skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that frustrates me about apps/web is that most people have no idea what individual apps/sites are “costing” them. Without additional tools and watching Cellular Data settings like a hawk, stupid things can slurp up your data plan.

Entire books could be sent to people in a sane format but a 3-line web page wrapped in garbage takes dozens of megabytes? An app that does “very little” is consuming 100 MB in no time?

Worse, no one seems to want to “pay” for apps anymore (demanding everything be free) but then they blow $10 on data because their “free” app is routinely shoving unnecessary amounts of data to their device.

We need some hard limits on data; if I give your app 100 K, you shouldn’t be able to use any more. Furthermore, the default data limits should be very low (with big scary dialogs appearing when apps request more) to discourage lazy designs that offload their true costs onto unsuspecting consumers.
I'm all for compromise but first I need to understand the pros and cons of both sides. For me here so far it's pretty clear cut: there's a right way and a wrong way. The compromise is just a slightly less wrong way. So no I don't accept this compromise in this situation.
Why wouldn't you backup your data periodically? You would if you self hosted, it's the same for online services
That's what I'd consider way too many extensions. For one reason, browser extensions with user bases sometimes get sold to malware/spyware companies, so even if they started out as good for you, they can become very bad for you, without you knowing. (There's a few browser extensions I'd be surprised if ever got sold, like uBlock Origin, but I don't know as much about most of the rest of them.)

Another thign to be aware of is that unusual combinations of filtering and other privacy-seeking behavior on the Web is usually detectable, and can permit you to be fingerprinted better than if you'd been using more common combinations. Though presumably most parties don't care enough to put the work into detecting that, I'd guess some subsets of users probably are targeted for at least experiments in this regard, such as Tor users. (I have this "problem" myself now, since I've been building a training/familiarization set of 10K+ Web request filtering rules, which I dogfood with uBlock Origin in Tor Browser, and the set is pretty unique to me. If I cared more about my immediate personal privacy, rather than on ongoing understanding of practical Web privacy&security, I wouldn't do all that counterproductive work, but would instead pick some popular stock stuff to run.)
When there's https://gitea.io as a GitHub inspired repo manager?
I wonder how hard it would be to write an MGR terminal emulator today.
I'm on a T-Mobile 4 line plan at $30/line. Unlimited everything except I think it deprioritizes data over 50GB/month/line. But I've never exceeded 10GB/month yet.
Could be Fed
> I find it weird how rarely Germany ends up in British/American media, however how many similar issues they have...

The UK has enough shit to deal with on their own plus the five eyes "close friend" network, no surprise that no one bats an eye for the oddities of German politics.

The US is, well, the US. They are so big they don't need to care about anyone else, literally. 40% of Americans haven't ever been outside the US, 11% never been out of their state (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5259681/Study-40-...) - so why should they care about us Germans?

> But frankly not many people speak of 5G nutcases in Britain either.

Interestingly, the UK leads the count for 5g towers set ablaze by far: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/18/deep-consp...
>Edit on downvotes - is my surprise at its declassification misplaced?

Yes.

If you think that this is even a fraction of the data and resources needed to replicate that chain of events, then you probably seriously misjudge the difficulty faced with regards to the engineering and construction of such a device.

The teenager comment is somewhat hyperbole, I think -- but it's not necessarily wrong. The basic principals behind these devices have been public knowledge for as far as I can remember; diagrams of how they work have been in magazines like Scientific American since the mid 70s -- maybe earlier.

This "teenage knowledge" threat predates Wikipedia, that's for sure. I was sending away cash for nefarious science kits way before Wikipedia.
I think it's also clear from the major distinctions between the sources of those "people at the top" that there is very little uniqueness about them.

The soviet union tore down an existing ruling class and replaced it with another "egalitarian" group that really acted in a way that was not so different in so many ways.
The problem I have is that you make it sound like you have a right to release software for their platform. They opened their platform for devs to make apps. You accepted that offer, read their terms, agreed to those terms, and are now complaining about those terms? I get it that you want to make 100% of the price made from each sell, but that's not realistic. If you sell your product at a brick&mortar store, you don't get full amount of the sell. They buy it at wholesale. Rarely is that wholesale price only %30 of the retail price. Nothing about the App Store seems pretty reasonable.
I also like reading stories such as "what are the first things you should do when you win the lottery" when I'm feeling bored.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the...
I use firefox under sway with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 and 100-ish tabs and 5-10 extensions and have not experienced crashes. Not the exact same env, but somewhat similar.
Apple tends to use that sort of language (corporate doublespeak?) a lot.
For nuclear, as it is much denser energy-wise then anything else, you need to do the least amount of digging per MW capacity / let alone overall produced MWh

Also one has to consider how much energy needs to be spent to get certain amount of energy generated, so called EROI. Nuclear is orders of magnitude better than other low-co2 options. For example for solar it is about 6, versus 75 for nuclear. [1]

