing actions that harm the core of a company that is best know for their engineering culture, good products, open source and freedom values?

Because Mozilla will be vaporized in the coming years.. does it really worth it?
$250,000 per year administrators, $30 million dollar buildings and "lazy rivers". If we had a statistic for what percentage of your buildings were for academic usage, you'd find the amount is low.

"Paying for the Party" is a neat book here based on real life information from colleges.
It's only 4 dollars a night! It's a no brainer if you are a nomad short on cash.
I didn't know some of this, thanks! I used to live near an active train yard, and one of the warnings people gave me when I moved there was the sound caused by the trains "stacking" (which is the noise caused by each of the car couplings pulling out of their slack).

I thought it was a drawback at first, but now that I've moved away I kind of miss it.
> You have blueprints and the equivalent of construction bots right from the start of the game. In singleplayer, it is normal and expected that players will pause the game, queue up a bunch of things to be built, then unpause and let their ship handle the construction automatically.

> Belts are streamlined and much faster work with. 1 lane per belt, and the UI for constructing belts includes a pathfinding algorithm allows you to easily construct a belt between two points in seconds provided you have enough resources on-hand. Crossing two belts automatically creates an intersection so resources don't mix.

Blueprints, belt pathfinding, and automatic intersections did not exist 11 months ago when I played it.

Thanks for letting me know, because that makes a huge difference. I'll give it another shot some time.
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When a municipality is "not allowing competition on the poles", that doesn't the municipality is standing in the way of a natural free market. The act described as "allowing competition on the poles" is actually an act of regulation. It is telling whoever owns the poles what to do (even if that whoever is the municipality).

This is no more "opening up to the free market" than if someone owns some land and a regulator says "you have to allow other people's cattle to graze here and must charge what we consider a fair price".

--> This isn't to say free markets are the best or that we should unregulated natural monopolies in the name of private property. Rather, regulatory pseudo-markets often wind-up just as shams to allow effective monopolies without implied responsibility to the public that a regulated monopoly has.
These are people that have been called a lot worse, from MAMIL to Fred. These are legitimate cycling industry terms for subsets of their population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cycling
I don't want desktop apps to be leaner nearly as much as I want web apps to be leaner. Today it took me two minutes to load a link to a meme on Facebook that a friend sent me via messenger on a 2016 MacBook Air.

Two minutes to load a page with a meme and some comments.
Be that as it may, it's not really relevant to the question of whether Apple requiring apps to be distributed by their own App Store constitutes an antitrust violation.
> and it will just get better.

Won't it get worse when it's generally available? More congestion on the same channel means less per-user throughput right?
US Internet system is rigged to benefit the providers. This exactly the reason after every year we switch back the internet connection between me and my spouse, to keep the internet cost low.

For most part US doesn't have functional government to manage these things properly.
Modern VDSL can reach around 200mbps at distances something around 3-5 km from exchange. DSL obviously lower but possibly similar to Starlink.

All that said you can those speeds with Starlink anywhere, for much less than installing a phone line.
I don't understand what's happening but N26 name for a banking app is ridiculous.
I'll second that. The lack of humidity really helps keep things comfortable outside when it is cold. That specific heat of water is killer in a Midwest winter.

Low humidity is also why we get the really powdery snow that is great for skiing.
Huh, I didn't know this was the case for WebAssembly. I found a discussion about it amongst the WebAssembly designers. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/204 -- Looks like efficient implementation of mprotect() was a sticking point, and its been relegated to a Future Feature https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
I've thought about this too as a student and in relation to professional skills.

I call the concept "Engines vs Powerups", due to having played a number of racing games as a child where you can spend prize money from races on improvements to your car or other items between levels.

It's a spectrum, too! Computer languages fall in the middle. Knowing PHP is a lot more durable than knowing Drupal, but PHP probably won't stay relevant as long as Spanish will.

One thing I'd share, is that I've gotten a lot of mileage out of skills that were once hot and are now useless. In fact, part of how I got my first well-paid software job at Groupon was because I was comfortable with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript! Neither are used much at all anymore, but I learned a lot of other things at Groupon that have helped me since and they opened the door.

https://alchemist.camp/learning-machine/engines-powerups
>Even a reliable 10mbps would be a godsend in many places.

my first foray into 'rural' internet was during the late 90s, using a satellite+modem setup.

The bandwidth was fairly decent -- equivalent to a fast ISDN line -- but the reliability was horrendous.

Drops constantly, only to wait for a whole new modem negotiation and reconnect. Think about the idea of an analogue phone modem but over an unreliable aerial connection.

My point in this anecdote : don't take the upstream/downstream values at face value -- there are more things that go into a connection that's actually worth using.

That said , I have nothing but hope for Starlink. I still frequent rural areas that , if broadband is available, it's severely limited bandwidth. I'm glad there will soon exist an alternative -- let's hope that efforts are made to keep the astronomers happy so that this network can be a real boon to humanity.
Generally you can safely treat text in an unknown encoding as UTF-8. Since you're expecting potential failures but want to press on anyway instead of causing an exception/ error you treat invalid sequences as U+FFFD the Replacement Character as you would in a language or API with no exception reporting mechanism.

There are lots of pleasing aspects to this choice. It's ASCII compatible of course, so anything that was actually ASCII is still ASCII, anything that was almost ASCII is just ASCII with U+FFFD where it deviated.