Given the investment energy is mostly in shape of fossil fuels, one, for example, cannot fuel carbon capture with anything other than nuclear, as in balance it will not reduce co2.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/02/11/eroi-a-to...
IMO, just go sort yourself out and find a "support group" focused on whatever axis of self-improvement you're interested in. If you're involuntarily celibate because you're too fat or too scrawny to be physically attractive, get that problem sorted out and get into a community of people focused on bettering themselves in that way. If you're involuntarily celibate because you're unemployed or don't make much money, go develop some marketable skills and get into a community of people focused on developing those skills. If you're involuntarily celibate because you have terrible social skills, maybe try group therapy?
Mail-in ballots were part of a plot to deny Lincoln reelection in 1864
Yes, that is one reason why you might like it (especially if you do not know how to spell the name of the show you want to watch, although voice recognition can also get it wrong sometimes). However, I would ike numeric input. Key in some ID number of the show (after you can first figure out what that ID number is), and optionally the season number and episode number. If you omit the season number, it will list them; if you omit the episode number, it will list the episodes with descriptions; you might also search by the original broadcast date. Of course, that doesn't help if you do not know the ID number of the show, so text search (and voice, if you have a microphone and voice recognition software) is still useful too, and then you can learn what is the ID number. For text entry, I would like Hollerith chording (or a full keyboard if you happen to be using one, which some people do), but that won't work if the remote control doesn't support chording, so other methods may also be used. Category numbers (in various classification schemes) may also be helpful, if you do not even know the name of the show, or what show you want, perhaps.
Apple collects 0.15% of all credit card transactions made through Apple Pay for US-based cards. The percentage is higher for the Apple Card, of course.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-loses-key-mobile-payment...

https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/10/apple-pay-credit-card-is-...
>> from a social perspective, to dismantle the idea that one's worth is determined by having sexual partners

>Ah, let's just go ahead and "dismantle" one of the most basic psychological needs, that's a great solution.

Sex itself may be a basic psychological and physiological need (for most people, not for everyone,) but "the idea that one's worth is determined by having sexual partners" is not. The latter is entirely a cultural and social construct.

Why would you literally quote one fragment of one sentence from claudiawerner's comment just to misconstrue it entirely in rebuttal?
For anyone interested, this isn't a loan, it's just a grant aggregation site. Honestly crazy bizarre marketing in the title "Fund a startup without giving up equity", like do people not know what grants are...?

Based on the weird marketing and pushing me to make an account, I imagine they will try to "pivot" this to being some form of bland generic social network in the next few months
I went to the Portland and Seattle rare book shows this past year.

Rare book shows are a wonderfully slow thrill. Attendees are almost all senior citizens and there is some awesome stuff to behold.

While all the sellers are in business to sell their books each have a love affair with their particular categories of collection.

If you enjoy reading and these fairs resume I can’t recommend them enough.

In just mild exposure to the stuff I’ve seen, reading the sentencing for the perpetrators feels painfully modest.

Given how drug crimes are prosecuted, it seems like these guys got off with barely any impact.

It doesn’t seem fair, probably because it isn’t.
you can have multiple redundant backup services!

My mom had slow DSL for years 6Mbps/1Mbps through the local phone company. They had stopped offering DSL to new customers for years.

I had to stay with her one summer while we were literally between places to stay. Our lease was up and our house was being built.

She got cable internet so I could work. She now has Had both DSL and cable for four years just so she will have backup internet and if she cancels the DSL she won’t be able to get it back.
Wind turbines kill a negligible number of birds compared to other threats.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

It's not actually known definitively how many people Fukushima killed, but it is known definitively that the final economic costs wildly outweighed the "cheap" energy it produced.

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/12/1301/pdf

Nuclear is not clean. There is still no solution to nuclear waste, which makes it impossible to cost the TOC of nuclear.

And considering the number of accidents to date - and their economic cost - nuclear certainly isn't safe either. Is it really a good idea to create pools of extremely toxic heavy metal waste which is also radioactive?

It also isn't cheap. Renewables have been consistently undercut the cost of nuclear electricity, and that's without any significant push towards an improved smart grid, a combination of centralised and local distribution, and clean pumped storage facilities that would be possible with a Green New Deal.

As you say - these decisions should be left to smart people, and not to an industry which has consistently overpromised and underdelivered.
Sounds a bit high? Vodafone NZ offers 300 GB of 4G broadband for $73 at the moment.
Ehm, you do know that the Fed's balance sheet has not increased for 3-4 months now? Whatever is happening right now - it is not QE.
I live in Poland. I have, personally, no less than three plans.

1 for my mobile phone where I have something like 15GB of data for equivalent of 20USD (that including unlimited calls).

1 for my laptop, where there is a limit of 100GB for equivalent of 10USD

1 for my emergency mobile Internet which is unlimited monthly transfer but limited bandwidth to 20Mbit/s (I have tested, I have not yet reached a limit after uploading/downloading hundreds of GBs in one month I had to move to my parents in law), for equivalent of 10USD per month. This came with a LTE to WiFi router. I use it as emergency (I work from home, I need it in case my 1Gbit broadband fails) and I take it on trips with family so we have good quality unlimited Internet wherever we are.

It seems silly to me that you can have basically free broadband and so expensive mobile in a western country with technically advanced infrastructure. I could understand operators wanting to recoup their initial investments but in the long run mobile should be cheaper to transfer than broadband (there less physical infrastructure having to be laid and maintained).
These students don't have a history of bad behavior, they have no history at all because it's their first time living alone, and making such decisions for themselves.

We know that people often make mistakes when they lack experience, it's our responsibility to ensure those mistakes don't lead to catastrophic loss merely because you graduated high school in the wrong year.
Google already allows apps outside the Play Store, and third party app stores as well
Finally, it's only 'at risk' of Apple putting some more effort into the poor experience that it is so far to get an app and ability to explore and find apps that aren't in the top 200.
A PiHole does not replace uBlock and vice versa. They can block different things at different points.
As similar as an antelope and myself have two eyes, one nose, molar teeth and four limbs.
Google allows you to install apps outside the app store and Android is open source
> These two factors makes me think there is something else at play. (Germany would be able to afford doing it all over again, but right this time.)

Conservatives in politics. Since 1982 the Conservatives were in government 30 of 38 years (Kohl 1982-1998, Merkel 2006-now). Many of their members of parliament still have their employees print out emails. Technophobic lot they are.

We could afford a lot of things in theory, in practice conservatives love their tax cuts and helping the auto industry to live off of ICEs instead of incentivizing them to go green. Same for solar and wind energy, more jobs got lost in that sector in the last years than the fucking brown coal industry still has remaining, and they've still decided to grift billions to the brown coal / energy companies.

Seriously, Conservatives are a plague, no matter the nation, and especially in times of widespread drastic changes.
I don't think there is any resolution. This looks like one of those very common cases in science/technology and elsewhere with outsiders: they are more acute as critics than creators.

That is, often outsiders accurately identify problems and gaps and anomalies that the insiders prefer to paper over (sometimes because the outsiders used to be insiders and know where the bodies are buried). But, when they propose their own constructive theories, they are no better than anyone else and their proposals may be as bad as their criticisms are good.

So it sounds like the journalist came away convinced that orthodontists etc have quietly papered over their lack of a real theory as to where all orthodontic problems come from, why they are such a peculiarly modern problem, and why braces are only temporary solutions, and the Mews have done a service in showing that the emperor has no clothes, - but also that they are doing everyone a disservice in that their own suggested interventions are unproven and likely pseudoscience.
I think you're in agreement with the post you're replying to.

You both say that the game state is sent to a non-player machine that creates the actual video stream seen by the viewers.
I think it’ll be interesting if Apple loses control of the App Store but still combats anti-practices through evolution of the APIs. It could become a consumer win.
> In rural or suburban areas, cost and wait times will explode, if service is offered at all.

It'd think the economics would look more like a local, pre-Uber taxi service, but with 2-4x the volume because of improvements in ride hailing.

Interestingly, it could be worse because Uber drove the local taxi out of business, and the local taxi might have been a sole proprietor who can work for less than minimum wage.
Coal is terrible. That doesn't make nuclear power the best option compared to all the others.

The radiation difference isn't small if you include accidents. (Are we somehow supposed to pretend they never happened, and no nuclear accident - even if it's "just" a fuel spill, or a small fire - will ever happen again?)
For fun, how could we do that?
What you say is true, but it would be ahistorical not to remark that the genesis of North Korea was the previous "democratization" of the Korean peninsula that resulted in stomach churning war crimes, the destruction of nearly every habitable structure, and the execution of innumerable civilians. NK's "Juche" survivalist ideology is perfectly understandable given what they had to rebuild from.

I think we should not so casually make remarks that imply a military intervention would do anything to benefit the Korean people.

There's even a nuclear tie-in as Gen. MacArthur was pressing Truman to drop a necklace of "30-50" bombs in order to irradiate the land and make it impassable for 60 years.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/macarthur-really-did-...
Hyperbole. Orgs peering that deeply into your personable representation can go F themselves.
Chromium is open source and you can apply policies to do the things you mention. Based on your logic Mozilla should also be forced to get rid of Firefox Sync.
Yes. That doesn't mean that money will go to Firefox.
I know several employers who hire remote, and it isn't a Bay Area thing -- they won't employ anyone in the state of the CA, for the same reasons they won't employ international employees -- they see CA legislation as too onerous to be bothered with dealing with when they can hire devs out of states with more lax employment laws.
Can you provide some examples? I think this would only apply to the Leaders sections, but the point of it is to serve as introductions for later articles. The rest I've found to be thorough, especially the Briefing section and Technology Quarterly. It's definitely full of "shoulds" from a classical liberal perspective.
Exactly. HN loves to rally against regulatory capture and rent seeking and taxi medallions are a great example of both.
I wonder how they factor unlimited plans into this?