The replacement character resolutely isn't any of the specific things, nor any of the generic classes of thing you might be expected to treat differently for security reasons. It isn't a number, or a letter (of either "case"), it isn't white space, and it certainly isn't any of the separators, escapes or quote markers like ? or \ or + or . or _ or...

... yet it is still inside the BMP so it won't trigger weird (perhaps less well tested) behaviour for other planes.

It's self-synchronising. If something goes wrong somehow, in a few bytes if there is UTF-8 or an ASCII-compatible encoding the decoder will synchronise properly, you never end up "out of phase" as can happen for some encodings.

Most usefully, whatever you're now butted up against works with UTF-8 now. Maybe some day that'll get formally documented, maybe it won't. As the years drag on the chance of specifying _anything else_ shrink more, and the de facto popularity of UTF-8 means even if it's never formalised anywhere everybody will just assume UTF-8 anyway and you haven't to lift a finger.
The fact it's impossible for everyone to build cable everywhere means it isn't a free market.
He wasn't being rude or dismissive to others. He cites repeated examples of being generous and welcoming to passing cyclists who repay his kindness with disrespect. I'd go out of my way for a shop like this.
If Servo is dead, what could possibly be the future of Firefox?

I don't want to browse the web with a Blink-based browser. Total browser homogeneity is the end of the free and open web. I don't want to use a non-free non-open web.

Is the web dead to me?
> It could be true that this is the normal cycle of moving boxes from low-use to high-traffic areas, as claimed. Without transparency, it's hard to be sure.

Even if that's the true reason for this, this project (and any project that reduces USPS capacity or capabilities) needs to be delayed until after the election to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
I like this idea. Also I am looking at a separate GraphQL stack alongside Django for flexible access points.
Ah, RethinkDB, the former love of HN.

Sadly it got a bit silent around it since the company shut down.

I used it for a product in 2015, pretty nice piece of software.
So, hi. I'm gay. My partner of 4 years is from a different country. Because of that, one of the only ways we can live together is to get married and get one of us citizenship in the other's country that way. To say nothing of other rights related to marriage.

Just so you know that. Again: Brendan Eich spent $1,000 to hurt people like me. If gay marriage was not legal, my life would be significantly worse today.

I didn't do anything when Eich was made CEO. I probably should have. Let's say I did. Would you say I'd be in the wrong for telling Mozilla that I disagree with their choice of CEO, because he directly hurt people like me and avoids answering questions about whether he's likely to do it again?

Hm, here, try this. Instead of something provocative, let's try something else.

Suppose Eich donated, say, $500 to strengthen the DMCA. Let's say be advocated for harsher punishments for anybody reverse-engineering a DRM scheme, even for interoperability or other non-piracy purposes. Then suppose he gave another $500 to lobby against net neutrality.

When asked about these donations, let's say he refuses to answer or talk about them.

Would you be comfortable with him leading Mozilla? Kinda seems like his values might be deeply in conflict with those of the organization, making him a poor choice for CEO. But also ... That's just politics, after all. Has nothing to do with his leadership or technical skill.

> I also don't think Eich was "out there advocating" for something.

You're right- he was paying other people to go out there advocating for it. Hardly better!
You mean a salary?
> Separate the last mile pipe provider/operator (infrastructure) from the service providers. All service providers compete across that pipe.

That sounds like regulation to me.
That MIGHT be happening, honestly not sure.

There are possibly challenges in that however, my understanding of most compression algos (which may be inaccurate or incorrect) is that you'd run into limitations either with size of data overall or the memory requirements.

Of course, I'm sure there's other ways around that (And I have no clue if they are in use). One option would be to send over the assets in a master 'assets' package and then duplicate/assemble the data as intended during installation.
I thought the only reason to use ASGI is to use web sockets, and the only reason to use web sockets is to avoid making multiple requests for things that don't matter if a particular message is lost.
There was a loophole in the various provisions created to ensure rural connectivity that allowed for companies to advantage of the fact that independent and competitive local exchange carriers were able to bill higher per minute fees than average. This led to a boom in free conference and long distance calling companies that would be spun up to terminate at one of these destinations, splitting the fee with the telco.
Hm...you're right, I concede Allen Ginsberg should not be the CEO of Mozilla.
And all the bike snobs (that make normal people like me hate bicyclists) can't click the downvote button fast enough on your accurate observation.
Only Cox at the most southern point of SoCal where I live. I have only one choice, other than satellite.

We can get 940Mbps down/35Mbps up w/ 1.25TB cap and mid level cable TV from Cox for.. wait for it $270/month. O_o

Currently I get 150Mbps down/5Mbps up + mid level cable TV... $130/month. It’s fast enough for work, but feels so expensive.
Ok, we've made her not be unlikely and have replaced the baity general bit with the neutral specific bit (opening paragraphs ftw), above.
Maybe he likes the exercise...
I believe it can and does. And I also know there are military white supremacists groups too and that these groups like to recruit in military. But racism was not my point.

Military has actual big price in people who join it. Veterans do have issues to adjust back to civilian society. Which is basically euphemism for whole host of serious issues. Military families divorce often and their famillies do have actual issues due to frequent moving or partner long term away. Domestic violence rates are high.

The whole growth experience is leaving quite a few people in difficult situations after.

And it rubs me wrong when it is framed as "less insulated the 'real' world. It is as insulated as it gets. Or as "real life" or "real growth" as opposed to "not real life" in quite common experience of either college or job or having familly that functions in more normal way.

It is called sacrifice for a reason.
> or do vendors have to pay for Google Apps which I doubt would be the case.

They do: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...