In Chile, the mobile internet is quite cheap (and usually plenty fast, LTE is widespread and download speeds > 10 Mbps are common) per GB but unlimited plans are also common.

E.g., I pay something like $1.50 a week for unlimited internet and calls, and since I can use 60 GB a month easy, that works out to ~10 cents a GB, considerably cheaper than what the chart shows for Chile. It's also about 100x cheaper than the $10/GB ballpark I paid in Canada. Yeah, one hundred times cheaper.
In my opinion, they are a waste of time.

Sign up to a MOOC, geez.
Long Live the Cabal!

I had a bofh.* newsfeed for an ISP I worked for in the 90s. Was not cabal, but cabal adjacent, like the Forest Gump of various cabals.
Have you considered cost of NOT building nuclear? France's industry was decarbonized in 10 years, long ago. Imagine the cost for future generations of not doing the same to other industrialized economies.
Agreed. Having been/being a person(s) managers and IC, company culture comes from the head honcho of any subgroup. If the head honcho ignores bad behavior or doesn't tend to it, it's their fault.

Having slack expose those faults in the management chain doesn't mean this is an employee/IC problem. These managers of the company should learn how to manage people better for $$$ they're (we're) getting paid for.
fwiw many of my coworkers in the Northeast US suffered multiday internet and power outages due to the storm that forced them to either take days off or travel >30m to find places with internet.
If the fascists deem you undesirable, they won’t need your email history.

If history is any kind of guide, your neighbors are more likely to identify you to the new regime.
At what point is the stuff happening with the USPS criminal? I've only been watching from a distance but the post office drama has struck me particularly sharply as a big red flag of corruption, a large threat to our democracy, and something we should be very upset about. Criminally upset about.

Am I off base?
I've long had a high opinion of the USPS overall. And this quote from the article sounds like Tacoma is keeping it real, and getting the production job done, at an especially critical time:

> By Wednesday night, five of the machines in Tacoma had been reconnected. Parts of two others had been scavenged and incorporated into the plant’s existing machines to boost their mail-sorting capacity.
I see what you mean. How much is it people representing themselves vs. other lawyers? Like I could see people trusting their own representation and speeding through signatures.
Verified for myself that it does, thanks! Given how popular FM is I don't know why I missed this prior.
Nowhere did they say they should suck it up. They said they should seek therapy if they can’t deal with it, instead of taking it out on other people.
Even though 120 fits comfortably on the screen, I find it leads to sloppier code than 80 or 90. The latter exerts pressure to "do one thing per line, and make it neat."

Ime this is true of modern langs like ruby or javascript or Go, as well as older langs like bash. But I know this is a religiously contentious subject, so to each his own.
I like the work you are doing - I had been meaning to write a mapping app for rockhounders for years, to let us know whether we are on public land or not, but I saw your product and decided not to do it because although we aren't your target market nor does your product do exactly what is needed - it is close enough to do the trick, and I'd rather see where you go with it than try to re-invent something similar.
There's a bit of generalising here. This is not "how students behave". This is "how people who really want social gatherings and in person parties behave" regardless if they're students or not. The idea that you can't tell an adult they have to wear masks in a certain environment is silly.

Or to put it in a different way, if the students stayed at home, specific rules would apply to them. There's no reason they shouldn't apply on the campus as well. They're paying for college, not for a right to party.
I'm not supporting North Korea, I'm just suggesting that nuclear weapons works for them, so it must be pretty effective thing. If not for nuclear weapons, who knows how world would look today. USA and USSR would definitely fight each other, killing thousands of people in process.
> But how do I quickly and securely do a long distance transaction in cash?

Western union and other money transfer services have been doing it for decades.

Many immigrants in my country use them to send money back home
I like that your source is from Apple. Is that a joke?

Took me 5 seconds on first Google page to confirm what is common sense:

"Apple's horrid repair policies are forcing shops to destroy stacks of MacBook Pros"

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/apples-repair-policies-are-...
This was in my city. It was such a weird story, everyone was acting like there's absolutely nothing that could be done other than a slap on the wrist. I've actually been going to the Caliban bookstore for years and was there around August 2018, and was about to buy an old record but asked an employee about how the case was going, and they told me to get out and never come back. It's just the kind of thing that screams "this should be looked into a little more".